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THE COVINGTOOL! NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Pubiisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
Eisenhower Plays Golf
While South Smolders
Two pictures carried on the front page
of The Atlanta Constitution last week
caused much coneern to all peoples in
these United States.
When we viewed these pictures the
first thought which entered our mind was
the similarity of two occasions in history.
Those of you who studied ancient history
could not but help think of the parallel
which existed in these pictures and the
picture earried in your ancient history
book of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
The pictures we refer 10 are the
one in one corner of the front page show
ing President Eisenhower playing golf.
In the other corner of the front page was
a line of Federal soldiers with bayonets
fixed leveled at a group of 15 and 16 years
old young girls.
. The two pictures brought similar con
+ clusions as far as we are concerned, and
.. We are wondering if history could repeat.
Certainly we do not know the answer
but we believe the answer could be ascer
tained if certain politicians would stop
- their frantic and never ending selfish
%, grasping for power.
. The colored people with whom we
have talked desire their own schools and
churches. No one has ever taken the trou
ble to poll the colored people of the South
to find out just what they do want. If
- this was done honestly and sincerely by
those in power probably a solution of this
very delicate question could be found.
: We have talked with those who sup
. ported President Eisenhower in his race
-for President. They excuse President
. Eisenhower with the remarks that he is
not to blame, that he is following the ad
vice of his counsellors. Whatever the rea
son is there should be a remedy which
would apply without the use of Federal
forees as in carpet bagger days.
: Senator Benjamin Hill, one of the
. most illustrous sons of Georgia speaking
in the Senate on March 27, 1878, warned
of this evry incident. He saw the incrgas
ing encroaching of the Federal Govern
ment in the affairs of the state and the
interlapping of Federal power on State
government and the increasing violation
of the Tenth Amendment and he warned
. the Senate and the Nation at large in
these words:
“But, Sir, I have said I do not dread
these eorporations as instruments of power
~ to destroy this country, because there are
a thousand agencies which can regulate,
restrain and control them; but there is
.a corporation we may all well dread. That
, corporation is the federal government.
- From the aggressions of this corporation,
there ean be no safety if it be allowed to
go beyond the well-defined limits of its
power.
I dread nothing so much as the exer
cise of ungranted and doubtful powers by
this government. It is, in my opinion, the
danger of dengers to the future of this
country. Let us be sure to keep it always
within #s Mmits. i this great, ambitious,
ever-growing eorporation becomes oppres
stive, who shall check it? If it befome
wayward, who shall control it? If it be
come unjust, who shall trust it? As sen
tinels on the eountry’s watchtower, sena
tors, 1 beseech you — watch and guard
with sleepless dread that corporation
which ean make ol property and rights,
all states and le, and all liberty and
hope its plcytm m an hour, and its
- victims forever.”
THE STATE DEPARTMENT will soon
w'come Communist tourists without the
indignity of finger-printing. We agree
that this was a silly requirement — when
“officials” (about 200 came in from the
USSR lest year) have been exempted
from this routine all along. But we still
don’t see anything wrong with finger
pristing ALL of them,
~ THE NEWPORT MEETING of Presi
dent Eisenhower and Arkansas’ Governor
Orval E. Faubus may go down in history
with that of Generals Grant and Lee at
Appomattox Court House. Mr. Faubus
can conceivably be the last US Governor
to seek to exercise the authority of his
office as it has heretofore been under
stood.
Under the eivil rights legislation pass
ed August 31, Federal judges are now
empowered to pass upon the conduct of
state, eounty and local administrative of
ficers from governor to dog-catcher. The
procedure is to charge the alleged offend
er with interference with a court order.
He may be found guilty of civil con
tempt — without the former right of
jury trial — fined or jailed.
And this applies to the 48 states —
~ nol just the southern ones.
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Assured By Medical
And Health Officials
Can you be sure that the Asian flu
vaccime you receive is safe, and do you
know how effective it is?
The best information available to
health and medical officials in Georgia
is that the vaccine is extremely safe.
