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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Official Organ of Newton County and the Ci ty of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the News Publishing Company.
W. E. LIGHTFOOT ................ EDITOR-MANAGER
Entered as second class mail matter December 2, 190b, at tne
Post Office at Covington, Ga., under the act of March 3, 13.0.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1923.
A PURPOSE IN LIFE
Have a purpose in life. A man or woman without some
definite plan for life work is destitute of much that life is
worth living for. To almost every person there comes in
early life a desire to do something, be something, rise
above the ordinary and become a shining light in some
trade or profession.
The boy or girl, even in their early teens feel the in¬
spiration of the budding desire for a purpose in life. Cir¬
cumstances and environment may change that purpose in
later years; yet nine times out of ten the first impression is
lasting and cannot be wholly overcome, ulthough other
trades or professions may have been adopted.
The youth born to lie a mechanic may become a profes¬
sional man by force of circumstances or the desire of his
parents or friends; yet he is seldom satisfied. He may be¬
come a great physician, a brilliant lawyer or a preacher of
the gospel, but, if he is a natural mechanic he will find
pleasure in mechanical work, and in his shed or basement,
leng after he has reached middle life, may be found a
work bench and the tools of the mechanical trade for which
he has the natural bent.
Yon will find the doctor with his work bench littered
with carpenter tools and about his premises many specimens
of his handiwork; or you may find him repairing his own
automobile, constructing some mechanical device, and in a
general way finding pleasure in the work for which nature
really intended him.
You will find the minister devoting his spare moments
to mechanical work. He may preach a good sermon, in¬
spire his audience with the fear and the love of God and
bring many to repentance; but he cannot wholly give up his
natural inclinations. He may be found to be a good cabinet¬
maker, an engineer of some sort, wholly without training
in these lines, yet possessed of a skill that manifests itself
in a^high degree in every product of his leisure hours, for
his leisure is the employment of his spare time in the en
joyment of his natural talent.
Thus you may look into the life of every man and you
will find that God gave them talents; some one; some two,
and some many. Not every God-given talent is of the same
weight or value. Not every one is capable of high develop¬
ment; but some one and possibly more, are operative and
capable of development to a high degree of efficiency.
If the young man realizes at an early age the talent that
can best lie developed for his welfare he is fortunate indeed,
and if he has the strength of character to stick to his natur¬
al calling and develop the talent that most strongly presents
itself to his young mind he is hound to Vie a success in that
line of activity, provided his mind is otherwise well balanced
and in any event that is the calling in which he will be the
most successful.
The man or woman who has no particular purpose in
life, whose talents are few and of minor importance, and
who are always waiting for something to turn up, rarely
leave behind them “foot-prints upon the sands of time."
They live according to conditions that surround them, hut
they cannot bring themselves into the performance of the
strenuous physical and mental labor necessary to make life
a success.
The person who has an object in life puts bis or her
shoulder to the wheel and keeps it in motion, rolling it
the steep grades, over every obstacle, upward and
to the goal.
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According to a Detroit dispatch to the press, a
man, 28 years of age, who had been deaf and dumb for
years, was made to "hear voices and music by radio for
first time in his life and to speak the first words he had
spoken.’’ This is rather singular; for if this was the first
time he had ever heard voices and the first time he had evei
spoken it is difficult to understand how he could compiv
V.cnd what was said, or how he could pronounce words.
is an accomplishment that requires time and much
The little child can hear what is said to it. and in
comes to an understanding of the words and can
them, but how a deaf and dumb person that never heard
spoke a word in his life could speak or understand is
thing that will need an explanation further than a
statement. If the deaf person never heard a word in
life how should he know whether it was a word or
poise that had no meaning whatever? And if he had never
spoken a word it is singular that he could adjust the mus¬
cles of his mouth and tongue to formulate words. This is
a dispensation of Divine Providence without a parallel ia
nineteen hundred years.
