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Uilj? (Unmngton Nnua
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
Yet of March 3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA., JULY 10, ,1919.
The dentist is not the onl fellow wha has a strong
pull.
Many people give “thanks” who never give any¬
thing else.
Be absolutely sure that you are right—subscribe
for The News.
It would be a wise idea for some men to raise
more hogs and less racket.
WRAP DO THE SUFFRAGETTES WANT?
What on earth do the Georgia Suffragettes want,
can any one tell? Two weeks ago they Were orgin
iziug for action throughout the State. Aunt Mary
L. McLendon, Grandmother William H. Felton
raid other prominent Georgia advocates of “the
eause,” wore urging Georgia to be “the first State
to pass upon tire Susan B. Anthony Amendment.”
Mrs. McLendon directed advisory letters to every
member of the Georgia Senate anti General Assem¬
bly in the interest of “speedy action on the cause.”
Sister Carrie Chapman Catt, National President,
and other suffrage publicity experts have lieen de¬
luging Georgia newspapers with daily installments
of “educational” copy for two weeks, showing why
Georgia should ratify the amendment. Sister Alice
Paul has arrived in Atlanta and militant suffra¬
gettes from the East who kept the “picket fires”
burning at the entrance of the capitol grounds in
Washington are present and presumably supplied
with torches and fuel sufficient to enlighten the
Georgia Legislature.
The .stage is set and everything is in readiness
for a prolonged fight, but it now seems that the
suffragettes have changed their minds and instead
off continuing their efforts to “make Georgia first
they are endeavoring to delay action until 1920,
conoernime the wisdom of which a lively contro¬
versy has developed in the camp.
Grandmother Felton and others have concluded
that a vote o n the amendment during the present
session of the Legislature would discredit the Na¬
tional Democratic pfrty, notwithstanding that the
Republicans have cornered on the honor of securing
the adaption of the Federal amendment. Mrs. Fel¬
ton refers to President Wilson as the Standard
hearer, but only a few months ago she was firing
broad-sides at the President, if we remember
correctly.
The suffragettes having announced the intention
of securing action during the present session. Rep¬
resentative Jackson, of Jones'county, is a Democrat
and a gentleman, proposes to accommodate the
debating sisters by introducing the amendment for
rejection or ratification, in consequence of which
his Democracy and honesty are being assailed by
persons who only a few Weeks ago were yelling
for ix'tion.
As The News sees it, the Federal amendment
and its rejection by tho Georgia Legislature could
not operate against national Democracy. If Geor¬
gia desires suffrage it should be obtained by a vote
of Georgia people and not by »the ratification of a
Federal amendment to the Constitution by Masse
chusetts, Connecticut, Pennslyvania and Illinois,
which are unfamiliar with conditions existing
throughout the South.
The News is 'of the opinion that definite action
should be taken l\v the Legislature at an early
date and holies that Representative Jackson will
stand by his guns and fire them as often as occa¬
sion demands.
Mrs. Felton accuses the solons of being preju¬
diced and ignorant and would have them swallow
the amendment so as to be in line with the number
of States necessary to ratify the amendment, but
is endeavoring to delay considerations of the issue.
It seems to us that the time for action is now.
The suffragettes have demanded recognition and
all iWi.ils have been completed even to the extent
of enacting a law allowing the sisters to wear
breeches, shirt!*, socks and brognn shoes. Why
longer delay legislation after such inclusive prepar¬
ations have been perfected.
We are “for the gentleman from .Tones.”
good and strong and hope that lie will not waver
in his determination to dispose of an issue that
is unpopular with a la rise majority of thy people
of Georgia regardless of sex.
Nowtoii is the he s t county.
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Covington affords an attractive field for observa¬
tion on any pleasant atm-noon.
C.ovington needs more homes, more boarding
houses and u Board of Trade.
Our belief is that Newton County will have
Great Fair October 7-11. Do your part.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1919.
ALL ABOARD FOR MONROE.
The editor of the News is in receipt of a highly
appreciated communication from Hon. A. B. Mob¬
ley, secretary-treasurer of the Board of Tnde of
Monroe, which says among other interesting things;
• “Our entire city is on its toes in expectation of
your coming. Our crop of chickens (frying size)
is said by the old tiny-rs to be*tlie best hi years.
Watermelons were planted solely for this occasion,
months ago, and will be in full flavor and ripeness
just at that time. It is current gossip that Ernest
Camp bus been seen before sun-up cultivating his
cucumber drop in preparation for this meeting.
