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THE COVINGTON NEWS
RTR T 25 NS o P SDO 3-8
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publisher
BT A 105
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
The lumber and forest products industry of
Georgia operates 37% of all industrial establish
ments in the state,
The total number of Georgia’s wood based plants
is 2,299, Os these, 640 are sawmills and planing
mills, The remainder are logging camps and
contractors, paper companies, millwork, plywood
and veneer mill(:r furniture factories, pre-fa
bricated wood products, wood containers and wood
preserving operations,
Lumber and forest products rank first among
Georgia industries in new capital expenditures,
The annual forest industry payroll in the state
is s2ll million,
These facts are disclosed by U, S, Census Bu=
reau figures compiled by the Southern Pine As
sociation,
Another interesting statistic is ‘‘value added by
manufacture,” which means the total value of forest
products shipments minus the cost of material,
Summer arrives this year on June 21, For
most of us, it is the most pleasant season of the
year, It is the season when the works of nature
reach full bloom, It is the season of picnics,
of hunting, fishing trips and camping, It is the
season when the family car will carry vacationers
far and wide across the land to see the sights
and wonders which abound in this country,
Weekenders flock to the beaches and to lakes,
Some are looking for quiet relaxation, Others
will participate in exacting sports such as water
skiing, A few will devote time to contemplating
the wonders of the world in which we live, The
latter will gain greater enrichment from summer
than the rest of us, In their behalf, it is but fit
ting to issue a plea and a warning to all and sundry
‘1 will guarantee you that when the headlines
are printed following the submission of the Pre
sident’s budget, . .the figures referred to will be
most confusing to those who try to understand what
the real picture is,”” Those words were spoken
months ago by the chairman of the Approgf‘l‘ations
Committee, Representative George H, Mahon of the
U, S. House of Representatives, Many will now con
sider his remark the understatement of thlenyear.
The deficit estimates vary by many billions,
The only thing that is clear is that there will be a
huge deficit, This means that in comlntghmonths
the spectre of inflation will threaten the most
A stock item of American folklore concerns the
oldtime farmer, invariably designated as Rube,
When Rube visited the big city the hayseed in his
hair was a dead giveaway and he never left town
without a gold brick in his carpetbag, or a deed
to the Bro&lyn Bridge,
Today’s counterpart of the legendary Rube
is more likely to be a government administrator
fresh off the campus, He may not have hayseeé
in his locks but one can spot traces of ivy leaves,
The only difference between this Rube and his
gredecessor is usually that he bought all the gold
ricks before he left the campus and proposes to
peddle them under government auspices,
The academic Rubes who have been insisting
that advertising promotes monoply, is an economic
waste and requfres government controls should
stop pontificating and read a book which has just
been published, It's entitled ‘‘Advertising and
Competitionb" and was written by a down-to-earth
economist, Dr, Jules Backman,
Dr. Backman has brufiht together an impres
sive array of facts and figures to demolish some
old myths being circulated in the Groves of Acad-
On the desk is a letter froman old family friend,
It reads:
““My car broke down on the highway two nights
ago, I wanted to phone my wife to report I'd be
late, I remembered I’d seen a phone booth half
a-mile back, soltrudged through the snowand slush
to call her, and a tow-truck, The l.ght was out in
the booth, but I finally separated the fenn.ies in
my pocket and found that I had one lone dime,
Fumbling with cold I pushed the coin in (you don’t
drop them in, or deposit them as the xrator
alw:{s says) and dialed the operator, r se
ver rlnis a voice filled with sweet charity and
honey asked dreamn{‘:) ‘May I help you? "
““I want,’”’ I said, ‘‘to make a collect call, code
number, . ,’’and that’s as far as I got,
“ *You may dial collect calls directnow, Simply
dial the number 0 and then the numbers, ..’ "’
““Hold it,”’ said L. ‘“l'm on my last dime and I
want to write down those numbers and be very
sure I get a call through to somebody,”’
“oOf course there was no paper in the booth,
except a crumpled tissue on the floor, But after
some cold-fingered fumbling in the dark I came up
with paper and pen from inside two layers of
clothing and took down the numbers, While I was
Sg:kesmen for the antitrust division of the De
partment of Justice have indicated that they do not
envision a broad scale program imposing limit
ations on advertising, But[r at the same time,
there continues in official circles the underlying
belief that advertising results in higher prices,
N%md be further from the truth, Adver
tising ds sales volume and lowers unit costs,
Consumers benefit in lower prices, abundance and
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Lumber And Forest Products Are
Important To Georgia’s Economy
How Will You Vote?
