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THE COVINGTOII NEWS
BtLMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
A Georgia
Press Association
1954 Prise Winning
Newspaper
E. L. Ficquett Receives
Deserved Honor For His
32 Years of Faithful Service
The Newton County Educational Asso
ciation honored retiring Newton County
School Superintendent E. L. Ficquett on
the "E L Ficquett Day” proclaimed by
Mavor Jack Elliott.
The colored schools also joined in hon
oring Mr. Ficquett by presenting Mr. and
Mrs. Ficquett with gifts.
A skit of “This Is Your Life" was pre
sented at the meeting and brought out
some of the many highlights in the re
- markable career of Mr. Ficquett. who
Z served Newton County as School Super
' intendent faithfully and efficiently for
' a period of 32 years.
— This skit brought out the fact, amply
“sustained, how he had continued to build
~ up the Newton County School system un
til it was recognized as one of the best
-in the state.
~ Mr. Ficquett has served well and ener
getically, moving in his quiet, unassum-
X ing manner, efficiently and promptly in
every school crisis which has come to the
Newton County School System. That his
• judgment was right is demonstrated by
L_his record.
~ . We wish to join with thousands of
citizens throughout the State and Nation
in acclaiming his splendid service. We
can only add these words: “Well done,
thou good and faithful servant.”
J. W. (Whit) Richardson has been elect
ed to succeed Mr. Ficquett and will take
office January 1, 1957, as Superintendent
of Newton County Schools.
With the example of his predecessor
and the inherent ability and experience
’ which Mr. Richardson has, we are quite
spre he will give of his very best efforts
•to the end that Newton County School
System will continue to be one of the
very best in our State.
Private Enterprise Should
Be Given More Business
Private enterprise has underbid the
UIS Mint by some 10 to 12 percent on the
~ manufacture of official inaugural medals
- which will shqw the heads of both Presi
dent Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon.
This is the second time in our history
-that such a thing nas happened, the first
-being in 1905 when the medals showed
both President Taft and Vice President
Sherman.
L And it is the fii-st time we have any
—thing official that suggests that the Vice
President will also be inaugurated next
Z month. But, that is what an Inaugural
“ Committee is for — to think of everything.
Power Enough to Fly
-But Still Much Safer
rTo Stay on the Road
If you’ve seen the 1957 cars — as w'ho
—hasn't — you know they've got power
^enough to fly. And certainly — with their
-donger, lower lines, and with those up
swept fenders beneath which the smaller
-wheels seem already half-retracted —
^lhese new projectiles give the impression
-♦I taking off for the wild blue yonder.
But, like the horseless carriage from
which they sprang, they are still intend
2?d to stay on the ground, and still re
-quired to stop as well as to go. Moreover,
.since the motor millennium is not yet.
^ere will be times when some of them
will be stopped because they can t go. If
' the driver is able to pull off the travelled
^highway before misfortune completely
-stalls his progress, he may tinker or change
a tire or go for help or more gas in com
parative safety — 'to himself, his car and
the others that whiz by him.
But as it stands now, the most modern
and completely equipped glamor car you
can buy offers no protection to driver or
.passengers — or to oncoming traffic —
If and when it is stalled on the pavement.
Four headlights, push-button control, pow
er steering and brakes, aero-dynamic styl
ing are no help to the “sitting duck”, as
truck drivers call such a vehicle. Truck
drivers, incidentally, carry portable re
flectors o rpot torches that they set out
to distinguish their vehicles in this situa
tion. But we never knew a passenger
•car owner who carried such parphernalia.
Oddly enough, every car that has been
built in America in recent years has the
basic equipment to flash the warning a
quarter of a mile in the darkness of night
that it is stopped, and is an obstruction
on the travelled road. We refer to the
standard flashing turn s'bnals. And all
that is needed is a simple extija switch
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Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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that will cause all four of these signals
to flash simultaneously.
Why the car makers have not given us
this obviously needed safety feature in
the new models, we wouldn't know. It
would cost little and go far toward elimi
nating the “sitting duck” accidents that
cost 1.280 lives last vear and injured 151,-
060'
Perhaps they are saving it for 1958.
But, fortunately, you do not have bo wait.
