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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVYINGTON
Efficiency and Courtesy
- Keynote of Treatment At
= Newton County Hospital
= As one who speaks from experience we
- are pleased to state we have a real asset
“in our county for the sick and indigent
~at the Newton County Hospital. After
- spending a very pleasant week there we
_are pleased to compliment everyone who
~has any part in its management or ser
-vice to those who are patients.
~ The smooth, efficient management and
“tender care which one receives there is
-in marked contrast to many of the larger
hospitals in which we have been a pa
tient.
Like many of us in the county we
had been disposed to look upon our hos
pital as a small unit which, while it
was a boon to our community, was not
quite as well established as the larger
hospitals in Atlanta.
. We were pleasantly surprised as we
were a patient there to find how much
more care is given the individual patient
and how pleasant and accommodating
everyone in the hospital is, from the
orderly to the nurse in charge.
There is another reason which made
our stay more pleasant, and that is we
realized the nurses, attendants and doc
tors were our own friends, people who
live in our county and those whom we
have been in constant contact for many
years. This gives the hospital a “homey”
feeling. You just don’t feel that you are
a long way from your home and loved
ones.
The nurses and attendants are youthful,
pretty and efficient. It just gives one
" the feeling of well-being to hear their
cheerful voices and see their smiling faces
as they look in or minister unto you.
We would like to take this means of
complimenting Mrs. Helen Dickinson, the
competent administrator and her efficient
staff. We are proud of them and the
work which they are doing from day to
day in taking care of the sick in our
community, They are doing a magnificent
job.
We would like to call each of them
by name but we might neglect one and
that would be an oversight and certainly
we would not slight any one of them for
they are all magnificent. We would like
to thank each and everyone for every
courtesy shown us while there and that
means our every want was satisfied.
We would also like to take this means
of thanking each and every one of you
wonderful people who sent us letters,
cards, flowers and gifts. They shall live
in our hearts forever and your sweet
thoughtfulness shall ever exist in pleas
ant memories.
We are pleased to state we are at
home now and steadily improving in
health and strength and, God willing, we
hope to resume our proper place soon
in service to the finest community and
people in the state of Georgia.
Advertising Helps
Keep Trade At Home
As the ancient ballad tells, for want
of a nail a kingdom was lost. A modern
paraphrase could be that for want of
the right kind of advertising great amounts
of business are lost.
The Windsor, Missouri, Review, points
out that “The chief competitors of the
small city retailer are not other local
merchants. His most serious competition
comes from nearby metropolitan centers.”
Prices on standard brands of merch
andise, the Review goes on, are virtually
the same everywhere. Low overhead
sometimes gives the small-town retailer
a competitive advantage over the big
city merchant. So the Review asks and
answers a question: “Why, then, do so
many shoppers travel fifty or a hundred
miles to buy the same items they could
obtain at home for the same price? Many
retailers who ask this question should
look to themselves to find the blame. In
adequate advertising is likely to be the
answer.”
The merchant who just opens his doors
and waits for the customers to enter,
without attracting them through adver
tising, is going to do a minimum of busi
ness. The merchant who sees to it that
people know what he has to offer is go
ing to do the maximum. And the local
newspaper is the outstanding advertising
medium for the retailer.
According to Jonn brooks in Harper’s,
the Wall Street Journal is becoming the
favorite newspaper of eggheads. How long
then will it be until the Journal begins
printing crossword puzzles, the imperative
ingredient of every publication favored
by eggheads?
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This Editor Has A
Campaign Mapped To
Stop Nikita Khrushchey
In the same speech in which he prom
ised to “bury” us, Nikita Khrushchev,
alias “Hangman of the Ukraine”, alias
“Butcher of Budapest” and widely con
sidered to be the foremost killer of mod
ern times, also said something else of
current interest.
He said: “If you don't like us, don't
invite us to come and see you.”
A telephoned bomb threat to the of
fices of the crusading anti-Communist
magazine American Mercury boomeranged
last week when it reminded Publisher
Russell Maguire of these words. After the
New York City Police Department’s har
ried bomb squad had checked the build
ing and reported no sign of “a bomb that
will go off at 10:30 am”, Mr. Maguire re
served space in a Chicago newspaper and
wrote an ad. In it, he outlined ten specific
ways in which his fellow citizens might
get word back to Khrush that they don’t
like him — and in terms designed to
negate the ' shocking invitation issued
without sounding out public sentiment
or consulting with the people’s elected
representatives,
Mr. Maguire urges immediate action
so there will be time for word to get
back as it did from courageous little
Sweden — that will stop iniquitous Nik.