Nineteen persons out of 20 will have no
unfavorable reaction. Those who do have
such reaction will have only soreness in
the area of the vaccination or perhaps
some general aching, but only a small per
centage of these will lose time as a result
of the reaction.
Tests thus far show that the vaccine
will prevent Asian flu in about 7 out of
10 cases, if given in advance of exposure,
which is about averaage for most flu
vaccines.
There seems little doubt that we ecan
expect a considerable number of cases
of influenza of different types this fall
and winter, as is true each fall and win
ter. The Asian flu, however, can be pre
vented only by the vaccine recently de
veloped for this particular type of flu.
One remarkable fact about the Asian
flu vaccine is that for the first time in
history there is a vaccine ready and in
use BEFORE an expected epidemic breaks
out. An outbreak is not certain, but it is
best to be prepared.
A special letter containing this in
formation and recommending priorities for
use of the vaccine has been sent to all
practicing physicians in Georgia by the
Georgia Department of Public Health, by
its Advisory Committee on Influenza, and
by the Public Health Committee of the
Medical Association of Georgia. Chairman
of the Advisory Committee is Dr. John
Venable, Atlanta; chairman of the Public
Health Committee is Dr. Hugh Bicker
staff, Columbus.
The letter recommends first priority
for persons whose services are necessary
to maintain the health of the community.
Next priorities are for individuals neces
sary to maintain other basic and essential
community services; persons mtg an exist
ing disease who, in the opiniod of their
physician, constitute a special medical
risk; adults over 40, and children.
Since the vaccine is developed thyough
the use of chicken embryo, it should not
be given to persons allergic to eggs.
The letter also prescribes dosages for
the vaccine and advises home care of pa
tients rather than hospital care where
the risk of other infections is greater.
More Cuts Needed
In Military Forces
If Budget Is Met
By next July 1, the military forces of
the US will be 200,000 men thinner in
the hope thet defense spending, now at
the rate of about S4O billion a year, may
be kept within the 38 billion budget
figure. The first manpower cut of 100,000,
ordered by Defense Secretary Wilson last
July will be completed by January first.
The second similar cut, just announced,
s to be completed by the end of this
fiscal year, June 30. Savings in the follow
ing fiscal year are estimated at SSOO mil
lion.
This reduction, says Mr. Wilson, “can
be accomplished within the framework of
a balanced military program and without
impairment of our national security.”
In his memorandum to the secretaries
of the Army, Navy and Air Force out
lining the reductions, the soon-to-retire
Defense Secretary added: “I urge those
responsible in the three services, both mil
itary and eivilian, to continue aggressively
the search for savings which can be made
in defense expenditures with a view to
maintaining necessary capabilities and
avoiding reduction in combat forces.”
We wonder somehow if he might have
been thinking of that Air Force project
of launching a fourlstage rocket from a
balloon-supported platform 100,000 feet in
the air? Seems to us it might be cheaper
to start from the fround. And if it only
reaches 3981.01 miles altitude imstead of
4,000, is that bad? .
Somewhere in the dim past, there was
a saying: “Take care of the pennies and
the dollars will look after themselves.”
Couldn’t we modernize it to read: “Look
after the millions and the billions will
take care of themselves.”?
Summit, Miss., Sun: “,, the U. §.
Treasury paid S6OO million as interest on
the $23 billion Social Security trust fund
invested in federal bonds ... In short,
you've paid social security once when you
pay your tax — and you pay more on
it every time the government pays interest
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
‘ Associate Editer
| Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
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SUNUAY S(:HUOL;
l PAUL WRITES TO THE
‘ CORINTHIANS
sßackground Scripture:
1 I Corinthians 1-4.
| Devetional Reading:
I Corinthians 3:11-23.
Memory Selection: I decided to
know nothing among you
except Jesus Christ and
him crucified. I Corin
thians 2:2.
The first quarter of lessons
this year dealt with the Gospel
of Matthew. Since April 28
we have been dealing with
Old Testament passages —
“Studies in Genesis” and “Per
sonalities of the Old Testa
ment.” Today we return to the
New Testament for a study of
three of Paul’s epistles — I
Corinthians, Philippians, and
Philemon. |
The order here has been as
it should be. The New Testa
ment and its teachings are
based upon the Old Testament.
