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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
Girl Scout Golden Jubilee
Celebrated Over the Nation
This week marks more than just the an
nual observance, by the nation, of a worthy
organization. It marks the Golden Jubilee
of Girl Scouts of the United States of
America.
Churches throughout the land recognized
Browme, Intermediate and Senior Girl
Scouts, who attended services in their re
spective uniforms. On Monday 12, more
than Wz million Girl Scouts of 166,000
troops in America and 48 other countries
celebrated the founding of their organiza
tion on that date, a half century ago.
Georgia's own Juliette Low, organized
the first troop of Girl Scouts, at her home
in Savannah, on March 12, 1912. which is
now a memorial to her maintained by Girl
Scouts. She was a friend of Lord Robert
S. S. Baden-Powell, English founder of the
Boy Scouts, and his sister Miss Agnes
Baden-Powell, who headed the first small
group of Girl Guides. This first band of
■‘little sisters” had determinedly followed
their brothers to a London meeting of Boy
Scouts, demanding to be included in the
adventures and joys of Scouting — so. it
was that girls came to share the Scouting
program. Mrs- Low, then living in England,
brought the idea back to America, with the
subseqnent organization of Girl Scouts, all
of whom now belong to an international
organization, ‘The World Association of
Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.”
Locally, the Girl Scouts were organized
by Mrs. Cleo Harris, with the cooperation
of Prof. M. C. Wiley, former Covington
High School principal, at her home on Sep
tember 18, 1946, with 38 charter members.
Mrs. Claudine Everitt and Mrs. Jake Hoot
en were among first troop leaders. Mem
bership now totals more than 300. with
many holding the coveted “Curved Bar”
rank, equivalent to Boy Scouts' Eagle Rank.
Throughout their history they have ren
dered valuable service in various phases of
community needs and projects; have, with
the aid of Covington Service Guild, con
structed Girl Scout Hut; and carried on an
invaluable program of training in nature,
arts, crafts, camping, homemaking, physical
education, -and international friendship.
We are happy to have the privilege of
saluting the Girl Scouts, locally and na
tionally, and congratulating them upon the
50:h Anniversary of their constructive or
ganization.
Virginia Governor Says
Motorists Should Not Bear
The Entire Tax Load
Common sense and plain talk are so
rare in today's era of big government tax
ing and spending that it is refreshing when
those much-neglected qualities do appear.
They showed up recently in a speech
delivered to the Virginia General Assembly
by that state's new governor, Albertis S.
Harrison, Jr.
Discussing highway financing —a knot
ty problem for every state as well as for
the nation — Gov. Harrison made these
three points which should be applied
throughout the United States.
1. The point of diminishing returns has
oeen reached in financing highways ex
clusively through proceeds from gasoline
md license taxes.
2. Motorists should not have to bear the
entire burden of highway construction and
maintenance, since the entire economy
oenefits from good roads
3. Action should be taken to stop the
diversion of millions of highway tax dol
lars into functions which should be finan
.ed either partially or completely from
general funds.
Gov. Harrison opposes creating new
state debts through highway bond issues.
He prefers a pay-as-you-go plan and the
exploration of ways to spread the highway
burden throughout the economy-
Citing Virginia's 7-cent state tax and
Ihe 4-cent Federal tax on every gallon of
gasoline, Gov. Harrison declared, “It is
obvious that this avenue is closed as a
means of raising additional revenue.”
He also pointed out that, although the
General Assembly regularly and unani
mously adopts a resolution promising to
safeguard highway funds, still each year
arge sums are appropriated from gasoline
ind license taxes for purposes “which might
veil be financed from general fund rev
nues.” In the current fiscal year. Gov.
Harrison said, the amount thus spent in
Virginia amounts to more than Sl6 million.
