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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Local Soil Stewardship
Week Points Up The
Importance Os The Farmer
Men are known by their deeds. So it
is that the quality of Soil Stewardship
is most evident in the doing. The true
spirit of responsible people at work on
the land is inevitably tested in the fields-
Next week is Soil Stewardship Week
in Newton County as well as the State
of Georgia. It behooves us to pause and
pay tribute to the most important industry
of our county.
Soil Stewardship has no definable lim
its. It may be of an indifferent quality or
it may be exceedingly well done. It can
not be measured in acres or hours, or in
miles or tons or blades of grass. There is
no point at which the steward may step
back from his handiwork and say: “This
is it. This is conservation completed.”
The requirements of Soil Stewardship
are perpetual. In the climate and uses
of each tomorrow, the steward meets new
challenges to his ingenuity, his skill, and
his devotion. How well he meets them can
be measured only in terms of the sus
tained usefulness of the soil he cares for
over the years.
The motivation of a responsible man
to conserve the soil arises from his faith
in God. The valid, tangible expression of
this will take place in the fields —in the
doing. It is there that responsible people
at work on the land commit their skill,
their energy, and their determination —
with God's help—to achieving a system
of sustained land use without soil damage.
It is there, and there only, that the spirit
of Soil Stewardship can attain a success
ful harmony with nature.
Turkish Editor Martyr
To Cause of Freedom,
Champion of Free Speech
The current martial law and wave of
rioting in Turkey recalls the visit of a Tur
kish editor, now a martyr to his fight for
the freedom of his people, to The Little
White House at Warm Springs. Ga., just
10 years ago, to pay homage to an American
President who had championed the cause
of the common man.
The visitor was Ahmed Emin Yalman,
editor of Istanbul’s daily Vatan and a great
admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was
a member of a group of some 20 editors of
foreign newspapers who came by bus from
Atlanta to view for themselves the quiet,
simple surroundings where FDR had lived
part time for 14 years, where fateful na
tional and world policies had been formu
lated, and where he had died five years
before, a casualty of the great war for
preservation of human liberty.
Editor Yalman, himself a fighter for li
berty, especially for the people of his own
country, stood in silent reverence before
the armed chair in the modest cottage in
which the President sat at work when fa
tally stricken, He saw many reminders of
how a man, once in despair because of
crippling polio, had overcome his handicap
and gone on to lead his country out of a
great depression, establish a New Deal for
the average citizen, and to help lead the
Allies to victory over dictatorships.
Editor Yalman went back home more
dedicated than ever to the cause of freedom
for his people. It has been a tough fight
for him, and also for fellow editors who
have joined the crusade. He and II others
are now in jail in Turkey, put there for
“belittling” the regime of Premier Men
deres on March 7, last, this dean of the
Turkish Press entered Uskudar prison to
begin serving 15 months. As he entered
prison Editor Yelman said:
“If someone had made a prophecy that
a selfless struggle which I continued to
carry out as a journalist in the service of
liberty would lead me to jail at the age of
72 after 53 years of journalistic activity, I
would have found it ridiculous . . .
“I am greatful to the Almighty to have
given me the opportunity to join the ranks
of those ready to endure a sacrifice for the
sake of country and profession...lf I should
die during my detention I shall consider it
a fit end to a life of idealistic struggle.
While I am entering prison, I have not lost
a particle of hope regarding the ultimate
future of Turkey.”
When Editor Yalman visited Warm
Springs his group had just finished attend
ing a seminar of the Aunerican Press Insti
tute at Columbia University, New York.
Last January Montgomery Curtis, now di
rector of the Institute, spent a few days
with Yalman in Istanbul while he was
waiting to begin his jail sentence.
“It was one of the saddest things that
ever happened to me. His spirit was won-
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MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Fast Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
moil mattt r of the Second
Class.
Spy Incident Awakens
Summit Conference And
May Bring Some Result
As the long awaited, elaborately-pre
pared-for and much - deprecated summit
conference opens in Paris, psychiatrists
would probably be of more help than geo
politicians in predicting what we may ex
pect.
Only a matter of days ago the prospect
was one of unutterable dreariness There
would be, it seemed, days and days of
double-talk and the conferees would finally
leave by the same doors through which
they entered. The only question was whe
ther the free world delegation would again
take with them more worthless Soviet pro
mises, as in 1955.
