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"One Nation Under God"
So reads the Pledge of Allegiance to
the Stars and Stripes, national emblem of
America and its world heralded Freedoms
— one of which is Freedom of Worship.
There was rejoicing throughout the na
tion a few years ago, when wise leaders
recognized the need of keeping America
conscious of the fact that its unity depend
ed upon the leadership of God; and added
“under God” before “indivisible,” to the
. Pledge of Allegiance to our flag.
The recent ruling against prayer in
■ public schools by the Supreme Court repu
‘ diates and precludes the fundamental prin
• ciple upon which America was founded —
Freedom of Worship.
In leaning so far backward to adhere
to the letter of the law in the Ist Amend
ment to Constitution which states, "Con
gress shall make no law respecting estab
lishment of religion," the highest court
of the land might well have given thought
to the remainder of that sentence — ‘or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Individuals or nations who lean too
far backward have often found themselves
flat on their backs. The youth of our land,
spend more waking hours during their
formative years, in school than in their
homes. What impression will be theirs if
the schools, which rank in importance with
the homes and churches, utterly ignore the
existence or need of guidance of a Supreme
Being?
Khrushchev, who recently predicted
that, “The red flag will some day fly over
America, and the people themselves will
raise it,” must be exulting in this step to
ward the fulfillment of his prediction. One
of Communisms first moves was to forbid
religious teachings, not only in public in
■stitutions and closed churches, but even
in the home to more than two children at
one time. A death penalty was dealt to
any child under 18 who attended a church.
In the past decade Russian leaders have
maganomously re-opened churches. But,
a generation without religious training is
no longer interested — Russia has achieved
its goal as a Godless nation. It CAN happen
here!
We concur with former president Her
bert Hoover’s statement relative to the
Court’s deplorable ruling — "It is the dis
integration of one of America’s most sacred
heritages.”
June is Just About Gone;
Young Couples Should See
About Health Insurance
June, the month of brides is just about
gone and before the month ends about
200,000 marriages will take place through
out the United States.
With all the excitement involved in
making wedding plans, selecting bridal
finery, purchasing new furniture, decorat
ing the new home, and planning a honey
moon trip, the new couple probably will
have very little time to devote to consider
ing some of the day-to-day financial cir
cumstances of marriage, says the Health
Insurance Institute.
But the Institute urged brides to ac
quaint themselves as soon as possible with
the details of the health insurance carried
by their husbands, because it could mean
the difference of hundreds of dollars.
One of the first insurance steps for
brides to take, said the Institute, is to check
whether she can be included in her hus
band's health insurance policy.
If he has a personal policy, application
should be made to the insurance company
to have the wife added, or to convert the
coverage to a family policy. If he obtains
his health insurance at his place of em
ployment, the husband should request his
employer to change the coverage from in
dividual to family, the Institute said.
In the instance of converting a personal
policy from individual to family coverage,
a brief waiting period may have to take
effect before the wife is covered for sick
ness. Whether the policy is personal or
through the place of employment, there
usually is a nine or ten-month waiting pe
riod for coverage of maternity, which is
not considered a sickness, said the Institute.
Most basic health insurance policies will
provide sound protection against the or
dinary costs of hospitals, surgical and medi
cal care, said the Institute, but it pointed
out that thought also should be given to
protection against the catastropic expenses
of serious illnesses and accidents, and to
the income which may be lost if the family
head is disabled.
Protection against the costs of serious
illnesses can be obtained through a major
medical expense policy which, for example,
would provide husband, wife, and all fu
ture children with SIO,OOO maximum ben
•fiU for virtually all medical services.
(Our Advertisers at* Assured Os Resorts)
Gold Brick Salesman
It has recently been brought to our
attention that the community is being
plagued with an epidemic of out of town
salesmen, who are fleecing unsuspecting
householders so adroitly that they are
totally unaware of being “taken” until they
are neatly wrapped up in binding contracts.
