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— Griffin Daily News Friday, June 8,1973
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Is 'Humble'
It has been claimed that dermatologists are the best-natured
of all medical practitioners And claimed further, whimsically,
that's because they’re required to treat warts. Such practice
keeps them humble, thus prevents pomposity, and so preserves
the sense of humor. Maybe so. Personally, I think what contrib
utes as much as anything to their pleasant personalities is their
office hours, the most regular in medicine.
No municipality in Africa can claim as many residents of
African descent as can New York City. With about 1.5 million
Closest would be Greater Lagos, capital of Nigeria With maybe
1.1 million.
Q “Who's your authority for that claim that the happiest
wives are those who marry men four to 10 years younger than
themselves?' '
A The late Dr. Lewis M. Terman of Stanford University.
His study of 4,000 couples showed the lowest divorce rate to be
among marriages in which the wife was the older.
GREEK CITIES
Mister, say your family was ancient Greek. You came out of
that city called Laconia. Your wife was from Sparta And your
daughter was born in Sybaris What characteristics would the
three of you exhibit, typically? All right, sir, you'd rarely say
much, being laconic. Your wife would work hard, live on little,
and save money, being spartan. And the younger lady would be
a voluptuous spender who loved to dilly dally in luxurious pleas
ures, being a sybarite. Some family. Nevermind, the foregoing
is merely our Language man's method of reporting how these
Greek city names got to be English adjectives.
True, the dog is color-blind. But that doesn't mean it can't
tell differences between reds and greens Both may appear to be
some sort of gray to the canine eye. But that eye is exceedingly
sensitive to variations of gray. Even moreso than mine eye and
thine, it's said
SHIP'S COMMAND
In none but two instances does the commanding officer of a
U S. Navy ship relinquish his authority over said vessel No, not
to any harbor pilot, ever Only to: 1. An official isthmus navigator
during passage through the Panama Canal. 2. A docking officer
at the moment the ship's bow passes the sill of a dry dock. Got
that, sailor?
Both Mark Twain and Will Rogers used that nonchalant off
the-cuff delivery in their talks Spontaneous wits, both. Alto
gethercasual, yes 7 No, they weren't. Twain repeatedly admitted
it took him about six weeks to prepare an extemporaneous
speech. And you can get some notion of how much care Rogers
took from his testimonial address to honor comedian Eddie
Cantor. Old Will spoke for 25 minutes In Yiddish. Don't believe
any of the great talkers — and if Twain and Rogers weren't great,
who were? ever just lucked into their lines.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd. P. O Box 17076, Fort Worth IX 76102.
Copyright 1973 L M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, June 8, the
159th day of 1973 with 206 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
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.
American architect Frank
Lloyd Wright was born June 8,
1869.
On this day in history:
In 1869, Ives McGaffney of
Chicago obtained a patent for a
“sweeping machine,” the first
vacuum cleaner.
In 1928, a Schenectady, N.Y.,
station (WGY) began a regular
schedule of televised programs
three times a week.
In 1965, American astronauts
Ed White and Jim McDivitt
completed their orbital journey,
traveling 1.61 million miles in
62 orbits of the earth.
In 1969, actor Robert Taylor
died of cancer at the age of 57.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Today is the tomorrow you
worried about yesterday—
and you were so right.
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ing to the metric system
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money in 10s.
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No, sir, winters aren’t like
one disremembered them.
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The only man ever
known to get a chocolate
nut bar with more than
one small peanut was the
poor guy who left his
store choppers at home.
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THOUGHTS
Have mercy on me, 0 God.
according to thy steadfast
love; according to thy abun
dant mercy blot out my
transgressions.—Psalm 51:1.
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A story in the paper the other afternoon
told of vandalism in the city. Most of it has
been aimed at recreation facilities for
young people and city officials said they
think young people did it.
Another story told of efforts to find
summer jobs in and around Griffin for
young people.
