THE COVINGTON NEWS
Official Organ of .Newton County and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the News Publishing Company.
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'"THURSDAY. JULY 26, 1923
ARGUING THE INEVITABLE
“Two are better than one; because they have a good
reward for Ilieir labor. For if they fall, the one will lift
op his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth:
for lie has not another to help liim up.”—Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
Intelligent women in an American city have discussed
with becoming solemnity the question, “What must girls
do to succeed?”
Needless to say, this eternal question soon degenerated
into the customary marriage discussion.
But tell us, intellectual ladies, do you know what you
are like when you discuss the advisability of matrimony?
You are like drops of water in a river that discuss the ad¬
visability of rolling on down toward the ocean. Matrimony
is your destiny, as a final landing in the ocean, is the destiny
of the little drops, passing over the rough stones, purl and
gurgle as you do.
Get out of your minds the notion that the individual
of tlie present is of any importance. The human race,
which began to flow over this planet centuries and cen¬
turies ago, will keep ahead in its pre-ordained matrimonial
swing, whatever may be decided in drawing rooms or huts.
The one important thing is marriage, and especially
marriage of the finest samples.
As a matter of fact, there never was in all the world a
viaily happy woman unmarried after a certain age. She
r ay he resigned, she may be self-sacrificing, she is very of¬
ten beautiful in character, and beyond any question she has
frequently refused to marry, since men are not crazy. But
the mature woman, unmarried, is really unhappy, and she
knows it.
It is a ted thing to bring up the selfish question of
business interests as opposed to matrimony. If a young
woman should succeed in business as no woman ever suc¬
ceeded, if she could eclipse Rockefeller and Morgan, and
get all the money in the world, she would never know hap¬
piness equal to that which comes from taking a baby out of
its bed and giving it its dinner.
The kindness of Providence to men is proved by the fact
that women have got to marry, whether they want to or
not. Their doom is sealed on the first day of their early
babyhood, when they pick up a doll and pretend to nurse it.
They might just as well discuss the advisability ot
breathing as the advisability of marrying.
As for your devotion to business, that is merely a
temporary phase of civilization. In a short time the mon¬
strous spectacle of a woman at work will not be seen any¬
where on earth.
A certain number of centuries ahead, when the earth
!h fully peopled and the race is really adult and organ
bed; every woman will be the mother of TWO children—
no- more and no fewer, and the care of them will be over
while the women are still very young. After that, women
will devote themselves to the expression of the emotions,
noting and singing, in which sphere they dominate. After
having made all the men in the world producing them phys
ically, they will make them intellectual and inspire in them
their best efforts.
That is woman's destiny, as we see it, and we diffidently
declare it to be a pretty good destiny.
And tlie more ambitious women need not resent this, on
the ground that singing and acting would not satisfy them.
Women will shine in all intellectual spheres in which
intuitive knowledge is important. They will be great in
astronomy and prominent in studying universal problems
which in time will absorb the interests and efforts of men
as foreign lands absorbed their interest in the days of Drake,
Raleigh and Elizabeth.—Atlanta Georgian.
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100 MUCH MILITARISM
There is far too much militarism in the world to hope
for immediate peace. More than one million men are now
under arms than before the war, and there seems to be no
in,mediate prospect of a universal peace.
France is nervous, and not without reason. Her ene¬
mies have not yet put away their guns.
Commercialism may be one of the salient reasons for
the Slow progress of peace negotiations. Germany wants
the world’s market and a loan to bolster up her exchange,
so that she can do business in the markets of the world at
prices that no other nation can meet. German goods, ntanu
! a ttired at a low labor cost, are serious handicap to tie
sale of the products of other nations that cannot meet
Germany’s labor problem. Permit Germany to dump her
manufactured goods upon America and American mills will
cease to give employment to labor; for there is no way under
the American system to meet German prices. If German
manufactured goods can be bought for less than half the
price of American products, some political economist might
tell you that good judgment impels you to purchase the
foreign article; but he may forget to tell you that every dol¬
lar expended for such goods extends the period of unemploy¬
ment in America. Purchase foreign goods if you will, be¬
cause they are cheaper in price, but the penalty is stagna¬
tion of domestic industries, unemployment and wretched¬
ness. Continue to purchase foreign goods and the time will
come when America’s boasted wealth will disappear and
the people will have nothing with which to buy either for¬
eign or domestic goods. “America First” should be our
slogan, and we cannot “brighten up the corner” of American
industries by spending our money in foreign markets. Buy
the good American article, and take no other, and you
will set the wheels in motion to supply the home demand,
and that means prosperity for the entire industrial program
of the good, old U. S. A. If you are an American, be -
good one.
