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Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864.
DDRfSS ON WAR
BY ALEXANDER CAMPBELL
clivi red at Wheeling , Vain 1848
Tinted in Serial Form on Request of Subscribers
Number 5.
awever, important to re
,at God gave to Noah,
» jgh him to all his sons
— lessors in government, a
lake away, in civil just
(fe of a murdered. As the
i i the ungodly antecedent
-- during the first 500
ijuge, given to
Noah's life, was
and outrage against each
became expedient to pre
same violence and blood
:r the flood; and for this
God gave to man, or the
ace in Noah’s family, the
"J ["had [exact deliberately blood for blood and from ma
[ L, taken not away this the been life first of
Had
no war, without a special
Icommission, could have
jnriioned as lawful and
'en under the Old Tesla
istitution. Hence we may
wars were first allowed
against those who had iirst
fwar against their fellows,
Insequently, as viewed by
Inself, they were murder
first and second wars re
in the annals of the world
=gun by the enemies of God
5 people, and hence the re
made b\ Abiaham and
did . are distinctly s a e o
.have been occasioned by the ene
ttie f God and His people
ftJ I vhat is most important here
v
r«w toiaAese Md Opposite to twe occasion is
I xvats wage y °_ ®
% fe opJe Pical character
Fran * special u . divine commis- * __•
H a
For f. Jm U n '
h ■mg to be hP Hone done makes makes it it riaht g
ers! ^tt'Vearth
/I ran do onlv ” ? that !’ ’ or
!hat n to be done, which ■
s
m ■ those, then, who now plead
llarAnt in the world, are yet deist
or right for carrying on
the authority of the Lord
K Christ, produce a warrant
■ the present Monarch of the
^■erse. What the God of Abra
did by Abraham, by Jacob,
’ any of his sons, as the moral
I irnor of the world, before He
Js up the sceptor and the crowm
Hug Son. Jesus Christ, is of no
authority now. This is a
PO It of much more imoortance
fM 1 we can at present develop,
one which has been, so far as
to me, wholly slurred over
Bthis great investigation. The
f basis of the Christian religion
hat Jesus Christ is now the
d and King of both earth and
ven, and that His Father and
our God no longer assumes to
^■the eifper the lawgiver, judge, or king
world. It is positively de
■prod by Him that all legislative,
and executive power is
: |\V committed into the hands of
e who is both our kinsman and
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA :
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March 28, 1940. !
Mr. and Mrs. Public, | j
Newton County.
Friends: I j
i wish to take this opportunity to thank all my
friends for their patronage given me in the past and
promise to continue to better serve you whenever and
wherever possible.
We are moving to a new location on April 1st—
next let Monday and hope that each of you will continue
to us serve you in the same old way in our new
building.
We will be located in the old Weaver and Pitt
man be dealers Garage just off the main thoroughfare. We will
for
Amoco American | !
Gasoline and Oil ;
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1 personally recommend these high quality products
*0 you.
COME TO SEE US AT THE NEW LOCATION
^ AND AND WE AFTER APPRECIATE APRIL 1 . . . SAME BUSINESS SERVICE . . .
YOUR . . .
Sincerely,
w. t. McGuire
God’s only begotten Son. Two
grand declarations that ought to
revolutionize our whole views of
civil government as respects its
ultimate authority, and change
some of our forms of legal justice,
are wholly overlooked so far as
they are of any practical value
and importance. The first was an
nounced by the Messiah immed
iately before His ascension into
heaven; the other was publicly
proclaimed by an embassy from
heaven immediately after His as
cension. The former declares that
“all authority’’ (exousia), all leg
islative, judiciary, and reval au
thority in heaven and earth is
given to Jesus Christ; the other
affirms that God has made Jesus
Lord and Christ, or annointed Him
sovere ig n of the universe. Kins
of the earth and courts of high
judiciature are all under Him, but
they do not really acknowledge it;
few of them, perhaps, know or be
lieve the fact that Jesus Christ
has been on the throne of the uni
verge for more than 1,800 years,
j_t e nce, the cour ts 0 f England and
the tw0 most enlightened
nations jn the world rae yet deist _
^ rather than christ _
Jan j n every p i ace where they
have the £ phrase, “In the name of
, Q ht to have> .. In )he
name of the Lord.” This is the
gist . . of , the ,, whole , , controversy . , be
tween the friends and the enemies
of war - on the kingdom part of T the he subjects corona-1 j
Christ , s .
