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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Newton Library Art
Seminars Are Splendid
Cultural Contribution
The Metropolitan Seminars in Art, cur
rently being sponsored by the Newton
County Library in a series of ten classes,
held each Monday evening at 7:00 o’clock,
with Dr. Joe Guillebeau. Emory at Oxford
Assistant Professor of Humanities as di
rector, is a splendid contribution to the
cultural life of the community.
First of the senes, authored by John
Canaday, New York Times Art Critic, was
given an enthusiastic reception, Monday
evening at the Library, by art lovers of all
age groups, including High School students.
Lack of art appreciation and under
standing has been cited as one of the weak
nesses of high school students attempting
to pass entrance examinations at Emory at
Oxford, and other colleges. The Seminars
being presented by Dr. Guillebeau, whose
background includes ten years of art train
ing, prior to entry at High Museum of Art,
where he studied, are designed to educate
the novice in comprehension of art; and in
cludes discussion of the old masters, com
position, color, realism, expressionism and
some contemporary and modern art. They
offer a well timed opportunity for students I
to acquire fundamental principals of art |
appreciation, requisite to passing college
entrance examinations, in addition to wid
ening cultural horizons of all those who
attend.
We heartily commend Newton County
Library, its Board of Directors, headed by
Mrs. R. M. Paty, and Mrs. Harry Dietz, Li
brarian, for this constructive program of
Fine Arts and contribution to Community
Culture,
Speaker Rayburn Won
His Victory To Pack
The House Rules Group
It could be that the venerable Sam
Rayburn, crusty Speaker of the House,
who, as campaign manager for Lyndon
Johnson failed to get his boy nominated for
the Presidency, has won a Pyrrhic victory
in packing the House Rules Committee.
Chairman Howard Smith of Virginia,
a fellow Democrat who fought to the last
ditch against this unseemly White House
interference with the traditional and order- i
ly regulation of legislative traffic, has ac- I
knowledged defeat in the gracious manner |
of a Virginia gentlemnn. Since it is the
recorded wish of a majority of the House
that the Rules Committee is to function as
a sluice rather than a sieve, so be it.
In bowing to the inevitable. Chairman
Smith may well inundate the House floor
with bills — thousands of ’em —for the
White House stooges to strangle on.
None of whom would be more dismayed
than Mr, Rayburn.
It's Simple As A-B-C
There’s something drastically lacking
in the current battle over the Federal aid
to education issue. The spendthrifts who
want the government to subsidize our
schools don’t explain how the schools
would operate. Shucks. That’s easy. By
1969, the school superintendent would do
it this way:
Parent: My child says the cafeteria
food is bad.
Superintendent: Why tell me? Write
the Secretary of Agriculture.
Parent: How come my boy was kept
after school for throwing spitballs?
Superintendent: Detention for spitball- ,
ing was upheld by United States Supreme ■
Court versus Joyner, May, 1967.
Janitor: I want a raise.
Superintendent: No problem. Call your
Congressman.
Teacher: Can I order some new history
books?
Superintendent: Not in this election
year.
Parent: How long is Christmas vaca
tion this year?
Superintendent: Did you vote in the
last election?
Principal: Where are the erasers, chalk
and pencils we ordered?
Superintendent: You’ll have to wait.
Military appropriations were increased
last month.
Proud Father: Look. My boy Scott is
awfully smart. Could he skip first grade?
Superintendent: Is he a Republican or
Democrat?
Tastes vary so much; my present idea
of a good evening is to dine at home, read,
talk, doze, and listen to the news at bed
time.
I doubt that there will ever be peace
on earth until everybody is satisfied with
his status, obviously an impossible goal.
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
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MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Ciass.
Business Men In Politics
Deserve A Lot Os
Well-Earned Praise
Personal sacrifice is expected when a
man puts aside his business or professional
career to assume the responsibilities of
public service. The comfortable security
and substantial financial rewards for suc
cess in private industry are thus laid away
for the heavy burdens and fierce complex
ities of government administration in this
uncertain period of our history.
