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COMMENTS
Leave Milk Prices Alone
(Reprinted From The Atlanta Constitution)
When Fulton Superior Court Judge Jack Etheridge
ruled the price-fixing powers of the Georgia Milk
Commission unconstitutional, spokesmen for the
commission and much of the milk industry made
some very gloomy predictions.
We’d have a price-cutting war, they said, and
small dairy farmers, milk processors and mercha
nts would be forced out of business. Then the big
operators would take over and milk prices would
skyrocket.
The ruling was handed down over eight months
ago and none of these things have happened. In the
free market the price of milk has remained stable.
Milk was selling for 99 cents a gallon at some At
lanta retail stores eight months ago and it is sell
ing for the same price at practically all stores
now.
But in spite of this experience of stability,
there is a movement gathering steam in the Ge
neral Assembly to try to give the commission
“Resolved, that I will not start smoking
cigarettes, a habit which may be hard to break,
and which may cost me my health and my life.”
With youthful cigarette smokers increasing at
the rate of more than 1 million a year, the Georgia
Heart Association today proposed the foregoing
resolution for the young people of this country.
The Association pointed out that damage to the
heart and lungs begins early among cigarette
smokers, and that there is evidence to indicate
young tissues are more severely affected than old.
"Before becoming addicted to cigarettes,” said
the Association, "the young person should know
that a number of disorders - among them heart
attack, stroke, hypertensive heart disease, lung
cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and peptic
ulcer - are triggered or aggravated by cigarettes.”
"These and other cigarette-associated disorders
A Boon To Recreation And Wildlife
Tree farming has proven that money does grow
on trees. And that’s just one side of the story.
Scenic attractions, recreational opportunities, wi
ldlife, soil and water conservation are no less
important than the economic benefits.
Timber industries launched the tree farms mo
vement in the United States 26 years ago to en
courage the practice of forest management by pri
vate landowners. The objective is to assure per
manent timber supply through economic incentives.
Tree farmers cultivate, protect and otherwise
manage their forests with anticipation of income
from sales of timber harvests to lumber, paper
and plywood companies.
The program holds special significance for
the South—a region of unlimited potential for
forest growth and a concentration point for tim
ber industries. Forty-five million of the nat
ion’s 70 million acres of tree farms are loca
ted in 12 Southern Pine producing states where
the great majority of forestland is privately and
non-industrially owned.
The economic impact of Southern tree farm
ing is national in scope with the Southern Pine
forests increasingly prominent in the "main
stream” of American life. Enough lumber to bu
ild a million homes is derived from these fo
rests annually along with growing quantities of
plywood, laminated lumber and other building
materials. The species also provides a maj
ority of the nation’s wood poles, piling and pulp
wood. From the latter comes newsprint, food
and beverage containers, napkins, towels, ap
parel and other necessities of life. Still other
products of the pines are chemicals with a wide
range of present and potential uses—medicine,
flavoring, nourishment, lubricants—just to name
a few.
Impressive as they seem, current contribut
ions may be dwarfed by what’s ahead. The Sou
thern Forest Experiment Station, an agency of the
Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture,
predicts the South will provide more than half
the nation’s wood products by the year, 2000,
Government Can’t Build Character
Pessimists, who are inclined to think that all the
answers to present day problems lie in more and
more government direction of our lives, are failing
to take into their reckoning what might be called
almost a national movement to restore to its right
ful position the leadership and initiative of private
citizens. There are many things government can
not do and one of them is to build character. We
are reminded of this with the coming observance of
Boy Scout Week, February 7-13.
In speaking to the annual meeting of the Boy
Scouts of America, Mr. James M. Patterson, an
oil company executive, declared, "Youth move
ments in many other lands have lacked voluntary
action. They have discounted the importance of
individual initiative and self-reliance, and have
substituted blind obedience to a central authority.
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back some of its price-fixing powers. Under a
bill offered by Rep. Dorsey Matthews of Moultrie,
the commission would be empowered to fix the
price the processor pays the farmer.
It is hard to visualize how price fixing at this
level could pass the constitutional test when the
three-level price fixing under the old law—at the
farm, processor and retail levels—did not pass.
