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This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C.—The two phases
of greatest political interest in Wash
ington at this stage of the Presi
dential campaign might be called the
“Draft Roosevelt” movement and the
“Stop Dewey” moevment.
The politicians of both parties are
divided, in each case. The Draft
Roosevelt movement is focused en
tirely in Washington and is being
conducted by Administration offi
cials, most of whom stand to lose
their jobs if any Democrat except
Mr. Roosevelt, or any Republican at
all, becomes the tenant of the White
House next January.
It is led by the Secretary of the
Interior, Mr. Harold Ickes, who was
a Republican until President Roose
velt made him a member of his Cab
inet. This movement has been going
on for months, and shrewd observ
ers here think they see signs that
it is waning.
The best opinion, among Wash
ington soothsayers today is that Mr.
Farley and Mr. Garner have suc
ceeded in demonstrating to the
President’s satisfaction that it would
be ruinous to his Party for him to
run for a third term.
The same prophets are predicting
that Mr. Roosevelt’s influence will
be thrown to Secretary of State
Hull for the Presidency and At
torney-General Robert H. Jackson
for second place on the ticket. Such
a ticket would go far to avert a
serious split in the party, since both
Mr. Hull and Mr. Jackson are well
liked and respected by almost all
factions of Democrats.
Eligibility Increased
Mr. Hull’s eligibility is regarded
as having been increased by his vic
tory in Congress in obtaining a ma
jority vote in both houses for the
extension for three years of Execu
tive authority to continue to nego
tiate reciprocal trade agreements
with other nations without having
to submit them to the for
confirmation. It had a close squeeze
in the Senate, several Democratic
Senators from the agricultural states
voting against it.
The belief here is that the Repub
licans will make these trade agree
ments a major campaign issue in the
agricultural regions of the Missis
sippi Valley. The Farm Vote may
easily decide next Fall’s election,
and there is a strong element of
farmers who believe that Mr. Hull’s
trade agreement opened the door to
foreign competition with American
farm products.
District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, made himself
many friends in the agricultural
states of the Middle West by his
speeches on the farm situation, in
which he took exception to the Hull
policies. But Mr. Dewey did more
than that. He gave the leaders of
his Party the surprise of their lives
by his success in the primary elec
tions of delegates to the Republican
National Convention.
Everybody in Washington almost
was certain that Senator Vanden
berg would get at least two-thirds
of the Wisconsin voters. But Mr.
Dewey got the whole twenty-four
of them. This clean sweep was the
most convincing demonstration
Washington has had yet of young
Mr. Dewey’s popularity with the
voters of his own party. Added to
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his other primary victories, it has
given his party leaders something to
think about seriously.
Regarded As Outsider
In Washington where Senators
Vandenberg and Taft are familiar
figures the tendency has been to re
gard Mr. Dewey as an outsider who
might be good enough for second
place but whose youth—he is 38 —■
and alleged inexperience in the ad
ministration of public affairs ruled
him out as the nominee for the head
of the ticket.
But political leaders in Presiden
tial years are prone to take a realis
tic view of circumstances as they
are. The realistic view in this case
is that the Republicans, facing the
handicap of being opposed to a
party which has been in power for
eight years, must nominate the best
vote-getter they have, regardless of
other considerations. And so far as
tests of vote-getting power have
gone, Mr. Dewey has demonstrated
that he has more of it than either
of his two chief rivals.
So the Republican leaders are be
ginning to study Mr. Dewey’s other
qualifications much more seriously.
In international affairs he recently
talked like an isolationist, but he
still believes that Congress was
right in repealing the Arms Em
bargo. In agricultural matters he
has satisfied the Republican spokes
man of the Farm Group, Senator
McNary, that he is the friend of the
farmer and understands farm prob
lems.
Mr. Dewey’s friends are vigor
ously promoting the proposition
that when it comes to administra
tive experience, neither Mr. Taft
nor Mr. Vandenberg has any record
to compare with that of Mr. Dewey
in administering the office of Dis
trict Attorney in the nation’s largest
and most corrupt city and winning
his war against politically protected
crime.
Democrats Active
It is significant that some promi
nent Democrats, as well as Repub
lican backers of other candidates,
are taking a more or less active part
in the effort to “Stop Dewey.”
Whether he is regarded as the most
dangerous opponent, from the
Democratic point of view, is not
quite clear.
There are some who say that if
Mr. Roosevelt should decide, at the
last minute, to seek a third term,
Tom Dewey is the only Republican
with a strong enough personal ap
peal to have a chance against him.
But the conventions are still more
than two months away, and Senator
Taft is believed to have a very large
number of delegates already safety
pledged to himself.
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WAREHOUSE, Americus, Ga. 11-4 t
NOTICE, TAX PAYERS
The Commissioners have placed in
my hands for collection all past due
tax fi. fas. up to the year 1939. I
have been authorized to collect them
or levy will be made. Attend to
this at once and save extra costs.
W. D. SAMMONS.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
THIS WEEK
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By EARL “TIGE” PICKLE
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If you’ve heard this one, don’t
d stop us; we want to hear it again,
ourself:
A fellow who was known to his
many friends as just plain Old Ed
y got sick and, despite the excellent
e care he was getting, he passed on
e to the great beyond. Now Old Ed
a was a drinking man in his life time.
r It was most unusual when he didn’t
t get plastered five days out of each
j week.
