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The Covington News
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
mitered at the Postoffice at Covington, Georgia, as mail matter of the
Second Class.
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
The generous talker usuallv is the kind who would
$nare his nis last last dollar dollar with ltn vou you if U ne he ever e er had naa a a dollar dollar.
A . Chicago . lad , , hocked , , , his , . fiancee S ring and landed , , ,
|jtl jail . instead of at the altar. And we know some
who will insist that the youth was lucky at that.
The world is really making great strides after all.
Back in Barnum’s time there was only one sucker born
each minute.
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The law of supply and demand doesn’t hold good.
JThink of all the reformers there are, and how little reform.
Some of the most popular citizens became that way
through knowing just when to keep their mouths shut.
We still say “Blessed are the peacemakers” — even
though nearly all of them are dead.
THE FOURTH
like
and you can’t get away from the fact that you’re glad you
belong here in America. Citizens may not agree on the
most appropriate method of celebrating the nation s birth
day, but one thing they are agreed upon is that it is en-1
titled to recognition now, as it has been for more than 150
years, as one of our greatest holidays.
Maybe we’ve lost sight of the old constitution in a few
Fcspccts, as some people claim. I\la\be we \e been li\ing
a little faster than our forefathers speculated upon, as no
doubt we have. Maybe there are many ways in which we
Could improve conditions. No one will stop to dispute
those things with you now, for everyone is too busy being
glad that another Glorious Fourth is here and that we’ve
still good cause to celebrate it.
It is one day in the year that young America won t
Jet mature America forget even though it might want to
after the seige we’ve been through during the past five or
;>ix years. Young America is still on its toes and shouting
for the old flag. And it is the spirit of this young America
that keeps burning in old America’s breast those undying
fires of loyalty, patriotism and love of country. The Fourth
Of July means just as much now as it has ever meant, and
it finds just as strong devotion in the hearts of Americans
as it ever found. Upsets industrially and economically only
served to show that it can withstand any storm, and still
keep its place as the greatest nation on the globe. That
iact alone calls for jubilation. So join again in the nation
.wide jollification renew again your allegiance to the old
flag and all that it stands for. Be glad again that you live
In a land that has never lost sight of its original ideals. :
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IN OLD DOBBIN’S DAY
In the good old days the young man fortunate enough
to own a buggy with red running-gear and rubber tires
was the envy of h,s boy friends No good is going to come
Of his horsing about the country in that style, declared
prandpa, while Grandma shrugged a shoulder and added :
Sich doings are the ruination of the country.
But the owner of the buggy kept right on having
harmless fun until the flivver pushed him off the highway.
fThere was no time for driving with lines around the whip
socket and arms around his girl after the flivver appeared.
So lovemaking suffered a sad blow and today the buggy
as a pleasure vehicle, is out of the piicture.
But lovemaking goes on just the same, and the season
most favorable for it is now here, The auto takes the
place of Old Dobbin, and yet a great many youthful drivers
around the country do not seem to realize that both hands
are needed on the steering wheel and both eyes should
always , , be the ,, road. 1 mi I he result ,, is • a aeath , ,, and , accident • . ,
on
total each year in this country that is staggering, W’ith
property damage running into the millions of dollars and
the lives of countless thousands of innocent citizens jeop
ardized. And what’s to he done about it? No one has
successfully answered that question. It probably will not
be answered until the nation produces a generation willing
fo believe that while lovemaking seems essential to happi
ness, it does not have to be done in such a way that the
Hives of others, as well as the lives of the lovers, are being
constantly endangered.
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Sunday School Lesson
Sharing Service with the Living
Christ
1
> 1 Lesson: Mark 16:8, 14-16, 19, 20
! Golden Text: And they went forth
■: and preached everywhere, the
working With them. Mark 16:20.
