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THE COVINGTOL! NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
Dedication of New Negro
School Brings New Era
Education Newton County
The dedication of the R. L. Cousins
Elementary and Senior High School Sun
day begins a new era of education for
the colored race in Newton County.
The splendid new school is modern in
every respect and those who attended the
dedication and tour of the school were
high in praise for the many fine features
offering every advantage for comfort and
study in the new school
County Superintendent J. W. (Whit)
Richardson praised all those who had a
part in the planning and building of the
school and stated he was proud to accept
this splendid new school as an integral
part of Newton County school system.
The f{facilities provided are equal to
any school in the state and when the
East Newton Elementary School is com
pleted there will be only three negro
schools in the county compared to 28
negro schools of haphazard construction
thirty years ago.
The new school provides for 1,004 stu
dents. Os this number 367 will be attend
ing High School. This speaks well for the
advantages offered negro students in New
ton County.
We wish to congratulate former County
School Superintendent E. L. Ficquett and
the members of the Board of Education
of Newton County on this fine addition
to the Newton County School system.
We are quite sure the citizens of New
ton County will be proud of this new
school and the entire Newton County
School system under the capable leader
ship of County School Superintendent
Whitlow Richardson and the experienced
and efficient Board of Education of New
ton County.
We will watch with much pride the
progress of our school system as the new
buildings now under construction will be
completed and occupied. We believe New
ton County will continue to lead the way
in the field of education.
Too Much Power For
President Is Dangerous
For Welfare of Nation
For once we are forced to agree with
former Secretary of State Dean Acheson
in his eriticism of his successor’s plan te
meet the Near East crisis by giving the
President blanket authority to employ
American troops and American dollars
anywhere in the area.
In testifying behind the closed doors
of the House Foreign Affairs committee,
Mr. Acheson warned that “perfunctory ap
proval” of the President's message and the
Dulles policy would constitute an abdica
tion by the Congress of its duty to the
people. He atcused Mr. Dulles of “reck
less talk” in his testimony before the
committee, It sounded to him, he said,
“perilously like another approach to the
brink.”
More constructively, Mr. Acheson sug
cgested that instead of granting the re
quested powers to the President, the Con
gress pass a resolution making clear Amer
ican policy in the Middle East.
Earlier, Senator W. Kerr Scott, North
Carolina Democrat, speaking from the Sen
ate floor, described the Administration
proposal as “an undated declaration of
war.”
Our legislators must not be hasty or
“perfunctory” in acting on this grim re-
BITTER TEARS CAN
MAKE A RAINBOW
Sorrow is a crippling enemy to
peacefu] living. Some people let
1t master their lives. Others find
away back to a normal, useful
and happy life. If you know the
finer things of life, sorrow will
come your way. It is a quality
given only to man.
One night I was called to the
bedside of a woman who had ex
prienced a greal sorrow. She was
physically exhausted and mental
ly ill because she had not learned
to master her heartaches. I sug
gested three or four things she
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| Dwight David Eisenhower
{ . .
- Warns Against Inflation
~ In State of Union Message
i In the course of what has been re
| ported as the shortest state-of-the-union
address on record, President Eisenhower
said:
{ “This danger (inflation) requires a firm
’ resolution that the Federal Government
~ shall utilize only a prudent share of the
Nation’s resources, that it shall live within
its means, carefully measuring against
need, alternative proposals for expendi
tures.
“Through the next four years I shall
continue to insist that the executive de
partment and the agencies of Government
search out additional ways to save money
and man-power. I urge that the Congress
be equally watchful in the matter.”
In this same speech the President urged
a Federal program “to meet emergency
needs for more classrooms,” such as was
voted down'by the previous Congress, and
“appreciably” increased appropriations for
the highly controversial US Information
Agency. The Budget message, soon to
follow, would, the President said, outlin:
further specific recommendations and the
sums required to implement them.
On the day before the state-of-the
union speech, it was revealed that the De
partment of Health, Education and Wel
fare, the baby of Federal bureaus, is defin
itely growing up and will ask an appro
priation of over three billion dollars for
fiscal 1958 — or about half a billion more
than the year previous.
In the category of foreign aid, there
have been consistent warnings that con
ditions abroad will require materially in
creased appropriations for this purpose.
~ In his speech to the Congress on the Mid-
I dle East, delivered five days before the
state-of-the-union address, the President
' said he would ask “the authorization of
two hundred million dollars to be avail
able during each of the fiscal years 1958
and 1959 for discretionary use in the area,
and in addition to the other mutual se
curity programs for the area hereafter pro
vided for by the Congress.”
