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‘Land’ said to be
our oldest word
By L.M. Boyd
Oldest word in the English language is said to be "land."
Was none other than the great Cicero who said, "No sober
man dances unless he's crazy."
Those huge modern tanker ships now abuilding in Japan
need fewer crewmen than the old Queen Mary years ago
needed bartenders.
If you put all the wheat grown in any one year into end-to
end boxcars, do you know how long that freight train would
be? One and a third times the distance around the world.
You can get bank checks, as you may know, imprinted
with any sort of picture on them that appeals to you. An old
boy in California liked that notion. He had special checks
made up with a photo on each of himself kissing his new bride.
He only uses them, he says, to pay alimony to his ex-wife.
SLICED BREAD
0. "Quick, Louie, when was it that the U. S. Government
ordered all bakers to stop slicing bread?"
A. Research reveals it was on Jan. 18, 1943, during World
War 11. Object was to save manpower.
Q. "Where'd we get the word 'ragtime'?"
A. Probably from "ragging" which is what the early blacks
in this country called their clog dancing.
Seriously doubt there's a more difficult tongue twister in
English than this: "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."
LOVE AND WAR
Most men are more intelligent than their wives. Wait, that's
not my notion. A university researcher said it. But it doesn't
mean men are smarter generally than women. Rather, women
tend to fall for men they can look up to in matters of the
mind while men are inclined to shy away from women who're
obviously brighter than themselves. Thus the matrimonial
mates match up in such a manner that the husbands usually
have a bit of an intellectual edge on their own wives. Personal
ly, however, I cannot say that I've found that to be true. Not
that it isn't true. I just cannot say it, and expect a decent
lunch.
Why, you may ask, do not the feet of a four-ton elephant
break down under all that weight? Because they’re padded on
the bottom and laced through with a shock-absorbing elastic
gristle that works a lot like crepe rubber. And not only does it
cushion on hard ground, but it splays out in mud to keep the
big beast from sinking too deeply. Expect more about
elephants' feet as demand warrants.
Bakers in old Rome were required by law to bake their
names into every loaf of bread they turned out.
Most big cities have only enough food on their markets'
shelves to feed their residents for about two and a half days.
Claim is that one husband or another every day somewhere
turns off the empty oven in the kitchen with some irritation,
unaware that his wife is preheating it to cook something.
How do you account for the fact that members of the U. S.
House of Representatives tend to be bigger tippers in
restaurants than U. S. senators.
Why the average woman starts to get gray hair about five
years eariier than the average man hasn't been fully figured out
yet, either.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086
Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, March 10,
the 69th day of 1977. There are
296 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1876, the first
clear telephone call was made
when Alexander Graham Bell
summoned his assistant from
another room in Bell’s house in
Boston, saying: “Come here,
Watson. I want you.”
On this date:
In 1785, Thomas Jefferson
was named the U.S. minister to
France, succeeding Benjamin
Franklin.
In 1848, the U.S. Senate rati
fied a treaty ending the Mexi
can War.
In 1864, Ulysses Grant was
named Commander in Chief of
Union forces in the Civil War.
In 1941, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the Lendlease
Act, providing for transfer of
military equipment to the Allies
in World War 11.
In 1945, U.S. bombers began
their first incendiary raids on
Japan, setting fire to a vast
area of Tokyo.
In 1969, in Memphis, Tenn.,
James Earl Ray pleaded guilty
to the assassination of the civil
rights leader, Dr. Martin Lu
ther King Jr.
Ten years ago: It was report
ed that Joseph Stalin’s daugh
ter, Svetlana Stalin, had de
fected from the Soviet Union
and was seeking asylum in a
European country.
Five years ago: Premier Lon
Nol of Cambodia seized com
plete power as head of state and
nullified the country’s nearly
completed constitution.
One year ago: Former Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon said that
public disclosure in 1969 of the
secret U.S. bombing of
Cambodia had forced him to
ground the planes and had cost
countless American lives.
