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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 21,1974
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Toothpaste
For Dogs
Note that a German-born dentist named Dr. Ursula
Dietrich has invented a toothbrush for dogs called Doggy-
Dent. The announcement preceded mild laughter here and
there. Too bad. The citizenry ought not to be so skeptical.
Remember, George Washington ordered his help to. brush
the teeth of his six white horses every morning. And it’s
widely known that monkeys not only brush their own
teeth, but become expert with toothpicks.
IF YOU’RE a healthy grownup, you can be expected
to eat your own weight in food about once every 50
days. If you're a healthy youngster, make it once every
10 days.
IN CRIPPLE CREEK, COL., this epitaph appears
on a natural rock tombstone: “He called Bill Smith a
liar.”
DO AS ROMANS
Q. “Who first said ‘When in Rome, do as the
Romans do’?”
A. History records Saint Ambrose uttered such to
Saint Augustine. Roman citizens fasted on Saturday.
Milan citizens feasted on Saturday. To eat or not to eat,
that was the query Saint Augustine put to Saint Ambrose
who then delivered his most famous one-liner.
SOME SURGEONS reportedly decline to operate on
exceedingly overweight patients. It’s not that the obese
don’t heal well. The stitches tend to come loose unless
most precisely sewn.
A GEOGRAPHER tells me the Panama Canal is just
about due south of Pittsburgh, Pa.
FISH
Fish cough. And the more polluted the water, the
more they cough. Finally realizing this, the environ
mental scientists now are measuring water pollution by
monitoring with sensitive instruments the coughing of
fish. You're right, it’s a federal project.
IF YOU’RE 60 years old, you were born the year
Margaret Sanger coined the phrase “birth control” . . .
AND TO HIS LIST of palindromes, our Language man
has added, “Madam, in Eden I'm Adam” “. . WOMAN’S
VIRTUE is man's greatest invention,” said Cornelia Otis
Skinner, wryly . . . DO YOU REALIZE you’ve got about
50 times as much inner surface in your lungs as skin
surface outside your body? . . . THAT AMAZON BASIN
river called Teodoro is so named because Theodore
Roosevelt discovered it.
BASEBALLS break approximately 4,000 windows a
year.
Addrou moil to L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1974 t. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Nov. 21,
the 325th day of 1974, with 40 to
follow.
The moon is in its first
quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Venus
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Scorpio.
William Beaumont, pioneer
American army surgeon, was
born Nov. 21, 1785.
On this day in history:
In 1877, Thomas Edison
announced the invention of
what he called “The Talking
Machine” (phonograph).
In 1925, Harold “Red”
Grange played his last football
game for the University of
Illinois before joining the pro
Chicago Bears.
In 1938, Nazi forces occupied
the western regions of Czechos
lovakia and declared all per
sons in those areas German
citizens.
In 1963, President John F.
Kennedy was greeted by
cheering crowds in San Antoni
o, Houston and Fort Worth,
Tex., with no portents of the
tragedy to befall him the
following day in Dallas.
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people of every avocation and
interest so completely. . .on a
global, national and local level.
It’s the medium bringing you
the news when you are ready for
it.
THOUGHTS
Let the lowly brother boast
in his exaltation, and the
rich in his humiliation, be
cause like the flower of the
grass he will pass away. —
James 1:9,10.
“Humanity either makes,
or breeds, or tolerates all its
afflictions, great or small.” —
Herbert G. Wells, English
historian.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
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.
That CD drill
The realistic Civil Defense drill at
Dundee Mill No. 1 this week needlessly
terrified numbers of people who feared
that loved ones who work in the mill had
been maimed or killed. It was fortunate
that nobody died from a heart attack.
On the other hand, from the standpoint
of training the drill was a success, and it is
good to know that the community is
prepared to cope with a major emergency
when and if one should occur.
If future drills of this kind are needed,
advance notice should be given to all
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Rockefeller
The Rockefeller hearings now appear to
have degenerated to the point that they
seek to discredit him merely because he is
a rich man, along with getting some
publicity for the politicians who are
conducting them. Actually, they are
discrediting the congressional inquisitors.
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Football this week
The Griffin High-Rockdale County 6-
AAA Football Championship in Griffin
Friday night promises to be the best high
school game of the year. Both have im
proved substantially since their initial
encounter which Griffin won 20 to 14 back
on Sept. 13. Both have the ardent support
of their student bodies and other fans, and
both already are Champions (subregional,
but still Champs) with another Cham
pionship at stake.
Nobody has to beat the editorial drums
The Georgia Power Co.
The Georgia Power Company has told it
like it is. If it does not get a rate increase it
will not be able to provide the electricity
needs of the state.
One of the great advantages which
Georgia offered in attracting and then
adequately supporting industry in the past
was an abundance of inexpensive elec
tricity, but increased population, in-
Shut the door
Several recent house fires have claimed
lives as well as property. Some if not all of
the loss could have been prevented so
easily by shutting bedroom doors before
retiring for the night.
Firemen tell us that most deaths are
Is this quote
in the Bible?
Do you know the quotation: “Sticks and
stones may break my bones, but names
can never hurt me?” Is it in the Bible?
W.HJI.
No, it is not! There are many popular
expressions that seem to be taken from the
Scripture, but they are not.
Perhaps one of our more literary
readers can identify the real source of that
statement, because it does have the ring of
truth about it Good philosophy, however,
is not always good theology.
I used to say these words as a boy, so
they’ve been around some decades. The
Fairness to all
concerned. This might take the edge off
the realism, but that would be a cheap
price to pay to prevent terror, worry and
actual grief of those who thought in
correctly that loved ones had been killed.