Nothing in recent times brings this fact
into such sharp focus as the appointment of
Robert S. McNamara, president of the Ford
Motor Company to the post of Secretary
of Defense in the cabinet of President John
F. Kennedy.
Mr. McNamara was the president of
Ford for approximately one month, a job
which reason suggests must have been the
goal toward which he strove during the
previous 15 years he was with the company.
In the brief span of a few days he was
able to resign his job at Ford, divest him
self of all Ford stock and options to buy
more and accept the Kennedy appointment.
It is estimated that this decision will
cost Mr. McNamara about three million
dollars. The new job pays $25,000 a year.
At Ford his earnings approached $500,000
a year.
How many of us could exhibit this kind
of zeal for our country?
What is more remarkable, however, is
that both Mr. McNamara and Ford are
practicing what they preach. For some years
past Ford Motor Company through its
chairman and now president, Henry Ford
11, has urged all its employees to have an
active part in political affairs, to work for
better government, strive for elective of
fice where necessary to achieve it and ac
cept appointment to office where it is nec
essary, regardless of sacrifice.
This has not been lip service to an ideal.
It has been a working campaign which
involved many Ford people at all levels
and always strictly in behalf of the indivi
dual’s own party.
Our country can use men like Mr. Mc-
Namara and American industry would do
well to take a long look at Ford’s unselfish
policy of encouraging political activity
among its people.
Commercial Transportation
Record Is Very Good
When there is loss of life on a public
conveyance people are emotionally upset.
But the disgraceful record of casualties
piled up in highway traffic accidents is
accepted with indifference. Tens of thous
ands of men, women and children are need
lessly killed or injured every year by auto
mobiles and the sorrow and suffering is
shrugged off, except by the unlucky ones
involved.
If commercial transportation casualties
were as high as private, the uproar would
be heard around the world, but the unfor
tunate victims would be no deader or more
maimed in one accident than the other.
Apparently the public faces death on the
highway as inevitable. Based on the record
so far, private transportation will never be
as safe as that provided by commercial
land, air or water carriers.
The reason for this seeming anomaly is
that the people demand responsibility from
organizized transportation while accept
ing individual irresponsibility as away
of life.
No Locks On The
Gates Os Heaven
St. Peter, according to the Scriptures,
was a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee, and
his assignment in Eternity is popularly
supposed to be that of keeper of the Pearly
Gates.
Visitors to the ancient town of Chelms
ford. England and its more up-to-date Cath
edral are reminded of both occupations
when they see the newly-installed figure
of St. Peter squatting atop a cathedral
buttress in his sea boots and carrying what
is admittedly a Yale key.
St. Peter’s sculptor, the renowned T. B.
Huxley-Jones, explains that he sought in
his work to emphasize that religion is
alive and therefor modern. He arrived at
this symbolism, he says, because he felt
that nothing could be “more universally
accepted as modern than a Yale key.”
We hasten to quote Huxley-Jones to
correct any misguided impression that he
was thinking of security in the worldly
sense, and to assure our readers that, so
far as is yet known, there are no locks on
the Gates of Heaven.
That they stand hospitably open — as
ever — to the faithful and the repentant
will never be proved but always believed.
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SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
The Light of the World
Bible Material: John 7-9.
Devotional Reading: Isaiah
59:20 - 60:3: Memory Selec
tion: I am the light of t h e
world; he who follows me will
not walk in darkness, but will
have the light of life. John 8:12.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
A Blind Man Sees.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Christ Opens Blind Eyes.
Last week’s lesson was from
the sixth chapter of the Gospel
of John. Between the point
where our study ended last
week and the point where it
begins today are two important
chapters of this Gospel. Chap
ter 7 deals with our Lord's
visit to Jerusalem at the time
of the Feast of Tabernacles.
Jesus taught daily in the tem
ple and had an opportunity on
a number of occasions defin
itely and effectively to refute
his opponents.
Chapter 8 begins with the
famous account of the woman
taken in adultery and of our
Lo r d’s closing statement,
“Neither do I condemn thee:
go. and sin no more.” (John
8:11). Following this, Jesus
again assails his opponents, jus
tifies his claims, and reproves
those who are not willing to
accept him as the Son of God.
Our study of this portion of,
the Lord’s ministry brings us
to the material contained in
Chapter 9. Although verses 1-23
are not included in our lesson
text, they should be examined
in order that we may under
stand better the first teaching
of this remarkable chapter.
