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-Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 17,1974
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First to Use a
Police Whistle
J irst policeman who used a whistle to direct traffic was
t Bernard Hoppe on the Boston force in 1908 File that
.st $15,000 was all the inventor of the brassiere made out
■ shat useful device A billboard in that carrot country
ind Holtville, Calif, advertises a pesticide thusly: "Fear no
vii" Only one out of every 50 cases of Rocky Mountain
ttfd fever crop up in the Rocky Mountains Before age 3,
get more colds than girls. After that, it's vice versa.
’he way up
A German doctor named Professor Fritz Roeder at Gottingen
ersity claims he has cured repeat cured mne out of 10 of
ilcoholics and drug addicts he has treated by use of brain
“iy With no serious side effects The craving, he says,
;• is in a small area of the brain By destroying cells in
I J area, he reports, the urge to partake is also destroyed
cresting, if true
CONTRACEPTIVES
Part of the registration fees at the University of California
Angeles pay for the cost of contraceptives which are
nlable free to students there
What, an oyster stew without oysters? Certainly The roots
•I Algerian oyster plant known as salsify make excellent
i stew
lust as gloves have separate places for fingers'kxlay, so did
;ocks in old Rome have separate places for toes
That word ' 'opera'' means ‘ ’work’' in Italian
ALLOWANCES
Q. “What sort of standard allowances do parents give their
ildren, say, from ages 6 through 12?”
A. Age 6, nothing to a quarter Age 7, a quarter Age 8,
uarter to a half dollar Age 9, a half dollar Age 10, a half
liar to a dollar Age 11, maybe 75 cents to a dollar Age 12,
P illar or more So reports the researchers
You may consider yourself an exceedingly Seasoned Citizen
u can remember the day when it was good manners for a man
li a sulfur match to light his own smoke first before offering
light to the ladyfriend.
Remember, young lady, the bigger the pineapple, the better,
hat's because the larger pineapple has far more good grub in it
i proportion to its shell than does the littler pineapple
Why is it the average man s body is only 60 per cent water
. hile the average woman's is 70 per cent water?
Address mail to L. M Boyd, P. O. Bon 17076. Fort Worth TX 76102
Copyright 1973 I M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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try not to inhale it!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, April
17, the 107th day of 1974 with
258 to follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Mars
and Saturn.
Those bom on this date are
under the sign of Aries.
American financier J. P.
Morgan was born April 17,1837.
On this day in history:
In 1521, Martin Luther was
excommunicated from the
Roman Catholic Church after
refusing to admit charges of
heresy.
In 1917, New York Sen.
William Calder introduced a
bill establishing Daylight Sav
ing Time. It was defeated.
In 1961, a force of anti-Castro
Cuban rebels began what was
to end as the ill-fated “Bay of
Pigs” incident.
In 1964, Mrs. Jerrie Mock of
Columbus, Ohio, became the
first woman to make solo flight
around the world.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
The office mooch has
sworn-off cigarettes — his
own, that is.
Gal we know gets a lot of
mileage out of going steady
— her boy friend is a gas sta
tion attendant.
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Why do they call ’em “Jum
bo" jets? You can't ride ’em
for peanuts.
Why are you always first in
the office the day the boss is
late?
THOUGHTS
And he said to them, “Why
are you afraid. O men of lit
tle faith?" Then he rose and
rebuked the winds and the
sea: and there was a great
calm. And the men mar
veled. saying. “What sort of
man is this, that even winds
and sea obey him?" — Mat
thew 8:26,27.
Belief is truth held in the
mind; faith is a fire in the
heart." — Joseph F. Newton,
American clergyman.
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Were
Listening
Dear Mr. Melton: Thank you for your
comments April 11th concerning my phone
call to you. You said it so much better and
in fewer words than I could.
As to your suggestion for a fee for non
county residents, I would welcome the
opportunity to directly support a service
(county trash dumps) so graciously
provided by Spalding County. I feel many
other residents in the county would be
willing to pay their fair share. Sincerely,
(Signed) Name withheld
P.S. Please do not use my name or ad
dress as I still use the dump — “illegally”.
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Dear Mr. Melton: I have a criticism for
your paper that I would like to bring to
your attention. Please believe me that this
is only being offered to help improve your
paper and not at all in a spirit of malice.
I have noticed many times in your paper
that the names of streets, drives, and
avenues are not capitalized correctly. For
instance, while reading articles I often
notice Grandview drive. I know this is a
tiny mistake, but for some reason it really
bothers me.
I was going to enclose some articles, but
you can look for yourself.
I do not hold myself out as an expert in
English (as you can probably tell by my
letter). However, as I said before, this
advice is offered only as an attempt to
improve the paper. Sincerely, (Signed)
Mrs. Rosemary Bundrick
NOTE: Thank you for your letter. Our
style sheet calls for the words “drive",
“street,” “avenue” and the like to appear
in lower case, but the proper name itself
with the initial letter capitalized, thus:
Grandview drive, East College street, etc.