Besides, if the farmers want price protection,
they can get it without a state law. If farm prices
get chaotic, Georgia dairy farmers can ask the
U. S. Department of Agriculture to set the mini
mum price processors pay for milk. To get this
protection, two-thirds of the dairy farmers would
have to vote approval in a referendum.
Perhaps this much protection is needed. If the
farmers think so and can make a case for it, they
can have it. But no case has been made thus far.
Rep. Matthews’ bill should be defeated, and a
study should be made as to whether the Milk
Commission should be abolished.
are responsible for more than 125,000 premature
deaths in the United States each year, and are
believed responsible for about 20 per cent of all
time lost from business and industry,” the Asso
ciation added.
Cigarette smoking is not only costly to health
but to the pocketbook as well, the Association
said, pointing out that the expense for the first
ten years of smoking may well exceed $3,000-
almost enough to finance one year of college
education.
The Association emphasized that the best way
to deal with the cigarette problem is to refrain
from taking the first puff. If this is done, said
the Association, the individual not only avoids
the possibility of illness and premature death
but also the added problem of having at some
time to discontinue smoking.
in volume three times the region’s present an
nual output.
Such is the importance of tree farming to
the materialistic side of American existence.
The non-materialistic aspects are equally sign
ificant.
Tree farming has brought a disciplined beauty
to the Southern Pine forests with access roads
and calculated spacing of trees lending comfort
and convenience to hunting, fishing and other out
door pastimes. But with all the human improve
ments, the distinctive hallmarks of the original
wilderness are retained—a plethora of stately
trees, lakes, streams and other scenic attract
ions.
Experience has proven that the growth and har
vesting of timber for products and recreational
use of the forests are thoroughly compatible.
Many tree farmers permit use of their lands by
hunters, fishermen, picknickers and tourists.
What’s more, the lush vegetation resulting from
tree thinning and harvesting on tree farms has
helped increase the population of deer and other
game. There are actually more deer in the nation’s
forests today than when Columbus discovered
America!
The original founders of the tree farms move
ment—the timber industries—are now engaged ina
research project of vital importance to the nation’s
future. Still looking ahead, these industries are
conducting a comprehensive analysis of factors
responsible for the current state of health of
Southern forests as a basis for long-range plann
ing in timber resource development. Jointly spon
sored by Forest Farmers Association, Southern
Hardwood Lumber Manufacturers Association,
American Plywood Association and the Southern
Pine Association, the study embraces hardwoods
as well as Southern Pine.
Significantly, this program takes into account
recreation demands and pollution problems as well
as economic considerations. The objective is to
develop a plan that will best serve the needs of all
uses and all users of the forests.
We have in Scouting and in other voluntary youth
movements the American answer to Communism
and dictatorships. Scouting is working to tip the
scales in the direction of liberty--it is the Am
erican way.” Mr. Patterson said Scout leaders
are helping develop character and effective citizen
ship at the time it is needed most. "With more
than three million boys and girls coming to voting
age every year,” he said, "our hope for a better
future is in their hands. . .More than 40 million
men and boys have taken part in Boy Scout work
since it was started 67 years ago.”
Boy Scout We<'k is worthy of observation by youth
and adult alike. Scouting typifies the kind of volun
tary, character-building action that accompanies
responsible citizenship.
OCR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
THE WITNESS OF CHRIST’S
WORKS (TEMPERANCE)
Devotional Reading: John 10:
31-38.
Memory Selection: The works
which the Father has granted me
to accomplish, these very works
I am doing, bear me witness that
the Father has sent me. John 5:
36.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Proof Positive.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Man’s Weakness and Christ’s
Power.
Jesus was becoming known th
roughout the whole of Judea and
Galilee as a man of wonders.
That he performed miracles of
an unprecedented variety every
one—even his enemies—readily
admitted. He touched blind eyes
and sight was restored. He lif
ted the crippled to their feet and
sent them on their way rejoicing.
He even touched the skin of le
pers and these unfortunate out
casts were healed.
Everyone was beginning to say
that this must indeed be the di
vinle Messiah whom God had pro
mised to send his people.
There had been miracles in the
past history of Jewish people, but
not many. Their national life
was based upon a great
phenomenon of nature whereby
the slaves from Egypt passed th
rough the Dead Sea and the Egy
ptians following them were over
whelmed and destroyed (Ex. 14;
II Kings 13: 20-21).
