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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
Soil Stewardship Week
Is Inventory Time for
Many Newton Countians
Water is such s part of our lives that
most of us seldom give it a second thought.
This is especially true here in Georgia,
where our climate usually provides ample
rainfall. About the only time we are ever
impressed with the importance of water
is when watering the lawn runs the water
bill up or the pump breaks down.
As human beings, we are irrevocably
linked to water. It is as necessary to the
economy of the state and 'nation as it is
to the biological processes of the human
body. The farmer knows this; so does the
industrialist looking for a plant site.
One only has to look at the patterns of
human settlement to see how closely man’s
destiny is tied up with water. Man has al
ways built his communities near water
that would sustain life, provide moisture
for growing food and give him means of
transportation. In more recent times he
has sought out water for the additional
needs of his industrial plants and to gen
erate electrical power.
God provided enough water to meet
our needs, but by mismanagement we are
imperiling this resource. The cycle of
water being evaporated to return to earth
again in the form of rain and the surplus
finally returning through ever enlarging
streams to the sea worked perfectly before
man began changing the face of the earth
and placing new demands on the avail
able water supply. Too, when the earth
was still covered with its natural vegeta
tion, the rainfall caused no harm to the
soil.
As we change the earth to meet our
demands we can not expect the water
supply to continue to meet our demands
on it without management.
This demand is becoming greater every
day. Should we be shortsighted in manag
ing our God-given water, the results will
be disastrous.
Agriculture, industry and growing pop
ulation all cause problems. Clearing of
land brought on erosion, floods and al
lowed the moisture to evaporate rapidly.
We have learned how to correct these with
soil conservation practices from terraces
and small watersheds to big dams.
A newer but just as serious problem
in the pollution of streams caused by in
dustrial wastes and sewage from cities.
Progress is being made in solving these
problems, too. An encouraging sign of the
awakening to this danger is the new lab
oratory to be built in Athens to study water
pollution.
Problems sometimes arise from unsus
pected places. Now even the housewife
washing dishes is the culprit. The new de
tergents she is using are filling up streams
and soil so that near some large cities
one can’t draw a glass of water from the
faucet without a head of foam on it.
All of these problems can be solved,
but it’s going to take research and cooper
ative effort on the part of many people
to keep the solutions coming through as
fast as the problems.
If we ever let our water troubles get
ahead of üb, we re going to be in a serious
situation, whether we need water to make
crops grow, to supply industrial needs or
just for everyday household uses.
Soil Stewardship Week this year is
placing emphasis on water conservation.
Let us remember that all of us are depend
ent upon both of these vital resources.
REPLACEMENT OF TOUGH GUY.
Marshal Ivan Konev, as Soviet Commander
in East Germany is hailed by the Allies
as the sign of a softer Red attitude in Ber
lin. SSucceeding Konev, whose appoint
ment preceded the building of The Wall
by three days, is Col. Gen., Ivan I. Yaku
bovsky — who was in command before
Konev took over in 1961.
It would be just as well, however, to
wait a iew nays before we Ciow — and
whether x’akubovsky tears the wall
down as speedily as Konev put it up.
The American Medical Association
points out that the main causes of blindness
in the United States are glaucoma, cataracts
and accidents. Most of the accidents could
be prevented by the exercise of simple
precautions on the part of children and
their parents. Most cases of cataracts can
be dealt with by surgery. Glaucoma, if
recognized in its early stages, and if ad
quate and sustained treatment is given, can
be checked and stabilized. One reliable es
timate says that half the blindness in this
^country could be prevented or cured.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
NATION A I EDITORIAL
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Kefauver's Subcommittee
Searching For-Who-Knows-
What in Price-Fixing
Congressional investigations are a neces
sary function of government. But they can
also u’aste the legislators’ time and the
public's money. A good example is the Ke
fauver subcommittee's probe of the hearing
aid industry.
Officially charged with hunting down
anti-trust and monopoly practices, Mr. Ke
fauver’s group wandered off the reserva
tion searching for who-knows-what in its
investigation of the hearing aid industry.
By admission of its own counsel, it could
find no evidence of price-fixing or collu
sion. Its own expert witness, Dr. William
G. Hardy of Johns Hopkins University,
testified that he did not know of any hear
ing aid dealer or manufacturer making
a lot of money. Yet the inquisition dragged
on.
An industry representative. David H.
Barnow, executive vice president of the
Beltone Hearing Aid Compnay, showed that
while the annual unit sales of his company,
second largest in the US, have increased
47 percent in the past 10 years, annual
earnings dropped 31 percent over the same
period. This, he said, was due mainly to
expansion of customer services, heavy re
search expenditures, product development,
quality control and generally rising costs.
