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THE COVINGTON NEWS
■ELMONT DENNIS
Editor Aad Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Covington Merchants Go The Limit
In Offering Dollar Day Specials
In this issue of the Covington News
you will find special bargains of our city
‘for the benefit of citizens of our county.
This event was planned by the Newton
County Chamber of Commerce. For several
weeks the merchants have scoured the mar
kets for unusual bargains and requested
their suppliers to supply them with articles
which could be sacrificed for one dollar
during these three days of Centennial Dol
lar Day Specials this Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
Space is too limited to list all the items
the merchants have to offer for Dollar
Days but the advertisements will give you
some idea of just how worthwhile these
bargains are.
Study those which appear in the paper
and then visit each store cooperating in
Newspapers Prove Advertisers The
Best Advertising Media In U. S.
In spite of all the new form of adver
tising, various firms and individuals spent
more than $96,000,000 advertising in the
New York Times in 1960. This is more than
has ever been spent in any newspaper, for
advertising in one year, we are informed.
Newspaper advertising has many advan
tages over every other form. First, as be
tween air-wave media and newspapers, the
latter is a permanent record, something
that can be saved and which can be ef
fective over a full week — twenty-four
hours each day.
Secondly, as between newspapers and
other published materials, the newspaper
has proven to be the best-regulated adver
tising medium among the published organs
— and its pages are respected by more peo-
Beware Os Schemes Promoted
Locally By The Outside Interests
Every spring there appears to be an
invasion of “quack schemers" into our
city and county by trying to get something
for nothing, these schemers use various
subterfuge and various articles but inevi
tably in the end the citizens of our county
are stung good and proper as a result of
such schemers.
One such incidence has just occurred
during the past several weeks but this is
just one instance. There will be others so
we wish to caution you regarding the door
to-door peddler who says he is working
his way through college or some other
Tragic Story....
But Too True Today
(Reprinted from The Sanford
(N. C.) Herald)
Governor Sanford the other night at a
father-son banquet at Coats told how an
old automobile often becomes a hazard to
a boy or girl getting a good education.
We know of no better way of getting
across the governor’s point than repeating
the story. It is clear and to the point. The
governor said:
“A boy gets to be 16 years old and he
secures a drivers license. Driving an auto
mobile is his chief joy in life. Soon he de
cides he has to have a car of his own.
“In order to make the money he needs
he drops athletics and gets an afternoon
and Saturday job. As soon as he can, he
makes a down payment on a second-hand
car.
“After that, his nose is held to the grind
stone trying to keep up the payments, make
repairs and buy gasoline.
“He neglects his homework and his
grades drop. He may soon fail and drop
out of school so he can work full time be
cause it takes full time work at his low rate
of pay to support the old car.
“You would think this would be enough
But sometimes the old car attracts some
girl who has no more sense than the boy
has. Soon she stops school and they get
married. .
“After that you may see them drive
down the road in the old car —two teen
agers who ought to be in high school, with
the young wife sitting so close to her hus
band he is practically pushed out of the
car and a babv crying on the back seat.”
A tragic but, true story.
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Eatored at Hm Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
this City-Wide Centennial Dollar Day ef
fort and see the other bargains which they
have in the stores which are not adver
tised.
Merchants have planned for several
weeks for this occasion and the citizens of
Newton and surrounding counties will be
the beneficiaries if they will do their shop
ping during these Centennial Dollar Days.
You can be assured of satisfaction with
every purchase because you are dealing
with hometown merchants who stand be
hind their products and desire satisfied
customers. My advice to one and all is to
make your dollars have more cents by
patronizing the local perchants this week-
We will see you in these stores,
end.
pie than other forms of printed advertising
— as a group.
Thirdly, newspaper advertising is the
most effective of all the forms of adver
tising. It is quick to put into permanent
form, it is available at any time of the
day, it goes only to those who buy the
newspaper and cannot build resentment as
something rammed down the throat.
