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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
Let's Put Christ in Easter
Do we truly know that man called Jesus?
Is He so closely embedded within our hearts
and lives that'He shines through us touch
ing the lives of all with whom we come
in contact?
If not then we should study our Bibles
more and learn more about what He wou<d
have us do with our lives to make this, and
every Easter a glorious season.
Do our children know the full significance
of the Easter Season, or does it mean only
new clothes, Easter bonnets, bunny rabbits
and Easter eggs?
In this modern world, what about par
ents? Is it a time for festive parties and
get-togethetrs without the Christ who died
on the Cross that we might be saved from
sin?
The pathway we walk here is a prepa
ration for life eternal. Christ came and
brought the WORD. He walked from place
to place teaching God’s word, thinking not
of clothes, food or where He would lay
his head at night. In one sentence he had
five imperatives: Go—Sell —Give —Come—•
Follow! Yes, He told the rich young man
to go sell his worldly goods, give to the
poor and come and follow Him. He told
the fishermen to “Come follow me and I
will make you fishers of men.”
These same words were for us. The path
way we travel with Jesus will not be an
easy one, nor was His. There are many doors
which will be closed to us, but that is an
honor. We may be despised and shunned
because we do not fit in . . • but what an
hnoor when those doors are closed to us!
Jesus made the supreme sacrifice for us.
He died on the Cross that we might be
saved. What can we do for Him? What
are we doing for Him?
Paul suffered, was beaten with rods but
Paul made his mark among the great. He
wrote thirteen of the twenty - six
books of the New Testament. Remember
when he was imprisoned how the gates
were opened suddenly and He was free?
How this power of God caused even the
jailer and family to accept Christ.
We may not be beaten or imprisoned,
unless we forget the Christ who died for
us and we let communism take over.
Yes, let’s make this a glorious Easter by
looking into the mirror and seeing ourselves
as Christ sees us . . . then let us start down
that new pathway of life which leads to
life eternal, and being about our Father’s
business.
Statistics Show That
70% of the People in U.S.
Still Live in Small Cities
Don’t be fooled by this New Frontier
hogwash from Washington about “urban
areas."
The loose statements we are constantly
hearing from Administration stooges that
seven Americans out of 10 now live in ur
ban areas — and the implication that the
“urban area” is something that the Federal
Government must do something about, on
account of all such are cesspools of crime,
breeding places of juvenile* delinquency,
with transportation and traffic problems
that are out-of-hand — are definitely in
tended to fool you. The obvious purpose is
to soften up your readers to accept without
too much protest the further extension of
Federal authority from the State House
(now under fairly firm control) to the City
Hall.
For more detail on the “STATISTICAL
“JUGGLING’’ that goes on in the Nation's
Capital, we refer vou to the article of that
title in HUMAN EVENTS for March 24
It points out that there are only five US
cities of over a million, and four of these
have shrunk in the past decade, that ac
tually, less than 16 percent of our popula
tion lives in cities of 500.000 and larger,
and no more than 30 percent reside in our
“larger cities” and their surrounding met
ropolitan areas. The article concludes:
Here's a Nostalgic Bit
For Old-Time "Whittiers''
A recent query of Editor Russ Metz of
the Bath County News-Observer of Owings
ville, Ky., as to what had become of the
harmonica — which he allowed was the
only known wind instrument of the push
pull type — reminds us of another nostalgic
bit from Editor and Publisher Dean Bunt
ing of the Albion (III.) Journal-Register.
Mr. Bunting writes:
“I rise to deplore the decline and pass
ing of the ancient and honorable art of
whittling. When the whittler has al last
disappeared from the contemporary scene,
we shall have lost one of the few remain
ing bulwarks of an age more gracious and
leisurely than ours . . .
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Easter Seals Are an
Investment in Humanity
To help them walk, live and to work
like others summarizes the nationwide pro
gram of treatment and rehabilitation which
has guided Easter Seal societies in its more
than 40 years of service to crippled chil
dren and adults.
