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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 8,1973
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L M BOYD
"Dad, Dad, Only
Three Cavities"
Average first grader has exactly three cavities on said
child's first day of school
To that long list of bright accomplishments by Leonardo da
Vinci, add the discovery of the fact that the age of a tree can be
determined by a count of its rings
It's known politicians in general tip none too heftily in res
taurants But that elected politician said to tip best is the city
mayor Surveys show senators still tip least
When reporters asked that renowned world traveler Lowell
Thomas to name the world's most beautiful and exciting city, he
listed 10 candidates: 1 San Francisco. 2 London. 3. Paris. 4.
Bangkok 5 Rio de Janeiro. 6 Denver 7 Seattle 8 Portland. 9.
San Diego 10. Colorado Springs.
ROBIN HOOD
Q "Is it true that the historians now have proved that the
real Robin Hood liked men, not women?''
A Not true The historians say they're certain he never
knew anybody called Maid Marian, that he lived a chaste life in
the woods with no feminine companionship whatsoever, but that
the ballads of his time indicate he was dedicated, devoutly relig
ious and exceedingly masculine His real name is said to have
been Robin De Kyme. And the English researcher James Lees
contends he was born m 1226, most probably at Kyme in
Lincolnshire, and lived in the reign of Edward I, not Richard I.
Lees says he was no hotshot with a longbow, incidentally.
Just so-so
Did I tell you a giraffe's tongue is about 18 inches long?
ANOTHER FEAR
Among the oddball fears, also list, please, something called
' sight of sleep phobia." He who suffers from that weird condition
tends to get both anxious and irritated whenever he notices
somebody doze off A husband maybe pops in temper, if he sees
his wife drift off in her rocker during his preferred TV show Or
vice versa Dr John Fleminger of Guy's Hospital in London says
the malady is rare but real.
Will bet you a quarter on the corner you can't name that
long rod that glassblowers manipulate to make their pretties. It’s
a punty
No newborn infant is afraid of water, it's said.
That turkeys stand upright when laying eggs is common
knowledge Less widely known is the fact that some chickens do
likewise Thus the long fall, as you might imagine, tends to crack
the eggs So savvy chicken fanners keep tabs on nests wherein
they regularly find cracked eggs, then wring the craning necks
of those most upright birds
Address moil to L M. Boyd, P. O. Bo* 17076. Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Do you still accept dollars?”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, May 8, the
128th day of 1973 with 237 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Jipiter.
The evening stars are Venus
and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Taurus.
Harry Truman, 33rd presi
dent of the United States, was
bom May 8, 1884.
On this day in history:
In 1541, Spanish explorer
Hernando de Soto discovered
the Mississippi River.
In 1879, George Selden of
Rochester, N.Y., filed for the
first patent for an automobile.
It was granted in 1895.
In 1945, President Truman
officially declared V-E Day ...
the end of World War II in
Europe.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
One of the hardest jobs to
give up is doing nothing.
* * *
The grass is always
greener on the other side
of the fence; but then our
neighbor spends a lot
of money on fertilizer.
♦ ♦ ♦
JI
If the joker's wild, don't
let him into the game.
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THOUGHTS
“And whether the land is
rich or poor, and whether
there is wood in it or not. Be
of good courage, and bring
some of the fruit of the
land.” Now the time was the
season of the first ripe
grapes.—Numbers 13:20.
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No man is worth his salt
who is not ready at all times
to risk his body, to risk his
well-being, to risk his life, in
a great cause.—Theodore
Roosevelt.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 6334
Spalding County now directly joins the
Atlanta Metropolitan Area. The federal
government added Butts County, Fayette
County, and Henry County to the officially
designated area and they adjoin Spalding.
So here we are, folks, adjacent to Metro.
This position will have some
advantages, and it will have some
disadvantages. But in any case, it is an
official fact. Also, it was not unexpected,
Again? Yes, again
Like death and taxes, legislative
reapportionment seems always to be with
us.
