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THE COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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Entered at the Postoffice at Covington, Georgia, as mail matter of
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
Governor Rivers Visits Newton County
Governor E. D. Rivers paid a short visit to our county i
Tuesday afternoon, speaking at the F. F. A. Camp on
Jacksojt Lake. He spoke to a group of young High School
boys who had won a ten day stay at the Camp for turning
in the best essays on Forestry.
He stressed the fact that the present administration
is trying to “Build the man and the land.” He spoke most
interestingly of the work being done by the Parks Division
of Georgia, headed by our own Charles Elliott.
Governor Rivers is an easy speaker. He claims the
attention from his first words to his last. What has al
ways impressed us most is his knowledge of the subject
of his talk. He seems to know intimately all departments
of the state government and just what they are attempt
ing to do and what has been accomplished.
One cannot listen to the Governor without feeling his
earnestness and his interest in the affairs of every depart
ment of the State. He may have made mistakes, but they
must have been of the mind and not of the heart. His
heart is in his work and he is giving his best efforts to!
the state which has honored him by making him chief
executive. j
He really is striving to govern Georgia to the best of
his ability and as we saw him today and as we saw him
last week listening hour after hour to the speeches of
school executives we cannot help hut feel for him the 1
highest admiration for his sincerity of purpose and his
unselfish u devotion to his office. I
Queen Isabella sold her jewels SO Columbus could
discover America, and now some of us are about to have
to sell our shirts to keep the blamed thing running.
Market Bulletin Contract Awarded
Covington News
For the third successive year The Covington News
has been awarded the contract to print 1 he Georgia Mar
ket Bulletin. The award was made according to the
wording of the contract to “the lowest and best hidder.
This contract means much to our city in the extra
payroll it provides for the benefit of the merchants, thej
amount of postage to the postoffice and the amount of
freight to the railroads coming into our fine city. Approx-1
imatelv 200,000 pounds of paper per year is used in pub
lishing this paper. I
Due to some misunderstanding the contract was held |
up for a few days but as soon as we were able to talk
with Governor Rivers he issued instructions that Ihc
tract he immediately awarded The Covington News as |
they ., were the , low ill hidder. t
We appreciate very much the fine co-operation of
Governor Rivers, ( olumbus Robeits, ). T. I o\ei ant
other fine friends vxho ueie interested in seeming the con
tract for us inasmuch as we were the low bidder and our
bid would save the State of Georgia considerable money
in the space of a year.
F. F. A. Camp Asset to County
Few people realize what is taking place right here i
in our own county in the development of the F. F. A. Camp j
on Jackson Lake’. The work that is being done there with
the assistance of the National Youth Administration is
really astounding. erected and
Many fine buildings have been a new
building program has just been authorized for the new
fiscal year. While the buildings which are being erected
are fine, the finest thing they are doing is the building of
character. their ability
They have fine instructors, chosen for
in buildinp men as well as splendid efficiency leader In their in W. chosen A. Mad- pro-j
fession. They have also a i
dox, camp director.
The camp is used for F. F. A. camps dunnfr the sum
mer National and bv the N. Y. A. during the winter months. Vo- i
UU " H training ' is carried on extensively and much fine
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work is , being . done.
Ride out some time and see just . what . , splendid . ... work ,
is being accomplished there and you will be veil
for your visit. Ihe camp directois "ill e gla o iecei\e
you and will show you every courtesy. ^ e know )ecause
we have been there nuff said.
Anv man is an old-timer if he can remember those
gadgets’ tables of paper to keep strips the which flies used to swing over res
taurant away.
New Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery-Ward
Catalogues Ready for Mailing
The new catalogues for Montgomery-Ward and Sears
Roebuck are now in process of being mailed to their cus
tomers. Last year MontgomeryWard’s catalogues cost
them $1.08 per’copy. The Sears-Roebuck We catalog know proba- of
bly cost the same amount, if not more. one
community in which the two companies send more than
>00 copies twice a year.
ooney. people are not buying anything.”
The moral of this little news item lies in the fact that
here is money in every community for the advertiser who
ells what he - has to sell and what it will cost to purchase
,-ime. The old adage about the man who stopped hi*
atch to save time eerjainly floes parallel the ease of the
chanVvNho his aduTti-ing t<> .*a\r pimip"
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Sunday School Lesson
beverage alcohol and the
COMMUNITY
(A Social aspect of the liquor
problem.)
