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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
Cloak of Deception
It would be a grave - perhaps fatal -
error for any citizen of the United States,
whether he is black or white, red or yellow,
to accept the idea that the basic purpose of
the so-called “Civil Rights Bill of 1963” is
to eradicate racial discrimination.
This legislation is ten percent civil
rights and 90 percent extension of Federal
control. And it is fair to presume that the
Administration presents this bill at this
time and goes all out in pressing Congress
for its adoption in the expectation that the
current racial hysteria will provide a cloak
to obscure its true significance.
Under this cloak of civil rights, the Presi
dent is seeking power:
Power to control every home, every
school, every business, every farm, every
bank — every citizen who owns a share of
stock or casts a vote.
Power to call, foreclose or refuse loans;
to exclude individuals and businesses from
Federal programs, activities, subsidies,
benefits — and without notice of hearing.
Power to tell the owners of every busi
ness whom they may hire, fire, promote or
demote.
Power to blacklist banks, contractors,
schools, businesses and individuals — all
without notice of hearing.
These are vast powers, far more sweep
ing and arbitrary than any President has
ever before sought in our history. If Con
gress, in the fearsome shadows cast by that
cloak of civil rights, grants these powers,
it will have curtailed the traditional rights
of trial by jury and of appeal. It will have
virtually erased state lines, nullified states’
rights and placed once-free men in the
keeping of a swarm of Federal overseers ap
pointed by Washington. If Congress grants
these powers, it will have provided the
machinery by which contempt proceedings
—the word of a judge from which there is
no appeal — replaces trial by jury for all
who are charged with civil rights viola
tions. And on this base, this Administra
tion or succeeding ones may proceed at lei
sure to build an all-encompassing control
of every aspect of American life.
As the President has said, “the enact
ment of the legislation I suggest will not
solve all our problems”. But, certainly, it
reveals the master plan for government by
gauleiter —for control of every citizen by
Federal minions breathing down his neck.
If you don’t want this, the time to protest
is now, today. Write to both of our Senators.
Write to our Representative. They need
our help as desperately as we need theirs.
The Hot Dog Grows Up
The übiquitous hot dog is as American
as apple pie. If a person had a penny for
every hot dog that graced the picnic fare
during the summer, he would be as rich
as Croesus. But just because the hot dog is
a popular picnic item and is easy on the
pocketbook, don’t underestimate Its nu
tritional or flavor value. In a double-page
color spread, a recent issue of Look maga
zine suggested a diet of three hot dogs a
day for weight conscious readers. Three -
quarters of the bottom of the spread is
illustrated with a mouth-watering, full -
color photograph of a hot dog on a bun. The
upper quarter of the two pages contains
smaller pictures of hot dogs being consum
ed, including a woman happily spreading
mustard on a hot dog she had been served
for breakfast in bed.
According to Look, “Compact, nourish
ing and priced to please, it (the hot dog)
appeals to all ages and appetites any hour
of the day, can even satisfy as a meal in it
self. This diet regimen offers an easy, no
nonsense way to keep your figure under
control or to trim it down to size.”
The hot dog is just one of the products
that has come from a meat producing,
packing and distribution industry that has
enabled Americans to enjoy the privilege of
becoming among the top meat consumers
of the world. And it is interesting to note
that the meat industry, from the farm to
the packer to the dinner table is strictly a
competitive free market operation.
So, whether your taste and budget call
for hot dogs or T-bones, you can easily find
them at the nearest market — and it seems
the hot dog is coming into its own as never
before.
The new office building of the House of
Representatives, which has been called
‘squat and unappealing” has the distinc
tion of being the most expensive office
building in the world. The official esti
mate of its cost in 1959 was $64 million; the
latest figures is $131.5 million. Byway of
contrast, New York City’s newest skyscrap
er. 38 stores high, cost only s4l million,
and all.
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Top Scientists Have
Reasons for Anti-Test Ban
If it weren’t for the obvious purpose of
frightening out of his wits any US Senator
who might, at the prodding of his own
conscience and intellect, vote against rat
ifying the “test-ban” treaty, the spectacle
of 30 nations, maybe 62, perhaps even 100
who have never split an atom, and prob
ably never will, queueing up to sign this
deceitful document would be ludicrous.
Plainly, Bully Boy Khrush has reason to
preen himself over his accomplishment,
but it is hard to see why Messrs. Harriman,
Rusk, et al. are so pleased with themselves.
