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COMMENTS
The magic of the Christmas season is laying
its hold upon the land. On city streets silver
bells ring calling on us to give help to those
less fortunate. The tinsel, the lights and decor
ations, the holly wreaths are going up and tens
of millions of children know that Santa Claus is
coming to town. They hope that he will in some
mysterious way visit their home in the shimmering
silence of the night before Christmas.
This is a time for children, and it is a time
too for all men and women in all lands to rem
ember the wonder of the Lord’s birth on the first
The “Dixie” Controversy
The controversy over theStars-and-Barsofthe
Confederate Flag and the song "Dixie” has
reached the ludicrous stage. The first press
item we noticed was a complaint by a US
Marine from Georgia on duty in Vietnam. Acc
ording to Rep. W. S. Stuckey, the Marine was
ordered to remove the Georgia State Flag from
above his bunk, following the assassination of
Martin Luther King. The reason given was that
Georgia’s Flag incorporates the symbol of the
Confederacy in its design and some people
view it as a "symbol of racism." The State
Flag of Mississippi, also uses the Stars-and-
Bars in its pattern.
The Pentagon, wisely, issued an order res
cinding the removal order, but less than a
month later the issue of the flag came into the
headlines again, this time in Alexandria, Virginia.
The issue this time was the flying of the Con
federate Flag, along with the Stars and Stripes, and
the flag of the City of Alexandria, on Confederate
Memorial Day. Once again the flag’s right to
Keep Government Out Os Hospitals
People who don’t read never learn the lessons
of history, and those who are not observant never
learn by experience. There is no other way of
accounting for the persistent survival of the myth
that government can provide a service more
cheaply and more efficiently than anyone else.
A union official has now called for the operation
of all hospitals by the federal government as a
means of stemming rising costs to patients.
The Post Office Department currently pro
vides an excellent example of the kind of eff
iciency we may expect if the day ever comes
when hospitals are operated as a federal service.
Postal rates have led cost increases, and yet
postal facilities are as archaic as the ark.
In August, 1968, the general price level was
4.3 percent higher than in August, 1967. This
together with higher taxes has meant that wage
increases gained by millions of working people
this year have been more than wiped out and
that millions more of our citizens unable to in
crease their income are feeling to a sharper de
gree the pinch of inflation.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that for
1968 as a "'hole inflation will take prices up by
4 percent or more. This is part of the price of
Charlie Green is an imaginary, but represen
tative, white-collar worker, who is employed by
the non-partisan Tax Foundation, Inc., toillustrate
what is happening to us, tax-wise. The inter
mittent reports on Charlie Green’s well-being are
a sobering serial. He is married and the father
of two perpetually hungry teen-agers. His salary
is $12,00 a year.
He was flabbergasted recently to learn that his
annual share of the cost of government was much
greater than the yearly cost of food for his fa
mily of four. Just ten years ago, Charlie’s grocery
bill was $1,741. For 1968, it was up 60 percent,
to $2,789. But his share of the cost of government
had risen in the same ten-year period to $4,080 —
46 percent more than the cost of food for his fa
mily.
Charlie’s individual share of the federal bud
get, as totted up by the Foundation, is as follows;
national defense $943, up 38 percent; health, labor
and welfare $573, up 130 percent; agriculture and
agricultural resources $65, up 41 percent; inter
national affairs and finance $63, up 23 percent.
General government had more than doubled in the
10 years from sls to $33, while the cost of edu
cation had increased 700 percent to $56. Space
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Editor and Publiihor
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publiihar
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Christmas Day 1968
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Christmas nearly 2,000 years ago. It is the
power of this happening that puts magic in this
season and lends the light of hope and under
standing to all the world’s people.
Let this Christmas be for children--may it
bring them the warmth of a fire, the smell of
a tree, the excitement of waiting for Santa’s
visit. Let it bring visions of sugar plums on
Christmas eve, and above all as the hour app
roaches, let it bring the warmth of knowing that
the babe born in Bethlehem so long ago is very
close to us all this night.
exist prevailed, despite the attempts of a handful
of people to eliminate it
Then, in Arlington, Texas, the flag suffered a
defeat when protestors, led by a SNCC activist
influenced the student government to vote to
eliminate the "Rebel” theme entirely from the
University of Texas, at Arlington. On June 30,
while the Rebel Flag was being lowered for the
last time, the radical student was under a peace
bond. He had threatened two fellow students
for refusing to join a "black power” group.
