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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Aisiitant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THI
CITY OF COVINGTON
Trade at Home This
Christmas; Read Bargains
In Next Week's NEWS
Next week The Covington NEWS will
publish its 97th Annual Christmas Shop
ping Edition for the benefit of the citizens
of Newton County.
The merchants of Covington have a
wonderful variety of Christmas needs and
gifts on hand and by trading at home you
trade with those you know and also have
the satisfaction of knowing if something
is not entirely right it will be exchanged.
You also save wear and tear on your
automobile and yourself in driving and
shopping in crowded areas where you can
not find anything more suitable than you
can find right here at home.
Covington has always been a trading
center for an area of 25 to 30 miles and if
you desire any piece of merchandise you can
find it right here at home. If others come
from other counties to trade in Covington,
then we urge our local people to make their
first call on Covington stores and we are
quite sure they will find just the article
which they desire.
The stores in Covington compare favor
ably with any store in Atlanta and any
item which you can purchase in Atlanta
or any other place nearby, can be pur
chased right here at home and you will
save by giving our merchants the oppor
tunity of serving you.
Read the ads in the next week’s Christ
mas Edition and if you don’t find exactly
what you desire, call on the stores and you
will find it there.
The merchants cannot advertise every
article in their stores and therefore if you
desire some article which is not adver
tised, please call on your local merchants
and give them an opportunity to furnish
your needs this Christmas.
Also by trading at home the dollar re
mains at home and part of this dollar will
come back to you. Dollars spent elsewhere
are gone forever from this community and
will never return. So, keep your dollars
at home — save wear and tear on your car
— save wear and tear on yourself — and
trade with people you know who have
given you satisfaction throughout the
years.
Textile Industry Suffers
From Low Tariffs on
Foreign Made Goods
The Administration in Washington says
that our tariffs, already dangerously re
duced by 20 years of nursing the welfare
of other nations at our own expense, must
be slashed further or even eliminated or
the United States will go to pot. The White
House advisors generously admit, however,
that as a result we may have to sacrifice
some of our “small” and “inefficient” in
dustries to those who make the same things
cheaper abroad.
Such “small” industries as textiles, au
tomobiles, business machines, flour milling .
and lumber, to name just a few of the hun
dred or more in jeopardy.
But, small, large or medium, are those
industries “inefficient” because they cannot
pay more for raw material, more for labor,
and—using the same tools and know-how
we have given away to save the world—sell
at the foreign price and make a profit? (In
the case of cotton textiles, for instance, for
eign mills can buy U. S. cotton for BV2
cents a pound less than U. S. mills whose
tax payments help to underwrite this sub
sidy.)
And if a few such insignificant, reac
tionary American industries (which are ob
viously not entitled to consideration by the
Government they have been supporting)
do fail, so what?
The Government promises to help “re
train” and “relocate” those who lose their
jobs. Retrain for what? Relocate where?
Don’t be silly. The Government needs more
tax collectors, more check-writers, more
inquisitors. The schools can use more teach
ers—who understand the new economics.
We could greatly expand the Peace Corps,
the USIA, even our UN delegation. And
as unemployment mounts, we shall cer
tainly need more welfare workers.
If Congress is to oblige the Administra
tion, there would seem to be just one way |
to do it so long as two plus two equals four.
And that would be to cut our own wages ।
(and all domestic prices) back to the rice- '
bowl level. To recede merely to the Euro- i
pean plane in order to ingratiate ourselves '
with the European Common Market wmuld
be only a stop-gap.
In other words, what we need (in the
view of our leaders) is a 12.5 cent minimum
wage. And unfortunately, if Washington
has its way, we are likely to achieve the
equivalent in terms of purchasing power
automatically—through inflation.
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Fost Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail mattit of the Second
Class.
Simple Rules for
Taking Medicine
Ever wake up in the night with a split
ting headache? Or a pain in your interior?
And stumble into the bathroom and reach
for a bottle in the medicine cabinet? And
gulp down a pill or two, or a swallow of
medicine?
Just about all of us, if we’re honest, must
answer Yes to such questions. And that
means that we’ve all risked serious—even
fatal—trouble.
The American Medical Association of
fers a few simple rules for taking medicine
—an dthey should be read, remembered
and observed by every members of every
family.
Never take medicine in the dark—be
certain you know what’s in the bottle or
the pill box. Read the directions carefully
before taking—they are there to protect
and aid you. Don’t increase the dose or take
it more often than directed without check
ing with your doctor. If the label says
“Shake Before Using,” it means it—so
shake. Don’t take a medicine prescribed for
someone else—this is a case where one
man’s meat can be another man’s poison.
