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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor Aad Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Engineering Profession
Vastly Important To
Youth Os America
One reason why America is racing to
catch up in the space age is that we have
applied the wrong job description to one
of the most vitally important professions
this new society is based upon.
The profession is engineering, which has
an old connotation to students as being an
undramatic area of work that carries out
the loftier thinking of “scientists.”
The fact is that engineers are the scient
ists and architects, as well as the builders,
of the new age. In missiles and space re
search, the real glamour work-planning
and building the vehicles - is in the hands of
engineers.
In commenting upon the equally im
portant roles of pure science and engineer
ing, the dean of one engineering school
said: “A moon rocket is a triumph of en
gineering. The knowledge gained by its in
struments is pure science.”
We have not described engineering in
these terms to our highest quality math
and science students, and as a consequence
the great majority have moved into other
“more glamorous” professions.
The consequences are visible now, and
even more trouble lies ahead.
In 1950, when the difference in politi
cal ideologies and increasing international
competition between the United States
and Russia became clearly apparent, we
had approximately 100,000 more trained
engineers than the Soviets did. Today, the
USSR Hot only has one-third more trained
engineers than the U. S., but expects to
graduate 125,000 engineers annually during
each of the next five years - triple the U.S.
projection.
A recent survey by the Engineering
Manpower Commission estimates a fifty
percent increase in the need for engineers
in American industry by 1966. Yet, U. S.
educators tell us that last year forty per
cent of our nation’s most talented high
school graduates - in excess of 20.000 stu
dents - did not go to college and that fresh
men engineering enrollments are decreas
ing each year. Industry and educators have
a two-fold job in meeting the problem of
shortages. One phase is to make sure the
best qualified students know of the opport
unities engineering offers. The second is
to make it economically possible for them
to enter engineering schools.
A number of larger companies now of
fer engineering scholarships. Many small
er companies, whose interests are just as
completely involved, can also participate
in engineering scholarship programs. This
can be done through Foundations, such as
the Hertz Foundation which administers
engineering scholarships without costs, or
it can be done directly with schools.
In any case, the cost is not great, the
contribution is tax-deductible, and the
need is so urgent that it may sooner or
later dwarf every consideration.
"Temporary Tax"
Can Be Long, Drawnout
Affair; Like Gas Tax
The stump-speaking candidate, reach
ing the climax of his oration, roared: “And
now. friends, I want to tax your memory.”
“Oh my gosh,” one of his listeners moan
ed. “Are they going to put a tax on that,
too?”
This man didn’t know, but in a sense
government has been taxing memories for
many years. At least many tax plans seem
to be based on the belief that the public’s
memory is exceedingly short.
For instance, it’s a familiar trick to over
come opposition to a particular tax pro
posal with the promise that the tax is only
a temporary measure, scheduled to expire
on a specified date. But by the time that
deadline draws near, the promise has fad
ed from people’s memories. And so the
“temporary” tax is quietly renewed.
The result is that today the phrase
“temporary tax” has replaced Methuselah
as a symbol of longevity.
This leads up to a reminder that Octo
ber 1 marked the first anniversary of the
temporary one cent per gallon increase in
the federal gasoline tax. This temporary
tax, which brought the federal rate up to
four cents per gallon, is supposed to termi
nate on June 30, 1961.
But there may be a move afoot right
now to keep the tax on the books, counting
on the public’s notoriously short memory
to have lost all track of that June 30 ex
piration date.
For their own protection, America’s
motorists ought to start acting like mem
ory experts right up to the time of the
scheduled expiration date of this tempor
ary levy next Jun a.
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‘mary SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Fast Office
at Covington. Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
Natural Beauty And The
Community Are Synonymous
To Pride, Satisfaction
Without adequate provision for open
space and natural beauty well-preserved
and enhanced by man, our cities eventu
ally rot from their centers outward in an
ever-widening circle of decay. Unless ur
ban construction goes hand-in-hand with
planning for space, with landscaping and
planting to enhance the surroundings,
there never can be permanent social satis
faction in the building and expansion of
our cities. The main problem is to in
clude rather than exclude Nature and
space and natural beauty when building a
community. Whether it happens to be a
cross-roads village, or a metropolis, there
is need for trees and shrubs and grass to
offset the lifelessness of brick and steel
and concrete.
Fortunately most cities are awakening
to this reality. In many there are dyna
mic efforts for more natural beauty com
bined with new construction. In Philadel
phia, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Los Angeles,
to name only a few, cities are trying to
correct past mistakes in order to keep
more people and trade within their bor
ders, make them better places in which to
live and work. It is said that 542 cities
across the nation are planning, or actually
engaged in extensive downtown improve
ments.
