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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Belief In God And Creation
Sustained By Scientists
We do not know of a better way to be
gin the New Year than to carry this re
ligious editorial.
Many times all of us begin to wonder
about certain portions of the Bible and
the belief in creation. Being normal hu
man beings there are times when our minds
wonder to some extent about our belief in
God, the Supreme Architect of the earth.
We do believe in the Bible, every word
that is written there. There are some things
we do not understand but that is due to
the fact of our limited intelligence.
During the Christmas Season we receiv
ed a beautiful Christmas card from Chester
Garfield of San Francisco, a very wealthy
and influential citizen of the State of Cali
fornia. He enclosed a pamphlet which is en
titled “Seven Reasons Why A Scientist Be
lieves in God.”
This pamphlet was reprinted from a
December 1946 issue of The Reader’s Di
gest, written by A. Cressy Morrison, form
er president of the New York Academy of
Sciences.
W’e are passing this on to you because
it has given us a good deal of information
which we believe will be beneficial to our
readers.
We are still in the dawn of the scienti
fic age, and every increase of light reveals
moffc brightly the handiwork of an intelli
gent Creator. We have made stupendous
disCTveries; with a spirit of scientific hu
mility and of faith grounded in knowledge
we are approaching ever nearer to an a
wareness of God.
For myself, I count seven reasons for
my faith:
First: By unwavering mathematical law
we can prove that our universe was de
signed and executed by a great engineering
Intelligence.
Suppose you put ten pennies, marked
from, one to ten, into your pocket and give
them a good shuffle. Now try to take them
out in sequence from one to ten, putting
back the coin each time and shaking them
all again. Mathematically we know that
your chance of first drawing number one
is one in ten; of drawing one and two in
succession, one in 100; of drawing one, two
aad three in succession, one in 1000, and
so on; your chance of drawing them all,
from number one to number ten in suc
cession, would reach the unbelievable fig
ure of one in ten billion.
By the same reasoning, so many exact
ing conditions are necessary for life on
the earth that they could not possibly exist
in proper relationship by chance. The earth
rotates on its axis 1000 miles an hour at
the equator: if it turned at 100 miles an
hour, our days and nights would be ten
times as long as now, and the hot sun would
likely burn up our vegetation each long
dey while in the long night any surviving
sprout might well freeze.
Again, the sun, source of our life, has
a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees
Fahrenheit, and our earth is just far
enough away so that this “eternal fire”
warms us just enough and not too much!
If the sun gave off only one half its pre
sent radiation, we would freeze, and if it
gave half as much more, we would roast.
The slant of the earth, tilted at an angle
of 23 degrees, gives us our seasons; if the
earth had not been so tilted, vapors from
the ocean would move north and south,
piling up for us continents of ice. If our
moon were, say, only 50.000 miles away
instead of its actual distance, our tides
might be so enormous that twice a day all
continents would be submerged; even the
mountains could soon be eroded away. If
the crust of the earth had been only ten
feet thicker, there would be no oxygen,
without which animal life must die. Had
the ocean been a few feet deeper, carbon
dioxide and oxgen would have been ab
sorbed and no vegetable life could exist.
It is apparent from these and a host of
ether examples that there is not one chance
in billions that life on our planet is an ac
cident
Second: The resourcefulness of life to
accomplish its purpose is a manifestation
of an all-pervading Intelligence.
What life itself is, no man has fathom
ed. It has neither weight nor dimensions,
but it does have force; a growing root will
crack a rock. Life has conquered water,
land and air, mastering the elements, com
pelling them to dissolve and reform their
combinations.
Life, the sculptor, shapes all living
things, an artist, it designs every leaf of
every tree, and colors every flower. Life
is a musician and has taught each bird to
ting its love song, the insects to call one
another in the music of their multitudin
•ut sounds. Life is a sublime chemist, giv
ing taste to fruits and spices, and perfume
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to the rose, changing water and carbonic
acid into sugar and wood, and, in so doing,
releasing oxygen that animals may have
the breath of life.
