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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
r Your Covington NEWS
= Takes Pride In Its
z "Togetherness" Policy
There is possibly no productive enter-
Zj’Hse that calls for such closely co-ordinal
7“ed effort as getting out a newspaper.
4^ Only mutual good feeling can make
—possible the kind of united effort one finds
«jn any newspaper plant, large or small.
ZZ This cannot be attributed to the rule
X?! any single organization, nor the close
—identity of workers contributing to the re
—suit. There are several crafts employed
31 hat consist of men whose manual skill and
— experience is the criterion of success;
Z others that call for bookish accomplish-
Xments. Men and women trained in busi
~ness practices are vital to success. Also
^ithere must be forces schooled in the arts
Xof salesmanship.
X All take pride in being newspaper
men, or women. Each does his part with a
Z minimum of friction. In other fields of
Z endeavor, notably in building, there will
- be occasional delays and dissentions that
Z set one craft against another. Anything of
Z the kind is a rare occurrence in newspaper
j practice.
Such co-operation-carried out at split
2 second speed is a phenomenon too little rec-
Z ognized by a critical public.
2 —The Certified News
z Elimination of Excessive
z. Noise Problem Confronts
z Large and Small Cities
1 As the country’s population increases
Z we have more industry, more automobiles,
Xniore construction, more traffic and —
~ more noise. It might be said that our prog-
Z ress can be measured by the amount of
Z noise that is generated.
X This noise probably is inevitable. No
X doubt it is harmful to a degree. Excessive
— noise can damage hearing. It interferes
Z with communications. It causes irritability
Zand nervousness. It is responsible for errors
X>nd mistakes. And it’s a plain nuisance
J~most of the time.
Fortunately, people all over the world
Z are becoming noise conscious and are tak
* ing steps to eliminate or reduce much of
*- today’s din. The problem of excessive noise
Z and what to do about it is under constant
7 study by city officials, industrialists, busi
nessmen and scientists. Many local com
-2 munities are curbing noisy mufflers and
7 automobile horns. Industry uses engine
~ mufflers extensively, isolates noisy machin
-3 ery, repairs machines that are noisy be-
Z cause of neglect and wear, and urges the
X use of ear plugs and other devices for
» workmen who must operate in excessively
Z noisy locations. Commerce has adopted
X sound conditioning extensively in its
~ offices and favors noiseless or near noise-
Z ess typewriters, computers and other
Zaffire equipment.
X Noise abatement has even entered the
-—home, where the use of acoustical or sound
--absorbing materials has become quite com
p.mon — and stylish. These materials have
X a No found widespread use in other struc
£-tures such as municipal buildings, churches
—and schools.
£Z In short, passive acceptance of exces
^2rive noise is now out of date! We all can
•—■make major contributions to the cause of
- noise abatement by making less noise our-
Z selves and by taking advantage of the
X noise absorption tools fashioned for us by
— science and industry.
— We might as well face it. There’s go-
Z' Ing to be more noise in the world as time
- goes no, not less. Either we must head for
— the hills or do something to recover some
Z measure of tranquility on the job and ser-
X enity at home.
r President Eisenhower
z Returns From Golfing
: Vacation to Another Trip
Z Word from the White House that
; President Eisenhower will again take to
~ what passes these days for the stump (a
2 public appearance away from home and in
; the eye of television cameras) brings vari
ous conjectures to mind. Press Secretary
1 Hagerty has said the President will cam-
Z paign, and so has GOP National Committee
Z Chief Meade Alcorn. We are not aware
- that Mr. Eisenhower’s medicos have made
Z any announcements, or that newsmen have
Z even asked what they think. Is the Presi-
Z dent no longer a sick man? Is the party
— in such dire straits that the President’s
Z health can not be considered? Or, since
Z "Assistant President” Adams is no longer
r nning the White House, was the health
- i««ue a gimmick he used to suit his own
purposes?
Announced plans call for Presidential
speeches, in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, San
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dARY SESSIONS MALLARD
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C'gressman Flynt Denounces
Manipulation of Govt.
By Special Interests
Congressman John J. (Jack) Flynt Jr.,
made aver/ interesting speech to the
Kiwanis Club last Thursday in which he
denounced the influence of special interests
now prevalent in Washington.
Congressman Flynt said this was one
of the hardest years he has ever spent in
Washington due to the fact that he was a
member of the “Congressional Legislative
Sub-Committee of Oversight,” composed of
11 members of the House of Representa
tives including six Democrats and five
Republicans. He said that the amount of
evidence which they uncovered was un
believable and the trend of influence to
secure special privileges for special inter
ests was a shock to him as well as to
the rest of the committee.
