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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Congratulations! Boy
Scouts On Your 49th
Birthday Anniversary
This week The Covington News is
happy and proud to pay tribute to the Boy
Scouts of America and those of the New
ton-Rockdale District in particular. The
week marks the 49th birthday anniversary
of the Boy Scouts of America.
Scouting in our county has come a long
way since Count Gibson started the move
ment here more than a quarter century
ago. Today the BSA movement in the
Newton- Rockda le District, under the cap
able leadership of Chairman Homer F.
Sharp, has carved an enviable name in the
Atlanta Area Council.
In this immediate area of Georgia there
are some 18,000 boys enrolled in Cub Packs,
Boy Scout Troops and Explorer Posts. Add
to this figure more than 7,000 leaders and
you have a large segment of the commun
ity population.
In awards and honors bestowed on per
sonnel of the Newton-Rockdale District
and on the boys themselves in the form
of Eagle Scouts, Newton County stands tall
when the roll is called.
Scouting has made rapid strides since
1910 when an Englishman in the jungles
of Africa sat down and observed that
“every boy, no matter who he is, should
have the chance before he grows too old
tft get into the woods. To live there, to
learn there, and consequently, be ready to
return there at any time of his life.”
Since 1910, more than 28,000,000 people,
boys and adults, have been in Scouting.
Today, about 5 million boys and adults are
actively carrying out some of the basic
principles that Robert Baden-Powell
taught.
What does Scouting teach today?
It still emphasizes hiking and camping
and woods lore.
It still teaches a wide variety of skills,
such as ropework, first aid, and the like.
But the Boy Scouts of America know
that this young man who is earnestly prac
ticing his Scouting today is more likely
to become an ordinary citizen rather than
a soldier or a woodsman, and so the aim
of much of the Scout training is towards
helping this young man prepare for a life
as a contributing citizen. Scouting helps
him with service projects in his commun
ity o r neighborhood. It teaches lasting
loyalty to his flag and country.
The Boy Scouts of America have their
job cut out for them. It is to their credit
that they handle it so well. Congratula
tions to them on their forty-ninth birth
day. May the Scouts grow and prosper in
the coming year.
Question Is Raised-ls The
Sardine Ideal Lenten Food
As everybody knows a whale is not a
fish — anymore than a mountain oyster —
a Bombay duck can’t fly, and a race be
tween a Welsh rabbit and a mock turtle
would be a dead heat. So it might as well
be told that, among all the fishes that swim
the seven seas, there is no such thing a
^sardine'*.
Thus, when you read (as you will for
the next several weeks) about Maine sar
dines as the ideal Lenten food, you can
smile your superior smile and sigh: “Well,
really!” Or snort: “Oh yeah?” Depending
on your type.
Since these pseudonymous sardines are
toothsome morsels, widely celebrated for
their nutrifying properties and known to
ease budgets and save labor, they will be
encountered far and wide from now until
March 29th. But, whether they are recom
mended to you for the canapes or the soup,
for the fish course or masquerading on a
mashed potato Alp as mock antelope cut
let, as a “marine accent” for the salad, or
even (for all we know) as a dessert; you
can be assured, when they are good, Amer
ican-spawned fishes from Maine, that they
are in fact young herring that have made
a name for themselves!
So here we are once more, faced with
the question raised so long ago by the
Bard of Avon — whether, in all truth, “A
rose by any other name would smell as
sweet”? Suppose it were called a “dande
lion”? We’d be making spring-time salad
out of rose leaves, no doubt.
Which at least gets us back on the sub
ject of eating. And aren’t you getting hun
gry, too? How about some crackers and a
can of sardines? Sure — we know (as we
just said) there’s no such thing. But we’re
all creatures of habit. And besides, maybe
the storekeeper doesn’t know they are
junior herrings.
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World Day Os Prayer, One
Os Our Religious Freedoms
Psalm 65:2 “O, Thou that hearest pray
er, unto Thee shall all flesh come.”
Friday, February 13 has been set aside
as a World Day of Prayer, and will be
observed by local churches and citizens in
a joint service at the First Methodist
Church at 7:30 p.m.
We do not know how many countries
around the world will join in this ack
nowledgement of a Divine Power, and in
tercession for mankind and peace; or in
how many lands they may be forbidden
this privilege. —
For this cherished freedom of worship,
we are, with all other Americans, humbly
grateful.
We who have witnessed the birth of the
Atomic Age with its inestimable power for
good or evil, and the Space Age with its
technological and scientific progress, are
awed by the magnitude of their might and
potentialities. We shudder at the realiza
tion of their destructive forces capable of
annihilating mankind; and thrill to the
genius and creativity of the human mind,
and to the potentials for good into which
these forces are capable of being chan
neled.
It is indeed a paradox that we who
readily accept these man-made miracles,
do not accept the power available to us
from the Source of all miracles. The
Source, we know is God; but, we oftimes
plod our weary ways as though we did not
know that prayer is the conduit through
which we may tap this reservoir of power.
