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Blakely, Ga., October 28, 1937
THE PRICE OF SPEED
It has been said times with
out number before, but it will
bear repeating:
Speed is the great highway
killer.
The motorist who drives at
an excessive rate endangers
not only his own life, but
those of everyone else on the
public streets and roads. He
can offer but one “excuse”
for his conduct—that super
fast driving gets him to his
destination sooner.
The truth is, the minutes we
save by excessive speed are
pitifully few in the light of the
risk involved. A short time
ago a test was made in Chi
cago. A radio announcer was
told to drive his car on an
eight-mile trip through heavy
traffic, observing not only ev
ery traffic regulation, but ev
ery rule of courtesy. At the
same time, a police officer fol
lowed the same route under
instructions to take every risk
and reach the destination in
the shortest time possible.
Twenty-three minutes later the
reckless driver pulled in at
the stopping point. The safe,
supposedly slow driver, who
had taken no risks at all, got
there exactly two minutes
later.
We have all met the motor
ist who makes a trip in a
length of time that required
him to risk a hundred lives,
and then spends twice the
amount he saved over a nor
mal, safe passage, boasting
about it. None of us is so busy,
none of us has so great a need
for saving a few minutes or a
few hours, that we can afford
the “price of speed.”
“Save ten minutes—take a
life.” That should be the
motto of the driver who “opens
her up” on every possible oc
casion. Speed and speed alone
is the dominating factor in the
great bulk of the nation’s se
rious traffic accidents. Look
at it from your own point of
view and from a purely selfish
standpoint—is it worth it?
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Get ready for the “bill
pushers” Monday.
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Says The Dawson News:
“None of us ever get too old
to learn. The man w'ho thinks
he knows it all is the one who,
actually knows least.”
We are told that new syn
-1 thetic gasoline may double the
speed of automobiles and air
planes. Next problem is to
double the brains of the driv
ers of those vehicles when the
new high-powered fuel is put
into use.
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The “caw, caw” of that
racuous bird, the crow, is
about to be changed to a lusty
“haw, haw,” with the haw on
, us. That is, if the food ex
i perts, called in conference at
' Chicago by the independent
grocer’s alliance, decide that
canned crow meat shall be
included in the American
housewife’s weekly planned
menus. Those who have sam
pled the canned crow meat
say it tastes like the breast of
pigeon. We hope that it is
more palatable than that
which we have been accustom
ed to eating the day after our
favorite candidate for public
office comes out second best in
an election the day before.
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Another movement has been start
ed in Georgia to abolish the poll tax.
There may be some good arguments
in favor of doing away with the tax,
but a citizen who does not value his
voting privilege as being worth one
dallar a year, does not think very
much of the privilege of the ballot.
The requirement for paying other
taxes has been removed, leaving it
only necessary for a citizen to pay
his poll tax in order to enjoy the
privilege of the ballot.—Tifton Ga
zette.
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Approach of the fall hunting sea
son leads us once more to the melan
choly expectation of seeing daily
stories in the papers headed “Killed
in hunting accident.” Every fall the
story is the same; of the men who go
blithely out to get a little recrea
tion in field and woodland, a certain
number will die because of their own
or others’ carelessness. Probably
there isn’t much that can be done to
remedy matters. The hunting grounds
available to ordinary city folk are
usually so crowded that accidents are,
as you might say, fairly begging to
happen. The high incidence of care
lessness among human beings makes
it pretty certain that the accidents
will in due course materialize. The
best than can be done is to remind
each hunter that he carries a lethal
weapon which a moment’s heedless
ness can turn into an instrument of
tragedy.—Jackson Herald.
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KNOW YOUR TIMBER
(By Emily Woodward)
FOREST ENEMY NO. I—FIRE
At this season of the year, this
Forest Enemy No. 1 begins its dev
astating march through Georgia.
Dying vegetation burns easily and
the autumn and winter never fail to
leave death and destruction in Geor
gia’s forests.
Who is responsible for this de
struction?
In 1931, a survey made of forest
fires on lands protected by Federal
and State Governments and other
agencies showed a total of 61,000
fires. Os these, 23.4 per cent were
caused by smokers; incendiaries were
responsible for 24.9 per cent; burn
ing debris caused 12 per cent; light
ning started 6 per cent; railroads,
4.8 per cent; campers 8.5 per cent;
lumbering 1.7; miscellaneous agen
cies 10.1 per cent; 8.6 per cent were
of unknown origin.
So here are the forces that com
bine to make Forest Enemy No. 1.
Must they be left to carry on their
destructive warfare—burning mil
lions of dollars worth of property
every year? As yet there are no
forces to combat the 6 per cent toll |
taken by lightning, but all the oth
ers can be conquered and relentless
war should be waged against them,
the careless and criminal.
Those who know the commercial
value of trees are witnesses to the
fact that fire in the forests burns
money from the pockets of their
owners. They testify that the value
of all forest products is lessened
when the trees suffer the scars of
fire. Growth is retarded, naval
store products are lessened, the
footage for poles, lumber and ties is
shortened and destruction by insects
is made much less difficult.