Georgia has reapportioned a number of
times, but the Supreme Court has ruled
that it must do so again and apparently
will not allow multi-member districts such
as the one in which Spalding and Griffin
are located.
Other Georgia counties and even towns
have been split in the past, thus losing
effectiveness in the legislative process. So
far Griffin and Spalding have avoided that
School Patrol
The School Patrol is off to the Nation’s
Capitol, and mamas’ and papas’ hearts
and love went with their sons and
daughters.
This is a fine trip for the Spalding
Countians. It is a lot of fun, a reward for
Like Georgia, Michigan changed the law
to let 18, 19 and 20-year-olds legally buy
and consume alcohol.
One result, according to the Automobile
Club of Michigan, is that in 1972 — the first
full year teen-agers could buy liquor —
there was a 119 per cent rise in traffic
accidents involving 18, 19 and 20-year-old
drinking drivers.
There was a 54 percent increase in fatal
Random thoughts
Have you ever noticed how often an open
mouth accompanies a closed mind?
Also, a loud voice and a weak argument
Has anybody
seen an angel?
We hear a lot about angels, but has any
living person ever seen one? Do you
suppose they are like us earth people, or
are they a special breed? E.M.
The Bible has hundreds of references to
angels, both good and bad. In the Old
Testament, David promised “He shall give
His angels charge over thee to keep thee in
all thy ways.” (Psalms 91:11) In the New
Testament of course, it was an angel who
announced Christ’s birth (Luke 2:10,11)
and even Paul once said, “There stood by
me this night the angel of God.” (Acts
27:23)
Indeed, angels are a special class of
being — created to be sure, yet a notch
above us mortals. One things they have
never experienced, the Bible says, is the
drama of our redemption. None the less,
they do God’s bidding, and assist in the
operation of His universe.
Next door
A message
but it did come sooner than anticipated.
The great big city keeps sprawling, and
we are reminded of the song born of rising
waters and flood-tides. Usually sung in
deep baritone or base, it goes, “River, stay
away from my door.” But the river of
metro population flows on and on and now
has reached Spalding’s porch if not yet its
door.
fate, but it appears that it will be
impossible to continue on the present
basis with two members of the Georgia
House representing all of Spalding and
Griffin, most of Fayette County and a little
bit of Coweta County.
Many will agree that continuous
splitting and dividing and changing add to
the already confusing situation. But
change is inevitable and it looks as if
something has got to give this time in
Spalding.
work well done during the school year, and
a real education to see in person the seat of
government of the wonderful nation in
which we live.
They will return tired, sleepy, and better
for the trip. Bless them all.
accidents for these youthful drinking
drivers, a 104 per cent increase in injury
accidents and a 135 percent increase in
property damage.
By contrast, non-drinkers of the same
age had a 15 per cent increase in fatal
accidents, 19 per cent increase in injury
accidents and 19 per cent increase in
wrecks involving property damage.
These figures should tell drivers of all
ages something.
go together like ham and eggs.
And the more positive an arguing person
is, the more negative the impression he
,makes.
MY
ANSWER',-*]
Ay
We don’t know why, but as the church
age progressed, angels became less
evident, at least less visible. Perhaps, in
this time of faith and grace, since the in
carnation of Christ, the need for the visible
operation of angels has decreased.
In any event, don’t underestimate their
numbers and their activity. Once Christ
spoke of twelve legions of angels who could
be summoned to His aid. (Matthew 26)
Today, I believe we are surrounded by
these beings. They facilitate the life of the
believer in accordance with God’s will,
and at death, gently carry the departed to
heaven.
One of the pleasant reaches of a Chris
tian’s imagination is the vision of life here
as part of a great family. A family where
through faith, Christ Himself becomes our
elder brother, and a host of angels our
ministering servants — all to bring glory
to God and a fruitful, happy life to us.
BERRY’S WORLD
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c 1973 b, NEA,
"You didn't have anything to do with Watergate, did you?"
