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! Smoke-Free Eateries
,I Worthy of Applause
Wow! Ruby Tuesday has
made a bold and courageous
move by becoming a smoke-
free restaurant.
:, Ruby Tuesday opened a
new restaurant on Veterans
Parkway in Columbus. They
. offer the same great food and
service, but they do not offer
a smoking section. What a ,
great move on the part of the
, ownership.
As all of you know, I'm an while. So, even though some-
ex-smoker. I smoked for 31 one has even put out a ciga-
! years, but I quit about 19 rette and you're not breath-
: months ago for two reasons, ing the smoke, doesn't mean
: One, I was diagnosed with it won't affect your breath-
! CPLD and the early stages of hag.
Emphysema. Second, my
grandson Fki has terribly bad I'M SURE RUBY
! asthma and smoke really Tuesday will lose some busi-
aggravates it. ness to smokers, but they will
:: Case in point, last Friday most likely make up the dff-
night the family went out to ference in non-smokers. I
; eat in a restaurant in know my family will be eat-
i Columbus. The restaurant ing there a lot more.
! was packed and there were Unless you've seen first
: no seats in the non smoking hand, or had an experience
t
section. Had we known this, as I have, you can not under-
: we would have probably not stand just how bad smokecan
7 taken the trouble to go be to other's around you.
My Dog Catfish, the True
• the smoking section and poor
Eli suffered through it some- would go outside to do it or
how.But, we talked about how not do it at all.
; great it would be to have a Believe me, I'm not try-
. restaurant that was corn- ing to be critical of smokers,
pletely smoke free in after all I smoked for over 30
- Columbus. years. I'm just saying that
On Saturday, I picked up smokers should be a little
! the Columbus Ledger- more aware of smoking in a
i Enquirer and there was a environment such as a
! story on the front page about restaurant, office budding,
: RubyTuesdaymakingitsnew etc. The problem with smok-
! restaurantcompletelysmoke ing in these areas, is you
free. never know if someone has a
:; health problem that the
:. AS AN EX.SMOKER, I smoking might aggravate it
know what smokers will say. or complicate a certain con-
"There they go, taking away dition. As I said, until my
! our freedom of choice again." health problems and my
i That's not true by any means, grandson's asthma came
! If you want to smoke, simply along, I didn't know how my
; get up, walk out the front door smoke could adversely affect
and fire up once you're out- others either.
side.
With my health problem, I'MNOTONEofthoseex-
and my grandson's asthma, I smokers that look down on
have seen first hand what others for smoking. I know
: smoke from someone else's hov hard it is to quit. I'm not
cigarette can do. I've seen my surI could have ever done
grandson grasp for breath it myself if I didn't have the
I after sitting near someone added incentive of possible
smoking. It's not a pretty pic- death. However, I would like
ture at all. to see as many people as pos-
My daughter and son-in- sible quit, because I don
law both smoke. However, want them to end up with a
they've also seen first hand life-long health problem.
what it can do to their child,. There are three things
so they don't smoke in their I've found out since I've quit
home, in their cars nor any smoking. One, I feel much
other place that the smoke better. Two, my food tastes
can hang around. One of the much better. And three, you
things all of us have learned, never quit wanting a ciga-
with someone with asthma or rette. Every once in a while
another lung disorder, the the desire to smoke becomes
pollutants produced by the so strong for me, but I prom-
smoke hang around for a ise you I'll never go bacL
It's going to sound like I
made this up, but I promise I
didn't.
I recently received an
inquiry from the good people
of Scottsboro, Alabama,
regarding their First Annual
Catfish Festival.
Scottsboro is a lovely river-
side village in north Alabam
The Catfish Festival will
feature arts and crafts and var-
ious other activities, such as
contests for catfish-skinning
and catfmh-gxx)king.
People are expected to
come from as far away as
Haleyvflle and Boaz to attend-
When I saw the date on the
letter, I realized I had another
commitment and couldn't pos-
sibly appear in Scottsboro.
Then I read further and real-
ized it wasn't me they wanted
in Scottsboro, it was my dog.
MY DOG, A BLACK lab, is
named Catfish. I'm not sure
why I named him that. It just
seemed a great name for a dog.
Certainly better than some-
thing like Buster, Rattler, Old
Bullet or Blackie.
I have written often of
Catfish. Once, I wrote how he
drinks out of the toilet.
