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L M BOYD
Some Fighters
Feel No Pain
Relatively rare is the fellow whose nerves are so
constructed that he feels no pain from cuts, bruises,
broken bones. But as you might guess, prize lighting
attracts these abnormal men more than does any other
occupation, studies show. Researchers tested 97 boxers
in New York City sometime back, and 87 ot them proved
to be afflicted, or blessed, whichever, with this odd
insensitivity.
SEVEN TIMES as many high school boys enrolled
in home economics classes this semester as did likewise
six years ago. Scholars now report that a lot oi schools
not only require boys to take home ec but girls to take
shop.
IT’S ESTIMATED that one out of every 20 citizens
nationwide is some kind of vegetarian.
MOST CLOTHES
Am asked to name the world’s largest manufacturer
of feminine apparel. No doubt it’s Mattel, the toymaker,
which puls out 36 new Barbie doll outfits each year. The
firm counts on an annual sale of about 20 million such
costumes.
Q. “WHAT are ‘hydraulic dampers'?”
A. That's what the British call shock absorbers.
UNDERSTAND there’s a tricky lamp shade out now
constructed in such a manner that the rising heat from
the light bulb activates a sort of slow-motion picture of
a yawning face. Insomniacs are urged to buy. The maker
says nothing else but drugs can so rapidly bring on sleep.
RECEDING CHIN
Common is the belief that a receding chin betrays a
weak character. Recent studies contradict that notion,
however. They purport to show that a receding chin fre
quently signifies impatience, enthusiasm and mental
quickness. Put a large nose above that receding chin with
a receding forehead above the nose, it's said, and what you
get is a citizen capable of making swift decisions. Inter
esting. if true.
IT WAS SHORTLY before Columbus discovered
America that designers in England and France first drew
the faces of the Queens and the Kings and the Jacks
that appear virtually unchanged today on our playing
cards. Ugly, aren't they?
BEAST BRIEFS . . . Average lion lives 10 years . . .
A BABY KANGAROO is only an inch long . . . GRAY
WOLVES, too. mate for life.
Address mail to t. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076. Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Today is Friday, Nov. 29, the
333rd day of 1974 with 32 to
follow.
The moon is full.
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.
American author Louisa May
Alcott was born Nov. 29, 1832.
On this day in history:
In 1890, the first Army-Navy
football game was played. The
Middies won, 24-0.
In 1929, Lt. Cmdr. Richard
Byrd and three crewmen
became the first persons to fly
over the South Pole.
In 1963, a Canadian plane
crash near Montreal killed 118
persons.
Also in 1963, President
Lyndon Johnson appointed the
Warren Commission to investi
gate the assassination of
President John Kennedy.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
We’ll give you three points
on next Saturday’s grid
game: never, never, never
bet on it.
Indian Summer is when
you can go out of your tepee
without your toupee.
The boss says if we give up
smoking, please do it on our
own time — it makes us too
grumpy to have around the
office.
Cram down a lot of useless
food and nature .gives you a
waistbasket.
What you don’t know hurts
you most when you try to tell
it.
THOUGHTS
And Jesus looked around
and said to his disciples,
“How hard it will be for
those who have riches to
enter the kingdom of God!”
- Mark 10:23.
“In this world it is not what
we take up, but what we give
up, that makes us rich. —
Henry Ward Beecher, Ameri
can clergyman.
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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.
There is plenty right with America, and
the people of this most blessed of nations
took time to be thankful yesterday in the
traditional ceremony which is unique to
the United States and one of the heritages
from our forebears.
I Alas!
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Less than an eighth of Spalding’s
registered voters bothered to cast ballots
in the Board of Education runoff election
this week. Now if gripes, criticisms and
complaints about the schools can be
limited to those who voted, school officials
will have plenty of time to educate the
children. But alas, that will never be.
Drug clinic in Griffin
It is not surprising, but it is nonetheless
bad news that Griffin needs a drug abuse
clinic. But since there is a need, it is good
news that the Georgia Department of
Human Resources is establishing one
here. We wish it and its patients every suc
cess as they struggle to get the monkey off
The move by some Congressmen to raise ,
their own pay touched off a howl heard
round the nation and prompted us to look
into their present compensation.
Congressmen, both Senators and Re
presentatives, draw an annual salary of
$42,500 apiece, plus generous expense
allowances and numerous fringe benefits
ranging from cut-rate haircuts to free tax
assistance. Each Representative is
authorized 16 employes on his personal
staff at salaries up to $37,000 a year. Lots
of the Senators have between 40 and 50
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
Go get ’em Bears
Griffin plays Lakeside here tonight in
the quarter - finals of the state triple-A
playoffs.
The Bears’ advance into the cham
pionship playoffs surprised some people.
R. E. Lee and Newnan were the pre
season favorites in 6-AAA. However, it was
Griffin that breezed through the tough
region schedule to compile a 9-0 record.
That record didn’t convince everyone
that Griffin had a great team. They cited
the fact that the Bears had to come from
behind too many times and that their
“luck” finally would run out.
A few people even favored Rockdale last
week in the 6-AAA championship game.
Should ministers
be married?
Please refer to Bible references in
Matthew 19:12 and 1 Corinthians 7:8,9. Tell
me if these mean that ministers would be
more effective if they didn’t marry! C.C
For the reader’s benefit, let me quote
parts of those references. Matthew 19
quotes Christ as saying, “Others have
renounced marriage because of the
kingdom of heaven.” In 1 Corinthians 7,
Paul states, “To the unmarried...! say it is
good for them to stay unmarried.”
Neither Christ no Paul are to be charged
with speaking against marriage. They
knew that God ordained the union of man
and woman from the inception of the race.
