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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
4-H Club Week Is
Coming March 2-9
National 4-H Club Week, which is to
be observed during the March 2-9 period,
deserves special attention, especially here
in Newton County, the birthplace of the
now International organization. Prof. G. C.
Adams, were he living today, would be ex
ceedingly proud of his “Original Corn
- Club " V V • 14
We live in a time in which juvenile de
linquency has become a national problem
-of great and growing dimension. Every
* possible force needs to be brought to bear
against the dismaying trend. The 4-H move
- ment ranks high in this respect.
The young men and women who be
long to the far-flung 4-H organizations
“Hearn how to make the most of the land,
how to handle animals, how to develop
character within a natural and healthy en
vironment. They bear within them, to a
great extent, the future strength, discipline
and solidity of this nation.
All power to 4-H Week. May it be a
resounding success!
Your Hospital Is
More Than a Building
The American consumer wants bigger
and better retail establishments. And she s
getting them.
Last year. Chain Store Age reports,
chain store construction and modernization
spending reached an all time high of over
$2.4 billion. That amounted to a 10-per cent
plus gain over 1961, in itself a big year.
Some 9,150 new chain stores opened as
did more than 1,000 new planned shopping
centers. As of the year's end, more than
6,500 of these centers were in operation
in this country and in Canada.
During 1963, the magazine says, there
will be a decline in the spending. But that
doesn’t mean an end to retail progress by
any means. All manner of new stores will
1 come into operation — along with an es
timated 1,000 new shopping centers.
The upshot? That’s simply answered —
better-than-ever retail service for all of
us tens of millions of buyers.
Nostalgia for Motorists
Some things are uncertain nowadays,
especially with some big magazines that
date back to Benjamin Franklin having
troubles, it takes a brave man to start a
new publication these days, especially one
without advertising, but some do. One is
L. Scott Bailey who recently launched the
Automobile Quarterly in the pleasant com
munity of Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
It is an attractive, hard cover, beauti
fully illustrated publication devoted to new
and old automobiles, especially the latter,
in away that gladdens the eye and delights
’ the heart of motorists for whom a car
means dreams and delight as well as trans
; portation.
Bailey’s second issue featured his story
of the New York to Paris around-the-world
race of 1908 in which a Thomas Flyer
bested German, Italian and French cars in
- the longest and craziest sporting event in
1 history. George Schuster, who went all the
* way and drove through Siberia and Eur
ope, lives today at a remarkable 89 in
Springfield, New York. Sturdy fellows
these early motorists.
■ . The fall Automobile Quarterly gives
some attention to Firebirds. Corvettes and
Corvairs but also has pictures of the Cord,
an album of a 1904 crosscountry trip by
a Franklin and four articles on the rise
and fall of the Packard Motor Car Com
pany, a subject of wistful memory to many.
“Packard was a dream —a bold, in
spiring unforgettable dream.” writes Tom
Mahoney in the longest of these. “The ad
vance of technology and good roads made
its demise inevitable. Automobiles can be
adequate without being big or expensive
and the market for a luxury car is always
a limited one.” But a remarkable number
of Packard-trained men have high posts
today with American Motors, Ford and
Chrysler.
Good luck to Scott Bailey and the Auto
mobile Quarterly. We commend it to those
who love nostalgia and are old enough to
remember Packards, Cords and Franklins.
VALE, ORE., MALHEUR ENTERPRISE:
“In our modern world freedom of the press
is a symbol. A bright and shining beacon
of personal freedom as applied to each
individual. For when a nation loses this
k freedom of the press it has automatically
■ lost all other freedoms. It has fallen prey
" to the dictators, the despots. So it is a thing
to be treasured by every one living in
a free world.”
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The Busy "Taxometer"
An ingenious and valuable device made
its appearance at the recent Pennsylvania
State Farm Show. It’s known as the “Tax
ometer” — and it shows on a day by day
basis, the total gasoline taxes the American
motorist is paying.
