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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ]
—and—
Georgia Press Association
Blakely, Ga„ October 21, 1937
The Georgia Department of
Public Safety has found it im
possible to issue driver’s li
censes to all applicants by Oc
tober 20th, the original dead
line for securing the license,
and has granted additional
time to Georgia motorists to
secure their licenses without
having to stand examination.
The duration of the extension
granted will be announced
later, it is said.
o
The Early County Fair,
sponsored by the American
Legion, closed a successful
five-days’ run Saturday night.
The attendance was good and
the exhibits attracted quite a
bit of attention and elicited
favorable comment.
o
The city and county tax
books are now open for pay
ment of 1937 taxes. Citizens
of the county should bear in
mind that prompt payment of
school teachers’ salaries and
other municipal and county ob
ligations depends entirely on
prompt payment of taxes.
o
With a special session of
Congress called for November
15th and a special session of
the Georgia Legislature called
for November 25th, it will be
of interest to watch the doings
of our national and state law
making bodies. Matters of the
most serious import are to be
considered by each of them,
and an anxious public awaits
the outcome.
o
With Japan, Italy and Ger
many in alliance, most any
thing is likely to happen across
the “big pond.’’ Italy only
recently completed the theft of
Ethiopia and Japan is now busy
trying to annex China. What
these two countries have prom
ised Chancellor Hitler in re
turn for Germany’s support re
mains to be seen. It is all right
for Uncle Sam to make peace
overtures and it is hoped the
nine-power conference may
prove successful in settling
the wars in China and Spain,
but it might not be bad busi
ness for this country to build
its arm}- and navy to such
strength that the war-thirsty
dictators across the seas may
know that we are amply able
to take care of ourselves in
case of an emergency.
We have been watching with
interest to see what response
the Macon Telegraph would
receive to its demand for im
peachment of President Roose
velt. The response came last
week from Congressman Tink
ham, Republican south-hating
Representative of Massachu
setts, who also wants Secre
tary of State Hull relieved of
his duties. But who believes
impeachment proceedings will
be instituted against either of
them?
o
The State Highway Depart
ment announces that it is pre
paring maps showing all of the
highway system roads and
their condition as of October
1, this year. The department
feels the maps will be of inter
est to many citizens of the
state, as they will be able to
obtain from the same a picture
of the highway system and
program being worked out
by the highway board. The
News has constented to dis
tribute these maps, and as soon
as they are received will an
nounce the fact to the public.
o
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
Another problem of the farmer is
to know what to do with all the
pamphlets and literature sent him
by the government. Greenboro
Herald-Journal.
The world goes round and round
and is going faster than ever with
all this new fangled stuff and no
tions about love and politics and
agriculture.—Thomasville Times-En
terprise.
More canning and processing
plants are needed in Georgia. This
is the most effective method for
farmers to get a larger share of the
profits. Farmers need some of the
cream. They have been existing on
skim milk for a long time.—Jack
son Progress-Argus.
“Riding the rods” will be a thing
of the past, if all the railroads adopt
a new kind of freight car just put
in operation by the Central of Geor
gia, as there are no rods to ride.
However, we doubt if this will make
much difference to the hoboes, since
many of them have turned to the
highways, where they “ride on their
thumbs.”—Tifton Gazette.
Farm life is being made so at
tractive that fewer boys and girls
are seeking out the industrial cen
ters. The children ride to school in
a bus; study at nights under electric
lights; dance to the tunes of modern
swing orchestras via radio, while
mama is in the kitchen making fudge
over an electric stove to be served |
with ice-box cake out of the electric
refrigerator—Dawson News.
The State Department of Public
Welfare has decreed the final pass
ing of almshouses from the state by
November 15th. All almshouse in
mates over 65 years of age are to
be placed on the public assistance
rolls by that date, as are the needy
blind and dependent children. This
action is expected to result in a sav
ing to the counties, which had been
maintaining almshouses.—Tifton Ga
zette.
America’s vanishing cigar store
Indian has finally found a place of
refuge—in the Detroit Institute of
Art. And there the veteran smoker
will do him homage in the years to
come. That part of the older gen
eration using tobacco will remember
this old-time guardian of every to
bacco shop. Today it is a memento
of the quiet days when tobacco shops
were orderly retreats for male pa
trons only. There was no litter of
punch-boards, movie magazines,
books, or women’s hair nets. And
the patrons were all of the trousered
variety. Their style wasn’t hampered
by a lot of female customers. The
old cigar store Indians are a sym
bol of something that has gone from
our American life. Those wooden
images might not be considered very
high art. They qualify better as
curiosities. But the memories they
revive are sacred to the smoking and
ehewing old-timers. They rejoice
that this symbol of the ancient days
has finally found a place of homage
and rest. —Grit.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
MOTHER NATURE
CHALLENGES YOU
(By LEE S. TRIMBLE, Vice-Pre*.