In our six months’ preparation‘:
for this quarter, we have con
sidered many of the basic mor
al and spiritual concepts upon
which the teachings of the New
Testament rest.
Paul the Apostle — origin
ally known as Saul of Tarsus
— is the most influential
Christian that has ever lived.
Others may have equaled him
in character and devotion, but
no one has ever equaled him
in influence. He wrote thirteen
of the twenty-seven books of
the New Testament.
Certain things had to be
taught about: Christ which
could be taught only after his
resurrection, ascension, and
glorification in heaven had
taken place. Paul interprets
the eternal Christ to the be
lievers of every age.
Who was this man Paul?
He was a Jew who bore the
name of Israel's first Kking.
Brought up in a strict Jewish
home, he appears to have re
sponded eagerly to his envir
onment. He was not one who
lived a gross and immoral life
and was later converted. In
stead, he was a strait-laced
religionist from his earliest
years, his great sin being intel
lectual pride and intolerance.
The account of his conver
sion is known to every Bible
reader. At that time he was
“called to be an apostle of
Jesus Christ through the will
of God.” :
As the first lesson of this
passage of Scripture, let us un
derstand well the teaching of
the Bible that men do not
choose the Lord’s work — the
Lord’s work chooses them. We
are all called to some service
in the world. Those who are
called to full-time Christian
service are accorded the high
est privilege.
Paul was trained in Jerusa
lem at the feet of Gamaliel,
the great rabbi. He probably
never saw Jesus or heard him
preach, but when he heard the
disciples preach after the as
cension, Paul conceived a ven
omous hatred of this new
“heresy.” He became the most
‘cruel inquisitor, even consent
ing to the death of Christian
men and women. But his con
version changed all this.
Thereafter he counted “all
things loss for the excellency
of the knowledge of Christ
Jesus.”
After his conversion Paul
went into the desert of Arabia
for three years to think out his
position logically. He returned
for a short time to Jerusalem
and then went back to his na
tive city of Tarsus, where he
appears to have remained a
bout seven years, doing a quiet
and unspectacular work. He
was called into active Chris
tian service by Barnabas, who
persuaded him to come to An
tioch, where the two of them
becam teachers and organizers
of the first Gentile Christian
church.
Barnabas and Saul — now
to be called Paul — made the
first missionary journey to
gether, establishing churches
in Pisidian Antioch, Iconium,
Lystra, and Derbe. The second
missionary journey took Paul
through Asia Minor to Troas,
across to Philippi, where he
founded the first church on
the continent of Europe, then
to Athens and to Corinth. On
the third missionary journey,
Paul made a long stay in
Ephesus. Here he wrote First
and Second Corinthians, Gala
tians, and Romans.
Paul had been brought up in
Tarsus, where he must have
been influenced by the Greek
university situated there. Fori
some reason he and his family
'had the unusual distinction of
'Roman citizenship. Paul . was
particularly fitted for his work
‘because he knew the Gentile
world so well and sympathiz
ed with the better parts of its
life, yet was always a loyal
Jew.
In Corinth, Paul worked as
a tentmaker, living with!|
Aquila and his wife Priscilla.
Throughout the wicked Roman
Empire, no city was so wicked
as Corinth. There the worship
of Aphrodite, goddess of love
and patron of sexual vice, de
graded the morals of the city
'beyond anything the modern
‘world can imagine.
Paul chose the most difficult |
city in the Roman world jn
which to make the Christian
gospel work.
~ After leaving Corinth, Paul
returned to Antioch, went to
Jerusalem, and started on his
third missionary journey. It
was while abiding in Ephesus
that he wrote his two letters
to the Corinthian church.
The First Epistle to the Cor
inthians is really not the first
epistle, for Paul says in I Cor
inthians 5:9 that he had al
ready written them an epistle;
this ene, of course, is lost. In
answering that epistle, the
Corinthians had asked him a
number of questions, and what
we call the First Epistle to the
Corinthians is Paul’s answer to
the various questions which
were arising in their church
life.
