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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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BELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publithor
LEO S. MALLARD
A*<i*tant to Publijhor
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director
J. Edgar Hoover is a revered American who has de
voted most of his life to government service for
all America.
Recently he had a message to Mr. John Q.
Citizen pertaining to law and order and its ob
servance. Mr. Hoover stated:
“MORALITY, INTEGRITY, law and order, and
other cherished principles of our great heritage
are battling for survival in many communities
today. They are under constant attack from de
grading and corrupting influences which, if not
halted, will sweep away every vestige of decency
and orderliness remaining in our society.
“Certain groups, numericaUy, weak but vocifer
ously strong, appear determined to destroy all
acceptable standards of personal conduct and sane
behavior patterns. They seem bent mi eliminating
all ethical practices relating to our established
order.
“For instance, most citizens would be horrified
to think that someday it might be legally per
missible for a person to rise in a courtroom and
hurl four-letter invectives at the judge without
fear of punishment. “This cannot be,” we say,
“the court is inviolable. It administers justice
under the laws by which we live.” Law enforce
ment is an arm of the same laws. It is charged
with the responsibility under these laws of taking
certain action which ultimately is resolved in court.
However, a move is underway demanding that pro
fane verbal abuse directed at police officers be le
gally recognized as a constitutional right. If it
can be argued that such preposterous action is
legally permissible at the enforcement level of the
law, could it not also be argued that it is permissible
at all levels of our legal system?
“History proves that the best interests of our
Nation lie in a law-abiding, decent and orderly
society. We cannot live with lawlessness, un-
One doesn’t have to be an "old-timer” or a
senior citizen to notice the changes that have -
taken place in our town and all the others in this I
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part of tiie country in recent years. The population I
explosion has been partly responsible. New :
highways, the development of shopping centers, ■
• the deterioration of old business buildings — all
have had their influence.
But more and more towns of all sizes are learn
ing that it isn't good business just to let a town
grow, like Topsy. Planning is required, and ex
pert guidance is needed. The simple truth is that
almost every city and town has prime space vac
ant and wasted these days because of poor plan
ning in the past. ’
In recent years, a whole new profession has
come into being, that of urban design architect
The town that wants to survive, and grow, wisely 1
calls on these professionals who have looked at
die experiences, good and bad, of cities throughout 1
the land — and abroad —in planning for the future. 1
It’s their business to recognize and anticipate
problems that even those who have lived a Ufe
^me in a community cannot foresee. 1
Few teapot-tempests in recent times match the
asininity going on in the so-called college athletic
associations these days. The tragedy is that some
good kids from good homes with good ambitions
are being hurt.
Anyone who thinks about it surely would be
pleased to have anyone underwrite the college
education of any worthwhile student. For our
part, if the PT A, the Ford Foundation, the WCTU
or me Committee for the Furthering of Barber
shop Quartet Singing wants to chip in to send a boy
or girl to college, more power to them. And that
goes for the alumni of any college, too.
If the lucky kid can pass the entrance require
ments and keep his grades up, then what matter
if he is a 260-pound halfback who plays football
well, or a 119-pound birdwatcher? And any rule
that says either boy can’t accept the assistance
of the alumni association or the Kiwanis Club or
the Ladies Aid Society of Walla Walla is a non
sense rule that contrives only to keep somebody
in a plush job enforcing it Busybodies who tell
some well-developed kid that he can’t play some
game he excels at because the people who help
pay his tuition or board aren’t approved are just
that — busybodies and excess baggage.
Youngsters develop varying skills in varying
degrees. Some are musicians, and gifted ones.
Time was when you could walk into just about
any store and the owner, or a clerk, would ap
pear from behind the counter, smile, and wonder
what he could do for you. If he didn’t have what
you wanted, he’d suggest something else. And be
fore you left, he’d be asking if you had seen the
new so-an-so^ or if you’d tried such-and-such.
