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BELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Newton High’s Gradua^ng Class of 1966 is the
largest in its history. To each graduate, we
extend sincere congratulations, and good wishes
for your continued success in education and in
life!
Today’s world offers you no safe and untram
melled road to success. It does offer you greater
challenges than mankind has ever before known.
Not only in realms of science, industry, economy,
outer space, politics, education and other vocat
ional fields; but, these challenges will reach your
ideologies, way of life, morals, and sometimes,
even your Faith.
You have completed the initial phase of pre
paration to meet these challenges; as your diploma,
Progress Through People Is Mental Health Aim
We’ve come a long way in knowledge and treat
ment of mental illness in the last few decades.
Not too many years ago, the mentally ill were
hidden in attics, locked in jails, placed in barred
cells, restrained by leg irons or sentenced to a
living death in isolated asylums.
Even more recently, many children with emot
ional disturbances (some of them brilliant) were
dismissed as “mentally retarded” and virtually
abandoned to a life of deterioration.
Now, we know that mental illness, like physical
illness, is a disorder of the body, affected by stress.
We know that with early and proper treatment
there is hope for recovery from most of the mental
and emotional disorders.
Now we know, too, that the mentally ill, like the
physically ill, need comprehensive care in their own
communities. They need treatment facilities and
programs that will cover any point in the illness—
from early diagnosis, through clinic or hospital
treatment, to after-care and rehabilitation.
A new era in the approach toward mental ill
ness has been launched--and it came about through
the work of interested people.
First, pioneer Dorothea Dix crusaded to bring
the ill out of jails and dungeons into more humane
asylums. Then, Clifford Beers mobilized com
passionate men and women to “prick the civic
conscience” and “act as champions for those
afflicted thousands least able to fight for them
selves.”
Those citizens founded the National Association
for Mental Health, the voluntary organization com
mitted to fighting mental illness and helping the
mentally ill.
That organization and its chapters, such as the
Newton County Association, for Mental Health,
spearheaded the fight for improved and expanded
services for mentally ill men, women and children.
Through a broad information and education pro
gram. they brought knowledge, understanding, and
practical help to a whole generation of Americans.
And they supported scientific research programs
that led to important new kinds of treatment of
mental and emotional disorders.
Your neighbors in the Newton County Association
for Mental Health are now working to bring the full
force of these advances to this community. They
are trying to bring to this community the facilities
The habit of belittling and tearing down good
wholesome traditions is a part of the times in
which we live. It’s so easy to belittle, and so hard
to be constructive. There are those today, for
example, who would have us omit sentiment — in
the name of practicality — on the sad occasion
when a friend or relative dies.
Perhaps it is because reverence for the dead
is a hallmark of civilized man that traditional
American funeral customs are one of the first
targets of these self-appointed “practical”
messiahs. They favor quick and impersonal
disposal of the body, without any reverence and,
of course, without flowers.
Practically speaking, flowers seem to have
no value. They produce no wealth. They provide
neither shelter nor raiment. But they do bring
to man beauty, gentleness and hope. . .something
that nothing else does quite so well.
Flowers soften the blow we all feel in the
oresence of death. They represent in a warm
tranquil symbolism — as nothing else can — the
most profound hopes of man for eternal life.
They bring peace, comfort and hope into the
hearts of the stricken family. And for those
of us who can’t find the right words to express
ourselves fully, to say it with flowers seems a
most appropriate way.
Local TB Epidemic: It Can Happen Here
It’s an old, true story that recurs now and then
like a bad dream. Tills time it was dramatic
enough to make headlines throughout the nation.
In an affluent midwest suburb a little girl wasn’t
feeling well. The doctor remembered that the
little red lumps appearing on her legs could be an
unusual symptom of tuberculosis. He gave her a
tuberculin skin test; the reaction was positive,
confirming that the germs were present in the
body. A chest X-ray revealed active TB. The
child was hospitalized and treated.
