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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
Official Organ of
Nawton County
and the
City of Covington
"When I Was A Child,
I Spake As A Child,
I Understood As A Child"
There is nothing which appeals to any
one more than a little child. Their quaint
childish ways of talking and the things
which they do to appeal to, and receive
attention, of the older generation.
We like to see them play, enjoying the
fruits of childhood. They live in a make
believe World. They create fantasies in
their own mind and amuse themselves
with the thoughts which come to them.
Some people criticize them for their
bragging, but this is a phase of childhood.
Some parents even punish their children
for telling those little “white lies” as we
call them, but we believe this is unjust.
A child should be allowed to live in its
make-believe world and enjoy all the fan
tasies they create in their little minds.
One of the phobies of chilhood is claim
ing to be older than their age. The male
child, especially, desires with all its little
heart to become a man as soon as he gets
out of his baby shoes. They do not like
to be called a child or youngster. They
strut baek and smile when you call them
“little man.”
They also like to copy the things which
their dads do, like to imitate them in
every way. This, of course, is the sincerest
flattery and Dad smiles knowingly and
proudly when so imitated.
Sometimes, of course, in imitating Dad,
they brag a little, make it a little larger,
or a little more sensational, but Dad
understands and smiles.
This is why when an article was called
to our attention out of another paper last
week, we smiled under standingly, realiz
ing the tendencies of childhood.
Misuse of Electricity
Cause $5,800 Fire Loss
Each Day of The Year
Every hour of the day and night, $5,800
worth of property goes up in flames, due
to the misuse of electricity. This is the
estimate of the Committee on Statistics and
Orgin of Fires of the National Board of
Fire Underwriters, which reports further
that this ssl million annual loss is going
up, not down.
In an effort to stem this rising tide of
needless destruction — which is especially
tragic in rural areas beyond the water
njains —two groups of safety experts, the
International Association of Electrical In
spectors and the Safe Electrical Cord Com
mittee, have laid down a joint code of
simple rules that should be followed by
everyone, everywhere, at all times:
1, — Don’t connect too many lamps or
appliances to a single circuit. When
a ruse blows, this is a danger signal.
Be sure to correct the cause (usually
overloading) before replacing fuse.
2. — Don't run lamp or appliance cords
ever radiators or pipes, or touch
such grounded metal when handling
eords or appliances.
J. — Never touch an electric appliance,
radio or light switch (not even the
phone) when you are in the bath
tub, standing in a puddle (as on a
laundry floor) or have wet hands.
4- — Don’t place cords in door-jambs or
under rugs. Constant closing of door
will damage insulation, so will walk
ing on cord — and under the rug
will not see the damage.
5. — Use convenience outlets in walls,
not lamp sockets, for connecting ap
pliances.
8. — Never leave an electric iron con
nected — even for "a few minutes.”
T. — Never yank plugs out of sockets
by the cord. Grasp the plug itself.
8. — When you buy a lamp, appliance,
extension cord, power-supply cord
or cord-set, always look for the
Flag Label on the cord and the
words: “Inspected — Underwrites’
Laboratories, Inc.” This is your proof
of a tested, electrically-safe cord.
9. — Always call in a qualified electri
cal contractor for repairs or additions
to your wiring. Electrical jobs are
HOT. They are not in the “do-it-your.
self” ranee.
Perhaps you are following all these
rules now. But it’s more likely you take
a chance here and there, now and then,
even when you know better. Most every
body does. That’s why you hear so many
fire-whistles in the night.
Altoona. Pa., Mirror: “A nation where
men once had freedom but did not use It
k is now described as a dictatorship nation *
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Covington Lions Club
Making Attractive Ploy
Ground For Young People
The Covington Lions Club members
have been working diligently for several
weeks in making a playground and picnic
grounds for the young people of our eity
next to the swimming pool.
A merry-go-round, slides, sand boxes,
picnic tables and other devices to enter
tain both the young and old have been
installed.
The members of the club are personally
doing the work and many calouses have
grown into otherwise tender hands dur
ing the process.
The grounds will represent a consider
able expenditure of funds in purchasing
equipment and, if the labor was added,
would make the project run into a con
siderable amount of money.
We wish to take this opportunity to
congratulate these enterprising members of
the Lions Club. They have performed a
fine service for the youth of our city and
we are proud of the picnic and playground
which the}- have so willingly constructed.
Colleges Not Just For
Geniuses, According
To Large Industrialist
The world has probably changed more
in the past. 50 years than in all the cen
turies of recorded time. And, like it or
not, the pace of technological discovery
grows dizzier as the years speed by like
jet fighters out to intercept we know not
what.