One particular vacuum cleaner sales
man — operating without a city license or
permit — enlists cooperation of a gullible
purchaser to make contracts among per
sonal friends for him. On the surface, apart
from his illegal peddling, he has complied
with the city ordinance re: being “request
ed or invited” into the potential purchaser’s
residence. He has not been personally re
quested or invited by the customer; but
given permission only as a courtesy to the
personal friend.
We quote the city ordinance dealing
with this situation: “Uninvited Hawkers,
Peddlers, Etc., Upon Premises deemed Nui
sance: penalty. The practice of being in and
upon private residences in the city by
solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant mer
chants and transient venders of merchan
dise, not having been requested or invited
so to do by the owner or occupant of the
private residence, for the purpose of sol
iciting orders for the sale of goods, wares,
and merchandise, or for the purpose of
disposing of and peddling or hawking the
same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
The Chief of Police and the police force
of the city are hereby required and direct
ed to suppress the same and to abate any
such nuisance as is described in this sec
tion.
Any person convicted or perpetrating
a nuisance, as described and prohibited in
this section, upon conviction thereof, shall
be punished as provided in Section 8 of
Chapter 1 of this Code.” (Ord. of 1-22-62)
Mayor N. S. Turner, in an interview,
stated that he, other city officials and the
Police Department endeavor in every pos
sible way to protect residents from being
duped by these fly-by-night, gold-brick
salesmen. He urges the cooperation of cit
izens by calling police, when contacted by
such peddlers.
Such unethical practices by out of town
salesmen not only poses a financial loss
to the individual, but to the entire com
munity. Victims find themselves bound by
contracts demanding payment for items,
far in excess of local purchase prices; the
salesman in most instances has paid no
city license; his home and business are out
of town so he pays no taxes, nor does his
trade dollar help develop or contribute
to community progress. Not a cent of the
dollars he takes out of the county ever
comes back into it.
From any angle, we contend that our
local merchants stock merchandise com
parable to the best to be found anywhere,
at prices often under those elsewhere.
It still pays to “Trade at Home”!
Nothing New in This
Government Intervention
There is nothing particularly new about
the dual grading of beef which the U. S.
Department of Agriculture plans to make
available on a trial and optional basis be
ginning July 1. There is no magic in the
method that will insure either bountiful
supplies of leaner beef or lower prices for
consumers.
This is the view of Homer R. Davison,
president of the American Meat Institute.
To quote him: “Beef has been bought and
sold on a selectivity basis for a number of
years. In the last two or three years this
method has been receiving more and more
attention from producers, meat packers and
meat buyers of retail stores.
“The meat industry sees no reason for
government intervention, since the pro
duction of beef with a ratio of more lean
to fat already is receiving great emphasis
from those most directly responsible —
the livestock growers and the meat packers.
“The proposed one-year trial of the
method will produce little in the way of
conclusive results. The production of leaner
beef will require continued genetic experi
mentation, studies of record-of-performance
tests of livestock and other research that
is well under way.
“Producers, packers and retailers con
stantly are at work to provide for consum
ers what they want and like best in the
way of quality meat.”
Results such as these are reached through
long, hard and skillful work — not by
edict.
Newsweek prints a Une a disgruntled
taxpayer wrote to the tax collector: “Now
I know what the president meant when he
said: ‘Ask not what America will do for
you — ask what you can do for America.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
". . . Let Freedom Ring"
"But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal
license to be good.” — Hartley Coleridge.
“Freedom is that faculty which enlarges the usefulness
of all other faculties.” — Immanuel Kant.
“The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit
that freedom to their children.” — William Havard.
‘Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must,
like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” — Thomas
Paine.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve ft not for
themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln.
"Freedom has a thousand charms to show — that slaves,
however contented, never know.” — William Cowper.
“Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided
he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.” —-
Herbert Spencer.
“Let us remember that revolutions do not always estab
lish freedom.” — Millard Fillmore.
“The freedom of a government does not depend upon
the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the
right to create them.” — Thaddeus Stevens.
