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Bear Awaits
A Snowstorm
The sleeping space in a grizzly bear 's winter abode is always
higher than the tunnelway leading into the thing. Exactly on the
Eskimo igloo principle To trap the warmth. Pretty smart, that
bear Already reported its hideout is invariably on the north
side of a big tree or whatever. So winter thaws won't melt it
down. Believe I failed to mention, though, that the grizzly won't
hole up until some moment when a fairly stiff wind kicks the snow
around To cover its tracks And to seal off the opening into the
den.
Historical footnote here says more men believed they were
deadringers in physical appearance for Mark Twain than lor
any other prominant American ever.
A man could divorce his wife under old Roman law merely
by informing her of his intention in the presence of seven
witnesses
COMMON TRAIT
Only one characteristic is common to all homosexuals The
megalomaniacal notion that some various strain of the condition
exists in everybody Another trait that turns up almost but not
quite as frequently in such is the lonely conviction that each of
the world's great teachers was similarly impelled Third most
usual whimsy thereamongst is the fantasy that art is that cloister's
special province Or so claims one scholarly theorist.
Q "Has anybody ever paddled a rowboat across the
Atlantic?"
A Happened once, for certain. Couple of Americans named
George Harvo and Frank Samuelson set out in an 18-foot boat
from New York on June 6, 1897, and rowed to offshore islands
near Land's End, England, in 55 days That’s 3,075 miles Almost
56 miles a day
PIANOS
Never actually saw a piano that can go bang like a cannon,
but several such there be European makers about 150 years
ago rigged some of their instruments with tambourines, bells,
drums, cymbals, bagpipes, and in particular, special pedals
which released the propped-up piano lids on cue. To let them
fall with big bangs That's the sort the collectors would now
like to get their mitts on, mostly.
The man Charles, son of inventor Thomas Edison, dipped
deeply into politics in 1940 Critics accused him of trading
on the family name "No, " said Charles, "I'd rather have you
know me merely as a result of one of my father's earlier
experiments "
All I can tell you about Pope Benedict XV is he wore a pair
of stockings made with a rare material woven out of a special silk
spun by a remarkable Mediterranean shellfish called the Pinna.
That popular politico Hubert Humphrey is the fellow who
has turned up most frequently on TV's "Meet the Press." With
22 appearances
Address mail Io I M Boyd P. O Box 17076. Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, June 7,
the 158th day of 1973 with 207 to
follow.
The moon is in its first
quarter.
The morning stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Gemini.
British fashion expert George
“Beau” Brummell was born
June 7, 1778.
On this date in history:
In 1864, delegates meeting in
Baltimore nominated Abraham
Lincoln and Andrew Johnson to
head the Republican presiden
tial ticket.
In 1933, Great Britain, Fran
ce, Italy and Germany signed a
10-year peace pact. Less than
six years later, Germany
started World War H.
In 1939, King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth became the
first British monarchs to visit
the United States.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Sign for speeders: “Please
keep off the gas.”
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We like popovers, ex
cept when they’re neigh
bors who pop-over for a
cup of sugar, pop-over for
half-pound of coffee . . .
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Taking a brisk walk in the
morning is something we’ll
never be accused of stealing.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.X
THOUGHTS
Proclaim this among the
nations: Prepare war, stir up
the mighty men. Let all the
men of war draw near, let
them come up. Beat your
plowshares into swords, and
your pruning hooks into
spears: let the weak say, “I
am a warrior.”—Joel 3:9.10.
♦ * *
There is no nation on
earth so dangerous as a na
tion fully armed, and bank
rupt at home.—Henry Cabot
Lodge, American diplomat.
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‘No! Don’t do it’
First reaction of many readers upon
learning of the administration’s request to
Congress that it raise the government’s
debt ceiling another S2O-billion was, “No!
Don’t do it.”
Then reading on, we learned that
Congress really has little choice because if
it does not raise it again, the government
would not be able to write a single check
after the end of this month. That is how far
in debt we, the United States, are.
So instead of urging Congress to do the
impossible and say no, we suggest
respectfully that it whittle down that S2O
- increase just as much as possible,
even it it is not but one dollar and ninety
eight cents and that it continue to do so
Growling
Don’t know about you, but we liked it
better when the growling was done by
“Dooley’s Dogs” instead of by “Davison’s
Faculty.”
Spalding Commissioner Palmer Hamil
speculated the other day that if the
county’s growth continues at the present
rate, the population may double in 10
years.
That is entirely possible, but whether it
grows that much, somewhat less, or even
more, nobody can doubt that its population
is increasing daily. Many places in it
outside the city limits of Griffin already
are urban in nature, and more are
becoming so.
As Spalding fills up with people, its
government will have to become more
concerned with urban problems. One of
these is an adequate supply of water, and
the county commissioners already are
Empty schools
The last bell of the year has rung, the
children have left for the summer, and
Georgia’s schools sit empty.
What a tremendous waste in investment
in buildings, land, books, buses, and
equipment.
True, there is a summer school here and
there, a playground used in a recreation
program, a few scattered classrooms used
for some worthwhile purpose or other. But
most of the taxpayers’ tremendous
investment is idle.
Mother nags
father too much
My mother claims to be a Christian on
the ground that she doesn’t drink, curse, or
run around with other men. She nags my
daddy, however, all the time. Now he is
truly a Christian, but she keeps him upset
with her fussing and criticism. I just can’t
stand to see my father so abused. How
does one deal with a situation like this?
V.A.
Yourmother maybe well-intentioned, but
die is confused on what constitutes
Christianity. Jesus reproved the Pharisees
for a similar thing. He said: “Woe to you,
Pharisees, and you religious leaders! You
are like beautiful mausoleums—full of
dead men’s bones, and of foulness and
corruption.” Matthew 23:27.