Soon afterward the same pediatrician, Dr. Frank
J. Malje, was asked to look at an ailing four-year
old boy. Again his examination included aTB
test. It brought the same result; so did the chest
X-ray that followed.
Discovering that both youngsters attended the
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which you will receive on Monday evening, will
attest. But, your learning will continue in your
quest for truth and wisdom, which Proverbs 4:7
tells us is “The principal thing”. Knowledge is
the key which unlocks the doors to truth and wis
dom; and the same Book of Proverbs, 1:7, reveals
that the “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Know
ledge”. So, from the world’s most infallible
authority, we know that the secret of a successful
life lies in wisdom and knowledge, with which we
are to also, “Get understanding”. These price
less attributes culminate in love and respect for
God and our fellowman, and the laws of both.
May this wisdom, knowledge and understanding
be yours in your Journey of Life!
ano programs that will help lessen or avert tragic
mental and emotional disturbances. They are help
ing to sponsor new research studies into causes
and prevention of mental illnesses.
The young are our hope for the future.
Yet, more young people in the 10-19 age range
are in treatment for mental and emotional disorders
today than at any other time, according to govern
ment reports.
While the rate for children in treatment in
mental hospitals and out-patient clinics is steadily
increasing, there are still hundreds of thousands
of young people needing care who are not re
ceiving it.
It is estimated that 1 out of every 10 school
age children in the United States has an emotional
problem serious enough to require some form of
psychiatric help.
Os these children 1 out of every 5 suffers from
the most serious mental disorders (childhood
schizophrenia or other psychosis).
And of these seriously ill children, fewer than 1
percent are receiving adequate treatment.
Much has been learned about mental illness and
emotional disturbance in the last decade. It is now
known that the childhood years are critical in the
prevention of many of these disorders.
It has also been proved that even the most
profoundly disturbed child can be helped if given
early diagnosis, proper treatment, and special
educational care.
The Newton County Mental Health Association,
a chapter of the National Association for Mental
Health, works for diagnostic services, day-care
and residential treatment centers, and special
school programs for emotionally disturbed children
and adolescents.
This is only one part of its broad campaign for
adequate treatment and rehabilitation programs for
the mentally ill of all ages in our community.
In addition, the Association provides information
and referral services. It distributes invaluable ed
ucational materials. It enlists volunteers who give
direct help to the mentally ill and their families.
And it supports essential scientific research into
causes and prevention of these tragic disorders.
This is Mental Health Month. Help build a future
without mental illness. Send a contribution to your
Mental Health Association.
In those first hours of shock and emotional
disturbance, the “practical” anti-sentimentalists
often succeed in convincing a bereaved family
that flowers are a waste of time and money.
Yet by adopting that “no flowers” suggestion, the
bereaved condemn themselves to the memory
afterwards of traveling that last mile, as they
lay their loved one to rest, with a cold, unadorned
casket. At the same time, friends are denied the
opportunity to express fully their regard for the
one who has passed on, and their compassion for
tire bereaved family.
We would remind those who think it fashionable
or practical to omit flowers as a token of sentiment
at such times that human beings can be both
practical and sentimental. In fact, sentiment is
one of the most essential ingredients of human
kind. It is the very basis of kindness, human
decency and justice, which are the essence of
civilization. Whether they realize it or not,
those who would have us put sentiment aside — in
the name of practicality, or of anything else— are
asking us to forget we are human beings; perhaps
even to cease being human.
There is no conflict, in human behavior, bet
ween properly balanced senses of sentiment and
practicality. Indeed there are times—and funerals
are one of them—when a tender token of sentiment
is the most practical thing one human being can
give to another.
same nursery school, Dr. Malje alerted public
health officials to examine the records of all
school employees. It was found that a teacher
had had active TB but had “recovered” before she
was hired. The disease had reactivated, which
means that the sealed-off germs had broken out
and were again causing contagious disease.
The other 55 children in the school were promptly
examined; no less than 12 turned out to have active
TB. All were immediately hospitalized.
