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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publisher
LEO S, MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
‘One Nation and One People’
f(Reprinted From The Philadel
gphla Inquirer)
£ Lyndon B, Johnson, in the first
23 minutes of his new term as
‘the elected President of the
“American people, painted a por=-
“trait of this Nation that will long
‘he remembered as a master
ipiece of oratory and may endure
“for generations to come as a
gclassic of history and literature,
% As the newly sworn President
“turned full-face to the assembled
ithrongs in Washington, and to the
“millions watching on television,
iand began slowly and solemnly
;to deliver his Inaugural Address,
“there was in the manner of the
“man an indefinable but unmis
“takable promise that this was to
“be an extraordinary message as
“well as anunforgettable occasion.
% *“we are one Nation and one
“people,” the President said, He
“recalled the character and the
ifaith of earlier Americans who
Z«made a covenant with this land.
iConceived in justice, written in
Zliberty, bound in Union, it was
Emeant one day to inspire the
“hopes of all mankind, It binds
sus still,”
. In an unusually brief speech,
Zalmost lyrical in quality, Presi
“dent Johnson summed up the
-meaning and the purpose and the
“destiny of America—issuing to
“every inhabitant, irrespective of
“color or creed, of whatever sec
stion or party, a ringing call to
Sunity that was as_persuasive as
Eit‘uyzwfl AW
~ Polio and birth defects. Both
can be killers, Both are crip
plers,
At one time, no one talked or
wrote about polio. Too hor
rible, too depressing. Wouldn’t
.do any good anyhow. But then
“The National Foundation called
“on the American people to join
fin a partnership with science to
§eiiminate this dread disease, Re~-
Tsult: No more polio thanks to
~vaccines developed through Mar
~¢h of Dimes-financed research.
%« Birth defects are even more
gfri_ghta‘h{ing than polio. At least
250,000 children are born with
“them each year, They not only
“cripple the body, they can also
“blight the mind. Isn’t it about
“time we took the ‘‘Top Secret’’
“label off the birth defectproblem
*and recognized it as the national
iéhealth menace it really is?
% Isn’t it about time we gave
% anguished parents more comfort
£ This is the first time that
FGeorgia has set aside one month
gfor Civil Defense. The attention
=of the citizens of Georgia isonce
Zagain being focused on the Na
% tional preparedness program.
* We are an optimistic people--
~we do not expect a nuclear war
fany time soon nor do we ever
%expect a flood, tornado, earth-
Equake. or hurricane to strike
%the particular town in which we
live,
£ Yet, so long as these possi-
Z We’ve become conditioned to
Zannual federal budgets in the
=sloo billion range. But it’s
% the world’s safest bet that mighty
Zfew of us can begin to visualize
£so vast a sum,
Z Columnist Sylvia Porter pro-
Zvides a number of down-to-earth
Zexamples of just what SIOO billion
zamounts to, Here’s one of them:
Z¢‘lf a corporation had started in
Zbusiness with SIOO billion in the
Zyear 1 A.,D, and had managed
eBO dreadfully that itlost SIOO,OOO
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Conquering Cripplers
Civil Defense Is Preparedness
How Big Is SIOO Billion?
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures, and Features)
Lyndon Johnson has said many
times, before the election and
after, that he means to be Presi
dent of all the people-——not just
some of the people., This was,
in large measure, the spirit of
his Inaugural, His counselagain
st hate and injustice, and his
straightforward appeal to all of
us to join in the building of a
better country and a better world,
put into words the aspirations
of millions.,
In a philosophical interlude the
President captured this pinpoint
of history in perspective: ‘‘We
are all fellow passengers on a
dot of earth, And each of us,
in the span of time, has only
a moment amonghis companions.
How incredible it is that in this
fragile existence we should hate
and destroy one another,”
He caught, also, the indomita
ble spirit of America and the
thrill of being an American; ‘lt
is the excitement of becoming—
always becoming, trying, prob
ing, falling, resting, and trying
again—but always gaining . . .
