The Covington news. (Covington, Ga.) 1908-current, June 30, 1921, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextCOVINGTON NEWS Official Organ of Newton County and the City of Covington, Published every Thursday by the News Publishing Company. W. E. LIGHTFOOT, Editor-Mgr. Entered as second class mail matter December 2, 1908, at the Post Office at Covington, Ga„, under the act of March. 3, 1879, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, (in advance) ........ $2.00 Six Months, (in advance,) ....... $1-25 THUI1S DAY, JUNE 30. 1921. The Philippines want Independence. Are they ready for if.' A cablegram from Major General Leonard Wood and former Governor General Forbes indicates that they are not, and fur¬ thermore that the present Philippine government is on the verge of bank¬ ruptcy. Now we are told that the profiteer ing scandals growing out of frauds during the war are to be probed. Speedy and thorough search is to bt organized by the Attorney General for evidences of graft. Severe punishment is promised. The empty jails may yet be filled. The Russian prince Nicholas V. En ttaliehe, formerly Russian vice-consul in Chicago, declares that he is reduced to his last dollar. He is not the only man who is in the same predicament; but why expend our sympathy upon him when so many good American cit¬ izens may be in poorer circumstances The crisis is past. No longer need we fear a collision with the comet Pons bv just 10,000,000 miles. A close shave, \\ inneeke. It missed us on June 13th ray the scientists, but a miss is better than a hit in all cases of terrestrial bodies. You may ask: “Will a comet ever hit us?” “What wall be the result u it aoes?” The first question may be answered in the answered in the af¬ firmative, but the chances are very much in our favor. They do not sur¬ vive our atmosphere. It is too dense, and the cornet is not generally a very solid body. Do not try to deceive the public. Y'ou cannot do it to any great extent. You may fool some people, but you cannot fool them all. If you persist in doing wrong it will be reflected in your countenance, and all the world will read it as far as they can see you. The merchant who gives short w'eight, or the scamp who short-changes you may think he is deceiving the people, but he is not. His hardened moral arteries, having ceased to function, have made such a deep impression upon his char¬ acter that it is plainly discernible in his countenance. The secretary of the treasury plans to retire the short term notes of the government between the years 1923 and 1928. To accomplish this other short term notes will be issued matur¬ ing at a later date and bearing inter¬ est at 5 1-2 and 5 3-4 per cent, due in three years. The combined offering of short term notes will be about $500, 000,000. These notes will be exempt from government income, state and corporation taxes, but not from inher¬ itance or estate taxes, or from surtax¬ es or profit taxes This transfers a debt payable on demand to one payable at a fixed period. The relations of Greece and the United States have always been friend¬ ly, and should continue to remain so; but Greece is playing with the fire¬ works at the present time. She is im¬ pressing American citizens into her army, mostly naturalized Greeks, but Americans nevertheless, and men who are entitled to the protection of the American flag. This condition cannot fie permitted to continue. American citizens must and will be protected. No country can impress American citizens into its army without a protest, and Greece will be called to account for her breach of international etiquette. Jazz has no friend in Dr. Frank E. Morton, one of the speakers at the Music Trades convention in Chicago. The Dr. says; “Jazz expresses hysteria and incites to idleness, revelry, dissi¬ pation, destruction, discord, and shaos. it is compounded after the same con¬ struction as the voodoo chants and its evil spirit of music.” This seems to be a harsh condemnation of the popular music of the day, if it is entitled to be called music; for in truth it fails to sooth or to satisfy. No man can listen to the horrible jargon of the “Jazz” and feel the inspiration that comes with sweet harmony. These are the days of the long sum mervacation. Keep your eye on the kids and you will see them making a bee line for the nearest swimming hole. Vou may see them in the garden digging fish-worms or in the brush cut¬ ting a fishing-pole. Watch them. They are looking for a good time and they are going to have it. as they should Boyhood cannot last forever. The time is short, and in future years memory will call up the scenes of youth with unadulterated pleasure. It would be a crime to deprive the kids of the great¬ est joys they will ever experience. Why are signboards permitted along the country roads? Why will property owners permit such signs to disfigure their premises, and make of a natural ly beautiful landscape an unsightly avenue of billboards? The place to ad¬ vertise is in the newspapers. It is in them that the people look for informa¬ tion. Who ever heard of a man or wo¬ man going out into the country in search of a billboard when they desire to purchase an article? No man who has an eye for natural beauty will per¬ mit a billboard to be erected upon his property. May’s trade figures show a total ex¬ port of $6,190,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30th as against $8,110,000, 000 for the preceding year. This shrink¬ age means little in the amount of bus¬ iness transacted. The reduction in val¬ ues during the year has more than off¬ set the difference and it may be that the actual exchange of commodities ha.