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The COVINGTON
Official Organ of Newton County
and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the
News Publishing Company.
\V. E. f.ICHTFOOT, - Editor-Mgr.
Entered as second class mail
December 2, 1908, at the Post
at Covington, Ga., under the act
March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921
Elephants He on their left side when
asleep. Some men lie when the truth
wo,dd serve them better.
Nineteen twenty-two resolutions
should he good, and if you turn over
a new leaf put a brick on it.
If Germany is hoping to get relief
from the weight of the indemnity that
tin- Allies placed upon her, she will
lind a realization of her hopes in work
and the square deal. Hot air will never
pay the bill.
F. Martin Duncan, an Englishman,
has made the startling discovery that
fleas do have fleas, and that the flea
that feeds upon the flea may also be
infested with a still more minute par¬
asite, and so on down to an infinitesi¬
mal mite beyond the power of the mi¬
croscope to discover.
The world is growing better. Chirs
tianity grew more than two and one
helf tiuies more during the past cen¬
tury than in the eighteen centuries
|n receding, and in the past twenty
> ars it has gained more converts than
in any century of the world’s history.
'I here are now 600,000,000 people
throughout the world who profess the
Christian faith, or more than six
times as many as there were in 1600.
and fully one-half of the religious per¬
sons of the world.
The people of Ireland have received
'he most precious Christmas present
that has come to that long-suffering
people since the British subjected the
island some eight hundred years ago.
Since that time Ireland has made many
attempts to free herself from the
British yoke, but all uprisings have
been put down with great severity,
and tin Irish have continued to chafe
under the lash that bound them to thp
British crown. Ireland is now free to
govern herself, and an Irish republic
may become a reality in the not dis¬
tant future.
The Russian peasants are tired of
promises and now insist upon deeds.
The promised Utopian state has not
been realized, and the people want to
be shown that the government intends
to fulfill its promises, and in case
something is not soon done to relieve
the present situation there will be a
failing apart of the communist idol
ind the establishment of u progressive
institution in which Lenine will have
no paart. The people are beginning to
demand the suppression of communist
arrogance, corruption and bribery,
end the establishment of schools
throughout the nation. Illiteracy, even
among communists, has been found to
b ( far too degrading to be longer sanc¬
tioned even by a people who have
never known even the rudiments of a
higher standard of living. They do
Know, however, that something is
'•inng with their system and are look¬
ing about with an earnest desire to
’ SO out of the mire of a beastly ex
istenee.
I he Christmas tree brings joy to the
household. Laden with gifts and deco¬
rated with tinsel and candles it is a
thing of beauty and a joy to the young,
who look forward to the Christmas
season and gift-laden tree with gleeful
■ xpectaney. Another side of the Christ¬
mas tree custom is more serious. It
means much to the timberlands of the
north; for every tiny tree that is cut
for a Christmas decoration means one
tree less for timber, for paper and
mher purposes for which the fir and
the spruce may Ik* used. The Christmas
tree is usually of fir or spruce, be¬
cause of the density of foliage, and if
grown in the open is really a tiling of
beaut\. Already the lumber industry
of the country is menaced. The pulp
mills are going to Canada, to Norway,
to Sweden and Finland, as well as to
Poland and far off Russia for their
supply of raw material for the manu¬
facture of twper, and the lessening
* u PPly causes no little worry on the
l>aj t of timber and paper manufactur¬
ers. \\ hen consider that the state
of \ ermont atone furnishes 5.000.000
< hristmas trees annually for the East¬
ern markets, and that all the other
ig and states aic contributing
Proportion, we may form some
what the Christams tree indus
ns to future generations. The
ee means a big tree if left to
nd the big tree means boards.
md paper. Cut it for a Christ
jration and it serves no useful
other than a momentary do-
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTurs, uKunum
FARMERETTES WILL FARM
The war developed a number of so
called freak ideas, among which was
the farmerette. Women and gills ac¬
cepted the idea with genuine delight,
donned overalls and jumpers and wont
to work upon the land. Some accepted
jobs as hired help, other as leasers
and some as owners of farm property,
and all who undertook the rough out¬
door work profited thereby'. It may lie
that they did not fill earn big wages,
but they found something better than
wages in the health and vigor that
came to them in the development of
their muscles and in the breathing of
the pure air <>f the country.