Ujo have planned entertainment for every minute
of your stay and will have penty of ice cream and
lemonade........The disappointment will be ours
if you do not come and arid we are expecting you
to be here.” *
Y\V hereby notify the. Board of Trade that we
ho vo no intention of disappointing tile people of
that hospitable city until -af&r our arrival. In
other words, we expect to subject the fried chickens
ami Ernest Camp’s cucumbers to a severe test, to
say nothing of the ice cream and red emonade.
While Secretary Mobley failed to mention anoth¬
er important feature in' which we are intensely
interested we doubt not that the Walton county
j>oacli crop will be ripe and in full deliciousness.
Ernest Camp has made claims concerning the Mon¬
roe variety that we propose to investigate.
We thank .you.
Boost the Newton County Fair.
The Newton County Fair—October 7-11. Come!
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The conceited fool seldom realiizes his condition.
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Big Jess "Willard proved to be a 1 big coward as
well as a big fake. '
“Money isn’t everything,’’ but it is a mighty sat
isfactory substitute.
Some folk’s idea of being a Christian is to look
like a pair of plow handles.
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Despise not the day of small things. In all prob¬
ability you are a mighty small potato yourself.
BAD SERVICE EVERYWHERE.
(Dalton Citizen.)
It is the same story the country ever—bad mail
service. The department boasts of its huge profits,
while the service goes from bad to worse. Letters
plainly addressed are sent to the wrong states and
to the wrong cities, where there is no similarity of
names. Packages are lost, or left in mail sacks,
which is the same thing. Insured parcels are lost.
Imt collecting for them is something else. There
seems to be no, funds, with which to indemnify the
Insert though $17,000,000 profits were declared
for the fiscal-year 1918. It is a deplorable situa¬
tion. tlie whole service from top to bottom being
marked by carelessness send indiffernce.
\ correspondent in the New- York World of
Monday says: $17,000
v, Tho postoffice ■ departnwsit cleared
OOO for tin* fiscal year 1918.” Yes. but what
good is it to the people who are suffering from
' poor service? This profit only goes to help
’ meet the deficiency of some other depart¬
ment of the government, where probably it will
not do half so much good as if spent in the
posfotfice itself. Mr. Burleson cannot under¬
stand that the normal function of the postoffice
is to furnish good facilities for the people ami
not to make money out of it as a commercial
projiosition.
Another thing, the employees of the i»ost
ofiice should bo better paid and their number
lucre?sod. The place to spend the surplus of
the postoffice is in the postoffice department
itself.
A bird in ti^e pie is worth three in the hand.
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If you don’t like what you read in this column
you don’t have to read it.
Don't be a community slacker .Pay The News
vour subscription. Do it now.
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A fellow who is a fool about a' woman is the
most unnecessary product in the world.
An ad in The News works while you sleep. Mr.
Merchant, but keeps you awake while you are in
the store.
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Evangelist Sam P. Jones used to say that “hell
is just over the hill,” but it is not near so distant
nowadays.
A« exchange says “some women dress so loud that
one can hear them coming a mile away." Well, let
’em come.
Plural wives may be satisfactory to the Mormans
in Utah, but one is an elegant, sufficiency for the av¬
erage Georgian.
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.Jerusalem, “the Holy City,” gform center of ma¬
ny contests, has been captured ouly seven times in
three thousand years.
Abe Martin says that “Nobody’s got much on The
dt Bara. Unless Theda has changed slip wouldn’t
stand for having much on her.
The summer plumage that some of the Covington
girls are wearing presents almost an attractive ap¬
pearance the pretty wearers.
Men are what their mothers make them.- Ex¬
change. That being Jrue it’s a pity that the old
man didn’e take a hand in some cases.
The naughty boys who paragraph Tire praising the
showing made by the women.—Thotnasville Times
EnterpriA- \\ ell, doesn’t a good showing deserve
praise?
MONUMENT TO THE SOLDIERS.
The News would enjoy seeing a monument erec¬
ted to the memory of tike soldiers wno lost their
livts in France in every county in Georgia, but is
opposed to memorial libraries, halls anil buildings
of any kind for th ruson that a monument should
be "sacred to the memory'" of ft lose in whose honor
It wr« erected.
