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COMMENTS
As most readers of this newspaper are a
ware, the Federal Government has been using
a “referendum ” system for several years in
formalizing its farm program. It takes a poll
of farmers on subsidies, crop control, parity
prices, etc., and when the votes are tallied Wash
ington ordains what shall be paid to whom, and
under what circumstances. City taxpayers don’t
vote in the referendum, but they do pay a hefty
chunk of the tax money which goes into the fed
eral handouts.
Suddenly, the city folks are playing with the
idea of a referendum of their own, and it is time
for farm dwellers and suburban taxpayers to take
a hard look at this referendum business. It is
just possible that it’s going to be the most ex
pensive referendum yet with farmers and sub
urbanites hit mighty hard.
It will be recalled that Governor Rockefeller
read a long speech to the newspaper editors of
the country assembled in Washington a couple
of weeks ago. It was pretty dull going and re
porters present noted that the editors did a lot
of yawning, except when the Governor suggested
that his plan for reconstruction and rehabilit
ation of the nation’s cities would cost an esti
mated $l5O billion. How in the world, muttered
some editors, could he ever hope to get a pro-
In the ten-year period from 1956 to 1966, ac
cording to authoritative sources, the number of
employees on state and local government payrolls
increased 63 per cent and the monthly cost of
paying them increased 143 per cent, while the
population of the country rose 17 per cent. These
figures substantiate what has become a virtual
maxim—that demands for the tax dollar increase
far faster than people.
Countless “experts’’ recommend solutions for
controlling inflation and stabilizing the value of
our money. The most immediate solution of
A fabled character in Washington these days is
a man called Emerson Lee Patton. At least
that’s the name the legend tellers use. You’re
told that it’s meant only to convey that the real
Emerson Lee Patton identifies with the three
most celebrated wars in our history. He and his
forebears were prominent in each.
It seems that Emerson Lee Patton came to be
a financier after World War 11, vice-president of
a big-name bank, and a member of the board
of a number of corporations. The family name
opened the door to the bank job, but he did take
his responsibilities seriously. Recently he sug
gested to the officers of the bank that something
like the following be enclosed with the monthly
statements sent to all depositors.
“It may be in your interest to review your
position as a depositor in light of the inflationary
trend in the nation’s economy. As you know,
our bank is paying a fraction more than 4 per
cent, which means that you may actually be losing
money if you are obliged to pay tax on the in
terest earned by your deposit with us.’’
That ended the bank job. But Emerson Lee
Honor Dad Father’s Day
Ground Broken For Newton Circuit Parsonage
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GROUNDBREAKING FOR NEW Parsonage of the Newton Circuit of the United Methodist Church took
place Tuesday afternoon. Shown above are from left to right: Ernest Savage, Lovejoy Board member;
W. H. Loyd, Parsonage Trustee; Conrad Reynolds, Building Committee member; John L. Rooks,
Chairman of Building Committee; Jim Luke, Pastor; J. T. Smith, Building Committee member; Fred
Hopkins, Building Committee member; Lamar Holmes, Red Oak Board Chairman. Building Com
mittee member Douglas H. Digby was not present for the photo. Frank Christian is the contractor
and the building is expected to be ready for occupancy by September 1. Parsonage will be located
at McCart Circle on the Jackson Highway and will serve as the residence for the pastor serving
Gaithers, Lovejoy and Red Oak churches.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Editor and Publiihtr
LEO S. MALLARD
Aitiitanf to Publiihtr
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Taxes By Referendum
Warning To Experts
Emerson Lee Patton
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gram costing that kind of money through Con
gress?
Rockefeller’s strategy board doesn’t intend to ask
Congress for the money. The plan is to go the
referendum route. If farmers can have a refer
endum, why not city folks? And with city popu
lations faced with deterioration and destruction
of great sections of the metropolitan areas, Big
Brother will have a referendum for residents
of those cities which want to consider partici
pating in a federal program and let them decide
how much money they need from the public trea
sury. Farmers and suburbanites won’t be per
mitted to vote, because they’re not city dwellers,
and besides, they have their own referendum on
the farm program.
Clever, eh? Diabolically clever.
The political machines of the big cities will
be able to turn out a vote unparalleled in the
history of the country, and the taxpayer who doesn’t
live in one of the 30 or 40 larger cities in the
country won’t be able to cast a vote. But he’ll
have to ante a big, big percentage of the tax
money authorized by the referendum.
