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BELMONT DENNIS
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Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
Chy of Covington
We Can Be Thankful
At a time when we are horror-stricken
at the atrocity reports from Korea, frus
trated by the roadblocks in the way of
Korean peace, disgusted with apathy of
our European partners toward their own
salvation, it may seem we haven’t much
for which to raise paeans of Thanksgiving.
But we can still agree that the Pilgrims
sparked one of the world’s great ideas when
they decided to risk their lives and assume
unpredictable hardships in an all-out effort
to found a new way of life for themselves
and their descendants in a new hemis
phere. And if that resolute band who sur
vived the first winter on a more desolate
coast than they had headed for, in a more
rigorous climate than they expected, and
hemmed in by the most savage of all the
aboriginees in North America, felt the urge
to live thanks to the Almighty—then so.
perhaps, should we.
We can be thankful that the way of life
they founded has thus far been preserved
to us. We can be thankful for the bounty
of our land. We can be thankful for the
progress in the arts, in science and in in
dustry that have given the nation strength,
and brought the economic equality of man
far closer than in any other land. We can
be thankful that we still pray to the God
of the Pilgrims.
But, in giving thanks, we should pray
too for courage, for intelligence, for re
newal of that richest beouest of our fore
fathers—the spirit to conquer. For we shall
need the utmost courage to retain our free
dom in this world-divided. We must have
courage to spare—for those nations where
the flame is dying, and only the embers
of freedom jiow. We shall need the intel
ligence to make full and proper use of
Ihe bounty of our fields, so that it shall
not be wasted, and destroyed—as it has
been—while millions hungered. And we
shall need to continue ahd advance our ef
forts to make more and better things for
more people—for that is the true road to
neace.
Above all. we can give thanks that
these opportunities are still ours.
Winnie Will Pour
President Eisenhower told his press
conference that there is no agenda for
the December 4th to Bth Bermuda meeting
with British Prime Minister Sir Winston
Churchill and French Prime Minister
Joseph Laniel, and that the sessions will be
informal, around-the-table discussions.
But Senate Majority Leader William
F. Knowland, who has just returned from
a trip around the world, has different ideas.
As a member of the Senate Foreign Re
lations committee and the joint Atomic
Energy committtee, he thinks the Presi
dent should ask the Prime Ministers very
flatly just how far they will go in a com
mon front against Russia. He doesn’t think
"the Communistic leopard has changed its
spots”, and sees no effective non-aggres
sion pact with the Kremlin until Soviet
troops are withdrawn from the satellite
countries and free elections provided un
der UN auspices.
We think Senator Knowland is right,
and that, even if there were some hard
boiled questions on the agenda, such a
meeting will still be too cozy for the com
fort of Atnericans back home. The setting
is Sir Winnie’s idea. It’s the kind in which
SOUR WE2 K L Y
IWD A Y
A World of Opportunity for All
Background Scripture: Deuterono
my 24:14-15, 19-21; Amos 5:10-15;
24; Matthew 19:16-22; II Thes
salonians 3:7-10; James 5:1-5; I
John 3:17-18.
Memory Selection: Let Justice roll
down as waters, and righteous
ness as a mighty stream. Amos
5:24.
Last week we considered cer
tain humane principles which con
stitute the basic foundation of
Christian faith.
The lesson conveyed was that
God is merciful to us thereby
lays upon us the responsibility to
be merciful to others.
All the passages of Scripture
studied last week were from the
new Testament. They showed our
Lord Jesus going about healing
the weak and afflicted and feed
ing the hungry. This week we
trace to their source in God’s re
velation through the ancient pro
phets, certain of these humane
principles underlying Christian
faith. Four of the five passages of
Scripture in this week’s lesson
are in the Old Testament.
In this present esson, we find
piacticel suggestions as to the way
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and we can expect that M. Laniel will be
more impressed wth the Churchillian ideas
than with Ike’s.
And Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, who will accompany the President,
and who has hinted that we might think
about a UN seat for Red China, may not be
much help.
Traffic Here To Stay
We are advised by the Automobile
Manufacturers’ Association that our cars,
trucks and buses are now reeling off a
tota lof half a trillion miles a year, a figure
that is even larger than the national debt!
And if you are one of those who has been
saying: “The don’t make ‘em like they
used to”, you are in for a statistical shock.
