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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And PwNiihw
LEO S. MALLARD
Assiitant Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
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This week throughout the 50 states
some 11,000 editors of smaller daily, weekly
and semi-weekly newspapers will lock up
their forms and “go to press ” Their papers
will carry the only broadly circulated
written record of the people and events,
the problems and opinions that shape our
lives in the conununity, the state and the
nation. Their editorial pages provide the
greatest forum of independent free ex
pression in the world. The value of this
in a country where majority opinion will
decide public policies with which we all
must live cannot be overestimated.
On the pages of these thousands of pap
ers will run the advertising that gives the
spark to the engine of private enterprise.
Our tremendous transportation and retail
ing systems, capable of moving and dis
playing all the nation’s wares, would be
of little use unless people knew what pro
ducts were available, at what cost, where
they could be purchased, and in addition,
were inspired with the desire to buy.
Advertising makes Main Street go in
every city, town and village throughout
the 50 states. The head of every family
knows that the only way to find the right
price for quality merchandise desired is
to compare the advertisements, whether
the problem is making out the week’s gro
cery list, buying a new house or trading
in the old car.
Advertising supports the radio and tele
vision programs, the magazines and the
periodicals which provide information,
news and entertainment and it makes in
dependent newspapers possible. There
would be no free press were it not for
advertising by the local merchants and
industries who support the press but do
not control it
Whether you are selling, buying or
merely interested in remaining a free in
formed citizen of the United States, ad
vertising performs a three-sided and in
dispensable service.
Eisenhower's Message
Was Interesting, But
Not Very Meaningful
In the 7,000 word thank-you note to
Congress and the American people which
constitutes his final state-of-the-union
message, President Eisenhower presents a
picture of furious Federal action on all
fronts since January 1952.
This long recital of the innumerable
activities and achievements intended “to
help every American build a better life’’
is richly studded with statistics. That mys
terious GNP passed the half-trillion dollar
mark in mid-1960. The average American
family had a 1959 income of $6,520. Agri
cultural exports reached an all-time high
in 1960, but were not told what the price
support program cost the taxpayers. And
through it all runs the spirit of double
talk, of Federal encroachment and of so
cialization of the body politic.
In referring to the crisis in Cuba —
with which we have so recently severed
diplomatic relations — the message says:
“Although, unhappily, Communist pene
tration of Cuba is real and poses a serious
threat, Communist - dominated regimes
have been deposed in Guatemala and Iran.’’
And further on we read: “The United Na
tions has been vogorously supported in
all of its actions, including the condemna
tions of the wholesale murder of the peo
ple of Tibet by the Chinese Communists
and the brutal Soviet repression of the
people of Hungary, as well as the more
recent UN actions in the Congo.” No doubt
we shall vigorously insist on the UN con
tinuing to do our tut-tutting for us.
And we are left a little in the air by
the following passage: “Vice President
Nixon, Secretaries of State Dulles and Her
ter and I travelled extensively through the
world for the purpose o_’ ?ngthenmg the
cause of peace, freedom and international
understanding. So rewarding were these
visits that their very success became a sig
nificant factor in causing the Soviet Union
to wreck the planned summit conference
of 1960.”
More rationally, the concluding chapter
states: “I do not close this message imply
ing that all is well — that all problems
are solved. For progress implies both new
and continuing problems and. unlike presi
dential administrations, problems rarely
have terminal dates.”
Even so, we do not blame President
Eisenhower for foregoing his customary
journey to the Capitol to present the Ad
ministration recapitulation, and for leav
ing the reading instead to a Congressional
functionary.
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I Associate Editor
*MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Ckm.
High Price of Gas?
It's Actually High
Price Os Taxes
Just about every motorist, at one time
or another, kicks about the “high price
of gasoline.” What he should be kicking
about is the “high price of gasoline taxes.”
Today — with the allegedly “temporary”
fourth cent that was added to the federal
gas tax last October — the combined na
tional average of federal and state taxes
is more than 10 cents a gallon.
This means that the taxes now average,
on a nationwide basis, 48 per cent of the
retail price of regular grade gas, 62 per
cent of the wholesale price, and 85 per cent
of the refinery price. Taxes actually
amount to more than half of the retail
price of the fuel in 20 states, and in some
areas equal the refinery price. Such lux
uries as fur coats and jewelry carry far
smaller excise taxes and no other necessity
is comparably treated.