Sensational news
w ‘th bewilderment and
threw the disciples into wild
; ment on the morning of the
day after the crucifixion of Jesus
The body had been prepared
burial by Joseph of Arimathea
Nicodemus, and laid in a new
cher. The grave had been hewn in
> rock, and it was closed with a
stone and sealed by the Jewish au
thorities, who had reasons of
j own for this precaution. There all the It
la y indistinguishable from
dead of earth thr0Uf?h Frlda y night,
Saturday, and Sunday morning.
| But there was a difference in
that grave and ln the morning of
the third day. an event occurred
that has transformed all
centuries.
The resurrection of Christ is the
c< ^ luI £ n of 0 ^thTs” thrown
j . t jj r^ts if be
down, the whole structure falls into
ruins. If this is a certified fact, the
whole gospel is establirshed. No
resurrection mean? no divine Christ,
but a risen Jesus means a mighty
Saviour,
It is the splendor of the resurrec
tion that scatters the darkness of
the cross and kindles every page of
the New Testament with glory.
Five different appearances of the
| j risen ection Christ recorded: on the day first, of the to resur- Mary
i are
Magdalene early in the morning
ing . i ourth ’ l0 two disc ipies on the
way to Emmaus in the afternoon;
fifth, to the assembled disciples,
except Thomas, in an upper room
in Jerusalem in the evening. Six
later appearances are recorded,
open's with the faith
women, who were last at the
cross f irst at tbe tomb
They had "bought spices, that
they might anoint him.” This loving
act has immense value as showing
the state of mind of these women
and of a11 th€ d tscipies after the
was dead and they had no hope or
th0 ught of a resurrection. They were
utterly bewildered, scattered, and
crushed, and they supposed that all
was over.
However when the women came
1R sight of the tomb they saw the
stOR ® had b f? n ™ lied ,!' way '
^ake^n'loose* anTleft . th^rocky
jaws of the tomb standing open for
the risen j esU s to step through,
The women entered in and -found
not the body of the Lord Jesus”
(Luke). That was and is the dis
tinguishing mark of that tomb.
And because that tomb was found
empty, other tombs at last shall be
empty also.
“And entering into the tomb, they|
saw a young man in a white robe;
and they ™ e ? e amazed The ™ on ^ n
™v«
lhe _ ..la
l0 them> .. B e not amazed: ye seek !
jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been
crucufied: he is risen; he is
here; behold the place where they
laid him!’’
"Fear not” was the first note of
the angel’s song at announcing the
birth of Jesus, and this is the key
note of the gospel all the way through
to the final shout in heaven.
why seek ye the living among
! the deadr these women were asked -
I Unwittingly they had classed the
| living Christ among the dead; and
may we not do the same yet?
we think of him as solely a historical
p erson , we forget and miss his living
reality and presence; and the faith
that reduces him to the level of
humanity puts him back in the
grave among the dead
“He is risen; he is not here,” was
the triumphant reason given why
that tomb was empty. What became
of that body, if Jesus did not rise?
The story of the resurrection soon
, threw the priests into a panic, and
j they could have produced the
over which they had set their own
! guard if it was still in that sealed
j tomb. But the grave was empty
' cause its temporary occupant
risen. His resurrection was in
1 j cordance with his own prediction.
“Remember how he spake
you when he was yet in Galilee.’
j "He is risen, even as he said.”
! death was no unforseen
] that fell upon him and cut
his work, but it was a part of
purpose and was built into his
even from before the foundation
: the 'world.
He who could thus predict
own resurrection is to be
m a11 his P romises ’ even when
declares, ”1 am the resurrection
j the life: he that believeth on
; though he die, yet shall he live.”
The women received a
“Go, tell his disciples and
j | The supplemented fragmentary with account further in
is
j in the other gospels. The
1 j now “remembered his words,
returned from the tomb, and
\ all these things to the eleven,
to all the rest.”
We are now told how the
received thi* startling news.
THE covmtnn NEWS
these words appeared in their
J 1 them.” as idle talk; and they
I Who were these first
in the resurrection of Jesus?
