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Page 4 — Griffin Daily News Monday, September 16,1974 “The Honeymoon May Be Over, Jerry!” =sg Jb^W 7 * ■ z3 ra x * - itiEr _,ur.dc'~' 4 «■ \rl -F\ / j x Ji Bfc-. aMwg. JMIR' ' 1 n in '74 L. Ni BOYD 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 S?ii4w H ill!! fr W w \R r (W e H7« T M aw us R« on “I DID close my eyes, but my head won’t turn off!" 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 Subscription Prices Delivered by carrier or mail within the State of Georgia. Prices are one week, .62 cents, one month S2.AS, 3 months, $8.04, 6 months, $16.07, 12 months, $32.13. These prices include sales tax. Delivered by mail out of the State of Georgia one month $3.75, 3 months , $11.25, 6 months, $22.50, 12 months, $45.00. lil Quimby Melton, Jr. 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. MY r ■ 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 i : Oi 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. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) 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