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FRIDAY, FRB.U AHY 15, 1935
THE COVINGTON NEWS
COV r INGTON, GEORGIA
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Entered at the 1‘ostofficO at Covington, Georgia as mail matter of the
Second Class
A. BELMONT DENNIS........ .........Editor and
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Official Organ of Newton County and the
CITY OF COVINGTON
WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Mat. 7-7.
The Book Club had as their honor guest this week
StS,” Ihe spoke interestingly home sick of when her trip she
through Africa. Just our luck to be
called by our office. One always regrets missing an oppor
tunity to talk with this charming person.
The news that the City Council is planning to reduce the
electric light and power rate will be received with great
satisfaction by the citizens of our city.
Who remembers the muddy, bumpy road to Porterdale
and Oxford, We forget sometimes to be thankful for the
little things of life.
With both mills in the city working full force we will all
join in the chorus, “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
A Christian land is one where every boom requires new
laws to keep a lot of people from being crooked.
How fortunate that exercise doesn’t make all muscles
hard. Think of having a tongue like castiron.
Business is getting out of the red. Now the thing to do
is to keep the Red out of business.
Times are better, The patient is improving when he
begins to cuss the doctor and the bill.
In one way a dog is a good deal like a woman’s dress
The less there is of it the more it costs.
Too many people think good citizenship consists in fret
ting about things they can’t help.
Prohibition Bill Hard to Handle
It is rather amusing to watch the governor in his handl
ing of the prohibition bill. It seems he is trying to handle
the affairs with gloves for fear he may get scorched one way
or another.
Instead of his usual ready manner of stating his views
on pieces of legislation he is temporarizing with the Prohibi
tion Bill. There is considerable doubt what may be used
to sway his mind in one way or another. Anyway he is
letting the public know how disturbing the question is to
him so they will sympathize with him on his decision.
You may well state the Governor has made up his mind
now for that is his way of handling matters of importance,
What he has decided to do though will remain a secret until
the legislature passes the bill on for his signature or dis
cards the bill with the forgotten legion.
Money For Remodeling and Repairing Ready
There has not been as eager response to the announce
ment that money was now available for remodeling and re
pairing as was anticipated. Before the money was avail
able several people came to see us personally regarding re
modeling and repairing, but they have not made application
to the proper authorities. Application blanks are at the
FHA headquarters in the Newton County Building & Loan
Association office and those who are interested are urged
to go there and make application for the money to have
needed repairs and remodeling done.
Spring will be along in a few weeks and it will be nice
to begin the summer season with the added conveniences
which can be supplied with a little remodeling. Have it
done now and supply work for those men who are in this
business as well as receive the benefit of added comforts.
Beautifying Our City
Workmen have been busy for the past few days moving
shrubbery and preparing rose beds in the grass plots on and
around the square. Where shrubbery was too thick this
has been taken up and planted elsewhere and a rose ;bed has
been prepared in the plot adjoining the City Pharmacy Jouild
ing.
Councilman George Cochran, who is chairman of the Parks
Committee, should be congratulated for the wonderful work
he is doing along these lines. We were talking with him
recently and he states he is going to do everything in his
power to make Covington more attractive to the many who
come here to do their trading.
Councilman Cochran also requests the cooperation of the
citizens of Covington in helping to beautify the city, Im
prove that unsightly vacant place adjoining your property.
Plant shrubs or flowers wherever possible and you will add
to the beauty of your city.
We notice someone has erected two mail boxes in the city
park at the foot of Church and Monticello Street They
are rather unsightly and conspicuous and we would suggest
they be placed where they would not take away the beautv
of this little park.
Its these little acts of cooperation make the world a
more beautiful place in which to live and we hope every
citizen of Covington will get behind the drive to beautify
the city and give Councilman Cochran the heartiest coopera
tion in his worthy task.
Plans are also underway to widen and beautify the en
trance to the city cemetery. The road leading off Church
Street is to be made eight feet wider and- shrubs are to be
planted along the way to the cemetery and a walk-way made
for those who desire to visit the cemetery on foot. Mr.
Cochran also plans to erect a suitable arched sign across
the entrance. This would make a decided improvement to
the entrance and will also make it more easily accessible to
those of our city w r ho frequently visit the last resting place
of their loved ones.
Sunday School Lesson
j PETER TEACHES Gv/Ol)
CITIZENSHIP
Golden Tex.: “Love worke.li no
11 ! to his neighbor: love therefore
i; the fulfilment of the law.’’ Ro
mans 13:10.
Peter’s letter which we have for
>ur lesson this week was written
from Babylon (5:13), which is
plainly Rome, to the Jewish
Christians of Asia Minor (1:1),
Peter's general purpose was to
st.engthen the Christian in view
of presen and impending trials.
Abstenance from fleshly lusts
which war against the soul was
his first injunction. Abstenence
is a law of life that is mill neces
sary in our time. It is that self
control by which we give up some
things in order that we may get
better things. We cannot have
m ^ m
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Often we must sacrifice one thing
that we may have anoiher thing.
