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Early ffinunty Nruis
Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
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Blakely, Georgia
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Blakely, Ga„ April 18, 1940
The defeat of Vice President
Garner in the Wisconsin and
Illinois presidential preference
primaries seems to have de
flated the V. P.’s presidential
boom.
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“The most gruesome blood
bath in all history,” predicted
some time ago by the German
dictator Hitler, seems on the
way, with the blood of the
German young manhood des
tined to contribute to the
human blood necessary for
such a bath.
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The Blakely high school
band, in winning second place
in the Albany Parade of Prog
ress last Thursday, scored a
splendid victory, winning over
the bands from the much larg
er cities of Thomasville and
Moultrie. The Tech Hi band
of Atlanta captured first prize.
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While the paving projects
are under way in Blakely
would be an excellent time for
the city fathers to repair the
sidewalks and curbing on the
square and on the main streets
of the city. This work would
greatly improve the appear
ance of our little city, and is
work which should be done.
There are differences of
opinion as to how much dam
age has occurred from the
cold snap, which brought this
section freezing temperature
on Saturday morning last, but
certain it is that vegetation has
been damaged. A study of lo
cal weather reveals that the
mercury reading of 30 last Sat
urday was the latest April
freeze in the history of the
local weather bureau.
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The invasion by Germany of
Denmark and Norway has
broken the stalemate in the
war between Germany and
the English and French allies.
The British navy has gone to
the assistance of distressed
Norway, and in the naval en
gagements of the past week
the Hitler sea forces have come
out second best. This latest
move will probably result in
the involvement of all Europe
in the bloody struggle.
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The Georgia Supreme Court
last week handed down sever
al decisions in favor of W. L.
Miller, ousted chairman of the
state highway board, and de
claring Governor Rivers had
no authority to remove Mr.
Miller from the board. The
Governor is silent as to his |
next move in the squabble.
He is said to have written
Federal Judge Bascom Deaver
that he would abide by the)
Supreme Court's decisions in
the matter. And he is also
said to have stated that Mr.
Miller would never hold the
chairmanship again so long as
he (Rivers) is governor. In
the meantime, the highway de
partment remains under mar
tial law.
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
We had bought that dear Milledge
ville had enough eccentric citiens in
its environs without wanting to
move the Georgia legislature over
there.—Cuthbert Leader.
If the candidates would save the
I money they pay publicity agents seek
| ing free publicity, which finds its
| way to the waste basket, they could
afford much more legitimate adver
tising.—Cochran Journal.
Why not a state fund to advertise
Georgia? The states that do ad
vertise, Florida and California es
pecially, are reaping rich returns
from the investment. Georgia needs
more constructive advertising. Too
much has been said about military
! rule, floggings, “Tobacco Roads”,
j and other things that hurt the state.
I Why not talk up Georgia rather
•' than flaunt all the bad things to the
nation?—Jackson Progress-Argus.
We woud remind readers that there
is a drive on to promote the use of
more cotton goods, and it might be
a good idea. The more cotton we
consume the more demand there will
surely be for it, and you know if the
demand for cotton is great enough,
this section gets on pretty well. Be
sides that, I have seen mighty pret
ty girls and ladies wearing cotton
materials. Let’s give this movement
just a little support.—Arlington
Courier.
We often wonder if all other
towns are beset with beggars like
Cordele is. There ought to be some
thing done about it. Surely all those
who hit this town asking for a hand
out, could not be worthy, and it
kinda worries us. The good Book
says something about it being better
to give to many unworthy than deny
j>ne who is worthy. But there are
too many. We can’t give to all ex
cept that we borrow some back, and
we fear we will deny the one who
is worthy.—Grisp County News.
Oil is equal in importance with
anything that pertains to war. With
out it mechanized units, more im
portant than ever, can not move.
Without it, planes are stationary.
Without it, the navies of the world
are helpless. So, no wonder the
European nations at war fight an
eternal economic fight to obtain this
all importance substance.—Baker
County News.
The average man has a habit of
dodging issues, of postponing decis
ions, of temporizing with the inevi
table. And then, too late, we learn
the error of such procrastination.
Facts that are not frankly and
promptly faced have a habit of
stabbing us in the back.—Southern
Star (Ozark, Ala.).
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QUESTION BOX
1. What slang name was given to
cattle thieves in the early days of
the American west?
2. Who wrote ‘‘The Raven”?
3. What was Woodrow Wilson’s
vocation before he became Governor
of New Jersey?
4. What two bodies of water does
the Suez Canal connect?
5. of the American
expedition into Mexico in pursuit of
Pancho Villa attained the greatest
distinction in the World War?
6. For what is the steamship
“Baden-Baden”, constructed by Cap
tain Anton Fletter, famous?
7. What is the capital of Australia?
8. Who is the author of “Peter
Pan”?
9. What city in the Netherlands
has given its name to a kind of chin
ware?
10. What is “fiat money?”
ANSWERS
1. Rustlers.
2. Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849).
