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THE COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON. GEORGIA
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the Postoffice al Covington, Georgia, as mail matter of
the Second Class.
A. BELMONT DENNIS ___Editor and Publisher
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LEON FLOWERS_____ .Mechanical Superintendent
TOM KINNEY_______ ________________ Sports Editor
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Official Organ of Nekton County and The
, City of Covington.
Terrible Tragedy Befalls Beloved Couple
The hearts of the people of Covington were shocked
and saddened at the terrible tragedy which took the lives
.
of one of the most beloved couples in our city.
The tragic death of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Trainer
Tuesday night has taken from our midst a couple who
counted their friends by the score Mr Trainer was he
loved by all for his ready wit and kindly disposition W«le
Mrs Trainer was not quite so well known as her beloved
husband, those who knew her realized she had a heait of
purest gold.
That thev were God-fearing people and fine citizens
J evidencod V lh. .rlrndld family of fine jo™ and
daughters which they reared in their home. rhese sons
and daughters now have families of their own and are
rearing them in the way they were reared.
The editor of the Covington News joins with tho
legion of friends of these fine sons and daughters and
other relatives in expressing sincere sympathy for them in
their bereavement and expressing the hope that the
Great Comforter will be very near them in their great
sorrow.
Where Is Hell?
Sine” the advent of Christ we have been taught to
believe that hell is the worst punishment that can be in
flicted upon an erring people.
It may be so, but the hell of Europe casts a shadow
of doubt.
Men whose vocation in life is the redemption of souls
are warning us against the terrors of hell.
Yet our brothers across the seas are plunged into a
maelstrom of destruction which puts even hell itself to |
shame.
The hell of Biblical conception is pictured as a place
•f torment, inhabited by (he souls of sinners to whom the
gates of heaven are closed.
The hell of Europe is a furnace of destruction for
the good and the bad, the innocent and the guilty, for
women and children and babes of a day.
As the devil wields his fork over the denizens of
. (he fiery pit, so do the kings and dictators of Europe wield
the sword of compulsion over the heads of their subjects
and force them into the jaws of an eai'thly hell.
The patriotic spirit which permeates every human
breast has taught us to respond to the call of country.
whether that call be just or not.
And this national spirit has permitted the rulers of
the old world to launch a contest of blood and iron and
destruction which is shaking the very world to its founda
tion, and which may even yet involve every civilized na
tion of the globe.
Have we two hells?
Or has the hell of tradition been transferred from the
regions of Satan to the blood soaked battlefields of
Europe ?
Me are solemnly warned to . repent , of , our sins . or
suffer the eternal torments of hell.
Be it even so.
But what of this hell on earth?
What of the mighty engines of destruction which are
devastating a fair land and sweeping a once enlightened
people into the presence of their Maker?
What of the changing of an area of civilization into a
congested mass of struggling, snarling, destroying human ;
beings bent solely upon the annihilation of one another?
What of the tremendous explosives hurled into cities
and destroying soldiers and civilians alike?
What of the terrible bombs dropped from the war
hounds of the air into the midst of innocent and helpless
women and children, taking the lives which God bade
men to protect and cherish ?
92 What of the explosives lurking in the bosom of
W seas and periling the existence of ships loaded with non
t5 combatants?
c What of the grief stricken women and young girls
who must toil in the fields that men may have bread while
ill doing their utmost to obliterate the human race?
What of the widows and orphans who must suffer
through lit. because war has robbed them of a protector?
What of the helpless babes who are dying of starva
tion because armies in the field must have the milk which
otherwise would mean lite to the little ones?
What of the maimed who must go through life
warped and twisted with pain?
What of the gaping holes in human breasts, of
limbs torn from their sockets, of mangled forms which
even a merciful death refuses to release from their agonies?
What of the millions of aged and infirm dependents
who must face starvation before this hell has run its
„
course .
What is hell? WHERE IS HELL?
Whatever it is—wherever it may be—hell is hell, but
the greatest hell is in Europe.
A Modern Necessity
The value of advertising is felt at three ends—the
merchant, the consumer, and the publisher.
Through the medium of his advertisements, the mer
chant acquaints the consumer with the ware he has for
sale, with their values and their attractive features, and
IS himself constantly in touch with the consumer.