Behold an almost invisible drop of pro
toplasm, transparent, jellylike, capable of
motion, drawing energy from the sun. This
single cell, this transparent mist-like drop
let. holds within itself the germ of life,
and has the power to distribute this life to
every living thing, great and small. The
powers of this droplet are greater than
our vegetation and animals and people',
for all life came from it. Nature did not
create life; fire-blistered rocks and a salt
less sea could not meet the necessary re
quirements.
Who, then, has put it here?
Third: Animal wisdom speaks irresist
ibly of a good Creator who infused instinct
into otherwise helpless little creatures.
The young salmon spends years at sea,
then comes back to his own river, and
travels up the very side of the river into
which flows the tributary where he was
born. What brings him back so precisely?
If you transfer him to another tributary
he will know at once that he is off his
course and he will fight his way down and
back to the main stream and then turn up
against the current to finish his destiny ac
curately.
Even more difficult to solve is the mys
tery of eels. These amazing creatures mi
grate at maturity from ponds and rivers
everywhere—those from Europe across
thousands of miles of ocean —all bound for
the same abysmal deeps near Bermuda.
There they breed and die. The little ones,
with no apparent means of knowing any
thing except that they are in a wilderness
of water, nevertheless start back and find
their way not only to the very shore from
which their parents came but thence to
the selfsame rivers, lakes or little ponds.
No American eel has ever been caught in
Europe, no European eel in American
waters. Nature has even delayed the ma
turity of the European eel by a year or
more to make up for its longer journey.
Where does the directing impulse origi
nate?
Fourth: Man has something more than
animal instinct—the power of reason.
No other animal has ever left a record
of its ability to count ten, or even to under
stand the meaning of ten. Where instinct
is like a single note of a flute, beautiful
but limited, the human brain contains all
the notes of all the instruments in the orc
hestra. No need to belabor this fourth point;
thanks to human reason we can contem
plate the possiblity that we are what we
are only because we have received a spark
of Universal Intelligence.
Fifth: Provision for all living is reveal
ed in such phenomena as the wonders of
genes.
So tiny are these genes that, if all of
them responsible for all living people in
the world could be put in one place, there
would be less than a thimbleful. Yet these
genes inhabit every living cell and are the
keys to all human, animal and vegetable
characteristics. A thimble is a small place
to hold all the individual characteristics
of almost three billion human beings. How
ever, the facts are beyond question.
Here evolution really begins—at the
cell, the entity which holds and carries
the genes. That the ultramicroscopic
gene can absolutely rule all life on
earth is an example of profound cunning
and provision that could emanate only
from a Creative Intelligence; no other hy
pothesis will serve.
Sixth: By the economy of nature, we
are forced to realize that only infinite
wisdom could have foreseen and prepared
with such astute husbandry.
Many years ago a species of cactus was
planted in Australia as a protective fence.
Having no insect enemies in Australia, the
cactus soon began a prodigious growth; the
alarming abundance persisted until the
plants covered an area as long and wide
as England, crowding inhabitants out of
the towns and villages, and destroying their
farms. Seeking a defense, entomologists
scoured the world; finally they turned up
an insect which lived exclusively on cactts,
and would eat nothing else. It would breed
freely, too; and it had no enemies in Aus
tralia. So animal soon conquered vegetable,
and today the cactus pest has retreated—
and with it all but a small protective resi
due of the insects enough to hold the cac
tus in check forever.
Such checks and balances have been
universally provided. Why have not fast
breeding insects dominated the earth? Be
cause they have no lun^s such as man pos
sesses; they breathe tnrough tubes. But
when insects grow large, their tubes do
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY PIISSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
. “The First of His Signs” ..
Bible Material: John 2.
Devotional Reading: Luke
i 7:19 - 23; Memory Selection:
This, the first of his signs, Je
: sus did at C'na in Galilee, and
’ manifested his glo v y; and h i s
' "iples believed in him. John
2:11.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Jesus at a Wedding.
Background Scripture: John
2:1 - 25.
