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"If you’re in a hurry to save the country...forget it!"
L M. BOYD
Second Year
For Divorce
Those matrimonial experts who study the statistics
contend divorce is most likely to occur, if ever, in the
second year of marriage.
DO YOU BUY the claim that your facial character
istics indicate something about your personality? Neither
do I. Still, one who purports to know contends grace
fully curved eyelashes almost invariably are a sign of a
calm and relaxed person.
A PHYSICAL CULTURE expert contends your best
sleep comes when you lie without a pillow flat on your
back with your feet apart and your hands palms up at
your sides. Maybe so, don’t know. However, it’s common
knowledge that’s also the position in which you’re most
likely to snore. Did I tell you the best cure for snoring?
Sew an empty thread spool in the middle of the back of
your pajamas.
PRESIDENTS
Q. “Has any of our presidents ever used a pseudo
nym while in office?”
A. Not exactly. Dwight David Eisenhower was born
David Dwight Eisenhower. Hiram Ulysses Grant changed
his moniker to Ulysses Simpson Grant. And Stephen
Grover Cleveland, Thomas Woodrow Wilson and John
Calvin Coolidge dropped their first names. That's about
it.
YAWNS
Once wrote that science still doesn’t know why yawns
are contagious. And wrote further that the eyes of a per
son who yawns usually start to sparkle immediately there
after. And wrote finally that just about anybody who
read the foregoing facts would yawn within the next min
ute or so. Numerous kindly customers later told me it was
true, that they yawned on cue as suggested. That was
good. But several said it was nothing new, they always
yawned when they read this piece. That was bad.
DID YOU KNOW that mother ducks talk to their
ducklings even before said offspring are hatched? And
those ducklings talk back, evidently. So recent
studies seem to prove. Even though put into an incu
bator a few hours before hatching, those ducklings later
seem to recognize their mama by the noises she makes.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
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up 50 or 60 old friends!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Nov. 22, the
326th day of 1974, with 39 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
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 Sagittarius.
French statesman and mili
tary leader Charles de Gaulle
was born Nov. 22, 1890.
American composer Hoagy
Carmichael was born on this
date in 1899.
On this day in history:
In 1950, a wreck on a Long
Island Rail Road train as it
pulled out of a tunnel from New
York City killed 79 persons.
In 1960, the U.S. Navy
launched the “Ethan Allen,” at
that time the most powerful
nuclear submarine in the world.
In 1963, President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated in
Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson
was sworn in as the nation’s
36th chief executive a short
time later.
In 1972, a 22-year-old ban on
American travel to Communist
China was lifted by President
Richard Nixon.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Some people are so silly they
even work hard at fishing.
Now is the time’ to start sav
ing up and resting for your
vacation.
Isn’t it strange how people
with less sense than we have
seem to get along much bet
ter?
THOUGHTS
There shall no more be
anything accursed, but the
throne of God and of the
Lamb shall be in it, and his
servants shall worship him;
they shall see his face, and
his name shall be on their
foreheads. And night shall be
no more; they need no light
of lamp or sun, for the Lord
God will be their light, and
they shall reign for ever and
ever. — Rev. 22:3,4,5.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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published every Wednesday.
The Great Depression
People are talking increasingly about a
depression. Some say we are having one
right now. Others expect one right away.
Those who experienced “The Great
Depression” which began in 1929 and
continued through the 1930 s shake their
heads and want none of it.
Until the bleak economic clouds began
shadowing America’s economy, a sub
stantial number of people were saying that
it would take a depression to dry
America’s great river of ills which general
prosperity brought us. These included
inflation, people who won’t work or ap
preciate their jobs, lack of patriotism,
permissiveness, no discipline, crime, and
all the rest. Generally, the line went, “We
have gotten too soft.” Perhaps we have,
but we have not heard anybody advocating
a depression since we started having one.
In fact, male acquaitances who used to
talk mainly about their resort homes and
their golf scores are talking about business
now.