Now the final blow comes from the University
of Miami, Florida. The University’s President
has banned the playing of “Dixie” by the school
band, and all Confederate symbols are to be
discarded.
"Dixie” was written by an Ohioan, Daniel
Decatur Emmett, two years before the Civil War.
Those who behold racism in the song suffer a
popular malady these days; the racism is in the
eyes of the beholders.
Former Postmaster General O’Brien has said
that we face "catastrophe” in postal service
unless drastic changes occur—which are not
likely under the politics and patronage formula
governing postal operations.
So, it seems, government hospitals are not the
answer either. In the words of the AMA News;
“Better service, less duplication of services,
and greater efficiency in hospitals will come
from local efforts, which involve community
planning,” under the leadership of physicians
and others in the health field. The government
is having enough trouble with its post offices.
Let’s keep it out of the hospitals.
a $25 billion deficit in the federal budget. Under
these conditions, new proposals for enlarging
programs of federal welfare spending strike a
jarring note.
Unless the new Administration can bring fed
eral spending down to a level that the tax-pay
ers can support, the devaluation of the 11. S. dol
lar will continue to destroy the savings and in
vestments of all of us, and government benefits
paid in evermore worthless dollars will provide
a fitting epitaph for political opportunism.
research and technology had gone from $1 to $59,
and housing and community development from $1
to S4B. With rising interest rates and deficit
piled upon deficit in the national debt, interest
had increased 61 percent to $167. That is $668
for Charlie’s family of four.
Total federal government spending has more than
doubled in the 10-year period, rising from SB3
billion to $176 billion.
Poor Charlie was earning $7500 a year in 1958
and his direct taxes were only 27 percent of that
income. Direct taxes will take 34 percent of his
larger income in 1968; not calculated are the mul
titude of hidden taxes which are included in the
price of every product. The Tax Foundation fi
gures that Charlie’s $4,500 salary increase over
the past 10 years amounts to only $1,954 after
allowing for increased direct taxes and the in
flation which is reflected in a 20 percent increase
in the consumer price index.
We presume that Charlie Green turned a deep
purple upon learning these facts.
And unless you’re on welfare, or the federal
government payroll, you’re in the same boat with
Charlie.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
AtiocixU Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advurtiling Manager
Entered et the Post Office
et Covington, Georgie, es
mail matter of the Second
Ciao.
OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
ASSURANCE TO THE FAITHFUL
DEVOTIONAL READING: Re
velation 4:1-11.
Memory Selection: Blessing
and glory and wisdom and thanks
giving and honor and power and
might be to our God for ever and
ever!
INTERMEDIATE-SENIOR TO
PIC: Promise to the Faithful.
YOUNG PEOPLE-ADULT TO
PIC: Assurance to the Faithful.
“The faithful are those who
have faith in Christ and live up
to his moral requirements. This
lesson is an assurance to the
faithful that God has in store
for them great reward and satis
faction.
We have reminded ourselves
already, and we need to remind
ourselves over and over again,
that the Book of Revelation was
written to encourage a group of
Christians who were exper
iencing painful persecution. TTie
word revelation comes from a
Greek word apocalypis which me
ans uncovering or unveiling. This
apocalypse of John (or as we
know it, the Revelation of John)
is an uncovering or unveiling of
God’s promises and help to his
people.
Apocalypses were always writ
ten in seasons of persecution.
They announced a deliverance
which was coming and for which
the righteous could wait in pat
ience. Prophecy was usually
denunciatory, telling the people
that they could suffer dire con
sequences unless they repented
and turned again to God.
The apocalypse, on the other
hand, was a type of writing
meant to reveal God’s promise
to the suffering and to assure
them that deliverance would be
made in God’s good time and in
accordance with his will.
The New Testament would be
incomplete without the Book of
Revelation. Often it has been
mishandled and used largely as
an almanac whereby certain per
sons believed that they could
foretell the coming of the end of
the world. In the first place it
was written by a man named
John (believed from the begin
ning to be the Apostle John)
and was an appeal to persecuted
Christian believers that they bear
manfully their perils and pains
as Christ endured before them.
Through his death, victory had
been won for his followers, and
their victory would be won in the
same manner. Inasmuch as the
death of Christ was not defeat,
but victory, the full glory of Ch
rist’s sacrifice would be the re
ward of those who faithfully en
dured persecution to the end.
It is fitting that in God’s dis
closure of his truth we should
receive some intimation of what
heaven is like. Undoubtedly it is
a realm so different from the
earthly that adequate description
cannot be made. But heaven
can be described in terms of
triumph, vindication, and glory.