The Kremlin Kid, it will be remembered,
overcame our nuclear lead during the pre
vious “moratorium” on testing — when we
didn’t and he did. And now, he’s all set to
do it again! The bases for this assumption
are:
1. Top scientific advice that, free of on
the-ground inspection, the Soviets can con
tinue military testing undetected.
2. The Soviet Constitution (Article 49-0)
authorizes the Red government to disre
gard any treaty at any time, with or with
out cause.
3. In the past 25 years, the US has en
tered into 52 major (and solemn) agree
ments with the Soviets —of which they
have thusfar broken 50.
Furthermore, Khrushchev seems confi
dent that the non-aggression pact for which
he has been beating the drum will auto
matically follow the automatic ratification
of the nuclear test agreement by the US
Senate. What assurance of this he has had
from Administration spokesmen, if any we
are not privileged to know.
However, President Kennedy, in a spec
ial message transmitting the much-signed
treaty to the Senate urged that body to
move swiftly” in its ratification, and de
clared: “This treaty will assure the secur
ity of the United States better than un
limited testing on both sides.”
In his radio-TV address to the nation on
the resumption of US testing last spring
the President pointed out that “our nuclear
posture affects the security of all Ameri
cans and all free men . And he said “if
we are to be alert to new breakthroughs,
to experiment with new designs — if we
are to maintain our scientific momentum
and leadership — then our weapons pro
gress must not be limited to theory or to
the confines of laboratories and caves . . ”
We pray the Senators will take time
to find our which Kennedy is right.
Newspapers Are Top
Advertising Media
Television, like radio before it but to a
far greater degree, has brought about major
changes in the advertising picture. It has
been an aggressive competitor with the
other media, and its appetite for the ad
' ei tising dollar, with the cost of producing
even Grade B programs running to com
paratively astronomical sums, "seems in
satiable.
But the power of the written word
still gets top recognition.
An announcement from Sears, Roebuck
and Compnay will interest those who like
to read as well as to stare. It expects to
spend more than S6O million for newspaper
advertising this year. Last year the figure
was SSB million, which represented 71.2
pei cent of Sears total retail media expense.
The balance went to advertising through
circulars, magazines, radio and television,
and other media.
A spokesman tells the story: “This is
tangible evidence of our continuing faith
m the potency of newspaper advertising,
riom the day Sears opened its first retaii
sioie, the company has made greater and
greater use of newspapers. It is obvious that
Sears store managers continue to regard
the newspaper as their major medium for
more than historical reason's. Their evalua
tion is based on the day-to-dav results in
their stores."
Television advertising is a catch-as-catch
can affair — you have to be looking at the
set at the moment and it’s gone in an in
s.ant. Print is durable and the prospective
buyer can scan and consider it at his leisure.
ODESA, WASH.. RECORD: “How manv
of us realize the vast returns W’e get from
helping develop a strong communitv? Com
munities flourish because the people living
there keep faith. People have not hesita
ted to make their initial investments. They
invest in a home, in a business, in friend
ships, in living conditions. There are those
who are short sighted and fail to see that
a community needs keeping up just as
surely as does a home.”
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 LESSON FOR
unday School
Heirs of the Promise
Bible Material: Genesis;
Psalms 105:1-24; Galatians 3;
Hebrews 11:1-22.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
105:1-11; Memory Selection:
If you are Christ’s, then you
are Abraham’s offspring, heirs
according to promise. Galatians
3:29.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Our Place in God’s Purpose.
Young People-Adult Topic:
The Life of Faith.
This is a summarizing lesson
of the series begun three
months ago.
It may appear strange that a
passage from the Epistle to the
Hebrews is used to summarize
the teachings of the Book of
Genesis. But the Epistle to the
Hebrews does this most effec
tively. Who wrote this magni
ficent piece no one knows, but
he was a spiritual genius whose
literary powers stand
with the highest the race has
produced. The book is anony
mous. Even in the early church
there was much dispute as to
who the writer might have
been. Many editors of the Au
thorized (King James) Version
refer to it as an epistle written
by Paul. But this is extremely
unlikely. One great scholar be
lieves that it may have been
written by a woman, Priscilla,
wife of Aquila—which appears
also unlikely.
The epistle is evidently add
ressed to Jewish Christians. It
states the superiority of Christ
ianity over all previous revela
tions. Christ, according to this
epistle, is the high priest who
both on earth and now in hea
ven performs for believers
those spiritual services which
the high priest of the Jewish
religion was supposed to per
form for his people.
The Epistle to the Hebrews
merits the life-long study of
any Christian believer. Its con
ceptions are lofty. Its language
The National Outlook
By George Hagedorn
Do We “Owe it to Ourselves”?
