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Early ffiaunty News
Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
Published Every Thursday
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Blakely, Georgia
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Blakely, Ga., May 2, 1940
The date having been set
for the state primary, we shall
soon know how many Geor
gians hear “the call of the peo
ple.”
o
Those who have not paid
their poll taxes and registered
have only until Saturday of
this week in which to do so if
they are to vote in the state
primary in September or the
national election in November.
o
Hugh Howell is the first
■candidate for governor to pay
his entry fee, qualifying with
the state democratic executive
committee last Thursday im
mediately after the date of the
state primary had been set.
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You know this kind of man,
referred to by The Dawson
News: “Some men spend twen
ty-five per cent of their time
telling how hard they work
and the other seventy-five per
cent telling the other fellow
how to do his job.”
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There is much elation over
the road work now in progress
in this county. This section of
southwest Georgia has
the “red-headed step-child” of
the state long enough, and it
is with much delight that the
citizens of this section who
have been paying their share
of the gasoline taxes learn
they are at last to get some
benefits from their tax money.
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The News next week is to
be devoted largely to the ac
tivities of the Blakely Chapter
of the Future Farmers of
America. The young men in
this class at the Blakely high
school have solicited and se
cured a large number of ad
vertisements from local busi
ness houses and are preparing
some interesting reading mat
ter for the readers of this pa
per.
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The state democratic execu
tive committee, meeting lastj
week, passed a resolution urg
ing President Roosevelt to
stand for renomination and re
election. The convention’s ac
tion is similar to that being
taken in other states, and it
is becoming increasingly evi
dent that unless the “stop”
sign is soon given, the Presi
dent will be renominated for
a third term.
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Whether we like it or not,
there will be no presidential
preference primary in Georgia,
the state democratic executive
committee having met in a
session last Thursday and)
named the delegates to the
national convention. Headed,
by Clark Howell, publisher of)
The Atlanta Constitution, the
delegation goes uninstructed,
although it is for the renomi
nation of President Roosevelt
if the chief executive is a
candidate.
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
A dependable brand of shoes en
joys a good reputation, but it is
hard for a man to keep a pair of
white shoes with a spotless reputa
tion.—Greensboro Journal-Herald.
An insurance policy, no matter
what it covers or how good it is, is
no substitute for careful driving on
the highways, although the policy will
soften the financial blow of a traf
fic accident. —Tifton Gazette.
Each year about this time we read
and hear a great deal about the
cherry blossoms in Washington. If
half the publicity was given to Geor
gia peach trees and Georgia dogwood
when they are in bloom, flower
lovers throughout America would
visit this section and really see na
ture’s beauty at her best.—Dawson
News.
Federal investigators are at> work
in Georgia checking on numerous)
reports and complaints filed with the |
Department of Justice. So many |
rumors have been going the rounds)
since the 1938 election that all
Georgians should welcome an im
partial investigation to establish or
disprove the various charges. It is
hoped that when the investigation
is completed the people will be in
formed as to the truthfulness of the
rumors, and that either a “clean bill
of heath” or indictments be given
individuals involved.—Dawson News.
The privilege of living in a demo
cratic country carries with it the
right to vote. In fact, voting and
democracy are one and the same
thing. If, however, we fail to exer
cise this right we are not fulfilling
our place in the democracy. We are
defeating our own ends. We loudly
proclaim the virtues of the demo
cratic form of government. If,
however, we fail to take our right
ful responsibilities to the democra
cy, we have no right to be citizens
of the democracy.—Bartow Herald.
Recently there has been through
the South the representative of a
newspaper of national circulation
who has been looking us over. He
comes to this refreshing conclusion:
Agriculture is being steadily, though
slowly, transformed from a one-crop
system to a variegated economy. One
state still gets as much as 90 per
cent of its cash crop income from
cotton, but the South, year by
year, is producing added quantities
of nuts, fruits, vegetables, meat,
dairy products, forage, poultry.
