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Blakely, Ga., October 14, 1937
The announcement that Ed
ward and Wally will visit this
country some time during the
fall is another piece of news
which failed to thrill us, as it
seems to have done to others.
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Now that the World Series
is over, the great national pas
time will go into hibernation
for the winter months. May
1938 produce winners in cities
other than New York, which,
for the past two years, has
monopolized the spotlight in
the annual fall classic.
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The government cotton crop
forecast of last Friday, indi
cating a yield of over seven
teen million bales and the sec
ond largest crop in the na
tion’s history, was followed by
another slump in price of the
South’s chief money crop. The
size of the 1937 crop amply
demonstrates the futility of
any effort to materially re
duce the acreage planted to
cotton without some kind of
governmental restriction, and
it is not doubted that an over
whelming majority of cotton
farmers are now willing to
participate in a government
control program. And such a
program is certain to be en
acted by Congress, either at a
special session to be called this
fall or at the next regular
session in January.
o
All the furore occasioned by
the revelation that Senator
Hugo Black, appointed by
President Roosevelt to the
United States Supreme Court,
once belonged to the Ku Klux
Klan in Alabama, has about
faded into nothingness. A veri
table tempest in a teapot, the
whole “exposure” is nothing
more than an effort on the
part of the Roosevelt haters to
discredit and destroy the
President. The pitiable part
of the comedy-drama is that
some of the pretending Demo
crats of the South couldn’t re
sist the temptation to join the
anvil chorus of those hyphen
ated Americans in the North
and East. We doubt seriously
that some of these extreme
critics would make good
‘Kluxers,’’ much less good
American citizens.
“It’s Great to Be a Geor
gian,” is the caption of an ad
vertisement of the Georgia
Power Company, in this issue
of The News, to which the at
tention of our readers is di
rected. The company has pre
pared eight illustrated book
lets, printed in color, of wide
ly varying subject matter, all
setting forth interesting facts
about Georgia. These book
lets are free for the asking,
and details of how they may
be secured can be learned by
reading the ad. The Georgia
Power Company is doing its
part toward boosting the
state, and the publication of
these booklets, for free distri
bution, setting forth the natur
al resources, advantages and
opportunities of Georgia, is a
fine contribution toward telling
the rest of the world that “It’s
Great to Be a Georgian.”
o
We are not prepared to fore
cast what kind of tax reform
program Governor Rivers and
the General Assembly will put
over in the special session to
be held beginning on Thanks
giving Day. This much we are
willing to prophesy—that en
actment of either a sales tax or
a gross receipts tax will rele
gate to political oblivion those
responsible for saddling such a
tax upon the people of this
state. See if we are not right
in this prediction.
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THE PRESS
RAMBLER
Why not some kind of a national
game law to protect the dove of
peace?—Columbi a (Harlem) News.
There would be no meanness in
the world if a man felt as pious
when he was well as he does when he
is sick.—Greensboro Herald-Jour
nal.
A New York educational expert
says fishing should be included as
part of public school courses. That
would end the playing of hooky,
for what lad would sneak off from
a fishing class? —Dodge County Ad
vertiser.
The State Highway Patrol is do
ing a fine work in catching intoxi
cated drivers. We hope they will
nab all of them. If the patrol can
keep the drunks off the highways,
it will be worth what it costs. Liquor
causes a good many motor accidents.
—Tifton Gazette.
A CALL FOR SOBER MEN
There may be many things wrong
with the government in Atlanta, but
it cannot be said that the advocates
of good government sleep indefinite
ly. They are forever trying to make
things better. Recently there has
been started a crusade to improve
conditions in the fire department.
There is just a hint that the fire
men have been doing something be
sides playing checkers. The chair
man of the fire department declares
“we can’t fight fire with men who
are drunk.”
That brings us to the question, just
what is it you can do with men who
are drunk?
You cannot run a business with a
manager who is drunk.
You cannot run a farm with a man
who stays drunk.
You cannot run an automobile and
stay out of trouble if you are drunk.
You cannot get anywhere practic
ing law or medicine or teaching
school if you are a hard persistent
drinker.
The best way in the world to work
yourself into a career of utter use
lessness is to develop the drink habit
and then let the habit get you.
The sober man is an exact man, a
cautious man, a tactful man and a
trusted man. In this machine age
and chemistry age you need a clear
mind and a steady nerve to do the
work that is required.
Before a boy or a girl begins to
develop the drink habit they should
look down the road and find a place
to land.
There is a place on the sidelines.
There is a place on the breadline.
There is a place in the almshouse.
Choose your habits and your goal
at the same time.—Moultrie Observ
er.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
“KNOW YOUR GEORGIA”
(By LEE S. TRIMBLE, Vice-Pre*.
