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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 , 1922
There are some who would prefer to
have lived in some century of the past.
These are not the progressives. They
prefer lives free from the excitement
uf the present age. In the scriptur.s
we read of some men who lived for
hundreds of years, even well up to the
1000 year mark, hut the man of the
present age lives more in the short
span allotted to him than Methuselah.
With the United States congress vot¬
ing $20,000,000 for the relief of fam¬
ine-stricken Russia, and Russia spend¬
ing large sums of money in financing
riots in Condon. and distrnbances
(■verywhere, there seems to be little
hope that the philanthropy of the
United States will accomplish much
toward educating the Soviet , govern¬
ment along the line of due apprecia¬
tion for sacrifices made in behalf of its
suffering people.
With seven million persons on the
government pay roll, the Spviet gov¬
ernment of Russia proposes to make
sweeping reductions in its expense ac¬
count by reducing the number em¬
ployed in the department of education
in which there are now employed
1.200,000. The entire military and civil
lists of the country includes 12,000,000
persons. The strength of the Soviet
army is 5,000,000 men. Supposing this
expense was cut out and the five mil¬
lion men became producers instead of
leeches upon the public treasury, Rus¬
sia would soon be in better circum¬
stances.
How does it happen that Germany
is so numb worse off flnancillay that
the other European nations that were
engaged in the war? How is it that she
is more destitute than France, England.
Italy or any other European nation,
except Russia, Tin- chances are tha.t
she is not, and that her claims of
poverty are made f or -tft,. purpose of
'lYSdiag-U'ie payment of the indemnity
assessed against her. German territory
t\as not invaded. German industries
"'ere not destroyed; her cities were not
wiped from the face of the earth or
pounded into dust; her railroads were
not torn up, her forests cut down; her
farms destroyed nor were there perpe¬
trated within her borders any of the
horros that will blacken the pages of
history for all time. If any nation of
Europe can pay Germany can, and she
will pay when she realizes that she
cannot evade the payment.
If the world gives up its submarines
it will suffer no loss. There is no good
icason why man traps of this nature
should be constructed. They are as
dangerous to their own crews as to the
enemy. They are easily put out of
commission, and if sent to the bottom
by a well directed shell, the careless¬
ness of the crew or defective machin¬
ery the result is the same. The entire
crew generally goes to the bottom with
tin- disabled craft. The submarine
may easily destroy an enemy's ship¬
ping or shell his coast cities, but the
enemy may have just as many or more
submarines, in which case there is n >
adavntage for either party. The rnen
m-e of the under sea boat is exempli
tied in the sinking of the great United
States submarine, on its trial trip, to
the bottom of Long Island Sound. Its
cif-w of forty-two men were saved, but
their chances were ten to one in favor
of death by drowning like rats in :»
cage.
The scrapping of the naval program
it the United States government
means the throwing out of work of a
large number of men who may Inti¬
^ mately find
employment in other in¬
dustries. but to re-locate requires time,
and many wilt suffer for the need of
the money they have been drawing.
Thei e are other industries demanding
skilled labor, and these men may all
find something to do at even better
wages than they are now being paid.
11 Henry Ford develops the Mussel
Shoals proposition in Alabama there
will be work for all; for that is to he
the most stupendous development
proposition ever undertaken in modern
times. All United States ships now un¬
der construction will be considered as
finished products and the builders will
l>e reimbursed fully. Thus, while the
nation will be making a great saving
by scrapping its naval program, there
will be a big expense to the govern
ment in settling for work already con
traoted for and in process of comple¬
tion. This expense cannot be avoided,
but future years will be less costly
ones in the naval department of this
government.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEUnuuA
stale a new year with optimistic ideas
and renewed hopes that the next
twelve months will settle the great
questions that a re disturbing the world
today. The peace conference at Wash¬
ington has accomplished much for in¬
ternational peace and amity. It has
shown that there is a better way to
live and that not in force are the great¬
est accomplishments realized.
