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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
August 28th Is Date Set
For Washington March
August 28th has been definitely estab
lished as the day 100,000 (at least) Negro
Civil rights demonstrators will march in
Washington.
We say march in Washington rather
than march on Washington, since the lea
ders of the six organizations sponsoring the
convocation point out that demonstrators
will arrive from all points by bus and auto
and that it will be a genteel and orderly
performance.
There will not, we now hear, be any
march on the Capitol — even if Congress
is in session, rather than adjourning for
this occasion as some members have sug
gested — and even if the Senate should be
locked in a civil rights filibuster.
There will be a demonstration at the
White House, whence the visitors will
march to the Lincoln Memorial — the set
ting for a huge rally.
These announcements followed a meet
ing of officials of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People,
the Congress on Racial Equality, the Wash
ington Urban League, the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference and the Ameri
can Negro Labor Council with Washing
ton Police Chief Robert B. Murray who
promised the full cooperation of his de
partment.
“We hope your people will come to their
Nation's Capital,” said Mr. Murray, “par
ticipate in an orderly demonstration and
depart from our city with the satisfaction
of knowing that they have acquitted them
selves in such a manner that their visit
here will be remembered as an orderly
and peaceful demonstration.”
“I promise we will work with you,” he
said, “and extend to you every reasonable
cooperation.”
The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, Washington
head of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and spokesman for the group
of leaders, said he was confident the dem
onstrators would commit no acts of civil
disobedience.
Back of these restrained announcements
of the relatively demure planning is the
fear of the Negro leaders that any show
of belligerency, and any indication of mass
lobbying would freeze the chances for pas
sage of any civil rights bill. Further, it is
reported they now wish no one had thought
of the March on Washington and wish they
could get out of it. Since the enthusiasm of
their followers makes this impossible their
efforts are now directed to staying on top
of this human avalanche.
Chief Murray, who knows full well that
it takes all kinds to make up a crowd of
’IOO,OOO, has cancelled all leaves and days
off for his department on August 28th and
is expected to have auxiliary forces avail
able. An optimist, as any proper cop should
be. he says: “I feel that if we work to
gether it will be a peaceful demonstration.”
Foundation of Free People
More and more taxpaying enterprises
are expresing themselves through adver
tising and direct statements by their ex
executives on questions which involve our
future independence.
A recent advertisement of the Hyster
Company of Portland, Oregon, is an ex
ample. It does not make a sales talk for
its product but comments on conditions
which affect the future of every private
job, private activity, and representative
government. It says in part:
“A former Supreme Court Justice, Sal
mon P. Chase, has provided the best short
description of the foundation of American
government: ‘The Constitution, in all its
provisions, looks to an indestructible Union
composed of indestructible States’ . . .
“The federal government has gradually
pre-empted the authority of the State in
every walk of life . . . The result ... is
more and more dependence on ‘benefits’
from a benevolent government.
“In 1932, 2,196.000 people received a
monthly check from the federal government.
Today 40 million people are receiving
monthly checks from government.
“We owe more money than all the rest
of the world combined, yet our budget
increases in fantastic proportions — not
for defense but for the insatiable demands
of the welfare state.
“Only Congress can save us . . . men
■who will force a return to the simple ec
onomic truths and moral standards that
made us great.”
So riffle through your attic and see what
grandfather left in the wav of Civil War
books. Some of them may be valuable. But
p’ease ask your book dealer or library
about them. Don't ask us!
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TV Program Distorts Facts
Again in its Recent Report
The American Broadcasting Company’s
national network recently presented a pro
gram called “A Vanishing Breed: Portrait
of a Country Editor.” During the presenta
tion the statement was made that "There
are only 2,000 country newspapers left in
America . . .”
The American Press magazine, taking
exception to these figures, counted the news
papers listed in the latest edition of N. W.
Ayer Directory of Periodicals and reports
there are” . . . 9,319 non-daily newspapers
in the 50 states. A breakdown of that list
shows possibly 2,000 newspapers which
might conceivably be classified as “subur
ban’ instead of ‘country.’
“That still leaves 6.819 non-daily news
papers which, so far as we can determine,
could fit nowhere except in the ‘country
newspaper’ category.” Also a majority of
the 1,200 dailies published in towns of
under 25,000 population would fit into the
same classification.
The American Press observes that “Per
haps the TV boys were miffed because, as
they reported, Landon Wills of Calhoun,
Kentucky, who was picked as their ex
ample of ‘the vanishing breed,’ doesn’t be
lieve in television and doesn't even have
a TV set.”
