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CHARGES OF BISHOP WILLIAMS DISPROVED —..... . Mrs. W. C. Clark, State Editor D. A. R’s., Introduces Some Interesting Facts. The Right Rev. Charles I). Wil¬ liams, D.D., bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan, is widely quoted in a late sermon, in which he states that “the Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames, Sons of the American Revolution and Society of the Cincinnatti are no good.” He states further “that these organiza tions are for mutual admiration and . indulge in harmless patriotic bun¬ combe, such as teaching kindergarten of foreign children to go through flag drills and sing the ‘Star Spangled Banner.’ We affect a democratic simplicity and appear to despise pride in aristocratic descent, but on the other hand organize societies for just the opposite purpose. While making a great show of patriotism, the peo¬ ple of the United States refuse to take up the simplest obligations of their citizenship. They would notsoil their dainty fingers with dirty politics, ev¬ en in an effort to make them clean.” This false patriotism of idle pride in our past, and blind confidence in our future has so possessed the pop¬ ular mind that he who ventures to criticise our national character makes himself a prey of popular fury and scorn. We know of a prominent divine, who was once very severely con¬ demned for utterances from his pul¬ pit, and when he was arraigned, he quietly produced his manuscript of the salty discourse, and ’twas discov¬ ered that the divine made no such ut¬ terances as he was charged with. We hope that the Willi$f’," same may be the case with Bishop H ;. v There is one oi two th fries which in¬ evitably must be true, either Bishop Williams is misquoted, or else he is not acquainted with the splendid work, both patriotic and educational, done by the daughters of the Ameri¬ can Revolution. We mention only the Daughters. The Colonial Dames, Sons of the Rev¬ olution and Society of Cincinnati can best tell of their own work through their own columns. Georgia Daughters know nothing of teaching kindergartens of foreign children to go through flag drills; their educational work is our greatest achievment and consists in providing practical education for our own chil¬ dren of Georgia. At a late convention of Daughters, held in Georgia, the following report was made from a chapter of Daugh¬ ters: “We offer annually a prize of $5 in gold to the senior class of the high school for the best essay on Colonial history. “We sent $5 for the McKinley schol¬ arship to Miss Berry’s Industrial school. But, our greatest effort has been to establish a scholarship at our own State Normal school. We have raised $50 this year, and the scholar¬ ship has been given to a young lady of our county. Recently we conduct¬ ed an entertainment which netted us $25 for our scholarship.” In the report of Mrs. R. E. Park, chairman of patriotic education in D. A. R. work of Georgia, is the follow¬ ing: “In addition to the university prize given by Georgia Daughters to a uni¬ versity student for best essay on Rev¬ olutionary topics, many local prizes and medals are offered by the differ¬ ent chapters, and many scholarships are now given by the Daughters of Georgia. “Four scholarships were given at once when we saw the work done at the Berry Industrial school, at Rome, The Fielding Lewis Chapter raised money for an entire scholarship upon returing home and Elijah Clarke Hot and Cold Drinks At SMITHS DRUG STORE Also a nice Line of Stationery, Cigars and Tobacco. DP “ ' " % Nunnally’s Fine Candies Always Fresh. Geo. T. Smith, COVINGTON, GEORGIA. f SENATE PAVES WAY TO PAY TEACHERS, Bill Empowering Counties to Bor¬ row Money to Pay Teachers is Passed. Atlanta, Ga.—A way was paved by the Georgia senate Friday to pay pub¬ lic school teachers promptly, and bring payments up to date. The bill by Senator McWilliams to allow county boards of education to borrow money to pay teachers was passed by substitute. The substitute was offered by Senator Griffith to ob¬ viate legal objections to the McWil¬ liams bill. It passed by a unanimous vote. If it finally gets past the house and becomes a law, teachers will be paid promptly, and will not be forced to borrow money or sell their warrants at exorbitant interest. The senate worked very nearly an hour Friday. Besides the introduc¬ tion of several new measures, it pass¬ ed three and read several house and senate bills a second time. Senator Johnson thinks the lawma¬ kers are working too cheap. He has introduced a bill for a constitutional amendment to give these hard work¬ ing people $500 per annum and ten cents mileage, instead of the meas ley little old $4 per day they now re¬ ceive. It gives the president of the senate and the speaker of the house $700 each. A motion to adjourn until Monday met with some objection, but not enough to prevent that action.