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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 29, 1975
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L M.BOYD
Test for
Laziness
How can you tell whether somebody is lazy? Re
searchers at Illinois Institute of Technology think they’ve
come up with the best test. If a person has a good vocabu
lary, but a poor record of accomplishment, they say
that's proof said party is lazy. They think a good vocabulary
indicates high IQ. So the citizen who possesses same but
still doesn't do much with it has to be the victim of lazi
ness, they aver.
THIS WEEK’S favorite classified ad reads: "Special
Notices: Join the Inflation Fighters Club. Yearly dues only
$& tff) $100.”
DID YOU KNOW that dahlias produce a sugar far su
perior either to cane or beet sugar?
BLACKBEARD
Q. “Was there really a pirate named Blackbeard?”
A. Certainly was. Edward Teach was his real name. He
claimed 14 wives. He murdered and looted along the
Carolina and Virginia coasts between 1716 and 1718. An
American crew caught up with him off North Carolina,
finally. But how he fought! He took 25 wounds before he
dropped. They carried his head, only his head, back to
Virginia on a pole.
YOU SAY you already found out that a wild goose has
about 12,000 muscles? But did you know that 10,000 of
them do nothing but control that goose’s feathers?
ANOTHER reason you ought not eat a monarch butter
fly is it’s poisonous.
WILLA
Willa Gather said, "I like trees, because they seem
more resigned to the way they have to live than other
things do.” I like Willa.
A 120-POUND WOMAN, who used to weigh 245
pounds, says she only did three things to reduce: 1. Put a
full-length mirror in her shower. 2. Stick a picture of her
self in a bathing suit on the refrigerator door. 3. Hang
her wedding dress in the pantry.
THE BLACK PLAGUE killed about 25 million people in
1347. Victims developed round red rashes. Their pockets
were stuffed with flowers in their final hours to camou
flage the aroma of death. You’ve heard the nursery
rhyme that goes "ring around the rosies, pockets full of
posies”? It dates all the way back to that Black Plague.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M. Boyd
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“I understand German, French and Swahili and sometimes
even my own students!”
“The Reds Are Coming!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, April 29,
the 119th day of 1975 with 246 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars Mars and
Jupiter.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Taurus.
The Duke of Wellington, the
British general who defeated
Napoleon at Waterloo, was born
April 29, 1769.
On this day in history:
In 1878, Boston newspapers
ran the advertisement: “Tele
phone, $3, guaranteed to work
one mile. Five miles ... $5.”
In 1931, President Herbert
Hoover received the King of
Siam, first absolute monarch to
visit the United States.
In 1945, American troops
liberated 32,000 prisoners from
the Dachau concentration camp
in Nazi Germany.
In 1974, President Nixon said
he would turn over 1,200 pages
of edited Watergate transcripts
to the House Judiciary Commit
tee and make them public.
Smokey Says:
_/ FOREST FIRES
CONTRIBUTE
FLOODS I
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Forest fires contribute to floods!
Forest fire prevention is part of flood
control.
Thoughts
By faith we understand that
the world was created by the
word of God, so that what is
seen was made out of things
which do not appear. —
Hebrews 11:3.
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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.
Griffin and Spalding have observed
“Law Day U.S.A.” for a number of years,
but a more elaborate public celebration is
planned at the Spalding County Cour
thouse Thursday afternoon.
Here is a statement from the State Bar
of Georgia which explains why the
occasion is especially signficant this year:
“Watergate and related scandals have
put the American judicial system to its
most severe test, and under the spotlight of
intense publicity, the legal process has
proved equal to the challenge!
“Events during the past three years
have proved that the American judicial
system does work, that it successfully
resisted every attempt to subvert it, and
that our government of laws, not men,
remains vital and sound.
“In 1974, this nation’s first Chief Justice,
John Jay, said, “Justice is in
discriminately due to all, without regard to
numbers, wealth or rank.”
