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Have You Ever
Nearly Died?
Have you ever thought you were dying? Pollsters put
that query to numerous grownups. About 35 out of every
100 women said yes. But only 25 out of every 100 men
said likewise. Why so many more women than men have
felt they were at the rope's end remains unexplained.
ANOTHER innovation devised before its time by that
genius Leonardo Da Vinci in 1508 was contact lenses.
I’M TOLD you can pretty well count on the notion that
plumbing pipes in future homes will be made of glass
which never corrodes.
CHERRY TREE TALE
Q. "Any truth to the old story that George Washington
cut down his father’s cherry tree, then confessed, saying
‘I cannot tell a lie'?”
A. Not likely. A biographer named Parson Weems
dreamed up that one. He put a lot of fiction in books about
Benjamin Franklin and William Penn, too.
THERE’S a plastic surgeon in New York City who
makes most of his money by cutting dimples into cheeks
and chins ... IT WAS a personal policy of the great come
dian W. C. Fields never to drink liquor between 5 a.m. and
noon ITEM 1473 Cin our Love and War man's file reads:
"Forgiving a man is the supreme pleasure known to
women” CUSTOM among some tribes in New Guinea is
for a widow to wear her husband's jawbone around her
neck . . . STATISTICS indicate arsonists set more fires
during the full moon than at any other time.
PAIR
Far more people than you might think enjoy pain,
evidently. Consider chili that’s extremely spicy, for in
stance. Neither the flavor nor the fragrance is the out
standing characteristic of that dish. Neither the nose nor
the taste buds have much to do with the enjoyment.
Rather, the strong chemicals in the spice stimulate the
pain nerves that respond to heat. And that kind of pain in
the mouth is a pleasure to many.
YOU’VE PLAYED cat’s cradle, that child’s pastime
wherein a loop of string is stretched on the fingers to
make various geometric figures. Mention it because it’s
the world’s second most widely played game. Only hide
and seek is more popular.
CONSIDER a husband and wife in an election year.
If only one doesn’t vote, it's four times as likely to be
the wife as the husband. That, too, has been proved.
WAS THE CUSTOM in old Bulgaria for the bride
and groom to play tug-of-war after the wedding cere
mony with a loaf of bread. Or so reports our Love and
War man. W hoever broke off the bigger piece was sup
posed to become boss of the house.
Address moil to L. M Boyd, P.O. 80x.17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M. Boyd
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Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, April 28,
the 118th day of 1975 with 247 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
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.
James Monroe, fifth president
of the United States, was born
April 28, 1758. This is entertain
er Ann-Margret’s 34th birthday.
On this day in history:
In 1788, Maryland was
admitted to the Union as the
seventh state.
In 1945, Fascist leader Benito
Mussolini was executed by
Italian patriots.
In 1952, the war with Japan
was officially ended with
signing of a treaty by the
United States and 47 other
nations.
In 1969, French President
Charles de Gaulle resigned
after being defeated in a
referendum.
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person.
Thoughts
“Oh that thou wouldest hide
me in Sheol, that thou wouldest
conceal me until thy wrath be
past, that thou wouldest appoint
me a set time, and remember
me!” — Job 14:13.
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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.
A big budget
Governor Busbee has signed into law the
largest budget in the history of the state. It
provides $1.96-billion for fiscal year 1976,
and that is a lot of money even for a big
state like Georgia.
Having worked as a key man in the
Legislature on many budgets, Governor
Busbee probably knows more about the
involved process of preparing one and the
intricate political maneuvers required to
Socks on roosters
Today’s smile for colorful use of the
language goes to members of the Federal
Trade Commission who are unhappy over
a new investigation which that agency has
launched. They call it a waste of time,
taxpayers’ money and “as useful as a pair
of socks on a rooster.” The project under
fire is to decide if labels outlining the care
and feeding procedures should be attached
to all plants sold in America. Not only do
we like their language, but we applaud
their criticism of the project.
