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COMMENTS
Rejoice In Thanksgiving
“And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which
the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy
house’’. Deut, 26:11,
Since 1863 our country has nationally observeda
day of Thanksgiving, First proclaimed by Lincoln
for the last Thursday of November; in 1939 by
Rousevelt for the next to the last Thursday, and
in 1941 it was designated as the fourth Thursday
in November by the Congress of the United States,
Nearly two and a half centuries prior to the de
signation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, the
Pilgrims celebrated their first bountiful Thanks
giving Feast, They had a great deal to be thankful
for. They had reaped the first abundant harvest
under the free enterprise system, after near star
vation for two years under the socialistic, share
the-wealth system, set up in the Mayflower Com
pactß signed shortly before their landing at Plymouth
Rock in 1620,
However, this was not the first Thanksgiving
Day for this small group of colonists, who had
staked their lives and future upon their deter
mination to worship their God in freedom, For
Thanksgiving Day, or ‘‘Michaelmas’’ was a major
religious holiday sponsored by the Church of Eng
land from which they had come,
Preceding England’s day of Thanksgiving, West
ern Europe had observed the Feast of St, Martin
of Tours, regarded as a day of Thanksgiving fol
lowing harvest time, during the Middle Ages. But,
Thanksgiving’s history goes much further back into
the annals of time, Moses, in Deuteronomy, gave
God’s implicit instructions to the Children of Is-
During the past week Bibb Manufacturing Com
pany of Macon, with three installations in Porter
dale, has mailed out annual statements to stock
holders in the United States and overseas,
The statement gives an account of Company op
erations during the past fiscal year, reveals that
profits were off some due to start-up costs at new
Bibb plants and explains that Company business was
slowed because of slowdowns inautomobile produc
tion and new housing starts, both markets to which
Bibb sells yarns and fabric, But, the report is
not pessimistic. It is just the opposite, in fact,
President Train says, *‘The future looks f)rlght as
the demand for our products continues strong and as
we acquire new facilities and add additional con
sumer items to our product line, Our goal con
tinues to be more Bibb products for more people
in the expanding 1970’5,”’
The law is clear enough, Anyone ‘‘who know
ingly counsels, aids or abets another to refuse or
evade registration or service in the armed forces
. . .shall be liable to imprisonment for not more
than five years or a fine of SIO,OOO or both,”
But despite this, 18 liberal Protestant, Catholic
and Jewish clergymen have announced that they
are going to help conscious-stricken young men
to evade the draft, lndeedi they started their an
nouncement by advising *‘all whoinconscience can
not today serve in the armed forces to refuse such
service, . ."’
After this violation of the law the reverend gen
tlemen went on: ‘‘We pledge ourselves to aid and
abet them in any way we can, This means that if
they are now arrested for failing to comply with a
law that violates their conscience, we too must
be arrested, . .”
As a matter of simple justice they should be,
However, you know and we know and they know that
their heroics in this respect will net them no ar
rests, but rather the kind of publicity they were
angling for, There is as much chance of finding
any of these 18 in the pokey as there is of having
Safety In Gas Transmission
Congress has been studying legislation inanum
ber of areas. New regulations re§arding automo
bile safety have alreadv been enacted, Automanu
facturers have called some of the provisions of
the regulations impossible to comply with because
they are so poorly written, Congress has also
been considering legislation having to do with sa
fety standards in the transmission and distribution
of natural gas,
Spokesmen for the gas industry in testifying on
z)roposed new gas safe%: measures are not opposed
o federal regulation per se, They fear ill-con
sidered action by the federal government could
destroy the effectiveness of the industry’s current
safety code and procedures which have proven
effective and workable as the safety records of the
industry attest,
More Noise Than Substance
If you do something bad, everybody always knows
about it, But, you could go to church every Sunday
of your life, take home stray kittens and help old
ladies across the street forever and never find
yourself a celebrity, The younger generation and
most particularly the older teen-age section of it
are in this position, The lunatic frin(i]e, the so
called ““hippies,’’ the LSD trippers and the trouble
makers get all the publicity, Every adult should
remember that this minority of the younger gene-
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Bibb Continues Growth
The 18 Holy Men
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rael relative to the Feast of the Tabernacles, in
stituted over 3,000 years ago, at which they were
to give offerings and thanks to God for the care
of His Chosen People from Egypt to Canaan, and
for the harvest just gathered, Although, Pentecost
was regarded as a feast of Thanksgiving also, The
Feast of the Tabernacles is nearer the date, and
equivalent of Christianity’s Thanksgiving; and Ju
daism’s Sukkoth, Incidentally, of the eleven major
world religions Christianity and Judaism are the
only two which observe celebrations of Thanks
giving to Jehovah God,
Gratitude is a prime requisite of worship,
Wwithout it we become self-sufficient and utterly
devoid of understanding of the boundless love and
mercy of the Creator, who made us in His Own
Image.
