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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OP
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Tor Or No Tor Platform
Can Be Endorsed
By The Candidates
“Tar,’’ according to our dictionary, is:
"A dark, oily viscid mixture of hydro
carbon*, especially phenols, obtained by
the dry distillation of resinous woods, coal,
etc..” According to our research scientists,
it is produced by smoking cigarettes. And
2 the reason they are putting filters on so
’ many of them nowadays, (cigarettes, that
is, not scientists), is to strain out some of
this tar before it gets to the smoker. This
'is good or bad, of course, depending on
how you like your tar. Some like cream
and sugar in their coffee, and some think
it is fattening.
If you are one of those who thinks tar
is strictly for roofs and for holding the
feathers on people who are ridden on rails,
a newly-engineered and produced cigaret
te-holder called Tar Gard is for you. In
using it, you pull the smoke, tar and all,
through a pinhole 29 one-thousandths of
an inch in diameter. In order to get a good
drag, this hurries the smoke considerably.
In fact, we are assured it does better than
200 mph going through that hole! Then
the smoke strikes a flat wall - so hard it
knocks the tar out of it. Well, most of it,
anywav. The tarless smoke (80 percent is
removed, they say) then proceeds to the
consumer for his edification.
One thing we like about Tar Gard is
that you don’t have to take anybody’s
word for the action you will get. Since
this boon comes with two different bits -a
transparent one and a black one - you can
actually see what happens, and 'so can the
admiring and the curious who will crowd
around to watch you smoke. Then, when
the show’s over or you are putting on your
evening clothes, you can switch to the
black bit and go formal.
They say ten days of puffing are suf
ficient to make a convert - either to tar or
comparative freedom from it. And if you
sport the first Tar Gard in town, you are
bound to have quite a following. Certainly
all who are running for office should be
equipped with them.
We can imagine the scene on a thousand
Main Streets. A Voter approaches the
Candidate (for whatever). “What’s that
trick holder you got’’? asks the Voter. The
Candidate beams. “I'm glad you asked me
that question, friend,” he replies. “In tak
ing the impurities out of my cigarette,
this little holder is doing for me just what
I propose to do for this community, county,
state, Nation. . ” and so on and on.
And this is our message for today to
all who endorses the no-tar platform.
Add to those who won’t take no for an
answer,
Nikita Khrushchev, who has now in
vited himself to Mexico to be handy in
case his bully-boys at the UN, and in Wash
ington, London and Paris might just pos
sibly be able to turn the September meet
ing of the UN Disarmament Commission
into the Summit Mr. K has proposed.
While the State Department has refus
ed to take the summit suggestion seriously,
it says Nikita can attend a Commission
meeting if he wants to. .This is not taken
to be an invitation to the US, since, theore
tically, the UN buildings are on a no-man's
land rather than in New York or the US.
Perhaps he will be imported from Mexico
in bond and be given a cot at night in a
UN corridor.
America has seen him. Period.
As the climax to the dream of a life
time, a public accountant, a friend of mine,
booked himself and his wife on a trip a
round the world on a slow boat with seven
ty passengers aboard. From his published
report, I judge that topmost in his memory
are dysentery, putrid human odors, lying
sick abed while navigating the Suez, Nas
ser’s censorship, poor air-mail service, over
population in the Far East, and deep des
pair of the future of mankind.
One thing women soon learn, when on
their own, is that a man is a needful ac
cessory in public, especially in bars and
restaurants.
Why not try for a better job on this
earth instead of reserving a seat in a pro
posed trip to the moon?
A short romance, circumspectly con
ducted, then deliberately dissolved, has
some points of recommendation.
Most of us are more certain of what we
don’t like than of what we do like.
Just from vigorous gum-chewing, ft
would seem that a girl gets all the exercise
■he needs for strong and healthy muscles
of the face and jaw.
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Now Is The Time To
Check For Fire Hazards
In Our Public Schools
It is time now — before our youngsters
return to their desks - to inspect every
school for fire safety to make sure that
such a tragedy as the holocaust at Our
Lady of Angels School in Chicago can’t
happen here!
The National Board of Fire Under
writers reminds us of the importance of
searching out possible fire hazards in our
schools at this time; provides a detailed in
spection blank covering 37 items to be
checked; urges that a member of the fire
department accompany the inspectors, and
that the report be filed with the school
authorities. It might be added that this in
spection form is presently in use in more
than 1.000 cities, towns and villages across
the nation - and that it has undoubtedly
saved many young lives to say nothing of
valuable public property.
Summer vacation, the Board points out,
provides the opportunity for school renova
tion and repairs and workmen frequently
leave behind them odds and ends of lumb
er, sawdust and shavings, empty paint
pails, oily rags and other combustibles
which should be promptly thrown out.