As noted earlier, Virginias financial
problems are by no means unique. Every
Gate which has similar headaches would
io well to apply some of Gov. Harrison's
h and of common sense.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
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Your Medicine Cabinet
Is Virtual Death
Trap in Your Home
It is a shameful thing that an average
of 1,200 Americans meet death by poison
ing every year, but the fact that one third
of these are children under four years of
age is downright tragic.
And if you think it couldn’t happen
in your household, it’s time to inspect your
medicine cabinet and see what you find.
For the protection of young and old, Bauer
& Black, who manufacture first-aid prod
ucts, recommend five specific steps:
1. Make sure all drugs and remedies are
far out of children’s reach.
2 Make sure all medicines are properly
labeled—and printed instructions followed.
3. Flush down the drain (do not throw
in waste basket) all medicines without lab
els, or old medicines that are outdated or
have changed color or consistency.
4. Remove from medicine chest all house
hold cleaning fluids, cleansers, etc.—po
tentially dangerous to children — and store
away out of reach.
5. Impress on children that the medicine
chest is out of bounds- Teach them they
must never eat or drink substances found
in play — either at home, out-of-doors or
elsewhere.
In the fourth annual “Clean Out Your
Medicine Chest” campaign, presented in
cooperation with the nation’s retailers,
Bauer & Black reminds us of risks we have
doubtless all taken at times — but from
which not all have survived. Rule number
one is: Never take medicine (or give it) in
the dark. Get your glasses if you need them
to read the label carefully. Never trust to
memory. Overdoses can be serious, even
fatal. It is equally dangerous to give med
icine to a person other than the one for
whom it was prescribed.
And here is a final bit of advice: When
you have removed from the medicine chest
the various things that shouldn’t be there,
stock up on the essential drugs and first
aid needs that should be there. (Your drug
gist has a folder that lists what you need).
And lastly, paste in the medicine chest the
day and night telephone numbers of your
doctor, druggist and poison control center.
(If you did that last year, check up to see
that they are still correct).
Minutes today could mean a lifetime
tomorrow.
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The Research Gamble
Doesn't Always Payoff
“Research, lifeblood of a pharmaceutical
company, is also its biggest gamble. The
researcher never knows where his experi
ments will lead him. And the company
never knows how commercially valuable
the research will prove to be. Admittedly,
when a new product lives up to expecta
tions. rewards can be great. This is almost
invariably the mark of high-risk venture.
It is the reason why South African gold
mining shares yield a higher return than
91-day Treasury bills. The history of prof
its in the pharmaceutical industry shows
that what goes up can come down, often
at dizzy speed.”
That quotation is takn from a publica
tion of one of the leading ethical drug
companies. Almost everyone who under
stands this particular problem and situa
tion will echo, whether or not they are con
nected with the industry. Huge sums have
been spent on research projects which pro
duced nothing of value, or returned less than
the cost- Huge sums will have to be spent
in the future if progress against disease and
disability is to continue.
Here is why the proposed law which
would reduce the life of a drug patent from
17 years (which applies to all patents) to
only three years would be asking for dis
aster. At the end of that three year period,
the discoverer and developer would have
to license production of his finding to all
comers. Under these circumstances who
could take the risks that are implicit in
research? The successful discovery must
be allowed to pay the way of the unsuccess
ful — or discovery will slow down and ul
timately stop.
I wouldn’t think of doing without tele
vision because I get so much enjoyment
from not tuning in so much of the time,
it’s like locking the door against unwanted
callers.
“Do you believe, like they do in Wash
if you throw enough money at your
•’ p O away?” — Benton, Mo.
Scott County Democrat.
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.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
The Sin of Greed
Bible Material: Exodus 20:17;
Mark 10:35-45; Luke 12-13-21.
Devotional Reading: James
4:1-10; Memory Selection: Take
heed and beware of all covet
ousness; for a man’s life does
not consist in the abundance of
his possessions. Luke 12:15.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
The Sin of Greed.
Young People-Adult Topic:
The Sin of Greed.
Last week’s lesson deak with
the necessity of speaking the
truth. This week’s lesson deals
with the necessity of living the
truth.
