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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Relief And Unemployment
Compensation Places Premium
On Adultery, Broken Homes
Relief — and unemployment compensa
tion as well — are developing into one of
the country's biggest scandals, according
to the following article appearing in the
U. S. News and World Report in the issue
of September 4, 1961.
“Need for relief and unemployment
compensation is accepted by Congress.
Every State participates. It is in the abuses
of the programs, however, that the growing
scandal lies.
“Relief is found by many local officials
to encourage manifold cheating, to place
a premium on broken homes, real or false.
Relief is turning out to give sanction to
illegitimacy. All kinds of ways are being
devised by indolent or indigent people to
live in the style to which they have be
come accustomed, without doing a day’s
work.
“There are increasing signs that Con
gress is beginning to be interested in the
scandals that relief is generating.
“Staff members of “U. S. News and
World Report’’ have been digging into the
situations that are being uncovered in many
communities across the country. The result
is a graphic display of abuses that seem
to be more and more common.
“Abuses appear to be more prevalent
in the program of Aid to Dependent Chil
dren and in unemployment insurance. But
instances of cheating and of lax administra
tion crop up in other aid programs, too —
wherever there is a chance to get something
for nothing.
“Under ADC rules, a mother with a
substandard income or no income at all
can draw relief pay for herself and each
child under 18 years of age, provided the
father of the children is not on hand to
support them, or is unemployed.
“These rules are being blamed for stim
ulating a great rise in illegitimacy and
broken homes. A growing number of
mothers appear to find it profitable to grow
children and to keep the father away from
home.
“Examples cropping up from one end
of the country to the other show what is
happening with ADC.
“In New Jersey a legislative investiga
tion found one woman with 14 illegitimate
children, by 10 different fathers. This
woman was found to have drawn more
So You Think People
Don't Read Advertising?
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have time to read much any more,
especially advertising. I know I don't,"
commented a newspaper reader re
cently.
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days, more busy than they ever were be
fore. No one is as busy as a person with
nothing to do.
With the shorter work week, higher
wages, people have more outside interest.
They enjoy recreation, have more hours
for play, move around more. Travel not only
broadens people, but it also flattens them.
That means they spend more money. Ad
vertising helps people spend money wisely.
With all this activity in the home, people
also do not have as much time to shop
the stores any more. They have read about
what they want in their newspaper, and
come to town with a purchase list. Over
eighty percent of the housewives have a
definite purchase in mind and a definite
place to do their shopping. Newspaper ad- |
vertising can and does help hake up the
chopping list.
With the addition of just one word the
above remark is literally true. “People do
not have time to read uninteresting ad- j
vertising.” Note the word “interest.” Re
member a few facts. Magazine circulation
is at all time high. Newspaper subscription
is the highest in history. Book sales are
busting all sales records.
Gone With the Wind is over 1.400 pages
of small type, and it has sold over 10,-
000,000 copies.
The secret of getting anything read and
remembered is interest. Make your adver
tising interesting to the customer and it
will be read whether it is long or short.
Step into any magazine stand, any book
store and look at the enormous amount of
reading being sold.
A store’s customers choose their read
ing, be it books or advertising. People read,
that is a proven fact. Whether they read
a store’s advertisements is determined by
the writer of that advertising. Store ad
vertising should be news to the customer. |
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than $61,000 in welfare money over an
18-year period.
“Another family with 23 children —
15 of them illegitimate — was found to be
drawing close to SI,OOO a month in relief
payments, including some Social Security
benefits.
“In New York a woman with 11 illegi
timate children, drawing $460 a month in
relief cnecks for ADC, was found living
as a “tenant” in the home of the father of
two of the children.
“This woman’s “rent” was being paid
out of welfare funds, although her “land
lord” had a well-paying job. In addition, her
“landlord” was found to be claiming her
and three of her children as exemptions
on his income tax.
“In Denver, one mother of two illegi
timate children, where relief income is not
taxed, said: “Why should I work? What
money I made they would take in taxes?”
“In Los Angeles a tax official points
out that two out of every five illegitimate
children are conceived by mothers who
are receiving relief payments under the
ADC program.