The capable and effective newspaper
men who run this nation’s country press
are not vanishing. And since our freedom
depends on a concerned and well informed
citizenry, we can thank our stars that they
are not. They provide written records of
opinions and world events which remain
for consideration and are not gone in the
wink of an eye.
Thunder on the Left
Brings Cry of Pain
In seeking to rationalize the recent bel
ligerent outburst of New York's Governor
Rockefeller against what he called the
“radical right lunatic fringe” of the Repub
lican Party, the most reasonable assump
tion is that this is a cry of pain.
Last spring, when the Governor was
generally regarded as the leading conten
der for the Presidential nomination, he
was an avowed conservative. He talked
loudly then of his dedication to fiscal re
sponsibility in Government, the sanctity of
free enterprise and the dire need of a
strong and forthright anti-Communist for
eign policy. Which we then considered
“rightist” policies — and still do. As for
this “radical” epithet, that is a qualifica
tion that means anything or nothing.
A rightist stands for the right of the in
dividual to stand on his own feet, to run
his own affairs with a minimum of inter
ference from the State, and equally for
responsibility for his own mistakes —of
judgment or of conduct.
A leftist believes in socialism in greater
or less degree, seeks paternalism in gov
ernment, admires the managed State.
It is as simple as that.
Since last spring, Governor Rockefel
ler's “image” has faded, and Senator Gold
water, whose dedication to Republican
solidarity is unassailable, has emerged as
Mr. Conservative.
Wounded by this shift of the scene, the
Governor is apparently striving for a new
entrance on the political stage as a liberal.
While he did not name the Senator in his
tirade, it was hardly necessary since the
CBS-News network proposed to Senator
Goldwater that he debate “the policies and
direction of the Republican Party in 1964”
with Governor Rockefeller.
The Arizonian declined in a formal
statement saying that “he does not intend
to engage in any TV programs or other
actions that would have the effect of con
tributing to disunity in the Republican
party”.
Republicans everywhere will applaud
this statement and know from past history
that Barry Goldwater means exactly what
he says.
NEW YORK MILLS, MINN., HER
ALD: “It is true, that in the face of eco
nomic depression and loss of income with
which to provide for one's needs and for
one's family, men will turn to almost any
thing that will promise some type of re
lief. In desperate cases, people turn to
communism for this relief. . . It is in times
like this that people act in haste and re
pent in leisure, if there would be any lei
sure thereafter.”
GREENSBURG, IND., TIMES: “Only
16 of the nation's 50 states have laws that
guarantee all men the right to work where
and when they wish. And these laws are
jeopardized by whims of the courts.”
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
UNDAY
The Venture of Feith
Bible Material: Genesis 12-
14.
Devotional Reading: Romans
5:1-5; Memory Selection: By
1 faith Abraham obeyed when he
was called to go out to a place
which he was to receive as an
inheritance; and he went out,
not knowing where he was to
go. Hebrews 11:8.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
When God Says, Go!
Young People-Adult Topic:
The Venture of Faith.
Twice before in the history
of the human race God had
made a convenant with man to
the end that a godly race might
be established in the world.
The first was with Adam after
creation and the second was
with Noah after the greai flood.
Both of these covenants had
been broken by man; through
deliberate choice of free will,
men had fallen into disobedi
ence, wickedness, and sin.
Now God makes a thjrd at
tempt through an individual to
form a family, or patriarchal
clan, from which would grow a
covenant people.
The individual in this case
chosen and called by God was
Abram, later to be known to
posterity as Abraham. He was
a native of Ur of the Chaldees
in lower Mesopotamia, or what
is known today as Iraq. Exca
vations of Ur have shown that
there was an advanced civiliza
tion there at the time of Abr
am. In the government muse
um of antiquities in Baghdad
may be seen musical instru
ments and headdresses and ot
her ornaments of gold and
precious stones from this per
iod of Ur, which are advanced
works of art. At the same time
the excavations have revealed
that the religion included the
grossest type of idol worship
and involved human sacrifice in
the death rites of royal persons.
So God called Abram to
leave such an environment of
idolatry and a high civilization
to go out from a great city and
dwell in tents that he might
woship the one true God who
had revealed himself to this
Abram. He was a descendant
of the godly line of Shem, the
son of Noah. The father of
Abram was named Terah, who
had two other sons, both pro
bably older than Abram. The
name of Abram’s wife was
Sarai and they had no children.
It seems that Abram was the
guardian of Lot, the son of his
brother, Haran, who had died
before the family left Ur of the
Chaldees. So with the names of
family relationships of the ot
her characters in the narrative
established, we may turn to
look at the central figure of the
biblical drama.