We human beings find our
selves in a strange predicament
On one side of our lives we
are creatures; on the other
side of our lives we are sons
and daughters of God. We are
partly human and partly di
vine. We are made of t h e
dust of the earth, yet in the
image and after the likeness
of God.
If we were either all human
or all divine life would be much
less complicated than it is. No
one would say that the crea
tures have an easy time of it
for the cruelty of fang and
claw is an awful reality which
they must endure. But at least
the creatures probably do not
have continual turmoil of mind
which we have because we pos
sess within us two diverse na
tures. With our mipds we re
cognize the value of spiritual
things, but with our bodies and
with the worldly set of our
minds we long for things which
have a very depreciated value
in the sight of God.
But man’s inner conflict is
his glory. Who would trade
with any of the creatures even
though we could be assured of
a placid life and a peaceful end?
Man is in a continual state of
turmoil, but he also is in a con
tinual state of growth.
He is trying to achieve the
superb destiny to which God
has appointed him.
“Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor’s house, thou shalt not
covet they neighbor’s wife, nor
his manservant, nor his maid
servant, nor his ox. nor his ass,
nor anything that is thy neigh
bor’s.”
To covet means to desire
something which cannot right
ly be ours. It is true that the
King James version of the Bi
ble speaks of coveting earnestly
the best gifts (1 Cor. 12:31).
But the Greek word here trans
lated “to covet” is entirely dif
ferent from the Greek word
meaning to covet a naan’s sil
ver or gold. In fact, coveting
earnestly the best gifts really
means being zealous for the
best gifts.
Our lesson today has to do
with greed, but right at t h e
beginning we need to make
plain to our minds that there !
is a difference between covet
ousness and greed. As we have
already reminded ourselves,
covetousness means longing for
something which cannot right
ly be ours. Greed, on the other
hand, is the abnormal desire to
possess. The idea of greed does
not necessarily carry with it
any ideal of dishonesty. The
greedy person may be scrupu
lously honest. His moral weak
ness consists only in his de
termination to put something
which he likes — generally
money or other worldly goods
— before anything else of val
ue in life. He is determined to
acquire. He works, and he may
very well work honestly and
diligently, to get. To him that;
little three-lettered word com
prises the whole of life’s val- ;
ues. He must get, get. get. He I
experiences a distorted satis-'
faction in getting. He appeases |
a debased appetite.
This does not mean the ac
quisition is wrong. The Bible j
does not condemn acquisition
or even wealth, but only t h e
wrong use of these things —
and especially the wrong motive
behind them. Let men make all
the money they can. provided
they own their money and their
money does not own them.
James and John, the sons of i
Zebedee, came to Jesus on one
occasion (Matt. 20:20 records
that it was the mother of these
two disciples who brought her
sons to Jesus) and presented a
most astounding proposal. Re
gardless of whether it was the
brothers themselves or their
mother who did this, the pro
posal simply was that Jesus
would decree that in his glory
James and John would sit one;
on his right hand and one on
his left.
The Master was quite evi
dently annoyed by the request.
“Can ye drink of the cup that
I drink of? and be baptized of
the baptism that I am baptized
with?” And when they said
they could, Jesus said in sub
stance, That is all very well,
but the privilege of sitting on
my right hand or on my left
“is not mine to give: but it
shall be given to them for whom
it is prepared.” And when the
other disciples heard what
James and John had done they
were indignant.
But Jesus called them to him
and saith unto them, “Ye know
that they which are accounted
to rule over the Gentiles exer
cise lordship over them: and
their great ones exercise au
thority upon them. But so shall
it not be among you: but who
soever will be great among you,
shall be your minister: and
whosoever of you will be the
chiefest, shall be servant of all.
For even the Son of man came
not to be ministered unto, but
to minister, and to give his life
a ransom for many.”
For the first time in human
history the servant had march
ed up to the head of the line
and taken that place of honor.
