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iTHE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
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AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
U. S. Keeps Public
Informed on Orbital
Flights and Data
Through the use of the tried and true
old Washington expendient of declaring a
half-holiday for civil servants and letting
out the schools, managers of President
Kennedy's “non-political” missile junket
into Florida, Texas and Missouri were able
to fill an estimated 40,000 of the 73,000
seats in Houstons vast Rice University
Stadium with listeners for the President's
pledge that we will some day lead the
space race.
Mr. Kennedy noted that of the 45 satell
ites that have orbited, some 40 were ours
and have “supplied far more knowledge to
people of the world than those of the Soviet
Union.’’ He likewise praised the Mariner,
now on its way to Venus, as “the most in
tricate instrument In the history of space
science'', mentioned the practical value of
our navigation and weather-reporting sa
tellites and then said:
“To be sure, we are behind, and will be
behind for some time, in manned
flights .
This reiteration of our delinquency,
commented on by various observers before
the Houston speech, “remains,’’ as the
Washington correspondent of National Re
view has said, “one oi the darker Washing
ton mysteries”. Writing on this subject
before the Presidential journey, this same
re wrier further said:
“To date . . there is not one iota of
evidence that the Soviet Union simultan
eously orbited two men in space. Contrary
tn reports published in the New York
Times and elsewhere, U. S. tracking sta
tions picked up not a single sound or pic
ture during the time that the two capsules
were-in space. Everything seen by Ameri- i
can TV viewers came from the Soviet
Union. Reporters in Moscow have yet to be
shown a newsreel shot of the blast-off or
t e descent. Film for domestic Russian
c isumption are admittedly studio shots.’’
Nor does it re'ieve this particular “Wash
ington mystery’’ to go back to the trans
cript of the NASA press conference just
after Russia announced the successful
landing of the cosmonauts whose capsules
had been so close together in orbit at one
time that they could see each other!
Dr. Hugh L Dryden, deputy chief of
NASA was asked by a newsman: “Has our
tracking system confirmed the Soviet ver
sion of the flight of the two cosmonauts?’’
“Thev have done, - ’ replied Dr. Dryden,
“what thev say they did.’’
In our $5.4 billion (this year) search for
knowledge, perhaps we should make a
•little greater effort to find out whether our
costly snace race mav not be with two
little men who weren't there!
Soviets Installing
Counter Equipment in Cuba
An, extraordinarily alarming report
comes from Robert S. Allen—a leading
writer on national and international affairs.
His first paragraph says: “Soviet technic
ians have begun installing ‘electronic
counter equipmentt’ in Cuba that can be
used to interfere with U. S. missiles laun
chedfrom our major test center at Cape
Canaveral, Florida.”
This equipment, Mr. Allen goes on, con
sists of jamming and tracking devices So
viet technicians have been sent to Cuba to
put them into operation. They also car. be
used to interfere with our aircraft guid
ance control and ground-air communic
ation systems.
The situation is so serious that President
Kennedy sent his chief military advisor,
General Maxwell Taylor, an officer of the
highest abilities, to the Caribbean to find
out the facts and to report upon their sign
ificance.
It is certainly obvious that no move of
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Cancer Study Offers
New Hope for All
The mysteries of cancer seem to keep
broadening, as scientists continue their in
vestigations of a growing list of possible
suspects. Witness the recent report by the
U. S. Public Health Service showing that
lung cancer death rates show wide vari
ation from city to city throughout the U.S.
On the other hand, press reports from
the recent International Cancer Congress,
with top scientists from all over the world
participating, indicate the growing belief
among scientists that viruses play a key
role in cancer causation, and that real pro
gress is being made in the search for the
causes of the disease.
The virus theory assumes increasing im
portance, the scientists tell us, because, if
correct, it holds the hope that a protective
vaccine may be developed against cancer.
There is a moral in the development of
the virus theory —for scientists and for I
the general public.
It w’asn’t too many years ago that the
few scientists who believed in the virus
theory of causation had trouble scraping
up the funds they needed to conduct their
research. Somehow they did, and today
their work is being widely recognized.
During these years, the public has been I
deluged with reports about things that were i
said to cause cancer.
Josh Billings once said. “It is better to
know nothing than to know what ain't so.”
It seems clear today that scientists do
not know the basic causes of cancer of
any kind. Yet there is hope for an eventual
solution because scientific knowledge and
perspective have grown immensely.
New Battle for
Mental Health
The grave importance of the mental
health problem can be illustrated by citing
a single fact. Despite the progress that has
been made in this field, the mentally ill
occupy more hospital beds in this country
than do any other type of patient.
Now the American Medical Association
has announced a new attack on the problem,
of unprecedented scope. The details will
be worked out at a Congress on mental ill
ness which is to be held early in October.
Mental illness will be fought on every
front, by improving the standards of treat
ment and hospital care, by intensified re
search, by stimulated educational work, and
so on down the list. More trained people
will be recruited to aid in the fight, and
individual physicians are urged to give
more of their time and effort to mental
health v. ork.