The recently published. “A
Primer on Government Spend
ing”, by Robert L. Heilbroner
and Peter L. Bernstein, is a
presentation of the so-called
new economics. One of its cen
tral themes is the by-now old
argument that we need not
be concerned over a high and
rising national debt since we
owe it to ourselves.
At first glance this argu
ment has a beguiling plausi
bility. After all. the federal
debt is almost entirely held
within this country. It is
widely distributed among our
citizens. Thus it is both an as
set and a liability, so why
worry? Payment of interest is,
in the words of the book, “a
minor problem” since it merely
taxes “Peter to pay Paul, or
sometimes Peter to pay Peter.”
But the cliche that the na
tional debt is one which we
owe to ourselves misses the
essential economic point. It
is a debt which the producers
of goods and services, present
and future, owe to the hold
ers of government debt in
struments. Even if these two
groups should turn out to be
substantially the same people,
the burden on production is
not thereby rendered non
existent or without effect.
Taxes levied to meet inter
est requirements, or to make
payments on the principal of
the debt, must like other taxes
be collected out of income
earned from current produc-I
tive activities. The burden of I
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In 1963:
General Advertising Excellence
Local Sports Coverage
is superb. Its approach to spiri
tual truth is unique.
Our interest in it as we come
to the close of this series is that
in the eleventh chapter the
significance of the spiritual
teachings of Genesis is set forth
and appraised.
“Now faith is the substance
of things hoped for, the evid
ence of things not seen.”
A better translation would
appear to be that of the Ameri
can Revised Version, “Now
faith is assurance of things
hoped for, a conviction of
things not seen.” Or better still,
a marginal translation, “Now
faith is the giving of substance
to things hoped for, the test of
things not seen.”
If we take this latter trans
lation, then faith appears to be
a spiritual power by which we
cooperate with God in causing
the things we hope for to come
to pass. God has the power to
give. We have the desire to re
ceive. By faith —a spiritual
quality involving belief but go
ing far beyond mere belief —
we cooperate with God and out
of this cooperation gain the
things we had hoped for.
Many people hold that belief
and faith are the same. But
faith is belief in action. Faith
is belief which joins forces with
the supreme power of God, and
the Almighty and his creature
work in g together produce
something of startling newness.
All through the ages believ
ers have felt and taught that
faith is the greatest power in
the world. We see it in ordin
ary personal relationships. If
we have faith in a person, we
can achieve with and through
that person things which would
otherwise be impossible. When
people pray in faith, something
happens which never happens
to those of cold heart and
doubting mind.
Faith in oneself is a dynamic
power. Faith in righteousness
is even more so. We can readily
taxes inevitably affects the
decisions of those who engage
in such activities. Economic
effort is discouraged and
sometimes misdirected by the
knowledge that the govern
ment will tax away a part of
the income derived from it.
The fact that the same tax
payer may, in his capacity as
a holder of government bonds,
get some of this money back
is irrelevant. His claim to in
terest on the government debt
he holds does not encourage
his activities as a participant
in the productive process. It
in no way offsets the tax’s
damaging effect on his incen
tives as a producer.
The $lO billion that the fed
eral government must collect
annually to meet its interest
cost is already a significant
part of the federal tax load.
It seems irresponsible to en
courage the notion that this
sum can be expanded indefi
nitely without putting any
drag on production, simply
because it is paid back to our
own people.
If anyone imagines that the
impact of taxes on production
is only a “minor problem,” he
can’t have had much recent
opportunity to observe busi
ness decision-making.
Semantic arguments are sel
dom profitable and, if you
want to say that we owe the
national debt to ourselves go
ahead. But you will find that
the burden of carrying the
debt will still hurt.
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures and Features) Thursday, September 26, 1963
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WASTE GOING
UNDERGROUND
UNDERGROUND waste dis
posal will be tried by an Erie,
Pa. papermaker to curb surface
water pollution, an unpleasant
and dangerous by-product in
heavily industrialized areas.
Spent pulpmaking chemicals,
now dumped untreated into
Lake Erie, will be injected at
the rate of two million gallons
a day into a 1,600-foot well
drilled into vast, porous lime
stone deposits beneath the mill.
In 50 years the chemicals will
have permeated the limestone
to an area only 1.4 miles in
radius around the mill.
NOW you can perfume your
swimming pool, pond or foun
tain. 4 ounces of a new scent
treats 20,000 gallons of water
and is said to be harmless to
swimmers, pools or filters . . .
PALLADIUM, one of the “pre
cious” metals, is used by Gird
ler Catalysts, Louisville, in a
new series of catalysts for use
in the manufacture of plastics.
