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— Griffin Daily News Monday, September 16,1974
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To Fight
Anxiety
Maybe you. too, know something about anxiety,
the unreasonable tendency to worry overmuch, that ail
ment called fear. I have a friend who suffers same
badly. Says he’s constantly on the lookout for mental
gimmicks to trick himself out of running scared. His
latest, a fact from the insurance tables. Repeats he to
himself: "I’ve already passed the most dangerous threat
to my life the day I was born." Quite right. Neither
war nor traffic is as hazardous as that first birthday.
FOUR out of every seven people, who went over
Niagara Falls in barrels, survived . . . THE MARKET
ING BOYS say each of us will have eaten 2,400 chickens,
about, by the time we get to age 70 . . . NO MAI I ER
HOW small the Eskimo child, it’s customarily permitted
to play with the sharpest of knives.
CHESS
Q. “Is chess played in Japan?”
A. It is. But with a different wrinkle. Captured
pieces can be put. back into service on any vacant square
to fight for the capturing player.
HONEYBEES follow a timetable in their calls on
flowers. Dandelions, about 9 a.m. Cornflowers, about 1 1
a.m. Red clover, about 1 p.m. Evidently, these blooms
release more nectar at certain hours.
DO YOU KNOW how Ivory Soap came to be so
called? In 1879. Harley Proctor while at church heard
his minister drop the phrase “ivory palaces. Click!
That simple.
MIDDLE-AGE
Hardest decision a woman makes is when to decide
she's middle-aged. Our Love and War man has investi
gated this matter and come up with three rhetorical
queries to help with said decision. 1. Do you worry
more lately about your husband's health? 2. Would your
children laugh at you, if you put on a bikini? 3. Do you
volunteer comments to new acquaintances about your
grandchildren? If you answer yes to these, it's believed
middle-age is upon you. And you might find it advan
tageous to admit it, hear?
AS FOR THE No. 9 surname, it’s Anderson.
DIVORCED WOMEN are considerably more mascu
line in their outlook than are never-divorced wives.
Or such be the indication of studies by Stanford schol
ars. Spinsters are, too, they say.
Address moil to I. M Boyd, P.O. Box 17076. Fori Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1974 I. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Sept. 16, the
259th day of 1974 with 106 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
American historian Francis
Parkman was bom Sept. 16,
1823. This is actress Lauren
Bacall’s 50th birthday.
On this day in history:
In 1630, the Massachusetts
village of Shawmut changed its
name to Boston.
In 1893, more than 100,000
persons rushed to the Cherokee
Strip in Oklahoma as the area
was opened to homesteading.
In 1963, the Asian nation of
Malaysia was created, occupy
ing the southern portion of the
Malay Peninsula and the
northern part of Borneo. The
country is the world’s largest
producer of rubber.
In 1972, Israeli invaded
Lebanon in further reprisal for
the slaying of 11 Israeli athletes
at the Munich Olympics.
~ BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
A plane has crossed the
Atlantic in less than two
hours. Now, if they could just
get from the airport to New
York in less than three.
Anyone who objects to the
neighbor’s dog barking
might consider the alterna
tives: A burglar climbing in
the window.
IkSOI
The only happy aspect
Xtbout inflation is the havoc
caused to pickpockets.
Nothing is ever lost around
this house - it just gets per
manently misplaced.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN >
THOUGHTS
Pride goes before distruc
tion and a haughty spirit
before a fall. It is better to be
of a lowly spirit with the
poor than to divide the spoil
with the proud. — Proverbs
16:18,19.
"If 1 had only one sermon to
preach it would be a sermon
against pride.” — Gilbert K.
Chesterton, English novelist.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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Editor
Telephone 227-433*
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.
The National Education Association has
admitted that it was mistaken when it said
that Georgia had the second highest
dropout rate in the nation.
The teachers lobby group failed to take
in account the number of students who left
public for private schools and those who
moved out of Georgia into another state. It
carried them erroneously as dropouts.
