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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935
riSE COVINGTON
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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Official Organ of Newton County and ihe
CITY OF COVINGTON
WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION
“And Jesus said unto him, get thee 1behind me Saban;
for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God,
; j thou serve.”
and Him only shalt
If everyone could know Mildred Seydell and enjoy her
charming personality her excellent column in the Atlanta
Georgian would still be one of the most read in the South,
add zest to th# read- ,
and knowing her as she really is, would
ers interest.
The suggestion made at the Press Institute that John
Paschall be made permanent chairman of the Institute was
a good one. John has been chairman par excellence. With
his genial personality and hail-fellow-well-met attitude he
combines all the qualities of a man who is able to succeed m
any undertaking.
The presence of our old friend Bill Biffem, of the Savan
nah Press, at Athens heightened the enjoyment of the occas
ion for us. Bill is the most congenial cuss we ever encount
ered. His wit flows eternally, and best of all, no suggestive
thought falls from his lips. He is clean and wholesome.
Some time ago w e wrote an editorial commenting on
actions of certain people when away from home, Lo, and
behold, recently we met some very good friends who stated
some one had applied the editorial to them and had gone to
the trouble of calling their attention to same. We are sorry.
It is not our intention to offend anyone, We are trying in
our feeble way to work only for the uplift of our community.
We do not believe anyone profits by trying to slander any
one and we are far from any intentions in this respect.
Three Years a Citizen
Today we celebrate the end of the third year of our resi
dence in your fair city. They have been years of happiness
to us and we are grateful for the many friendships we have
been allowed to form in that length of time.
We are glad we decided to make Covington our home. We
are grateful to you, our friends and subscribers, for the way
you have responded to our every call, for the many kind)
things which you have said about the improvements made in
your paper.
We are grateful to our advertisers and others who have
seen fit to allow us to serve them. If we have made mis
takes, they were of the head and not the heart.
'May we solicit your continued patronage for the years
which are to come. May we be allowed to continue to serve
our community in every need it may have of printing service.
We are grateful for our increased number of subscribers
to our paper. May we be allowed to add others who may not
be on our list. We pledge ourselves to continue to try to
make your paper one of the best in the state that you may
receive full measure for the price of your subscription.
May we be permitted to continue to use our paper for all
things which work for the betterment of the community. We
were not born in Newton County but that is our misfortune,
not our fault. We have, however, adopted Newton C#unty
as our native land and will ever be found working for its best
interests.
Yes, we are glad we have been allowed to make our home
in Covington, and sincerely trust we shall be allowed to live
in this splendid city for the rest of our natural life, serving
in every way possible.
The Crusader Editor
Some discussion was aroused at one of the round table
discussions at Athens last week relative to the old time editor
who used to rave and rant over everything which happened
in his community which displeased him.
Some of the younger boys bemoaned the fact he was no
longer with us. They cited instances of editors who wrote
vigorously and defiantly on every subject which came under
their notice prior to the time of going to press.
They didn’t seem to understand times have changed. _We
are no longer in the horse and buggy days. The aeroplane,
radio and automobile have added to the intelligence of the
public. The editors of today are writing to a much more
enlightened pifblie. It is not in their power to sway the
public with eloquence of pen; instead they have to present
the facts in a way to let the people form thir own conclusions.
The old time editors with their very decided, and some
times, bigotry views made good reading but today they would
soon have learn the editor people of have their views of their own and had rather not j
paper tell them how to think.
As far as we are concerned we had rather be able to meet
our friends and neighbors face to face and know they have no
reason to avoid us for something we have written about them
in our paper than to have to avoid them to keep from personal
encounter.
As one famous writer says: “Bigotry has no head and can
not think, no heart and can not feel. When she moves it is
in wrath; when she pauses it is amid ruin. Her prayers are
curses, her God a demon, her communion is death, her ven
gence is eternity.”
Nothing is easier than faultfinding; no talent, no self-de
nial, no brains and no character are required to set up in the
grumbling business. But it does take a good deal of
acter to find the good in things. Also a great deal of self
denial to be useful and a friend to man in every sense of
the word.
We love to live on the sunny side of the street and let
those who desire choose the shadows. We have always pre
ferred the sunshine and have tried to put others there if only
for an hour or two at a time. Often we have failed and will
fail again but the urge to keep trying will ever be present.
T*' be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and spend a little
less, to be of service to our community and be able to bear no
ill will toward any hqman being is our desire. We had rather
have the goodwill of our community than national recognition
as a great editor who has gained his place heedless of the feel
ings of others.
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| SiaaEsSsiy SicSaocsJ Lesson j
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PETER UNMASKS FALSEHOOD
AND HYPOntin
Golden Text: “Wherefore, pu,
ing away falsehood, speak ye
truth each one with hi. neighbor:
for we are members of one an
other.” Ephesians 4:25,
The church in Jerusalem was
now riding on a wave of spiritual
prospeiity. No one claimed to
own anything as his individual
possession, but all things were
heid in common, All real esiu.e
was sold and the proceeds turned
into one common fund, No one
in that great mass of poor people
lacked, and to every one was dis
tributed according to his need.