This is the kind of heaven
our souls long for. This is the
description of heaven with which
the Bible ends.
"After this I beheld, and, lo
a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and
kindreds, and people, and ton
gues, stood before the throne,
and before the Lamb, clothed with
white robes, and palms in their
DON’T LITTER
Why do people litter their towns and cities and
the countryside? This distasteful condition persists
despite the concerted campaigns of civic organiza
tions, governmental agencies and many individual
citizen groups.
The basic reason for the problem is that many
people are just thoughtless. Too many of us simply
feel no personal responsibility for the appearance of
our communities. An ever-stretching network of
highways, increased travel, greater outdoor recrea
tional facilities, and more leisure time all combine
to provide even more opportunities for the litterbug.
Keep America Beautiful, Inc., the national public
service organization for the prevention of litter,
offers suggestions how everyone can help in the
litter fight. They are:
• Keep your own home and property litter-free.
• Carry a litterbag in your car or boat. Always
dispose of trash in a proper receptacle.
• Urge municipal officials to provide adequate
collection and disposal facilities and a sufficient
number of receptacles for street trash.
• Cooperate with others working to eliminate
litter in your community. If there is no litter
prevention program in the area —start one.
Remember that litter is a costly eyesore that
blights and corrodes, lowers property values, dis
courages tourists, and alienates potential new busi
ness and industry. Everyone should help eliminate
litterbugging.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
hands; and cried with a loud
voice, saying, Salvation to our
God which sitteth upon the thr
one, and unto the Lamb.”
Jesus had said on one occ
asion that although many are
called, few are chosen (Matt.
22:14\ But we find at the end
of time that this few has grown
into "a great multitude which no
man could number ...” Hie
mercy of God is everlasting and of
such a plenteous quantity that we
need never fear if we confess our
sin and honestly press on toward
moral triumph.
We are assured that it is the
will of God our Saviour that all
men be saved and come to the
knowledge of the truth (I Tim.
2:3-4).
God takes no joy in the death
of a sinner buy only in his sal
vation.
This great multitude is made
up of all nations, people, kin
dred, and tongues. This in
cludes all races. In this mul
titude are the saints of the past
and those who at the present try
to obey Christ even though,
through sin and weakness, they
often fail. But God is interested
not primarily in what we ach
ieve but in what we try to ach
ieve. We all sin. Only Christ
himself was perfect. But if after
every sin we arise, ask God’s
forgiveness, and press on toward
righteous living, then we can be
sure that the divine favor and
assistance is upon us.
This multitude cried with a
loud voice, praising God who is
the source of our salvation. They
had palms in their hands, which
was a sign of victory. God is
pictured as seated upon a thro
ne, and Jesus— the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sin of
the world-is in the disclosure,
also.
Hie Bible urges us to praise
God, which means that God seeks
our praise. Why does He do this?
Praise means agreement. When
we praise God we agree with
the disclosure of God’s nature
and purpose set forth in the Bi
ble.
Therefore, we priase God not
for the effect that this praise
has on Him, but for the effect
it has on us. It confirms and
strengthens our faith.
The angels stood round about
the throne. The word angel
comes from a Greek word an
gSlos, which means messenger or
agent. The angels are God’s
messengers. They surround his
throne. They carry out his will
among men.
Again we need to pause and
ask ourselves about the reality
of angels. Do they exist? They
certainly do unless we are to
disbelieve large sections of the
Bible. They go about doing
God’s will. Are they in the
world today? If they were ever
in the world, they are in the
world now; and today, as ever,
they do the will of God, carry
his messages to our hearts, gu
ide us, protect us.
The idea of guardian angels
is very real. We can be sure
that they are at our side through
out the whole of our earthly ex
istence. Angels guided the an
cient patriarchs. Angels min
istered to Jesus after his tem
ptation. An angel strengthened
him during his agony in Geth
semane.
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Will you, please, help us find :
our daughter? My wife, Ruth,
and I are directing this plea to 1
you and to the ten thousand other
newspapers in the cities, towns,
and hamlets of this country.
Our daughter, Elizabeth Lur
ene (Liz) Ernstein, was just two '
months short of her fifteenth
birthday when she vanished with
out a trace last March 18.
She was last seen walking home
from school along a lonely tree
lined street amid the orange gr
oves of suburban Redlands. In
her arms, she carried a blue
notebook and a red algebra text
book.
Since then, law enforcement
agencies, family members, and
friends have spent countless
hours tracking down hundreds of
tentative leads. But to no avail.
