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The COVINGTON NEWS
Official Organ of Newton County
and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the
News Publishing Company.
W. E. LIGHTFOOT , - Editor-Mgr.
Entered as second class mail matter
December 2, 1908, at the Post Office
at Covington, Ga., under the act of
March 3, 1379.
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T11 IKS DA Y A l G U ST 17, 1922.
As the currency falls, Germany is
overrun with easy marks, and Russ.a
with rubes.
The Ku’ Klux Klan, reports state,
lias been injected into politics. That
will hurt the organization. The Ku
Klux Klan has no business in politics,
no more than the church or any other
secret societv.—Jackson Progress.
But. “Were the life of any fraternal
organization jeopardized, its members
would certainly rally to its support, po¬
litically or otherwise.” This is not the
day to turn the other cheek.
If you are a down-and-outer, do not
be discouraged. Resolve to be an up
and-iner. Hitch your wagon to the star
and turn on the gas. Keep the old buggy
moving. Put on all the speed you can
all the power you can generate, and
keep in the middle of the road. This will
bring you up the 'sharp incline of pros¬
perity to the heights of success. Then
you can review' your past, laugh over
your failures and make good resolu¬
tions with a view' to avoiding the ruts
and pitfalls that caused disaster.
President Harding refuses to be
drawn into the California senatorial
contest, as he has refused to be drawn
into other state contests. “It is a tine
example,” comments a Washington
newspaper, “of the president minding
strictly his own business.” It isn’t the
president’s job to choose senators and
congressmen; that duty belongs to the
people of the various states. It also is
apparent that the president, unlike his
predecessor, recognizes a hot poker
when he sees it.—Dawson News.
Being between two fires is not much
W'orse than being between the cattle
tick and the boll weevil, the positioa
still occupied by many southern farm;
ers. Many a farmer in Sputh Carolina
who did not appreciate the advantage
of the eradication of the cattle tick,
went in for cows w’hen the cotton pest
arrived in numbers two years ago. Now
they consider themselves fortunate in
having dipped the tick before their more
persistent enemy arrived. They have
cut down the cotton acreage, and are
now growing velvet beans, corn, and
cow-pea hay, about the only fepds
that are needed in addition to pasture
to keep a cow producing profitably.
That man W. E. Lightfoot, who edits
the Covington News, spoke out in the
meeting in a recent issue of that paper,
when discussing the awful tragedies
that were so shocking, in which Wil¬
liams and Clyde Manning were alleged
leaders and co-participants. Unfortu;
nate it was that Mr. Lightfoot could
not make these statements prior to the
trial. Propriety would not permit such
comment prior to the trial in the courts.
Subsequent comment has been delayed
possibly by higher courts’ decisions, but
is was mighty good when it did come.
That’s the kind of talk that is badly
needed in this country.—Commerce
News.
The “Careful Crossing” campaign
waged this season throughout the Uni¬
ted States has reduced the number of
accidents at grade crossings. This cer¬
tainly is encouraging, and the cam¬
paign should be continued until men
who drive automobiles will be more cau¬
tious. Many automobile drivers rush
over ble to crossings look to without the right taking to the the trou¬ left,
or
and the result is that far too many of
them pay the penalty for their heed¬
lessness with their lives, or are maimed
perhaps for life. It is folly to try to
beat the train over the crossing. Re¬
member that eternal vigilance is the
price of safety. Grade crossings are
being eliminated in the United States
at the rate of about ^’our hundred a
year, and as there are 251.239 grade
crossings in the country, it will require
at the present ljtite of elimination,
something like 629 years to do away
with them all. Thus there is no hope
that they will be done away with en¬
tirely for many years, even if the work
is hastened many»fold. Be careful. Be
on the lookout when approaching a
crossing. “Stop, look and listen.” and
make yourself absolutely certain that
no trains are ■approaching before at¬
tempting to make the crossing. If you
do this, you will he safer. Those who
ride with you will be safer, and you will
not be likely to regret the rash act that
has precipitated thousands into eternity
or mangled and maimed them for life.
SOMEBODY HAS LIED!