Here in Georgia, through your 1961
Easter Seal contributions 2,365 crippled
children and physically handicapped adults
were provided with care and treatment.
They were helped to walk, to talk, to
live like others and to work again. You
helped them to accomplish all this.
Another word expressing the same
thought is rehabilitation. It is practical
help for the physically handicapped to help
them to become wage earners, independ
ent of their families and tax-supported re
lief. It is the teaching of skills to replace
those lost or non-existent because of handi
caps, the building of self-confidence and
social adjustment, and the instilling of new
hopes and ambitions.
That is all to the good. But complacency,
public apathy, sheer indifference can quick
ly stifle progress and accomplishment. It
has happened to many worthy plans. It
must not happen to Georgia’s crippled chil
dren and handicapped adults who can ben
efit through rehabilitation.
When you are asked to give to Easter
Seals, consider it an investment in America
as well as in humanity.
Postage Rate Bill Would
Do Serious Harm to
Newspapers, Magazines
More voices are protesting the inad
equacy and inequity of HR 7927, the post
age rate bill passed by the House of Rep
resentatives. As written, it is evident that
it will do serious harm to newspapers and
magazines without giving real help to
the Post Office. John Gunther, the author,
voiced the misgivings of many in a letter
to The New York Times.
If passed also by the Senate, says Gun
ther. the bill “will almost certainly destroy
serious periodical literature in the United
State” by “fantastically unjust and ex
cessively steep increases in the second and
third class postage rates.” He points out this
would leave untouched “the grisly milli
gatawny of sex, crime, joke books and
comic books” sold on newsstands w'hile
penalizing the serious magazines largely
delivered to subscribers by mail.
“This is too high a price to pay for the
relatively insignificant portion of postal
revenue involved,” says The New York
Times in an editorial urging that the Senate
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
appraise the consequences of the proposed
increases.
In an article which should be required
reading for all who do read and titled,
“Second-Class Mail Rates Can Ruin First-
Class Magazines,” the April Reader’s Di
gest points out some of these. The pro
posed increase, for example, would add
$91,000 to the annual postage bill of the
Atlantic Monthly, which dates from 1857.
This additional burden is more than seven
times the before-tax profit the magazine
earned in 1961.
Most farm publications are delivered
by mail. The Farm Journal, which has not
made a profit in either of the last two
years, is faced with an increased postage
bill of at least half a million dollars a year.
When The New York Times observes
that the present provisions of the bill “will
cut off outlets for creative literature and
public enlightenment," it is indulging its
penchant for understatement. More simply
put, if it is the desire of the US Senate
to strangle the press of the nation, it need
onjly rubber-stamp the House bill.
It should be no news to the Senators
that the fate of the press, and especially
the newspapers, is the fate of Freedom.
We Need 12 Months Spring;
Flowers Will Help Remind Us
We don’t suppose there ever was a time
since the dawn of Creation when man fail
i ed to respond to the miracle of spring —
I nor for that matter, the cats and the dogs
and even the beasts of the field who doubt
less look forward to new contentment in
their greening, flower-dotted meadows.
But there’s nothing like the break-up
of a hard winter plus the national and
global tensions of these critical and dang
erous times to add to the glamor of this
enchanting season — and to make us aware
of the hunger of our souls for the beauty
and inspiration of flowers —- from dande
lions to roses and forget-me-nots to sun
flowers.
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.
TH! C O V I
SOUR WEEKLY OIESSON FOR
un day School
Christ Reigns (Easter)
. Bible Material: Matthew 28:
Hebrews I.
Devotional Reading: Matthew
28. Memory Selection: Worthy
ui the Lamb who was slain, to
receive power and wealth and
i wisdom and might and honor
j and glory and blessing! Revela
i tion 5:12.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
I Christ Reigns.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Christ Reigns.