Blindness is an awful reality,
and nowhere in the world has
it been more prevalent than in
oriental countries. We read in
the first verse of this chapter
that “as Jesus passed by, he
saw a man which was blind
from his birth.” Jesus’ disciples
questioned him as to the cause
of the man’s deplorable con
dition. Did he sin or did h i s
parents? For the Jews of that
day were firmly convinced that
all illness and infirmity could
be directly traced back to
somebody’s sinning. The writer
of the Book of Job had chal
lenged this conception, yet it
still remained.
As a general proposition, it
is certainly true that human
suffering is the result of hu
man sin. We suffer because we
are a fallen race, and we are
a fallen race because we and
our forebearers have been dis
obedient to the will of God.
But it is not true that every
particular ailment can be
traced back to somebody’s par
ticular sin.
“Master, who did sin, this
man, or his parents, that he
was born blind?’ Here they may
have intimated that this man
had sinned in a former exis
tence. Did these people believe
in reincarnation? Os that we
are not certain.
Jesus made it plain that this
man’s blindness was not the
result of any specific sin but
was an opportunity God had
placed in me n’s pathway
whereby they might see h i s
power and mercy operating on
a miraculous scale. “Neither
hath this man sinned, nor his
parents: but that the works of
God should be made manifest
spiritual lessons in the account
in him.”
1 There are many moral and
spiriual lesson in t h e account
1 of this healing. Jesus picked the
! man out from a great number
of afflicted persons, as he had
picked out the paralyzed man
at the pool of Bethesda. We
cannot understand God’s gra
cious providences whereby cer
tain people are “picked out”
and made objects of his mercy.
We are constantly being
“picked out,” quite apart from
our deserts, to receive God’s
mercy.
Note that in the healing of
the blind man, Jesus accom
modated himself to a super
stitious belief that ointment of
clay made of earth mixed with
the “spittle” (saliva) of a holy
man would cure blindness. By
accommodating himself to this
superstitious belief, Jesus in
the first place made it easier
for the people to accept the
miracle. Furthermore, there is
symbolism here in the fact that
it was out of the mouth of Je
sus that miraculous power pro
ceeded.
It still does — in words spo
ken for our salvation, in council
which cures our blindness and
reveals to us the light of truth.
But the man was not immedi
ately healed. There was some
thing left for him to do. He
must go and “wash in the pool
of Siloam, (which is by inter
pretation, (Sent).” Jesus re
quired some cooperation on the
part of the persons he healed.
' In fact, he so often required it
that we can lay it down as a
principle that God helps those
who are willing to help them
selves. It took faith for the
man to get started to the pool
of Siloam, and faith on the part
of those who had to lead him.
Was it by divine prearrange
ment or just by coincidence that
tue word Siloam meant by in
terpretation, “Sent”?
Os course, there was an erup
tion of indignation among the
Pharisees as a result of this
miracle. To be sure, a man born
blind had received his sight.
But the miracle had been per
formed on the Sabbath, and
what a dreadful and awful
thing it was in the eyes of these
fanatics that anything involv
ing as much effort as the mir
acle undoubtedly did should be
performed on the sacred Sab
i bath.
। nere was that unforgiveable
sinfulness on the part of the
Pharisees who insisted on put
ting an institution before a
man, on putting a custom before
Human welfare.
So the Pharisees lunged at
the throat of Jesus over this is
sue. He was a Sabbath-break
! er—or so they claimed. John
tells us that seven times Jesus
healed on the Sabbath. Was
this a courageous defiance by
our Lord, or was it his desire
to show that the Sabbath is
one of God’s merciful provi
sions and should, therefore, be
a season when God’s mercy is
made manifest?
The Pharisees brought in the
parents of the man, and these
parents, although willing to
confess that their son had been
born blind, were unwilling to
go further. The threat of ex
communication -hung over them. I
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“If any man did confess that
he (Jesus) was Christ, he
should be put out of the syna
gogue.”
The lesson today is a study
in blindness. The man whom
Jesus healed had long exper
ienced physical blindness. He
had known it, and the world
had known it. Furthermore, the
Pharisees, on the other hand,
were also blind, spiritually
blind. Their condition was
made hopeless by the fact that
they believed that they alone
possessed light and knowledge.