Moreover, here is a tax which is demon
strating the validity of the law of diminish
ing returns. The swing toward smaller,
more economical automobiles, foreign and
domestic, is largely due to their thrifty
fuel consumption. These cars account for
more and more of our total automobile
population. So gas tax revenues will de
cline because fewer gallons will be burned.
Then, no doubt, it will be urged that taxes
be further increased to make up the loss—
and so the spiral can go on, ad infinitum.
The solution would seem to be a wave
of protest by motorists —a category which
includes most of the voters.
Last Call For
Volunteers In Fight
Against Polio
January is the month set aside annually
for the New March of Dimes, proceeds
from which go toward eradication of the
dread crippier, Polio.
It is a matter of community-wide con
cern and regret that Newton County was
unable to secure a Chairman for this Fund
Raising Project, which has contributed so
much toward the prevention and treatment
of Polio. Instituted by that great Humani
tarian, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who
knew from experience the ravages of Po
lio, the March of Dimes has stood out
through the years, as a barometer of the
extent to which we were willing to ex
press our caring, by sharing our dimes and
dollars toward the eradication of one of
mankind’s great scourges.
It is not ours to question why The Na
tional Foundation was unable to secure a
March of Dimes Chairman for Newton
County. To us, it but intensifies the chal
lenge of meeting a great need in the cate
gory of the health of our nation. Salk Vac
cine has proved a potent weapon; and with
it a battle is won against Polio — but, let’s
not be mizzled — we could still lose the
war! Without funds to promote educa
tion as to the need of vaccination; to pro
vide immunization for underprivileged;
to carry on the fight against birth defects,
arthritis and correlated crippiers, we have
only scratched the surface; and will re
main prey to recurrent attacks of these in
capacitating diseases.
We are deeply grateful to Charles Bur
nett, last year's March of Dimes Chair
man, who is giving of his service, unoffi
cially, as custodian of funds for the March
of Dimes.
Dodge Wire Company, Covington Mills,
Bibb Manufacturing Company and Coving
ton Elks Lodge are among leading indus
tries and organizations who have stepped
into the breach to fill their quota in the
March of Dimes Drive. Newton County
Schools, both white and colored, through
the cooperation of Mr. Burnett who has
furnished them with supplies and litera
ture, are sponsoring a drive for March of
Dimes. We join in expressing our appre
ciation to these fine organizations who are
voluntarily meeting their civic duty, with
out benefit of Funds Drive leadership.
Let us, as private citizens, civic clubs
and groups, accept the challenge of these,
who without praise or fanfare, are so ear
nestly attempting to meet this need.
Mr. Charles Burnett will be happy to
receive and transfer to the State Head
quarters of the National Foundation, all
funds which are placed in his hands for
March of Dimes fight against Polio.
Thoughts are as unruly as small chil
dren, and when tamed are equally dull.
I like fresh flowers, fresh fruit, fresh
fish, and fresh talk.
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Bible Material: John 6
Devotional Rsanmg: John
6:47 - 56: Memory Select : on: I
am the bread of life; he w h o
comes to me shall not hunger,
and he who believes >n me shall
never thirst. John 6:35.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Why Follow Jesus?
Young People - Adult Topic:
Christ Satisfies Life’s Hunger.
The lesson last week dealt
with a wonderful and gracious
miracle which Jesus performed
at the pool of Bethesda. A para
lyzed man, whose affliction was
of thirty-eight year’s duration,
was brought to health and
strength not by the touch of
Christ but simply by his com
mand: “Rise, take up thy bed,
and walk” (John 5:8). Our
Lord’s command that the man
take up his bed and walk threw
our Lord’s opponents into con
fusion and aroused their hos
tility. To be sure, a man had
been healed, but, in the eyes
of these fanatics, what was the
healing of a man’s body ccftn
pared with the awful sin of
picking up his bed and carry
ing it on the Sabbath?
Zeal is a requirement in all
true religion, but when zeal
becomes fanaticism, the result
is disgusting and disastrous.
Chapter 6, verses 1-14, tells
of our Lord’s feeding of the five
thousand. There is no possible
explanation of this miracle on
a naturalistic basis, and the
attempts which have been
made so to explain it are ri
diculously inadequate. By some
power we know nothing about,
Jesus was able to turn five bar
ley loaves and two small fishes
into sufficient food to feed five
thousand, with twelve basket
fuls of fragments remaining
over and above unto them that
had eaten.
