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THE COVINGTON NEWS i
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Today, there is indeed a “crisis in the country
side” -- or rather, two crises. One is the con
tinued wastage of the land through erosion and im
proper use. The other is the result of man’s
partial success. This is the crisis of complacency
about conservation.
Why this complacency? Perhaps it is because
the need for increased conservation measures does
not immediately strike the eye. The supermarkets
are full--today. The dust may not be blowing
today. And so we concern ourselves with the
big headlines--wars, space, missiles, murders!
These are serious matters indeed. But, we lose
more of our land every year to silent erosion than
we have ever lost, or shall ever lose, to a foreign
foe. Where is the battle cry for this?
What happens to the eroding lands in Missouri
and Montana affects us more directly than our
landing on the moon. Where are the pleaders for
this? And —no matter what weapons of the future
we develop—the most modern army in the world
still travels on its stomach, still depends on the
bountiful earth we take for granted.
Do not misunderstand me. Our activities around
the world, and out of it, are very necessary. But I
will firmly believe to the end of my life that there
is no work more important, now or for the future,
than conserving and enriching our own land, tir:
basis for our life, our living, our national wealth.
Yet we lose each year, through erosion and other
forms of preventable damage, about 500,000 acres
of formerly productive land. The bulldozer and the
Georgia is graduating a $l5O million class this
year—the largest in its history. June graduates
from the state’s 505 high schools will number
52,360—d0ub1e the number who graduated just
ten years ago. In 1956, graduates numbered
25,296.
The state has invested in this class $150,136,
016.80 of public tax funds. This is about S2BOO
per graduate. When they started to school 12
years ago, tire per pupil expenditure was $l6O
per pupil. This year, as they graduate, it too,
has more than doubled—to an estimated $384
per pupil.
The money is well-spent, thinks State Superin
tendent of Schools Jack P. Nix. Each of these
high school graduates can earn an average of
$215,487 in his lifetime. That is $66,000 more
than he could have earned if he had dropped out
of school in the eighth grade. Since the school
year is 180 days, and the four years of high
school add up to 720 days, that means that every
day he lias spent in high school above the eighth
grade is worth almost a hundred dollars to him.
If he goes on to college, the figures will be
even more impressive. His life-time earnings
after four or more years of college will amount
to $366,990 —- another $150,000!
Almost 40 percent of June’s graduates will go
on to college. Others will enter one of the state’s
area vocational - technical schools, from which
one young Georgian just graduated into an SB3OO
data processing job. The state has 12 of these
schools open now, seven more to open in the fall,
and the final two in September 1967. One of the
last two, Atlanta’s, will cost $6 million and be the
largest Vo-tech school in the world. It will offer
more than 50 courses.
What about those who aren’t graduating? Some
where there are 40,000 youngsters who won’t
wear cap and gown next month, who won’t earn
that additional $66,000 in their lifetime. The year
the class of 1966 was in the fifth grade, there
were 98,827 bright young faces in their yearbooks.
The class has shrunk by more than 40,000 since
then. But the picture is not all dark, Georgia
has moved up in holding power-- from last place
two years ago to 47th last year.
The Georgia youngsters who did stay in school
to graduate received a better education than any
class before them. Some of tire brightest were
among the 400 chosen for the Governor’s Honors
Mr. President: This is either the fifth or sixth
draft of this brief comment. The first, written
in instantaneous anger a couple of weeks ago was,
after overnight reflection, discarded as just too
furious. In the intervening days, there’s been a
mighty struggle going on to temper our fury down
to rage, and then to wratli, and then to indignation.
That seems to be as far as the emotion can be
distilled.
There’s nothing partisan about what follows.
We’re blessed with some pretty vigorous partisans
of both political parties in this community, and we
take our politics seriously and zealously. But
when a neighbor is ill or injured, or when a barn
burns, partisanship ends and we all pitch in.