This committee uncovered Bernard
Goldfine’s dealings with Sherman Adams
and other members of the Eisenhower
administration. This smelly affair was
covered by the daily papers throughout
the nation and as a result of the exposure
from this committee, Sherman Adams re
signed on Monday, September 22 as exe
cutive assistant to the President of the
United States.
Congressman Flynt deplored the fact
that people such as Goldfine have inside
information and receive special privileges
for citizens. The committee proved without
a doubt that the present administration is
honeycombed with such men who are able
to confer privileges on influential Repub
licans and thereby create disservice to the
nation.
He gave several instances of evidence
which the committee had uncovered which
were detrimental to the people of the
nation. Some of these were of such char
acter as to condemn both the recipient and
the administration providing these special
privileges.
Congressman Flynt reported that the
records of the Committee consists of entire
truckloads of files, affidavits, papers,
photostats, etc.
From the information he delivered
to the Kiwanis Club, it seems that the
Democratic party could also adopt the
slogan which the Republican Party used
in their campaign eight years ago in elect
ing President Eisenhower. This slogan was
“Time For A Change.” Certainly this slo
gan would be applicable to the present ad
ministration.
Congressman Flynt ended his speech
with emphasis condemnation of men such
as Bernard Goldfine and others which the
Republican Party have allowed to creep
into the present administration and are
proving a menace to the American way of
life.
He complimented the citizens of Cov
ington and Newton County for their whole
some way of life and thanked them for
being most hospitable to himself and his
family.
Francisco Oct. 21, Chicago Oct. 22, and it
is broadly hinted that this rather strenu
ous program will be merely a curtain
raiser in the effort to resuscitate the “I
like Ike” enthusiasm of ‘52 in hopes it may
help those Republican candidates whom
the President can be persuaded to pat on
the head.
Apparently, the GOP considers Cali
fornia a disaster area politically. But what,
we wonder, can the President — as the
most exalted exponent of the “New Re
publicanism” say in behalf of Senator
Knowland who wears the conservative
mantle that was bequeathed to him by
the late, great Senator Taft personally?
Will the President, for instance, decide
between now and Oct. 20 that free-born
Americans should have the right to work
where they please without paying tribute
to a union? Will he come to realize be
tween now and Oct. 20 that Reciprocal
Trade is not the unalloyed blessing it
seemed to be when he was urging renewal,
or that perhaps we have overdone foreign
aid?
And. estopped by law from running
again, Mr. Eisenhower is the nation’s first
lame-duck President. What of it? Just that
Mr. Nixon might be more help in the
hustings.
It costs many of us more to be gov
erned than it does to feed, shelter, and
clothe ourselves.
Despite the Enormous advances by
medical science, the undertakers seem
unworried.
Part of every man’s life should be de
voted to promotion of the public welfare,
but not so much that he must attend seven
luncheon meetings a week and be on hand
at the airport, thre^e mornings out of four.
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INTRODUCING THE GOSPEL
Bible Material:
Luke 1:1-4; 3:1-14; Acts
1:1-5.
Devotional Reading:
Galatians 4:4-7.
Memory Selection: When the
time had fully come, God
sent forth his Son.
Galatians 4:4.
The nature of the Synoptic
Gospels has already been dealt
with in the Introduction. All
the Gospels were, in the begin
ning, called “Memoirs of the
Apostles.” They embody the
testimony of those who were
intimately associated with the
ministry of Jesus — those who
saw him, heard him speak, be
held his miracles, and could
bear witness to the nature of
his death and the reality of
his resurrection.
The Synoptic Gospels (Matt
hew, Mark, and Luke) were
probably written before the
Gospel of John and within a
generation after the ascension.
The Gospel of John, written
later, deals chiefly with the
teachings of Jesus and was
written for the sole purpose of
showing that “Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God; and
that believing ye might have
life through his name” (John
20:31). The Synoptics, on the
other hand, are succinctly writ
ten narratives of our Lord’s
actions as well as records of
his words. They are easier to
understand than the Gospel of
John, although certain passages
from John have been favorites
among Bible readers through
the centuries.
We examine, today, the so
called “prologue” of the Gsopel
of Luke and the gallant figure
of John the Baptist, as he chal
lenges his generation, de
nounces its sin, and points to
the coming of the long-expect
ed Messiah.
Both passages of Scripture
are taken from the Gospel of
Luke.
Os the sixty-eix books of the
Bible, all but two were pre
sumably written by Jews.
Those two are the Gospel of
Luke and the Book of Acts—
Volumes I and II of the same
work —written by Luke, a Gen
tile Christian believer.
