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Official Organ of Newton County and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the News Publishing Company.
W. E. LIGHTFOOT ................ EDITOR-MANAGER
Entered as second class mail matter December 2, 19US. at the
Post Office at Covington, Ga., under the act of March 3, 1870.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year, (in advance) .............................. $L50
Six Months, (in advance) ............................ $1.00
THURSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1923.
A YEAR OF PROMISE
The year 1923 is a year of promise. If we look backward
to the beginning of the year J922 we will find that business
all over the country, and in fact, all over the world, was in a
chaotic condition. There was unemployment everywhere.
Many mills were idle or running on short time, and with re¬
duced forces. There was no stable market, and very little
demand for goods of any kind. People were not ready to buy.
They were suspicious and doubtful. They lacked courage to
go ahead with any enterprise, fearing that results would
not warrant the undertaking. Railroads had not recovered
from the breakdown of the war period. Locomotives and cars
were in poor condition or were standing in the roundhouses
or upon sidings, pitiful reminders of the overthrow of the tine
systems that prevailed before the war. Along the coasts
thousands of vessels were tied up for want of freight, and
everywhere there was a lack of courage to take the initia
live and start something. As the months passed, things
begun to change for the better; then came the strike of the
railroad workers, coal miners and textile workers in the
north, all of which were finally adjusted, and today every¬
body is busy, or everybody who wants a job has one or can
get it. Tn fact, there is a scarcity of labor in some industries,
and there is a demand that the bars be let down for the ad¬
mission of a greater number of foreigners than the present
laws will permit. This, however, is a demand that should not
be heeded, for this country cannot afford to undo the work
that it was a quarter of a century too late in perfecting.
As we look back over the past twelve months we see
change after change for the better. We see a mill started here
and there, other industries adding to their working forces
increasing their output and even raising the wages of the em¬
ployes. We see the railroads getting busy, adding to their
equipment, and increasing their locomotive power, and as the
old year closed we found all kinds of business practically up
to normal, with many making new records for output. We
see the railroads taxed to the limit and even beyond their
power to transport the freight that is offered. We see crops
going to ruin because of insufficient cars to haul them to mar¬
ket. We find the transportation companies speeding up and
allowing less time for loading and unloading at shipping
points. We note these changes, and we also note the great
industrial activity that has spread over the country from
coast to coast. We see many industries with orders that will
keep them busy for many months to come. We see the idle
ships leaving their mooring to be loaded with merchandise
for Old World and domestic ports. We see the Stars and
Stripes floating at the mastheads of American vessels that
are plowing the waves of the seven seas. We have taken ac¬
count of stocks, and find that America has produced abun¬
dant crops of cereals, cotton and fruits of every description.
We see these crops going to market as fast as transportation
<an be obtained, and regardless of the losses that insufficient
transportation will cause, the farmers of this country have
money to spend. They are buying farm machinery, clothing
and every needed article with a freedom that is setting in
motion the wheels of industry everywhere. The optimism of
the farmers is seconded by the laborers in other industries,
whose wages permit of a higher standard of living than in the
pre-war days. These laborers have money, and they are put¬
ting it into circulation by buying what they need and want,
and thus adding to the general prosperity.
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TOO MANY FOREIGN TRADERS
One of the serious problems resulting from the admis¬
sion of foreigners into this country is the non-productiveness
of ihe immigrant. Millions have come to this country to work
and produce something that will add to the wealth
ot the nation, while other millions come merely to be traders
in the products of others, who are more industrious than
they and are working for the welfare of the country as
well as their own. Thousands of the new arrivals do not
want to work, and will not work, thus becoming a burden on
society.
Look over the long list of traders, peddlers and profiteers
of all kinds, and you will find that the foreigner is occupy
ing a prominent place in the list. They produce nothing, but
make a living, and more, by trading in the products of Amer¬
ican labor. The mercantile business of the country is over¬
run by this intrusion, and the American finds it hard to
compete with the newcomer, who recognizes no rules or
illations, hut pushes his business night and day. and
on a lower standard than the American and his family, who
are native born and reared.
In many sections of our larger cities it is difficult to find
an American trader. Many cannot even speak English,
they are doing business, gaining a living in the exchange of
the products of more industrious ones. What the country
needs is more producers and fewer traders. It needs people
who are willing to work, willing to become American citi¬
zens, and willing to mingle with the American people, adont
our language and customs and live as Americans. Such peo¬
ple are welcomed everywhere, hut those who come to live
by the exchange of the products of the labor of others are
not needed and can be dispensed with.
