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OCCUPATION WITHOUT A NAME
Dictionary Has No Word to Describe
Just What Lawyer's Work Can
Be Called.
One thing about his profession that
probably not even a lawyer tan ex¬
plain Is the singular neglect which
the lawyer’s trade suffers at the hands
of the dictionary. Apparently the act
of performing the professional duties
of a lawyer has never been consider¬
ed sufficiently worthy to deserve a
name of its own, for there isn't any
polite name for it in the English lan¬
guage. No oilier learned profession
has been so slighted.
What a minister does when he at¬
tends to business is called minister¬
ing. What a doctor does when he pre¬
scribes a pill is called doctoring. The
engineer goes in for engineering and
the soldier for soldiering, and even
the newest of all professional men en¬
gages In what we are pleased to call
profiteering. Not sw> the lawyer. Par
ticiplally, he is not there. Lawyer¬
ing? There’s no such word. What¬
ever ids business Is, the dictionary
evidently will have nothing to do with
it—which, if not actually an indict¬
ment, is at least evidence strongly
circumstantial.—New York Times.
Easy to Walk Upside Down.
Because he walks upside down as
well as right side up the black and
white warbler is also frequently called
the black and white creeper, says the
American Forestry association of
Washington, which is conducting the
national bird house building contest..
This bird has been called a symphony
In black and white because of the
beautiful manner in which these two
colors are used over his body. His
h ad is barred black and white, with
a white stripe over each eye; he has
white bars on each wing and the
Inner webs of his outer tail feathers
are white patched. This bird gets most
of his food by gathering Insects and
grubs from the crevices in the bark of
trees, thus destroying pests which
might work Injury to fine trees.
Original "Brother Jonathan.”
On the twelfth of October In 1710,
Jonathan Trumbull was born at Leba¬
non, Conn. Trumbull was the original
‘‘Brother Jonathan," the sobriquet
which at one time was widely used
to personify the United States. He was
l close friend of Washington and the
general depended greatly upon his I
lidvice. In political and military mat-!
ters, Washington would often appeal j I
to Trumbull, whom he called Brother
Jonathan. The name became popular 1
with Washington’s officers and finally
grew to be used throughout the coun- ;
try to personify a typical American.
Trumbull In his distinguished career
was clergyman, lawyer, merchant and
governor of Connecticut. He died ir
1788 In tl»e town where he was horn
United States Ship Tonnage.
The seagoing fleet of American mer¬
chant ships of over 1,000 gross tons
each on August 31, 1019, registered for
the foreign trade or enrolled for (he
coasting trade by sea, as shown by the
returns of the bureau of navigation, de¬
partment of commerce, under acts of
congress, comprised 2,245 ships of
8,100,008 gross tons, of which 1,558 ol
6,707,820 gross tons were steel steam¬
ers, 347 of 840,611 gross tons were
wooden steamers, 95 of 180,487 gross
tons steel sailing ships or schooner
barges, and 2^j5 of 371,099 gross tons
wooden sailing ships or schooner
barges.
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Insist On Genuine Ford Parts
Imitation “Ford” parts being sold by many mail-order houses, down-town store* 5
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and garages to unsuspecting Ford owners as “Ford” parts. But they are not Genuine
Ford parts made by the Ford Motor Company. They are made by concernsnot connected
whatsoever with the Ford Company. These imitations parts are not even made from the
same grade of steel, or under the same formulas used by the Ford Company. They are
counterfeit parts. Tests have shown them to break when the genuine Ford parts
didn’t even bend, and they generally are from thirty-five to one hundred per cent lower
in quality.
The Authorized Ford Dealer is your protection. As such, we handle nothing but
the Genuine Ford parts. They are madefrom the famous Ford \ andium Steel and
each part—according to its use—is heat-treated in the way that will give it the
longest wearing qualities. Every part is the same as its duplicate in your lord car or
Ford Truck.
Our stock of parts is complete. And our Ford garage and Ford mechanics are
at your service at all times, Drive In when replacements or repairs for your Ford car
may he necessary. Save your car and also your money.
P. J. Rogers,
Authorized Ford Dealer For Newton County
Covington, Ga.
Phone 62
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fttfc COVINGTON NEWS, 'COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THLTCSfiAV, JIANCARV,
TO RESTORE HISTORIC
City ef New Orleans Taklnfl 8tep» t*
Preserve and Beautify Bienville's
Landing Place.
An effort is being made In New Or¬
leans to restore the old historic spots
around the city. With the restoration
of the old Place d’Armes, the rehabili¬
tation of the Cablldo and the Pontalba
apartments which surround It, and the
preservation of all as an artistic cen¬
ter for the old French and Spanish
quarter, an effort Is being made to re¬
store and preserve the landing place
of Bienville, where he first set foot on
the high land in 1720, at the place he
was destined to convert Into Nouvelle
Orleans. This landing place, which
lies on the river directly facing the
Place d’Armes, which Is now Jackson
square, is covered with the switch
tracks of the Southern Pacific and
public Belt railroads, and with a part
of tlie large steel warehouse belonging
to the board of commissioners of the
port of New Orleans.
