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Griffin Daily News Friday, June 22, 1973
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New Guinea Tribe
Counts By Dogs
One New Guinea tribe counts by dogs Because a dog has
four paws Works like this There's a word for one paw and a
word for two paws Three is expressed by saying one paw and
two paws But four is simply a dog And five is a dog plus one
paw Eight is two dogs And 16 is dog dog
Am asked if there’s any truth to that old claim that you
rest better if you sleep on your left side Some, evidently If
you're right-handed The medicoes claim the right-handed citi
zen tends to tire out the right side of the body mostly Thus,
sleeping on the left gives the right a better chance to recover
TIGER, TIGER
Q "What’s the worst natural enemy of the elephant’'
A The tiger in Asia, at any rate Tigers are said to get one
out of every four elephant calves in that part of the world
Most citizens outgrow most fears But one sort of phobia
that's said to get more intense with each passing year is the fear
of having to stand up in front of an audience to give a talk
Except for those performers who go into the speech-making
business professionally, the older the person, the less likely
said party will willingly address groups
Now I'm told it's Canada that has more lakes than all the
rest of the world combined Oh?
DEPRECIATION
Sir, depreciation on that new car of yours, if typical, might
run something like this About 25 to 30 per cent the first year,
18 per cent the second, 14 per cent the third, 11 per cent the
fourth, 9 per cent the fifth, 6 per cent the sixth, and 2 per cent
the seventh
Quick, name the only country in the Western Hemisphere
which once served as a seat of government for a European
empire That's right, Brazil Royal family of Portugal lived there
from 1808 to 1821, ruling all the while
"How many airplanes are in the sky over the U.S at any
given moment’" inquires a client Nobody knows for sure, ever
But the aviation experts say 10,000 is an excellent guess
No doctor with any practice at all 200 years ago was clean
shaven Then, the beard was the trademark of the experienced
physician
And did I tell you those pollsters who study television
audiences claim men who smoke pipes watch TV the least’
NOBLE DRINK
Did you ever drink any perry? That’s a cider made from pear
juice. In the IttXls. apple cider was the common drink in Europe.
But perry was the uncommon preference of the nobility.
A “HELP YOUR Husband Club." that’s what the wives of
Hamburg, West Germany, have put together. They chauffeur
their gentlemen friends to and from work every day. To alleviate
the masculine tension in the traffic. How bonny!
THE “LAUGH IN" boys have made Burbank a household
word. Brooklyn used to merit that distinction. A fad place. Bur
bank was named after a dentist, not a botanist, incidentally. And
more factory workers live in Brooklyn than in Pittsburgh and
Detroit combined
Addnii mad to I. M. Boyd P. O. Box 17076. Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 I. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Now remember: If they get started on the People's
Republic of China, don't go dragging in Confucius!"
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, June 22, the
173rd day of 1973 with 192 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 Cancer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
author and wife of famed
American aviator Charles Lind
bergh, was born June 22, 1907.
On this day in history:
In 1868, Arkansas was read
mitted to the Union, three
years after the end of the Civil
War.
In 1933, the Nazi regime of
Germany outlawed the Socialist
party, charging it with “acts of
treason.”
In 1940, France fell to
Germany in World War 11.
In 1969, singer-actress Judy
Garland died in her London
home at the age of 47.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
June is the month of wed
ding belles.
No matter how you or
der it, you’ll get your
steak served expensively.
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People who say their para
keets have 500-word vocab
ularies have wonderful im
aginations.*
Congress, which just
returned from recess,
should have been made to
stay in the cloakroom the
whole time.
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THOUGHTS
For in this hope we were
saved. Now hope that is seen
is not hope. For who hopes for
what he sees? But if we hope
for what we do not see. we
wait for it with patience. —
Romans 8:24, 25.
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If you have built castles in
the air. your work need not be
lost; that is where they should
be Now put foundations under
them — Henry David Tho
reau. American naturalist
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The Spalding County Grand Jury which
met this week worked hard and long,
considered numerous cases, and came
forward with presentments which renewed
earlier recommendations that a juvenile
detention home be established here. Also it
noted the illegal and indiscriminate use of
firearms and recommended that every
effort be made to prevent their abuse.
There can be little doubt that juvenile
facilities are needed and that they would
provide a means by which young offenders
could be held without placing them in jail
with adults.
Likewise, there is little if any doubt that
all too many people abuse the privilege of
Deserves support
The Downtown Beautification Project
has grown into a Griffin Community
Improvement Project. It includes all of the
town and is not limited to the downtown
area.
Local funds in the amount of $50,000 are
needed to match federal funds of the same
amount. Typically, Griffin business and
professional people have responded to the
challenge and the project has $35,000 in
hand. The additional $15,000 now is needed
Into the sunset
The other afternoon we wondered aloud
in this space whether the Mclntosh Trail
Area Development Commission “studies”
of Griffin which informed the world that
the downtown area needed improving was
worth the $25,844.19 which it cost the
taxpayers.
Several days later the Chamber of
Commerce answered the question when it
Cheaper by the dozen
Speaking of inflation, complaints that
agricultural products have been exempted
from price controls have drawn retorts
from a couple of spokesmen for the far
mers.
"They say the price of food today is too
high — but the question is, compared to
what?" says a bulletin from the Ohio
Grain, Feed and Fertilizer Assn.
First-class postage went from three
cents to eight cents in 20 years, it notes. If
eggs had climbed by the same ratio, we’d
★ ★ THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL* *
Tournaments ahead
Two local baseball programs are
winding down league play after a highly
successful season.