Today there are thousands of wo¬
men throughout the country who will
continue to work upon the farms
They have tried it and they like it.
They find profit in it and an awakened
interest in nature that makes all th
world more beautiful.
Many women are conducting poul¬
try farms, many are raising wheat and
corn; some are market gardening,
some stock raising, some cultivating
flowers and some in a general farm¬
ing business.
Women and girls have left the of¬
fices and (he factories to take up out
door work and they are making good,
living upon the fat of the land and
putting aside a little bunch of money
every year to comfort them in old
age or to buy the wedding finery when
they feel that they need a partner in
the enterprise they are* successfully
conducting.
Many of these farmerettes will nev¬
er marry. They prefer the freedom of
the outdoor life to the drudgery of
household duties and the domination
of man. The free outdoor life has
awakened a spirit of independence that
they do not care In subdue, and the
idea that was started as a fad when
the soldier ftoys were fighting in
France or training for service across
tiie seas, has become an estiblished in¬
stitution, and the so-called weakness
of women has been proven to be i
myth.
All the women wanted was a chance,
and now that they have it, and the
right of suffrage as well, there will be
farmerettes to the end of time, and
they will be as successful as men in
the trades or professions they may se¬
lect, and not the least will be the cul¬
tivation of the soil, the growing of
fruits, and the numerous other indus¬
tries that are allied with farming.
TAKING BREAD FROM
THE NEIGHBORS MOUTII
Time and time again we hear of cas¬
es where some one has through mad
desire or some other cause inhuman
wants to put their colored help or
white neighbor on a starvation basis
by taking the hist thing in the world
they possess all because the unfortu¬
nate party has fallen empty handed at
the mercy of an unscrupulous person
who has them bound by some debt,
and it does not matter whether leg: 1
or not. the question of debt should be
considered in the right way and not
the wrong.
This practice is throughout the statu.,
and not confined to any particular
county. Men who have unfortunates
at their mercy respiting’ from a con¬
tract made by the two parties in good
faith and on account of crop failure
brought about by no fault of either,
have nothing to gain by demanding tli ■
ALL just because the law is with him,
and while the law of the land is our
salvation in one sense of the word,
there is the weak point. There is no jus
tiee. in taking a little corn which may
be ail a family has to eat and otherwise
starving them because the law is witn
you.
If a man raised some corn on shares
or so many bushels to the acre under
contract which was to go to the owner
of the* land, and after the 1 corn was
gathered it was found there was not
even enough according to the CON¬
TRACT for the landlord, say nothing
oi the part for the one who sweats t *
make what there was. the owner of
the land demanding the lion’s share
would take' it ALL. and regardless of
the pitiful condition he* would leave
the party in who tried to do right.
Starve them if you want to, but re¬
member stealing is not light when it
comes to taking food from a family,
if the law does let you do it.
Poison gas is not to be barred out as
an element of warfare. Even the
1 nited State's refuses to place a ban
upon its use against armed troops,
wholly as a matter of self-proteotior.
The powers will probably agree not t i
use" it against unfortified cities, but
such an agreement might easily be
broken in a moment of intense danger.
No nation would see its civillian popu¬
lation bombarded from the air with¬
out taking measures to prevent it, and
in all probability would resort to any
measures to protect its cities and the
home8 of its , )ooplo . rega rdless of any
that might lie broken by
an enemy determined to win at any
cost.
You ’t forget when you deal wit’
Dame Nature. You can do as you
please, but you must pay. She collects
from everybody.
(.OLD IN ABUNDANCE
Thomas A. Edison announces start¬
ling discoveries in the transmutation
of metals.
A Frenenm’an in London claims to
have discovered a process for turning
mercury into gold and radium, and
samples submitted to chemists seem
to prove his claim.
Supposing the statements of the
Frenchman to be bona fide gold will
be cheaper than roubles in Russia.
Mercury costs 70 cents a pound and
gold is worth $25 an ounce.
L the above statements are true
America will not always be the rich¬
est country in the world. Her gol 1
will be cheapened, and not only Amei
ca blit the world will experience a fi¬
nancial panic such as was never known
before; 'for the monetary basis of the
world’s medium of exchange as gold.