There is much more soil conserva
tion; the forests are being better
preserved and more trees are being
planted. The South is still the most
rural part of America, is steadily
becoming better balanced. In edu
cation, the South is making striking
progress.—Jackson Herald.
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QUESTION BOX
1. What well-known American
boxer has had his nose remodeled by
plastic surgery?
2. What is the derivation of the
word “alphabet”?
3. What river is known as “The
Father of Waters”?
4. Who is Mack Sennett?
5. The queen of what country paid
a visit to King Solomon?
6. To whom, for want of exact in
formation, is the authorship of the
Odyssey generally attributed?
7. Who was the Roman goddess of
Love and Beauty?
8. Give within one degree the aver
age normal temperature of the hu
man body.
9. What have the words (a) gauche
and (b) sinister in common?
10. From what document is the
following quoted “ ... to determine
whether that nation, or any nation, |
so conceived and so dedicated, can |
long endure”?
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ANSWERS
1. William Harrison (Jack) Demp
sey.
2. The names of the first two let
ters of the Green alphabet (alpha
and beta), corresponding to our a
and b.
3. The Mississippi.
4. A pioneer producer of moving
picture comedies.
5. The Queen of Sheba.
6. Homer (about- 850 B. C.).
7. Venus.
8. 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
9. Both mean left or left-handed,
(a) French, (b) Latin.
10. From Lincoln’s Gettysburg
Address.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Big
PROW
FEAR unfounded
Probably half the people who
[ listen to war news over the radio or
read it in the dailies are afraid that
; something is going to happen to the
: United States because of Europe’s
quarrel. The air and the headlines
are full of voices trying to scare
I Americans.
The latest scare is the fear that
j the United States is bound under
the Monroe Doctrine to fight Ger
| many, because Germany has taken
■ over Denmark and Denmark owns
! Greenland and Iceland. Those two
! regions are in the Western Hemi-
I sphere, and it is a fixed American
■ policy to keep foreign powers out
of this half of the globe.
That might be serious if it were
not funny. Our only obligation
under the Monroe Doctrine is to
keep any European nation from
getting control of any independent
nation on the American continent.
We are under- no pledge to fight if
Germany should take the Dutch
East Indies, the Guianas, Trinidad
or Jamaica. Those are not indepen
dent nations but colonies.
HEMISPHERE . . misconceived
A lot of radio broadcasters to
whom I have listened lately, as well
as newspaper editorial writers, need
to study geography. They talk
about the Western Hemisphere as
if it were our exclusive possession/
They do not stop to think that the
dividing line between the Eastern
Hemisphere and the Western Hemi
sphere is the zero meridian, which
runs north and south through
Greenwich, a suburb of London.
Everything west of the meridian
of Greenwich and between it and
the middle of the Pacific Ocean,
where the 180th meridian runs, is
in the Western Hemisphere. That
includes half of England, all of
Wales, part of Scotland, all of Ire
land and parts of France, Spain
and Africa. This country has no
exclusive guardianship over the
Western Hemisphere.
The doctrine land down by Presi
dent Monroe, which has become an
accepted basic policy of the United
States, was intended to keep Spain
from recapturing the Spanish col
onies which had declared their in
dependence and established them
selves as new nations. It has
worked very well to that end.
INTERVENTION . unnecessary
I meet a surprising number of
people who believe that this country
will be forced in some way to take
part in the present war. Some of
them are eager to have us get in.
They are afraid that Germany is
going to win and attack us next,
unless we lend our strength to the
Allies. I also meet many who be
lieve that we were drawn into the
last World War by some sort of
trickery or political maneuvering,
and fear that something will be put
over on us now.
I do not see any ground either
for American intervention or for
the fear that we will be forced to
intervene. We went into the last
war because the Germans were sink
ing our ships, blowing up our fac
tories and preparing to conquer
Mexico and invade the United
States from the South.
Until something like that happensi
again we haven’t the slightest ex
cuse for sacrificing a single Ameri
can life in this war. If Germany)
should win and attempt to occupy
Canada the situation would be dif
ferent. It is not nice for any nation
to have Germany for a next door
neighbor.
