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THE COVINGTON NEWS
118 • 122 PACE STREET, COVINGTON, GA. -30209
I BELMONT DENNIS
Editor ond Publither
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
The Discount Vise
Every housewife knows the im
portant part of any “bargain”
is quality, not price.
An Interesting question has
been raised in the debate on the
Quality Stabilization Bill, now
before Congress: What happens
to quality of a national brand
name product when it is used
by discounters in ruthless price
wars and bait-and-switch adver
tising?
The answer is well-document
ted in Congressional testimony:
First, the product becomes
profitless to the established inde
pendent merchants, and is aban
doned by them. Then, as the
discounter gains control of the
lion’s share of the retail mar
ket for the well-known brand, the
manufacturer finds himself
caught in a vise. The discount
er exerts relentless pressure for
an ever better deal. With vir
tual monopoly control, now that
the established retail outlets in
the community have been de
stroyed, the discounter too, may
threaten to abandon the product
unless the manufacturer comes
to his terms.
In order to meet the demands
of the discounter, the manufac
turer must cut costs or get out
of the market.
His first move has been to try
to increase plant and marketing
efficiency. But there is a mini
mum price to discounters below
which a manufacturer cannot go
without cutting the quality of the
product. If he reaches this point
and the company still cannot make
a profit, he is likely to do some
or all of the following:
--Cut the number of quality
inspectors along the assembly
line, substitute cheaper labor and
otherwise reduce the payroll.
--Reduce requirements for ac
curacy of fits and dimensions
of working parts to reduce the
cost of waste.
--Substitute cheaper, inferior
materials.
--Eliminate extra coats of pro
tective exterior finish.
--Cut down the number of fas
tenings, seams, weld spots,
rivets, screws, etc.
Under these conditions the con
sumer, the community, the eco
nomy, labor, the manufacturer,
the ethical retailer -- all take
a beating. Quality is lowered
and maintenance costs skyroc
ket; wages and jobs are lost; a
brand name reputation for value
is depreciated; and the com
munity has lost the service of
those ethical merchants who have
had to go out of business in
the face of ruthless competition
from giant discount chains.
This is only one aspect of
a dangerous economic situation
which has led a large number
of Congressional leaders from
both parties to sponsor the
Quality Stabilization Bill. The
Bill is designed to give prac
tical effect to a unanimous Su
preme Court decision that the
manufacturer of a national brand
name product has a continuing
property right in that name; that
he should have the right to pro
tect it from abuse or misre
presentation.
There are a great many rea
sons why Congress should pass
the Quality Stabilization Bill, but
chief among them is the need to
make it possible for manufac
turers to give the American
housewife an honest product for
an honest dollar.
PEKIN, IND., BANNER-GAZ
ETTE: “Just a few years ago
the boys and girls walked a mile
or so across town to school.
Yes, yes, I know that things are
‘better’ now, but just how is it
better for children who are sad
ly lacking in physical develop
ment to ride in cars every step
of the way, have a car to hot
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You Vote Every Day
How many times did you vote
today ?
That intriguing little question
headlines an advertisement by
one of the country’s major oil
companies. And it leads into
the fact that, under the Ameri
can economic system, every con
sumer votes many times a day.
He does this each time he
makes a purchase. In the case
of oil, for instance, he is cast
ing his vote when he buys some
particular brand of gasoline or
when he takes his car to a
particular service station for
a lube job.
So it goes, with votes cast
for every kind, price and quality
of consumer wants. And the
significance of this kind of vot
ing could hardly be exaggerat
ed. For it is the vote--mul
tiplied hundreds of millions of
times every day--that decides
which firms shall be success
ful and which shall fail, what pro
ducts shall be continued in pro
duction and what shall not. The
pressure-consumer pressure —
on all who produce and sell com
modities never ends.
The oil company’s statement
stresses another big point--that
communism and socialism, which
claim to be the economic sys
tems of the masses,”. . .are the
least democratic of all.” For,
within these systems, an
authority at the top, with unlimit
ed power, decides what shall be
produced, in what amount and
at what price. There is little
or no need to seek consumer
favor--for the subjugated people
must take what is offered or
do without. Competition, that
great bulwark of living standards
and opportunity, exists only in
a free market.
That is something worth keep
ing in mind while enjoying our
daily privilege of voting.
King-Sized Question
He is right, of course. But
everybody is not helping to pay
for these roads. The people
who drive motor vehicles are
being forced to overpay the bill
by more than two billion dol
lars a year, with no help from
the general public.
