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The COVINGTON
Official Organ of Newton County
and the City of Covington.
I’ufilixficd every Thursday by
News Publishing Company.
W. E. L1GUTFOOT, -
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, MAY 4, 1922.
A bad peace may be better than
p ud quarrel, but there are those
believe it is better to have the
and make peace that will be lasting
good.
American boasts of its hoards of
yet Switzerland claims to have
much,of the yellow metal that she
not know what to do with it.
less then she is exporting, the gold
tinues to pile up and is as plenty
troubles in Russia.
The breezy man with the
disposition is not always the one
gets results. He makes a big noise,
verts the attention of others from
work .and accomplishes little in
parison to the one who confines his
tention to his work and keeps
about it.
Submarine chasers, originally
ed t^ir "war purposes will now be
by the coast guard as an aid to the
forcement of the Federal dry
Rum smugglers, all the way
Maine to Florida, will need to keep
extra sharp lookout to evade the
chasers that will patrol the coast.
Beef consumption in the
States has fallen off twenty pounds
capita since 1919. This may be due
tlie fact that prices went so high
ing the war that people cut down
sumption of meat and turned to
other less expensive foods, and
acquired the habit have not
to beef as before the war.
American boasts of its wealth;
hoards of gold; its sound financial
sis; its strong banking institutions
its prosperity as compared with
countries; yet its banks are not
ing money to any great extent for
dustrial or commercial enterprises,
gardless of the securtiy offered.
there is greater confidence in
alism the needy would-be
must get along the best he can or
down the hatchet.
The-state department has advised
allied governments that it is
ready to begin negotiations for
refunding of the debts owed to
United States. There is to be no
cellation. This government loaned
money of its people in good faith,
simply asks that the Europeans
faith with us. It is not a matter of
mediate payment, but we must
some definite assurance that the
will be paid either individually or
lectively.
It is expected that a bill will be
sented to the next Maine
praying for the protection of bears
a game asset to the state. Bears
said, by the Maine guides, to be
tically harmless, while on the
hand every sportsman would
bear killing to deer shooting. Such
the guides’ statement, but ten
to one the guides would shoot the
while the would-be bear killer made
long-distance hike through the tall
ber. exceeding the speed record of
Marathon races.
Russia is waking up. The
government has issued a decree
every Russian between the ages of
and 100 must learn to read and
Jf tiffs decree had been issued
years ago Russia would not now be
the extreme poverty and distress
everywhere prevails. Men would
thinking for themselves, and
would not be so easily swayed or
by such men as have been
for the overthrow of what promised
be a liberal government to plunge
the depths of moral depravity
crime.
General Gregorie Semenoff,
anti-bolshevik leader, seems to
run into trouble when he landed
American soil. He is charged with
ing a robber and a murderer. His
was for thefts committed while he
in military service in Siberia. That
in a time of war, and war creates
cense for the committal of all sorts
crimes. If the treatment of
Senmenoff is to be an example of
kind that will be meeted out to all
my generals and other officials of
former enemy country America will
be a healthy place for a long list
German. Austrian. Hungarian,
ish and Russian officials, if they
set foot upon our soil.
THE MOVIE AIDS EDUCATION
Not many years ago the moving pic
ture*wvas condemned by many who to¬
day uphold it as an important factor
in educational work. So important has
it become that it is in use in not less
than 15,000 churches and schools
throughout the country, not only as
a means of Instruction but of entertain¬
ment, and it is not a far cry to the
time when the remaining 500,000
schools will be supplied with movie out¬
fits. For twenty years the movie as an
educator has been under diesussion,
and its opponents have gradually given
away as the prejudices of the people
have disappeared with a better knowl¬
edge of the possibilities of the movie ih
the schools and in the lecture room.
It has been demonstrated that a pu¬
pil learns more quickly through pic¬
tures than by words. The words con¬
vey the fundamental principles and
leave the pupil to construct his own
idea. The picture is an object lesson in
detail, and is far more comprehensive.
A pupil reads and remembers some
things that he has read. He studies and
remembers some of the lessons he has
learned. He thinks he has learned
enough of a lesson to make a bluff at
a recitation; gets by in some manner
and forgets the text, while the idea is
so confused that he knows very little
of what the text should have conveyed
to him.