We begin the new year with bright¬
er hopes than ever before in the world’s
history. Women have been emancipat¬
ed. They now enjoy the right of equal
suffrage. John Barleycorn has lost his
grip upon the nation. The world's arm¬
aments are to lie reduced. Navies are
to be scrapped or reduced to a mini¬
mum, and an international agreement
made to forever settle international
disputes in a reasonable manner and
without resort to arms. A world confer¬
ence is soon to be called to adjust the
economic status of the nations and
relieve the inequalities of exchange,
inspire confidence and promote harmo¬
ny in commercial and industrial affairs
throughout the world. The American
congress haw passed an Act for the re¬
lief of famine stricken Russia, and al¬
ready cargoes of grain and supplies
are being accumulated for shipment to
that distant land. New nations that
were born as a result of the great war
are organizing for periods of peaceful
existence commercial and industrial
progress. • The future of the world
looks bright, and never in history was
the prospect for the future as flatter¬
ing ns now. To be sure the nations are
suffering from the aftermath of the
war, but there is hope for the future
such as never filled the hearts of men
with a belief that the time is near at
hand when all nations and all people
will be relieved of many of the heavy
burdens that have enslaved them.
This is a period of reaction and re¬
adjustment. National aspirations are
being reduced to a minimum, and there
is a pervading spirit of live-and-let
iive that marks a wonderful change
for the better. The whole world has
learned its lessor and is now prepar¬
ing to profit thereby.
The changes that have come about
within the past five years will go down
in history as an epoch-making' period
in the world's history; for humanity
lias made greater advances toward a
higher plfjpa of civilization in the past
half-decade than ever before in a cen¬
tury. Five years ago the world was
engaged in general slaughter, fearful
carnage and tremendous destruction.
Today the war trumpets are stilled
and the world is adjusting itself to new
conditions. Autocracies have ceased to
dominate the world; thrones have tot¬
tered and fallen; monarehs are in ex
ile or have paid penalty of their selfish
aspirations, their appresaions and
their cruelties.
With readjustment has come an
awakening of the national conscience.
War has taught that civilization must
pay the penalty of the commandment.
"Thou shalt not kill." It will be a long
time before the nations are relieved of
thi- self-in dieted burdens that the war
entailed, and generations yet unborn
will suffer in consequences. yet the
time will come when men will be sat¬
isfied to live justly and honorably with
each other, regardless of color or
creed, free from the privations, suffer
ing and woe that war imposes upon
the nations, whether victor or van¬
quished.
Another Christmas has passed into
history. It brought with it joy for the
young and happiness for those of ma¬
ture years. It brought good cheer for
all. it broght mankind to another
mile stone, and many to good resolu¬
tions for the coming year. It brought
us to a realization of Divine mercy
and of the blessings that Almighty
God has bestowed upon this nation; for
if found us enjoying comparative
plenty and giving of our surplus for
the relief of the suffering people of
other lands. It brought us to the real¬
ization of the folly of war; the poverty
nnd wretchedness that war entails, and
the fruitless results of autocratic de¬
sire to dominate the world. We look
back over the history of the past de¬
cade. with its many horrors, and of¬
fer up ;i prayer that the world will
never again he drenched with human
blood. \\ e look into the future and see¬
the light of reason gleaming to guide
us to a higher plane of living, and we
resolve to make the next decade an
in the world’s history that will
the most fruitful in accomplish¬
for the benefit of mankind that
ever been known since the “Star,
Bethlehem guided the shepherds
the manger wherein lay the Child
The world is going to be better
now on. and nations and men
welcome each succeeding Christ
with thankful hearts.
One of the most profitable resolutions
Hartwell merchant could ^nake for
is that he’ll not allow one issue
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AMERICAN SPIRIT
Senator W. H. King, og Utah, mem¬
ber of the senate naval affairs commit¬
tee, is a thoroughbred. He has the
true American spirit and the courage
of his convictions. In a recent speech
he declared: “Shall we have war or
shall we have peace. It is not up to the
United States to answer the question.
We are prepared for either. The senate
naval committee is prepared to vote
for submarines or submarine destroy¬
ers any time any foreign nation
Sires to make war upon the American
people. We of the United States prefer
peace, but it is about time the spokes
man «if foreign nations now in the
United States understood this; w
shall not ratify and treaty unless its
terms are satisfactory to us." “The
senate of the United States is weary
of quibbling about submarines.” "The
American people want submarines or
don’t want submarines—it all depends
upon whether other nations want
them or don’t want them. Morally,
materially and in any other way, the
American people stand ready to take
care of themselves.” Senator King is
for an immediate settlement of the
question. He wants Great Britain,
France and Japan to eon*- out into the
open and declare their desires, stop
their quibbling, and get down to busi¬
ness,” and that business the peace of
the world, whiph can only be secured
by junking the implements and mu¬
nitions of war. smrapping the navies
and disbanding soldiers, who, if em¬
ployed in productive labor will become
a national asset instead of a liability.
