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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Largest Percentage Vote
Os Registered Voters Ever
Cast In Newton County
Despite the cold, sleet and snow last
Wednesday, in the Democratic Primary in
the nomination of County officials, the
voters of Newton County turned out in
full force.
We have searched the files and find,
as far as we can ascertain, that the largest
percentage of registered voters ever re
corded voted in last Wednsday's primary
election.
Seventy-four percent of the registered
voters cast their ballot in this election.
There were approximately 6,100 voters
registered and, in the Ordinary election,
4,463 voters cast their ballots in a two-man
race. In one unopposed candidate’s race
there were 4,521 votes cast.
This makes a total of approximately 74
percent of the registered voters going to
the polls to cast their vote. This was in
spite of one at the coldest and most miser
able voting days on record in our county.
We wish to compliment the voters on
their interest in going to the polls in spite
of the weather. Voting is a sacred privilege
and it is a duty every voter should per
form. There are miil’ons of people through
out the world who are denied this sacred
privilege and hundreds and thousands of
lives have been sacrificed in an endeavor
to secure the privilege of voting for their
officials.
Comparing the primary election of four
years ago, we find there were 10,236 regis
tered voters. Os this number only 4.529
exercised the privilege of voting. This
figures about 45 percent of the voters.
Since last election the Georgia Legisla
ture passed a measure requiring the reg
istrars to notify anyone on the rolls who
had not voted in the past two years to
come in and register. If they failed to do
this their names would be stricken from
the voting list. This may have worked
some hardships but it certainly worked
to the advantage of the voters as well as
the poll officials.
In many counties the list of registered
voters contained names of citizens who
had passed away or moved out of the
county. Some women were registered under
their maiden name and had never re
registered since their marriage.
This was a wise law which the legis
lature passed as it has been the means of
bringing the voting list up to date as nearly
as humanly possible.
Last Wednesday’s primary was an ex
ample how this law has worked and also
illustrates no hardships from this law.
There were only 56 votes difference be
tween the primary of last Wednesday and
the primary of four years ago.
Four years ago there were 4.136 more
voters registered and only a difference of
56 votes cast last Wednesday.
"Save Your Vision" Is
Important Every Week
Os The Entire Year
The week of March 6-13 is ‘Save Your
Vision” Week.
With the unending quest of American
science for the means to preserve our price
less vision the ophthalmic field has be
come an influential part of everyday life.
Notwithstanding the millions in need
of professional care, Americans today have
the best vision on earth. Yet, many prob
lems remain unsolved, many questions un
answered. In the era just beginning, a
whole new realm of achievement is the
real promise of the future.
Research is providing new and better
instruments with which to detect visual
disorders. Lenses as unique as nature’s
own are capable of restoring good func
tional vision.
Modern techniques of correction, such
as visual training, enable the professional
man in the eyecare field to perform won
ders. And new developments are emerging
constantly to assure maximum life-long
use of God’s great gift — Vision.
Vision is the source of life itself. Through
It we lighten our work, brighten our leis
ure by reading our favorite newspaper,
and widen our world of knowledge.
Vision directs most of our actions. Even
a casual observation of the blind walking
down the street indicates the importance
of vision in a aimpie activity of modern
civilization.
And so we salute “National Save Your
Vision” Week, sponsored in Georgia by
the Georgia Optometric Association. May
all of us have more vision both of the
eyesight-type as well as of the other kind
in the years ahead.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Fost Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
Scout Camp Development
Fund Affords Opportunity
For All To Have A Part
To meet the camping needs of its rapidly
increasing membership, the Atlanta Area
Council, Boy Scouts of America, will de
velop a great reservation of 1,490 acres in
Newton County, seven miles from Coving
ton.
This will be the first advance in the
Council’s all-important camping program
since 1926 when its present Camp Bert
Adams was opened at Vinings. It is a move
dictated by the mounting demands of a
membership leaping ahead with the surg
ing population of the area.
The new Reservation, to carry the name
of Bert Adams, will become the center of
camping activities for the Scouts of 12
counties, included in the Council’s area.
They are:
Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, De-
Kalb, Douglas, Fulton, Haralson, Newton,
Paulding, Pickens and Rockdale.
From the hundreds of Scout and Ex
plorer units of the many communities in
these counties, a stream of 1,000 boys a
week during the summer months, will flow
into the Reservation. More thousands will
come for weekend activities the year
around.