It all goes to prove what many doctors, in and
out of the National Tuberculosis Association, have
been saying right along. TB is still an ever
present menace. Teachers and other adults
closely associated with children should be checked
regularly to make sure thej aren’t potential
transmitters of the disease. Ask your Christmas
Seal Association for the informative free booklet,
“Facts About Tuberculosis.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
OUR WEEKLY LESSON Fob}
Sunday School
THE FALL OF SAMARIA
Devotional Reading: II Kings
17:32-39.
Memory Selection: The ways
of the Lord are right, and the
upright walk in them, but trans
gressors stumble in them. Hosea
14:9.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Sold Out to Evil
Young People-Adult Topic:
The Fall of Samaria
Last week we saw that even
in the most prosperous times
Israel did not give thanks to
Jehovah but sank deeper and
deeper into corruption. The
previous lessons on the whole
give a very dark picture of the
people and their rulers. Some
rulers, such as Ahab and Jeze
bel, were almost the ultimate in
wickedness. Some shafts of light
were breaking through the dark
history of the two kingdoms from
leaders who did their best to re
form. Time and time again the
prophets sene by God told the peo
ple precisely what would happen
If they did not repent, but the
people did not turn from their
evil ways. Reforms did not last
long, and gross evil Increased
until, as we see in today’s les
son, the judgment.
The fall of Samaria is briefly
recorded in II Kings 17:6.
The whole chapter has been
called the obituary of the North
ern Kingdom. The writer of
this chapter of scripture ceases
to be merely a historian and
becomes a preacher. He gives
us a homily that points the moral
from the destruction of Samaria.
The events described In our
lesson have been very well at
tested to by written records dis
covered in Iraq. There has been
some confusion as to just when
the actual capture of Samaria
occurred and by which King.
It has been learned that Samaria
was actually captured more than
once and by different kings.
Tiglath-plleser records in an
Inscription that he appointed Hos
hea to rule over Israel and re
quired as tribute ten talents of
gold and one thousand talents of
silver.
The latest Jewish scholarship
has determined that Shalmaneser
captured Samaria in the last
year of his reign, 722 B.C. Two
years later, In 7208. C., Sargon
II came and reconquered Sam
aria. Sargon says he deported
27,290 Israelites and took two
hundred chariots from them.
Four years later Sargon settled
Arabians and other tribes in
Samaria.
The lesson today may be re
garded as a catalogue of the
sins that ruined the Northern
Kingdom. It Is a dirge of its
destruction. It Is a sermon
on what It means to desert God
and despise his convenant and
break his commandments.
While the lesson points out to
us In a clear and certain way
the results of sin, we must also
remember that we have the cure
for sin In Christ. As Spur
geon said, “Wherever in the Bible
I take a text, from it I cut
straight across country to
Christ.”
There may have remained
some conscience in the Jews
of the Northern Kingdom even as
they deserted God and reverted
to the most diabolical forms of
idol worship. They must have
been ashamed, for theydld“sec
retly” those things which they
knew were against the laws of
God. No doubt the secret sins
..
By Gov. Carl E. Sanders
It is noteworthy that more
than nine-million tourists visit
ed Georgia’s major travel at
tractions during 1965. This is
an increase of 16 per cent over
the previous year, the largest
single year’s increase in the five
year period since the canvassing
of Georgia travel attractions was
begun.
Tourism and recreation in our
State today have been developed
into a billion dollar business with
Income from tourism soaring
eighty per cent during the first
three years of this administra
tion.
Georgia’s thirty-seven State
Parks with more than five-and
a-half-million visitors in 1965
alone have experienced an in
crease in attendance of more
than 50 per cent in the last
three years.
Georgia’s red carpet of hos
pitality extends from border to
border. There is a tourist wel
come station at every major en
try in the state: on U. S. 301
near Sylvania, on U. S. 17 A at
Savannah, on U. S. 280 and 27 in
Columbus, on Interstate-85 near
Lavonia and on 1-75 at Ringgold.
A new Valdosta station will be
opened this summer to welcome
visitors coming from Florida.
