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— Griffin Daily News Friday, September 1,1972
"We've Got to Dress Her Up o Bit Before
I Take Her on the Road!"
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What Brings
Happiness?
Again am asked to name
those five essentials of hap
piness: 1. Good health. 2.
Personal liberty. 3. Com
fortable finances. 4. Enjoyable
work. 5. Reciprocated love. If
you can claim to qualify on all
these counts, but still aren’t
happy, that’s bad. Consult
somebody. Or so suggest the
experts.
HEAT getting you down?
Even so, don’t put your nose up
against the air conditioner’s
blower. Instead, submerge one
hand in cold water. The medical
boys say that’s far more
cooling.
NO DOUBT you’ve heard
some citizens with arthritis can
predict upcoming storms. But
did you know some citizens with
numerous dental fillings can do
likewise?
OF THE five human senses,
taste varies the most in dif
ferent individuals, it’s said.
Explains in part much oddball
cookery.
QUERIES
Q. “In what nation did that
feminine performance known
as the striptease get its start?”
A. In the United States. In
fact, it and the blackface
minstrel show are said by some
to be the only two forms of
theatrical entertainment to
criginate here.
“HOW LONG after the birth
of Christ before people started
to celebrate Christmas?”
A. Can only tell you the word
“Christmas” was unknown
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until A.D. 1038.
Q. “ALL RIGHT, Louie,
who’s the oldest man ever to get
a hole-in-one in golf?”
A. George Henry Miller, age
93. Os Anaheim, Calif. He
executed that nifty wrinkle on a
116-yard hole on the Anaheim
Municipal Course about a year
and a half ago. Incidentally, am
not going to warn you again
about calling me Louie,
remember that.
HOUSE
Up jumps Martin Ragaway
again to report: “A family who
had been living in rather
cramped quarters recently
moved into a larger house. The
other day their 10-year-old son
was asked, ‘‘How do you all like
the new house?’ ‘Oh, we like it a
lot,’ he said. ‘I have a room of
my own and my sisters have
rooms of their own.’ There was
a pause and then he added, ‘But
poor mom, she’s still in with
dad.’ ”
AVERAGE airline stewar
dess flies for four years. Used to
be 18 months. What explains it
is the fact that girls can now
stay on after they’re married.
Many a modern young husband,
it’s said, objects not at all that
his bride takes numerous
overnight trips to exotic places
without him. Remarkable.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box, 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 L.M. Boyd
by Gill Fox
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Sept. 1, the
245th day of 1972 with 121 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new 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 Virgo.
American author Rex Beach
was born Sept. 1, 1877.
On this day in history:
In 1878, Miss Emma Nutt
became the first telephone
operator when she took over a
switchboard in Boston.
In 1923, at least 150,000
persons died when an earth
quake shook Japan in the Tokyo
and Yokohama areas.
In 1939, World War II started
as Germany invaded Poland.
In 1971, President Nixon froze
the pay of federal workers for
six months.
A thought for the day: British
writer Hector Hugh Monro said,
“Women and elephants never
forget an injury.”
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THOUGHTS
For the wages of sin is
death, but the free gift of
God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.—Romans
6:23.
The sins ye do by two and
two ye must pay for one by
one.—Rudyard Kipling, Eng
lish poet.
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Above the average
The other day the paper reported that
Griffin has the largest Police Department
cf any city its size in the state. The FBl’s
Uniform Crime Reports for 1971 listed it as
having 57 employes.
The report which was made public this
week said, “In 1971 there were 2.4 police
employes per 1,000 inhabitants in the
United States. This was a four percent
increase over the rate of 2.3 per 1,000
inhabitants in 1970.”
On this basis, Griffin with a population of
22,476 in 1970 would require 54 police
employes to meet the national average, so
with 57 it was just above it.
The Experiment Station
We were glad to read in the paper the
other night that about a fourth of the staff
members of the Georgia Experiment
Station are working on problems dealing
with environmental quality. This is a long
way from just one of 20 only four years
ago, and an opportunity for us to say that
in our judgment the station and its staff
are serving the Georgia taxpayers a lot
better than it did then.
Pollution and environmental quality are
among mankind’s greatest problems, and
Know how to get around
It has been said that it takes a year or so
for a new legislator or congressman or
U.S. senator to find his way around his new
surroundings in Atlanta or in Washington.
If that be true, whoever Georgia sends to
the U.S. Senate will be a year ahead of
other new senators.
This is so because Sam Nunn served
several years in Washington as counsel for
one of the congressional committees. His
uncle is Carl Vinson, Georgia’s venerable
retired congressman, and Nunn knows his
way around D.C.
As for the Republican nominee, Fletcher
★ *THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ *
‘Hak! Kafl’ welcome
Our old friend and colleague, All-
American football prognosticator and
nuclear fission expert Major Amos
Barnaby Hoople is back in the paper.
Yesterday he fearlessly predicted that
Nebraska will be No. 1 in the nation’s
gridiron parade.
The Major has been in hibernation since
last season but seems in fine fettle. He
predicted (again fearlessly) that
Oklahoma will be No. 2 (and we suppose it
will try harder!) and Colorado No. 3.
“How about Griffin High,” we asked His
Honor. Quick as a lateral pass, he replied:
Just found out
son is on drugs
I just found out that my 18-year-old son is
on drugs. Where have we as parents
failed? We have tried to bring him up
right. Please tell me we are not altogether
to blame. F.O.S.
An eighteen year-old should be able to
make his own decisions. However, some
people at 18 are far from mature in spite of
the new laws. One drug addict appraised
his kind with these words: “Dope fiends
are emotional babies. When we call
somebody an addict, it’s not necessarily if
he has shot drugs or not. It’s the type of
behavior, the behavior of a child who is
unable to cope with the problems.”