Lesson: Joel 1:5-7; Daniel 5:1-5.
17, 25-28.
Golden Text: Woe unto him that
giveth his neighbor drink. Habak
kuk 2:15.
lesson today deals with two
d Testament characters: Joel,
° probab ' y prophe f d bpfora tPe
and Darnel who undoubted
prophesied during the exile. Joel's
message was given in the Jews’ na
land of Judah; Daniel delivered
his message in the court of Be -
in Babylon. Several centur
separate these two prophecies,
they are united by one com
theme, namely, that God's pa
is exhausted in the face of
sin and that his moral
requires that retribution fall at
U p 0 n those who win not turn
y from their wrong doing,
it was during Joels lifetime that
plague of locusts descended upun
The heavens in truth were
They descended upon tree
shrub, upon grain field and veg
garden, one of the greatest
of wealth in that day lay in
the vineyards. These pests came
™ n like a toliblp invading army
*“> “'' r f a tl ”
hnis.nd c.», mwn, con
them.
In the passage from Joel which
Rtudy today> he called upon th?
rij-unkards of his generation to wit
nesS td j S pi a g Ue which w'ouid de
pnve them of wine. A nation with
0 f a non and the jawteetn
of a lioness had come upon Jeho
vah's land to destroy it.
The prophet's message was tha'
this plague had been sent by God as
a punishment to the people, and tha,
the destruction of the vineyards was
symbolic of the fact that the people
had been intemperate.
The universal message of
prophecy as a whole, and of
verses <5 through 7), is that
judgment of God is a very
thing. It falls upon all who sin,
there is no group in which it
ders greater hopelessness and de
spair than those who debauch
selves with strong drink,
Belshazzar, king of Babylon, wa
an idol-worshiper. The
of Jerusalem had been carried
>nto captivity during the reign
ns father Nebuchadnezzar, m
fifth chapter of Daniel, we have
picture of a dissolute and
feast which the u gave t0 a thom
of hu lords Belshazzar te ptc .
( Ured as taking joy in drinking
^ e ^ ore j orc j s anc j
himself in a drunken fashion.
the height of his intoxication,
™mmanded his servants to bring
' n an sllver vessels whlch
i father, Nebuchadnezzar, had
out of ihe temple in Jerusalem
he announced that he and his lords
and the women they had
with them cn this occasion,
drink therefrom
Little did he know' how' near
was to death. Self-indulgence had
impaired hi s pudgment that he
not hesitate to scoff at sacred
and offer them insult.
Young people of every
should take note of the
W'hich strong drink works in
lives of its victims. Not only does
cohol destroy vital organs and
centers; these impairments of
and mind in turn produce a
astrous effect upon the spiritual
Indulgence of any kind is
ent with the living of a full
ian life.
Every tap-room tavern and
club in the country bears
witness to the excesses to which
■ liolic indulgence drives men
i"tncn bo.Vs and girls.
| The only way to avoid the
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■sequences of such indulgence is nev
cr f° ahow it to get started in our
lives. Total abstinence is the only
policy consistent with moral safety.
We have the picture of this great
company, made bestial with intoxi
cation, drinking swinishly out of
these sacred vessels. Belshazzar’s sin
had brought him to the last ex
tiemity of daring. Throwing all re
straint to the wind, he and his
nobles and the great multitude of
dissolute women watched this des»
oration of sacred things and howled
fiendishly in approval
This scene is reenacted tim
without number every day
American people took a fearful
backward when they gave up
fight for prohibition. In our
tude toward drinking we have lapsed
into a position which some
ago we would not have thought n 0 «
sible. Men and women,
aside their usual decorum, often
have with a.s much abandon as did
this drunken crowd at
feat in Babylon. And we can be sure
that just as this presaged the cap
ture of the city and the death of
most of these ancient peoples,
dissolute living today, even less ex
cusable now' than it wa s in
days, points to a coming of a dread
ful end.
“Be not deceived; God is not
mocked; for whatsoever a man sotv
eth. that shall he also reap" (Gal
6:7).
But as their revelry became
unrestrained, suddenly the
of a hand began to write a
message on the w'all of the palace.
