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L M. BOYD
Average Move:
1,000 Miles
When was the last time your
family moved? How far away
was that move? Widely
reported was the fact one out of
every five citizens packs up to
settle elsewhere each year. Now
the statisticians can tell us also
the average distance of such
moves — approximately 1,000
miles.
THAT WOMEN stand the
strain of surgery better than do
men is the quoted claim of one
Dr. David Adlersberg. Says he:
“As a physician, I would rather
discuss a serious family
problem with the wife than with
the husband. Women are just
better adjusted to life.”
A PENNSYLVANIA mother
of seven says she long ago found
a sure way to stifle a tot’s
tantrum. “I just grab hold of the
kid and put it down in front of
the biggest mirror in the house
and point at the reflection,”
says she. “Works every time.”
QUERY
Q. "You say a near- 46,000
American men have been killed
in Vietnam? How many died in
combat in Korea?”
A. Exactly 33,629.
IS IT too obvious to say the
more dates a single girl goes out
on, the more apt she is to get
married? Probably.
Nonetheless, surveys by the
matrimonial experts prove it,
statistically. It’s still further
substantiation of our Love and
War man’s “old bam door
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and wide as ‘Occupant’!”
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theory.” As previously
reported, this theory reads: “If
you throw enough mud against
the old barn door, some of it’s
going to stick.”
AVERAGE
Client romps on me for
talking so much about an
average this or an average that.
Quite right, quite right.
Statistical averages are bunk,
mostly. As old Dr. Walter W.
Heller said: “If a man stands
with his left foot on a hot stove
and his right foot in a freezer,
the statisticians would say that,
on the average, he’s com
fortable.”
CUSTOMER asks who first
saw the “handwriting on the
wall.” Was Belshazzar of
Babylon, according to the Bible.
During a banquet, he en
visioned the fingers of a man’s
hand, writing Aramaic words.
His wisemen shrugged. But
Daniel, the Hebrew prophet,
interpreted said words to mean
that God had judged Belshaz
zar’s kingdom and intended to
destroy it. And that handwriting
- on - the - wall phrase stuck
around.
HERE’S TO Alan Hainsworth
of Groveland, N.Y. — clink!
He’s got a hen that laid an egg
with nine yolks, a super fowl.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box, 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 L.M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Aug. 31,
the 244th day of 1972 with 122 to
follow.
The moon is in its last
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 Virgo.
American writer William
Saroyan was born Aug. 31,1908.
On this day in history:
In 1866, the first major
earthquake recorded in the
United States killed 41 persons
at Charleston, S.C.
In 1954, Hurricane Carol
lashed the New England coast,
killing 68 persons and causing
damage estimated at SSOO
million.
In 1968, at least 250 deaths
were reported in an Iranian
earthquake.
In 1969, the military took
over the government of Brazil
after the president suffered a
stroke.
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UPKEEP IS MAN'S
DOWNFALL
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THOUGHTS
For the scripture says.
"You shall not muzzle an ox
ivhen it is treading out the
grain," and, "The laborer
deserves his wages."—l Tim
othy 5:18
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Every man should make
up his mind that if he ex
pects to succeed, he must
give an honest return for the
other man’s dollar.—Edward
H. Harriman, American rail
road magnate.
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Relax while you can
Now that the runoff election has been
held, the Griffin Daily News congratulates
the winners on their victories and, locally,
the losers on their spirited efforts. Some
good men won and some good men lost,
and we hope that the slashes and the
wounds of the campaigns will heal soon.
In the past, victors in the Democratic
Primary runoffs held the equivalent of
victory in the General Election because
they had no opposition there. Now, though,
the two-party system has come to Georgia
and yesterday’s winners are today’s
candidates. They already have had a
vigorous and difficult summer, and now
they must extend their efforts into
Schools begin
Griffin and Spalding schools opened in
an orderly manner this week. Tensions
and animosities which filled the air in
some years past were absent, thank
goodness.
This year there is no good reason why
Thank goodness
As the late and unlamented campaign
for the Democratic nomination for the U.S.
Senate progressed, we were increasingly
A callous statement
Statement by the black militant that the
woman shot and killed at the Internal
Revenue Service center at Chamblee was
sick and would have died soon anyway is
one of the most callous we have read.
A human life is a human life and not to
Help is coming
Announcement by the Georgia
Department of Transportation that
motorists whose cars break down on
interstate highways in Georgia will have
help is mighty good news.
Plans call for 20 trucks to patrol the 800
miles of interstate in Georgia
continuously, and help should never be
more than an hour and a half away.
Anyone who has been stranded on an
interstate highway knows how difficult the
Crime marches on
That was a terrible thing, the shooting
and robbing of the Griffin nurse just
outside the Atlanta hospital where she
God is called
by many names
I read the Bible a lot, and 1 notice that in
the Old Testament God is called Jehovah.
Why is it that neither you, nor many other
ministers address God as Jehovah?
Perhaps the Jehovah Witnesses are right
when they called Him “Jehovah”. B.W.
God is called by more than fifteen names
in the Old Testament, one of which is
Jehovah. Sane of the more familiar ones
are: The Almighty, Genesis 17:1; Father
of Lights; the Holy One of Israel, Psalm
71:22; The Living God, Joshua 3:10; and
the Most High, Deteuronomy 32:8. Jesus
did not call God Jehovah, but Father.
We do not become children of God by
calling God by any particular name, but by
receiving Him by faith in the person of His
Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “I am the
Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
November.
On the other hand, Republican
candidates have had easy coasting.
Fletcher Thompson had token opposition
for the GOP nomination for the U.S.
Senate, but he won easily and has not been
subjected to the withering fire of a hotly
contested campaign. The two local GOP
nominees had no primary opposition at all
and won their party’s nomination’s merely
by placing their names on the ballot.