tion of Jesus Christ in heaven as j
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Lord of all, His investiture with
^ authority in heaven and eart h,
legislative, judiciary annunciation, and execut-j the
ive, is the on
belief and public acknowledge
ment of which the first Christian
church was founded in Jerusalem,
where the throne of David was, in
the month of June 1,814 years ago,
A. D. 34.
God the Father, in properia per
sona, now neither judges nor
punished any person or nation, but
has committed all judgment to
His Son, now constituted head of
the universe and pudge of the liv
ing and the dead. This simplifies
the question and levels it to the
judgment of all. It is this: Has the
author and founder of the Christ- ,
ian religion enacted war or has He
made it lawful and right for the
subjects of His government to go
to war against one another? Or,
has He made it right for them to;
go to war against any nation, or,
for any national object, at the |
bidding of the present existent po
Iitical authorities of any nation in
Christendom? j
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The crowds come to the REA Farm Equipment Tour to see, electricity at work. One of the demonstratione show.
ing an electric-powered ensilage cutter at work.
1 Southern Sunday
School Assn
Holds Meeting
At Covington Mills Church;
Six Sunday Schools
Represented.
The Southern Division of the
Stone Mountain Baptist Sunday
School Association held its regu
lar quarterly meeting with the
Covington Mills Baptist Church
Sunday afternoon, March 17.
Six of the eleven Sunday Schools
in the association were represent
ed. These w r ere: Willow Springs,
Covington First, Covington Sec
ond, Porterdale, Mt. Zion and
Macedonia,
The banner for the best per
centage of attendance was award
ed to Willow Springs. This is the
second time in succession
Willow Springs has won the ban
ner, Pastors present included Rev.
L. E. Anthony, Rev. Walker
Combs. Rev. John King and Rev.
T. C. Burrell.
The meeting was opened by a
musical program by the members
of the Covington Mills church, W.
A. Childers, the superintendent of
Covington Mills Sunday School,
presiding. The invocation was P^°
nounced by Rev. Anthony a
which the devotional was lead by
Rev. John King.
The meeting was then tur ea
° V T t0 ® el T nt D enms ’ Un S
! of the Southern Association, . n R = -
0 f superintendents were ,
j called for and they indicated the
, Schools jn this sec ti on
, were progressing nicely,
^ Dennis made a short talk
on the importance of Sunday
gchooi worR and urged renewed
interest in and consecrated work
in that our Sunday Schools may
continue to grow' and feed our
churches.
A. L. McDonald, of Lithonia,
made a most impressive plea for
more consecrated His remarks ork in our Sun- in- j
day Schools. were
spiring and much enjoyed. ■
An invitation to hold the June
meeting at Willow Springs was
accepted by the association. Bene
diction was pronounced by Rev.
Burrell.
Agricultural |
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News Given by
County Agent
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c0U Id be increased by every acre
the cotton is reduced. If the op
erator of the farm used here as an
illustration did not plant the 20
acres of cotton but only planted
15 acres to cotton then he could
increase the wheat acreage from
15 to 20 acres just so long as he
kept the total acreage in wheat
and cotton within the total per
mitted.
We believe every farm boy in
the county should join the 4-H
Club. Parents should encourage
their children to join this organ
jzation and lend every encourage
ment possible to the carrying out
of a successful project There are
boys from Newton County in col
lege this year who would not have
been able to enter if they had
not carried out 4-H Club projects
and saved the money thus earned.
Boys and girls who are graduat
ing from high school this spring
would be interested in the scholar
ships offered by various colleges
to 4-H Club members. If parents j
want to interest their boys in re
maining on the farm they should
plan some means whereby they
can nave some money of their own
Marion H. Allen
Talks to Kiwanis
Calls Attention to Better
Business as Based on Tax
Payments.
The Covington Kiwanis Club
held its regular noon meeting at
the Delaney Hotel Thursday noon
with President A1 David presiding
and V. Y. C. Eady leading the
singing with Miss Fletcher Lou
Lunsford at the piano.
The attendance for the meeting
was 89 per cent with Sidney, Jake,
Puss, Derricot and Frank absent.
Judge Davis and Solicitor Roy
Leathers were present as the
guests of Ike Robinson.
Professor, Hawkins had as his
guests Mr. Squires, head of the
Greenleaf Business College of At
lanta, and three of his Business
College pupils: Miss Willie Guy
Pippin, Miss Charlotte Tuck and
Miss Louise Stephens; all of Al
mon and graduates of Palmer
Stone.
Marion H. Allen, U. S. Collect
or of Internal Revenue for the
State of Georgia was the speaker
of the day. He was introduced by
R. H. Greene who was in charge
of the program.
