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Higher IQs
What you may have suspected now has been con
firmed That people who wear eyeglasses generally are
regarded as more intelligent than people who don't wear
said specs. British scholars found that out in a little game
with a sizable sampling of people whose IQs ranged from
100 to 150. Examined briefly by a panel of judges, the
eyeglass wearers were scored much higher than the non
wearers. But when tested more thoroughly, they came out
even.
IT’S A MATTER of record, too, that numerous U.S.
citizens have languished in Mexico's jails for as long as
three years before their cases came to trial after they
were charged with bouncing bad checks.
IF THE KORAN is your holy book, you believe murder
to be a lesser sin than suicide. I'm told.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q "Any truth to the old claim that mosquitoes won't
bite you if you take 100 milligrams of vitamin B l half
an hour before you go outdoors?"
A Nothing to it Researchers at the University of Cali
forma's School of Medicine in San Francisco sometime
back disproved that tall tale.
Q. "WHERE IN this country are the most onion sets
grown 7 "
A. Along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. About
90 per cent of them sprout there.
Q. "WHAT’S cataplexy 7 "
A. A rare ailment that paralyzes its victims when they
try to laugh
TRAVELERS’CHECKS
The cunning thief who makes off with travelers' checks
does not necessarily steal the whole book. Or so the de
tectives report The experienced rapscallion "leafs” the
book, instead. That is. he removes only several of the
checks, stub and all, at random. Relatively few travelers
thus ripped off ever realize it for some mysterious rea
son.
DO YOU KNOW any man who wears false eyelashes?
Neither do I But the marketers of such lashes say 50
million pairs a year are sold And they swear numerous
men wear same.
USED TO BE a larger proportion of young women than
men dropped out of medical school in the first year Not
anymore It's vice versa now
ONE MEDICAL specialist insists the best way to lose
weight is to curb the appetite by eating an apple half an
hour before every meal.
Address moil to I M Boyd PO Box 1 7076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1975 L M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, June 14,
the 165th day of 1975 with 200 to
follow. Today is Flag Day.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus
and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Gemini.
American novelist Harriet
Beecher Stowe, author of
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was born
June 14, 1811. This is actor
Gene Barry’s 54th birthday.
On this day in history:
In 1775, the U.S. Army was
founded when Congress author
ized the recruitment of 10
companies of riflemen to serve
one year.
In 1777, the “Stars and
Stripes” became the national
flag.
In 1951, Wisconsin Republican
Sen. Joseph McCarthy charged
Defense Secretary George Mar
shall with having “common
cause” with Russian Commu
nist leader Josef Stalin during
World War 11.
Only the
Newspaper
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ONLY THE NEWSPAPER lets
you ’’catch-up” with the news
when and where you can. In
these busy times it’s a wel
come companion at mealtime
or coffee time —for (and
with) everyone!
Thoughts
He who restrains his words
has knowledge, and he who has
a cool spirit is a man of un
derstanding. Even a fool who
keeps silent is considered wise;
and when he closes his lips, he
is deemed intelligent. —
Proverbs 17:27.28.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Gun Control Issue
WAYCROSS JOURNAL-HERALD
President Ford said recently he
believed effective gun control
legislation was the key to curbing
the nation’s growing crime rate.
The statement, some might say,
cost him heavily when it comes to
conservative support. Maybe but
maybe not.
What the Chief Execytive had in
mind was not disarming this na
tion of private gun owners but in
stead using the safety approach
which might eliminate the “Satur
day Night Specials,” the notorious
little handguns that figure in so
many crimes of passion.
It should be noted, in fact, that
the President said he did not favor
the registration of guns or gun
owners.
There are many people who
believe that gun ownership is pro
tected by the U.S. Constitution
under the “right to bear arms”
Blame Jury
Thomaston Free Press
An Atlanta judge, though in the heat of
anger, told it like it was Thursday when a jury
turned a man free on what the judge considered
sufficient evidence to convict him.
Superior Court Judge Charles A. Wofford
told the jury which freed a man, that “With a
verdict like this one we have no chance of
stopping crime in this area.” And to support his
belief that there should have been a conviction he
added “with evidence as concrete as it was.”
The freed defendant was branded by
evidence as “a local heroin kingpin.”
Judge Wofford was putting the blame often
directed “at the court” on the juries rather than
the judge.
He gave all jurors food for thought.
A Sensible Veto
President Ford’s frequent use of the
veto indicates that he is making good his
promise of a few months ago when he
was urging Congress to approve a huge
deficit budget but to try and keep the
deficit down by holding back on spending
measures.
This week he used the veto again in
rejecting a $98.1 million bill that would
have encouraged foreigners to visit the
United States and Americans to see
America first.
