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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Economic Mission?
Two US Senators, accompanied by their
wives and one member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, are myw
en route to Africa for a 30 day tour of
19 countries in a four-engine Air Force
Super Constellation —a type of plane
carrying upwards of 100 passengers. The
plane, which costs $605 an hour to fly,
will be at the exclusive disposal of this
distinguished party until December Z 2.
To appreciate how distinguished this
little group is, Idaho’s Senator Frank
Church has racked up an ACA Consistency
Index of 6 percent and Utah's Senator
Frank E. Moss, 4 percent. Senator Dale W.
McGee of Wyoming, eminently qualified
by his ACA percentage of 0, was to have
gone along but has business in Washing
ton.
What a pity Messrs. Church and Moss
had no business in Washington.
The Beef Industry
’ .
Can’t Stand Still
The cattle industry should use greater
selectivity in breeding to produce more of
the kind of beef that American consumers
prefer today. That is the view of Vice-
President George M. Lewis of the American
Meat Institute,
The present preference is for lean and
tender beef, and Mr. Lewis suggests that
the entire industry join in a program to
produce more of it. This would involve
greater selectivity of breeding stock; im
roved feedinf and finishing of the cattle;
getter control of diseases and parasites;
more scientific research on tenderization
and longer life; wider dissemination of
information on the proper way to cook
beef and, last but not least, a realistic
evaluation of the federal meat grading pro
gram. .
That program, as it exists now, does
net accurately reflect consumer prefer
ences. In Mr. Lewis’ words, “Beef eaters
are interested primarily in tenderness,
flavor and juiciness. They believe that the
;;roof of the pudding is in the eatir . The
ederal grading system does not measure
these qualities. The government beef grades
are based on a concept that the fattest ani
mal is the best, whereas present-day con
sumers have indicated in taste tests that
they prefer the lean, tender beef that is
less wasty and not overfinished.”
The beef industry cannot stand still.
Cansumer wants and needs and tastes
change, and it must change to meet them,
and that goes as well for the government
agencies involved.
. ’ .
Servicemen’s Wives Return
To States, Has Many
Families All Shook Up!
Our service men abroad — and especially
their 484,000 wives and children — are
pretty shook up over the jolting order
from the Augusta National Golf Club that
dependents are to start coming home at
the rate of 15000 a month, come New
Year's Day.
This, as explained by President Eisen
hower at a press conference in the golfing
White House is a part of the seven-point
program by which the Administration hopes
to cut a billion dollars a year from our
overseas spending. Such reform, the Presi
dent said, was urgently needed to preserve
the gold and dollar resources of the US,
Half of the saving would come from
the cutback in Defense spending, $330-
;nhmiu more from bufnngmerican rather
an foreign goods for foreign aid, and
$270-million from paring overseas opera
tions of other agencies, it was announced.
If, as inferred, however, the White
House action is intended to counteract the
’rowhfly unfavorable balance in our
oreign trade — which reached the $4.3-
billion annual level in the third quarter
of 1960 — bringing home the kith and kin
of our overseas troops is hardly a solu
tion. Nor would cancellation of the entire
economic aid program — much less
the now ordered — restore
our once commanding position in world
trade.
We have no quarrel with Government
economy, and are all for the present crack
down, belated as it is. But we think that
a basic overhauling of our international
trade policies is far more urgent and vital.
1t vnfan come to the end of the GATT
road, let’s face it. If we have priced our
selves out of foreign markets, and through
GATT priced our own manufacturers out
of their home markets, even a drastic cut
in Washington's extravagance overseas is
far too litt%e and much too late
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Military Expenditures
Present A Most
Unpleasant Picture
During the campaign, President-elect
Kennedy said that, in his belief, military
expenditures will have to be substantially
increased —by perhaps as much as three
billion dollars a year.
An increase of this size (to say nothing
of possible increases in spending for other
projects) would throw the budget far out
of balance, and add fuel to the ever-present
fires of inflation — unless taxes were rais
ed to close the budget gap, or unless non
military government spending, existing
and proposed, were reduced.
It's that simple. These are the only two
alternatives.