"Dearly beloved, we are
gathered together here in t h e
sight of God and in the face of
this co npany, to join together
this Man and this Woman in
holy matrimony; which is an
honorable estate, instituted of
God, signifying unto us t h e
mystical union that is betwixt
Christ and his Church: which
holy estate Christ adorned and
beautified with his presence and
first miracle that he wrought
in Cana of Galilee. . . ”
Thus runs the marriage ser
vice to which we have listened
so many times. The wedding at
Cana of Galilee is mentioned
therein, and it is this wedding
and certain circumstances at
tending it which constitute our
lesson today. At the very be
ginning we should fix in o u r
minds the ennobling influence
of Christ and his gosoel on the
home, the family, and the insti
tution of marriage. Jesus came
from a culture— the Jewish — I
in which the place of women
was vastly higher than in any
other nation or social group.
But Jesus raised the status of
women and the r>»|
the home even higher than he
found it. Women joined his
movement — the so-called min
istering women — and their in
fluence was felt throughout the ;
great enterprise which was to •
emerge as the Church of Jesus
Christ.
The family is the basic social:
unit of human life. In the foun- ;
dation of the church which Je- i
sus established.
He gave the family an even
more exalted status than it had
among the Jews of his day.
Free government has stemmed
from church and from the fam
ily erouo pervaded by the spirit
of Christ.
John the Baptist as an ascetic.
He lived in the wilderness, ate
only such food as he encounter
ed in those barren wastes and
protested at all times against
the degenerating influence of |
settled social and political li*?.
He hated cities and accordingly
lived in the desert. He hated
vir. vards and farm lands and in
protest drank no wine. He be
lieved that through solitude one
could find God. His heart was
completely given to the Lord,
but he apparently had no in
terest in what we call today
the social gosoel. Jesus admired
his kinsman John. He declare^
that “Among them that are born
of women there hath not risen a
greater than John the Bap- 1
tist: notwithstanding he that is
least in the kingdom of heaven
is greater than he” (Matt. 11:-
ID
Jesus admired John for what
he was, but he was well aware
that John’s interest by no means
took in the whole of human
need and aspiration.
Jesus, on the contrary, was a
thoroughly social - minded per
son. There is no record of h i s
ever having declined an invita
tion to a social affair. When
people invited him to dinner, he
went. On the occasion dealt with
in today’s lesson. Jesus and his ■
disciples had been invited to
attend a wedding in the little
town of Cana, which was near I
Nazareth, the village in which
Jesus grew from childhood to
maturity.
The contracting parties were
probably of very modest means,
but undoubtedly thev were po
pular. for they seemed to have
had a tremendous guest list for ■
this festivity. Today, the
bride’s father bears the expense I
of a wedding but in those davs!
the bridegroom himself bore the
expense. The meal usually con
sisted of bread dipped in wine,
and since there were toasts
drunk in wine, and since the
wedding feast always lasted a
day or two and sometimes a
whole week, a wedding such as
the one described here could be
financially ruinous to the
groom.
Nobody likes to lose face, the!
I Oriental least of all. This wed- ;
[ ding went on for such an ex- ,
i tended length of time and in- 1
not grow in ratio to the increasing size of
the body. Hence there never has been an
insect of great size; this limitation on grow
th has held them all in check. If this physi
cal check had not been provided, man
could not exist. Imagine meeting a hornet
as big as a lion!
Seventh: The fact that man can con
ceive the idea of God is in itself a proof.
The conception of God rises from a di
vine faculty of man, unshared with the
rest of our world—the faculty we call ima
gination. By its power, man and man alone
| volved the groom in such ex
pense that it seemed indeed as
if loss of face were inevitable.
“And when they wanted
wine, the mother of Jesus saith
unto him, They have no wine.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman,
what I to do with thee? mine
| hour is not yet come.”
The bride and groom (per
, haps a rustic couple) had un
। doubtedly over-reached them
selves. They had invited more
guests than they could provide
for, and the guests propably had
stayed longer than expected.
Furthermore, Jesus had prob
ably unwittingly complicated
the situation by bringing h i s
disciples, which increased t h e
guest list still more. The
groom faced the horrifying pos
sibility that people would at
last leave the wedding because
Vie provisions gave out: and as
long as anyone lived in that part
of the country, scornful refer
ence would be made to t h e
young couple who planned their
wedding with ardor but not
with wisdom.
Our Lord’s mother was also
one of the guests. When she
heard of the predicament, she
went straightway to her Son
in whose judgment, power, and
resourcefulness she had com
plete trust. He would do some
thing to relieve this situation—
and of course he did.
