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L M. BOYD
Rooster Crows
Even in Cave
Scientists put some roosters into total darkness in a
cave 2,400 feet underground. They couldn’t see the sun
come up, of course. But when it did so every morning
far above, they crowed anyway. Business as usual. How
ever, men likewise tested in that cave within hours lost
any notion at all of whether it was day or night. Except
for that plus feathers and flight, the rooster is superior
to man in very few ways, might mention.
HOW MANY professions are symbolized by the
names of streets? So inquires a client. Wall Street stands
for the stock market game. Madison Avenue, for advertis
ing. London's Fleet Street, for journalism. That’s all I
can think of.
THE LAST SUPPER
Leonardo Da Vinci painted “The Last Supper" not
just once nor twice but repeatedly. On just about every
wall in Milan, Italy. And although that masterpiece is
now thought by many to be the world’s greatest painting,
it wasn't always so well accepted. Carpenters cut windows
in Da Vinci’s wall paintings. Householders pounded pegs
into them to hang things on. And soldiers of the day
found the life-sized disciples ideal for target practice.
Q. “NEXT to oil, what’s the most valuable product
in world trade?”
A. Coffee, I'm told.
ARGUMENT continues over which was man’s oldest
invention, but some authorities insist the tying of knots
merits that distinction.
SEARS
Recall what Mr. Sears did for a living before he got
together with Mr. Roebuck? A spectacular old story, that.
Sears worked as a railway station agent in Redwood
Falls, Minn. A batch of watches one day came in C.O.D.
for a local jeweler who refused them. Sears conceived
the notion that all his railroad friends made up a ready
market for said watches. So he asked the shipper to release
them to him on consignment. He not only sold them, but
numerous others. So many, in fact, he wound up adver
tising for a watchmaker to help him. And you’ll re
member that’s when Alvah C. Roebuck showed up to
apply for the job. Together, they moved the mail order
operation to Minneapolis, picked up different merchan
dise, and printed catalogues. Roebuck sold out to Sears
for about $70,000. Eventually, Sears sold out to Julius
Rosenwald for $lO million.
Addrtss mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Bo* 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES
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“Don't be silly! Just because you can't find Washington, D.C.,
on the map doesn’t mean its been deleted!"
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Sept. 12,
the 255th day of 1974 with 110 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
French entertainer Maurice
Chevalier was bom Sept. 12,
1888.
On this day in history:
In 1609, Henry Hudson
discovered what is now known
as the Hudson River.
In 1922, the Protestant
Episcopal House of Bishops
voted 36 to 27 to take the word
“obey” out of the marriage
ceremony.
In 1972, the U.S. Senate
approved a $35 billion federal
revenue sharing bill.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
They call it a beer joint be
cause all the elbows are bent.
Yes, Gwendolyn, you
might say that policemen’s
cookies are cop cakes.
The latest thing in back-to
school clothing is the lazy kid
next door.
No collateral is ever
needed for borrowing trou
ble.
03
The first credit card was
the report card.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
by Gill Fox
THOUGHTS
He who supplies seed to
the sower and bread for food
will supply and multiply
your resources and increase
the harvest of your right
eousness. You will be
enriched in every way for
great generosity, which
through us will produce
thanksgiving to God. —
Corr. 9:10,11.
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Fairness to all
The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair to everyone. The editor’s opinions are confined
to this page, and its columns are open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are
published every Wednesday.
Senator Ted Kennedy is not among our
favorite characters either in fact or in
fiction. Nevertheless, splattering him with
a tomato and booing him off a stage when
he tried to address an angry crowd in
Boston is little if any short of criminal
violation of the constitutional guarantee of
free speech.
People who behave like animals and
| Hurry up! |
One simple and relatively inexpensive S
thing which the national government could
do to improve the economy would be to
speed the processing of FHA loans. Once a
person has decided to buy a house and
applied for a loan, it ought to be processed, £
approved or rejected in a couple of weeks.
This probably would require some ad
x ditional personnel, but some speed might
be added by changing routines. x
Good things keep right on happening in
Griffin.
Not all inclusive, but just for instance:
Radio Station WHIE and the Spalding
BPW Club raised over $5,700 for the
Golden Age Club in a talk-a-thon Sunday
which was so successful that another
already is being planned for next year.
— Work began this week on the cam
paign to raise $91,100 for the Griffin-
Spalding United Fund. Banker Lin
Thompson is chairman.
— Superintendent Ben Christie said that
school opening here got off to the best start
this year that it has had in several, and a
End the debates
The Griffin Daily News has reprinted
recent editorials from the Jackson
Progress-Argus and the Atlanta Constitu
tion stating that Congressman Jack Flynt
of Griffin should appear one or more times
in public with his challenger Newt
Gingrich. Here is one from the Thomaston
Free Press which takes the opposite posi
tion:
Outside interest
may be hurting
We thought our married daughter (38)
was happy. She loves sports, and with her
husband coaching, they both play ball.
Recently, however, a young girl, in the
process of divorce, occupies most of her
time. My daughter feels sorry for her I
suppose, but time spent counseling with
this woman has hurt her family life, and
it’s hurting us. Can you help? T. Y.
Sometimes when a spouse wants to
relieve stress in a marriage, an outside
interest takes on new importance.