Fire extinguishers should be checked to
make sure they are properly charged and
in their proper places and the alarm sys
tem tested.
And certainly, one of the first orders of
business when the new classes convene
is to organize and conduct a fire drill.
We can only feel safe about our child
ren when we know their schools have the
best possible fire protection - and can be
evacuated quickly and without confusion.
AMVETS To Study "World's
Challenge" When National
Convention Meets
Has America lost her vitality?
Are we entering an era of moral and
physical decay?
These are questions being seriously dis
cussed this election year by thinking peo
pie all over the country. Stuffed with bet.
ter living, we seem to be prey to a national
uneasiness which some think comes from
prosperity itself. The possibility of atomic
war is constantly on our minds. We have
thundered into an alien world of scientific
achievement which most of us do not
understand. It is natural that there would
be reactions to the stress of living at this
time, and encouraging that we seem to be
searching ourselves for answers.
One group of citizens, AMVETS, vete
rans of World War II and Korea, have
made this self-examination the theme ol
their approaching national convention in
Miami Beach. They are sitting down with
a forum of leading thinkers in various
fields to discuss the problems of our “Na*
tional Purpose” and try to find some an.
SWCFS.
The fact that AMVETS - whose 125,001
members are a cross section of American
life - are grappling with these difficult pro
blems, is in itself one of the most hearten,
ing indications that we have not lost out
vitality.
We have frequently heard references
to “The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire” in connection with America’s
supremacy in the present-day world, and
the fear that we have passed the peak and
are heading down. AMVETS believe there
is no time to lose in discovering if this is
the case - and in doing something about it.
It is hoped that more groups will follow
AMVETS’ lead and “search out ways to
meet the world’s challenge.”
Everybody is expected to indulge in
enough simple folly to furnish his share of
amusement to friends.
We : don’t mind criticism but we dislike
abuse.
To display a letter from one woman,
even your cousin, to your possessive friend
and expect her to agree with you that the
writer is witty, brilliant, and wise, is ex
pecting just too much.
One reason young children go all out
for evening television is that it supplies
an excuse not to go to bed till nine o’clock
or later.
Time and tide wait for no man, but
dishes always wait for a woman.
Keep smiling except when the victim
is relating the details of an unhappy love
affair or an unfortunate speculation.
What isn’t clearly remembered might
I as well be forgotten.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Isaiah Denounces Social
and Personal Evils
(Temperance)
Bible Material: Isaiah 5:1-24.
Devotional Reading: Romans
13:8-14: Memory Selections. . .
The Lord of hosts is exalted in
justice, and the Holy God shows
himself holy in righteousness.
Isaiah 5:16.
Intermediate • Senior Topic:
Don’t Disappoint God.
Young Peonle - Adult Topic:
Results of Self-Indulgence.
There is a God in heaven. He
is all-oowerful, all-riehteous,
all-loving, and just. He de
mands sincere and obedient
living on the part of his human
chi’dren.
These statements may be said
to lie at the basis of everv bib
lical message we examine. Par
ticularly do such demands lie
at the basis of temperance les
sons. There are spiritual sins
such as pride, avarice, cove
tousness, and selfish perversity.
Also there are carnal sins —
that is, sins connected in some
wav with the bodily passions.
Practically all the lessons we
study each vear involve in some
measure both these tvoes of sin,
but the temperance lessons are
set aside especially to call our
attent'on to the destructive na
ture of sins arising chiefly from
apnetite
The Jews even today are a
remarkablv temperate people
regarding their attit'^e toward
alcoholic beverages. Yet it is a
historical fact that overindul
eence in liouor contributed to
the greatest debacle the He
brews havp known, namely,
their capticity.
Today, we face this fact of
indulgence which was so ruin
ous to the Hebrew nolitical and
spiritual life. Incidentally —
but to an important decree —
we remind ourselves that
modern America is succumbing
to forms of carnal indulgence
which may well involve her in
ruin.
As we read these verses we
are struck bv the fact that they 1
aotly describe the drinking or- 1
giec of everv generation.
The neonle concerned here !
have passed from the phase
known as moderate drinking, 1
through nroblem drinking, and ;
have arrived at what the'
world, through the ages, has
called drunkenness and to
which the modern a«e has
given the name alcoholism.
Some neople have the mis
taken notion that since exces
sive drinking has been given a
medical n^me and termed a
disease, it is no longer a sin.
The fact is that it is both a
sin and a disease. No excuse,
however scientifically express
ed. can shield it from unauali
fied censure, for if alcoholism is
a disease, it is self - induced
and is preventable. No one
ever falls victim except through
consent.
