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THE COVINGTON NEWS
•ELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Commissioner Phil Campbell
Evidences Thorough Grasp
Os Milk Control Problems
F*. CwkpbeU ComEwas.oner of Agri
was ^^e fe*tsired speaker at the
Otao^jt Dbary Association meeting
b*id IM* 6 * * Henderson’s Res-
tauran*.
V- s^xmc most interestingly
of uh > pcoc.er.i4 which confront the
Gow^o* ZMarjswa. as well as dairymen
wsrov^ncwt ttw Nauon Hi* talk was bo
interested to she Newton County people
tnat «ber c jestaans kept him talking for
over an hour.
The Milk Control Board has recently,
by Legislative act. been transferred to the
Bureau of Agriculture and Mr. Campbell
evidenced thorough knowledge of the en
tire problem through his talk and answers
to the many questions which the interested
members propounded.
While thoroughly interested in the milk
situation Mr. Campbell made it very clear
he was equally as interested in every prob
lem confronting the Georgia farmers to
day.
We believe Georgia is fortunate in hav
ing a man with the knowledge, enthusiasm
and executive ability of Commissioner
Campbell as head of the Bureau of Agri
culture.
We wish to also congratulate the New
ton County Dairy Association on their
splendid organization. They are working
together for the betterment of their condi
tion as well as the entire milk problem
throughout the Nation.
Their organization is an example of the
benefits which may be derived by farmers
banding together as an organization to
promote their product and, incidentally,
their financial welfare.
Pictures taken at the meeting will ap
pear in The News next week.
Taxpayers May Get
"White Elephant" In
Superhighway Construction
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, HERALD:
“An old time King of Siam had a nasty
way of getting even with any noble he
happened to dislike. He would give the
man a white elephant.
“Since the white elephant was sacred
to the Siamese, anyone who happened to
own such a beast was required to keep it
in style. In fact, tire cost of maintaining a
white elephant was so great that any noble
who received one was automatically con
demned to financial ruin.
“What brings this to mind is the na
tional highway program, now in its second
year. Has this program become a white
elephant to America's car and truck own
ers? . . .
“If things keep on the way they’ve been
going in the program’s first two years, a
project that was presented as a boon tn
the nation’s car and truck owners will
turn into the biggest and costliest white
elephant ever wished on a group of suf
tering taxpayers ”
Advertising Improves
Today's Living Standards
BRIDGEHAMPTON, N. Y„ NEWS: “To
be sure, there are critics of advertising
who claim that many people buy things
they don’t really want or need — with
money they don’t have — because of some
copywriter’s persuasiveness. While this
argument sounds interesting, it doesn't
bold up.
“Take, for instance, the automobile. Ad
vertising through the years has made ours
a nation on wheels. And working along
with advertising has been the installment
buying method, which has enabled many
millions to buy cars and thereby improve
their living standards.’’
Farmer Is Still Our
Most Valuable Citizen
FRANKLIN, VA., TIDEWATER NEWS:
“Most other areas of employment are gov
erned by supply and demand. If there are
too many newspaper reporters, somebody
goes without a job. If there are too many
steel workers, somebody gets laid off. So
it goes, except in farming.
"Our Congressman ^Vatkins Abbitt had
• point when he said last week, ‘The farm
er is our most valuable citizen.’ The farm
er is the backbone of our economy — but
if something isn’t done, our farm program
is going to break us. We can’t go on add
ing millions of bushels of wheat to sur
plus storage year after year, for example,
L without; reaching the saturation point.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
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Associate Editor
4ARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Fest Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
Medicine Chest Should
Be Checked Often,
Urges Health Officials
The bathroom medicine cabinet is the
booby trap of the American home.
According to the U.S. Public Health
Service there were 789 deaths from poison
ing by solid and liquid substances in U.S.
homes in 1956 — the last year for which
figures were available. The 1957 totals, to
be announced next month, are expected
to be no better. In addition, thousands
more suffer the tortures of poisoning each
year and recover. The national figures are
hard to pin down, but in New York City
alone, there were over 8,000 poisonings in
1958, at least half of the victims being chil
dren. The Poison Control Center of the
city’s Department of Health, which pro
vides these statistics, points out there are
two types of bathroom poisoning accidents:
one, caused by careless administration of
drugs by adults; the second by young chil
dren who cannot read, eating and drink
ing medicines left unguarded by parents.
Statistics from all sources across the
nation have established beyond question
that bathroom poisoning fatalities and
thousands of grave and unnecessary ill
nesses are caused each year by the use of
stale prescriptions, by taking someone
else’s medicine or the misuse of deadly
preparations that may be found in most
any medicine chest.
