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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
Eisenhower Budget Calls
For $17,800,000,000
Establishes U. S. Record
President Eisenhower sent up to the
Congress recently the most remarkable
recommended budget in the history of this
nation.
It constituted the largest demand ever
made in peacetime. It totaled, on the face
pt it, $71,807,000,000 — or $416 apiece from
every man, woman and infant in the U. S.
But Capital observers point out that social
security, special highway taxes and other
odds and ends not included in the figures
wheeled up the Hill, will boosit the collective
obligation of us all to a total of more than
85 billions!
The Secretary of the Treasury, who is
presumed to have a good deal to do with
the formulation of the budget, is unhappy
with it. He told a news conference that the
upward spiral of Government spending
'’should promptly be stopped”. If “terrific”
spending and taxing were not stopped, he
said, “I predict that you will have a de
pression that will curl your hair”.
“I think there are a lot of places in
this budget that can be cut,” said Secretary
Humphrey, and indicated he expected cuts
would be made. “I think we will do so in
the Treasury,” he said. But Mr. Humphrey
denied he had been overruled in his eco
nomy ideas, and defended the budget as
the best that our planners could do at
this time.
“There is no division or difficulty in
the Administration at all,” he said stoutly.
So, as has been hinted around the
Capital, perhaps President Eisenhower
doesn’t like it either. Bigger spending in
every category, plus new spending — such
as the four-year, two billion dollar Federal
aid program for school building —for a
total eight billions above the lowest Eisen
hower budget, make it suspect. It doesn’t
gibe with pre-election promises. Nor does
it reflect that “firm resolution” mentioned
by the President in his State-of-the-Union
message of a week earlier, “that the Fed
eral Government shall utilize only a prud
ent share of the Nation’s resources, that it
shall live within its means, carefully mea
suring against need alternative proposals
for expenditures”.
Thus, we may wonder just whose bud
get it is. But the important fact is that
this staggering tome is today in the hands
of Congress — which must shoulder final
responsibility to the people for the terrify
ing possibilities it presents.
It is pleasant indeed to be able to re
port that our lawmakers in Washington
ere being swamped with letters from con
stituents demanding that their duly elected
cpresentatives give a thought to Federal
pending — and specifically to the reduc
ion thereof. Publication of the staggering
igures contained in the President’s record
breaking peace-time budget recommenda
tions coinciding with the admission from all
quarters that there could be no general
tax reductions, apparently touched off this
avalanche of spontaneous public protest.
Thus, in view of the undoubted inter
est of our own readers in the “tax and
tax”, “spend and spend” routine, you ma”
find, the following recent tabulation by the
Council of State Chambers of Commerce
a useful reference item:
State: Percent of Cost of Pro-
Federal Tax posed Budget
Burden Borne to the States
Alabama 1.02% $ 732.360.000
Arizona .47 337,460.000
Arkansas .49 351.820,000
California 9.81 7.043,580.000
Colorado .89 639.020,000
Connecticut 1.97 1.414.460.000
Delaware .40 287,200,000
Florida 1 80 1.292.400,000
Georgia 1.34 962.120 000
Idaho .25 1 79.500,000
Illinois 7.46 5 356,280.000
Indiana 2.62 1.881,160.000
lowa 1.26 904,680,000
Kansas 1.06 761.080,000
Kentucky 109 782,620.000
Louisiana 1.16 832.880.000
Maine .43 308.740.000
Maryland 1.93 1.385.7^0.000
Massachusetts 3.37 2.419 660.000
Michigan 5.63 4,042,340,000
Minnesota 1.68 1,206.240.000
Mississinpi .48 3-4.640.000
Missouri 2 50 1.7°5 000.000
Montana .35 251.300 000
Nebraska .66 473,380.000
Nevada .20 143,600,000
New Hampshire .31 222,580,000
New Jersev 4.22 3,029,960,000
New Mexico .34 244,120,000
New York 12.65 9 082.700 000
North Carolina 1.42 1.0'9.5600<V)
No-h Dakota .23 165 1 *0 000
Ohio . 6 48 4.652,640,000
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We have taken a fresh look at those
charges of dangerous-economic-power-m
--the-hands-of-big-businesa that roll unceas
ingly from the propaganda mills in Wash
ington and elsewhere.