1. The first American woman
to win the Olympic gold medal
for figure skating was (a)
Carol Heiss (b) Sonja Henie
(c) Tenley Albright
2. What country is scheduled
to be the host of the 1980
winter Olympic Games?
3. The modern Olympic
Games were first held in 1896
in Athens, Greece. The winter
Olympic Games were first
held in . . . at . . .
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Thoughts
"What is my strength, that I
should wait? And what is my
end, that I should be patient?”
- Job 6:11.
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Viewpoint
Fairness to all
The Griffin Dally News’ policy is to be fair
to everyone. The editor’s opinions are
confined to this page, and its columns are
Some association or other of engineers
took the City Fathers of Griffin to task for
calling for bids for engineering work
involving a new water tank. As we
understand it, the association said the city
would be asking engineer firms to act
“unethically” in submitting bids.
We do not know about engineers’ ethics,
but we do know that the word all too often
Do you live in ‘Metro’?
Perhaps it was inevitable, but we had
not thought lumping Spalding into
Atlanta’s “metro” area would come so
soon.
But it did, as we noted the other evening
in The Atlanta Journal. This map marked
a column of news from some of the
counties but none from Spalding that
particular evening.
As we see it, Spalding is not part of
“Metro”. We were not even thought of in
connection with “Marta”; we do not have
any governmental connections with the
Great Big City; we are independent
completely from it.
Spalding does have many links with
Atlanta and Fulton. We enjoy the
proximity to its good things, but we enjoy
our distance from its bad.
Here in Griffin and in Spalding, we
paddle our own canoe and most people
hereabouts want to continue to do that.
Unlike some residents of Clayton, DeKalb
and other Metro counties, few if any of us
when asked where we live reply, “In the
Atlanta area.” We say, “Griffin.” Or,
“Near Griffin.”
The city will continue to spread. None of
us could stop it if we tried, but we here in
Griffin, in Spalding and in adjacent
counties without doubt will continue to
Verbose
We have heard of those college freshmen
who must take refresher courses in
English in order to cope with the demands
of higher education.
But in Washington, the students are
government regulation writers, whose
ability to communicate with the American
public has been contaminated by
overexposure to the federal
bureaucratese. James Minor, a former
regulation writer himself, is instructor in a
workshop sponsored by the Federal
Register. His pupils are from scores of
federal agencies, targets of a drive by
former President Ford and President
Carter to bring brevity and clarity to an
area monopolized by gobbledygook.
He likes to quote this example of
My Answer
A terrible sin
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I feel I have
committed terrible sin, although I am still
in my teens. I try to pray to God for
forgiveness, but I just know God won’t
forgive me. Can you give me any hope? —
R.Y.
DEAR R.Y.: One of the greatest
promises of Scripture is the promise of
forgiveness. The Bible says that sin is
mankind’s greatest problem, and Jesus
Christ came to deliver us from sin and its
effects. It is a wonderful truth that God is
more concerned about your sins than you
are, and He wants you to be forgiven.
We can know we are forgiven because
God loves us. He is completely just and
holy, but He is also loving. We also know
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open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
Ethics?
is used by some people to conceal abolition
of competition and to insure excess profits.
Instead of acting unethically, it is our
conviction that the city is acting properly
and in the interest of its taxpayers by
calling for bids on the work. Let the
engineers go peddle their “ethics" at their
own expense, not at that of the taxpayer of
Griffin.
Metro
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enjoy an identity completely independent
from that of our giant neighbor because
identity is a state of mind as well as of
geography.
It is nice to be partners in progress with
it. Partners, that is. Not a little finger
stuck off a great big hand.
Atlanta already has enough indigestion
trying to swallow some of its closer
neighbors without the mutual bellyache of
trying to gobble up Griffin.
government prose:
“We respectfully petition, request and
entreat that due and adequate provision be
made, this day and the date hereunder
subscribed, for the satisfying of these
petitioners’ nutritional requirements and
for the organizing of such methods of
allocation and distribution as may be
proper deemed necessary and proper to
assure the reception by and for said
petitioners of such quantities of baked
cereal products as shall, in the judgment
of the aforesaid petitioners, constitute a
sufficient supply thereof.”