- exceeded in volume that of the pre eeeding year. Measure the business in tons bushels and pounds rather than by dollars and a fairer statement will be revealed to the public. This country is not going to the bow-wows this year nor next. It is simply getting down to business in a safe and sane manner and is dealing in values rather than in inflated prices. I lie booty that America too!, from Germany would not stock a well regu¬ lated 10c store, but the experience cost us an awful lot of money and the lives of many thousands of the brightest boys the world ever produced, and still we are not satisfied, but are building our navy bigger and filling the air with instruments of destruction and the sea with dreaded monsters. It would cost far less to send our emissaries into every country on earth to spread the propaganda of peace and international disarmament. Without guns and fight¬ ing machines the world could settle Us differences far more justly. Whenever force is used there is bound to be de¬ struction of life and property, great national debts and burdens that gener¬ ations unborn must pay. The seizure of 500 machine guns by United States officiate on the ship East Side, loading at Hoboken for an Irish port, ieaves no doubt as to the seriousness of the Irish question and the determination of the Irish patriots to fight for liberty. The fact that these guns were being loaded for shipment from an American port complicates our relations with Great Britain, and opens the way for diplomatic investi gations. The United States is at peace w'ith Great Britain, and the shipment of arms to those who are in open re¬ bellion against the acknowledged gov eminent is an international crime. The Department of Justice has ordered its agents to New York to investigate the case. It is plain to every thinking man or woman that governments, national, state or municipal are cumbered with too much machinery. There is so much of it that it is in the way. Much of it is useless and cumbersome. The gov¬ ernment at Washington is over-crowd¬ ed with much needless and worse than useless material. Every state in the un¬ ion is burdened with a surplus of of ficial rubbish. Every city and every town has its surplus of junk. Every county has its supernumeraries. Would it not be a good plan to combine some of the offices and dispense with man.\ that are unnecessary. Let us look over the list of officiate and see if W'e cannot get along without some of them. Econ¬ omy is the slogan and prodigality the practice. Shall w r e continue or shall we economize. Thousands of immigrants are on board ships in New York harbor, and are unable to land, on account of the immigration laws, which the steamship companies hoped to beat but which went into effect before their arrival in port Already three nationalities have filled their quota of three per cent since the law w'ent into effect, ft is now up to the ship companies to return the undesirables to the countries from whence they came. America will breathe easier when these immigrants have left our shores with a full reali¬ zation that the door is closed and that Arneica is making an effort to protect its own against further invasion. We do not need Europe’s surplus. We have enough to care for already, and so long as millions of American people are unable to find employment it will be nothing short of a crime to admit more of Europe’s energy to increase the hardships of our people. The six officials who have been en¬ gaged in apportioning the number of immigrants that may enter the United States from each country the coming year have about completed their task. The number to be admitted is 357,158. Germany is privileged to send over the greatest number of any country 68.039. Italy comes next with 42,269 Russia next with 34,279; Poland, 25,800; United Kingdom and Sweden, will each be permitted to send 19,956; Czecho¬ slovakia, 14,269, and so on down the line. New Zealand is the smallest quo ta. only 50. The permit covers ground enough, and this country will yet rue the day that it did not close the door altogether. The number permitted to enter will populate a city as large as Minneapolis or New Orleans each year, ufitil the better judgment of our Amer¬ ican congress shall prevail, and .