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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Thumbs Down, Don't Clown
When Running Motor
Boat Or Riding in One
Within the next few weeks, some 35
million Americans will “go down to the
sea in ships” in more than seven million
smsii pleasure craft that will fare forth
on bays and sounds and lakes and rivers
and on the great oceans as well!
This is a fantastic number to anyone
• whose love of the water, either fresh or
salt, goes back a few years. We might
mention, as a reference point, that in the
piping days of 1929, the boating industry
bragged about a “pleasure marine” of
more than 50,000 vessels!
In bringing to so many more people
in such a relatively short time the new
horizons and relaxation that only the wat
er can provide, this terrific expansion in
amateur seafaring has brought its prob
lems, too. Unavoidably, it set thousands
afloat who had no instinct and little feel
ing for this new world of sky and sea in
afloat who had no instinct and little feel
ing for this new world of sky and sea in
which they found themselves. Lacking the
traditional respect for the deep, it was to
them just another plaground — and mor
ons who enjoyed horseplay ashore took
it to sea with them, having on compre
hension of the perils involved.
The problem of controlling these
water-borne hooligans and of rescuing
them and the innocent victims of their ig
norance and folly has long outstripped the
facilities and manpower of the US Coast
Guard, big brother of the American
yachtsman since 1790. Today, the best
hope for sanity on the seas — inland and
coastal — is the psychological campaign
.launched last year by yachtsman Harry
Williams, vice president of American
Chain and Cable Company. This seasoned
' sailor's reaction to sky-larking on the
water is “Thumbs down, don’t clown!”, a
slogan that is conveyed to the offender by
a fist with the thumb pointing to Davy
Jones’ locker!
In its first year, Mr. Williams' slogan
and signal were indorsed by the Out
board Boating Club of America and vari
ous other yachtsmen’s organizations — and
put to good use on both coasts and the
waters in between. Wherever the thumbs
down signal was used this universally
understood Bronx cheer of the sign lan
guage put the squelch on the show-offs
and marine clowns lacking in regard for
the rights, comfort or safety of others.
In addition to their respect for wind
and wave and the rights of others, and the
safety devices required by law and dic
tated by common sense, proper sailors will
URMAN TALMADGE
M From
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oJIwBh/NGTON 3
SINCE 1948 THE United States,
according to Life Magazine, has
spent $420 billion from public and
private sources on various pro
grams seeking the impossible and
ucopian end of making the world
over in our own image. Os that
amount, more than $64 billion has
been spent or appropriated for
what we call foreign aid.
K With Congress
once more soon
to begin con
sidering thie
question, the
propaganda
drama already
are beating
loudly about the
urgent neces
sity tor continued foreign aid
•pending. Report after report and
witness after witness have been
brought forth to give lip service
to the reuse of bigger and better
foreign giveaways. But none of
the witaeet^s and none of the re
porta k»// dispelled the fact that
the proposed Mutual Security Act
of 1958 offers nothing better than
a continuation of the waste and
boondoggling which has character
ised the American foreign aid pro
gram from its inception.
• • •
THE ADMINISTRATION asked
for a new foreign aid appropri
ation 'or fiscal 1959 of $3.9 billion
but the total figure will amount to
more than $lB billion.
That is true because at the end
•f the current fiscal year there
will be a carryover of foreign aid
funds estimated at $6.2 billion,
the capitalization of the Import-
Export Bank is to be increased by
$2 billion, the Public Law 480 au-
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be prepared again this year with that de
vastating hand signal. Now firmly estab
lished as an addition to the Rules of the
Rules of the Road at Sea is “Thumbs
Down — Doa't Clown?”
President Eisenhower's Ire
Shows In Talk Before
The Newspaper Editors
President Eisenhower's address to the
American Society of Newspaper Editors
at its annual luncheon, in which the Com
mander-in-Chief is said to have spelled
out his defense reorganization proposals,
seemed more bellicose in delivery than in
content. In fact, the President appeared
to be covering a retreat from the “greater
flexibility in money matters” that ne had
earlier demand for the Secretary of De
fense.
