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! III f HATTER 1$ o x ♦ • • . . / |cal.. County .. State THF OFFICE BOE p, j r Oh Gosh, Oh Me. Oh My, „ |ll excited ’cause the Boss told he was going to let me h the Press him t0 Athens to ve tit|ite all those where I can see I f pl!oW who also write a l good column . . I’ll sit at tt ft, Dudley f of Bill Biffem, , I*®’ J Mildred Seydell, Olin Miller ■on Collier and other noted ■lists and dream of the day in. up and en|I can q sweepin ■ broom away . . I've still ■ ra bbit loot Bill Biffem gave id I re me nber how Paul Sey- 1 leased m< about those gar lie grew ( ?» in his hot house II hear that inimitable brogue ■k Sutlive and see Jerry ng over a coffee cup early m.i in the morning, after evervbody to be sure and time John paschall's low ous voice will greet me and Woodward s sweet smile will lo’.c snine out in all its glory br cause they are kind acious to little boys like me as the grown ups . . . "Bach tiler Roy McGinty will let Ip him carry his fan mail and Morris will give me a pass railroad . I’ll tell you j • s lots of fun to attend these Wednesday vp were guests at a splendid given by the University of a in Memorial Hall . . The the pret-y girls in the Home •me class sen rd us a delicious Don’t know why they dessert, ’cause th°y were rough anyway . . That old iorse of the U. S Senate. i, Clark, spoke gently to us. ie could see that, he could hi mane and roar when he led Today. Thursday, we hear M. S. Rukeyser, the economic commentator for east papers whose column I k daily in the Atlanta Geor Then there will be a (on given by the Atlanta lan at which that prince of fellows. Herbert Porter, will sid This afternoon we will h celebrated typographer. m MeMurtrie, who designs )ft Ludlow Typograph of Co the ■ago . He is one i finest typographers . To there is nothing scheduled, the kabiij John Pasehail presiding, or Friday night be a treat in store for Evening Press will be ost *,t a dinner . . . This dinner is hvay full of thrills and awaited itb icl! anticipation . . . After er we will attend the an- N MB Military Ball, given by the lilitin units of the University of This is the high light | f|$ eason for Georgia girls and I always have a good time the old bo vs of the Press ; y% to k'op out of the way of tese our asters * even the Boss ies ake a wicked foot at this m ® but he can't take it with tose V0' fellows Saturday . . . ft p H. Gallup, the man who m advance how all elections 11 ■ l* will speak to us and we 1 : ar from Ralph McGill ter oich we will be the lunch of the Atlanta Consti tio ■ v < : b Clark Howell, \yho is H ’ on of as plendid sire, pre Sir Just can’t help missing nlc though with that sc winkle in his eye . . has been one of our to igh and it is always 1 1 hi* warm hand clasp to borrow the boss’ nd turn the table on that | oi photographers. Ralph T lave a warm spot in my ist for im cause he likes to 1 nd T do too can’t R re at swim we had wdth h Williams at Carroll other photo boys are f. t I have just known longer period of time q n’t get my job as a m liable fo try’ to b” ' -Vr r>-,i nb In T'!] h. SWEEPIN' UP. 1 4 C 11 / Mt i / A V v 75 Austrian Jew Will Preach At Porterdale 3? C/9 – Cu «/> o c n To Preach Sunday ________ SiSvt - -• - X ~ m « ir- : ■ • .'X-X n : > M B if Lx ! ^ x % I; Rev. Jacob Gartenhaus, Christianized Austrian Jew. who will preach Sunday at Porterdale Baptist church, He will discuss conditions in Gemranv and other foreign countries. Negroes Bitten By Mad Dog Physicians Warn Public of Danger If Not Treated. Ora Lee Jackson and LeRoy Gay, both colored, w'ere being given treatment today for rabies follow ing a report from the State Health Department that a dog that had bitten (hem was suffering Irom the disease. Local physicians requested the News to warn all persons who might have been bitten by the dog to no tify their own physician at once Warning was also issued by officials advising that all dogs in the area of the city should be confined for a period . , of , three , months. According j. to , reports, , the , dog , was „ seen in many parts of East Coving ton during the morning and a num ber of dogs were bitten. The two negroes are the only persons thus far having reported to physicians that they had been bitten. The report from the State Health Department follows: “The dog s head submitted to the laboratory on February 21. 