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I—Griffin Daily News Tuesday, February 25, 1975
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Twin Beds
When an elderly couple chooses twin beds, it's usually
the man who makes the decision. But when a young cou
ple buys twin beds, it's almost invariably the woman who
so decides. Such is the contention of a bed salesman.
AM ASKED if any one human being could carry a
million $1 bills. Not without a fair-sized truck. They'd
weigh pritnear a ton and fill up 42 cubic feet of space.
NO MARTINI drinker should forget that five green
olives contain as much nourishment as a hen’s egg.
ONE OUT of every three clock radios goes to a bride.
CLASSIFIED
Looks as though everybody has some favorite classi
fied ad. Friend Robert John Allen says his is: “Personals:
To the party who stole the unattended lawnmower from
my front yard: 1 hope, when you arrived home, that your
mother ran out from underneath the porch, barked at
you, and bit you on the leg.”
Q. “WHY is a book of maps called an atlas?"
A. Because practically all the early map books started
out with frontispieces that pictured the mythical character
Atlas holding the world on his back. It was slang, orig
inally. Like Ma Bell. Or Gl. Orcop.
REDUNDANCY
Was none other than James M. Hotchkiss, Jr., who
said, “To commit suicide in Philadelphia is an act of
redundancy." Mr. Hotchkiss collects redundancies. Like:
"Brief moment,” "congregate around," “enclosed with
in.” “end result," “military bomber," “past history,"
“close proximity," “original source,” “proceed ahead,”
“totally annihilate," "undergraduate student" and “stupid
idiot."
THREE OUT of four convicted rapists were them
selves as children the victims of sexual abuse. Or so one
study of the matter indicates.
A WASHINGTON policeman left his patrol car in
the police department garage with this note under the
windshield wiper: “The siren ain't workin'. It'll si but it
won't reen."
AMONG the Russian literature of several hundred
years ago, is one “How to" book which details the most
effective manner in which it was thought a man should
beat his wife.
DO YOU as a matter of custom use the words
“viable," “hopefully” and “whopping"? I don't. Too
proud. Call it haughty, if you like. Who cares?
Address mail to I. M. Boyd. P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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"The secret of my longevity? Well, Sonny, nobody told me
that eating, drinking and breathing were hazardous to my
health!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 25,
the 56th day of 1975 with 319 to
follow.
The moon is full.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Mars.
The evening stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Pisces.
French painter Pierre Renoir
was bom Feb. 25,1841.
On this day in history:
In 1901, J. P. Morgan formed
the United States Steel Corpora
tion in New Jersey, to become
the nation’s first “billion
dollar” enterprise.
In 1919, Oregon became the
first state to put a tax on
gasoline... one per cent.
In 1967, American warships
began shelling Vietnam.
In 1970, a record $1.3 million
was paid for a Vincent Van,
Gogh painting in New York
City.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
NASA is planning its busiest
space-launch program in nine
years. Will the new satellites
catch up with out-of-this-world
prices?
Which brings the thought: It’s
much easier to rendezvous with
Russians in space than to get
both sides down to earth at the
conference table.
osus
About the only bright thing
we see is the shiny side of our
blue suit.
The way things are going, the
funny bone will soon join the
appendix as a superfluous item
of man’s inventory of body
parts.
You're prejudiced — I have
strong convictions.
THOUGHTS
Trust in the Lord with all
your heart, and do not rely on
your own insight. In all your
ways acknowledge him, and he
will make straight your paths.
— Proverbs 3:5,6.
“Resignation and faith behold
God in the smallest hair that
falls: and the happiest life is
that of him who has bound
together all the affairs of life,
great and small, and entrusted
them to God.” — John W. Alex
ander, American painter.
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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.
Kindergartens
Governor Busbee told Georgia editors
meeting in Athens last week that Georgia
has made tremendous progress in
vocational education, but in elementary
and high school education, “We are on the
bottom of the heap.”
That was plain enough. Then he added,
“We spend seven million dollars a year
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| No smoking
Rep. George Larsen of Atlanta has
written a bill which would outlaw smoking
in public places in Georgia such as
elevators and transportation vehicles. He
says he is concerned with health and the
personal rights of non-smokers.
While smokers have the “right” to
smoke, non-smokers have the “right” not
to be bothered by those who do. We hope
the bill passes.
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Never slaves?
The Arabs have sounded another sour
note on the petrodollar pipe and the gutless
wonders of the Western world are dancing
to the tune.
Their latest ploy is to demand the ex
clusion of Jewish bankers from par
ticipating in financing deals involving
Arab investors.
Gerald Thompson, chairman of one of
This year, as every worker knows, the
Social Security tax bite has gone up again
— to a maximum of $825 on the first $14,100
of wages or salary. This is in addition to
the federal income tax.
It’s reached the point, says the Tax
Foundation, Inc., where this matter of
being hit twice on the same income is
beginning to involve a sizable sum of
money.
• Consider a married man with two
children who will earn exactly $14,100 this
year.
If his federal income tax were figured on
the amount left after his $825 Social
Security tax had been withheld, he would
pay $154 less in income tax.
Or the other way, if his Social Security
Alcohol problem is
top drug concern
Why don’t you say more about the
drinking problem in this country?
Knowing what it does on the highway
alone, makes it worthy of your attention.
C.A.
I do not purposely slight the problem of
alcohol in our country, which incidentally
is our number one drug addiction concern.
It’s just that in the priorities I give to
Biblical evangelism, I see my task more as
announcing what to do, rather than what
not to do.
Admittedly, it’s of major importance!
Recently it was reported that Alcoholic
Anonymous had organized new programs
aimed at youth. In a recent AA meeting, so
reported the E. P. News Service, one
sending children to the first grade for the
second time.”
