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— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 17,1972
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L M. BOYD
Home Buyers
Sue Builders
Say a consumer thinks he has been gypped, so sues the mer
chant. Traditionally, the courts side with the seller, quoting
that ancient common-law doctrine "caveat emptor" meaning
"let the buyer beware." This legal wrinkle has been pretty rough
on some home purchasers whose new houses have fallen apart
after they’ve moved in. All right, here’s the news: Am told when
it comes to housing transac
tions, the "caveat emptor"
rule is set aside in numerous
states, thus to permit the hood
winked buyer to sue the con
tractor. States such as Colora
do, Georgia. Idaho, Washing
ton. Texas, New Jersey and
South Dakota, for instance.
The other night an attorney I
know said morosely, "II I have
to give up personal injury
cases when no-fault insurance
passes, I’m going into the busi
ness of sueing housing con
tractors. That’s where the fu
ture is, my friend."
FEET
Among those several ways
in which girls now differ con
siderably from their mothers,
list also the fact they tend to
have far bigger feet on the
average.
YOU KNOW those famous
Kimberley diamond mines of
South Africa? Many is the fel
low who has labored 30 years
in those pits without ever see
ing a diamond.
BEST DRIVERS of all are
married women between 16
and 25. Better than any other
age group of either sex. A fed
eral study shows that.
WHEN A HUSBAND gets
in some sort of a jam. he tends
first to talk about it with his
wife When a wife gets hung
up on some sort of personal
trouble, she's apt first to dis
cuss it with a friend. Lot of
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exceptions, certainly. But sur
veys show the foregoing to be
generally the case.
QUERIES
Q. "Did you say the great
William Shakespeare never
ever drank a cup of tea?"
A. Correct. Neither did any
body else in England in Mr.
Shakespeare’s day. Tea didn’t
show up there until 40 years
after his death. Cost the
equivalent of S4O a pound
when it did finally get there,
incidentally.
Q. “IS it a fact the wine
makers in Spain trample the
grapes in their bare feet?"
A. Not at all. They wear
boots.
Q. “AMONG 14-year-old
girls, where does Deborah
rank as far as popular names
go?"
A. It's No. 3. Right behind
Linda, which is No. 1, and
Mary, No. 2.
NEXT TIME you find your
self in a less than friendly de
bate, keep an eye on your op
ponent's fingers. Students of
the mind say if said party
clasps same, that's a sign a
lot of unconscious self-re
straint appears necessary to
keep from getting physical.
Address 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 Friday, Nov. 17, the
322nd day of 1972 with 44 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Scorpio.
American social worker
Grace Abbott was born Nov. 17,
1878.
On this day in history:
In 1800, the U.S. Congress
convened in Washington, D.C.
for the first time.
In 1869, the Suez Canal in
Egypt was opened, linking the
Red Sea and the Mediter
ranean.
In 1881, Samuel Gompers
organized the Federation of
Organized Trades and Labor
Unions ... forerunner of the
American Federation of Labor.
In 1969, the Strategic Arms
Talks (SALT) between the
United States and Russia began
in Helsinki.
A thought for the day:
English writer John Ruskin
said, “Life without industry is
guilt, industry without art is
brutality.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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English n o v e I i s t H. G.
Wells made a remarkably
prophetic prediction in 1914.
The World Almanac recalls
that in “The World Set
Free,” Wells wrote: "Noth
ing could have been more
obvious to the people of the
early 20th century than the
rapidity with which war
was becoming impossible
. . . they did not see it until
the atomic bombs burst in
their fumbling hands.”
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-1334
Fly in the ointment
The traffic lights at the Griffin Bypass
and U.S. 19 and 41 intersection have
reduced accidents.
Sgt. A. W. Murphy of the State Patrol
said that only four minor collisions have
been reported there since they were put in
last summer, but before their installation
there was a serious wreck every week.
There is a fly in the ointment, though.
How the Aussies do it
The other day a man tried to pull the
first domestic airline hijack in Australia’s
Cleopatra’s man
The Georgia State Senate reminds us of
a snake which tires itself in knots with its
head trying to swallow its tail.
Governor Carter was a member of it, but
when he took office as chief executive he
found that an independent House did more
for his program than his alma mater, the
Senate.
