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L M BOYD
Anti-Jealousy
Pill at Hand?
An anti-jealousy pill, that's what some scientists contend
they're about to come up with Remarkable, it true Say you're
watching your girlfriend at this cocktail party She’s talking to
that handsome character who sells stocks And unfortunately,
she has developed the cunning little characteristic of touching
her partner in conversation to punctuate her own remarks.
On the arm, on the shoulder, on the chest Seeing this, you pop
one anti-jealousy pill, no, make it two, into your mouth rapidly,
then turn away in unconcern. Truly a miracle medicine, this.
Look back again Tut, tut, your girlfriend and the fellow seem
to be gone. Take another pill Who cares 9
A federal study of the records in 119 hospital emergency
rooms indicates that item responsible for the most accidents is
the roller skate Presume this excepts cars
Were you aware that drillers have proved some alfalfa roots
go to a depth of 46 feet underground?
Q. "What's 'Oomph,' dad?''
A Young man, it's past your bedtime "Oomph was a
press agent's characterization of the sex appeal which in part
identified the late movie star Ann Shendan She didn t cotton
much to "The Oomph Girl" title, though Still, that is how she
came to be known by us, the young male snickerers, in the
heyday of those several stars with big eves, mouths and bustlines.
Q "What was the price in 1900 of sugar, eggs, potatoes
and butter?’'
A. Sugar, 4 cents a pound Eggs, 14 cents a dozen Potatoes,
45 cents a bushel Butter, 24 cents a pound
Q. "Which is the more popular name now for newborn
baby girls, Jane or Julie 9 '
A Julie. It ranks No. 9 Jane is No 10
BEER
Am asked by an Air Force fellow why the beer of northern
Germany seems to be heavier, tangier, sharper than the beer of
Bavaria It’s the water Munich water is soft, Dortmund water is
hard Neither is best, might mention As the fellow said when
he kissed the mule, it s a matter of personal taste
"As an aspiring author, I find it difficult to believe nobody
of any literary importance was ever born in July, writes a
youthful masculine subscriber Difficult, indeed How about
Hemingway, Benet, Dumas the Elder and Younger, Shaw,
de Tocqueville, Tarkington, Petrarch, Thackeray, Wister,
Thoreau as well as that lady of letters George Sand 9 All born
in July.
One out of every six young fellows between the ages of 13
and 18 will face some sort of juvenile court charge in the next
12 months Amazing statistic, what 9
Can you verify the contention that no great creative genius
among mortals has been a successful teacher 9
Address mail Io I M. Boyd P 0 8o« 17076 fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1973 L M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, July 19,
the 200th day of 1973 with 165 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.
Samuel Colt, American inven
tor of automatic firearms, was
born July 19,1814.
On this day in history:
In 1848, “bloomers,” a
radical departure in women’s
dress, were introduced to the
delegates of the first woman’s
rights convention in Seneca
Falls, N.Y. They were named
after Mrs. Amelia Jenks
Bloomger.
In 1870, the Franco-Prussian
War began.
In 1918, the end of World War
I approached as German
armies began retreating across
the Marne River in France.
In 1941, the World War II “V
for Victory” campaign began in
Europe.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
The only loafer who makes
money is the baker.
+ + +
Mountaineers are good till
the first drop.
+ + +
If they could harness politi
cal hot air, the energy crisis
would be over.
+ + +
SH
From the way some kids
behave during vacation, we
say they should be heir-condi
tioned.
-t + +
What would bugs do without
people to plant gardens for
’em?
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Matthew 10:41.
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view point
Had your vacation yet?
Had your vacation yet?
If not and you want a quickie away from
town, we’d like to recommend Indian
Springs State Park just the other side of
Jackson. You can get there after church
Sunday, spend the afternoon and be in
another world.
Long a favorite of people throughout
Georgia, the park is more popular than
ever. It has a fine lake, swimming
In three days of sharp interrogation by
the Ervin committee, Mitchell added less
new facts than a new and troubling
dimension to the Watergate story.