Abram, later to be called
Abraham, has been termed the
greatest character to appear on
the human scene from creation
to the time of Christ. He is
great, not from the standpoint
of royal authority or military
power, not from the writing of
books or the establishment of
laws; his distinction is in only
one field, that of religion. The
three great monotheistic faiths
of the world today, Judaism,
Islam, and Christianity, all
look to Abraham as the foun
der of their religious faith.
Clues to his character are given
in the titles by which Abraham
is known in these religions;
they are “Father of the Faith
ful” and “Friend of God.”
The name “Abram” means
in Hebrew “the Father is ex
alted (or high).” Similar names
have been common from anci
ent times, and names including
“father” and “grandfather” are
much used in the Bible lands
today. Great respect was shown
to the father as head of the
clan or tribe. After the death of
Terah, Abram assumed the
headship of the migrating clan.
There is, of course, no refer
ence in the name "Abram” to
God as Father, for this is a
doctrine to be revealed by
Christ many centuries later.
So the clan left their native
city of Ur and journeyed up
through the fertile valley of the
Euphrates River toward North
ern Iraq. When they reached
the region of Haran they found
pasture for their flocks and
herds and settled down in their
black tents to live in that reg
ion as nomads for a time. It
seems there was no intention
of remaining there permanent
ly. Abram, therefore, either re
ceived a second command or,
on the basis of the first call,
which had been held in abey
ance during the sojourn in
Haran, he and his clan contin
ued their migration toward a
destination as yet unknown.
“Now the Lord had said unto
Abram, Get thee out of thy
country.. ..” The translation
here implies a reference to the
former call. This is the way the
translators of the Authorized j
Version understood it, though *
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
the verb in Hebrew is not in
the perfect tense, so this may
be a second call of God to move
; on. They had been five years
in Haran and the death of
- Abram’s father, Terah, was an
i event which made it appropri
i ate to pull up stakes and leave.
, A practical summary of our
* lesson today is given by the
first Christian martyr, Stephen,
: in Acts 7:2-5. This and the
memory verse from our study
: today, Hebrews 11:8, make a
wonderful New Testament
' background for the understand-
I ing of our lesson from Genesis.
> “The God of glory,” as Step
t hen terms him, called Abram
. to leave the land of his nativity
• and go on to the land of pro
-5 mise. He had to start in trust
. knowing that wherever he went
1 God would be leading step by
i step.
, God called Abram:
1. As a witness to the one
true God of all mankind.
2. As the instrument of God's
> revelation.
1 3. As the channel for God’s
i blessing to the world.
The call is to faith, obedi
; ence, and separation. It took
i faith to leave Ur of the Chal
> dees with its advanced civiliza
; tion and high living standards
5 and go out as a pilgrim—espe
t cially since Abram did not
■ know where he was going,
t Again it took renewed faith to
■ leave Haran where the family
■ had settled and prospered. The
■ title of our lesson is “The Ven
l ture of Faith” and it was just
that. Through acceptance in
faith of God's call, Abram be-
I came the “Father of the Faith
• ful.”
■ Science^l
I Topics
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i
DOCTOR BELIEVES
U. S. YOUTH FIT
* U. S. CHILDREN are in fine
’ physical condition, by and
■ large, according to Dr. Harold
. M. Sterling of Brighton, Mass.,
( who rejects the widely held
theory that American young
sters are dangerously soft.
Studies of grade school children
in upper-middle-class comm
unities near Boston where “soft
living” prevails prove his con
tention, says Dr. Sterling. Ex
posed for the first time to
test devised by the President’s
Council on Youth Fitness, two
thirds passed immediately and
most of the rest were up to
snuff after a few weeks’ train
ing. •
IF YOUR boy asks for a
Super Multi - Mouse next
Christmas, think it over care
fully. It’s an oil well perforat
ing gun developed by Pan Geo
Atlas Corp., Houston, to fire
explosive charges into rock
formations to open passages for
oil to flow into the shaft. The
gun is lowered into the well at
the end of a steel shaft. Char
ges used have velocities up to
25,000 feet a second .... A;
NEW meat-aging process that i
involves introducing a mold —
Thamnidium — improves flav
or and shortens time meat must
hang in natural aging. Cost is
1 to 2 cents a pound.
