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THE COVINGIO ’ NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
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Newton County
and the
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Church Loyalty
November is the month in which our
forefathers, after gathering their first har
vest in their new home, set aside a day
in which to give thanks to the Giver of
their bountiful harvest and of all good
gifts.
As we turn our thoughts toward thoee
things for which we are most grateful,
Freedom of Worship and the price at which
it was bought by our Christian ancestors
loom large in the forefront. And it is with
appreciative interest that we note that
November has been chosen by the Hi-Y
and Tri-Hi-Y Clubs of the state, as the
month in which to promote church loyalty.
This is but another phase of the fine pro
gram emphasized in the promotion of the
Spiritual Development of American Youth,
which is the hope of our nation’s future-
These clubs are sponsored by the State
Y. M. C. A.: and under the capable leader
ship of local advisors: L. M. Burke, Boys’
Hi-Y; Mrs. J. B. Jordan, Alpha Tri-Hi-Y;
and Mrs. W. E. Smith, Senior Tri-Hi-Y, are
playing an ever increasing part in the life
of our students
Church loyalty means more than being
present in the church of our choice on the
Sabbath Day. To be loyal to a cause we
first must have faith in it Faith instigates
love and respect, the basis of loyalty; so,
church loyalty means a dedication of self
and service to the Greatest Cause on earth
—The Kingdom of God
May we join hearts and hands with the
County Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y Clubs in their
campaign to promote Church Loyalty!
Those Atoms Again!
President Eisenhower’s official family
seems to be having mouth trouble agiin-
In Madrid, Air Secretary Harold E.
Talbott and General Nathan Twining, Air
Force chief of staff held a press conference.
According to report, Mr. Talbott was asked:
“Will • atomic bombs be stockpiled in
Spain?" And, according to report he re
plied: “Atomic weapons will be made a
viilable to US forces based in Spain.”
and added that thii would only be done
with the full approval of the Spanish
Government.
In Athens next day. Secretary Talbott
made a flat denial, being then quoted as
saying: ‘‘The report is not true. I never
made such a statement, nor will I ever
make statements about atomic weapons”
In Washington the same day, President
Eisenhower suggested to Secretary Dulles
and Secretary Wilson that their depart
ments get together on public statements
likely to create jitters abroad- Mr. Dullea
then told a news conference the US had
no plans for storing atom bombs in Spain.
Then Mr. Wilson told a news conference
he was in complete agreement with Mr.
Dulles.
Perhaps all this is the American idea of
a war of nerves But if so, it’s our own
nerves that seem to be taking the beating.
It Takes Courage To
Continue To Try For Peace
In spite of his original sympathy for
the Reds and his expressed feeling that
many of the North Korean and Red Chinese
POW’s who said they didn’t want to
home were being forced to refuse repatria
tion, India’s General K. S. Thimayya,
chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatria
tion Commission, has—in the vernacular—
had it.
Declaring the lengthy ‘‘explanations”
sessions “absurd,” Thimayya has stated
that regardless of Red stalling, Operation
Brainwash would end on December 23rd,
in accordance with the armistice terms
But indications were that the prisoner
inquisition would end a lot sooner—most
any day or moment—due to the complete
frustration of the Communists. In spite of
making their own rules which gave them
all the breaks; in spite of browbeating,
threatening tactics, unbridled promises,
stretching out the “explanations” for hours,
reducing the prisoner-victims to a hysteri
cal, exhausted mental mush; in spite of
conduct so outrageous as to cause the
neutral observers to protest and walk out;
the Reds have "persuaded” but three per
cent of the prisoners to return to the
glorie r " '"nmmunism.
So it u -.peeled now the Red high com
mand will charge the allies with sabotaging
the whole operation, in order to withdraw
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from a hopeless moral defeat as haughtily
as possible.
And when South Korea's President
Singhman Rhee can see nothing ahead but
continued fighting, with an enemy that
has employed two years of armistice ne
gotiation and more than three months of
truce to strengthen his military position,
it take* courageous Westerners to keep
trying to make peace.
Build A Better Mousetrap-
Still A Job For Salesmanship
“Build a better mousetrap and the world
will beat a path to your door,” wrote Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
“Once upon a time, a man built a better
mousetrap,” says Merle Thorpe, “and sat
down and waited. Nothing happened.”