Mr. Allen first paid his respects
to Bob Arnold, Mr. Green and
Col. King as old acquaintances,
grave paying a each most a fine ^pressive ^ bute „ ^etme pictuie
of the tax situation in this state
He pointed out that the tax paid
each rometer yeai an v;a aun Jir\e u. s me, ^> a
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the year 1939 was a splendid eai
for 1 ‘
March 15th, 1940 was 13 P« cen
high for 1939. ^, ’ ian By March or u 20th, the Aviprk che k
up had shown that this years pay
ment was 29.5 per cer. higher than
the preceding year.
Payments this year had ammmt
ed to $1,200,000 in excess of r
same period last year and Mr. Al
len called to mind the fact that
this represented tax paid after all
deductions were made and stated
that business men didn’t generally
pay taxes unless business war
ranted same.
This state pays 34 different
kinds of taxes to the Federal gov
ernment amounting to approxi-,
mately $34,000,000 yearly. Of this;
amount $17,000,000 is paid in in-j
come taxes, $7,000,000 in Social)
Security taxes and $10,000,000 in
miscellaneous taxes.
Mr. Allen' mentioned the facl
that the war in Europe had not
had much effect upon American
business and that many authori
ties were uncertain as to what ef
feet it would eventually have on
our foreign trade. He quoted @u
thoritative the blockade sources of as Great stating Britain that j J
against Germany had failed and |
Germany was in better condition
today than at any time during the j
previous war. 1
Mr. Allen ended his talk always! by j
stating that his office was
open wished to any to citizen discuss of their this taxes! state j
who j
with him and issued a cordial in
vitation to call on him whenever,
he could be of service.
appreciation President David of the expressed club for the his |
(ine talk and called a short direct-1
ors’ meeting for the conclusion of
the meeting.
Birthday Dinner for
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
A birthday dinner for Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Ellis, of this county,
w'as held Sunday at their resi
dence. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
are over 74 years of age. They
have 41 grandchildren, 13 great
grandchildren and six sons and
daughters living. One ol the chil
dren is dead.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
Regular Meeting
of Rotary Club
Dr. Dan Bowden, of State
Health' Department
Speaks.
The regular meeting of the Cov
ington Rotary Club was held on
Tuesday at the Delaney Hotel with
President S. L. Waites
The meeting was opened with
the song, “America,” followed by
prayer led by Charles Forester. J.
T. McKay-then reported on stunt
night and advised j , that ., , first ,. , prize .
lad been awarded the club for
their entry. The money received
was refunded to go to the under
privileged children project.
Visitors at the club were intro
duced as flolows: Jim Roberts, of
the Monroe Rotary Club, and
Sullivan, of Macon. Mr. Sullivan “ 7:
is Boy D Scout executive of the
Central Georgia District. They
were welcomed and urged to re
turn again soon.
T. A. Rape was in charge of the
program and called on President
j Waites to introduced the speaker
j of the day, Dr. Dan Bowden, one
of the directors of the State Health
Department of Georgia. He made
a veT y interesting and instructive
“Administration 0 f Health
Service.” He gave statistics on
;he varjous djseases and told hovv
l he Y were being controlled in this
state _ Mem5ers of the dub ex
pressed their appreciation for Dr.
Bowden's speech.
—NEWS FROM—
Starrsvili f
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Miss Vashti Parker, of Atlanta,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with ... . her parents, , Mr. and , Mrs. ,,
T C J f ar ^ er ’„
Little t Corelle Elliott .. . has return- ,
ed after spending two weeks with
her mother, in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. McRae, of
Macon, were the guests of their
parenst, Mr. arid Mrs. C. C. Epps,
Sunday.
Mrs. B. J. Anderson returned
home from Piedmont hospital last
Thursday, after undergoing treat
ment for the past three weeks, i
and is convalescing.
Mrs. J. H. Wood, of Covington,
visited her sister, Mrs. A. C.
Belcher, last Friday afternoon.
Mr. Bill Roberts, an Emory! i
Junior student from Oxford, gave
a very interesting talk at the!
Methodist church last Sunday j
morning, and was the dinner
guest of Mr. and Mrs. C, C. Epps.
Mrs. R. W. Mays, of Jackson,
visited her sister, Mrs. B. J. An
derson, during the week-end.
Mrs. Mildred Elliott, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Piper.
Mr. R. A. Epps, Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Epps, and Mrs. W. H. Corley, 1
Sr., w'ere in Atlanta, last Tuesday,
Mrs. Pearl Taylor and Missi
Ethel Belcher, of Covington, vis
ited Mrs. A. C. Belcher and Mrs.
B. J. Anderson, last Friday after
noon, !
