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Mick Jagger?
Pollsters asked 1,062 citizens: 11 you could invite anybody
in the world to dinner at your place, who would you choose?
Mostly, those queried named President Nixon, Henry Kissinger,
Spiro Agnew, Billy Graham, John Wayne, Paul Newman, Burt
Reynolds, Dean Martin and Elvis Presley. The only non-
Americans to turn up on the roster were Queen Elizabeth,
The Pope and Mick Jagger. All right, young lady, you re the
hostess. Direct the conversation.
That Americans are more apt to marry for love than other
nationals is generally understood. Still, a client denies it
If true, writes this subscriber, how come Americans so readily
break up their marriages? Divorce statistics hereabouts, says
our Love and War man, do not so much indicate the failure of
love as the refusal of citizens to live without it. This topic also
is one he'll discuss in detail next time he hires a hall
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q. "How often should I repaint my house 9 "
A Depends on the color. White, every four or five years.
Tinted, every save or six years. Dark, every six to eight years.
Or so advise those Federal sages in the Department of
Agriculture
Q. ' 'What countries still refuse women the vote?''
A Liechtenstein, lordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Q "How long before a baby porcupine is weaned?”
A About a week
Volume of water in the earth's ice caps and glaciers is said
to be equal to the flow of all the earth's rivers for 1,000 years
LARGE NOSE
Consider the renowned military gentlemen named
Hannibal, Caesar, Washington, Lee, Foch, Pershing and
MacArthur. A physical characteristic they had in common*
was the large nose Noting such, a researcher concludes the
man with the prormnant proboscis tends to be a forceful fighter
with a propensity for leadership Endorse that?
The goddesses outnumber the gods considerably in the
Hindu faith, remember that
In England, it was called ' 'The Church Ale,'' that regular
Sunday afternoon get-together. A custom thereabouts for 500
years. Parishioners gathered either in churchyards or nearby
barns Chief activity was the drinking of brew. Church wardens
profited some Not only charged they for the liquor, but they
timed the passing of the collection plates when the lubricated
generosity was paramount
Was a rare fellow in early America who made his living
solely from dentistry Mostly, he was a barber or a tinker or a
clockmaker. Just moonlighted in teeth. False teeth then were
made of ivory, quite true. But it had to be hippopotamus ivory,
not elephant ivory, to be regarded as the premium thing.
Address mail Io I. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 1 7076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Fall-out
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Aug. 16,
the 228th day of 1973 with 137 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars Venus and
Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Leo.
Robert Ringling, originator of
the major circus world, was
bom Aug. 16, 1897.
On this day in history:
In 1896, gold was discovered
in the Klondike region of
Canada’s Yukon Territory.
In 1948, baseball home run
king Babe Ruth died in New
York City of cancer.
In 1965, all 30 persons aboard
died when a plane crashed and
sank in Lake Michigan.
In 1971, New York stocks
broke a 179-year price and
volume record in an upward
response to President Nixon’s
wage-price-rent freeze an
nounced the day before.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORE!
Perhaps nothing has contrib
uted more to quick recoveries
from colds, sniffles and such
on the part of workers as day
time television.
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Remember: if its the boss
telling the jokes, he who
laughs, lasts.
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One of the best things to
take on a picnic is a tin of
antacid tablets.
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After this session, Congress
should be refused a recess and
get a spanking instead.
Considering the junk the
gals carry, purse-snatchers
must be professional weigh
tlifters.
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Antilittering device: hand
cuffs for kids in station wa
gons loaded with pop cans and
potato chip sacks.
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is a brother to him who de
stroys. The name of the Lord
is a strong tower; the right
eous man runs into it and is
safe. — Proverbs 18:9,10.
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Editor
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Nixon’s speech
No mortal can magically transform the
nation, not even with 30 minutes prime
time.
Richard Nixon is a mortal just as the
rest of us. He is a human being. Also,
though, he is President of the United
States. There is little likelihood that he
will be replaced before the next election,
and as President he is our leader.
Last night he had the most difficult of
tasks, actually two of them. First he tried
to convince America that he, Richard
Nixon, was innocent as an individual of
wrongdoing. Second, as President, he tried
to lead the country back from its great
absorption with a national scandal.
He probably did convince or assure
some of those who wanted to be convinced
and assured of his innocence as an
What do you think?
