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COMMENTS
Humbly, We Accept. ...
Cherished beyond words are recognitions given
by the Fourth Estate to members of the newspaper
profession, To be so honored by professionals in
the journalisitc field is an ample reward for the
hard work that goes into the production of a com
munity newspaper, We humbly accept these five
awards for ourselves, our readers, our advertisers,
and our community,
These awards from the Georgia Press Associa
tion, . .second place in Community Service, Typo
graphy, and Sports; third {Jlace in Sociefy news
coverage, and War Cry religious editorial award, ..
are certainly not ours alone, We, and our com
munity, justly take pride in these recognitions for
they symbolize the heartbeat of progress and ac
hievement of the area served by The Covington
News,
Playing The Percentages
Up until the coming of the New Deal, state and
local governments across the country collected
something like two-thirds to three-fourths of all
taxes, Only one tax dollar in every three or four
went to Washington,
By 1938, this proportion was beginning to re
verse itsel, During World War 11, of course, it
was completely reversed, with federal taxes and ex
penditures reaching a peak of more than 80 percent
of the total for the year 1944, From that point it
decreased slowly, but budgets for which the Eisen
hower administration was responsible decreased
the Federal tax take only from 74,3 percentof 68,7
percent, Federal tax collections and expenditures
for 1966 were 66,5 percent, almost exactly two
thirds of the national total,
When Eisenhower took otfice{hhe appointeda com
mittee to study how some of the over-centralized
government functions could be returned to the
states, and how equivalent tax collections could be
retained by state andlocal government, Clarence E,
Manion, for many years Dean of the Law School
at Notre Dame, headed the committee, Its compre-
Members of the medical profession have been
working closely with Congress and the appro
priate bodies to take the kinks out of medicare,
tS;me of the kinks are a growing snarl of red
pe.
The head of the AMA, in testifying before a
congressional committee, has recommended that
government drop out of the administration of Part
B of medicare which is the $3 a month volun
tary insurance phase of the act. He suggested
that social security payments be increased so
the beneficiaries can purchase their own private
voluntary health insurance coverage. He point
éd out that Part B has involved the federal
fi?rvernment itself in *“,..the practice of medicine
ough rules, rugulations and statistical data re
quirements,”” Moreover, ‘‘the patient is dissat
isfied because he finds he is getting less than he
End Os The Golden Age
It has been a long time since any Americans
have seen any gold coins in circulation, and the
time may not be far off when there won’t be any
gold watches, wedding rings or jewelry either,
It seems that inflation has made it so unprofit
able to mine the yellow metal that South Africa
plans to cut production in half, Since 70 percent
of the world’s gold comes from that nation’s
rich mines the outlook for gold-fanciers is pret
ty bleak,
Os course there is still that mother lode at
Fort Knox, in the hills of Kentucky, but this
has been mined so intensively by such gold
dlggers as ‘‘Charlie the Frenchman’ deGaulle
that it will soon be played out, Indeed, Fort
Knox is already showing signs of becoming a
ghost town, and one of these days Charlie and
some of his fellow prospectors may have to head
for the Urals, This, however, may not pan
out as easily as the Fort Knox diggings, For
one thing, the owners do not take kinkly to st
rangers who try to stake out claims, even dudes
with elegant manners,
Noise too loud and long-lasting can cause ner
vous tatifiue, damage the digestive system, in
crease allergic sensitivity, and lower the thres
hold of susceptibility to miflraine attacks or
other forms of psychosomatic illness,
That’s the none too cheerful prospect for an
increasingly noisy society as outlined by Dr,
Lee E, Farr of the University of Texas ina
recent report, In addltiont many experts on
hearing have pointed out that sustained high le
vels of sound can seriously impair the hearing
function,
Can anything be done about the rising noise
pattern? Actually some things are being done,
but so far mainly on a voluntary and mhaz
ard basis, Some airports have set maximum
sound standards for jet takeoffs, but nobody yet
has an answer to the sonic boom which sooner
or later is likely to become a universal pro
blem, There are devices to muffle the sound
THE COVINGTON NEWS
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Editor and Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures, and Features)