It was mainly a tourism promotion
measure emphasizing travel as a means
of participating in America’s bicen
tennial celebration. While tourism
promotion is something of which we
wholeheartedly approve, especially
considering Savannah’s role as a tourist
city, we think it’s a field into which the
federal government should not venture.
So does President Ford.
Finding friends
of opposite sex
In another column you quoted Psalm
37:4 where God promises He’ll give us the
desires of our heart. My question is —
where do Christian people meet?
Everyone I know in church is married.
Where does a person find other single
Christian friends, whether divorced (lam)
or widow or what? S.B.
I hope Christian churches are aware of
the fact that the “singles” group in our
society is growing twice as fast as the
general population. That warrants special
program attention and copious amounts of
love.
I liked the way you described getting
provision. Others say that this was
intended to assure a strong citizens
militia. The courts have not given
a definitive ruling in the matter.
Police records show that it is the
availability of weapons, often
among “friends” and
"neighborhoods” that contributes
to the high crime rate.
Recent public opinion polls show
a majority for gun control. But the
opposition remains strong and
vocal and the matter is a sensitive
one politically.
The safety approach, however,
seems to have the backing of the
gun lobby as well as others. Lt.
Gov. Zell Miller is preparing such
a measure for the next General
Assembly establishing high safety
standards which most present
cheap handguns could not meet.
This sounds like a step in the
right direction.
Savannah Morning News
His veto message said that because
states and localities maintain extensive
facilities to promote tourism by fellow
Americans he found “no justification for
the federal government taking on this
role.”
This measure was like almost any
other federal proposal for sticking Uncle
Sam’s nose where it doesn’t really
belong ; it was anchored to a noble cause,
in this instance the bicentennial
celebration. Who can “go against” the
bicentennial?
Well, we’re “for” the bicentennial,
too, but not in this manner. Can’t you
just picture the bureaucracy getting into
another $98.1 million program, injecting
its own rules, regulations, “guidelins”
and perhaps requirements for impact
statements?
A sensible veto, Mr. Ford.
MY
ANSWER [ W
your job — that is, going out and finding it.
Do the same with this problem of locating
friends of the opposite sex. To be sure,
society puts more restrictions on the
woman than the man in terms of such a
search, but do all you can do.
I would then go to a church where there
is a sizeable “singles” group. Never mind
what your family or others say. Then the
NAE in your city may sponsor some group
sessions for singles.
You may even consider a job change if it
meant more social involvement. Above all
pray, and if God wills it, He’ll honor what
you are doing, or make you content in the
single state.
Berry’s World
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with one’s constituents gracefully?"
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If the people pay,
*<> * can Uncle Sam lose?
By Don Oakley
Uncle Sam would have collected $58.2 billion more in income
taxes in 1974 than he actually did if it hadn’t been for all those
holes successive Congresses have seen fit to drill into the tax
laws.
According to a Treasury Dept, study released by Sen. Walter F.
Mondale. D-Minn . the deduction allowed for state and local tax
payments, not including property and gasoline taxes, was the
government's greatest single money “loser. ” It “cost" the
Treasury $7 billion last fiscal year.
The deduction for mortgage interest payments cost it another
$4.9 billion; the property tax deduction “cost" it $4.1 billion, and
the gasoline tax deduction "cost" $865 million. Also, because
social security payments are exempt from federal income tax,
the government "lost" another $3.2 billion there.
We have sprinkled quotation marks around certain words
above just in case some Americans have not yet been deluded, or
deluded themselves, into the belief that all blessings flow from
Washington — that what the government lets us keep from our
earnings is a gift from it to us — that government creates wealth
rather than merely redistributing it (one man's deduction is
another man's preferential provision*.
Actually, you could sav that the government "lost" upwards of
a trillion dollars last year. This is the total value of all the goods
and services produced by Americans, which the government did
not confiscate.
Mondale's purpose in releasing the study, of course, w’as to
show how the tax laws benefit the upper-income fellow.
If there were no deductions of any kind in the revenue code,
almost a fourth of that $58.2 billion Uncle Sam would have
collected last vear would have come from people with incomes
over $50,000. who represent only 1.2 per cent of all taxpayers.
Only about a sixth of it would have come from people with in
comes of SIO,OOO or less, who constitute 46.9 per cent of all tax
pavers.
Now this mav or mav not be a terrible thing, and it may or may
not be defensible. But until such time as we have a system in this
country in which the government does own everything, in which
case the private citizen s gain would indeed be the bureaucrat s
loss, it remains inaccurate to speak of the government “losing"
anything.
Only the people can lose.
GRIFFIN
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