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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. LIGHT FOOT EDITOR-MAN AG LL
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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1923.
BEAUTIFUL PARKS
Many cities have beautiful parks; some have none at all,
none that are creditable to the municipalities in which
or
they may be located. Many of the progressive cities have
extended their park system to the broad avenues of the
residential districts, where linets of trees and long borders
„f green sward, with here and there a bunch of shrubbery
or a bed of (lowers to make the street beautiful and attrac¬
tive. and an occasional drinking fountain, where the thirsty
mav moisten their parched throats in the summei season.
This custom is growing in this country. Every progressive
city is beautifying its streets, improving its public parks,
and extending its parking system far out into the country;
making not only the city but every avenue by which it
may be approached a panorama of beauty highly creditable
to the landscape gardener’s art and the progressive ideas of
its citizens. Every municipality that has undertaken to
make itself attractive has profited by its efforts in that di¬
rection. All mankind admires the beautiful in nature, arid
when nature is brought into the city and trained and
cated as only the horticulturist, the florist and the
scape gardener know how, there is an effect that is
ing and attractive. Cities that have adopted this
are growing, real estate values are Increasing, and
pride is developing to make such cities the mecca ot a
sirable citizenship. Money spent in this manner is
spent. It is not thrown away; it is an asset worth
times its cost.
The merchant advertises his wares in the
to attract custom to his place of businejfc, and that
advertising is profitable is proven by his constant
ing. He realizes that advertising is a necessity and
be continued in order that he may keep a steady stream
custom flowing to his door.
The modern park systems are municipal
They are attractive, and like the advertising of the
ful merchants of the city bring people from afar to
the beautiful and artistic scenery of the city streets,
parks and avenues and the country roadsides in the
cinity.
Where such development is going on there is
business activity. High class business and industry is
ing such locations. Desirable citizens prefer to make
homes in such municipalities, and add their wealth and
fluence to the tide of progressiveness, and the result
growth and increase in wealth and refinement.
People go to Europe to admire the beauties of some
the- old cities, the landscapes, the castles and
and the parks and gardens that years of intelligent
and cultivation have developed; but many of them are
ing home satisfied that right here in America are to be
same of the most beautiful cities of the world.
In America there is a freshness and an air of
life that is not to be found in the old world. There art
mostly ancient and its renowned examples are dingy
.unattractive. There is a lack of tidiness about the
and a certain dullness in the atmosphere, very
American communities in general, and vastly different
those that have acquired the habit of artistical
ment and progressiveness.
in many American cities the homes of the
people are well-kept, well painted and have about them
air of thrift such as is not found in European cities.
the grassy lawn, the shrub, the vine and the beds of
add beauty to the surroundings, and after once having
Europe the most of us are content to live in America,
especially in a progressive American community.
WORLD GROWING BETTER
Is the world growing better? Yes. There are few
who have reached middle life, but who can look back
the past decades and not see many changes for the better.
The world i# growing more humane, more mindful
the sufferings of the poor and unfortunate. There is
general air of philanthropy permeating our entire
system. \Ye have a great many societies devoted to
able work. Our churches are engaged in strenuous
to relieve the sufferings of unfortunate people, the sick
distressed in every land, and this too, to a- greater
than ever before in the history of the world.
We have free schools and high schools that are
than the colleges of fifty years ago, and all are free and
fact the common school attendance is compulsory.
was not always the case, and thousands of bright boys
girls of the past century got very little schooling.
an education is recognized as an asset that the state and
nation is duly bound to confer upon its citizenship.
have come to recognize the school house as the
of the nation,'and we have introduced into our schools
tain features that are caloulatel to instill into the minds
every boy and girl the fundamental principles of
and womanhood. They are taught hygiene and how
take care of themselves physically, and how to
themselves mentally, and are given a business course in
high schools that fit every pupil to do business
ingly. Is this not a great improvement over the
system of a half century ago? You will say that it is,
g.adless of the fact that you may be one of those who
upon the past and close your eyes to the present and
future; but the knowledge of the great improvements in
ucational work works in through the skin and you
to admit it.
Our schools are making better men and women
than ever before in history.
Again, the standards of life are higher today than
before, the youth sets his mark high and strives to
the goal of his ambition, and his training in the
house and the home has qualified him for the strenuous
vance upward and onward to success. He knows how
ti ke care of himself, and marched on over obstacles and
falls that would’ have been certain to end the career of
greater number of ljoys and girls of fifty years ago.
There is more going on in the world today than
before; more to attract the attention of the youth; but
shuts his eyes to temptations and keeps in the middle of
road. There may be some unfortunates who wander
the path, but their number is far less than formerly.
realize that there is something worth while to strive
and they also realize that he who fails to make the best
of the talents God gave him will fall by the
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outcast, and so the slogan is ‘press on, press on to victory.