At present taxes, direct and indirect,
consume about a third of our earning pow
er, which means that the average man
works four months for government during
each year. And never think that substantial
increase in government revenue could be
gained by raising the taxes in the high
or even the middle brackets. The rates
are almost confiscatory now, The great
bulk of any additional tax revenue would
have to come by a broadening of the tax
base — which is a pleasant term for hit
ting the lower income brackets still harder,
That's the picture and it isn't pretty.
National Electrical Week
Last February saw the observance of
National Electrical Week. It was an out
standing success. Utility companies, con
tractors, dealers, unions and other interest
ed enterprises and industries cooperated to
focus national attention on the contribu
tions that electricity makes to the Ameri
can way of life.
Next February 5-11 the Week will be
celebrated again. Again, these groups will
cooperate to tell the story — and the ex
pectation is that the second observance
will be still more successful than the first.
The Week will be spotlighted in newspaper
advertising and on TV and radio. Speakers
will address civic meetings. Contests will
be arranged for both adults and school
children. Exhibits will appear in banks,
schools, libraries and other such places.
Power plants will hold open house.
The theme of the 1961 observance is
as attractive as it is simple — Make Elec
tricity Work For You — work on the job,
in the home, on the farm, in leisure, in
future planning and in the community as
a whole, Electricity is the greatest, most
efficient and most inexpensive servant
humanity has ever known. It deserves its
Week, and all the honors that go with it.
We Can Help Prevent
Crippling Diseases
In our day-to-day fight against illness
we seek to cure. But an even greater vic
tory is to be won on the day when medical
science can actually firevent disease.
Every January that day of ultimate
victory is brought closer as The National
Foundation calls upon us to “Prevent
Crippling Diseases” by giving to the New
March of Dimes.
As a banner for The National Founda
tion, “Prevent Crippling Diseases” must
not be regarded as an empty slogan or
vague promise.
Who can ever forget that through this,
the world's largest voluntary health org
anization, we have found the means of
preventing paralytic polio with the Salk
vaccine? |
Who can doubt that with the suport of the
public this same organization will guide the
way to a preventive for crippling birth de
fects and arthritis?
But with the support of the public is
vital, because The National Foundation
derives all its funds and all its volunteer
workers from a direct appeal to the Ameri
can fieople.
Therefore, all of us help prevent erip
pling diseases when we say YES to the
New March of Dimes in January.
$120,000,000 Momento
A dmtch from Lansing, Mich., advises
that Michiganders will celebrate New Years
with the inauguration of a boost in their
sales tax from three to four cents. This is
described as a start by the Legislature on
the task of restoring the state to solvency.
The measure was passed swiftly by a
special session, the House voting 82 to 23
in favor; the Senate, 20 to 13. 'f‘hn there
was little choice is indicated by the fact
that the opposition favored an income tax.
It will be something to remember
Soapy by- when he has gone to Africa.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
. Associate Editor
'MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
) Associate Editor
Entered ot the Post Office
ot Covington, Georgia, os
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Why Christ Came
Bible Material: John 3.
Devotional Reading: Luke
18:1-10.
’ Memory Selection: For God
sent the Son into the world, not
to condemn the world, but that
the world might be saved
through him. John 3:17.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
;Nicodemus Interviews Jesus.
~ Young People-Adult Topic:
You Must Be Born Anew.
It is interesting to note that
the first chapter of the Gospel
;of John deals with Christ’s real
‘tionship to God. Chapter 2
‘deals with his relationship to
the life of his day, and Chap
ter 3, with his relationship to
the world. |
“God so loved the world . ..”
is the theme of Chapter 3.
We have the testimony of
the New Testament and the ex
perience of Christian believers
for two thousand years con
firming to our minds and souls
the fact that Jesus Christ is an
incarnate, divine Being. Mil
lions of people today, members
of orthodox, and evangelical
churches, simply look upon
Jesus as a great teacher, as the
most outstanding personality
that ever lived, as chief among
men. He is all three of these,
of course, but he is vastly more.
The New Testament would
not need to have been written
about a great man, and cer
tainly the teachings of a great
man would not have become a
redemptive spiritual force in
the hearts of unnumbered in
dividuals.