If your car has turn signals, you can
now buy a switch that will convert them
at the flick of a finger, into life-saving
disablement flares. The cost is trifling —
compared with that of a single pint of
blood.
Shall Democracy
Be Permitted Survival
In our preoccupation with the threat
of the so-called volunteers of Russia and
Red China touching off World War 111
by rushing to the aid of Egypt, we are
losing sight of the fundamental problem
of the Near East. The issue is not the
Suez Canal, who owns it, or how it is
to be operated, for ’ this is an economic
problem for which there are a number of
solutions on which any reasonable and
realistic conferees should be able to agree
Nor is it a question of who aggressed
against whom. x
At the bottom of the earth-shaking
uncertainties of our time is the tinv state
of Israel, and the basic question of wheth
er or not democracy shall be permitted
to survive in the lap of Arab feudalism.
The hatred of the Arab for the Jew, and
vice versa, nurtured for centuries, made
it obvious that Israel would be born in
conflict and bathed in blood. But the
time has come when these ancient ani
mosities — on which Russia is presently
blowing harder than anyone — can trig
ger a world conflict that could return the
earth to its pristine lifelessness.
And thus the time has come when the
responsible powers —for their own pre
servation — must hamme rout a work
able peace in this bloodthirsty area. It
must not be just another armistice, wheth
er a 1949 or a 1956 model. The borders
must be frozen, the fighting must be
stopped, the crushing burden and heed
less competition in armaments must be
ended. Though the traditional hatreds en
dure, the peoples of Egypt and of Israel
must be made secure to work out their
own destinies within their own boun
daries.
The requisites of such a peace, we
think, could be:
1. A peace agreement (not a truce,
or armistice or other evasion ne
gotiated directly between Egvp'. and
Israel.
2. The end of the economic boycott of
Israel by the Arab states.
3. Freedom of passage of Israeli flag
vessels through the Suez Canal and
the Gulf of Aqaba.
4. Rectification of Israeli’s frontiers
with the neighboring states which
would consider Israeli’s need for
a strategic defense line.
5. A Western guarantee of these fron
tiers.
There is no intention here to suggest
the task is an easy one. or even that the
capabilities and prestige of the UN are
adequate for the job. Whether or not
Israel, Britain and France are .aggressors
— even if the UN has said so — depends
still on the point of view. But it is much
too late for such considerations to be very
important. The powers — through everv
means at ’their command — must stamp
out this lighted fuse before the world
blows up.
Republicans Adopt Own
Form of New Dealism
“From my viewpoint,” President Eisen
hower told his press conference, “the
United States has not yet been convinced
that modern Republicanism is with us and
is going to be the guiding philosophy of
the Republican Party.”
This was the President's answv to
the question of why the voters returned
a Democratic Congress while giving him
a mandate as impressive as that of 1952.
And, it means that his second term will
be devoted to increased federal resoonsib
ility over the now familar programs of
better farms, better roads, belter schools
and better health facilities for the people.
Republican Senator Clifford Case, of
New Jersey, and Republican Senator Geo.
D. Aiken, of Vermont. were quick to
pledge their backing. Senator Case indi
cated that only by paternalism could the
GOP win future elections, while Senator
Aiken declared he had h-en for this
modern Republicanism for 20 years.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Gospel Righteousness ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON * |
—————Scripture—Matthew 5—7. ' " ———a
s&w d WsA M lima
\\i /nO Ji HrtIJtWIMEtw *
An old law read, "Thou shall not kill.”
Jesus said, if a man was angry with a
brother, he should not offer a gift to
God until he first was reconciled to his
brother.
SOU* W|»KLY (O LIMON FOR
unday School
THE NEW HEAVEN AND
EARTH
Background Scripture;
Revelation 21.
Devotional Reading:
Revelation 7:9-17.
Memory Selection: I heard a
great voice from the throne
saying. "Behold, the dwell
ing of God is witih men. He
will dwell with them, and
they shall be his people, and
God himself will be with
them: he will wipe away
every tear from their eyes. |
and death shall be no more”. ■
Revelation 21:3-4.
Teachers this week have am
opportunity to present one of:
the most inspiring lessons of the '
year.
