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Blakely, Ga., December 31, 1936
THE OLD AND THE NEW
Tonight at the stroke of
midnight the year 1936 passes
into history.
It has been a good year for
most of us. For proof of this
statement one needs only to
restrospect for a few moments
over the past seven years—
most of them lean years. The
close of each of these years
was welcomed and we faced
a new year in the hope that
it would be better than the
past.
The feeling is a little differ
ent today, as we realize that
within a few hours the pres
ent year will have come to a
close. There is that feeling
that somehow we are parting
with an old friend, that some
thing which we have become
affectionately attached to is!
about to bid us farewell. And
the feeling is more one of sad
ness than of joys anticipa
tion.
In what way has 1936 been
so good? you may ask. Each
reader of this little New Year
message can easily answer his
own query. The evidences of
the goodness and mercies of a
divine Providence are too man
ifest to doubt their existence
and too many for enumera
tion. Warped indeed is the
vision which cannot see these
evidences on every hand.
But there is no reason to
doubt that the New Year will
be other than another good
year. There is a general feel
ing of optimism that business
is on a sound basis, that the
wheels of industry will contin
ue to whirl under the mo
mentum gained during 1936;
that agriculture, with a sym
pathetic federal government
working to place it upon its
proper level, will enjoy anoth
er prosperous year; that our
nation, under the leadership
of its great chief executive,
will steer clear of the threat
ened conflicts of war—
All in all, that this great
country, founded by men of
indomitable courage and pop
ulated largely by their prog
eny, under wise leadership
will continue to be the greatest
of all nations, leading the pro
cession toward world econom
ic recovery and world peace.
Such may it be!
o
The last day of the year!
o
The day for making New j
year resolutions.
It was a great Christmas
season!
o
The biggest holiday trade
in years, is the report from
every section of the country.
o
May the time come soon
when the sale of fireworks
is forbidden during the
Christmas season.
o
President Roosevelt’s inaug
uration next month will be wit
nessed by a great throng of
admiring American citizens.
o
May 1937 see Blakely con
tinue its march of progress and
growth. The old home town
has made wonderful strides
during 1936.
o
Read the New Year cards in
this issue of The News. They
express the appreciation of lo
cal merchants for the liberal
patronage enjoyed during the
year 1936.
o
Accidents during the holi
day season exacted a toll of
over 500 American human
lives, a large number of whom
met their deaths in automobile
smash-ups.
o
The inauguration of Gover
nor Rivers will take place on
January 12, it is announced.
In the meantime, friends will
regret to learn, the Governor
elect is ill at his home in Lake
land, and has been ordered to
bed for a week’s rest by his
physicians, who report the ill
ness as not serious.
o
The death on Christmas Day
of Arthur Brisbane, columnist
for the Hearst papers, re
moved the world’s highest-paid
newspaper writer. Brisbane’s
rise to fame and fortune reads
almost like a Horatio Alger
story, and his life’s story is
evidence of the opportunity of
fered to the youth of this land
to reach the pinnacle of suc
cess in any chosen profession.
o
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
A fellow thinks he is a rugged in
dividualist when he rides a few
miles without a heater in his auto
mobile. Greensboro Herald-Jour
nal.
North Georgia’s bragging on its
sorghum syrup. And down here in
South Georgia, where we have the
genuine sugar cane product, we jes
lass.—Savannah Press.
Among the disadvantages of win
ter are the short days, low tempera
tures, coal and gas bills, the diffi
culty in getting an early start in
the mornings, and not being able to
go to Florida. —Monroe Advertiser.
The greatest trouble with the pres
ent day church and secret orders is
that they have quit expelling mem
bers for infraction of rules. Many
people regard the church as a serv
ice club. They belong because they
think it makes them respectable.—
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
If the theory is correct that in
creased wages and bonuses create
prosperity by enabling the workers
to buy more, the country should
have the most prosperoues year-end
and coming year it has ever had.
