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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 10,1972
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L M BOYD
The Secretary
Is Dangerous
A man’s wife, doctor, minister, lawyer, these can't be
made to testify against him. In some states, in some cases.
But how about his private secretary? Her confidential
savvy could make her a most damaging witness. But she
can be compelled to tell all. Some students of the law say
a disenchanted amanuensis, therefore, can be the most
dangerous woman in
a fellow's life.
YES, an airplane casts
the same size shadow at
10,000 feet as at 1,000
feet.
YOUNG LADY, your
nylon stockings will
last longer, if you don’t
wear the same pair two
days in a row. Experts
say the stretched threads
do better with every sec
ond day off to relax.
THE SOVIET UNION’S
publishing monopoly has
printed up a lot of "how
to" manuals, but none sc
successful as its recent
party-line brochure on
sex. First printing sold
out in three hours.
QUERIES
Q. "Has any U.S. Presi
dent been an only child?"
A. Can't think of a one.
Q. “HOW did the Ger
man expression 'Gesund
heit’ originate in response
to someboyd's sneeze?"
A. Don't know. Do know
"God bless you" started
out in Rome in A.D. 590.
Practically everybody in
the city was hit with an
oddball ailment marked by
fits of sneezing. Pope
Gregory therefore decreed
all sneezers be so address
ed.
BRIDGE PLAYERS,
please note: It's not just
the custom but the rule
under the International
Code on Bridge that the
dummy must always
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FAT
In abandoning a sink
ing ship, men and chil
dren should go into the
lifeboats first, women
last. Such is the conten
tion of a British Royal
Navy doctor. "Women.”
he says, "are better in
sulated against the cold
water by an extra layer
of fatty tissue." Interest
ing. Lady liberationists
have listed of late num
erous superior charac
teristics. But I've yet to
hear them talk over
much about fatty tissue.
Too modest, maybe.
CLIENT asks why so
many French youngsters
have the same first names.
They do, true. Government
of France intermittent
ly puts out a list of sug
gested names for babies.
Nobody has to pick from
that list. But most coup
les do. anyway.
IT WAS exactly 100
years ago, bear in mind,
that some mechanical
genius invested the world's
first automatic doughnut
hole cutter. Exceedingly
important, that. The
doughnut didn’t really
take hold, you know, un
til it was edited in the
middle.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 L M Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Aug. 10,
the 223rd day of 1972 with 143
to follow.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Leo.
President Herbert Hoover
was born Aug. 10, 1874.
On this day in history:
In 1776, a committee of
Benjamin Franklin, John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson
suggested that the United
States adopt “E Pluribus
Unum” as the motto of the
Great Seal of the newly
independent nation.
In 1833, Chicago was incor
porated as a village. Popula
tion: 200.
In 1943, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill met
in Quebec for the sixth
conference of World War 11.
In 1965, a Titan missile site
explosion in Searcy, Ark., killed
53 persons.
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THOUGHTS
What is best is what will
be. and what has been done
is what will be done; and
there is nothing new under
the sun.—Eccl. 1:9.
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When a thing is done, it’s
done. Don’t look back. Look
forward to your next objec
tive.—Gen. George C. Mar
shall.
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Editor
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Line Creek sets example
There are some mighty fine people in
Line Creek District of Spalding County.
This week they set an example for the rest
of us when 112 of its 160 registered voters
took the time and the trouble to go to the
polls and cast their ballots. This was a big
70 percent.
There is a lot of complaining about a lot
Two more doctors
Two additional medical doctors have
come to Griffin to practice, and the
community is glad to have them.
The profession has a strict code of self
enforced ethics which dislikes individual
publicity, and the Griffin Daily News
usually cooperates. Every now and then,
though, some words about M.D.s are in
order because health is of major
importance to the community as well as to
the individual, and just about everybody
wants to know what the doctor situation is.
In Griffin and in Spalding, we think that
it is in good hands, but more hands are
needed just as they are in most
communities. So arrival of two physicians
comes under the heading of good news
indeed.
The two join 37 other active M.D.s who
practice in Griffin and who are members
of the hospital staff. Several from other
He came up fast
Sam Nunn came up mighty fast from the
ranks of not well known political figures.
All along, most observers included him
among the top three contenders for the
Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate,
but most of them counted him third behind
Real competition
Did you read that news story about how
the U.S.A, and Russia compare in medical
science?
It reported a visiting Soviet doctor’s
opinion that Russia leads us in cancer
research, that we lead them in treatment
They slept on it
Those voting machines are great
Bartow King of Griffin used to be
Democratic party executive secretary for
Spalding County and as such was in charge
of primary elections. There were no voting
machines then, so everything was done by
hand, including the counting.
Election day this week he and a friend
recalled how many a night he and poll-
God does not
hold a grudge
I have heard preachers say mat when we
die we must answer for everything we
have done. They say that all our sins will
be shown on a big screen. Is this true? I
thought when we become saved that all our
sins are forgiven and forgotten. I have
never done anything horribly bad, but it
drives me wild to think that all I have done
will be revealed. Please answer soon.
A.F.R.
There is one thing God cannot do, and
that is to see our sins through the blood of
Christ. The Lord said: “I will be merciful.
. . and their sins and iniquities will I
remember no more.” (Hebrews 8:12.)
When we repent, God has the capacity to
forgive and forget, the Bible says. “He will
turn again, he will have compassion upon
us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou
wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the
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of things these days, and it seems to us that
people who did vote in the election have a
right to complain about those who were in
good health but did not.