, priests and Roman officers? No
j but "the apostles.”
Peter and James and John
all the eleven believed that the
of these women was some
tion of their excited minds,
talk,” “the wild talk of sick
lirium,” as the Greek word
the unbelief of these disciples
,se ts Their conversion in the light
/ strong proof and confirms our
;
Among the faithful women who in
that early morning came into the
garden where was the tomb of Jesus
was Mary Magdalene. We find
1 standing outside “at the tomb
ing.” And when asked, “Why weepest
thou? She saith unto them. Because
they have taken away my Lord, and
r know not where they have laid
him" (John).
Mary we epmg at the tomb of her
Lordl mistakenly thinkin s that
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a ° pathetic and deeply "significant
picture.
Her faith was not able to ride
the storm which she supposed had
ended in an utter wreck. She was
weepnig over what she thought was
a piece of infinite mischief in God’s
world. All her passionate faith and
love and hope had been swept into
confusion by this tragic disaster. Yet
God was shaping all these events
into a triumphant victory that shall
fill eternity with its blessing and
song.
see the wrong side of the web of the
world, and its tangle of broken
threads and blurred colors distracts
and distresses our minds and hearts;
but on the other side of the web
God is weaving a pattern of beauty
and blessing that will forever fill
us with wonder and worship.
In particular, Mary was laboring
under an entire mistake as to the
meaning of that empty tomb; she
thought it meant that the body of
her Lord had been taken away and
hidden from her, and knew not that
the tomb was empty because he him
self had stepped out of it. She was
breaking her heart over a pure mis
understanding, the baseless imagi
nation of her own mind.
Did our blinded eyes and unbeliev
ing hearts but know the truth about
our dead, our tears would be seen
to be as mistaken and baseless as
the tears of Mary Magdalene at
the empty tomb of her Lord, when
her Lord himself Was just at her
side and would presently reveal him
self to her.
fey , JaMES , PRESTO*
There's an old saying that there
are more ways than one to skin a
,“”»?, «» -friend.,' in, -leu. the
Washington schemers have found
out
When the complaint was made last
y ea r that Federal courts were over
crowded with work “because some
of the jurists were too old.” and that
additional justices should be added
to the Supreme Court and the lower
Federal courts, public sentiment
balked the move. The new plan,
however, is to quietly circumvent aj
public opposition with creation of
brand new branch of the Federal:
judiciary. Its a subtle move, but
it s potent. To wit:
The new court would be known
| as the United states court of Ap- j
peals for Administration. It would' 1
receive, decide and expedite appeals
: from Federal commissions, adminis- j
! trative authorities, etc., in all cases
in which the Federal government :
was a party or had ah interest.
in other words, government agen
C ies would take their legal woes
aW ay from old established courts
j and picked let the court decision of its rest with a hand
own.
] j a bill has been introduced in the
Senate to make creation of the new
court possible. It provides for a
j chief justice and ten associates, all
receive a yearly wage of $12,500.
Washington's cocktail and tea
hour conversationalists would have
a dull time of it indeed if it were not
for such stories as the one of a top
rung brain-truster who reportedly
wanted to have airplanes fly over
the country dropping dollars for re
covery's sake. The story has gone
the rounds of the Capital in many
versions, the most popular one be
ing:
This certain gentleman (he is
also credited with writing a good
many of the Cabinet speeches) is
supposed to have proposed the
spending - from - the - skies program
during a conference on spending
ideas back in 1933. He purportedly
said that the right way to restore
buying power and bring recovery
was to pour money into circulation
in the greatest possible quantities
at the highest possible speed. T9 do
that he suggested that a fleet of
planes be loaded with dollars and
sent out over the country to drop
In 1900 Georgians pointed to the
many achievements in which Geor
gia was first, and after enumera
tion asserted that Georgia was “The
Empire State of the South,” But
in the three decades that succeeded
there came startling changes.