Last year the federal govern
ment collected $5.3 billion in
special taxes on motorists, but
put only $3.4 billion into the
Highway Trust Fund. The other
$1.9 billion went into the General
Fund “pot” and from there - who
knows where ?
Another S4OO million a year
in state highway-user taxes gets
spent on non-highway projects.
Every motorist is proud of the
modern highway system being
created in this country, and will
ing to pay his fair share of the
cost. But what is fair about
his having to carry the entire
burden, plus contributing a couple
of billion dollars extra every
year ?
If everybody benefits from
modern highways, then why do
motorists have to pay the en
tire bill ?
That is the king-sized question
raised by the recent observance
of National Highway Week.
Secretary of Commerce Luther
H. Hodges said this in calling
attention to the special week:
“ . . . the efficient, economi
cal transportation made possible
by this nation’s highways bene
fits everyone. Highway trans
portation affects the cost of
everything we make and the price
of everything we buy. It is vital
to our continued economic and
social growth. Truly, the whole
country profits from a modern
road network.”
rod around in at noon and eve
ning, risk highway tragedies, risk
unchaperoned rides?”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
moil matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
I OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR ।
jSunday School:
AN UNASHAMED WITNESS
Devotional Reading; Psalms 2":
1-3, 7-14. Memo:
did not give us a spirit of tl n I
but a spirit of power and love and
self-control. 2 Timothy 1-7. In
termediate-senior Topic: Fear
less Witnesses. Young people-
Adult Topic: Fearless ( W|tness.
Our lesson last week dealt with
the stewardship of possessions.
The theme of the lesson was the
giving of wordly goods to the glory
of God.
The theme of today’s lesson in
volves something even more im
portant, namely, the giving of
ourselves. One of the duties of a
person who has given himself to
God through Christ Is that of wit
nessing. In one of the last state
ments made by our Lord (record
ed in Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8)
Jesus lays supreme and solemn
emphasis upon witnessing. So far
as we know, Jesus left no writings
of any kind. He did not organize
a church in the sense that we un
derstand church organization to
day. He had during his ministry
simply gathered together a group
of men sympathetic with his 1-
deals and objectives, and he left
them-stlll unorganlzed-with the
command that they go forth and
witness in his name.
This they did with a vigor that
caused the Christian Church to
supplant the Roman Empire in
about three centuries.
Neighbors talked to neighbors
about this wonderful man Jesus
and what he had done. Merchants
on their journeys through the Em
pire talked with other merchants
and persons whom they met In
business transactions. Everyone
in the early Church seemed to
feel the necessity of witnessing.
The Greek word for witness is
martus, and since many of the
witnesses later met persecution
and death it is an apt term. The
Greek word martus came over in
to our language in the word “mar
tyr” which means “one who sac
rifices his life, station, or what
is of great value for the sake of
principle or to sustain a cause.”
The modern church is woefully
lacking in its disposition to wit
ness. The modern ministry is
well prepared educationally. The
churches are full of sincere, hon
est people. Yet few modern church
members go out of their way to
witness as did believers of the
first Christian century.
Timothy is the chief figure in
today’s lesson. He was a protege
of the Apostle Paul; one, indeed,
to whom Paul referred as “my
dearly beloved son.” Paul was
unmarried but he regarded Timo
thy as his spiritual son. He had
first encountered young Timot
hy when his missionary activities
brought him to Derbe and Lystra,
cities in Asia Minor. Timothy
came from a home, racially and
religiously divided; his mother
was a Jewess and his father a
Greek. But his mother, Eunice,
and his grandmother, Lois, saw
to it that the young man was early
trained in Christian truth. Paul
appeared to have taken a fancy to
Timothy from the beginning, and
he encountered such good reports
concerning him that he attached
Timothy to himself as follower
and helper. In this capacity Ti
mothy remained throughout Pa
ul’s life.
In our lesson today we find
Paul reminding Timothy to “stir
up the gift of God, which is in
thee by the putting on of my
hands.” He was to keep this gift
stirred up as one stirs up a fire
about to die down.
Accepting Christ and joining the
church are just the beginning of a
great spiritual enterprise. Thr
oughout our lives we need to keep
stirred up the gift of God which
is in us.
