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Who Created
The Chaos?
A lawyer, a surgeon, an engineer and a diplomat set to
arguing about which of their professions was the oldest. After
Cain killed Abel, said the lawyer, there must have been a trial,
so clearly his job was the first. But the surgeon said Eve was
fashioned from Adam's rib, so his craft took precedence. Then
the engineer said God created the world from chaos, obviously
the earliest engineering chore. And the diplomat said, "Gentle
men, you forget who it was who created chaos.”
Q ' 'Where was the world's first shopping center?' ’
A In Ardmore, Pa. Built in 1928. Called Suburban Square.
Was reported back in the 1930 s that tribesmen in Tibet stuck
out their tongues at one another when they met. Am asked if
this is still the customary greeting thereabouts. Yes, outside the
capital city of Lhasa, it is.
LOVE AND WAR
"It's Man's instinct to get as many women as possible,”
said the great Carl Jung. "Man tries not to be caught at least
as long as he can readily elude his pursuer.” Interesting, if true.
But our Love and War man, the impudent fellow, questions Dr.
Jung's contention. Says he: "Exceptions are numerous, but I
still think the typical lad starts out at an early age to find just
the one right girl, not a dozen.'' Isn't that nice?
That question women most ask of their doctors is: Why am
I so tired?” Commonest query of the men is: "Does the pain
in my chest indicate heart trouble?"
Remember, young lady, if you only need half the onion,
save the root half. It'll last longer.
ICE WATER
Understand it's the practice of several hostesses in Washing
ton, D C., to pass out ice water at 11 p.m., signaling the time.
No, that's not too blunt, evidently. There, most officials like to
go home early. But the protocol among the federales is such that
early departure can be as sensitive as late. The ice water cue
is said to give everybody an easy goodnight.
The wedding ceremony among the Amish always takes from
three to four hours. And was it reported also it's always held
either on a Tuesday or a Thursday? But don't ask me why. Not
even the Amish can explain that.
More than half of the world's 420,000 Roman Catholic priests
are over 45 years old now. Significant.
It has been reported that Princess Grace and his Royal
Highness Rainier of Monaco always conduct their family fights
in English. Excellent, excellent.
Address mail Io I. M Boyd. P. O. Box 17076, Fori Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, June 20,
the 171st day of 1973 with 194 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury and Venus.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Gemini.
Jacques Offenbach, famed
German composer, was born
June 20,1819.
On this day in history:
In 1898, the U.S. Navy seized
Guam, largest of the Marianas
Islands in the Pacific, during
the Spanish-American War. The
people of Guam were granted
U.S. citizenship in 1950.
In 1963, the United States and
Russia agreed on a so-called
“hot line” communications link
between Washington and Mos
cow.
In 1965, American statesman
Bernard Baruch died at the age
of 94.
In 1967, the American In
dependent party was formed to
back George Wallace of Alaba
ma for president.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
S’funny how quickly
school looks good to kids
once they’re out in the cold,
cold world after graduation.
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If you can name those
who hold the top jobs in
Washington at the mo
ment, call someone up in
the capital — they’d be
glad to know.
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Class is having the office
boy bring your coffee in a
silver pot.
THOUGHTS
"Who among all these
does not know that the hand of
the Lord has done this? In his
hand is the life of every living
thing and the breath of all
mankind.” — Job 12:9, 10.
♦ * *
I have held many things in
my hands, and I have lost
them all; but whatever I have
placed in God s hands, that I
still possess. — Martin Lu
ther, German religious leader.
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We’re
Listening
Dear Mr. Melton: First let me say that I
am an avid reader of the “Daily News”. I
especially enjoy the “We’re Listening”
column.
I doubt that my letter will do any good,
but I have to blow off some steam about
this resurfacing project for some of the
city streets.
I live between two of the roughest streets
in Griffin. They are Ellis road and Lyndon
avenue. Why can’t the city do something
besides patch them? These streets are in
such poor condition that now they are
patching the patches.
I certainly don’t think it would be
extravagant of the city to resurface these
streets. They have been like they are now
ever since I moved to Griffin 10 years ago.
I hope you will print my letter, because
this is a very important matter to me, as I
drive on both streets quite often. In fact,
they are both fairly busy streets. Thank
you, Mrs. Sharon Brooks
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NOTE TO THE ANONYMOUS LETTER
WRITER WHO SIGNED IT “YOU TELL
HIM”: We do not publish unsigned letters
critical of other people including public
officials. Buckle your guts up and you tell
him yourself.
Dear Sir: You have my permission to
print this in your public opinion column, if
you so desire.
I realize this writer is uneducated and
not qualified to render a decision on the
Watergate scandal. I do feel that I am an
average American, and I feel the majority
of average Americans are tired of hearing
about Watergate. I believe they along with
myself would rather see our well paid
representatives in Washington devote
their time and energy to such things as the
rising cost of living, gasoline shortage,
busing, crime in the streets, the
devaluation of the dollar, etc.
