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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN Ob
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Good Schools and Good
Pupils Make Good Citizens
What can you do to help the children of
Newton County become better citizens?
Send them back to school. Let our slogan
be: “Every Child of School Age in School.”
Good Citizenship requires Knowledge,
Skill, Loyalty, Ideals, Good Behavior.
To become good citizens our children
need the guidance of skilled and dedicated
teachers.
Georgia’s School Drop-Out record is
larger than the National Drop-Out rate. Are
we satisfied with this?
Many boys and girls who dropped out
of school last term have returned to school
this fall. The schools are glad to receive
them if they have returned with the idea
of staying and doing the best work of
which they are capable. An investment in
education will pay big dividends in the
future. Some employers will not talk to a
young person about a job if they have not
graduated from High School.
So, will you use your influence to en
courage the boys and girls, young men and
young women of Newton County to remain
in school through High School graduation?
School Opening Marks
Start of 'Colds' Season
When does the cold-season start?
The first day of school — that’s when it
starts. Research scientists have now proved
that the spread of colds, like other virus
caused infections is accelerated by the
mixing of populations. In fixed, stable
groups which are not exposed to strangers,
cold-like infections, they say, tend to die
out and do not reappear until there is a
contact outside the group. Surveys also
show that youngsters of elementary school
age have five times as many colds as grown
ups and that colds continue to be the major
factor in school absences.
Thus, it should be crystal clear what
happens when all the kindergartners, or
all the fourthgraders or the eighth assemble
from all over the school district to begin a
new scholastic year. If there’s one cold in
the bunch, it swiftly becomes common prop
erty. No doubt that's why they call this
medical mystery the “common” cold. The
kids take their new-found infections home,
and pretty soon, everybody’s got a runny
nose.
Actually, not quite everybody. There still
are people, as the funny-man says, who
“can't even catch a cold.” But a recent
study by the National Education Association
shows that the average US youngster missed
18.9 days out of the last school year. To
realize the scope of this problem, just
multiply 18.9 by 40 million!
It is still difficult, however, to accept
the idea that the common cold needs to
be as common as it is — especially in the
light of another recent survey by a drug
industry publication which indicated that
only one out of eight home medicine chests
is fully equipped to meet ordinary family
health needs. The recommended check list
of 11 basic supplies included gargle, anti
histamine-aspirin (such as Coricidin), cot
ton swabs, stomach settler, laxative, cough
«<yrup. eye drops, decongestant, fever ther
mometer, bandages and an analgesic.
Another curious fact is the wide varia
tion by states shown in the NEA count of
lost schooldays. The State of Washington
is apparently our healthiest, with 10.5 days
lost per student, and Utah with 11.2 days.
At the other end of the scale, Nevada show
ed an average of 52 lost days per student,
with Alaska next at 26.5 days.
Anyone who wishes to explain these
figures may have a try at it — while we
get out some warm clothing for the chill
days, plan a good, nourishing diet and try
to see the fellow who has a cold before he
sees us!
That ounce of prevention is still better
than a pound of cure.
President Edwin P. Neilan of the
Chamber of the United States observes:
“The American enterprise system can pro
vide the productive growth, the employ
ment. the ever-rising standard of prosper
ity that all of us expect and demand of it;
it can compete successfully in world mar
kets; it can support the legitimate security
commitments which this nation must un
dertake to meet the challenge of Commu
nism and preserve the free world.” But.
he adds in effect, this will happen only if
an aroused and informed citizenry de
mands that the system be given the chance.
Gas. one of the oldest energy sources,
has undergone such growth in recent years
^at it now provides 29 per cent of the na
s energy requirements.
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Civil Rights - Legal Wrongs
For the first time in the peacetime his
tory of the United States, it is proposed
in legislation now pending before the Con
gress to deny the right of trial by jury!
This is one of the more important (and
least publicized) aspects of S. 1731 and H.
R. 7152 — that legislative Trojan Horse
named “The Civil Rights Act of 1963” —
in which dictatorial Federal control of
business, industry, individual citizens and
the “sovereign” states is disguised as pro
tection of racial and religious minorities.
Under this insidious bill, the judgment
of Federal inspectors, appointed to bring
about social reforms, would supersede our
traditional and Constitutional judicial pro
cesses. Through the sly device of eliminating
criminal penalties, those who drew the bill
have made it so a violator of the “public
accommodations” section (Title II), would
be haled without hearing before a judge
and placed under Federal injunction to
cease and desist whatever act of discrimina
tion the Federal overseer may have charged
him with. And the penalty would be fine
or imprisonment for contempt of court —
from which there is no appeal.
