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L. M. BOYD
She Dresses
In Kitchen
In an extensive study conducted by the John B.
Pierce Foundation it was learned among other things that
one in every 25 wives goes to the kitchen every morning
to put on her stockings out of the sight of her husband.
One in every 50 does likewise to put on her bra. And one
in every 100 does that, too, to put on her scanties.
STORY GOES that a St. Louis policeman wrote in a
report: "The accident victim had his foot decapitated."
And after much consultation among the senior officers,
that police department bought 180 dictionaries to pass
out among the patrolmen.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q. "You said George Washington refused to shake
hands with anybody during his two terms as president of
the United States. Didn’t that insult a lot of dignitaries?"
A. No, he bowed, instead.
Q. “WHEN a light is turned on, how much sooner does
a person without eyeglasses see it than a person with
glasses?”
A. One 286 billionths of a second sooner.
Q. “MY NAME is Debbie. I’m 17. My bust measure
ment is 31 inches. Is that normal?”
A. Average is 30.1 inches.
GARLIC
If you rub crushed garlic between your palms with
sufficient vigor, you'll wind up with the odor of garlic on
your breath.
MOST HUSBANDS who are killed by their wives die
in the kitchen. Most wives who are killed by their hus
bands die in the bedroom. What do you make of that?
MAYBE IT’S the weather, I don’t know, but the medical
statisticians say admissions to mental hospitals jump by
about 25 per cent in February, typically. They decline in
April. They jump again in November. And again decline in
December.
WALTER GLADDISH of Lakefield, England, was 81
years old when he bid goodbye to his 76-year-old wife.
She yipped and yapped at him too much about his drink
ing, he said. He bought an elderly mare named Nobby
and moved into the stable with her. The hay was comfort
able enough. "The thing about Nobby,” said Mr. Gladdish,
"is she doesn't snore, she wakes me up with a simple
nudge, and when we go for walks, you just don’t hear
anything out of her except her hooves going clop clop
clop.”
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, July 21, the
202nd day of 1975 with 163 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
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.
American author Ernest
Hemingway was born July 21,
1899.
On this day in history:
In 1861, the first major
military engagement of the
Civil War occurred at Bull Run
Creek in Virginia, about 35
miles southwest of Washington,
D.C.
In 1873, outlaw Jesse James
held up the Rock Island
Express train at Adair, lowa,
and escaped with $3,000.
In 1930, the U.S. Veterans
Administration was established.
In 1961, Air Force Captain
Virgil Grissom became the
second American to rocket into
space. His Mercury capsule
ride lasted 16 minutes.
Only the
Newspaper fA
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News and advertising reach
es more people through the
newspaper than any other
medium. Newspapers cover
88 percent of the nation’s
families.
Thoughts
Jesus said to them, “Render
to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things
that are God's.” And they were
amazed at him. — Mark 12:17
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 4336
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.
Doctors in Griffin
A physician friend took the trouble the
other day to average the ages of doctors on
the staff of Griffin-Spalding Hospital and
found it is 49 years old.
There is nothing wrong with a doctor
being 49. By the time he (or she) reaches
that age, he has accumulated considerable
experience to supplement the years of
formal training required before beginning
practice, the additional years of intern
ship, residency, specialization and all the
rest.
But there is something wrong with the
fact that the “average” age of a doctor
practicing in Griffin is 49. It shows that we
are not attracting enough younger
physicians here to keep things going a few
years hence, let alone make some progress
in the field of medicine.
Doctors with whom we have talked
disavow the widespread belief that they do
not want additional members of their
profession coming to town. The fact is,
most of those here already are overworked
and would welcome help.
Why, then, doesn’t Griffin attract some
more?
There are numerous answers. One is
that there are not enough M.D.s to fill the
country’s needs; most places are short of
them. Another is the town and county it
self. We have a lot to offer, but so do many
Up and down
Federal energy chief Frank Zarb ex
pects the price of gas to go up two more
cents a gallon by Labor Day then dip a
fraction. What goes up must come down,
but it does seem that gas keeps going up a
lot then coming down just a little bit.
Shake hands or fists?
Reaction to the union of American and
Russian spaceships varied from Herman
Talmadge’s criticism of it as nothing but
an expensive handshake to a younger and
in this instance wiser Griffinite’s opinion.
“I think we really accomplished some
thing,” he remarked. “When two nations
who have been fighting each other all these
years can get together and work together,
it’s a good thing.”
Generally, we agree with the U. S.
Governor Busbee has announced a
massive campaign to kick cheaters and
swindlers off the welfare rolls.
He said that 27.5 percent of recipients in
Georgia welfare programs got money they
were not eligible for last year, and that it
‘A pack
of trouble’
I’m having a hard time understanding
what’s happening to me. My sister, who’s
very disinterested in spiritual things, is
fine. I, who am by contrast very devout,
have a pack of trouble. Where’s God’s
“fairness” doctrine? V.B.
Where did we get the idea that because
we believed in Christ, He would excuse us
from the ills and abuses of life? As a
matter of fact, the history of the church,
and of its great saints and martyrs in
dicates that greatness often coexists with
trouble, if not being the direct result of it
other places. Griffin and Spalding went
“down” for awhile but are coming back
up, and if the city and county commiss
ioners can and will continue the coopera
tion for mutual good which obtained the
Bandag plant, and if it will spread around,
the community can climb to new heights.