Two of Georgia’s executives are
members of a federal crime commission,
and it was interesting to read how they
voted on two matters before it.
Ellis MacDougall is director of the State
Department of Offender Rehabilitation
(state prisons). On the matter of outlawing
handguns he said that “if someone were
breaking into my home I wouldn’t want to
try to hold him off with a .38 snub nose. I’d
get my shotgun and I’d know d— well I’d
hit him.” So, he said, he voted in favor of
outlawing pistols.
Then there was the question of whether
to cut down on the so-called “victimless
crimes” such as possession of marijuana,
prostitution, gambling, and private sexual
acts between consenting adults. Mr.
MacDougall or Colonel Pope? As for us, we
“taken out of the criminal jurisdiction so
police can go ahead after the real
criminals.” And he voted to do that.
Colonel Ray Pope differed sharply. The
director of the State Department of Public
Safety said that “under no condition would
Wet or dry?
Clayton County shut up the clubs and
made sweeping arrests this week. If all
“dry” counties in Georgia did the same we
Twiggs says ‘no’
The people of Twiggs County have held a
hearing on allowing Atlanta to dump
garbage in keolin pits there. They said
“no”.
Opal Chance of Allentown summed
things up when she said, “The people of
Twiggs County are just as important, have
just as much pride, love life just as much,
and want to protect their homes just as
much as any Atlantan.”
Who can blame the people of Twiggs for
saying “no”? Who would want his home
county turned in a garbage dump for any
city?
Yet all of us in this part of the state do
get some of Atlanta’s garbage in one form
or another. While we benefit from it
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get close to God?
lam 16 years old. My problem is I can’t
seem to do—Whatever it is you have to
do—to become a Christian. Furthermore, I
don’t know how to get close to God, and I
really want to. I decided to write to you
because I always read your columns in the
paper. Sharon
One of the great marvels of Christianity
is that an all wise God made the conditions
for following Him so simple. Perhaps it is
this very simplicity that causes problems.
I can assure you, however, that no
person ever sincerely wanted to know God,
and get close to Him, but what God’s Spirit
arranged it. The whole purpose of God’s
intervention in history—in the person and
work of Christ —was to bring about the
conversion experience such as you claim
to seek. Read John 20:31.
Becoming a Christian is not the af
firmation of ideals which you must
individual. But he worked no miracle.
Mr. Nixon was more successful - we
hope - as the President attempting to lead
the nation from its swamp.
While nobody can doubt that the United
States has suffered and is suffering from
the Watergate affair, neither can we doubt
the necessity of operating the government
and solving the every day problems of its
people.
On this basis, whether one believes the
man Richard Nixon guilty or innocent of
wrongdoing, it would be wise to heed the
advice of the President that we move on to
other things.
History will record the severe damage
which the scandal has done to Mr. Nixon as
a President. Only the private anguish of a
mortal knows what it has done to the man.
I favor” outlawing pistols. He added, “I’m
firmly convinced we need some kind of
control in the sale of these Saturday night
specials, especially with Atlanta now
called the murder capital of the nation ...
But if you ask for the surrender of all
handguns, all of the good guys are going to
be without them and the criminals are still
going to have them.” He voted against
outlawing them.
Also Colonel Pope generally opposed
efforts to reduce “victimless crimes.” He
disagreed with the belief that nobody gets
hurt in such a crime and said, “I think
somebody always gets hurt ... These
victimless crimes are just another step in
lessening the morals of the country and the
citizens.”
With whom do you agree, Mr.
MacDougall said that these ought to be
recognize that Mr. MacDougall has a right
to his opinions and believe that he is honest
and sincere in them. But we agree with
Colonel Pope and wish that he were
administering the prisons as well as the
Department of Public Safety.
probably would have a legally wet state
soon thereafter.
money-wise and attract some high class
people from it, we get some of its human
garbage too. Few weekends pass that one
of Atlanta’s neighboring cities or counties
does not have a crime committed by
human garbage from the city. And we get
some of the trashy ideas, lack of
standards, rotted moral values and all the
rest which abound there.
This is not to say that Atlanta is all
garbage. It is not by any means, but it does
have its share and more. At least its
discarded physical trash could be covered
over if it were placed in a kaolin pit. But
the kind of garbage which it sends its
neighbors in the form of criminals,
distorted moral values and the like cannot
be buried. How we wish that they could be.
practice. It’s notan intellectual exercise to
grapple with. It’s the total commitment of
your life to Jesus Christ through the
process of repentance and faith.