1939. shows positive evidence of rabies. All persons bitten or exposed to this animal should communicate at once with your physician All animals should be confined for three months.” Press Institute Repins at Athens Editors of Georgia Attend Annual Meeting at Athens, Fred D. Moon, picture editor of The Atlanta Journal, and George Burt, executive editor of the Macon Telegraph and News and editor ot the News, will be the principal -peaktrs at a round-table on news photography at the Georgia Press Institute at the Henry W Grady School of Journalism, the Univer sity of Geqrgia this afternoon. Other participants in this session will be Milton Hardy, Gainesville News; Otis Brumby, Cobb County Times. Marittta; C. M. Methvin, Times-Journal. Eastman; Harry B Jennings, Union-Recorder, Mil ledgeville, and Milton Fleetwood. Tribune-News. Cartersville. The institute opened Wednesday with a dinner and an address by Senator Bennett Champ Clark. This morning at 10:30 o'clock. M S. Rukseyer, International News Service financial writer, will speak as a guest of the Atlanta Georgian Friday at the same hour. Ham Fisher, creator of the celebrated comic strip character, Joe Palooka will speak. He will be the guest of The Atlanta Journal Saturday s main speaker will be George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opinion, a guest of the Atlanta Constitution. Round table sessions and social „..„ n( , W jn b „ interspersed through lout the three days of the meeting. Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864 The Covington Star, Est 1874 Will Preach at Mission Rally at The First Taptist Church. REV. GARTENHAUS TO DISCUSS SITUATION THROUGH GERMANY Great Christian Work Done By This Well Known Preacher. God is using Hitler today as he used Pharoah in the past to weld His scattered Jewish people into one nation again, believes the Rev Jacob Gartenhaus, of Atlanta. Christianized Austrian Jew, who speaks Tuesday, February 28, a r Porterdale at a mission rally in the Baptist church. “The first time the Jewish people went to Palestine from Egypt they gave the world the Old Testament.” he said. "The second time when they went there from the Babylon ish captivity they gave it the New Testament. Who knows what this third exodus to Palestine may bring forth?” Mr. Gartenhaus believes that Pal- j estine will eventually become the j Jewish homeland, where his nation | may once again consolidate. He sighs and shakes his head over the German annexation of Austria. "My fellow Austrians are not free to express themselves.” he said, “or they could have never consented.” Mr. Gartenhaus is field secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Fouthern Baptist Convention, and is author of several books, among them. “The Ten Lost Tribes,’’ which is his latest, “The Rebirth of a Nation." “Zionism in History *nd Prophecy" and "The Jew and Je sts.” From background of seventeen years of Jewish evangelization the speaker will deliver his message. He will tell of the work he is doing as a representative of Southern Bap list Home Missions. Born of wealthy Jewish parents Austria, Mr. Gartenhaus came to this 1,1 country J in ... his youth seeking . alth Instead of f “? n * , ^ ' tune - he w, *. c ° n ' erte r ° ns lan ^ and studled ministry . at Mood >' Bib,e InstlU f’ Chlcf, f° Southern Baptist Theological Senu- o nary, Louisville. Mr - Gartenhaus is one of 350 missionaries and workers of the Baptist agency who are doing mis sion work in cities, among the for eigners, French, Italians, Mexicans. Indians, Negroes, and in Cuba and Panama. According to the report of the Board, these workers baptized 2.363 converts last year, established 11 new churches and 69 preaching sta tions, and distributed 34.530 Bibles and portions of the scripture, and 767.219 tracts. Baptists of the South gave in creased offerings to Home Missions last year totaling $508,454 67, an in crease of $64,999.40 over the prev ious year. During the year 23 new missionaries were appointed. The Board has only one mission ; arv. Mr. Gartenhaus. to the Jews who number 500.000. Other mis ! sionaries include 20 to 650.000 ; French-speaking Americans; 13 to 300.000 Spanish-speaking Ameri- 1 cans; 10 to 600.000 Italians; 3 to | 7,000 Chinese; 8 to the 150,000 peo ple in the Canal Zone and Panama; 28 to the 11.000.000 Negroes; 66 to 200,000 Indians; 80 to 800.000 Mex- 1 leans; and 130 among various other j groups. "Unchurched Taking the entire group of 46.000.000 people in the Southern states. Central America. and Cuba, the Home Mission Board has on an average only one mis sionarv to 130.000 people. The pres ant mission force is over twice the number the Home Mission Board had five years ago. 4 meri°an T,rgion To Hold Special Meeting Thursday A special call meeting of the New ton County Past 32 of the American Legiou will be held Thursday night, February 23rd. at the Masonic Hall All members are especially urged to attend as trustees will be elected and plans will bn formed for the new Legion Home. The announce ment was made by Guy Rogers. Ad ; jutant. COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939. Student Safety Patrol Organized in Covington Schools >;] ‘OMo-*. m m W k II i * 4s ' /i i < m m*w it j m I mw i v l a A. 4 - i t % i % * V - A '■ ill ■ gie. cf ■ ✓ ! w m i W-'n 1 I m ■ v: The Covington School officials have completed plans for the organization of a student safety patrol in