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Blakely, Ga., June 17, 1937
Early county crops are look
ing good.
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Georgians use credit liberal
ly, says a headline. Quite a
few of them also abuse it.
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State officials announce that
payment of old age pensions
in Georgia will begin in July.
County welfare boards are be
ing formed and approved by
the state, and machinery for
operation of the law is being
perfected as rapidly as possi
ble. The old age pension
amendment received the larg
est majority of the twenty-six
ratified in last week’s election.
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One of the amendments rati
fied in last week’s election
should forever prevent a one
man government in Georgia.
The General Assembly may
under the constitution convene
itself in extra session upon pe
tition of three-fifths of the
members of both the House
and Senate when the Governor
refuses to issue the call. It is
not likely that the disgrace
of 1936 will again be repeated
in this state.
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To Governor Rivers goes a
large part of the credit for
the ratification of the constitu
tional amendments in last
week's election. The energy
of the chief executive is a
marvel to his friends. Al
though handicapped by ill
ness, Governor Rivers made
many speeches in behalf of
the amendments, often speak
ing three times within a day.
And he is a persuasive speak
er, too—as the election re
turns conclusively prove.
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Now that the voters of
Georgia have voted to retain
their prohibition law, enforce
ment officers should make dil
igent efforts to enforce that
law. It is obviously impossi
ble to completely stamp out
bootlegging in Georgia, but
it can be curbed to a great
extent. And it might not
be amiss for the metropolitan
press, which is responsible
perhaps more than any other
single agency to break down
respect for the prohibition
law, to devote about the same
efforts toward demanding en
forcement now. Some good
might result therefrom.
It is too bad that all the kid
napers can not be rounded up
and placed on the hot spot at
the same time.
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Make merry today and en
joy your freedom, for tomor
row F. D. R. may have estab
lished a Russian Communistic
dictatorship over this land of
the free and the home of the
brave—if we are to believe
all we see in a certain Geor
gia daily.
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The News learned with sin
cere regret of the death of Mr.
Oscar J. Culpepper, editor of
The Camilla Enterprise, who
passed away Monday after a
protracted illness. Mr. Cul
pepper was a splendid citizen,
was well known over the
state, and his paper is one of
the better Georgia weeklies.
The state has lost a useful cit
izen in his passing.
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THE PRESS
RAMBLER
A GREAT AMERICAN GAME
(Columbia News)
Many a gent horns in on a prop
osition hoping to come out blowing
the horn.
THE CROONER
(The Summit-Post)
To be a good radio crooner you
don’t require a high-class musical
education—you need adenoids.
A REAL BOON
(Walker County Messenger)
Cheap electric service to the ru
ral sections of America will mean
the greatest single step forward of
perhaps any single enterprise.
BUT IT CAN’T BE DONE
(Greensboro Herald-Journal)
You wouldn’t try to covfer the
roof of a house with a few shingles,
but some bald-headed men try to
comb four hairs to cover the entire
area.
WHEN SILENCE IS GOLDEN
(Houston Home Journal)
The danger of making a good
suggestion at a meeting is that you
will be made chairman of the com
mittee and will have to do all the
work.
BALL’S FERRY QUESTION IS TO
BE SETTLED
(Cairo Messenger)
The already “politically famous”
bridge at Ball’s Ferry, spanning the
Oconee river at the Washington-
Wilkinson county line, is to be built
soon. Let us hope this controversy
will be definitely ended, once the
bridge is built.
MOVEMENT ON FOOT TO
HONOR TOM WATSON
(Tifton Gazette)
A movement is on foot to pur
chase the 179-acre estate of the
late Thomas E. Watson as a memo
rial to the “father of rural free de
livery.’ ’ A fund of $25,000 is de
sired for the purpose. Those farm
families which have been brought in
to daily touch with the world by
the rural route service and the car
riers on these routes should be glad
to make a small contribution each
to the fund, as Watson was a great
benefactor to them. The rural route
has been a great aid in developing
the rural sections of the nation and
Watson deserves some testimonial
for his service to the rural popula
tion.
FISHERMAN, BEWARE!
(Moultrie Observer)
Be careful how you fish. A state
game warden will catch you if you
don’t watch out. Wardens are rid-i
ing now in all the counties and I
closely observing those who fish.
They are looking after the fish bas
kets and traps and destroying them
where they find them. They are
calling on fishermen to show their
licenses. They are watching the
streams for seining squads, poison
squads and others who take the
fish in wasteful methods. It may
take a few years to put the fear of
the law in the fishermen who have
been a law unto themselves, but we
have only to look at Florida to see
what can be brought to pass. The
law that regulates fishing in Florida
|is no joke. It is a trip to the county
court house and a fine if you are
caught doing it the wrong way in
Florida.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
BRUCE
BARTON
...says...