Over in Europe there is trouble. There is bound t<
te discord there; for there is no common meeting ground.
F/ich nation is afraid of the other. Germany looms up as
a menace that mean war. In any event Russia is pre¬
paring for some kind of a struggle, either domestic or for
eign. She is building plants to manufacture war munitions
She is receiving airplanes from Germany, also pilots an 1
trained men for her army and navy. She has reorganize.)
her military forces with a new officer personnel. Other
rations are filled with unrest, and knowing the condition ;.
France has a license to be nervous, a license to tear arm
rnd prepare to repel an invader, whether that enemy ha
Germany, Russia or any other predatory nation.
Before Europe can safely lay aside her militarism bol
she' ism must be driven out of the land. It cannot be con¬
trolled or suppressed by treaties, loans or contributions: f ir
the loans will give her power and the latter confidence.
COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
INSOLENCE OF FOREIGN NATIONS
IS OFFENSIVE —RUT ENLIGHTENING
Every country, by common consent of nations, extends
three miles to sea beyond its coast line. Those three miles
of sea are just as much a part of any country as any three
miles of land. All laws of the country apply to it as they
do u> the rest of the country. This three miles of sea is
just as much yours as your house is.
The United States has passed a law which says that
any liquor imported into any part of the United States is
subject to seizure. Great Britain has not attempted to
bring liquor from Canada into Detroit under seal, stating
that she expects to export it again. If she did, the United
States would have the right to seize it, and would seize it.
England admittedly has no right to bring liquor past the
boundary line.
The boundary line of the United States on the north is
the Canadian frontier and on the east is three miles to
sea beyond the coast line.
When England brings liquor to New York she brings it
three miles into the United States territory, and it is sub¬
ject to seizure. England chronically objects to reforms
whenever those reforms interfere with her profits in vice.
England forced war on China when China wanted to ex¬
clude opium and relieve her people from the vice of opium
smoking. England, by force of arms, compelled China to
admit the opium which England raises profitably in India,
and so England compelled millions of miserable Chinese to
live steeped in drugs in order that she might reap a profit
cn the sale of the destructive drug.
China was weak and had to suecomb to England’s mili¬
tary power and let her people rot in opium dens so that
England might coin their degradation into golden soverigns.
But the United States is not weak. We have some weak
statesmen in Washington, but the nation is not weak. It is
powerful enough to protect its honor, its morals, its independ¬
ence. It will not go the way of China and allow England
to break down its laws in order that England may coin
profits out of our humiliation and degradation. England
may encourage illicit smuggling of liquor into the United
Suites, as she does from Canada and the West Indies and
Bahamas, to help her people make a few dirty dollars, but
she can not openly defy our laws and compel us to repeal
them or disregard them in her disreputable interest.
The insolence of England and France and Japan to re¬
gard to our righteous and rightful domestic laws is offensive
but enlightening.
It shows, first that these foreign nations have no under¬
standing of our ethics, no sympathy with our idealism. Their
whole policy is one of immediate material advantage. They
try to deceive us by professing at times our high American
humanitarion principles, but their real prinic-les are “grab
and greed and aggression.” Their only ideals are the mailed
fist, the iron heel and the itching palm.
Another fact revealed by the harmonious hostility of
these foreign nations to our liquor laws is the obvious abso¬
lute unity of these foreign nations in opposition to the right
and the policies, the will and the welfare of the States.
No matter how divided these nations may be on other mat¬
ters, they are all linked in opposition to us. Their policy
for centuries has been to unite in opposition to the leading
nation of the world, and today we are that leading nation.
How utterly imbecile, therefore, is the plan to- intrust
our interests to a league or a court in which these foreign
hostile nations held the control! How miserably foolish to
deprive ourselves at home of the defenses necessary to pro¬
tect ourselves against the present enmity and the eventual
aggression of these foreign foes!
If the United States would maintain its liberty of
thought, its independence of action, it must provide the mil¬
itary means to protect its liberties and guarantee its inde¬
pendence, and if the United States would continue to live in
peace and plenty, it must not be the miserable dupe to in¬
ternational confidence men; it must realize to what a sor¬
rowful extent these foreign nations are merely wolves in
sheep’s clothing, and not intrust its fat prosperity to their
hungry maws.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
1 HE VOLSTEAD ACT WILL STAND
The people should respect, honor and revere the
tution of their country for it is their bulwark of safety,
freedom and justice. Any man who would destroy or
it down is an enemy to his country. The Volstead Act has
become a part of the Constitution of the United States and
it is a citizen's duty to obey it as he would any other law.