connection with the State of Georgia Department of Public Safety. The students pictured above have been named to serve through 1939 as a means of protecting the lives of children. (Left to right, front row), Charles Smith, Robert Pittman, Douglas Blankenship, Bill Heard Smith, Lavern Cowan, Lamar Hicks, Lester Pope; second row, Billy Porter, W. K. Lunsford, Edward Smith. Wallace Moore. Billy Biggers, Harry Faulkner, Leo Loyd, Fred McCord and Cleon Wiley. Ne " s rho, ° JR * FHA Launches New Building Program in Area Meeting To Be Held in This City on Thursday, March 2. Several representatives of the Federal Housing Administration from the Insuring office, lo cated in Atlanta, will visit Coving ton. on Thursday, March 2. for the purpose of launching the new’ FHA program under the recent amend ments to the National Housing Act. aceor^mg to the chairman of the Better Housing Committee. A special conference of all archi tect', contractors, realtors, lumber dealers, representatives of financial institutions, newspapers and utili ^ h>g been scheduled for 7:30 p m„ E. S. T, at the Courthouse, Cov ington, Ga. The meeting will be confined to discussion of local activities cover ing an educational program to be launched here under the New Amendments. Mr. R. E. Mat.heson, state direc tor; Mr. J. G. Hardy, Jr., staf val uator. and Mr. Haynes McFadden. Jr, production manager, will be present at the meeting. ' vering preparation of applications, finan c al arrangements and local activi ties. Ministers Elect Shirah President Member* of Association to Be Guests of Rev. H. B. Trimble. The Ministerial Association of Emory-at-Oxford was officially or ganized last week with the elec t.ion of these officers: Jason Shirah. of Bvromville. president; Alvis Waite, Brunswick, vice-president, and Lamar Wainwright., of Folks ton. secretary and treasurer. Other members of this organiza tion are Reid Sessions, Hamby Bar ton. Randolph Cook, Oscar Black well. Luther Harrell and Sorrow Reverend Charles Forrester and Proefssor E. J. Brown are co - advisors. Friday night the members of this local association will be the guests ! of Rev. H. B. Trimble. Dean of the | School of Theology, on the campus of Emory University, in Atlanta. j fyoraf Ministers Visit Homes in City Rev. H. C. Emory Rnd Dr. Sidney Gates, local Methodist and Presby rerun minister, respectively, report favorable results from their city wide pastoral visitations. These min Men are visiting every -home m Covington in the interests of the Kingdom of God. People are being city have services every Sunday to which all persons are cordially in vited. During the next week all the homes on Floyd Street will be vis jted. It is estimated that at least two more months will bp required tor the completion of these pastors’ calls. G. S. C. W. Choir To Appear Here Sunday afternoon the Covington Music club will present a program at the Methodist Church. The club has arranged for the G. S. C. W choir, of Milledgeville, to appear The choir, which is well known throughout the state, is directed by Professor Max Noah. This group of entertainers is in demand, and immediately following their performance here, they go to another Reading Georgia town for an entertainment. The choir appeared here two years ago and everyone was pleased with their brand of entertainment. There will be a free wdll offering taken. I Newton County Ministers Meet To Hold Association Meeting at First Methodist Church. The Newton County Ministerial Association will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, March 2nd. at the First Methodist Church. The time is 7:30 p - M In addition to all Newton County pastors, the church officers have been, invited, including stewards elders and deacons. Rev. H. Clay Emory, the hast pas tor. will preside and make the de votional talk. Plans are being made for the launching of a county-wide evangelistic program and matters relating to this project will be dis cussed. The feature of this meeting wih be the presence of the Lakewood Corps Salvation Army Band, of At lanta. The band is composed of 15 [ members, most of whom are under I j 18 years organization of age. Th will I splendid be under mu- the sical i direction of Herbert Robins The | program will be in charge of Capt R R Massolis. A sp* cia m?.v f - - to Christian mmisteis an a will be brought by Capt. H. E. Rob ins, well-known speaker Kiwanians Hold Reguar Meeting C. C. King Makes Forceful I Talk on Subject of Americanism. The Covington Kiwanis Club held its regular noon meeting at the De laney Hotel Thursday with Presi dent Nat Turner presiding and Prof V. Y. C. Eady leading the singing with Miss Fletcher Lou Lunsford at the piano The attendance was 90.5 per cent with Dr Baxley Uncle Wick, Jack j Porter and Ike’missing from the : fold. | P. W. Pratt was received as a nev member and was presented With a button and inducted as a member j by