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official Organ of Newton Couuty
and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the
News Publishing Company.
YV. E. LIGHTFUOT, - Editor-Mgi.
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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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTUin, ufconmA
is over, therefore anyone can express
an opinion as to whether justice has
been* done or not.
\S'e have been told on several occa¬
sions that Williams was allowed to go
home from the prison farm at Milledge
viile Sunday, two weeks ago, and enjoy
a big barbecue, and have a general
good time with his family. If that be
true, and it is a current report, then
Manning should be allowed to
I Sundays with his wife. But if his past
•‘Boss” is out on that day he had bet
ter keep an eye open.
The afternoon Williams was placed
in the county jail, it is a fact that he
said to the other prisoners, “get ready,
we are all going to leave here tonight,
put on the best you have got,” the
I white prisoner replied that ho “did not
believe he cared to go,” and the reply
came back that he might as well make
up his mind for he (Williams) “did not
intend to leave, any evidence behind.”
He no doubt thought some of his con
federates would come up and dynamite
the jail, and liberate him. He was tak
en to Atlanta that evening. Newton has
paid dearly enough.
Williams has not only caused this
county to be disgraced, buk. the affair
has placed our borrowing power of
money from northern capitalists at the
lowest ebb. .Xewton county has suffered
an expense of many thousands of dol
lars. During his trial the bailiffs salary
alone run over six hundred dollars, and
you tax payers of Newton county have
to pay it all, but at that some of us are
too cowardly to condemn a white man
who is charged and proven a murderer,
Let justice reign at any cost.
SEE AMERICA FIRST
There are thousands ot people in
America who are sighing for a trip
abroad. There is no doubt that they
would enjoy the trip and come back fill¬
ed with admiratioh for the many things
seen, but before going abroad it would
be well for them to become better ac¬
quainted with their owrt country.
The United States has as wonderful
scenery as Europe. It has fully as won¬
derful sunsets and sunrises, fully as
much scenic beauty in her grand moun¬
tain ranges, her vast prairies and des¬
erts, her great cities and her little ham¬
lets, her people and their modes of
living. i
The mountains of New England are
beautiful. The Presidential Range, the
glory and pride of New Hampshire, is
wonderful in the extreme. A trip up
Mount Washington, or some of the
other grand mountains of’ that state,
will give one a series of thrills equal to
anything that Europe affords. The
Green Mountains of Vermont are beau¬
tiful. The Catskills of New York are
an attraction which no one should miss,
and there are mountains in Maine that
are wonderful. Mount Natadin affords
some of the grandest scenery in New
England, and the three thousand lakes
of Maine have attractions that few oth¬
er waters afford, for most of them con¬
tain trout and salmon, and the forests
about them, mainly coniferous trees,
filling the air with the scent of the bal¬
sam and the pine, the spruce and the
hemlock and cedar will put health into
the body and a ruddy glow upon the
cheek that no European country can
equal.
Running down the coast is the Alle
gheney, Blue Ridge and other moun¬
tains that extend from the Canadian
border to Georgia, and every rod of
that entire chain of mountains is a rev¬
elation'and an inspiration.
■In Kentucky there is the famous mam
moth Cave, and no American should
fail to explore it. There is nothing in
Europe that can equal it in grandeur or
sublimity. It is full of wonders and is
a study for the scientist and the tourist.
There are other caves to visit, and
KEEP THE BAKU UP
| United States,
i _ The lead tl
with an influ>
i is as false as
certain manu,
to see the ba
admission of
to see labor
plentiful supi
order to ches
ter control t
like to see t'
the United S
idea that an
surplus, "fvou
cause there v
buy. What n
supembundan
of prosperity,
child in exec
would be-^u hi
bor.
The idle lit
bor. They en
automobiles, t
ises, to wait i
upon hunting
to entertain
and for man
their wims o
nay their m<
The idle rich t be looked upon
.
with favor 1 average laboring
man, but jusl ne the so-called
"idle rich” contribute many millions of
dollars to the support of laboring men
and women.
On the other hand, if there were a
great number of the ilde laborers their
families would suffer, and the cheapen¬
ing of the labor market would rpake
the wages of the enmployed so low that
most of them would need to do some
line engineering to make both ends
meet; and, in addition to the prospect
of low wages might be added the bur¬
den of the support of the idle and the
poor, made so and kept so because
they have not the opportunity to work
and provide for their families.