This world has far too much real grief,
fright, tension and worry to create any
artifically and unnecessarily. Those who
thought their loved one had been killed in
the mill grieved just as surely and just as
deeply as if dead bodies had lain in the
morgue. The emergency drill was no dry
rim for them.
to get a good turnout for the game. There
has been a scramble for tickets, and it will
be the biggest crowd of the year. The 1974
Griffin High fans have established
themselves as good sports just as the
players have proven themselves to be star
athletes. Everybody concerned is looking
forward to having an extra large number
of guests in town, to whipping them at
football, and to being the courteous and
sportsmanlike hosts that visitors to Griffin
have come to expect.
dustrialization and inflation seem to have
ended that.
There has to be a reasonable price for
electricity, just as there must be for other
things. We do not pretend to know whether
it is higher or lower than Georgia Power is
asking, but we do know that it would be
just as foolish to make it so low that we will
have brownouts and blackouts as it would
be to make it too high for users to afford.
caused by suffocation or smoke inhalation,
not by burning. Often this occurs in the
sleep when smoke pours through open
doors. So the firemen advise closing them
at night. This simple expedient will delay
the smoke and also the spread of the blaze
if the house catches fire.
Bible does say in Isaiah 8, however, “Don’t
fear anything except the Lord.” That
amplifies the idea that nothing can really
harm us, when we’re on God’s side.
If one is unfortunate enough to have a
friend or relative who persists in name
calling, pity that person! Don’t oppose or
hurt them. While the tongue is sharp, it can
do little damage to the Christian who lives
every day behind the protection of the Holy
Spirit.
All the great martyrs were those who
claimed an ultimate immunity to the
persecution of a hostile world. We could
well emulate their attitude.
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Ray Cromley
Is detente peace
on Russia’s terms?
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — One would think the federal
Sovernment had learned its lesson from the Russian grain
eal of last year. Those UJS.-taxpayer-subsidized shipments
bit into so much of our grain we have faced shortages ever
since. The shortages have been a principal cause of high
food prices - with a domino effect on other consumer goods.
It seemed for a time this year that we had learned our
lesson. President Ford stepped in to limit grain shipments to
the USSR and developed a control system of sorts. But it
turns out we didn’t learn much after all. For with the full
concurrence of this government and in the name of detente,
U.S. industry today is making a series of similar deals with
the Russians in high technology and the advanced industrial
processes which are the life blood of this country’s economic
and military security.
The know-how we are preparing to sell the Russians at
cut-rate prices and with subsidized loans centers in com
puters, advanced electronics, sophisticated chemical pro
cesses and other fields which provide the industrial ana re
search and development base for military strength. When
the Strategic Arms Limitation agreement was signed, U.S.
technological superiority was advertised as the basic reason
we need not match the Russian strategic buildup, megaton
for megaton. If the Russians are able, with the assistance of
this American know-how, to match us in military technology
and exceed us in tonnage, they will assuredly be less
cautious in the Middle East, Asia and West Europe, which
has shown little ability to stand up to outside pressure.
Leaving military considerations aside, the industrial de
velopment assistance itself poses dangers similar to those of
the unfortunate grain deal. When the Russians have the
money, they buy in large gulps. Though their purchases may
be a very small proportion of total output, they can have tre
mendous economic impact.
Russia’s five-year plans provide for industrial expansion
in giant steps with mammoth projects interspaced by lulls.
There is not the constant upgrading and rebuilding which
characterizes American industry and which normally — but
not always as we see so today clearly — keeps our economy
on a fairly even course. When U.S.-Soviet trade reaches the
expected levels as a result of U.S. investments and subsidies,
these tremendous Russian purchases in several fields for
one, two or three years or so, followed by lulls or shifts to
other fields, are likely to accentuate our cycles of boom and
recession. The Russian on-again off-again buying could thus
turn mild recessions into depressions and transform
welcome booms into inflationary explosions.
Now these risks might be well worth taking if there were
evidence the commercial, industrial and political inter
course might result in a change within Russia. But there is
clearly no evidence that this might happen.
In the past when U.S. aid was greatest and American tech
nicians moved into the USSR in numbers, Russia’s rulers
clamped down more tightly on dissent. News reports out of
Russia today indicate the Kremlin is once again moving to
ward increased repression as a means of offsetting any
American influence our aid or our visiting engineers may
engender. One prominent Soviet dissenter has warned that
U.S. assistance will be counter productive without strictly
enforced Soviet guarantee on internal freedom.
In summary, the pursuit of detente with the Soviet Union is
being pushed with more fervor than reason.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY QUOTES
Scottish writer Thomas
Carlyle said, “Music is well said
to be the speech of angels.”
Scottish poet Robert Gilfillan
said, “There’s hope for every
woe and a balm for every pain,
but the first joy in our heart
never comes back again.”
American statesman Daniel
Webster said, “Let our object
be our country, our whole
country and nothing but our
country.”
American humorist Will
Rogers said, “Everything is
funny aS long as it is happening
to somebody else.”
British writer Samuel Butler
said, “An empty house is like a
stray dog or a body from which
life has departed.”
Union Civil War Gen. William
Tecumseh Sherman said, “I am
tired and sick of war. Its glory is
all moonshine. It is those who
neither fired a shot nor heard
the shrieks and groans of the
griffin
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desolation. War is hell.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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Charles A. Lindbergh, a
U.S. air mail pilot, left
Roosevelt Field, N.Y., at 7:52
A.M. on May 20, alone in his
monoplane “Spirit of Saint
Louis," competing for Ray
mond Orteig s offer of $25,000
for the first New York-Paris
non-stop flight, The World
Almanac recalls. Lindbergh
reached Le Bourget air field
in Paris at 5:21 P.M. (10:21
P.M. Paris time) May 21,
covering 3,610 miles in 33
hrs., 29 min., 30 sec.
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