And this is in line with what Dr. Bertram
Brown of the National Institute of Mental
Health says about drugs. “Drug abuse
basically springs from boredom,
alienation, and a sense of inability to cope
with life.”
Consider, though, that city-limits Griffin
is only a part of the much larger area
which it serves. Spalding County’s
population according the last census was
39,514. This includes people inside the city
limits and those outside, so there are 17,039
outside the imaginary line. Most of them
work and trade in Griffin and the Police
Department has to serve their traffic and
other needs.
Thus, it does not seem to us that Griffin
has too large a police force. And, as this
paper has noted so frequently, it is above
the average in quality as well as in size.
it is appropriate for a fine and expensive
facility such as the station located near a
huge metropolis to concentrate its efforts
on solutions to them.
This part of Georgia has changed so
much since the days when it was
important to know how much corn was
required to feed a mule to grow the corn. It
is a good thing for the state, and for the
Experiment Station itself, for its staff and
for its own future to change with the times.
We are glad that it is doing so.
'Thompson: he is a congressman right now
and has been in Washington long enough to
know some of the ropes and probably some
of the strings.
As the campaign moves toward the
general election it will seem that the two
candidates are far apart, but they do have
some things in commong. Both got their
political baptisms in the Georgia
Legislature, Thompson in the State Senate
and Nunn in the House; both have
experience in Washington; and both have
a burning desire to be United States
Senator from Georgia.
“That football camp in the mountains will
help the Bears. The Touchdown Club did a
good turn there. I’m not ready to predict
Griffin-Decatur yet, though. I’m digesting
the facts which Coach Max Dowis told the
Rotary Club in his speech yesterday. Some
of the stuff I ate there is rumbling around
and interrupting my normal ruminations
and the picture is not quite clear.”
Then the Major signed off. “Hak. Kaf.
Haruumph,” he said. Then we knew that
the pigskin parade is just around the
corner. We welcome it. We welcome, too,
the Major. Haruumph, you-all.
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We used to think (or, I did when I was a
boy) that drinking was a sign of strength
and manhood. Now, psychologists tell us it
is the opposite. It is weakness which
makes the alcoholic, not strength. He is
immature, unable to cope, and with deep
inferiority. Alcohol is the best thing he can
find to, either boost his ego, or to make him
forget his failures. Millions of people are
escaping into the “bottle.” But, are they?
Not really.
Alcoholics Anonymous has been suc
cessful because they teach that only God
can help us when we get to the end of
ourselves. The alcoholic finds strength and
dignity from an outside Source, God. This
really gets back to the old-fashioned
teaching that man can find dignity and
purpose only when he recognizes, and
confesses his weaknesses (sins) and turns
to a loving God for forgiveness.
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some more."
GLOBAL VIEW
Capitalism Edging
Toe in China Door
By RAY CROMLEY
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
Hong Kong friends report that in recent months Mao
Tse-tung has taken a few timid steps toward capitalistic
free enterprise in China
• Following Communist theory, managers during
Mao’s Cultural Revolution were ordered to give their
workers equal pay regardless of how much they pro
duced. But in recent months, after a trial run of some
years, equal pay has been denounced, blamed on Mao s
enemies, its proponents castigated as "egalitarians.” In
dustries have been ordered to pay workers according to
the amount and quality of work.
• The planting of private plots by farmers has been
banned time and again over the years as archaic capital
istic recidivism. In recent months, the order has gone out
that Mao officially sanctions these plots.
Private industry and profits have been frowned upon
since Mao’s armies took over China two decades ago. But
since early this year farmers have been officially allowed
to run small-scale cottage industries for profit.
It is clear from the reports out of Hong Kong that none
of these shifts made Mao’s men happy. It appears they
were bowing to the inevitable.
In explaining the move to pay workers according to
their production, Chinese mainland newspapers have
noted that peasants receiving equal pay lost their social
ist enthusiasm. Production fell sharply and the economy
was threatened with disruption.
Regardless of orders to the contrary, through this
purge and that over the years, Chinese farmers have
clung in one way or another to their private plots, what
ever the penalties.
Villagers, especially in areas far from Peking and
Shanghai, have operated their own illegitimate enter
prises in increasing numbers over the years in defiance
of authority.
But China watchers in Washington believe Mao wasn't
merely giving in. The excesses of the Cultural Revolu
tion had created great uneasiness throughout the nation.
China was badly split again by the vast purges of Mao’s
enemies this past year in weeding out the adherents of
Lin Piao, whom Mao first annointed as his successor,
then destroyed.
Mao, the theory runs, has ordered a nationwide easing
up to mend his badly torn fences, consolidate his rule
and bring the wobbly Chinese economy back on its feet.
Mao’s men have been ordered to show tolerance toward
the political errors of those who repent, particularly if
they are technologists, or specialists with special skills.
Experienced schoolteachers, replaced during the Cultural
Revolution by politically reliable but inept substitutes,
are now being brought back to their old jobs.
Intellectuals are being reinstated after rehabilitation,
some after rewriting their major works. Universities are
accepting some students from nonworking-class back
grounds.
A few Western films have been shown. Some classics,
denounced during the purges, have been brought out in
new editions.
There reportedly is less repression of religion, though
the propaganda against worship continues full tilt. Some
temples have been allowed to reopen; their desecration
is no longer sanctioned.
Muslims have been allowed to celebrate their festivals.
Catholic and Protestant Christians held Easter services
this year with some small number of Chinese attending.
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