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Blakely, Ga., Jan. 11, 1934
Federal Administrator Hop
kins has disassociated Gover
nor Talmadge and his commit
tee from all relief and CWA
work in Georgia, and has
placed Miss Gay Shepparson
in entire charge of the Geor
gia branch of the work. It is
believed that Governor Tal
madge’s critical attitude of
the government’s wage scale
is responsible for Administra
tor Hopkin’s ousting the Geor
gia board.
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The News is again appeal
ing to its subscribers who are
in arrears to come in and set
tle up, at least in part. There
are many of them, some of
whom have been regular read
ers of the paper for many
years, whose names we regret
to remove from the lists, but
some arrangements must be
made, for the price of every
thing necessary to the printing
industry has recently advanced
in price, some commodities
registering a hike of as much
as 25 per cent. The newspa
per, like any other business,
must have funds with which
to operate, and we hope this
appeal will not fall on deaf
ers.
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Without the intent of cham
pioning the cause of manufac
turers of proprietary medi
cines, The News hopes Con
gress will defeat the food and
drugs act bill drawn up by
Professor Tugwell, a member
of the administration’s “brain
trust.” Critics more compe
tent than ourselves have char
acterized the bill as one which
would require a “brain trust”
of greater ability than Mr.
Tugwell to interpret, and its
enforcement, it is claimed,
would probably put an end to ‘
the sale of all medicines other
than those prescribed by a '
physician. If this be true, the
bill is entirely too radical and
should not become law.
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The Georgia newspaper fra
ternity lost one of its most
versatile writers when death
claimed Mr. E. H. (“Pat”)
Griffin at his home in Bain
bridge Sunday. Mr. Griffin
had been in the newspaper
“game” for a third of century,
most of this time having been
spent in Bainbridge. He sur
rendered the editorship of the
Post-Searchlight to his son
nearly a year ago when illness
forced him from active service.
He had served for many years
in the Georgia legislature, and
formed a wide circle of friends
who, with the newspapermen
of the state and others who
had the pleasure of his ac
quaintance, regret that death
ended his career at the early
age of 56.
I The Confederate veterans,
along with the school teach
ers, have felt keenly the
shrinkage in the State’s reve
nue. Their monthly payments
. have been only about half of
what the law specifies but
for which sufficient revenue is
not forthcoming. The Gover
nor tells us he is having the
! highway department lay aside
> a nest-egg which is to be used
for paying the veterans and
■ teachers if the legislature will
’ give him power to divert the
' fund when that body meets in
' 1935. Many of these oid sol
diers will have crossed the
Great Divide before that time
arrives and gone to their re
ward with their State govern
ment heavily indebted to them.
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Taking cognizance of the
announcement by Relief Ad
ministrator Hopkins that work
relief will continue until May
Ist and direct relief will go
on until July Ist, The Moultrie
Observer comments: “It is
probable that business, agri
culture and industry will have
recovered by mid-summer to
an extent that there will not
be so much need for govern
ment help. However, there
will be some form of relief
that will probably go on in
definitely. There is more na
tional consciousness of the
needs of the poor, the old and
the sick, than we have had
before. There will be more
attention given to the men
and women who are down
and out than has been given
before.”
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The News hopes that the
recovery of business, when and
if it does come, will find among
the industries to stage a come
back the railroads of the
country. This gigantic unit
of our economic structure,
partly through its own fault
and partly through discrimi
nating regulation, has suffered
heavily and for a time was
threatened with complete ex
tinction. One of the heaviest
of the tax-payers and furnish
ing employment to a vast
horde of employes, the rail
roads must be saved. They
have already taken one step
towards aiding themselves—
reducing passenger fares. Fed
eral and state regulation of
all public carriers is expected
to aid them further in their
fight for existence.
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In the opinion of The News,
Georgia has, in Mr. Adams,
about the weakest Commis
sioner of Agriculture within
our memory. Saved by his
friends from impeachment by
partisans of Governor Tal
madge at the very outset of
his administration, Commis- 1
sioner Adams seems to have '
turned the Agricultural De- ,
partment over to the Governor 1
for running, with a result that 1
he has not only not won the 1
confidence of those who did 1
not support him, but has lost
the confidence of those who .
did support him. If Commis- i
sioner Adams, in passively sub- <
mitting to the Governor’s dic
tation. hopes to return to of- :
fice on the administration
bandwagon, he is probably in
for a rude awakening, for it'
is already known that anoth-i
er candidate bearing the Tai- i
madge stamp will seek the
place. And, besides, the band
wagon is not gaining so much |
momentum in these recent
days. Mr. Adams, in the
opinion of The News, will I
serve just one term as Com-:
missioner of Agriculture.