Not one single, slender clue has
brightened all our efforts. Seem
ingly, Liz disappeared like a br
eath of air on a winter’s day.
But, surely there is a simple
explanation. Was she abducted?
Did she run away from home?
Is she dead? Or is she alive and,
perhaps, in your town?
You can help us. Ruth and I
are begging you to help us find
an answer to our torment - to
help us end the long nightmare
of these past eight months -by
releasing our story and Liz’s
picture in your paper.
The Lord willing, someone
in your area may have seen her.
With sincere gratitude,
Norman and Ruth Ernstein
776 Crafton Avenue
Redlands, California 92373
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Topics
A REALITVELY SIMPLY and
effective test to determine if a
patient with widespread cancer is
getting the best possible therapy
has been developed by two Uni
versity of Chicago physicians.
The test, used experimentally
on cancerous mice, involves tra
cing low-dosage radiation to mo
nitor the ratio of certain isoto
pes in malignant cells after ther
apy.
THE SKULL of a giant bea
ver—an extinct animal that wei
ghed up to 500 pounds and was
more than six feet long—has been
uncovered near Madison, Wis. A
University of Wisconsin zoologist
said he believes this is the first
discovery in that state of a giant
beaver. Remains of this huge
animal have been found in all
states bordering Wisconsin, as
well as in such widely separated
places as Georgia and Alaska.
The first remains of the giant
beaver, the largest rodent ever
to inhabit the earth, were found
in Ohio more than 100 years ago.
AN INFRARED medical scan
ner has been developed and is
being used to record the temper
ature profiles of living subjects
with an accuracy of plus-or
mlnus one-twentieth of a degree
centigrade. The device can make
20 scans per second over spots
as small as a millimeter in dia
meter. Doctors at the University
of Michigan are evaluating its
effectiveness in diagnosing tu
mors, arthritis, vascular di
seases, and trauma, and in gaug
ing wound healing.
AUTOMATION is revolutioniz
ing the meat processing industry;
even smokehouses have been mo
dernized to produce uniform con
ditions of temperature, humidity,
smoke density and air circula
tion. The results, says Allbright-
Nell, Chicago, are tenderized
hams that are uniform in flavor
and color.
FOR YEARS man has viewed
with awe the spectacular bursts
of natural steam from volcanoes,
geysers and boiling springs.
Early records note the wide
spread use by the Romans of na
tural hot waters in Italy and other
countries. Similar use was
made of hot springs —now re
ferred to as "health spas” —in
Germany, Austria and Czecho
slovakia. Although the use of hot
springs for baths goes back to an
cient times, the U. S. Geological
Survey says that the use of natural
steam for the manufacture of
electric power did not begin un
til early in the 20th Century.
CHANCES are that when you
try to pronounce a strange word
you depend on previous exper
ience with similar words and your
knowledge of the English lang
uage. But how does a child
decide on how to pronounce a new
To most of us the word com
puter is a mystery cloaked name
for a machine that we don’t
understand. Fear might better
describe our feeling because it is
human nature to be wary of the
unknown. Besides, such a mac
hine is smarter than we are and
this hurts our ego terribly.
Big business and industry have
been using computers for several
years now and many of their per
sonnel understand the technology
of computers better than the lay
man. Financial institutions are
using computers in their trans
actions throughout the world.
But in Covington, Georgia,
when we start thinking about com
puter set type for newspapers
and job printing we even scare
ourselves. This may not be as
far away as one might think.
A visit Friday to the southeastern
Graphics Arts Show at the Civic
Center in Atlanta impressed on
us how close at hand computer set
type is indeed.
No less than six different grap
hic arts companies had computer
type-setting machines on display
in actual operation for the pro
spective buyer to see. All of
these computers were priced
within the budget range of a week
ly newspaper the size of the
"NEWS”. These unknown com
puters are also proving to be
economical to use, faster, and
more efficient in other places
around the country where they
are in operation.
For the past ten years "strike
on” machines, similar to type
writers have been the accepted
and most economical way to pro
duce galleys of newspaper type.
Today, these machines are fast
becoming obsolete.
Computer set type is straigh-
Layona Glenn
Says . . .
Hi! Friends! Here lam in ’
historic old Macon, spending Th
anksgiving with my niece, Mrs. I
Sarah GladhU and her numerous 1
family.
One of the boys is in service :
at Fort Polk, La. and could not |
get home for Thanksgiving, so <
they called him and had a fam- .
lly reunion by telephone! There
are several extensions in the 1
house, so each was manned by a <
bunch of youngsters. They had a
grand time! ! ! !