The consumer reads of the goods he wants, learns
where to find them, and saves the time of fruitless hunting
from place to place.
The publisher is the go-between, the medium of com
it munication between the buyer and the seller, a sort of
b public convenience. Strange as it may seem, he. too, has
S his
1 uses
Advertising accomplishes more and better results for 1
1 _all people than jnv one feature in commercial life.
It is a modern no-.....sity. made so by the constantly
•■■r hirg demands of a diowiminatiiuz public.
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly in the State)
I Sunday School Lesson
l
Micah: A Messenger of Social
Justice
Lesson; Micah 3:1-12; fi:6-8.
Golden Text—“What doth the
Lord require of thee, but to do
justly, and to love kindness, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
—Micah 6:8.
Chief among the social prophets
is Micah. He lived in the country
south of Jerusalem, was a contem
porary of llosea and Isaiah, and
prophesied during the reigns of
kings Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah
This Micah was a very plain
spoken man who set himself up
against the corruption and ease of
his day, and who insisted on call
ing the attention of his generation
to the fact that if human rights
were disregarded, national retri
bution would follow.
The nonrand downtrodden have
never had a greater chamnion
than this mighty preacher of right
eousness who, drawing confidence
and strength from the character of
God as revealed in the Law, pro
™elf"s “SSnJlh iSSt aJd ?
hi merciful
requires these traits in his
people
JSS! Tn S ■ S , , .“‘InS? , , ,
er . Of the people and asks the
question—for he loved to put his
message in the form of interroga
,l0n Whether it was not their
du,y *° k ” ow i ust ' ice and practice
][ 1 en he xvent nn to enumerate
the .
tyianmes of those who used
high office for selfish ends. He
said that these false rulers of the
people positively loved evil and
hated good, that they plucked the
skin from off the common people,
ate their flesh, broke their bones,
chopped them in pieces, as flesh
prepaied for the pot and caldron,
This, of course, was figurative
language. What Micah meant was
that these men, who had been ap
pointed to high position, were
using their authority to extort
money from those under them, to
cheat them, to foreclose on their
property, to turn many a man
from comfort and economic se
curit y into poverty.
The abuse of public office is one
of the most dastardly of all crimes.
Modern unfortunately has not
outgrown it, and we should catch
the spirit of this brave prophet
and speak out unhesitatingly to
day against the crooked politician
and Corrupt officeholder who uses
his dace of nrivileee to feathe
his own nest.
The day will come, declared
Micah, when others stronger than
yourselves will come in to dis
possess you, and you will cry
Jehovah for mercy, as your poor
victims have so often asked marcy
at your hands. But God will not
answer. He will hide his fare at
that time and will render to these
heartless men as they have ren
dered to their fellows.
Micah next addressed himself to
his fellow prophets who
leading people in terror by their
false teachings (verses 5-8).
There is one thing worse than a
corrupt and grafting politician,
and that is an unworthy man in
a place of spiritual authority. The
priests and prophets of that day,
taking their cue from the secular
rulers > were pillaging the people.
1 hey Wlthheld - spiritual benefits
J™™ any ” n e who would not pay
3 b p The taught the
people falsely and to their
se i iisVl ends
Therefore, said Micah, retribu
tion will come upon you even
more heavily than upon the rulers
n f the people. First, he said, it
s h?ll be night unto you so that ye
shall have no vision.
The loss of physical sight is a
terirble calamity; the loss of spir-
1,ual or v i sion . the worst
of aU possible catastrophes
,h " r vis '
^ . , es e man Ms . u
llal chance We are first of all re _
sponsible for our own souls, and
then we are responsible for the
sAouls of others. What a dreadful
thing it is when those responsible
spiritually for others misuse their
influence and lead the innocent
asdray!
Ml “ h ' va * Pouncing a doom
; which is just as solemn a warning
j to our generation as to his He
; stood as God’s Messenger before
the people of Judah, full of the
j ] power of the Spirit and authorized
to pronounce judgment upon Israel
! for sir
Listen to this stalwart
as he s P eaks to his money-mad
I contemporaries. They had
up Zl0n w !) h bl ” ad a d Je [V salPn l
. . u .
lUc7Tn/»erveZed\* equity
The judges gave their decisions
only for reward, the priests taught
for hire, the prophets foretold
for money, Yet in the midst of
their iniquity they were quite
confident that God was in
midst and was pleased with them
lhese corrupt office-holders,
priests and prophets were not dis
reputable, characters in the com
munity. They were the pillars of
the church in their day. They
fessed to see noUiin a wrong in
1 then corruption and confidently
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maintained that Jehovah was in
their midst.