Prof. Hawkins. Leo Masten wa - presented a P°^> b > ^ d ' j i. j teresting talk on ‘Americanism. citing from sect tions of the Con' 1 tution His talk was hearty ap plauded i Mr. Feagle and L. M. Shaggott. o. Athens, were welcome visitors and i were introduced by Dr. Greene. Great Building And Remodeling Program Underway In City Notices to All Farmers in This County Mailed Agricultural Agent Discusses Farm Program in This Area. Notires to all farms in the county have gone out to date indicating the cotton acreage allotment, peanuts and general soil depleting. The cotton acreage is the permitted acreage for 1939 under the 1939 farm program, the same is true of the peanut allotment. The general de pleting acreage allotment is the totr' acreage for the farm that may be planted to general soil depleting crops such as corn, wheat, oats, sorghum and other general crops City of Oxford Weekly Clinic Gets Underway Wasserman Test to Be Given For Diagnosis of Syphillis. A regular weekly clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of sypnil lis was begun in Oxofrd Wednes day afternoon under the supervis ion of Dr. Clarence Palmer, the city physician. Several members of the city council weie me ur.it to mice ul eest as evmencje of their sympathy with this much neeued ana pro gressive movement now being spoil sored by the town of Oxford. Many others, both white and colored, | were .quick in responding. Each citizen of Oxfoid has re ceived a letter from Mayor Carlton this week urging tne importance ox community interest ana co-opeia tion in this project. It is learneu xrom this letter that the town will pay the expense of blood tests and treatment tor those who are on relief or who have no job or source of income. Employed persons wih be required to pay for costs of the treatment, which will be nominal Those beginning treatment will be expected to continue as long as deemed necessary. The clinic will meet in the Coun cil Room at Oxford from one to two oclock each Wednesday. Treat | ments will begin after the first two [ clinics. The closing paragraph of the Ma Yor s letter i s quoted below that you may fully realize the sincerity of the project. "We W’ant to do our best to rid our community of this great enemy of health. To this end we hope that as many of you as possibly can. both -white and colored, will avail themselves of this opportunity oi checking up on themselves.” ! Garden Club Slioir Date to Be Changed The Covington Garden Club Gar den Show, announced in the last issue of the Covington News, will no: be held as scheduled. The time of ihe garden school will be announced at a later date when conditions are l more suitable. J. B. High ¥Aected President Debating Club at Oxford j I J. B. High, of Bunnell. Fla., was | I elected president Club of at Emory-at-Ox- its regular ford Debating j weekly meeting this week. Jason shirah was selected to serve a-' secretary and treasurer. There were about fifteen regular member* of this club that is super vised by Prof. Charles Lester. j Shot to Jim W bite Death Here Smuimj Jim White, well known Covington negro, was shot to death at his home Sunday night. A negro woman giv ing her namt a' Cora Williams, was arrested and is being held without bond until the next session of the Graud Jury. 4 rH O PAPER IS COVINGTON’S ; INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE AND PROSPERITY 5c SINGLE COPY Unofficial Report on New Addition to Delaney Hotel. REMODELING OF W. COHEN CO., STOCKS, AND OTHERS BEGINS New Homes Recently Built With More Now Under Construction. Numerous improvements are un derway in the business and resi dential sections of Covington as well as throughout the rural area of the county. Plans are now being made by of ficials of the Delaney Hotel to en large . thc present building to take care of the steadily increasing num ber of guests. The present building j is being remodeled and repainted and will be one of the. that ire usually planted on a farm. If this acreage is exceeded on a farm there will be a deduction from the 1939 payments of $8.(10 per acre for each excess acre. We see some farmers who have seeder a large acreage of oats and in some cases the oat acreage is about equal to the general soil de P letin * acre ^ e * et to the farm. Where this is the case the farm ts almost sure to get a severe penalty for 1939* if a normal corn acreage is planted. All of this is brought about due to the fact that we are Increasing our feed crop acreage by planting the acres taken from cotton to feed crops. The western farmer who grows w'heat, corn, oats and other feed crops a s a cash crop objects to our growing these crops on acres the government pays us to take out of coUon probably they are right, j but jt wems funny to p^ai^e * sectj£)n that ha _«. ahvays bought feed for trying to produce it. It is still very improbable that a farmer who produces feed crops for his own use and j 0 p