In his encounter with the Sa
maritan woman Jesus had set for
th some of the imperishable tr
uths of his teaching. He had de
clared that God is a spirit and
they that worship Him must wor
ship Km in spirit and in truth.
Most significantly of all, he had
declared that anyone who drank
of the water of Jacob’s Well, or
any other well, would thirst ag
ain, "but whosoever drinketh of
the water that I shall give him
shall never thirst; but the water
that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing
up into everlasting life” (John
4:14).
Layona Glenn
Says . . .
Lying Is the most insidious and
all inclusive of all temptations
and sins to which the human race
Is subject. It Includes deception
along any and all lines; physi
cal, mental and/or spiritual.
In the Biblical narrative of
the human race, even Abraham,
the man called the friend of God,
lied to the Egyptians about Sarah,
his wife, saying that she was his
sister, for fear they might kill
him to possess her. His son
Isaac, followed in his father’s
footsteps.
By the way; to me one of the
most convincing evidences of the
divine inspiration of the Bible
is the straight-forward publish
ing of the sins, as well as of the
good deeds of those old heroes.
I think that God had that done to
show us poor mortals that there
Is hope for us! If we will
only repent and get up when we
fall! If He could forgive and
SENATOR PENNINGTON
At The Capitol
The General Assembly was
adjourned this week for the House
of Representatives to consider
the Appropriations Bill but Vet
eran Capitol observers found
very few members of the Leg
islature missing.
Senator Brooks Pennington of
Madison, Georgia, Chairman of
the Senate Agriculture Commit
tee flew to Tifton, Georgia last
Saturday to conduct a public hear
ing on the Fire Ant problem.
More than three hundred
affected landowners, seventy
five Farm Bureau presidentsand
County Agents and forty members
of the General Assembly crowd
ed the Coastal Plains Experiment
Station at Abraham Baldwin Ag
ricultural College in Tifton for
the meeting called by the Senate
and House Agriculture Commit
tees.
Commissioner of Agriculture
Phil Campbell outlined a pro
posed plan for eradication of this
pest for which additional funds
are needed.
The Senate Agriculture Com
mittee continued to work with
representatives of the Game and
Fish Department to begin erad
ication of beavers where they
have become pests and arecaus
ing damage to land, trees and
crops. This eradication is sch
eduled to begin in the 45th Sen
atorial District.
Senator Pennington was nom
inated by some fellow Senators
as being the “busiest member of
the General Assembly” during
THE COVINGTON NEWS
In today’s lesson we will en
counter the emphasis that Jesus
makes men whole morally and
spiritually.
Very often we pass over the
New Testament message on wit
nessing without realizing how im
portant it is.
As he left his disciples for the
last time (in the flesh), Jesus
commissioned them to go forth
and teach all nations, "baptizing
them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost: teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever Ihave com
manded you, and, 10, I am with
you always even unto the end of
the world” (Matt. 28:19-20). We
read also in the Book of Acts
the Lord’s declaration to his dis
ciples that they would be his wit
ness "unto the uttermost part of
the earth” (Acts 1:8).
The Greek word for witness is
martus, from which we get the
English word martyr. Through
out the ages faithful disciples
have been witnessing to the pre
sence and power of Christ in th
eir lives, and this witness has
constituted probably the most
powerful of all forces in the sp
read of Christian truth.
The Christian is a certain
type of person, and he is that
type of person because Christ
has made him so. His chief
desire is to conform his will
to the will of God. He accepts
the sacrifice involved in the li
ving of a Christian life. He stri
ves to achieve righteousness,
conscious of the fact that Christ
is his guide and support. Be
lief is important in all this; but
even greater than belief is faith,
and even greater than faith is
love. The Apostle Paul expres
sed it in classical simplicity
when he declared: "And now
abideth faith, hope, charity (love)
these three; but the greatest of
these is charity (love)” (I Cor.
13:13).
God is steadily pursuing his
divine purpose to bring our li
ves to mental, physical, and spi
ritual wholeness through the gui
dance, power and presence of
Christ.
save such a sinner as David, I
need not doubt His willingness to
have mercy on me and save me.
