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Mechanical
Bloodhound
British police are experimenting with a mechanical
bloodhound. A machine. Called a gas chromatrograph.
It sniffs things, then records their particular odors on
charts called airprints. Those lawmen say they expect to
perfect the device to such a degree its airprints can be
accepted as evidence in courts. To prove culprits were at
crime scenes.
DID YOU know the right
half of the face is more
maturely developed than
the left in 96 per cent of
all people?
MEN of science. I’m
told, discover about 9,000
new kinds of insects every
year. Certainly wish they
wouldn’t.
FOUR times as much salt
is poured on the streets to
control ice as is sprinkled
into cookery, bear in mind.
QUERIES
Q. "Can I wash my piano
keys with soap?"
A. Ought not. Soap
stains ivory. Try ammonia.
Q. “Where's the world’s
biggest rock?”
A. That's Stone Moun
tain. Near Atlanta. Ga.
Q. "Can a snail kill a gar
ter snake?”
A. It happens, the rec
ord shows.
WORLD'S most renown
ed Horses and Women ex
pert, it’s believed, was old
Ed Durling. now long de
parted. Contended he. sol
emnly: "About three
times as many men as wo
men marry for love. Men
are much more sincere and
romantic than women."
He said further: "Women
understand men far better
than men understand wo
men. And in particular,
an unattached man. what-
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“Mother nature designed your hands perfectly for
grasping and shuffling credit cards!"
ever his experience, has al
most no chance whatsoever
against a young widow or a
divorcee.”
WEIGHT
Only 17 out of every 100
high school girls are over
weight. But exactly 60 out
of every 100 such girls tell
pollsters they’d like to diet
off a few pounds. Curious.
WHEN itemizing the
holes-in-one of golf, don’t
forget Edna Hussey. At
age 81 in Cincinnati, she
chalked up an ace of 135
yards three years ago.
Senior lady ever to do so.
MORE than 160 U.S.
companies now devote
themselves exclusively to
the manufacture of men’s
cosmetics. It’s a damned
disgrace, I say.
WHAT does a tomato
really taste like? A maker
of tomato paste wanted to
know, precisely, so better
to preserve the flavor of
his comestible. As is widely
known. taste depends
largely on odor. And the
taste of a tomato, he learn
ed. is like the smell of
roses, violets, lemons,
peppermints, caramel,
vanilla, carrots, citronella
and sulphur. Combined.
Addrets mail to L. 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. 17,
the 230th day of 1972 with 136 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
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.
American frontiersman Davy
Crockett was born Aug. 17,
1786.
On this day in history:
In 1915, a devastating hurri
cane struck Galveston, Tex.
The death toll reached 275.
In 1933, first baseman Lou
Gehrig of the New York
Yankees set a major league
record by playing in his 1,308th
consecutive game.
In 1965, after 34 persons had
been killed in six days of
violence, the curfew was lifted
in the Watts section of Los
Angeles.
In 1969, Dr. Philip Blaiberg,
the world’s longest living heart
transplant patient to that time,
died at the age of 60.
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THOUGHTS
"Then the king said to the
attendants, 'Bind him hand
and foot, and cast him into
the outer darkness: there
men will weep and gnash
their teeth.' For many are
called, but few are chosen. - ’
—Matthew 22:13, 14.
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Most of us, as we choose,
make of this world either a
palace or a prison.—John
Lubbock. English astrono
mer.
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As another sees us
Five years or so ago, radio evangelist C.
M. Ward conducted a revival at the First
Assembly of God Church in Griffin. This
week he returned for the present city and
area-wide services conducted nightly at
the Griffin High School stadium.
“Reverend Ward,” we asked him, “what
differences do you see in Griffin?”
His response was thoughtful but quick.
Griffin, he said, has moved gradually but
steadily ahead since he was here last, but
even though it is close to Atlanta, “It has
maintained its own distinctive
personality.”
Here is a man who has preached and
travelled all over the world. He has been
identified intimately for days and weeks at
a time with hundreds of communities,
many of them about the size of Griffin. His
assessment of our town and of us as a
people is noteworthy.