In a statement published in the At¬
lanta Constitution, Superintendent Dun¬
away, of the State Prison Farm, ex¬
presses surplise at the report that
Williams, of “murder farm” fame, has
been allowed to go to his home and to
enjoy other unusual privileges. The
warden states that he carried Williams
to Monticello as his chauffeur, but that
the trip was strictly a business one, and
that he went to Monticello to exchange
some hogs, and to get some wheat and
burr clover seed.
For the past three weeks many of
our people here in Newton county have
have been wondering how Williams' could
such influence over Warden Dun¬
away as to have induced him to allow
the prisoner to violate the rules of the
prison. The subject of this prisoner go¬
ing hLme has also been discussed in
Walton county and in Jasper counts
and several parties have stated time
and time again that they saw Williams
at or near his home on or about Sunday.
July 23rd. We believe the statements of
our citizens in preference ta those of
Warden Dunaway, but the warden did
certainly tell the truth in saying that
Williams went to Monticello.
Superintendent Dunawav selected a
fine day to trade hogs and buy clover
seed and other supplies, and could not
have found a better day to give this
high(?), distinguished!?), mellow heart
ed(?) prisoner an automobile outing.
All of this jubilee took place on a
SUNDAY! The State Prison Commission
should also ascertain whether Williams
wore his stripes, or civilian clothes. If
it is getting so that a prisoner serving
-a life sentence can don civilian clothes
and ride with the high muck-a-de-muck
miles away, and attend “strictly” to
business, in a little town that observes
Sunday as Monticello does, then it is
time to get another warden, for the one
who allows such action is evidently hyp¬
notized, and is no good to the state.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVING'nm,
COMMON TALK
Everybody talks about the weather. Scarcely ever do persons meet without
difecussing the weather. This subject seems to be a general opener for conver¬
sation, and is the first topic after salutation, however important may be the
business which is to follow. Those having no business discuss the weather; tfie
hot waves and the cold, the difference in temperatures in high and low places,
one day and another, noon and midnight. It may be the heat, and it may be the
cold. It may be rain, fog, snow or hail, and it may be an electric storm, but it
is always the weather.
Some, after exhausting the weather topic, talk “hoss”, others crops, others
fashions, and far too many, the neighborhood scandal. In nearly every case it
is a case of talk, talk, talk; talk for the sake of talking, to amplify and embellish
the subject, inject untruths into otherwise harmless stories; speculate upon 1 char¬
acter, generally to smear and destroy, rarely to build it up. People are looking
foe. the horror, the skeleton in every closet, and if there is none, the scandal mon¬
gers will make one or more for the occasion, and ate the story goes the rounds
every repetition is decorated with more untruths and incriminating insinuations
that are as bad as the lies that are hung upon the story to make it really im¬
portant in the minds of the mongers.
From- scandal the conversation turns upon the sick and suffering, and the
manner in,which that subject is handled is astonishing—bu^jeople like to talk.
Too many like to feel that th,y are telling a story of great importance, and to
make it more interesting, they col or/it to suit their fancy, frequently doing great
injury by their departures from the absolute truth.
Most people talk too much. Many people talk much and say little. Few
people talk little and say much.
• Those who talk much have much to regret, provided they have any consci
encious scruples whatever, ai^d those are the people within whose hearing it is
unsafe to discuss any important subject. It is sure to be distorted, and for this
reason great talkers have fewer genuine friends than those who talk less and
confine their conversation to truth, reason and important subjects.
There is enough to talk about that is really worth while. Subjects of discus¬
sion are in every newspaper, in every book, in the Scriptures, in every communi¬
ty where community interest has any place in the hearts of the people; subjects
that are worth discussing for the betterment of the community, the relief of
sickness and distress, mental and moral improvement, agriculture, science, med¬
icine, electricity, mechanics and a thousand and one other topics that can he
discussed with profit. They may not he as easy to talk upon as the community
gossip and scandal, but they are far more elevating and productive of lasting
friendships. The good that people do in this life lives after them. Kind words are
never forgotten. Words of wisdom and truth, utterejji by those whose hearts are
filled with charity and love for their fellow men spread sunshine everywhere,
and change the gall of bittern,ees to grateful sweetness, promoting harmony ami
the general welfare.