Once the chief law officer of the United
States, he has acknowledged, first, being
aware of the commission of illegal acts,
and then particpating in their cover-up.
He has based his justification for placing
political expediency before official
responsibilities on the rock of his devotion
to the President: “... the re-election of
Richard Nixon compared with what was
available on the other side was so much
more important ...”
But the President himself had already
undermined that rock. In his April 30
address to the American people on
A few things we can’t get too excited
about on a nice day in July:
—Liz Taylor and Richard Burton’s
separation, reunion or whatever their
present status is.
—Lester Maddox’s most recent
telegram to Washington, D.C.
—Senator Ted Kennedy’s opinion of
President Nixon.
—Whether Senator Baker runs for
President.
Good news or bad?
Hard to tell whether it’s good news or
bad, but Georgia’s Department of
Transportation has announced that vehicle
registrations in the state grew from 1971 to
1972 at a rate exceeding the national
average by one-half and higher than any
other southern state except South
Carolina.
Federal Highway Administration
statistics register a 7.5 per cent increase in
1972 Georgia motor vehicle registrations
(2,959,454) over 1971 totals (2,752,904). This
Random thoughts
A bachelor’s greatest single problem is
not having a wife.
Hate can kill a democracy, but it can not
govern one.
Stress in marriage
is frequent today
I am a very happily married young
Christian mother with a small child. Once,
however, I became involved with another
man—an episode I have regretted ever
since. I confessed this to God, but not to my
husband, because I feel it would upset him
and place our marriage in jeopardy. Do
you think God will forgive me for not
telling him of this unfaithfulness? M.T.
Stress in marriage is a frequent ex
perience today, and the sexual reasons for
it outnumber most others. Fewer and
fewer couples can survive a lifetime
relationship without the intrusion of some
sexual temptation. The question, of
course, is: how you handle it.
All right, you faced a particular temp
tation and succumbed to it. You were right
in seeking God’s forgiveness, but wrong, I
believe, in hiding it from your husband.
First, communication in a marriage is of
paramount importance. Your assumption
Quimby Melton. Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-4334
facilities, mobile home cabins to rent.
There is a miniature golf course, deer in a
pen for the children (and adults) to feed,
hiking trails, picnic facilities.
Last week it was jumping with people
enjoying it.
And the water from the spring itself
smells and tastes just as bad as it ever
did—and is just as popular with folks who
think it helps whatever ails them. Maybe it
does.
Horrors
Unexcited
Watergate, that same Richard Nixon said:
“The lesson is clear. America in its
political campaigns must not again fall
into the trap of letting the end, however
great that end is, justify the means.”
It is unfortunate the President did not
make his convictions on this point
perfectly clear to his associates much
earlier.
John Mitchell is the highest placed
witness yet heard by the Watergate
committee and he has made his mark on
the inquiry, not least with his vividly apt
characterization of the burglaries and
assorted other misdeeds that are its
subject — the “White House horrors.”
That is a description that covers a lot of
territory.
—The price of tea in communist China.
—Whether that cigarette company re
runs its contest under government
direction.
—The shrill screams of those opposed to
the Supreme Court’s latest ruling which
allows (at last!) local control over
pornography.
—What the temperature is in Nice,
France.
—The cost of pablum in Tahiti.
compares to a national average for the
same period of only 5.0 per cent — from a
total of 112,988,199 vehicles registered in
1971 for the entire nation to the 1972 total of
118,618,162.
Is this good news or bad for Georgia? If
you are in a traffic jam around Atlanta, it
is bad. If you are selling car parts, it is
good. But whichever way you look at it,
one thing’s for sure: We must have the
streets and highways to handle all these
cars and trucks.
It is mildly startling to realize that 1973
is over half gone.
If you want to be understood, be
understanding.
MY
ANSWER'-,JR
“Sa'
that divulging this mistake would threaten
your marriage is perhaps unfounded. Your
husband may think more of you for your
candid confession.
