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THE COVINGITO.! NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
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Litterbugs” To Leave
100,000 Tons Trash On
Labor Day Holidays
Labor Day has always been, to us, a
misnomer. That is the one day of the year
on which the fewest possible number of
Americans is required to toil. Not only
that, but it has become not merely a day,
but a weekend, and a long one at that.
So what happens? We take to our
fifty-some million cars to hie us to some
sylvan dell or meadow or woods, to moun
tain or lake or stream or beach. And, what
with the need for sustenance and refresh
ment, smokes and snacks, we create moun
tains of trash.
As we start back to the salt mines on
the Tuesday morning-after, highway work
ers on our primary roads alone will expect
to be facing 100,000 tons of this litter that
must be picked up and disposed of. This
much frash, in case you can’t quite visu
alize'it, would cover a two-lane highway
a foot deep from Chicago to Minneapolis,
and that’s 427 miles! Also, around the 48
states, a lot of care-free week-enders, ap
prehended while tossing this and that out
of the car window, will be facing the
Judge. They will be leaving as little as a
dollar, in Kentucky, or as much as SI,OOO
in Georgia to purge their disrespect for
their fellow man. Utah, for example, is
very specific about this offense against
good manners. The sign at the roadside
says simply: “$299 for littering highways”.
And practically nobody seems to think it
is a bargain. -
But there’s a brighter side to the pic
ture. For every offender, a hundred, or
verhaps a thousand, more thoughtful eciti
tens will be collecting their trash in lit
terbags as they go along, and parking it
In suitable receptacles as provided by pub
lic-spirited gas stations, picnic areas, re
“orts and roadside rests.
In spite of steadily increasing highway
travel, the clean-up cost to the taxpayer
has been halted at the SSO million a year
level, and appears to be gradually dimin
ishing. Credit for this, we think, belongs
largely to an organization called “Keep
America Beautiful, Inc.” and to the gar
den clubs and many other civic organi
zations that have joined its nation-wide
crusade against the litterbug, and have
supported local and state enforcement a
gencies in a tougher attitude toward the
trash-tossers.
Thus we can hope for the cleanest
Labor Day yet. Remember your litterbag
and remember the KAB slogan: “You
CAN Take It With You!”
SUNDAY Scrioor:
JOSIAH:
STATESMAN-REFORMER
Background Scripture:
II Kings 22:1-23:30; II
Chronicles 34-35.
Devetional Reading:
Psalms 119:57-64.
Memory Selection: I am a com
panion of all who fear
thee, of those who keep
they precepts. Psalms
119:63.
We consider in this lesson
a truly bright spot in the dark
and drab history of the chosen
people in the seventh century
before Christ.
It is a never failing wonder
to notice how the ancient He
brew people deserted God and
reverted to idol worship and
awful heathern practices when
the Almighty had done so
much for them.
But let us remember how
much more God has done Jfor
us and how often we desert
Him for the idols of this world.
Not persecution or tribulation
but indifference to God and
complacency are the great en
emies of the church in our day.
We are to consider the reign
of Josiah, a leader who is an
evil time walked with God
and brought about reformation
and a public turning to God.
Here we have indeed a season
of about thirty years when the
light of the Lord breaks
through the clouds of sin and
the profanation of a terrible
heathenism to cleanse the land
and the hearts and souls of his
people.
The King, Josiah, is, in the
title of our lesson, termed
“Statesman” and “Reformer.”
We should first of all note
from the text the wvarious
things that he did along these
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Inspection and Disarmament
Not Greatly Improved
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles,
who had himself presented the complex
aerial-ground inspection plan of the West
ern powers to the Russians at the London
Disarmament Conference, described it to
his press conference as “perhaps the most
significant prosposal in terms of peace that
I think has been made in recent history,
perhaps ever”,
Actually, Mr. Dulles presented three
different proposals, the m-ost ambi
tious of which would open to inspec
tion most of North America, the entire
Arctic and all of Europe from Ireland to
the Tirals,
Such a plan, the Secretary was con
fident, would make surprise attack virtu
ally impossible, and this in turn would
make heavy armaments unnecessary since
an a%rressor. denied the advantage of
surprise, would not attack and thus no
defense or counter-attack would be in
volved. Asked why Russia should relin
quish such an advantage over a democ
racy that can not make a surprise
attack, Mr. Dulles replied that the
Kremlin leaders want to appear
“peace-loving”. “They talk about it all the
time. They realize it is a very important
propaganda advantage for them,” he said.
But, on his visit to East Berlin, Nikita
Khrushchev, in his rage against West Ger
many’s Adenauer and without the sooth
ing influence of his erstwhile travelling
companion, Bulganin, forgot his cooing,
dove-of-peace routine. Instead, he threat
ened “England, France and other countries
whose areas would be in range of atomic
and hydrogen weapons”, and suggested
broadlv that rocket developments would
soon bring the US within that range.
