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L M. BOYD
Girls Wanted
On French TV
Women announcers on TV and radio in France are
called “speakerines.” They’re exceedingly popular, inci
dentally. Relatively far more girls hold down such chores
over there. It’s thought they talk with less effort and
more clarity. French TV station managers claim they ’
audition 10,000 women to get three speakerines.
YOU KNOW THOSE life expectancy statistics? If
deaths from cancer weren’t counted, you could add two
years to your predictable longevity. But if the deaths
tied into overweight weren't considered, your life span
could be reckoned seven years longer.
ANOTHER reason you see so few drunken dogs in
Chicago is the law there prohibits the feeding of whiskey
to canines.
APRIL AND WAR
Not all of this country's wars started in April, but a
lot did. So many as to be noteworthy. April 19, 1775, saw
the battles of Lexington and Concord kick off the Amer
ican Revolution. The War of 1812 got going when the
British burned our national capitol on April 24 of that
year. It was on April 14, 1861, when Fort Sumter was
fired upon to begin the Civil War. The Spanish-American
War opened up when the United States ordered Spain
out of Cuba in April of 1889. And the U. S. Congress
declared war against Germany on April 6, 1917, to put us
into World War 1. April is the crudest month, said the
poet. Maybe so.
QUICK QUERIES
Q. "Does a crab have teeth?"
A. In its stomach, yes.
Q. "DID Christopher Columbus wear a beard?”
A. Not according to the only authenticated portrait
of him.
Q. "WHAT’S Happy Rockefeller’s real name?"
A. Margaretta.
Q. “IN WHOSE HONOR was the Sistine Chapel
in the Vatican named?"
A. Pope Sixtus IV.
Q. "WHAT KIND of jewels are used in watches?”
A. Synthetic rubies. Nowadays. Before that, sap
phires. Before that, diamonds.
Address mail to L.M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076. Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1974 I. M. Boyd
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For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 25,
the 268th day of 1974 with 97 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars and Jupiter.
Those bom on this day in
history are under the sign of
Libra.
American author William
Faulkner was born Sept. 25,
1897.
On this day in history:
In 1513, Spanish explorer
Balboa became the first known
European to see the Pacific
Ocean when he crossed the
Isthmus of Panama.
In 1789, the first Congress
adopted 12 amendments to the
original Constitution, 10 of
which were ratified and
became known as “The Bill of
Rights.”
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
The middle of the weak is
what a fellow carries around
who can’t stay on a diet.
It's not difficult to laugh at
a man when he’s down —
unless you've been the one
staring up from the
sidewalk.
Recall when corn was
stored for winter instead of
being shoveled into TV sets?
There are three sides to
every question: yours, his
and the one neither of you
w ant to face.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN >
THOUGHTS
The end of the matter; all
has been heard. Fear God,
and keep his command
ments: for this is the whole
duty of man. — Eccl. 12:13.
The duty of man is plain
and simple, and consists of
but two points: his duty to
God, which every man must
feel; and his duty to his neigh
bor — to do as he would be
done by.— Thomas Paine,
American political essayist.
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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.
Dear Quimby: I thought it would be of
interest to your readers to give some facts
about the World Congress Center to be
constructed in Atlanta.
The 1974 General Assembly voted to
authorize the construction of this Center
by issuing Revenue Bonds rather than
General Obligation Bonds, therefore, the
structure will not cost the taxpayer any
money whatever. The Revenue Bonds are
for S3B million.
The Bonds are now being sold and the
annual repayment will be $2% million each
year. The facility has already been leased
with escalation clauses for additional rent.
The rental income will amount to more
than $3 million per year which will more
than take care of the revenue bond
repayment.
It is estimated that the sales tax
generated for the state will exceed more
than $4 million each year and will grow
year after year. So this new building will
make the people of the state money with no
investment of tax dollars.
In addition to profit income the Congress
Center will provide more than 4,500 jobs
and many of them will likely be Griffinites.
The Center is scheduled to open in two
years and already more than 25,000 con
firmed reservations have been made from
foreign buyers.
Georgia products, both finished and
unfinished will be displayed in the Center
so Georgia will become truly an in
ternational center. The sale of Georgia
goods and products will mean millions to
the state’s economy.
The wisdom of the General Assembly in
providing this Center for all the people is
wonderful and far seeing. And one of the
greatest things about it all is that it will not
cost the taxpayer a penny. This is really
something isn’t it?
