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PAGF EIGHT
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
The Lull Before the Storm
We have noticed lately that very few weekly or daily
editors, throughout the state are making an energetic cam
paign for any particular gubernatorial candidate.
In former years at this stage of the race the senti
ment of the various editors had crystallized and they were
hammer and tong behind their favorite candidate. This
year, however, only in isolated cases have the various
county papers committed themselves and none of the im
portant daily papers have committed themselves in their
editorial columns.
Experienced newspaper men can see the writing on
the wall though in some of the news stories regarding the
various candidates. There is no doubt but that the Atlanta
Constitution is in favor of Abit Nix for they have consis
tently favored him in their news columns.
The Atlanta .Journal has not given any indication
its support up to this time. It may be that they will take
active interest in the race. The circumstances of the recent
ofth. paper may have aomethin* to do with this
,ey It n probable that Governor Cox. the present owner
Will feel a hesitancy of getting into the political field at
such an early date. However, there is plenty of time yet
and their news columns are being eagerly watched for
signs of partiality for any particular candidate.
As far as we are concerned, we had rather a large
daily paper favor us, if we were running for office, in their
news columns than in their editorial columns. There are
so many ways in which the minds of the readers can be in
fluenced in news columns that the editorial columns could
not touch.
We believe the present period though is only the lull
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before the storm. 1 oday is the last day tor candidates to
qualify for any state or county office and we may expect
the heat to be turned on after the closing of the entries
Roosevelt Nomination It Only the Beginning
We have talked with a good many Democrats since
the Democratic Convention which nominated President
Roosevelt for a third term. They are cock-sure and con
fident. If you listen to them would believe there is I
you
no need even to make a campaign.
According to their views the South and Georgia in
particular, is sitting pretty for the next four years. Those
who ,, have government jobs under the Democratic admin
istration are making plans for four more years of ease and
security.
Well, we are afraid they are going to be sadly dis
illusioned. If they want those government jobs to continue,
they are going to have to go out into the highways and by
•ways of r the ,, x North, , ,, Middle j, XT. West . and j W est and , scour up
the votes for Roosevelt.
Of course, Georgia and the solid South will go for the
Democratic nominee. There is no doubt of that, but sad to
relate the “Solid South” does not elect the President of
the United States. They help to a certain extent but four
pf the larger Northern States have as many electoral votes ,
as the entire South
The Democrats, voting their entire strength, cannot:
elect a President. There are not enough Democrats in the’
entire nation to elect a President There ha, never been a
Democratic President elected wholly by Democrats.
Only at times when the Republican there'been party is demoral
ized and fighting among themselves has a Dem
ocratic President. The Democratic party must have part
of the Republican votes to elect their nominee.
It seems that in spite of the immense popularity of
President Roosevelt, the Republican Party is getting to
gether again. They have nominated a popular candidate.
They have nominated a candidate with “color.’’ A man
that can whoop it up for the grand old party.
W^endell WUlkie is a strong candidate and the Demo
cr–ts throughout the nation will be aware of this fact be
fore many weeks pass- He has a background which will ap
peal to the average voter in the Republican party and if
he is able to get Mr. Average Voter back into the fold it
is just going to be too bad for the Democratic nominee.
We believed .. sticking . head into the
never in our
as the ostrich does when danger approaches and we be
lieve those Democrats who are so overconfident are in
for a bad time.
W T e do not predict the reelection of President Roose
velt, nor do we predict the election of W’endell Wilkie. W T e
are only issuing a warning to the over-confident. We frank
ly state this, however. If Wendell Wilkie can weld the Re
publican party together again he will be elected.
We must also remember that there has been eight
; along years of drouth for the Republican party. Many of
he party leaders are growing lean and their larders are
empty. Therefore we must reckon with them in their en
deavor for self-preservation.