No doubt about it, things have tightened
up, and it would be unrealistic not to ex
pect them to get worse for awhile. Still, we
I 2 Quackers
The more than a hundred lame ducks in
Congress include two Georgia quackers.
“Them lying papers”
The Georgia Press Association has just
published its annual Newspaper Direc
tory. It lists 33 daily newspapers, including
this one, and 165 weekly newspapers. Total
daily circulation is 1,028,453, and total
weekly circulation is 506,344. This is more
than a million and a half for about four and
a half million Georgians, and since the
average Georgia family has more than two
* *THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ *
Championship game
Thousands of football fans will gather
tonight at Memorial Stadium to watch the
Griffin Bears play the Rockdale Bulldogs
for the 6-AAA championship.
Enthusiasm is running high at both
schools and practically every one agrees
the game should be a classic.
Griffin High football has improved
considerably in the last few years. The
Bears have a 25-4-1, three-season record.
That puts Coach Max Dowis’ squad in the
class with the best teams in Georgia.
Griffin won the 6-AAA title two years ago
and played Lakeside in the state playoffs.
The Bears finished third last year.
Griffin beat every team in the region this
Better get ready
for more crime
Even though eleven years have now
passed since the John Kennedy
assassination, I can’t help but feel the
spirit of anarchy and treachery is still
around. Isn’t there hope for achieving a
society where crimes of such violence are
eliminated? D.J.
There is hope for some day finding such
a society, but it will not be anything we
have achieved. It will come only in the
righteous reign of Christ where the ab
sence of evil is pictured in the words “the
wolf and the lamb will lie down together.”
(Isaiah 11:6)
You better get prepared for not only a
continuation of crime, but an escalation of
do not believe that the United States ever
will have another depression as severe as
the one which started in the 1920 s and
never really ended until World War II
brought full employment and full
production. This limited optimism is
caused by lessons learned and heeded
from it. For instance:
Bank deposits are insured now by a
government agency up to $40,000, so even
if a bank should fail, the depositors would
not lose everything as they did in the ’3os.
The same applies to Saving and Loan
deposits. And there is unemployment
insurance now and huge government
spending programs, and other economic
safeguards which America did not have
when President Roosevelt told us that all
we had to fear was fear itself. In short,
things are not as easy as they were just a
few months ago, and they probably will get
worse, but it is not likely that the bottom
will drop completely out as it did in those
blank and dreary days interrupted only by
black and sleepless nights which those who
experienced them now recall all too
vividly.
members, the press of the state pretty well
covers its population.
Also, with a total of 198 papers owned by
and edited by many interests and in
dividuals, may we suggest that when some
disgruntled politician or other public
figure blasts “them lying newspapers”
that he-she be specific?
season, finishing league competition with
a 9-0 record. The Bears have a 23-2 region
record over a three year span.
That record is a tribute to Coach Dowis,
his staff and a lot of good football players,
who believe that team-work, hustle and
desire are the ingredients championship
teams are made of.
Griffin has had a successful season no
matter what happens in tonight’s game. A
region championship would make it just a
little sweeter.
We hope the Bears get the championship
they have worked so hard for and
thousands of supporters will be at the
stadium to cheer them on.
MY r ■
ANSWER
it. Recent FBI statistics bear that out. The
Bible says man will get worse and worse (2
Timothy 3) as we move to the end of the
age.
I wish I could tell you there was some
way to escape the gathering storm, but the
Bible would deny that It says that sooner
or later we must leave our dream world,
and face up to the fact of God, sin and
judgment.
The problem of security is becoming the
number one concern among many people.
It’s going to add to the cost of every retail
product and service, but simple survival
now demands it. How it points up the
delight of being—as the hymn writer put
it— “safe in the arms of Jesus.”
Berry’s World
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“I forget! Which are you — athlete-turned-actor,
or actor-turned-athlete?"
Ray Cromley
Maverick Congress
poses problems
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON - (NEA) - The new Congress may run out
of control — either six ways from Christmas with every leg
islator out for himself, or off on one road or another like a
runaway grand jury.
