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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
One More Honor for
Sir Winston Churchill
There are times when everyone can ap
plaud an unprecedented act.
That was the case when Congress, for
the first time in our history, voted to pro
claim a foreigner an honorary citizen of
the United States.
The foreigner is Sir Winston Churchill.
And he is, in the full sense, the first citi
zen of the Free World. The history which
he did so much to write — in deed and in
words — is his enduring monument. His
was the voice, indomitable in the face of
appalling defeats and disasters, which ral
lied peoples and nations and led, at long
last, to victory.
And there is something vital that the
statesmen of the present day, here and
abroad, can learn from Sir Winston. There
was no drift when his hand was at the
helm. There was no irresolution. Risks —
great risks — were taken with full know
ledge of what might happen, and with full
resolve to see the dangers through to the
end, whatever that end might be. The
western world of the present needs more,
much more, of that spirit, courage and
dedication.
PRENTISS, MISS., HEADLIGHT: “One
of the greatest tragedies of the times is the
weakening of the moral fiber of the Ameri
can people by a government that assumes
they do not have the sense or the initiative
to do things for themselves. . . ”
ANAHEIM. CALIF., BULLETIN: “One
hundred per cent employment of all eli
gible employable persons is a theoretical
goal of the federal government. In theory,
the goal would seem to have merit but un
der the program, as being established and
fostered by the federal government,
through the dictations of the labor unions,
it cannot become a reality without the
elimination of private enterprise operating
under the law of supply and demand.”
BRIDGEPORT. NEBR., NEWS-BLADE:
“Everybody reads their hometown weekly
newspapers. They know what is going on
in the town but want to see who was
caught at it!”
INTERNATIONAL FALLS. MINN.,
DAILY JOURNAL: “A modern home is a
place where a switch regulates everything
but the children.”
E^HaN TALMaSI
Reports From
&HINGTQH U
ANOTHER FIGHT seems to
1* shaping up in the Senate
ever renewed efforts to ram
through force legislation which
Strikes at the heart of our Con
stitutional government and is '
•gainst the best interests of the 1
Bat ion.
All of thia is
being done in
the name of
civil Tights,
when in fact it
would stop the
people of the .
last vestiges of I
•tate and indi- •
vidual rights, guaranteed them
by the Constitution.
This iniquitous and dangerous I
legislation being proposed in the
area of public schools and pri- I
vate businesses would subject
the people to < federal judicial;
•nd, executive tyranny which
Would completely destroy the
•sght of man to "life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.”
Moreover, the people of this
•ountry would be driven into
bitter, sectional factions and the
internal strife already sweep
ing the land would be greatly
intensified.
• • •
HUMAN PROBLEMS cannot
be legislated away and all the
fils of oar society cannot be
cured by enactment of a law.
s’et, we have starry-eyed ideal
ists who seem to think legisla
tion is just a panacea. It might
also be noted that votes in the
next election have not entirely
•scaped their consideration.
So what we have facing us
•re attempts to take away from
the 50 sovereign states the au
thority over education reserved
for them by the Constitution and /
to give the Justice Department
(aol fraftred ar fruited H tonriuruna mK'MS.'
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It Can't Happen Again?
The years have been so crowded with
events that it is hard to realize that thirty
have passed since the bank holiday, “the
day the money stopped" by decree from
Washington. But they have and Caroline
Bird recalls in Look the courage, tragedy
and humor of March 6, 1933.
Yes, there was a on oi humor. For one
thing the late John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
ran out of dimes and had to give his golf
caddy a dollar. There were novel ways of
continuing business. In Atlanta, a taxi dri
ver accepted postage stamps. In Buffalo, a
winning prize fighter received his purse
in potatoes and tomatoes. All of us who
were alive then have stories of our own.
According to the article, this cannot
happen again. Federal Deposit Insurance,
paid for by banks themselves, now guar
antees bank accounts up to SIO,OOO. More
important, there are fewer banks,' and they
are stronger. Economic indicators exist to
forecast trouble.