With an idea like that for appealing to big
city votes, at the expense of the rest of the country,
a man just might get elected to the presidency.
necessity appears to be a tax increase. The
increase may be accompanied by some cuts in
government spending, but in all likelihood the
latter will turn out to be illusory as the pressure
for more political spending builds up.
Thus, the cost of government at every level
will continue to expand, the inflation will continue
to eat away at the value of the dollar. The process
will not end until we realize tax-dollar spending
increases must one day be brought into balance
with population and productivity increases.
Patton was a man of independent means, and he
still held several board memberships. One was
an insurance company. At the last board meet
ing, he submitted a memo which he thought should
go into every premium notice the company mailed.
It read:
“The history of our company is one of total
responsibility to its investors and insured clients.
Accordingly, we feel obliged to suggest that you
review your investment in life insurance. The
Federal Government has embarked upon a policy
which devours 4 percent of the equity in your
policy, each year, through inflation. Our company
cannot change this. When the present rate of
inflation has eased, life insurance will again be
a good investment. And we will be here to serve
you in those happier days."
That ended the insurance board membership.
Emerson Lee Patton is in Washington now. He’s
hunting a job in Government. They quote him as
saying, “Everybody ought to get on the Govern
ment payroll. It’s the only job security available
these days, steady work, good pay, automatic
pay raises. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em."
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
A**oci*t* Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertiiing Managtr
Entered *t the Po*t Office
et Covington, Georgie, es
mail matter of the Second
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OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
FAITH AND WORKS
Devotional Reading: James
1:2-12.
Memory Selection; Be doers
of the word, and not hearers
only, deceiving yourselves . . .
Faith by itself, if it has no works,
is dead. James 1:22; 2:17.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
A Living Faith.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Faith and Works.
The Epistle of James in the
New Testament corresponds to
the wisdom literature (Job, Pro
verbs, and Ecclesiastes) of the
Old Testament. The epistle is
almost devoid of doctrinal dis
cussion. Some have thought it
an inferior variety of biblical
writing. Martin Luther called
it an epistle of straw and hes
itated for some time about whe
ther or not he would include it
in his version of the New Test
ament.
When we examine it, however,
we find it to be interesting and
filled with a robust spirit of
common sense. Scholars tell
us that the Greek in which this
epistle is written Is of an un
usually high quality. The per
son who wrote it might not have
been a great theologian, but he
was an excellent scholar and a
good writer.
The Apostle Paul occupies such
a place of prominence in New
Testament writing that he over
shadows everyone else. His in
fluence even while he lived (and
certainly in later centuries)sim
ply threw Into the shade the In
fluence of every other apostle.
The original twelve apostles had
been called by Christ at the be
ginning of his ministry. Paul,
however, had received a super
natural call In which the unseen
Christ called to him out of a
great light, saying: “Saul, Saul,
why persecutes! thou me?” Up
to this time he had indeed been
a persecutor, In fact chief among
those who were making life tragic
and miserable for all Christian
believers.
Henceforth Paul was to be the
greatest figure Christianity has
produced in its history, save
Jesus Christ himself.
But Paul’s emphasis had been
upon the necessity of faith for
salvation. Some had interpreted
this to mean the sole sufficiency
of faith for salvation, and the
writer of the Epistle of James
arose to challenge this concep
tion.
Who was the man that wrote
this epistle?
He simply designates himself
as “James, a servant of God
and of the Lord Jesus Christ...”
(James 1:1). It is generally be
lieved that he was one of the
Lord’s “brethren” for we know
that there were four other mem
bers of the Nazareth household
In which Jesus grew up who are
designated as our Lord’s “bre
thren”—James, and Joses (Jo
seph), and Simon and Judas, (not
of course to be confused with
Judas Iscariot, for । the name
Judas was one of the most hon
ored in that day).
There has been much discus
sion as to who the “brethren”
of Jesus were and what rela
tionship they bore to the Lord.
Some believe they were children
of Joseph by a former mar
riage, others that they were the
Lord’s cousins, sons of the Vir
gin Mary’s sister and of Clo
pas. All matters considered,
It would appear that the “four
brethren" of whom James was
the eldest, were children of Jo
seph and Mary.
This man James performed for
all Christian believers through
the ages a service of great sign
ificance. We read in Acts 15:
1-29 that certain Jews who had
become Christian believers nev
ertheless Insisted that unless
the Gentile converts were cir
cumcised after the manner of
Moses they could not be saved.