Up To The People
The New ‘Rubes’
Some Consumer Protection Please
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In this category, Georgia’s lumber and forest
products industr{ashows an annual stipend close to
a half billion dollars,
The Southern Pine Association points out that
dollars generated by forest-based activity are
eventually siphoned to all other areas of the
Georgia economy, The many beneficiaries include
thousands of private landowners who manage timber
and take their harvests to market with lumber com
panies and other timber enterprises,
Georgia’s lumber and forest industry is planting
firm roots for future economic growth, Forty-five
million of the nation’s 70 million acres of tree
farms are located in the South with 7 1/2 million
tree farm acres concentrated in Georg: alone,
Georgia’s total is tops for the entire United States,
Tree farmlng is an industry-sponsored program
designed to stimulate the practice of %hood forest
management by private landowners and thus assure
permanent timber supply,
as the long worms of traffic stream out of the cities
this summer for the mountains and the seashores,
Every auto will be loaded with potential garbage,
as well as people, Mulfl&ly each auto by tens of
millions, each carrying its quota of paper plates,
beer cans, melon rinds, all the refuse of living--
and we come up with a pollution problem of awe
some proportions,
Whether there is beauty left for future gener
ations to enjoy depends on the behavior of the
people, They have the power to leave a heritage
of beauty or blight, The choice is made and a vote
is cast whenever trash is tossed out of the family
car along the roadside or left at the spots which
nature provided for camping or picnicing, How
will you vote?
i:::;fully planned family budgets all across the
What is the answer to inflation? Representative
Mahon expresses it in a few words, ‘‘The ulti
mate answer is only partly in Congress; it is only
partly in the White House, More importantly,
control of public spending rests with the l‘gieople
who create public sentiment and elect officials
of government, , . Congress is not going to prac
tice restraint unless the message comes through
loud and clear from the people generally,” These
are strong words and well deserved in the area
of nondefense spending,
eme as immutable truths,
‘“The discovery of a new product or the im
provement of an existm{l one,”” he writes, ‘‘adds
nothing to economic activity until markets are
developed, Because management is fully aware
of the availability of advertising and other market
ing tools, if goes ahead with large investments
in research and development, The incentive to
introduce these products is the profit to be de
rived from the development of mass markets, This
is the job of advertising,’’
In other words, it is advertisl.n%e that made
possible such things as color TV, stereo sound,
fhermanent press fabrics and a few thousand other
ings. It has done this by assuring manufac
turers they could recover, through advertising, the
money invested in their research and development,
And this flood of new products, in turn, has meant
new factories, new jobs, new industries,
{g:gsometlung the ivy-decked Rubes keep for
getung,
What manufacturer would spend millions to deve
lop a new froduct ifhe thenhad to ask a Washington
bureaucrat for permission to advertise it?
Dial Yones
doing so it dawned on me that the sweet, honeyed
voice was camouflage for the sharpest needle I'd
felt in a long time, What it reall;' had said to me
was ‘Do it yourself you stupid oaf,
““So I dialed the train of numbers, Arm weary
from holding my arm over my head for so long a
time, I waited, Finally the same saccharine voice,
or maybe one trained in the same school, came on
the wire to inquire: ‘May I help you?’
b thougeht,” I said, ‘‘somebody refused to about
five minutes ago, I was trying to do it myself as I
was told,”’
‘‘‘Where’, the voice demanded, ‘are you trying
to call?’