He also mentioned the difficulties in sell
ing to those in need of aural help, but
among whom “hardly anybody wants a
hearing aid.”
The industry, said Mr. Barnow, is highly
competitive, with 62 manufacturers sell
ing a wide range of hearing aids with wide
ly varying prices and services. To meet
this competition, he said, Beltone dealers
conduct a continuous post-sales service pro
gram in which they spend an average of
30 hours with each purchaser, helping him,
at no charge, to ad just during the first year
of his re-entry into the world of sound.
It would appear that the subcommittee
would like to squeeze the initiative out
of this small, efficient and highly compet
itive industry under the dispiriting bur
den of Government supervision.
Government intervention can only be
a disservice to self-improvement — wheth
er in our personal and private lives or in
our business or professional activities. And
the state of our hearing or vision or sense
of smell has nothing to do with the case.
Food Processing and
Distribution Work
Force Jumped 700,000
A report by an economics organization
says that the number of full-time workers
in food processing and distribution has in
creased by about 700,000 in the brief span
of years since 1947. Moreover, this year it
is expected that the number of these work
ers. plus those engaged in food transporta
tion. will equal the number of farm food
producers —a circumstance which cer
tainly would have seemed impossible not
so very long ago-
Among other things, these figures indi
cate the changing nature of the food busi
ness. The housewife today has an enormous
choice of foods with “built in maid service’’
foods which are ready to eat or virtually so.
She now needs to spend only a fraction of
the time preparing meals that she spent
a few years back. And she's taken full
advantage of this opportunity, which large
ly accounts for the heavy increase in food
industry workers.
They also point to the ever-expanding
rule of retailing in modern life This isn't
just true in foods. It is true in varying
degrees of retailing in all its many branches.
The store used to be considered something
of a stepchild of the production system —
it was there, it offered goods for sale, and
that was about the size of it. But now it
is recognized that mass distribution is the
full partner of mass production — one is
as important as the other, neither could
exist without the other. Stores show the
game kind of enterprise and will to pro
gress that successful manufacturers do to
produce, otherwise many factories would
close.
All of us live better because of that.
According to the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, our government spend
ing has grown so vast that in a 15-month
period it would be sufficient to buy up
everything that Soviet Russia produced
in one year, including financing the Rus
sian armed forces and all their missile work.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter ~ 4 Hie Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY dO LESSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
The Fellowship of Love
Bible Material: I John 3:11-
18: 4:7-21; 2 John; 3 John.
Devotional Reading; Romana
12:1-5; Memory Selection: Let
us not love in word or speech,
but in deed and in truth. I John
3:18.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
What It Means to Belong.
Young People - Adult Topic;
The Fellowship of Love.
The shortest verse in t h e
Bible consists of two words:
“Jesus wept” (John 11:35).
Probably the most important
verse in the Bible is I John 4:8:
“He that loveth not knoweth
not God; for God is love.” The
verse from the third chapter
of the Gospel of John which
begins, “God so loved the
world. . . ” is the most famous
and widely quoted verse in the
Bible. This verse measures and
defines love of God, but I John
4:8 tells us what God is a n d
defines his purpose
This is basic. Unless the
statement. “God is love,” is true
our whole religious system falls
to the ground. God may be om
nipotent, omniscient, omnipre
sent, and perfect in every as
pect of his being. But the state
ment “God is love” goes be
yond all this.
Those three words consti
tute the tripod upon which the
whole Christian structure rests.
This quarterly series of les
sons on letters of “Faith, Coun
sel, and Courage” has employ
ed some of the choice passages
of the New Testament. These
passages have been taken from
Paul’s Epistle to Timothy and
his Epistle to Titus. The Epis
tle to the Hebrews has been
used as the basis of teaching
in two lessons. Then come the
Epistles of Peter and Jude, and
following these, the Epistles of
John and the Book of Revela
tion (which begins with a ser
ies of messages or letters to
the churches of Asia Minor).
Today’s lesson emphasizes the
supremacy of love. It sets forth
love as the mark of Christian
fellowship. It describes and il
lustrates the Christian dynamic
which love furnishes. It presents
for our consideration love as the
motive for service, the basis of
our confidence in ourselves and
God, and the antidote for fear.
Love is the power which meets
and overwhelms such destruc
tive forces of the world as
pride, prejudice, greed, lust, and
the desire to dominate others.
We have reminded ourselves
frequently in the course of our
study of God's word that God is
love. This statement is part of
today's lesson. It means some
thing more than the mere
statement that God is lovable
or loving. We with our earthly
minds must think of everything
as having some variety of sub
stance. We even have to asso
ciate substance with God.
though we are well aware of
the fact that God is probably
superior to all substance. But
if we are to think of God as
being “made” of something,
then that thing which comprises
God’s nature, his power, and
his providential plans, is love.