OUR CREAMERY RUTTER
Georgia is said to produce not more
than two per cent of the creamery but¬
ter she consumes. Think of the butter
Georgians eat—and think of the mil¬
lions of dollars every year sent out
of the state for butter we ought to pro¬
duce right here at home. To say we
cannot produce enough for our own
consumption is to say the people of
this state have not the climate, the
soils, the brains, and the financing
ability, the willingness to operate that
the people of say Minnesota have. Min¬
nesota is said to produce one-eighth of
the country's creamery butter, far
more than she needs for her own use.
We buy “foreign butter, which is
good, of course, but why cannot we
produce our own? That we are not do
ing it is a continuing accusation
against us. We are not using the con
ditions nature has surrounded us with;
w-e are not using our heads.. If we can
buy creamery butter made in other
states and shipped here, why cannot w 7 e
produce creamery butter at the cost we
pay for Tennessee’s butter? If is it
woi th while for Tennessee to make
butter arid sell to us, why is it not
possible to make it profitable for us to
produce Pur " ow n creamery butter?—
Savannah News.
THE WHITE HOPE.
The golden dream will come true.
The white hope will be realized. Peace
will yet enfold the nations. Humanity
will yet be bound together with the
holy bonds of brotherhood. Justice will
yet be made the foundation of gov¬
ernment, and love the law- of the
world.
The road of the ages has been a long
and weary one. It has lain through
many a wilderness and dipped into
many a darkness vale and wound
through many a fearful jungle.
Men have divided themselves into
clans and imagined their interests
apart and distinct. They have thought
that one clan could bring prosperity
to itself by binging oppression to an¬
other. They have thought the power of
the sword supreme. They have thought
they could serve theii own interest by
ruining anothes. Always there have
been a few great minds that knew bet
ter—a few great souls that
the oneness of interest and the
of humanity. These minds have held
the thought, and these souls
dream and the vision of peace.
It is beginning to daw n upon the
world-mind that national lines are
puiely imaginary—that the different
nations are but diffenent members of
the some body. Also it is beginning to
dawn upon the world-mind that peace j
and security and prosperity are not in j
sured hv battleships and immense j
armies—that these insure nothing but i
jealousy and strife and bloodshed. !
Sometime the world-mind will real- j
ize that nothing that is unjust can en- j
dure; that nothing that oppresses the]
many for the enriching or the glorifi
cation of the few is everlasting. The
civilizations of the past carried within
themselves the seed «of decay, be
cause they carried within themselves
the fatal virus of injustice. ®
Humanity learn* slowly, but in
tears; and sometime it will he clear to
all minds that there are no classes and
no distinct interests, and that a pros¬
perity bliilt upon destitution cannot
continue. ***’ *
JESSIE BAXTER SMITH.
This is a wide, wide world, bui the
public press places it on your break¬
fast table every morning
WHEN WILL HARD TIMES LET UP?
WHEN WILL BUSINESS PICK UP AGAIN?
When you get your debts paid and when your neigh¬
bor gets his debts paid, and when the people they have
paid get their debts evened up—not until then will good
times come to us and our business section again. We
paid debts last year and have paid great volumes of
them this year. Between now and the end of this year
many more debts will be paid and a large army of folks
will again have their freedom—freedom to spend a lit¬
tle for themselves and their dependents. And the next
year will be a different year so far as business is con¬
cerned.
H This is a prediction, but it is based upon well estab¬
lished business principles. Good times are largely found¬
ed on liquidations of debts and the larger the debts and
the harder the debt-paying period, the better business
will be which follows. What you ought to understand
and keep impressed on your mind is this fact:
1! The only safe and effective way to put life in business w
today and keep it there is.to pay your debts. If you owe
an account that has been hanging over for some time,
pay it now if there is a dollar that can be devoted to it.
If you cannot pay all, pay what you can. Money thus pm
to moving gets into the channels of business and soon
the whole community feels it. Hard times will end the
day your debts are paid—or such a portion of them as
to make it impossible for those unpaid to hamper any
business concern or enterprise.
!1 Credit is necessary in all business avenues. It will ex¬
ist as long as there is trade among men. It has always
existed. But it is as true now that a community is pros¬
perous or dragging in its business Accordingly as peo¬
ple regard credit, as it was the first day it was invented.
No matter what prosperity comes to other sections of
the country, it is not coming here until you pay up, and
until the debts which were made by all of us during past
prosperous season are settled. They may not be paid
at all and business concerns which have extended credit
widely and liberally may fail because they re not paid,
but until there is a liquidation good times are not com¬
ing. You must pay up or the creditors who sold you on
open account must fail. One or the other turn miist be
taken before there is a marked change in business con¬
ditions. As long as a large volume of business is banked
up behind old accounts and expensive efforts to collect,
just so long will business in your community refuse to
quicken its pace. Are you standing in the way of ad¬
vancement in trade and prosperous times? If you owe
a due and unpaid account you are truly in the way.