Medicare Mess
Noise Pollution:
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Most rewarding of all to this newspaper was the
Community Service award, Community service is
our reason for existence as a newspaper, With
out serving this community and its needs as it
forges ahead to develop and grow, we would surely
die,
We take this opportunity to thank you the public
for your support and cooperation which has made
The Covington News an award winning newspaper
in Georgia and nationally,
We, and our staff, repledge ourselves to ser
vice in this community for the future, We will
endeavor to help build a better Covington and
Newton County with our leadership and support
of projects and issues that are in the best in
terest of this area and its people as God guides
us to understand and act as our duty,
hensive report was pigeon-holed, reportedly by the
late Sherman Adams, himselfa former state gover
nor, With the advent of Eisenshower’s second
term, another committee was appointed for the
same purpose, Dean Manion remarked, ‘“This is
where I came in,”’ The second committee’s report
also came to naught,
This long and uninterrupted pattern of centraliza
tion brings into focus and explains why local govern~
ments are having such a hard time finding ways to
finance even the curtailed functions that have been
left them, It also brings to mind the colossal
waste that has resulted when local administrators,
familiar with local conditions and personms, lose
control,
Flush with funds that local and state governments
once collected, the Potomac bureaucrats appear to
believe that any problem can be solved by hurling
dollars at it — presumably by millions or billions,
In our opinlg& restoring the original ratio of tax
collections would be more effective, And we think
the dollars thus spent, by people on the spot, would
be more effective too,
expected, he experiences delays in be'}:greim
bursekl6 and he can’t comprehend the miliar
...combination that is t:glng to take care of him
...The Congress,.. is additionally concerned be
cause it has created an open-end proeram with
rising and perhaps uncontrollable costs.”
The AMA spokesman then raised a fundamental
question about medicare as a whole, He said
it covers millions of afeople who can afford to
finance their own health care, and centralizes
direction of the prcfiram in Washington rather
than permitting the flexibility and trial-and error
of health care programs administered by the st
ates, He added, ‘‘Available tax funds should be
used to give maximum health care to thosc who
need help, Expenditures of public funds on those
who do not need help limits the resources avail
able to those who do need it,””
The current crisis in the gold mining industry
goes back 33 years when the price of gold was
xed at $35 an ounce by the United States, which
was able to call the game since it held all the
cards, However, since that time, inflation has
pushed up production costs so hfh that it’s
hardly worth the effort necessary to bring the
yellow metal out of the ground, And if inflation
is not checked, or if some sort of tax relief
is not granted, mine owners in South Africa say
tha(lite the gold will just be left where it is, Down
under,
Complicating the picture is the factthatnomaior
new deposits have been found in South Africa
in a decade, and it’s becoming increasingly dif
ficult to mine the known supply, Unless {hmgs
change, experts say that by the year 2000 there
will be no more gold,
The only stuff around will be that mellow old
fnold that used to be stored in glittering piles
Fort Knox, now scattered to the four corners
of the earth by open-handed, prodigal Uncle Sam,
of motor vehicles, construction apparatus, and
other public noise producers; but they require
a cash outlay to buy and install,
Some cities have made gestures toward noise
control, but few have progressed beyond
the gesture stafe. A bill looking toward Fed
eral action, introduced in Con§ress last year
by Rep, Theodore Kupferman of New York, di
ed of neglect, The Confiressman has reintro
duced it and says he will keep plugging away,
Meanwhile the noise level escalates, ears be
come numbed, and in the words of Dr, Farr,
‘“‘manifestations of psychic stress’’ abound, As
with water contamination, air pollution, hazard
ous motor vehicles, and other menaces to pub
lic health and comfort, not much of consequence
is likely to get done until another kind of noise
is heard--a public outcry widespread and sus
tained enough to compel corrective action,
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
LEQO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
Sunday School
Devotional Reading: Isaiah
40:1-11,
