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L M BOYD
Wives for Sole
By Installment
It’s a matter of record that some husbands in south
ern Italy have sold their wives on the installment plan.
Look at the town of Calabria, for instance. A baker
named Vincenzo Marino charged a legal clerk named
Antonio Raffa the equivalent of $1,600 for Marino’s
wife, Francesca. Raffa was to pay out the debt at SIOO
a month. But after 10 payments, he demanded a discount
with the complaint that he had been given shoddy mer
chandise. Marino said no dice, let the buyer beware. So
Raffa shot Marino to death. This led an Italian police
official to point out that the installment sale of a wife
tends to be more dangerous than a cash deal. ,
MIDGETS
Q. “I read once that those famous midgets, Tom
and Lavinia Thumb, had so many babies that they ex
hibited a new one almost every year in their rounds
with the circus ...?”
A. That's not quite right. Their only child, a daugh
ter, didn’t survive infancy. But promoter P. T. Barnum
hired a whole batch of babies one after another to show
off as the couple’s children.
Q. “DO PIGS perspire?”
A. No, people perspire. Pigs sweat. But only on
their snouts. This testy reply comes from our Language
man, that sensitive fellow.
Q. “THE MOON is receding from the earth, it’s re
ported. By how much?
A. About half an inch a year.
LOVE AND WAR
This item from our Love and War man’s file is a
little hard to buy at first, but maybe it’s right. Husbands
and wives who bicker a lot tend to bring up highly creative
children. Or so report some Cincinnati researchers. They
studied 32 youngsters and their parents. The children who
did the most imaginative work in painting and writing
turned out to be the offspring of fighting folks.
AVERAGE DAMAGE to recovered stolen cars now is
said to run $246.
NOT JUST coconuts, but all nuts contain milk at one
time or another in their development, say the nut experts.
And that milk does for nuts just what milk does for
people, nourishes the young. Watch this space for addi
tional reports on nuts, milk and the young, as demand
warrants.
PLEASE RECORD that date when you hear the first
thunder of the year. An ancient superstition contends the
first frost will come exactly six months thereafter.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd. P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
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a glass in your hand and listen to the names drop!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Dec. 14,
the 348th day of 1974 with 17 to
follow.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The evening stars are Venus
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Sagittarius.
James “Jimmy” Doolittle,
American hero flyer of World
War 11, was born Dec. 14,1896.
On this day in history:
In 1799, George Washington,
first president of the United
States, died at his Mount
Vernon home after asking his
doctors to “let me go off
quietly.”
In 1819, Alabama was admit
ted to the Union as the 22nd
state.
In 1911, Norwegian explorer
Roald Amundsen discovered the
South Pole.
In 1972, Apollo 11 astronauts
Gene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt blasted off the moon
for the return trip to earth.
Only the M
Newspaper W
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You can ‘’recall” with print.
And the newspaper is around
for people to read. You can
read it over again; you can go
to various parts of it. Only the
newspaper is so flexible, to fit
into your pattern of life.
THOUGHTS
Brethren, I do not consider
that I have made it my own; but
one thing I do, forgetting what
lies behind and straining
forward to what lies ahead, I
press on toward the goal for the
prize of the upward call of God
in Christ Jesus.—Philippians
3:13,14.
“Far away there in the
sunshine are my highest
aspirations. I may not reach
them, but I can look up and see
their beauty, believe in them,
and try to follow where they
lead.”—Louisa May Alcott,
American novelist.
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Editorials
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From other newspapers
A PROPOSED increase in the tuition
charged students in the Univer
sity System of Georgia would be
among the most easily justified of all
the many current price increases.
Costs are rising for the colleges and
universities just as they are for every
one else, but the proportion of the in
crease borne by taxpayers has been
much larger than that borne by the
students. The overall goal of the uni
versity system has been to have ma
triculation fees cover about 25 per
cent of the budget while state appro
priations cover 75 per cent, but the
students' share in recent years has
been running around 20 per cent
Clearly having 75 per cent of the
cost contributed by the state is fully
One of the penalties of the political siren
song of government-managed perpetual
prosperity to which the country has for so
long been treated is lack of intellectual
preparedness for adversity. Currently,
adversity seems to have been coming in
larger doses.
As the Somerset, Pennsylvania, Daily
American comments, “Americans,
perhaps half of whom were not alive when
World War II shortages forged a national
sense of self-sacrifice, are finding a...once
unrestricted personal life pinched by
shortages....” The Pennsylvania
publication then reminded its readers of an
Electric Chair Future
THOMASTON FREE PRESS
The people of this nation are paying the price
for prejudice of generations past that brought
about the outlawing of the electric chair as
punishment for such crimes as premeditated
murder.
Let’s face it. The reason we don’t have the
electric chair today is due to the unfair manner
in which the death penalty was applied.
But we can have it back and, in fact, do have
it back if it can be used.
Certainly the need is there and unless the
death penalty is restored we fear for the
majority who are falling prey to a brazen hand
ful who will kill at the drop of the hat fearing no
punishment more than a stretch in prison.
When the death penalty is again enforced
there must be caution to see that it is used
without the prejudice that caused the Supreme
Court to outlaw it.
Senate’s Open Door
Rome News Tribune
Georgia Lt. Gqv.-elect Zell Miller is
approaching his coming duties like a
breath of fresh air compared to the rank
politics which have dominated the Geor
gia Senate for many years.