& Manager, Chamber Commerce,
Macon, Ga.)
From the first conception
of the idea of colonizing Geor-J
gia, which was fine and un-|
selfish, our State has had an
interesting and colorful his
tory.
On the Seal of State first
adopted for the colony was the
inscription “Not for ourselves,
but for others.” Perhaps
there has been some departure
now and then, from that high
principled motto, but it was a
good beginning.
After the Revolution that
Seal was discarded, along with
many other English ties and
forms and a new Seal was
adopted, this one bearing the
inscription, “For the good of
the Republic.”
In time that was outmoded,
also, and the one in present
use designed which bears three
pillars supporting an arch,
each pillar bearing one of the
words, “Justice; Wisdom;
Moderation.”
We have a State Flag adopt
ed by law which is described
thus: ‘’lt has a vertical band
of blue next to the flagstaff
occupying one-third of the
flag’s area. The remainder of
the space is equally divided in
to three horozontal bands, the
upper and lower of which are
scarlet in color with the mid
dle band of white. On the blue
field is stamped or fixed the
Coat of Arms of the State.”
The State flower, as you
know, is the Cherokee Rose,
designated by legislative Act
in 1916, and an official song,
too long to be quoted here has
been adopted.
The official tree for Geor
gia is the live oak as named by
the Legislature of 1937.
There is much to be proud
of, and some things to apolo
gize for, in the Empire State
of the South, but all worthy
native sons love her for her his
tory, her virtues and her possi
bilities.
“Here’s to the land that gave
me birth
Here’s to the flag she flies;
Here’s to her sons, the best on
earth
Here’s to her smiling skies.”
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There was once a time when
women were not permitted to write
on typewriters because it was deem
ed harmful to theii - physical make
up. Hop-scotch and jumping-the
rope brought about fluttering-of -the
heart, so it was thought. But the
stream-lined females of today go in
for wrestling, football and yes, even
boxing, not to mention baseball, ten
nis and other forms of sport calling
for strenuous effort.—Dawson News.
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A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of October 13, 1887.)
BLAKELY cotton market reports
middling at 8 l-4c.
♦ ♦ *
THE DEATH of Mrs. Edna Earle
Baughman, nee Howard, of Cedar
Springs, is recorded in The News
this week.
♦ ♦ ♦
DR. C. J. MULLIGAN, of Miller
county, was in town Friday.
♦ * ♦
THE Weekly Broadax, a new pa
per to be issued by Messrs. W. A.
Jordan and T. B. Green, is due to
make its appearance this week.
* * *
GOV. GORDON has appointed
Col. W. A. Jordan Solicitor of the
County Court of Early to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
R. H. Sheffield.
♦ ♦ ♦
THE FESTIVAL given by the
Ladies’ Missionary and Benevolent
Society of the Baptist church on
Thursday night last was a grand
success.
* * *
MISS LIZZIE DAVIS, of Lime
Branch, was a visitor to Blakely
Wednesday.
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Vincent’s angina, or trench
mouth, is an infectious disease.
It begins with a dryness and
burning of the gums or with a
sore throat. If the infection
is in the gums they become
swollen, tender, an angry red
and frequently show raw
bleeding surfaces round the
teeth. In the acute stage there
is fever with headache and
listlessness.
The infection may be con
veyed directly by kissing, by
droplets coughed or spoken in
to the air or by the use of cups
and eating utensils that have
been already used by an infect
ed person and have not been
properly sterilized.
The infection is especially
liable to take hold in a mouth
that has been neglected. Jag
ged teeth, overhanging fillings,
pyorrhea pockets create ideal
conditions for the germs. It
is very probable too that the
gums are made more suscepti
ble to this infection by a diet
deficient in Vitamin C.
It would be more easy to
prevent the spread of infec
tion if we knew more about
DR. E. B. BUSH, of Colquitt,
was in Blakely Wednesday.
♦ * *
EARLY SUPERIOR COURT, which
adjourned on Friday last, reassem
bled on Monday of this week and
adjourned on Tuesday for the
term.
* * *
DISPLAY ADS in The News this
week represent: S. Manuel, Thomas
Henderson, Smith & James, H. C.
Fryer & Son, Hightower & Co. (Da
mascus), B. L. Mclntosh, W. C.
Sheffield (Cedar Springs).
* * *
THE presentments of the Early
county grand jury were published in
The News this week. J. D. Jones
was named as Notary Public for the
866th district. The jury also rec
ommended the establishment of a
chain gang in Early county. The
presentments were signed by T. C.
Boyd, foreman, and W. H. Alexan
der, J. F. Free, B. Chancy, S. A.