Memory Selection: I am not
ashamed of the gospel; it is the
power of God for salvation to
every one who has faith, to the
Jew first and also to the Greek,
Romans 1:16,
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
The Gospel Is for All Men,
Young People - Adult Topic:
God Makes No Distinctions,
We heard much several years
ago about the Ecumenical Coun=
cil of the Roman Church, and
the results are still in the news,
The first of the great church
councils was held at Jerusalem,
and the record of it is found
in our lesson today, which is
drawn once again from the Acts
of the Apostles,
Luke helps us to see and ex~
amine the historic significance
of that council, and this lesson
challenges us to find the contem=
porary relevance of the insights
that came to the apostles at Jer=
usalem,
God was in Christ calling all
men unto Himself, He did not
require them to respond through
any specific form but rather th=
rough the exercise of faith,
The convening of the church for
a discussion of matters of faith
should be Spirit - directed, for,
when the Holy Spirit presides over
the church, God is indeed pre
sent,
In this lesson attention is gi
ven to Judaism’s relation to Ch=
ristianity, We shall see God’s
concern for persons versus
men’s institutional requirement,
Also, the idea is presented of
God’s inclusiveness as over ag
ainst man’s exclusiveness, Fi
nally, we view God’s liberation
of men through cleansing their
hearts, and men’s restrictions
through the yoke of circumcision
and the law,
The first great Christian che
urch council grew out of dissen=
sion and the need for understan=-
ding the truth,
The council was comprised of
the believers and the outstanding
men of the Jerusalem church, It
Judge Strozier Had Busy Court
Covington City Judge E, W,
Strozier disposed of one of the
heaviest dockets in many mon=
ths Monday morning at the re=
gular weekly session of the lo=
cal City Court, More than 40
cases were called for trial with
several of the persons charged
failing to appear and thereby
forfeited their cash bonds,
Two trial cases for Charles
R, Fincher of the Jackson High
way resulted in his being fined
S2OO on three counts, and an
other SIOO on three other counts,
The larger fine was on the ch
arges of driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants, discrder
ly conduct and resisting arrest,
The other charges were drunk,
disorderly and threatening a po
lice officer, according to the
Police records at City Hall,
Three other DUI cases in Ju=
®
Covington News Now Has
38 Press Awards In 11 Years
The Covington News this year has added six more press awards
to their honor list since 1956, In the past 11 years the paper has
received 38 Georgia Press Assn, and National Newspaper Assn,
awards, They are as follows:
GEORGIA PRESS ASSN,:
1956—General Advertising Excellence, first-place
Local Sports Coverage, First
Fearless Editorial, Second
General Excellence, Second,
1958—Local News Coverage, First,
Local Society Coverage, First,
Local Pictures, Third,
Typography, Third,
1959—Typography, First,
1960—Local Sports Coverage, First,
General Excellence, Second,
Best Editorial, Second
Local News Coverage, Second
Local Society Coverage, Third.
1961—Local News Coverage, First,
1962—Local Sports Coverage, Third,
1963—Local Sports Coverage, First,
General Advertising Excellence, First
1964—General Excellence, First,
Religious Editox'h\.h First,
Best Advertising Idea or Promotion, Second,
Agriculture Emphasis, Honorable Mention,
1965—Local Sports Coverage, Second
Agriculture Emphasis, Honorable Mention,
1966—General Advertising Excellence, Second,
Religious Editorial, Second,
1967—Community Service, Second
Local Sports Coverage, Second
Typography, Second
Local Sociefy Covergfif! Third
Religious Editorial, Third
NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION:
(NOW NNA)
1960—General Excellence Contest, Honorable Mention,
1961—General Excellence Contest, Second,
1963—Service to Agriculture, Honorable Mention,
1964—Service to Agriculture, First,
1965—General Excellence, Honorable Mention,
Service to Agriculture, Honorable Mention,
1967—Best Sports Story, Honorable Mention,
THE COVINGTON NEWS
served as the church’s supreme
court,
The decision of the council,
as we shall see, was indeed mo
mentous, Had the church lea
ders decided otherwise, the wh=
ole future course of the church
on earth, and our daily habits,
would have been altered,
God never leaves Himself
without witness, and the Holy
Spirit is ever present to guide
the church and to work to se
cure the church from evil and
error,
After the two great mission
aries Paul and Barnabas return=-
ed from the first missionary
journey (see the lesson for July
2) they were occupied with preac=
