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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXX > NO. 42
CENSUS REVEALS
THAT GEORGIANS
ARE AT WORK
FIGURES SHOW THAT UNEM
PLOYMENT SITUATION IN
STATE IS NOT ACUTE.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Optimism over |
the unemployment situation in Geor-|
gia is expressed by census supervis-j
ors, who say that data gathered by (
their forces show that most Geor-!
gians are at work.
Figures on unemployment were >
sent to the bureau of census at
Washington by most of the super
visors before they were notified
they could announce their findings
locally. However, the supervisors
were virtually all of the opinion that
the unemployment situation in this
state was by no means acute.
The figures of Atlanta were not
available, but Dr. Elizabeth Broach,
census supervisor, said the percent
age of persons idle here was small.
Columbus, a manufacturing city,
showed less than 3 per cent of her
citizens out of work. C. M. Young,
supervisor of census, said that on
April 2 there were 1,716 persons
idle in Columbus with a population
of 43,073. This percentage was un
usual, in face of the fact that
Columbus has 14 large textile mills,
indicating the factories were run
ning with good crews.
Mr. Young said that conditions
had improved since April 2 and
doubted if the percentage now would
exceed 2 1-2 per cent.
The Athens district is mostly agri
cultural and the supervisor said
the “matter of unemployment in the
ten counties of this district was of
little importance.”
He pointed out that most of the
farm laborers who were idle when
the census was taken in the spring,
went to work soon afterwards, piant
ing and cultivating.
The same situation existed in the
sixth district, with Newnan as head
quarters. Paul S. Barrett, super
visor, reported “there was very
little unemployment in this district.”
The fifth district also is largely agri
cultural. He estimated that less
than 1,000 persons were idlte in La-
Grange, Manchester, Carrollton, Ban
ning, Sargent and Douglasville.
Plants in the Rome and Gaines
ville districts have been running
on good schedules and indications
were that unemployment there was
slight.
There were no figures available
QUALITY
MERCHANDISE
.... AT THE RIGHT PRICE ....
We have the following lines of out
standing merchandise:
FOR LADIES
Gordon and Humming Bird Hose
Gordon Silk Underwear and Pajamas
FOR MEN
Stetson and Thoroughbred Hats
Peters’ Shoes
Hanes’ Underwear
Hapgrade Work Clothing
New Goods Arriving Daily
Come to See Us
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
■ Cornitj JXcws
43 CANDIDATES
IN STATE PRIMARY
Slaton Qualifies in Senatorial Race
Against W. J. Harris.
Atlanta, Ga.—Forty-three candi
dates have qualified for 17 state of
fices to be voted for in the primary
of September 10th.
The late surprise entries were
those of former Governor John M.
Slaton for the United States senate
against William J. Harris; James J.
! Flint for secretary of state with sev
[ en other candidates; L. P. Patillo, of
I Buford, for state treasurer, against
ithe veteran, W. J. Speer; Edgar T.
; Gentry, insurance man of Atlanta,
1 for comptroller general; Frazier M.
Morgan, real estate man of Atlanta,
against Hal M. Stanley for com
merce and labor; Guy Stone, of
Glenwood, against Calvin W. Parker,
for public service commission; and
Robert B. Blackburn, of Atlanta,
against Judge Sam C. Atkinson for
the supreme court.
The only three present office hold
ers to get by without opposition
were Perry T. Knight, to succeed
himself on the public service commis
sion; Judge W. Frank Jenkins to
succeed himself on the court of ap
peals, and Judge S. Price Gilbert to
succeed himself on the supreme
court.
The full official list of candidates
who have qualified are:
For United States senate: William
J. Harris, John M. Slaton.
For governor: Richard B. Russell,
Jr., George IL Carswell, John N.
Holder, James A. Perry, E. D. Riv
ers.
For secretary of state: A. H.
Henslee, Louis S. Moore, Carl N.
Guess, J. M. Pitner, John B. Wilson,
D. Talmadge Bowers, Nat H. Bal
lard.
For attorney general: Dorsey Da
vis, George M. Napier.
For comptroller-general: W. Har
rison, Homer C. Parker, B. M. Bull
ard, Edgar T. Gentry.
For commissioner of agriculture:
J. J. Brown, Eugene Talmadge.
For commissioner of commerce and
labor: Hal M. Stanley, Frazier M.
Morgan.
