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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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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, i908, at the
Post Office at Covington, Ga., under the act of March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1923.
A SPEED MAD NATION
The craze for speed which holds this nation in its grasp
today has developed into one of the greatest curses that
has ever come upon us.
Nothing matters but speed! Eife or death, destruction
of property, or any other cost is not to be consideied
speed is what we want, and must have regardless of the
consequences.
A great railroad train, rushing at a terriffic speed, on
last Sunday, crashed into an automobile and killed the
four occupants. The great pity of it all seemed to be that
the train had to stop, thus falling several minutes behind
its schedule, and the engineer, undaunted, climbed back
into his cab with a look of determination on his face and
“pulled her wide open’’ in an effort to make up these few
minutes which he was compelled to lose merely because
an automobile had been smashed and four souls tossed into
eternity. On rushed th* great engine, the one thought of
the engineer probably being to make up time, when sudden¬
ly another crash came, another automobile was splintered,
and this time, nine human beings gave up their lives to the
abominable speed craze.
And these thirteen are just a few of the fatalities result¬
ing from this craze in one day.
While the railroad companies and their engineers are,
along with the most of the balance of us, afflicted with this
craze for more speed, they are not, in these cases, as much
lo blame for the disastrous results as are the motorists, who
dash upon the tracks seemingly indifferent as to their fate,
knowing full well that the mighty engines are constantly
lushing over these crossings.
In some states it is unlawful for automobiles to cross
grade crossings without first stopping to ascertain if a
train is appraching, and such a law has been introduced in
the legislature of Georgia. It should become law. Every
possible means should he employed to stop this ruthless
slaughter.
If we would stop and cinsider, we would be horrified at
the way men, women and children are rushing to their
deaths every day, simply that the craving for more speed
might be satisfied.
But we will not consider—nothing matters but speed;
more speed.
May the Lord pity us and save us from ourselves, for
we are rapidly demonstrating the fact that we are power¬
less to free ourselves from the clutches of our own folly.,
in which we are firmly held.
X) COLLEGES TEACH "CUSSING”?
On last Saturday afternoon a gentleman boarded a train
at a station not (m)any miles from Covington, enroute to At¬
lanta. Just before getting aboard, he notioed a nicely dressed
young man. (we liked to have said young “gentleman”, for
he looked the part) approaching the station, and this young
man also boarded the train.
The coaches being crowded, the first named man walked
to the smoking apartment at the rear before finding a seat,
and pretty soon this same splendid young fellow came in
also and took his stand nearby. He engaged in conversation
with a fellow passenger and spent most of the time of the
ta ip to Atlanta relating his experiences at college. Fortun¬
ately the gentleman sitting dod not learn what college he
attended, for if he had, his opinion of the institution might
h'Sve been changed.
And why? Simply because any institution where a
young man would learn to use profanity as efficiently as
rtds one did, or which would not correct this evil, if he
already knew it, is a bad place to send a boy.
The young man did not state what degree, or degrees, he
made, but if colleges really teach “cussing,” surely this
young fellow finished wdth the highest honors in that de¬
partment. And if he pusued other coures of study and be¬
came as efficient in them as he did in this one, he surely
made a remarkable record in college.
How strange it is that the number of users of profanity
s* em to be ever on the increase, and yet you would probably
have to go a long way before you could find ne who would
not agree with you that it is not nice, polite or in any¬
way desirable.
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IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA
Strict enforcement in the future of the law against
steamship companies which bring to the United States emi¬
grants in excess of the monthly quotas allow’ed by the 3
percent restrictive act w’as announced by \V. W. Husband.
Commissioner of Immigration, as the fixed policy of the
government. In no other way, said the commissioner, can
the flow’ of immigrants to this 11 country l* controlled under
the etatufe.
Despite heavy penalties imposed by the law’, steamship
companies brought an excess of emigrants in the rush in¬
cident to the opening on July 1 of new yearly quotas. The
full monthly quotas of sixteen countries were exhausted the
first eleven days. The movement to America is stili high
and immigration officials have resorted to strict law en¬
forcement as the only solution.
For each person in excess of the monthly quota his coun¬
try brought to the United States, the steamship company
bringing him may he fined $200. In addition to this, the
company is required to pay the return passage of the new
arrival. In case of the Baltic, which brought 400 Scotch
Irish and British subjects, the fines would have amounted
to $80,000 if the government had not yielded and permittee
entry.
Great Britain and Ireland sent 14,036 emigrants to Amer
■ ca during the first eleven days of this month, despite effort:
of the British government to discourage emigration. Re
cent arrivals raised the number beyond the monthly quota
and Commissioner Husband was summoned to Ellis Islan
to handle the unusual situation.
Germany and Austria are the only countries which ar
not using up available allotments.—Savannah Press.