The lessons here are that
Jesus is the source of the soul’s
sustenance. The little become
much in his hands. It takes the
miraculous intervention
of Christ to transform the
meager elements of our lives
and fashion them into ade
quacy.
The miracle of walking on the
water was one of the signs of
our Lord’s completely spiritual
nature. There is no possible
naturalistic explanation for
this. It was one of those mir
acles connected with the re
vealing of Christ’s supremely
divine nature. It was not a re
peatable miracle as the mir
acles of healing seem to have
been.
The hungry crowds turned
naturally to the Man who
could give them bread. If they
could follow him and get free
food, they were perfectly will
ing to do so. Their idea of a
full life was a life free from
work and full of free food.
We observe a number of les
sons in this outlook on t h e
part of the multitude. In t h e
first place, their idea of full
ness of life did not rise above
fulness of stomach. They were
like the people in every age
who think they are living a full
life if they are comfortable,
well fed, and not burdened with
responsibility.
We may disdain these an
cient hangers - on who follow
ed a Miracle Worker about be
cause he appeared to be a
source of free and abundant
mod. But they were no worse
i than people of modern time
whose ideas of life have to do
! only with comfort, irresponsi
, bility, and satiety.
Here also we encounter cer
' tain varieties of our modem
’ interpretations of Christianity
which are disastrously ineffec
tive. Jesus had declared that
man cannot live by bread
alone, “but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of
: God” (Matt. 4:4). Jesus reali
-1 zed that the soul of man has
to be fed just as his body has
; to be fed. Some people are sat
, isfied to feed the body and to
। stop there. Jesus insisted that
the soul must be fed also.
There is a widespread inter
pretation of Christianity today
। which deals with bread and
with bread alone. It points out
the inequitable distribution of
this world’s goods and declares
that the kingdom will have
come when those who now
have much are despoiled and
those who now have nothing
are enriched. In a milder form
this philosophy reminds us that
the main problems "with which
the church has to deal are pro
blems having to do with a more
comfortable life for the mass of
humanity. The feeding of the
soul has no place in this con
cept of Christianity. Feed the
mouths of men. See that all
have plenty of food and plenty
of leisure, and this sinful o 1 d
world will suddenly be trans
formed into a garden of light
and grandeur.
Jesus always emphasized mo
tive. He placed no reliance upon
crowds which followed him in
order to be able to eat their fill
of free food. He has no sym
pathy today — if we read the
Gospel records aright — with
those who want to make Chris
tianity merely a matter of the
more equitable distribution of
bread to feed the body and
who pay no attention, or slight
attention, to the feeding of the
soul.
Jesus had warned the crowd
which was following him not to
labor “for the meat which en
dureth unto everlasting life,
which the Son of man shall
give unto you.” We italicize
these last words for through
Christ and Christ alone come
those things which truly feed
the soul.
The word “labour” or “work”
had aroused the curiosity of the
crowd. “Then said they unto
him. What shall we do. that
we might work the works jf
God?” Their idea was that they
could get salvation by working
for it. They would lead such
good lives that God would have
to save them. They would take
part in pious practices which
would commend them to God.
They would work for the ex
tension of God’s kingdom on
•arth, and God in gratitude
would give them everlasting
life in the kingdom of heaven.
And these benefits would come
about because they had work
ed.
Jesus cast all such ideas
aside, and we need to remind
ourselves that the gospel, from
the first word of the New
Testament to the last, rebukes
and spurns the doctrine of sal
vation by wor* s. None of us
■ deserves salva on. None of us
i| can get salvation by working
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
Time Saved Is
Money Made,
Says Mr. Huiet
“Employers paying their
1960 payroll taxes to Georgia
by January 31 can save mon
ey.” Commissioner of Labor
Ben T. Huiet said here today.
“The State’s 28,000 firms sub
ject to the job insurance pay
roll tax will receive full credit
on their federal and State taxes
for payments made to the
Georgia Department of Labor,
Employment Security Agency,
on or before January 31. Taxes
saved is money made,” Huiet
added.
“This State tax can drop as
low as one fourth of one per
cent, depending on the firms’
unemployment risks, but re
gardless of what their State
rate is, firms making timely
payment* and reports to the
Agency get full 2.7 per cent
credit on their 3 per cent fed
eral tax as well as satisfy their
State tax. Those failing to make
timely reports and payments
will deprive themselves of full
offset federal tax credit and
will incur additional penalty
and interest costs.