This computer really has a big job to
perform. According to current projections,
using present tax rates, we will pay nearly
$6.3 billion in state and federal gasoline
taxes during 1963 — which works out to
sl7 million a day. And remember — there
is certainly no guarantee that these rates
won’t go up. Many a state is panting for
new revenue, and higher gasoline taxes are
almost always in the proposed or pending
stage.
The rate of increase in the gas tax has
been staggering. For instance, Pennsylvania
applied its first gas tax, of one-cent a gal
lon, some 40 years ago. The total revenue
for the first full year, 1922, was $3.1 million.
Now Pennsylvania drivers pay that much
every three days. And the record of the
other states has been comparable. The tax,
actually, amounts to about half the pre
tax cost of regular gas. That would be a
murderous tax to impose on an out-and
out luxury, much less on an absolute ne
cessity.
If the gas taxes are even to be held
to current levels, and further increases are
to be prevented, motorists are going to
have to do some vigilant watching of their
legislative bodies — and be ready to make
strong, organized protests when' the time
comes.
Our Economic System
Is Strong Bulwark
A basic difference between the Western
world and the Communist world lies in the
economic systems. That of the first is based
on the concept of free enterprise — cap
italism, to put it in a single word. That of
the second is based on the government
ownership and direction of all economic
matters of any importance.
It is pleasant to be able to record that
the citizens of the Western World are dem
onstrating a profound faith in the future
of the free enterprise, capitalistic system.
They are doing this in the most tangible
possible way— by investing more and more
of their savings and earnings in the com
mercial institutions which capitalism has
made possible. Something like 10 per cent
of the United States population owns shares
in our corporations.
According to Anthony Sampson, in his
new book, “The Anatomy of Britain,” the
trend in England is comparable. A poll
taken there in 1960 showed that about 3
million people, 6 per cent of the population,
had investments in stocks and shares. Mr.
Sampson also tells us that 18 per cent of
these were manual workers, 45 per cent
were women, and 16 per cent were under
34 years of age. Statistics for American in
vestors show a similar pattern.
This is what the president of the New
York Stock Exchange has felicitously called
“peoples capitalism.” It is one of the strong
est of all the bulwark against the Com
muist threat.
A Cause of Unemployment
Cited to Store Employment
During November there was sudden,
substantial and unexpected increase in un
employment among teen-agers. Some 150,-
000 of them started looking for jobs, accord
ing to press reports. This was a puzzle to
the Department of Labor, which instigated
an investigation into the reasons.
One reason, which is given much less
blame for such developments than it de
serves, is the present federal wage-hour
law.
Over the years, the minimum wage has
been steadily increased. The number and
classifications of w o r k er s covered have
been steadily broadened. Regulation has
been imposed upon regulation. The invari
able result has been a decline in job op
portunities for the un-skilled and the be
ginner.
This is particularly notable in certain
service industries. Retailing is a prime ex
ample. By the nature of the business, it
can employ, often on a part-time, week-end
and after-school basis, considerable num
bers of people whose productive value is
small. The employment provides them with
an opportunity to develop skills and ex
perience which will qualify them for bet
ter jobs later. But if law-imposed costs
of such employment become excessively
high, the stores will pare it to the limit.
And then the opportunity to learn is lost.
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.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY 4^ LESSON FOR
unday School
Worship and Work in Jesus’
Life
Bible Material: Mark 9:2-50.
Devotional Reading: James
2:14-26; Memory Selection:
Jesus said to them, “My food
, is to do the will of him who
। sent me, and to accomplish his
work.” John 4:34.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Worship and Work.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Worship and Work.
The turning point in the
Gospel’s narrative is Peter’s
confession at Caesarea Philippi.
Up to this time Jesus had been
regarded, even by his close as
sociates, as simply a wonderful
teacher and a man gifted with
the power to perform miracles.
But with Peter’s declaration
that Christ was the son of the
living God, the whole aspect of
our Lord’s ministry changed.
From that time on the disciples
knew that they were dealing
with the long-expected Mes
siah, the Promised One of God.
This was to sustain them in
their future ministry. It was to
heighten their frustration and
grief when their beloved com
pan io n was arrested and
brought to the cross.
