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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1035
THE COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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Official Organ of Nowtoi ounty and the
CITY OF OOVI .GTON
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.
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The Boy Scouts celebrate their second anniversary to
night at the Courthouse in the courtroom. Show your in
terest by being present.
Georgia Editors will ail be in Athens this week-end try
ing to get information regarding the proper things to do and
not to do in serving their communities with their papers.
Congressman Owen and Mr. Blalock, his efficient secre
tary, are being commended on all sides for their courteous
and prompt replies to all communications. These replies
mean much to those at home who watch and wait.
Our junior senator broke a deadlock in the Senate recent
ly over one of the administrations bill when he suggested a
compromise. Senator Russell is demonstrating his fitness
for his task and our prediction that he would make a mark
for himself in the nation’s capitol is being fulfilled daily.
We received a letter from a California Congressman in
Washington this week who wants to send us a news letter
for $1 00 per week. Seems to us he is hardly living up to
the spirit of the New Deal. One job should be enough for
any one man. We believe if he will conscientiously devote
himself to the making of laws he will not have time to write
news letters.
Cheaper Electric Rates
The new electric rate which will be announced next week
to take effect the first of March will be one of the lowest of
any town in Georgia. According to actual figures made by
the City Clerk the lower rate will mean a reduction of around
$225 for the city.
The mayor and city council believe though by giving a
cheaper rate this will be offset by a larger volume of busi
ness and we believe they are reasoning correctly.
The various electrical conveniences for the home are in
deed a luxury and many have remarked they would be willing
to use more if the rate were so they could afford the added
amount of electricity used.
Now that the rate has been reduced they can buy the elec
trical equipment they have longed for and the use will be
less than their regular bill has been with the added use of con
venient articles.
We believe the mayor and council should be commended
for their action in lowering electric light rates to the citizens
of Covington.
The Hauptmann Case
Now that a jury has found Bruno Richard Hauptmann
guilty of murder in the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby we
believe the press should forget it as ancient history and re
fuse to mint anything further except a mere account of the
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hnnneninffs ’
“L Entirely too much , space was used in • j_i- the Tmiromnova newspapeis in in
covering this terrible crime. Most people will have as RI1|
excuse that the prominence of the parties interested lequiied
much publicity but we believe entirely too much space is de
voted to criminals and their deeds.
Tf the American Press would asrree to carry only a bare a!
account + ot +’ any m - criminal criminal rWH deed instead inutenrl Ot nf practically nvacticallv making m< g
national hero of any criminal accused oi an atiocious crime,
it would do much to lessen crime in our country.
Whether the victim of any criminal deed happens to be
prominent or obscure should have no weight in the way the
papers of the country handle the news. One life is as good j
as another and the criminal deed burdens the heart of the
rich and poor alike, so why keep front page headlines of some
stories which affect prominent people when in another por
tion of the paper a crime fully as horrible has only a para
graph devoted to the deed.
This was formerly the case until what is known as “Yellow
Journalism” became so prevalent. We believe if less space
was devoted to the criminal deeds of today and more consci
entious efforts made to apprehend the criminal it would do
more to lessen crime than any other solution.
Local Option Bill
It seems to be the concensus of opinion of the majority
of the dopesters who haunt the halls of the Legislature that
the Local Option Bill has a very good chance of being enact
ed into law.
We hardly see where any action on the prohibition bill is
necessary in the state of Georgia. They may as well legal
ize the sale of beer and get the revenue on same as to let
it be sold everywhere without revenue, but as to the prohi
bition law we can see no good reason for meddling with it
at all.
As one prominent citizen stated in talking with us recent
ly: “It makes no difference to me whether they repeal the
prohibition bill in Georgia or not, I can get all I want any
way.” That is the condition as it prevails today and as much
as you condemn this, it is much better than having the bars
let down entirely and have open saloons again.
We would hate to see the prohibition law repealed in our
state. No matter what they may do in other states or how
poorly enforced the prohibition law in Georgia, it is better
than any Local Option Bill or any attempt at repeal.
We have learned to accept the best we can get if we can’t
get just what we want and we had rather see conditions as
they are today, and we know there is really no attempt to en
force the prohibition law, than to have the prohibition law
supplanted by local option.
Local Option or no Local Option we want to see Newton
County entirely free from any semblance of an open saloon
and we believe we will never see the day come when Newton
County will vote “wet.”
Lost—$25,000.00 On Postoffice Building
According to a copy of a letter received from the Post
Ioffice Department there seems to be about $25,000.00
\ off of the appropriation for the postoffice building in Cov
| ington. appropriation for Covington
The amount of the was
$65,000. The low bidder to erect the building received the
contract for a bid of $33,333.00. The lot cost the govern
ment $3,750.00. This leaves something around $28,000 still
available. You may deduct about $3,000 for making plans,
specifications, etc. and this still leaves about $25,000 unac
counted for.