To all of these it will be a land of won
der and adventure, where boyhood dreams
come true. Here they can learn the skills
of living in the open; they can hike, swim,
play together, work together, worship to
gether. From the great and varied exper
iences they gain, under the direction of
friendly and understanding leaders, they
will develop confidence and self-reliance.
To acquire the acreage, now under op
tion, and to transform it into one of the
finest Scout Reservations in the nation,
will require the expenditure of $1,247,500.
The Atlanta Area Council, on behalf of
its 20,184 registered members, is asking
every person inside and outside of the
Scout family, to share in providing this
money.
The Newton-Rockdale District Camp
Development Fund Committee turns to all
friends of youth, in full confidnce of gen
erous response. When you are contacted,
give generously.
"Sitting Ducks" May
Vanish From Highway If
Proper Signals Are Used
After years of battling against the
menace of the “sitting duck,” highway
safety engineers and traffic experts have
won a major victory that should swiftly
lead to the virtual elimination of this com
mon peril that has spilled a river of blood
on American highways.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has ruled that commercial vehicles operat
ed in interstate commerce must, by August
1, have turn signal installations that in
clude a switch that will cause all four of
these signals to flash simultaneously —
to provide an effective, attention-compell
ing traffic hazard warning when the truck
is stalled or disabled on the travelled por
tion of a highway.
While truckers have been required for
years to carry flares or other prescribed
warning devices and set them out on the
highway in these circumstances, pile-ups
have occurred before they could be placed,
drivers have been killed in the effort to
do so and many safety engineers have
considered such makeshift equipment gen
erally inadequate.
But the car owner seldom carries more
than a flashlight — if that. And numeri
cally, the passenger car constitutes ten
times as big a hazard as the truck. So it’s
time now for the state and local authorities
to take a tip from the ICC, require turn
signals equipped for hazard-warning duty
— and clear the unseen sitting ducks from
the highways completely.
Even during the Korean War, when
competing modes of transport were not
hampered by rationing of fuel and scarce
materials as in World War 11, the railroads
were called upon to transport 72 percent
of all military freight, and 64 percent of
military passenger volume. It is generally
assumed that intensification or spread of
that conflict would have sharply boosted
these ratios.
BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., MARLBORO
HERALD-ADVOCATE: “We are proud of
our past; the hunger, sacrifice and courage
of men who espoused the cause of freedom.
The demands upon us are no less exacting
now if the future is to honor the dignity
and rights of man. To those, let us be
dedicated.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY
UNDAY
PAUL’S VOYAGE TO ROME I
Bible Material: Acts 27:1 —
28:15.
Devotional Reading: Palms
107:23-32: Memory selection: I
can do all things in him who
strengthens me. Philippians 4:-
13.
Intermediate • Senior Topic:
Through Storm and Shipwreck.
Young People - Adult Topic:
“I Believe God”.
This lesson marks an impor
tant if unstated change in Paul’s
personal life. The “we” narra
tive is resumed in this chapter.
Those portions of Acts to which
Luke, the author, was himself
eye-witness and participant are
readily noticed by his use of
the word “we” in his narration.
The “we” story was dropped at
21:18 and is now resumed at
27:1, a gap of two years inter
vening. We have no knowledge
of Luke’s activities during those
two years, but apparently he
labored in the area of Caesarea,
in order to be ready to assist
Paul when the time came.
The account of this sea voy
age is a famous one, not only
for its importance in the life
of Paul and the history of the
Christian Church, but for its
secular significance as well. It
has often been called one of
the most vivid accounts of sea
travel ever recorded, but, more
important, it is regarded as one
of our most instructive docu
ments on ancient seamanship.
Here as elsewhere Scripture
speaks with exactitude and a
fine use of technical termino
logy, so that scholars have
learned much from a careful
and knowing study of the text.
This narrative is thus a practi
cal and technical account of
ancient sea travel by a man
competent in such description.
Yet another improtant fact
emerges from this section. Paul,
the great scholar, apostle, and
missionary, appeared in this
crisis as the most practical of
men, one whose counsel helped
save the lives of all. Paul, un
der the strain of a practical
and natural disaster, appeared
as great a man whether on
Mar’s hill or before kings and
governors.
True spirituality is not devoid
of practicality and realism but
is closely linked to them. The
truest saints are the greatest
realists. The most truly spirit
ual men also reveal the best
common sense. To be unrelat
ed to reality and the everyday
world is a pagan concept of
saintliness, which, unfortunate
ly, has too often infected the
church.
This narrative, therefore, is a
document not only on seaman
ship but also on true holiness.