From the viewpoint of the up-coming
generation, it all adds up to one thing:
There’s so much more to know — and no
more time in which to learn it than there
was in grandfather's leisurely da y. In
j pondering this major problem of our time,
Merwin J. Joseph, a business man who
makes socks, is convinced that everyone—
and especially industrialists — must help
in preparing youth for the even more be
wildering years ahead.
It is Mr. Joseph’s idea, for instance,
that when industrialists think of prize con
tests, awards, premiums or incentive plans
for workers, they should think of educa
tion, and give scholarships rather than
cash prizes, a house and lot, a trip for two
to Azerbajian (or somewhere) or a life
time supply of the donor’s canned limpets.
Byway of illustrating what he means,
Mr. Joseph, of the Chester H. Roth Co.,
has set up the Fruit of the Loom Socks
Foundation, Inc., to administer an annual
$50,000 college scholarship competition on
the broadest possible base. This year, for
example there were over four million ap
plications from which an advisory board
of distinguished educators will ultimately
select five lucky youngsters to receive the
full, four-year scholarships.
Another "Summit
Conference" in Making
Watch out for another “summit confer
ence”. The global scene-shifters, at home
and abroad, are preparing for it, Russia
frankly wants it, as Premier Bulganin re
vealed in a Soviet-Mongolian friendship
speech in the Kremlin. That means every
trick and every pressure will be used to
include Red China.
President Eisenhower sees the Rus
sians “growing more serious” in their at
titude toward disarmament. Secretary of
State Dulles suggested that we might begin
the President's “aerial inspection” plan by
flying over Siberia while the Reds fly over
Alaska and northern Canada. Since such
a plan would render our three radar warn
ing lines in the north completely useless,
we presume Mr. Dulles would have the
Russians cross their hearts they won’t drop
any bombs without letting us know in
advance.
There would be plenty to talk about,
such as atoms-for-everybody at US expense,
trade with Red China, whether to fill in
the Suez Canal, perhaps even the Korean
“truce”. And as Bulganin says,” ... ex
perience has shown that such contacts are
. useful”. Furthermore, since Geneva, we
know to whom!
Clewiston. Fla., News: “A 25 per cent
reduction in Flood Control district levy is
in store for taxpayers in the 17-county
flood district. Coming at a time when the
legislature, Congress and everyone else is
figuring on increased expenses and increas
ed taxes, it is very heartening to find a
board which is actually planning to reduce
taxes.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Catered Hie Post Office
Class-
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR Wl3< L Y LESSON IO R
UNDAY SCHOOL
Joseph, Man of Mercy
Background Scripture: Gen
esis 41:53 —50:26.
Devotieaal Reading: I Corin
thians 13.
Memory Selection: Blessed
are the merciful for they shall
obtain mercy. Matthew 5:7.
This is the last lesson in the
series about Joseph. It brings
us to the climax of an amazing
success story. Despised and re
jected by his own people, false
ly accused by his master's wife
in a strange land, languishing in
prison without a friend to help
him, Joseph seemingly had
come to the end of the road.
But then things suddenly chang
ed for him, and before he knew
it he was second in rank in the
land of Egypt, only Pharaoh
himself being greater.
This fantastic to power was
described for us m the last les
sen. The clue to Joseph's suc
cess m reiterated throughout
those chapters in the words
“But the Lard was with Jose
ph.” This is the only way the
writer can explain Joseph’s phe
nomenai rise te power from a
dungeon cell.
Our lesson today shows how
Joseph exercised his newly
gained power. As we shall see,
Joseph, with all his success,
never lost faith in God, nor did
he lose that fine spirit and char
acter which made him so popu
lar with master and jailer alike.
To the many noble qualities
which we have seen in Joseph
so far, we now may add mercy
and a forgiving spirit, which are
especially manifest in his deal
ings with his brethren when
they come to Egypt for food.
By the time Joseph became
thirty years of age, he was se
cond to Pharaoh in Egypt and
in command of the govern
ment’s food program. As he had
correctly predicted on the basis
of Pharaoh’s dreams, the seven
years of plenty were followed
by seven years of famine, “and
the dearth was in all the lands;
but in the land of Egypt there
was bread” (Gen. 41;54b). “And
all countries came into Egypt to
Joseph for to buy corn; because
that the famine was so sore in
ail lands” (Gen. 41:57).
Because of Joseph’s special,
divinely given knowledge about
the famine that was to come,
and because of the skillful way
in which he administered the
nation’s food program to cope
with the situation, Egypt be
came the bread basket of the
world, as it were, and Joseph
became the dispenser of the
bread of life to all who saked
for it. It is with this background
in mind that we come to the
story of today’s lesson.