Reforms seldom, if ever, go backward, and it can be
safely predicted that the Volstead Act will never be
pealed. It can also he safely predicted that the government
is going to enforce the law, and that the man who violates
it will be brought to justice and receive punishment.
The bootlegegr would not carry on his nefarious practice
if it were Jiot for the patronage he receives from those
who would spurn the thought that they were manufactur¬
ing and selling liquor. And yet by their patronage they are
i-rcouraging the breaking down of the Constitution and law
of our country.
Disrespect and disregard of one law leads to the viola¬
tion of all laws, and there is great danger just now that this
country will grow more and more lawless if a halt is not
called and those who claim to be law-abiding citizens stand
four-square for the enforcement of law and order through
the courts of our country.—Union Recorder.
WHY MANY FAIL
A Chicago college professor has been trying to find out
.vhy some students succeed and others are dropped. It is
not, he says, merely a difference in mental capacity.
Everybody knows that some brilliant men who stand
'irst in their class often fail to attain eminence in later life
-•ays the New l'ork Times, while the stupid only go on to
a wealth of fame.
Among the causes of student delinquency listed by Pro¬
fessor Howard are excessive devotion to athletics—it is
vignificent that he puts that first—social activities, and
outside work, these and like things causing stucUents to
devote less time than they should to sleep, campus activities
meals, classes and studies.
Young men in training for officers were made to work
harder than the men in ordinary college. Some of them
learned as much in six months as most college students
Jo in four years. Possibly they were older and more
serious.
What can be done in war-time can be done in time of
peace, but the desirability of doing it is questionable, for
it is obvious that these sternly pressed students missed much
that college course is expected to give—Savannah Press.
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Did you spend $328 in the form of hank checks in June?
'1'hat was the average for every man, woman and rtiild.
The nation’s bank clearings (total of checks issued and sent
through clearing houses) amounted to 34,792 million dollars
during the month. Comparison shows that the average
American apparently spent $6 more in June 1923. than in
1922. But he got less for his money, on account of
higher prices.—Athens Banner-Herald,
NEW LAW: STOP BEFORE
CROSSING RAILROAD TRACK
The General Assembly of North Caro¬
lina has done the sane and commend¬
able thing in passing an act, effective
July 1, 1923, requiring every person op¬
erating a motor vehicle on the public !
roads of this state to come to a full
step at a distance not exceeding 50 feet
from the nearest rail of any railway
track crossing the public road at grade. ’
This law is already working well in |
Virginia. Drivers of automobiles and j
trucks should not consider this act a
hardship but as an effort on the part
of the state to save them from injury
and death.
In the United States in 1921, 5,387
persons were killed or injured in au¬
tomobile accidents at grade crossings
with railways. In the last five yesrs,
9,101 persons have been killed in such
aeidents in the United States. North
Carolina has contributed more than her
full share to the list of victims.
Violation of this law will constitute
a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or
imprisonment. We do not see why any
person should violate a law passed for
his protection. We believe that ob¬
servance of this law will save many
lives, and commend it to our readers, j
The railways have been required to
erect large signs 100 feet from cross¬
ings, lettered, “N. C. Law; Stop.” I
When you see that sign, obey its in¬
junction and protect yourself and those
with you.—Progressive Farmer.
— QUESTIONS —
and Bible Answers
If Pironti will ancoarage children to look up
«nd memorize the Bible Answers, it will prove
a priceless heritage to them in after years.
Who cares for the poor and those
who fear ®od?—Psalm 34:6,7.
What general exhortation did the
Apostle Paul give to the church at
Thessalonica.—1 Thess. 5:14-28.
What were the eight woes which
Christ denounced against the scribes
and Pharisees?—Matt. 23:13-29.
How did the chief priests make sure
the Sepulchre in which the body of
Jesus was placed? —Matt. 27;66.
What does Paul call the temple of
God, and if we defile this temple, what
is the result?—1 Cor. 3:16;17.
What did Jesus say about the wo¬
man who anointed his head with pre¬
cious ointment?—Matt. 26:6-12.
What did Judas do with the money
which he received for betraying his
Lord, and what was the end of Judas?
-Matt, 27:3-5.
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