Gold is the standard of values the
world over and supposing the $3,500,
000,000 of gold now in the United
States should depreciate to the level
of copper, for reason of its abundance,
there would be need of adopting an¬
other standard of values, and In the
transition there would be such a
tumbling of credits, such a crash in
financial circles, that all business
would lie tied up. The high prices of
the war period would be nothing in
comparison to what would happen; for
a depreciated money standard means
trouble for whatever nation that is so
unfortunate - as to trofle with its fi
naces, and were the international
standard demonetized, because of the
abundance of gold, there would be
more flivmcial wreckage than the
world has ever known in its entire
history.
Edison is of the opinion that ‘hu¬
manity and the products of the soil
should be the basis for a money stand¬
ard. Allowing that the world should
adopt such a scheme the fluctuations
would be so great that no one would
know from day to day whether, he or
she was worth a dollar or not. The
potato crop might fail, the apples rot,
the grain spoil or the crops fail.
Some have advanced tin* idea that
the real estate value of a nation
should be adopted as a basis of its
money, and various schemes have been
I’tit forward for the issuing of a paper
currency backed by the naturall re¬
sources of a nation; just as a town or
city bond is backed by the property of
the i itizens, any one or all of who are
Fable t > have their property seized if
the town or city fails to meet its obli¬
gations.
Gold is a rare metal. There are oth¬
er metals now known that are more
valuable than gold; but such was not
tlii' case in ancient times, and gold
became the standard of values thous¬
ands of s ycai’s ago, and has continued
to bo recognized as such to the present
day.
For thousands of years silver was
so rare tiiat it was also used as a ba¬
sis of money standard; but its abund¬
ance has caused it to be abandoned,
and the world now measures its values
upon the single standard, except in
some countries that have not yet
abandoned the old method of financier¬
ing.
\\ hether or not the Frenchman or
Mr. Edison have discovered what all
chemists sought for in vain for hun¬
dreds of year>» tlie probability is that
their discoveries will not create any
great disturbance in the money market
for some time to come; and it is also
luite probable that even if they have
the process will be far too expensive
to create any disturbance for years to
come: so do not exchange your gold
for Russian roubles or German marks
mud future developments warrant the
■
act. ’
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SHIPPING MORE GOODS
TO EUROPE
We read the reports of our declining
l’oregn commerce, which is handed out
to us in dollars an 1 cents, rather than
in volume, and we are led to believe
that there is a tremendous falling off
ift tiie amount of business being done.
The facts are that the volume of bus¬
iness is even greater; that we actually
sold more wheat, more corn, more cot¬
ton and in fact more of almost every¬
thing than we did in 1920. The fact
is that we shipped to other countries
90.0ti0.000 bushels more wheat, over a
hundred million bushels more of corn.
,i half million halt's more of cotton,
ver a hundred million pounds more of
otton seed oil. and 550.000,000 more
gallons of mineral oils. We must not
forget that the war is over; that ex
ssi\ e Mar values ^have ceased to
raise the volume of business to as¬
tounding figures; that the falling pric¬
es have enabled our European neigh¬
bors to buy more of our products Mith
ninth less money, and that therefore
the volume of business is greater, al¬
though the values are less. Would it
not be m->re just to give out these re¬
ports in it ns. pounds, gallons and oth¬
er uints of measure, rather than ih.>
misleading figures, which mean very
little to those unfamiliar with the con¬
ditions. 1 hose false reports have a de¬
pressing tendency, and serve to delay
rather than hasten the progress of re¬
adjustment.
‘WHAT IS MAN THAT THOU
ARE MINDFUL OF HIM.
The city man, when he, gets up
the morning, turns on the gas, picks
the paper off the front porch,- takes
a cold showerj^eats a cold stdrage egg,
and a slice of baker’s bread toast, an l
marvels aneiv on the mightiest of
man.
The city man, at night, leaves the
heaped tomb where men busy
souls in business, and in his smooth
riding machine whirls home, with arc
lights for his moon, and the smoke of
a thousand chimneys for the heaven.
Man’s works are all about him and
he becomes highly important in his
own education.
Religions and philosophies are not
born in cities; they die there.
The farmer stumbles from his bed
in the dark, he splits his wood from
the ^ough side of a knot, he draws his
water from the depths of a dug well,
and looking to the east, he sees the
day mysteriously being born again; he
pauses a moment and hears the ete'r
nal hymn the birds sing each morn¬
ing to the new sun; he watches the
flood of life-giving light slowly wash
over the rounded hills, and gild the
mirror surface of the pasture stream.