The message was written near
great candlestick so that even
whose eyes were blurred in
enness could read. We are told
instantly the king was stricken
panic, that a paralysis of fear
hold of him, and that his
were unloosed. Hi s first thougt
that his astrologers might be
to decipher these unknown words
But in this he was disappointed
They stood before the strange
ing as riiuch in ignorance of
meaning as he w'as. As the fiery
ters continued to gleam upon
wall, the consternation and
of the revelers grew apace.
In the terrible night of
ment the handwriting always
pears on the wall for every man.
those who obey the will of God
with humble hearts attempt to
low Him, the voice of the
comes in times of perlexity
trouble speaking the word of
surance. But to those who
sinned the voice of God is
heard. Instead, upon the w’alls
their minds appears the
ing of retribution.
How often, when W'e have
evil and found that our wrong
has brought us to a climax of
sorrow, has the handwriting
peared upon the wall for us
the gilt exactly where it belongs
The best way to avoid the
writing on the w’all is resolutely
turn aw'ay in the beginning,
temptation which would later
such a judgment inevitable.
At last the queen remembered tha
Danirr, a Hebrew captive,
proved helpful in matters of
pretation in former times. He
brought into the banquet hail
assured by Belshazzar that if
could interpret these words
would be clothed in purple have
golden chain about his neck,
be third ruler of the kingdom
The words upon the wall
“MENE. MENE. TEKEL UPHAR
SON." They were Aramic
This was Daniel s native
but the words were foreign to
Babylonian king and hls lords
so terrified them.
MF.NF means numbered Its
nrc ( " ion was that God had num
Belshazzar’s kingdom
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BOB JONES 1
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HEREAFTER
I know something about the new
ideas young people have and I
also know something about the
thought waves that sweep over the
minds of the masses of our popula
tion I charge that there is a con
spiracy on the part of certain be
havioristic, communistic, atheistic
educational theorists to capture
chairs in all of our schools, state,
church, and independent institu
tions I warn parents of the peril
that threatens us. Everybody knows
that the Bob Jones College, which
I founded, stands without apology
for “the faith of our fathers’’ and
for old-time American decency. Be
havioristic. communistic, atheistic
educational experts have tried to
get into our institution. These peo
ple have no conscience about a mat
ter of this kind. They work under
the cover of darkness. They hate
the light. We read in the Bibie
about, a farmer who sowed some
wheat in his field, and went home
and went to bed and went to sleep,
having perfect confidence that his
field would be all right. However,
while he slept, a malicious neigh
bor slipped into the wheat field in
the darkness of the night and sowed
tares in the wheat. After the tares
came up. Jesus taught that it is too
late to pull them up. Suppose some
body had gone to that sleeping
trusting wheat-grower and said,
‘There is a man slipping into your
field to sow tares in your wheat
Get up. Stop him.” And then sup
pose the man had said, “I am too
sleepy and lazy to get up.” Then
who would have been responsible
for the tares growing with the
! wheat? The orthodox Christians of
thta Nati ° n know ’ lf they are ° n
the alert ‘ lha1 t» r e-sowmg is going
° n in Colleges ' high schools ’ and
unlverslties ’ and even some Christ ‘
ian churches ' They are awake to the
peri '' If they are '°° lazy and d< “ ad
spiritua,ly 10 at least protest and
d ° what ,hpy can '° s,op the tare
SOWing ’ then they wlU have to
rps P onsible ; for thp consequences
When ,hey stand at the Judgment
Sm ° f Chnst ’
is remarkable what God can do
wiih young people who venture out
on faith. Howevr , I find that young
folks who make a success, as a rule
have a good deal of practical com
mon sense. Sometimes young people
feel they have a divine call to do
certain things which practical peo
ple know are senseless. As I have
often said, "If a thing has not got
any sense in it, God isn't in it.”
God is never the author of a prop
osition that isn't practical. We
brought it to an end.
with a sense of his own power,
believing that he and his lords
with inpunity indulge themselves
the silly king did not realize that
God had closed the books and
standing at the door with a sword
When men build themselves
into power without reckoning
God, their days are numbered
their end draWs niglx m ls ! r ac
constitutes an undeviating moral law
and should lead us to put our
in God and to apply our hearts
to wisdom.