For state superintendent schools:
M. L. Duggan, M. D. Collins.
For pension commissioner: John
(Continued on page 5)
from the Savannah district.
The News has seen no report on
I the unemployment situation in this
district. Being largely agricultural,
the unemployment figures would
probably show very few unemployed.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1930,
Nineteen Boys and Girls
To Receive Diplomas at
School’s Close Friday Night
The curtain will be rung down on
the 1929-’3O session of the Blakely
public schools Friday night, when
the 1930 graduation exercises will
be held. At this time the following
class will receive diplomas: Boys,
Bernard Daniels, Woodrow Grimsley,
Hiram Johnson, B. P. Keaton, Tom
mie Owens, Whitley Peters, Law
rence Rambo, J. C. Temples; Girls,
Christine Balkcom, Martha Collins,
Emma Gay, Mary Grist, Margaret
Kelley, Wynnis Roberts, Ossie Lou
Sanders, Willie Tinsley, Irene Wal
ker, Rheba Whitehurst, Mae Mc-
Cullers.
The program of exercises will
take place at the school auditorium
at 8:00 p. m., and the following
program will be rendered:
I Processional.
Invocation—Rev. F. G. Cocks.
Class Song.
Salutatory—Wynnis Roberts.
History—Mary Grist.
Poem—Ossie Lou Sanders.
Prophecy—Martha Collins.
Last Will and Testament—Mar
garet Kelley.
Valse BriMante (Holst) —Mary
Grist and Martha Collins.
Giftorian—Willie Tinsley.
Valedictory—Emmie Gay.
Presentation of Key—Woodrow
Grimsley.
Delivery of Dipliomas and Awards.
Singing to You, Old High—Class.
Miss Emmie Gay made first hon
or this year, with a general average
of 97 9-28. Miss Wynnis Roberts
made second honor, with a general
average of 96 9-14, although closely
followed by Miss Martha Collins,
with an average of 96 8-14, and Miss
Mary Grist, with 96 12-31.
The following Seniors were ex
empt from all examinations: Wood
row Grimsley, J. C. Temples, Mar
tha Collins, Emmie Gay, Mary
Grist, Margaret Kelley and Wynnis
Roberts.
“Miss Blue Bonnet,” Class Play, at
School Auditorium Tonight.
The Senior Class will present
the play, “Miss Blue Bonnet,” at the
school auditorium tonight at 8:30
p. m. The play has been carefully
coached and there are a number of
pretty choruses to be interspersed
with the acts of the play to round
out an enjoyable program.
Baccalaureate Sermon Delivered
Last Sunday.
The baccalaureate sermon was de
livered last Sunday morning at the
Methodist church, the speaker being
Rev. Wilkes Dendy, of Cairo. Rev.
Mr. Dendy brought his hearers an
excellent message, pronounced by
those who heard it as one of the best
of its kind ever delivered in the
city.
The program carried out was as
follows:
Processional.
Doxology—Congregation.
Invocation —Rev. F. H. Chapman.
Anthem: Praise Ye the Father
(Gounod)—Choir.
Scripture and Prayer—Rev. W. H.
Ketchum.
Hymn: All Hail the Power of
Jesus’ Name —Congregation.
Introduction of Speaker—Rev. F.
H. Chapman.
Sermon—Rev. Wilkes Dendy.
Hymn: Onward, Christian Sol
dier—Congregation.
Benediction —Rev. Wilkes Dendy.
The Recitals.
Other programs carried out as
part of the commencement festivities
were three recitals. On last Thurs
day afternoon, May 29th, at 4:00 p.
m., Misses Madeline Gilbert, Sadie
Standifer, Myrvis Lawrence, Judith
Rambo and Master W. F. Lawrence
—music pupils of Miss Annie V.
Womack—were heard in an interest
ing recital, a number of friends be
i ing present.
On Friday night last other music
I pupils were heard in a recital at the
auditorium at 8:00 p. m., a large
crowd being present.
On Tuesday afternoon of this
week Mieses Mary Grist and Martha
Collins gave a piano recital at the
auditorium at four o’clock.
All of these recitals were well at
tended and much praise was given
both teachers and pupils for their
excellency.
