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L M.BOYD
Why So Few
Robberies?
Tokyo has 11 million people in it while New York City
only has 8 million. Still, there were 182 times as many
robberies in New York City last year as in Tokyo. Suppose
it has to do with the Japanese character, generally. But
I suspect it also has to do with the fact that the Japanese
police are deployed in little substations every few blocks.
AT LAST REPORT, eight states had passed laws to re
quire motorcycles to have lights that turn on with the ig
nition. Theory was that daytime headlights on cycles would
cut accidents. Now the American Motorcycle Association
says the motorcycle accident rate in seven of those eight
states has gone up, not down. Who do you suppose lob
bied that little darling through those legislatures?
SIESTA
Q. "What are the working hours in Spam?”
A. Traditionally, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5
to 8 p.m. But the government there has been trying for a
long time now to knock out that three-hour siesta.
OUR LOVE AND WAR man says Dr. Irwin Cohen has
undertaken a study which purports to prove that one part
ner in any married couple always elects to be the critic
while the other partner tends to take the blame. Which are
you? Wait, that's too personal. I won’t tell you about me
except to say that the Ladyfriend today said my socks
don’t match, and I said, “They don’t?” and added, "Who
gives a rat's nose?” Or words to that effect.
COST OF KILLING
In the time of Julius Caesar, it cost just about 75 cents
to kill one enemy soldier. During the Vietnam War, it cost
about $170,000.
IF THEY MEAN what they tell the pollsters, only one
in five Roman Catholic priests in this country would marry,
should that option be given to them.
PUT TWO HENS in front of a pile of grain. Each will eat
three times as much as either would eat if she were there
alone. Scientific research has proved that.
WHICH WOULD you prefer to have visited upon you,
a revenue agent with the IRS audit division or a special
agent with the IRS intelligence division? Give me that
auditor, please. Mostly, he examines innocent mistakes.
That intelligence fellow checks out suspected crimes.
Address moil to I. M Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, July 18, the
199th day of 1975 with 166 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn.
The evening star is Venus.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Cancer.
English novelist William
Makepeace Thackery was born
July 18, 1811.
On this day in history:
In the year 64 A.D., Nero
fiddled while Rome burned.
In 1938, Douglas Corrigan
earned the nickname “Wrong
Way” when he landed in
Ireland instead of California
after a flight from New York.
In 1940, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt was nominated
unanimously for a third term
with Henry Wallace of lowa as
his running mate. They won in
November.
Only the \
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ONLY THE NEWSPAPER
lets vou be a member of such
a large and distinguished
fraternity: Os U.S. college
graduates. 98 per cent read
newspapers.
Thoughts
“It is not the old that are
wise, nor the aged that unders
tand what is right. Therefore I
say, ‘Listen to me; let me also
declare my opinion.' ” — Job
32:9,10.
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Fairness to all
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published every Wednesday.
Rights for parents
Students have rights. Teachers have
rights. Now the rights of parents have been
officially recognized in one city, reports.
Education U.S.A, newsletter.
They are contained in a “Parents Bill of
Rights and Responsibilities” adopted by
the Philadelphia Home and School Council
and the Parents Union of Philadelphia and
approved by the school board. Among the
15 rights granted parents are:
To be treated with courtesy by the school
staff. To be respected as individuals
regardless of race, economic status, sex or
age. To be informed of school policies and
Past or future?
Our friends in Barnesville are planning
their second annual Buggy Days for the
week beginning Sept. 21. The occasion was
begun last year as a nostalgic occasion
recalling the era when Barnesville produc
ed a tremendous number of horse-drawn
vehicles, and to focus attention on the
town’s economic and industrial develop
ment with a look to the future.
If our heroes in Congress do not do some
thing about the energy problem and the
high price of gasoline, the emphasis on the
Georgians welcome news that the fight
against rural crime will get a new thrust
from the State Patrol with the creation of a
Special Crime Attack Team (SCAT) which
Georgia Public Safety Commissioner
Herman Cofer announced recently.
The State Patrol is reorganizing its
selective enforcement task force into two
highly mobile rural crime strike forces
whose priorities will be high crime areas
of the state. Commissioner Cofer said,
“These men will be ready day or night to
move into a rural area at the request of
local authorities to help in whatever the
crime or traffic enforcement need.”
The SCAT team will consist of two six
men teams for North and South Georgia
and will operate out of State Patrol posts
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
Major League town?
A sportscaster recently wondered out
loud whether or not Atlanta is a Major
League town.
His comments came after just over 3,000
fans showed up to see the Braves.
We think Atlanta and Georgia have
proven their Major League qualities.
No one posed the question when the
Braves drew over 1,000,000 fans for six
‘My life is filled
with trouble’
You often talk about God’s will. Well, I
can’t believe that my present state of
affairs is what God plans for me. I’m
afraid, I’m withdrawn and my life is filled
with trouble. How can this be God’s will?
V.J.
I suppose it’s very natural to equate
health and happiness with the will of God.