At night, after a day in the field, ir,
the woods, in the hills, somewhere
close to the beginning and root of
things, the countryman comes home
through the dusk, the moon in its
first quarter swings a silver crescent
over his left shoulder; the afterglow of
the departed sun touches the tips of
J the tall trees away off to the west; the
birds are snuggling to their night’s
rest with contented twitter and chirp;
the nigh hawk whirls his great circles
between the circling bats, and the
whisper of little winds in the forest
tell of many mysteries.
After supper the stars come out,
blazing eternal vivid red Mars, the
constellations gem the purple vastness
above, and the cooling earth invites to
rest.
And the farmer understands how the
ancient felt when he exclaimed;
“What is man that Thou are.mindful
of him,"—Athens Daily News.
Ql ITMAN HAS GOTTEN IN A FIX
Quitman is in something of a fix
about the city government there. It
seems that that the last state legisla¬
ture provided a new charter for Quit
man, through which the town went
from mayor-and-eouncil .men govern¬
ment form. A short time ago the new
commissioners—three of them—wbre
elected. They now refuse to serve and
say that they will not qualify.
The mayor and councilman say that
their positions have been abolished
and that they are out of business after
midnight of December 31st. They in¬
sist that any act by them after that
hour ivould be illegal and assert that
they are not to turn a hand. Their po¬
sition is that the laM’ creating the com¬
missioner fqym of government clearly
sets out that they were to act no fur¬
ther as officials after the hour stipu¬
lated in the new act.
Meantime the newly-elected commis¬
sioners. are obdurate and declare that
they will noa qualify. The legislative
act did not contemplate that selected
commissioners would not serve and no
provision was made in the legislation
to meet the contingency which has
arisen.
The ordinary of Brooks county
takes the position that the incumbent
mayor and council, by law and by
light, hold their positions until their
successors in office have qualified, but
Mayor Harrell and his couneilmen will
not see it that way and declare that
they will not function after midnight
of December 31st. The newly elected
comnrssioners lik -wise in Quitman
arc worried about the situation, for
Mayor Harwell contends that M’hen he
cold his couneilmen go out of ofl co all
the city officials, including police de¬
partment also go out of business.—
Augusta Chronicle.
When a man “has money to burn"
he can always find some one that is
eager to start the fire.
WANTED Men or women to take
orders among friends and neighbois
for the genuine guaranteed hosiery,
full line for men. women and children.
Eliminates darning. AVe pay 75e an
hour spare time, or $36.00 a week for
full time. Experience unnecessary.
Write International Stocking Mills.
Morrismvn. Pa. 3-S.
Mate of Georgia vs. Mayor ami Coun¬
cil of Covington, 'Georgia.
Notice is hereby given that the
State of Georgia by and through its
Solicitor General, Alonzo M. Brand,
having filed a petition for the purpose
of validating the following re-funding
bonds, to be known as the Electric
T ight refunding Bonds, to take up.
cancel and take the place of the issue i
of Light May Bonds. 22, 1901. of$1000.00 known each as the numbered Electric j I
from one to 15. The same will be heard I
in the Newton County Superior Court 1
Five o’clock P. M. January 1
room at on
11 th. 1922. All parties interested take
notice hereof.
Given office under this December my hand 24. and 1921. seal of ]
mv
C. O. NIXON.
Clerk Superior Court Newton County
How Many Women
] Are in Trouble
] I T oday ?
i
By J. R. HAMILTON
Former Advertising Manager of Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia
Aii of you women whose husbands have told you you have been
spending too much money, please stand up. Great Scott I Every
married woman in America is on her feet.
All you who are earning your own living and spending as
much as you earn please stand up.
Now we’ve got the rest of them.
“Well,” you say, “now that you’ve got us standing here what
Mire you going to do about it?”
I’m going to give you the first law of business:
Cut your expenses down first, and then find out how you can
do it afterward.
Every big institution carries what it calls a “butcher.”
When the expenses of that institution begin to eat up the
[profits the “butcher” issues a sweeping order to cut down so many
ilmndre is of dollars a day. He doesn’t ask how it can be done.
,He knows it 1ms to be done if his business is going to continue,
and he leaves it to the people under him to find out how.
This cutting seldom if ever ruins a business. It simply
sharpens the wits of those who are left.
