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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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Official Organ of Newton County and the City of Covington,
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Published every Thursday by the News
W. K. LIGHTFoOT EDITOR- MAN'AGEfv
Entered as second class mail matter December 2, 19uS, at me
Post Office at Covington, Ga., under the act of March 3, 18 , J.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1923.
AIRPLANES AND WAR
King Victor Emanuel has signed the Washington con¬
ference treaty for the limitation of naval armaments. Now
P is up to France to come into line witli the other leading
powers and put an end to the menace that has for centuries
hung over the world.
Sea power has been the aspiration of every maratime
nation since history began, but the Washington conference
worked out a plan that promises to reduce the heavy naval
expenditures and limit the number of lighting vessels to
no more than may he necessary for police duty upon the
seas. If the nations adhere to the plan outlined in the
treaty there will be no more exhaustion of a nation's re¬
sources in the construction of great fighting ships for the
preservation of the balance of sea power or for the purpose
of gaining the ascendency over any other nation. War will
cease to be a menace and no nation will need to fear that
its commerce may be interrupted in transit upon the higi
seas.
War has not yet been erased from the budget of nations
but tile general acceptance of the statute of limitation will
reduce its liability and make friends of turbulent nations.
Take away the power to make war and peace will prevail,
for nations will 'then seek in wise council the solution of
their troubles.
The menace is not now from great navies, it is from the
air. Every nation recognizes the power of the airplane as
i. destructive agent in time of war, and every nation is
constructing air ships in numbers far beyond the require¬
ments of peace. This variety of warlike activity, although
far less expensive than naval construction, is to be lament¬
ed, for it is in itself conclusive evidence that there is no
basis for international confidence. However, it is the hope
o: the civilized world that the experiments in airship con¬
struction will not he wholly along lines of preparation for
war, but that the fully of war will at an early date be mu¬
tually recognized and the construction of airships confined
to tleets of commercial flyers designed for passenger and
freight transportation.
Along these lines there is a great opportunity for de¬
velopment in the interest of commercialism.
A century ago the horse and the ox was the motive
power. The ox was slow, but he provided both motive pow¬
er and food for his owner. The horse was more rapid in its
movement, and with its general use there was a great de¬
velopment of business all over the world. Then came the
1 tower of steam to speed up the activities of the people and
develop the remote sections of the earth. Electricity then
came, and, combined with the energy of steam has revolu¬
tionized business and transportation upon the land, while
the new element, the airship, is now passing from the ex¬
perimental stage to one of practical utility, and let us hope
that in the development of its possibilities war will not be
considered as its legitimate end, but that its mission will
be one of peace and rapid transit.
The world is at the present time in a chaotic condition.
The great war has shattered its nervous system, destroyed
confidence, broken down its standards ot' economies and
changed its business methods. It will require a long time
to readjust itself and to recover from its exhaustion. There
will l*e here and there a slipping or a stepping of gears,
and others will fail to mesh; but all will be adjusted in time,
and the world of a quarter century in the future will be a
far better one in which to live than any period of its past.
REDUCING GOVERNMENT EXPENSES
The United States owes its prosperity to its policy of
economy following the war. It has eliminated many sources
ot expense, cut down its army of government officials and
in getting better service from the few than it did from the
many. It has reduced its army expenditures, initiated re¬
forms in legislative proceedings relative to appropriations
and is making a saving in every department. More carving
may lie done, there is no doubt, and greater economy may
be practiced, and should be, until we get out from under the
great burden of our war debt. We have the expense ac¬
count on the right side of the ledger at the present time,
and we should lie very careful to keep it there, with an
ever increasing assistance between receipts and expenditures
until the debt has been wiped up, anti then economy should
be continued in the interest of good government and thrift.
Across the sea England is the only nation that is mak¬
ing progress in re adjustment. She has adopted the Ameri¬
can system of thrift in reducing governmental expenditures,
tutting down clerical forces, and keeping her expenses be¬
low her income, and for that reason her rate of exchange is
last approaching the point of normalcy.
Other nations of Europe have not arrived at the point
where they consider it expedient to adopt a system of thrift
as a policy in their readjustment proceedings; hut are menac¬
ing their future welfare by expenditures that are unwar¬
ranted by existing conditions, and hence are retarding the
stabilization of the world and prolonging the agony that
their people must suffer before they can be relieved from
the burdens that the great war has entailed. They are ask
ii-g help of the United States to bolster up their tottering
financial status and at the same time making no effort to
reduce expenses or to go to work and seek in productive
labor the relief that can come in no other way. They might
obtain loans, but the probabilities are that the loan they ask
v °uld only serve to increase their misery rather than to re¬
lieve them from the galling burdens they refuse to throw
off. Militarism is a canker that is eating at their vitals.
