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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Eaivor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Highways of Education
When you get in your car, you have a
destination. When you take a trip, you
know where you’re going. Even if you go
for a pleasure ride on Sunday afternoon,
your purpose is enjoyment. In life, you
have a goal, and the college graduates are
setting the mold of their goals.
Your car may be new, old, or in between.
If it’s brand new, you should have no
trouble. With power steering, power brakes,
power seats, air conditioning, it’s a pleasure
to drive. Your attention can be concentrated
on traffic conditions, not on the car. The
brighteyed young graduates of high school
or college have fresh knowledge, easily
accessible to recall.
There are advantages to older cars. You
Know any idiosyncracies they have and
you know exactly what to expect of them.
They’re well broken in and are more com
fortable, like an old glove, or an old friend.
After the graduates have been out of school
or college a few years, they too will feel
more comfortable in life. They will have
their shakedown drives behind them and
will feel more at ease in the business world
or married life.
In this high speed age, if a young per
son doesn’t have a college education, he
will find it considerably more difficult on
the road of life. It’s important to get that
power steering for the mind that is acquired
only in college. With an older car, you
have to drive more hours to cover the same
miles as a newer car. Without a college
education, one has to work harder and long
er to try to reach a goal comparable to
that of a college graduate.
If a student has the ability and is truly
interested in business, the professions, or
science, the lack of money for additional
education, or the urge to earn money on
his own, shouldn’t deter him from advanced
study.
Most drivers prefer to take the express
ways or divided highways today because
they get where they’re going faster and
the driving is easier. The career road is
much smoother when paved with a good
education.
The back roads are interesting when
you’re out for a pleasure drive. You see
more and you enjoy what you do see more
at slower speeds. Depending on where you’re
going, sometimes you have to take those
infrequently used narrow roads. Your des
tination is the determining factor. You may
need to take the back roads, the easier,
slower, less trafficed way. There are some
people who just aren't interested in careers
that require much formal education. They
fill a definite need in the world. If you’re
not interested in the speedy super highways
and where they go, then it’s the back road.
Some farmers, homemakers, laborer's, de
rive much more benefit and. pleasure from
the back roads than from r.ny expressway.
If you're not on an expressway, you
have to slow down driving through cities.
The change of pa:e is good for the car and
for you physically. In life it’s good to slow
down occasionally, to see how you're do
ing, to think and appraise.
No matter what highway you take,
you’ll run into some trouble —a blowout,
a detour, a rain storm that you can’t drive
through, a bridge washed out. In life too,
you'll face obstacles — disappointments,
sickness, death, financial reverses, discour
agements.
With the better built cars, greater speed,
engineered roads, driving today requires
more attention and concentration than it
formerly did. With our ever-widening
world, with more knowledge accumulating,
with more critical problems at every' corn
er, more education is needed today than
was necessary some years ago.
With the well-paved expressway of
education, the June graduates will find the
road of life pleasant and profitable. Safe
and happy motoring to all the newly-licen
sed graduates. — (ditorial by George
S. Bradshaw).
BEDFORD. IND., TIMES-MAIL: “Presi
dent Kennedy's recent order — issued with
out the consent of Congress — may open
up more troubles than it will solve. The
President has ordered that all companies
engaged in government contracts, and all
contractors doing government work, must
hire more negro workers. . . The President
or anybody else can issue edicts, but he
can t make (a) skilled person out of an un
skilltd person in a minute. That takes time,
and if the President starts to put white
men out of a job just to put negro work
ers in those jobs, then we might see a few
demonstrations of the majority. They
hrould be more dangerous than the dem-
B^trations of a minority."
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Covered by Health Insurance
Those who argue in favor of government
run or government dominated medicine, in
one or all of its many proposed forms,
would lead us to believe that the Ameri
can people have little or no protection
against the costs that come with illness.
The American Medical Association’s
Council on Medical Service now tells the
facts. Among them:
Eighty-four per cent of the entire U. S.
population is now protected against health
care costs by health insurance or other
means.