“I'm trying to make a collect call to, ~”
““‘That is all I wanted to know sir.,’ "’ The
“sir’’ wasn’t sweet, It was colder than the icy
blasts through the warped door, After much de
lay, and a conversation with my wife which I
could overhear, the operator finally let me speak
with her,
““Can you tell me why it wouldn’t have been
courteously sim&ler, and infinitely more efficienti
:»oli the ‘voice’ have placed my call in the firs
ce?
““If you can’t, don’t trouble to reply.”
variety in the mukefi:g:.
Despite fine-spun ies to the contrary, ex
cessive federal straitjacketing of the merchandis
ing process would guarantee scarcity, higher pri
c::hdisrupfion of production and employment and
b uptcy for a good many of our newspapers
and hferiodicals. With this type of th.l.nklgein of
ficial circles, consumers may need protection,
but it certainly isn’t from advertising,
MABLE SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
Sunday School
PETER IMPRISONED AND
FREED
Devotional Reading: II Cor=
inthians 4:7-18
Memory Selection: If you are
reproached for the name of Chr=
ist, you are blessed, because the
spirit of glory and of God rests
upon you. I Peter 4:14
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Praying for Others
Young People-Adult Topic:
Persecution and Deliverance
We were informed in last
week’s lesson that ‘‘the disciples
were called Christians first in
Antioch.””
Christians—{followers of Chr
ist. It is a familiar word to us
now, but two thousand years ago
the followers of Jesus were gen=-
erally referred to as ‘‘believ
ers.’”” Antioch was acityof great
importance which had come into
prominence during the time the
family of the Greek conqueror
Antiochus ruled Syria. Itwasthe
capital of Syria under the Ro
mans, It was from this city of
Antioch that the first foreign
missionaries (Paul and Barn
abas) were sent forth by the Chr
istian Church.
Accordingly, this city plays a
leading role in the dramatic eve
nts which characterize this per
iod.
Herod Agrippa, who occupied
the throne at this time, was a
member of a monstrous family.
They slew one another without
compunction, to say nothing of
the innocent persons who fell be
neath their heavy hand. Herod
did not have a drop of Jewish
blood in his veins. He was an
Idumean, or Edomite. It is true
that about 125 years before the
birth of Christ the Edomites had
been conquered by the Jews and
had been compelled to accept
circumcision and all other Jew=
ish rites. Legally Herod was a
Jew (by conquest and adoption),
but racially he was an Edomite—
that is, a descendant of Esau,
not of Jacob.
‘““Now about that time Herod
the king stretched forth his hands
to vex certain of the church.
And he killed James the brother
of John with the sword. And
because he saw it pleased the
Jews, he proceeded further to
taske Peter also” (Acts 12:1-
3).
Today’s lesson begins with the
account of Peter’s languishing
in prison. His arrest must have
.
South America
Is Important
By Dr, Irvine S, Ingram,
President Emeritus
West Georgia College
The Caribbean region, because
of Castro and Santo Domingo, is
in the news from time to time,
but South America proper recei
ves sparse news coverage unless
Richard Nixon or President John=
son or his daughter Lynda flies
down on matters of business, . «
which all have done recently, The
fact is that most moderately well=-
informed Americans are rather
blank on South America, Solhave
been reading John Gunther’s
eighth ¢‘‘lnside book, ‘‘lnside
South America’’, published early
this year by Harper & Row, and
currently on the non-fiction best
seller list, You will recall that
President Kennedy said that La
tin America is more cruical to
us than any region in the world,
and I was enteretained by a st
atement made by James Reston of
THE NEW YORK TIMES to the
effect that ¢‘Somehow the people
of the United States will do any=-
thing for Latin America
expect read about it,”
However, the present volume,
dealing only with the ten prin
cipal South American states, has
no connection with the author’s
‘“lnside Latin Anierica’, pub
lished about a quarter=century
ago, The region Mr, Gunther then
visited he called ‘‘Frozen into a
kind of derelict immobility’”’, The
region visited recently is a con
tinent ‘“in a state of active flux,
grasping for a future, with fun
damental, yeasty impulses for
change apparent almost every=-
where, The key word is advan=
ce‘n
“The countries covered are
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ch
ile, Columbia, Ecuador, Para=-
guay, Peru, Uruguay and Vene=-
zuela, and as different from one
another as they are, Mr, Gun
ther found certain problems and
issues to be pervasive, Every=-
where there is a certain resent
ment of the United States, there
is an appalling gulf between the
rich and the poor (2 percent of
the people own 70 percent of the
wealth), there is a necessity for
land reform, yet thereisa growth
of industrialization and urbani
zation,
One of the most crucial iss
ues, according to Mr, Gunther,
is the imminence of continent=
wide revolution (not necessarily
Communistic although there are
varying intensities of the Com=-
munist movement everywhere
there) which could put in power
new regimes being very deci
sively anti-American, Mr, Gun
ther ventures to editorialize, whe
ich he very rarely does, saying
that “The United States should
m!l'ously. . .lt;ake the side of the
e, even if a consequence of
this is radical socme%uhange."