Hostesses who know Georgia’s
best spots for fishing, golfing,
or boating greet these travelers
at our Welcome Stations. All
stations serve free refreshments
and offer a broad selection of in
formation about the state.
Georgia, the largest state in
size East of the Mississippi Ri
ver, indeed has a full variety
of attractions to offer the va
cationer from the unspoiled beau
ty of the Appalachian foothills to
her vibrant capital city to our
history-steeped islands.
Lovers of history will enjoy
had to do with divination and
sorcery and witchcraft and base
Immoral practices at the heathen
shrines.
Idolatry became so prevalent
that it was practiced in the very
midst of their towns and urban
centers and even out in the fields
and deserts. There were "high
places” on almost every emin
ence where the evil worship was
practiced. Yet the Israelites
built more of such high
places.
"From the tower of the watch
men to the fenced city” was no
doubt a proverb that simply meant
everywhere in field and wilder
ness, in village and town.
Today in the Bible lands, in
the gardens of melons and cu
cumbers and in the vineyards,
when vegetables and fruit ripen,
the people resort to towers in
the fields to protect their 'ruit.
It is a time for camping and
picnicking, living In harvest. In
Syriac, which is the neai _t spo
ken language today to the Aramaic
that Christ used, these towers in
the vineyards and gardens are
called kyolas. Missionaries in
Bible countries have often been
Invited to dinners In these houses
or towers In the gardens. How
shameful that even in the joy of
harvest the people of Israel de
secrated the happy season by
idol worship In field and city
alike!
The Northern Kingdom not only
has many natural hills and mount
ains but here and there there are
also tells, or artificial mounds
that mark the places where one
village was built upon another
that had been destroyed in the
long ages since prehistoric
times. No doubt there were
groves on the natural hills and
mountains and on the artificial
mounds with their heathen
shrines.
The worship of the calves or
bulls had been Introduced by
Jeroboam I, and the wicked con
sorts Ahab and Jezebel had added
to this Idolatry the flagrant wor
ship of the heathen god Baal.
The phrase ‘ ‘under every green
tree” reminds us of the fact
that in the Bible lands today a
lone tree is believed to be as
sociated with spirits, and even
followers of Islam resort to ani
mism as they tie bits of cloth
or string on the spirit tree.
The writer of verses 9-10
is reiterating the point that cor
ruption and Immoral practices
and abominations had become
well-nigh universal in the wilder
ness or sparsely settled country
as well as in towns and cities
that were “fenced” or protected
by high walls with towers and
gates for defense.
The Israelites burned incense,
as did the heathen nations of
Canaan which God had enabled
them to overcome. Incense was
used, of course, in the worship
of Jehovah, on the altar of in
cense just before the veil of the
Holy of Holies. It represented
the prayers of God’s people.
However, the heathen use of in
cense in worship was also wide
spread. We find it in Egypt
and Babylonia, and It was also
a part both of Greek and Roman
pagan worship.
All these things combined to
“provoke the Lord to anger.”
It hardly seems necessary to
stress the point that all these
things were “wicked.” The
wonder is that God in his mercy
allowed them to go on as long
as He did.
the antique beauty of Savannah,
Georgia’s original city, Pre
sident Roosevelt’s Little White
House at Warm Springs, white
columned homes of LaGrange,
Macon, Milledgeville and Madi
son, and the battlefields of At
lanta, Andersonville, and Kenne
saw.
Others will enjoy the sand and
surf of the Golden Isles — Sea
Island, St. Simon, and Jekyll—
or the inland beach at Callaway
Gardens.
Nature’s majestic wonders at
tract visitors to Stone Mountain,
Okefenokee Swamp, and Toccoa
Falls.
Excellent camping facilities
are found throughout Georgia.
Our thirty-seven state parks of
fer exciting yet inexpensive va
cations for the entire family.
There is much to see and do
in Georgia!
As summer approaches Geor
gia’s tourist industry is prepar
ing to receive even more out
of-state visitors than last year.