More than 140 million of us have hos
pital expense protection, 130 million are
covered for surgical expense, and 97 mil
lion are protected for regular medical ex
penses.
Significantly, 60 per cent of the 140 mil
lion people with coverage of this kind are
over age 65. In addition, 93 per cent of the
aged currently live in states which have
utilized the Kerr-Mills medical care pro
gram —a program which provides federal
aid under a system of state and local ad
ministration, decision, and distribution.
Still another significant point is made
in the AMA’s study. That proportion of the
public which is without health insurance
coverage is, in substantial part, protected
in other ways. These include the benefi
ciaries of public welfare, patients in insti
tutions, members of the armed forces and
their dependents, and so on.
We have not reached perfection in this
field — or in any other. But the progress
we have made has been outstanding. And
nothing in the record shows a need for a
system of medicine based, wholly or part
ly, on political domination.
That Oil Filter Is More
Important Than You Think!
It was in the year 1923, as those with
long memories may recall, that Coueism
hit the US and devotees of auto-sugges
tion, seeking to throw off the vapors, me
grims, and even the heebies, were going
around saying: “Every day in every way
I am getting better and better.’’
And, “every day in every way’’, the au
to, itself, was “getting better and better”.
Remember “the good Maxwell’’ — that
was soon to have a face-lift and emerge
as the Chrysler? The 1923 model was the
first and only automobile to be equipped
with an oil filter — an innovation develop
ed and manufactured by the Purolator
people, who are therefore now celebrating
their fortieth anniversary.
“At the time,’’ says Vice President James
B. Lightburn, “the oil filter made less stir
than the first hydraulic brakes, but it
soon began to exert a profound influence
on automobile design. In fact, it was the
oil filter that made possible the develop
ment of today’s high-compression, high -
efficiency, long-lived engines. In removing
the grit from air-borne dust and abrasive
particles collected in the engine by the lu
bricating oil, the filter sharply reduced
what had been considered normal engine
wear and thus permitted closer tolerances,
higher compressions and higher engine
speeds.
A more obvious and immediately im
pressive advantage to the motorist was a
moncy-in-the-pants-pocket saving, since the
new filtering device put an end to the
expensive, old-fashioned practice of chang
ing oil every 500 miles. Maxwell owners
told their friends, so the hand-tooled pro
duction of the first year rose swiftly to 50
filters a day.
By 1926 (the year that Ford stopped
production of the Model T to tool up for
the stick-shift Model A), says Mr. Light
burn. one out of every seven Americans
owned a car. Now standard equipment on
Buick. Dodge. Studebaker, Hupmobile,
Oakland, Gardner, Moon. Jordan. Chrys
ler. Cadillac and Pierce Arrow, the Puro
lator oil filter was an established success!
Today, the filtration principle purifies
not only the oil coursing through the en
gine. but both the air and fuel entering the
| carburetor. Thus, on this fortieth anniver
sary. the motorist who remembers to
change his filters and keep his car young,
need only worry about whether the fluori
dated water in his radiator will prevent
। cavities.
DUNSMUIR. CALIF NEWS: “Profits
are the keystone of the American economy,
although since the early days of the New-
Deal there has been a persistent effort to
denigrate them. Without orofits, no capi
tal investment. Without capital investment,
no jobs, no dividends or interest. In the
i long run, no tax revenues.’’
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.
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Rejected by His Brothers (
Bible Material: Genesis 37-
50.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
37:1-11.
Memory Selection: O the
depth of the riches and wisdom
and knowledge of God! How
unsearchable are his judg- ,
ments and how inscrutable his
ways! Romans 11:33.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
When We Wonder Why.
Young People-Adult Topic:
When We Wonder Why.
Today is the first in a series
of lessons dealing with Joseph,
who is called the “instrument
of God’s will.” We are to see
in this unit how God used
Joseph to carry ou>t his purpose
for Israel and for the world.
Though he was a man hated
and envied by his brothers, God
transformed the enmity that
his brothers felt for him into
the material for the accomp
lishment of the divine will.
Joseph, the man rejected of.
men, was nevertheless made
the servant of God and his
purposes.