But the valuable 3/16-inch
pellets are a good investment
since they can be used continu
ously for years. Catalysts have
the mysterious ability to ac
celerate a chemical reaction
without being permanently al
tered themselves.
GOUT, inflammation of the
hands or feet occurring when
uric acid accumulates in the
blood, appears to be associated
w’ith a successful business ca
reer and not heredity, accord
ing to the American Medical
Association. For t y -two per
cent of executives examined in
a special program had above
average concentrations of uric
acid compared with 12 per
cent of hourly wage earners
. . . . THE WHITE rhinocerous
may face extinction in Uganda,
reports the country’s Ministry
of Animal Industry, Game and
Fisheries. Many of the rare an
imals are falling victim to
poachers on government game
preserves.
AEROSPACE product s—
planes and missiles—cost about
$lO a pound in World War 11,
a period of very high produc
tion, says the Aerospace In
dustries Association of Ameri
ca. In the 1950’s cost went to
SIOO a pound. Today it’s rock
eted to SI,OOO a pound .... A
NURSERY for stranded baby
seals has been established by
the Royal Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals
at Snettisham, England.
IF YOU find yourself falling
off a roof, relax and enjoy it,
savs the Fed. Aviation Agency
which is making a study of
falls. Your chances of escaping
serious injury are apparently
much better.
see that this faith about which
we are speaking, while it in
volves belief, goes nevertheless
far beyond belief. Faith is a
mighty spiritual force. Without
it true religion is impossible.
Faith is not blind credulity.
Faith involves taking steps be
yond which all is darkness. But
the exercise of faith is not a
blind and foolhardy enterprise.
Men and women of faith rise
above their generation like
lofty peaks out of the valley.
Sunrise and sunset bathe these
peaks before light reaches the
valley and long after it has de
parted. So the men and women
of faith are conspicuous, beau
tiful, and spiritually significant
in a world filled with turmoil,
doubt, pain, and darkness.
Here the author of this
epistle cites examples of faith,
selecting these examples from
characters in the Book of Gene
sis. The first of these characters
is Abel, son of Adam and Eve.
“Abel was a keeper of sheep,
but Cain was a tiller of the
ground” (Genesis 4:2). They
brought their offerings to the
Lord. Abel’s offering was ac
ceptable to God but Cain's was
not.
The story of Cain’s rejection
has often troubled sincere be
lievers. Why was Abel’s offer
ing accepted and Cain’s reject
ed? We cannot speak on this
matter with certainty, but the
essential nature of the man
was probably a deciding factor
in the situation. Also Abel’s
offering of “the firstlings of his
flock,” involving as it did the
shedding of the blood of the
sacrificial animals, may be in
tended to impress us with the
necessity of sacrifice as a factor
in giving. The widow who cast
two mites into the treasury was
praised of Christ not because
of the smallness of her gift but
because “she of her want did
cast in all that she had, even all
her living” (Mark 12:44).
But Abel had a spirit differ
ent from that of Cain, and the
lesson for us is that the spirit in
which we give is as important
as the gift itself. The gift with- i
out the giver is bare. j
Dixie Democrats Still
Maintain Control of
United States Congress
By LEO S. MALLARD
For the past 100 years the traditions of life and society
in the South have changed very little. The “Bible Belt,”
the term often conferred upon the Southern states, has
continued to live each day as it comes and maintain to a
certain extent its easy-going process of existence. What
great power has enabled our society to maintain this status
quo position through the years?
Politically, this power was ex
plained well in an article in
the September issue of Esquire
Magazine entitled “Casebook
of a Southern Senator” by Da
vid Schoenbrun.
An amusing but true lead
paragraph begins his story:
“The North won the Civil War
but the South captured the
Congress, a counterattack that
regained a good measure of
the sovereignty that was lost
on the field of battle a hun
dred years ago.”
Confederate control of Con
gress, the author points out,
is evident by the failure of
Congress to advance civil
rights legislation; the crafty
promotion of the seniority
system in the Senate; and the
use of the dull and time con
suming, but paralizing, fili
buster.
Although the casebook of a
Southern Senator is defiantly
against the Southern strong
hold in the Senate, it is a re
vealing textbook on the tech
niques of political warfare.
The seniority system, a
practice of according key -
committee assignments and
chairmanships to those longest
in service, gives the Southern
block their power. The South,
having been ruled by the Dem
ocratic party for a century, has
enabled Southern Senators to
be elected and re-elected for
term after term and thus ac
quire seniority over the sen
ators from other parts of the
country who are swept in and
out of office by the shifting
sands of the democratic elec
tion process.