When one of us is attacked all of us are attacked,
be the attacker the elements, beast or man. Or
government.
In this community we grow some of the crops
and raise some of the animals which feed and
clothe our country. And we have a pretty well
fixed idea of Who makes these crops grow and
causes the animals to be born. Nobody hands us a
pay envelope on Saturday night when we wash the
dirt from under our fingernails. We have to wait
out the season of growth, and sell what we have
^tended, be it plant or beast.
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Crisis In The Countryside
Our Most Valuable Product
The 100 Percent War
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builder take another one and one-third million
acres of the best land every 365 days for high
ways, factories, housing and so on. Our rivers
continue to flood and destory homes and hopes.
Our water supply runs short, becomes polluted,
erodes the land. And, as much of our land dis
appears, our population and that of the world
increases.
Yes, our supermarkets are still full. Our time
has not run out. But, quite literally, the sins of
our forefathers are being visited upon us. We
cannot afford to be as wasteful in the future, if
we desire our । children's children to inherit an
affluent America. We must plan more intensively,
farm more wisely, care more urgently. And we
must make sure the city man understands that
what happens in rural America affects him im
mediately and profoundly.
We call our land “God’s country,” and it is.
Let us clearly acknowledge it is our job to keep it
that way. Farmers and ranchers, as the chief soil
stewards, have the heaviest responsibility. They,
of all people, know the conservation job is far from
done. Thirty percent of our land is being properly
treated. What about the 70 percent?
As we acknowledge Soil Stewardship Week, let us
indeed thank God for this country, and for the
thousands of dedicated people working to keep
it rich and bountiful—especially the officials and
cooperators of our 3,000 soil and water conser
vation districts. And then—let us get off our
knees and go back to work.
D. A. Williams. Adm.
Soil Conservation Service
Program during their junior and senior highschool
years. This program, second one in the nation,
was started by the State Department of Education
in the summer of 1964. It will be repeated again
this summer and possibly will become regional.
The graduates have had the benefit of Georgia’s
million-dollar testing, guidance and counseling
program, developed during the years they have
been in school. The state matches about $400,000
in federal funds for this program in high school,
and adds another SIOO,OOO for a program in
elementary schools.
They have been taught by the best-prepared
teachers in the state’s history. More than 95%
of Georgia’s 41,000 teachers now have degrees.
About 8000 of them have master’s degrees and
a number have doctorates.
The state’s new schools have more libraries
and laboratories so that studying is more inter
esting. They have had broader curriculum op
portunities--the chance to take almost any subject
from Russian to auto mechanics. Three-fourths
of them have had some lessons through educational
television, a field in which Georgia is a national
leader.
Many of these seniors have ridden to school
on one of the state’s 5000 big yeUow school
buses. Georgia has put 12 years of free edu
cation within the reach of every child in the state,
no matter whether he lives in the city or in the
remotest rural area. Most of them have gone to
new, modern schools, built since the building pro
gram started in 1951 following the three-cents
sales tax. Ninety-five percent of the schools
being built now are air-conditioned.
The money for these graduates’ education came
from three sources—state, local and federal funds.
Georgia spent more money last year--an estim
ated $266,500,000 — on education of its youth
than on any other single item in the state budget.
Local systems contributed approximately
$115,500,000 and the U. S. government, about
$52,000,000. The state financed 61.4% of its
educational program, local systems 26.6%, and the
federal government, 12%.
These weeks preceding graduation are an ex
citing time—for the students, their proud parents
and teachers. It’s a thrill and a challenge to
some on the sidelines, too, who realize with
each bigger, better-educated class that Georgia
is moving up in the field of education.
When you and your appointed aides announce
that you are going to control inflation by making
war on farm prices, you’ve set a grass-fire,
Mr. President. For the fact is, war is never
waged against an abstraction, like prices. War is
waged against people. In this case, us.