American trembles on the pinnacle of prosperity.
No nation has ever been more blessed in more
ways, Even despite the many frustrations, errors
and involvements of our day, ““Our Cup Runneth
Over”’ with blessings,
Joint Thanksgiving Services at Covington First
Methodist Church on Wednesday evening, at 7:30
with the Rev, Edgar A, Callaway leading, and at
various other churches of the county, offer us an
opportunity of publicly expressing our gratitude,
and acknowledging the infinite goodness and omni
potence of the Giver of all good and perfect gifts,
May we rejoice in this opportunity; in the pri
vilege of Freedom of Worship; in the fellowship
of family and friends; and our multiple other
blessings, on this day of Thanksgiving,
The report says a corporate change in 1962
reorganized Sales Department into Marketing and
Sales and this has moved the Company into the con
sumer products area and brought on a‘‘new growth
cycle,” It added, ““Bibb today will continue to
search for new growth areas for tomorrow, The
relatively new Marketing and Sales Department will
continue to stress sales of existing products as
well as seek markets for new products which will
be developed from time to time, ~The future looks
promising for Bibb and there is every reasonto be
lieve that the changes started in the 1960’s will
continue to serve the Company well in the 1970’5,
Bibb will continue to expand, keep step with market
demands, and supply customers with quality ser
vice as it has in the past,
‘“The Company will continue to build for the
future,”’
President Johnson fined for reckless driving in
Texas, Still, it would be interesting to get them
together in a jail cell, The Right Reverend James
A. Pike, one of the 18 holy men, might conduct a
seance, The Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Chap~
lain at Yale University, might oblige witha render
ing of ““Boola Boola’ or the ‘‘Whiffenpoof Song,’” Or
theremight be a theological discussion of the injunc
tion to render unto Caesar whatisCaesar’s, though
we suspect that the reverend 18 would decide that
this, too, should be a matter of conscience,
Their stand leads to speculation on how consistent
these clergymen would be inapplying their doctrine
to matters other than the war against the Com
munists in Vietnam, Take the matter of the Ten
Commandments, If as admitted law-breakers they
are given the prescribed five-year sentence, they
might spent their time as a committee to consider
the Decalogue, As a group could they, in good con
science, subscribe to all Ten Commandments? Or
would these latter-day Moses’ emerge with dele
tions and qualifications, plus a ringing offer to
go to bat for those who decided to fracture any or
all of them?
An official of a major gas company cites some
impressive figures developed by anindependent re
search firm on safety in the gas industry, From
1957 to 1966, there was an average of 46 fatalities
per year involving payment of claims by gas
distribution utilities, As the official noted, this is
“a remarkably low figure when it is considered
that gas is continuously flowing 24 hours a day
through a network of over 500,000 miles of dis
tribution mains to 38 million meters in towns
and cities aggregating over 140 million in pop
ulation,”’
A record of this kind deserves the most serious
consideration in the contemplation of changes in the
regulatory structure governing safety standards
in the gas industry,
ration is not indicative of the ambition, intelli
gence or solid accomplishment of the vast majority
of young people,
As a publisher, Mr, Don Robinson of The Am
erican Press observes, it might help if publicat
ions, *, . .would tell more about some of the
outstanding achievements of young people and stop
encouraging the mentally unbalanced by giving
them all the limelight,”’
'OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
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GOD’S PURPOSE IN DISCIPLINE
Devotional Reading: Heabrews
12: sb-11,
Memory Selection: My son,do
not regard lightly the discipline
of the Lord, nor lose courage
when you are punished by him.
For the Lord disciplines him
whom he loves, and chastises
every son whom he receives,
Hebrews 12:5, 6
Intermediate = Senior Topic:
Why God Disciplines Us, .
Young People = Adult Topic:
God Restores through Discipline
A wayward people, Aren’t we
all in that class? Last Sunday
we looked at that waywardness
and asked ourselves to what ex
tent we are still making the same
mistakes our forebears made,
When we look on this fair pl=-
anet, see its beauty, and ponder
the opportunities it gives for
happiness and advancement, su=-
rely we are all wayward in the
poor showing we make as we st
rive to attain the moral and sp=
iritual goals which the Bible sets
forth,
Today’s lesson emnhasizes
discipline—-that divinely super=-
vised training which we must
have as we are prepared to en=
ter into enternal life with God.
