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Strawberry
Shortcakes
Shape of a strawberry shortcake has to do with how well it
will sell in a cafeteria, evidently Owners of such establishments
experimented. Using identical ingredients, they put out batches
of strawberry shortcakes, half round and half rectangular. The
rectangular sold far better. They did it again Again, the
rectangular Again Still proved out. But they never found out
why
It has been 42 years since Cab Calloway wrote that ditty
called "Minnie the Moocher.” Still offers it at just about every
performance Figures he has sung it approximately 12,000 times.
Now and again, he forgets some of the words, so {akes a little of
this and a little of that.
MEAN MINK
Am advised researchers at Michigan State are trying to cross
the mean mink with the gentler ferret. To get the mink's rich coat
without the bestial disposition. Seriously, they say they expect
to call the new animal a merret, if the experiment succeeds, and
a fink, if it doesn't.
The Yangtze River Valley of China and the Gulf Coast of the
United States aren't precisely opposite one another on the earth,
but pntnear. As previously reported, alligators have survived in
these two places, but nowhere else worldwide This is what so
puzzles the lizard experts. The two spots could hardly be
farther apart
Doesn't matter how many times you add nine to itself, the
sum of the digits always will be nine. Nine plus nine is 18, and
one and eight are nine Nine plus nine five times is 45, and four
and five are nine Nine taken eight times is 72, and seven and
two are nine. Got it? Or did you know that? Add nine exactly
27 times Sum of those digits — 243 — is nine. And three and
six add up to nine, too, I think.
BOYS
A surplus of more than 300,000 boys a year, that's what we’d
have if couples could choose the sex of their offspring Why so
many more expectant parents would prefer to have boys than
girls remains a matter for debate But when queried by the
surveytakers, both men and women tend to say they hope it
will be a boy.
Women wear most of the diamonds And tend to know more
about those stones than do men in general Also women are
credited with superior dexterity. And yet there is no record that
there has ever been a lady diamond cleaver. Why not?
How much sugar you have in your blood at any given
moment has much to do with how sensitive your nose is to
aromas Higher the sugar concentration, the less delicate your
nasal perception. That's why youngsters over-stuffed with candy,
women well fed with French pastries, men loaded up with liquor,
why they do not pick up the household fragrances roundabout as
well as do others. Or so say the science boys
Address 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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"Avoid the world, the flesh and the devil and report back
in two weeks. I may want to try it myself!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press international
Today is Saturday, Jan. 12,
the 12th day of 1974 with 353 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
Technically there is no
morning star.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and
Mercury.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Capricorn.
American patriot and
statesman John Hancock was
born Jan. 12, 1737.
On this day in history:
In 1932, Mrs. Hattie Car
raway, an Arkansas Democrat,
became the first woman in any
state to be elected to the U.S.
Senate.
In 1943, the wartime Office of
Price Administration said
standard frankfurters would be
replaced by “Victory Sausa
ges” consisting of some meat
and some soybean meal.
In 1970, Dr. Martin Sweig,
suspended administrative as
sistant to House Speaker John
McCormack, was indicted on
charges of defrauding federal
agencies.
BARBS
by PHIL PASTORET
Family china is handed
down from generation to gen
eration — and our latest gen
eration just dropped the
large, irreplaceable platter.
No, Gwendolyn, Congress
has never passed a “syntax.”
There's nothing like a
good, strong, cup of black
coffee to send you back to the
sugar-and-cream routine.
Miniskirts we love —
minibuses we can stand —
minitaxes are but a dream.
Keep the home fires burn
ing with junk mail.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
THOUGHTS
"Only be strong and very
courageous, being careful to
do according to all the law
which Moses my servant
commanded you: turn not
from it to the right hand or
to the left, that you may have
good success wherever you
go.” — Joshua 1:7
1 believe the true road to
preeminent success in any
line is to make yourself
master of that line. —
Andrew Carnegie, American
industrialist.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Average American
The AAoultrie Observer
If there is such a thing as a saviour in
economics, it is Mr. and Mrs. Average
American.
Those people in this nation who
represent the middle class of society—
the wage earners and salaried men and
women—have been paying the way for
America’s governipent and services for
a long time. So prepare to pay homage to
them—they are going to take home less
pay and pay higher bills for family living
in 1974 than ever before.
The new year is only a few days old, yet
it takes no clairvoyant to see what is
going to happen.