Human Nature Improve# ....
I have a vivid memory of a
certain Sunday morning when
I was seven years old. My
father, a clergyman, had never
purchased a Sunday news
paper. On this particular morn
ing he came down to breakfast
looking deeply concerned, and
said to Mother: “I feel today
that I must know the news be
fore I go into the pulpit.”
The news that he felt he
must know was about the rail
road strike in Chicago, where
men were killing each other,
and Grover Cleveland had
ordered out the Federal troops.
We have made a lot of prog
ress in the intervening years.
A wise old professor in my
college used to quote the fol
lowing verse from the Psalms:
“What is man that thou are
mindful of him? or the son of
man that thou visitest him?”
Most people, he said, inter
pret that to mean: “What does
petty, futile man amount to,
that you (God) should give
him any thought?”
A better interpretation, the
professor argued, is this:
“What a wonderful creature
man must be that even God is
mindful of him and likes to
visit him.”
The Competent Are Rare . . .
An important New Yorker
called me up to ask about two
doctors who run a clinic in a
little town in Canada. He knew
I had visited them some years
ago and that they did me much
good.
I described them to him in
the words of one of their pa
tients, “They are human fer
rets,” I said. “They seem to
be able to discover and correct
conditions where even special
ists have failed.”
The man went up to the
clinic and stayed three weeks.
Yesterday he telephoned me
to say that he had not felt so
well in years. He was so en
thusiastic that I could hardly
get him off the phone.
I sent another man up to
Bill Brown’s health farm op
posite West Point. The man is
vice president of a business
that has had plenty of prob
lems. He was nervous and
discouraged. He came back
from Bill’s on top of the world.
I referred a friend to an
architect who has done some
very clever work for us on our
country house. My friend was
delighted.
The doctors write me letters
of thanks. So does Bill. So
does the architect. They think
I have done them a friendly
service. I reply that, on the con
trary, the obligation is entirely
on my part. They have given
me one of the best pleasures
in life, the pleasure of recom
mending someone who is really
competent.
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A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of June 16, 1887.)
TWENTY-THREE of t>he thirty
eight states now have Democratic
governors.
MASTERS Willie McDowell and
Bob Dostor visited Albany this week.
MR. R. W. DAVIS was over from
Calhoun county this week.
MESSRS. H. H. Buchannon and
C. H. Robinson visited Albany Wed
nesday.
COL. CLARENCE WILSON, wife
and children, of Fort Gaines, visited
here this week.
MR. M. L. BARKSDALE left on
Tuesday for lamonia, Fla.
MISS LEONE ROBINSON has re
turned to her home in Rome, Ga.
MR. R. O. McNair, of the 6th
district, was the guest of Mr. G. D.
Oliver this week.
MRS. C. W. SIRMONS, Miss Mary
Hightower and Mr. P. S. Hightower,
of Damascus, were visitors to Blakely
last Friday.
MR. B. B. McCLAIN and Misses
Alice McClain, Nettie Dozier and
Dicky Beckham, of Arlington, attend
ed the Sunday School picnic here
last Friday.
/jS\ THE FAMILY*
BDO.CTOR
.WJOHN JOSEPH GAINES.M.D.
SAFE ANTISEPTICS
It seems to me that every
quack in the country is ex
ploiting some “antiseptic.”
Nevertheless people DO
need antiseptics for emergen
cy treatment.
The laborer “skins” his
hand ... It may be a poison
ed wound; he has no certain
way of knowing, but he must
play safe. He has probably
a bottle of tincture of iodine—
maybe a little of mercuro
chrome—quite likely a tea
spoonful of carbolic acid at
the house. There are no
better antiseptics. He may
swab the abrasion with either
drug in its commercial state,
except the carbolic acid, which
he must reduce with water,
one part to four. Prompt
swabbing with the real anti
septic may preserve a limb—
maybe life itself. One must
not take any chances.
We find a skin eruption
MR. J. B. SHAW left this morn
ing for Atlanta.
MR. J. H. LOYLESS handed us a
stalk of cotton last Saturday that
contained three blooms and two
squares.
MISS EMMA JORDAN returned
to her home in Georgetown Monday.
MISSES Emma and Jennie Heard,
of Arlington, were the guests of Mrs.
J. W. Deal the past week.
THE Baptist Sunday School pic
nic came off last Friday.
PROF. Z. I. FITZPATRICK and
wife and Miss Mary Hightower left
last Saturday on a visit to George
town.
MISS 808 LEE BUCHANNON is
visiting relatives in Whigham.
