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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
Crime Wave Sweeps
The Entire Country
Another series of teen-age crimes were
uncovered in Covington and Newton Coun
ty recently involving robbing of homes,
business firms and just about every form
of petty larceny along with major crimes.
This is indeed, one of the most serious
problems facing our public law enforce
ment officials, school officials and parents
today.
Few of us are prepared to answer the
specific questions: Is crime really seriously
on the increase, or is it simply being more
effectively dramatized and noticed? What
kind of crime is most prevalent? Who and
what are responsible? What, in the view of
experts, should be done to oppose and con
trol it?
U. S. News & World Report recently de
voted a lengthy feature article to matters
such as these, and presented findings and
possible solutions. It is a sad and ominous
account. Foi, as the magazine puts it, “By
every measure, America is on the brink
of a major crisis in crime. Rise in crime
far outstrips population increase. It shows
across the board — in crimes against pro
perty and in vicious assaults on persons.”
And it is a truly national problem, in
which the smaller communities and the
great cities share. Actually, crime is ris
ing faster (comparing 1962 with 1961) in
towns of 25,000 to 50,000 people, where it is
up 6.9 per cent, than in cities of over a
million, where the rise is an even 6 per
cent. Biggest increase — 10.9 per cent — is
in the 500,000 to one million population
centers.
Name any crime, as U. S. News makes
clear, and you’ll find it prevalent. City
streets are unsafe to walk on in city after
city; armed robbery becomes a comparative
commonplace; the upturn in bank robber
ies is “sensational”; and “The rise in crime
by youths spreads across the whole range
of criminal offenses.”
What underlies this grave situation, and
what needs to be done? U. S. News report
ers sought answers from the FBI and from
police officials here and abroad and found
general agreement on four points. In sum
mary, they amount to this:
1. As more and more people, mostly
strangers to each other, crowd into the
cities each individual must be held more
strictly accountable for his conduct.
2. The public at large must take more
interest in and give more support to law
enforcement, and to the punishment of
criminals.
3. Juveniles guilty of serious crimes
must pay a full penalty. They must not be
treated as errant children.
4. The courts must show more interest
in protecting the law abiding population
from the criminal element, rather than in
zealously guarding the rights and privi
leges of the criminals themselves. One
want in this category is a major tightening
of the parole and probation system. This
idea is based on fact, not just theory. U. S.
News says, “In cities where there is a no
nonsense attitude toward crime and crim
inals, and where people insist upon law en
forcement, streets are relatively safe.”
Meanwhile, to paraphrase an old slogan,
crime marches on. According to the maga
zine, bank robberies have almost tripled in
6 years, embezzlements nearly doubled sin
ce 1956, robberies are up 15 per cent since
1958, and assaults soar. And last year
youths under 18 were responsible for 62
per cent of all auto thefts, 51 per cent of all
larcenies, 49 per cent of all burglaries, 19
per cent of all forcible rapes, and so on.
This, in capsule form, is the sorry story.
An ending worth thinking about is pro
vided by Chicago Police Superintendent
Wilson: “Everybody seems to be organiz
ing today to protect civil liberties. I would
like to organize the victims of criminal as
saults who have been robbed and raped in
our streets.”
National Bible Week
The Holy Bible continues to be. as it
has been for many generations, the best
seller of all books published in this world!
In helping to further an interest in a
reading and study of the Great Book, the
Laymen's National Committee. Inc. asks
that we set aside the week of October 21st
through 27th and recognize it as National
Bible Week. This year marks the 23rd in
a long and auspicious line of Bible Week
observances. A timely theme has been chos
en: “The Bible — Symbol of Unity.”
When we speak of unity in conjunction
with the Bible it can mean but one thing
— the joining together of all faiths in a
drive to bring peace and understanding to
all men in today’s troubled world.
Let the Bible be a symbol of unity, both
in lordly and nation.
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White Cane Safety Day
Set October 15 in Ga.
The white cane in the hands of any pe
destrian on any street or highway carries
a special message — that pedestrian can
not see YOU. By legislative act the white
cane has been adopted as a signal to all
motorists that the person who carries it is
blind.
Governor Carl Sanders, together with
other governors throughout the country,
has proclaimed October 15th as White Cane
Safety Day. This is an educational project
sponsored by the Georgia Federation of the
Blind in cooperation with the American
Council of the Blind. Its purpose is to ac
quaint the motoring public with the Geor
gia White Cane Laws and the motorist’s
responsibility for the safety of those who
carry the white cane or who are accom
panied by a guide dog.