The New Testament sets for
th Jesus Christ definitely as a
Saviour. He was of the Jewish
race and, in many respects, was
a man of his age. Yet he is—
and was intended by God to be
—the spiritual Saviour of all
the world.
The lesson today deals with
the problem of why Christ
came and, by implication, what
he has done for the souls of
men—and what he is still do
ing.
Nicodemus is a fascinating,
although baffling, New Test
ament figure. He was a thor
oughly good man, deeply relig
ious and motivated by noble
impulses. But he appears to
have been a man of great in
ner struggle. He looked upon
Jesus, marveled at what h= |
said and did, and yet could not |
fit him into the Hebrew scheme
of things which Nicodemus
was quite sure had been estab
lished by God.
Nicodemus was a Pharisee.
The dark picture in the New
Testament of these religious{
zealots, their bigotry, the bit- |
terness with which they perse
cuted Jesus, and how they had
brought him to crucifixion,
usually hides from the minds |
of most Bible readers the fact}
that Pharisaism had a noble;
origin and a noble history. This{
sect had originated slight.lyi
more than 150 years before |
Christ’s birth as a protest |
against the determination of)|
the tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes |
to stamp out Judaism and re- |
place it with Greek pagan cul
ture. But at the time Jesus be-!
gan his ministry, the Pharisees |
had come to represent intrench
ed religious power. They were
the leaders of the nation. Their
initial piety and courage had
been replaced by bigotry and al
hatred of anything new in the
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Nicodemus is mentioned
three times in the New Testa
ment—in this passage, in John
7:50-51 where he reminded his
colleagues that Hebrew law
judged no man before it had
heard him and analyzed his in
tentions, and in John 19:38-42
where we read that he and
Joseph of Arimathaea wrapped
the crucified body of Jesus “in
linen clothes with the spices,
as the manner of the Jews is
to bury,” and carried it to a
sepulcher “in the garden . . .
wherein was never man yet
laid.” :
Nicodemus, the questioner
(today's lesson)! Nicodemus,
the defender (John 7:50) Nico
demus, the loyal friend, trying
to see that a man whom he
admired received decent burial
(John 19:38-42)!
Nicodemus came to Jesus by
night. Perhaps he was afraid to
come by day. It is only fair,
however, to point out that this
may have been the only time
when he could have the Lord’s
undivided attention and con
verse with him at length.
He called Jesus, Rabbi, and
the word meant “Master.” Al
though Nicodemus was a Phari
see, he perceived and appreci-~
ated the moral grandeur of
Jesus. “We know that thou art
a teacher come from God,” he
said, “for no man can do these
miracles that thou doest, ex
cept God be with him.”
Nicodemus was vastly better
than most of his fellow Phari
sees, for he was willing to
judge Jesus on the basis of his
achievements.
Our Lord’s reply to Nicode
mus was curt and to the point.
“Except a man be born again,”
replied Jesus, ‘“he cannot see
the kingdom of God.”
Let us note here certain
matters of basic importance.
Jesus put first his preaching
about the kingdom. He had
come to announce the kingdom
and to establish it among men.
Everything else was secondary
‘to this great end.
- In addition Jesus pointed out
the inner character of the king
'dom. The kingdom of God be
gins in the human heart with
spiritual rebirth; it extends in
to the world with a spread of
; righteousness and faith; it will
come in all its glory when Jesus
returns to make the kingdom
of the world his possession.
Our Lord’'s primary interest
was to get men to believe in
the kingdom, to meet its re
quirements, to prepare their
hearts and minds for its com
ing.
No wonder Nicodemus was
bewildered by our Lord’s chal
lenging words. We cannot be
physically reborn. But the soul
of man is different from his
body. Just as the requirement
of physical birth is a father
who begets a child and a moth
er who bears it, so the birth
of the soul requires begetting
and birth. God the Father be
gets the soul. Unless God wills
it, the soul cannot be born. All
the elements of the soul abide
within us because we are hu
man beings, but the soul is giv
en life by none other than
God.
