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and County of Early
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Blakely, Ga., May 9, 1940
Next Sunday is Mother’s
Day, and will be appropriate
ly observed in the churches
throughout the length and
breadth of this land. No spe
cial day in our yearly calendar
has a more beautiful or senti
mental significance than Moth
er’s Day.
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It seems to be generally
agreed that the “Garner-for-
President” boom has fully ex
ploded—and proved a dud.
The democratic nomination is
going to F. D. R. or some one
on whom he places the okay—
most likely Secretary of State
Cordell Hull.
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And now some one (or may
be it’s two or three) has again
started agitating the removal
of the capital from Atlanta to
Macon. We thought this agi
tation had long since died out.
Let the law-making headquar
ters remain in Atlanta. An ov
erwhelming majority of the
legislators are from the small
er cities and communities and
they should not be denied the
allurements of “the great
white way” when General As
sembly time rolls round. And
what has Macon to offer that
Atlanta hasn’t got?
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At the risk of being called |
blood-thirsty, or maybe just
down-right mean, we are go
ing to say that we are sorry
the Carnegie Institute, in offer
ing a reward of one million
dollars for the capture and de
livery, alive and unhurt, of
Adolf Hitler to the League of
Nations court, did not make
the offer to read, “dead or
alive, hurt or unhurt.” Not
that such an offer would prove
more likely to land the German
war-lord and murderer, but it
would at least have been a
little more impressive and
perhaps provoked more world
wide comment.
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Two have definitely an
nounced their candidacy for
the Georgia governorship—
Hugh Howell, who unsuccess
fully opposed Governor Rivers
in 1938, and Columbus Rob
erts, present Commissioner of
Agriculture. It is a foregone
conclusion that ex-Governori
Talmadge, twice defeated for
the United States Senate, will
again try for the governorship,
while James L. Gillis, chair
man of the state democratic
executive committee and for
mer member of the state high
way board, announced the past
week that he was seriously
considering running and would
make known his intentions
prior to the meeting of the
democratic national conven
tion. Mr. Gillis, a close friend
of Governor Rivers, would
have, if he makes the race, the
support of the present state
administration. Others promi
nently mentioned as possible
candidates are W. L. Miller,
chairman of the state highway
board, and Abit Nix, Athens
attorney and runner-up to Tal
madge in the 1932 governor
ship campaign. It may be a
“free-for-all,” so don’t be too
hasty in deciding upon whom
you will support.
Our readers will readily dis
cern that this issue of The
News is devoted largely to the
activities of the Blakely chap
ter of the Future Farmers of
America. The members of the
chapter have written the larg
er part of the F. F. A. news,
and worked up the congratu
latory advertising messages
which made possible their sec
tion of this paper. The Blake
ly chapter of the F. F. A., un
der the leadership of their
teacher and adviser, Mr. E. H.
Cheek, has done an excellent
work and is justifying this ad
dition to the curriculum of
Blakely Hi. The editor of The
News commends to its readers
for careful reading the F. F.
A. section of this paper. And I
if you feel like the boys have
done a good job, tell them so.
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Georgia continues to set the pace
for the balance of the country in
reducing highway traffic accidents.
While the nation as a whole report
ed an increase of seven per cent
in traffic faltaltjies for the first
three months of this year, as com
pared with that period last year,
Georgia came through with a re
duction of 16 per cent for the same
period, according to Safety Com
missioner Lon Sullivan. He re
ports 148 persons killed on Georgia
highways during the first quarter
of this year, compared with 175
in that period in 1939 and 191 in
the 1938 period. That is a reduc
tion of pretty close to 25 per cent
for the two years, and most of this
is due to the activities of the
Georgia highway patrol. Continued
co-operation with the patrol by Geor
gians will mean that there will be
a further reduction in accidents un
til the minimum has been reached.
