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L. M. BOYD
This Is Why
We Can't Fly
Young fellow, do you know why you couldn't tly,
even if you had wings? Your breastbone isn't strong
enough.
AM ASKED which animal can hold its breath the
longest. The whale, no doubt about it. That sperm whale
can stay submerged for an hour or more.
Q. “WHERE does pecan pie now rank on that list
of the most popular American pies? "
A. Still No. 3. Right behind No. 2. cherry. And No.
I. apple.
CERTAINLY don’t blame those Pittsburgh lawmak
ers for ruling it illegal there to sleep in a refrigerator.
ROLLING PIN
Did 1 say 1 found no record of any wife ever hitting
her husband over the head with a rolling pin?? Check that.
Kindly clients submit local news items from several towns
wherein girls have bludgeoned their boyfrinds with rolling
pins. Also received an epistle which specified when and
where cannibals ate a missionary whom they boiled in a
big black pot. However, have no documented report as
yet about anybody slipping on a banana peel. Stand by.
WHEN A MAN goes shopping for shoes, he gener
ally knows just about what he wants before he walks into
the store. A woman usually does not make up her mind
until she has tried on a pair or two or more. Such is the
observation of an executive with a shoe store chain.
CONFUCIUS
Everybody knows something about Confucius, but
not everybody knows he was the eleventh child of a 70-
year-old soldier . . . THE MEN who have been rescued
from drowning outnumber the women who have been res
cued from drowining by 66 to 44 . . . SOME SCIENT
ISTS contend that all tigers originated not in the tropics,
but in the bleak cold of northern Asia.
YOUNG LADY, if your toddler's white shoelaces
won't stay tied, starch them.
SIR, HOW DO you get into your car, feet first or seat
first? Once put that query to a sizable sampling of women,
but momentarily none remembered. Suspect men don't
remember, either. It's like change in the pocket. After
the Great Depression, only a small minority of citizens
could tell you exactly how much was there. Far more can
tell you today, regret to report.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M. Boyd
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“It’s the Hampdens. They’re visiting all their friends while they
can still get gas!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, April 4, the
94th day of 1975 with 271 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus
and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aries.
Dorothy Lynda Dix, Ameri
can pioneer of prison reform,
was born April 4, 1802.
On this day in history:
In 1841, President William
Harrison died of pneumonia one
month after being inaugurated.
John Tyler became the first
vice-president to become chief
executive due to a death.
In 1933, 73 crew members
were lost when the U.S. Navy
dirigible “Akron” foundered in
a storm and fell into the ocean
off Barnegat Bay, N.J.
In 1974, the worst rash of
tornadoes in 49 years killed
nearly 350 in 11 states. Also
that day, Atlanta’s Hank Aaron
tied Babe Ruth’s home run
record with his 714th at
Cincinnati.
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ONLY THE NEWSPAPER
can go with sou wherever
you go. For the modem
man, on the go, there's no
substitute for his newspaper.
Thoughts
Happy are you who sow beside
all waters, who let the feet of
the ox and the ass range free. —
Isaiah 32:20.
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Editor
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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.
From time to time we have cited
Thomaston and Upson County as good
examples of the cooperation so sadly
lacking in Griffin and Spalding.
We have a big advantage which they
lack, though, and that is a single high
school in Griffin. Upson and Thomaston
have one each, and the Thomaston Free
Press called the problem the most
pressing one in that city and county. It
said, “Unless some solution is found
shortly to bring the high school students of
the city and county together, both the
The House Democratic Caucus, which
has accepted modestly deserved praise for
opening up the House committee system
and diluting the power of committee
chairmen, is less flexible in surveying its
own operation.
The caucus itself meets behind closed
doors to determine the course to be
followed by the Democratic majority on
the House floor and in committee sessions.
And some members must be grateful for
the lack of accountability in caucus action
binding them to resolutions that counter
the proclaimed drive for reform.
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
No track facilities
The Griffin High track team was
scheduled to compete in its first meet
today in Jackson.
There are so many students on the track
team that Coach Johnny Goodrum is
having a difficult time finding a place for
them.
That’s one problem he doesn’t mind.
He’s proud of the participation.
The problem was reverse a few years
ago. There were plenty of track events but
not enough people to participate in them.
Two women got
into fist fight
Two young women in our community
became involved in a theological dispute
that escalated into a fist fight. It became
so brutal that the loser was taken to the
hospital unconscious. Both women claim
to have been “saved” at your crusade.
Which brings up two questions. What is
being “saved”, and do you have any rules
to which a “saved” person subscribes?
C.E.G.
Well, those two may have been “my”
converts, but certainly not the Lord’s. At
least their behavior would hardly be a clue
to genuine conversion. I’ve heard of
defending the faith, but these launched a
personal offensive. A fighting Christian is
a contradiction in terms.
Consolidated
Good news
The State Labor Department this week
reported a 69 percent drop from January
in the number of newly unemployed
Georgians filing for unemployment
benefits.
Reform (?)
taxpayers of the city and the county will
shortly be faced with bond issues... Both
the city and county have interest to be best
served by one high school.”
Griffin and Spalding County Schools
consolidated on Jan. 1, 1953, but Griffin
and Spalding High Schools continued
separately through graduations of that
spring and combined that fall for the 1953-
54 term. Formerly all black Fairmont high
School merged with Griffin High in the fall
of 1970 for the 1970-71 term.
