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L M, BOYD
A Couch Lets
Doctor Relax
What is the purpose of the psychiatrist's couch? Simple.
It requires a patient to recline in such a position that said
patient cannot look at the doctor's face. This permits that
mental expert to carry on the treatments while he scratches
his ear, rolls his eyes or nibbles his fingernails, whichever. Sig
mund Freud devised the couch notion. He hated to be stared at.
THAT THE AVERAGE
American man has 18 ties in
his closet has been reported.
Should be noted, too, they're
mostly red, blue, brown and
green, in that order. That’s
how many pairs of socks the
average man has, also. Exact
ly 18.
ENGLISH GIRLS in gen
eral are just a little shorter
than American women. About
70 per cent of Great Britain s
females are 5-feet-3-inches or
under.
QUERIES
Q. “When did jukeboxes
first come out?”
A. In 1933. Big hits that
year were “It’s Only a Paper
Moon,” “Smoke Gets In Your
Eyes” and "Stormy Weather."
Q. “I KNOW June mar
riages have the lowest divorce
rate. But marriages of what
month have the highest di
vorce rate?"
A. January, February and
March. It’s a tossup.
Q. “1 SAY California
grows more turkeys than any
other state ..
A. Grows more pounds of
turkey. California’s birds are
larger. But Minnesota grows
the greatest number.
THE FRENCH telephone
dial has a Q. Ours doesn’t.
The Danish telephone dial has
no W. Ours does.
LOVE AND WAR
If both you and your matri
monial mate come from brok
en homes, odds run only 12
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“I was grown-up before Mama stopped tearing
the ladies’ underwear pages out of the mail order
catalogues!”
out of 20 your marriage will
last. If one of your two sets
of parents was divorced, odds
are 15 out of 20 you will re
main successful in marital
harness. If neither was di
vorced, odds are 17 out of 20
you and the object of your
affections will make it all right.
This is Item No. B-156 from
our Love and War man's file
labeled Romantic Roulette.
AVERAGE AMERICAN
woman takes 16 minutes in the
morning to dress . . . REC
ORD SHOWS the number of
millionaires in this country
has quadrupled in the last 10
years . . . PITY THIS Cali
fornia podiatrist doesn’t ex
plain his claim that emotional
tension can cause corns . . .
IT’S ALSO KNOWN more
women than men have trouble
getting to sleep at night . . .
AND FURTHER, your whole
family spends $lB per year in
postage, if average.
THE BEST SALES
CLERKS seem to score lowest
on intelligence tests. Peculiar
bit. Hiring experts say their
studies show the I. Q. tests
work in a dandy manner to
pick typists, stenographers,
bookkeepers. But they're not
worth much in selecting sales
help. Such tests of the top
dollar volume producers in
several department stores
checked out miserably low.
Address mail Io I. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fori Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 L.M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 22,
the 327th day of 1972 with 39 to
follow.
The moon is between its full
stage and last quarter.
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 Sagittarius.
French President Charles de
Gaulle was born Nov. 22, 1890.
On this day in history:
In 1852, the second French
Empire gained recognition
when more than seven million
persons voted to back the
regime of Emperor Napoleon
111.
In 1960, the U.S. Navy
launched the “Ethan Allen,” at
the time the most powerful
nuclear submarine in the world.
In 1963, President John
Kennedy was assassinated in
Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson
was sworn in as chief executive
a short time later.
BARBS
Take a fellow out to lunch
who’s looking for compli
ments, and you'll have to un
dergo a “fish” dinner.
♦ * *
A neat desk is a sign
that you’ve mastered how
to shove all the work on
the other fellow.
What’s sauce for the goose
gets spilled mostly on our tie
during the holiday dinner.
THOUGHTS
And me angel said to
them, “Be not afraid; for be
hold, I bring you good news
of a great joy which will
come to all the people; for
to you is born this day in
the city of David a Saviour,
who is Christ the Lord.”—
Luke 2:10, 11.
* * $
In his life Christ is an ex
ample showing us how to
live; in his death, he is a
sacrifice satisfying for our
sins; in his resurrection, a
conqueror; in his ascension,
a king; in his intercession, a
high priest.—Martin Luther,
German religious reformer.
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We’re
Listening
Dear Quimby: A couple of weeks ago
there was a letter in “We’re Listening”
from our elderly lady in which she laid
bare her loneliness, poverty, inability to
afford medical care and the overgrowth of
weeds and brush around her house.
After reading her letter I was in anguish
for this person as she expressed the
general tone that no one really cared about
her.
This is an open letter to her:
“My dear Lady, Someone does care
about you and about your plight in life. God
cares about you; and because of Him, I
care about you. I am a doctor of medicine,
but I write to you not as a physician, but as
a fellow human who reaches out to you in
the name of Jesus, our mutual Friend.
