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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
i? IP The School Situation
Much interest is centered in the present deplorable j
condition of the financial status of the schools of our state :
Much has been said and there is much more to be said in
regard to the situation.
Charges have been made that the schools were al
lovved to get in precarious condition so as to bring the
matter more closely to the taxpayers so they would be
willing to shoulder more tax burdens that the schools may
remain open.
There are wavs and means of doing everything and
it is certain that the present condition was brought about
for some reason and that reason will soon he evident by
the manner of tax relief proposed in the Legislature.
home have charged that the schools ha\e been madej
a football for those who are advocating a sales tax. This
has been denied but no other real means have been ad
vanced that will take care of the situation, so whether
this be true or not will soon be evident.
We have always been opposed to any sales tax, be
cause it is such a heavy burden to the business men and
works a hardship on those of limited income. There is
no doubt of the tremendous revenue it brings in, but it
also increases to a great extent the cost of state govern
ment in the number of employees essential to collecting
the tax. We believe tlyre must be some way in which
the revenue of the state can be increased rather than to
■esort to this burdensome tax.
Welcome To The Covington Rotary Club
The entire city extends a welcome to the newly form
ed Rotary Club, and believe it will prove a great asset to
our city. Under the capable leadership of Dr. S. L. Waites
and its fine corps of officers and directors, it is expected
to accomplish much good in our community.
Like the Kiwanis the Rotary Club is purely a civic
organization promoting what is best for the community in
which it serves. The Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs are the
oldest service organizations in existence and have proven
their worth by the many years of service they have given
to the various communities throughout the world in which
they have clubs.
Rotary Clubs are international in scope, having
branches in most of the principal cities of the world while
the Kiwanis Clubs are chartered in the United States and
Canada.
Therp has always been a great spirit of eo-operation
SX'rn’efitSo’uVdty and
county. of extendin
The Covington News takes this, means c
a hearty welcome to this fine organization to our city.
Boy Scout Week
This, as many informed . „ , folk „ know , already , , ,s . Ro> r ,
cout W eek, celebrating the 291h birthday ot the Roy
couts of America, a movement that has already appealed
Such success as the Roy Scout scheme has had is due, for
chiefly, aside from its inherent imaginative appeal
hoys, to the fact that thousands of devoted men have given
time and money—but chiefly time—quite unselfishly in
order that the boys who became Scouts might have the
advantage of their counsel and experience. No similar
social agency in the history of the world has ever engaged
so many men as volunteers and their willingness and de
sire to be of some use is a tribute to the sort of unselfish
ness which is a component of the essential American
character.
These Scout leaders have not given in vain, for there
is ample evidence that the Roy Scouts of America have
become among those consistently active in carrying mil
the service motive of our natioinal life. This has al\yays
been amply demonstrated in times of emergency and is
likewise discovered in ordinary days by many signs. Not
the least of them is the fact that many, in fact, most ot
those becoming Roy Scout leaders in the past several year
have previously been Scouts and are seizing upon that way
of repaying the debt due their own Scoutmasters. This is
significant evidence that the Scout creed of helpfulness to
others is a working doctrine.
Jack Porter and his efficient crew of Scoutmaster
a re doing wonderful work in our county and we take this
means of conveying to them our highest admiration for the
spendid manner in which they are carrying on this won
derful work.
There Is A Difference
Two news dispatches were sent from Moscow, Russia,
on the same day recently. Roth are interesting to every
American, and should bp especially interesting to anyoni
who might have an idea that Communism isn’t as bad as i
is painted v and that Communism is the ideal government
the ,, working . .
man.
One of the stories concerned the beginning of prose
cutions under the new labor regulations. The first persoi
put on trial was an employer, accused (believe it or not)
of being too lenient with one ot his workers.
Under the new regulations it is a criminal offense it
any employer fails to discharge a worker who is absent
or late without legitimate reason, in this particular case,
secret police found an absent employee at home in bed.
Thev said his excuse wasn’t legitimate, SO the employer
now faces a prison sentence of six months to three years,
The other story concerned a new' speed-up of the
work speed-up svstem. By official government decree,
factory workers must now do 25 per cent more work each
day and be paid 14 per cent less for it.
