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. THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Co*ington
Hearing Aids Needed By
Thousands of Children
Fifteen million Americans are hard of
hearing. Yet only 1,250,000 use hearing
aids! Why is this? A recent survey showed
up nine different reasons, but the princi
pal one is vanity. For some mysterious
reason, people seem more self-conscious
about their hearing than their vision
even though one is just as important as the
other to “life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness".
No doubt there are a lot of people who
should wear glasses — and don t. But
there are many times fifteen million who
do live behind “cheaters” . . . and we
doubt if any of them really enjoys having
windows hooked over his ears and riding
the bridge of his nose . . . windows that
get spattered when it rains and smeared
every day in a dozen different ways.
When we went to school — down in
the grades — certain heartless little demons
called their schoolmates who wore glasses
“four-eyed monkeys”. We understand they
don’t do this any more — probably be
cause so many youngsters are now be
spectacled. Today, two million school chil
dren need help in hearing, and certainly
the proper equipment would cause less
anguish than being continually at the foot
of the class and ignored by others because
they can't hear enough of what goes on
around them.
By comparison, we think being “wired
for sound” would be much less annoying
than wearing glasses, and certainly less
conspicuous — now that hearing aids are
so much smaller and lighter than they
used to be. And then too, an aid has one
great advantage in common with radio and
TV. When you don't want to listen, you
can turn it off!
European Unity Now Well
On Its Way To Reality
It begins to look as though there might
be a European Defense Community after
all. The new grand alliance reslted from an
invitation of the five signatories to the
Brussels pact to Germany and Italy to
join the club. It is to operate under the
Brussels- treaty’, with revisions that will
make it palatable to Germany and still
soothe French fears of attack by its tradi
tional foe. Thus it might be referred to
at this point as Operation Brussels Sprout.
In effect. Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles told the nine power meeting in
London that unless a workable plan for
European unity came out of the conference,
the American • people would be ready to
bring their forces home and forget the
whole tiling . . . but if a United Europe
could be established under the Brussels
treaty and NATO, he would ask President
Eisenhower to renew our EDC pledge or
something very similar.
Under this pledge the US was com
mitted to “maintain in Europe, including
Germany, such units of its armed forces
as may be necessary and appropriate . . .
for the joint defense of the North Atlantic
area while a threat to that area exists . . ”
While most of the conferees were cheer
ed by this promise, France continued to
s’ilk until Britain’s Foreign Minister An
thony Eden arose and shattered previous
British policy by announcing that his
country would maintain four divisions with
tactical air force on European soil . . . un
less. of course this became too expensive
or the troops were called away for a job
■omewhere else. This promise too is predi.
rated on the success of the conference
From there, the meeting went into high
gear. France's obstructionist Premier Men
des-France complimented both speakers
and declared that “Britain's guarantee will
rejoice the heart of France ’. Germany's
Dr. Adenauer regarded these pledges as
the “turning point” of the meeting, and
now Germany will be allowed honorable
membership in the society and to raise an
army of 500.000 men.
Experience has now taught us that
European unity is an ambitious hope. In
spite of the London encouragement this
will still be true. But it is by no means
impossible. And once genuine cooperation
is established, and suspicions, jealousies
and animosities forgotten, it should be an
easier step to the formation of a United
States of Europe. And that would be a
far better thing for the free world than
the United Nations can ever be.
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The Scientist on the
Corner Serves Mankind
We’re inclined to think of a scientist as
a man in a laboratory, with a great many
tubes, vessels and other mysterious para
phernalia around him; or of a man toying
with some electronic gadget that is destin
ed to do one of two things — either blow
us to bits, or reduce all work to an electri
cal impulse. But. as so often happens in
our thinking, we’re wrong. There is more
to science than just those mysterious men,
and not all of our science is confined to
ivory tower laboratories. A lot of it — the
most important part of it to many of us—
is right on our corners, in our modern
pharmacies.
The scrap of paper that the physician
gives us is oftentimes our ticket to good
health, and we accept the medication from
our pharmacist with utterly no thought
as to where he got the medicine, or what
he had to do, and what he had to know, to
accurately conform to the wishes of the
physician. That fact was brought to mind
this week, as October 3-9 is being observed
as National Pharmacy Week.