“Now when Jacob saw that
there was corn in Egypt, Jacob
said unto his sons, Why do ye
look upon another? And he said,
Behold, I have heard that there
is corn in Egypt: get you down
thither and buy for us from
thence; that we may live, and
not die" (Gen 42:1-2).
“That we may live and not
die” is the significant phrase
here. Without Joseph and his
skill as a food administrator,
God’s people would have died.
The promises given to Abra
ham would never have been
fulfilled, and the covenant es
tablished by God with the pat
riarchs would have been of no
effect, if Joseph had not been
in Egypt to save his people.
Here we begin to see the tre
mendous implications of Joseph
amazing life and the way God
directed it. Joseph not only sav
ed his people, i.c., his father and
: brethren, and thus preserved
i their mighty religious heritage,
but he saved the whole world in
a very real sense. That is by
saving Israel he preserved the
matrix through which the Mes
siah was ultimately to be born.
By his suffering and humilia
tion, Joseph became the savior
of the world in a constricted
earthly sense.
The story of how the breth
ren of Joseph went down to
Egypt and were met and dealt
with by Joseph is too long to be
described in detail here. The
improtant thing to notice is the
reversal of position of Joseph
and his brethren from that
found at the beginning of the
story. Now Joseph is on top. It
is only his faith in the Lord and
his noble character that prevent
him from taking the lives of
his brothers summarily.
The climax of the success
story comes when Judah con
fesses to Joseph, who is still
unknown to him, the infamy of
the brethren when they sold
Joseph to the passing caravan
and then made their aged fath
er, Jacob, believe that a wild
beast had killed his son. The’
hero now hears the perpetrators
of this evil deed against him
confess their son and acknow
ledge that their mismortune is
due to their own wickedness.
The cycle of the success story
has now been completed and
we see the hero fully justified
and exalted before his erstwhile
tormentors.
Although Joseph may seem
like a brutal bully in his tncky
dealings with his brethren, yet
there are certain things which
point to his true character. His
demand to see the youngest
brother, Benjamin, his inquiry
concerning Jacob, “the old man
of whom ye spoke” (Gen. 43:-
27), and his uncontrollable
weeping when he saw Ben
jamin, all show that beneath
his harst treatment of his
brethren there was unusual
tenderness of heart.
When he could no lon ger
hide his real feelings. Joseph
broke down and made himself
known to his brethren. “I am
Joseph: doth my father yet
live?” (Gen. 45:3a.) “And Jose
ph said unto his brethren, Come
near to me, I pray you. And
they came near. And he said, I
am Joseph your brother, whom
ye sold into Egypt. . ot there
fore be not grieved, nor angry
with yourselves, that ye sold me
hither: for God did send me
before you to preserve life . . .
And God sent me before you to
preserve you a posterity in the
earth, and to save your lives by
a great deliverance. So now it
was not you that sent me hith
er, but God: and he hath made
me a father to Pharaoh, and
lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egy
pt” (Gen. 45:4-5, 7-8).
In these words we see the
nobility of Joseph's character.
Robed with regal power. Jose
ph could easily have avenged
his disgraceful sale into Egypt.
But instead, he asked his breth
ren not to be sorry for what
they did, since it was God who
sent him before them to save
their lives.
It was God who sent him
down into Egypt to make him
father to Pharaoh — perhaps an
honorific title, lord of his house
and ruler over the land.
Not only does Joseph forgive
his brethren, but he offers his
whole family the hospitalit> of
the land of Egype. “Haste ye,
and go up to my father, and
say unto him, Thus saith thy
son Joseph, God has made me
lord of Egypt: come down unto
me, tarry not; and thou shalt
dwell in the land of Goshen, and
thou shalt be near unto me,
thou, and thy children, and thy
children’s children, and thy
flocks, and thy herds, and all
that thou hast; and there will I
nourish the*” (Gen. 45:9-lla).
And then follow the striking
words: “And .ve shall tell my fa
ther of all my glory in Egypt,
and of all that ye have seen; and
ye shall haste and bring down
my father hither” (Gen. 45:13).
Joseph warned his aged father
to share in his glory before he
died. He whose heart had been
weighed down almost to Sheol
was now to rejoice in the glory
of him who he thought was
dead. What a noble, sympathe
tic, and forgiving heart Joseph
revealed to his brethren!
ATTEND THE CHURCH OF
YOUR CHOICE THIS SUN
DAY AND EVERY SUNDAY
SUMMER SPECIALS
AIR CONDITIONED 1956 Ford 4-door! Power steering, undercoated, safety belts
Fordomatic, Buckskin tan and Snow Shoe White, radio . . , well everythina! You
can save $1200.00 on this almost new Ford.
