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COMMENTS
A New Year's Message
At this time of the year it is customary to have
a New Year’s editorial, and usually it deals with
events of the year paslly prospects for the year
ahead, or the perishability of New Year’s resolut
ions,
This year we found what we think is a more
appropriate subject in a terse comment made by a
refugee from Cuba a few days ago, This man, an
ex-cab driver from New York, went to live in Cuba
before Castro took over, His comment, upon setting
foot on US soil:
““I wouldn’t live in Castro’s Cuba if they gave me
a dollar for every minute I spend there,’
The refugee, Puerto Rican-born Amerigo Puig,
then explained his distaste for the sanctuary we have
given Communism in the Caribbean, Castro’s
regime stripped him of $25,000, his life savings,
which he had saved while working in New York,
But that was only part of it, Food, which Cuba
once exported, is so scarce thatpeople have to rely
on the black market where a chicken worth $2
In case you failed to notice it, December 4 mar
ked the ‘‘Second National Resistance Protest’’ a%-
ainst the draft, These ‘‘happenings’’ of the people
who want us to lose the war in Vietnam somehow
remind us of the Old Testament account of Joshua
at the battle of Jericho,
You will recall that there was no frontal attack
on Jericho, Joshua merely staged a series of de
monstrations, He marched his people round and
round the walls; periodically there was consider
able trumpeting by priests, and on signal a mighty
shout was raised. Thens as the old spiritual puts
it, “‘the walls came tumbling down.”’
The strategists who plan things against the in
terests of our country seem tobe taking a leaf from
this account found in the sixth chapter of Joshua,
They keep a mob marching round, with a handful
of clergymen trumpeting or braying a message at
intervals, and now and then the entire mob lets go
with a bellow, So far the walls haven’t tumbled,
but the master-strategists who think up these
things are aware of another item long in print;
““If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”’ So
presumably for a long time to come we will have
to listen to the patter of plodding feet, periodical
Last summer this community like most in the
country had its share of out-of-state visitors,
We had cars from the ‘‘Land of Lincoln{a" and
the ‘“Land of Lakes,”” Those two states stamped
the legend right below the numbers on the auto
mobile license plate, But it seemed to us that
about every other car bearing a New York li
cense plate had a bumper sticker right below
the plate reading, ‘‘Land of Taxes,’’
The latest figures released by the US Bureau of
Labor Statistics tell us why New York residents
call their state ‘““Land of Taxes,” It seems that
as recently as 1959, a family of four could main
tain a ‘““moderate’’ way of life in New York City
at a cost of $5,970 a year, Know what it could
cost now: 310,'195. According to the experts
in Washington, unless you have that much in
come, your family of four is going to live sub
standard in Fun City, Things have gone up in
New York, especially housing — and taxes., Be
tween Rockefeller and Lindsay, New York City
has the dubious honor of being the most expen
sive place to live in continental United States,
And both officials are calling for more taxes
for next year,
We have been hearing a lot about the plight of the
big cities, and the need to refurbish them with bil
lions spent on‘‘urban renewal programs,’” Thereis
political logic in this because more and more people
gour into big cities where they provide pivotal votes
or generous politicians,
But politicians had better start studying the other
side of the coin. Those millions who have mi
grated to the cities have created a labor shortagg
on the farms of the nation, Each year since 19
there has been an average decline of 804,000 in the
farm population,
Some of the work these people did is now being
done by machines, but even wi(:fi machines the task
is becoming impossible, All Americans are de
manding more food and clothinf and American
farmers are also expected to feed millions of
hungry people the world over, Unless means can
be found to reverse the present exodus from farm to
city these demands are not going to be met,
There are no easy solutions, Life on a farm
calls for hard work, It is often monotonous and
lonely, But that is not all, The time is past when
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
Old Testament Tale
Three Times Greater
Wanted: Farmers
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costs $lO, where rice is officially listed at 19 cents
a pound but costs $2,25, and where meat is quoted
at 35 cents a pound but costs §ss.
