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COMMENTS
Few words in any language hold the magic
and comfort of "Mother” and "Home”. They
are synonymous symbols of security and love
for every child fortunate enough to have a Chris
tian mother. And it is most fitting that our
national observance of" Mother’s Day” and Chris
tain Home Week coincide.
Motherhood at its best is woman’s highest
role. It is not just idle comment that "The
Hand That Rocks and Cradle Rules the World”.
Fer, a mother holds the power to mold the
mental, physical and spiritual components; and
most often, the whole future of her offspring.
So potent is her influence, that her unexpress
ed attitudes - good or evil - are usuaHy trans
mitted and sometimes voiced by her children.
The magnitude of such grave responsibility keeps
a Christian Mother ever conscious of her need
of prayer and Divine Guidance.
National Transportation Week
If the world ever becomes a single global
community, a large part of the credit will have
to be given to transportation. National Trans
portation Week which is to be observed this year
between May 11 and 17 will recall afresh the
close kinship between humanprogress and explod
ing transportation technology.
A striking element of the current transportation
story involves the railroad industry. The rails
this year are commemorating the 100th Anniver
sary of the first transcontinental rail line. Nat
ional Transportation Week and the Golden Spike
Centennial, as it is caUed, dramatized the part
transportation plays in drawing people together
into a single community of interests. Trans
continental railroads made the United States
a cohesive whole, and as the years have passed,
the role they have played has grown in importance.
The rails today, however, need greater latitude
in operations than they did a hundred years ago.
ABM —Weapon For Peace?
A recent issue of “Washingtonßeport,” a weekly
newsletter of the American Security Council,
brings the raging battle over the proposed ABM
“Safeguard” system into the range of under
standing of the average citizen.
Many of us have the notion that the ABM
“Safeguard” program is another escalation of the
arms race. After close reading of the Report it
becomes apparent that it is not. In fact, the
Safeguard system is strictly aimed at defending
our nation and could not under any circumstances
be used as a weapon of offense.
According to the ASC, what Secretary of Defense
Laird is suggesting in the Safeguard plan is pro
tection of our strategic nuclear weapons sites.
This would serve to warn the Russians and the
Red Chinese that if they launch an attack on these
sites we would have the capacity to retaliate.
The report states: “The very fact that the
Russians have installled the first phase of their
own ABM, while pushing for the first-strike capa
bility, should give some critics reason to pause
The beautiful 20-year old faced her audience
with tears in her eyes as she said: “My mother
can’t see or talk or walk. It’s terrible to see
that happen to someone you love.”
The girl was Debra Dene Barnes, Miss Ameri
ca 1968, whose mother is a hospitalized multiple
sclerosis patient. Debra is representative of
the two million family members who are affect
ed with MS or related diseases strike in their
homes.
At a dinner given by the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society. Debra received a special award
in appreciation of her invaluable service in bring
ing awareness of the disease to all Americans
during her reign as beauty queen by participat
ing in the Society’s annual Hope Chest campaign.
Fortunately, not all young people have to carry
Smoking Is Risk Factor
In 1910, the number of cigarettes consumed
per person (15 years and older), per year,
was 138. In the years following, that total
rose steadily, reaching a peak of three-thousand,
nine-hundred-eighty-six (3,986) in 1961.
Running parallel to these increases in cig
arette smoking has been a slowly evolving
feeling that smoking is somehow related to
some of the more lethal diseases in man’s
history, past and present
That feeling is now fact says the Georgia
Heart Association, and diseases of the heart
and circulatory system are among those defi
nitely linked to cigarette smoking. Deaths
from arteriosclerotic, coronary, and degener
ative heart diseases rose from 273,000 in 1940,
to 396,000 in 1950, and to 578,000 in 1962.
During 1967, 54% of all deaths in the United
States were attributed to diseases of the heart
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The Christian Home is the father’s kingdom,
the mother’s world and the child’s paradise.
Here the child learns the meaning of discipline,
decency, democracy, love and respect for God
and his fellowman - all of life’s verities.
We pay humble tribute to Mothers who have
trained and are training their children in "The
Nurture and Admonition of the Lord”. Her love
magnifies our virtues and excuses our faults;
our selfishness, and oftimes neligence of her,
are washed away with her tears. Whether here
or in her Eternal Home, her prayers still seek
our physical and spiritual welfare. Her love
is the nearest thing to God’s own love for His
Children.
