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BELMONT DENNIS NATIONAL EDITORIAL MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
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LEO S. MALLARD MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
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— Published Every Thursday —
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
American Legion Set
For 45th Birthday
“The big war,” the oldtimers who were
there call the conflict that ended 45 years
ago last November, and which sparked the
organization of The American Legion by
a handful of its veterans meeting in Paris
45 years ago come March 15, lb and 17.
This one was "the war to end war.” Re
member? In 1946, we thought maybe
World War II would do it. Then came Ko
rea. Now there's South Vietnam; a Wall
through the heart of Berlin dividing Red
troops from Allied forces. Tomorrow, what?
Cuba? Central America? Cyprus? Malay
sia? Something bigger?
For what may lie ahead, The Legion,
young as ever in spirit and vigor, is set
ting aside all three days — March 15, 16,
17 —for a 45th birthday rededication to
God and Country, to the advancement of
national security, the reawakening of a
somnolent patriotism. And as always there
will be the annual repraisal of The Le
gion’s two greatest preoccupations — the
.welfare of comrades-in-arms, and babes
in-arms — the two basic, ending programs
that are living proof of concern for others,
concern for today and concern for tomor
row.
The list of Legion-backed programs that
have, in one way and another, eased or
brightened the lives and the future of mil
lions of Americans is too long for recital
here — and too well known to require it.
On March 15 and 16 and 17, the lights
will burn brightly in American Legion Post
Homes across the nation and in many for
eign lands as well. The oldest Legionnaires
and the youngest and their - families and
their friends will “assemble themselves to
gether,” much as the founders did in Paris
in 1919. There will be reminiscence, and
reunion and remembrance. There will also
be gaiety and the laughter of children.
And from it all, please God, may come
a contagious, all-pervading revival of the
resolution that has made America - Ameri
ca.
March Is Red Cross Month
March, by Presidential Proclamation, is
Red Cross month. During this time Ameri
cans will be asked again to lend their sup
port to this unique international organiza
tion which has done so much to alleviate
human suffering throughout the world
since its organization in 1863.
The great strength of the Red Cross is
in its national societies, organized in some
90 countries throughout the world with a
total membership of more than 157 million
people. The League of Red Cross Societies
with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland,
represents the national organizations and
coordinates mutual efforts for disaster re
lief. development of programs, and staff
I training.
When a nation is stricken by flood,
t earthquake, storm, famine or some other
form of catastrophe and needs outside help,
it may appeal to the League, which then
contacts the societies specifying the type of
assistance necessary. Within hours, help is
on the way, including food, medicines, cloth
ing. and experienced relief personnel.
Finally, the International Committee of
the Red Cross can move where no others
can. For it is recognized by most states as
the neutral channel for .negotiations be
tween belligerents, and as a means by
which organized relief can cross battle lines
or enter an area of conflict, moving be
tween countries to points of conflict and
suffering.
The Committee's representatives act as
humanity's sentries. In its 83rd year, the
American Red Cross stands ready to help
when the call comes, whether from one
person or a million. It deserves the respect
and support of all.
Deserved Recognition
Future Farmers of America will be hon
ored during the week of February 15 to 22,
and so it should be. Preparing young peo
ple for a lifetime career in modern agri
culture is a matter of top importance. On
their shoulders will rest much of the re
sponsibility of bringing forth the miracles
of production that the future will require
from America's farmland.
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David Brinkley and
His English Teacher
David McClure Brinkley, the personable
young man with the irrespressible, Puck
ish sense of humor who, since 1950 has
been the Washington - based half of the
Huntley-Brinkley team of NBC-TV news
commentators, is the 1964 winner of the
Golden Key Award, and the youngest cele
brity ever to have been so honored.
Sharing the Award with Brinkley is
Mrs. L. Burrows Smith, of Wilmington, N.
C., who taught him English in high school
and whom he named as the teacher who
had most influenced his life.
Each received a gold key, and Mrs.
Smith an additional SI,OOO Award at the
hands of E. Dale Kennedy, of Lansing,
Mich., president of the National School
Public Relations Association which estab
lished the Awards in 1956. The presenta
tion was made at the centennial meeting
of the American Association of School Ad
ministrators in Atlantic City.
Purpose of the annual awards, Mr.
Kennedy explained, is to “dramatize the
importance of the teacher in American life,
They are presented annually to a promi
nent American, selected through a national
ballot by the Golden Key Awards Council,
and to a former teacher of his or her
choice, as symbols of their contribution to
the national well-being.”
Among the former winners are such per
sonages as Admiral Arleigh Burke, former
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for
mer President Eisenhower, Economist
Beardsley Rumi and Roy E. Larsen, presi
dent of Time, Inc.
And if you are curious about those keys,
thev really are solid gold, coined from dies
made by Yale & Towne and specially bit
ted to unlock treasured memories in the
hearts of the honoree and his revered
teacher.