“Blind people in Georgia are engaged in
many types of business,” says Walter R.
McDonald, President of the GFB, “and they
find it necessary to do a lot of walking
since they cannot drive. In order that they
may travel independently and in safety
across our streets and highways it is es
sential that the motoring public know and
respect the white cane signal.”
The White Cane Laws, which are gen
erally uniform in all states, require that
motorists exercise more than the usual de
gree of caution when approaching a pe
destrian carrying a white cane or accom
panied by a guide dog. The Georgia law
provides, first, that no person except those
wholly or partially blind shall use a white
cane and, second, that any driver approach
ing within three feet of a person carrying
a white cane shall immediately come to a
full stop and, before proceeding, take such
precautions as may be necessary. Viola
tions of these provisions constitute misde
meanors and render drivers liable to fines.
Let's Hear From
The Farm Family
The family farm has been the subject
of much worried discussion, spurred by
the fear that it is in danger of being absorb
ed by the big corporate farm.
Yet, according to the Secretary of Agri
culture, the family farm seems to have been
holding its own and then rome. In a late
year it accounted for a higher proportion of
all farms than it did 15 years before and,
also, for a higher percentage of total market
ings.
Even so, the Secretary feels that steps
should be taken to strengthen its power of
survival. Most important of these is gov
ernment action to “. . . insure fair prices
to farmers through public supply manage
ment programs when overproduction makes
such programs necessary.”
That phrase should be read again and
pondered in order to understand its full
import. If “public supply management”
means anything, it means government con
trol. So, to save the family farm from pos
sible corporate absorption, we should give
the power of management decision to a fed
eral bureaucracy. We should, moreover,
subject it to a program which has cost
the taxpayers the-lord-knows-how-many
billions of dollars, produced some juicy
scandals, and piled chaos upon confusion.
Interest of Good Citizenship
The editor of a country weekly or small
er daily newspaper is in a unique position
in his community. He knows personally a
large proportion of his subscribers and a
subscriber can find him in his office and
cross verbal swords with him.
A conscientious country editor is cloth
ed with a heavy responsibility. He not only
records the local news, social events and
political happenings of his community, but
he should discuss national and international
issues which have a direct bearing on the
lives and livelihood of his readers. This is
often a discouraging and unappreciated job
but if his paper is worth reading he has
to accept the burden. He is in the position
of a teacher. How well each translates his
ideas to his audience determines his stand
ing in his profession.
It is certainly true that the smaller
paper must place emphasis on local hap
penings. But it is unfortunate for a com
munity if an editor feels obliged to move
entirely in that direction.
Local editors and school tecahers are
largely responsible for the thinking that
will protect the United States from domes
tic and foreign influences that would de
stroy the freedom we enjoy.
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
Christian Harmony
Bible Material: I Corinthians
1-4.
Devotional Reading: Ephe
sians 4:1-7; Memory Selection:
We are fellow workmen for
God. I Corinthians 3:9.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
The Glory of Getting Along.
Young People-Adult Topic:
An Appeal for Harmony.
It is fitting in a series dealing
with church life and personal
Christian living that the first
lesson should be on Christian
harmony. Nothing ruins the
ministry of Christ more exten
sively than bickering and
quarreling among Christian
believers. A quarreling home,
a quarreling office, a quarrel
ing club, can bring great dist
ress to all concerned. But a
quarreling church strikes at the
very basis of the Lord’s minis
try.
No matter what virtues a
group of Christian believers
may exhibit, if they do not pre
sent to the world a solid front
against its encroachments and
a pronounced spirit of fellow
ship and love among the mem
bers, there will be manifested
no spiritual power or achieve
ment.
It is impossible to get groups
of persons together without
encountering differences of op
inion. If these differences of
opinion are held in a spirit of
brotherhood and love, well and
good. In fact, a wide variety of
opinion is necessary for growth
of mind and spirit. But if ani
mosities, divisions, bitter diff
erences of opinion infest any
group, its usefulness — no
matter what its aims may be —
will be destroyed. Even crimin
als who quarrel among them
selves accomplish nothing and
end up in disaster.
It was inevitable that trouble
should arise in the early
Christian churches.
In the first place, most of
these churches were made up
partly of Jews and partly of
Gentiles. These people had
backgrounds so different that
misunderstanding was bound to
arise. Furthermore, the Roman
world with its power and sin
hung over every human enter
prise and influenced it in some
measure for good but in many
ways for evil.
