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IHL COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON GEORGIA
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
Mother’s Day
Probably no other single day has the wide appeal that
Mother’s Dav of' has— tor practically every one of us carries
memories childhood davs with Mother.
Next Sunday those blessed with living Mothers will
pause m a madcap world to pay tribute to that person
en described as our best friend. Many are the gifts that
will be piled at the feet of the Mothers in America, but
they in themselves are of small importance, being mere
tokens of unspoken love and devotion. The real signifi
cance of the day lies in the motherlove buried deep in
every individual.
Tho.se of us who are without Mothers next Sunday
will pause and for a brief moment our memories will flick
er back, long yanrs to those days when Mother was alive.
Those little things that she did to ease an ache or pain
will stand out in our minds.
The Mothers of many living today went on to their
reward before finding out the part in life that their son or
daughter would fill. Every individual today owes it to their
memory to do their best to carry on in a manner that would
make them proud were they with us this Mother’s Day.
Mother's Dav 1.941 will dawn on a world torn with
strife and sorrow in the wake of war that is slowly encirc
ling us. Mothers in many lands today are heavy hearted as
the war clouds rumble over the land taking the youth of
the and as sacrifice to war-mad dictators.
On the other hand children of all ages stand with eves
filled with tears or dried from fears as war planes fly off
in the distance, after dropping their deadly loads on a
helpless civilian population, and leave in their wake the
dead-among them-Mothers !
We can all pause here, in America, next Sunday and
thank our Gods that such fate has not yet befallen our land
and resolve in the memoi v of those Mothers who have
gone on and in honor of those living today, that we, as
Americans, will strive, united, to preserve our Democracy
and way of living for future generations. '
Music Week
rriL- 1S eek I.. the natl0n ,. . observing . .... National Music .
1S
VVeek, 1 With - u radio j programs, local talent entertainments,
J concerts by more advanced professional musicians and
other ceremonies, including special club meetings, special
classes in schools, all dedicated to the wider appreciation
and understanding of music, especially the music Of the
masters, which is heard too seldom and understood and
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appreciated too little.
n ■ c °mmendable that ,, , week . . be devoted , , to
. • a mtensi
^ ^ e * rl ^ eles |' *b e American people in the better
music oi the world. It has been sadly neglected and in its
rightful place has been substituted the sensuous and force
ful physical appeal of music with an exaggerated promi
nence of rhythm, which, while seeming to satisfy the nat
ural appetite for music in the heart, leaves the hearer with
an intensive and too often misunderstood sense of desire
leading to a feeling of frustration ’ from which * neoDlc people, e«’
• || ,1 j
. etU t0
which which 'now now and and then then" lead U ? to serious °“ S> try complications. *? Ca P e by means
i Ut, It IS not the intent of this writing to condemn
model ii music. >\ e belive it has its place in the life of
everybody. Our intention is to call attention to the fact that
music which may not be appreciated at the first hearing
should also have its place in our lives. The very fact that
it may be heard over and over again for years and
is an indicaton that it is worth hearing the first time.' The
lasting pleasure and satisfaction that it gives one who
takes the trouble to understand it will more than pay for
the efloit it may take.
19 one °f things that makes living , worth
while. The great statemen, the great warriors, the great
imentors ot the world may be better known by the average
person than the great composer or the great musician. But
if it were not for the composers and musicians and the
other arts and artists it is a question whether or not there
would be states for the statemen or nations for warriors to
defend, and the great inventions would contribute little to
a life v-iihout beauty. The animals of the forests have the
necessities of life. If that was all we had, even including
the contributions of the statesmen, warriors, inventors
others who lead us to better ways of living, we would find
life dull and incomplete.
It is human nature to have a desire for art and
beauty in our lives. We would not willingly fight for a na
tion without art. If we did we would be slaves, taking the
lesser of two evils; that is, to fight and take a chance on
beig killed or not fight and know we would be executed,
as the dictatoi-ridden countries or Europe are doing now.
If we fight for things we love we do not have to be forced
to light. Music is one of the things that make this country
worth fighting for.
Political campaigns have been won by a song. Soldiers
have gone into battle, singing a song ad emerged victorious
or else died bravely because of the uplifting and inspir
mg effect of the music in their hearts.
If the music of a jieople be neglected then one of the
most powerful forces that bind them together is lost. The
memories of the songs sung in our own homes is one thing
that can be carried with us anywhere we go. Hearing or
singing a familiar melody in an unfamiliar place will bring
to our minds pictures of home and loved ones more quicklv
and more powerful and compelling in effect than almost
anything might '
we encounter.