“And today this high ideal — equal
justice for all under law — has been, and
continues to be the cornerstone of our
judicial philosophy. While the goal has not
been fully realized as yet in all areas,
great strides continue to be made.
“In Georgia over the past three years,
each of the three branches of our State
government — executive, legislative and
judicial — has acted responsibly to im
prove the judicial system. As a result, we
have had an unprecedented series of
13,000 murders
The average 13-year-old in America has
seen 13,000 murders on television!
This startling fact came straight from
the chairman of the Federal Com
munications Commission which has
charge of teevee and radio stations in this
country. He is Richard Wiley, and he said
it in a news conference before addressing
the Chicago Advertising Club last week.
‘The girl lured
the man away’
I married a divorced man with a 5 year
old child. I got along well with the girl until
recently, when her real mother and the
man living with her asked her to join them.
Do you know the girl lured the man away
from the mother and they just married.
She’s 16 and pregnant. He’s 43. She’s
asking me for forgiveness but should I
believe her? P.S.F.
If it’s a question of securing your
forgiveness only, and if she’s sincere, then
you owe it to her. Jesus taught us to forgive
seventy times seven, in other words —
infinity. If it means taking her back in your
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
Law Day
Good news
University of Alabama doctors say two
drugs currently under research may
control T-cell leukemia, the most common
type of blood cell cancer in children.
Research team head Doctor Herschel
Bentley, Jr., said the drugs can trigger
body hormones into recognizing leukmia
cells and attacking them.
He warned that the treatment is only
effective for the T-cell strain of the disease
and does not work on other types or adult
forms of leukemia. Even so, this advance
in the search for a cure of cancer is good
news indeed.
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highly qualified judicial appointees. We
have the machinery for improving the
efficiency of our courts. And we have a
practical system whereby judicial officers
can be held accountable to their enormous
public trust.
“At the same time, the State Bar of
Georgia has moved to strengthen its role of
responsibility for the conduct of members
of the legal profession. Laymen have been
added to the State Disciplinary Board and
disciplinary proceedings, after probable
cause has been determined, are open to the
public.
“On the national scene, the roles of U.S.
District Court Judge John Sirica, the
Congress, the House Judiciary Committee,
the Supreme Court and Special Watergate
Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, deserve to be
recognized and honored. Attempts by
Watergate defendants to turn the
American governmental system into a
government of men instead of laws failed
miserably. Orderly processes of law
triumphed at every turn.
“We are confident that out of this shoddy
episode in American history, good will
surely come in the form of better and more
responsive government, a more alert bar,
and improved judicial and political ethics.
“On this special occasion, Law Day 1975,
we have a unique opportunity to ap
preciate the role played by the rule of law
in safeguarding the Republic in a time of
great danger.”
He did not go into detail on what else the
average 13-year-old American has seen on
the screen, but anyone who has watched
the boob tube lately knows what a mess it
often offers.
Teevee is not all bad, and it is not the
only problem in America by any means,
nor has it caused all of those which con
front us. But it is a big one itself, and it is
the direct cause of some others.
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home however, I would do so only after
getting competent professional counsel.
So often children thrust their problem on
the parent, not ever expecting solutions,
but merely counting on their good will to
indulge their mistakes. Before I accused
the girl of seduction however, I’d be
mighty sure of the facts. It could easily
have been the other way around.
It’s so easy for a young person to get
trapped in several foolish moves and then
to have nobody really care for them as a
person. Try to show real compassion. And
the motivation for that is the Biblical
formula Paul gave in 2 Cor. 5:14, “Christ’s
love controls us.”
Berry’s World
"Just think — if we were made of gold, we’d
probably be in Switzerland right now!"
IF
By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
Whose credibility,
whose interests?
Some of the most unrelievedly gloomy predictions yet heard
about what the collapse of South Vietnam may mean for the
future of U.S. leadership of the free world have been made by Sir
Robert G. K. Thompson, the famed guerrilla fighter.