(Continued on 8)
THE COVINGTON NEWS
constituted a great shock to the
believers with whom he was as
sociated. However, they gather
ed together and prayed without
ceasing that he would be
delivered.
To the world nothing could have
seemed more futile than this at
tempt on the part of a few ap
parently inconsequential people
to establish what they did not
hesitate to call ‘‘the true
church.” They were spiritually
powerful, however, because the
blessing of God was upon them,
and the hand of God operated
through them. They had no
wealth or political power. When
Peter was thrown into prison
the believers simply gathered to
gether and began with earnest
ness to pray God that this leader
of the church would be spared to
them and to the world.
Many people who believe in
prayer find it hard to believe in
intercessory prayer—or prayer
in behalf of someone other than
the one who does the praying.
Some feel that it is entirely rea
sonable to believe that God will
answer at least certain of the
prayers which an individual dir
ects toward Him. But the idea of
praying for someone perhaps
half-way around the world, or
certainly someone at a distance,
is quite beyond reason.
The original Christian believ
ers did not hold such a point of
view. When they heard that their
leader Peter was in prison, they
marshaled the whole Christian
Church—which at most could
have consisted of not morethana
few hundred members—and set to
work interceding, beseeching, pl
eading with God to bring about
the release of their leader.
Intercessory prayer is one of
the truths taught in both the Old
and New Testaments. We are
encouraged to believe that God
hears prayer. He hears prayer
uttered in our own behalf, in
behalf of our lovedones, and even
for persons we have never met
and who may be separated from
us by a vast distance.
Our doctrine of prayer is never
complete unless it includes be
lief in intercessory prayer.
Peter in prison was prayed for
earnestly by his associates. The
result was a great deliverance,
and the message passed on to us
is that we may still avail our
selves of this spiritual power to
the welfare of ourselves, of the
Church, and of the world.
Alcoholism -- Steps of Motivation
Article # 3 of a continuing
discussion compiled and writ=
ten by The Rev, George Home
and The Rev, Tom White, :
* %k % %
Today’s article has as its pur
pose the thought of motivation in
the life of the alcoholic, We
would do well to read The Fair
field Plan Publication Number
1, ‘“How to help an alcoholic who
insists he doesn’tneed any help,’’
This is a splendid little book that
points its finger in the right di-~
rection,
In the first place, consider how
Motivation happens., ¢‘Probably
the clearest and most compre=-
hensive portrait of the progres=-
sion of the illness in an alco=-
holic is that drawn by the late
Professor E, M, Jellinek, one
of the founders of the Yale (now
Rutgers) Center of Alcohol Stu=
dies, Professor Jellinek based
his original work on an analy=-
sis of more than 2,000 drinking
histories of alcoholics, including
many recovered in AA,
The Jellinek’s report shows
how as the alcoholic grows more
dependent on the effects of drink=-
ing, he has to rationalize, con
ceal or explain away his beha
vior, seemingly to justify himself
in the eyes of the family and so=-
ciety, This is also done to off=-
set criticism and to quiet the
tongues of any who would raise
questions concerning his beha
vior,
The pattern of his thinking runs
along this line, The excuses and
explanations of the alcoholic are
modest at first, but as thedrink
ing and the problems increase and
become acute, the rationali
zations tend to multiply and be
come more detail and elaborate
involving into what Professor
Jellinek calls in a wonderful
descriptive phrase, ‘‘the alibi
structure,” The AA’s have a
more daring description of this
same thought they call it, *‘st=
inking thinking’’, at least the
shock of the thought drives the
point home!
