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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Eisenhower's "Dear Foster"
Letter Guarantees Same
Course Steered By Dulles
In his “Dear Foster” letter, accepting
the resignation of his Secretary of State
“with deepest personal regret and only
because I have no alternative”. President
Eisenhower made “clear and strong for
all to see” the dedication of his administra
tion to the policies for which Mr. Dulles
had so unflinchingly stood.
“You have,” the letter said in part,
“with the talents you so abundantly pos
sess and with your exemplary integrity of
character, employed your rich heritage
as well as your unique experience in hand
ling our relations with other countries.
You have been a staunch bulwark of our
Nation against the machinations of im
perialistic communism. You have won to
the side of the free world countless
peoples, and inspired in them renewed
courage and determination to fight for
freedom and principle. As a statesman of
world stature you have set a record in
the stewardship of our foreign relations
that stands clear and strong for all to see.”
And, except for the slave states under
the Red banner, all who can read will see
these words set forth in all the tongues of
the earth, and even more will hear them.
The world’s leaders, to whom they were
directed as certainly as to the stricken lion
in Walter Reed Hospital, must certainly
have found in these words categorical an
swer to their questions of recent days.
Which way, they wanted to know and
were trying to guess, would US foreign
policy veer.
If the President means what he says—
and no message of his has seemed more
emphatic—our policy is not going to veer
or uo sag or to backtrack. There is nothing
here to suggest that we will soften our
stand on Berlin, lower our guard in the
up-coming diplomatic encounters with the
Soviet, abandon Quemoy and Matsu, turn
our backs on Chiang Kai-shek, recognize
Red China or countenance admission of its
bloody emissaries to the halls of the UN.
As if in reinforcement of his expressed
dedication, President Eisenhower conclud
ed his letter by requesting that Mr. Dulles
“serve in the future, to whatever extent
your health will permit, as a consultant to
me and the State Department in interna
tional affairs”.
There could be no greater assurance
that the Ship of State will be held to the
course that Pilot Dules has steered, and
that Secretary Christian Herter. as inter
im successor, is not likely to jibe or to
put her in stays.
First Monument To
Piece of Machinery
Unveiled Recently
The world's first monument to a piece
of machinery was unveiled recently. The
ceremony marked a high point in the cen
tennial celebration of the town of Went
worth in southeastern Australia at the con
fluence of the Murray and Darling rivers,
two of the largest on the continent.
In planning the anniversary observance,
the town fathers decided there should be
a memorial to the flood of 1956 when both
rivers went on a rampage and the survival
of Wentworth was long in doubt while
every able-bodied citizen worked around
the clock to save it. The memorial idea was
unanimously endorsed, but the planners
were stumped in their effort to agree on
a single person to whom the town was
more indebted than all the others for its
salvation.
As the discussion was bogging down,
one councillor observed drily that it should
be remembered that “it was the Ferguson
tractor that saved this town”. With this
agreed upon, the problem was solved, and
this is the reason visitors to Wentworth
are surprised to see a brass replica of the
famous farm tractor mounted on the top
of an impressive memorial cairn.
It is hardly up to us to question the
propriety of this remarkable tribute. Yet,
in spite of itself, Wentworth is honoring
men. It is paying homage to unknowns
across the sea who made the tractor —
from draftsmen and foundrymen to as
semblers and testers — and to Harry Fer
guson, whose ideas gave this particular
machine its impressive capabilities.
And certainly, this monument to a trac
tor provided an impressive and impersonal
means of honoring all who gave of their
toil and courage to the limit of their en
durance that Wentworth might survive to
celebrate its centennial.
It suggests, too, that the man who mere
ly tends to his job and does it the best he
knows how may be mare of a hero than
he thinks.
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
1 MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Fest Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
Graduates Urged To Read
Digest Article Which
Will Appear In May Issue
In a Reader’s Digest story of 15 years
ago (September, 1944), entitled “Young
Man, Be Your Own Boss!”, author, adver
tising man, diplomat and statesman Wil
liam Benton viewed with alarm the urge
of youth, emerging from the cocoon of col
lege, to seek the economic bomb shelter of
employment in big business.
“This concentration o n security,” he
wrote, “is perhaps the worst enemy our
country faces.” And the fact that this ar
ticle is being reprinted by request in the
May issue, would indicate that many others
fear the take-it-easy, play-it-safe, virus still
gnaws at the vitals of our most promising
young men.
