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) COVINGTON GEORGIA
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A BELMONT DENNIS .........Editor and Publisher
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
The Whiskey Question
Plans are going- forward to open a retail liquor store li-1
in Rockdale county now that the county has voted to
cense the sale of liquor. Naturally there will be one
opened as near the borders of Newton county as possible,
as this county has a much larger population than Rock
dale. Likewise one will probably be opened close to the
borders of DeKalb county.
The probable proximity of this liquor store to the (
borders of Newton county will be used by some as an argu
ment to try to get our own county to vote wet. |
We trust this will never happen in Newton county
though for we believe the good people of our county would
Vote it down as often as it is brought before them.
We have been approached twice in the last two days
to carry advertisements for these liquor stores in Rockdale
county and have declined to carry such advertisement.
We told them frankly that we would fight any at
tempt conditions to open a liquor store in Newton county and under j
those we would necessarily refuse to carry liq
uor advertisements for any other county.
Our own county is free from debt due to the efficient
management of our county commissioner. Ike Robertson, j
and the excuse to vote wet for the revenue it brings would
V not hold good in this county. That is generally the argu
f^ient that carries the most weight for most of us are still j
very attentive when the dollar mark is brought before us.
\The revenue from whiskey taxation would not bene
fit our county enough to pay for the tears of anguish open
sale of liquor would bring to our women and children.
Let other counties do as they please but we would like
to emulate the example of Joshua in the davs when the
children of Israel had begun to worship idols, when he
said. • j a As in for and , i house will -ii Lord.” t i >>
„ . me my we serve the ,
The reason the animals in the Garden of Eden were
peaceful and harmless was because boys hadn't been in
vented them.
Better Times for Covington
The news that Covington Mills will resume full time
operation in the next' few weeks is cheering- news indeed
for the Covington Mill workers and the merchants of this
city. Mr. R. O. Arnold, Treasurer and General Manager
of Covington Mills, announced Wednesday that the mill
will begin full time operation July 18.
There is a general trend upward in business ail over j ,
«“ ““to »<■ w. are *.,d to learn that Covington can
now join the big parade. It is also expected that the Bibb
mills at Porterdale will also begin full time operation soon,
No announcement has been made by the officials to this
effect, but each week business seems to be getting better i
and it is hoped the mills at Porterdale will begin full oper
ation soon.
Now that Congress has adjourned and President
Roosevelt has announced he will not call special session: i
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business , cun pfo cthe–d without . fear of any so-cRlled “lib
eral" laws being passed to burden them with more tax
ation.
We have contended all along that if government will
let business alone that business will take care of itself. It
is fear of what is going to happen that has kept business |
afraid to venture forward. We hope Roosevelt will in
dicate he will place no further burden on capital so that
capital will be unafraid to expand.
Man may be made of dust but why do all the women
seem to think men are made of gold-dust?
Too Early to Politic
We read with much interest certain stories which are
written by paid political writers and sent to our desk each j
week to be carried « news. These little stories are packed
with advertisement for certain candidates and they also
contain much deadly sympathetic pity for the “other fel- 1
low” who happens to be running for the same office.
They always find their way to the wastebasket as far
as we are concerned, but one received today particularlv
excited our ire. It sympathized with the “other” candi
date, stating he was “a nice young fellow” and it was too
bad that he was not receiving the support he should.
Well, all we have to say is that “you should not count
your juvenile poultry before the process of incubation has
been completed ” Ith far too early to judge the .strength
of any candidate. There is still lots of time for swap
ping’ to be engaged in and the strength of any individual
candidate can not begin to be determined until the middle
of August.
We don’t see why anyone should want to begin to be
“hot and bothered’’ about politics this early in the game.
We want to wait until around the first of August ® before
we , begin to make , any wild • * , predictions.
As far as the governor’s race is concerned we feel
there will be very little race there for we don’t believe
anyone could beat Governor Rivers for re-election but as
far as the other races are concerned, both state and na
tional, we believe there is going to be considerable shifting
of opinion before the citizens begin voting on September
14.
We would advise our friends to take things east?
in the first stages of this political game. Ofttimes the one
who finishes strongest is the one who starts the slowest
This is true of practically every athletic event where con
siderable time elapses between the start and the finish
and it is likewise true of politics.
Let’s listen to all of them and take our time about de
termining who will receive our support. We have lots of
time to make up our mind and the wise man generally
looks befoie he leaps.
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Sunday Ss liool Lesson
I j Joshua: A Choice of Loyalties
Lesson: Numbers 27:15-23; Joshua
I 1:1-9; 24:1-31.
Golden Text: As for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord
Joshua 24:15.
"I Mil not fail thee, nor forsake
| All the promises of God can
j .summed up in this statement.
If there is one thing of W'hich we
j God can be absolutely forsakes sure, his people. it is that
never
[ There must have been not only
sorrow but positive dismay among
the Israelites when Moses died. They j
had known other leader. 1
never any
It was he who had burst into the
days of their servitude with a new
message of hope. No matter what
went wrong, they could always look
to Moses.