The passages of Scripture tak
en from Chapter 21 of Revelation I
constitute a gr and lesson with •
which to end the quarter, to end
a year s study, and to confront I
the challenge of a new year.
We practical moderns have ■
brought Christianity so down to
earth that we have sometimes •
forgotten that the ultimate goal
of the Christian life is heaven.
Our Lord never forgot this. Al
■ though his life was spent in an
endless round of mercy and good
works, his eyes were continually
turned toward heaven. He bade
his disciples to rejoice not be
i cause the demons were subject
unto them but because their
names were written in heaven
(Luke 10:20).
The early chapters of the Book
of Revelation flame with the
retribution visited upon evil. But
when we come to these last chap
ters, the retributive process is
past. Here we have the picture
of the glories of the saved.
John saw a new heaven and a
new earth: “for the first heaven
and the first earth were passed
away; and there was no more
sea.”
We read in II Peter 3:12-13
that in the last great 4ay “the
heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat. Never
theless we. according to his prom
ise. look for new heavens and a
new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness.”
j Some regard the language both I
i in II Peter and the Book of Reve- |
I lation as figurative, but there is .
I little support for such a view. [
1 The God who made the heavens
and the earth can destroy them.
j Jesus said that he went to sre
' pare a place for his disciples
I i.lobn 14:2-5), which evidently
I means that something additional
needs to be done —or needed to
।be done —to prepare a suitable I
habitation for the saved.
Those who regard this langu
age about the end of the world
as figurative usually look for the
perfection of human society
j through men's own efforts. The
! Bible emphatically denies this
' possibility. Our best efforts can
' improve us. but we cannot be
' come perfect through this pro
| cess.
; The old Jerusalem was destroy
: ed in the year 70 by the Roman
emperor Titus. What. John now
I saw coming down from God out
। of heaven was a holy city, the
“new Jerusalem.”
In the renewed world there
would be “no more sea.”
The sea stands for separation.
There would be no separation a
mong the saved. The sea also'
stands for turbulence and agita
| tion. When that which is perfecti
j is come, anxiety, restlessness, and j
perturbation will be vanquished.
Best of all in the new and i
promised jorder. God will taber
nacle (or abide) with men. “And
: they shall be his people, and God
i himself shall be with them, and
!be their God Most of the imag
; ery in the Book of Revelation
I reflects the imagery used by
Isaiah (51:11; 65:19) and Ezekiel
j (37:27-28).
Pantheism claims that the hu- |
■ man spirit will be absorbed into
(he divine spirit. The Bible, on
' the other hand, reveals that hu
man personality shall be preserv
ed and shall find fellowship with
th-' Dh Personality.
I This is the ultimate promise,!
To lov« our neighbors and hate our en
emies was an old saying. Christ taught
that w« should love our enemies and do
good to them if we would be true chil
dren of God.
but w« do not have ho wait until
death for its fulfillment. Through
Jesus Christ such fellowship can
begin right now. Heaven consum
mates and perfects what earth
begins.
In the new and heavenly order,
“God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes.”
The very hand of God does
this. We are children being com
forted by One who numbers the
hairs of our heads and who in
his created universe notes the
fall of a sparrow.
“No more death . . . sorrow . . .
crying . . . pam: for the former
things are passed away.” How
tragically we live amid these
"former things” today. Our world
should be a place of joy and a
bundance; instead it is often a
place of weeping and want.
This is because man, by ^iis
choice in the beginning, spurned
obedience and insisted on the ex
ercise of his own willfulness.
This choice turned the perfect
Eden into a place of thorns and
thistles.
In the new heaven and the new I
■ earth which God has promised, I
I man’s original blessedness will i
be restored. Think of “a new hea- I
! ven and a new earth, wherein ।;
I dwelleth righteousness.” Can hu- I
Iman imagination encompass 1
I such a marvelous concept? Think I
of living in a world in which
j there is no sin — in which every I
act is an act of love, and the
| whole of life a joyful enterprise
jin obedience to God’s will.
; The promise is that this will j
I some day be true, not through |
what we do but through what ■
God in his power, wisdom, and
love will do.
