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BELMONT DENNIS
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LEOS. MALLARD
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OFFICAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
The arguments for and against
state legislature reapportion
ment via U. S. Supreme Court
edict were brought out plentifully
last June, when the famous 6-3
decision was announced. It
brought visions of changing poli
tical balance to residents of many
states, pleasing particularly the
big city machine manipulators.
Many serious students of poli
tics and history began to study
afresh the background for this
decision and the consequences
of it. It is certainly time for
the issue to be examined widely
and thoroughly. Congress must
be confronted with this problem
very soon.
Among interested citizens do
ing considerable homework is
Claude Gifford, an associate edi
tor of Farm Journal, whose ad
dress to the lowa Farm Bureau
Federation on the topic the Jour
nal has distributed. Mr. Gif
ford has examined colonial law
making all the way back to the
Mayflower Compact and James
town looking for precedent for
the decision. He found none.
But he did find apportionment
on factors other than population
—by counties or other geo
graphical, historical, or political
lines — from 1700, 87 years
before we had a national Con
stitution. His historical treat
ment helped put the consequences
of the high court’s decision in
perspective.
The People’s power
Mr. Gifford has the idea that
action in Boston harbor in 1773
and Lexington in 1775 had some
thing to do with representation
— or lack of it. Partly, at
least, a more populous Britain
insisted on having her way. When
the “free and independent” stat
es began to form constitutions,
New Hampshire at the head of
list set up two houses so that
one would be a check on the
other. Its upper house consist
ed of one person from each of
12 counties, a senate based on
area apportionment. And so it
went with one state after the
other, until there was experience
enough for a Constitutional con
vention.
After “four hot months and
1,840 speeches,” Mr. Gifford
notes, the best from the 55prac
tical men who had more ex
perience in constitution making
than the rest of the world put
together, came forth. The Con
stitution arose from the practice
of 29 colonial charters or con
stitutions, 17 revolutionary con
stitutions, and 23 union plans
On Tuesday, March 16, Cov
ington Rotarians will celebrate
the 60th anniversary of the found
ing of the first Rotary club. It
was on February 23, 1905, that
Rotary, the granddaddy of all
modern service clubs, was start
ed in Chicago by a group of
four young men, each from a dif
ferent business or profession.
“Service Above Self” and “He
Profits Most Who Serves Best”
are the twin mottoes of Rotary
expressing the organization’s
basic concept of service by every
Rotarian in his personal, busi
ness, and community life. It is
this dedication to serving others
that is the common denominator
for more than 560.000 Rotarians
of 11,800 Rotary clubs in 127
countries.
Down through the decades. Ro
tary has stood for fellowship
among business and professional
men, for high ethical standards
in vocations, for the improvement
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A Constitutional Cause
'Service Above Self’
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mall matter of the Second
Class.
in all, 69 various forms of
actual or contemplated govern
ment. In brief, the people made
the Constitution, and reserved to
themselves power to change it.
Each state was guaranteed “a
Republican Form of Govern
ment.”
And Who Can Change It?
But, on last June 15, six ma
jority members of the Supreme
Court said; seats in both hous
es of state legislatures must be
apportioned solely and equally on
population; political equality
means “one person, one vote;”
citizens in big districts are
denied “equal protection;” and
the U. S. Senate is no sound
example for state legislatures to
copy. Dissenting vigorously,
Justice Harlan said: “It is
difficult to imagine a more in
tolerable and inappropriate in
terference by the judiciary.”
Added Justice Stewart: “I do
not understand why the Court’s
constitutional rule does not re
quire the abolition of districts
and the holding of all elections
at large.”
Unprecedented Power
To summarize in less legal
words, said Mr. Gifford, “we can
see that the Supreme Court ma
jority of six is claiming that the
Court, not the people, has juris
diction how state legislatures will
be set up. . • .By this action,
the majority Court declared that
they, six men, can amend the
Constitution — not only of the
United States, but of the 50 stat
es as well. The framers of the
Constitution were careful to give
this amending power to the peo
ple alone.” These six, for pro
posing in 1787 that the Supreme
Court be allowed to amend the
Constitution, would have been
run out of Franklin’s town, add
ed Mr. Gifford.
