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Mister, How
Old Are You?
Mister, how old are you? Wait, some medical experts who
specialize in heart ailments contend you're 15 years older than
your actual chronological age, if you: 1. Smoke more than a pack
oi cigarettes a day. 2. Show an exceedingly great blood
cholesterol level 3. Register abnormally high blood pressure.
Now, sir, how old are you? •
It's a matter of record that the typical coin collection in
creases proportionately in value even more from year to year
than the typical portfolio of stocks.
Gen Joseph Hooker commanded a division during the Civil
War Many was the woman who followed his troops from camp to
camp. Our Language man says she became identified by the gen
eral's own name As is the girl of similar ilk to this day. Or
did you know that?
BROKEN JAW
Q. "I've heard it's almost impossible to break the jaw of a
professional boxer by hitting hjm with a 12-ounce glove if his
teeth are set in his mouthpiece. How did Ken Norton manage to
do it to Muhammad All?''
A Long-time All observers assumed his mouth was open.
You ought not trust that citizen who fails to look you straight
in the eye. Such is the common belief Am asked if there's any
scientific reason for the notion. No, it’s bunk. Take honest
Abe Lincoln, for instance A trustworthy soul, that one, certainly.
But he suffered from a condition called hypertrophia, which
caused the visual axis of one of his eyes to deviate upwards, thus
preventing him from looking anybody straight in the eye
ASTROLOGY
It's the contention of that research astrologist Linda Good
man that people born under Aries, Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius,
Aquarius and Pisces tend to be late arrivers in four out of five
appointments
What, you don't know the very first of Henry J. Heinz' orig
inal 57 varieties? Grated horseradish.
"Church goers," said the great Fred Allen, "are people
who spend six days sewing wild oats, so they can pray on Sunday
for a crop failure."
Young college men and the coeds share living quarters at
West Berlin's Free University. Share bathrooms, too. Manage
ment decided the girls should hang pink cards on the door
knobs when they showered, the boys blue cards. Excellent, ex
cellent. But dormitory visitors now report virtually all the
bathrooms display both pink and blue cards simultaneously.
Address mod to I. M. Boyd P. O. Bom 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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sion against pornography, we re stuck with 3 books and
294 dirty words!’’
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today- is Monday, Aug. 20,
the 232nd day of 1973 with 133
to follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Venus
and Jupiter.-
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Leo.
The 23rd president of the
United States, Benjamin Har
rison, was born Aug. 20, 1833.
On this day in history:
In 1741, Danish navigator
Vitus discovered what is now
Alaska.
In 1914, Germany occupied
the Belgian capital of Brussels
in World War I.
In 1955, flying a Super
Sabrejet, Col. Horace Hanes
reached an altitude of 40,000
feet and a speed of 822 miles
per hour.
In 1966, 3,000 persons were
counted dead in the aftermath
of a Turkish earthquake.
BARB S
By PHIL PASTORET
The only inflation going
down is in food price-shrunken
waistlines.
+ + +
Why do they call man a ra
tional animal, when he rea
sons he can drive 40 miles to
work at less expense than tak
ing the bus?
+ + +
BdUl
A tight-lipped person is
either very stern or has
mighty loose dentures.
+ + +
Half a loaf is what you get
for what you once paid for a
full loaf.
+ 4- +
People who offer a penny
for your thoughts have inter
est worth just about that
much.
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THOUGHTS
“He changes times and sea
sons; he removes kings and
sets up kings; he gives wis
dom to the wise and knowl
edge to those who have under
standing;” — Daniel 2:21.
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A man doesn't begin to at
tain wisdom until he recogniz
es that he is no longer indis
pensable. — Richard E. Byrd,
American polar explorer.
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City and county governments
cooperated in the paving and grading of
the new parking lot on the Kelsey property
at Griffin High School.
The school board is renting the land, but
It is camp meeting time again at Mt.
Zion Campground in Spalding County.
The 139th annual meeting began Sunday
and will continue through this coming
Sunday, Aug. 26.