The parting reassurance was that if what you
were carrying out didn’t work properly or do the job
it was supposed to do, it should be brought back.
It was a good feeling.
It all comes to mmd because a few days ago when
we opened the mailbox at home it was practically
bursting with a 48-page, 4-color “magazine” ad
dressed to “Occupant.” It was the right street
address, so we put it on the hall table. Upon in
spection it announced the granddaddy of all sales
at the most super-king-giant of all shopping cen
ters just 7 miles outside bigtown at the junction
of Kennedy Highway and FDR Boulevard.
We had to be up that way to visit the wife’s
family, and nothing would do but that we drive
’in for a “bargain.” My friend, it was an exper
ience. That sprawling mart had everything piled
on endless tables as fir as we could see. Everybody
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Useless Tempests
Occupant, Stay Homa
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bridled vulgarity, obscenity, blaspii””, perver
sion, and public desecration of every sacred and
just symbol. We should be alarmed when wide
spread recognition and monetary awards go to a
person who writes a “satirical” piece of trash
which maliciously defames the President of our
country and insinuates he murdered his predeces
sor. We should be alarmed when some groups,
under the guise of academic freedom and con
stitutional privilege, flood our college campuses
with obscene four-letter-word campaigns and por
nographic publications which violate all codes of
ethics. And we should be equally alarmed when an
enforcement officer making an arrest must fight
for his life against assaults from onlookers who
scoff and ridicule him for doing his duty.
“Why do these conditions exist? Certainly, an
overwhelming majority of Americans do not want
their families exposed to indecent, immoral, and
unlawful practices which plague our communi
ties. But unorganized protesters carry little
weight against organized crusaders of filth, im
morality, and crime. If this is not the legacy we
want to pass on to our youth, then it is high time
we took action to improve conditions.
“Let us stop persecuting enforcement officers
when we should be prosecuting criminals. Let
us stop defying offbeat dolts whose ability is
measured only by how deep they can dip their
poisonous pens into the pots of blasphemy, filth,
and falsehood. Let us stop listening to half
truths and criticisms of time-tested ideals and
start telling and selling the true story of democ
racy as we know it. In short, let us stop being
led blindly toward the cavern of self-destruction
by bogus Pied Pipers and get on with the per
petuation of the self-evident truths which, with
Divine guidance, have served our Nation so well
over the years.”
A few days ago, at the American Institute of
Architects, in New York City, a vice president of
Eaton Yale & Towne announced an annual fellow
ship providing funds for one year of study in a
graduate program of urban design. The fellowship
also provides for a minimum six-week foreign
study tour oi urban centers, to observe what al
ready densely populated countries have been doing.
“It is critical,” said Leo J. Pantas, “that the
particular skills of the architecturally oriented
person continue to be increasingly represented in
the urban design process. The purpose of the
fellowship is to help permit the most highly qual
ified architectural graduates to equip themselves
with the immense environmental tasks with which
our society is now confronted.’ ’
Between now and the end of this century, if the
experts are to be believed, the population explos
ion is going to complicate the problems of our
cities beyond the private citizen’s comprehension.
Certain it is that in the days ahead these special
ists in urban design will be urgently needed by
those cities which are alertly intent on keeping
pace with our national growth.
Should they be denied the assistance of a sponsor
at college? And should the Farm Bureau and the
Future Farmers of America cease and desist
support of young men and women who have a touch
for breeding and raising prize-winning hogs and
cows? And for that matter, ought the best ping
pong player in the world be precluded from accept
ing money to pay his room and board? Os course
not. (A Canadian college has given a scholarship
to a table-tennis champ.) And it follows that the
boy who can shoot a ball through a hoop, or hit a
clothesline double off the centerfield wall or throw
a football with uncanny accuracy ought not to be
denied such support either.
If there are adults who have nothing better to do
than spy, gunshoe and wiretap to penalize such kids,
then the alumni should organize to get them produc
tive jobs, or send these eternal sophomores off to
some round-the-season camp where they can play
hide-and-seek with each other and have a great
time.