We hardlv know at times
what to make Mary, the Lord’s
mother. On some occasions she
trusted her Son implicitly: and
on others, she was sorry and
embarrassed over that she
considered his mistakes.
The Lord’s use of the word
“woman” is not necessarily to
be internreted as a rebuke, and
certainly not as any lack of res
nect. It may indicate — and
probably does — some annov
ance on the Lord’s part that his
mother should ask him to use
his supernatural powers for
relieving an embarrassing social
situation. His Question, “what
have I to do with thee?” might
be paraphrased as follows: “I
am sent as a servant of t h e
Lord to heal diseases, perform
great miracles of mercy and
reconcile a disobedient race to
God. How can you ask me at the
beginning of this enterprise to
which I am divinely commis
sioned to use my powers for
what you must admit is a trivial
end? I am sorry for the bride
groom and the bride, but this is
not a situation which calls for
the use of divinely given pow
ers.”
Our Lord could become an
noyed exactly the same as any
one else, and his mother’s re
'quest undoubtedly annoyed
| him. Yet we cannot imagine Je
sus being willing to leave h i s
hosts amid embarrassment
which would plague them for
the rest of their lives, if he
cou’d do anything about it.
The Lord’s hour had not
yet come — the hour of heal
ing, ministry, of earth - shaking
utterances, of crucifixion, of re
surrection. It was annoying to
Jesus at the very beginning of
his career to be involved in a
situation in which he was asked
to use his powers to save some
one from embarrassment.
“His mother saith unto t h e
servants, Whatsoever he saith
unto you, do it.” Here was the
faith she had in her marvelous
and divine Son. And how point
edly the lesson is indicated for
us. Mankind fell in the Garden
of Eden through disobedience.
The Lord's ministry and consc
auent death represented obe
dience in the highest sense of
the term: in fact, obedience so
gre-t that it offered to all man
kind an opportunity to return
to the loving arms of God.
Hart County
Site Approved
For State Prison
The State Board of Correc
tions has approved a 1,000-acre
site in Hart County, near the
South Carolina line, for a pro
posed new $4-million state
prison, it was disclosed by Gov.
Vandiver.
He said the approval was
given after a Hart County del
egation appeared before the
board and offered the site. The
State Property Acquisition
Board must approve appraisals
on the land before the deal be
comes final, it was pointed out.
can find the evidence of things unseen.
The vista that power opens up is unbound
ed; indeed, as man’s perfected imagination
becomes a spiritual reality, he may dis
cern in all the evidences of design and pur
pose the great truth that heaven is where
ver and whatever; that God is everywhere
and in everything but nowhere so close as
in our hearts.
It is scientifically as well as imaginat
ively true, as the Psalmist said: The heavens
deciare the glory of God and the firma
ment showeth His handiwork.
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State) Thursday, January 5, 1981.
Georgia Born Rusk
Secretary of State
By LEO S. MALLARD
President-elect Kennedy’s appointment of a man named
Rusk as Secretary of State has sent many of us to different
sources for enlightenment. Who is he? By what right does
he ascend to the most important cabinet post in our govern
ment?
Obscurity from the limelight of
American politics has fa!' ?d to put
a damper on the wide-ranged act
ivities of Georgian-born David Dean
Rusk. His achievements have been
many, his governmental experi
ence vast, and his tutoring has
been in strategic offices where
others have failed-yet, he suc
ceeded.
From his meager entrance into
the world as the fourth of five
children, Dean Rusk has combin
ed the God-given talent of a bril
liant mind with the strict moral
code and desire to achieve, instill
ed in him by his parents and
schoolteachers, to become an un
flaunted leader in his every under
taking.
Rusk was an all “A” student
throughout his school career. Dur
ing his senior year of high school
he was Hi-Y Club president, honor
society member, and president of
the senior class as well as being
on the track squad, debating
council, and associate editor of
the school newspaper.
Two years work was necessary
before Dean “Rusty" Rusk could
save enough money to enter Dav
idson College in North Carolina.
But he was determined. He work
ed alter classes, majored in pol
itical science, participated in sev
eral sports, earned a Phi Beta
Kappa Key and won a Rhodes
scholarship to continue his educa
tion at Oxford.