Today men in high station are
eager to call tnemselves ser
vants. The term has become one
of honor. Thus did Jesus of
Nazareth completely change
the human way of thinking. He
gave us a new way of life.
The indignation of the other
disciples was, of course, noth
ing more than resentment over
the fact that two of their com
panions had almost stolen a
march on them. Jesus made it
plain that they were all in er
ror. The new way of life was
the way of ministry. The verb
“to minister” comes from the
Latin word minor which means
“less.” Anyone who ministers,
therefore, is a person who
makes himself of no conse
quence that he may be of ser
vice to others. We do not have
to be ordained and set aside as
full-time clergymen in order to
be true ministers.
Anybody can minister.
Everybody should minister. It
is the duty of every Christian
believer. It is the sign of his
sincerity and of his acceptance
of the new way of life.
As Jesus was speaking one
day and came to a pause in his
remarks, a man from the crowd
lifted up his voice and said,
“Master, speak to my brother,
that he divide the inheritance
with me. And he (Jesus) said
unto him, Man. who made me
a judge or a divider over you?”
We believe that on the last
day Jesus will judge the world
and its peoples. He will be the
final arbiter of human destiny.
But while he was on earth Je
sus constantly refused to be a
judge. He was a teacher, a
healer, a Saviour — but he
would allow no man to make
him a judge or a divider.
Ga Auto Drivers
Urged to Renew
Driver's License
Time is fast running out for
renewing Georgia driver licen
ses. And the longer you wait,
the longer the lines will be for
you to stand in. The deadline
is March 31.
That’s the reminder from Col.
H. Lowell Conner, director of
the Georgia Department of
Public Safety, who urges those
; who have not already done so
to get their licenses renewed
immediately.
Not only that, but those who
fail to renew their licenses be
fore the deadline will have to
take the State Patrol’s requir
ed examination before they can
obtain a new one. There pos
tively will be no extention of
time this year, the director
said.
All licenses marked with an
expiration date of March 31,
1962: any license marked per
manent (except veterans’ li
censes which require no rc-
I newal), and all learners’ li
censes must be renewed by
i March 31.
| “The change in the law
' which calls for renewal of li
j censes on the licensee’s birth-
I day may have caused some peo
ple to think they do not have
•to renew their licenses until
I their birthday rolls around.”
commented Capt. F. M. Davies,
I supervisor of the Drivers' Li
cense Division. “But that is not
■ the case. The new law does not
go into effect until 1963."
Renewals may be made in
person or by mail, but either
! way it should be done at once,
lit was emphasized. Fees are
the same as before.
Rose bushes should be prun
ed when the buds begin to
swell, which usually occurs in
February in South Georgia and
late February or early March
in North Georgia, according to
Extension Horticulturist Ger
ald Smith.
(Laraest Covaraqa Any Waakly In The State!
Letters lo
The Editor
March 12. 1962
Covington, Ga.
Editor
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Sir:
Who said old times are the
best? Well, I don’t know, but
it has been said by some. Re
cently I returned to Covington
after an absence of several
years. Immediately, I beheld
the beautiful square. Yes, to
day the landscape of the square
is perfect. No cattle are quar
tered along its sides. So t h e
beauty can be shared be resi
dents, visitors and others. Yes,
it is a tribute to Covington.
The scenic beauty magnifi
cently outlining the monuments
is there. So it is that in Cov
ington, for once, new times
are quite an improvement,
while traditions are upheld.
Sincerely,
Wales Alexander
Covington Georgia
March 7th, 1962
Editor, The Covington News,
Covington, Georgia
Dear sir:
I would appreciate a brief
space in your excellent publica
tion to correct a recent story in
THE ATLANTA CONSTITU
TION that could cause some
wrong impressions.
Mention was made that I
remembered the school when
we had pot bellied stoves and
drank water from a well buck
et. These remarks were quoted
generally as I made them, but
the report did not show that I
went on to tell of all the pro
gress we had made down
through the years and that now
I considered Livingston among
the top ten percent in the
state.
