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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
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
As we close the door on 1963, commen
tators tell us it will go down in history as
one of America's momentous years. We be
lieve they are right.
Not because we walked a Cold War
tightrope over a flaming, shooting war.
Not because our astronauts were orbited
into space. Not because of the Cuban Cri
sis. Not because of the stock market’s dark
“May-Days”. Not even solely because an
assassin’s bullet ended the life of our na
tion’s leader; as incredible and tragic as
was the wanton murder of President John
F. Kennedy.
But, because with these, and other shat
tering events, 1963 may well be the year
which caused us, as a nation, to take time
out from multiple, frenzied races in space,
science, education and arms to take a long
look at ourselves and calmly determine
where we are going.
The New Year finds us with 190 million
plus population; and many of 1963’s prob
lems still hanging like Damocles’ Sword,
over us. A goodly number of these prob
lems such as increasing crime and disre
spect for integrity and authority, has been
precipitated by the admitted moral retro
gression of our youth, our citizens, and the
nation as a whole.
The moral re-armament, sponsored by such
able leaders as Governor Carl Sanders, lies
in the stabilization of American Family
Life and stimulation of our Spiritual de
velopment. In this day of over-organiza
tion in civic, social, educational, cultural I
Feathers Still Flying
* It looks to us as though that “chicken
’war” — supposedly settled when the US
Government accepted the figure of $26 mil
-lion, established by the arbitration panel
of GATT as the amount of damage done
the US poultry industry by Common Mar
ket countries in suddenly tripling the duty
imposed on poultry from the US — may
break out anew, and on a wider front.
Having accepted the GATT assessment
of damage — which US poultry exporters
say is much too low — President Johnson
has ordered sharp tariff increases on an
odd assortment of imports — brandy, mo
tor trucks, dextrine and potato starch —
that added up to about $26 million last
year.
As of January 7. according to the Presi
dent’s order, the tariff on brandies valued
at $9 or more per gallon and in containers
of a gallon or less, will be boosted from
$1.25 to $5 a gallon — which will increase
the retail price by about a dollar a bot
tle. The duty on trucks will be raised from
eight to 25 percent of value, on dextrine
!rom 1.125 cents a pound to 3 cents and
on potato starch from one cent a pound to
1.5 cents. The hikes on all four represent
• return to those prescribed by the Tariff
^ct of 1930 — up from the drastic cuts es
tablished by the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT). But the US ac
tion, officials point out, is only a suspension
of the lower rates which can be restored
»ny time the Common Market is ready to
treat our chickens right.
But the Common Market’s Council of
Ministers in Brussels is now contending
that while the US did suffer $26 million
worth of damage, the fact that we are still
exporting S2O million worth of poultry a
year entitles us to only $6 million in re
dress. To realize how ridiculous this is.
we need only recall that our exports to
Germany alone shrank from SSO million
in 1962 to S2O million this year, that our
exporters figure their losses in all Com
mon Market countries at $46 million; and
that it is these losses — pared down to $26
million by GATT — that we now plan to
compensate.
The indications aie, however, that the
US will stand firm — which is the least
we can do in view of the cut-rate compen
lation offered us by the GATT Council —
•nd in view of the volume of foreign man
ifactured goods entering our markets and
priced to sell at retail below our cost of
production.
Actually, the “chicken war” has been
fc^ut a “brushfire”, compared with what it
•tpuld grow into. That Common Market
■pencil in Brussels should realize that it
4«ery well off indeed if we are satisfied
the scanty relief offeied by GATT.
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and even religious phases of community
life, we truthfully contend there is no time
for family counseling, communication be
tween parents and children; and the family
altar. The choices are hard; nevertheless,
citizen building, family life and Spiritual
development should take precedence over
every other activity.
Among requisites toward their achieve
ment which our forefathers admonished us
to continue, were:
Work — It teaches responsibility, and is
one of life’s incentives.
Pray — It is the breath of the Soul.
Think — It encourages reason and molds
character.
Play — It is the secret of youth.
Read — It is the foundation of know
ledge.
Worship — It is the Soul's Highway
back to its Maker.
Help and Enjoy Friends — It is a great
source of happiness.