Most people regard discipline
as a form of punishment, The
word ‘“discipline’ comes from a
Latin word which means ‘“to
learn’”’, Our Lord’s disciples
were learners—-puplls, scholars,
in the process of being instru=-
cted in the unprecedented work
they were called upon to perform,
Sometimes discipline is pain
ful, How could it be otherwise,
since we live and operate under
the supervision of a heavenly
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Thanksgiving is certainly the
time for taking stock and counting
our blessings., Most people are
thankful for the big things in
life, But what about the small,
everyday blessings we do not
even recognize? Remember the
words to an old familiar song,
‘“Count your many blessings, see
what God hath done.”” Try count=
ing, you might be surprised,
The PTA is an organization of
great diversity with members
from every walk of life, Its con=
cern covers all children every=
where and we as parents and
teachers should be thankful for
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BE THANKFKUL
As we Americans sit down to our traditional tur
key on this Thanksgiving Day in homes across the
nation we have much for which to be thankful.
True. there are many disquieting factors giving
cause for grave concern, both on the domestic and
international scenes, but if we look deep enough,
we shall find unmistakable reasons for thanksgiving.
Consider the many liberties we enjoy in this
nation and be thankful for their existence. Be
thankful for our freedom to achieve, work and
advance; for our freedom to worship: for our right
to free speech and free elections.
While we are grateful for a special day when
we can join with others all over the country in
counting our blessings and thanking God for them,
we are still challenged to make every day a Thanks
giving Day as we recall the blessings that ever
surround us.
Truly there is much for which we can be thank
ful. And this overflowing of good should daily re
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mind us to pray for peace throughout the world
o that all mankind may live in harmony and en
joy the fruits of a better life.
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Father? A good earthly father
finds it necessary at times to
do things which by no means
meet the approval of his child
ren., We live in an age when
the sterner forms of discipline
have largely been discarded, but
if we expect to become a nation
great on the pages of history,
then fatherhood and the home
life which follows it must some=
times involve discomfort or per=
haps pain,
God, the heavenly Father, hal
to discipline his chosen people
—for indeed He had chosen the
Hebrews as the race through
whom He would reveal to man=
kind his nature and purpose, Th=
ere was plenty of sin among them,
as there is today among all of us,
The ten northern tribes separ
ated from the two southern tri=-
bes,
What the prophet Hosea has to
say about the discipline God im~
posed upon the Northern Kingdom
constitutes our lesson for today.
Idolatry was the devastating
sin which plagued the Hebrews
througzhout most of their history.
As a matter of act, idolatry
continues to this day to be a
serious matter among believing
Christians. For although we do
not have idols of wood and stone,
we do have desires, projects, and
ambitions which force them=
selves in ahead of the moral
and spiritual requirements which
are incumbent upon us.
Idolatry is a persistent sin,
the never-ending enemy of true
religion, Let us never conclude
that it has been utterly abolish=-
ed in modern life, Anything in
our life which we put before
God is an idol.
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By Mrs, Robert I, Burall ‘
" Tenth District Director :
Georgia Congress of Parents
and Teachers .
all the PTA organization has
done and is trying to do for all
children,
Many say we reach only a few
of the parents who’s children
don’t really need our help, I say
Thank God for those few parents
who realize the needs of their
children as well as the children
and youth who’s parents can not
or will not help the PTA to help
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Legacy From
The Past
Many of the old plantation ho
mes are tourist meccas seen by
a host of vacationing Americans
and visitors from abroad. Such
a trip communicates the spirit
and feeling of a stirring era,
long gone.
The walk or ride from road
entrance to portal is an unfor
gettable experience. The ap
proach is made via a drive wind
ing its leisurely way through a
labyrinth of towering trees, dis
ciplined lawns and brilliant flow
ers.
As you near the end of the
drive, the house itself appears
with sweeping verandas and st
ately columns extending a grac=-
ious welcome.
So impressive is the sight
that ghostly forms and figures
begin to materialize in the eyes
of the imaginative viewer. You
can almost hear the clot-clot of
the horses’ hooves and the clank
of carriages that passed there
more than a hundred years be=-
fore. You can almost see the
high-hatted coachman on his lof
ty perch—and on the verandabe
yond the original master and mis
tress of the house in 19th cen
tury attire gaily beckoning.