Henry Ford visited the historic Massachusetts tavei i
built in 1656. that inspired Longfellow’s “Tales of a Wa
side Inn.” The guide gave his ballyhoo about the ancient
hinges reputed to ward off evil spirits. Henry listened pa¬
tiently. Then, while the rest of the crowd moved on. he
remained behind to examine closely and learn w’hether a
new’ set of hinges would work better. This trait is want
gives Henry a chance at the presidency—Moultrie Observ \
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
AUTOMOBILE LIGHTS
What to do when you meet an automobile coming with
lights bright enough for the Dixie Flyer, is the problem
cf the man who goes out on the road at night.
The headlight problem has been discussed pro and con
for many years. Discussion has accomplished very little.
The problem gets greater each year.
It is an interesting study in lights and folks when you
are motoring at night.
There is a fellow coming on fifty an hour with lights
tlmt swallow up everything and almost takes your breath.
You know this boy. He inhabits every community, and his
‘ pa” has found some easy money, or maybe he found some
of his own. There is the smell of money and brimstone as
the big car sweeps by and leaves you in a whirlwind of dust.
Next comes a big white light that seems to be shining
in every direction. If is sending rays up to the stars and
straight into the earth. Your own lights gradually fade,
and you feel yourself drifting off into an uncharted sea.
The dazzling lights do not come on with the pace that you
anticipated, and you are wondering what has happened to
the big super-sixteen. Finally there wiggles up, and by,
just an ordinary Ford. It his been moving slowly because
most of its power is used up in producing the powerful lights
Next comes the twinkling stars. There is the man with
his car covered wdth lights. He has the spot light; the
bead lights, the shoulder lights, the tail lights, the cigar
lighter, the bottle warmer, the snake-hunter. His cak looks
like a merry-go-round at a country fair. It is not that his
bghts are so powerful, but that they are so plentiful. You
get on the edge of the road and tremble while he approaches
tut he is not speeding. He taken it easy, so as to be able
to adjust his spot light as he proceeds every few yards.
The lights are a great care to the car owner, as they are
a bother to the other people on the road.
And then comes the car with just one light, and that
one seems to be shifting like a jack-o’-lantern from one side
of the orad to theother. You try to guess which Hght it is
burning, so that you can figure which side of the light the
bulk of the car is in, and you do not discover until the car
is close at hand that the light is on the off side and that the
oncoming car is close to your line of travel.
The next car you meet has a winking light. There is
% real gentleman in that car, and he is advertising the fact.
He believes in consideration for the other fellow, the “do
unto others as you would have them do unto you’” stuff and
lie works at it. Just as soon as he sights your car coining
around the bend he begins winking and blinking at you.
He turns off his lights, you fail to follow his lead and he
turns them on again. He tries you again and again, before
he gets in three hundred yards of you, and you fall for his
curtesy stuff and both of you jog along in the dark for a
hundred yards, expecting every second to run into a wagon,
i ditch, a cow or a tin can tourist.
After one has tried big lights and little lights; tried
urning them dim and letting ’em shine as at mid-day. After
-ou have met with and dealt wdth lights big and little,
ights on cars run by roughnecks and gentlemen, you are
>pt to be at a loss as to just what should be done about
ights on the road, except to hope for the best, prepare for
worst and take what comes.
The Albany Herald was discussing automobile lights a
few days ago and mildy hinting that more people should
be careful to dim their lights at night, and the editorial
brought back a reply from one who has been out on the
road and has seen ’em. He takes -the position that about
the worst thing that can be done is to dim the lights. The
drivers of both cars are left in the dark, and both are sub
ieot to unseen dangers on the road.
Among other things this correspondent mentions that
one automobile manufacturer has put a light on his car
riiat can be turned down or shaded in front on the approach
if another car. This takes the light out of the eyes of the
driver of the approaching car, but leaves a good light on
he road immediately in front of the ear. It would neces¬
sitate slowing up a bit, but eliminates danger.
Automobile manufactures have been ingenius in equip¬
ping their cars with apparatus to overcome difficulties and
■roblems of travel. It is a little surprising that they have
deen so slow in bringing out a light that is bright enough
or the swell head that likes to see a mile down the road
ihead of him. and yet can be so shaded at the approach of
mother car as to take the light out of the eyes of the ap
I'-oaching driver and give safety to both cars. A law’ might
>e passed to regulate lights, but this would be hard to en¬
force. A better thing would be a new style light. The
verage person in this day and time prefers following style
o tracking the law’.—Moultrie Observer.
HIE ETERNAL GROUCH
There is nothing more disgusting than the person who
has an eternal grouch or a grudge against the w’orld. The
chronic whiner is a good one to avoid.
Y'ou may have just cause for complaint, but if you can
<hink of nothing else you are doing yourself a great in¬
justice.
Do not complain unless your complaint may gain you
something.
If things are not right and an effort on your part might
lo some good, pitch in and turn things over and get them
itraightened out, if you can.
But do not be eternally talking about it, for by so doing
vou miss a lot of interesting things, and you may lose a
ot of delightful friends.
No matter how much they may sympathize, even your
riends get tired of hearing all about this and that which
s not as it should be.
This is not the w’ay to get bad matters straightened out.
dther.
There is a time for everything to be most effective.
Stack your evidence, pigeonhole your information for and
■ gainst, and have it ready for emergency.
