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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Georgia's Great Green
Giant To Be Honored
This Week In U. S.
October 16-22 is National Forest Prod
ucts Week, for all of you who might care
to know. This is the week when we Ameri
cans honor the humble tree as producer
of the many things that contribute pleas
ure and create comforts to our lives.
It would be impossible to list all the
forest products that each of us uses daily.
Many of these products have assumed a
form so vastly different from the tree that
we hardly realize their origin.
That gaily colored wrapping paper
you’ll be using at Christmas time is a good
example: or the newspaper that you pick
up at breakfast. Perhaps the clothing you’re
wearing is woven of wonder fibers that
originated in a stately tree. And that pack
aged food you have in the refrigerator is
kept garden-fresh with preservatives that,
too, are derived from a log. Photo film,
chemicals, and many other products come
from our trees.
Even the air you breathe might be
called a forest product since it is constantly
being replenished with oxygen manufac
tured in trees and other green plants. And
think of all the wonderful recreation areas
that are given us by the forests.
The most familiar forest products are,
however, the ones that surround us in our
homes, the ones that we see daily. Beau
tiful wood wall paneling that contributes
luxury, serenity and a sense of security to
our abodes; kitchen cabinetry custom-tail
ored to meet our needs and taste; hand
some and useful built-ins that make the
most of wall space; siding lumber that
gives our homes a friendly livable look;
eye-appealing fences designed in wood;
patio decks for carefree summer living;
and, of course, beautiful furniture.
Wood has been away of life in America
ever since the first colonist set foot on
our eastern shores. Our very first export
cargo was valuable timber cut at James
town, Virginia, and shipped to England
for use in ship building. Georgia’s colonists
at Brunswick and Savannah made much
use of their plentiful timber supply for
trade to Europe. As the pioneers moved
westward, they looked to the friendly for
ests for the materials they needed to build
their wagons, homes, churches, schools,
and to make ink, dye, soap and other neces
sities.
Since the time when the 13 colonists
declared their independence, this nation
has produced 3,000,000 million board feet
of lumber — enough to build a six-foot
wide boardwalk from here to the sun!
Yet, despite the vast quantity of lumber
that our forests have yielded, modern
forestry practices keep our forests well
stocked with growing timber — ready to
serve you.
So, in this week of October 16-22, it
is fitting that we pay tribute to our mighty
forests and to the hundreds of priceless
products derived from them. We can best
show our honor by pledging them our con
stant protection. Let’s all join in keeping
Georgia green.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
At Mercy Os Castro Due
To Lack of Water Supply
With the turning of a valve four miles
away, Fidel Castro could make a 45-square
mile desert of the vital US Naval Base at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Carribbean
bastion of the Monroe Doctrine and
the outer sentry of the Panama Canal!
That the bearded fanatic might do just
that has been a matter of concern in Wash
ington ever since Havana fell to the Com
munist-inspired “revolution.” To avert this
impending crisis, an American company
has offered to build at cost plus $1 a plant
to recover fresh water from the sea in
sufficient quantities to replace that now
aupplied from Fidel's Yateras River.
President Harry W. Conarro of the
Struthers Wells Corporation of Warren,
Pa., who made the offer in conjunction with
the Scientific Design Co., Inc., of New
York, announced that his company would
employ the completely new, recently-test
ed Struthers process at Guantanamo under
4he joint sponsorship of the Office of Saline
Water of the U S Department of Interior.
Instead of the traditional heat distilla
tion method, the Struthers Wells process,
conceded by engineers who checked the
company’s pilot plant at Warren to be far
more efficient, employs cold instead of
heat. The new freezing process involves the
controlled crystallization of sea water into
large ice crystals that are free from the
unwanted ocean salts and provide potable
water from the sea at economical cost.
(Our Adverffsers Are Assured Os Results)
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'Agricultural Promotion'
Amendment Deserves A
Yes Vote November Bth
When we pull that little curtain closed
in the voting booth on election day and
take a look at the ballot it usually strikes
us that we’ve done it again-we’ve let most
of our interest get focused on the candi
dates that are running for office and we
don’t know as much as we should about the
issues that are also “running.”