Now we have finished the semi-finals in
Georgia’s new set up and are going into the
championship round. Those who are tired
of politics had best draw a deep breath and
relax while they can. A lot more of the
same is on the way.
students, teachers and administrators
should not pursue their primary business
which is learning. Parents, grandparents
and others should cooperate toward this
end, and if they will do so 1972-73 ought to
be a mighty good year.
aware of a single thought:
Thank goodness for Herman.
be taken lightly. This is so regardless of a
person’s health and nobody has the right to
snuff out another’s life except in self
defense, defense of another, or after due
process of law. This truth applies
regardless of race, creed or national
origin.
situation can be. And anyone who ever has
worried about his wife or daughter being
stranded on one knows that the dangers of
the road include more than those of having
an automobile accident.
The patrols are scheduled to start in the
Atlanta area this weekend and to include
all of Georgia by the first of the year.
As a result, everybody will be a little
safer.
works. We join everyone in wishing Miss
Cindy Jones a speedy and complete
recovery.
cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John
14:6.
The Apostle Paul said: “Neither is there
salvation in any other; for there is none
other name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved/’ Acts
4:12. He was speaking of the powerful
name of our Savior and Lord.
There have always been divisive sects
which seem to delight in dissension. But
the Apostle Paul raised the question: “Is
Christ divided?” (Corinthians 1:13.) The
answer is “no”. Those who have been born
into the family of God through faith in Him
are of one mind and one heart. They have
love one for another, and for the world of
lost people.
Don’t depend on a name. Put your trust
in a person, and let that person be Christ,
the Savior of the world.
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BERRY'S WORLD
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"What worries me is, if things don't start getting better
for McGovern, he may get a tremendous number of
'sympathy votes'!"
BRUCE BIOSSAT
McGovern Defense
Plan Way, Way Off
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Sen. George McGovern has been so busy getting nomin
ated and solving his vice-presidential problems that he
has had no time to iron out a puzzling wrinkle in his de
fense program: a proposal to halt ongoing changes in
our missile-bearing submarine fleet.
On Jan. 17, McGovern’s top aides laid out in a back
ground session the senator’s “alternative national defense
posture” calling for a cut of some $32 billion in U.S. de
fense outlays by fiscal 1975.
Among the specific recommendations was one to stop
converting our missile submarines to longer range weap
onry. We have 41 such vessels. Before major conversion
began, each bore 16 advanced A-3 Polaris missiles.
Well under way is a funded program to convert 31 of
the 41 submarines to carriers of a longer range Poseidon
missile holding not just one warhead but 10 independent
ly-targetable warheads.
In McGovern’s 56-page defense presentation, it was
argued that our missile-bearing fleet is our chief nuclear
deterrent against the Soviet Union or any other con
ceivable aggressor. Traversing millions of miles of ocean
undetected, these vessels can mount a second-strike nu
clear response within minutes after an enemy first-strike
begins.
Nevertheless, McGovern proposed in mid-January to
stop converting Polaris submarines to the more advanced
Poseidon.
His document says nothing about the alleged advantage
of having longer range weapons. The greater range, of
course, permits the vessels to move through still wider
undersea areas, farther from the presumed enemy
targets.
What he does argue against is the need to equip the
submarines with multi-warhead weapons. His point is
that these are designed to penetrate sophisticated Soviet
antiballistic missile defenses, but that Russia has not
really developed these.
The puzzle comes not from this proposition, however
arguable some defense specialists may regard it, but
from McGovern’s specific suggestion in January that
Poseidon conversions be stopped at seven out of the
proposed 31.
First off, McGovern’s aides conceded on Jan. 17 that
seven was an unrealistic figure, that more converted ves
sels than that number would be in the water before he
could take office as president. It was not clear, why the
figure seven was chosen.
Soon afterward, I checked and found there were al
ready more than seven Poseidon-equipped submarines in
the water. I have just checked again, and the figure
today is 12 converted, with eight more on the ways. At
least two of these eight will be in the water before the
next presidential inauguration.
So the hard prospect for next Jan. 20 is at least 14
Poseidon vessels in the water and on station, a total
exactly double the figure McGovern’s “alternative na
tional defense posture” sets as a top limit.
Furthermore, the remaining six on the ways will be in
fairly advanced stages of conversion by early 1973, and
still more vessels may be started on the process.
In theory, submarines in this state could be kept from
full conversion. But submarines on the ways represent
about a fifth of the missile-bearing fleet. To leave them
in midconversion would subtract seriously from our nu
clear deterrent. To try to reconvert them to Polaris
weapons is deemed impractical.
Probably their conversion would have to be finished.
That would give us at least 20 of a scheduled 31 Poseidon
vessels, roughly triple the total of seven McGovern fixed
in January as the upper limit.
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TIMELY QUOTES
George McGovern is not
my savior.
—Leslie Bacon, the 20-year
old Atherton, Calif., anti
war activist, at Miami
Beach.
I think their (the Republi
cans’) strategy is to keep
about 15 people taking pot
shots at me from various an
gles at one time, while the
President pretends he
doesn’t even know about
there being an election going
on.
—George S. McGovern.
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gate complaints by prisoners
probably causes some hard
liners to cringe . . . but if we
don’t provide some means to
deal with inmate grievances,
the public is the ultimate
loser.
—Theatrice Williams, State
of Minnesota's new om
budsman for prisons.
I have been speaking the
unspeakable . . . I’ve simply
made the point that this is
a colonial claim.
—F ormer United Nations,
peacemaker, Conor Cruise
O’Brien, arguing in Irish
Parliament that Northern
Ireland must not be united
with Ireland by force.