In many large buildings lacking outdoor
space for planting the landscaping has been
brought indoors into lobbies. The mer
chants in a rapidly increasing number of
communities are locating large urns along
main shopping streets. These they are
planting at least three times yearly to
feature spring, summer and fall flowers
against a background of evergreens. Ac
cording to the American Association of
Nurserymen; New York’s “Salute the Sea
sons” program of planting is spreading ra
pidly from coast-to-coast. If well-publi
cized, a street decoration consisting of urns
beautifully planted, in the first few hours
is said to bring more return to the mer
chants of a shopping area than the cost
of the project, and the benefits will last
for years. Once installed and properly
maintained no city will give up these
planted urns, for they brighten the shop
ping areas with color and life. Combined
with street-tree plantings they are even
more colorful and attractive.
There is one important precaution. The
plants have to consist of varieties that will
withstand the hazards of urban growth
and they have to be well-maintained. The
best way is to select the best nurseryman
in the area and make him responsible. In
cases where the plantings are put out for
bid. all the bidders should be pre-quali
fied. Bidders who do not have sound hor
ticultural knowledge and experience can
jeopardize the whole project.
America is a country of incomparable
natural beauty. If man has despoiled the
beauty in many areas, he also can, in time,
restore it. Many hundreds of cities seem
not only to be intensely conscious of, but
actually are starting out on the road to ur
ban beauty because it pays both in dollars
as well as in greater pride and satisfaction
with living in the community.
Advice For Castro
The following editorial is reprinted
from the San Francisco Chronicle:
“The Government of Cuba, which has
been busily seeking ways to support it
self, has found time to make a handsome
and helpful gesture to a small neighbor,
the constitutional Crown Colony of British
Guiana. The Castro government has grant
ed Guiana a $5 million loan, and has a
greed to buy Guiana rice at a premium
price.
“We have some advice for Fidel Castro:
“Look out!
“We, as a Nation, have learned by rude
experience, Senor Castro.
“Beware of befriending your small
neighbors. First thing you know, you will
be branded an “imperialist aggressor" and
you know what that means.”
Today’s high prices for nonessentials
make thrift triply rewarding.
Long after the price is forgotten, you
get an itemized bill.
In making love, think of the most far
though you meant it.
At our place we get so tired that in
stead of jawing, we doze.
One of the greatest social assets is the
knack of making other people feel inferior.
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SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
Our Response to God
Bible Material: Psalms 1; Ro
mans 12
Devotional Reading: Colos
sians 3:1—4, 12-17; Memory
Selection: Do not be conform
ed to this world but be trans
formed by the renewal of your
mind, that you may prove what
is the will of God, what is good
and accentable and perfect. Ro
mans 12:2.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Is God’s Way Best?
Young People - Adult Topic:
Our Response to God.
As we begin a study of this
passage of Scripture, let us
glance at the topic for this
quarter and the headings of the
separate lessons.
The general topic for this
series of thirteen lessons is
“Passages of Spiritual Power.”
These deal with the greatness
of God. our adoration of Him,
our trust, and our need of God.
Last week we emphasized man’s
need for divine fellowship, as
set forth with great spiritual
power in Psalms 42. Today, we
study our response to God.
Is there away of God in
finitely set over against the
way of the world? Is man’s na
ture such that he not only longs
for fellowship with God but
must have it in order to be
mentallv mature and happy of
heart? If there is such a long
ing in man’s heart, whence does
it spring? Probably the most
important question we should
ask ourselves is. how we should
respond to those impulses which
surge up in our hearts and
cause us to long for a satisfv
ing and familiar relationship
with the Most High?
All these questions center
about the truth of God’s great
ness and man’s desire to wor
ship Him. Although the un
thinkine world frequently goes
about its business thinking al
most nothing about such mat
ters. the Bible, the tragic ex
perience of mankind, the tri
umph of individuals over weak
ness and sin, and the progress
of the human race from sava
gery to civilization indicate that
man’s desire to come into close
personal relationship with God
ic — outside of the existence of
God Himself — the most out
standing of all truth.
This is an age of shifting
world standards. Two world
wars are largelv responsible for
this state of affairs: also the
changed status of womanhood,
the coming of the automobile,
and the widespread conviction
that freedom of action is abso
lutely essentia! to the develop
ment of human capacities.