Supporters of the Louisiana State
museum have appealed to the mayor
and the various civic organizations to
have these sheds and railroad tracks
removed at once, inasmuch as the
land, clear from the Cablldo to the
river Itself, was expropriated some
time ago to be put In historical and
artistic reserve. As all the water
front of New Orleans and the east
hank of the river belongs to the city
and state forever, the completion of
the artistic center is sure of accom¬
plishment.
ACCEPTED MANDATE OF FATE
Young English Soldier Proved Him¬
self Worthy When Called to Posi¬
tion of Responsibility.
When Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man
Who Would Be King” was published
It was regarded as an excursion Into
the Improbable, If not the impossible.
It was the Auglo-Saxon Imagination
accepted by the colorful Hindustani
civilization.
But the sober chronicles of the war
have outdone Kipling. Thorneycroft,
a twenty-two-year-old British trooper,
found himself stranded tn Turkey
after Townshend’s Ill-fated offensive.
Nothing daunted, he accepted his pre¬
dicament as s mandatory of Faie. He
proceeded to rule over a territory con¬
taining 60 villages and 60,000 people,
and he ruled them until relieved by
the martial law brought by Allenby’s
troops. The son of a hotel keeper of
Bristol, he proved at the test that he
was of Imperial fiber.
Truth is stranger than fiction. It
always has been and always will be,
with Tommy Atkins or his first cousin,
the doughboy, as protagonist. Each
possesses the comic spirit that means
adaptability, no matter what the emer¬
gency.
State Towns Conserve Potatoes
Sparta.—Thousands of dollars’ worth
of sweet potatoes will he coneserved
annually in the farming district sur¬
rounding Sparta, beginning with the
present crop, by many of Sparta s po¬
tato house now under construction and
to l)e in complete operation before
the end of the month. The Sparta
plant is one of a chain of three, the
ethers being at Milledgeville and War
ronton, and are under the direction
of Dr. E. II. Scott of the Georgia Nor¬
mal -nd Industrial College. Its ca¬
pacity will be about 10,000 bushels,
and it itfll be operated by the Sparta
Products company, composed of lead¬
ing men of Hancock county.
TIMBER
Expert Peinte Out What Seema to Him
Imperative Need of a National
Foreet Policy.
“One of the most Interesting things
to come to ray knowledge Is the seem¬
ing lack of Interest on the part of the
people of the United States to save
our forests,” said Charles Lathrop
Pack, president of the American For¬
estry association. "Our new growth of
timber is not more than one-third of
j the amount being used or destroyed
every year. There Is an end to all
things,’’ continued Mr. Pack, “and the
tlmbermen, lumbermen and wood-using
Industries must get together with the
foresters on a national forest policy of
some kind. We all know about locking
the stable door after the horse Is
stolen, and we can all stand around
and wonder what to do when the well
runs dry, but what are we going to do
when the forests give out? Place your
finger on something into which the use
of wood In the making does not enter.
Rather hard for yon to do it, I will
say. The newspaper owner knows
about the mounting cost of print paper
and the cost of the barrel In which you
find your flour has gone away up. You
cannot eat the paper or the barrel, but
they figure big In the high cost of living
you hear so much about. We must
have a national forest policy In this
country, and that soon.”
CHANGED FOR THE BETTER
Conditions, Especially In the Holy
Land, Have Been Much Improved
in Recent Years.
Whoever has Journeyed to Cairo and
from there desires to go on to Jerusa¬
lem may now buy his ticket In the
Cairo railway station and look out of
♦he windows of the train at the scen¬
ery of the plain of Sharon as he m» xes
his trip. The rail connection has been
completed by a new line from Ludd
to Haifa, passing the ruins of Athlit,
where the Templars long ago had
their last stronghold In Palestine. The
Journey from Egypt to the Holy land
Is greatly simplified: one need no
longer land at Jaffa, nor wonder how
much one’s plans will be Interfered
with by uncertain conditions of wind
and sea. More than that, Jerusalem
Is a much less dubioas place for the
tourist to visit, and Its points of in¬
terest may he much more conveniently
inspected than they used to be. Good
order Is maintained, the city Is under
British discipline, the chance of “fall¬
ing among thieves,” more or less an
accepted risk under the Turkish
regime, need hardly be considered.
One may visit the mosque of Omar
without the undesired companionship
of a Turkish soldier. A good deal of
regret has been heard that “Europe
would never be the same again” for
tourists to look at, but In some re¬
spects at least ft will be much changed
for the better.
Trunk Of Jewelry Lost In Savannah
Savannah— Detectives in Savannah
and in this section are searching for
a trunk, a little trunk, containing near¬
ly ten thousand dollars worth of jew¬
elry. M. L. Salina, salesman for a
New York jewelry house, declares he
checked the trunk from a local hotel
to a local railway station, where, ac¬
cording to best evidence, it was ex¬
changed for another trunk, the other
trunk being left and the valuable one
sent away on a train leaving ahead of
the salesman. >.
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v v and hope that we may be able to
serve you better in the future than in the
past.
Our garage is now equipped with the best
machinery to be had, this saves time and
we are able to do your work not only
quicker but better.
We intvite you to inspect our garage at any
time.
We wish you a Happy New Year.
p. j. ROGERS,
Authorized Ford Dealer.
PHONE 62 - - COVINGTON, GA. J/
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