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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 22, 1975
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L M.BOYD
There Are Ho
Angora Cats
Note a feminine client claims to own an angora cat.
Remarkable, if true. The angora cat was mightily popular
hereabouts 100 years ago. But breeders mixed it with the
Persian cat, and the Persian's genes dominated. The
world’s last pure angora cat was reported in Turkey in
1907.
THE AMERICAN cuckoo doesn't cuckoo. Just clucks.
NOT MANY citizens realize the Statue of Liberty orig
inally was to be set up at the Suez Canal.
CLAIM IS a Taurus man tends to become a solid sort
of citizen, when properly trained. He's inclined to tackle
challenges with greater self-control. Or so say the star
gazers.
EYES
Q. "Can a doctor take your pulse just by looking into
your eyes?"
A. Theoretically. The pupil of your eye expands and
contracts rhythmically with the beating of your heart.
Imagine said doctor would need a magnifying class,
though.
Q. “HAS THERE ever been an X-rated movie cartoon?"
A. Know of only one. "Fritz the Cat."
GOOD NEWS for the lady libbers. The proportion of
women both in med schools and law schools has just about
doubled in the last four years. One out of every five such
first-year students now is female. In upcoming years, you
can count on a lot more Marys and Janes on those profes
sional shingles. High time.
WILLARD
Did you know the man who invented the Willard Bat
tery was the brother of that artist who painted "The Spirit
of 76"?
THOSE SCHOLARS who look into matters romantic
contend one out of every five wives is more passionate
than her husband.
THAT ITEM of feminine apparel which has dropped
most in sales over recent years is the slip. Because of
the pantsuit, yes. But also because of mini-skirts, bonded
fabrics and wash-and-wear textiles which need less pro
tection underneath. So reports a garment maker.
HERE’S A limerick sent along by Whitley H. Harris: "A
Dupont chemist from Destor . . . Was known to be quite
a jester . When his wife with a smile said, ‘l'm expect
ing a child!'... He replied, 'She’ll be named Polly Esther.'"
Addiess 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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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, April 22,
the 112th day of 1975 with 253 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Taurus.
Spanish Queen Isabella I was
born April 22, 1451. Actors
Eddie Albert and Shirley
Temple were born on this date
—he in 1908 and she in 1929.
On this day in history:
In 1889, some 20,000 home
steaders massed along the
border of the Oklahoma Terri
tory awaiting the signal to start
the Oklahoma land rush.
In 1944, Allied forces invaded
Dutch New Guinea in World
War 11.
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts
John Young and Charles Duke
walked and rode around the
surface of the moon for seven
hours and 23 minutes.
In 1974, a Pan Am 707 jetliner
crashed on the island of Bali,
killing all 107 aboard.
Only Ihe ~
Ncii'spapcr
ONLY THE NEWSPAPER
packs so much punch in the
wonderful world of sports
Your newspaper not only tells
you who won, but also why
they won
Thoughts
And he said to them, “Take
heed, and beware of all
covetousness; for a man s life
does not consist in the abun
dance of his possessions." —
Luke 12:15.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
Fairness to all
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to this page, and its columns are open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are
published every Wednesday.
The rod and the child
A Senate subcommittee’s alarming
report on the results of a three-year study
of violence in the schools of the United
States of America is a frightening com
mentary on the state of our educational
system, and a serious indictment of the
permissive society in which we live. If any
report ever deserved a one-word descrip
tion, it is this one, and the word is
“shocking.”
It is frightening to learn that assaults on
schoolteachers increased by 77.4 per cent
between 1970 and 1973 to reach a total of
70,000. Assaults on students themselves
climbed by an astonishing 85.3 per cent. It
is startling to hear that rapes and at
tempted rapes on school premises have
increased by 40 per cent and the ultimate
crime, homicide, has gone up 18 per cent.
