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The COVINGTON NEWS
Official Organ of Newtou County
and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the
News Publishing Company.
VY. E. LIGHTFOOT, - Editor-Mgr.
Entered as second class mail matter
pecember 2, 1908, at the Post Office
fct Covington, Ga., under the act of
March 3, 1879,
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1922
Before shedding too many tears over
the death of Eord Northcliffe, Ameri¬
cans should remember that he, more
than any other one man, was responsi¬
ble for the World War, and that he was
solely responsible for America’s taking
part in it.
The demand for American flour in the
countries of the Orient will sustain the
prices in America. Bookings for ship¬
ment are heavier than for several years.
One string of mills has an order for
80,000 barrels, and all the other mills
are participating in the unusual demand
for flour.
Before this winter is over the shiv¬
ering will not all be done on the dance
hall floor, neither will the shivers be
voluntary or controllable. We have of¬
ten pitied a poor dog we have seen shiv¬
ering, but its discomfort was of short
duration: it could find relief at the fam¬
ily fireside. This winter both the dog
and his master will shiver, and the fire¬
side will not afford the cheerful relief
of the days when fuel was plenty and
within the reach of all.
Whoever may have won the coal
strike, the people lose. The miners go
back to work for one year at the old
wage scale existing prior to April 1st.
Meanwhile the operators disposed of the
coal at advanced prices, and now that
the miners are back at work again the
new product is being sold at prices far
above normal. It is thus evident that
the operators are making a large
amount of money out of the strike.
The miners are paying no more, but
the people of the United States are pay-,
ing a big price. The people, the consum¬
ers, are the losers, and the operators
are the winners by a large margin. They
have not been obliged to pay the miners
for six months labor, and have cleaned
up their old stocks at prices that have
yielded them enormous profits, arid the
new product is going into the market,
because of its scarcity, at prices far
above what they should be, and the
predatory operators are pocketing their
ill-gotten gains with a smile. The miners
have lost six months’ pay all for the
benefit of the mine owners, and the peo¬
ple. many of them, will go cold the
coming winter, while those who can
get coal will pay a price out of all pro¬
portion to the value of the coal they
must have, or freeze. This is a condi¬
tion that should not exist in this coun¬
try. The coal mines should be under the
control of the government, and opera¬
ted upon a basis of equity and justice.
THE END OF THE CHAPTER
A verdict of not guilty has been found
by the jury in the case of the four Ma¬
con men who were under trial for the
lynching of Cocky Glover, negro mur¬
derer of Deputy Sheriff Byrd, in the
early part of last month.
And so, officially ends the chapter.
Glover was being carried to Macon
by State and Federal officers, when the
car was met just inside the limits of
Bibb county by a mob composed of sev¬
eral hundred men. The officers, in their
.attempt to evade the mob and save their
prisoner, left the road and drove off
across a pasture and into a swamp, but
were intercepted by the mob, and the
negro was taken from the car and the
officers forced to leave the scene.
For more than an hour the negro was
questioned about the killing of Byrd,
but would give no answer. His only
words were a request for a drink of
water, which was refused. Finally he
was tied to a small pine tree, and his
body was riddled with bullets and then
was thrown into a nearby ditch. Eater
the body was picked up and carried
into Macon, dumped out of the car
in the heart of the city, trampled and
kicked about in the street, and an effort
was made to burn it.
All this occurred in broad daylight—
between one and three in the afternoon
—and not a man in the mob, either at
the killing of the negro or in the later
disturbances in the city, was masked, or
made any attempt to conceal his iden¬
tity at any time.
And yet the verdict was that Glover
came to his death at the hands of un¬
known parties! And when, after much
effort and delay, men are brought to
trial for the crime, no least evidence
can l>e found against anyone concerned
in the affair!
The record of Georgia for lynching i3
already a very bad one, but this affair
puts the darkest stain of all upon our
shield—a stain which will remain as
long as history remains to tell of the
crime.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, WEirnmn
PAPER MONEY IN EUROPE
Germany, unable to print paper mon¬
ey fast enough to meet the requirement
of her rapidly depreciating currency,
now proposes to issue a 500,000 mark
note. No other nation except Russia has
issued notes of that high value (?). Rus¬
sia has a million rouble note that is
worth about as much as the paper it
is printed upon, and Germany’s 500,000
mark note will be in the same class.