The world never beat any such path,
and never will, says Mr. Thorp, the news
paper reporter from the grass-roots who
made a pamphlet-sized house-organ into
the world’s greatest business magazine—
and remained to edit Nation’s Business for
25 years-
That mousetrap maker, he says, “spent
his day in the village and made his traps
at night. He called on the villagers and
told them of the advantages of a modern
mousetrap over rat-poisoning. However —
he was able to call upon only ten or twelve
people during the day. Os these 10 or 12,
only about I—had any need for his mouse
trap. So he conceived a brilliant idea. He
put a little notice in a weekly newspaper
describing the mousetrap and saying he
would call upon anyone who had a mouse
problem, and demonstrate it.
‘He thus interviewed not 10 but 1,000
in one day—This selling en masse brought
in so many orders that he had to spend
all his time making mousetraps ”
Mr. Thorpe has dug up Mr. Emerson’s
mouldy and misleading parable, and taken
the trouble to correct it, because he feels
that today, where there is talk of recession
in the air, is a good time to emphasize
two simple, but commanding truths: First,
nobody wants to buy anything; and second,
mass production is not the result of know
ing how to manufacture in quantity, but
of learning how to aall that way.
‘ Every so often in our expanding econ
omy,” he says, “and particularly just now
in our concern over the switch from war
to peace, we worry about a buyers’ strike.
But how much more devastating would
be a sellers’ strike! If every salesman took
to the hills,” says Mr. Thorp, “the famed
American standard of living would col
lapse. The detonation of deflation would be
deafening ”
But our mousetrap expert is confident
there will be no recession—unless the
salesman and his boss, lose their courage.
“We all hope and pray for an expanding
economy. American salesmanship has been,
and is today, the answer to that prayer.”
And, most likely, we'll never run out
of mice.
The Latch String is Still
On The Outside
Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill,
who has been ro determined in his efforts
to bring about a four-power meeting with
the Russians, has conceded in a speech to
the House of Commons that such a con
ference could result “in a still worse dead
lock than there is at present”. It is not
likely, he said, that the problems of Asia
and the West, of Germany and the satellite
countries can be “satisfactorily dealt with
and laid to rest as great dangers and evils
in the world by personal meetings, how
ever friendly”.
In Washington. President Eisenhower,
in the first official comment on the Soviet
note replying to the joint US, British and
French invitation for a meeting at Lugano,
said the Reds had indicated ‘‘no intention
to get together, but an intention to create
as many difficulties as possible”.
It hardly seems necessary to name more
than one of these “difficulties” at this
point, such as the demand that Red China
be seated at any meeting on East-West
issues, or that we drop the idea of rearm
ing Germany, or the Germany can only
be unified according to Russian blueprint.
Bu no one can say the Western allies
haven’t tried—especially Sir Winston and
President Eisenhower, both of whom have
emphasized that the door still remains
open—ls Russia wants to lift the latch.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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at Covington, Georgia, as
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“Seek good and not evil, that ye may
live; and the Lord, the God of hosts,
shall be with you. Hate the evil and
love the good and establish judgment
in the gate.”
SOUR WEEKLY (O LESSON FOR
unday School
Good Stewards of God's Gifts
Background Scripture: Leviticus
25:18-22; Deuteronomy 8:11-18;
Psalms 24:1; Malachi 3:7-10;
Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 12:13-34;
21:1-4; I Corinthians 16:2.
Memory Selection: The earth is
the Lord’s, and the fulness there
of; The world, and they that
dwell therein. Psalms 24:1.
From the beginning of the
church’s history, co n flict has been
waged between asceticism and
stewardship.
Asceticism holds that the world
is essentially evil, and that to
posses anything is to posses poten
tiality if wrongdoing. The ideal
life, according to the ascetic, con
sists in repudiating the world,
scorning it, and subjecting the
body to disciplines which will
humiliate it and jpreak its evil
will.
In contrast with this ideal of
Stewardship. This holds that
God the Creator, owns everything
in the world and that we are his
stewards, or trustees. We fall in
our duty if we run away from
the world. We are to be in the
world yet keep ourselves unspot
ted from its corruption. We are to
take God’s gifts and use them to
his glory, to our own growth in
grace, and for the extension of
Christ’s kingdom.
There can be no doubt as to
which ideal the New Testament
ideal. Stewardship is the ideal set
up by Christ. Asceticism —al-
though it has certain values in
reminding us of the supreme
worth of spiritual things—is
nevertheless an ideal imported
into the Christian church from
the realm of worldly philosophy.
God Owns All
“The earth is Jehovah’s, and
the fulness thereof; The world,
and they that dwell therein.”