In a major, nationwide public health
program to prevent these tragic deaths and
needless suffering, the surgical dressings
firm of Bauer and Black (which does not
manufacture medicines) is going all out
to warn the American family of the perils
that may — and probably do — lurk in its
own bathroom medicine cabinet.
In its “Clean Up Your Medicine Chest”
drive, the company is providing through
the cooperation of prescription pharmacies,
drug stores and food stores dispensing pro
prietary drugs information leaflets that list
eight safety rules for bathroom medication,
that stress the perils of stale drugs and
prescriptions, of taking or giving medicines
in the dark or in poor light or without
glasses if you need them to read the labels
and of guessing at dosage. There is also a
check list of 26 items that should be in
every home medicine chest. Additionally,
for the special protection of children, the
company is providing through drug stores
and at half-price, an adjustable metal shelf
for installation high up on the door of a
medicine cabinet or closet where danger
ous drugs may be kept out of reach of
the little people.
A good many people who pride them
selves on their well-kept homes are likely
to feel we are not talking to them. And,
of course, we are not —if their medicine
chest reveals no out-dated prescriptions of
unknown purpose, no illegible labels or
bottles, boxes or vials without labels and
no corrosive preparations within childish
reach. '
But it's a good time to look-see.
From Life magazine: "Neither the Red
army nor straight Marxist propaganda,
with all their power, could alone have
created student riots in Venezuela, frus
trated the parliamentary system of Italy,
won an election in the most literate state
in India (Kerala), retaiined key footholds
in the British and American labor move
ments, ridden the street whirlwinds of
Bagdad to the edge of power, dazzled the
opening mind of Africa, or poisoned stra
tegic corners of press and university opin
ion from Paris to Tokyo. These are organ
izational successes, the fruit of long and
rigorous training of dedicated individuals
in a conspiratorial technique.”
MEDIA. PA., DELAWARE COUNTY
PRESS: "The newspaper reporter is the
representative of the public. The average
citizen does not have time to attend meet
ings of those officials empowered to spend
his money, or to prowl around police sta
tions to make sure the men whose salaries
he pays are doing their jobs. He counts
on the newspaper reporter to do this for
him. When public officials begin to with
hold information from this representative
of the people, the very foundation of our
democratic system is threatened.”
ABILENE, KANSAS, DAILY REFLEC
TOR-CHRONICLE: “A New York grand
jury looking into collapse of discipline in
the schools made this stinging report:
“ ‘Our classrooms are turning out far
too many delinquents and it can be ex
pected that matters will be worse until
teachers again are placed in command. Re
spect for teachers has been tossed out the
window by starry-eyed educational leaders
who encourage freedom while de-empha
sizing responsibility for one’s actions’.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
OU R WEEKLY (O LBS S° N FOR
Sunday school
JESUS LNDERG 0 J TRIAL
Bible Material:
Mark 14:53-15:15
Devotional Reading:
Psalms 22:1-19
Memory Selection: He wa« op
pressed, and he was afflict
ed,yet he opened not his
mouth. Isaiah 53:7.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
What Will You Do with
Jesus’
: Young People-Adult Topic:
What Will You Do with
Jesus?
The four Gospels give central
attention to passion week for in
it occurred the events in the
life of Jesus which outweighed
all else, since by his death and
resurrection salvation was
brought to the world. The only
valid purpose in studying these
events of passion week is that
which the Gospels emphasize,
to know the meaning of salva
tion through the cross of Christ.
No amount of accurate study
into the background or aide is
sues of the trial can be any
thing but a distortion of the
truth, if the central issue be
obscured.
The trial before Pilate is bet
ter understood if Mathew 27:1-
26, Luke 23:1-25, and John
18:28 through 19:16 are read
also. Important details are giv
en in these accounts, whereas
Mark provides a sharp, hard fo
cus on certain key points.
One such sharp, hard focus is
to be found in the first verse.
Its very brevity makes it easy
to pass over its appalling mean
ing. It tells us simply that the
Sanhedrin convened at the first
hint of dawn and then hastened
to deliver Jesus, bound and sen
tenced by the Jewish court, to
the civil court of Pilate for
death sentence. And yet far
more is present here than this
bit of formal transaction would
indicate. What was the issue?
