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"Good grief-do you really mean it-?!”
t. M BOYD
IQs of Men
And Women
Question arises repeatedly as to which is the more
intelligent, men or women. Works like this. More women
than men reach the average IQ level and a little above.
But far more men than women rise to the supernormal
levels, bright, brilliant and genius. And far more men
than women remain stuck in the subnormal levels, which
carry numerous derogatory labels. Because ol the lore
going, women as a group are described by the psycholo
gists as more intelligent than men as a group.
THERE IS no wood in petrified wood. You want that
explained? What once were woody cells long ago filled
up with quartz. The wood itself disintegrated completely.
NO, MARIJUANA does not dilate the pupils of the
eyes. Rather, it reddens the eyes, definitely.
MISS AMERICA
Q. "When did the Miss America officials ban ani
mal acts from that beauty contest?"
A. In 1949, after Carol Fraser, Miss Montana, al
most got tossed into the orchestra pit at Atlantic City’s
Convention Hall when her palomino stumbled on stage.
EEL
Customary Christmas Eve dish in Italy is roast eel.
Matter of fact, eel is pretty popular worldwide. The Jap
anese like it broiled on rice. Germans eat it smoked.
Some Englanders jelly it. And there is a tradition among
French gourmets that an eel must not be killed in any
usual manner, but must be drowned in wine before it’s
cooked. That's humane. Even so, after giving it some
thought. I’ve decided not to order eel, not soon anyway.
CLIENT ASKS if men who wear wedding rings are
more faithful than those who don't. Yes, says our Love
and War man, they are, positively.
SAY 1,400 CUSTOMERS visit a restaurant. If the
manager is experienced, he will know that 900 will order
hot dishes, 200 will take salads, and 300 will want sand
wiches, soup or dessert, depending on the season. Or so a
longtime expert tells me.
SCHOLARS SAY that the biblical “brimstone" of
hell is actually “sulfur" . . . THE RUSSIAN equivalent
of John Q. Public is Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov . . . THE
MOTHER’S average weight gain during pregnancy is 24
pounds.
Address mail Io L. M Boyd, P.O. Box 17076 Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Remember the good, old days before recycling, when we
used to empty the suggestion box out the window?"
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 17,
the 260th day of 1974 with 105 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 actress Anne Ban
croft and actor Roddy McDo
wall were born on Sept. 17—she
in 1931 and he in 1928.
On this day in history:
In 1737, the U.S. Constitution,
completed in Philadelphia,
was signed by a majority of the
55 delegates to the Constitution
al Convention.
In 1796, President George
Washington delivered his fare
well address, warning the
American people to avoid
foreign alliances.
In 1939, Russia invaded
Poland in World War 11, 16
days after Nazi Germany
moved into the same country.
In 1968, Alabama Gov.
George Wallace was nominated
for president by the American
Independent Party.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Always fix the lights over
the stairs before you buy
ANY kid a pair of roller
skates.
Men of promise have to
deliver at some time or an
other.
Considering the price of
shoes, keeping one's feet on
the ground is no trick at all.
Before conglomerates,
whoever heard of buying
toothpaste from a tractor
factory?
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN >
THOUGHTS
None of us lives to himself,
and none of us dies to him
»lf. If we live, we live to the
Lord, and if we die, w e die to
♦he Lord; so then, whether
we live or whether we die,
we are the Lord’s. —
Romans 14:7,8.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6334
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.
People are talking
People we know best and see most are
talking about:
— Their children, their grandchildren;
their friends’ children and grandchildren;
their acquaintances’ children and grand
children.
— Business, inflation, high interest
rates, the national economy, tight money
supply. “Everything-costs-too-much.”
— President Ford’s pardoning of former
President Nixon.
— Children and grandchildren again and
again.
— Who is getting married, who has a
new baby, who is getting a divorce.
— Dove shooting. Golf. Football.
— The new stores in Griffin’s new
shopping centers.
— Better not speed in town. Griffin
police officers are using radar. “I never
speed.” “Oh yes, you do.” “So and so got
caught.”
— Church. “The minister preached a
fine sermon.”
— “I paid so much for a sack of sugar
that used to cost only so much.”