This is a very simple concept
and yet hard for most people to
understand. So completely has
the idea of ownership laid hold
upon us that we consider our
selves to be the owners of our
houses, our businesses, our bank
accounts, and our securities. Yet
none of these things belong to us.
If we retort that our hands have
worked to give us whatever pros
perity we enjoy, the obvious re
sponse is, “Who gave you your
hands?” Likewise in the case of
our minds, we may, by much
hard work and discipline, have
developed the minds that God
gave us. But had God not given
us capacities in the first place,
our efforts would have been in
vain.
He who created the world and
its fullness is the owner of that
which He has created. We are
foolish and presumptuous if we
insist otherwise.
All religious questions do not
resolve (themselves into an
“either-or”; but some do, and the
one with which we deal today is
in that category. God either made
the world or He did not make it
—there is no middle ground. And
if God made the world, then we
possess it only on his allowance.
This doctrine is known as
stewardship. We are trustees of all
God has given us. including not
only our possessions but our
selves. Our time, our abilities,
and our station in life, all must
submit to the demand of steward
ship.
The Christian ideal is plain—
all that we are and have must be
administered to God's glory. This
will prove to redound to our
happiness, as the testimony of
millions of stewards through the
ages has abundantly proved.
We Are to Trust Him
Among the Jews, every seventh
year wes a Sabbatical year, dur
ing which time land had an en
forced rest. During this year the
land was not plowed nor were
any fields sown. The orchards
were free to all. In this seventh
year all debtors were released
from debt, and anyone who had
entered any form of slavery was
free. After seven Sabbatical per
iods, of forty-nine years, the fifeth
year was a jubilee year.
One reason the prophets gave
for the Exile was that God was
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A young man 1 earn# to Jesus asking
what he should do to have eternal life.
He had Kept the commandments aH his
life, he told the Master; what mote
could he do T
punishing the nation for not al
lowing is land to lie falow and
because the people had neglected
their sabbatical years including
the duties accompanying these
years.
The observance of this Sabbati
cal year required considerable
trust on the part of the people.
In the sixth year they had to
raise not only enough food to
last them during that year but
also enough to last them through
the seventh year and from the
time of the first sowing until the I
final reaping.
The passage from Leviticus
which we study today commands
the people to trust God for sus
tenance during this period. God
will command his blessing “in
the sixth year, and it shall bring
forth fruit for 4he three years.”
We can readily see why this
provision was frequently disre
garded by the Hebrews. It took a
lot of faith to believe that enough
food vould be raised in the sixth
year to last the nation until the
harvest of the eighth year.
The lesson which comes down
to us across the ages—for the
Mosaic law has been fulfilled and
rendered unnecessary in the com
ing of Jesus Christ—is that we
must trust God in circumstances
which for us are frequently as
1 trying as was the Sabbatical
period for the Hebrews. In the
■ Lord’s Prayer, we ask God to give
us each day our daily bread. It
i cannot in any way be proved to
■ us that God will give us daily
■ bread tomorrow. For that we must
' trust.
The theme of our lesson today
is stewardship. The Christian
steward must have a strong and
wholesome faith in God; other
wise he cannot believe that God
will take care of him in periods
of both want and plenty.
1 As one reads what Christian
stewards have said in the past
and listens to what Christian
stewards declare today, he is
struck by the fact that the testi
mony through the ages has been
practically unanimous. Steward
ship really works. God does not
1 fail the faithful steward. Most
remarkable of all is the testimony
of many that the little they have
had has gone much farther as
the result of their practice of the
principles of stewardship.
Although it should never be
the motive of stewardship that
we enter into it for personal
gain, it has often happened that
those who were most generous in
their giving have found their
prosperity increased to the point
of abundance.
And Bring our Gifts
In the two remaining passages
of Scripture which make up to
day's lesson, we find presented
‘ the Old Testament and the New
Testament ideals of stewardship.
The Old Testament ideal is a
1 tithe. This is explicitly stated.
One-tenth of all the worshiper
has is to be set aside for God's
use. This tithing is to be done of
course during Sabbatical years as
i well as during any other. It is to
be done in time of drought and
• famine just as it is to be done in
the years of plenty.
The Old Testament is much
more explicit than the New in
setting forth what people are to
do and what they are not to do.
• The Old Testament dealt with a
> primitive people. Furthermore,
1 this nation was being disciplined
■ in such away that it might shine
1 as » light among the other na
t tions. Its holy writings were to be
the oracles by which all mankind
was to be guided. The New Testa
i ment on the otherhand set up
principles which were to be adap
• ted to changing situations.
