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— Griffin Daily News Monday, November 20, 1972
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L M. BOYD
December Is
Walk Month
It is in lhe month of December that the average wife walks
II miles a day. Her strolling average in other months is eight
miles a day.
“INSTEAD of syrup, try topping off your breakfast pan
cakes with a can of sardines,” suggests a San Francisco gour
met. “Tasty.” Not this ________________
morning.
WHY California’s Napa
County is such a tough place
for matrimony I don’t know.
But seven out of every 10 mar
riages there break up in di
vorce, the record shows. Can
you explain it?
THE TV COMMERCIAL
showed a woman happily pass
ing out to a roomful of men a
certain brand of cigar. But the
commercial was a flop. It did
not inspire smokers to hotfoot
it out in droves to buy said
cigar. The ad agency boys
wondered why. They hired a
scholar to find out. After
lengthy study, he told them
most men enjoy cigars partly
because women don't like the
odor. The typical cigar
smoker, this authority claims,
knows full well he is going to
leave a stench in the room.
QUERIES
Q. "What’s the life expec
tancy of a 100-year-old man?”
A. He’s good for another
1.53 years, statistically.
Q. “LIGHTNING starts the
most fires, no?"
A. The most that really do
big damage, certainly.
Q. “HOW LONG has it
been since Frenchmen cut oil
people's heads with the guil
lotine?"
A. Three years, about
CHAIN SMOKERS tend to
snore. Or so some sleep re
searchers claim. Remember
that, young lady. If the fellow
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“Hey, Dad! I just thought of a swell hiding place!"
you are thinking about marry
ing lights up one cigarette
after hnother, reconcile your
self to noisy nights.
STRAW MAN
it’s generally believed the
term "straw man" alludes to
those, stuffed scarecrows of
yesteryear which farmers
erected in their fields. That’s
wrong. Professional perjurers
in old England hung around
Westminster Hall with pieces
of straw protruding from their
shoetops. Said straw was a
signal that they were willing
to hire out as witnesses. That's
where the phrase “straw man”
came from.
MAY BE you didn’t know
the Amazon River carries
more water than any other
three rivers combined ... A
SPRINT between a healthy
jackrabbit and a good race
horse could be expected to end
in a tie . . . IT’S ALSO a fact
the average student sees far
more movies in school than in
regular motion picture
theaters now.
THE SECOND-HAND car
has a bad name. This is un
fortunate, our Love and War
believes. It should be revered,
maybeeven enshrined. Bear in
mind, please, the enormous
majority of matrimonial pro
posals are delivered in second
hand cars.
Addi au moil 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 Monday, Nov. 20,
the 325th day of 1972 with 41 to
follow.
The moon is full.
The morning stars are Venus,
Saturn and Mars.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Scorpio.
Peregrine White, the first
child born in the New England
colonies, came into the world
aboard the Mayflower on Nov.
20, 1620.
On this day in history:
In 1937, Chungking was
established as the wartime
capital of China.
In 1945, 24 top German
leaders went on trial at
Nuremberg before the Interna
tional War Crimes Tribunal.
In 1947, Princess Elizabeth of
England married Royal Navy
Lt. Philip Mountbatten.
In 1968, explosion and fire
entombed 78 men in a coal
mine at Farmington, W.Va.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
The people most thankful
for Thanksgiving must be
the cranberry bog owners.
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The best way so far as
we’re concerned to serve
turnips is sparingly.
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One thing to be thankful
for at Thanksgiving is that
they haven’t yet extended
the yule shopping season
back to July 4.
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THOUGHTS
“They have healed the
wound of my people lightly,
saying, 'Peace, peace,’ when
there is no peace.”—Jere
miah 8:11.
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It must be a peace with
out victory. Only a peace be
tween equals can last: only a
peace, the very principle of
which is equality, and a com
mon participation in a com
mon benefit.—Woodrow Wil
son. 28th president.
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Worse than small pox
Noting that everybody seems to be
criticizing everybody else, a friend of ours
said the other day that he is planning to
write a letter to the editor and say that he
is not mad at anybody.
That would be a good one, and quite a
Pause that refreshes
After an election in which the victor wins
a landslide popular vote, the President
usually presents an expansive domestic
program to Congress. Seomtimes this has
helped, but the accumulation of years of
such procedure makes us hope that
President Nixon is planning a different
course, and we believe that he is.
In the four years that include the current
federal budget, the nation will have ac
cumulated a deficit of nearly SIOO billion.
Fully 45 per cent of the budget is being
spent for human problems, and yet the
problems appear to worsen.