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest
love not freedom, but licence.” — John Milton.
“The history of the world is none other than the progress
of the consciousness of Freedom.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel.
“Human freedom is ... an achivement by man, and, as
it was gained by vigilance and struggle, it can be lost by
indifference and supineness." Harry F. Byrd.
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if
freedom fail?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“I remember a proverb said of old: Who loseth his free
dom, in faith he loseth all.” — John Lydgate.
“We must be free or die.” — William Wadsworth.
“Freedom exists only where the people take care of
the government." — Woodrow Wilson.
“From every mountain-side, let freedom ring." — Samuel
Francis Smith (author, America).
SOUR WEEKLY (O LESSON FOR
unday School
Josiah’s Reforms
Bible Material: 2 Kings 22:23.
Devotional Reading: 2 Kings
22:1-2, 11-13.
Memory Selection: Why do
you call me “Lord, Lord,” and
not do what I tell you? Luke
6:46.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Too Little, Too Late.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Too Little, Too Late.
When Josiah came to the
throne of Judah about 638 B.C.
as a young lad of 8, the religion
of Yahweh was at a low ebb.
Both his father, Amon, and his
grandfather, Manasseh, had
walked in evil ways. The evil
practices that they had intro
duced included altars to Baal,
and to the host of heaven,
idolatry of all kinds, necro
mancy, and even child sacri
fices. So evil was Manasseh
that he was considered worse
than the pagan Amorites. Am
on, his son, followed in his
ways, and was assassinated by
his own servants in the palace.
After the untimely death of
Amon, his son, Josiah, came to
the throne as a young lad eight
years old. At this early age he
probably came under the in
fluence of the high priest, Hil
kiah, for he walked in the way
of the Lord. He was truly a
good king, as the Biblical ac
count attests: “and he did that
which was right in the sight of
the Lord, and walked in al] the
way of David his father, and
turned not aside to the right
hand or to the left” (2 Kings
22:2).
The story of Josiah's career
clearly shows how important
the influences of early life are.
Heredity in his case pointed
in only one direction—a life of
wickedness and rebellion again
st God and his righteous laws.
But someone, presumably Hil
kiah, got hold of Josiah early
in life and directed his steps
in the way of the Lord.
From another source which
gives the history of the Israe
lite kings we learn that Josiah
was sixteen years old when “he
began to seek after the God
of David his father” (2 Chron.
34:3). This might be called the
year of his conversion, when
he turned away from the evil
ways of his fathers and yield
ed himself completely to the
true and living God. This was
a decision of vital importance
not only for his own life, but
also for the life of the whole
nation.
When a nation has a godly
leader, his influence for good
is felt in every phase of the
people’s life.
Josiah must have taken his
religion seriously, for we are
told that when he was twenty
six years, old he issued an or
der that the house of the Lord
should be repaired. It has been
filled with pagan altars and
idols and desecrated in many
ways by Josiah s forebears, so
that it needed a thorough
housecleaning as well as a
complete renovation. In the
course of this work. Hilkiah,
the high priest, found a book
hidden in some dusty cranny
where it no doubt had lain un
observed during the reigns of
Manasseh and Amon. It turn
ed out to be the book of the
law which was taken to the
King and read in his presence.
I “And it came to pass, when the
King had heard the words of
the book of the law, that he
rent his clothes” (2 Kings
22:11). It is generally believed
by most scholars that the book
which was found on this oc
casion was Deuteronomy, or at
least some part of it, and that
it was the section from chaps.
27 to 29 which made a special
impression upon the King be
cause of the mention of the
curses there upon those who
disobey God’s laws.
So impressed was Josiah by
the reading of the newly dis
covered book that he had it
read before the priests, pro
phets and all the people of
Judah. By reading the word of
God, both King and people be
came aware of their sins, and
a covenant-renewal ceremony
was observed in accordance
with the words of the book
whereby God and his people
would be more closely united
again. “And the King stood by
a pillar, and made a covenant
before the Lord, to walk after
the Lord, and to keep ... his
statutes with all their heart
and all their soul to perform
the words of this covenant that
were written in this book. And
all the people stood to the
covenant” (2 Kings 23:3).