Exempt from Final Examination*
Final examinations are taking
place this week. Supt. Mangham
announces that the following were
exempt from all examinations:
4th Grade—Raymond Duke, Carl
Elkin, Leonard Houston, Stanley
Sherman, James Warrick, Winifred
Davis, Sara De Wolfe, Emma Fran
ces Gay, Louise Howell, Eleanor
Strickland, Jeanette Williams.
sth Grade —Clayton Camp, Bruce
Williams, Lillian Fryer, Miriam God
win, Frances Grubbs, Virginia Ha
gen, Marjorie Standifer.
6th Grade —Tom Bynum, Lewis
Fryer, Andrew Singletary, Charles
Edward Yarbrough, Annie Nell Col
lins, Martha Davis, Margaret Fitz
gerald, Lucy Maddox, Judith Rambo,
Alice Rhodes, Eunice Weaver.
7th Grade—Edgar Brunson, Billie
Hall, DuPont Strong, Eunice Allen,
Sara Boyett, Madeline Gilbert, Myr
vis Lawrence, Marjorie Spence, Sa
die Standifer, Olivia Weaver.
High School—Hazel Warrick, Mar
ion Daniels, Elizabeth Fryer, Forrest
Williams, John Wjlliams, Alice Sin
gletary, Louie Fort, Miram Brooks,
Amanda Barksdale, Carolyn Loy
less, Nancy Fitzgerald, Katie Mae
Brackin, Inez Berman.
COMMISSIONERS IN
SESSION TUESDAY
Call Upon Tax Commissioner for
Settlement of 1929 Taxes.
The Board of County Commission
ers, in regular session Tuesday, pass
ed a resolution calling upon Mr. J. L.
Houston, Tax Commissioner, for set
tlement of 1929 taxes. The Tax
Commissioner in turn, was instructed
to call on Sheriff Sid Howell for
complete settlement by June 18th.
The usual monthly bills were aud
ited and warrants issued for their
payment.
An order was passed for the erec
tion of a 71 ft. steel bridge over
Dry Creek on the Blakely and Damas-
I cus public road.
| Several were relieved of road
I taxes due to over age on the part of
the petitioners.
Orders for supplies were approved.
Present at the meeting were C. E.
Martin, chairman, C. D. Tyler, T. G.
Harvey, Jr., and Willie Wiley.
EARLY COUNTY WOMEN
TO GO TO CAMP WILKINS
The women of Early coiinty are
1 invited to attend a week’s camp at
. Camp Wilkins, beginning June 16th.
i This will be a week of pleasure as
| well as a week of study in farm
! problems, chicken raising, canning,
. etc. It is a fine thing and lam sure
that we are to enjoy it and to profit
from our trip.
The expenses of the trip will not
be heavy—s7.oo for board and a
share of the transportation. I am
trying to arrange to have several
club in together and go in cars. If
you are interested, please come to
see me or write me at once.
If you are afraid you won’t enjoy
and learn lots at Camp Wilkins, ask
our 4-H Club Girls who went last
summer. It is fine, and I hope we
can have several cars from Early
county.
Please get in touch with me at
once.
MRS. McARTHUR JONES,
County School Supt.
CO-OPERATIVE HOG
SALE NEXT TUESDAY
County Agent W. A. Fuqua an
nounces that next Tuesday, June 10,
is the date of the next co-operative
hog sale. He urges that the swine
be brought in as early as possible.
This will be the only sale to be
held during the month of June.
NO TIME TO CUT
WAGES, FORD DECLARES
Auto Magnate Say* Country Exists
On the Pay Envelope.
Detroit, Mich.—The shortest cut
to relief from the present business
depression, in the opinion of Henry
Ford, is an intensive development of
agriculture and manufacture, look
ing to quantity production from the
soil. “This is not just a fanciful
idea,” Mr. Ford told David J. Wilkie,
Associated Press correspondent, in a
recent interview. “It is the way out
of stagnation.”
Coupling this with the statement
that “it will take just as long to get
rid of the depression as it took to
accumulate it,” Mr. Ford added.
“We need to keep up the people’s
spirit, and you can not do that with
talk; you must do it by action. One
expenditure made in faith in the
future is worth all the words any
one may say. Issuing optimistic
statements on the one hand and
lowering wages on the other hand
is a sure way to prevent better
ment. This is no time to lower
wages. Those who are lowering
wages now don’t know what they
are doing. They are hitting the coun
try when she is down. They will
see the time when wages will be
higher than they have ever been.”
“Can any one man, President Hoo
ver, for example, do anything to
hasten the return of business pros
perity?” Mr. Ford was asked.
