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Turtle Meat
Beats Beef
You can get 800 pounds of beef off an acre of land.
You can get 200,000 pounds of green sea turtle meat out
of an acre of salt water five feet deep. That turtle meat
is a lot better than beef. Not much fat. Hardly any chojes
terol. Low in calories. Tastes great, too. We’re farming
the wrong acreage, sir.
UNDERSTAND the Japanese have come up with an
automobile so rigged that all its lights flash spectacularly
when a device on the dashboard detects the odor of
alcohol on the driver’s breath. Do you think it will sell?
THAT CLASSIC actress Greta Garbo has never
given anybody her autograph. I’m told.
LOVE AND WAR
Item 148 in our Love and War man’s file of roman
tic quotations by Honore de Balzac reads: “It is as ab
surd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time
as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to
play the same piece of music.”
Q. “WASN’T it a songwriter who coined the phrase
‘makin’ whoopee’?’’
A. No, contrary to popular belief, the late columnist
Walter Winchell originated that one.
A STORE in San Angelo, Texas, was burglarized
sometime back. Friends advised the owner to lock up a
couple of watch dogs in his place at night. He decided
against that. Instead, just before he closes shop now, he
turns loose inside a batch of rattlesnakes. A “Beware”
sign on the front door reports the situation. He cages
them again every morning.
MAFIA
Recently reported that “mafia" came from the Arabic
word “maehfil” meaning “union." That’s wrong, say
clients. French soldiers occupied Sicily in the 13th cen
tury, oppressively. When a drunken French sergeant raped
a young Sicilian girl in the shadow of a church, thous
ands of enraged Sicilians took up the shout: “Morte Alla
Francia Italia Anela.” It meant: “Death To The French
Is Italy's Cry." And the word “mafia” was formed of the
first letter of each Italian word in that tragic slogan.
THERE ARE more statues nationwide of one certain
American woman than of any other. Can you name her?
Say Sacajawea.
THE WORLD’S most popular game "Monopoly"
is banned in the Soviet Union.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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© 1975 bv NEA inc . T M Rtg u S Pat Off
‘‘Bills ... bills... bills! Couldn’t you find SOMETHING
that would stay you from the swift completion of your
appointed rounds?”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 18,
the 49th day of 1975 with 316 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Mars.
The evening stars are Jupi
ter, Saturn and Venus.
Those bom on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
American actor Jack Palance
was born Feb. 18,1920.
On this day in history:
In 1861, Jefferson Davis was
sworn into office as president of
the Confederate States of
America at Montgomery, Ala.
In 1930, the planet Pluto was
discovered by astronomer
Clyde Tom Baugh at the Lovell
Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
In 1967, nuclear physicist
Robert Oppenheimer died at
the age of 62. He played a key
role in development of the
atomic bomb.
In 1969, six persons were
wounded when Arab terrorists
attacked an Israeli airliner in
Zurich, Switzerland.
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THOUGHTS
Before the silver cord is
snapped or the golden bowl is
broken or the pitcher is broken
at the fountain, or the wheel
broken at the cistern, and the
dust returns to the earth as it
was, the spirit returns to God
who gave. — Eccl. 12:6,7.
“There is only one way to get
ready for immortality, and that
is to love this life and live it as
bravely and faithfully and
cheerfully as we can.” — Henry
Van Dyke, American
clergyman.
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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.
Sunday closing
A court ruling has outlawed Georgia’s
confusing Sunday closing law, and At
torney General Bolton says his depart
ment does not plan to appeal.
Lawmakers expect an effort to write a
Smile
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“Cooperation is doing with a smile what
you have to do anyway.” — Julia Dyar,
Ga. Press Assn.
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We’ll wait
The State Department of Transportation
has passed the word that reconstruction of
the bridges on Taylor street and on Poplar
street probably will be delayed because of
the economic crunch.
Well, here in Griffin we are well aware
of the desirability of new bridges, but we
The following editorial was submitted
by a Griffin policeman:
WHY A THIRD NO-WIN WAR?