I don’t think that it is ne
cessary for me to state that I
have lived a lifetime in con
stant support of all that is
better for young people and
public schools. I believe that it
is also well known that I sup
port the Newton County Board
of Education as individuals
and as a fully capable and
dedicated part of our local
government.
If anyone dougts that I sup
port Newton County teachers
I’ll just state that I married
one and that’s all the
law allows in polite society.
I should have given the Con
stitution reporter a written
statement. I could tell from his
facial expression that he was
not very alert.
Thank you very much,
J. Paul Alexander
1127 Floyd St.
Covington, Ga.
March 8. 1962
The Editor
Covington News
Covington, Ga.
A WORD OF PRAISE
LONG OVERDUE
Mr. Editor:
As assistant to photograph
er, it has been my pleasure to
attend many weddings.
Not until the wedding of my
daughter, did I realize the part
in the wedding of the Society
Editor. I shall forever hold
dear to my heart, the kindness,
patience, and cooperation of
MARY MALLARD. Little did
I know about the writeup, now
realizing that the better part
of a full day vent into this
phase of my daughters wed
ding. Little did I know the
trouble I caused in not hav
ing the notes in full. Can you
recall, as a Mother, the pa
tience and anxiety you had in
teaching one of your little
fellows to carry a number for
ward while adding a column
of figures, this was the type of
patience displayed by our SO
CIETY EDITOR. Her tireless
effort, her dedication and de
votion to our paper is most ap
preciated.
(Carlynne J. Grant)
Mrs. James C. Grant
Roadbuilding
Exhibit at
Georgia Center
An exhibition of the art of
roadbuilding is being present
ed at the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education on,the
University of Georgia campus
through March 23. This show,
originally shown at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York, is
being circulated throughout the
country.
The exhibition shows ele
vated roads, multi-lane high
ways, airport runways, and in
cludes a sketch by Leonardo
da Vinci of a proposed roau at
roof level.
The exhibition is being cir
from the CBS Foundation Inc. j
Comrades . . . Simply
Not Enough Meat —
A New Challenge
By LEO S. MALLARD
“Comrades, the fact is we simply have not enough meat.”
With these words Premier Khrushchev confirmed a fact
that has been known to the Soviet housewife for some time
and admitted that his own Seven Year Plan for agriculture,
begun in 1959, could not succeed.
Speaking before the 330
members of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party,
Khrushchev was also telling the
members that the Soviet Union
— indeed, every Communist
state — must transform itself
from a revolutionary society
into an affluent society.
As light is shed on cold
Soviet facts, despite the rapid
industrial progress, the Soviet
economy still is not wealthy
enough to produce an abun
dance of both guns and butter.
At present, no one is starving
in Russia as people did under
the Stalin regime, but the So
viet people are growing at a
rate of four million per year
and they want more butter,
meat, and milk.
Khrushchev had to find a
scapegoat for the failure of his
Seven year plan. “Swelled head
ed” and “complacent” local of
ficials bore the brunt of Khru
shchev’s anger for the failure.
Although he sarcastically ac
knowledged certain areas for
meeting their quotas in certain
products, he. at the same time,
chastised them for falling be
hind in production of other
products.
Regional agriculture officials
echoed Khrushchev’s com
plaints as they followed him to
the platform. They also brought
along some suggestions and
complaints of their own. A high
er pay scale for the peasants
seemed to top the suggestion
list. Complaints consisted of
such things as “insufficient ce
ment for constructing barns,
lack of electricity in certain
areas which limited produc
tivity, and shortage of fertiliz
er.”
Khrushchev not only drama
tized the severity of the farm
problem, he went into action.
He ordered construction of new
tractor and fertilizer plants and
appealed to Soviet youth to go
MAN TALMADGE
B^^|eports From
I l ifc
Ui S
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THE MAGNITUDE of the
federal budget proposed for the
1963 fiscal year beginning July
1 staggers one’s capacity for
comprehension.