And we have decided that there may
be something to them, after all — although
not exactly the something that the propa
gandists have in mind.
Although it is just about as old as poli
tics, the “economic concentration” talk be
comes more interesting in the light of a
recent General Motors survey of facts a
bout its suppliers. Those, of course, are the
firms from which GM buys the tremendous
variety of goods and services needed in
the production of its automobiles and other
products.
That variety, by the way, ranges from
obvious requirements like steel to guitar
picks, baby bottle nipples, ground corn
cobs, crushed walnut shells, and scores of
other unlikely items required in various
production operations.
But to us, the most interesting revela
tion of the survey is the fact that the vast
majority of GM's 26,000 American sup
pliers are SMALL businesses. Over 64
percent employ fewer than 100 persons.
And 89 percent have fewer than 500 em
ployes.
Yet, in total, it is estimated that those
26.000 suppliers — located in every state
and the District of Columbia — employ
more than 12.000.000 persons. Which means
that the nearly 50 cents out of every GM
sales dollar that goes to suppliers helps to
support 12 million jobs.
Here is economic power, all right! The
economic power of a large slice of Amer
ica, operating as a team to produce the
transportation we all use. And to produce
profits, of course, for 26.000 businesses.
More power to them — and to the
12.000.000 workers and their families who
also are splitting up the pot.
"A Bankrupt America Could
Not Stop The Spread Os
Communism" - Legion Head
“In times like these we don’t usually
cut budgets very much,” said Speaker Sam
Rayburn, with reference, of course, to the
record-breaking $71,807,000,000 budget sent
up to the Capitol by President Eisenhower.
But we hope that Mr. Sam’s confreres
in both houses of Congress are less cava
lier in their consideration of a budget that
is premised on a prosperity for the next
18 months even greater than that of 1956,
a budget that the Secretary of the Treas
ury views with alarm.
Further, we would like to remind the
solons of the words of that free-wheeling
new National Commander of The Ameri
can Legion, Dan Daniel, of Danville. Va„
on “the issue of national solvency”. He
said:
“A bankrupt America could not possi
bly stop the spread of Communism. New
schools and highways can serve no useful
purpose if there is not sufficient private
capital to maintain them. And the finest
armed forces in the world will be helpless
if the economy that supports them is en
feebled.”
And again, “I think we all subscribe
to the rule that it is better to give than
to receive. By that measure the United
States is far and away the best of nations
in all history. But the Government of the
United States is not primarily a charitable
institution and benevolence becomes a vice
when carried to the point where it is
neither appreciated nor prudent.
Commander Daniel was speaking of
“times like these”.
Oklahoma 1.00 718,000,000
Oregon .99 710.820,000
Pennsylvania 6.98 5.011.640.000
Rhode Island .52 373.360.000
South Carolina .66 473.880.000
South Dakota .22 157,960,000
Tennessee 1.24 890.320.000
Texas 4.39 3.152.020,000
Utah .37 265,660.000
Vermont .16 114.880,000
Virginia 1.62 1.163,160,000
Washington 1.69 1,213.420.000
West Virginia .75 538.500 000
Wisconsin 2.13 1,529.340,000
Wyoming .17 122,060.000
D.C., Alaska.
Hawaii and
Puerto Rico 1.14 8’8.520.000
UNITED STATES ,
TOTAL 100.00 : °o $71,800,000,000
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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at Covington, Georgia. as
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Background Scripture: i 1
Matthew 18-20. <
Devotional Reading:
Isaiah 55:6-9. h
Memory Selection: “Lord, how t
often shall my brother sin t
against me, and I forgive ]
him? As many as seven (
times?” Jesus said to him, i
“I do not say to you seven
times, but seventy times ,
seven.” Matthew 18:21-22.
