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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, September 17,1974 Page 4 j 5 v * Wkai ‘ <d Ba r^y zf ifn I Zr Zg Coplay N«w< Service ’- "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 -x" | ii __ _ J |i ~7~ GROPE I | 1 • <* | * i ' 'MxRI niF^ 'auT" 9'/7 V. \\ ’ ©W4 h*A KK TM Rff) US p»t on “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. GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS Subscription Prices Delivered by carrier or mail within the State of Georgia. Prices are one week, .62 cents, one month $2.68, 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. viewMypoint 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. i 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. i 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. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I 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- GRIFFIN DAIIA <NEWS General Manager BIU Knight. M Win Seme, UH, fm hi . Executive Editor l Maui SI. Mt Sa S?»^r Cd^" 1 a “ •* U ' sotgle Cow to cntn. tional increase and nature of crimes by juvenile girls. WORLD ALMANAC FACTS * It 11l ' nlillLL 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. 'NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN J Copyright © 1974