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PAGE TEN THE COVINGTON NEWS BELMONT DENNIS Editor And Publisher LEO S. MALLARD Assistant to Publisher OFFICIAL ORGAN OF NEWTON COUNTY AND THE CITY OF COVINGTON U.S. Safety Experts Seek Traffic Controls Uniformity Nearly every American driver is plagued by a confusing and often conflicting va riety of traffic controls and regulations confronting him on his highway travels. In some states, he must stop for a school bus but in other states it's an in vitation to an accident. In some states, left side passing only is permitted but in others either right or left is allowed. Some cities use a three-face traffic light while others use two. Reflectorized, easily-read signs are provided along some highways while along others a near stop is necessary to gain information. Elimination of this troublesome and hazardous confusion has been a longtime goal of the Automotive Safety Foundation, which reports that prospects are better this year than ever before for a major breakthrough toward nation-wide uniform ity of traffic rules and traffic control de vices. There are two organizations with major responsibilities in achieving uniformity. One is the National Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices which is concerned with uniform signs, signals and markings. Its membership represents the American Association of State Highway Officials, the Institute of Traffic Engineers, the National Committee on Uniform Traf fic Laws and Ordinances, the American Municipal Association and the National As sociation of County Officials, all of which have received Automobile Safety Founda tion grants. The other organization is the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances. This group, composed of more than 100 representatives of federal, state and local government and safety organi zations, has drafted and fostered a Uniform Vehicle Code as a standard for uniform state motor vehicle laws and a Model Traf fic Ordinance as a guide for cities. Four factors indicate that uniformity in .these areas soon may be a reality; A new national manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices has been prepared by the National Joint Committee, approv ed by the Bureau of Public Roads and pub lished Jay the information of state and local highway officials. An essential feature of the new manual is the replacement of many optional traffic control devices that form erly were permitted by a single standard. Importantly, too, many of the newly-ap proved signs, signals and markings are larger lor better visibility at highway driv ing speeds. The’ Bureau of Public Roads has an nounced that only traffic control devices which -conform to the standards of the new manual will be approved for installa tion on the federal aid highway system. This means that all federal aid highways will be marked by a uniform system as rapidly as non-standard signs, signals and markings can be replaced by standard ones. For the first time county and city of ficials took part in preparation of the new control device manual and their national organizations are lending support to the drive for uniformity. The National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances recently ap proved a substantially revised Uniform Vehicle Code. The new revision is expect ed to be published later this year. For the average driver the greatest ben efit of uniform, high-quality traffic con trols is the greater safety, comfort and convienience enjoyed while driving through convenience enjoyed while driving through Uniformity of signs, signals and mark ings aid drivers by providing instant rec ognition and understanding. It also assists law enforcement officials by eliminating questions about interpretations of control measures. Moreover, uniformity makes pos sible economies in the manufacture and maintenance of traffic control devices. All of these factors contribute to the safety and efficiency of highway transportation. To help meet the demands growing en rollments will make on institutions of higher learning during the next five years, three foundations financed by Standard Oil of Indiana will increase their educational grants through 1966 to a total of more than $4 million. This program, says the com pany's president, adds “substantial un restricted grants to leading universities noted for their general excellence, their contributions to national life, their sig nificance in training students from nations of the Free World, and the quality of their graduate education.” (Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State) NATIONAL EDITORIAL — Published Every Thursday — SUISCRIPTION RATES Single Caplet 10c Few Months $1.20 Eight Months _ $2.40 One Year 53.00 Plus 3% Safes Tai Paints est of Georgia—Year $3.50 People in Lower Income Tax । Bracket Would Be Hard Hit By New Collecting Method The wave of opposition which greeted the proposal to levy a 20 per cent federal withholding tax against income from div dends and interest was, it would seem, . far greater in intensity and volume than the Administration expected. There is good reason why that should be so. The objections are unusually varied. For one thing, this is not a new tax, but a complicated and costly method of collecting taxes which in multitudes of cases are not owed in the first place. The principal bur den would fall on people in the lower in come tax brackets, where the effective in come tax rate is far below 20 per cent. Obtaining refunds for overpayment is a time-consuming process. Meanwhile, the government would have taken — long ahead of due date — funds which other wise could have been deposited or invest ed, and brought income to their owners. Investment objectives established for the education of children, retirement and other goals would thus be undermined. Great numbers of people — many in the low brackets — reinvest dividends and leave interest on savings deposits intact so that they will produce more