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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
President Says We're
Making Preparations For
Resuming Nuclear Tests
Twice in the course of his first press
conference in four weeks, President Ken
nedy stated that the US is making prepa
rations for resumption of nuclear weapons
testing — presumably in the atmosphere.
In answer to a question as to whether
Russia or the US had blasted more mega
tons of atomic energy into the air, the presi
dent gave the palm to Russia. In denying
the Red charge that we have fired a great
er aggregate tonnage to date than they,
Mr. Kennedy gave Russia’s score as 170
megatons as compared with about 125 mega
tons for the US and Britain combined.
In justification of current US test prep
arations, he said: “The Soviet Union pre
pared to test while we were at the table
negotiating with them. If they fooled us
once, it’s our own fault; if they fool us
twice, it’s our fault."
Yet he carefully avoided any statement
that might indicate a decision on actual
testing is even close. Twice, he repeated
from his November 2nd statement on the
subject that “we would not test for poli
tical or psychological reasons, but only if
we felt the security of the United States
Was endangered.”
Pinned down by another questioner as
to whether we would not lose out in our
jiuclean strength in relation to Russia’s if
we fail to resume testing, the President re
minded the reporters that he had said “it
would be our obligation” to remain “sec
ond to none” in this respect. This, he said,
“Is what we intend to do.” The decision
Will depend, he said, on calculations that
“will have to be made.”
If there is any comfort to be drawn
from this nuclear test discussion, at the
conclusion of the President’s first year in
office, it is simply that “because there is
al long time gap, we have ordered prepara
tions to be made.” The inference would
be that this is not exactly a crash program.
But, after all, lack of decision is not very
stimulating.
1 A short nap now and then is enjoyed
Uy the best of us, especially when we are
supposed to be reading, or listening to
high-class music.
In the fierce battle to achieve success,
a happily married man has at least one
strike against him because there’s not much
point in struggling to improve his enviable
one.
HE FACE!) THE CROSS
WITH UNYIELDING
COURAGE
We stand almost twenty cen
turies away from Calvary. Since
that bleak day in history much
has been written about the
meaning of Calvary. M^n’s
quest for truth about Christ
and the cross has revealed
some things that were shroud
ed with confusion and mystery
during the days that preceded
and followed the crucifixion.
The disciples were confused.
Pilate and the High Priest were
astonished. Only a few days
before the crucifixion Jesus en
tc red the Temple in Jerusalem
and cast out the moneychan-
gers. This was a bold move. It
looked as if Jesus might be
ready to launch his attack and
establish his kingdom in keep
ing with the traditional idea of
the Messiah.
It was not difficult to see
th at the Temple was being mis
used. It should be a place of
prayer. Instead it had been
turned into a thoroughfare.
Reverence had given way to
the clink of money and a greedy
rabble. The Temple was being
u'ed for just about everything
except worship. That is to say,
worship had lost its dominant
place in the Temple.
The disciples pledged them
selves to fight until victory was
acclaimed or until death. This
sort of pledge is loyalty un
limited. They did not under
stand the mind of Jesus. He
would never set up his king
dom by force. The Kingdom of
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God is a voluntary Kingdom of
love.
In the darkness of the night
Judas came with a multitude to
, ! take Jesus. Jesus was in the
; Garden praying. Peter was
j ready to fight. He drew h i s
sword and struck a servant of
: the High Priest on the ear. Je
j sus commanded Peter to put
j his sword away. ‘Would he give
j up without a struggle?’ Peter
| must have thought to himself,
’ls this the end? Are we de
feated?’ This must have been
a confusing night for the disci
ples who had followed Jesus
for three years by the seashore
and through the dusty streets.
Jesus stood before the High
Priest and later before Pilate.
He heard false charges levied
j against him. He remained ^i
। lent. He made no effort to de
fend himself. His life was his
j only defense. There are times
when it takes more patience
and fortitude to remain silent
, than it does to speak. This was
one of those times.
Jesus faced the trial and the
, cross with unquenching cour
age. He was never afraid. The
, battle of Calvary was fought in
; the Garden of Gethsemane.
' Jesus clearly saw the cross in
' the garden. He prayed for an
other way. Before the struggle
was over Jesus knew that the
cross was inevitable if he re
i mained true to His Father. The
cross was God’s way. Jesus ne
ver questioned God’s will.