These two news reports were unrelated,
but there is a connection. It is that busy,
gainfully employed people do not
vandalize. So the problem is finding jobs
for children as well as older high school
and college age students.
The federal government itself could do
much to make jobs available by removing
the minimum wage requirement
applicable to student summer
employment. Time is required to learn
most jobs, and the simple fact is that few
It now appears that Skylab’s first
occupants, astronauts Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz, will be able to complete their
scheduled 28 days in orbit and accomplish
the bulk of the scientific, technical and
biomedical experiments that had been
planned for them. If all continues to go
well with them, two more three-man crews
will be sent up to Skylab later this year,
each for 56-day stays.
Skylab is of a fundamentally different
nature from the tremendously more
expensive Apollo moon exploration
program. It is the first man-in-space effort
whose primary purpose is of an
applications nature—the acquisition of
knowledge that will be of practical and
Whenever somebody talks about the
State of Georgia needing a tax increase, we
like to take a look at collections under
present laws.
When we looked this week, we learned
that in May Georgia had the highest
percentage increase in a single month in
the history of the Revenue Department.
Collections for the month were
$143,676,332.52 compared to $130,894,215.31
for May of 1972, an increase of
$12,782,117.12. The percentage increase is
9.8 percent, which is by far the largest
single month’s collections in the history of
the Revenue Department. Revenue
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
Something for all
Something for everybody.
That’s what the Griffin Recreation
Department is offering in its summer
program.
Besides operating numerous baseball
and softball teams for boys, girls, men and
women, the department has arranged
many other programs for those not in
terested in softball or baseball.
The activities include a day camp for
young boys and girls, arts and crafts for
Why is there
war, suffering?
If God exists, why is there war, poverty
and suffering? Some of my friends in a
discussion group asked this, and no one
could come up with an answer. What is
your comment? C.L.
When God created man, He put him in
the Garden of Eden to “4-ess it and to keep
it.” This indicates He gave him respon
sibility for His world. He also gave him the
power of choice, to make decisions, right
or wrong. The prevalence of wars,
violence, crime, hatred, prejudice and sin,
indicates evidently that man has not been
a good caretaker of His paradise. He has
let it grow up with the weeds of lust,
selfishness and rebellion. We better not
then blame God for the predicament
mankind has brought about
Idle minds
Skylab
State taxes
summer workers can learn io do one in u
office or mill in the relatively short period
of summer employment without it costing
the boss more than it is worth in time,
trouble and money. A student wage rate
would encourage employment and the
government ought to adopt one.
True, the minimum wage law was
enacted at a time when some employers
took advantage of children, but the
problem now is opposite to what it was
then. Children need summer jobs to keep
them busy and to help them learn what
making a dollar requires.
It is as true today as ever that an idle
mind is the devil’s work shop, and the
minimum wage as it applies to children
working only in the summer-time
encourages idle minds.
direct benefit to man-on-earth.
For example, a number of the
experiments deal with the remote sensing
of earth resources like crops, water,
mineral deposits, sea life. In a world of
expanding population and shrinking
resources, the knowledge gained by
Skylab could be of incalculable
importance in the future.
Skylab has already proved that man can
function in space, even under the most
adverse circumstances. If it also shows
that that astronauts do not suffer untoward
physiological effects after prolonged
periods of weightlessness of as much as
two months, it will have proved that man
belongs in space as well.
collections for the 11 months of this fiscal
year are $1,171,735,692.59, an increase of
$137,332,067.82 over the amount collected
during the similar period of last fiscal
year. That percentage increase is 13.3
percent.
All of the major sources of revenue
continue to grow. Commissioner John
Blackmon said, “It is apparent the
original revenue estimate of $1,359,000,000
for this year will be very close. However, I
do not expect the rate of increase for the
month of June to equal the month of May,
since May represents the large income tax
collection month for this year.”
youngsters and adults, tennis classes and a
tennis tournament, swimming and
swimming lessons, baton twirling classes
plus many other programs at Patrick
Park, Fairmont Center as well as City
Park.
