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Blakely, Ga., June 18, 1931.
It will soon be Governor Rus
sell.
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An attempt to please every one
sometimes results in pleasing no
one.
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Those who are anxious that the
bob-white quail should be perpet
uated should find the articles by
Herbert L. Stoddard now being pub
lished weekly in The News of gen
uine interest.
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Showers have fallen in some sec
tions of South Georgia during the
past few days, but the larger part of
Early county is still suffering from
one of the driest spells in recent
years. All crops with the exception
of cotton are suffering badly, and
unless rain falls within the next few
few days the injury will, be serious'.
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The United States government is
after Al Capone, Chicago’s gang
leader, for evasion of income tax
payments. Indictments sufficient to
send the gang leader up for quite a
number of years, if he be convicted,
have been returned. Perhaps Uncle
Sam will succeed where city and
state authorities have failed in
placing this notorious “wop” in con
finement.
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The statement of Roger Babson, i
noted statistician, that business has
passed its worst is reassuring. Mr.
Babsqn states that recovery will be
tedious, but is sure to be followed by
an era of prosperity. It will be
remembered that Mr. Babson pre
dicted the present depression just
a few weeks before the stock mar
ket crash of 1929, therefore, his
prediction of recovery will not be
treated lightly.
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When a private business has a
deficit, it begins to cast around for
ways and means to increase its earn- >
ing power or decrease its overhead.
Now that our Federal government ■
is facing a gigantic deficit, many of
our lawmakers are chiefly concerned
with how to “increase” taxes. Tax
gatherers overlook the simple fact
that in times of distress, the more
taxes that are taken from the peo
ple, the less money there is for
productive enterprise. And it is from
productive enterprise that all taxes
and employment must eventually i
come. Industries and individuals
have been readjusting themselves to I
present conditions. Let tax-levying
bodies follow the same course.
The Moultrie Observer is hopeful
of action by the incoming legislature
towards effecting a more simple, ef-|
ficient and economical state govern- i
mcnt, as witness the following:
“There were many ‘issues’ in the
campaign for governor last year,
but most of them have faded. Just
now it seems that the ' one issue ■
claiming more attention than any
other is that concerning a reorgani
zation of the departments of state:
government. Unless the politicians
are able to run into something,
ahead, like the proposed redistricting
of the state, we have a good chance
to get action from the incoming
legislature and the new governor on
the matter of making the state.
government more simple, more es- j
ficient and more economical.”
TOMORROWj
fl FRANK PARKER „'I
I ' SIDCKBRIME I
GOLD
New gold discoveries are reported
from Mexico and South Austrialia.
How rich they are has not yet been
determined. The Austrialian “reef”
has long been a tradition under the
name of “Aladdin’s Cave,” so rich
is it supposed to be in the precious
metal. The Mexican bonanza is said
to be also rich in silver, lead and
petroleum. Both regions are in ter
ritory occupied by hostile natives.
If either report proves true there
will be another great slaughter of
aborigines who stand in the way of
the white man’s greed, and there
will be such an addition to the
world’s gold supply as to still fur
ther complicate the money problem.
Gold will be cheaper, which means
that prices will be higher. It is
doubtful whether society as a whole
will be any better off.
VACCINATION
The health officer of Newark,
N. J., recently required everybody
living in a certain section of the
city, some 1,400 persons, to be vac
cinated.
There was, of course, the usual
protest on the part of ignorant and
wrong headed persons who “don’t
believe in” vaccination. The world
is full of people who “don’t be
lieve in” the facts of modern science.
Not long ago the same sort of peo
ple “didn’t believe in” flying ma
chines.
The fact is that vaccination has
resulted, in 132 years, in making
smallpox a minor and controllable
infection in every civilized country.
Vaccination is not pleasant, and
there are people who are unhappy
when deprived of the privilege of
shooting off revolvers at random.
Society has to protect the many
against the undisciplined few, wheth
er the menace be pistols or small
pox.
TRICKERY
The more I see of the motion
picture business the less respect I
have for the methods and morals
of the movie magnates.
The latest scheme to lure the
pennies from the pockets of the pub
lic is to sell advertising in the talk
ies. Some of the films which are
being shown are honest enough. They
are distinctly labelled as advertis
ing, and everybody who doesn’t want
his evening’s entertainment commer
cialized can get up and go out. But
there are others in which the adver
tising—for which the movie pro
ducers take money—is cleverly in
troduced in so-called featurte pic
tures. Yet the local exhibitors are
asked to pay just as much for these
films as for any others.
