Newspaper Page Text
EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVI > NO. 2
Supt. Woodward
Explains the Free
Text Book Law
This school year the State of
Georgia will furnish to the pupils in
the first six grades of the elementary
public schools free text books in
the following subjects: Spelling,
Writing, Arithmetic and Basil Read
er. I am sure the public realizes
that these books, furnished by the
state, although a start in the right
direction, is far from supplying all
free text books to the pupils in these
grades.
In our school system we try to
place in the hands of our pupils all
the material necessary to do good ‘
work. Through our rental system, I
we have been able to do this. In the '
primary grades Reading is the most
important subject and requires a
great deal of the pupil’s time. One
may readily see that the one Read
ing book furnished by the state does
not begin to meet the needs of the
pupil. Through our rental system
we have been able to furnish to our
pupils all the reading material they
can use, including the best Reading
books and Reading Work books that
can be bought. To accomplish this
end it requires from six Reading
books in the first grade to two in
the sixth grade.
On the state free text book list
are two reading books in the first
grade, namely: one primer and one
first reader. In the other five grades
there is only one reading book fur
nished by the state. These reading
books are all basil books and the
most inexpensive books on the state
text-book list.. The other books on
the free list are these inexpensive
books as may be seen by examining
the text-book list.
The state requires all systems to
purchase all used text books, that
are on the state free list. These
books must be usable for two years.
The pupils are to be paid one-half
retail value of the books. The state
in turn reimburses the school sys
tem, and all such books become the
property of the state and are to be
used as free text books in said
school system. This will make it
necessary for the Blakely Board of
Education to sell to the state on the
above basis all books on the free
book list that they have on hand or
may purchase from individual pu
pils. These books will be used as
FREE TEXT BOOKS.
The value of these free text books
that are to be furnished by the
state will be subtracted from the us
ual rental price
From the following book list, one
may readily see that the Blakely
Board of Education is reducing the
rental price more than the credit al
lowed by the state for these free
books.
During the past few weeks I have
made a study of the rental reduction
in the following school systems that
have used the rental system for a
number of years, namely: Fulton,
DeKalb and Marietta. The reduction
in Blakely will average forty per
cent more than the above systems.
School will open Friday, Septem
ber 11, at 8:15 a. m. Pupils are re-
Dixie Flour Store
NEAR THE DEPOT
24 lb. Sack Imperial Flour . . . . 85c
1 D. Charmer Coffee 15c
WHITE MEAT SUGAR-
for boiling— 10 lb. Cloth Bag
14c 55c
Prince Allbert 3 Tall Cans
TOBACCO-M A C K E R E L
per can 10c 25c
Dry Goods, Shoes, Work Clothing
Just Added to our Store
DIXIE FLOUR STORE
“The Little Store Out of the High Rent District”
CURTIS LOYLESS, Mgr.
Ccrnntp JNews
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead."
WEEKLY MEETING OF
ROTARY CLUB HELD
AT NOON THURSDAY
The weekly meeting of the Blake
ly Rotary Club was held at noon
Thursday, with President Bill Grist
presiding and Mrs. Ben Haisten
furnishing the musical program.
The Club members enjoyed hear
ing Rotarian Felix Barham tell of
his recent vacation trip to Tennessee.
Rotarian Ernest Whitehead, one
of the Rotarians to attend the Bain
bridge charter night meeting last
week, gave an interesting descrip
tion of that meeting. The Bain
bridge Club is the newest club in
the state.
$32,236,891 Paid
Georgia Farmers
In AAA Benefits
Washington, D. C.—The Agricul
tural Adjustment Administration re
ported today rental and benefit pay
ments to Georgia farmers up to
June 30 totaled $32,236,891.71.
Os that, $28,144,994.66 was for
cotton, $19,173.18 for wheat, $2,-
640,320.77 for tobacco, $254,335.25
for corn and hogs, $97,085.40 for
sugar, and $1,080,982.45 for pea
nuts.
Texas led the list with $140,224,-
604.57, and Maine was the nation’s
lowest with $9,987.50. The national
total was $1,267,854,560.79.
Sextuplets were born to Mrs. Ade
line Speichinger, of Menden, Mo.,
last week. Only one of the six ba
bies lived
quested to be present on this day,
as books will be issued, assignments
I made, and schedules completed, so
I that work will be interrupted on
■ Monday.