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Presidents: How
Do We See Ahead
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
Some scholars of the presidency get annoyed at mere
political journalists because they say that we, during a
campaign, don’t tell the American people enough about
how a candidate will act if he wins the office.
Like everybody else, we have our full quota of imper
fections. But this particular complaint is unfair on two
counts.
In the first place, with all due respect to the scholars,
there really is no way to predict specific presidential
behavior on the basis of prior performance and known
traits of character and personality.
Few if any people could have foreseen that the rather
unexciting governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
would in 1933 and thereafter galvanize and give hope to a
despairing, depression-ridden nation with astonishing
dramatic flair.
No digging into Lyndon Johnson’s Texas background, or
his long years in Washington, could have prepared us for
exactly the kind of response he made to the Vietnam
dilemma he faced in 1964-65.
What scholar, liberal or otherwise, would have told us
that it would be Richard Nixon, perceived by so many for
so long as a “Communist fighter,” who would make the
first significant approaches to Peking and Moscow?
Obviously, what a president does in office is the prod
uct of an interaction between his make-up and experience,
and the situations and problems he encounters—most of
which cannot be foreseen when he is seeking office.
Yet, further in newsmen’s defense, it is not true that
they give no cues at all to a public looking for guiding
impressions.
Before he assumed office, Johnson had been fairly well
portrayed by perceptive journalists as a man of roaring
energy and out-sized ego, who in his days as Senate
majority leader maneuvered, cajoled, wheedled, and bull
dozed his way to successful management of legislation.
It was not too far a jump from that to a Johnson who, in
the White House, treated the presidency almost as a per
sonal possession, drove furiously for the passage of Great
Society bills, managed and developed the Vietnam war
as if he were a commander in uniform planted in the map
room.
He was a natural-born intervener, down to the point of
designing the tickets politicians would use to board his
southern-bound “Cornpone Special” train in his 1960 cam
paign as Democratic vice-presidential nominee. His com
mand of such details, and his enormous pride, were well
told stories. Was it, then, all that much a surprise when
he would say, in mid-war:
“I don’t propose to let North Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh sit
in Saigon!”
As for Mr. Nixon, though there could have been no sure
forecasting of his conduct toward the Communist world or
toward some economic problems, many reporters took note
of the special irony that this man who clearly loves poli
tics and government never in his life had given evidence
that he could master the art of “human relations” which
lay at their core.
It was a pretty thoroughly known thing that Mr. Nixon
disliked the ordinary give-and-take of political contact,
that he was painfully ill at ease in small talk, that he had
to contrive his performance at these levels.
Again, where is the real surprise when, free finally of
the need to electioneer any more, the President throws off
this uncomfortable burden and walls himself off?
Mr. Nixon’s interest in politics and government is at a
level at least once removed from direct human links.
Though he can of course see all those connections, he is
happy only when treating problems in their more abstract
form. He is a mover of pieces on the board, who leaves to
others the translation of his moves into more basic human
terms.
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TIMELY
QUOTES
I always rejoice when you
find someone in error has
found the path of righteous
ness.
—Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. D-
N.C., on President Nixon’s
decision to let White
House aides appear before
Ervin’s committee inves
tigating Watergate.
You don’t need more hear
ings, you need more gump
tion . . . Stand up on your
hind legs and kick them (the
administration) in the slats.
—Raoul Berger, senior fel
low at Harvard Law School
testifying before Senate
subcommittes on the ques
tion of executive privilege.
GRIFFIN
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Publisher
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WORLD ALMANAC
SPAif -'Sy •
The Philadelphia Zoologi
cal Garden is the oldest zoo
in the U.S. and was opened
to the public July 1, 1874, «
The World Almanac recalls.
That year its feature attrac
tions were a bear pit and
lion house. Recently the zoo f
opened a new reptile house
for more than 300 species
of animals, ranging from a
3-inch banded gecko lizard *
to an 11-foot, 485-p 0 un d
American crocodile.
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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Editor
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