You don’t have to take Amerigo Puig’s word for
the fact that Communist Cuba is apretty miserable
place, Seventy others got out withhim, They aren’t
talking, beyond saying they’re afraid to talk for fear
of endangering relatives still in Cuba, Which is
pretty eloquent testimony of a silent nature,
We bring these things up asareminder that when
comparisons are made, the United States is pretty
wonderful, And when comparisons are made with
countries with a socialistic form of government,
whether it’s the British type, the Swedish ‘‘middle
way’’, or the brutal type found in the USSR, China
or Cuba—the United States is a veritable para
dise, for citizens of all creeds and colors,
The moral, in the form of a New Year’s re
solution for 1968: ‘‘Let’s defend and strengthen
the wonderful system that has been given us, and
cherish it, each and every one,”’
braying, and considerable shouting, all of which
will be dispensed through the television screen,
Most people are familiar in a general way with
the way Joshua ‘‘fit de battle of Jericho,’’ but if
you refer to the Old Testament account you will
find several disquieting details, One is that the
people of Jericho had a small but efficient fifth
column operating inside their walls, It was made
up of two spies who used the home of the harlot
Rahab as their hangout, The Bible says they ‘‘spied
out the country,” which indicates that there were
security problems in those days too.
More disquieting, was the outcome after ‘‘the
wall fell down flat,”” Here are the words: ‘‘,..
the people went into the city, every man straight
before him, and they took the city, And they utterly
destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass,
with the edge of the sword,”’
Maybe we had better look to our walls, and be
less complacent about the mobs that keep march
ing round and round them, And while we’re at it
we might give more thought than we do to those
within our walls who are setting the stage for what
will happen if the walls ever do tumble,
Os course there are various benefits and bon
uses. There is Central Park which can be en
joyed if you’re a judo expert, or own a suit of
armor, There are demonstrations which are
staged with a certain frequency, And if you
ride buses and subways you can often see news
in the making, You may even get your name
and picture in the paper being quoted as to the
number of times the mugger stabbed the little
old lady. And you can’t miss being photographed
with either Lindsay or Rockefeller prancing into
your neighborhood to eat a hot-dog, a blintz
or a piece of pizza for the cameras, They range
far and wide, these men, The Mayor recently
rushed off ali the way to the West Coast to lock
up the hippie vote in the Presidential Sweepstakes,
Governor Rockefeller isn’t a candidate for the
Presidency. His candidate isßomney, though some
think he plans to brainwash George into stepping
aside at the proper moment,
Under President Johnson’s proposed Great So
ciety, $3,000 a year is the marginal income,
Under Lindsay and Rockefeller it’s $10,195,
Now you know what is three times greater than
the Great Society,
We do know there is a problemand unless some
one comes up withsome answers we’re likely to find
ourselves on short rations one of these days,
Urban renewal programs, and ‘‘instant welfare”’
payments are great if you’re hunting for votes,
But if you're hungry, you need farmers, They
aren’t instant,
a person could start farming with little capital,
Today machinery and implements and minimum
live stock is likely to cost $20!000 or $30,000
just to get a farm operation going, And that’s
without buying an acre of land, Young people can’t
afford such an investment, If you startdown coun
try roads these days you’ll be hard put to find youn,
men in their twenties farming, It seems to us tha%
the average age of the American farmer must be
somehwere close to fifty,
We don’t presume to know the answer to the pro
blem, Maybe it is in pooling farm machinery,
Maybe it is in pooling labor, too, Maybe the answer
is in finding ways to finance young men with a
willingness to work the land,
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
MAN’S RESPONSE TO GOD'S
GIFT
Devotional Reading: Matthew
6:19-24,
Memory Selection: Bring the
full tithes into the store house,
that there may be food in my
house; and thereby put me to the
test, says the Lord of hosts, if
I will not open the windows of
heaven for you and pour down
for you an overflowing blessing,
Malachi 3:10.
Intermediate -« Senior Topic;
Am I Robbing God?
Young People - Adult Topic:
Man’s Response to God’s Gift,
The year 1967 began and ended
on Sunday (January land Decem=-
ber 31 falling on that day of the
week).
There is significance in this,
The lesson for January 1 wasen
titled ¢“Time of Preparation,” It
consisted of an account of the
baptism of Jesus and later his
temptation,
By the coming of God’s spirit
upon him and his period of se
vere testing he was prepared to
be the Saviour of the world,
Today’s lesson deals with
man’s response to God’s gift. To
what extent and in what manner
have we accepted God’s gracious
offer of forgiveness and salvat
ion?
The main theme of today’s les
son is the stewardship of life, A
steward is one who administers
the affairs of another, Salvation
is the gift of God, We can neith
er achieve it by our own efforts
nor create it, God gives it when
we meet certain requirements,
We are required sotoadminister
the affairs of our lives that we
can receive God’s gift of salvat=
ion when He chooses to give it to
us, and He always chooses to
give it to us if our lives are
prepared to receive it, Our
hearts must be open and sin
cere, We must acknowledge God
as the Creator and Sustainer of
the universe and the Heavenly
Father through whose love the sa=-
lvation of our souls takes place,
God’s gift of the Holy Spirit
had to descend even upon his di
vine Son, Jesus Christ, before he
was prepared for his ministry,
Bibb Expects S2B-Million
Sales Increase By 1970
MACON, GA.— A sales in
crease of $28,000,000 by 1970
for Bibb Manufacturing Company
was predicted here by a Company
official.