It would seem, therefore, that soapbox orators who
shout “down with the American Way” and advocate the
“Communist way. ’ are not giving all the facts.
With these facts it isn’t hard to choose. We’ll stick
to the old American custom of living and working th*
American \\ ay.
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Sunday ScBiool Lesson |
Peter Heals a Lame Man
Lesson: Acts 3 1-4:22.
Golden Text: „ But ^ w Peter , said, Sil* _ ,
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ver and gold have I none: but I
have that give I thee. Arts 3:fi.
Our lesson today opens with the
| declaration that Peter and John
were going up to the temple to pray
a three o'clock in the afternoon of
a certain day. Although they had
had the great, experience of Pente
cost. more glorious than any group
of human beings had ever exper
ienced before, they still felt the re
sponsibility of regular public wor
ship with their fellows. Further
more, most of the people who woi -
shipped in the temple were people
with whom Peter and John were in
profound disagreement. The.se peo
p]p for thP most part . were no*
me Jnbers of the Christian Church
We should have understood it, had
p P ter and John Dissolved all rela
tionships between themselves and
the Jewish church, whose leaders
dad slain the Lord,
1 ™ n ’ who wouM have been
d ! n r * pudm inR the chui ^
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«* narrowIM!SS and
lack of spirituality, nevertheless
joined themselves patiently with
their brethren and sought God's
^rpspnee within thp sacred 'precincts
nf the temple.
They entered through the so
called Gate Beautiful on the east
side of the temple. The door was
made of solid bronze and was so
ponderous that, it required twenty
-trong men to shut it.
Just outside this beautiful gate
sat a beggar, lame from his hirth.
who accosted the apostles and asked
for alms.
The helpless man lying outside
the Gate Beautiful two thousand
years ago was a challenge to thf
religion of Israel. But the men and
women of today, well fed and beau
tifully clothed, who lie outside the
gates of the church, spiritually lamp
and suffering from malnutrition of
the soul, are even more of a chal
lenge to the modem church.
The beggar of old asked for mon
ey and in so doing asked for what
he believed would help him most
But money could not heal his crip
pled ankles and restore him to use
fulness in the world. Above all else
he needed healing of soul.
What the beggar needed was not
gold, but grace, and he was svm
bolic of ,h * P po,,1<> who - bp -
’ieving themselves to be adequate
to life, are in reality poor beggars.
They are covered with the filthy
rags of the world, their souls fes
. prinsr , n sin and they seek madly
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hem new life.
The first thing that strikes us
i bout this story is the sympathy
which Peter and John had for the
beggar.
We are told that Peter fastened
-Is eyes upon the beggar and John
lid Ukewise Evidently the Holy
~pj r jt h ad stopped them before thi
0 f nPPf t and they were anxious
-o find out how they could be of
help
Furthermore, they told the lame
•nan to look upon them. Wrapped
in this deep, earnest searching of
rach others' souls, the two apostles
who had everything to give, and the
lame man, who needed their bounty
looked upon each other and their
lives were bound together in a com
mon purpose, By the time Peter
and John had gazed into the man’s
eyes that for his a needs few moments, both they spiritual knew j
were i
and physical, and after the beggat j
had looked into the eyes of thes*
two good followers of Christ, hr
knew that he had found real
friends at last.
Then Peter greatly shocked the
man. no doubt, by saying to him.
‘ Silver and gold have I none.” Much
as ne appreciated the attention he
was receiving, the beggar's heart
undoubtedly dropped when he heard
these words. It was comforting to
have two good men stop and express I
their sympathy, but what he needed
was something that would fill his
stomach with food every day.
He was pleading for a little gift
while God, in the person of two of
his disciples, wa waiting to give
lim a great gift.
