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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Is This an Investment?
z Sen. Byrd Thinks Not
- President Kennedy thinks Congress
I should authorize purchase by the US of
- half of that S2OO million bond issue by
' which this global marching and chowder
- ciub hopes to recover the cost of its Afri
-7 can military adventures and overcome its
- general insolvency. The investors are to
repaid (with interest at two percent) when,
as and if delinquent member nations pony
up their share. The President told Congress
in his State of the Union Message that this
would be a smart investment — but we
can’t help wondering whether Joseph P.
Kennedy would think so.
In any case, Rep. Edward J Derwinski,
Illinois Republican, has said he will in
troduce a bill to prevent such a transaction.
He is quoted in Human Events as saying:
“ in view of the huge deficit, the con
tinued outflow of gold, the back-breaking
tax burden that is being perpetuated on our
citizens, the purchase of SIOO million of
UN bonds, with their problematical value
as well as their artificially low interest
rate, is pure irresponsibility.”
Democratic Senator Harry Flood Bvrd.
who incidentally is chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, takes an even dimmer
view of the matter. Commenting on the
delinquency of Russia and many other
member nations in their UN obligations,
he said: ‘‘lf they don’t pay for anything
else, why should they pay for the bonds?
I think we’ll just end up paving for the
UN’s other expenses and the bonds, too.”
A better course might be to ternrnate
all further UN expense — as soon as pos
sible — which we could do by merely
withdrawing our support.
Milk Controls Aid the State,
Says Gainesville Newspaper
(Reprinted from The Gainesville (Ga.)
Daily Times)
During the little flurry a while back on
milk control in Georgia we made a note
to comment on this peculiar institution in
our state and now get around to doing so.
This is an easy subject on which to
comment, although it is an extremely com
plex one to explain. In a nutshell, we don’t
like controls on milk or any other kind
of controls that put a floor on prices and
guarantee that the consumer won’t buy
any cheaper.
In the same nutshell, though, we recog-
Z nize that controls are necessary and think
" that some sort of controls on milk prices
will be around for a long time
X Georgians have a clear division of
Z choices. If there are no controls, the milk
industry will become subject to intensive
- distributor competition, the producer will
Z not be able to demand a production cost
X charge for his milk and the state's milk
- industry will fold up, in time As it is now.
- the producer must be relatively efficient
Z in order to remain in the dairy business
~ and must keep his facilities modern. We
■ have in Hall County examples of dairymen
who could not remain competitive, even
Z under a state control situation, and so had
- to retire from the business.
Milk is an agricultural product. It is
perishable. There is a market for surplus
but that market is limited and if a dairy
man sells too much of his producton at sur
plus, which means a lower price, he w'ill
soon have a bankrupt sign hanging on
his fence.
Controls have given us a stable milk
industry. The industry may not conform
to classic, and in today's economy, anach
ronistic supply and demand theories, but
it is still with us, we have good milk to
drink and we can hope for a better control
formula some day.
BIG-HEARTED U.S.
EFFECTIVENESS of the American for
eign aid program,” says Human Events,
“was demonstrated in the recent UN vote
to seat the delegation from Communist
China.” The publication notes that of 37
- nations voting for admission, all but two
have been booned with US aid. Among
- them, Ghana has just been told we wrnuld
1 loop through with $133 million for the Volta
* River dam, and Poland that it would re
- ceive trade credits of $45 million on top
of the $514.5 million already donated by
Z US taxpayers.
No indeedy! There are no strings at
tached to our benevolence.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
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Scholastic Standing,
Driving Habits Go
Hand in Hand, Says Report
A high school or college etudent who is
studying is less likely to be involved in an
automobile accident than his car-crazy cou
sin who is roaring about the highways in
a jalopy. A student’s scholastic standing is
likely to bear a close relationship to his
driving habits, because the more he drives
the less time he has for study.
Now, the country’s largest automobile in
surance company. State Farm Mutual, has
taken steps to reward good students be
cause they are exposed less to accidents.
They’re studying more, driving less.
The company is giving “Good Student”
discounts, now available in California, but
soon to be offered in other states. The plan
offers rate reductions of 20 percent to
qualified men students who maintain good
grades in high school and colleges. Girls
are not included because thev already bene
fit from lower insurance rates.
