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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Let's Keep "First Things
First" As Our Community
Grows In Population
Away from home and faced with a
serious operation we want to pass on to
you the poem below which carries so much
courage and comfort.
Oh! Thou of Little Faith
God has not failed you yet!
When all looks dark and gloomy
Thou dost soon forget.
Oh! Doubt not any longer
To Him commit thy way
Whom in the past thou trusted
And is “just the same today.”
As we await our operation our thoughts
are many and varied-first and foremost
comes our desire to go through the ordeal
safely, followed by a rapid recovery and
safe return to our loved ones and the magic
words of home and friends.
We feel safe in the care of the “Great
Physician’’ and his helpers, Dr. Monfort
and our surgeon Dr. Earl Rasmussen. It is
strange indeed how one can feel so good
awaiting an opportunity to become really
■sick.
Our thoughts naturally turn to our
friends in Covington and Newton County
and how much pleasure they have given
us over the years, how much their daily
greetings and hearty handshakes mean as
we greet them from day to day.
Twenty-eight years ago we never real
ized how much each of you could ever
mean to my wife and myself. Having been
employed for many years on large dailies in
targe cities, we never realized how much
happiness such friendship as we have
found in Covington and Newton County
could bring.
~ We want you all to know we believe
the finest people in all the world live right
here in our wonderful city and county.
Newton County, with its fine schools
and churches, should prove to be a beacon
of light in this world so filled with turmoil.
Our citizens should realize how wonderful
ly blessed they are living in such a com
munity.
We are proud of our churches, our
schools, our businessmen and our many
industries. Newton County will continue
to improve with the years and if we con
tinue to hold first things first we will con
tinue to prosper materially and spiritually.
The one thing which might endanger
our great community is that of losing our
Christian outlook and service as we con
tinue to grow in size and population.
Our proximity to the metropolitan area
of Atlanta will necessarily cause a great
increase in population throughout the years
to come and we must ever strive to keep
within our hearts the love of our neigh
bors and our God.
Too many fine communities turn to
commercialism and forget to keep first
things first in their hearts. Church services
and church organizations are often forgot
ten in the mad rush to capture the elusive
dollar and pile up treasures on this earth
instead of treasures in love, companion
ship and love of God.
Only through constant Christian service
and Christian love can our community con
tinue to be great. We must remember that
whatever prosperity or happiness comes to
us, as individuals, and as a community,
come through the goodness and generosity
of our God.
We must never forget this fundamental
fact: “Every good and perfect gift comes
from thee.” With this in our minds and
hearts, rendering unto God those things
which belong to God in our tithes and
service we will continue to grow in stature.
From time to time we have been re
minded that taxes from the sale of beer
and wine would bring much money to
our county. We should never let our minds
be deceived by such fantasy or lower our
guards for there is no surer way to destroy
our community than to allow such sale in
our county.
Let’s keep our county free from the
sale of any alcoholics. Let’s continue to
protect our homes and children from this
terrible blight on humanity which some
would impose on us through the fantasy
of securing more money for our county.
Let’s continue to keep our county free of
this curse to humanity. By so doing we will
continue to prosper materially and spirit
ually.
Only through constant vigil can we
continue to enjoy the many gifts which a
generous God has given to us.
We wish to take this opportunity to
thank our many friends for their letters,
cards and beautiful expressions of love
through the flowers we have received here
in the hospital.
They have brought more comfort than
you can realize. Your continued prayers
will bring us safely home where we can
express to you in person our thanks.
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"Except The Lord Build
The House, They Labor
In Vain That Build It"
Reprinted From The Christian Science
Monitor
During debate on framing the Con
stitution of the United States, Benjamin
Franklin urged his colleagues to turn to
God in prayer for guidance that the instru
ment to which they were dedicating their
efforts would endure to the benefit of all
men.
He referred to a well-known statement
in Psalms (127:1), “Except the Lord build
the house, they labour in vain that build
it,” declaring that he firmly believed this,
and that without God’s concurring aid, they
would succeed no better in the political
building in which they were engaged than
did the builders of Babel.
Gladstone said of this Constitution “(It)
is the most wonderful work ever struck off
at a given time by the brain and purpose
of man.” Yet only a pitifully small per
centage of people, even in the United
States, have a clear sense of the value ot
this great document, for they have never
read it.
