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Blakely, Ga., June 22, 1933
START DRIVING NAILS
In an editorial concerning
the renovizing campaigns that
have found a welcome in a
multitude of American com
munities, the Saturday Even
ing Post says: “When a city
or a town makes a united
effort to improve the local
employment and business sit
uation, it also builds up its
own confidence. There is less
uncertainty and apathy when
everybody pitches in to stim
ulate work of such a useful
kind. ... It is nothing but good
local business. But its great
est benefit will come when it
is adopted by practically all
the cities and towns in the
country. The slogan of the
renovize movement is a simple
one, but for that very reason
it is capable of having a far
reaching effect. The slogan
is: ‘lf a man drives a nail he
helps business’.”
There is another good slo
gan, too, and that one is: “Em
ployment and investment are
cheaper than charity.” One
of the main purposes of reno
vizing campaigns is to provide
the unemployed with produc
tive work—as distinct from
work w'hich is not necessary,
and is given more or less as
charity. During the past three
years millions of structures—
hotels, warehouses, business
buildings and residences—
have been allowed to run
down. Their owners have
taken the attitude that econo
my came first that they
they would spend as little as
possible until they could see
what was coming. To permit
them to go on longer without
repairs is the most prodigal
kind of luxury. True economy
is to protect the innvestment
they represent by making im
provements and repairs now—
when they can be had at
rock-bottom prices.
It’s time to start driving
nails.
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Governor Talmadge’s action
in placing the highway depart
ment under military control is
a confession of weakness in
the position he has taken in
the highway controversy. He
is evidently afraid that court
action might not sustain his
position, and he resorts to
martial law. or in other words,
dictatorial powers which the
state constitution grants him.
to deal with a question which
should be settled by the civil
courts. But it will be remem
bered that Mr. Talmadge ask
ed Georgians to place him in
the governor’s chair where
“they dan’t law me.” He was
placed there —but not with the
aid of The News —and we
feel that his action in the high
way controversy fully justifies
our belief that he is a “small
.shot” in a “big position.”
A NOTABLE CONGRESS
The special session of the
Congress of the United States,
which convened shortly after
the inauguration of President
Roosevelt and adjourned last
Thursday night, accomplished
more than any previous Con
gress in the history of the na
tion in the same length of
time.
Assembled by the President
to deal with a financial and
economic crisis unsurpassed,
perhaps, in the nation’s his
tory, under the leadership of
Mr. Roosevelt, who had a defi
nite program in mind, the
body moved with swiftness and
precision to put into effect the
“new deal” program which
the chief executive had map
ped out to deal with the de
pression.
Among the major measures
passed by Congress were:
The economy act, reducing
veterans’ compensation more
than $300,000,000 and the pay
of government workers by
$125,000,000.
The bill legalizing the sale
of 3.2 beer.
The measure which author
ized inflation; gave the secre
tary of agriculture power to
raise farm prices and provid
ing $2,000,000,000 to refinance
farm mortgages.
The Tennessee Valley au
thority which ended the 12-
year struggle over Muscle
Shoals.
The Civilian Conservation
Corps bill to put 275,000 un
employed at work in forestry
camps.
The industrial recovery bill,
which allows industry, with
government supervision if nec
essary, to work out codes of
fair practices, limiting pro
duction, raising wages and re
ducing working hours.
The Wagner-Peyser bill, set
ting up a joint system of state
and federal relief for the un
employed.
The Glass-Steagall bill, em
bodying not only the insurance
of deposits but many other
measures of banking-reform.
A railroad measure to en
able the common carriers to
get relief through a federal
co-ordinator.
The bill providing $2,000,-
000,000 for refinancing mort
gages on small houses.
A resolution repealing the
gold payment clause in pres
ent and future contracts.
The bill to regulate the sale
of securities.
The measure putting agri
cultural credit institutions un
der a farm credit administra
tion.
The $3,300,000,000 public
works program, passed as a
part of the industrial control
bill.
The measure voting $500,-
000,000 for direct relief grants
to states.
The $3,500,000,000 deficien
cy bill which provides the
funds for many of the proj
ects previously decided upon.
Some of these measures are
intended only as a temporary
expedient to deal with a tem
porary crisis. Others are of a
permanent nature and are des
tined to have far-reaching ef
fect towards fortifying against
a recurrence of such a situa
tion as has existed the past
three and a half years.
It has always been popular
to criticise the Congress for
its failures. It is now in order
to laud it for its accomplish
ments.
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The corn crop in Early coun
ty is going to be short this
year. Continued dry weather
has greatly injured the crop
and reports from several sec
tions of the county are that
the corn stalk borer is getting
in some destructive work.