“Almost everybody,” says Miss Bird,
“now distinguishes between real wealth
and the yellow stuff.”
Considering that the United States now
owes more gold than it owns, this is im
portant — if true?
CARLSBAD, N. M., CURRENT - AR
GUS:“. . Communist China. . has ordered
accountants and bookkeepers to spy on
their bosses and report any dereliction at
once. An official story of the order de
clares that it was issued ‘to ensure supplies
and prevent waste and corruption’. . . .
The decree has been long delayed, not be
cause all was well, but because the lead
ership was reluctant to make any public
admission of such bourgeois faults as graft
and inefficiency. Now the cat is out of the
bag. And a little more stuffing is kicked
out of the myth of Communist efficiency
and incorruptibility.”
MOVILLE. IOWA. RECORD: “The dif
ference between Rip Van Winkle and the
merchant who doesn't advertise is that Rip
finally woke up.”
BRIDGEHAMPTON. N. Y, NEWS:
‘One hundred years ago George S. Bout
well, first Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, had a staff of only one clerk, and
personally read all letters from taxpavers ”
power to interpose the executive
branch of government between
the individual and his right t®
lawful redress of wrongs.
This would change the right
to private action to government
' action, a short-cutting of th®
law dictated not by legal proo
esses but by political caprice.
• * • «
ANOTHER ATTEMPT to leg,
islata in the area of human re
lations would go so far as t®
deny private businesses, built
and paid for by private individ
uals, the right to determine, ac
cording to their own will, whom
they will and will not serve.
According to the backers of
this measure, the Attorney Gen
eral would be authorized to hl®
civil suits against private busi
nesres which deny their “advan
tages, privileges and facilities*
to any individual. More far
reaching than it may seem, thia
propvsa l covers the entire Amer
ican free enterprise system of
business.
No longer would businesses b®
private or enterprise be free;
they would be government con
trolled, and owners, operators
and even lesser employees would
face fines and jail, without ben
efit of jury trial, for alleged vio
lations.
Those of us in the Senate who
believe in Constitutional gov
ernment, in state and individual
rights and in the rights of busi
nessmen to conduct their affairs
as they see fit will use every
weapon at our disposal to pre
serve these rights and resist
this infamous legislation.
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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.
Maybe It's 'Just
A Friend' to You
Some people make funny
choices when it comes to pick
ing their friends.
Take Old Bill, who used to
jockey a hand truck down at
the junction freight yard. The
friend he used to talk about
was neither a man nor a wo
man—not even a cat or a dog.
It was a series of staccato barks
with a grunt—and-wheeze ac
companiment. Any doctor
would have called it a chronic
cough, if any doctor had bad
a chance to look it over.
“It don't mean nothin'," Old
Bill would say between hacks
and barks. "Been hangin’
around for years, kind of like
an old friend, sometimes I
think I'd feel lonesome if it
went away."
Only one thing was wrong
with this easy-going friend
ship. Old Bill didn't know it,
but the cough he found so con
genial was the kind that may
l>e due to serious lung trouble.
Chronic cough is one of the
most familiar signs of RD.
RD" It means Respiratory
Disease a whole group of ail
ments that damage the breath
ing apparatus. Asthma, chronic
bronchitis, tuberculosis, em
physema are just a few of the
Respiratory Diseases that can
first announce themselves by
a chronic cough.
Old Bill isn’t at the freight
yard any more. Nobody knows
whether he ever stopped
coughing long enough to listen
to some sensible advice, like, l
"Stroll over to Dr. Stubbins'
place and have a look-see." If
he did. chances are he's fine
today, pushing a hand truck
in some other freight depot. If
he didn’t—well, let's just hope
he did.
A June Dairy Month fact: In
Georgia there are 203.000 cows
on about 1.900 dairy farms.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
National
Outlook
By George Hagedorn
The Curved Ladder
Os Tax Rates
There is a peculiarity in the
structure of our present sys
tem of personal income tax
rates that is not widely under
stood by the general public.