The writers of the Synoptic
Gospels all recorded this over
whelming event (Matthew 17:
1-13; Luke 9:28-36). The ac
count found in Mark is the
briefest of the three, which of
course is consistent with Mark’s
narrative style, always concise,
brief, and—as the word “st
laightway” indicates—charac
terized by swift movement.
Six days after Peter had
made his momentous decla
ration regarding Christ’s nat
ure. Jesus took with him Peter,
James, and John and led them
up “into an high mountain
apart by themselves: and he
was transfigured before them.”
“His raiment became shining,
exceeding white as snow...”
Matthew declares his garments
were “white as the light.” Luke
uses the terms “white and dazz
ling.”
Matthew calls attention to the
fact that “his face did shine as
the sun. ...’’ Luke makes the
interesting observation that
while Jesus was praying the
“fashion of his countenance was
altered....”
We are dealing here with
something unprecedented even
in Bible history. The face of
Moses shone when he came
down from Mt. Sinai (Exodus
34:29). At a later date the face
of Stephen appeared as he
stood before his judges to be
“the face of an angel” (Acts 6:
15). But the circumstances sur
rounding the transfiguration of
Jesus were even more startling.
Jesus was suddenly clothed
with an order of reality about
which we on earth know noth
ing. His whole being took on a
heavenly nature, and he ap
peared to the three disciples to
be speaking with Moses (re
presenting the Law) and Elijah
(representing the prophets).
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LAST OCTOBER, I served as
a Senate delegate to the Inter-
Parliamentary Union Confer
ence at Brasilia, Brazil, which
meets every year to discuss and
debate various national and in
ternational issues.
Prior to the conference, the
delegation visited the leaders of
the principal Latin American
nations to try to influence them
toward a stronger policy against
Communism and especially
against Castro’s Cuba.
We also had an opportunity to
observe firsthand the political
and economic situations in some
th AC A ?
of these coun
triesi which foi
the most pari
increased mj
fears concern
ing furthei
Communist in
roads in this
Hemisphere.
The people of
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Latin America take little or no
interest in their government,
and on the average don’t care
who their leaders are today, or
who they may be next month.
Despite an abundance of na
tural resources, such as fertile
soil, timber, water, minerals and
petroleum, they lack the capital,
knowledge and ingenuity to de
velop stable governments and
economies.
Khrushchev is well aware of
the situation in South America
and the opportunity it presents
for ideo’oßical subversion, both
from within and without. Cuba i
(not rrtparoi or frintoi nt forommrnt ox^rnot)
The transfiguration was pre
paratory to the agonizing ex
perience and suffering which
our Lord confronted. Undoubt
edly he himself was strength
ened by the experience, and
Luke tells us that Moses and
Elijah talked with Jesus about
his death “which he should ac
complish (not endure, but ac
complish) at Jerusalem” (9:30-
31). We know that this experi
ence of transfiguration gave
profound moral support to
Peter, James, and John, be
cause in writing some years
later Peter declares that he had
been “in the holy mount,” had
been an eyewitness of Christ’s
majesty, and had heard the di
vine voice declare that Jesus
was the beloved Son (II Peter
1:16-18).
Earth is close to heaven. Its
glory touches our earthly exist
ence. Communication went on
between Jesus and those who
had gone before. In some mea
sure these experiences can be —
and in the case of many, are—
reproduced today in the life of
believers.
The transfiguration occurred
on a mountain. Hills and
mountains played an important
part in our Lord’s life. It was
on a mountain he preached his
greatest sermon. On a mountain
he was transfigured. On a hill
called Golgotha he was cruci
fied.
Jesus was engaged in earnest
prayer when the transfiguration
took place. Peter, James, and
John grew weary as Jesus con
tinued to pray, and the nar
rative seems to indicate that
they dropped off into light
slumber. They were awakened
by the mighty spectacle. Peter,
knowing not what to say, mum
bled that it was good for them
to be there and suggested that
Christ set up on that mountain
three tabernacles, one for him
self, one for Moses, and one for
Elias (Elijah).
