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L M. BOYD
Whereabouts
Os First Spa
Certainly you know what a spa is, but do you know
why such be so called? Because Spa is the name of a
town in Belgium where early enterpreneurs first in this
western world exploited the local mineral springs. Earliest
spa in this country opened in 1756 at Berkeley Springs,
W. V.
THAT THE FACIAL skin of blondes tends to
wrinkle at an earlier age than that of brunettes has been
reported. Client asks why. Blondes are apt to lack the
dark pigment that protects their skin from ultraviolet
rays. What's meant here by blonde isn't a cross between
a brunette and a drugstore, please note.
PALACE
Q. "What was the first palace ever built?”
A. Can tell you the first edifice to be called a
palace. That was Emperor Nero's house. One of ancient
Rome’s seven hills was called the Palatine Hill. Mighty
fashionable district. But Nero didn't want to share the
place. He ordered all other residences there torn down,
then built a single mansion for himself, which soon came
to be identified as The Palace.
AMONG SOME African tribesmen, the affectionate
thing for a fellow to do when he greets his girlfriend is
blow on her hand and then rub her on the right ear. Our
Love and War man says that's equivalent there to a kiss.
Bear in mind, this is not the same African tribesman
who shows his affection by sticking his tongue out at his
girlfriend while smacking her on the stomach.
ADOPTIONS
Denmark has a central registry of all adoptions. It
keeps track of the children, the adoptive parents and the
natural parents, too. Scientific researchers from St. Louis
went there to do a study of alcoholics. Question was
whether children of alcoholics were themselves more likely
to become alcoholics, even if adopted out so as to have
no contact with the real parents. Answer was yes, inci
dence of alcoholism was twice as great among adopted
children of alcoholics.
IN 1705, BRITAIN was at war with France. One
morning on the beach of West Hartlepool, England,
citizens thereabouts watched an odd looking character
climb out of a rowboat. The stranger was pretty hairy.
It jabbered unintelligibly. Actually, it was an ape,
previously the mascot of a wrecked ship. But those
English villagers weren’t all that too familiar with apes.
They court-martialed the beast, found it guilty, and
hanged it as a French spy.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
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Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Nov. 23,
the 327th day of 1974, with 38 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.
Franklin Pierce, 14th presi
dent of the United States, was
born Nov. 23, 1804. This is the
57th birthday of American actor
Howard Duff.
On this day in history:
In 1942, Congress authorized
creation of a Woman’s Auxili
ary of the U.S. Coast Guard to
be known as the “Spars.”
In 1945, World War II
rationing ended in the United
States on all foods except
sugar.
In 1954, the Chinese Commu
nists said they had convicted 11
American airmen and two
civilians of espionage.
In 1968, French President
Charles de Gaulle refused to
devalue the franc and ordered
an austerity program for his
nation.
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THOUGHTS
And the Lord said to Paul
one night in a vision, “Do not
be afraid, but speak and do
not be silent; for I am with
you, and no man shall attack
you to harm you; for I have
many people in this city.” —
Acts 18:9,10.
“Give me the liberty to
know, to think, to believe, and
to utter freely according to
conscience, above all other
liberties.” - John Milton,
English poet.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Use County Prisons
Part of the answer to Georgia’s
fast-developing prison crisis lies
in the potential of many county
prison camps such as the one in
Upson.
But counties are only going to
activate or expand prison camp
facilities if the state offers to pay
them to keep the prisoners.
The Housecleaning
Moultrie Observer
Politics make strange bedfellows.
There is nothing new or startling about
such a statement, and the truth of the as
sertion has been proven time after time.
Another political truth does not seem to
be as well known—or used effectively.
That is, the new “top man” in a major
office had better surround himself with
known and trusted persons who possess
knowledge and efficiency. Don’t leave the
other fellow’s “cronies” in the key jobs.
PRESIDENT GERALD Ford has
knocked his own popularity rating down
several notches and has failed to achieve
some of his early goals purely because he
left the “wrong guys” in the game too
long—meaning those who surrounded
former President Nixon.
J.F. TerHorst, who served as Ford’s
press secretary for one month and quit
because things were going on behind the
“open door” policy declared by the new
President, sounded the warning about the
Prison Problems
We're sure he didn't arrange it,
but Gov. Jimmy Carter chose an
appropriate time to proclaim as
Corrections Week in Georgia,
November 17-23.
Almost every day we are
confronted with the news that our
corrections system is in trouble.
Riots, work stoppages, murders,
drug rings, furlough violations and
a dozen other items have claimed
the headlines recently.
In his proclamation Carter
brought out two reasons each of us
should be concerned with the
Kindergarten, Too
Waycross Journal-Herald
Georgia House Speaker Tom
Murphy will encounter some ar
guments on his proposal to reduce
the pupil-teacher ratios across the
state rather than implement a
statewide kindergarten.
Educators and many others will
say that, in fact, both steps are
needed.
The movement for a statewide
kindergarten, as we recall, has
been underway for at least a
decade.