The strange thing concerning
the process of rationalization is
that it grows with the progress
of the illness, which may cover
a span of twenty years, We are
told that it starts in the pre
alcoholic stage (when the drin
ker begins to drink for relief
rather than for social reasons),
Thus the pattern continues th=
rough the early stage when me=
mory blanks from only moderate
bouts and the bouts begin to oc=
cur fairly often, growing into the
middle stage when drinking tends
to become uncontrolled once be=
gun and carries into the last
stage which is marked by pro=-
longed binges.
Thus the facts of what life
has actually become is hard to
explain away, The alibi st
ructure collapses and according
to Professor Jellinek the alco
holic ‘‘becomes spontaneously
accessible to treatment,”
To the AA this is the same
concept as ‘‘hitting the bottom”
a term used and cited as a ne-
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June 19, 1967
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Covington, Georgia
Gentlemen:
I wish to express a word of
most profound appreciation to
you on behalf of the Class of
1942 of old Covington High Sch
ool
The coverage and generous sp=
ace you gave in the recent issue
to the 25th anniversary re-union
of our Class was extremely well
done and was an unusually kind
gesture. We are immensely
grateful to you for it.
Not only did it afford the gen=
eral public a good account of
this highly successful occasion,
but it has given us members of
the Class of 1942 a most approp
riate memento of this memor
able event. We are sending copies
to all who were present at our
re-union as well as to those who
were unable to attend.
Please accept our congratulat
fons and our deepest thanks.
Most sincerely,
F, Burt Vardeman, President
Class of 1942
Covington High School
Mrs. Belmont Dennis and Leo
S. Mallard:
On behalf of the members of
VFW Post #9146, I wish to ex
press our gratitude for the cover
age given Poppy Day.
We would also like to thank the
Little League Rebels and their
coach, Mr. Bob Hunter, for their
assistance in selling the poppies.
The combination of their help
and the wonderful support by the
people of Newton County made
Poppy Day a very big success.
Respectively,
Art Booth
Post Commander
Covington, Ga.
June 17, 1967
Dear Editor:
I'would like very much tothank
the United Fund and the
Emergency Relief for helping me
during my illness. It meant so
much to me! You will never
know how much I appreciate it.
Thanks again,
Mrs. Goldie McElroy
cessary preliminary to success=
ful recovery, This same pro=-
cess is seen by the alcoholic
himself and is clearly stated in
the wording of the first of the
Twelve Steps of AA: ¢‘‘We ad
mitted that we were powerless
over alcohol - that our lives had
become unmanageable,””
In the second place, can Mo~
tivation be induced? There use
to be a feeling that one must
reach the stage of utter defeat
in order to be treated success=-
fully, but this is not true in our
day of blessings, for Clinical ex
perience has shown that this de
feat can be induced long before
it would occur of itself and that
even incipient alcoholism can be
intercepted, Because the pro
blem can be recognized it is pos=
sible to tackle the problem from
the preventive angle, The good
news to the alcoholic is that
there is help and much can be
done before a person is old and
mangled by this disease, Next
week we will talk about how we
can provide motivation that is
so essential in treating the al=-
cohelic,
Chest X-Ray:
® »
Pictures Don’t Lie
“Tell you the truth, Doc,”
said Felix, ‘I feel just fine.
Don’t know why Pm here, ex
cept the wife nagged me into
coming around for a checkup.’”
“Mmm,” said the doctor,
peering at Felix’s record. Two
years since his last visit. ‘‘Welli,
let’s have a look.”’
