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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, January 12,1977 VZCONTKOL. 9 / / /// . sflf. Jj &— » / JJ! J fl flli L. M. BOYD The infamous old Uncle Tom ripoff Just about everybody has heard of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the classic book of its day, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Few realize, though, that she might not have become so famous, if she'd been a little brighter in the money depart ment. Play producers read the fine print to learn that Ms. Stowe had failed to reserve for herself the theatrical rights. So they staged numerous dramatic productions worldwide, thus I enhancing her reputation greatly. But she never got a royalty < dime from them. i Between 4 and 8 p.m. in a cocktail lounge, the typical female customer will visit the powder room four times while the typical man will make such an excursion but once. Or so reports a bartender of lengthy experience. PERFECT BOOKS? Q. "Have the publishers ever put out a book that was totally free from errors?" A. Know of none, other than diaries and journals with blank pages. Q. "Left handed U. S. presidents have included Gerald Ford and Harry Truman. Any others?" A. James A. Garfield was, too. None other comes to mind. Q. "Are Navy men still called 'gobs'?" A. In Chinese, they are. That's where the nickname came i from. No dieter should fail to understand that the type of cake lowest in calories is angel food. i If you want a pound of the best goose feathers, you have to start with six live birds, bear in mind. I Address mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086 | Copyright 1977 L. M. 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Almanac For Today By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 1977. There are 353 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On this date in 1945, German forces were retreating in dis order in the World War II Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. On this date: In 1643, Warwick, R.1., was founded by Samuel Gorton after his banishment from the Massachusetts Colony on grounds of heresy. In 1737, the first signer of the American Declaration of In dpendence, John Hancock, was bom in Braintree, Mass. In 1919, the House of Repre sentatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote. In 1933, an Arkansas Demo crat, Hattie Caraway, became the first elected woman senator. In 1970, a 31-month-old civil war in Nigeria ended as the rebel Biafra leader (General Odumegwu Ojukwu) fled with his family. In 1971, the head of the mili tant Jewish Defense League, Rabbi Meir Kahane, was ar rested in New York. Ten years ago: The army in Communist China pledged its support to Mao tse-Tung during disorders touched off by the Red Guard cultural revolution. Five years ago: Sheik Muji bur Rahman of Bangladesh gave up the presidency to head a parlaimentary government as Prime Minister. One year ago: A coalition cabinet in Thailand collapsed with the resignation of Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj. Thoughts Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” - John 8:31,32. “God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both.” — Ralph Waldo Emer son, American philosopher. Subscription Prices o Delivered by carrier or by mail in the counties of Spalding, Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar and Pike, and to military personnel and students from Griffin: *2 cents per week, $2.11 per month, 51.04 for three months, $14.07 for six months, $22.13 for 12 months. These prices include sales tax. Due to expense and uncertainty of delivery, mail subscriptions are not recommended but will be accepted outside the above area at $17.50 for three months, S3O for six months, and SSO for 12 months. If inside Georgia, sales tax must be added to these prices. All mail subscriptions must be paid at least three months in advance. Were Listening Coffee To Griffin News: Here is a substitute for coffee, it’s going up in price so high. I have drunk many a cup made out of parched meal, in Hoover days. Put the meal in a pan and put it in the oven of the stove. Let it parch until you almost burn it. Then put it in the coffee pot and boil it. It will taste just like coffee. We were raised on the farm and couldn’t get coffee every time we gave out, and didn’t have money to buy it every time. Thought I would pass this along as a substitute for coffee. (Signed) W.A. Williams, 217 Park Street, Griffin RESPONSE: Thank you, sir. This ought to help. And best regards to you. An invitation Dear Mr. Melton: February 3,4, and 5, the Utility Club and the Music Club will sponsor The Follies, ’77 — “A Real Golden Oldie”. Although the show is in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Utility Club, it is in no way limited