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A SONG
ASTER
lily, abloom in the sweet, warm light
e Easter dawn, today,
y sweet, warm breath, like a drift exhaled
;om a seraph’s mouth, ah, sa
iou only a flower, though thoubuild’st a bridge
: O’er the awful cleft of the grave,
That Reason may ao^upeo^surely, ahd Grief,
• Seeing this.nrt^y look up an&^ebravi?
Christ’s lilies^abloom In far,ovi
O’er the graves of young heroes, t<
How your sprang message from of life’s the grave’s immortalit^thrills icy clay;
As you shiny
Oh, lilies of Easter, shine out and on,
“Life from death” for your of message'and- signrf^p e ^
Till the red or^the poppies Flanders field fade:
Quenched b| adiant lighriall-divine!
zm.
%Through
{ .\ Sorrow
‘/ ' t0
.
fiGladness
There arfe yet the evidences of
wreck and ruin in many parts of the
wand, while scarcely a single por¬
tion has been left untouched fey the
spirit of destruction which was sum¬
moned up to do its dread work. But,
•till, considered subjectively, the
hearts of men have taken on a dif¬
ferent emotions. The reconstruction
time has already been ec'*" 4 * 0 !D °
in material affair*, nans are shap¬
ing for the bringing into' being of a
new world. Even those not imbued
Wi th tile higneSl U «“U.« look for
wuru ...... expectation to the rear¬
rangement, in which they will per¬
haps have a share of the glory and
from which they will derive some of
the profit. Nor are their prospective
labors to be altogether condemned.
They gre of such as Augustus, who
found a Rome of brick and left one
of marble, of a Louis Napoleon, who
won an empire by a coup d’etat and
immediately proceeded to straighten
the streets of Paris.
Beyond and above this is the sense
of participation in a new world which,
it may be, will possess within it
self new hopes and aspirations. Un
questionably, this emotion is not ab
sent from the hearts of men, albeit
tiie methods of bringing the new
'Muld about are not agreed upon by
al • is equally beyond question that
1 le Possibility of a newer and better
sjstem of social and political order
uepends for its consummation upon
definite changes in the attitude of men
toward such problems, and consequent
I ly toward each other. Thus there is
j leco £hized to have come to pass, In¬
stinctively, a new attitude, or at least
a tre»h impetus, toward a whole host
of Ideals, which, in what has been de¬
nominated found no effective the canker of a long peace,
Not place.
a bit of this, however, can af¬
fect the objective side of the situation,
or the simple reason that no faith,
however robust, can of itself make a
,f uth °{. the thing believed In. That
it ° iu. Aiitu
pon anect ff most profoundly those
f who
un iyei ™ sally , !° wever attested - 18 on e of the most
of all truths. To
,Z‘ l ‘ [ ® ext 8 ll)at ® nt ’ the therefore, there are evi
principle of resurrec
honi J? humanity 3 mighty and widespread
on at the present time.
Side :rr !- thlS ' Ve11 most t0 P° solea)n nder the objective
same Christ/* and at the
136 ongagtng doctrine of the
an , fa th| albelt it is
mere more than
J ;< ' rine The far earlier
U»l sent 0n - re¬
WhIch Christianity In a
raei ' ged Eluded a firm belief
in rh ’
The calm word
God ml In oV lh v am Sadduceea Isaac and was that the
UvU S ’ Jacob ™
° f the dead b «t of the
-
was Tield inf 'I y s many faUh othere lD various Plato KUlses
gue ( ] u J - ar
lty of the ec ualljr on the immortal
< aW « d Phoenix
seated fn ? m it8 own ashes pre
SwLTv ? t th y circumstantial t * f Uth ln another is torn the
ere i parallel Th The sa
fhen 1 ® ° rder ° f eyeDts
n*. own ” eled the sequence 8 *^ uenc e of our
recent darknl rld ex P lence.
the er After
the period 7 ef* 1 1116 eart bfiuake,
cairn. There The* ^ ran 8Ufferlng 8itlon ' wa came the ho,y
was 1 ,on *» complete,
taqnt, a * er . for the mo
biijty, ‘ on °t sin or responsl
The p y <l u ®stlon had been
raoral met.
by the verse had been cleared
e Prij^ct^8acri flce
The 8Ua
’ $52; 1“ av m OOMMN NEWS, common, smokers. T; SW
arose upon a morning the like of which
had never been witnessed before.