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NO SUCCESS
WITHOUT SINCERITY
BY BRUCE BARTON
Sincerity glistened like sunshine
through every sentence Jesus utter
ed; sincerity is the third essential.
Many wealthy men have purchased
newspapers with the idea of advanc
ing their personal fortunes, or bring
ing about some political action in
which they have a private interest.
Such newspapers almost invariably
fail. No matter how much money
is spent on them, no matter how
zealously the secret of their owner
ship is guarded, the readers are
conscious that something is wrong.
They feel that the voice of the edi
tor is not his own. The public has
a sixth sense for detecting insincer
ity; they know instinctively when
words ring true.
It was the way Jesus looked at
men,, and ?he life he led among
them that gave his words transform
ing power. What he was and what
he said were one of the same thing.
Nobody could stand at his side for
even a minute without being per
suaded that here was a man who
loved people and considered even
the humblest of them worthy of the
of the best he had to give.
There is no superstition more
deadening to a writer than the idea
that he can “write down” to his
readers. No man was ever big
enough to build an enduring success
on the basis of insincerity; but many
comparatively small men, like Peter
the Hermit or Billy Sunday, fired
with conviction, have been able to
create and sustain a very consider
able influence.
Jesus was notably tolerant of al
most all kinds of sinners. He liked
the companionship of the rough and
ready folk who were entirely out
side the churches; he was tender
toward unfortunate women; he had
a special soundness for James and
John whose ungovernable tempers
had given them the title of “Sons
of Thunder”; he forgave the weak
ness of Peter who denied him; and
was not resentful at the unbelief of
his near relatives and his native
town.
But for one sin he had no mercy.
He denounced the insincerity of the
Pharisees in phrases which sting like
the lash of a whip. They thought!
they had a first mortgage on the'
Kingdom of Heaven, and he told
them scornfully that only those who
become like little children have any;
chance of entering in.
Little children know no pretense.
They are startlingly frank. They
look at the world through clear
eyes and say only what they think.
No writer, no orator, no salesman
exercise any large dominion in the
world unless he can humble himself
and partake of their nature.
“Though I speak with the tongues
lof men and of angels and have not
i love, I am become as sounding brass
lor a tinkling cymbal,” wrote Saint
Paul.
Much brass has been sounded and
many cymbals tinkled in the name
of advertising; but the advertise
ments which persuade people to act
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpt* from Early County News
of June 7, 1883)
THERE WILL BE a picnic at
Goode’s mill in the Gay settlement
on Friday, the 29th.
EX-GOVERNOR Chas. J. Jenkins
died at his home in Summerville,
near Augusta, on the 14th inst.
OUR COURT HOUSE has been
beautified and improved by new
steps and brick pillars under the
columns.
THERE WAS a new arrival at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Smith
on Tuesday morning last. It was a
fine boy.
THE MISSES WOOD, of Colum
bia, who have been visiting the
family of Mr. E. L. Fryer, in this
place, have returned home
MISS Florence Leonard, wha has
been visiting Mrs. C. A. Perryman,
left for home on Friday last. Her
aunt, Mrs. Lou Dußose. accompanied
her as far as Albany.
O THE FAMILY*
©DOCTOR
JOSEPH GAINES, M.D.
SOUND SENSE
I still hear murmurings of “aci-|
dosis.” So I ask my readers to pay;
attention to this: Acidosis means!
STARVATION somewhere. A very'
extreme, wasting disease, in ad
vanced stage may produce acidosis;!
unless you are in that sort of fix, 1
forget the acidosis bogey.
And the constant buzz about “vita
min-this, and vitamin-that.” It is get-!
ting to be almost a worry for anxious;
mothers and exotic dads. Listen:!
If you are eating good, wholesome
foods, that are digested without be
ing uncomfortable, then you are get
ting all vitamins you need—
maybe more—so why waste time on
vitamins?
Then, the milk craze. Say, do
you know that Americans are the
most gullible people on earth? About
diet? Yes, diet, above all things. A
notorious quack in this neigborhood
is cramming all the victims he can
lay hands on, with skim-milk. He
says it’s man’s natural food, and no
other is genuine. And he has many
“converts.”
But, listen: The prospective moth
are written by men who have an
abiding respect for the intelligence
of their readers, and a deep sincerity
regarding the merits of the goods
they have to sell.
W. W. FLEMING, the junior edi
tor of this paper, is off on a frolic,
leaving us with the bag to hold.
Charley Livingston and Charley Rob
inson accompanied him.
A BARREL of pineapples was re
ceived in Blakely yesterday from
Indian River, Fla. They had been
a good while on the road and were
not in good condition.