Pupils in the elementary grades
are requested to purchase rental
slips on Wednesday or Thursday,
September 9 or 10, so they may se
cure books on September 11, the
opening day. Rental slips will not
be on sale Friday morning, Septem
ber 11.
The members of the Blakely fac
ulty are requested to be present at
the first teachers’ meeting at the
high school Thursday afternoon at
2 o’clock.
WADE WOODWARD, JR.,
Supt. Blakely Schools.
(Editor’s Note: Time and space
permitting, The News will in its next
issue publish the complete school
book list, showing the credits allow
ed on the state books through the
first six grades. The credits range
from 58c in the first grade to $1.05
in the sixth grade.)
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1936.
BIG DEMOCRATIC RALLY
AND FREE BARBECUE AT
COLQUITT TOMORROW
Plans have been completed
and everything is in readiness
for the big six-county Demo
cratic rally and barbecue to be
held in Colquitt tomorrow (Fri
day).
Miller, Early, Calhoun, Bak
er, Seminole and Decatur coun
ties have joined hand in hand
to make Friday’s celebration
the biggest event of its kind
ever held in Southwest Geor
gia. Each of those six counties
is sharing in the cost of the
barbecue and other expenses,
and plans have been made to
entertain and feed 10,000 peo
ple.
Speakers who have been in
vited and have accepted to ad
dress the voters of this section
are Senator Richard B. Russell,
Jr., who is upholding the ban
ner of Democracy in his cam
paign for re-election in the Sep-
EYES OF NATION ARE UPON GEORGIA IN THE
APPROACHING PRIMARY. TALMADGE VICTORY
WOULD BRING JOY TO REPUBLICAN PARTY
(By Gladstone Williams)
Washington, D. C., August 26
(Special to The News) —Because of
the bitter fight raised against the
Roosevelt policies by Governor Eu
gene Talmadge the Georgia primary
campaign is attracting more atten
tion nationally than any similar con
test in the country.
Officials of the Republican Nation
al Committee are known to be watch
ing the situation hopefully. If the
anti-administration governor and his
hand-picked candidates to succeed
him are able to win the nomination
over Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
Speaker of the House E. D. Rivers
and other Roosevelt supporting can
didates in the field, a republican bal
lyhoo such as has been seldom heard
will immediately be raised over the
country.
Campaign managers of Governor
Alf Landon, of Kansas, the Republi
can presidential nominee, will seek
to hold up the Georgia results as a
forerunner of what may be expected
in the subsequent November national
elections. If the president can not
do any better than that in Georgia,
his second home and one of the rock
ribbed southern democratic states,
they will argue, what are his chances
elsewhere?
Beyond any doubt a Talmadge-
Redwine victory in Georgia would
be used with telling effect by the
G. O. P. high command. It would
be paraded before the country as a
major Roosevelt upset.
For this reason officials of the
democratic national committee have
begun to show some concern over
the situation. While they are still
confident that friends of the presi
dent are in the majority in the state
they are fearful that Talmadge ticket
may poll enough votes to make the
outcome close and thereby give the
republicans an opportunity to exploit
the results.
Even though Talmadge is defeat
ed by a close margin the republicans
will be able to tell the country that
Roosevelt sentiment is on the down
grade. They will try to make as
much or more capital out of it as
the elections a week later in Maine,
which enjoys the doubtful reputation
as the barometer state.
If Georgia should go for Talmadge
and Maine should elect a republican
governor and senator the country
w’ould hear no end of it until after
the November elections. What it
would be worth to the republican
national ticket in terms of votes can
not easily be estimated. Many con
servative observers have placed the
figure at a minimum of a million.
It is based on the belief that there
are that many people in the country
and more who are guided by band
wagon psychology—ready to switch
their allegiance at the last minute
just to be able to support a winner.
Obviously in a close election a fac
tor of the kind would assume major
importance. It is not inconceivable,
therefore, that the Georgia primary
may prove the crucial point in the
1936 presidential campaign.