“O my Father,” prayed our
Lord, “if this cup may not
pass away from me. except I
drink it, Thy will be done.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
World Appreciates
Whimsical Writers
James Thurber is dead and the world is
a little lonelier for many people. Thurber
was the gentle and sardonic man from Col
umbus, Ohio, who brightened the lives of
millions with works like “Men, Women and
Dogs,” “The Middle Aged Man on the Fly
ing Trapeze,” and "The Secret Life of Wal
ter Mitty.”
In the last, a whimsical masterpiece re
printed for the second time in the Nov
ember Reader's Digest, he described a man
— much like all men — who dreams of
flying a plane through a storm, perform
ing a miracle of surgery, and facing a
firing squad without a handkerchief over
his eyes — but who has trouble remember
ing to buy puppy biscuit at the super mar
ket.
But James Thurber was no Walter Mit
ty. An arrow cost him an eye as a boy
and the sight of the other failed gradually
and in his last years he was completely
blind. But the growing darkness did not
dim his wit nor cloud his courage nor
impede his fame in many fields.
“Most writers,” a colleague once write,
“would be glad to settle for any one of
Thurber’s accomplishments. He has written
the funniest memoirs, fables, reports, sa
tires, fantasies, complaints, fairy tales and
sketches of the last 20 years, has gone into
the drama and the cinema . . . and has lit
tered the world with thousands of draw
ings.”
We are not likely to see his equal soon.
Nothing To Give - Until!
Soakmg the rich, via the taxation route,
has long been a political technique that
has paid off handsomely as a vote getter.
But the fly in the ointment now is,
that as the tax boosters run up the total
tax take, to the confiscation point, there
aren’t enough “rich” to meet their demands,
so they have to lower their sights and in
crease taxes on the middle and low income
citizens to raise the money to cover their
spending projects.
The biggest political spenders, who ad
vocate having the “government” do this
or that “free” or “at cost” for the people,
are very careful to refrain from saying
that the government can provide nothing
“at cost” or for “free” until it first takes
the money away from them. You don’t get
something for nothing from government,
because it has nothing to give until it first
acquires it through taxes.
Big Ones And Little Ones
While the manufacture of
Southern Pine lumber is pro
j ceeding at a steady rate —
enough to build one million
; homes a year—the producers
have added some important by
products which have greatly
increased theoverall volume.
i Perhaps the most intrigu
ing are two “opposite numb
ers”: the humble pulp chip
Jand the great glued laminated
• I wood arch.
Bits and leavings from the
: saws, which once had no value
save for fuel, are now convert
ed into pulp chips—thanks to
the large scale installation of
debarkers and chippers. Last
year. Southern lumber com
panies produced more than 2
1/2 million cords of pulp chips
and supplied them to the pa
per industry. This represents
15 percent of the total raw ma
terial the region used in paper
manufacture.
In the other case, special
fabricating concerns and some
lumber companies are gluing
one and two inch thicknesses
of Southern Pine lumber to
build giant structural sections
of “engineered wood.” These
great glued members have tre
mendous strength and are es
pecially useful in church and
school construction.
With all this productivity,
it's amazing to note that tim
ber supply in the forests is in
creasing at an equally fantas
tic rate. Despite heavy indus
trial demands, present growth
of Southern Pine sawtimber
exceeds removal by 22 percent
or by 2 1/2 billion board feet
a year.
Matthew 26:42. We shoula ne
ver be afraid of God’s will. In
the final analysis it will be the
best.
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SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Growth Through Witnessing
Bible Material: Matthew
5:13-16; Luke 10:1-24; Acts
4:13 - 21.
Devotional Reading: Acts
1:6-11; Memory Selection: We
cannot but speak of what we
have seen and heard. Acts
4:20.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Growth Through Witnessing.
Background Scripture: Luke
10:1 - 24; Matthew 5:13-16;
Acts 4:13 - 21.
The events of today’s lesson
revolve about one of the most
thrilling events in the early
history of the church. A man
had been healed of a life-long
affliction. In Acts 3 we read
that as Peter and John went up
into the temple “at the hour
of prayer, being the ninth
hour.” a man who had been
paralyzed from birth and who
every day was brought to the
temple gate and set amongst
the beggars to cry for alms, be
sought Peter and John for a
pittance. But Peter “fastening
his eyes upon him with John,
said. Look on us. . . Then Peter
said, Silver and gold have I
none: but such as I have give
I thee: In the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth rise up and
walk. And he took him by the
right hand, and lifted him up:
and immediately his feet and
ancle bones received strength.”
Here indeed was a marvelous
miracle, and it had been per
formed in the name of Jesus
Christ and by the power of Je
sus Christ. Then Peter follow
ed up the miracle with a ser
mon —a powerful sermon in
deed — showing that Jesus
Christ was the culmination of
those promises which God had
made to the world through
Israel.