Let the gentlemen of the Senate and
the House of Representatives consider
carefully then — before the full flood of
appropriation requests is upon them —
the President’s earnest warnings against
the perils of inflation. And let them mark
well his advice that “the danger is al
ways present, particularly if the Govern
ment might become profligate in its ex
penditures or private groups might ignore
all the possible results on our economy of
unwise struggles for immediate gain.”
And, as for the “private groups,” it
looks frorh here as if their “struggles for
immediate gain,” whether wise or other
wise, were the basic collective cause of
the prosperity of which the President
bragged. The Government could easily
become so profligate as to discourage those
struggles. There are examples in the his
tory books.
LIFE CAN
BE BEYIER
could do to help regain her men
tal and spiritual health. If you are
facing some sorrow, perhaps they
will be helpful to you if 1 share
them.
Others have mastered sorrow.
Make a mental list of the people
you have known who have mas
tered their heartaches. Basically,
you are not different from other
people. Keep in mind that you are
not the only person in the world
who has a broken heart. Others
have received the power to heal
their broken hearts, and that
same power is available to you.
Resolve that you will not let
sorrow defeat you and take away
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
quest. Let them consider carefully the dis
tinction between authorizing the Com
mander-in-Chief to employ our armed
fordes against a stated enemy and out
right declaration of war, And let them
consider the intent of the Constitution in
giving to the Congress the sole authority
to declare war.
Within or without the framework of
the UN, we do not think the American
people are ready for another “police action”
the joy of life. You were made to}
\be happy and enjoy life, no mat-‘
;ter what life brings. Do not let
| sorrow take away the purpose\
| for which you were created. When |
‘isorrow takes away your happi-‘
|ness, you make life miserable for
| others, as well as for yourself,
| When you look at sorrow posi
ltively, and refuse to let it defeat
|you, immediately yeu affirm the
(fact that there is an answer to
|your troubles. As surely as we
|have water to quench our thirst,
'heat to warm us when we are
|cold, and food to satisfy our hun
,ger, there is a cure for broken
|hearts. }
| Do not permit your sorrow to'
|grow. Many people cultivate their
|sorrow by self pity. They sit and !
|brood over their troubles Others'
ifeed sorrow by failing to live
|their normal lives. They avoidl
'meeting old friends and going tol
,familiar places. This tends to
,make sorrow grow, and finally |
(it will master your life. l
‘ One of the best ways to get!
Irid of sorrow is to help someone |
‘else with their troubles. I know |
'a young mother who lost her|
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A leper came to Jesus, worshiping Him,
saying, “Lord if Thou wilt, Thou canst
make me clean.” Christ touched him,
saying, “I will, be thou clean,” and the
leprosy was cleansed.
SUNDAY Scrioor
- NEEDS THAT JESUS MEETS
(TEMPERANCE)
Background Scripture:
Matthew 8:1 - 9:34. |
Devotional Reading:
James 5:13-20.
Memory Selection: Take heart,
my son, your sins are for
given. Matthew 9:2.
The idea of Jesus as the great, |
good Man of the Ages has laid
powerful hold on the modern
mind. It is true as far as it goes
but it lacks length, breadth,
depth, and height in the valua
tion of our Lord’s character.
The Bible sets forth Jesus as
the divine Son of God, equal with
the Father. This means that in |
the coming of Jesus into the‘
stream of human life, God Him
self entered humanity. |
Today’s lesson deals with our |
Lord’s miraculous character and!
with the miraculous acts which |
flowed from his character. 1
- We especially address ourselves
to the consideration of sin as a
sickness of the soul, which only
Christ can cure.
This passage is included in the
Background Scripture but is not
part of the printed lesson text.
In the eighth chapter of Matt
hew we read of the pathetic lep
er who pleaded with Christ for
healing and received it. Follow
ing this is the account of a non-
Jew who discerned our Lord’s
nature much more keenly than
did our Lord’s Jewish contempor
aries. This Roman centurion, rec
oghizing Jesus as a man of spirit
ual authority and himself as a
sinner, asked only that Jesus
should speak the word of healing
and his servant would be healed.
Our Lord’s comment was: “I have
not found so great faith, no, not
in Israel.”
Then there is the healing of
Peter’s wife's mother, and of
many that were brought to him
sick or possessed with devils.
There is a disquieting interlude
“"Why Go To Church?”
By Diane Wright
The Sabbath Day is the first
day of the week; not only on the
calendar, but first in importance
in my life.