We are deeply grateful that we have the pri
vilege of living in a nation free to honor Chris
tain Mothers and set aside a week in tribute
to Christian Homes.
Looking to the future, a rail spokesman observes,
"population growth in the years ahead—and the
concurrent production increases—will demand
the ultimate in efficient and economical use of
transportation facilities and equipment. The
answer,” he said, "is intermodal, streamlined
transportation companies offering across-the
board transportation services. The result would
be the best possible transportation at the lowest
possible cost.. .Railroads recognize this. . .they
want to get into the transportation business.”
National Transportation Week and the message
of the railroads on their centennial anniversary
offers an excellent opportunity for the public to
become better acquainted with our most basic
form of transport—the railroads--and the nec
essity of freeing them from regulatory laws that
belong in the last century. The rails are a part
of the transportation system on which the continued
progress of civilisation depends.
since the U. S. merely wants an ABM to protect
its ability to retaliate-aot to initiate.
“In this same context, we must consider the
psychological aspects of ABM deployment. If we
provide no such defense, while the Russians dev
elop a reportedly sophisticated one, it is quite
possible Moscow would be led toward over-con
fidence, triggering a Kremlin decision to risk a
nuclear showdown with the West”
It would appear to be logical to assume,
considering the history of the Russians, that they
will be reluctant to launch any kind of an attack
on us or our allies so long as they believe us to
be strong enough to repel them and take counter
measures. If we have no program for defense
we would be sitting ducks and likely to face an
ultimatum backed by nuclear blackmail. The
Safeguard system is our indication that we will
not take the part of the aggressor, but neither
will we assume the posture of the ostrich. In
this respect, the ABM could become a weapon
for peace.
Debra’s personal burden. But American youth
throughout the nation has proven that it cares
about those who are afflicted with multiple
sclerosis, a crippling disease of the central
nervous system, the brain and spinal cord.
For many years, members of college fra
ternities and sororities, Boy and Girl Scout
troops, 4-H Clubs, and high school clubs - as
well as individual teen-agers - have participated
as volunteers in the Society’s annual Hope Chest
house-to-house fund-raising campaign. They know
that these funds are desperately needed for re
search and medical programs which will help
find the cause and cure of this dread disease.
You can help bridge the generation gap and
show that you, too have a heart, by responding
to youth’s appeal in the struggle against MS.
and circulatory system.
At the turn of the century, per capita cigarette
consumption was just 50 cigarettes a year. We
have indeed come a long way since then.
Today, in direct proportion with our increas
ing knowledge of the hazards of cigarette smok
ing, more than 70 million people in the United
States consume tobacco regularly. More than
70 million people are annually increasing their
risk of having a heart attack, their risk of
becoming just another number in a file.
Risk factors interact; the elimination of smok
ing is not necessarily a guarantee that you are,
or will continue to be, in fine shape. There are
other variables to be considered; what and
how much you eat, your blood pressure; how
often you have a medical checkup; your weight;
the amount of exercise you get.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Atiociefe Editor
LEO MALLARD
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OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
THE BIBLE IN THE LANGUAGE
OF THE PEOPLE
Devotional Reading: Romans
8:28-39.
Memory Selection: We hear
them telling in our own ton
gues the mighty works of God.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
The Bible in Many Languages.
Young People - Adult Topic:
The Bible in the Language of the
People.
The language of the Bible is
Hebrew (Old Testament) and Gr
eek (New Testament). If the
Bible were to have remained in
its original state without trans
lation, it would be practically a
closed book save to a few sc
holars. It has become the most
translated book in the world,
now appearing in several hun
dred languages and dialects.
We speak of the Bible as be
ing Inspired. Are not the wri
tings of Socrates and other au
thors inspired? Yes, but the
material with which the Bible
deals is of such supreme impor
tance, namely, the revelation of
God’s nature and purpose, that
we speak of biblical inspiration
as something special. Further
more, we understand the Bible
only as the Holy Spirit broods
over our minds and interprets
its meaning for us.
This spiritual book must have
a spiritual guide If we are to
understand Its nature and con
tent.
The Bible grew up over a
long period, with very ancient
tradition being pieced together
with historical accounts until at
last the historical books were
completed. Then followed the
Psalms, Proverbs, and Prophets
(Major and Minor). Isaiah, Je
remiah, and Ezekiel were the
Major Prophets. The other pro
phets are referred to as Minor,
although their writings are of
vast importance.