Does Georgia have money to
burn? The answer is definitely NO.
The careless smoker would probably
hesitate to pitch his match or cigar
ette stub into a pile of ten dollar
bills. But he does the same thing
when he pitches either where it can
start a blaze that destroys forest
property, and although he may not
desire to do a criminal act, he, none
the less, thoughtlessly, makes of
himself a destroyer of property.
The charred blotches left on Geor
gia’s landscape by this annual march
of Forest Enemy No. 1 are a blot on
the intelligence and economic vision
of Georgians.
The Georgia Forestry Association,
pledged for the past fifteen years to
war on forest fires, joins other forces
in the state in the appeal to put an
end to this useless, shall I say crim
inal, destruction of one of Geor
gia’s most valuable natural re
sources.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
WHEN A FARMER IS A
LIABILITY
(By LEE S. TRIMBLE, Vice-Pre«.
& Manager, Chamber Commerce,
* Macon, Ga.)
It is a well used saying an
an economic fact that “the
farmer feeds them all”, there
fore as the provider of food, he
plays an indispensable part in
the life of the country. It is
true that farming or agricul
ture has that very important
function, and if the present
group stopped growing food
crops another set would have
to be trained.
But while farming is the big
gest single industry in the na
j tion and production of food
and feed the most essential of
all occupations, not all indi
vidual farmers are assets. The
history of every nation is writ
ten in the way it cares for its
soil. The farmer who takes a
piece of virgin land, clears it
up and proceeds to wear it out,
is an enemy of his race and
country, just as is the anarchist
who tries to break down its
government, or the gangster
who breaks its laws.
Men do not really own the
land, they are merely trustees,
hold the title for a little while,
passing it on to their “heirs,
administrators, executors or
assigns” as the wording in
deeds recites. If he does not
put back the equivalent in soil
fertility that his crops use up,
then he is untrue to his trust
and those who come after him
must suffer the loss.
All the farmer has to sell
is plant food, of which the
original stock was built up by
nature over a long period. The
whole population of the world
is kept alive by this fertility in
the top few inches of the thin
rind of soil that blankets the
earth. When it is used up,
what then?
Farming may be a business
in some places, but with us in
Georgia it is yet away of life.
When the soil is fed as the live
stock on it are fed; cared for
as its crop products are, then
we can be sure of the right
kind of future for the Geor
gians who are to inherit it in
whatever shape we leave it.
They are then to revere or re
vile us, their ancestors, accord
ing to the condition of that
heritage.
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The old adage that “a hit dog al
ways hollers” is a true version of
the story of state government today.
Governor Rivers is seeking to shift
the tax burden from the farm lands
and homes to those that are able to
pay taxes. And do you note the
howling that is coming from the big
industries of the state? They even
want to tell you now that Rivers
wont be Governor again. They evi
dently forget that there are thousands
of small home and farm owners and
thousands who are getting social
security benefits that can vote.—
Donalsonville News.
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SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
October 24, 1912
THE STORK recently paid a visit
to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hill
Buchannon and left a genuine Ameri
can boy.
♦ ♦ ♦
DR. SAM D. RAMBO left Mon
day for his home in Marietta, after
being here for several days on busi
ness.
* * *
MESSRS. Joe Freeman and S. T.
Goings attended the State Fair at
Macon last week.
* * ♦
MR. AND MRS. O. J. English and
children, of Albany, have returned
home after a pleasant visit to Mrs.
English’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Fleming.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. F. A. Barham
went over to Andalusia, Ala., last
Saturday to visti Mrs. Barham’s
mother, Mrs. M. B. Gunn.
* * *
REV. DOCK MOSES, col., besides
being a preacher, is also quite a farm
er, for he brought us in a nice water
melon this morning.
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“Thou wouldst be joyous,
wouldst thou?”, says Borrow,
“Then be a fool.”
It is quite probable that a
tendency to mental depression
is inherited and that if we
should ever succeed in breed
ing melancholy out of the hu
man race we should also have
bred out all our most sensi
tive and brilliant minds. On
the other hand, if the eugenists
remove the feeble minded they
will have taken from our midst
the only group over which
melancholy holds no sway.
Attacks of melancholy come
and go, often without any dis
cernible cause. Physicians
learn to accept with reserva
tions the gratitude of their de
pressed patients knowing fully
well that the complaint is likely
to recur. They know too that
a fresh attack of depression
may be brought on by in love
or on the stock exchange. Ma
laria and influenza are most
to be feared among infections.
The strain of childbirth is
another not uncommon cause.
In such cases the doctor may
help by hastening convales
cence or by prescribing treat
ment to lessen strain and
shock.
What of melancholy that
THE eightieth annual session of the
Bethel Baptist Association will con
vene in Coleman Tuesday, October
29th. Hon. A. L. Miller is Modera
tor and W. W. Fleming is clerk of
the body.
