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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Emory at Oxford Offers Rare
Opportunity In Fifth
World Affairs Institute
£ In the Fifth World Affairs Institute to
"be held Monday February 9, at Allen Mem
-nrial Church on its campus, Emory at Ox
ford is raising the curtain on Tomorrow s
^History, as it brings us world events which
Tare, at the moment, veritably shaping the
future.
This outstanding event has. from its in
^ception, elicited the keenest interest of
^those following historical and political
’trends of current events. This year s In
stitute. under the direction of Professor
Jlarold Mann, has as its theme, “Eastern
Europe — Coexistence and Beyond ; and in
view of Russia’s “match and fuse” tactics
in the Berlin Crisis, promises to be most
-stimulating.
Envoy Silviu Brucan of the Rumanian
People’s Republic; Dr. Marion Dobro&ielski,
First Secretary of the Polish Embassy;
Press Counselor Kjell Oberg of the Swed
ish Embassy; British Consul Granville
Ramage; and Austrian Consul Robert Bunzl
Voosendorf, former World War II Head of
the Austrian Government in Exile in Lon
don, are the scheduled speakers on the
Institute Program.
This is a rare opportunity which local
citizens and many from surrounding areas
will not want to miss; and for which we
are grateful to Emory at Oxford, Dr. Virgil
Y. C. Eady, Dean, and the Institute Com
mittee.
Heart Association Offers
Memorial Gifts Program
To Fight Heart Disease
In recent years there has been a grow
“jig desire on the part of those who have
lost a relative or a friend through heart
disease to contribute to a program con
cerned with combating the disease which
caused the tragic loss.
_ These people have found a measure of
satisfaction in being able to translate their
grief into some positive action, to help the
living in the name of the departed.
This is the purpose of the Memorial
Gifts program of the Georgia Heart Asso
ciation. The GHA is the only voluntary
health agency in the State devoted ex
clusively to combating diseases of the heart
;and blood vessels.
Heart disease ranks as the most serious
threat to the health of the people of Geor
gia. As estimated 300,000 Georgians suffer
Jrom some form of cardiovascular disease,
and more than 16,000 deaths result annual
ly from heart ailments. To meet this chal
lenge, the Georgia Heart Association main-
Jaans a statewide program of research, ed
ucation, and community service.
- Memorial gifts are a major factor in
“the support of this overall program. They
are accepted throughout the year and are
credited to the Heart Fund of the county
^rom which they are received.
~ Gifts to the Heart Fund in memory of
friends, relatives, or associates will be
.gratefully acknowledged by the Georgia
Heart Association. S. J. Morcock is the
treasurer of the Heart Fund Drive in
^Newton County and he will gladly Wel
lcome all contributions to the local Heart
Fund.
Spring Meeting Calls
For Parley On Berlin
While President Eisenhower has re
ported that “no new proposals of which I
am aware at all” came out of his discus
sion with Soviet Drummer Mikoyan, plans
go forward for a spring meeting with the
Reds on the Berlin impasse. A committee
(at or below the ambassadorial level) rep
resenting the US, Britain, France and West
Germany, meets in Washington soon to
figure out what to say to the Russians
later on — before May 27 when the Krem
lin’s six months ultimatum on Berlin
comes due.
Perhaps the preliminary conference
can find out the Dulles alternative for free
elections in unifying Germany — and let
us all know.
ROSEBURG, ORE., THE NEWS-RE
VIEW: “The man with money will invest
risk capital when there is opportunity to
earn a profit. When he invests his money
he creates jobs. Experience shows that
people go where jobs are plentiful. No
one objects to a sales tax, or any other
tax for that matter, if job security is to
be found. But we can’t and won’t have
job security so long as we have no incen-
Tive for risk capital.”
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1 MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
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Entered ot the Fast Office
at Covington. Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
American Legion Asks
To Stand Up and Be Counted
The annual “For God and Country”
telecast of The American Legion reminds
all Americans — with especial force, this
year —of the most vital issue of twenty
centuries.
As we stand at the crossroads of his
tory. and in the gathering storm that must
resolve whether this world is to be God
fearing or anti-God, the world’s largest
body of veteran fighting men asks us to
stand up and be counted. It commands us
to recall that from its faltering beginnings
on the precarious edge of a Wild man’s
wilderness, the strength of this nation has
flowed from God and been manifest in
freedom of worship and respect for faith.