Meantime live, love and be happy wdth your family and
riends.—Moultrie Observer.
I’HE EDITOR’S PROBLEM
The editor of the Greensboro Herald-Journal is a man
vith a heart. He says In his excellent paper:
“It is the province of a newspaper to publish legitimate
accounts of all kinds of events. If the editor of a news
raper has good and sufficient reason t© leave out of his
lewspaper anything that be believes will bring humiliation
ind sorrow to the relatives of an unfortunate creature who
may err, why, the editor has a perfect right to do so. It
is the editor’s privilege to omit or publish anything in his
lews pa per that he deems best and proper. An experienced
iournalist once said that he problem of an editor was not
to much what he might print, but what he should not pub¬
lish.”
Almost every week there is omitted from the columns
>f The News an account of some occurrence that would
be read with absorbing interest. It is and always has been
the policy of this newspaper not to add to the burdens of
the unfortunate and the sorrow of the innocent. We can¬
not indulge in ghouldish g4ee over the sad plight of fellow
mortals.—Dawson News.
HALF INSANES FROM
FARMS IN GEORGIA
Atlanta, Ga.—Is farm life conductive
to insanity?
Startling figures contained in the
79th annual report of the board of trus¬
tees of the Georgia State Sanitarium
for insane at Milledgeville show that
nearly 50 per cent of the patients ad¬
mitted during 1922 came from farms
The report has just been submitted to
the Georgia general assembly.
Out of the 857 patients admitted to
the institution during 1922, according
to the report, the classified occupation
of 415 was listed under the heading of
“agricultural pursuits”; 134 were farm¬
ers, 154 farm laborers, 77 farmers’
w’ives; 21 farmers’ daughters; 15 farmer
sons, 5 farmers’ widow’s and 9 farm la¬
borers’ daughters. One hundred and
sixty-eight of the demented agricul¬
turalists were negroes.
No other occupation was represented
by such a startling quota. The ranks
of laborers contributed .58, laundresses
27, housekeepers, 26; and cooks, 20.
Included in the general total were three
ministers, four ministers’ wives, two
school teachers, one soda dispenser,
one bank clerk, one mule trader and
one ice dealer. More than 100 other
occupations W’ere represented by one
or more inmates.
The present population of the sani¬
tarium, the report sets forth, is 3,972.
These w’ere cared for during the past
year at an average cost of $238.04 per
patient, as oompared with an average
of $240.72 the previous year. The report
also show’s more than a 10 per cent
decrease in the number of patients ad¬
mitted, 857 being admitted in 1922 as
compared to 989 in 1921.
There were 283 deaths during the'
year. This was 138 less than in 1921
and the smallest number of deaths
since 1904.
The 857 patients during 1922 w’ere
sent to the Milledgeville institution
from 147 Georgia counties. Chatham led
with 87, 48 of these being negroes. Ful
to» county was second with 62, only
16 of w’hom were negroes. Berrien
county’s quota w'as 29, 13 of them ne¬
groes and DeKalb county’s quota, 20,
with only four negroes. Twenty-four
counties sent one each.
The total number of new inmates ad¬
mitted during the year by sex showed i
428 men, 160 of whom were negroes,
and 429 women, 157 of them negroes.
According to the report, the health
record of the patients for the year was
’excellent. Typhoid, tuberculosis and
pellagra cases were relatively small
and showed a substantial reduction
from the previous year.
The anmual report was signed by
Joh* T. Brantley, president of the
board of trustees.
BIRDS AS PREACHERS
A Covington man while seated on his
front porch Sunday morning counted
in his observation of an hour eight va¬
rieties of birds as follow's: Thrush, wren
English sparrow’, Cat, Red, Jay, Butch¬
er and humming birds.
Covington evidently is the Southern
assembly ground of the feathered song¬
sters. Day and night resound with the
melody of their flute, like warblings
lifting one’s soul from the sordid cares
of earth.
Phillips B. Strong has expressed the
message of the birds in his poem en¬
titled:
The Preachers
Saint Francis of Assisi once
Preached to the birds, ‘tis said,
But that was centuries ago
And he has long been dead;
While birds forever preach to n.e»,
And those who lend an ear.
Their sermons sweetly eloquent
Day after day may hear.
Their preach of God’s kind providence,
And of His tender care,
Of life that looks alone to Him
In Nature everywhere;
They preach of beauty and of joy
That flood the sky and earth,
Where nothing is so small and weak
That heaven forgets its worth.
Oh, yes, the gentle saint is gone,
But birds still preach today,
And those who listen well may learn
The gracious truths they say,
And learning shall be taught to trust
The bird’s dear friend above,
And join with them to tell to all
His wisdom and His love.
Notice to Patrons of First Grade Cov¬
ington Public Schools
All patrons of the school who will
have children in the first grade, are re¬
quested to register same at superin¬
tendent’s office from date of this notice
to August 15, in order that arrange¬
ments and accomodations may be made
for same. Office hours 9 to 12.
BOARD OF EDUCATION,
J. L. YADEX, Supt.
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