While studying at St. John's Col
lege, Oxford, Dean Rusk studied
philosophy, economics, and politics,
played tennis and lacrosse, and
got in extra studies during his
summer vacations at German un
iversities. i
Letters To
The Editor
Belmont Dennis
Editor The Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis:
Since it would be impossible
to write each of you a personal
letter, please accept this me
dium of conveying my thoughts.
I could not retire as President
of the GAMH, nor let the year
of 1960 go by, without express
ing to you my personal appre
ciation, as well as the Associa
tion’s appreciation, for the
magnificent support that the
press of Georgia has given to
the movement for better care
and treatment of our mentally
ill.
The Mentally 111, who can
not speak for themselves, have
had able champions in the press
of Georgia. You have used the
great medium of the press to
shatter the road block of apathy.
You, with the printed word,
have molded the minds of men
causing the walls of stigma, su
perstition, ignorance, shame,
guilt and fear to begin to crum
ble.
You have shown compassion
and horror as certain conditions
have been revealed. It has been
the press who has helped many
of our citizens and legislators
for the first time to face up to
this most neglected and crucial
problem with courage and de
termination and a feeling of
personal responsibility. As the
public thinks, our politicians
respond; and the press is o n e
of the main stimulants of think
ing.
As I thank you on behalf of
the Association for your past
efforts, I feel that your contin
ued and vigorous support is the
sine qua non for success in
meeting this terrific challenge
to the conscience of the people
of Georgia.
Peter S. Hawes, President
Upon graduation Rusk accepted
a job as assir’ant professor of
political science at Mills College--
a girl’s school-Oakland, Californ
ia. While working at his first job
out of college, Rusk also found a
wife-a former student.
Rusk's R. O T. C. training in
college entitled him to a captain's
commission in the Army Reserve
as an infantry officer when World
War II broke out. But, his know
ledge of the British Empire gain
ed for him a post as head of mil
itary intelligence dealing with
British affairs. In 1943. Col. Rusk
joined the staff of Gen. Stilwell in
the China-Burma-India theatre.
At the war's end he was serving as
deputy chief of staff of the C. B. I.
theatre.
After the war, jobs in the State
and War Departments kept Rusk
busy until he was called upon to
head the Office of Special Political
Affairs in 1947. Next came the
post of Deputy Under Secretary of
State in charge of policy coordina
tion under Dean Acheson. Rusk
later was placed in charge of Far
Eastern affairs.
As an under Secretary. Rusk
played a large role in getting the
United Nations to intervene when
: Communist forces invaded South
j Korea in 1950.
In 1952 Rusk accepted the job
as president of the Rockefeller
। Foundation. For the past eight
. years Dean Rusk, absent from the
governmental spotlight, has super
vised the spending of $250 million
in worldwide good-will projects.
Dean Rusk-an optimist of deep
! character and sound mind--will
. take office Jan. 20, 1961, to guide
the foreign policies of this nation
I for the next four years.
Stuckey Launches A Pecan
Production Project For 4-H'ers
Pecans are likely to take an
even more prominent position
in Dodge County’s agricultural
economy—and perhaps in the
state’s too —as a result of a
new 4-H Club program started
in December by W. S. Stuckey.
When Mr. Stuckey decided
he wanted to do something for
the youth of Dodge County, he
naturally hit on the idea of
pecan trees, for he has built a
multi-million dollar industry
around this nut. He knew the
income that pecans could pro
vide for these youngsters in
years ahead, and he was also
concerned about the need for
increased production.
Mr. Stuckey and Carter Mar
tin, Dodge County agent, got
together and worked out a plan
to get the county’s 4-H’ers and
other youth interested in grow
ing pecans.
Mr. Stuckey bought 2,000
young Stuart trees. 1,000 of
which he is giving away. For
every tree a Dodge County
boy or girl buys at $1.35, the
price he paid for each of the
trees, Mr. Stuckey gives him
another one.
First of the trees were pur
chased by the 4-H Club and
planted on the grounds of
Chester E’emeniary School in
Eastman to improve the school
grounds. This emphasizes the
fact that the pecan tree is also
an attractive ornamental and
shade tree for the yard as well
as profitable, Mr. Martin said.