And in this sermon Peter un
furled the banner of salvation
with these words: “Neither is
there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name
under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved”
(Acts 4:12).
The miracle not only arous
ed almost hysterical excitement
among the people but involved
Peter and John in an extreme
ly serious situation.
All ecclesiastical and most of
the civil affairs among the
Jews in those days were hand
led by a body of church digni
taries know as the Sanhedrin
(or Sanhedrim). This was the
official body which had perse
cuted Jesus and brought him to
crucifixion. With crafty insight
they realized that if Christ and
his gospel came to be accepted
among the people, they and
their pretensions to power and
authority were gone.
The two disciples, follow
ing the healing, had spent the
night in jail. The next morn
ing they were brought before
the high priests and their
kindred. One would have
thought that the official thanks
of the nation would have been
extended to these two Chris
tian disciples who had caused
a lame man to stand up and
walk. Instead, however, the
members of the Sanhedrin were
startled, annoyed, and enraged
sver the whole thing. A man
had been healed by unauthor
ized persons. What was the;
world coming to if a couple of I
Galilean fishermen could heal
a man of a life-long disease
while the church of the living
God stood by helpless and
hopeless? Such an alarming
state of affairs called for im
mediate and drastic action.
When the twu apostles were
brought before the Sanhedrin
the morning after their arrest,
he judges were stupefied.
Along wim the rest of the po
pulation they were overwhelm
ed by the marvelods character
of the healing. But what as
tounded them almost as much
was that these two “unlearned
and ignorant men” (^ot train
ed in any rabbinical school and
not holding an ecclesiastic.l
position) had preached a ser
mon which had contained un
answerable arguments. Fur
thermore, when brought the
next morning out of the prison,
they spoke courageously and
with an effectiveness of de
livery which completely over
awed their persecutors.
The time-serving Jewish of
ficials could not understand
how men who did not have
higher education and profes
sional training could speak au
thoritatively on matters of re
ligion. But Peter was to set
forth a truth which has persist
ed through the centuries, name
ly, that one does not have to
be a well-educated person in
Christianity and to be a good
Christian.
What one needs is sincerity
of heart and faith in God as
revealed in Jesus Christ.
The lesson for us today is a
warning that we stop putting
too great emphasis upon the
worth and authority of formal
educaion. Everyone should get
as much education as his means
and ability allow. But we must
always recognize the fact that
men of simple faih and no
learning often see more deep
ly into the things of God than
do people who have many
learned and earned academic
degrees.
Jesus Christ had come to give
men light. If they would but
open their hearts, this illumi
nation would be their portion.
The result through the ages
has often been that some of the
highly educated have been
enemies of God and his pro
jects, whereas men of simple
faith have led in the kingdom
enterprises.
Some of the greatest Chris
i tian leaders in every genera
tion are highly educated men.'
Higher education does not
conflict with Christian faith. :
The contention of the Bible is,
however, that persons of no ed
ucation at all may have Chris-;
tian faith and enjoy all its J
benefits if they will but open
their hearts in all sincerity to
receive it.
“And beholding the man
which was healed standing with
them, they (the priests) could
say nothing against it (the;
miracle).”
The best witness of t h e
truth of Christianity has al
ways been the person made
whole by faith.
We of the twentieth century
have come to be very strong ad- '
herents of that form of philo-1
sophy known as pragmatism,
which holds that truth is to be
tested by its consequences. A|
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The BtaM Thursday, November 30, 1961
Postmaster
Urges Early
Mail Dispatch
With Thanksgiving a recent
memory, Postmaster E. L.
Stephenson said today, “It’s
Christmas every day in the
P’st Office from now on.”
He offered these helpful
hints on how to mail your
Christmas cards and gifts to
insure prompt and safe de
livery before December 25th.
Use 4c postage on your Christ
mas cards. Sent by First Class
mail, they are sorted and de
livered first, and if you in
clude your return address on
each envelope, they will be
forwarded in the event of a
change of address, or if they
are undeliverable, they will
be returned to you. Also, you
can write a personal message
on the Christmas cards sent
by First Class mail: whereas,
only your signature is au
thorized on cards sent at the
3c, unsealed Third Class rate.
Avoid careless packing of
y >ur gifts. Use strong cartons,
wrap in heavy paper, and tie
with sturdy cord. Mark pack
ages container breakable gifts,
“Fragile” — “Handle With
Care”. Put an extra label car
rying the recipients and send
ers name and address inside
every package.