For God will make all things j
new — all things. We shall have
new bodies, spiritual bodies suit-1
able to the new and exalted state
in which we shall find ourselves
(I Cor. 15:44-58). The term
“spiritual body” seems like a
contradiction in terms, but this
promised blessing means that our
spirits will be clothed with bod
ies not afflicted with our present
weaknesses, diseases, the limita
tions, but perfectly adapted to a
life lived in a renewed spiritual
order — the new heaven and the I
new earth.
All the promised blessings of;
: heaven begin here on earth as
I soon as we accept God’s offer of
■ forgiveness and fellow'ship
j through Jesus Christ.
And He that sat upon the
throne solemnly affirmed that
his words were true and that'
these things will surely come to ।
' pass. If we wait for reason to I
I affirm the soundness of our hope
j in heaven, we shall wait in vain.
' Human thought can neither con
i ceive of a new heaven and a new
earth nor can it picture or prove
the glories of heaven. We be
lieve that above the turmoil of
this earth, we shall some day,
through faith in Jesus Christ,
enter into the peace of a perfect
spiritual order in which hhere is
no death, sorrow, crying, nor,
pain, and in which we shall be-1
hold the face of God and have
fellowship with Him.
We believe this only on the
basis of faith. This is beyond the
power of reason to deal with. We
believe this because He who sat j
upon the throne declared that i
“these words are true and faith
ful.”
HIRE THE HANDICAPPED
ITS GOOD BUSINESS
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When we aid those in need, we should
not boast of it as the hypocrites do, but
do it secretly, "and thy Heavenly Father
which seeth in secret, Himself shall
reward thee openly.”
28 Page Hand
Book Published
On Jury Duty
Some years ago a University
of Georgia faculty member fail
ed to file a local tax return.
W’hen he was summoned by the
authorities and asked why, he
expressed surprise. He didn’t
know, he said, that he was re
quired to make out a return.
The upshot of the incident was
that a large group of University
faculty members decided they
should take more interest in
governmental operations. And
they decided that to do this they
would give up one of the teach
er’s long-standing prerogatives—
excusal from jury service.
Since then, large numbers of
University faculty have served
on juries in Clarke County Su
perior Court, Athens City Court
and the U. Si District Court.
And, according to Deputy Clerk
King evawford of the Superior
Court, University faculty mem
bers make good jurors.
Now the University is help
ing other Georgians become good
jurors.
( It is putting in the mail to li
braries, civic groups and interest
ed persons a 28-page handbook
on jury service.
The booklet was prepared by
Dr. Frank Gibson, director of
the University’s Bureau of Pub
lic Administration, and is Num
ber 9 in the bureau's current se
. ries of publications on public af
fairs.
The handbook starts at the be
ginning. when the right of jury
trial was written into England’s
Magna Carta. and comes on
down to the composition and
jurisdiction of local, state and
federal courts.
In between, it discusses in de
tail the method of the selection
of grand jurors and trial juriors,
their duties and how they go
about performing these duties.
It tells them what they may ex
pect to see take place in the
courtroom and in the privaev of
the jury room. It cautions them
on their conduct during a trial
and on the manner in which
they approach evidence, testi
mony and statements by at
torneys for the opposing sides.
Along the way, the booklet
notes that:
1. Georgia is more lenient
than her sister states in excusing
; persons from jury service. Among
i the persons who may be ex
: cused if they request it are. be
sides teachers, dentists, doctors,
firemen, policemen, ministers,
telegraph operators, mothers with
children under the age of 16 and
a good many others.
2. Georgia is the only state in
the union that permits a defen
dant in a criminal trial to make
an unsword statement on the
witness stand.
3. The decision of a jury is
especially crucial because, unlike
I the decision of a judge, there
seldom can be an appeal from it.
One reason for the preparation
of the booklet, said Dr. Gibson,
was the passage of the 1953 law
allowing women to serve on ju
ries in state courts. Women had
been permitted to serve on fed
eral court juries before that,
however, and last year one ladj
vho teaches at the University
served as fore’s of several
Federal Court juries
Jk^WASHINGTON
MARCH OF EVENTS
Recalcitrant Republican* I Die-Hard Right-Wlngen
May Feel Ike's Wrath lest Prestige in Voting
Special to Central Press Association
TV’ASHINGTON— White House sources say President Eisenhauer
n is so earnest about remodeling the Republican party that he
is now ready to war against members of the GOP who refuse to
have anything to do with "modern Republicanism.”