Almost every one of our
Lord’s recorded miracles is not
only a gracious act of super
natural power but the vivid
setting forth of deep moral and
spiritual truth. Jesus had de
clared himself to be the light
of the world (John 8:12).
Note the difference between
the way Jesus looked at the
blind man and the way his dis
ciples looked at him. to Christ,
this man was a stricken indi
vidual who called forth his
mercy. To his disciples, the man
was a possible object of retri
butive justice. He was a pro
blem for them to speculate
over.
We still persist in regarding
people as problems rather than
as afflicted and burdened child
ren of God needing our love.
The fact of human sin a n d
misery calls not for curious
speculation on our part but for
deep sympathy and scrificial
help.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
IN THE COVINGTON NEWS
Pecan Demand Exceeds
Supply
Grocery shoppers with a sharp
eye and appetite for quality
convenience foods soon will de
mand 100% more pecans than
the present crop now supplies,
says the National Pecan Shellers
and Processors Association.
Unique in an era of surpluses, the
average yearly pecan crop of 150
million pounds only half meets
the estimated demand of 300
million pounds per year. Said to
be a conservative estimate, this
forecast is based on the popula
tion boom and the steadily in
creasing popularity of conven-
ience foods.
Tomorrow’s
homemaker,
say industry
spokesmen,
will have so
phisticated
tastes, more
money to spend
and a better
knowledge of nutrition. Proces
sors of such items as bakery
goods, frozen salads, desserts
and heat-and-eat main dishes
are making plans now to meet
these new demands. It is antici
pated that pecans will have
greatly increased usage as an
appetite-appeal ingredient in
many of these products.
Pecan prices to the grower
have held steadily high for the
last five years. In many areaa,
pecans rank among the top
money crops. The comparatively
low costs of growing, cultivating
and harvesting, plus the ready
market, has focused attention on
the need for up-grading and in
creasing production. Presently,
research is being done by the
U.S.D.A. and by extension horti
culturists to help the individual
grower reap the cash rewards
the greater demand for pecan
erop will bring. Special attention
is being given to the individual
requirements of growers in vari
ous areas. This new information
on planting, fertilization, disease
and insect control is available
to growers from county agents
throughout the producing area.
Germany...
Her Homeland
Split.
By LEO $. MALLARD
Since 1945, Germany has remained an open wound in
Europe. She has struggled, not only to overcome the de
vastation suffered in World War 11, but also to remain at
peace while serving as a testing ground for the ideologies
of democracy and communism.
By contrast, German y’s
eastern and western sectors
present an unbelievable pic
ture. The western sector, with
its “temporary capital” at Bonn,
has healed its war scars and
developed into an economic
miracle of the twentieth cen
tury under the democratic gov
ernment set up by Britain,
France, and the United States.
Meanwhile. East Germany,
with its capital located in the
eastern sector of Berlin, still
harbors the ruins of war as a
grim reminder to her people of
Nazis rule. Only the rulers
have changed: the policies re
main essentially the same. Un
der the heel of the Red boot
her people work for the state.
This drab existance, aggravat
ed by the constant presence of
22 crack divisions of Soviet
troops to “maintain order” in
the small communist satellite,
has no chance of improving in
the foreseeable future.
The Soviet Union has as its
aim for East Germany the crea
tion of a “neutralized free city”
of West Berlin, and eventual
ly the recognition throughout
the world of the equality of
the two German states. The de
tachment of West Berlin from
Western Surope is the next
step. After this is accomplished
the Soviets hope to build East
Germany into the leading Ger
man state, still holding it “pa
triotically” in the satellite
block until the whole of Ger-
Letters To
The Editor
A. Belmont Dennis
Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis:
Enclosed you will find check
No. 660 for $3.09 for the Cov
ington News for another year.
I have not been well for the
last 3 or 4 months and will
you please send it to me here
at No. 7420 Altama Road, Jack
sonville, Fla. I will be here for
the rest of the winter.
If you will please look on
your books and see when I first
started taking this good paper.
I think it is over 40 years.