We should never forget that
in dealing with Paul we are
dealing with greatness — and
greatness in one line often reap
pears in another.
Paul, having appealed to Cae
sar, was now sent to Caesar’s
court, in company with other
prisoners, at the first avail
able opportunity. An escort was
thus necessary, and is was pro
vided by the centurion Julius
and his men. Julius was of the
Augustan band, the imperial
cohort.
Historians state that this co
hort was a corps of officer -
couriers whose responsibility
was communication service be
tween the emperior and pro
vincial armies. Paul, being a
Roman citizen, had a privileged
position in relationship to other
prisoners. Julius, as an ex
perienced man, was able to as
sess the caliber of Paul and ac
cordingly given him no small
measure of freedom was well
as to respect his judgment, a
matter of no small moment
subsequently. The narrative in
dicates clearly the respect oc
corded to Paul by Julius, as well
as special privileges. Beginning
with 27:3, we have a series of
such instances.
Although the decay of Rome
was already in the making,
something of her ancient char
acter was still apparent in the
army’s personnel, and. in the
New Testament, we find a un
iformly favorable notice given
of centurions. They were men
of character and authority.
Moreover, in an age of transi
tion when the old virtues were
derided and the old certainties
shaken, they in some instances
showed interest in this new
faith.
Roman society was already
notorious for its debauchery
and immorality, but, as long as
the local centurions had the
high degree of ability and char
acter reflected in the New Test
ament, the power of Rome re
mained. But the fact that cen
turions were looking elsewhere
for character and faith indicat
ed the inner decay overwhelm
ing all of Rome.
In our age. the fact that so
many are frantically seeking a
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
new source of integrity, often
seeking it foolishly in commu
nism and in cults, is indicative
of the inner rot if our own mid
st. It is also indicative of t h e
failure of the churches to give
witnesses to the power of
Christ.
History records the appeal of
Christianity to the troubled
government officials of Rome;
will it also record that in our
generation, seekers, confronted
by the moral weakness of gov
ernments, saw only more weak
ness in the churches?
The answer to this question
will not be written in the of
ficial pronouncements of church
assemblies but in the submis
sion to the power of God in our
own lives.
Our destiny depends eventul
ly on what we desire and
choose.
Shipping in those days was
closed, as far as the open seas
were concerned, during the
winter months. From mid -
September to mid - November
was the danger season, when
sea travel was risky and in
termittent. After that, the seas
were closed until February at
the earliest.
It became apparent to the
voyagers that it would be im
possible for them to reach
Rome before winter. The ques
tion, was, where shall we win
ter? When they reached The
Fair Havens on Crete, it was
already past the Fast, or t h «
Day of Atonement (27:8 —fl).
A ship’s council was held, with
centurion, ship’s master, ship’s
owner and other responsible
men, Paul included, participat
ing. All, except Paul, felt it de
sirable that a more agreeable
port for wintering be reached,
and agreed that Phoenix, or
Lutro, also on the coast of
Crete, was the best port. Paul
warned them against this at
tempt and urged that they re
main at Fair Havens for the
winter, lest they endanger their
property, ship and lives. Since
the ship was contracted for
state - service, the centurion
had the final decision, and he
ruled against Paul in favor of
the others. But his inclusion of
Paul is significant, and Paul’s
wisdom was not forgotten.
Shortly after setting sail, a
typhoon struck, threatening to
destroy the ship and its pas-
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Letters To
The Editor
A. B. Dennis. Editor
The Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis,
The Amitie Womans Club of
Oxford wishes to express their
sengers. Finally, after days of
storm, “all hope that we should
be saved was then taken away’’
(27:20). They had no heart for
eating or drinking and were
certain of death. In this situa
tion, Paul addressed them all,
saying, “Sirs, ye should have
hearkened unto me, and not
have loosed from Crete, and to
have gained this harm and
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Wheat Growers
Allotment
Should Be Set
Any farmer who has seeded
wheat for harvest as grain
next summer but who does not
have a wheat allotment or a
feed wheat exemption should
notify the Agricultural Stabili
zation and Conservation County
Office of his estimated acreage,
Mr. W. Roy Aiken, Manager of
the Newton County Office,
said today. In this way, county
records can be established and
steps can be taken to make
such a farmer eligible for a
wheat marketing card if he de
cides to sell any of his grain.
Uunder the wheat marketing
quota program, any grower
who produces more than 15
acres of wheat is subject to a
penalty on any “excess” wheat
harvested. The penalty must be
paid before the wheat eligible
for marketing.