“What did America's best young men
do before they were bug-eyed about big
business?” Mr. Benton asks. “They worked
for other men until they had saved enough
(or not quite enough) to go into business
for themselves. And then, they went. They
started humbly — but they started for
themselves.”
The article emphasizes that the wealth
of America was not built by big business,
but by “individual, hard-hitting, hard
working men” who established independ
ent, competitive businesses. It declares un
equivocally: “Such men and the businesses
they start will continue to build the coun
try if it is to continue being built.”
Mr. Benton deplores the hard fact that
immigrants frequently exhibit more of the
Horatio Alger spirit than natives, and
adds: “I have found young men every
where displaying a degree of timidity that
would have lost this country to the Indians
not so many decades ago.”
Perhaps it is time now to consider
whether this lack of spirit may be help
ing today to soften this country up for the
Reds. But, in any case —for the young
man about to set forth on his business
career, and for the elders whose advice
and counsel may be sought in such critical
decisions — the Digest article is must
reading.
Herter's First Address
Televised Nation-Wide
Pledges Same Course
In his first address to the nation over
the radio and TV, Secretary of State Chris
tian Herter promised the American people
there would be “no lack of continuity” in
the foreign policy charted by John Foster
Dulles. Mr. Herter assured his hearers
that we would not abandon the two-and-a
quarter million people of West Berlin, but
that “firmness does not imply unwilling
ness to negotiate in good faith”.
The Secretary admitted on the eve of
his departure for Geneva that while the
Western conferees are united in their stand
and “all 15 nations of the North Atlantic
Alliance are as one”, he was leaving with
out great expectations of progress and with
the realization that “a deep gulf divides
the free world from the Soviets”.
Mr. Herter reminded his audience that
the Berlin crisis was created by the Krem
lin’s demand of last December that the
allied forces withdraw from the city, and
suggested that the spectacle of a divided
Berlin, half free and half slave had indi
cated. even to the Soviets that coexistence
was “a failure”.
Despite his assurances that the West
will stand fast, Mr. Herter chose not to re
peat the now famous “We will not budge
an inch” statement, but said that we would
be prepared to make concessions to the
Russians in return for counter-concessions.
Whether this means we shall budge only
a few inches only time can tell. But the
Secretary did say — and we hope he was
speaking for Britain and France as well
as for the US—that: “Fear and appease
ment will not, in the long run, reduce the
danger of war.”
At his press conference earlier in the
week, President Eisenhower had parried a
question on Geneva and subsequent sum
mit meeting. The President said he hoped
there would be “some progress”, and that
any hopeful development would make the
summit “a foregone conclusion”. He also
mentioned that there is only one man in
Russia who can speak with authority.
Meanwhile, that “one man” in the
Kremlin let it be known that his man An
drei Gromyko would reject the Western
ministers’ proposal — and at the same
time loosed a trial balloon indicating that,
if pressed, he would attend a summit meet
ing in San Francisco. If Mr. Khrushchev
can make a shambles of the Geneva meet
ing and get his summit too — and decide
it will be held in San Francisco — we’d
better start learning Russian!
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
THE KINGDOM DIVIDED
Bible Material:
I Kings 11:9-12:33.
Devotional Reading:
Psalms 36
Memory Selection: If a king
dom is divided against it
self, that kingdom cannot
stand. And if a house is
divided against itself, that
house will not be able to
stand. Mark 3:24-25.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Willfulness or Wisdom?
Young People-Adult Topic:
The Blindness of Injustice.
“Consider the lilies how they
grow,” said Jesus on one occa
sion; “they toil not, they spin
not and yet I say unto you, that
Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these”
(Luke 12:27).
The glory of Solomon was
traditional even then and has
continued to be a tradition ever
since. In the New East today,
people still speak of Solomon
in terms of reverence. Thirty
centuries have passed, but the
world has not recovered from
its astonishment over the glory
of Solomon’s court and empire.
Yet, as we observed in last
week’s lesson, beneath this
glory lay the seeds of
disolution. They needed only
the right set of circumstances
to burst forth into revolt,
disintegration and ruin.
Solomon’s court and kingdom
were glorious, but it took a
great deal of effort to produce
this glory and a great deal of
money to maintain it. Some
body had to do the work; some
body had to pay the bills.
The lesson today deals with
that unhappy hour when the
common people who had borne
the burdens and paid the bills
came to Solomon’s son and ren
dered a statement of their
charges.
There had to be a day of rec
koning.