Against the shocking background of
the recent visit of Anastas Mikoyan —
the arch-spy who directed the theft of
US atomic secieis, and the assassin of the
victorious Eungaria i freedom-fighters —
and the hospitality extended by Ameri
cans of prominence, we quote from the
supplication of the Right Reverend Mon
signor John J. Twiss, national chaplain of
The Legion:
“Remind us, Lord God, of the pressing
need today of re-emphasizing, rather than
shying away from, the word ‘loyalty’.
“Warn us that the recent decline of
this concept of loyalty can undermine the
foundation of a free America — the family
and the home — unless we return to those
values and virtues that claimed the un
compromising allegiance of those who
founded this nation and made the struggle
for life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness irresistible and undeniable.
“Above all, help us to be passionately
loyal to American and our way of life.
Make us nonpartisan in our choice of pro
grams and policies for the service of the
nation. Lord, may we always ask: ‘What
will best serve America as God wills that
America be served?’.”
Spiritually, the nation endures again
the discouragement of Valley Forge. And
Americans may seek today, as General
Washington sought then, the strength of
Divine Guidance — or they may flee to
the temporary warmth of indifference and
expediency.
This is the critically timely message
of The American Legion.
Federal Government
Plans Another Hike
In Gasoline Taxes
The fellow who originated the phrase
“whatever goes up must come down” ap
parently didn’t know much about taxes.
We were reminded of this when we learn
ed Washington officials are inclined to ask
for another gasoline tax boost which would
increase the federal “take” to four and a
half cents per gallon.
That’s a big bite out of Georgians
pocketbooks. But the direct payment of the
tax at the service station pump will be
only one way we will feel the increase.
Such a tax addition could have a pyra
miding effect. Producers and manufactur
ers would be subjected to an added busi
ness expense — thus raw materials and
finished products may feel the tug of fur
ther inflation. And taxpayers will be pay
ing for this out of the same deflated pock
etbook.
What’s the money for? It’s to go into
the Federal Highway Trust Fund to help
finance the Interstate Highway System.
The completed System was estimated to
cost $27.6 billion in 1956; today the new
estimate is S4O billion.
Each of us trying to keep our cost of
living down and economize efficiently
would feel this increase. And the situation
looks even worse when we consider that
a tax increase wouldn’t be necessary if
all automotive taxes were applied to this
Trust Fund. But this isn’t so.
During the fiscal year which ended
June 30, the federal government collected
approximately $3.6 billion from special
taxes on motorists (73 per cent of the na
tion’s families own cars). Os that sum, $1.5
billion (42 per cent!) was channeled into
the general fund of the United States
Treasury, not the Highway Trust Fund.
One way or another, Georgia citizens
will have to foot the bill for this federal
,ax increase, either through direct pay
nent or indirect. After all, only people
jay taxes.
Senator Byrd points out that at the
current spending level, the Federal gov
ernment will pour out S4OO billion in the
next five years, and that the deficit will
reach at least $350 billion. He adds: “Such
Federal deficit financing can only stimu
late terrible inflation. . .”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
(Q OUR WEEKLY
Sunday
Jesus Questioned about
The Resurrection
Bible Material: Luke 20:27-
40; John 14:1-7.
Devotional Reading: 11 Co
rinthians 4:13-18.
Memory Selection: He is not
God of the dead, but of the liv
> ing: for all live to him. Luke
20:38.
Intermediate - Senior Topic: I
Death is not the end.
Young People-Adult Topic:'
Death is not the End.
Two weeks ago, a lesson on
the authority of Christ.
Last week we had a lesson
lin which Jesus differentiated
between heavenly and earthly
authority. He instructed his fol
lowers to be good citizens,
implying that a righteous man
can be none other.
On his advice that men ren
der to Caesar the things that
are Caesar's and to God the
things that are God's, rests that
satisfactory separation of
church and state under which
most free nations live today.
Our Lord’s opponents, how
; ever, were determined to give
I him no rest. Overwhelmed and
defeated on one front, they
। would make onslaught against
him from another. The lesson
today deals with our Lord’s dic
tum regarding the nature of
the resurrected life. It is the
ultimate to which the believer’s
faith and all his righteous en
deavor press. Life on earth is
preparation for life in heaven.