We cannot afford ,to lower the stand¬
ard of labor in this country. Cheap la¬
bor means cheap production. Low wages
means a lack of interest, discontent
and antipathy for those who are re¬
sponsible for the conditions that keep
men in poverty and wretchedness.
Have we considered that the average
immigrant comes to this country poor;
that he comes to better his condition;
that he understands very little of the
basic principle of Americanism; that he
comes here prejudiced against all
forms of government; that he brings
into the world a'more or less large siz¬
ed family; that every child must be ed¬
ucated as well as fed; that we must
have,school houses and teachers for
the children of these poor people; that
the per capita cost of educating a
child is not far from $40 to $50 per an¬
num; that pie poor laborer or immi¬
grant with five, six or ten
cannot pay the cost of their education;
that a family of ten chidlren costs the
municipality in which he is located ap¬
proximately $500 per year; that the
American people, ■dhe more prosperous
nave nomes and those who have saved
up something foY their declining years,
are taxed and must pay for the support
of these people—their pauper bills, the
cost of the education of their children,
the cost of police service, the cost of
streets, lights, public libraries, hospit¬
als and every additional Vxpense that
may fall upon us because these people
have come among us.
It is well to be philanthropic; but it is
a crime to admit to this country the
poqr laborers of Europe to become a
burden to American labor or an obsta¬
cle in the way of a living wage for all.
BRITISH PLANS IN AMERICA
British propaganda in America for the
purpose of creating a public sentiment
in favor of Great Britain is not meeting
with the success that the British emis¬
saries had hoped for. They have under¬
taken to impress America with the
fact that Great Britain cannot pay her
debt to America except in goods to be
admitted to this country at a low tariff
rate, that the hope of establishing an
American merchant marine is hopeless,
and that there is a further need of vast
credits to European countries.
In the first place Great Britain will
not be permitted to flood this country
with her manufactured goods and place
them in competition with the products
of American labor. In the second place,
America will never again sun^nder the
carrying trade of the world to British
bottoms, and it is extremely doubtful if
this country ever decides to capitalize
European nations in order that Great
Britain may reap a commercial harvest
in trade with them.
The American people are easy, but
the veneer is far tooppn to conceal the
true nature of the British desire and in¬
tent, and America will attend to her
own business and require Britain and all
other nations to pay their debts to this
country in legal tender. Any other form i
of settlement would be an injustice to
the American people, and an outrage
that would never be forgiven or for¬
gotten.
The people of this United States will
ever remember that this is America, and
that British-American relations can nev¬
er be furthered by trying to win good
American citizens away from the prin¬
ciples that inspired the founders of
this nation when they formulated that
grand instrument that is the basic
ciple of American liberty and American
law.
It is no use for Great Britain to try
to win America to her way of thinking,
or to wheedle this government into be¬
coming a tool in her hands. America is
great. She can stand alone, and she does
not need the help of (b eat Britain or
any other nation fin the administration
he) 1 affairs, and furtherraowo she will
permit no meddling.
if Great Britain desires to do busi¬
ness with America, it will be necessary
to do it after our own methods and in
compliance with American law. In other
words, Britain must recognize the sound
ness of American, international policies.
Great Britain lias come to a realiza¬
tion of the folly of attempting evasion
of payment of her debt to America. She
sees the kindling tire in American eyes
at the mention of this outrageous re¬
quest, and she is now fully aware that
her only hope for the preservation of
American friendship is the square deal.
Hence Britain is now willing to aeknowl
edge the debt and make preparations to
pay every dollar of it with interest. Any
other^gourse would be fatal to British
interests and hopes for the future friend
ly relations,
ui not. it we nave tne brain under con
trol, a failure will not upset or weaken
our mental caliber. We will seek anoth^
er opening; seek another level.
There is a place for everybody 'in this
world. Some may be' fortunate enough
to find the proper channel at the start,
but many run aground and are forced
to try again, and if they do not dwell
too seriously on their first misfortune
they will come out all right in the end.
Keep the gray matter working. Let
not failure in one line discourage you
from trying something else, and if you
are not too far along the line you will
finally settle into something adapted tc
jour methods of thought and action.
However, it is better to keep a weath¬
er eye on the future and think well be¬
fore making the start. Start right if
possible; but start something, and keep
it moving—it will land you somewhere,
and if the ship is wrecked, leave it and
take another;but look forward with a
hope and determination to win success,
and at the same time let your mind re¬
vert to past experience as a guide and
a warning against ventures that may
end in disaster.
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