ROOMS AT THE BOTTOM
— An underwater house, 30
feet long and 11 feet high, will
be dropped on the bottom of
the Red Sea and inhabited by
eight men for six weeks. It’s
the idea of famed underseas
explorer Yves Cousteau to find I
out how well men can live
under water, harvesting foods
that grow there ... A CEN
TURY-OLD Nevada silver
mine, inactive since 1920, may
contain a “significant” amount
of overlooked ore, according to i
the U. S. Department of the
Interior. The discovery was
made during a geologic study
of the Humboldt Range. The
privately owned mine is about
30 miles northeast of Lovelock
in western Nevada.
THE EARTH has tides, even
as the oceans, which cause its
crust to rise and fall as much
as nine inches at the equator
in a 12-hour period. Although
these earth tides are also
caused by the effect of the sun
and moon, they aren’t notice
able since, unlike the wave
movement of the ocean waters,
the crust moves as a solid mass. |
Scientists of Columbia Univer- '
sity’s Lamont Geological Ob-,
servatory plan a network of
earth tidal gravity stations, the
first in the eastern U. S. Ana
lysis of records obtained will
make it possible to construct i
charts similar to those used for
ocean tides.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
|IN THE COVINGTON NEWS j
(Best Coverage: News. Pictures and Features) Thursday, August L 1963
Letters To
The Editor
I
Letters to the Editor are ,
welcomed by The Covington
News and will be printed if
they are signed by the
writer's full name (not initial
ed) and address. Your phone
1 number should also be listed
1 in case the NEWS needs to
confirm any letter received.
We welcome your opinion
and want it to be expressed,
but your name must also be
printed so that our readers
may know that the content
is the opinion of the writer
and not necessarily that of
the NEWS.
Mrs. A. B. Dennis
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mabel:
In behalf of the church, and
personally, I want to thank you
i for the many kindnesses ex
| tended to us by the Covington
News. The printing of our
| weekly bulletins is a most gra-
I eious deed. There must be con
siderable expense involved in
this service which you do for
us at no cost. We are grateful
for it—more than we could
ever tell you. I would like to
ask you to thank the staff of
the Covington News—especi
ally those who are directly re
sponsible fr this fine service.
A word of thanks is due for
the space given to our church
when we need to publicize re
vivals and other special meet
ings. The treatment has al-
I ways been very considerate.
And, may I add a word of ap
preciation for the warm re
ception always given by the!
folks in office and in the plant.
There will always be a very
warm spot in my heart for the
Covington News because of you
and because of Belmont. He
was ever the cordial friend
and trusted counsellor to me.
I valued his conversations with
me about the church and our
work. His was an understand
ing heart. God be thanked for
Belmont and for you and your'
friendship and helpfulness.
Sincerely and affection
ately,
Edgar A. Callaway
The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Editor:
The Governor's Commission
for Efficiency and Improve
ment in Government is ex
tremely gratified at the sup
port given by all Georgia news
media to Commission efforts to
improve Georgia government.
I We have been especially pleas
ed with the news coverage and
editorial support given the
Ragen Report on the Georgia
Prison System.
I Specialized media such as
1 publications for special groups
of officials, business groups,
and others likewise carried in
formation concerning Com
mission proposals and many
gave editorial support. The Ra
gen Report is an outstanding
example of such cooperation,
but each action by the Com
mission has been fairly and ac
curately presented to the pub
lic.
Success in implementing pro
; posals for efficiency and im
provement in government fin
ally depends on public under
standing and support of those
proposals. We are grateful in
deed for the fine work done
by the news media in fostering
public understanding and sup
port. We pledge our best efforts
to merit your continued sup
port as we continue studies de
signed to increase efficiency
rmd improve the programs of
service provided by Georgia
State Government.
Sincerely yours.
Wm. R. Bowdoin
Chairman
July 25, 1963
Mrs. Mable S. Dennis
Publisher and Editor
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
I did not want to let the op
portunity pass without drop
ping you this note to express
our sincere gratitude for the
fine editorial entitled “Wash
ington, D. C. is Congressional
Stepchild” which appeared in
your paper on March 28, 1963.
It is indeed gratifying to
know that you share our view
that the federal government
should make a more equitable
payment to the District of Co
lumbia to compensate in part
for the unique and costly prob
lems of the Nation’s Capital.
On behalf of all Washington
ians, I extend our warm thanks
for your recognition of the
serious fiscal problems con
fronting us.
Sincerely.
John T. O'Rourke,
Chairman
District Fiscal Affairs
Committee and Editor.
WASHINGTON DAILY
NEWS
Enforced Civil Rights:
But, Without Enforced
Civic Responsibility
By LEO S. MALLARD
The Kennedy civil rights package now before Congress
has shocked the nation from coast to coast. No longer is the
effect of such liberal legislation to be felt only in the South
land.