A kid who meets the entrance exam require
ments, and gets the requisite marks from his pro
fessors, is entitled to an education and to play the
athletic games offered in his school, and it can’t
possibly be a matter of proper concern to any
official anywhere at any time who is helping him
feed, clothe and shelter himself.
was rushing around pawing everything in sight. We
were looking up at the ceiling signs for what direct
ion to head to find what we thought we had come for,
and before we found even the sign we had been
jostled and pushed about 50 corn rows in the op
posite direction. When we finally got to the table
it looked like a bonus march encampment. There
wasn’t a tent (which we wanted for our Boy Scouts)
which hadn’t been pinched, punched, or used as a
wiping towel by half the muling horde in the build
ing. We hoisted the best of the lot onto our shoulder
and headed in the direction of the monster auto
mated cash register-bill-making-credit-card-in
spection machine, jockeying for position to save
time. A muscular type seized the collapsible
tent poles and then began stuffing the tent into a
giant bag, while a bored operator punched the
numbered keys on the machine. It whirred,
jangled and ground and there was the total.
Not a word had been spoken. But at the bottom
of the tape it said “Thank You!” — in purple.
When we got home — no tent poles. You may
believe me that next time Occupant will be shopping
here at home, on Main Street.
MABLE SESSIONS DENNIS
Auociele Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Attociafe Editor
Entarad at the Fo*t Office
at Covington, Georgia, at
mail matter of the Second
Clait.
(U H WEEKLY LESSON FOR
Sunday School
THE CONVERSION OF SAUL
(TEMPERANCE)
Devotional Reading: Phlllp
pians 3:3-11.
Memory Selection: Whatever
gain I had, I counted as loss for
the sake of Christ. Phlllppians
3:7.
Intermediate-Senior Topic: A
New Life.
Young People-Adult Topic: A
Transformed Life.
After the ministry, death, and
resurrection of Jesus, the con
version of Saul of Tarsus (known
to us as Paul the Apostle) was the
most Important event occurring
in the history of the Christian
Church.
Paul is the most influential Ch
ristian that has ever lived. During
the past two thousand years there
have been, no doubt, thousands of
men whose devotion to Christ has
been as great as that of Paul
and who have loved and served
the Lord with equal fidelity. But
none of these committed men has
had the Influence Paul had. It was
Paul who took primitive Christ
ianity out of that little area
(Palestine) in which it had arisen
and made it a world religion.
He established churches in the
Mediterranean area. Best of all,
he wrote epistles to many of
these churches, and these thirt
een Epistles have largely become
the basis of Christian theology.
What Moses was to the old
dispensation Paul was to the
new. Only to Jesus himself do
we owe more than we owe to
Paul. It Is hard to imagine how
the Christian Church could have
gotten started and spread as it
has to the ends of the earth
without the influence, especially
the influential writings, of the
Apostle Paul.
Saul of Tarsus (whom we shall
later know as Paul) was bom in
the little tribe of Benjamin. He
appears to have come of well-to
do parents, was brought up acc
ording to the strictest teaching
of the scribes and Pharisees, and
may indeed have been a member
of the Jewish ruling body known
as the Sanhedrin. He was a Ro
man citizen, a fact of which he
was very proud. How his family
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or woman of yourself; to fit your
self for the business world and the
homemaker. You want to fit into
the social theme of things; you
want to be a leader in your Civic,
Patriotic, School Life.. .and we
save the best until last (the most
important thing). . .is and will
ever be your Christian life with
in the community in which you
live, and the Church you belong
to. Give of your best to the Mas
ter! All that glitters is not REAL
FUN, nor is it gold. . .some of
these things tarnish, and fall
apart within your grasp.
Take God with you to College
. . .let HIM be your dally guide.
There will be more temptations
than you ever dreamed of when
you get away FROM HOME and
parents. See that God is your
room mate. . .your daily guide
. . .and you will WIN for all
eternity.