From “The American Rifleman”
In the quarter-century just ended, the United
States has engaged in three no-win wars—con
flicts in which we fought with one hand tied. They
proved tragic, costly and traumatic to our nation.
Two of them, in Korea and Vietnam, are past.
But our third no-win war, perhaps the most im
portant of all, still rages.
This third war is being fought, not in the distant
Orient by U.S. armed forces, but in the streets
around us by an equally heroic army of law en
forcement officers. There are painful similarities
in these three no-win struggles.
Just as the country at large left it to a few
hundred thousands of its sons to carry on the
shooting wars against Communism overseas, so
does the American public leave it largely to the
police to wage war on crime with relatively little
general support.
Just as the Korean and Vietnam conflicts were
limited in their scope, if not their deadliness and
ferocity, by diplomatic considerations, so is the
war to protect the American public from rampant
crime hampered by the manner in which some
courts free criminals who then repeat their crimes.
On Lake Erie in the War of 1812, U.S. Com
modore Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a British
fleet and then messaged: “We have met the enemy
and they are ours. . . .” In other words, their ships
were sunk or captured and would not have to be
fought again. But in our homefront war. the public
enemy, or some part of it, virtually uses the courts
for “rest and recreation” before resuming attacks
on the American public again and again. How
, MY
Did astronauts answer |
visit earth?
As a new Christian, I have so many
questions. One is this, I went to the movie
“Chariots of the Gods,” and I was
disturbed by it. It quoted Isaiah I think,
and spoke about a ball of fire coming out of
the sky, and hearing the sound of thunder.
That narrator described this as a space
ship from outer space. Do you think
astronauts did visit the earth long ago?
T.G.
Perhaps the reference was to the
Biblical account of the prophet Elijah
being taken to heaven in a chariot of fire.
II Kings 2:11 says: “A chariot of fire
drawn by horses of fire appeared. .. and
Elijah was carried by a whirlwind into
heaven.” Elisha saw it and cried, “My
father! The chariot of Israel!”
Now whether that was material fire, we
can’t say. Because the brightness and
new blue law in the current legislative
session. If they do, we hope sincerely they
will put one together which people can
understand. The one which the court
knocked down mixed just about everybody
up.
also are aware of the crunch and are
realistic enough to know that some things
will have to wait awhile. And we would
rather wait a reasonable time than have
the Legislature raise taxes to pay for such
projects here and elsewhere. We want fair
treatment though, and we expect others to
wait their turn just as we do. Fair enough?
police morale remains so high is a wonder.
In our two no-win wars abroad our strategic
moves were severely limited by global diplomacy.
There was always deep concern in Washington,
D.C., that an unrestrained U.S. offensive might
unleash a nuclear war.
Those who have in effect left our police to
battle under a handicap in defending the home
front can offer no such excuse. While the possi
bility of nuclear gangsterism cannot be completely
discounted, there is no immediate and evident
threat of nuclear devastation such as haunted
overseas wars.
The two no-win wars abroad cost us 79,792
Americans killed in combat.
The no-win war at home has resulted in 858
law enforcement officers being killed in the period
1964-73.
Some 77% of those identified as assailants of
the slain officers had records of previous arrests,
according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting
Center.
Some 59% had been convicted of crime before.
Nearly two-thirds of these were free, at the time
the officers were killed, through parole or pardon.
That is why our national campaign against
crime, into which the Federal government is pour
ing millions through the Law Enforcement Assist
ance Administration, needs court and public sup
port if it is to succeed.
Our third no-win war is the one we can worst
afford—because it strikes us right here on the
home front.
glory of celestial beings — when made
visible to man often brought the concept of
fire. In any event, I wouldn’t think you
could build any case for space vehicles
from other planets. That film admittedly
parlayed some historical facts into a
proposition of fantasy, with the use of vivid
imagination and the inevitable awe of the
unknown.