The reason for this originated in the days
of the Linotype machine when it was
necessary to move from one part of the
keyboard to another to provide a capital
letter. With more modern printing
methods, it requires a couple of extra key
strokes. It is my understanding that the
grammar of this is a matter of choice, and
that it is correct. We do try to be uniform in
its application. You are nice to take the
time to write, and I appreciate this ex
pression of interest in the paper. We
certainly do not want to annoy you or other
readers and hope that this explanation will
clarify the matter.
Dear Mr. Melton: I am referring to the
letter in the Wednesday Daily News as of
Terry and Barbara Tolen, about giving to
the cancer drives and all other
organizations that make up money for this
and that. I have lived in Griffin for 40 years
and have given to everything that was in
the book until 1967. I tried to get help from
the cancer drive when my wife had cancer
but couldn’t get not one penny of help.
They told me that they couldn’t help me. I
have had a good amount of money taken
out of my pay when I was working in
textiles and also my wife too, until she got
down with cancer. All the help I received
was from funds we had. Where does all the
money go that is made up for these things I
would like to know. I love Griffin. It is a
great place to live. But I am like Mr.
Tolen, it makes people think twice when
they go to give to these things. I would like
for you to publish this letter if you want to.
(Signed) W. A. Williams, 217 Park street.
RESPONSE: We do not doubt the merits
of the cancer fund and other drives. But
there are too many of them. The Commun
ity Chest was supposed to take them all in,
but it has flopped in that.
Dear Quimby: The Griffin Tennis
Association would like to extend our thanks
and appreciation to the City and County
Commissioners, the Recreation Board and
Larry Neil, our Recreational Director, for
their foresight in taking on the task of
reworking the six existing tennis courts at
the City Park, the two courts at Fairmont
and especially for the building of four new
Right perspective
is important
Some time ago, an elderly couple wrote
to you deeply saddened by the death of
their pet dog. They asked about meeting
that creature again in heaven. You rather
questioned that possibility. Now while the
Bible says nothing about dogs in heaven,
where does it say there are not? F.W.
When you reason from the Bible’s
silence, as it is called, you can get into
some theological trouble. The safe position
is to hold only to what is expressly stated in
Scripture.
Now let me say first of all that God cares
for His animal creation. Two Bible
references in particular support that.
There’s the inclusion of a pair of every
kind of animal with Noah in the great Ark
‘The voice
of Griffin ’
courts at the City Park.
These tennis facilities will give us
breathing room for the tennis players of
Griffin and Spalding County and certainly
will create more recreation facilities for
our young people. Very truly yours,
(Signed) Dick Slade, President, Griffin
Tennis Association
Dear Quimby: I figure that a note of
appreciation is better late than never. I
have been meaning to thank you for the
splendid “front-page” coverage you gave
to those articles on the Department of
Human Resources and its various services
in Spalding County and environs. Believe
me, some “good press” on the Department
is a much appreciated thing these days. It
pleases me greatly to see some of our
employees get the credit and thanks they
so richly deserve for their dedication, their
skill and their service.
Thanks for your help. Sincerely,
(Signed) Jack Watson, Chairman, Board
of Human Resources, State of Georgia
Dear Sir: Thanks for letting the
following questions be proposed in con
nection with the school bond election.
Why is such an elaborate complex
proposed when indeed not this
requirement is demanded?
It is my understanding that the school
population has increased this year with
last year by less than 150 students;
therefore, why do we need such a mam
moth increase in facilities?
If Beaverbrook is about to lose ac
creditation, why can we not add some
additional class rooms there to alleviate
the situation?
It is inconceivable to me that an $B
- expansion is required and in this
light why can’t the schools have a bond
issue for say sl-million to do things
necessary and not a stop gap measure?
Why must the system need to go out and
but 50 or more acres for this big complex
at maybe SIO,OOO an acre and remove this
property now from the tax books? Why so
much land?
Information has been released that
student population everywhere is in
general decline; then why do we need this
vast new facility?
How do the school administrators plan
to pay for the big increases required for
more buses, utility costs, and general
maintenance?
Can the school system furnish written
evidence from the state Department of
Education that the Griffin system will be
discredited unless we go into this vast
complex?
Why can we not add on to present
buildings where a real need exists?
Will the school system tell the people in
dollars and cents how much will have to be
repaid each year for repayment of bonds
and for how many years?
Will the school officials list for
publication the actual anticipated in
creases in money outlay for increases in
cost of operations, teachers, and the full
gamut if this new facility is built?
Will the school officials state what an
ticipated increase in millage costs will be
forced upon the property owner? Total
bond repayment and operation?
Why can’t the bond election be held when
the primaries are held sometime in August
so that we will have a bigger turnout of
voters and also the tax payer will not be
called upon to dole out additional money
for a bond election cost?
Is it not a possible truism that the
election has been called at the anticipated
time so that there will be a smaller turnout
of voters? (Surely there will be a bigger
turnout at primary time and thus more
people will voice an opinion and if the issue
passes construction could not begin for
months anyway.) (Signed) Delores S.
Goen, Box 652, Griffin
(Genesis 6). And then in the episode of
Jonah and the city of Nineveh, God told
that prophet that He felt “sorry” for “all
its cattle.” There’s also, of course, the
reference in Matthew 12 when Jesus spoke
of rescuing even one sheep which fell into a
well. So it’s established that God cares.