hing and teaching in Antioch,
Out of the blue came a bombe=
shell dropped by certain Jewish
Christians who represented ex
tremism, They selected as their
target the newly converted Gen
tiles, and they filled their minds
with such thoughts as ‘‘Except
ye be circumcised after the man
ner of Moses, ye cannot be
saved,” They made redemption
dependent upon the ritualistic
practices of Moses, and demand=
ed the strict legalism of the law=-
giver of Old Testament time,
These men were probably most
sincere and believed in the rite
of circumcision asa requirement
for salvation,
By this time the churchhad ac=
cepted the idea of Gentiles’ being
admitted into the inner circle of
the believers, Cornelius and his
family had been converted by the
miraculous power of the Holy
Spirit, Barnabas had reported
favorably on the converts in An
tioch, Thefirst missionary jour=
ney of Paul had resulted in the
conversion of many Gentiles,
There could be little doubt that
the Holy Spirit had been at work
with the resulting acceptance of
Jesus as both Lord and Christ,
The church, however, needed
to come to grips with the require=
ments for membership, The
conservative groups were quite
willing for the converts to be
accepted, but on their terms,
dge Strozier’s court saw the
persons so charged either pay
fines of $175 or forfeit their
bond, Another man was charged
with driving without a licenseand
using an expired inspection stic
ker, Another man was fined S2OO
on the charges of reckless driv=-
ing, speeding and driving under
the influence,
In all, six persons had cases
macde against them for speed=-
ing, six for reckless driving,
five for being drunk and five
for disorderly conduct, Four
persons were arrested and ch
arged with soliciting in the city
without licenses, They all for=-
feited their $25, bonds,
Three persons were fined for
stealing signs, one for running
a red light, one for resisting
arrest, and another person for
operaiing a car without a tag,
(Our Advertisers Are Assured of Best Results)
July 3, 1967
Mrs. A. Belmont Dennis
Editor
The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
We of the Cooperative Exten
sion Service staff here in New
ton County are most appreciat
ive for the fine coverage given
in ‘“The Covington News”’ of the
recent 4-H Club events and ac
tivities. This type coverage is
greatly appreciated by 4-H’ers
also since they are able to ut
ilize this type coverage as part
of their 4-H Club records forat
taining goals available to each
of them.,
Please convey this word of
thanks to each member of your
staff in order that they, too, will
know how much we appreciate
this fine coverage of last week’s
events as well as the excellent
coverage we receive every time
something of significance takes
place in our Newton County 4-H
Club program.
Sincerely yours,
(Miss) Carolyn Joyner
County Extension Home
Economist
Newton County
Edward H. Hunt
County Agent
Newton County
THE
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huge turtle had come out, made
her nest, laid her eggs and gone
back into the sea, So, Martha
Brown, Decatur, joined us about
this time, and we all hiked down
the beach to see the turtle tr
acks, . .where she had come out
and gone back, also the nest,
We wanted to see one of the
eggs. . Jbut we dared not when
we were informed it was ‘‘agin’
the law,”
Robert D, Fowler, the retir
ing President, conducted a per=
fectly delightful and business like
convention, . .the night sessions,
as you will see from the pic
tures, (only a few, mostly home
town group you know) of the hun=
dreds made, that there was not
a dull moment, From the tiny
tots to our Roy McGinty, of Cal
houn, who has just celebrated
his 80th birthday (and looks just
the same as he did when he
joined the Press group some 35
years ago), b
We are happy to say that your
local paper won some prizes ag
ain this year, but I am sure
they will be listed elsewhere in
the paper, You make the NEWS
—We GATHER it! It is YOUR
paper; it represents YOUR com=
munity; and this community is
going to be just what we make it,
We were proud of the recogni=
tion we had on Sports, especially
so, in that we went all out (and
over=board) to pay tribute to
Louise Fowler and her fine gr
oup of young people, . .this lam
sure, helped to capture the State
and the National recognition in
Awards, Miss Fowler deserves
every tribute we can pay her,
in her Home County, for her
outstanding work with young peo=
ple, as well as adults, She has
been patient, interested, and has
given of herself completely in
the Sports World to make her
students excell, wherever they
compete, , .and DO THEY LOVE
HER!
A nice letter from Miss Pearl
Burney (whose address you will
want), she is at 1556 East Har=
din Avenue, College Park, Ga.
