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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Pwblisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant te Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Your Support Os Band
Is Needed Friday Night
Have vou ever tried to play a band in
strument? Have you ever mastered several
pieces of music so that you would be able
to play in a concert with other members or
march in a parade? Well, if you haven’t you
have missed quite an experience. But, at
the same time you have avoided many
hours of hard work in the form of practic
ing. This can become a grueling experience
and often discouraging. Sharps and flats
are stumbling blocks and the band master
requires perfect time before he considers a
number perfect enough to play before an
audience.
Newton County High School has a won
derful band. They have won excellent and
superior awards in state-wide competition
for the past several years. The people of
Newton County have heard these young
musicians perform and they are proud of
them and all of their achievements. Local
people have always supported the Newton
High Band, but the time has once again
come when support is needed.
In order to raise money to buy instru
ments and finance a trip to Davidson Col
lege in North Carolina next fall, the band
will hold a concert this Friday night, May
19, at 8:00 p. m. in the Newton High School
auditorium. The concert will feature the
Cadet Band and the High School Band. In
keeping with the Centennial Celebration
the band will play music from the 1861-
1865 era. At the end of the program the
members of the band will receive their
coveted band letters. The most outstanding
member of the band will receive the “Sousa
Award” and one of the hard-working
youngsters of the band will be named
“Rookie of the Year.”
Your support of the Newton High Band
Is needed at this time. We urge you to at
tend this concert. You will hear good music
played in an expert manner. You will also
be helping the band to grow and buy bet
ter instruments. Your money will help pay
for the band trip to the Davidson-VMI foot
ball game on October 21, where the band
has been asked to perform at halftime. You
will enjoy an evening of fine entertainment
and at the same time you will be support
ing the youngsters who have worked hard
all year to give Newton County High School
one of the best bands in the state.
Memory of Stephen Foster
Lives On In Memorial
At White Springs, Florida
All America honors Stephen Foster, our
great and tragic composer, but his memory
is cherished especially in Pittsburgh, where
he was born, and in Florida on the banks
of the Suwannee River he immortalized in
song.
There at White Springs, on U.S. Highway
41, the state of Florida which adopted “Way
Down Upon the Suwannee River” as its
official song in 1935, has developed and
maintains a great Stephen Foster Memo
rial. On May 5,6, and 7, during National
Music Week, the ninth annual Florida Folk
Festival was held there. It is a spot that
touring mure lovers who wish to keep
their travel dollars in the US should keep
in mind. So is the great Foster Hall col
lection of material at the University of
Pittsburgh.
Both were initiated by the late Josiah
K. Lilly of Indianapolis, one of the phar
maceutical manufacturers whose story is
told in Tom Mahoney’s recent Harper book,
“The Merchants of Life.” As a boy, Lilly
had been thrilled by DePauw students
singing Foster songs on Spring evenings.
For more than 20 years before his death
in 1948, he collected Foster relics with en
thusiasm and success.
He did not live to see the Memorial at
White Springs but Florida’s Stephen Foster
Memorial Commission and private donors
have enlarged it until it now is a 243-acre
landscaped state park representing an in
vestment of $1,250,000. One of its attrac
tions is a 97-bell carillon, the largest musi
cal instrument ever made in the western
hemisphere. When the air is clear, it can be
heard eight miles.
Many Foster songs are played there but
the most popular is the one about the river.
As somebody has written, there are two
Suwannee Rivers. One winds from the
Okefenokee swamp in Georgia through
Flordia to the Gulf but “the real Suwannee
River rises in the highest mountains of
the human soul and is fed by the deepest
springs of the human heart; it flows through
the pleasant, sunny vales of memory and
empties into the glorious ocean of unful
filled dreams . . .”
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The Food Dollar Buys More
Today Than in Past Years
The American people, by and large,
eat better than ever before. And you can
give a good share of the credit for that
to the efficiency of modern food retailing.
This is highlighted in a Department of
Agriculture study of food costs. It says,
“A year’s income or an hour’s work buys
more food and marketing services than
ever before,” and chalks up that achieve
ment to increased efficiency. The statistics
substantiate the conclusion. In 1960 for
instance, hourly earnings of food marketing
workers averaged a big 77 per cent higher
than in 1947-49. But labor cost per unit was
up only 37 per cent — less than half as
much. Thus, higher efficiency, resulting
from new and improved distribution tech
niques, far offset the wage increases.
The Department’s study presents another
interesting fact. About 25 per cent of the
increase in the marketing bill that took
place between 1940 and 1960 was account
ed for by “built-in maid service” — that
is, the vastly stimulated demand for ready
to-eat or almost ready-to-eat foods. The
housewife wants to cut the time she must
spend in the kitchen, and she’s more than
willing to pay the inevitable costs this en
tails.
