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Blakely, Ga., Dec. 10, 1936
Do your Christmas buying
in Blakely.
o
Only two more weeks till
Christmas. Have you done
that shopping yet?
o
The city authorities have
had the square decorated with
Christmas lights, and now
Blakely presents a holiday
appearance.
o
A strange case is reported
of a boy who cannot stop
talking. Probably would not
have been noticed had it been
a girl who was thus afflicted.
o
“Big business” has been
“talking turkey” since the
election, and the President
does not now appear the aw
ful ogre that he was pictured
by the Liberty Leaguers dur
ing the late campaign.
o
Scientist says universe is
smaller than was first sup
posed. It’s large enough to
suit us, for we’ll probably nev
er have the opportunity of see
ing much of our own native
land.
o
We look forward to the
coming of the year with pleas
urable anticipation, for it will
then no longer be “Governor”
Talmadge. It will be plain
“Mister” Talmadge. We shall
enjoy the absence of his name
from the news columns of the
daily press.
n
Georgians regret that Pres-1
ident Roosevelt will be unable
to stop over in his “second
home” on his return trip to!
Washington from the Pan-
American Conference in Bue
nor Aires. The chief execu
tive had originally planned to!
spend the Thanksgiving holi
days in Georgia, but his trip'
to South America nullified that!
plan.
o
President Roosevelt was
given a rousing welcome by
the South American countries
visited on his recent good-will
trip to our southern neighbors.
It is believed that the Presi
dent senses a real danger in
the European situation and is ,
anxious that the two Americas;
reach the definite understand
ing that any war of aggression
as relates to these continents (
will not be tolerated.
Local- merchants are carry
ing excellent lines of Christmas
merchandise, and there is no
excuse for spending Blakely
dollars away from home.
o
It is going to be tough going
for the intoxicated auto driver
after the next session of the
Georgia General Assembly—
for sentiment seems to be that
that body is going to pass a
driver’s license law with
“teeth” in it. Leading the na
tion in auto accidents, Geor
gia seems aroused to the ne
cessity of doing something to
curb the death and destruc
tion riding the highways.
o
We are not losing any sleep
over the King Edward-Wallis
Simpson case. We find our
selves sympathizing with the
monarch in finding himself
placed where the cards are
stacked against his marriage
to the woman he loves, but
on the other hand we hope
the American-born title seeker
fails in her ambition to cap
ture the prized position she
is evidently seeking.
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
In Spokane, Wash., legal machinery
has been started to give drunks a
castor oil treatment. The prescript
ion suggested is one of jurisprudence,
not medicine. Those who remember
—and who doesn’t? —the time when
castor oil was given by anxious moth
ers have reason to believe that stay
ing sober would be the lesser of the
two evils.—Dawson News.
Certainly America is a free coun
try, but it’s where a business man
prefers not to express an opinion for
fear of it hurting his trade. —Greens-
boro Herald-Journal.
There are some closets without
skeletons, but most of them have
three-year-old coats and things to
cause disturbances. Thomasville
Times-Enterpr.ise.
We hope Mr. Farley’s prediction
of an era of unprecedented prosperity
for the United States is as accurate
as his prediction of the outcome of
the general election a few weeks ago.
—Manchester Mercury.
There are 36,000,000 automobiles
in the world, and most of them are
in front of you when you are in a
hurry to meet an appointment—
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
The sun is shining brighter and
there is more zest in the atmosphere
in South Georgia now since Gover
nor Chase S. Osborn has arrived at
Possum Poke in Possum Lane, Pou
lan, Worth county, Georgia, for his
annual winter visit. Governor Os
born is Georgia’s most distinguished
winter visitor and through his boost
ing of Georgia and its climate, has
done more than any other one per
son to bring the advantages of
Georgia to. the attention of the na
tion. Maj' his stay be long and en
joyable, is the earnest wish of his
legion of friends in the wiregrass.—
Tifton Gazette.
There is no doubt that the next
Georgia assembly will devote con
siderable attention to the drivers’
license and highway patrol bills which
are sure to be introduced. The alarm
ing increase of motor accidents and
death on our highways is the best
argument in favor of quick and fa
vorable action on these measures.
—Dawson News.
Lindbergh dropped out of sight
for six hours and a globe became
alarmed. Some of us could go off!
for a year and nobody' would mind.
—Savannah Press.
If all the hooey could be laid end I
to end and not be permitted to be
used, the politicians would then be
speechless. Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
A democracy’ is a place where the
voters elevate a man to a high office
just to have the satisfaction of later
defeating him.—Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
When they have finished counting
the ballots in this country, it is all
over but the shouting. In Mexico|
and South America it is all over
but the shooting.—Sylvester Local.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
SLAVERY IS NECESSARY
By Lee S. Trimble, Executive Vice-
President and Manager, Macon
Chamber of Commerce, Macon,
Georgia.
In the days of the old South, when
slavery of negroes was in vogue,
the highest cultural standards of
the nation were reached, because
glaves did the manual work. This
left their owners free to pursue
their studies, go traveling and to
practice the arts of civilization.