Satan doesn’t care how religious we are
outwardly. In fact, he encourages it, just
so long as we are not fully committed to
Christ, and serious about Christian living.
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-4336
until our nation’s debt is manageable.
That is what you would have to do, or go
bankrupt, if you let your personal affairs
get into such a mess. What is so different
about a solution to the public debt and the
solution to a private one?
In respect to the above, we also urge
(again respectfully) that various
individuals such as Governors,Mayors and
other types refrain from raising sand when
the government does try to economize by
closing an army base or reducing its
number of civilian employes. It is as true
today as ever it was that you can’t have
your cake and eat it too.
Thirsty
thinking about that.
The county and the City of Griffin have
an arrangement on water, but additional
supplies will be needed. County
Commissioner Sandy Morgan has
suggested that Spalding officials look into
the possibility of sharing a reservoir with
Henry County, and that might solve the
problem. Commission Chairman Jack
Moss said Spalding ought to ask the new
city-county planning committee to look
into the situation and give the matter top
priority. That makes sense too.
Whatever is decided and done, though,
the county simply must have adequate
water. If it does not and its population does
double in 10 years, there will be a lot of
thirsty people in it.
A move is afoot in Georgia education to
utilize the schools year-round by placing
them on the quarter system. Under this
plan they would operate for 12 months
instead of nine. Vacations could be
staggered, or students could go all year
and graduate that much earlier. Teachers
would take their vacations at different
times, some in the autumn, winter and
spring instead of all in the summer.
In the meantime we fuss about taxes but
hardly glance at the biggest waste of all as
we drive by an empty school.
It is through such inconsistencies as your
mother reveals, that he promotes his
cause. By counterfeiting the real, he
makes the whole Christian faith appear to
be a hypocrisy. Young people today are
charging their superiors with this, and
they are often right.
Now what can you do? Apparently you
only visit your parents periodically, so you
are not exposed to these tensions con
tinually. Perhaps you can talk frankly with
your mother—or better with both together.
Indicate that you see only tragedy in the
future if present conditions persist. Show
them from the Scripture that true love
makes for compatibility, I Corinthians 13.
Encourage your dad to be a little more
aggressive in promoting family harmony
and in controlling your mother’s abuse. If
they will see a counselor or pastor, that
might be helpful.
Above all, keep your loyalty to them
intact and your love for God intense.
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PAY CROMLEY
The Fuel Crisis
Is Our Own Fault
By RAY CROMLEY
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
Over the long run there is no valid reason for a fuel
energy crisis.
Over the short run, the only excuse is lack of foresight.
For the potential available sources of fuel and energy are
great beyond imagination.
As long as this reporter can remember, it has been
clear to scientists that the United States would run into
energy shortages unless decisive long range action was
taken. We have known for decades that control of our
oil supplies eventually would fall into the hands of Middle
East nations, which could prove disastrous to the U.S.
political, economic and national security interests.
For more than 20 years scientific and industry confer
ences have detailed these predictions with technical pre
cision. Inevitably these scientists had practical solutions:
• For the long range—the development of solar energy
which could provide great amounts of power for literally
millions of years.
• For the intermediate term—nuclear fusion power,
using basically cheap “raw materials,” available in such
plentiful abundance that their exhaustion is not even pre
dicted.
• For the nearer term—breeder nuclear reactors which
provide new fuel as a by-product, thereby stretching
our resources of atomic fuel for a very long time to come.
• For “today,” these scientists had been predicting
a widespread use of marginal coal, oil shale and other
resources by efficient methods to be developed in this
nation’s laboratories and a much wider use of “conven
tional” atomic power plants.
Yet these same conferences reported time and again
that heavy restrictions had been placed on research bud
gets in crucial areas where breakthroughs seemed
possible.
Today, solutions to all the above problems are pro
ceeding—but slowly. There seem to be no insurmountable
technical difficulties. But research takes effort, men and
materials and that means money. Crash programs re
quire “multiples” of money, as witness the race to the
moon.
If we could, as a nation, afford to spend upwards of S2O
billion over the span of a few years on space missions,
why have we not been able to bring into being a crash
program of energy research? Why is it that we spend
for energy a fraction of what we spend on space when
energy growth is vital to the nation’s existence?
If the United States and private industry would spend
on energy research and related basic studies proportion
ately as much as the nation’s chemical and drug indus
tries do in their product areas, the United States could
bring into being a fuel-power research crash program
considerably greater than the Apollo moon project. It
probably would be just as effective.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Land Not One of Our Shortages
We may be in danger of running out of a lot of things,
but land isn’t one of them.
There are more than two billion acres of land in the
United States, most of it agricultural. Agriculture will
continue to be the dominant use of the land, and is ex
pected to account for more than half of the total area
m the year 2000.
According to Land Use Digest, citing a study by the
Economic Research Service, the way the land is used
has remained pretty much the same since 1950: Crop
land takes about a fifth of the land, grassland and
P. as ?, u l re range about a fourth, forestland about an
eighth and wasteland another eighth. Actually, we need
less land for food and fiber because of greatly increased
agricultural productivity.
By the end of the century, some 222 million acres, or
10 per cent of the nation’s total acreage, is expected to
be in nonagncultural use. While urban areas have
doubled m population since 1950, they still occupy only
1.5 per cent of total land area. K y
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
The first U.S. postal card
was issued May 1, 1873, The
World Almanac says. The
post card had a one-cent
stamp printed on the upper
right hand corner showing
a profile of the Goddess of
Liberty. The cards were
printed in Springfield,
Mass., and the first known
cancellation was May 12
1873.
DAILY NEWS
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