There is a fascination about
alcoholic beverage which has
long been recognized. Science
in recent generations has dis
covered that alcohol operates
almost exclusively against the
central nervous system (The
brain and spinal cord), retard
ing reflexes and benumbing
those areas of the brain in
which originate self-control and
judgment. Slowly th facination
of this addiction grows, judg
ment denarts. self control is
cast to the wind. At last the
drinker gets to the place where
he even rises up early in t h e
morning that he may follow
strong drink and continues un
til night, that wine may in
flame him.
In ancient Israel, the harp,
the viol, the tabret. and the
pipe were chiefly used in the
nraise and worshin of God.
These the drinker later emplov
ed to intensifv the thrill of his
physical indulgences. The an
cient drinker soon lost all re
gard for “the work of the
Lord” and for “the operation of
his hands.”
The worst indictment against
alcoholic beverages then and
now has been that in addition
to pH other havoc which they
nroduce, thev are particularly
destructive to the drinker’s
spiritual nowers.
“Therefore mv neople are
gone into captivity, because
thev have no knowledge. . .”
Isaiah wrote this some vears
before the captivity actually oc- ;
curred. But he was a man of
God and saw it coming. We
read a great deal todav about
the necessity for further study
of the drinking problem.
What the drinking problem
needs in both the lives of in
dividuals and of nations is not
to be studied but to be dealt
with.
For centuries we have known
precisely what happens, al
though only in recent decades
has the scientific explanation
of the effects of alcohol been
made. In ancient times wine
and a beverage called “strong
drink.” probably made from
dates, pomegranates and barley,
produced a d d i c t i on and 1
br o u g h t men into cap
tivity. Today, beer, wine,
and distilled spirits are mak
ing even greater inroads upon ■
human capabilities.
Isaiah declared that his peo
ple, because they had no
knowledge, would first lose :
their bodies in captivity. The
desire for alcohol is an acquir
ed appetite. We are not tern
with it, although we may be \
born with tendencies which
may easily turn us in that di
rection. But in ancient times
and today, that man or women
is indeed without knowledge
who plays with an evil which
brings ten percent of its vic
tims into hopeless captivity.
In their home land, before
captivity overtook them, men
of high station drank to satiety.
In the land of captivity, they
were famished and dried up
with thirst. Thus alcohol fas
cinates its victims and finally
ruins them.
“Therefore all hell hath en
larged herself, and opened her
mouth without measure.”
Two-thirds of all arrests in the
United States are connected
with the presence of liquor amid
the social life of the people. In
addition, most crimes are either
directly or indirectly connected
with drinking.
Hell opened her mouth in an
cient Israel, and she opens her
Mouth on the North American
continent today to devour the
glory and pomp of the unwise.
The mean man is made mean
er, the mighty man is humbled,
the lofty are brought low. First
the Assyrian invaders swept
over the northern kingdom and
then the Babylonian invaders
swept over the southern kind
dom. What had once been a
great empire became nothing
but a place of ruins, with the
lambs feeding in the waste
places.
“Woe unto them that draw
iniquity with cords of vanity,
and sin as it were with a cart
rope.”
Here is the picture of a hu
man being putting on the har
ness of an animal and drawing
a heavy load. The heavy load is
the decimating effects of alco
holic intemperance plus the
physical, mental, moral, and
social ruin in which his indul
gence has involved him.
It would be pleasant to record
that the more men find them
selves involved in sin the more
they realize the necessity of
fiOce
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Continued From Page 1
Those big beautiful peaches.
The sister did stick in a big
bag of pecans. Our “Yankee”
friends who dock there each
year, old friends by now, al
ways look forward to Georgia
Pecans.
Between Hazelhurst and Al
ma we are really riding thru
the “tall, slender, sleek, young
saplins.” Beautiful corn fields.
It grows bigger and taller
down here — and the tobacco
fields are pretty too—and a
life saver to not only farmers
but merchants in this section.
These tall pines are priceless
—all tapped and great faces
on them —dripping turpentine
into containers to be refined
and say did you ever go to a
turpentine still and get a load
of dross? It’s chips of the pine
tree with the rosin (or some
thing) left on ’urn. (You ask
Jim Knight, he knows ‘cause
he’s from my neck o’ the woods
in South Georgia.”
That dross makes a fire
quicker than a flash! When 1
was a little shaver I used to
visit on my grandfather’s plan
tation and I’d love to see them
God and cry out for his help.
The stark truth, however, is
that the more men become in
volved in sin, the less they
know about God or care about
Him.