There is no way of estimating, in dol
lars and cents, the value of the lives
saved, the injuries prevented, and
the property damage avoided in the
reduction of accidents, but it is safe
to say that it amounts to millions of
dollars.—Tifton Gazette.
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There’s no thrill in easy sailing,
when skies are clear and blue. There
is no joy merely doing that which
anyone can do. But there is some
satisfaction that is mighty sweet to
take, when you reach a destination
that you thought you couldn’t make.
• —clipped.
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Over 50,000 Georgia farms are be
ing served with electricity when only
a few short years ago such a thing
was considered a fantastic dream.
Since the advent of the REA over
$13,000,000 has been spent in the
state for construction of power lines
to serve these farms.—Dawson
News.
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QUESTION BOX
1. What is the national anthem of
(a) England, (b) The United States,
(c) France, (d) Germany?
2. What is the name given to
those ancient epic poems which form
the traditions of the Scandinavian
races?
3. During whose reign did William
Ewart Gladstone serve England as
Prime Minister?
4. What is the hardest natural
substance known?
5. What great city was once
known as Byzantium?
6. What are the first names of
the Dionne quintuplets?
7. For whom did who spread out
his cloak over a mud puddle?
8. In the World War what coun
try was served by the Foreign
Legion?
9. In what countries are the fol
lowing lakes located: (a) Lucerne,
(b) Lomond?
10. With what does the science of
acoustics deal?
ANSWERS
1. (a) God Save the King, (b)
The Star-Spangled Banner, (c) La
’ Marseillaise, (d) Deutchland Ueber
Alles.
2. Sagas or Eddas.
3. That of Queen Victoria (1819-
1901) from 1837 to 1901.
4. The diamond.
5. Instanbul or Constantinople.
6. Annette, Yvonne, Cecile, Enii-
I lie and Marie.
7. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-
1618), for Queen Eliazbeth (1533-
I 1603).
8. France.
9. (a) Switzerland, (b) Scotland.
10. Sound waves.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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TRANSPORTATION . . . wheels
Nothing is more interesting than
to study the different ways that dif
ferent peoples and races have de
vised to move people and merchan
[ dise from one place to another. It
would be interesting to know the
name of the inventor who first cut
a cross-section of a log, burned a
hole through it and put an axle in
to make the first wheel. He didn’t
live very long ago. Wherever the
American Indians came from, they
never had seen wheels until the
white men brought them four hun
dred and fifty years ago.
I like to wonder about the people
who first put masts and sails on boats
to make the wind do the work of
moving them and their goods. They
must have been very brave men.
Indeed, I think sailors are still very
brave men.
Bravest of all are the men who fly
in airplanes. This newest means of
transportation is still an infant.
Children already bom may live to
see airplanes as big as the great
ocean liners crossing the skies at a
speed of a thousand miles an hour.
Anything can happen.
POWERapplied
All modern forms of transporta
tion are merely demonstrations of
mechanical power applied to differ
ent kinds of machines. The result
is that people engaged in one
branch of transportation are likely
to be in all of them. The newest
transatlantic airline is owned by a
steamship company. Railroad com
panies are running bus lines.
The moving of goods and people
from whatever they are to wherever
they are wanted is, after all, one
big industry, the parts of which are
almost interchangeable. Every new
phase of this great transportation
web is either an outgrowth of, or in
some way tied in with earlier de
velopments in the same field.
The same names and families run
through the history and development
of all forms of transportation. For
150 years, for example, the Van
derbilt family has been engaged in
transportation and practically noth
ing else. I saw a report a few days
ago that one of the youngest mem
bers of that family had been made a
director of an international aviation
company. That, I reflected, would
have given the founder of the fam
ily something to marvel at.
VANDERBILT.mart
He was a pretty smart Dutch boy,
young Cornelius van der Bilt, who
worked the family farm on Staten
Island in New York harbor. He was
handy with tools and built a large
sailboat. He used to carry farm
produce up the Bay to the tip of
Manhattan Island for sale. He would
carry passengers, at a price, if any
one wanted to make the trip.
