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Telephone 159 —:— Covington, Ga.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
JACK L. PATTERSON,
Editor and Proprietor
Official Organ of Newton County and the
City of Covington
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Entered as second class mall matter December 2.
1908, at the Post Office at Covington, Ga., under the
Mt of March 3, 1)876.
COVINGTON, GA. JUNE 26, 1919.
Lest we forget it: Covington needs a Board of
Trade and more homes.
The newspaper receive® the worst end of every
deal. The price of mailing letters is going down*
on July 1st and the price of mailing newspapers 1*
going up again. ^
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Query to The Athens Banner: Where did you
obtain the information upon which you made the
unqutlified assertion that Senator Hoke Smith was
“hiding out” to avoid voting against the Susan B.
Anthony Suffrage aigepdment?
REPEAL THE COUNT* UNIT LAW
No primary law would be better than the
make-shift and sham that is called a primary law
in Georgia. Any law that gives a small minority
of the people a chance to defeat the will of a large
majority of the [toople is an irijostiie and imposition
upon them that they should not permit to stand. Sep
to it, Georgians, that you vote for men to repre¬
sent you in the next legislature who will repeal or
amend the Georgia primary law so that it will
work with fairness and justice.—Columbus Enquirer
Sun-. It is everlastingly too late for a sinner
to flee after the devil casts him into the raging
flames. Only a few month*, ago the people of
Georgia were apprehensive that die Neil primary
law, of which a Columbus lightweight politician
was tne designer, would result la the re-election
of Senator Thomas W. Hardwick, whiato mad® It
the object of general condemnation, but now it is
considered the “Saviour” of the small Georgia
counties.
The editor of The News, with little encouragement
has been fighting the ihlquitloua county suit sys¬
tem for twelve veers find he was strenuously op¬
posed to the enaction of the Neill law, which waa
only a slight Improvemmt on the original asset of
Georgia’s unprincipled politicians.
The purpose of the county unit system is to per¬
petuate imeompetent and unpopular politicians in
office and there can he no doubt that it is obnox¬
ious to fully s^venty-flve per cent of the
intelligent voters of Georgia. Is accomplishes leas
claimed for it than any other law now operative in
Georgia and its repeal is more Important than any
other Ittgisktion that eould be considered by the
Georgia legislature.
The News hopes that the present session of the
Legislature will develop a Senator or Represents
five with sense and grit enough to introduce a law
providing for the election of every officer from
bailiff to Governor by the popular vote of the
ple. In the last prim#% every voter who did
vote for the successful candidate for the
Slate * Senate was aufomaticaliy disfranchised
the nomivee did not receive a ma'o .ty of
votes oast.
If John Doe, candidate for Governor, should
ceive only one vote ttt Union county for
that vote should in all fairness count ONE for
Doc. and any other system is unfair to the
of Georgia who pay the expenses of holding
primaries.
The voters have a light to say who shall
sent them a s Governor, in the United States Sen
ate and in the National House of Representatives
bat the county unit system denies them this con
- national rights. T.ve News hopes that some
resentative' who 1ms fcho interest of the people
heart will interest hijrelf in the enaction of
fair law.
Think it over, Mr. E. W. Adams, of the
of Newton.
Gossip is the devil’s bait.
If you are not capable of making a sensible
mark, keep your mouth shut.
'I ight skirts may cause comment, hut the
can’t kick.—Gainesville Herald. She’ll have to take
it out in hopping.
1 rade in Covington with merchants whose adver
tmoments appear in The News. They are not pen¬
ny splitters who attempt to divide a grain of sugar
into qu.'rters and the accomplishment of other
such stunts.
Luke McLuke says: “The girls are wearing
mighty few silhouette skirts this summer. But ati
long as they wear those tight sweaters and no cor¬
sets the men will he kept busy/’ There can be no
doubt that Luke knows what he is talking about.
Editor .T. S. Shannon, of the Commerce News,
seems to l>e under the Impression that Mr. Seeley
is still editor of the Atlanta Georgian. Mr. Seeley
sold The Georgian to William Randolph Heart*.
We suppose the Commerce editor bad Janies B.
Nevin in mind, but what he mid was t«ie.
ME COVMjfOfl NEWS, COVINGTON, GA„ THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1919
THE GOOD ROADS MEETING.