BLUFFTON NOTES: “Mrs. S. M.
Strong is visiting in Albany.” “Dr.
Preston Rambo has returned from a
visit to Florida.” “Sheriff Black, of
Blakely, was in town last Tuesday.”
“The Willing Workers held their
regular meeting at the home of Mrs.
May Rambo last Friday. Visitors in
cluded Messrs. A. J. Fleming, J. R.
Simpson, W. B. Graham and J. E.
Graham, of Fort Gaines.” “Married
on Sunday last, at the home of the
bride’s father, Miss Emma Bridges
to Mr. P. N. J. Dozier. Rev. R. B.
Taylor officiated.”
popping out. We figure on
an antiseptic. Well, if pus is
in the “breaking out,” open
and swab with peroxide of
hydrogen. Everybody knows
“peroxide.” Then follow
with a soothing ointment that
protects the skin from further
infection. One of the best
ointments for the skin is calo
mel, twenty grains; oxide of
zinc, sixty grains; white vase
line, one ounce. Mix thor
oughly. This is a good, serv
iceable ointment for any skin.
Bichloride of mercury is one
of the finest germicides known
—in a solution of a grain to
the ounce in distilled water.
But, this MUST not be taken
internally. It is very poison
ous taken internally. To ap
ply a blazing match to a
wound is painful, but it beats
nothing if you have nothing
else with you, and are away
from first aid.
IOMOBROWV
SUNu
BYJ.C. WILSON
Newspaper Features, Inc,
(The view* expressed in this column
do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this newspaper.)
Now that the amendments have
been carried overwhelmingly, we sin
cerely hope that all things promised
by the politicians will come to pass.
We should forget politics and get
down to business and let Georgia
blossom into a prosperous and happy
commonwealth and gain its place in
the sun that it deserves.
MINING BOOMS AGAIN
Georgia mining is stepping out in
to boom time proportions as national
industries call on Georgia mines to
furnish minerals for new manufac
turing uses, according to Richard W.
Smith, acting director of the division
of Mines, Mining and Geology of the
State Department of Natural Re
sources, who reports that mining
enterprises in Twiggs, Wilkinson and
Washington counties have stepped up
production until it is now the heav
iest in years.
The greatest production has been
developed in the production of soft
manganiferous iron ore, containing
five to 10 per cent manganese, he
reported. A new process of steel
manufacturing in the Birmingham
steel plants has been developed with
this ore, which formerly was con
sidered worthless. Now it is valuable
in steel production and is being min
ed extensively, it is said.
Another Georgia ore coming into
prominence is barite, the “heavy
work” mineral of barium sulphate,
used as a filler in paints and rubber.
Barite also is used for a “weighing”
material for oil drilling in high gas
pressure areas.
Georgia produces abqut 60 per
cent of the kaolin of the United
States, for her major mineral crop.
Kaolin is used in pottery manufactur
ing and as a filler for high grade
enamel papers. A further use for it
which will increase production is seen
in the development of the paper
making industry in Georgia.
Protection of individual liberty is
one of the paramount problems of
our day. It is a cornerstone of out
American Democracy and must be
guarded with the utmost vigilance
if it is to be preserved unblemished
as a heritage of the American peo
ple. There are many blocs and
cliques in government and in polit
ical groups which are forever bat
tering at that liberty and only alert
patriotism and statesmanship can
protect our government.
The Senior Senator from Georgia,
the Hon. Walter F. George, in Geor
gia a few days ago to address the
Atlanta Pilot Club and the graduating
class at Mercer University at Macon,
sounded a warning against this dan
ger. Although he predicted more
social legislation and more laws re
gulating business and commerce he
declared that he believed reasonable
security can come in America with
out cutting too deeply into the free
dom of the individual citizens.
However, if individual rights are
forgotten in the concentration of
governmental powers, western civili
zation undoubtedly will experience
a change—perhaps a very profound
change, Senator George told the
graduates.
“The question is whether it is nec
essary or desirable to surrender more
freedom of the individual to enjoy
what we now think of as economic
security. The choice already has
been made in Russia, in Italy and in
Germany, and in being made in
Spain. That involves the surrender
of more and more individual liber
ties and the concentration of more
and more power in Government. Is
this going to happen in America? I
hasten to say to you that I don’t
think it is.”
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THE MAN WHO GETS THERE
IN THE END
(Dawson News)
The man who can take advantage
of disadvantages and adversity is the
man who will go farther. He is the
man who uses all he can and kicks
aside the useless. He marches along,
on and on, never deviating from
the sights he has set. That type of
man is sometimes accused of having
no sense of humor, or having a one
track mind, but he is the one who
gets there in the end.