Have all the good clean fun
you can have this Summer, with
God directing you in the right
pathway. But there will be op
portunity knocking at your door
this summer. Take some vacat
ion. . .but idle hands sometimes
get Into mischief. There will be
positions open for you here in
town. . .but we know of one in
Atlanta. This is counseling for
students. A career clinic, de
signed to help high school stu
dents plan their futures, will be
held at Emory University this
Summer. Why don’t you invest
igate this? The clinic, as we un
derstand it, is aimed at current
high school juniors and older
persons who are planning to con
tinue their educations. This
course will include scholastic ap
titude tests, Interest tests, per
sonality inventories, study skill
surveys, occupational and educ
ational information and individual
counseling based on test results.
Each student participating in
the clinic will be on the Emory
campus one day between June 13-
17 for testing, and each will re
turn to the campus for an addi
tional day later in the summer to
receive counseling. Students int
erested in this clinic work should
write to: Career Clinic, Psy
chology Department, Emory Uni
versity, Atlanta, Ga. 30322. You
will never be sorry that you re
ceived this fine help. Remember
, . .from here on out.. .you are
on your own. , .so to speak...
and your future life depends upon
what you make of yourself...your
parents can pay the bills and pray,
but; the rest Is up to you. Please
do not disappoint those parents.
Your Office Boy loves every
one of you! That you KNOW!
Our hearts always grieve when we
give you up In our town and our
Churches. . .but you move your
Church Letter and get yourself
active in the church of your
choice. . .make friends In God’s
house wherever you go.
We are proud of the records
you have made. Especially proud
of the appointment received by
A. E. Hays, III; to be a Cadet
at West Point, That is a won
derful place. When National Pre
sident of the U.D.C., your "Of
fice Boy”, attended the gradua-
THE COVINGTON NEWS
acquired this distinction (which
was rare among Jews) we do not
know. He bore the name of Is
rael’s first king, namely, Saul.
After his conversion, Saul of
Tarsus referred to himself and
was referred to by others as Paul.
The fact that after the account
found in Acts 13 of the conver
sion of Sergius Paulus, proconsul
of Cyprus, this distinguished new
Christian convert is always re
ferred to as Paul, has led some
to believe that Paul assumed the
name of the proconsul. It Is
more probable, however, that he
had both the names Saul and Paul.
After he became a Christian
he was always known as Paul
(In Greek Paulos). His conver
sion is described in Acts 9 as
follows:
“And as he journeyed, he came
near Damascus; and suddenly
there shined round about him a
light from heaven: and he fell to
the earth, and heard a voice say
ing unto him, Saul, Saul, why per
secutes! thou me? And he said,
Who art thou, Lord? And the
Lord said, I am Jesus whom
thou persecutest.. .And the Lord
said unto him, /.rise, and go into
the city, and It shall be told
thee what thou must do.” The
arch persecutor intent on ex
tending his persecution of Chris
tians to Damascus was rendered
blind by the startling experience
and remained so for three days.
Then Ananias, a Christian be
liever of Damascus, was instru
cted by the Lord in a vision to
put his hand on the blind Paul
that he might receive his sight.
This Ananias did—although re
luctantly, for Paul had a bad
name among Christians every
where. His sight was restored.
He was baptized. Then he en
tered upon his distinguished and
unique career as a Christian
leader and missionary.
The conversion of Saul has
often been referred to as a tur
ning point In the history of Ch
ristianity. This able, highly edu
cated, and energetic man was
capable of taking the little sect
called Christianity out Into the
civilized world of that day, and
this he proceeded to do with
complete commitment.
tion exercises each year at An
napolis and West Point, with a
gallant young officer, as our es
cort for the day, at these pl
aces. We stood on that great
field and presented awards for
our organization. It was a thrill
ing experience. . .and we are
wishing this young man much
success at this fine institution
of learning* God Bless each one
of you during your summer va
cation. . .and throughout your
new year, in choosing the best
schools to mold your future.