One day he saw a strange craft in
the Battery wharf in New York. It
was Robert Fulton’s new steamboat,
run by machinery instead of sails.
Young Vanderbilt decided to build
one like it. He was not allowed to
navigate his steamboat on the Hud
son River, where an exclusive fran
chise had been given, but he could
steam down the Bay, around, Staten
Island, up the Raritan River to
New Brunswick, and from there
transfer passengers and goods to the
Delaware River qt Trenton, where
another steamboat would take them
to Philadelphia.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and his wife
opened a hotel at New Brunswick,
raised eleven children, and laid the
foundation of the greatest fortune in
all America for the next 100 years.
And the Vanderbilts have hung on to
most of it ever since.
RAILROADS .... competitors
While Cornelius Vanderbilt was
building steamships and running
them all over the world, the railroad
was invented and he took one trip
on the first line connecting the Del
aware and Hudson Rivers, the Cam
den and Amboy, the original line of
the B & O. The train was wrecked
and he swore he never would ride
on the steamcars again.
But his son, William H., who had
stayed home on Staten Island, had
a different idea. The railroad want
ed to bridge its tracks from Perth
Amboy across the Island to the up
per harbor of New York. William
H. Vanderbilt surprised his old fa-
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profitable railroad running through
the old family farm.
The old man stuck to steamboats,
and ran his lines up the Hudson
from New York to Albany. Then
some smart promoters ran a railroad
up the river. That hurt the steam
boat business. Cornelius Vanderbilt
got mad enough to go into the rail
road business with his son. They
built another road up the Harlem
Valley to Chatham, with a branch
line over to Albany, and got a fran
chise for a bridge across the river.
That was the beginning of America’s
greatest railroad system.
WEALTHcriticised
I hear radicals and discontented
people criticizing everybody who has
ever made any money in developing
the resources of America. Such peo
| pie ask why the wealth so developed
should not be distributed equally
among everybody. The answer to
that, as I see it, is that when a man
like old Commodore Vanderbilt, gets
an idea, spends his money to see if
it will work, and if it works,
charges people what they are will
ing to pay for the services they get,
he is entitled to keep whatever prof
its he can accumulate.
It is through such adventures of
enterprising men with their own
money that America has grown up.
The tendency today is to discourage
the Vanderbilts and everyone else
who is willing to risk the loss of
capital in the hope of gain. The
United States would never have got
to first base if the Government had
stopped everyone from trying to
build and run steamboats, 130
years ago.
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You have heard some people say
“I never read advertisements.” Yet
the speaker’s body, his home and his
I table bear witness to the fact that
advertising influences most every
thing he wears, eats, or uses. The
great majority of people not only
read advertising with interest and
i regularity, but they respond to it in
profitable measure. Straigth-think
j ing business concerns don’t buy ad-
I vertising consistently—year in and
year out —for any other reason than
j that it is definitely profitable to
them.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
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The trouble about selling polit
ical jobs is that the jobs do not be
long to the sellers. All public offi
' ces are public trusts, in which facts
is the reminder that such offices be
long to the people. Selling or at
tempting to sell political appoint
ments has gotten a good many men
in trouble. It has wrecked powerful
J political machines, for sooner or later
(often very much later than should
be) the people rebel when they real
ize that offices belonging to them
are being sold by those who do not
own them.—Albany Herald.
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Police picked up a man with two
revolvers, a knife, brass knuckles and
dark glasses. Sounds like Hitler on
‘ his way to a peace conference. —
! Omaha World-Herald.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
May 6, 1915
MR. W. T. HAMMACK was here
from Bluffton Monday.
* * *
MR. J. G. SKINNER was among
those attending the opening base
ball game in Dothan yesterday. He
carried a party of friends over in
his Ford car.
* * *
DR. AND MRS. L. A. Rhyne and
Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Rhyne motored
down to Marianna, Fla., last Sunday
to spend the day with relatives.