More mavericks than usual won seats in the elections just
completed. The leadership is weak on both sides of the aisle
and not likely able to bring order. President Ford is by
nature a man who likes to work out compromises acceptable
to the majority; his gentle reasoning is not likely to bring
these feisty men into marching order.
Few men or women won on specific issues. These were, by
and large, negative victories; many apparently went to the
polls determined to vote against one candidate or another,
not for anyone. So the new men come with no united purpose
to bind them together, many seemingly having given little
thought to exactly what they want to accomplish. Yet more
than usual, withal, seem to be strong willed, able to attack
their opposition with vigor — and with little inclination to
compromise.
Now off-year elections typically aren’t won on national
issues, but rather on personalities and on local situations. So
the election of off-year mavericks is not, of itself, new. But
what is unusual is the extent to which the newcomers (and
numbers of these who managed to hang on to their seats)
have downplayed party loyalty, or have demanded that the
party shift to their way of thinking. More than usual, in fact,
have virtually ignored their party label, a trend which has
been growing this past 10 years or so. The unusually large
turnover accentuated the normal maverick trend.
The nature of the 1974 elections, of course, encouraged this
shift away from party loyalty. A look at these elected Nov. 5
.makes clear that, other things being equal, voters, in many
cases at least, wanted men and women with as little past as
sociation as possible with party politics. The voters were
suspicious of the new, sometimes ignoring their philosophy.
Conservative districts voted in an unusual number of liberal
candidates and liberal areas surprisingly favoring conser
vatives.
Now all this is an excellent demonstration of our innate in
dependent spirit. It proves that voters have a healthy ques
tioning and somewhat cynical attitude toward office holders.
But it obviously does not make for a Congress dedicated to
the kind of cooperation and give and take necessary to get
well-thought-out programs through the Senate and House
adequate to meet the country’s pressing problems.
An incredible amount of teamwork is necessary to con
struct laws which deal intelligently with a plethora of ex
tremely complicated issues — unemployment, high prices,
underproduction and shortages, price gouging, foreign car
tels and the energy shortage and laws and resolutions back
ing the President in his attempts to bring peace to the Middle
East or supporting him in marshalling our friends and con
founding (or at least holding ofD our enemies overseas.
There may be a deal of eye-catching legislation on con
sumer protection, on heavier levies on the big oil companies,
major federal spending on employment and relief progress
and on national medical care. The problem is that the un
coordinated tugging and hauling may result in simplistic
progress which work at cross purposes and do little to solve
inflation, stagflation and the recession, or to serve this coun
try’s interests abroad, however defined.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Pedal power?
The White House has called in the nation’s automakers to
discuss the need to build cars that get at least 20 miles to the
gallon by 1980.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency and
the Department of Transportation, if all cars got 20 miles per
gallon it would save the United States more than a million
barrels of crude oil a day. There is a not-so-veiled threat that
if the companies don’t voluntarily come up with ways of
meeting that goal, the government will force them to.
In the meantime, at least between 1976 and 1980, the aver
age American car may do worse than it does now — thanks
to government regulations.
The Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Assn, claims that the
improved fuel economy of 1975 model cars — an estimated
13.5 per cent better than on 1974 models made possible by the
catalytic converter — may be largely cancelled out next
year when a series of stricter government safety,
damageability and antipollution standards go into effect.
One manufacturer has determined that the 1976 standards
will add at least 225 pounds to the weight of one of its current
subcompact models. Included are 73 pounds for a stronger
bumper system. 25 pounds for emissions hardware and 126
pounds for other additions such as door beams. The necessity
of using a larger engine to haul this increased weight would
add another 90 pounds.
The subcompact, modified to meet 1976 standards, was
tested under a combination of city and suburban driving
conditions and used 14 per cent more fuel than a comparable
1975 model.
It begins to appear that if we want cars that are safe and
pollution-free and economical, too, we are going to have to
start thinking about pedal power.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN?
GRIFFIN
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