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NIHE LIVES
L NL BOYD
A Sport in a
Rocking Chair
Football coaches pace up and down the sidelines.
Boxing managers fan their fighters between rounds. Horse
trainers leap up at dawn to time their animals. Baseball
managers march out to the mound and yell at the umpire.
All this comes to mind because a client averse to labor
wants to know if there’s any participant sport wherein
the participant need not burn up any energy. Certainly
is. Pigeon racing. A shipper will pick up the birds, de
liver them to a starting point several hundred miles away,
then turn them loose at the prescribed moment. They fly
with hot hearts 300 miles a day. Back home, the sports
man in the rocking chair may doze, read a little, sip tea,
whatever.
BIRDBRAIN
How we came by that term “birdbrain’’ I do not
know. Relative to its size, the brain of a bird is enormous.
QUICK, without looking at your watch, which is
closer to the dial, the hour hand or the minute hand.
Odd how we fail to notice such. The hour hand, always.
ANOTHER little known fact about poet Walt Whit
man is that although he used “I" and “me” in his own
writings with large abandon, he wouldn't read anything
written in the first person by anyone else.
COCKROACH
Q. “You said the average female cockroach produc
es 37 little roaches per litter. So how many litters does she
produce?"
A. Seven in the five months of her life.
FAVORITE SPORT in the Philippines is cock fight
ing. Every village has a pit. Law there permits fights only
on Sundays and holidays.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY researchers say they’ve
proved that men are inclined to get angry at things while
women are more apt to get angry at people.
THIS ONE is told about a New York dress man
ufacturer who invited in 40 buyers to see his fall line.
He ordered his assistant: “Go down to Lindy’s
Restaurant. Buy one sandwich, but make sure it's the
most expensive one." The assistant asked, “How are you
going to feed 40 buyers on one sandwich?" The manu
facturer snapped, “Don’t back talk me. Take it down to
Irving’s Delicatessen and get him to knock off 39 copies.”
Address mail to I. M. Boyd, P. O. 8o« 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
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“I hear Butch and Willy had a falling-out They’re digging sep
arate tunnels!”
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Sept. 19,
the 262nd day of 1974 and 103 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 bom on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
Irvin F. Westheimer, who
founded the Big Brothers’
movement in Cincinnati in 1903,
was born Sept. 19,1879.
On this day in history:
In 1777, American soldiers
won the first Battle of Saratoga
in the Revolutionary War.
In 1863, Union and Confeder
ate soldiers met in the battle of
Chickamauga, Ga., during the
Civil War. The rebels won the
following day.
In 1881, President James
Garfield died in Elberon, N.J.,
of gunshot wounds inflicted by
a disgruntled officer-seeker on
July 2.
In 1960, Cuban Premier Fidel
Castro and his staff were
ousted from a New York City
hotel because they had been
discovered plucking chickens
for cooking in their rooms. The
Communist delegation was in
New York to attend a United
Nations’ meeting.
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THOUGHTS
I thank God whom I serve
with a clear conscience, as
did my fathers, when I re
member you constantly in
mv prayers. — II Timothy
1:3.
There are times in a man’s
life when, regardless of the
attitude of the body, the soul
is on its knees in prayer. —
Victor Hugo, French novelist.
by Gill Fox
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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.
President Ford’s amnesty terms are
generous. They are simple.
Offenders would be required to serve up
to two years in the national interest in
some area such as hospitals, homes for the
aged, conservation, safety, or with a
religious service group. Also they would
have to take an oath of allegiance to the
United States and to its Constitution.
That is all.
The proposal provides an opportunity for
those who truly and earnestly want to
return honorably to the United States to do
so. It is in the finest and highest tradition
of allowing a person to make up for past
misdeeds which he recognizes and of
which he repents. There will be no fatted
calf for these prodigals, but they can work
their way back into the mainstream of life
in the United States. The gate is wide open.
Such people, we suppose, have had little
to say. Loud-mouths, though, have shouted
new “demands” of complete pardon
without conditions. Else, they scream,
Crud
Our nomination for “Crud of the Week” $
goes to the louse or lice who threw a soft
drink bottle through a stained glass >*:
window at the Sunny Side United ij:
Methodist Church.
