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The COVINGTON NEWS
Official Organ of Newton County
and the City of Covington.
•ublislied every Thursday by tin
News Publishing Company.
\V\ E. LIGHTFOOT, EditorMgr
Entered as second class nniil matter
December 2, 1908, at the Post Ortioe
at Covington, Ga,., under the act of
March 3, 1879,
SUBSCRIPTION HATES :
One Year, (in advance) ........ $2.e0
Six Months, (in advance,) ....... $1.25
THl KSD.IY, AlGIST I, 1921.
The Charlotte News says that the an¬
nouncement that Georgia's first baU
brought 68c per pound at auction
“sounds like old times.”
A few years ago it was the-.cigarettc
that was the great evil of the age.
Now it is salt. Too much salt causes
an inflamatory condition in many dis
eases.
The Panama Pacific Exposition was
the first on record to pay a dividend,
and that recently paid by the directors
of that exposition was $5,500,000. Wo
must hand the belt to California; for
shi- lias won as a financier, and proven
her ability to run a great fair suc¬
cessfully.
It begins to look like a Greek victo¬
ry in Turkey. Reports received from
the battle of Kasia are to the effect
that the Greeks took 15,000 prisoners,
168 guns, 2,000 camels and other
spoils. A few more battles of that tia
ture and the Turish Nationals will be
civilized.
Calamity howlers are showing that
our export trade fell off 1,600,000,090
from last year. The statement proves
nothing that will materially affect the
husintss conditions of the country
The fact of the case is that ouw ex¬
ports may have been greater than
last year, although the value was less
Prices have fallen and will fall more
yet, but the volume of business may
be greater. The balance in favor of
the United States on account of the
last year’s export trade was a snug
little $2,852,000,000. If these figures
are alarming the calamity howler may
point out wherein.
if there is a belief that crime is on
the increase that idea may be banish
ed by investigating the true condition.
Take for instance the report of San¬
ford Bates, commissioner of correc¬
tion in Massachusetts: “On Speternb -r
80, 1914, there were 6,970 prisoners in
penal institutions in the Bay State.
The number on May 31, this year, was
2,090, which represents a net decrease
of 3,888. The largest number of prix
oners confined in Massachusetts cor
rectional institutions during last year
was 3,000, which is less than half tic
number ol 1914.” There is no doub,
that other states will be able to show
a reduction in crime approximately
equal to that prevailing in the state
of Massachusetts.
1* is estimated that 100,000 seals
will be killed on the Alaskan coast
and islands this season. This may in
dicate a drop in the price of sealskins
though not to any great degree, except
it be from the high prices of war
times. When the United States aequir
ed Alaska from Russia there were es
timated to be fully 2,500,000 seals in
Alaskan waters. There was then no
protection from indiscriminate slaugit
ter, and by 1911 the herds had dwin
tiled until there were but 125,900 seals
left of the immense herds. Under pro
tection the herds have multiplied ran
idly, and the seal industry will again
be an important item in the Alaskan
trade.
WANTS $30,000,000
FOR PLANE CARRIERS
Washington—Recommendation tha t
approximately $30,000,000 be appropri¬
ated for construction of airplane car¬
riers will be made soon to congress
Secretary of the Navy Denby has an¬
nounced. A measure embodying such
a proposal is pending before the house
naval committee and it is understood
that the naval secretary will urge :ts
speed y enactment. f I
Coincident with Mr. Denby’s an
nouncement Senator King, democrat,
Utah introduced a bill which would
provide for conversion of the battle
cruisers Saratoga, Lexington arid Co t
stellj^ion into airplane carriers and for
stoppage of construction work on the
battle:: hips South Dakota. Indiana,
Montana, North Carolina, Iowa and
Massachusetts and on the battle cruis¬
ers Ranger, Constitution and United
States. *
Secretary Denby said he had decided
on his forthcoming recommendation
even before the recent bombing tests
but that the results of those tests had
convinced him that the navy needed
more airplane carriers.
The Great Lakes may become ocean
ports, the project of two famous en¬
gineers is carried out. The proposition
is to create a 25-foot channel in the
St. Lawrence, making a new warter
way inland for hundreds of miles lor
ocean-going ships. The estimated cost
of the improvements is $252,728,209,
and includes the construction of a dam
that will develop approximately L-
500,000 horse power, the revenue from
which it is estimated will pay for the
entire cost of constructing the dam
and the water-way. Should this s heme
8 . earned into effect the distance
from Lake ports will be shortened,
transportation nearly one-half, and
make the Lake ports of Toledo. Cleve¬
land or Chicago points of departure
for European destinations. This is a
job that should be undertaken jointly
by tin railed States and Canadian
•_rovvrnnn tits, and if it ever material¬
izes will be of great benefit to the in¬
terior economics of both nations.