The educational phase of this ambitious
new program is a very important one. As
the AMA puts it, “The public’s lack of
understanding and frequent misinformation
about psychiatric illnesses are basic causes
for the rejection of the mentally ill and
or programs intended to aid them.” The at
titude of many laymen toward the prob
lem stems, so to speak, from the middle
ages. So a greatly improved public knowl
edge of what needs to be done and can be
done, along with public support of the
battle, is needed if the AMA's splendid
program is to achieve sussess it deserves,
such ominous importance could have been
made except, upon the authority of the
highest Soviet officials—primarily, Pre
mier Khrushchev. And, if General Taylor
learns what Mr. Allen obviously expects
him to learn, htis means that the Soviet
Union, of which Castro is simply a willing
pawn, is determined to establish an effec
tive military base some 90 miles from U. S.
territory. The cancerous Cuban situation
may force this government into taking
actions of the most far-reaching portent.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
John Heralds the Christ
Bible Material: Luke 1:5-25,
57-80; 3:1-20; Mark 6:14-29
Devotional Reading: Isaiah
40:1-11; Memory Selection: I
baptize you with water;. . . he
will baptize you with the Holy
Spirit and with fire. Luke 3:16.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
John Heralds the Christ.
Young People-Adult Topic:
John Heralds the Christ.
Spiritual renewal constitutes
the very center of Christian
faith. Jesus Christ did not come
just to tell humanity what it
should do to please God. The
person of Jesus Christ was even
more important than anything
he ever said or did. He w a s
God incarnate. He was the Hea
venly Father’s gift to the hu
man soul.
The words of Christ and the
memory of his greatness might
linger in the human mind. Je
sus Christ the risen, ascended,
and glorified is a Person whose
presence is still in the believ
ing world.
Religious leaders of every
age have probably complained
about widespread indifference,
spiritual sterility. Everyone who
examines our present age finds
much to praise. Yet our mater
ial gains have so outrun our
spiritual that we are alarmed
by what we observe.
Our age is not one of wide
spread, flagrant wickedness,
yet it is an age which confirms
the Biblical declaration that the
heart of man is desperately
wicked.
, Spiritual renewal is as neces
sary today as it has been in
any age in human history.
God always raises up a wit
l ness to lead his people in sea
sons of confusion, anxiety, and
. doubt. Not only has this always
' been true, but it is true today.
We can be confident that God
1 is continuing to lead his church.
1 Present-day leadership is no t
» perfect, nor has it ever been.
I But God will increase the num
• ber and power of his leaders as •
- crises arise.
> Annas and Caiaphas were
. the high priests at the time
, Jesus began his preaching. They
’ were unspiritual men wily pol
iticians, avaricious ecclesiastics.
Although they claimed to be
• God’s representatives they real
■ ly represented no one but
themselves and nothing but
1 their selfish interests.
John, a son of Zacharias, had
’ been raised up as the witness
which God never fails to send.
; He lived a hermit’s life in the
desert subsisting on locusts and
; wild honey. Standing at t h e
. fords of the Jordan River he 1
denounced sin and commanded |
men to seek repentance before
the day of grace had passed.
Not only did travelers hear his
message; thousands went down
from all the cities of Judaea to
hear this prophet. Jesus was
among those who heard John
the Baptist (his kinsman), and !
Jesus was baptized by John.
John's message was four- '
fold. First, he set forth the ne- |
cessity for repentance. Then he j
gave eloquent assurance of'
God’s willingness to forgive
sins. When men accepted his
message he sealed that accep
tance with the rite of baptism.
His fourth function was that.
he heralded the coming after i
' him of one mighter than him- j
| self.
I John came and went two
thousand years ago. In the gos
pel of Jesus Christ we have an I
even greater message than the
message of John. Yet John is)
ever with us.
The reality of sin, the neces
sity for repentance, the cer
tainty of God’s mercy, the im
perative need to seal believ
ers with the baptismal rite —
all these are of our gospel, and
they are as modern as if John
had lived and preached only
yesterday.
God always sends his mes
senger. The word always
comes.
Preachers and Sunday school
teachers who are timid about
speaking out on moral issues
should examine the New Tes
tament accounts regarding John
the Baptist and his preaching.
He addressed his congregation
as a generation of vipers and
enquired of them who had
warned them to flee from the
wrath to come. Certainly the
high priest and the time servers
who made up his ecclesiastical
court warned nobody against
sin. According to prevailing
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•tandards, a man was in good l
and regular standing in the
Jewish Church of that day if
he kept his dues paid up and ;
went through the prescribed
motions of faith and worship.
John lived in an age of spiri
tual sterility. His contemporar
ies had very little real faith
and were satisfied with them
selves as they were.
