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I Official Organ of Newton County and The (
City of Covington.
Covington’s Greatest Need
Recently we have visited several small towns in Geor
ffia. South Carolina and .North C arolina and. hardly With
out exception, we find a very nice community house and
country club built from government money. j
A A place nlarf whore v here voumr v oung anrl and old old r;in can gather trithpr and and it it has h*m
increased the social and economic life of the community I
man\ folds. Generally it is some place convenient to the :
city with a nice golf course, swimming pool and tennis
Courts. 1
While being a mecca for young people it also provides!
a common meeting place for all of the community both
young and old.
Generally these community houses h;ive a common
night Those each who week like tennis where enjoy all the the citizens tennis of the city those gather, who j
courts,
enjoy golf are to be seen on the golf course and those
who enjoy bridge are to be seen on the veranda or some
cool place plaving bridge. And those who enjoy neither!
and , national ,. . i events. , V j ,
Generally dinner (or supper) is served by some or-;
ganization of the city and they remain until late evening
enjoying dancing or other forms of diversion.
Covington needs just such a place as these other cities!
have. None of them are larger than our city and we can
have these same things they have and which we need so
badly.
While the government is begging people to come and
get some of these millions of dollars they are giving away
it is time for a committee from our city to get busy and get
a country club and golf course for Covington.
There are enough public spirited citizens in our midst
to buy the land necessary and put up what money is need
ed and the government will supply the rest. We might
as well get some of this for our city as you and I will have
to pay for it anyway and we may as well enjoy it while we
are paying for other community houses.
We need a place for our find younger people to gather
where their parents can also a welcome whether they
engage in any diversion or not.
This is an opportunity for some organization to build
a monument to themselves and at the same time provide
a place where healthful recreation can be enjoyed and
provide a common meeting place for the entire com
munity.
We can do it, Jet’s go . . .
Don’t Take It For Granted
The average person takes railroad service for grant
ed because he has always been able to get it when he
wanted it. He can't conceive that anything could happen
to the railroads that would interfere with the service
is used to. j
He will use motor transportation over publicly built j
highways; he will :se boat transportation favored with
publicly built and maintained facilities; he will use air
plane transportation that depends for terminal facilities
upon publicly built airports, and he will enjoy the public
highways in his private automobile — but, when storms
block the roads; when fogs stop the airplanes, and when
inland waterways and steamship lines are tied up, he turns
to the railroads for transportation as naturally as he puts
his window up at night for ventilation.
The fact that the railroads’ existence is threatened
by every know form of subsidized and unregulated trans
portation never enters his head. He overlooks the fact
that, unlike their competitors, the railroads are so strin
gently regulated in every phase of their activity, even to
the management of their properties, that the only thing
they are left free to do without restriction, is to pay their
enormous tax bills to city county, state, and federal gov
ernments. clothing
The average citizen who runs a meat market,
store, sawmill, or farm, would throw up his hands in hor
ror if it were suggested that 48 state legislatures, our na
tional House of Representatives and United States Senate,
the Interstate Commerce Commission and upwards of 48
state railroad or similar regulatory bodies, were to take
over the functions of management of his business, as they
have the railroads—set the prices he could charge for his
wares; limit his profit, if he was able to make any, to a
starvation figure, and prevent him from discontinuing un
profitable operations if he saw fit.
The average citizen would kick like a steer at such
an arrangement, but he calmly watches merchants, law
yers, fice,' doctors, and wh^t nots who are elected to public of
proceed to take over the management of the railroads
without a dollar of investment on their part without, in
most cases, the slightest knowledge of railroad operations,
and without any responsibility for damage they do
through ignorance, or incompetence, to the welfare of the
public and the investments of millions of citizens in rail
road property. The net result today, after a generation of
*uch political management of the railroads, is that they
face bankruptcy. this. His rail
The average citizen does not realize
road service is still uninterrupted. The railroad worker
won’t believe that such a catastrophe could happen. But
unless our political attitude toward the railroads i
changed, and unless railroad men, rather than political
h ppointees in regulatory positions, are allowed moie liber
tv in running' the railroads, we will find ourselves without
railroad transportation such as we have been used to, or
with some form of government ownership that will saddle
us with debts that will make the present federal
look like chicken feed. Railroad employes will find them
selves working for the government and. instead of dealing °
with railroad managements, they will have to deal with
congress and state legislatures, thus hamstringing their
freedom strike negotiate .. . regarding grievances—they
to or
will find themselves on a par with sailors, soldiers, and
postal employes in securing consideration—their hands
will be tied—you don't strike against the government.