And, as vacation time nears and
you begin to make plans for the
summer, I urge you to see Geor
gia first.
Visit a part of the state that
you haven’t seen before. Enjoy
the mountain laurel of North
Georgia, swim or fish in the surf
of Jekyll Island, tee off on the
famous Callaway Golf course,
or visit Dahlonega, the scene
of America’s first gold rush.
These are but a few of literally
dozens of fascinating attract
ions which our state has to of
fer.
You will find that you tho
roughly enjoy seeing and learning
more about Georgia. There is
none other to compare.
Sunday
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May 17, 1966
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mallard, Sr.
The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Mallard:
We wish to express to you our
deep appreciation for the excell
ent news coverage that you have
given concerning the retirement
of Dr. Virgil Y. C. Eady, Dean of
Oxford College of Emory Univer
sity. Both the pictures and the
stories concerning the news item,
the banquet and the tea for Mrs.
Eady reflect the high quality of
journalism to which the COV
INGTON NEWS is devoted. We
apprelcate your continued sup
port of our institution.
Sincerely,
(Mrs.) Sara M. Gregory for
the Birthday and Retirement
Committee.
DRIVERS, NOT DESIGN,
MAKE VEHICLES SAFE
CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS
of vehicle safety are overem
phasizing design, says Dr. Wil
liam N. Cox, a Georgia Tech
engineering professor and a past
president of the American Society
of Safety Engineers. “Driver
qualifications,” he comments,
“are of greater Importance than
vehicle design.” Dr. Cox fa
vors driver training for teens
and re-training for older per
sons who may have developed
bad driving habits or never learn
ed correctly in the first place.
He also strongly recommends
periodic re-examinations for li
censes.
CIGARETTE SMOKE has a di
rect Inhibiting action on the nor
mal mechanisms that serve to
clear inhaled bacteria from the
throat and upper respiratory
area. Findings of a joint study
conducted by the Boston City
Hospital and Harvard Medical
School point to a direct relation
ship between cigarette smoking
and such cigarette-suspected ail
ments as chronic bronchitis.
THE LAST ACETYLENE
street light was turned off in
1929 but the gas is still in the
"limelight”. Midwest Carbide
reports that about 12 billion cubic
feet of acetylene Is produced an
nually to heat metals In gas weld
ing. Acetylene’s brillian flame
was discovered' about 60 years
ago when scientists noted that
when It was mixed with oxygen
it burned brighter than an oxy
hydrogen flame used to light
theater stages.
THE CAUSE of carnation wilt,
a disease that annually destroys
millions of dollars’ worth of com
merical flowers, has been pin
pointed by a Pennsylvania State
University pathologist. A wide
spread bacteria. Pseudomonas
caryophyllii, attacks carnations
through wounds in their roots.
Once Inside the plant it joins
forces with other varieties of
bacteria to cut off the plant’s
water supply, choking the flower
to death.
U. S. AIRPORTS on record with
the Federal Aviation Agency at
the end of last year totalled 9,566,
an increase of 76 over 1964.
Texas leads all states in the
number of airport facilities with
a total of 846.
MORE THAN 325 MILLION
cubic miles of water is con
tained in the world’s oceans, ice
fields, lakes and rivers. An
additional 2 million cubic miles
lies beneath the earth, in soil
and rock in the form of ground
water, and 3,100 more cubic
miles of water, mostly in the
form of vapor, is contained in
the atmosphere. The U. S. Geo
logical Survey says that if the
total supply was poured upon the
50 United States, the land sur
face would be submerged to a
depth of 90 miles.
Air Force Opens
To More Vets
COV. NEWS BRENDA
GEN. NEWS
AIR FORCE OPENS SB9-1
For the next two months, the
Air Force offers ex-servicemen
—many of whom were ineligible
up to now—a special chance to
get back in uniform.
“We’re able to take men, no
matter how long they’ve been out
of service, if they’re otherwise
qualified,” Sgt. Jesse R. Seeley,
Air Force recruiter in this area,
explains. “We expect this change
in our enlistment policy to hold
at least until the end of June.”
