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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
R. 0. Arnold Re-elected
Chairman Board of Regents
The re-election of R 0. Arnold, of
this city, as Chairman of the Board of
Regents is a signal and well-deserved honor
to our fellow townsman.
Mr. Arnold has made a splendid record
in this very important position and his
re-election is evidence erf this fact. Very
few people realize the tremendous respon
sibility placed in this position, but those
who do, realise the wonderful service Mr.
Arnold has given to the educational facili
ties of our State.
Millions of dollars are expended each
year through this Board of Regents and
the smooth manner in which the Board I
of Regents is operating is a testimony to
the character of men who are serving
our state at the present time.
For many years the Board of Regents
was a storm center but little is heard
these days, and this in itself demonstrates
the Board is working harmoniously at pos
sibly the most strenuous times in its
career.
We commend Mr. Arnold on his excel
lent and efficient service and realize he |
brings credit to our city in his efficient
handling of this most difficult position.
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Are Telephones A Luxury?
The days of the old hand pump for
water have gone A check with the hard
ware stores indicate that the sale for
kerosene or coal oil lamps is virtually
non-existent. The old wood-burning kitchen
ranges are rapidly disappearing from the
American kitchen. Why?
The question is almost laughable, be
cause everybody knows that the once lux
ury utilities—electricity, gas and water
have become necessities. Even the federal
government has recognized them as neces
sities —which brings us to the subject of
our thoughts at this time:the telephone.
In our complex modern society, we
have come to rely upon the telephone as
a necessary utility. We believe it is as
necessary for modern America living as
any of the other utilities. But somehow
the federal government has not come a
round to that thinking. For we all have
to pay a 15 (local) to 25 (long distance)
percent luxury or excise tax on our tele
phone bill—This goes to the federal treas
ury and not to the telephone company.
Indications are mighty encouraging that
the Congress will at last give its stamp of
approval to the telephone as a necessity
and repeal the luxury tax from it. We
hope so and encourage our congressional
representatives to so act.
Battles Won At Play
We saw one of our young football play
ers get his leg broken Friday night in the
game which wound up spring practice.
Somehow it brought to mind the words
attributed to the great British military
leader, the Duke of Wellington: “The battle
of Waterloo was won on the playing fields
of Eton.” What the duke meant was that
the loyalty and teamwork which brought I
Napoleon's defeat was instilled in the
leaders of the British army while they
were students at Eton College.
Many of the spectators at Friday night's
football game felt that the injury of that
spunky young fellow dealt a severe blow
to the morale of players and parents, and
thus a severe blow to football in Newton
County. It is unfortunate that the accident
occurred. It may mean that this chap may
not plav football for several reason; we
doubt that. It will not mean that the
spirit which welds groups of boys into a
learn, bent on achieving a given goal
through organized efforts is dampened—
Teamwork and cooperation and just plain
guts and not put to riot by pain and
discomfort.
We hear much these days about the
necessity for the schools, the homes and
the churches to see to it that our youth
understand their obligations to the com
munity and the nation. And such criticism
is well. But words and textbooks and class
room sessions are not the only course nor
the most fruitful in teaching youth its
obligations to the community and the na
tion. Getting in there and doing something
with a bunch of fellows, winning—and los
i. g—a football game, to our way of think
ing, teaches more loyalty, devotion to
duty, the will to go out against big odds,
and teamwork than all the classroom ses
si ins cncodntered by the average student.
All this puts us to wondering just how I
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much opportunity does the average stu
dent in our schools have to develop in
this area of teamwork. Football this year
appears to attract an unusually large num
ber, 55. Thu is about ten percent of the
high school student body. Basketball and
other organized sports account for another
good ten percent.
The achievements of the Girls Glee
Club at the State Music Festival in Athens
last week point out another outstanding
example of the fine work being done to
teach teamwork in our county high school.
The 4-H clubs, the FFA's the FHA’s, the
“Y” groups, the class organizations, the
class annuals, Key Club, DCT and band—
the list is much longer than we ean list
here.
In the glamor and glory of the football
games and the pomp and ceremony of the
band we had simply overlooked the
achievements and the potential accom
plishments of the many other and extra
curricula activities in our schools.
With the Duke of Wellington we agree:
the battles of the future are being won
on the gridiron on Legion Field and in
the achievements of glee clubs in com
petition; with daily successes and failures
of students working together toward some
goal.
Better housewives are being made by
FHA’s and “Y” clubs and glee clubs and
bands. Men of decision are being molded
by teamwork in our schools. And profes
sional men and women of tomorrow are
better as a result of their school experience
here today.