In summing up, President Eisenhower
said: “I repeat — there will be no single
chief-of-staff — no Prussian staff — no
czar — no S4O billion blank check — no
swallowing up of the traditional services
... no undermining of the Constitutional
powers of the Congress.
“But this there will be, if the pro
gram which I so earnestly support and
believe in is adopted by Congress:
“There will be a stop to unworthy
and sometimes costly bickering.
“There will be clear-cut civilian re
sponsibility, unified strategic planning
and direction, and completely unified com
bat commands.
“There will be a stop to inefficiencies
and needless duplications encouraged by
present law.
“Thus we will meet our dual needs
—safety and solvency. The Congress will
ing. we shall have maximum strength,
with minimum cost, in our national de
fenis”
We think it must come as a shock
to most citizens to learn that we need
new laws to stop military bickering, to
establish responsibility and, after all these
years o f“unification” to unify planning
i and commands. And many are doubtless
naive enough to consider inefficiency and
needless duplications as somehow related
to administration.
But, maybe not. Since it has taken
since January Ist, 1953 to work out these
recommendations, we are quite willing to
admit they are too much for us to grasp
in our spare time.
Thus we shall wait and see. We can
only rely o nthe Congress to devote to this
subject its utmost collective gifts of analy
sis, judgment and statesmanship. As has
been said before, this body has no task
before it that is more vital or more ur
gent.
thorization for fiscal 1958 has been
increased by SSOO million and the
authorization for 1959 set at $1.5
billion, the Defense Department
will spend more than $3 billion
maintaining service personnel and
bases abroad, servicemen will
spend more than S6OO million from
their own resources in the coun
tries in which they are stationed
and the Federal Government will
pay almost S4OO million in salaries
to American and foreign civilians
it employs in other countries.
• • •
ADD TO THIS the mere than.
$l.B billion which American tour
ists will spend abroad during the
year and the almost $4 billion
which American private enterprise
will invest in foreign economic de
velopment and the total American
foreign expenditures for the next
year will run to *24 billion.
It is hardly likely that the Amer
ican taxpayers, struggling to make
ends meet in this period of inflated
recession, will look very sympa
thetically upon an outpouring of
more than 18 billion of their hard
earned tax dollars overseas during
the next fiscal year. It is rather
my conviction that, if the masses
of the American people had their
way, the majority of the members
of Congress would vote against
giving any more “blank checks” to
the Executive Branch to be spent
on a program which is shrouded in
secrecy, devoid of any promise of
accomplishment and steeped in the
threat of national bankruptcy.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
letters To
The Editor
—■ - .
Belmont Dennis, Editor
Covington News,
Covington, Georgia
Dear Editor Dennis,
At no time in history has
there been so much public in
terest in our humanitarian ef
forts to combat mental illness.
Through your excellent sup
port, more Georgians are be
hind our program to provide
tion and treatment of mental
better facilities for the preven
illness in this state. More
Georgians are realizing the im
portance of good mental health.
We are deeply indebted to
you and your newspaper for
your continuing support.
Please accept our sincere
thanks for your contribution to
this vital work.
Sincerely,
George M. Erwin
President,
Ga. Association for
Mental Health, Inc.
From merchant seaman at
the age of 15 to commodore in
the early U. S. NAVY is a
capsule summary of the pro
fessional life of William Bain
bridge in whose honor the Re
cruit Training Center Bain
bridge, Maryland, was named.
He established the first Amer
ican Naval School, and it was
established in a prison when
he and his crew were captur
ed in the Harbor of Tripoli.
They spent three years in a
dank cell, where he organiz
ed and taught a school for his
I midshipman and naval officers
THE COVINGTOW NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY 40 LES SO N FOR
unday School
CWS PEOPLE TESTED
Bible A* o< erial: Numbers 13-
17—14:45.