‘Amer ica First” be adopted as a national slogan. War is responsible for an interna¬ tional handicap of $350,000,000,000 and approximately 70,000,000 human lives, directly and indirectly. These figures are staggering but they are true, and as a result excessive taxation will hamper all industrial and individual life for generations to come. Eleven out of twelve European nations are spending today in excess of their in¬ comes, and three out of four countires of the world cannot raise enough mon¬ ey to pay their running expenses. Austria is in the hands of a receiver, and other nations are on the verge of bankruptcy. A reformation in Austria’s finances and her currency are her only hope. What hope the other distressed nations may have is not yet in sight. , The lessons of the war should be suffi¬ cient warning for an international peace and general disarmament. No one nation can safely abandon mili¬ tarism. The move must be simultane¬ ous and with honesty of purpose that will achieve the desired result. PERMANENT ROADS Permanency in road building is a much desired objective. The indiscrim¬ inate expenditure of highway money is deplorable. Millions of dollars have been spent in road building in this country and the result has been far from satisfactory. In fact much of the money has been wasted in unintelli¬ gent work. Many counties have voted big bond issues and have spent the money thus obtained in a manner that is deplorable. Every state, county and municipality should employ competent engineers to supervise its highways and see that the money appropriations are spent judiciously and with a view to permanency. Good roads are a necessity, and it is just as necessary to set aside a cer¬ tain percentage of road money for maintenance as it is for original con¬ struction. The better the highways are constructed the longer they will last, and they will not last long unless properly built. There must be a good foundation, properly drained, heavily constructed and securely protected from the action of frost, in sections where frost is an element to be consid¬ ered. Any good road engineer knows what to do. and it is false economy to undertake to save money by permit¬ ting inexperienced men to oversee the construction of public highways. The engineers of ancient Rome built roads that have withstood the traffic of two thousand years, and which with com¬ paratively little expenditure for repairs are in use today. They were built with an idea of permanency, and if we build upon those lines today we will have better roads. The money will not go as far in surface construction, but the work will not need to be done over again in a few years. It is economy to do the work well at whatever cost. __ .. .. Be pleasnat. The man who stirs his cup with an icicle spoils the tea and chills his fingers. THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, OBOKen*. i OMMIT NO TRESPASS Happy is he who knows his own bite- * iness and attends to it. Happy also is the nation that can confine itself to its own affairs. It costs money, lives and time-honored principles to depart from the sacred rules that have made a nation prosperous. Every nation that has meddled in the business of another nation has done so at a loss. It may have acquired territory or political dominance; but it has done so at a tremendous expense that has burden¬ ed its people with unnecssary taxation and given them nothing in return for their sacrifices. Russia is passing through a period of evolution. Her troubles are her own. No other nation has a right to insist that she adopt any special form of gov¬ ernment. That is the business of Rus¬ sia herself and alone. We in America cherish the “Mon¬ roe Doctrine.” We see in it a safe¬ guard of North and South America na¬ tions against European encroach¬ ments. We know that the Monroe Doc¬ trine has saved many South American republics from spoliation and knowing this to be a fact why not apply the same principle to the unfortunate na¬ tions of Europe, that have upon their hands serious unsolved problems that can be adjusted only through inter necine strife carried to the extent of national exhaustion. Then will come the recovery. The business of America is on this side of the Atlantic, and in minding our own business we will have about all W'e can attend to. The lessons of the great war should be a warning against gratifying the disposition to meddle, it should also teacli us that decisive action is a long ways ahead of passiveness and “watchful wait¬ ing,” a policy that may be misinter¬ preted and lead to entanglements that couid be avoided by prompt and decis¬ ive action. Ireland’s case awakens a sense of sympathy for the Irish people; but Ire¬ land is a part of the British empire, and it has been such for ten centuries. The United States is at peace with Great Britain, and any aid given to Ireland cannot be looked upon in any other light than an act justifying war. The world weeps over Ireland’s mis¬ fortunes and prays for a softening of the hearts of her English masters. That is all that can be done within the intent of international law'. All over Europe there are conditions that appeal to the hearts of the peo pie of liberty-loving America; but we cannot interfere. The price we would have to pay is beyond our resources even if the cases were not wholly out side ur jurisdiction. WHERE I HE HARM W AS DONE It was not to the negro, John Henry Williams chained to a stump in Col¬ quitt county Saturday