Centuries passed as the writ
ing of the Bible continued. It Is
believed that the greatest piece
of editorial work was done by
Ezra, the scribe. He gathered
the books together and was lar
gely responsible for giving suc
ceeding generations the mater
ial which was extent at the time
of his ministry (about 450 8.C.).
The Bible is the people’s
Book. It is the Book of God’s
Chosen People, for chosen the
Hebrews were to reveal to man
the thing he most needed to know,
namely who God is, what He re
quires of us, how his promises
have been fulfilled, and what He
promises as to the future. The
translation of this book, there
fore, into the many languages
spoken in different parts of the
world was a matter of great
Importance.
One of our Lord’s last pro
mises to his disciples was that
he would send them his Spirit
and that this Spirit would abide
with them and lead them into
the ways of truth. Centuries
before, the prophet Joel had de
clared that God would pour out
his Spirit upon all flesh: “and
your sons and daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall
dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions: and also
upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I
pour out my spirit” (Joel 2:
28-29).
On the day of Pentecost the
Holy Spirit was given as a prin
ciple of Inward spiritual life.
Christ promised that he himself
would return with the coming
of the Spirit and dwell In men’s
hearts. This Spirit would be the
Advocate of believers, teaching
them all things and bringing to
their remembrance the teachings
Jesus had set forth in his mini
stry. Also, the Spirit would act
upon the hearts of unbelievers
and cause them to discern in
the utterances of apostles and
teachers the will and purpose
of God.
The claim of the Bible is not
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just that it is a Book of authority
but that it becomes authorita
tive when read and pondered un
der the power of the Holy Spirit.
The feast of Pentecost (also
called the Feast of Weeks) was
celebrated on the fiftieth day
(seven weeks) after the Pass
over. At this time the first
fruits of the harvest were dis
played. A sheaf of wheat was
waved before the altar. This
celebrated the close of the grain
harvest and was in certain re
spects the' Thanksgiving of the
people for God’s provision for
their daily needs.
On the first Pentecost fol
lowing the crucifixion and re
surrection, the disciples were
gathered together In one place.
Jesus had assured them that he
would send upon them a Spirit
which would lift them up and
send them forth into the world
equipped with spiritual power.
“Suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing
mighty wind, and it filled all the
house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as of fire,
and it sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak
with other tongues, as the Spirit
gave them utterance.”
We know, first, that the dis
ciples were lingering in expec
tation, as Christ had instructed
them so to do. “With one ac
cord in one place.” Things hav
ing to do with the Spirit were
associated in the Hebrew mind
with wind. The miraculous ac
companiments of the outpouring
of the Spirit on this day of Pen
tecost were undoubtedly given
to strengthen the faith of the
apostles and to arrest the at
tention of those who saw the
astounding phenomenon occur.
It is significant that the out
pouring of the Spirit occurred on
the day of Pentecost, for this
feast represented the end of the
harvest. God’s promise to take
care of his people had been ful
filled. They now had full gran
aries and they waved the sheaf
before the altar in exultation and
thankfulness.
By Phil DeMore, Pastor
Salem United Methodist Church
A teacher was telling of the
hardships of the Pilgrims dur
ing their first winter. In the midst
of her description concerning the
starving conditions, one of the
first-graders raised her hand
and said: “I wish my mommy
had been there. She always
knows just what do do.”
This Sunday (May 11) we will
observe Mother’s Day. Mother’s
Day is a time in which we try to
show some extra appreciation
for someone we dearly love. John
Quincy Adams said: “All that I
am my mother made me.” Many
more of us would honestly have
to say the same thing.
Albert E. Bailey tells the story
about two bills, Harry’s bill to
his mother and Mother’s bill to
Harry. Tire first bill itemized
the various jobs Harry had done
about the house, and ended: “To
tal that Mother owes Harry, SI.OO.
The bill was promptly paid. The
other bill, which Harry found
under his pillow the next morn
ing, read something like this:
For food for Harry, 10
years... SO.OO
For clothing and home, 10
years. .. SO.OO
For toys and skates and a bic
ycle. . .SO.OO
For taking care of Harry dur
ing pneumonia. .. SO.OO
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just a few, come by once. . .and
then they go to the funeral. They
have their own little group, own
circle of friends and who cares
about that poor old man living
alone, no food, nobody to feed
him even if he were able to get
out of his bed of illness. Never
a knock at some doors.. .for they
are "so trifling they don’t work,
they could get a job if they
would” some say. . .but do we
know the circumstances, really
in that home? Do you and I ven
ture out and call to see if we can
help?