If you will send your name and address
to “We’re Listening” care of Griffin Daily
News, I would like to clean out the
underbrush that has overgrown your house
and would like to provide medical care for
you through the talents God has given me.
If you are are invalid, I will call on you
regularly at your home as well as taking
care of any medical emergencies that
come your way. t
Most of all I want you to know that there
are many in this community who care
about you and about others who feel that
they are alone and without much hope.
As we enter this season of Thanksgiving
and Christmas let’s remember that this is
what it’s all about— caring.
Your friend.
Dear Mr. Melton: I am a totally blind
person and I would like to tell you and the
public how the blind are treated on election
day.
For 14 or 15 years there was a person
that went with me to the polls to cast my
vote since I cannot see. About three
elections ago they stopped her from voting
for me and picked someone off the streets
to help me. This person tried to tell me who
to vote for. I also have to swear each
election that I am blind. Two elections ago
they told me that someone that voted in my
district would have to vote for me. It is not
always possible to get someone to go with
me. This election I went by myself and was
told that there was no one to help me. Some
gentleman finally volunteered to help me
and while we were in the booth someone
called time on us. Surely they must
realize that it takes time when you can’t
see and have to depend on someone else to
mark your ballot.
I would like to say that I have just about
decided not to vote any more unless
something can be done to make voting
easier for a blind person. I have always
felt it was my duty as a citizen to cast my
vote, but at the polls I am made to feel that
I have no right to vote because I am blind.
Thank you for letting me get this off my
chest by telling you how I feel. (S) Paul
Brown, Griffin.
Mr. Melton: In reply to the letter written
you by a sad and lonely lady last week.
Every word she said is true. The world is
full of hate coming from all the rich who
don’t have to pay taxes nor anything but
Grandmothers never
replace parents
I have had a wonderful relationship with
my son, my wife, and their two-year-old
daughter, and I love them all dearly.
Recently, the little girl took a stubborn
spell, and wouldn’t allow her mother and
me to dress her before they went home. I
held her, however, forced her clothes on,
and got her ready to go. Her mother just
gave in to the child as usual. Now, they are
angry with me, and I’m afraid this in
cident has come between us. I am so
depressed! Please help me. F.S.A.
It seems like an insignificant incident,
one that often happens in dealing with a
child, but perhaps, as you seem to in
dicate, it pointed up a broader and deeper
disagreement over how to bring up
children.
Here’s one area where the generation
gap is most obvious, but you must realize
that raising that girl is not your respon
ability. Logically and legally, they are the
From time to time we will publish
complaints and suggestions about your
newspaper. Send questions, comments or
criticisms to WE’RE LISTENING, the
Griffin Daily News, P.O. Box 135, Griffin,
Georgia 30223.
use their minds to think up thousands of
ways to tax the old, poor and needy. We
are treated like mangy dogs by everybody,
insurance people of every kind, home
taxes and everything. Those who pretend
vote for me, I will do this and that to help
you when those kind of people know they
have but one thought to get all the money
they can for themselves only. Eventually
they will pass an amendment to kill every
poor person when they get 40 years old.
That way the rich can take over
everything they have worked so hard to
get. I have paid Social Security six years,
never received a penny from them, started
$15.60 every three months, now it is $19.20
and going up again Jan. 1. We have learn
ed what going up means. They will pocket
millions to be divided among the rich. God
has his eyes on each and every one. He had
to destroy the world once by water. But
there will be fire next time. I am a widow. I
have two ragged huts with one is two acres
at Woodbury. They ran up taxes from 75
cents to $33 or $40.00 a hut and 60 feet of
land, taxes went up to $35.00 this year in
Barnesville and the City of Barnesville is
taking that away from me. I would rather
be dead than shoved in some of these pens
they are asking $400.00 a month to creep
around in those unhappy places. I am 73
years old. Can’t work and have no friends.
Not signed.
Dear Mr. Melton: Are the parents totally
to blame if a child goes wrong? My sister
says it is mainly society plus environment
that are at fault. (S) Mrs. S. T.
RESPONSE: Sometimes the parents are
not to be blamed at all. They can do what
they could and should, still the child can go
wrong. He has a free will and can choose
evil despite the best of parents and
environment. He is likewise free to choose
good despite the worst of parents and
environment. We all know examples of
both.
TIMELY QUOTES
Conventional nuclear pow
er reactors, I believe, will
play a very big part in the
future energy supply pic
ture.
—S. D. Bechtel Jr., presi
ent Bechtel Corp., to
American Gas Association.
Most still believe that a
democratic system is run by
the majority, when in fact it
often is not. The truth is that
democracy as practiced in
the United States tends to
be run by the best-organized
minority.
—Dr. Thomas J. Coyne, asso
ciate professor of finance
at the University of Akron.
Whether or not it is clear
to you, no doubt the uni
verse is unfolding as it
should.
—Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau, on hearing the
unfavorable (for him) re
sults of Canada’s October
30th parliamentary elec
tion.
boss in setting standards, and in deter
mining conduct. Grandmothers are im
portant, but never to replace the function
of the parents.