“In Portland, Oregon, a welfare worker
commented: “I’d have a tough time naming
more than a few cases where ADC is being
used the way it was intended — so that
children get a better home, become inde
pendent, not shiftless like their parents.”
“The present unemployment bill of 2.7
billion dollars is up half a billion dollars
from the 1959 bill. Relief payments have
soared a like amount in the past year.
“Wherever you look across the nation
at the workings of the welfare state you
find the price is going up.
“Protests at these rising costs have been
pouring into Washington at an increasing
rate in recent weeks. And they are begin
ning to be heard at top Government levels.
“The Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff, is on record as
saying:
“I’ve come to feel that we’re just drift
ing in the field of welfare. People in and
out of State and federal legislatures are
increasingly annoyed with welfare prob
lems. Are we on the right track in welfare
services?”
“A growing number of Americans are
answering “No” to that question.”
Electric Expert Says
U. S. Will Soon Lead
Russia In Space Race
If we are presently at a disadvantage in
our space race with Russia because we
have not built such huge rocket engines,
we have been quietly developing an in
surmountable technological lead while the
Reds were concentrating on bigger and
bigger boosters.
This is the opinion of Barton L. Weller,
electronics expert of Bridgeport, Conn.,
who points out that America’s use of small
er rockets for space exploration has forced
miniaturization in electronics and a resul
tant high degree of sophistication and relia
bility that are far beyond anything achiev
ed by the Soviets.
“As soon as the US gets the Saturn and
even more advance giant rockets into oper
ation,” Mr. Weller predicted in an address
at the opening of the Western Electronic
Show and Convention in San Francisco’s
Cow Palace, “we will quickly leave Rus
sia behind in the space race.”
Emphasizing a fact that is too often
overlooked, he reminds us that while most
of our space accomplishments have been
directed toward scientific objectives, the
Russian projects have been conducted
“principally for their propoganda impact.”
Our superior technology, says Mr. Wel
ler, enables us to reduce the size of atomic
weapons, and therefor use smaller and
less costly rockets for defense purposes —
while the Russians had to have huge rockets
to deliver their bulky bombs. “Now that
we have decided to build large rockets for
space exploration . . . and with an infin
itely broader technology than Russia can
hope to achieve in many, many years, we
should soon leave them behind in the one
field in which they appear to have a big
lead.”
But Mr. Weller warns of two things
that “can hurt us badly.’’ The first is our
| scientists’ passion for perfection that leads
, to “too many refinements in our space
[ systems . . . super-sophistication (that) costs
j time and money.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mall matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LES SO N FOR
unday School
Titus, a Competent Pastor
Bible Material: 2 Corinthians
2:12-13; 7:6, 13, 14; 8:6, 16, 23;
12:18; Galatians 2:1-3; 2 Tim
othy 4:10; Titus.
Devotional Reading: Titus
2:1-14.
Memory Selection: Show
yourself in all respects a model
of good deeds. Titus 2:7.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
A Good Pastor.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Titus: Serving in Hard Places.
The church of Christ is in
desperate need of ministers to
day. Christian young people
must be continually challenged
to give their lives in full time
service to Christ and his
church.
Recruitment for the ministry
should be one of the most im
portant parts of the Church’s
program. The home, the pastor
and church officers, education
al leaders on the boards and
in colleges and seminaries,
should be presenting the call
of the ministry to young peo
ple in the various stages of their
spiritual growth.
The lesson for today is very
important in this area of the
minister and his call, life, and
qualifications. Through the
study of Titus. Paul’s helper,
we learn about the responsi
bilities o f ‘he pastor in his va
rious activities of the church.
We also learn how a minister
should conduct himself as
God’s reoresentative among his
neople. Also what a minister
should know and what he is to
teach his people about the ways
of God.
The Christian layman should
realize that the ministry is a
much more complicated task
today than it was two thousand
years ago when Titus lived. To
be sure, the spiritual problems
are still much the same, but
the minister today must be an
expert in all sorts of areas and
techniques which were un
known in the early church.
Even though this is a lesson on
the pastor, it may be well to
point out that the laymen also
have responsibilities in the
church. They must try to help
their spiritual leader in areas
where they are more expert
than he, so that he may give
more of his time to spiritual
matters in which he is sup
posed to be —and should be—a
specialist.
