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The French don’t
call it a bra
By L.M. Boyd
That item of feminine apparel known as the “bra” only
has been so called for 40 years. And it has been known as a
"brassiere” for only 61 years. The word is French, true
enough, but it originated in its present meaning in the
United States. Believe I told you that literally in French it
means “arm protector." It’s noteworthy the French
themselves don’t use it to identify a bra. To them a bra is
“soutien-gorge” which translates “the support of the
throat.” Our Language man finds it all pretty puzzling.
Consider these customs: 1. The clinking of glass to
toast. 2. The tying of tin cans to newlyweds’ cars. 3.
Installation of bells in churches. A scholar who should
know says each was an outgrowth of the ancient belief
that evil spirits flee from noise.
RIB ROASTS
Q. “How many pounds of standing rib roasts can I ex
pect to get out of a 1,000-pound choice steer?”
A. Little more than 24 pounds, I’m told.
Different sorts of card games tend to be most popular in
different regions. Poker, for instance is strongest in New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois.
Cribbage you’ll find generally in seaport towns, because
it’s long been a sailors’ game.
You’ve got about one fiftieth as much skin surface on
the outside of your body as inner lung surface on the in
side.
Do you know who it was that inspired Muhammad Ali to
say, “I am the greatest”? Gorgeous George, the wrestler.
DUCKS
Mother ducks talk to their eggs. And it’s now known that
a duckling recognizes its mother’s voice even before it’s
hatched. It has been widely reported that through that
phenomenon called imprinting a duckling will think it’s a
chicken if what it first sees after it’s hatched is a chicken,
or a cat if it first sees a cat, or a human being if it first sees
a human being. But that’s only true if the duckling’s egg
was brought to maturity in a silent incubator. The
duckling that’s hatched under its mother knows its
mother’s voice, no matter what it sees first. And it will
think it’s a duck as soon as it hears its mother’s voice
again.
The man or woman who weighs 150 pounds typically
contains six teaspoonfuls of salt and a bowl of siigar.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P. 0. Box 681, Weatherford,
Tx. 76086
Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd
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By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, April 1, the
91st day of 1977. There are 274
days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1939, General
issimo Francisco Franco an
nounced that the Spanish Civil
War was over, and the United
States recognized his govern
ment.
On this date:
In 1578, the English physician
who explained the circulation of
blood, William Harvey, was
bom.
In 1789, the U.S. House of
Representatives held its first
full meeting, convening in New
York City.
In 1918, the Royal Air Force
was organized in Britain.
In 1937, Britain separated
Burma from India, making it a
separate crown colony.
In 1945, in the Pacific War,
more than 1,400 ships began the
invasion of Okinawa.
In 1964, Francois Duvalier
had himself installed as presi
dent of Haiti for life.
Ten years ago: President
Lyndon B. Johnson entertained
29 Latin American diplomats at
a barbecue at his Texas ranch.
Five years ago: Thousands of
Communist troops swept
through South Vietnam’s north
ernmost province in an appar
ent attempt to seize control.
One year ago: The surrealist
painter, Max Ernst, died in
Paris on the eve of his 85th
birthday.
Q&A
1. The railroad sleeping car
was invented by (a) Edison
(b) Pullman (c) Janney
2. Eight of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence
were not born in America.
True-False
3. A bunny is to a rabbit, as a
.... is to a pigeon.
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“Do not judge by
appearances, but judge with
right judgment.” — John 7:24.
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I—Griffin Daily News Friday, April 1, 1977
Viewpoint
The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair
to everyone. The editor’s opinions are
confined to this page, and its columns are
Hospital rates
Griffin-Spalding Hospital is under fire
from all directions for raising its intensive
care rates from a stiff sllO a day to an
unspeakable $175 in one swift motion close
on the heels of announcing a big profit for
one month.
Concerned about the public’s reaction, a
Griffin physician discussed the matter this
week and presented this “other side of the
coin:”
The big profit followed one of the hardest
winter months in history when the
hospital’s occupancy was especially high
because of respiratory, flu and other
patients whose illnesses were connected
with the bitter cold.
An intensive care unit requires about as
much expensive equipment for a single
$175 is too much
Points presented in the editorial
immediately above this one are, in our
view, valid and ought to be considered.
Still, this community which the hospital
serves consists primarily of working
people, few of whom make in a week the
$175 charge for a single day in its intensive
care unit.
Little League
Griffin Little League opens the 1977
season a week from Saturday with a huge
celebration at City Park.
The planned festivities include a chicken
dinner, four ball games and a visit by the
Atlanta Braves’ Chief Noc-A-Homa and
the Bleacher Creature.
The ’77 opening will be a far cry from
Griffin’s first season 23 years ago.
Little League has grown by leaps and
bounds. It now operates two circuits, one
for 9 and 10-year-olds and the other for 11
and 12-year-olds.
Child cannot adjust
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: We have a child
who has deep emotional problems. He
cannot adjust to a group like Sunday
School, and we don’t want to tell the
teacher for fear word will leak out about
his problems. Do you think we are right in
keeping him out of Sunday School?—M.K.