Although the subcommittee’s statistics
come like a slap across the face to parents,
they could have been anticipated. There
have been many signs during recent years
that many children were losing their
respect for authority at home and in
school. Some students themselves have
asked for self-protection. Students of San
Francisco’s Balboa High School, for
example, a few months ago after a par
ticularly violent series of crimes, agreed
The Gallup Poll found recently that a
fourth of the college students polled are so
disillusioned with the United States that
they want to live somewhere else.
This is shocking, but we believe that if a
Most targets of an apparent witch hunt
by the Consumer Product Safety Com
mission have taken a dim view — under
standably —of a commission request to
reveal voluntarily the chemical formulas
of their products.
Only about 10 per cent of the several
thousand firms solicited have divulged the
closely guarded content of the some 21,000
items with which they compete for the
consumer market. In a period which has
spawned the bureaucratic “leak," they
are justifiably wary of pledges of com
puter-maintained confidentiality.
Now, under authority of the General
Forgiveness may be
misunderstood
I’ve only been a Christian a short time. I
know when you claim Christ's promise,
your past sins are forgiven. But are you to
spend hours trying to think of everything
you’ve done each day? I always worry if
I’ll miss a wrong thought or deed. A.S.
You need to read the 10th chapter of
Hebrews. The writer speaks of the old
system of successive sacrifices, and then
speaks of Christ “as one sacrifice for all
time.” When we come to Christ by faith,
“fully trusting Him to receive us” then,
“there is no longer any room for doubt.”
If you are in a spirit of true repentance,
it’s your bent toward evil doing that you
are really confessing. We need not
Significant
It is interesting to note that 15,705 people
are eligible to vote in the May 27 special
election for a Spalding County Com
missioner. It will be equally interesting
and far more significant to learn how
many take the trouble to go to the polls and
cast their ballots — especially if it rains
that day.
Disillusioned
Meddling
to turn in campus hoodlums.
Nor is seriousness of crime in schools
confined to a single region. The Detroit
board of education has asked armed police
to patrol troubled schools. Chicago is
spending nearly $3 million on school
security alone. New York' City’s school
board plans to spend $lO million a year to
hire school guards and special aids and
buy expensive security equipment. A
proposed Safe Schools Act now pending in
Congress would provide S2OO million to buy
sophisticated security systems for schools.
The litany of efforts taken by individual
communities to fight school crime is both
heartrending and mind-bending.
There is little doubt that the crime wave
in our schools follows an era of per
missiveness by schools, parents and the
courts. And there is plenty of blame to go
around. The cost in human terms cannot
even be calculated, but the cost in dollars
is estimated at an astonishing SSOO million
a year. In many schools that is as much as
is being spent for textbooks.
The Senate subcommittee’s report has
served to alert citizens to a problem of
epidemic proportions. The solution was
given us years ago: “Spare the rod and
spoil the child.”
poll were taken of Americans who actually
have sampled life in other count ies, a big
majority would favor the U.S.A. After all,
grass always has looked greener across
the fence — until one has crossed the
fence.
Accounting Office, the commission is
prepared to order the firms to surrender
their secrets in the name of consumer
protection. The goal is to find the
“potential and real hazards associated
with these products.” The study list ranges
from detergents to rust removers.
Bear in mind that the commission has no
specific complaints with which to deal — it
merely seeks a “data base.”
Since the formulas of products suspected
of hazardous content can be readily
analyzed, the commission seems to have
gone beyond its mission of protecting to
the meddling stage.
MY
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exhaustively fill in the specific times and
places for the Lord’s benefit, although it
may be for ours.
Forgiveness is perhaps a widely
misunderstood doctrine, and that’s
regrettable because it is one of God’s most
costly and complicated undertakings.
Romans 8:1 says that all your trespasses,
past, present and future, are forgiven
when you trust Christ.
Christ is, according to Romans 8:26,
making intercession for us continually at
the Father’s side. Were this not so, the
least sin would result in banishment from
His presence. How great of God to design a
plan that doesn’t require our keeping
score.