- Sunday School and the morn
ing worship service bring me
closer to my friends because we
have a common bond which has
brought us together; our love for
God. 1 feel that there is some
thing lacking in a young per
son’s life if he or she does not
seek God as Guide and Com
panion through tz‘e church,
Regular church attendance is
actually what some people might
call a “good investment.” We
are giving our lives to something
that will endure through all the
changes of time if we give it to
church and what it stands for.
As you know, what happens
as the result of going to church
may change the whole course of
‘one’s life, We are guided in
'making decisions which start rip
‘ples of influence that affect
!many people.
three year old boy. At. first she
was bitter. She envied other
'mothers who had children. Then
'she recognized envy and bitter
'ness did not heal her sorrow. She
!tried a positive plan. She heard
jof another young mother who lost
‘her little girl, and went to offer
:her the courage she needed to
'walk bravely through the sha
'dows. Everytime she heard of
'a similar experience she would
E write or visit the family and bring
‘them comfort. Her tears were bit
ter, but she managed to turn them
!into a rainbow,
. There are many ways you may
‘»turn when sorrow comes, but
‘there is only one way where you
‘will find comfort. Harry Lauder,
the Scot comedian, turned this
way when his son was killed dur
ing World War 1. “One may give
way to dispair,” he said, “and sour
on the world. One may endeavor
to drown one's sorrow in drink,
.+ « Or One may turn to God.”
A centurion begged Jesus to heal his
suffering servant, saying he knew that if
¢ He spoke the word the man would be
healed. Christ answered, “As thou hast
bellevod,noboldomutothe&",“‘
i the description of two men
who wanted to follow Jesus but
who wanted to delay and ‘qualify
their enlistment. Both of these
Jesus rejected.
We see Jesus rebuking the
winds and sea and stilling the
storm. In “the country of the
Gergesenes” he encountered two
demoniacs and restored them to
health after causing the dispos
sessed demons to enter a herd of
swine. So disturbed were the|
dwellers of that part of the coun
try over their loss of livestock
that they besought Jesus to leave |
them. |
And he did. When men love
possessions more than the pres
ence and power of Christ in their
midst, Jesus sadly departs and
leaves them with the things they
prize so highly.
in all these pictures the power
of Christ is made manifest. He
touches leprous skin, says the
healing word in behalf of a man
lying on a distant bed, lifts an
old lady from her couch of sick
ness, passes among a multitude
of ailing folk, stills the storm,
and casts demons out of the minds
and iives of two utterly wretch
ed men.
The message is clear. Jesus is
able to handle every situation in
life. By implication we learn that
healing is the duty and privilege
of his continuing church. Best
of all — as we shall see in the
remainder of this lesson — Jesus
heals disease by dealing with it
at its deepest level.
Our Lord’s contention is that
humanity’s chief ailment is sin
in fact that all other ailments
stem from the fact that man is
in ignorant, careless, or willful re
bellion against God.
Our Lord would not dignify
with the slightest notice most of
the remedies modern leaders
have for humanity’s prevailing
ailments.
Here begins the printed lesson
text.
’ Let us keep well in mind the
Just being in God's sanctuary
(on Sunday morning and even
ling, and listening to the praise
|of Him who is our Creator, makes
me feel that I am not only help
ing myself to become a better
christian, but that I am bring
ing other people to Him also.
His house surrounds me with a
| feeling of security and gives me
renewed strength to face the
jeveryday problems that confront
me. '
f My feelings may be best ex
| pressed in this hymn:
‘ I love Thy Church, 0 God!
i Her walls before Thee stand,
’ Dear as the apple of thine eye
! And graven on Thy hand.
l Beyond my highest joy,
| I prize her heavenly ways,
| Her sweet communion, solemn
’ vows
§ Her hymns of love and
’ praise.
- Central of Georgia
- Magazine Gets
" New Editor
f The Central of Georgia Rail
| way announces the promotion of
Leonard D. (Jack) Jackson as
editor of the Central of Georgia
Magazine, succeeding J. Lloyd
Burrell, who is resigning to enter
another field of industry.
| Mr. Jackson, who will make
‘his headquarters in Savannah, is |
'a native of LaGrange, Ga., a gra
jduate of the University of Geor- |
gia, a former editor of the Turner |
‘Air Force Base newspaper at Al- |
‘bany, and has been with the Cen- |
tral as assistant editor since Sep- |
‘tember 1956.