First of all, the new lieutenant governor
was successful in getting a number of his
reform programs adopted at the Senate
Democratic Caucus this week.
ONE OF THE most significant changes
likely to emerge from the new-power
alignments is an "open door" policy on
conference committee meetings.
The change would be a sharp departure
from previous practices where final ver
sions of bills often were worked out in
secret meetings, with press and public
barred.
At the heart of the “open meeting”
Were Adam and Eve
real live people?
We were enjoying home grown tomatoes
when our 11 year old inquired, “Who do
you think ate the first tomato?” “Probably
Adam,” I replied. Whereupon our 16 year
old said in mock horror, “Mother, don’t
tell me you still believe that old tale.” Am I
stupid that I never questioned the
authenticity of Adam and Eve as real
people? W.L.
The Bible is a book of origins, and in
simple yet majestic terms, it describes the
beginning of our race. I’m aware that
biologists today account for life by
molecular arrangement, chemical
combinations or spontaneours generation,
but these are all insufficient hypotheses.
I think the threefold repetition of the
word “created” in Genesis 1:27 becomes a
significant denial of theories of modern
evolution. There’s a solemnity in the Bible
Still a Bargain
C&e Atlanta journal
Shortage of Confidence
GEORGIAN. Carrollton. Ga.
adequate to meet the requirements of
a philosophy of public support for.
higher education in recognition that
society as well as the students bene
fits from improved education.
The Board of Regents has not de
cided how much of an increase to
make, but if it were to adopt one pro
posed increase to bring in an addi
tional $4 million in revenue it would
result in charges of S9O per quarter at
junior colleges, $125 at four-year col
leges, and $l6O at the universities.
That would leave the students’ share
still well below 25 per cent, and it
would mean that state-supported
higher education is still one of the
best bargains available to any con
sumer anywhere.
advertisement which had appeared in The
Wall Street Journal under the sponsorship
of a major advertising agency which said,
“The shortage that can really drag this
country under isn’t energy—it’s con
fidence.”
An important factor in confidence is
acceptance of the reality that there never
was such a thing as eternal prosperity—or
eternal security. Now, as in the past, the
way to bridge difficult periods is to show
confidence in a system of government and
enterprise that, on the whole, has per
formed magnificently for nearly two
centuries.
philosophy espoused by Miller during his
successful campaign is the Senate’s
“Committee on Committees.” In the past,
the lieutenant governor has controlled the
Senate through his power to appoint
committees and their chairmen.
THE CAUCUS THIS week adopted the
Miller plan that future committee as
signments will be made by a committee of
three — himsn, the Senate president pro
tern and the majority leader.
In four years, Lt. Gov. Miller may not be
able to remove all the vestiges of the old
politics, but he promises to make the of
fice a working one for the people—not a
publicity forum for personal ambition and
intergovernmental feuding as it has been
for the past four years and more.
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account of making of man, which is
frivolously ignored by competitive
theories. The Bible says the creation of
Adam was preceded by a Divine con
sultation.
Prior to the creation of man, vegetable,
marine and animal life all waited for the
rational and spiritual creature who was to
recognize their order and wield dominion
over them. Whereas the animals of the
lower order arose at the Almighty com
mand as completed beings, man received
his life from a distinct act of Divine in
breathing. There was conferred an eternal
personality which was lacking in the
others.
Your 16 year old is impressed I’m afraid
with the seemingly logical claim of
biological scientists, but misses the higher
innocent faith of the 11 year old.
Berry’s World
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Inflation: Now
the good news?
By Don Oakley
It hasn’t been proved yet that the country can think itself
into a depression, but there’s no doubt that the individual
American can.
All he has to do is read the latest report on the Consumer
Price Index (CPI). The cost of living went up another 0.9 per
cent in October, says the U.S. Labor Department.
This brought the rise in consumer prices in the past 12
months to 12.2 per cent — three times higher than the infla
tion of 1970-71 that we thought was bad.
Now without being unrealistically Pollyanna-ish, there is a
cheerful way and there is a gloomy way of looking at such
news.
The average person’s first reaction is something like:
“Omigosh! Everything costs 12 per cent more than it did last
year!"
But everything doesn’t. Not for everybody and all at once.
Take the October increase in the CPI. If you didn’t buy a
new car in October (and hardly anybody did, to the indus
try’s alarm), you escaped a major factor in the general rise
in the cost of living.
Similarly, if you didn’t finance a new home, you were
unaffected by a rise in interest rates that accounted for 40
per cent of the rise in the services sector of the CPI.
If you avoided buying a new range or refrigerator, infla
tion didn’t touch you there. If you managed to stay healthy in
October, higher doctor and hospital prices didn’t bother you
— not that much, anyway.
Even in the category of food, prices were down for meat,
poultry, and fish by 1.6 per cent and by 0.3 per cent for fruits
and fresh vegetables. The price of gasoline declined for the
third straight month, by 2.5 per cent.
On the other hand (there’s always an other hand), all other
foods went up in October — sharply so for sugar, cereal, and
bakery products. Rents, utilities, and costs of home repairs
and improvements were also higher. And, despite raises, the
real spendable income of Americans was eroded a further
0.3 per cent in October.
Little enough cause for cheer, to be true. But the point is
that the Consumer Price Index is an extremely complicated
figure that gives an over-all indication of the state of the
economy. It does not necessarily describe how any given in
dividual or family within the economy may be faring.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
GRIFFIN
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