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CONSULTATION
L M. BOYD
Woman Looks
Best at 32
Question arises fairly frequently over whether Miss
America contestants are more beautiful really than are
Mrs. America contestants. Certainly not, says a gentle
man with a long record of attention to these matters.
"A woman gets more attractive,” he says, “after she
loses that glossy superficiality of the late teens. She gets
a softness, a kind of mellow glow in repose.” Mighty
pretty language. He says, “A woman's beauty reaches its
peak at about 32. It then levels off till about 38. It then
begins to decline. The break-even point comes at about
45. She's about as attractive then, if she takes care of
herself, as she was at 18.”
Q. “WHO WAS the first billionaire in the United
States?”
A. John D. Rockefeller.
RATS
Seamen long have believed that rats will desert an un
seaworthy ship before it leaves port. And coal miners
think scampering rats will warn them of an impending
cave-in. Repeatedly, the cynics have scoffed at these no
tions, contending no scientific evidence supports them.
I don't mind debating that. Seeping water founders ships
and weakens mine walls. And the rats are the first to find
that seeping water, no?
BEST PLACE to catch a butterfly is when said
winged critter is sitting on a thistle. Insect specialists
say butterflies actually get a little drunk on thistle nectar.
HAUNCHES
More than half the people in the world prefer to squat
on their haunches rather than sit or stand. Particularly
so in Asia. During World War 11, Japanese soldiers
required American prisoners to hold that position for
hours, possibly not realizing it was unnatural for them.
The returned POWs reported it bitterly as a form of
torture.
IF YOU CAN’T identify the “Watchers,” the "Sleep
ers’* and the “Dreamers," your old geography teacher
would be ashamed of you. Those are what the Hollanders
call their dikes. Watchers are biggest, standing first
against the sea. Sleepers make up the second line of de
fense. Dreamers are set out around Individual farms. Ah,
now you remember?
CAN YOU NAME the log-cabin presidents? Records
show only six can be so called, each having been born in a
log cabin. Jackson, Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan, Lincoln
and Garfield.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Sept. 20 the
263rd day of 1974 with 102 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.
George Bird Grinnell, Ameri
can writer and explorer of the
West, was born Sept. 20, 1849.
This is actress Sophia Loren’s
40th birthday.
On this day in history:
In 1519, Portuguese navigator
Ferdinand Magellan began a
voyage to find a western
passage to the East Indies.
In 1873, financial chaos forced
the New York Stock Exchange
to close. It remained closed for
10 days.
In 1881, Vice President
Chester Arthur became the 21st
American president following
the gunshot death of James
Garfield.
In 1972, a rash of “letter
bombs” hit several world
capitals. The “letters” were
addressed to Israeli officials.
Smokey Says:
SMOKING MAY 5
BE DANGEROUS TO
THE FORESTS HEALTH
Break your matches—
crush your smokes
THOUGHTS
"Truly. I say to you, unless
you turn and become like
children, you will never
enter the kingdom of
heaven. Whoever humbles
himself like this child, he is
the greatest in the kingdom
of heaven.” — Matthew
18:3,4.
“Humility leads to strength
and not to weakness. It is the
highest form of self-respect
to admit mistakes and to
make amends for them." —
John J. McCloy, American
diplomat.
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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.
The administrator reported to the
Hospital Authority the other night that
from April 1 through August the hospital
washed and dried 138,000 pounds of
laundry.
That is a lot of laundry, and the washing
and drying of it are interesting. What is of
more concern is the washing out of
hospital personnel problems in public. Any
institution with as many employes as the
Reunions
•:•: The trouble with class reunions is your :$
;$ classmates remember everything you g
$ wish they’d forgotten and forgotten every- :•:;
x thing you wish they’d remembered. •:•
A suggestion
The director of Georgia’s sprawling
Department of Human Resources which
consists of health, welfare and vocational
education agencies is resigning.
This opens the way for selection of a
strong and understanding leader who can
straighten out things such as getting the
mental health hospital in Columbus into
operation, and who can make them work
well in addition to their looking good on
paper.
Such a person is available right here in
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
Coach Whitaker’s pupil
The Atlanta Falcons’ season opener last
Sunday didn’t go as Coach Norm Van
Brocklin planned it.
The Dallas Cowboys manhandled the.
Falcons, who were not as inept on defense
and they were on offense.
The Falcons’ offense was shutdown by
the Cowboys.
One reason for the Cowboys’ success on
offense was Rayfield Wright, a huge all
pro tackle.
‘Thy will
be done’
I have always liked the new versions and
paraphrases of the Scriptures because the
language is more modern. But I was
disturbed when I found out that one of
them in Luke 11 left out “Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.” To me, the
prayer without this important phrase just
isn’t complete. Doesn’t the Bible warn us
that nothing should be “taken from the
World of God?” J. H. W.
Several versions make the same
omission in Luke 11, although all seem to
show it in Matthew 6. Os course, the sub
mission of Jesus to His Father’s will was
evident all during His ministry. It was His
yielding to God’s will which led to the path
to the cross where He purchased our
redemption.
Personnel
hospital is bound to have personnel
troubles from time to time.
The proper place to handle them is
through the administration with right of
appeal to the personnel committee and
finally to the full board. Airing every
grievance - real or imagined - in public can
only injure these involved and damage the
hospital.
Griffin. He is druggist Lee Roy Claxton
who has spent eight and a half unselfish
and highly productive years as a member
of the department’s board and of the Board
of Health which preceded it.