THE ROVING MAN’S VIEW
Many men object to buying a house and settling down in one place, on the
ground that they may desire later to move to some other town or city. There may
be good reasoning in this view of the matter, but if you are a laboring man
with a good job it is better to own your home than to keep yourself all stirred
up and living in doubt from year'to year.
The man who puts off buying a home because he thinks he may lose his job,
or may get a better one and move away does not enjoy life. He feels all the, time
that he is but a visitor in the community. On the other hand, the man who owns
his own home feels that he is a fixture, and is likely to remain a unit of the com¬
munity for many years. If he should lose his job, or get a better position, he
knows he can dispose of his property, often at a profit, and that while he re
mains in town, he has at least had a home that he could call his own, where he
coultj do as he pleased, make such changes as he desired, improve the property
as he chose, and paint and paper when 'such work was needed. Such a home is
more of a delight than the rented property, whether it be a mansion or a cottage.
It is true,that some men’s business takes them away from home a great por¬
tion of the time, but if they have a home they are better satisfied than to tfiink
of breaking up house keeping and moving from place to place at frequent
intervals.
Some may argue that the working man is more independent if he lives in
rented property; that the employer will not feel that he has a hold upon them
if they; are in a position to move at short notice. This may be true in some
cases, but frequently it is the home owner who is given the preference.
On the whole there is vastly too much of this moving about. People who are
continually on the move accumulate little. They spend all their earnings in mov¬
ing and getting settled. It costs a lot of money to change from place to place,
and a few dollars in wages does not make up for the expense of frequent mov¬
ing, the loss in breakage of furniture and household articles and the adjustment
of new fittings to meet the change in circumstances that arise in every new home.
Again, it is better to remain with an employer as long as possible. One gets
accustomed to his ways of doing work, and the workman becomes more valuable
the longer he stays. When he quits a£d goes to another location he is obliged to
learn new methods, and his efficiency is lessened until he can acquire a working
knowledge of his new surroundings.
Usually a man stands a better chance of promotion if he stands still, where
he knows his employer and the business he is doing.
House owning is productive of genuine happiness. Renting Js far from sat¬
isfactory. By all means, buy a home and become a part of the community in
which you live. You will be happier. Your family will enjoy life better, and in
case you are obliged to go away, you will have the satisfaction of having had
a good home, and the chances are very much in favor of your realizing a pr >fit
upon your investment.
Men are coming to realize this fact more and more, and’are buying homes,
even if they expect to remain only a few years in a place.
THE BRITISH AND
OUR PROHIBITION
Government prohibition enforcement
may embroil this country in a contro¬
versy with Great Britain. The search
of British vessels outside the twelve
mile limit, or even beyond the three
mile limit, may raise a question of in¬
ternational claimed law. Arqerica has always
that territorial waters extend
only to the three-mile limit, and in the
case of bays, three miles beyond a line
drawn from headland to headland, and
there is no precedent to sustain the
right of search and seizure beyond such
limits, except in the case of vessels
seeking our ports in trade, shall be sub¬
ject to such visitation and inspection
op *the exigencies of our revenue may
demand, in the judgment of this gov¬
ernment, for the protection of the reve¬
nues and the adequate administration of
the customs service. This is not domin¬
ion over the seas where these vessels
art? visited, but dominion over commerce
with us, its vehicles and cargoes, even
while at sea.” Such was the doctrine
promulgated by William Evarts, Secre¬
tary of State under President Hayes,
but it has not been recognized by the
nations, and therefore cannot be con¬
sidered as international law. What the
outcome of the recent seizure of an al¬
leged rum-runner beyond the twelve
mile limit will be is therefore problem¬
atical, and not likely to be settled at an
early date. America insists upon protect¬
ing her ports from violations of the
prohibitory enactment, and that is a
difficult matter after rum-laden vessels
once enter the legal three-mile limit of
our territorial rights, as acknowledged
by international law. In’any event, this
or any other country should have the
right to protect itself against any un¬
lawful traffic, whether three miles from
the coast, or even twelve or fifteen
miles are required for suclj protection.
