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LN. BOYD
IQ tests don't show
a talent for sales
Research by the students of the mind repeatedly has proved
hat intelligence tests are virtually worthless when it comes to (
he selection of the best sales clerks. This most certainly does
lot refer to sales executives who wind up as the presidents of
heir corporations. Nor to clerks who spend most of their time
iling, typing or stocking shelves. It applies specifically to
hose people-to-people conversationalists who show the mer
ihandise and close the deals. Their talents, which can be <
emarkable and various, nonetheless are not revealed in IQ
ests.
Some psychoanalysts insist the proof that their profession
fates back 3,000 years can be found in John VIII:32; "And
/ou shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
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Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who ,
narry in January, February and March tend to have the
lighest divorce rates. !
NOMINEES !
Q. "How many former Army and Navy officers have been
final nominees for the U. S. presidency?"
A. Army, 26. Navy, four. I
Our file on what women like most must be incomplete. It
only contains the results of one study which lists in descending
order: To make love, earrings, cars, handbags and bright bath
towels. Clearly, further research is due.
A survey of 14 million girls between the ages of 13 and 19
indicates each spends an average of about $450 a year on the
wardrobe.
Estimators think a fifth of the world's running fresh water
goes down the Amazon.
MARY'S LAMB
It's well known that the first words which Thomas A.
Edison spoke into a phonograph were: "Mary had a little
lamb." Less widely reported was the fact that the children’s
verse surged more popularly thereafter. I can't confirm the
claim, though, that it's quoted more by waiters than any other
professionals with said waiters adding: "What will you have?"
When you ask which two U. S. presidents has a surname
containing only four letters, those few who reply usually say
Polk and Taft, but hardly ever Ford, oddly.
Address mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086
Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Jan. 6,
the sixth day of 1977. There are
359 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1412, the
French national heroine, Joan
of Arc, was bom.
On this date:
In 1540, King Henry VIII of
England married his fourth
wife, Anne of Cleves.
In 1759, George Washington
was married to the widow Mar
tha Dandridge Custis.
In 1838, Samuel F.B. Morse
made the first public demon
stration of his telegraph, at
Morristown, N.J.
In 1912, New Mexico became
the 47th state.
In 1919, former President
Theodore Roosevelt died at his
home at Oyster Bay, N.Y.
In 1950, Britain recognized
the Communist government of
China.
Ten years ago: Secretary of
State Dean Rusk said the
United States was ready to
meet with North Vietnam in
public or private peace talks
and was willing to have the
Communist Viet Cong repre
sented.
Five years ago: Washington
indicated that a U.S. naval task
force dispatched during the re
cent war between India and
Pakistan marked the start of
regular American naval oper
ations in the Indian Ocean.
One year ago: An American
CIA agent murdered in Greece,
Richard Welch, was buried in
Arlington Cemetery near Wash
ington after a funeral attended
by President Ford.
Today’s birthdays: Entertain
er Danny Thomas is 63. Actress
Loretta Young is 64.
Thought for today: Injustice
is relatively easy to bear. What
stings is justice. — H.L. Men
cken, American journalist, 1880-
1956.
Thoughts
"And behold, I have ap
pointed with him Oholiab, the
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan; and I have given to all
able men ability, that they
may make ail that I have com
manded you;” — Exodus
3L:6.
“Man’s capacities have
never been measured. Nor are
we to judge of what he can do
by any precedents, so little
has been tried.” — Henry
David Thoreau, American
naturalist.
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published every Wednesday.
Happy ending
That was a happy ending to the story
about the deaf mute and his dog being
reunited thanks to the compassion of Mrs.
Jean Chambers of the City Dog Pound,
cooperation of City Manager Roy Inman,
and a story in the Griffin Daily News.
A little feeling for others, a little going
out of the way, a little time spent make life
happier for the giver as well as for the
Get well soon
Glad to read that Mrs. Carter, the
president-elect’s mother, is out of the
hospital in Americus and getting along'
fine.
Mr. Chairman
Spalding County Commissioners elected
P.W. Hamil chairman this week and we
wish him well as he embarks upon the new
year at the helm of the ship of county
affairs.
There are lots of things we like about
Spalding County. One is the fact that the
terms of its three commissioners are
Crazy like a fox
Ted Turner, Atlanta Braves owner
suspended by Baseball Commissioner
Bowie Kuhn, bought the team about a year
ago, Jan. 14, 1976.
Since then he has put some sport and fun
back into the game. Now he has gone out
Fasting should
be done in private
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: What are your
views on fasting? Is fasting necessary for
the Christian today, and if so, what is its
purpose?—W.S.
DEAR W. S.: Fasting has always played
a part in the life of the church. We not only
have the example of our Lord who fasted,
but also of the apostles and the great
reformers.