The farm editor said further:
“The Court did not say to states
who were admittedly delinquent
in apportioning their state legis
latures: ‘Live up to your state
constitution and apportion as the
people wish.’ Instead, the six
said: ‘Live up to our ideas
of what we think your consti
tution and apportionment should
be.’ The six have roped off
state reapportionment as an area
for their judgment, and their
judgment alone. The lower
courts, they say, are going to
be their agents as the sole au
thority for what is ‘proper’ ap
portionment and representation.
Not the people; not the states;
but the courts!”
of communities, for aid to the
crippled and the needy, and for
the advancement of international
understanding and friendship as a
prerequisite to world peace.
As it enters its seventh decade,
Rotary is growing as a force in
community, business, and world
affairs. Certainly its world-wide
scope increases the opportuni
ties of its business and pro
fessional members to become
more aware of the hopes and
aspirations of one another.
Communities throughout the
world are benefiting in many
ways from the purposeful acti
vities of their Rotary clubs,
though the work they do is often
the behind-the-scenes kind that
is done without fanfare.
To Rotarians of this com
munity, we extend congratula
tions on the completion of this
60th year of Rotary. May it
continue to grow so that more
men will be inbued with its spirit
of service.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
—The Georgia-
A LEGISLETTER
By Glenn McCullough—
ATLANTA-The Georgia House
has met the challenge of reap
portlonment with flying colors,
and so earned the plaudits of
Governor Carl E. Sanders who
early In the session has urged
members not to leave the job to
the Federal courts.
A 205-member House in which
the state’s urban areas for the
first time will share almost equal
power with the rural counties was
approved by the chamber last
Wednesday after seven hours of
strenuous debate. The vote for
the plan reported out by the Rules
Committee was a surprising 141
to 48.
In the Senate, the House bill
was read for the first and second
times last Thursday and Friday
and was due for a third and final
reading on Monday or Tuesday of
this week. Usually reliable Sen
ate sources said that their cham
ber probably would approve the
House version without any drastic
changes although some of the
urban Senators may attempt to
whittle down the size of the
House. Such amendments are
expected to be voted down.
The job done by the House
last week—required by a Feder
al court order—was a heart
rending one for many of the
rural members. About 50 of them
appear likely to lose their pre
sent seats due to the combin
ation of their counties with others
to form House districts.
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By J. Shelby Cook, Pastor
Loganville and Walnut Grove
Methodist Churches.
WAKE UP YOUR MIND (101
Ways to Develop Creativeness)
by Alex Osborn, Dell Publishing
Company, New York, N. Y., 256
pages, $.60 (Paperbound).
Recently Charlotte and I
carried our three children to see
that lovable play, PETER PAN.
We all sat spellbound for almost
three hours. This even Included
our youngest, who is only four.
It is a thrilling play about a
boy who never grew up. The
author, James Barrie, used his
God-given gift of imagination,
and exercised it with astounding
results.
Perhaps we will never equal
the originality of Mr. Barrie,
but life can become more mean
ingful and exciting when we exer
cise our creative thought. Child
ren use theirs in a thousand
ways, as we grow older, most
of us tend to let it grow stale.
WAKE UP YOUR MIND offers
us a unique blueprint toward
creativeness. “Its premise is
that the more creative we try
to be, the more creative we
become; and the more creative
we are, the more we get out
of life.” The author shows
that every problem Is a challenge
to our ingenious minds. Through
exercising it in solving our
problems, our powers are
strengthened.
Defining creativity, the author
quotes Professor Hughes
Mearns, who spent his entire
career at New York University,
teaching this fascinating subject.
He says that it “is like another
heart. No one has found the
source of its power, but no one
doubts that the source is within
us. It will keep us alive if we
will give it a chance to beat
for us. If we let it be stilled,
there Is then no more life. It
Science .
KZ "Topics?
SERENE DECOR STILLS
THE DIN OF PROGRESS
OUR CIVILIZATION may be the
world’s most advanced but it also
is the noisiest, says the American
Medical Association. There may
be a direct relationship between
noise and such ailment as peptic
ulcers, heart disease, colitis,
high blood pressure and migraine
headaches, reports AMA. If you
live in a noisy area, it is sug
gested that air conditioning be
installed so that windows can be
kept shut, that sound-reflecting
surfaces be provided with carpet
ing, drapes, upholstered furni
ture and pillows, and that acous
tical ceilings be adopted to re
duce the noise level.