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The national administration
is certaintly utilizing the al
phabet in naming the various
governmental agencies at work
under the recovery program.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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SOME SOUND ADVICE
(Thomasville Times-Enterprise)
■ There are some farmers who want
to come to town to live and some
town folks who just have a hanker
ing to live in the country. Both of
1 them better stay put if they are
I comfortably fixed.
THE BEST INVESTMENT
(Bruce Barton)
1 In times like these, invest in boys
■ and girls. When you invest in a
i boy or girl you are always buying
at the bottom. You are sure that
the youngster is going up, and there
is no telling how far. . .You are sure
to get a man or woman; you may get
a great man or a great woman.
BUILDING A TOWN
(Butler Herald)
If you can think of anything that
can be done to beautify or build up
our town, go to it. Keep your capital
at home; patronize home industries;
help your merchants so they can sell
cheaper; always get your work done
in your own town, if possible; sub
scribe and pay for the home paper,
don’t steal or borrow the reading of
them. If you follow these suggestions
and your town does not improve and
build up it will not be your fault.
Try it.
PAY DAY’S A-COMING
(Gainesville Eagle)
Tht American public will never
realize it is the American govern
ment. It never thinks that that what i
Uncle Sam spends they will eventual
ly pay for through taxes. The idea
is to “get it from the government,”
never thinking that it will be but a
matter of time before the govern
ment gets it from you. Fight the
depression, of course. Fight it with
larger appropriations, if necessary.
But for the sake of those now living
and those to come, use a modicum
of common sense. Pay day’s a-com
ing.
THE OPPORTUNITY
(Moultrie Observer)
In a letter sent out by a firm of
cotton brokers the statement is
made: “We will eventually see
much higher prices for our cotton
WHEN the producer gives evidence
that he will reduce his acreage in
accordance with the government’s
program.” There is not a cotton
buyer, speculator or dealer in the
country who does not believe that.
The way is now open for better
prices for cotton. Farmers them
selves, will determine whether the
price goes up to fifteen cents the
coming spring or not. If they stand
loyally with Secretary Wallace and
his co-workers at Washington they
will put the price up. If they un
dertake to help themselves individ
ually by refusing to sign the acre
age reduction agreements they will
hold the price where it is.
CHRISTMAS IS NEEDED ALL
THE YEAR ’ROUND
(Augusta Herald)
Looking back on the Christmas
season is apt to make a man wish
that we could find some way of
making a permanent, everyday thing
out of the social consciousness which
the season always seems to bring us.
Christmas time sets us thinking
about the other fellow and his
trials. It persuades us to reach
out a helping hand to give him a
lift, if he needs it. For a few
brief weeks, every year, we let our
selves come fairly close to a reali
zation of the old dream of humani
ty’s brotherhood. And a whole lot
of the troubles that weigh our
planet down would be lightened be
yond belief if we could manage to
hold to that attitude the year around.
Think of the way it works out at
Christmas time. Several weeks be
fore the holiday we begin worrying
| about those whom financial or other
misfortune is apt to deprive of the
! holiday’s traditional privileges and
• blessings. Newspapers, welfare or
; ganizations, clubs, and business or
i ganizations make a point of looking
J for unhappiness and relieving it.
' All of us get together and do what
iwe can to help. We do a pretty
[good job, too, for the most part. And
| we do it, not because we’re unusual
ily kind-hearted and unselfish, but
; simply because at Christmas time
;we get our eyes open. We become i
aware of the misery which surrounds
us; once aware of it, we can’t enjoy
our own blessings unless we, some
how, manage to share them with
the less fortunate.
OUR MOST PROLIFIC AUTHOR By Albert T. Reid
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THE BIBLE
BY BRUCE BARTON
OUR FIRST LAWS
One of the wicked decrees of
Pharaoah was that every son who
was born to the Hebrews should be
cast into the river. The mother of
Moses managed to hide her baby
for three months, and then, unable
to secret him any longer, she
made a little cradle and set him
afloat in the River Nile near the
spot where the daughter of Pharaoh
and her maidens came down to
bathe.
Pharaoh’s daughter took compas
sion on the pitiful little voyager,
carried him with her to the palace
and reared him as her ow’n. She
gave him his name, Moses, whhich
means “draw-out;” “because,” she
said, “I drew him out of the water.”
The boy grew up with all the edu
cational advantages which the pal
ace could give, but his heart was
true to his people. He developed
physical strength which was needed
when he ran afoul of an Egyptian
taskmaster who was abusing a poor
Hebrew workman. Moses slew the
man and hid his body, and formed
then and there the determination to
set the Hebrews free.
With his brother Aaron, who was
a good talker, which Moses was not,
he carried on extended negotiations
with Pharaoh, enforcing his argu
ments by a series of ten plagues that
descended upon the Egyptians. In
the end he was allowed to lead the
Hebrews forth into the wilderness,
but Pharaoh changed his mind at
the last moment and gave pursuit.
