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His first device
paid Edison well
By L.M. Boyd
What did you know about the stock market at the age of
23? Likewise. But Thomas Edison at that age at least
knew enough about it to dream up a stock ticker, his first
invention. He got $40,000 for it. Not bad, considering the
dollar then was worth many times what it’s worth today,
and there was no income tax.
How can you call yourself a student of American
history, if you can’t name the five U.S. presidents born
west of the Mississippi? Nixon, Johnson, Eisenhower,
Truman and Hoover. Why, I knew that in the first grade.
Os the world’s biggest cities, those wherein food is said
to be the cheapest now are Dublin, Buenos Aires and
Bogota.
Only animal with a moveable upper jaw is the alligator.
GAFFER
Q. “Why is an old man sometimes referred to as a
‘gaffer’?”
A. Comes from godfather. And an old woman is
sometimes referred to as a gammer short for godmother.
But I don’t believe I’ve ever heard the male version ex
cept in the redundancy “old gaffer,” have you?
Q. “Quick, Louie, can you name the only sovereign
queen of France?”
A. Won’t bite on that one, sir. France has never had a
sovereign queen.
The Scorpios can turn their own nervous drive to good
money, if they try. Unfortunately, their passionate
natures sometimes push them into highly emotional
situations wherein the heart too frenquently overrules the
head. Or to say the stargazers.
BIRD'S ANKLE
Not everybody realizes that bird’s knee is really its
ankle.
Three countries in the Western Hemisphere are bigger
than all of Australia. Can you name them? The United
States, Canada, and, yes, Brazil, t00...1f you address a
letter simply to Cold Harbour, England, it could wind up
in any one of 170 different localities thereabouts... Please
list coffee, also, along with garlic and alcohol among
common foods that produce perspiration of a particular
odor.
Was none other than that fashion school dean Grace
Downs who said, “Where are the days when men used to
admire the entire woman? If the current trend continues,
we may have to breed women the way they breed chickens
— either all bosom or all leg.”
In old England, the word “fool” was a term of en
dearment. A court jester, for instance, was referred to as
the “fool” the way a large family now might refer to the
youngest child as the “baby.”
When the old Romans flipped a coin to settle a dispute,
they called “head or ship” instead of “heads or tails,”
because their coins had a ship design on the tails side.
They originated coin-flipping, incidentally.
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“It's that Boy Scout who helped you across the street yester
day .. . wants to know if you’re going out today!”
A ray of hope
Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, March 19,
the 78th day of 1977. There are
287 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1920, the U.S.
Senate rejected the Versailles
Treaty providing for a League
of Nations. Isolationism
marked American policy for the
next decade.
On this date:
In 1628, the English founded
the Massachusetts Colony.
In 1711, Russia and Turkey
declared war against each oth
er.
In 1913, the first territorial
legislature of Alaska granted
suffrage to women.
In 1942, during World War 11,
American men between the
ages of 45 and 64 were ordered
to register for non-military
duty.
In 1962, relative calm re
turned to Algeria after a cease
fire ended seven years of war
fare between the French and
Algerian nationalists.
In 1966, the United States and
the Soviet Union signed a two
year cultural exchange agree
ment.
Ten years ago: South Viet
nam’s military ap
proved the draft of a new con
stitution, saying the way had
been cleared for civilian rule.
Q&A
1. The "stone" is a British
measurement of weight. How
many U.S. pounds are equal to
a stone?
2. "Tippecanoe and Tyler too”
was the campaign slogan of
which U.S. president? (a)
James Knox Polk (b) William
Henry Harrison (c) Benjamin
Harrison.
3. Philanthropist Alfred Nobel
was the inventor of dynamite.
True-False.
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Thoughts
"You did not choose me, but
I chose you and appointed you
that you should go and bear
fruit and that your fruit should
abide; so that whatever you
ask the Father in my name, he
may give it to you. This I com
mand you, to love one
another.” — John 15:16,17.
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Up, down, up, down
The National Taxpayers Union notes
that the General Services Administration
has spent over $1 million to buy 115
electronic flagpoles.
Each aluminum pole costs SIO,OOO and
has a storage compartment for the flag
plus a photosensitive cell activated by
sunlight. When the sun rises, the flag is
raised and at dusk it is lowered and
The Georgia General Assembly
adjourned the 1977 session Thursday night
with debate still going on pay raises for
legislators and other legislation. The
debates on some issues would continue if
the General Assembly were in session the
year round.
Taking a look back, the session produced
some legislation that will be beneficial to
the people of the state, some that will be
questionable and some that will have to be
amended in future sessions. All-in-all, the
1977 session of the General Assembly could
be rated as good.
The legislators tackled some of the
major problems of the session early and
got them out of the way before considering
some of the less important issues. All of
the legislation is important, but a priority
must be placed on it when it is dropped in
the hopper.