That, Minor tells his class, is the way a
federal regulation writer might write:
“Give us this day our daily bread.”
He has made his point.
we can be forgiven because Christ died for
us. You see, God's justice demands that
sin be punished. But God’s Son, Jesus
Christ, took upon Himself the punishment
we deserved, by dying on the cross. Just
think of it — all the sins you have ever
committed were nailed to the cross. God
has promised: “And I will cleanse them
from all their iniquity, whereby they have
sinned against me; and I will pardon all
their iniquities; whereby they have
sinned” (Jeremiah 33:8).
What do you need to do? First of all,
believe that Christ died for you, that He
took your sins upon Himself. Then receive
Jesus Christ into your life. By a simple act
of faith you can invite Him into your heart,
and He has promised that “as nr my as
received him, to them gave he pover to
become the sons of God" (John 1:12).
Confess your sins to Him, and resolve, by
God’s strength, to turn your back on sin.
Don’t go by your feeling's. Satan will try
to remind you of your sins, and say you are
not forgiven. But trust God’s Word. If you
have truly trusted Christ, He has forgiven
you.
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"It’s water for a friend in California!”
Boys and girls
are different
By Don Oakley
The feminist dream of a society free of sexual stereotypes is
running up against some hard and apparently unchangeable
truths about human nature.
One of them is that, despite efforts by adults to encourage
them to do otherwise, “girls play with dolls and boys play
war.”
So reports Dr. Brian Sutton-Smith of Columbia University
Teachers College, who studied 40 boys and 40 girls in the New-
York area to find out whether attempts to encourage
youngsters “to expand beyond traditional roles" had any im
pact on their play. It didn’t.
He found that no matter what toys were available, the girls
played with toys concerned with domestic operations while
the boys played with toys oriented to activities outside the
home.
Similar findings have been published in another source,
which can hardly be accused of bias against women
Sociologist Janet Lever reports in “Ms.” magazine that in a
year of watching fifth-graders at play, she found that girls
tended to play indoors while boys preferred outside play.
Boys also played in larger groups, as in team sports or
“war” games, and played in more mixed-age groups. Girls
engaged in less co-operative, less competitive exercises.
Feminists may argue, of course, that subtle and perhaps un
conscious pressures by parents and society are responsible for
this stereotyped behavior by boys and girls.
But that only raises the question of why these subtle in
fluences should be so powerful, while overt attempts to make
girls and boys more alike are so remarkably unsuccessful
Most of the mothers in Sutton-Smith’s study, incidentally, said
they were against toys that catered to stereotyped sex roles
Maybe boys and girls — and men and women — really are
different, and what the feminist movement should be working
for is not a unisex society but one in which persons of both sex
es are as free as possible simply to be themselves and to
realize their natural potentials.
Cut whale hunts
The United States got out of the whale-hunting business and
banned imports of whale products five years ago. So far,
however, it has been unable to convince the 16-member Inter
national Whaling Commission to declare a 10-year
moratorium on all whaling.
Actually, only two countries, the Soviet Union and Japan,
still operate global whaling fleets. Both have cut the size of
their fleets in recent years and no new whaling ships are being
built
Partly through U.S. efforts, the commission last June did
lower the annual catch limit on whales to 27,939, a reduction of
6.000.
But this doesn’t mean much. The limit has been steadily
lowered, yet has always been pegged well above the number of
whales the whaling countries figured they could catch. Nor is
there any way to enforce the quotas.
Fortunately, the new U.S. 200-mile fisheries limit that goes
into effect in March will help protect declining whale pop
ulations, even though it was not planned that way, writes
William Graves in the National Geographic. It will give this
country jurisdiction over some of the world’s richest fishing
grounds
And although the total ban urged by the United States still
appears years away, whaling is declining and may eventually
disappear with or without a push from the whaling commis
sion
Whale-lovers hope it does before the whales
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