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Blakely, Ga„ April 25, 1940
“IT WON’T BE LONG NOW”
What’s funny to us, is why
Alvan Fleming, editor of the
Early County News, does not get
some news on the Blakely-Arling
ton road paving; it is being talked
by everyone except him, and we
have watched his paper carefully
Tor the past twelve months for
this news. Come on and publish
it, so we can copy it.—Calhoun
County Courier (Arlington).
Well, Editor Ham, we have
heen hoping to give the folks
some news regarding this
highway for more than twelve
months, but “rumors” and
“promises” were all that we
could get, and “rumors” and
‘“promises” don’t pave high
ways. We are glad to be able
to say now, however, that we
believe we have some definite
*‘news,” as you probably noted
in our issue of last week, and
It looks like “it won’t be long
now” before actual paving is
begun on this important high
way—a project that was defi
nitely promised us two years
sigo by the “higher-ups.”
o
We have troubles enough of
our own in Georgia without
having to shoulder those of
other states, says The Bruns
wick News, in noting that the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch refers
to South Carolina’s Senator
Cotton Ed Smith as being from
Georgia.
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May 4 is the final date for
payment of all past due poll
taxes and registration in order
to vote in the state primary
and the November general
election. This warning is
scarcely needed in this .county,
where the registration for the
March primary was the heav
iest in the county’s history,
and since no poll taxes have
fallen due since that date.
o
A country which desired to
remain at peace with all na
tions is now the scene of the
greatest military activity in
Europe. Norway, the little
Scandanivian country recently
invaded by the German forces,
is experiencing the horrors of
a war forced on her by a
a war-mad dictator. And she is
—aided by her English and
French allies—putting up the
strongest resistance of which
she capable to the Nazi
war machine.
o
Governor Rivers announced
Friday that he was bowing to
the mandate of the supreme
court and would recognize
W. L. Miller as chairman of
the state highway board. Now
that Miller has been reinstated
it was hoped that he would be
allowed to perform his duties
as chairman unmolested and
not harassed at every turn,
but such seems to be not the
case, for previous to Miller’s
return to office the board had
passed a resolution empower
ing the other two members of
the board to transact business
at any time without the pres
ence of the chairman and mak
ing Engineer W. R. Neel an
executive of the board. Poor
sportsmanship, is what the
public will label this latest
piece of chicanery on the part
of the Governor and his two
cohorts on the Board.
Liston Elkins, in the Way
cross Journal-Herald, says: “If
Confucius said half the things
he’s accused of having said, he
must have been an old bach
elor. No married man’s wife
ever would have let him do
that much talking.”
o
The frightful conditions of
all European nations, those at
I war and those who fear for
their safety, has awakened
Uncle Sam to the seeming ne
cessity of putting this nation’s
fighting machine in order.
And while about it, it isn’t a
bad idea to see that this ma
chine is made second to none.
We have no quarrel with any
nation, but we should be so
prepared as to let all nations
know that Uncle Sam will not
tolerate any infringement of
the rights of his people.
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THE PRESS
RAMBLER
lest we forget
(Atlanta Constitution)
Tomorrow, April 26, is Memorial
Day in Georgia. It is, nowadays, a
day of double significance. It me
morializes the sons of the state who
wore the gray in the War Between
the States and that later generation
who marched for a foreign shore, in
olive drab, in 1918. The day has
come to honor, too, those noble
women whose faithfulness to the
memory of a Cause has perpetuated
this annual day of memorial. Through
the devotion of the United Daugn
ters of the Confederacy, these an
nual Memorial Days have come to
mean even more than was originally
intended. For, today, they are a
tribute not only to the men who
fought and the men who died, but
they are a tribute to the tender faith
of the women who have kept green
the graves and secred the heritage
through three-quarters of a century.
We are pleased by the actions of
the ways and means committee of
the House of Representatives in de
termining the correct pronunciation
of the word “tomato”. This is one
of the outstanding issues in the daily
lives of all of us, and it is gratify
ing to have a congressional commit
tee pass on it. It was Republican
Representative Allen Treadway, of
Massachusetts, who raised the ques
tion by giving the pronunciation
“tomahto.” And that moved Mr.
