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Published Every Thursday
Jilieial Organ of Newton County and
City of Covington Georgia.
I RANK REAGAN, Editor and Publish*
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ovington. Ga., under the Act of
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HU KSDAY, DECEMBER 20 , 1917
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“Painful but not Serious.”
Who wouldn't take sugar-coat
d pills now?
Have you done your Christmas
hopping early yet ?
Will you have a Red Cross ser¬
vice flag in your window ?
Covington did have a city elec
ion this week but not much ex
v itement.
Be pleased with your Christ
las purchases by making them
t The News’ advertisers.’
Coalless Covington is a fact
Everybody must enjoy his little
old corner and join the “shive?
ervice” to help win the war.
They have provided an ambu
mce in Italy for America!
lets. It seems to be as danger
us for poets there as in Ameri¬
ca.
Germany makes peace with
ussia we learn. We thinl
ermany will begin soon to be
earer many pieces than one
arless peace.
The local exemption board is
ow mailing out the new ques
onairres to the drafted men as
ipidly as they can be prepared.
Here they come! Just one
hristmas edition after another,
l one mail we received The
' lonitcello News, The Madison
Madisonian, and The Social Cir
e Press. Later came The
Washington Reporter. Every
ne is a most splendid and inter
* ffing Issue and the publishers
nd patrons alike are to be con
; ratulated.
NO PAPER NEXT WEEK.
It has for many years been
le custom with many newspa
ers not to issue a regular edi
on during the week of the
hristmas holidays. Such has
oen the custom of this paper
early every year.
In accordance with that cus
>m. we shal lissue no regular
news edition next week on the
'7th instant.
We shall issue a small sheet in
•der to carry the legal adver
sements.
But with the beginning of the
ew year, we shall be be bade
ith our regular edition weekly.
And now let us wish a merry
end happy Christmas to every
- ne of our readers and patrons.
( ur best wishes for each of you
at you may reap in your heart
;e full measure of the blessings
i ie birth of king brings to the
v orld.
HUMAN NATURE IN THE FROG.
i y Emory (’. Pharr, of the Emory Class
in Journalism.
It K^ms unreasonable to think of
! ding anything human in a frog. But.
? have observed such traits in several
i 'lances.
In one of O. Henry's stories there
v is a young Texas ranger who had n
11 1 frog. He kept a red rlhhon tied
■ >und it* neck. The young ranger
’ s missed one day. affvr a raid on
v ne bandits. Several months later, in
s mring the woods, one of the ranger-
• ne across the hones of a man to
her with his rotting clothes. Out of
• e of the rotting pockets hopped a frog
v th a faded red rihhon about its neck.
e frog had never deserted its master.
I once knew a druggist who kept a
t >g ill his window. When he turned
♦ o frog a loose it liopjied around on the
f -or and soon hopped back towards
t e window.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA THURSDAY DECEMBER 20. 1917
CHRISTMAS CROSSES
The above may seem to be an inappropriate combination
of words for the season. But, if we remember the origin of
Christmas and the Personality of the season, wej?annot think
it otherwise but most appropriate.
Many seem to think that they have taken the Christ out
of Christmas when they have made a new word of it and mis¬
called it Xmas.
While the letter substituted in the word for Christ resem¬
bles a cross, it is yet true that, when you take Christ out of our
Christmas, you also take the cross out of it. Without Him
the cross loses its significance and its value.
We realize, of course, that a Christmas cross sounds
strange to our ears in the midst of thoughts of Christmas
cheer which have heretofore possessed our hearts and minds
at the coming of this season.
And it is a glad and joyous season, a season of cheer.
But let us ask, why is it so?. It is because of the Cross.
We cannot escape this truth, that a Savior’s suffering
makes us glad that he was born.
We celebrate the birthdays of other famous personages
and even of our loved ones without thought of their deaths.
For such a birthday party at which the thoughts of such per¬
son’s death were entertained would be incongruous indeed.
So the birthday of Christ is different from all other birth¬
days. We celebrate and rejoice in our friend’s birthday and
make it notable by what we do for him, to make him glad.
We celebrate the Savior’s birthday because of his death-day.
Without the latter, the former could not have any more value
to us than the birthday of any other noted man.
A further fact is necesary to our joy in Christ’s birth.
It is the kind of life he lived on earth and among men. Both
his blameless living and the agony and loneliness of his home¬
less body and weary and misunderstood soul were necessary to
complete the plan and bring the joy of salvation within our
reach.
So it is blasphemy and sacrilege for us to celebrate Christ
mas b y indulgence in sin of any kind and by any other than
the same blameless conduct.
