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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
wITY OF COVINGTON
Use The Priceless Heritage Os
Freedom By Casting Your Ballot
Next Wednesday, March 9, will be
election day in Newton County. On that
day, County Officials will be elected to
serve the citizens of Newton County for
the next four years.
It is the duty of every registered voter
<to make every effort to vote for the
candidate of their choice on this day.
Some will be providentially hindered
and others will not take the trouble to go
to the polls. But those who are interested
in the government of our county will
make every sacrifice to go to the polls
and vote for the candidate of their choice
next Wednesday, March 9, 1960.
Since the last county election, the roll
of voters has been revised according to
la> in this matter. In 1956, 10,236 voters
were eligible to vote. Os this number,
4.613 was the highest number that any
group of candidates received.
In several races the vote was much
lower than this 4,613.
This is less than fifty per cent of the
registered voters who are eligible to vote
casting their ballot.
This year there are approximately 6.100
citizens registered to vote. There may be
a few more or a few less but the approx-
World Day Os Prayer
Is Being Emphasized
In Our Local Churches
“O, Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee
shall all flesh come.” Ps. 65:2.
Friday, March 4, is being observed by
Christians throughout the world, as a Day
of Prayer.
Locally, the Baptist, Methodist and
Presbyterian churches of the downtown
area; the Episcopal Church of the Good
Shepherd, and Allen Memorial Methodist
Church, will join in a union service at
the First Presbyterian Church at 7:30 o’-
clock Friday (tomorrow) evening.
This universal Call to Prayer begins
this morning in distant Tonga Island in
ithe South Pacific, where Queen Salote
leads her devout subjects in prayer; and
will end on the St. Lawrence Island, in
Alaska. The Call comes with high demands
of faith and service; and will be answered
from every comer of the earth, as Chris
tians respond in their mutual need of
Christ and of each other.
The very essence of the Day is love,
the inward mark of our Christian fellow
ship; its challenge and meaning lie in the
sincerity of offered prayers; its victory is
possible only if the sins of pride, prejudice,
evil habits and hate are destroyed; and
we become instruments for God’s pur
poses.
It is soul-gratifying to know that
there are God-fearing people throughout
the world, who join hearts and hands in
Faith and Prayer and Praise. But, the
inspiration of this Day will fade unless
we begin those Kingdom tasks God waits
for us to do. The Day highlights a noble
purpose; and no less noble are the tasks
which are pre-requisites to the accomp
lishment of this purpose.
May we earnestly commit ourselves
to the tasks as well as the purpose of this,
the World Day of Prayer.
"Handle With Care"
Tag Certainly Applies
To Lastians' Needs
With American supplies, small arms,
tents, uniforms, jeeps and small trucks
but none of the modern weapons, tanks
or artillery that are proscribed by the
1954 Geneva agreement-being flown into
Xaos, it is hoped the little kingdom’s army
;and village militia can be beefed up to
^resist and drive out the Red enemy.
This conflagration, which could re
jgnite Indo China, began when the Com
tm unist insurgents in the north of the
country started fighting the Leotian Gov.
army instead of joining it as they were
expected to do. Since then they have been
augmented by Communist forces from
North Viet Nam. it’s Red neighbor-troops
that the State Department has indicated
are under the orders of Peiping and Mos
cow. The UN, when asked for observers
to report on this somewhat mysterious
“war , declined, in effect, to act in saying
that both Laos and North Viet Nam must
make the request.
The US assistance presently planned-and
probably already arriving in this inacces
sible country by air-drop-is a cautious ad-
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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.
imate figure of 6,100 is as near as can be
ascertained without actually counting those
who are registered.
If the same ratio holds good there
should be less than 3,000 voting but we
are quite sure the number will be over
4,000 as 4,613 voted last election.
We predict approximately 4,500 will
cast their ballot if it is a clear day. If it
happens to rain or be cold, those less in
terested in our government will stay home
and toast their tootsies by the fireside.
But those who are vitally interested
in the government of our county will vote
come rain or shine, hot or cold, next Wed
nesday as every citizen should. We urge
every eligible voter to cast their ballot
for the candidate of their choice.
America is one of the few countries
which still has the free ballot and the way
to preserve this is to vote in electing county
officials who will govern us for the next
four years.
Get out and vote next Wednesday, rain
or shine, hot or cold, vote for the candidate
of your choice, but vote as that is the
red-blooded duty of every American of
voting age.
Keeping Up With The
Farmers Needs Poses
A Gigantic Problem
The supervisor of the farm practice re
search division of one of the leading farm
equipment companies tells of a big prob
lem the industry faces. It lies in under
standing what the farmer wants and then
seeking ways to provide him with it at a
price he can afford to pay.
