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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
Selective Military Service Act
When the draft bill—officially called the selective
military service act—came before Congress, it was known
that the great majority of the American people favored
it. So did all the leading commentators. So did most pub
lic men, including both President Roosevelt and Contender
Willkie. The country looked in wondering amazement at
what the totalitarian powers were doing to once-democrat
ic Europe, and was grimly determined that every possible
step should be taken to make sure that nothing of that
kind would happen here at home. Under those circum
stances, it would have been a reasonable forecast that the
draft measure would go through in jig time.
But it didn’t—Congress has seldom given more time
to debating any measure. And there was a very good
reason for that. Congress did not want the draft bill—the
great majority of the Senators and Representatives voting
for it did so with deep regrets. They supported it, in
brief, because they felt that dire necessity demanded it.
'And they knew that once the bill became law, a great and
as yet unrealized change would have come over the Amer
ican scene.
This country has always been dead set against com
pulsory military service in peacetime. It has always felt
that forcing men to take up arms when we were not at war
was in direct violation of the democratic process and the
democratic tradition. It has looked with a mixture of
pity and contempt on those European nations where for
centuries every able-bodied man has been required to give
a year or two of his life, war or no war, to learning-some
thing about the craft of arms. And yet, despite that, once
the menace of dictatorship became clear, the country re
versed its previous stand and decided that the peace-time
draft was the lesser of the evils.
The mechanics of the law are simple enough. Next
month every man in the nation between the ages of 21 and
35, inclusive, will go to a place of registration and fill out
a blank. Some 1(1,500,000 men will be involved, and by
early next year it is estimated that 900,000 of them will be
called to the colors. The men chosen will serve for a year,
and will he paid $30 a month. There is nothing in the law
granting determent to men with dependents and families
—deferment is specifically granted only to those who, in
the opinion of the President, are filling important jobs in
industries and callings which are essential to defense. It
is believed certain, however, that men with dependents
will not be called unless war comes.
What will be the effect of the draft on our economic
order? Only time can answer that question fully, but some
of the results can be easily foreseen. The bulk of healthy,
single young men will be temporarily taken away from
the society they are used to. They won’t be marrying and
building homes. They won’t be earning good wages and
spending them. Their places will be*taken by older men,
or by men whose physical status makes them unfit for mil
itary life. And when, the year’s training over, these young
men are released, another dislocation will take place. The
draft law provides that every employer who is able to,
must take the conscripts back, and put them in the same
jobs at the same wages. That will mean that men taken
on in the meantime to do the work must be discharged. In
some cases, men who have spent a year in the army will be
slow to get back-again into the routine of their jobs, and
that will involve loss of time and money. All in all, the
draft law will unquestionably create many a problem for
industry no less than the individual.
It doesn’t make a pleasant picture. And certainly, a
peace-time draft is, in principle, opposed to what this kind
of a country and government stands for. But few oppose
the action of Congress in adopting it. Ill-trained soldiers,
in modern war, become easily slaughtered soldiers.
One exceedingly important change in the draft
was made by the House, after the Senate had passed its
version. The change involved the industrial conscription
clause. As originally stated, government could have tak
en over any business and no provision was made for ever
returning it to private ownership. The clause was so gen
erally worded as to make it possible to use the power to
commandeer for political purposes — to punish political
enemies and reward political friends.
The new clause is far better. Checks are provided
against graft and political favoritism. A commandeered
business must be returned to private ownership after five
B years. And no business can be seized until a number of
high officials testify, with adequate proof, that no other
solution is possible.
Large share of the credit for this change must go to
the men who instantly pointed to the dangers in
the first version of the industrial conscription clause. The
House acted swiftly after Mr. Willkie spoke; and the
i Senate concurred.
SOUTHEASTERN FAIR
I long Hundreds -with scores of rural of other Georgians, visitors a
irony tiae southeast, will come to
Atlanta this week to view newer
development in agriculture and
livestock at the Southeastern Fair.
The annual event will begin Sat
urday and will last until October
6. Saturday, October 5, has been
designated as 4-H Club Day, at
which time boys and girls will
take part in a number of scheduled
: events. Various exhibits will be
displajed, an demonstrations con
, cerniag agriculture and livestock
j will Be featured during the week's
K" fair for benefit of all visitors.
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BY MARY LANE
Dear Readers, I’m hoping you
won’t mind too much if we devote
this week’s column to a very
worthy cause. It has been my
custom since writing this column,
that Mr. Dennis was so kind to
give me in his paper each week, to
accept and appreciate all construc
tive and destructive criticism and
try to profit by it. I’ve always tri
ed to give my readers what they
wanted in the best way I knew
how and up to the present there :
have not ben many complaints,
My columns have received favor
able comment from such pro
fessionals as our Editor, Mr.
Dennis, the notable Dudley
Glass, Tom Kinney and
others who have honored
me highly with their favorable
criticism. I have always tried to
keep my columns clean, upright,
lightly humorous and held togeth
er by a religious framework and
devote a good bit of space each
week to church activities. Thus it
grieved my heart deeply to know
that there is a deacon in the
church of my choice who would
get up in a cottage prayer meeting
service and lower and degrade
one of my columns to the extent
that it was .sacriligious and was
making fun of old folks because I
said Isadore Bashinski was get
ting ol dbecause his bones were
cracking. Izzzie is a long way
from being old, in fact he informs
me his birthday is Aug. 29, 1922.