But sometimes a man cares not so much for rejecting a
gift or even giving an affront to a friend as he does object to
being or seeming to be inconsistent.
But a sinful celebration of Christmas is the height of in¬
consistency in conduct. It is the same as for a man to say:
“Today I revel in sin and debauchery to celebrate my
emancipation from sin’s slavery secured by the Savior’s sin¬
less, suffering life and death. I show my gladness that such
emancipation has been secured for me by remaining a slave
and continuing to wear my shackles.”
God’s goodness to us has caused us to forget what it cost
him to make us such a Christmas Gift. So we have converted
Christmas into selfish giving to those who give to us and flesh¬
ly indulgence in feasting and amusement.
But a great catastrophe halts us now in our self-indul¬
gence. Many a parent now knows the cross. Many begin to
know something of what it cost God to give his son to the
Cross, for many now are offering sons for slaughter. In many
a mother’s life there looms a cross bearing a soldier son, a
_jsavior son, and the Marys must multiply at the foot of the
cross till their tears at the flood shall mingle with the blood
shed to save the world again.
And some sons will come back as if from death. But the
mothers will not find them to be the same sons who went away.
But many will rejoice to find in such returning one’s answers
to prayers of a life time that such sons might know the new
birth and be men after their mothers’ own ideal of real man
hood * ' - £ £
Thus it may be for us and will be for many that the cross¬
es we carry can come to crucify in the flesh the sins of the
sons which sorrowed the soul of the mothers, and so save such
sons both to this life and to the life to come.
And so now from the via dolorosa, we hear many a hero
son saying to his mother:
“Weep not, mother of mine, but rather rejoice in the
knowledge that you could give a son to demonstrate the truth
that life is more than money-grubbing, more than nleasure
hunting, more even than intellectual exercise, aye even more
than this existence in a house of flesh; and that your boy may
come back to you to live such demonstration in the world; or,
if need be, that he shall be transferred to the celestial section
of the Army of the Lord, whose aerial squadrons ride the air
of heaven and are protected by his ten thousand invisible
ang< is camped in clouds of glory or piloting every craft of the
skies. Then ‘Somewhere in Paradise’ will not be such an un¬
known address as ‘Somewhere in France.’ ”
And we have in concrete form a symbol of these crosses
__
we carry. It is the Red Cross.
Your becoming a member of the Red Cross shows that
_you do not seek to shun your own cross-bearing, that you
would aid every soldier also to bear his cross, that you would
touch his lips with water and not vinegar.
Every home can fly the Red Cross service cross or flag,
for such membership is not beyond the means of any. Truly
each flag ought to bear a cross for every member of the house¬
hold.
Will you help to save and succor the saviors of the world
in this war?
MBS. ELLEN PENDERGRASS
IS TAKEN BI DEATH
Excellent Covington Lady Died Here
Saturday in Her Seventy
Fifth Year.
Mrs. Ellen Pendergrass died at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Ed Loyd, in
Covington, Saturday afternoon at 5
o’clock.
She was seventy-five years of age
and was a splendid woman, possessing
the graces of a noble Christian woman¬
hood and having many friends, won
hy her kindly personality.
The funeral services were held at
the residence of Mrs. Ed Loyd Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. The interment
followed at Liberty church at 4 o’clock.
The Rev. M. S. Williams conducted
the services.
Mrs. Pendergrass leaves two sisters;
Mrs. Emma Marsh and Mi's. Ed Loyd:
and two brothers. Mr. C. J. Geiger and
Mr. Ben Geiger.
SARCASM.
By Marion Kendrick, of the Emory
Class in Journalism.
There is one evil in this world which
should be avoided by all of us and that
is the use of sarcasm.
Some may laugh and even sneer,
when we state that the use of sarcasm
will make a iierson more enemies than
almost anything else. You will find
the man who uses sarcasm only on rare
occasions, but even then it does harm.
While ulmost everyone will admit that
the fellow who uses it all the time Is
generally disliked.
Sarcasm has a peculiar sting, a dis¬
heartening and abusive element about
it that pricks that sensitiveness in all
of us, hurts, and arouses our anger.
It should be kept in mind that sar¬
casm is a dangerous weapon in any
nan's hands, whether he he a wise man
or a fool. It is a sign of conceitedness
in the person using it and you may
•lass that person as being pessimistic.
It is a weaisin that no human living can
master, and if a man is truly wise and
desires to possess all the friends possi¬
ble. then he will avoid the use of that
slime-covered evil known as sarcasm.
Muchly Imitated
ii&njn* 1
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