Ruth Kersey gave 35 years of
her young womanhood, caring,
sharing, leaving her home and lo
ved ones, she gave her all, as
many do. Why can we not look
around us and see that there are
no absent ones from the lunch
tables at school, because they do
not have the money to eat. Little
gnawing stomachs, hiding to keep
others from missing them at the
table.. .but they try to study just
the same. Each of us are guilty
of not "Sharing and Caring” as
the Father in Heaven would have
us. These programs make each of
us feel and know that we too,
should "Be About Our Father’s
Business.” The time is late. . .
lets light a candle of "Hope”
in some home, and a candle of
"Real Service in our own” to
draw us to that candle of hope
and prayer; to be able to eat
each day, and clothe little bo
dies like others do.
When we can give up some of
the luxuries we spend monies for,
on our selfish selves, and our
children, and loved ones, and
teach them also, to "Care and
Share”.. .then is the day God will
say: "Well done thy good and
faithful Servant.”
If our young people can give
their lives in Foreign Fields to
care for those who are ill from
hunger, leprosy, and what have
you. . .mostly malnutrition. . .
why can we not deny ourselves,
here at home to give, serve, go,
render services and love, medi
cal care and every need to those
in our midst? Let us pray that we
can see further than "Me ’n
My Son John.”
Wow. . .it’s time to do my job
of "SWEEPIN’ UP.”
SCIENCE
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A UNIQUE ATTACK on schiz
ophrenia may give form to a
“barometer” able to forecast
“emotional stormy weather.” A
University of Michigan profes
sor, leader of a 15-to-20-year
study being conducted in Den
mark, reports that certain mea
surable responses to special
tests “may be precursors of a
variety of psychiatric break
downs.” His goals are the ident
ification of likely schizophrenics
and the prevention of the disease
in those persons. Perhaps some
day, he hopes, every schoolchild
will be given a mental test with
each routine physical examina
tion.
THE CARDINAL, a favorite
subject of bird'painters, is one
of the most popular birds in the
United States. Proof of its pop
ularity is its selection as the
state bird of Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, North Carolina and
Ohio.
IF THE SALT in the oceans
and seas could be removed and
spread evenly over the earth’s
land surface, report scientists of
the U.S. Geological Survey, it
would form a layer more than
500 feet thick -
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Total that Harry owes
Mother.. .SO.OO.
Susanna Wesley was a very re
markable woman and mother.
Listen to what she did. It is hard
to believe. She was a woman of
the house. As a woman of the
house she was a mother, an ex
ceptional mother both in
quantity and quality. In 21 years
Suzanne had 19 children. That
amounts to about one new baby
per year. Only a mother knows
what that means: months of ill
ness during the early pregnancy
and months of discomfort during
the last months plus the peril of
childbirth. One mother with her
first child complained recently
how busy she was from morning
until night and said, “What in
the world would I do if I had
two?” What would she do if
she had 19? We need to remem
ber, too, that Suzanna did not have
a maid because they could not
afford one. Also, this was in the
18th century before all the labor
saving devices which we have to
day!
Susanna taught her children be
cause there were no public
schools. She taught them not
only secularly but religiously,
as well. She was a church
woman. She knew what it was
to suffer; nine of her children
before reaching maturity. Today
we think it is a tragedy to lose
one child, but think of Susanna
who lost not one. not two, not
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The Newton County Board of
Commissioners recently recei
ved "A Summary of the Compre
hensive Plan” for Newton County
in the future from Adley As
sociates. The plan reveals some
very interesting information
about our county and her growth
and development in the future.
"Population growth in Newton
County was quite moderate prior
to and immediately after World
War n. During the period 1950-
1960, the County recorded 5,070
births and 1,841 deaths.
While the natural increase of
that decade was 3,229 persons, the
actual recorded gain was only
814 —meaning that 2,415 people
had left the County. Population
growth has been accelerating
since 1960.
The current rate of population
increase is estimated at 1.7 per
cent per year—a sharp contrast
to the .4 percent per year in
crease in the fifties. This rate
is expected to last for the next
several decades.
Os the current population of
23,250 persons, 13,950— or 60
percent—live in the County’s five
cities, and 10,550—0 r 75
percent—of the cities’ total live
in Covington. The population of
this city had traditionally in
creased about three times that of
the remainder of the County.