We must also reckon with the tradition against the
: Ihird term idea. This tradition has many supporters and
, Iwith the added incentive of empty pocket-books for the
|Republicans this tradition will be played by them to its
ltmost.
t f The picture as we see it is anything but optimistic for
;he Democratic party. President Roosevelt can be elected
aut it is going to take some very superhuman work on the
‘ sart of the Democratic party to accomplish this and
. fou try to disguise this fact to yourself or your friends.
1 and. we predict if he is elected it will be by a very small
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j Sunday School Lesson
WEIGH1NG consequences
Golden Text: G „ dljneis „ prot
itable for all things, having prom
ise of the life which now is, and
of that which is to come. 1 Tim
oth y 4 8
Our lesson today deals with
consequences. Every act, be it
good or bad, has its consequences,
and the Bible has some very real
istic things to say about the con
sequences of evil doing.
Sweetness and light have their
place in life, but so do bitterness,
darkness and punishment. We
never know uf e as it is untii we
observe amid its experiences that
the wages of sin is death.
The fifth commandment de
clares that they who honor father
and mother shall continue long in
the land which the Lord God gives
them. This does not mean that
obedience to parents always in
sures long life and disobedience
insures premature death. It is the
stating of the great principle that
those who lay well the foundation
of life by absorbing from parents
a 56,156 of the value ot certain
life s fundamentals, have a much
better prospect of long and useful
hfe than those who flout such in _
struction and fall into habits
which lead to dissolute living and
dea ^ h
They who learn the.->e truths and
obey them will find themselves
able to withstand the enticement
sinners , because their lives are
built not upon the sands of wilful
" ess and passion, but upon the
firm rock of purity and purpose.
We may well be alarmed over
certain moral conditions in our
own country. A great nation can
not continue the drinking habits
we have established in recent
yeais without eventually paying
a blt te Prohibition was
"j.'Lm.m t a .o' lotor«" f the” f ,,
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an( j me belligerent determination
of the privileged class to disobey
il - Since re P eal lhere has been a
tremendous increase in liquor con
sumption. The saloon is back
i again under different names—tav
ern, inn, and grill—and the whole
cause of temperance and total ab
stinence has been set back a cen
tury by the introduction of wide
spread drinking in the home. Au
tomobile fatalities took a jump of
almost twenty-five per cent the
first full year following repeal,
And all these things point to the
coming of days which we may
regard with apP rehe,lsion - To °
few words are heard in pulpit,
! press, and Sunday School today
about the evil effects of alcohol.
Isaia h, the keen eyed prophet, saw
clearly that when people , made
drinking one of the chief interests
of their lives and tarried over
their cups far into th6 night ; 4t
vvou!d b6 only a matt « r of ,!!Tle
! J ® ^° r * n?TispLe^°hi!
V ul ld C on 1 a dispossess his
fellow countrymen.
Observe how modern in many
of its aspects is the scene
I which 5saiah speaks. \ erse 12
evidently describes what we would
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elements of character are broken
up. Little by little, alcoholic in
diligence lowers all of one's
ideals.
It is the gateway through which
men pass in their downward
course Alcohol, even in small
quantities, tends to blunt ever)
acute sense, including an acute
conscience, and in the extremity
of indulgence men can find justi
fication for every evil act. They
‘ justify the wicked for a bribe,
and take away the righteousness
of the righteous, from him.”
But Paul points out that God
has created things in such a
that whatever a man sows, that
shall he also reap.
It is the law of the seed. Like
brings fotth like. The hattest is
not governmened by whim
fancy, but by stern laws which no
man may break.
Harvest always depends on sev
eral factors—climate, soil, and the
good judgment and energy of the
sower. But it depends primarily
upon the seed sown, Unless
seed is good, no other factor, no
matter how favorable, will pro
duce a satisfactory harvest.
We cannot sov, tales and expect
wheat. We cannot sow weed seeds
and expect roses. Paul summed it j
up by saying. hatsoevei a man
soweth that shall he also reap. ’
If a man sows across his life the
seeds of self-control, devotion
today call “a „l,ht .pot” with mu
sic „ rre , ponding u modern )M2
and an attitude of derision toward
everything sacred.