These issues can be pretty important
to our future. Take proposed Amendment
Number 8 on the ballot this year, for ex
ample. It says: “For ratification of amend
ment to the Constitution so as to provide
for the promotion of agricultural pro
ducts.”
What does this mean? What is “promo
tion”? Who will it benefit?
Well, according to John Duncan, Presi
dent of the Georgia Farm Bureau, this
“promotion” and amendment simply means
that farmers would have a right to finance,
and carry out programs to enlarge mark
ets, develop new crops uses and otherwise
sell more Georgia produced commodities to
the rest of the nation. This would bring
more income to the farmers and more cash
into the state’s economy.
Let's take an example of how this agri
cultural “promotion” works in our neigh
boring state of Florida. Back in 1935 Flori
da citrus growers were going broke by the
hundreds. Oranges sold in New York for
less than the cost of shipping them there.
Then the Florida Citrus Commission
was created by the legislature, financed not
by the taxpayers but by growers them
selves. They set out through advertising
and publicity to persuade Americans to
eat more citrus products. They set out to
build new markets in sunshine-short parts
of the world such as Scandinavia. They
found new ways to distribute orange juice
in cardboard, tin, aluminum and now even
in those push-button squirt cans.
They finally found away to make a
good frozen orange juice concentrate,
which is now the most popular product in
the entire booming frozen food industry.
What has it all meant? It's meant pros
perity for the farmers and for the state of
Florida.
In 1935 Americans consumed an aver
age of 11 pounds of Florida citrus per
year. Today the average is 45 pounds per
year. Instead of growing less than half
of the country’s oranges, Florida now ac
counts for 65 per cent of a much greater
crop and for 30 per cent of the world’s
supply. The crop is worth more than S4OO
million to the state.
These same kind of “promotions” are
going on for crops of all kinds in Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, California and dozens
of other states.
Frankly, we’d like to see Georgia get
into this act. We’re years behind-for rea
sons nobody seems to know. We’d like to
see Georgia farmers sell more of their
crops for better prices in the rest of the
nation.
We think Amendment 8 and “agricul
tural promotion” (the right for farmers to
promote their own products) deserve a
yes vote on the ballot this fall.
A man of thirty may know more than a
man of fifty, but the former can’t prove it
till he is fifty, thanks be.
In domestic guilt, a plea for mercy is
some times effective, provided sincerity
and abnegation are obviously not feigned.
You often think what you would like
to say to a customer, but the competitive
system will not permit it, fortunately.
If you've ever been poor and hungry
you don’t forget it as long as you live.
The reason most men succeed is that
their wives won’t let them fail.
Some workers figure their time is worth
money whether they do anything with it
or not.
We ache for rest and, when we have
had it, bound out like dogs seeking new
excitement.
Some persons would be kinder if they
were not afraid of appearing soft.
About the only tardy people who get
what they deserve are those who miss a
trans-oceanic ship.
Why is it that so few people have a
mean word to say about fathers-in-law?
When possible, pay for mistakes with
checks — it saves time and unconvincing
explanations.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
* MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Fast Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Comment from the Capital —
COMMON SENSE — THE FORGOTTEN VIRTUE
by Vant Neff
American tradition 1* rich
with stories of courage and sac
rifice, determination and daring.
But one quality that has always
stood out as the most American
of all is good ordinary common
•ense.
Unfortunately it isn’t a very
dramatic virtue; nobody gives
medals for common sense. May
be that’s why so many of our
modem politicians seem to feel
they can do without it entirely.
Take the problem of federal
spending, for instance. A little
common sense will tell yon that
no one, government or individ
ual, can go on spending and
spending recklessly, going fur
ther and further into debt, with
out getting into serious trouble
in the long run. Yet the howls
that went up when the Presi
dent announced a small budget
surplus were anguished indeed.
And they came from leading
figures in both parties.
But why? Is there anything
wrong with a surplus? I* it
sinful in some way? Os course
not. Even the most determined
SOUR WEEKLY (OLISSO N FOR
unday School
Our Need of God
Bible Material: Psalms 19; 42
Devotional Reading: Psalms
130.
Memory Selection: Why: are
you cast down, O my soul, and
why are you disquited within
me? Hope in God; for I shall
again praise him, my help and
my God. Psalms 42:11.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
God — My Greatest Need.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Our Need of God.