interest. But, should the bill pass, 20 per cent of such income would be taken in advance, and these people would suffer accordingly. There are ways — sound ways — to deal with tax evasion. The new electronic processing machines the Internal Revenue Service is installing constitute one. An other is a stepup in the Treasury’s tax educational campaign. A third is for the service to make better use of the huge resources of information and manpower it now possesses. It is not necessary to pen alize the many because of the failure or dishonesty of the few. Interstate Highways Will Save Many Lives Members of the Covington Kiwanis Club, at a recent meeting, heard an inter esting program and saw an enlightening film on Interstate highway construction. It is time now that we pause and reflect on the benefits of better highways — summed up most tersely as saving lives, saving time, saving money. The 41,000 mile Interstate System is, of course, the outstanding example of the broadest application of modern highway engineering, with controlled access, wide, sweeping curves and divided traffic lanes. When completed, it will save from 6.000 to 9.000 lives a year. It will cut travel time from a third to a half, and highway travel expense almost in half over present-day “stop-and-go” highways. If the System car ries about 23 percent of the nation's traffic as estimated, construction and mainten ance costs will figure out to .4 of a cent per vehicle-mile — compared with .7 of a cent for the average primary highway of earlier days, and over 1.2 cents for second ary roads. Usefulness considered, therefor, the finest highways cost far less than the in ferior ones. Studies already made on thru way operation on commercial vehicles, in dicate that measurable benefits in cash savings will amount to three times the cost of the entire Interstate System, while truck ers will save $2 billion a year in lower operating costs and prevention of accidents. The average driver of the family car will save money on more miles per gallon, per tire, per brake-lining — and for that matter — per car. These savings he can jingle in his pocket or put in the bank. In being able to drive in a day what was formerly a two day trip, he saves both time and expense. If he saves half an hour a day in driving to and from work, and if his chances of accident are greatly reduced, the savings are significant, but not so easy to compute in cash. But saving lives is something else again. No one can compute the value of a life lost in a traffic accident. And multiplying I this impossibility by the thousands of lives that will be spared each year because of the Interstate Highway System alone, brings us sharply face to face with the fact that better highways are. fundamen tally, a moral obligation. They will prove a rewarding investment for America, far beyond any economic return. From the Portland, Oregon, Journal: ‘The longer the debate continues over a federal withholding tax on income from dividends and interest, the clearer it be comes that it would be an unfair burden on low-income taxpayers, and that collect ing it would be a giant pain in the national neck.” MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS Assoc iat« Editor MARY SESSIONS MALLARD Associate Editor Entered at the Fast Office at Covington, Georgia, as mail matter of the Second Class. THE COVINGTON NEWS Ready For Berlin... and Still Ready wife ft. mMD •< ** gipEf - - - ' • * . -A ■ -a- SOUR WEEKLY (O LESSON FOR unday School Jeremiah Sees Hope Beyond Tragedy Bible Material: 2 Kings 24:- 11-16; Jeremiah 29:1-4; 30:18- 24; 31; 32:36-42; 33:14-26. Devotional Reading: Psalms 36:5-11; Memory Selection: This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law with in them, and I will write it up on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:33. Intermediate - Senior Topic: Brighter Days Ahead. Young People - Adult Topic: Hope Beyond Tragedy. Jeremiah, who is so often re ferred to as the sorrowing pro phet, is also a prophet of com forting hope. Most of his oracles deal with God’s judgment up on his people because of their sin. The doom of Jerusalem and the nation is close by; there is little chance of rescue. Israel is about to receive her just de serts because of her sinful ways. And then comes a group of chapters, 29. 33, which contain messages of hope and comfort for God’s people. Beyond the tragic situation of the moment Jeremiah sees the fulfillment of God’s promis es to his children in their re turn to Jerusalem and in a new spiritual condition which shall prevail in Israel. The prophets of the Old Tes tament had tremendous faith, and Jeremiah was no exception. Even though capitulation to the enemy was the only way out at the present moment, Jere miah saw the time in the future when Judah would no longer be in enemy hands, and peace and prosperity would prevail everywhere. God’s eternal pur poses are not to be thwarted by evil men. God would even use evil men to accomplish his will. So Jeremiah believed. Even though Jeremiah’s world was falling to pieces around him, he knew that some day houses would be built again in Jeru salem. gardens would be plant ed. and God’s people would live in peace once more. This is the kind of faith we need today to sustain us in the face of danger, doubt and disil lusionment. The background Scripture for this lesson includes references to most of the chapters in Jeremiah which deal with t h e future hope of Israel. The first reference is to chapter 29 (not in the printed lesson text), which tells about a letter that Jeremiah wrote to the Jews in Babylon who had been taken captive in 597 B. C. Thev were naturally' very discouraged, far from home and without any ap parent hope of returning. Jere miah tells the exiles first of all to make the best of their lot for the time being and to seek the welfare of the city in which they are living, since there will not be a sudden deliverance, as some false prophets had been proclaiming. “But,” declares I