Peter then went on to declare
that what he did have he was anx
ious to give.
so often we feel that because we
110 not have money, influence, or
ability we cannot be of ser
l ice to God or to our fellow men
But this passage teache? us that If
we give what we have, the world
be infinitely enriched by our
giving. It may be nothing more
a cup of cold water given in
;he Master's name but this we a*e
f 0 i d will bring its appropriate re
ward. Then Peter proceeded to j j
com
mand the man. in the name of
^sus Christ of Nazareth to walk
The apostle made no pretense to
an ' power of h5s own He kPe * tha:
the rispn Christ now ascended lnto
heaven was working powerfully
hrough his disciples. Upon the
power of God Peter cast himself
and in the name that Is above ev
»ry name he made bold to utter
words that changed a man s who'e
life
This was the first miracle I
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wrought by any of the apostles at -
ler the giving of the Holy Spirit.
was, however, the first of a series
wherein . . ,, the perpetual , power ol ,
Christ s name was proved and start
e d on an ever-widening path
throughout the world.
The man went into the temple
with Peter and John. His first im
pulse was to give thanks. Crowd:
began to gather about him, and to
their amazement they saw, leaping
with joy, the man who for many
years had sat outside the beautiful
gate of the temple, asking for alms.
Charity by itself Is no cure for
anything. Very often It intensifies
the disease it would cure. The
world will be transformed, not
wire® everybody has plenty of gold
and silver, but when there takes
place in men's hearts such an inner
transformation that the pressing
human problems which now con
front us will be solved. What the
world needs to free itself of Is not
this economic system or that, but
to rid the soul of man of its avarice
Reeled men, freed of evil practices
and baleful philosophies of life, with
cleansed souls and hearts turned
toward God. will set this old world
of ours right to the greatest extent
that it can be set right through hu
man instrumentality.
Peter gave the lame beggar what
he needed more than silver and gold
—new' power to use, and a new mo
tive in life 'thanksgiving to God,
which would constantly impel him
to use it.
When the priests heard of this
they put Peter and John into jail.
The old tories Annas, Caiaphas.
John and Alexander, leaders of the
priestly group which had crucified
Jesus, later got the two disciples
together and asked them by what
power or in what name they had
done this.
Now w r r see Peter, naturally fear
ful, emboldened by the power of
the Holy Spirit. He made his ar
rest an opportunity to preach a ser
mon to men who needed it. With
out mincing words, he let this group
know that the marvelous miracle
ad been done in the name of the
very man w'hom they had con
demned to death on falsified evi
dence and jeered as he hung on
the cross. I
There stood before them a man
whose life had been transformed by
the Lord whom they had crucified.
The mighty rulers, discredited by
God. were challenged by Peter, the
Galilean fisherman who had beer,
transformed under the power of a
j man whom they had cruelly slain.
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nought of the builders. They had
had the opportunity to accept the
Messiah and had missed him.
The supreme mistake of life Is
to miss Jesus when he comes; to
let him pass by without recognizing
him. For as Peter declared, “Neith
is there any other name under
1 heaven, that is given among men
wherein we must be saved.'’
Letters To
Old Man Folks
By Jim Pollywog
THOUGHT
Q , and Qf t , hough wherp pver you
be,
Do open up your gates to me;
1 love your land, I know I do—
Tts the land where dreams are
coming true!
The land where dreams are coming
true:
How can I keep from loving you?
So. all my whiles, I know I ought
Keep traveling towards the land >i
thought!
Dear old Man Folks:
I know I ought not to be talking
about serious things, or things
what might accidentally cause you
to think. For if you are heaps lik'j
the rest of us, why, er-er you would
run clean away before you'd spend
an idle moment thinking! You
know, and as much as I do, that
our fore fathers spent their live.
thinking for us—yes. that we migh
get through without exerting our
selves, I reckon they thought and
they prayed—for it certainly seem 5
to us now that their prayers are be
ing answered. Here is a verse that
goes with the day:
I haven't thought a thought in a
week,
I tried it once and my noodle would
squeak;
I had a dream and I woke up sore
I hope I don't do that no more,
A little fun comes with real life
We must know tha we are not in
a perf°ct world While we are here
either It better, •
'tis true we do or—
leave it In a worser fix! But let’s
us think now about r*>r thoughts—
if nee can have the nerve to call
them that—and of what variety are
they? Many of them we wouldn't
have get loose in the community for
dollars and dollars! They are not
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i SUBJECT—-“LORD’S PRAYER”
j TEXT:
sul ••HALLOWED BF, THY NAME'
Matt. 6:9.