— Who has had an operation. (Nowadays
it is referred to as “undergoing surgery”.)
Who is planning to have one.
Griffin High football fans are saying that
the Bears have a good team when they get
down to business. Friday night they did
just that and with a minute and forty
seconds left scored the winning touchdown
from the one-yard line against Rockdale in
Rockdale.
The victory score was by a lone touch
down 20 to 14, but it was a 6-AAA victory.
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash has made himself some
new friends on his film-making visits to
Griffin, Williamson and Zebulon. He has
come through warm, human and friendly
and seems like the sort of person you have
known most all your life.
He said he feels close to Griffin because
one of his forebears came from here about
125 years ago, and some of his folks came
from Henry County too. That doesn’t leave
Williamson, Zebulon and Pike County out,
either, because Spalding in which Griffin
is located was not created until 1851. So a
century and a quarter ago *when a Mr.
Cash was a resident of Griffin the new
town was located in Pike County. And Mr.
Cash was a pioneer because in 1849 (125
years ago), Griffin was only nine years
old.
The Bible teaches
sacredness of life
Is contraception or voluntary steriliza
tion forbidden by the Bible? I haven’t seen
it mentioned anywhere in tl le New Testa
ment. I am a Catholic but < ion’t feel that
limiting one’s number o!' children is
wrong. Especially in view of the world
situation. Please give me your views on
the subject. A.N.N.
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The Bible teaches the sacredness of life.
Cain killed his brother Abel and became an
outcast and fugitive the rest of his life. One
of the Commandments of the Lord is:
“Thou shalt do no murder.” This, of
course, would refer to overt abortion,
rather than contraception.
One of the first commands God gave
Adam and Eve was “Be fruitful and
multiply.” It also suggests that
procreation is not the only reason for sex in
— Politics. Pleased with the last elec
tions. “Everybody’s a crook.” “Oh no, not
everybody.” “Well, most of them are.”
— Children and grandchildren, over and
over. Then some more.
— Business again and again. “Things
are getting rough.” “They already are
rough.” “We are going to have a
depression.” “We are having one right
now.”
— “I liked such and such in the paper.”
Thanks. “I didn’t like such and such in the
paper.” Okay.
— Children’s and grandchildren’s school
teachers.
So it goes, this September of 1974, and
through it all runs the everlasting concern
with and love of one’s own family,
especially children and grandchildren,
and with the families of one’s friends. Too,
fretting about business and inflation has
crawled into outright worry, particularly
among the men. And sports provides its
usual escape valve for men and in
creasingly for women, especially when
their children or grandchildren participate
and extra especially when they excel in
competition.
A victory
The initial loss in Griffin to Macon Central
was non-regional, so the Bears still can
become Champions.
This week Griffin returns home to play
another 6-AAA foe, Newton County, on
Lighfoot Field (okay, Memorial Stadium if
one insists.) It promises to be a good game
and the support of fans always helps a
local team particularly at home. See you
there.
That year a total of 49,000 bales of cotton
were brought to the railroad in Griffin by
wagon, mostly from the area west of here
and extending as far away as Alabama.
“Statistics of the State of Georgia”, by
George White (published 1849) said of
Griffin, “At present there are three
churches, three or four hotels, five large
warehouses, 40 or 50 stores, besides a large
number of mechanics’ shops, &c. The
population exceeds 2,000, and for orderly
conduct and moral habits cannot be sur
passed in Georgia... all indicate that
Griffin is destined to vie successfully with
many older places.”
And so it has. We are glad that Johnny
Cash came here and got a look at the town
where his forebear was a pioneer.
marriage, but for the easing of sexual
tensions and passions as well.
With the population explosion, many
couples are rethinking the subject of birth
control. Even the Catholic church, which
has been historically so adamant on this
subject, allows and permits “rhythm”
birth control. With many, it has become
now a question of method rather than
morals.
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I suggest that you counsel with your
spiritual superiors on this subject. John
Wesley was the fifteenth child in a family
of nineteen. The world would have been
poorer if the Wesley family would have
been limited to fourteen. The problem is a
I complex one, and each of us must seek
t God’s guidance and “be fully persuaded in
i his own mind.”