S no t sell the crop nor the livestock produced on this increased feed will be penalized. We understand the Snapping Shoals Electric Membership Corpo ration is planning an exhibit of elec meal fixtures. This exhibit will be made in each rural community and ; will be mounted on a large trailer so that it may be moved to various communities without very much time or expense. An arrangement has been worked out with the Geor gia Power Company whereby they will co-operate by lending the serv ices of their technicians in explain ing the workings of the equipment and the power consumption. This will not be a sales promotion but is an educational program to show the membership of the Cooperative the proper installation and use of electrical equipment. Some farmers in the county are already topdressing their grain with nitrate and some few are seeding their Lespedeza. There is only one precaution to seeding Lespedeza at this time—this crop is easily killed (Continued on Page Eleven) S. S. Association Holds Meeting Seventy Attend Sunday School at Macedonia Baptist Church. The Southern Section of the Stone Mountain Sunday School As sociation held its regular monthly meeting at the Macedonia Baptist Church Sunday afternoon with the president. Belmont Dennis, presid i mg Four churches were represented I with a total number of seventy present. The attendance banner was awarded the Macedonia Sun day School, with 30 present. The nextt 13 and highest First Baptut Church J ^ ington with 12 present The devotkma wasled by H. ; mont Hawkins" Dennis. a “ e " wh ^ and Mr. McDonald It \ “ wa s decided o7,„, to hold the next meet ........... with High Point Sunday School on the third Sunday in April. The March meeting will be a rombired meeting of the North and South seclions of the Association at the First Baptist Church in Cov Ington. NUMBER 8 m0iSt modem and most attractive hotels in this section when com pleted. Plans for the addition hava not yet been completed and hotel officials stated that full detail* WO uld be released as soon as poM ible. Unofficial reports are that fourteen additional rooms would b« added to the new annex. The remodeling of W. Cohen Company is nearing completion de spite the continued inclement wea rher. This building, which is lo cated on the Southwest corner of the square, will be one of the most beautifjsl buildings in Covington when completed. The Cohens store has an attractive black front cf the new colored plate glass with white letters. The remainder of the building, which is two storie* high. I has been painted solid white. Other store buildings owned by the Cohen Company have *lso been remodeled, stocks Hom-Ond Building next to the Courthouse is being enlarged and remodeled. Approximately twenty-five feet is being added to the rear of the present building, The present large basement will also be extended in order to care lor the much needed storage space of the store. The Stocks Hom-Ond company has two stores in Coving ton. One a food market and the other a feed stork, ypp nfW *50.000 school gymnasium js we u underway and promises t* bp ore o{ the most attractive build jng ^ of Covington. The gymnasium wiU ^ modern in every respect and wjll be u ,sed by the school for chap e j exerc jses. all sport events and for s hows or features. Actual construc t j on began on January 5 and will pro bab)y be completed before school opens next fall. Covington s gymnasium is located on the site of the old gymnasium and will contain several class rooms for lower grades. Other rooms will be provided for dressing rooms, showers and rest rooms. The pres ent school building will be altered lo tflke care ot ne w courses that wdl be 0 ff PrM i. Many home' in Covington hsv* been completed and several *re still under construction. Plans *re be ing; drawn by a number of local peo pic who also expect to build within the near future. Homes recently completed are ■Vera Hooten. S. M. Hay, V. G. Downs, Mrs. Marcelle, wood residence on Church Street. James Johnson, two residences near school by E. M Piper, Dan Patrick, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Ramsey. Jr„ ee residences by P. W. Pratt. Mr. nr p srne n and numerous others, Residences now under construc tj on are as follows: Apartment in North Covington at old Echols home _ residence ,, bv M E. E. Callaway: on r. Conyers street by Mrs. Newton p e lker and residence on Floyd Street j by Mr. P. W. Pratt. There are hun drw j s 0 f improvements being made throughout the county, which make* any listing of them impossible. QuarterlV /„ CprPnCP ( OUt ereUCf A • GaitherS IfOU ChUVCk .The first Quarterly Conference for the Newton circuit will be held a t Gaithers church, next Saturday, **. Rev. T. M. Sullivan, . the piesiding elder, will preach at 11 o'clock, and conduct the conference in the af ternoon. All ofiicials of the charge are r« quested to be present with their re ports.