In conclusion, the Postmas
ter said, “By taking a little
extra care with your Christmas
mailing right now, you’ll avoid
disappointing friends and
loved ones. The Post Office is
fully prepared for the big
Christmas mail rush, but
through your cooperation in
mailing early and often, as
suggested by the National Im
proved Mail Service program,
there’ll be less danger of Some
Christmas cards and packages
not being delivered before
Christmas.”
$650,000 Lodge
Planned Atop Os
Blood Mountain
With a view towards boosting
Georgia’s tourist business, an
application for a $650,000 loan
to construct Blood Mountain
Lodge, a new vacation resort in
the North Georgia mountains,
has been approved bj r Jack J.
Minter, director of the Georgia
Department of Commerce.
The loan application is now
being submitted to the Area Re
development Administration in
Washington for review. The
Commerce Department is t h e
state agency designated to
handle the area redevelop
ment program in Georgia.
The 140-unit lodge, designed
by architect Thomas G. Little,
will offer a wide range of both
outdoor and indoor recreation
al activities. Included are plans
for an indoor ice skating rink, a
year-round heated swimming
pool, horseback riding, hiking,
hunting, fishing and archery.
Future development plans will
include a scenic lift, individual
lodges, toboggan and ski runs
and an airport, it was pointed
out.
thing is true if it works and not
true if it does not.
The healed man was the
greatest possible witness to the
power of Jesus Christ. Seeing
that poor beggar, who for years
had lain helpless at the gate
of the temple, entering therein
after his healing “walking, and
leaping, and praising God” and
the next morning standing be
side his benefactors, his count
enance no doubt beaming with
delight — this spoke more for
the power of Jesus Christ than
anything Peter or John or any
of the apostles might say. ■
We need to look back over
our own lives and over the
life of the world and ask our-
I selves whether or not Chris
' tianity proves itself genuine.
Does it work? Certainly the
• consensus of the world’s opin
ion would be that it does. It
i does not work perfectly be
; cause it must rely upon im
perfect persons — like our
selves — to put its principles
j into operation. Our results,
therefore, are just as imper
fect as we are. But that Chris
tian truth has through the
ages been righting wrongs, des
troying tyrannies, wiping out
evils, and advancing goodness
and mercy among men —of
: this there cannot be the least
doubt. The Roman world in the
days of the apostles was moral
ly so filthy that we fortunately
can find no counterpart of such
conditions in modern life.
Christianity cleaned up the an
cient world morally. It took
hundreds of years for Chris
tian truth to break the power
of chattel slavery, but this took
place at last.
Russians Admitted
To World Council
By LEO S. MALLARD
The prayers and hopes of 300 million Christians the
world over went out to the meeting of the World Council
of Churches convening in New Delhi, India last week. Dur
ing the opening days of the gathering the Russian Orthodox
Church (with an estimated membership of 50 million) was
admitted to full membership.
Commenting on the World The 1.200 delegates, obser-
Council meeting, Evangelist vers, staff members and spec-
Billy Graham said, “This con- ial guests (plus 275 newsmen)
ference can be either a Babel met in a world unused to or
or another Pentecost.” Council ganized religion. A memoran
rules forbid refusing admit- dum prepared by General Sec
tance to any true Christian retary Visser’t Hooft and
body which seeks admittance. Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the
The general feeling of t h e ( Church of South India remind-
Council’s admittance of t h e ed them that the mysterious
Russian church was summed East was accustomed to a dif
up by one delegate in t h i sferent brand of holy man. “To
way: “We can only receive• go to the capital city of India
them with open arms — and and proclaim that Jesus Christ
with eyes open as well.” is the light of the world is a
With its new Russian mem
bers and 22 other newcomers,
including its first two Pente
costal denominations (from,
Chile), the World Council of
Churches is indeed a towering
organization — 198 church
bodies, representing some’
300 million Christians.
Dr. Willem Viser’t Hooft,
general secretary of the WCC,
stated that: “The council has
now become a body represent
ing a wider variety of expres
sions of the Christian faith
than ever before united in one ■
organization. And within it we
are finding a considerable area
of agreement.”