We suggest that the board thus look no
further than its own member, offer Mr.
Claxton a contract long enough in years to
do what needs to be done, hire him for
thwith, put him in charge, and watch good
things start happening.
Rayfield, who played his prep football
for Coach Hiram Whitaker at Fairmont
High School, spent his afternoon protec
ting Dallas’ quarterback and knocking
holes in Atlanta’s defense.
We suspect Coach Whitaker is a Falcon
fan and hated to see the home state team
lose.
However, the coach probably enjoyed
seeing his former pupil play a key role in
Dallas’ victory.
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ANSWER
I read the new paraphrases and transla
tions, but I use the King James version in
the pulpit and in my Scriptural quotations.
If you think of the paraphrases in modem
English as commentaries on the Scrip
tures (and many of them do throw new
light on the Bible) instead of infallible
translations, you will not go wrong. To
translate the Bible from the original
manuscripts is a gargantuan task,
requiring years of work, and the skills of
many trained linguists and translators.
Therefore, in my opinion the tried and
tested translations are preferred. But this,
of course, doesn’t rule out the value of the
better and recognized paraphrased
a
editions.
Send your criticism to the publisher of
that particular version. I’m sure they
would welcome it.
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Ray Cromley
Courts’ performance
a crime in itself
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — Sometimes government spend
ing borders on the ridiculous. There’s a compulsiveness <
there not connected with results.
Take the case of federal aid to the courts, a most worthy
cause. Back case loads run to 33,000 or more in some coun
ties. Those arrested wait an average seven to eight to 10 w
months for trial in too many areas. Court delays reduce
public confidence, make crime deterrence more difficult
and increase the problems in rehabilitating those who break
the law. The innocent lose jobs, their families are broken up
or forced on welfare. The guilty are free on bail to commit ’
more crimes.
The overpowering court backlogs lead to an abuse of plea
bargaining, offering too much leniency for guilty pleas, ex
treme harshness for not guilty pleas and too quick decisions ,
aimed more at clearing the calendar than meeting justice.
The studies show our courts are abominably managed. No
corporation today could last a year without going broke or
facing criminal charges with such little regard for financial
management and such inefficiency. With few exceptions, ’
record keeping in court systems is primitive. In most juris
dictions, the most rudimentary management information
needs are not met. Available court statistics are fragmen
tary and frequently poorly defined. Few courts even know «
how long it takes to process and dispose of their own crimi
nal cases.
The federal government, with the best of intentions, has
provided almost S2OO million for improving court pro
cedures and systems. But the government does not know
whether its projects are attacking, in any important way, the
problems that need solving. Few of the operating programs
nave been evaluated.
There are indications, in fact, that half the federal re- •
gional offices do not have staffs capable of reviewing or
evaluating these highly technical matters. Men assigned to
the job lack expertise and turnover has been heavy. The
local officials operating these costly programs have been
frank to admit they don t know what is really wrong — what
basically are the underlying causes of the problems the court
system faces, or why delays exist.
Except in generalities, little effort has been made to define
what needs doing. Programs using federal funds for court
improvement have not been geared to concrete definable
problems. Federal regional officers haven’t bothered to en
courage grant managers to set measurable goals supported
by specific data. Half the projects studied in a recent survey «.
had no inventory data on local court facilities, no data on
their usage and only incomplete information on the number
of judges, district attorneys, public defenders and their
caseloads. Though they knew little about what they were
doing, they spent the government money full tilt all the ‘
same.
There has been pitifully little effort to direct the govern
ment's funds toward the hot spots. Court delays, as noted
above, are now’ recognized as due primarily to inefficient ad
ministration. A mere 17 per cent of the government’s court
improvement money has been targeted at this problem.
Worse, when a program succeeds or fails in one court sys
tem. little effort is made to pass the results to other localities t
— so that they might profit by the example. What is done in
this line, apparently, is hit and miss.
Small wonder President Ford suggests even worthy gov
ernment aid projects should be re-examined.
♦
Smoke-filled rooms
In the immediate aftermath of the House Judiciary Com- •
mittee’s impressive demonstration of the Constitution in ac
tion last July as it presented the case against Richard Nixon
for the benefit of millions of viewers, it was suggested that
Congress might well repeal its rule barring televised ses- «
sions.
What better way to teach Americans, young and old, about
the workings of their government than by letting them wit
ness the deliberations of their representatives and senators?
Then came the second thoughts. It’s one thing to televise
an impeachment hearing, with all its dramatic appeal and
historical significance. But such events don’t —fortunately
— happen every day. It would be quite another thing to in
stall television cameras in the galleries of the House and
Senate.
More often than not there would be nothing for them to be
trained on —a handful of men, perhaps, some reading the
paper, others seeming to doze, none of them paying the
slightest attention to the droning and utterly inconsequential *
speech of a colleague.
The fact is that most of the work of Congress goes on
behind the scenes (even as it did with the Judiciary Commit
tee). A case in point is the enormously complicated pension
reform act just signed by President Ford.
This law is the product of some seven years of effort —
thousands of hours of committee hearings, millions of words
of testimony, research and investigation by staff members,
writing and rewriting of the bill, compromises, arm-twist
ing. In short, much the same process as any other bill, but
more so.
At what point could any of this, even though of crucial im
portance to millions of American workers, have been *
televised?
Television is great for presidential speeches and news
conferences and the rare congressional spectacular. But for
an understanding of the day-to-day operations of the govern
ment, there is still no substitute for the printed word.
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