The family of Jesus quite evi
dently did not believe inhlm dur
ing his ministry and were both
shocked at what he said about
honored religious leaders of that
day and alarmed at what ap
peared to them to be his mental
derangement. Some of his fri
ends tried to lay hold on Je
sus, “for they said, He is be
side himself” (Mark 3:21); and
we know that Mary and the bre
thren tried on one occasion to
see him (Matt. 12:47-50), per
haps giving serious considera
tion to the same thoughts.
Paul tells us that Jesus ap
peared In his resurrected state
to James (I Cor. 15:7).
We know that this James be
came head of the newly founded
Christian church In Jerusalem.
Regardless of what he had been
during the Lord’s ministry, he
was, after the resurrection, a
devout believer in Christ and
a leader of the believers in
Jerusalem. Paul appealed to
James against the “Judaizers”
(Jewish Christian believers who
insisted that Gentile converts
be circumcised) (Acts 15:13-29).
James, with a breadth of mind
which astonishes us to this day.
freed Gentile believers (includ
ing ourselves) from the bondage
of Jewish ceremonial law.
Had it not been for James’
breadth of mind and his wise
decision, the church might to this
hour be quarreling over circum
cision, clean and unclean foods.
These requirements are for us,
said James in substance, but
they are not requirements for
newly made Gentile Christians.
Although there is no certainty
about the matter, we are inclin
ed to believe that the James who
gave this momentous decision
was the man who later wrote
the epistle which bears the name
of James.
June 10, 1968
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
Last week the citizens of New
ton County read with interest
the article in the Covington News
concerning a new post office for
Covington.
Newton County deserves the
best and certainly there will
soon be a need for enlarged pos
tal facilities, but is it to the
best interests of the government
and citizens of Newton County for
this public building to be leased?
Will it not cost the government
and the people more in the long
run to lease rather than own a
post office?
The time is now for some
public discussion about this
building that will serve the cou
nty for years to come. It should
be a building of archltectual bea
uty and quality that would re
present our community In a fine
way.
Yours truly,
Sam Ramsey
Report From Sen. Pennington
Senator Brooks Pennington of
Madison, Georgia, today ann
ounced a record total of $262,-
772.00 In grants to cities in the
45th Senatorial District, which
he represents. These grants
were made possible by funds ap
propriated during the recent
session of the General Assembly,
and by law are based on popula
tion.
“The demand for more ser
vices, growth of the cities in
area as well as new homes and
businesses requiring additional
facilities, plus the population ex
plosion, inflation and the soar
ing costs of materials and ser
vices, makes the jobs of the
cities to fill these needs more
difficult with each passing day,”
Pennington said.
The grants made possible by
the 1968 Legislature will help
the cities’ officials in their most
Impossible task of meeting the
financial needs of the cities in
supplying these services.”
According to Senator Penning
ton, the 1967 Legislature passed
laws enabling the cities to util
ize the funds from the State
grants in a much wider field
than had previously been possi-
Newton High Library Adds
Record Number Os Books
The library wishes to thank
Mr. Jerry Aldridge, Principal
of Porterdale School for the gift
of two hundred fifty-seven books.
These are books that were more
suitable for high school use than
for students on the elementary
level, and it is a very valuable
gift to this library.
The library during the school
year just concluded had a re
cord number of books and film
strips added to its holdings: 1,161
books were obtained through
local, state, and federal funds.
300 filmstrips were added, which
were promptly assigned to tea
chers in the following depart
ments: Industrial arts, English,
and history. The library now has
close to an average of ten (10)
books per student, with a total of
8,654 books.
For the month of May the lib
rary had a total of 5,635 students
and checked out 402 fiction books
and 486 non-fiction books, mak
ing a total of 886 books.
Following is the annual report
of the library: Number of books
at the beginning of the year;
7,657; Number of new books add-
Lama lilenn
Says..
The almighty wisdom and po
wer of God is shown in His cre
ation of small as well as large
things.
We stand amazed as we behold
the planets sweep across the
heavens, each following its own
course through space with never
a collision, though there are so
many that with his most powerful
telescope, man could not identify
them Individually and wound up
calling their combined defused
light the “Milky Way".