The prophet had observed that
night life and devotion to the
Church do *not go together. The
people who thronged the night
clubs of Jerusalem were evidently
listed among the missing at the
temple,
The last penalty for sin is al
ways blindness. When Samson’s
foolhardiness and sin had brought
him into the hands of the Philis
tines, they put out his eyes and
set him to grinding. Drinking and
debauchery will lead even those
whose characters were once with
out blemish into such moral per
versity that they call evil good
and good evil; put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
The end of all this, of course, is
the wrecking of conscience. Every
reader of these words recalls one
or more persons who, starting with
every advantage in life, have
gradually sunk to depths inde
scribable because of liquor.
It is the solvent in which the
COLUMBUS
ROBERTS
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Governor who .__ Has
always Supported the
objectives Of the
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Columbus KoberLs salutes
President Roosevelt upon
his renomination and
pledges continued cooper
ation. as governor, in car
rying out every purpose
set out in the platform
adopted at the Den.ocratic
convention.
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WIN WITH ROBERTS
Keep Georgia Democratic
Join tlw ciJiwn*’ •«
elect him eoverwir end h* wiH
pi re you the honeet. safe, sound,
progressive government yno’ve
always wanted for Georgia.
Write today to tfce . . .
Roberts - for - Governor
Campaign Committee
Piedmont Hotel Atlanta. Ga.
(Larg<*st Coveratjp Any W^’dy in th«* Stfilpi
duty, earnest to hi.;
work, he will a
w ,^ich in the mellow autumn
his life he will gather into his
granaries with joy.
If, on the other hand, he sows
indulgence, double-dealing, lazi
ness, he will come to the end of
jjf e a field as barren as a
wheat field alter a plague of lo
ousts. If he sows to the flesh, he
will reap of the flesh, and the har
vest will be corruption. If he sows
to the spjritt he wiil iea p of the
spirit, and the harvest will be
eternal life.
So not only is the seed
ant; it is also a matter of great
importance where he sows his
seed. What he sows he will reap,
^ut w here he sows will have a
g rea t bearing on the harvest. If
he sows to the flesh, he will
corruption, that its, the rotting
away of his ideals, weakness and
disease D f body, the disintegration
of all fine purposes.
On the other hand, if a man
sows has seed not over the field
0 f ^is own fi e sh, but over the field
of the spirit, he finds therein the
right combination for a great har
vest. His seed is good, his judg
men (. j n cultivating is good, the
c jj mate j s good, the soil is good,
t j, ese good factors assist in the
of the spirit, and the growth
is unto eternal life.
In the field of the flesh rank
weeds grow up to choke the
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growth. In the <ielti C. the spirit
men sow under the 7 C of
God, and the harvest thereol IN
life ev dasting.
Of one thing we can be sure—
me law of the seed always oper
ates, and a harvest there surely
will be, either of good or of evil,
When we build our life on this
confidence, we build it on one oi
God’s unchanging laws. It is a
solemn warning to the wicked and j
a word of great consolation to the
righteous.
But he that endureth to the end,
j the same shall be saved.
"And let us not be weary in
well-doing,” says St. Paul, "for in
due season we shall reap ...” The
harvest is absolutely sure. If our
sewing is evil, the result will be
an evil harvest; if the sowing is
good, the harvest will be spiritual
triumph.
The law of the seed never fails.
Harvest follows planting as day
follows night. Like produces like
jn spiritual matters as in material
The important thing is that we
faint not. "We shall reap,” says
Paul, ‘‘if we faint not . . .
Nothing is ever created without
effort, and character is no excep
tion to this rule. We have to keep
everlastingly at it in the conflict
we wage with our lower natures,
B u t the consolation and assurance
of the Word of God is, "Let us not
be weary in well doing ... for we
s hall reap if we faint not.”
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Phone 101 Covingtoi