Dave Brinkley, for instance, recalls
that Mrs. Smith used to advise her pupils:
“Now, Class, it won't matter a hundred
years from now whether you can spell cor
rectly or not, or whether you dangled your
participles, or whether you say ‘Between
you and I’; but it will matter infinitely
whether you were honest, and truthful,
and upright.”
Which explains what the Golden Key
Awards are all about.
More Protection — Less
Weight to Tote Around!
No matter how low the mercury goes,
nor how high the winds, it need not be
too rough a winter for outsdoorsmen —
hunters, trappers, ice-fishermen, explorers
and bush pilots. In fact, thanks to the sci
entific new equipment developed for the
American Everest Expedition — that sent
three two-man teams to the highest spot
on earth, one team up one face and down
another for the first time in history—the
bleakest North American winter could be
downright luxurious for the old-time sour
doughs.
Tents are no longer what they used to
be. Now the frame is on the outside instead
of the inside, designed to be set up in the
60-mile ga'es of Everest peaks. New fab
rics. as light as a pocket handkerchief, yet
wind and rip resistant, water-proof, yet
porous enough for needed air — give more
protection with less weight to tote. A new
closely-woven tent liner takes care of the
frost problem created by the body heat of
slee >ers in sub-zero weather. Removed in
the rjmirq and the frost shaken out,
therFe no 'ripping in the tent when the
camp toy ,s fired up for coffee and ham
and eggs.
Surviva experts and authorities on arc
tic living j dned forces with the engineers
of America's oldest producer of textiles,
J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., whose founder
Captain Nathaniel Stevens, had set an en
during pattern of seeking and adopting new
ideas in 1813. Out of their joint efforts and
Stevens’ 150 years of pioneering came these
remarkable, entirely new fabrics for inner
and outer sleeping bags, quilted parkas and
pants, windproof pants, underwear, muk
luks and gaiters, as well as tents.
What they learned has made us a little
wiser, our national defense a little stronger
and other adventurers safer and more com
fortable.
But what they did. has made us all more
than a little prouder.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LES 5O N FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
Devotional Reading: John 11:
1-15; Memory Selection: I be
lieve that you are the Christ,
the Son of God. he who is com
ing into the world. John 11:27.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Christ in Our Homes.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.
Our lesson this week deals
with two stories centering
about the home of Mary,
Martha, and Lazarus. These
three friends of Jesus lived in
the little town, of Bethany
(John 11:1; 12:1). How their
friendship with Jesus began we
do not know, but Jesus loved
these friends very deeply and
apparently in times of stress
and trouble sought refuge in
their home.
This lesson deals also with
an anointing, as did last week’s
lesson. There is considerable
confusion about these two in
cidents, but almost all biblical
scholars believe that they re
present two entirely different
episodes. The “woman in the
city which was a sinner” about
whose anointing we studied last
week was undoubtedly not
Mary of Bethany whose anoint
ing is recorded in today’s les
son.
Apparently in the home of
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus,
Jesus found a new spiritual di
mension. These friends enter
tained the hope of the coming
of the Messiah, and in today’s
lesson Martha indeed acknow
ledges Jesus to be “the Christ,
the Son of God, which should
come into the world.”
Righteousness, love, spiritual
penetration — these qualities
characterized the members of
this humble Bethany house
hold.
Jesus was not only the great
est human being that ever
lived, but also the person who
changed the course of human
history. Although Jesus had
only what we would call today
a grammar-school education,
more books have been written
about him than about anyone
else who has ever lived. His
teachings, imperfectly kept
though they are, have trans
formed human life and outlook
during the past two thousand
years. In no area have Jesus
and his teachings been more
influential than in the home.
The ancient Jewish home was
admirable compared with the
hemes of Romans, Greeks, and
others whose nations surround
ed the Jews, But we can believe
that the best Christian home
today far surpasses the best
Jewish home of our Lord’s day.
Jesus himself was the product
of a lovely Jewish home.
His mission, which seemed so
strange to his mother and his
brothers, appears to have sepa
rated him from his loved ones
to some extent. Mark tells us
that his friends (or kinsmen)
tried on one occasion to lay
hold on Jesus, “for they said, he
is beside himself." We read in
Matthew 12:46-50 that “his
mother and his brethren” came
to see him on one occasion,
evidently to dissuade him from
attacking the scribes and Pha
risees and thus involving the
family in widespread criticism,
and in some measure of dis
grace. Jesus himself said on one
occasion that he had nowhere
to lay his head (Matthew 8:20).
He was not a man who could
live happily in isolation separa
ted from friends and especially
from his loved ones. He craved
the warm friendliness of family
life. The home of Mary,
Martha, and Lazarus in Beth
any fulfilled his need.