It has received great emphasis
because many studies have shown
that the greatest single period of
learning for a child occurs about
the time he reaches the pre-school
ages of four and five.
The assumption, which some
educators say has been demons
trated to be a fact, is that kinder
garten will not only prepare a child
‘What can I do
to help’ daughter?
I found out that my 15 year old daughter
let her boy friend make love to her. She is a
pretty girl, and not rebellious or wild in
any way. I think I may have failed some
how, but what can I do now to help? T.Y.H.
You better arrange to chat with her
immediately. Be factual and be practical.
Make sure she understands the peril of
excessive petting, and the price a girl pays
for sexual indiscretion.
More importantly, since you also wrote
that she’s a Christian, help her to see that
her body is the “house” in which the Holy
Spiritlives(lCorinthiansG:l9). It needs to
be clean and free from those contamina-
The Thomaston Times
The Henry County'Weekly-Advertiser
It would seem good state
business for the state to develop
some long-contract “boarding
plan” with counties for prisoners
and create part of the space so
desperately needed to get con
victed criminals off the streets
until such a time as they become
rehabilitated sufficiently to be
considered for parole.
“sour apples” in one of his first syn
dicated columns following his resigna
tion.
TerHorst wrote that Mr. Ford was
spending an inordinate amount of time
“proving his own loyalties and placating
the sensitive feelings” of Gen. Alexander
Haig Jr., a White adviser under Nixon.
TerHorst also was quoted as saying
Ford aides “found it frustrating and even
demanding” to have to work through
Nixon administration machinery.
Recent changes, including the removal
of John Sawhill as federal energy ad
ministrator-something which started a
chain reaction in several posts—may help
clear the picture. For the President’s
sake—and that of the country—let's hope
the shake-up will continue until the
“cronyism” of the past eight years has
been eliminated in Washington and a
“new deal” is effected and dedicated to
the “open door” plan and a marriage with
Congress and the people.
problems in our prisons. First, 90
percent of the inmate population
will one day return to our
communities, jt would be in our
interest that every effort be made
to rehabilitate these inmates so we
will not become their victims.
The governor's other revelation
pointed out that we do become their
victims: He said 60-70 percent of all
offenders return to prison.
Just as sure as we need punitive
measures for those who refuse to
follow society's laws, we need to
make every effort to turn these
offenders into responsible citizens.
for regular school classes but will,
in truth, be a major phase of his
learning preocess.
As for the lowering of the
teacher-pupil ratio, that, too, is
needed. The present average ratio
statewide is something like one
teacher to 25-30 pupils.
Speaker Murphy, speaking dur
ing the Pre-Legislature Forum
series, has proposed a ratio of one
teacher per 12 pupils for the first
three grades of school, or a
maximum of one per 15.
He says high school teachers
report that a major reason for so
many dropouts is that students
can’t read and write and he con
tends that the lower ratio would do
more to correct this than a
statewide kindergarten plan.
Perhaps. But we still think the
kindergarten program is needed,
too.
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ANSWER
tions which the Bible calls fornication (I
Thessalonians 4:3).
Help your daughter to see that sex is a
beautiful part of God’s plan for marriage.
But emphasize that purity is expected for
those in the single state. In this regard,
you’ll have to counteract all the peer
pressure she probably gets in school —
pressure to ignore Biblical standards, and
pressure to be initiated sexually.
Perhaps you have “failed.” Most
parents would have to admit this. But it’s
never too late to start over again, and
“new beginnings” are what the Gospel of
Christ is all about.
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By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
One good dollar
deserves another
A familiar and effective way of bringing home the nation’s
economic situation is to compare the value of the dollar with
what it was in some other, presumably more prosperous, ♦
year.
According to one recent analysis, for example, in the life
time of half of all Americans—those born since 1946—the
value of the dollar has shrunk by 60 cents. At this rate, the •
“1946 dollar” will be worth only 16 cents in another 28 years.
To put it another way, to have the same purchasing power
as today’s “40-cent dollar,” a personmaking 57.200 today •
would have to earn SIB,OOO in the year 2002. A S3O pair of
shoes will cost $75. The average family’s weekly food budget
will rise from $62 to $152, and son on.
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It could happen sooner than 28 years if the present rate of *
inflation were to continue unchecked.
The dollar would look even more minuscule, however, if
we were to compare it with its 1939 counterpart, as we used *
to do back when inflation was a minor, and some thought a
necessary and welcome, factor in the economy.
But how many people would like to return to 1939’’ For all
the ravages of inflation, most Americans are far better off *
than they were in 1939, or 1946 for that matter, the “40-cent
dollar” notwithstanding.
This is not to minimize inflation, which has grown to such
dimensions that, as President Ford has warned, it threatens *
the future of all of us. It is merely to point out the fallacy of
using the shrinking dollar as the only yardstick to measure
where we have been and where we seem to be going.
What is important is that we take the steps needed to ’
maintain and safeguard the nation’s basic economic
strength so that the 1975 dollar or the 1990 dollar or the 2002
dollar, whatever they may be “worth" in terms of some other
year, continue to enable more and more Americans to afford •
the good things of life.
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