But, out of the blu? an admitted Ameri
can spy parachutes from his ailing (or
shot-down) plane into the Russian heart
land — and all is changed. This is really
a switch’ America has been crawling with
Soviet spies for 40 years - in the embassy
in Washington, the UN hr New York, the
consulates at US seaports and in the pro
liferating cells of the Communist Party
across the nation. They infiltrated our
Government, our churches, our schools.
When the opportunity was provided, they
were ready, willing and able to stimulate
and nourish unprecedented racial conflict
that threatened to be as divisive as the na
tional controversy of the previous century.
So an American spy (our State Depart
ment calmly says he is) is in the Russian
pokey. Khrushchev, gloating at first over
his hostage, said he gave the order to shoot
him down. Now, he thinks President Ei
senhower, his host of last September, has
done him in the eye and will not be wel
come in Russia. He considered Secretary
Herter’s statement that spy flights were
necessary to prevent surprise attack and
would be continued as “audacious and braz
en and warned that such flights would be
considered aggression and the Soviets
would retaliate. “If they” (meaning the
V.) a war,” he told newsmen during
ms Gorki Park side-show of what were
supposed to be parts of the spy plane, “We
will hit them with atom bombs in the first
few minutes.
Plainly, Khrush has worked himself in
^id- fUAnd ’ as 1116 ancients
sam. He whom the gods would destroy
mad ” H reported
that the Hangman of the Ukraine, criticiz
ed by some Party leaders for being too
t to ^ ard the We st, »s now worrying
about his own neck. In the Gorki Park
He aS ° k bra ^e d : “We^.bave good
heads on our shoulders,” a locution that
might suggest his concern over keeping his
own in that position. g
Here at home, on the eve of bitter
Presidential year political wrangling, the
first shocked the nation into its
causeTiJ T awareness of the Red peril,
lead? wl ° Se ranks behind its ch °sen
v ^ere com mg awake.
or the first time, the summit has a
chance of accomplishment.
hiT^u™ h confided a friend on
ms return home.
S ij f ’ gb t of editors throughout the
JSV EV 0 ?! '* h >
goes on As has often been stated a frpp
press is bad for dictators. That’s why their
first step is usually destruction or silencing
the wortd^^ 0 ” But ’ ^ or ^ una ^l/
«sT l many as courageous
as Ahmed Emin Yalman, of Turkey who
was our guest here just 10 years ago
. What is needed is a device that will
° Ut the Hghts when
11 s iime io go home.
k °V he Other hand > a answer has
been known to turn wrath into fury.
I am disturbed by bad grammar but
keep quiet, just as I expect others to keep
quiet when I pick my teeth. P
who for old w omen
who behave themselves.
In running a business you not only
ave to be on the job yourself but you
have to see that others are on the job
a most fatiguing occupation.
With less than a dozen exception, all
writers of autobiographies leave out the
details you would most like to know about.
Women will walk alone in a big city
by the hour, but not with solvent man
even six blocks, if a cab is available.
For some strange reason, most women
trunk their husbands are infallibly at
tractive to other females.
Wives surmise what husbands don’t
say.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY
UNDAY
1 SINCERITY IN RELIGIOUS I
PRACTICES
Bible Material: Matthew 6:1-
18; Luke 18:9-14.
Devotional Reading: II Cor
inthians 8:8-15: Memory Selec
tion: The Lord sees not as man ;
sees; man looks on the out-j
ward appearance, but the Lord :
looks on the heart. I Samuel I
16:7.
Intermediate • Senior Topic; I
Showcase Religion.
Young People - Adult Topic: i
Sincerity in Religious Practices
Last week we observed the
Christian in society. Jesus de
clared that the Christian is salt
and light. Salt arrests decay and
bring out latent flavors of
foods. Likewise, the Christian,
by his influence, keeps the
world from going rotten and
furthermore brings out in every
life he touches the best that is;
therein—its latent flavors.
The Christian is light be
cause he is the follower of him
who said, “I am the light of the !
world” (John 8:12). Jesus
warned his followers to be,
careful lest they allow thei r i
light to be hidden — placed i
under a bushel. We are to let j
our light so shine that men
may see our good works and |
gloriry our Father which is in
heaven.