When he was here before, he said, there
was the traditional Southern hospitality in
Griffin, and it was good but kind of a
surface thing, “Glad to see you, glad to
have you here, make yourself
No cause for pride
It has been said that all things are
relative, that one thing is “better” or
“worse” than another when compared
with another.
If so, then Spalding County’s voting
record last week was both “better” and
"worse”. It was better than the state’s 40.9
percent of registered voters. It was worse
than its own Line Creek District’s 70
Give him some tools
A recent poll of college students showed
who they trust. Professional people were
on top of the list, and politicians next to
last.
Only used car salesmen were beneath
them.
Never having been a used car salesman,
we won’t try to speak for them, but having
some knowledge of politicians, we can and
do say that most of the ones we have
known personally are honorable, decent,
and trustworthy. Many work under severe
conditions which make it next to
impossible for them to do their best jobs.
State Representatives in Georgia, for
example, do not have private offices at the
100 year old church
The paper will have a lot more about it
later, but we want to hurry as one cen
tenarian to wish a happy 100th birthday to
another.
The wishes go with enthusiasm to the
Sunny Side Methodist Church which will
Why would a man
end his own life?
I read where one of Hollywood’s greats
committed suicide recently. He was
handsome, gifted, and popular. Why would
a man with all these things end his life?
Have you any explanation? A.M.J.
You forgot to mention that he was rich.
Which all points up the well- known fact
that these things cannot satisfy the deep
hunger and emptiness of the human heart.
Suicide, of course, is instant withdrawal
from life on this planet. And, if life ends at
death, as some surmise, it would be an
escape from the rigors and pressures of
life.
The man I suppose you refer to, left a
note which was interesting. He said:
“Dear World: I am leaving because I am
bored. I have lived long enough. I am
leaving you with your worries in this sweet
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comfortable, enjoy yourself. But now you
mean it. Then it was good manners. Now
people really welcome me. There is a
dialogue.”
He said that Griffin and all this area of
Georgia have emerged from provincialism
and are entering the mainstream of the
nation’s life. “Georgia,” he said, “is more
universal minded.”
Perhaps the major change he has seen
has been in race relations. He said that
Georgians have accepted the inevitable
with good grace and have set an example
of leadership for other Southern states.
The biggest racial problems, he said, are
in the north, in Detroit and other places,
not in Georgia. In his view Georgia “is
leading in a new concept, in a good way.”
Perhaps we had expected some answers
about how much Griffin had grown, how its
street lighting was improved, how its
downtown parkways had shrunk. Instead
of describing the physical changes, he
looked into the hearts of its people. We like
what Brother Ward is seeing five years or
so after his initial visit.
percent which was the same as Upson
(Thomaston) County’s 70.
But any way you look at it, only ap
proximately half of those eligible to vote in
Spalding taking the trouble to do so was
mighty bad. The statewide record is even
worse. Thus we have nothing to be proud of
here, either as Spalding Countians or as
Georgians.
Capitol in which to confer with
constitutents; they have no staff member
directly responsible to them; no se
cretaries (but they do share a typist with
15 or 20 other elected representatives).
Their pay is low, campaign expenses high.
They do not even have private telephones.
These people must decide how to vote on
about 2,000 bills and resolutions in 40 or 45
days, plus how to vote in committees on
hundreds of others.
It is quite a job, a tremendous challenge,
and this ex-active politician loved it and is
not knocking it. He is just trying to say that
if you expect a politician to do a good job,
for goodness sake give him some tools with
which to work.
celebrate its 100th birthday on Sunday,
August 29. Having celebrated our own this
past January, the Griffin Daily News fully
appreciates what this means. So,
Happy birthday to a fine old church, and
may its next 100 years be better every day.
cesspool. Good luck.”
Karl Jung, the great psychiatrist once
said: “The central neurosis of our times is
emptiness.” That was simply a modern
paraphase of Jesus’ words: “Man shall not
live by bread alone”, and “Seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness
and all these things shall be added unto
you.” (Matthew 6:33.)
The Bible says, “If in this life only we
have hope ... we are of all men most
miserable.” (Corinthians 15:19) The body
can be destroyed, but the soul never dies.