Following his experience on the
Damascus Road, Paul neither ate nor
drank for three days (Acts 9:9). That is an
example of an absolute fast. There are also
examples of partial fasts as when John the
Baptist ate only locusts and wild honey.
When Christ was instructing His
disciples, He said: “When thou fastest...”
(Matthew 6:17). Jesus appeared to take it
for granted that His followers would fast.
He did not say “If you fast,” but “when
you fast.”
Fasting was often practiced when an
important decision had to be made: “As
they ministered to the Lord, and fasted,
the Holy Ghost said, Separate me
receiver, and the story with a happy
ending is the kind we really enjoy
publishing in this paper.
Many a time we have written with tears
in our eyes, and sometimes with
apprehension. But this time as we reported
the getting together of the mute and the
animal which loves him, we wrote with a
smile.
There is a lot of good in Griffin.
She worked hard for her son’s election
and we’d hate for her to miss the
inauguration.
staggered so there always is a carry over
of experience.
This year all three commissioners are
continuing in office, so there is plenty of
this carryover, and experience is said to be
the hardest but the best teacher of
officeholders as well as of other students.
and bought the Atlanta Hawks basketball
team.
Earlier, Turner said, “I ought to be
committed”, and lots of folks are saying he
is crazy. As to that we say, “Yeah, like a
fox.”
MY
m ANSWER
Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
I have called them” (Acts 13:2).
Fasting should be done in private,
between you and God, without anyone else
knowing about it. We should fast when God
lays it on our hearts to do so. We would fast
sensibly so as not to injure our health,
starting with short periods. Fasting is
usually coupled with prayer, to show God
the earnestness of our request.
John Wesley, the Founder of the
Methodist Church, preached a great
sermon on fasting, based on Matthew 6:16-
18, in which he said: “First, let it be done
unto the Lord, with our eye singly fixed on
Him. Let our intention herein be this, and
this alone, to glorify our Father which is in
heaven; to express our sorrow and shame
for our manifold transgressions of His holy
law; to wait for an increase of purifying
grace, drawing our affections to things
above; to add seriousness and earnestness
to our prayers; to avert the wrath of God;
and to obtain all the great and precious
promises which He hath made to us in
Jesus Christ.”
Berry’s World
© 1977 by NEA, Inc
“Every’... — everybody — EVERYBODY beats
me at electronic TV tennis!"
Ray Cromley
Carter inner circle
hasn’t been opened
By Ray Cromley
WASINGTON — (NEA) — For a man elected president on a
“house-cleaning” platform, Jimmy Carter seems unusually
vague on hard facts.
Many of us had assumed during the campaign that Mr.
Carter’s vagueness was a political ploy —a stance adopted to
insure he alienated as few voters as possible. We also saw his
being on ail sides of every issue as an attempt to please
whatever audience he was addressing.
Today I am not so sure. His statements about defense spen
ding, welfare reform, new faces in influential government
posts, economic policies, unemployment are as vague and con
tradictory as ever. They fly square in the face of what seems
practical — even to those he’s chosen as members of his
cabinet.
The suspicion is growing that, in spite of his reputation for
meticulous planning, Mr. Carter may have a regrettable habit
of shooting from the hip on policy issues.
It may be that Mr. Carter, when confronted by an audience,
so identifies for the moment with that group’s feelings that he
subconsciously shifts his thinking, and therefore his words, to
match what it wants to hear.
If this is so, does it mean that the next president of the
United States is overly influenced by the last person or the last
group he talks to before making a decision? This possibility
gives me pause: the intellectual quality of numbers of the
Carter inner circle is not high, nor are the backgrounds of
some key members of that White House circle impressive.
The question then is whose word will carry more weight —
that of the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers,
Charles Schultze, or that of longtime intimate and spokesman
Jody Powell?
Will the advice of Defense Secretary Harold Brown prevail,
or that of campaign chairman Hamilton Jordan?
Cronyism has become a nasty word. Mr. Carter has said he
will not tolerate it. We have grave witness to the serious
effects of that practice in our knowledge today of what follow
ed when President John Kennedy named his brother Robert as
attorney general.
But there was cronyism in high places when Mr. Carter was
governor of Georgia. At least one man used the governor’s
name and the governor’s mansion for promoting schemes
which are now charged as being highly questionable.
And today, an unusual number of the highest posts in the
Carter Administration have been given to intimate friends of
the president-elect. Though we have no reason to believe that
any of these men are not of the highest character, the danger
of cronyism is not limited, as we know, to dishonesty. An even
greater danger is the creation of a closed inner circle,
whereby the president is insulated from divergent views by in
dividuals who think as he does and who, by past friendship, are
in a position to influence him greatly.
In sum, today, close to two months after his election to the
presidency, Mr. Carter is as much of an enigma as he was in
the campaign. The inconsistencies in his statements and in his
actions have not been cleared. The inner circle, which sur
rounds and defends him tightly, has not been opened to public
view. Our worries have not been assuaged.
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