Analysis and comparison of registrations
show that in 1952, one out of three pas
senger cars and one out of four trucks
were built before Pearl Harbor (nearly a
dozen years ago), and in 1941 about one in
eight motor vehicles was ten years or
older.
But, with 54 million cars, trucks and
buses on the roads, we still haven’t learned
how to drive them! According to a survey
by the National Highway Users’ Confer
ence, 29 states and the District of Columbia
permit drivers to pass other vehicles going
in the same direction on either right or
left, while 16 forbid passing on the right,
and three permit it only when the over
taken vehicle is making a left turn. Like
wise. the states have different ideas on
speed limits, headlight dimming arm and
hand turn-signals and painted center
strioes.
While we have always been strong for
states’ rights—this confusion denies to the
citizens of all states the right of equal pro
tection wherever they may drive. The
highway toll of death and bloodshed from
bad manners, bad judgment, mechanical
failure and recklessness is shocking enough
। without adding that of innocent bewilder
I ment.
Considering the traffic data, experience
records and safety specialists available to
day, the failure of the states to work out
a uniform traffic code and a uniform road
marking system is inexcusable. A single
national conference of state highway and
motor vehicle authorities could solve the
whole problem. Or will no one speak first?
Polio Unmasked
After 37 frustrating years since Amer
ica's first big polio epidemic, in 1916, Dr.
Wendell M. Stanley, director of the Virus
Laboratory at the University of California,
has reported that two of his colleagues,
Drs. Howard L. Bachrach and Carleton E.
Schwerdt have worked out a purifying pro
cess that has made it possible to photograph
the human polio virus in pure form for
the first time. They now know that the
virus, which can be seen in an electron
microscope, is a spherical germ about a
millionth of an inch in diameter.
Now that the enemy is out in the open,
the doctors are confident he can be dealt
with. Dr. Stanley feels that an effective
vaccine, that can be piass-produced for
general use, may be available in five to
ten years.
Looking back, that makes the goal seem
very close.
dO LESSON FOR
School
the principles of humanity in
herent in the Word of God may
be applied.
God's Care of Ihe Weak
“Thou halt not oppress a hired
servant . . . whether he be of thy
brethren or of thy sojourners . . .
in his day thou shalt give him his
hire . . . lest he cry against thee
unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto
thee.”
There are many things which
cause men to fail in life. One of
these things is ineptitude, or tock
of ability Though all are equal
before God and in the eyes of the
law, they are not, however, all
equal in ability. There are one
talent, two-talent, and five-talent
individuals. Some people will not
pursue success until it is attained
Illness and physical disability
are also causes and very tragic
causes, of failure in life. Beyond
all such causes are a countless
number of conditions which are
beyond human control.
These factors which bring about
failure are to be deplored, and,
insofar as possible are to be re
remedied.
But the most tragic factor which
produces failure in men’s lives is
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIf
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLAR
Associate Editor
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lack of opportunity. 'Hie justice
of God cries out for a fair chance
for all men to be the best they are
capable of being. The Word of
God nowhere teaches that all men
will attain the same success or that
all will receive the same reward.
But it does teach that all men
should have a fair chance to be
the best they can be-
Even to this glorious land of
ours where there are greater op
portunities that the human race
has ever known before, there are
still many inequities which cry
out for correction.
Observe the Hebraic principle
that justice is to be extended to
all men and not just to fellow He
brews.. The sojourner is -to be
treated with kindness as well as
anyone else. This was greatly in
advance of all the ideas by other
peoples of the world in those days.
To mistreat anyone, and espec
ially an employee, is primarily a
morad and spiritual matter rather
than an economic. The victim of
injustice will cry unto Jehovah
against his oppressor, and the
oppression will be sin upon the
soul of him who practices it.
Every problem has its moral
aspects. The more clearly we re
cognize the moral aspects of each
problem we handle and the re
lation of that problem to Al
mighty God, the more do we fur
ther God’s purposes in our daily
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Government Under God ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Peter 2:13-17. ■
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When the temple was finished the Lord
eame to Solomon telling him that He
had hallowed the temple and would be
with Mm m tong m he obeyed His laws,
but that evil Would befall ts he was
disobedient
i
lives.