That is why, year after year, people
spend more and more on newspaper adver
tising. It is the best, most dependable, the
most permanent form of advertising avail
able. And everyone knows many a good
advertiser has made his fortune by know
ing how and when and what to advertise
— in the newspaper.
sorrow story or using others as a subter
fuge to sell articles of little value.
Your local merchants have everything
that is needed for your home, for your
table, for your appetites and for all your
needs. Patronize them and politely refuse
to deal with migratory vultures which ap
pear generally during the springtime.
Patronize your local merchants and know
you are buying from people whom you can
trust and who are interested in your wel
fare and see that you receive value from
your purchase.
Long Arm On Internal
Revenue Service Reaches
Out To Everybody
Another income tax time has come and
gone. And millions of us feel a sad flat
ness in the pocketbook.
Once the income tax was a rich man’s
tax — people of small and moderate earn
ings paid little or nothing. But now, as
Citizens Public Expenditure Survey ob
serves, “the long arm of the Internal Re
venue Service reaches out to nearly every
body.’’
Here’s the cold statistical story: Os the
total federal tax, people who earn under
$5,000 a year pay 21 per cent. The $5,000 -
SIO,OOO group pays 39 per cent. The $lO,-
000 - $15,000 earners pay 11 per cent. The
$15,000 - $50,000 people pay 17 per cent.
And the real big income group — $50,000
and over — pays only 12 percent.
This isn’t because the rich are favored
—income tax rates reach a top bracket of
91 per cent. It simply reflects the fact that
there are not enough wealthy people to
foot the bill for government — but there
are millions of individuals in the modest
income brackets. So, inevitably, the latter
must pay the great bulk of government
costs. And they, collectively would gain
the most from reduction in non-essential
government spending.
A writer in good control of his thoughts
can express himself in words that any
body can understand.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY
UNDAY
When God’s Wisdom Prevails
Bible Material: Job 42.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
34:1 - 8. Memory Selection: Let
not the wise man glory in his
wisdom. Jet not the mighty man
glory in his might, let not the
rich man glory in his riches;
but let him who glories glory
in this, that he understands and
knows me, that I am the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:23 - 24.
Intermediate - Senior Top
ic: When We Turn to God.
Young People - Adult Topic;
When God’s Wisdom Prevails.
Last week's lesson dealt with
evil men and the outcome of
their lives. Job had often asked
the question, Why do the right
eous suffer? In the portion of
Scripture examined last week,
Job was troubled by the reality
of the seeming prosperity and
success and satisfaction of many
who lead evil lives. He saw
success and respect coming to
men who were unworthy, and
quick death at the last with no
lingering illness. Why? he kept
asking. Why? Why?
Today we come to the last of
those four lessons which are
taken from the Book of Job.
More and more Bible readers
are coming to see that this
book is an all-time great in hu
manity’s libraries. When it was
written or by whom there can
be Yio certain knowledge, but
the writer was a great poet and,
best of all, a great soul.
We shall see in today’s lesson
that although he was not able
in every respect to answer the
questions which arose in h i s
mind regarding the strange
paradoxes of life, he did give
one of the most satisfactory
answers on record.
The Book of Job is a didactic,
or teaching, poem. It is meant,
by the use of a particularly
majestic type of poetry and the
ingenious use of dialogue, to
examine and discuss some type
of poetry and the ingenious use
examine and discuss some
of life’s most basic problems.
In these verses we find Job
making his final submission be
fore the wisdom and majesty of
God. Sudden destruction, sor
row, financial loss, and physical
suffering had come upon this
man, Job, whom God both lov
ed and trusted. How could this
have come about in the light of
God’s love and justice? Job's
three false friends had a ready
explanation, which we have al
ready touched upon but which
we shall examine in detail dur- i
ing our consideration of the!
lesson. But for Job, there was!
no explanation. He had been i
bitter and accusing in the
things he had said to God and
about God. Now we find h i m
deeply repentant for his hasty
words.