This worked well for a time in
a simple community of believers
driven together by persecution,
but it does not follow that it would
work well in a wide and complex
civilization. It did not last '.mg
even ihen and soon passed away.
It was their own voluntary
rangement, and has no
over us: they determined what was
good i or them and we are to
Hard by the light we always
find a shadow, and the brighter
the light the darker the shadow.
Joseph stands in the light of
this event as a noble instance of
this passion of charily, a rich man
from Cyprus, where the Jews were
interested in copper mining, he
sold all and gave the money to
the apostlee.
By the side of this bright figure
stands his dark counterpart, Anan
ias, and in his shadow stands the
dusky figure of his wife. Thi
man also had property and sold
it and laid money at the apostles'
feet. Whether by word or man
ner or however it was expressed,
the pretence was that this money
was his all.
Peter, by some insight or in
formation, knew the falsity of this
pretence and charged him with
the lie. It was freely admitted
that he was under no obligation
to sell the land or to give the
money,'but the thing he conceived
in his heart was a lie unto man
and unto God.
Thie man pretended to be some
thing that he was not; he wanted
popularity, but he was not willing
to pay its price; he was a church
member, but he was a liar.
There are men that would give
five or fifty dollars to be counted
charitable that would not give five
cents to be charitable. Popularity,
moral and especially political, is
often the produo: of pretence.
The man that pretends to be
paying his share of the expense
of the church when he is not; the
citizen that pretends to be paying
all his taxee when he is evading
some of them; the man that makes
a show of bearing his share of
social responsibilities whdn he is
shirking part of them, is just as
bad as Ananias.
Any purposed contradicton or
discrepancy between the inner
thought and the outer deed, be
tween heart and life, is a false
hood.
Peter now turned on Ananias
in terrible words of exposure and
judgment, for sooner or later a
man’s sin wil! find him out. “And
Ananias hearing these words fell
down and gave up the ghost.”
A physician might call this apo
plexy, but a Christian, without
necessarily contradicting or dis
agreeing with the physician, calls
it an act of God.
Lying in all its forms is one of
the mo.-t pervasive evils of the
world, undermining its business
and government and the home and
ail private relations.
T c ^
bution, we must cast out falsity
and ten the truth every man with
brother,
God ’ s eye burns upon every form
°. f sin ' an<1 >' et if we confess our
sin he ie faitWul and i us ' 0 f or
f’ 1 v ® us °’’ r sins and t0 cleanse
n
disciples from Jerusalem and we
find the evangelist Philip down in
Samaria in the midst of a great
revival that wa- moving that city.
At { Ms point appears Simon, a well
kno ' vn sorcerer in Samaria who
was expert in oriental arts of
a _ wonder
‘ : r 10 ’ cures.and
swing out that “himself was some
1 rcat ono **
This man was converted under
the preaching of Philip and was
bap:ized. He was thoroughly
saturated with the mercenary
spirit a..d . uppased that all things
i.e.e for sale. He had been
trafficking in such ares all his
life and never dreamed but that
money would buy them, He of
fered I’eter and John Money, say
ing, “Give me also this power, that
on whomsoever i lay my hands
ne may receive the Holy Spirit.
The man was or.ly converted
I superficially and had never yet
grasped the real meaning and
spiri of the Chris,ian life..
He was ttill doing business on
the basis of paying the price. He
wanted position and influence,
power and profit, and he was will
ing to pay for them.
This spirit has ever lurked in
,he church and often has put
deep blight on religion.
There are other ways of Ruying
places of power and profit than
paying money for them; and we
! 1 all need to be on our guard that
I this spirit may not get into out
chuich and our hearts.
Peter was a poor man and may
have fe i t the temptation to ge
OIley bj > 6Uch qulck and easy
means, bu, he instantly put any
such thought from him and fell
upon Simon with the crushing re
buke, “Thy silver perish with thee,
because thou hast thought to ob
tain the gift of God with money.”
His withering scorn fell upon
the ar.ful magician like a stroke
of lightning, exposing his shock
ing guilt and smiting him with a
sense of his wrong. The church
has no enemy outside that it
should fear so much as the merce
nary spirit inside.
Men see money buying i,s way
in busineis, in society, in politics,
into the Senate chamber, even in
the church, and they think there
is no.hing it cannot buy.
But after all its power is limit
ed. It will buy most of the out
er trappings and tinsel ornaments
of life, but i. will .nett buy life
itself.
The wcfld’s greates: treasures
are not in the market and money
cannot buy them.
God's grace is not for sale, and
we will imult him and call down
upon us his holy wrath if we
think we can either buy or sell it.
Bu if we ate willing to receive it
he will give it to us without money
and without price.
Eiagli Point
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McCart and
sons, of Covington, spent Su^iay *nd
afternoon wi.li Mr. W. W.
Miss Emma Piper.
Mesdames E. H. and W. H. Loyd
were afternoon visitors of Mrs.
0. D. Grant Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Irby Edwards, of Coving
ton, was the dinner guest of Mr.
