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FEED A COLD? STARVE A FEVER?
L. M. BOYD
Luck Leads
To Illness
It's commonly believed that personal misfortunes
lead to serious illness. If you lose your life savings and
your mortgage is foreclosed and your matrimonial mate
runs off with a lover, you can expect next to be hit in the
health. Happens too frequently to be coincidental, say
the science boys. Less widely known is the fact that the
reverse is true, too. If you suddenly come into a lot of
money and find yourself appointed as the chairman of the
board and surprisingly fall into a perfect romance, you
again may expect serious illness. Such were the findings
of an extensive study at the University of Washington’s
School of Medicine. To edit down the 114-page disserta
tion on the matter. It sure is weird.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q. “What American general commanded the largest
fighting force ever amassed in battle under the U.S. flag?"
A Omar Bradley. During World War 11, he pushed about
a million men in more than 40 combat divisions across
France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria and
Czechoslovakia.
Q. “HOW MANY people in this century have been killed
because of the eruptions of Hawaii’s two great volcanoes,
Kilauea and Mauna Loa?”
A. Just one. In 1924, falling rocks near Kilauea
crushed a man, and the hot ashes got him. Hawaii is said
to be the only place in the world where spectators run
toward volcanic eruptions instead of away from them.
LUCKY NUMBER
Do you have a lucky number? Among those people in
this country who say yes to that query, the majority
designate 7 as said number. Worldwide, however, the
number 9 is considered the luckiest by the most people.
IF YOU WANT to distinguish the penguin from all other
birds in the world, simply say it’s the only one that can
swim but not fly.
IN SOUTH AFRICA, two farmers have trained a pair
of ostriches to herd sheep. Those birds unattended take
the woolies out in the morning and bring them back at
night. But if a sheep dies, neither fowl nor flock shows up.
The birds continue to peck at the dead carcass in an effort
to drive it home. Fifteen minutes late means the farmers
have to go out and they know why.
TO HIS LIST of redundancies, our Language man
now has added “surrounded on all sides," “from whence,"
“raining outside," “final outcome" and "raze to the
ground."
Addrass mail to L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Port Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 I. M. Bovd
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For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, May 9, the
129th day of 1975 with 236 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new 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.
Scottish novelist Sir James
Barrie was born May 9,1860.
On this day in history:
In 1502, Christopher Colum
bus set sail from Cadiz, Spain,
on his fourth and final voyage
to America.
In 1926, Cmdr. Richard E.
Byrd and Floyd Bennett
became the first men to fly
over the North Pole.
In 1946, King Victor Emman
uel 111 of Italy abdicated,
leaving the throne to his son,
Crown Prince Humberto.
In 1970, United Auto Workers
President Walter Reuther was
killed in a Michigan plane
crash.
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Most appreciated newspaper
the one that isn't there. Reduces
one to reading most anything.
Only the newspaper makes any
meal more palatable—and keeps
you informed in the process.
Thoughts
“All these things my hand has
made, and so all these things
are mine, says the Lord. But
this is the man to whom I will
look, he that is humble and con
trite in spirit, and trembles at
my word.” — Isaiah 66:2.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
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.
$2 for Woolsey
The town of Woolsey is located in
Fayette County on Highway 92 between
Griffin and Fayetteville. It is a pleasant
place and has paved sidewalks. Some of its
146 residents work in textile mills and
other places in Griffin. Woolsey and
Griffin have close ties, and we wish it well
News this week that Woolsey received $2
in federal revenue sharing makes us
wonder, though, how much money it cost
the taxpayers of the United States to do the
paperwork required to determine how
much belonged to Woolsey, to write the
check, and to send it by mail. Just think,
the ten-cent postage stamp was five
percent of the total! All of which focuses
Brazen effrontery
A news dispatch quoted a Viet Cong
official as saying the United States has the
responsibility of helping repair war
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Hindsight
Old football star Gerald Ford expressed
the feelings of many when he said he
“never had much faith in Monday morning
quarterbacks.”
Long before football became such a,
popular sport in America, people were
expressing the same idea thus, “Hindsight
is better than foresight.”
The AFL-CIO Executive Council issued
a statement this week with which we agree
completely. Designed to end labor op
position to the Vietnamese refugees, the
•k ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
Allen is gone
The Atlanta Braves this week traded
Dick Allen to the Philadelphia Phillies for
three minor leaguers and cash.
It was a good trade.
Some baseball fans felt the Braves
should have gotten a “name” player for
‘Please give me
opinion on death’
Please give me your opinion on death. I
think we’ll remain in the grave till the day
of resurrection. Some say I’m wrong and
that the soul goes to God at death. M.A.
Death, which is a consequence of sin,
comes to all. This, however, was not God’s
original plan — as Genesis 3 indicates. If
man had remained obedient, he would not
have returned to dust.
But now the answer to your question lies
in the definition of man as God created
him. Genesis 2:7 says man became a
“living soul,” that is, the real person is a
never-dying spirit which goes on even
after the body ceases to live. When we
Mean spirit
attention on the plan itself.
President Nixon starteo it as no-strings
grants to state and local governments and
thus away to reverse the flow of power
from Washington back to Main Street.