Repentance means being sorry for your
sins, and faith means trusting Christ as
your personal Savior. Read Romans 10:9,
10.
As for getting close to God, that’s easy.
James wrote in chapter 4:9, “When you
draw close to God, God will draw close to
you.” In other words, you start reading the
Bible, praying and attending church.
Immediately you will discover your faith
growing and your love for God and man
deepening.
Listen, if Christ validated the brief,
weak, but sincere request of faith by the
thief of the cross, He’ll certainly honor
yours. Write me again with a spiritual
progress report.
BERRY’S WORLD
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"If the administration's use of the word ‘Plumbers
is so offensive to you, why don't you write a letter
to the editor?"
Book by Russian
limns Watergate
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON' (NEA)
James Schlesinger, the new secretary of Defense, is an
admirer of the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, au
thor of ' One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and winner
of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970.
It is interesting therefore to look at Solzhenitsyn's writ
ings. see what this brilliant author says of politics and gov
ernment and note how his words might apply to current ev
ents in this country.
Solzhenitsyn, of course, was known as a rebel within Rus
sia, and has paid heavily for his condemnation of govern
ment tyranny.
In this, Solzhenitsyn does not talk of Watergate, of course.
For Watergate came after the writings we have available.
He is speaking of different lands and different people. But
what he says, nevertheless, has a familiar ring.
He talks of the struggles between groups — mass demon
strations and the officials demonstrated against — left vs.
right, racial antagonisms, “tearing our world to pieces"
because of our refusal to accept compromises with each
other. So we finally come to the belief “that there are no
fixed universal concepts called good and justice, that they
are fluid, changing, and that therefore one must always do
what will benefit one's party."
But in our adherence to noble causes, says Solzhenitsyn,
all too frequently we are not noble at alt. We use righteous
slogans as a cover for “the same old- caveman feelings —
greed envy, violence and mutual hate ...” which we have .
given respectable pseudonymns.
The mutual hate and mutual fear lead to violence, either
physical violence or political — and to lying, which Solzhen
itsyn regards as the root of our problems.
“Let us not forget." he says, “that violence does not and
cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with
lying ... nothing screens violence except lies, and the only
way lies can hold out is by violence ... At birth, violence
behaves openly and even proudly. But as soon as it becomes
stronger and firmly established ... it cannot go on without
befogging itself in lies, coating itself with lying's sugary ora
tory. It does not always or necessarily go straight for the
gullet; usually it demands of its victims only allegiance to
the lie, only complicity in the lie ...
“The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to
take part, not to support lies!”
Solzhenitsyn has something here. For if we look at Water
gate and the other political intrigue and violence uncovered,
it seems clear that one half-truth or lie led to another, anoth
er and still another. And that too often this has been our
problem in elections and in government, both local and na
tional.
What’s in a (misleading) name?
You'd think that a series of events of such drama and
magnitude as those which took place in the United States
between 1861 and 1865 would have a commonly accepted
name
In the North it’s the "Civil War" and in the South the
"War Between the States. " Actually, neither one is accurate
but reflects the philosophy of those who prefer it, notes
Strategy & Tactics, a magazine of war gaming or conflict
simulation.
The northern name is a poor one, it says, because a civil
war is a struggle for control of the body politic. The South
did not want to control the Union; it wanted to leave it.
The southern name, on the other hand, is also poor. Aside
from being bad grammatically, it implies that the states
have a sovereign existence. The war was really a struggle
between a group of southern states end a centralized Union.
Other names which once enjoyed more or less popularity
but which are now oddities are “Mr. Lincoln’s War,” the
" War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance," the “War for South
ern Independence " (which it was) and the "War of the
Slaveholders' Rebellion” (which it also was).
Nor is the most logical and accurate name of all — the
“War of Secession " — likely to gain acceptance, says the
magazine. So we re stuck with Civil War and-or War Be
tween the States.
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FACTS
The name muckrakers was
applied to U.S. magazine and
book writers who exposed
the power-wielding of men in
politics and industry. Ida M.
'Tarbell was a prime exam
ple- She wrote articles that
led to a monopoly suit
against Standard Oil Co. in
the early 1900 s, The World
Almanac recalls.
GRIFFIN
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