TEKEL means weighs. The inter
pretation was that Belshazzar
been weighed in the balance
found wanting. It was not that
armies or his wealth w'ere in an>
way wanting The king himself
failed. The national calamity
due to failure on the part of
man who ruled.
At the end of our lives and at
end of the world everything that w
cali ours will be cast upon the scale:
of God If wp have sought first th
kingdom of God and his
ness, the balance wuil be satisfying
But if w'e have cared for the thing
of gold and silver, w’ood- iron
stone, and have misused in
j and dissolute living the powers
gave us then we should know be
tore it is too late that an
retribution aw'aits all who w'aste
the gifts of God.
The last word, UPHARSIN
means divided, and Daniel’s
pretation was that
kingdom would be divided and
to the Medes and Persians
very thing happened. Before
Belshazzar, the Chaldean king wa
slain, and Darius the Mede
! the kingdom.
The wine-cup had proved
ghaMar , 4 downfall as it has
| the downfall of millions since it tha fa«
day Let youth take heed lest
v ictim of this soul -destroying vice
That young man or woman, who
panning of life deals effective
ly with this evil by taking a
m j nP d stand against even the
e.--t indulgence will have disposed o
one temptation before life
and w i!t have taken out the best
a p insurance policies against
health, broken character, and
ation of the spiritual life.
"Lei us not be weary in
ing: for in due season we shall
we faint not” (Gal. 6:9).
/
in thp Bible about a man who start
ed to build a house and didn't figure
the cost. He had to stop after he
started, and his neighbors came by
and laughed at him for being a
fool. There are many lovely men
and women in America who at some
time in life felt that God had called
them to build a certain type “spirit
ual house." They didn’t stop
count the cost, so after they began
and after having told everybody
that they were doing it under the
direction of the Holy Spirit, they
found they could not complete thel:
“program-house.” So, the enemies
of God laughed at their Christian
testimony. I advise young people
who think that they ate Divinely
called to undertake a certain kind
of Christian work to submit their
plans not to some cold, dead Christ
ian. but to some successmul, ferv
ent, understanding, intelligent
Christian, and ask him what he
thinks of the plan. If any young
person reading this editorial has a
plan that cannot be “sold” to at
least two or three outstanding, sue
cessful Christian leaders, then
isted m r
if is an i r
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Thursday, Auenst
there is something wrong with the
plan. Let me warn .voting people to
be sure they get advice from the
right person. Sometimes even min
isters or Sunday-School leathers
may be so warped by denomination
al prejudices or they may have cer
tain complexes which unfit them for
giving proper advice. Get the ad
vice from someone who is unself
ish and unprejudiced and from
someone who has been successful,
especially as a great soul-winner. As
a rule, great soul-winners have had
much experience in giving advice
about spiritual matters, and they
are usually mighty practical, sens
ible people. Remember, “He that
winneth souls Is wise,’’
In a rustic corner in the backyard
of our home is an old peach tree
whic hhas been struggling for life
for several years. When we moved
into the home three years ago the
former owner said the tree was
hopelessly diseased and we had just
as well cut it down, but I hate to
destroy a tree. Then, too, I like a
rustic corner where I can stop oe
casionally for quiet thinking. My old
diseased peach tree Hat
for three years to
veRrit look, like bea JJ 4 , Cottc
■ peaches it
come 8t
irv „ »
"rop I. H, odu'
we did get a f PW toabie P r
were very good, i Peaches crop
struggle am , 1 gum 00 *
against dis p aae tj, bout 1 ,
has mad. It ha had 1
K a har AUS U5 '
V what ve and a harder time t , corre?P°
God meant i op
do and that 0r rung
i s to bp m , inn Depart m
P^ch tree talks c0 ndit
friends—many 0 f irted *«•»«*
against handicaps yield of
spite and many of of whom*!! : lit a P er acre
pain and su ; fw i pounds aa n
never know this side of 1210. whh
battles .some people hav unds
trying to do what the. e J hj po
sickness.^ * Kp«i stand* P'' odul
A factor which 931. while
the farm ha, w 1.192 000
problem chronic*
world war, Is the mrrent * c
ios s of a is P><
market for feed former,,, best
35,000,000 acres through tin? ,!l
placement of the 9