While Covington will continue
to account for over fifty percent
of the County’s total population
for the next two decades, the rate
WE HAVE IN THIS country today a radical and revolutionary
movement which everyday increases in numbers, violence, prop
erty damage, and in insults to law-abiding citizens and young
people who are conscientiously trying to get an education.
Riots and disorder on our college campuses have taken the
nation by storm. Such is their intensity and widespread frequency
that they pose a serious threat, not only to education but also to
the general security and well-being of our people.
We have people running amuck who think they are do-gooders
and social reformers. They like to think they are the elite corps
of intellectualism. Actually, most of them act like fascists. They
disagree with something, then they bring in the wrecking crew.
* * *
JUST ABOUT EVERYDAY we read about another college
campus that has been overrun by rebellious and lawless students.
This movement has prospered so because of the unwillingness
of some public officials to stand up and enforce the law, because
many university administrators have shown an astonishing dis
regard for law and order, and no doubt because some parents
evidently think their youngsters are involved in some kind of
college frivolity.
Some of these students are troublemakers. They ought to be
expelled. Some of them are lawbreakers, and they ought to be
dealt with as such. What we need are more strong voices for law
and order on the campus, and positive action to back them up.
* * *
THERE IS GROWING pressure from the public and in the
Congress for more federal action to curb campus rioting and for
more laws against such unlawful demonstrations.
It may come to that, but I am not one who thinks the federal
government ought to step into every state and local situation,
particularly local law enforcement.
Before we start thinking about additional federal legislation,
I would like to know what is wrong with the laws and university
regulations we already have, and why they are not being enforced.
'Report
BY MRS. ROBERT I. BURALL
TENTH DISTRICT DIR.
GEORGIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS
AND TEACHERS
The Georgia Congress of Pa
rents and Teachers has a very
important Committee on Audio-
Visual Services. These services
provide the greatest impact on
learning and living today. Their
influence upon children, youth
and adults is of the greatest con
cern to all parent - teacher
three, but 9! Yet, by faith she
carried on her work and lived for
the children spared her. She
knew what it was to live in pov
erty. However, they were rich
in one way and that was in love.
In Lincoln County it was well
known that the Wesley home was
the lovingest. The children were
taught to care for each other.
They shared with each other.
When one was in need, the oth
ers came with help. When the
older ones grew up and got a job,
they sent money home to help
younger members of the family
to get what they needed. Here
is the real proof of love - shar
ing and giving without any hope of
return or reward.
Susanna was exceptional but so
is every true mother. We say
in mass: “Thank you Mother for
what you have meant to me.”
NEWTON COUNTY’S
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
By
Leo S. Mallard
of population increase has already
begun to drop, relative to that of
the County as a whole.
These rates are expected to be
equal by 1987, when the County’s
population will be approximately
31,000 people.”
This projection might be con
sidered to be conservative in the
light of present growth trends in
this area. Personally, an esti
mate of 50,000 people in 1990
would seem more realistic, but
I’m no expert—l’m not 35 miles
away from home!
The implications of these .
trends to the County’s develop
ment patterns are many. A pri
mary implication is, even though
only thirty-five percent of the
nearly nine thousand acres of
incorporated land is presently
developed, a population shift to
unincorporated areas will pro
bably take place before prime
city lands become built up.
A relatively low density of
development, is characteristic of
both land within the County’s
five cities as well as that of the
unincorporated areas. Os the
County’s total 174,720 acres,
8,852 acres are occupied by these
cities and of that area only 3,061
acres or thirty-five percent has
undergone development to date.
Covington, at 49 percent has
the highest density of develop
ment; Porterdale and Oxford are
next at 41 percent each; Mans
field and Newborn are each less
than 25 percent developed—more
next week.”
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS PROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
groups.
I would like to suggest some
helpful ideas that might increase
the attendance of your PTA. Per
haps the Local Committee could
help all chairmen and members
to understand the value of audio
visual materials and techniques
in all learning situations. You
might try varying the types of
presentation so that something
new is used — monotony kills
interest. Keep an element of
surprise in the way informa
tion is presented.
I’m sure your principal of
the school would help to secure
materials needed. The PTA
State Office is always ready to
assist you in any way. Keep
informed on what’s happening to
children and youth, so that you
can encourage and promote good
programs among teachers,
chaimen or other leaders.
Why not learn the audio-vis
ual resource centers in colleges,
State Departments of Education,
County or State Board of Health
or other sources. Your PTA
programs will be very informa
tive and interesting to everyone
concerned, with the help of Au
dio-Visual Services.
Thursday, May 8, 1969