DEFENSE approved
It is the fashion these days to
sneer at people who think we ought
not to meddle with European affairs. I
You will hear many politicians call
ing other candidates for office “iso
lationists” during this presidential
campaign. Don’t let that worry you
unless you are one who thinks we
ought to sacrifice American lives
and dollars to fight other peoples’
battles.
It is true that no nation can suc
cessfully isolate itself from the rest
of the world unless it is prepared to
protect its people and its wealth
against foreign invaders. I don’ti
hear anybody objecting seriously to
spending money to strengthen our
navy, air force, coast fortifications I
But It’s True • _
L/eur. ALFRED P. HEUER, d. s. a.,
OFFICER IN CHARGE OF PRISONERS 8 vM (O’
W CUBA DURING THE SPANISH- .1 % 1/
AMERICAN WAR, LINED THEIR A \ ft,
STORIES OF HOME So MUCH THAT < V
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AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP ff
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FROM ITS HOME TOTHE PACIFIC \
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OFTEN DASH THEMSELVES
‘ V 'l' o D&Wi ON ROCKS WHEN
A 7HE/R OFFSPRING CRAVE THE
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The former American officer is now serving with the government army as a colonel. He has a wife who
was born in Spain, and they have five children. Some of his closest friends, he reported 10 years ago, were
men who had been in his charge as prisoners in Cuba.
The cat wore a collar on which its owner’s name was inscribed. People in almost every state along the
way reported feeding the pet, including Charles H. Hackett of Santa Clara, Calif. The cat was well when
it ended the round trip, knew its home.
and the army. A few old fogies
seem to think that 'preparations for
defense are preparations for attack
ing some other nation. I don’t think
any considerable proportion of
Americans have any such idea.
After all, nobody can drive or
lead the United States into war ex
cept the people themselves. No
President has the power ’to declare
war. Only Congress can do that.
Congress has a new factor to reckon
with since our last declaration of
war. That is the women’s vote. Do
you know any woman who wants us
to go to war?
COSTenormous
Not one American in thousands
has any idea what modern war
means. Less than a quarter- of our
World War Veterans saw any fight
ing. There was almost no fighting
by aircraft. Tanks and gas warfare
were very late developments. Weap
ons were far less efficient than they
are now. Armies depended on
horses instead of tractors. Even
though it is still young, the,present
war in Europe is far more terrible
than the last one was.
We got off cheaply in the last
war. We landed about 2,000,000
workers and fighting men in France
and lost fewer than one hundred
thousand. The other nations sacri
ficed more than 5,000,000 lives. We
spent about twelve billion dollars
for our own fighting forces. We
lent other nations about the same
amount. If they had paid us back
we would have come out of the
war almost with a profit.
We could never again fight a
great war so cheaply. We can better
afford to spend ten or twelve bil
lion dollars to encircle the whole
United States with such an invul
nerable ring of defenses, on land
and sea, that no nation will ever
dare to attack us. In this war-mak
ing era that is the only way the
United States can win the respect
of the belligerent nations.
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Georgia consumes aibout 6,500,-
000 pounds of margarine per year,
according to Dr. T. H. Whitehead,
professor of chemistry at the Uni
versity of Georgia, but compara-;
tively little of it is manufactured
in this state. Dr. Whitehead be-.
lieves Georgia should manufacture I
its own margarine. We produce
cottonseed oil, one of the principal
ingredients, and skim milk, of
which 25 pounds is needed for each
100 pounds of margarine. And, to
make matters worse, Georgia lev
ies a comparatively heavy tax on
margarine, making it harder for
the consumer to buy this product.
Our tax on margarine should be re
moved—and the same goes for the
tax on cigarettes, which is another
heavy levy on one of our own prod
ucts. —Tifton Gazette.
