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Official tfi-gun of Newtou County
and the City uf Coviugton.
J'ublishetl every Thursday by the
News Publishing Company.
LIGHTFOOT. Kditor-Mgr.
Entered as second class mail matter
December 2, 1908, at the Post Office
at Covington, Ga., under the act of
March 3, 1879.
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THl'IPtoAY, MAY 11, 1922.
"Mothers’ pay” comes on the second
Sunday in this month, which is May
14 .Miss Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia,
conceived the idea of a national “Moth
Day” and Woodrow Wilson in an
official proclamation issued in 1914
while president named the second Sun
d tv in the month as a national obser¬
vance. The rose is the chosen emblem
oC the dav. A red rose is worn if the
wearer's mother is living and white
one if she is not.
What we may make of ourselves is
entirely up to us and the environment,
if we have the strong nerve we will
seach the top of the hill. If we aie
weak may drop at any point in the
grade. Some Will pass up by without
a thought of the struggle we have made
of the obstacles that were a handicap
to our progress. Many will not reach
the point where some of us will lie
down exhausted and broken, but be
that as it may, it is better to aim hign,
with a determination to win, and fail
in he last analysis that not to try at
all. There-is room in the world for all.
The higher up we go the more room we
will have, therefore it is well to pre¬
pare for the race and the struggle and
if we succeed we will be amply paid
for the labor of the strenuous course
in the gratification of our life’s ambi¬
tion. It is well to keep the body
healthy; to avoid those things that un¬
dermine health; steer clear of associa¬
tions that tend to retard progress; seek
good companions and profit by their ad¬
vice and experience. In a word it is
well to press onward and upward,
stick to our business or profession and
fight on until we can look down from
the pinnacle of success upon a multi¬
tude without ambition or the moral
couragf to climb the rugged path of
success.
MEEKS SELLS CALHOUN TIMES
The Calhoun Times which has been
owned and managed by Ralph Meeks
tor the past three years changed hands
this week, having been bought by Chas.
S. and Young A. Henderson, of that
city. the Times
Editor Meeks took over
after he got his release from the army,
and continued to make improvements on
the paper until it ranked among the
highest in the state, and had put in
much modern machinery, making the
Tint's plant one of which to be proud.
The paper has been conducted along
the highest ideals, fulfilling nobly the
editor’s ambition, to render service, rep¬
resent and reflect the best; aid develop¬
ment; encourage prosperity, promote
progress. An inspiration to that sec¬
tion.
In June, 1020, Mr. Meeks bought a
half interest in this paper, and little
later leased the Douglassville paper
and for a time he was considering other
newspaper properties, and the sudden
news of his release on the Calhoun pa¬
per comes as no less a surprise to his
friends over the entire state.
He has not made known just what
will be his future work.
INTERNATIONAL ERROR
It is the belief of many clear think¬
ing men both in this country and in
Europe that the Allies are making a
mistake in restoring Turkey to power
among the nations.
Turkey’s record is bad. Not even a
single page of her history is creditable
to her or to any phase of humanity.
She has been cruel, bloodthirsty mur
dermis, oppressive and vile. Her cru¬
elties have shocked civilization since
the day her cruel hordes, driven before
a victorious enemy, invaded the valley
of the 5uphrates and spread over Asia
Minor, killing, murdering and exter
minuting the Christan peoples who oo
copied those lands by right.
Armenia, a once powerful nation has
been all but exterminated, and of the
millions of Christian Armenians who
once lived in peace and plenty in their
home land scarcely 125.000 are loft
• The others are dead or have fled the
country to escape the cruelties that
will he heaped upon them as soon as
the strong arm of European nations
is removed, and the little principali¬
ties that have been erected upon the
ruins of Turkish barbaric rule will be
menaced and wiped out if not protected
by armed forces.
Zion will be in danger. The Hedjas
will be menaced. Armenia, will become
a desert, so far as the Armenians are
concerned, and every other nation or
people, who are not Turkish or of the
Mohamedan faith, will undoubtedly
share the same cruel fate.
Turkey has no moral right to exist;
no right to rule people not her own.