In the passage of Scripture ;
assigned for last week’s study, i
Jesus said two very arresting j
things about the kingdom. He
said it was like a grain of mus
tard seed, small but full of vi
tality. By this parable he en
couraged his followers to re
member that the little enter
prises which they were start- !
ing might some day be of world
-wide importance. Further
more, he described the king
dom as leaven, that mysterious
substance which, when placed
in a lump of dough, changes its
substance and structure.
The life of God in the life
of man does just that. Further
more, the Christian has a leav
ening effect upon his enviro
ment.
The world in the twentieth
century has by no means reach
ed perfection. But there has
been a real advance in the last
two thousand years. The si
lent working of God’s life
among men has been like lea- •
ven. And his followers have
been exerting a leaven-like in
fluence.
At this stage of our study of,
the Sermon on the Mount, we ‘
are looking at the Christian as I
he is in himself and as he in- i
fluences the world round about ;
him.
Today’s lesson makes a very
important contribution to our
study of this subject. It tells
us that sincerity is utterly im
perative in the living of a sat
isfactory Christian life.
An insincere Christian life
is a contradiction in terms. We
may have everything which
would contribute to the glory
and development of a Christian
life, such as learning. Zeal,
ability, and eloquence. Yet if
we lack sincerity, none of these
things will make Christian ex
perience pleasing in God’s sight.
We may cry, “Lord, Lord!” We
may make huge contributions
to the church. We may subject
ourselves to moral disciplines
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which might invoke discom
fort and perhaps torture. We
may preach, we may teach, we
may write, we may distribute
tracts. We may buttonhole
everyone we meet and ask him
earnestly if he has accepted
Christ. Yet in God's sight all
these things are useless and
worse than useless unless one
is sincere.
“The church is full of hypo
crities." This accusation L flung
at the Christian church every
day. We shall ask ourselves at
the close of this lesson whether
or not this is true. Let us be
gin our reflection on this pas
sage of Scripture, however,
with a firm and unqualified
realization that no Christian be-
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liever is pleasing in God’s sight
unless he is sincere. But he
must have something in addi
tion to sincerity if he is to be
effective.
It is necessary to begin the
study of today’s lesson with the
realization that the social and
religious conditions of our
Lord’s time highlighted h i s
teachings in a most graphic and
amazing fashion. He was born
into a nation ostensibly dedi
cated to the service of God
This services, on the part of
certain groups such as the
Pharisees, had become so fa
natical that ser vice to God —
which is man’s highest duty —
had. in the case of these peo
ple, become a matter of quib
bling, strife, and hypocrisy.
The Pharisees had become so
devoted to the letter of t h e
law that they had lost the
spirit of true religion.
This is observed in the mat
ter of almsgiving. Today, os
tentatious charity sometimes
reveals itself in conspicuous
headlines about great gifts, or
personal boasting by individ
uals as to how much money
they gave to this cause or that.
When we encountered this sort
of thing, we usually pass it off
with a chuckle and join in the
general laughter with which
such pretensions are greeted.
But in our Lord’s day. ostenta
tious charity exceeded anything
we know today. Aas wealthy
Pharisees made their gifts, the
trumpets blasted forth both in
temple and synagogue, and
everyone was invited to ob
serve the piety, devotion and
generosity of the giver.
Jesus made it plain that
when people give ostentatiously
then the praise of men is their
only reward. God has no re
ward for such givers. “Verily
I say unto you. They have their
reward.-*
This is a hard saying —a
dreadful one in fact, for it is
nothing less than dreadful for
Thursday, May 19, 19W
anyone to realize that he has
relinquished the favor of God
that he might enjoy the praise
of men.
Jesus, in a very simple and
graphic expression, set forth the
Christian principle, “But when
thou doest alms,” he said, “let
not thy left hand know what
thy right hand doeth.”
These striking figures of
speech helped to make Jesus
the greatest teacher of all time.
Give in secret, said Jesus,
and God will reward you open
ly. Let your only desire be to
please Him. His favor to you
will be “good measure, press
ed down, and shaken together,
and running over . . (Luke
6:38).
Again we return to the Jew
ish nation two thousands years
ago. which believed itself to
be completely and perfectly
committed to the service of
God.
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