Given this cloak of civil rights, the
President would thus have raw, unchall
enged power. Similarly, under other pro
visions of the bill, Federal control would
be extended to every home, every school,
every business, every bank and to every cit
izen who owns property or casts a vote.
The President — or his political appointees
— would have the power to tell the owners
of every business whom they may hire, fire,
promote or demote; to call, foreclose or
refuse loans; to exclude individuals and
businesses from federal programs, activities,
subsidies and benefits; to blacklist banks,
contractors, schools, businesses and indivi
duals. Think of that.
As one critic said: “The Administration's
bill proposes, in effect, that the Congress
abdicate, and turn its legislative powers
over to the White House. The powers here
demanded are not the powers rightfully
to be excercised by a President in a free
country. These are the powers of a despot.”
No citizen, whatever his color, race or
religion —for this bill extends to all races
and creeds — should need further urging
to demand of his Senators (both of them) and
his Representatives that they vote down
S. 1731 and HR. 7152 — kill it all!
Thirteen Thousand Builders
Thomas Jefferson, as history has so of
ten proved, was usually right in most of
the things he said. But in 1803 he was
wrong by some 900 years when he estimat
ed that it would take a thousand years to
develop the Louisiana Territory.
Rapid communication, transportation,
and mechanization of industry were then
undreamed of. And who could have fore
seen the manner in which the driving en
ergies of a free people would speed the de
velopment and use of the scientific, indus
trial and business innovations that it took
to open a wilderness continent and build
a nation in a hurry.
The United States was a relatively “un
derdeveloped” country. In addition to guts
and determination, it took a lot of money
to turn wild land into productive farms
and ranches, to build towns, develop indus
tries, and push the railroads through to the
Pacific Ocean.
Adequate supplies of cash and credit
from "sale and sound” lending institutions
did not exist, except in the commercial
centers of the Northeast —a world away
in time, distance and attitude from the de
veloping frontier as it moved westward.
So banks moved with the frontier.
Banking through most of the 1800's was
as adventurous, colorful and often un
stable as the country it helped build. There
was panic and prosperity. And banks grew
with the communities they served. Some
were good and some were bad but the peo
ple's need for money and credit was met,
and the country was built.
Today more than 13.000 commercial
banks serve the country's needs. A combi
nation of public regulation and competi
tive private management gives them a sta
bility and financing capability undreamed
of by their predecessors. With a vastly en
larged range of activities they are today
more than ever before a vital and creative
force in the development of taxpaying en
terprise of every kind and size.
According to health insurance industrv
reports, more than half of the nearly 18
million people who are 65 and older have
some form of coverage. A number of big
insurance companies have been conducting
intensive enrollment drives aimed at per
sons in that age group.
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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GEORGIA HERlTAGE—Georgia’s highest ranking Continental
officer in the American Revolution was Lachlan Mclntosh. Born
in 1727, Lachlan was the son of John Mor Mackintosh who led
a group of Highlanders to a settlement on the Altamaha in
1736. The young Mclntosh was a cadet in General Oglethorpe’s
regiment, and received part of his educational training at
Bethesda. In the pre-Revolutionary era he became a leading
planter at Darien. An active patriot, Lachlan Mclntosh was
made colonel of Georgia’s first continental regiment. On May
16, 1777, the famous duel between Mclntosh and Button Gwin
nett occurred near Savannah, resulting in the death of Gwinnett.
Shortly afterwards, Mclntosh was assigned to General George
Washington’s headquarters, serving with distinction at Valley
Forge and later as commander of the Western Department at
Fort Pitt. Washington characterized Mclntosh as “an Officer
of great worth and merit.” The Georgian participated in the
siege of Savannah in 1779, and in the following year was cap
tured when Charlestown was taken by the British in 1780. Mc-
Intosh was suspended from command because of a report by
Governor Walton; but in 1784 the Confederation Congress de
clared the report unjust and elevated Mclntosh to the rank of
Major General. He died in Savannah in 1806.
SOUR WEEKLY (OLESSON FOR
UNDAY □CHOOL
Joseph in Egypt
Bible Material; Genesis 37-
50.