Eroding rains washed away much
of the States fertile soil. Timber
men cut away mast of the acreage
of princely pine. The boll weevil and
the tax gatherer conspired to op
i th farme X’ r who industrialist harkened to
of and
abandoned his improverished acres
t0 rush to the towns
Lj-pppe^untii^waTa 1 third of – that
of Wyoming or Idaho, about half
genuine
secrifice on the part of its people
for educational purposes, the State
stood first in illiterates.
Most of these unpleasant statis
tics are an old story to Georgians.
But their significance in some re
spects have never been evaluated
properly. Yet in an analysis of these
trends lies the answer to the prob- j
lem of developing a program for j
Georgia that will re-create the Em
pire State of the South. Many of
the trends and developments of}
highest significance have been na- j
tional in scope and follow the up- j
ward graphic curve of mass produc
tion and industrial development.
These trends, national and local,
produced not only the so-called
New Deal but forced the existing
so-called “Georgia Program.”
Twenty years ago Georgia was still
an agricultural state. The value of
farm products then approximated
$541,000,000. Ten years earlier the
total value of all manufactured pro
ducts had not amounted to a fifth;
that sum, totaling $94,500,000.
At that period, before the sig- i
nificant trends described began to 1
be felt national actively, relief such things unknown, as State j j
or were
An educational program such as was i
adopted upon a State-wide basis in
1937 would have been regarded as i
the dream of some crack-pot radi- I
cal brain. A State health program [ j
would have been termed a “racket”
by the Medical Associations, if the i
term racket had existed then. There
were no paved roads, and the sug
gestion of some thousands of miles!
of paving would have been as fan-1
tastic as something from “Snow
White”, but not so amusing. Exemp- j
tion of homes from taxation, old- j
age assistance and aid to dependent!
children would have been sugges- [ j
tions, the utterance of which would
have sent the proponent to a home j
for the feeble minded.
There was then less centralization j
of population in cities. Mechanized |
industry did not exist with any of
its problems. A man out of a job
was unusual, and meant only that
a tenant was looking for a farm.
It seemed inconceivable that the
population of a country town of 500
people could be doubled overnight
by the introduction of a plant of
some kind, which lured workers
from the farm because industrial
wages could be calculated in dollars
rather than in a standard of living.
The problem of one hundred men,
or ten thousand men, forced out of
their means of llvllhood overnight,
Wlth the afterma ^ °f hungry child
ren, did not exist at all. The average
Georgia farmer was the average
Georgian, self-sufficient economi
their cargo where anybody who
needed cash could pick it up.
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The Capital spectators are specu- j
lating on a new potentiality. The
C. I. O., it has become known, is j
quietly organizing the Nation’s un
employed and relief clients. They
are being taken into the C. I. O.
fold as non-dues paying members—
until they get jobs. They are admitt
ed to this status on the condition
that they will work as unpaid or
ganizers for the C. I. O. and bring
in memberships of dues-paying em
ployed workers.
In return for their services they
are also promised help in increasing
their relief rations. In other words,
the C. I. O. helps them get more re
lief from the public agencies.
With the C. I. O. already dominat
ing much of the relief dispensing,
the speculators are wondering just
how potent the organization may be
come if and when the organization
of employed and unemployed alike
is complete as one unit.
WPA “boondoggle” stories are
going the Washington rounds and
causing no end of criticism of the
WPA among the conservative Con
gressmen. One story concerns a
WPA project in Missouri, where it
seems that $226,961.93 was spent to
compile a Missouri guidebook. Now
the project has been suspended
without publication of the book be
cause the WPA says it can’t find a
I “competent” editor to assemble and
1 edit the great mass of copy written
^by the reliefers.
