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Page 4 — Griffin Daily News Friday, November 22, 1974 IH— ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ | ■■■m■■■■■■■■«■■■■■■ ' Jtrtp ' ' a L K ■ B®= 3? W* ? ]|| X _ E S I*l 0 ,J 11 "’T7 1 ' ' ■ in? jffr (9\ W irJn .seniority fcxftYwßlt SYSTEM - JIJST ELECTED "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 SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox raff lV === tessA tjM 0 C\\ J / V r ll~x^ c „, hW< t.m m us-w w > v "Look at those prices! Effective December 25, we’re giving 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 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 of Georgia one month $3.75, 3 months , $11.25, 6 months, $22.50, 12 months, $45.00. Quimby Melton, Jr. Editor Telephone 227-6336 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 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 W > © 1974 by NEA. Inc “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 Quimby Melton, Jr„ Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves. General Manager FbH Leased Wire Service UFI. Full NEA, Address all marl (Subscriptloss Change of Address form 3579) to P.O. Boi 135, E. Solomon St. Gnffin. Ga. 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