We’ll be saying a prayer for
you, wherever you are. . .and
missing you very much at home.
Don’t you forget to write your
Office Boy and tell us about you
and your school.
Here comes that broom. . .
saying ‘Don’t you be so sen
timental* It’s time for you to
get on your job of. . .“Jesf
SWEEPIN’ UP.”
Freeman Calls For More
Farm Bargaining Power
Secretary of Agriculture Or
ville L. Freeman in a major
policy speech at the National
Press Club in Washington last
week, at "shirtsleeve” confer
ences with farmers in Athens,
Ga., and Alexandria, La., this
week, has called for more met
hods of giving farmers more
bargaining power in the market.
Secretary Freeman drew a
parallel between the farmers of
today and labor before the far
reaching labor legislation of the
1930’5.
As one proposal, he said that
a National Farm Bargaining Bo
ard might be setup to serve much
the same function as the National
Labor Relations Board does for
labor.
This board, at the request of
a producer-group, could deter
mine boundaries, size and com
position of the product bargaining
unit. It could supervise an el-
Health And Safety Tips
(On Taking Medicine)
Ever wake up, or at least about half awake, in the night with a split
ting headache? Or a pain in the tummy? And stumble into the bath
room and reach for a bottle in the medicine cabinet. And gulp down
a pill or two, or a spoonful of medicine?
Sure. All of us have. And we are risking serious trouble in taking
medicine carelessly.
The medicine was prescribed by your physician, and he included
specific orders for size and frequency of dose and how to take it.
The American Medical Association reminds that there is a good,
sound reason for these orders, and they’re meant to be followed.
A few simple rules for taking medicine can help to avoid an
accident that may make your minor discomfort a lot worse.
♦ Never take medicine in the dark. Be certain you can see the
bottle or pill box, to make certain it’s the right one.
* Read the directions carefully before taking. Those directions
are there because they’re needed.
* Don’t increase the dosage or take more often than directed
without checking with your doctor.
♦ If the label says "Shake well before using,” it means what it
says. Shake it
* Don’t take medicine prescribed for someone else. Just because
it helped your husband’s cough doesn’t mean it’s right for you.
* Keep medicine out of reach of children. The small child who
is rushed to the hospital after eating a whole bottle of sugar-coated
tablets is an all too common occurrence.
♦ Put the cap back on the bottle. Some medicines change strength
if exposed to air too long.
* Keep the medicine in its original box or bottle. Shifting sleeping
pills into an aspirin bottle, for instance, could produce dire effects
for someone else in the family.
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Sditvi
May 27, 1967
Oxford, Ga.
Dear Editor:
We congratulate you on the
good publicity your paper has
given to education in the last
issue. “The Wish For Success
To Our Grads” by Hercules was
especially good, also the other
ads commending education.
You publish a good paper for
our county, and we thank you for
It.
Sincerely,
Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Cline
Retail Prices
WASHINGTON -- Consumer
prices climbed marxedly in April
as wholesale prices showed a
sharp decline, the Department of
Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statis
tics has reported.
The Consumer Price Index
(CPI) moved up by three-tenths
of one percent to 115.3 of its
1957-59 average and the Whole
sale Price Index (WPI) fell four
tenths of one percent to 105.3.
However, preliminary data on
wholesale prices for May Indic
ate a five-tenths-of-one-percent
advance, resulting primarily
from a sharp upturn in prices of
farm products and foods.
In April, lower prices of food
in grocery stores, new cars,
and appliances were balanced by
increases for apparel, house fur
nishings, gasoline and furniture.
Prices for houses, used cars,
restaurant meals, newspapers
and gasoline also advanced during
the month.
Despite a drop at wholesale,
gasoline prices rose one and a
half percent at retail. They were
up by five percent at retail and
nearly four percent at whole
sale over the year.