“I know that thou canst do
everything, and that no thought
can be withholden from thee...
therefore have I uttered that I
understood not; things too won
derful for me, which I knew
not.”
In other words. Job had dis
covered that God is under no
obligation to give account of
Himself and his actions to men.
Our relationship with God is j
based primarily upon trust. We
do not accept life’s circumstan- |
ces because they are pleasant;
and reasonable, but because we'
have no choice about the mat-!
ter. This leads us. therefore, to
inquire what kind of God it is
who sometimes allows the
righteous to suffer and the
wicked to be carefree, prosper-!
ous, and to come to life’s end
with little trial or pain.
How can there be so much
injustice and suffering in a
world presided over by a lov-|
ing God who has the power to|
make things right?
In order to understand Job’s.
repentance, we need to go back
and read Chapters 38 through i
41. God does not, to the slight
est degree, accede to Job’s de
mand that an account be given
of his unhappy state. God
simply speaks to Job out of the
whirlwind and, strangely
enough. He has nothing to say
either about Job or about his
troubles.
Jehovah meets Job's ques-1
tions far more significant than
Job or any other man could ask
or answer.
“Where wast thou when I laid
the foundations of earth? De-'
clare, if thou hast understand
ing.
“Whereupon are the founda
tions thereof fastened?
Or who laid the corner stone
thereof.
When the morning stars sang
together.
And all the sons of God
shouted for joy?"
(Job. 38: 4,6 and 7)
Then God goes on to ask Job
some very difficult questions
about who controls the sea, and
where is the dwelling place of
light? He asks this complain
ing little man if he, Job, can
bind together the clusters of the
stars. Does he know the law of,
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
the heavens, and can he estab
lish the dominion of these laws
in the earth? Can he bring rain?
What about the dumb creatures j
of the earth? Does he have any :
regard for these? Did he create
them, does he sustain them, can
he control them? There is much
talk about goats and asses, os
triches, horses, hawks, levia
thans, and crocodiles. I made
these things, little man; and the
inference from God’s remarks
is, that Job is taking consider
able upon himself to assume
that the Creator of the ends of
the earth will find joy in bad
gering mere men or will do any
thing that is inconsistent with
his love and power.
Look at the pageant of the
world’s life, its might, the
vastness of the starry heavens,
and tell me if you think that He
who made these things is inter
ested in plaguing you. Job, or
is willing to do anything con
trary to his loving and lofty
purpose?
Job’s reaction is penitence.
He has been ignorant and un
just in his accusations against
God. He has but one justifica
tion. He has, through his whole
life, been living on hearsay Re
ligion. “But now mine eye
seeth thee.” cried Job, “Where
fore I abhor myself, and re
pent in dust and ashes.”
The cure for Job’s state of
mind was a deeper insight into
the power and nature of God.
So much for Job. God now
turns to Job’s three friends —
Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.
You had it worked out nice
ly, said God to these three ac
cusers. Because it is true that
suffering is usually the result
of sin, you jumped to the con
clusion that it is always the re
sult of sin. Job is not a perfect
man, but he is right in saying
that he is not a gross sinner.
I sometimes lay burdens upon
men’s lives not to punish them
but to make them stronger by
the bearing of these burdens. I
turn them back to try their
faith. I smite them that they
may learn how to endure pain.
I make them little that they
may appreciate the value of
greatness. And all these things
I did to Job, not because Job
was an evil man. Job was a
good man and I wanted to make
him better. Job has in him the
qualities which I cherish, and
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letters To
The Editor
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
The Editors:
Both common knowledge and
experience tell us to maintain
peace and prosperity it is es
sential to put first, first and
last, last. As education is t h e
mainspring of progress, in
every walk of life, wouldn’t it
have been wise for the Assem
bly to have put education first,
and the political dollar last.