To many who would like to
make the Christian gospel a
lofty philosophy or a program
of social action, such a state
ment may appear naive. But
the Christian gospel is naive for
the simple reason that it re
veals the truth of God in all its
completeness.
The living of a Christian life
is not the intellectually disturb
ing experience many would have
us believe it is. The trouble
with such people is that they
cannot make the simplicities of
the gospel fit into the intrica
cies of their man-made philoso
phies. They find basic contra
dictions between their philoso- :
phy, which keeps close to the
surface of the earth, and the
divine revelation of Jesus,
which bade man look up and
see the glories of an eternal
and immeasurable heaven.
It is about the resurrected life
we study today.
The Sadducees were the ra
tionalists of their day. They
looked with lofty disdain unon
people of simple faith. The
Sadducees denied the existence
of a spiritual world, the ex
istence of angels, or the possi
bility of resurrection. Like the
Pharisees, their origin and past
history had been characterized
by a certain nobility, but with
the passing of time they had
come to be skeptics and time
servers, disbelieving all the es
sential doctrines of the Jewish
faith and caring only to keep
themselves in favor with the
Roman overlord. Most of them
we're rich, worldly living, su
percilious, and subservient to
wealth and power.
Jesus and the Pharisees
agreed on many religious doc
trines, but between Jesus and
the Sadducees there was no
agreement. The Pharisees were
determined to put Jesus to death
because he challenged their
spiritual domination of the peo
ple. On the other hand, the Sad
ducees probably looked upon
Jesus with amusement, and cer
tainly with contempt. They no
doubt regarded him as a quick
minded imperfectly educated
rustic who could influence the
people by his spoken words and
by certain tricks in which he
appeared to have a facility and
which he called miracles.
The object of the Pharisees
was to destroy Jesus in the
eyes of the people. When they
asked him about paying tribute
to Caesar, it seemed that they
had him impaled on the horns
of a dilemma. If he sanctioned
tribute, it was treason against
Israel: if he challenged the right
to exact such tribute, it was
treason against Rome. In any
case it was treason, and he
could not escape.
But he did escape, and in so
doing laid down the principle of
the separation of church and
state which now obtains in all
free countries.
The Sadducees, in challeng
ing Jesus, appeared to have no
other desire than to make a fool
of him in the eyes of the peo
ple. They planned to ask him a
fantastic question in which they
thought he would become hope
lessly involved. Then they
would smile complacently and
turn from him, leaving him to
be submerged in ridicule and
disdain.
But the Sadducees were to
learn that in Jesus they had an
opponent too lofty for their lit
tle minds to comprehend and |
too authoritative for their scoff
ing to injure. _ '
The Sadd'-cees are still with
~<■ rpiov p - e fi-ie materialists of
the present day. What religion
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
I they have is a labored apinning :
|of man-made theonea. Reason
' occupies an important place in .
! the life of every Christian, but J
'reason does not come first. Faith
comes first, and reason justifies
faith. But with the Sadducees of
old and with the modern Sad-
: ducee, reason comes first, a pri- 1
ority which makes hit mental
i exercise not reason at all but
| rationalism.
Beware of the Sadducee —or,
' as Jesus said. “Beware of th<
leaven ... of the Sadducees”
(Matt. 16:6). To them evange
listic Christianity is supersti
tion: orthodox belief is the evi
dence of ignorance; trusting
faith is naivete. The Sadducee
is garrulous, bitter, and vain.
The Sadducee confronted
Jesus with an alleged experi
ence which was fantastic in
every detail. “There were . . .
seven brethren: and the first
took a wife, and died without
children.” According to the
| Jewish law of levirate marriage
| (Deut. 25:5), the brother of a
deceased man was obligated to
1 take his brother’s widow as his
wife and “raise up seed unto
his brother.” The fantastic sit
uation described by the Saddu
jcee was that of seven brethren
1 marrying the widow who finally
■ died childless. “Therefore in the
i resurrection whose wife of them
'is she? for sever, had her to
wife.”
It Jesus said the woman
| would forever be the wife of
the first husband, the Saddu
cees would have a wealth of
argument with which to over
whelm him. If he claimed that
the last husband would have
her to wife through eternity,
they would also have good argu
l ments against that position.
They must have nudged one an
other and waited with amuse
i ment for Jesus’ answer.