This is what America is all
about, It is the uncrossed de
sert and the unclimbed ridge.
It is the star not reached and
the harvest sleeping in the un
plowed ground,”’
These are momentous truths,
magnificently expressed. This
was one of the great Inaugural
Addresses,
Mr. Johnson has set the coun
try in the right direction, the
direction in which the people
asant togog EL o b
than just changing the subject
when their birth defect children
are mentioned?
Just as there was no need for
all polio victims to become totally
disabled, there is now no reason
to abandon all children born with
birth defects to lives of invali
dism.
The March of Dimes has es
tablished a network of medical
care centers where experts in
birth defects are developing and
perfecting advanced methods of
treatment.
The same kind of March of
Dimes research program that
produced the polio vaccines is
now at work on birth defects.
Your dimes and dollars con
tributed to the March of Dimes
this month can help to speed the
day when birth defects join polio
on the roster of medical problems
marked: Solved,
bilities exist, we would be fool
ish not to guide ourselves ac
cordingly.
During Georgia Civil Defense
Month, therefore, let us make
a special effort to evaluate our
personal knowledge of disaster
preparedness techniques, as well
as our community’s emergency
capabilities,
You cannot wish away or out
talk a flood or a bomb--you
can, in some instances, out
think them,
a day, it still could have enough
left of the original SIOO billion
to continue operating and to con
tinue losing SIOO,OOO a day for
776 years,”’
This is the kind of money the
federal government has been
spending year after year., Much
of it, represented by the soaring
federal debt, must be paid by
our children and our children’s
children and so on if it is ever
to be paid at all, Even in boom
times, with record tax revenues,
spending has far outrun income,
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Assoclate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Assoclate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgla, as
malil matter of the Second
Class.
OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
SUNDAY SCHOOL
PARABLES OF THE
KINGDOM
Devotional Reading: Romans
2:l'l‘-
Memory Selection; We must
all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ, so that each one
may receive good or evil, ac
cording to what he has done in
the body. II Corinthians 5:10.
Intermediate = Senjor Topic:
weeds Amont the Wheat.
yYoung People = Adult Topic:
««sons of the Kingdom”.
sometimes our Lord's teach~
ing was in the form of a ser
mon, such as the Sermon on the
Mount. At other times he set
forth great truths in teaching or
conversational form. Again, the
circumstances in which he and
his disciples found themselves
were the means by which great
truths were uttered and empha
sized.
For the most part, however,
Jesus spoke in parables. This
he did because truth set forth
in a parable is easy to remem=-
ber. Also there were times
when Jesus wanted to conceal
the full meaning of his mes
sage from certain sinister per
sons among the ecclesiastic lead
ership that viewed him with
suspicion.
The word ‘‘parable’” comes
from two Greek words, para,
meaning ‘‘besides,’” and ballein,
meaning ‘‘to throw.’”” A parable
is a story thrown alongside a
religious truth to set it forth
and explain its meaning.
There are almost forty para
bles in our Lord’s teachings.
Some are recorded in one Gospel
only, others in two Gospels, and
occasionally a parable appears
in all three of the Synoptic Gos~-
pels.
The persons to whom Jesus
spoke were accustomed to the
parabolical form of teaching. In
Judges 9 there is the account
of the trees anointing a king, in
II Samuel 12 the Parable of the
Ewe Lamb, and in I Kings 20
the Parable of the Soldier who
let his captive escape. In II
Kings 14 there is the Parable
of the Thistle, which requested
the cedar’s daughter as a wife
for his son. Ezekiel also used
the parabolical form, particular
ly in the Parable of the Two
Eagles and a Vine, The Lion’s
Whelps (Ezek. 19) and the Boil=-
ing Pot (Ezek. 24).
But it was Jesus who per
fected the parabolical form of
teaching. It is probably not an
exafix;ation to say q:at “the
tea s of Jesus might indeed
have been forgotten had he not
clothed most of them in this form.