Blood pressure? Fine. Heart?
Not a bit bad. Weight? Hadn’t
put on an ounce, Thedoctor nod
ded, then listened thoughtfully to
his chest.
‘“You say you've felt well?
No minor complaints? Cough or
anything?”?
“‘Come to think of it, I have
been coughing a little since last
summer. But just in the morn=-
mz’. Didn’t even think to mention
it.”
‘“Plenty of pep lately?*?
‘‘Well, now you mention it,”
said Felix, ‘‘guess Pve lost a
little of the old get-up-and-go.
But none of us are getting any
younger, are we, heh, heh,”’
He started to put on his shirt,
but the doctor shook his head.
‘“Step over here, please.” Felix
moved to the X-ray machine and
dutifully posed.
The chest X-ray looked sus=
picious. And when the results
from a couple of other tests
were in there was no longer any
doubt, Felix had tuberculosis==
not terribly advanced but not in
the beginning stage either.
‘““You’ll get well,”” the doctor
assured him. ‘Too bad you
didn’t come in earlier. But
you’re lucky. We've got medi
cines that will stop TB, You’ll
need to take them every day for
Russia has called the Security
Council of the United Nations De=
bating Society into emergency
session to chastise Israeland th
reaten nuclear war as a possi=
bility if she can’t save face in
the Middle East crisis,
It’s been quite a blow to ¢“Big
Red’” to have tiny Israel liter
ally take apart the Arab world
armed to the teeth with Russ
fan made weapons, She wants
the world to recognize that mi
ghty Israel has aggressed upon
her little protectorate brothers
. « othe Arabs,
This world is truly in one
helluva mess when grown men
and women, the leaders of every
nation of the world, will sit
calmly, comfortably, and tact
fully in their seats of the United
Nations (as ununited as divorced
alleycats) and listen, and ra
tionalize, such stupid hogwash
under the disguise of diplomacy,
Peace is a wonderful thing. It
is a condition that men and wo
men for generations have sought,
but true peace can only come
when men are free, Freedom is
bought, It is paid for with the
blood, sweat, tears, and lives
of its advocates, This has al=
ways been the case and will
continue to be so throughout his=-
tory.
The eyes of the world are on
the United States as she enters
the arena of debate around the
United Nations bargaining table,
Will she stand by little Israel
like a proud, powerful nation,
or appease the Communists, and
the neutral nations who ride the
fence and play both ideologies
for whatever they can get, when
ever they can get it?
Also looming in President
Johnson’s mind as he directs
Mr, Goldberg in the United Na
tions is the fact that the 1968
presidential election could swing
A, C, Clemens, pastor,
-~ Wesleyan Methodist Church
Covington, Georgia
Some time ago I ran across
the following article and con=
sidered it so illustrative and to
the point that I want to share it
with the readers of ‘““Words To
Live By”, It is printed from
THE UPLANDER by Rev, Bill
Burch, Upland, California,
¢TRY THIS FOR SIZE"
‘Excuse me a minute, Rever=
end’’, she said as she turned to
her daughter who came through
the living room where we were vi=
siting, ‘‘Nancy, you better getto
practicing your piano, You have
a lesson this afternoon, and don’t
start to whine, I have told you a
hundred times you cannot quit
taking piano lessons,’’
‘‘Now Reverend, as I was say=-
ing, I appreciate your coming by
here to talk to us about getting
our children in Sunday School,
but you see I don’t think we ought
to force them, After all it only
builds up resentment and I know
many adults who refuse to go to
church just because they were
forced to as a child,’’
At this point, her son came
storming intc the house and she
turned to him, ¢‘Fred, gorightup
and take a bath and get dressed
in the clothes I laid out for you,
We only have an hour to get you
to your dancing lessons=--and no
argument now! I want youtogrow
up with culture and refinement,
You act like girls are poison!