Mr. Burrell, a native of Haber- |
sham County, Ga., has been edi- |
tor of the Central’s magazine for |
nearly nine years, is a graduate
of the University of Georgia, and |
was engaged in public relations
work with the U. S. Department
of Agriculture in Atlanta prior to
Joining the Central in 1948. x
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State) Thursday, January 24, 1957
' A man lying on a bed, sick with palsy,
was brought to Jesus. Christ said, “Son,
~ be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven
° thee.” But certain scribes said: “This
e man blasphemeth.”
besic Biblical teaching that there
is a profound and continuous re
lationship between sin and all
human ailments. This is particu
larly true in physical disease and
mental illness and in that vast
realm of troublesome disorders
elassified under the general head
of emotional instability.
All illness is the result of sin.
To say this does not mean that
everyone suffering from an ail
ment is suffering because of some
sin he has committed. Neither
‘does it mean that every sufferer
is in pain because of the sin of a
forebear or even because of the
sin of his contemporaries. But sin
is part of man’s fallen estate.
When man disobeyed God and
fell from the perfection in which
he had been created, he was driv
en from a garden of pleasantness
into a world abounding with
thorns and thistles. Adam and
Eve were to become the parents
of a willful, sinful, and fallen
humanity, and these erring sons
‘and daughters have created a so
ciety characterized by cruelty,
pain, selfishness, greed, lust, and
avarice. In this fallen realm, ill
ness of body, mind and spirit
would naturally abound.
There is only one greater fact
in human life than sin, and that
is the grace of God mediated
through Jesus Christ, by whom
sin ig cured.
All sickness is either directly
or indirectly caused by sin. Much
illness — but not all — is caused
directly by sin. We behold in the
lesson today a man sick of the
palsy, and the intimation is that
his invalid state was the direct
result of his sinning. He had sow
ed to the flesh and of the flesh
had reaped ecorruption.
Today men work themselves to
death to maintain a certain social
and financial standard. Others
cast themselves into the sins of
carnality and have the life eaten
out of body and mind. Liquor
keeps seven million people in this
country in the bonds of alcohol
ism and sends thousands more to
death on the highways.
Mark (2:1-12) and Luke (5:18-
26) tell us that this sick man was
brought by companions who,
when they could not get to Jasus
because of the multitude, uncov
ered the roof and lowered his
| couch before Jesus. By this we
|are taught that Jesus admires
{ and rewards those who seek after
him with persistence. There is
also a lesson here on friendship
and reliability, for if even one
of the four men had failed "his
friend, the miracle might never
have occurred. And by this pas
sage of Scripture we are remind
ed that the world is full of help
{less folk who have much need of
us. The wisest and kindliest thing
we can do for them is to bring
them to Christ — in our prayers,
in our invitation that they join
the church, in Christian fellow
ship and good neighborliness. |
Jesus went to the root of the
man’s trouble. What this poor fel- }
low needed above everything else
*was the forgiveness of his sins—t
not just for the healing of his |
‘body but for the salvation of his ‘
|soul. As soon as he laid eyes on
(him Jesus said, “Son, be of good
icheer; thy sins be forgiven thee."(
l The Pharisees laughed deri
isively. This was an easy way out‘
|indeed. A man came for healing,
\and this teacher who pretended
|so much dismissed him with a
| blessing. But what these foolish}
| ecclesiastics did not realize was,
| first, that Jesus had touched the |
| source of the man’s trouble, and,
| secondly, .that he had said what
' he did in order to challenge them.
iThey walked laughingly into thel
i‘trap. |
~ They called him a blasphemer. |
No one, they said — and quiteg
correctly so — has a right to for
‘give sins save God Himself. What
‘they did not realize was that
Jesus Christ is God — the only
begotten Son, equal with the
Father, incarnate. Then Jesus |
said: “Whether is easier, to say,i
Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to !
say, Arise, and walk? But that yei
may know that the Son of man |
hath power on earth to forgive!