A woman wrote me back
and said, "Of all things. Only
riffraff doesn keep the lid on
their toilet shut." I closed all
the lids on the toilets. Catfish
learned to lift them with his
nose.
I have also written of cat-
fish's continuing fruitless pur-
suit of the hundred thousand
or so squirrels in my yard and
how intelligent he is to awak-
en me at 6:30 in the morning
when the guy comes to steal
onr garhage agai00
"We would love to have
your dog Catfish as a special
guest at the festival," the let-
ter said- "He will he introduced
at noon at the Goose Pond
Amphitheatre."
I talkedit over with Catfish,
and he wants a shot at this.
"It could be my big break,"
he said. 'Tassie was discovered
doing tricks for quarters on a
Hollywood street comer."
I HAVE GIVEN my okay
for Catfish's first public gig.
His Aunt Louise is going to
accompany him to Scottsbo.
I have warned Catfish
about certain things he cannot
do while in public.
We know what one of these
things is. It nearly ruined the
carer of UGA, the bulldog
mascot of the University of
Georgi
"I wouldnl do
Catfish-
'e that
menL"
I also cautioned
watch whom,
he sniffs, not to try to eat !
and, by all
any cars.
He caught one once
mother ever felt this
excited-
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Why Don't Men Just Believe the
While watching the news
the other morning, the report
came that a great discovery
had been made. Somewhere,
(I do not recall where) a
human skull was found and
claimed to be one of the
greatest finds that would give
scientists more insight into
the origin of man. The scien-
tific community claimed this
skull was in the neighborhood
of seven million years old.
Although this made news
today, this kind of excitenfent
is not new.
. Some of the "great dis-
through the line and plaoe our I always tried to be a
:' order. It's just not good for polite smoker. I would ask coveries" of long ago include
li tob-th smoke. iose near file flit :.: untthe
Anyway, we bad to sit in for me to smoke, ff they:l!ad : stat:_.efore :telescope
a problem with the smoke, I ' was inverited in the seven-
teenth century, scientists
considered the number of
stars to be pretty much set-
fled: Ptolemy gave the num-
ber as 1,056, Tycho Biahe
recorded 777 and Kepler
counted 1,00S. As time passed
and with the technological
advances of the day
astronomers today tell us
there are well over I00 bil-
lion stars in our own galaxy.
With the thought that there
are probably billions of galax-
ies like our own, most
astronomers now agree that
it is humanly impossible to
count the stars; an admission
that would not be heard of a
few centuries ago. If only
these scientists would have
paid attention to the Bible,
they would have read in
Jeremiah 33:22, "As the hosts
of heaven cannot be num-
bered, neither the sand of the
sea measured: so will I mul-
tiply the seed of David my
servant, and the Levites that
minister unto me." The Bible
revealed centuries ago that
the stars could not be num-
bered. We must understand
that the Bible is not a science
book, it is God's revelation to
man the Lord Jesus; howev-
er, the scientific data
referred to is absolutely accu-
rate. Tell me please, why
won't man just believe the
Bible?
Let us consider also the
ancient theories of how the
earth was held up. The
ancient myths of Arias car-
tying the world on his back,
the ancient thought of the
world resting on the back of
a large turtle have all been
laid to rest in our modern sci-
entific world. We all know
that the Earth is suspended
in space on nothing, only held
50years
in place by what we know as
gravity.
Yet, if men would have
only paid attention to the
Bible, they would have read
in Job 26:7, "He stretcheth
body. On December 14,
of George
performed that
America's first
would have believed
Bible, they
the life of the flesh is
blood.
The point I am
make is, ff men would
believe the Bible
know that,
God created the
the earth." They would i
know that on the sim
outthe north empt :: ereate0 =
place, and hangeth the earth
upon nothing."
We can find other
instances in scripture where
scientists of long ago would
have been spared of such ludi-
crous statements if only they
would have believed the
Bible. Allow me to share
something from the medic
community of years ago gone
by. In times past there was
the medicalprocedure known
as blood letting. This proce-
dure was thought to rid the
body of harmful sickness
through the procedure of
draining the blood from the
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Darwin himself
there was no
form or the famous
link." Time after time
Bible has proven itself
true and it
to he. Just understand
Bible will always
absolute truth. Also
stand that in no way
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tific standards, but we
judge scientific
the Bible. Romans
forbid: yea, let God
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