What they were commending was the
mortification of natural desires — as the
Thankful
Yes, there is plenty wrong too, but we
are a free people who have it within our
power to correct the wrongs and ills which
beset us. And this is one of the many bless
ings for which we are thankful.
their backs.
Drug abuse is a tragic part of the times
in which we live, and it is far better to
recognize it for what it is and to combat it
with clinics and every other means than to
turn our heads and hope it will go away.
Congress
staff members. (Needless to say, we the
taxpayers pay for them.)
The cost of operating Congress jumped
from $42-million 20 years ago to $328-
million (that, sob, is correct) this year. Its
budget for operations has grown 15 times
as fast as the population it serves, and at
the rate it is going, it will cost more than a
billion bucks in 10 more years.
Os course we need a Congress. But we
need one with better judgment than to
raise its own pay when the rest of the
nation is having such a time of it.
They ignored the fact that Griffin won a
previous match-up, 20-14.
Griffin not only beat Rockdale but came
from behind to turn the title game into a 27-
7 rout.
Now comes the playoff game with
Lakeside, Region 8-AAA champions.
There still are some skeptics. We aren’t
among them.
Coach Dowis and his Bears convinced us
many weeks ago that they had the talent,
hustle and desire to compete with any
team in Georgia. That includes Lakeside.
We think Griffin will win the quarter -
final game and play in the state semi -
finals next week.
Go get’em Bears.
MY
ANSWER
spirit conquered the flesh by the special
grace of God. This was self-denial of the
highest order — that is a state free from
distraction, and the cares and dangers of
married life.
These statements comprise more of a
permission than an injunction. It’s no
universal rule by any means. As to
whether a minister is better unmarried,
that depends on many factors. Sometimes
the involvement with a wife and children
make a man more pliable, more loving,
more understanding, more tolerant than
he would be otherwise.
In another place in that 1 Corinthians
chapter, Paul says, “Each man has his
own gift from God.” And maybe that’s the
best comment to be made on this subject.
Berry’s World
"You’ve got to help me, Doc! Should I not buy a new
car and help whip inflation, or buy a new car and help
whip recession?"
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By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
In the meantime,
they’re all we’ve got
There may no longer be “thunder on the right” but a great
deal of noise is still coming from the conservative side of the
political spectrum.
Some commentators view the recent electoral debacle
suffered by the Republicans not as proof that liberalism is in
the saddle but that millions of disenchanted Americans are
looking, longing for a leader to ride in on a different kind of
horse.
They quote polls showing that while only 19 per cent of
voters call themselves Republicans, only 37 per cent iden
tify with the Democrats, leaving a majority that are “un
decided” or “independents.”
Columnist Kevin P. Phillips, who once wrote a book called
“The Coming Republican Majority,” still sticks by that pre
diction though he is no longer so sure it will bear that partic
ular party label.
According to columnist James J. Kilpatrick, the major
trouble with the Republican party is not that it is stained
with corruption but that it is no longer identified with any
particular ideas. The party is not unprincipled but, in the
popular view, is nonpnncipled.
Tom Tiede, Washington columnist for Newspaper En
terprise Assn., quotes a young, recently discharged GI who
did not vote or even register to vote because he wants no
part of traditional politics.
What he is looking for is “somebody who speaks to the real
majority in this country ... Let me tell you, if somebody
came along to appeal to these people, who could truly repre
sent their thinking, he could win any election, even the
presidency.”
It is difficult to square thepe opinions with the actual
results of Nov. 5.
Americans did not stay away from the polls in signifi
, cantly greater numbers than usually they do in an off-year.
And those Who did vote elected a younger, more liberal Con
gress than the one the country is supposedly disgusted with.
As for the great, silent voice of conservatism, it had its
chance to speak back in 1964 when Barry Goldwater seized
the Republican banner. That election was overshadowed, of
course, if not distorted, by Vietnam, just as the last one was
overshadowed by Watergate.
But when has any election been a clear-cut contest be
tween diametrically opposed political philosophies
unaffected and uninfluenced by the domestic and foreign
crises of the moment?
Those who disfranchize themselves out of principle, who
call a plague on both party houses, may comfort themselves
in the belief that their political messiah will someday come.
In the meantime, we live in the real world of compromise
and unrealized dreams, where politics continues to be,
whatever else it is, the art of the possible.
Is the gap closing?
The so-called generation gap is much overrated.
So says Gisela Konopka, professor of social work at the
university of Minnesota and director of the university’s
Center for Youth Development and Research.
The barriers that do exist between young and old are pri
marily artificial, she argues, and fear is the main reason for
their existence.
There is fear of the unknown and fear of change, aided and
abetted by the repetition of catch phrases like “generation
gap,” “breakdown of the family,” “’future shock” and “per
missiveness.”
Families today may actually be moving toward closer re
lationships as they become more democratic, she thinks.
Fast ana easy transportation and communication allow
physically separated families to get together often. Rather
than destroying the family, increased mobility may be
recreating the pattern of the neighborhood family.
The new family relationship is not “permissive” in the
sense that one can always do what one wants. Rather, it
means that adults must consciously share their value sys
tems with the young and expect challenging and questioning.
Young people in turn have to think through their value sys
tems.
“We cannot always build agreement,” says Prof. Konopka,
“but we must try to build trust.”
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QUOTES
“So long as we love, we
serve; so long as we are loved
by others, I should say that
we are almost indispensable;
and no man is useless while
he has a friend.” — Robert
Louis Stevenson, English
novelist.
“It is never safe to look into
the future with eyes of fear.”
— Edward H. Harriman,
American industrialist.
American poet Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow said,
“Into each life some rain must
fall; some days must be dark
and dreary.”
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