> The old Testament spelled out
1 everything for a people who
; were to set the moral and spiri
i tual patterns for the human race.
I This does not mean that the
I tithe is an Old Testament ideal
i which has passed. The tithe is not
commanded in the New Testa
i ment, but because it is a part of
divine revelation it commends it
i self to the attention of every sin
i cere, Christian as a simple and
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Jesus told the young man. “If thou will
be perfect, go and sell that thou hast
and give to the poor, and come, follow
Me." The young man was rich and went
• away sorrowing.
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workable means by which God’s
sovereignty can be acknowledged
and the needs of his church can
be met.
The Bible commends to every
body the giving of a tenth of his
income. This is the ideal toward
which we should strive.
Note what Malachi has to say
about the rewards of tithing.
God’s promise to the tither is:
“I will . . . open you the windows
of heaven and pour you out a bless
ing, that there shall not be room
enough to receive it.”
The effects of tithing upon the
tither are nothing short of mira
culous. First of all, tithing makes
people happy. It gives them a
sense of participation in the en
terprise designed to improve the
matters seem to depart from the
I lot of man and to glorify God.
Tension and anxiety about money
matters seem to depart from the
life of a true tither, and the re
sult is that things begin to go
better for him financially than he
had thought possible.
This is not a reason for steward
ship but it certainly is a result of
stewardship, and one that we
should recognize. The windows of
heaven open and God pours out
a ^lessing upon every faithful
steward.
MEAT PRODUCTION
INCREASES
Meat production in the United
States was up nine percent dur
ing the first seven months of
1953, according to a report from
the University of Georgia Agri
cultural Extension Service. Beef
was up 30 percent, veal 39 per
cent, and lamb’ and mutton 17
percent.
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A Letter From
Our Congressmen!
By A. Sidney Camp
Newnan, Georgia
November 5, 1953
• My dear Constituents:
Results of the off year elec
‘ tions last week clearly indicate
; the opinion of voters concerning
1 the program initiated' by the
new Administration and it is
’ not surprising to me that the
' Democrats were successful in
’ winning the mayoralty in New
1 York City and the governorships
' of both New Jersey and Virginia,
: and also both Congressional seats,
; one of the latter being in the
• State -of New Jersey in a dis
’ trict that had never before elect
: ed a Democrat, and the other
• being in a district in Wisconsin
> which likewise had never elected
• a Democrat.
As 1 have tried to state to
• my constituents in speeches I
[ have made this Fall, our people
> are mainly interested in three
1 important programs:
L 1. Full and adequate prepared
-1 ness for the defense of this
country against the threats of
Communism, but our people
wish all unnecessary military
spending to be immediately cur.
tailed.
I 2. Our people also greatly de
• sire to see our national budget
! reduced wherever possible so
1 that it may be balanced.
3. When the above two things
f are accomplished, and it becomes
• possible for tax reductions to
! take place, then our people wish
to see the great burdens of taxa-
Thursday, Nov ember ]2 ■
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St. James warns the rich who wh
wealth by fraud, that miseries will
upon them, for their wickedness K
reach the ears of the Lom
MEMORY VERSE— Amo*
tion now resting O n them k
lightened.
The new Administration
made little or no headwa,
either of these directions
further the raising of int«
rates, reduction of housine k
RFC business loans and „
other needed programs are s
ing down business, but the
of a farm program is prob
worrying our people more
anything else. I think the
publicans realize this, and
will see an effort made w
Congress meets in Januarj
correct some mistakes.
Very sincerely,
A. Sidney Camp, M C
The Great Bargain
—Gasoline
In 1940, the average labo
man would have had to work
hours to earn enough to pay
his average annual consumi
of gasoline. By July, 1953 J
same laborer would need onli
hours of work to pay for the a
amount of gasoline. Labor]
gone up from 65.8 cents per
in 1940 to $1.75 per hour in]
of 1953. Gasoline rose only 1
18.41 cents in 1940 to 29.51 d
in July, 1953 Gasoline qualify
improved so spectucularljj
these 13 years that today's m
fuel is even more of a ban
than prices indicate!
Georgia Dairy Herd Impn
ment Association Supervj
will meet in Athens, Noven
5 and 6 to discuss dairy out!
pastures and grazing, mil
barns and milking prqcedi
herd management, and silaa
dairy rations.