The mountains of distrust and enmity,
which afflict our world today, could be
removed just as surely as a geographical
mountain could be removed by faith the
“size of a mustard seed,” by the prayers of
Christians around the world.
May we join hearts and minds of thous
ands of others who will on that day be
answering this world-wide “Call to Pray
er.”
Fire Loss Is Reckless
Destruction of Life
And Property in U. S.
Reckless destruction of life and prop
erty by fire continued unabated in the
United States last year.
More than 11,500 persons — nearly the
population of Princeton, N. J., and 200
more than the year before — died in fires
in 1958, reports the National Safety Coun
cil. The National Board of Fire Under
writers says property losses hit the astro
nomical figure of $1,056 billion, which is
more than twice the $497 million assessed
valuation of Yonkers, N. Y., a city of
180,000.
Millions of dollars are spent annually
by industry, insurance companies and gov
ernment to curtail these staggering losses
—but the picture continues more depress
ing year by year. Fire prevention experts
are well aware of many tinderbox areas
where an other wise insignificant spark
could wipe out whole sections of our mu
nicipalities. But in most instances they are
powerless to do anything about buildings
constructed prior to passage of stringent
building codes requiring built-in fire pre
cautions. As for new construction, the let
ter of the law often is not strictly enforced
because of prohibitive fire-proofing costs.
But industrial ingenuity, which has
mastered so many of the nation’s most
vexing problems, at last may have the
answer to this costly and needless loss
of life and property. Researchers, for the
Alim Corporation — men who thrive on
vexing problems — have developed a new,
economical fire-retardant paint which they
call Saf (long “a”, as in “safe”), because
its one purpose, aside from interior decor
ation, is to “stop all fires”. Underwriters
Laboratories of Chicago, a non-profit test
ing organization, says this retardant is two
to four times more efficient than similar
coatings. Smokeless, non-flammable and
non-toxic, it contains newly developed
resin pigments which go into action as
soon as flames touch them.
Forming an insulating mat up to one
inch thick, it stops progress of fire and in
sulates the surface beneath the “puff”
against disastrous spread of heat. The new
paint will withstand 1700-degree flames
for up to one hour, thus providing a longer
period for escape of building occupants
and a better chance for firemen to save
the property.
Experts who have witnessed the fire
retarding qualities of this coating under
the severest tests feel that had it been
available earlier, the appalling toll of 90
lives lost in the Chicago school fire at
year's end might have been averted.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associata Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Assoc iota Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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Reports From
WASHINGTON
THE FEDERAL BUDGET which ,
President Eisenhower has pro- 1
posed for the 1960 flseal year is
about a* wishful as a five-year-old’s
letter to Santa Claus.
It was pre
sented to Con
gress as a bal
anced budget,
but its balance,
is based on more
“if’s” than dol-j
lars. It can be
balanced only
if the national
economy continues its upward
spiral, if federal revenues increase
by $9.1 billion, if gasoline taxes
and postal rates are raised by $1.4
billion and if the Democratic-con
trolled Congress should by some
miracle adopt it virtually un-।
changed — contingencies which !
range in that order from the im
probable to the incon ceiva ole.
• • •
A BALANCED BUDGET is an
essential ingredient of responsible,
stable government and the fiscal
dilemma of the United States can
be attributec’ directly to the fact
that this country has had only five
balanced budgets in the last 30
years.
Nations, like individuals, must
live within their incomes or go
bankrupt. The only difference is
that it takes nations longer to reach
that point because, unlike the indi
vidual, they can print their money.
It certainly is evident that the
United States is traveling rapidly
down that road when the only bal
ance of which it can boast is that
it now owns almost as much as
it owes.
There is no excuse for printing- I
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SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
JESUS QUESTIONED ABOUT c
THE GREAT COMMANDMENT i
(TEMPERANCE) j
Bible Material:
Mark 12:28-34.
Devotional Reading:
I John 3:1-11.
Memory Selection: To love him
with all the heart, and with
all the understanding, and
with all the strength, and
to love one’s neighbor as
oneself, is much more than
all whole burnt offerings
and sacrifices. Mark 12:33
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
The Highest Rule
Young People-Adult Topic:
Responsibility to God and
Man.
The last week of our Lord’s
life was one of bitter contro
versy. The determination of the
scribes and Pharisees to bring
him “to book” was mounting in
intensity and had reached al
most hysterical proportions. At
first they opposed him. Later
they tried scorn and contempt
against him. During this last
week — after he had been ac
claimed King by his humble
followers — our Lord’s oppo
nents plied him with questions,
most of them captious and de
signed to entrap him.
Here is a principle we need
to ponder: man is a fallen cre
ature and as such continually
opposes truth, especially new
truth. He wants to be let alone,
particularly if the established
order of things has made him
comfortable or given him posi
tion and power.