Before, the Air Force had to
turn down prior servicemen
wanting to enlist if they were out
of service over three years.
Under the old policy, men lost
a stripe for every year since
discharge. That has been
changed. Those out less than two
years keep the rank they held,
and rank ceilings for others were
relaxed, too.
“Os course, men still have to
have a specialty we need,” Sgt.
Seeley adds. “We enlist veterans
for specific jobs at specific
bases. We call up the per
sonnel people, then hold the phone
while the man picks his assign
ment from the list they keep
there.”
This past week the people of
this statehave witnessed the most
exciting political sideshow In
twenty years. To put it mildly,
the Georgia Democratic party
leaders “hit the panic button.”
Like a man drowning they reach
ed to the top to grasp for help
rather than bobbing along the bot
tom until shallow water and firm
ground was reached.
In crying out for Senator Her
man Talmadge to come home and
run for Governor, the party lost
the confidence of many Geor
gians. Not because he wouldn’t
make a good Governor, but be
cause Herman Talmadge has done
too much for Georgia and her
people in the Senate and is de
stined for even greater accom
plishments in the future.
This year’s governors race
will be similar to the Presiden
tial election In 1964. The people
will be voting more for their
favorite candidate than they will
for either party. Georgians are
still Democrats at heart, but on
the national and local level the
people have witnessed the con
servative heart failure of their
democratic party.
In 1964, the people of Georgia
didn’t vote as much for the Re
publican Party as they did for
the man, Barry Goldwater, a con
servative voice that spoke the
language of Jeffersonian Demo
crats. It was open rebellion
by the people to the liberal stand
taken by the national democratic
party. Georgia’s people voted
against Lyndon Johnson and for
Barry Goldwater with no partic
ular regard for either party.
In the running in the 1966
Warren L. Harbert
Pastor of
Lovejoy, Red Oak and Gaithers
Methodist Churches
“What is this world comingto?”
Are you beginning to wonder?
Maybe you have even asked the
question. Now I will tell you the
answer. Not that lam wise, but
God is wise. Not that I know, but
God knows. Not that He has re
vealed it to me, but He has re
vealed it before all men that all
might know.
The world is coming to a
crucifixion. Sometimes it is a
whole nation involved, or even
nations. Sometimes it is an in
dividual who goes to a cruci
fixion. But the movement of the
world is continuous and in the
direction of crucifixion.
So you say, "Things in the
world affairs seem to be getting
worse and worse as you look at
one country after another.” And
I will usually agree with you. Be
cause things do get worse and
worse and build up until someone,
or some group, or some nation
gets crucified. So I am not
an optimist about things in gen
eral getting better and better, or
just “working out”. They don’t.
In the days ahead in our world,
our nation, in Covington, and even
in the churches around our coun
ty, groups and individuals will be
nailed to the cross. It can happen
spiritually, mentally, emotion
ally, as well as physically. That
means that there are two groups
of people in the world, those
who do the crucifying, and the
victims.
I assure you, you can avoid
being crucified. You don’t have
to worry, you won’t be an ac
cidental victim. I am not try
ing to scare you. To be the vic
tim you have to make a con
scious, voluntary decision. There
are many avenues of escape. In
fact, if you look at Jesus in the
garden of Gethsemane you get an
idea of how much decision is in
volved. He sweat blood. You
know when you make that kind of
decision.
It is not so easy to escape being
Lavona Glenn
Says..
Portland, Oregon
Hello friends! This may not
make the deadline, but here goes
for a try.
We left Atlanta on the 10th for
this northwest corner of the
U.S.A., and spent the longest day
of my life on the way! I mean
it! We were following the sun
at the rate of many miles an
hour, and when we got here at
10:30 EST (I didn’t change my
watch,) the sun was still shin
ning. We had 18 hours of sun
shine.