DEAR M.K.: It is certainly important
for your child to receive training in the
Bible. “But continue thou in the things
which thou has learned and has been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast
learned them; And that from a child thou
hast known the holy scriptures, which are
able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (II
Timothy 3:14, 15). Whether or not your
Sunday School would be the best place for
your child can only be decided by you and
others who are familiar with the situation.
Sometimes being around other children
can be an important part of a disturbed
child’s adjustment. Whatever you decide,
BiUy
Graham
Fairness to all
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patient as it does for its full capacity, but it
is not always at full capacity.
The hospital has improved recently in
nursing care and other requirements.
If patients do not pay enough to break
even through private insurance, govern
ment programs for their benefit, or
directly from their own pockets and
savings, a property tax probably will be
levied •
Along the line sometime pretty soon, we
in the Griffin-Spalding Community will
have to decide whether we want our
hospital to be an area hospital or just a 1
community hospital. Close as we are to
Atlanta, a community hospital would not
be much more than a first aid station.
Somehow a balance must be struck
between the monetary needs of the
hospital to perform its functions and those
of the individual who has to pay the costs.
A good place to start would be for the
hospital to cut its intensive care charges
back to a more reasonable figure.
There are 28 teams participating, 14 in
each division.
Nearly 400 boys will play Little League
baseball here this year.
The phenomenal growth of Little League
is no miracle.
It took hard work and dedication on the
part of hundreds of adults to reach the 28
team, 400 player plateau.
Little League will continue to grow if
parents remember that it’s a children’s
game played for the benefit of children and
not adults.
you should be sure he has an opportunity to
learn about God’s love for him, and you
should be teaching him this fact whether
he is able to go to Sunday School or not.
However, I am concerned about
something else you say. You seem to be
ashamed of your child’s problem, and
fearful of what others will think if they find
out. I think this attitude is wrong for
several reasons. In the first place, there is
no reason to be ashamed. “I will put my
trust in him.” And again, “Behold I and
the children which God hath given me”
(Hebrews 2:13). Many people have
experienced problems such as yours and
you find them more understanding than
you might think. This would especially be
true of Christian people. “Bear ye one
another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of
Christ” (Galatians 6:2).
Also, your pride may be keeping you
from some help that others can give. You
should feel free to talk with your pastor
about this, for he may be able to suggest
the name of a Christian psychologist who
could help your child if he is not getting
professional help now.
By being ashamed of your son’s
condition you may actually be teaching
him to be ashamed of himself. This can
only hurt him. God loves him in spite of his
problem, and you may be surprised how
much healing will take place if he
understands this.
© 1977 by NEA. me.
“We want the White House Staff to have a hum
ble and austere image, but what'shisname here
is overdoing it!”
Can’t we tell fact
from fancy?
By Don Oakley
A group of lawyers and law professors at the University of
Massachusetts may not have the solution to the violence in our
society, but they have come up with a sure-fire prescription
for killing the television industry: Make the TV cops stop
breaking the law.
As anyone who has watched many man-vs.-crime shows can
testify (and who can avoid them?), the heroes certainly do
bend the law at times. They threaten, bully and rough up
suspects to force a confession, with or without advising them
of their constitutional rights. They break into offices and
homes, with or without a warrant. They steal and conceal
evidence. And, most unlike real-life cops, they solve all
crimes in less than an hour.
In just one week’s worth of such shows in 1976, there were 21
clear constitutional violations, seven omissions of con
stitutional rights and 25 instances of police brutality and
harassment, the lawyers and professors report in Saturday
Review magazine.
What worries them is that the ethics of TV police will come
to be accepted by the public and, presumably, be expected of
real police. Already, they claim, the U.S. Supreme Court “has
been legalizing outrageous police conduct, enacting into law
principles much like those projected in the TV crime shows.”
Unfortunately, the immediate difficulty in remedying this
situation is that any show which attempted a realistic por
trayal of police work would be dull, dull, dull.
A day in the life of an average policeman or even a private
detective is, like most other jobs, one of often-boring routine.
There is more filling out papers than punching out criminals.
More time is spent waiting to testify in court than in hot pur
suit of lawbreakers. Some cops go through their entire careers
without firing their guns, except on the practice range.
Another consideration is that with so much crime going un
punished these days — at least, people think it is going un
punished — the television tube is the only place the public can
count on seeing the law triumphant and the evil-doer get his
just desserts. There would seem to be some sort of social
value in that.
Actually, the complainants might be better advised to let
sleeping dogs lie. If people were shown what goes on within
the legal system after the police have done their work, there
could be real trouble.
And anyway, are Americans really such children that they
cannot distinguish between fact and fantasy, between fiction
and real life? Evidently, the professors cannot.
Working wives
Used to be widely believed that most husbands, par
ticularly in England, wanted their wives to stay at home
rather than take payroll jobs. But a recent British poll
blew that notion. Four out of five men queried said they
definitely hoped their wives would go back to work when
the youngsters grew old enough to so permit.
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