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Perfumes
For Men?
Young lady, do you pick your perfume to match your hair?
Blondes should wear flowery scents Brunettes, oriental scents.
Redheads, spicy scents That's the contention of a cosmetics
expert Our Love and War man concurs, providing the foregoing
perfumes are for women only You may recall he once recom
mended the creation of some natural native scents to be worn
by men To be named “Low Tide " And “Barn Lime And
"Pulp Wind."
Most bartenders are women Dandruff isn t contagious. . .
Seals sleep underwater, too No two snowflakes are alike
Some mice eat soap
EXPLOSIONS
During the 10 years immediately following lan 9, 1816,
there were approximately twice as many explosions in the
world's mines as there had been in the 10 years immediately
earlier Maybe you'd like to know why I'm not sure. Do know,
though, that was the date when Sir Humphrey Davy's safety
lamp for miners was first shown to be successful
Q ’ How long after human sperm is frozen can it sue cess
fully result in a healthy baby 7 ''
A Nobody knows yet But healthy babies have been born
therefrom as long as 11 years after the donation, I'm told.
What, you have no interest in establishing your medical
practice in mainland China, doctor? Why not? Those mainland
Chinese physicians make an average income of S7O a rronth.
How can you beat that 7
SMOKERS
Another thing the statisticians have figured out is that
cigarette smokers change |obs far more frequently than do the
nonsmokers, but explanation is not yet at hand for that
EARTHQUAKE
Why it wasn't more widely publicized I can t explan , but
the seismologists just this year finally figured out how to
predict some earthquakes On Thursday, Aug 2, they foretold
a quake in New York's Adirondack Mountains And at 7; 10 p m
Friday, Aug 3, a tricky little temblor of 2.5 magnitude rocked
the reqion, precisely
And to his lengthening list of redundancies, our Language
man also has added “prerecorded earlier" and “new innova
tion'' and “remanded back
That nation for years which exported the most hippo
potamuses was Hungary
Lord Byron put paper curlers in his hair
Addren mail to L. M Boyd P O. Box 17076 Fort Worth. TX 76102
Copyright 1973 L M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Junior decided the great American novel didn’t offer enough
challenge. He’s trying to write the great American bumper
sticker!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Dec. 17,
the 351st day of 1973 with 14 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Saturn.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Sagittarius.
American poet John Green
leaf Whittier was born Dec. 17,
1807.
On this day in history:
In 1903, Orville and Wilbur
Wright made the first success
ful airplane flights in history,
soaring over the sand dunes
near Kitty Hawk, North Caroli
na. One flight lasted 12 seconds
and a second one was for 59
seconds.
In 1925, General William
“Billy” Mitchell, outspoken
advocate of a separate U.S. air
force, was found guilty of
conduct prejudicial to the good
of the armed services. Twenty
years later, the Senate con
ferred on him posthumously the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
In 1939, the Nazi warship
Graf Spee was scuttled off the
coast of Uruguay as British
vessels hotly pursued it.
In 1972, astronaut Ronald
Evans left the Apollo 17
spacecraft for a walk in space
185,000 miles from earth.
BARBS
by PHIL PASTORET
Playing it cool isn’t hard
when your oil for the furnace
runs out.
Our sidekick in the office
is an accomplished musi
cian: he fiddles all day.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN >
THOUGHTS
“The Lord will fight for
you. and you have only to be
still.” The Lord said to
Moses. "Why do you cry to
me? Tell the people of Israel
to go forward." —Exodus
14:14,15.
You can’t sit on the lid of
progress. If you do. you will
be blown to pieces. —Henry
Kaiser, American In -
dustrialist.
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Why minorities rule
When we were moaning editorially
awhile back about the meager
participation of City of Griffin voters in the
commission election, we did not know
about the turnout of voters in a recent
election in the neighboring town of
Jackson.
Editor Doyle Jones of the Jackson
Progress-Argus wrote about it thus in last
week’s edition:
“Spalding County voters approved the
sale of package liquor in the referendum of
The new Speaker
Everybody seems to realize that the
Georgia House will miss Speaker Smith,
and so will Georgia.
Whoever the new speaker is, he will have
a hard act to follow and a mighty large
pair of shoes to fill. Still, Speaker Smith
built an effective leadership team through
The city fathers are on that well known
spot again. This time it has to do with self
service as distinguished from true service
gasoline stations.
One business which already has self
service pumps has mounted a petition
campaign for the city to allow them, but
regular service station operators already
had begun one to forbid them.
Two readings are required for an
ordinance to become law and at the last
City Commission meeting three members
voted to allow self-service pumps and two
voted against them. One of the three “aye”
votes was cast by Scott Searcy who
completed his term of office with the
meeting, so the vote stands two-and-two.
Tiggy Jones has taken office succeeding
Week before Christmas
This is the last week before Christmas,
time for late shoppers to get it done. And
we would like to suggest again that they
No election tomorrow
Griffin and Spalding voters have been
called to the polls so often these past weeks
that it is in order to remind them that there
is no election tomorrow even though it is a
Tuesday and there was none last Tuesday
either.
The liquor "pouring" election will be
held on Thursday of this week although
most such elections are held on Tuesday,
Is this a sure ticket ANSWER EM
for trouble in America?
Everybody’s got an idea how to rebuild
America. Sociologists predict our future
will have more leisure and less work. To
me, that’s a sure ticket for trouble! P.R.
The tragedy of our society is that so
much of what we do is empty and without
purpose. This makes the distinction bet
ween work and leisure rather fuzzy. One
person could dissipate working hours by
carelessness and poor motivation, while
another would employ the time produc
tively.