What is true of food is true, in varying
degree, throughout retail industry. Com
petition has spurred all manner of im
provements which have held price increases
to a minimum — just as competition keeps
profits at very modest levels.
Multiple Sclerosis Hope
Campaign Is Now On
Time will heal it.
When medicine cannot cure, we sus
tain ourselves with the hope that time will
help. Medicine cannot yet cure multiple
sclerosis. Nor can time heal it. On the con
tary, multiple sclerosis feeds on time, thrives
on it, and, in time, wrestles its victims into
the wheel-chairs and beds of the chronically
disabled.
In 1946. a group was formed which be
came the National Multiple Sclerosis So
ciety. Its original — and still primary —
object was to encourage and support re
search into this disease. Later, it set up
clinics and patient service programs to care
for some of the 500,000 Americans afflicted
by this and related diseases. In its 15-year
history, it has spent $2,400,000 on research,
has launched 145 research projects, has
granted 30 fellowships to young, talented
doctors who are interested in the field, and
has become the world’s central clearing
house for literature and information on
the subject.
On the Society’s Crystal Anniversary,
multiple sclerosis is still without known
cause or cure. But the research goes on,
the literature piles up, the knowledge grows.
And one day — may it come soon — must
come the break that will lock this disease
under medical control. Birthday gifts some
times present a problem. In this case, the
solution is simple. Give to the MS Hope
Chest campaign which runs from Mother’s
Day. May 14, to Father’s Day, June 18.
It’s the best way of saying, “Greetings and
best wishes to the National Multiple Scle
rosis Society on its 15th Anniversary’.”
Dr. E. Vincent Askey, president of the
American Medical Association, says: “It
is not enough that a doctor upgrade his
knowledge, sharpen his skill, work endless
hours in behalf of his patients, and provide
leadership in the broad and te ical field
of medical practice. He must also demon
strate leadership in helping to retain the
freedom of individual opportunity, the vol
untary system of medical care and the high
standards of that care which he has helped
to build and to which he is dedicated to
protect.”
According to the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, in a release based
upon an analysis of U. S. government sta
tistics, labor unions averaged one work
stoppage every two days at 21 Atlas. Titan,
and Minuteman intercontinental missile
bases during the eight-month period of
July-February’. This was double the rate
for the year ending June 30, 1960.
. Fortune predicts that in the next 18
i months the gross national product (which
I is the value of all goods and services pro
• duced in this country) will reach an annual
rate of $545 billion — S4O billion more than
the recent rate.
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As of last June, the Department of De
[ sense had about 100.879 acres of roads and
। pavements, about 166.155 acres of roads and
I streets, and approximately 13.200 acres of
' covered denot st space. Cost of this
( acreage was $6.9 billion.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Fast Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
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SOUR WEEKLY (QIESSON FOR
UNDAY OCHOOL
The Importance of Diligence
Bible Material: I Kings 4:29-
34; Proverbs 6:6-9; 22:29; 24:30
-34; Ecclesiastes 3:22; 2 Thes
salonians 3:6-13.
Devotional Reading: 2 Thes
salonians 3:6-13; Memory Se
lection: Whatever your task,
work heartily, as serving the
Lord and not men. Colossians
3:23.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:'
With All Your Might.
Background Scripture: Pro
verbs 6:6-9. 22-29; 24:30-34;
Ecclesiastes 3:22; 2 Thessalon- i
ians 3:6-13.
Many people think that work,
is a curse, and one hears many |
Labor Day sermons to the same
effect. Yet just the opposite is
true. God ordained that man
should work, even before sin
entered the world, for when He
put man in the garden He told
him “to dress it and to keep it”
(Gen. 2:15), which meant that
man had to work even in the
idyllic scene of Eden.
Work was part of the econ
omy of God from the very
beginning, and it will be part
of the economy of heaven, for
John, in his vision on the isle
of Patmos, says that in heaven
“his servants shall serve him”
(Rev. 22:3). There is no room
for laziness in the Kingdom of
God.
God not only ordained man ■
for work, but He Himself
works. The creation of the
mighty universe and its preser
vation are proofs that our God
is not lazy. And certainly Je- '
sus was not indolent when He
was here on earth, doing the
works of Him who sent Him
(John 9:4). We who profess,
Christ as our Lord have no
right, therefore, to be lazy.
That which we do we should do
with all of our might, as unto
tho Lord.
Our lesson today deals main
ly with the observations of the
wise men of Israel on diligence
and indolence. They were keen
observers of human nature, and
they were quick to see the
blessings that accrued to the
industrious man, as well as the
troubles that hounded the lazy
man.