The dumping of government-owned grain, re
stricting exports of hides, raising sugar imports,
cutting government purchasing of dairy and pork
products — these are acts of war already com
mitted. Yet 61 percent of the cost of food in the
housewives’ shopping basket is added after that
food leaves our farms. That suggests that 61
percent of the war on inflation ought to be cen
tered elsewhere, instead of 100 percent against
us.
Your war may succeed. You may roll back our
prices, without ever attacking any of those many
other better-organized voter blocs. You may,
indeed, hold back inflation with that roll-back.
But any farmer in this community — and any
where else — will tell you that when you roll
back a wire fence, or anything else, too tight,
the recoil can be ferocious. As we said earlier,
when we’re attacked, partisanship ends and we
close ranks and fight back. Starting now.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
OI R WEEKLY LENNOX FOR?
Sunday School ds
CORRUPTION AMIDST
PROSPERITY (TEMPERANCE)
Devotional Reading: Isaiah 5:
1-7.
Memory Selection: Pride goes
before destruction, and a haughty
spirit before a fall. Proverbs
16:18.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Prosperous but Perishing.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Corruption Amidst Prosperity
(Temperance).
Last week’s lesson gave us the
inspiring account of how a priest
saved a nation. Athallah, mother
of a king who died, aspired to the
throne for herself and “arose
and destroyed all the seed royal”
(II Kings 11:1). But the high
priest Jehoiada, firm in his de
votion to Jehovah and in his
loyalty to the house of David,
opposed pagan worship. Atha
liah wanted, above all, to kill
young Joash, heir to the throne,
but through the courage and quick
action of a daughter of the royal
household, Joash was rescued
from death and hidden “in the
bedchamber from Athallah” for
six years. Later Jehoiada in
stigated a rebellion against the
monstrous woman Athallah, who
wanted to wipe out the royal
household and she was deposed
and slain.
The scripture assigned for to
day’s lesson constitutes such a
confused account of the reign of
Jeroboam 11, king of Israel, that
both teacher and pupil may well
become bewildered as they try
to follow the assigned Bible pass
age in detail. We shall there
fore point out what appear to be
the moral and spiritual lessons
contained In this quite bewilder
ing account of historical circum
stances, and apply these lessons
to modern situations.
Jeroboam 11, king of the
Northern Kingdom, is the person
upon whom we need to fix our
attention. We recall that after
the reign of Solomon the Hebrew
kingdom was divided. The ten
tribes to the north chose Jero
boam I as their king, and the two
tribes to the south chose Reho
boam, son of Solomon, king of Ju
dah. From that time on, severe
enmity existed between the king
dom of Israel to the north and
the kingdom of Judah to the south.
Our lesson today deals with the
Northern Kingdom and its mon
arch Jeroboam n. Jeroboam
began his reign about 150 years
after the division of the kingdom
and about 50 years after the cir
cumstances discussed in last
week’s lesson (Jehoiada, Atha
liah, and King Joash).
The Northern Kingdom of Is
rael was destined from the be
ginning to failure and ruin. It
was much larger in area and
stronger in military power than
was the Southern Kingdom of
Judah. But it had broken away
entirely from the true worship
of Jehovah God which had been
revealed through Moses. Because
Jeroboam I was afraid to allow
his subjects to go to the temple
in Jerusalem and take part in its
worship, he set up golden calves
such as Aaron had made while
Moses was on Mount Sinai re
ceiving the law from God’s hand
(Exod. 32: 1-35).
The advantage which the North
ern Kingdom had, therefore, in
area and population was entirely
offset by the fact that the people,
through false worship, fell into
all sorts of immoral practices.
They forgot the true religion
which had been revealed to them
through Moses. They went over,
body and soul, to idolatry. Such
an attitude carries with it se
vere and, in this case, fatal
penalties. The people simply
reverted to paganism. All the
great spiritual advantages that
might have been theirs as mem
bers of a nation over which Moses
had presided were destroyed.