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The News urges every citizen of Ne'wt^a county
inerested in the penmmeut improvement of the
public highways to be present at the good roads
meeting to be held at the county court in Coving¬
ton at 10:00 on tbd morning of July 1st.
The purpose of the meeting is to register ex¬
pressions from the people involving the holding of
a bond election to provide funds for leaving the pub¬
lic roads of Newton county and to determine the
amount of the proposed issuance, In event of the
adoption of such action.
It is the obvious duty of every militia district
in the county to participate in this meeting, as
it contemplates action on an issue of vital impor¬
tance and one that demands the consideration of
a majority of the voters of the county.
It is e*rue*>tiyhoped that there will be a large
attendance ot representative coitizens at the
mass meeting—Come and declare either for or
against bonds or forever afterwards hold your
peace—The time is propitious for achieving mate¬
rial results and Tuesday, July 1st, is the appoined
day. It’s up to you, Mr. Citizen.
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Xpe; king of fools, brethren, a gentleman of this
city says that when he sees a gentleman coming in
an automobile (and he can always tell them afar
off i he gives him his half of the road; when he sees
a fool coining he gives him all of it, and when he
sees a d—n fool coming he take® to the woo «,—
Madison Madisonian. We Imagine that the gentle¬
man spen is most of his timfc in the woods.
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A mrnor often develops Into a He.
A real friend is a fellow who knows more about
you than he will tell.
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Tip* Bible says that it is impossible to serve God
and mtmrnon at the same time, hut some people
seem to have misunderstood the information.
Luke McLuke says; “Anyway, we had rather
have a girl who was as natural as her freckle* them
to have one who was a» artificial *,« her blush s.”
Any member of the Georgia Legislature who
votes for the ratification of the Susan B. nthonyA
Suffrage Amendment votes against State’s rights.
Johhny Spencer wa s glad to read in the paper
about a oAw selling for #25,000, but he says he
wishes his butcher would stop buying that kind.—
Walton Tribune. Must be that Johnny ha* ordered
a “small steak” and paid for the whole quarter.
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If the United States would spend as much money
on building public highways as it is losing in oper¬
ating railroads it would be a great blessing to the
country . We would be getting something for our
money in that case.—Moultrie Observer. Correct,
step up to the head ot the class.
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The Athens Banner has a jack-ass for an editor,
judging from the way he brays. He ctjnaot help It.
He is built that way. And when he brays he Im¬
agines he is singing.—Alpharetta Free Press. You
may be right about it, but It strikes us that you
are due the jack-ass an apology.
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AND YET.
There are better men in perdition than some of
the occupants of f.aucn department of modern
churches.—-Covington News.
And yet, when you strike the general average, you
would trust them more quickly than you would trust
the gang that's always criticising the church. There
waa a bad man in the twelve that Christ chose to
be His disciples. Perhaps there were six bad ones
out of every twelve among the number He did not
chooae. ;
So, in addition to calling attention to the hypo¬
crite in the amen corner, let us pour hot shot Into
the ranks of the devils, big and little, on the out¬
side of the church.—Alpharetta Free Press.
“Itseems that Georgia weeklies with one or two
exceptions, are growing brighter every day.”—C oy
ingfon News. Feeling sure we are not one of the
exceptions referred to, we soy, “thank you.”—Hl
berton Star.—“One star differeth from another
star In its glory.”
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THE DEVIL’S DUES.
“Spiking of giving the Devil his due*, what hi
the Devil’s dues, anyway.” asks an exchange.
Delinquent subscribers and gossips.—Covington
News.
But the thief and the liar come first. They are
Devil’s very own.—Alpharetta Free Pres*.
The News urges the defeat of the physicians’ bill
aimed at proprietary medicines and does not believe
that the Georgia Legislature will legislate against
products that have been of recognized value for a
life-time. The patent medicine industry Is pros¬
pering as never before, for which there is a reason.
The manufacturers are complying with State and
Federal laws and there is no good reason why a
board of physicians should be allowed to pass upon
the merit of medicines that are already subject to
rigid regulations.