Titus was a trusted compan
ion of Paul. He was sent by
Paul on several difficult mis
sions which he successfully ac
complished. He is never men
tioned in the Book of Acts, but
is quite frequently referred to
in the eoistles of Paul. Accord
ing to Galatians 2:3, Titus was
born of Greek parents: “But
neither Titus, who was with
me, being a Greek, was com
pelled to be circumcised.” It is
possible that he came from
Antioch, since he attended the
conference at Jerusalem with a
delegation from that city (Acts
15:2; Gal. 2:1, 3). Paul refers
to Titus in his epistle (Tit. 1:4)
as “mine own son after the
common faith,” which may in
dicate that he was converted
through the instrumentality of
the aoostle. As Paul’s soirituai
son, Titus gave his life to full
time Christian service. He ac
companied the apostle on his
missionary journeys, establish
ed churches, and helned to set
tle problems in certain trouble
spots among the churches
which Paul had founded.
It is clear from the example
of Titus that a genuine com
mitment to Christ is a prere
quisite for a life of Christian
service. When Titus became a
Christian, he had to turn his
back upon his pagan friends
and pagan religion and yield
himself completely to Christ.
With this change in his life, he
felt a call to serve Christ in
his Church as the companion
and heloer of Paul.
A true servant of Christ yields
himself to God’s will and obeys
his call, whatever it may be. I
where he may have to go.
Titus, as a young man, was
to olay a most imnortant role
m the history of the Christian
Church. Paul's success in con
vert'nr Gentiles to the Christ
ian faith began to trouble cer
tain Jewish Christians of the
church in Jerusalem who be
lieved that these Gentile con
verts should be made to abide
bv the remilat’ons of the Mo
saic law. A conference was held ]
in Jerusa^m (Acts 151 where
‘his prob’em was discussed.
Paul took with him Barnabas
and Titus (Gal. 2:1) to face
‘he Judaizers. Titus h; ms elf
became the test case. He was i
a Gentile convert who h a d no t |
submitted to the rite of circum-!
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of repentance unto like grant- j
ed to all Gentiles. No doubt
the presence of Titus angered
the Judaic party, but the
Church refused to compel him
to be circumcised, thus siding
with Paul in his insistence on
the freedom of the Gentiles
from the Mosaic law (Gal.
2:3-5).
Titus must have been ex
tremely interested in these
matters as a Gentile convert
to allow himself to be drawn
into the controversy in such a
vital and decisive way. His
loyalty to Paul in those trying
days was admirable.
It took a good deal of cour
age for a young Christian con
vert to face the authorities of
the mother Church and stand
up for his convictions. This
time of testing stood him in
good stead in later times when
he faced graver difficulties in
his own life.
It seems that Titus was given
only difficult things to do. We
have already seen how he was
the central figure in the con
troversy between the Judaizers
of the church in Jersalem and
Paul. In this section we are
dealing with Titus’s mission to
the church in Corinth where
grave trouble had all but
wrecked Paul’s pioneer work
in that city. Then we shall see
the difficult task that faced
Titus as Paul’s deputy on the
island of Crete. Finally, we
hear that Titus went to Dal
matia, a wild region bordering
on the eastern coast of the
Adriatic Sea (2 Tim. 4:10).
For some Christians, follow
ing Christ means hardship, dif
ficulties, disappointment. But
Titus did not complain. He at
tempted the impossible with
Christ and, as far as we know,
he was successful in his mis
sions.
We know more about the
church at Corinth than about
any other that Paul founded.
From the letters of Paul to this
church, we learn that there
were many problems among
the Corinthian Christians which
threatened the very life of this
group. Moral laxity was pre
valent here; the sacraments
were being abused; various
factions were present in the
church. The old Judaistic ten-
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ci-, ncies were here; and the
people, goaded on by false
leaders, became estranged from
Paul and his teachings. Some
even repudiated his apostle
ship.
To try to remedy this dan
gerous situation, Paul wrote
his first letter to the Corin
thians and had even made a
special visit to the city of
Corinth. But to no avail! The
people were bitter against him.
and jealous rivalries were de
stroying the church he had
founded. It appears that he
even sent Timothy to try to
heal the breach (I Cor. 16:10-
11), but this evidently failed
too.