“Born of water”. Baptism, is
a sign of submission to the re
quirements of Christ’s
kingdom. In infant bap
tism, the parents commit)
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Seato Treaty
By LEO S. MALLARD
Southeast Asia’s contribution to the “hot spots” of the
world in these early days of 1961 is Laos, (pronounced Louse)
a little known pro-Western nation that is now boiling with
civil war which has been fired and fueled by Red Chinese
and the North Vietnamese aid.
Recently, the Communist
“support” of the Pathet Lao
rebels in the civil war became
open Communist agression as
Soviet transport planes landed
at their air field in the capital
city of Vientiane to unload
arms, ammunition, and gunners
from North Vietnam.
Since that time the Com
munist forces have been driv
en from the capital by the loy
al troops of the Royal Laotian
Army under the command of
Gen. Phoumi Nosavan. An an
ti-Communist government,
headed by Prince Boun Oum,
has set up headquarters in
Vientiane.
In a short span of time the
face of the civil war in Laos
has changed to that of a testing
ground for the terms of the
Southeast Asia Treaty Orga
nization. The war in Laos now
is viewed as the fight for all
of Southeast Asia.
Under the terms of the
SEATO treaty, the U. S. and
other members are obligated
to take action to “halt Com
munist agression in Laos, South
Vietnam, and Cambodia.”
The immediate danger is
that North Vietnamese or Red
Chinese guerrillas will move
into Laos from the north to
support the Pathet Lao rebels.
From the start the U. S.
has supplied arms to the Lao
tian government to help it de
fend itself against the leftist.
The majority of the Royal La
their child to Christ and his
kingdom; in adult baptism, the
believer announces his repen
tance and proclaims to the
world his determination to be
a follower of Jesus Christ.
Signing a card, being rece
ived as a member of a com
municants’ class, joining an
organization—these things may
happen without any corre
sponding vital, spiritual ex
perience. Yet it was just that
vital, spiritual experience that
Jesus was interested in. This
experience occurs when God
gives his divine life and power
'to a human soul.
~ There is nothing essentially
wrong with the life of the flesh.
In fact, the flesh is so sacred
that Jesus took it upon himself
and lived in the flesh the life
of a man.
But the flesh can also be
used in a sinful and indul
gent way, not to the glory of
God but to the appeasement
of one’s appetites and the ful
fillment of one’s selfish desire.
People have sometimes look
ed upon the flesh with such
disdain that they have called
it the enemy of the spirit. But
the flesh is the enemy of the
spirit only as we allow it so
to be. God intends it to be the
companion and instrument of
the spirit.
Jesus recognized the conflict
which continually takes place
between flesh and spirit. There
is nothing we can do to tfer
minate this conflict. Nor should
we want to terminate it. It is
the exercise by which the mor
al life develops and the spirit
uwal life triumphs. But Jesus
made it plain that the spirit
will not triumph over the flesh
unless the spirit is touched Lty
the finger of God and given
divine life. “Ye must be born
again.” This is our Lord’s as
surance, and it is imperative.
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otian Army has been trained
and paid by the U. S. This
“aid” may be classified as “pre
paration” for Laos against
agression rather than “inter
vention” however, because U.S.
soldiers have not taken any
part in the Laotian crisis.
If Communist troops from
Red China or North Vietnam
enter Laos to aid the Pathet
Lao rebels, the U.S. may find
itself involved in another con
flict similar to Xorea. The
waiting game is on, even as the
“civil war” still rages in the
jungles. ~
The stand that is to be taken
by the U.S. in Laos is being
watched closely by other mem
bers of the Southeast Asian
neighborhood. South Vietnam,
armed and aided by the U.S, is
presently fighting Communist
guerrillas. Malaya and Burma,
after long wars with Red-guer
rillas, now have a quiet breath
ing spell. ’
Cambodia is w»laying the
“neutral” role .. courting the
West and East. Thailand, a
U.S. ally, recently hinted of
dealings with Communist coun
tries if the U.S. fails to up
hold the terms of the SEATO
treaty.
In case of a balk by other
SEATO member nations—if
Laos calls for aid—the U. S.
may be found holding a fire
cracker with a fuse at both
ends. :
Total production expenses of
Georgia farmers rose from $337
million in 1949 to $604.7 mil
lion in 1959, reports Stephen
J. Brannen, Extension econom
ist.