Some pupils are quick to learn;
their minds seem to comprehend every¬
thing pertaining to the text, while oth¬
ers are not to so keen and fall behind,
become discouraged and then indiffer¬
ent.
With the moving picture there is a
different result. The picture fixes the
matter in the mind, it makes a lesson
interesting; for it gives a visual illus¬
tration, and when the words of the
text and the picture are combined
there is an awakening of interest that
brightens conception and the lesson
becomes of such a different character
that it is fixed in the mind with very
little effort.
Movies are to become an important
factor in the educational work of the
country, and school work will be far
more interesting and satisfactory.
Young people remeber things that in¬
terest them, and when a lesson is illus¬
trated by a movie entertainment the
fundamental principles if not the en¬
tire text are a fixture for life. Movies
cannot too quickly be introduced into
every school and church in the land.
SPRING CLEANING
These are are the the days days when every
household is undergoing its semi-annu¬
al cleaning. Outside, the premises arc
cleaned of the accumulation of rub¬
bish. Ash heaps are hauled away, and
everything unsightly is picked up and
disposed of in some manner. The
smoke of the bonfires fills the air, and
in a short time cleanliness prevails.
Inside, the house is being ransacked
for every particle of dirt, and the
housewife is washing and scrubbing,
dustfng carpets, rugs and draperies and
setting the house'in order. In the
prosecution of this work attics -are be¬
ing cleaned of rubbish that has accu¬
mulated during ages of thrift, and hav¬
ing passed its usefulness has been
stored away, not with any idea of its
ever again being used, but simply be¬
cause of old associations. Year after
year this accumulation of histories has
been dusted, washed and put back to
lie until the next spring cleaning, and
then the same process is gone through
with. How much better to dig out ail
this useless material, call the junk man
and dispose of it once and for all, and
that which has no money value should
be burned or hauled to the public
dump.
There is nothing to be gained, by
keeping an attic full of relics that col¬
lect dust, litter the premises and make
a lot of work for the housewife. Clean
out all that you do not absolutely need
and get rid of it. You will never miss
it and the room it occupies will look
3 much neater than when filled with use¬
less litter.
SHOULD BARBAROUS TURKEY
BE TURNED LOOSE
In response to demands of millions
of Mohamedans throughout the Mos¬
lem world, Turkey is to be restored
as a soveriegn state. Thousands of
square miles of territory, including
Anatolia and a portion of Thrace are
to be returned to Turkey. -Turkey is
to be permitted a larger garrison at
Constantinople, while the Allied army
Tfe «uy to get rich. It’s only the first mil¬
lion that’s hard to get."
It’s easy to rid yourself of corn, callus and
bunion pain with Fairyfoot.
Try Fairyfoot tonight; you’ll get the surprise
of your life. Your druggist guarantees unless
the Fairy makes these pains vanish almost in¬
stantly. it won't cost you a penny.
THE CITY PHARMACY
THIS COVINGTON NEWS, COVtNGiv^, urAlft(iU
to be decreased. Turkey Will be
to increase its army to 85,
men. The Allies will be permitted
occupy the Gallipoli peninsular in
to safeguard the Dardanelles.
concessions are made in order
end the Greeo-Turkish war. Thus
plague-spot of the world is to be
while the dove of peace trem¬
and hides its head in shame,
has been a disturbing element
the world’s economy for centuries,
the restroation of that country to
as an independent state is con¬
to be a step backward and a
to. the peace of the world.
has had a bad record. The
of her rulers are red with inno¬
blood. She has made shambles of
once beautiful and populous country;
ruins mark the sites of mag¬
cities, and everywhere there
evidence of decadence. The Turk is
of his element. He belongs to an¬
section of the country and is
fitted by any national character¬
to occupy the lands that were
the seat of an empire whose
have left a lasting impression
the world’s history. It was there
the religion of Christ first spread
mild dominion. Learning, archi¬
science and art rose to great
to be swept away by the cruel
The war made it easy for the
to put an end to a government
blood and ruin and the establish¬
of a modern civilization upon
ruins but now the nations have
in a holy purpose and- the
is to be restored to power. It
not seem that this is a fitting
for the blood and treasure that
expended in breaking the hold of
degenerate nation upon one of
sections of the earth that should
been greed from a curse that
its life and people. Turkey
never kept faith with the nations.
has been a plague-spot since the
the first Turk, fleeing before his
conquerors, set his foot upon
that should have been held sacred
all nations of the earth, soil that
<a better government than
ever has or ever will adminis¬
over it.