Love among us earth-dwel
lers is tied up inextricably with
sentiment. Parents love their
children. Friends love friends.
Men and women love each
other. In all this there is emo
tion and sentiment.
Yet love at its basis is not a
sentiment but a purpose. It is
that within our nature which
causes us to be self-effacing,
courageous, sacrificial, unsel
fish, worship, and eager for
human service.
“Love is of God: and every
one that loveth is born of God
and knoweth God.” Every time
we do a loving act. the power
and purpose of God shines
through what we do, say, and
are. Religion is something more
than a well ordered moral life.
Religion is spiritual rebirth. He
that loves is “born of God and
knoweth God.”
Jesus was insistent on this
matter of rebirth. We are born
creatures: we are reborn sons
and daughters of God.
Throughout this lesson we are
reminded that God's love for
us has been definitely mani
fested in a purposeful act,
namely, the sending of “his only
begotten Son into the world
that we might live through
him.” Following this statement
is one of the simplest and most j
beautiful verses in the entire
Bible; “Herein is love, not that i
we love God. but that he loved
us, and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.”
We combine for consideration
two verses in the middle of our
lesson text, and two verses at j
the end. We do this because j
these four verses all teach the i
same lesson, namely, that the
test of our love for God is the
measure of our love for our
fellows.
The writer of this epistle de- j
Clares that "if God so loved us
we ought also to love one an
other. . . .If we iove one another,
God dwelleth in us, and h i s
love is perfected in us.”
Every devout Hebrew recites
daily the so-called Shema. This
is the command found in Deut.
6:5: "And thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy might.” To
this Jesus added the word
“mind,” and from Lev. 19 the
statement, “Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself.” “On
these two commandments,” de
clared Jesus, “hang all the law
and the prophets.”
We repeat that with God
love is not a sentiment but a
purpose — and the same is, of
course, true in the case of Je
sus, who is God’s manifestation
and disclosure to us.
“If we love one another, God
dwelleth in us, and his love is
perfected in us.”
If we are going to be follow
ers of Jesus Christ in the way
he wants us to be, we must get
well in mind that love is a holy
purpose which we must en
deavor to put into operation in
all relationships of life. It is
not something which simply en
gages our contemplation or
calls forth our devotion. In
God's dealing with us, love is
a purpose. In our relationship
with Him it must be a purpose.
In our dealings with our fellows,
love must be a purpose.
What is this purpose? The
purpose was set forth most
graphically in the cross, which
is the eternal symbol of com
plete sacrifice. Jesus would still
have lived a sacrificial life had
he stopped short of the cross.
But he, and the Father also,
went the whole way in the
cross. It showed forth God’s
love for us in perfection.
Now let us turn to a consi
deration of verses 20-21: “If a
man say, I love God and hateth
his brother, he is a liar: for he
that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can
he love God whom he hath not
seen? And this commandment
have we from him. That he who
loveth God love his brother al
so.”
Christ is very serious about this
matter of our implementing
love. Love is not just something
that we have; love is something
which God intends shall have
us. And shall have all of us.
Even the wickedest people in
the world generally love some
one. It is only the Christian who
tries desperately to love every
Dairy Festival
At Eatonton .
Set Wednesday
Pretty girls, a salute to the
dairy industry of Georgia, and
top level state politics will
combine Wednesday, June 6, as
Putnam County observes its
Tenth Annual Dairy Festival
in Fatonton.
Reigning over the day-long
dairy celebration will be 17-
year-old Carole Gregory, a
brown eyed, brown haired
beauty, who was selected as
the 1962 Putnam Dairy Queen
on May 25 at Rock Eagle 4-H
Club Center near here.
One of the main highlights
of the day will be addresses by
the two major gubernatorial
candidates, former Gov. Marvin
Griffin and State Senator Carl
E. Sanders.
Charles Hudson, general
chairman of the festival, said
these two candidates will be
allowed a maximum of 10 min
utes each with the subject mat
ter left to the discretion of the
speaker.
On hand for the festivities
also will be Phil Campbell, ’
Georgia’s Commissioner of Ag
riculture, all the candidates (
for lieutenant governor. Miss
Jeannie Cross of Albany, re
cently crowned Miss Georgia
of 1962, Marilyn Smith, Put
nam’s Dairy Queen last year
and the 1962 Dairy Princess of
Georgia, and many state of
ficials.