But Micah fearlessly delivered
his message of doom. The
will come, he said, when because
of your iniquity Zion will be
ploughed as a field and Jerusalem
shall become heaps of earth.
Because they prophesied the de
struction of Jerusalem, Micah and
his associates were regarded as
traitors and blasphemers.
It reminds us of how our Lord
was put to death for plasphemy
when he tried to tell God’s very
truth in a generation which was
spiritually dead.
Micah asked the question
whether God takes any delight in
mere sacrifice, and especially
when the things sacrificed have
been stolen. He went on to de
ciaie that even though a sacrific e
be h ? nestIy offer f d | n the temple,
God is n0t pleased witb a thousand
,
a,lch eviden « s of man’s religious
d * V glves 0
u
From time immem orial, there
h * d persisted thp pa * «*
guided people the hide0US practice
U P *heir own children
' n sacr 'Uce. Micah, by his con
denan ation of this practice, was re
chaos, were employing very
dreadful means to secure the favor
of God
The teaching of all these early
prophets was fulfilled in the gos
pel of our Lord. He came not to
destroy the law and the prophets, i
but to fulfill them. In nothing is
this more effectively set forth
than in the way Jesus denounced
the giving of gifts without the
giving of the heart. He said that
no gift is acceptable in the sight
of God until a man is reconciled
with his brother, that the widow’s!
mite given in love was more val
uable than all the treasure which,
the rich cast out in abundance,
ar| d that a man beating his breast
i n the temple and crying out for
God’s forgiveness for his sins is
more acceptable in the Father’s i
sight than the Pharisee who re
galed the Lord with a list of his
virtues and thanked God that he
was not as other men.
Jesus in his gospel brought to :
a divine consummation the protest
which Micah made aganist mere
lip-service to God.
Micah 6:8 is one of the grandest
verses in the Old Testament: “He
hath showed thee, O man what is
R° od ’ and what does Jehovah re
quire of thee, but to do justly,
uhi h by vLm'hraLS y d 1116 ate
president Theodore Roosevelt was
v^se' 1 'ita
and declaring that
faithful summary of our religion.
It is futile for us to try to escape
the guilt of wrong doing by a plea
of ignorance. If we follow the
light we have, we shall seldom go
wrong.
Micah, in his declaration about
what God loves in his people, cuts
through all the shows and shams
| 0 f religion and lays bare its true
soul and .spirit. If any man will
attempt to follow the requirements
of the Almighty regarding justice
mercy, and humility, he will have
taken a great step in the direction
j of salvation.
The only thing that Micah lack
s ed was a knowledge of C hrist. He
a t e spin o . esus, a t mug
|he lned hundieds * years befoie
our Lord’s ministry took place
He knew the objectives of religion
—justice, mercy and humility— |
but naturally he did not know, as
we do, how these things are to be
obtained.
So to the message of Micah must
he added the great declarations of
the gospel. We achieve justice
mercy and humility in our lives
by keeping close to Christ.
When we have within us the
mind and spirit of our divine Mas
ter, then do we walk humbh
with God, and mercy and justice
! flow from our lives like sparkling
water from a fountain.
—NEWS* FROM—
NEWBORN
Cs oss Road
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Harpei
and Mrs. and Mrs. Hughie Wom
[ ack and Annette, spent last Sat
j urday with Mr. and Mrs. Tommie
Womack and family, near Monti
cello, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Lewis
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
S ' w : Womack and Mr. and
HUgh '° W ° maC and Annet,e ’
Mrs. Owens Banks and daugh
i ter spent last Saturday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Womack
Mr. S. R. Campbell, of Mans
] field, spent a short while with Mr.
S. W. Womack and Mr. Hughie
Womack last week,
Mr. and Mrs. Hughie Womack
and Annette spent last Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Harper
and children, near Covington, Ga
Mr. Parks Watkins, of Greens
boro spent last Saturday night
and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. 1
L Harper and children.