Live — It is the expression of gratitude
for Life.
Dream — It is the inspiration for some
of man’s noblest endeavors.
Laugh — It is a bell that summons cour
age.
If we can re-establish our homes as ha
vens of decency and love, where discipline
and respect are taught, and our nation in
the consistency of Christianity, then 1964
will supercede 1963 as an epochal year; and
America will indeed be blessed with the
materialization of the traditional wish —
1 Happy New Year!
i Reds Get Told
At long last a spokesman for the United
States has rared back in the General As
sembly of the United Nations and brought
the Soviet members up to date on some
modern history that Western nations have
been allowing them to turn inside-out with
out rebuke.
Fed up with the incessant Soviet refer
ences to American imperialism, Sidney R.
Yates told the Assembly in a debate on
colonialism that the USSR is “the last sur
vivor of the great imperial powers” and
that while other countries have been liber
ating their colonies the Soviet has acquired
a domain as vast as that of the British
Empire in the days of Queen Victoria.
“Can the Soviet Union point to one
single area it has given up?” Answering
his rhetorical question, Mr. Yates snapped,
“It cannot!”
The Russians and Communist bloc na
tions, he charged, were evading the real
question of how to put an end to colonial
ism and befogging the issue instead with
cold war propaganda.
It’s a pleasure to hear one of our boys
laid it on the line and we hope that his
plain talk stiffened the rest of the Western
spines that are so sadly out-numbered in
the hast River KaffeeKlatch and Snickers
nee Society.
But we d still like to know when the
Russians are going to pay their dues.
Danger of Creeping Inflation
Last October, reports the Bureau of La
bor Statistics, the cost of living reached
still another record high. Further increas
es are expected.
1 his particular increase was very small
it reduced the purchasing power of a
$lO bill by only about a pennv. Over a
period of time the monthly loss in the dol
lar s value has been similarly small. One
hardly notices it. And therein lies a real
danger. The worth of our money, which
means the worth of our labor, mav be so
slowly eroded that we hardly realize the
peiil that exists. Like water wearing awav
stone, day by day, month by month, year
by year, the loss is barely discernible. But,
ultimately, the stone ceases to exist.
So it is with creeping inflation. Values—
•riepiaceable values — may be destroyed
almost unnoticed. And the primary Ceiuse
of ’hat inflation is spending by government
beyond income — which means, to a very
great extent, spending for purposes which
are not within the true responsibility of
government. The menace of inflation has
not been eliminated — it is only dormant.
And the problem it presents is made all
Ihe greater by the almost universal de
mand for tax reduction — with no certain
rerfnrtinn j n spending.
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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SOUR WEEKLY
UNDAY
Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Devotional Reading: Luke 1:
46-55; Memory Selection: My
soul magnifies the Lord, and
my spirit rejoices in God my
Saviour. Luke 1:46-47.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Mary, the Mother of Jesus. .
Young People-Adult Topic:
Mary, the Mother of Jesus.
The greatest person that has
ever lived on the earth, next to
Jesus Christ himself, was Mary
the mother of Jesus. She did
not always understand her dis
tinguished and divine son so at
times there was misunderst
anding between them. But
Mary had received revelations
which assured her that the
child born of her womb was
destined to be great, to be call
ed “the son of the Highest.” He
would occupy the throne of his
father David, reigning over the
house of Jacob forever “and of
his kingdom,” said the angel,
“there shall be no end” (Luke
1:31-33.)
Nothing is more precious in
the sight of man—and we be
lieve in the sight of God also —
than pure womanhood. This
Mary of Nazareth was the ves
sel chosen by God, set aside to
perform for the Heavenly
Father and for mankind the
most distinguished service ever
assigned to any individual.
In the Apostles’ Creed,
adopted some centuries after
the death of Jesus, we declare
that Jesus was “born of the
Virgin Mary.”
AU branches of the Christian
Church hold this to be true.