Peter wanted to continue the
mountaintop expience. There
was the challenge of service and
the menace of death awaiting
them at the foot of the moun
tain. Why not stay forever on
this mountain of wonders, com
muning with God, immersing
themselves in the divine reality
which had so marvelously char
acterized this experience?
Too often we want our re
ligion to be purely a mountain
top experience. We want to be
filled a sense of comfort as we
ponder our beliefs. We wish to
thrill at the harmony of organ
and chorus. We love eloquent
preaching and hang on the
words of him who brings us an
inspiring message.
Our Christian faith is so
beautiful—within the confines
of the sanctuary. We are thril
led as we pray. We are raised
to new heights of living as we
reflect on the assurances of
God’s words.
All this is as it should be —
but it is not enough in itself.
We must remember the valley
below.
was his beachhead for thia op
eration.
• • •
TN BR ASH.TA, I participated
in a press conference which gave
me some of my most depressing
moments of the entire trip.
Some of the reporters were
Communists and naturally there
were “loaded” questions. How
ever, many of the opinions ex
pressed by the newsmen were
outright shocking.
While they were critical of
what we had done by sending
billions to Isatin America in
foreign aid, they thought the
United States should do more.
Moreover, there was consider
able opposition to capital.
THE INVESTMENT of Amer
ican money in Brazil or South
American countries was seen as
some form of colonial exploita
tion. I knew that the Governor
of our State has flown to Europe
seeking the investment of Euro
pean capital in Georgia. I knew
the Secretary of Commerce has
long urged the investment of
foreign capital in the United
States. I knew that without
capital, this nation would never
have advanced to economic
greatness.
Yet these people thought they
could improve their standard of
living without capital, and in
fact seem to resent it.
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(Larees* Coveraoe Any Weekly Tb The State! Thursday, February 28, 1963
Senator
Pennington
Reports
The second week of the sec
ond session of the General As
sembly was completed last
Friday. During the week the
Senate studies a great deal of
legislation. Some of it was
sent to the House of Represen
tatives for their approval, other
legislation was sent to com
mittees for further study.
Some of the bills that were
considered in the General As
sembly were:
1. The Lumber Bill, which
has been sent to committee for
further study and ammend
ment. It is possible no action
will be taken on this bill this
session. Everyone seems to be
in agreement that something
needs to be done for the Geor
gia Lumber Industry. It is get
ting more difficult each day
for the growers of Georgia
Timber to sell their timber.
2. Another was a bill re
quiring the installation of seat
belts on the front seat of new
automobiles manufactured
next year. This bill was pass
ed by the Senate and sent to
the House.
3. A bill was passed requir
ing certain experience and edu
cation levels for county school
superintendents and the state
school superintendent. This bill
has its good features as well as
its bad. I am afraid some of
the smaller counties might not
have a resident who will be
qualified to seek the job of the
county school superintendent
under the provisions of this
bill. The bill will not effect
any county school superinten
dent now in office or will it
prevent him from seeking re
election.
4. The appropriations bill was
considered by the Appropria
tions Committee in the house
last week. I believe the house
will pass the appropriations
bill out this week. The Senate
should receive it and begin
work on it sometime around
the first of March.
Governor Sanders appoint
ed me to membership on a
committee that will study and
investigate the possibilities of
holding a World’s Fair in At
lanta during 1968. The World’s
Fair was held last year at Seat
tle, a town smaller than At
lanta and was successful.
The fair was a boost to the
economy to all the towns with
in a 100 mile radius of Seattle,
in fact motels were booked
solid during the year a distance
of 60 miles from Seattle. The
city of Seattle netted over one
million dollars on its part of
the operation of the World’s
Fair. In addition to this it net
ted many hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in additional
taxes received. These taxes
were caused by the increase in
economic activities.
The World’s Fair in Atlanta
in 1968 could mean a great deal
to the economy of the 45th Sen
atorial District since we are
close enough to Atlanta to feel
the effects.