By reading the Bible we be
come aware of our sins and
spiritual weaknesses. In God’s
word we find out what He de
mands of us and how far short
we have fallen of his require
ments. In his word we also find
out how we can get back to his
loving heart.
It appears from the parallel
account* of the life of Josiah
in 2 Kings 22-23 and 2 Chron.
34 that he made two major at
tempts in his lifetime to stamp
out the evil religious practices
of his day. According to 2
Chron. 34.3-7 Josiah began in
the twelfth year of his reign
“to purge Judah and Jerusalem
from the high places and the
groves and the carved images,
and the molten images.”
The writer then goes on to
tell how the altars of the Ba
alim were broken down in the
presence of the King, the idols
and images of all sorts were
smashed to bits and their dust
strewn upon the graves of those
who worshipped them. The
bones of the priests also were
burned upon their altars. One
is amazed to see how deep and
widespread was the regiligious
corruption of Judah in those
days. In the northern King
dom of Israel such practices
were to be expected because
they had broken off from Jeru
salem and the Temple. But in
the southern Kingdom where
tha religious traditions set up
by David were still present in
the Holy City and the holy
precincts of the Temple, one
would hardly expect to see
such pagan practices every
where.
To the young King Josiah in
his youthful religious fervor
these pagan rites were particu
larly objectionable, and so he
moved with great enthusiasm
to rid tha land of heathen wor
ship in all of its abominable
forms.
According to the account in
2 Kings 23:4-20. however, an
other outburst of reform activ
ity took place after Josiah and
his people had renewed their
covenant relation with God. It
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is perfectly possible that there
were two periods of reform in
Josiah’s lifetime, one after his
own personal decision to fol
low the ways of the true end
living God, and one after the
momentous discovery of the
book of the law in the Temple
which pronounced God’s judg
ment upon such evil practices.
Possibly the first reformation
had not been thorough enough.
Probably many had returned
to their sinful ways soon after
the first purge, and so second
reform was necessary.
It is interesting to note how
widespread thesa reforms were.
After cleaning up Jerusalem
itself, Josiah proceeded to de
stroy the high places where
idolatrous worship was carried
on from Geba to Beer-sheba,
the orthern and southern limits
of Judah (2 Kings 23:8). Not
satisfied, with these reforms,
Josiah then moved out beyond
his country into Samaria which
for a hundred years had been
an Assyrian province, the old
northern Kingdom of Israel.
‘The altar that was at Bethel,
and the high place which Jero
boam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to tin, had made
both that altar and the high
place he brake down, and burn
ed the high place, and stamped
it small to power, and burn
ed the grove” (2 King 23:15).
From there he moved farther
north to Samaria where he
wiped out the high places and
slew all the priests that were
there upon their altars and
burned their bones upon them.
Then he returned to Jerusalem.
The fact that Josiah could
enter the land north of Judea
and perform at will his thor
ough-going reform without
recrimination shows that As
syria, who controlled this area,
was very weak and could not
prevent such an intrusion. In
fact Assyria was about to fall
at this time, for Nineveh, the
capital of the Assyrians, fell
in 612 B.C.
The true reading and under
standing of God’s word brings
conviction of sin and sincere
repentance. Josiah felt this
himself when the book of the
law was read to him, and he
wanted his people to have the
same experience.
But personal religious ex
perience must be nurtured in
the religious community, lest
it wither and die. Joshiah’s
close relation with Hilkiah the
high priest no doubt made him
aware of this important phase
of the godly life.
For this reason Josiah was
so insistent that the house of
the Lord in Jerusalem be clean
sed of all false symbols of pa
gan rites and restored to its
pristine purity for the worship
of the true God.
A holy God demands a pure
worship from his followers, and
this can be offered only in a
pure temple.