Solomon was an energetic
and resourceful ruler and as
such was on the lookout for
promising young men. He found
such a young man in Jeroboam,
the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite
of Zereda. Solomon had much
to do in the way of strengthen
ing his military preparedness,
so he ‘“built Millo, and repair
ed the breaches of the city of
David his father.” And being
pleased with the way Jeroboam
handled these matters, Solomon
made the young Ephrathite rul
er, or supervisor, of mighty pro
jects.
Solomon, was all his wisdom,
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B|!|ft||^eports from
Washington* J
NO OTHER INDUSTRY in the
history of the world ever has
been forced to compete for its
existence under handicaps like
those imposed on the American
textile industry by this country’s
trade and foreign aid policies.
As the re
. suit of those
| policies, the
I industry’s
overseas com
petitors have
the stagger
| ing a dvan-
I tages of being
I able to get
their capital from the United
States Treasury in the form of
foreign aid grants and loans, to
buy American surplus cotton with
borrowed American dollars 20 per
cent cheaper than it sells in this
country, to sell their finished
products baek to the American
Government through so-called
“three-way deals” under the for
eign aid program, to learn Amer
ican trade secrets and production
know-how merely by asking, and,
because American tariffs and
quotas have been reduced so
drastically, to undersell compara
ble American products on the
American markets.
• • •
THOSE ADVANTAGES are
compounded by the facts that
wage scales in many of the com
peting countries, particularly in
the Far East, are one-tenth or
less of the American legal min
imum and that there are no bars
'n those countries to the imposi
.on of working conditions which
would be illegal here in the
United States.
It is small wonder in the light
of those facts that the American
textile industry has lost markets
equivalent to 10 per cent of the
national production and that,
since 1947, 717 textile mills have
had been extremely unwise in
certain important matters. First,
he established a large harem
and not only brought his wives
and concubines from various
and distant areas but permitted
them to bring their idols with
them and priests to serve these
idols. The pure religion of Jeho
vah, therefore, was in danger
of being polluted, and in fact
became very badly polluted.
Many of Solomon’s marriages —
probably the great majority of
them — were purely political
in nature. Yet, when all this
is taken into consideration, the
fact remains that Solomon was
a sensualist. The older he grew,
the younger the women he ap
peared to have chosen as his
wives, and the more completely
the aging man fell under their
domination.
Soon, Solomon was alienated
from that devotion to Jehovah
which he had first manifested
at Gibeon in his prayer to the
Lord (I Kings 3:5-14).
Furthermore, as we have al
ready observed, somebody had
to foot the bills for Solomon’s
glory. To be sure, he sent to
the ends of the earth and
brought back gold and silver,
but even the precious metals
respond to the law of supply
and demand and lose their value
when there is more money a
vailable than goods to be pur
chased.
Today we call this inflation,
and it is always a preliminary
to a season of economic depres
sion.
Jeroboam, while he was still
superintendent of Solomon’s
great public works, was met in
an open field one day by a pro
phet named Ahipah. Ahijah
took a new garment from off
Jeroboam’s back “and rent it in
twelve pieces.” Then he handed
ten pieces to Jeroboam, declar
ing at the same time that God
had given into Jeroboam’s
hands the leading of ten of the
twelve tribes. When Solomon
heard of this, he sensed treason
and revolt, and Jeroboam fled
to Egypt to save his life.
Behind the whole of this
scene was the long-standing
jealousy of the northern tribes
over the undue influence of
Judah and Benjamin. These two
tribes had nothing but the city
of Jerusalem. The northern
tribes had fertile fields and
trade routes and prolific sources
of raw material. They werje irk
ed to think that David and Solo
mon, citizens, as we would say
today, of the miserable little
tribes of Judah and Benjamin,
closed their doors and 345,000
textile jobs have been discon
tinued. It is a tribute to the
vitality of the industry that its
losses have been contained within
those bounds.
From the things which have
been done to the industry in the
name of global goodness, it is no
exaggeration to c ude that it
is the actual, if not officially
expressed, policy of the Govern
ment of the United States that
the American textile industry is
expendable and should be forced
to help finance its own liquidation.
• • *
FORTUNATELY, THIS plight
has received recognition in a
study recently complet by a
Special Subcommittee of the Sen
ate Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce which, in its
report, recommended a 10-point
program of help and relief for
the textile industry. Essentially,
its recommendations entail more
stringent import quo faster
relief action under the Trade
Agreements Acts, a better tax
break particularly as regards
depreciation and elimination of
the two-price system on Amer
ican cotton.