Further, the arraignment of Col. Ru
dolf Ivanovich Abel of Russian Intelli
gence for espionage — in the best cloak
and-dagger tradition — reminds the free
world again that Russian “ground inspec
tion” is pretty thorough as it is.
All-in-all, the climate for mutual in
spection and disarmament does not seem
greatly improved, in spite of London and
in spite of Mr. Dulles’ convincing theory.
Lawrence Dodd, a British authority, be
lieves that taxation becomes theft at the
point where the taxpayer can say to his
government:. “Very well, you take the
profit (or estate or income) and leave me
the tax!” That situation is reached when
the tax rate passes 50 per cent. The top
federal individual income tax rate in this
country is now 91 per cent.
lines and then think what may
be done in our own times to
let the light of God break
through the mushroom eclouds
of the present atomic age to
bring real peace and true
prosperity to mankind.
As a statesmian in foreign
affairs, Josiah endeavored to
hold a neutral position be
tween the “East”—as repre
sented by the great power of
Assyria—and the “West” as
represented by Egypt. As we
know all too well today, it is
most difficult to maintain such
a neutral position. When
Pharaoh-necho invaded Josiah’s
realm {o march along the coast
on his way to give battle to
the Assyrians somewhere along
the Euphrates River, Josiah,
with perhaps more courage
than judgment, attacked the
invader and lost his life
through a wound received in
the battle at Megiddo.
It was, however, as a states
man in domestic policies—and
not in military matters—that
Josiah made his greatest con
tribution, as we shall see from
the study of our printed text.
As a reformer, Josiah be
gan sweeping changes in his
very early years. Many re
formers stand on the side of
a losing cause, but in the case
of Josiah and reforms were
most successful and accepted
with enthusiasm by the peo
ple.
“Josiah was eight years old
when he began to reign.” This
brings to our mind the pro
phetic word of Isaiah, “For un
to us a child is born, unto us
a son is given.” Isaiah 9:6.
In his own time and way
this young king was a child
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered ot the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
sent by God to be a savior for
his people.
We are told that his moth
er's name was Jedidah. We
wish we could know more a
bout her, but with such an
evil and idolatrous father and
grandfather she must have
been a godly woman from the
course her so took upon the
throne. We may pause here to
think of the tremendous pow
er that consecrated mother
may have through her chil
dren.
What an influence was felt
upon the world through the
three daughters of the Soong
family in China, who attribute
a great deal of all they are to
their devoted Chrisian mother
and her prayers. Os the three
daughters, we recall, one be
came the wife of Sun Yat Sen,
father of the Chinese Repub
lic; the second, the wife of H.
H. Kung, who was Premier of
China; and the third, May
Ling, the wife of Chiang Kai
shek. Their Christian influence
‘extends to all Chinese, what
ever their political complex
ion.
We do not know what re
gency governed the land while
the king was still a child, but
when he emerges in his own
right to be king, he is closely
associated with Hilkiah, the
high priest. So the young man
took the advice, no doubt, not
only of his mother but of his
pastor.
In the survey of missionaries
appointed over a ten-year per
iod by one of our great boards,
the highest number gave as
the most important influence
in their turning to missionary
service, their mothers, with
the second highest rated influ
ence, their pastor.
In the midst of a terrible
heathen environment in his
country and city, the young
king from the first began to
follow his God. When he was
sixteen years old, he made a}
definite decision to seek in his
own life and in the conduct ofJ
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(Editor's Note: The following is Senator Talmadge’s final
column for 1957. He will resume writing these weekly reports from
Washington when the Second Session of the 85th Congress convenes
next January.)
THERE WILL BE those who,
because the First Session of the
85th Congress did not pass hun
dreds of new laws, will call it a
“do-nothing Congress.”
. To such per
- sons who meas
. ure achievement
- only in terms of
‘quantity, I
- would reply in
the words of
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lJames A. Reed
of Missgouri:
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“What we need to do is to stop
passing laws. We have enough laws
now to govern the world for the
next 10,000 years.” It is my view
that, if a “do-nothing Congress”
is one which does not pass a lot of
unneeded laws, this eountry needs
to have more of them.
. - - -
THE MOST NOTABLE accom
plishment of this Congress is not
any specific piece of legislation but
rather the intangible reassertion of
the independence of the Legisla
tive Branch. Senators and Con
gressmen alike demonstrated this
year that their actions cannot be
dictated by the Executive Branch.