Remembering the Needy
“When thou reapest they har
vest in thy field, and hast for
got a sheaf in the field,
thou shalt not go again to fetch
it: it shall be for the sojourner, for
the fatherless, and for the widow;
that Jehovah thy God may bless
thee in all the work of thy hands.’’
In the first passage of Scripture
in today’s lesson, the emerging
theme is, “Give everybody a
chance to succeed—a fair oppor
tunity.” In this passage of Scrip
ture, the command is particulari
zed. The fatherless, the widow,
the sojourner are underprivileged
Tn Oriental countries-Particularly
in ancient times —such persons
existed continually on a narrow
margin of subsistence, which kept
them close to starvation. Give
such people a chance, is the
Bibles message.
Even today with all our scienti
fic knowledge, one of the out
standing tragedies of human life
is that in a world capable of
producing an abundance of food,
the majority of the world’s popu
lation is continually in dire need.
In every nation there is an un
equal distribution of this world’s
benefits. Much of this is due to
the selfishness and the sinful
greediness of those who grasp for
themselves more than they can
use and who remain cruelly in
different to the misery of those
I who have little or nothing.
This divine command that we
regard the needy is replete with
suggestions as to how we may
loosen our purse strings in the
face of great and needy causes.
Christmas is less than a month
away. Let our Christmas thoughts
this year go out not only to our
loved one but to the underprivi
ileged here and abroad.
Again we point out the moral
and spritual significance of true
benevolence. For some people
j contributions to charity are valu
ed only because they are deducti
; ble for income tax purposes. Still
i others like to be on the band
wagon. In the last part of verse
19, we read that God’s knowledge
of our kindness is to be our
j greatest reward.
The Bible maintains that God
both loves a cheerful giver and
rewards him. and the experience
of every good steward bears wit
ness to that truth.
A Mighty Prophet
In the remaining passage of
Scripture which we study today,
we find the truths set forth in
the experience and teachings of
two noted Biblical characters—
the prophet and the apostle Paul.
Amos was the first of the so
called literary prophets—that is,
the first of Israel’s prophets to
leave a written account of his
teachings. He lived in the south
ern kingdom but prophesied in
the northern kingdom. Poor and
humble himself, yet diligent as a
shepherd of what we may pre
sume was a small flock of sheep
and as “a dresser of scyomore
! trees,” this plain, hardy man un
-1 derstood the problems of the
needy. Standing amid the wor
shipers at Bethel, Amos denounc
ed their insincerity their material
ism, their intemperance.
He foretold that ruin of the
northern kingdom which took
place less than forty years after
he had sounded his warnings.
The people of the northern
kingdom had become idolaters.
For generations they had been
sinking lower and lower in the
spiritual scale. Their country had
been torn apart repeatedly by
violence and revolutions. At last
under the strong leadership of
Jeroboam 11, the country van
quished its enemies and for the
first time had peace, and ap
parently had great prosperity. But
the prosperity was only in ap
pearance. Through the passing de
cades and generations, almost the
entire wealth of the country had
gone into the hand of a little
group—dissolute, vice-ridden, and
utterly without scruple picture of
the suffering which would de
scend up<> these oppressors in
that day when the Assyrians
would ravage their country, would
tear families apart, and would sell
these vanquished victims in the
marts of the empire.
This all came to pass in 722 B.
C., when the northern kingdom
was destroyed in precisely the
way Amos had foretold.
The misguided people of Israel
The apostles healed many afflicted peo
ple. which angered the temple authori
ties. so they had them arrested and
thrown into prison. An angel of the
Lord released them and told them to
continue their work.
I I
. were guilty of practically every j
1 known sin. Amos especially bore
down on social injustice. The rich
and mighty trampled upon the
poor, and with their ill-gotten
gains built themselves houses of i
hewn stone, in which they were i
destined not long to abide. They
planted pleasant vineyards, which
the invading Assyrian would up-।
root and burn. The privileged;
people had afflicted the just, had !
taken bribes, and had turned aside [
“the needy in the gate from their j
right.” In one of the most beau- j
tiful passages in the Old Testa
ment (5:21-24) —only one verse of;
which (24) is included in our
I printed lesson text—the prophet
1 Amos reached great heights of
poetic power as he denounced the
| cruelty and tyranny of the rich.