Blow Your Top Now —
Not Later
With that Geneva meeting, which will
be essentially the Five Power Conference
the Russians have wanted so long, loom
ing on the diplomatic horizon, Americans
should be thoroughly aroused over the
“feelers” that have been put out on recog
nizing Red China. Before April 26th, when
our Secretary of State sits down with the
foreign ministers of Britain, France, Rus
sia and Red China, we had better give
the matter a good think—and tell our men
in Washington how we feel about it.
To that end, we quote from The Free
man Magazine of March Bth”—ten good
•reasons why we should neither recognize
Communist China diplomatically nor coun
tenance its admission to the UN:
“1. Either of these steps would be a
stunning blow to our anti-Communist
friends in Asia and a stimulus to Com
munist expansion.
“2. Red China is an unrepentant and
partially successful aggressor in Korea.
“3. The Chinese Communist regime is
keeping alive the war in Indo-China and
stirring up as much trouple as possible
throughout Asia.
“4. This regime has made a practise
of insulting and maltreating American
diplomats and other American citizens
within its power.
“5. The torture and maltreatment of
UN war prisoners by the Red Chinese and
North Koreans is a major international
scandal.
“6. The Red Chinese government shows
no sign of abating its terrific Hate Amer
ica propaganda, including lying charges
of germ warfare.
”7. This Chinese government has en
gaged in huge extortion rackets against
foreign business firms still stuck in China,
and against Chinese abroad,
“S. Anything that enhanced the inter
national prestige of Red China would ex
pose the large Chinese communities in
southeast Asia to Communist pressure, in
filtration and coercion.
“9. The unfortunate British experiment
of recognizing Red China has proved a
pitiful fiasco, morally, politically and com
mercially.
“10. Among other unsavory activities,
the Communist gang in control of China
has gone in for illegal narcotics trade and
for piracy, against Japanese and other
foreign vessels.”
The Freeman points out further Khat."
—we have signed up for a round-table con
ference (the round table is a tacit con
cession to Mr. Molotov). This means that
delegates of Communist China will sit
down as equal participants with the rep
resentatives of other nations, as was Mr.
Molotov’s intention from the start. At
the best such a conference can only be a
repetition of the lost weeks pt Berlin. At
the worst it can touch off a Far East* rn
Munich.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Lotus’ intercessory Rover ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON •» t J
| * * Script—* John IX < ’ J
Untng up Hie eyes to heaven. Jesus
prayed. “Father, toe hour te come;
glorify Thy Son. that Thy Son may
glorify Thee. ... J have (hushed ihe
work tot Thou gvvwt Me to do. au>
aow. O Fatoev. gtortßy Thou Me."
SOUR WIIKLY 40 LISSON FOR
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Bach k ground Scripture: John 13 i
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Memory Selection: A new com
mandment I give to you, that you '
love one another; even as I have 1
loved you, that you also love one
another. John 13:34.
In our lesson today we see love !
put into action.
Love as a sentiment may be a)
good theme for romantic songs,
but love manifested in service is
the greatest need in a suffering
world.
Our Lord’s teachings are sim- j
pie in form, profound in meaning,
ihe object lesson which he taught
by washing the disciples’ feet il- t
lustrates this dual nature of all
his doctrines.
Washing the Disciple* - Feet
The story of our Lord’s washing
the disciples feet is briefly and
. succinctly related in these eleven
verses.
The disciples, in anything but a
i loving mood, arrived at the upper ;
' room Where the supper was to be
’ held. They had been disputing
I along the way as to which of
j them would be the greatest in the
। new kingdom. Had they been a
group of wealthy men assembling
for a meal there would have been
a servant at the door to remove
their sandals and to pour water
over their hot and dusty feet. But
since they were not wealthy, the
plain indication was that they
should wash one another’s feet.
This, however, was not to be
thought of among a group al >
| ready quarrling over the matter
of precedence.
The clarity with which the
teachings of this lesson are
: brought out is inspiring. Jesus’ j
, washing of the disciples' feet was
an act of love—he loved them (as
the mariginal reading has it) “to'
the uttermost.’’ In contrast to his
■ love was the Satan-inspired reso-1
lution of Judas to betray him.
“Jesus, knowing that the Fath
er had given all things into his
hands, and that he came forth
! from God, and goeth unto God,
! riseth from supper, and layeth
aside his garments; and he took ;
a towel, and girded himself.’’ He
| did this not in spite of the fact
that he was all-powerful, and the !
only begotten Son of God; he did |
it because of his exalted station. 1
The higher a man’s position in
j this world, the deeper the neces- j
sity that he be humanity’s ser-1
vant.
Fe girded himself with a towel, j
as the most humble slave would '
■ < me. No wonder that when!