The lesson for us is that there
can be no greatness and national
progress if the moral character
of a people is in any way im
paired. The ten tribes to the
north gave up their religion.
Their fields were broad and fer-
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BY GOV.
CARL E. SANDERS
More Americans have been
killed In traffic accidents on
U. S. highways in the last twelve
years than have been killed in
all wars in which our Nation
has fought during America’s 190-
year history.
Last year alone 49,000 Amer
ican mH and women, boys and
girls, were killed in traffic ac
cidents while an additional
1,800,000 were injured. Cost to
the Ame.-tean people was a stag
gering eight-and-one half billion
dollars in addition to personal
loss and suffering.
In Georgia along 1,360 people
met their death on the highways
and nineteen-thousand-five-hun
dred were maimed or otherwise
injured.
Traffic accidents account for
more deaths among teenagers
and drivers in their early twen
ties than the total of all other
causes, and traffic deaths take
the lives of more persons to age
36 tian any other one cause.
The loss of lives on the high
ways of this Country each year
is beyond imagination. It is
equivalent to about 500 jet air-
tile. Their natural resources
were immense. But spiritually
they were dead.
They had allowed themselves
to become separated from the two
tribes in the south, which held
to the law revealed on Mount
Sinai and to Jehovah, the living
and true God. Their gods, after
the division, were two golden
calves.
When a nation loses its re
ligion it loses its soul, it loses
its greatness. Ruin awaited the
Northern Kingdom. Ruin awaits
any people today foolish enough
to give up their religious faith
or to become indifferent toward
it.
Jeroboam 11, whose exploits
are described in the first part
of our lesson (II Kings 14:23-29)
was a mighty warrior. If mili
tary valor could make a nation
great, the Northern Kingdom
should have been great. It was
much larger than the Southern
Kingdom and larger than most
of the other kingdoms in that part
of the world. Jeroboam II was a
mighty man of valor. But the
nation was headed toward decline
and dissolution.
Neither its size, its natural re
sources, nor the brave and re
sourceful leadership of King
Jeroboam II could save it. Spirit
ually the Northern Kingdom was
dead.
As time went on, the populat
ion of the Northern Kingdom
experienced a shocking maldis
tribution of the nation’s wealth.
A little group at the top, com
posed mostly of nobles, military
leaders, merchants, and large
landowners, became extremely
wealthy, and the great mass of
the people became extremely
poor. The wealthy concerned
themselves not at all about the
welfare of the poor. They re
clined on beds of ivory; they
drank wine out of bowls. “They
sold the righteous for silver
and the poor for a pair of shoes”
(Amos 2:6).
When a situation of this sort
arises in any nation, revolution
and national disaster are not
far distant. The Northern King
dom was at the height of its pro
sperity when Jeroboam II was
king. We are told in the seven
verses with which our lesson
text begins that the mighty and
resourceful Jeroboam enlarged
the territory of his country and
overran one area after another in
cruel conquest. But he departed
not at all from the policies and
evils of the first Jeroboam, that
son of Nebat “who made Israel
to sin”.
Jeroboam I had repudiated the
religion of Jehovah God and sub
stituted for it the worship of
two golden calves. Jeroboam n,
150 years later, was mighty as a
military figure and ruled his
nation with a heavy hand. But
the Northern Kingdom had cut the
ground from under itself by re
pudiating true, revealed religion.
It lost its soul when it lost its
religion. Both Jeroboam I and
Jeroboam n, 150 years later,
were mighty and impressive
characters. But they were the
harbingers of national ruin.
The nation would go to pieces
because of what these men and
their descendants did.
Wherever there is concentra
tion of power and wealth an abused
people, long trodden under foot,
finally rises up, first to challenge
then to destory this tyranny. It
happened in the Roman Empire.
It happened a number of times
in the history of Western Europe.
