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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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President Dwight Eisenhower
; Pressing Vigorously His
| Attack On World Crisis
I With the diversion of reelection —by
thumping majorities in 41 out of the 48
states — out of the way, President Eisen
hower began pressing his attack on world
crises with renewed vigor early nn Nov
ember 7th.
As the weekend approached. Israel s
Premier Ben Gurion retracted his earlier
refusal to relinquish Egyptian territory his
troops had taken, and in reply to the
President's appeal, agreed to comply with
the American-sponsored UN resolution de
manding withdrawal — to which Britain
and France had previously agreed.
The murky, battle-smoked Near East
atmosphere was cleared considerably be
fore Election Day by the President's
prompt and emphatic rejection of Pre
mier Bulganin's suggestion that the US
and the USSR, as th^ two great atomic
powers, join to crush aggression and re
store peace in Egypt. The White House
reply described the proposal as “unthink
able,” and released at the same time the
text of President Eisenhower s letter to
Bulganin urging withdrawal of Russian
troops from Hungary and the right of the
Hungarian people to "enjoy ... a govern
ment of their own choice.”
Meantime, the UN moved swiftly in
organizing its police force to supervise the
Egyptian cease-fire and the withdrawal of
the Aggressors. But the threat of armed
intervention by Russia and Red China
remained. Soviet MIG-17’s, France report
ed. had landed in Syria. The Grand Mufti
of Egypt called for a holy war, declaring
it the “sacred duty” of-Moslems the world
over to fight the Israels, British and
French.
In Hungary, the Russian butchery con
tinued. Wounded revolutionaries and non
combatants died of neglect while the In
ternational Red Cross was stopped at the
border. Famine stalked as methodical mur
der plodded onward on steel treads.
Here at home, military 7 forces were
alerted, fighting ships sent to sea to pre
vert another Pearl Harbor. Perhaps the
reckless Egyptian adventure of Britain
and France could yet be contained —
quickly enough to dampen the smoking
fuse of World War TIT.
But it seemed more certain that Rus
sia had reverted to the code of Stalin.
Had Bulganin become the Charlie Mc-
Carthy of the relentless, scheming, blood
thirsty7 Molotov? There were no smiles in
Moscow — or. for that matter, in post
election Washington.
Soviet Embossy Anniversary
Parties Are Dampened
By Non Attendance
Across Washington's Sixteenth Street
from the Soviet Embassy a six-story cross
blazed into the night, while the Red
envovg and 450 guests sought to make
merry over the "9th anniversary of the
Russian revolution — and to absorb cham
pagne. vodka, caviar and other expensit e
comestibles provided for 1500 people
Beneath the cross — formed by lighted
windows in the otherwise dark facade of
the headquarters building of the Interna
tional Union of Electrical, Radio and Ma
chine Workers. AFL-CIO — was a clearly
legible flood-lit sign. It read: “In Rever
ent Memory of the Hungarian Workers
Who Died for Freedom.”
In New York, at the Park Avenue
headquarters of the Russian UN delega
tion, a similar party was picketed by
1.500 booing, shouting, sign-carrying uni
versity students from all over the city.
There were similar demonstrations in
Paris and Buenos Aires, while in more
sedate London, the Red embassy party
was also boycotted by British, French.
Israeli and American official representa
tives. In Washington. Western diplomats,
notably those of the US and South Amer
ican countries stayed away in droves. The
only US officials reported as attending
were Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas and an Air Force captain.
We don't know about London, but
when Washington's free-loaders pass up
an occasion like this, it is tantamount to
withdrawing diplomatic recognition.
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SUKCBTPTION MATH
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Feer Months _________ .75
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Cetera oet es Georgie. Veer 57 50
Three Million Tested
American Veterans Are
Standing Watch Over Nation
A hard core of three million tested
Americans is standing watch from one
end of the nation to the other — in cities
and towns and villages. In 17.000 American
Legion posts, our outstanding community
centers for Americanism, today's veterans
of combat on land and sea and in the
air echo the sentiments of that handful
of homesick “doughboys” who met in Paris
early in 1919 and pledged: “For God and
Country we associate ourselves together.”