The Turks, in justice to humanity,
should be driven out of Asia Minor
and hack into the interior of Asia from
whence they came. They are not in
s> m pa thy with anything European or
Christian. They are a menace to the
peace of the world, and to permit that
degenerate government to again ex¬
tend its sway over lands wrested from
it. or people that should he freed from
the Turkish yoke, is a long step back¬
ward that the Allies will bitterly re¬
gret. for there can he no peace as long
as Turkish misrule shall be recog¬
nized among the nations of the earth.
The Armenian people, or the few that
are left of them, occupy the country
where they are supposed to have orig
inated.According to tradition thev are
“descendants of Haik. the son of T»
garmah. the grandson of Japhet. In
32S R. C. Armenia was conquered by
Alexander the great, but after his death
was again independent for a time: but
war and conquest brought them under
numerous powers from time to time.
They have always been Christian peo
pK since the early days of Christian¬
ity, and it was in Armenia that the
first Christian church was founded in
A. D. 34 by the apostles Thaddeus,
Bartholomew and Judas, and the Ar¬
menians have kept the faith to the
present day although, by Turkey's pol¬
icy of extermination has reduced them
from a nation of not less than four mil¬
lions to less than 125,000 in their native
land.
How the Armenians are to be protec¬
ted is a world problem; but it will set¬
tle itself; for according to all outward
appearances there will not be a ‘liv¬
ing Armenian in Armenia by the time
the nations of the world agree upon
some effective measures to preserve
the race from extermination.
Shall Armenia, a Christian nation,
perish that a Moslem government may
occupy the land hallowed by the labors
of the early Christian fathers? Such
really seems to be the fate of Armenia,
whose extermination is' nothing short
of an international crime.
SELF-SATISFIED
To be self-satisfied is to be very near
the end of one’s usefulness. The incen¬
tive for further progress no longer ex¬
ists. A person afflicted with the malady
if such it may be called, cannot con¬
ceal it. It shows in his face, in his
speech, in bis manner and his gait. He
is regarded as a vain and too often a
disagreeable person, the butt of rid¬
icule and the object of practical jokes.
He is often a bore.
Self-satisfaction is bad for the indi¬
vidual. It stops progress. On the other
hand self-criticism promotes the devel¬
opment of the faculties with which we
have been endowed. It opens the way
for advancement by inspiring us to do
bettec everything we,do. It prompts us
to more strenuous efforts to acquire
knowledge and proficiency in our trade
or profession. It opens the* way for a
better life and sets us going with all
our energies throbbing and impelling
us to reach the goal of our ambition.
No great reformer was self-satisfied.
No inventor was satisfied until he had
accomplished^ the work he set out to
do, and even then his spirit of self
criticism impelled him to improve upon
the thing he had constructed, and to
continue improving until he had reach¬
ed the end of his tenure of life; for not
anywhere along the path of his devel¬
opment was he satisfied to stop. Every
author who has acquired fame tried to
make each succeeding production bet¬
ter than the last. Every great physi¬
cian. lawyer, preacher*, mechanician,
scientist, or whatever may have been
his calling, was not in the self-satisfied
class. He was in the class of self-criti¬
cism, and that self-criticism showed
him to be mperfect, while to his friends
and admirers he may have been enti¬
tled to no small degree of self-satisfac¬
tion.
The framers of the Declaration of
Independence were not satisfied with
their work in every respect. The fram¬
ers of our national Constitution were
dissatisfied; yet they accepted it as
perhaps the best that could be done un¬
der existing circumstances. It was a
wonderful production, and with minor
changes has been the basic principle of
American law and American institu¬
tions since this country set itself up as
an independent nation. There may and
doubtless are flaws in it today; but it
has been and will ever he the inspira¬
tion for the development of the best
there is in men, and the impelling force
to make America bigger and better
with each succeeding decade of its ex¬
istence.
America has become great through
the efforts of men and women who were
not satisfied with themselves or with
the work they had accomplished; men
and women who looked into the future
and devoted their lives to the better¬
ment of mankind and the development
of every resource their country afforded.