Ovations
President Ford has gotten a couple of
ovations recently, and he must have
welcomed them because appreciation has
been sparse and criticism as lush as the
weeds of spring.
First, he was cheered heavily when he
said in Louisiana that the war in Vietnam
is over, at least for Americans.
Next, alumni of Yale University of which
he is a graduate cheered him in Con
necticut when he said that persistent
criminals and all those who use a gun to
commit a crime should go to jail
automatically if they are found guilty.
The public trough
Recent articles from the nation’s capital
have reported that several of Georgia’s
congressmen have part-time press agents
on the government payroll.
The question is whether tax dollars
should support publicity people for
politicians. As we see it, there is a
legitimate place in government for public
information personnel, but not for per
sonal propaganda agents. And we liked it a
lot better when Congressmen kept their
own personal contacts, wrote and made
their own speeches (even dull ones), and
answered public questions themselves.
Nowadays too many are too busy
“projecting an image” to be themselves.
So they lose contact with the people they
are supposed to represent.
It seems to us that congressmen ought to
Is it sinful
to smoke pot?
How can I convince my teen-age son that
it’s sinful to smoke marijuana? V.F.P.
Start with this fact that earlier this year,
a research psychiatrist who once called
marijuana harmless, now thinks it’s “the
most dangerous drug” sold illicitly in the
U.S. He says chronic use of it permanently
impairs the ability to think clearly.
I know that figures say 75 percent of high
school and college young people will have
at least tried drugs before they graduate.
But thank God for the increasing number
of young adults who are saying, “We don’t
need artificial and certainly not harmful
pass one than any of his predecessors in
office. Proof of this is found in the fact that
the Legislature finally approved 97 per
cent of his requests in spite of the Speaker
of the House who dragged his feet and
exercised his lungs at every opportunity.
Thdre is much progress in the new
budget, and much common sense in the
Governor’s head. So there is reason to
expect good things from the money and
from the man in charge of its spending.
Violent crime is increasing but the number
of people behind bars is falling, he said.
These two responses of great support
emphasized at least to this newspaper that
the United States’ greatest problems and
concerns at the present time are domestic
ones. While we are too realistic to think for
a moment that the nation can withdraw
from the world and revert to policies of
isolation, we do believe that we must pull
our horns in, consolidate our positions
abroad, and get our own house in order
because “a house divided shall not stand”
— and America is divided today.
pay their press agents and election-time
team out of their own pockets instead of at
taxpayers’ expense.
And there is this little question, is it any
worse to have a part-time press agent
“image projector” drinking at the public
trough than it is to have one working full
time and swilling even deeper gulps of tax
money?
There is, of course, a solution to the
matter, and that is to elect a congressman
next time who writes his own speeches,
says his own piece, and does his own thing
instead of parroting a ghost writer’s
rhetoric and mailing out “releases”
publicizing himself with an eye to the next
election — all at the public’s expense.
It is getting time to change some more
faces from Georgia in Washington.
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stimulants to get a kick out of life.” Many
are finding that a life commitment to
Christ provides all the zest and challenge
needed.
As for Biblical indication of the need to
refrain from drugs, consider what Paul
says in I Corinthians 6:19 that “Your body
is the temple of the Holy Spirit.” The
Christian should not deface it by abusing
the body.
Then there is also Paul’s statement in 2
Timothy 2:26 that refers to “Satan’s trap
of slavery to sin.” Marijuana is a trap by
which our body is subjected to involun
tary slavery. I hope your son avoids it.
Berry’s World
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© 1975 by NEA Inc
“WELL! Apparently the anti-smoking move
ment is becoming MILITANT!"
Ray Cromley
Thailand on
the front line
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — The downfall of Cambodia and
South Vietnam will, after a suitable period of consolidation, free
North Vietnam for a gradual stepup of operations in northeastern
Thailand.
