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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Determined Effort
May Be Made To Repeal
Taft - Hartley Act
During the next Congressional session
a determined effort will be made to repeal
that section of the Taft-Hartley Act which
authorizes the states to adopt right-to
work laws — laws which guarantee that
a worker can join or not join a union, as
he so chooses, without coercion from either
labor or management. So far, 20 states
have adopted the laws.
If the coming effort is successful, un
restrained labor monopolies will be in the
saddle with a vengeance. Compulsory union
ism — which means that man must join
or starve — will become the rule. And this
would be only the beginning. Senator Byrd
of Virginia, in announcing that he would
oppose repeal of the section “with all my
strength and ability,” said ‘Power breeds
power, and labor leaders are insatiable in
their demands for special privilege and
special legislation for immunity. Repeal
. . . would be followed by a drive to re
peal all protective provisions in the Taft-
Hartley Act and other statutes in the whole
labor field.”
There’s nothing anti-labor or anti
union in the right-to-work laws. All they
do is to assert the principle that each in
dividual has the right to decide for him
self whether to join or not. As the Dallas
Morning News observes, “If this is to re
main a free country, what’s wrong with
that?”
"Week For Merchants"
Scheduled For
January 30-Feb. 4th
There’s small doubt that this country
suffers a superfluity of “weeks” designed
to honor some institution or other. It’s a
matter of too much of a basically good
thing. However, some of the observances
do deserve the national interest and at
tention they seek. That’s certainly true of
“National Retail Merchants Week.” which
is scheduled for January 30 — February
4 of next year.
Plans are well underway now for see
ing to it that the week is properly observed.
Various non-retail organizations are pro
viding support — among them the Bureau
of Advertising of the American News
paper Publishers Association and the Tele
vision Bureau of Advertising. The primary
objective is to give us all a better under
standing of what modern retail merchan
dising has done on our behalf.
That is a truly big story. For mass
merchandising is the full and equal partner
»f our justly vaunted system of mass pro
duction — neither could be successful
without the other. The chains pioneered
the mass merchandising concept many
years ago, but they had no patent on it.
Other types of merchants have adapted it
to their operations, and earned in return
a full measure of public patronage. It is
based on the principle of big turnover at
small profits. The big turnover gives the
merchant an adequate total profit. The
small unit profit assures the consumer that
his dollar will go as far as possible.
Retailing's services to this country are
enormous. The coming “Merchants” week
will recognize and pinpoint them.
Porterdale School Speaks
Mrs. Fitzpatrick's
Sixth Grade
On Thursday, October 27.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s room had a
party at the Scout Hut in Por
terdale. We had lots of fun.
The refreshments were hot
dogs, potato chips, pepsi colas,
jrrape and orange drinks, and
cookies. We played a game. It
was called a balloon game
where Mrs. H. V. Johnson gave
us each a balloon. When we
were told to sit on them, and
they all popped, she gave us
a niece of candy.
The time came to choose the
one wearing the best costume.
The winners were Ronny Jones
and Judy Hayden. Ronny wore
a mountaineer suit with a fuzzy
beard and ragged clothes and
his shoes on the wrong feet.
Judy wore a clown suit of red
and white She had a red hat.
The prize was a box of Crecker
Jacks and a package of Life
Savers, bubble gum. and
candy.
The grade mothers were:
Mrs. H. V. Johnson. Mrs. Ma
mie Jones, Mrs. Paul Thoma
son, Mrs. Holifield, Mrs. lid
gar Thacker, Mrs. Aldine
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This Type Os Faith
Makes Us Feel That
The Future Is Secure
History shows that American Presiden
tial campaigns usually are followed by
periods of uncertainty about the economic
outlook. People wait nervously for the
dust raised by campaign oratory to settle,
and for a chance to gauge the policies of
the incoming Administration and the
Congress.
This time, the situation is aggravated
by the fact that there has been a consider
able amount of gloomy talk — both in the
recent campaign and apart from it —about
the possibility of a 1961 recession.
Therefore, it is heartening and instruc
tive to recall the confident tones of one
important non-political voice that spoke
out before the election.