He urges his fellow citizens to organize,
to employ all the known tools of publicity
and campaigning, to pretest through
every organization to which they belong,
to conduct parades of hearses or simula
ted coffins with placards listing Commun
ist atrocities. Among the suggestions:
“17 Countries and 800 Million People En
slaved,” “160,000 American casualties in
Korea” and “40 Million Russians and 60
Million Chinese Liquidated by the Com
munists,” with the overall slogan “STOP
KRUSHEV!” (he recommends the simpli
fied spelling) dominating every demon
stration and posted wherever people may
see them, carried in car windows and
used on postal meters.
The American Mercury ad asks us all
to wear black mourning bands and to
fly our flags at half-mast. At noon-time
all the churchbells in America should
be tolled for 13 minutes, and all auto
mobile horns and factory whistles should
sound off for 30 seconds.
Publisher Maguire hopes for “a Nation
wide protest so vast it cannot be ignored
—a tremendous wave of public indigna
tion that both the White House and the
Kremlin will recognize as the true voice
of the American people.”
And for such a callous killer, Khrush
chev has a very thin skin. Mr. Maguire
is right in his conviction that Khrush
chev could be stopped.
Nuclear Ship Savannah
Takes Its Place Alongside
" . "
The Famed “Old Ironsides
As the First Lady smacked the bow
of the Nuclear Ship Savannah with the
traditional bottle of champagne last
month, the first atomic merchant ship
may well become the most important
vessel to be built in America since the
days of the Constitution.
Just as it was the proud duty of “Old
Ironsides” to lead in the establishment of
respect for a new nation on the high
seas, so may the N. S. Savannah begin
restoration of the American merchant
man to the prestige of clipper-ship days.
And, incidentally, this vessel, and the
problems involved in nuclear propulsion,
may well mark the emergence of marine
designing from the bronze age to that
of stainless steel. This atomic age metal
withstands corrosion, the ravages of radio
activity and the wear and tear of pass
engers and cargo.
In addition to the 200,000 pounds of
stainless steel required by the power
plant, and still more for the miles of pip
ing, this successor to the traditional sea
going metals — that never requires scour
ing or polishing — is extensively em
ployed in both construction and equip
ment of the hospital, galleys, pantries and
scullery, in the laundry and lavatories. It
is also used in cabin hardware and for
door-frames, ports and other architectu
ral forms.
Interesting to note is the fact that the
crew of 100 that will operate this 20 knot,
9,500 ton combination passenger and cargo
vessel is now training, even though they
will not be taking the Savannah on her
maiden voyage until sometime next year.
And while we haven't been advised on
the point, we would assume that her ac
commodations for 60 passengers have also
been booked,
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COYINGTON NEWS
SUNDAY SCHOOL
GOD’S PROMISE OF PEACE
(ZECHARIAH)
Bible Material: Zechariah 7-
14
Devotiicnal Reading: Psalms
85:8-13
- Memory Selection: How beu
tiful upon the mountains are
the feet of him who brings
good tidings, who publishes
pearce. Isaiah 52:7
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Peace Comes from God
Young People-Adult Topic:
Peace Comes from God
Haggai and Zechariac lived in
exciting times. The Persian
Empire had just been stabiliz
ed under the wise and benevo
lent rule of Darius the Great
(522-486 B. C.). The Jews,
under Persian rule, had been
allowed to return to Jerusalem
in 539 B. C. according to Cyrus’
edict; and many had come back
to the city they loved so much.
Work on the restoration of the
Temple started soon, but was
quickly halted because of op
position from the “people of
the land.” It was several years
later that God raised the two
prophtes, Haggai and Zech
ariah, to encourage the people
to start again on the rebuild
ing of the Temple (Ezra 5:1).
In 520 B. C., Haggai preach
ed several sermons, recorded
in the Book of Haggai, which
stirred the people to action. He
chided them because they had
built fine, paneled houses for
themselves, and had left the
house of God in ruins. He heart
ened the people wth visions of
a glorious Jewish state, with
Zerubbabel, the Lord’s An
nointed, at the head.
Zechariah, just slightly later
than Haggai, had the same
message for the returned Jews,
but he expressed himself most
of the time in cryptic language
‘abounding in marvelous visions
of the future and many color
ful images and symbols. He
dreamed of the time when
God’s enemies would be shat
tered and his Kingdom wouid
be established on earth. This
era of peace and prosperity was
to be initiated under the co
leadership of the high priest,
Joshua, and the Davidic prince,
Zerubbabel.
Unfortunately, this dream of
of peace did not ma
teriaize for the Jews at
this time, Evidently it had too
much of a political hue, for
Zerubbabel suddenly dropped
out of the picture—he may have
been eliminated by the Persian
“Gestapo” — and the Megsianic
hopes of the Jews faded out
for the time being. Yet the
longing for eternal peace—true
and lasting peace from God
Himgelf--has ever lingered in
the heart of the Jew and Chris
tian since these early days.