W. A. Watson, Director of Mar
keting and Sales, told Bibb stock
holders ‘‘sales of $150,000,000
have been targeted for 1970. This
is a realistic goal which we are
geared to meet.”’
Bibb net sales for fiscal year
1967, which ended August 30,
were $122,038,000.
At the same time, Robert
Train, Bibb President, pre=-
ceding Mr. Watson on the pro
gram at the annual stockholders’
meeting, said that the company
should have ¢‘‘asatisfactoryyear
in 1968.”’
He explained that a cooling
off of the economy last year
hurt business and profits and that
a wage increase this past Sep
tember, plus an increase in raw
material prices have held down
profits. He added, however, that
prices have increased and that
demand for goods are much st
ronger.
Saying that planned sales and
new products will move the firm
into new growth areas during the
"70’s, Mr. Watson and three Bibb
marketing managers said that
new housing starts seen ‘‘in=-
creasing from 1.5 million to 2.4
million units by 1975,” and in
creased automobile production,
140-Year- Olds
Predicted In
ATHENS—There are no limits
to how long a person may live,
says a University of Georgia so
ciologist and it’s likely that 140~
year-olds will be living in the
next decade,
Dr. Belle Boone Beard, of the
University’s Institute of Social
Science Research, who has stu
died the cases of more than
6,000 centenarians in the last
20 years, says ‘‘we have yet
been unable to determine a ma
ximum lifespan,
‘“We do know that modern me
dicine and other factors are gr
eatly increasing life expectancy
and that we are having increas
ing numbers of older people and
very old, old people,
‘“The oldest person I know is
said to be 125, , ,I think that we
will find more people living tobe
110, 115, 120 and, perhaps in 10
years, 130 and 140,”
Dr, Beard, who says she star
ted her study of longevity be
cause ‘““I was curious to know
what people who are 100 years
old thought about life,”’ also said
she feels the information she gat
hers will become more vital as
numbers of older citizens in=-
crease,
THE COVINGTON NEWS
And a further preparation through
temptation and testing was also
necessary,
We do not lie back supinelv ana
receive God’s great spiritual
gifts, We are required to make
our lives receptacles jato which
God pours his redeeming grace,
We have to seek after God with
the full knowledge thatour salva=-
tion depends upon Him, We have
to strive to make our lives bet
ter, conscious of the fact that it
is only to those who do this that
God accords his supreme bless=
ings,
The prophet Malachi, from wh
ose prophecy our lessons have
been taken during the past sever=
al weeks, was a man who headed
a new reformation reproving un
flinchingly the delinquency of
both priests and people and an
nouncing the coming of a great
day of judgment,
The people to whom he spoke
had not entirely forsaken their
religious practices, but their re
ligion was perfunctory, the out
ward observance of ritual acts
without inward repentance and
devotion, Skepticism was sapping
the morality of the Jewish people,
teaching them to live for them=-
selves only rather than for God
and their fellows, They murmu
red against God, questioning his
providence and power, They see=-
med not to realize that it was their
own negligence, infidelity, and
sinfulness that withheld the divine
blessings from them,
Against the evil spirit of unbe=-
lief Malachi contended, Hechal=-
lenged those in high places. He
called both priests and worship=-
ers to repentance. Especially he
denounced them for making im
perfect and unworthy sacrifices
to God, bringing to the altar ani=
mals that were too weak and de=-
fective to have any value for their
owners,
Today the hireling (working
man), the widow, and the father
less are protected from oppres=-
sion by law, This was not true
in Malachi’s day. But through
his prophet God, who is perfect
and unchangeable, measured the
unworthy lives of his children
against his own perfection and
pronounced them deficient,
‘“expected to grow by 5 million
units during the next eight
years,” will be major factors
in the firm’s sales growth.
“Disposable income, predict
ed to grow by 50 percent during
the next eight years, will also
be important in our future pro
gress,’’ they added.
Bibb, adiversified textile man
ufacturer operating 21 plants in
9 Georgia towns, manufactures
consumer goods for homes and
industrial textiles for major in
dustires, including the auto
motive sector. The company’s
home offices are in Macon.