The voice was that of Chairman Fred
eric G. Donner of General Motors, who an
nounced on October 31 that GM plans to
spend sl-1/4 billion in 1961 for plant, ma
chinery, equipment and tooling. That’s
money on the line that will help to make
secure the jobs of millions of workers, and
the prosperity of thousands of businesses.
“The $1,250,000,000 investment that we
will be making in 1961 testifies to our
faith in the continued economic progress
of this country and of the free world as
a whole,” Mr. Donner said.
Obviously, GM is not timidly waiting
for that dust to settle. Not many of us can
match the size of GM's bet on America.
But we might try matching the strength
of its faith.
Smoking Campaign
Lung Cancer From
May Backfire
The New York Daily News notes edit
orially that: “The American Cancer So
ciety plans a nationwide effort to teach
teen-agers that they’ll most likely get
lung cancer if they smoke cigarettes.”
The paper goes on to point out that
there is no laboratory proof that cigarettes
cause this disease; that, actually, the great
majority of heavy smokers do not come
down with this ailment. It notes further
that while the “lung cancer scare, steamed
up mainly by anti-tobacco fanatics, has
gone on for some six or eight years," 1960
marks the fourth consecutive year of rec
ord-breaking cigarette sales.
The News suggests that, in view of
these facts, the cigarette makers might well
underwrite this “teen-age terror campaign”
as promotion for their product. The Amer
ican Cancer Society might then, says the
paper, “stop spending so much of its con
tributors’ money on propaganda, and give
all the dough after overhead to bona fide
research projects on cause and cure of
cancer, as the Damon Runyan cancer fund
always has done.”
And perhaps, if you ask us, the Society
should start bearing down on its vitally
important research goals anyway — be
fore its thousands of earnest and generous
supporters have reason to question its
stewardship.
Chandler, Mrs. James Head,
and Mrs. Sullivan.
Ronny Jones. Reporter
Miss Ramsey's
Sixth Grade
Last week, we fixed folders
and put broken pieces of crayon
on them, then placed a piece of
paper over them and pressed
with a hot iron to make at
tractive folders. Inside each
folder, we wrote messages for
Mrs. Charlotte Adams, who is
sick in the Elbert County Hos
pital.
We are still working on our
different kinds of sentences.
Our teacher gave us a test on
Friday, but we did not do so
well as on our first one. She
then gave us another one. and
we found that it really pays to
LISTEN.
We are learning words that
have silent letters in them in
spelling. We have been having
drills with words that have the
same sound.
Our greatest thrill of the
week was on Tuesday when we
: were asked to place our plant
, infs in the lunchroom for the
Newton County Education's
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
Association meeting that night.
We displayed our eggshell pic
tures also. Our teacher told us
that the people who attended
really thought they were real
good and showed a great deal of
talent
We are enjoying our abacus
board in arithmetic, learning
how to read numbers, adding,
and writing.
Friday, we enjoyed a Magic
Show at the auditorium. Those
who did not attend stayed in
Mrs. Potts’ room and read stor
ies.
Brenda Cook, Reporter
Commandery
Inspection Mon.
Night 7 P.M.
St. Bernard Commandery No.
25 will hold annual inspection
Monday night November 21.
Dinner will be served at 7
p.m.
The Grand Recorder, W. Tom
Bateman, will be inspection of
ficer. Several past Grand Com
manders are expected to be
present. Many other distingu
ished Masons will also be here.
Charles Geiger,
Commander
Lawton Skinner,
Recorder
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Thanks Be To God
Bible Material: Psalms 96: 103;
136.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
66:1—14.
Memory Selection: Bless the
Lord, O my soul: and all that
is within me. bless his holy
name! Bless the Lord. O my
soul, and forget not all his
benefits. Psalms 103:1-2.
Psalms 103 & 104 are together
hymns of praise, closelv linked
in spirit and nature. The first
praises the God of al) grace,
and the second the God of all
creation.
But these are not abstract
psalms: they arise out of a deep
personal experience. In Psalm
103, for example, the psalm
ist begins with his own person
al experience (as indicated by
the use of the personal pronoun
in vv. 1-5) and continues from
there to an awareness and joy
in God’s grace in general. Our
text does not include verses
19-22, his call to universal
praise of God, where again, as
the climax, his voice resounds
in conclusion, “Bless the Lord,
O my soul.”