Cannon, Florida Democrat, to in
quire if Mr. Treadway meant “to
mayto” whereupon Mr. Treadway
firmly insisted that he meant “tomah
to.” Then Mr. Cannon appealed to
his Democratic brethren of the com
mittee, and with one voice they
favored “tomayto.” So the Florida
congressman declared a majority for
the long “a” and told Mr. Treadway:
You mean “tomayto.” No one has
ever explained why a tomato should
be a “tomahto”, while a potato is
never a "potahto.” Probably it is
just one of the insidious influences
of Boston on New England habits of
speech.—Providence (R. I.) Bulletin.
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QUESTION BOX
1. What great Jewish leader was
found amongst the bulrushes of the
Nile by Pharaoh’s daughter?
2. What is said to be the longest
non-scientific word in the English
language?
3. What city in Spain is famous
for its leather?
4. What are Igorotes?
5. What are onomatopoetie words?
6. What was the sin and punish
ment of Lot’s wife?
7. Why are most canal boats still
drawn by mules rather than propell
ed by machinery?
8. What is a fjord?
9. How often is a U. S. national
census taken?
10. Who was the first Christian
emporor of Rome?
ANSWERS
1. Moses.
2. Anti-disestablishmentarianism.
3. Cordova.
4. Inhabitants of northern Luzon,
iin the Philippine Islands. Some of
J them are head-hunters.
5. Words whose sound, as pro-
I nounced, resembles the sound of the
thing signified.
6. She disobeyed God’s command
not to look back in her flight from
the burning Sodom, and was turned
into a pillar of salt.
7. The disturbance of the water
I caused by a propeller causes the
! banks gradually to fill in the bottom
I of the channel.
8. A long narrow arm of the sea
between high cliffs, as in Norway.
9. Every ten years.
10. Constantine I. the Great (272-
337).
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, RLAKELY, GEORGIA
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CRUSADEinspiring
I have heard of nothing in recent
years which has moved me so deep-
Ily as the news of the new “Chil
j dren’s Crusade.” If you haven’t
heard of it, you will, or your chil-
I dren will. Every child in every
■ school in America is to have a
chance to help the refugee children
in a war-torn world, and at the
same time to gain an appreciation
of the great privilege which he and
his brothers and sisters enjoy in
living in a free land of peace and
human liberty.
All over the United States the
school days from April 22nd to
April 30th will be Children’s Cru-!
sade week. There will be special
programs of such things as plays;
written for the children to act,
songs of patriotic inspiration, pag-:
eants and games, all centered upon |
the theme of the universal brother
hood of all the peoples of all the
world, and the insanity of war and
its consequences.
In every school room there will
be a “mite box” into which each
child will have the privilege of
dropping a contribution, from a
penny up, toward a fund to aid the
children of other lands.
ORlGlNchildren
Some children in a vacation Bible
school in Perkinsville, Vermont,
took up a collection among them
selves, of $5.69. They sent the
money to Mrs. Dorothy Canfield
Fisher, famous author and teacher.
They asked her to use the money in
some way to help the children. of
other countries. They were not rich
they said, but were lucky enough to
live in a country that takes care of
them.
Mrs. Fisher told other educators
about it. The idea took root and
grew. Prof. Charles A. Beard gave
it its name, the “Children’s Crusade
for Children.” My old friend, Wil
liam Allen White of the Emporia,
Kansas, Gazette, got enthusiastic
and volunteered to help. So did
Mrs. Roosevelt. So, too, for that
matter, have hundreds of men and
Women in the public eye as well as
almost every foremost educator,
writer and editor. The motion pic
ture folk and the radio broadcasters
volunteered to help. Others volun
teered to pay all promotion ex
penses.