Another important reason — and the one
which more than one doctor stresses in
private conversations — is lack of desired
facilities at the Griffin-Spalding hospital.
It is building a fine new addition, but
medicine has made such rapid advances
that the hospital here is hard-put to keep
up with them. One doctor told us that the
hospital in Thomaston has passed the one
in Griffin and has become superior to ours.
For one thing, he said that we need more
vascular (blood) facilities and a vascular
surgeon.
Whatever the causes and effects, we are
mighty glad to have one of our 49-year-old
medics check our pulse and one of his
pretty nurses take our temperature and
blood pressure. But we would like to have
some younger doctors around to step in
when somebody has to check his.
NOTE TO ANY DOCTOR WHO MAY
NOT LIKE THE ABOVE: Do not phone me
at home. I do not take house calls. Call me
at the office tomorrow.
Senator. This time we do not. It is good to
have mature and considered judgment
such as his, but ingrained ideas and
prejudices all too often accompany them,
and if we are to solve some of the old
problems we must have some new
thinking.
A handshake on the international level
more than a hundred miles in space is
superior in every way to a fist shake on
earth, and a grave beneath it.
Welfare
amounted to sl7-million.
We wish him success in his campaign to
straighten the mess out and suggest that
criminal prosecution and stem punish
ment are about the only way to do it. A tap
on the wrist will attract scant attention.
MY
[ ~ W ANSWER
God never said He would give us an
excuse from passing through the waters of
difficulty. What He said was, “When you
go through deep waters and great trouble,
I will be with you” (Isaiah 43:2). That’s the
secret of the victorious Christian — sen
sing and seizing the help of Christ.
You see, union with Christ is not union
with a system of doctrine, nor an
organized church — nor with some ideal
man. Rather it’s a fellowship with a
personal, risen, living Lord. And when
such a relationship exists, it fulfills the
request of Tennyson, “O for a man to arise
in me That the man I am may cease to be.”
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Still needed:
“Z1 Inspiration
WASHINGTON — (NEAI — The U.S. presidency is a curious
institution. A president, in one sense, has tremendous power. He
can trip the nation into war. prolong a recession, or tear a coun
try apart in dissension.
But he cannot of himself, by this act or that, pull a country out
of a depression, either of the economy or of the spirit. These
things the people must do themselves of their own will. The presi
dent can only be a symbol, someone who somehow gives hope —
so that men will be moved to invest, factories will put the un
employed to work and consumers will spend in the confidence
there will be a tomorrow.
To provide that inspiration a president must prove himself, dif
ficult for one who has been appointed and not elected. And par
ticularly difficult for a president known chiefly as a nice, decent,
friendly man.
To date. President Ford has been at work on this first step —of
proving himself.
Commentators talk of the Mayaguez showdown off Communist
Cambodia as the moment of truth, when Mr. Ford showed his
decisiveness, guts and leadership.
Not so. Whether you approve or disapprove his stand on spen
ding. it is Mr. Ford's month-in, month-out record of hot potato
vetoes that demonstrate's what he’s made of.
For Mr. Ford, the Democratic congressional leaders and
presidential hopefuls all know these vetoes of popular spending
bills which would mean money in the pockets of the unemployed
and in the purses of millions of others whose bills exceed their in
comes in this time of recession-inflation, are pure gold for the
Democratic opposition in 1976.
Further, in clamping down on spending to curb the worsening
inflation he fears for 1976 and 1977, Mr. Ford could prolong the
recession unduly, make his election for another term exceedingly
difficult He knows this.
My father worked on a cattle ranch in his youth. There was
something to the tales then told, whether fact or legend, that
carried a grain of truth stretching well beyond the cattle country.
A recipe I remember well was one for getting a recalcitrant
horse back to the home corral. Tie a mule to him, the legend
went. The stronger horse would pull the mule hither and yon —
until he was tired. Then the determined mule would head for
home. The horse, aroused, would pull and dash erratically,
dragging the mule — and tire. Again the mule would head for
home Eventually, with the horse dashing in all directions and the
mule heading only in one, the pair would arrive — where the mule
wanted to go.
So it is with President Ford and the U.S. Congress.
Under the American system, no Congress can have its way
against a president, if the president is determined. Senate and
House can win one round or another, or a dozen rounds for that
matter, but will be defeated in the end.
Mr. Ford did not come to this knowledge by accident. Franklin
Roosevelt vetoed 635 bills, Harry Truman 250, Dwight
Eisenhower 181. In the end, despite some notable defeats, these
men had their way.
In the 10 months he has been in office, Gerald Ford has vetoed
32 bills, no mean monthly average.
Mr Ford, in the tradition set by these three predecessors, has
come a considerable distance in establishing his leadership. But
he seems to be stumbling on the second requisite — building our
confidence sufficiently to get the country going.
Here we run into mush Quick fixes. Hopeful statements. Plans
in the making. A resistance to way-out solutions But little that
would give us the inner belief we are on our way. Light at the end
of the tunnel euphorisms breed cynicism, not hope.
One president or another has captured the imagination with
dramatic gestures, however empty. Or with the force of his per
sonality, or with programs which, whatever their practical
merits or demerits, inspired the citizenry to act. These are not
the ways of Mr. Ford.
What then can. or will he do? As yet there is no sign.
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