The human heart is deceitful,
and desperately wicked, but His
Word assures us that If we re
pent, confess our sins, and turn
to Him, He will accept, and cl
eanse us and save us. His po
wer reaches as far as the curse
of sin has gone.
Not withstanding our sins God
loves us, and allowed His only
Son to lay down His life to save
us from our folly and give us a
chance to turn from our wicked
ness and come home to Him.
“For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth on
Him should not perish, but have
everlasting LIFE!”
Turn from Satan’s He, and ac
cept Him who is the WAY, the
TRUTH, and the LIFE!
the week’s recess. In addition
to keeping up with committee
work at the State Capitol and con
ducting the public hearing on Fire
Ants in Tifton it was necessary
for him, as Chairman of the Ag
riculture Committee which is re
sponsible for all legislation af
fecting agricultural experiment
stations, to attend meetings at
several of these installations
throughout the State.
Monday he was in Vidalia meet
ing with representatives of the
Georgia Nurserymen’s Associa
tion; Thursday he was in Macon
to meet with representatives of
the Georgia Forestry Com
mission concerning the “Tree
Nursery Operation” which makes
available to Georgia landowners
seedlings for reforestation at a
nominal charge. Friday he ad
dressed the Georgia Nursery
men’s Association at noon in
Athens and during the afternoon
met with the Department of Ag
ronomy at the University of Ge
orgia Department of Agriculture
to discuss the formulation of the
1968 Spring planting schedule for
the various crops, and wound up
the week with a meeting on Sat
urday of the Madison Morgan Co
unty Airport Authority.
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Dear Editors:
How could anyone think of cut
ting down the trees on Coving
ton Square? Os course it has a
run down appearance which could
be eliminated with a little work
and up keep. Nothing prospers
left alone. A tree or two needs
to be cut down, but do replant
immediately. It is so restful to
look ojut across the square from
the different stores. Madison
has the post office on their square
which ruins it to me. They are
making a pitiful attempt at green
beauty by planting trees along
the road in the side walks. Will
they grow? Only time will tell.
The PROGRESS of Covington is
getting rid of so many beautiful
trees that took God many years
to grow. It seems to me a suit
able spot for a building could
be picked, leaving as many trees
untouched as possible instead of
bulldozing everything flat.
Here in Greensboro, Greene
County, are so many trees that
no leaves are burned in fall.
It is a place of green beauty
and cool shade in summer.
Mrs. J. E. Rowe
Greensboro, Ga.
Covington, Georgia
January 29, 1968
Mrs. A. Belmont Dennis
Editor The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
The "Y” clubs of Newton Coun
ty High School are very grateful
for the splendid publicity you give
all their activities. Especially
are they grateful at this time
for the publicity given to YMCA
Week. It is wonderful to have a
newspaper interested in this
work, and the clubs want you
to know they are appreciative.
Sincerely,
Slade Exley
President of "Y” Council
Emily Morgan
Secretary of "Y” Council
Covington, Georgia
January 23, 1968
Editor of Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Sir:
We would like to thank the
photographer for the picture of
Salem Camp Ground’s Water
Tank which was published in the
Covington News January 19. With
the sun shining against the ice it
was beautiful. However, the tank
was not bursted as was stated
in the write-up.
It seems that in freezing wea
ther the control on the tank
does not work properly, which
causes an overflow each time
the tank’s capacity is reached.
Several times during the fr
eeze of last week, the tank over
flowed adding more ice each time
to the tank and tank frame.
We appreciate the interested
persons calling and asking ab
out our water supply.
Thank you again for taking time
to make the picture and publishing
it in the Covington News.
Yours Truly,
J. T. Jaynes
Have You?
Good morning, recently I asked
a very old colored friend of mine
if she had made her New Year
resolutions.
She rolled her eyes, and smi
led, and said, "Lawsy Ole Miss
I ain’t used none o’dem good
ones I made last year!” Did yer
use yours”?
One of the greatest mistakes
that anyone can make against self
is having good impulses, inter
ests and resolves and not use
them. A high ideal is worth
less if not put to work.
It has been said, "with good
intentions hell is proverbially pa
ved.” This is easily understood,
an unused resolution is not only
of no value, but positively in
jurious, it dulls the decision,
exhausts the reserves, numbs the
impulse and in time deadens the
motive power. Ideals never hurt
but the ideals that are never li
ved are deadly.