Self-satisfaction or satisfaction with
existing conditions could never have
produced the results that have been
attained by, the restless and energetic
minds of America which has accom¬
plished more in the century and a half
of its existence than Europe has in a
thousand years, and we are today, not¬
withstanding the fact that we have
tamed a wilderness and built our roads
and our cities, and the foundations of
our institutions in a raw and uncivi¬
lized country, we are the leading na¬
tion of the world. fio<|!ng Europe,
loaning her money and doing what we
can to re-construct her shattered in¬
stitutions upon the ruins of fallen
thrones and the debris of war-torn
cities.
SCIENTISTS HAVE
ANOTHER JOB
The recent discovery in Idaho of
numerous chiseled inscriptions upon
lava rocks leads to the belief that they
will reveal the fact that *they were
made by Chinese who came to America
by way of Bering Straits. The charac¬
ters are said to resemble the ancient
Chinese alphabet, and if this is proven,
and Chinese scholars are able to deci¬
pher them we may soon have a knowl¬
edge of the earlv interesting. settlement of Amer¬
ica that will be Other in
scriptions, apparently of a more recent
date and of a pictorial nature are claim¬
ed by the Indians of that section
have been made by their forefathers.
The Indians, however, make no
of the Chinese characters and say they
were made b’ the spirits. It may be
that here in the lava beds of Idaho is
the key to the civilization that built
the mounds in the Mississippi valley,
the cave dwellings of the south-west
and more probably the higher civiliza¬
tion that existed in Central America,
Mexico and along the northern and
western coast of South America at
time of the Spanish discoveries and con¬
quest. In any event there existed at
that time a civilization in Peru and
Mexico equal to, if not suoerior to
v. st p put? ‘sjojanbuoo qstueds aqi
lasting shame that these people were
permitted to be exterminated for no
other reason than a lust for gold.
Their temples and monuments of ar¬
chitecture are today among the won¬
ders of the world, indicating a high
degree of civilization; but not being a
warlike people, and having many ene¬
mies among the Indian* tribes, practi¬
cally all of whom united with the Span¬
iards to fight the civilized peoples, their
conquest was an easy matter. They
have gone and the pages of Spanish his¬
tory are blackened with the infamous
'W OUOth the
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x Fairy
"Kisses and onions don’t go well together.”
Neither do Painful Feet and Joy.
Fairyfoot takes the pain out of feet almost in¬
stantly. )
lightning Unless the Fairy makes yours vanish with
like rapidity, Fairyfoot costs you
nothing.
THE CITY PHARMACY
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGivix, «*foAGlA
Spain is in poverty and reduced die to a
third-rate power. She has ^st m* every
vestige of her conquests in America,
and is in far worse condition than when
she sent her red-handed assassins to
the coasts of America to kill, burn and
destroy that she might revel in the
moral or legal right. The story of the
gold and treasure to which she had no
Spanish conquest is a sad and bloody
tale of wholesale butchery, robbery and
oppression, and the final extermination
of millions of civilized people who had
as good a right to live as their conquer¬
ors. Spain is paying the price of her
lust. Her glory and power have de¬
parted. Her ill-gotten treasures have
melted away. It is said; “The mills of
the gods grind slowly”, but they are
surely grinding away, and have al¬
ready reduced Spanish grandeur to a
state of shabby gentility. The lava beds
and the cave near which the carvings
have been discovered will be visited
this summer by scientists who will de¬
cipher the inscriptions and explore the
caves for other intere|ting develop¬
ments that may throw light upon A
merica’s colonization from Asia.
PORTO RICO WANTS
SELF-GOVERNMENT
Porto liico is a candidate for self
government, and while the time is not
yet ripe for the relinquishment of gov
mental authority, these seems to be a
probability that the Portoricians will
eventually receive what they ask for.
They are, many of them, capable of
self-government, but the # turbulent
condition of the interior will not war¬
rant the United States in giving up its
claims, and it will not do so until
there is an assurance that the island
will be able to maintain its independ
ance and govern itself properly.
Porto Rico, formerly a Spanish pos¬
session, came under the jurisdiction of
the United States after the Spansih
American war by the treaty of peace
signed at Paris December 10, 1S9S, rat¬
ified by the United States senate Feb¬
ruary 6, 1899.
The area of the island is 3,596 square
miles and the population is 1,118,012,
which about 350,000 are negroes,
though twQ-thirdb of the population
are of mixed blod. The Spanish lan¬
guage predominates, and not more than
25 per cent of the people can read
write.