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Aiken and
daughter, Lauratine, spent Sunday 1
with Mr. Aiken's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Samp Aiken, at Heard
Mixon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnston,
and Mr. L. O. Piper visited rela
fives at Leguin, Monday,
Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Allen and
daughters, Judith and Nina Scott,
were in Atlanta, last Friday.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940. Number 13
—NEWS FROM—
NEWBORN
Mr. W. A. Hawkins spent the
week-end with Mrs. W. A. Haw
kins.
Miss Elizabeth Harwell, from
Heard-Mixon school, spent the
week-end with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Harwell.
Miss Elizabeth Harwell had as
her guests, Miss Agnes Fisher,
Marshal Fisher, Mr. Ralph Finley
and Forest Finley Sunday after
noon
Mr. Trent Coursey spent the
week-end in Atlanta, with his
mother, Mrs. Janie B. Coursey.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A Brown had
as their guests last Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Brown, Kenneth
and Martha Brown and Mr. Rob
ert Fleming from McIntyre.
Mrs. Hubert Carson had a de
lightful miscellaneous shower in
honor of Mrs. W. A. Harwins. Ev
eryone had a real good time.
Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Freeman
spent Sunday afternoon in Monti
cello with their daughter,
Miss Helen Smith is at home
now.
Newborn
School News
Newborn all-stars played in the
tournament at Mansfield
week. The girls were defeated by
Prospect the first night. They
played a good f game, ’ although ®
they ,, were not , victorious. . . The , , boys
won over Heard-Mixon the first
night and we all went back the
second only to see them get beaten
by Mansfield.
HiSh School girls beat the
town team Wednesday. The score
| was 26-22.
Th e W P A S save us every bit
*
of f two apples yesterday. We en
{ ] d them much and ar€
° ^ g forward fon ' ard for for the the P Deache= ea ches
, R runes
n -
! ^ e ex * en d °ur sympathy to the
So P hornores beause they will be
having cIasses whi l e we ar e out
j fishing ths afternoon.
Since when did Mr. Hinson be
come “Uncle Porter” to the Soph
omores. We are envious beca>
we can’t be that close , . •
We are proud to have Mr. Ran
son Dynn as our music teacher
Here’s hoping he will be able to
organ i ze an orchestra.
The Seniors are planning a play
to have 'ust before Id lone If you rant
com. us your money.
Mrs. Stantons room enter
us with a trip to Mexico last
Friday. He enjoyed it immensely.
We had as our guest last Friday
Miss Kitty Peacock, our former
teacher. She taught some of
classes while Mr. Henson
sparking.
We were glad to see Mr. Brum
baugh visiting in Newborn last
week. We always like to see our,
old teachers. But of course we are j
more interested in the new
now'.
The Seniors w'ere entertained
with a party at the home of Will
iam Savage a few weeks ago. By
the w r ay, William’s absence has ;
grieved us very much. He will i
be missed by all more than tongue
can tell. Boo hoo; It does make a
difference now', too.
Any W'ay he must have quit
school hitched to go back in canebrake to his ole gray j
mule a near
Pinegrove. Ga.. He swore he
couldn’t bear the odor of those
Newborn wild onions any longer.
The basketball teams have
played the finals at last and
“Courageous Cara” captain of the
girls’ team, said “All the teams
showed good prospects of future
playing in all games, along with
unexcelled sportsmanship.
It happened in the front walk of
Mr. Bob Sams’ house. The walk
was dark and the couple was part
ing for the night. Did they think
they W'ere alone? Maybe the era
of the blushing bride has not
passed after all, for such a thing
as a bear-hug and a prolonged
kiss can still bring color to a
girl’s cheeks. And did she run
like a scarey rabbit when it was
all over; r.
The High School was glad that)
someone oiled the floors. We are
sorry that it cost too much to
have the halls and auditorium
oiled.
Good-bye, red flannels, spring is
here. And don’t be surprised if
the birds sing extra loud and the
sun shines a little bit brighter.
Now' that the college girls are j
home Frank Davis has taken as;
his chief sport — Breaking their j
hearts.
A Letter from Our Congressman
My dear Constituents:
The legislative mill has been
steadily grinding the past week.
The House has considered and de
bated the Appropriation Bill for
the Department of Labor, the Fed
eral Security Agency and related
independent agencies, for the fis
cal year ending June 30, 1941. This
debate was led by our Georgia
Congressman, Mr. Tarver, who has
worked tirelessly in the hearings
conducted on the bill, and who
was thoroughly informed on each
and every item thereof.
The Senate passed the Amend
ment to the Hatch Act extending
its provisions to certain officers
and employees in the United States
and limiting individual contribu
tions to any campaign fund to $5
000.00 maximum. This Act is de
signed to prevent pernicious po
litical activities.