and burned, that the harm was done; he was a brute un¬ speakable; an animal in human shape, and he deserved everything he got. and more. It was to the community that the harm was done; it is the community that will pay, through the years and into the centuries. It is said that there were one thous¬ and people in the crowd that partici¬ pated in burning the negro. The effect on the minds of one thousand men Wit¬ nessing and participating in such a thing cannot be calculated. The re¬ straint that respect for law and ob¬ servance of order puts, unconsciously, upon every normal man cannot be torn aside without leaving a scar. One thousand people cannot take part in torture and killing with no after-ef¬ fects. Such a thing brutalizes; it lowers the standard of humanity; it ieaves an underground feeling of contempt for law; it creates a blood lust that lruks, perhaps unrecognized, back in the re cesses of the mind, where it may flame out at the most unexpected time in homicidal frenzy. No man can take the life of a fellow-man without due pro¬ cess of law and be the same man af¬ terwards. Saturday’s scene will remain, indelibly written in scarlet letters, on the mind and in the heart of every man who took part in it until his dy¬ ing day. It will go with him into the silent watches of the night; it will come in nightmares to break his slum¬ ber; it will be with him at his fireside in the midst of his family; it will go with him when he sits in the sacred precincts of the church and listens to the Word of the Man who said, “Ven¬ geance is mine, saith the Lord.” He may bluster and brag, but deep down in his heart, far back in the recesses of his mind, that Thing will be, and he will never escape it. It will he with him on his death-bed. Therefore, we say again, the harm done Saturday was not to the brute. Williams, for whom there is neithei pity nor regret, but to the community. It is not to the county, although it was Colquitt’s first lynching, and it is a large and populous county; it was not to the State, although Georgia has suffered much in this respect; it was to neither of these that the greatest in¬ jury was done—it was to the white race. In the South, the white race took the rein3 of power by assertion of superi rity and divine right to govern. The negro in the South has no part in State and county government, be¬ cause he has no vote. The white race cannot take authority without at the same time accepting responsibility Therefore, it is the white race, and not the negro race, that is on trial. It is the white race and not the negro race that suffers from such things as took place Saturday, because, before the civilized world, the white race will be judged. We believe, firmly and con¬ sistently, that the white man shouia govern; that to him has been given 'those qualities that fit for government But at the same time, those who be¬ lieve this, must admit for the same rea¬ sons that back up this belief that the white man must govern fairly, justly and with dignity. He cannot afford to misgovern, for that would demonstrate his unfitness to govern. Not only this but he must show his superiorly by his example. He cannot adopt the meth ods of the brute without lowering himself to the level of the brute; he cannot take the law in his own hands to execute without bringing that law which he himself made, into contempt he cannot violate the law without set¬ ting the example that other race of law violation. Therefore, the Caucasion race, and the cause of Southern White Man suf¬ fers most through Saturday’s incident We may argue and orate as much as we please, but these facts we can¬ not escape.—Tifton Gazette. The Washington News-Reporter is now issuing only one paper a week. It was forced to return to a weekly or issue two papers a week at a loss, and chose the former course. Newspapers all over the country are hitting it hard just now. Business Is dull, collections bad, and many have recently been forced to suspend. It takes a lot of money to publish a newspaper these days, no matter how small it may be and ed many holding of those only now in being the hope publish j are on that conditions will improve during the next few' months.—Crawfordvilie Ad¬ vocate Democrat. UHURUH CALENDAR Methodist Church Conyers Street. Preaching Sunday, 11 A. M., and 8:00 M., by pastor, Rev. J. E. Eilis. Suuday School at 9 :45 A. M., C. D superintendent. All are invited to worship with us at all services. NORTH COVINGTON . .METHODIST CHURCH. Rev. W. Carroll, pastor. Regular services second and fourth Sundays. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Sunday School, lo a. m. Missionary Society every first Thurs¬ day. Baptist Church Floyd Street Preaching Sunday, 11 A. M„ 8:15 p. in., by the pastor. Rev. Walker Combs. Suuday school at 9:4d a. m., J, C. Upshaw, Supt. B. Y. P. U. Sunday at 7:30 P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8:15 P. M. Ladies Missionary Society meets Monday afternoon at 3:30, following first Sunday of each month A most cordial invitation is extend ed to these services. ( hiistian Science church College Ave. Services Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Suuday school at 1U o’clock a. m Wednesday Evening Meetiug, Includ¬ ing testimonials of Christian Science healing, at 8 o’clock. Public cordially invited. GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE Arrival and departure trains. Cov ington, Ga. Effective April *25, 1920 Eastbound Eastern Time Westbound No. 2 8:34a.m. No. 13 6:55a.m.