“Had there been no Georgia
Employment Security Law, the
entire amount of the federal
tax would have been paid to
and retained by the federal
government plus over $300,-
000,000 which employers have
saved by stabilizing their pay
rolls and their employment.
More savings can be realized
and the economy strengthened
by employers freely using the
State Employment Service in
filling job vacancies with
qualified job seekers. We in the
Department of Labor like to
see our economy strengthened
and these savings grow, for
that means business expansion
aind growth, thus more jobs for
Georgians.
“For these reasons, I urge
employers to make their re
ports and pay taxes promptly
and make full use of the State
Employment Service,” Hudet
concluded.
Letters To
The Editor
Honorable Belmont Dennis,
Editor
THE COVINGTON NEWS .. .
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Dennis:
Thank you for the coverage
given our department in t h e
January 12 issue of the NEWS.
The news media plays a tre
mendous role in keeping our
citizens informed of the efforts
made by state agencies to im
p. ive their economic welfare.
We appreciate your coopera
tion in 1960. I trust you will
call on us when we can be of
service in 1961.
With kindnest personal re
gards.
Jack Minter
for it. We are taking the initial
step of belief, the further step
of faith, and then by living up
to the truth we profess and by
trying to put it into operation
in our daily lives. “Jesus ans
wered and said unto them. This
is the work of God, that ye be
lieve on him whom he hath
sent.”
Lets us make sure that we
know what Christianity is be
fore we try to teach it to
others.
The people asked for a sign
of our Lord’s divine authority,
and' they craftily suggested
that the sign which would
please them best would be
more free bread. Why, they
said, you have good precedent
for this. God fed our forefathers
with manna in the wilderness,
for we read in Scripture, “He
gave them bread from heaven
to eat.”
But Jesus contridicted and
rebuked them. It is true, he
said, that Moses gave you
bread, but there is a higher
bread than Moses gave, namely,
the bread which will feed the
soul. “But my Father giveth
you the true bread from hea
ven. For the bread of God is he
which cometh down from hea
ven, and giveth life unto the
world.”
It was v«ry plain in Jesus’
mind that there is a bread
which feeds the body and a
bread which feeds the soul.
Men could see physical bread.
They realized it to be a neces
sity. But they did not seem to
realize that the soul needs to
be nourished as well as t h e
body. Furthermore, they were
standing in the presence of
that Source of nourishment,
yet they knew it not. |
Republic of China...
Indefensible!!
By LEO S. MALLARD
The Republic of China, a group of thirty-three islands
lying off the coast of the China mainland in Taiwan> Str ^
stands as a monument in the Far East tofreedom and
fiance of Communist aggression. Inhabiting these islanid
are approximately 50,000 nonmilitary persons who feel
that their Aepublic can be and
should be defended at all cost. ।
Chiang Kai-shek’s military (
commanders are presently ex- ।
pecting a major Red Chinese ।
attack on the off-shore islands ।
of Quemoy or Matsu at any (
time. The Nationalist forces are ,
prepared and confident that
they will be able to repel any ,
attempt to capture either of
these islands. ।
The U. S. Navy’s Seventh (
Fleet is patroling the Formosa
Strait with orders to defend
Taiwan Formosa against a Red
assault. Nationalist Chinese
feel that a Red attack on the
forward islands of Quemoy or
Matsu will also be a direct at
tack on the defenses of For
mosa. In the United States this
attitude has become a contri
versial issue.
American military supplies
have been pouring into arsenals
of the Republic of China for
the past several years to help
the Nationalists defend their
Islands. Without this aid there
would be no Nationalist China 1
today. The Chinese Nationalists
are intent to continue to do
their own fighting against the
Reds without involving Ameri
can soldiers, but they must
have arms from the United
States.
Americans fear that the
United States will be drawn i
into a war with Red China if .
the Seventh Fleet is required I
to defend Quemoy or Matsu, i
The general feeling is that
these two small islands are not i
worth the risk of an all-out ।
conflict. But, can we afford to
Veterans Service Depl. Takes
Over The Confederate Pensions
Duties of Georgia’s State De
partment of Veterans Service
now span a century—from the
War Between the States to the
present day.
As of January 1, 1961, the
State Department of Veterans
Service took over the Depart
ment of Confederate Pensions
and Records.
SDVS now will disburse
checks to the 172 widows of
Confederate veterans now re
ceiving pensions.