The wise man of Israel un
leashed some of his choicest sa
tire against the sluggard. H i s
contempt for the lazy man
knew no bounds; he detested
the indolent man above all
fools. To get the full picture of
the wise man’s contempt for
this individual, we must quote
some of the passages in Pro
verbs besides our printed text.
The slothful man naturally
loves to sleep. “As the door
turneth on his hinges, so doth
the slothful upon his bed” (26:-
14). He never wants to get up,
and so he turns on his bed
from side to side. “Yet a little
sleep, a little slumber, a little
folding of the hands to sleep”
(24:33) is the motto of t h e
sluggard.
When at last he brings him
self to get up from his bed and
sit down at the table, he is too
lazy even to eat. “The slothful
"■ b '>nd in his bosom;
it wears him out to bring it
.0 his mouth” (26:15;
19:24). When the time comes
to go out into the street to pur
sue his daily duties, he makes
ingenious excuses. “There is a
lion without; I shall be mur
dered in the streets” (22:13;
26:13). When one walks by the
field of the slothful and looks
at the vineyard of the man
who is void of understanding,
he sees that it is all grown over
with thorns and nettles, and the
stone walls thereof are bro
ken down (24-30-31).
Truly one would think that
a man who acted like this
would be ashamed of himself.
But not the sluggard! Rather is
he full of arrogance, for “the
sluggard is wiser in his o w n
conceit than seven men that
can render a reason” (26:16).
For such a one there is no hope.
■ The spiritual decay and degra
dation of the sluggard is far
more serious than the poverty
which results from his laziness.
As the wise man puts it, “The
desire of the slothful killeth
him. for his hands refuse to
labor” (21:25). In fact, the
sluggard is akin to the one
who destroys. “He also that is
slothful in his work is brother
to him that is a destroyer”
(18:9).
Idleness kills the soul and
-preads destruction around it.
This is true not only of indi
viduals, but also of societies and
nations as well.
We see in our own day whole
groups of people that have be
; come enervated and corrupt be
| cause of certain conditions of
climate or the natural lushness
’of vegetation which makes it
difficult or unnecessary for
them to work. And there is
j even grave danger in a great
■ industrial nation like ours to
demand less work and higher
wages. Automation is as ser
jious a threat to the social and
I moral structure of our nation |
as the industrial revolution was '
i a hundred years ago.
It is only if we have the cor
rect view of work as a gift and
trust from God that we can
solve the economic problems of j
, a mechanized civilization.
When one sees how serious
’ a problem indolence must have
, been in the ancient world, one
wonders how much the wise
men of Israel tried to reform
the sluggard when they must
: have seen him on every hand.
| Did they find it possible to
change the lethargic tendencies
i of those who were constitution
| ally lazy? Did they try to edu
‘ cate them or discipline them in
■ any way? It is one thing to
1 diagnose an illness; it is an
-1 other to cure it. There is no
’ question that the wise men of
| I-rael were against laziness.
But what did they suggest to
do for it?
We do know one method that
the wise man used to com
bat the problem of indolence.
He went to the realm of nature
and described the industry of j
the little ant in order to re
buke the laziness and thrift-1
, lessness of man. There are two
«»reat passages in the Book of i
. Proverbs which deal with the
ant. In 30:24-25 we are told |
that one of the smallest things ’
! on earth is the ant, yet it is
exceedingly wise. “The ants are |
a people not strong, yet they
! prepare their meat in the sum
' mer.” And then the passage of
our lesson text. “Go to the ant,
thou sluggard: consider her
ways and be wise: Which hav
' ing no guide, overseer, or rul
’ er, Provideth her meat in the I
’ summer, and gathereth her
■ food in the harvest” (6:6-8).
Mankind has always marvel
' ed at the ways of the ant. They
seem so busy as they swarm
’ through the woods and fields
’ day and night. They build
: mounds of tremendous size
! which are far larger than man’s
J greatest structures according to
’ the relative size of the build
■ ers. They can lift far heavier
’ weights than man, compara
r tively speaking. Some myster
ious instinct sends these small
creatures out in ordered arrav
’ to forage for food in summer
’ for their nourishment in win
’ ter. Here truly is ample instruc
fion a^d warning for man, the
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crown of God’s creation, from j
one of the humbler inhabitants I
jof the earth.
Covington And
Porterdale Scouts
Are Honored
Boy Scout Troop 58 of Cov
■ ington sponsored by the Cov
: ; ngton Rotary Club received a
Blue Ribbon on its exhibit at
the 14th Annual Scouting Ex
i position at Lakewood Park last
week. Troop 58 collected 50
specimen of shrubs and trees
native to Camp Bert Adams
reservation here.
Troop 207, 226 and Explorer
Post 207 of Porterdale, spon
sored by Bibb Manufacturing
Company presented “The His
tory of Cotton”, showing the
steps from the raw materials to
the finished product. The ex
hibit also won a Blue Ribbon.