Camp meeting is a tradition throughout
Georgia. It provided an opportunity to
Bears at camp
The Griffin Bears are at camp this week
at Indian Springs.
There they can practice together as they
do at home. In addition they can live
together which they cannot do at home.
Random thoughts
In the continuing argument about
Georgia’s prisons, don’t forget that they
are filled with pros and cons.
Holidays over; time to relax; nothing
ahead; but the income tax.
Un-welfaring move
The Thomaston Times
Watergate has almost fixed our
minds so that we can’t see the
forest for the trees but coming
through is a bright light on the
welfare situation that has gone to
such extremes in this nation that
it has had the tail wagging the
dog.
Something is being done about
welfare or, we should say, the
abuse of welfare.
August Reader’s Digest tells in
detail how California has
reduced the welfare rolls by
cutting off able-bodied hippies,
eliminating such qualifications
as being socially unadaptable to
work and by getting at the
cheaters and chiselers.
That’s far off in California.
But something is being done in
Georgia, too, where the abuse
has not been so flagrant as in the
larger and more liberal areas but
which has disgusted many
hard-working, tax-paying citi
zens.
Principally, Georgia Depart
ment of Human Resouices is
going after the man who fathers
children and then refuses to
provide their support leaving
welfare to feed, clothe, house,
educate and, in some cases,
encourage a perpetuation of the
welfare cycle.
In 1973 the General Assembly
About cruelty
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to animals J? £1
Why do many clergymen refuse to speak
out against animal cruelty? They say
they’re too busy saving souls, but Albert
Schweitzer said, “Pity for animals is a
mandate no thinking person can escape.”
S.B.
The fact of God’s care over His creation
is well established. After the creation of
the animal world, Genesis 1:25 indicates
that.“ God saw it was good.” In the law of
Moses, as reflected on by Paul in I Corin
thians 9:9, there was this prohibition:
“Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox
that treadeth out the corn.” And when
Jesus was delivering his famous Sermon
on the Mount, Matthew 6:26 quotes Him as
saying: “Behold the fowls of the air, for
they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your heavenly
Father feedth them.”
Cooperation
Mt. Zion
it had to be prepared. So the county agreed
to grade it and the city to surface and line
it.
This may seem a minor thing, but such
cooperation is good for the community.
gather for worship and for families to get
together for visits with their neighbors
back in a day when the nearest neighbor
lived miles away.
It still provides the same opportunities
in this modern age when hurry and lack of
time instead of miles separate people.
It looks as if Griffin High will have
another successful year, and camp will
help it. Teams which do not get to go to a
pre-season camp have a handicap when
they play those which do.
One thing harder to keep up with than
the Joneses is a teenage son.
An open mouth is poor camouflage for a
closed mind.
passed a law which says, in part:
“The payment of public assist
ance to or on behalf of a
dependent child creates a debt
due and owing the state by the
parent or parents of the child.”
This puts teeth into a law that
now makes it possible for the
Department of Human Re
sources to seek and obtain child
support from able-bodied, work
ing parents who are not
supporting their children, or not
living up to court-approved
support payments where welfare
funds are also being provided to
support their children.
We assume this means that the
full strength of the law may be
used and it should be showing up
this month in Upson county when
the Grand Jury meets if it is
necessary to bring into court
fathers who refuse to support
their children.
We have hopes for this new law
helping to relieve the welfare
loads in our own county and over
the State of Georgia.
And we are encouraged by both
Georgia and California in efforts
to clean up a welfare program
that unwittingly has encouraged
illegitimacy, irresponsibility,
laziness and even found to
support communes of society
dropouts.
Now in the matter of what priority in
their preaching clergymen should give the
subject of animal cruetly, I could not say. I
suppose as you indicate, it seldom appears
as a major theme, although I am sure it is
alluded to in the course of the year’s
sermonizing.
The saving and shepherding of souls is
the minister’s main assignment, and I
would not fault him for giving this
preeminence. I think, however, if you
examine the involvements of the average
pastor over a long period in his commun
ity, you will discover he does relate his
faith to a wide range of subjects. They
would include child care to open housing to
denouncing pornography.