Now, what is certainly not established is
that the animal kingdom has a soul
comparable to man’s which exists after
death. The great gulf between the
capacities of a dog and a human being
would seem to make this obvious. When a
dog expires, that’s the end. When a man
expires, that’s more like the beginning.
I am certainly sympathetic with
emotions at the time of a pet’s death, but
the right perspective here is important.
MY
ANSWER
BERRY’S WORLD
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© 1974 by NEA. Inc
‘Who’d have ever thought the ole poker gang would
turn into a needlepoint group, eh. guys?"
til
Bruce Biossat
Far East’s only
democracy, kind of
By Bruce Biossat TOKYO — (NEA)
Many Japanese leaders like to remind the outsider that
they have the only true "working democracy” in the Orient.
But in thoughtful, casual conversation, it comes out that
what Japan really has today is still a "graft" — immature in
development and insecurely bonded to its life mainstream.
One who expresses the reality well is a former prime min
ister, Nobusuke Kishi, who held the post from early 1957 to
mid-1960, and now lives placidly in quiet backwaters, though
not without influence as a conservative consultant to certain
elements in the ruling Liberal Democratic party.
In an interview’ held jointly w ith colleagues of mine, Kishi
flatly declared that what goes on in Japan's supposedly key
governmental institution, the democratically-elected Diet,
in no way can be said to pass for useful discussion and
debate. If democracy means reasonable exchange, com
promise, a molding and reshaping of proposals to find a
broad common ground. Kishi says the Japanese do not yet
have it.
The LDP rules, of course, in both the 498-member lower
house and the 257-member upper House of Councillors (for
which there will be elections this summer). The chief opposi
tion parties, highly vocal and activist in mood, are the
Socialists and the Communists.
Yet their goals, “Marxist” in differing degrees, are so far
removed from those of the pragmatic, ruling LDP that the
opposition neither conducts nor desires “discussion." This
means, plainly, that the rival parties have no genuine con
tribution to the development of working government policy.
They simply criticize, and oppose. Their entire posture is one
of assault, in and out of the Diet.
It is Kishi's contention, and I could find no dissent from
this proposition as at least a partial truth, that Japan’s mass
media — meaning in this case mostly newspapers of huge
circulation distributed widely through the country — tends
to support the opposition in steadily critical attacks against
the government in power.
Possibly this argument has to be viewed somewhat guard
edly. In some of the touted treatises on Japanese life, 1 have
found it argued that some influential journals cooperate
strongly with combined government-business leadership in
helping to set the nation’s citizenry on a chosen course.
However that may be, there can be little doubt that the
Diet as presently functioning is a talking society, with im
mense power to command the presence, endlessly, of the in
cumbent prime minister, his top cabinet officials and many
others.
Right now, it is exercising its authority in a new way —
— key businessmen and their firms on the griddle in a
constant grilling, much as Sen. Henry M. Jackson parboiled
the U.S. oil executives in Senate committee session some
months ago.
The grilling concerns Japan’s worst nightmare —
ungoverned inflation — and the role played in it by the pric
ing and other practices of Japanese trading and manufac
turing establishments. But that's a story for later review.
Return to Kishi for several points he thinks arise from the
Diet's “no discussion" pattern.
The first, already alluded to, is the central fact that with
out constructive modifiers from the opposition, the ruling
LDP, in Kishi’s words, “decides everything." The concept of
some kind of consensus emerging from debate is wholly ab
sent.
Second and obvious, the Diet’s power to command the
leaders' presence wastes incredible amounts of official time
that should be given over to the conduct of government by
the top men.
Third, this is just one element in a delaying effect that
slows down seriously the governing process. In Kishi's judg
ment, the constant barrage of criticism, the almost fanatic
bombardment on even the most trivial points (no errors are
left unnoticed), makes the ruling party afraid to decide. So
deciding is put off. And “democracy' here proceeds as a
painful, immature ritual.
'NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. I
QUOTES
“If I have a criticism of
Congress, it is that having
passed good legislation, and
seen the President veto it,
they are not men enough to
stand up to him and override.
That may well be where peo
ple are faulting Congress —
for not standing up to its con
stitutional responsibility.”
— Rep. Louis Stokes, D-
Ohio.
“When you talk about tak->
ing away our railroad, you
are talking about people's
lives. It’s a hard, cold matter
of dollars.”
—Thomas Sheridan, presi
dent of the Hawley Bank in
Hawley, Pa., where
Amtrak railroad
authorities have an
nounced they will curtail
rail service in an effort to
streamline the nation's
vast rail system.
DAILY
Quimby Melton, Jr M Editor and Publisher
Can Reeves.
General Manager
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WORLD ALMANAC
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The first Easter egg roll in
the United States was held on
the Capitol grounds in Wash
ington. D.C. on April 2, 1877,
during President Rutherford
B. Hayes' administration,
The World Almanac recalls.
The custom was practiced by
later presidents but was dis
continued in 1942. Easter egg
rolling was started again on
April 6, 1953, during Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
administration.
GRIFFIN
NEWS
Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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