Nowhere, of course, is the
spirit of uninhibited freedom
manifested more strikingly than
among this generation of young
people. Youth seems to be in
control of the home, certainly
in control of his own social
practices, and sometimes — we
almost think — in control of
the whole world. Industry
seems to be looking for young
executives. Colleges must have
young presidents. The accent
today is on youth, and a char
acteristic of this generation of
voting people is that they have
broken away from the restraint
of customs which for some cen
turies have been considered
binding. Youth today is off on
a new highway altogether.
We can never understand any
moral situation in the modern
world until we remind oursel
ves that the fifteen years fol
lowing the beginning of World
War I saw the greatest change
in social customs that humanity
has witnessed in some centu-
ries. This quick change in modes
of behavior, this shifting of
moral standards from the one
basis to another, constitutes a
phenomenon which historians
undoubtedly will dwell upon
inquiringly for generations to
come.
In a study of today’s lesson,
we take our minds back to
those moral standards in t h e
Bible we consider unshakable.
We should examine these, com
pare them with contemporary
conduct, and ask ourselves whe
ther or not the Bible has some
solution to offer for the moral
chaos of today.
“Blessed is the man that
walketh not in the counsel of
the ungodly, nor standeth in the
way of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful. But
his delight is in the law of the
Lord: and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.”
Here is the picture of un
wavering moral standards and
a man of God who delighted to
conform himself and his ac
tions to those standards.
We are all aware of the uni
form and unwavering character
of physical laws. Gravity does
not operate one way in one part
of the world and in a different
fashion somewhere else. Nei
ther is it one way today and
quite changed in its operation
tomorrow. So far as we are able
to ascertain, this inviolability of
physical law extends through
out the universe and has thus
onerated throughout history.
There seems to be every in
dication that it will continue to
do so. If one appeared to think
otherwise, he would be consi
dered ridiculous, mistaken, and
probably insane.
Why, then, do we find it so
hard to realize that there are
spiritual laws which are equal
ly uniform and unwavering? To
be sure, they appear sometimes
to operate one way for one per
son and another way for an
other person. But this is be
cause of the difference between
people and the situations in
which they stand and the res
ponses they make to these laws,
and not because of any change
from time to time in the spiri
tual laws themselves.
We are physical beings, but
we are also — and nrimarilv —
sniritual beings. We live in a
nhvsical universe, yet if we
have any faith whatsoever in
the teachings of the Bible, we
must believe that the things
that are seen are temporal
while the things that are un
seen are eternal.
Os what, then, does satisfac
tory and creative living consist?
We might name a number of
things of which it consists, but
these would all be secondary to
this great fact, that man is pri
marily a spiritual being, living
in a universe that is primarily
spiritual in nature. He must,
therefore, accommodate him
self to unwavering and uniform
spiritual laws.
Again we emphasize that
these spiritual laws are as uni
form and unwavering as are
the laws and forces in the phy
sical world. We must adapt
ourselves to the laws and for
ces of the physical world if we
would live physically. We must
adapt ourselves to the laws and
forces of the spiritual world if
we would live spiritually. “For
what shall it profit a man, if
he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul?” (Mark
8:36.)
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IN THE COVINGTON NEWS
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
Sen. George Memorial Stamp
To Be Issued November Sth
Postmaster General Arthur E.
Su nmerfield. Senator Herman E.
Talmadge and Gov. Ernest
Vandiver will be among a group
of eminent Americans participa
ting in “First Day of Issue".
ceremonies for a four-cent memo-;
rial stamp honoring the late Sena-;
tor Walter F. George.
The ceremonies will be held in
Vienna Saturday, November 5,
beginning at noon, to which the
public is invited. Mayor J. T. de
Lesseline of Vienna, will pre
side.
The new Walter F. George me
morial stamp is the second of ‘ ]
three such stamps which the Post
Office Department authorized for
issuance during 1960. honoring
great American officials who died
i n office. The first honoring
Senator Robert A. Taft, went on
sale October 10 at Cincinnati. The
third, which will honor John
Foster Dulles, the late Secretary
of State, is scheduled for issuance
between November 15 and Novem
ber 30 in Washington, D. C.
In announcing the memorial,
stamps Postmaster General Sum
merfield said:
“It is most appropriate that we
pay tribute to the great contribu-!
tions made by contemporary lead
ers in public life who have died
while in office. The success of
our government depends upon the
unselfish service o f dedicated
men and women who have given
unstintedly of their genius, time
and strength for the advancement
of the national welfare. Certainly
Walter F. George, John Foster
Dulles and Robert A. Taft deserve
every tribute a grateful nation
can give them."