In a certain Georgia town the good ladies inspired
the erection of a drinking fountain in memory of a
distinguished citizen who had achieved uctioual
fanny. It is now regarded as a drinking fountain
where thirst may be quenched and few people re¬
member that it is supposed to be a monument
erected in appreciation of a departed citizen who
accomplished much for his county and State.
Thousands of Georgians recollect the monument
of General John B. Gordo^ on the Capitol grounds
ill Atlanta, the statute of SemJtor Benjamin Har¬
vey Hill iri'rhe capitol rotunda and the inemoria
of Hon. Henry Wood fin Grady on Marietta street,
l»ut few people attach any historic interest or sen
fiinent to pubic buildings and drinking fountains.
As The News views the matter, a monument is
supposed to commemorate some particular person,
definite issue, historic event or cause and not to
provide accommodations of some kind for inappre
ciative persons who have no conception or knowl¬
edge^ of their significance.
A girl in thehome is- worth four at the polls.
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Tlie wise advertiser doesn’t whisper during (no
months of July and August—He shouts all the time
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We have seen some men who seem to contro¬
vert the scriplual statement that “God made
all men in His own image.
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Roosevelt failed in hi s * silly aetempt to revise
the dictionary, but Congress has since succeeded in
perfecting a temporary change in the time.
(Jayne!le says tint the fellow who sent her a pair
of hose for a birth day present has a correct idea
of te eternal fitness of tilings so fa* as she is
concerned. .
Everybody has become accustomed to delayed
m, dIs under the Burleson system. Imt the mail who
is delayed by a female is generally further behind
than any other. •
The lady who reqehfly made rhe statement “the
editor of The News evidently tliiuks about the
things we write about” was correct in her opinion.
We can’t write without thinking,’ as some people
seem to do.
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It, makes little difference to ns because we sel¬
dom leave home, but it does seem that a charge
of fifty cents extra by hotels for a bath i s a little
steep.—Outhbert Leader. Just leave it off—La
Grange Graphic. Or beffer still, wait until you
arrive at the mill pond or creek.
Down at XundersvUie the jay bird* go to Sun¬
day school and church and thus display more sense
than some people who live in Commerce.— Com¬
merce. Iieespectfully referred to the Newton comi¬
ty readers of The Covington News.
The New York Herald’s sporting editor says
there is some talk in Toledo that if Dempsey is
not careful he will bp knocked out even if he is
careful.—Savannah Press. Have you heard the
news from tI k- ring side? Dempsey was careful in
all four rounds of the “big” fight.
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Wq suppose it is all right for a- chorus gin to
“kick” or more money. It’s her business to kid*—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Still we hfve never been
able to understand how they can elevate one foot
to half past twelve o’clock and lower the other to
thirty-five minutes after six ft rhe same time.
For “giant whom no other pugilist had ever been
aide to knock down,” Jess Willard was easier than
£ . ten pin in the fight, at Toledo on the Fourth of
July. Willard had never foijght a realman, which
proves tlie contention of The News announced prior
to the fight that he is the biggest fake as a cham¬
pion that the world has ever known.
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The News acknowledges receipt of the Thornas
ville Timse-Enten-rises’ "Let Tlie World Know”
edition, sixty pages of interesting reading matter
llmt speaks well for Thomasyille and the progress
sive section of which it i s the prosperous business
center. Editor .Terger is to lie congratulated upon
(he excellency of his work.
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Don’t siieak harshly to the telephone girl. She
is working hard to make an honest living—some¬
thing some of you have never done and never will
do—Dawson News And yet, girls who have
never performed a useful service or allowed m
sensible thought to Invade their weak cranium are
often impolite to telephone operators. We have
always considered the working girl more human
than the silly little sissy arrayed in the height of
fashion like rhe queen of Shebah, who surveys all
others with haughty disdain. Clothes make a fool
just alwmt as often as they make a woman.
Editor Ernest Camp, of The Walton Tribune
says that Monroe girls are pretty hy the square
'foot. Uncle John Shannon, of Tlie Commerce News,
insists that the Commerce girls are pretty by the
square inch. Editor Jack Patterson, the bachelor
editor of The Covington News says that the Cov¬
ington girls are pretty any way you take them.
While Editor Charlie Benns. of The Butler Herald.
4 Xs that Butler girls are like Butler (teaches,
early to market and largely sought after at pre¬
mium prices. These scrihps are loyal to their townaf
but the Greensboro girls are so pretty and numer¬
ous that a man has to deliberate over the matter
a long time before coming to a definite conclusion
in regards to one of them.—Greensboro Herald
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