Thanks for publishing this information
to your readers. Sincerely (Signed) John
Q. Stephenson, 1003 Skyline Drive
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Dear Mr. Melton: I would like to take
this opportunity to express my ap
preciation to the Griffin Daily News and to
Mr. Roger Dix, Sports Editor, in par
ticular for the excellent coverage given
our softball team during the past season.
Mr. Dix was kind enough to carry news
items for all of our out of town tour
naments and also gave us good com
prehensive coverage here in the city. A
highly successful season for us was made
even more enjoyable by your fine work.
Once again, on behalf of our players and
sponsor, thanks for a good home town
newspaper. Sincerely yours, (Signed)
George T. Brinkley, Jr., Manager, Griffin
Auto Parts Men’s Softball Team
RESPONSE: Thank you.
Mr. Editor: The officials in Washington
are ringing their hands in despair because
they can not enforce the school
desegregation laws in the North and West.
They claim the people won’t stand for it.
Some politicians say they are going to
work to get the Fifty-Five mile per hour
speed law repealed on the weak-kneed
excuse that the law cannot be enforced. Lt.
Gov. Lester Maddox says he drives 75
miles per hour because everyone else
does. Then some people wonder why the
crime rate keeps going up.
Please print this in your "Letters to the
Editor” Column. A Concerned Citzen.
RESPONSE: Okay. But next time
please sign your name.
Power of God
saves from sin
1 am strong in the faith. But I find myself
at a loss when asked to defend Christianity
to those who do not seem to have this gift of
faith. Some of these evidently search for
God in Eastern religions, and even in
witchcraft, but reject the concept of the
cross and the Gospel of Christ. Why are
they not given this gift of faith too? M.D.M.
The Bible puts it plainly! It is not God’s
will that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance. It also says,
“Many are called, but few are chosen.”
Matthew 20:16. God calls, but many do not
respond, and unless they respond to His
love they cannot be chosen. God will not
force anyone to love and serve Him. We
must be willing.
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‘The voice
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Dear Sir: Figures recently released by
the state show Spalding County and its
municipalities received a combined total
of $178,666 in state grants for capital im
provements, primarily streets and roads
during fiscal 1973-74. According to Trux
Magazine, state highway use taxes on
trucks supplied approximately $50,919 of
the total.
Each year, from its motor fuel tax
revenues, Georgia apportions ap
proximately $11.9 million to each of the
state’s 159 counties. A similar amount is
granted to "eligible and qualified”
municipalities.
The truck portion is computed by ap
plying the percentage of total motor fuel
taxes paid in Georgia by trucks against
each allocation.
Although trucks comprise only 18.5
percent of the privately owned motor
vehicles in Georgia, they pay 28.5 percent
of all state highway use taxes, of $74.8
million. The magazine noted that while a
license for an automobile can cost as little
as $3, a truck license can run more than
S7OO. In fact, the magazine says, the user
taxes paid to operate a single tractor
trailer unit in Georgia are equal to the
taxes paid to operate 40 automobiles.
The amount granted directly to the
county was $60,461, of which trucks paid
$17,231.
Grants to individual municipalities
within the county and the portion paid by
trucks (in parentheses) were: Griffin,
$118,205 ($33,688). (Signed) Michael Jones-
Kelley, Trux Magazine, 500 Piedmont
Avenue, Atlanta.
Dear Quimby: In contemplation of our
role in trying to guarantee a world food
supply, we should remember the limits
which must govern our decisions.
Our world obligation must be limited by
our own production; and our
requirements, which must come first.
Then there are definite limits to our
responsibility to other peoples. For in
stance, India. This vast country has an
enormous number of cattle. This should be
a prime source of food, but not in India.
The Hindu religion forbids eating them.
This produces a double food drain, since
these cattle consume a prodigious quantity
of food, which of course is a great loss to
the human food supply.
The Hindu religion weighs heavily on the
food supply in India. Should this religion be
allowed to cut in on our supply? I think not.
What do you think? Very truly yours,
(Signed C.B. Nichols, Happyvale Flour
Mills.
The Apostle Paul faced this problem
with the Greeks, who were tied in to
mythology and the philosophies. To them,
the preaching of the cross was foolishness.
It just didn’t make sense that a just God
could love those who had so flagrantly
sinned against Him; that He gave His Son
as an atonement for their sins. Their
rational minds could not accept that. It
wasn’t that they weren’t religious. But
they could respond only to a religion which
fit their rationalistic pattern of thought.