Great Britain declines to recognize ter¬
ritorial rights of twelve miles, and will
combat the United States vigorously on
that stand. Britain is willing to aid the
United States in the enforcement of its
“dry law”, but will not submit to the
seizure of liquors upon trans-Atlantic
liners, and has intimated a threat that
if such action is insisted upon, she will
transfer her liners to Canadian ports.
It is doubtful, however, that such trans¬
fer would be made, even if the United
States insists upon self-protection in
the matter of prohibition, for such ac¬
tion on the part of the steamship com¬
panies would be a great inconvenience
to the passengers and an impossibility
in the matter of freights, ami would
ruin Britain’s oversea traffic, permitting
American ships to do the business that
is now carried on in British vessels.
Britain may threaten, but she is too
wise to undertake the forcing of the
hands of this government by methods
that can have but one result, and that
the destruction of her own maritime
business and the engendering of a
ing of unfriendliness that she
afford at this time, and will take no
chances with. Meanwhile the "dry en
forcement officers” will continue 'then
work, and the. rum-runners will need
to keep a weather eye open, lest they
lose their ships and cargoes.
ESPERANTO
France, through its minister, of pub¬
lic instruction. M. Bernard, objects to
the teaching of Esperanto in anv of the
academies or colleges of the French re¬
public. The objection is that this artifi
citil tongue, attractive by its facility,
may do harm in the stu'dv of modern
languages, language from and eventually separate
tute for nationality. No substi¬
the national language of France
will be permitted. The people of France
are not to be led into learning a so
called universal language in order that
they may read the Bolshevik or any
other propaganda opposed to the gov¬
ernment or to the ethics of national
economy, and the peasant and the trade
man, the mechanic and the professional
man will read the language of their
native land to the exclusion of anv ar¬
tificial language that might ,be more
harmful than it now appears to be, be¬
cause of the ease with which the prop¬
agandists might carry on their work
if one language sufficed for the entire
world. France has the right idea. The
peace of the world is more secure under
nationalism than it could possibly be
under/ internationalism, so far as lan¬
guage is poncerned. In the United States
we are teaching all peoples of the earth
Americanized English, but our safety
lies in the fact that we are all under
one government, and while men and
women from every nation and every
clime are learning our language, they
are at the same time absorbing the prin¬
ciples of Americanism. Our case is pe¬
culiarly our own.
GRADUATION TIME!
Recently, all over the country, com¬
mencement activities have been in prog¬
ress in our schools and colleges.
(>ne would hardly think of associating
the commencement activities \\ ith a
modern industrial plant. the
Nevertheless, if one had visited
big Los Angeles factory of the Good¬
year Tire and Rubber Company, of Cal¬
ifornia. on Monday evening, July 31.
it would certainly have recalled vivid
memories of oommencement time.
To be sure, the proverbial caps and
gowns were missing, hdt it was gradua
Pon time nevertheless, when 31 mem¬
bers of the Goodyear Flying Squadron
received their diplomas as Master Rub¬
ber Workers at the hands of Factory
Superintendent, Harry Blythe.
The Flying Squadron idea was origi¬
nated by P. W. Litchfield, Factory Man¬
ager at Akron, in the spring of 1913.
Mr. Litchfield foresaw the need of train¬
ing a body of expert be prepared rubber workers to fill
who would always
any vacancies that might arise. So he
formed a body of picked men for a three
year training course which embraced
every operation in rubber manufactur¬
ing. New classes and a new student
body start every year, just as in the
academic and technical universities.
The same idea has been can ied out at
Los Angeles. In presenting diplomas to
this year’s thirty-one graduates. Factory
Superintendent Blythe paid high trib¬
ute to ea< h man.
Mr. Blythe also announced that a new
Fly ng Squadron would be started at
once, the personnel to be selected from
the present workers in the California
plant.
It is unfortunate that political radi¬
calism is always followed or accompa¬
nied by moral and spiritual radicalism.
The \\ arid is greatly in need of the
former, but the latter is a thing to be
avoided at all times and especially under
present conditions.