Tonight, here in Covington, the Covington Music Ginh
is sponsoring a concert bv Fraciszek Zachara a pianist of
world-" j de repute Everyone in Covington and Newton
County should try to attend. Especially should the young
people be encouraged to attend and hear this artist. It
V! , be time well spent.
lhe Music Club is doing a great work in bringing to
the people of this vicinity a more complete appreciation
the beauty and uset c Iness ot music m ou, es and thev
,
a- 1 fullest extent possible bv each
.. <*. Attending this concert will do much toward this end.
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(Our Advertiser* Are Assured of Results)
School Lesson
THE HOME AND THE PROB
I.EM OF BEVERAGE ALCOHOL
Deuteronomy 6:4-7; Jeremiah
75:5-10.
Golden Text: Train up a rhiid
in the way he should go: and when
he is old. he will not depart from
it. Proverbs 22:6.
A great shoe manufacturer had
above his desk, framed as a motto,
the following words: “God first.
family second, shoes third.” A man
i came to Jesus, asking. “Which is |
the first commandment of all?”,
In effect Jesus replied. “Love God
wholeheartedly, and your neigh
bor as yourself” (Mark 12:28-31)
Summing up the secret of the vie- j
torious life. Jesus on another oc
casion said: “Seek ye first the
kingdom of Gcd. and his right
e-ousness: and all these things shall
he added unto you” (Matt. 6:33).
° l,r Lord, while fulfilling this j
,n,th > dld not s ive ]t original
statement Long before. Moses had
Primed: ‘Hear, O Israel: the
thmi shalt love (he Lord thy God
with all thine heart and with a u
thy soul, and with all thy might.”
This supreme commandment
throughout both the Old Testa
; ment and the New Testament. It
: ls a basic revelation and a fund
' amenta5 Command. The place in
which any man puts God deter
mines everything else in his life,
If he puts God first, life means
one thing. If he puts him second.
V vSsLg’^m £*£ Zdel
imte list, life means something
else. True religion may well be
def 'n e d as that attitude which puts
God ahead of a,i other loyalties
and interests. Chri?t makes it clear
again and again that he must be
T ° „ r . 0 . whe^thk .,, , , .
a t al]
tied, all other moral and spiritual
problems fall into line of solution
The religion of the Bible is a
family religion. God’s oldest in
stitution. antedating the state, the
church - tb e school. i s the family
Wb ™ God gave the greai
i uths ™ hlch were t0 be passed on
j d thTAhe Va^ot theTSl
about God himself should be taught
diligently unto the children. Fa
rents must talk to their children
about them while sitting in the
house, when walking by the way.
when lying down at night, and
when arising next morning. Lack
ing books and pencils and papei
such as we have, these Jewish pa
rent-teachers were to write thf
words*of truth on scraps of parch
ment and then bind them upon
their headp and fasten them a*
frontlets between their eyes. Not
°, nly so ’ but they were ' to wri
these “memory verses” upon the
posts of their houses and on the
gates, a child thus brought up and
instructed would know by heart
the great central truths that God
commanded especially to be re
rnembered and passed on from
" ene ration to generation.
The sc ' ence of education has
! marie great advance<: Kince the days
i of Moses ' yet k is t0 be doubt -
Moses’ olan has hpen snr
| passed. He placed responsibility for
the religious education of children
squarely upon their parents. We
have placed this responsibility up
I on the school and the Sunday
i school, with less and less emphasis
u P° n tbe necessity for parents
teachin g the Bible and °t he r re
llgious matters to their children
f* home ' ^ 'L not higb time ^ hat
tw s mistakS 8 3nd c ° ing
The home is society’s basic in
stitution. Whatever injures the
home hurts everything else in hu
man life. Of all the curses that
have ravaged home life, none sur
pa “ a1coho1 - A recent surve v of tbe
socia cost of the liquor traffic i
poin ts out that there are no ade "
Z'e . dam
"
munities. There is no way""'' of
knowing what necessities or edu
rational and cultural advantages
families must go without in order
to pay the drink bill of one or
more members. Doctors do not re- j
port the cases in which health
slo ^ ly “ ndermined if not de *
h-L a lcoho l- Reform
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their findings on alcohol’s contri
bution to illegitimacy, divorce,!
broken homes. Public health !
board* —do not publicize alcohol’s |
contribution toward the spread of i
,he RO called social d 'seases. Min-:
lsters do no ‘ repni '- ^ 1b ' : ' on-'
, 1*'" f, ’'f tband
" ,nr : |
| destroyed'bv^l^bol wi . ”
I home*
Yet a * the report points out an
.b
j dav - They are ail about „ s woven !