God through his prophet, “after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return ; to this place” (Jer. 29:10). Even though Israel had sin ned against God, He still loved his people and held out to them : the hope of the future restora ■ tion of their land and homes. • “For I know the thought that I “ think toward you, saith the 1 Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an ex pected end” (Jer. 29:11). But this hope of return to their beloved country depend ed also upon the willingness of the people to repent of their sins and turn to God. “Then shall y r e call upon me an d ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me and find me; when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jer. 29:12 - 13). The exile was God’s judgment upon a sinful and wayward people. He could not take away the punishment, but He could tell his people through the prophet that their days of chastisement were numbered and that with renewed and chastened hearts they would return to their homeland after the exile. God’s mercy always far out reaches his wrath. This is why the prophets could temper their message of judgment with words of love and hope. “And I will be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turn away your captivity and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord, and I will bring you again into the nlace whence I caused you to be carried away captive” (Jer. 29:14). This is the divine love which reaches down and redeems us from our sin and gives us eter nal hope in Christ. For even while we were sinners Christ died for us. God created us for fellowship with Him. When sin broke that fellowship. God tried in many ways to woo us back | to Himself. When we sin, He punishes us, but He is ever ready to take us back when we confess our faults and come to Him for mercy. Christ brings us not only redemption, but hope as well. Jeremiah looks forward both to a physical restoration of homes and land for the exiles, and also to a new spiritual con dition among the people This new relation between God and his children is described in terms of a new covenant. The old covenant, made between God and Israel in the days of Moses, had been continually broken by Israel down through the centuries. She had disobyed God and had gone after pagan deities. Now that covenant be tween God and the nation will be discarded, and a more spiri tual relationship between God ‘ and the individual will take its i place. * (Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results' “But this shall be the co ; venant that I will make with ) the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my law in their inward parts, * and write it in their hearts; and ! will be their God, and they ■ shall be my people. And they | shall teach no more every man I his neighbor and every man his brother, saying. Know the Lord for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jer. 31:33-34). In every way, this new co venant emphasizes the personal relationship between God and man which shall prevail from this time forward. The law, which had been written in Mo saic times on tables of stone, is now to be written upon men’s hearts. There will be no need for anyone to teach his neigh bor about the Lord, for all shall know Him from the least to the greatest. And God will forgice the iniquity of the sin ner and remember his sin no more. The new covenant is much more spiritual than the old. Men’s hearts are more closely attuned to God’s will because his law will become a part of their very nature and they will know God from within their own souls. But most important of all, God will deal directly with sin In each individual life. There will no longer be need for elaborate rituals and sacri ficial services, but God Him self will forgive sin. This is, of cour.se, the prophetic ideal of religion in contrast with the priestly or sacerdotal ideal which places so much empha sis on the rite and its correct performance. Letters lo Ihe Editor Dear Editor: The Georgia Papers tell us lovely Mrs. Jack L. Elliott has been called to the Heavenly Home. First, we knew her as little George Smith of Snapping Shoals, school girl, winsome and sweet, a girl now married to splendid .lack L. Elliott, merchant and mayor. Their home stately and spac ious, doors on magic hinges, swaying, gaiety ana generous to a never failing hospitali ty. As mother, tender, patient and wondrously kind. She was blessed with a sunshine heart and a soul of song. So, precious George, now “anchored in Ure Infinite”. We look, with glad eyes, “up yon der”, our dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of our heart. Lynda Lee Bryan Box 134 Talbotton, Georgia i Soviet Agriculture Lags Far Behind U.S. Despite 1959 Boasts I ly LEO $. MALLARD “We will burv you.” These words of Nikita S. Krushchev jarred complacent America and the world several years 'back. Todav Khrushchev is finding it increasingly difficult to keep his promises in at least one respect. This is the sphere of agricultural competition with the United btates. During his 1959 visit to the ’ United States he forecast in a television address that the So viet Union would overtake the . United States in industrial pro duction within the next 10 to 12 years, “while in agriculture this will be accomplished much earlier.” The Soviet Union’s current agricultural difficulties have caused Mr. Khruschev to mod erate and tone down earlier ] boasts that the Soviet Union soon would overtake the Unit ed States in agricultural pro duction. In his marathon report to the agricultural plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee in Moscow earlier this year, Mr. Khruschev was compelled to admit that the Soviet Union is still “consid erably behind the United States” in agricultural produc tion. However, Western experts on the Soviet Union warn against complacency. They point out that the Soviet Un ion’s over-all growth rate is higher than that of the United States. It is expected