The roots of Christian democracy are
deeply embedded in the Judaeo-Christian
culture of which the Ten Commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount are such
integral parts. Both these utterances have
stood and will continue to stand the test
of time and therefore are firm foundations
on which to build an enduring social or
der. They are essential to the continued
welfare of the people as when they first
appeared. Acquaintance with these utter
ances, and identification with them, is a
demand if we are to recognize the inner
strength of Christian democracy.
16-Million Americans
Over Age 65 Are About
To Be "Senior Citizens"
As we remember it when we were a
boy, anyone who was “retired” was quite
a curiosity. In those days, perhaps, few
people ever made enough money to quit
before they had to, or even thought about
a “retirement income”.
But now, all of a sudden, we seem to
be up to our elbows in “senior citizens”.
Sixteen million Americans are now over
60, and what with the doctors keeping us
going longer and longer and more and
more employers making retirement manda
tory at a prescribed age, we may soon
have more seniors than juniors. Politi
cians who used to kiss babies are now
promising hospitalization and medical care
for the oldsters.
The latest development in learning how
to-retire-and-relish-it is the formation of
the Bayshore Gardens Council on Retire
ment by a group of distinguished citizens of
the Sarasota, Florida, area who will con
duct what may well be the world’s first
retirement laboratory. The ‘Council takes
its name from a 3,200 acre community on
Sarasota Bay, which already has 1,000
homes — and which should provide a
perfect locale for its studies. Os the 3,032
residents of Bayshore Gardens, 1,339 are
retired — many of them ex-military and
civil service people in their forties and
fifties, as well as those ip their sixties,
seventies and upward.
Already the Council has come up with
a new, low-cost, non-cancellable group
plan of surgical and medical insurance for
the community that requires no examina
tion and recognizes no age limit; and Coun
cil Chairman Richard Morton has called
on banks and lending institutions to end
discrimination against oldsters in granting
30 and 40 year mortgages! It isn’t, he
says, that they are going to live for up
wards of 100 years — even in Florida.
Rather, the house will last just as long in
elderly hands, if not longer, and when the
first owner moves on to his Heavenly
Home, a newer retiree will be waiting to
pick up that earthly mortgage.
It is well-known by now that oldsters
do not want to enter the households of
their married children, and it is to the
everlasting glory of the various retire
ment programs that fewer and fewer are
required to do so. But, Mr. Morton re
ports, they do not want to live entirely
among themselves either, so that the SO
SO young-and-old community of Bayshore
Gardens ought to be about right. The
retired ones — who have more time for
it — can keep the youngsters sharpened
up, whether their specialty is pinochle or
square dancing. And the latter can keep
their elders “thinking young”.
More power to the Council in its
studies on applying the hitherto under
estimated energy of the retirement set
and supplying that sense of accomplish
ment so sorely missed when others take
over! Retirement now is just a new kind
of job — not idleness.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
*MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
| Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
moil matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
UNDAY OCHOOL
The Greatness of God |
Bible Material: Psalms 8;
104.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
93: Memory Selection: O Lord,
our Lord how majestic is thy
name in all the earth! Psalms
8:9.
Intermediate - Senior Topic: 1
How Big Is Your God?
Young People - Adult Topic:
The Greatness of God.
We are all idolaters in that
we render at least some mea
sure of worship to our petty
little idols of comfort, indo
lence, avarice, jealousy, or ap
petite.
We plead as an excuse that
the human mind cannot com
prehend the greatness of God.
This indeed is true. In today’s
lesson we shall try to make
real to ourselves the greatness
of God. Yet no matter how dil
igently we try, the greatness of
God towers above both our des
cription and our comprehen
sion.
Why then should we study a
lesson which we know in t h e
beginning cannot, because of
our limitations, convey to us
its full message? For the sim
ple reason that God demands
of us such worship as we are
capable of offering. Some can
aprehend God better than
others, just as some are more
able in certain wordly techni
ques than others. The might
and majesty of God are so great
that the human mind cannot
fully comprehend them. Yet
our souls may be raised up, our
lives illuminated, our mi' .
and souls given higher moral
purpose, our fears banished,
and our appetites controlled if
with our dim spiritual sight we
can stand before the majesty of
God and comprehend some of
its glory.