.
inl ° the fabric of our comm unity
} ,ife !ation ' When> :hi P s we through personal their re
-' - are aware of
j implication for individuals, cur
he ! rts are fi!led with bit te>-ness
t^ r h e 'of “ ntmen ‘ toward the socie
Much
bquor traffic is borne in loneli
nes5 ' humiliation, and sorrow. The
worst Charge against us made
by our liquor traffic is its indict
ment of 0UI ignorance and stu
p, ^ De ty f ,u and ctl0n mo,a! nought lazine ' s - b
£ h y war,
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
the multitudinous debts which
have been piled by this generation
upon the shoulders of the next—
are not these burdens great
enough without adding to them
the tragic load of alcolholism?
Other curses we may not be able
to avoid, but here is one that we
can and must lift from our child
reh and our children’s children,
The prophet Jeremiah uses the
story of the Rechabites to illus
strate the value to a family or
tribe of total abstinence from
strong drink. The Rechabites.
named after the founder, Rechab.!
were a family, noted for total ab- j
stinence from the use of alcohol
They persisted through the cen
turies. characterized by their phy
sieal vigor and spiritual vitality
While Jeremiah was foretelling
the doom of the city, the prophe’ i
welcomed them, made their re
fusal to drink an example, held
them up to the degenerate city
dwellers as models, and put h:s
eords them as existing in New
Testament times and in modern
times they are said to live still
in Syria and Arabia,
That the vigor of the family
stock i s reduced by the use of al
cohol is a well-established fact,
Children born of alcoholic parents
are not well born. They come into
the world under a handicap and
often go through life crippled in
mind and body because of their
j ^ wtSenfmeS Sv^
ness and physical weakness and
deformity are caused by the
drinking of parents, but student*
on the subject are agreed that the
toll is staggering.
. As terrible as are the conse
quences of alcohol to those who
drink * eyen more ? ppallin e
a / e th su / f fe ™ “ tailed
' ts inno< . ; ent y ictims - Our children
are ° ur truest wealth, and no gain
^™ d poss L b 'j.. compensate f °i
, "to ^hem^oT
continue “tsZt barter lLuor buTiness the
the
FoUowinjf thf Truth
G<dde " Text tells us: “Train
up a child in the wa Y he shouk
go; and when he is old ' h e will
not de P art fr °m it.” But no matte:
what bis home training may be
bow can there be assurance that
tbe cbild will go right when the
romr fiunity. the state, and the na
l ' on are ab organized to entice
1 him to S p wrong in the drink
in £ of "quor? No matter what
certain of »s may think as indi
viduals > ar e we not as a people
training up our children to be
drinkers, in the dead certainty
1hat man >' of them when they
* row old - wl11 depart from j
An mdividual home is faced l
with Skater odds when in other
homes liquor is served freely. ;
f rorn almost every drugstore, ho- I
te1, pati ng place, refreshmen' I
s t and - wayside inn, as well as from j
,he coholic saloons drinks and may liquor be had stores. by Al- al- j
most anybody. The time ] j
is rip<
n° r SUCh 8 " usade as thl * wor,d
never known nefore , Drains'
this monstrous evil! Will do i
you
your part?
Letters Tn IjiillOi Frlifr»r
May 5, 1941
My dear Mr. Dennis:—
To be given the opportunity to
bestow honor where honor is due.
is no small privilege.
“But —^I confess myself inadequate
To set you down in words that
poets use.
The fainting phrase is still one
gift of fate, to’
That I have yet win bv rich'
w e ruse.”
I am jure I voice the sentiment
of each member of the Garde"
Club, as well as your man:
friends, when I tell you that 3 'ou
publicity points, and the space you
have always given the Club, hav?
added much to its success.
With grateful hearts we thank i
you for your hearty cooperation, i
Mrs. Robert Fowler, Sr., Cor. Sec. i
To help us out where words
would fail
God gave us flowers to t^ll the
tale:
He made them of so many hues
For all occasions we can choose:
ti -ey speak a language all their
own,
•ly every heart their meaning’s
known.”
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