John later in his vision on Pat-!
mos saw the Son of man moving
in the midst of the candlesticks 1
he was “girt about at the breasts
with a golden girdle” (Rev. 1.13).
He was willing to gird himself
with a towel as a servant, later,
glorified in heaven, was girt
about with a golden girdle. This
marked God’s approval* and
1 esteem.
, Peter, with all the vigor of his,
I impetuous nature, protested
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1 have given them toe words which Thou
gaveat Me: and they haw received them,
and have known surely that J eame oW
toun TVsa. and toey beMeve toM Tbos
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against the Lord’s offer to wash 1
his feet. When assured that un
less he permitted it he would 1
have no part with Jesus, Peter «
again impetuously cried out, I
“Lord, not my feet only, but also 1
my hands and my head. Jesus i
saith to him, He that is bathed
needeth not save to wash his feet, i
but is clean every whit.”
There are two words used here [ ’
in Greek meaning “to wash” and j
“to bathe”; the first meaning to
wash hands or feet and the other
meaning to bathe the whole body. 1
The spiritual teaching here is that
after a person has experienced
regeneration conversion an, sprit- ’
ual which follows this cleansing is
not repeated. The bathing of the ’
whole body comes when, uilder •
the power of the Spirit, a man is '
born into the newness of life.
Yet this regeneration does not
। make him sinless. Every day the
dust and grime of the world '
' gather on his feet as he walks
| life’s pathways, and this must
again and again be washed off.
Theologians differentiate be
tween these Bibical teachings by |
saying that regeneration is an !
act. but sanctification—-the con-!
tinuous improvement of life un
der the power of Spirit—is a
process.
Buthed in the precious blood
of the Lamb—this is a climatic
life-changing act; cleansed of
daily sins, mistakes, and weak- j
nesses—this is a lifelong process.
Note the characters in this
drama —at one extreme. Jesus,.
: all-powerful, loving, willing to,
become a servant in the perform
ing of love acts; at the other ex- (
I treme, Judas, under the power of |
Satan to whom he had yielded his!
heart; and in between Jesus end
' Judas, the faltering disciples,
qucr’ ’~’’s, bewildered, and lack
' in;:
Significanse of the Act*
V . cjus lad washed the
disci, / feet, he sat down and
explained to them what his act
had mefint.
I am your teacher, he said; I
have given you an example to
follow. Nothing is so great as
loving service; no figure so honor
j ed in God’s sight as the servant.
‘lf ye know these things, blessed
! are ye if ye do them.”
Nothing Jesus might have said
about the necessity for loving and
serving the children of men would
। have been as instructive as this
simple demonstration. The scene
was projected against the back- 1
drop of their bickering resent-1
! ment, one against smother, over
matters of precedence, hfere was
1 a sermon acted out in terms they
could understand. It was both a
rebuke and a great lesson to
them.
• The world has been learning
that lesson ever since. Today even
non-Christians regard service to
humanity as the highest ideal
I men can have.
Jesus had laid aside his outer
garments as he washed the dis-
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Christ prayed for “them also which shall
believe on Me through their (the dis
«»plee’) word; that they may all be one.
as Thou. Father, art in Me, and I in
TIMA (I*** ***e world may behave that
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ciples’ feet Yow and I have to
Kay aside our prejudice, our lazi- (
ness, our disposition to be self- i
indulgent, if we would wash the
begrimed feet of a suffering world
“If I then . . . have washed your
feet,” said Jesus, “ye also ought
to wash one another's feet *
Jesus never asks you to do any
thing he is not willing to do him
self. What he did and said on this
occasion was more significant
than all the philosophy uttered
by the world’s sages.
Certain ecclesiastical dignitar
ies have attempted to perpetuate
this noble act of Jesus as a re
ligious rite, washing the feet of
poor men on Maundy Thursday.
This of course is rediculous tra
vesty on a noble act performed
by Jesus—an act which has uni
versal significance.
We press all the significance
out of our Lord’s spiritual achi
evements When we attempt to
enclose the ocean of wisdom and
righteouness in the little chalices
of mere religious rites and pract
ices.
Shadow of Betrayal and Denial
A few have tried to show that
Judas was well intentioned but
that his plans failed. Some claim
that he wanted to force Jesus to
accept the Messianic kingship, be
lieving that Jesus would never
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death. Against all such efforts to
exculpate Judas, the testimony
of Scripture speaks out vigorous
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His Father had given himand^J
carry on Hr # ork after He Z!,
from them - ay behold My puJ
be witUHim in the hereaft?
MEMORY VERSE-John h t
money and power J
no conception of J
potency of love. He J
pise Jesus because j
trust in things whJ
sidered impotent.
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