* * *
MASTER U. Z. BRIDGES had the
misfortune to break his right arm
last Saturday afternoon while try
ing to crank off an automobile. His
many friends are glad to know that
he is getting along nicely.
* * *
REV. B. E. WHITTINGTON and
family and Mr. R. C. Singletary mo
tored up to Lumpkin Tuesday to at
tend the 76th birthday anniversary
of Mrs. Whittington’s father, Rev.
E. H. McGehee.
ADSFAEFDSF
17TH CENTURY MEDICINE
When the Great Black Plague rav
ished London approximately in the
year 1603, medicine was still in its
swaddling clothes. Doctors were
uninformed but pregnant with super
stitious beliefs, and the quacks made
sums of money that would, even at
this late day, be considered fabulous.
London, then a filthy, ill paved
city, without sanitation of any kind
and notorious for its germ-ladened
drinking water, very naturally suf
fered a heavy death rate from dis
eases of all kinds and relied upon
superstitious beliefs to prevent and
cure ailments. Naturally this was
a fertile field for the quacks and
they prospered.
In fact, there was not a large city
on the Continent of which the same
might not be said. Homes where
death and mystifying diseases had
entered were marked with a red
cross, painted on the door—the ori
gin of the medical symbol of today.
And above the cross was painted,
also, in red, “God Have Mercy Upon
Us,’’ so that pedestrians might hold
their handkerchief to their noses and
run past.
It is estimated that more than
15,000 quacks flourished in the Brit
ish capital then. They advertised
their cures through the medium of
the press and by handbills scattered
about the streets and stuffed beneath
doors. Windows, doors, shops and
houses were closed to prevent the
“poisoned miasma’’ from entering
and laying low the citizens. Fires
burned at street intersections to
clarify the air. The learned medical
men of London gravely shook their
DR. AND MRS. W. H. Alexander
left Tuesday night for Birmingham,
where they will visit for several
days.
♦ * *
MESSRS. J. S. Cowart and R. S.
Rice, of Arlington, were among
Tuesday’s visitors to the city.
* * *
MRS. C. C. TARVER left Monday
for Clayton, Ala., to spend several
days with friends and relatives.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. Britt W. Davis
and baby, of Valdosta, spent sever
al days in the city this week with
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jones.
* * *
THE County Board of Education
met in regular session Tuesday. We
noted Messrs. J. M. Johnson, S. K.
Bush, J. Y. Scarborough and Joseph
Freeman in attendance.
* * *
MR. J. S. MOSELY, of Cedar
Springs, was mingling with friends
here yesterday.
bewigged heads and said the “Black
Death was caused by a conjunction
of Saturn, Venus and Mars”—and
that medicine could do nothing for
those stricken.
Physicians of the day, in common
with the populace, had no knowledge
of insanity or its treatment and
the handling of these mentally sick
unfortunates beggars description.
The so-called insane asylums often
sent, for a gratuity, pateients to
weddings and feasts, in charge of
an attendant, who put them through
their erratic performances, using a
whip on them as though he were in
a cage of wild beasts, and thus cre
ated entertainment for the guests.
Sundays, many London citizens
spent part of the day at these hor
rible places watching the antics of
the inmates, much as we take our
children to the zoo at present. Hang
ings were common and public, and
usually took place on holidays so
that the crowds might gloat over the
victim’s struggles. When the culprit
was disemboweled, as was often the
case, crowds assembled days before
the execution, in order to gain fa
vorable locations to witness the re
volting tragedy.
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It’s pathetic how powerful are the
people, and yet how weak they are
in the hands of a few ring politicians.
One to a half dozen men can take a
whole state by the nape of the neck
and ring it as often and in any way
they please, and the dear people—
the all powerful masses—stand by
all blankeyed in wonderment, look
ing for the next act. Then boast
of “our” democratic way of doing
things.—Crisp County News.