It is my resolute conviction
that the American textile indus
try, as well as all other domestic
industries, has a right not only
to expect but also to demand that
both Congress and the Executive
Branch by statute and policy give
it and the jobs of its woricers ef
fective protection from unfair
foreign competition. For the sake
of the one out of every three
Georgians employed by the tex
tile industry, it is my hope that
Congress will act to give it relief
and protection at this Session.
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were set up as kings over a
whole nation.
The Bible's recurring theme is
that God blesses nations only
so long as they obey his righte
ous will. Solomon, in spite of I
his glory, had disobeyed the!
righteous will of God. Disaster
was in the offing for his des
cendants.
Just previous to this brief
passage of Scripture, we read
that after Solomon’s death the
people sent a delegation under
the leadership of Jeroboam to
request relief from certain bur
dens. “Thy father made our
yoke grievous,” they declared;
“now therefore make thou the
grievous service of thy father,
and his heavy yoke which he
put upon us, lighter, and we
will serve thee.” And Reho
boam, son and successor of Solo
mon, replied that he would con
sider the matter and give them
an answer in three days.
He consulted the old men
first, and their advice was to
go easy. Win them over by
kindness, they said. Be their
servant and serve them and
speak good words to them;
“then they will be thy servants
for ever.”
These elders were stating the
well-known moral law that if
we give love, we get love.
But the young men had dif
ferent cousel. Be tough with
these rebels, the young coun
selors said. Your father made
the yoke heavy. Unless you
want to lose control of the peo
ple, yield to them not an inch.
Make their yoke heavier. Your
father chastised them with
whips; you chastise them with
scorpions.
Siller or more wicked advice
was never given a king. An
epochal tragedy was about to
take place.
Rehoboam chose the counsel
of the young hot-heads. “My
little finger shall be thicker
than my father’s loins,” he de
clared: “my father hath chastis
ed you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.”
Rehoboam had gone to She
chem, a northern city, to be
crowned. The people had evi
dently demanded this as recog
nition of the rights of their part
of the country. Perhaps the
young king resented the impli
cations of these arrangements.
We must always remember that
David and Solomon had been
constitutional monarchs. They
had entered into a solemn a
: greement with their people.
What the people wanted now
was the assurance of a like
covenant between Rehoboam
and his subjects.
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H bonds now outstanding have
been held an average of around
7 1/2 years.
Savings are a stabilizer
against upswings and down
swings in the economy. If you
aren’t saving systematically,
start buying U. S. Savings
Bonds where you work.
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Letters To
The Editor
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Anderson, S. C.
“Procrastination is the thief
of time.” I venture to say that
this has been quoted a thousand
times; for some of us are mur
derers of good intentions and
put off too long the very thing
that we know we ought to do —
of which I am guilty.
The people of Oxfdrd, Cov
ington, Newton County and be
yond have been mighty good to
me and I want to tell you so.
I have lived in many towns
and counties, but I believe that
the officials of these that I have
| been talking about can’t be
ibeat. And better still you are
(growing bigger and better all
(the time. I rejoice in the won
derful progress you are mak
ing — roads, schools, churches,
hospitals, homes, beautiful and
comfortable.
Some miss the historic senti
ment of older years and the
sweet memories that flowered
with the fragrance of yesterday,
but the new generation and
larger population have the right
to build their own sentiment
and memories and with them
we will rejoice.
All of you were especially
good to me in that darkest hour
when “Miss Sara” went away.
Tho’ I knew she had gone to
heaven my heart was empty for
we had loved and lived together
161 years and a few months
more.
I will never forget that day!
Snow covered the ground but
we put her in God’s good earth
just like she said she wanted
it to be. Friends and our town’s
officials built a big bonfire to
give us all the comfort possible.
Words and deeds of love came
down all around like the snow
on the ground. Only your words
and deeds are warm — and
they keep coming.
I believe that heaven is go
ing to be a happier place, be
cause you are making God’s
good earth a better one.
Uncle Nath Thompson
Trade experts now believe
that the cotton crop in 1960
will run from a low of about
13 million bales to a little over
15 million bales, says The Pro
gressive Farmer.
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Thursday, May 21. 1959
Americans hold nearly $43
billion in U. S. Savings Bonds,
Series E and H, and the sum is
growing steadily. That s one
measure of their faith in Amer
ica.
All farm progress depends to
some extent on a sound agron
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for the Agricultural Extension
Service, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture.
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