Activities of the day will be
gin with a mammoth parade
through downtown Eatonton,
featuring the famed Third
Army Band, an estimated 30 to
40 floats, three or four other
bands, and other marching
units.
The platform program, a bar
becue “on the grounds’’, a tour
of homes sponsored by t h e |
Town and Country Garden |
Club, a cattle show and auc
tion. a rodeo and a dance at the
local National Guard armory
will be included in the day's.
program.
And. of course, free milk to
everyone all day long. I
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The Stale! Thursday. May 31. ^332
"Carnival of
Books” Theme
Os Program
(Editor’s Note: Here is an
open letter to hoys and girls
of Covington who are inter
ested in the Library's Sum
mer Reading Program. It is
from the librarian, Mrs. Har
ry Dietz.)
*** * M
Dear Boys and Girls:
“Carnival of Books ’, Doesn’t
that sound like fun? It is in
deed fun and the theme of the
Newton County Library sum
mer reading program.
Reading good books is a won
derful form of recreation and
the library is ready for you
with a wonderful collection. It
is verily a carnival of books
as there are books in every
field you might be interested
If you keep up your reading
this summer you will be sur
prised at how much easier your
school work will be for you
next fall.
Monday, June 4th is the be
ginning of this program so let’s
begin early and have a won
derful summer.
You will be furnished a
folder to keep a record of the
books you read and certificates
awarded at your school next fall.
But remember a very important
thing, you must bring your
completed lists back to me at
the library to be able to re
ceive your certificate.
The Library hours are:
Monday 3-5:30 P. M.
Tues. 10-12 A. M. 3-5:30
P. M.
Closed Wednesday.
Thursday 10-12 A. M. 3-
5:30 7- 9 P. M.
Friday 3-5:30.
Saturday 3-5:30.
Why don’t you clip the no
tice of these hours and post it
so you will always know when
to come to the library.
Hope to see you and Happy
Reading.
Mrs. Harry Dietz
Librarian, Newton
County Library.
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Stock Market Plunge
Was Evident With
Mounting Inflation
By LEO S. MALLARD
Grim stockholders from coast to coast will sit tight and
hope” after Monday's worst plunge in the Stock Market since
Oct. 28, 1929. Stock watchers seem to be calm but critical
and President Kennedy is getting his share of the blame.
Monday was a hectic day as
nine million shares sold. An <
estimated total of $19.5 billion
dollars was shorn from the !
quoted value of stocks listed i
on the New York Stock Ex- ;
change. This brought the quot- <
ed value of stocks listed on the
Big Board down to an estimat- I
ed $301.5 billion from about
S3BB billion at the end of 1961.
The drop on Monday, which
came amid reports of continu
ing good business news, was
actually a climax to the stock
market slide that has been go
ing on sinch March 16.
President Kennedy’s top
economic advisor, Dr. Walter
Heller, stated that “the years
decline and final spiral down
ward on Monday reflected a
realization that inflation is no
longer away of life in this
economy.”
One analyst said, “What the
market is reflecting is the
failure of the economy to
reach boom levels on any su
stained basis since 1957 and
the erosion of profit margins
resulting from increasing com
petition from domestic and
foreign sources.”
Sen. Herman Talmadge said
Tuesday that he believed the
decline in the stock market
“had about approached its
bottom,” and he listed the
three most important reasons
for the market’s plunge:
1. “A realization after 20
years that stock values are too
high.”
2. “Fear that firms will not
be able to raise prices.” (He
attributed this to the recent
steel episode.”
3. “Fears aroused by our
continuing loss of gold.”
On Tuesday, in a record
smashing session, the stock
market reversed a dizzy spiral
and scored a smashing advance
on the second highest volume
in the history of the New York
Stock Exchange.
Volume soared to 14,750,000
shares from Monday’s 9.350,-
000. It was second only to
“Black Tuesday” — Oct. 29,
1929, when 16,410,030 shares
were traded in the wildest day
of the ’29 crash.
It is estimated that on Tues
day $12,900,000,000 was re
covered in quoted values of
stocks listed on the New York
Stock Exchange. The estimat
ed loss Monday was $19,000,-
000,000.
President Kennedy confer
red with economic officials of
the federal government about
the stock market early Tues
day and decided that no spe
cial action by the government
was called for at this time.
Secretary of Treasury Doug
las Dillion emerged from the
meeting and reported a con
sesus that business conditions
are “very sound” and that
there is no justification for
panic selling of stocks.
Dillion disputed the talk
that the break in the market
reflects a weakening of busi
ness confidence that has been
caused by the Kennedy Ad
ministration. Rather, he said,
the market situation may re
flect “a weakening confidence
in the stock market”—that is,
in the high prices that pre
vailed before the break.