In our study for the present
quarter we consider New Testa
ment “Letters of Faith, Coun
sel and Courage.” We now come
to one of the longer and more
important of these letters, the
Epistle to the Hebrews. The
writer of this letter (or epistle)
is not known, but it is certainly
apostolic in flavor and occupies
a distinct place in the New
Testament. The Epistle follows
in many cases the theology of
the Apostle Paul, but seems to
go beyond it in some instances.
There are subjects treated here
which would make the New
Testament suffer a very distinct
loss if this letter were not in
cluded.
Some have thought that the
author might have been Barna
bas, who was known for his
eloquence. Most experts who
have scholarly knowledge of the
Greek language in which the
New Testament is written feel
that the Epistle was written by
one who spoke and wrote Greek
as his mother tongue. Some
scholars feel that Hebrews may
have been dictated by the
Apostle Paul but written Oy
Luke. However, these are only
guesses since the writer did not
sign his name, so this m a y be
termed the “great unsigned
letter of the New Testament.”
The Epistle gives us many
deep insights concerning the Old
Testament and its relation to
the New. It is a powerful por- .
tion of Scripture in presenting |
the Christian faith to Jews even
in our own day. It has also been j
most useful in presenting i
Christian truth to Moslems, who
like Jews have been under the
law and find a powerful argu
ment here that all the religious
values of the faith they have
held will be found in Christ |
in a deeper and more spiritual 1
way.
It is this Epistle which tells I
us that “Jesus Christ is t h e
same yesterday, and today, and
forever” (Hebrews 13:8). The
Christ who now reigns with
God is the same who died on
the cross of Calvary in atone
ment for our sins, who broke
the bands of death on that first
Easter morning, and who now
reigns as Lord in the church
and in the heart of every true
Christian.
The tremendous assertion in
the first verse here is that
God has spoken. We live in a
world and a universe so vast
that the mind of man cannot
comprehend its limits or un
derstand a great deal of its
laws. But it is a silent universe,
and no voice comes to tell us of
its meaning or what man is or
of what his destiny consists.
Then out of the vastness of
space and time we cannot mea
sure conies a revelation from
God. the Creator. God speaks
to tell us of Himself and to give
to man the law of life.
The whole of the Old Testa
ment is summed up in a single
verse — God spoke. He gave to
man his revelation. It came at
sundry times, over many cen
turies. He spoke to Abraham
and to Moses and all the pro
phets. Here is a very high doc
trine of the inspiration of,
Scripture.
God spoke in divers man
ners. sometimes by angeis such
as He sent to Abraham in the
form of men. Again, He spoke in
I a voice that issued from a burn
ing bush. Sometimes He spoke
I by dreams and often by visions.
Though it came in many ways,
-.he chosen prophets always
’ knew it was the revelation of
the same almighty God.
Each of the prophets wrote ;
the revelation in his own style j
and in the idiom and the en- |
vironment of his own place and
time; yet in each case it was I
God who was speaking through 1
the prophet. The writer was the ,
channel of communication, but j
the message was the word of
i God given to the speaker or
i writer by the inspiration and:
’ guidance of the Holy Spirit. |
As an example of the fact
that God not only gave the rev- i
elation but insured its commu- .
nication to future ages, we think
of the very clear and perfect !
manuscript of the whole book j
of Isaiah found among the fa- ,
inous “Dead Sea Scrolls.” This
is about a thousand years older
than any manuscript of this
book that we had previously
known, and yet it agreed almost
G TO N NEWS
i exactly with our accepted text j
of this great book of the Old ;
: Testament.
We are persons, and so it
pleased God to complete his
> revelation in a person. We can
understand that. And God has
highly exalted the Lord Jesus
Christ, and made him heir of
all things, as we find the Scrip
ture confirming that Christ
reigns: “Wherefore God hath
highly exalted him, and given
him a name which is above
every name: that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven and things
in earth, and things under the
earth: and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).
We are also reminded that
this same Jesus who reigns is
the very person through whom
the worlds were created in the
first place. This is also a doc
trine supported by other Scrip
ture; as for instance: “All
things were made by him. and
without him was not anything
made that was made” (John
1:3).