DIGITAL MODULATION, a new
term, has been added to AM and
FM, the old radio familiars. The
Department of Commerce says
the term, abbreviated to "DM,”
refers to on-off pulses of radio
energy that permit transmission
of thousands of pieces of infor
mation each second, over regular
radio channels, in the form of
pulse patterns. DM has great
potential because noise or static
isn’t critical during rec eption and
less channel space is required...
CATALYSTS are modern indus
try’s “blue chips.” The pills
have the strange ability to ac
celerate chemical rea cti o n s
without being altered themselves,
reports Girdler Catalysts,
Louisville, Ky. Practically every
commercially useful chemi
cal reaction depends on catalysts
and every dollar’s worth of the
A final dramatic effort by a
group of rural legislators to hold
on to the power they have had for
decades was made under the
leadership of Rep. Dorsey Mat
thews of Colquitt County. He
Introduced an amendment under
which each of Georgia’s 159 coun
ties would have kept at least one
Representative and 45 seats
would have been added to the
urban counties.
However, House leaders warn
ed that such a plan would be
virtually sure of rejection by the
Federal court because it depart
ed too far from the U. S. Su
preme Court’s “one man, one
vote” principle. After the Dorsey
substitute was beaten by a sub
stantial 116-72 vote, it became
increasingly evident that the
Rules Committee’s substitute for
the original “205” reapportion
ment plan advanced by the Com
mittee on Reapportionment would
be adopted.
During seven hours of debate
some 23 amendments were pro
posed, and most of them were
beaten down by substanial votes.
The only ones passed affected
the allocation of seats in urban
areas or provided that members
whose districts were not changed
would not have to run for re
election.
Under the “205” plan it is
estimated that the 22 largest
counties In the state can muster
a total vote of 104—one more than
needs continual exercise. If
we keep it going strong, it can
help us more and more to meet
the needs of living.”
Reading this stimulating book
will, in reality, WAKE UP YOUR
MIND to the everyday possib
ilities of creativity. Being with
children can help tremendously.
In order to get the most help
from children, “we must meet
them more than halfway; we must
let ourselves go; we must throw
dignity to the wind.” Many
other things enhance our powers,
some of these are: reading,
travel, certain hobbles, the fine
arts, and word play.
Insplrlngly, the author deals
with the use of Imagination in
human relations. We must
“change shoes” with the other
person. Courtesy is something
we can exercise everyday.
Emerson wrote, “Life is not
so short but that there is always
time for courtesy.” We can go
out of our way to praise the
other person, even thinking of
unique ways of doing this.
Problem solving, we are told, Is
the best of all exercises.
Probably surprising to some,
creative thought can even help
us in the area of health. A
large percentage of sickness is
due to tension, and tension is
often caused by frustration,
which is often caused by our
failure to overcome our
problems. When imagery is
used, we more easily master
our problems. Frustration and
tension are then eliminated.
When your life becomes drab
and uninteresting, spend sixty
cents and a few hours of your
time reading this exceptional
book. It could be one of the
best investments you ever made.
pellets sold is calculated to lead
to S2OO or more in end-product
value.
AFRAID of growing old? —
Forget it, for this may speed up
your aging process, says a
Florida physician. Fear of exer
tion and stress tends to weaken
older people’s resistance to dis
eases and injury, studies indi
cate. Scientists recommend
keeping active to maintain the
functional capacities of the body
at their peak . . . OCEAN WAVES
as high as 10 feet are breaking
in a basement at Georgia Tech.
Researchers have built a tunnel
that simulates wave action on the
bottom of the ocean to better
understand the effect storms have
on the sea bottom.
MEDULLOBLASTOMA, a form
of cancer that strikes children,
is difficult to treat because tots
can’t take the doses of radiation
normally administered after sur
gery to kill any remaining can
cer cells. Now, however, the
University of Rochester reports
that follow-up treatment with a
chemical known as triethylene
thiophosphoroamide can be sub
stituted for radiation. The chem
ical, once feared because it has
serious side effects, is safe when
injected in the cerebro-spinal
fluids so that it doesn’t mix with
other body tissues and fluids . ..
BACHELOR’S BUTTONS sold by
a New York firm aren’t of the
garden variety but they may grow
on you. They’re buttons equip
ped with fold-back prongs that
permit them to be attached to
shirts without sewing.