We were informed this week
that we were successful in get
ting more counties declared
disaster areas due to the cold
weather and the shortage of
livestock feed. This additional
list of counties now includes
all of the counties of the 45th
Senatorial District. Livestock
farmers are urged to contact
their local ASC office for fur
ther details.
Brooks Pennington, Jr.
Senator, 45th District
This passage of scripture is
not part of the printed text. It
is, however, necessary that we
review the incident here descri
bed if we are fully to under
stand the worship and work
that filled our Lord’s life.
When Jesus and his three
disciples came down from the
mountain they found a great
multitude surrounding the ot
her disciples and scribes and
questioning them. “And st
raightway all the people, when
they beheld him (Jesus), were
greatly amazed, and running to
him saluted him.” Why? Un
doubtedly because some of the
heavenly glory of the transfig
uration experience was still up
on his countenance. They were
not in the habit of saluting him
thus on ordinary occasions.
There was something unusual
about him this time which call
ed forth the amazed adoration
of them all.
The new Easter Seal Center
in Augusta will benefit unem
ployed handicapped adults.
Vocational testing will be
given to determine work pot
ential, ability and work adjust
ment. Support this worthwhile
Easter Seal service with a gift
to Easter Seals.
Spare the Paddle —
Spoil the Education
By LEO $. MALLARD
How many of you readers ever received a “paddling”
in school when you misbehaved? If you did, how many of
you received another “bottom warming” at home when Mom
and Dad found out about your misconduct?
From among the howls of
grown-ups often comes the cry
that “the younger generation
is going to the dogs” because
of their wild and undisciplined
actions. Let's stop for a mo
ment and try to find out where
the fault lies.
Discipline begins, or should
begin, at home from parents.
If a child does not respect and
obey his parents you need not
except him to obey any other
outside authority.
When a child enters school
he spends the major portion of
his waking hours with a teach
er. This teacher is usually a
dedicated person who is vi
tally interested in the progress
of each pupil.
In Georgia a teacher certain
ly must be dedicated, for the
profession certainly does not
offer a lucrative income. Now,
instead of there being two par
ents with one or two children
to discipline, you have a lone
teacher with probably 30 stu
dents to discipline and the task
of trying to impart some educa
tion to each according to the
ohilds ability.
When a child misbehaves at
school the teacher must take
some disciplinary action.
Nothing yet has been
found to be more effective than
an old time paddling. It pro
duces results in the form of
better behavior from the pun
ished child in the future, but
sometimes it raises a cry of
borrow from the parents.
The parents who do take is
sue with the teacher are us
ually the ones who fail to dis
cipline their child in the home.
For those parents who have
“sacred cows” for children
there is no sympathy. All chil
dren misbehave at sometime in
school. A paddling is not al
ways the answer but this dis
cretion should be left up to the
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teacher or school authority
that is responsible for the child
and his behavior.
The front page story in
Wednesday’s Atlanta Consti
tution revealed that assault
charges were made against a
Bartow County principal for
paddling a 9-year-old third
grade boy who made such a
disturbance on the school bus
that he was creating a driving
hazard.
The irrate parents made the
charges and they were joined
by the Mayor of Taylorsville
who had also had a child pad
died by the same teacher. The
teacher is now free under SSOO
bond signed by a school board
member.
Teachers are certainly not
beasts who take pleasure in
paddling the children under
their custody. What they need
is a little more “aggressive co
operation” from the parents at
home rather than a howl of
anguish when Junior misbe
haves and gets his bottom
warmed at school.
If this be the case, you could
certainly count on a better be
haved “Junior” in the future
whether it be on the school
bus, in the classroom, or at
home.
In 1962, the Georgia Easter
Seal Equipment Loan Pool lent
free, on physician-prescription,
525 wheelchairs, walkers, crut
ches, etc., to crippled children
and adults unable to buy or
rent. $21,981.38 WOULD HAVE
BEEN THE PURCHASE
COSTS to patients if the Easter
Seal Society did not provide
this service.
In the past four years, Easter
Seal gifts have helped over
8500 crippled children and
adults in Georgia.