Certainly, everyone realizes
that we have high tax rates
on personal income. It is also
generally understood that rates
of tax are steeply graduated
rising from 20 percent on the
lowest layer of taxable income
to 91 percent on taxable income
above $200,000.
What has not been empha
sized in public discussion is
the high degree to which the
progressive rise in rates is
compressed into the lower
range of the taxable income
scale. Over the entire range
up to $200,000 the tax rate in
creases with the increase in
income, but it increases the
fastest as the taxpayer moves
through the lower and middle
graduated income brackets. As
he gets above this hump his
tax rate continues to rise, but
at a gentler gradient.
This is the result of two fac
tors. First the brackets are
narrower near the bottom. Sec
ond. the rise in rate from one
bracket to the next tends to
be greatest in the first ten
to taper off gradually as in
come rises.
The combined effect is that
as taxable income rises from
zero to $20,000 the applicable
rate increases from 20 percent
to 56 percent—a total spread of
36 percentage points. From
there on it takes a further in
crease of SIBO,OOO for the rate
to rise another 35 points. In
other words about half the rise
in rates occurs in the first 10
percent of the income scale.
Our system of graduated per
sonal tax rates is often describ- i
ed as a ladder, up which the :
individual must struggle as he ।
works and takes risks to im- 1
prove his economic well-being.'
But it is a strange kind of lad- [
der, curved and steepest at the
bottom. As the climber reach
es the higher rungs he finds
the ladder still inclined upward
but. the slope some what easier.
This schedule of tax rates
has been regarded as one de
signed to “soak the rich.” But,
whether by design or acci
dent, it also has the effect of
imposing a discouragingly
steep rise in rates on those
who are attempting the climb
through the lower and middle
brackets.
Congress is at present study
ing tax revision. Let us hope
that they will enact a plan
which lowers the general bur
den of personal income taxes.
Let us hope also that they will
reduce the overall graduation
of the tax system as measured
by the spread between the j
lowest and highest rates.
But let us not deceive our- |
selves into believing that these
steps are all that needs to be
done to relieve the growth
inhibiting effects of high and
steeply graduated rates. Some- '
thing should also be done to [
straighten out the curvature in I
the ladder.
Energy needs are high for
little children and for teen-i
age boys and girls. Extension,
Service nutritionists say be
tween meal eating is a good 1
wav to meet these needs.
Covington NEWS Now Has Won 20
Awards In the Past Eight Years
Your Covington NEWS this year has added two more
press awards to their honor list since 1956. In the past eight
years this newspaper has won 18 Georgia Press Association
awards; and two National Editorial Association awards. They
are as follows:
GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION:
1956—General Advertising Excellence, First-Place.
Local Sports Coverage, First.
Fearless Editorial. Second.
General Excellence. Second.
1958—Local News Coverage, First.
Local Society Coverage, First.
Local Pictures. Third.
Typography, Third.
1959—Typography, First.
1960—Local Sports Coverage, First.
General Excellence. Second.
Best Editorial. Second.
Local News Coverage. Second.
Local Society Coverage. Third.
1961—Local News Coverage, First.
1962—Local Sports Coverage. Third.
1963—General Advertising Excellence. First.
Local Sports Coverage, First.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION:
1960—NEA General Excellence Contest, Honorable
Mention.
1961—NEA General Excellence Contest. Second. j
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
God in His World
Bible Material: Psalms 19;
95; 148. '
Devotional Reading: Psalms
97; Memory Selection: The
!heavens are telling the glory of
[God; and the firmament pro-
I claims his handiwork. Psalms
[ 19:1.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
The Voice of Nature.
Young People-Adult Topic:
God in His World.
Our lesson today deals with
portions of two of the nsalms.
The first, Psalm 19, is attribut
ed to David; the second. Psalm
95. is unclassified.
Each of these psalms shows
how God’s majesty and great
ness are witnessed to in nature,
and they call on mankind to see
these things, and to kneel in
adoration and worship.
The works of creation ail
bear witness to God and tell us
of his existence, his goodness,
his wisdom, and his power. We
are here to see God in two as
pects—as sovereign Creator
and as the Shepherd of his
people.