♦
Many times in Scripture the Lord sent
“messengers from heaven.” But the Bible
never divulges much byway of detail as to
the person coming or the place from which
he came. Rather than spend much time or
energy conjecturing on historic space
vehicles which may have come to earth,
the Bible teaches us how to prepare now on
earth for our future trip into space. This
will take place for Christians at the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
Berry’s World
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“We’d better pass a law putting us on the metric
system, before the whole world switches to it!"
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Economic planning
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By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — The snail-like economic recovery
and continued high unemployment projected in President Ford’s
budget are no accident.
It is planned that way.
In private talks, Mr. Ford’s economic advisers make clear they
believe this country cannot solve its energy and inflation
problems, which worry them in the long run far more than
today’s recession, unless they carefully manipulate the price and
consumption of energy and other essential products now in short
supply as thoroughly as they can without reaching a breaking
point in the nation’s economy.
Anything less, they are convinced, would dangerously prolong
our military and economic dependence on unpredictable
decisions by the foreign nations which control the world’s expor
table oil resources. And lead to unbearable inflation.
Since both inflation and our demand for foreign oil have strong
built-in growth, we will have to run hard to hold our own.
These advisers have calculated mathematically exactly how
hard we must run, and matched their computer results with the
maximum we can bear in suffering and industrial lag.
They have mapped out a program which comes as close as they
dare to the point where these lines meet. They have no way— ex
cept through their computer calculations —of knowing whether
they have gone too far.
The President’s experts have made repeated miscalculations
in recent economic predictions. But these scholars retain all
their old belief in themselves. They say there is now new data
which gives them confidence they are correct and their detrac
tors wrong.
After talking with these men, I am convinced they believe their
computer mathematics. But I question their sense of reality.
Economic theory is not a science which can be applied so precise
ly to real life.
Robert 5. McNamara, as secretary of Defense, had an almost
religious belief in the infallibility of computers, forgetting that
answers spewed out by these machines are no better than the
assumptions fed in.
And in making their precise calculations, the men who counsel
the President, start with assumptions that may be very shaky in
deed. For they are based on philosophy and interpretation.
When I majored in mathematics, professors stressed time and
again that numbers and theorems had no meaning except as they
could be related to and proven in real life. This rule apparently
has not reached President Ford’s planners. Their background dis
cussions are filled with words — matrices, elasticity, money
theory. Attempting to pin these men down on how they reached
their conclusions, produces a circumlocutive answer: “We did a
lot of studies, considered all possibilities. Took all possible
variations and contingencies into account.”
“What precisely did you take into account?”
Again, a lot of words, but no answer.
“What would be the effect of changes in your plans?”
“Each change has an effect on something else. We took all that
into account.”
Ask these experts why businessmen say things won’t work out
as they predict. Your answer comes back sharply: “They’re pre
judiced. They’re afraid that what we plan will cut their share of
the markets.”
“The university research men too?”
“Yes, they’re concerned with what our programs will do to
their tuition rates.”
Everyone who disagrees is prejudiced, or mistaken. Mostly
prejudiced.
It goes to make one nervous about the future.
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TIMELY
QUOTES
American philosopher Will
iam James said, “Man lives by
habit, indeed, but what he lives
for is thrills and excitement.”
“We look admiringly at our
new inventions. But some of the
* improvements ’ of our day are
illusory. We have developed
many mechanical devices to
get more enjoyment out of life,
but we have never invented a
better formula for human
behavior than the Sermon on
the Mount.” — David
Lawrence, American jour
nalist.
American poet Henry Wads
worth Longfellow said, “Give
what you have to. To some one,
it may be better than you dare
think/’
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FACTS
SOM’?.
The Consumer Product Safe
ty Commission, a federal agen
cy created in 1973, offers a tqjl
free number, 800-638-2666,
where you can learn if a par
ticular product has been
declared unsafe or complain
about one you believe is hazar
dous, The World Almanac
notes. If enough complaints are
received, the commission will
investigate and may order the
product banned.
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