Each time I try to contemplate on the
Watergate issue, I keep asking myself
these questions. Is there a Judas in the
wood pile? Did someone sell out to the
other party or the News Media? Was
someone trying to get caught? How could
five well trained men allow themselves to
be apprehended by one lone night
watchman? Haven’t the News Media
always been against President Nixon?
Didn't the Democratic National
Committee and Democratic leaders try to
capitalize on this issue before the election?
With this issue fresh in their mind didn’t
the American people show their support
for President Nixon by giving him 520 of
the 537 electoral votes?
I think some of our politicians and the
News Media are now trying to accomplish
what they failed to do before the election,
i.e. to turn the American people against
President Nixon.
Surely we Americans don’t condone
tactics such as Watergate, but neither are
we naive enough to believe that this is the
first and only time such tactics have been
employed.
I still think that President Nixon has
shown more backbone and guts than any
President since President Truman. He has
restored prestige back to the White House
that has been lacking far too long. This
humble writer has written to President
Nixon and the two previous Presidents and
President Nixon was the only one to show
me the courtesy to personally answer my
letter.
Regardless of how the Watergate
incident turns out I will always be behind
President Nixon.
I will appreciate it, if everyone that
reads this article who feels the same as I
will write their representatives and the
President and let them know of your
feelings.
The President has stood up for us for the
last four and one half years; now is the
time for us to stand up for him. Sincerely
yours, (Signed) O. D. Arrington, Sr., 1388
Lakeview Circle, Macon, Georgia.
Dear Mr. Melton: The article that is
taped on back was found in an old
scrapbook that belonged to my husband’s
aunt. I’ve read and re-read it so many
times. Most of the things in the scrapbook
were dated around the early 1930’5, so I
imagine this was written sometime around
then, although a lot of them go back to
1913.
As a Christian, it just touches my heart
‘The voice
of Griffin ’
that something that was written so long
ago could have been written just
yesterday —and still have the same
meaning.
When I saw the name at the end, I
wondered if maybe you would like to see
something from the Griffin News that has
been kept so long. I thought also that
maybe your readers would enjoy reading
it.
I would like to know if Wightman F.
Melton is related to you, as we are almost
sure he has to be. We’ve only lived in
Griffin five years.
If it’s anyway possible, I’d like to know
when this was written.
Mr. Melton, wouldn’t everything be so
good if everybody would just read this and
search their hearts and do what God wants
us to do? Thank you (Signed) Mrs. Jerry
Burford, Rt. 5, Box 441A, Griffin.
RESPONSE: Dr. Wightman F. Melton
was my grandfather. He wrote a daily
column for the Griffin Daily News under
the name “Along Life’s Road” from
about 1930 until shortly before his death in
1944. A poet, author, lecturer - but always
primarily an educator - he was a native of
Alabama, son of a Methodist preacher,
and came to Georgia from Maryland to
head the English Department at Emory.
He was Poet Laureate of Georgia at the
time of his death. I am proud to be his
grandson and appreciate so much your
sending the clipping which follows. —
QMJr.
THE PRECIOUS THINGS OF LIFE
When Calvin Coolidge was President of
the United States, he said the greatest
thing in life is common sense; and he must
have had plenty of it because he didn’t
choose to run when a financial depression
was in sight.
Henry Drummond, who wrote “The
Natural Law in the Spiritual World,” said
love is the grestest thing in the world; and
Charles W. Elliot, for many years
president of Harvard University, agreed
with him.
Cardinal Gibbons, whom I remember as
a most kindly old man in the Cthedral in
Baltimore, said prayer is the greatest
thing in the world.
Robert E. Lee said the sublimest word in
the English language is duty; and he would
probably have said that the greatest thing
in the world is doing one’s duty.
Surely, to every man, woman and child
in the world, there are some things prized,
loved and appreciated above others.
Japanese children are taught, from
infancy, to be on the alert for the precious
things of home, school, garden, forest, sea
and sky.
In our restless, hurried American life,
we are in danger of missing true happiness
if we do not take time to note the precious'
things all around us.
There are precious things in the lives
and hearts of those about us—in our homes
and in our neighborhood; but unless we
learn to recognize, appreciate, and love
them, we are sure to miss life’s greatest
bliss.
In all affairs of life men and women run
home to find sharers in their joys and
sympathizers in their sorrows; and all
through life, there is a longing after
immortality. Are these not precious
things? The older we grow, the more
insistent becomes the “homing spirit.” In
youth and maturity we like to roam the
seven seas and all the lands adjacent; but,
when twilight comes, and all the little
birds of memory have ceased to sing, it is
then that the few loved ones we have left,
and a sunny nook back home that we can
call our own, become incalculably
precious.
