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Blakely, Ga., September 17, 1936
’Phone or send to The News
the names of your visitors for
the holiday season. It’s a
courtesy due both the home
paper and your guests.
o
President Roosevelt is back
in Washington, after attending
the Pan-Ameripan peace con
ference in Buenos Aires. He
is reported in splendid physi
cal condition after his long
sea journey.
o
Governor Talmadge seems
to be working over-time to see
that the penitentiaries are
emptied before the expiration
of his term in January. Guess
you have been reading of the
unusual number of pardons
and paroles granted by his
excellency in recent weeks.
o
It is hoped Governor-elect
Rivers appoints a southwest
Georgian on the state high
way board when and if the
board is reorganized after Mr.
Rivers assumes office. This
section of the state has been
sadly neglected in the matter
of distribution of paved high
ways, and a live-wire Georgian
from this section should be
able to see that we receive our
rightful share of highway con
struction.
A rather interesting article,
“Fun and Philosophy,” was
received by The News the
past week, but not knowing
the identity of “Simon Ty
phoon,” its author, we were
unable to publish it. When
will readers learn that news
papers do not publish anony
mous communications? If the
author of the article will make
his identity known to the edi
tor, the article will be carried
in the next issue and his iden
tity kept secret if he so de
sires.
o
Blakely has on its best bib
and tucker for the Christmas
season. Never before has,
there been so much prepara
tion for the Yuletide as is
manifest this year. Holiday
stocks in local stores are larg
er than usual, and the store
decorations are more attrac
tive than in former years.
Lighted Christmas trees are to
be seen in many yards and
homes, to say nothing of that
beautiful array of lights in
the stores and around the
public square. To appreciate
the attractiveness of all this
Yuletide attire, take a ride
over the city after nightfall.
The sight is indeed pretty.
Blakely’s handsome new
■ §47,000 postoffice will be
ready for occupancy the first
of the year. The building
will be completed within the
next few days, but Postmaster
Butler announces that the
transfer will not be made un
til after the Christmas holi
days. Those who have not
inspected the building in re
cent weeks have a delightful
surprise in store when they
visit the completed building.
o
We are glad the British
“crisis” is over. King Edward
chose his lady-love in prefer
ence to the throne, which, if it
suits him, should satisfy us.
His younger brother has be
come King of the world’s
greatest empire, and soon the
i great “crisis” will have been
forgotten. We might add that
we hope “Wally” proves
worthy of the man who was
willing to relinquish his throne
for the woman he loved.
o
Read the Christmas ad
vertisements in this issue of
The News. They will prove
helpful to you in your shop
ping. With complete stocks
from which to make selections,
there is no reason for not
buying at home this Christ
mas. Give the local merchant
a break.
o
An enjoyable Christmas gift
for the friend or loved one
who formerly lived in Blakely:
A year’s subscription to the
home paper, a weekly visitor
for 52 weeks for only $1.50.
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
There are plenty of places where
a man can give, if he has the de
sire to give and something to give.
—Tifton Gazette.
What, after all, is the acid test of
a community—this community or
any other? We wonder if it is not
the ability or inability of people to
get along together. Many things
I may seem more important, and
doubtless are, but is a fortunate
city, whether great or small, whose
people know how to “dwell together
in unity.”—'Albany Herald.
Following the heavy expenditures
in the recent national campaign, a
movement has been launched by
members of Congress to place a
limit on campaign expenditures. We
doubt the wisdom of attempting to
limit expenditures, but it might be
well to place a limit on individual
contributions. A maximum contri
bution of $5,000 from any person,
firm or corporation should recult
automatically in curtailed expendi
tures, since it would mean smaller
campaign funds for all parties.—
Tifton Gazette.
There is a wholesome lesson for
young people in reports that the
skilled workers of the country are
having no trouble getting placed,
! now that business is good again.
I Unemployment, however, among
. those who are unskilled continues.
■lt is this latter class that is keep
ing the ranks filled up. The indus
trial mechanism and the highly
scientificized business of today has
a place for those who know how to
do a given job better than the other
fellow. In the meantime, society
has more workers who are unskilled
in any craft or pursuit than there
is unskilled work to be done. Os
course, there is another one of those
facts that writes its own sermon.—
The Charlotte Observer.
With hogs selling at nine cents
and better, beef cattle at a pretty
fair price and cotton and peanuts
holding firm in the face of all pro
duction reports, the outlook for the
farmer in the New Year is good.
The only danger lies in the farmers
themselves. If the farm program
for 1937 holds production down to
the limits of the year just closing
all will be well, agriculturists say.
Otherwise anything may happen, and
there are many farmers who are
clamoring for increased acreages of
these money crops which would al
most certainly spell disaster, accord
ing to farm and market specialists.
—Camilla Enterprise.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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BY ROGERS WINTER
Newspaper Features, Inc.