Letters Io
The Editor
Dear Friends:
In behalf of the Covington
Music Club may I extend sin
cere gratitude to each of you.
Certainly you have contributed
greatly toward the success of
our 1961 - 62 Music Club sea
son, which has just ended.
We have mentioned frequent
ly how much we appreciate the
wonderful coverage The Cov
ington News has carried for
each of our meetings and pro
grams.
Thank you most sincerely for
every kindness shown us.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Tom Harwell, Club
President
June 20, 1962.
Jelly Making to
Be Demonstrated
On Growing South
Jelly making time will soon
arrive. To help homemakers
with this job, WGTV, Channel
8, will present a program on
the subject at 7:00 p.m. Friday,
June 29.
Miss Nelle Thrash, Extension
food preservationist, will dem
onstrate the techniques of mak
ing jelly with the use of ad
ded pectin and without addi
tives. Either way, you can
make good jelly if you will
follow the rules as demonstrat
ed by Miss Thrash.
Swine research will be fea
tured, Thursday, the 28th.
Growing South is seen each
evening Monday through Fri
day on WGTV, Channel 8, the
University of Georgia’s tele
vision station. It is produced
by the Georgia Center for Con
tinuing Education in coopera
tion with the College of Agri
culture.
For your country, for your
security, support the 1962
Freedom Bond Drive. Buy an
extra bond today.
Mexico Prepares for
Kennedy Visit With
A Constant Vigil
ly LEO S. MALLARD
President and Mr*. Kennedy are scheduled to spend a
48-hour weekend south of the border in Mexico as guests of
President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. Mexican Communists are
expected to be active but in somewhat of a "cramped style ’
due to strict security measures which have been taken.
Plans are proceeding with
remarkable quiet. The hot Com
munist temperament has been
cooled off by the effective work
of the Mexican secret service—
noted for knowing what the
Communists •n d pro Castro
groups are up to.
Only one flare of anti-Ameri
eanism has erupted to date. This
took place Friday night during
a Communist - organized dem
onstration on the University of
Mexico campus — an institution
which has immunity under the
university’s charter as an “au
tonomous” institution.
President Kennedy was
burned in effigy by the 500
students who attended the rally.
Little more significance was
given the demonstration than
was given to the “panty raids”
which swept the college cam
puses of the United States sev
eral years ago. More students
attended the rally to find out
“what the heck is going on”
than with a definite purpose in
mind.
The general public in Mexico
is pleased to know that the
President and First Lady are
coming to visit their country.
The Confederation of Mexican
Workers, largest labor group in
Mexico, said hundreds of thou
sands of members would be on
Highway Patrol
To Purchase 26
Radar Machines
In a move aimed at reducing
Georgia’s traffic death toll —
now approaching the 500-mark
in 1962— Gov. Ernest Vandi
ver has approved allocation to
taling $27,000 which will en
able the Georgia Department
of Public Safety to purchase
26 additional radar speedtimers
and equip all patrol cars with
seat belts.
Vandiver said the appropria
tion from surplus funds will
allow the State Patrol to place
speed-timing machines at each
of the 24 patrol stations around
the state.
“Speed is the greatest cause
of highway accidents,” the
Governor declared. “Therefore,
we are taking steps which we
believe will considerably deter
excessive speed on roads
throughout Georgia.”
At present, only eight radar
timers are owned by the Safe
ty Department. Lt. Col. R. H.
Burson, deputy safety director,
said the patrol has been forc
ed to rotate these speed-timers
among its stations.
“This move will enable us to
put one machine in each pa
trol station for use around the
clock, if necessary,” Col. Bur
son said. “We will put them in
operation immediately upon de
livery, probably within 30
days.”
Andy Ruske Joins
State C. of C.
Andy Ruska, regional public
relations representative for
Shell Oil Company, has been
named to head the Education
Department of the Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce.
The appointment of Ruska
as Chairman was announced to
day by Chamber President W.