Sometime: we must give up the
good to get the better and then
sacrifice the be;ter to get the
best, i
Fleshly lusts may exercise a
powerful attraction and spell over
us, but they may be like so many
knives that cut into and slash al'
the tissues of life, physical and
spiritual. They may at first add
effervescent ingredients to the cup
of life and make it foam and
sparkle, but at the bottom of the
poisoned cup are bitter drugs and
death. If, then, we want life
that is pure and sweet and will
always refresh us we mut t keep
fleshly lusts out of it
Abs.enence, however, is „ a ega- „„„
tive virtue and Peter next urges
the positive virtue of good be
havior among the Gentiles.
He enjoins good citizenship
eveiy point. They were to be
subject)- to every ordinance of
man, keeping al! the laws for the
Lord's sake or as a form of loyalty
to him, making their politics a
part of heir piety. This loyalty
to authority was to extend to all
civil powers, from the emperor on
his throne to :he provincial gov
ernor and local mayor and police
man. As good citizens they were
to silence the noisy ignorance or
demagoguery of foolfch men; and
while exercising their own free
dom under the law, they were not
to use it as a cloak for wicked
ness.
He condenses the civic and soc
ial duties of the time into the
admirable summary; “Honor all
men. Love the brotherhood. Feat
God. Honor the king.”
We have an immensely better
government than had the early
Christian and we -are generally
loyal to it_ But there has been
pa. sing over our country a wave of
.awiessness and, deeper still, dis
loyalty to law, that is an ominous
symptom in our body politic,
America now leads the world in
crime, more murders being com
mitted annually in New York City
or Chicago than in all England.
Men in high places are openly
showing their disrespect for and
practical disregard of law and
thereby undermining loyalty to all
law.
It is time we Americans turn
to Peter’s teaching and practice
which he enjoined under very
much worse circumstances than
ours. “Be subject to every or
dinance of man for the Lord’s
sake.”
Forasmuch then ais Christ suf
fered in the fish, arm ye your
selves also with the same mind;
for he that hath suffered in the
flesh hath ceased from sin.
We can arm ourselves with this
mind by growing into union with
him until hie mind iis in us and
we live, and yet no we, but Christ,
liveth in us. The mind is the
real fortress of the sou] and we
are as strong and only as strong
outwardly as we are inwardly.
-Suffering that is submiveively
received and patiently endured has
a strange power of purging us of
earthliness; it abates passion and
pride and tempers the mind and
heart into patience and peace.
Some of the purest and most
beautiful saints have passed
through intense fires of trial, and
Jesus himself was made perfect
through sufferings.
Peter now takes a glance at the
past life of his Christian readers
and ;e?U: them they have had
enoui?h of that kind of thing He
" & y Cata '° gUe ° f th6il '
former immoral practices and puts
at the bottom as the deepest depth
of their degredation their “abom
inable idolatries”; for religion, the
best thing in ithe world, when per
verted, becomes the worst thing,
the lowest pit into which iniquity
sinks.
“The time past may suffice to
have wrought” these things, said
Pe:er. He did not mean to im
ply, of course, that these things
were right and good at any time,
however short, for there is no time
or place in - he universe where
such things can be rightly toler
ated even for a moment.
Having passed through sin we
may well look back upon it with
orrow and disgust and say, “We
have had enough of that.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
We have surely had enough
the world s vanity and deceit,
ou.tr show and sham and its
ner emptiness and vexation
. pirit; we have had enough of
own pride and passion and
, tishness: give tL some.hing
ter, more solid and satisfying.
The sinner himself, when
comes to eat the bitter fruit of
own doings, will surely
Enough! Only righteousness will
j lai.it and forever satisfy; of the
i fruits of the Spirit we cannot
too much.
The line between the church
the world is not so broadly
among us as it was in these pagan
times, but we must still come out
and keep ourselves unspotted,
:hough others may think it
that we no longer go with them,
and tpeak evil of us.
We are not doing business at
loose ends with the world, but
accounts are kept and at last the
books must ba’ance. Nothing
is forgotten and everything shall
turn iif) for against “
or us.
Not only shall the supreme de
ck ions and the broad aspects of
life be brought in o judgment, but
for “every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account
thereof.”
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CIV ip SHOTS
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secretary Ickes continues to be
he Cabinet official who can , t , keep
of ' loab!e ' For months . he
nas movod from dispute to dispute
with one high official after an
other> finaIly culminating in what
anloun, ' s t0 t0 aa an open pe feud f d with uh
Congress. The difference is that
where other Administration fig
ules could not retaliate and Presi
deQl Roosevelt lias managed to
smooch over the difficulties, Con
stress can and intends to “crack
down.”
Members of Congress accuse him
of snubbing them when they went
to his office to see about public
works funds for their districts, and
.here ie nothing gets under a Con
gressman’s skin worse than being
snubbed. Senator Harrison, of
Mississippi, a powerful figure at
the Capitol, is listed as one of the
latest “anti-Ickee” and the 'noy
menii is growing to prevei^P’ me
Interior Secretary from administ
ering the new four billion dollar
public works fund.