As administration leaders here
view it, it does not matter what Geor
gia does in the later November elec
tions. The State is counted on to vote
overwhelmingly for President Roose
velt, of course. But it is the psycholo-
tember primary; E. D. Rivers,
speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives, the leading anti-
Talmadge candidate for gover
nor; Congressman E. E. Cox,
of Camilla, and his opponent,
S. Marvin Griffin, of Bain
bridge; F. E. Strickland, of
Donalsonville, candidate for at
torney general; Columbus Rob
erts, candidate for commis
sioner of agriculture; and J. L.
Haralson, of Donalsonville,
candidate for public service
; commissioner.
The speeches will begin at
10:30 o’clock on Friday morn
ing, and at the conclusion of
these talks, free barbecue will
be served the visitors.
Everyone in this section is
invited to Colquitt tomorrow
(Friday). A great day is in
store—don’t let anything keep
you away.
gical factor which republicans would
be able to exploit in the Talmadge
primary victory. It will be too late
to correct this in November. The im
pression will already have gone
abroad that the president is not
strong enough to command support
of his friends in a democratic state
like Georgia, where he makes his part
time residence.
Mr. Roosevelt, busy with his own
campaign for re-election in the face
of concerted attacks from the repub
licans, the Liberty League, the
Coughlinites, Townsendites and other
disgruntled groups embracing every
thing from big business to com
munists, has made no effort to inject
himself into the Georgia prmary, but
he is known to have a deep interest
in the outcome.
The truth undoubtedly is that he
would much prefer to see two of the
three Roosevelt candidates in the
gubernatorial race get out so that
his friends could join with Senator
Russell in meeting the concentrated
attack of Governor Talmadge. Wheth
er he will see fit to take any step
to this end remains to be seen.
After all of the partiality shown
Georgia by the various administra
tive agencies since the outset of his
term, inspired in measure by his
natural fondness for a state where
he makes his home, the president
naturally would be sorely disappoint
ed to see his chief critic in the south
elected. Nor would it help matters
for Georgia later to have a governor
and senator working at cross pur
poses with the national administra
i tion.
Whatever the outcome, the eyes of
the nation will be forcused on Geor
gia September 9th, when the people
go to the polls to decide.
DEATH OF MRS.
S. E. SIRMONS
One of Early county’s well known
and older residents, Mrs. S. E. Sir
■ mons, died at the home of Mrs. W.
IM. Bowman on Sunday, August 16,
: after a few days’ illness.
Mrs. Sirmons was born in Terrell
county, Ga., om March, 16, 1851,
hence was 85 years and 5 months old.
She moved to Blakely in early girl
hood and had made her home here
ever since. She was married in 1870
;to Mr. Jobe Sirmons, who preceded
! her to the grave 50 years ago. Sev
len children were born of that
j union, three of whom survive, name
ly: Miss Emma Sirmons of Blake
ly, Mrs. J. M. Harris of Damascus,
and Mr. W. H. Sirmons of St. Au
gustine, Fla. Fifteen grandchildren
and sixteen great-grandchildren al
so survive.
Funeral services and interment
took place at the Bush cemetery
Monday afternoon, August 17, at 3
o’clock, conducted by the Revs.
Ralph Cooper and E. M. Overby.
The Fryer Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements. The fol
lowing acted as pall-bearers: Messrs.
J. C. Loyless, Claud Owen, W. G.
Gill, J. R. Owen, J. M. Bryant and
; Tom Early Spence.
The Georgia peach season has just
closed. Rail shipments were placed
at 8,127 cars.
RE-OPENING OF WYNNE’S
NEW DEPARTMENT STORE
TO BE HELD FRIDAY
Barney Wynne’s department store,
west side of the public square, which
has been remodeled, will have its
formal re-opening on Friday of this
week. Sales circulars are being dis
tributed announcing the event, and
a large crowd is expected to visit
the new store during the re-opening
sale.
The front of the new store pre
sents an attractive appearance with
its new display windows, and the in
terior of the building has been re
modeled and re-arranged in modern
style. The store is one of the most
complete in this section, and Mr.
Wynne is justly proud of the estab
lishment. Visit the store during the
re-opening sale.
Well Known Early
Countian Claimed By
Death Saturday
Mr. George Crawford Swann, 76,
well known citizen of Early county,
died at his home south of the city
last Saturday afternoon at 4:30
o’clock. Death came after an illness
of four weeks.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon with interment in the
Bush cemetery at Cuba, the Rev. S.