“By-products of the plan are its incen
tives for scolastic achievement and the
powerful argument it provides parents in
the traditional debates over use of the fam
ily car,” said Edward Rust, States Farm
pres’dent, when he announced the new pro
gram.
Because the driving privilege rates Wrh
with young men in their teens and early
twenties, students who could not be per
suaded to devote themselves to studying
for other reasons may turn to their books
with new vigor in order to earn this dollars
and cents reward for good grades.
More Helpful Right Now
On the same day that the president, in
his State of the Union message, spoke glow
ingly of our projects for putting a man on
the moon, a new B-52H 8-jet Super-bomber
of the Strategic Air Command completed
a record-breaking flight of 12.519 miles
from Okinawa to Madrid without refueling.
Giving extra point to this demonstration
is the fact that this huge plane provides a
launching platform for the Sky bolt —a
new supersonic ballistic missile—and gives
it an extra 1.000 miles of range.
We doubt that a landing on the moon
would impress the Kremlin quite as much.
Castro's Cubans Now
Recognized as Communist
Staging Area Nearby
Impressed, perhaps, by Fidel's own in
sistence that he is, too, a Marxist, the US
State Department has at long last made
official by the issuance of a “white paoer”
the long-recognized fact that Castro’s Cuba
is the Communist staging area of the West
ern Hemisphere.
Next to our own, the Department re
vealed. the Fidelista armed forces are the
largest on our side of the world. Estimated
at from 260.000 to 400.000 men, equipped
by the Soviet with Mig fighter planes,
heavy artillery, heavy machine guns and
automatic rifles, and trained by hundreds
of Communist military advisors and tech
nicians, Castro’s army, navy, air force and
militia now threaten the security of all
American republics.
Furthermore, the reoort states. Castro’s
bully boys have publicly announced their
intention of conducting Fidel-type revolu
tions in all of these countries. They are
now. says the Department document, im
porting hundreds of dissident students, in
tellectuals, politicians and labor leaders for
Communist indoctrination and training in
sabotage and subversion, and who will be
sent home to soften up their respective
countries for the kill. Military’ aid from
Russia and Red China is estimated at from
S6O to SIOO million.
The white paper was prepared in answer
to the request of the Inter-American Peace
Committtee to all hemisphere governments
for information on Cuban violation of hu
man rights and the Cuban threat to peace.
It is encouraging to have this indica
tion that the State Department knows what
goes on. But we .hope Washington is giving
some high-level thought to what-do-we-do
about-it-
Some of us complain, even when we
get what we expected.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at W»e Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of th- Second
Class.
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unday School
Reverence for God's Name
Bible Material: Exodus 20:7;
Leviticus 19:12; Matthew 5:33-
37: 6:5-9; Luke 6:46.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
I 145-13-21; Memory Selection:
Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. Mat- j
thew 6:9.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Reverence for God’s Names.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Reverence for God’s Name.
God is a spirit: “Ano they
that worship him must worship’
him in spirit and in truth”'
(John 5:24).
This was our Lord’s appraisal,
of a situation of such infinite:
scope that our little finite
minds can only inadequately
comprehend. The difference be
tween God and ourselves is so
immeasurable that we regard.'
the difference with awe and
confusion.
Yet the gospel (good news) j
is that the infinite C’l has
stooped down to us in his mer- j
cy. In Jesus Christ He has j
come to us in forgivene-s. Un
worthy though we are. his pre
sence and the assurance of his (
support are the factors which
above all others sustain u; ini
“this troublous life.”
Our lesson today deals withi
reverence for God’s name. W?
have had occasion to remind;
ourselves frequently that names '
among the ancients had a signi- |
ficance which they do not have
among us today. This fact en
ters largely into an understand
ing of today’s lesson.
“Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in:
vain: for the Lord will not hold:
him guiltless that taketh his j
name in vain.”
This significance of names
among the ancients is force
fully presented to us in certain
Bible situations. The child
found among the bulrushes was
named Moses by Pharoah’s
daughter. “Because, she said,
I drew him out of the water”
(Moses means “a drawer out”).
Joseph (meaning “increaser)”
was no doubt given this name
by his fond elderly father who
saw in the child — or at least
hoped for him —a career of
of great success. The name
Joshua means “Jehovah saves",
and the name Jesus is the
Greek form of the Hebrew
name Joshua. We read in Matt.