C reed. fear, jealousy, intrigue, rotten autocracy and a
super abundance of aristocracy leading off in diplomacy of
a questionable character stand in the way of the reforms
i 'e> need to rest ore them to a condition of normalcy and
l.nift. Knowing this the nations that are in a condition to
i< ndei financial aid are reluctant to loan or guarantee fin:i
i ial aid to them; for, until they can come to an understand¬
ing of the proper course to pursue in rehababiltating their
shattered credits such loans or guarantee would be a menace
to the world's peace.
Unless the bankrupt nations of Europe come to their
senses very soon the world is liable to be involved in an¬
other war, far more disastrous than the last, and in fact
such a war appears to certain well-informed critics to
oe
inevitble.
THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION
when Tutankhamen was king in Egypt, England and all
northern Europe was in a state of barbarism. In fact, there
wa s no such thing i‘s European civilization. In Egypt, cm
ture bad advanced to a wonderful degree, and the excava¬
tions now going on there reveal surprising evidences of art
and science. So also do the ruins of the magnificent cities that
once flourished in the valley of the Nile, in Asia Minor, in
Persia, in India, China and the islands of the Pacific,
China has a history that dates back thousands of years
to a time when that country enjoyed a vastly higher degree
civilization than is the case today, and so does India. In
the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates are ardent ruins
that tell of the magnificence and splendor that once existed
that now desolate region. In central Asia are evidences of
and culture that has long been departed. Pales¬
and all that country from the shores of the Mediterra¬
to India was once inhabited by people of high intellect
culture, but war, pestilence and greed have made change;
nothing but desolation and poverty where once there
splendor and glory. Ancient cities have crumbled into
or have been destroyed in cruel wars. The great and
cities of Egypt, once the seat of learning and art
become desolate ruins, magnificent in the grandeur of
temples and the tombs of departed kings.
War and pestilence have wiped out the ancient civiliza¬
and changed the conditions of the country from a land
plenty to one of poverty but the eveidences of ancient glory
on every hand, and loti ay the tombs are r»i>ened and the
bodies of the kings have been brought to light,
more than three thousand years in the darkness of the
royal tombs.
Is it desecration to rob the tomb of its dead? It would be
in any civilized country of the world. It would be if there
were anyone to object, hut the families of the kings have
to exist. Not a toot or branch of the family tree re¬
to raise objection to the work of scientific vandalism
that is going on in Egypt.
Would the English permit the tombs of their kings to
be opened, even in the interest of science? Would it not he
vandalism to open the tombs of any of the rulers or emperors
of Europe and to exhibit their remains in public museums?
Science might be gratified, and something might be learned
of the manner of dress and burial customs of the period, but
would it he right?
The tomb of Tutankhamen will furnish material for
study, and many volumes will be written concerning the life
ot the ancient kings, and the many articles of priceless value
brought from the tomb will give the world a knowledge of the
ancient life that history has thus far revealed but inade¬
quately. In this view the opening of the tombs of the kings
may be justified, hut it is doubtful if any bunch of scientifi¬
cally inclined Egyptians of the present age would be per¬
mitted to enter the tomb of a European king for the same
purpose.
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GERMANY AND FRANCE MAY
COME TO TERMS
There is now cause for hope that France and Germany
may soon adjust their differences, and that the French
troops will be withdrawn from the Ruhr. Germany has in¬
dicated her willingness to negotiate, providing France will
give a guarantee that she will evacuate the occupied terri¬
tory. The determined stand of France has brought Germany
to her senses, perhaps not fully, but there is on the part of
Germany a fear that if occupation is longer continued it
will be hard for France to release her grip upon the Ruhr
Therefore Germany is beginning to be nervous lest she is
making a serious mistake and has expressed a willingness
to negotiate with but one reservation, and that the evacua¬
tion of the Ruhr, in which case Germany seems to be will¬
ing to assume the payment of just reparations. It is not
expected that negotiations will begin at once, but from
Germany’s standpoint the way is now open. On the part
of France, she will require a guarantee that Germany keep
to the* agreement and meet her obligations promptly.
France disclaims any intentions to remain permanently in
the Ruhr district, but complications are liable to arise that
will make a change of her plans necessary or strategic,
when permanent occupation may be deemed necessary to
the best interests of France.
Whether the occupation may have been wise or not is
a matter of comment in which there are differences of opin¬
ion; yet it is generally conceeded by the allies that France
was wholly within her treaty rights in doing so. it was un¬
fortunate that France was compelled to enforce fulfillment
of the agreement by military force, but Germany, in neg¬
lecting to meet her obligations, in fact in flatly refusing to
do so. called down upon her own head a retribution that has
been both expensive and unpleasant. The Berlin govern¬
ment now realizes its error, and in fear of consequences t
further delay is willing to negotiate.
