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PAGE TEN THE COVINGTON NEWS BELMONT DENNIS Editor And Publisher LEO S. MALLARD Anti tent to Publisher 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? "People ar* too busy, they don't have time to read much any more, especially advertising. I know I don't," commented a newspaper reader re cently. It is very true that people are busy these 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. | (Largest Coveraer* Any Weekly In Th* Stat* NATIONAL EDITORIAL — Published Every Thursday — SUBSCRIPTION RATES Slnqle Copies 10c Fear Months $1.20 Ei*M Months $2.40 On* Teer —53.00 Fins 3% Seles Tei Feints evt *♦ Geer«ie-Y*e> S3.SO 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-! "^^n. 'm* nroof | 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- ■HIM SA m^zz^ ’ USE OUR AoX LAY -A ■ WAY PEAK! V . xL 4Mjt SI «?« (VSK Dove Season \< A1 BEGINS iW¥ Sept. 15 WW/ KING ■ HICKS HARDWARE CO. 10 S. Square Phone 786-2546 Covington, Georgia (Our AdterHßert Ar* Assured Os Results) 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. Consumers have welcomed new ideas for using speciality dairy foods such as non-fat dry milk, cottage cheese, so u r cream, chocolate milk and but termilk. That’s why consump tion of these and other dairy specialties has climbed as much as 25 per cent in the last few 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.