But there should be many, many more
to swell the ranks of what has become
the most dedicated and the most widely
useful veterans’ organization that the world
has ever seen. For awhile it is by far the
largest of its kind, the jobs it undertakes
«nd stays with, and the stature its mem
bers enjoy in their communities, are even
bigger! Always a privilege and an honor,
membership today is a duty for those who
are qualified to join — and capable of
serving!
Few remember today that it was the
Legion that fought for— and got —a
federal Veterans’ Administration and the
GI bill of rights. And few outside of the
Legion know the scope and achievements
of its established and perennial programs
on Veteran Rehabilitation, Child Welfare,
National Security and Americanism. Few
know of th? thousands of man-hours of de
voted toil that go into these efforts, or
the millions of dollars that are spent —
not out of the US Treasury, but out of
the dues of Legionnaires. And on the basis
of purely local activities, observances and
services, few indeed would want to live in
a town without a Legion post.
During the past 31 years, the Legion
has spent more than 125 millions to aid
children in need. It has bought food, cloth
ing. shelter, iron lungs, crutches and braces
and miracle drugs. Fifty thousand Legion
naires and members of the Womens Aux
iliary who are trained in this work have
given endlessly of their time.
American Legion junior baseball spon
sors 20,000 teen-age league teams, has
given recreation and training in sports
manship to 20 million young Americans.
Boys’ State and Boys’ Nation, a national
high school oratorical contest and 4.128
Boy Scout Troops across the nation are
sponsored by The Legion. And thCse are
but a few of its constructive and largely
unpublicized responsibilities.
During the Korean War. the Legion
sent thousands end thousands of tape-rec
orded messages from the home-folks to
their far-away sons and brothers and hus
bands — on which the recipent could re
cord a return message. Our grateful GT,
who signed himself “Johnnv. a True
Friend,” wrote the Legion: “Sir, it makes
one feel grand to know that somewhere
someone is giving him a helping hand.”
Obviouslv, it makes the Legionnaires
“feel grand” to do the helping. As every
veteran knows, there’s nothing bigger than
being a buddy.
States' Righters Get
Many Votes According
To Money Expended
Since we have found little mention of
th? States’ Rights-Constitutionalist-anti-
Income Tax candidates in the newspaper
election reports, you might like tn know
how T. Coleman Andrews and Thomas
Werdel made out.
Unofficial returns from 12 of the 18
states in which it was possible to vote
for the independents (there have been no
reports from California, Maryland. New
Mexico, Oregon and Pennsylvania), show
a total of 277.028 votes.
This is pretty small potatoes, of course
— unless you consider that finances may
play a part in successful campaigning.
Projecting the results secured on a $30,000
war chest over the seven million dollar
GOP fund gives a total of 64.547.524 votes
— if you like arithmetic!
Mr. Andrews, the self-styled “weekend
candidate” who finds it necessary to de
vote considerable of his time all year
'round to making a living, declared that
the '56 campaign was “just the beginning
of a fight.” And certainly those who are
aware of the progress toward socialism
and the damage alreadv inflicted on the
Constitution will share Mr. Andrews’ con
viction that “it would be a mistake not
Io continue this fight.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Sunday School Lesson
THE BEATITUDES
Background Scripture: Matt
hew 4:23; 5:20.
Devotional Reading: Psalms 15:
1-5; 24:3-6.
Memory Selection: Blessed are
those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they
shall be satisfied. Matthew
5:6.
Last week the lesson dealt
with the blessings of peace and
the place of God in a righteous
life. It ended with the words:
"What doth the Lord require of
I thee, but to do justly, and to
love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God?” (Micah 6:8).