Notwithstanding the fact that the year 1922 was a period
of wonderful activity in building operations, the present
year bids fair to exceed it in construction work by at least
one billion dollars. The past year’s building operations re¬
lieved the housing shortage to a considerable extent, but it
will require at least two more years of active building to re¬
lieve the situation throughout the nation, which is estimated
at $7,830,000,000. This means employment of labor in all lines
that have to do with house or building construction work of
every nature. It means a demand fur structural steel, lum¬
ber. paper, builders' hardware, and plumbing materials,
stoves, furnaces, and heating outfits of every kind. Thus i»
is c-asy to understand that the business of this country will
he good, even if the foreign markets are less active than un¬
der normal trade conditions, but the foreign demand for
American manufactured articles, grain and provisions is not
likely to be any less than it has been for a year past, and
this, together with the active home market means two yea's
at least of wonderful prosperity for American industries
COVINGTON NEWS, COVln* GEORGIA
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SCIENCE BECOMING A MENACE
In these JJ.VJ 61 scientific investigation, Wdndertui
coveries have been made, and others are corning into
that will prolong the life of man to the extent that
world will, at no far distant period of time, be menaced by a
shortage of food supplies.
Already the average has been raised by ten or more
and within another quarter of a century another decade
be added to the average life of man. This means, provided
that no more great wars or pestilences destroy the lives of
people prematurely, that the time will come when the food
supply will be a serious problem, and life will be a case
the. survival of the fittest.
The advance made in scientific sanitation, care of the
health, the prevention and cure of disease, systematic relief
of famine sufferers, the discovery of specifics for plague
germs, the advances in the prevention and cure of tubercu¬
losis. yellow fever, small-pox, and all other epidemic dieeas
es, as well as the diseases of children, mean that with the
present birth rate of most of the countries of the world un¬
restricted for another century will produce a condition that
will require as acute scientific research in the matter of food
production as is now being devoted to the prolongation of life.
War, famine and pestilence have in the past so reduced
the surplus of humanity in various quarters of the world
that there has been very little cause for concern in this mat¬
ter of human existence, but the overcoming of these dread
exterminators means increase in population, and if famine
or disease fails to relieve the congestion war must necessar¬
ily be resorted to in order to relieve the surplus, unless other
scientific and heroic measures are taken to prevent over¬
population.
War reduces the energy of both victor and vanquished.
It takes from a nation the best it has; the strong and vigor¬
ous. the perfect and healthy, and leaves behind the feeble,
the diseased, the mentally deficient, th deformed and the
cowards, and there is no nation on earth that can afford to
reduce the numbers and the quality of its human energy by
any such means.
Scientific breeding of humanity will in time be consid¬
ered as essential as the scientific breeding of animals, and no
nation will encourage a high birth rate in order to strength¬
en its military power, or send its surplus into the territory
of another nation without being called to account.
France has a low birth rate. She had at the beginning o!
the great war in 1914. 38.000.000 population, 2,000,000 less
than she possessed in 1870, when, at the outbreak of the
Franco-Prussian War, both France nad Germany had a pop¬
ulation of about 40.000,000. France did not increase. On the
other hand her population declined, while that of Germany
increased until in 1914 she had a population of not far from
60,000,000, a preponderance of manpower that, trained as it
was in the art of war. was a menace to the world. France is
still almost childless, while Germany is increasing rapidly.
This means more trouble in the years to come, and as similar
conditions prevail in other European and Asiatic countries,
the surplus will seek homes in other lands, unless science en¬
ters in to correct the tendency to over-populate the world
and menace national existence as well as the peace of the
world by demanding of other nations room for surplus en¬
ergy that others may not care to receive.
AMERICANS WANTED IN CANADA
Canada is again engineering a campaign to induce our
American farmers to migrate to her dominion. She is now
for them, and is also sending agents into this
to induce agriculturists to leave the States and
up lands in the great wheat belt of western Canada.
This is not the first attempt of the kind that our north¬
neighbor has made to obiain desirable immigration. For
number of years Canada has offered alluring inducements
to American farmers, and many have sold their farms to go
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into that northern land where cheap land and other induce¬
ments have offered more than was being realized wffthin the
borders of the United States. The rosy .pictures of rich soil,
low taxation, low rates of transportation, and good markets
induced thousands to leave the United States and to estab¬
lish new homes beneath the protection of the British flag.