3. He was President of Princeton
University from 1902 to 1910.
4. The Mediterranean and the Red
Sea.
5. John Joseph Perching.
6. It utilizes wind power for pro
pulsion by means of rotors rather
than sails.
7. Canberra.
8. Sir James Matthew (1860-
1937).
9. Delft, South Holland.
10. Paper currency of government
issue, made legal tender by law, but
with no promise of redemption.
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First U. S. Cafeteria
A self-service restaurant was
opened in New street, New York
city, in 1885 and the next establish
ment of this kind was opened on
Adams street in Chicago in 1895.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY. GEORGIA
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TOMORROW
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COMMUNISM system
We use the word Communism
I nowadays to moan a particular sys
tem of government which has been
adopted in Russia and to which the
Russians are trying to convert the
rest of the world. It would mean a
complete change in the special and
economic order from that to which
we are accustomed. The Russian
system is actually not one of Com
munism in the literal sense of equal
or common ownership of all prop
erty. In Russia everything, includ
ing the lives and liberties of the
masses of the people, is controlled
by a small minority called the Com
munist Party. Its membership is
limited. Whenever the Party gets
too many members the leaders kill
off or exile a few thousand, so as
to keep control in a small and well
disciplined group.
The Russian system, therefore, is
not real Communism but a tyran
nical system of minority rule.
CHRISTIANITY . . communism
At various times throughout his
tory the idea has taken root of true
Communism, in which no one had
any advantage over any other in
material possessions, but all con
tribute to a common store of
wealth, which was at the disposal
of every member of the community.
That was the principal under
which the early Christian communi
ties and congregations lived. They
took this pure form of Communism
to be the direct teaching of Christ.
Brotherhood meant to them liter
ally that all men were brothers and
all should share alike.
This got them into trouble with
their non-Christian neighbors, and
with the political powers of the
countries in which they lived. It
prevented the politicians from tax
ing them, because if nobody owned
anything he couldn’t pay taxes.
Since people existed chiefly to
provide revenue for their political
rulers, this early form of Christian
ity was so persecuted that after- a
few hundred years Christians gave
up the struggle and accepted the
existing political system.
UTOPIA real
More than four hundred years
ago Sir Thomas More, recently ele
vated to sainthood by the Roman
Catholic Church, wrote a book
about an imaginary county which
he called “Utopia.” It was a de
scription of a whole nation living
happy and contented lives under a
Communistic system in which
wealth was shared, everybody con
tributed his labor to the common
welfare and everyone’s needs were
met out of the common store of
wealth.
Recently it has been learned that
Sir Thomas had heard from a sailor
who had been shipwrecked on the
coast of Peru, an account of the
still mysterious kingdom of the In
cas, long before the conquest of
Peru by the Spanish. The treasure
of the Incas was stolen by the con
querors, its leaders were slain and
the people reduced to slavery.
But such authentic records as still
exist indicate that this strange
people, whose origin is unknown,
lived for thousands of years in the
nearest approach to the perfect
state that has ever been achieved by
humanity.
They were able to make Commu
nism work because they were com
pletely self-sustaining and shut off
from envious neighbors by high
mountains and impassable rivers.
PERFECTION .... experiment
The word “Utopia” has become a
common noun meaning an ideal and
perfect community or state. Scores
of philosophers have written books
telling how universal contentment
might be achieved, and hundreds of
attempts to work it out on a more
or less limited scale have been
made. All but one or two of these
attempts have failed utterly, and
the ones that survive have done so
by abandoning most of their origi
nal Communistic principles.
Nearly all of these experiments
have been tried in the United States,
beginning with the settlement of
the Pilgrims at Plymouth, where
everything was owned in common.
After seven years Communism was
abandoned because the younger men
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plete abstainer. .
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rebelled at working to support
other men’s families.
The Mormons have succeeded
better than any other group in
building a community life in which,
though all are not equal, none is
allowed to starve. The Mormon
empire has been built on the foun
dation of rigid religious control of
the lives of its members.
That is also true of the only other
surviving experiment of the sort,
the Oneida Community. Both the
Oneida Perfectionists and the Mor
mon Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter Day Saints had to abandon
some of their original principles in
order to survive.
INDEPENDENCE . . . .efforts
All of the early efforts in this
country to establish something like
the communal system of the early
Christians were made by groups of
individuals acting independently of
any government.
It did not occur to the founders
of the most famous of the commu
nal enterprises of a century ago,
Brook Farm in Massachusetts, that
their venture was anything in which
government was or ought to be con
cerned. The most eminent intellec
tual and religious leaders of the time
joined in the Brook Farm experi
ment, or gave it their support, be
cause they saw no other way to
demonstrate the ideal way of life
which they had visualized.
Brook Farm failed because its
people failed to recognize inequali
ties in talent and ability between
individuals, and were so completely
committed to the ideals of Democ
racy and individual liberty that they
would not subject any member of
their colony to discipline, either re
ligious or political.