While Mary was still bet
rothed to Joseph, the angel
Gabriel “was sent from God
unto a city in Galilee, named
Nazareth.” Although not yet
married to Joseph, Mary had
nevertheless conceived, and
probably in terror of what her
friends and neighbors would
say and think—although she
knew she was entirely free of
any wrongdoing—she went
“into the hill country with
haste, and into a city of Juda,
and entered the house of Zac
charias and saluated Elisa
beth,” her cousin who had con
ceived in her old age. The child
Elisabeth was to bear would be
called John and would be
known in sacred history as
John the Baptist.
Mary, who had conceived
before her marriage entirely
apart from human agency, for
she declared "I know not a
man,” was to bring forth the
incarnate Son of God —to give
him a body, to prepare him for
his great work, to be God’s
means by which the divine life
would, in a peculiar and un
precedented fashion, enter the
stream of human history.
Many find it hard to believe
the Biblical teaching of the
virgin birth. Yet if we ponder
the matter, we soon see clearly
that it was almost inevitable
under the divine scheme. God
is a Spirit (John 4:24). Mary
was a human being prepared
under the grace of God to be
the means by which the Son of
God would enter into the life
of the world. Who excepting
God himself could be the father
of the Son of God? And since
God is a Spirit and Mary a
human being, how could con
ception take place save by the
power of the Holy Spirit, whicn
is the power and presence of
God working among men to
bring about God’s will. The
Gospel of Matthew (1:18) and
the Gospel of Luke (1:26-35)
affirm that Jesus was born of
a virgin. If two of the Gospels
begin with narratives which
are incorrect, the credibility
of the whole of the New Testa
ment is seriously impaired.
Furthermore, we must remem
ber that Luke was not only a
careful historian but also a
physician.
Would any man that ever
lived be worthy to beget the
Son of God? Only God himself
could beget his own Son. The
act of conception under the
power of the Holy Spirit is
therefore the only logical ex
planation of how the divine
Son of God could enter into
the stream of history.
To be sure, many expected
that when he came the Messiah
would cast himself down from
the pinnacle of the temple.
There was some justification
for this belief because of the
statement in Malachi 3:1 that
God would send his messenger
who would “suddenly come to
his temple.” Most of our Lord’s
contemporaries believed that
the messiah would come in this
way, and that Satan’s tempta
tion of Jesus that he cast him
self down from the pinnacle of;
the temple was in line with this I
prophecy.
But God had other plans. No
one at that time could foresee
how crucifixion, death, resur
rection. and ascension would
constitute the pattern by which i
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
the soul of man would be freed
of sin.
Jesus, the divine Son of God,
was born of a woman and was
ushered into the stream of
human history in precisely the
same way everyone else has
I been ushered into it. But since
he was the Son of God, only
God could be his Father. Mary,
chosen vessel of the Lord, was
set aside for the great honor of
giving the Saviour birth. The
Son of God was begotten by
God himself. The power of the
Holy Spirit came down upon
Mary, and “that holy thing”
born of her was to be called by
all succeeding generations “the
Son of God.”
The parents of Jesus went
every year to the feast of the
Passover in Jersalem. When
Jesus was twelve years old
“they went up to Jerusalem
after the custom of the feast.”
Although still only a child,
Jesus had now attained a de
finite status in the life of his
people.
After the feast the company
started back to their homes.
At the end of the first day
Joseph and Mary were alarmed
to find that the boy Jesus was
I nowhere in the company. “And
they sought him among their
kinsfolk and acquaintance.
And when they found him not,
they turned back again to
Jerusalem, seeking him.”
It's a Short Trip
To the Dentist
It costs from SIO,OOO to
I $17,000 to outfit a dentist’s off
; ice according to an article in
| the Emory University Alumn
us. Some counties in Georgia
are too small to support a den
tist th' article says. Although
38 Georgia counties have no
dentist, the average distance
from the county seat in these
counties to the nearest dentist
is 15.5 miles. Transporting
people to dentists is the most
practical means cf making
dental care available in some
areas of Georgia, the article
j said. The state maintains dent
al clinics in twelve of the den
tistless counties.