in participation to club members alone. We really want this production to be a showcase of Griffin talent —of which there is much evidence these days! So, this letter is a sincere open invitation to all to come be a part of a real off-off Broadway show! On January 18, Tuesday, at 8:00, you are invited to a “Meet the Director Party” to “kick-off” the auditions and rehearsals for the Follies. We’ve already rounded up some of our local talent to be featured in brief sketches and songs that evening. Then the director will explain rehearsal procedures, etc. We’ll be looking for housewives that would have fun being in a kick line, people that like to sing or act, persons with special talents, and persons that are not even sure they have any talents but just want to tag along for the fun! If we could, we would write everyone a personal invitation, but since there is no way to do that, please consider this letter a special appeal to YOU. Come join us! If we can do it — so can you! (Signed) Nan Carley and Mary Hurt, Co-chairmen, Talent Committee Note Note to "Graded by a Taxpayer": You get good marks, but they would be better if we knew who you are. We ALL pay taxes one way or another, now don’t we? Litter Dear Editor: January is anti-litter month in the State of Georgia. The Department of Transportation is asking all citizens to join in an effort to clean up litter from our roadsides and to discourage highway litter in the future. Each year Georgia taxpayers contribute Never put off accepting Christ DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I try to live a good life and treat others in a loving way. But there is something I can’t understand. How can someone lie and cheat almost all his life, and then go to heaven (just like a good person), if he repents at the last minute? This doesn’t seem quite fair.— Mrs. B.S. DEAR MRS. S.: Jesus once told a parable which dealt with this problem. It is sometimes called “the parable of the laborers in the vineyard,” and you can find it in Matthew 20:1-16. In it Jesus tells about a man who hired laborers to work for a day in his vineyard, for payment of one silver coin. Later in the day some other men came to work, and although they worked fewer hours, the owner paid them the same wage. Jesus was telling us that God wants to give salvation to men, and even hears the prayer of the person who repents at the last minute. The repentance of the ‘The voice of Griffin ’ Rules for letters The Griffin Daily News welcomes letters to the editor and features them on this page every Wednesday. Here are the ground rules: All must be signed and include the writer’s address. We may withhold a name upon request, but only with the understanding that we will provide it to anyone with a good reason for asking. We will not withhold a name signed to any letter critical of any individual. Letters concerning race, creed or religion are not acceptable. Nor are letters for or against political can didates. more than |2 million in taxes to cleaning up litter on our highways, an expenditure our already over-burdened taxpayers can ill afford. No one has yet published a significant treatise on why the traveling public will litter the roadsides. However in addition to a heavy expenditure of public funds of cleaning up the trash there is also the fact that it spoils the environment and gives visitors to the state a bad impression of how we do our housekeeping. Even though the Georgia Department of Transportation is now operating with a maximum level of personnel and can very well use its maintenance forces for other jobs, we are utilizing our maintenance personnel this month to try to clean up effectively Georgia’s roadside litter and we are promoting a full fledged campaign to enlist the help of every Georgian in making our state highways the cleanest, most beautiful in the country. We are asking our civic organizations, social clubs, youth organizations and other community groups to do what they can to promote programs to clean up our highways and to prevent littering in the future. We hope that these organizations will respond actively and let the department know that they are mounting such anti-litter programs on their own in the communities or areas they serve. Those who throw trash upon our highways should know that it is an illegal act punishable by fine and jail sentence or both. But this alone should not be the deterring factor to those who unthinkingly throw debris along the roadway, or who do it simply because they do not care how our travelways appear. The deterring factor should be that all of us take a great deal of pride in the cleanliness and beauty of our roadsides, those throughfares along which millions of us and others from out of state travel every day. We trust your newspaper will give this statewide cleanup and anti-litter campaign