Berry’s World
/ J SECRETARY
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Don Oakley
The economy goes
down, crime goes up
By Don Oakley
A group of 16 mayors was in the nation's capital a few weeks
ago seeking federal funds, as mayors so often are these days. In
this case, the object was government assistance in creating
summer jobs for youths.
Visiting a “street academy” for teen-agers who had dropped
out or been kicked out of school, the mayors were told by one
youth that, “If we don't have anything to do, we turn to crime.”
That was it. Not, “If we can't find jobs, we turn to crime to
feed ourselves and our families.” Simply, “If we don’t have
anything to do, we turn to crime.”
This kind of remark, which smacks of outright blackmail,
suggests that the supposed equation between idleness and crime,
or poverty and crime, is a little too pat. After all. Americans did
not turn to crime in any great numbers during the Depression,
when there was real hardship for millions.
The Depression did, however, produce a generation of nor
torious bank robbers, and there is growing evidence that there is
a relationship between this kind of crime and the current down
turn of the economy. For fiscal 1974, the FBI reports, bank
robbery rates were up 37 per cent compared to a 2 per cent rise in
overall robberies.
The jump was most marked in large cities over 500,000 in
habitants. Bank robberies in rural, static communities were less
frequent.
It is the inner cities that have been hardest hit by unemploy
ment, reports a manufacturer of security systems.
The search for a connection between the economy and the
crime rate yields another indicator: The first-time bad-check
passer In contrast to robbery, this is largely an unarmed crime
often practiced by normally law-abiding citizens motivated by
financial pressures.
In the fiscal year just passed, the number of forged checks in
creased 9 per cent over the preceding year.
“It might be accurate to say that an increase in bad-check
passers indicates that the economy is bad or getting worse for the
average consumer,” says a spokesman for the manufacturer,
American District Telegraph Co.
Yet in determining the causal relationship between bank
crimes and fluctuations in the economy, other forces increasing
bank crimes should be taken into account, the company cautions.
There is evidence that “policy decisions” by organized crime
or gangs inflate the robbery rate in some cities. The impact of
professional thieves appears to have contributed in no small part
to the astonishing jump in bank forgeries and robberies in at least
one city, New York.
Another noneconomic contributor to the increase in bank
robberies might well be the increased number of banks
themselves, particularly small, relatively isolated branch banks
in the suburbs that may not be as extensively secured as the
larger parent banks.
Clearly, the best deterrent to bank robbing is the regular ap
prehension and punishment of aspiring robbers. Such controls as
holdup cameras are one of the major reasons that bank robbers
are caught more often than other kinds of robbers.
Even so, only 27 per cent of all bank robbers are actually
arrested.
Despite all the controls that can be devised, and whatever the
state of the economy, bank robbers will keep on trying, because,
as robber Willie Sutton once put it. “That’s where the money is.”
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Quotes
“No nation as significant in
would history as ours has the
right to ignore the conclusion of
its second hundred years of
successful existence. We are
one of the lights of the world, a
beacon to which other nations
have consistently looked, even
when they did not wish to follow
our precepts, and for us to
allow our birthday to pass un
noticed would be shameful.” •
— Author James Michener
“The same device that blew a
hole in the earth under the Ra
jasthan desert and left a large
crater on the surface could just
as well wipe out a city and its
inhabitants . . . Even if one ful
ly accepts the Indian declara
tion of intention to use nuclear
explosions exclusively for
peaceful purposes, the plain
fact is that India's nuclear,
devices can also be used as
nuclear weapons whenever In
dia so decides.”
- William Epstein, United
Nations disarmament expert,
writing in “Scientific
American” on the proliferation
of nuclear weapons.
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TRACTS
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Celebration of July 4 as
Independence Day has always
been controversial. John
Adams, one of the
Declaration s signers and the
second President, thought
Americans should celebrate on
July 2, when the Continental
Congress approved the docu
ment. John Hancock, president
of the Congress, signed it on
July 4. but The World Almanac
notes the Declaration was not
revealed to the public until July
8.
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