To show what these 2,000
trees alone can mean to the
county, the county agent point
ed out that if they are cared
for properly they should be
producing an average of at
least 50 pounds of nuts a year
each in 30 years. At the pres
ent average price of 35 cents
a pound, this would mean ad
ditional income of $35,000.
He doesn’t plan to stop with
the 2,000 trees he is distribut
ing now. Mr. Stuckey said. He
is now working out plans with
Mr. Martin to continue the ar
rangement over a five-year pe
riod.
Mr. Stuckey said he also
hopes the idea will catch on
in other counties. If one hun
dred other counties would stim
ulate interest this way and get
an additional 2.000 trees plant
ed in each county, it would I
bring over $3 million a year to |
the state by the time the trees
are mature, he continued.
Survey Reveals
Thal Dog's Best
Friend Is Woman
Desoite the poets who hold
that dog is man’s best friend.
Rover's best friend these days
is not the man of the house,
but rather the lady, according
to a just-completed survey.
The study, sponsored by the
Pitman - Moore Company, a
leading producer of veterinary
medicines, was conducted in
four areas — Boston, New
York, Indianapolis, and Allen
town, Pa.—selected to reflect- *
national pattern. The personal
: interview survey shower that
mother has complete responsi
bility for the feeding and car*
i of the dog in 47 per cent of
households, while father has
: complete responsibility in only
21 per cent of dog-owning
homes. (Sporting dogs wefe
not included in the tabula
tions.)
But that’s not the end of
mother's responsibility. Th*
survey also revealed that she
“shares” responsibility with
father in four per cent of
i homes: daughter in one per
cent and son in one per cent.
Only in eight per cent of dog
owning homes did the entire
family claim joint responsi
bility for care of the pet. Af
ter father and mother, great
est single responsibility is held
by the son, at 20 per cent.
As most mothers know, her
responsibility for the family
dog involves a number of
things, such as house-breaking,
feeding, and getting it to the
veterinarian for essential ra
bies shots, and combined tis
sue-culture shots which pro
tect against distemper (the
greatest disease killer of dogs)
and hepatitis, which also ac
counts for a large number of
deaths among our 26 million
dogs.
Replace all faulty wiring
before it displaces you. And
while you’re at it, let a quali
fied technician handle the job.
Stuckey’s alone buys about
3,550,000 pounds of the nuts
every year, and their consump
i tion is expected to increase
i every year, Mr. Stuckey said,
i The company now distributes
■ its products in 27 states and
through 150 post exchanges
I and commissaries overseas.
Pecans are almost unknown
' in other countries, and there is
a “tremendous opportunity'*
for expanding the overseas
markets, especially in Europe,
he added.
Dodge County produced ap
proximately 250.000 pounds of
■ pecans in 1959, for which pro
j ducers received some $87,500
' the county agent said.
i —
Maintaining Egg Quality
Maintaining egg quality on
■ the farm is more important to
j day than ever before, accord
i ing to Extension Poultryman
i Dewey McNiece at the Un i ver -
| sity of Georgia College of Ag
riculture. Some points impor
' tant in maintaining egg quality
are cleaning eggs, cooling eggs
quickly, picking up eggs sev
. eral times a day. and maintain
■ ing storage room temperature
| of 55-60 degrees and a rela
tive humidity of 70-80 percent,
। he says.
Census Shows Farm Trends
Fewer but larger farms is a
, trend in Georgia revealed by
the 1959 Census of Agriculture,
reports Extension Economist S.
J. Brannen of the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture.
Number of farms in Georgia
declined 86 percent from 1949
to 1959. This decline came in
small commercial farms gross
ing less than $2,500 along with
part-time and residential
farms. Number of farms gross
ing more than $2,500 increased
by 19 percent, he says.
GA. FARMERS’ OUTLAY
FOR FERTILIZER
INCREASES
In 1959 Georgia farmers
bought SBO million worth of fer
tilizer and lime. This was $9-1/2
million more than in 1958 and
amounted to 11 percent of far
mers’ cash sales, reports Step
hen J. Brannen, head of t h •
Extension economics depart
ment.
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