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— Griffin Daily News Monday, November 5,1973
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Therese So Much
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L M. BOYD
A Divorcee
Keeps Auto
When a married couple with only one car gets divorced,
court records show the wife usually winds up with said car
Police in Sweden claim no call girls operate there, none
Stage magicians say women almost invariably are easier to
please than are men Book salesmen say that, too The brain
triples its size from birth to age 6. . If mothers in the Far East
stopped breast feeding, it's said, those Asians would need 114
million more cows
Am asked if our Love and War man has any statistics to
show the percentage of secretaries who take dictation while
sitting on the boss's lap. Precise statistics, no. But he is of ihe
opinion that the secretaries who so perform are even rarer than
the bosses themselves who encourage this cartoon-type scene
That is only one of several erroneous notions promoted over
the years by the comic strip boys Another is that numerous
housewives throw rolling pins at their husbands.
RADIOS
Q "What one man was responsible for the sale of the
largest number of radios in history?''
A Can't catch me on that one, sir It was that news com
mentator of great renown, H V Kaltenborn. September of 1938
was when Kaltenborn was the only news analyst around who
could translate German, French and Italian in a rapid manner
So for those 18 days just before the Munich Pact, Kaltenborn
remained on duty at the CBS studios in New York City, sleeping
on a cot, eating sandwiches, and reporting immediately the
shortwave broadcasts of Hitler, Deladier and Mussolini Radio
sales boomed, sir
Can you distinguish the difference among as many as 10
million various colors? Neither can I. Still, the National Bureau
of Standards insists the normal human eye can do that remark
able thing
CHINESE PIGS
Dt> you know how a pig is shipped in China? In a net It's
not much bigger than the pig The pig is fitted mto it with its
legs sticking out If the net is cinched up, the pig can walk on
its own power If the net is loose, the pig stays put. A stevedore
can hook a winch rope to the net to load the pig aboard ship
And there, said pig along with a lot of other immobilized pigs
in nets can be stacked like cordwood. That’s all today about
Chinese pigs Maybe more later
Thousands and thousands of men with flat feet were rejected
over the years by the Army before the medical boys found out
flat feet don't interfere at all with soldiering
Address mail to I. M. Boyd, P. O Box 17076, fort Worth. TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Nov. 5, the
3O9th day of 1973 with 56 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning star is Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Scorpio.
American historian Will Dur
ant was born Nov. 5, 1885.
On this day in history:
In 1733, German-born publish
er John Peter Zenger began
printing the newspaper “The
New York Weekly Journal.”
In 1911, Galbraith Rogers
completed the first transconti
nental flight. It took him 49
days to fly from New York City
to Pasadena, California, with
frequent stops.
In 1940, President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was re
elected to an unprecedented
third term.
In 1955, Austria opened the
reconstructed Vienna State
Opera House and formally
celebrated its liberation from 17
years of foreign occupation.
BARBS
by PHIL PASTORET
To the pessimist, every
silver lining has a cloud.
Best exercise to perform at
the office: keeping the jaw
muscles shut tightly.
And then there’s the tipsy
music professor who had a
Liszt to port.
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THOUGHTS
Rejoice, O young man, in
your youth, and let your
heart cheer you in the days
of your youth; walk in the
ways of your heart and the
sight of your eyes. But know
that for all these things God
will bring you into judg
ment. — Eccl. 11:9.
1 remember my youth and
the feeling that will never
come back any more — the
feeling that I could last
forever, outlast the sea, the
earth, and all men. — Joseph
Conrad, English novelist.
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Election tomorrow
Griffin’s City Commission election is
tomorrow, and the voters who take the
trouble to go to the polls will decide which
of the eight candidates for two posts will be
elected or in a runoff.
Campaigning has been active but
relatively quiet and there has been interest
but no great issues to debate or decide
upon. Consequently there is danger that
the election may not attract a represen
tative number of voters. We hope that this
Same old story
Juvenile Court ended last week in
Spalding County with no place to send five
of seven children sentenced in it.
It was the same old story, sad but true.
