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Griffin Daily News Monday, March 21,1977
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Mr. Kipling just
made it all up
Rarely has a poet made as many factual errors in one
verse as did Rudyard Kipling in his “On the Road to
Mandalay.” There aren’t any flying fish on the Burmese
lane. The dawn doesn’t come up from China. It doesn’t
cross any bay right there, either. And that old pagoda he
writes about doesn’t face eastward to the sea, never did.
Only trees and tortoises live longer than people, says a
man of science.
Did you know there’s a relatively high proportion of
good ventriloquists among the Zulu tribesmen?
Certainly wish the medicoes could come up with a cure
for my ergasiophobia. But it’s hopeless, I suppose. That’s
their jargon for dread of work.
If you’d like to compile a list of Oriental proverbs, you
could start with this one: “There are two ways to catch
any knife fate might throw at you—by the blade or by the
handle.”
SMALLEST OWL
Q. “How small is the smallest owl?”
A. The Elf owl? About the size of a sparrow.
Q.“ Did Adolf Hitler wear false teeth?”
A. Did indeed. Uppers and lowers. Four lower front
teeth were his own, however.
Q. “What’s a ‘silent fracture’?”
A. A break in the outer bone of the leg. Happens to
parachutists a lot. Few symptoms. Hardly any pain.
A scholar who has made a lengthy study of the Robin
Hood legends contends that character Little John was not
a tall man as commonly depicted, but a short fellow, very
short.
TWIN ARTISTS
Here’s to the renowned Leibovitz sisters, mirror twins,
once of Philadelphia—clink! They were artists of quite
some merit. And now and then they apinted joint pictures.
Freida, the right-handed one, painted the left side. After
they met in the middle and finished the job, even the
experts believed it to be the work of a lone artist.
Argument continues over how high a penguin can jump.
Actually, it can’t jump more than inches, if that much.
But after a deep dive into the water, it can surface at such
a speed so as to launch itself as much as seven feet into the
air.
There was an 80-year period in the history of that
famous church called St. John the Evangelist in London
when its spacious basement was rented by a brewer for
the storage of beer.
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 Monday, March 21,
the 80th day of 1977. There are
285 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1829 an earth
quake in Spain killed some 6,-
000 people.
On this date:
In 1685, the composer Johann
Sebastian Bach was bom in
Germany.
In 1790, Thomas Jefferson be
came the first U.S. Secretary of
State.
In 1803, the French civil code,
the Code Napoleon, was com
pleted.
In 1891, a marriage in Ken
tucky ended the feud between
the Hatfields and McCoys.
In 1918, in World War I, Ger
man guns bombarded Paris
from 75 miles away.
In 1973, the United States ve
toed a U.N. Security Council
resolution on the American dis
pute with Panama over the
Panama Canal, calling the
resolution outside pressure.
Ten years ago: President
Lyndon B. Johnson flew back to
Washington from a conference
at Guam on the Vietnam War.
Five years ago: The U.S. Su
preme Court ruled that states
may not set one-year residence
as a requirement for voting.
One year ago: Moslem rebels
in Beirut captured the 25-story
Holiday Inn hotel, achieving a
key victory in the Lebanese
Civil War.
Q&A
1. The first person to reach
the South Pole was (a)
Richard E. Byrd (b) Roald
Amundsen (c) Robert F.
Scott.
2. Next to Hank Aaron and
Babe Ruth, which baseball
player has hit the most major
league home runs?
3. “Syncopated Clock” was a
(a) poem by Ezra Pound (b)
painting by Salvadore Dali (c)
tune by Leroy Anderson.
ANSWERS:
1. (b) 2. Willy Mays 3. (c)
Thoughts
I did not listen to the voice
of my teachers or incline my
ear to my instructors. —
Proverbs 5:13
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Commissioner Howard Atherton of the
state’s newly created Department of
Community Services gave Griffinites
some good advice last week when he met
with a group considering the revitalization
of downtown.
Learn what people want it to be, he
urged, and in this connection the Griffin
Daily News offered to print a
questionnaire at no cost. We hereby
confirm that offer.
Also he urged that the community avoid
any plan which might exceed its
resources. In other words, use what we
have. Do not tear everything down and
start building anew.
Serene island in Griffin
The other evening after a meeting, two
Griffin men stood in front of the Chamber of
Commerce office and admired the beauty of
the First Baptist Church across the street.
Flood lights lit its columns, steeple and old
At the foundation of it all, the purpose of
a school is to educate its students.
Apparently Griffin High is doing that
successfully.
What love is all about
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: The Bible
teaches that we should love our neighbors
as oursleves, but can you advise how to
love people you do not even like? There is
one person who has caused me a lot of
trouble and has been a positive nuisance
over a long period. How am I supposed to
react to such a person?—S.L.
DEAR S. L.: Here is an ideal
opportunity for you to demonstrate what
Christian love is all about. Always
remember that you are to show forth God’s
love, not your own. God has always loved
the unlovely, the unlikeable, the
troublemaker, the sinner.