Paul declares that “God hath
not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of
a sound (disciplined) mind.” Nor
mal, rational fear is a protective
device by which we are warned
of the approach of anything that
might harm us. Fear has as an
important a place in life as does
courage. But there is a morbid
type of fear, the kind that leads
people to be anxious about dan
ger that does not exist and to
fill the mind with apprehension
and sometimes horrifying in
timations.
Against morbid fear the testi
mony of the Bible cried out in
protest. We are to fear God as
an obedient child fears tn af
front the desires of a loving par
ent. This type of fear is good -
necessary for spiritual growth,
just as the fear of definitely
harmful things protects us from
harm. But morbid fear stirs up
our emotions, twists our minds,
involves us in consuming agony.
Most people are a bit fearful
about witnessing to their Chris
tian faith. Paul calls this being
ashamed of the testimony of our
Lord. He warns Timothy to avoid
the dangers of morbid fear and to
overcome any natural reticence
he may feel about bearing testi
mony to his religious convictions.
What a lesson for us all today!
We should be tactful, never fana
tical in our witnessing, but we
should be sincere,courageous and
unashamed.
Paul speaks of the power of God
who hath saved us, and called us
with an holy calling.” To be
saved really means to be made
safe-safe amid the moral dan
gers of this present life and
safe throughout eternity.
Paul reemphasizes that ba
sic New Testament truth that
salvation is the gift of God. It
comes about not as the result
of our good works, but accor
ding to God’s own purpose and
grace, ’’which was given us in
Christ Jesus before the world be
gan.” We are all called with a
holy calling-the merchant,busi
nessman, lawyer,doctor,teacher,
laiorer, and housewife, weoften
speak of one’s being called to the
ministry. As a matter d fact, we
are all called to the ministry.
This does not mean that God in
tends us all to become ordained
ministers, but it does mean that
all Christian believers are called
by God to minister in some way
to the advancement of Christ’s
kingdom.
A few of those called will be
come clergymen. Some will be
come missionaries. The over
whelming majority, however, of
those who are called to minister
in Christ’s name remain right
where they are, doing what they
have always done, but bearing
testimony to Christ continually
by what they are, what they do,
and what they say.
In verse 10 Paul makes one of
his most important statements
about the saving power of Christ.
He declares that Christ “hath
aliolished death, and hath brought
iife and immortality to light thro
ugh the gospel.”
Life Is a drab thing of contra
diction and tragedy until we see
It in the life of Christ and his
purposes. Immortality, or life
after death, takes on new light
and significance when we think
of it in the light of Christ’s death,
resurrection, and ascension into
heaven. The Christian believer
has something that no one else
has, no matter how lofty his tho
ughts and aspirations may be.
For him, life after death is not
just a shadowy, undefined state
of being. Faith in Christ suf
fuses both life here on earth and
life eternal with heavenly light.
It gives us glorious content in
what the philosopher calls “the
immortality of the soul.”
We believe that as Christ the
Divine Person lived, so we as
human followers will have a per
sonal existence with him after
death. Christ confers upon us
benefits without number, but a
mong these none is greater than
the glorious light he sheds on life
and immortality. For those who
believe in him he raises life here
on earth to new heights of grand
eur. Likewise he assures believ
ers of the continuity and glory of
life beyond the grave.
ScienceiW
Topics ■fiE
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GALACTIC GOSSIP?
EARTH’S AUL EARS
BUTTERFLIES, bats and tele
vision fans all know they are
indispensible, but in the elec
tronic age antennas fulfill a far
more significant role than im
proving night flying or soap sales,
says Northwestern University.
Such projects as COMSAT, the
international satellite communi
cations network, would have been
Impossible without advances in
antenna technology. The radio
telescope is in reality a giant
antenna designed to pick up
“galactic noise.” Thus far the
sounds received are considered
to be strictly physical or chemi
cal phenomena, but when an in
telligent being from another
planet finally gets a message
through to us it will most like
ly be intercepted by this largest
antenna of them all.
NEOMYCIN is a new antibio
tic said by Harvard University
to be able to overcome massive
burn injuries that may be fol
lowed by a fatal breakdown of the
body’s resistance to bacterial in
fections. The drug, derived from
cultures of a fungus called
“Streptomyces fradiae,” sup
presses intestinal bacteria and is
poorly absorbed into the sys
tem .. . AERONAUTICAL EN
GINEERING was a science even
in the days of the airplane’s
infancy. Prof. Felix Wladislaw
Pawloski of the University of
Michigan taught the first course
in aeronautical engineering in
1914-15.
