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and County of Early
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Blakely, Ga., April 4, 1940
April, with its beautiful
flowers and green foliage, is
with us again.
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Blakely is this afternoon ob
serving the first of the summer
'Thursday afternoon half-holi
days. Better attend to that
shopping before noon.
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Blakely high school’s young
musicians, both band and chor
us members, gave an excellent
account of themselves in the
music festival held in Albany
last Friday.
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A number of presidential
primaries are to be held this
month. Candidates for the
presidency, both Democratic
and Republican, are anxiously
watching the trend of events.
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Is Olin Miller far wrong
when he says “a man receives
credit for becoming wiser as he
grows older, when the fact is
that he merely becomes inca
pacitated for acting the fool?”
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Uncle Sam this week began
counting his children, a custom
which he has been observing
every ten years for quite a
while. The census enumera
tion is expected to show an ad
dition of several million to
the great American family.
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South Georgians will have
the privilege of seeing next
Sunday, fair weather permit
ting, a rare annular eclipse of
the sun. The spectacle will
show a thin rim of the sun
visible because the moon will
be so far from the earth its
face will not completely hide
the sun.
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Here’s a ray of real cheer
for college graduates of 1940:
‘Job possibilities for the sen
iors appear brightest in three
years,” Professor H. G. Track
er, of Boston, stated recently.
■“To date, university place
ment figures are 25 per cent
higher than last year,” he
announced.
The 1940 Georgia fishing
license, now being distributed
by the Department of Revenue,
made its appearance with a
wide assortment of new fea
tures. Most important im
provement for fishermen is the
celluloid jacket, or carrying
case, which protects the license
and fits into any standard bill
fold. A section of the license
is a blank to be filled out at
the end of the season with a
report of the angler’s catch.
It calls for the number caught,
average weight, average length
and largest for the season.
This information will be used
by the Division of Wild Life in
its restocking plans and will
give desired information used
in computing facts about fish.
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
The aggregate happiness of society
which is best promoted by the prac
tice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought
to be, the end of all government. —
George Washington.
“If you haven’t any pride in your
city, why don’t you move?” asks the
Florida (Jacksonville) Times-Union
philosopher. You ask ’em, brother;
our manner of curt, plain speaking
sometimes fails us. And, too, with
the census close at hand, it might do
for any such to wait until the 1940
population count is finished. —‘Cairo
Messenger.
A rare celestial show is scheduled
for Sunday, April 7, when the moon
will black out the sun in an annular
or ring eclipse. While the full mag
nitude of the show will be evidenced
to about 2,000,000 Americans from
Texas to Florida and Georgia, vary
ing degrees of the moon-made dusk
will be observed over virtually of
all North America, Alaska excluded,
and in northern areas of South
America. Not since 1865 has this
country seen a similar spectacle.
There will be a repeat performance
on May 10, 1994.—Dawson News.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat re
cently published an issue containing
a candy manufacturer’s advertise
ment, and the issue was perfumed
through the use of oil of pepper
ment in the ink with which the paper
was printed. What a boon that
ought to be to Georgia newspapers
during the present argument between
Rivers and Miller and in the coming
campaign, when the publishers wish
to avoid offending their readers with
the rather “smelly” stuff that is
certain to creep into the newspapers.
—Tifton Gazette.
Shakespeare’s seven ages of man
may be given a modern legislative
revision. Recently two bills were
introduced into congress which indi
cate an altered viewpoint. One bill
by Representative Marcantonio of
New York would “provide vocational
guidance, vocational training and
employment opportunities for youth
between the ages of 16 and 25.” An
other proposed law submitted by
Senator Downer of California seeks
“to provide for national recovery
by retiring citizens past 60 years of
age from gainful employment.”
These seem to anticipate the coming
“three ages of man.” First, the
youth coddled and doled from cra
dle to alma mater. Second, the bur
dened taxpayer sighing like a furn
ace under his multitudinous load.
Finally, from 60 on, the slippered
pensioner—sans sturdy individual
ism, sans reliance, sans everything.
—Savannah News.
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QUESTION BOX
1. On his first voyage to America,
where did Columbus land?
2. What motion picture actor was
best known for his portrayal of gro
tesque or deformed characters?
3. What is the shortest verse in
the Bible?
4. What is the doctrine of “laissez
faire”?
5. For whom was the month of
August named?
6. What is the meaning of the
Latin expression “Deo volente”?
7. Name three well-known German
composers whose last names begin
with the letter “B”.
8. In what state is the most east
erly point in the United States lo
cated?
9. Who was “First in war, first
in peace, first in the hearts of his
countrymen”?
10. What is the new official name
for Ireland?
ANSWERS
1. In the West Indies, on the island
of San Salvador.
2. Lon Chaney.
3. “Jesus wept.” (John xi. 35.)
4. A doctrine advocating govern
mental abstention from interference
with individual action, especially in
commerce.