Worthy as that aim was, revenue
sharing missed the point that taxpayers
would be better off if their money simply
remained in their communities in the first
place without Washington gathering it
up and sending some of it back. In the
case of Woolsey, that worthy town would
have saved at least the ten-cent stamp
which represented five percent of the total
$2 which it received.
damage in South Vietnam.
This is brazen effrontery.
council called it “a meaness of spirit
unworthy of the American people.” And so
it is.
Allen.
That would have been nice. However,
considering that Allen refused to play in
Atlanta, the Braves did the best they
could.
my
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speak of resurrection, it refers to the body
— never the soul.
The Bible says that through the Gospel,
Christ brought to light the fact of im
mortality (2 Timothy 1:10). We need not
fear then, as did people in the Old
Testament, that death is the abode of
darkness, of silence and of oblivion.
Paul makes it quite clear that “to be
absent from the body is to be present with
the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8). He regarded
death as a mere change in the mode of his
being — like a change of residence or of a
garment. What hope the Gospel gives then
for that which is otherwise man’s most
tragic prospect!
Berry’s World
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"That’s a dirty lie — I do NOT ‘freak out’ when
we watch Cher on the tube!"
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Ray Cromley
Secrecy poisons
U.S. foreign policy
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — There is no mystery about the
current rash of catastrophic collapses in American foreign and
military policy.
They are the result of secret agreements secretly arrived at.
Contrary to American principles and custom, the public, which
in the end must give support or withhold it, has been kept in the
dark.
But the public is not alone in being asked to back programs in
which it has had no voice and little knowledge. The same applies
to the Senate, House of Representatives and to high cabinet of
ficials.
Foreign policy has been kept hidden from ranking members of
the State Department and from ambassadors negotiating
treaties. Major military decisions have been acted on without the
knowledge or concurrence of senior members of the Department
of Defense — civilian and military.
Some very important decisions were taken without the
knowledge of the President of the United States. In other cases,
the President was informed too late to modify or veto the actions.
This secrecy did not begin with Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, although he has refined the technique. It was
prevalent in the time of Presidents Johnson and Kennedy.
At a recent meeting, I heard the State Department official
responsible for a key area of the world confess he did not know
what agreements and what commitments Kissinger had made for
his region. He did not expect to be told. His advice was seldom
asked.
To this day, I have not found one State Department official who
knows what secret promises Kissinger has made to Soviet boss
Brezhnev. Or what he has committed the U.S. to do for Sadat of
Egypt — or for Israel.
Neither President Johnson nor his aides ever told Congress or
the American citizenry step by step along the way what we were
doing in Vietnam, how much it would cost or why it was worth the
secrifices our citizens were being asked to make. There were
only glowing stories of our accomplishments and flag waving,
idealized statements.
As one who strongly believed South Vietnam deserved help, I
feel this help was given in the wrong way. This happened, I think,
because there was no detailed debate on Vietnam until it became
clear things were going dreadfully wrong. Even then, most of the
debate was based on wrong premises, because Presidents
Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon kept much of what they knew
hidden.
Had these Presidents stated clearly and honestly what was
happening, what the costs were, what was going wrong as well as
right, exposing the warts along with the good — had there been
from the beginning an open debate on all the facts — I am con
vinced much of what was done would have been done differently.
There would not, I think, have been the national waves of
divisiveness. And I firmly believe the conclusion in Vietnam
would have been different.
The problem, of course, is not limited to Vietnam. It applies to
our policies in the Middle East, Western Europe, the Soviet
Union, China, Thailand, India, Japan, Pakistan and Africa.
What are our aims in these lands? What are we doing and what
are we planning? What are we promising? What will we do when
the chips are down? We have vague statements. We do not know
the concrete facts.
Rational decisions come from public debate.
Irrational decisions come from secrecy. No man and no small
group is able in a closet to consider all important consequences of
major national actions. Each man looks at decisions from his
own experience. Only through hearing all points of view can
hidden benefits and disasters in any policy be anticipated and the
best course of action decided.
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Fie on food fads
Alarmed at the spread of food faddism among Americans, the
American Dietetic Association recently issued a strongly worded
“position paper” warning the public that certain diets and food
fads can be dangerous to health at worst and a waste of money at
best.
“Members of the ADA,” says the paper, “are concerned with
the increasing amount of misinformation on food and nutrition in
the United States with its resultant economic and nutritional ex
ploitation of the American people. The dietetic profession is com
mitted to informing consumers about ill-advised diets and the
misleading tactics of self-proclaimed nutrition experts.”
Included in the list of potential health hazards are low
carbohydrate, unlimited-protein diets (such as the meat and
water diet), the Zen Macrobiotic diet and self-prescription of
massive vitamin doses.
The ADA also took a shot at the organic food movement, flatly
labeling as false such claims as that organic fertilizers produce
foods of superior nutritional value, that foods are poisoned with
chemical additives and pesticides, that specific foods have
miraculous curative powers and that daily vitamin, mineral and
dietary supplements are necessary because current food supplies
are nutritionally deficient.
Nearly all edible foods, says the ADA, may be classified as
natural and health foods because they contribute nutrients to the
diet and promote health when properly combined.
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