Germany’s money printing presses are
to be speeded up, and beginning Oc¬
tober 1st, the Reichsbank will print
4,000,000,000 paper marks a day. There
is no shortage of money in Germany or
Russia, but there is a lamentable short
age in the value of the money. On Sep¬
tember 1st there was in circulation a»
total of 250,000,000,000 German marks,
and since then the presses have been
turning out 2,600,000,000 marks a day,
so by October 1st there will be in cir¬
culation 315,000,000,000 paper marks,
and by the end of the year it will have
become 6(10,000,000,000 marks, or an
amount equal to twice her national
wealth before the war, and to about six
times her present valuation. Now 'f
there is any mathematician or financier
who can figure out with any degree
accuracy the date upon which Germany
will be liable to redeem the last mark
of her enormous circulation, that indi¬
vidual will be entitled to the grand prize
at the world’s fair. If there are in Amer¬
ica any individuals who expect to make
a good investment in the purchase of
German marks at any price, expecting
to receive their face value when Ger¬
many shall have recovered from her
exhaustion, they had better be
careful, for the probabilities are that
the only redemption will be the price
the junk man will pay for the paper
they are printed upon, and at the pres¬
ent price of old paper the outlook is not
very encouraging. Collectors may be in
terested in gathering in some of the
German notes as curios, but as a bank¬
able asset their value is nil.
In contrast with the German and
Russian financial systems, the United
States is the richest country in the
world; richer than Great Britain and
France combined, and its bank notes
are in rich contrast with the notes of
the bankrupt countries of Europe.
In the United States $10,000 is the
highest value of any note, and so few
of us have them in our possession that
it is doubtful if any may be found in the
community to show to inquiring friends
just what they look like, but if anybody
has one or more of them, he may rest
assured that they are worth one hun¬
dred cents for every dollar of face value,
and in gold, at that. The $10,000
are issued by the Federal Reserve
They are gold certificates, and are
largely in paying for gold bars
ed by the bank and added to the
reserve. $1,000 and $500 bank notes
more common, and are the largest
public sees or handies. These notes
bankable for all they are represented
be worth, and their value is stable.
you come into possession of one of
you may pass it along, or bank it
or a year from today at its face value.
There is no fluctuation and no
menting with the currency of the
ted States. Our credit is good, the
in the world, and we hope that by
financial engineering it will always
main so, and that no holder of a
ine United States note will ever
reason to complain regarding its
chasing value or its redemption in
sound metal which it represents.
WAR CLOUDS GATHERING
Notwithstanding the fact that the
League of Nations was supposed to
make the world peaceful, it has failed
to function along the lines of its intent.
Today England is preparing for war
and is sending troops to check the ad¬
vance of the victorious Turks, who want
Constantinople and all the territory in
Europe that they possessed before the
war—and perhaps more.
All Islam is aroused and enthused bv
the news of Turkish victories. The
states cut out of Turkey by the Allies
are threatened, and unless the world
unites to maintain its policies and sup¬
port the new states in the protection of
their newly acquired freedom, many of
them will be crushed and forced back
into servitude.
The nations have’been far too lenient
in granting to Turkey, the great cancer
of Europe and Asia, the right to main¬
tain her power and any form of
government not in line with the peace¬
ful and harmonious program of the
League of Nations.
Turkey was defeated and surrendered
to the Allies unconditionally. She was
driven out of Europe, and out of Europe
she should be made to remain. Her en¬
tire institution is foreign, Asiatic, an¬
cient and degrading. Her policy is one
of extermination of every race and ev¬
ery people that does not bow before the
shrine of Islam. She has a bad reeord.
The pages of her history are written in
Christian blood, and today she is writ¬
ing more of that same kind of history.
All over Asia Minor may be heard the
cries of dying Christians. Smyrna has
been burned, thousands of its people
have been massacred, mobs of fugitives
are crowding the quays, hoping that
they may be saved by the ships o£ the
Allies, which are unable to take care of f
them, and their screams are heard for
miles. Other cities have been burned, j
and the horrors that made of Smyrna a
shambles and a smoking ruin are being i
repeated all over the district included |
in the mandate which Greece undertook '
to maintain.
The Allies failed to support Greece
because she recalled her traitor king,
yet in withholding their support they
have been guilty of encouraging the
Turks to destroy that which millions of
in Europe and America fought 1
men to
establish, and which the Allied govern
ments, under the laws and rules of hu¬
manity, were in duty bound to maintain.
England and France feared the power
of the Moslem, and furthermore they
wanted to extend their commercial in¬
terests, even if by so doing they men¬
aced the peace of the world. There could
be but one result of such a course, and
today the Near East is in flames, blood
is flowing and men and women are dy
ing by the bullet and the sword of a race
that has no license to live among civ¬
ilized nation^
The worst is not The mistaken '
over.
policy of leniency has been misunder¬
stood by the Turks, and they are now
taking advantage of the folly of the
Allies who criminally failed to agree
upon a policy that would and should
have made a repitition of these horrors
an impossibility.
Turkey is not alone in the fight; she
is supported by soviet Russia and ali
Islam. India is also aroused, and if the j
world escapes another great crisis, it
will be little short of a miracle.
The great war was fought for peace i
and humanity, for self-determination'
and the rights and liberties of all '
na
tions and all peoples, but the bungling ;
diplomats lost much that the soldiers i
won upon the field of battle, and in- j
stead of “peace on earth and good will
to men”, war clouds are gathering that
may involve the world in another cata¬
clysm of blood and flame.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Mrs. Arion Manson, who has rendered ■
such invaluable service as Superinten¬
dent of the Boys’ Training School, at
Milledgeville, and who is spending her j
vacation studying prisons and reforma¬
tories in the east, writing to the Tele¬
graph from Sing Sing prison, gives this
suggestive testimony about the harden¬
ing effect of corporal and other forms
of cruel punishment.