It is good, right and proper that the NEA
admitted its error and cleared the air to
some extent; all of us make mistakes.
It took the late Charles Lindbergh 33
hours and 30 minutes to nurse his Spirit of
St. Louis across the Atlantic. Now, less
than half a century later, two other
Americans have flown between New York
and London in one hour and 55 minutes.
The Air Force SR-71 made hash of an
unofficial trans-Atlantic speed record set
Crime in Georgia
Ixitest FBI statistics show that 164,175
known crimes were committed in Georgia
last year. Nobody knows how many
unreported or undiscovered ones there
were.
This figures out to be 3,430.3 known
crimes per 100,000 people. A further break
down shows there were 17.4 murders, 25.8
rapes, and 158.1 robberies per 100,000 in
Georgia.
Welfare fraud
The Department of Human Resources
which has charge of welfare in Georgia is
stepping up its efforts to eliminate fraud,
and we wish it success. Continued
prosecution and conviction of welfare
crooks will do more to straighten out abuse
than anything else we know.
The most common welfare fraud, ac
cording to one official, is failing to report
income which would reduce the amount of
welfare payment, but it says that most of
them do report it.
The department has mailed this notice
Does God
help poor?
Everybody says that God loves the poor
and asks us to help them. To me it seems
that the rich get richer and the poor get
poorer. Even though the poor try they
never seem to get anywhere. Why doesn’t
God help them? G.K.
The best answer you could have would
be to read the 37th and 73rd Psalms. Both
of these discuss the problem you mention,
and the further inequity caused when the
rich are the ungodly.
These and other Biblical writings,
however, reassure us that in every case,
retribution will overtake the ungodly man
at the end of the age, and that present
appearances don’t determine future
destiny. The Bible impresses upon the
believer that the condition of the righteous,
even when they are poor and suffer, is far
preferable to that of the wicked, whatever
Flunked!
Fast
Still, the association flunked its own
course. We suggest that it assign itself
some makeup work and that it be the
figuring out of the true and correct dropout
rate. Until it or some more responsible
authority does, a false stigma shrouds
Georgia, the hard work of its visiting
teachers, other school officials, and the
concern of citizens who pay the bills.
Also until then any information it issues
for lobbying or other purposes should be
looked upon with suspicion.
last year by the Concorde supersonic
transport.
With specialized planes like the SR-71
already pushing speed records well
beyond the capabilities of the existing
SSTs we are all the more convinced that as
travelers we will one day enter the
supersonic era.
The report stated also that the sharpest
increase in crime was in rural areas and in
city suburbs. There are few strictly rural
areas left in Spalding and their number is
decreasing rapidly. And Griffin cannot be
called a suburb of Atlanta. But we are
close to suburban status and we are very
close to some real rural places, so this
sharp increase in these particular areas is
bad news for us.
with September welfare checks, and it will
mail another with those for October: “Any
money received by any member of your
household or any change in family income
must be reported to your caseworker at
once. Failure to notify your caseworker
could lead to a prison sentence. Once
again, welfare, medicaid and food stamp
recipients must report any change in
family income..."
That is plain enough, and it ought to
help.
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ANSWER U-r'Rl
prosperity they enjoy.
Actually, the poor have great
prominence in the Bible. In fact, the very
foundation of the Hebrew faith was God’s
pity on a poor and oppressed people. In the
Old Testament regulations, many special
provisions were given for the poor.
Deuteronomy 15:1, for example,
prescribed that every seventh year, there
should be a release of all debts. When
Jesus announced His own mission on
earth, (Luke 4:18), He said it was to
preach “good tidings to the poor.”
You can be sure that God is not standing
idly by, but through His Spirit, is active in
our world to trigger every good work man
will permit, the main one being the new
life of faith in Christ. To equalize wealth as
you suggest, would violate the free will of
man, and might create more problems
than it solves.
Berry’s World
© 1974 by NEA, Inc
“I’ve cancelled my trip to WsshWon fw th*
‘economic summit’ — I’m going into bankruptcy
instead!”