Paul loved the Corinthian
Church. He had founded it and
to the end of his life he main
tained for it a singular love
and devotion. But he was
aware of the fact that its mem
bers were inclined toward con
tention. They were a scrapping
lot, if we may use a slang ex
pression. A great many of them
had chips on their shoulders.
Furthermore, the vice of Cor
inth, its wealth and luxury,
threatened at all times to ex
tinguish the light of Christ in
the hearts of the humble people
who had dedicated themselves
to his service.
Paul urged the Corinthians,
“that ye all speak the same
thing.” This did not mean a
dead conformity. It only meant
complete consecration to beliefs
and ideals that were essential.
Let us at the very beginning
of this lesson get well in mind
the advantages of individuality.
Everyone sees truth from an
angle slightly different from
that of anyone else in the
world. This diversity of view
point enriches belief. Nothing
is more depressing than a group
where everyone believes pre
cisely the same things down to
the smallest detail. Paul did
not want the Corinthians to be
dead, stupid conformists. He
wanted them to have indivi
duality of opinion and express
ion. but he insisted that there
were certain basic beliefs and
principles on which all who
called themselves Christians
must unite.
Furthermore, Paul had pro
bably discerned in the church
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i the disposition of some to man
age the church’s affairs in a
high-handed fashion. How sad
ly aware we are today of that
type of person! There is hardly
a church which does not have
someone who attempts to do
minate its life and to a greater
or less degree succeeds in do
ing so. This Paul deplored and
urged the Corinthians that they
“be perfectly joined together
in the same mind and in the
same judgment.” •
They probably all believed
the same thing about Christ
and his teachings. Now, com
manded Paul, get together and
cooperate on the way the af
fairs of the Corinthian Church
should be administered.
Members of the household of
Chloe had reported to Paul that
there were contentions among
the members. The persons mak
ing this report may have been
gossips; but evidently not, be
cause Paul regarded their re
port with deference. They ap
pear to have been people app
rehensive lest the church wrack
itself to pieces by internal dis
sension.
The church as a whole had
split into factions. One claimed
to follow Paul, another Apollos
(that brilliant preacher and
scholar whom Paul so loved
and admired). Those of Jewish
background followed Cephas
(Peter). Others claimed that
they were just plain followers
of Christ.
If these latter meant what
they claimed, then they were
the people upon whom Paul
would be expected to put his
approval, and upon whom he
probably did.
Landscape Design,
Wildlife Series,
Among TV Topics
Three series of programs are
running currently on the Growing
South program on WGTV, Chan
nel 8.
Subjects are often treated in a
series of presentations on the
Growing South; however, each
program presents a complete idea,
according to Ronny Stephens, pro
ducer and host of the program.
The three current series include
“Landscape Design and You,”
“Wildlife Conservation.” and "Ap
pliances in the News.”
On Monday, October 7, T. G.
Williams, Extension landscape
specialist. School of Forestry,
the Landscape Department, Uni
versity of Georgia, will present
contemporary trends in landscape
design.
Dr. Ernie E. Provost, wildlife
specialist. School of Forrestry,
University of Georgia, will be the
guest on Thursday, October 10. as
he continues his series on the man
agement of wildlife.
On Friday, October 11, Miss
Doris Oglesby, Extension home
improvement specialist, will pre
sent the third in her series, “Ap
pliances in the News.”
Other programs scheduled next
week include the Madison County
4-H Club Poultry Show, schedul
ed for Tuesday, October 8. and on
Wednesday, October 9. Dr. O. G.
Daniel, head, Extension Livestock
Department, will explain the Beef
Cattle Improvement Program in
Georgia and how it operates.
Growing South is televised each
weekend at 7:00 p. m. on WGTV.
Channel 8. the University of
Georgia’s educational television.
The program is produced by the
Georgia Center for Continuing Ed
ucation in cooperation with the
College of Agriculture. Ronny
Stephens is host.
More than 6,000 people each
year are victims of fires in
their own homes, National Fire
Protection Association figures
show. Over 2,000 of these are
children.
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Letters To
The Editor
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
number should also be listed
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.
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Eglin A. F. Base, Fla.
Sept. 16, 1963
Dear Sir:
Although the evidence found
on pages 700 to 711 Vol. 15,
United States Statutes at
Large (withdrawals of their
ratifications by Ohio and New
Jersey) and refusal of the U.
S. Supreme Court to make a
decision in the matter prove
conclusively beyond any doubt
that the Fourteenth Amend
ment was unlawfully adopted
it would be impossible to
abolish it at this time by ma
jority vote due to the large
number of liberals now in Con
gress.