Keep medicines out of the reach of chil
dren. Put the cap back on the bottle and
screw it down—some medicines change
strength when exposed to air. Keep any
medicine in its original box—for instance,
putting sleeping pills in an aspirin bottle
could produce dire effects for someone in
the family.
Simple rules? Easy-to-follow rules?
They certainly are. And they can prevent
trouble, illness, pain, and even, needless
death.
Kennedy Orders Officials
To Cut Expenses Now
President Kennedy’s recent order to top
officers of the government, including those
at the Cabinet level, to cut expenses wher
ever possible' clearly resulted from the
irresistible force of circumstances. The
deficit for the current fiscal year is now
expected to reach $6,900,000,000, and that
will come on top of the $3,900,000,000 defi
cit for the fiscal year that closed at the end
of June.
The President said: “The current out
look re-emphasizes the necessity to conduct
the necessary work of the government at
the lowest possible cost, to eliminate or
defer low priority activities, and to limit
the number of government employees to
the absolute minimum.”
The Presidential order was couched in
general terms. Now we will see what hap
pens in specifics. The agency heads must
be held to close account —for, as sad past
precedent so abundantly proves, it is one
thing to talk about economy in government,
and a very different thing to achieve it.
One more point: The President’s order,
of course, applies only to the Executive
branch of the government. Just what will
be the attitude of the next Congress when
all the not-yet-passed, multi-billion dollar
welfare state proposals appear again?
SELBY, S.D, RECORD: “Nowadays,
you often read about the federal spending
program and the billions of dollars being
spent annually. This year’s program cost
88 billion dollars. Most of us think we have
a faint idea of how much a billion dollars
is. 1 thought I did until I read an article
the other day explaining in language I
could understand, just how gigantic a sum
a billion dollars is. This is how it was de
scribed: ‘Suppose a business were begun
at the time Christ was born. Each and
every day thereafter, it lost SI,OOO. To date,
the loss would be only $715 million. Not for
another 778 years would it reach a billion.’
Think on that for awhile.”
FARMINGDALE, N.J., BOOSTER: “A
liberal is a guy who thinks the world owes
him a living — A conservative knows the
world owes him a living — but he also
knows he has to work like the devil to col
lect.”
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BISHOP, CALIF., INYO REGISTER:
“About the only thing that’s the matter
with promoting good old-fashioned Ameri
canism is that it seems to offend those good
old-fashioned communists.”
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HARTLAND, WISC., LAKE COUN
TRY REPORTER: “Communism is an
ideology. All communists think alike. Those
of us in the free nations often not only
think alike, but have no common ideology
or world aim. We need a common ideology.
One united goal that will overturn the ad
vances of communism. We must not only
think freedom, but must act it and believe
in our actions.”
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SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Growth Through Bible Study
Bible Material: Luke 4:16-
21; 24:25-27; I Timothy 4; 2
Timothy 1:5-6; 3:10-4:5.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
119:105-112
Memory Selection: I have
laid up thy word in my heart,
that I might not sin against
thee. Psalms 119:11
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Growth Through Bible Study
Young People-Adult Topic.
Growth Through Bible Study.
Last week the less dealt with
witnessing—4he witness which
individual Christians can and
should make before men.. This
week the lesson topic deals
with witnessing also, but it is
the witness which God makes
to man.
We are coming close to the
end of the quarter which has
dealt primarily with Christian
growth. We have examined
those factors in which the
spirit of man grows and deep
ens. Certainly Bible study is
one of the most important of
these factors.
Among Protestant Christ
ians, great emphasis has always
been laid on the duty of Bible
study and the richness of its
spiritual rewards.
The word “Bible” is the
plural of a Greek word which
means “book” This volume
which through the ages has
come to be known as the Bible
is not a single book but a li
brary.
It is a collection of sixty-six
books which the church, after
centuries of deliberation, agreed
were alone authoritative in
matters of Christian doctrine.
The Apocrypha consists of
books very much resembling
the books of the Bible but
which were not considered of
sufficient authority to be the
guide for doctrine and life.
A brief reflection on the mat
ter soon will lead us to see the
necessity for such a book as
the Bible. There are certain
things about God which we can
discover by observation, but
these things are few in num
ber. We find ourselves in a
created universe and therefore
can reasonably assume a Crea
tor. We observe a uniformity in
natural laws. An innate sense
of right and wrong certainly
would lead most branches of
the human race to some system
of ethics, which however,
would vary widely in quality.
But by no power of mind or
spirit could we know the na
ture of God and his purpose for
mankind.
This insight had to be given
us by revelation. God chose a
nation (the Hebrews) through
whom to make that revelation,
and definite individuals among
the Hebrew people who would
be the human agents of this
divine enterprise. Among the
Biblical writers, only Luke
(the author of the Gospel
which bears his name and the
Book of Acts) was a Gentile.
