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“I could swear I heard a voice say -
It’s about time!”
Why pirates liked
the Caribbean
By. L. M. Boyd
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It’s common knowledge that pirates of old were rather
fond of the Caribbean Sea. Less widely known is why.
Green sea turtles lived there. Those pirates could stack
the 150-pound turtles like cordwood on the ships’ decks.
The turtles would stay alive a long time. So the pirates had
a fair supply of fresh meat.
Every flock of mountain sheep has its own kinder
garten. While their mothers graze elesewhere, the off
spring are watched over by a non-breeding female.
Name the ancient Greeks, too, as the world’s first
society to become fond of bathing.
Earliest currency of Australia was rum.
SENSE OF TOUCH
The inability to recognize the shape of an object by the
sense of touch alone is an abnormal condition among
humans called astereognosis. If when blindfolded you
can’t tell a pencil from a pine cone, you’ve got it. It’s not
all that common, however. Except among octopuses. All
octopuses are afflicted with astereognosis.
Those scholars who study the why’s and wherefore’s of
personality traits say they think they’ve figured out why
some men bolt down their meals instead of dining in a
more leisurely manner. The old inadequacy, insecurity,
inferiority is to blame again, they aver. Any wife who’s
tired of seeing her husband repeatedly dispatch her
dinners as quick as a flash, they advise should try to
bolster the poor fellow’s confidence.
Fewer and fewer men and more and more women have
been smoking cigarettes in the last 15 years.
DYNAMITE
Q. “Why is starch put into dynamite?”
A. To make it explode uniformly.
Client asks who was the greatest tightrope walker of all
time. That’s debatable, no doubt. Still, the famous Blondin
of more than a century ago must be a candidate. Probably
his most breath-taking stunt was the night walk over
Niagara Falls. The sagging swaying rope was illuminated
for him by a locomotive’s headlight. When he got halfway
across, the light was put out. And he finished the trip in
total darkness. The record shows there was always a lot of
oh’ing and ah’ing, loud gasps, even screams by onlookers.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford,
Tx. 76086
Copy right 1977 L.M. Boyd
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GRIFFIN
DAI LANEWS
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, March 31,
the 90th day of 1977. There are
275 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1854, the first
treaty between the United
States and Japan was signed.
Two Japanese ports were
opened to trade with the outside
world.
On this date:
In 1889, the Eiffel Tower was
opened in Paris.
In 1917, the United States took
possession of the American
Virgin Islands after their
purchase from Denmark.
In 1931, Managua, Nicaragua
was destroyed by an earth
quake.
In 1933, during the Great De
pression, Congress authorized a
Civilian Conservation Corps to
employ and train young men.
In 1943, in World War 11,
American bombers pounded the
shipyards at Rotterdam in the
Netherlands.
In 1970, the West German
ambassador to Guatemala,
Count Karl von Spreti, was kid
naped by terrorists. He later
was slain.
Ten years ago: Soviet De
fense Minister Rodion
Malinovsky died at the age of
68.
Q&A
1. Which state capital’s name
means “sheltered bay?”
2. The United States of
America lost states to the
Confederacy during the Civil
War, but also gained what
state as a result of the con
flict?
3. The capital of Canada is (a)
Ottawa (b) Vancouver (c)
Toronto
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Thoughts
“It is not the old that are
wise, nor the aged that un
derstand what is right.
Therefore I say, ‘Listen to
me; let me also declare my
opinion.’" — Job 32:9,10.
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Viewpoint
Fairness to all
The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair
to everyone. The editor’s opinions are
confined to this page, and its columns are
Welcome, Moose!
Scores of members of the Loyal Order of
the Moose are holding their mid-year
conference in Griffin, and on behalf of the
community we welcome them with
pleasure.
The order has no finer unit than Griffin
Lodge No. 1503 which is host to the
convention. Its strong position as a social
Dangerous to rats
In a waggish moment, Rep. Andrew
Jacobs of Indiana introduced a bill in
Congress to permit the sale of saccharin
with a warning label that it might be
dangerous to the health of rats. He said his
bill is for the “uncrazying” of federal
regulations.
The point he's making, of course, is that
banning use of saccharin as an artificial
sweetener seems absurd on the
appearance of tumors in rats fed large
quanities of it in a Canadian laboratory
experiment. Even the Food and Drug
Administration concedes that a human
being would have to drink 800 cans of diet
soda a day for a lifetime to ingest an
equivalent amount of saccharin.
We would hesitate to second-guess any
scientists working on cancer research, but
lacking any evidence of a direct link
between saccharin and cancer in humans
Mr. Answer
Have you hurt others?
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I did something
that was very wrong, and that hurt my
mother deeply when she found out about it
the day before her death. I would give
anything to tell her I am sorry. Is there
any way to ease my heartache over this? —
C.T.O.
DEAR C.T.0.: I suppose there are few
things as sad as the memory of a hurt we
done to someone who is no longer with us.
Sometimes that sadness is because of
something very wrong we have done to
another, as in your case. Sometimes it is
because we have simply not been as kind
and loving as we might have been, and now
it is too late to do anything about it. I
sometimes have wondered if David knew
Billy
Graham
Negative
A reader has cautioned us not to keep
emphasizing the positive. There is, he
warns, so much negative in this world that
we ought to keep telling everyone about
how lousy things are.