GEORGIA AND LIVESTOCK
On appropriate occasion Tomor
row’s Suns happily offers the bene
fit of its advice or its context to
various persons, institutions or or
ganizations. It is a courtesy we
wish to preserve for any who may
have a serious and worthwhile
thought they wish to give expression
to in this column.
In the following article, F. R. Ed
wards, head of the department of
animal industry of the Georgia Ex
periment Station, discusses the live
stock industry in Georgia. Columbus
Roberts, the newly-elected Commis
sioner of Agriculture, and personally
one of the more important livestock
men in the state, endorses what Mr.
Edwards has to say. His communi
cation follows:
Recent figures show that livestock
and livestock products have come to
be the second largest “Cash Crop”
of Georgia farms. This was far
from true a few years ago. It is
estimated that livestock now brings
more than 70 per cent as much cash
in this state as does cotton and cot
tonseed. Cotton has long been our
main crop.
Figures indicate that livestock re
turns about half as much cash in
come to our farmers as do all other
major cash crops combined, includ
ing cotton, cottonseed, tobacco, pea
nuts, peaches, watermelons, and
pecans. In other words, livestock
now produces about one-third of the
state’s agricultural income. The meat
packing plants have helped make this
possible by furnishing steady cash
markets at all times to the farmers
for their livestock.
In the above figures, no account
has been taken of what is probably
the most valuable livestock product
in Georgia. We refer to the value
of the work performed by the 355,-
000 mules and horses in the state.
If we place a reasonable value on
this, we find that livestock is now
returning Georgia farmers nearly as
much as all other things combined.
The importance of this is so great
that it is difficult to comprehend why
livestock production has been neg
lected for so long and why it is not
even greater than it now is. Our
work animals are foundamental to
farming. The mule ranks next in
importance only to the farmer him
self when it comes to producing a
crop. The old saying, “No mule, no
crop”, is so true that it needs no
defense. Mules and horses make it
possible to raise everything else the
farmer produces. Many farmers in
the past year have evidently been
thinking about this as shown by the
remarkable increase in interest in
mule and horse production through
out the state.
Surveys recently have shown that
farmers who have the best income
usually have the greatest numbers
of livestock. Also they show that
those farmers whose incomes are
lowest usuallj’ have few animals.
These facts are significant. We
would not go so far to say that all
a man needs do to increase his in
come is to keep more livestock. Some
people will fail at almost anything
and the keeping of livestock can not
change this fact. But we do be
lieve that it is safe to say that the
average farmer’s income can be in
creased by giving more attention to
livestock when properly done.
Never for a minute should the
basic principal be lost sight of that
livestock can not be raised sucess
fully or profitably without plenty of
feed. Half-fed animals are sure to
lose money and well fed ones are
usually profitable. Pastures supply
our cheapest and best feed and it is
there tnat the greatest profits are
made. The man who starts out to
produce livestock without first mak
ing sure of his feed supply is doomed
to fail.
Where would the Georgia farmer
be without livestock? In the first
place his cash income w’ould be
about one-third less. Without work
animals he wouldn’t even be able to
get to first base in his efforts to
produce other crops. The day of
livestock has truly arrived in Geor
gia. But even greater prosperity
awaits our farmers when they have
increased their livestock production
to its proper figure. For the present
we can reflect that Christmas would
be pretty empty this year for many
Georgia farm children were it not
for their daddies’ livestock.
: FOR EARS THAT HEAR
AND EYES THAT SEE
By Lee S. Trimble, Exec. Vice-Pres.
and Manager, Macon (Ga.) Cham
ber of Commerce.
__________
A dear old lady of my acquaint
| ance, whose intelligence is keen
and who has always lived in the
country, declares that she has lived
through the most interesting period
in all the world’s history.
She has seen the inception and
development of all the major inven
tions, including electric lights, auto
mobiles, radios, refrigeration, and
the others that might be named.
Though she leaves home but seldom,
she keeps up-to-date in her thinking
through contact with the fine, con
crete roadway, straight and well
built, that runs by her home, stretch
ing like a silver ribbon into the dis
tance.
From her porch in summer and
windows in winter, she loves to
watch the traffic as it passes by,
reading the tell-tale signs carried by
every vehicle for those having eyes
to see. The rumble of wheels, now
heavy, now light, some times slow
but oftener fast, also carry a mes
sage for those having ears to hear.
Because she is there day after
day. she has friends among those
who pass regularly and who think
to look, waving a greeting to the
little old figure that waves in return.
Others, at night-time, send their
greeting with a meaning honk or
blast which, though not answered, is
heard and welcomed because it tells
her that a well-wisher is passing by.
Most of these travelling friends she
does not know by name and may
never know except through these
fleeting salutes.