Don Oakley
An unpardonable
presidential pardon
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By Don Oakley
By his undoubtedly humane but fully P r ® mat “f e p g r r P S‘ n n g t
of a “full, free and absolute pardon to former
Richard M. Nixon for any offenses he may have commuted
against the United States during his presidency,President
Gerald R. Ford has seriously strained and may have ir
reparably damaged the credibility he brought with him into
the White House, and which he must maintain if the nation is
ever to recover from Watergate. w,..-.-!. Mr
Rather than helping to heal the wound of Watergate M .
Ford’s action has served to reopen it. He has done the ve y
thing he implied he would not do when he testified before a
Senate committee as vice-president-designate.
Almost every reason the President cited in his pardon
message could be used as an argument for not doing what ne
“I believe passions would again be aroused, he said, by a
long, drawn-out period of litigation against Richard Nixon.
Our people would again be polarized in their opinions, and
the creaibilitv of our free institutions of government would
again be challenged at home and abroad. , ,
Precisely this has been the result of his placing Richard
Nixon forever beyond punishment, and even beyond indict
ment and trial, for whatever crimes he may have commit
ted
The President says he had been advised that many months
and perhaps years would have to pass “before Richard Nix
on could hope to obtain a fair trial by jury in any jurisdiction
of the United States.” It would be helpful to know who pro
vided that advice. . .
This use of the presidential pardon power is, of course, a
shortcutting of our system of justice which is one of the
things the President is sworn to preserve, protect and de
fend It may in fact be questioned whether the President
acted constitutionally. The chief executive’s power to pardon
for offenses committed against the United States is not in
doubt. But can he pardon in advance someone who has not
even been formally charged with any offense — immunize
him from the law entirely?
What happens now, or should happen, to those close associ
ates of Richard Nixon who still face trial for their roles in
Watergate, not to mention those underlings who have al
ready been convicted and sent to prison?
Most Americans do not want to see a former president in
jail or to continue to “kick him when he’s down, as the cur
rent phrase goes. But at the very least the President should
have required from Richard Nixon a full and complete con
fession - call it a form of “earned amnesty" - and some
thing more than a self-serving apology for the hell he put the
country through.
Mr. Nixon has admitted to mistakes but not to any real
guilt. Now we’ll never know just what his guilt or innocence
was. We will be given only his version of Watergate in his
memoirs, for which he may receive $2 million to console him
in his suffering period.
The most distressing thing of all about this unfortunate
and unnecessary development is that Gerald Ford has
substituted his own judgment of what is best for the country
for that of the people, as expressed in the ordinary and or
derly processes of the nation’s system of criminal justice.
Rx: the Three B’s
Music — classical music, anyway - does more than soothe
the savage breast. The works of the masters are being used
for medicinal purposes in Europe, reports the Health In
surance Institute.
The melodies are played through a device developed by a
Frenchman that breaks down cell tissue by transforming the
sounds into direct vibrations. The patient listens through
earphones while the tunes are further relayed through
electrodes attached to the body.
In Rome, one surgeon has been using Bach fugues to treat
indigestion. It has also been found that Mozart is an ideal
choice when -tackling rheumatism. Handel helps “broken
hearts" and other disturbed emotional states, and Beethoven
is considered good for hernia.
As for Schubert, his music, says the Institute, is doing what
many classical music haters have long claimed this type of
music does for them. It s being used to cure the problem of
insomnia.
As for those addicted to rock and roll, apparently there's
no cure for them.
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WORLD ALMANAC
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Phineas T. Barnum was an
American showman whose •
imagination, shrewdness, wit
and keen sense of publicity
helped popularize the circus
as an amusement in America, ,
The World Almanac recalls.
In 1880. Barnum joined forces
with managerial genius
James A. Bailey, creating
“The Greatest Show on
Earth.” The P.T. Barnum
Museum is located in
Bridgeport, Conn, where he
was elected mayor for one •
year in 1875.
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