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LM.BOYD
Mirror image
returns gaze
Was reported that a parakeet looks at a mirror four times as
long as it looks at another parakeet. Client asks why. No big
mystery. When a parakeet looks at another parakeet, the other
parakeet doesn't always look back, but the mirror image does.
One girl out of every 14 never marries... A lot more U. S.
passports are issued to women than to men .... The humming-
cruising speed is 35 m. p. h.... Only holiday recognized
by the common law of this country is Sunday .. . Average
salaried citizen today is 39.
Q. "How much does a hippopotamus weigh at birth? At
one year?"
A. At birth, 40 pounds. At one year 600 pounds. Did I tell
you a full grown hippo's stomach is 10 feet long?
SLEEP
It's the contention of a University of Florida scholar that
the children today sleep 90 minutes less per night than did the
children of 1917. This authority attributes the statistical
change to television. The question promptly arises whether the
cutback in sleep hurts the youngsters now. If so, that's not
apparent.
Engraved on a sundial in the Garden of Yaddo, Saratoga
Springs, N. Y„ are these lines by Henry Van Dyke: "Time
is ... too slow for those who wait... too swift for those who
fear... too long for those who grieve ... too short for those
who rejoice ... but for those who love ... time is not."
RIGHT WHALE
Again am asked why the right whale was so named. Because
that whale does not sink when killed in the water. Most whales
do. So the early hunters designated it the right whale inasmuch
as it was the one they could tow along the surface of the water
back to their ships.
He tried to give the U. S. Government SIOO million, did
John D. Rockefellow, Sr. Just to pay for sundry humanitarian
projects. In 1910 it was. But the U. S. Government turned him
down. On the theory such a gift from a private citizen would
tend to corrupt officialdom. Quite so, quite so. Can you en-,
vision the U. S. Government declining SIOO million today?
Neither can I.
Mile for mile, the motorcyclist is 20 times more likely to
get killed than the car driver, studies show ... Seventy times
more men than women commit robbery. Or did you know
that? ... Seven out of 10 teenage brides have their first child
within a year of marriage ... Approximately 42 out of every
100 engineers who graduate in Great Britain emigrate to the
United States... Is your TV set turned on five hours five
minutes each day? That's said to be the household average
now.
AddrMi mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1976 L. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, April 16, the
107th day of 1976 with 259 to
follow.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born this date are
under the sign of Aries.
Wilbur Wright, American
inventor of the airplane, was
born April 16, 1867. Actor
Charlie Chaplin was born on
this date in 1889.
On this day in history:
In 1862, Congress abolished
slavery in the District of
Columbia.
In 1947, more than 500
persons were killed when a
French frigate carrying ni
trates exploded at the dock in
Texas City, Tex.
William Bradford 111 made
the Pennsylvania Journal a
strong voice of the Patriots in
the then-capital city of
Philadelphia. His "Tombstone
issue” of 1765 typified the way
in which newspaper
publishers protested the
British tax on paper. It was in
the Journal that Tom Paine’s
“Crisis” paper appeared, a
few days-before Bradford had
to flee Philadelphia to escape
British troops, The World
Almanac relates.
Thoughts
He was praying in a certain
place, and when he ceased,
one of his disciples said to
him, “Lord, teach us to pray,
as John taught his disciples.”
- Luke 11:1.
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Griffin and Atlanta
Airlines officials have revived talk about
that proposed second airport for Atlanta,
pointing out that Hartsfield International
is the second busiest in the nation. Last
time we were up there it seemed it was at
least that.
Atlanta got to be what it is because of
transportation, the crossing of north-south
and east-west railroad lines there. General
Griffin had planned for that to occur here
in the town which bears his name, but
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The U.S. Treasury put 255-million two
dollar bills into circulation in Griffin and
elsewhere throughout the land this week in
a move which the government hopes will
save |7-million in printing costs this year
alone. Since inflation caused the move, it
seems appropriate that the bills carry the
picture of Thomas Jefferson, second
President of the United States who was
talented in just about everything except
finance.
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Divide and conquer
Don’t know what Congressman John J.
Flynt, Jr., is doing, but he has every cause
to be grinning like a mule eating briars.
Three—you count’em, three — candidates
are opposing him in the Democratic
Primary, and that ought to split the anti-
Flynt vote just fine.
What about Newt Gingrich who is op
posing the Honorable John J. in the
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SHIRTS EDITORIAL★ *
Turner and promise
Ted Turner promised Georgia baseball
fans, after he purchased the Braves, that
he would do his best to bring them a World
Series.
Fans believed him then and are even
more confident now that he meant it.
Confidence in the new owner shot
skyward after he shelled out over a million
dollars to sign pitcher Andy Messersmith
to a multi-year contract.
Turner was the first owner to make
Messersmith a firm offer. However, the
How can one know
he was ‘born again’?
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: How is it possible
for a person to know with certainty that
they are born again? —S.S.
Dear S.S.: Certainty comes to our lives
as we take a number of progressive steps.
