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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 22, 1975 Page 4 UHL V " <■ ’*' K Copley News Service 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 — ' | y I ' "— ' 2JLL > M? & vA li i il Hi 4-"21 * f ®'”s »»«*.«, “Yes, we re watching TV. There was so much violence on the news, we switched to cops-and-robbers!" 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. GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS Subscription Prices Delivered by carrier or by mail in the counties of Spalding, Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar and Pike, and to military personnel and students from Griffin: 62 cents per week, $2.68 per month, $8.04 for three months, $14.07 for six months, $32.13 for 12 months. These prices include sales tax. Due to expense and uncertainty of delivery, mail subscriptions are not recommended but will be accepted outside the above area at $17.50 for three months, S3O for six months, and SSO for 12 months. If inside Georgia, sales tax must be added to these prices. All mail subscriptions must be paid at least three months in advance. vieu"*~hpoint JU H 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. 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 ANSWER f H l|.- 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 1 I / BUREAUCRACY /U/ 8 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.” (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I 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. GRIFFIN Quimby Melton, Jr„ Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves. General Manager Full Leased Wire Service UPI. Full NEA. Address all mad (Subscriptions Change of Address form 3579) to P.O Boi Is. E Solomon St.. Griffin, Ga. gIC€NT€NNIAL TRACTS rtOs 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. .(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN l Copyright (c) 1975 Bill Knight. Executive Editor Published Daily Eicept Sunday, Jan. 1, July 4. Thanksgiving I Christmas, at 323 East Solomon Street. Gnffm, Georgia 30223, bj News Corporation. Second Class Postage Paid at Griffin, GaJ Single Copy 10 Cents.