Cousins School
Tri-Hi-Y Officers
Are Installed
The Tri-Hi-Y of the R. L.
Cousins High School met Mon
day, May, 8, 1961 for the pur
pose of electing officers for the
next school term.
The incoming officers for
the Senior Tri-Hi-Y are:
Janie Reese, President; Rosa
I Burdett, Vice President: Rosa
Graham, Secretary; Annie K.
(Lackey, Ass’t. Secretary;
' Smithie Tuggle, Treasurer;
Gwendolyn Thomas, World
I Service Chairman; Johnny
Russell and Ruby Brown,
Community Project Chairman;
Martha Russell and Rosa Eu
banks, Reporters; Dorothy Mul
. lirs. School Project Chairman.
The incoming officers for
the Junior Tri-Hi-Y are:
Jackie William. President;
Patricia Wright, Vice Presi
dent; Gerldine Johnson, Secre
tary; Carolyn Graham, Ass’t
Secretary; Mary Goss, Trea
surer; Laquita Jackson, World
1 Service Chairman; Francias
' Nolley, Community Project
’ Chairman; Juniia Russell, Re
’ porter.
We the members of the Tri
. Hi-Y are hoping that these new
officers will function as well as
. the out-going officers did with
the same determination to gc
forward and conquer new and
• exciting ideas in a Christian
way.
Smithie Tuggle
Reporter
~ ■ ■
South Viet Nam...
Is This Where We
Will Dig In?
‘ j By LEO S. MALLARD
t '
) ■
Laos seems to be a lost cause because we: haveagain de
5 cided to negotiate with the Communists of the Pathet L .
We hesitated to resort to direct intervention when the: t
was right. It seems as though the Communis w
; chalk up another victory on their score card while, we go
: on searching for firm ground not yet infested w thConi
* munism where we can dig in and make a stand in t
> of freedom. South Viet Nam may be our breastworks.
' Last week Vice - President,;
Lyndon B. Johnson arrived at ■
the Saigon airport in South!
Viet Nam to pay a special visit
to President Ngo Dinh Diem.
The business before the two.
men was to discuss South Viet.
Nam’s long struggle against
Communist subversion, and
how the Kennedy Administra-
_ tion plans to help the Diem gov
. ernment win that struggle.
e Johnson brought with him a
letter from President Kennedy i
r to President Diem. The letter:
contained 15 points for discus-;
sion and authorized the Vice- '
President to elaborate and;
a I make any modifications r.eces
’■ sary. After the meeting it wasj
• disclosed that the Kennedy ad- :
’ ministration had offered the:
— Diem government more U. S. I
V military aid for South Viet
l » Nam’s civil guard, now active- i
J ly mobilized as an extension of!
- the regular army; U. S. mili-]
- tary advisory groups to help i
i. train the self-defense corps,!
r the local village militias; funds
to help meet the cost of adding
;; 20,000 more men to South
- Viet Nam’s 150.000 - man ar
- my; special guerrilla - war-’
t fare training for army units;
detachments of U. S. Army en
j gineers to repair guerrilla -
wrecked bridges, construct
, roads and airstrips; money and
technicians for broadened pro
grams of public health, educa
tion, and economic develop-
■ ment.
v Johnson left his pow - wow
s with Diem in a jubilant mood,
h “It’s almost unbelievable and
0 beyond any expectation that
d we have reached a complete
ft meeting of minds on President
Kennedy’s ideas and Presi
dent Diem’s ideas, on how,
when, and where to deal with
Thursday. May 18, 1981
the Communists,” he told news
men. The United States is hope
ful that our aid will be going
to a country in which a firm
democratic foundation has al
ready been laid. We haxe
backed away about as far as
we can go without boarding
our next rocket ship bound for
outer space.
Diem seemed to be equally
' happy about the support that
Johnson had promised to give
' his government during their 2
• 3/4 hour conference. Johnson
was also applauded by local
I crowds of South Vietnamese as
jhe stopped several times to
speak to groups along the
• streets of Saigon. These people
know what Communist rule is
I like. They have seen what has
! happened to their sister state
of North Vietnam and that is
not the kind of life that they
: want to live.
Aid to South Viet Nam can
I be considered a good gamble.
If the country defies Commu
i nist subversion, and we believe
that it can, we have gained a
. lot. If it fails to weather t h e
i storm of Communism, we may
i be sure that South Viet Nam
will not be our last loss to the
Communists.
Application of adequate ni
trogen to grass is the key to
having a green, lush lawn, says
Extension Agronomist P. J.
Bergeaux.
When storing pesticides,
keep sprays and dusts in their
original containers.
If you transplant a tree,
keep it in as near as possible
the same typeof environment
as it was originally growing in.