These things men cannot do if their
days are filled with hard work.
There are thousands of chores
to be done, with much back-breaking
labor, if the business of the world
is carried on and if the people in it
are to be served.
In ancient Greece, 2,200 years
ago, there lived a wise man who
voiced a permanent truth in saying
that slavery is essential as a founda
tion for any high culture. Accord
ing to his veiw, that meant slavery
of human bodies, but to us it means
the slavery of machines.
The practice of enslaving human
beings is passing into disuse every
where because it is wrong, morally
and spiritually, and because a bet
ter way has been found. Heavy,
grueling work can best be done by
machinery, and the process of trans-
this burden from the backs
of mankind goes continually on.
The transition is not yet com
plete, as there are thousands, even
millions, of women and children who
have to forego their rightful share
of leisure and are denied proper
educational advantages, while they
spend their waking hours doing work
that a machine should do.
To Henry Ford must go a great
share of the credit for making eas
ier the use of machines in the daily
life of thousands. In order to be
usable, machinery not only has to
be designed and manufactured, but
must be placed within reach of
those it would help. Mass produc
tion methods are needed to make it
cheap; standardized performance to
make it easy of operation; and in
stallment selling to make it availa
ble to the many. All of these fac
tors are as important as its inven
tion when the service of the ulti
mate user is considered.
In Georgia the main problem is to
get the means with which to buy
the machines needed. The natural
or raw materials are here, but most
of them are sent away to be pro
cessed, which is where the profit is
made. Incomes must be raised.
This business of sending out so much
of what is earned here for the
products of others needs to be
checked. Latent resources that are
here need to be developed by home
people for home use. That is a
large order, but it is the task laid
out to be done. And as Mark
Twain once said, “That is the petri
fied truth.’’
o
The farmer who has plenty of
barns on his farm in which to put
feed, and who has feed in those
barns, is fortunate in the extreme.
Opinion is growing in this section
that successful farmers will market
feedstuff through live stock and that
failure to do so will spell failure
for that farmer.—Camilla Enter
prise.
One Crop Not Affected by the Drouth
(Conrrtirhi. w. N. tr.>
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpt* from Early County New*
of December 9, 1886.)
MR. JOHN ROBERTS, of Cedar
Springs, was in Blakely Wednesday.
COL. R. H. SHEFFIELD was up
to Fort Gaines this week attending
Clay Superior Court.
MR. S. MANUEL has moved into
his cosy new residence on Cuthbert
street.
MR. J. W. STRICKLAND is re
building his kitchen which was burn
ed a few weeks since.
MR. JACK GAY, of St. Andrews
Bay, Fla., is up to Early County on
a visit.
MRS. R. J. F. GRIST and daughter,
Miss (Sadie, and little sob, Willie
Jim, are visiting relatives in Colum
bia, Ala., this week.
MR. W. H. ROBINSON succeeds
Mr. J. D. Fudge at the store of Col.
B. H. Robinson.
THE LAST VESTIGE of the
“Beautiful Snow” has now disappear
ed. About the only consolation the
older people could find in the heavy
fall of snow was the fun it afford
ed the younger people in playing
snowball on Monday night.
THE LADIES of Blakely met at
the Livingston House on Monday
last and decided to have a public
Christmas tree at the Academy on
Friday, the 24th inst.
e\ THE FAMILY*
DOCTOR
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D.
IN THE PHARMACY OF THE ALL-WISE CREATOR
Perhaps very few who dine ever
think of the valuable medicinal prop
erties residing in the fancy pepper
shaker, that long ago earned its
right to a place on every dining
table. Some shrink from pepper,
advisedly perhaps—and from the
smarting it causes when indulged in
too freely. Others, lovers of the pun
gent in dietary, go to extremes and
indulge the fiery pepper to excess.
There will always be extremists who
go too far.
“Piper Nigrum,” black pepper, de
pends upon an essential oil for its
stimulating property. There are
some modern medical authors who
have little faith in internal antisep
tics. One in particular tells us that
an infectious, catarrhal process set
up on a mucuous surface, can be
cured by the use of an agent that
stimulates the surface cells to ac-:
tivity. He means that the cells do !
MISS JENNIE ROBERTS, daugh
ter of Mr. D. M. Roberts, of the 26th
district, was married on Thursday of
last week to Mr. Judson L. Brooks.
CAPT. W. H. STUCKEY was pain
fully hurt at his store last week.
Dr. W. B. Standifer, who attended
him, says no bones were broken
and we are glad to learn that he is
rapidly recovering.
MR. O. H. SHEFFIELD and sis
ter, Miss Ida, arrived in Blakely
last Sunday from school at Barnes
ville on their way to Cedar Springs.
They were accompanied by Miss
Ella Hodges, of Jackson, Ga.
THE South Georgia Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, convened at Cuthbert Wed
nesday. Bishop Hendrix, of Mis
souri, is presiding.