Greetings and good wishes to
our fair city and loved county.
There is more beautiful things
to be accomplished this year
than never before, let us resolve
to think twice and reach for high
er and nobler and more worth
while things, THEN DO THEM.
WHEN
When man has found the range
and width and space;
And soared majestic wings th
rough moon and stars,
And feel the Milky Way and
clouds of lace
And instrument the planetary
bars,
When man has split the atom
into bits—
To serve the scientific mind
and will,
May find a greater problem for
his wits
And higher conquest to be con
quered still.
When man explored the moun
tains and the seas,
And knows all mysteries deep
within the sod,
Will he rant forth in angry cri
es and pleas—
Because he cannot rule the ways
of God?
Mamie Ozburn Odum
(Poetlaureate of Covington
and Newton County)
For every man and woman who
is interested in Georgia and her
government may we recommend
"Georgia's Third Force” by Wi
lliam R. Bowdoin. The book is
fresh off the presses at Foote
and Davies in Atlanta at a cost
of $2.75 plus 50 cents for hand
ling.
Perhaps best known as chair
man of Governor Carl E. Sand
ers’ Commission on Efficiency
and Improvement in Government,
Mr. Bowdoin writes from exp
erience gained in 15 years of
government service.
Mr. Bowdoin first entered go
vernment service in 1953 when
Governor Herman E. Talmadge
appointed him to the Georgia
Ports Authority, which he ser
ved as chairman. During the
administration of Governor S.
Ernest Vandiver he served, in
addition to his banking respon
sibilities, as State Supervisor
of Purchases. From 1963 to
1967, at the request of Govern
or Sanders, he served as Chair
man of the seven member Gov
ernor's Commission on Effi
ciency and Improvement in Go
vernment, better known as the
"Bowdoin Commission”.
"As businesses are managed to
insure stockholders the greatest
return from their dollars inves
ted,” writes Mr. Bowdoin, "so
government should be administ
ered to afford taxpayers the gr
eatest return in services from
the expenditure of their tax do
llars.”
The book is written in a down
to-earth manner so that the man
on the street can better under
stand the workings and needs of
Georgia’s government. It is
dedicated to "Mobilizing Geor
gia’s Powerful Third Force—The
People.”
In his "letter To the Rea-
Rev. Lewis F. Archer
"Wretched man that I am! Who
will deliver me from this body
of death?” (Romans 7:24)Paul’s
words are not unique here. All
men in all ages have sounded this
cry. Greek tragedy called for
release. Orestes killed his mot
her, Clytemnestra, while pur
suing release from the genera
tions-old curse of blood guilt
on his kingly family. But as a
man, he failed; it was the god
dess Athene who many years
later saved him. Centuries be
fore that the Hebrews cried for
release from Egypt. Later, atthe
time of Jesus, the Hebrews ag
ain cried for release from Rome.
Today the American culture cr
ies for release from injustices
which in the forms of violence
and general cynicism curse our
nation. Yes, Paul’s cry for de
liverance is timeless and uni
versal.
In our time William Faulkner
has dramatized the national cu
rse through his stories of Sutpen,
Sartoris, and the Compson fa
milies. In these stories the curse
is victorious over each family
and their name disappears from
the community they helped build.
In the Old Testament we see Da
vid cleverly avoid the curse of
blood guilt by having henchmen
do his killing for him so that no
injured family could legally seek
revenge on David himself. This
was his way of avoiding the cu
rse.
By jumping about in time and
story we see what Paul meant
in Romans 8:22-23: “We know
that the whole creation has been
groaning in travail together un
til now; even we who have the
first fruits of the spirit groan
inwardly as we await adoption
as sons, the redemption of our
bodies.”