& Manager, Chamber Commerce,
Macon, Ga.)
When passing a fertile corn
field where the stalks are ten
feet high holding two or three
heavy ears 12 inches long, each
ear packed full of food or
feed, the thought comes, “Na
ture is wonderful to provide
[such a bounty as this for man
kind.”
But Nature did not do all
that. What she provided was
a coarse grass, the stems car
rying small nubbins with a
few grains of corn for repro
duction. Man has improved
that grass into the corn we see
today.
The wild hen of Asia, lay
ing a setting of eggs each year
as birds do, has been bred into
the prolific Leghorn laying an
egg a day the year round.
The first apple was a tiny
knotty thing scarcely worthy
of being called a fruit, hardly
worth the eating; but the Gol
den Delicious, mellow and
succulent, has been evolved
from it.
Nature gives the start and
points the way. She rarely
gives man anything fully de
veloped. She furnishes the
raw material, challenging him
to improve it for his wants.
And, she is ready for all his
real needs.
These instances tell some
thing of the possibilities that
abound in natural resources
all about us. A book might
be written to describe the
properties and contents of the
cotton boll.
New uses for old products
is the way to new wealth and
higher standards of living in
Georgia. If all the wants of
all the folks who live here
were known and listed, sup
plying them would create
enough business to make a
prosperous people. All about
us, hidden in the earth, the air,
the water, the trees, plants,
fruits and fibers, are the means
of satisfying all practical uses
of mankind, if they are but
discovered and utilized. Na
ture has done her part; it is
man’s privilege to realize on
what is already here for his
use and benefit.
The day of the pioneer is
not yet over. Both farmers
and scientists are invited to
look beyond present products
to find some of nature’s se
crets.
What has been- done is but
a beginning of what can be
done. And, no loyal citizen of
sound mind is exempted from
this call to service.
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After all, it’s fairly easy to define
a non-essential product of a non
essential service. It’s the kind which
is made or performed by the other
fellow.—Worchester Telegram.
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SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
October 17, 1912
WHILE Theodore Roosevelt was in
Milwaukee last Monday night he was
shot by a man giving his name as
John Schrank, of New York. A manu
script the Colonel was carrying in
his coat pocket prevented the bullet
from seriously doing damage. The
man gave as his reason for the shoot
ing that McKinley’s ghost bade him
do it, as Roosevelt and his party were
traitors.
* * *
ELISHA, the fourteen year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hilton, died sud
denly last Saturday morning after a
very brief illness.
* * *
REV. 0. L. JONES, pastor of the
Blakely Baptist church, has tendered
his resignation, but the church re
fused to accept it, and Rev. Jones
has withdrawn his resignation and
decided to remain as pastor.
♦ * ♦
MRS. CLARA L. BUTLER an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter, Annie Irene, to Mr. Joseph
Alexander Hamil, of Blakely, the
marriage to be solemnized November
28th at the Blakely Methodist church.
MRS. J. B. MURDOCK spent last
Monday in Albany.
* ♦ *
MRS. HORTON HOBBS, of Hart
ford, Ala., came over Monday to visit
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Strickland.
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The importance of cattle as
carriers of tuberculosis has
long been recognized. Tuberc
ulosis in domestic pets is a
subject that has attracted sur
prisingly little attention. Yet
dogs and cats do not get tu
berculosis. Routine autopsies
carried out in veterinary insti
tutions seem to indicate that
in some parts of the world
dogs and cats suffer more oft
en than in others. In Berlin
three dogs in a thousand have
tuberculosis; in France five
dogs in a hundred. In Berlin
the percentage of tuberculosis
cats is 2; in France 13.
Two Scandanivian investiga
tors named Hjarre and Ber
litz have reported six in
stances in which the pet seems
to have been infected by a
human friend. Here is one of
them:
A poodle lived for seven
years with a healthy mistress
and remained well all that
time. A visitor came to the
NEWS from Cyrene, by Uncle Bill.
“Rev. Willie D. Upshaw lectured at
Cyrene last Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. Upshaw has agreed to work for
Cyrene Institute for sometime. The
purpose of securing him is to raise
money for the Institute to pay off
a $21,000 debt. After his first
service last Sunday he took up a sub
scription which amounted to $5,200.”
♦ ♦ ♦
MR. WILL S. STRONG is down
from Ashville, N. C., for a short time
looking after business.
* * *
MRS. C. H. PURIFOY left Wed
nesday to visit her son in Yatesville.
* * *
MRS. LEE NEEL and son, of
Thomasville, spent several days in
the city as guests of Dr. W. J. Jen
nings and family.
