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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 22, 1975
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"Hey, you guys trying to put us out of business..?"
L M. BOYD
Oddball
Phrases
University of Wisconsin Professor Frederic Cassidy
collects oddball phrases. Do you know what the “golly
marbles” is? A nondescript disease that people get in
South Carolina. In West Virginia, a “besom” is a broom.
To quarrel in Georgia is to “wrangle-tangle.” And a
“plonk” in Wisconsin is a socially undesirable character.
THE SCIENCE FOLK have proved that you can lose
patches of hair, if you get all shook up emotionally about
this or that. At least, such is the case with some people.
Divorce is probably the most common cause of said mis
fortune, they say.
PITCHES
Q. "Not counting the warmup throws, how many
pitches are made in the average nine-inning baseball
game?"
A. Figure 125.
Q. “WHO SAID, The best way for a woman to smell
is not at all'?”
A. Montaigne, the rascal. The perfume makers got
pretty upset about it, too.
Q. “WHO WAS known as the Father of the Blues?”
A. W. C. Handy. Where’d you get that query? Off a
match folder? That's where I got the answer.
ALMOST BUT not quite a third of the people who kill
people in this country are related to the people they kill.
BAREFOOT
If you went barefoot in the streets, everybody knew
you were a slave. That was the circumstance in the Med
iterranean countries once upon a time.
A CAN IS an airtight container filled with food that
has been sterilized by heat. Or so says the National
Canners Association. By that definition, a glass jar of
baby food is a can, but a tin of ground coffee isn’t.
“DID YOU KNOW that if it had not been for the Polish
Army, we would all be speaking Arabic and facing Mecca?”
So says Arthur L. Zygmont. "Europe lay prostrate before
the advancing Turks. Vienna, the jewel of the Holy Roman
Empire, was helpless. But the Polish Army, under the lead
ership of Poland’s King John 111 Sobieski, arrived on Sept.
12.1683. The Turks were decisively beaten by the Poles in
a savage battle, and they retreated from the outskirts of
Vienna in chaos. Europe was saved!"
Address mail to L. M Boyd, P.O Box 17076. Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 I. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, July 22,
the 203rd day of 1975 with 162 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 psychiatrist Karl
Menninger was born July 22,
1893.
On this day in history:
In 1864, in the first battle of
Atlanta, Confederate troops
under Gen. John Hood were
defeated by Gen. William
Sherman’s forces.
In 1933, Wiley Post completed
his first solo flight around the
world in seven days, 18 hours
and 45 minutes.
In 1972, President Richard
Nixon chose Vice President
Spiro Agnew as his running
mate in their re-election bid.
They defeated Democrats
George McGovern and Sargent
Shriver in a record-smashing
landslide.
Only the
Newspaper
ONLY THENEWSPAPER
gives you a record you can
keep. You can t send a
smoke signal with your next
letter home — but you can
send a newspaper clipping.
Thoughts
"Who among all these does
not know that the hand of the
Lord has done this? In his hand
is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.”
- Job 12:9,10.
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Fairness to all
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published every Wednesday.
A long feather
Aside from obvious economic benefits
already widely proclaimed, the coming of
Bandag to Griffin is bringing other good
things of great importance.
One is that working to get it brought city
and county commissioners together after a
split politically as wide as the Grand
Canyon. The importance of their continued
cooperation for mutual good cannot be
over-stressed.
Another is that it led to establishment of
a city-county industrial park. Lack of such
Debt
Credit-happy Americans have come up
with a new definition of debt. A recent :§
nationwide survey, “The General Mills
American Family Report, 1975,” found
that most people no longer consider that
merely owing money is to be in debt. :•:■
Today you’re really in debt only if you fall
behind in the monthly payments on what
S: you owe.
Pirkle Camp Meeting
Camp meeting is an old and respected
tradition in the Bible Belt, and a par
ticularly strong one in this part of Georgia
where Pirkle Memorial Camp Ground on
the Fayetteville road, Highway 92, is
holding services at 10:30 in the morning
and 7:30 in the evening. They will continue
through Sunday night. The meeting is the
annual one of the Central Georgia Con
ference of the Congregational Holiness
Church, one of its two conferences in
Up in smoke
Last week two Bulloch County (States
boro) farmers burned a ton and a half of
tobacco in front of a warehouse to protest
what they called low prices. Perhaps some
people viewed it as a loss. Having kicked
the cigarette habit some years ago and
Good business news
THE WEEKLY ADVERTISER
Announcement of Southern Railway’s
reopening of the Training Center in
McDonough was a genuine stimulus for the
local economy, and probably an accurate
prophecy of the end of the employment
decline.
This coin
has 2 sides
It seems to me I’ve read that the Gospel
should be preached without charges. Could
you give me that reference so I can pass it
on to my minister who insists that the
Bible teaches the opposite? M.O.L.