The Bible is the revelation
which God has given us of
Himself and his purposes—in-
formation necessary for our
salvation and our growth in
Christian character.
The consideration of the les
son today begins at this point.
Paul wrote two epistles to
Timothy, a young man whom
he loved very much and refer
red to as his own son in the
faith (I Tim. 1:2). In Acts 16:1-
3 we read that Paul on one of
his missionary journeys came
to Derbe and Lystra and there
encountered Timothy (Timo
theus), the son of a Jewish wo
man‘and a Greek father. Since
Timothy’s mother was a
Jewess, Paul considered it best
to circumcise the young man
“because of the Jews which
were in those quarters: for
they knew all that his father
was a Greek.” Paul would have
increased the opposition against
himself if he had taken as one
of his companions a young man
half Jewish who had not been
subjected to the age-long cus
tom of circumcision. Since
Paul was not required to com
promise any moral principle in
thus deferring to the prejudice
of his opponents, he decided
upon circumcision.
It seems strange that Tim
othy’s Jewish mother had not
insisted that her son be dealt
with according to the age
long rite of her people, for
Timothy’s mother, Eunice, wa»
a godly woman, according to
Paul’s testimony, and so was
Timothy’s grandmother, Lois
(2 Tim. 1:5). But Timothy’^
father may have been strict
and ill-natured, and the rite
had perhaps been omitted in
order to keep peace in the
family.
Paul indeed had passed
through persecutions and afflic
tions. These are detailed in a
number of places in the Book
of Acts; the suffering which
came upon him at Antioch,
Iconium, and Lystra are de
scribed in Acts 13 and 14. We
remind ourselves that this Paul,
whose family, although Jews,
had the distinction of possess
ing Roman citizenship, had
probably come from a home of
comfort, culture, and piety.
Yet after his experience on the
road to Damascus, Paul will
ingly bore the stigma of being
an outcast from both home and
family. He warns Timothy very
solemnly that “evil men and
seducers shall wax worse and
worse, deceiving, and being
deceived.” This word “sedu
cers” (imposters) in Greek
means jugglers, sorcerers,
tricksters.
We are constantly remind
ing ourselves —and we cannot
remind ourselves too often—
that we of the twentieth cen
tury need to awaken to the
realization that the importance
of belief is not always recog
nized and acknowledged. We
lay emphasis upon the spirit as
over against the letter. We set
conduct and belief in opposi
tion one to the other. But this
arrangement of the factors of
our faith is false and mislead
ing. Certainly the letter killeth,
but the spirit give th life (2
(Laraest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
Cor. 3:6); however, the state
ment of truth which we have
in the Bible is important in it
self and needs to be accepted
as a first step toward salva
tion and the living of a godly
life.
We are being subjected to
many varieties of distorting
spiritual influence today. We
are taught that belief is of no
consequence, only life is of
consequence. Many, with no
authority other than their own
opinions, have often written
and spoken in away that in
jures and sometimes destroys
the faith of their fellow’s.
So we need to continue in
the things which we have
learned and of which we have
been assured. The Scriptures,
through the centuries, have
been making men “wise unto
salvation through faith which
is in Christ Jesus.”
We are wise today in matters
of science. We are bold and re
sourceful in enterprises of busi
ness and frequently in state
craft. But we need to be deep
ly conscious that very often we
are not “wise unto salvation.”
“All scripture is given by in
spiration of God, and is profit
able for doctrine, for reproof,
for correction, for instruction
in righteousness: that the man
of God may be perfect, thor
ougly furnished unto all good
works.”
Here is a very important
Biblical statement. It stands at
the center of our study today.
“Inspiration” comes from two
Latin words which means “to
breathe into.” Used in con
nection with Scripture, it real
ly means “breathed into by
God.”
Inspired Scripture is God
breathed Scripture.
We must be willing as
Christian believers to stand
before the world and, in spite
of criticism, to maintain stead
fastly that the Bible is differ
ent from other books. The
writings of Shakespeare are
inspired, and the writings of
Milton, and the writings of
distinguished authors through
the ages and in all languages,
have been inspired. But the in
spiration of the Elizabethan
dramatist is one thing and the
inspiration of the Biblical writ
ers is something quite different.
It is not just that the Biblical
writers were more fully inspir
ed than were the secular
writers; the material with
which Biblical writers dealt
made their inspiration so dif
ferent from that of secular
writers that Biblical inspira
tion can be said to occupy a
class by itself. We can believe,
can we not, that one of the
most important and divine ob
jectives was the revelation God
would make to mankind of cer
tain truths about Himself and
about the supernatural world
which man could not discover
by his own efforts.
Blind Students Plan
Professional Careers
Os the twenty blind gradu
ate students granted scholar
ships by the American Foun
dation for the Blind in the past
year, twelve plan to make col
lege teaching their careers,
seven plan to engage in social
work and one is preparing to
become a lawyer.