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According to Professor Chatteyee, Antioch college, who
has spent the greater part of his life in India, studying
economic, political and religious conditions, there is great
unrest in India, and he expresses a fear that a revolution
is imminent, the cause of which is a fear that India will lose
its soul. It has long been the supposition that Great Britain
acquired that many years ago. However, be that as it may,
unrest prevails and will, in the natural course of events,
break out into open revolt from time to time. The
are, however, very poorly prepared for a revolution. They
have not the military training or the moessary equipment to
fight the armies that England would send to that country
upon the first manifestation of opposition to the government.
That India is chafing under the yoke of Great Britain there
Is no doubt; neither is there any doubt of India’s desire for
independence, and the 75,000,000 Mohammedans of that
country, roused to a high state of fanaticism, might prove
to be rather hard to control. It is fear for consequences
that leads Britain to pursue a course of fine diplomacy with
Turkey as well as other Islamitic nations and peoples; real¬
izing that the time has not yet arrived to decide the great
question between Islam and Christianity. Neither is she
ready to grant independence to India, and herein lies the
secret of troubles that the brewing for England, and which
may yet involve Europe and Asia in a titanic struggle.
When it comes it will be terrible. When it ends there may
be a necessity to make a new map of the old world, and
either the Cross or the Crescent will dominate. Britain
fears Moslem power; for the reason that the combined Moslem
strength of Europe. Asia, Africa, and other parts of the
world numbers more than 227,000.000 souls, which, if unit¬
ed in a holy war, would tax the strength of the world to de¬
feat
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, uiuuftGIA
FARMING NO SMALL PROBLEM
There is something out of joint in the farming busi¬
ness. Far too many farms are changing hands for the wel¬
fare of the country. Farming should be stabilized, and
that means that it should be made profitable; so much so
that the farmer would not cure to leave his farm without
good cause.
In the eastern and New England states farm property
changes hands slowly and there are fewer changes in that
section than elsewhere, and when they are made the reason
is justified. It is either a case of death of the head oi the
family, the wife, or it may be, as is freqentluy the case, old
age and infirmity, the boys having grown up and gone to
the city or to some distant state, leaving the old people
alone to carry on a farm that in their failing strength they
are unable to do. In New England the farms are generally
otvned by their occupants, but in the southern and middle
slates tenant farming is common, and especially so in the
south, where the so-called poor whites and negroes rent
lands for short periods and leave them after a season or two
of labor upon them.
According to statistics compiled by the department of
agriculture 20 per cent of the farms in the United
changed hands last year, and that means a total
1 , 250,000 farms. In New England the changes were
one in ten.
Of the number changing hands last 400,000 or
six per cent, changed ownership. The other changes
among the tenant farmers of whom there are 2,300,000
the United States.
If the business of the agriculturalist was paying as
should there would be far less of this changing about;
dissatisfaction; less of this chasing of the
Farming should yield as good returns as any other
tion, provided the same amount of energy was devoted to
Some will say that farming is carried on by a class
men who could not run other business, but this
is not bourn out in fact. A man to be a successful
must be an intelligent man. He must know how to
the various soils to obtain the best results. He must
when and what to plant to get the best results. He
know how to select good seeds; how to protect his
from the many varieties of insects and worms that
it and which, if not fought with intelligence, will
his anticipated balance from the right to the wrong side
the ledger. There are many things a farmer must
tc be successful, and while the city man, the mill
the banker and the clerk in the store may think the
does not need to know much to make a living out of
soil they are laboring under a serious error, as is too
realized by those individuals when they leave their jobs
go onto a farm with the expectation that they can
easily on a farm and the crops will take care of
They may spend time fishing, talking politics, reading
der “the shade of the old apple tree,” or in any other
version other than work, while the bugs and worms
banqueting upon the crop that the would-be farmer
would take care of itself, and in the harvesting season
will get so little that they are obliged to write minus
before the returns and the owner or mortgagee soon
that he has another farm upon his hands and the w r
farmer has returned to his work in the city, a sadder
a wiser man and with a greater respect for the farmer
his knowledge <>f agricultural science; for, indeed,
is a science, and is only successful when carried on by
of ability and good judgment. Thousands of college
ed men are carrying on farms, and they are making
success of the business. They have learned how.