This parable is a continuation j
of Matthew 18:1-20, in which our
Lord discusses the humility of ,
faith, God’s love which reaches ,
out to the lost, and gives in brief
the parable of the lost sheep.
The purpose of this discourse
was to declare the love of God
and the extent of his grace, in
order that man might under,
stand that it was his obligation
to make known the same love
that God had revealed to him.
The practical purpose was mani
fested in counsel concerning
“gaining thy brother” (w. 15-17)
who has sinned against you.
Our Lord made two things
clear. First, unlimited forgive
ness was required as an obliga
tion to God, and this unlimited
forgiveness was to be extended
as long as the sinner asked for
it. Second, forgiveness was not
to be sentimentally understood.
If the sinner refused every
peaceful approach on the part of
the offended brother, and on the
part of church authorities, the
counsel was, “let him be unto
thee as an heathen man and a
publican.”
This gives us the setting of
the parable on forgiveness. It
deals with the relationship of
fellow members of the church
(v. 17) and not their relationship
with unbelievers. The command
ment to love our enemies applies
to unbelievers; this command
ment of unlimited forgiveness
applies to those within the close
circle of the church.
This does not mean that for.
giveness is to be limited to
Christians only. What it does
mean is that forgiveness as ex
plained by this parable is of a
nature that requires it to be
applied to the circle of the
church. It rests on the forgive
ness of God for Christians, as
made known to all the church,
and therefore required of all
members of the church as the
standard of their relationship
one to another.
Jesus had spoken concerning
the necessity of forgiving Chris
tian brothers. This presented a
difficult problem to the disciples,
as it did late to the apostolic
dhurch. The disciples knew the
frailtv of their peoole and of |
the larger circles of followers. I
The early church found many I
sins in the church begging for- I
giveness. not the least of which
was adultery and fornication.
Many followers, were weak
Christians who stumbled and fell
repeatedly. Was forgiveness to
be extended every time they
desired it? Was there no limit
to forgiveness? Many of the |
people were greedy for gain and
ready to exoloit fellow believers
Were they to be forgiven every
time they repented and made
amends on being caught? Peter’s
question was therefore a very i
practical one: “Lord how oft
shall my brother sin against me.
and I forgive him? till seven
times?” Peter faced realistically ।
the issue which occurred to
every disciple: men can take
advantage of forgiveness and re
pent automat'cally and make a
mends, and thus abuse the for- |
S LESSON FOI
CHOOL
giving brother. Some kind of
limit, they felt, had to be placed
on forgiveness.
Jesus’ answer was clear-cut
and startling. “I say not unto
thee, Until seven times; but un
til seventy times seven.” The un
limited forgiveness here requir
ed was then expounded by Jesus
in the form of a parable.
Forgiveness cannot be based
on human inclination or kindli
ness. The only valid Christian
forgiveness is grounded in the
nature of God as revealed in
Jesus Christ. Thus it becomes
clear that no forgiveness can be
extended on sentimental or pure
ly personal grounds. Unlimited
forgiveness must be extended
to the repentant only on godly
grounds.
In the parable of the unjust
steward, Jesus made clear the
grounds of forgiveness. The “cer
tain king” is God, while “his
servants” are Christians. The
term “his servants” however, is
applied here to nominal and
true Christians alike, to all who
aer members of the outward
church.
In examining his accounts, the
king found one of his servants
“which owed him ten thousand
talents.” This sum is equal to
about fifteen to twenty million
American dollars. The servant,
unable to pay, was seized by the
king, who “commanded him to
be sold, and his wife, and chil
dren, and all that he had and
payment to be made.” Selling
them into slavery would hardly
net more than the merest frac
tion of the debt, and its main
purpose was punishment of the
wicked servant.
The servant, however, beg
ged for mercy, saying, “Lord,
have patience with me. and I
will pay thee all.” As a result,
“the lord of that servant was
moved with compassion, and
loosed him, and forgave him the
debt.”