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a majority while the other 137
counties (with 40.7 per cent of
the state’s population) will con
trol the remaining 101 votes. So
there will be a near balance of
urban-rural strength for the first
time tn half a century.
With reapportionment through
the House and Governor Sanders’
§1,200,000,000 biennial appro
priation bill passed by both cham
bers, the Legislature can attack
a mass of other legislation await
ing action.
The Senate last week passed a
revised auto inspection bill w hich
Is similar to that passed by the
House except for more drastic
requirements for headlight in
spection. The two must be re
conciled in conference.
Os major interest to the Metro
politan Atlanta area is a Senate
passed bill to set up a Rapid
Transit Authority, which pro
bably will come up for action in
the House this week.
A “home rule” bill for cities
has been passed by both cham
bers, but a constitutional amend
ment providing “home rule” for
counties has been passed only by
the Senate and still awaits action
In the House.
A bill to abolish so-called
“marriage mills” In counties
bordering on Tennessee and
Florida has been passed by the
House, but awaits Senate action.
Early this week the House pas
sed a bill (H.B. 188) which would
establish a state-wide rate for
legal advertising at §2.00 per
100 words. It requires Senate
action. Previously this rate
obtained only in some of the
larger counties.
‘Buy Lines’
Q. Are fresh potatoes or pro
cessed potato products cheaper?
A. Prices will fluctuate during
the year, but a recent study re
vealed that home-prepared potato
dishes were lower in cost than
their processed counterparts. In
making a choice, evaluate be
tween the savings in time, con
venience, added variety to meals
and cost. To compare cost,
figure that one pound of fresh
potatoes will yield three serv
ings. The number of servings
from a package of processed
potatoes is usually listed on the
container.
Q. How do processed potatoes
compare nutritionally with fresh
potatoes?
A. Processed potatoes con
tain less vitamin C; however,
potatoes are ususally not a main
source of vitamin C in the diet.
A vitamin C rich food is pro
vided when meals are planned
with the basic four groups as a
guide.
Q. What characteristics indi
cate that a white potato will store
well?
A. Potatoes with thick, dry
skins--often flaky or netted—are
mature and keep well. If the
skins are thin and feathery, buy
only the amount you will use
within a week or ten days.
Q. Do greenish spots on pota
toes mean they are immature?
A. No. Both new and old
potatoes may show a green color
on some part of the surface. It
is usually caused by long ex
posure to sun or light. The green
portion contains a bitter sub
stance and such potatoes should
be avoided.
Q. Are potatoes fattening?
A. No one food can be con
sidered responsible for a gain
in weight. It is the total food
energy eaten in a given period
of time as related to the amount
of energy the body uses. The
excess is stored as fat for later
use. Actually, a white potato
is relatively low in calories.
One medium-size baked potato
contains about 90 calories. The
seasonings and dressings added
to potatoes can easily double the
caloric value of the potato serv
ing.
(Today’s “Buy Lines” were
prepared by Rita Waters, Nutri
tionist, University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension Service.)
FOR GEORGIA CONSUMERS
Q. Can we get the calcium
we need for good health from
foods other than milk?
A. Milk is about the best
single and least expensive food
source of calcium which is so
important to build and maintain
strong teeth and bones.
Q. Is it necessary to buy
vitamin supplements to have good
health?
A. A normal, healthy in
dividual gets all the vitamins and
other nutrients needed in a
balanced diet. The advice of a
physician is needed to identify
any vitamin deficiency and pre
scribe the proper treatment.
Q. Is it possible for us to
get too much vitamin D, es
'pecially when we drink milk en
riched with this vitamin?
A. The amount of vitamin D
added to milk is enough to pre
vent rickets and promote healthy
bones and teeth and growth and
development in normally healthy
individuals if the fortified milk
in the daily diet is the rec
ommended amount. Vitamin D
is needed by all growing children
from infancy through teen years.
Overdoses of vitamin D are
usually due to excessively large
intakes of vitamin A and D con
centrates.
Q. Why is it important to
our health to include vitamin D
foods in our diet?
A. Vitamin D increases the
effectiveness of your body’s use
of calcium and phosphorous.
(Today’s “Buy Lines” were
prepared by Lucile Higgin
botham, head, Health Education
Department, University o f
Georgia Cooperative Extension
Service.)
I OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
I Sunday School
Inheritors of the Kingdom
Devotional Reading: Matthew
7:13-28.
Memory Selection: Not every
one who says to me »
Lord,” shall enter the kingdom
of heaven, but he who does the
will of my Father who is in
heaven. Matthew 7;21.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
The Choice of a Lifetime
Young People-Adult Topic: In
heritors of the Kingdom
Last week’s lesson, as we have
several times reminded our
selves, was particularly difficult
to understand, it told of laborers
in the kingdom who were paid the
same wage for doing different
amounts of work. Those who
came the eleventh hour received
precisely the same wageasthose
who came the first hour. Natur
ally there was remonstrance on
the part of those who had “borne
the burden and heat of the day.”
But the householder remarked
that he had paid the workers first
retained the amount they had
bargained for and that he had a
right to do what he wanted to do
with his own money.
This passage of scripture
taught, among other things, the
lesson that it is never too late to
enter God’s kingdom. Those who
come last—at the eleventh
hour—shall receive the same re
ward as those who came early.
Converted evildoers will receive
the same treatment as those who
grew up in Christian homes.
Today’s lesson continues the
teachings of last week’s lesson.
It impresses on biblical readers
the truth that it is never too late
to enter God’s kingdom if one
meets the requirements thereof.
It teaches the added lesson that
the kingdom is open to all.
The guest “which had not on a
wedding garment’ ’ portrays in his
demeanor the necessity for taking
God’s offer of the kingdom ser
iously.
Two sons—one insolent, who
later repented and did his father’s
will, the other apparently com
placent who was full of falseness.
The father said to the first son,
“Go work to day in my vineyard.
He answered and said, I will not;
but afterward he repented, and
went.” The second assured his
father with oily politeness that he
would go, but he went not. Jesus
asked his hearer: “Whether of
them twain (which one of them)
did the will of his father? They
say unto him, The first. Jesus
saith unto them, Verily I say un
to you, That the publicans and the
harlots go into the kingdom of
God before you.” Again we face
the question, “Who will find favor
in God’s sight and entrance into
his kingdom?”
Last week’s lesson assured us
that God holds the doors of his
kingdom open at all times for
those who would enter. They
may come late—even at the
eleventh hour—but if they come
with sincere hearts, the doors
are open, and the arms of God
also, to receive them.
The factor involved in this
lesson is not time but willing
ness. Last week we observed the
laborers standing idle in the
marketplace until a householder
hired them. Today we see a father
commanding two sons to work in
his vineyard. One impudently
refuses but later repents. The
other agrees but does not keep
his word.
In today’s lesson the father of
the two sons represents God. The
son who refused represents sin
ners, harlots, and publicans. The
son who assured his father that he
would go and did not represents
the Pharisees.
The Pharisees appeared to be
in God’s favor. They made re
ligion their business. They work
ed at it from morning until night.
But Jesus was unsparing in his
denunciation of these Pharisees.
He likened them to the son who
agreed to work in the vineyard
and did not do so.
The kingdom of God means the
rule of God—in the individual
heart and in the world. There
will be a consummation and ful
fillment of the kingdom when
Christ returns. The Pharisees
were complacent and confident.
As regards the kingdom they were
definitely in. “Not so,” said
Jesus. “You are impostors and
deceivers. You assure the world
one thing and do another.”
Brought down into modern times,
this means that there are com
placent Christians who are quite
sure that they are saved and that
their careless neighbors or the
wicked people' they see around
them are not saved.
This passage of scripture has
to do with a parable about a wed
ding and a wedding feast which a
certain king prepared for his son.
The king, of course, is God. The
Son is Jesus Christ. Then the
parable goes on to tell how ser
vants were sent “to call them that
were bidden to the wedding.” The
courteous procedure in those
days was not only to invite people
to a social occasion but to send
people each day to remind them of
the invitation and urge their ac
ceptance.
The invited guests in the par
able were indifferent. Some
“made light of it, and went their
ways, one to his farm, another to
his merchandise.” They repre
sent the people in our own day
who make light of religion, who
blithely pay little or no attention
to spiritual matters. They are too
busy to bother about religion.
Leave that, they mutter, to women
and children. We have more
serious things to do.