They did not realize that what
often seems to be an ending for
us is but for God. Moses I
dies, but Joshua is ready to take
hl « place,
It was so in Israel; it is so in
modem life, in national affairs, in
business, in the home when some
beloved member is taken away.
where our resources end. Gods
unsearchable providence begins,
Probably because he follows Moses,;
* he most majestic figure in the his
,orv Israel : Joshua is not so well
known as his merits deserve. He
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was twelfth in descent from Joseph .
He who was to lead his people into;
the promised land had himself been
born into slavery in Goshen. His
parents had given him the name
Hosea tHoshea) meaning salvation [ |
but Moses had added to his name
sacre< ? s y llable - Jah (J ®hovaio
c i i hat ', his name mearK
L Tvoun^man Joshua had wh
ness ed the slavery of his people;
in Egypt. He had heard them groan
and :;een them sweat and die unde/
the torrid sun. No doubt his earliest
recollections were of the hurrying
feet of men bJing driven at dawn Lo !
their servitude and coming back a '
and welts of the taskmasters whip !
on their shoulders . Then Moses had
appeared, when Joshua was a com I
paratively young man, and had led
them out into the wilderness. The
power of Egypt, which in his youth
he had been taught to regard as
inevitable and invincible, had melted
away before the might and power of
God like snowflakes in the desert.
All this early training had pre
pared Joshua to trust in the power
and goodness of the Most High. He
had seen the strong hand of
lift his people from slavery into
Moses first got a glimpse of
Joshua s abillt ^ when the youn ® m ’’ n 1 j
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up Mt Sinai t0 rec eive the Ten
commandments, it was Joshua who
accompanied him. Later, he sent him
as one of the twelve spies into the
promised land, of all the men sent
to s Py out the land, Joshua and
Caleb alone favored immediate in
vasion.
Courage, fidelity and common |
.sense were the outstanding charac- I
teristics of Joshua. Nothing could
frighten him or throw his good ;
judgment out of alignment
Above all Joshua was a man of >
God. Great as was his military prow
ess his deep devotion to things |
religious vvas even greater. While he
was a great warrior and a great
leader, a w'ise counselor and a man
of valor, he was also a faithful
priest. To him nothing was so im
portant as that his heart and the
hearts of the people should be right
with God.
When Israel sinned, Jehovah did
not hesitate to punish her and turn
for fuifniimTof 6 hawin'
But t™»,,T^.pVcho«“™SalS as long as she followed him
had led her out of slavery; he had
promised her tne heritage of a fine
land
“Every place that the sole of your j
feet shall tread tipon, to you have i
I given it as I spake unto Moses will! j
... as I was with Moses, so I
be with thee; i will not fail thee
nor forsake thee."
God quieted the fears of those
who regarded the passing of Moses
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lhe , uirame „, or their londnt
dreams,
The stupendous claim of true
religion is that God stands reacty
t0 accom P | is h impossible in our
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tion ultimately corrupts these pec
ple had fallen into the most un
speakabie vices. Whole cities had
become sd unspeakably degraded that
their practices would forbid descrip
tlon.
It sometimes appears to us like
harsh justice that God should have I
ordered them—men. women and
children—to be wiped from the face
of the earth But to have spared an;
"■ ottld have been to allow a leaven
of corruption to remain among tne
! m ‘ 8h but wholesom e and Godfear
ing people 01 Israel
The mills of Gods pustice grind
unceasingly. The enemies of Israel
had had their chance and they had
used it for indulgence.
Now God was ready with a fresh j
and wholesome people to bring the!
THE COVINGTON NEWS
scales of righteousness into balance.
The second part of our lesson is
taken from the twenty - fourth
chapter of the Book of Joshua Here
we find an account of Joshua's last
counsel to his people. He had lived
long and learned much. He had led
his people across the Jordan and
established them in the promised
land. As Joshua came to old age it
was with the realization that he
p ad (j one we j] t^e tasks to which
God had set him. He must pass on
now and give way to other leaders.
Accordingly he was anxious to give:
those who were to follow him the
counsel of his experience.
He had put his trust in Jehovah
all his life, and because of this he
could urge his folowers to serve him.
that they would find in him a power
adequate to their every need. He
urged them, therefore, to put away
the false
had srved and Jehovah in sin- "
serve
cerity and truth.
In verse fifteen of this twenty
fourth chapter we get an insight
into another aspect of Joshua's life
—his family life. He evidently pre
sided over a household where re
ligious ideals prevailed.
When his neighbors wavered in
Iheir allegiance to Jehovah, his
confident declaration was, ‘‘as for
me and my house, we will serve
Jehovah.”
We know nothing about Joshua's
sons and. daughters but his home j
was evidently an old-fashioned home,
and we can imagine that his child- |
ren often had to hear their home
criticized by the children from other
pome which leaned in the direc
tion of Baal worship. But though
all others should go after Baal ar.d
Astarte, yet would not Joshua. The 1
passing years had taught him hew
to gather his sons and daughters
about him in the unity of the faith.