So, Old Ed being like this, it was
e quite natural that his friends should
£ be like him. After the undertaker
r had dressed Old Ed, a dozen or
more of his friends asked that they
be allowed to stay at the side
r of the casket to be near their old
. buddy for this last night. During
’ the night one exceptionally bright
g fellow decided that it would be a
g shame if they didn’t drink a toast
to the memory of dear old Ed.
e One drink led to another, until final
ly they had consumed a gallon of
r the stuff which refreshes and mel
g lows your memory. Then this same
bright fellow decided that they
should all take one final and parting
look at their dear deceased brother.
They formed a line and weaved
1
across the room and instead of end
ing up by the casket side, the weav
j ing line stopped by the piano. They
all gathered around closer and
finally one of them raised the lid,
or what they thought was the lid,
and they looked down on the ivory
’ keys of the piano.
They all stood quietly in solemn
tribute. At last one of the old bud
dies broke the deathly silence with
a hiccough, and said: “Well, boys,
another good thing you can say
’ say about Old Ed, he had as fine a
t
, set of teeth as I ever saw.”
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t A fellow who has a yearning for
e the good old days has asked this
t question: What has become of the
old-time medicine show where the
f owner would have a couple of sing
e ers to come out on the platform,
> sing a few songs, and then attempt
1 to sell to the audience a bottle of
• Indian Tonic which was positively
• guaranteed to cure anything?
3 We don’t actually know, but we
f think the old medicine show man is
3 dead, and his son is carrying on no
s bly over the radio, especially on
those Del Rio, Texas, stations. If
what they are selling doesn’t cure
anything from ground-itch to hali
r tosis, your money will be “cheerful
-1 ly refunded.”
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t From the Editor’s Forum we scis
sored this bit of excellent poetic
philosophy:
I watched them tearing a building
down,
i A gang of men in a busy town,
, With a ho heave and a lusty yell
. They swung a beam and a side wall
1 fell.
1 I asked the foreman, are these men
> skilled,
And the men you’d hire, if you had
to build?
• He gave a laugh and said, “No, in-
deed,
Just common labor is all I need.
11 can easily wreck, in a week or two,
What builders have taken a year
to do.”
And I thought to myself as I went
my way,
I Which of the roles have I tried to
play?
I Am I a builder who works with care,
j Measuring life by the rule and
square?
lAm I shaping my deeds to a well-!
made plan,
Patiently doing the best Lean?
Or am I a wrecker who walks the '
town,
I Content with the labor of tearing
down?
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All kinds of people visit a news
. paper office. Last week a Negro
I came in to get a “program struck.”
A bit of questioning revealed that |
i he wanted to get some wedding an- I
| nouncements printed. A white man j
wanted to print a card of thanks.
He wanted to thank an Early county
superior court jury for not convict
ing him. The young man was
charged with embezzling barbecue j
on the hoof. Or just plain hog j
stealing, if you prefer- it that way. |
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While speaking of courts, may:
we remark that Early county and
the other counties of the Pataula cir
cuit have in the personage of Judge
C. W. Worrill one of the most dis
tinguished and best qualified presid
ing jurists in the state of Georgia.
PUBLIC SALE
GEORGIA, Early County:
Default having been made in the
payment of a debt secured by a deed
to secure the same executed by J. G.
Collins, payable to E. M. Collins,
dated March 30th, 1934, recorded in
Book 44, page 123-4, in the office
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county, and the said E. M. Col
lins being deceased, and the under
signed Pearle W. Collins being the
duly qualified executrix of his estate,
the undersigned will, for the purpose
of collecting the said debt, and acting
under the power of sale contained in
said deed, on the 20th day of April,
1940, between the legal hours of
sale, at the Court House in Blakely,
Ga., sell the lands described in said
security deed, at public outcry to the
highest bidder for cash, said lands
being described as follows:
All that portion of lot of land No.
Ninety Eight, commencing at the
south east corner of said lot and run
ning north along the eastern bound
ary of said lot to the Fort Gaines
& Damascus public road, thence
along said road to a point seventy
yards from the northern boundary
of said lot, thence west along the
northern boundary of said lot to a
point 440 yards east of the north
west corner of said lot, thence south
to the southern boundary of said lot.
thence east along the southern
boundary of said lot to point of be
ginning, containing 147 acres, more
or less.
Also three acres of land, more or
less, part of lot No. sixty three (63)
described as commencing on the ori
ginal line between land lots num
bers 98 and 63, at a point north of
Colomokee creek at a fence row
formerly erected on dry land, run
ning thence along the line between
said lots to the old road bed of the
Fort Gaines and Damascus road,
thence down said road bed to the
dividing line of high dry land and
flat wet land west of Colomokee
creek, thence down said dividing line
in a south-westerly direction along
an old fence row to point of begin
ning.
The said above described lands and
lots numbers 98 and 63 being in the
sth district of Early County, Geor
gia. The undersigned will execute
a deed to the purchaser at said sale
as authorized by the terms of the
deed aforesaid.
This April 11th, 1940.
PEARLE W. COLLINS,
as Executrix of Estate of
E. M. Collins, deceased.
A. H. GRAY, Attorney.
Read the ads in The News.
Judge Worrill is, one of the most
dynamic speakers this writer has
ever heard. He can say “court ad
journed until one o’clock,” or any
other simple statement like that and
impress and scare the daylights out
of us. But when he really makes a
speech, that is a treat for the ears.
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