It is immortal. So, actually, there is no
such thing as suicide. This movie star
killed his body, but no pill, no poison, no
gun, can kill the soul. The Bible says, “And
many of them that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake, some to everlasting
life, and some to shame.” (Daniel 12:2)
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"I'm sorry—we simply don't have any openings for
'pundits', at this time!"
I How to Pick Safe,
I Sane Presidents?
By DON OAKLEY
The ‘‘Eagleton Case" is only the latest example of a
serious national problem, says respected New York
Times columnist James Reston.
At the critical levels of government below the presi
dency, vice-presidency and the Cabinet, he points out, it
is recognized that high officers of the armed services
and key officials of the Central Intelligence, Atomic
Energy, space and other sensitive agencies must be
checked out physically and mentally before they are
given access to top secret information.
Furthermore, it is recognized that these checks, not
by the officials’ own doctors but by medical boards rep
resenting the national interest, should continue regularly
during a man’s service, lest his health and stability
deteriorate under the pressures of high office.
For the scientists who work on atomic weapons, there
is such a clear and hard test, but for the president or
vice-president, who have the ultimate power of using
atomic weapons, there is none.
It is a “recklessly irresponsible system,” says Reston,
that is “wildly out of date.”
But is it really desirable that presidential and vice
presidential candidates be “checked out” by some board
of medical examiners, as Reston recommends, “before
they are nominated and elected—and checked regularly
thereafter”?
Suppose, after the periodic examination of an incum
bent president, a majority of the medical board reported
that it had doubts about his mental condition. What then
—instant impeachment?
Even if only one or two members were of the opinion
that the president was coming unglued under pressure,
think of the national controversy this would set off.
After all, doctors have been known to disagree in their
diagnoses, not to mention their politics. Some cynics
would argue that psychiatrists are the last people in the
world who should be entrusted with deciding who is and
who is not fit to hold high office.
The physical or mental health of a presidential or vice
presidential candidate is, of course, important to the
people, as the Eagleton episode so dramatically demon
strated. Because of it, candidates in the future may pos
sibly feel obligated to offer evidence of their psychological
soundness.
But an overreliance on this sort of thing could be reck
less in its own way.
Lyndon Johnson, for example, would undoubtedly
have been declared as normal as a Texas noon had he
been examined mentally in 1964. Yet he went on to em
broil the nation deeply in a war in Vietnam, an act which
some opponents do not stop short of calling "insane.”
Were presidents to be regularly certified safe and sane
by a board of examiners, it could come to the point where
this certification could be used to call into question the
mental balance of anyone who dared criticize the actions
or policies of an administration.
The slightest question of mental instability is enough
to disqualify a man from a sensitive lower-echelon posi
tion in government. This is as it should be. The pubic
simply cannot take a direct hand in the appointment or
selection of every undersecretary and assistant in every
department and agency and has to rely on boards of
examiners who follow clear-cut guidelines.
The American electorate does, however, under the
Constitution of this republic, have the ultimate power
of selection of its two highest officials. It may be a
haphazard system, but there is nothing in history to show
that it has been reckless or irresponsible.
QUICK QUIZ
Q —What sea animal talks
to its friends, and is con
sidered more intelligent than
a dog?
A—Dolphins actually ap
pear to hold conversations
among themselves. They are
friendly, intelligent and
playful, and appear to have
a sense of humor.
Q — How do the front feet
of the cat differ from the
hind feet?
A—Cats have five toes on
their forefeet and four toes
on their hind feet.
q —Why can there be no
rain, snow, clouds, or wind
on the moon?
A—The moon has no
weather because of the lack
of atmosphere.
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FACTS
The marathon race com
memorates the feat of
Pheidippides, who ran
about 23 miles from Mara
|thon to Athens, announced
the Greek victory over the
Persians, then fell dead.
The World Almanac notes
that though this race, which
covers 26 miles and 385
yards, is today an Olympic
highlight it was not a part
of the ancient Greek Olym
piads. The first modern
Olympic marathon, in 1896.
was won by a Greek.