Mrs. Fisher and Mr. White head
the quickly formed organization
which, as Mrs. Fisher puts it, will
prove “that our far-flung- democracy
is as capable in 1940 as ever of
making a noble gesture of the
humane idealism which is one of
our most living traditions.”
PENNIESmount
If every pupil in every school
gives only a penny there will be
more than $300,000 in the fund
raised by American children to help
the suffering children of China,
Germany, Spain, France, Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Poland and Fin
land.
The plan is to suggest to each
child a contribution of a penny for
each year of his or her age, which
might run the total up into the mil
lions of dollars. But children who
are too poor to give even a penny will
not be humiliated, for nobody will
know just how much any particular
child gives.
The makers of tin plate and of
tin cans have volunteered to pro
vide the “mite boxes,” so made that
nobody can see what anyone puts
in. The boxes will be sent, un
opened, to Mrs. Fisher’s bank in
Vermont and Mr. White’s bank in
Kansas, and nobody will ever know
just how much any one school gave.
That, it seems to me, is the way
funds for such purposes ought to
be collected. Children should not
be tempted to advertise their gener
osity. For that matter, neither
should the rest of us boast about it.
DISTRIBUTION^. . . . honest
Nobody needs to be concerned as
to whether every penny contributed
by the children of America to help
the children of the rest of the world
will be devoted to that purpose and
nothing lese.
Not a cent of the money will go
for expenses or salaries. A jury of
Award, headed by the President’s
wife and including five eminent
Americans, will apportion it all
among the responsible, well-organ-
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he has scored more baskets than any other competitor in the world.
ized relief organizations already
operating in the field. Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish organizations
will look to the needs of children of
their own faiths and the Quakers
will administer non-sectarian relief.
One of the worries of educators
and others has long been that
American children have so much
done for them that they are in
clined to neglect the duty of doing
something for others. I think this
modern Children’s Crusade will in
spire compassion for others less
fortunate, as well as wholesome
thankfulness for their own safety
by the youngsters who take part in
it.
HlSTOßYancient
When Prof., Beard named this
movement the “Children’s Crusade”
he took the name from one of the
most pathetic incidents in all his
tory. In the 12th and 13th centuries
Christian Europe was greatly con
cerned over the fact that the Holy
Land was in the hands of Moham
medan unbelievers, and six great
expeditions went in succession to
recapture Jerusalem from the in
fidels. They were the Crusaders.
Children caught the spirit. A
French shepherd boy named
phan led thousands of children to
the coast of the Mediterranean in
the year 1212 A.D. A German boy
named Nicholas mustered 20,000
youthful followers on the same mis
sion. None of the German children
ever returned from Italy.
Their memory lives in the tradi
tion of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Nobody knows what became of
them. Stephan’s army of French
children was kidnapped by slave
dealers and sold into Egypt.
This modern Children’s Crusade
for Children is in the same spirit of
devotion to a high ideal as were the
ventures of Nicholas and Stephan,
but without the tragedy.
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We’ve been reading the Bible, and
it seems to us that people have
changed but little, if any. In the be
ginning, lots of the folks didn’t work.
Some of them did a lot of fishing,
but didn’t catch much. Christ had to
help ’em. Others did money chang
ing and Christ condemned them. A
few tried to work and grow a little
stuff, but the great number who
were eternally carousing and stir
ring up strife, prevented them from
accomplishing much. Perhaps the
greatest difference lies in the fact
that a vast throng is now doing what
a few were doing then.—Crisp
I County News.
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“You Christian God-fearing men
and women wrote your names in let
ters of gold everlastingly upon my
heart,” writes Hugh Howell, in a re
cent bulletin, to his 1938 followers.
Ho hum. We wonder if Talmadge’s
ex-henchman No. 1 classes the
thousands of citizens who voted
against him as ungodly.—Cuthbert
Leader.
O
A scientist predicts that children
born in this decade will live to be
150 years old. They will certainly
have ample opportunity to enjoy
their old-age pensions.—Greensboro
Journal-Herald.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
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Clippings from the Early County News of
April 22, 1915
MR. R. M. PEARSALL, of Doug
las, is spending several days in the
city this week.