It happened in the French Re
volution. It happened in the
Russian Revolution. It happen
ed as a result of those tyrannical
invasions under Hitler which re
sulted in World War H.
Economically the unequal dis
tribution of this world’s goods
creates revolutionaries such as
Marx, Lenin, and the outstanding
rebels of modern times.
Unequal distribution of this
world’s goods needs indeed to
be corrected but it can never
be corrected by such mistaken
systems as socialism, nazism,
and communism.
place crashes a year or 10 major
air crashes a week.
During this administration,
many steps have been taken to
reduce this tragic cause of death
in Georgia.
The Motor Vehicle Inspection
Law was designed to remove un
safe automobiles from our str
eets and highways. It has been
largely successful in reducing
the number of accidents caused
by slick tires, faulty brakes, and
other mechanical failures.
During this administration, and
in the very near future, a new
Police Academy will open its
doors. For the first time, all
law enforcement officers, state
and local, will be offered compre
hensive training which will en
able them to become more highly
skilled in preventing traffic ac
cidents.
During the most recent ses
sion of the General Assembly,
$200,000 was set aside for edu
cating instructors for the first
Statewide driver education pro
gram in the secondary schools
of Georgia.
5400,000 has been approved
to finance a traffic safety pro
gram and rhe employment and
training of safety engineers.
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Betty Talmadge
For Governor
Mrs. Nora Lawrence Smith,
one of the Board Managers of the
Georgia Press Association, and
Editor of the Wiregrass Farmer,
newspaper of Ashburn, Georgia,
says Betty Talmadge should be
Governor of Georgia. She should
run for Governor, not as a stand
in for her husband, as was done in
Alabama, but on her own, says
Miss Nora.
“Miss Nora” as she is lovingly
known by all members of the
Press Association, believes that
a woman in the Governors chair
could do things for Georgia.
Betty made a splendid “First
Lady” of Georgia, is a lovely
person, and a capable one. We
do not think she is considering
this at all, but we know if she
chose to run, she would probably
be Georgia’s First Lady Gover
nor, and would bring honor to the
office.
So, Nixon makes the announce
ment for Bo Callaway, that he
is to run for Governor in Georgia’
We are waiting to see who the
candidates will be. However, we
think Mr. Callaway is too smart
to let a loser, like Nixon, make
his announcement for him.. .even
tho he did turn Republican, which
was his privilege.
gCIRNCEkWI
Topics a
PROTON IS COMPOUND
SCIENTISTS REPORT
PROTONS, the lightest stable
nuclear particles, are composite
systems and not indivisible, say
University of Pennsylvania phy
sicists. Their findings give sup
port to a theoretical proposal
developed in 1961-62 suggesting
that all of the many nuclear
particles discovered in recent
years are actually compounds of
each other.
A HIGH-FREQUENCY dielec
tric generator built by Votator,
Louisville, is the most powerful
ever manufactured. It delivers
600,000 - watts, 12 times the
power requirements of U. S.
“clear channel” AM radio trans
mitters. The “Thermex” unit
will be teamed with a huge press
as part of a fiberboard product
ion system.
THE FEATHERWING BEETLE
is one of the smallest beetles
known, says Chicago’s Field Mu
seum. The minute insect is
smaller than some single-celled
protozoa, yet it has compound
eyes, segmented antennae, com
plex mouth parts, wings and all
the other essential parts of its
larger relatives. It rarely is
more than a twenty-fifthonainch
long.
NEW EVIDENCE that organic
compounds found in meteorites
are not signs that life exists
on other worlds has been reported
by a University of Chicago che
mist. His experiments show that
the compounds could easily have
been formed without the aid of
living organisms and under con
ditions that existed during the
early history ofthe solar system.
The organic compounds were
nearly duplicated using only
simple gases and pulverized ma
terial from meteorites.
IOWA has a higher percentage
of residents age 65 and over
than any other state, says the U.S.