ONE OF THE HEAVIEST and
most general snow storms ever ex
perienced began in the North and
East on Saturday. It extended down
deep into the South. The snow com
menced to fall in Blakely early Sun
day morning, but melted rapidly
owing to the warmth of the ground,
remaining only on the house tops
and other lodging places. The snow
continued into the night and with
night fall the temperature fell suf
ficently to prevent its melting on the
ground. Monday dawned clear and
bright and the whole earth was in
dazzling array, but not very deep in
snow. Other southern towns were
not so fortunate, as Atlanta had 10
inches of snow, Montgomery 10, and
Chattanooga 12 inches.
the work against the germs, and not
the so-called “antiseptic” remedies.
Black pepper certainly stimulates
mucuous surfaces. It causes a freer
flow of gastric and intestinal secre
tions. And these are needed in a
bundance for perfect digestion. Mod
erate use of black pepper benefits
the weak stomach—does away with
“gases” that give distress. It does
no harm if used temperately, ex
cept in ulceration.
One of the best anti-malarias I
know of contains a small proportion
of the oil of black pepper. “Pipera
zin” has value in certain affections
with uric acid intoxication. The use
of pepper is well known in con
valescence from chronic alcoholism,
coaxing the weaker gastric surfaces
back into normal activity.
The pharmacy of a great and all
wise Creator is without parallel for
its number of useful remedies. Ever
think of ti?
TOMORROW’a
1 S-U-N 0
BY ROGERS WINTER
Newspaper Features, Inc.
LEGISLATIVE PROBLEMS,
ROOSEVELT BURDEN—
The Georgia General Assembly
will meet in the first of two regu
lar sessions for 1937 on January 11.
Under the law it may hold its long
session at the conclusion of the
ten-day session which is designed
for introduction of bills and organ
ization. The constitution calls for
the regular session in July, but stip
ulates that the ten-day session in
January may call the regular ses
sion immediately on a majoriy vote
of quorum. Observers see a possi
bility of Governor-elect E. D. Rivers
calling a special session on the
conclusion of the ten-day session,
and thereby postponing the regular
session until July.
Whatever the case may be, the
legislature in January will have
poured into its hopper bills providing
for (1) Social Security, with par-
• ticular reference to old-age pen
. sions; (2) Additional support for
1 schools; (3) Appropriations for
1937, 1938, and 1939; (5) Reorgan
ization of the state highway de
partment; (6) Revision of the state
prohibition law; (7) Revision of
• the motor vehicle license law with
particular regard to trucks; (9) Dis
posal of the nearly-completed feder
al aid state prison in Tattnall coun
ty; (10) For annual sessions of the
General Assembly; (11) Authoriz
ing the assembly to convene itself;
(12) Abolition of the poll tax; (13)
Abolition of the general property
tax and substitution of an increased
income tax or a sales tax; (14) Civil
service for state employes. These
are just a few of the most important
bills which will be dumped into the
January hopper. Let it be remem
bered that the ten-day session can
not act on any of these. They must
be voted on at the regular session.
If Governor-elect Rivers calls a spe
cial session in January, they will
not be considered until July, unless
the call specifies that they shall be
considered.
Governor Rivers is pedged to the
pension matter. As to appropria
tions, he is obliged, by his opposi
tion to Governor Talmadge’s dismis
sal of Harrison and Hamilton and
their re-election by the people, to
provide an appropriation bill. It
was opposition to Mr. Talmadge’s
one-man control of state finances
that brought about dismissal of Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Harrison as treas
urer and comptroller. There are
rumors, too, that Mr. Rivers may
ask the dismissal of the highway
board, the board of control and the
board of regents because they are
now Talmadge-conrolled.
When President Roosevelt re
ceived the landslide majority that
was awarded him in the November
election he received likewise a re
sponsibility the like of which ha*
n ever been saddled on an individual
in the history of the United State*.
His South American tour has been
no less than a triumphal march.
His purposes in South America, to
stimulate trade, to band together
the nations on the Western Hemi
sphere in peace, have been worthy
of the magnificent stature the peo
ple of the United States have en
visioned in him. Even in Europe
the reverberations of his magnifi
cent re-election have brought up
those close-fisted politicians to the
point where they are seeking a set
tlement of the war debts, a thing
that could but benefit our country.
True the proposals would reduce the
debts, but they would mean pay
ment of something and that is more
than has been suggested since the
Hoover debt holiday.
President Roosevelt has assumed
the role of a King Arthur at the
round table of the nations. He is
a national hero and is looked upon
as the savior of our country. This
adulation carries with it gravest re
sponsibilities. His control of our
business recovery now well under
way, must be gentle and wise. Rad
ical action at this time would be
fatal. Business was supposed to
hav been granted a breathing spell
some months ago. It is now that bus
iness desires and n*?eds a breathing
spell! With pay rolls and dividends
mounting to new heights daily, it
would be well for the national ad
ministration to let the tide flow to
its fullest. Permit prosperity real
ly to return to our farms and our
factories before new and untried
legislation is resorted to; give ui a
chance really to enjoy the benefits
of recovery before federal experi
ments are made with legislation
which may or may not be beneficial
to our economic welfare!