Martha was a homemaker in
every sense of the term. Their
friend Jesus had come to visit
them, and Martha’s idea of a
hearty welcome involved a
sumptuous meal. But her sister
Mary was of a different stripe.
She sat on the flexor at the feet
of Jesus and listened to his
words. This appears to have
irritated Martha so much that
she came to Jesus and said,
Lord, dost thou not care that
my sister hath left me to serve
alone, bid her therefore that
she help me. And Jesus answ
ered and said unto her. Martha.
Martha, thou art careful and
, troubled about manv things:
but one thing is needful: and
Mary hath chosen that good
part, which shall not be taken
away from her."
The practical Martha is a
prototype prominent in every
age. Serve the Lord in useful
acts, is the motto by which such
persons are guided. We can
imagine our Lord smiling with
affectionate understanding as
he said, “Martha, Martha, thou
art careful and troubled about
many things.” He loved Martha
as much as he did Mary and
Lazarus, but he declared that
Mary had chosen something
even better than preparing a
sumptuous meal of welcome.
Jesus has transformed home
life through the centuries be
cause he has put a new spirit
into the home and has set up
new and heavenly ideals. Mary
may not have understood Jesus
perfectly, but as she sat at his
feet she knew that she was
listening to words of wisdom
and love the like of which she
had never heard before. In fact,
she appears to have forgotten
about preparing supper. Their
loving friend was in their
home, and he was uttering
those precious words of wisdom
and understanding which from
the depths of her heart she had
always longed to hear.
Let us give Martha her due.
She was magnificent, and her
modern prototype is magnifi
cent also. Christianity is practi
cal, and Martha is the patron
saint of Christian service.
But Mary sits at the feet of
Jesus and listens. It was what
Jesus was saying that has
changed the Christian home
through the centuries. The les
son for us is that, if we want
our homes to be filled with the
spirit of Jesus Christ, we too
must listen to his words, con
scious that it is this Person and
his words which make all
things new.
Science
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NATIVE HEARING
IS REALLY HI-FI
TRIBESMEN in a remote
part of the Sudan hear better
than people living in New
York, Dusseldorf, Germany, or
Cairo, Egypt, according to the
Archives of Otolaryngology, a
journal reporting on a study of
ear, nose, larynx and chest. The
isolated tribe of Mabaans, liv
ing in a relatively noise-free
environment, have a striking
superiority to city dwellers in
hearing and other physical as
pects, the report says. In the
70-to-79 age group, for ex
ample, 83 per cent of the Ma
baans heard 12,000 cycles,
whereas only 10 per cent of
urbanites could. Mabaans do
not die until they slowly wear
out completely, the report said,
whereas persons in modern
civilizations die before the
wearing-out process can be
completed.
A SURGICAL STAPLER
powered by batteries is being
developed at the University of
Chicago. Stapling is faster and
simpler than suturing, and
staples made of metal such as
tantalum cause less reaction in
body tissue than catgut, cotton
or silk. Goal of the program ’s
development of a stapler that
can be held by the surgeon in
one hand and can be used on a
variety of tissues . . . RUBBER
ROADS are being tested in
Akron, Ohio. The special pav
ing mixture contains silica sand
aggregate and a rubber asphalt
cement binder.
WHAT will you do about 593
million times during yOur life,
but think about it hardly at
all? Breathe. Each breath, say
medical equipment specialists
of National Cylinder Gas,
Chicago, ventilates your lungs,
transferring oxygen from the
air to your blood stream which
carries it to cells throughout
your body. Hospitals and doct
ors are placing greater empha
sis than ever before on inha
lation therapj’ since just a
single failure in the breathing
sequence described above
causes death . . . THE BICEN
TENNIAL ARCH in St. Louis
will be the nation’s tallest
monument — 630 feet — when
completed this year. The arch
will be built almost entirely of
steel and sheathed in gleaming
stainless. There will be an ob
servation platform on top.
COTTON was used as a fab
ric long before the beginning
of historical records ... IT
WON’T lighten your spring
cleaning chores to know it. but
some of that dust on the wind
ow sill may be from outer
space! Scientists of Smithso
nian Astrophysical Laboratory,
Cambridge, Mass., say that
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National
Outlook
Who Fares Worst in Inflation?
Inflation redistributes the
national wealth in some pe
culiar and unforseen ways.
Those who warn against the
inflationary effects of govern
ment deficits are sometimes
regarded as merely trying
tc protect positions of en
trenched wealth. But a new
study of the effects of inflation
since 1949 shows that, by and
large, it is the less-prosperous
groups who suffer most from
the wealth - transferring ef
fects of inflation. The better
off groups are not affected
as severely, and sometimes
even gain through inflation.
The new study is an exam
ination of the national bal
ance sheet of the United States,
and is published under the
sponsorship of the National
Bureau of Economic Research.
