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IHE COVINGTOII NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
Sam Dietz, Former Local
Merchant, Passes Away;
Funeral Held in Augusta
Newton County citizens learned with
regret the passing of Sam Dietz, former
Covington merchant and civic leader. •
Mr. Dietz, or “Mr. Sam” as he was
called by his legion of customers and
friends, passed away Monday after a long
illness. With his brother, Harry, he had
operated the Dietz Department store in
Covington for approximately 35 years.
Harry passed away approximately
eleven years ago and Sam’s son, Irving,
gave up his business in Monroe to come
to Covington to assist Mr. Dietz with the
Department store and remained with him
until they closed the store in September
1955. He now operates his own store in our
city.
Mr. Dietz was a member of the Rot
ary Club and active in civic affairs of the
city and county. He was ever willing and
ready to assist in every worthy cause. He
was beloved by all who came in contact
with him.
Mr. Dietz will continue to live in his
fine son, granddaughter and great grand
son. We join all the citizens in Newton
County in sympathy for his loved ones.
Budget Control Might
Help Avert Any Evidence
Os Any Depression
President Eisenhower backed up his
second appeal to business and labor “to
act as enlightened Americans” in stopping
the upward spiral of inflation with the
waning that . unless this happens,
the United States then has to move in
me re firmly with so-called controls of
serie kind, and when we begin to control
pr ces and allocations and wages and all
the rest, then it is not the America we
k« ow ... I believe any intelligent man can
sc o the direction we will have to go, un
k s there is some wisdom exercised not
oUy in Government but throughout the
whole economy.”
The President did not go into the
matter of the wisdom the Government
might exercise in its own fiscal affairs.
But there are those, including Treasury
Secretary Humphrey, who see inflationary
pressure in the record-breaking budget
recommendations his boss sent to Con
gress last month. The Secretary warned
the time that unless the “terrific” Gov
' --nment spending and taxing were not
opned, “I predict that you will have a
depression that will curl your hair”.
More recently, an analysis by Research
D' rector Eugene F. Rinta, of the Council of
St e Chambers of Commerce, revealed
that “only $2.7 billion of the $7.2 billion
increase in the President’s proposed new
budget over the budget record of 1955 are
due to increases in national security pro
grams”. Non-defense increases as reported
by Rinta, included: “. . . labor and welfare
up about $1 billion from 1955, veterans’
services and benefits $570 million, agricul
ture $554 milllo noverall, natural resources
$457 million, general government $250 mil
lion, and interest $922 million”. Rinta
points out further that increases in the
new budget, together with those of 1956
and 1957. will wipe out all but $2 5 billion
of the nearly $lO billion cut from Federal
spending in the first two Eisenhower years.
But Secretary of Commerce Sinclair
Weeks says there are no plans afoot for
price o? wage controls and no studies have
been made in these fields. He thus appears
optimistic that the Presidential warning
will be heeded by business and labor, or
Administration spending plans will be cut
by Congress — or both.
Good Suggestion From
Massachusetts Regarding
High School Graduation
From Massachusetts, cradle of Amer
ica’s public school system, comes an idea
in high school administration that strikes
us as eminently sane, practical and human
itarian. Further, it is one that could be
adopted i nany community — our own for
instance.
When, in the land of the bean and the
cod, high school seniors have *‘nished their
instruction, and taken their examinat"
those who have passed are graduated. They
are graduated before the ending of the
school year. They do not have to wait
about and fill whole days with witless I
activities designed mainly to consume
time until that last day of school — when
they can at last put on that long-coveted
cap and gown and receive the diploma they ।
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New Drug Developed
Offers Encouraging News
To Alcoholic Unfortunates
A new light is dawning on the hitherto
bleak horizon of alcoholism, according to
Dr. Marvin A. Block, chairman of the
Committee on Alcoholism of the American
Medical Association's Council on Mental
Health. Use of the new tranquilizing drugs,
he writes in the AMA Journal, has “all
but revolutionized” medical treatment of
acute alcoholism.
These tranquilizers, he says, “have
proved of immense value in treating the
acutely intoxicated patient. The patient
"not only is given a sense of comfort that
enables him to sleep but is also relieved
of his nausea and is able to bat much ear
lier than heretofore.”
More specifically, he described one of
4hese drugs, meprobamate (popularly
known as Miltown), as having a “decidedly
tranquilizing effect . . . reducing the ten
sion and allaying some of the anxieties so
common in the alcoholic . . Dr. Block
believes'that barbiturates, which fcave been
commonly used in the treatment of alco
holism, “are neither necessary nor desir
able”, and says that their habituating
properties “will often lead the addictive
alcoholic to switch to barbiturates from his
alcohol for relief . . .”