It is good to note also that, as we take these
steps, other people become equally con
vinced that we are Christians as they
watch our lives develop.
The first step is to believe the promises
that God makes to those who trust in Him.
Part of our faith in God is to believe that
when He makes a promise, He keeps it.
You are born again when you believe that
Christ will grant you forgiveness as you
ask Him. This first step of believing the
written promises is referred to by John:
“These are written that you may believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and
that believing you may have life in his
name" (John 20:31, Revised Standard
Version).
The new birth is brought about by the
Holy Spirit entering your life and starting
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
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money problems stopped that and the
great big city was bom 40 miles from here.
Subsequently it became what it is and we
became what we are and it is likely that
neither of us would change that if we could.
After railroads, Atlanta continued as the
transportation hub of the Southeast with
great highway intersections. Now it seems
to need another airport if it is to continue in
its role as crossroads of the South.
General Election? Well, he might as well
be grinning too because he almost beat
Flynt last time and he very well could have
a rougher time against some popular
Democrat elected over Flynt.
All of which is sheerest and admitted
political speculation, but it is a shift from
all the stuff we have been reading about
that fellow Carter, isn’t it?
free agent held contract talks with several
clubs before deciding to sign with the
Braves.
The addition of Messersmith to the
Braves’ pitching staff may just turn the
Braves title contenders.
That depends, of course, on Messer
smith, Phil Niekro, Carl Morton, Roger
Moret and Dick Ruthven having the kind of
season they are capable of.
If the Braves make a run for the NL
pennant, it will be a personal triumph for
the new owner.
to work there. The second step towards
your certainty, therefore, is to look for the
results of the Spirit’s work in your life.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22,
Revised Standard Version). When you see
these qualities appearing to a growing
extent in your life, then you are receiving
further assurance of your new birth. This
is when other people begin to notice the
change in your life: “By this all men will
know that you are my disciples, if you have
love for one another” (John 13:35, Revised
Standard Version).
Another important step is that of
obedience. As you seek to obey Christ and
His teaching, and find within you the
strength and ability to do as He says, so
you have further assurance of the new life
within you. “In that day you will know that
I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in
you,” said Jesus (John 14:20, Revised
Standard Version).
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"Hey! Isn’t it about time you headed north and
got back to school?"
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No confidence in
confidential research
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — The other day researchers do
ing work on drug use under contract with the National
Institute of Mental Health revealed to some of us the
elaborate, almost fanatical, precautions they take in order to
protect the privacy of those young men and women they were
studying, to protect the researchers that is, from police.
Congressional or other official requests for the identity of the
persons involved.
The subjects of the investigation were assigned code
numbers, not names. The files, with the numbers, were then
sent to Canada where new numbers were assigned to each
case by some random process. Then the cases with the new
numbers were returned to the researchers in this country.
In this manner it was made certain that no one in the United
States, not even the researchers involved, would know which
data referred to which persons studied.
In another study, the researchers had resolved to burn the
files and take the consequences if officials insisted on sub
poenaing the files.
Now we can assume either that the researchers involved
had delusions of Big Brother persecution, or that there was in
deed a danger that the subjects of the studies being carried out
with government money, presumably in the national interest,
were in danger of having their frank revelations subpoenaed
and used against them. Or both.
Government-sponsored studies of the Internal Revenue Ser
vice make clear that a good many tax records citizens had
believed would be held in confidence for tax use only, are. on
request passed from agency to agency in a slipshod manner
and used in ways for which there is no apparent legal basis.
There are other examples of our confidences being
betrayed. At one time or another, all of us are asked to fill out
confidential forms for local, state or federal agencies, or for
researchers doing work for government studies. Lulled by the
promise we will not be identified and the data will be lumped
in such away that individual sources will not be dis
tinguishable, we give personal information.
Now a National Academy of Sciences-sponsored study
seems to indicate that these promises of confidentiality do not
hold water, even if the promises are made by government of
ficials or researchers working under government contract.
In a series of cases reviewed in the study, it is reported that
those administrators involved came to the conclusion that,
regardless of promises, there would be no valid legal grounds
for resisting subpoenas, when and if issued.
It should be noted that in most cases reviewed, researchers
were able to work out compromises with the enforcement
agencies to protect their clients. But the negotiators made it
clear the concessions were just that, and that no law protected
the information or the privacy of the individuals.
The problem will intensify.
The growth of computers, the ability to interlink data in one
computer to another, combined with the vast array of infor
mation collected routinely by one government and private
agency or another or every individual, almost without excep
tion, will make it possible for anyone to plug into the system.
Then they can assemble intimate details about us all — finger
prints, credit data, health records, personal quarrels, work,
accusations and allegations, founded or unfounded.
The growing pressure on government to halt expensive
abuse by numbers of welfare, social security and medical care
participants, the growing emphasis on ferreting out white
collar crimes and the increasing pressure to control violent
crime, will force officials to greater explore the confidential
files of an assortment of agencies. They’ll learn everything
they can about the personal lives of everyone who might
possibly be involved, whether suspect or not.
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