DON’T MAKE BURGLARY
A CAPITAL OFFENSE
There are many reasons for not pun¬
ishing burglary with death. One is that
the crime will go unpunished in a great
number of cases and the laxity of en¬
forcement is likely to encourage rather
than discourage it.
Another is that the laws of our state
should be built in such a way as to
maintain the great moral principles of
our people and no law which metes out
death as the penalty for a crime against
property is righteous in its working.
The state should be as careful about
respecting human life as its citizens
are expected to be. Burglary is a very
serious crime, one which merits severe
punishment, but it. is out of all propor¬
tion to balance to attempt to yut it in
the same class with murder.
“An eye for an eye and a tooth for
a tooth” was the ancient law, severe
enough in its justice to shock the mer¬
ciful, but to call for an eye for a tooth
would have been a crime against jus¬
tice and without warrant. Are w'e not
doing something like this when we are
planning to punish burglary with
death?
The Atlanta Constitution makes the
point that if the penalty for burglary
compounded with murder it no greater
than for burglary alone, the burglar
will be given a pbsitive incentive to add
murder to his offense in the hope of
eluding the law altogether.
Assuredly such offenses a law would tend to
make burglary far more des¬
perate and would make the whole
fabric of the law fveaker. It is a strange
fallacy to hope to keep order by devis¬
ing terrible punishments. Good govern¬
ment is in the rigid enforcement of
mild laws, not in the occasional action
of rigid and fearful laws.
It is to be hoped that the house will
not pass the Senate’s bill. W« will cer¬
tainly have more murders than ever
before and very probably more burglar¬
ies. Worse still, we shall have canker
eating at the heart of justice in our
laws. It is a crime against God and
man to class property and human life
together. We cannot afford so to cheap¬
en life and so to over-value property.
If we do, we shall get the consequences
of it in a loss of morale in our people.—
Savannah Press.
SENATOR REED’S VICTORY
In conclusive numbers the voters
Missouri affixed the stamp of their
approval upon the persistent disposition
of ex-President Woodrow Wilson to
tate to the people of Ameica
ing the election of United States
tors and governors.
Senator Reed waged an
fight in a campaign -in which
crats, prohibitionists and
combined to encompass his defeat.
letter of instructions from the
rflent souri forwarded provoked to defi a from henchman in
a Senator
which caused a line-up of the
against him.
Mr. Wilson called Senator Reed
“marplot,” which attack -seemed to
cite the admiration of the “loyals,”
immediately began to predict that
souri would repudiate a man whose
tellect and character stands second
none in the most august legislative
in the world.
That Mr. Wilson is no longer an
fluential factor in national
sjiould be apparent even to his
admirers, but failing to defeat him
a former member of the Wilson
they are now forecasting his
in the general election.
The people of America have
times declared their opposition to an
solute monarchy and the noisv few
would so enthrone Mr. Wilson
do well to heed the voice of wisdom
cease their condemnation of all
disagree with them.
The people of Missouri are to be
gratulated upon the convincing
tion of their independence and the
tion of a man wha has stood
for Democratic principles and
can supremacy, even though they
being censored by a disgruntled
who challenge their intelligence
patriotism.
For Mr. Wilson, The Times
tains nothing but the kindliest of
ings, but it has always resented his
parent wish to meddle with state affairs
It docs not and cannot approve of
efforts that he has made to
government and assume control of
“reins.”
In Georgia the situation is not unlike
that which prevails in Missouri. In 1920
the people elected two of the most
rabid anti-Wilson men in the United
States. These men were unalterably op¬
posed to the ratification of the League
of Nations and made their position
clear to the voters before the primary
for which they were made the target
of the silly criticism of the fanatics
who would allow this country to sell
its birth-right for an imaginary mess
of pottage.
There is not a stronger or more de¬
pendable man in the United States sen¬
ate than Jim Reed, whose chief sin is
his failure to obey Mr. Wilson. This is
said, not that The Times loves Mr. Wil¬
son less, but the United States more.
The re-election of United States Sen¬
ator James A. Reed is a conclusive in¬
dication that the Democrats of Missouri
have recovered from Wilsonism and re¬
turned to sanity.— Conyers Times.
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