Devotional Reading: Matt
hew 5:38-44; Memory Selec
tion: I say to you, Love your
enemies and pray for those who
persecute you, so that you may
be sons of your Father who is
in heaven. Matthew 5:44-45.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Big Enough to Forgive.
Young People-Adult Topic:
The Love That Forgives.
Last week was the beginning
of a new unit of lessons that
deals with "Joseph, Instrument
of God’s Will.” In that study
we saw how God used Joseph
to carry out his purposes for
Israel and the world. Joseph
was a man hated and envied by
his brothers. Rejected of men,
he was, however, used of God
for the fulfillment of his holy
purposes.
He was made a servant of
God in order that God might
use him for the successful es
tablishment of his will.
Today we turn to another
facet of this man's life and see
how Joseph learned that God
delivered him for the sake of
his people. It would have been
easy and quite natural for
Joseph to hate his brothers and
to use this circumstance to get
even with them.
Joseph harbored no ill will
toward his brothers whom he
was able to deliver from dest
ruction. Rather he helped them,
since he felt that God required
that he forgive his brothers.
Joseph thus teaches us to grow
in spiritual stature until we too
believe and live by the prin
ciple that forgiveness grows
out of love and service to God.
We today are obliged to for
give one another even as God
in Christ has forgiven us.
Joseph and his brothers have
provided an excellent example
of what may happen when
there is family jealousy. Joseph
was the favorite son whose
chief delight had been the
parading of his father’s favors.
He had incurred the resent
ment and hatred of his broth
ers who sold him as a slave.
Their sin was great, but no
greater than the pride that had
reigned in Joseph’s heart which j
was responsible for their
actions.
Joseph in Egypt went from
slavery to a position of great
trust under Pharaoh. As our
lesson today opens we find
Joseph still in Egypt. With him
are his brothers who had come
to buy food because of the
famine. When they recognized
him, Joseph said, “be not grie
ved, nor angry with yourselves,
that ye sold me hither: for God
did send me before you to pre
serve life.”
Joseph's remark to his broth
ers seems like strange counsel.
He said that they were not to
be angry with themselves. This
is indeed what they should
have been, and earlier in the
story of their strange dealings
with their brother they had
confessed, "We are verily guilty
concerning our brother, in that
we saw the anguish of his soul,
when he besought us, and we
would not hear; therefore.”
they concluded, “is this distress
come upon us” (42:21). They
looked round about them at the
walls of the Egyptian prison
and wondered if they would
ever be released. Their fate had
caught up with them. They
knew that they were receiving
1 only what they deserved.
Joseph’s brothers should
have been angry with them
selves, and they should have
been disgusted with their
actions long before.
The brothers were to look
beyond themselves to some
thing greater. They were to be
brought face to face with the
fact that Ged’s goodness and
mercy are inexhaustible. Their
evil deeds were no match for
the goodness of God who can
rule and overrule the affairs of
men. Joseph knew* that his
brothers were already begin
ning to repent. For the first
time they had looked squarely
into their innermost being and
had begun to recoil from what
they found there.
Joseph’s brothers, like so
many others since their day,
found that the goodness and
grace of God are not things that
man can take advantage of, for
God’s purpose is not to destroy
life, but to preserve it.
The Joseph stories teach us
the lesson that for the redemp
tion of those who seek to defy
the will of God, God raises up
those who, submitting to his
will, recognize him as the all
controlling force of life. How
beautifully Joseph played the
part of one who as God’s in
strument turned evil into good,
and reminded his brothers that
he had been used by God “to
preserve life.” Joseph had been
deeply sensitive to the spiritual
values of life, and even in
Potiphar’s house he had come
to realize that God meant him
for some purpose, though it had
not seemed apparent at the
moment.
Pharaoh had recognized
Joseph for the man that he was.
He had called him ‘‘discreet |
and wise.” He had said of him
that he was “a man in whom
the Spirit of God is.” Had he
not had a concern for the fate
of a whole people he might not
have had the foresight or the
patience to become the agent of
salvation through the long
years of famine. His concern
was to “preserve life,” and
though he had reason to return
hurt for hurt, he had greater
reason to turn evil into good-
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National
Outlook
Profits Without Honor-Or
Growth
Currently we see many ref
erences to the improvement in
corporate profits which has oc
curred during the past two
years. Any such gain should be
a source of satisfaction both to
the profit-makers and to those
who depend on them for jobs.
The Commerce Department’s
quarterly statistics confirm the
reality of the rise in profit
levels, but reveal that it has
been far from spectacular.