Repected as he was, it seem
ed impossible to believe that
Joseph could be used of God
for. the carrying out of his
great plan. No one could ever
have predicted how Joseph
couid become a great leader
and the saviour of his people.
He himself might have asked
why God permits such opposi
tion to befall God's children.
He might have been exceeding
ly bitter because of his ex
preience. Rather he used every
situation to God's advantage,
and even forgave his brothers
who had treated him so cruelly
years before.
Joseph is an example of the
sort of heroism and unselfish
ness that our world today so
desperately needs. His genero
sity of spirit was possible be
cause he had faith in God.
Likewise, our Christian life de
pends greatly on our profes
sion of faith and the daily prac
tice of our religious principles.
Faith and life go hand in
hand: and when they are Com
bined, the Christian is victori
ous even as Joseph overcame
tremendous obstacles for the
welfare of his own soul and
for the good of his people.
In order for us to under
stand the conspiracy that was
at work against Joseph, it is
necessary for us to review
briefly some of the family his
tory.
His father Jacob dwelt in the
land of Canaan wherein his
father Isaac had been a strang
er. The writers of the Book of
Genesis are careful to remind
us that the land to which
Jacobs grandfather Abraham
had come by divine decree was
also the home of his descend
ants. Jacob had had the chance
to establish his family in peace
and happiness, but he was
guilty of a serious error. He
showed the same sort of fa
voritism that his mother had
showed to him and the end:
result was trouble of a serious :
nature.
There were mixed emotions i
at work in Jacob. He had al
ways been a man of strong
impulses that were in conflict ■
with one another. Perhaps the I
best influence was the love that
he bore for Rachel. We recall i
how he worked for Laban seven j
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
years in order that he might
marry this beautiful Rachel.
We are told that “they seemed
unto him but a few days, for
the love he had to her” (29:-
20). Laban broke his promise,
but Jacob set himself to work
seven years more to win the
hand of Rachel.
Jacob was a persistent man
and it was love that motivated
his life.
Polygamy was the accepted
practice in Jacob’s day and he
had more than one wife. How
ever, as we seek to understand
this man it would seem that
custom rather than desire made
him take other wives besides
Rachel. She was the woman
he truly loved, and while he
had children by his other wives
the ones whom Rachel bore
were the children who were
closest to him. Joseph, with
whom our lesson today deals,
was Rachel’s firstborn. Upon
giving birth to Benjamin she
died. Upon her death, Jacob’s
spirit was buried with her ex
cept for the sons she left be
hind. And of her two sons,
Joseph was the one who took
first place in the father’s af
fections.
To Jacob, Joseph was the
representation of himself and
of Rachel. Because Jacob was
constantly under the shadow
of Esau, through his desire to
be first in the family, he used
every means of craftiness and
even patience to secure his
position. However, he could
never be sure of this and often
felt inferior, though his suc
cesses were many. To compen
sate for his insecurity he built
up Joseph’s role in the family
and even gave him “a coat of
many colors” which actually
symbolized his desire to ele
vate Joseph. Others, even his
brothers, would see him and
admire him. Significantly the
story is written. “And his
brethren envied him” (37:11).
It was this envy that drove
Joseph's brothers to conspire
against him. They had gone to
feed their father’s flocks in
Shechem, and Jacob sent Jo
seph to them to see if all was
well with them and with the
i flocks in order that Jacob
might have the assurance of
their well-being. Thus the obe
dient son went after his broth
ers and found them in Dothan,
the modern Tell Doth a. some
; fifteen miles north of Shechem.
“And when they saw him
afar off. even before he came
near unto them, they conspired
against him to slay him, and
they said one to another. Be-
I hold, this dreamer cometh.”
They summed up their estimate
of their brother when they
called him “a dreamer.” for
they considered him to be an
idle nobody who was his fath
er's favorite and the envy of
each of these brothers. In their
estimation there was only one
I answer to their problem of
jealousy. Joseph had to he de
stroyed. for if he were slain.
।there would be an end of the
father’s lavish display of as-
I section and esteem.