The scribes and Pharisees had
long realized that if Jesus
should be victorious, their pow
er over the people was at an
end: for with this passing went
lucrative sources of income,
which they, of course, were de
termined not to relinquish.
A scribe, who up to this time
probably had been only a pas
sive listener, stepped into the
midst of the scene and asked '
Jesus a very important ques- j
tion.
We feel that this man must !
have been impressed by the
logic and force of our Lord’s |
answers to the questions being ;
put to him, and we read that he
perceived that Jesus “had an- j
swered them well.” He now
would ask a question of this
free lance Teacher from Nazar- j
eth, and it would not a c»n
tious question. It would be one
of fundamental importance, xur
the way Jesus an-'
would reveal where he placed
his emphasis in things re igious. ,
Also we may believe that there I
was some bewilderment in the
press money and the one and only
valid reason for deficit spending is
the requirements of national de
fense. Otherwise the only sound
and sensible fiscal policy for any
country is to determine accurately
and realistically what its income
will be and adopt a budget which
will spend no wore than goes into
itr treasury.
On that basis the 1960 national
budget should be in the neighbor
hood of $67 billion.
• • •
AS LAUDABLE AS the Presi
dent’s declaration in support of a
balanced budget may be, his pro
posed spending formula defeats his
personal good intentions by failing
to curb waste and correct ineffi
ciency in the federal establishment,
by proposing to economize at the
expense of the farmer and the vet
eran and by advocating the imposi
tion of new taxes on the already
overburdened taxpayer.
Congress hardly will be recep
tive to such studied indifference to
the real needs of the nation. 1
know that 1, for one, do not intend
to vote for any tax increase what
soever so long as the Executive
Branch refuses to act decisively to
deflate its bloated bureaucracy and
continues to advocate an ever-in
creasing and never-ending foreign
economic aid program to support
the economies of 70-odd Commu
nist, neutralist and allied nations
throughout the world, many of
which are far better off economi
cally and have considerably less
oppressive tax burdens than our
own.
questioner’s mind about the
matter on which he queried
Jesus.
His question was brief and to
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the point. “Which," he said, "is i
the first commandment of all?” I
There seems to be something in
the human mind which raises .
the queries — what is best, who i
is first, what is greatest? The
religious leaders had often ar
gued as to which was the first ।
commandment. Some — and
probably most of them — point
ed out that since most of the
commandments had to do with
sacrifice and liturgy, these mat
ters were of primary import
ance in the sight of the Al
mighty. Therefore some com
mandment in this area must be
first and greatest of all; and
loud and raucous were the ar
guments as to what this com
mandment was.
But Jesus met the great ques
tion with an amazingly simple
answer. Every Jewish child had
been taught the Shema, or that
passage, Deuteronomy 6:4-9,
which began with the word
Shema. There was not a Jew
alive in our Lord’s day who
did not know that passage from
the Old Testament which be
gins, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord
our God is one Lord: And thou
shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thine heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy
might.” Twice each day every
Jew recited these words and
the words which followed re
garding the cherishing of this
precept and the teaching of it.
The recitation of the Shema was
also the first act of worship ;
in the Jewish synagogue.
How could anyone have miss- !
ed it? Only the scribes and i
Pharisees, entangled in their |
legalism, could have failed to ’
see that this commandment to |
love God was the basis of re- !
ligious faith.
Let us pause to note a few j
things before we proceed. Ob- |
serve first our Lord’s capacity |
for reason. Entirely apart from ■
his divinity, he had an intel- j
lect which astounded his con- i
temporaries. Note, too, that this ।
commandment emphasized first'
of all the unity of God.
All true worship is based |
upon a belief in one God and
one holy purpose associated i
with Him. We often mistaken
ly regard ourselves as worship- i
■ ers of one God, yet we do not i
make the Almighty and his
j holy purposes central in our
lives. Our selfishness, our pas
sions, and our prejudices keep
our lives divided, our powers ■
rent in twain.
Note also that our Lord add
ied one requirement not men- ,
. tioned in the Shema. We are to
■ love God with all the heart, i
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soul, and might (strength), but
also with all our mind.
Let us reflect on the fact that
Jesus expected his followers to
use their minds. The Christian
life begins in an act of faith,
but once we have accepted
Jesus Christ as Lord and the
revelation God has ma d e
through him as ultimate truth,
an unlimited realm on which
the mind may be exercised
opens before us.
What is love? Basically, it is
good will. Some forms of love,
such as romantic and parental
love, are characterized by
strong emotion. Other forms of
love, such as love for one s
neighbor and love of duty, are
not so highly characterized by
emotion.
Love is an undeviating de
termination to act in a spirit
of good will toward God. his
creatures, and the world.
To love God with the heart
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means to love Him with emo
tion. To love Him with the soul
means to love Him with dedi
cation of life, for the word
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of our lives to Him in service.
There is some little measure
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For Christians, religious faith
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