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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 cf Newton County and The
City of Covington.
Comic Opera Politics
reg
should happen in the fair state of Georgia is more than
the most pessimistic kicker would ever have an lcipa. e •
Without going into the merits of the case about who
is right and who is wrong regarding the motive wnicn
inspired the whole episode, we do most heartily criticise
the melodrama which has been brought into the situation.
It has all the earmarks of a grand publicity stunt
s+a cpd esneciallv for the voters of the state. That report
ers anu and photogranhers pnuiugid were there on the first day might
il™ been a co-incidence, but the f act they wprp Vf there ® both °ed
times the act was staged smacks e J 1 ten
theatrics. Rivers and , Chairman . .
In the first place if Governor
Miller, of the highway board, could not iron out their
difficulties certainly it would have been the part
•f wisdom ’of the man who held the least high for position the lesser to
t finder his resignation, iust as it is customary
ef et two two bus Dusmess ness execut exevui ves to resign when he cannot per
suade his superior to adopt is to c ’ ^
The courts of Georgia are wide open anyone \ o
has a grievance or fancies he has one. Ihe bupieme Loui
judges of our state are ready and eager to render a tan .
decision when a matter is brought to their attention. If
the chairman of the highway board had a grievance he
should have adopted the business-like method of appeal
. to the courts •„Vif g Vila wvnno-q ’
That he did not appeal , . j wait for an
orderly hearing, but instead apparent . y - ta . –fd ^ several sexeial
melodramatic, hair-raising episodes a la buddy Kogeis,
or some other adventurous and highly fictitional cnaractei
is quite evident by the pictures which appeared in the At
lailta dailies had been tipped off in
Whether the Atlanta papers department
advance rZe bv the Chairman of the highway as
mor Rivers charged in his recent address or not is an
•pen question. You can answer that foi y ourselt, b t
feeing a newspaper man we are quite sure some one tippet
©ff the photographers, for they are not prone to lie around j
and wait in the corridors of the state office buildings for i
things of that sort. best interests of
Whether it would have been to the
• for vourseff Rivers or Chairman eveTt Miller you can also answer
ior jouiseix, but out we we bel ucik would not have been of in
publicize the event . the .. way it
terest to Governor Rivers to
was. Whether it was to Chairman Miller or not lemams
to be seen. personally concerned, certainly
As far as we are we
have lost what respect we had for the chairman of the
high wav department in the event of recent happenings,
C«rtainly we would u not want a man of that character to
fee governor of the State of Georgia He might vent vpnt li his s
spite on the Legislature and refuse o \ ^
if the occasion should arise, or he might ev en 1 f
out office had expired. A man who
to quit after his term of of
will take any part in staging melodramatic episodes
that kind for the daily papers is beyond our definition of
what would make suitable timber for the governor’s chair.
Joufd It it had happened in any other state than Georgia,
we have been carried with hysterical laugh
ter at the ludicrous situations depicted m the daily press
The idea of grown men struggling over a desk and trying
to pry each other’s hand from the same and then piling,
into the corridor on top of each other, being obviously care
ful that no amount of scuffling could take their faces*away
from the cameras is a situation to cause the Mack Sennett
fans of long ago to roll in the aisles.
In in none none of or the me photographs P f which apepared in the
the honourable , r faces pf IVip
papers were shadowed , , ,
highway department and his dutiful son even
fey another. They stood out in bold relief and were not
distorted too much that they could not have been re
cognized another state, but tragic in our own.
Laughable in law
There is no wonder that our youngsters try to take the
in their own hands when they have examples like this to
follow, Yes, laughable in another state, but tragic in
oyr own.
? Vote for Your Candidate Monday
•
There is a special effort being put forth this year to
cat every citizen of this city to come out Monday and
^gte for his or her choice among the candidates offering
the positions in the city government, which will be
vacant the first of the year.
There are six candidates for the three posts of Coun
cilmen and two candidates for Mayor. The Covington Ki
wanis Club is sponsoring a movement this year to get
every person in the city who is eligible to vote to come
out and vote. political
This effort is being put forward, not as a
Move, but as a gesture of better citizenship. If you will
take an interest in your city, county, state and nation by
voting for your choice each election there will be reached
more accurately a complete choice of the people.
The Kiwanis Club is not attempting to tell anyone how
vote as it is not a political organization. All it is urging
you to do is to vote for the candidates of your choice, but
vote.
We heartily commend this club for making this ap
peal. After all true democracy is the rule of the people
aid the rule of the people can be obtained only in one way.
That wayite for the majority of all the people to vote at
•very election. Some people refuse to be bothered by
voting. They state they have not the time or just don’t
want to take the time.
These same people are the ones who yell the loudest
if the man they are thinking of (not voting for) is not elect
•d, They claim this and that but they do not confess they
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In the State)
did not vote. Some people refer to a man as a slacker
that does not vote in any important election, but a man
who does not vote and then yells to high Heaven about
the results, is wow*, many times worse, than a slacker.
Modern War Has No Victors
This holiday season the United States has much to
be thankful for—and the ancient greeting of “happy new
year” should have more than ordinary significance.
Alone of the great powers of the world, we are at peace,
and remote from the bloody shambles of war.
That we will stay at peace should be every American’s
passionate resolution. For war does more than destroy
lives and property. It destroys ideals, institutions, prin
ciples—the best that centuries of our forebears have be
queathed us. Certainly this weary planet should have
learned by now that there are no victors in modern war—
there are only losers.
Peace is the finest Holiday gift any nation in this
war-torn world can have.
Sunday School Lesson
parables of the kingdom
Mattbew 13;1 _ 53
Golden Text . IncIine your ear
and come unt0 me . bear> and your
sou i shall live. Isaiah 55:3.