Spalding has no detention center and out
of-town ones could take only two of the
Deer hunting
Deer hunting season is underway, and it
has become a major participant sport in
this part of Georgia.
Hundreds will be bagged after thousands
of hours of camping, waiting, and finally a
split-second shot.
It is a great sport which affords time in
woods and fields, close communion with
nature, a relaxing of tensions and nerves.
One who has sat upon a camp stool or in a
blind among the limbs of a tree and waited
quietly can tell you there is nothing like it,
that time slows and as you wait patiently
the tumbling of a leaf to the earth makes
quite a sound, the scurrying of a rabbit for
cover becomes a major event, and it all is
worthwhile whether you see a deer or not.
Shooting one is not for some people. But
Overlapping criticisms
Eight men are running for two positions
on Griffin’s City Commission, a goodly
number.
The paper has published statements
from all of them, and we have been
impressed by the fact that every candidate
has one or more ideas that the others do
not, and every one of the eight has done
some serious thinking about the city he
seeks to serve.
‘Lack of morality’
There’s been a lot of talk recently about
the morality, or lack of it, among high
government officials. But a news item out
of Boulder, Colo., last week is clear
evidence that the pernicious doctrine that
the end justifies the means is not adhered
to solely by some politicians.
There, a juvenile court judge fined a
Denver businessman $2,000 and told him to
apologize to the nation’s youth for helping
his nephew cheat —by installing an
electro-magnet device in his racer — to
win the 1973 National Soapbox Derby at
Akron, Ohio.
Her old boy friend
is on her mind
I have been married 17 years, and have
just become a Christian lately. I seem to
be thinking a lot now about an old
boyfriend I loved dearly. Is it possible for
me to live a Christian life, and yet have my
mind on someone else most of the time? No
name, please.
Possible, yes. Permissible, no!
When a person becomes a Christian, St.
Paul says it makes everything new (2
Corinthians 5:17). The “newest” thing that
takes place is a deposing of self as the
center of interest and purpose. The
Christian starts to live for God, and is
enabled to control selfish and wrong
desires. At this point, the boyfriend is in
that latter category.
The processes of a good marriage are
will not be the case and that the people of
Griffin will go to the polls in large num
bers.
Representative government requires the
participation of representative numbers of
voters. Lacking that, an election fails to
express the collective will of the people.
In final analysis, an election reflects the
collective desire of only those who actually
vote. So please don’t forget.
seven. This was nothing new. It happens
over and over.
And it emphasizes the foolish policy of
the state which prevents the building of a
facility within 50 miles of another, a policy
which should be changed immediately.
it is major sport for others, and as long as
they obey the trespass laws, regard the
property rights of others, and take proper
safety precautions, who is to criticize
them?
The biggest enemies of deer are not
hunters but nature itself which keeps a
remarkable balance between the animals
and vegetation. When deer are too
plentiful they overbrowse and if the
surplus is not killed by hunters, they
starve before the end of winter. Likewise,
parasites claim their victims, particularly
when an area is overpopulated. So the
hunting season is a regulation which
allows the pleasures of sport without
depopulation of the quarry.
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Also, there are some overlaps of
criticisms by the candidates, and it shows
what people in town are complaining
about.
So wouldn’t it be a good idea for the five
members of the new commission to sit
down together and talk things over after
the election with those who were not
chosen, take the constructive ideas of all
eight, pool the overlapping criticisms of all
eight, and do something about them?
The defendant, James Lange Sr., was
ordered to pay the $2,000 to the Boulder
Boys Club and ordered to stay out of derby
operations until 1975.
But that’s not all, unfortunately. After
the ruling, the Boulder district attorney
said his investigation of derby finishers
had uncovered evidence that at least 34
drivers had altered their racers to
increase speeds, including six of the top 10.
Said the judge: “I’m shocked by the lack
of morality.” So should we all be.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.
MY ■■
ANSWER
never static. You work through new
problems and find solutions for old
troubles. Some would suggest that a 17-
year-old marriage is a ripe situation for
the wandering eye and the gypsy affection.
But it need not be, and will not be if loyalty
to God is uppermost
You are not to be faulted for this
distraction of an old boyfriend, but you are
wrong if you let it persist, or what is worse
— cultivate it.
