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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVI > NO. 22
DR. CHAS. BARKER
COMING TO BLAKELY
ON NEXT TUESDAY
WILL SPEAK THREE TIMES.
PUBLIC INVITED TO NIGHT
ADDRESS
The Blakely Rotary Club is antici
pating with a great deal of pleasure
the visit to this city on next Tues
day, January 19th, of Dr. Charles E.
Barker, of Grand Rapids, Mich., lec
turer and teacher of the principles
of health and right living.
Dr. Barker is coining here under
the auspices of the Blakely Rotary
Club as a community service. He
will speak three times during his
day’s visit. At 10 o’clock in the
morning he will address the high
school students of the county in the
Blakely school auditorium. The high
school students of the county are
invited and are expected to attend.
At the noon hour Dr. Barker will
be a guest of and speak to the
members of the Blakely Rotary
Club.
At 7:30 Tuesday night he will
address a mass meeting of the par
ents of Blakely and Early county
at the Blakely Baptist church. Ev
ery one has an invitation to attend
this meeting.
Four million adults, three million
high school students, and probably
a half million college students have
been inspired by the addresses of
Dr. Barker, who holds university de
grees as doctor of hygiene and
physical culture. While William
Howard Taft was president of the
United States, Dr. Barker spent an
hour a day with him, keeping him
fit for his job. Then began his lec
ture work devoted to the young
people of the United States and
Canada and their parents.
Millions of high school students
and their mothers and fathers have
listened to his addresses on the
problems of youth and parenthood.
Since going on the lecture plat
form he has delivered over 11,000
addresses. His most popular lecture,
“How to Make the Most Out of
Life,” has been delivered to 3,000,-
000 boys and girls of high school
age.
One of the secrets of the success
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EARLY RERESENTATIVE
IS NAMED ON SEVERAL
IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
Representative J. O. Bridges, of
Early county, was named as member
of a number of important commit
tees by Speaker Harris at the
i opening session of the General As
sembly on Monday. Mr. Bridges
is vice-chairman of the Training
School committee, and holds mem
bership in the following other com
mittees: Ways and Means, Temper
ance, State Prison Farm, Public
Property, Public Highways No. 1,
Pensions, Georgia State Sanitarium,
General Agriculture No. 1, Educa
tion No. 2, Corporations, and Banks
and Banking.
WEEKLY MEETING
OF BLAKELY ROTARY
CLUB IS HELD
The chief topic for discusion at
the last meeting of the Rotary
Club was the forthcoming visit to
Blakely of Dr. Charles Barker,
noted lecturer of Grand Rapids,
Mich., who comes to Blakely on
next Tuesday. Details of Dr. Bar
ker’s visit will be found in another
column in this issue.
President Bill Grist announced
the appointment of several commit
tees to visit the schools of the
county and invite the high school
students to Blakely Tuesday morn
ing to hear the lecturer.
Rotarians Spencer King and J. A.
Hammack reported they had issued
an invitation to the schools through
the County Board of Education.
The Club voted to invite the
Bainbridge and Cuthbert Clubs to
Blakely for a tri-city meeting some
time in March,
of Dr. Barker as a lecturer to high
school youths is his understanding
of young people and his direct ap
peal to their mentality. He makes
his talks to youth appeal to the
idealism of youth, shows an appre
ciation of their problems, and from
a lifetime of experience he speaks
frankly without offending.
Dr. Barker has been a member
of the Rotary Club of Grand Rap
ids, Mich., since October 1921. He
comes to this city through the cour
tesy of the Rotary Club as a con
tribution of community service.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1937.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONVENED
MONDAY; RIVERS INAUGURATED AS
STATE’S GOVERNOR TUESDAY AT NOON
Members of the 1937-38 Georgia
General Assembly were convened in
biennial session in Atlanta Monday.
Roy V. Harris, of Richmond coun
ty, was elected Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and John
B. Spivey, of Emanuel county, was
elected president of the Senate.
Eurith Dickinson Rivers, 41-year
old Lakeland attorney, Tuesday at
noon took over the governorship of
Georgia from Eugene Talmadge and
demanded “that every department
that actively participated in the
partisan politics of the past cam
paign show good sportsmanship and
abide by the results by tendering
their resignation.”
Before a crowd massed on the
west lawns of the state capitol, the
new governor declared “there is no
place under Georgia’s Constitution
for dictatorship.” He pledged him
self to “unqualified support” of
President Roosevelt’s New Deal
policies.
Although he did not discuss his
legislative program in detail, pre
serving that for later presentation
to the General Assembly, Rivers
touched on the highlights of his
campaign program, which includes:
Old-age pensions.
Civil service for state employes.
Elimination of the power of the
Governor alone to suspend an elect
ed public official.