Farm equipment isn’t designed, en
gineered and produced in a vacuum, so to
speak. The engineers must put them
selves in the farmer's shoes and think not
only as he thinks today but as he will think
tomorrow. They must have an intimate
knowledge of what is going on on all kinds
and sizes of farms, and what new develop
ments the future is likely to bring about.
In sum, they have to get out where the
work is done, which is on the farm, and
learn from actual experience, not just
theory.
The supervisor also said, according to
an arcticle by E. T. Leavitt in Tractor
Farming, that “knowing exactly why far
mers buy as they buy is difficult. Such fac
tors as comfort, leisure, and the import
ant endless desire for increased capacity
have resulted in the commercial acceptance
of bigger, more powerful tractors, wider
tillage and planting machines, and self
propelled harvesting equipment when per
haps a formal economic analysis would not
justify them.” It’s a case where the prod
ucing companies face a real job in keep
ing up with the ideas of the farmers whom
they serve, and who determine whether
any given product and innovation will
fail or succeed.
dition to our previous aid- It rejects the
traditional idea of sending in the Marines,
and even observes the provisions of the
Geneva pact on allowable military equip
ment-which was violated long ago by
North Viet Nam in the sinews of war re
ceived from Red China.
Plans are to boost the army from about
25,000 men to something less than the
Geneva-approved 30,000, and to strengthen
the village militia by about 4,000 more. Now
met by the US as “defense support”, the
army payroll of about $25 million will be
increased accordingly. The cost of the new
aid has not yet been reported.
But, whatever the price, and whatever
the need of the Laotians, it will be cheap
if we have learned enough to avoid an
other Korea.
SOMERSET, KY. JOURNAL: “The
weeky newspaper is uniquely an American
instution. Nowhere else in the world will
be found a system of journalism anywhere
near the completeness of the American
weekly newspaper. Nowhere else in the
world will one find a newspaper primarily
interested in Susie’s birthday, nor a system
that so thoroughly reflects the trivia of
events that make up the life of all of us.
“Many have said over the years that the
weekly newspaper would disappear be
cause it is totally unnecessary. They have
been proven W'rong. The weekly has grown
stronger and has become even more firmly
entrenched into the American wav of life.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY
UNDAY
GOD’S PROTECTING
PROVIDENCE
Bible Material: Acts 22:30—
23:35.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
121: Memory Selection: God is
,nur refuge and strength, a very
। present help in trouble. Psalms
i 46:1.
Intermediate - Senior Topic: j
A Plot Fails.
Young People - Adult Topic:
God's Help Is Sure.
Last week we examined the i
circumstances leading to t h e
arrest of Paul. His own bitter
countrymen (Jews who hated
Christianity and were deter
mined to stamp it out) pre
cipitated a riot over Paul’s pre
sence in the city of Jerusalem
and accused him of the most
serious of all crimes, that of
taking a Gentile into the sacred
precincts of the temple. That
lesson ended with Paul’s brief
conversation with the chief cap
tain and the beginning of his
speech to the multitude.
Today’s lesson does not in
clude Chapter 22, which is the
second account of Paul’s con
version given in the Book of
Acts. Because of Paul’s state
ment that God had sent him to
be a messenger to the Gentiles,
the fanatical mob tried again
to kill him. “Away with such
a fellow from the earth,” they
screamed, “for it is not fit that
he should live” (22:22).
The chief captain, not un
derstanding what all the com
motion was about and conclud
ing that it was a private quar
rel among fanatical religious
bigots, decided that he would
scourge Paul and get what in
formation he could from him.
But Paul declared his Roman
citizenship to the chief captain,
and since it was a crime of
great magnitude to scourge a
Roman and particularly one
who was uncondemned, the
chief captain quickly and with
considerable alarm, sent Paul
back to his cell.
The next day the chief cap
tain, in order that he might
know whereof Paul was accus
ed, commanded those who be
lieved they had just charges to
make against Paul to appear
and make them.
In addition to being the most
influential Christian that has
ever lived and one of the
reatest minds of all time. Paul
was a man of great cleverne s.
He saw that by a word he
could divide his opponents and
start them contending with one
another, instead of uniting in
their opposition to him. He
knew that his opponents were
almost equally divided between
Pharisees and Sadducees. The
Pharisees had had a noble his
tory. Their party had come in
to being almost two hundred
years before the birth of Christ.
They were completely devoted
to the observance of the law of
Moses. After some generations,
however, their devotion took
on the character of narrow fa
naticism. When Jesus began his
ministry, he found the Phari
sees not to be the protagonist
but the enemies of pure relig
ion; for their zeal had become
so dead, their minds so narrow,
their consciences so blunted
that they were legalists only,
obeying the letter of the law
and disregarding entirely its
spirit.