God’s truth is too high and
mighty for us to comprehend in
its entiretv, but we do not need
so to understand it. We need
only to use this truth as best
we can.
This psalm is headed “A
Psalm of David.” We can hard
ly believe that it was written
by a mere shepherd boy, we
can believe that it was the
memory of his experiences as
a shepherd which later 1 e d
David to write this beautiful
piece. No doubt he had looked
up at the heavens as he watch
ed over his sheep at night and
wondered — as we do even in
this scientific age —about the
glory of the stars. God has set
his glory above the heavens.
But God has set much of his
glory also in the heavens. Who
has not looked upon the incal
culable number of stars and
wondered about the power and
glory of a Being who could
create such a universe.
All through Scripture we get
a sense of the overwhelming
majesty of God and at t h e
same time we realize that God
manifests his glory in ways
other than through the vast
ness and grandeur of the starry
heavens. God seems, for some
reason, to like to accomolish
great things by people whom
the world regards as of little or
no consequence. As a mature
David looks back upon his own
exoeriences, he thought not
only of the glory of God writ
ten upon the heavens but of the
fact that God so often speaks
through the lips of the humble.
David, no doubt, remembered
the story of the child Samuel
who had caught the message of
God while Eli, the high priest,
relaxed into a lazy indulgence
which prevented his hearing
any message from God. David
did not know it, but centuries
later God would speak through
the lips of a Child born to
Mary and Joseph. And when
this Child grew up, he would
choose as the pillars of his
kingdom not men of noble birth
or great scholars or ecclesias
tics of high position but a group
of fishermen to whom he would
add others, and among them
Matthew, a hated publican.
Here then is the Biblical
principle: God loves to speak
his messages through the lips
of the humble. He whose glory
is set above the heavens or
dains, or decrees, or establish
es strength, “out of the mouths
of babes and sucklings.”
It was the common people
who realized the regal charac
ter of Jesus and cried out joy
gully. “Hosanna to the son of
David: Blessed is he that com
eth in the name of the Lord:
Hosanna in the highest” (Matt.
21:9).
What indeed is man that God
is mindful of him? God has
made man “a little lower than
the angels” or. as the more ac
curate translation has it, “a
little lower than God.” And
God has crowned man with
glory and honor. He has made j
man to have dominion over the
earth and its creatures. God’s
words at the time of creation
were: “Have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon
the earth” (Gen. 1:28).
“Thou hast made him a little
less than God.” Nothing in the
whole range of human know
ledge is more astounding and
applling than the contrast be
tween the dignity of man and
his degradation. Man is made
in the image and after the like
ness of God. Yet think of man’s
cruelty. Think of his disposi
tion to exploit the weak. Think
of the unrelenting bitterness
with which he wrecks vengen
ce upon an enemy. Think of his
dishonesty, of his violence, of
the readiness with which he re
sponds to the appeal of passion
and attempts to justify himself,
morally, for so doing. Yet this
creature of such indescrible vio
lence bears upon him God’s im
age and likeness. God’s love for
him is such that He will not let
him go into the destruction he
only too well deserves. God
must rescue him. and this He
does in the Person of his only
begotten Son.
Jesus Christ, through the for
giveness of sins and the spiri
tual reinforcement of man’s na
ture, tends to restore man to
his original state. Let us al
ways remember that God look
ed upon the man He had ori
ginally created and called him
and the rest of creation “very
good” (Gen. 1:31).
But great as are the heavens
with their vast and majestic
wonder, even greater is the soul
of man. There is nothing so
great as a person, save the
divine Person who is above all.
The lesson for us is that in
our humanity we have privi
leges so great that they are be
yond computation, and even
beyond comprehension. Man is
not only above every creature
on the earth, he is above the
earth itself. He is superior to
the stars in significance. Sure
ly, we in our dealings with
one another should remember
the incalculable worth of hu
man life. Surely, as we look
into our own souls we should
remember that we are God’s
sons and daughters and should
live as such.
This means to live in trust,
in a spirit of loving sacrifice,
with all due restraint. “God is
love” (I John 4:8). Therefore
i human life as God intends it to
1 be lived must be a life of love.