A domineering lieutenant governor
presides by law over the Senate, but the
House elects its own Speaker. The system
causes much of the Senate’s difficulty.
Understandably, the Governor wants
his way. Likewise, and equally
understandably, the It. gov. does too. So
Backwash in Griffin
Both good and bad occurrences in
Atlanta have away of backwashing into
Griffin. So we note with optimism that
Billy Graham will conduct a campaign in
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★ *THIS WEEK'S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
Youth Football Bowl
Three football championships will be
decided here tomorrow when 18 teams
compete in the Recreation Department’s
eighth annual Youth Football Bowl at
Memorial Stadium.
The bowl will highlight the season for the
450 young players and climax another
successful youth program.
The 18 teams will play nine games, the
first beginning at 9 a.m. and the last
scheduled to start at 9 p.m.
Three of the games will be for
championships. The Bengals and Rams
will play for the Pee Wee League title, the
He let the boy go
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on his riotous trip
I have a son for whom I sacrificed to
educate, and he obtained a master’s
degree in his field. He married a fine girl,
and they have a child. But now, something
has happened to my son. He quit his job in
the university, talks like a radical, and is
for the overthrow of our government. What
can a father do under these cir
cumstances? L.N.D.
It may be your son is a victim of our
affluent society. We have had such an
emphasis on material possessions, on
wealth, on achievement and status, that
many a young person is turned off. Having
had their fill of our success-oriented
culture, they major in a life-style which is
just the opposite, just to demonstrate their
disenchantment.
It can also happen that children
discover, even after marriage, that they
are no more than puppets on the family
stage — that is, they have never been
permitted to be themselves, but just a
Vandals have shot the lights out several
times. Obviously such thoughtless and
malicious action could end with another
death on the highway, just as knocking
down or obliterating painted stop signs can
do. A death under such circumstances is
little short of murder, and if the vandalism
continues, we hope that the full resources
of the state are employed to catch, convict
and severely punish those responsible.
history.
Police shot and killed him.
this week there was a showdown between
them. All the governors’ senators resigned
the Democratic caucus; the It. gov.’s
stayed in it. Some said this, and some said
that. What we liked best of all was what
Georgia’s first black senator, Leroy
Johnson of Atlanta, said.
He declared that he was “not Lester
Maddox’s man, not Jimmy Carter’s man
— the man I am is Cleopatra Johnson’s
man, and she’s my wife.”
Georgia needs an independent Senate,
not stooges for Maddox, stooges for
Carter, or stooges for anybody else.
June in the 51,000-seat Atlanta Stadium.
No doubt many people from Griffin will
attend it. No doubt its good will spread to
Griffin. No doubt we can use some.
Eagles and Wolfpack will clash in the
Junior League championship game and
the Colts will take on the Falcons for the
Senior League crown.
Admission is $1 for adults and 50 cents
for students. The proceeds will be donated
to the Empty Stocking Fund.
Larry Neill, director; Perry Manolis,
program director; Henry Sims, ahtletic
director, and Charlie Daniel, assistant AD
are to be commended for their work with
Griffin’s young athletes.
The 450 players will remember the bowl
as a highlight of their football career.
MY
ANSWER «,JR
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carbon copy of parents. Someone once
asked, “Since God made us to be originals,
why stoop to be a copy?”
But having said that, let me comment on
the direction your son seems to have
taken. If he extols unemployment, and
proclaims the overthrow of our govern
ment, he’s been hooked by a delusion. I
once talked to a leading radical in New
York City, and after he announced his plan
for burning down the establishment, I
asked what his next move would be. He
ted none. He only knew how to demolish,
not to build and develop.
The only thing you as a father can do, is
to copy what the father of the prodigal did
in Luke 15. He let the boy go on his riotous
trip, but evidently kept his love strong and
his hope high. The Scripture says that
when the boy was still a long way off on his
return journey, “The fatter saw him, was
filled with loving pity, and ran and em
braced him.”
Set a good example yourself, and use
massive doses of understanding.
BERRY'S WORLD
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"WOW! Could I get some Pilgrim shoes for
Thanksgiving, too?"