From Paul we wisely see that
even men of faith are not freed
from the cry for release from
the mortal curse of sin. The
consequences of evil, guilt, fai
lure, error are universally felt,
revealing the irrevocable unity of
mankind. But more grinding to
us is the ageless observation
that man of himself cannot re
move the curse and gain relea-
PARENT-TEACHER
REPORT
By Mrs. Robert I. Burall
Tenth District Director
Georgia Congress of Parents
and Teachers
The National PTA Representa
tives made a very interesting and
informative report in the latest
issue of the National PTA Bull
etin. I was particularly interest
ed in the report made by Mrs. J,
M. Hernden, (a guest speaker at
our 1967 Annual Summer Institu
te) and Vice-President, Region
111 of the National Congress of
Parents and Teachers, because
it concerned American Associat
ion for Health, Physical Educat
ion, and Recreation, that should
Thursday, February 1, 1968
GEORGIA
GOVERNMENT
By; Leo S. Mallard
der” at the beginning of the 67
page book, Mr. Bowdoin states:
"In my estimation, our anti
quated system of government
costs at least one dollar out of
every ten paid in taxes. What a
woeful waste! This amounts to
approximately SBO million ann
ually and some experts believe
this estimate is conservative.
The situation is the fault of
the people—you and me. We
have buried our heads in the
sands of complacency and too
often tolerated a second - best
effort. It is a source of per
petual amazement to me that
so little interest can be shown
by so many citizens in the big
gest business of all, their own
state government.”
Mr. Bowdoin mentions three
forces in Georgia government
today: (1) "the state’s politi
cal leadership, those chosen, too
often with little regard for their
ability, for the day-to-day ma
nagement of government”; (2)
"multiplicity of organized spe
cial interest groups which, th
rough default, so often deter
mine our state’s policies and
actions”; and (3) "the people—
unorganized, individual Georg
ians. Businessmen, profess
ional men, laborers, housewi
ves, farmers, and youth: these
are the third force.”
Let’s run down the table of
contents: Chapter One — The
Ways that Were: Colonial Deve
lopment; The Reconstruction Pe
riod; Voting Frauds Were Flag
rant; The 1930’5; and From Ru
ssell to Sanders; Chapter Two—
The Commission; Chapter Three
—The Findings; Chapter Four—
Unfinished Business; Chapter
Five The New Georgia; Chap
ter Six—Conclusions. If you are
a citizen of Georgia this book
should be on your reading list.
se. In history and literature it
is always Athena, God, Super
man, or Fate which enters and
rescues helpless men. Although
children in front of the TV will
cheer the superhuman interven
tion, adults have always chafed
and rebelled against the news
that they are helpless and that
there is no human solution pos
sible. This is offensive to man,
the apex of creation, for the tr
ue man wants to be both free and
responsible for his whole life.
I have purposely omitted one
other tradition — the Gospels of
the New Testament. Here we
see a New Man, Jesus bar Jos
ef, exocizing demons—that is,
releasing men from the curses of
disease, guilt, fear, sin, and
impiety. Surely a new kind of
Release has come in this event!
The Church has long debated wh
ether this is just another example
of an indulgent God rescuing once
again a foolish and helpless man
kind. Or, do we have here the
final revelation of Good News
that man can rescue himself and
be a responsible human being
if man takes as his definition of
True Man the model of Jesus
Christ.
The glory of the Good News is
that—unlike the Greeks—we need
not wait for gods or goddesses,
or Luck, to intervene and set
right our hopeless mess. To de
pend consistently on an outside
force to rescue us, eliminates
the very possibility of human
freedom and responsibility. We
all know the man Jesus, who is
called, by some, the Christ.
Paul’s solution to the curse wh
ich binds us is that we become
"men in Christ”. The mystery
of this formula is not easily
solved. To break into the mea
ning of Christ-men is a life
long adventure, but at least this
word I can affirm and sing joy
ously: we do not have to wait
for gods or circumstance to get
us out of the holes we ourselves
have made. The Christian can
be a responsible man before his
God. By being "men-in-Christ”,
a man remains in his situation,
yet he is released from the
fearful curse of death, and he
can live out his mortal life with
joy and self-possession.
be significant to all PTA memb
ers.
The worldhas become too sma
ll for anything less than brotherh
ood. International relations sho
uld involve all people, not just
adults. No child is too young
to understand how others think
and feel. Realities of the pre
sent cannot be met by using
dimensions of the past. She stated
that “greater communication and
sharing was an urgent need.’’
We all know International und
erstanding is never easy. Some
times understanding within our
own community is very difficult
but we should never give up try
ing. We all can help to mark a new
milestone in the betterment of
mankind if we will exercise good
will, enthusiasm, and energy. Al
so concentrate on our future...
by teaching our children and youth
of America the importance of a
good and sound Health program.