STEELMAKERS’ switch to the
basic oxygen process, permitting
production of a heat of steel
in just 60 minutes via a jet of
pure oxygen which burns out
impurities, is making the atmo
sphere a very valuable com
modity. Producers are rushing
completion of air separation faci
lities to satisfy the furnaces’
tremendous appetite for oxygen,
according to the National Cy
linder Gas division, Chicago.
Fortunately, says NCG, in oxy
gen production there’s no raw
material problem. The sky’s
the limit.
A FISHY PROBLEM is troub
ling Florida officials. They’re
worried about the importation and
sale of piranhas, tiny meat-eating
fish from South America that
travel in schools and can devour
a whole cow in minutes. The
finny carnivores fascinate Amer
ican fish fanciers. Floridians
fear the piranhas will get loose,
spawn in local swimming holes
and gobble up the tourist trade.
As a result of the furor the
Interior Department has promis
ed to curb sales of the fish.
A SUBSTANCE that produces
tartar in the teeth has been dis
covered in human saliva. Science
says this finding will help in
combating dental diseases . . .
CLOTHES HORSES who want
proof positive that their woolens
are imported can get it from one
supplier. He sends out a color
photo of the weaver who pro
duced it with each order of his
cloth.
. r.amres) Thursdav, November 5, 1964
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teful that our leaders have brou
ght this course to us, and hope it
will have great results .... and
It will if you who teach and lead
are there to hear it... • that it
may give you a greater Insight
to your real duties.
By the time this paper is out we
will have elected a President of
these United States. All we can do
now is to PRAY that God will have
a hand in this election. That HF
will hear our prayers that we may
have a President who will let God
direct him in his every undertak
ing. That no matter who you voted
for, and your neighbor voted for,
the man elected is just as much
your President, as he is your
neighbors’. We pray, with all our
heart, that all bickering, slander
and mud slinging will be wiped off
the hearts of all men, and that w e
may back the man elected (whe
ther we voted for him or not) with
all our strength; pray for him that
he will take God as his main guide,
and challenge every man working
with him, to do the same. For af
ter all, God’s children on this
earth will be the leaders, whether
they live by the golden rule or not
.... they are still His children
and He is looking to every man or
woman in office to take Him into
their hearts and not only do all
things to His glory, but to “ Love
thy neighbor as thyself.”
No matter who is President..
.. God is the one who destroys a
nation when it becomes too cro
rupt. Our United States has not
become immoral, corrupt and
impure with a day, a year or 20
years! Our people have been
growing more and more immoral
for years! Our law officers should
have more teeth in their duties
and more power to bring about a
real cleansing of our nation.
Our TV programs .. .theaters
.... plays, picture shows, pre
sent the very worst side of life
to our people. You do not see
liquor advertised on TV but you
count the good pictures you see on
the screen and TV and make a note
of how many you see that do not
present the tired business man
coming home and his wife saying
what will you have to drink as she
walks over to the bar in the room •
... An example for the young peo
ple and others. The Wild West
pictures ... nothing but drunken
brawls! Killing! Shooting down
men for the fun of it! And we won
der why our young people go out
and try the same thing! All of
this, and the type of clothes fash
ion designers present.... top
less bathing suits and now Dior
comes out with a neck line cut
just as low as the waist line! Sure
many will buy them for themsel
ves and their daughters!
Yes, we need a real revival in
the United States! We spend mil
lions on foreign Missions, and we
should, to take the gospel to all
the world. 8ut.... what about
the person in a foreign country
.... who meekly asked; “You
Missionaries have brought us so
much in giving us the God we now
know, and have changed our lives.
But why are all the other Ameri
cans who visit our countries not
like you?” What do you think a
Missionary could say to that,
when they see our people going a
broad, dressing as they do, and
seeing who can drink the most?
Well we of the United States will
have to accept the bed we are
making and accept the consequen
ces for God will not stand for a
nation built upon faith in God,
turning our backs completely on
Him in unholy living . ... Let me
get to work at my job .... I
can’t solve this .... I’ll just be
.... doing my “SWEEPIN UP”.
Heart Fund
Leaders Meet
Heart Fund leaders and Service
Volunteers of the Georgia Heart
Association will meet in Athens,
Thursday, November 12, at 6:00
P.M., in the Continuing Education
Center, University of Georgia, to
review the Georgia Heart Pro
gram and objectives of the 1965
Drive.