MY r w
ANSWER
Berry’s World
© 1974 bv NEA. inc
“Say, you don’t expect EVERYONE in the White
House to follow the example of ethical stand
ards you set, do you?"
Ray Cromley
Taking economics
into our own hands
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON - (NEA) - It has been alleged of late that
the American public does not know how to handle itself in
times of inflation.
The recently resigned but unlamented Herbert Stein,
chairman of Mr. Nixon’s Council of Economic Advisers,
seems to have put the blame for continuing inflation on the
American citizen at large.
Stein, who has shown himself these past few years as bet
ter at publicity than at economic analysis, obviously has not
understood the statistics which he must certainly have read.
For the data, when analyzed, indicated the public has
handled itself very well indeed in these trying times.
First, in real dollars, the American consumer, man for
man (and woman for woman) has cut back on most of those
major items over which he has control — automobiles,
clothing, housing and in a wide range of what specialists call
consumer durables and nondurables.
In constant prices, the American consumer has even cut
back on per capita food purchases and on gasoline used to a
degree the experts had predicted would be impossible.
This was not always the result of self-control, of course.
Much of the shift was due to necessity. But the consumer at
large has handled this necessity with good sense and a
sophistication which has astounded those who have bothered
to study the matter. In a very real sense, the American con
sumer has, by his actions, lessened the chances of a major
depression.
A look at the employment figures reveals another impor
tant adjustment. Though unemployment has risen, the per
centage of the population now working and employed has in
creased over the past year, according to the latest figures
available. The anomaly is easily explained. Faced with liv
ing costs higher than their families could afford, or with
unemployed husbands, hundreds of thousands of women
moved from home into the labor force. In one month alone,
that shift was almost 400,000, not including the increase in
working women due to normal population growth.
For the past several years we have been told that we could
overcome this inflation only by spending less and saving
more as a consuming public. This was the way it was re
ported, that interest rates could be brought down and indus
try able to acquire, at reasonable rates, the capital needed to
expand production to meet rising national and worldwide
demand for basic materials which seem to grow more scarce
day by day.
It is most difficult to save when prices are rising at a rapid
rate. If a family buys 5 per cent less today than last year in
quantity and quality, it is spending considerably more. The
difficulty is compounded when real incomes do not keep pace
with prices. So the consumer’s record, looked at with a
purely statistical eye and ignoring the declining value of the
dollar, does not seem impressive to men who understand
neither mathematics nor human beings, but only little black
figures rolling out of computers —a failing which seems to
bedevil many economists today.
What s needed is an ability to translate these gross statis
tics into real personal decisions and actions, and to couple
this with an analysis of what alternatives the ordinary
family has. Only then will our official and unofficial econom
ic strategists be able to determine what measures are re
quired (and feasible) to enable the public to shift its buying
patterns in ways that will make recovery from inflation
more easily achieved.
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TIMELY QUOTES
We find ourselves in the po
sition of doing the same kind
of song and dance that we
have accused other nations of
in the past.”
-Rep. John M. Murphy
(D-N.Y.) urging legislation
to tighten distribution and
curb manufacturing of pep
pills in the United States.
"After the paroxysm of
press expose, public indigna
tion and congressional in
vestigation of Watergate,
there is no chance that the
Chappaquiddick storv can be
pushed underground. The
public will expect to make a
judgment on those facts as it
did on Mr. Nixon’s case.”
-Newspaper columnist
William V. Shannon in re
gard to the 1969 death of a
campaign worker for Sen
Edward Kennedy on
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
“Boys’ crimes tend to be
against society or someone
else. Girls’ crimes tend to be
against themselves.”
-Marguerite Lopez of the
Massachusetts Department
of Youth Services on the na-
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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The Environmental Pro
tection Agency estimates that
by 1981, the annual cost of
pollution control will more
than triple to reach $39.5
billion (1972) dollars, The
World Almanac notes. Feder
al. state and local govern
ment expenditures will cover
a third of the anti-pollution
costs from 1971-1981, while
higher retail prices or lower
stock dividends will pay the
remainder.
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