In some quarters the nation
is getting around that profits
have become very lush indeed
by previous standards. An in
spection of the statistical record
shows that this impression is
not only wrong—it is ludicrous.
All that has happened in the
past two years is that corporate
profits have slowly and pain
fully been regaining the ground
lost after earlier peaks. Since
the mid-1950’s there have been
ups and downs, but no discern
ible upward trend in profits.
In the last quarter of 1955
the dollar total of after-tax
profits, expressed in terms of
the annual rate, reached a peak
of $24.9 billion. There followed
a period of more than three
years in which profits never
got back to this level. Finally,
in the second quarter of 1959.
the profit figure finally broke
through and established a new
high of $26.6 billion. There
after profits fell again and did
not begin rising until after the
first quarter of 1961.
The latest figure available is
for the first quarter of 1963 and
indicates after-tax profits at an
annual rate of $25.4 billion —
slightly below the 1959 peak
and slightly above the 1955
peak.
Risk-taking is an essential
part of business enterprise and
perhaps we should not com
plain about the ups and downs
of profits. What is disturbing is
this tendency for total dollar
profits, during periods of im
proving business, to do no more
than climb back to where they
were before the preceding dec
line. Meanwhile prices have
risen so that the actual buying
power of profits is lower than
at previous high points.
By contrast, we have had al
most steady growth in the
dollar volume of business ac
tivity during this period. Be
tween 1955 and the first half
of this year the gross national
product increased by 45 per
cent. There were brief periods
of decline, but each time
growth was resumed the gross
national product very quickly
passed through the preceding
peak.
We now hear predictions that
profits will soon establish a
new record high. It may be so,
and if it is all we can say is:
“It’s about time.” But even if
profits break through the 1959
high, they will still have a long
way to go if they are to regain
some reasonable relationship to
the growth in the economy
generally.
If some one tells you, in the
near future, that profits have
reached, record high levels you
might remind him that total
compensation of employees
makes a new high practically
every time the figure is releas
ed.
ness. His regard for his family
was so great, despite their evil
dealings with him, that he was
willing to forgive and restore.
His greatest concern was for
his father as he asked his
brothers, “Doth my father yet
live?” Sensing their injustice
he could say without malice to
his brethren, “I am Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into
Egypt. Now therefore be not
grieved, nor angry with your
selves. . .”
Statistics Reveal
Vital Information
About Our State
ly LEO S. MALLARD
Statistics are usually boring when stressed by a speaker
or used too frequently in an article, but statistics remain the
ruler by which we measure trends, progress, or failure in
our world today.
I just received a copy of the
Georgia Statistical Abstract —
1963, printed by the Bureau of
Business Research of the Univer
sity of Georgia. These statistics
about our state and counties are
quite interesting. Many of them
are complete through 1961 and
some figures were gathered in the
1960 census taken by the U. S.
Department of Commerce.
This book, 418 pages, covers
Georgia statistically in the fields
of human resources, employment,
income, and prices, development
of natural resources, commerce
and industry, and government.
Population wise, according to
the 1960 census, Georgia ranked
third among adjacent states fol
lowing Florida (4.951.560) and
North Carolina (4,556.155) with a
total of 3.943,116. Next in line
were Tennessee, Alabama, and
South Carolina. The United States
population count was an amazing
179.323,175; quite a jump from the
1790 census figure which tallied
3,929.214.
Georgia’s six metropolitan
areas are: Atlanta, 1.017,188: Co
lumbus, 217,985; Augusta, 216.639;
Savannah, 188.299: Macon, 180,-
403; and Albany, 75.680.
In Newton County the 1960 cen
sus showed a count of 20,999. This
figure showed a 4 per cent in
crease in population since the
1950 census. In our county of 273
square miles the 1960 figure was
broken down percentage wise to
65.4 per cent white population and
34.6 per cent non-white with an
average populace per square mile
of 76 9 persons. Our people were
classified as: Urban. 8.167; Rural
non-farm, 10.866; and Rural farm, ;
1966.
In 1960 Georgia’s urban popu
lation was 2.180.236, and its rural
population was 1,762,880. The pop
ulation by race showed 2.977,753
white. 586,876 Negro, and 2.460 of
other races. Nationwide the cen
sus revealed that there were 158.-
454,956 white, 18.860,117 Negro,
and 1,149,163 persons of other
races.