during the month of January your full fledged support. We hope individuals and organizations will respond to the Department of Transportation’s efforts to make Georgia a cleaner and better place in which to travel. Trash on our highways is a dirty shame! Let’s keep Georgia’s highways clean and beautiful; after all Georgia belongs to all of us. Thank you for your splendid cooperation in this campaign. Yours truly,(Signed)Bill Bryant, Director Information and Public Relations, Department of Transportation, No. 2, Capitol Square, Atlanta thief on the cross (Luke 22:39-43) is an example of this. There are two things I want you to remember, however. First, we must never put off accepting Christ into our lives. We do not know when death will come to us; it may come suddenly and we would be unprepared. Also, our hearts have away of getting more calloused and insensitive to spiritual things, and the resolves we make today about turning to God later may be forgotten or scorned. One of the most tragic figures in the New Testament is the Roman official Felix. Paul witnessed to him about Christ, but be said, “When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee” (Acts 24:25). He never came to faith. Second, I wonder if you are trying to save yourself by your good deeds. It is only God’s grace that saves us. If you have never trusted Christ for your salvation, I urge you to turn your life over to Him. MY ANSWER r J Berry’s World © 1976 by NEA. Inc. "He’s just a teenager. I think my wife in advertently put grow lights for her plants in his room!" Back when nobody had use for poodles By Ernest Lyons Noted the other day that the poodle is the most popular dog in America. What happened to the collie, the airedale, the fox terrier and if you will pardon me, the hound dog? Southerners, of whom I happen to be one, are fond of hounds and bird dogs. They earn their keep. A good hound pays for itself many times over in rabbits, coons, possums and wild cats — if you put a value on such creatures. A bird dog that really knows its business is a jewel beyond price.lt tells you where the partridges are — pardon me again, the quail. Hounds have always been an important part of my life. There was my old Walker foxhound Mack, who accompanied me on my first visit to Lake Okeechobee along about 1918. Mack hated cows. I was camped in a tepee tent on the ridge, down below the Hole in the Wall along with Mack when he started chasing this cow. I heard his baying a long way off and then, as it got closer, I realized the certainty of disaster. There was not room for the cow to pass the tent. I stood aside. The cow hit the tent and carried it off. Old Mack came back, wagging his tail, asking to have his ears scratched. I scratched. He had done a good job. Old Mack was nobody’s fool. He was afraid of alligators. One time the Old Man and I were camped on a creek bank when Old Mack pushed himself into the tent. Dad grabbed him by the loose skin of his neck and threw him outside. He barged back in. Dad reached back down to pick up a shotgun loaded with buckshot and delivered both barrels to a 12-foot alligator just outside the tent door. Hounds are most remarkable for their ability to trail and tree. Old Man Roebuck was a little blind beagle that could tell you whether a fox squirrel was still up the tree, where the wild turkeys were, or how to follow a deer across a slough just by smelling the maiden cane. Hounds can be both good and bad. I once owned one who would bay a coon until he had it treed and then would fall asleep underneath the tree. It was up to you to find which of 1,- 000 trees he was sleeping underneath. The most unnerving thing about any sort of dog is what, for better definition, must be called ESP. You are sitting with your dog in the quiet of a camp at night when suddenly its hackles rise, it faces an unknown and invisible intruder, and you see nothing. My favorite dog, in a lifetime of owning many, was big old red Pudge, a golden retriever, I used to take her out into the ocean in a 14-foot boat. When we were just about out of sight of land, Pudge would come back to me, put a paw on my shoulder and beckon with the other paw landward. Pudge did not have much sense about alligators. She thought they were just another sort of dog. When we would go fishing in the back country, I had to keep Pudge tied up to keep her from becoming too friendly with the gators. One time I remember, out on St. Lucie Canal, Pudge jumped loose and swam out to greet a friendly alligator. It snapped at her and she showed the good sense to swim back. I had to bounce rocks off the head of the gator before it gave up. Poodles? No, we didn’t have any. Our dogs were tough dogs. The country has changed. Ernest Lyons is retired editor of the Stuart, Fla. News. 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