The Senate also has had under
consideration the General Appro
priation Bill for the Department
of Agriculture, which, of course,
has already been passed by the
House. The debate on this bill in
the Senate v^as led by our own
Senator Richard B. Russell, so
Georgians have been very promi
nent in the Capitol this week. Sen
ator Russell is making a superb
fight for restoration of the drastic
reductions made in agricultural
appropriations by the Bureau
the , Budget, The Budget Bureau
had recommended a 40 per cent
reduction in agricultural appropri
atiens, and the House had made
further reductions. The bill as'it
passed 'the House appropriated
$796,973,132, or a reduction below
the appropriations for the year
1940 . n . n of $631,000,000, nnn nnn being a re
duction of 44 per cent that had
been leveled against agricultural
appropriations when the House
Bill reached the Senate. Senator
Russel] sought to restore a portion
at least, of these appropriations,
saying, “Whereas the total
of over-all reductions in the Bud
get submitted to the Congress in
January amounted to 8 pier cent,
fhc biH for ,he a 8 ricuitural in *
terftsts of the country was re _
duced by approximately 40 per
cen f j kave stated on the floor of
t he Senate previously that there
nothing in the general farm pic
j f ure nor anything in any evi
dcnce that was submitted to the
Appropriations Committee in the
consideration of this biD to justi
fy this- tremendous and dispro
portionste reduction in the agri
cultural appropriation bill.” The
Senator then said that the bill as
reported to the Senate by hi.-'
■
^mittee was still $361 000 09!).
below th * appropriations for 1940.
> ’’.auction of approximately
25 per cent, and he challenged
anyone f 0 sb ow a reduction Of 25;
per cenl in any other general ap
propr j a ^i on bill that has heretofore i
been or will hereafter be passed
b y the Congress to operate an
active program which continues J
f r0 m year to year.” We hope the
Senator succeeds in his fight for
the farmers.
The Committee on World War.
. eterans Legislation, of which
your Congressman is a member,
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NEWSPAPER
has favorably reported to the
House this week a bill providing
pensions to widows and orphans
of World War Veterans almost
identical with the pension paid
to widows and orphans of the
Spanish-American War twenty
-ears after the end of that war.
While the amount of money need
ed to pay these pensions is not
very much,' it will take care of
many needy cases not now cov
ered by the World War Veter
ans Act and will settle jnany dis
criminations now present.
The buds are trying to swell up
here and faint signs of spring are
appeal ing. One of the surest signs
they say are the school buses
bringing school children to see
the Capital City.
We have had some welcome
visitors this week: Mr. and Mrs.
Joel Mallet, of Jackson; Mayor
Frank Pope. Mr. Camille Roberds
and Mr. Roy Matthews of Villa
i Rica; Mr. Davis Stokes of Bann
ing and Mr. George Cobb, Jr., and
i little, daughter, Lillian, and Mr.
Ernest Fokes of LaGrange.
Sincerely,
A. SIDNEY CAMP, M. C.
Tribute
On the afternoon of March 10,
; I 1940 the spirt o{ Mr John McDon .
J aid went back to God who gave
| it. He had been in declining health
for sometime, although he felt bet
ter than usual this Sunday and at
tended services at Hopfwell Pres
byterian Chyrch with his wife and
son. That afternoon they, with a
cousin, were enroute to see rela
tives, when he passed away sud
denly. He was an honest, upright
citizen, a loyal friend, a faithful
Christian, a devoted husband and
a loving father.
Mr. McDonald was a member of
Hopwell Associate Reformed Pres
byterian Church. He was interest
pd ' n e ’' e, y progressive move of
the church and community.
He served his church for a num
ber of years as deacon. He was
faithful and regular attendant on
the services.
His home was hospitable and
especially so to the ministers,
He will be sadly missed in his
home, church and community,
He is survived by his widow,
who was Miss Margaret Thomp
son. of Dalton; one daughter, Miss
Sue McDonald, of Surrency, Ga„
one son. Mr. Billy McDonald, of
Hopewell: three sisters, Mrs. Elon
Green. Misses Lucy and Mattie
McDonald, and .one brother. Mr.
Terry McDonald of McDonough.
The funeral services were con
ducted at Hopewell Church Tues
day morning. March 12th, at 11:00
o’clock by his pastor, the Rev. T.
P Horger. assisted by Rev. Merck,
pastor of McDonough Presbytes
ian Church and Rev. Knowles,
pastor of Snapping Shoals Meth- 1
odist Church’ Interment was in
the church cemetery. His going
was sudden—may we say to all,
“Be ye also ready” — Hopewell
Community.