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MANUFACTURING INCREASI NG IN
For many years the southern states stood still.
had an idea that they could not raise with profit other
than cotton and corn, and thus they confined themselves
these as their principal crops, and produced tar and
tine from the vast pine forests. Later the forests were
vaded by the saw mills, and the great stands of
have disappeared in some sections, while in others they
been greatly diminished.
Since the civil war there has been going on an
tion in industry. It was slow’ at first, but has gained
way until today there is altogether another sentiment.
southern farmers have learned that they can produce
profit anything that grows, and the markets of the
are full of southern grw’on produce that returns to
agriculturalists good profits for their labor. Cattle
grazing upon fertile fields, hogs are fattening in
liens. and the so-called “razor-back” has given place to
well regulated and profit-producing breed of swine.
have been opened and the eoal and iron of the south
been the impetus to develop great industries, build
and prosperous cities, cover the country with a network
railroads, bring to the south great cotton factories, and
where not many years ago there was perhaps small
there are centers of manufacturing industries that give
ployment to hundreds and thousands of laborers.
England cotton manufacturers are turning to the- south
the logical location of cotton factories, where near
source of production, they can produce cotton cloth at
much less price can it can be done in the north, saving
long haul of both raw material and coal, which is an
tant factor at the present railroad tariff rates.
Northern people have gone into the south to make
Hornes and have found there wonderful opportunities
business, and they were quick to take advantage of the
ditions. Their activities have stimulated the southern
ple and have led them to abandon many of their
customs, so that the south of today is not only a
agricultural section of the United States, but it is a
competitor of the northern manufacturers, and will, as
goes on and the advantages of the south are better
stood, take the lead in many industries that a quarter
tury ago were not considered practical. Today the
is in reality the boom section of the country.
The government proposes to probe the sugar
to ascertain who is responsible for the present high price
sugar. It is hoped that the probe will locate the
with the sugar market, but the probabilities are that
public will be no better off when the facts are known, if it
possible to unearth them. Sugar should be cheaper, we
know, but just how to handle the business and keep it out
the hands of profiteers is a question that is not yet solved.
Sugar is not the only item of public necessity that is
juggled, and if the government is disposed to probe the
tire list of profit-taking bandits it will not have time for
much else during the balance of this year.
A Seattle milkman was arrested for not putting
enough milk in the water before delivering it.—Ex.
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It is not against the law to sit around and cuss con¬
gress, but it is an awful waste of time.—Ex.
116,080 FORDS ARE MADE
DURING FEBRUARY
Figures from Detroit show’ that with
110,080 Ford cars sold at retail in Feb¬
ruary, a new record for the shortest
month in the year has been established.
February sales exceed those of January
by more than 15,000, and marked the
eleventh month in w’hieh Ford sales
have topped the 100,000 line.
This sales record bears out predic¬
tions made at the opening of the year,
that an acute shortage of Ford cars is
certain, and this shortage is expected to
be felt within the next two months, w’ith
the increased voulme of car buying in
the spring months.
Even the high production schedule
set at the Ford factory which will reach
6,000 cars and trucks a day about the
first of April, will be unable to meet
the demand for Ford products.
Anticipating a great increase in the
demand for Ford cars during the pres¬
ent year, the factory laid plans for in¬
creasing production to the 6,000 a day
schedule, and since January has been
constantly speeding up to reach this
figure. Demand so far has been of such
great proportions as to absorb nearly
all the production, and stocks in the
hands of dealers are at present the
low’est they have been in months.