I am a first cousin of Miss
Irene Harvey of Rocky Plains.
Sincerely,
J. Parks Harvey
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Mrs. Leo Mallard
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mrs. Mallard:
We would like to say thanks
for your “Chatter Box” com
ments on 4-H Club work and
Extension Work in this weeks
Covington News. You are very
kind to have expressed your
thoughts so nicely.
We are very sorry that you I
were unable to attend t h e j
Banquet though.
Sincerely,
Edward H. Hunt
County Agent
Hazel B. Malone
Home Demonstration
Agent
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Mr. Leo Mallard
Mr. Bob Greer
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Leo and Bob,
Thanks for the fine job
which you did on the Banquet
Stories in the Covington News
last week and again today. We
always appreciate what you
folks at the Covington News
do for 4-H Club work and
Extension work in general.
Sincerely,
Edward H. Hunt
County Agent
Hazel B. Malone
Home Demonstration
Agent
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Mr. Bob Greer
Sports Editor
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Greer:
As an ardent fan. and Mo
ther of one of the players, of ■
the Newton County Basketball !
teams I would like to personal- 1
ly express to you my apprecia- 1
tion for the publicity you have <
given the teams of Newton High 1
Thursday, February 9. 1961
many can be brought under
Soviet rule.
The western sector of Ber
lin, buried deep in East Ger
many, remains today as "the
showcase of the free world.”
Approximately 11,000 U. S.
British, and French troops are
stationed in West Berlin to
protect it against communist
aggression. Relations between
the two sectors of Berlin have
been tense since last Septem
ber when the East German
government placed restriction!
on travel by West Germans in
to communist - ruled Berlin.
West Germany countered the
move by refusing to renew the
East-West trade agreement thi«
year. The Soviets then threat
ened to block ade West Berlin if
the trade agreement was not
signed.
Early in January a narrow
miss on a new Berlin crisis re
lieved all parties concerned.
Travel restrictions were can
celed by the communists and
the trade agreement was
signed. But, more pressure on
West Berlin is expected by the
Western powers as Nikita
Khrushchev starts to push the
new administration of the
United States toward another
summit conference “to keep the
peace.”
“Another Berlin “war scare”
is expected in 1961, but Ber
liners are confident that the
Kennedy team will be able to
handle the Soviets and avoid
war. The big test is yet to come.
in your local paper and also the
State papers.
Even though you are a paid
Sports writer, few people rea
lize the time and effort spent
in following our teams as you
have done. It certainly does
boost the morale of the teams
and of the girls and boys them
selves to have their names and
pictures brought to the atten
tion of the public.
Again may I say Thank You
from our entire family of
sports fans.
Sincerely,
Mrs. M. B. (Lucille)
Shaw
Progress Is
Reported In
Educational TV
Educational television ha*
grown to some 55 station*
within the eight years of it*
existence, and another ten sta
tions will be telecasting by
year-end, according to Chang
ing Times, the Kiplinger Mag
azine.
A report in the current issue
of the magazine notes the pro
gress made in ETV, despite dire
predictions when the first sta
tion (KUHT - Houston) began
operations. Only two station*
which started operations since
that time were later forced to
shut down, and the existing
stations now reach an audience
i estimated at about 60 millions,
of whom about one-third are
considered loyal lookers.
“Millions of children and
high school and college student*
are receiving some of their
learning from the educational
TV stations,” the article
states. ‘‘Subjects range across
the curriculum — science,
languages, art, music, math’,
history, sociology, psychology,
philosophy, writing, speech,
etc. Big advantage: gifted
teachers can reach thousand*
of st ude nt s simultaneously.
Big drawback: loss of the per
sonal give and take between
teacher and student.”
The big problem facing edu
cational TV, according to the
magazine, is cash — money to
pay staff, engineers, talent,
overhead. “Twenty state legis
latures have appropriated a to
tal ot about sl2 million for
ETV operations, other money
and help pome from donations,
school boards, universities
commercial TV and founda
tions—mainly the Ford Foun
dation which has contributed
S3O million thus far. Congress
is likely to appropriate about
SSO million ($i million
state) for educational stations
under prodding by President
Kennedy. Still, shortage of
cash will probably be a per
petual problem.” ‘