From what you say, the relationship
with this girl seems innocent enough, but it
becomes wrong to the degree that it is a
vedge-separating husband and wife and
mother and child. It was in Paul’s letter to
I
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 4334
Splattered
Good things
point
descend to such uncivilized acts only
weaken what valid arguments they may
have and thus injure the cause they seek to
serve. Being booed off the Boston stage
and splattered with a tomato will help Ted
Kennedy more politically than a dozen
brass bands and a score of choruses
singing his praise. Shame. And folly.
teacher who taught in another system last
year said his students here seem brighter,
more alert, and more interested in lear
ning than the ones he had the other place.,
— The Griffin-Spalding Bicentennial
Planning Committee got off to a running
start with official recognition as the 12th
such unit in Georgia. It is planning the
local celebration of the nation’s 200th
birthday in 1976.
— Other nice things are happening in
dividually and collectively, but the above
are sufficient to illustrate the fact that
there is as much or more good news here
than bad. And we report it with pleasure.
“Upson’s loyal friend, Congressman
Jack Flynt, Jr. wisely refused to appear on
some 23 proposed debates with his
Republican opposition and some of the
press is making that out to be a cardinal
sin. Actually, the press is being duped by
Flynt’s opposition who is simply getting
publicity mileage out of the challenge and
the refusal.”
MY
ANSWER
Timothy (1 Timothy 5:8) that he wrote: “If
anyone does not provide for his relatives,
and especially for his immediate family,
he has denied the faith and is worse than
an unbeliever.” So the Scripture makes it
mandatory to work for healthy family
relationships.
Somehow, trying to assist that divorcee
has polarized your daughter and her
husband. Suggest they consult a com
petent counselor, so that the underlying
problem can be ventilated and handled.
The best you can do is to play a positive
and supportive role. Pray daily for all
involved. Especially help your daughter to
see that refusing to talk to her husband can
only aggravate conditions —and really
hurt the five year old son. God can give you
an “overcoming spirit” (1 John 4:4), so
this won’t hurt your family unduly.
Berry’s World
© 1974 by NEA, Inc
"I think I can get Harold on grounds of mental
cruelty — he's constantly cracking his chewing
gum!
The energy crisis, brought to a head by the Arab oil em
bargo just a few months ago, seems to have been relegated to
the status of an unpleasant but fading memory in the public
mind.
Congress, too, appears to have an equally short memory if
one is to judge by its contributions to Indepen
dence” — the great government-inspired effort aimed at
making the United States self-sufficient in energy by 1980.
So far, the nation’s legislators have mandated national
year-round Daylight Saving Time, a measure of dubious
merit in conserving energy which they are considering mod
ifying.
A bill authorizing the Alaskan pipeline was passed (after a
five-year delay) and should be bringing some significant,
though hardly adequate, amounts of oil to the U.S. market by
late 1977 at the earliest.
The 55-mile-per-hour limit has helped the country cut
gasoline consumption but there is evidence that it is being
increasingly ignored by motorists and enforced
decreasingly by authorities.
There is no lack of energy, however, when it comes to leg
islation aimed at reforming the oil industry. Bills abound in
Congress, ranging from doing away with the depletion
allowance to eliminating the foreign tax credit for U.S. com
panies to setting up a federal oil and gas corporation in
direct competition with oil companies here.
The latter idea, favored by Sen. Adlai Stevenson 111, (D-lll),
would put the government in the oil and gas business ostensi
bly to increase competition by acting as a yardstick for the
industry on such things as prices. Something like a TVA for
petroleum.
The petroleum industry views this possibility with a great
deal of alarm and as industries usually do in such cases, is
attempting to show that what is bad for‘it is bad for America.
A federal oil and gas corporation is only the tip of the
iceberg of government interference with private industry,
oil spokesmen warn. Other industries may be next — auto,
steel, drug, banking and insurance, for examples.
If nothing else, just the threat of government competition
seems to have served the useful purpose of keeping the oil in
dustry on its toes. The important thing to note, however, is
that the Stevenson proposal, like much of the other legis
lation aimed at the oil industry, whatever its merits, literally
does nothing to add a drop of oil to the nation’s reserves.
No matter how one feels about the petroleum industry, the
oil companies constitute about the only sector working
positively to solve the nation’s energy problems, particularly
with their massive commitments of capital for increased ex
ploration and development.
It is estimated that this year the U.S. petroleum industry
will reinvest a record $18.7 billion, an increase of 51 per cent
over last year s $12.4 billion.
Os that $18.7 billion, $lO billion will be put back into the
ground in the effort to find and develop not only oil and gas
but other sources of energy, such as shale oil and coal.
In a recent talk, Charles J. Dißona, executive vice presi
dent of the American Petroleum Institute, recommended a
simple test for proposed legislation affecting oil industry
operations. Constructive proposals, he said, should result in
a rr- eS » an ?. w " r e *^ er or of the following questions:
„ * l o e P ro Posal encourage greater efficiency in the
use of energy Second, will the proposal result in increased
energy supply?
a s* m Pj e b ut useful yardstick that government as well
be reahzed n^UStry mUSt USe Pro i ect Independence” is to
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selling F for $2495 - ?i^ S a^ d re than 35 ’°°° P ages “ and
dissertation a’enent *ndex lists virtually every doctoral
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(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I
Massachusetts Gov. Calvin
Coolidge, who later became the
31st president, said, “There is
no right to trike against public
safety, anywhere, anytime.”
French philosopher Blaise
Pascal said, “We know the
truth, not only by the person
but by the heart.”
DAILY
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Oil legislation only
fuel for the fire?
By By Don Oakley
TIMELY QUOTES
GRIFFIN
Quimby Melton. Jr, Editor and Publisher
American poet Ralph Waldo
Emerson said, “Life is not so
short but that there is always
time for courtesy.”
President George Washington
advised, “Labor to keep alive in
your breast that little spark of
celestial fire — conscience.”
NEWS
Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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