BEN HALL, a colored man of our
town, has been quite sick for some
time and it was thought by his
friends that he would die. His phy
sician, Dr. W. B. Standifer, called
to see him one day recently, where
he found the house full of colored
pople singing and praying over the
man they supposed dying. They had
already arrayed him in his Sunday
clothes in order, we suppose, to give
him a decent send-off and to fix him
up before he got stiff. Dr. Will
laid the whole crowd out in no un
certain terms, telling them that his
patient was doing very well and ran
them out of the house. Ben is now
doing nicely and gives promise of
getting well.
er of any young animal is supplied
with a laboratory within her body,
that produces milk for the new
born progeny. As soon as that
baby—be it man, pig or calf—is old
enough to use other food and is
“weaned,” other foods become nor
mal dietary; he actually needs other
food that fits him for his natural
mode of living. To surfeit the
adult human being with milk is to
overload him with a sort of protein
that he would be better without.
Let milk stay in its proper place.
Commercialism is carrying eyery
thing before it—just green and
mercenary cunning. If I were to try
to follow up all the foisted “essen
tials” of the peddlers of this coun
try, and take everything that the
hawkers say is best for me,l should
be a penniless idiot in less than a
year. Let’s be sensible.
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Congress has adjourned and
the President now has at his
disposal almost unlimited pow
er to deal with the problems
confronting the nation. He
will have ample opportunity to
test the effectiveness of his
“new deal” without legislative
interference.
| THE PRESS J
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ALWAYS A BRIGHT SIDE
(Atlanta Constitution)
• There’s always a bright side. For
the past several years people, at least,
have been saying that you can’t
stand prosperity.
PLENTY OF THIS KIND
(Thomasville Times-Enterprise)
When a man talks all the time he
says so little that he finally wears
out even his friends. Imagine a guy
monopolizing the conversation when
he talks only about things that con
cern him?
LARGEST COG IN THE MACHINE
(Dawson News)
It is the farmers of the country
who will start us on to prosperity.
Their prices raised, they will be able
to pay taxes, pay on their obligations
and purchase their needs. Farmers
do not buy all the goods manufactur
ed, but they are a big enough pur
chasing power to start the trade
wheel revolving.
PRIZE PARAGRAPH
(Cairo Messenger)
Our idea of the prize newspaper
paragraph of recent months is one
of a number the Literary Digest
picked from the Thomaston (Ga.)
Times: “A manufacturer says that
some morning soon we shall wake up
and wonder where the degression
has gone. And it had better be soon,
or the depression will wake up some
morning and wonder where we have
gone.”
GARNER STOCK RISES
(Moultrie Observer)
We are now ready to enthuse over
Vice President Garner for the first
time since he entered public life.
When approached by radio program
makers and offered a thousand dol
lars a night for fifty two appear
ances before the microphone, he
modestly declined. He thought it
was improper for one in his position
to make public addresses discussing
politics not to mention receiving pay
for it.
THE ORDER IS REVERSED
(Cuthbert Leader)
Georgia for a long time was the
port of relief for young couples
from Alabama in distress, and num
erous and often were the little trips
“over the river.” Some times “old
George had to do his stuff” too un
til they got to the river, for it wasn’t
unusual for pursuers to be close be
hind. Os late years this custom has
been reversed to a large extent. It
is the Georgians now who gaze for
a moment on the muddy, unfathom
able waters of the Chattahoochee as
they journey to that bourne w’hence
comes relief to lovesick hearts. Bless
old Georgia and bless old Alabama!
Both are ready with helping hand in
this game of life.
THE REFORESTRATION CAMPS
Greensboro Journal-Herald)
The young men who have enlisted
in the Federal Civilian Conservation
Corps will serve six months, pending
good behavior and being otherwise
fit for service. At the end of six
months period if so desired, they
have the privilege of re-enlisting for
another six months, but under no
condition will men be retained who
have not demonstrated character, in
tegrity and willingness to work. The
training these young men receive in
these forestry camps is educational
as well as body building. The pur
pose of the government in establish
ing these camps was one of the re
organization measures calculated to
relieve, insofar as possible, the un
employed situation in this country.
NOTHING NEW
(Tifton Gazette)
Budget balancing is nothing new.
Inscriptions found in Egyptian tombs
indicate that the budget was a prob
lem as far back as 3,000 B. C. In
fact, we think it has been more or
less of a problem since that day when
Adam and Eve were forced from the
Garden of Eden. In modern times,
our problems is balancing the cash
income and outgo. The problem
with the pritive man was to lay
up sufficient food during the harvest
season to last him through the win
ter. It was an unbalanced food bud
get that took Joseph’s brother down
into Egypt. Joseph had more than
balanced Egypt’s food budget and
they had food in abundance while
Joseph’s folks back home were
hungry. It’s somewhat the same to
day. We get out of balance and
have to seek the banker or some
body, who has kept his budget
balanced, to lend us some of his
abundance to tide us over for a
■ while.