The lessons for the present
quarter deal with man’s spirit
ual life and the need of t h e
human soul for fellowship with
God.
We should understand at the
outset that the one universal
need of a believer is for com
munion with God. Men who are
as far apart as John Calvin and
Francis Xavier had divergent
views on the sacrements and
most other points of Christian
faith, but the one essential on
which they agreed was the ne
cessity of fellowship with God,
and this is not possible except
on the basis of forgiveness.
In our lessons of the present
quarter, eighteen of the psalms
are used as study passages. The
special subject for our study of
the forty - second Psalm today
is the need of the human soul
for worship — the worship that
is a real approach in fellowship
to the presence of God, that
from Him we may gain uplift,
cleansing, and renewal in t h e
spiritual life.
With the ancient Hebrews the
book of Psalms was divided in
to five parts, a plan reminis
cent of the division of the law
into the five first books of our
Bible, of the Pentateuch. The
fortv - second Psalm, which we
study today, was the first one
in the second division of the
Psalms. It should also be noted
that most scholars believe that
Psalms forty-two and forty -
three are parts of one poem.
This observation is drawn from
the fact that we have the same
refrain repeated in Psalms 42:5
and 42:11 and in 43:5.
“Why art thou cast down. O
my soul? and why art thou dis
quieted within me? hope thou
in God: for I shall yet praise
him, who is the health of my
countenance, and my God.”
This refrain, being the con
clusion of the Psalmist, is re
peated because it brings em
phasis upon the theme of t h e
Psalm, which is that the dis
quieted soul should hope and
trust in God.
After all, is this not the
point of true Christian psycho
logy and psychiatry, that the
disquieted soul can find rest
only when it finds forgiveness
and fellowship with God the
Creator?
It is the general opinion of
the commentators that this
Psalm was written by David,
though the title does not give
the author. It merely addresses
the Psalm “To the Chief Musi
cian.’ or, as we might say Choir
master; A “Maschil (Maskil),
for the Sons of Korah.” “Mas
chil,” or "Maskil," means an
instructive ode or poem. There
has been much speculation as
to just who the sons of Korah
might have been. Were they
descendants of the Korah who
resisted God and his leaders and
perished tn the wilderness?
Whether descended from that
Korah or not, it seems that
they were from the tribe of
Levi and were banded together
as a special choir chorus for the
services of the temple.
If the Psalm was written by
David, as seems most probable,
the question remains as to what
of the spenders has enough re
spect for American common
sense not to make such a pat
ently absurd claim. Instead,
they come up with all sorts of
dire predictions, beginning with
r
/ I
the claim that probably the na
tional defense is being sacri
ficed.
The argument is poppycock.
No one argues with the critical
need for a strong defense. But
reckless spending for defense
does not strengthen the country,
it has the opposite effect, it
weakens. Defense money must
part of his life is reflected. The
answer has been given that
this may have been written at
the time when David fled from
Absalom, his son, and so was
not able to come to the place of
worship in Jerusalem. Though
the temple was built under
Solomon after David’s time,
there was a center of organiz
ed worship in Jerusalem. The
Ark of the Convenant had been
brought to Zion as we read in
II Samuel, Chapter six. When
the temple was constructed,
many things such as these
Psalms would be ready for
the services.
One need only travel over the
dusty roads of Palestine in the
summer time to know what wa
ter means in a “dry and thirsty
land” (Ps. 63:1). Over most of
the territory the white alkali
dust rises and much of t h e
country is a wilderness because
water is so hard to find. It is
easy to picture in such a wild
erness the hart, or stag, wan
dering from one dry water
course to another, panting for
the water brooks. Or the figure
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be invested wisely so that it
yields the greatest safeguard*
and the furthest advancements.
Moreover, the real culprit in
federal spending is not national
defense, but the many pet
“porkbarrel” projects of those
very politicians who are scream
ing the most self-righteously.
It’s significant that the first
time Congress overrode an
Eisenhower veto, the issue was
not national defense, but a
“Rivers and Harbors” bill
packed to the seams with such
porkbarrel unnecessary spend
ing.