Paul's Epistle to the Romans
is his supreme setting forth of
Christian doctrine; his First
Epistle to the Corinthians is his
delineation of Christian behav
ior.
In verse 2, the Apostle says |
that he is writing “unto the
church of God which is at
Corinth.” The Greek word for
“church” is ekklesia, which
means “those who are called
out”—not the immoral of in
different of the community but
morally and spiritually it spe
cial, set-aside persons.
The church, therefore, is a
group of people called out from
the degraded life of the world.
They are “sanctified in Christ
Jesus,” that is, progressively
made holy.
All believers in the begin
ning were called saints, and
the Greek word for “saint,”
like the Greek word for
“church,” also means “set a
part, separated, holy.” So the
church is a body set apart from
the world, and its members
are persons who glory in the
fact that they live their lives
on the basis of higher stand
ards than those of the unbe
lieving world round about
them. ‘
The cause of much of the
spiritual impotence of the
church today may be that mul
titudes of Christians want
nothing more than to lead re
spectable lives which fit in
perfectly with the life. of the
world. Christian living is some
thing vastly different from
‘this, and the Christian church
is something far above an or
‘ganization which gets along
pleasantly with the sinful life
fabout it.
The First Epistle to the Cor
inthians is written to “all that
in every place call upon the
name of Jesus Christ our
Lord.” This means that it was
written to you and me as def
initely as to the people of Cor
inth two thousand years ago.
We observe that the greatest
gifts Paul has to confer in the
name of Christ are grace (fav
or, kindness, good will, mercy,
forgiveness) and peace. But
grace and peace are not emo
tions which grow up in our
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LETTERS TC THE
EDITOR
September 30, 1957
Mr. and Mrs. Belmont Dennis
c¢/o Covington News
Covington, Georgia :
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Dennis:
May 1 express my personal
appreciation to you for the role
you played in helping the New
ton County Unit of the Ameri
can Cancer Society conduct its
first successful Educational-
Funds Crusade, and for attend
ing its recent annual meeting.
I was delighted to see so many
of my friends there. Your very
presence was indicative of the
fact that you too are interested
in this great fight against a
scourge that killed 250,000
men, women and children in
1956 alone.
So that you may have a clear
understanding, and may in turn
explain it to your friends, why
the Newton County Unit can
not participate in a United Fund
or Community Chest, I am en
closing a sheet which explains
it very clearly.
I know from experience that
many lives are saved each year
by the awareness of the danger
signals of cancer and the need
for early diagnosis and proper
treatment that is created when
a separate effort is made by the
Cancer Society in its Educa
tional Crusade. I have every
confidence that if the ecitizens
of your community understand
this, they will want to continue
in this life saving effort.
Sincerely vours,
Elliott Secarborouh,
Chairman
Executive Committee
Sl el e
Masons Honor
W. J. Dingus Jr.
Col. W. J. Dingus, Jr., in Ma
con, Georgia, September 11th.
Received the Knights York
Cross Honor Degree. This de
gree is conferred only on Mast
er Masons who are Past Presid
ing Officers of all the York Rite
Bodies of Masonry. Those re
ceiving this degree have spent
approximately 30 years in Ma
sonic work.
Col. Dingus is alsa a Scottish
Rite Mason, receiving the 32nd
Degree, November 27, 1924.
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the hand of God Himself.
Completely basic to our re
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We only receive what God
gives. Our duty is to be willing
to receive.
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be held in Atlanta October 3-
12,
Named “Col. Peep's Poultry
Kitchen,” the exhibit will fea
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coal broiler as well as a talk
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himself. In addition the exhibit
will feature actual demonstra
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will not only show how to
prepare poultry and poultry
products, but will furnish sam
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goers.
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huge broiler will be wused to
feed delegates to the National
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ta Sept. 24. and after the fair
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growing poultry indusiry and
increase the consurmnption of
poultry products, will be made
up of nine individual exhikhits.