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Commonest
Complaint
Commonest complaint among homeowners about their
abodes is ' 'too few electrical outlets' . . . Could it be true, as
recently reported, that Dean Martin won't ride in an elevator?
. . Oldest known riddle is in the Book of Judges, chapter 14,
verses 14 through 18 You can put about 50 teaspoons of
water in the average drinking glass, if you so desire . Typically,
a left-handed batter gets to first base just about two-tenths of a
second faster than a right-hander.
Q. “I know there's catnip, but is there such a thing as dog
nip?"
A. There is. A weed called Stinking Goose Foot Smells ter
rible. But dogs tend to go into a high rapture when they hit a
patch of it.
Have you ever met anybody who ever met anybody who
ever met anybody who actually saw an eagle carry off a lamb 9
Neither have I.
QUOTE
Quoth Albert Einstein: "Os what is significant in one's own
existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not
bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water
in which it swims all of its life?''
You know that slip stick that a shoe salesman measures your
foot with? An English monk invented the thing more than 300
years ago
The daughters of doctors rarely make good secretaries
Never trust a man who saves the package bows Ministers'
wives don't have as much fun as ministers ... A disproportion
ately high number of insurance salesmen sing well . Element
ary school teachers take more two-day trips than other women.
SADDEST WORDS
” 'lnsufficient funds' are not the two saddest words in the
English language, sir," writes an inmate in the Idaho State
Penitentiary. "Sadder are 'parole denied' and "goodtime for
feited.' ” Indeed, indeed.
In Siberia's Verkhoyansk, nobody exercises outdoors on
purpose, not m the winter. Perspiration can be dangerous. Can
freeze so fast it frostbites.
Just amazing! Jews comprise less than a half of 1 per cent of
the world's population. Still, about 12 per cent of all Nobel Prize
winners in physics, chemistry and medicine have been Jews. Am
asked if this signifies superior brains Don't know. More prob
ably, superior mothers.
Great, half the hotwater in America is used for bathing!
It's not enough to record that a duck ordinarily has more
feathers than a chicken Be specific. Say a grown duck has ap
proximately 12,000 feathers while a grown chicken, as previously
reported, has only about 8,000.
Address mail Io I. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Jan. 26,
the 26th day of 1974 with 339 to
follow.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
Technically there is no
morning star.
The evening stars and Mer
cury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
American Gen. Douglas
MacArthur was bom Jan. 26,
1880.
On this day in history:
In 1837, Michigan became the
26th state.
In 1861, Ixniisiana seceded
from the Union.
In 1950, India ceased to be a
British dominion and became
the Republic of India.
In 1971, Russia said it had
landed an unmanned spacecraft
on Venus and that it was
sending data back to earth.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
—RWmJ Z 2
New York City had the
largest police force in the
United States with 30,828
police officers as of Oct. 31,
1972, The World Almanac
says. Other cities with large
police forces were: Chicago,
13,125 officers; Philadelphia,
8,183 officers; Los Angeles,
7,083 officers; Detroit, 5,555
officers; Washington, D.C.,
4,851 officers; Baltimore,
3,524 officers and Boston,
2,687 officers. These figures
do not include civilian em
ployes.
Copyright © 1973
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
THOUGHTS
Let all bitterness and
wrath and anger and clamor
and slander be put away
from you, with all malice,
and be kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, as God in Christ
forgave vou. — Ephesians
4:31,32.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Educators' Code Os Ethics
The Moultrie Observer
Plans of Georgia educators to do some
lobbying for their educational priorities
during the current session of the General
Assembly have given rise to erroneous
interpretation of the Code of Ethics
adopted by the State Board of Education
and members of the Georgia Association
of Educators.
Reports were circulated that the code
of ethics enjoins faculties in public school
systems from supporting political
candidates or participating in political
campaigns.
The GAE is quick to point out that such
information is erroneous—that educators
have both the right under the Con
stitution and the privilege under the
ethics code to be politically active, so
long as they do not use school time in
promoting candidates or partisan
political causes.