What we need is not mor*
government spending, but mor*
common sense and fiscal re
sponsibility to root out the
waste and the special-interest
“plums” out of the spending
that is being done. And if noth
ing else will do it, it might ba
a good idea to remind our
friends on Capitol Hill that we
still have one weapon left, to
keep them in line . . . and the
common sense to use it on.
November Bth!
may be that of a stag that has
been chased by the hounds and
heads for the water that he may
throw the dogs off the trail and
cool his panting sides in t h e
stream or lake.
In either case, the desire of
the hart for the water brooks
is overpowering and absolute.
This is as strong a figure as may
be found in the Bible for t h e
absolute longing of the human
soul for God.
This will no doubt recall
many things in the life of our
Lord; for instance, the time
when he was thirsty and seated
beside the well, he asked the
Samaritan woman for a drink
of water. From the narrative
we do not know whether he
ever got the drink of water or
not, but we do know that he
gave to this woman the water
of life and she became at once
an evangelist, going on the run
to bring to Christ the people of
her own village (John 4:5 -
30, 39).
In fact, the Master knew full
well the meaning of this long
ing for water in a dry land
when he cried:
“If any man thirst, let him
come unto me, and drink”
(John 7:37). These words of
Christ were spoken on the last
day, the great day of the feast,
before the assembled multitud
es, at the time the priests were
Letters To
The Editor
Mr. Belmont Dennis
Editor and Publisher
The Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis:
I read the editorial “New
Hospital Beds Boon To Patients
As Well As Nurses” with in
terest.
It is my pleasure to inform
you that the new west wing
housing fifteen private rooms
with private baths at the New
ton County Hospital will be
pouring out great jars of water
as a symbol of the fact that
God would pour out his Holy
Spirit
The entire metaphor here of
the hart panting for t h e wa
ter brooks is at all points the
symbol of the soul longing for
the true water of life. As the
Psalmist says: “So panteth my
soul after thee, O God.”
Nothing will quench this
thirst of the soul except fellow
ship with "the living God.”
Only the living God can pro
vide fountains of living water
and the stream of the water of
life.
Jacob’s well in Samaria is
one of the best authenticated of
Biblical sites because it goes
down about a hundred feet un
til, just over the bedrock, it
strikes a fastflowing stream of
living water. There is no other
similar well in the district.
To strike this living water,
man must go deep; no shallow
surface digging will lead the
thirsty soul to the “living wa
ter.”
The Psalmist closes verse 2
of the Psalm with a sudden cry
in the form of a question:
“When shall I come and ap
pear before God?” He can
Scarcely wait for the opportun
ity to quench the thrist of h i s
spirit.
The Psalmist looks around
him in his exile from the house
of God, and those who know
not the Lord taunt him by re
peating continually, “Where is
thy God?” This has been the
taunt of unbelief in all ages. As
Dr. Samuel Zwemmer has said,
“Formerly the fool said in his
heart, “There is no God, but
now he shouts it on the radio.”
equipped with the new type
all electric beds.
The Newton County Hospi
tal Authority and I feel that
in offering this new model bed,
we will be contributing to tha
patients comfort and morale.
Although a nurse never minds
being called to a patient’s room
to raise or lower the head or
the foot of a hospital bed, it
lis a proven fact that if the
patient, by pressing a button
attached to the side of the bed
can perform this service for
themselves, they will change
; their position in bed more of
ten and therefore be more
comfortable during their hos
pital stay.
The Newton County Hospital
1 staff and personnel would like
'to compliment the Covington
News and their alert editorial
staff for keeping up with the
most modern in hospital beds
as well as their timely com
ments on other subjects that
' contribute to the steady suc
i cessful growth of Covington
and Newton County.
Good luck Mr. Editor and
thank you for keeping us on
our toes.
Most Sincerely,
Helen W. Dickinson,
Administrator
Newton County Hospital
Mr. Belmont Dennis
Covington NEWS
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis:
The Covington Service Guila
would like to express their ap
preciation for the generoui
publicity you gave us on our
recent Benefit Bridge Party,
which, we feel, was highly suc
cessful.
The children in the “Little
Red Schoolhouse” say "Thank
You” too.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Guy Evans
Covington Service Gludi
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