Today, more than 500 new drugs are
introduced annually, by more than a hun
dred manufacturers. Hundreds of other
items for our health are marketed in re
gional areas by many smaller firms. In
addition to these, the pharmacist must con
tinue to carry the thousands of older drugs
for which there is still demand; most im
portant of all, he must know which ones
of these drugs will combine properly with
others, and which will not. He must know
which ones, in combination, will counteract
the action of another. It is all a complicated
science, and the pharmacist’s knowledge
is backed by four years of intensive uni
versity training, and constant study every
day to keep abreast of developments.
The scientist on the corner is the one
scientist we meet most often, in our every
day life. This week, when he is observing
National Pharmacy Week, seems to be an
excellent time for us to publicly note our
debt of gratitude for his constant accuracy,
integrity, and professional service.
Theme for Oil Progress
Week Is Competition
We’ve been told that the theme for Oil
Progress Week this year is competition;
more specifically, how oil industry" compe
tition serves us as consumers. It is a parti
cularly appropriate theme, for the U. S.
oil industry is one of the best examples
we have of competition and service inspir
ing each other onward constantly — and
all for the betterment of the general public.
All too often, the oil industry is thought
of as a group of perhaps a dozen or more
companies. The Oil Industry Information
Committee knocked this myth on the head
not too long ago by making an actual count
of the number of businesses engaged in
petroleum; and it used only accredited gov
ernment figures for its tallying. This count
showed there were more than 42,000 oil
companies, ranging all the way from one
man firms to multi-million dollar organiza
tions. That there are so many of them is
proof in itself of the competitive nature of
oil, for how could it be otherwise in this
land of ours, where any enterprising man
or company can set up shop and challenge
the field?
As to the service, what better example
can we cite than the service stations and
fuel oil jobbers who take care of our cars
and our home-heating requirements? Ser
vice stations in particular do an outstand
ing job, for in addition to filling our tanks
and handling lubrication jobs, the busy at
tendants wipe our windshields, check our
tires and batteries,'make minor mechanical
adjustments, give us reports on highwav
and route conditions, free road maps, and
innumerable other things — all with a
smile, because it's part of the job to keep
ahead of the competition.
The same holds true for the fuel oil
distributors. Many use the “degree-day”
system to keep our tanks filled, so that
we never have to worry about this. De
liveries are made night and day, good
weather or bad. And if the burner breaks
down, the service man comes running to
have it fixed in a jiffy. That’s competition
and service working together — and we
aie happy to salute this industry and its
employees for living up to the spirit of
~ Progress Week, not only this week but
all the year ‘round.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Assoc iota Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
at Covington, Georgia, as
Entered at the Poet Office
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Guidance for Family Living ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Alfred J. Baatchee
■ ■ ■ ..u. Scriptero—Proverta 4; 6^0—7:27; Wife 31:1O-S1. ■ । ■
Hr "AI Fl I W I 1- TTt’
I j 1
'My son, keep thy father's command
tneni, and forsake not the law of thy
mother. When thou goeat, it shall lead
tbee; when thou steepest, it shall keep
thee, and when Hum awakaet. K sbaH
talk to thee.”—ProoeAs « tt.
SOU* WI2 KL Y (Q* LESSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
God's Answer to Job's Perplexity
Background Scripture: Job 38-42.
| Memory Selection: Be still,
and know that I am God. Psalms
[46:10.
The Intermediate-Senior topic
this week is, “There Is an Answ
er.”
Yes, there is an answer to Job’s
question, but it was not the answ
er Job expected, nor is it the
answer you and I always expect.
It is an answer, but, as we shall
see later, it is not an eyplanation
The Christian life of faith. It is
, not any more necessary for the
I Christian to konw everything in
order to be happy than it is for
: him to have everything in order
jto be happy.
"Out of the Whirlwind”
[ “Then Jehovah answered Job
I out of the whirlwind . . . .”