This psalm is also ascribed to
David in the Hebrew text, and
there is ?o good reason to doubt
this. It has the characteristic
Davidic intensity (whether in
grief or joy) and the Davidic
exuberance.
The praise here sounded is
of the Lord, or. more literallv of
Jehovah, the God of the Co
venant.
Bless, when apnlied to God,
means praise, and to praise with
love and adoration. The praise
of Jehovah is called for in terms
of Deuteronomy 6:5: “And thou
shalt love the Lord thv God
with all thine heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy
might.” This sentence was one
of the most familiar to all He
brews, memorized bv all be
lievers and repeated daily.
It is this kind of praise that
David desired to give with “all
that is within me.” This ex
pression reads, literally, with
all my inner parts, that is, with
his mind, heart and being, in
distinction from praise render
ed merely by mere ritual and
outward acts.
“His holy name” reads “His
name of holiness,” his self -
revelation of his total perfec
tion. Names in Scripture are
descriptive and definitive, and
Jehovah is 'one such name.
Meaning “I AM THAT I AM.”
it indicates God’s absolute tran
scendence, his self-sufficiency,
and his sovereignty. It means
that God cannot be defined by
any human categories of rea
son or understanding but only
in terms of his self-revelation.
Thus, two aspects are set
forth as basic to the true praise
of God. First, it must be from
the heart, and with all one’s
heart, mind, and being. Second,
it must be of “his holy name,”
that is in recognition of h i s
total and absolute sovereigntv,
his self-sufficiency and his
transcendence.
But these two asnects assume
a third. To praise God truly, in
terms of his holy name, and
with sincerity, we must first
know Him in his revelation of
Himself.
Jehovah as the God of sal
vation is David’s joy and de
light. The word in verse 2
translated “benefits” is literallv
“dealings.” used in a sense and
context which implies that all
God’s dealings are beneficial to
the saints. Thus David saw all
God’s dealings with him, how
ever harsh some seemed at the
time, as benefits.
This is an affirmation of the
same faith which appears in
Romans 8:28, a belief that all
God’s purooses for his saints
have a glorious end in view,
and that all things work to
gether for good for the saints,
the called, according to God’s
purnose.
Next, David rejoices in God
as the one who forgives all his
sins or guilt, and heals h i s
everv kind of sickness. The
word translated “diseases” is
one which we find prev'ouslv
used in Deuteronomv 29:22.
translated there as “sickness”
and joined with olagues as
God’s judicial inflictions on his
people to bring them to repen
tance. Thus, what is here vis
ualized is judicial punishment
from God. followed by forgive
ness which removes both the
guilt and the misery or sickness
that followed sin and guilt.
In verse 4. David sees God as
He who redeems his life from
destruction, or, more bluntly,
from the grave. The grave, the
end of life looms before evil men
and unbelievers, but Jehovah
redeems his followers from the
power of death and the grave.
But that is not all. It is not a
bare preservation from death
but a deliverance into a glor
ious life, into trua Hfe. David
pictured this as a coronation.
God crowns me, he said, with
, mercies and compassions, with
the warmest and tenderest af
i feet ions. Thus Jehovah forgives.
heals, redeems, and crowns his
people. Redeem means deliver
ing at great cost and risk, a
word that points ahead to the
cross. The cost is the Lord’s,
while the dignity and glorv a-e
man’s in the crownins. if they
wi’l but subm't to the Lord.
In verse 5 the nro*rec«ion is
carried further. God fills mv
soul, he says, with good so that
my vouth is renewed like the
eagle’s. What David sa v s is that
He fills my soul with the good,
that is. the chief or true good.
Not onb does God fill us with
the good, but He satisfies us
with it, the verb meaning both
fill and satisfy The reference to
the eavle means this: so fullv
does God satisfy my soul, and
revive my strength, that even
in old age I grow younc again
and soar like the eagle. Similar
reference to the eagle are found
in IT Samuel 1:23, Isaiah 40:31.