As for new products, stock
holders were told that production
of polyester-cotton ‘no iron’’
sheets and pillow cases begun,
and that the firm should have tow
els, wovenbedspreads and broad
'loom carpets in its product line
within the next eight years. Bibb
now offers more that 1.000
product items to its customers.
Also appearing on the program
were Harry McFarling, Control
ler; Comer Train, Marketing
Manager for consumer products;
Charles Hertwig, Jr., Marketing
Manager for cloth and fabrics,
and Numa Martin, Marketing
Manager for floor covering pro
ducts.
The idea of uniform Monday holidays is drawing
rather widespread support, for many people feel
that the innovation would be beneficial to employ
ers, employees, and the public generally.
A Senate bill (S. 1217) provides that Memorial
Day would be observed on the last Monday in May:
Independence Day on the first Monday in July: Vet
erans Day on the last Monday in October: and
Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Monday in Novem
ber. In addition, Washington’s Birthday would be
designated as ““President’s Day™ and fall on the third
Monday in February.
This proposed legislation would be an intelligent
step toward more efficient operation of our indus
trial system and enable employees to utilize holi
day time more effectively.
Uniform Monday holidays would tend to lessen
absenteeism and by reducing the number of holi
day shutdowns in the middle of the week would
make plant operation more economical.
In a change of this magnitude it is important that
sufficient lead time be provided to enable state leg
islators to take similar action. It is also necessary
that employees and the publie have time to make
appropriate plans. and unions and management to
adjust the holiday clauses in their contracts.
It is urged that S. 1217 be approved. the law be
coming effective on the first day of January of the
third vear following the date of enactment.
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High Cost
Os Life
If you sometimes think just
living is an expensive proposi
tion, you're right.
The cost of living at a moder
ate standard for a family of four
persons—husband, wife, boy age
13, and girl of eight—averaged
$9,191 in urban areas of the
United States, at autumn 1966
prices. The cost in metropolitan
areas was $9,376; in smaller
cities it was $8,366.
These averages include allow
ances for food, housing, trans
portation, clothing, personal
care, medical care, and other
items; and for gifts and contribu
tions to others:; and life insur
ance for the family's future se
curity. They also include income
taxes, Social Security deduc
tions, and occupational expenses
such as work clothes and dues.
The Institute of Life Insurance,
reviewing figures from the City
Worker’s Family Budget, just
published by the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, said food costs
were highest in New York City,
where they averaged $2,380. In
small cities in the South, a nu
tritionally comparable diet could
be bought for $1,925. The $455
difference reflects price varia
tions as well as regional food
preference patterns.
The average cost of the budg
et for a family who rent their
home is 46 per cent higher than
the one priced in 1959 and more
than double the prewar standard
that was priced in 1951 in the
18 cities for which estimates are
available in both periods.
On the clothing front, the num
ber of the wife’s casual shoes
tripled, but the number of dress
shoes declined. The husband’s
clothing budget included fewer
topcoats, heavy wool suits and
dress shirts, but more wool
jackets, lightweight suits, sports
coats and slacks, and casual
shoes.
In personal care, it will come
as news to almost no observer
of the American scene, that the
quantities of haircuts declined
for the boy, while increasing
for man, woman and girl.
S CIENCE
PICS
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A NEW SYSTEM of lighting
airport taxiways with green cen
terline lights has beenadopted as
a U, S, standard by the Federal
Aviation Administration in a
move to speed aircraft ground
traffic, Present taxiway light=-
ing is a series of elevated blue
lights outlining taxiway edges,
The FAA says that in low vi
sibility the blue edge lights tend
to fade out ahead of the pilot,
The green centerline lights, set
semi-flush with the pavement,
will give better visual guidance
to taxiing pilots, particularly in
bad weather and will avoid the
‘““sea of blue’’ appearance which
at times requires pilots to taxi
slowly, thereby reducing the flow
of airport surface traffic,
SOVIET RESEARCH findings
may be lost to U, S, scientists
because too few American scien=
tists can read Russian technical
journals, says a Northwestern
University scientist, He said
that in chemistry, mathematics
and some other areas of scien=
tific research every fifth re=-
search paper appears in Rus=
sian, yet less than five per cent
of U, S, scientists have a rea=-
ding knowledge of it,
SOAKING HAMS in barrels of
brine may have been a pictu
resque curing process in Grand
ma’s time, but it’s far too slow
for today’s production lines, Now
meat packers use a machine de=-
veloped by Allbright-Nell, Chi
cago, that injects pickle brine
into hams passing through on a
conveyor, It can cure up to
15,000 pounds of ham an hour,
No one would give a threeyear
old child a loaded and cocked
pistol to play with . .. it would
be stupid and rediculous. Yet,
every man, woman, and teenager
that drives an automobile has
at their command a weapon much
more dangerous than a pistol.