As you pass through the door,
you find yourself in a great
reception hall, which runs the
full course of the manor. Its
dimensions are incredible. Your
eyes are impelled to the tall,
chandeliered ceilings. You are
spell-bound and bemused as can=-
dlelight plays softly on the chan
deliers, intricately carved wood
work, exquisite paintings and fur
nishings.
As you watch, memory begins
to recall the past. Vaguely at
first then more distinctly, the
original cast comes to mind:
—=elegant ladies with cameo com=-
plexions, features like fine china,
crinolined skirts—booted gentle
men with the air of adventur
ers and strong faces showing the
imprint of a lifetime in the sun.
As you investigate what lies
behind the doors on both sides
of the reception hall, you find a
music room with piano and harp
and a captivating portrait of the
lady who once played them, a
great dining room with table
for fifty guests, spacious, dis
creetly furnished library and the
master’s den.
A spiral staircase takes you
to the second floor where sleep
ing quarters and guest rooms
with their four poster beds are
studies in casual splendor.
Outside again, you find behind
the manor an old carriage house
with perhaps a dusty wheel, shaft
or other relic of the past. A
feature of the rear landscape
is a huge bell, which attracts
and delights your children. In
the old days, it was used to sig
nal the beginning and end of the
working day in the cotton fields.
The plantationhomes are sour=
ces of professional interest to
architects as well as tourist
meccas. Herein lies an import
ant legacy of the past.
The most arresting questionis
why these manors are so remark
ably well preserved after one or
more centuries of service. Close
study has unearthed a reason
which is of great value to modern
builders.
Most of the famous homes were
framed with Southern Pine
lumber allowed to dry inthe open
air for months prior touse. This
well-seasoned condition resulted
It is a guilty feeling for a hun=
ter to start into the woods on a
hunting trip and pass a forestry
unit at work extinguishing a woods
fire started by other hunters who
were careless with matches or a
burning cigarette.
Immediately you know that you
are not wanted, You also know
the reason why, You are class=
ified by the forest ranger and the
land owner asa possible destruc=
tive force because you are a fire
risk,
A woods fire Saturday after=-
noon off Macedonia Road in the
southeastern part of Newton
County destroyed nine acres of
forest land and four acres of open
grassland, Rabbit hunters in that
area were careless with a match
or cigarette as they hunted along
their merry way.,
It takes years for trees to
grow and each year they increase
in value to the land owner, These
trees provide homes for small
animals, Cover and feeding gr=
ounds attract deer, rabbits, and
squirrels that are found in abun
dance in our county,
A few minutes is all it takes
to destroy this valuable asset.
If the animals themselves are
not killed in a fire, they are
forced to move out of the area
and find new homes, It will take
years for normal growthto cover
a burned off area enough for it
to again be habitable for game.
Fire costs the land owner mo=
By Tom White, Pastor
Covington Presbyterian Church
¢“Every Day Is
Thanksgiving Day”’
This is the time of the year
when the events of the calendar
remind us that we are living ag=
ain in some of the most breath=-
taking moments of history, It is
a time in which the past salutes
the present, and the present feels
its obligation to the past, Itis
also a time in which we are
acquainted with people who get
spiritually fidgety on New Year’s
Day, and hastily grab hold of some
good resolutions, It is shocking,
to say the least, in knowing what
this kind of piety leads to,
If the calendar forces itself
on some ‘‘saints’’ to make them
feel that they must make such a
commitment then, let me hasten
to say that the experience of
Thanksgiving is not and cannot
become a planned affair, You
see, one cannot look at the cal=
endar and say to his heart: ‘‘Be
hold, this is the season for gra=-
titude, to go now, and inflate thy=
self accordingly and ap=
propriately,”’
After all is said and done, no
man can actually work himself
into a state of genuine gratitude,
This is not done by computing
the amount of one’s possessions.
It just doesn’t work that way, It
is indeed interesting to note that
the greatest collection of Thanks
giving literature in all the world,
The Hebrew Book of Psalms, was
produced by a people who had lit=
tle to be thankful for, and yet how
rich we are today in reading their
expressions of gratitude to the
Eternal for His loving care and
concern for them!