But young folk’s bones get stiff
and crackly in cold weather some
times and I certainly can’^ see any
harm in saying so. I was merely
trying to add a little humor to my
column but I guess I’m no comed
ian! Speaking of old folks reminds
me of my own dear old grand
parents who reared me from the
age of six months and with whom
I lived until their deaths a year
or two years ago. Nobody appreci
ates old folks or shows them any
more respect than I because I was
reared that way. Old folks were
lather and mother to me and I
would be the last person on earth
to refer sacreligiously to an old
person. There will always be a soft
warm spot in my heart for old
folks and oft times I find myself
comparing old folks with my own
grandparents. It is decidedly sur
prising how many little familiar
characteristics "an be noted among
all old folks that brings to my
mind little insignificant things
that I often noted my grandpar
ents do. Dear sweet little things. I
would ask hat the Lord have mer
cy on my soul if 1 would ever
again give the impression to a
church deacon that I was speaking
unceremoniously of any of my
I I e 1 d e r s or of religion.......
Since I was converted
and baptized three years ago
I have been one of God’s helpers
both in and out of the church.
God not only helps me in my ev
eryday work, but in my work for
Him. In my every deed and every
act he is there. Or as is quoted
in the book of Revelation. “Have
no fear, God is with you al
ways.” ... I have always admir
ed the lovely writer Edna Earl, a
character created by Augusta
Evans-Wilson in her famous book.
St. Elmo. I think her prayer to the
Heavenly Father must have been
written especially for me. It goes
something like this . . . “Be pleas
ed O Lord, to make me a fit in
strument for thy work, sanctify
my heart; quicken and enlighten
my mind; grant me patience and
perseverence and unwavering
faith; guide me into paths that
lead to truth; enable me in all
things o labor with an eye single
1 to thy glory; caring less for the
DAIRYMEN SEEK
IMPROVEMENT
Dairy farmers whose herds are
enrolled in the dairy hqrd-im
provement associations throughout
the 48 States are making good use
of the production records o ftheir
cows to weed out the inferior
sires, the Bureau of Dairy Indus
try reports this week in issuing its
fo rth annual list of sires used and
proved in the association herds,
The 1940 list contains the names,
and the da-m-and-daugi.jer com
parisons, of 3.183 sires proved be
tween April 1, 1939 and April 1
1940. This nufnber compares with
| 1.348 sires proved in the preced
infi 12 months.
THE COVINGTON NEWS (Largest Coverage Any Weekly
Cotton Marketing
Quota Announced
For 1941 Season
Get more money for your cotton
through proper handling and gin
ning. Here are shown three far
mers and ginners talking it over
as they look at an Extension pos
ter which urges better preparation
and ginning of cotton. Left to
right, the are George Dean, Hart
county farmer and ginner; C. L
McDuffie, Hart farmer; and C. E.
Williams .Hart ginner and farmer.
They’re among the hundreds of
Georgia farmers and ginners ad
vocating a reduction in rough
ginnned cotton which each year
amounts to over a half million
dollars.
Seeded on Bermuda sods in tht
early fall, crimson clover can be
depended upon to give excellent
grazing at the time of year most
needed.
applause of the world than for the
advancement of the cause of
Christ. O my Father and God.
bless the work on which I am
about to enter, crown it with suc
cess, accept me as an humble tool
for the benefit of my race, and
when the days of my earthly pil
grimage are ended, receive my sou!
into that eternal rest which thou
hast prepared from the founda
tions of the world, for the sake ot
Jesus Christ.” . . . Ever since 1
was a little girl I have been TRY
ING to write. In my childhood
days I often made up little stories
of my own and tried to write
poetry, struggling trying to make
things to labor with an eye single
one word rhyme with another
not knowing one principle oi
poetry scanning or one line of
meter from another. The first little
poem I ever wrote was about
eight lines of poorly composed
rhyme “Jesus, A friend in Need”.
But I know now that it wasn’t
the actual written lines that
, counted but its meaning and the
attitude in which I wrote it that
made it a masterpiece to me! I
have always tried to put God first
and I believe only by doing so
will one hit the road to success. I
have never ceased to conciliate
popular prejudices, have never
written a line that my conscience
did not dictate and my religious
convictions sanction and have nev
er penned a page without a prayer
from on High. How true friends
is that saying—“He that writes or
makes a feast, more certainly in
vites his judges than his friends.
There’s not a guest but will find
something wanting or ill-drest!” .
When God bestows a talent upon
a person he is not well pleased
if this person allows his talent tc
rest and not put it to use . . .
As the man in the Bible story . .
To us whom God has given a tal
ent let us put it to work and make
it good. God will be pleased with
us then because we have obeyed
Him . . . Good people I hope you
will pray for me as the deacon sug
gested in the prayer meeting ser
vice. I think it was a very good
idea. But I hope the prayers will
be to clear me of this abusement
in the eyes of man-not in the
eyes of God because in his there
is no reproach ... As a young
Christian I make a personal appeal
to the members of my church and
to all my readers Not to pray that
I will STOP this so called sacre
ligious writing but that I shall
r* ? _r '’ ThT' ttt t" write more and
more and bigger and better
j e,..u uay . . . .,..w that you’ve
a peep into my private life Dear
Readers, I hope you will continue
to read my columns if you like.
And if you don’t—I won’t know
it anyway MAY GOT
BLESS YOU ALL! . . .
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