A code of ethics is designed to be a set
of guidelines for fair and honest conduct,
Price For Murder Is Very Low
The Daily Sun, Warner Robins
If you wonder why people commit murder so much more
freely today than in the past, just look at the record in Atlanta.
Os 118 persons convicted of murder in Atlanta in 1972, only
one-third of them still are in prison!
One-third of the total convicted are walking the streets free
today.
The city of Atlanta had 260 homicides in 1972. A total of 239
arrests were made.
Disposition of these persons included:
Sixty-eight of the 239 murder cases never reached the grand
jury at all.
Os the 157 indicted defendants, 91 eventually pleaded guilty
and another 27 were found guilty by jury or judge.
Seventy-six were still in custody at the time the Atlanta
Regional Council made its report on this situation last Nov. 30.
The ARC said that the police are doing their job and put the
blame for the laxness in dealing with murderers on the courts
and judges in Atlanta.
The district attorney in Atlanta revealed that the average
sentence for murder in Atlanta is 10 years. A criminal gets a
bigger sentence for burglary.
The third man has now been sentenced to
execution for participation in the mass
slayings of a farm family near
Donalsonville, Ga.
There are very few people who believe
they will ever be executed. Some time ago
the US Supreme Court ruled that execution
is ‘‘cruel and unusual punishment” for any
crime and therefore it is assumed to be
illegal to execute a person as punishment
for a crime.
It is also assumed in some states, and
Georgia is one of them, that execution can
still be imposed for certain types of violent
crime. However, it has been a long time
since an execution was carried out in
Georgia or any other state.
This newspaper supports the position of
many qualified law enforcement people
that capital punishment should be main
tained and swiftly carried out as the
penalty for some crimes. The senseless and
brutal murders in south Georgia was a
classic example where these executions
should be done without delay.
Putting these men in jail and going
through the ridiculous experiment of trying
to rehabilitate them and turn them loose on
society again would be gross injustice to
How do you get off
dead center?
I have a friend who has been receiving
psychiatric counseling for a long time.
Why is it, however, that nothing seems to
change? I have accused her of merely
“handling” her difficulty, rather than
resolving it. How do you get off dead
center in problem solving? O.S.
Many people turn to psychiatry and
other helping professions merely to get
“first aid” treatment. It seems as if after
some superficial exploring of a problem,
they resign themselves to their malady or
difficulty and never follow through with a
definitive remedy.
Maybe it’s because they realize the
Capital Punishment
GEORGIAN, Carrollton, Ga.
whether it is in the educational field or
some other. It is not a set of rules
designed to abridge anyone’s rights.
Certainly those teachers wno are
honest and conscientious —who believe in
the rule of fair play—would not violate
their own code of ethics aimed at
prohibiting abuse of their schoolroom
opportunities. We believe that the
majority of the teachers would support
the firing of anyone who flagrantly
violates this code.
Such things as the Watergate case, tax
evasion and undue use of political in
fluence must be cured, and the
schoolroom is one place where we must
begin instilling the sense of honesty and
fair play—and demanding its application
in business and government. Educators
will have more weight operating under a
code of ethics than in preaching, “Do as I
say, not as I do.”
the good people they murdered, their
families and friends. It would also be a
gross injustice to the public.
A major portion of the crime being
committed in this nation is by people who
have been in prison and released. Certainly
people who have been convicted of such a
brutal murder are a poor risk for
rehabilitation.
If these men are put in prison in Georgia,
the maximum time they would serve would
be seven years. With the record of the
Pardons and Parole Board as a guide, they
probably would serve mucn less time than
that.
We firmly believe that one reason
Atlanta has become the homicide capital of
the nation and that the crime rate is
growing so rapidly all over the nation is
because of the lenient treatment prisoners
are receiving.
It is high time the people of this state and
nation get tough on crime, give law en
forcement maximum help and support or
we may be fast approaching the time for
return to the jungle and the public will have
to take punishment for crime out of the
hands of the courts and the parole
authorities.
MY ■■
ANSWER I
solution will require more time or more
energy than they wish to give. Some get
initial relief from discussions with a
counselor, and decide to “let well enough
alone.” Your friend may actually be
receiving more help than either of you
realize. Or it could well be that the healing
process has been stalled by a lack of
genuine cooperation.