This turn of affairs in the Franco-German relations is
gratifying to the friends of Germany; for they recognize in
it an ultimate resumption of commercial relations with the
territory around which France has drawn an iron girdle,
and they will doubtless offer their good offices in the ad
justment of the difficulties that led up to the invasion.
France needs money and she needs coal. Her indus¬
tries cannot run without the latter, and she cannot pay her
debts without. The rehabilitation of devastated territory has
cost France ten times the amount she has received from
Germany, and this money was loaned by her people. It is
money that the industries of Fiance need. It represents
the savings of the thrifty French people, who, in the spirit
o: patriotism and sympathy for their countrymen, whose
homes had been destroyed and whose lands had been made
desolute, brought the stocking from its hiding-place and
turned the contents into the national treasury for the pub¬
lic welfare. If France can save and reconstruct her deso¬
lated arears, her industries and her destroyed cities and vil¬
lages. Germany, whose territory was not invaded and whose
cities and industries remained intact, ought surely to be
able to pay the reparations assessed against her and have
erough to spare for all domestic necessities. Germany de¬
stroyed the French coal mines in her retreat, and it is noth¬
ing more than an act of justice that she be made to pay in
kind, and in the French occupation to enforce such payment
the sympathies of the world are with France, regardless of
any predatory designs to the contrary.
With a sugar crop 200.000 tons in excess of that of last
year and the government advising the people to restrict the
use of sugar for a time, there is a prospect of breaking the
grip of the sugar barons who have cornered the sugar mar¬
ket and taken from the people of this country not less than
$15,000,000 a month.
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A baby in London is cutting a tooth six inches long, so,
of course, it is a baby elephant.
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Two famous pugilists will hold a fight for charity and
no doubt some bettors will need charity.
THB COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, u&ukUIA
SENDING MONEY AWAY
FROM HOME
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We have been singing that old song
about Georgia farmers buying meat
and butter and flour and hay from the
west until we are about to wake up the ;
natives and stop this leak. We are
making the last rally in Georgia, and !
unless there is a reversal ot the trend i
of the day, we shall in a comparatively ;
short time see Georgia shipping out'
more meat and lard, has butter shipped and in. feed We j j
for stock, than she j
will have the balance on the right side
of the ledger.
There is another leak that needs at¬
tending to. It is the leak of money go¬
ing out to money lenders and insurance
companies of the north and east.
It has been a great deal more popu¬
lar to print figures showing how the
Georgia farmer is failing to do his duty
to his home state in keeping money
around us than it has been to show
how the Georgia capitalists is failing
to do his duty to keep the money at
home.
Some Georgian who is endeavoring
to organize a life insurance company
sends out a circular from which we i
gather some interesting information. I
He says among other things that the
only “legal reserve company organized
under the laws of Georgia is a negro
company.”
Let us quote him here:
“I also found that during the past
nine years there had been paid by Geor -1
gia citizens for premiums on life in¬
surance the big amount of $140,159,-
405.00. and that during the year 1921
Georgia citizens paid as premiums for
insurance the total of $22,643,057,
while the amount paid by all compa¬
nies as death losses in Georgia was
only $7,667,647.
“I found that during the year 1921
that there was written in Georgia the
enormous sum of $144,112,600. It may
he well to remark here that this
amount of insurance written in Geor¬
gia that one year would be a sufficient
amount to make ten life insurance
companies a paying investment.”
That looks like a pretty severe in¬
dictment of Georgia. Sending twenty
one million dollars a year off in life in¬
surance premiums, and receiving back
seven million dollars.
We have no figures, but we suppose
that if we had the amount of fire in¬
surance premiums that we send away
annually it would be somewhat alarm¬
ing. It is probable, though, that some
communities have been receiving back
a larger per cent of the money paid
for fire insurance than they have for
life insurance.
There is yet another drain on Geor¬
gia income, and that is the enormous
interest we are paying to the northern
and eastern holders of mortgages on
southern property. Here is another
chance for southern capital to get to
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IN the long run, the
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manufacturer can
afford to give a“spe
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price the tire above
its worth in the first
place, or take the
discount out of the
quality. Either way,
the customer pays.
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and keep the money at home.
It is just about as well to send money
for hay as it is to send it west for
interest on farm loans, while we have
our capital busy developing oil wells
and silver mines in dreamland,
if we could see the tolls that we pay
the manufacturers of the north,
plus the tolls we pay the fire insur
ance companies. Plus the tolls we pay
guano companies.
Plus the tolls we pay the long loan
companies.
We would then understand why the
south is poor
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Baking
Made from Cream of Tartar
derived from grapes
Contains No Alum—Leaves No Bitter Taste
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Mixture
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COVINGTON, GA.
AGENTS FOR NEWTON COUNTY
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Nobody Can Foresee
TORNADOES AND WINDSTORMS
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before it is too late.
R. P. LESTER, Insurance Agent
Telephone No. 21.
We have added a still heavier toll
given to northern automobile manuh,
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