A continued decline in retail
food prices reflected reductions
at wholesale since last Septem
oer. It resulted mainly from lo
wer prices of meats, most fresh
vegetables and eggs.
The sharp rise in charges for a
wide range of consumer services
that began early In 1966 was ex
tended in April.
Medical care, housekeeping,
home maintenance and various
kinds of repair and recreational
services each advanced by five
tenths of one percent over the
month. Charges for barber and
beauty-shop services averaged
three-tenths of one percent more.
But, with a decline in mortgage
interest rates and slow rises in
other areas, the increase in costs
for all services moved at a
somewhat slower rate than that
which prevailed over the past
year.
More than a million workers,
mainly in the automobile, auto
motive-parts and farm and con
struction equipment industries,
will receive cost-of-livlng In
creases as a result of advances
In the April CPI. Their increase,
based on the change in the in
dex since January, will be two
cents an hour.
ection to determine a bargaining
agent.
The Secretary of Agriculture
mentioned another idea--that of
producer marketing boards. Such
a board would have the power
to regulate production and mar
keting of a given commodity.
It would be able to negotiate pri
ces and other terms of sale.
Another approach to giving fa
rmers "more muscle in the mar
ket place” Is marketing agree
ments, said Freeman.
This idea is already in effect
in many areas and for many com
modities. USDA’s Consumer and
Marketing Service administers
the marketing agreement and or
der programs. In the Southeast,
such programs are in effect for
milk, Florida citrus, Georgia
peaches, peanuts, cigar-leaf to
bacco and for some vegetables.
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Layona Glenn
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What a wonderful world this
would be if every individual were
absolutely dependable! If every
man spoke the truth to his neigh
bor, with no “ifs” nor “ands”
about it! If every one who passed
on a piece of information were
careful to give the exact details
as he had received them.
Before the time of the T.V.
and radio we used to play a game
we called “Tattling”. I think
my father invented it to impress
us with the Importance of listen
ing carefully, and carefully
transmitting a message. The
first player would write down a
report of two or three sentences,
then whisper it to the one next
to him, this one would then whis
per it to the next in line, and so
on to the end of the players.
The last in line would write
down what he heard. The fun
came with the reading of the two
written reports. Sometimes
there would be hardly any re
semblance between the two. .
Try it some time, especially
with your children. You and
they will find it amusing, and
beneficial; besides opening up
“A WORD OF HOPE
FOR ALL OF US”
By: Dr. Robert V. Ozment
Pastor
First Methodist Church, Atlanta
The arm of the Christian Chu
rch is almost 2,000 years long.
There are some voices that tell us
the Church has exhausted Its
usefulness. They tell us that we
speak to generations that have
marched across the stage of life,
and are now in the timeless halls
of eternity. Is the Church shout
ing empty phrases? Are our
creeds and doctrines little more
than sounding brass or tinkling
cymbals? Are we dishing out
bits of charming philosophy and
fascinating psychology with lit
tle or no eternal significance?
Are we preaching an euphemis
tical Gospel? That is to say,
do we soothe the sins of society
and pat the sinner on the back
and assure him in his sins, by
saying, ‘that’s nothing to worry
about, everybody else Is doing
it,’ or, ‘forget it, God will under
stand? * Do we speak for God
or for man? That is the crucial
question.
Has the Church lost its useful
ness? If we proclaim the view
of men — men gripped with pre
judice, haunted with fear, and
stifled with selfishness, then the
Church has betrayed God and
our proclamations serve only to
soothe the sins of man and cover
up the ugly stains of the soul.
The Church must speak for God.
It must proclaim God’s message
to our generation. Such a mes
sage is a timeless and inexhaus
tible source of power. It may
come in the form of a sting
ing revelation to us, as we stand
before God with all the secret
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE ’
R - > - - >
THERE IS CONSIDERABLE unrest, dissatisfaction and, in
some places, downright outrage because of some of the things
that are going on in the country and the world today.