The majority of the people are right the
majority of the time when properly
informed, and when eligible voters
exercise their franchise in sufficient
numbers.
communities are members of the staff
also, and six Griffin dentists.
These professional people have to care
for many of the health needs of
surrounding counties as well as
Spalding’s. Most of them are over-worked.
A doctor, it sometimes seems, is a person
greatly to be desired when he is needed but
criticized when he is not.
This newspaper occasionally has taken
issue with some physicians, but generally
it and the community appreciate them. In
this connection, we invite your particular
attention to the reprint on this page of a
recent column in the Atlanta Constitution
by its editor Reg Murphy.
Mostly a letter from a physician’s wife,
it is well worth thinking about,
particularly just before the next gripe.
And we include ourselves in this
admonition.
incumbent Gambrell and former Governor
Ernest Vandiver. »
It remains to be seen what will happen,
but Sam Nunn has established himself
firmly as a major political figure in
Georgia.
of heart disease and that we are “shoulder
to shoulder” in leukemia work.
Now that is the kind of competition that
we would like to see more of among the
world’s two leading powers. Wouldn’t you?
holders stayed up all night counting and
recounting, checking and re-checking.
Often the results were not known until late
the day after the election. Sometimes the
weary poll-holders put the ballot boxes
under their beds, went to sleep after a long
day’s work and did not start counting until
the next day.
Ah, those were the days. These days are
better.
sea.” (Micah 7:19.)
During World War II an English news
paper carried the story of a German ace
who had been shot down and captured by
the English R.A.F. The airmen invited
their German prisoner to have dinner with
them. They toasted him, and he toasted
them, and then he broke down and began
to weep. “Please forgive me”, he said,
“Your kindness and forgiveness over
whelms me. For most of my life I have
been taught to hate the English. I was told
that if you captured me you would torture
and kill me. Instead, you have broken me
with your kindness. Gentlemen, I salute
you.” The officers all rose and saluted
him.
God is not our enemy, but in love seeks to
reconcile us to Him. He does not hold a
grudge, but is ready, willing and able to
forgive and forget our sins. Learn to salute
your Superior.
MY
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"Can somebody here please forgive me? I had a salad
for lunch."
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
i The other side
of the fee debate
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Reg Murphy
Stirred to deep emotion by criticism, readers sometimes
write the best human interest stories about themselves. The
following piece written by the wife of an Atlanta doctor
admittedly is biased. The writer could hardly have a purely
objective opinion about the subject.
While some of it is in direct conflict with views generally
expressed in this space, it presents an intelligent argument
against the easy generalities of those who complain about
doctors. The wife who wrote it is not bitter; if you met her,
you would be impressed with her charm. She does not want to
be identified for reasons of medical ethics. What she has to
say is worthwhile:
I hope you will hear me out concerning “The Doctor would
be pleased to discuss his fee Structure with his patient? at any
time.” This cartoon by Sneyd was just the last of a series of
so many articles and-or cartoons about doctors and their
finances and it has prompted me to present “the other side of
the coin.”
No one ever writes about the initial 12 years of schooling, 4
years of college, 4 years of medical school, a year’s
internship and then the additional years of residency,
depending on the specialization he chooses. No one every
writes about the additional years he gave serving his
country. Before he could even go into practice, others his age
had been earning decent incomes for an average of 10 years.
No one ever writes about the years the wife of a medical
student must work to help bring in a livable income. For
some reason, the pittance my husband received as an intern
just didn’t cover expenses. Thankfully, that has changed
now.
On a personal note, we lived 4% years in a basement
apartment with my in-laws and had two babies during that
time. My husband would go to sleep early, wake up at 2 or 3
a.m. to study while everything was quiet, then hopefully,
sleep for another hour or so before starting the day’s official
studies and rounds with other doctors and patients. Even
now, he reads and studies every day to keep up with the rapid
advances in his field... no novels, just medical journals.
Now that he has finally established himself in private
practice, writers still fail to mention the middle-of-the night
callers who’ve had the symptom for several days, but for
some reason, at 2 a.m. it has reached its peak; then arising at
6:00 or 6:30 to make rounds at one or more hospitals (thereby
fighting the traffic) seeing those patients before going to the
office to see the others, often late and incurring the wrath of
the waiting patients; the unscheduled emergencies that run
him further behind schedule. The detractors of doctors fail to
mention the hurriedly-eaten sandwich at lunch time while he
returns telephone calls from patients who “just want a
nrescriotion refilled.” retelling symptoms, sometimes just
needing someone who’ll listen and sympathize — all this
without remuneration of any kind. Then when office hours
have officially ended, the last patient seen, afternoon phone
calls returned, charts finished, he must again go by the
hospitals for final rounds. We won’t even mention the
numerous hospital committees he must belong to and the
meetings he must attend in his “spare time.” And he doesn’t
even own a set of golf clubs.
His family, now numbering five children, average two
evening meals a week with him, if we’re lucky, and if we’re
willing to wait until 8 or 9 o’clock.
Another thing the writers don’t write about— no one but
the doctor, his staff and his wife knows of the innumerable
charity cases he treats, of all colors and creeds, people in
desperate need for medical care, but who for one reason or
another, cannot pay and “there, but for the grace of God, go
I.”
And finally, the average life of a doctor is a good 10 years
less than the average working man. Is it any wonder that I
felt I must relate the other side of the story.
By the way, we have no boat or second home at the
mountain or the seashore. We live comfortably, as do many
other professionals and nonprofessionals, but not
luxuriously.
GRIFFIN
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