There are many around here who
would like to have a hand in creat
ing such prosperity. We are all good
spenders.—Elberton Star.
Possibly, with the exception of
Hoke Smith, no man that ever served
Georgia as Governor was ever per
sonally acquainted with as many
' people as Ed Rivers. Very few peo
ple of this state have not seen,
heard or shaken the hands of the
new incoming governor. He is the
sort of felow that can adapt him
i self to present company and put
i everybody at ease with a few words
' and he runs President Roosevelt a
i close race in lifting his hat in cor
dial greetings.—Thomasville Press.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
With the good feed crop produced
in South Georgia, it seems like it
would have been better if some of
the little pigs now going to market
had been kept on the farm and al
lowed to grow into hogs.—Tifton
Gazette.
We have heard the remark that
a number of farmers are selling
their fat hogs to the packing plants
and reserving very few, if any, for
home use. These fellows may be
faced with the necessity of buying
this meat back at a much higher
price next spring and summer, if
market predictions we hear should
materialize.—Camilla Enterprise.
Despite the rapid increase in col
lege enrollment in Georgia, this state
still ranks low in comparison with
other states. While Georgia stands
fourteenth among the states in total
population, the state ranks twentieth
in number of students enrolled in
college. However, after the Board
of Regents complete the three-year
building program, Georgia should
step up a few rounds in enrollment,
as there will be room for many
more students at the colleges.—Tif
ton Gazette.
There is, seemingly, no end to Dr.
Charles Herty’s revelations of the
wealth hidden in Southern pines.
The most recent discovery in his lab
oratory at Savannah is a pine-tree
fat containing the same properties
as animal flesh; and he has also
developed a cheap and efficient
means of extracting it. Thus away
is opened to several new industries.
These fats are useful for making
soap and for mining flotation pro
cesses. Further, as a writer in the
Nashville Banner explains, “Ridding
the pine trees of fat makes possible
for the first time the production of
the finest grade of bond and book
paper from Southern forests. One
variety of the tree is ‘oelic,’ a term
describing a potent ingredient of
the human body, sought by physicians
for medical experiment. Another is
‘linoleic,’ used for paints. In the
waxes is cholestrol, which can be
converted into vitamin D. A new
type of pulp from Southern pines
is said to be freer from fat than
even the spruce pulps now used for
the best grades of paper . . If all the
newsprint pulp used in this country
annually were made from Southern
pines, it would mean a daily pro
duction of fats and waxes of about
four hundred and twenty thousand
pounds. None of these particular
fats is now being extracted here or
elsewhere.” When the history of
Georgia for these times is written,
her master figure in the creation
of opportunities for its industrial
progress will be Charles H. Herty.
—Atlanta Journal.
Regarding the war debt, France
and Great Britain should realize
that we stand for the principal in
volved.—Dallas News.
Japan grows more Occidental. A
sixteen-year-old girl stuck up a
Tokyo bank. But the country still
keeps certain Oriental traits. The
law caught the girl.—Arkansas Ga
zette.
The first thing we’re going to do
resurrection morning is to read our
tombstone and have a good laugh.—
Thomaston (Ga.) Times.
The Annual Non-Stop Flight
(Cnpvrlghr, W. N. I’.)
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
December 28, 1911
THE Christmas tree at the Bap
tist church last Monday night was
quite an enjoyable affair.
MISS CLYDE WOMACK is home
from the Normal School at Mil
ledgeville for the holidays.
MR. AND MRS. R. E. Odum are
visiting relatives in Augusta.
MRS. G. L. BURROUGHS, of At
lanta, is the guest of her brother,
Mr. J. B. Shaw.
MR. E. L. FRYER, Sr., and Mr.
Lewis Fryer left Wednesday to
spent several days in the stock mar
kets of Kentucky.
MR. ERNEST MINGE, of St. An
drews, Fla., was the guest of Mr.
Ewell Hammack during the holidays.
MRS. J. D. FUDGE and little
Miss Bertie Pearsall are visiting in
Douglas, Ga.