The prospect of increased activity
in all industrial lines the coming fail
L il.-. idedly brighter. Conditions are
improving t verywhere, both industri¬
al and railroad stocks are improving
and owners of stocks are clinging to
their holdings. The prospect of the
bonus hill being dropped by the pres
nt Congress, due to the fact that the
ountry is in no way to meet the in¬
creased burden of taxation, is another
encouraging feature in business ci¬
ties. That the soldiers deserve recog¬
nition is not denied, but how to pre¬
serve the credit of the nation and
stimulate business with such an ex¬
cessive tax burden is a problem from
which Congress shrinks at this tint.-,
preferring to carry the bonus to some
future legislation, when the country
will be in a better position to meet the
obligation. The absorbing question to
day is to set business on a firm basis,
restore confidence, and set the wheels
of industry in motion, giving employ¬
ment to labor and increasing the pur¬
chasing power of the people.
Money does not bring happiness, yet
every man is striving to accumulate it
with the hope and expectation that at
some future period he will Vie able to
retire from active labor and enjoy th •
fruits of his industry and self denial.
Those who are successful in piling uo
fortunes may' finally turn their busi¬
ness cares over to younger men; but
the moment they cease the activity of
business life they find themselves in
another atmosphere. It is not easy to
break away from habits of industry
any more than it is from habits of an¬
other nature. It is not easy to put
aside the harness of industry and as¬
sume the freedom of an inactive 1 if—
The fortune that one has made ceases
to he as precious as it seemed when
.the active business man was strug¬
gling to accumulate it. He finds that
he can spend it, but he also finds that
it does not bring the satisfaction
which he anticipated. In youth he set
a mark and kept his eyes upon it,
struggling, working and saving until
he had reached it; but meanwhile the
friends of youth have departed; some
have gone over the “great divide;”
some have wandered to distant homes,
and few remain to share with him the
anticipated pleasures of a life of ease
in defining years. The world ceases to
be as beautiful and the mind seeks
that which it cannot find. Years have
changed the man and his environment
He looks backward over his years of
labor, his struggles for a competency,
and at last finds that it is not in wealth
that true happiness lies, but in the
satisfaction of work well done, and
rhat it does not exist in the sense of
possession of wealth that may have
been acquired often lay questionable
nean^.
LEHOi I) THE BILL COLLECTOR!
Behold the bill collector goeth forth
to collect and eollecteth not. Surely
goodnes‘; and inert y shall follow him
all the days ol his fife. Walton News.
Behold the bill collector goeth forth
to collect and findeth the man he
es to collect from out after him with a
bigger hill than his. Conyers Times.
Behold the bill collector as he goeth
forth to collect a bill, but don’t allow
him to behold y 7 ou.—Atlanta Journal,
Behold the bill collector goeth forth
to collect but the debtor beggeth pa¬
tience and “the lord of that servant
was moved with compassion and loos¬
ed him, and forgave him the debt.”—
Butler Herald.
Ho! for the millenium is at hand.
ATHENS’ NEW PAPER.
The Georgian Is to Appear There
the Afternoons.
Athens, Ga.—Athens is to have a new
daily newspaper. It will be called The
Georgian and will appear in the after¬
noons. The machinery for it is being
bought by a syndicate of Athens
business men. It will make its first ap¬
pearance early in September.
The organization of the company for
the publication of this paper follows the
recent combination by which The Ban¬
ner, the morning paper, and The Her¬
ald, the afternoon paper, passed under
the same management and control.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON. GEORGIA
SONGS OF THE OLD DAYS.
We have heard Melba. We have
heaid Garden. We have sat entranced
while the divine Curci poured forth her
soul in profuse strains of premeditat¬
ed art. We have seen Farrar’s boso.n
heaving with high priced melody. And
once, in a day further removed, we lis¬
tened to Patti and the raindops on the
roof at the same time—a Lilliputian
figure she seemed from the skiey'seal
we occupied, and her voice like that of
Keat's nightingale when it "faded far
away into the forest dim.” They wer
all that they were cracked up to b
in their way—we’ll admit that. But
sitting today in oi>>- old Morris chair
by the inglenook and considerably
frosted as to the pumpkin, we have
been thumbing over a portfolio of the
old songs that we used to sing in those
good old days, and we are here to tell
you that we wouldn’t swap the memo
ries they arouse for all the arias ami
high C’s that those distinguished art
ists ever put over the footlights. \V
will make one exception—that was Par
ti’s “Last Rose of Summer.” That al
ways did hit the spot, even though tin
old girl always sang it on compulsion
Do not misunderstand us. iVe arc
for art—with both feet. Those highw
flights of song have their uses, like
Shakespeare and the musical glasses.