Medical science has made rapid strides within the past
h a if century and has added many years to the allotted span
,,f human life. Active work in the churches has raised the
standard of morality throughout the country, and while
t h C automobile and other attractions may have reduced
church attendance, they have not taken from the people a
deep-rooted belief in the Creator, and the Christian spirit
is stronger today than ever. People are better. They treat
each other better, and they have more sympathy for the
unfortunate, and less envy and hatred for the successful.
They have come to realize that this is an age of opportuni¬
ties and that all have a chance to develop the one, two,
three or any other number of talents that God gave them.
CANADA WANTS MORE PEOPLE
Canada wants more people. She has vast uncultivated
regions capable of supporting millions of people. She has
vast forests, rich mineral deposits, and many milllions of
square miles the best wheat lands in the world. These she
is offering to immigrants upon the most favorable terms.
She is, however, somewhat particular in regard to the qual¬
ity of her settlers. She is not bidding for those who are not
likely to enter into the atmosphere with a national spirit.
She wants men and women from Great Britain, the United
States and the Scandinavian countries; people with an estab¬
lished reputation for thrift and progressiveness, and to
such she will make conditions ais favorable as possible.
The Canadian Colonization association will spend be¬
tween thirty and forty millions of dollars during the next
ten years in an attempt to put such people as Canada wants
upon the veant lancfcs and in aiding them to get a start in
the new country.
This effort of our northern neighbor to people her idle
acres with a desirable population is certainly commendable,
and will bring forth good fruit; but the United States does
not oare to lose its good and substantial farmers. We need
them. But notwithstanding the fact that we believe wo
have the best country on the globe we have lost to Canada,
during the past decade, many thousands of desirable citi¬
zens, who have made good under the stars and stripes, and
who, having accumulated sufficient funds to carry on farm¬
ing upon a larger scale, and where lands are cheaper, have
left the United States and emigrated to Canada taking
with them millions of dollars in good American money,
and in this migration to the north of good Americans
we have lost a valuable human asset and money that was
worked out of the ground upon this side of the line, money
that should be kept irt this country and put to work here
for public good and the benefit of those by whose labor it
was accumulated.
We do not question the right of Americans to go to
Canada and take up lands and build homes and invest their
money, if they desire to do so, but we do regret the decis¬
ion of these men to leave a good country to try their for¬
tunes in a new one. It is not that they will fail to make
good in their new homes, for they surely will do well, and
they would do well in the States. The great source of our
regret is in the fact that the places of the^e men are being
taken by those who are not American in spirit and in truth
and who are not up to the standard of those we have lost;
neither have they the money that their predecessors have
taken across the northern border to add to the wealth of
Canada.
The United States will wish Canada success in her en¬
terprise, however much she may regret her own loss, and
she will also feel that she has contributed materially to the
good citizenship that Canada so much desires, and also
in peopling Canadian farms with her sons and 'daughters
She is cementing a friendship that will be of
value in our relations with our northern neighbor. It
without saying that such a migration wilK plant upon
other side of the international boundary a people whose in
terests are common with ours and in this common interest
there is very sure to be an assurance of a lasting peace
and we- have not, and probably never will have need
military forces to defend either side of the line,- the
countries will grow and prosper, and when the time comes
that Canada desires a union with the United States we will
take them as good Americans having a common interest
and the true American spirit.
DISEASES NOW AND OF LONG AGO
We may think that the many diseases from which man¬
kind suffers today are of recent origin; but all at least are
not, for traces of diseases still prevalent have been found
in mummies 3,000 years old. The diseases that afflicted
the mummified men and women of Egypt, when these well
preserved bodies were alive, have been handed down through
generations after generations. The same old line of germs
is taking toll of human life or leaving behind them the ear¬
marks of their visitation. It is strange to think that we to¬
day are suffering from the same diseases that afflicted people
before Romulus founded the city of Rome, and even as far
back as the days of Elijah the prophet, in the days of Homer,
the greatest of Grecian poets, even back to the time when
the temple of Solomon was dedicated at Jerusalem, before
the city of Carthage was founded. Even the men who
chopped down the trees and fitted them in the forests under
the instruction of Hiram, king of Tyre, may have, and ii
the mummies are reliable evidence, did have the same dig¬
ases that afflict humanity today. The same epidemic diseases
were afflicting the people of Babylon and Nineveh in the
zenith of their glory as are today afflicting mankind. It is
not known that Isaiah, the prophet, had the child diseases
ot the period, but he was not out of range. It may have
been that when Sennacherib, king of Ninneveh, besieged
Jerusalem in 170 B. C. with a vast army, that the 185,000
men who were destroyed in a miraculous manner were af¬
flicted with the same plague that has for centuries devas¬
tated the three continents of the old world, and still lingers
to take its toll of death. It may have been the same plague
that caused the abandonment of the scheme to dig a canal
from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Gulf, after the
Egyptian king had spent a year in the attempt and had
lost 120,000 men, six hundred and nine years before the star
of Bethlehem led the wise men of the East to the manger
of the Child Jesus. Solon, "the legislator of Athens,” may
have provided for the ravages of the same diseases that we
now have in his code of laws. It may have been the break¬
ing out of such an epidemic as ravaged this country and
Europe during the world war, that caused Xerxes to give
give up the conquest of Greece, in the year 480 B. C., after
he had crossed the Hellespent with the greatest army ever
brought into the field. Be all these things as they may, we
have the diseases and they are said by the scientist to be
the same old brand. The knowledge that they are, however,
renders them none the less debilotating, painful or deadly.