GLOBAL VIEW
Cease-Fire Could
Intensify Hostilities
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
If history repeats itself, the intensity of the ground war
could increase under the Vietnam leopard-spot type cease
fire in which each side held to the bits and pieces of ter
ritory occupied when the stop-the-shooting agreement
went into effect.
The bombing would halt. So, temporarily, would major
ground action by conventional units. But underground
killings and assassinations would likely increase dramat
ically as both sides sought to assert permanent suprem
acy in the areas their troops controlled.
This is what happened in North Vietnam at the end of
World War II during a cease fire between the Nationalists
and the Communists.
The objective of the assassinations could be every
minor citizen of influence who favored the other side, and
every military and guerrilla cadre in every hamlet in
South Vietnam. The major political types would be able to
protect themselves for the most part.
It is the small man who would be targeted—the South
Vietnamese cooperative treasurer, the fishing co-op
leader, the small union official, the hamlet chief, the
small farmer with a mind of his own, the schoolteacher
who stands fast to what he believes.
A cease-fire would also be a time of arms build-up and
intense negotiations with outside allies. In the post World
War II truce, Ho Chi Minh’s Communists wangled a deal
with the French to supply them with artillery, rifles and
machineguns to knock out the Nationalists with whom
they were at “peace.”
In a 1972 cease-fire, the North Vietnamese, if they
operate as in the past, would use the truce to bring in
heavy quantities of arms and equipment from the Soviet
Union and China and distribute these arms down the Ho
Chi Minh trails or across the Demilitarized Zone to their
cadre in the Hanoi-held leopard spots in South Vietnam.
That is, as in the first agreement in Laos, which did
allow the Communist areas in two provinces, the North
Vietnamese would use a cease-fire to build their military
strength in base areas in the South.
The South Vietnamese, of course, would counter this
Communist build-up with a similar program of their own,
if able to secure the continued flow of American arms
and equipment.
Meanwhile, the killing would go on. The ratio of civilian
to military deaths would probably increase dramatically.
Thus far, in recent history, policing cease-fires has
failed miserably.
The treaty on Laos was violated within hours after the
pact was signed, despite a three-nation control commis
sion. North Vietnamese troops, though agreeing to return
home, blatantly and openly continued to use the eastern
half of that country (the Ho Chi Minh trails) as a military
highway, storage, rest and recuperation and assembly
area for the war in South Vietnam. They also periodically
raided western Laos for the rice and opium crops.
The cease-fire in Korea saw an end to the fighting
(though after some considerable time) because the United
Nations forces had absolute control in the South. There
was no leopard spot pattern. But the provisions of the
treaty which called for no military build-up were violated
by the North Koreans and their allies before the ink was
dry on the pact despite international inspection teams.
The South thereupon followed suit in self-defense.
The international control commissions set up in Viet
nam after the 1954 Geneva agreements had no effective
ability to prevent widescale killings so far as can be
determined. Ho Chi Minh, in cooperation with the Com
munist and “neutral” members of the inspection com
mission, effectively prevented any meaningful checkup
on killings.
All this is not to suggest there should be no cease-fire
if one can be arranged. All reasonable approaches to end
the war must be explored. But let’s not expect miracles.
QUICK QUIZ
Q —What service organiza
tion of businessmen has the
motto ‘‘We Build”?
A —Kiwanis International.
The name Kiwanis comes
from an Indian term mean
ing “We make ourselves
known.”
Q —How many pipes does
an organ have?
A— Small ones 370, the
largest more than 40,000.
q —What make of automo
bile was the first to carry a
union label?
A —Ford, in 1940.
q — How many nations
comprise the United Arab
Republic?
A — O n 1 y Egypt. Syria
withdrew.
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Q —What is the difference
in breathing between animal
life and plant life?
A—Animals breathe in
oxygen and emit carbon di
oxide. With plants it’s just
the opposite.
THOUGHTS
“And all these blessings
shall come upon you and
overtake you, if you obey
the voice of the Lord your
God. Blessed shall you be in
the city, and blessed shall
you be in the field.’’ —Deut.
28:2. 3.
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Reflect upon your present
blessings, of which every
man has many; not on your
past misfortunes, of which
all men have some.—Charles
Dickens, English novelist.