HISTORIC SHOE
If there is any dependance to be put
the value or genuineness of the
of Albert Knapp, mining pros¬
in the limestone of the Hum¬
mountain range of Nevada, there
people on the earth at least 100,
years ago, who had reached a
degree of civilization.
Mr. Knapp found in the solid rock
sole and heel of a petrified shoe
perfect as if made by an experienced
shoemaker, showing even the holes
it might have been stitched to
shoe,, white the. color is that of
It may be that the find of Mr. Knapp
an accidental creation of nature;
if it was it was nicely done; for
is the most perfect specimen of its
Travelers Insurance Co.
Travelers Indemnity Co.
speedometer said sixty miles an
hour.
constable said it was ninety.
The natives said it was crime.
He said it was THE LIFE.
His friends said it
FLOWERS.
MISS LUCY WHITE, Agent.
NOT THi il uhli Orilf UftC
There Are Other Covingto:. People
Similarly Situated.
Can ‘here be any strong pr°>oi
offered than the evidence ut Coving
ton r&.idents? After you have r-■an
the following, quietly answer the
question.
R. M. Fincher, miller, Em ry St
Covington, says: “I was working fu¬
my house and I think 1 strained m\
back. I had pains through my '>
neve. I had headaches and vva
pretty nervous. Dizzy spells canu
over me, too, and often my sight
blurred. I had to get up during the
night to pass the kidney secretion 5
and I often felt languid. Seeing
what Doan’s Kidney Pills had d ine
for others I bought a box at Smith's
Drug Store and began taking them
Dt>an’s greatly relieved me.”
60c. at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co. Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
Wife —“We must stop at
the Westinghouse place
—then we will be sure of
the battery on our trip.”
WESTINGHOUSE
BATTERIES
Vaughn Tire — Battery Co.
Telephone 304
kind ever found* I
If the sole and heei, now petrified
into stone, ever formed the bottom of
a shoe it goes to prove that man ex¬
isted on earth in the ages when coal
was forming; when the tropical cli¬
mate of the polar regions was favor¬
able to the rank vegetation that has
since been converted into deep beds of
coal, when a great variety of pre-his
toric animals sported in the swamps
or swam the seas; when the mastoden
walked the earth, and perhaps bef ire;
when theplesasaurians, the only living
specimen of which now lives in a
Patagonian lake, inhabited the lakes
and marshes of the central part of the
North American continent in the Tri
assic period of the worl’s history, or
some other period when the saurus
familuy flourished and propagated
their species in abundance.
At whatever period of the world's
history the wearer of that pre-historie
shoe plunged his foot into the soft
mud that afterwards hardened into ,
blue limestone, the records are missing; j
but if a genuine shoe sole the theory !
of the geologist is knocked in the heal
for man is not supposed to have ex- j
isted in that age, and it was not fori
many millions of years afterwards that
he is supposed to have made his ap¬
pearance and to have acquired a state
of civilization in which he would be
likely to wear a shoe .made upon mod¬
ern lines.
In any event the discovery of Mr.
Knapp is arousing considerable curi- |
osity. i
Did you ever think that your brain
was like any muse^ of your body; that
to keep it in good working order it
must be exercised? Do you forget? Is
it impossible for you to remember
dates, names and other things and cir¬
cumstances that you would like to re¬
member? It may be that it is, and it
also may be that you have not suffli
ently charged your mind with them to
make a lasting impression upon the
grey matter of the brain. It may also
be possible that you have lived in a
careless manner from youth up, and
details of your daily life the brain has
not having charged your mind with the
ceased to function as it should and as
it naturally would be doing had you
properly exercised it. Loss of memory
may be overcome to quite a degree by
giving attention to its training. Be not
careless in your reading.;, Store your
mind with the facts that come to your
knowledge. Talk about what you read,
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA SHOWS RAILWAYS ARE
SAFE AND ARE GROWING SAFER.