CHAINS
There is nothing illegal about
chain stores, but the Supreme Court
of the United States has decided
than any state has the right to tax
them at a different rate from other
businesses.
There is nothing unreasonable
about this, so long as the tax is not
high enough to drive them out of
business. The chain store fills a
place in our present social-economic
system, as is proved by the amazing
development of numerous organi
zations operating hundreds or thou
sands of retail Outlets. The inde
pendent local merchant, however,
fills a much more important place
in his community, and is entitled to
projection. Ijocal inierchandising
methods, especially 'in the smaller
communities, have been greatly im
proved by reason of chain-store com
! petition and example, and it would
|be a loss to most towns if chain
stores should be suppressed and the
old, slipshod, inefficient retailing
I methods which once prevailed almost
everywhere, were to return.
PENSIONS
I take off my hat to John Hawkes,
of Beacon, N. Y. Mr. Hawkes is
72 years old. He heard that the
State of New York had adopted an
old age pension law, so he went to
the town hall and applied for his al
lowance. As he was out of work,
the application was granted and he
collected S9O in the course of a few
weeks.
Then he learned that the old-age
pension was only for persons who
were dependent upon others, or un
able to earn a living. That put an
other light on it in the eyes of old
John Hawkes. He went out and
got himself a job and before long
walked into the town hall again.
He laid S9O on the clerk’s desk and
told him to give it to somebody that
couldn’t earn anything. He was
willing to take an old-age pension,
but not when it carried the stigma
of pauperism with it!
John Hawkes is the sort of Amer
ican that one can be proud of. He
puts self-respect above money. There
are too many men younger than he
who are content Jo live on charity;
too few who refuse to accept any
thing they have not earned.
CITATION
GEORGIA —Early County:
The return of the appraisers set
ting apart twelve months’ support to
the family of G. Z. Justice, deceased,
having been filed in my office, all
persons concerned are cited to show
cause by the 6th day of July, 1931,
why said application for twelve
months’ support should not be
granted.
This June 1, 1931.
H. H. GRIMSLEY,
Ordinary Early County, Ga.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of June 17, 1881.)
ALF. STOVALL, of the Cuba
district, was in town Saturday
last.
MR. HIRAM KINCHEN’S farm,
just a mile northwest of the city,
presents the best crops we have
seen this season.
THE BROWN FAMILY continues
to increase. Mrs. Hardy Brown pre
sented her husband with a fine boy
a few days ago.
MISS MATTIE HOLMES, of
Bluffton, was one of the graduates
of the Rome Female College at its
recent commencement.
TWO NEW professional cards ap
pear in The News this week: Josiah
Holland, attorney at law, and Clar
ence Wilson, attorney at law, both
of Blakely.
THE ARLINGTON ADVANCE of
last week says Thursday was a lively
day in the wool market of that town,
$2,709.61 having changed hands
for that commodity.
WE LEARN that the postoffice de-.
partment has ordered the discontin
uance of the mail service from here
to Fort Gaines, after the 30th inst.
After that date we will get our daily
mail from Cuthbert, via Bluffton, |
which will give it to us 2 or 3 hours j
sooner than we now get it.
WITHIN the .last decade seven of i
the great public men whose fame fill-1
ed Europe for a couple of genera
tions have died, viz: Napoleon 111,
Mazzini, Thiers, Victor Emmanuel,
Pope Pius IX, Alexander II and Bea
consfield. Gortschakoff, Bismarck
and Gladstone are still in harness.
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MRS. MAGGIE BEUSSE, of Ath
ens, is now on a visit to her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Butler. She
brought with her a little Miss Beusse
to see her grandparents.
THE IRON for the court house
vaults has been received, and we
suppose will be put up in a short
time. We commend the Board of
I County Commissioners for thus pro
viding for the safety of the county
records.
CITATION.
GEORGIA —Early County:
To whom it may concern:
I F. P. Davis having in due form
! applied to me for permanent letters
of administration on the estate of
Mrs. Lena Z. Davis, late of said
county, deceased, this is to cite all
and singular the creditors and next
of kin of Mrs. Lena Z. Davis, de
ceased, to be and appear at the
court of ordinary of said county,
at the July term, 1931, and show
cause, if any they can, why perma
nent letters of administration should
not be granted to said F. P. Davis
on said estate.
Witness my hand and official
signature, this Ist day of June, 1931.
H. H. GRIMSLEY, Ordinary.
MASONIC NOTICE.
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p. m. in the fall and spring and 7 p.
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ren are cordially invited to attend.
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H. STUCKEY, JR., Sec’y.
UNION CENTRAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Represented By
EDWIN E. COWART
BLAKELY, GA.
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