A law restricting the Governor’s
power to use martial law.
A law allowing the Legislature to
convene itself where the Governor
refuses to do so.
Annual instead of biennial se§-
sions of the Legislature and adop
tion of a fixed salary for legislators
instead of a per diem.
Investigation of the Talmadge
administration.
Free school textbooks, equaliza
tion of educational opportunity and
a state system of schools.
Revision of the tax system, to
include exemption of small owner
occupied homes.
Blakely Hi Basketball
Teams Split With
Bainbridge, Jakin
Blakely’s girls’ and boys’ basket
ball teams traveled to Bainbridge
Friday night and divided their dou
ble-header. The girls defeated the
Bainbridge girls by the score of
41 to 20. The Bob Cats dropped
their game to the Bainbridge boys
by the score of 13 to 8.
The girls got off to a slow start,
and were led by Bainbridge by the
score of 12 to 2 at the end of the
first quarter. Coming to life after
the second quarter got under way,
they soon overcame the Bainbridge
lead. In the second half they com
pletely outplayed Bainbridge and
piled up a large lead which they
were able to hold until the final
whistle.
Boys’ Game
The boys dropped a slow game by
the score of 13 to 8. The game
was very slow, as neither team
could work the ball near the bas
ket. Tremmier, of Blakely, and
Cliett, for Bainbridge, were high
scorers, each having six points.
Jakin Game
The Blakely girls’ basketball team
won their twelfth straight game
Tuesday night by defeating the fast
Jakin team by the score of 49 to
26. The Jakin girls got off to a
fast start and led at the end of the
first quarter, 11 to 8. The Blakely
girls soon came to life and, with
Alexander and Fain finding the
basket often, they soon piled up a
lead that was not threatened the
rest of the game. Fain shot 22
points and Alexander 23. For
Jakin, Pyle scored 19 points.
Boys’ Game
The Blakely boys were no match
for the fast Jakin boys and went
down in defeat by the score of 40
to 20. Cannon, of Jakin, was high
scorer for Jakin, witr 25 points.
Tremmier, o f Blakely, was next,
with nine points.
Reorganization of the State High
way Department and the State
Board of Control.
Enforcement of the prohibition of
corporation contributions to political
campaigns.
Strengthening of the Department
of Labor.
Co-operation in natural resource
conservation with the federal gov
ernment.
Public health legisltion on a com
prehensive scale.
Restriction of the pardoning of
convicted criminals.
Regulation of highway traffic for
safety.
Exclusion of non-Democrats from
the Democratic primary.
After his inauguration, Governor
Rivers administered the oath of of
fice to Comptroller General Harri
son, State Treasurer Hamilton, and
a number of other state-house of
ficers successful in last year’s pri
mary and election. Most of these
had been ousted from office by
Governor Talmadge, but returned
to their posts by the voters of the
state.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE RIVERS
ADDRESS
I do not believe in parsimony in
government at the expense of nec
essary governmental services and
aid to the people.
♦ ♦ *
I sail not use the pardoning pow
er vested in me, as Governor, to
protect those who murder, ravish or
rob the inhabitants of this state
and seek to escape the just punish
ment meted out to them for their
criminal acts.
♦ ♦ ♦
I expect to co-operate with Pres
ident Roosevelt and the national
administration in the economic re
building of Georgia, as well as in
every other part of his great pro
gram for helping humanity.
♦ * *
The security of the average Geor
gia citizen and his family is a mat
ter of first importance to the state.
Provisions Relative
To Operation School
Busses Are Cited
The Georgia Public Service Com
mission the past week issued the fol
lowing instructions to all County
School Superintendents and requested
the press of Georgia to give the
instructions full publicity:
To County School Superintendents:
Due to the numerous complaints
coming to this Commission as to
the operation of school buses trans
portating passengers for hire in vio
lation of the “Motor Carrier Act of
1931”, the Commission deems it per
tinent to call attention of the County
School Departments to the provisions
of the Act relative to the operation
of school buses.
If a person desires to engage in
transporting passengers “for hire”,
he must first apply to the Commission
for a Certificate of Public Conven
ience and Necessity. Said applica
tion must be accompanied with a
fee of $37.00. If, after proper
hearing the Certificate is granted,
the carrier must pay a $25.00 license
fee per annum on each vehicle to be
operated, and file proper insurance
eoverage in accordance with the law
and the rules of this Commission.
The operation must be then conduct
ed strictly under the rules and regu
lations of this Commission. Violations
of the provisions of the Act or rules
of the Commission are punishable as
for misdemeanor.
Under Section Two of the Act,
motor vehicles engaged solely in
transporting school children and
teachers to and from schools are
exempt from the provisions of the
Act. The Commission construes this
to mean that if and when a school
bus is used for transporting passen
gers other than school children and
teachers to and from school, said
operation would come under all the
provisions of the “Motor Carrier Act
of 1931”.
