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I —Griffin Daily News Friday, February 27,1976
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LM.BOYD
NEW FLESH PEDDLERS
THE 13TH TO DIE
A BETTER MOUSETRAP
Who pays for the funeral of the deceased, if no relatives are
willing to do so? Welfare agencies, Social Security, the
Veteran's Administration, all of these, sometimes. Combined,
they can pony up as much as S7OO. But an unclaimed body in
a simple wood box can be buried for as little as SSO in a pau
per's grave. Investigators know this. That's why they re curious
to learn of late why the remains of so many deceased persons,
unrecognized by relatives before their deaths, suddenly be
come identified afterwards by long lost cousins. A new breed
of flesh peddler is ripping off the agencies, they're certain.
'GOD'S DOG'
Q. "What's a 'god's dog'?''
A. A coyote in the lingo of some American Indians.
One out of every five gallons of this world's fresh water is
said to be in the Soviet Union's Lake Baikal ... How can you
call yourself a biblical scholar if you can't name the 165 places
in the Bible where alcohol is mentioned? ... Both "sugar" and
"candy,” respectively, come from the Sanskrit words
"sarkara" and "khanda," got that?
In any group of 13 people, one of same can be expected to
die within 12 months. That's a statistic the insurance boys like
to toy with. But it's not generally given as the reason the
number 13 is regarded as unlucky.
PARADOXES
Our Language man has tried and tried to come up with the
whole version of that poem of paradoxes which starts out:
"Down on the corner... In the middle of the block ... Is a
two-story house ... On a vacant 10t... " No luck, so far. Do
you remember how that thing goes?
Drivers of automobiles in Pennsylvania around the turn of
the century were advised as follows: "At the approach of a
team of horses, pull over to one side of the road, and cover
your machine with a blanket or dust cloth colored to blend in
with the scenery."
If the world is not beating a path to the door of Frank
Porath in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, I don't know why not. He
built that better mousetrap. It's an electronic noisemaker, in
audible to humans, but terribly torturous to rodents. Report is
that the sound waves from the device drive the little beasts
away in pain.
Addrau mill to L.M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1976 L.M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Feb. 27, the
38th day of 1976 with 308 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Venus.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those bom on this day are
under the sign of Pisces.
American poet Henry Wads
worth Longfellow was born on
Feb. 27,1807.
On this day in history:
In 1939, so-called “sit-down”
strikes were outlawed by the
United States Supreme Court.
In 1942, opening salvos were
fired in the battle of the Java
Sea, a Pacific naval engage
ment in the early days of World
War 11, in which the Japanese
sank 13 American warships
while losing only two.
In 1963, Mickey Mantle of the
New York Yankees signed a
contract for SIOO,OOO, highest in
baseball at that time.
Rjccntcnnial
TRACTS —
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setts patriots led
by Joseph Warren struck back
at the Intolerable Acts in
June, 1774, with a document
entitled the "Solemn League
and Covenant." It pledged all
signers to boycott British im
ports after October 1. Boston
merchants who protested
against this "base, wicked,
and illegal measure" were
dubbed ‘‘Protestors’’ and
marked for persecution by the
radical Whigs, The World
Almanac notes.
Thoughts
The heavens are telling the
glory of God; and the firma
ment proclaims his han
diwork. Day to day pours
forth speech, and night to
night declares knowledge. —
Psalm 19:1,2
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 4334
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.
Improvement
Having called attention in this space The study was released by Atlanta’s
several times in the past to Atlanta’s Crime Analysis Team. It said Atlanta had
disgraceful crime rate, we hasten to call a better than 10 percent drop last year in
attention in fairness to the following and to murder, rape, aggravated assault,
congratulate the Great Big City upon its burglary and robbery.
improvement:
Os six major cities participating in a The study said the decrease was largely
federal study of crime, Atlanta had the attributable to the more than $lB-Million
largest percentage drop in five major Atlanta has received from the federal
crime areas in 1975. government since 1972.
| For better
I or worse
Things are running along too nicely in
I this great big world for us to get editorially
exercised over the latest division of
Elizabeth Taylor and that fellow she is
married to. It does remind us, though, of a
story about another oft-divorced couple
about whom it was said, “They marry for
Good and bad news
/ _ M \ United Press International calculates / - \
/ 9 V \ th 3l out o{ the past 3,500 years of history, ( 9 9 \
/ v \ there have been only 230 years of world- / \
I X I wide peace. That’s bad. But American I
\ ] servicemen are not involved in a shooting \ /
\ J war anywhere right now, and that’s good. V/
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
Basketballs everywhere
The Griffin-Spalding County Recreation
Department reached a milestone this
season when over 1,000 young people and
adults became players or coaches in its
basketball program.
That’s more active participants than the
National Basketball Association and
American Basketball Association have
combined — provided owners, lawyers and
player agents aren’t counted.
The Recreation Department is operating
76 teams in four leagues with 850 players.