H Unpaid accounts of long standing are the only drag
in this community. We know what we are talking about,
If you pay up, and all of us pay up, it will be like lifting
a cancerous sore out by the roots at one operation. We
can feel it when one man pays up. You and all the com¬
munity can feel it when we have all met our obligations.
And that is what brings all of us to where there is a de¬
mand for what we have to offer in trade and the regu¬
lar channels of business.
; This is the day and the hour to put your accounts down
in your firm resolutions to pay. Yoi ive no money that
is yours until they are paid. That is tiie attitude you and
all of us should hold about paying accounts. We appeal
to you to put your business community foremost by set¬
tling your accounts now. Hard times will end when we
have finished paying up old accounts. Let’s go after
them and finish the job. It is everybody’s move.
KEEP MONEY AT HOME.
Keep the dollar at home. You are be
fraying your community when you
sond money away,
When you buy, buy at home,
If you must choose between a home
raised product and'one raised in anoth
er s(K-tion give the preference to the
home product.
Do not send money to mail order
houses. Goods can be bought cheaply
at home, and besides the money is
needed at home.
Our greatest business troubles and
market troubles and unemployment
troubles grow out of a lack of circulat
ing medium. When you send money
away you tighten the money market
that much more and make the business
markets of your community suffer.
Money we receive from other sec
tinns in exchange for our products in
creases our local supply of money and
makes better business. Money we j
send out to other sections for products
w e d( not raise reduces our currency, j !
which is the life blood of business. I
It therefore behooves us to send
everything to market that we can
spare, and when we spend money give
preference to the home produced arti¬
Free Press.
Great men are often great in thi
of everyone but those who know
best.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
GEORGIA—Newton County;
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
All creditors of the estate of J. Frank
Stubbs, of Newton County, deceased,
are hereby notified to render theirde
mands to the undersigned according to
law, and all persons indebted to
estate are required to make immediate
payment to me.
J. W. HARWELL,
Administrator of J. Frank Stubbs,
deceased.
December 15, 1921.
Slate of Georgia vs Mayor and Conn
oil of ( oxington, Georgia.
Notice is hereby given • that the ,
State of Georgia by and through its, 1
Solicitor General, Alonzo M. Brand,
having filed a petition for the purpose
of validating the following re funding
to be known as the Electric
Light refunding Bonds, to take up.
and take the place of the issue
May 22, 1901, known as the Electric
Light Bonds, of$1000.00 each numbered
l oni one to 15. The same will be heard
the Newton County Superior Court
at Five o’clock P. M. on Januarv
1922. All parties interested take
hereof.
of
office this December 24, 1921.
C. O. NIKON,
Superior Court Newton County,
Georgia.. 3-4-c
Newton County.
V. T. Stephens as administrator of
estate of Mrs. S. E. Stephens, late
said county, deceased, having filed
petition for iettrs of dismission as
such administration of said estate,
alleging that he has fully perform!
all of his duties as such administrate!
this is to cite all persons concerned
be and appear at the February tul
1922, af the Court of Ordinary of I
county, to show cause, if any “
*; ave > why the prayer of said petin I
should not be allowed, and the sal
administrator receive letters of di|
mission.
This December 29, 1921.
3-6-c A. L. LOYDr Ordinary
v.^'t ,' 1 Ste^henUUiUMent
of th|
state, having in due form applied
me for the guardianship *f the persi
and property of Gary C. Mizell, min .
child of of Mrs. Annie Lueile Mizell, la’|
said county, deceased, notice
hei cby given that said application (
be heard at the February term. 192:3
of the Court of Ordinary, for
county, on the first Monday in Febn
ary, 1922.
This December 29, 1921.
3-6-c a. L. LOYD, Ordinal)
GEORGIA. Newton County.
J. S. McCord and J. R. McCord hm
^nation applied to me for thTm’ letters of the"‘esuv adminiH
to issue to on
of Mrs. M. F. McCord, late of
deceased. This is therefore f
ail persons concerned, bri-i
and creditors, to show cans
me, if any/'they have, on i|!
Monday* in February, 1922, win
should not be appointed admin
-on said estate as prayed <
This December 19th. 1921.
A. L. LOYD, Ordinary