“In addition to deprivation of privi¬
leges, the warden only uses the length¬
ening of the man’s time in prison as a
disciplinary measure. There is no cor¬
poral punishment used, no solitary con¬
finement, no man is placed in a cell
save those who are awaiting death.
There are now twenty-eight men at
Sing Sing awaiting* execution. The prin¬
cipal keeper, a man who has been in
prison work for thirty years, the man
who presses the button which sends
hundreds to eternity, said to me: T am
going to retire soon on pension. I have
seen administered every form of pun¬
ishment which could lie administered to
men, and 1 have watched the results of
every form of punishment. As I retire
I would like to go on record as saying
that corporal punishment, solitary con¬
finement, and punishments of that na¬
ture have never done anything for any
man to whom I have seen them admin¬
istered save to make brutes of them.
Further I would like to say that though,
1 have sent hundreds of men to death,
capital punishment is all wrong, and I
hope to live to see the day when it is
entirely abolished.’ ”
Opposition to capital punishment has
grown rapidly in the past few years.
The old theory of an eye for an eye, a
tooth for a tooth and a life for a life,
is being discarded by many people. In
most instances the petition signed for
clemency for those who have been sen¬
tenced to death are composed.of those
who at heart are opposed to capital
punishment. Not only so, but there is
a widespread opposition to any sort of
punishment that constitutes real punish¬
ment. It is contended that any kind of
punishment only serves to harden the
life of the criminal. It may be a step in
the wrong direction, but unless the sen¬
timent in opposition to capital punish¬
ment is checked, it will be aholished in
the near future. If this sentiment could
be imbedded in the hearts of men who
compose mobs, it would be better for all
concerned. But the probability is that if
abolished, it will add fuel to the lawless
flames.—Commerce News.
England controls the Suez Canal, the
eastern entrance to the Mediterranean,
the Straits of Gibraltar, its western
gateway, and the island of Malta, the
half-way station. And now that Eng¬
land has virtually taken possession of
the Dardanelles, the northern entrance,
the Mediterranean has practically be¬
come John Bull’s millpond.
Many of those who are lamenting the
decadence of morals and the general ir¬
responsibility of the present generation
are the very ones who, in the “glorious
days of 1918”, were holding up the half¬
witted mistress of a dissolute French
king as the model of virtue and pa¬
triotism for the youth and girls of this
, u , t y In T this, .u- as in many other , ways,
we are now beginning to reap the
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
GEORGIA, NEWTON COUNTY
Will be sold before the Court-House
door in said county, on the first Tues
day in October, 1922, within the legal
hours of sale, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land lying
and being in Town District,
county, euuuLy, Georgia, oeurgia, anu and being oeing a a part part of oi
the Bush land, containing 45.90 acres,
more or less, bounded as follows; North
by H. L. Carter, West by Dried Indian
Creek, South by Gus Hardwick’s estate
anfl John Bentley’s, and on the East
by the old Monticello road,
with improvements thereon, said land
levied on as the property of J. H. Bon
ner to satisfy an execution issued on
the first day of August, 1922, from the
Superior Court of Newton county, Geor
gia, in favor of the Bank of Newton
County against J. H. Bonner. J. H.
Bonner and Mrs. J. H. B.onner, tenants
in possession, given written notice of
this levy.
This September 5th. 1922.
B. _____________ L. JOHNSON,
39-42c Sheriff Sher ff nf of v™t™ Newton county,
In the District Court of the United
Slates, For the Northern District of
Georgia.
In re Emmett E. Lunsford, Bankrupt,
No. 8173 in Bankruptcy.
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A Petition . . for discharge having been
filed in < onformity with law by above
named bankrupt, aid the Court having
that the hearing upon said peti¬
tion be had on Oct. 21st, 1922, at ten
o’clock, A. M„ at the United States Dis¬
trict Court room, in the city of Atlanta,
notice is hereby given to all
and other persons in interest
to appear at said' time and place and
cause, if any they have, why the
of the bankrupt for discharge
not be granted.
2 tc O. C. FULLER,
Clerk.
FIRE AND CASUALTY
INSURANCE
MISS LUCY WHITE,
AGENT.
FIRE AND CASUALTY
INSURANCE
FARM LOANS
I make Loans on Newton Countv
lands for five years time, Interest
annually on November 1st, In
from $1,000.00 to $100,000.00.
O. H. ADAMS.
COVINGTON-ATLANTA BUS LINE
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Conyers to Atlanta .95 1.70 Atlanta to Lithonia .75
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Redan to Atlanta .60 1.00 Atlanta to Almon 1.10
St. M’t’n to Atlanta .30 Atlanta to Covington 1.25
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