Yet this letter from the postoffice department states out
of the original appropriation there only remains to the credit
of the Covington postoffice $37,580.00.
Seems to us there is a nigger in the woodpile or some
thing is dead up the creek. The citizens of Covington would
like to know how that $25,000 was lost in the shuffle. We
have heard the old expression that “figures don’t lie,” but
we have also heard the retaliation, “yes, but liars can figure.”
Without applying this to anyone we would, out of natural
curiosity, like to know where, when and how the other $25,
000 was spent.
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| Sunday School Lesson
PETEK HEALS A LAME MAN
Golden Text: “But Pe er said
Silver and gold have 1 none; but
what I have, that give I
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After Pentecost, wi h all i s ex
citem-ent and power, we find peter
and John quietly going up into
the temple to pray.
As the apostles were passing up
the marble steps of the temple and
were about to enter through the
Gate Beautiful, so massive that it
required twenty men to swing it
on its hinges, a beggar, lame from
his birth, sitting at the gate ac
ccosted them and asked for alms.
There is a great diLl of physical
beggary in the world and it pre
sents pitiful aspects as it meets
us on the streets or breeds and
festers in crowded alleys and tene
ments.
But there is a spiritual beggary
that is far wider and deeper.
Meh generally are beggared in I
.'heir spiritunl life, They are
smitten with poverty of high and
noble .houghts, of purity and pen
itence, of sympathy and love, of
prayer and worship. Their bodies
may be clothed in fine garments
bu their souls are clad in filthy
rage. They feed their appetites
wi h rich food, but they are feed
ing their spiritual hunger with
the hu.-ks that swine eat.
The beggar wae asking lor alms.r
We must not be too hard on knew,; him, j
for he was doing the best he
but money was not his first and |
great need. Money could not
heal his crippled ankles and make
him - walk. ------- 1
Money has is place in life, bot;
there is someihing soul that needs the before beg-|
gated human
“Seek i
this and more than this.
ye first his kingdom, and his
righteousness, and all these things
shall be added unto you. [
Thus this lame beggar is a vivid
pic ure of the sinner in his sin,
beggared in his soul, asking for .
= ol<l w *ien he needs grace, and:
helpless to .ave himself. !
Bike the good Samaritan with j
t j ie wounded j ew by the wayside,
Peter and John forgot themselves t
and saw only the beggar. ^
“And Peter, fastening his eyes,
upon him said, Look on us.’ It
was no careless or ctm° us glance!
that; Peter § ave that beggar, but
deePj earnest, sympathetic gaze.
jj e looked at him with his whole
if would help people, 1
we
we must fasten our eyes
them and get into their condi
tlon -
Peter not only looked, but he
also acied. Gazing is prelimin
ary to giving. "Silver and gold
have I none, but such as I have
give I unto thee.” We must not
think we have nothing to give
because we have no gold. Money
is often the poorest gift we can
bestow; and it may be the cheap
est abo, costing ue the least time j
and effort.
“In the name of Jesus Christ'
of Nazareth rise up and walk.”
The lame beggar got up! He,
leaping up, stood and walked!
That moment the perpetual pow
er of Christ’s name was proved j
and it started out on an ever- wid- (
ening, ever - brightening path | j
through the world.
The beggar asked for gold and
he got grace, How much larger
was the answer than the prayer!'
How much better wae Peter’s 'gift !
. uch as he had, than silver and
gold! What would money have
done for this lame beggar?
Nothing but help to keep him in j
his lameness and rags, Forty
years he had been receiving gold !
and was a beggar still, But onej
touch of the grace thrilled him
with life and made him a man.
Instead 'of helping him tempo
rarily outside, he healed him perm
anently inside; he gave him the
power of self-help; he enabled him
to stand and walk on his own
feet. That ended both his lame
ne s and his beggary; nevermore
did he ask for alms.
The work of Christ and his
church is to bid and help people
to get up and stand on their own
feet.
Christ cleanses the soul, for
gives its guilt, strikes off the fet-
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ers of evil thoughts and habits,
liberates and develops its higher
powers, Then the soul gets up
uU; - ol * ts spiritual lameness and
begins to live a new and higher
1 ‘ eer and richer life,
ihe spirit of Christ makes the
soul * l<ms and tree within and
men the whole life feels the thril,l
of a new power.