Devotional Ree Hebrews
3:5-19.
Memory Selection: Today.
: when you hear his voice, do not
i harden your hearts as in the
i rebellion on the day of testing
lin the wilderness. Hebrews
3:7—8.
Last week the lesson dwelt
on the necessity of worship jn
the life of man
Today we turn to an account
i in the Book of Numbers which
i tells how the Israelites were
' tested and found wanting. This
■ group of people, led out of
Egypt’s bondage under the com
mand of Moses —who in turn
operated under the command of
God—was being prepared for
the most important function
ever to be assigned to any peo
ple.
Many times before, we have
had occasion to remind oursel
ves that God appears to use
each nation of the world for the
setting forth of some facet of
truth, and for the establishing
of some order of life upon which
succeeding generations may pro
fitable build. The Greeks had a
genius for form and beauty,
an esthetic capacity never be
fore or since equaled by any
group of people. Through the
Romans, God gave a pattern of
organization to the world. There
have been ages in which great
painters appeared, and other
ages when musicians composed
music of enduring worth. The
British have been the great dis
covers and the wide extension
of the British Empire has shown
what an energetic and purpose
ful people can accomplish.
The population of the United
States appears to be making
scientific progress and to be car
rying on the processes of de
mocracy in away which will
be helpful to future generations.
But we always go back to the
Hebrews as the people through
whom God revealed his charact
er and purpose to humanity. We
have dwelt upon this before
but it cannot be dwelt upon too
often, for at the basis of our
religious faith lies revelation,
and it was through the He
brews (at the time of the Exo
dus called the Israelites, and
some centuries later and after
the Exile called the Jews) that
God revealed certain truths
which man could never have
discovered by his own efforts.
At this point we need to ling
er a moment to remind our
selves that, by this process of re
velation, God greatly honored
human life. He might have re
vealed his truth in any one of
an infinite number of ways, but
He chose to reveal his greatest
truths through individuals,
through a certain nation, the
Hebrews, and supremely
through a member of that na
tion, Jesus Christ, the Word
made flesh.
Our religious faith is not the
result of some mountain-top ex
I perience. in which a few per-
I sons were given eternal truth
and instructed to pass this on
to contemporaries and descen
dants.
God took more than two thou
sand years to prepare the He
brew nation for the coming of
. Jesus Christ. He has. to the pre
sent time, given us an addi
itional two thousand years to
ponder Christ’s gospel and to
। apply it to the problems of life.
God appears to work slowly
. —too slowly for some of us.
But our time schedule and
God's time schedule are differ
ent. ‘‘A thousand years in thy
sight are but as yesterday when
it is past, and as a watch in
the night” (Ps. 90:4).
Moses had sent twelve spies
into Canaan to look over the
land and report on the cities
and their inhabitants. Moses
and his associates would then
decide whether or not they
should invade the land im
mediately.
Os these twelve spies, one
was chosen from each tribe.
Two stand out with special
prominence — Oshea and Ca
leb.
The spies entered Canaan
and searched the land from one
lend to the other. They returned
with a full and detailed know
ledge of the land they wanted
to invade. As proof of its fruit
fulness, they cut “a branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they
bare it between two upon a
staff: and they brought of the
pomegranates, and of the figs”.
(Num. 13:23).
The report of the spies was
discouraging in the extreme. To
be sure, the land was fruitful,
but the people who inhabited it
were strong and fierce. They
even pictured some as giants,
the sons of Anak, who by their
huge stature made the Hebrew
spies appear as grasshoppers.
Naturally, when the people
heard this report, they were
I dismayed. They had left Egypt,
I where, in spite of the servitude,
they were at least well fed, and
they had come into a vast desert
where the only sustenance wah
manna which fell from heaven.
>' Would this keep up forever? Un
I doubltedly they would all at
last perish.