Many of these emigrants have been disappointed and have
returned to the United States, satisfied to remain good and
loyal citizens. Many have remained in Canada, where they
have prospered, but it is doubtful if they have found condi¬
tions there any better, if as good, as those they left in going
to the north full of hope and expectancy that in that rigor¬
ous climate they could find wealth and happiness far greater
than this country afforded.
Canada has gained little by her efforts to colonize Amer¬
ican citizens within her borders. It is true that she has, so
far as they have become fixtures, gained a higher class of
citizenship than that which came from over the seas, but
she has lost in the past decade more than her natural in
crease, to say nothing of the nearly two million immigrants
who entered the dominion during the past decade. Her losses
have been almost wholly to the United States, and particu¬
larly during the war, when the high prices paid for labor
were an inducement that brought Canadians over the border
in great numbers. Normally this condition would not have
existed, but the trend is toward the States, especially to the
manufacturing centers, where the mills and factories have
absorbed the influx, and that without any particular benefit
to the country. These immigrants have been in the main
poor. They have added nothing to the wealth of the nation,
Their pauper hills, and the education of their children have
made them a liability rather than an asset, and it will take
another generation to make them self-sustaining and eon
tributive. On the other hand the sturdy fellows we have per¬
mitted to pull up stakes and go to Canada have been men of
means, some even wealthy, who have gone there with money
enough to finance their agricultural propositions, erect good
homes and houses for their cattle and grain, buy the latest
farm machinery and equip their farms or ranches with ev¬
erything necessary to a great and successful agricultural
enterprise. Thus Canada has taken not only some of our
best blood, but she has taken with it millions of dollars of
good American money, the product of American soil, Amer¬
ican intelligence, and American muscle.
The odds are against us. though we have gained in
numbers. The time has gone by when numbers will count as
an asset. We ha%'e held the gates oi>en too long, and we have
among us today fourteen million foreign-born white people,
the great majority of whom should never have been permit¬
ted to enter this country. We are fifty years too late in un¬
dertaking to raise the standard of quality in immigration.
We have filled the “melting pot” too full, and the dross is
a serious problem. Will Canada take it off our hands?
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Did you ever stop to think how impolite it is to block the
way in the little, congested lobby of the postoffice, after you
have gotten your mail? When you have gotten yours, get
out of the way. There are others waiting.
Figures talk when they are big in money. The local
banks make an excellent showing in their statements pub¬
lished this week.
i WHEN THE HEAL; IS FOUL
brassing f .., r 'tiviessn .awlessness ss and .no lack of
respect for the law. it is interesting to
m,a. that when prohibition enforcement j
entered of New .. ., Voiks ... , leaa ,
officers one ';
ing restaurants on New Year’s Eve in
an attempt to arrest men who were vio¬
lating the law, they were set upon by
a frenzied mob of men and w'omen,
beaten with bottles and other objects,
and a shower of missiles hurled at them
by those who could not get within reach
to strike. Leading the mob were men
and women in evening dress, and when
the police reserves had things quieted
down a little, the riot broke out again,
led by a woman, well dressed and ap¬
parently in her teens. With some dif¬
ficulty the officers were rescued. A sim¬
ilar scene was enacted in a St. Louis
restaurant, where shots w T ere exchang¬
ed, and two women were among the in¬
jured. Yet we read a good deal about
protests from wealthy citizens of New
York and St. Louis that the law's are
not better enforced and a check put
upon payroll and bank bandits, high¬
way robbery, and the activity of gun¬
men, who apparently slay at will. The
law' is the law, and those who expect
to benefit by its protection must respect
it, also respect those who represent the
law, wheteher they be prohibition offi¬
cers in the performance of their duty,
or blue-coated policemen arresting ban¬
dit, burglar, thug or gunman. Let the
gap down for one, and the whole horde
of the lawless rush through. When
those supposed to be at the top set the
example, what can be expected of the
bottom?—Tifton Gazette.
DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS
A great many arguments arise b >
tween men by reason of the fact that
although they believe the same thing,
they express it differently. A landlord
w'ho had rented a negro a farm for $600
was at last able to get in return pro¬
duce and a mule, which all amounted to
$450. The landlord patiently went over
the matter with the negro, but was un¬
able to convince him that he was short
$150 on his rent. At last he asked the
negro to give his explanation of the
matter, Whereupon the negro said,
“Boss, the way I sees it, you is short
$150.” The landlord agreed that the ne¬
gro was correct.—Monroe Advertiser.