B. King officiating, and the J. J.
White Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements. Pall-bearers were five
nephews of the deceased, namely: T.
T. Swann, C. C. Swann, R. L. Swann,
Hall Swann, Edwin Swann, and a
friend, Cecil Waller.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mat
tie Swann; three sisters, Mrs. Fan
nie T. Alexander, Mrs. Moses Free
man and Mrs Genie Brunson, all of
this county, and a number of neph
ews and nieces.
Mr. Swann was born in Early
county in 1860 and had spent most
of his life in the county of his birth.
He engaged in farming most of the
time, but other occupations included
service on the Blakely police force.
He was widely known and highly
esteemed by a large circle of friends,
and the news of his passing was
received with sincere regret.
»
ENTERTAINMENT AND
BARBECUE TO BE GIVEN
AT HILTON SCHOOL
The vocational department and
Hilton consolidated school will serve
barbecue and furnish a good, live,
clean entertainment on September
11th, starting at five o’clock.
Each plate will be filled with bar
becue, Brunswick stew, pickle, pota
to chips end bread. The cost of each
plate will be 25 cents. Immediately
after being served, a good entertain
ment will follow.
Tell your friends and meet them
at the school campus.
O. F. MORTON,
Teacher of Voc. Agriculture.
WE INVITE YOU TO WEIGH ON OUR
SCALES
We record your weight, if you like, so from week
to week you may check up on it.
REFRESH YOURSELF AT OUR FOUNT
Malted and Chocolate Milks will make you gain
in weight, or perhaps you prefer Grape Fruit
drinks to take off those extra pounds.
A A A AAA
Balkcom’s Drug Store
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
Race for Governor
Is Narrowed Down;
Rivers Is in Lead
(Georgia News Service)
Atlanta, Ga.—Rapid developments
during the past week have served to
intensify the heat of the campaign
and at the same time clarify the
race for Governor as being distinct
ly between Speaker Ed Rivers of the
House of Representatives and Pres
ident Charles Redwine of the Sen
ate with, according to most political
observers, the odds decidedly in fa
vor of Rivers.
According to all polls, Rivers was
leading the field when former Con
gressman W. W. Larsen withdrew,
leaving the race to Rivers, Redwine
and Judge Blanton Fortson, the so
called Weltner candidate. Although
Larsen made no attempt to direct
the votes of his supporters, many
conceded that, because of his en
dorsement of President Roosevelt,
the Larsen vote would for the most
part go to Rivers.
Ardent supporters of the new deal
are speculating on whether Judge
Fortson also will quit the race,
pointing out that his withdrawal
would insure choice of Rivers, a
Roosevelt friend, and make a run
over unnecessary. On the other
hand Fortson supporters contend,
that their candidate will either get
a majority in the primary or be one
of the runover candidates.
His home town paper, The Dublin
Courier-Herald, edited by W. H.
Harrison, commended Larsen and
urged everyone to get behind Rivers
declaring that “Judge Fortson, who
is hopelessly out of the running, as
far as electoral votes are concerned,
should also withdraw.” The Dublin
paper is one of more than forty
which have come out unqualifiedly
in favor of Rivers.
During the week Mr. Rivers, him
self, continued speeches in various
communities and over radio, plead
ing for Old Age Pensions; exemp
tion of homes from property taxes;
free school books and adequate care
for the common schools; betterment
of public health conditions and the
bringing of county roads into the
state highway system.
Redwine continued his public
speaking with the declaration that
“victory is in sight. We only have
to hold what we have, and go to the
polls on September 9, and see that
every Redwine vote is counted.”
Judge Fortson continued vigorous
attacks on Clark Howell, editor of
The Atlanta Constitution and Dem
ocratic National Committeeman, who
atfer a poll of the Georgia delegates
to the Philadelphia Convention, an
nounced in favor of Rivers. All
three candidates have announced a
large number of speaking engage
ments between now and the pri
mary.
A mild tropical storm from the
Atlantic swept into Florida near
Titusville last week. No damage
was done, but Florida and southern
part of Georgia and Alabama re
ceived drenching rains.
The U. S. Department of State
has promulgated a non-intervention
edict in respect to the Spanish rev
olutionary war and shipment of arms
to either side is frowned upon.