His parables dealt with situations
quite familiar to the persons be
fore whom he spoke. When he
used the figure of the farmer or
that of the woman searching for a
piece of silver, or that of the
mustard seed, or of the helpful
Samaritan, or of the prodigal son,
his hearers responded because
these were situations with which
they were familiar.
A Teacher of little education
spoke in a simple way to people
of naive mind and homely tastes,
yet these teachings have been
the subject of more books, trea~
tises, and sermons than have the
teachings of all the other seers
of history combined.
Our lesson today consists of
a parable spoken by Jesus and
his explanation of this parable.
Jesus declared that‘“The king=-
dom of heaven is likened unto
a man which sowed good seed
in his field.’”” In other words,
the kingdom of heavenis—among
other things—a process. Some
people are inclined to identify
the kingdom of heaven with some
free form of government or with
some advantageous andhappyar=-
rangement of circumstances.
The kingdom of heaven is not
any one thing. It is too large
and too significant to be explain=-
ed by any one figure. It is
leaven which leavens the whole
lump until the form therof is
changed. It is seed which grows
from something small to some=-
thing great. It is activity such
as the investing of five talents
until they produced another five
talents.
In the figure of a man sowing
good seed in his field we have
the process by which the kingdom
of God is established and culti=-
vated in our lives. The king
dom is not conferred upon us
constantly. It is not like a com~
modity that can be placed in our
hands. The kingdom of heaven
(or the kingdom of God, for the
two terms mean the same) is
concerned primarily with life and
therefore connotes growth.
«But while men slept” an
enemy came and sowed tares, a
weed that so closely resembles
true wheat that until the corn
is in the ear the two plants can
not be distinguished from one
another.
This was indeed malicious re
venge. The farmer probably su
spected that his enemy had done
something of a disastrous nature,
but this could not be proved,
nor could the situation be reme=-
died. To be sure, ‘“when the
blade was sprung up, and brought
forth fruit, then appeared the
tares also.”” But the tares and
the wheat looked so much alike
that many a wheat stock would
be pulled up if workers went out
into the field and tried to se
parate the good growth from the
bad growth.
The farmer reached a quick
decision. The only thing to do
was to wait until both the wheat
and the tares came to harvest,
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for if they gathered up the tares,
they risked rooting up the good
wheat with it. At the time of
harvest the reapers would be in
structed to gather together first
the tares and bind them in bun
dles and burn them., Then they
would gather the wheat into the
barn.
This is a warning to all gen
erations to be careful about the
way they start punishing what
appear to them to be evil per
sons. They may do more harm
than good. Soclety indeed must
protect itself from that portion of
the populace which is definitely
eriminal. But among our contem=
poraries we see many people we
belleve to be objectionable,
whose influence we believe to be
bad, whose personality and con=
temptible behavior make us wish
fervently to put them in their
place and give them what we
believe they deserve.
Be careful. Such procedure is
dangerous. Vengeance belongs to
the Lord, not to us. And cor=
rection belongs largely to Him
also.
Let us oppose evil wherever we
find it, and let us do all we
can to counteract and render
ineffective the influence of per=
sons we believe to be mistaken
or evil or both. But do not go
to the extent of assuming the
right to punish such people. They
may have some good in them.
Furthermore, in punishing them
you may at times punish innocent
people, and you can be sure that
the punishment you try to inflict
returns to hurt you more than it
does the evil person against
whom you directed your wrath.
Leave this matter in the hands
of God. There will someday be
a harvest. Then the wheat and
the tares will be so obviously
different that they can be sep
arated with certainty. And God
Himself will do the separating.
We must leave such activities
in God’s hands. Be sure toleave
in his hands the matter of pun
ishing evil people. That is not
our prerogative.
After Jesus had sent the mul
titude away and had gone into
the house, ‘‘his disciples came
unto him, saying, Declare unto
us the parable of the tares of
the field.”
They must indeed have been
slow-witted not to understand
what Jesus had been talking
about. They needed only to look
about them to be convinced that
the world is full of good and
evil—not only of good and evil
things but of goodand evil people.
|.. We may well doubt the wisdom |
of those who say that every=-
body is good if only he has a
chance to be good. There are
both wheat and tares in that field
which is the world.