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The boy who used to walk over
frozen ground five miles to a log
school has a son who thumbs a ride
for the half mile from the steam
heated building he’s supposed to
walk—but who blames the little
imps?—Pelham Journal.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
April 29, 1915
MR. C. M. DEAL paid Albany a
business visit last Friday.
« * »
MRS. GRADY HOLMAN is visit
ing home folks in Hartford this week.
* * *
MISSES Helen Chipstead and
Myrtice Deal visited Columbia Satur
day.
* * *
MESSRS. L. J. and J. D. George ‘
spent Wednesday in Albany on busi
ness.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. Grady Smith
spent Monday in Albany with rela
tives.
* * *
MRS. J. B. TARVER is visiting in
Albany, a guest of her sister, Mrs.
R. M. Underwood.
* # *
MRS. E. B. HUDSPETH passed
away Sunday evening at a sanitarium
in Atlanta, where she had gone some
weeks ago to undergo an operation.
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MRS. H. G. SMITH left Tuesday
night for Atlanta, where she goes to
visit her- sons, who are students of
the school of Technology, and while
there will attend grand opera. ;
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THE HENRY STREET NURSE
One of the most valuable or
ganizations in New York City is the
Henry Street Visiting Nurse Serv
ice, for which every doctor in New
York has the highest esteem, for
it is devoted to giving free nursing
service to those unable to pay. Each
year more than 3,500,000 calls are
made by the faithful and intelligent
trained nurses, night or day, upon
those unable to pay for the services
rendered.
Today all public hospitals are
overcrowded and it is estimated
that 90 per cent of the sick in
Greater New York are cared for,
more or less indifferently at their
homes. Much of the work of aiding
the impoverished ill is done gladly
by the Visiting Nurses, who too
frequently from their small salaries,
and prompted by genuine sympathy :
at the dire distress of those upon
whom they call, after rendering
medical aid, also buy food, fuel and
clothes for various members of the :
family. I have known them to wash 1
all the children, clean the house, :
cook the meal and attend the moth- i
er, in bed with a newly arrived baby, i
It is against the rule of the Henry i
Street Visiting Nurse Service for 1
any of these ladies to tell their ex- ;
periences, outside of their own
group; so let me say that this story
MRS. LULA DEAN, of Shellman,
is in the city o.n a visit to her niece,
Mrs. J. C. Chancy.
* * *
MRS. WALTER THOMAS return
ed Wednesday night from Washing
ton, D. C., where she had been at
tending the National Conference of
the Daughters of the American Revo
lution.
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CAPT. W. W. DEWS celebrated
his 80th birthday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. W. W. Fleming,
yesterday.
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THE “home hopes” journeyed via
automobile over to Fort Gaines
yesterday evening to open the base
ball season, and it was some opening,
too, for the Blakely boys came back
home with the scalps of their Fort
Gaines friends. The final score was
Blakely 12, Fort Gaines 1. P. Alex
ander and F. Hobbs did the battery
work for Blakely, while Graham and
Mobley worked for Fort Gaines.
* * *
MR. L. E. BLACK is up from
Doerun this week, visiting friends
and relatives.
was told me by the doctor “on the
case” and I relate it to give my
readers an example of what these
devoted women go through so that
others may live.
A baby was expected on the fifth
floor of a “walk-up” tenement on
the East Side. A nurse had been
assigned to assist the doctor and
to take eare of the patient after
wards—that is until the mother was
up and about.
About three-thirty on a windy,
snowy morning in late January, the
doctor telephoned the nurse, re
questing her immediate presence
She promptly dressed. It was im
possible to get a cab, so she hurried
toward the elevated but at that time
of the morning trains are few and
far between. No cabs passed.
After waiting twenty minutes she
saw a baker’s wagon approaching
through the snow drifts. She hailed
the driver, told him who she was.
where she was going, and why,
showed him her nurse’s uniform and
kit-bag, and asked him to take her
as far as he went. He allowed her to
occupy the seat beside him, and
uncouth and gross, plied her with
questions, evidently not believing
her story, and finally made a vul
gar proposition to her.
Ultimately he reached the point
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