The 18-day New Delhi meet- j
ing is the most portentous and |
significant of the World Coun-|
cil’s three gatherings — more
so than the founding Assem
bly at Amsterdam 13 years
ago, or the second Assembly at
Evanston, 111., in 1954. This
meeting may mark a new lease
on life for non-Roman Chris
tianity or bring on a critical
case of confusion and decline
Hunter Should
Be Downwind
From Game
Every hunter gives off hu
man scent. This scent is car
ried through the woods by the
wind, and that’s why a hun
ter must be downwind from
his game. But what happens
when there is no breeze, when
the day is perfectly calm. The
scent is still present. It travels
oit from the hunter in a cir
cle so that the hunter is “sur
rounded” by the scent. There
fore, on a calm day it’s a good
idea for a deer hunter to
change stands every 20 min
utes. This breaks up the scent
pattern and confuses the deer
so it doesn’t know for sure just
where the scent is coming from.
Deer are curious critters. If
you take up a stand in a deer
path, try this method of de
coy. Hang your hat or a bright
ly colored piece of cloth on a
branch or twig. Upon seeing
the unusual object hanging in
his terrain, Mr. Buck may just
get nosey enough to start in
vestigating and momentarily
drop his guard. That’s the mo
ment you’ve been waiting for!
Don’t put away your fish
stringer when the fishing sea-
Poultrymen May Lose Control
To Feed Mills, Says Talmadge
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
! madge, a member of the Sen
i ate Committee on Agriculture
[ and forestry, warned in At
lanta the other day that unless
Congress takes action to help
the downtrodden poultry 'n
dustry the poultry farmers of
Georgia and the nation will
end up as “hired hands” of the
large feed mills.
Commenting on the poultry
industry’s troubles and the sen
ator’s views on what conceiv
ably could happen, The Val
dosta Daily Times said this
editorially:
“In any discussion of need
for some sort of plan to gear
production of farm crops to
demand or some plan for hold
ing surplus products off the
market or exporting them, it is
interesting to note that Sen.
Herman Talmadge feels that
there is need for Congress to
‘take a long, hard look’ at ac
tivities of large feed mills in
their control in the poultry
industry.
The 1.200 delegates, obser
vers, staff members and spec
ial guests (plus 275 newsmen)
met in a world unused to or
ganized religion. A memoran
dum prepared by General Sec
retary Visser’t Hooft and
Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the
Church of South India remind
ed them that the mysterious
East was accustomed to a dif
ferent brand of holy man. “To
go to the capital city of India
and proclaim that Jesus Christ
is the light of the world is a
daring action,” the memo not
ed.
New Delhi’s Hindus, Mos
lems. Jains and Buddhists
gaped at their diversity as
members of the WCC delega
tion strode in procession. 1,000
strong, under the warm In
dian sun into a striped tent
called a shamiana. Archbishops
and patriarchs, metropolitans
and primates, bishops, cannons,
and primates, bishops, canons,
ped, cassocked. bearded, bare
headed, in flowing robes or
academic gowns, in business
suits or sarongs — bodied forth
the range and outreach of
Christianity.
At the first day’s meeting
the Assembly voted to merge
with the International Mission
ary Council. This merger fi
nally unites the three elements
with which the ecumenical
movement began. Many church
historians regard this union of
missionary and ecclesiastical
ecumenisms as almost equal in
importance to the Reformation
in the 16th century.
। son is over. It can be put to
। equally good use afield. A fish
' stringer makes an excellent
carrier for squirrels. Hook the
squirrel in the hind legs be
tween bone and tendon and
suspend the stringer from your
belt. You’ll have an easy way
to carry your downed game
afield and both hands will be
free to tend to the business of
the day.
4-H Council
Met Monday at
Legion Home
The Newton County 4-H
Council met Monday, Novem
ber 19 at the Legion Hall. The
meeting was called to order by
president. Business was then
discussed. Jane Stinchcomb
had charge of recreation.
The officers of the “tip-top”
4-H Club discussed the various
duties of the officers, which
have proved to be very helpful.
Refreshments were served
after the meeting.
The next meeting will be held
December 18 at 7 o’clock at the
Legion Hall.
Joey "Hackett, Reporter
“Sen. Talmadge feels that
unless something is done to
curb the feed companies ‘we
are going to wind up, unfortu
ately, with a few large feed
mills controlling poultry pro
duction in the United States
and the farmers in the role of
hired hands.’
“The poultry industry In
Georgia, which has grown to
an important position in the
state’s economy, is in trouble
and much of it seems to stem
from the activities of large
mills, who supply feed and
baby chicks to the farmers,
thereby exercising considera
ble control over production and
marketing.
“Sen. Talmadge feels that
there is need for some sort of
federal intervention if the
poultry producers are to be
able to stay in business.
“It would be unfortunate if
a few large feed mills are per
mitted to donate poultry pro
duction in Georgia or else
where. Some sort of protection
for the individual producer
would seem to be in order ”