To the lost, the cross is meaningless (for
their eyes are blinded), but to the believer
of God’s grace, it is the “power of God” —
the only thing that makes sense, and saves
from sin.
MY
ANSWER
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Scottish scholar’s clues
to successful living
By David Poling
According to government statistics, the United States is
importing some S7OO million more in goods than it is export
ing. Economists seem alarmed at this development but they
have not identified all the stuff that we are so eagerly
purchasing from abroad. Aside from the cars, electronic
gear and cameras, there are the books of William Barclay,
that prolific scholar, preacher, journalist, television teacher
and seminary professor who hails from Glasgow, Scotland.
Barclay has written at least 60 books, his most popular
being the “Daily Study Bible” which is heading for two mil
lion in sales. People who are serious about the scriptures
have Barclay on tneir shelves. We are attracted to his style,
for he writes in a journalistic manner that is lively, fresh and
often humorous.
Dr. Barclay has long argued that people in the ministry
must have broad interests if they are to keep from boring the
church to death. He practices what he preaches, for here is a
scholar who likes to hop out in front of the house and wax his
own car. He knows the football scores and what happened at
the soccer match yesterday. Although deaf and dependent
on a hearing aid, he has directed the university choir for two
decades and been a lifelong railroad enthusiast.
He writes powerfully and well for he has shared the joys
and sorrows of the world. His daughter was lost in a tragic
drowning accident.
Many of us are now reading “Daily Celebration Vol II.”
Here is a meditation or thought for every day of the year. It
might work for some but we have found that you keep read
ing ahead, months ahead, just to have the stimulation and in
spiration of this profound and large spirit.
A friend wrote to Dr. Barclay, asking for the secret of his
successful effort in accomplishing so much in publishing,
while maintaining a teaching career and pursuing so many
varied interests. The Scottish reply is helpful to anyone, par
ticularly the millions of young people in school all over the
globe.
Answered the Glasgow divine:
“1. My first rule is BEGIN EARLY .... John Wesley
preached 42,000 sermons in 53 years. He averaged 4,500
miles per year in travel and he wrote or edited 450 books.
John always got up at 4:30 a.m.!”
Dr. Barclay does not suggest that we are all John Wesley
but he urges the bright early start. He is in his office at 8:30
every morning and remains at his desk for three solid hours
(before his teaching commences).
“2. My second rule is KEEP GOING! One of the greatest
time-wasters is the habit we have of saying: I’ve only got 25
minutes. It’s not worth starting. But I find it is always worth
starting!”
Professor Barclay would have us fill our time more
carefully, particularly when we are waiting or traveling.
Wesley did most of his reading on horseback.
“3. My third rule is KEEP TO SCHEDULE! I have no use
for the idea of waiting for inspiration! If I waited for inspira
tion, this book (or the material on which it is based) would
never have been written.
“Daily Celebration II” is loaded with clues to successful
living, probably because the author’s life is filled with broad
and consistent habits of Christian activity.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
1-told-you-so’s’ rejoice!
What this country needs is a national registry of “experts”
that would keep score on their predictions for the future.
Such a registry, suggests Columbia University sociologist
Amital Etzioni, would screen out those “experts” whose ad
vice proved faulty in the past and would point out those
whose predictions have away of coming true
For example, he notes that Dr. Philip H. Abelson, editor of
Science magazine, warned way back on Feb. 11, 1971, that
the reliance of the industrial nations on petroleum had made
their technological and social well being “vulnerable to ma
nipulation by some otherwise unimportant Middle Eastern
states.
That, says Etzioni, is an example of an expert dismissed at
the time as an alarmist’ whose prediction came true.
The nation thus might benefit greatly,” he writes in
Human Behavior magazine, “from a national registry for ex
perts where all predictions will be listed ... After all, if you
can get such a poop sheet' on the performance of every
horse that runs on a racetrack, why not on people who advise
the policy makers? ’
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY QUOTES
British author H. G. Wells
said, “Human history becomes
more and more a race between
education and catastrophe.”
American naval hero John
Paul Jones declared during a
battle with British forces in
1779, “I have just begun to
fight.”
German poet Frederich
Wilheim Nietzsche said, “In
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British prime minister and
author, Benjamin Disraeli,
said, “Every woman should »
marry . . . and no man.”
American poet Walt Whitman
said, “Once fully enslaved, no
nation, state, city of this earth
ever afterward resumes its
liberty.”
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