Another 150 or more people are volunteer
cpaches, who donate their time and talent
to see that the basketball programs are
successful.
Most players and coaches are in the
youth leagues — Tom Thumb, Rick Barry
and Junior.
The Tom Thumb circuit ( boys and girls 7
through 10-year-old) has 18 teams and 186
players.
All should seek
good of others
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I heard that the 1
Bible teaches that we are not to offend
others. Does this mean I should even be
willing to do wrong tn order not to offend i
my brother? —C.C. I
Dear C. C.: Perhaps you are referring to
a passage like I Corinthians 10:32: “Give
none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to
the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.”
The point of what Paul is saying here is
that we are not to do anything that would
cause a fellow believer to stumble in his
faith. For example, we may have some
habit that seems entirely harmless to us.
The Rick Barry League (boys and girls
11 through 13-years-old) has 30 teams and
300 players.
The Junior League is made up of boys
and girls 14 through 17-years-old. The
department operates 14 teams with 151
players.
In addition to those leagues, the
department has an adult program for men
and women. There are 14 teams in it with
210 players.
The 76 Recreation Department
basketball teams play a lot of games — 580
to be exact.
That’s not all; after the regular season
ends, the department organizes a tour
nament for each league and all teams, no
matter whether they finished first or last,
compete in it.
Four leagues, 76 teams, 1,000 par
ticipants and over 600 games.
That’s a lot of basketball.
MY
r "W ANSWER
However, if it causes ahother Christian to
slacken in his love for Christ, we should be
willing to give it up. In other words, we are
not to seek our own selfish desires, but the
good of others.
We must never commit wrong in order to
avoid giving offense to someone else. In
the long run, such an action would only
hurt another person, since it would set a
poor example for them and might cause
their faith in Christ to be weakened. “Let
us not therefore judge one another any
more: but judge this rather, that no man
put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall
in his brother’s way” (Romans 14:13).
Berry s World
© 1976 by Nt A. Inc
"Now let's see! I’ll have to log that call as: Six
minutes, 'President' - three minutes, ‘Can
didate’!"
F Don Oakley
No compensation in
■ f reverse discrimination
By Don Oakley
Even with the best will in the world, there is a limit to what
the nation can do to compensate for past injuries to blacks and
other minorities without beginning to do real injustice to the
community at large.
A proposal that has been made to the Maryland legislature
would seem to exceed that limit.
Because very few black law school graduates pass the
state's bar examination, several black lawyers and civil rights
activists have proposed that these graduates be permitted te
practice law without taking the qualifying exam administered
by the state board of bar examiners.
According to NAACP spokesman Leon N. Perry, only 16.6
per cent of 296 black applicants passed the Maryland bar ex
amination between February. 1968, and February, 1974. In the
same period, 53 5 per cent of white applicants passed the ex
am.
“No rational person can listen to those statistics and not get
the sneaking suspicion that something is wrong somewhere.
Perry told the Maryland House of Delgates Judiciary Com
mittee
In counter testimony, Francis J. Monahan, chairman of the
state bar association section on legal education and admission
to the bar, argued that the high rate of failure of black can
didates was a direct result of efforts by law schools to attract
larger numbers of black students.
Law schools have lowered their standards of admission to
the point where today blacks have to be only two-thirds as
qualified as white law school applicants, he said
"Once black students got into law school, then they wanted
special help, and they got it. Then the demand was. Once you
let us into law school, you have to graduate us,’ Now they want
to do away with the bar exam."
There should be no minimizing the problems blacks face as
they attempt to make up for decades of injustice and dis
crimination. Yet if It were a question of the licensing of doc
tors. no one would have dared make this kind of proposal No
one, black or white, would care to place his health in the hands
of a physician who was not fully qualified
It should be the same with any other profession. It has to be.
if a license or degree is to have any value at all. To license
black lawyers solely on the basis of their race would not only
be a bizarre form of reverse discrimination, it would be doing
no favor either to them or their prospective clients.
Most fantastic flight
What impresses us most about the plan to orbit 30
electricity-generating satellites to supply the energy needs of
the United States is not the idea itself.
Something like the scheme proposed by Boeing Aerospace
Co. engineers — to capture and concentrate the sun’s heat
with gigantic space mirrors and beam the electricity to earth
by microwaves — is coming. We have the technology to have
the system in operation before the end of the century.
Nor are we surprised at the cost of the system, estimated to
be equal to the Apollo moon landing program.
What brings us up short is the statement that if we were to
undertake the Apollo program today, it would cost not $24
billion but S6O billion, so great has been the effect of inflation
in the few short years since the last Saturn rocket was launch
ed.
Remember the objections about what a waste of resources
it was to put men on the moon? Yet we have permitted the
dollar to take off on a fantastic space trip of its own that
makes the Apollo program now look like a bargain basement
venture.
CARNIVAL by Dick Turner
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