Death had been overcome in its own
stronghold. The tomb was empty,
j’save of the ephemeral wrappings of
: mortality, no longer needed. Angelic
! messengers bore witness to the usher
j | not!” ing in of the the new word order. the weeping “Touch me
was to one
! who would have connected the risen
j I.ord with the old. Yet the establish¬
ment of the new relationship was an
i nounced in almost the same breath—
! “Go tell my brethren.” A note of
) gladness pervaded the whole scene.
From those whose hearts now ache for
the bereavements which the world war
brought, this note is by no means
shut out. Once more the parallel is
found in their own experiences, what¬
ever the difference either in degree
or kind. There was then the suffer¬
ing before the glory. So with all
who today enter experimentally into
the meaning and actuality. Cowper
«rrn«r>pd th* truth m hl« llnoe
"The path of sorrow, and that path alone.
Leads to the land where sorrow is un¬
known."
In virtue of what occurred 2,000
years ago, there was brought within
the grasp of men the accomplished
fact of a new creation, built upon the
foundation of the supreme sacrifice
mid established outside of the domain
and power of death. Nothing that
lias transpired since has ever touched
those foundations or marred the per¬
fection of the moral structure reared
thereon. In virtue of what transpired
within the awful years of war, of the
Gethsemane through which myriads
have gone, of the actual tasting of
' death which millions have done, the
' liear t s of n»en have been shaped and
ni °Ided for the reception of the cur
rents of the new life,
To all such this Easter Sunday will
be tinctured with an Inexpressible
charm to which their hearts will re
spond with gladness. And as a b'ack
ground to the full splendor of its sig
nifiance they can place, as did Paul,
the melancholy negation .of the Epieu
,
j rean doctrine:
. . . let us eat and drink, for to¬
morrow we die!”
ON EASTER MORN
The night was dark, the faintest tinge of
dawn,
On that first Easter morn.
Just flushed the eastern sky with rose
| ana and grey, gray, •
, Foretelling of the day,
When, bearing spice and myrrh, three
women came
Unto the dear Lord's tomb.
To pay the last sad rites that were de¬
nied,
Unto the Crucified.
“And who," they ask in a hushed un¬
dertone,
“Shall roll away the stone.
On which, at the Sanhedrim’s own ap¬
peal,
Pilate hath set his seal?"
But as they near the spot, to their
amaze,
No sealed stone meets their gaze.
The door is open, anyone is free
The empty tomb to see.
Seeing they have no Roman guard to
fear.
The three draw near.
And they behold, by the Increasing light.
An angel all in white.
"Why seek ye here the Living One," he
said,
"Among the dead?
The earth no longer holds Him In its pris
on,
The Lord is risen!”
Oh, glorious news, for those ln darkest
night.
Shall see the world’s great Light,
The wondrous Son of Righteousness that
brings.
Healing upon His wings!
Rejoice and spread the sidings far and
near,
To each disciple's ear,
He lives! Where then, O Death, oa thy
■ting be,
Wh»r« grave, thy victory?
-Clara K. Coo p er.
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REFLECTIONS *
And OTHER THINGS*
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(By Ret law)
Formerly many a man liid his ruin
to wine, women and song, fout now It
has become Wine, Beef and Iton.
If the city can own and Operate a
light and water system, why not a tel¬
ephone system?
The girl of today is exceedingly mod¬
ern—until she sees a mouse.
"Wanted: Garage near Chriltian Sci
ence church.” Perhaps he wants his *
Ford influenced to believe that it is a
real car. J '
Cut of fifty per cent is announced in
the price of gas oil, which should send
the price of gas up about fifty-five per
cent.