sins (then saith he to the sick of |
the palsy), Arise, take up thyl
bed, and go unto thine house. And |
he arose, and departed to his |
house.” |
A great section of Christian |
theology was set forth in those |
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THE BACKBONE OF Congress | |
fs ite committees. Without them |
legislative processes would bog|:
Jdown in a hopeless morass of con-|
flicts and confusion. {
.ol ° While the de-|
.S, botos and de.|
& B cisive votes
'@ . B give Congress
RTIINg oo in)
@&4 4B the committee
%% 20 Z@ . rooms that the|
i ¥ laws of the na
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g tion are perfect
et @< ed. Through
countless hours of usually-unher
alded study, research, conferences
and hearings, the members and
staffs of the various committees
put into proper form, both as to
structure and substance, each of
the acts considered by the law
makers for a place on the statute
books. 4
- - -
BECAUSE OF THE vital role
which ecommittees play in making
our laws, I was particularly grati
fied to be assigned by the Senate
Democratic Steering Committee to
serve on two key ones—the Com
mittee on Agriculture and Forestry
and the Committee on Rules and
Administration,
The Committee on Agriculture
and Forestry is responsible for all
legislative matters relating to
those two fields, particularly the
fornulation of the nation’s farm
program. It considers all meas
ures pertaining to such subjects as
agricultural production and prices,
livestock and meat inspection, ani
mal diseases, seed adulteration, in-
ani prepared or printed at government expenae)
Dr. Newfon Friedman to Speak As
Emory as Oxford Assembly Monday
Oxford, Ga. — Dr. Newton J.
Friedman, spiritual leader of
Congregation Meth Israel in Ma
con, Georgia, will be the guest
speaker at the Emory as Oxford
‘chapel assembly on Monday, Jan
‘uary 28, at 10 a.m., in the Allen
Memorial Auditorium.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Friedman is a graduate of
Western Reserve University. He
did post-graduate work at Wil
liams College and Harvard Uni
versity. He was ordained rabbi
at the Hebrew Union College in
Cincinnati in 1934, and received
his Doctor of Divinity Degree
from Burton Seminary.
Before going to Macon, Dr.
Friedman occupied pulpits in
Austin, Texas and Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, and was director
of the Hillel Foundation at the
University of Texas.
Dr. Friedman is a member of
the Macon Round Table of the
National Conference of Christ
ians and Jews and is on the
Mayor's Committee on World Af
fairs. He was a delegate to the
1955 World Union of Progressive
Judaism in Paris and to the
World Conference of Christians
and Jews in Brussels.
The rabbi lectures at colleges
under the auspices of The Jewish
few simple words and simple acts,
Sickness was denominated as sin
—in this case the direct cause of
it. Forgiveness was proclaimed
by Jesus to be man's greatest
‘need. Jesus proved before the
'leaders of Israel that he was
'God incarnate, else his words
iwould have revealed him as a
‘ blasphemer.
~ This is a temperance lesson. We
should reflect today upon the
immeasurable and unnecessary |
evil which humanity endures be
cause multitudes make money out
of the weakness of their fellows.
More people meet death every
day in: highway accidents in |
Jesus, passing, saw a man named Mat-‘
thew who was a taker of tolls. Jesus)
said, “Follow Me, and the man left his
post and followed Him.
MEMORY VERSE~—Matthew 8:2.
sects, agricultural eolleges, ex
periment stations, agricultural
research, dairying, nutrition, home
economics, entomology, plant guar
antine, farm credit, rural eleetrifi.
cation, crop insurance, agricultural
‘marketing and soil eonservation.
* - *
THE RULES COMMITTEE Ban.
dles all matters relating sc ¥he
parliamentary rules and procedures
of the Senate and federal
including those for President
Vice President, In additiom, 3
the agency which administers ¥he
various facilities of the Senate ¢
well as those institutions, like #he
Smithsonian Institution and Boe
tanic Gardens, which ecome wndes
its jurisdiction,
This Committee, parficulasy #ils
year, will exercise great influence
over the course of many measures
coming before the Senate, espe
cially such controversial omes as
the so-called civil rights proposals.
For example, it will consider all of
the proposed changes in Senate
Rule XXII which permits unlimited
debate,
. * .
BOTH OF THESE Commfittees
will be dealing with legislation #n
which all Georgians have a major
concern not only at this session but
also at sessions to come, I {feel
that through serving on them I will
be enabled to be a more effective
représentative of the citizens of
Georgia and the nation.
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Chautauqua Society, an organiza
tion for the dissemination of au
thentic information concerning
Judaism as part of an educa
tiondl program.
W. T. Clayton, Extension beef
specialist, says Brucellosis causes
an etimated one million dollar
annual loss to the livestock in
dustry in Georgia.
.| which liquor is involved than met
|death each day in the Korean
| War — and there is no “cease
fire” terminating the highway
n‘tragedies. Our crime bill is at
| least twenty billion a year, and
| police officials tell us that an
loverwhelming majority of all
| crimes are caused by drinking.
' There is an attempt on the part
| of certain “authorities” today to
|play down the part that liquor*
contributes to disease. The testie
mony of the ages is gainst such
claims.
Beverage alcohol has, through
the ages, been the Great Devas
| tator.,