Ickes first feud was with Gen
eral Johnson over the oil code
which was moved from N. R. A. to
the jurisdiction of the Secretary,
General Johnson differed strongly
with Mr. Ickes, too, on his handl
ing of the public works money.
The general contended that the
funds should have been spent up
on heavy construction which would
stimulate the durable goods in
dustries. Now, months later,
there is a general realization that j
in these industries there is thej
greatest unemployment, and the j
new funds undoubtedly will be'
aimed in this direction.
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Washington is keenly interest
ed in one of the documents on
labor troubles in this country writ
ten recently by Governor Ely of
Massachusetts to a union labor
leader who had condemned him
publicly for •ailing out troops to
halt a dUturbans*.
“My imagination Is sufficiently
elastic and active to about reach
the conclusion that some of the
men who claim Id represent labor
are doing th«m more harm than
good, that you incite difficulties
without obtalsing satisfactory re
sults for tho»« whom you claim
to represent,” the former Governor
said.
“The polidw which you ha;ve
pursued during the last few years
seem to hare resulted in sending
out of thle commonwealth a large
number of businesses which in
remaining hdre could have furn
ished reasonable employment to a
great number of men and women.
My imagination is sufficiently elas
tic *to appreciate that the policies I
which you hare pursued have en-,
abled you to maintain your job)
while others were losing theirs,!
but no one in this community ori
any other seemij to have sufficient i
R. E. IYERITT
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Associates
W. R. Stillwell and G. A. Stauffacher
AMBULANCE SERVICE
DAY OR NIGHT
Day Phone 117 Night Phone 76 or 131
LOCKHART WRITES
ON PROHIBITION
Condemns Defeatist Attitude
of Many Who Believe in
the Prohibition Law
Following is a le.ter on the sub
ject of prohibition received recent
ly by the Editor. We reprint it
here for your information:
Coving.on, Ga., Feb. 11,1935
Dear Mr. Dennis:
in our recent conversation on
the subject of prohibition, which
1 had to interrupt to return to my
school dui.ies, I promised to write
you a letter giving my reasons
for believing in the present law.
One of the first objections urged
by the propaganda of the liquor
Interes.s Is that the law its not en
forced. This has had a good
deal of weight "with many
tious people. If by
they Ihean that it is not
one hundred per cent:, of
any intelligent man will have
admit this fact. But if that were
a sound argument for ihe abo
lition of a law, we should land in
anarchy; for no law is observed l
perfectly by every citizen, The
beet evidence that a law is need-!
ed is that there is a tendency to j
disobey it. If nobody stole, there
would be no need for a law against |
stealing. If everybody paid his
debts, there would be no need for
1 j ud S mems and executions. So, if
! it is logical to advocate the repeal
of a law because everybody does
not observe it, then the anarchists
are riglu and we s h ou j d abolish
a H government.
In th e ® econd pla °®’ 1 do no *
believe . , that . . prior to the repeal of
the j ne P™ oroMbition 1 - 1 ? 111 ® 11 law law 111 in thp ta e nation nation,
it was violated more frequently,
than several of our other i aws I
.
For instance our stores are filled
p al o u ‘ la w against IT*' gamin,ng? tT
The Atlanta dailies record from
a half-dozen to a dozen robberies
and hold-ups every day. Shall we
abolish our law against robbery,
because it is violated? Moreover
the prohibition law has labored
under this additional handicap.!
The deavored parties to in power have body not er.-|
secure a of en-i
forcement officers who were
estly and thoroughly in sympathy i
with the purpose of the law
its spirit. In spite of the e
handicaps, however, the prohibi
ion has resulted in the reduction i
of cases of drunkenness, and
whatever may be its defects, the
net result has been to reduce
drinking and to promote temper
ance. Some of the real friends
of temperance have permitted
them'selves to be misled by the
propaganda of the wets, and have
allowed themselves to be confused
on the issues involved,
Many other reasons could be
given, if I did not fear to impsoe
on your good nature.
I believe, however, that it is a
serious mistake for those of u
who believe in temperance to take
a defeatist attitude and consider
.that our prohibition law is doom
ed > and therefore there is no use
of making any further fight. As
a matter of fact, I do not believe
that those of us who believe in
; his moral law, should do every
thing in our power to prevent its, ef-'
re P ea L although we knew our
forbi would be temporarily in
vain.
I believe in the prohibition law
courage to tell it to you.
The cost of the social security
legislation which Congress is rush
ing -through probably is something
about which the average person
is ignorant, Designed to aid fac
tory workers, it will add greatly
to production costs which mus, be
passed on to the consumer, adding
further to the disparity between
farm income and the cost of what
he buys.
Figures announced by Presi
dent Roosevelt\= automotive labor
board, which he personally creat
ed, on elections supervised by it
in plants show 38,336 votes cast,
of which 1,84 7 were for American
Federation of Labor Unions, al
though the latter have demanded
the right to speak for all employ
ees.
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the house flag on the 100-foot
family yacht, Mary Irene, pre
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waiian trip. Object of the trip?
Just a get-together, and a
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mutual hobby, deep sea diving, j
says ^ Judge Rupert Turnbull,
Loretta’s dad and past„commo
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he word of God that possINy
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