16:18 that Jesus changed the
name of Simon to Peter (Pet
ros. or rock) declaring “Upon
this rock I will build my
church. . .”
Os all names, the name of
Jehovah God Himself w a s the
most sacred. Hebrews never
pronounced it but instead re
ferred to H i m as Lord.
Only on the great day of atone
ment in the holy of holies did
the high priest utter the sac
red name.
The ancients believed that to
know one’s name is in s o m e
measure at least to possess one’s
power. Knowledge of a name
gave one person power over an
other. Names were sacred. The
name of God was sacred above
all other names. Therefore, it
was a heinous crime among the
Hebrews for one to take the
name of the Lord God Jehovah
in vain.
Among us, taking God’s name
in vain means false swearing or
perjury. Also it means t h e
careless use of God’s name in
conversation, particularly in
profane swearing.
This miserable habit appears
in modern times to be on t h e
increase. To use the name of
God carelessly, or in anger, or
in hatred constitutes a serious
sin.
Our Lord was very much
offended by the disposition of
his contemporaries to seal
every statement thev made
with a solemn oath. If a man
was relating some circumstance j
to a friend, he would solemnly
swear by heaven, or by the
earth, or by the holy city, or by
his head that what he was say
mg was true. This had a three-
fold effect. In the first place, it
was ridiculous. In the second
place, it made practically no
simple statement correct unless
sealed by a solemn oath. In the
third place, it encouraged men
to trifle with holy things. The
I Jew is talkative and excitable
by nature. Pressing his claims
as a merchant, repeating gos
sip about a neighbor, criticiz
: ing someone whom he believed
to have offended against him,
the Jew of our Lord's day dra
matized the occasion immense
i ly. All of this disgusted Jesus
and led him to give some very
! straight advice regarding per
| sonal communications.
“Swear not at all. . .” he said.
This had nothing to do with ju
dicial oaths. In fact, we are told
in Matt. 26:63 that Jesus per
i mitted himself to be placed un
der path by the high priest. Al
. so Paul in his second epistle to
'the Corinthians (1:23) declared
I “Moreover I call Ged for a re
cord upon my soul, that to spare
I you I came not as yet unto
■ Corinth."
Christian believers through
the ages have believed in ju
dicial oaths (save the Quakers
and certain other groups which
“affirm” rather than “swear”),
I allowing themselves to be put
I under oath and putting others
I under oath also.
I What Jesus criticized in the
■ life of the people of this day
I was the disposition to assume
an almost trifling attitude to
ward something that was sac
red. An oath is a very solemn
thing among us today, and we
believe Jesus intended it should
be so. But among the Jews of
; our Lord’s day, a man took a
l hundred oaths a day and, of
course, thereby watered down
the truth and sincerity of h i s
statements.
Jesus said, “But let your
communication be. Yea. yea;
Nay, nay: for whatsoever is
more than these cometh of
evil.” Say what you have to
say with a simple yes or no, he
said, and let your veracity ra
ther than your oath confirm the
truth.
It is sometimes hard for us to
understand certain things we
read in the Bible because they
describe situations far different
from anything we know today.
In our Lord’s day, for in
stance, it was fashionable to be
pious. The people most admir
ed were what we could call to
day long-faced, straight - laced
scripture - quoting individuals.
These arrayed themselves in
robes which had religious sig
nificance. They had phylacter
ies. or little prayer boxes at
tached to their wrists and
sometimes dangling in front of
their eyes from a band placed
around the head. Their con
versation had to do mostly with
religious matters. To get ready
to eat a meal was a chore in
volving considerable labor for a
high-ranking Pharisee. He must
make sure that the food he
ate was ritually clean (kosher).
Then he must make himself
ceremonially clean. His concern
was not for what we call today
hygenic cleanliness but cere
monial cleanliness, the de
mons must be washed off his
hands and allowed to drip from
the ends of his fingers.
Above all else, the pious
leaders of every community
made long and frequer. pray
ers in public places. They par
ticularly liked to stop at some
busy intersection and raising
their hands to heaven implore
God in sonorous tones.
’"Phe man wlw's waiting for
something tn turn up might
start with his shirt aleevea.”