Newton County is above the
Georgia average in population per
square mile. In 1960 Georgia’s
population per square mile figure
was 67.7 while Newton County
showed 76.9.
At the last complete tally, which
was 1959. statistics compiled by
the Georgia Department of Public
Health showed that during 1959
MtHAN TALMADGE!
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TWO RECENT studies made
tinder the auspices of the Geor
gia Department of Labor and
Georgia Tech point dramatically
to the fact that times are get
ting hard for the unskilled job-
Bee ker.
There is a growing shortage
of jobs for the
untrained and
for those work
ers with obso
lete skills. This
is a problem
nationwide and
of course it is
especially se
vere in states
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like Georgia which are rapidly
making a transition from an
agricultural to an industrial
economy. ।
The Georgia Tech Industrial
Development Division, in its re
port, “Economic Highlights of ]
Georgia," called attention to this i
transition and said that it has i
been a difficult one for the state, <
for farm workers and for Indus- 1
try. <
In 1940, almost 35 per cent i
of the workers in Georgia were
employed in agriculture, with I
manufacturing employment run- s
ning a poor second with only a
19 per cent of the total em- t
ployes. In 1960, the picture had i
drastically changed, with 27 per 8
cent of all Workers in manufac
turing and agriculture account- C
ing for only 9 per cent of the o
work force in the state. il
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THE CHANGING economy is n
due of course to a variety of
reasons, but principal among /
them is the great migration A
from farm to city when the
(not /repand or prated at oeMrusmU upenn)
Thursday, September 12, 1953
there were 99.458 livebirths in
Georgia — 64.040 white and 35,-
418 non-white. Death figures com
piled during the same year show
ed a total of 33.376 — 21.047 white
: and 12,329 non-white. The 1959
figures show that during that year
in Georgia there were 12,700 mar
riages and 8.609 divorces.
These figures have come from
I the first 34 pages of the Georgia
Statistical Abstract — 1963. A
complete coverage in one column
is, of course, impossible. Al
though the mind has the tendency
to merge figures and thus causa
confusion, it can often be cleared
and enlightened when these fig
ures represent local and state
trends and situations. Other sta
tistics of interests will be forth
coming. (
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Hogs and Cattle
Prices Decline
ATLANTA — Prices dec
lined seasonally this week for
southern hogs and grassfed
cattle, while broiler prices held
steady at 13 cents a pound at
farms, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture reports.
Hog prices, already at the
lowest level since May, showed
i a further drop this week
through Friday. The declines
amounted to 25 to 75 cents a
hundred pounds, according to
market news reporters of
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing
Service.
Feeder type cattle and calves
showed more price loss than
i slaughter cattle, especially sin
ce a large part of farmers’ off
erings were of feeder weights.
Prices of feeders steers and
heifers closed Thursday steady
to $1 a hundred lower. Calves
at Florida markets declined as
much as $1 for the fourth week
in a row. Slaughter cow prices
declined about 50 cents at up
per South markets, but advan
ced about 50 cents at Deep
South markets.
Broiler prices in southeastern
states held steady this week at
13 cents a pound at farms. Liv®
supplies cleared well in spite
of post-Labor Day influence of
lighter demand. In Virginia
Friday, broiler prices ranged
14 to 14 1/4 cents a pound, and
: in the Del-Mar-Va area 15.1 t®
i 16.3 cents.
small farmer could no longer
make a living. Farm mechaniza
tion contributed largely to thi®
situation by reducing the need
for unskilled farm labor.
From 1940 to 1960, Georgia
lost some 257,000 jobs in agri
culture. For many of these dis
placed farmers it meant goinj?
to an urban center for factory
work—if it could be found.
And in industry, automation
was taking the jobs of thou
sands of Unskilled workers and
it became more and more neces
sary to have a high degree of
technical training to find work.
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THE PROBLEM, then, is t®
train enough men and women in
skills now required by industry
and to create enough new job#
for the ever-increasing labor
force. Georgia is making much
progress in coping with the de
mands being made by its chang.
ing industrial economy, and ac
cording to the Department of
Labor study these demands are
expected to increase even more
in years to come.
It was estimated that in th®
next five years, some 65,581 jobs
will be open for technical, skilled
and clerical workers in Georgia,
with 80 per cent of these open
ings occurring as the result of
growth in the state’s economy.
As the labor study stated: “if
Georgia is to stay in the parade
of satisfactory economic growth,
it must prepare to have these
workers ready when they are
needed by industry.”