AN ALMOST NEW FAIRLANE 500 Demonstrator! Has almost everything Save the
price of a vacation.
1956 FORD 4-Door, dark blue (looks new), radio, heater underbody coat, one ewner
low miles. '
9 PASSENGER COUNTRY SEDAN, radio, heater and overdrive. One owner.
Your idea of a perfect family station wagon!
ALSO — About a dozen CHEVROLETS - BUICKS - PLYMOUTH* — Priced to rail
before July 4th.
Who was it who said "If you want a safe 4th don't buy a sth on the 3rd?"
Now REMEMBER, neighbor, we guarantee what we sell and finance it right here at
home.
^COVINGTON AUTO SERVICE
WITH EMPHASIS ON
ILarqest Coverage Any Weekly Tn The State)
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
June 23, 1957
Mr. Belmont Dennis
Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis.
The members of the Sardis
Congregational Church wish to
thank you for your donation of
paper for use in our Vacation
Bible School. We appreciate
your kind efforts in helping
make our two week session most
successful.
This next week will be spent
in a week of consecreated re
vival services and we wish to
extend to you and your family
an invitation to worship with
us.
Yours in the Lord's work,
Albert Strickland
Clerk
Dear Mr. Dennis.
I would like to take this op
portunity to express to the peo
ple of Newton County, particul
arly the Band Backers, as well
as the Covington News, how
very much I appreciate your
enthusiastic support during the
past two years. The band pro
gram woud not. have been as
complete without this loyalty.
While my family and I re
gretfully move from Covington,
we leave secure in the feeling
that the wholehearted backing
of your band will be continued
and increased in the years to
come.
Sincerely
Joseph T. Smith
Belmont Dennis. Editor
Covington NEWS
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Dennis:
We at E. L Fiequett Schos
want to express our sincere
appreciation for your contribu
tion to the piano-curtain fund.
For you, or your organization,
to have responded so generous
ly at this time, when you have
been called on so much through
out the years, is very gratify
ing to us. We appreciate being
a part of such a community of
individuals and organizations.
Our total to date is $1475.76.
Sincerely yours,
George B. Hutchinson
Principal.
Mr. Belmont Dennis, Editor
The Covington NEWS
Covington, Ga.
Dear Sir:
The members of the Coving-
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UAL ISTATI
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Local Teachers
To Attend NEA
Convention
Philadelphia will play host
to the National Education As
sociation and its teachers mem
bers as the organization meets
there this summer for its Cen
tennial Convention. Scheduled
for June 30, to July 5, this
meeting will mark the 100th
year of the NEAs growth from
the summer of 1857 when 43
educators met in Philadelphia
to found the organized teach
ing profession in America. This
year over 15,000 teachers and
administrators from all ©ver
the United States will be on
hand for this century mark,
meeting and will convene un
der a slogan of, “An Educated
People Moves Freedom For
ward.”
Representing Newton Coun
ty will be the retiring, president
of the Newton County Educa
tion Association, Mrs. C. D.
Ramsey Jr. Also going as class-
ton Service Guild wish to ex
press their appreciation to you
and The Covington NEWS Staff
for your cooperation and sup
port during the past year.
Thank you for your many
favors and continued interest.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. George Hutchinson
Corresponding Secretary
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"I have been carrying $5,000/$ 10,000 auto liability
insurance. Now I hear that rhe state of Georgia has raised
the minimum requirement to $ 10,000/$20,000. Must I in
crease my insurance immediately to avoid posting a bend
or losing my license in case I have an accident?”
Morcock & Banks
INSURANCE
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Thursday. June If, 195?
Debbie Kendrick
Has Lead In
Atlanta Recital
Debbie Kendrick, five-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Kendrick of Atlanta, par
ticipated in a dance recital in
June. She is a tap and ballet
pupil at the Jack Rand School
in Atlanta, where she has been
a student for one year.
She took the lead in a tap
and dance number entitled
“Pony Boy.” She also tapped
and sang “Sugar Blues.”
Little Debbie is the grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Hitchcock of Mansfield.
room teacher delegate to the
affiliated classroom teacher
will be Mrs. Sybil Ellington of
Oxford.
The Georgia delegation will
meet several times during the
convention. On Wednesday, the
Georgia group will have a
breakfast in the north garden
of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel,
where the Newton County dele
gates will be staying. Mrs. Ram
sey has been invited to be a
consultant to the Citizenship
Committee which will be meet
ing on Tuesday in the ballroom
of the Hotel Warwick. Mrs.
Charlotte Richards will preside
The Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra will present a concert
on Sunday evening. The U. S.
Postoffice has announced that
a special stamp honoring teach
ers of America and the NEA
Centennial, will go on sale
July 1, in Philadelphia.