And this concern, which is certainly not without justification,
is expressed to me and some of my like-minded colleagues in the
form of hundreds of letters every day. These are more than just
simple complaints. These angry people want something done.
They want legislation or to amend the Constitution. They want
the courts or the executive branch of government called on the
carpet. They want some federal departments and agencies to
change their ways, and certain officials fired.
They want action and the sooner the better. Os course, as
most people realize, it isn't that simple.
* * ♦
WE HAVE MADE OCR VOICES loud and clear in strong
opposition to these issues and problems which are worrying our
people, and we have repeatedly urged corrective action. And I for
one will continue to do so.
However, we sometimes get irate responses which go some
thing like this: "We know how you feel about it. Tell us what
you are going to do about it and why aren’t you doing it now?”
Well, I know what I would do were it within my power to
singlehandedly secure the remedies and the needed legislation.
But it is beyond my power or any other member of the Congress
to do this. A Senator, for example, has only one vote and only
one per cent of the legislative authority in the Senate. There are
about 18 or 19 of us of like mind, but this falls far short of the
majority needed to pass or kill bills and resolutions.
Thus, it can be seen that more than just a strong will to do
something is needed. We need more votes.
♦ ♦ ♦
THIS IS NOT TO SAY that we should just supinely sur
render. No one intends to do that. I expect to continue to speak
out strongly and vigorously against what I deem to be wrong and
to urge remedial action 1 believe to be in the best interests of our
State and nation. 1 am hopeful that others will continue to do the
same.
The present trend, about which so many of us are greatly
alarmed, will be reversed when enough people in America get
alarmed and when more of their elected representatives in Con
gress come around to a more responsible way of thinking.
JU
Thursday, June 1, 1967
an avenue of communication be
tween the grown-ups and the
children of the f imlly, of which
there is a distressing lack in our
present family life. Unfortun
ately, with the advent of the T.V.
most families settle down after
supper to an evening of piped
in entertainment. Sprawled upon
the floor the little ones drink
in whatever program may be on,
whether it is suitable for them
or not. Most often it is not!
The art of self entertainment
seems to have perished from the
earth, and with it the exercise
of the reasoning powers. One
wonders what preparation the
rising generation is getting for
assuming the responsibilities
that will fall upon them twenty
years from now.
Mothers, fathers, wake upland
before it is forever too late, do
your part in fitting your child
ren for their job, when, in the
course of time they must fin
your place in the conduct of
human affairs.
AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEP
ETH!
sins of the soul exposed. When
the truth of God grips a man’s
life, it is as refreshing to his
soul as a bubbling spring of fresh
water is to the parched lips of
3 thirsty man in the midst of a
hot desert.
History serves as a silent re
minder that the rumbling feet of
armies, that once caused fear to
throb in many human hearts, are
now silent, yet, Christ continues
to live. Empires that sought to
snuff out the Christian Church,
have crumbled; civilizations have
come and gone; world power has
shifted from one nation to anot
her; but Christ remains, and He
is our only hope. God stalks
through history leaving, for every
generation, a path to follow out
of the dark jungle of confusion.
Just what is the business of
the Christian Church? We are to
proclaim the truths of God. What
are the great truths of God?
(1) God revealed Himself to
man through Jesus Christ. It
is an amazing truth to discover
that God wanted you and me to
know what He is realty like.
(2) Jesus Christ died for me.
Why? I cannot say — I only
know that He died for my sins.
(3) My sins can be forgiven.
I can be a redeemed person.
I am not sentenced to carry
through life the heavy load of
guilt, which is the fruit of my
sins. God will forgive me. (4)
Life Is eternal. Life Is not the
beginning of the end. It is an
endless journey.
Our job must never be less
than to proclaim to a weary
and broken humanity, that life
can be a thrilling adventure. God
loves us with an unceasing love.
If we speak for God, ours must
be a redemptive Gospel.