The climate is delightfully
and more healthy than most of
West India Islands. The soil is t
markably fertile and capable of
taining a considerable population. «
Porto Rico was discovered by
lumbus in November, 1493. At that
time there was a population of natives
estimated to number about 600,000.
every vestage of wihch was extermi¬
nated by the ruthless Spaniards.
POOR SPORTSMANSHIP
“I confess to a great surprise at the
manner in which the wets have acted.
I always supposed that when we had
an election in this country it settled
‘Tlrt-leyr
Jl tribute to the
mother of your son —
her smile
with joy and pride
cM^others
T)ay
t%Cay 14th
With Flowers from Joy*s
jdtoitk^lowerA
STILLWELL
FURNITURE CO.
COVINGTON, GA.
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things. I know it always did when 1
was a candidate. This is a law-abiding
nation. We abide by the vote o, the
majority. I never supposed when the
nation went dry that there would be
any larger number of people who
claimed to be good citizens who would
openly flagrantly break the law. The
United States went dry by a tremend¬
ous majority. There has never been a
presidential election where there was
so large a majority for one candidate
as there was for the Prohibition amend¬
ment,
“All the wets had to do was to ob¬
tain more than one-third of the votes
of both Houses of Congress. They fail¬
ed. Then all they had to do was to ob¬
tain a majority vote in only one
branch of the legislatures in eleven
stales. We had to have 72 houses in
36 .states for ratification. In less than a
year and a half we had 92 houses out
of 06. They were able to hold only four
branches of state legislatures and re¬
cently they lost even one of them.
‘When did any party ever have such
tremendous majority?—William Jen
nigs Bryan.
CARTHAGE TO BE EXCAVATED
Carthage is to be excavated in the
interest of science. It is expected that
there will be revealed to the world
evidences that Carthage of the Car
thegenians was a different Carthage
than that recorded by the Romans.
Rome and Carthage were rivals.
When Rome was a great commercial
centre Carthage languished, and when
Carthage filled her port with the ships
of the world, and her marts with the
products of every quarter of the known
world, Rome languished in turn.
Between the two it was a question
of (Commercial supremacy, and war
after war was waged by the Romans
against Carthage, and in turn Carthage
warred against Rome. Hannibal, the
Carthegenian, terrorized all Italy when
he crossed the Alps in 218 B. C. with
90,000 foot and 12,000 horses and 37
elephants. The peopjle of Northern
Italy had not before seen elephants,
nor had they dreamed it possible that
so great an army could descend upon
them from out of the clouds and snows
of those rugged mountains; yet down
they came.to win victory after victory,
and for fifteen years to continue his
ravages in Italy. Had he been support¬
ed by his home government, Carthage,
and not Rome would have been the
mistress of the world; for Hannibal was
by far the best general in the world
at that time and a hundred thousand
men added to his army would have
decided the war favorable to Carthage.
Carthage, obliged to depend upon
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mercenaries, could not or did not sup¬
port her arms in Italy, and withdrew
from the field, leaving behind devast¬
ation and an undying hatred that was
not wiped out until Rome revenged
herself in the total destruction of Car¬
thage. History records that the city
burned for seventeen days and conceal
ed its very sight under a heap of ashes.
The plough passes over it and the city
cursed forever.
Into this heap of debris scientists
will burrow in order to bring to light
whatever relices may have escaped
the flames and the hands of the vairdal
Romans, who in their rage left noth¬
ing undone to blot Carthage forever
from the world.
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R is said that a terlffie crime
is Detroit. W av e
sweepng over What more
be expected where the can ,
major portion
of the people are foreigners and bound
to abuse the liberty they are allow
in this country. When ,
back by the they were hen U
iron hand of rovaltv
feudalism in Europe they are dl i' a
cile, but when they very
get here tl u •
buse every right that is given them
and transgress every sacred trarim,
that we have. It is time to stop
migration for a long time. Our count,
is in actual danger. That element from
Europe that wanted to find ”
have and mak
homes all come here that want t
come tear down and that this element that wants t°
government getting.—Bainbrid^ is the only
one that we are
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