The director ot a “Y” Conference, in
making announcements for the various
classes, pulled the followjng: "I must
ask you, young gentlemen, not to
smoke in the dormitories, as the next
conference will be composed of half
women.”
Speaking of smoking, it Is our opin¬
ion that the owner of some cabbage
farm is profiteering on the prices of the
cigars made from his surplus products.
A man in power throws his country
in to war, causes the loss of hundreds of
lives and millions of dollars, and puts
a burden of taxation upon the country
from which it does not perhaps recov¬
er for twenty years, and We kllow him
to be called a patriot. Another man,
not in power, protests a^rain^t these
acts, and is immediately thrown into
prison and kept there indefinitely there
as a traitor. How much htls this world
progressed in the past thousand
A headline inform us that a New
leans man’ Shot his Wife for a
glar.” It’s all right to be atjeommoda
ting, even to a burglar, but ft beems to
us that it was carrying this a little too
i ar -
At Columbus a large quantity of cap
tured moonshine was poured into the
river. That is what we’d call putting
the hooch in Chattahoochee.
MIDNIGHT
A silver sky;
Sharp-marked shadows;
Silence.
When your stationery g6tb low don’t
wait—let the News do your printing
HIGH POINT NEWS
Mrs. Felix Wright spent Monday
With Mrs. A. W. Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Parker and
daughters, Annie and Carrie Be\le
spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. It.
N. Darby, of Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Goins and moth¬
er, spent Sunda^ afternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Parker.
Miss Mary Nell Perry and Irene
Goins spent the week-end with Mrs.
Alex Smith.
The party given by Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Davis was an enjoyable event of
th® past week.
Miss Annie Parker spent a while
Tuesday with Miss Verna Mask, of
Cqvington.
Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe and Mr. Big
gers, of Conyers spent the week-end
with their parents Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Mobley.
The Singing given by Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Holcomb Sunday night was en¬
joyed by a large crowd.
Correspondents please do not write
on but one side of the paper, when
sending in your news notes.—Ed.
BRICK STORE NEWS
Mrs. W. C. Adams is spending a few
days with her parents at Bowden.
Mr^. J. R. Stephens visited Mrs. W.
W. Nunnally at Oxford one day last
week.
Miss Florence Austin spent an even¬
ing with Miss Sara Adams recently,
Mr. John G. Adams planted some cot
ton last Friday. He is trying to beat
the boll weevil.
Mr. H. A. Casey is doing some of the
best farming in Newton county. He
^ ^ ftU hjs pretty farm pre .
pared uke a garden. He is a hustler,
The tractor G f Wright Adams keeps
neighbors awake at night. It
Hke lt is ma king 40c cotton
a g a j n
j The whole county is anxious about
1 the serious condition of Mr. J. B.
Reeves, who was operated on last week
a t the Baptist Hospital, Atlanta, for
appendicitis. No man is morfe loved in
our section. All earnestly wish for
him a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Sara Reeves has been on a visit
to relatives in Charleston, S. C., but
was called home on account of the seri
ous illness of her husband.
Subscribe for the Covington News.
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GREATEST In Assets GREATEST In Business Placed GREATEST In Service to the Public
In Income In Business Gained In Reduction of Mortality
In Gain of Each In Business In Force In Health and Welfare Work
METROPOLITAN
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
(INCORPORATED BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK)
HALEY FI&KE, President FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-President
, Business Statement, December 31, 1920
Assets......................................i.......... ...........$980,913,087.17
Larger than those of any other Company in the World.
Increase in Assets during 1920 .......... $116,091,262.62
Larger than that of any other Company in the World.
Liabilities........ ............................. $947,465,234.24
Surplus ........ $33,447,852.93
Ordinary (annual premium) Life Insurance paid for in 1920 ..................$1,062,389,920
More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in the World.
Industrial -(weekly premium) Insurance paid for in 1920 ......................$589,560,231
More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in the World.
Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1920 ................................$1,651,950,151
The largest amount placed in one year by any Comjiany in the World.
