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Page 4 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, March 10,1977 r Z\. IWK we >•——4 / \ OpfoPWT Mi .<* Jwi ■* 5 W C-T/C'i / 4 ‘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 WWF typSHr ;i Os W’! 1111 j 3*lo © i9n„*»jnc tv r« us I’m on > “The truth-in-advertising laws are getting results!" GRIFFIN Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves Bill Knight General Manager Executive Editor a vm (s.ta<*tM> ouar a niiwi n» tn* it i. uy <. iwi t 1S7») t> to arm a. mtm. awta a n> ivir aii onm*. a m Eat svmm> sma Wh u mn V Tim Tte taacuM Fna it aMM iirl ill V lan Cvaantaa. SaeaaE da, ratap rm a Mia. Cl. raaaMcM* n<M> V atkul am LUtflt Cam Sa* Oa, 11 CM. 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 . . . ANSWERS: aouejj xiuoiueqj ‘♦26l ’£ CA N ‘P’ 3B Id aqeq) sajeis paifUfi 2 o 1 Thoughts "What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?” - Job 6:11. Subscriptions 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: 62 cents per week, $2.68 per month, $8.04 for three months, $16.07 for six months, $32.13 for 12 months. These prices include sales tax. Due to expense and un certainty of delivery, mail subscriptions are not recom mended 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. 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 BiH y Graham 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 News IATTOW CNOOKa | /-I com ( kL — A WATOM 7 \ COWET* \ _ / V 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. H 11 Li I' I Bi MS it - J ww-- © 1977 by NEA. Inc "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. 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