The first commandment Jesus gave us is
that we should love God. It is not possible
BiUy
Graham
Viewpoint
Fairness to all
Good advice
She is
a joy
This is the second day of spring, the first
having arrived Sunday.
Pleasant days, plum and peach
blossoms, yellow flowers and all the other
beauty of a world busily being “bom
again” had heralded its arrival. Then at
last it came.
How welcome it is after the throes of
winter, the hardest we recall.
Capricous maiden that she is, spring
without doubt will have its tempests yet,
but her beauty and daintiness far outweigh
her tantrums.
She is a joy.
Evidence
My Answer
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That is mighty good advice and in
contrast to what seems to be the prevailing
idea so many places where deficit
financing is popular.
Finally, he did not seem to take much to
academic planning, and we agree with
that. There is one town about which we
know which engaged a college to plan for
it. The professor assigned the plan to a
graduate student, and the town waited and
waited and waited. Finally, it was learned
that the student who supposedly was
planning the future of the town had flunked
out of school! Or dropped out; we forget
which.
brick, and they outlined the tender young
sprouts of leaves on trees in front of it.
What a wonderful sight it was to see, a
serene island of testimony ona busy street in
an active town.
In evidence thereof, we submit the fact
that GHS students are scoring higher on
the SAT than the national average and that
it is in a state whose scores are weU
beneath that national average.
to obey the second commandment, love
our neighbor, until we are experiencing
the first. Concentrate on what it means to
really love God. Express that love in your
public and private worship, and by
learning of God’s love for you in the Bible.
It is only as your love for God increases
that you will be able to reflect God’s love to
other people.
Recognize that love is not something you
work up within yourself. It is a quality that
God places in your life. Love is part of the
fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22). It
is therefore unique. It is the love of God.
Pray for that love, asking God to give you
a love for the person you dislike.
That love will lead you to act. When your
neighbor begins to experience love in
action he will start to appreciate what true
love is really like. Nothing will change
your neighbor’s behavior more quickly
than to see you change towards him, and to
experience your love over a period of time.
Read 1 Corinthians, chapter 13,
substituting the word “love” for that of
“charity.” Love is what that old English
word really means.
Prayer provides
communication
By Bertha M. Combs
Prayer is an open line telephone through which
everyone can have direct communication to the throne of
God There is no need for and exchange operator for the
line is direct and the Receiver at the other end of the line is
never too busy to listen to the smallest plea nor to accept
the call and answer the most feeble request. Prayer
comes from the soul of the individual. Prayer is an open
direct telephone line through which each person can call
the God of heaven whenever he pleases.
If the material telephone is ringing the individual
hurries to pick it up for maybe it is a friend calling with
good news, or it may be a distress call, one never knows
but the receiver is anxious to know. It is a bit exciting
when the telephone rings. It could be also a business call
and a few times an unwelcomed message, yet it is still a
call. The telephone message from the Heavenly Father is
direct to the individual in a vision or through the guidance
of the minister as he declares the Gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. What the minister says is a message to each in
dividual listener to examine himself in the light of the
truth and to measure his actions of his life by the Truths of
the Gospel. Each individual has a private telephone, a
conscience, and if he will allow himself to be calm and
listen while being guided by his true conscience the in
dividual will be able to hear the message to him and pray
for understanding of God’s will for his life.
When the Church Choir sings ringing out the message of
joy and hope, faith and endurance, each individual may
become involved in the words and seek the meaning of the
song which too is a telephone message from God. In
today’s mixed up world it is easy to stray from the will of
Gud and begin to try to gain victory by one’s own way. The
Sunday School class also is a place where knowledge and
understanding may open lines of communication between
God and those who will believe. The Lord is listening all
day long to hear a sinner pray and to hear the pleading
prayers of the righteous.
The words of Jesus to every believer in prayer, “And
when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites
are:...But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly.” St. Matthew 6:5,6. True prayer
is quiet and sincere, the soul’s deepest desire even when
unuttered. Prayer is the open line communication bet
ween God the Father and man the true believer. The
reading of the Holy Scriptures motivates the desire on the
part of the seeker for understanding and through sincere
prayer , the Lord will open the doors of wisdom,
knowledge and understanding to the faithful person. When
one picks up the telephone of sincere prayer to God then
the Heavenly Father will reveal His will more clearly to
the seeker and no man can hinder nor cross the telephone
line of prayer to God.
In St. Matthew 16:24 the Words of Jesus still sound
through the centuries loud and clear to all genera
tions: ”. .If any man will comeafter me.” There is a cross for
and take up his cross and follow me.” There is a cross for
every Christian and each must bear his cross daily. Trials
and tribulations, disappointments and heartaches, the
wrong doings meted out unfairly stir the sincere
Christian to prayer and he finds victory over that which
seems impossible. To follow Jesus is to share the bitter
cup of sorrow and suffering, even self-denial, and to know
the unspeakable joy in the heart with faith and hope in
God. It is wisdom to hurry to do the will of God. Whosoever
will can “Dial Direct Telephone” to God the Heavenly
Father and He will answer in His own good time even so
the seeker is absorbed in silent prayer.
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