Now let’s take your case. Instead of taking the money that
you think you ought to have, suppose you take the money that
you have actually got. In your case, being both “butcher” and
buyer, you naturally have to sharpen your own wits.
Therefore the first thing you begin to do each day (just as you
are going to do now in a minute or two) is to open this paper and
see wliat special inducement each store is offering in the things
that are necessary for you to buy. You look for the clothes, and
the shoes, the children’s dresses and suits, the underwear, the
house needs, and all of the various necessities and luxuries de¬
manded in your standard of life.
The next thing to do is to cut out all those snobbish, exclu¬
sive, little nonadvertising concerns, who find it somehow beneath
their dignity to sell their goods at less than a profit of several
hundred per cent.
The third thing you do is to reckon up your savings at the
end of a week or two.
And the fourth thing you do is to stand amazed at the
amount you have saved in spite of the amount you have bought.
Now of course this is letting you in behind the scenes.
There isn’t a buyer in any store who doesn’t have to bring
himself up with a jerk or get brought up with a jerk every once
in a while, and who doesn’t also stand amazed at what he has been
able to accomplish w ith a smaller amount of capital and a greater
amount of energy and a little extra thimbleful of brains.
Now don’t tell anybody you have been behind the scenes, but
just dig into the advertising in this paper quietly for the next
few days; cut out the “dropping-in-anywhere” method of shop¬
ping; make a business of your household expenditures, and see
if this little financial plan doesn’t relieve your terrible money
strain.
(Copyrighted.)
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
GEORGIA—Newton Coun ty;
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
All creditors of the estate of J. i\ 'k
Stubbs, of Newton County, de<’eased,
are hereby notified to render theirde
mands to the undersigned according to
Dm. and all persons indebted to said
estate .are required to make immediate
payment to me.
.T. AY. HARAA’ELL.
Administrator of J. Frank Stubbs,
deceased.
Decemlier 15, 1921.
GEORGIA—Newton County.
Will be sold before the'court house
door in said county, on the first Tues¬
day in January, 1922, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
One dark red horse mule. Also one
red mare mule, with light mane and
triil. Also one AVeber two-horse wagon.
Levied upon as the property of C.
.1. Hardeman, defendant, by virtue of
a mortgage fi fa, issued from the Su¬
perior Court of said county in favor of
C. A. Tuggle, January Term, 1922.
B. L. JOHNSON,
53-3-p Sheriff Newton County.
GEORGIA—Newton County.
AVill be sold before the court house
d»or in said county, on the first Tues¬
day in January, 1922, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder,
for cash, the folloM'ing described prop-i i
erty, to-wit:
One black mare mule named Kit.
Also one black mare mule. Also one
Oldsmobile D. 42100. Levied Six, touring car. the Motor property! No. |
upon as
ONIGHT- 1*03 I STQHACM, 0* thi i
Tomorrow Alright Hfl ^moKiKic 'lews
Get.a 25/Box
CITY PHARMACY, COVINGTON. GA.
of J. T. Stubbs, defendant, by virtue of
a mortgage fi fa, issued from the Su¬
perior Court of said county, and by an
attachment for purchase money issued
from J. P. Court 462 District, G. M.,
said county, in favor of Croley Bros.
January Term, 1922.
B. L. JOHNSON,
53-3-p Sheriff Newton County.
State of Georgia—Newton County.
To all Whom it May Concern:
W. T. Corley has applied to me for
letters of adminisrtation to issue to
him on the estate of Mrs. S. E. Cor¬
ley. late of said county, deceased. This
is therefore, to cite all persons con¬
cerned, both kindred and creditors, to
show' cause before me on the first Mon¬
day in January, 1922, if any thy have,
why said letters should not issue to
him on said estate.
This 6th day of December, 1021.
A. L LOYD, Ordinary.
52-3-p
GEORGIA*—Newton County.
AVill be sold before the court house
door in said county, on the first Tues¬
day in January, 1922, Mithin the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described prop¬
erty, to-w T it:
One dark red mare mule named Em¬
ma. Also one dark red mare mule nam¬
ed Fannie. Said mules levied upon as
the property of Roe AAnlliams. defend
ant. in fi fa by virtue of a fi fa, issued
from the Superior Court. March Term,
in favor of Avera Loan and In
vestment Company.
B. L. JOHNSON,
52-3-c Sheriff Newton County.
