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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 10,1973
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L M BOYD
A 'Bra' Is an
Arm Protector
Why that garment known as the ' 'brassiere'' is so called I
just don't know Literally, the word mean "arm protector.''
As they grow older, some birds get smaller, not larger.
Take certain young swallows, for instance. They lose a quarter
of their weight between adolescence and maturity.
Should men wear engagement rings? A feminine free
thinker in San Francisco says yes It will alert predatory females,
she says, to the fact the fellow is taken. Quite so. But who should
pay for the man’s ring? The girl, naturally.
First thing a woman does when she gets sick is give up
makeup. First thing a man does is quit shaving. This was
reported. Reading same, a medical expert writes to concur, but
adds: It should also be noted that if the ailment becomes serious,
the patient almost invariably reverts to his or her native tongue.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q. "What's Queen Elizabeth's middle name?”
A. Alexandra. And her last name, legally, is still Windsor,
not Mrs. Philip Mountbatten.
Q. ' 'How many pyramids in Egypt?''
A. lust 38, last I heard.
Q. "Isn't there rubber in dandelions?”
A. There is And in milkweed and sagebrush, too.
Q. ’ ’Are rhinoceroses scared of elephants?''
A. Evidently. They always get out of their way.
Q. "If I wanted a soft-boiled ostrich egg for breakfast,
how long would I have to cook it?''
A. Figure 40minutes.
PETTING
Most recent of those most intimate surveys purports to prove
that the average American bride has participated in that pastime
known as petting with 13 men before her bridegroom slowed her
down.
Every human being on earth with teeth has gold in said
teeth, I'm told. If only 10 to 30 parts per billion. Further, every
human being on earth with hair has gold in said hair, too. And
far more of it than the aforementioned teeth.
Barry was a name of a big dog that lived at Switzerland's
Hospice of St Bernard from 1800 to 1810 during that time said
pup supposedly saved just about 40 lives. Quite right, he was a
St. Bernard. But nobody called him that. Or any of the other
dogs like him thereabouts. They were all known as Barry hounds.
Wasn't until SO years later that they came to be termed St.
Bernard's.
Address moil to L. M. Boyd, P O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I, M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, July 10,
the 191st day of 1973 with 174 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
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.
American painter James
Whistler was bom July 10,1834.
On this day in history:
In 1938, American industrial
ist Howard Hughes and a crew
of four flew around the world in
91 hours.
In 1953, Lavrenti Beria,
Russian chief of internal
security forces, was purged on
charges of criminal anti-state
activities.
In 1962, the Telstar satellite
relayed television pictures from
the United States to Europe ...
while Americans received clear
pictures back from Britain and
France.
In 1970, Communist China
freed 79-year-old Roman Cath
olic Bishop James Edward
Walsh after holding him prison
er for 12 years.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Anyone who likes horror
films should see what they’re
showing on the late-late in
our neck of the woods.
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Fellow next door
grumps that he spends so
much time fixing his bike
it should be known as a
muttercycle.
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The boss grumps that most
of his staff should be listed
in Zoo’s Who.
THOUGHTS
For as by a man came
death, by a man has come
also the resurrection of the
dead. For as in Adam all die,
so also in Christ shall all be
made alive. — I Cor. 15:21, 22.
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Editor
Telephone 227-4336
The wages of sin are death, and pay day
comes when court sits in criminal session.
It is sitting again this week in Griffin.
There is a room about the size of others
on the second floor of the courthouse. But it
is furnished differently. There is no carpet
on the floor, and the walls are bare. Three
hard benches line its sides. A hole is in the
paster where a lighting fixture once hung.
An ash stand usually overflows with
cigarette butts and spit. The window is
barred. So is the door.
Sometimes prisoners fill the benches.
Some are awaiting trial; others already
have been convicted and are waiting to go
back to jail from which they will take that
short ride for that long stay in the
penitentiary. When several are in that
room they sometimes talk, occasionally
bluster. Mostly, though, they are subdued.
They just wait and wait and wait.
The other day there was only one
occupant, a young man sentenced on a
Mobile homes
Mobile home sales are reported to be
booming. There is no letup and demand is
at all-time high.
There are about 1,200 of them in
Spalding County, practically all outside
the city limits of Griffin. In addition to
their use as residences, they have been
used here as temporary branch banks and
as offices.
There is every likelihood that their
number will continue to grow as Spalding
A news dispatch in the paper yesterday
told of law enforcement officers all around
the nation making arrests in connection
with pornography. A recent Supreme
Court ruling paved the way for action.
Even “Playboy” magazine is planning
some changes, principally in its
photography as a result of the decision.
Some people whose character is above
question think it would be better to let
pornography run its course, that people
would quit paying any attention to it if it
was not forbidden.
Profane words are getting into more and
more publications and we dislike seeing
Random thoughts
Remember when “topless” meant a
bare-headed man?
The first step in raising the educational
level is raising the money to pay for it.
Old enough
to know better
Can you please help me? I have the fault
of being critical of others. I also have a
tendency to be abrupt and volcanic if
someone criticizes me. A responsible
church position just had to be given up
because of this problem. I am old enough
to know better. I will watch for your an
swer. E.J.P.
No one except Robinson Crusoe on that
deserted island could permit the habit of a
critical spirit plus an abusive tongue.
Society functions as well as it does because
people exercise self-control and discipline.
You ask if I can help you — and I can,
only to the extent you can be pointed to the
Lord and the Scriptures. Saying you are
old enough to know better means these
habits have convicted you, and pinpointed
your need for superhuman help.
Pay day
drug count. He sat for awhile, smoked,
then rose and began pacing up and down,
up and down, up and down. Many days and
nights of pacing await him.
When court ends for the day, officers
handcuff the prisoners together, couple
them in pairs with a long chain running the
length of the line. Then they trudge to jail
under armed guard.