Mr. Summerfield noted that
Senator George had a long and
distinguished career. He served as
Special Assistant to President
Eisenhower as Ambassador to
NATO in 1957, prior to his death
on August 7, 1957. Before that
time he had served his state of
Georgia in the United States
Senate, from 1922. compiling one
of the longest and most notable
records in the history of that
body. He also had a distinguished
record of public life in Georgia,
including a post as Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of
Georgia.
The new memorial stamps are
0.85 x 0.98 of an inch in dimension
and are of the four-cent denomina
tion. Each is printed in deep
purple and each will be issued in
quanities of 120 million.
The designs of the stamps
feature a photograph of the man
honored. The likeness of Senator
George is based on a photograph
by Hank Walker of the Washing
ton Bureau of Life Magazine. The
stamp design was prepared by
William K. Schrage and the en
graving was by Charles A. Brooks
(portrait) and Robert J. Jones
(border, lettering and numeral).
Collectors desiring first-day can
cellations of the Senator George
stamp may send addressed en
velopes to the postmaster a t
Vienna with remittance to cover
the cost of the stamps affixed.
Each envelope must be marked,
in pencil, in the upper right
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hand corner, indicating the number
of stamps to be affixed.
An enclosure of medium weight
should be placed in each envelope
and the flap either turned in or
sealed. The outside envelope ot
the postmaster should be clearly
marked “First Day Cover. Sena
tor George Memorial Stamp.”
Collectors are cautioned to send
their Memorial Stamp Cover or
ders separately. Any orders
containing requests for o t her
i issues will be returned unserviced
by the respective postmasters. Col
lectors are also cautioned th a t
orders must not include requests
1 for uncanceled stamps.
Letters To
The Editor
I Mr. Belmont Dennis, Editor
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Dennis:
I was sorry to read in t h e
News that you have been in
the hospital. I hope that you
are better now and will soon
be entirely well again.
We appreciate the fine job
you and your staff do of cov
ering school news down your
way. We notice that the front
page is often full of educational
news.
I remember the outstanding
job that you did as GPA presi
dent and that Mrs. Dennis did
as national president of the
UDC. You both mean much to
your own community and to
the state.
With best personal regards,
I am
Sincerely yours,
Claude Purcell
State Superintendent
of Schools
Thomas To Speak
Colored Church
H. E. Thomas, Representa
tive of Watchtower Society,
will be the speaker at the
Kingdom Hall (Colored), 123
Washington Street, Covington,
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The subject of this public
address will be “Seeking Peace
with God And Man.”
Thursday. October 27, 1960
Disabled WW-II
Veterans Train
Prog'm Revived
A training program for dis
abled World War II veterans
that ended in July has been
brought back to life for anoth
er five years, Mr. A. W. Tate,
Manager, Veterans Administra
tion Regional Office, Atlanta,
Georgia, said today.
Some 1,000 veterans—most
with serious disabilities —stand
to benefit.
They were undergoing train
ing when the program, Public
Law 16. came to an end on
July 25. A new law permits
virtually all of them (those who
were in training on June 1) to
resume their courses at Gov
ernment expense.
Also, the law establishes a
new deadline of July 25, 1965.
Mr. Tate explained that the
vocational training program for
most disabled World War II
veterans ended four years ago.
But a special four-year exten
sion was granted in certain ex
ceptional cases—mainly vet
erans so badly disabled they
couldn’t possibly have come in
under the original deadline. It
is this four-year extension that
expired on July 25—and to
which five more years have
been added by the new law.
The law does one thing
more, Mr. Tate said. It keeps
open the doors of the vocation
al training program to disabl
ed World War II veterans class
ed as exceptional cases. They
now have the right to begin
training, so long as they can
complete it by the new 1965
deadline.
The exceptional cases are
these:
1. World War II veterans
whose disabilities prevented
them from entering or com
pleting training prior to the
program’s original deadlines;
2. Thoese who originally
received discharges barring
them from training, but whose
discharges later were changed
—but too late to get in under
the original deadlines;
3. Those for whom a service
connected disability was not
established in time to begin
and complete a course of train
ing.
Mr. Tate emphasized that the
new law does not affect a sep
arate training program for
disabled Korea veterans. This
program has its own deadlines
—still a good way off in the
future.
Mites and lice can infest a
poultry flock in a very short
time, warns extension poultry
man Milton Y. Dendy. These
pests slow growth, lower vitali
ty and reduce egg production,
and heavy infestations can kill
chickens. He advises poultry
men to inspect birds and houses
for mites and lice each 10 to 14
days and to begin treatment
immediately at the first sign of
infestation.