At least so they reasoned,
“and the people wept that
night.” Some of them talked of
rebellion against Moses and
Aaron and proposed selecting a
captain who would lead them
back into Egypt. But two of
the spies, Oshea and Caleb,
rent their clothes and besought
the people to have courage and
enter the land at once, for these
two were assured that the Israe
lites would be victorious.
Moses changed the name of
Oshea, meaning “help,” into
Joshua, meaning God’s held.”
Joshua, meaning God’s help.”
and Joshua and the other ten
spies was that these two dis
senters had faith in God, re
membered the great miracles
which had accompanied the
Exodus, and relied upon the
promise that God would lead
this people into a land flowing
with milk and honey.
It remains to this day a well
established and attested spiri
tual principle that those who
trust God and remember his
miraculous providences are fit
to enter the promised land and
eventually do so.
There is a promised land a
waiting every one of us — the
realm of spiritual freedom in
self-control, and peace of mind
which we may possess. Biblical
history recapitulates the ex
periences through which all of
us pass as individuals. We, too,
experience bondage— the bond
age of selfishness and sin. As we
try to flee this bondage, we
meet many discouragement and
our hearts naturally turn back
to the ease of the fleshpots, to
the indulgences which we for
merly practiced with out re
buke of conscience. The pro
mised land is too hard for us
to hope to overwhelm and enter
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.The price of moral victoy
comes to high Deprived of our
indulgences, we languished in
a desert, in a realm of no plea
indulgences, we languish in
former delights has now been
left behind.
Let us return, we cry to our
former ways of life. There is
excitement and color; there is
thrill and sweet pleasure. Why
should we die in the wilder
ness, into which strong moral re
solve has led us and in which
some measure of self-control
still holds us?
Two mighty impulses held
the Israelites captive fear and
appetite.
They' were indeed fearful,
and had a right to be, as they
recall the promised land could
be gained only at the cost of
effort and sacrifice. The Israe
lites far outnumbered the Can
aanites, but the latter lived in
walled cities and the former
had but few weapons with
which to carry on a seige. These
handicaps would not have de
terred brave men, but not all
these Israelites were brave.
Many had cowered under the
taskmaster’s whip as slaves.
Also through generations they
had grown soft, and they could
not get out of their minds the
delights which Egypt afforded
even a slave.
Many of them probably de
clared that all this talk about
entering a promised land, about
a covenant-making God, was a
lot of pious religious chatter,
all very well for people like
Moses, and his brother Aaron,
but not suited to the general
run of folk who wanted to live
their lives as they pleased. The
trouble with these people was
that they, like the ten spies who
gave an adverse report, did not
have religious faith. Joshua and
Caleb, on the contrary, did.
DAIRYING IN GEORGIA
Dairymen at the Agricultural
Extension Service report the
average production per cow on
Dairy Hery Improvement As
sociation testing in Georgia in
1957 was 7,632 pounds. The top
herd in the state averaged I*,-
129 pounds. The trend in Geor
gia toward larger Grade A
herds will contiue, the Exten
sion dairymen say.
Salem Mission
Given Land
For Building
Salem Baptist Mission mem
bers are presently making plans
for a new church building on
a lot donated to the mission by
Miss Annie Brightwell. The
two acres of land is a portion
of the old Claude Bailey prop
erty on Salem Road
Recently the building fund
has been enriched by donations
of $218.85.
The Rev. J. T. Widener, pas
tor of the mission, said that he
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PIPER HARDWARE COMPANY
5 E. SQUARE PHONE — 2555
Thursday. May IS, 1958
is well pleased with the co-op
eration of everyone and that
the recent revival held was en
joyed by all. Five new mem
bers were received into the
mission — Mr. and Mrs. Her
bert Tucker, Miss Mary Corley,
Jessie Davis and Martin Smith.
The Rev. Edgar A. Callaway
did the preaching.
A sign will be erected on the
site of the new building in the
!near future.
When you're caught out in
a boat in a bad windstorm,
i head into the waves and hold
; —that's the safest way.
, —Sports Afield