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Page 4 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 21,1974 c= c~f?=o —— r. ..~3 C---J —-I Coplay Naw* SanHoa L HL BOYD 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 SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox IUSED CAR! Jv i -|H- '4b - Pjr J3k tr wfit l w/ ***•*»■- © W 4 bv NEA. Inc. T M Reg US. Rat Off. ‘‘lt’s the principle of the thing, Mr. Baskin. If I give YOU a fair price, then everybody will expect one, too!" 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. 1 — ■ ■■ 1 .11111111 Only the J I Newspaper -I*' j I 1 ONLY THE NEWSPAPER serves 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 Subscription Prices Delivered by carrier or mail within the State of Georgia. Prices are one week, .62 cents, one month $2.68, 3 months, $8.04, 6 months, $16.07, 12 months, $32.13. These prices include sales tax. Delivered by mail out of the State df Georgia one month $3.75, 3 months , $11.25, 6 months, $22.50, 12 months, $45.00. 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 I ■ I 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. I ’ ’ I 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. MY r ■ ANSWER k ■* c Berry’s World • — -——— — ‘ JJUm. “Hey, buddy! Got any good tips on the market today!” 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 Quimby Melton. Jr, Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves. BiU Knighti General Manager Executive Editor Fun Leases Wire Semce Wl, Fall HEX. SiHress all iu,l (SebscnptMWs Ousts el Udress tans 3575) te P.O Ba 135 E. Solomon SI. CnfSo. ta wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.” WORLD ALMANAC FACTS JU 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. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.I Copyright © 1974 Published Daily, Except Sunday, Jan. 1, July 4, Thanksemnf i si '"'' “»"■ 0~t» 30223. St