It is the largest budget in our
nation’s peacetime history and
is only a little less than $6 bil
lion below the largest of the
yearly budgets required to win
World War 11.
It totals $92.-
537 billion
which figures
out to more
than SSOO for
each of the
185-million
plus men, wo
men and chil-
dren in the United States. To
print each item in it requires a
volume of 1171 pages which, by
way of comparison, is roughly
the same size as the telephone
directory for Metropolitan
Washington, an area of more
than two million people.
* * *
TRIS BUDGET, however, rep
resents only a part of the gov
ernment spending story for the
next fiscal year.
It is what is known as the
bookkeeping budget which is
substantially smaller than the
cash budget. The latter, which
includes spending items from
trust funds like those for Social
Security and highway construc
tion, will be $114.8 billion and
will set an all-time record for
federal spending during any one
12-month period.
U. S. News and World Report
has compiled some most reveal
ing statistics about how all that
money, if appropriated by Con
gress, will be spent It figures
those billions will go out in the
form of 467 million checks to 2.5
million government workers, 3.7
(not prepar'd or preened nt foo-ma-mt erponee)
Thursday, March 15, 1962
to work on farms this spring.
He said he was devoting so
much attention to farming “not
because little has been done but
because more can and must be
done.” The result may be that
more emphasis will be put on
the building of wheat combines
and other farm machinery and
less time and money on rockets
and military equipment.
Last week’s meeting als®
challenged Mao Tsetung’s pol
icy of revolutionary austerity.
Khrushchev knew the Chinese
would bitterly resent this So
viet decision to build an afflu
ent society in Russia while dis
regarding the needs of Mao and
his Asian masses. The decision
will almost certainly widen the
split between the two Red
giants.
Khrushch°v’s view: “T h 9
preaching of eauality in t h?
spirit of primitive Christian
communities with their 1o w
standard of lives and a^eH
cism is alien to scientific Com
munism.” In terms that could
hardly be more personal,
Khrushchev attacked “subjec
tivists. . . leftist sectarians. . .
idealists” who believe that
Communi-'m can be attained
without first creating an at
mosphere of material abun
dance.
Khrushchev's behavior at the
party plenum provide certain
grounds for optimism. Soviet
agriculture is tightly interlock
ed with Moscow’s use of its re
sources, and therefore with its
foreign and military policies.
Less emphasis on guns may be
the result.
The validity of Western hopes
for a new emphasis on butter,
milk, and meat will be tested
immediately as Soviet and
Western negotiators again sit
down at the disarmament con
ference in Geneva.
million members of the armed
services and reserve components,
3 million farmers, 4.6 million
veterans and their dependents, 8
million persons on relief and 17
million recipients of Social Secu
rity benefits. In addition, 43
million holders of U. S. Savings
Bonds will receive interest pay
ments and more than 70 of tha
105 nations of the earth are
slated to get foreign aid hand
outs.
• * •
BOTH OF THESE budgets
are in theoretical balance; that
is, they assume that income will
exceed outgo if the nation’s
economy continues to improve
at the predicted rate and Con
gress enacts the President’s rev
enue recommendations. Should
things work out the way the
Chief Executive envisions them,
the Government would have its
seventh balanced budget in 30
years come June 30, 1963.
President Kennedy is to be ap
plauded for recognizing the ur
gent necessity of achieving a
balance in the federal budget as
an essential adjunct of assuring
the security of the nation. To
ward the goat of achieving that
end he has my wholehearted sup
port.
I also feel strongly that non
essential federal spending must
be reduced, particularly in the
area of aid to Communist and
neutralist countries, and I expect
to so vote when the spending
measures come before the Sen
ate. It has been my experience
both as a governor and a legis
lator that any budget can be re
duced in many areas without
curtailment of necessary serv
ices to any degree.