“Many physicians treating alcoholics,”
he says, “use these tranquilizing drugs
to the exclusion of all other sedation and
have obtained good results with this type
of therapy. Even with patients in delirium
tremens and extreme hyperactivity, these
drugs have been used very effectively, al
though larger doses may be necessary.”
In his article (Vol. 162, No. 18 of the
AMA Journal) Dr. Block gives the dosage
for meprobamate, and while he warns
against possible side effects from tran
quilizing drugs in general, he observes
that “so far there have been no great
untoward reactions reported in the use of
meprobamate . .
This article is the first of a series of
four which will constitute an AMA drive
to assure alcoholics “the proper medical
care and consideration they so urgently
need ; In a preliminary statement, Dr.
Block’s Committee deplores the fact that
much recently developed information on
the subject “has not had wide circulation”.
And certainly every physician who has
been face to face with the tragedy of
alcoholism — the suffering, deprivation
and mental anguish it brings upon the
patient’s family as well as himself — will
equally deplore this reticence. And he will
welcome new-found knowledge that ena
bles him to give to alcoholics “the neces
sary attention and treatment that could
and should be given them”.
had earned weeks before.
With the excitement and distractions
of commencement out of the way two to
four weeks earlier, undergraduates have a
better chance of completing the year’s
work creditably. The graduates have a
worthwhile advantage in finding summer
jobs before they are swamped by com
petition and more time in which to earn
the extra money that with mean so much
at college. And for those whose working
lives must begin with high school gradua
tion, this head-start in job hunting is even
more important. It can well mean the dif
ference between finding the right job and
making a false start — that can result in
wasted years in painful readjustment, and
at worst, a life of frustration.
We do not know of any law that re
strains us from giving our high school gra
duates this consideration. Nor do we feel
there is anything sacred about holding gra
duation on the last, or next to last, day of
school. It might even upgrade the com
mencement exercises by removing the
competition that now exists for particular
ly sought-after speakers. We suggest that,
while there is still time, our school people
think it over.
Those who are young-spirited enough to
remember what it feels like to be eighteen
(or so) find a high school graduate — and
can recall the trepidation with which he
looked out upon the great world he must
conquer — will be all for helping.
Port Huron. Mich., Times Herald: “Ev
ery government of oppression that has ex
isted on this earth has been drowned in
the blood of its victims. There is no reas
on to expect that Russia will not meet
the same fate.”
Covington, Tenn., Leader: “If people
who wonder what is becoming of their
money would watch themselves closely for
JO days or so, they would probably find
out they are spending it.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at Hie Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mad aonw es Hie Second
THE COVINGTON NEWS
The Great Confession ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Alfred J. Bvotchor I
I . ■ .... ■ -—■ ■ ' ■ —' Scripture—Matthew 16:13—17:27.
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Jesus asked His disciples, “Whom do
men say that I am?” They told what
they had been hearing. "But whom say
ye that I am?” Christ asked. "Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God,"
said Peter.
OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
UNDAY OCHOOL
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Background Scripture:
Matthew 16:13-17:27.
Devotional Reading:
John 3:14-21.
Memory Select l on: "Who do you j
say that I am?” . . . “You
are the Christ, the Son of
the living God.” Matthew .
16:15-16.
One of the most obvious facts i
in the reading of the Gospels is
that Jesus Christ came, in com
plete and perfect fulfillment of
the Scriptures, as the Messiah
of God. From the very beginning
of his ministry, all his actions,
ahd the implications of his
words, were plainly Messianic.
And yet Jesus refused to identify
himself openly as the Messiah,
and not until his triumphal en
try did he serve open and public
notice of his claim to that office.
The reason for this paradox is
clear-cut. Jesus did not want to [
be identified publicly as the :
Messiah until the nation had |
been reeducated as to the mean- |
ing of that office.
To the jews, the Messiah was
a politico-economic ruler who
was to exalt Israel over all na
tions. In terms of Biblical faith,
their conception of the Messiah
was not godly but nationalistic.
The ministry of our Lord was
directed to preparing the faith- ■
ful to receive the Messiah as the |
divinely ordained suffering ser
vant who was to make atone
ment for sin as the final and ab
solute prophet, priest, and king,
with total dominion and author
ity. The people had one expecta
tion. a false one; God had his
fulfillment in Christ. Before
Jesus Christ could offer himself
as the Messiah of God, he had to
make clear to the nation what
the Messiah came to do and who j
he truly was.