They had believed that they could
trample down God’s children and
■ placate the anger of God with :
burnt offerings. Amos assured.
them that God hated their feasts 1
and took no delight in their
■ solemn assemblies. God will be i
pleased only when justic shall,
roll down( or as the more ac
curate translation has it, “con
‘ tinues to roll down”) “as waters,
and righteousness as a mighty
' stream.”
' “The wages of sin is death.”
For all the injustic of the modern
1 world and the perpetration of
that injustice, millions of inno
■ । cent persons will suffer in cen
। turies to come.
Paul, ihe Workman
Like every well-born Jewish
boy, Paul had been taught a
' trade. He was a tent-maker, and
■ often throughout his long career
1 by working at his trade, he either
1 sustained himself oy supplement
ed the support he had from the
churches.
Usually when he stayed for a
1 while in a community, he gave
: all his time to preaching and
f teaching and so accepted sus
tenance with which the Christian
church supported him. In Tessa
lonica, however, Paul encountered
a situation which led him to fore
go his usual practice of accepting
! support from the local church and
instead he supported himself ex
clusively by his own efforts.
The belivers in Tessalonica were
I filled with convicton that Jesus
! was about to return. Then why
work, they reasoned. Let us re
joice and get ourselves ready for
our Lord’s triumphans Second Ad
vent.
The trouble with this position,
’ of course, was that somebody else
had to support them while they
were waiting. Paul was contempt
uous and hostile toward this point
of view.
He belived also in the second
coming of his Lord and appears
to have believed tha the advent
. was imminent. But he maintained
that the Lord would be pleased
only if he found believers work
ing and diligently attending to
their daily tasks. Accordingly,
Paul worked at his trade while
in Thesalonica, and he laid dawn
the dictum “If any will not work,
neither let him eat.”
There is a robust common
sense about Bibical teaching
which brushes the “isms” aside as
so much foolishness. Christianity
is a down-to-earth way of life. It
extends it benefits to all per
sons and especially to the under
privileged. It exalts the dignity of
| work. It places a high premium
upon humanity.
It assures all believers that they
will find their salvation not on
some mountain top or in the quiet
of an ivory tower but amid the
faithful performance of their
> everyday duties.
MOST FIRES PREVENTABLE
“Every year at least ninety mil
lion dollars worth of farm pro
perty is lost by fire,” assert home
improvement specialists. “Most of
this can be prevented. Defective
chimneys, carelessness with com
bustible materials or misuse of
petroleum products rank high as
causes of farm fires during the
heating season.”
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MAKE BLANKETS LAST
LONGER
A suggestion for protecting the
' edges of winter blankets comes
| from home improvement specia-
I lists. Baste a wide piece of soft,
I washable cloth over the edge of
■ the blanket, saving wear on the
■ satin binding. These can be re-
I moved and washed easily.
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State) Tuesday, November 24
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Next morning the high priest and his
council met to try the prisoners, and
sent officers to bring them to court. The
officers, however, found the prison well
guarded but the men they sought had
disappeared.
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A Letter From
Our Congressman
By A. Sidney Camp
Member of Congress
Newnan, Georgia
November 21, 1953
jMy dear Constituents:
The wonderful autumn weather :
,we have enjoyed has served to:
I increase Georgia’s cotton produc-1
tion, although a little rain would 1
be most welcome.
When Congress convenes on
January 4 (just a little more than
one month away), full opportunity!
will be given the new administra- j
tion to make good on some of the ।
i real promises to our people. The
I time has come for reduction in
| unnecessary government expendi- i
j turse. These reductions must be
j made in the Foreign Aid Program
j and in the armed defense ex
i penditures. There can be no tax
reduction until expenditures are
greatly reduced.
All this talk over the radiq, the
television, and in the press about
suspected communists longe since
dead is only a camauflage to dis
tract the attention of our people
from other urgent programs
direfully needed.
If there are communists in our
government of course they should
be eliminated, but there are many i
' other things needed to be done
, i which cannot be neglected nor
I further postponed. Another of i
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the formulation of a real farm
program.
A. Sidney Camp, M.C.
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! on December 7, 1907, when Miss
Emily P. Bissell, a Wilmington,
Del., welfare worker, offered
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i ment of eight TB patients. Hei
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