The Beatitudes, which we study
this week, might well be desig
nated a New Testament parallel
of the passages studied last
week. Th? Beatitudes also deal
with peace and emphasize its
blessings, but the Beatitudes go
I more into detail regarding these
’ matters.
Briefly stated, the Sermon on
' the Mount is our Lord's setting
forth of the laws of the king
■ dom of God and the Beatitudes
■ define what the citizens or sub
jects of that realm are like.
The Bible follows a definite
procedure in setting forth its
moral lessons.
Certin moral questions are
dealt with by directives. The
Ten Commandments constitute
the most prominent set of moral
directives found in the Bible.
Such directives definitely state
that certain things ‘are wrong
| and prohibit them, and that cer
i tain other things are right and
command them. Thus the Deca
logue forbids idolatry, perjury,
murder, adultery theft, lying,
and covetousness; and com
mands respect for the sabbath
and for one's parents.
: But these categories do not
I include all the evil in the
; world. The Bible deals with
' other evils by setting up moral
I principles and encouraging men
and women of faith to solve their
moral problems by the practical
application of these principles.
| The Bible does not say anything
against polygamy (save in the
I New Testament references to
Ibishops, I Timothy 3:2, and to
deacons, I Timothy 3:12), yet
the basic spiritual teachings of
the whole Word of God con
demn polygamy and no doubt
were the chief cause of its dis
appearance among the Jews. The
I Bible says nothing against slav
| ery, but exhortations to mercy
i found in both the Old Testa
ment and the Ne w rendered
; chattel slavery revolting in the
‘ eves of all good men and won -
jen.
In the New Testament the
| disposition to substitute moral
'principle for moral directive be
■ comes very pronounced. Jesus
I commanded certain things and
i forbade other things, but for
the most part he explained to
[ men the nature of certain moral
and spiritual principles and urg
| ed them to work nut their own
I moral problems in the light of
; these principles Most of the
: commandments in the Sermon
lon the Mount are positive, not
I negative.
j In his great presentation of
j kingdom truth known as the
Sermon on the Mount, Jesus re
peatedly exhorts, pleads with,
invites, and counsels his listen
ers.
In the beginning of his Ser
: mon on the Mount, Jesus does
not warn hi s hearers against
certain evils but commends to
I them certain virtues. He does not
: say that a Christian shall not do
i this or that; what he does say is
( that citizens of the kingdom are
poor in spirit, capable of being
sorry, meek, pure.
The Sermon on the Mount sets
forth certain directives but most
of them are expressed positively,
not negatively. They tell men
1 what to do in order to be nght
eous, not what to abstain from
I in order to escape evil.
The Beatitudes define the na
ture and character of the people
who make up the kingdom of
i God.
Happiness is literally an agree
i able emotion induced by some
। circumstance. A "hap” is defined
in the dictionary as something
i which happens or comes sud
; denly. It is a circumstance, and
I happiness therefore is a pleas
i ant emotion or state of welL
, being brought about through
: pleasant circumstances.
Most people today different!- i
ate between happiness and true
happiness, the latter meaning a
deep spiritual satisfaction which
one has apart from circumstan- ’
I ces. True happiness therefore is |
I what the Bible calls blessed
’ ness.
The Greek word makaroi i
; (“blessed") mgans “having an I
; inward fountain of Joy in the j
■ soul itself, which no outward i
i circumstance can seriously af
fect.” Originally makarios refer
| red only to outward prosperity,
i but the concept deepened with
the passing of time, and it came
at last to connote a satisfying
emotional state identified with
moral character. The English
translators rendered makarioi as
I “blessed,” a word taken from
I the rugged Anglo-Saxon and
I meaning “consecrated with
blood.”
Blessedness therefore is great
er than mere happiness. It is
a sense of well-being, exaltation,
and inner satisfaction which
I comes from the fact that one has
sacrificed in behalf of righteous-
I ness. He has shed his blood (at
least symbolically) in achieving
righteousness and rejecting evil.
“Blessed (or truly happy) are
I the poor in spirit” — that is,
i the people who are humble, self
: effacing, self-sacrificing, and
I surrendered.