Cameron Mitchell. He said that
department plans call for “an
expanded program of activities
which will further our objec
tive of bringing better educa
tional opportunities to t h a
people of Georgia.”
Continuing, Mr. Mitchell
praised the work of the Educa
tion Department, declaring, “It
has been one of the Chamber’s
most active, gaining widespread
attention through an energetic
expansion of its programs.”
Chairman Ruska announced
that the salient project of the
Department will again be the
“STAR” program. The Student
Teacher Achievement Recog
nition program has won nation
al acclaim for Georgia since
the Chamber first sponsored it
in 1958.
“In the STAR program we
have started something with
nationwide implications. Geor
gia has led the way in recogniz
ing outstanding scholastic
achievement on the part of stu
dents and in honoring the teach
ing profession. It is our hope
that other states will follow,”
he said. j
Thursday, Tuna fl
hand to give the Kennedys a
warm welcome.
President Lopez Mateos has
received editorial praise from
several newspapers for inviting
the President. The Mexican peo
ple are in full support of tha
“gesture of friendship.”
Mexico must be classed sep
arately from most of the more
“recent revolution” Latin states.
Her revolution came more than
50 years ago and she is pre
sently experiencing a more ma
ture political development, and
possesses a more stable, di
versified economy.
In most of south-of-the-bor
der states the special weapons
of the Communists have been
violence and agitation, in which
the young readily engage. But
in Mexico, the tactics have
been changed and a special ap
peal is being made to the in
tellectuals. Yet the purpose is
still the same — the setting of
class against class, the destruc
tion of democratic procedures
and organizations, the stimu
lation of anti-United States
feeling, and eventual assump
tion of power.
The Lopez Mateos govern
ment is keeping Mexico’s Com
munists firmly in hand and it
should well be able to handle
any aspiring agitators during
the Kennedy visit. Within the
week Mexico has stopped the
entry of Cubans from Havana
and Mexican printing shops
suspected of putting out anti-
United States propaganda have
been under a close watch for
several months.
Chronic Cough
Is Sure Sign of
Respiratory Ills
Jim coughs every morning
when he gets up. Mary coughs
every time she lies down. Bob
coughs for a couple of months
' every winter, though he’s all
right the rest of the year.
All three have what doctors
call a chronic or persistent
cough. You don’t have to cough
all the time, year round, to
have a chronic cough. For in
stance. a person may know
that when he has a cold, he
usually coughs for about two
weeks. If his cough from a
cold should hang on for five
or six weeks, he has developed
a chronic cough and may be
battling something more than
just a cold.
Heavy cigarette smoking can
cause a chronic cough. It is
never safe to dismiss a persist
ent cough as “just a cigarette
cough.” For one thing, a cigar
ette cough is serious in itself.
For another, there’s the danger
that a heavy smoker may get
so used to his cough that he
can’t tell when something new
has been added. He may be
coughing more than he used to,
or for longer at a time than
he did; he may be coughing up
more phlegm, or perhaps he
has started to cough up a
small amount of blood. Any of
these happenings may be a
sign that something is serious
ly wrong.
A chronic or persistent cough
can be a symptom of tubercu
losis, lung cancer, bronchitis,
emphysema (in which the
lungs lose their elasticity and
hold in too much air), bron
chiectasis (in which the bron
chial tubes stretch and form
pushpockets), and other respi
ratory diseases. Untreated,
these ailments can cause seri
ous disability and even death.
It is a great mistake to take
self-prescribed cough medicine
for a persistent cough. While
the cough is being controlled,
the disease causing it may be
getting quietly worse.
If you have a persistent
cough, don’t shrug if off as
something to put up with. See
your doctor.
HEALTH SERVICES AT
BERT ADAMS CAMP
Your boy will be in good
hands while he is at the B e r t
Adams Scout Reservation. The
services of a medical doctor are
always available. First aid and
minor treatments are given at
the Camp Health Lodge, but
parents will be notified in case
where more extensive treat
ment is necessary.