Democrats are committed to a return to
proxy voting, outlawed last year in a
bipartisan House vote, and to a reduction
in quorum requirements to allow official
committee meetings with only one-third of
committee members present.
Under the new rules, a chairman can
override the wishes of the minority party
representation even if no other members
of his own party appear.
The caucus leadership should recognize
that the practices it supports are in
consistent with the concept of openess,
candor and equal representation held by
the American people.
Coach Goodrum took over the track
program five years ago. He conpleted his
first year with just 11 members. *
Today there are over 60 students in
volved in track. Coach Goodrum is ex
pecting a good season.
However, there is a problem.
Griffin High doesn’t have, track
facilities.
Fans, who want to attend a meet, must
go out of town to do it.
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I understand salvation to be that ex
perience of the new life of faith in which
the Holy Spirit convicts the person of sin,
and helps them confess Jesus Christ as
personal Savior. John 3:16 says that being
saved is responding to God’s love and thus
receiving eternal life.
In the Crusades I usually ask converts to
do four things: to read the Bible, to pray,
to get active in a Bible believing church,
and to witness to their faith. The Bible has
its own “rules”, and I expect converts to
find these out themselves through personal
study.
If there is ever a question about conduct,
I John 2:6 says that Christ’s life is our
example.
Berry’s World
® 1975 by NEA. Inc
“People have already made a rash or movie
musicals! THINK, baby! What ELSE went over
big during the Depression?"
Ray Cromley
Military only as
strong as economy
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) - It is not the size of the Soviet
defense establishment today that worries administration foreign
strategists.
Rather, it is that Soviet defense spending, as measured in real
equivalent dollars, is somewhere between 25 and 50 per cent
greater than ours. This rough figure is as close as American
analysts can come, even with the aid of sophisticated computers.
More importantly, the combined procurement of military
hardware and research and development is twice that of the
United States.
The Soviet military and space research development has more
than tripled in the past decade and is still growing. At a time
when the United States finds it difficult to carry on one major
missile research and development effort, the Soviet Union is
handling three to four.
It is now estimated by technical experts at the Department of
Commerce that between 70 and 90 per cent of all qualified Rus
sian research scientists and engineers are programmed into the
USSR’s defense and space work.
What especially worries American planners is that the frenetic
Soviet buildup began not long after a series of major Soviet
diplomatic-political defeats — including the loss of China from
the Russian bloc, the backdown to the United States in Cuba and
the falling apart of Moscow’s Southeast Asia strategy.
The concern here is that the men in the Kremlin were con
vinced, along with Mao Tse-tung, that diplomatic power comes
out of the barrel of a gun, and that so long as they were number
two militarily, they could not have their way in the world.
There’s a strong belief here that Nikita Khrushchev was thrown
out because he wanted to go at a less rapid pace on the military
and pour Soviet resources into stronger economic growth.
This analysis has led some influential American strategists to
believe the Soviet arms buildup is not primarily for defense, but
rather intended as a psychological club to win the Russians
political-diplomatic conquests, victories made possible by wav
ing their arms.
Whether this reasoning is correct or false is anyone’s guess.
But one thing is for certain. Moscow’s major recent attempt at
bringing a neighbor into line through military threat failed in
China. The mammoth Soviet border buildup did not cause Peking
to give in; rather it pushed Mao’s Communist government closer
to the United States. Would the result have been different if we
had been weaker?
It should be noted that USSR military figures are not as
devastating as they sound offhand — especially in research and
development. It is estimated that Soviet scientists and engineers
overall are about 40 per cent as effective in their work as their
American counterparts. This is not to downgrade the Russian
technical men. It is rather that the Soviet system makes such
poor use of its talent. In theoretical mathematics and several
other advanced disciplines, Soviet specialists are world famous.
What’s likely to hold the USSR back, despite its hefty spending
which no one in his right mind can ignore, is the inefficiency of
the general economy on which military strength depends.
It is now estimated that overall Soviet productivity is 36 per
cent of that in the United States. At the bottom is Soviet
agriculture, with an efficiency roughly 10 per cent of ours. The
production of machinery and related equipment runs at 67 per
cent. But other branches of industry, encompassing such items as
steel production and construction, average a miserable 32 per
cent of American productivity levels.
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greatest thing in the world; that
it alone can overcome hate;
that right can and will triumph
over might.’’ — John D.
Rockefeller Jr. American
philanthropist.
Russian novelist Ivan Turge
nev said, “I agree with no
man’s opinion. I have some of
my own.”
British lecturer John Collins
said, “Mistrust a subordinate
who never finds fault with his
superior.”
American Negro leader
Booker T. Washington said, “No
race shall prosper till it learns
that there is as much dignity in
tilling a field as in writing a
poem.”
American statesman Ben
jamin Franklin said, “He that
goes a borrowing goes a sorrow
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The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, the largest country
in the world, stretches across
two continents, from the North
Pacific to the Baltic Sea. It oc
cupies the northern part of Asia
and the eastern half of Europe,
The World Almanac notes. The
vast territory of the USSR, one
sixth of the earth’s land sur
face, contains every kind of
climate except the distinctly
tropical.
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