Secondly, a mature marriage operates
on the principle that each partner has
contributed to a problem. Neither is en
tirely aloof or immune, and your husband
needs to have a chance here to handle his
involvement in that episode.
Thirdly, God’s forgiveness is tied in to
human forgiveness, where a third party is
involved. Not that God is limited in His
pardon, but for our good, He expected that
we will share our repentant spirit with
others who may have been wronged. See
Luke 19:8.
You and your husband need to
restructure your relationship, even though
he is aware of no problem. The wedge of
guilt will be dissolved if you handle this
promptly in a spirit of Christian love.
BERRY’S WORLD
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“Too bad! You got a beautiful resume here, kid —
except for bein’ a former member of the White
House staff!"
GLOBAL VIEW
How lumber beat
price control
WASHINGTON (NEAi
Consumers may be moving into a real jungle. As a result
of price controls’ what we pay for in many instances may
have little relationship to what we are buying.
Such apparently are the conclusions of William Poole, who
does research for the Federal Research System, in a study
done in cooperation with the prestigious Brookings Institu
tion. All conclusions, however, are his own
Poole gives some hairy examples of what happened under
Phase II in the lumber industry. These will not be difficult to
translate into equivalent sales-price manipulations for al
most anything — product or service — you want to buy.
Says Poole:
— Regulations permitted higher prices when services were
added to products. Plywood producers therefore performed
the "service" of cutting one-eighth inch off plywood sheets
- then sold the sheets for substantially higher prices.
This practice was not limited to plywood.
— The Price Commission could not regulate foreign produ
cers. of course. Import prices were thus uncontrolled. Prod
ucers in the Pacific Northwest therefore exported lumber to
Canada and reimported it at substantially higher prices. The
transactions sometimes involved dummy exports. Export
and import papers were processed while the lumber in ques
tion sat in a U.S. warehouse.
— Price Commission regulations permitted normal mark
ups at each stage of distribution. This rule spawned ship
ments of lumber from one wholesaler to another. Each add
ed a normal markup but did not perform all of the usual
wholesaler functions.
— For a time, the regulated price of two-by-fours was rel
atively high as compared with boards Thus, logs were
turned into two-by-fours and a shortage of boards developed.
Poole blames some of the worst excesses during Phase 111
(after Phase II controls were largely eliminated) first on a
"catch up by producers and secondly on anticipation of
Phase IV s renewed controls — well before the announce
ment Many firms therefore were determined to get their
price bases as high as possible well in advance of the time
new government controls were-instituted. (These price ad
vances were made possible, of course, by the tremendous
growth in demand at home and abroad.)
When the dav comes that controls are finally dropped alto
gether. Poole anticipates another major bulge in prices. That
is. he fears controls may so exacerbate the problem that the
bulge may flame into greater inflation than if regulations
had not been instituted.
It must be mentioned in passing that, as is well known,
economists normally disagree vigorously — especially on
predictions — and wherever three are gathered together you
normally find three "schools of thought." Many scholars are
known to disagree with Poole s arguments against controls.
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TIMELY
QUOTES
Learning to live together in
peace is the most important
issue for the Soviet Union and
the United States, too impor
tant to be compromised by
meddling — even idealistic
meddling — in each other’s
f a i rs
—Sen. J. William Fulbright.
The continual use of force
against human beings on the
border represents a perma
nent provocation for which the
German Democratic Republic
bears the responsibility before
the whole world.
—West Berlin Mayor Klaus
Schuetz.
The national security lesson
to be learned from Watergate
is that our security is endan
gered by “patriots” from
within who would subvert us
by destroying the basic ele
ments of our freedom in the
guise of protecting us.
—American Civil Liberties
Union.
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tal city, is the most norther
ly capital in the world.
Reykjavik means ’ smoky
bay" in Icelandic, the
’smoke " referring to steam
which rises from hot
springs. Some of this natural
steam and hot water is piped
to the city where it is used
to heat homes and business
es. thus eliminating a major
source of air pollution. The
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