BY REV. ARTHUR KINSEY
Pastor. Newton Circuit, M. E. Church. South
Long years ago, a good Minister
and prophet named Isaiah, was
allowed for a moment to look into
heaven. He saw on a beautiful
throne a shining light, brighter
than the sun, which he knew was
the glory of God; and all around
the throne the angels were cry
ing. Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord!
At another time, another Minister
and prophet, named Moses, saw
just such a shining light in a bush,
down here on earth, and when he
came near it, a voice told him that
the place was holy ground, and he
must put off his shoes as they do
in some countries, instead of tak
ing off their hats when they go
into a church, and then he knew
that the light and voice in the
bush proved that God was there
to speak with him.
So you see that while the angels
treat as holy God in heaven on his
throne, we are to treat as holy
whatever God sends down to the
earth to represent Him ot remind
us about Him. We are reminded
of God in five ways: by His Name.
His Sabbaths, His Bible, His
Churches and His Son. That is
just what it means when we pray
“Hallowed be Thy Name,” that
is, “Holy Be Thy Name and
everything that represents Thee
on earth.”
How can we treat God’s names
themselves as holy? You know
that your name written on a piece
of paper stands for you. Anybody
who treats your name badly treats
you badly. Anyone who speaks
your name kindly treats you
kindly. God has sent his name
to the earth to represent him, to
stand for him, and anyone who
uses God's name profanely in
swearing abuses and displeases
God himself, and any one who
speaks God’s name in prayer lov
ingly and reverently honors and
loves God himself. That little girl
understood it who said to those
who asked her to swear: “God
is my Father, and do you think I
would say rough words to my
Father? ’
Help us Lord, as boys and girls,
■ . always honor thy name. Amen,
Will see you next week.
Reprinted from Last Week
There are two kinds of things in
the world one kind that we can
see and another hat we cannot
s . You can see a scratch on your
hand, but you cannot see the pain
it makes. You cannot smell the
pain, nor hear it, nor taste it, nor
touch it. And yet you know that
the pain is just as real as the
scratch.
I once asked a little boy how
could draw. He answere: “I think
and then I draw my think.*’ H<
could see whatever he would draw,
and his hand and his pencil, bn*
he could not see his mind, although.
it was just as real. We can see
our bodies, but we cannot see our
thinking part, the soul, although it
is just as real. So we can see the
trees, and lakes, and rivers, and
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Cordona, Alaska. Jan. 28, 1939
Dear Mr. Dennis:
Just a. few lines to tell you how
much lam enjoying the Covington
News each week. It makes me feel
as if I were much nearer home.
Each week when it comes I just
read from the front page to the
last. I noticed you are taking your
own pictures for the News. It sure
makes a difference, too.
Well, the weather is very cold
here. We have, at the present, about
26 inches of snow and it is snowing
; now. Don't know what it will be like
in the morning. We have had lots
of ice skating up until the heavy
mow started to fall.
We have had some very bad calls
ou* at sea also. The weather is bad
and the ship will ice up like every
thing. Had four inches of ice on
the front of the Pilot house and
about eight inches on the bow, last
trip out.
Well, jrive my best regards to
Mrs. Drnnis. and all around the of
fice. Your friend.
GEO R. PRITCHETT.
so -o-o bad. mavbe but—they are
wh t we 5 might call run of the hop
per stuff! If they were in a book
they would show us up as what we
really are But Gee, they are like
bees a swarming about our iSeads
and If we did nothing else we
couldn't keep them shoo'd away!
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love to tread neath Heaven’s
| glow,
I search of things I ought to know;
And learn that, on each turn and
crook,
| fs another page for my little book
Yours very truly,
JIM POLLYWOG, Esq.
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the world about us, but we cannot
see the One who created and keep?
the world, God, our Father, al
though he is just as real.
Now. boys and girls, we know that
our earthly fathers are real be
cause we can see them. And God,
our heavenly Father, Is just as real
because we feel His Holy Spirit in
our lives and see the beauty of
his creation.
Will see you next week.
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