More boys played more games in the
Griffin Little League and Babe Ruth
League programs than ever before.
Although regular season is ending, it
doesn’t mean players are ready to sack up
the bats and hang up their gloves.
In view of his Crusade in Georgia, Dr. Graham’s column
is being published on the Front Page this week. It will
return next week to its usual place here on the
Editorial Page.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6334
Grand Jury
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owning and keeping firearms. Pistols,
rifles, and guns are proper safeguards,
and the right of honest and lawabiding
citizens to keep them for protection or
legitimate sport should not be abridged.
On the other hand, their ready ac
cessibility and availability without
restraint has made it much too easy for
criminals of every description and intent
to obtain them. Proper and reasonable
regulation is in order; somewhere there is
a balance between the rights of good
citizens to keep and bear arms and
provision for preventing insofar as possi
ble their abuse by criminals. The Grand
Jury’s point was well taken.
and is being secured by donations.
It is good that public spirited merchants
and other business and professional
people, led by Felton Rainwater, are
willing to chip in and pay for what needs to
be done.
This is a great self-help, do-it-yourself,
pay-for-it-yourself project which is in the
finest tradition of everybody helping do
what needs to be done. It deserves support.
And applause.
noted conflicts in the studies themselves
and decided to take no action on the
reports.
Now we wonder if the Trail itself is
worth the $4,492.70 a year which Spalding
County pays to support it and the $3,410.20
a year which the City of Griffin pays to
help keep it up.
be paying $1.61 a dozen.
Or if bread had followed the wage in
creases of skilled construction labor, a
one-pound loaf would cost 50 cents.
According to the National Farm and
Power Equipment Dealers Assn., a
manure spreader cost $390 in 1950. Today,
one of the same quality costs $1,934. If a
farmer upped his egg prices accordingly,
eggs today would be $2.99 a dozen.
From these examples, draw such
comfort as ye may.
The city championship games are next
on the baseball agenda and those games
usually attract big crowds.
And following the city championship
tournaments come the sub-district and
district playoffs.
There’s plenty of baseball yet to be
played in Griffin and we wish the teams
luck as they head into tournaments.
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It’s apathy that
leads to scandals
By RAY CROMLEY
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
Politics is what we make it. Corrupt. Honest. Slimy. Open
and straightforward. A protector of special interests. A de
fender of the rights of us all. These are our choices.
All of us know instances of corruption, favoritism and in
fluence peddling in our own communities. Mostly we do noth
ing about them We shrug our shoulders and say "That's pol
itics." Or we say we can do nothing. These little corruptions
lead up the scale into vast and monstrous wrongdoing nation
ally
Some years back, in one congressional district in my state
both political parties regularly won votes by bribing poor,
uneducated voters with a pint or a fifth of liquor (whichever
it took) to win their votes. At party meetings this was de
fended with. "The others do it so we must.”
But when one of the two parties concerned gathered the
moral strength to put a stop to this practice in its own
ranks, 10, and behold, it won the next congressional race,
which it had not been able to accomplish in the previous 40
years.
This is not to promise victory with morality. It is to illus
trate that if enough workers determine to do away with ille
gality, it can be eliminated in the party. This particular shift
was accomplished by bringing in more of the citizenry who
had never before been active in party work. They'd been too
preoccupied with their own affairs. But when it became evi
dent to the people of this congressional district that politics
was their business and too important to be left in the hands
of professional politicians, then changes occurred.
This is not to say that drives against corruption will al
ways win, or that the road will be short and smooth.
In another congressional election in the state in which I
worked, the opposition won a narrow race because of an ex
traordinarily heavy absentee vote. Because this mail vote
was greatly distorted in favor of the opposition in an election
in which the vote was otherwise quite close, our suspicions
were aroused.
Thereupon, throughout the state those people whose names
were used on absentee ballots in this election were can
vassed personally in door-to-door visits by members of our
party who lived in their neighborhoods. In some areas we
found that fewer than one-sixth — in some areas less than
one-ninth —of those in whose names absentee votes had
been cast said they had voted in this election
When these certified statements in which the election was
held, the judge, who had been appointed by the opposition
party which was in power in the state at the time, ruled
against action.
So this opposition candidate kept his victory. But not for
long. The people of that district were so aroused they threw
the man out in a later election.
As noted in the opening of this column, the plain and sim
ple fact is that all of us must remember that in a democracy
we and we alone are responsible for the kind of government
we get. We. as citizens, must do more than vote We must
take an active part, all of us. young and old, conservative
and liberal, Republican. Democratic and Independent in the
choosing and electing of candidates and in watching what our
elected and appointed officials do after election, to get good
government
In the newspaper business we quickly learn that secrets
cannot be kept if there are enough alert persistent people
attempting to find them out — and willing to air what they
learn Corruption cannot be hidden. It lasts only because we
put blinders on our eyes and do nothing until a juicy scandal
erupts.
But the eradication of corruption is a day-to-day job.
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QUOTES
Irish poet James Stephens
said, “Women are wiser than
men because they know less and
understand more.”
Irish novelist George Moore
said, “After all there is but one
race. . . humanity.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh said,
“The wave of the future is
coming and there is no fighting
it”
Author Pearl Buck said, .
If there is no other life, then this
one has been enough to make it
worth being bom, myself a
human being.”
British scientist Havelock
Ellis said, “A man must not
swallow more beliefs than he
can digest”
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