John the Baptist cried out to
his hearers that they must bring ]
forth fruits worthy o f repen
tance. To say “I am serry” was
not enough. Sorrow for sin wai
to be certified by a manifest
forsaking of sin. ।
In many places in the Bible
we find speakers and writers
employing a play upon words
to convey their message. John
did this when he declared that
Simon was henceforth to be
called Peter (the rock) and that
upon this rock he would build
his church. The statement here
about God’s being “able of
these stones to raise up child
ren of Abraham,” is a play
upon words, for in Aramaic—
the language in which John
was addressing his hearers —
the words stones, children, and
Abraham sound much alike.
This was the type of utterance
which would catch the atten
tion and gladden the heart of
any oriental. John knew this
and used it.
He painted a dreadful pic
ture of coming destruction. It
actually occurred less thar,
thirty-five years later when the
Roman legions destroyed Jeru
salem and wiped out the Jew
ish national life. The axe was
“laid unto the root of t h e
trees” in John’s day. The time
came when his awful prophecy
was fulfilled.
We live in a spiritual uni
verse. There are spiritual laws
precisely as there are physical
laws. We know only too well
what happens when we violate
physical laws. We need to re
member that when we violate
spiritual laws retribution like
wise overwhelms us.
Crime, corruption, social in
stability, intemperance, and a
wide-spread love of the salac
ious characterizes much of our
life today. The Bible is a record
of ancient history, but it is a
warning to every age that God’s
laws operate and that the
breaking of these laws involves
disaster.
John the Baptist was only
dimly aware of the significance
of Jesus. John later imprisoned
by King Herod, sent a message
to Jesus enquiring whether or
not he was the Messiah. John
saw the true light, but he saw
Talmadro lift
latest Federal
Power Grab Try
U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F.
Kennedy’s latest attempt to
force integration of public
schools brought harsh criticism
from Georgia’s Sen. Herman
E. Talmadge, long an outspok
en critic of federal government
branches which seek to usurp
power not prescribed under the
law.
In his latest move in this
field, the attorney general,
through the Justice Depart
ment, filed suit in U. S. District
Court in Richmond, Va., seek
ing to outlaw racial discrimina
tion in schools attended by
children of federal employees
at a big Army base in Virgin
ia.
The schools receive federal
aid as an “impacted area.” The
federal suit — the first of its
kind — could, if upheld by the
court, eventually affect feder
ally assisted school districts in
17 Southern and border states
which have received about
$106.4-million in government
aid during the past fiscal year.
Immediately following the
filing of the suit, Sen. Tal
madge issued this formal state
ment:
“Congress on three separate
occasions has refused to grant
the Justice Department author
ity to file school integration
suits and this action is a fla
grant attempt by the attorney
general to usurp that power
through judicial fiat.”
it dimly He and Jesus were dis
tantly related. Jesus loved and
honored John and considered
him a true herald of the Mes
siah. But he was not even to be
compared with Christ in spiri
tual dignity and significance,
and this John knew in all hon
esty.
A mere ethical religion is a
John - the - Baptist religion.
Christian faith is supremely
above this — not contradictory,
but superior. Let us never be
satisfied with the lesser.
An hour’s factory labor in
1959 would buy 2.1 pounds of
round steak, compare to 1.8
pounds of 1939 or 1.2 pounds
in 1929, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Thursday. September 27.
Public Received
$2.3 Million for
Day Loss-of-lncome
The American public receiv
ed an average of $2.3 million a
day during 1961 from insur
ance companies to help replace
income lost through illness or
injury, the Health Insurance
Institute reported today.
The Institute said these loss
of-income benefits by insur
ance companies were apart
from benefits paid toward hos -
pital, surgical and medical bills
by insurance companies and
other insuring organizations.
Last year benefits by all in
suring organizations to pay
health care bills totaled $5.5
billion. Loss-of-income benefits
from insurance companies
amounted to $855 million for
a grand total of $6.3 bill’on.
The Institute said the loss-of
income benefits did not include
accidental death and dismem
berment payments.
Insurance Benefits
Paid to Georgians
Was $139-Million
“Living benefits” in Georgia
to policyholders themselves
from their life insurance com
panies were $67,700,000 in 1961.
This was 48 per cent of t h •
year’s total life insurance bene
fit payments to the families of
this state, the Institute of Life
Insurance reports.
These payments were in ad
dition to $72,000,000 of death
payments to the families of
this state, and compare with
payments of $60,300,000 in
“living benefits” the year be
fore. The living benefits in
clude matured endowments,
annuities, disability, cash sur
render values paid out and div
idends to policyholders.
Last year the total of all pay
ments to policyholders and
beneficiaries in th i s state
amounted to $139,700,090 com
pared with $121,900,000 the
year before.
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standings in timber sales. A
timber contract is simply an
agreement between the owner
and buyer, listing what each
expects from the sale. It
should include the description
of trees to be sold, method and
time of payment, a deadline for
removing trees and provision!
for repairing damage?