Alcohol, the harmful ingre
dient in liquor — be it mild
wine or the most potent spiri
tuous liquor — begins, with the
first drop in the blood stream,
to benumb the higher mental
and spiritual powers and even
tually to destroy them. We may
be greatly beguiled by t h e
fact that a little liquor seems to
make people happy, tolerant,
and eager to be helpful. But
iust as often it makes them bel
ligerent, ugly, and violent. And
always it is at its work of des
truction. At first it anesthetizes,
then benumbs, and finally des
troys those higher mental pow
ers which differentiate a man
from a beast.
make fires with dross —so help
me, there came a day! Well I
got me a dross chip after I
was ready for bed and me bare
foot, and stood on the 8 foot
hearth, lighted it to hold and
see it burn—yes, siree! Your
sins will find you out. I knew
better. I was too little and no
body had to tell me not to do
it again. You know the black
tar started dripping fast as T
watched, perfectly fascinated,
hut not for long. The hot tar
driooed 3 bie drons in 3 places
on too o’ my little fat foot. I
^mbbed it off and off came
the meat with it. Then I
screamed bloodv murder. Yes.,
vou should try it iust once!
these turnentine stills brought
back memories for sure!
Shopped in Alma to say “He 1 -
1o” to our friends the J. C.
Broomes, who publish the Al
ma Times. Had a nice tour
of their fine plant—and had
the pleasure of seeing their
fine daughters. We are really
in South Georgia now as we
travel through pine forests,
where the undergrowth is of
lovely palmettos.
Waycross at 6 p.m. and we
will always remember our hap
nv visits here with the late
Mr. Jack Williams, Editor and
Publisher of the Waycross
News Journal and manv hap
nv visits here on official vis
its to the U. D. C. Chanter. A
b’g sign sez snend the njwht at
Okee’enoken Swanin. Not me!
No Sirpo' T’ll never forget M^s.
Tack Williams and U. D C.
President taking me out there
when State President n* U.D C
(T had the Nation” 1 President
Mrs. Haggard of Miami with
me. Every courtesy was ex
tended us. Talkin’ like wo
men will —I followed and the v
went in a building and sat
down. So heln me the man
walked out with a deadly poi
son moccasin snake about as
big as I am on his art to show
us how thev keot the venom
milked out. Now vou know me
snakes and lightning are the
onlv things I’m scared of. This
wa« it! I sat between them —
4 of us—and one Waycross la' I '’
said “If you’ll excuse me, I’ll
wait on outside—odor of snakes
makes me ill and out she went.
All the time the snake was
writhing its head up and his
tongue popping in and out at
the man’s neck while the man
talked. I wanted to leave too.
I had to be “lady like and dig
nified” if you please, as State
President of the U.D.C. (Of
fice Boy as I am) but in about
5 minutes that snake gave an
extra flounce and his fat body
slapped that floor and he
started right at us, only four
Thursday, August 18,
feet away. Those LADIES
smiled and sat calmly by.
Well, when I passed the one
who left five minutes before,
down by the bear cage, I think
the breeze of my passing was
what gave her pneumonia. No,
I’ve BEEN to Okeefenoke!
Now I’m passing by it in a
closed car! Spend the night
there —not me!
Arrived Folkston, Ga., and
stopped at lovely motel. You
should have seen that Super
Duper” Swimming Pool. Os
course, we had to eat first but
at 9 p.m. we made a big splash!
It was made to order for him
for the water was warm after
a long hot day. Never since I
was in school and rated a pret
ty fair swimmer (toot,toot)
then—just about forty years
ago—did I have such a splash
ing good time. Well he got me
out at 10 o’clock, nice shower
and nary an ache from Mr.
Arthur Itus. He looked a little
set back this a.m. when he
woke up and found me getting
into that swim suit. In we
went again. Now you know we
need more swimming pools in
Covington. It’s good wholesome
exercise. We finally got me out
and had nice breakfast. Re
freshed to the limit we crank
ed up the old bus and away
we went. Have just passed
thru Hilliard. Fla., at quarter
to ten. The signs advertise
Orchid Gardens —the biggest
elephant in the world, but, I
was not interested in big ele
j phants after I saw myself m
that 10 year old swim suit. We
“aim” to linger around Jack
sonville until lunch time, head
for “The Green Turtle” where
they serve the best sea food in
the South, then gain five
pounds and head for Daytona.
11:30, Grand Stone Crabs!
Ten to 6 o’clock and we’ve
just passed the Green Turtle
again! Yes, the car wouldn’t
start and it’s a sad tale —let’s
say we spent the day getting
the car fixed, starter burned
out and these cars refuse to
run without a starter! Alls
well that ends well, we are
just 90 miles from the Boat at
Daytona and I don’t want it
to tart —when I get there I m
going to bed.
Had dinner just out of St.
Augustine, quaint German
place, and the best crab cake*
you ever saw away from home.
All crab meat!
Leaving at 7:20, stopped at
Bunnell, Fla., for gas at 7:45.
Arrived Daytona 8:15 and
the boat was as glad to see us
as we were to see it. Hope all
is well at home. Best wishes
to all and please somebody do
my job of . • • ‘‘Sweepin Up •