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Uncle Sam’s post office depart
ment is pretty smart. When it sees
an opportunity to make a million
dollars extra it doesn’t lose any time
doing it. Income from the sale of
new stamp issues to philatelists each
year totals approximately one million
dollars. This week commemorative
stamps of Dr. Crawford W. Long
went on sale in Georgia, while in
Alabama a stamp honoring the mem
ory of Booker T. Washington was
placed on sale. It is expected that
during the year new stamps honoring 1
Sidney Lanier and Joel Chandler
Harris will be issued in the new
series of poets and authors.—Daw
son News.
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This will be a difficult year for
candidates for president and candi
dates for the senate or the house of
representatives. It is necessary to
convince the people that there is go
ing to be economy and the budget is
going to be balanced, and it is also
necessary to give assurance that pen
sions will be paid. WPA employment
will be carried on and farmers will
continue to receive their checks from
the government. Those who promise
that there will be lower taxes and a
balanced budget will have difficulty
in explaining how these things are
to be accomplished.—Moultrie Ob
server.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
April 22, 1915
FISHING PARTIES are becoming |
quite common.
* * *
MRS. SAM STEIN left last night
for a visit to relatives in Texas.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. J. C. Weaver
spent ,Sunday in Columbia with Mrs.
Weaver’s father, Mr. A. F. Sessions,
who is in ill health.
* * •
MRS. DAVID PASCHALL has re
turned to her home in Cordele, after
a pleasant visit to her father, Mr.
J. E. Womack.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. J. P. Donaldson,
of Jakin, were among the out of
town members attending Episcopal
services here this week.
* * *
POSTMASTER GRIST, after some
negotiations with postoffice authori-;
ties, has succeeded in having three
U. S. mail boxes placed in convenient
places in the city for the accommoda
tion of the people, mail to be gathered
from these boxes once a day only,
at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. One
of these boxes is on Cuthbert street,
one at the public square and River
street, and one at the square and
Cuthbert street.
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BRAINS VS. BAYONETS
John McDowell Banks was an
Irishman intensely loyal to his coun
try. Like many British subjects, he
found it hard to make a living at
home, and although he was a univer
sity graduate, he accepted a position
as Manager of the railroad which
runs from the Port of La Guaira to
the capital of Venezuela, Caracas.
This beautiful town is nestled like
a chick beneath the breast of La
Silla, one of the most beautiful
mountains of the country. La Silla
is Spanish for saddle; and this
group of hills resembles an enormous
green saddle, and, as the sun sets,
casts a purple shadow over the sur
rounding countryside.
The republic had been in a state
of unrest for some times because of
the threats of Great Britain to take
a portion of the eastern portion
which bordered on British Guiana.
Through President Grover Cleve
land, the Monroe Doctrine was in
voked, with the result that what
might have been a bitter war was
amicably terminated.
Warships from the leading na
tions of the world flocked to La
Guaira, the principal seaport, and
Germany, who sided with Great
MR. L. Z. DOZIER left last night
for Tulsa, Okla.
* * *
MISS Annette Alexander left last
Friday for a several weeks’ visit to
Locust Grove., Atlanta, Gainesville
and other points.
* * *
REV. JAMES B. LAWRENCE, of
Americus, conducted the regular serv
ices for the Episcopal congregation
at the court house on Monday night.
As an interesting feature of this
meeting was the announcement of
S2OO additional, which has been re
cently raised toward the building
fund for the church at Blakely. They
now have some S6OO on hand.
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IT IS REPORTED that three negro
churches were burned by incendiaries
in Early county last Friday night,
one west and two north of Blakely.
The county commissioners ought to
offer a good stiff reward for the dis
covery of these perpetrators. The
churches do more good to keep the
negroes contented than any other
agencies than we know, and when
the negroes are mal-treated in this
way, it makes them dissatisfied and
harder to manage. Any responsible
farmer will plead for negro schools
and churches in his community.
Britain, blockaded the entire cost
of Venezuela and event went so far
as to bombard many of the coastal
towns, doing great damage.
The resentment toward Great
Britain was intense. General Ci
priano Castro, the then president
of this turbulent republic, ordered
all British subjects arrested and
confined in the local jails. The big
prison in Caracas, known as The
Rotundo, was jammed with Eng
lishmen of high and low degree.
Mobs paraded the streets threat
ening Germans and Britishers.
A squad of soldiers was dispatched
to the home of John McDowell
Banks to arrest and bring him to
prison. They found Banks sitting on
the veranda of his home carmly
smoking is pipe. From a flagstaff
on his residence flew a green flag
with a golden harp emblazoned
on it.
“I am ordered to arrest you as a
Britisher and take you to jail,” said
the commander of the troops.
“I am not an Englishman, but I
am an Irishman,” gruffly retorted
Banks, “and that flag above me is
an Irish flag. Lay one finger on
me and the entire Irish navy,
which has never been defeated, will
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