The most devasting circumstance I
ir, modern life is the disintegration
of the family. Often it lacks unity; j
its members go their several ways.
In ancient times the family was
everything. The godly Joshua could
speak for his children because .he
had personally trained them in the
things of faith. We should not, of
course, want to go back today to the
form of social organization which
then prevailed for it had many de
fects. But we should remember that
it had many virtues also, and virtues
from which, unfortunately, there is
a tendency today to depart.
The struggle against unworthy
deities goes on to this very hour.
The merchant, the business man
the teacher, the industrial worker,
the parent, the college student, the
young man starting out tn business,
the girl in high school—before all
such there arise false gods with
promises of pleasure, indulgence. !
wealth and position.
do not fall down before idols of
brass and stone but idolatry is just
as much an issue today as it was in
the days of Joshua.
Today the words ring out as sig
nificantly as ever, '‘Now therefore
fear Jehovah and serve him in sin
cerity and truth; and put away the
gods which your fathers served ...”
Joshua wrote the people's promise
to God and God's promise to the
people in the book of the law and
took a great stone and set it up under
an oak tree. ‘This stone shall be'
a witness against us,” he told the
people, “for it hath heard all the
words of Jehovah which he spake
unto us.”
Joshua asked for a decision on the
part of the people. Decide one way
or the other, he insisted, and stand
by what you say.
And when they had promised with
great earnestness, he set up a stone
end said, This stone has heard all
the words that you spoke. When you
in future years and your children
iR future ages look upon this stonR
il wil1 be a reminder of your promises
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Every one ne;ds something in h.s „
life to hold him firm when the power
of temptation is full upon him.
soldiers.
Sidney Camp is a Democrat of
unquestioned loyalty and is a sup
porter of President Roosevelt. He
Nothing has ever been found to oe
so stabilizing as a decision publicly
made and a covenant earnestly en
tered into.
Ever after, the decision and cove
nant stand like a great rock wit
nessing before God and man to the
fidelity of one who was stirred to
high resolve in an hour of vision.
That man, old or young, who has
set up in his life the monument of
decision will have something to hold
him firm and keep him steady when
all the world is going to pieces
around him.
The Eternal God becomes his
refuge, and underneath he feels the
support of the Everlasting Arms.
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HYDE PARK, N. Y.—President Roosevelt receives check of
$1,010,000 from Keith Morgan, chairman of the committee for the
celebration of the President’s Birthday as proceeds of record
breaking campaign in which over 8,000 communities participated.
The President in turn gave the check to Basil O'Connor, president
of the new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which be
gins at once a national fight against the disease. President Roose
velt in receiving the check thanked the thousands of chairmen and
committee members and all who d’d their part in making the cam
paign a success. picture left J”’?: E.
In the are, to George Allen, Nicholas M.
Schenck, Basil O’Connor, Avereli Harriman, Dr. Leroy Hubbard,
Clay Williams. Keith Morgan, chainr.'n of the Birthday Celebration
Committee. President Roosevelt, seated in center of group, is ac
cepting the check from Mr. Mor-m.
Letters To
The Editor
Newnan, Ga.
June 17, 1938.
Mr. A Belmont Dennis, Publisher
Covington News,
Covington. Ga.
Dear Mr. Dennis:
As you know, Hon. A. Sidney
Camp, of Newnan. is waging ar.
active campaign for the office of
U. S. Representative In Congress
from the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict.
Within the past few days people
in every walk of life and in every
section of this district have express
ed deep interest in his candidacy
and are actively supporting him.
His election to this office is be
ing predicted on all sides.
He is universally liked by all who
know him, rich and poor. He is
hardworking, sober, loyal, and
a brilliant lawyer of wide reputation.
He is a Past State Commander of
The American Legion and has long
been active in behalf of our disabled
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly in the State)
has worked himself up from the
plow handles to the office of As
sistant United States District At
torney.
Since announcing his candidacy
his strength has spread to every sec
tion of this district and is growing
daily.
As his boyhood friends and busi
ness associates of many years we,
the undersigned citizens of Newnan.
commend Sidney Camp to you with
the sincere hope that you will give
his candidacy your serious consid
eration. When he is in office we
know that he will give this District
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the high type of representation that
we and you. and all taxpayers, are
entitled to; that he will devote his
energy and ability to our services;
and that he will so conduct himself
and his office In such manner as to
never cause a voter to regret vot
ing for him.
Sidney Camp will make one of the
finest, most able and loyal Con
gressmen that our district has ever
had and as lifelong friends and as
sociates of Mr. Camp we humbly
ask that you lend him your help
Thursday, j une 30
support.
BOB AUSTIN, Ex-Service Mai
and D t % Store Owner,
J. W. POWELL. Attorney. Gea
eral Assemblyman and d
Service Man, Pharmacisj
JOHN R. CATES,
Drug Store Owner,
T, A. ELLIS, Ordinary of Cowetl
County, Farmer
J. J. FARMER, Clerk of Cowell
Superior Curt
J. MARVIN STARR, Count]
School Superintendent.