However, if the average
American citizen, North,
South, East and West could be
made fully aware of the fact
that this amendment was ille
gally foisted upon them during
a period of rampant political
corruption, in vindictiveness
of spirit for the purpose of
cruel economic exploitation of
millions of their innocent and
helpless fellow - Americans,
their inherent sense of justice
and fair-play would demand
a REVISED 14th Amendment
which, a 1 t h o guaranteeing
“Equal protection of the laws”
and “Equal opportunity”
would also require “EQUAL
RESPONSIBILITY” of all cit
izens.
A 14th Amendment that
would augment and strength
en our Constitution, not wea
ken and impair it. A Fourteen
th Amendment that would
support the ninth and tenth in
protecting the rights of States;
one that would clearly and
unequivocally define the limi
tations and division of pow
ers of the legislative, judicial
and executive branches of the
government; one that cannot
be “misiinterpreted” by inept,
biased old men, immune from
punitive action by the people,
to suit their personaal opinions.
A revised 14th Amendment
that could not be used by rad
ical and mercenary pressure
groups to usurp the Constitu
tion in efforts to secure po
litical power and dubious fi
nancial gain all at a frighten
ing cost of true domestic har
mony, progress, peace and se
curity to all our citizens as
well as giving immeasurable
aid and comfort to our com
munist enemies.
It seems glaringly evident
that the shocking and deplor
able conditions that prevail
through-out the country can
be traced to this defective, am
biguous and illegal amend
ment.
Our form of government is
not by any means perfect, but
those of us who have witness
ed other systems first-hand
will testify that ours is with
out doubt the best that has yet
been devised.
I do not wish to appear
’ melodramatic, however, I feel
that those of us, in every state,
who have seen our friends per
ish in defense of this country
will join me in speaking out in
their behalf against these alien
and fallacious policies which
threaten to destroy all we
cherish and value in this
great nation as we have al
ways known it.
The enactment of legisla
tion of this sort would indeed
be a most difficult and pro
digious task, but the law-mak
er who could “pull this one
off” would be marked by his
tory as one of the truly GREAT
statesmen of our times.
Everyone agrees that this
situation has gone entirely too
far and must be stopped. There
IS something that we can each
DO about it, we can all contact
our friends and relatives
thoughout the country and
urge them to write THEIR
congressmen and senators
about this thing.
Yours very truly,
T. C. Berry
Box 1631
Eglin A. F. Base. Fla.
September 19, 1963
Dear Editor:
I would like to acquaint you
with what ACCG is attempting
to do in the field of fiscal
planning in the operation of
Name: Project Apollo
Time Table: By 1970
Destination: Moon
ly LEO $. MALLARD
For one hour Tuesday night Americans across the nation
sat speechless in front of their television sets and watched
a program entitled “Project Apollo”. The actors were the
United States space team and our astronauts.
It was hard to believe that
this program was a document
ary of work that is now being
done in this country in an ef
fort to land a United States
space craft and crew on the
moon by 1970. The program
would have been much easier
to comprehend and the viewers
would have been much more at
ease if it had been a science
fiction movie.
The lay mind could hardly
be expected to grasp what was
going on, but occasionally the
announcer would give a com
paritive illustration that could
be understood, but be just as
astounding. Such an illustra
tion was that the thrust that
it will take to lift the moon
bound rocket off the launching
pad will be greater than the
power of 48,000 locomotives.
Still astounding, for most peop
le have never seen that many
locomotives, train cars, or rail
road men combined in all of
their life.
At the beginning of the pro
gram a filmed plan of the three
week rocket trip to the moon
was shown. This included
blast-off; flight through the
earths atmosphere; flight past
the earths pull of gravitation
and out through space; an or
bital path around the moon; a
smaller space vehicle that
would be fired from the mother
ship into the gravitational
sphere of the moon; the moon
landing; moon surface explora
tion and the gathering of sur
face samples; the return trip
county governments.
As you know many of our
local governments, both city
and county, do not carry out
budgeting methods in the han
dling of public funds. We feel,
therefore, that one of the great
needs in local government to
day is long range planning in
the use of public funds for lo
cal government operations.
The enclosed manual that
has been carefully developed
professionally is sent for your
files.
Inasmuch as tax equalization
continues to be the most sought
after program by our Associa
tion for Georgia counties we
feel that the establishment of
sound budgeting procedures is
an absolute necessity to as
sure the best benefits from
such a tax program.