MR. W. D. RAY’S new automobile
caught fire and burned out 8 miles
south of the city last Monday.
MR. AND MRS. W. M. Thompson,
of Waldron, Ark., are visiting the
family of Mr. A. M. Irwin.
MR. ROSS HAMMACK, of Fitz
gerald, was a visitor to Blakely
during the holidays.
ERNEST KITCHEN, Otis Haynes
and Roy Scott are home from the
Second District A. & M. School at
Tifton for the holidays.
FROM The Atlanta Constitution:
“A happy event of Friday evening
was the Christmas dance given at
the Halcyon Club for Miss Rebe
Standifer, of Blakely. The music
was furnished by Weems’ orchestra.
The chaperones were Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Hardeman, Dr. and Mrs. J. H.
Goss, Jr.”
® THE FAMILY*
. D O.CTOR
OHN JOSEPH GAINES. M.D.
GERMS GO TO CHURCH TOO
A neglected church, one that is
occupied by worshippers only two
or three times a week and remains
closed the rest of the time, may be
come distinctly unsanitary, if its sex
ton is not alert for the welfare of
his congregation.
I am not warning my readers to
stay away from church—no, not
that. An amusement resort may be
ten times as malignant, where all
sorts of respiratory diseases are
present in all stages. But, the the
ater operator is, as a rule, pretty
careful to keep his place in a sani
tary condition. In constant opera
tion the place is generally swept
clean, and the air changed over and
over again. I am sorry to say that
rural houses of worship are seldom
cared for as they should be.
The church where I attended regu
larly may be cited here, since I am
fond of “honest confessions.” Our
MISS BERTHA WILLIS, of Blake
ly, and Mr. Z. R. Nichols, of the
Lucile district, were married on
Sunday, December 24.
JUDGE A. G. POWELL has re
signed from the Georgia Court ot
Appeals and Gov. Slaton has ap
pointed Col. J. R. Pottle, of Blake
ly, to succeed him.
MR. HORTON HOBBS was over
from Hartford, Ala., for the holi
days.
MISS KATE JONES, who is teach
ing in Bluffton, was down for the
holiday season.
MRS. 0. J. ENGLISH and two
children, Carolyn and Jack, were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Fleming this week.
MR. AND MRS. Harry Anderson,
who have been visiting the family
of Mr. J. T. Anderson, left Wednes
day for their home in Nebraska.
THE HEAVY rains of the past
two weeks have done heavy damage
to the roads and bridges of the
county. The dam at Buchannon’s
mill and the one at Mansfield’s (the
old Averitt) mill pond were both
washed away.
WITH Judge Pottle moving to
Atlanta, Judge L. M. Rambo is mov
ing to Blakely, and will occupy with
Col. W. W. Wright, the old offices
of Hawes, Pottle & Wright.
MAGNOLIA LODGE No. 86 F. &
A. M., has elected and installed the
following officers to serve during
the ensuing year: J. 0. Bridges, W.
M.; J. C. Bryan, S. W.; L. B. Gay,
J. W.; P. H. Fitzgerald, Secretary;
J. T. Freeman, Treasurer; T. F.
Cordray, S. D.; F. L. Williams, J.
D.; J. M. Haisten, S. S.; H. L. Mar
tin, J. S.; W. Z. T. Bridges, Chap
lain.
sexton —a young man—makes his
living from more remunerative work.
The church gets him as cheap as pos
sible, hardly more than five dollars
a week. Our indoor nooks are always
dusty, and the plunder in choir-rooms
is laden with dust. The mop isn’t
known here; the moist cloth, if ever
used, has not been discovered. Our
sexton is the lowest paid official in
the church service.
It ought to be otherwise. He
should be qualified to do expert
sanitary work, and should be paid
SBO a trip, to come around every
three months and check us up moral
ly and financially—about $320 for
the four annual visits. Our spare
time sexton would drop dead if he
were to get one dollar for a harder
hour’s work!