‘‘Why do not ragged people go
,o church?” was a question once
asked of the editor of the London
Punch. “Because,” answered the
editor, and he may not have been
much of a church man, “when
P e °P le t0 church they soon
cease to be ragged.”
This is the story of the gospel.
Godliness is profitable for all
th* n S and h as the promise of the
now is as well as of that
which is to come.
Leiruin © News
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hammonds
and son 0 f Magnet, spent
tde we ek-end with Mr. and Mrs.
Q. scar Bailey and family. Miso
j nez Bailey returned home with
them for a weeks visit.
Mr _ and Mrs. q. 0 . McCart and
Mr _ E _ M McCart spent Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Moes and
M r. Oscar Moss.
Mrs. Sallie Cannon, of
0U gh, spent last week with Mr. and
M rg . Troy Stubbs,
Mrs. Oscar Campbell an<Ldai>jjfh
j erj 0 j Mansfield, visited ner sis
f erj Mrs. W. E. Yancey, recen.ly.
Mr. J. A. McClure, Mi ses Bes
gie and Qpal and Mr. Murray Me
ci ure spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. McClure, of Porterdale.
Mr. and Mrs. Rose Lunsford
and children of Fincherville, Mrs.
Potits and sofi Wallace, of
Porterdale, spent Sunday with Mr
and Mrs w . E. Yancey,
Mr. and Mre. Howard Coggins,
0l f Athens, visited Mr. and Mrs.
j L Coggins, Sunday,
Mesdames J. B. and W. L. Moss
visited Mrs. Bloss Elling;on Mon
day afternoon.
Mr. Oscar Moss, Mr. and Mrs.
E . Mo.-s attended services at
Ausftln Qhapei Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hodgie Loyd,
Misses Anniei Lois and Mildred
a ,.j g b j 0 f High Point, visited Mr.
and Mre . Ed Stokes and familv a
W bn e Friday night
Services at Lovejoy Sunday,
0 )j 24, with Rev. Godfrey of
Oxford in charge.
ROCKY PLAINS
Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Huey left
Monday for Lake Placid, Fla.
where they will spend several days.
Mrs. Carrie Chestnut and daugh
ter, Mise Lucy Chestnut, spent
Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Chestnut.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamilton,
of Avondale, were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Thompson, Tues
day.
Mrs. Todd McElroy and sons,
of Doraville, spent the week-end
with her father, Mr. J. C. Stewar..
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hearn, of
Decatur and Mrs. C. B. Burnham,
of East Point, were supper guests
of Mrs. Josie Harvey Saturday
night.
Mrs. J. O. Black was the guest
of her sister, Mrs. J. R. Thompson,
Monday.
Mise Estell Thompson spent a
while Sunday afternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Thompson.
The many friends of Miss Ethel
Stewart will be delighted to learn
her condition is somewhat improv
ed.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Che-, nut
and Mr. and Mrs. Wliliam Chest
nut visited Mrs. Ola Stewart at
Snapping Shoals Sunday.
Master John Stewart McElroy,
of Droaville spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Thomp
son.
Mrs. Mattie Mitcham, of Atlanta,
Mrs. B. L. Johnson and daughter,
Miss Lelia Johnson, of Covington,
and Miss Sara Hood, of Oxford,
visited Mrs. Josie Harvey Tues
day afternoon.
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Rev. and Mrs. Fleece were with
us Sunday afternoon Mr. Fleece
preached ail in;eresting sermon
which was very much apprecia.ed,
although there was a very
.'.(.tendance on account of so much
sickness.
• ins. Lottie Dial and sons,
i d lialpn, of Atlanta, spent
Jay with Mr. and Mrs. H. Stone
1-ayes.
-■nr. Lonnie Jackson spent
day with his family. . He is at
work with the highway depart
ment near Ru.ledt/.
Mr.-. W. M. Biggers is at the
bod-side of her son, Mr. Jamie Big
gers, who we regret to know is
qui e sick at his home in Cov
ington.
Mrs. Glenn Adams was a spend
the-day guest of Mrs. Howell Hays
Wednesday.
We are glad tha‘ Mr. and Mrs.
James Hays are improving after
; several days sickness.
Mr. Bill Biggers and Mrs. Howel
Hayes spent Monday in Coving
t on and visited Mr. and Mrs.
Biggers.
Mrs. J. T. Greer is at home after: Hoke Bayes and Mr. E. F. Hayes
a vi it with her sis.er in Conyers. and son attended the funeral of
S'he also spent several days wiih Mr. Bob Ellin®; on near Oxford
her daughter. Mrs. L. A. Patrick, Tuesda yafternoon.
in Covington. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greer were
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Hayes and in Atlanta last Saturday.
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