Sincerely yours,
Earl Edwards
President
Asso. of County
Commissioners
The Editors,
Covington News,
Covington, Ga.
Dear Sirs:
My heart is sad as I read
where our Grand Jury recom
mended the sale of packaged
beer again. They know what
the majority of people in New
ton County want, and yet here
it is again. Would the revenue
be more than the fines that the
bootleggers have to pay? If not,
then go up on the fines.
Whether legal or not we
will not get rid of the bootleg
ger. If it is legalized, why not
sell it on Sunday, why not let
minors pick it up for mother
or dad, much as they do Cokes,
because those that drink have
it before them at home.
Instead of having more co
operation between the Welfare
Office, the Sheriff's Office, the
Solicitor's Office and the Pro
bation Officer, why not have
more cooperation between the
needy family and the Proba
tion Officer. My sister appeal
ed for help to the Welfare Of
fice several years ago, but
could get no help because she
worked five days a week, but
she could not make a go of it.
Her husband pays through the
court now, but the last time
she had him before the judge
she even had to pay the court
costs and gave up in despair.
As soon as her oldest son
reached the age of 16 he drop
ped out of school to help his
mother make a living for his
two brothers.
Why not hunt on Sunday?
People do everything else on
Sunday except to remember
that it is God’s Day.
Mrs. J. E. Rowe,
Route 4. Covington
Youth is a blunder, manhood
a struggle, old age a regret.
-Disraeli
Thursday, October 3, 196!
to the mother space craft; and
the journey back to earth com
plete with parachute landing
on land rather than at sea.
After Project Apollo was
outlined for viewers the work
being carried out by the ast
ronauts was briefly described
by interviews. Then viewers
were given a brief glimpse at
the work being carried on in
space project factories all over
America. These test areas and
the work being done there left
the audience stunned. From all
over America the parts of the
Project Apollo rocket ship will
come to the point of assembly
where it will be molded into
the complete space craft.
In this craft three men will
make the moon journey clothed
in space suits looking much the
same as the ones seen years
ago in “Buck Rogers” comic
strip. Their food will be carried
with them and their water will
be manufactured on board as a
by-product of the powerful
electronic generator that will
provide power for the comm
unications, electrical, trans
missions and other systems that
will be in operation during
flight.
By 1970 the United States
will have landed a space team
composed of two men on the
Moon. This is not fiction; it is
fact and you and I will live to
hear and read about it —
possibly see it in progress by
means of outer space television
transmission.
Two Minutes
With The Bible
Grace and Peace
For many years this writer,
along with the mass of church
people, supposed that the Bible
phrase “Grace and Peace be
unto you” was simply a beauti
ful, spiritual salutation. Thank
God we have come to learn that
it is much more than a saluta
tion. It is an official proclama
tion.
Every single one of the
epistles signed by St. Paul
opens with the declaration:
“Grace be unto you and peace,
from God the Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ.” This
was the theme of the message
which he, as a duly appointed
ambassador, had been sent to
proclaim.
To appreciate this fully we
must remember that God had
declared in prophecy that Ha
would reply to the world’s re
jection of Christ with judg
ment. Psa. 110:1 pictures the
Father saying to the Son: “oit
thou at My right hand, until I
make Thine enemies Thy foot
stool.” Psa. 2:5 declares: “then
shall He (the Father) speak
unto them in His wrath, and
vex them in His sore displea
sure.”
After the crucifixion and as
cension of Christ it seemed that
all was ready for the
to fall. As the signs of Pente
cost appeared Peter dctu.' .:
“This is that which was spoken
by the prophet Joel” (Acts
2:16) and it did indeed look as
if the rejected Lord was about
to return “to judge and maka
war,” as Rev. 19:11 puts it.
But now, instead of judgment
and war, St. Paul proclaims
grace and peace. Does this not
indicate that in grace God in
terrupted the prophetic pro
gram to bring in the present
dispensation when God’s am
bassadors proclaim with Paul:
“But where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound;
that as sin hath reigned ... so
might grace reign” (Rom. 5:20,
21).
Indeed, Paul the former per
secutor was himself the living
demonstration of God’s grace
to a Christ-rejecting world. In
I Tim. 1:15, 16 he declares:
“This is a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, of whom
I am chief.
“Howbeit, for this cause I
obtained mercy, that in me first
Jesus Christ might show forth
all longsuffering, for a pattern
to them which should hereafter
be'ieve on Him to life everlast
ing.”