This is a new twist, but we want to please
all the readers we possibly can, so we offer
this quote from the news in support of his
unfortunate conclusion about the state of
things: “Surveys show that 28 million
acres of Georgia land are now infested
with fire ants, according to Don Canerday,
head of the Extension Service entomology
department.”
Terrible though that be, even this
knowledge has failed to ruin our day, but
perhaps it will add to the misery of those
who insist upon seeking the negative.
open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
and responsible civic institution are well
known. Perhaps less known are its and the
national organization’s good works which
emphasize care and love of children and
the aged.
It is good to have these members of the
Moose in town. Again, welcome!
the Canadian research is a slim reed to
support a total ban on saccharin.
Congressman Jacobs may have been
making a bigger point than he intended
with his legislative spoof. Since he did not
join the Congress until 1964, he can plead
innocent to passage of the 1958 law which is
mandating the FDA ban on saccharin. It
requires the agency to ban any substance
found to induce cancer in man or animals
— period. The FDA is given no
discretionary power to weigh risks against
benefits in cases like that of saccharin.
This tempest in a pop-bottle over an
artificial sweetener is likely to lead to
amendment of the 1958 law to give the FDA
more leeway in controlling substances
suspected of a link with cancer. Fine, but
we should hardly be satisfied to stop there
if we really want to un-crazy the federal
government.
he had failed as a father with Absalom,
and if that was the reason he mourned his
son’s death so deeply (II Samuel 18:33).
Two steps may help to relieve the grief
you feel from the loss of your loved one.
Know that the Lord understands our
sorrow as we find in the Psalms, “I bowed
down heavily, as one that mourneth for his
mother” (Psalm 35:19).
What can you do? First, you need the
forgiveness of God. You not only hurt your
mother, but you also hurt God and broke
His law in failing to honor your mother as
you should (Exodus 20:12). God knows
what you did, but He still loves you so
much that He sent Christ to die for your
sins. In Christ we have “the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace”
(Ephesians 1:7). When you trust Him for
forgiveness and confess your sin to Him,
He will begin to assure you of His
forgiveness and take away the sting you
now feel.
Second, you need to ask yourself if you
have hurt others as well, either with this
wrong or with other wrongs you may have
done. If so, you need to seek these people
out and ask their forgiveness.
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"There is a beautiful old saying of the white man
that I love — ‘As Maine goes, so goes the
nation. ’"
Trim spending,
but not at home
By Don Oakley
Mark Twain might have said it: Everybody talks about
trimming government spending, but nobody wants to do
anything about it — not when it cuts close to home.
President Carter’s run-in with the Congress over his plan to
kill 19 water development projects, mostly dams, is only the
latest illustration of this maxim. Handing him his first
legislative defeat, an aroused Senate voted 65 to 24 to bar him
from holding up any funds for water projects in the current
fiscal year.
It has been argued that Mr. Carter was less than tactful by
making his announcement without prior consultation with con
gressmen whose constituencies would be affected. Now that
they are being paid $57,000 a year, senators and represen
tatives more than ever want to show the folks back home how
useful they are, and doling out generous helpings from the
federal pork barrel has always been a jealously cherished way
of doing it.
The fact is, however, that even if all 19 of these water
resource projects were shot down, it would still leave about
300 others in various stages of planning, to be added to some
5,000 federally constructed or licensed dams already scattered
over the national landscape.
An even more critical fact is that many of these existing
dams are considered to be unsafe. Experts have identified 61
of the 400 dams operated by the Corps of Engineers, for exam
ple, as being in doubtful condition.
A study by the Los Angeles Times found that 20 of the
Bureau of Reclamation’s nearly 300 dams could not cope with
floods they might have to face, and five others have a seepage
or leakage problems, some described as severe.
The problem is not confined to old dams. The collapse of the
bureau’s brand-new Teton Dam in Idaho last summer caused
11 deaths and more than S4OO million in damage.
Repairing the dams we’ve already built would certainly
seem to offer Congress more than enough opportunity to main
tain pork-barrel funds at normal flow — not to mention the
potential savings in lives and property.
Feds outdo debt
Economists used to point with alarm to the fact that
America was becoming a “debt society.” But you don’t hear
so many claims these days that the buy-now-pay-later syn
drome is a dangerous and self-indulgent flaw in the national
character.
Indeed, Uncle Sam could take some lessons in sound debt
management from his nieces and nephews. In the past 15
years, the federal debt has increased nearly twice as much as
outstanding consumer credit. Statistics compiled by one ma
jor bank credit card provide additional evidence that
Americans exercise far more debt restraint and financial
responsibility than their elected representatives.
Fiures recently released by BankAmericard, now changing
its name to Vista, show that more than a third of its 34 million
cardholders in the United States settle their accounts in full
each month. Delinquent accounts (defined as those over 30
days past due) declined last year to a new low of 3.13 per cent
of total dollars outstanding, and losses from people who didn’t
pay up continued a three-year downward trend to three
quarters of a cent for each sales dollar.
After all. banks got into the credit card business in the first
place on the assumption that the public would make responsi
ble use of a more convenient form of consumer credit.
“Otherwise,” points out a BankAmericard spokesman, “we
would have been promptly wiped out.”
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