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BOB JONES
OMMENTS
A ON
HERE am*
HEREAFTER,
It has been argued that if any
thing exists there must be some
thing that has existed for all time.
When the writer was a child,
used to wonder how God had no
beginning. Many a night I hNve
ed up at the stars in the sky and
said to myself. How could God have
been here from all eternity?
created God?” However, even as a
child .... I T would always to the
come
conclusion that there had to be some
one who had lived from ail eternity
who is the same vesterday, today, and |
forever to create a universe like this.
The universe is fi hed with mystery,!
into exist
wit hout God would be {ar more
mysterious than a universe which
God. who inhabits all eternity, creat
pd.
The eleventh chapter of Hebrews
gives a list of interesting names. It
is the names of the heroes of faith,
-xhese all died in faith.” To simply
state that man died means but lit
tie. All the teeming millions who
lived in the past have died, j
teeming millions who live now
soon pa - ss on 1116 heroes in |
died ‘ n
That is the thing that made
their death significant. They had
not "received the promises, but hav
ing seen the mafar off were per
suaded of them, and embraced them,
and confessed that they were strang
ers and pilgrims on earth.” They did
not look on this earth as their home,
They were, passing through this land
to a city beyond the stars. With the
eyes of the soul they saw that city
The soul has eyes. The eyes of the
soul of the man of faith are not
blind. Faith sees through the shadow
of death and beyond the grave. I
Faith sees streets of gold, walls of
jasper, gates of pearl, crystal
tains, cloudless skies. Faith sees.
Materialistic men are blind. The
man who is unable to see beyond
this world must be most miserable,
He would be. if he stopped to think;
but men without faith are not great
thinkers. They are, at least, not
safe thinkers. They may be mathe
maticians and know a great deal
about physical laws, but men who
have no solution for human suffer
ing and sorrow and pain and death,
If there were no life beyond this
life, how tedious and tasteless this
life would be!
-
“I asked my father if he thought
the soul was immortal. His answer
was, “Nobody has ever proved it
isn’t.” That is what a great lawyer
=aid. The father gave the son an in
answer. The Bible claims
to be the Word of God. It teaches
thatr man must live somewhere for
ever. It sets forth Jesus Christ as
the virgin-born Son of God who
died on the cross for the sins of the
world and who rose again from the
dead and ascended into heaven
where He sits at the right hand of
the Father and from whence He is
to come again to judge the living
and the dead. No man has ever been
able to disprove the statements in
the Word of God. Multiplied thous
ands of people have testified that
r om personal experience they have
proved much of the Word of God
to be true. It stands to reason, if
there is a God on the throne of this
universe who created mar a n in
telligent being, that God would re
veal Himself to man and make
known His will for human life.
The writer has often said that
the Bible is the only book that has
ever been written that speaks with
absolute authority about the will
of God for man's life. If the will
of God cannot be found within the
lids of the Bible, then there is no
revelation of God's will which has
been given to men. “The heavens
declare the glory of God and the
firmament showeth His handiwork.”