In any case, continue your friendship in
an atmosphere of patience, understanding
and love. Point this person to the tran
sforming power of faith in Christ. Help her
to acquire ever larger quantities of the
gifts of the Holy Spirit, which Paul
enumerates in Galatians 5:22, 23. They are
the real components of problem solving.
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Uncle Sam hands
over the checkbook
By Bruce Biossat WASHINGTON (NEA)
Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and
Budget, suggests the new U.S. budget will show the federal
government is becoming more and more a “transfer agen
cy,” collecting money and then handing it out — in away
that fosters the President’s “new federalism.”
Translated for recipients of federal benefits, this means
that a higher proportion of the expenditures which don’t in
volve the direct running of the government (like defense)
will go to people or to lesser governing units without strings
attached.
The forecast, therefore, is for proportionately more
Tevenue-sharing, with a big share “passed through” to the
cities and all these local governmental levels of course given
freedom of decision as to how this money shall be spent.
Also in prospect are more income benefits for American
citizens in the form of cash payments (welfare, higher Social
Security), with a smaller percentage of funds bearing labels
which restrict individual spending decisions (food stamps,
housing, etc.).
Outside budget experts like those at Brookings Institution,
arguing through the various methods of benefit payment,
can make a strong case for the non-labeled benefit, in the
name of free spending choices.
Ash takes full cognizance of the most persistent criticism
of this larger freedom as it applies to spending by states,
counties and localities.
“Some of them are going to make errors, and spend the
money badly. But they’ve got to be left free to make mis
takes. That’s the only way they can learn. Some need train
ing, and they can get that help more and more,” Ash says.
He notes that Stanford University has a school specializing
in business management as applied to the governing of cit
ies. He and others are encouraging Harvard to develop simi
lar studies affecting other governmental units.
Ideally, Ash said in an interview, the federal government
should take no direct hand in such training efforts. That is
seen as in contravention of the spirit and purpose of the new
federalism. At best, he adds, Washington should go no
farther than to put lesser units in touch with helpful sources
which can increase state-local spending expertise.
The objective, again, both in personal social benefits and
in governmental outlays, is to broaden the spending options
at the citizen-local-state level.
Ash, at least, seems to view the inescapable waste in this
process (as expressed in bad spending choices) as an accept
able, necessary trade-off for the freedom gained.
And it is pretty clear that not only he, speaking for the
President, but a lot of U.S. lawmakers would like to see the
“new federalism" or something like it succeed.
They not only consider federally directed programs as in
creasingly ineffective at “targeting” their objectives, but
they are weary of the “shopping experts” who have come to
Washington year after year — making a living off telling
lesser units of government how to find the maximum
amounts of money that can be pried loose from the United
States Treasury.
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WASHINGTON - (NEA) -
No one can say if it’s a good
sign or bad, but in these
troubled times there seems to
be an increasing use of the,
usually vacant Congressional
Prayer Room.
Chief Congressional
doorkeeper, William
“Fishbait” Miller, says “the
leaders are being drawn
closer to their God every
day.” He says the Prayer
Room has been busy since
last spring; he does not
remember any similar sus
tained interest in the 18year
history of the nondenomina
tional chamber.
The Prayer Room, set aside
in 1955 by an act of Congress,
is on the second floor of the
Capitol off the rotunda. It is
decorated in blue, has a
white oak altar, a candelabra
and an open Bible. Miller
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says that the permanent seat
ing for 10 persons can be ex
panded to as many as 50.
'‘Lately, we’ve had to get
here early in the morning to
put up enough seats to go
around.”
Miller, who makes no
secret of his own fundamen
tal religious beliefs, says the
Prayer Room normally is
crowded in times of national
stress. “After the shootings of
Mr. Kennedy, his brother, Mr.
King and Mr. Wallace, we
had a lot of people come to
pray. But now it’s been going
on for such a long time I find
it unusual. I think it’s good
news, myself.”
Other congressional obser
vers agree with Miller, one
commenting: “The only time
I usually see some of these
people praying is when
they re running for reelec
tion.”
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