Evidently, you were a disciplinarian,
and your son knows it. There’s no need to
continue to prove it. He will have to
develop his own philosophy of family
discipline, because as Matthew Henry put
it “a family without government is like a
house without a roof, exposed to every
wind that blows.”
More importantly, however, I’m con
cerned about what you’re doing to settle
the disagreement. The Bible says in
Ephesians 4:26, “Don’t let the sun go down
on your wrath.” Your duty is to make
peace, to ask forgiveness if that’s in
volved, and to build harmony in every way
possible. With the innate wisdom that God
gives mothers, you’ll know how best to
accomplish that.
MY
ANSWER, J!
Ml
BERRY’S WORLD
/HU
RAY CROMLEY
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Economic Strategy
Get Reds to Tone
Down, Nixon Aim
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
President Nixon’s truce efforts with Hanoi and his rap
prochement with Moscow and Peking are based on this
unproved but beguiling strategy thesis:
• When the chips are down, the men who run North
Vietnam, China and Russia will put their homelands first
and international Communist goals second—for the short
term.
• For Communist countries facing an economic crisis,
trade, dollars and technical aid are more powerful than
ideology.
• However ambitious their long-term aims of conquest,
the new way of life brought by trade, dollars and technical
aid will, over the long pull, cause them to modify some
what their propensities for aggression.
Take North Vietnam and the proposed truce in Indo
china. Historically there is no way to prevent Hanoi from
breaking the treaties the hour they are signed. But the
pact as proposed arranges for U.S. technical and eco
nomic aid in the years ahead. This was inserted, I am
informed, at the eager urging of the men from Hanoi.
U.S. strategists, knowing how badly North Vietnam
wants this aid, hope (with fingers crossed to be sure) it
will be sufficient incentive to prevent Hanoi from flagrant
treaty violations. Hanoi may believe the United States
will never bring the bombers back North; but that govern
ment must be quite certain that breaches of the pact
which endanger the existence of South Vietnam, Laos or
Cambodia will result in a shutoff of American assistance
to the North.
If the group which believes North Vietnam’s first duty
is to build up the homeland is in power in Hanoi, as re
ports indicate, there is a chance the Nixon gamble will
pay off.
Then there’s the U.S.S.R. Despite the skill of the Rus
sian police in holding down dissenters, there is no doubt
the Soviet Union is hurting seriously because it cannot
supply the essentials plus necessary luxuries to the men
it depends upon to run the system, and to their families.
There are not sufficient supplies of meat, automobiles,
or refrigerators, or enough of the countless other niceties
the Soviet managerial class, and working class too, are
now insisting on. Each year the Soviet economy lags
further behind the United States, Japan and West Ger
many.
Now comes Nixon with a highly favorable grain deal,
a wide range of trade concessions, a multibillion-dollar
technical aid-gas purchase agreement and other invest
ment and aid measures in a variety of lines—which could
set the Soviet Union on the way to meeting the more
pressing of its consumer demands, easing the growing
political pressures on the Kremlin’s men.
What Nixon strategists hope is that the bureaucrats
who rule in Moscow will not be willing to sacrifice U.S.
accommodation and these dollar-ruble advantages for
power showdowns in the Middle East, Asia, Africa or
Western Europe.
Nixon’s advisers don’t expect the Soviet Union to give
up its goals, or to start down a peaceful path. They do
hope the Kremlin’s men, thinking of trade, grain, gas and
investments, will take fewer risky chances and will abort
some of their more dangerous aggressive techniques.
The objective is not Utopia — but a slightly greater
chance for peace.
Negotiations with China have barely started. But there
are hopes here that the same approach can be made.
It is known the Chinese are badly in need of technical aid
and investment.
QUICK QUIZ
Q —What is an abalone?
A—A large limpetlike
snail found in various wa
ters of the world.
Q —What is meant by a
“Rube Goldberg” method of
accomplishing an objective?
A —Complex roundabout
means for what apparently
could be done simply.
Q —What is the direction
of the Panama Canal?
A —North-south.
Q —Where is there a por
tion of the United States in
Canada?
A—A section of Minne
sota cannot be reached ex
cept by crossing Canadian
territory, or by water.
q — Why is the White
House a mile away from
the Capitol?
A — George Washington
felt that such a distance
would emphasize the separa
tion of the executive and
legislative branches of gov
ernment.
GRIFFIN
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FACTS
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The first national monu
ment to the Unknown Sol
dier was built to honor the ;
unidentified Americans who
died in World War I. The
Unknown Soldier was en
tombed Nov. 11, 1921, at
Arlington National Ceme
tery, Virginia, in the pres- •
ence of President Warren
G. Harding, The World Al- -
manac says. The tomb is >
inscribed: ‘‘Here rests in
honored glory an American
soldier known but to God.”
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