Nature can tell me some things about
God, It is reasonable to suppose
that back of all the things in this
universe which are seen and un
seen, there must dwell somewhere
a divine, supreme, and omnipotent
God But no man by searching has
ever found God. If there is a God't
seems to be necessary, if man is
to know Him, for Him to reveal Him
self. The Bible claims to be from
God. It claims to be a revelation
of His will. Some one has said a
good man could not have been the
author, because the Bible claims
that God is its author, so if it were
j a forgery then it was not a good
n.an;h° ™te if No W man
cause lt teUs man hw bad ^ ta iH
his na t ura i s tate. Man would not
jthus God expose would his own depravity bad Only
say how man
When we write biographies of
friends, we leave out the bad things,
God doesn t do that way. He wrote
| the bi °s ra P h y °f O av id and told us
| David was an adulterer and a mur-
1 derer. The story of the life of David
I ias recorded in the Word of God
is a]1 the proof that any sane man
who knows the natural mental
man processes needs to convince him
i that the Bible came from God.
fortified and w very great. Morover.
they had encountered a tribe of
giants, the sons of Anak.
“We were in our own sight as grass
hoppers,” the ysaid, ' and so we
were in their sight.” .
jority. Thus But ran the the minority report of members the ma-j of j
the committee rendered a report also 1
Caleb and Joshua, the two young
members of the committee, insisted
that the land could be conquered,
“Let us go up at once and possess
it.” cried Caleb, “for we are well able
to overcome it.”
But the people would not have it
They wept and wailed; they
ciied out against Moses and even
talked of appointing a captain who'
would lead them back again to Egypt
and bondage The more Caleb tried
to arouse them to courage the more
angry they became. At last they
picked up stones and threatened to
kill him.
How often we have been guilty of
the same thing! The Bible is re
piete with assurances that God is
our sufficiency, but when business
fails or when a loved one falls ill,
when some unexpected trouble
knocks at our door, away flies our
faith.
Then God passed sentence on this
faint-hearted and cowardly people
because they had not believed his
promise. Not one should go into the
promised land save Joshua and
Caleb.
Opportunity is an elusive thing. It
stands before men only at great in
ternals and always it demands a
firm and generally a quick decision
“tl Wholly Followed Jehovah My
God.’
It is a marvelous thing for a man
to be able to say that when he
reaches the age of eighty-five This
means that he has been successful
according to God s standards.
It maintains that success consists
wholly in learning how to do the
will of God.
Caleb had come to the end of a
successful life. He had never waver
ed in the face of danger. His en
thusiasm for Jehovah and the things
of Jehovah had never cooled witn
the passing years. He was God’s
good man at eighty-five as he had
been God's good man in youth
Looking back over a long life he
could say as he stood before Joshua
“I wholly followed Jehovah my God.”
He had given himself to God m
his youth, ____ and m his ,. old ,. age j* . he
gloried nini-io/, in the .v. fact , . that . he . had . been
a bondservant of the Lord
"And Moses sware on that day
saying, Surely the land whereon thy
foot hath trodden shall be an in
heritance to thee and to thy children
forever, because thou hast wholly
followed Jehovah my God. ’
Caleb had cherished that promise
for forty-five years, Never for a
single moment did he doubt that
God would fulfil it. Had it not been
for the cowardice of his associates,
they would have been over in the
promised land and settled. But since
j that was not to be, Caleb lived day
> by day with the confidence that
as
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
| Sunday Scliool Lesson
Caleb: l.lle-Time Devotion
Lesson: Numbers 13:26-33; Joshua
14:6-15
Golden Text: Let us go up at once
and possess it; for we are well able
to overcome it. Numbers 13:30
This passage of scripture from
,de fourteenth chapter of the Book
of Joshua is a remarkable picture
of two stalwart soldiers of the Lord
who had grown old in faithful ser
vice
The scene opens with aCleb stand
Joshua and making an
! earnest petition.
He begins by recalling to Joshua s
mind a scene which certainly neither
ever forget.
Forty years before, the children
of ... Israel | . had . expected •. to . enter , the ..
promised land. With the care
foresight of a great leader. Moses
had decided to conduct a careful
investigation of the nature and re
sources of Canaan. He appointed
twelve men to spy out the land.
For forty days they went back
and forth among a hostile people
With eyes and ears wide open. They j
came back with < glowing descrip
lion of the land. It was flowing with |
milk and honey. As evidence of its
fruitfulness they brought back.
among other things, a cluster of
so large that it had to be
on a staff between two men.
But their eport of the people of
land! Ah, that was a different |
They were of gigantic size. The
' n w hich they dwe ’ 1 were
does history record the heroism of
the aged.