* * *
LANGSTON CHAPEL NEWS, by
Sweetheart: “Mr. Eugene Willis spent
Sunday with home folks.” “Mr. Van
der Singletary, of Donalsonville,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Susie Singletary.” “Miss Jesse Grubbs
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
cousin, Miss Irene Grubbs, of Hilton.”
“Mr. Sanders Odom was in the burg
Saturday afternoon.” “ Mr. Lamar
Meredith and Mr. Raymond Bates at
tended the ice cream supper at Rock
Hill last Saturday night.” “Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Willis spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Jordan, of Co
lumbia, Ala.”
\FOR ———
BETTER HEALTH
j ar Dr .J. ROSS LYN EARP
Director, New Mexico Bureau of Public Health
TUBERCULOUS PETS
house in the spring of 1932;
began to cough in May, 1932,
went away in the fall and
died from tuberculosis in Feb
ruary, 1933. She had been
very friendly to the poodle
and even fed him from her
own plate. The dog began to
cough in October, 1932, and
next month was found by the
experts at the veterinary col
lege to have tuberculosis.
Sheep dogs, fox terriers and
airedales appear to be the
most susceptible breed of
dogs. Male dogs, it is said,
are more liable to tuberculosis
than female dogs and cats
more susceptible than dogs.
Health seekers will be glad to
be told that they should be
careful not to infect their pets.
Because dogs and cats may
catch the disease from hu
mans, it does not necessarily
follow that humans can catch
the disease from dogs and
cats. But the possibility is
worth bearing in mind.
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SEA melted ice
Men have never known much about
the bottom of the sea. Perhaps sci
ence will never find away to explore
the ocean’s floor and map all of its
mountains and valleys, but new dis
coveries are being made all the time.
The latest of these is that the bot
tom of the sea has hundreds of deep
canyons, or clefts in the rocks which
form the body of the earth, some of
them as long and as wide as the
Grand Canyon, of the Colorado River.
There isn’t any way to account for
these ocean valleys except by guess
work. Scientists are trying to make
the most plausible guesses.
The guess which seems most likely
to be true is that almost all the
parts of the globe now covered by
waters were frozen into ice-caps,
miles high, over the two poles of the
earth. As the sun grew hotter and
the ice began to melt, enormous
rivers flowed forth and gouged out
deep channels for themselves. But
in the course of millions of years so
much of the ice turned to water that
it filled all the lowlands, creating
what is now the ocean, and those old
river channels are now just deep
gashes in the ocean’s floor. Maybe
that’s true. It sounds interesting, any
way.
♦ * *
AGE of Earth
The age of the earth is one of the
questions to which men of science
are ceaselessly trying to find the
answer. Their general belief is that
our planet is from two thousand to
three thousand millions of years old,
and that life has existed on it for
more than two million.
Half a million years ago there were
palm trees growing in northern
Greenland. Then the climate changed
and the whole northern hemisphere,
down to as far south as the Ohio
River, was covered with ice a couple
of miles thick. Man and all other
animals had to move toward the
Equator as the ice advanced. Then
the ice melted and man moved North
again. Three times that has happen
ed. The Third Ice Age has not yet
ended. Every century the earth gets
warmer and more of the polar ice
melts and the northern regions be
come more habitable.
A thousand years from now our
grandchildren of the thirtieth gen
eration may pick oranges in Canada
and go to the beaches of Hudson Bay
for a warm winter vacation.
* * *
PICTURES . . . easier to take
I have been an amateur photo
grapher - all my life. I m»de my first
camera when I was sixteen. There
isn’t anything much more fun than
taking pictures, and it never was
so easy for anybody and everybody
to take good pictures as it is today.
The latest cameras will take pic
tures almost in the dark. Indeed, by
the use of the new infra-red plates,
photographs can be made where there
is no light at all, so far as the un
aided eye can determine. The new
flashlight bulbs makes it possible to
get pictures at any hour of the day
or night.
By the use of pictures, newspapers
and magazines are much more in
teresting today than they used to be
when I was a young man. The old
Chinese saying that one picture is
worth ten thousand words may not
be literally true, but it is away of
saying that we learn through our
eyes easier than through our ears.
I think the young folks of today
know a lot more than did those of
my generation, they see so many
pictures, in newspapers, magazines
and the movies, showing them how
the world and its people look and
act.
* * *
MEAT to stay bight
Twenty-five years ago I went out
into the cattle country of the West
to find out why porterhouse steak
in New York had gone up to 32 cents
a pound. I wrote an article in which
I predicted that it would keep on
going up. A couple of weeks ago
anyone who wanted porterhouse steak
in New York had to pay 90 cents a
pound for it.
The answer to the rising cost of
meat is simple. The law of supply
and demand is at work. The droughts
of two and three years ago are be
ginning to have their inescapable ef
fect on consumer prices. It takes on
the average, three years to grow a
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