to remain at around 6 per cent through the 1960’5. While the Soviet Union has maintained an impressive in dustrial growth rate, its agri cultural growth has fallen short of the ambitious goals set by Mr. Khrushchev. Now 1980 is set as the target year The National Outlook BY RALPH ROBEY Legislative Log Jam The nation has entered a new fiscal year and not a single appropriation bill has been passed by the Congress. A few bills have gone through the House and some through the Senate, but it has not been pos sible to have a conference to work out the differences. This has been because the chairman of the two appropriation com mittees have been having a squabble as to where the con ference should take place. Both of these chairmen are octogenarians, and for them to disagree on this point appears rather silly. But this does not change the basic fact that never before in modern times has the United States had to start a new fiscal year without any of the appropriation re quests having been acted upon by the Congress. The govern ment, of course, is operating under a joint congressional re solution continuing last year’s appropriations. This is merely one example of the incredible log jam now facing the Congress. The only big top-priority bill that has been disposed of was the farm measure. The Administration lost and the defeat was blamed upon the Republicans. It is true that all but one Republican member voted against the bill—and that one has been redistricted out of office—but many Democrats also opposed the Administra tion plan because they thought it gave the government too much power. The tax bill has passed the House in a form which the President said at the time was satisfactory. When the mea sure got before the Senate Fi nance Committee, however, Treasury Secretary Dillon re commended a series of changes the net effect of which would have been to bring it back to the original Administration proposal. It has now been an nounced by the chairman of that committee, Senator Byrd, that if unanimous agreement is not reached by July 18 the bill will be put aside and the com mittee will take up the Trade Expansion Act. The Senator also said that this time sched ule was with the approval of the White House. As a result of this delay it appears im probable that the tax bill can possibly be ready for submis sion to the Senate until so close to Labor Day that passage is highly unlikely. The Trade Expansion Act was passed by the House in the form wanted by the Ad ministration, and this was re- Thursday. July 28, 1982 when every Soviet citizen will be able to get an egg a day! According to United States Department of Agriculture statistics, the Soviet Union's seven-year agricultural plan begun in 1958 demanded a 70 per cent increase in production by 1965. This envisaged a 20 per cent increase by 1961. But accord ing to these statistics, 1961 production was six per cent less than that of 1958. Soviet farm production, ac cording to the Soviet’s own journal Voprosy Ekonomiki, is 20 to 25 per cent less than that of the United States, and 30 per cent less per head of population. A recent issue of the journal claims the Soviet Union is ahead of the United States in production of wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, milk, butter and wool, but lags in production of maize, cotton, meat, eggs, fruit and vegetables. The journal concedes that American meat production is two to three times as high per head as m the Soviet Union. American statistics paint a darker picture of Soviet agri cultural production. After a detailed analysis of 1960 So viet production, the United Department of Agriculture claimed late last year that American farm production tops that in the Soviet Union by 60 per cent. garded in Washington as a great victory. This gives the President unparalled power to reduce tariffs and authorizes the government to aid firms and workers who are hurt by imports. There is great ob jection to these aid provisions, and no small amount of oppo sition to the increased tariff cutting powers. The Senate Fi nance Committee plans to have four weeks of hearings and it will take another week or so to get a bill ready to report. It is assumed that some changes will be made in the aid provi sions, but no one is in a posi tion to forecast what they will be. Aid to education is regarded as dead in so far as this Con gress is concerned. It did not have to much chance beibra the U. S. Supreme Court’s de cision on school prayers, and it is now generally believed that decision completely eli minated the possibility of pass ing such a measure. Medical care for the elderly through Social Security is in trouble but still is given about a fifty-fifty chance of being passed in some form. All types of compromises are being of fered, and one of these may win enough support to get a bill through the Congress. Now, quite a few bills have been passed and some of them have been of great importance —increasing the federal debt limit to S3OB billion, and ex tending the present 52 percent corporate tax, are examples. Many other important measures are in the legislative mill. But those discussed above were the basic program of the Admin istration. To say that the rec ord on these has been dismal is an understatement. Never has there been a worse log jam in the United States Congress. Camp Canoe Mooring Okay, here’s the problem. You’re camping on a rocky ledge so high it’s impossible to haul your canoe up on it. You’ve got to leave her in the water . . . but how to do you keep her from smashing up against rocks if a storm comes up. Simple (if you know this tip): Cut two 10-inch diamet er straight saplings, each long er than the canoe. Trip smooth. Lash them together at ends. Now run your shore mooring line around the whole works. Tie it in a loop that encircles canoe and logs and las’ to shore support. Logs act as a fender and wave buffer. Even in violent storms, canoe rests gently in log slip while insidt log beats against rocks.