Under the new Social Security law,
wage earners will pay a substantially
increased social security tax, to be
matched by employers. Some analysts
are trying to leave the impression that
the increase is designed to give the “aged
and retired” more money—they are
scheduled to get an 11 per cent increase
in benefits this year. The blunt fact is,
however, that inflation has wiped out
Growth Must Serve People
The Daily Sun, Warner Robins
Gov. Jimmy Carter has made an observation with which we
agree.
He said that many cities are showing more concern with
growing bigger than they are the quality of life of the people
who live in them.
Growth for the sake of growth, in our opinion, is not
necessarily good.
What if we do get enough industries and smokestacks in our
state and in our area to be like the industrialized northeast?
We’ll have the payrolls, certainly, but we also will have the
pollution and congestion and shortages of energy and many
other problems we don’t have today.
Some cities and at least one state already have taken cold,
hard looks at growth and are doing something about it.
They are not seeking growth for the sake of growth. They are
considering quality of life for the people already there . and
demanding that any growth serve to improve the area.
This makes sense.
Too many homeless dogs
running loose in county
Too many homeless dogs are running
loose in Clayton County.
Action is needed by the Clayton County
Commissioners and other governmental
bodies in the municipalities in the counts
Io enforce the dog control ordinances.
The dogs are not to blame. It is those
people who permit their dogs to run loose.
When one of the males on the loose meets
one of the females at 'he proper time,
more dogs are going to be created and they
too join the other strays.
Those people who feel that they must let
their dogs run loose for a while during the
day should have them spaded so that they
will not create more problems.
‘My reputation
is going sour’
“To sweeten the pot” is an expression
I’m sure you understand. Well, recently,
Ive been involved in a few shady deals —
but all for the sake of giving my family a
better life. I’m afraid, however, my
financial pot is being sweetened, while my
reputation is going sour. Why can’t I wink
at this the way I used to? S.W.
The work of the Holy Spirit in the life of
the believer, according to John 16:13, is to
guide Christ’s followers into truth. Often,
such revelations shock us, showing us the
error of our ways, and the need for
repentance and faith. Evidently, you are
being bothered by an aroused conscience,
which if sparked initially by divine
guidance, is always a good guide to right
conduct.
You are one of many victims today, who
previous gains the social security
recipients may have enjoyed and they
must have more or starve.
The real “bear in the woods”, politics
notwithstanding, is the inflationary
spiral which has gripped this country in
its claws. It is estimated that, at best, we
may expect an eight per cent rise in
general costs this year—and if energy
costs continue to rise at their present
pace it could be considerably higher.
Add the social security “take-out” to
the eight per cent or higher percentage of
rise in the inflationary costs of living and
Mr. Average American—and taxpayer—
is in for a rough time.
So bow down. Pay homage. Give
tribute to the hardiness and the
milkability of the sacrificial goat.
White and blue collar workers (whose
salaries and wages are visibly exposed
on the books for tapping) are destined to
be the saviours of the economy.
So brace yourselves, Mr. Middle Class
America. Here comes the payroll
“bite.”
News Daily, Jonesboro
Action should be taken against those
l>ersons who allow their dogs to run loose
all the time. They are a hindrance and
lather to their neighbors.
If the ordinances were revised to provide
stiff penalties for dog owners, the stray
population could be reduced. Those people
who love their animals will properly take
care of them and will not permit them to
run loose.
The dog catchers are doing as much as
they can to reduce the stray dog
population, but it is gaining on them. With
the help of dog owners, it can be reduced
and Clayton County residents can be
spared a lot of hindrance and bother —
JIMMY STEWART.
have fallen prey to the idea that the end
justifies the means. You have further been
deluded by thinking that money and
materialism can get your family the “good
life.” Once when Jesus met a man who had
made a similar god of his assets, He told
him to divest himself of all he had and
simply follow Christ. What He was
suggesting was not the poverty of being
financially broke, but the riches of living
for God, and putting spiritual things first.
The energy crisis has produced many
changes in our lifestyle which we might
not have desired. All of them are not bad,
however. If it gets us back to basics and
. back to ultimate issues in life, it will have
some redeeming value. If this “crisis” you
are going through shows you the value of a
family where each lives for the other and
all for the Lord, it will be very worthwhile.