He is proposing $lO-million a year to
start kindergartens around the state. They
would stop so many first grade failures
and pay for themselves in a hurry.
We hope the Legislature appropriates
the money.
Taxation
member was honored for having made it a
year without drinking. He was 11 years '
old.
In the last year for which we have
figures, American consumers spent an
average of more than 3.1 million dollars
every hour for alcoholic beverages. How
we’ve tried God’s patience already!
The Bible is very clear about the
devastating effect of alcohol on the human
body. I don’t fault people for wanting to
find some release from life’s problems—
and some joy, but alcohol is the wrong
way. Paul gives the answer in Ephesians
5:18: “Don’t drink...for many evils lie
along that path; be filled instead with the
Holy Spirit.
the leading non-Jewish banking houses in
Britain, announced the other day that his
organization would not resist the pressure
and predicted that the blacklisting of Jews
would continue as long as the Arabs
wished.
Britons never never never will be
slaves? Well, hardly ever.
tax were based on the income remaining
after the federal income tax was withheld,
that would be $93 less.
The federal government, of course,
doesn’t see it that way in applying both
taxes to the same income. It has always
taxed as “income” the employe’s share of
the Social Security tax.
Most state and local governments ex
tend the tax-on-tax process a step further
by not allowing the deductibility of either
federal income or Social Security taxes
when figuring income.
There’s one bright spot. The employer’s
matching Social Security contribution is
not considered as part of a worker’s in
come. Thus nobody—so far — has slapped
a tax on it.
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Berry’s World
“/t’s from a lecture bureau, Mr. Vesco. ‘lf, at any
time in the future, you would like to do the
college circuit, please contact us...!’ ”
Don Oakley
Don’t underestimate
voluntary conservation
By Don Oakley
Last winter’s gasoline shortage was “all or mostly phony” —a
contrivance of the oil companies rather than the Arabs — accor
ding to families surveyed in the Detroit area last spring by the
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Yet — paradoxically — the same people who doubted the
authenticity of the energy crisis, and thus might have been ex
pected to ignore it, actually undertook conservation measures.
For example, more than four out of five said they turned out
lights or lowered thermostats; two out of three reported using
their cars less for pleasure. Nearly half reduced the use of elec
trical appliances, and about one in four cancelled a planned trip
or vacation.
Overall, the families interviewed took an average of four ac
tions to save energy, with 40 per cent taking five or more. Only
two per cent said they made no efforts, reports Donald I. Warren,
senior research scientist at the institute, a joint project of the
University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
Because of these findings, Warren disagrees with the federal
government’s assertion that voluntary conservation hasn’t work
ed. It is just the opposite, and all the more amazing in view of the
high degree of alienation and distrust people felt toward the
government during this period.
He proposes that the government allocate funds that may be
transmitted as rate adjustments or rebates to individuals or com
munities that significantly lower their energy consumption.
Incentives such as these, which were practiced during World War
11, could certainly be reinstated, he says.
“In any case,” he urges, “we must do all we can to encourage a
* nationwide program of voluntary conservation. And we must
devise away of linking conservation with tangible benefits in
stead of punishment.”
Whatever happened to English?
At their annual convention in New Orleans, members of the
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) decided that the
new English usage section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test is
“linguistically invalid” and should be dispensed with.
As reported by Education USA newsletter, the teachers agreed
that the new test attempts to “limit students’ linguistic expres
sion to an arbitrarily established correct form.”
Horror of horrors. But that’s not all. This “superficial concept
of ‘correctness’ ” is racially and socially biased, the NCTE
found, because it excludes the dialects of millions of students.
This is especially distressing since the new test is used around the ‘
country to determine college admissions and placement in
English courses.
Bye-bye Shakespeare. Bye-bye Declaration of Independence
and Gettysburg Address. Junk everything else that represents an ■
“arbitrarily established” literary standard and “superficial con
cept of ‘correctness.’ ” And we certainly can’t deny anyone
college admission just because he don’t talk English so good, or
expect him to take a remedial rather than an advanced English ,
course.
Whatever happened to the “quest for excellence” the educators
were urging on us a few years back? Obviously, it ain’t no more.
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What price safety?
President Ford not only has a Democratic Congress to contend
with in his drive to slow the growth of government spending.
There is resistance in the ranks of his own official family.
Last December, for example, Richard O. Simpson, chairman of
the Consumer Product Safety Commission, complained bitterly
in a letter to the President about the administration’s proposed
1976 fiscal year budget for the commission.
Last year the agency requested $37.5 million and received a lit- *
tie over $35 million. This year it wants $49.8 million but has been
told that $35.6 million is all it is going to get.
In his desire to cut spending, Simpson charged, the President
was ignoring “the public suffering and economic loss from unsafe «
products.” It would signal to the American consumer “at best a
crippling and, at worst, a virtual abandonment” of efforts to
make products safer for the buying public.
He claimed that 20-million Americans are injured, maimed or .
killed each year by faulty consumer products.
Now granted that in any just society, not a sparrow would fall
without Uncle Sam being there to catch it. But 20 million is a lot
of sparrows.
One suspects that this figure has to include not only serious or ‘
fatal injuries but all kinds of Band-Aid-type accidents. There is
also evidence that at least a few of the government’s claims
about the magnitude of unsafe consumer products have been
grossly inflated.
Be that as it may, it is not a question of putting fiscal stability
before human welfare. It is a matter of trying to achieve a
reasonable balance between the two and applying rational brakes
to the Topsy-like growth of every agency, commission and bureau •
the government in its wisdom has created.
Two years ago, the Consumer Product Safety Commission did
not even exist. .newspaper enterprise assn.»
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