This is indicative of the many
ways God speakes to huma be
jings. He spoke to Moses out of the
! burning bush; to the child Samuel
: in the quiet of his bedchamber;
I in I Kings 19, we have the account
■ of how Jehovah spoke to Ellijah
not in the strong wind, nor in the
! earthquake, nor in the fire, but in
; the still small voice. God spoke
।to his beloved Son both at the
I baptism and at the transfigura
; tion. Saul (later to be known as
I Paul) received his disclosure of
I God’s presence and will in a
; blinding vision at the Damascus
i gate. To John on Patmos , the
glory of God in his heaven was
set forth in divers and wondrous
ways.
This all teaches us that God
, does speak to man. He did
i thousands of 'years ago; He still
[does. This means He employs to
I communicate his will to his chil
: dren are not uniform.
! Each receives the message he
‘ needs, and each receives it in the
[ way best suited to his capacity
[ for reception.
i It must be admitted that every
i frequently God speaks to human
beings out of the whirlwind. It is
often in the day of trouble and
[ weakness, of despair and loss,
i that God speaks to men a mess
-1 age they never forget. Some are
blinded by their bitterness nr
■ deafened by their pain and so do
[ not revive the message but
i many have both seen and heard
[ the answer to their cries.
Job is our example of a man
। who kept his heart open to God.
I When God had a message for Job,
Job was ready to receive it.
So let today’s lesson at the very
beginning teach us this great
; truth, that although whirlwinds
may seem to be nothing but mis
guided destruction, sweeping
men into ruin, nevertheless the
voice of God is often in the whirl
wind.
If a whirlwind sweeps down,
upon you remember that basic
truth.
Divine Inqiyry
God’s message to Job begins
with a series of terrifying and
overwhelming questiorts. Was
Job present when God laid the
foundations of the earth, or de
termined the measures threof?
Dib Job help God stretch out the
measuring line across his crea
tion? If so, where are the found
ation of this creation fastened,
and who laid the cornerstone?
“When the morning stars sang
together,
And all the sons of God shout
ed for joy."
Moffatt translates this as fol
lows:
“Who darkens my design
with a cloud of thoughtless
words?
Confront me like a man;
and answer these my questions.
When I founded the earth, where
were you then’
Answer me that, if you have wit
to know.
Who measured out the earth?—
do you know that?
Who stretched the Builder s
> line?
What were its pedestals placed
on?
Who laid the corner-stone,
'- foolish son ig the calamity of his
father; and the contentions of a wife are
a continual dropping. Houses and riches
V* the inheritance of fathers: and a
A prudent wife in from the Lord.”
Proverbs 19:13-14.
' When the morning-stars were
singing.
and all the angles chanted in
their joy’”l
1 The divine questioning con- [
tinues as Jehovah unfolds before
Job the amazing pageantry of
creation: God, who made the sea ■
and clouds, who commands the
> morning and brings on the,night. ।
Has Job entered the treasuries of
! the snow’ dr the hail? Who causes
rain to fall? Who combined the
heavenly bodies together in his [
hand? Who has made the crea
! tures of the forest, the domestic
animals, the swarming multitude !
■ of the sea, the birds of the air? [
'Shall he that cavilleth contend
with the Almighty?
Ffe that argueth with God. let j
him answer it.
Job the sufferer had questioned
। the justice and love of God. Did I
ihe have a right to do so? How I
could he, litle man, understand
life in all its complexities, or how
did he dare to question the judg- I
ment of Him by whom all things
have been made?
I True, the sufferings of Job had
been dreadful, and we who have
read the prologue of the book and [
the epilogue know that the heart
of God had been touched. [
We know’ that God had permitted I
all this to happen, not that Job I
might be punished but that Job
might be improved—not that his
faith might be destroyed, but that
it might be reborn. Here was one
little human, standing upon the
eminence of his distress, crying I
out to God who binds together
the clusters of the Pleiades and
who loosens the bands of Orion.
God’s answer to Job was in
the immense and glorious revela
tion of his majesty. He did not '
answer this or that question,
which had arisen in the mind of
the sufferer. He simply said, “Be
hold Me, and the shadows of your
despair will flee before the glory
of my divine presence.”