MY
ANSWER
BERRY’S WORLD
© 1974 by NEA Inc
“How come the Americans can get to have an energy
czar and we don’t?"
a Don Oakley
Unlimited energy
a fatal toy?
An organization called the Committee for Electricity-
Unlimited is promoting a letter-writing campaign to mem
bers of Congress, the Atomic Energy Commission and other
government officials to urge that the nation institute a
crash program into the development of energy from hy
drogen fusion.
Many scientists, it says, foresee in this technology “the
millenium for civilization” - an inexhastible supply of
energy, with no pollution or dangerous wastes.
An editorial in a recent issue of National Wildlife maga
zine, in the form of an open letter to the President, makes
the same call, along with similar programs in solar and
geothermal power.
Just l/2OOth of an ounce of deuterium found in a gallon of
water, could, in a controlled fusion reaction, produce as
much energy as 300 gallons of high-octane gasoline
Nuclear fusion can be a reality by the year 2000, says the
editorial, or sooner if the nation puts as much effort into it
as it did with the Manhattan (atomic bomb) Project or the
moon landing.
But while many scientists may see a millenium on the one
hand, and on the other a period of severe economic and po
litical dislocation if these “ultimate” energy sources are
not harnessed in time, at least one scientist is fearful that
men may succeed too well and too soon.
All life, points out University of California entomologist
Bernd Heinrich, is constrained by the “carrying capacity”
of its environment. Primitive hunter man, existing at the
top of the food chain, was kept to a small population be
cause the energy available to him was extremely limited.
Man later learned to farm and to utilize energy near the
bottom of the chain where it was being captured from the
sun by plants. His numbers increased enormously.
Next he learned to tap the stored energy of photo
synthesis in the fossil fuels. Eventually this made possible
the industrial revolution and helped to create the modern
population explosion.
‘ Man presently has available, and is using, more energy
than he or any other species has ever had before,” says
Henrich. “Yet we think we have not enough and we are
clamoring for more, claiming that we are in an ‘energy
crisis.’ ”
An unlimited supply of energy has never been available
to us or to any other species in the history of the earth, he
says. Its gradual release over the decades could, in an in
sidious way, be as devastating as its sudden release in a hy
drogen bomb.
It is possible that we could support a sustained popula
tion explosion for several hundred years and continue to
multiply after there is “standing room only.” We might be
able to by-pass green plants by synthesizing carbohydrates
and proteins. We could built cities on the deserts, on the
mountains and in the seas, on all the lands that are pres
ently fields and forests.
But along the way, the majority of animal species re
maining now would certainly vanish (and in this light it is
ironic that the National Wildlife Federation is among those
pushing for “ultimate” energy). These species would no
more be missed than the buffalo is missed in New York
City.
The long-term solution to the “energy crisis,” says
Heinrich, is obviously population control rather than the
development of more technology to provide more energy.
Cheap, inexhaustible energy - with it men would truly
be as gods. But without godlike wisdom to accompany it, it
could be like putting a stick of dynamite and a book of
matches in the hands of a toddler.
k coming trend: proxy hair
You’ve heard of hair transplants, made famous by, among
other notables, a certain senator from Wisconsin. Now
there’s something called hair implants.
The two are similar, but whereas transplanting involves
seeding the barren male pate with one’s own hair taken from
another part of the head or body, implanting is done with ar
tificial hair.
First, a surgical foundation of plastic, a webbing or netting
similar to that in a tennis racket, is inserted in the scalp by a
dermatologist. Then synthetic hairs, matching the color and
thickness of the client’s own hair, are impregnated into the
webbing.
Ugh. But the entire process is relatively simple and pain
less since it is done under a local anesthetic.
Cost for an implant ranges from SI,OOO to $1,500. But it will
usually last a lifetime and is said to be the best and most per
manent type of artificial hair available. However, a “check
up” once or twice a year, costing about $35 a visit, is recom
mended.
Ugh again. Nevertheless, “implants are definitely the
coming trend in hair replacement,” says Seymour Sperling,
president of New York s Hair Replacement Center, which
holds the patent on the process.
“Ten years when a man was bald or had thinning
hair, he wouldn t even consider making a change. Today,
says Sperling, “something can be done about baldness that is
both socially acceptable as well as scientifically tested and
men are doing it all the time.”
Does he or doesn’t he? Only his hair implanter — and his
banker — may know for sure.
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