It was a fatal decision. The Red
Sea, which had separated to let
the Hebrews pass through, closed
upon on Pharaoh and his army and
drowned them every one. So Moses
was launched on his career as lead
er of a grumbling, short-sighted and
discontented lot of ex-slaves, who
continually annoyed him with their
complaint that they would rather be
back in their slavery than wandering
free in the wilderness.
Moses was not only a leader, but
an executive as well, thanks partly
to his father-in-law, Jethro. That
wise old gentleman, visiting him in
the wilderness on a day when he
was holding court, saw the tremen
dous pressure which was on him
in his combined capacity of ruler
and judge, and protested:
Thou wilt surely wear away,
both thou, and this people that is
with thee: for this thing is too
heavy for thee: thou art not
able to perform it thyself alone.
Acting on the old man’s sound
advice, Moses associated certain
other upright men with him as
judges and thus it came about that
the people were provided not only
with a law—through the Ten Com
mandments and the comprehensive
Mosaic Code —but with a judiciary
as well.
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of January 10, 1884)
MR. JAS. P. FLEMING, brother
of the proprietor of The News, left
this morning on a trip through
Florida.
MESSRS. F. M. Smith and George
E. Chipstead have rented the ware
house of Smith & James and will
run it in connection with the dray
business.
THE EGYPTIAN MINISTER has
resigned. The Khedive declines to
obey dictation any longer, and the
future of the land of the pyramids
is uncertain.
THE “CITY FATHERS” of Blake
ly for 1884, as selected at the elec
tion last Saturday, are: B. R. Dos
tor, R. W. Davis, J. T. Freeman, H.
H. Buchannon, R. C. Smith. At a
meeting of the new council Dr. Dos
tor was elected chairman, Mr. R. W.
@ THE FAMILY*
DOCTOR
OHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D.
The sedentary season—for most
people. Only out-door workers get
sufficient exercise for those on full
diet. Too much of quiet is not the
best for health and vigor. Especial
ly when one is overfed.
Many a case of indolent colitis
is inaugurated during winter days.
Rural dwellers who do their own
butchering, season their own sau
sages and they naturally love
spices, mustards, peppers, and other
stimulants for the linings of the
digestive tract. Harm often comes
from too much spicing. Constipa
tion, from lack of green-leaf vege
tables in winter is most common.
A patient asked me the other day,
“Why is it that in winter my bowels
clog right up—and in the warm
months never give me trouble?” The
answer is, more exercise out-doors—
and more green vegetables with
less of seasoned, heavy food.
Since conditions like the foregoing
are almost impossible to evade, I
may be able to advise my readers;
do not take active, harsh purgative
medicines. I saw a man who had
taken a much-advertised pill for ov
er twenty years; I had to operate
on him for horrible “itching piles;”
he had not slept for two weeks
when he consulted me. The pills,
irritating the rectrum, caused the
trouble.
The bowel, of course, must be
Davis vice-chairman. Judge J. B.
Jones was made marshal and Mr. J.
J. Smith was re-elected clerk and
treasurer.
FOR THE PAST WEEK the tem
perature in this locality has been
lower than it has been since the
severe winter of ’BO-’Bl. We have
had a good deal of rain, a little
snow and considerable sleet. The
weather has been extremely raw,
and ice, that made its appearance
Saturday night, can still be seen in
shady places.
DISPLAY ADS in The News this
week represent the following local
firms and business houses: McDow
ell & Buchannon (The Railroad
Store), E. L. Fryer, Central Drug
Store (Dr. B. R. Dostor), H. C. Fry
er & Sons, Smith & James, J. M. &
R. W. Wade, E. Hilton (near Ang
lin’s Landing, Early County, Ga.), S.
Manuel, T. F. Jones, D. W. Palmer,
Thos. Williams, A. Pantone.
WINTER HANDICAPS
kept eliminating. Some patients
take “mineral oil” with happy ef
fect. Cascara, combined with phen
olphthalein, is one of the best mix
tures; especially should we avoid
pills that contain aloes—which often
furnish rectal diseases that require
medical or surgical attention..
My attention was called just to
day—to a good laxative prepara
tion, that advised the patient to
drink at least ten glasses of water
daily when using it. Fine—about
the water.
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The National Safety Coun
cil, estimating the number of
deaths from automobile acci
dents in the United States in
1933, places the figure at 30,-
500. This heavy toll of hu
man lives, in a large measure,
can be attributed to careless
ness. We shudder, and rightly
so, at the horrors of war, but
give little thought to a menace
which is equally as destructive
as warfare. Thirty thousand
lives lost through careless
ness! Does that not impress
upon us the necessity for a
more rigid enforcement of
traffic laws and the need for
a strengthening of these laws?