Jeasus reason for using the par
able was probably twofold. First, he
^PJoyed mode of expression. it because But it is he a had telling an
0lh€r rea50n ' The waning of a par
a bi e is not perfectly apparent and
men have to turn the story over in
their minds before they get the
pojnt
Many of Jesus' most precious say
ings would probably have been ior
gotten had it not been that they
-ere associated in the minds of his
hearers with an interesting story.
One of Jesus’ most famous par
ables ^ ^ parable of the Sower- it
nnght better be called “the parable
0 f t he soils.” it is his answer to
the question, Why does the king
dom of heaven spring up quickly
and grow so steadily in some mens
lives and not in the lives Of Oth
ers? Why are failure and success
50 stran S €ly intermingled in the
spread of the gospel?
Jesus answers this by saying that
* be trouble generally is with the soil
upon which the seed falls. There is
nothing the matter with the Sower,
which is God. There is nothing the
matter with the seed, which is the
Word - immediately we could speak
climate?
gome seec } s scattered by the di
vine go Wer ' S h and f ad by the way
side; that is, upon the hard paths
°T roadways which wind through
the fallow field. These channels of
traffic are extremely useful, but
As J* soon as seed ^ falls f on these “*• hard
pa(hways the birds of the air swoop
down and devour them.
Jesus meant to show by this par
able that people often have across
their souls hard pathways made by
the treading feet of worldly inter
eats. Love of money, absorption in
the worlds interests and passions,
unbelief> persistent sin _ these are
the things that harden men's souls,
other seeds fail on stony ground—
not on ground fmed with small
stones, but on a thin layer of sou
covering a hard stratum of rock,
Beneath the soil of many a man’s
life is the hard and unyielding rock
«
may raponfl ^
appeal of an evangelist. He may
witb j oy catcb the vision of higher
things and start to live the christ
ian life. But said Jesus, when the
sun is risen such growth is scorched,
and having no root, it withers away
Such persons ove rehgion white »
brings joy, but their roots cannot
get down into the ground because
Qf the ledge ot hard and obdurate
qualities which lie beneath.
The third reason for frequent
failure in things religious is because
the divine seeds so often fall on soil
already filled with other seed. Je
sus described these weed seeds as
the care of the world and the de
ceitfulness of riches. The soil is rich
and deep, but it can sustain just so
much growth and no more. If most
of its nourishment goes to weeds,
as so much of men’s energy if oft
en frittered away in anxiety about
worldly things or dissipated in a fu
tile life of pleasure, then the good
seed is quickly choked out.
But there are some people in the
world whose lives are like good thick
loam, uncorrupted by weed seeds.
They hear the Word and readily un
derstand * it because it corresponds
to the ideals and interests in their
own hearts,
Such soils bear fruit unto the har
vest. and such souls bear fruit unto
•temal life
The parable of the mustard seed
indicates how the divine seed grows
into institutions; the parable which
follows it, that of the leaven, indi
cates how the kingdom spreads in
wardly and works secretly in men’s
hearts and in society.
The leaven a woman puts in a
lump of dough is small compared
with the lump of dough, but the on
ly thing that limits its activity is the
amount of material upon which it
may work. The grace of God en
larges, changes and Improves every
person, every society, every institu
tion upon which it has an oppor
tunity to work.
But the dough and leaven must
I be mixed before any improvement
can oocur. Dough in a pan and
leaven in a cup on the table will
never have any effect upon each
other.
All this teaches our hearts this
simple truth — that we must also
surrender our lives to the trans
forming effect of Christ’s gospel,
and then, when we in turn become
leaven, we must mix with all kinds
and conditions of men that the
grace of God may work through us
to the changing of their lives.
The spirit of Jesus Christ hidden
in the heart of one member of a
family will change the lives of all
other members, save those who
spurn the gracious leaven. Good
men in politics, honest men in bus
iness, serious and consecrated
Christians in the Church will change
the whole nature of such institu- j
tions.
God's treasures are hid in the
fields where we work every day—in
the home, the office, the factory, the
school; in the lives of friends, in
the wisdom of those who criticize
us; and best of all, in the Word of
God and the fellowship of his
Church.
That man has made a good bar
gain indeed who, when he comes up-1
on such treasure, relinquishes every
thing else to possess it. mer-1
The next figure is that of a
chant seeking through the markets
of the world to find something more
valuable than he possesses- At last
he finds it, and when he does, he
sells every other jewel he has that
he may possess this one.
Brought down into the daily walks I
of life, this parable reminds us of
people whose lives are blessed with
many rich jewels, such as education,
culture, wealth, social standing and
position, yet who, in the midst of
all these blessings, know that there
is something of indefinitely greater
value which they do not possess.
This thing is peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ
When men find that, they have
found the kingdom. It reigns in
their hearts to such infinite happi
ness that nothing else in the world
really matters.
But men have to offer up to God
every jewel of lesser value before
they can have the priceless pearl of
his kingdom.
God may give the lesser jewels
back to a man to be held in sacred
stewardship. But always they must
be used in such a way as to bring
out the luster of the pearl of great
price. If personal ambition, educa
tion, culture, wealth, or any other
desirable things are put into a
man’s life before the things of God,
the pearl of great price is taken
•way.
The best things in the world must
be sought, and the best thing in all
the wide universe of God is to have
our hearts right with Him and to
live day by day in he light of his'
love.
It is a good plan to stir the mash
in feed hoppers each day, as this
seems to increase mash consumption.
Georgians may secure a nine-page
copy of an address on rural light
ing made at the Farm and Home
Week from the department of agri
cultural engineering at the Univer
sity of Georgia.
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