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— Griffin Daily News Monday, September 23, 1974
"It’s Time to Make Your Move!”
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L M. BOYD
Horses Are
Southpaws
A horseman of considerable experience contends al
most all horses are southpaws, as it were, running natural
ly with the left hoof foremost.
UP JUMPS an authority now who claims the Catho
lic church makes SIOO million a year on its bingo games
in the 12 states where the law allows.
COURT RULINGS in Maryland suggest that any
young man there who makes six visits to a girl’s home is
as good as married to her.
CHINA SMASH
In Denmark’s Tivoli Gardens, you can pay out the
equivalent of about six cents for the privilege of throwing
five wooden balls at a batch of fine porcelain plates,
cups, saucers, teapots, platters, tureens and mixing bowls.
A highly therapeutic exercise. I’m told. These porcelain
wares are rejects from Denmark’s numerous pottery
plants. A 15-minute session of china smashing is said to
do as much for the Danes as the sauna does for the
Finns.
Q. “WHO WAS the first doctor to sugarcoat pills?”
A. Credit for that piece of brilliance goes to a
Philadelphia druggist named William R. Warner. In 1856.
He received no decorations, awards or medals, peculiarly.
RINGS
Now that the double-ring wedding ceremony is so
popular, debate arises again as to whether a husband-to
be should wear an engagement ring even as does a bride
to-be. It has long been understood that an engagement
ring on a girl's hand wards off predatory fellows. But
why shouldn’t an engagement ring on a man’s hand ward
off predatory females? What’s said to be holding up this
reasonable change in tradition is an unwillingness among
the girls to pay for those rings.
AM ASKED HOW writing paper first came to be re
ferred to as “foolscap.” British documents in the days
of Charles I were water-marked with the royal coat of
arms of England. But when old Oliver Cromwell took
control, he ordered that an imprint of a fool’s cap be
adopted as the official water mark. That was his way of
thumbing his nose at Charles. Anyhow, such stationery
since has been so called.
NOT LIKELY you know a doctor who ever witnessed
a case of that rare nervous disease called miaryachit.
Occurs only among orientals. I’m told. Symptoms are
spectacular. Patients involuntarily mimic the voices and
actions of people around them.
Address moil to l. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth , TX 761Q2
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Are you sure they’re getting married? I’m not shelling out for
any 'roommate arrangement’!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Sept. 23,
the 266th day of 1974 with 99 to
follow.
The moon is in 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 Libra.
Canadian-born actor Walter
Pidgeon was born Sept. 23,
1898.
On this day in history:
In 1779, the USS Bonhomme
Richard, commanded by
American naval hero John Paul
Jones, defeated the British
frigate Serapin in a battle off
the coast of Scotland.
In 1926, Jack Dempsey lost
his heavyweight boxing cham
pionship to Gene Tunney in
Philadelphia.
In 1941, the United States,
Britain, Russia and China
established the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Ad
ministration to help war
liberated areas of the world.
In 1950, Congress adopted the
U.S. Internal Security Act,
providing for registration of
Communists. Communist regis
tration later was ruled uncon
stitutional by the U.S. Supreme
Court.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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The world’s largest single
level covered facility is the
“Astro hall” in Houston. Tex.,
which covers 750.000 square
feet and is adjacent to the
famous Astrodome, The
World Almanac notes. The
Astrodome is the largest
dome in the world and has an
inside diameter of 642 feet
and an outside diameter of
710 feet.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.'
THOUGHTS
For if a man lives many
years, let him rejoice in
them all; but let him remem
ber that the days of darkness
will be many. All that comes
is vanity. — Eccl. 11:8.
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Ouim by 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 local economy
The Griffin-Spalding Community con
tinues to pile up impressive business
statistics despite the general economic
uncertainty.
Bank debits are recognized as a reliable
economic indicator because they are with
drawals from demand deposit accounts at
banks, principally by checks, and most
business is transacted by check. The
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reported
this week that at 25 percent Griffin led
every city and town in Georgia except
A service
The League of Women Voters again this
x year will register people eligible but not
>:• registered to cast ballots. They will do this
•j; at the Spalding County Fair in October,
and it is a fine service to the community. jij:
Singing the blues
The multi-millionaire king of pornog
raphy is headed for jail unless he wins
some court appeals, and he is singing the
blues. According to what we have read
about him, he is a talented businessman
who could have made it straight, but he
went the illegitimate route. Now he wants
to improve his image before they lock him
up.
So he has offered to give his lavish estate
and home on the fashionable north side of
Atlanta to the city for use as a school for
gifted children, and to buy and save the
Fox Theater from destruction.
Fumbles, penalties
Observations at a football game: Griffin
High 7-Newton County 3:
School sprit has improved. Students
actually stand up and cheer. Our
cheerleaders are cute. Our band is better
than their band.
Griffin’s defense saved the game. Too
many fumbles and penalties for GHS. The
offense has promise and if it catches up to
the defense we will win some more.
Daughters rarely
visit this couple
We have two daughters, and we looked
forward to their marriage and even
tually, grandchildren. But now that they
have children, they rarely visit us, except
when they want a free meal, or a loan of
money. They use their children as pawns,
letting us see them, if we cater to their
whims, and withholding them if we don’t.
Our daughters both seem to feel that since
we raised them, we have done our part,
and our role is finished. Is this right? 8.8.
Os course it isn’t right. Your children are
breaking the commandment of God:
“Honor thy father and mother, that thy
days may be long in the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee.” Exodus 20:12.
Having said that, I don’t think you
should spend the rest of your days grieving
metropolitan Atlanta, Augusta and Macon
in the increase of bank debits the first
seven months of this year over the same
period a year ago.