Caleb was an exception. He not
only had been a hero; his finest
piece of heroism came when he had
.
passe our score years an ive.
**he attributed his longevity to
goodness are often and told providence that the good of God. die j
young, and sometimes they do. But. |
The as a rule, it is the evil fifth who die young, j I
promise of the command
ment is that if we honor our father
and mother—that is, if we follow
the counsel of wise experience—we
remain long upon the earth which
the Lord our God gives us.
It is those who experiment in sin.
who flout the warnings of their
elders, that come to an early death.
There are many factors, heredity
especially, which contirbute to
longevity, but righteous living is)
the best insurance a man can carry j
against premature death.
“And now behold Jehovah hath
kept me alive as he spake,” said
Caleb, “these forty and five years.”
He had kept faith with God and
God had kept faith with him.
At the beginning of this chapter j
we observed that Caleb had a strange
favor to ask of Joshua. It was in- ]
deed a strange favor. The land wa:
being allotted, and certainly this
faithful man of God would have had
the right to ask for some rich and
fertile valley as an inheritance
Strange as it may seem, he asked
instead for a bleak mountain, and
strangest of all for the mountain
wherp the Anakim 01 giants dewit
Caleb 0001(1 not get those &ianis
otu of his mind. For forty-five years
he had been dreaming of going up
into their mountain fastness and
smiting them in the name of the
Lord ‘ Eighty and five years had not
cooled his valor
Other men may want, the fertile
valleys, said Caleb in substance, but
give me the mountain with giants
in it. “It may be that Jehovah will
be with me and I shall drive them
cut as Jehovah spake.”
Here is one of tha most glorious
passages in the Old Testament, often
overlooked by teachers and preach
ers in the preparation of lessons
and the proclamation of the Word
„ ^ .
? !d re wh K Was ° aakpd a f an as the nchest favor
^e hand of God s anointed
^! e 0pp °[ tumty do a * ard task
The Anakim would have to be dis
lodged , , 6 , , before , Israel T was safe. If
they not, . they .. would ,, , forever
were
be making predatory raids down
into the valleys. Give me the moun
tain, said Caleb, where the Anakim
dwell.
God blesses his servants young
and old who choose as their portion
not the easy things of life, but the
hard; who ask for mountains and
giants, not for fertile valleys and
beds of roses.
"And Joshua blessed him; and
he gave Hebron unto Caleb, the son
of Jephunneh. for an inheritance.”
Caleb had outlived the fearful
members of the committee who had
counseled fear and defeat. He is ar.
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God had spoken, so would it be with
him: he should go into the promis
ed land in old age and possess what
the cowardice and unfaithfulness of
his associates had kept him from
possessing all his life
We are told that faith is the
giving of substance to things hoped
fore. Caleb had the root of the
matter in him.
! Because he had walked through
, bp land of Canaan in faith, he had
mad< , jj- b is own. His ten faltering
and faithless associates had slunk
,brough the lnd having no confi
df . nce j n their God. and the heritag
had been denied them. They were
t0 die west of the Jordan, looking
wistfulIy int0 the promised land but
ot it
We make our own only those things
wh,ch WP p< ” ,n falth '
The command of the New Testa
™nt is that when something in life
needs to be done, we are to address
ourselves to the challenge, confident
that God will do for us what we
cannot do for ourselves.
The promised land is given only
to those who have faith enough to
go in and possess it. Men who falter
and cringe, especially in spiritual
matters, always die beyond Jordan
looking wistfully into the promised
land but not possessng it.
It is seldom that on thinks of an
man as a hero. Frequently we
the aged for heroic deeds per
in their
eternal symbol of the perennial
vitality of right.
The Bible states the rea.son
his triumph: he had been on
right side He had wholly followed
Jehovah. He had taken his stand for
God and nothing could shake him
-not the fear of ten cowards, noi
the stones of an angry mob. nor
the weary and apparently fruitless
waiting of forty-five years.
Caleb bided his time. The man
who has time on his side has God
on his side.