Christ taught that we find
peace and satisfaction in life
j only when we surrender to the
will of God. We lose our life
to find it.
“Blessed (or truly happy) are
they that mourn” — that is, that
are capable of being sorry. If
we can look on human suffering
and disappointment, if we can
see people being ruined by sin,
if we can contemplate wicked
injustice and not be grieved over
these things, then we are not in
the kingdom of God. True chil
dren of the kingdom look on
evil anywhere — in their own
souls, in the souls of others, and
in the world at large — and
are grieved.
“Blessed (or truly happy) are
the meek: for they shall inherit
the earth.” A meek person is
mild of temper and patient un
der injustice; not vain, haughty,
or resentful. The heavy-handed
seem to inherit the earth; all
they do is to get the control
' of it in their hands for a little
I while and then lose that con-
I trol. In the end, the meek are
। victorious. They inherit the
I earth.
; The virtues dealt with above
■ are largely passive. Submission
: to the will of God, grief over
j evil, and gentleness of spirit,
I are passive qualities — utterly
priceless in value but never
theless passive.
We turn in the next three
I Beatitudes to more positive vit
' tues: “Blessed are they which
do hunger and thirst after righ
i teousness . . . Blessed are the
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Clifton Benton
Safety Project
Show in Chicago
A member of the Newton
County 4-H Club will be sig
nally honored at the Internation
al Livestock Exposition in Chi
cago, November 24 to December
Ist.
The safety project of Clifton
। Benton, Rte. 3, Covington, will
|be featured in one of four ex-
merciful .. . Blessed are the
' pure in heart . A person
who is hungry and thirsty does
something about it. He strives
to get food and drink. Jesus as
sures us that in the moral realm
such strivers are destined to vic
tory. The merciful man wrestles
continuously with his indigns-
I lion and his desire to "get even”
; with those who have offended
against him. The pure in heart
j look upon the enticements of
i the world and cry “No” to their
baser passions until their pas-
। sions are stilled.
The morally aspiring and the
j merciful and the pure in heart
; find themselves in a tremen
■ dous and continual turmoil.
But the struggle is abundant
. ly worth while. They that hung
er and thirst after righteousness
; are at last filled. They who
| down their personal resentment
! and meet injustice not only with
I justice but with overflowing gen
j erbsity have caused a power
j which works for happiness 10
jbe born in their own hearts.
They are merciful, and there is
a great , earthly reward for
those who act with mercy. But
the heavenly reward is even
greater.
In the last great day, the
merciful shall obtain mercy
through Christ for their sms and
mistakes.
The pure in heart shall see
God. The greatest Biblical prom
ise is the promise that in the
next world the faithful believer
' shall see God. But both in this
I world and in the next, this re-
I ward is reserved for the pure
lin heart only.
Purity of heart includes sex
■ ual purity: but it means a lot
more besides. It means that sin-
I cerity. that unwillingness to de-
I viate from the pathway of rec
titude and kindness, which dis
tinguish a truly good man from
' all Others.
hibits put up at the Exposition
by 4-H members and leaders
throughout the nation.
For a 4-H'or to be chosen for
one of the International exhib
its is a big honor, said Tommy
Walton, state 4-H Club leader
for the College of Agriculture
Extension Service University of
Georgia.
That Clifton has one of the
outstanding safety programs in
the country is evidenced by the
fact he was 1955 national 4-H
winner in the project. He is
now a freshman at the Univer
sity of Georia, where he is using
the S3OO scholarship he received
from General Motors Corp.
Walton appointed a five-man
committee to work with Clifton
and Newton County Agent W.
H. McKinney on developing
plans, ideas, and material for the
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, exhibit. Miss Rhonwyn Lowry,
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and working with her were Paul
' Crawford and G. I. Johnson,
; Extension agricultural engineers;
'J. Aubrey Smith, editor-visual
'education, and Miss Jean Flan
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