5. Augustus Caesar (53 B. C.—
14 A. D.).
6. “God willing.”
7. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-
>1750), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-
1827), Johannes Brahms (1833-
1897).
8. Maine.
9. George Washington (1732-
1799).
10. Eire (Gaelic), adopted in 1937.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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EMPLOYMENT .... estimates
Nobody knows how many em
ployable persons are unemployed in
the United States today. To be
sure, there is an official estimate
that between nine million and eleven
million people who are able and
willing to work cannot find jobs.
But nobody has much confidence in
official Government statistics, so
some private institutions have been
checking up on unemployment.
What they have found is that
there are probably not more than
three million and certainly no more
than four million employable people
who have not got jobs in private
employment, and that includes about
two million who are working for
the WPA.
If these figures are correct, and I
think they are much more likely to
be accurate than any Government
estimates, then the country is not
nearly as bad off as we have been
told by the calamity howlers. Things
are picking up. While we have ten
million more people in the Nation
than in 1930, there are only seventy
eight thousand fewer people in
private jobs than there were ten
years ago. That is not nearly as bad
a situation as most people have been
taught to believe.
POLITICS exaggerate
Politicians of both parties will
tell you that there are many times
more people unemployed than even
the Government figures indicate. No
politician wants to admit that he
has been wrong in telling his con
stituents about the seriousness of
unemployment.
It is a very funny situation, in
which 'both Democrats and Repub
licans are concerned in trying to
make out that conditions in business
and industry are worse than they
really are.
The Democrats want to keep the
public sold on the belief that the
government must keep on spending
great amounts of money to provide
for the unemployed. The Republi
cans want to keep on pointing to
the huge volume of unemployment
as proof that the Democrats have
failed to make a dent in the prob
lem, though they have spent bil
lions in the attempt.
There never has been a time
when there were not some people
unemployed. There has seldom been
a time when a man who was able
to work and willing to work could
not find employment of some sort.
And the talk about people starving
is all bunk.
FACTS few
Facts are the hardest things in
the world to find and it costs more
to get them than to buy diamonds.
That is one reason why there are
so few unquestionable facts avail
able to anyone who wants to find
out the truth. Even the reports of
the Census are not one hundred
per cent true, though they come
closer to being facts than any other
statistics I know of.
We will undoubtedly get a new
set of figures about unemployment
when the Census enumerators finish
their jobs sometime this Spring.
But after the facts have been col
lected and tabulated the resulting
statistics may mean one thing to
one set of experts and something
else to another set.
If the Census includes as unem
ployed all the people who never
have worked, or who may have
worked once but don’t want to
work any more, it will present a
much different picture than if it
counted only the men and women
who have had the habit of working,
are still physically able to work
and who can’t find jobs of any kind
to work at.
That, it seems to me, is the only
fair test as to -whether anyone is
unemployed because he can’t find
work.
CENSUS objectors
My guess is that not more than
one person in a thousand -will fol
low Senator Tobey’s advice and
refuse to answer Census questions.
Most people welcome a chance to
tell all they know.
There are some religious sects
who take the Bible literally and re
gard it as sinful for the Government
to ask the people to answer
Census questions. Five farmers who
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held that view were arrested in
1930, but after a night in jail they
decided to put their scruples aside
rather than pay a fine.
The ground for this religious ob
jection to the Census is found in
the Bible, in the Twenty-first Chap
ter of the First Book of Chronicles.
It was Satan himself who incited
King David to order the people of
Israel counted, the first Census of
any kind in history.
David appointed Joab as director
of the Census. But Joab counted
the people of some of the Jewish
tribes and not the others, because
he thought the King was wrong.
David himself admitted that he had
sinned in ordering a count of the
people, and not only Orthodox Jews
in many parts of the world, but
also other sects who take the Old
Testament as literal history still
believe it is wrong to number the
people.
COLDS prevalent
I’ve been laid up with a cold, a
fact which brings me into the com
pany of practically everybody else.
Very few people in America have
escaped colds in the hard, chilling
Winter we have just gone through.
I sat at dinner not long ago next
to Vilhalmur Steffansson, famous
Arctic explorer who lived for two
years in an Eskimo snow house
close to the North Pole and never
caught a cold. He told me Eskimos
never have colds unless they catch
them from White men.
Nobody knows what causes colds
and so nobody knows how to cure
them. My old doctor used to say:
“I can give you something to
cure a cold in three weeks but if
you leave it alone you’ll be well in
twenty-one days.”
The best evidence, to my mind,
that nobody has discovered a cure
for colds is that there are so many
different cold remedies constantly
advertised. If even one of them
were a sure cure the rest would
have to go out of business and the
solitary cure-all wouldn’t have to
advertise.
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The income tax receipts for last
year show a 26 per - cent increase.