But the only asociations they awaken
in our minds are those that are linked
with footlights, artificial scenery,
sounding brass, bareback performers,
ushers ajid swallowtail coats. They
have no place in those secret chamber:!
of the heart where hang the portraits
of the girls we used to love frorq 16
up to the matrimonial fine. They haw
no power to evokr; memories of mellow
moons, sighing winds, distant dale
lights gleaming in the sycamore home¬
steads by the sea, morning glory vines,
mocking birdsf home and mother, not
homeward serenades. For these, give
to mention the gardens of Gambrinus
and the tremendous melodies of th¬
us the good old songs that w 7 e used to
heard sung so often by our favorite
minstrels of the boards, now, alas,
sung or heard no more. And none, with
a kindred kick, have come to tak -
their place.
Do you remember the night—that
one bright, particular night—that you
took your fight guitar and went with
the boys to her window' and sang,
Alice, where art thou?” We do. Alice
wasn't her name. None of the nam s
that were attached to those old songs
Arabellia, Leonora, Genevieve, Geor
giana, Juanita, Kathleen—were ever
borne by the girls whose faces wer •
in our hearts as we sang them. Om
Alice w r as named Lizzie—she’s one oi
those grayhaired mothers now. Thar>
her boy that’s president^ of the Quality
Hill bank. It seems but yestrday that
we fined up, at 1 A. M. beneath her
window and a full August moon and
roused the neighborhood with:
“The birds are sleeping gently, sweet
Lyra
Lyra gleameth bright,” v
Come to recollect, Alice didn’t show
up that night, but her father did. H
was rather a crusty old fellow vvh(
didn’t like to be distrubed. He raised
the window gently above where v,x
stod. At first W'e thought it was Alice.
Then W'e heard the old man’s voice,
ominously bland, hoarsely whispering
down through the night: “How many
of you are there boys?” “Four,” we
answered expectantly. “Well, just di
vide this among you,” he said as he
dropped a huge, round, yellow sub
stance that had all the semblance ot
an over ripe pumpkin though it was
shattered beyond recognition on th
Minor’s head. But even that could not
subdue our ardor. Lightly we brushed
the fragments from our garments and
went away trailing behind us the strain
of “My Bonnie lies over the ocean
bring back, bring back, bring back, nr
Bonnie to me, to me.”
That was a quartett, we remember,
t that went in strong o*r the sentimental
5 stuff—hut, of course, every 7 member o.
j if was in love. “Sweet Marie” was a
prime favorite. Have y ou forgotten it
I “I’ve a secret in my heart, Sweet Marie
^A tale I would import, love to thee.’
j Talk about “sweetness and light”—
J show us a song of these later days that
lean touch “Sweet Marie” for the very
essence of saccharine delight! A com¬
panion piece—as the book agent would
say 7 —was the “Spanish Cavalier,” full
of romance and with a little moral ad¬
vice thrown in. Let’s set -»what was
the tune? Oh, ye-—
A Spanish cavalier stood in his retreat,
And on his guitar played a tune, dear.
With music so sweet, he’d ofttimes re¬
peat,
The blessing of my country 7 and you
dear;
Say darling, say, when i am far away.
Sometimes you may think of me dear.
Bright sunny days will soon fade awa
Remember what I say and be true,
dear.
And true she was, we’ll warrant—if
not to the singer, to some other fellow
who perhaps sang it just as sweetly.
Of course “Juanita” and “Genevieve”
ought not to be forgotten, though we
fear they are. They were the stand
bys of the roving quartets of those
good old days.
Then there were the parlor melodies
—the songs we used to sing late into
lhe Sunday nights as we foregathered
around the piano or the organ. There
was one old song We remember that
voiced the very atmosphere of those
choral home parties. It was “Maggie
Murphy's Home.” the chorus went in
this fashion:
On Sunday nights ‘tis my delight and
pleasure, don’t you see,
Meeting all the girls and all the boys
that work downtown with me.
The "Letter in the Candle” was sure
to he called for—suggested, perhaps,
by the low flickering of the kerosine
lamp on the piano top, and other
things, too, because in those days wo
always wrote letters to our girls, even
when we were in the same neighbor¬
hood. It always hit a tender spot—
that "Letter in the Candle.” Here it is:
There’s a letter in the' candle and it
points direct to me.
How the little spark is shining from
whoever can it be?
From the seductions of the farm to
the glamours of the city was an easy
transition in those days of eternal
youth. We went in a good deal for the
melancholy stuff—we were a tender¬
hearted bunch. “After the Ball” always
had a tender appeal for us—it gave us
a feeling of having had a society fling
and realized the shallowness cf it all.
The chorus ran:
After the ball is over, after the break
of morn,
After the dancers’ leaving, after tha
stars are gone.