Layona Glenn
o o
Every individual that goes th
rough life here on earth estab=-
lishes a character and a reputat
ion, and many consider these
things synonymous, but thereisa
vast difference between the two;
though the individual earns both
by his behavior and development,
and both may be good or bad,
Character is from within, the
result of deliberate, willful deci
sion on the part of the indivi
dual party, It cannot be essen~
tially injured except by a deli
berate act by the person him=-
self, In fact any attempt from the
a year or longer.
That’s how it is with TB.
You can have the active disease
without knowing you're sick.
Which is why it’s important to
have that annual medical checkup,
with a tuberculin skin test to
tell whether any TB germs have
lodged in your body, or a chest
X=ray to show whether disease is
affecting your lungs. For more
information on TB, ask your
Christmas Seal association for
free literature,
Thursday, June 22, 1967
The Gall 0f It All
BY: Leo S, Mallard
either way for him over the pro
tection of Israel in this crisis,
There are enough Jews in the
United States to turn the elect
ion, The Jewish people stick to=
gether, They fear not, evenfrom
Texans,
The American people are dis=-
gusted with the wishy-washy po
licy of appeasement in dealings
with the Red world., This feel
ing has been strengthened weekly
as the casualty reports come in
from Vietnam, Our people want
peace, but they want peace with
dignity and freedom for them
selves and all mankind, They
are tired of being the “Ugly
Americans” without cause and
are about ready to square-off
with Russia, China, or anybody
else to right some rotten wrongs
in the world,
If we continue to bury our
heads in the sand for diplomacy
sake, sooner or later we are
going to feel the smack of a
heavy ‘“Bear paw’’ on our bre
oadsides, If we know that this is
inevitable, may God help us to
at least hold up our head so
that we can see what is happen
ing when the fight starts,
Russia, if she can save her
face, will back off and let some
body else do the fighting, She
still remembers Hilter’s arm=
ies on her soil, Red China will
not do the same, Her brain
washed millions do as they are
told., Now she has the hydrogen
bomb and is expected to havede
livery capability by 1970,
If we are to stand firm, let
it be now for the sake of future
generations, If it means war,
let it be now when we still stand
as the most powerful nation on
earth, Russia fears us, or she
would have already taken us over,
The dragon of China spits a lot
of fire, but can still be killed
by cutting off its head,
Why you just ask our pastor here,
he’s been to college--tell him,
Reverend, how important the ab=
ility to dance is in college and
adult life,”
After the boy was dispatched
on his reluctant way she said,
‘“And as for having our children
in the Youth Department of the
church, , ,well frankly, Rever=
end, the programs are just not
interesting and they tell me they
are bored, And I feel that this
is the kind of decision each per
son should make for himself, as
to whether they want to go to
church or not, You know, Ido
truly want them to be good ch
urch members when they grow
up, so we dare not force them
l'low."
As I remember it was at this
time that her husband came into
the room, ‘‘Jack,” she said,
‘‘Look at you,- Why can’t you
dress neatly? No wonder our
children are so slovenly, You
go around looking like a tramp,
This is our new pastor, , ,you
remember he came here last
year when Reverend What’s-his
name left,”
Then she turned to me and
concluded her logic with the st=
atement, ‘“We will try to get the
children to church some of the
time, Os course we don’t go
much ourselves but we realize
it is important for them,”’
When I opened the door to
leave one of her “slovenly’” you=
ngsters almost ran over me, But
it wasn’t his fault, , .I couldn’t
see through my tears,
outside can but strengthen it, if
met with honest rebuttal,
Reputation is the effect of the
impact of character upon the
community, It consists of the
opinions formed by those in
dividuals who observe the beha
vior of the person involved and
their report of their opimn to
others,
Let us remember this as wego
through life and build up strong
trust worthy characters, The
Bible says that a good name is
worth more than great riches,
and we all know how true that
is, How often have we heard
someone speaking of another say:
‘“That man’s word is as good as
his bond,”
That is a high compliment,
But the same thing can be said
of every man among us! If a
man’s word is no good, neither
is his bond!
It is nice to have a good repu=-
tation, but far more important to
have a good character to back it
up.
Happy is the man who hasear
ned both a good character and a
good reputation,