But there are others who pro
ceed violently against the ser
vants of God. The persecutions
oi the early Christians and, cen
turies later, the Inquisition are
tragic examples of this attitude.
In our own time many brave mis
sionaries have suffered death in
foreign lands. Communism is an
organized movement against all
forms of religion.
What will the king do in the
face of this situation? He will
inflict such punishment as is due.
It was a sorry day when preachers
dwelt continually upon hell-fire
and brimstone, but it is an equally
sorry day wherein the firmness of
God is seldom mentioned from the
pulpit or in the Sunday school, for
God is indeed firm. The Bible
tells us that God is love, but this
does not preclude the factor of
firmness. The parent who allows
his children to do whatever they
want to do is not a good parent.
Firmness is a necessary factor in
good parenthood. Wise fathers
and mothers perform many
necessary functions in the rear
ing of a family, but among other
things they discipline their child
ren. Usually results are pro
duced by cheerful suggestion and
pleasant request, but there are
times when the stern command is
needed.
God has no time for those who
make light of his offer of salva
tion or go their ways pretending
that they are too busy to take
part in the work of his kingdom.
As Jesus spoke of those whom
the king would destroy, he must
have been looking forward and in
his mind sorrowfully contemplat
ing the destruction of Jerusalem
which was to take place forty
years after his crucifixion. In
A.D. 70 Emperor Titus leveled
Jerusalem to the ground. Titus,
of course, was not a Christian.
He was an instrument in God’s
hands fulfilling his will in a
stern and tragic manner.
Men may have life, generously
given by both of God’s extended
hands. If they will not have it,
God’s will must nevertheless be
done, and suffering is often the
recompense for human sin and
folly.
“Then saith he (the king) to
his servants, The wedding is
ready, but they which were bid
den were not worthy. Go ye
therefore into the highways, and
as many as ye shall find, bid to
the marriage.”
Luke says: “Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that my house
may be filled” (Luke 14:23).
This text was used by the
monsters who carried on the
Inquisition to justify their in
credible cruelties. The Bible
instructs us, they said, to go out
and compel people to come into
the church. These dissenting
Protestants must be brought by
force into the church which they
have deserted.
Again we see the theme of the
lesson emerging, namely, that
the kingdom of God is open to
all men and that they may enter
it at any time provided they meet
its requirements. The Jews of
our Lord’s day rejected him, the
divine Messiah. The sin of the
world swept on. Jerusalem was
destroyed. The Jews were scat
tered to the uttermost parts of
the world. They are and have
been a people of considerable
nobility and deserve our admir
ation and praise. Their de
struction as a nation was the in
evitable result of perverse and
impossible opposition to cir
cumstances they could not pos
sibly change. To accept Rome
as their overlord was to them,
the people of God, to put the
emperor before Jehovah. They
were restive and rebellious un
til Rome at last decided to solve
the problem by destroying the
city of Jerusalem and ravaging
the adjacent country.
God’s firmness is hard to un
derstand. When we feel it in our
own lives we cringe, and we cry
out in protest and remonstrance.
But we must remember that in
our individual cases, as in the
case of the Jewish people two
thousand years ago, the troubles
and tragedies which come upon
us are usually the result of our
own folly or sin, or both. Jesus
declared: “O Jerusalem, Jeru
salem, which killest the pro
phets, and stonest them that are
sent unto thee; how often would
I have gathered thy children to
gether, as a hen doth gather her
brood under her wings, and ye
would not!” (Luke 13:34).
So it is today among Christian
believers, including ourselves.
If God uses harsh measures a
gainst us, we can be sure that
they are consistent with his lov
ing purpose. This is not easy
either to perceive or accept. We
need the fullness of God’s grace
to get through life with its frus
trations, troubles, and sorrows,
“So those servants went out
into the highways, and gathered
together all as many as they
found, both bad and good: and the
Wedding was furnished with
’guests.”
SICKNESS AND DIS
ABILITY BENEFITS
“Did you get compensation for
sickness or disability in 1964?
Special Federal income tax rules
apply to amounts received as
compensation for sickness or
disability,” A. C. Ross, Director
of Internal Revenue for the At
lanta District, said today. The
payments may be exempt or part
ly exempt from income tax.
Document 5016 which furnishes
more detailed information on this
subject is available upon request
from the Internal Revenue Ser
vice.