There can be no excusing
Jacob's attempt to satisfy his
j own frustrated dream by ex
' alting Joseph over his other
; sons, yet there can be no ex
i cuse either for the brothers’
I conspiracy to take Joseph's,
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures and Features) Thursday, September 5, 1963
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We welcome your opinion
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may know that the content
is the opinion of the writer
and not necessarily that of
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302 East Conyers St.
Covington, Georoia
August 19, 1963
Covington News
Covington. Ga.
Dear Editor:
Asking others to do “things”
for us is easy, but often we fail
to let them know how much their
effort is appreciated. We have
asked you for favors on various
occasions, and as always you were
most willing to grant them.
At this time, we sincerely want
to thank you for your kind and
courteous cooperation. Further
more. we want you to know how
very much we appreciate the pub
licity you gave us in your paper;
thereby, informing others in Cov
ington of our newly organized
club.
Thank you again!
The Happy Homemakers
Demonstration Club,
Covington, Georgia
August 15, 1963
“Chatter Box”
c/o Mrs. A. B. Dennis.
City
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
I consider you and your “Chat
ter Box” an ideal way to get a
good item before the public so
here I come with one that I
think is good—
Edith M. Camp of 704 Lackey
St., City, with phone No. 786-6064
(colored) called me for help with
their new garden club they have
organized in our City. She and
a committee came up to the flo
wer shop later and I loaned them
some flower arrangement books
and promised to get them some
help on programs. We have a
number of ladies in our garden
clubs who could do a good job in
putting on a program for these
women and making some flower
arrangements and work of this
kind would tend to cement a bet
ter feeling between our people
and theirs.
I have called two ladies asking
for help for these folks but unfor
tunately both of these had un
fortunate situations at this time
life. Two wrongs never make
a right.
It was an evil plot which
they laid for Joseph who could
not be responsible for his fath
er’s favoritism. In coming to
them he was simply following
the wishes of his father con
cerning their welfare. How
ever, they had seen enough of
“this dreamer" and plotted
against him. “Come now,
therefore,” they said, “and let
us slay him, and cast him into
some pit, and we will say. Some
evil beast hath devoured him:
and we shall see what will be
come of his dreams.”
The brother Reuben, though
he hated Joseph as much as
the others, raised some objec
tion. His first thought was not
to kill Joseph. Rather “Shed
no blood.” he said, “but cast
him into this pit that is in the
wilderness, and lay no hand
upon him: that he might rid
him out of their hands, to de
liver him to his father again.”
He was not ready for murder
to accomplish his ends and
those of his brothers. In fact,
his underlying reason for hav
ing Joseph thrown into the
pit was that later he might
save him from the hands of
his brothers in order to return
Joseph to his father.
The action of Reuben is a
faint ray of light in this dark
story where brothers plot
against their own flesh and
blood to satisfy their evil pur
poses.
The sinful plotting of Jo
seph’s brothers against him is
illustrative of the fact of how
far man can sink in degrada
tion. Thev found no value in
human life.
The bond of a blood brother
meant nothing to them and
they were quite unconcerned
with the natural affection of
a father, no matter how dis
torted that affection was. Their
only desire was to be rid of
Joseph who posed a menace to
their oositions in their father's
household. Jealousy, which is
at the root of much sin. moti
vated them to plot against Jo
seoh whom, at best, they could
nail “this d’-eamer” with con
tempt and derision.
The National Outlook
By George Hagedorn
Foreign Aid—What Results?
The House of Representa
tives, to the consternation of
the President, has reduced the
authorization for foreign aid by
a billion dollars below his
latest recommendation. Many
considerations entered into this
action. First there is the need
for economy in all forms of
federal spending, in anticipa
tion of a substantial tax cut.
Then, the increasingly serious
condition of our international
balance of payments suggests
the wisdom of tightening up
on all outflows of American
funds. There is also a strong
feeling that the other develop
ed nations of the Western
world are not assuming their
fair share of the burden.