Luke is an important Bibli
cal character, but he played
his part in the background
rather than in the forefront
of the gospel drama. In the
New Testament he is referred
to only three times and always
in epistles written by Paul—
Col lossians 4:14, where he is
designated “the beloved physi
cian”; II Timothy 4:11, where
Paul speaks of him as his sole
companion; and Philemon 24,!
where the name of Luke is as- '
sociated with that of Mark (en '
item of importance). It is quite ■
apparent for a number of rea
sons that the person who wrote
the Gospel of Luke also wrote
the Book of Acts, and from the
earliest days tradition has
maintained that the author was
Luke.
He was Paul's traveling com
panion during a very critical
period in the life of the Great
Apostle. Beginning with the
tenth verse of Acts 16, there
occur certain passages known
as the “we sections,” in which
the writer includes himself
with Paul and others crossing
from Asia Minor and founding ;
the first Christian church on'
the continent of Europe. From 1
available evidence it appears
that Luke—probably a physi
cian attending the ailing Apos
tle—joined Paul at Troas and I
was with him during most of
the remaining years of the
Apostle’s life. When Paul was
arrested in Jerusalem and lat
er sent to Caesarea, the capital ’
of Palestine, where he remain
ed for two years, Luke was
with him. At this center and
during this period of enforced
leisure Luke was able to col
lect much of the valuable ma
terial which later went into
his Gospel and the early sec
tions of the Book of Acts. Luke
accompanied Paul to Rome and
was with him during his first
imprisonment and probably
during his second. Tradition
has it that Luke was a bache
lor, lived to a considerable old
age, and was highly regarded
in the early church.
A remarkable combination of
qualities enabled Luke to pro
duce two priceless spiritual
books. First, he was an ardent
Christian believer. Secondly,
he was an accurate historian,
quite evidently employing
many of the techniques now
used by research scholars.
Thirdly, his close association
with Paul, with the original
twelve apostles, and with prac
tically all the people who had
known Jesus intimately, gave
him a deep and accurate in
sight into the Lord’s ministry.
Finally, he was a gifted man
of letters, one of the most skill
ful writers of all time.
These qualities and circum
stances enabled Luke to be one
of the most cogent, appealing,
and authoritative of the apos
tolic writers mi the life and
ministry of Jesus. He reveals
many precious aspects of our
Lord s life not touched upon
by any other writers. He has
done much to establish and
deepen the faith of Christian
believers through the centuries.
Again we note that Luke was
a Gentile. This is indicated in
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many ways and particu arly in ,
the fact that both his Gospel
and the Bock of Acts begin
with a prologue. As a rule.
Jews did not begin their writ
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Theophilus by name, thus writ
ing for one man but through
this one man teaching the
church and the world.
Luke asserts that many had
preceded him in setting forth
Christian teachings. How many,
we do not know, but we be
lieve that in addition to Matt
hew and Mark there were other
works and sources now lost —
or what is more probable, part
ly absorbed into books later
included in the New Testament.
Luke speaks of Christian
faith as “those things which
are most surely believed among
us,” thus reminding us that
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We can have no faith unles
there are certain facts upon
which to base our faith. Luke
went to great pains to estab
lish facts, which would in
turn establish faith.
We can sneak confidently of
these recorded incidents as
facts because they had been
delivered to Luke by those who
“from the berinning were e'-e
--witne^ses, and ministers of the
word.”
Christian doctrine is not a
philosophical system evolved
by men who lived in ivory
towers. It is neither a myth
nor a bundle of unsubstantiat
ed traditions.
Our faith is based upon the
testimony of eyewitnesses who
sealed and confirmed their
testimony by a helpful ministry
carried on in the Lord’s name.
Luke does not criticize those
who preceded him. What he
writes is an addition to what
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EH NEST WOOD, JR.
AUGSBURG, GERMANY —
lirst Lt. Ernest M. Wood Jr.,
94 whose wife. Leah, lives on
Pine Needle rd., Milledgeville.
Ga., recently arrived in Germ
any and is now a member of
the 24th Infantry Division. ,
An aviator in the division s
24th Aviation Company in
Augsburg. Lieutenant Wood
entered the Army in October
1954.
The lieutenant, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. Maynard Wood.
617 Monticello st., Covington,
is a 1952 graduate of Georgia
Military College High School
and attended Georgia Military
College.
tradiction of it. The variations
in the accounts of the different
Gospel writers confirm rather
than invalidate the truth of
their testimony.
There is not the slightest
contradiction in the four Gos-
I pels regarding the basic teach-
I ings of our faith.