This was particularly true in the
writing of the 1957-58 federal
badget. Both Houses ignored Ex
ecutive pressure to make sub
stantial reductions in the Adminis
tration’s irresponsible $71.8-billion
spending program. While it is dis
appointing that the cut was not as
great as the $5%-billion reduction
for which 1 had hoped, I am en
couraged to believe that a trend
has been established which will
result in the restoration of reason
to federal spending and taxing
policies.
(Not prepared or privted at government expense)
August 17, 1957
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Covington, Ga.
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his court and country, the God
of his fathers, “For in the
eighth year of his reign while
he was yet young, he began to
seek after the God of David
his father” (II Chron. 34:3).
At the age of twenty he be
gan the general reform in a
campaign to destroy all the
system of idol worship and the
idols themselves. This took
years to accomplish, but he
kept after it asiduously in Jer
usalem and Judah and even
later the campaign extended
beyond Judah (II Chron.
34:6).
Just as a surgical operation
which removes a malignant
growth must follow out all the
lines by which it might spread,
so Josiah pulverized all the
[idols he could. lay his hands
‘on and tore down all the sac
red paraphernalia of paganism.
He even burned the bones of
the heathen priests upon their
own altars, lest their graves
might become shrines of wor
ship.
Then when he had reached
the age of twenty-six, Josiah
called a council and appointed
a committee to repair the
House of God, for the temple
had come to a sad state of
dilapidation during the long
years of apostasy and idol
worship by both kings and
people.
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
ANOTHER EXAMPLE WAS
the Senate’s courageous action in
eliminating the more vicious pro
visions of the Brownell Force Bill
which would have deprived all citi
zens of their constitutionai rights.
While the measure as it passed the
Senate still constitutes a flagrant
invasion of the constitutional au
thority of state and local govern
ments, it, nevertheless, is to the
Senate’s everlasting eredit that it
rejected Executive demands for the
restoration of bayonet rule and the
repeal of the right of trial by jury.
This action is indicative of the
growing awareness of Congress of
the fundamental truth that to en
act laws giving special rights to
minorities which are denied to the
majority is to make all constitu
tional safeguards meaningless. It
is to be hoped that Congress never
again will allow such divisive legis
lation to prevent it from fulfilling
its appointed role under the Con
stitution.
»* * *
THE TWO GREATEST failures
of Congress this year were in not
passing a new agricultural pro
gram to guarantee the farmer his
proportionate share of the national
income and in again postponing the
long-overdue tax cut to afford
financial relief to the workingman
and the small businessman,
These promise to be the principal
issues to be determined at the See
ona Session of the 85th Congress
convening next January. For the
sake of the continued economic
health of this nation, let us hope
that action on them is swift, bold
and decisive,
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§OO Communities
Committeemen
The election of Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
cimmitteemen will be held in
900 Georgia communities be
tween September 27 and Octo
ber 9, according to John F.
Bradley, state administrative
officer of the ASC.
Three committee members
and two alternates will be elect
ed in each community.
Bradley said the mail method
of voting will be used this year
and ballots will be mailed to ail
known eligible voters prior to
the voting period. He added that
ballots also can be obtained at
county ASC offices.
The state administrative of
ficer explained that ASC com
munity officers will be nominat
ed by nominating committees
selected by the county election
‘board. This board consists of
‘the county agent, county FHA
and SCS representatives, and
‘the president of the county
Farm Bureau. Nominations also
‘may be made by petitions sign
ied by ten or more farmers. The
‘ballots will provide for writein
votes, too.
~ According to Bradley, any
farm who is participating or eli
gible to participate in any of
the ASC programs is eligible
to vote.
Following the local elections,
Bradley continued, the chair
man of the community commit
tees in each county will meet in
a county convention on October
24 to elect a county committee.
This group also will consist of
three members and two alter
nates.
These county and community
ASC committeemen will admin
ister the Agriclutural Conser
vation program; the Allotment
and Marketing Quota programs
on cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and
wheat; the Soil Bank programs,
and the Price Support pro
grams.
“These are farm programs
provided by congress to meet
the farm conservation and sta
bilization needs of our nation’s
agriculture, and they are ad
ministered by the farmers them
selves,” Bradley emphasized.
“This is the farmer’s opport-
unity to select the men who
will do these jobs for the com-~
ing year. They are very im
portant to every farmer, and
every farmer should cast his
‘ballot.” |
i The newly-elected committees
will take office November 1,
1957,
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EXAMPLE OF FALSE
' ECONOMY
A cheap, but inadequate wir
ing system is one of the most
expensive economies that one
can make in constructing a farm
bulding or home, say engineers
at the Agricultural Extension
Service, College of Agriculture.
The se of electrical equipment
is increasing constantly, and a
wiring system that appears suf
ficient by previous standards
[may soon be out of date.
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Foods must be in the best
condition, else they are mot
worth freezing, say food pres
{ervationists at the Agricultur
al Extension Service and the
' Georgia Experiment Station.