Griffin Tech
Griffin Tech will hold open house tonight
from 7 to 9 for everyone interested in see
ing the school and learning what it has to
offer. It is for taxpayers to inspect their
investment in education as well as for
students, their families and friends, and
for prospective students.
One of the numerous programs which
Griffin Tech offers is a course for Licensed
Better things to do
It may be that legislation regulating
professional football in antitrust areas is
warranted.
But the threat of a “review” of the
National Football league’s status by a
dozen congressmen is an arrogant in
trusion into the dispute between team
owners and the players’ association —a
dispute being negotiated under the
auspices of a federal mediator.
The warning by Rep. John Moss, a
California Democrat and chairman of a
subcommittee on commerce, that the
player’s union must not be “significantly
injured” is an unsubtle indication of where
Love is greater
than pride is
We have been married 30 years. To my
great disappointment I find that my
husband has been involved in an affair for
three years. Upon advice I read in your
column in similar situation, I forgave him
and tried to get things back to normal. But
this didn’t help. He is still seeing her. The
worst thing is it is affecting the life of our
sixteen-year-old daughter very much. He
is a fine man — good, honest and well
loved in the community. This affair, far
from making him happy is making him
unhappy. Is it wrong to have pride to want
to make your marriage work? Please help
me. M. M.
You mentioned you are a Christian, and
I must say you seem to have reacted as a
Christian. No, it is not wrong to have pride
— —T
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-433*
Fairness to all
Amnesty
they will not come home. A plague upon
them. Who wants them back? As for their
“demands”, they forfeited any right to
“demand” anything of the U.S.A, when
they turned their backs on the country.
Their departure improved the citizenry
and as far as we are concerned, their
remaining abroad is good riddance of bad
rubbish.
Finally, let all of us who are living
normal lives and reasonably meeting our
obligations of citizenship as well as en
joying its multitude of privileges take note,
of this fact: We could fill America to over
flowing with people from every other
nation in the world by allowing them to
come here and become American citizens
under the identical terms offered those
who rejected us. Even with our problems
and our internal troubles, we are the most
blessed and the most envied nation in the
world.
So let those who repent earn their way
home. And let the punks stay abroad. We
are better off without them.
Practical Nurses, and a class will
graduate Friday night. Nurses are needed
badly, there is no nobler profession, and
we congratulate the latest graduates on
completing their course of instruction.
Griffin and Spalding County have
numerous assets. Griffin Tech is one of the
strongest.
the lawmakers’ sympathies lie. The
estimate that some 40 million Americans
are anxiously awaiting the opening of the
pro football season, however, does not
justify the congressional meddling in what
is essentially a labor-management fracas.
Twenty-six teams and some 1,400
players are involved in the NFL strike
over fragile issues, hardly qualifying the
controversy as a national emergency.
The serious pronouncements emanating
from Washington in these troubled times
suggest that Moss and his colleagues could
find better things to which to direct their
concern.
in making your marriage work, but love is
a greater power than pride.
Could it be (and I am just asking) that
your prime motivation is pride? For one’s
mate to be unfaithful is not only a com
ment on the defector, but sometimes, and
even often, it is a reflection upon the
seeming innocent party. I am convinced
that many marriages would break up if it
were not for pride of family, pride of
prestige, and pride of social esteem. But
marriages and relationships built upon
pride alone are really not on a sure founda
tion. My advice is to search your heart and
ask yourself: have I been a loving wife, or
just a proud spouse? Try to get some
counseling for the whole family, and
remember the Bible says, “Now abideth
faith, hope and love, but the greatest of
these is love.” I Corinthians 13:13.
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Tom Tiede
Hate mongers are
own worst enemies
By Tom Tiede
WASHINGTON - (NEA) - The nomination of Nelson
Rockefeller for the vice presidency has brought expected
screams of protest from those who loathe his politics or his
money. Much of the dissent is honest and intellectual and
therefore welcome. Some other, however, is fanatical and so
constitutes only confusion and possible danger.