Gain in Insurance in Force in 1920 .........................................$1,036,360,080
More ^han has ever been gained in one year by any Company in the World.
The Comfteny GAINED more insurance in force both in 1919 and in 1920 than any other Com¬
pany WROTE.
Total Amount of Outstanding Insurance.....................................$6,380,012,514
.Larger than that of any other Company in the World.
Number di Policies in Force December 31, 1920—........................... 23,899,997
Larger than that of any other Company in America. %
Gain in Number of Outstanding Policies................................... 2,129,326
More than any Company in the World has ever gained in one year.
Number of Claims paid in 1920 ............................................. 312,689
Averaging one claim for every 28 seconds of each business day of 8 hours.
Amount pkid to Policy-holders in 1920 ....................................$81,257,393.70
Payments to policy-holders averaged $556.86 a minute of each business day of 8 hours.
Reduction in general mortality at ages 1 to 74 in 9 years......................22.7 per cent.
Typhoid reduction, 72 per cent.; Tuberculosis, 40 per cent.; Heart disease over 19 per cent.; Bright’s disease, nearly 27
per cent.; InfecUous diseases of children, over 28 per cent.
In general reduction and for each principal cause of death this is far greater than that shown by statistics of the Reg¬
istration Area of the United States.
Death Rate for 1920 on the Industrial business lowest in history of Company. , <
Dividends declared payable in 1921, nearly................................... .$11,000,000
Metropolitan Nurses made 1,625,271 visits in 1920, free of charge to sick Industrial Policy-holders,
including 14,667 visits to persons insured Millions under of Group of policies. literature ‘
Metropolitan men distributed Eighteen pieces on health— , t
Bringing th© total distribution to over 213,000,000 exclusive of Company’s health maga- 4 * f
zine, of which over 18 , 000,000 are annually distributed. % j. '
G. R. DORMAN, Deputy Superintendent, 18 Starr Building f ? r
LEGUIN NEWS r
Miss Jeanne Patrick, of Brickstore
visiting her sister, Mrs. Sam Hol¬
•i?
Miss Eva Pennington spent a few
of last week with her sister Mrs.
Aiken.
Mrs. L. B. Smith and Miss Olenda
visited Mrs. Nancy Piper last
afternoon.
\
Miss Hattie Piper and Mrs. Haney, of
spent the week-end with
Lee Piper.
Mrs. T. D. Meador left Saturday af¬
for Atlanta where she is going
to stay a few days with her sister.
Miss Eva Pennington and Miss
>
Myrtle Pounds visited Mrs. Troy '
Stubbs last Tuesday afternoon. «
Misses Ruby Fee and Mary Long¬
shore went home for the week-end.
The moving picture show at High
Point last Friday night was enjoyed
by a large crowd.
Mr. and Mrs. Authur Crawford spent
Saturday nighty and Sunday with Mr.
and’ Mrs. Edgar Edwards.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lassiter and
children spent Sunday with Mr.' and
Mrs. Obie Edwards.
•Misses Tempie Lewis, Olenda Taylor,
Sallie Ruth and Mary Alice Meadors
all visited Miss Nora Taylor who is
very ill last Saturday afternoon.
The “Candy Pulling” given at Mr.
Sam Holcomb's last Saturday night was
enjoVed by every one present.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lassiter stayed a
short while Saturday night with Mr.
Cementing Family Ties
Many families and friends living
in distant cities are talking to each
other regularly one night each
week on the long distance tele¬
phone. Wiey are cementing
family ties and preserving social
relations—all at an insignificant
cost.
The half rate for STATION
TO STATION service prevails
at night and there is no report
charge.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
and Mrs. L. B. Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Meadors and chil¬
dren visited Mr, and Mrs. Troy Stubbs
Tuesday night at Stewart
Miss Lottie Crawford spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. Felix
Wright.
Our Sunday school has been increas¬
ing every since we started our, "con
test,” and we hope it will still con¬
tinue.
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We have filled more than a million i
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Wouldn’t you like to have five
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