Sometimes a cheap janitor or sex
ton costs more in health than the
high-priced spiritual supervisor. Bet
ter think it over.
ECONOMIC
HIGHLIGHTS
Happening* That Affect the Din
ner Pail*, Dividend Checks and
Tax Bill* of Every Individual
National and International Prob
lem* Inseparable from Local
Welfare.
One of the most interesting and
potentially far-reaching phases of
future stability for the nation is the
increasing interest shown by indus
try—and especially large corporate
industry—in matters of social, as
well as economic significance.
Prime example of this was pro
vided at the recent annual meeting
of the National Association of Man
ufacturers, representative organiza
tion of most of the big goods-pro
ducing concerns of the country. The
president of the Association, C. N.
Chester (who in business life is
Chairman of the Board of General
Foods Corporation) sounded the
keynote of the gathering when he
said, “Industry cannot just sit back
and enjoy the fruits of prosperity.
We must understand better what
has been happening since 1929. Now
that the course of the depression is
behind us, lending itself in its en
tirety to analysis, it is the job for
industry, general business and all
affected sectors of our economic life
to join in creaing a national depres
sion study committee.
Mr. Chester then presented 11
specific suggestions which he believes
industry should follow. Business
Week briefs them thus: 1. To con
tinue making better goods at lower
costs, raising living standards but
defending personal opportunities; 2.
Put all possible employables back to
work; 3. Keep its house in order;
4. Oppose monopoly; 5. Engender
greater confidence in workers; 6.
Promote public understanding; 7.
Share the proceeds of industrial
operations fairly among workers,
management and investors; 8. Help
create economic security for all;
9. While accepting the responsibili
ties, insist that all other interested
elements, including labor oiganiza
tions, be made equally responsible;
10. Co-operate with government; 11.
Join other groups in a preventative
study of depressions.
These goals were approved by the
delegates to the meeting. Most se
rious dissension arose over the So
cial Security Act, which has many
enemies as well as friends. But,
finally, the purpose of the Act was
approved—though the Act itself
was criticized in detail, a criticism
that has been made often before
and will very possibly lead to some
revision of the measure in the next
Congress.
The meaning of all this is that all
industry is making a determined ef
fort to strengthen every phase of
industrial activity to improve em
ployment and safeguard steady jobs.
The service industries are follow
ing suit. For example, the railroads
and the electric utilities are doing
everything possible to stabilize and
increase their operations so as to
employ the greatest number of per
sons and render the highest public
service.
National political interest has nat
urally been focused on Washington
during the past year. As a result,
local governments have come in for
only, a modicum of attention.
In 1937, however, local politics
will be of vital importance. During
January, no less than 43 state legis
latures will convene.
Before these legislatures will be
many highly important questions.
One of those questions is that of
relief—Federal appropriations for
this purpose are gradually being
reduced, and tremendous pressure
will be brought on states to appro
priate funds to supplant the lost
Federal dollars.
Only a handful of states have yet
passed laws to bring their citizens
completely under the Social Securi
ty Act. In the bulk of states such
laws will be up for debate and con
siderable dissension is in prospect.
Furthermore, in practically every
state local problems of more than
ordinary significance will be an is
sue. The question of public econo
my and taxation is looming larger
every day—and the collection and
disbursement of public funds is be
ing more closely scrutinized. In at
least one state, California, revision
of the state constitution is consid
ered.
Thus, during the next month or
two, more of the political news in
your newspapers will be given to
state activities.
Long debated has been the pro
posal that the President of the
United States should be restricted,
by law, to but a single term of six
years’ duration.
Prime argument in favor of the
proposal is that under present con
ditions, Presidents are virtually
forced to build political fences dur
ing their first term in an effort to
assure their re-election. The single
term would stop that long-establish
ed practice.
A bill to pave the way for a Con
stitutional amendment making the
proposal the law of the land will
probably be introduced in the Con
gress.