It is the intention of the Com
mision to strictly enforce the Act
and in order to avoid inconvenience
and confusion, the Commission de
sires to ask the co-operation of the
various County School Departments
in distributing the information above
outlined to school bus operators. We
are sending you several copies of
this letter which we will thank you
to distribute among the school bus
drivers in your county.
SOUTH MAIN STREET
TO BE WIDENED FROM
SQUARE TO LIBERTY ST.
Work was started Monday on
widening South Main street from
the public square to Liberty street.
The street will be made six feet
wider, three feet being taken off
the sidewalks on either side of the
street. This road has been entirely
too narrow for the congested traf
fic in recent months, and the de
cision of the city officials to widen
the street has met with the hearty
approval of our people, who are
willing to put up with the inconven
ience to be suffered during the
change to receive the permanent
benefit of a wider street.
RUSSELL TAKES OATH
OF OFFICE FOR NEW
SIX YEAR TERM
(By Georgia News Service)
Presenting credentials signed by
his opponent, Governor Eugene Tal
madge in the September primary,
Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr., was
administrated the oath of office last
week for a new six-year-term. He
was accompanied to the vice presi
dent’s dias by Senator Walter F.
George, senior member from Geor
gia.
Both Georgia senators will retain
the same committee assignments
held during the past session. In
addition to the privileges and elec
tions committee of which he is
chairman, Senator George will be a
member of finance, foreign relations
and civil service. Senator Russell
will serve on appropriations, immi
gration, manufacturers and naval af
fairs.
WALTER BROWN PLANS
TO CONTINUE POLICIES
OF EXTENSION SERVICE
(Georgia News Service)
Athens, Ga.—Walter Brown, new
ly appointed acting director of the
State Agricultural Extension Service,
assured a staff, at a conference last
week, that it would be his policy to
carry on the work of the Extension
Service along present lines.
He said he would do everything
possible to speed up the new agri
cultural conservation program in
the state. Mr. Brown also thanked
the staff members and agricultural
workers generally throughout the
state for their wholehearted indorse
ment of his appointment.
Walter Brown succeeded Harry
L. Brown, who assumed new duties
as assistant secretary of agriculture.
One of Harry Brown’s chief asso
ciates, Walter Brown has served as
district agent in charge of extension
work in southeast Georgia sinde 1921
and has been state agent in the To
bacco Adjustment program for the
past two years.
The Chills and Ills of Winter
Are Upon Us!
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‘SIX HOUR BILL’ MAY
BECOME A LIVE
LEGISLATIVE ISSUE
EFFECT ON RAILROAD WORK
ERS DISCUSSED BY CENTRAL
RAILWAY RECEIVER
What may become a live legislative
issue in Congress, the “Six Hour Bill
for Railroad Workers” is discussed
today by H. D. Pollard in a statement
published in this issue. He says:
“Much is being said and written
by advocates of the ‘six hour bill’
for railroad labor as to its alleged
advantages and benefits, but little
or nothing has been said as to the
real menace which such legislation
offers to continued economic recov
ery from effects of the depression.
“Railway wages are now at the
highest level of all time, but Con
gress will be asked to enact a law
establishing a six-hour day for rail
way employes without reduction in
the daily rates of pay. The stand
ard day is now eight hours. The
measure would increase hourly rates
of pay by 33 1-3 per cent.”
Mr. Pollard stresses that the pro
posed legislation is of both interest
and importance to the public, as
inevitably the increased operating
expense would have to be passed on
to the shipping and traveling pub
lic in the form of increased freight
rates and passenger fares. He cites
the increased expense to the rail
roads as a minimum of 400 million
dollars a year. He says further:
“Such a staggering increase in
labor costs would curtail the purchas
ing power of the railroads, which
when their finances permit, are large
buyers of many commodities. De
moralized conditions in the railway
industry would inevitably disturb
recovery. Impoverished railroads
mean impaired service. Adequate
railway service is essential to all in
dustry.
“Advocates of the measure argue
that it will increase employment, but
railroads cannot hire men unless they
have money to meet payrolls. Aban
donment of branch lines, particularly
those in agricultural territory, the
closing of stations and the discon
tinuance of trains are examples of the
forced economy which inconven
iences the public.”
Citing that it would be “mani
festly unfair” to impose the six hour
day on railroads and leave their
competitors free from such limita
tions, Mr. Pollard shys that for
many reasons enactment of the bill
into law would be no contribution
to progress but would on the con
trary be adverse to the public in
terest.
Influenza, bronchitis and pneu
monia epidemics are sweeping Eu
rope, Great Britain and the north
ern part of the United States.