(Largest Covaraqe Any Weekly Tn The Staid
Truth
85% of income taxes
are paid by wage
earners tn the
lowest tax bracket
Segars, Eberhardt
To Lead 'Goodwill'
Tour of Europe
Glenn Segars, Administra
tive Assistant to Commissioner
of Agriculture Phil Campbell,
and L. W. “Hoop” Eberhardt,
Associate Director, Georgia
Agricultural Extension Service,
have been named hosts and
Mr. Eberhardt will be the
guest speaker at the New
ton 4-H banquet Monday.
leaders for a delegation of
Georgia agricultural and busi
ness leaders on a 20 day good
will “Pecple to People” inspec
tion journey throughout East
ern Europe and the Soviet
Union.
The Georgia delegation will
depart New York on Tuesday,
April 10. They are scheduled
to take part in numerous visi
tations with their occupational
counterparts in the communist
countries, as well as partici
pate in meetings and inter
views with United States and
foreign government represen
tatives.
The Goodwill Mission will
t-«ke the Georgians to Belgium,
Germany, Poland, Hungary,
the Soviet Union and France.
Membership in the Georgia
delegation is limited to offi
cial invitation only and the en
tire program is arranged and
designed to imp’ement the aims
and purposes of the United
States cultural visitation ex
change orogram and the Peo
ple to People Campaign.
The Georgia delegates will
receive a summarized glimpse
into the different ways the peo
ple of the communist countries
conduct their farming and
business activities, observe and
compare methods and learn,
first hand, something of the
conditions that exist behind the
iron curtain.
Cousins Tractor
Clinic Was
Most Successful
The Newton County Board of
Education in cooperation with
the division of vocational Edu
cation sponsored a series of
tractor maintenance classes
Jan. 15th - 18th at the R. L.
Cousins School.
Instructors were E. L. Mur
phy. Jr. Vo-Ag. teacher at Cou
sins’, and Victor Randolph,
area adult teacher in District
111.
The purpose of the classes
was to train farmers for carry
ing out day-to-day mainten
ance procedures which will in
crease the life of the tractor
and reduce maintenance costs.
It was pointed out that the
average life of a tractor in
Georgia is five to seven years,
in the midwest twenty years
and in Europe thirty years.
The principle maintenance
problems dealt with the clean -
ing and lubricating of tractors
and servicing the air induction
system, the front wheels, the
ignition system, clutch, brakes
and steering.
The total enrollment of
adults was thirty one, with an
average attendance of six
teen. Six attended all sessions.
An award was given to the fol
lowing by the principal R. L.
Stewart for having completed
work given during the four
nights that the classes were
held: Albert Moses. Willie
Rainey, and J. C. Jackson.
We would like to thank Mr.
M. H. Waggoner, Gulf Oil Dis
tributor and Mr. Hugh Harris.
Standard Oil Distributor f OT|
donating kerosene to the clin-,
ic. The kerosene was used in
cleaning.
Stainless steel wire for cloth
u-ed in parachute material to
slow space vehicles re-entering
the earth’s atmosphere is about
or.e half the thickness of a
human hair. About a mile of
stainless steel wire goes into
the weaving of one square foot
of the fabric.
Sukarno Seeks
'Honorable Treaty'
For Both Sides
By LEO $. MALLARD
The first sparks of a real shooting war flew during this
past week in the conflict between Indonesia and the Nether
lands over Dutch New Guinea. This action could have grim
repercussions throughout the world —a world where an
“isolated conflict” is a myth.
Dutch reconnaissance planes
and ships had been on the look
out for an Indonesian invasion
for some time. Suddenly, one
aircraft radar showed the
“blips” of three small boats. Ra
dioing for support, the plane
quickly picked up the track of
what proved to Juguar-class
torpedo boats made in West
Germany and now flying Su
karno’s flag.
Roughly 12 miles offshore
one of the vessels opened fire
on the investigating aircraft.
Shortly afterward, two Dutch
frigates closed in and engaged
the torpedo boats with their
guns. Two of the small boats
fled; the third was hit, caught
fire, and sank.
The question in most minds
is: How is the United States
and Russia affected by this
friction which may easily ram
the “colonialism issue” square
ly to the center of the cold war
stage?
The Soviet Union is com
mitted in advance to support
President Sukarno's grab for
the Dutch colony, both by Com
munist Party doctrine and by
official policy pronouncements.
Sukarno would naturally en
joy almost unanimous Afro -
Asian backing, though this
would be militarily unimpor
tant.
The United States and other
Western countries would be
pledged, through the NATO
pact, to support the Dutch po
sition. To give in would give
encouragement to Sukarnos all
over the world.