The Clayton County delegation to the
General Assembly is to be commended for
its actions in the General Assembly and its
interest in the people of the county. The
local legislators placed the interest of the
Another remedy, please
The most telling detail in President
Carter’s budget revisions is his plan for
dealing with steadily increasing hospital
costs. He proposes to solve the problem by
outlawing it. No longer will hospital costs
increase by 15 percent a year. By edict of
the Department of Health, Education and
How many chances?
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Does God give a
person only one chance to be saved? It
surely takes longer than an Instant to
repent, believe, have faith, trust and obey.
You have to do all of these in order to be
saved, don’t you? — K.M.A.
DEAR K.M.A.: No one knows how many
opportunities may be given to accept
God’s salvation. Every opportunity may
be the last; there is no way of knowing.
That is why the Bible emphasizes that we
must not put off the opportunity when it
comes. “Behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation” (H
Corinthians 6:2). The teaching is of the
Billy
Graham
Viewpoint
Fairness to all
Santa Ana, Calif., Register
Good session
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Wall Street Journal
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replaced in the compartment.
Unfortunately, not all of them work that
way, according to Rep. William Walsh, R-
N.Y. He says one flagpole in New
Hampshire had some problems:
“The flag compartment froze every time
there was an ice storm and when the flag
was flying, the photosensitive cell lowered
it every time the sun went behind a cloud.”
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people they are serving above their own
interests. We commend them for this
attitude.
Much of the legislation still awaits the
signature of Governor Busbee who has the
authority to place his stamp of approval or
veto. Some of the measures undoubtedly
will be vetoed, but most, as is the usual
custom, will be signed and become law.
Patience is the name of the game in the
final hours of the General Assembly
session as one house usually finishes its
business before the other. The legislators
were ready to return to their homes and
make reports to the people when the 1977
session ended Thursday night. They were
not ripping clocks from the wall or going
past the deadline.
There may have been General Assembly
sessions with more action, more debate,
more controversy and more unruliness,
but none at which more important
legislation was passed.
Now, we assess the actions of the
legislators and begin to look forward to the
1978 session.
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Welfare, they shall not increase more than
9 percent a year. After noticing what
natural gas controls have done for energy,
and what New York City rent controls
have done for housing, the President
naturally wants to do the same thing for
medical care.
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urgency of the moment of opportunity.
When the Roman governor Felix came
under the convicting power of the Holy
Spirit, that was the moment when he
should have repented and believed.
Instead he said to Paul: “Go thy way for
this time; when I have a convenient
season, I will call for thee” (Acts 25:25).
Paul and Felix met on a number of
occasions after that but never again do we
read of the Gospel having the same effect
on the governor’s life. He appears to have
missed his opportunity of repentance.
It is the cry to the Lord for help that
brings salvation to us. All other
experiences follow from that. “Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved” (Romans 10:13).
Many ingredients, perhaps over a period
of time, go towards making possible that
one heartfelt cry to the Lord, but the
person making that call is not necessarily
conscious of all of those aspects taking
place in his life. In one instant he can cry
out and the Lord saves turn. He then goes
on to learn what is meant by repentance,
faith, trust, belief and obedience.
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“Here's a list of some things Cousin Hugh
figures the White House can do without. . .”
Aid and comfort
to a murderer
By Don Oakley
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the friends of Fidel
Castro in this country to defend their hero.
It is one thing for the Cuban leader to try to score points
with Third World members of the U.N. by attacking the
United States over the phony issue of Puerto Rican in
dependence. After all, what’s Uncle Sam’s beard for if not for
tweaking?
And if the United States sent half a million men to Vietnam,
how can we complain about 10,000 or so Cuban troops in
Angola?
Now, however, refugees from that slaughterhouse called
Uganda report that Cuban advisors and technicians are help
ing to train the Soviet-equipped army of President-for-life Idi
Amin and prop up his shattered economy. Allegedly, about 200
black Cubans, including military and agricultural experts,
have filtered inconspicuously into Uganda in the past month,
following an official visit to Kampapa by Cuba's deputy
minister of defense Gen. Francisco Cabrera.
The paranoic Amin, ranting about an imminent invasion
from Tanzania, Kenya, the United States, Britain, Israel,
South Africa and-or the Sudan, has long sought foreign
assistance in shaping up his undisciplined 20,000-man army.
Up to now, every government he has approached has refused.
The truth, of course, is that the only danger to the safety of
Ugandans is Idi Amin, as even African leaders who would
prefer to look the other way now admit. Amin is currently
directing the systematic slaughter of Lango and Acholi
tribesmen, to cap six years of tyranny which has cost as many
as 300,000 Ugandan lives, according to some sources.
To give aid and comfort to this madman and murderer, to
associate himself with him even in the slightest degree, is the
most damning indictment that has ever been made against
Fidel Castro.
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