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Tekphotiis 159 — :— CoViflgtOn, Ga.
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~JACK L. PATTERSON, I
Editor and Proprietor
Official Organ of Newton County and the 1
City of Covington
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Entered as second class mail matter December 2
1908, at the Post Office at Covington, Ga., under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
COVINGT ON, GA., MAY 1, 1919,
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Victory is cheap at any cost.
“The sweet girl graduates” is on the
way.
Covington need more homes and a board
of trade.
BURLESON SHOULD RESIGN.
Naturally The Covington News, whose
editor was the first Georgia newspaper
man to condemn Burlesonism, is gratified
over the unanimous vindication of judg
ment. Soon after the inauguration of
President Wilson, Postmaster General Al¬
bert Sidney Burleson began to demon¬
strate his inefficiency and he should have
been ousted before the expiration of his
first term rather than re-appointed, but
the appointive power appeared to be blind
to everything except Burlesonism.
The News, while admiring its friends,
does not fear to expose existing condi¬
tions, local, state or national. It believes
that it is right “and then goes ahead.’
President Wilson exercised splendid judg
ment in time of war, but he made several
weak selections in time of peace, one of
whom is now engaged in destroying the
Democratic party with the knowledge and
consent of the President.
Mr. Burleson, in attempting to justify
some of his foolish orders, charges that
the press is waging an organized campaign
against him because he was instruments
in securing the enaction of the zone postal
rate, but the fact remains that many of
the Georgia newspapers that have been
lambasting him are not opposed to the
zone rate.
It was not the zone law that made Bur¬
leson unpopular—Burleson had made the
mail service unpopular and had reduced
the efficiency of the telephone and tele¬
graph service and that of that of every
other department which has been placed
under his control.
Besides being autocratic and evasive,
Burleson is incompetent. If he had any
respect for the Democratic party he would
resign at once. Should he. fail in the per¬
formance of this patriotic duty, President thereby
Wood cow Wilson should fire him,
serving the bureaucrat with a dose of his
own prescription.
If r.t first you don't succeed, perhaps you
didn't do your best.
Don’t forget the Salvation Army drive
for one thousand dollars.
RUNNING FOR COMMISSIONER.
Lost 1,349 hours sleep thinking about
the election. Lost two front teeth and
a whole lot of hair in a personal encoun¬
ter with an opponent. Donated one beef,
four shoats and five sheep to a county
barbecue. Gave away two pairs of sus¬
penders, four calico dresses, $5 cash and
thirteen baby rattlers, kissed 126 babies,
kindled fourteen kitchen fires, put up four
stoves, walked 4,076 miles, shook hands
with 9,608 persons, told 10,111 lies and
talked enough to make in print 1,000 vol¬
umes. Attended sixteen revival meetings
and was baptized four different times by
immersion, and twice some other way.
Contributed $50 to foreign missions and
made love to nine grass widows. Hugged
49 old maids. Got dog-bit thirty-nine
times, and was defeated. Thusly a candi¬
date for commissioner in a Georgia coun¬
ty recently sums up his campaign ex
penses.—Wilkes County News.
The late Sam P. Jones was the genuine
article. All others are imitations.
Funny how a wife can see that her chil¬
dren are perfect and yet see room for
about a million improvements in their fa¬
ther.—Luke McLuke. Perhaps the kids
“take after” their mammy.
DON’T KISS.
An expert writing for the Dawson
News says you must not kiss blondes. Bru¬
nettes, he says, are safer. We have no¬
ticed that blondes are pretty gabby.—Sa¬
vannah Press. Brunettes are delicious,
but we are acquainted with a few blondes
that are worth taking chances with.—
Covington News.
We don’t see any reason for being
cheicy Advance. if both are good looking—Chero¬
kee
THU COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GA* «VW»OAf» MAY l, 1019.
YOUR MONEY, BUT WHOSE ROADS?
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Do you know that you are helping to
build roads—good permanent roads—in
the state of Georgia, that you never saw,
and may never see—roads that are two
hundred miles from your home?
Well, that is just exactly what you peo¬
ple of Cobb county are doing, and we will
show you just how you are doing it.
The government is paying a dollar for
each two dollars spent on certain roads in
various counties in the state. Cobb coun¬
ty helps to supply that money. Don’t you
need any of it on your own roads in Cobb,
or are you content to help build the other
fellow’s roads? This is a question that is
put up to the people of Cobb county to an¬
swer.