The Psalmist has well said
“The heavens declare the glory
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Circuit Assembly
In Atlanta On
June 14 To 16
A three day Circuit assembly
of Jehovah’s Witnesses will be
held in Atlanta Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, June 14th through
16th. The Brown High School
Gymnasium at 765 Peeples
Street, S. W., has been engaged
for the meeting. Over 1000
delegates representing eighteen
congregations of Jehovah's Wit
nesses from Atlanta and nearby
Georgia cities will attend.
The assembly is sponsored
by the Watch Tower Bible and
Tract Society of Brooklyn, New
York, governing agency for the
Witnesses world-wide.
Chief speakers on the program
will be Joseph Saia and James
A. Hlnderer, special representa
tives of the Watch Tower Society.
Both Mr. Sala and Mr. Hlnderer
have been traveling ministers
and public speakers for the So
ciety for many years.
The program will include
morning, afternoon and evening
sessions devoted to Bible talks,
discussions and demonstrations.
There will be a baptism for new
ministers on Saturday.
John E. Baugher, local pre
siding minister for the witnesses
said, “Assemblies of this type
are held by the witnesses semi
annually and their purpose is
to train Jehovah’s Witnesses in
their ministry.”
Hie public is welcome to at
tend all sessions of the assembly.
Do not fear, only believe. —
(Mark 5:36).
We believe in God, the al
mighty power for good, operat
ing now in every condition of
our lives. His healing power is
right now doing its work of
perfecting our bodies. What
ever our needs, God will pro
vide. Belief in God will help
solve life’s problems.
! ble.
“Antiquanted statutes on the
• books prior to this time had made
i it impossible to use State monies
i in the most efficient way possible
; for the benefit of the cities and
their taxpayers,” he said.
: “With a wider range of util-
, izatlon of funds, It was our de
sire during the recent session
to supply our cities with eqult
• able aid to meet their needs."
i Pennington went on to state: ‘ ‘ The
1 1968 appropriation for grants to
I cities was 21% higher than in
1967, but even this is not enough.
It will be my aim in the 1969
Session of the General Assembly
i to work toward an additional in
i crease of these grants in order
that the burden to the local tax
payer might be lightened and we
can relieve our people of some
। thing besides their pocketbooks."
Cities in Newton County the
i 45th Senatorial District receiv
ing grants and the monies re
ceived are-
NEWTON COUNTY
Covington 8,167 $57,097
Mansfield 394 $ 4,984
Newborn 283 $ 3,579
Oxford 1,047 $ 8,153
Porterdale 2,365 $17,849
ed: 1,161; Number of books lost
or withdrawn: 164; Number of
: volumes at the end of the year:
, 8,654; Amount spent for books:
i $4297.79; Amount spent forbind
i ing, $16.90; Amount spent for lib
’ rary supplies: $119.60; Amount
> spent for periodicals: $363.37;
Amount spent for miscellaneous
; supplies: $44.46; Total Amount
spent: $4842.12.
The total number of period
icals subscribed to by the libr
i ary was 66 plus 3 newspapers.
, The expenditure per pupil reach
i ed a new high: 5.14, which was
largely made possible by Title
II funds from the Federal Govern
, ment.
; Total attendance in the library
> for the year was 44,053 and a
! total of 13,271 books were
checked out by the faculty and
• student body. The average num
: ber of books checked out per day
; was 74, and the average attend
• ance per day was 244.
Over 1,000 uranium mine
’ workers are expected to die from
’ lung cancer due to radiation.
of God and the firmament show
eth His handiwork."
The same hand that set these
worlds in orbit, created also the
tiny sands of the seashore and
the myriads of infinitesimal
creatures that burrow into the
earth in our backyards. Let us
consider the great things and the
small things that He has made
and thank Him and praise Him
for all He has done to make this
world so beautiful and so useful
for the enjoyment of His child
ren.
“Praise the Lord, O my soul."
The number of families in the
Covington city limits is certainly
growing, and so is the canine
population. If you doubt this fact,
turn off your air conditioner, open
your windows, and try to go to
sleep at night.
It seems that after 10:00 p.m.
until 6:00 a.m. each dog in the
neighborhood competes with his
buddles to see who can bark, howl,
or whine the loudest and longest.
Now “dawg” is truly a man’s
best friend and a child’s most
cherished playmate, but after
dark he can become man’s worst
enemy. Like everything else in
life, a dog has his place. But,
dog ownership carries with it
certain responsibilities.
The use of firearms is against
the law in the city limits. If this
were not the case there would
probably be fewer canines of the
“yapping variety" making the
nightly rounds.