* * *
SAM FULLMORE, a heavy set
young darky, attempted to kill Sol
Long, an old negro blacksmith, last
Friday by cutting his throat with a
knife. Bystanders caught Fullmore
and turned him over to Marshall
Alexander, who turned him over to
Sheriff Howell to be lodged in the
county jail.
* * *
MR. J. C. HOLMAN, of Hartford,
Ala., senior member of the firm of
J. C. and W. C. Holman, spent Sun
day in Blakely with his son, Mr.
Grady Holman.
♦ * *
THE STORK paid a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Grimsley last week
and left a baby boy. He has been
named for the Democratic president
of the United States —Woodrow Wil
son.
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BETTER HEALTH
I ar Dr J. ROSS LYN EARP
Director, New Mexico Bureau of Public Health
MELANCHOLY
comes and goes abruptly with
out apparent cause? In such
cases the patient can get more
help from within than from
without. Experience teaches
that the cloud will pass. Let
him hold on to hope and so to
courage. Let him avoid self
pity, that most subtle and dan
gerous enemy of moral self
control. As a steady policy both
in depression and in health let
him cultivate interests outside
of himself. A life of wide and
varied interests is in the end his
surest line of defense.
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Moralists are perplexed and discon
certed to see ‘heartless coquettes’ en
slaving men so much more easily than
the nice, sweet, simple Susans. It
has been explained that the artful
temptresses have learned the secret
of conscious control while thir more
deserving sisters have not.—Dawson
News.
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Dr. Charles Herty now announces
a new process for making cheap
newsprint from black gum. Dr Herty
deserves far greater recognition and
appreciation of his efforts to develop
the paper industry in the south than
he has received. Spare him for a
few more years and he will certainly
have the south humming, industrial
ly.—Cairo Messenger.
tOMORROwT
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WAR for righteousness
The air is full of war talk. Many
people are afraid that our country
will, somehow, be drawn into an
other world war. I have no idea
how many Americans want “peace
at any price,” but I imagine that
there are a good many millions of
them. But I believe there are still
a large number of people who hold
the same view of war that Theodore
Roosevelt did. He once said that
he was for peace, but for righteous
ness first.
There are circumstances under
which nations have to choose be
tween peace and righteousness. In
late years many peace advocates
have been preaching the doctrine that
this country was dragged into the
World War by international bankers
for the sake of the money they could
make out of it. That, to my mind
is perfectly silly. We went into the
World War to keep the Kaiser and
his ambitious advisers from dominat
ing the world.
If America had not entered the
war when we did, England and
France would have become subject
nations, and we would have a Kai
ser-controlled government in Canada,
threatening us on an unguarded
frontier 3,000 miles long.
EUROPE . . . conflict of ideas
The great conflict which is now
going on in Europe is between two
radically opposed concepts of civili
zation. They are so opposed that it
is impossible both can exist for
long on the same continent. One or
the other system must eventually
dominate. For a convenient one
word description, we call one system
Fascism, the other Democracy. The
difference is in their basic ideas of
the rights of man.
Fascism holds that the individual
has no rights except such as are
granted to him by the State, and
those can be withdrawn at any
time. Democracy rests upon the
belief that the individual man’s
rights are supreme, and that the
State has no authority except as
the people grant it certain powers,
which they can revoke at any time.
The doctrine under which the
Kaiser ruled the German people, and
which he sought to impose upon the
rest of the world, was the doctrine
of Hitler, of Mussolini in Italy, of
Stalin in Russia. That is Fascism—
the supremacy of the State. Eng
land and France and a few smaller
nations are founded on the Demo
cratic ideal. If there is another gen
eral European war it will be like
the last one, a war between opposed
ideas of human rights.
ASIA democracy vs. autocracy
In the Far East a parallel situa
tion exists, Japan has invaded and
is bent on conquering China. The
Chinese civilization has endured for
4,000 years. It is essentially Demo
cratic. China has been “conquered”
several times, but her people have
managed to retain or regain their in
dividual rights, and eventually to
absorb their conquerors into their
Democratic scheme of society, in
which there has always been a mini
mum of government control.
Japan’s philosophy is, in essence,
the Fascist doctrine, that the State
is all-powerful, the people merely
subjects of the Mikado. This doc
trine is the more deeply ingrained
in the Japanese people because they
sincerely believe in the Divinity of
their Emperor, “The Son of Hea
ven.” Personal liberty and beliefs
must be subordinated to the will
of the Mikado.
All of the “totalitarian” govern
ments rely upon force to keep their
own people in line. They have to,
in an era where ideas about indi
vidual rights and personal liberty
are so widespread. In a Democracy
the military is subordinate to the
civil power; in a totalitarian state
the military caste soon becomes su
preme. When the military idea con
trols a nation, war is inevitable.
Soldiers must fight. That is what
has happened in Japan.
AMERICA . . should avoid war
This country is not yet threatened
by the Fascist or anti-Democratic
idea expressed in terms of mili
tary force. Spain is the European
battle ground as China is the Asiatic
and conditions may easily arise in
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