A change of planes kept us in
Chicago five hours. As usual,
everybody was good to the 100
year old lady. They took me
to the V.I.P. (reserved for plane
officials), where I could lie down
on a couch and rest; brought me
a nice lunch, and were generally
nice till time for the next plane.
This place doesn’t look like
the wild and woolly west. In
fact, it is a beautiful city spread
out on the flat, really shut in
Republican’s Rally,
Democratic Panic...
“How Sweet It Is”
By: Leo S. Mallard
Governor’s race there are, so
far, three men who will capture
the majority of the vote. Howard
(Bo) Callaway will be the Re
publican candidate and a con
servative. Ellis Arnold repres
ents the liberal arm of the
Democratic party and is con
sidered the leading man for the
Governor’s seat thus far. Lester
Maddox represents the radical
element of the Democratic con
servative wing.
At this time a prediction could
prove any man a fool. However,
to say that the Democratic party
in Georgia Is In dire need of an
ideal candidate to capture the
confidence and respect of the
Georgia people is an under state
ment. On the other hand, the
Republicans have their ideal can
didate in the capable “Bo” Call
away. If Lester Maddox and “Bo”
Callaway don’t divide the con
servative voters of Georgia, the
year 1966 may possible find this
state with the first Republican
governor since Reconstruction
days.
The Irony of the situation is
that today’s Republicans are
preaching the conservative val
ues of the old time Democrats.
Old Democrats are thus finding
a place in the ranks of the new
Republican Party. This is un
canny but true. A conservative
Democrat In our time Is a party
outcast and considered “dis
tasteful.”
But, out of rat race for the
Governor’s chair will come a
choice the people of Georgia
have not had before. . .a choice
of candidates from separate part
ies. This competition will breed
better government for Georgia.
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a crucifler, one who nails another
to the cross. You have the power
to crucify others. The way
is open and before you. You will
have the company of a crowd,
and because of the crowd you will
never be held responsible, or feel
responsible. You can drift into
and out of a crucifixion crowd
and you don’t have to shout “Cru
cify him, crucify him.” It hap
pens day in and day out with in
dividuals, groups, and nations.
I am not optimisic about the
world. I have optimism only
in the fact that some people de
cide to be crucified. And that
is the sole source of hope. Now
I am not talking about that group
of suffering people that are bear
ing “the problems of the world.”
That is the opposite of offering
yourself to the cross. Jesus un
loaded all world and personal
problems on God in the Garden
of Gethsemane and walked to the
cross in complete freedom. That
is why He was free to think of
and forgive, those who killed
Him. That is why it was natural
for Him to finally commit His
spirit to God in dying. That is
what is meant in crucifixion.
You know what happened after
the crucifixion. God acted. There
was resurrection. There was re
pentance. There was conversion,
meaning new men. There was
change. There was hope, be
cause there was reason for hope.
There still is reason for hope,
for crucifixion and what follows
still happens day after day after
day. It is the sole source, hope
and permanent change in this
world.
What is this world coming to?
It depends. Are you in the
crowd moving to a crucifixion?
Then the world is drifting, it is
hopeless, and you have reasons
to wonder. There is one way out.
It comes outlined in one sentence,
“If any man would come after
me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and follow
me.” And we know that the
One who gave that invitation
showed all the world the victory
of God in the cross in this world.
Answer that invitation and you
know what this world is coming
to.
on both sides by a long range
of mountains. It doesn’t seem
to like being shut in, so it climbs
clean to the top, and when the
lights of all colors are turned
on at night, it makes your head
swim to look at them turn and
twist and wink and blink.
There are 8,000 women of all
sizes and colors, from all over
the world here to attend the 7th
Assembly of the W.S.C.S. of the
Methodist Church.
There are three sessions a
day with long programs. So
what with going and coming and
eating between lines, I lost count
of time and doubt about this
reaching you in time for this
week’s issue.
We are to leave for home Mon
day. I guess the day will be
proportionately shorter! So I
am making this short too; so if
it doesn’t make the deadline,
you won’t miss much.
So long.
Thursday, May 26, 1966