The State Department of
Veterans Service was establish
ed in 1923, primarily to pro
vide aid and assistance to vet
erans of World War I.
World War II brought a tre
mendous increase in the num
ber of veterans, and a subse
quent expansion in the Depart
ment.
Then came the Korean war,
and still more veterans.
At the present, there are
more than 450,000 Georgia vet
erans.
There are approximately 400
veterans of the Spanish-Ameri- j
can War; 39.000 of World War
I; 271,000 of World War II; and
140,000 of the Korean war and I
peacetime.
William Joshua Bush was j
the last survivor of the 129,-1
000 Georgians who served in
the Confederate Army. He died
November 11, 1952.
The State Department of
Veterans Service central office
is in the Veterans Building at
1 Hunter Street, across from
the State Capitol. Plans are
underway for a veterans mu
seum in the building. Facilities
also are available for meetings
of the State Council of Com
manders of Veterans organiza
tions, and other veterans’ ac
tivities.
Every county in Georgia is
served through 64 field offices
located throughout the state.
Service is provided to smaller
communities on a regular sche
dule.
The State Board of Veterans
Service is a contitutional body,
with members appointed by the
Governor. The Board elects the
director of the Department.
Pete Wheeler, a World War
II veteran who had served with
the Department since 1949. was
appointed Director in 1954, and ।
has served since then.
The Georgia War Veterans i
Home, at Milledgeville, comes <
Thursday, February 2, 198!
give them up? We know that
the Red Chinese would not stop
their aggresson once they have
taken these small islands be
cause their ultimate goal is to
capture Formosa. We will have
to make a stand somewhere.
The old adage, “actions
speak louder than words,
might well be applied to the
defense situation of Matsu and
Quemoy. Chinese Nationalist
troops have proved themselves
in the past. In 1949, the Reds
landed on Quemoy with 17,000
modern - equipped troops un
der artillery cover from the
mainland. After a two- day
battle the invaders were rout
ed. leaving behind 8.000 dead,
6,000 captured, and their wea
pons.
The Reds were repulsed when
thev tried to capture the group
islet of Tatan in 1950. Artillery
shelling of Quemoy in 1954,
and again during the period
1958 - 1960, failed to disrupt
everyday life on the island.
The Chinese Nationalist Air
Force proved its superiority in
the autumn of 1958 when, with
the aid of the American-made
Sidewinder missle, it beat the
Reds in a forty - four day air
and sea war.
In the Republic of China the
United States has an ally that
must not be let down. Vice
Admiral Roland Smoot, United
States commander of Taiwan
defense has said that the
islands “acre for acre are the
most completely dug-in and
defended area we have in the
world today.”
under jurisdiction of the Board
of Veterans Service.
The Department provides a
wide variety of help and assis
tance to veterans. It can offer
advice on filing claims for pen
sions, assist in obtaining vari
ous federal benefits.
The Department also serves
as the approval agency for in
stitutions offering training un
der the GI Bill.
Georgia first paid pensions
to her Confederate veterans in
1879.
The first pensions were for
disabilities and ranged from
$5 per month for loss of a
finger or toe to $l5O a month
for loss of sight or both limbs.
Widows of Confederate vet
erans began receiving pensions
in 1893.
By 1912, the peak year, 19.-
972 Confederate veterans and
widows were receiving pen
sions. The total amount was
more than $1,000,00 a year.
Os the 172 living widows of
Confederate veterans, 164 re
ceive pensions of sllO per
i month. The other eight live in
j the Confederate Veterans
Home and receive $5 per
month.
Truck Drivers
Pay Scale Up
lie In Past Year
Average wage scales of union
drivers engaged in local truck
ing rose 11 cents an hour dur
ing the year ended last July
1, the U. S. Labor Depart
ment’s Bureau of Labor Statis
tics announced.
Helpers’ rates increased an
average of 10 cents. The ad
vances represented gains of
4.2 percent for drivers and 4.3
percent for helpers and
brought their respective aver
age scales to $2.68 and $2.38.
Higher rates were reported
for nine-tenths of the drivers
and helpers included in the
Bureau s 25th annual survey
of union scales in motortruck
ing, covering cities of 100.000
are more in population. In
creases varied from 10 to 15
cents for slightly more than
two-fifths of the drivers and
helpers. Raises of 5 to 10 cents
aplied to a fifth of the work
ers as did those of 15 or more
cents.