Marriage vows are not to be tampered
with! You need to discover a new set of
priorities in daily living, which puts God
and your husband in that order, at the top.
Os course, there’s a certain freedom in
marriage, but it’s never a freedom to
pursue ways that could potentially destroy
the marriage.
BERRY'S WORLD
C 1973 by NEA. Inc
“How do I know you weren't sent here to distract our
attention from the talk ot impeachment proceedings?’’
Don Oakley
The prisoner of
■lx JI Pennsylvania Avenue
The Nixon administration over the past six months has
found itself in one Watergate-spawned crisis after another.
It has turned about, backed off, made a concession here,
a concession there, each time thinking it had done all that
was necessary to resolve the problem but actually leaving
itself weaker and in a worse position to meet the next crisis.
It is as if a general, pressed by a relentless foe, were to let
himself be nibbled to death in a series of useless tactical
maneuvers dictated by the situation of the moment rather
than by any grand, over-all strategy.
Such a process can continue only so long, and like a
retreating army the administration may very well be
reaching the point where it will have no more room in
which to maneuver and no more power with which to com
mand events.
President Nixon had an excellent opportunity, in the set
ting of his most recent press conference, to regain some of
the ground he had lost.
His decision to release the Watergate tapes, while it had
been forced upon him, had taken much of the steam out of
the impeachment movement in Congress. In the back
ground was the near-confrontation with the Soviet Union in
the Middle East -a graphic lesson in the vital necessity of
having a strong commander in chief guarding the interna
tional interests of the nation, and one which the President
understandably took pains to point out.
If there was ever a time during the entire course of the
Watergate affair that the President should have seized the
initiative, it was at that moment. It was incumbent upon
him to go the whole mile, and more, to convince the
American people that he truly shared their desire to get to
the bottom of Watergate. At the very least, what was re
quired was a no-strings pledge of total co-operation with
Congress and the courts in the continuing investigation.
Instead, the President defended his actions as he
repeatedly has in the past, as if unaware of their tremen
dous cost to him. He impugned the motives of his supposed
enemies. He attacked the straw man of a “vicious,' “hy
sterical,” lynch-minded press. He emphasized his coolness,
his toughness, his ability to stick it out under fire.
Perhaps most fatefully of all, he set the stage for a
serious showdown with Congress by announcing that a new
“independent” special Watergate prosecutor would be ap
pointed within the Justice Department to whom he would
continue to deny full and free access to White House docu
ments in the name of presidential confidentiality.
It is obvious that the President has not even now gauged
the full depth of feeling among Americans over this Water
gate business. Either his advisers are tragically insensitive
to the mood of the people or the President himself is. He has
become the prisoner of Pennsylvania Avenue.
His scathing attack on the news media, particularly
television reporting, may have scored him some short
range advantage. The press is always a popular target, if
only because no one likes bad news.
But the sad fact is that there has been no need for anyone
to lie about or to distort the events of the past few weeks.
Straightforward, factual reporting has been damaging
enough.
Congress and the President are now on a collision course
for a new crisis over the issue of a Watergate prosecutor.
Who is to blame for that?
How many more battles wracking the highest level of its
government can the country tolerate? How many more
defeats can the President endure?
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Spirit Lifter
for the week
By RUTH STAFFORD
PEALE
Copley News Service
A troubled spirit and a feel
ing of depression are some
times caused by wrongdoing.
It causes the spirit to sag and
life to lose its luster.
To gain real inner peace,
one must experience inner
cleansing. This can be done by
recourse to the Great Physi
cian. Our souls are restless
until they find peace in God.
“There is no peace, saith
my God, to the wicked.”
Isaiah 57:21
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.
GRIFFIN ,
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FACTS
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New Amsterdam’s (New
York) citizens aided the
poor by a lottery, awarding
Bibles to the winners in
1655. In colonial America
public lotteries often
replaced taxation as a
means to raise money for
schools, roads, canals and
other public causes, The
World Almanac notes. Most
colonial lawmakers, how
ever, regarded private lot
teries as pernicious.
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