Macon brings to mind some i
of the "Firsts” of Georgia.
"The first chartered college <
for women in the world was ।
Wesleyn College here in Ma- ;
con. The first State Univer- :
slty in the U.S.A, was the Unl-
By Rev. Charles L. Moody, Jr.
Pastor of County Line
Baptist Church
It is not my desire for this to
sound like an old religious horn
blowing merrily for fun.
But I am deeply concerned and
disturbed about the attitude of so
many people toward this wonder
ful season of the year.
It is my conviction that Christ
mas and all that goes with this
season belongs entirely to those
of us that not only recognize
Jtyod
BY MRS. ROBERT I. BURALL
TENTH DISTRICT DIR.
GEORGIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS
AND TEACHERS
The holiday season brings to
mind many things, but I keep
thinking about our children’s Ch
aracter and Spiritual Education.
One of the vital forces in ch
aracter development and spiri
tual education is religious train
ing, which should begin in the
home. Family faith, unity, and
strength comes from many sour
ces, such as Bible reading, dai-
word? A linguist and a psy
chologist at the University of
Wisconsin are analyzing this
problem and other skills related
to reading In an attempt to de
termine the clues a child learns
that later help him to correctly
pronounce an unfamiliar word.
Their research indicates that
English orthography - the re
lationship of letter patterns to
pronunciation of words - is a
more regular and complex sys
tem than had been assumed.
Thursday, December 12, 1968
COMPUTER AGE
By: Leo S. Mallard
ter, neater, and more readable;
it is more versatile—caps, lower
case, italic, bold face intermixed
in a single sentence or para-?
graph; these machines afford the
printer two or three different?
faces of type and up to 10 dif
ferent sizes of each one disk no?
larger than a child’s can of
"playdough”; and the speed of:
operation varies, depending upon
the machine, between 20 and 100
lines of newspaper copy per min
ute.
Now, such a computer doesnot
eliminate the need for "thinking’’;
human beings, but once pro
gramed, it can operate far fas
ter than the thought waves of the:
men who invented it can travel.
Tape punch operators are needed
to punch reading matter onto tape
and program the tape for typeset
ting computers, but once this is
done, this modern miracle can
literally "hum out” the produc
tion<. The particular computer in
mind takes up about as much
space as two card tables sitting
side-by-side.
The thought of a computer type
setting operation in a weekly
newspaper plant is thrilling to
me. In the past 15 years weekly
newspapers have changed from
hot metal composition to strike
on composition. Now we are fast
entering the era of computer
photomechanically set newspa
per type.
TO think that this is cheaper,
faster, more versatile, more?
readable and economically with
in our reach in the near future
is amazing. I can’t help but
wonder what the future holds for
my children during their lifetime ’
—it’s almost like reading a sc-?
ience fiction story.
versity of Georgia at Athens.
So we Georgians have much
for which to be, not only proud
but grateful.
The first Methodist mission
ary sent to Florida was my
grandfather, Rev. Joshua N. Gl
enn, who was appointed to St.
Augustine in 1823.
I still have his old diary in
which he listed the names of aU
of his converts, white and black.
Had his system been continued
we would not now be faced with
our problems of desegregation.
What our generation does (or
does not do) the succeeding gen
erations, suffer, or pay for, or
profit by. So let us be careful
about what we pass on to our
successors.
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the incarnation of Our Bless Lord
but who through our daily lives
exemplify Him.
I, for one would like to see
Christians step out front and take
the leadership and let the whole
world know the true meaning of
this season by proclaiming not
only Isis Miracle Birth but the
life He lived leaving us an ex
ample that we should follow with
the great truths of His death
and resurrection and how all of
these truths are to be related
to our Ilves.
ly prayers, and grace at meal
time. Although specific creeds
may not be taught in the public
schools, there are many ways in
which the school, like the home
and the church, may give spiri
tual guidance and emphasize mo
ral values.
Hiere are two excellent Na
tional PTA publications, avail
able from the State office, which
provide a very good guide for
concrete work by chairmen. They
are; In All Good Faiths and A
Parent’s Guide To Character And
Spiritual Education. Both have
been a basic part of the PTA pro
gram throughout the years. Our
PTA Objects point up the contin
uing emphasis, as does the State
ment of Principles.
I suggest we all use practical
applications of the basic concepts
of character and spiritual action
as we know them in the parent
teacher organization.