-d No. 6 2:3opm. No. 3 6-45a.m. No. 8 5:30 p. m. No. 1 12:10 p. m. No. 14 8:58p.m. No. C 3:11p.m. No. 4 10:01 p. m. No. 7 7:45 p. in. No. 15 8:10a.in.-s “D” No. 13, daily except Sunday. “S” No. 15, Sunday only. J P Billups, G. P A. R C. GUINN, Agent All other trains run daily. Legal Blanks for sale at Ths News Office. NOTICE At last meeting the City Council voted to enforce the 12 mile speed limit in the incor¬ porated limits of Covington. T. J. Shields, Clerk. UORAH.fi, AU-EN —with— STEELE SANFORD JEWELRY CO Engraved Cards, Wedding Invitations, GIFTS THAT LAST 64 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. Hrirasue-.aa:. x... „„ - T- OdaC,* . WRW »Br -.wafh, -v-eS. zaKasssmuxx* i ■ hi n n i ; —-— ■ | 1*1 vm I £ Goodyear Tires That Are Even Better ‘Ilian Before i f ..mu.nmii.’ntetiunimuiiuinmte Si We are building better Goodyear Tires for passenger cars today than we rx have ever built before, In the past few months we have added to their value time and time again—making w them larger, stronger, heavier, and even more durable. We believe we speak truly when we say that no* where in the world will you find their equal in endurance, mileage, and sustained economy. You can get these tires from your Good' year Service Station Dealer now. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Offices Throughout the World V GOOD. EAR LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS. All parties interested in contracting to rebuild bridge, at Island Shoals, over South river are hereby advised to look over the work to be done and to submit sealed bids to Board of County Commissioners of Newton county, or to the County Commission¬ er of Henry county on or before the first 1921. The specifications for the bridge are roughly, as follows: Raise abutment at each end 3 feet. Raise abutment in center 8 teet. Get one half of bridge out ut l iver, one hundred feet span, put in good dition, and In proper place. In fact, complete the bridge. County to fur nish all material, including cement, floor, and etc. For further informa¬ tion see or write Dan Upshaw, Cov¬ ington, Ga„ or Milt Walker, McDon¬ ough. Ga. The County Commissioners of Newton and Henry counties reserve the right to receive or reject any or all bids. 27-30. Notice is hereby given that on the 5th day of July, 1921, fit 5:30 p m. ui Covington, Georgia, at the Court House of Newton county before the .Superior Court of said county, find ihe Honor-able John B. Hutcheson, Judge of said Court, will be heard the case of the State of Georgia vs Gum Creek Drainage District, of said county, be ing proceedings for the validation and confirmation of bonds issued b> said Drainage District on the lit day of April. 1921. in accordance with law. This June 23rd, ]92’. C. O. NIXON, Clerk Superior Court Newton Count v 29-30 NOTICE TO THE PI HI It Federal Aid Project No. 153 New ton County, Georgia, has been com pleted, including Excavation and bridge work according to all rules and specifications. We therefore ask an acceptance and that a final settlement be made. CAMPBELL & SWANN, 4t Contractors. 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It is sold, guar¬ right today and start taking It. anteed and recommended by yarn Give it a trial for a week or t wo druggist. CITY PH ARM U Y, COVINGTON, G A. CITATION GEORGIA, Newton County. To all whom it may concern: J. M. Maloy of said state, having proper form, applied in for permanent Letters of administration on the of Iverson earn,. W. Crowell, late 0 f county, deceased, smj this is to cite all ar j ( ’ singular the creditors , and next of ki t of Iverson W. Crowell deceased, to j and appear at the Court of Ordinal i of said y I county, at the July Term, ly;; and show cause, if any they can wi i permanent Letters of Administrate ■ should not be granted to said j. Maloy on said estate. Witness my official signature, tha 9th day of May, 1921, - ; r-’9c A. L. LOYD, Ordinary. CITATION GEOR<HA—Newton County. To all Whom it May Concern: Miss Nancy E, Morgan of said State having, in proper form applied for in¬ ters of administration on the esta - of Elizabeth F. Morgan late of said county, deceased, this is tu cite ali and singular the creditors and next kin, to be and appear at the Court of Ordi¬ nary of said county at the July term, 1921 and show cause, if any they can. why permanent tetters of administra¬ tion should not be granted to said Nancy E. Morgan on said estate. Witness my official signature, this 7th day of June, 1921. 27-30 A. L. LOYD, Ordinary. NOTICE. Any person, or persons who have accounts against Dora Hightower Au.~ tin, cannot take mortgage against or sell the house in which she now lives for it belongs to Dora F, Hightower Richie, 2 (It 6 Gerritt St.,Philadelphia, Pa.