—At¬ lanta Georgia. Church at Oxford Progressing. The church now in process of con¬ struction at Oxford is progressing rapidly and the contractor, Mr. C. A. Clark, of this city, is doing his usual excellent work on it. When completed it will be possibly the handsomest and most expensive structure of any church building in the county. The people of that hustling little city are to be con¬ gratulated on having decided to build a good one while they were at it. Chapter, Athens, maintains a schol¬ arship at the State Normal. The At¬ lanta chapter has a scholarship in the Washington seminary, and individual members of different chapters are con¬ tributing to the Model school, at Tal¬ lulah Falls.” From Mrs. J. Ellen Foster’s (chair¬ man of committee on child labor, N. S. D. R.) report, we extract the fol¬ lowing: “In nearly all the states the nation¬ al child labor committee, the Nation¬ al Consumers’ League and the Gen¬ eral Federation of Women’s Clubs, are engaged in the work to which the Daughters of the American Revolu¬ tion have been called.....As in all work for human betterment, so in this crusade for the children, the work must be thoughtfully and cour¬ ageously done.” Let the bishop read the following bills, which the Daughters are to present to the Georgia assembly, and form a better opinion of the societies of which he speaks: 1. A bill for compulsory education. 2. A bill to compel the systematic equalizing of local taxation. 3. A bill providing appropriations for copying records of all the old counties. Now, we are sure that the above facts disprove any flimsiness in our educational and patriotic work, and prove conclusively that the “mutual admiration” of our National Society of Daughters of the American Revo lction is of such a broad basis, that ’twill live on and on— “Till the sun in our heavens shall go out in darkness, And all the stars, their night watches cease to keep.” MRS. WM. CONYERS CLARK. THE COVINGTON NEWS Evans Lunsford W. T. Milner. LUNSFORD & MILNER Wholesale and Retail BUILDERS SUPPLIES Lumber, Laths, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds - - - Paints, Lead, Oil, Lime, Brick, Cement, Mill work a Specialty A Complete Stock of High Grade Roofings and Wall Plasters We carry the largest and best assorted stock of Building Material in this section of the state, and as we buy only from the best mills in the south, our gradings are considerably ABOVE THE AVERAGE. Estimates and prices cheerfully given. Contract work at closest prices consistent with honest work and material BE SURE TO SEE US BEFORE YOU BUILD WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, TIME AND WORRY MB. ELLINGTON ON THE GOOD ROADS. Favors Good and Permanent Public Roads, but Not the Convenience of Automobiles. Editors Covington News: Ac¬ cording to your request, will give my views on the good roads question. Excuse me for tardiness, as I have been wrestling with General Green, and again you may think I am a little odd on the subject. In the first place, will give you my ideas how to work the roads with the means we have at this time, and that is to keep the middle of the roads the highest, and to do that we are obliged to keep the ditches open on both sidgs of the road. In my settlement I know several places almost impassable on account of the ditches being filled up. Do away with all bridges we possibly can, and build culverts instead. If culverts are built high they are per¬ manent. By using stone and cement it would be much cheaper and safer in the long run. Since threshing time began I know of several bridges giving way cn account of heavy machinery passing over them. Raise all low places in the roads, and macademize as much as possible, and pull hills down as fast as possible. Now, Mr. Editor, to do that we don’t need a civil engineer, according to the topography of our county with the railroad facilities we have don’t need one particular road much better than others, except around