Lindsey, E. Hilton, D. D. Strong, H.
J. Harris, D. M. Roberts, Robert
Houston, W. C. Cook, J. D. Jones,
A. Hutchins, H. A. Martin, M. 0.
Elder, J. S. Mims, L. M. Free, M.
N. Fain, E. L. Fryer, W. A. Boyett,
J. T. Hudspeth, J. F. Ferrell, J. W.
Alexander.
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BETTER HEALTH
Isr Dr J. ROSS LYN EARP
Director, New Mexico Bureau of Public Health
VINCENT’S ANGINA
the relative importance of the
causes of infection. Some peo
ple believe that the disease
is mainly spread by the cups
and glasses used in soda water
fountains, lunch counters and
restaurants. Others, knowing
how very numerous are the
places where glasses are im
properly washed and never
sterilized at all, argue that if
this method of spreading the
disease were important every
one would have it by now.
Research is badly needed.
In the meantime the glass rins
ed in warm dirty water should
be regarded as dangerous.
The public could do a great
deal to improve conditions if
every customer would ask, be
fore ordering a drink: “How
has that glass been steriliz
ed?” Until we feel able to
afford trained sanitarians to
do our inspecting for us, we
must do our own—or take the
consequences.
Human nature is what makes a
man ask for constructive criticism,
and then get boiling mad when he
receives it.—‘Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
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PROGRESS for leisure
I was not sure of my welcome
when I stuck my head in the kitchen
door the other day, for my wife was
putting up grape jelly, and “putting
up time” is not always the best time
to interrupt domestic activities.
Everything was calm, however. The
big preserving kettle was simmering
on the electric range, and there
were utensils and gadgets around of
which I didn’t know the uses, but
there was none of the heat, steam
and air of tenseness which used to
pervade the kitchen in preserving
time when I was a boy. I said as
much to my wife.
That started us both to talking
about the progress of the world
since we were young, and we agreed
that for us and for most of our
neighbors it’s a better world to
live in than it was fifty years ago.
TIME is shorter
Hearing an airplane overhead 1
looked up and with the same thrill
I always get when the Chicago-New
York mail ’plane flies over our
house. Time, I reflected, is one
of the things the world has gained
in my life. The telephone rang.
It was the station agent with a
telegram. The day before I had
posted an air-mail letter to West
Florida, and here was the answer
by telegraph, in less than 24 hours!
My letter had been carried from
our local postoffice by motor to the
railroad, then by rail 50 miles to
the Newark airport, then on the
night plane to Jacksonville, Flori
da, 900 miles. There it had caught
a westbound train to Madison, an
other 250 miles, and here, in less
than a day, came the answer. It cost
six cents for the air-mail letter;
the telegram, 35 cents.
That is the marvelous thing about
modern inventions, they can render
such effective service so cheaply
that almost anybody can use them.
At first they cost a good deal. Only
very well-to-do people could buy
electric refrigerators when they were
first put on the market in 1920.
Soon great numbers of people be
gan to want the new thing. The
market becomes large enough to
make mass-production practical.
Prices go down.
PRICES are lower
My electric light bill was pretty
heavy last month. We used the range
and the vaccum cleaner and a dozen
other gadgets more than usual, so it
cost us nearly $8 for current. But
when my father first put in electric
lights, in 1890, the rate was $1 a
month for each bulb!
As costs go down, quality goes
up. My first automobile, in 1906, cost
SI,OOO, top, windshield, horn and
lights extra. It could do 25 miles
an hour on a smooth road if I could
find one. I drive a car of the same
make now. An immensely better
car, its cost, complete, is under
$750. Forty years ago I paid $l5O
for a bicycle. Better bicycles now
cost around S3O, because so many
more are made and sold.
The thine’s which cost more than
they used to are those in whose pro
duction the labor item is the largest
factor. Wages are still going up.
That is all right. Higher wages
means that more things will be made
by machines, with workers’ wages
spread over more units of product.
WAGES in movies
The highest wages in any line
are paid to men and women who
make motion pictures. For a star
actor to get SIOO,OOO for his or her
work on one picture is not uncom
mon. The picture companies can
can pay high wages because they
have such a big market for their
product. Twelve million Americans
go to the movies every day. That
means that more than two million
dollars a day rolls in, and a very
small percentage of that, earned by
any one picture, is enough to pay
high wages and leave a nice profit.
Next to the movies, the highest
average wages in any manufacturing
industry are to be found in the au
tomobile business. This industry
employs many times more people
than the movies do, if we leave out
the theatre employees. Wages of
SIOO,OOO a year are not uncommon
in the automobile business, and
there is as great competition among
the motor companies for the services
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