This is the basic issue that i
comes to light in the incident of j
the Great Confession: What '
kind of Messiah had God given? 1
From the time of his first pub
lic appearance, his baptism by
John, Jesus had created a tre- j;
mendous Messianic interest. His
miracles and his authoritative ’
utterances, given not on Moses’ ,
authority but on his own, im- ’
mediately suggested the Messiah. ]
But because he went about
preaching and teaching, instead ; ]
of instituting a great Jewish em- | <
pire. it was immediately con
cluded by many that he was ' -
rather the forerunner of the Mes- \;
siah. Some continued to think of i (
him as the Messianic king, as is ; 1
clear from the cry of the blind ’
men whom he healed on entering j I
and leaving Jericho (Matt. 20:29- j'
34, Luke 18:35-43, Mark 10:46-52). 1
In hailing him as the Son of ;
David, they acknowledged him <
to be the promised King of 11
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Christ revealed to Hia disciples that He
would be killed, but would rise again
Peter rebuked Him, saying that He need
not be slain, but Jesus chided Peter,
saying that his words were not of God
but of men.
I
I Kings.
As Jesua. toward the elose of
his ministry, prepared to go to
Jerusalem and the destined cross,
he asked his disciples, “Whom
do men say that I the Son of
man am?” They were at this
time in the coasts, or district,
of Caesarea Philippi, a town in
the tetrarchy of Philip.
In asking this question, Jesus
was not merely seeking informa
tion concerning the extent of
the people’s readiness to accept I
him, for of that he was not in ;
ignorance. He was instead put- I
ting the disciples’ faith to the
test.
The disciples offered four pop
ular interpretations. First, some
men believed Jesus to be John
the Baptist risen from .the dead.
This was apparently a widely
held superstition, held even by
| the guilt-ridden Herod (Matt.
114:2). Second, others believed
him to be Elias (or Elijah) come
: again. This involved a literal and
■ false interpretation of the pro
phecy of Malachi 4:5. The third
belief was that Jesus was Jere
miah come again. This view was
possible because many Jews lik
ened Jeremiah to the promised
final prophet of Deuteronomy
18:15. Fourth, others believed
. Jesus to be one of the other
prophets come again.
These opinions are especially
significant, because they were
held by men who rejected Jesus
and even, as in the case of
Herod, helped to crucify him.
Yet in each instance these peo
ple believed him to be a miracu- ;
lous and supernatural person, a
man who clearly came from the
other world, because he spoke
with such authority and did such
mighty works.
Thus in rejecting and crucify
i ing him, they rejected one whom
they recognized at the very least
to be more than natural man and
one clearly sent by God. This
makes their rejection all the
more damnable, and their sin un
speakably great.
A fifth opinion, also common- ■
ly held, was not given by the |
disciples. Many people did be
lieve Jesus to be the Messiah.
But this the disciples did not
say, since they wanted this to
be their own particular confes
sion.
Jesus then came to the point
with his disciples: “Whom say
ye that I am?” Peter spoke
quickly, expressing the convic
tion of all the disciples, the con
viction which had led them to
forsake all and follow Jesus.
“Thou art the Christ, the Son of
the living God.”
There was no dissent from this
declaration. The disciples had re
frained from ascribing this faith
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Jesus took Peter, James end John to a
high mountain, an^ there'He was trans
figured and a voice said. ’This is My
Beloved Son . . . hear ye Him." The dis
ciples fell on their faces in great fear,
but Jesus said, “Be not afraid."
—
Covington Junior
High School jNews
8A NEWS
By Ginger K nighi
We had a party on George
Washington’s birthday, except it
wasn’t in honor of him. It was for
Jimmy Cheek, given by his moth
er. We were served ice cream ]
with a hatchet on it and pink and ;
white layer cake with chocolate
icing. j
We also got out early Friday 1
; because we had a week of z per- ;
I feet attendance. j
Franklin Malcolm was the rep
! resentative from our room for
spelling in the school.
MRS. HARPER S
FIFTH GRADE NEWS
Reporters Bobby Travis
and Tim Exley
We have had a lot of fun in so
cial studies sending to various
states for post cards and items of
interest. Since we have only thir
ty in our room some of us took
two states to send to.
to the people at large, not be
cause it did not exist, but proba
bly because they felt it was
their own faith in a special way.
They had staked their all, had
broken business and home ties,
had consented to live a wander,
i ing life, had faced the opposi
| tion of the leaders of the nation,
j and had suffered financial loss
because they believed Jesus to
be the Messiah. With the public
at large it was an opinion; with
them, it was an act of faith.
Three things characterized the
J faith of the disciples. First of all,
they believed Jesus to be, as
Peter said, “the Christ.” The
words Christ and Messiah are
identical in meaning the first
being derived from the Greek,
the second from the Hebrew.
Both man “anointed.” The disci
ples declared their faith that
Jesus was the Anointed, or Cho
sen, of God. the destined one of
prophecy.