Once this now graceful stretch of
pavement was a dusty highway or a
quagmire of mud according to the
weather and season, when the pass
ing vehicles were horsedrawn and
slow. Then, as now, she had friends
to greet her in passing but these
were mostly neighbors. With im
prved surfacing of the road came
travelers from afar, tourists, trucks
laden with goods, c riminals escap
privacy, errands of a thousand sorts
being run.
ing from the law, elopers seeking
For her the road interprets life.
Daily, almost, she sees all classes of
humanity, from the lowly tramp to
the mighty nabob, go by, all seeking
and searching for something more,
never quite content.
She says that she is glad that her
day will not extend to that future
when most travel will be done in the
trackless blue above. Even now the
daily air mail roars over her cottage,
but passing too swiftly to allow her
more than a glance. She loves her
road, with its steady stream of pass
ers-by, as varied and shifting as any
cast of players on the stage. They
bring her amusement, diversion and
a sense of sharing through them, the
rich drama of life.
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A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of December 16, 1886.)
MR. AND MRS. J. D. FUDGE are
moving back to Colquitt.
DR. C. J. MULLIGAN was up
from Miller county this week.
OUR YOUNG FRIEND, Durwood
Harriss, is visiting in Lee county.
MESSRS. J. B. Chancy and B. S.
Chancy, of Saffold, spent Sunday in
Blakely.
MRS. G. D. HOWARD has re
turned from a visit to relatives in
Clay county.
THE LADIES have decided to
postpone their Christmas tree enter
tainment until Tuesday, the 28th.
MR. M. L. McDOWELL, of Cle
burne, Texas, is visiting his brother,
Mr. W. A. McDowell, this weee.
PROF, and Mrs. Z. I. Fitzpatrick
have closed school for Christmas
and left on Monday’s train for
Madison, Ga.
@IIIE FAMILY 9
DOCTOR
OHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D.
I am not prone to giving recipes
in my newspaper work. Rarely do I
actually prescribe in front of your
physician. But, here is a recipe
for a physical exercise that should
have free publicity, because of its
genuine worthy in practice.
I am not the originator of this
sort of self treatment. I do not
know who is. And the advice here
in is not copyrighted—it’s yours for
the using.
I believe the “laziest” muscles of
the human body are those of the
abdomen and colon. Especially so
in cases of corpulency, very com
mon in middle-aged and beyond—
those “bay-windows,” if you get
what I mean. Those unwelcome
hammocks, hanging-baskets which
make us look and feel ponderous, as
if we were carrying dead weight,
too much ballast for the ship; not
actual disease—just laziness in bel
lies.
THE DEATH of Mrs. B. J. Boyn
ton, of Bluffton, is chronicled in The
News this week.
A SOCIAL PARTY given at the
home of Mrs. John W. Deal on last
Tuesday night was well attended and
much enjoyed by the young people.
THE South Georgia Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, at its recent session in Cuth
bert, announced the appointments
for the Thomasville district, as fol
lows: Presiding Elder, J. O. Branch-
Blakely, T. K. Leonard; Thomas
ville. E. H. McGehee; Leary, sup
plied by John S. West; Newton W
B. Burke; Albany, Bascom Anthony :
Camilla, J. W. Weston; Pelham’
supplied by H. Stubbs; Cairo, S. W
Stubbs; Rehoboth Mission, supplied
by W. A. Howell; Centennial, W. A
Arnold; Attapulgus Mission, J ’ T
Arnold; Attapulgus Mission, J
T. Ainsworth; Bainbridge, P. Hi
Crumpler; Trinity, J. W. Foy; Ce
dar Springs Mission, J. C. Griner;
Boston, J. S. Jordan; Quitman, O
F. Riley; Brooks, W. A.
Rev. J. D. Maulden goes to Sylvania
in the Savannah district. Rev. S.
R. Weaver goes to Homerville Mis
sion. Rev. J. P. Wardlaw remains
at New Houston church, Savannah.
Rev. T. D. Strong goes to Hinesville,
in the Savannah district.
TRY AND BE CONVINCED
>1 Try it when in bed. On retiring
I and on awakening in morning. Lie
(flat on back. Place a hand on the
(abdomen. See how high you can
! lift the hand with the abdominal
I muscles, then how low you can let
lithe hand settle by the same mus-
I cles. Up—down, —up, down, 12
[times; that’s all for each treat
ment. Continue a month, night and
morning, in bed. The lungs need
not enter into this exercise.
You will note beneficial results
in constipation and in the increased
activity of those sagging muscles,
which leads to a better feeling all
! over; your waist-band will actually
: become too loose in due time—if
. you keep up your treatment faith
fully. You get a nice degree of
! voluntary control of muscles in this
i old hanging-basket of yours that
may have caused you backaches in
the past from only moderate use.
■ Learn the benefits of “belly-
■ breathing.”
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