The Friendly
Too many bankers look upon their profession as “purely
a matter of business” and refuse to allow even the least
bit of humanity to be mixed with their pursuit of dollars.
Not so with thsi hank. We wish to know you personally.
Come to us and discuss your business projects and pros¬
pects. You will find us ever ready to advise and assist you
in any way consistent with safe hanking methods.
Briefly, while looking of course to our own legitimate
business interests, we wish to be your FRIEND. You will
always receive a cordial welcome at our hank, no matter
how small or how large your dealings with us may he.
FARMERS RANKING CO.
H. L. HITCHCOCK, Cashier
To the Stockholder* of Fortners' Co*
Operative Fire Insurance Company of
Newton Couutj * the named
A ,. „ u , ckho i ders m above
are hereby notified that all
persons in arrears for dues members of
said company, are caled upon to make
immediate payment, and unless paid
by February 1, 1923, suit will be enter¬
ed against all who have failed to pay
their assessment in full, to the March
term of Newton Superior Court, 1923.
This January 1, 1923.
T. L. Hill, Sec, and Treas.
A. D. Meador, Any. for Farmers' Co
Operative Fire Insurance Co. of New¬
ton County. 4tp
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““dissolution notice
This is to notify the public that on
this day, January 1, 1923, the firm of
Cook and Norman, composed of S. H.
Cook and C. J. Norman, is dissolved.
All debts of the firm are assumed by
C. J. Norman, and all debts, notes and
accounts due the firm are to be paid to
C. J. Norman.
S. H. COOK,
4tc C. J. NORMAN.
FOR SALE
Large lot, 117x127, with sewerage.
Fine residence lot on Monti
ceilo street. See
D. A. THOMPSON
WHY NOT VISIT FLORIDA
THIS WINTER?
Unexcelled Service via
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
RAILROAD
“The Standard Railroad of the South”
Schedules, railroad and pullman fares
cheerfully furnished by our agents, or
address the undersigned.
E. M. NORTH
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Savannah, Georgia
DON’T RiSKJtGi.CT
Don’t neglect a constant backache,
(sharp, darting patns or urinary dis
orders The danger of dropsy ot
Bright’s disease is too serious to ig¬
nore. Use Doan’s Kidney Bills as
have your friends and neighbors, a
Covington case. Box
Mrs, M. C. Venable, Route 3,
12, fiays: “i had pains across my
kidneys and alter 1 bent over l could
hardly straighten again. Headache
and nervous spells bothered me anJ
I was all upset. My kidneys didn't
act properly, either. The different
remedies I tried brought me no re
lief and finally I saw Doan’s Kidney
Pills advertised. I got a box a)
Smith’s Drug Store and got relies
from the first. Continued use en¬
tirely cured me of this trouble and I
have been in good health ever since.”
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Mil burn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
FOR SALE AND RENtI
Three beautiful building .
in North Covington, adjoin! ehtj
Dr. Eberhardt for sale
One on Monticello street,
acres land on Monticello stil
for building lots, close in. B,J
tiful 5-room house, close i ,
Monticello street. The beaut,!
J. F. Rogers home for sale i
rent. Other valuable lots
homes. Real Estate See me! Dr. J. A. WriJ
Agent.
WANTED
RAILROAD CROSST
MADE FROM OAK
WILL TAKE ANY QUANTITY
HUNDREDS WANT!
SEE
R. W. CAMPBELL
PHONE 31
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
FOR RENT
Two 6-room cottages on south side
Thompson Avenue, with garage. Ughi
and waterworks. $25 per month wc!
DJL THOMPSON
Cleaning and Pressing]
Dyeing and Altering!
HATS CLEANED
AND
BLOCKED
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.!
H. F. MEADORS
PHONE 309.
FARM AND CITY
LOTS FOR SALE
Seven city lots in Covington,! sale!
near Central Depot, for
Plat can be seen at Covington
News office. Also farm about 1
miles from Covington, known
as Deepstep, containing about
387 acres. For prices and terms
address Miss S. A. Harris, 601
Highland Ave. Apartment 2, At¬
lanta, Ga. ti
Kill-Germ cures itch. For sale by Cl
C. Brooks, Druggist, Covington, Ga. fit