Again we remind ourselves
that the Sadducee is still with
us. His intention —in addition to
pluming himself—is to render
the simple faith of believers
ridiculous. The modern Saddu
cee smiles complacently, scoofs,
: ridicules, and prides himself on
’ his wisdom if he can evolve a
fantastic query with which he
thinks he baffles the simple
faith of a believer.
A woman’s vows I write up
on the waves, says Sophocles in
the Great Books.
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Vansant Named Georgia's 1958
Man of The Year in Agriculture
Birmingham, Alabama - R. L.
Vansant, now division director
for the Georgia State Depart
ment of Agriculture, is named
Man of the Year in Service to
Agriculture for Georgia by The
Progressive Farmer in it® Jan
uary issue.
When he retired as state di
rector of Farmers' Home Ad
minUtraUon in September
!958, Mr. Vansant had been in
professional agricultural ser
vice for 38 years. He served
with the Agricultural Extension
Service as county agent in Mur
ray, Walker, and Cobb counties
for nearly 15 years. In 1934 he
became state director of the
Resettlement Administra tio n.
Thia later became Farm Securi
ty Administration and since
1946 has been Farmers’ Home
Administration.
Called “one of the outstand
ing administrators in the field
of agriculture today,” Mr. Van
sant has always tried to help
family-type farmers reach and
maintain a standard of living
(equal to that of other citizens.
How well he succeeded is shown
by what happened to Georgia
farmers during his directorship
of FHA: In 1949. average gross
income of all Georgia farms
was $1,340. while average gross
income of all Georgia farms
was $1,892. In 1957, average
i gross farm income of FHA
: borrowers was $6,794, while
average for all farms in the
state w’as $3,893.
Most of the FHA borrowers,
; when they received loans,
could not get credit from con
ventional sources. By 1957,
average net worth of all Geor
gia FHA borrowers was $9,433.
On*i of the main factors con
tribuCng to these huge gains
was Mr. Vansant’s foresight in
'helping them get facilities and
' know-how to balance farming
, operations with profitable live
stock operations.
In being named Georgia’s
1958 Man of the Year, Mr. Van
sant joins a select group of men;
men who were so named in
years past by The Progressive
Farmer because of their out
-1 standing contributions to Geor
| gia agriculture. They are: Dr.
Charles H. Herty, deceased
(1937); John R. Fain, deceased
(1939); Paul W. Chapman, de
ceased (1939): H. P. Stuckey,
deceased (1940); Dr. M. D.
Mobley (1941); Walter S.
Wn ~ 7 rtf -J
K i H
R. L. VANSANT
Brown (1943); J. F. Jackson,
deceased (1944); Dr. Milton P.
Jarnagan, deceased (1945); H.
L. Wingate (1946); Hon. Ste
phen Pace (1947); Cason J.
Callaway (1948); Channing
Cope (1949); D. W. Brooks
(1950): W. A. Sutton (1951);
W. Tap Bennett (1952); Dr.
George H. King (1953); Byron
Lester Southwell (1954): Dr.
George P. Donaldson (1955);
T. G. Walters (1956); Dr. C. C.
Murray (1957).
TAX RETURN
NOTICE
State and County Tax Books Now Open
Please make your returns promptly.
CLOSE APRIL 1
EVA STEPHENSON,
Tax Receiver
SREB's Student
Program Shown /
On 16mm-Film
ATLANTA. Ga. — PHnU of
a new 15-minute color film on
the Southern Regional Educa
tion Board have been supplied
to film libraries in sixteen
Southern states, it was announc
ed today bv Dr. Robert C. An
derson, SREB director.
Narrated by U. S. Senator
Lister Hill of Alabama, the
film tells the story of SREBs
student contract program and
also covers the major activities
and programs carried out by
the SREB since the Southern
Regional Education Compact
was signed in 1949.
“This film is an excellent de
vice to stimulate discussion at
any civic, community or pro
fessional meeting featuring
higher education,” Dr. Ander
son stated. A speaker’s guide
accompanies the film to asist
those planning a program.
Release of the 16mm sound
and color film is one of several
activities planned by the SREB
during the coming year to com
nwmorate the Board's tenth an
niversary. Copies of the film
may also be obtained from
SFEB’s Public Information Of
fice, 130 Sixth Street, N.W., At
lanta 13, Ga.
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own are shares in America. Buy
them regularly where you work
or at the bank.