Dr. Louis L. Battey of Augusta,
President-elect of the Georgia
Heart Association, will give a
keynote address to heart repre
-1 sentatives from the counties of
, Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Colum-
bia, Elbert, Franklin, Greene,
, Hancock, Hart, Jackson, Jasper,
Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie,
Morgan, Newton, Oconne, Ogle
; thorpe, Putnam, Rockdale, Talia
ferro, Walton, Warren, and
. Wilkes. Mr. W. G. Drum,Presi
> dent of the Northeast Georgia
1 Heart Chapter, will preside at the
. meeting.
t Dr. Goodloe Y. Erwin, Clarke
• County physician and past-presi
> dent of the Georgia Heart As
■ sociation, wiU discuss the scope
> and magnitude of heart disease
, and the importance of volunteer
; efforts to combat it.
. Mr. Tyus Butler, Director of
j Alumni Relations, University of
• Georgia, and past-president of
, the Northeast Georgia Heart
; Chapter will serve as moderator
. of a panel discussion of heart
j objectives. Participants in the
i program include: Mrs. Haywood
. N. Hill, wife of a prominent
t Atlanta physician and veteran
s Heart Volunteer; Miss Alice Sim
; mons, GHA Program Consultant
r for the Northeast Gerogia Area;
. and Mrs. Jacquelyn B. Keese,
, the Association’s Director of
Public Information.
BY THELMA (MRS. J. O.) CLAY
God is and has been my re
fuge, mv strength and my hope
through life, He is a very pre
sent help in time of sorrow and
trouble.
I see God and know that He
is real in the budding of trees,
the beautiful flowers that bloom,
in sunshine and rain, in a child’s
sweet smile, and every beauti
ful thing that’s made, 1 see God.
He has been my guide and my
love through sickness and deaths
of loved ones now resting with
Him.
The Christian home in which 1
lived as a child and also now
have make me know and under
stand that Christ should and must
be put first in our lives for us
to be termed as a Christian.
Many times maybe we fall short
of doing our duty toward God and
His Church, but He has never
left nor forsaken me, for which
I am deeply grateful.
I thank Him to be able to live
in America so that we may wor
ship Him in spirit and in truth.
In these times of sorrow and
fear of destruction, to me, God,
His Church and the precious
Bible is our only hope of sur
vival. God help us to be still
and to know that He is real
and ruler over all.
For if we but trust Him, He
surely can deliver us from all
harm and danger. May we who
live in America and other lands
wake up to this fact before it is
too late. We offer wonder if
it were possible for us to see
the world so full of sin, as it
is, as God does, how He could
still love and bless us so, even
until this period of time. But
we know:
"God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son
Check Presented To Mental Health
MRS. LULA VAUGHN of Covington, President of the Georgia Indus
trial Loan Association Auxiliary, presents a check for SIOO.OO to
Georgia Comptroller General James L. Bentley, finance chairman for
Georgia Mental Health. The check, given by the newly formed auxi
liary, is to go to the Mental Health Association and is a part of the
drive for funds by the small loan association in Georgia to benefit the
Mental Health program. Mrs. Vaughn declared that “our ladies are
proud to be a small part of this great program which can mean so
much to the mentally ill people in Georgia.”
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of a new car, with an Auto Loan!
We ll lend you the money that will J
] ! make your dream car become a reality.
First look around for the car you want at
; ; the best price then come to us for the •
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away the same day.
What God
and His
, Church Mean
To ME
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have ever
lasting life. (John 3H®) So all
of these scriptures and blessings
of life are truly what God and
His Church mean to me.
God and His Church
A builder of beauty of quiet
and rest,
A place of worship and do my
best,
A place of thank God, for His
daily care,
A place where with friends,
our blessings can share,
A house that we cherish, for
God is there,
As Hymns ring out so sweet
and fair,
A place of love and humble
ness, may it ever be,
These are what God and His
Church mean to me.
GMC Homecoming
Sat. November 7
BARNESVILLE, GA. - Home
coming at Gordon Military Col
lege is schedule for Saturday.
November 21st, when Gordon’s
Bulldogs will face the University
of Miami Freshmen, for the Bull
dogs’ last game of the season.
The Homecoming announcement
was made today by the college
president,Colonel Woodrow Light
when he urged all Gordon alumni
and parents of presently enrolled
cadets to return to Gordon on this
date for an afternoon and evening
of planned activity.
“Fitness for the Future” is the
1964 Homecoming The me and will
Im? carried out in barracks deco
! rations.