If you want roads, you must speak up
and act. If you don’t want them, just keep
still, for then you will never get them.
No matter what you do, Uncle Sam is
going to work somebody’s road in Geor¬
gia with your money. Whose roads shall
they be?—Marietta Journal.
Jerger says whatever Burleson does
next he knows it wil lbe wrong. As usual,
Jerger is about right.-—Griffin News and
Sun.
Another good bet is that no man’s mail
ever comes up to his expectations.—Luke concerning
McLuke. The same is true
every woman’s male.
“Big Mary,” Editor Jim Williams’ prin¬
cipal source of supply, has been captured
by the revenue men and shipped to Wash¬
ington City, but the operator of the old
girl is still at large.
WHAT THEY LOST.
A South Georgia paper in printing the
obituary of a deceased farmer said: “B.
L. U. F. lodge lost an exemplary member,
the wife a loving husband, the children
an indulgent father, the editor two years
subscription and Sears-Roebuck a -
good customer.”
The item would be humorous if it were
not susceptible of serious analysis, be¬
sides it points a moral as well as adorns
a tale. If the merchants of the town had
advertised more the catalog house would
not have “lost a-good cus¬
tomer.”
If the country had had good roads the
deceased would have saved money enough
to have kept the editor paid.—Georgia
Good Roads Bulletin.
Support the Victory Liberty Loan.
Some people are too mortal stingy
smile.
If you haven’t anything to sell that
can stand the light of publicity, don’t ad¬
vertise.
Sometimes a woman is just as much
disappointed after capturing a husbanc
as she would have been had he escaped.
WANT BURLESON REMOVED.
According to the New York World fol
lowing the telephone strike in New Eng
land the president of the democratic club
of Massachusetts and eleven members of
the state legislature sent this cablegram
to President Wilson in Paris:
“Burleson wrecking the party. Remove
him and settle this strike.”
The World’s opinion of this cablegram
is that “the language of this petition may
be a bit abrupt and the tone peremptory
but, in spite of any defect in style, the
advice itself is eminently sound and sensi¬
ble.”
And that is the view of most of the peo¬
ple of the country will take of it. There is
no man connected with the present ad¬
ministration who is a heavier burden to it
than the postmaster general and he should
be removed, if not for party reasons,
certainly for the good of the public utili¬
ties service of which he now has con¬
trol, and which appears to be getting
worse every dav.—Columbus Enquirer
Sun.
That distinguished patriot, Albert Sid¬
ney Burleson, who is now master of the
wires by land and sea, has increased the
telegraph tolls by 20 per cent as a busi¬ step
towards helping in the revival of
ness. The telephone tolls had already
been boosted until it was cheaper to stick
your head out of the window' and shout,
And all this at a time when the govern
ment itself, through a very different de¬
partment, is holding conferences with
building material men in order to reduce
prices. Great is Burleson.—Macon Tele¬
graph. Everything Burleson touches he
ruins. The mail service is a fair exam¬
ple. The thing he does is to raise rates
and give inefficient service. Why he is
not removed from office is a proposition
we cannot understand.—Dalton Citizen.
Old historic Emory, the cradle of learn¬
ing, located at Oxford, will be discarded
by Emory University. Many of Emory’s
illustrious sons have carved the name
in the halls of fame, and it is with deep
regret that we see those historic struc¬
tures at Oxford discarded for modern ones
in Atlanta. In a few years Emory Col¬
lege will be regarded similar to old Mer¬
cer at Penfield in this county.—Greens¬
boro Herald-Journal.
An exchange rises to remark that all
women are not as innocent as they look.
Neither are some of the sisters as pret¬
ty as they appear to be to the naked eye.
NO COLOR LINE ON TRAINS.
That government ownership of the rail¬
or government control for any
of time of these public carriers, will
to equality—whites and blacks occu¬
the same coaches—on passenger
there is not the least doubt. In
a movement to that end has already
launched, as will be seen by the fol¬
from the Covington News:
“The News acknowledges receipt of a
of a bill recently introduced in the
of representatives by Congressman
B. Madden of the First Illinois
the object of which is the repeal
the ‘jim-crow’ law, or the regulation re¬
white and colored passengers to
separate coaches on railway
Our contemporary then speaks its mind
plain, good old-fashioned English of the
congressman and of the northern
society which solicited his support
endorsement for the measure.