The Recreation Department has the
programs.
Now all it needs is participants.
We expect the department will have
plenty of those in the weeks to come.
MY
ANSWER ,J!
Psychologists often talk about “tran
sference.” This involves the redirection of
feelings and attitudes. Often it’s not very
serious, but it is when we transfer blame to
God that ought to be carried on our
shoulders.
I believe that God is omnipotent, that is,
that He can do anything. Luke 18:27. He
could arbitrarily eliminate the problems
you mention, but it would constitute an
overruling of our wills. This He has elected
not to do, even though sickness, wars,
crime, etc. grieve His holy heart more
than ours.
How wonderful is the promise that one
day when God will establish His righteous
reign, all that you describe will be no
more. Read the last chapter of the Bible
for confirmation of that.
BERRY'S WORLD
& 1973 by NEA,
"Where do you get off challenging me? Who do you
think you are, some kind of BOBBY RIGGS?"
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The Ms. Movement
Cries Out Again
These are parlous times for newspapermen. Not only
are reporters and publishers under pressure to reveal
their sources or suppress information they believe the
public is entitled to, they are feeling the impact of
changes which society as a whole is experiencing.
This is particularly true in the field of women’s libera
tion, and the attack is coming as much from within the
ranks of journalism as without.
Several female staffers of the Boston Globe, for in
stance, recently wrote a letter to their editor charging the
paper with denigrating women in both its editorial and
advertising coverage.
They referred, among other things, to “the irrelevant
use of the women’s movement for a laugh grabber,” “the
use of women in photos for sex interest,” “the extraneous
insults accorded women either generally or as wives,
mothers-in-law, etc.,” “the use of ‘girl’ for ‘woman,’ ”
and “advertisements in the paper that clearly exploit
women as sex objects.”
Writing in Editor & Publisher, the newspapers’ news
magazine, Gena Corea noted a recent wire service story
which described the president-elect of the American Asso
ciation of Women Dentists as “petite and perky, blonde
and beautiful, fragile and feminine.”
To male reporters, a woman’s marital status is con
sidered relevant, though a man’s is not, she charges.
Thus one reporter wrote of Dita Beard, the lobbyist in the
ITT affair, as “the 53-year-old divorcee.”
“I have yet to read, ‘Henry Kissinger, the 48-year-old
divorcee who advises President Nixon . . . ,” says Miss
Corea.
Women are not only underrepresented on newspaper
staffs but in their columns as well.
Citing a study made last summer of the frequency with
which women’s accomplishments are reported, she says,
“When only seven per cent of newsmakers are women,
we can conclude either that men do the important things
in the world and/or that it is men who decide what the
important things are.”
To all of which charges, male newspapermen can only
plead no contest and throw themselves on the mercy of
the court of public opinion.
The women are right, of course. A woman’s looks,
marital status, number of children or relationship with
her husband should have no place in a story in which none
of these things is a relevant factor.
And because they are right, their cause will eventually
triumph. Eventually “male chauvinist” reporters will
learn to look at women simply as persons, and if they
note a curve or tress or flashing eye, they will keep such
information to themselves.
Whether the male population at large can ever be
trained to look at women simply as persons, or whether
many women themselves desire such an eventuality, is
something else.
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TIMELY QUOTES
Supreme Allied commanding
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
said, . “In the final choice, a
soldiers’ pack is not so heavy a
burden as a prisoner’s chains.”
American writer Henry Tho
reau said, “There is no odor so
bad as that which arises from
goodness tainted.”
Seventeen years ago your
country sent up Sputnik and
you should have seen how
much money they gave our
schools. Won’t you please
send up another Sputnik?
—Sidney P. Marland, assis
tant secretary for educa
tion in the Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare, to a group of
visiting Russian educators.
If it is a question of ob
taining information from the
Democratic Party, Republi
can Party or anybody else,
the easiest way is to write
a postal card asking them to
mail you all their leaflets.
They will put you on their
mailing list and you will
have everything.
—Former New York City
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