Yet they spent day after day
sifting the ashes to find where
they could give school teachers
a salary raise of S3OO for nine
months. Yet they saw in a split
second in the closing days
where they could give them
selves a S4OO raise, also raise
some state officials salaries in
to the SIOOO.
Quote Governor Vandiver “I
see a state which says to the
few seeking special privilege
at the expense of the many —
your day has passed in Geor
gia.” We hope he is not mis
taken as it was not intended
when our forefathers set up
our form of Government for a
chosen few to live in luxury on
the flowery beds of ease at the
expense of the many shackled
down in poverty up to their
knees.
B. A, Bouchillon
606 N. Emory Street
Covington, Georgia
April 12, 1961
April 15, 1961
Mr. Belmont Dennis,
Editor Covington News,
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis,
The members of the Green
Thumb Garden Club would
like to take this opportunity to
thank you and your paper for
all the advertisements which
made our flower show more
successful.
We appreciate all you have
done for our club.
Sincerely,
Mrs. J. W. Morgan
I wanted to reveal these qual
ities to Job, to his false friends,
to his family, to the world at
large, and also to Satan who
had cynically declared that Job
and his righteousness would
collapse under the sting of ad
versity.
DEMOCRACY TOOK
A BAD WH/PP/NG
ly LEO S. MALLARD
The crushing blow dealt by Fidei Castros militia
ces to the invading rebel bands last week gave the Com
munist black nations their greatest propoganda victory in
manv a day. Miscalculations and political bickering caused
the Cuban invasion to fail as well as giving the United
States a black face in the eyes of the world for her part m
the scheme.
The American people are'
disappointed. They favored the ;
overthrow of the Castro re
gime. But, it never dawned on
us that our government would
attempt to support such a move
unless it was willing to fol
low through until the aim in
which this country believed
was achieved. Now it seems
that we are the victims of our
own invention.
In the United Nations, t h e
organization that we have
nursed along through the years
in an effort to achieve human
freedom and world peace, we
have been put in the hot seat.
Os course we expected the
Communist countries of the
world to howl at our actions,
but to see free and neutral na
tions that we have poured
foreign aid dollars and assis
tance into year after year turn
against us and point an accus
ing finger has really cut us
deep. Have these “moral
agents” of the world forgotten
the bloodbath in Hungary?
Truly it seems that the more
we try to do for other coun
tries of the world to help them
improve themselves and enjoy
a better life, the more deter
mined these same countries are
to find fault and ridicule us on
every turn. On our own and
through the United Nations the
United States has done more
to help improve the standard
of living for peoples through
out the world than any coun
try in history.
Many good things have come
from the United Nations Or
ganization, but, many of its
wishy-washy policies have
created fertile ground for the
seeds of Communism. When the
time comes that small, unstable
nations, many of whom the
Thursday, Apr!! 27, 19S1
United States has kept on their
feet, ban together in the Unit
ed Nations or any other group
and pass such legislation that
is intended to surpress action
by the United States that we
feel is vital in order for us t®
maintain our freedom, it is time
for this nation to with draw
from such an organization and
once again be prepared to de
fend our sacred rights.
Straight - laced diplomacy ia
the honorable way to reach
agreements between honorable
men and nations. But, when we
deal with Communist, social
ist, and neutralist nations that
are plaving both ends against
the middle for selfish gain, we
are not dealing with honorable
parties. Our future is at stake!
We are playing by the rules in
a game while others adopt an
“anything goes” attitude.
Let the voices howl over our
support of the Cuban rebel in
vasion that sought to free Cu
ba from her bonds. The first
: attempt failed and the over
throw of Fidel Castro will take
more than a week. But, if we
fail to topple the Communist
stronghold in Cuba if we fail
to defend democracy through
out the world when, where,
and how we see fit, our days
as a free and independent
United States of America ara
numbered.
Contained in the hull of the
huge attack aircraft carrier
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt are
242 miles of electrical cable,
2,000 electric motors and a gen
erating plant capable of sup
plying electrical power to 4
million homes.