From every point of view, the
trial of Jesus on the previous
night had been illegal. Every
principle of Jewish law was
systematically and ruthlessly
violated. The court met on the
very night of the arrest, thus
violating the legal stipulation
of delay that the defendant
might prepare his case. The
court itself acted as prosecutor
end used perjured witnesses to
establish its case. The rights of
the accused were consistently
neglected and his very person
abused, Jesus being struck by a
minion of the court. The mid- 1
night session of the court was
irregular and illegal in every
sense of the word. This is not
surprising, however, in view of
the open purpose of that court,
the Sanhedrin, to execute legal
murder, to crucify Jesus as a
menace to their prerogatives
and their nationalism.
The surprising, and yet not
surprising, aspect of the whole
situation was that their consci
ence troubled them, but not at
the right point. The judicial
murder they planned meant
nothing to them; it was the ir
regularity of the legal proceed
ings which distressed them. And
so, having held an irregular
court at midnight, they recon
vened at dawn to go through
the same mockery of justice
with a careful show of legality.
Their basic principle was not,
let us be godly, but, let us be
legal. They were not concerned
with the moral and spiritual is
sues of their actions but with
the technical correctness. They
had no hesitation in perform
ing and executing murder, but
they insisted on doing it legally.
The letter of the law was every
thing to them, and its spirit
nothing.
This is the essence of legalism
and Pharisaism. Jesus under
stood them perfectly when,
shortly before, he accused them
of disregarding and omitting
‘‘the weightier matters of the
Jaw" and described them as
"blind guides, which strain at a
gnat, and swallow a camel"
(Matt. 23:23,24). They strove to
appear, as Jesus said, “outward
ly righteoua unto men,” but
within were “full of hypocrisy
and iniquity” (Matt. 23:28).
The letter of the law was
everything to these men. It must
be m their favor. But they for
got, as they acted, that the
weight of the letter of God’s
law was, in its turn, against
them. And the letter of God’s
law spelled death to the un
righteousness of man, and no
man could or can escape that
penalty save through Jesus
Christ.
The letter of man’s law can
be twisted and turned, but the
letter and the spirit of God’s
law are one, and there is no
escaping its judgment except
through the atonement of Jesus
Christ.
Pontius Pilate, procurator or
governor of Judaea, normally
I resided in Caesarea. However,
he regularly came to Jerusalem
during the Passover season in
order to ensure law and order
at a time when the nationalist
feelings might reach an explo
sive point. Pilate served from
26 to 36 A.D., under the legatus
of Syria. Secular history (por
traying him as cruel and cor
rupt) gives a less favorable
view of the man than do the
Gospels, which emphasize only
his weakness. The difference is
a significant one. Pilate, regard
ed as an official of low caliber,
Letters To
The Editor
March 4, 1959
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Dennis:
I want to thank you and the
staff of The Covington News
for the wonderful coverage that
you gave the Heart Fund Drive.
Needless to say, the chairman
of such a drive really appreci
ates such cooperation.
Newton County should be
very proud of the type of news
paper that you print
Thank you many times for
your help with this drive.
Sincerely,
Jinx Faulkner
(Mrs. Harry Faulkner)
Mr. Belmont Dennis
Covington NEWS
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Dennis:
The Covington News ran a
story on the Kiwanis Club of
Covington winning an award for
their outstanding work with
the Boy Scouts. This story ran
in a January issue sometime af
ter January 11th. If you have
several copies of this story and
the pictures, we would appreci
ate it if you would send them to
us. We have had a request from
our National Office in New
Brunswick, N.J. for this ma
terial.
If you can help us with this
we would greatly appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Kitty Davis
for O. B. Gorman
Scout Executive
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• still found the injustice plan
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i than he liked to stomach. It was
not superior character on
Pilate’s part, but the intensity
i of hatred that characterized the
: Jewish leaders. And yet, as
Jesus’ calm majesty continued
to indict Pilate’s weakness and
corruptness, we find Pilate him
self reacting with increasing in
tensity, as John’s account in
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particular records.
The charge file" agains. Jesus
was that he claimed to be
“King of the Jews,” and this
charge Jesus readily acknowl
edged to be true. But, as John
18:33-37 records, he made it
clear to Pilate that his kingship
was not political and hence not
in violation of Roman law. As a
result, "the chief priests accus
ed him of many things,” be-
cause they recognized that their
case was not going well. Be
cause Pilate saw the error and
and fallacy in their charge,
they mul t i p 1 i e d accusations,
hoping to make some charge
stick, or to wear Pilate down
to compliance on the original
charge. But, in the face of these
many accusations, Jesus “an
swered nothing,” a fact which
left Pilate puzzled