We have given this rather
detailed account of the con
ditions in Corinth in order to
point up the difficult task that
fell to Titus and to emphasize
the measure of his talents by
which he brought peace and
order out of such a chaotic con
dition. If Timothy had failed
before him, and if Paul him
self had not been able to han
dle the situation by a personal
visit we may well believe that
Titus felt that the task was
too great for him. Yet Titus
went (2 Cor.B-6, being per
suaded by Paul’s stubborn faith
in the Corinthians (2 Cor.
7:14). Paul exhorts the Cor
inthians in beautiful words to
receive Titus and his two com
oanions. “Whether any do en
quire of Titus, he is my partner
and fellow helper concerning
you: or our brethren be en
quired of. they are the mes
sengers of the churches and the
glory of Christ” (2 Cor. 8:23).
Titus’s mission was a great
success for all concerned. He
brought back to Paul the good
news that the Corinthians were
sorry for their offenses and
that they were again kindly
disoosed toward Paul (2 Cor.
7:7). This was not only com
forting for Paul’s emissary, had
shown himself to be a tactful
leader of the church who was
not afraid to tackle the hardest
iob. He was a trusted leader in
a day of great need.
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years.
Soviets Eyes Fall
On Wealthy Iran
By LEO S. MALLARD
Premier Khruschev was quoted recently as saying that
Iran would be the next country to fall his way after Cuba
and Laos. He expects this victory without having to intervene
in the internal affairs of this country.
Boasting a population of t
twenty million and a territory
almost a fifth the size of the 1
United States. Iran is rich in <
minerals of all kinds, includ- <
ing several billion tons of oil
reserves. The northern 1,500 i
mile frontier of Iran is the on- i
ly one between Russia and
several other billion tons of ;
oil around the Persian Gulf.
Many Westerners, however,
c n’t believe that Iran will be
the pushover that Khrushchev
expects. Although the life of
its wretched peasantry has
changed very little since the
days of Cyrus the Great, a
new middle class, still quite
small but active and literate, has
been growing to bridge the
gap between the filthy rich
and the poverty stricken mass
es.
Iran has already undergone
its revolution, similar to the
revolutions which occur fre
quently In the Middle East
nowadays, back in 1951 when
Mohammed Mossadegh rose to
power. Her oil fields were na
tionalized and the number of
Communist officers in her
army rose from 100 to 650.
Politically the revolution was
a success but economically it
failed. Mossadegh fell two
years later.
The Shah, who had fled the
country, returned along with
the foreign oil companies. Un
der his leadership Iran joined
the Baghdad Pact and signed a
military pact with the United
States. Communist officers
were executed and the Com
munist Tudeh Party was out
lawed.
The illiteracy rate in Iran is
appalling. Eight out of ten
Persians still can’t read or
write. Poverty, disease, cor
ruption. and feudal injustice
st' l ! exists but the social struc-
Thursday, September 14, 1981
ture has altered some.
Young Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlevi came out of exile
determined to modernize his
country. With American help
($650 million in seven years)
and the revenues from the new
international oil consortium
(now running to S3OO million a
year), he launched first a
Seven-Year-Plan and now a
Five-year-Plan.
The program, however, was
incoherent and the wasted
funds shocking. But all was
not lost. The number of schools
was doubled; five new uni
versities were built; several
dams, roads, and hospitals were
constructed; agricultural pro
duction rose six per cent a
year; and industrial produc
tion by twenty per cent The
annual per capita income rose
from SIOO to SIBO.
Iran now sends 17.000 stu
dents to study abroad yearly,
the majority of whom are from
the new middle class that has
arisen. These youths return
with radical, though rarely
Communist, opinions. Their in
terest is not vested in revolu
tion.
These young people see that
their government is in desper
ate need of competent admin
istrators. Iran is not troubled
by its governments long range
policies, but by the extrava
gance with which these poli
cies are carried out. The govern
ment spending spree must end
somewhere and the educated
of the new middle class a r e
rising to meet this threat. In
these young people lies Iran's
deterrent against Communism.
A sense of humor is what
makes you laugh at something
that happens to somebody else
which would make you mad if
it happened to you.