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Blamed if we didn’t quit the newspaper game be¬
fore we would attack a public man while he was
sorrowing at the bedside of a dying wife. We hold
»o brief for Senator Hoke Smith, and he has
managed so far to get along admirably without our
support, hut we feel it and we must *ay tt to relieve
our disgust The attack by the Athens Banner on
SentAor Smith was untimely, uncalled for and un¬
true and no man in Georgia knows that fact better
than the man whs. 1 tried to make politilal capital out
of a sad incident in the life of Senator Smith —
Winder News. We ri,se to inquire the name of the
person who furnished The Banner its information
that Senator Smith ws* “biding ont” to avoid v ,t-
5tig against the Susan B. Anthony Suffrage imend
ment. Until Editor Rowe divulges the source of
his information he tvi” he an object of atupicion.
We await tali reply
‘REMEMBER THE SABBATH.”
‘•Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy.
Six days shait thou labor, and do ail thy work;
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God: in it thou shall not do any work,thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manserv¬
ant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days
tte Lord made Heaven and earth, tlip sea, and ail
that in them is, and rested on the seventh day;
wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and
hallowed It.”—The Fourth Commandment.
Far be it from the intention of The News to at¬
tempt the creation of a now criterion in the realm
of religion, or to interpose advice for the edification
of the Atlanta Ministerial association which
seems extremely anxious to increase Sunday happi¬
ness of the weary people of that great city, but
the above Biblical quotation, which was delivered
by tl*< Lord, appears to us to solve the Sabbath
observance problem.
One noted minister, a good man in the sight ot
God ami in the estimation of all who know him,
has announced against “eommereialiding” the
Sabbath, but the scriptural injunction is: Remem
fcM’ the Sabbath to keep it Holy.” If the people
of Atlanta are justified in their attempt to adopt
a con inental Sabbath, the Lord was mistaken
when he drafted the Ten Commandments; of that
there can be no doubt.
For years there has been a veiled influence op¬
erating in Atlanta with the ultimate hope of
iHiuiinating the day of rest with the result that
amusement iatrks, bathing pools and cold drink
establishments are flourishing like a' “green bay
tree in direct violation of the law. The county
evades thp responsibility of enforcing the law by
shifting It upon the willing shoulders of the city
government, and men have been In authority in
Atlanta wno would try to corner on the pearly,
gates and golden streets of the New Jerusalem if
an opportunity should develop.
The United States Government, in direct vio¬
lation of the laws of God and the State sanctions
the playing of Sunday hnseball on its reservation
In Fulton county and there is a constantly increas¬
ing sen iment in favor of opening Ponce De Leon
park in order ttu t “the poor working people” may
hae some much needed recreation. “Even the minis¬
terial association appears to he impressed by the
demands for Sunday recreation, notwithstanding
that Sunday is the appointed day of rest.
Apparently the motion picture shows and the
Q eat res are enuring a libera patronage sly ilay-j tv
the week—The Bathing pools and amusement park*
are crowded on Sunday; what of the c-hurche*
and the homes of the sick fur afflicted?
Hoke Smith side-stepped on suffrage but he is
politician enough to court the favor of the women
—His stand ou cotton will carry him back to the
U. S. .Senate.—W. H. Faust in The Commerce News.
Perhaps Mr. Faust is the person who informed the
Athens Banner that Senator Smith wai “hiding
out" to avoid voting against the Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage amendment. Everybody else in Georgia
knew that the Senator was called to Atlanta by the
critical Illness of his wife, which resulted in her
death. We would appreciate the favor in Mr. Faust
would publish the name of the person or persons
who informed him that Senator Smith “side-stepp
ou suffrage. Certainly he would not write a
willful falsehood.
Tifton gets the Costal Plains Agricultural Sta¬
tion. Well, we never did believe that Savannah,
the only competitor of Tifton, ever had a show of
winning the prize. The real facts in the case are
tliat those North and Middle Georgia people don’t
ever intend that Savannah shall be given tnythlg
at their hands.—Springfield Herald. The News fa
vored the establishment of the Station at Tifton be
cause of its Geographical location in the heart of
South Georgia, but the Springfield Herald is very
much in error in imagining that the people of
North an Middle Georgia do not fully appreciate
Savannah as one of the South’s favored and most
progressive cities. Among other things, the above
paragraph proves that the Springfield editor is unin¬
formed concerning the sentiment of the people in
this State, for there is no prejudice agiinst Sa
vannah. The News does not believe that The Her¬
ald reflects the opinion of the people of South
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