He could afford to be patient
But the fact that he could be patient
probably made it no easier to be
patient. Many a time he must have
recalled almost with bitterness how
the weakness of others had kept
him from his inheritance.
What a lesson for every one who
has been tempted with the passing
years to lose hope! Caleb the
Courageous could waith because he
waited with God on his side
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aganis us^ He that spared not his
T ‘ a ,f°w s Ln » ^ ftmup w * fot im
8ls ° frpely * lve " s »» things?’ ,
Nine craftsmen worked 60 days
to create the 22-foot Phoenix cov
ered with gold leaf, which tops the
Tower of the Sun 400 feet above
the surface of Treasure Island, site
of the 1939 Golden Gate Interna
tional Exposition.
An embryonic display in the Hall
of Science at the 1939 Golden Gate
International Exposition will show
the development of a baby from the
time of conception to the time for
birth.
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LEAN CENTER CUT 50-50 Corn and Whe* 1
PORK CHOPS ,28c SCRATCH P
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Choice Tender Loin 1 to 3 lbs. Bacon 25 Lb». 55c_
STEAK Lb. 30c SQ UARES lb. 19c Laying
Fancy STEAK Cubed Lb. 29c Dianaond-U-Rind BACON Lb. off 25c MASH $2.00
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Fresh Ground mixed Kingans Rind Off 25 Lbs. 55c
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j Checks aggregating $10,000 are
going forward today for distribu
tion to the 50 winners in Oldsmo
J bile s automatic safety transmission
I prize contest which the company
j conducted dealer through its national
; organization during May.
Entrants were required to drive
an Oldsmobile Six or Eight equipped
with the automatic safety trans
mission and to write a 200-word
comment upon their reactions. Ac
cording to D. E. Ralston, genera!
sales manager of Oldsmobile, a
surprisingly large number of wo
men entered the contest. Twenty
five of the 50 winners were women
i and four out of the five major prizes
were awarded to women.
The top prize of -2,500 went to
i Miss Norma E. Zistel, Sandusky,
Ohio. Second prize of -2,000 was
won by J. Jerome Bigge,
Mich. Prizes of -1,500, $1,000 and
$750 were awarded respectively to
Mrs. Arthur G. Bates, Birmingham,
Ala.; Mrs Clare Breitweisre, Mil
waukee. and Katherine McGinley,
Philadelphia. Other awards in
eluded 10 prizes of $100 each, 15 of
$50 each and 20 of $25 each. Two
cf Uncle Sam's sailors are included
in the bracket of $50 prize winners,
Merle B. McKaig, of the U S. S.
Lexington, and William H. Miller,
of the U. S. S. Cachalot,
Frank W. Fuller, Jr., sportsman
flier and winner of the 1937 Bendix
Trophy race, has been appointed
‘Chief Pilot” of the 1939 Golden
Gate International Exposition.
At School
I Revival Rustn
will begin Monj,j
after the second Sunda j,
the Bethelehem Ba y in
Revival Services J Pttst Chte
ten nights. wili 'Owin'
Rev. j w Tate.
lanta will conduct one
series of ! week
j J. T T. ngs ’ me »n»k
Dorsey n of Atlant ® also
duct one week. All ^
and well wishers members!
invited of Bethi^
to attend the Revival
will ofchi"" be one
The Mothers of Covin,
well are as the members of j
very proud of the (l
Covington has afforded t
Lawrence King the Past «t
■ the
in person of Mrs jw
son. Not only has Covings
t'd Rev. King a wife but
ministers also.
4-H Hpnlth Uliri COi C
,, 7 Oil by , Miss Pn
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Miss Evelyn Patrick, ftJ
on 4-H Club member, won
Club contest which was
June 30th. Dr. Sams gave
amination and gave the gjJ
good points to practice ® J
they might improve their j
Miss Patrick scored 973 po[,
of a possible 1,000. She 3
sent Newton County at the
contest in Monroe, The oj
entering were Amye Harwelj
ing second, Miriam Jones |
Hill and Frances Stubbs, AS
contests they all enjoyed j
ments at the drug store.