What the author of the Epis
tle is endeavoring to describe
strains the bounds of human
language. Our language arises
out of our experience; yet only
once in the stream of human
life was there an experience
such as this, that the One who
had created the worlds became
incarnate and took upon him
self human flesh and blood and
walked as a man.
Endeavoring now to express
this greatest of all facts in
language and to show forth the
divine nature of the human
Christ, the writer begins: “Who
being the brightness of his
glory.” The world in the origi
nal is even stronger than!
“brightness” and would per
haps be rendered better, “ef
fulgence.”
letters Io
The Editor
I
j Editor
The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Sir:
As a subscriber to your news
paper, I note with interest that
the voters of Covington are
being asked to decide if the
city will have a city manager
ship form of government.
It has been my fortune to
live and work in several cities
utilizing a city manager. For
five years I lived in Carters
ville, Ga., the first city in Geor
gia to adopt this form of gov
ernment. I believe eventually |
all cities in the nation, large !
and small, will turn to this
type of municipal operation.
It has been my experience to
find city managership an ef
ficient, economical way of run
ning local government. It is an
open form of government — I
the people are told what is
going on and where their tax
dollars are being spent. This is
a provision of the National City
Managers Association’s code of
ethics. This code of ethics pro
vides, also, that city managers
attend to their jobs and stay
out of politics.
I believe, sincerely, that the
citizens of Covington will be
taking a giant step toward pro
gress if they adopt this type
j of government.
I grew up at Porterdale and
once worked for the Covington ।
News: naturally, I am still in- ,
terested in Covington a n d I
' Newton County.
I hope the people of Coving- :
ton will vote for progress when I
they decide this issue. I submit, I
from experience and obser^a-1
tion. that the city managership j
government is a workable gov- ’
ernment.
My deepest sympathy goes to;
Mrs. Dennis and personnel of j
I the Covington News in the
death of Belmont Dennis, the
man who gave me my first
job. He was a great newspaper-,
man. a fine gentleman and a
public servant who accomplish- ,
ed much for Covington and the ’
। State of Georgia
Respectfully
Bill Statham
City Editor
Tyler Morning Tele- i
graph, and Tyler
Courier-Times
Tyler. Texas
—
April 5. 1962
Editor
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Sir:
Our guest director, l.oger L.
fT.»rr»««st Coveraae Any Weekly In The State!
Peach Market
Order Voted
Edgar L. Duke, Jr., of Fort
Valley, chairman of the newly
formed Agricultural C. C. for
Peaches, announced today that
a peach marketing order to
provide for promotion, research
and education and for quality
control among growers in the
industry was voted on and
passed by a majority of the
peach growers in Georgia.
The marketing order, known
as order No. Five for Peaches,
was presented to the growers
and passed as a result of leg
islation of the 1961 Georgia
General Assembly and appro
ved by the people of Georgia in
general election.
Voting was held by ballot.
In order for the new market
ing program to go into effect
in Georgia, 51 pecent of the
producers who produce not less
than 65 percent of the total
volume of production was re
quired to vote favorably. More
than 59 percent of the Geor
gia peach growers voted “for”
the order, representing more
than 69 percent of the total
number of trees in Georgia.
With a total of 356 growers
in the state, 211 ballots were
received in favor of the order
with 84 dissenting ballots. Ac
cording to a recent survey,
this represents 2.707.351 trees
in comparison to the total
shown on the survey of 3,942,-
697.
Acting as spokesman for the
Commission, Duke said that the
order would provide funds for
the peach growers to promote
their product in a self help pro
gram. The order provides that
all growers may be assessed as
much as three cents a tree for
use in promoting Georgia
peaches and in raising the
standards of the peach sold in
Georgia and adjacent market
areas.
“Similar orders such as the
one passed for peaches have
recently gone into effect in
Georgia with the result of a
better quality product being
offered in Georgia and a high
er net return going to the pro
ducer”, Duke said.