The coin of ministerial support has two
sides. One indicates that the Gospel is free
and exacts no price. The other asserts that
the preacher-laborer is worthy of his hire.
Let’s make it quite clear that indeed to
use your words, the Gospel is to be
“preached without charge.” Way back in
Isaiah, that was to be the arrangement.
Writing of the blessings of the Lord, he
a facility has handicapped new industry
seekers for a long time.
Yet another is the boost that Bandag’s
decision to come here gave to morale. The
firm chose this community over 33 others
in Georgia and Alabama. To have been
selected as tops among that many places is
a long and multi-colored feather in the
local cap, one with which to tickle the toes
of community pride and thus produce
smiles of pleasure.
Georgia.
Adjacent to the big steel structured
tabernacle, the church has its state and
general headquarters. Passersby along
the highway have noticed the fine head
quarters building under construction, and
this is the first camp meeting since its
completion.
We wish Pirkle Memorial every success
as it proceeds with its annual camp
meeting.
after many hours of nervous tension,
packs of chewing gum, peppermints, cross
words and all the rest, we regard it as
saving a lot of coughs, sore throats, and
maybe even cancer.
Southern has extensive plans for the
Center, and the developmental affilitates
of the company can not help but be a
valuable boost to industrial prospects.
Chances are Henry County will be the
recipient of very good economic and in
dustrial news within another year. rol.
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ANSWER
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said, “Come and drink — even if you have
no money.” Jesus never made a charge for
His miraculous ministry, and today, faith
has absolutely no price tag except sincere
belief in Christ
When you talk, however, of support for
the Gospel spokesman, that’s another
matter. Paul said in I Timothy 5, “Those
who work deserve pay,” and again,
“Pastors who do their work well should be
paid well.” Other references in I Cor. 9,
Luke 10 and Deut. 25 show that the Law
and the Gospel sanction the support of the
ministry; not just from reasons of com
passion, but as a right.
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“Look Mom! Gran'ma bought me a brand new
sailor suit!"
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By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
The perilous politics
of tyrannicide
Amid the rumors and suspicions and allegations that the Cen
tral Intelligence Agency, with the knowledge of American
presidents, plotted or perpetrated the assassination of certain
foreign heads of state, a number of commentators have question
ed whether this kind of secret, “gunpoint diplomacy” is
necessarily and always evil.
Calling it not murder but tyrannicide, columnist John P. Roche
asks, “Would it have been unconstitutional, immoral and
generally dreadful if some American intelligence agent had put a
30-caliber slug into Hitler’s skull in, say, 1937?”
On the face of it, it might appear that the 20th century would
have been a far happier one had someone dispatched Herr Hitler
when he first raised Nazism’s ugly head. The same could be said
about Torquemada and the 15th century, or. Genghis Khan and the
12th century.
The argument collapses, however, as soon as we consider the
death of a leader like Abraham Lincoln. Yet his assassin fervent
ly believed that he was ridding the world of a tyrant. The student
who assassinated the Archduke of Austria in 1914 and
precipitated the First World War no doubt thought of his act as
heroic.
Os course, neither of these “tyrannicides,” nor others which
have dramatically altered history, was the official act of an
organized government. They were the work of fanatic in
dividuals. Nevertheless, it would be perilous if we came to
believe that even in the case of a Hitler we can set up a standard
of morality for governments separate from that demanded of in
dividuals in society.
Yes it can be argued that it would have been a good thing if
someone had killed Hitler in 1937. Perhaps Stalin, too. But what
about Mussolini? And Franco? Once embarked on such a course,
where would we stop?
The assassination of Fidel Castro in 1962 or 1963 would not have
changed the factors that brought him into power in the first
place, any more than the assassination of Prsident Diem of South
Vietnam was of benefit to that tragic land. And as for Adolph
Hitler, there were other, nonmurderous means of dealing with
him in 1937. if world statesmen had had the guts to stand up to
him.
One feature distinguishing the American political experiment
from all others before it was that it provided a peaceful means
for changing rulers. If we ever reach the point where we practice
a different morality in our dealings with foreign nations than we
practice at home, if we adopt “tyrannicide” as a valid, even if
only a last-resort, method of furthering national policy, we will
have assassinated all that is best in ourselves.
Something to chew on
Dog bites man may or may not be news, but man biting man is
more dangerous.
According to Dr. L. G. Douglas, a plastic surgeon at the
University of Toronto, while a great deal has been written about
the treatment of dog bites, the potential danger inherent in
human bites has not been given the attention it deserves.
Reporting in American Family Physician, published by the
American Academy of Family Physicians, Douglas cites a study
at Wellesley Hospital in Toronto, where in one recent year. 1 per
cent of 47,000 patients were treated for bite wounds. Although dog
bites were by far the most frequent, less than 4 per cent became
infected. But with human bites, about 30 per cent became in
fected.
Something to chew on.
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