Assuredly the landslide vote for
Griffin vs. Lakeside
Lakeside won the right last week to play
Griffin in the first round of playoffs for the
North Georgia AAA football cham
pionship. Having won the BAAA title and
thus qualifying to meet our own 6AAA
champions, Lakeside obviously has a
strong team and will be a formidable
opponent.
Fortunately for Bears’ fans, the game
No gift from Uncle
The federal government’s revenue
sharing plan will pay Spalding County
$420,096 and the City of Griffin $211,919 for
this year.
Payment to other counties in this area
will be Butts $125,965, Fayette $38,194,
Henry $159,797, Lamar $83,123, Pike
$95,737, and Upson $247,333.
The money will be sent in two payments,
the first one for the first six months of the
year, retroactive, and due to be mailed in
December and the second one about Jan 3,
1973. After that money will be paid
quarterly
The cities and counties of Georgia have
been pressing for the state to increase the
‘Bobwhite! Bobwhite!’
Quail season began today in Georgia and
will continue until February 28.
Deer season has been especially good
this year, and the paper has printed a
number of pictures of hunters who bagged
their quarry. Good news for bird hunters is
that quail season is expected to be good,
too, in middle and south Georgia, and
Specially good in southwest Georgia
inis part of the state is classified as
northwest Georgia, though, and quail
hunting is expected to be only fair in these
parts, but poor to moderate in their north
east part of the state.
Real bird hunters consider quail the king
of game and would not swap a day in the
God and the Gospel
are realistic
My problem is that I’m not religious, and
I do not got to church. On the other hand, I
do not do bad things. I guess you could say
I’m in between, if there is such a thing in
matters of religion. I think about God a lot;
sometimes I want Christ in my heart, but
I’m afraid if I get him there, I’ll start to do
the wrong things. What I’m saying is that
I’m afraid I’ll backslide, once I’ve
changed my life. Confused.
Your case is not unusual. Many people
imagine that since the Bible shows God as
perfect, all that follow Him have to be
perfect too, and they don’t want to risk
failure.
Say, I have good news for you, because
God knows more about your shortcomings
and your tendency to do wrong or
backslide than you do. God and the Gospel
are wonderfully realistic. Redemption is a
plan that picks us up where we are, and
moves us toward a future goal of per
fection. Paul said in Romans 5:8, “God
showed His love for us by sending Christ to
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6334
point
change of pace, wouldn’t it? Gripes,
complaints, demands and bad humor are
just as contagious as small pox, and since
there is not vaccination against them, far
more dangerous to the nation. We look
forward to this friend’s letter. Hope he
sends it special delivery.
President Nixon reflected public disen
chantment with the pell mell, almost
directionless course we have been
following, and with the abuses that huge
sums of money seem to attract. In no small
measure the reason that some Americans
have lost faith in the ability of government
to function is that the excesses and in
dulgences of the past decade have, in
reality, made it impossible for the
bureaucracy to be effective.
Progress in Washington is not
necessarily a legislative landslide after a
presidential landslide. A period of in
trospection, digestion and belt tighening
may very well be the pause that refreshes.
will be played in Griffin, and this is
“Football Week” in this town which has
thrilled with the G.H.S. triumphs this
season.
Unbiased and unprejudiced fans are
saying, “May the best team win!” And
that is okay with us since we believe that
Griffin is the best. Anyhow, here’s hoping !
sales tax one cent and give half of it to
them. The federal revenue sharing law
should eliminate any further requests
along this line. And don’t forget, the
revenue sharing of federal money with city
and county governments is not a grant
such as the national government makes to
foreign nations whose people are not taxed
for it. Instead, it is a sharing of federal
funds obtained primarily by taxing the
people of all the localities with which it is*
shared.
December is near, and Santa will be
here before we know it, but this big deal is
no gift from Santa. From Uncle either.
field with a good dog for any other sport. If
ever you have thrilled to the quivering
point of man’ best friend, you know that
there is no substitute for it.
Fair warning, though! If past ex
perience is an indication, all those quail we
have seen walking around in our yard and
along the roads will have disappeared by
today. It takes an announcement from the
Game and Fish people for men to know
when quail season starts, but the birds
themselves seem to have a built-in in
dicator which tells them even when the
dates are changed. Perhaps that is one
thing which makes them such interesting
game. Anyhow, good hunting!
die for us while we were yet sinners.”
Once I saw a chaplain draw a diagram of
Christian experience. He had a straight
line representing the moral trouble free
life, then a dip picturing a crisis, and then
a line up, representing the trust of God’s
help. At a higher level there was another
line, where the process repeated itself.