Dancz. at the recent winter
concert was greatly impressed
by the headlines of the Cov
ington News with regard to
the concert. He suggested that
he had never seen a local news
paper display such interest and
enthusiasm for a high school
band.
Your support certainly help
ed our concert for we had pre
sent the largest audience ever
to hear a concert at N. C. H. S.
To you go our most sincere
thanks. We appreciate all your
support and are grateful.
Basil Rigney
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Even Big Business
Cannot Override
White House Pressure
By LEO S. MALLARD
This week John F. Kennedy won the greatest single vic
tory of his term in office. U. S. Steel rolled back its price
raise of $6 per ton. Rapidly the six other companies that
had raised prices followed suit-
The victory resulted in Ken
nedy reaching a high point in
his relations with Congress. It
could well provide the margin
of victory for the medicare bill
and even for the embattled farm
program. Also, the Republicans
had lost one of their issues
against the President: Inflation.
Kennedy underscored hi s
view that the “public interest,”
as far as the basic industries are
concerned, must always be at
the bargaining table during la
bor - management negotiations
and a guest in the paneled
board rooms where pricing
policies are discussed.
Roger Miles Blough, the
board chairman of U. S. Steel
Corp., stated at a news con
ference that his company had
“raised the price of steel be
cause higher profits were need
ed to provide newer machines
and equipment so that, in turn
it could compete in the national
and foreign steel markets.”
To this argument many busi
nessmen across the country
would lend a sympathetic ear.
But, in the interest of the na
tion as a whole, the timing and
the manner in which the raise
was accomplished were wrong.
We might also point out that the
3.5 per cent raise, an average
of $6 a ton on top of the aver
age price of $l5O a ton. was a
direct slap in the face to Presi
dent Kennedy.
The company’s first price in
crease in four years came just
three days after the United
Steelworkers and the steel com
panies had finished signing
two-year contracts calling for
a 10-cent-an-hour increase —
all in fringe benefits for la
bor. The President, in fact, had
staked his personal prestige on
this contract and assured the
nation that it was “non-infla
tionary.”
“The simultaneous and iden
tical actions (of the big steel
companies) constitute a wholly
unjustifiable and irresponsible
defiance of the public interest,”
Kennedy told the nation on his
‘Steel castigation” telecast.
“In this serious hour in our
nation’s history when we are
confronted with grave crises in
Thursday, April 19, 1962
Berlin and Southeast Asia,
when we are devoting our en
ergies to economic recovery and
stability, when we are asking
reservists to leave their homes
1 and families months on end and
servicemen risk their lives —
and four were killed in the last
' two days in Vietnam — and
! asking union members to hold
, down their wage requests at a
' time when restraint and sacri
' fice are being asked of every
' citizen, the American people
। will find it had, as I do, to ac
cept a situation in which a tiny
’ handful of steel executives,
' whose purcuit of private power
• and profit exceeds their sense
1 of public responsibility, can
’ show such utter contempt for
the interest of 185 million
Americans.”
The President’s anger on TV
was expressed in more than
। words. Pressure from the ad
ministration was applied. Ken
nedy ordered the Justice De
partment and the Federal Trade
Commission to investigate.
■ Within 24 hours a grand-jury
( investigation by the Justice De
-1 partment was well underway.
' Defense Secretary McNamara
instructed the armed services
that “whatever possible steel
will be purchased from du-je
* companies which have not in
creased prices,” The govern
ment’s first use of the new
price policy was a direct slap at
U. S. Steel: The Navy’s Bureau
: of Ships bypassed U. S. Steel
1 and ordered 11,000 tons of
high-grade steel for three Po
laris nuclear submarines from
the Lukens Steel Co. of Coats
ville. Pa., which had not rais
ed prices.
With the price boost recind
ed, Kennedy has assumed a
position of higher prestige with
the people of the nation and
with Congress than he has
ever enjoyed before.
Pre-emergence weed control
chemicals are rapidly being ac
cepted in Georgia as an efficient
and economical method of con
trolling weeds in cotton, accord
ing to Extension Agronomist Larry
Torrance.