Also, in July debits in Griffin this year
were 20 percent higher than they were in
July of last year, and they were six percent
higher in July of this year than they were in
June. In dollars, they were $86,546,000 in
July of this year, $81,750,000 in June of this
year, and $72,296,000 in July of 1973. Thus
business is active in Griffin, and more
active than it was a year ago.
One could argue both sides as to ac
cepting or rejecting the offers. As for us,
we would not like to see gifted children
benefiting even indirectly from por
nography or the porno king becoming a
philanthropic legend. As for the Fox, it
would be better to tear it down and haul it
away than for it to stand as a monument to
dirty books and the man behind them.
The porno king has made his image
through an unwise albeit profitable use of
his talents. He has won the world in dollars
and cents and lost it in the eyes of decent
fellow men.
This week Griffin plays LaGrange there.
Last year LaGrange won the 6AAA
championship and Griffin finished third
behind Newnan’s second. LaGrange
nearly always fields a good team, but R.E.
Lee of Thomaston beat the Grangers 27 to 9
last week and Newnan topped them the
week before. On the record Griffin should
win, but that is no cause to let up— par
ticularly recalling the fumbles and the
penalties.
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ANSWER
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over the alienation of your children. You
know whether or not you gave them a good
home. You know the kind of training you
gave them. The thing for you to do now, is
to devote the time you normally would give
to your daughters and their families, to
other constructive things. You say you are
church members. Every minister today
needs help. There are lonely people to be
visited. There are people in your com
munity who have never received Christ,
and perhaps just a word from you, spoken
in love, could bring them to Him. Do things
with each other; read your Bible more.
Start a Bible study group in your home. Os
course, you will continue to love and pray
for your children and grandchildren. But,
make this whole matter a springboard to
produce richer and more fruitful lives.
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"It's all right! I grant you a full, free and
absolute pardon!"
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WASHINGTON — (NEA) — The economic mess this nation
is now in cannot be blamed solely on the blunders of Con
gress and the executive, as serious as these have consistently
been over the past 15 years or so.
The problem rests, too, with the changing nature of the
1,000 leading businesses of this nation.
By and large, management is now in the hands of profes
sional managers. These men, many of whom come from the
same dozen colleges, think in like patterns. Numbers act,
think and talk like big-government bureaucrats. Some are in
and out of government and while in Washington are almost
indistinguishable from the careerists.
Many of these new-type managers are not wedded to their
jobs but rather to personal advancement. A sizable number
nop from one concern to another, gaining advancement with
each move. They are interested, in large measure, in setting
a quick track record.
Over the long run, say a decade or two, impressive growth
depends on taking intelligent chances, well-considered risks
in pushing into new fields or new industrial methods which
may take long years to show profit. If a manager aims at
quick profits in two to four years, he will avoid risks and ven
tures which only promise payoffs far in the future. He may
organize mergers and concentrate on areas where he can
pass rising costs on to the customer without serious com
plications.
Productivity will rise slowly. Expansion will be slow and
cautious. New inventions and new concepts will be adopted
at a snail’s pace if at all. Patents will be bought and
pigeonholed. Many sound ideas will be carefully buried.
Witness the slow pace at which the S2O billion a year in
government research and development is adapted and
translated into new or improved industrial projects. And
witness the speed with which Japanese and West German
businessmen utilize new American discoveries.
American industrialists invited in by the government, and
these have included the chiefs or high representatives of
some of the major corporations in this country, have asked
the federal establishment to take over such normal private
business functions as running marketing tests for new prod
ucts, setting up government-financed pilot plants and even,
in some cases, requested full-scale model operations at tax
payer expense. Only if the government proves the ventures
to be safe, some of these men say, will their firms be in
terested in investing.
This reaction is not unusual. In instance after instance, ex
ecutives of major enterprises have told the government they
are not receptive to taking risks in developing new products.
This contrasts sharply with the attitude of executives of
these same companies this reporter talked to regularly 10
and 20 years ago. The emphasis then was on new ideas. Risks
were minimized by careful planning. Successes more than
compensated for failures.
There is a limit, of course, to the present “hold-down.”
American industry is progressing but certainly its progress
does not match that of Japan or West Germany in recent
years. Our technological lead is disappearing, gradually but
surely.
New materials and products are developed and marketed
of course and products do get improved. But these advances
are not taking place at the pace necessary to make possible
the industrial expansion required to absorb our growing
population, to stimulate the output necessary to hold infla
tion within reasonable limits and to provide for the regularly
improving standards of living all of us aim for.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
IRS grows another head
Taxpayers have long been conscious of Uncle .Sam looking
over their shoulders as they made out their return. He’s now
grown another head — that of the state in which the tax
payer lives.
Presently, 48 states and the District of Columbia have
“agreements of co-operation” with the federal Internal
Revenue Service on the exchange of information about tax
payers, reports Commerce Clearing House. Only Nevada and
Texas, which have no state income tax, lack such agree
ments.
The expanding use of automatic data processing equip
ment at both state and federal levels has sharply increased
the amount and variety of information shared. Such is the in
terplay that an audit by the state tax collector can trigger
one by the federal government as well.
Moreover, a growing number of states are basing their in
come tax laws on the Internal Revenue Code. This confor
mity between state and federal tax laws also increases the
flow of information between the taxing authorities.
Now the states themselves are swapping information
about tax returns. As of June, 1973, 21 states had signed a
reciprocal exchange of information agreement designed bv
the Multistate Tax Commission.
If it is any consolation to taxpayers. Commerce Clearing
House notes that measures to protect the confidentiality of
tax returns are given special emphasis in these agreements.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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