Article No. 2 In Covington News Series:
CASUALTY AND THEFT LOSSES
«“Theft and casualty losses may
be deducted on Federal income
tax returns under certain condi
tions,’”” A, C, Ross, Director of
Internal Revenue for the Atlanta
District, said today.
“peductible casualty losses,”
he said, ‘““include losses of pro-
Bill Proposes To
Restore Retailers’
Tax Rebates
The passage of House Bill 133
restoring retailers’ 3% rebates
to partially cover the cost of
collecting sales taxis being back
ed by 12 statewide retail associa
tions, according to Tom Gre
gory of the Georgia Retail As
sociation.
««Never has a bill affecting the
retail industry received such en
thusiastic and united support
from all segments of the in
dustry, large and small,” said
Mr. Gregory.
Associations endorsing the bill
include: Georgia Petroleum
Dealers, Georgia Automobile
Dealers, Georgia Dairy Ass’n.,
Georgia Farm Equipment Ass’n.,
Georgia-Florida Hardware
Ass’n., Georgia Furniture Deal
ers, Georgia Hotel Ass’n., Geor=
gia Restaurant Ass’n., Georgia
Retail Ass’n., Georgia Retail
Jewelers and Georgia Retail Food
Dealers.
The Administration-backed
bill, introduced by Rep. Randall
Bedgood of Athens and co-signed
by 32 other House members, re
stores the 3% rebates to all re=
tailers as included in the ori
ginal Sales Tax Act of 1951.
The present law, passed last
year, limits rebates to the first
$120,000 in annual sales or SIOB
per year. This means that 8,256
retailers whose sales exceed the
$120,000 must collect sales tax
above that amount at their own
expense.
Representatives Don Ballard
and Otis Spillers of Newton Coun=
ty are among the co-signers of the
bill.
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WASHINGTON, D. C—To
help meet the ever-growing de
mand of the nation’s young men
and women for higher educa
tion. motor carrier companies
throughout the country annually
sponsor more than 100 college
scholarships in addition to nu
merous grants to education
funds.
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MEDICAL LAW OF AVERAGES
TWO DOGS at West Virginia
University are living on borrows=
ed kidneys -- and time, They re=
ceived new kidneys nine and six
months ago, respectively. The
researchers say it is unusual
to have the organs function for
more than 10 days unless cere
tain drugs and pre-treatment
methods are usedto prolong their
operations, The scientists are
trying to find out why the dogs
have survived without special
treatment. They hope to apply
the information to the study of
the “rejection mechanism’’ used
by the body to reject foreign
matter.,
ETHICAL DRUG SALES in the
United States exceeded $2 billion
last year, 5.4 per cent over
1963, reports the Census Bureau.
For the year, all drug industry
sales were $2.95 billion . . .
LIFE INSURANCE death pay
ments indicated that 1964 was
the most tragic year in history
on our streets and highways.
The Institute of Life Insurance
reports that death payments to
families of traffic victims rose
15 per cent in the first half of
the year. A record $99 million
was paid during the period, sl3
million more than for the cor
responding 1963 period.
““FIRE TRIANGLE,” dreaded
by oil companies, is the name
given to the combination of an
ignition source, fuel and oxygen.
These are the ingredients for an
explosion or fire. When tank
trucks that previously hauled
gasoline are loaded with fuel
oil the overly rich gasoline fumes
remaining in the tank are partly
absorbed by the oil, which then
draws air into the truck, creat
ing a mixture that can be de
tonated by static electricity. To
minimize the problem, tank
trucks are ‘‘inerted” by injec
tions of carbon dioxide, reports
Cardox, Chicago. Heavier-than
air 009 displaces the oxygen leg
of the fire triangle.
ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES at
Towa State University give us a
better idea of the air’s basic
«working parts.”” The key to
the breakthrough in knowledge is
«sonic anemonetry,” the use of
acoustic energy to measure at
mospheric turbulence. Practical
applications of such data include
determination of conditions af
fecting application of pesticide
sprays, dispersal of airborne
wastes and prediction of dew
and fog . « .RULE of the Road:
Do not substitute flashlights for
Ca ea ..~ Police in Idaho
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run a stop sign, collided with
two ecars and damaged a fence.
Her headlights consisted of two
flashlights stuck in the grille of
her car.
perty resulting from fire, storm,
flood, automobile accident, hur
ricane or similar event.”’
‘ Special rules provide for an
election by a calendar year tax
payer to deduct casualty losses
of property on his preceding
year’s return where the disaster
occurs during the filing period,
January 1-- April 15, for such
return., This election is also
available to fiscal year taxpay=-
ers for disaster losses occurr
ing after the close of a fiscal
year but before the regular due
date of the fiscal year tax re
turn,
; A casualty loss can result
from complete or partial de
' struction of property. Gener=-
ally speaking, it must result
from an identifiable event of a
sudden, unexpected, or unusual
nature,
Damage to your own car re=
sulting from a collision or ac
cident can be deducted if not
due to your willful negligence
or willful act, You cannot de=-
duct amounts you pay for dam=-
age to another car with which
you collided.
On personal or nonbusiness
property, the amount of the loss
is the lesser of (1) the cost
(adjusted) or (2) the decrease
in the fair market value of the
asset, From this amount you
must subtract the insurance or
other compensation which you
receive or expect to receive,
In addition, the Revenue Act
of 1964 imposes a floor on de
ductions for losses of property
used for personal purposes. Only
the amount of a net loss in ex
cess of SIOO per casualty or
theft is deductible. Married
taxpayers filing joint returnsare
subject to only one SIOO floor
for each casualty or theft, while
if they file separate returns,
each is subject to the SIOO floor.
«Theft losses,”’ he said, ‘“in
cluding losses of money or other
personal property, aredeductible
in the year they are discovered.
Losses resulting from losing or
mislaying articles are not de
ductible,
Some of the loss items for
which you cannot claim a de=-
duction are accidental loss of
cash or other personal proper
ty; damage due to rustor gradual
erosion; damage or destruction
of animals or plants by disease;
losses of property in storage or
in transit; or amounts paid for
personal injuries.
Document 5174 which furnishes
more detailed informationon this
subject is available upon request
from the Internal Revenue Ser
vice, >
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LEGISLETTER !
One of the last official ac~
tions of former Secretary of
Commerce Hodges was to issue
his statement on the ‘1965 Out=
look.”” This presents a highly
optimistic view of this year’s
prospects, with only minor quali=
fications. Substantial over=all
economic gains are expected to
continue, with ‘“nearly all”’ key
industries participating.
By devoting his analysis to
the year 1965 as a whole, the
former Secretary evaded a pro=
blem which is bothering many
observers—the possibility of a
fairly abrupt shift in the econo=
mic weather at the mid-year.
The automobile industry 1s
busy making up the production
lost through strikes in the early
part of the model year. Out=
put levels in recent weeks have
exceeded all previous records
and the prospect is for this catch=
up phase to continue for some
time.
FEAR OF STRIKE
Meanwhile the steel industry
is also operating at record rates
which will probably not be sus=-
tainable for the whole of 1965.
In part this is due to the al
ready-mentioned high rate of
activity in the autobile indus
try—one of steel’s prime cus
tomers. In part it results from
the fear of a possible steel strike
beginning in the late spring, and
the consequent desire of steel
users to protect themselves by
building up inventories.
By mid-year the steel strike
will either have happened or not
happened. In either case the
inventories now being piled up
will be drawndown and shipments
will fall below current rates of
consumption.