The interpretation of these
verses is central to our under
standing of the parable. God
refuses to extend forgiveness un
til it is desired. Until that point,
the guilty man faces damnation.
His tremendous debt is a type or
symbol of man’s sin: man’s of
fense against God is to great
that no man can possibly make
atonement for his sins or dis
charge his debt to God. His
only hope of salvation is in the
forgiveness of God.
God extends forgiveness in the
form of a stay of execution when
the man sues for time. The ser-
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News Notes From
Newton County
Hospital
Listed as patients at Newton
County Hospital this week arc.
Mrs. Julius Mobley, Rt. 1; Miss
Kathryn Aaron, Rt. 3; Master
Robert James Griffith, Mel
Prather, Rt. 3; William C.
Crowe, Mrs. Lewis Freeman,
Mrs. James A. Dial, Rt. 5, Luke
Robinson, Mrs Lintcsi Smith,
Ward Mobley Miss Ruth Davis,
Rt 1, and Mrs. George Little
field, Rt. 2, all ot Covington;
Mrs. Daisy L. Purcell, Cham
blee; Wade Davis of Rutledge;
James F. Wiley, George Hollis
and J. L. Yarborough, Rt. 1, of
Social Circle; Miss Velma Acree,
Porterdale: Miss Cecil Ira
Freeman, Rt. 2, Mrs. Robert Gar
rett of Conyers; and Mrs. Her
man Young of Apalachee.
Girl Scout News
Brownie Troop 13
By Judy Moseley
Brownie Troop 12 met Monday,
March 1.
The meeting was called to or
der by Mrs. Benton in the ab
sence of Mrs. Bonner.
The following officers were
elected: president, Susan Cooper;
vice president Brenda Bonner;
flag bearers, Marteal Dial and
Susan Yarbrough; color guards,
Mary Beth Hill and Brenda
Gibbs; captain for Mrs. Benton’s
patrol, Mitzi Moon; Mrs. Cooper’s
patrol, Gwen Stubbs and Mrs.
Moseley’s patrol, Ramona John
son.
After the election of officers we
sang the “Hymn of Scouting.”
We were then dismissed.
Don’t forget the church ser
vice Sunday at the Presbyterian
Church. Remember no meeting
on Monday.
The American people spent
more than sll.B billion for per
sonal health services during
1956, Health Information Foun
| dation reports. More than 25
percent of this sum, or almost
$3 billion, w r as covered by vol
untary health insurance.
A woman’s way of meeting
expenses is to introduce them
to her husband.
vant, the false Christian, has no
understanding of the nature of
God and His grace, because he
offers to pay all, a complete
impossibility. The meaning of
his plea is that he offers to
work for salvation, to demon
strate that he deserves salva
tion by his own moral reforma
tion. His sin constituted his debt:
as long as he tried to commend
himself to God on the grounds
of his own righteousness, that
debt would recur.
Here is an important distinc
tion which must be understood.
God offered this man full and
complete forgiveness for all his
sins. The entire debt was to be
canceled and forever removed.
, This man, however, rejected
God’s offer of forgiveness and
established instead his own terms
of salvation, “to pay thee all.”
It was his own plan of salvation,
and as long as it remained his
plan of salvation, God’s for
giveness could not be reckoned
as applicable. Every man-made
system of salvation by works,
character knowledge, mysticism
or anything else, is man’s at
tempt to pay' all to God and
involves the sinner’s rejection of
the full and free forgiveness of
sins by God in Jesus Christ.
And all such rejection is ulti
mately a rejection of God Him
self. God’s forgiveness is with
out qualification and is total: to
reject the terms of God’s for
| giveness is to have no forgive-
I ness at all.
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YOU CAN SUCCEED — BUT
IT'S NOT EASY
Speeches have been made, ar
ticles written, and many books
published on the subject or re
lated subjects of how to succeed
in five easy lessons. Os course
one must establish what one
means by success. I know sever
al college students who have
succeeded in flunking out of
school. I also know a small num
ber of ‘practicing cooks’ who
have almost succeeded in killing
their husbands with their kitch
en mistakes. Recently a man al
most succeeded in running me
off the road because he chose
to take his half in the middle.