Across the nation people are be
ginning to realize just what fed
eral enforced civil rights means
because they know that there is
no way that the federal govern
ment can enforce civil responsibi
lity.
"Sensationalism” by the news
media in the United States has
championed the cause of minority
groups like the NAACP, CORE,
and Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference, headed by Mar
tin Luther King, and inspired their
growth and power.
Lobbists for these groups and
the United Auto Workers are busy
in our nation's capital promoting
at least the Kennedy civil rights
program and demanding more.
Pressure is being applied on every
Representative and Senator, not
only by the minority leaders, but
also from Kennedy and his ad
ministration.
Under Kennedy the Democratic
party has become the party of the
minority. Old line Democrats,
voting their convictions, continu- j
ally find themselves alligned with :
their conservative Republican col
leagues. This coalition of South
ern Democrats and conservative
Republicans feel confident of
blocking the administrations ultra
liberal civil rights program.
Although the President’s pro-1
gram may pass the House of Rep- i
resentatives, it is sure to be kill
ed in the Senate. Senator Russell |
already has plans of exercising
The National Outlook
By George Hagedorn
An Act of Desperation
The F’resident has proposed
to Congress the enactment of
a temporary tax on American
purchases of foreign securi
ties, as a measure for reliev
ing the pressure on our in
ternaticnal-payments balance.
This has the earmarks of a
desperate proposal for meet
ing what has become a des
perate dilemma.
The President has main
tained in the past that he is
opposed to governmental re
strictions on the free flow of
capital between nations. He
argues that his present pro
posal is “fully consistent with
. . . free capital movements.”
This is hard to take seriously,
since taxation often is, and in
this case is clearly intended
as, a form of economic regu
lation.
The dilemma which has
given rise to this proposal is
the conflict between our de
sire to maintain low long-term
interest rates for domestic
July 25, 1963
Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Covington News,
My goodness! I’m still pinch
ing myself to know if I’m
awake to get that lovely prize
and I’m so proud of the New
ton County ladies recipes in
the NEWS today, also I’m fill
ed with good wishes for every
one of them and ALWAYS ail
ways for Our Covington
News and its entire staff.
Sincerely,
Mamie Ozburn Odum
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the “filibuster” on the floor ot
the Senate and he has a strong
; following.
The Kennedy program also calls
for additional authority for the
Attorney General — Bobby Ken
nedy. If granted, Bobby would
i literally become a little dictator.
: With the federal government be
hind him and with troops at hi#
disposal he would be able to
; “legislate” our civil rights all
. over the nation.
Privilege without responsibility
leads to an utter state of confu
sion. Until responsibility can bo
instilled in the membership of mi
nority groups there is no hope
for sweeping privileges. Economia
status and civil rights of the ma
jority cannot be completely dis re
garded even during changing
times if the foundation of our na
tion is to remain strong.
History has shown us that
changes come gradually and that
changes do come, but a complete
। reverse of the status quo by fed
eral legislation will never be ac
cepted by the populace.
By constant harassment and by
showing the tendancy to never
be satisfied these minority groups
will eventually run their course
and fade into the background un
less they persuade their following
that with the privilege they
strive for, there must be a change
in the attitude toward duty, de
pendability, responsibility, and
loyalty in all levels of our society.
purposes and the need for
I higher interest rates to pre
f vent an outflow of capital. A
i substantial rise in longer-term
- interest rates might put a
- crimp in home-building and
- business investment. On the
. other hand, keeping such in
i terest rates as low as they
• have been invites foreign bor
■ rowers to raise their funds in
the U. S.
The dollars borrowed by
5 foreigners will presumably ba
■ spent. Some, but not all, of
f these dollars will be spent in.
; the U. S. since we do not in all
■ cases offer the best bargains,
i The result is a further accu
mulation of dollars abroad
, which become potential claims
i against our gold stock—al
l ready dangerously depleted.
This dilemma is the result
; of our failure to establish an
- economic climate at home
■ which encourages business ex
pansion. If profit opportuni
i ties were good enough, the de
■ mand for capital within this
country would be so great that
it would itself raise interest
rates to a satisfactory level.
But union action keeps labor
cost high and income taxa
tion impairs business incen
tives—as a result our capital
. is attracted overseas.
Our past sins have caught
up with us and here we are.
The balance of payments is
in a serious deficit position,
and the raising of long-term
capital by foreigners in this
country has recently become *
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