This combination of circum
stances in two leading industries
suggests a strong temporary up
Che
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
Little Grains of Sand
by GEORGE HAGEDORN
The Economic Opportunity
Act of 1964, the first big gun
in President Johnson’s war on
poverty, provides for a pro
gram of loans to low-income
rural families. The first eleven
loans made under this provi
.sion have just.been announced
by the Secretary of Agricul
ture. The Secretary’s state
ment names the eleven fami
lies, describes their circum
stances in some detail and ex
plains the manner in which
it is hoped that the loans will
help them.
The case histories are rather
pathetic, and one gets a feel
ing that specific examples of
human misfortune should not
thus be held up to public dis
play. But more important is
the fact that the descriptions
raise questions as to whether
this program is an effective
weapon against rural poverty.
The loans are for relatively
small amounts — $2,500 is the
maximum —and bear long
maturities—up to 15 years.
They are available only to
families who cannot obtain
credit from other sources, but
who nevertheless show “a rea
sonable promise of succeeding
in the enterprise to be fi
nanced by the loan.”
To Buy Small Farm
Six of the loans are to be
used, at least in part, to re
finance existing indebtedness
on farm properties. Four fam
ilies are helped to purchase
new equipment for their small
rural enterprises: a television
repair service, a firewood and
fence-post cutter, a shoe-re
pair shop and a commercial
fishing establishment. One
family with 10 children is to
be helped to purchase a small
farm.
The present incomes of the
eleven families are pitifully
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a water syvstem for Hermilage. a senior cilizens home for
W heatland and a community center for Urbana even though
the Missouri towns already had these facilities.
Thursday, February 4, 1065
By Glenn McCulloughe.
ward push on the economy dur
ing the first and second quarters
of 1965, followed by a corre
sponding temporary downward
pressure during the third quarter
and perhaps the fourth. These
inventory effects will be imposed
on top of more fundamental and
enduring economic trends. Their
influence could, however, be quite
substantial in distorting the pat
tern for the year.
FISCAL PROGRAM
Despite Secretary Hodges’ eva
sfon of this problem in his out
look statement, leaders of the
Johnson Administration are of
course well aware of it. As
near as can be gathered, their
program for meeting the situa
tion seems to lie largely in the
fiscal field.
The President has suggested
that Congress provide standby
funds for expenditure on public
works in anunemployment emer=-
gency. He has also urged that
Congress streamline its proce
dures for considering and acting
on tax changes. Whether any such
developments could play a signi
ficant part in 1965 is doubtful.
More immediately, a reduction
in excise taxes is expected to
provide some added economic
stimulus at about the middle of
the year. Also being talked about
is an increase in social security
benefits which would add to con
sumer buying power. The a=-
mounts involved in these two
changes will not be decided for
some time.
The difficulty with fiscal mea
sures of this type is that they
are ill-adapted to deal with the
kind of temporary economic dis
tortion anticipated for mid-1965.
If they are strong enough to
straighten out the expected kink
in the economic curve, they may
turn out to be excessive for the
longer run.
low, and the predicted incomes
after the loan funds are used
are not much better. Several
of the families suffer from
added handicaps, such as a
partial disability of the bread
winner. : : 5
The individual; sto a
touchirfg, and ?n"e wom lig
to think that Uncle Sam’s in
tervention will provide the
happy ending. But in these
days of a plentiful credit sup
ply, one wonders just how
workable a business proposi
tion can be when it is unable
to qualify for a small loan
from ordinary sources.
Welfare Confusion
The preservation, or crea
tion, of more subsistence
farms and more enterprises
that are just on the border
line of economic viability
seems to be a doubtful method
of bringing prosperity to rural
America.
The Secretary’s statement
leaves us completely in the
dark as to how these cases
were selected to get the first
loans, and how future appli
cants will be screened. It
would be interesting to know
the answers to these questions
since there has been much
confusion among state, local
and private welfare agencies
as to the role they will play
in implementing the Economic
Opportunity Act.
There are about four mil
lion rural families living in
poverty, if the Administra
tion’s definition of poverty —
family income below $3,000 —
is accepted. Trying to help any
substantial number of these
families by loans specially tai
lored to their individual cir
cumstances seems like trying
to move a pile of sand grain
by grain. 1/26/65