I remember a lazy man, who,
after his wife was employed, was
successful in losing his job. It
does not take much effort to
succeed in these areas.
“Everybody finds out, sooner
or later,” wrote H. M. Field,
“that all success worth having
is founded on Christian rules
of conduct.” Any success found
ed on Christian rules of conduct
denotes progress. It means the
success one enjoys has not been
attained at the expense of
others. It presupposes integrity
and the application of the gold
en rule.
If one is endowed with the
necessary talents, there is only
one formula I know which will
assure success. The ingredients
are: knowledge, confidence, per
sistent work, and patience. This
is not an easy formula. I think
we deceive ourselves if we be
lieve that worthy ambitions can
be realized with the exclusion
of any of the elements I have
named.
I should hasten to add that j
one’s lack of talent is infre- |
quently the cause of failure. Our
psychologists have repeatedly 1
pointed out that man develops
only a small part of his poten
tial ability. Few men in the
history of civilization have lived
to their fullest capacity. Most of
us are lazy and are not willing
to pay the price for success.
I once heard a story of a man
who was reputed to have been
New Sidewalk
Construction
Nears Completion
Construction of new sidewalks
in the vicinity of the new Fic
quett Elementarv . School and
Newton County H'gh School are
nearing completion as the ele
mentary school is expected to
be occupied soon.
Already completed are con
crete walk-ways on both sides
of North Anderson Street from
Floyd Street to the main en
trance of the Ficqvett school.
Also the sidewalk from North
Anderson Street to North Mill
Street has been completed This
is the sidewalk on Newton Drive
from the County Superinten
dent’s office via the new addi
tion to Newton High.
City officials also sari that
the sidewalk from Floyd 'Street
to Newton Drive (Mill Street)
will be completed in the near
future.
Extension of watermains on i
the Old Atlanta highway is pres- !
er.tlv underway to serve patrons ,
which were taken into the city ,
in the recent expansion of the
Covington City limits, a spokes
man said.
Brand new ) J
home... /
I ...horse and buggy wiring!
The dream home... at last! It represents
, months of planning and building... but the
planners didn’t look ahead. They failed to
include sufficient wiring and circuits to take
> care of future needs.
When you buy, build or remodel, make
sure your home won’t be electrically out-of
date in a few years. Plan for the many
appliances you’ll be adding as time goes by.
Specify full Housepower — get 100-amp
service, at least
POWER
LIFE CAN
EE BETTER
ROBERT V. OZMENT. Ph. D.
Paiior Allan Memorial Church
the laziest man m the world. M*
was employed on a farm, bu*
never worked. He would find
his way to a shade and sleep
most of the day. One day Iha
employer followed the hired
man to the shade of • tree and
heard the following soliloquy.
“Breath, you can come and go
if you want to, but 1 have
drawed you for the last time ”
When a man gets too la^r to
breathe, he is really lazy.
We must be extremely careful
not to minimize the price one
must pay in order to enjoy a
few fleeting momenta in the
spot light of succese. Ask any
one who has stood for a mo
ment on the mountain peak of
accomplishment if there »• any
effortless trail which leads to
the top. The answer will always
be in the negative. I do not
mean to be pessimistic, but
sometimes realism ridea in the
same cart with pessimism. An
illustration of this can be seen
in the song title: “YOU’LL
NEVER GET OUT OF THIS
WORLD ALIVE.” It may be a
pessimistic title, but it is else
realistic. It is a foolish title . . .
Who wants to get out of th*
world . . . dead or alive.
Perhaps we should not worry
to much about success, because
on the mountain top of success
one is resting, not Climbing. May
be Robert Louis Stevenson had
something when he said: “The
true blessedness of a men is not
to arrive, but to travel." I think
he had in mind to travel m the
right direction. You will never
reach the top unless you keep
marching.
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