It has been more than five years since a passenger riding in a coach of
the Central of Georgia Railway has been fatally injured, and during that
period more than 29,000,000 passengers have been handled.
This record, splendid as it is, we do not claim is exceptional. It merely
goes to show, as do other figures, that American railways as a whole are
making an excellent record in the reduction of fatalities. The reason for
this is to be found in the fact that railway men have been trained to give
safety precedence over all other things. To them the most familiar rule
in the standard book of railway rules reads: “In case of doubt or uncer¬
tainty, the safe course must be taken.”
While railway traffic has greatly increased in recent years fatalities on
the railroads have been decreasing. 1920 was a record year for traffic yet
the number of faltalities was the smallest in 22 years. 1921 in turn broke
this record by a reduction of 14 per cent, in the number of fatalities, ac¬
cording to the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The unit by which freight traffic is measured in the ton mile and the
unit of passenger traffic is the passenger mile. Statistics show that there
has been a steady increase in both for the past ten years, the increase in
ton miles in 1920 over 1911 being 63 per cent, and the increase in passen¬
ger miles being 42 per cent. Yet despite this vast increase in business
which required many more employees to handle the greater tonnage and
which subjected so many more passengers to danger, the total fatalities
decreased 33 per cent, in 1920 from 1911.
In 1920 the railroads of the United States carried 16,239,774 passen¬
gers to each passenger fatally injured in a train accident. Trespassing
and automobile grade-crossing accidents contribute heavily to the fatali¬
ties on the railroads. In 1920 trespassers fatally injured numbered 1273.
Together these accounted for nearly one-half of all the fatalities on the
railroads during the year.
Not many would believe that there are nearly as many persons acci¬
dentally drowned in a year as are fatally injured on the railways. The
,3 | e deaths per hundred thousand population in the United States in
Jo 12.3; o Automobile, A 0n J som ®. 1 of the 10.8; commoner Burns, (not causes conflagrations), of fatalities was as follows: Falls,
Brownings, 5.9. 7.9; Railroads 6.6,
The Central of Georgia Railway has handled its share of increased bus
lness and at the same time has been able to show a substantial lessening
of fatalities on its lines. In 1920 for instance, the ton miles showed an
pei cent, while kff P fk the C r tatahties n t‘ ,°y er 1914; showed the a passenger decrease of miles 36 an increase of 32
per cent.
hJ^rtr rZuJZ e u,? ^f Ve 1IleSS that Sjf public S ™ a n l6r wi11 number agree with of Natalities us that is the handling of of a
\I he n C tral f , Georgia a barometer
y ?? ° Railway pledges renewed effort
Sol of safety a,,d 8atis '
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
W. A. WINBURN,
President, Central of Georgia Railway Company.
What you see aiid heat 1 , and in a
time you will find it easier to re¬
because you have acquired
for the purpose of impart¬
it to others or for the purpose of
it with others. The result of
a course w ill be a surprise to you.
to remember and you will have
difficulty in remembering, after
have schooled yourself in memo¬
You will not at first find it easy,
use your mind to its full capacity
it will not fail you.
All over the country there is an
to the necessity of reduc¬
the percentage of illiteracy in the
States. The shutting off of im¬
will be an importnat factor
this struggle, as is proven by the
that during the past decade, when
has been for below former
the percentage has decrease!
a very encouraging manner. The de
fact that 25.2 per cent of the
in this country are of native
is a hard blow to the American
likes to think of Americans an
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Atlanta In M
Fulton county grand j
Ury
discharged „- JiWm
day afternoon recommended
Hon of the fee the
.system f or st
county sonable officials and urged that^ ,
• salary syslem be ^
An inquiry was made of Sheriff
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as to why it was cos ting him J
day 5(i ^
per to feed prisoners i
n the I
jail when the city of Atlanta
prisoners for ^
the sum of 17 1 ‘ 1 ,»
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