Maybe business was bad in your line,
but somebody was making more
money than they had been making
before. Generally somebody is
making money. The income tax is
a good method of securing revenue
for government expenses. It is a
scriptural tax. Did not the apostle
Paul say something about giving as
you are prospered? It is a pity that
all men can not pay into the church
alike. It is a pity that all men can
not pay taxes alike. It is true, how
ever, that only a small per cent of
the people of the nation are able to
pay any substantial amount in taxes.
Os course you can bleed them and
take income from them in the form
of taxes on cigarettes, beer and gaso
line, but it is a sorry way to run the
government.—Moultrie Observer.
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Money spent out of town is like
the rain that falls on a hard pave
ment. It disappears from sight and
accomplishes no further results for
the community. Money spent ait home
is like the rain on a fertile field,
which raises crops of home town
business and progress.—Calhoun
County Courier.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinb
EGYPTIAN AUTOMATS
Ecclesiastes 1-9 says: “There is
no new thing under the sun,” and
at times one is almost forced to ac
cept the truth of this statement.
Perhaps the most outstanding ex
ample of this biblical saying is a
recent discovery on pyramids, obe
lisks and other stone structures in
Egypt.
As the world knows, the earliest
of these great monuments were
erected about 3000 8.C., and the
latest in approximately the year
1800 B.C. They are the very first
exemplification of stone masonry
and stone work known. In fact,
they represent the origin of archi
tecture in stone at a time when the
civilization of the world elsewhere
possessed no other similar works
other than wood and sun-dried brick.
These mighty stone creations,
doting with age, have forgotten the
names of their builders, but they
have watched the procession of cen
turies from the banks of the mystic,
muddy, mighty Nile, as it flowed
through hushed Egypt.
For many years Egyptologists
have been unable to interpret cer
tain symbols which they came
across now and then on temple
walls, obelisks and other buildings
which were being excavated from
the sands. Finally an American
tourist engaged in the manufacture
of nickel-in-the-slot machines, a
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
April 1, 1915
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Mrs. T. J.
(Stonewall) Jackson, wife of the
famous Confederate general, died at
her home here last week. She had
been ill many months and suffered a
relapse some time ago.
* * *
MRS. C. H. ADAMS, who has been
spending several months with her
son, Mr. E. R. Adams, superintendent
of the water and light department,
left Tuesday for her home in Louis
ville, Ky.
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CLERK FREEMAN has been very
busy during the past week sending
out invitations to various citizens of
Early county to meet Judge Worrill
at his semi-annual reception of the
first Monday in April. And there
will be a general acceptance of those
invitations, too.
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MR. A. J. HAMMACK was the
victim of a painful accident yester
day by getting his right arm broken
while cranking his automobile.
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NEXT SUNDAY is Easter Sunday
and Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these who will
make a display of finery on that day.
man of little if any college learning,
but able to read a mechanical draw
ing, saw one of these so-called
strange hieroglyphics and to the
amazement of the scientists present
interpreted it to the group of
savants.
It was nothing more or less than
a nickel-in-the-slot machine, and
later investigation developed the
fact that these vending devices were
placed in front of the numerous
temples in the days of the Pharaos
for the purpose of selling holy water
to the devout who came to worship
at the various shrines.
Encased in an outer covering was
an upright upon which was pivoted
a light beam, on one end of which
was a suspended rod which passed
through a receptacle containing holy
water and which had as its lower
extremity a valve, adapted to seat
itself in an opering which it closed
when not in use. The other end of
the beam had a small disc, above
which was a coin slot.
The insertion of a bit of money
in this coin-slot, depressed the beam
and elevated the valve from its seat,
thereby permitting holy water to flow
into the hand of the supplicant for
grace.
In other words, the same method
and the same basic principle was
used by priests centuries before
Christ for vending holy water that
is today used in the operation of
coin-controlled mechanisms.
MISS Mabie Whittington was hos
tess to the Rock Club last Friday
evening. Those present were Miss
Lillian Stuckey, Mr. Murray Jones,
Miss Loius Stuckey, Dr. Richard
Davis, Miss Connie Paulk, Mr. Willis
Cox, Miss Lucille Barksdale, Mr. C.
H. Purifoy, Miss Winifred Brooks,
Prof. Collins, Miss Mattie Butler, Mr.
Hal Beckham, Miss Mabel Whitting
ton, Prof. Anderson, Miss Carolyn
Whittington, Miss Evelyn Brooks.
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SHERIFF HOWELL, at last in
quiry, had 23 boarders at the county
hostelry. Perhaps that accounted for
their bold effort to skiddoo. One
day last week the Sheriff discovered
that some of his prisoners had got
ten hold of a file and had cut one
bar of a cell in two and had begun
to work on another bar with a view
of gaining their liberty. The dis
covery of their work iblightened their
hopes of victory. Sheriff Howell has
never allowed but one prisoner to
escape from jail since he has been
sheriff, and that was a young man
to whom he had accorded the liberty
of the jail corridors. But he was
captured a few days afterward, so
the sheriff may truthfully claim no
jail escapes so far in his official
career.