“President Hoover has done ev
erything any one could do to bring
about improvement in business and
industry,” he replied. “Everything
President Hoover has advised or
tried to put into effect has been
sound. He asked industry and busi
ness to keep wages up. He’s right,
and he knows ,'Zhat he’s talking
about. Wages are too low every
where. This country exists on the
pay envelope. There is where we
must begin.”
Reverting to his belief that quan
tity production from the soil is es
sential, Mr. Ford said:
“Os course, the steady desertion
of the farm can not continue for
ever. Too many people have be
lieved that Santa Claus lives in the
city. They were raising a million
dollars to advertise Detroit and
bring more people here. I told them
the money would be better spent to
educate people how to get away
from the city. Half the people out
of work in Detroit have farms they
could work on.”
Asked whether quantity production
from the soil would not mean over
production and waste, Mr. Ford said:
What we call waste is only sur
plus, and surplus is always'the start
ing point of new uses. We used to
think corn was nothing but food un
til we produced too much of it. Now
we use more corn industrially than
we ver did for food. Everything
that is produced from the soil can
be used for some purpose. Chemistry
alone is crying for it, and industry
not only can find a use for but has
need for everything the soil produces
that is not converted into foodstuffs.”
There is too much talk, Mr. Ford
said, of conditions as they were a
year ago, compared with today. “The
past is absolutely gone,” he said.
“The whole world wants to get to
work and not just reestablish condi
tions of a year ago. We don’t want
the old system back. We want a bet
ter one.”
Forty years of study of and experience with medi
cines, together with a real desire to help his fel
lowman, has qualified Mr. Balkcom to give you
valuable health hints.
At this season you need
Rexall Sarsaparilla Tonic
to purify your system
Rexall Iron and Cascara Tonic
to sharpen the appetite
to enrich the blood
to strengthen the nerves
A Wonderful Combination of Health ,
Builders ' n 1
Balkcom’s Drug Store
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$2.00 A YEAR
GRAND MASTER
PAYS MAGNOLIA
LODGE A VISIT
BANQUET SERVED TO VISITING
MASONS ON THURSDAY
NIGHT OF LAST WEEK.
Magnolia Lodge No. 86 was hon
ored with a visit from the Grand
Master of Georgia Masons on last
Thursday night in the person of
Hugh W’. Taylor, of Cuthbert. In ad
dition to the Grand Master, there
were other prominent Masons here,
including W. B. Graham of Fort
Gaines, Past Grand High Priest of
the Grand Chapter of Georgia; Zach
Arnold of Fort Gaines, and L. M.
Moye of Cuthbert.
Past Master J. O. Bridges pre
sented the Grand Master at the altar,
where he was formally welcomed by
Worshipful Master J. G. Standifer,
and given the grand honors by
the brother Masons. The Grand
Master spoke for several minutes on
Masonic Education, and appealed for
the co-operation of the members of
Magnolia Lodge in carrying out the
State program for the current year.
A rather sentimental happening
followed the Grand Master’s talk,
when Dr. W. B. Standifer, Mag
nolia’s oldest Past Master, was pre
sented with a beautiful jewel by
the visiting Grand Master, the jewel
being a gift from Magnolia Lodge
as a memento of 50 years of mem
bership.
The gathering then adjourned to
re-assemble at the American Legion
Hall, where the Ladies’ Auxiliary of
that organization had prepared a
banquet for the Masons. Seated at
the table with the distinguished vis
itor were seven Past Masters of
Magnolia Lodge and several Past
High Priests of Blakely Chapter No.
44 R. A. M. and several visiting
i Masons. With Worshipful Master
Standifer acting as toastmaster, the
following were called on for short
talks: Past Masters T. F. Cordray,
J. O. Bridges, C. T. Alexander, R.
H. Stuckey, Jr., Alto Warrick and
Lowrey Stone; Past High Priests H.
B. Ainsworth, T. O, Whitchard, A.
T. Fleming, W. J. Grist, W. C. Cook
and Shelly Simmons. R. C. Single
tary and F. A. Barham were also
called on and responded. Visiting
Masons speaking were Hugh W. Tay
lor, W. B. Graham, Zach Arnold and
L. M. Moye.
Nearly a hundred Masons were
present for the official visitation of
the Grand Master and the banquet
following the special communication
held at the Lodge room.
Judge A. W. Cozart, of Columbus,
was elected president of the Georgia
Bar Association at its meeting at
j Brunswick the past week.