• “Thou shalt love the Lord thy
I God. . . and . . . thy neighbor
as thyself” (Matt. 22:37-39).
“The best night spot is a
comfortable bed.” — Arnold
H. Glasow.
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Teen-Agers May
Seek Variety Os
Part-Time Jobs
Teen-agers returning to
school this fall will find that
state and Federal laws permit
a wide choice of part-time jobs,
Regional Director Sterling B.
Williams of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor’s Wage and
Hour Division pointed out to
day.
“Sometimes the opportunity
to work part-time determines
whether or not a boy or girl
is able to continue school”, Wil
liams said. “So long as the job
meets the Federal child-labor
requirements protecting the
minor’s health, welfare and
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signs a proclamation designating October 1-7 as Oil Industry Week
in Georgia as Eric Holmes, Jr. looks on. As a part of the observance
of the special week, service stations throughout Georgia will give
motorists an opportunity to sign a petition calling for the temporary
federal gasoline tax to expire as scheduled.
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Washington, D.C.—President Eisenhower (left) today
presented a Citation on behalf of the Small Business Admin
istration of the United States to John Bowles (right).
President of the Rexall Drug Company, and the 10.000 Rexall
drug store owners of America for their "Let’s All Register,
Let’s All Vote” campaign. Also attending the ceremonies
held in the White House are (left to right) J. B. McCaleb,
President of the International Rexall Clubs, and Robert Buck,
Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
safety, part-time employment
is permissible.”
“As far as this Federal law
is concerned, students who
have passed their 16th birth
day can work in any job in
any industry excepting 13
hazardous occupations where
an age limit of 18 years has
been established”, Williams
stated. Jobs which have been
banned include work on trucks,
elevators and operation of cer
tain power-driven machinery.
The child-labor law prohib
its the employment of any boy
or girl under 14 years of age,
but even here there are ex
ceptions such as newspaper
carriers, caddies, baby sitters,
some jobs in retail stores and
service establishments, and
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employment in agriculture out
side school hours.
“There is, of course,” Wil
liams continued, “a much wid
er selection of jobs open to 14-
and-15 year olds. They may
work in offices, do sales work
and accept many jobs in fruit
and vegetable packing sheds”.
However, working time must
be limited to three hours on
any school day and eight hours
on a non-school day.
Boys and girls in the 14-and
-15 year bracket may work a
maximum of 18 hours during
any week when school is in
session or 40 hours when there
is no school. All work must
be performed between 7 a.m.
and 7 p.m.
Williams also referred to
frequent calls from employers
wanting to assist neighborhood
boys and girls with part-tim*
jobs, but asking how to pro
tect themselves from uninten
tionally violating the child
labor act.
“First, the employer should
assure himself that he knows
the legal minimum age for
the job, asking us in cases of
doubt. Next, we advise all em
ployers to obtain and to keep
on file an age certificate show
ing that the minor is old
enough to qualify for the job.
These certificates can be ob
tained from local school au
thorities throughout the state”,
he said.
In all cases where State and
Federal child-labor standards
differ, he added, the higher
standard must be observed.
Additional information con
cerning the application of the
child-labor provisions of the
Federal law may be obtained
from the Wage and Hour Di
vision's regional office at 1401
South 20th Street, Birming
ham, Ala., or from the field
offices at 1371 Peachtree St.,
N.E., Atlanta: 321 14th Street,
| Columbus; Post Office Build
) ing. Savannah, Georgia.
Questions in regard to the
Georgia state law should be
referred to Child Labor Di
vision, State Department of
Labor, Atlanta.
Forest Workers
According to the Southern
Pine Association, 563.000 peo
ple are employed by timber in
dustry in the South. In addi
tion to 294,000 employed in
lumber manufacture, 136,000
workers are engaged in paper
production and 133,000 are
making furniture and other
wood products.
Special Interest
U. S. Forest Service predic
tions of “eventual concentra
tion” of the nation’s lumber
production in the eastern half
of the United States, should be
of special interest to farmers.
Owners of the Southern Pine
forests include 1,389,804 far
mers. The Southern Pine As
sociation is urging them to con
centrate on quality sawtimber,
in view of the anticipated de
mand.