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BOB JONES I
OMMENTS
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HEREAFTER
As the founder and president of
a college, I am naturally interest
ed in the idea of “standardiza
tion” which we hear so much from
some of our educational experts,
However, the greatest need of col
leges and universities is not edu
cational standardizatioin. It is
moral, ardization ethical that and Christian need in stand-j
we our
institutions of learning. Unless
we have the proper spiritual and
moral standards, no other kind of
standards worthwhile can be sus
tained. Young peopel without
moral character will cheat on ex
animations, and the higher the
standards of an institution the
greater the temptations to cheat,
unless the student has proper
T* 1 standards Unlessthe in
* thJyw llV template
characto
pa - .tudento whether they
serve to pass or not and they might
fail students who should pass. The
problem of educational institu
tions is the same problem we have
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in government. It is a moral prob
lem. We have lowered our moral
standards. We have a bankruptcy
of character in the world. What
we need are the old-time, rugged
convictions of our forefathers who
believed in an authoritative Bible
and a God of Justice. We need
again to preach to young people
the old message that our tore
fathers preached; that is, that sin
destroys; that men cannot do
wrong and get away with it; that
there is a coming judgment; that
there is a heaven and a hell; that
right is right and wrong is wrong,
The new religious philosophy
which has been given to voung
peop ie for the last few years is re
sponsible for the wave of sensu
ality and moral looseness which
has produced our juvenile crimi
nals and has pulled down our old
time moral standards,
* * * *
The devil told Eve to live her
own life, that she did not nee i
any God or “big boss” telling her
what to do; that the fruit that she
had been forbidden to eat looked
good, tasted good and would mak°
her wise. So, she and Adam
O-ampled under foot the command
alfa?« deseed 'whrtfJ# thefr g^den tlS'lnsT thty
The
wrecked their paradise; they
damned their children, and cursed
the world through all generations.
The satanic philosophy is being
Thursday, Septemb
taught today in many of our edu
ca ,-j on al institutiuis “Live your
Qwn „ f ' have a right * to do
as V 1 ' 11 pleas ’’' pe ° pl e a.e
told 11 y° u w«nt tha ‘ man ’®
property, take it. If you are mar
ried an '’ '” ard an tner mans wite
and sbt wants yn go on and
bve together. We people that
know ,he Blb,e and know what it
t pac ,cs about human nature real
ize ful1 wel1 tbat human nature
d( * s not nf * d an -V encouragement
to do wrong. Human nature’s
tendency is downward and not
upward. It h^j an affinity for
evd - Man believed the devils lie
in the beginning. He is still in
Dined to get his message from the
devil. Even after Paul was saved
he said something about when he
would do good, evil is present. It
is not necessary to tell unt egener
ated men to do as they please
Men without God always live their
own lives and go as far as they
can, except as they are restrained
by law, social custom or their
own self preservation. Man was
born in sin. He is a sinner and his
only hope is to be bofn again if he;
is to live a life of victory over his
own sinful impulses.
Most poultry raisers change from
growing mash to laying mash after
the first eggs are dropped, but the
change may be made much sooner,
if plenty of grain is fed.
SOMETHING to think 'lit
Th e average railway hail!
f yn »ui 0 [[
.
ai ™ vegetables
mile The « ab
*’ avera se haul
modifies is of aii
350 miles The I
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states Department Agricult
Q Graph raDhlc c summary ., of farm
Population estimate* that
in cities l(B it
over 100,000 Donm 311011
rearing only seven " chin chlldl «. M
I n 1IH
1 P nation ten a<j uU8 fit!
teaiing about lft
14 children M
farm income ,
and agricim nd
t. J ‘ ai
por s g0 up anfl . " n itli
nen «8Hculturai j K
m Pi rti
«t their lowest level, cash [a irf
rm
come was lowest. From ‘ 1,1 V
"
both were on an upward trend
til 1937 . . . Rural retail
1938 were about 82 ssie, c
per cent hi
th«n at the botton of the den
sion.
County Extension agents gavt
t° rma,ion or assistance lei
^ on 8k0(1 on instai
sewage systems,is
water systems, and 101,300 ligh ip
systems, principally in farm hoi
during 1938.
If a slice of lemon is added to
water in which cauliflower is J J J
cauliflower will not darken in
ing but will remain quite white, »