It was the Parisees — this
group who in the past had so
nobly defended the true and
revealed faith — wo finally
conducted an illegal and outra
geous trial and brought about
Jesus’ death on the cross.
The Sadducees were of a dif
ferent stripe altogether. They
were materialists. When the
cynical Romans, who had lost
their religious faith, came in to
rule the country of Palestine,
the Sadducees went over
wholeheartedly to the enemy.
They liked the Romans. They
shared the Roman’s contempt
for trusting faith. At best, the
Sadducees were sterile ration
alists. Usually they were miser
able mimics of the skeptical
Roman overlords and secret —
and sometimes not so secret—
despisers of spiritual truth.
Paul had been born into a
Pharisaical home and brought
up “a Pharisee of the Phari
sees.” Much as he loathed the
Pharisaical fanaticism which
had brought about the death of
Jesus and the subsequent per
secution of his apostles. Paul
nevertheless sided with the
Pharisees in their devotion to
the law rather than with the
Sadducees in their devotion to
nothing sacred. The Pharisees
and Sadducees hated each other
even more than they hated the
Christians. So when Paul, see
ing an opportunity to divide
his opponents, cried out, “Men
and brethren, I am a Pharisee,
the son of a Pharisee: of the
hope and resurrection of the
dead I ain called in question,”
he immediately precipitated a
(C? LESSON for
SCHOOL
riot. For the Sadducees tried to ।
’ I
get their hands on him to kill ]
him, and the Pharisees, much I,
as they hated all Christians, 1
were not going to allow the I
Sudducees to injure one who i
had been born a Pharisee and;
who claimed that he was still I
a Pharisee.
The Sadducees were a despi
cable lot of men. They were
cynical, skeptical, worldly, and
frequently licentious and im
moral. They considered them- j
selves an emancipated group of i
lofty thinkers. They denied that
there was any such thing as
the resurrection and further
denied the reality of angels
and spirits.
The lesson for us is plain.
The narrowness and fanaticism
of the Pharisees is an affront।
to the God of love, and there
are hard religionists today who
resemble these ancient Phari
sees. The materialism and dis
avowing of religious truth, of
which the Sadducees were
guilty two thousand years ago,
is still among us in the persons
of those who deny spiritual
truth and scorn it as supersti
tion. r
The destiny of the church is
in the hands of Christians like
Paul, who believe revealed
truth, who worship the God of :
love, who believe in the saving
power of Jesus Christ, who live
upright, who work for the ad- ;
vancement of Christ’s kingdom,
and who look for the return of
their Lord in glory.
There was indeed division
among Christ’s enemies when j
Paul by his cleverness turned j
his opponents away from him
self and precipitated them in ,
an outrageous struggle against
one another. “And there arose
a great cry.” Imagine these i
“religious” men fighting one ‘
another like a gang of thugs. I
They almost pulled Paul in
pieces; the Sadducees trying to
get hold of him that they might,
kill him, and the Phariseesl
wishing to rescue one who, al- I
though he had thrown in his;
lot with the Christians, was,
nevertheless, a Pharisee in good j
and regular standing.
We observe here the unbe
coming nature of strife ove r j
religious matters. Some of the
j bitterest battles that have ever
been fought have been fought
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' " Newton County
May I Tak" This Opportunity To Thank You For The Warm And
Friendly Reception That You Have Extended Me, Throughout The
County, Since My Return From The Legislature; And To Express My
Regrets That I have Not Yet Been Able To See All Os You Person
ally. Re-Elect W. D. Ballard To The State Legislature In The De
mocratic Primary On March 9, 1960.
Yours For A Representative Government,
DONALD BALLARD
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in the name of religion. No wars
have been so cruel as the so
called religious wars. No mo
dern cruelty which men mani
fest toward one another some
centuries ago when men on both
sides of religious controversies
claimed that what they were
doing, they were doing to the
glory of Christ and the exten
sion of his kingdom.
Let us always remember that
■ religious truth is never advanc
;ed by force. The club has no
j place in the arsenal of t h e
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Christian. Paul gives a list of
the weapons with which a
Christian should arm himself —
“the whole armour of God,” the
girdle of truth, “the breast
plate of righteousness,” the
sandals of eager service, the
shield of faith, “the helmet of
salvation.” “the sword of the
Spirit” (Eph. 6:13 —18). With
these weapons, and with these
alone, is the enemy vanquished
and the kingdom of Christ ad
vanced.
Thursday, March 3, 1980
FREEZING SANDWICHES
With picnic time just around
the corner, Mrs. Mana Taylor,
nutritionist, Agricultural Ex
tension Service, says it is time
to employ time - saving me
thods of making sandwiches.
Why not make up enough
sandwiches for several pic
nics and freeze them? They can
go from freezer to picnic bas
ket and will thaw in about
three hours and be ready to
eat.