People of the United States
spend only about 20 percent
of their disposable income for
food, compared to 25 percent
during the 1940'5, reports Ex
tension Economist Stephen J.
Brannen.
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THE 87TH CONGRESS now
underway will not be without its
blessings, but they will be mixed
at best.
The most pleasing prospects of
the First Session are that it
will devise and
enact a realis
tic new farm
program to
save the na
tion’s agricul
tural economy
and that it will
effect the reor
ganization and
appropriate the additional funds
essential to belstering our lag
ging defenses and closing the mis
sile gap. The most alarming
prospects, on the other hand, are
Pgy .5 OIS LRI s R MRS, Sz g e e
that determined attempts will be
made to implement all of the ob
noxious “civil rights” provisions
of the Democratic Platform to the
detriment of constitutional princi
ples and that concerted efforts will |
be made to inaugurate new spend
ing programs both at home and
abroad which will further jeopar-|
dize the soundness of the dollar|
and thwart the achievement of sis- ||
cal responsibility in the Federal |
Government. 1
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IT IS GENERALLY agreed
that Congress has a mandate to
write new farm legislation this
year, but the difficulty lies in
finding common ground among
the varying viewpoints as to the
approach it should take. There
is little enthusiasm among either
farmers or consumers for more
stringent acreage controls and
there is some sentiment for solu
tion on a commodity-by-commod
ity basis. Much favorable interest
has been expressed in the Tal
madge Farm Plan, particularly as
it applies to cotton, and the bill
embodying it is ready for intro
duction at the earliest possible|
time.
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808 CONSIDINE, noted colume
nist and National Sports Chaire
man for the 1961 NEW March
of Dimes to prevent crippling
diseases—birth defects, arthritis
and polio—calls for the support
of The National Foundation in
its expanded program. He is ape
pealing to sports columnists, ed
itors, sportscasters, promoters,
athletic directors and athletes
throughout the nation to help in
the Jannary sports drive,
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Airman F. Gwin
Is Assigned To
Hunter, AFB
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Airman Frank Gwin, son o’
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gwin ¢
Soule St., Oxford, Ga., h
been assigned to a unit of th
Strategic Air Command 2
Hunter AFB, Ga. for training
and duty as a painter. He re
cently completed basic military
training.
Airman Gwin gradyated from
Newton County High School,
Covington, Ga.
Airmen assigned directly to
a duty station from basic train
ing at Lackland will receive on
the-job training under highly
qualified technical specialisis.
Airmen are selected for the:-
assignments on the basis of
their interests, aptitudes, anil
the needs of the Air Force.
Personnel assigned directly
to a duty station are immediat
ely integrated into operational
or training units of the USAF
Aerospace Force,
'{ There will be little or no oppe
| sition to increased appropriations
| for defense, particularly for ae
celeration of all phases of the
'| missile program. There undoubt
| edly will be differences as to how
| the Department of Defense should
| be reorganized to assure maxi
| mum efficiency and performance
| in the development of a superior
| defense establishment, but pre
| posals for modernization of the
Army and Marine Corps, expan
sion of our airlift capacity, de
velopment of the B-70 manned
bomber and greater emphasis on
| Polaris submarines and improved
capability of missiles of all ranges
will bave virtually-universal sup
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SRI L LR R gBT L P S
RADICALS OF BOTH parfies
will compete to see who can in
troduce the harshest force billg in
the field of human relations and
‘propose the most extravagant
spending programs. Measures em
bracing every means ever pro
posed for punishing the South and
reviving all the socialistic welfare
schemes which previously have
been defeated or vetoed will be
offered. How they fare will de
pend in large measura on the
manner and degree in which the
new Administration attempts to
carry out the platform on which
it was elected.
One thing I can predict with
certainty is that my like-minded
colleagues and I will continue our
advocacy of a balanced budget
and the maintenance of the hise
toric concept of federal-state re
lationships and will fight all ef
forts to enact force legislation of
any description with the same
around - the - clock determination
with which we successfully dee
seated similar proposals last year,