The revelation of God in
nature is by no means the only
or the highest witness we have
to God, but it gives us a hum
ble beginning from whence we
progress to the further revela
tions of God—in history, in
human personality, in the lives
of godly men throughout the
ages, in God’s footprint in his
tory, and ultimately in the per
son of his Son Jesus Christ.
Nature bids us remember that
God is Creator and as such is
sovereign. Also he is Shepherd
of his people who offered that
perfect sacrifice, his Son our
Lord, on the cross for the sms
of the world.
There is a voice in nature
that ever reminds man that
God is Creator, and bids man
be reverent before this Creator.
Through our experiences in na
ture and through our observa
tions of God’s dependable laws,
we come to a greater appreci
ation of the psalms which
praise God for all his wondrous
works.
The nineteenth Psalm, which
is the basis of the fust part of
our lesson today, consists of
two parts. The first (verses
1-6) deals with God in nature;
the second (verses 7-14) with
the moral law. Today we are
concerned only with the first
idea —that of God in nature.
The purpose of the psalmist
is to extol the glory of God as
seen in his creation in the
heavens. They are a testimony
to the divine order, and the
majesty of the celestial bodies
sent the psalmist into great
rapture which could be ex
pressed only in song. He thus
composed a hymn that portrays
for all mankind the deepest
feelings of man as he contem
plates the creation of the natu
ral universe.
While our lesson today does
not deal with the second half
of Psalm 19, we need to be re
minded that this hymn writer
combined two ideas in his poem.
Whereas in the first part of the
psalm he extols the God of l
Nature, so in the second part he j
bows in reverence before the,
moral law. Commentators have [
sought to tell us that Psalm 19 I
is actually two psalms, or that [
the second part (verses 7-14) (
was an addition by another |
song writer who saw the ad- '
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vantage of singing praise not
only to the Creator of tne
world, but also to the moral
Governor of the universe.
Immanuel Kant linked “the
starry heavens above ... and
the moral law within” in his
Critique of Practical Reason.
Said the psalmist, as preface
to his hymn, ‘‘The heavens
declare the glory of God; and
the firmament sheweth his
handywork. Day unto day ut
tereth speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor langu
age, where their voice is not
herd. Their line is gone out
through all the earth, and
their words to the end of the
world.”
Here is the high language of
the soul, and while the psal
mist employed none of the
traditional patterns of hymnic
composition, from beginning to
end his work manifests a sort
of fresh poetic and theological
insight.
Usually a hymn begins with
a summons to raise a song of
praise to the Lord (see Psalm
113). In our study today we
approach a psalm where there
is no invitation to song, for the
hymn has already begun, as it
were. Aeons ago, at the very
time of creation, its first notes
were struck. Ever since the
dawn of creation, man has
joined with the heavenly host
in ascribing to the Creator all
forms of majestic praise for the
testimony of God through
nature.
The theme which the hea
vens and the firmament pro
claim is that it was by the hand
of God that they were created.
There is never a pause in the
telling of the story of that far
off event. Day unto day “pours
forth” (RSV) speech. Each day
tells to the next the story of the
glory of God. Night unto night
“declares knowledge” (RSV),
as planets, moon, and constell
ations witness to that primor
dial event. Through neither
speech nor word nor voice is
heard by man, God's highest
creation, yet the human mind
can perceive them, and can de
tect an eloquence that is bey
ond words. Like a sound pitch
ed for other than human ears
to hear, “their voice is not
heard”. Their line, or “voice,”
however, resounds to the end of
the world.
While one cannot hear the
proclamation of the celestial'
bodies to the glory of God,
their witness to the majesty;
and power of the Almighty is .
as convincing as though an an
gelic choir were to sing of his
creative power.