Second, they believed him to
■ be “the Son of the living God.”
. They recognized him not merely
:as a superhuman figure but
rather as the very Son of God.
This too was in accordance with
Scripture, but not in accordance
with popular belief. Here the dis
ciples broke with the common
expectation of a superhuman
political leader and affirmed
their faith in the deity, the god
head, of Jesus the Messiah. Their
witness, therefore, was clearly
their own and properly distin-
guished from that of the popu- '
lace. x
Third, they shared still, how
ever. the common expectation of
a political leader rather than a
spiritual redeemer. They were
stunned when he spoke of hie
crucifixion and resurrection (v.
21). All this was contrary to their
anticipations of a Jewish empire
under the Messiah's leadership.
Thus, while the verdict of the
disciples in one way transcended
the opinion of the people, and
did involve a sacrificing faith
on their part, in another sense
they still shared the defective
faith of Judaism in a political
Messiah.
Suoh defective faith still exists !
wherever people approach Jesus
Christ as anything other than
the divine redeemer of man from
the dominion of sin and death.
To see him primarily as a so
cial reformer or a moral teacher
is to reject him even as Judaism
rejected him. To see Jesus as he
is, we must accept him as “the
Christ, the Son of the living
God,” who came to “be killed,
and be raised again the third
day” (vv. 16, 21), and who did
these things “to give his life a
ransom for many’ (Mark 10:45).
Jesus refused any confession
then that fell short of this, and
he will not accept any less now. J
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We have had two people a day
for chapel. To keep people from
wanting the same day we drew
pieces of paper with dates on
them. The date you drew was
the day you had the chapel. We
have had a lot of fun planning
and doing them.
We think Mrs. Harper is a very
nice and grand teacher. We had
fun all through the winter months
and know we will have fun dur
ing the months to come.
WMAN TALMADGE 1
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das,
TWO CONCLUSIONS FROM
the debate over the so-called
| Eisenhower Doctrine for the Mid
dle East are inescapable: (1) the
United States ha« no definite for
eign policy and (2) this nation
would find it manifestly impossible
to fulfill all of its unilateral mili
tary agreements at any given
I time.
J
D i plo m acy
which substi
tutes words for
wisdom and dol
lars for deeds
and measures
its successes in
terms of the
sums cf meney
given away and
the number of miles traveled by
the Secretary of State is both
shallow and dangerous. It is shal
low because it serves to confirm in
foreign minds the Communist
propaganda pitch about American
materialism and hypocrisy and it
is dangerous because it tends to
lull Americans into a false sense
of complacency and invincibility.
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THE MIDDLE EASTERN Res
olution, coupled with the previ
ously-adopted declaration pledging
| the integrity of Formosa, creates
an untenable military situation
for this country. The two commit
ments together obligate the United
States to oppose aggression by the
world’s two greatest powers, So
viet Russia and Red China, at op
posite ends of the globe and to do
it without allies.
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Thursday, February 28, 1957
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After Jesus had cast out an evil spirit
from a boy, the disciples asked why they
had been unable to exorcise the spirit.
Christ said because they lacked faith.
With faith they could do anything
MEMORY VERSE—Matthew 16:15, 16.
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LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Monticello, Ga.
Feb, 11, 1957
i Dear Sir:
’ lam sending $2.06 to renew mv
>
, subscription to Covington NEWS
’ j from Feb. 15,1957 to Feb. 15, 1M&,
I enjoy the paper very much.
1I Thanks,
Mrs. Hattie Galloway
Route 1, Box 147
Monticello, Ga.
4 The gravity of such a situatioe
d is obvious when one attempts to
I- visualize the consequences of ai
e multaneous Russian and Chinese
- moves against the Middle East and
n Formosa. The United States would
e be forced either to launch an
- atomic war which could mean the
n end of civilization or to stand
branded before the free world as
y a bombastic bluff.
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r THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS are
- fraught with fiscal dangers equally
3 as serious as the physical threat of
s the military phases. With this na
n tion’s economy in jeopardy from
inflation it is foolish to contem
plate “blank check” .pending of
hundreds of millions of dollars to
f bolster a section of the world
, which has the earth's richest oil
. deposils and, but for the greed and
j despotism of its absolute poten
t tates, could be enjoying a standard
, of living rivaling our own.
t Ido not favor giving the Exeeu
, tive Department a free hand to
, parcel out foreign aid or to comm i
American troops to wage diploma
tic w ars such as the Korean con
flict. Neither do I favor any com-
. mitment of American soldiers
. under the command of the United
Nations without specific approval
by Congress.
To tie the hands of Congress to
make or declare war or to prevent
it from appropriating funds ac
cording .to r^eed is to court disaster.
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