This may be accompanied by an increase in Chinese support for
the small but well-organized Peking-backed underground in the
northwestern section of the country.
Access to Thailand is simple. The North Vietnamese and
Pathet Lao already dominate most of Laos along the Thai border,
a border so extended the Thai police and military have for years
found it impossible to guard against infiltration.
The Thai underground is ripe for expansion. North Vietnamese
and-or Chinese-trained cadre have been organizing in the region
since 1954, and actively for the past 12 years, despite some inter
mittent setbacks.
Originally confined to the far northeast and northwest, with
pockets in the extreme southwest, organizers have, for the past
five years been slowly moving into the west central area in an
“oil spot” type advance. That is, they have set up nuclei at
selected points here and there. Each oil spot then expands in a
slow, irregular fashion, the growth being hardly noticeable, ex
cept at intervals of roughly five years.
There may thus be no obvious outward change in Thailand over
the next decade. It could take at least that time for the cadre to
get their underground units in shape for effective open moves
against the government.
Thai police and government friends tell me they and their
associates travel in the hinterland only when it is absolutely
necessary. When I traveled by automobile through 900 miles of
the rural interior a number of years back, my companion, a
government friend whose father had been prime minister,
carefully placed a rifle in position for quick firing. Government
officials and police are assaulted regularly.
The security problem is complicated by the fact that corruption
is widespread, both in rural areas and in Bangkok. Smuggling
from China has become a big-time operation, smoothed by
bribery. The major profits go to a group of Peking-oriented
Chinese merchants who plow a portion of their profits into the un
derground. Whether this is for protection, for future insurance or
from conviction is not clear.
To understand what is happening in Thailand, one must unders
tand that the preliminary underground thrust is not military. It
rather centers on sabotage, propaganda, corruption of officials,
with enough intermittent attacks on police and civilian officials
to convince the local population the government can neither de
fend itself nor be relied on for protection. The argument: if they
cannot protect themselves who can they protect?
Wide areas in Thailand are ripe for underground activity.
Despite "the general prosperity, poverty is endemic and people
are without hope in extensive regions of the country.
Bangkok, for too long, has been Thailand. The government,
business and prosperity center in that city. Despite sporadic
attempts at widening the base, everywhere I went in the
hinterland, in cities and rural towns alike, I found a wide
emotional and political gap dividing the citizenry from the
residents of Bangkok.
Thailand is now experimenting with democratic institutions. If
that country is not to be destroyed, it needs help. Not U.S. troops.
Not military aid primarily. Rather the kind of friendly civilian
assistance which will strengthen the Thai in building a people
based government. The aid must be limited to what they ask for
— not what we think they should have.
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Quotes
“I’m skeptical of efforts to
tinker with such fundamental
constitutional institutions as
the presidency. No amount of
tinkering can assure that
abuses will be eliminated. In
fact, such changes may well
create new possibilities for
abuse. There can’t be a quick
fix substitute for the single
most important thing — picking
individuals of character and
competence for positions of
high trust.
— Sen. Henry M. Jackson ID-
Wash.), Democratic presiden
tial contender, opposing
limiting the chief executive’s
term to only six years as- a
means to curb corruption in
high office.
“Sure, we should have bomb
ed Cambodia. We should have
bombed Hanoi. We should have
bombed the docks. And if we
were afraid to bomb them
because we were going to start
another war with somebody
else, we should never have been
over there in the first place.”
—Gov. George Wallace of
Alabama.
GRIFFIN
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TACTS
Secret colonial societies that
sprang up in 1765 to protest the
Stamp Act took their name
from Isaac Barre’s speech op
posing that act in the House of
Commons where Barre had
closed his speech with a
reference to the colonists as
“these sons of liberty.” The
effectiveness of their violence
against Loyalists was so great
that all stamp agents in the
colonies resigned before the
Stamp Act became law on Nov.
1, 1765, The World Almanac
notes.
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