our market places, and as it is they get the bulk of attention, and think it nothing but right, as they are like a large stream swallowing a great many small ones. I honestly believe to a greatextent, that this good road queston was gotten up by the automobile crowd, and for the farmers to go to the expense to build them a road is sheer nonsense. Our taxes are already high enough, besides there is no humanity about it, taxing the poor to build roads for the automobile crowd. We can’t plow with them. I will draw two pictures—one for the automobile crowd and one for the tillers of the soil: The automobiles, we can dispense with entirely. Horses and mules are a public necessity. I know some who are deprived of trav¬ eling the public highways on account of endangering their lives meeting automobiles, their stock running away. The automobile crowd, generally are consumers and non producers. The horse and mule crowd are generally producers. Now, Mr. Editors, which can we dispense with best. Automo¬ biles ought to be taxed extra, they should be on the luxury list. Pur¬ chasing them takes a great deal of money out of the country, and goes north, up in Yankedom. I noticed Mrs. Felton’s article some time ago, that in Massachusetts they were talk¬ ing of putting automobiles on the free list, without tax. That may work up there, but won’t in Georgia. Now, Mr. Editor, I have given you my views on the good roads subject, and how all the hurrah was manufac¬ tured, and have expressed myself what will be best for the masses of people. Thanking you for the oppor¬ tunity I remain Yours truly, S. R. Ellington, Sr. —We make a specialty of ice cream milk shakes and lemonade. Parker’s place.—tf. (T MR. INSURED! What Are You Paying For Protection? Lot’ 8 figure a little and see if you are getting it as cheap and at the same time as safe as you should, and for an example we will figure on a $5000.00 policy for a man 30 years old. In the best of the old line companies the rate for a non-participating 20 year pay policy is $27.80 a year per thousand, so a policy for $5,000.00 will cost $139.30 a year for 20 years, and these premiums at 5 per cent, compound interest will amount to $4836.47. Not a bad investment at all considering the protection you have had. But, let’s see if we can’t beat that. The I. 0. F., financially the strongest Fraternal Insurance Co. in the world will give you the best policy on the market, provid¬ ing total disability benefit of one Half the face policy, old age benefit etc. Will you give this protection including Court dues and everything for $70.32. These premiums at same rate of interest for 20 years amounts to $2650.00. So the insured if he dies at any time during 20 years only leaves $5,000.00 and at the end of 20 years only has the $5,000.00 insurance. The old line policy has cost $4,836.- 49 and the Fraternal $2,650.23, a saving of $2,186.26. If y°u live to be 70 years old, at the time of the maturity of the Fraternity PoHcy at which time the I. O. F., begins paying back ONE-TENTH of IN¬ SURANCE EVERY YEAR until all is paid back TO INSURED. Counting same rate of interest on amount invested in premiums there will be a big saving. So hadn t you better investigate this matter of protection for the loved ones at once. Be a Forrester with us in the Independent Order of For¬ resters, Safe Sound and Conservative. 35 years old. SURPLUS JULY 1st, 1909, $13,280,594.37. Ernest E. Parker, D. S. C. R. Organizing Department of Georgia. To Provide a Road Commissioner. Representative Hardeman, of Jef¬ county, introduced a bill in the last Friday providing appointment of a state road com¬ to serve four years at a sal¬ of $3,000.00 per year, and he is the appointment of one assis¬ The duties of the be to assist the county any section of the state in laying roadways, drawing plans and in other matters having to with building good roads. Up to the time we go to press action has been taken on but it is highly probable that pass both houses. For Sale Cheap. My store house at Mansfield. time. tf. L. D. ADAMS. LET ME DO YOUR WASH I have secured the agency of the TRIO STEAM LAUNDRY - Atlanta, for this section and am ready to do your washing. ^ ur ' garment entrusted to my care will receive the best of attention. Satisfaction guaranteed. My prices are: 2c fo* Collars and 4c for cuffs. Other articles laundred as cheap proportion. Leave orders or laundry at D. A. Thompsons wan hoii David Butler