Certainly God wants the best for us, but it
may well be within the limits of His per
missive will that we go through trouble. He
sees the end result and gives us the con
fidence that Job had, feeling that “when he
decisions, as well as avenues for changing
policies and appealing decisions. To be
allowed to inspect their child’s records and
to remove or correct any “false or
misleading statements.”
But rights always require responsi
bilities. Among parent’s responsibilities
are:
To strive to prepare the child emo
tionally and socially to make him recep
tive to learning and discipline. To try to
have the child attend school regularly and
on time, and to help the child develop
proper study habits.
future may well restore the buggy industry
to its preeminent place in Barnesville, in
Griffin, and elsewhere in this land in which
the gasoline engine reigns supreme but
amounts to naught unless refreshed
frequently by the nozzle of a petroleum
pump.
So let us hail Barnesville Buggy Days
even as we wonder whether they are
reminders of the past or heralds of the
future. After all, the beards of Great
Grandpa’s day came back into style in
some circles, did they not?
SCAT
nearest any trouble area.
The new teams will assist local agencies
in apprehension in rural murders, armed
robberies and burglaries, crowd and
traffic control in natural or man-made
disasters, severe traffic problems areas
and interstate patrols; and to supplement
local agencies in the event of death,
strikes, or other manpower shortages at
the local level.
The SCAT teams will operate only at the
request of local enforcement officers and
only as backup assistance to them.
While “the proof of the pudding is in the
eating thereof,” it sounds to us as if the
State Patrol is taking another mighty good
step in organizing these teams, and law
abiding Georgians wish them every
success.
straight seasons.
And no one openly questioned Atlanta’s
Major League credentials last year when
attendance missed the million mark by
just 19,000.
Attendance is down this season.
We aren’t experts on why fans don’t
show up at baseball games.
However, we suspect the caliber of play
has something to do with it.
hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”
Even fear can be used of God to equip us
for our tasks. What is needed is the right
attitude toward it. We can’t let fear push
us into the many avenues of escape which
a frightened mind can fabricate.
Bishop Fenelon said: “The trying things
you fancy come between God and you will
prove means of unity with Him if you bear
them humbly. Those things that over
whelm us and upset our pride do more
good than all that which excites and in
spires us.” So give God time to fashion His
wise design.
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“Apollo and Soyuz have linked up—why don't
we?"
Ray Cromley
Message from Mao:
U.S. stay in Asia
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — Mao Tse-tung is now engaged in an
all-out effort to get the United States and West Europe to snatch
his chestnuts out of the fire.
He's intent on selling the United States on keeping a strong
enough force in the waters off Southeast Asia and a sufficient
diplomatic and economic presence to blunt Russian expansion.
He has an abiding fear of Soviet encirclement, which seems high
on the list of Kremlin aims. And Mao also hopes, through a con
tinued United States presence, to keep the door open for the
building of a more effective Chinese-sponsored underground in
Thailand. Malaysia. Singapore and the Philippines.
It is clear that after Laos. Vietnam and Cambodia. Mao is not
worried that American operations in Asia will be any bar to the
particular brand of underground subversion and guerrilla war
fare in which he has proven his technical genius. On the contrary,
a buildup of Russian-backed parties, as has occurred in Latin
America, Africa and in South Asia, could prove a hard-to-beat
combination.
Mao s stay-in-Asia messages to the United States come in the
form of covert hints to sources close to American diplomatic
circles. Mao has learned, by careful observation, that U.S.
foreign service officers, the State Department hierarchy and
selected influential academic leaders jump much more quickly to
the bait when the hints are indirect, channeled confidentially
through men with “inside contacts.”
The Chinese have also let it be known in Japan, again
"secretly'' but taking care to make certain the secret is spread,
that they are not seeking to end the alliance that country has with
the United States. As has been well reported, they confidentially
told President Marcos of the Philippines they had no objection to
American bases in his country. Mao’s men have also hinted
strongly they are in no hurry to acquire Taiwan, now governed by
Chiang Kai-shek’s successors.
The United States is not Mao's only target. He’s been spryly ac
tive these past months in inviting a bevy of West European
leaders to China, giving them red carpet treatment, having his
men suggest to these Westerners that Europe, not China, is
Brezhnev's target.
There has been a veritable parade of West Germans. Again and
again, with infinite patience, Mao's aides drum on the theme that
the Kremlin is making a feint to the East, against China, only to
bemuse and distract West Europe. Once Britain. France and
West Germany relax, the story runs, the Russians will move in.
Premier Chou En-lai tells the Europeans they must strengthen
themselves economically, politically and militarily. Teng Hsiao
ping indirectly urges the British to stay in the Common Market.
The Chinese pull no punches in deriding the naivete of those Euro
pean leaders who believe in promoting friendship with Russia
and who work actively for detente.
Mao's hope, of course, is that a financially strong, united,
militarily effective West Europe, reaching out politically and
economically to East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and Rumania, will keep Leonid Brezhnev and his
Kremlin colleagues so occupied in the West that Mao and
associates will be free to follow their aims in Africa, the Middle
East. Latin America and Asia.
If there's to be conflict, the Chinese strategy runs, let it be
between the superpowers and their Western allies, leaving Pek
ing free to pick up the pieces.
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