Today, you don’'t only have
to drive carefully yourself, you
find it necessary to drive de
fensively and watch out for the
other fellow to stay alive. One
careless moment behind the
wheel can kill you and others
instantly.
The modernautomobile travels
at high speeds on good roads and
is vital to our way of living.
It is also our greatest cause of
death in America. Little atten
tion is paid to the statistics
concerning the number of per
sons maimed for life due toac
cidents on our highways.
Last night on television it was
reported that the state of Geor
gia is 43 deaths behind the 1966
total of deaths due to automo
bile accidents in 1967. This is
a good sign that people are be
ginning to heed the warning to
¢drive carefully.’’ If 43 people
are not killed on our state’s
highways by midnight Sunday
night we will have held our own
with last year . . . maybe even
bettered last year’s record.
This is fine, but it is not
good enough. The Georgia Gen
eral Assembly is expected to
enact several laws during the
Punent- Teacher Fepont
It’s almost time to say Happy
New Year, Are you looking for=-
ward to the coming of a New
Year? I am, Much canbe ac
complished for the children and
youth of Georgia if we move for
ward and do each day what we find
is needed to be done, lam sure
if we will check over our past
PTA efforts we will find many
areas where we need to increase
these efforts,
For the New Year - Let Every
PTA member, remember the Ob
jects of the National Congress of
Parents and Teachers, and say
Layona Glenn
oys ...
Since the discovery of artifi
cial insemination it ought to be
more facile for men to accept
the story of the virgin birth of
Jesus Christ as taught by Luke
in his Gospel.
God created sex in both the
vegetable and animal kingdoms.
In some plants, he provided for
self pollination. All acorn, and
nut-bearing trees follow this law.
The nut producting bloom comes
at the point of new growth, while
the pollinating tassel comes at
the beginning of the new growth,
or the end of last year’s growth.
In a normal season these two
blooms grow and mature at the
same time, the wind carries the
pollen to the new nut-bloom, and
fertilizes it, and a good crop is
the result. However, a few days
of cold weather will retard the
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Thursday, December 28, 1947
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Stress Traffic Safety
By: Leo S. Mallard \
upcoming session dealing with
stricter enforcement of traffic
laws. These laws are longover
due and the loose enforcement
of present laws is deplorable.
Every driver must realize that
a law is only as strong as the
individuals respect for obedience
to that law. The saving of life
on Georgia’s highways cannot
be legislated.
Death on our highways cannot
be wiped out due to the human
element of error, but driver ed
ucation, stricter punishment for
offenders, and public recognition
of the ‘‘danger of an automo
bile’’ can help reduce the horrid
statistics of traffic deaths.
So you are a good driver.
Fine, but remember that over
half of the people who are kil~
led and injured each year are
good drivers. Those who have
become statistics are just as
dead as if they had been at fault.
Defensive driving is not to be
thought of as another term
phrased by the Traffic Safety
Council for publicity. It is just
as real, and of far more im
portance, than keeping up with
your bank account. Defensive
driving can save your life . . .
so can seat belts.
Your continuous awareness of
the danger that looms on the
highways from others, as well
as yourself, may keep you in
this wonderful world for another
year . . Happy New Year . ..
please drive carefully!
By Mrs. Robert |. Burall
Tenth District Director
Georgia Congress of Parents
and Teachers
with pride - I am proud to be a
member, because Our PTA goals
are good American goals and I
believe it is a part of our Ameri
can way of life, It is democracy
in action, I feel we can safe
guard America’s future best by
meeting our children’s needs,
whether they by physical, educa
tional, social, emotional, moral
or spiritual, lam proud to be a
member because the family and
the community shape each other
and the PTA serves both,
Best wishes for a happy and
successful New Year,
new growth, but not affect the
tougher last year’s growth, and
the pollen tassels will mature and
shed the pollen which the wind
will carry away before the bloom
bud is ready to receive it. This
brings a fruitless season.
Applying this process to spir
itual life we can see how the
training of a child in the way he
should go can prepare him for
the natural progress as the time
in his life approaches for him
to establish his attitude toward
God.
So it is up to the Christian
parents to carefully train up
their children and prepare them
for the time of decision.
The Bible tells us: ¢Train
up a child in the way he should
ge, and when he is old he will
not depart from it, Prov. 22: 6.