February sales of 116,0$80 cars were
made in the face of unfavorable weath¬
er conditions in many sections. This
was particularly true throughout the
northw’est and north, and in New Eng¬
land. In California, too, cold weather
WHEN GiVE OUT
Housework is hard enough when
healthy. Every Covington woman
who is having backache, blue and
nervous spells, dizzy headaches and
kidney or bladder troubies should be
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glad to heed this Covington woman’s
experience:
Mrs. J, B. Hearn, 121 Anderson
Ave., says: “I caught cold and it
settled on my kidneys and caused
them to become much disordered.
Backache a : so troubled me a good
bit. My back was lame and there was
a heavy, bearing-down feeling over
my kidneys that made it difficult for
me to keep up. If I stooped to pick
up anything, sharp pains darted
across my back. Headaches w’ere
frequent and left me with dizzy
spells and black specks came before
my eyes affecting my sight. I read
about Doan’s Kidney Pills and bought
a box at the City Pharmacy. I was
relieved entirely of all symptoms of
kidney trouble.”
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs. Buffalo, N. Y.
Fo 1 sort
TRADE M A Pc K
YOU WILL WANT YOUR
FORDSON TRACTOR EARLY
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$446.00 f.o.b. Covington
Everything points to the greatest shortage of Ford products this year
that has ever existed.
Never before has the demand been so great.
You will want a Fordson Tractor early—here is one product you can¬
not wait for—when the weather opens up you will need it.
You will want it for plowing, seeding, cultivating—and all your other
work. Already it has proved the greatest help to profitable farming that
has ever been offered to you. And at $446.00 f. o. b. Covington, the price
;s so low that you lose money every day you are without a Fordson. To
get delivery you must order early.
There are no reserve stocks among our dealers—our production ca¬
pacity, great as it is, will not enable us to build up a reserve.
It must be a case of “first come, first served,” and the only way in
\\ hich v ou can protect yourself is to list your order with your Ford dealer
immediately.
h> taking advantage of our dealer’s first opportunity to make delivery
>ou will be assured ot having your Fordson v/hen you need it.
GINN MOTOR COMPANY
FORD AND FORDSON DEALERS
a part of the month had its ef¬
fect upon car sales.
Yet even with these unfavorable con¬
ditions the February sales topped those
of January by 15 per cent and set a new
high record for midwinter selling.
The total for the past eleven
is close to 1,250,000 ears. The sales
this period have been over 100,000
month.
Peak car sales usually are reached
the summer months, with drops in
fall and winter. This feature of
mobile absorption by the buying
has been completely changed by
activities of the Ford dealer
USE THE BOLL WEEVIL POISON—THAT—
Is Praised By Hundreds of the South’s Leading Cotton
Planters.
Sure Death to the Weevil
BOLL-WE- GO
THE CALCIUM ARSENATE PRODUCT
Boll-We-Go is a soienlific combination of calcium arsenate ami other
ingredients that hold tlie poison on the cotton plant, resisting’ rain, wind j
and heavy dew. The poison is always available for (he weevil to drink,
lie must drink. When he drinks he dies.
Boll-We-Go costs only 15 cents a gallon, ready to spray. Comes to you
in concentrated form. You add the water and save the freight. From ap¬
proximately $3.00 to $4.00 per acre per season protects your cotton land
from the boll weevil.
Boll-We-Go is applied in the daytime. No SLEEP ROBBING NIGHT
WORK. It is SPRAYED, not dusted. It is the easiost and the least ex¬
pensive method of applying calcium arsenate efficiently.
Write for complete information and learn all about BOLL-WE-GO.
BOLL-WE-GO MANUFACTURING CO,
63 NORTH PRYOR ST. ATLANTA, GA. E
tion, which has raised the peak u nfc
include every month in the y tar
The First Iron Boat?
The first iron boat was built at
Faskine, a little village near Glasgow
and plied for many a day on
Forth and Clyde canal between po rt
Dundas and Kirkintilloch. Previous
to the launch, many were in j 0ui)[
whether it would float or not, and a
good deal of betting took place,
old woman who was paring potatoes
at the side of the canal undertook to
prove the point at issue at once, and
thereupon pushed her iron pet with
the potatoes in it into the water. It
floated!