Certainly no person would ad
vocate killing of pets in any nei
ghborhood, but most people would
be glad to have these animals
penned up at night with their
masters exercising some
“volume control” over them as
a courtesy to the neighbors.
No longer is our town spar
sely populated. Homes are close
together and pets can easily be
come a nuisance if they are not
controlled. A leash law would help
but we certainly can’t expect
Kent Anglin, Pastor
OXFORD BAPTIST CHURCH
In his well known hymn, “Abide
With Me,” Henry Lyte has a
phrase that describes our pre
sent world as many would have
it described. Says he, “Change
and decay in all around I see.
O Thou who changes! no!, abide
with me." Indeed, all one needs
to do is listen to people talk,
and one hears the depression that
our society is experiencing. We
are forever talking about the
change and decay; and Christian
people are wondering how much
worse this world is going to
become.
Now I agree that this world
is no bed of roses. Why this
decade alone is sufficient to sug
gest that evil and hatred abounds.
Already, the historians and mor
alists are talking about the uni
queness of the sixties. As an ex
ample, the United States had com
pleted five decades since the last
political assassination. Such a
thing was read about in history
books. It sounded so far back,
so unreal, so weird. Yet, in the
last five years we have seen three
influential and world known fig
ures struck down. Hosea
Williams appears to be correct
when he observes that the de
cade of the 1960’s will go down
in history as the decade of ass
assinations. Indeed, such an event
is becoming quite common. And
that is a pathetic commentary on
Cadet Phillips Receives Award
I \ft
CADET ROBERT L. PHILLIPS (left) received the Hawkins Award,
as a result of his being elected by secret ballot of the faculty as
the outstanding citizen of the student body, at the North Georgia
College Annual Awards Nigh on May 30, 1968. The award was
presented by President M. E. Hoag (right). Cadet Phillips is a
Sophomore at North Georgia College and is the son of Major
Claude R. Phillips, 70 Stone Rd., Oxford.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY.’.’
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"TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. SON!” — With Father’s
Day (June 16) just around the corner, parental advice
is soberly accepted by this boxer puppy
Thursday, June 13, 1968
Yap-Yap-Yap
All Night Long
By: Leo S. Mallard
the Police Department to con
trol all the pets in town—they
have hard enough time policing
the people, homes and bus
inesses.
Coming right down to fact, when
a dog barks at night and keeps
you awake you’re mad at the dog,
and you want the beast to shut-up.
You like his owner, he may be
your neighbor and you’re not mad
at him, and you certainly don’t
think the situation is bad enough to
call the police and have them call
him in the middle of the night.
Yet, the temptation is mighty
great to reach for the old shotgun
and pepper that hound good fash
ioned.
Most pleading falls on deaf
ears, but let’s hope that this plea
to dog owners will at least stir
their compassion for their nei
ghbors as summer sets in and
the dogs start to roam.
Pen up your pet at night and
make him be quiet. If he won’t
shut-up, you should at least bring
the pet in your own house and
listen to the melodious yapping
yourself at night.
Dogs can truly become “mem
bers of the family” and cher
ished by all the members, but
few families allow their members
to raise cain all night long—that
would be embarrassing before the
neighbors. Well, what about that
“lovable dawg with the big
mouth!"
Wurits^o
the events of our day. “Change
and decay in all around I see.”
Evil does abound. Yet to as
sume that all the world Is evil
is to miss the boat completely.
There is goodness here. Now the
depressed and those committed
to the idea that all has gone bad
may well be asking; ‘where is
this goodness? where is this bea
utiful?’ In light of that question,
let me share with you the words
of an old Chinese proverb: “He
who finds the beautiful must take
it with him.” Hear that proverb
and hear it well. For it says
to us that all the great values
we find in this world, we must
first find them within ourselves.
The man who says that he can
find nothing in this world but
hatred and evil may well be
saying that he can find nothing in
himself but the tendencies toward
hatred and evil. The man who
has found beauty and goodness
in this world is the man who has
found beauty and goodness within
himself.
These are sad times, but let
us hear one thing as fact. We
will never know how to cope
with the evil and hatred; the good
and beautiful in this world un
til we have learned to cope with
the evil and hatred; the good and
beautiful within ourselves. The
place we must begin is not on
the outside, but the inside of man.
“He who finds the beautiful must
take it with him.”