Like all the National Bureau
publications, it is a thorough,
detailed, and completely unbi
ased analysis of its subject
matter.
The process of inflation does
not create any real wealth nor
does it, directly, destroy any
real wealth. What it does is
transfer wealth from one
group of holders to another.
The direction of such trans
fers, as revealed in this study,
contains some surprises.
The way an individual
family is affected by inflation
depends on a number of fac
tors: its debtor or creditor po
sition, its status as a home
owner or renter, its ownership
of stocks, etc.
The chief beneficiary of the
rising price trend during the
past 15 years has been the
federal government. It has
gained in net worth because
its liabilities, in the form of
public debt, are in effect re
duced by inflation.
But this gain to the federal
government had to come out
of somebody’s pockets. It turns
out that it came mainly out of
the pockets of lower - income
families who rent their living
quarters — especially older
people in this classification.
This would include a large
number of the less-prosperous
urban families who are the
cause of so much concern by
advocates of welfare programs.
Persons owning mortgaged
homes tend to gain on balance
from inflation. Inflation re
duces the real burden of their
mortgage debt.
Upper-income families,
whether they own or rent
their homes, are as a class
protected from the transfers
of wealth involved in inflation.
Typically such families own
corporate stocks and a rising
trend in prices exerts an up
ward leverage on the value of
about a million tons of dust
from outer space settles on the
earth each year. Study of this
“cosmic dust” is vital to the
safety of space travelers of the
future who will pass through
clouds of jt.
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the NEWS.
Dear Mr. Greer:
We want to tell you how
much we appreciate the won
derful publicity you have giv
en our Rams basketball teams
this year and for taking pic
tures of our Pep Rally last
Monday.
You are always at our games
and writing them up in the
newspaper and we want to
their holdings.
MMIIAN TALMAKfI
JI From ■
II WbHJNCrow L ’
WE BEGIN the Second Ses-1
sion of the 88th Congress with ;
just about the same issues be
fore us as a year ago.
There are still unresolved
problems involving the proposed
income tax cut, the so-called
civil rights legislation, medical
care for the
aged, federal
aid for educa
tion, and var
ious other mat
te rs which
have confront
ed the Con
gress for many
years.
Virtually unrestrained federal
spending and the need for a bal
anced budget continue to be ma
jor concerns. The country still
is in dire need of a new and
workable farm program which
will benefit the farmers and re
vitalize the American agricul
ture economy. The need is clear
cut and demanding in the cotton
industry, but it is equally appar
ent in other basic commodities.
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THESE THEN are matters
which probably will take up a ;
good part of this session of
Congress. And I will be sur
prised if debate over them is not
long and vigorous.
Since this is an election year,
both parties will have their eyes
on the conventions next summer
and on the voters next Novem
ber. In the upcoming scramble ;
for votes—particularly those of
the minority groups—l hope i
(not prepared or printed
Thursday, February 17, 1964
say once again “Thanks” for
the fine support you alwayj
have for our Newton Rams.
Varsity Cheerleaders
And Pep Club
Covington News:
The children and I have en
joyed the NEWS these past
three months I've been he;a
and I would appreciate this en
closed item being carried in
the NEWS.
It would be of much interest
to relatives and friends in
Mansfield. Thank, you very
much.
Sincerely,
Mrs. C. R. Goodrich
If you were not at homa
when your Heart Fund volun
teer called (on Heart Sunday)
(during Heart Sunday week
end), look for the self-address
ed “not-at-home” envelope sho
left for you. Insert in it your
contribution and send it, with
out delay, to the Heart Fund.
Your gifts will help your Geor
gia Heart Association carry for
ward its program of research,
education and community ser
vice.
Be ready with a generous do
nation when one of your neigh
bors, serving as a Heart Fund
volunteer for the Georgia Heart
Association, calls at your home
on Heart Sunday, February 23.
| those who seek positions of lead
ership will not lose sight of
I what is in the best interests of
1 the country, and that they will
act accordingly.
Some members of Congress
who don’t vote the way certain
groups want them to already
have been threatened with bloe
I vote purges. Such pressure of
course is contemptible and an in
! suit to the House of Representa
tives and the Senate, and clear
i ]y an attempt to intimidate Con
gress.
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WE HOPE that Congress, a*
I it goes into a political year rife
j with emotionalism and contro
versy, will address itself to leg
islation of genuine importance
to the welfare of all the people
of the United States.
And we further hope that the
rude threats and headline-catch
ing utterances of self-styled
leaders of pressure groups will
be ignored as they properly
should be.
I favor the full enjoyment of
constitutional rights by all oue
citizens, but to grant uwar.
{ ranted rights to one group of
I people while taking away the
liberties of others could ulti
mately lead to the destruction
of our republican form of gov
ernment and an all-powerful
federal hierarchy with virtually
absolute control over the ac
tivities of everyone.
i at government expense)