In 1952. 1954 and 1956, Nir. Eisenhower supported all Republicans
for office, regardless of whether they agreed with his views of what
the party should stand for. Thus, some extremely right-wing Re-
publicans, farther away from the President po
litically than many Democrats, nevertheless had
his blessing. '
White House aides now say Mr. Eisenhower Is
abandoning this policy, and that his tremendous
election victory, while the GOP failed to win a
majority in Congress, has convinced him that the
party cannot exist unless it “goes modem,”
Therefore, the President is likely to take sides
in GOP primary' races in 1958, throwing al! his
prestige behind any “Eisenhower Republican”
who vies with a member of the "old guard.”
However, even before 1958—particularly in the
next session of Congress—the chief executive
Will undoubtedly exert all the pressure at his
command to help "modern Republicans” and
hinder right-wingers.
* * * •
I
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President
Eitenhower
• CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS- In what may be a re
lated development, an effort will be made in Congress in January
to put an end to so-called character assassination by congressional
investigation.
Senators Thomas H. Kuchel (R), California, and Prescott Bush
<R>, Connecticut, both Eisenhower Republicans w ho'won re-election
this year, will introduce a resolution calling for the Senate "to
elevata the level of committee investigations” and "to assure eitiiens
of fair treatment at the hands of their legislators.”
Kuchel said the resolution would call for a code of conduct which
will curb what he calls "flagrant and degrading abuse of witnesses,
smears of innocent third persons, and use of investigations as sound
ing boards for the rankest heresay.”
The target apparently is Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R). Wis
consin, who frequently opposes the administration. McCarthy if
ranking Republican on the Senate permanent investigation com
mittee— and he headed the committee during the first two years of
President Eisenhower’s fiist term.
» » « • Z-
• (.EIGER COUNT MARRI IGE— Disclosure that the United
States plans to establish a "safe" radiation exposure standard for
the entire U. S. population raises all kinds of possibilities, particu
larly involving marriage.
Some scientists say that individuals, If plans are approved as
being worked out, may have to carry personal "score cards’’ show
ing just how much radiation they’ have accumulated during their
lifetime and how much more they could safely take.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Ceases
6 Silent
11. Unit of
Boy Scouts
12, Worship
13. East Indies
(abbr.)
14 Steal
16. River
<£ng. >
17 Pound
(abbr )
18. Center
20. Half ems
21. Lutecium
(sym.)
12. All
creatioi
24, On top
26 A number
27. Equip again
29 Not ever
33. Short sleep
35. Capital (It.)
36. Soaking
in liquid
40 King of
Bash an
(Bib.)
41 Constel
lation
42 Wings
43 Terbium
(abbr.)
44. Rend
46 Fate
47 Id est
(abbr.)
48. Sour
50 A son of
Zeus (Class.
Myth.)
52 State
(W. Ger.)
53 Sacred
pictures
(Russ. Ch.)
DOWN
1 Os the stars
2. Personal
compliment
3. Hawaiian
bird
(hyphen.)
4. A quilled
animal
5 An
eating
utensil
6. Tantalum
<sym.)
7. Girl's
name
8. Lid
9 Manacles
10. Taut
P I 4 I 5 Y/\ b ^*l* P P
-
14 7s ^75 —
~ 74 73" —
" 22 ~
28 ^3l^ JI
38 37 38 if-
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Thursday, Darnwbar 57, I°5S
Christ said those who heard His com
mandments and obeyed them were like
a man who built his house upon a rock
which would withstand storms.
MEMORY VERSE—Matthew 5 20.
15. Young
herring
19. Level
23. Vigorous
25. From
28. Mulberry
bark cloth
30. Verso
(abbr.)
31 Feeling
32. Withdrawal
34. Pellet of
medicing
36. Girl's
name
37 A moment
38. Projecting
edges
of roofs
5^ I
7 -r>wKi^iPrrga;
nr-
39. Mother-in
law of Rutin
(Bib. )
45. Bitter vetefc
49. Exist
51. Negative
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