Census Bureau. As of July 1,
1964, more than 12 per cent of
lowa’s population was 65 or over.
Alaska has the smallest per
centage of the aging, slightly
more than two per cent.
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy and
his five-year-old sister are pro
fessional spitters. In fact their
entire family, including more
than 30 relatives, is. They all
receive $1 to spit into sterilized
non-breakable tubes every other
week as part of a research study
at the University of Wisconsin.
The University is studying the
blood group antibodies found in
saliva and hoping to discover
if they are inherited or stimulated
by the presence of bacteria.
Attend
Sunday
These proposals with the rec
ent activation of the Georgia
Safety Council will provide our
State with the first real high
way safety program in history
and I predict success for this
newest program of progress and
safety.
Traffic safety, however, can
not be the job of law enforce
ment officials and safety-con
scious citizens alone. Traffic
safety must be a continuous,
everyday effort on the part of
each driver in Georgia.
To substantially reduce ac
cidents on the highways and re
verse the upward trend in traf
fic deaths, drivers must obey
laws and regulations and travel
at a speedy at which the car
is under complete control.
A conservative estimate fixes
driver error as the cause of
at least three-fourths of all ac
cidents. Speeding and not having
the car under control is the
major cause of automobile ac
cidents in Georgia.
As vacation time approaches
with an increased number of
automobiles traveling Georgia’s
roads and highways, I urge you
to take extra precaution, to drive
carefully, and to watch the other
driver.
CHARLES DEGAULLE—
THO^N OF CONTENTION IN
SEEK FOR FRANCE’S GLORY
Charles DeGaulle, President
of France, has betrayed his
people and his country in every
conceivable way and dishonored
himself and his nation in the
eyes of the free world in his
blind effort to regain the lost
glory of France.
Two times in the last fifty
years the United States has sent
her armies to save the French
hide at a high cost in American
lives and money. Yes, money,
but the French had rather forget
that little item. Indeed, they
have forgotten, for they have not
made a payment on war debts
in thirty five years.
Using just the figures from the
1966 World Almanac on the
French debt owed U.S. arising
from World War I, we find that
the principal and interest due
and unpaid as of June 30, 1965,
is $4,688,478,839. The addit
ional World War II debt is stag
gering.
We in the United States realize
that France has been torn twice
during the first part of the cen
tury by war and that the country
and her people have needed our
help. Indeed, France has been
our ally in two wars. But, come
peace time, it’s a different story.
France, under the thumb of
DeGaulle, has accepted all the
United States money she could get
and begged for more. At the
same time she has made no
honorable attempt at all to pay
on the already staggering ac-
By
The Rev. George Home
Rector,
Church of the Good Shepherd
From the 37th Chapter of Eze
kiel, the famous story of the
Valley of Dry Bones, I quote the
following words: “And as I
looked, there were sinews on
them, and flesh had come upon
them, and skin had covered them,
but there was no breath in them.”
The breath that Ezekiel is speak
ing of is the breath or Spirit
of God, and what Ezekiel is ob
serving is that when this breath
or Spirit is absent from the flesh
and bones and skin, there is no
life.
Much of the tragedy today
stems directly out of the fact
of the lack of the spiritual in
the lives of so many people,
and it is not difficult for anyone
to verify this. Look about you,
and it will shock you to find
how many people are spiritless,
who merely exist in this world
without living, who are in truth
dry bones. But as much as is
the lack of the Spiritual in the
lives of people is a tragedy,
much more so is the general mis
understanding of the absolute es
sentialness of the Spiritual. Ttiis
does not only apply to those who
completely lack the spiritual, but
it also applies to those who
profess and call themselves
Christians place their spiritual
needs below the needs of their
bodies and minds.
The needs of the body (I would
not eliminate the physical church
body) are met first - every effort
is strained toward properly
clothing and feeding the body,
housing the body, riding the body
around in comfort. Next in line
comes the . mind, but it does not
quite get the attention that the
body does. Sometimes it is
treated with great care, and
10 Keys to Happy Relations
Speak to people. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful
word of greeting.
Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown — only 14
to smile.
Call people by name. The sweetest music to anyone’s ears
is the sound of his own name.
Be friendly and helpful. If you would have friends, be
friendly.
Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do were a
genuine pleasure.
Be genuinely interested in people. You can like nearly
everybody if you try.
Be generous with praise—cautious with criticism.
Be considerate with the feelings of others. It will be
appreciated.
Be thoughtful of the opinions of others. There are three
sides to a controversy — yours, the other fellow’s and the
right one.
Be alert to give service. What counts most in life is what
we do for others.
Free College Urged For All
All high school graduates
should have two years’ free col
lege education, recommends the
Education Policies Commission,
sponsored by the National
Education Association and the
American Association of School
Administrators. “Unless op
portunity for education beyond
high school can be made avail-
Thu rsday, May 19,1966
I
Charles DeGaulle—
Thorn Os Contention j
In Seek For Glory
By: Leo s. Mallard $
count. Her people have kept
DeGaulle in office and allowed
him to betray French Allies, who
saved the Grand Republic twice,
and play both ends against the
middle in the cold war battle
between Democracy and Com
munism in an effort to re-estab
lish the lost grandeur of France
as a rich and politically powerful
nation in the international scene.
DeGaulle has demanded that
the United States move bases
and personnel attached to NATO’s
defense system off the French
soil. He has turned his back re
peatedly on the European Com
mon Market, and is now carrying
on trade with the Viet Cong in
North Vietnam while the United
States is locked in bloody war
in that country.
Under DeGaulle, France has
become a hoarder of gold and
now boasts the second largest
gold reserve in the world next
to the United States. This has
had it’s affect on the United States
dollar value and our often heard
of gold drain.
It’s about time the United
States and other free world coun
tries let DeGaulle and France
paddle her own canoe and if
need be, let it sink. We should
know by now that friendship can
not be bought and that France
wants our relationship to exist
only when she is in big trouble.
Cutting out our foreign aid
to France, in the light of the
actions of DeGaulle should only
be the beginning. The United
States has forgotten that respect
is granted only those who demand
respect.
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sometimes it is fed with trash.
Lastly comes the spiritual, which
seems to get the dregs, the
crumbs from the table of our
self. Note that the farther we
get away from the physical, the
less concerned we seem to be.
Now, the oddity to me is that,
whereas we do not see the ab
solute necessity for the spiritual
in our own individual lives, we
are most quick to s£e the need
and the essentialness of “a
spirit” in other areas.
A community that does not
have “a spirit”, we know will
soon dry up and become a valley
of dry bones. An athletic team,
regardless of its talent, sinew
and bones, and instruction, that
does not have “a spirit’ will
get whipped. A business, or
company that has ample tools
and manpower, that lacks spirit
or has a low morale, just does
not function. We know this and
in any of these cases where “a
spirit” is missing you can be
sure it will be sought after just
as rapidly as a miner would
hunt for a lost vein of gold.
Why? because “a spirit” is
the unifying force that gives
power and meaning to every
thing. It is the ground on which
everything else is done, and with
out it, all effort is pointless,
dry and dull.
So, turning again to our own
personal lives, God’s spirit in
us can lead us from the Valley
of Dry Bones, it can make us
as the Pepsi ad says “come alive”
it can give meaning to feeding
our bodies, training our minds,
in summary to all of life. But
God’s spirit cannot operate in
us, breathe life into us, until
we perceive that He is absol
utely essential and until we seek
Him as industriously as we have
sought our own physical self sat
isfaction.
able to all,” the Commission
said, “the American promise
of individual dignity and free
dom cannot be extended to all.’’
It emphasized that the two
years should be directed pri
marily at intellectual growth,
not vocational or technical train
ing.