Too Wonderful for Man
As Job listened and beheld
God’s revelation of his glory, he
declared himself “of small ac
count” and laid his hand upon
his mouth, declaring that he
would proceed no further (40:3-5).
But Job did proceed further.
He proceeded to answer God, but
this time not in a peremptory
i fashion but in a spirit of humn
ility. He declared that he knows
. God can do all things, that he,
Job, has commented on things he
knew nothing about, things too
wonderful for him or any other
man to understand.
Here we see Job spiritually re
born. He has seen God in his
’ glory, and because of this, his
! attitude toward himself, his
. troubles, and the world has
changed. He has been presumptu
-1 i ous and impenitent in question
' ing the ways of God. How little
he knows about anything! Should
he question the Creator of the
! heavens and the earth and its
I creatures? Just as we are com
i manded in the Sermon on the
: Mount not to judge others be
■ cause we know too little about
facts, motives, and persons to do
so, likewise in this passage God
rebukes Job for presuming to
• judge the Most High and hi?
ways. Puny little man—how can
he be so foolish! He knows so
little about anything—how can
he dare to question the ways of
God who has made all things and
whose wisdom is infinite and per
fect!
“Why art thou cast down, O my
soul?
• And why art thou disquited with
in me?
Hope thou in God: for I shall yet
praise him,
Who is the help in my counten
ance, and my God” (Ps. 42:
11).
Then Job made a magnificent
confession of his transformed
faith. He declared,
"I had heard of thee by the
hearing of the ear: »
But now mine eyes seeth thee:
Wherefore I abhor myself,
And repent in duset and ashes."
Job had been a religious man
। but blieved on inherited spiritual (
(wealth. He needed that spiritual]
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■'Who can find a virtuous woman ? for
her price is far above rubies. The heart
of her husband doth safely trust in her.
. . . She will do him good and not evil
all the days of her life.”
Proverbs 31:10, 12.
rebirth which Jesus discussed
with Nicodemus (Jonh 3).
Job was like many of us who
were led to church by our pa
rents at an early age, grew up
amid its associations, listened to
teacher and preacher, agreed, re
ceived, and were satisfied. But
that variety of religion did not
withstand the terrible day when
all the powers of financial loss,
sorrow, and physical pain were
loosed upon Job. Job had religion
but he did not have the right
kind. We have all observed the
difference in energy and charact
er between those who create fin
ancial fortunes and those who
inhiert them. The latter are often
to say the least, anemic, where
as those who have fought to cre
ate their fortunes are—with all
their many faults—usually, pur
poseful, energetic, and full of
confidence.
Job needed a new quality of
religion, and it can be said with
out fear of contradiction that
most of us need the same.
Job lived centuries before
Nicodemus, but like Nicode
mus Job needed to be
born again or “anew,” or "from
above,” as the different transla
tions have it). Job’s religion had
everything except a vital sense
of the presence of God. Job had
heard of God “by the hearing of
the ear,” but in the whirlwind he
heard a mighty voice and beheld
and oyerwhelming vision.
This led Job to the very thing
Jesus said men must have if they
would enter the straitened path
which leads to salvation. Job was
ready to repent. The Hebrew
word for “repent” used in this
cdn'-fi-dence
n. full trust; belief in the trustworthi
ness or reliability of a person or thing.
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■ passage differs from the Greek
word meaning “to repent” used in
the New Testament. When Job
[ said that he repented, he meant
' that he was eased, comforted. The
I New Testament word “to repent”
j means “to change one’s mind,”
and this of course is greater than
[Job’s conception; as the spiritual
[ conception in the New Testament
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"Her children arise up, and call her
sed; her husband also, and he pr^isetb
her. Favor is deceitful and beauty W
vain but a woman who feareth the Lord,
she shall be {jraisei”
Proverbs 31-28, 30.
are more complete and mature
than those of the Old. Job says
that he is of small account, and
the Hebrew here literally means
to disappear.” Job declares that
be cancels himself, wipes him
self out literally repudiates the
| position he has taken, and re
pents—“finds comfort"—in dust
1 and ashes.