According to Thompson, who is credited with directing
Britain’s victory over Communist insurgents in what is now
Malaysia, the consequences of America’s “abandonment’’ of
South Vietnam "are going to shake you to the roots.”
America's defense budget, he says, will go through S2OO billion
within five years, and he doubts if even that will be enough. "You
will also have to take political and military risks to re-establish
your credibility that will make some of the crises we have been
through in the past look like Sunday afternoon picnics."
America had the Vietnam war won in 1972, claims Thompson,
and could have gotten an enforceable peace agreement. "But the
Congress didn’t want it. They wanted out."
Because of this, he says, nations “which were your friends and
would have remained your friends if you had remained credible'
are engaged in “a great reshuffle. They know perfectly well that
the American commitment now to them is valueless.”
To borrow a favorite expression of Dwight Eisenhower, who
was wise enough not to commit U.S. military power to rescuing
France’s Indochinese chestnuts in 1954: “Tommyrot.”
If America’s expenditure of 56,000 lives and at least $l5O billion
in Southeast Asia over the past decade is not proof of its
willingness to assist an ally, then such proof is unattainable.
Indeed, rather than being impressed by America's commit
ment to anticommunism, many of our allies from the beginning
openly questioned the sanity of such a vast investment in a
struggle they did not consider vital either to their or our national
interests.
One thing is on the record, and that is the fact that with the ex
ceptions of South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, none of
them tendered material or even moral support to the United
States during the long Vietnam war.
During the last Arab-Israeli war, except for Portugal, not one
NATO ally assisted U.S. efforts to resupply Israel. They all
scrambled to curry favor with the oil-rich Arabs, not shrinking to
abandon little Holland in the process.
If these "friends" are now engaged in a reassessment vis-a-vis
America — “a great reshuffle,” as Thompson puts it — then
perhaps it might be time for America to do a little reassessing of
its own.
Perhaps it might be a good idea to let Western Europeans
sweat a little, and wonder what the United States would do in the
event of some military adventure on the part of the Soviet Union.
It might encourage them to re-examine the depth of their own
commitment to their own defense.
Actually, all this talk about America’s post-Vietnam credibility
is dismissed out of hand by responsible European leaders. They
are glad that America’s involvement in Vietnam, which taxed so
much of our resources and strained our very political fabric, is
over.
Far from boding ill for the future, the end of the Vietnam
tragedy should result in a strengthening of the non-Communist
world's posture now that the United States is at long last free to
devote its attention to those alliances and those areas of the
world where the interests of freedom are really at stake.
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TIMELY QUOTES
“We’re not talking here about
rifles and shotguns, or about
taking these away from the
farmers. We’re talking about
handguns, which are intended to
kill human beings.”
— Mayor Richard Daley of
Chicago advocating federal
control of pistols.
“What I think is behind all
this pornography we’re seeing
is impotency. If a man is a man
— if he’s sure of himself and
knows what real love means —
he doesn’t need porn. Impoten
cy and homosexuality are ram
pant in this business. No
healthy man would look upon
sex like that.”
— Actress Katharine Hep
burn criticizing the new per
missiveness in Hollywood.
“I don’t try to be the
secretary of HUD who is a
woman, to be the best woman
secretary of HUD, that’s not
my goal in life. I’d like to be the
best secretary HUD has had. I
hope I bring a multitude of
perceptions to it both as a
lawyer and from my
background and various in
terests.”
— Carla Hills, U.S. Secretary
of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development and
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Os unknown origin and ex
isting in almost countless ver
sions, “Yankee Doodle” is
generally attributed to a British
surgeon named Shuckberg who
supposedly wrote it to ridicule
provincial troops beseiging
Boston in 1775. The British
played it when they left the sur
render field at Saratoga, not in
derision but because they had
been instructed to play
something light. The World
Almanac notes.
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