“Dixie dominates seniority,
with six of the top nine and
twelve of the twenty (Sena
tors), thus guaranteeing Sou
thern seniority for years to
come. And since seniority de
termines committee control,
the Confederates have an en
during grip on the legislative
levers of power,” the author
writes.
The South’s twenty-t w o
Senators chair more than one
half of the permanent com
mittees and hold ten of the
sixteen standing committees of
the Senate.
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MUCH CONCERN has been
expressed over the future of the
Civil Rights Commission, which
appears to be on the verge of
going out of existence.
I cannot share this concern.
The Commission’s record of
achievement —
or lack of
achievement —
since it was
created in 1957
shows that it is
difficult to jus
tify extending
its life any
longer.
When the Commission was set
up six years ago, ostensibly for
only two years, I predicted' that
this new bureau of the federal
government would enjoy a long
and expensive career. And so
it has.
The Commission was extended
for two years in 1959. It was
given another two years in 1961.
And now that its time is about
Up again, Congress is being
asked to extend it for another
four years.
Up to now, the Commission
has cost the taxpayers $3,665,-
900, and for fiscal 1964, it is ask
ing $995,000. Recently released
figures clearly indicate that a
million-dollar-a-year budget can
not be reconciled with the work
of the Commission.
* « •
FROM THE TIME it was or
ganized to last May, the Com
mission has received a total of
only 740 voting complaints (177
of them unsworn) and 2,156
complaints in other areas of
alleged discrimination (of which /
228 were from cranks or un-
(Ml frtffunt ar ynnui al ^e^anuucul
Senator Richard Russell of
Georgia is chairman of the all
powerful Armed Services com
mittee. Harry Byrd of Virgin
ia is chairman of the Finance
and also Federal Expenditures
Committee. Allen J. Ellender
of Louisiana is chairman of
the Agriculture committee and
third-ranking member of the
Appropriations committee.
The author notes with re
gret that “Southern Senator!
are elected younger (average
age of forty-four) and stay
longer than most Senators
from other regions. This long
tenure gives Southerners con
trol of the key committees,
which have a virtual strangle
hold on legislation, and which
are feared by the most pow
erful of Presidents, statesmen
and monarchs of the world.”
“Those who run things in
the Senate are the seniors,
most of whom whistle Dixie,”
the author notes in dismay.
Here is the official Senate
Seniority list:
1. Carl Hayden, Arizona.
2. Richard Russell, Georgia
3. Harry Byrd, Virginia
4. Allen J. Ellender, Loui
siana
5. Lister Hill, Alabama
6. George Aiken, Vermont
7. James Eastland, Missis
sippi
8. John McClallan, Arkansai
9. Warren Magnuson, Wash
ington
10. Olin Johnson, South Ca
rolina
11. J. William Fulbright, Ar
kansas
12. Bourke Hickenlooper,
lowa
13. Wayne Morse, Oregon
14. Leverette Saltonstall,
Massachusetts
15. Milton Young, North Da
kota
16. Spessard Holland, Florida
17. Willis Robertson, Virgin
ia
18. John Sparkman, Alabama
19. John Williams, Delaware
20. John Stennis, Mississippi
(Equal to each other in senior
ity are three groups: Eastland
and McClellan; Johnston, Ful
bright, Hickenlooper and Mor
se; and Robertson and Spark
man.)
i signed, and 373 merely “infor
e mational.”).
n This comes to a little more
£ than a complaint a day, and in
terms of what the Commission
has spent, Congress has appro
f priated approximately $1,200 for
5 each complaint received in the
past six years.
The Civil Rights Division of
the Justice Department, whose
work is overlapped by the Com.
mission, investigated and proc,
essed 3,093 complaints last year
। —more than all those received
by the Commission in its entire
history—and did so on a con.
, siderably smaller budget.
. There is indeed a prolifera.
tion of federal agencies working
J in the so-called civil rights field.
. The Civil Rights Division and the
’ Civil Rights Commission already
are duplicative, and now we are
asked to create still another such
agency to be known as the
“Community Relations Service.’*
* » •
THE BEST THING Congress
could do this year would be to
let the Civil Rights Commission
expire at the end of its statu,
tory life on September 30. It ha»
contributed little or nothing in
the area of human relations. To
the contrary, it has on more
than one occasion served to fan
the flames of racial strife.
Last Spring, when the Com.
mission urged the President to
withhold federal funds from the
State of Mississippi, it went
against the very principles of
equal protection and due process
that it professes to uphold.