E. G, Lassiter, Jr. Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. CarLon Wicks and
family had as their guests Sun
day af.ernoon: Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. Piper, Mr. and Mrs. David
Knight, and Mr. Z. D. Piper, of
Porterdale, Mrs. E. G. Lassiter and
children, Miss Emma Piper and
Mrs. C. A. Lassiter,
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Mobley
and children spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss Johnson and
children,
Miss Sarah Nelle Grant, mem
her of rhe school faculty at Colum
bus, Ga., spent the week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. D.
Grant,
Mrs. E. G. Lassiter had as her
guests Friday afternoon, Mes
dames E, H. and W. H. Loyd, and
Mrs. C. L. Vaughn, of Stewart.
Miss Lilyan Steele, Mesdames
Dewey and J. J. Steele, spent Fri
day afternoon with Mrs. Carlton
Wicks and daughter, Mies Velma
Wicks.
Mr, and Mrs. Jim Williams, of;
Oxford, visited Misses Olenda
Taylor, Tempie Lewis and Mr.
J. M. Rogers, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs, O. D. Grant visited
friend- in CoYington Sunday af
ternoon.
The young people enjoyed a
singing at the home of Misses Lil
yan, Louise and Ru h Steele Sun
day nigh;.
STILL WRECKS HOUSE
Baltimore, Md.—Ralph Dsborne,
25, was fatally injured when an
explosion wrecked a three-story
house on his farm near Lochraven.
j The explosion, attributed to a
thousand-gallon still, blew por-
1 tions of the house as far as two
hundred feet.
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Things and
i Other-things
If RUDDER CHOW SAYS
“I is waiting, jest a waiting,”
Says the sneekish Mr. Crow,
“Till you start de ole corn planter,
I An’ de grain is in de row,
j Den I’ll come en roun ter see youse
An’ de tricks you am er bout
If your stan Is scarce or plenty,
I will simply peck it out.”
Mr. Farmer and Mr. Crow never
has gotten along very well to
nether; the fact is, they are never
ogether—much. Mr. crow waits
ever behind a piney bluff till Mi.
Farmer gets his table all set with
| tiny Mr. Crow candles of green corn, then
takes possession, while
Mr. Farmer is home milking the
cows and feeding the pigs, and
getting the old roosters off to
roost in the right place, Some
roosters, you know prefer to do
their roosting on top of the oil
flivver, which is in direct viola
ion. of code number X. Y. Z. CO-
29.
There is but one way to keep
the crows out of the corn, and that
is: let the crows all see you with
your working clothes on, then go
home, pull them off, take them
back to where the crows were, and
hang them up on something, No
crows will come in a mile of there
after that, But the local Mys
terian says he would have to - tay
in bed till way next fall or prob
ably longer, and couldn’t go to
see about the crows if lie was ter
do dat. Unless however, he
jined the nudidt folks and dat
would bring about too much con
cernment, and probably violate an
other code or two.
According 7 to 1 J the e wav I 1 look 100K at aC
people , and situations, I think
there is no more interesting studv
odajr that the UNWRITTEN
BOOK, as seen, by folks who try
to see. This book is, or ought
to be on, THE WAY THE WORLD
IS GOING. Let’s all of us try
to take time to read it and „tudy
it, before we are caugh in the
oranches o£ the “racket" which
seems to flow, with all our sense
and understanding, to some sort
of a ONE MAN SEA, which seems
to grow larger and large”, and
with waves running higher and I
higher all the while, winding up
with us poor thoughtless fishes 1
at the bottom of it, powerless to
even try to do or say anything,
or even get to the top any more.
This UNWRITTEN HOOK, as I
see it, if we will follow it, wli!
teach us how we can fol'ow a lead
er, and get along somehow with
out thinking or acting for our
selves.
You know, if somebody was to
offer you a million dollars and beg
you to take it, you wou! In’t lose
much time in grabbing it would
you? So we can’t blame Mu so
lini, Hitler, Talmadge—Long, for
taking what the people were so
eager to thrust in their laps. But
the blame lies somewhere, in
this UNWRITTEN BOOK we will
likely find where men become
weak and unconcerned for some
cause or other, and become will
ing to throw down the lines of
their own power in government,
for some lighter task—we will
have to read on and on j:i th s un
written book to find out why this
should ever be allowed to happen.
But I believe we will find on the
back page of this book, a pictuie.
A picture of a million »imid little
mice, faint hearted, fearful and
concerned only with lading them
selves from a huge Tomcat, who
dominates the premises there
abouts. Afier this ihere may be
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another change. A. million mice
could cause a huge Tomcat a lot
of trouble, if they only would.
And then, as I see something
else which is unwritten but ac
cepted. Huey Lon i has been
Invited to our own state to dem
onstrate before the public our own
weakness. He wants to make a
show of it by playing on those of
us who are easy brought under
“spells”.
Turn to the back of the unwrit-
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ten book and take a look at the
Tomcat, and wonder what the mil
lion mice are doing. Then if you
feel like it go hear Huey Long,
DONALD G. STEPHENSON ____
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Turner Building
Covington, Georgia