Our greatest wish is: that the diseases might have been
mummified as well as the individual and that present gen¬
erations might have been spared the troubles that accom¬
panied the Children of Israel across the Red Sea, that trou¬
bled the Egyptian kings when erecting the pyramids that
thousands of years have failed to obliterate; that
Thebas and laid men cold in death at the feet of the sphynx,
or raised pimples upon the face of Cleopatra,
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MILLIONS OF WOOD
POLES USED EVERY
YEAH TO CARRY WIRES
When President Harding g< u “up on j
the hill” at Washington to talk to cpn- j
gress telegraph wires carry words •
thousands of miles to every citizen in
the land. True the radio broadcasts his j
speech before congress for the first j
time the other day, but the radio has |
not reached so far as yet that they j
are taking down any telegraph or tele- j
phone poles.
For it is the pole that carries the wire J
that carries the news or the telegraph j
business of the day, Authur Newton )
Pack points out in “Our Vanishing
Forests” in which he calls attention to
the fact five million trees have to be
cut down each year to provide for the
wires.
Today thousands of cedar poles are
sent from Idaho to supplement the di¬
minishing eastern supply, but how long
will the Idaho forests last? Will they
not soon go the way of all the rest?
Wood preservatives are coming to the
rescue. Once pine poles were consider¬
ed useless, but today the butt is im¬
pregnated with creosote and the pole is
then found to give twice the original
length of service. It is now estimated
that one pole in every six is made of
creosoted pine, fir or spruce.
Wood poles are not used solely for
carrying wires. How could we main
ta(n river ferries or any form of steam
ship transportation without wood foi
piers, docks and piles? Mr. Pack asks
For feery-boat slips nothing has evei
been discovered to take the place of
wood, its resiliency being necessary not
only for preserving its own life but
that of the vessels constantly crashing
hnd chfing against the piles.
Fences today have a new use, not to
keep the cattle in but to keep them out,
A. railroad train at sixty miles an hour
can no longer stop to argue right of
way with a stray cow. To prevent the
argument five hundred million fence
posts are used every year.
Without wood tunnel props, shaft lin¬
ing and ties for narrow gauge railroads
the production of soft coal in this coun¬
try would stop tomorrow. Wood props
are also used to a varying extent in an¬
thracite coal mines, salt mines, lime
quarries, and in every industry where
tunneling is necessary. For these pur¬
poses more than 200,000,000 cubic feet
of wood are consumed every year.
The public. Is now beginning to re¬
gard trees as an agricultural crop
which must be planted and protected
In the same way as any other. The
short-time forest crop is essential, Mr.
Pack concludes, and says it is the key¬
note to the successful growing of a for¬
est near the ultimate market for ’its
various products and as such the foun¬
dation stone for a new low cost of liv¬
ing.
HAWK FIGHTS PESTS
There is a long list of hawks in the
country, and the sparrow hawk is the
smallest of the family, says f Nature
Magazine. In so far as our interests
are concerned, it is a most useful bird,
for it feeds on mice, on not a few in¬
sect pests, as crickets and grasshop¬
pers, also on spiders and the rest.
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49 YEARS AGO
(From Farming)
Folks boiled coffee and settled it with
i
an egg.
Ladies rode on side-saddles.
Little Johnnie wore brass toed boots
and daddy wore Brogans,
Leeches operated more frequently
than the surgeon’s knife.
When a preacher said a truth, the
people said Amen.
Left over noon victuals were finished
at supper time.
Neighbors asked about your family
and meant it.
Merry-Go-Rounds were called Flying
Jennies.
Folks used toothpicks and were still
polite.
A tin cup of red liquor was sold fof
five cents.
Ladies’ dresses reached from her
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neck to the heel.
Wheat was sowed broadcast and har¬
rowed in with a tree top.
It took 20 minutes to shine shoos
with Mason’s blacking;
People served Pot Liquor instead of
canned soup.
Indigestion and appendicitis were
called plain Belyache.
Quinine was taken in coffee, molas¬
ses or tissue paper.
Vermillion was used as hearth paint
instead of face paint.
Babies were rocked in cradles with
out addling their brains. *
Men played Mumble Peg instead of
Poker. * .
The neighbors all got fveslr meat at
hog killing time.
And a man made the same wife do
a lifetime.
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