She’s a dear, and all who know
her love her devotedly,
One of the highlights of the
State Convention, was when Miss
Nora Lawrence Smith, Editor and
Publisher of the Wiregrass Far
mer, at Ashburn, presented the
Georgia Press Association a
check in the amount of $10,000.,
for the first donation toward the
proposed Georgia Press Asso=-
ciation’s Building, ¢‘MissNora’’
is loved by the entire organiza=-
tion, . .me thinks she cut her
teeth on type, . Jfor her Father
owned and edited her paper, Am
sure she was right at his heels
learning everything there was to
learn, , Jfor ‘Miss Nora'’ as
she is lovingly known, by all,
is one of the best ‘‘newspaper
men’’ in all the State, She is
recognized as a great leader
in her Community, and her wisc
counsel is often sought in mat=
ters of local importance, For
our entire Staff, Miss Nora, we
wish to express our heartfelt
appreciation of this most
generous donation toward our
own building, It will ever stand
as a monument to the men and
women of today who help erect it
for future generations to enjoy
and work from,
Sure and we found the grass a
foot high in our flowers when
we returned home, . .for it had
really rained here too, It wasso
bad by the time we reached New=
ton County we had to stop for
about 20 minutes because we
could not even see where we were
going, . .and that was just too
bad!
Well, we had better settledown
to another year of hard work, « «
for this is the only time we have
been out of town (to Press Mee=
tings) in seven years, . .except
for two days in Memphis, ..Opps
« « smy broom comes my way, « «
and not smiling, . «so I’d better
do my job of 'Jest, . .¢‘Sweepin’
Up.”
RED LINE:
WHY ISRAEL WON
Communist logic may consist
of bold-face lies that are ut
terly ridiculous to free think=-
ing people, but to them they are
believed lies that form the pare
ty line and are to be presented
as explanations for world events
in their defense, :
The latest explanation caused
amusement at the office this
week, Havana radio, Castro’s
official radio, has explained the
defeat of Nasser and company:
the Israeli army that overwh=-
elmed the Arabs was trained
and commanded by Nazi gene
rals, schooled in desert tactics
during World War II under Hit
ler,
Unless the world, made up of
newly independent and neutral
nations, and a few of us old
moss~-back nations with our new
line of thought, is ready to be=
lieve and live lies, and I'm not
too convinced that she isn’t, even
the straight faced Communists
can’t unite the Jewish and Nazi
factions into a ‘‘reasonable ex=
planation’” for the Arab defeat,
To speak of the Communist
line in an article to Newton
County people seems to be a
far-off subject until we examine
the world around us and find
that we are living in a society
that has evolved to the point of
believing what we want to be=-
lieve rather than facing facts
and accepting the truth,
Here in America we have be=
come accustomed to having is
sues swept under the carpet and
hush=hushed rather than having
By Rev., Wayne Dickson, Pastor
Hopewell Presbyterian Church
God’s Expectations
“For the kingdom of heaven
is as a man traveling into a far
country, who called his own ser
vants, and delivered unto them
his goods. And unto one he gave
five talents, to another two, and
to another one; to every man
according to his several ability;
and straightway took his jour
ney.”’ Matthew 25: 14-15,
This is our Lord’s parable of
responsibility, =No individual,
nation, or church has ever re
ceived any gift for himself alone:
instead he is to use it to make
life better, All too often indi
viduals who are wealthy or in=-
tellectual or have excessive ta=
lents in some other area fail to
carry out the great responsib=
ility which accompanies these
gifts. Although that person had
no more right than another to
come into the world rich, well=-
born, or clever, God planned it
that way in order that he might
help the world more, Can a
man dare to use these talents
merely for his own gain and ad=-
vancement, forgetting God and
his fellowman?
Why were these talents so un=
fairly distributed? If God is
making us responsible for
talents, why don’t we start eq=-
ually? It is simply because every
person differs enormously inab=
ility from every other person, It
is hard for us to understand that
it is easier for some people
than for others to be kind, to keep
their tempers, or to believe and
trust in God; nevertheless, this
is a basic fact, Jesus says,
however, that we should not wor=
ry about these differences, God
will discriminate and eventually
the man with the fewer number
of talents will, if he be faithful,
receive the same approval as the
man with many talents, God says,
‘“Well done, good and faithful
servant,” (Matt, 25:21, 23) He
Layona Glenn
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I'm getting more and more
proud of our Governor!! About
every report I have on him in
ches him a notch or two high
er on the totem pole!