Oh, it is not like that on television. Even
when a “convict” is punished on the tube
you can not smell the stench of
apprehension, gag at the all but tangible
fear. Even if he wanted to, no actor ever
could adequately portray the hell on earth
to which criminals subject themselves.
Think young man, young woman before
it is too late. Court is open to the public. Go
and see for yourself.
The wages of sin are death, and it is pay
day once more as court tries criminal
cases again this week.
fills up with people.
Mobile homes have a place in the
scheme of things. The problem is to see
that they are located so as not to decrease
the value of traditionally built homes and
neighborhoods. Adequate zoning and
properly operated parks are the answer,
but it is much easier to state this “answer”
than to provide it in workable fashion —
and impossible to do so to the satisfaction
of all concerned.
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We disagree with that view and consider
filth to be filth, garbage as garbage, and
pornography as catering to the basest of
instincts in old as well as young people.
Matter of fact, we are told that the
majority of patrons of porno bookstores
and theaters are middle aged men, not
young people.
All in all, we consider the court ruling to
be evidence that society itself has rebelled
at last against public display of prurient
material. The pendulum has swung again.
Cursing
them. We will continue to try to keep cuss
words out of this family newspaper.
A person who crows too much is sure to
get cackled at.
An optimist is a person who can’t find
anything to complain about but the
weather.
AIY
ANSWER ,JR
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I suggest considering these four things.
First, you see people as individually
responsible to God — not to each other.
(Romans 14:10.) You have no right to pass
judgment on your fellow man.
Secondly, if you are a Christian, con
version means your old nature is dead.
Why bristle at criticism as if you had to
justify your goodness. (Romans 6:6.)
Thirdly, let God set the record straight.
Don’t feel you have to get your own
revenge. (Romans 12:19.)
Lastly, pray for that aspect of faith
which is so attractive in the believer —a
gentle spirit, (Galatians 5:23.)
Unless you stop your runaway problems
of quick temper and the critical spirit, you
will be poisoned both spiritually and emo
tionally.
BERRY’S WORLD
© 1973 by NEA,
"I'm afraid one of our computers has been steal
ing from the company."
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Sees presidential
power too great
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
One great lesson we are supposed to draw from President
Johnson’s conduct of the Vietnam war and the Nixon admin
istration's Watergate affair is that presidential power today
is too great and is almost certain to be abused.
But there is about this judgment an air of inevitability
which I think we should distrust. Doctrines founded in rigid
certitude seldom apply so precisely to human behavior — in
politics or anything else.
George Reedy, once press secretary to Lyndon Johnson,
voices the judgment on presidential power in his newest
book, ' The Presidency in Flux. ” A key quotation:
“Power breeds isolation. Isolation leads to the capricious
use of power. In turn, the capricious use of power breaks
down the normal channels of communication between the
leader and the people whom he leads.’’
Obviously. Reedy believes there is an inescapable progres
sion at work, once the idea of a great concentration of power
is accepted.
Since presidential power has in fact been growing, at least
since Franklin Roosevelt's time, that part comes easy.
It may be more questionable whether isolation follows
inevitably. Mr. Nixon is of course famed for his isolation.
But he appears to have lived that way most of his adult life.
Mr. Johnson, for all his midnight calls to favored advisers
and his personal cajoling.qf lawmakers and bureaucrats,
seems also to have been seriously isolated from the people
at large.
Yet FDR. who really started the latest upward bound in
presidential power, did not live and work in similar isolation,
though his physical crippling perhaps gave him more excuse.
He did indeed sometimes use his great power capriciously,
as biographers like James MacGregor Burns point out con
vincingly. Yet it would be difficult to demonstrate that this
capriciousness seriously affected the channels of communi
cation he had developed with the people. In fact, FDR has
for years been cast up as a model of the presidential com
municator.
Presidential power surely did not diminish under Presi
dents Truman. Eisenhower and Kennedy. All three at times
used that power arbitrarily, if not capriciously. Gen. Eisen
hower usually is thought of as a low-key power wielder, but
he did not hesitate to land troops in Lebanon when he per
ceived a threat to peace in the Middle East.
Without blinking an eye. John Kennedy sent 3,500 soldiers
to the Thai-Laotian border when Laos was seen to be totter
ing.
Yet, again, it is hard to argue that any of these three was
peculiarly isolated from the people they sought to lead.
It is doubtful presidential power is going to be seriously
reduced in an era when swelling numbers of Americans want
action, and can't get it from a debilitated Congress or the
glacial mess of their governmental bureaucracy.
But history does not suggest that isolation is a rigid conse
quence of such power. Nor should we blithely accept the idea
it will often be used capriciously (or wrongly, as in Water
gate.) Human behavior is too variable.
And. even if there is capriciousness. FDR is proof that it
need not gravely cripple a president's power to lead the peo
ple well.
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QUOTES
Our Lord has written the
promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in
every leaf in springtime. —
Martin Luther, German reli
gious reformer.
Labor, the symbol of
man s punishment; labor, the
secret of man s happiness. —
James Montgomery, Scottish
poet and journalist.
Reflect upon your present
blessings, of which every man
has many; not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men
have some. — Charles Dick
ens. English novelist.
A thought for the day:
Canadian physician William
Osler said, “Tact is the saving
virtue without which no woman
can be a success.’’
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WORLD ALMANAC
During the past century
about 900,000 people have
been killed by earthquakes.
No area is immune from
the possibility of an earth
quake, but four out of five
occur around the fringe of
the Pacific Ocean, The
World Almanac notes.
Earthquakes are, however,
vital to the continued de
velopment of our earth,
and without their action the
earth’s surface would be
come a place of stagnant
seas and swamps because
of erosion.