What Scripture means in
speaking in these and other
passages of the rejuvenating ef
fect of God’s salvation is, that
man thereby is removed from
the dominion of death into the
realm of life with God. More
than that, he now has the prin
ciple of life dwelling within
him.
David spoke as a realist, a
man whose entire life was be
set with difficult experiences
and hardships. All of these he
faced with this renewed life,
with an elasticity and resilience
born of a living faith. He w a s
able to grow in everv situation
because of this life within him.
And. since it is the caoac’tv of
vouth to grow, we have there
fore the comparison of the life
of faith to youth.
.“The Lord executeth right
eousness and judgment for all
that are opnressed.” David be
gan verses 1-5, with a recount
ing of his personal experiences
of God’s grace and saving pow
er. Now. in this verse, he sum
med up his personal testimony
by saying, in effect, these are
instances of God’s grace as I
have witnessed them. But
this is only the beginning of the
glorious story. What He has
done for me, He has done for
all his people. Thus, before Da
vid concludes, the whole crea
tion is reminded of God’s grace
and summoned to praise Him.
Here, in verse 6, there is a
direct parallelism between the
deliverance of God’s people and
the punishment of the wicked.
More than that, it states that
man’s oppression and injustice
are nullified and overcome by
God’s righteousness and judg
ment or justice.
Letters To
The Editor
Mr. A. B. Dennis
Editor, Covington NEWS
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis:
We wish to express our sin
cere appreciation to you for the
wonderful publicity you gave to
the Open House held at NCHS
November 10. We know that
this publicity helped us to have
good attendance.
Thank you for the many help
ful things you do for us.
Sincerely.
Sandra Seabolt
Secretary, Student
Council
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Livingston School News
Mrs. C. S. Mitcham’s
First Grade
Our attendance was very
good in September and Octo
ber but November seems to
have brought with it colds and
other illnesses to keep boys
and girls at home. A number of
them have been absent this
week.
We were glad to see manv of
the first grade parents at PTA
and Open House Monday night.
Everyone has begun reading
now. Two groups are about
to carry their second book horpe
to read to their parents.
We are looking forward to
Thanksgiving holidays.
Mrs. Paul Alexander’s
Second Grade
November is passing in a
hurry. We are busy learning
the 100th Psalm and some
Thanksgiving songs and poems.
We are so proud to be the
winner of the five dollar award
at the November PTA meeting.
We want to say thank you to
our parents for coming. We al
so enjoyed having our parents
visit our room during American
Education Week.
Our attendance has been real
good until this week. We have
several out with colds. We hope
to have everyone back in
school soon.
Those having birthdays in
November are: Leonard Bell.
Frank Holcombe. Shirley Lum
mus and Marsha Smith.
Pam Johnson, Reporter
Third Grade
Randy Kirkus
We have been working very
hard since our first report
cards and we hope to show
much progress for this six
weeks especially in cursive
writing.
All of us have been interest
ed in Indian and Pioneer stor
ies. We drew and colored many
pictures for an Indian mural.
We think it is very pretty and
hope our parents who came for
Open House liked it too.
David speaks to his soul, to
himself, to the whole man, as
it were. He reminds himself of
God’s past and present blessings
and of the nature of God’s gov
ernment. This is the ground of
David’s joy, the grace of God,
and hence his concern is that
his whole being constantly
praise God and be mindful of
his grace arid mercy.
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Each of us made an Indian
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We have a bulletin board on
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Youth Traffic Safety Week
November 13 - 19. We realize
that we are much too young to
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Thursday, November 17, 1968
Tri-County
Tri-County Livestock Auc
tion Company sold 501 head of
cattle and 8 hogs for a total of
$34,997.88. Milk cows and
springers topped at $275.; baby
calves at $26.: and pigs at $9.00.
Stockers sold from $55.00 to
$136.00.
Price ranges were: hogs,
$14.50 to $17.50; calves, $11.50
to $24.50; heifers, $15.00 to
$20.: steers. sl4. to $24.50 light
bulls, sl2. to $16.50; heavy
bulls, sls. to $16.^0; canners,
$9.00 to $12.00; cutters, $12.00
to $13.00; and fat cows, $14.00
to $16.30.