The psalmist proceeds to
point out how the sun itself
praises God. He now breaks
forth into melody that sounds
like a “hymn to the sun,” even
though he is a thoroughgoing
theist. The writer stops short
of deifying the sun as had been
done by many pagan writers. I
To him the sun is like a heroic 1
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
"VIGOR": Respected
Once, Now Viewed As
Liberal Foolishness
By LEO 5 MALLARD
“Vigor”, the word that has been used more than any
other to create the image of the New Frontier, has had its
meaning altered by President John F. Kennedy and the lib
eral Democratic administration that is now in office.
With the Supreme Court Jus
tices (nine or even five men)
interpreting and thus rewriting
the Constitution as they see fit,
and expecting everyone to ac
cept their views as the supreme
law of the land, and with Fed
eral troops at the President’s
disposal to enforce the “su
preme law”, President Kennedy
with all his “vigor” is proceed
ing to lead this nation down
the road of ruin.
No time in history have other
nations of the world had less
respect for the United States
of America than they do today.
The Kennedy administration
has spent more time pampering
and promoting the causes of
liberal minority groups in this
nation than it has in selling
democracy to the world and
backing up its claims with poli
cies that can be respected be
cause they demand respect.
Back in the late 19th cen
tury, Lord McCauley of Eng
land predicted that, “The
United State will never fall to ।
an agressor, but will decay
from within as minority groups
come to power.” The Kennedy
administration has certainly
helped to pave the way for the
fulfillment of this prediction. ।
When we investigate Ken
nedy’s deficit spending pro
gram, to which there seems <
to be no end; his ultra-liberal ,
multi-billion dollar foreign aid ।
program: his extreme civil 1
rights proposals: and his strong
arm method of forcing his will ;
on the people, it makes us wish I
that he would practice what he ‘
preached in his inaugural ad- 1
dress when he challenged the I
nation so smugly to: “Ask not i
what this nation can do for :
you, ask what you may do for ■
runner for whom a tabernacle
or tent is pitched. From his
tent he comes forth each morn
ing as radiant as a bridegroom,
and as joyful as an athlete to
run his course. He says, “In
them hath he set a tabernacle
for the sun, Which is as a
bridegroom coming out of his
chamber, and rejoiceth as a
strong man to run a race.”
It is little wonder that the
psalmist so beautifully descri
bes the sun, for the sun is to
the earth “the lord of our life.”
From the sun, presumably, our
world came, and upon it our
world is dependent. Were it to
cease to be, our world would
very shortly be devoid of all
life. The psalmist thus descri
bes this lifegiving sun as a
bridegroom and as an athlete.
The Covington News
BEST RECIPE CONTEST
Thursday, June 20, 1963
your nation.”
A restoration rally day : s
coming in 1964. People all over
America are becoming dissatis
fied with the trend that our
national government has taken.
The general public is looking
for a President and an admin
istration that will at least b®
sensible with its policies. Peo
ple must have some under
standing and logical explana
tion of a government policy if
they are to respect and h a v ®
faith in their government. This
faith is being lost rapidly.
More and more people in the
south and west are beginning
to see the light that is now
shining on both major political
parties. The details that they
see are hard to believe but this
picture doesn’t lie. The old con
servative, logical democratic
party no longer exists today.
The platforms of the Democra
tic and Republican parties have
changed names.
If you doubt this statement,
do some investigating yourself.
List the things that you believe
will give us sound government.
Now apply your list to both
of the political parties and you
will be amazed at the results
of your own test.
Another little test that will
shock you is the voting record
of your trusted representatives
and senators. They are Demo
crats in name, but where a.a
their votes lined up?
Another election is still a
year away, but it is not too soon
to begin a serious study of tha
“facts” about which party ad
vocates the platform that you
believe in. When you have
made your study, I urge you to
support that party with all of
your resurrected “VIGOR."
Letters To
The Editor
Editor Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mrs. Dennis,
The Newton County Mental
Health Association would lik®
to express to you and your pa
per their appreciation for th®
publicity given during th®
Mental Health Drive and at ail
other times.
Your interest in this and all
other worthwhile causes is a
great asset to our community.
Many thanks.
Mrs. Hugh Aiken. Sec.
Newton County Mental
Health Association