Probably the most important
factor in the decision by the
House is a sincere doubt that
foreign aid, as it is presently
conceived and operated, is
■ really accomplishing much—
, either for our own country or
. for the recipient nations.
In large part, the acceptance
. that prevents them from going on
11 this job at the present time but
. \ I feel they will go later. We are
■ anxious to have some go real soon
. and help “get the ball roiling”.
If you can help any on this
■ project by publicizing it in your
I column I’m sure it would cer
tainly be a good deed. And ask
for volunteers to call the lady
; mentioned above and help them
out. They have named their club
The Metropolitan Garden Club.
Thanking you in advance,
I sincerely Aubra
Editor’s note:
Chatterbox already written when
this was received.
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torts From J
IT HAS BEEN 18 years since
the dawn of the atomic age,
when the first atomic device was
exploded at Alamogordo, New
Mexico.
Harnessed and put to peace
ful uses, the control of atomic
energy could have been of un-
told benefit to
the people of
the world, but
instead its
principal de
velopment has
been in the
area of d e- ■
tense. The ma- I
jor powers now |
liave waapons many times more
terrible than the atom bombs
which fell on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
It has of course been vital to
®ur national security that we
build and maintain a powerful
nuclear defense establishment,
and this deterrent must never
be relaxed. There can be no illu
sions about Communist hopes
for world conquest.
However, any step that can
be taken, without damaging our
national security, to halt the
arms race would be in the in
terest of all the people of the
world.
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THE PROPOSED limited nu
clear test ban treaty, now pend
ing before the Senate, states in
its preamble that the principal
aim is to ultimately achieve an
agreement "which would put an
end to the armaments race and
eliminate the incentive to the *
production and testing of all /f , X "%'S -
kinds of weapons, including nu- ff* * ****"*’' *• **-- r y’
clear weapons.” ”
(iwi grcgMti or /nuUd <U luitrNHiuZ uytMt)
of foreign aid as an instrument
of national policy has been
based on its undeniable suc
cess in laying a groundwork
for European recovery in tha
years shortly after World War
11. European economists freely
admit that Marshall-Plan aid
was an essential feature in tha
process which led to their
present prosperity.
It is equally clear, however,
that they could never hava
achieved what they did if they
had not created an economic
climate calculated to encour
age the growth of productive
; enterprise. What they did for
themselves was far more im
portant than what we could
do for them.
Foreign economic aid now
goes to the underdeveloped
countries of Asia and Latin
America. Here, unfortunately,
we can see little progress to
ward the creation of an eco
nomic environment which will
attract capital and bring out
the productive energies of the
people. In some cases the
countries are governed by mil
, itary groups with neither the
, talent nor the inclination for
: improving economic conditions,
i Even where emerging nations
are democratically governed,
’ their leaders show more inter
est in setting up a welfare state
: than in raising productive effi
ciency. “Social reform" is a
1 more attractive political slogan
than “increased productivity.’*
The redistribution of wealth
and income is given first pri
ority and tne process by which
wealth and income grow tends
to be lost from sight.
This is indeed a much-desired
goal, but it is difficult to be op
timistic about it ever bein®
reached. Nonetheless, we must
continue to work for a lastin®
peace and a safer world.
It is now for the Senate to
decide—a two-thirds vote is re
quired for ratification —if thi®
treaty is, as President Kennedy
said, “an important first step, »
step toward reason, a step away
from war.”
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ON THE BASIS of all th®
military and scientific testimony
presented, the Senate must t®
its satisfaction resolve question#
important to our national secu
rity.
The Soviet Union will cheat
or break the treaty if it suit#
its purpose, and the United
States will have to have guar
antees that any significant test
ing can be detected. And in thi#
event, we must be prepared to
resume our testing immediately
to keep from falling behind in
nuclear development.
Also, the effect of this treaty
on our existing and future de
fense posture will have to b#
carefully weighed in relation to
that of Russia.
I would hope, in the interest
of peace, that the Soviet Union
is sincere in signing the treaty,
but the past record of broken
promises of the Communist#
makes it necessary for us t®
exercise every caution in con
sideration of the test ban agree
ment.