It was in the days of the
exile and thereafter that Israel
received her visions of future
bliss with great force and clari
ty. There had been, of course,
glimpses of a golden age before
this time, as we see in Isaiah
9, 11 and 32, for instance;
but it was only after the cap
tivity thatthese dreams became
more vivid and the details
clearer. There is a reason for
this. With the fall of Jerusa
lem to the Babylonians in 587
B. C. and the tragic sufferings
of God’s people, the dreams of
peace became more vivid in
their hearts. The erthly sorrows
produced dreams of heavenly
bliss and happines.
It was to this past experience
that Zecbhariah was referring in
this particular portion of our
lesson. Israel had forsaken God
and his righteous laws. “They
refused to hearken, and pulled
away the shoudder, and stop
ped their ears, that they should
not hear. Yea, they made their
hearts an adamant stone, lest
they shoud hear the law, and
the words which the Lord of
hosts hath sent in his Spirit by
the former prophets: therefore
came a great wrath from the
Lord of hosts” (Zech. 7:11-12).
A nation that willfully sins
against God cannot be at peace.
God had made his ways
known to his people through
Moses and the prophtes. “Exe
cute true judgment, and shew
mercy and compassions every
man to his brother: And op
press not the widow, nor the
fatherless, the stranger, nor
the poor; and let none of you
imagine evil against his broth-l
er in your heart” (Zech. 7:9-
10). Yet, as we have just read,
they refused to obey God; thus
He had to punish them. They
cried to God for deliverance,
but He refused to hear them.
He scattered them throughout
all the nations; and the land,
which was once pleasant, be
came desolate.
There ig little chance for a
nation like this to expedience
the peace and love of God.
When we deliberately go
against God’s will and disobey
his laws, we cannot expect to
be at peace with God, or our
selves, or our neighbors.
This was Zechariah’s message
to the people of his day. He
was warning them of what
God had done to Israel just a
few generations before them.
“Take heed,” he said, “lest you
commit the same sins, and fall
under the same condemnation
as your forefathers.” The same
old temptations must have been
present after the exile as were
present before.
The blessings of the new age
would never come, Zechariah
taught, if Israel contiued to
disobey God.
Ever since David took the
fortress of Zion from the Jeb
usites and made it his capital,
the “City of David” has been
sacred to the Jew. Here Solo
mon built the magnificent Tem
ple for the God of Israeltto
dwell in, which made Jerusa
lem the center of Israel’'s re
ligion until A. D. 70, when the
Temple was destroyed by the
Roman general, Titus. When
the Jews were taken into cap
tivity by Nebuchadnezzar in
587 B. C. an dthe Temple was
destroyed the first time, there
was great mourning in Pakw.
lon for the courts of the Lord.
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“By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down, yea, we
wept, when we remembered
Zion™” (Ps. 187:1), are the
words of a downcast people,
longing for their beloved city
Jerusalem and the sacred pre
cincts of the Temple.
Then came the thrilling
words of Cyrus the Great in
539 8.. C.: Go home, and re
build your Temple, and wor
ship your God in his own land!
It did not take long to orga
nize an expedition to journey
back to Jerusalem. Truly, this
was one of the most significant
occasions in history. Following
the same route that Abraham,
their forebear, had taken fif
teen hundred years before
them, they slowly made their
way over the hot, torturous
sands to their beloved -city.
There, amid the brown peaks of
the moutains of Judah, stood
Jerusalem -a desolate city,
with walls and Temple de
stroyed—but it was their be
loved Zion.
After some delay, the Tem
ple was restored, the walls
were rebuilt, and the dreams of
a restored Israel seemingly re
alized. This second Temple,
gometimes referred to as Ze
rubbabel’'s Temple, was far
less pretenfious than that of
Solomon, and those who knew
the glory of the first Temple
were moved to tears by this
gsecond one (Hag. 2:3). Yet, ac
cording to this same prophet,
with the restoration of the
Temple and rebuilding of Je
rusalem, a new age was 1o bt‘
introduced in which “The
glory of this latter house :hall‘
be greater than of the former,
saith the Lord of hosts: and in
this place will I give peace . . "
(Hag. 2:8). Jewish hopes of
eternal peace were dependent
upon a new Temple and a re
stored Jerusalem.
Another picture of the ideal
Jerusalem, found in our lesson
today, was given by Zechariah,
a contemporary of Haggai. Old
men and old women shall dwell
in the streets of Jerusalem, and
boys and girls shall play in the
street. Into this happy scene
God will bring his people from
the east and the west, and they
shall dwell in Jerusalem, and
they shall his people, and He
shall be their God. But these
were never realized. In A. D.
70, the Temple of Herod, which
was a maghnificent renovation
of the second Temple, was de
stroyved by the Romans, never
again to be rebuilt. The hopes
f(:ir a new age were now realiz
ed.
The Christians took over
these Jewish dreams and
hopes, and incorporated them
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