On the spot
December 4th by a vote of 5,541 for to 4,296
against. What is more important almost
10,000 of a total registration of 15,000 plus
voted, an indication of the intense interest
concerning this important question. In
short, about two of every three voters
exercised their priceless gift of franchise
Tuesday. That’s a far cry from the
shamefully low of 43 persons who cast
ballots in the Jackson City Election from
an eligible list of almost 1,700. No wonder
the minorities rule while the silent
majority sit on their calloused haunches.”
committee chairmen which can continue
much of his good work and retain the
independence of the House if the new
speaker will allow it to do so.
The man who holds the gavel wields
tremendous power, for better or for worse.
He can build or he can wreck.
Mr. Searcy, and he will be called upon to
vote on the matter at its second reading.
Thus Commissioner Jones’ first vote
(unless one of the other four
commissioners switches) will be the
deciding one — and it will be on a red hot
issue.
Regardless of other considerations, this
points up the fact that every member of
the commission has the same power and
authority as every other member. Seldom
does one of them decide a major city issue
at his very first meeting, but that is the
position in which Commissioner Jones
finds himself. We will not presume to
attempt to advise him on the matter, but
we do wish him well.
shop Griffin first. Save time, money,
gasoline, and jangled nerves.
The date was set for Thursday because
that was the time the required number of
days between the “wet-dry” vote and the
“pouring” vote came out.
So go to the polls Thursday instead of
Tuesday this week, and so far as we know
that will be the last time the voters will be
asked to cast their ballots this year.
The important thing relates neither to
work nor leisure. It is rather whether a
person sees himself as a manager of all
God has given him. Paul said to the
Corinthian Christians, “Whether you eat
or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the
glory of God.”
The old poet Milton said, “Hours have
wings and fly up to the author of time, and
carry news of our usage.” If America is
headed for a downfall, it’s not because we
praise or fault the work ethic, but because
we misplace our faith.
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Ray Cromley
Mideast moves show
■k Ito USSR cautious as ever
No matter how strongly they threaten, the men in the
Kremlin have always — as of this writing — backed down
when faced with a determined, resolute and reasonably
strong adversary.
This seems to have been demonstrated again in the
Soviet decision to back the U.S. proposal to the United Na
tions that any peacekeeping forces sent to the Middle East
exclude troops from Russia, the United States and other
great powers. Only a few hours before, Moscow had
threatened to send its own armies to impose unilaterally its
concept of a truce.
Back some years ago, the Russians withdrew their forces
from northern Iran when President Truman insisted. So far
as is known, the President had no practical way of enforc
ing his demands, but there was no doubt of his determina
tion.
When Tito of Yugoslavia broke with the USSR, letting it
be known his people would fight to the death in the hills if
Soviet armies invaded, Moscow let him alone.
In the Cuban missile crisis, much of the world held its
breath when President Kennedy ordered a blockade of the
island to halt the Soviet shipment of missiles threatening
this nation. But no Soviet ship defied, or even threatened to,
that resolute U.S. action.
Though the North Koreans received a great deal of help
from Moscow when their forces invaded the South, no
Soviet armies moved in to help the North Koreans even
after the United States and the United Nations entered the
war and drove the invaders north. The Soviet Union made
gestures; but it was the Chinese who entered the war.
Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany were not
exceptions to this Soviet caution. The forces opposed to the
Russian armies were brave, but so small and scattered as
to be no threat. And neither the United States nor West
Europe took, or even threatened, anything resembling
resolute action.
There is some worry here, however, that the Soviet Union
will no longer back away from confrontations when and if
its strategic forces become noticeably more powerful than
those of the United States. It is known that Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger has been deeply concerned with that
problem the past several years and that he has said that it
was a different world altogether back at the time of the
Cuban missile crisis, when our strategic muscle was 10
times that of the Russians.
It is clear, of course, now that no desire for detente is
going to keep the Russians from adventuring where they
see a chance for major strategic gains. Those who have
been anticipating a new, peace-loving Soviet Union are
proven wrong. But what seems to be true is that the
Kremlin today is as pragmatically cautious in the face of
danger as it was a decade ago.
A question of quality
Americans aren’t the only ones pursuing happiness.
The Wickert Institute in Tuebingen, West Germany,
asked nearly 2,000 people what they understood by that
catch phrase so beloved of sociologists and politicians —
the “quality of life.”
To 20 per cent, it meant an improved standard of living;
17 per cent said it implied a happy, secure life; 6 per cent
associated the idea with financial stability; 5 per cent
thought it had to do with good eating, and 1 per cent gave
various other answers, including a better love life.
That left a majority — 53 per cent — who said they had
no idea what the “quality of life” meant. Either that, or that
they were too busy living it to answer another pollster's
darn-fool questions.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN >
Spirit Lifter
for the week
By RUTH
STAFFORD PEALE
Copley News Service
A person needs his batteries
recharged every day. Have
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this?
Let powerful words of faith
pass through your mind,
penetrating your conscious
ness, and an amazing
revitalization will take place.
“He giveth power to the
faint; and to them that have
no might he increaseth
strength.” Isaiah 40:29
If you have a specific spiri
tual need, write me in confi
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FACTS
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Christening of ships was
practiced in ancient times as
a means to “protect” a ship
and to sooth anxious sailors.
The custom is related to the
pagan practice of pouring
wine and oil on a ship’s altar
which was dedicated to a
goddess whose image was
also carved on the bow of the
boat, The World Almanac
says.
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