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National
Outlook
A Look at 1964
At the turn of the year it is
customary for commentators!
to take a look at the economic
prospects for the coming
twelve months. This column
foresees a year in which the:
business picture will be, on the
whole, bright but not dazzling. |
The economic rise which has
been going on since early 1961
does not seem to be losing
momentum. There has not been
any serious building up of in
ventories which has often in
the past been the prelude to a
downturn. The shock of Presi
dent Kennedy’s assassination
has not noticeably impaired the
confidence of business or con
sumers.
Some of the statistical indi
cators published in recent
weeks have been negative or at
least doubtful. The seasonally
adjusted figures on housing
starts and manufacturers, sales
were slightly lower in Novem
ber than October. However, the
margin for error introduced in
these figures by the process of
seasonal adjustment suggests
that it would be unwise to pay
too much attention to small
movements in either direction.
The government survey of
business plans for future in
vestment in plant and equip
ment forecasts a leveling off in
the first quarter of 1964, and
a rise thereafter. A survey of
manufacturers’ expectations as
to their sales in the first quart
er indicates a nominal drop as
compared with the last quarter.
But statistical compilations of
future plans and expectations
must be taken with an even
larger grain of salt than sta
tistics which are based on what
has already happened.
Many observers still expect
the forthcoming cut in federal
income taxes to give the econ
omy a large lift. But this will
be partially offset by a con
tinuation in the rise in collec
tions of state and local taxes.
; Also, it may have been dis
counted in advance by heavy
purchases of homes and auto
’ mobiles on credit.
The great problem looming
' over all is the question of
■ whether the Federal Reserve
■ system will be able to stay on
the tight-rope it has been
OPTIMISTIC
OUTLOOK
1964
By LEO S. MALLARD
Again we are blessed with a new year which holds forth
opportunity, hope and adventure. Granted, our nation faces
many problems, both domestically and internationally, but
when considering our democracy in comparison with other
forms of government devised by mankind, I thank God for
letting me live in the United States of America.
The year 1963 may be looked
back on as a “year of crisis”.
During its span we saw in this
country the beginning of a
thought revolution socially,
politically, scientifically, and in
our foreign relations.
The tragic assassination of
President John F. Kennedy has
in some strange way united
Americans. With the 1964 pre
sidential election looming
ahead, we have seen political
crystal balls crumble.
Events have brought to the
President’s Office a seasoned
veteran of American politics
whose practical approach and
mettle has won him the respect
of the people. Ironically, no
one is waving flags, but, no one
seems to dislike President
Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Crisis and the demands of
walking. Will it be able to
maintain high short-term in
terest rates to protect our bal
ance of payments, and at the
same time provide the abund
ant credit needed to keep the
• domestic economy rising? This
is a long-term problem, but
probably we will be able to
evade it for at least most of
1964.
On the whole, balancing all
the considerations, we are in
clined to believe that economic
activity, as measured by the
gross national product, will
total about 610 billion dollars
in 1964. This anticipates a rise
of about 4 percent over 1963,
considerably less than the in
crease between 1962 and 1963.
It will not be enough to reduce
• unemployment much below its
current level.
Happy New Year.
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IN THE COVINGTON NEWS
the times have made great men
of many of the leaders in our
history. These men were chall
enged to serve and they arose
to greatness because they met
that challenge in an able man
ner. The year 1964 may begin
a time that may immortalize
Lyndon Johnson.
The faith of Americans hai
been renewed by a crisis which
has shown that our system of
government is not founded on
an individual who occupies the
President’s chair. There are
always other able leaders who
are ready to pick up the torch
of our democracy and carry on
when there is a need.
As we begin this new year,
let us once again listen to .the
words of our late President:
.' “Ask not what your country
. can do for you; ask what you
can do for your country.”
Let minority groups across
our nation who seek certain
rights and privileges under our
democracy of liberty and free
dom also prepare themselves to
accept the responsibilities that
a democratic government de
mands of the people who live
1 free.
May our people truly seek
and work for peace and co
i operation within our nation
and throughout the world.
When we become dissatisfied
let us act within the law to
relieve this dissatisfaction
rather than voicing critical op
inions that can only create
hatred and discontent.
As we begin this new year,
let us count our many blessings
and let our actions show that
we believe the inscription on
our coins-- “In God We Trust.”
May you and yours have a
happy and prosperous New
Year.