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lEarlg ffinuntg Nriun OFFICIAL GAZETTE Published Every Thursday OFFICE IN NEWS BUILDING Blakely, Georgia W. W. FLEMING’S SONS, Publishers A. T. Fleming Editor Subscription Rates: One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, »•* months 1.00 One copy, three months .50 Cards of thanks, resolutions or tributes of respect and obituary no tices, other than those which the paper itself may give as a matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 cents per line in the Early County News. All legal notices sent to the News for publication should be accompan ied by the proper amount of money to pay for their publication. Please bear in mind that these matters are payable in advance and don’t at tempt to litigate at the paper’s ex pense . Watch the date on your label and renew your subscription to the Early County News before the time expires. Remember our terms are cash in advance to all subscribers alike. I" Foreign Advertising . [_ THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION | Blakely, Ga., June 18, 1931. It will soon be Governor Rus sell. o An attempt to please every one sometimes results in pleasing no one. o 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. o _. 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'. o 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. o 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. o 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. uowt C/ppil!! * Don’t Rasp Your Throat With Hersh Ir r ita nts | JBafe "Reach for a '' ■» LUCKY instead" O I Eve started it and the daughters ' 'fZZ: ' of Eve inherited it. Eve gave Adam the apple, and it seems that Adam must ZZ-'Z, Z w* '' have passed it on. For every man and ||| , ' ~ j every woman has an Adam’s Apple. Hk. 1 ' Put your finger on your Adam’s Apple Illi —that is your larynx, your voice box J : fJ £ it contains your vocal chords. Consider A 1| 1 < w W your Adam’s Apple —when you do so, 1 WL ~• . -W. * . you are considering your throat— your | vocal chords. Don’t rasp your throat with harsh irritants. Reach for a LUCKY |||| instead. Here in America LUCKY STRIKE Oik W is the only cigarette which brings you oiilk . • the added benefit of the exclusive "TOASTING" Process, which includes - A. the use of modern Ultra Violet Rays. It is this exclusive process that expels certain harsh irritants present in all <-• raw tobaccos. These expelled irritants t \ I > " are sold to manufacturers of chemical . \ Z / compounds. They are not present in your LUCKY STRIKE. And so we say "Consider your Adam’s Apple/ 7 TL' NE I X The Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra, every Tues- 1 day. Thursday and Saturday evening over N. B. C. net works. . “It’s toasted” Including the use of Ultra Violet Rays : B Sunshine Mellows —Heat Purifies L Your Throat Protection—against irritation—against cough 1931. The American Tobacco Co.. Mfrs. ■ 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. Magnolia Loage No. 86 Free and Accept ed Masons holds reg ular common cations on the first and third Monday nights tn each month. The ZZIIV time is 8 p. m. in the summer, 7:30 p. m. in the fall and spring and 7 p. m. during the winter. Visiting breth ren are cordially invited to attend. SHELLY SIMMONS, W. M. H. STUCKEY, JR., Sec’y. UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. Represented By EDWIN E. COWART BLAKELY, GA. Office rear of Howell Drug Co. Try the News for Job Printing. HOUSTON THEATRE ALABAMA THEATRE Sun.-Mon.-Tues.-Wed., June 21-24 Sun.-Mon.-Tues., June 21-23 Joan Crawford and Romance of the South Seas Clark Gable in ‘< Never The Twain “Laughing Sinners” shall Meet” Thurs.-Fri.-Sat., June 25-27 Wed.-Thurs., June 24-25 Elissa Land!, Lewis Stone in R(>berl Woo| , ey “Always Goodbye u Everything . s Rosie » Next Sunday Thru Wednesday ' ' — . _ , Fri.-Sat., June 26-27 Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon in Buck Jones in “Indiscreet” “Fighting Sheriff” arloans ofsatisfactory | l reputation who want a complete training at the | •Write for particulars, Bankers,Box 664,Macon,Ga. | The Georgia Funeral Directors Association will hold its 1932 meet ing in Macon. “Old 76 gives quick relief from Colds, Chills and Fever. Buy it the world over.”