Thanksgiving is an every day
joy with those who love God,
Psalm 145 is known 3 a song
of praise and speaks much con=
cerning the Providence of God,
;’;’: SRR RS R s
% Layona Glenn
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Sometimes on observing in all
the news merdia, the disgusting
trend of society as manifested by
the mini skirts, fussi-wuzzie hair
dos, etc,, etc,, one wonders what
the world is coming to, but oc~
casionally up crops 'some encou=
raging, creative thing that opens
a door of hope, Such a ray of
hope came to me in a letter from
one of my former Sunday School
girls who married some 10 years
ago and has established a lovely
home, She writes:
““The home has come to mean
these things to me:
H Honor (for each other)
in a strength and stability of
structure which was largely res=
ponsible for the durability of the
manor itself,
Southern Pine paneling and
trim in the great reception halls
have mellowed with age—still in
excellent condition a hundred ye
ars or so after installation. Here
again, the prime reasonwas thor=-
ough seasoning of the wood.
Today’s homes are built in a
matter of weeks or days, which
precludes the air-drying of lum=
ber for months by the builder.
But we now have access to lum
ber that has already been seas
oned at the mill.
Thursday, November 23, 1967
FIRE!!!...
LAND OWNER’S FEAR
By: Leo S. Mallard
ney in timber, Fire fighting is
dangerous as well as expensive
for the county, state, and federa]
governments, Each time there
is a fire less acres of open hun
ting land are open to the safe
hunter who is careful and resp=
ectful of the land owner and thef
land on which he is privileged
to hunt.
So hunters, shoulder your re
sponsibility for fire safety, Also,
don’t be offended if a land owner
refuses you permission to hunt
on his property., Hunting on the
land owners property is not a
hunters right, it is a privilege
granted by the land owner which
carries with it a responsibility,
This responsibility is for fire
safety as well as for the obey
ance of state hunting regulations,
It is a responsibility that pre
serves the homes of wild game
and saves the beautiful outdoors
for generations yet to come so
they too may enjoy hunting,
A sign that reads ‘‘Closed To
Hunters’’ can not be considered
offensive when hunters fail to
realize that with privilege co
mes responsibility,
A land owner is legally within
his rights to close his land to
hunters and unless the hunter
guards his privilege by practi
cing fire safety the years ahead
will find more and more land
bearing signs that read ¢Post
ed—Keep Out,”
Words Co
Liue By
It begins:
1 will extol thee, my God and
King,
and bless thy name for ever and
ever,
Every day I will bless thee,
and praise thy name for ever
and ever,
Great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised,
and his greatness is unsearch
able,
One generation shall laud thy
works to another,
and shall declare thy mighty
acts. .
The Lord, is graciousand merci=-
ml’
slow to anger and abounding in
steadfast love,
The Lord is good to all,
and his compassion is over all
that he has made.”, . .
I have quoted part of this
Psalm to show God’s love and
concern for us, and that our
response to God should be a daily
response of joy for all hisbless~-
ings that He has so graciously
bestowed upon our Nation,
Every day is Thanksgiving this
is the way St. Paul expressed his
conviction to the Ephesian chris
tians when he reminded them:
“, . JAlways and for everything
giving thanks in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ to God the
Father,”” (Ephesians 5:20R,5.V.)
Thanksgiving is really Thanks=
Living. Don’t I beg of you,
spend your time counting your
misfortunes and the perils that
life has thrust upon you, Take a
different look during this Thanks
giving Season, remembering that
we have the love of God, beyond
all our deserts, fabulous and
forever, Such knowledge should
certainly move us to give thanks
daily, Making the prayer of the
Psalmist our very own:
‘“‘Every day I will bless Thee,
and praise thy name for ever
and ever!”
O Omneness (We allareone fa
mily
M Ministry (Serving God and
each other)
E Evolution, (Daveloping and
finally setting free)
“Over ten years ago at Ch
ristmas time in the Decatur Me=-
thodist Children’s Home I read
to about fifty little glowing faces
the old poem: ‘‘T’was the night
before Christmas,”” 1 cannot
believe that those kids are the
present generation of ‘“hippies’’,
“It scares me to think of set=-
ting free a child of mine in this
new eral!” With a husband that’s
a computer expert, and the sins
of Washington, D, C,, at my
feet, it scares me though I'm 2
Christian and a Methodist,”’
No wonder {t scares her! But
with faith in God, and devotion
to the welfare of her child she
will make the grade, along with
m2ny other earnest Christian
young mothers of this generation,
God who ““So loved the world
that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in
H'm should not perish but have
everlasting Life,” still llves,
and still loves the sons of men,
As James Russell Lowell so
beautifully expresses {t: ‘Just
beyond the dim unknown standeth
God, within the shadow keeping
watch upon H's own,”