When I read the other day
the statement that he refuses to
allow his women employees to
show up in mini-skirts, it ra
ised him several notches in my
estimation. It shows that he
appreciates brains.
In my opinion, any woman with
brains enough to be a public
servant will not lower her self
respect to the point of making
a spectacle of herself when she
goes to her job., But it makes
me ashamed of my sex to real
ize that it is necessary for a
man to be forced to remind
woman to be modest!
Sometimes I wonder what is
ahead of us as a nation? Na
tions rise and fall according to
Thursday, July 13, 1967
RED LINE:
WHY Israel Won!
By: Leo S. Mallard
them aired in the light of de
mocratic action by free thinking
people. We have become so
conscious of being polite and dod
ging the issue that our drift to
socialism has thwarted our exe
ercise of the freedoms granted
by the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States,
Israel is a young democratic
country that has fought for Her
survival since She was founded,
Her free people haven’t been
safe enough to become compl
acent and take their freedom for
granted, Her laws governing
Her people still have teeth that
sink into those who attempt to
corrupt justice within or against
the nation,
In the United States our Con
stitution has been interpreted so
many different ways thatour peo
ple are no longer sure of what
their rights really are, Ourlaws
have so many loopholes that law
enforcement officials are be~
coming ineffective because of le
gal red tape, Our courts have
become frustrating rituals rat
her than dispensers of justice,
Our nation is not doomed, but
our people need to rise up and
change the channel in which we
find ourselves moving, We still
have our vote, and with the pre=
sidential election just a year
away we need to make up our
mind not to vote out of section
alism or emotionalism to satis=
fy ego, but rather for the man
and party that can strengthen
our nation at home and abroad,
We need no longer live the lie
of socialistic democracy if the
people will their government to
be different,
Words Co
Liue By
does not mention good and bril
liant or good and wealthy for we
cannot all be that, but we can
all be faithful to our own little
part and that is all that God asks,
If your talents are few, don’t
complain and don’t say that it is
unfair because God planned that
some should have more talents
and consequently more responsi=
bilities,
If you will take the time to read
the remaining portionof thispare
able, you will find that two of the
‘“bondservants’’ used their ta
lents and increased them while
one failed to use his talent and
thereby lost it, This clearly
illustrates for us God’s law of
Spiritual Profit and Loss. This
law, which is the law of all of
God’s talents, says that the per
son who uses his talents incr
eases them while the person who
refuses to use his talent loses
them, We seeillustrations of this
law each day, Those of you who
remember the town blacksmiths
probably recall how powerful his
arm looked when compared to the
arm of a local storekeeper, He
that uses increases, In Dickens’
A Tale of Two Cities we read
that Dr. Manette lost his power
of speech through not using it.
Perhaps some of you have visit=
ed the Mammoth Caves in Ken=
tucky and have been told that the
fish which live in the darkness
of the cave are blind, Theydon’t
use their eyes so they lose their
sight, For years a man may neg
lect to pray, to attend church,
and to read the Bible, and then
he wonders why he cannot believe
in God or commune with Him the
rough prayer, He that does not
use shall lose,
May each of us remember that
the talents we havebelong to God,
that He expects us to use them
for the advancement of his king=-
dom, that we have the respon=
sibility of using and increasing
them, and that when we do this
we too will hear the words, * Well
done, thou good and faithful ser=
Vant.”
the character of their women.
As long as the Roman Matron
held her place of honor in the
home inviolate, Rome ruled the
civilized world, and prospered;
but, went down in ruin when the
Matron’s place was yielded to
the wanton.
America has enjoyed the lead~
ership of a long suscession of
hightoned self-respecting women
whose modesty and virtue were
above question, and who set a
worthy example for others to
follow. It would be well for us
to remember them and try to
be worthy successors.
Can any one mentally picture
Martha Washington, Dollie Madi
son, Frances E, Willard, or
any one of our long list of out
standing leaders in society ap
pearing in a Mini-skirt? :
Ladies, whither are you lead
ing our girls? To decency?
Or to display?