I agree with the inference you make,
however, that the mark of a Christian is
love and kindness to every sergment of
God’s creation.
BERRY'S WORLD
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© 1973 by NEA, Inc.
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WASHINGTON (NEAI
The horror of the murders in Houston of more than a
score of young boys is special, not least because it connects
with some other things in American life. And, in a strange
way, it ties into an observation about human behavior I
heard recently in Puerto Rico.
The most baffling aspect of the Houston case, of course, is
that — in prelude to the ghoulish outcome — no particular
wonder was stirred when nine of the disappearances which
the police styled as “runaways’' occurred within a four-block
area
The authorities explain that, with more than 5,000 ' runa
ways'’ a year in the nation's sixth largest city, it isn’t possi
ble to pursue individual cases very long. Nor does bunching
of these in particular areas arouse the police to unusual curi
osity.
What a sense of helplessness this must now induce in the
families of Houston “runaways,” and perhaps countless
others. For we can imagine the tens of thousands of such
disappearances there must be in the whole nation each year.
Quickly, I put this together in my mind with another fig
ure which popped into print not long ago. Some five million
Americans 65 and over are destined to die alone and unat
tended — indeed, often unnoticed for days or weeks.
In this free society, committed ostensibly to the full dig
nity of the individual human, how can such absolutely stun
ning neglect occur?
Where, amid this celebrated affluence the world is sup
posed to envy, is the real sense of community, of family, and
the caring and protection they are presumed to offer?
Here is the place where I find pertinent a comment made _
to me in Puerto Rico by worldly wise former Gov. Luis
Munoz Marin.
I had asked him why Puerto Ricans generally are, as is
truly the case, so warmly and acutely responsive to leader
ship (which for the most part they have had in good mea
sure). The same cannot be said for people in many Latin
lands.
Munoz’ answer was at once simple and complex.
He said Puerto Ricans were responsive, and mostly free of
bitterness even though many know poverty worse than any in
mainland America, because they feel they live in a setting .
“where no harm can come to them.”
They have known a higher degree of self-government a
longer time than most of their Latin brethren. They do not
live in terror of jail and the dictator’s lash.
Ironically, the “great United States" is given high credit
for encouraging self-government even in the island's “coloni
al” phase, and for serving as “dramatic example.”
Munoz and others there have more to say on why islanders
feel freer of “harm" than many others. The family, meaning
to them what Puerto Ricans call the “extended family"
embracing cousins, aunts, uncles, etc., offers protection. |
Unemployment may be high, but the unemployed are cared I
for in personal ways many mainland Americans never expe- ■
rience.
In “big America" we have free-roaming space, consequent ■
fabulous mobility, diversity despite leveling forces. Yet we Q
are the land of the broken home, of the family shrunken and ||
somehow less warming and rewarding, of diminished “com- ■
munity” sense, where rootless people flock together — only H
to see “runaways" join jobless, neglected elderly and others I
in the cold discomfort of empty tables of statistics.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )
Spirit Lifter
for the week
By RUTH STAFFORD
PEALE
Copley News Service
If your problems seem
overwhelming and you do not
know where to turn, try put
ting them in God’s hands and
believe that He will help you.
For He surely will.
“If ye have faith as a grain
of mustard seed, ye shall say
unto this mountain, Remove
hence to yonder place; and it
shall remove: and nothing
shall be impossible unto you.”
Matthew 17:20.
If you have a specific
spiritual need, write me in
confidence for free helpful lit
erature. Address Box Z-4,
Foundation for Christian Liv
ing, Pawling, N.Y. 12564.
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BRUCE BIOSSAT ;
Houston case hits
our way of life
By Bruce Biossat •:
WORLD ALMANAC!
FACTS I
George Washington Car- 8
ver, a Negro agricultural |
chemist, helped improve I
and diversify the cotton-k
dominated economy of the!
South by showing how
gen-producing peanuts and
soybeans could enrich soil
depleted by cotton, The
World Almanac recalls. He '
developed about 300 by
products from peanuts, soy
beans and sweet potatoes.
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