As things now stand, the
question of who shall rule the
primitive domain of New
Guinea could create a new and
dangerous power alignment
that would eventually cause a
real concern to the moderates
among the non-aligned nations.
This crisis, the first to arise
and follow the pattern set by
Mr. Nehru in India’s seizure of
Goa, Diu, and Damao, seems to
be creating a new game —
“let’s-you-and-him-fight.” This
effect should shock the East
and West into some rudimen
tary accord.
SALUTE TO
GEORGIA
Georgia Department of Commerce
“WHAT GEORGIA MAKES, MAKES GEORGIA” is the slogan.
Georgia Industry Week is the occasion, and January 21 through 27
1962, marks the sixth such affair.
Sponsored jointly by Associated Industries of Georgia (AIG), the
Georgia Department of Commerce and local organizations, Georgia
Industry Week is an annual salute to the more than 9,000 existing
manufacturing and processing firms throughout the state. This observ
ance, officially proclaimed by Governor Vandiver, also seeks to make
citizens aware of Georgia's tremendous industrial growth and potentials
for future expansion. By coinciding with the 1962 Session of the Gen
eral Assembly, the inter-relationship of government and industry is
emphasized.
Every citizen is directly affected by and enjoys the benefits of in
dustry. The clock telling us the time, the radio we hear, the food wo
eat and even the car we drive are all representative of Georgia-mad.
products. In fact, more than 14,000 products are manufactured, proc
essed or assembled within the state.
More directly, over 350,000 people are employed by industry. In
dustrial firms are citizens m every sense of the word. They are taxpayer*
and interested m their community’s development. Their progress insure,
a higherstandard of living for us today, and a tomorrow of unlimited
possibilities. uuuuulcu
80 S ’ 62 has some 99 sponsors, representing over
8 different cities and towns. Local participants were given tips on how
to direct their efforts by the State Advisory Committee. These included
S h e ° m f mittees t 0 for ™d. what their functions should
be and what types of programs they should plan and implement Conies
The St "t * alutes for local «dio and TV stations were offered
made aVailable 24 - sheet billboards for
outdoor advertising, and cardboard posters for indoor display Parti
eipatmg groups requested a total of 211 billboards and 3,674 posters
The enthusiasm with which people have worked to make thiTweek
a success is most gratifying. Certainly it demonstrates the pride <5
Georgians in their industrial firms-a pride we all share
In order to continue its emphasis on the importance of industry th.
Georgia Department of Commerce announces that it will begin a sene,
of special salutes to industry, not just one w^k each X w £
weeks a year. A “Salute to Industry” column, similar to the “iurri
the Week . will be distributed to newspapers throughout the stare.
Each column will focus upon a particular industry. Firms in every part
Thursday. January H, !W1
Premier Jan Eduard de Quay
of the Dutch government has
reacted calmly. In a message to
U. N. Secretary - General U
Thant, he repeated his offer of
January 2 to start negotiations
with Indonesia “without any
preconditions.”
Sukarno, although commit
ted to “liberating the territory
this year —by force if neces
sary,” has been deterred by
other factors, including the pos
sibility that a rash adventura
might prove disastrous to hi»
regime. At the end of the week,
Sukarno announced he would
accept a proposal by U. N.
Secretary - General U Thant to
negotiate with the Dutch for a
“peaceful settlement.”
Marketing is
Dairy Course
Theme at Center
All Georgia dairymen, dis
tributors and those in allied
fields are invited to attend a
short course on Dairy Produc
tion and Marketing at Rock
Eagle 4-H Club Center near
Eatonton January 30-31, ac
cording to H. W. Warburton,
Extension dairy marketing spe
cialist for the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture.
The program is to begin at
9:30 a.m. Tuesday, January
30.
One of the most vital prob
lems facing Georgia’s dairy in
dustry, the increase of produc
tion ahead of consumption, will
be a major topic of the course,
Mr. Warburton said. He point
ed out that 1961 milk produc
tion set a new record, and that
it looks as if production will
continue to increase this year.
There will be a forum on the
policy for surplus milk led by
J. W. Fanning, director of the
Institute for Area and Com
munity Development, Univer
sity of Georgia College of Ag
riculture, Tuesday.
Cost of producing surplus
milk will be discussed by J. R.
Russell.