.... BREAKTHROUGH,
TRUTH APPEARED
By LEO S. MALLARD
Last week for the first time in recent years Russian
readers of the newspaper Izvestia, the official voice of the
Soviet Government, read news that was true in the form
of an uncensored interview. They learned for the first time
that Russia had broken the moratorium on atomic tests, that
Germany was no threat to Russia, and that the main prob-
lem was Moscow’s attempt to
To say that the Russian peo
ple today “never had it so
good” may also be considered
to be true in the light of t h e
misfortunes of their forebear
ers. If, however, the old adage
“know the truth and the truth
will make you free,” last weeks
event might be considered to
be a minor breakthrough.
The article to which we are
referring was the uncut inter
view by Izvestia’s editor. Alexei
Adzhubei with President Ken
nedy. The main significance of
the interview lay less in what
the President said than in the
fact that the Kremlin had let
him say it at all, via Izvestia, to
the paper’s 4.5 million readers.
In preparation for this inter
view with our President it
took five months of delicate ne
gotiating to get the Kremlin to
agree to publish the President’s
answers, uncut. This burden
fell on the shoulders of White
House press secretary Pierre
Salinger. By accepting Salin
ger’s terms, the Russians were
in effect reopening the East -
West dialogue that had been
drowned out since summer by
clashes over Berlin and the
crash of resumed nuclear test
ing.
16 Newton Countians to Attend
C. of C. Awards Banquet
Clarence N. Walker, Execu
tive Staff Representative with
the Coca-Cola Company, will
be guest speaker at the fifteen
th annual Farmers Club
Awards Banquet of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, sched
uled for 6:30 p.m., December
7 at the Dinkier Plaza Hotel.
Sixteen Newton Countians
will attend the banquet.
A total of $5,000 in prize
money will be given by the
Chamber to the w inners from
136 local clubs participating in
North Georgia Rural Com
munity Development Program.
The Farmers Club of the At
lanta Chamber sponsors the
program throughout a 39-
county area, in cooperation with
the Agricultural Ex te n si o n
Service of the University of
Georgia.
“The North Georgia Rural
Community Development Pro
gram is designed to invite, en
courage and assist neighboring
families to organize themselves
into permanent community
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Georgia Tech football player, symbolizes the work and effort
hundreds of Atlanta area Georgia Power Company em
ployes devote to their annual doll-dressing project for un
der-privileged children at Christinas. Some 750 dolls this
year are being dressed by company employes, their families
and friends, for distribution at Christmas by the Salvation
Army. Irwin, enlisting the aid of members of his church
the First Christian Church of Atlanta, is seeing that some 100
dolls will be ready for Christmas stockings this year Irwin
is the power company'a senior substation engineer.
Thursday, December 7, 1961
“communize the world.”
As a gesture to Adzhubei, Mr.
> Kennedy relaxed the travel re
-1 strictions on Soviet journalists
! at the U. N. and let them travel
• up to 25 miles outside Manhat
* tan.
i On a more substantial level,
s there were prospects of nego
> tiations on three major fronts:
Berlin: After long opposition,
s the West German Government
formerly acknowledged its ac
i ceptance of any “reasonable”
step toward an East - West set
tlement, and the NATO Foreign
. Ministers prepared to assemble
> in Paris next week to work out
: a joint position for negotiations
> with the Soviet Union.
Laos: The long-stalled Ge
neva conference revived. In
Vienna, Mr. Kennedy had won
Khrushchev’s promise that a
• settlement would be reached:
; since then he had come to the
conclusion that the Russians
■ had gone back on his word.
Atomic Tests: Here the re
vival of negotiations got off to
a rough start. Although the
meeting on atomic testing is
still looked on as “ho-hum,” the
effort is being made to reach
a compromise suitable to both
the United States and the So
viet Union.
clubs,” according to Donald M,
Hastings, Sr., Farmers Cluo
President. “The objective js to
foster a better rural-urban re
lationship and make Georgia a
better place in which to live.”
The Newton County Cham
ber of Commerce has been a
co-sponsor in the Community
Development Program since it
began about ten years ago.
Each club in Newton Coun
ty will be represented by some
of its members and the County
Extension Agents. Mrs. Carol
McGiboney and Ed Hunt. Th*
clubs and members attending
the banquet are:
Pine Grove: Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Elliott, Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Hitchcock, and Evelyn
Hitchcock; Heard Mixon: Mr.
and Mrs. E. M. McCart, Mr. and
Mrs. Hodgie Loyd; Brickstore:
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Emmeli,
Larry and Wayne Emmeli;
Hays District: Mrs. Fred Greer,
Mrs. J. E. Mann; and Flint Hill:
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Brooking.