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A GEORGIA PROGRAM
TAX TO RE-CREATE THE
we ROADS HEAETH \ Vm EMPIRE STATE MuMlM.u'Tj
I b- 39% supposes OTHER all >
WELFARE PUBLIC !4|% TOTAL PERCENTAGES STATE Of i 5 7o /GENERAL /'12.SE4.SI6.481 M
EDUCATION REVENUES iEjBl /TAX REVENUES M
334% A k.
JULY >937
THOUGH APRIL 1938
by and
cally if just a little behind the
parade in average education; and
organized labor entered into the
Georgia picture only in the largest
of the towns.
Then what happened? In 1900
Georgia produced $94,500,000 of man
ufactured products and almost three
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CLEANSER 3 Cans HUSKIES Pkg.
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JELLY Lb. Jar TISSUE 3 Rolls
LIPTON’S Orange Pekoe and Pekoe TRUE AMERICAN
TEA i/ 4 Lb. 1 FREE Glass 23c MATCHES 3 Pkgs.
DISTILLED TLOUR
VINEGAR Bulk 15c
Gal.
WHITE HOUSE Bring Apple Your Cider Jug SPECIALS
Pure Every Sack Guaranteed
VINEGAR Bulk 20c
Gal. 0.
FANCY CALIFORNIA Bring Your Jug Kt, S. R.
24 Lbs. 48 Lbs.
LEMONS Dozen 15c 63 c $1. 19
TRINADAD
MOLASSES Bulk Gal. 75c RED-DOT
Quart—20c 24-lb. Bag 48-lb. Bag
CARDINAL SPAGHETTI or 73 c $1. 40
MACARONI 3,a0c HAPPY DAD
Meat Specials 24-lb. 75c Bag $1.45 48-lb. Bag
Fancy Loin or T-Bone
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BEEF FANCY WESTERN ROAST CHUCK 20c 83 c $1. 59
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STEW 24-lb. Bag 48-lb. Bag
MEAT- 12ic 90c $1.75
FRESH GROUND MIXED
SAUSAGE Lb. cn FEEDS rt
Center Cut Pork and WHEAT
CHOPS 50-50 CORN $200
Lb. 28c Scratch ion Lbs.
LAYING
Ga. Sli. Rind Off Kingan's Sli. Rmd Off Mash CM >
Bacon Lb. Cn Bacon Lb. PO 100 Lbs.
HORSE and MULE
Pork Shoulder Fresh Ground Meat
Roast Lb. Loaf Lb. OO 100 Lbs.
Fresh Virginia Pan 16% DAIRY
Mullet Lb. 10c Trout Lb. ITS 100 Lbs.
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times that amount, of agricultural
products. In 1930, the value of the
farm products had not increased
perceptibly, despite inflation and a
decline in the value of the dollar.
while the value of manufactured
goods produced in the State had
climbed to $722,500.000—an increase
of 246 percent. A condition had
arisen in which the 60,000 textile
workers of the State produced goods
equal in value to the farm produc
lion of 1,300,000 Georgians.
Early eforts to solve me problem
really aggravted it. To vie with other
states in efforts for education realty
taxes were increased, so that home
ownership declined. Georgia lost two
congressmen in 1930 because popu
lat i on growth had reached a stand
still, not because of a lower birth
rate but because Georgians left
Georgia.
Then was evolved a program. It is
V
not yet a complete pm
it is not really a ^ Pr cert °H »iij
Much has been wr u
political For the aspects—too m" Ch v about in j
problem ls ItM ' Politic
and the sooner that
that it is not, and that realii -<
v botl1
problem" and “the pro an^
it” are bigger than 10 se
or organized minority" ! ° Up
sooner shall we have a y ' 11
Facts S „ ° UU ° n
about Georei a pr^ '
imperative, if a Georgia Georgian!
to articles be a program will for V' t?
present sortie
facts.
Next week: The “New
Pulling a State Ud b\ u^ Boa 81 "
straps
For the raising 0 f b n I
good commercial “all m nmdur.! h ’T
e r ration will usuallv ceth
most rapid gains