The muckiest opposition, and perhaps also the most
perilous, can be heard on the street corners of several of
America’s largest cities. There, almost any day, members of
something called the National Caucus of Labor Committees,
pass out literature and empty opinions condemning
Rockefeller as an oppressor of the people. Such is the
ferocity of the complainers, and the dread renutation of their
group, that federal law agencies are said to be “seriously
concerned” that the opponents may yet turn their hatred of
the Vice President - designate into something violent.
The concern may be legitimate. Though outwardly not
much more that another of the small hate groups which try
the nation’s tolerance, NCLC has something else: magnetism.
As did the Symbionese Liberation Army, it is able to draw
recruits from mainstream America, program them and ever
after expect conformity and obedience. The Nazis of Hitler’s
Germany made the tactic high art; “We can,” said Goebbels,
“take anyone and make him do anything.” So too, reportedly,
can the NCLC today.
I base the latter comment notbnly on evidence from gov
ernment investigatory bodies, but also on a personal experi
ence. A friend of mine joined NCLC at the beginning of the
year and ruined his life by devoting it. I won’t name the
friend, suffice it to say that until January he was a young
man of good nature with a lovely wife and promising future.
Now, after nine months in NCLC, following orders, he is job
less, drawing unemployment compensation from a system he
deplores, a ne’r-do-well loafer who has abandoned his prom
ise for the glories of hating Nelson Rockefeller.
His wife, who still hopes for his return, says the ruination
of his life began almost without notice. “One day he just said
he was joining NCLC and he did. At first he lived at home
and I tried to accept his new interest. But some of the things
he began saying just made me laugh. So he moved out. He
said he didn t want to get a divorce but he was going out to
‘return the country to the working people.’ Now, after all this
time, we hardly even talk. I don t see him anymore at all.”
Though forsaken herself, the wife has not forsaken my
friend. In an effort to understand her husband’s radical
philosophy, she met and talked with former NCLC members.
Then sne talked with friends of members and relatives of
members. Finally, in desperation for knowledge, she went to
the FBI.
“What I learned was this: nobody, but nobody, has any
thing good to say about NCLC. Everyone agrees it’s made up
of confused people who subscribe to the dictates of a founder
named ‘Doctor Lyn Marcus. That’s not his real name.
Neither is he a doctor. All he dictates is hate, hate
Rockefeller, hate the CIA, hate the whole system.”
The wife, naturally, is in a state of severe frustration and
at times near depression. “How do things like this happen?”
she asks. “How ao groups like this form? How do they trap
people like my husband*”
The answers, unfortunately, are unknown. No doubt many
of the NCLC members, including my friend, are sincere in
their wish to change the nation, sincere in their contempt for
the Rockefeller fortune. But their blind faith in a hopeless,
malicious cause goes unexplained save the fact free men
have many rights, including that of being damn fools.
And were the principal horror of NCLC merely the crea
tion of foolish members, the group would merit no editorial
comment. Sadly, though, their potential for evil is much
more worrisome. “It’s the kind of organization that scares
me,” says an investigator for the House Internal Security
Committee, “who knows what crackpots like that will do?’ r
Still, of course, NCLC may never do anything but simply
exist. And, ironically, in such eventuality their foes such as
(Nelson Rockefeller) would be safe and only their friends,
such as my friend, would be destroyed.
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QUOTES
“Kissinger has always been
a political chameleon able to
take on the coloration of his
environment. Hawks and
doves alike thought that they
had found a kindred spirit in
Henry.”
— From the book
“Kissinger” by Marvin and
Bernard Kalb.
“This business about them
not able to find a jury of
peers to sit in judgment of
Nixon — baloney! What’s so
hard about finding 12 crooks
to sit in judgment of another
crook?”
—Anonymous New York
taxi cab driver in response to
charges by former White
House aides of ex-President
Nixon that only a jury of
former presidents could
fairly judge Mr. Nixon on
trial.
DAILY NEWS
Quimby Mellon. Jr_ Editor and Publisher
Cary Reeves,
General Manager
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heaviest coins used in history
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Almanac says.
GRIFFIN
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Executive Editor
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