Do you know that in the memoirs of the
greatest saints, apparently the doser they
drew to God, the more they sensed their
own inadequacies. The secret was that
they learned how to handle backsliding
and failure. They were not surprised at
their own sins. Indeed when they slipped
back one step for wrongdoing, they let
God’s strong arm push them two steps
ahead.
One of the happy announcements of
Scripture is “as many as received Him, to,
them gave He power to become the sons of
God.” Have a bold sort of faith, and let
God’s power through the church help you
keep it that way.
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"What happens during a period of peace?
How should I know?"
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RAY CROMUY
Peace Trickery
By North Viets
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
This column will outline how Hanoi attempted to trick
the United States into signing an agreement giving the
North Vietnamese complete victory in the South on their
terms while making Henry Kissinger believe he was ar
ranging a pact accepting Hanoi’s agreement to President
Nixon’s terms.
From the start, the major obstacle had been North
Vietnamese insistence that the United States, as part
of a deal for the return of American prisoners of war,
agree to set up in South Vietnam a coalition government
as a thin disguise for a north Vietnamese takeover.
Mr. Nixon and Kissinger, however, insisted that any
Washington-Hanoi accord must be limited to United
States and North Vietnamese military matters, with a
political settlement worked out between Hanoi and Sai
gon. The United States could not in good conscience
submit to blackmail whereby it would agree to use its
might to force the rule of Hanoi on the people of South
Vietnam, even to get American prisoners back.
When at long last, after Haiphong was mined, the
North bombed intensively and Hanoi’s invading armies
bogged down, the North Vietnamese said they were will
ing to agree with the United States on military matters
alone. Kissinger was overjoyed, believing U.S. objec
tives had been achieved and that this country could with
draw from South Vietnam without having sold out the
people of that nation.
He was all the more certain of his victory when the
North Vietnamese at Paris presented him with a clear,
clean-cut English phraseology which eliminated their de
mand for a coalition government and proposed instead
a postwar Council of National Conciliation and Concord.
This group was defined as a mere advisory body with
limited, low-level administrative functions concerned
only with setting up and supervising elections. But it had
no power and required unanimous decisions so that Sai
gon could not be forced into anything it did not want.
To Kissinger, this was a barely disguised acceptance
of defeat by the North Vietnamese, covered only by a
thin fig leaf. Since the key phrases outlined above were
in English provided by the North Vietnamese, and since
they were so clearlv written, Kissinger did not question
the intent. In fact, Kissinger could not have gone beyond
the English text and studied the meaning in Vietnamese,
for there was no Vietnamese version of these phrases.
Kissinger in fact did not want to probe too far. Since
he thought this was a North Vietnamese capitulation
and because he believed the North Vietnamese desired
to save face, he wanted to let well enough alone. He did
not ask what words Hanoi intended to use in translating
this English text into Vietnamese. Such questioning
would, he thought, have been indelicate in the face of
Hanoi’s surrendering so completely to U.S. wishes.
The North Vietnamese, however, later wrote up their
own version of this particular part of the Kissinger-Le
Due Tho pact, defining the authority and function of the
Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, using
Vietnamese words with meanings entirely different from
the English words in the version they had given Kissinger
for his agreement. They defined the council as a coalition
government—using terms signifying supreme power.
Adoption of this definition would at one fell swoop have
eliminated the current South Vietnamese government
from power and would have substituted a half-North
Vietnamese government.
The result would have been a government with absolute
ly no power. It would have meant the South Vietnamese
police and military units and their militia could not legiti
mately have resisted or interfered with the roving North
Vietnamese squads and kangaroo courts the North Viet
namese are preparing to set up throughout the country.
The result would have been a North takeover.
QUICK QUIZ
Q —How does the lobster
carry its eggs?
A— On appendages be
neath its tail—for 10 to 11
months.
Q —What accounts for the
high price of cashmere
wool?
A—The average goat pro
duces only about three
ounces of fleece.
Q —What percentage of an
iceberg is below water level?
A—Seven-eighths to nine
tenths.
Q —What was the name of
Alexander the Great’s horse?
A—Bucephalus.
Q —What is the record
held by ballet dancer Mar
got Fonteyne?
A—Most curtain calls, 89,
after “Swan Lake” with Ru
dolf Nureyev.
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FACTS
The term “millionaire’s
club” was used by some
critics to describe the U.S.
Senate prior to the enact
ment of the 17th Amend
ment which required the
direct election of senators,
The World Almanac recalls.
Prior to the amendment’s
adoption in 1913, U.S. sen
ators were chosen by state
legislatures which could be
influenced by various inter
est groups.
NEWS
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Editor
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