* * *
A BABY BOY arrived Sunday
night at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
S. W. Howell.
* * *
THE NEWS learns that the home
of Mr. O. H. Sheffield, in Cedar
Springs, was destroyed by fire Wed
nesday.
* * *
THE City Board of Education an
nounces that Prof. Paul R. Ander
son has been re-elected for another
year at an increased salary.
* * *
IT WAS announced by the U. D. C.
that the Rev. Lamar Sims, of Albany,
would deliver the Memorial Day ad
dress. The old Vets will be treated
to dinner by the U. D. C. Chapter.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
PROLONGING LIFE
Since time began, man’s greatest
struggle has been to prolong life,
relieve pain and fight disease. From
the abysmal ignorance of the tribal
priest or medicine man to the intel
ligent physician of today is unques
tionably the most remarkable story
that could be told.
Undoubtedly the most important
accomplishment in the ages that
have gone was the entire separation
of medicine from religion, from the
crass ignorance of the day. This
gave the early physician a chance
to work independently and without
fear of violence, and to develop his
theories, many of which paved the
way for the great medical discov
eries of the present time.
Early doctors knew nothing of
preventive medicine. Today it un
doubtedly contributes more to the
health and well being of communi
ties than anything else.
The physician has not always
been an intelligent man. Thirty
years ago, in India, I fell ill of den
gue fever and was obliged to consult
a native doctor who had graduated
from the University of Edin
borough. Called to attend a white
man he felt important; and to show
off, wrote a prescription that filled
an entire page of typewriting paper
—the only thing omitted being the
red and green water in the phar
macy window.
Such effusions were called “shot
gun” prescriptions—if they did not
cure they killed. Today the average
doctor rarely writes a prescription
containing more than four drugs.
More frequently they are for one
medicine only.. Dr. W. C. Wood,
AFTER a two weeks’ busy session,
court was adjourned Saturday by
Judge Worrill. The docket was not
cleared and a special session will be
held in July. Among the cases tried
was that of Frank Northfoot, well
known Blakely Negro, who was con
victed of the murder of his wife and
sentenced to be hanged on May 21.
* * *
THE Philathea Class of the Meth
odist church gave a surprise party
Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. W. M. Johnson in honor of
Mrs. R. C. Smith, who is visiting in
■ Blakely.
* * *
THE DEATH of Mr. Algernon
B. King, of the Union neighborhood,
occurred on March 26th, after a long
illness. Mr. Cain was one of the
leaders of his community and was
a substantial citizen.
Professor of Materia Medica at the
University of Pennsylvania, used to
say that he or any sane physician
could practice medicine with six
drugs.
Dr. H. W. Haggard has recently
found the record of the medicines
(?) used to treat King Charles IX
of England. The King had a stroke
while shaving. Court physicians
drew a pint of blood from his right
arm and a half pint from his left
shoulder. He was then given an
emetic, two physics and an enema
containing antimony, rock-salt,
marshmallow leaves, violets, beet
roots, camomile flowers, fennel seed,
linseed, cardamon seed, cinnamon,
saffron, cochineal and aloes.
His head was blistered. A sneez
ing powder of hellebore root fol
lowed. Powdered cow-slips came
next. A drink of barley, licorice,
sweet almonds, wine, oil of worm
wood, anis, thistle leaves, mint rose
petals and angelica was forced down
his throat. A plaster of pigeon dung
and pitch was applied to his feet.
Then there was njore bleed|ing|,
followed by a drink composed of
melon seeds, manna, slippery elm
bark, black cherry water, extract of
lily of the valley, peony, lavender,
pearls dissolved in vinegar, gentian
root, nutmeg and cloves. Fifty
drops of the extract of pulverized
skull was given the victim, and
finally a bezoar stone was tied about
his neck.
What else could the King do but
die after such manhandling? In the
great funeral cortege, the augst
physicians rode in state, saluted and
greeted by the populace. Today all
of them would be indicted for mur
der.