Whether the “homing instinct” be the
most precious thing in the world or not, we
may be sure that a good God would not
provide suitable climate for migratory
birds and fishes, and play an April-fool
joke on humanity.
To approach our subject from another
angle: Fame is empty; honor is precious.
Reputation is what others say of us—and
may be worth but little; character is what
we are—and may be precious.
After all, there is nothing in the world
more precious than love: mother-love,
father-love, child-love, friend-love, love of
home and native land, love of right and
justice, love of the pure, the true and the
good, love of heaven.
Have you, as mother or father, ever
stood over your unconscious babe and,
after a while, seen it open its eyes and look
up in your face, and heard it lisp,
“Muwer—or Daddy—l’m better?” If so
there is no use in my trying to explain to
you what is the most precious thing in the
world; for you know.
BERRY’S WORLD
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
Shuns Watergate
McGovern ‘ailing’
in his home state
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA) *
Sen. George McGovern s reasoning for not speaking out
more forcefully on the Watergate issue is that to do so would
give it a partisan flavor it should not have.
He has been nearly silent in recent months, though as 1972 •
Democratic presidential nominee he called President Nix
on’s regime the "most corrupt in history." At that time,
largely unnamed sources were just beginning to make links
between the White House and the Watergate break-in and t
bugging.
Today McGovern suggests that his "I told you so" would
not add but indeed might tend to subtract from the impact of
the seemingly endless tale of Watergate.
He says the case against administration figures gets prop- •
er nonpartisan force from the inquiries and comments of
such Republicans as Ervin committee Sens. Howard Baker
of Tennessee and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, and the
well-known Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. «
It is just possible, however, that another factor lies behind
McGovern s declared reluctance to plunge heavily into the
Watergate debate.
To do so would embroil him fairly steadily in the country’s
hottest national controversy. Most likely it would mean •
splashing his face across television screens much as if the
1972 campaign were still on. And that is just what George
McGovern does not need right now.
He believes that he faces a difficult battle for reelection «
as senator from South Dakota in 1974. He lost the state to
Mr. Nixon last fall. He is convinced that his hard two-year
campaign for the presidency gave many South Dakotans a
feeling of neglect, a feeling he had deserted them for the
national scene. •
The problem was not lessened by the fact that the then
incumbent Republican senator, Karl Mundt, was hobbled by
a stroke.
So, as he sees it, McGovern’s No. 1 task these days is to «
persuade South Dakota voters that he cares. Winning in that
strongly Republican state is never easy for a Democrat. His
present situation is worse than usual.
Plainly, he doesn't consider himself barred from discuss
ing national issues generally. His self-perceived necessity is *
to choose carefully, stressing economic and other problems
which impinge most directly upon his home-state constituen
cy. Watergate seems to interest nearly everybody, but it’s
Broadway-style stuff and what McGovern needs is a good •
local road show.
McGovern s home-state troubles consume him so thor
oughly that he shows little of the evangelical fire which in
vested his presidential campaigning. Though he obviously
feels as strongly about Watergate as ever, he won't discuss *
possible impeachment proceedings against the President, or
even call for his resignation as such Democrats as Wiscon
sin's Gov. Patrick Lucey have done.
The most McGovern will say. and this quietly, is that Mr. •
Nixon in an orderly society should not be beyond the reach
of the law if he is guilty of either participation in or prior
knowledge of the Watergate affair, or later cover-up. Not to
pay for such guilt, the senator argues, would be worse than a
any possible paralysis from drawn-out impeachment pro
ceedings.
All-season suit — this is it
Separate summer and winter wardrobes may be a thing of
the past in the near future.
Latest news from the textile field is the development of a •
fabric which responds automatically to temperature
changes. As the temperature rises, the fabric gets thinner
and cooler; as the temperature drops, it increases in thick
ness and warmth. ,
The secret is in hollow filaments or pillow-shaped pockets
in the fabric which hold liquids and gases. As the gases
come out of the liquid under cooling temperatures, the pock
ets expand. Then, when warmed, the gases dissolve back into
the liquid and the pockets shrink to their original volume. •
Although not yet on the market, the new fabric has many
potential uses. A carpet underlay has been successfully test
ed, for example. Other possibilities are blankets that will be
comfortable at any temperature or draperies that get heav- ,
ier as the temperature outside the window cools.
Warm-cool clothing could be a boon to people like moun
tain climbers, who go through extreme temperature changes
in a short time. They might also enjoy the comfort of tents
and sleeping bags that get warmer as the night gets colder. •
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
From 1965 to 1970 the
number of cigarette smok
ers in the adult population
(17 years or older) declined
from 41.6 per cent to 36.7
per cent, The World Alma
nac says. The drop was
particularly sharp among
men—from 51 per cent to
43.2 per cent in 1970. The
number of women smokers
declined from 33.2 per cent
to 30.9 per cent of the adult
female population.
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