What’s become of the good old
i "mother” songs? Are there no old gray
haired mothers in these clays, or ha
she bee forgotten entirely in the riegn
of jazz? W’e sure remembered her m
those old days and gave her plenty' o.
space-—and were none the worse for i:
you ma.v believe. In our day "Mother
was r ight up to the front with th
"Hallies,” the “Genevieves,” the “Juan
itas,” and the "Leonoras.” Everybody
sang about her—the vaudeville artist
the glee clubs, the music hall girls
the quartets and even her wandering
boy with his foot upon the rail. “Boys,
Listen to Your Mother,” “Be Kind r
Mother When I’m Gone,” “Just to See
Mother’s Face Again,” “Why Does
Mother Stay So Long?” “Kiss Me
Mother, Kiss Your Darling,” “Lean
Your Head Upon My 7 Breast,” “The
Boy’s Best Friend Is His Mother,
“As I Sat Upon My Dear Old Moth¬
er’s Knee”—these and a score of other
popular maternal tributes come to
mind. In one strain or another thev
voiced such honorable and tender sen
timents as these;
I’m not ashamed to call her mother.
Even though her hair is turned ’
gray,
I’m not ashamed to call her mother,
Here upon the crowded street today.
I’ve come back to cheer her lone'
heart, girls,
I’ve come back to make the old plac
bright,
I’ve come back to bask in her swe
smile, girls,
I’m going home with her tonight.
—Syracuse Herald.
Has any government The right
withhold from its people the condition
of a secret -treaty? Has any gov. r
ment a moral or legal right to eat
into such an obligation We wow
naturally say it lias not, and esper
ly not of that government is dem j
craiic. Foreign dailies in Too io w. ■
recently suppressed for publi rhlng th
details of the Anglo-Japaneu-? Alban
a treaty 7 that lias been in effect f,.
about twenty 7 years. It was not a ea 7
of the pact that calL-d forth criticism
but The disclosure of its tr ims, which
the people w 7 ere not suppes d to kno
and for letting the people know jus;
what terms the government had ir.-i
posed upon them the papers were r..*
verely dealt with. In a democracy
. tin b a course would result -n an up
rising that would be bad for the go
ernment officials who would thu • :,a
pose upon their cc.istituenu. Seer
treaties have led to many bloody war
to the downfall of governments and
’he embarrassment of nations. The ■»
ill be no world peace until govern
mi nts are willing to publicly 7 announ -
:o the people of the nations involved
rhe conditions and terms of interim
tional pacts. When newspapers are
suppressed for publishing tire truth,
or the contents of covenants entered
into by governments, there is danger
that such governments are inviting
trouble if not disaster. The newspa¬
pers are the safeguards of the nation.
Free speech is an inalienable
and the freedom of the press a sacred
institution. The nation that disregards
this fact can never be assured, of do
mtjstic tranquility or peace with its
neighbors.
GENERAL FSE OF POSE
MORTFMS IS BEING FRGLII
London—The movement foi^universal
post mortem examinations, which was
strongly advocated by Prof. David
Drummond, president of tl Qh
Medical association, meets i;
approval of hosuital and medh al n
The application of such a reform, it
asserted, would give valuable ins :
into questions of diagnosis and be
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
libel for divorce
GEORGIA, Newton County
Clara Prewitt vs. Alonza Prewitt. In
Newtoni Superior Cour t, September
% Term, 1921. Libel for Total Divorce,
To Alonza Prewitt:
In pursuance of an order to perfect
serviqe on you by publication in the
above stated case, the same being a
libel for total divorce, you are hereby
required personally or by 7 attorer\ to
he and appear at the September term,
1921 , of Newton Superior Court, to be
held in and for said county on the
third Monday in September next,
then and there to answer tlie plain t
iff’s complaint, as in default thereof
said court will proceed as to justice
shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable John B.
Hutcheson, Judge of said court, this
23rd day of July, 1921.
C. O. NIXON,
Clerk of Newton Superior Courd.
To Sept29p
STATE OF GEORGIA, Newton County.
By 7 virtue of an order’ of the Court of
Ordinary of Newton county, granted
upon the application of J. W. Morgan
as administrator of the estate of Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Morgan, deceased, late of
said county, to sell the lands of said
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Morgan, deceased, for
the purpose of^fiaying debts and distri
bution, there will he sold before tin
court house door, at public outcry, at tln
highest bidder, in the City of Coving¬
ton, between the legal hours of sale, on
the first Tuesday 7 in September, 1921, as
the property 7 of said deceased, the fol¬
lowing described lands, to-wit:
“One hundred and tow (102) acres of
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coming motherhood should allow
the days to pass without giving
the nature a helping hand —because
conditions of pending mother¬
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protracted period of jnonths, cre¬
ate almost a new state of being
for a woman.
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By studying di-eases we learn about
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Inquiries at London hospitals showed
that there are post mortem examina¬
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