In a recent conversation with the editor
of the Dawson News a government offi¬
cial in Georgia stated that while return¬
ing from Washington a short while ago
he was forced to leave the Pullman, in
which he had paid for a berth, on account
of the presence of a dozen negro soldiers
who were returning South, one of whom
had a berth directly over his and the oth¬
ers occupying adjoining compartments.
This gentleman went into the day coach
and sat up all night.
Greatly increased passenger fares and
freight rates will not by any means be the
greatest evil of government operation of
the railroads if it continues much longer.
—Dawson News.
Some of the papers are noisy in their
appeals for more government bonuses to
keep returned soldiers from “drifting into
vagrancy,” while said bonuses are more
likely to become the cause of vagrancy
than otherwise. All the fellows who are
looking for work in this part of the coun¬
try have got jobs.—Marietta Journal. And
those who have no jobs are needed on the
farms. As a general rule selective ser¬
vice men return to their homes and loved
ones where jobs await them. We are
inclined to the opinion that the greater
part of this proaganda is being distributed
for the purpose of retaining useless jobs
at government expense.—Winder News.
We infer from the above that the Winder
paper does not endorse the multitudinous
“after the war” activities in behalf of
the returned soldiers. Everybody should
quit discussing the war and go to work.
That's the way the Confederate veterans
did on their return to Georgia in 1865.
And thanks to Burleson, the telephone
operators in New England are on a strike.
What we want to know is, why is Burle¬
son?—Dalton Citizen. The Waco (Tex.)
Times-Herald seems to intimate that it is
because there is Wilson and concludes,
“We are not remarking on the autocratic
manner of the Postmaster General; that
may or may not be as alleged. We mere¬
ly afffirm that Mr. Burleson, in all that
he has done, in the very nature of things,
ha shad the approval of President Wilson.”
If that be the case, it is high time we
called upon Double U. J. Harris to get his
Washington influence in action.—Winder
News. Perhaps that’s the object of his
visit to Europe. Give Double U J. a
chance.
If John Holder gets into the race for
Governor he will put some pep in it that
few of the boys realize that he can. John
would make a good governor, too, if any¬
body should ask you.—Bainbridge Post
Searchlight. John Holder is by far the
ablest man who has been mentioned in
connection with the gubernatorial cam¬
paign. It is considered probable that he
will make the race, in event of which it
will be Holder versus Walker.
Scribe Holloman of The Constitution
has recently devoted most of his talents
to a neffort to establish some sort of a
case against Senator Hoke Smith, which
the people will recognize, but so far he
seems to have failed to raise any issue or
get any attention from the people.— Mari¬
etta Journal. It sems that Holloman is
experiencing the some difficulty in delivering
goods for which he -is being paid.
The News acknowledges arrival of the
the Carroll Free Presse to its exchange
desk. The Free Press is an interesting pa¬
per edited by C. H. and Ralph Meeks, fa¬
ther and son. Ralph Meeks, recently re¬
turned from overseas, is one of the most
popular members of the Georgia Press As¬
sociation and the Free Press is alreadv
showing evidence of his good work.
The man who doubts the wisdom of ad¬
vertising should learn a lesson from the
biggest people. Although they have had
free advertisement in the his¬
of the world during the war they
keeping up the game with redoubled
now at their own expense.—Mariet¬
Journal. The advertised articles is al¬
in demand.
Since Chicago women voted for intoxi¬
beverages the equal suffrage ad¬
have run out of something to say.
s no such thing as perfect govern¬
through votes by women. ' Their
will never come true, any more
that of the Bolsheviki.—Commerce
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Have Your Eyes Tested
By An Expert.
Mr. Chas. A. Green, who is so well and favorably known
to the people of Newton and adjoining counties, as an ex¬
pert optician and optometrist will be at our store one day
only—Monday, May 5th.
Call and let him test your eyes for the glasses that are
best suited for them. -
Smith’s Drug Store
P/io/ie 43 , Covington, Cm
J, I. GUINN’S CASH STORE
SPOT CASH! New goods of sea
ONE PRICE! son arriving etery
BIG VALUES! few days.
J. I. GUINN
Covington, Georgia
D.A. THOMPSON LUMBER COMPART
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cost
for use is about $1.00 per gallon less tha*
Th?y are gimply adding Linseed the price oi other high-grade paints
Oil to L & Mi Somi.Paste Paint art sold all ready for use.
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