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Early ffinunty Nrtns
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and County of Early
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Blakely, Ga., May 16, 1940
Mother had her day last
Sunday. Dad’s will come in
June.
o
Should we not reverently
thank God for our privilege of
American citizenship?
o
The spread of the European
war has served to further stress
the importance of an imme
diate strengthening of our
fighting machine.
o
The News now has the larg
est circulation it has enjoyed in
several years. It is, therefore,
a better medium for advertis
ing than it has ever been.
The-Dawson News is of the
opinion that “if more women
excelled in the art of cooking
than in the dealing of a bridge
hand, there would be a better
balance, financial and other
wise, in the homes of our na
tion.”
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Government agents are re
ported investigating affairs in
this state wherein federal
funds have had any part. It
is hoped that everything will
be found in order and that ru
mors about irregularities which
have been rife for some time
will be proven groundless.
o
Commenting on the acquit
tal of Congressman Whelehel,
charged with selling rural car
rier and postoffice appoint
ments, The Cuthbert Leader
says: “Disagreeing with the
Whelehel jury, The Leader
thinks it was indeed unusual
for any man to be so grateful
for a postal appointment that
he would borrow $l,lOO to give
to his congressman as a pres
ent! Such a reason looks en
tirely too thin for a bank roll
that thick.”
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Germany’s threat of a blitz
krieg or lightning war was put
into effect last Friday with the
ruthless invasion of the three ,
small neutral countries, Hol
land. Belgium and Luxem-j
bourg. With lightning speed,
the Germans have taken overj
the greater part of Holland,:
have penetrated deep into Bel
gian territory, and occupied
several small towns in France.
It is the consensus that Dic
tator Adolf Hitler has gambled
Germany’s chances of victory
on this gigantic, well-planned
thrust in the west. And the
Allied forces have thrown ev
ery resource at their command
to aid the invaded countries.
The result of this deadly strug
gle will probably decide the
fate of the countries participat
ing, for both sides seem to
be aware of the grim fact that
it is now a fight to the death.
Viewing the standing of the
baseball teams in the Ameri
can League, we find the New
York Yankees occupying the
cellar. Which is the position
we have for some time longed
to see them occupy. But the
potent power of the Yankee
batters is expected to put them
on an upward climb before
many weeks have elapsed.
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National WPA Week will
be observed here in a big way
next Monday, when Works
Progress Administration work
ers, sponsors, supervisors and
other officials from five coun
ties gather for a barbe
cue and public speaking. Open
house will be held in all the
professional and service proj
ects of these five counties to
acquaint the public with their
phase of the WPA work.
o
Some people seem to go upon the
theory that anything or any way is
all right in this world if you get the
money. That kind of stuff will do
to live by, if you don’t get eaught,
but you will. As sure as water runs
down hill, ill gotten gains will event
ually run downward and get away. It
is seldom that one can gain it and
hold it through a life time. A few
manage to do it, but even so, the gen
eration which follows soon loses out
and goes upon the rocks, and upon
the rocks they tumble and bump all
their days. Somewhere around about
you, there is an example.—Crisp
County News.
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Cordell Hull says he is not a can
didate for President and that he is
not interested in securing delegates
to the national convention. The
astute Secretary of State is allowing
some of his friends to circulate some
publicity that shows him up as a great
statesman and a man who is fit to
fill the office of President. He may
not be talking aloud about any plans
for getting in the White House, but
he is probably doing a lot of think
ing. It is not bad politics to appear to
be busy with your present job and
indifferent towards promotion, and
Cordell Hull is not a bad politician. —
Moultrie Observer.
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The North Georgia Citizen makes a
strong plea for retaining the poll
tax in this state. It argues that if
our people prefer to make the pay
ment of poll tax a requisite for the
privilege of voting other states have
no business insisting that the law
should be abolished because they do
not impose such a tax. If the poll
tax should be abolished it would let
down the bars to an element of citi
zens that have no appreciation of such
privileges, just as prevailed three
quarters of a century ago.—Sanders
ville Progress.
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Hardly, if ever, a day passes but
some lurid story features front pages
of the daily papers. Instead of be
ing a regrettable occurence, incidents
which are harrowing and disgraceful
are spot-lighted to the extent that
young men and women who read them
are thrilled by the excitement so
fascinatingly portrayed. Dawson
News.
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OUR QUESTION BOX
1. What famous composer, a con
temporary of Napoleon, became
deaf?
2. Where do Hottentots live?
3. What is the latitude and longi
tude of the North Pole?
4. What Scotch engineer gave his
name to a type of road?
5. Who is Tetrazzini?
6. What and where is the Bois de
Boulogne?
7. Where is the Tyrol?
8. Give within ten years the date
of the composition of the Star-Span
gled Banner.
9. How did Joshua, Moses’s suc
cessor, break down the walls of
Jericho?
10. In what game is a “pawn”
used?
THE ANSWERS
1. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-
1829).
2. In southern Africa.
3. Latitude. 90 degrees north; all
degrees of longitude pass through it.
4. John Loudon Macadam (1756-
1836).
5. Luisa Tetrazzini (1874 ) is
a coloratura soprano.
6. A famous park just outside of
Paris.
7. In western Austria and north
ern Italy.
8. It was composed September 13,
1814, by Francis Scott Key.
9. After an army had marched
around the city for seven days, the
high priests blew upon trumpets,
the people shouted, and the walls
crumbled.
10. Chess.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
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/IFRANK PARKER
L __SIDCKBRIDtt I
STANDARDS different
One of the greatest obstacles
to mutual understanding between
peoples and nations is the failure of
mankind to agree upon uniform
standards of weight, measures,
values and qualities. I have long
thought that a great deal of, the
world’s troubles arise because differ
ent nations have different measures
for the same things.
It takes a long time for people to
get used to new standards. A hun
dred years ago or so an international
commission set up a world-wide sys
tem of weights and measures, the
metric system. Every country in the
world has authorized the use of
metric weights and measures, but
only a few nations really use them.
In Continental Europe everything is
measured by meters and fractions or
multiples of meters.
But English speaking peoples still
measure by inches, feet, yards and
rods. Russia has its own system of
weights and measures which differs
from those of any other country.
And the nations of the Far East
have still different ways of describ
ing the length, weight, thickness or
value of things in common use.
MONEY reckonings
The United States started off
with a decimal system of money. It*
was based on the Spanish silver dol
lar, which was almost a world stan
dard at that time. But money was
still reckoned in the Colonies in
terms of the English system of
pounds, shillings and pence, and it
took a long time for people to get
used to the new money standards.
As recently as my own boyhood
I used to hear store-keepers in coun
try towns quoting prices in shillings.
In New England there were six
shillings to a dollar. The York
shilling, used west of the Hudson
River, was twelve and one-half
cents, or eight to a dollar. I can
remember the trouble my mother
had in remembering the differences.
She came from western New York,
where six shillings meant seventy
five cents, and never got used to
having six shillings mean a dollar.
When we moved South we ran
into another standard of money
value. That was the “levy,” which
was the same as the York shilling,
or 12 1-2 cents. The same value, I
later found, was called a “bit” far
ther South and West. And in Vir
ginia, in the 1880’s, when anyone
spoke of a shilling he meant the
equivalent of an English shilling, or
twenty-five cents.
CONFUSION . . . international
If one man in his life-time has
seen such confusion in the coinage
system of his own country, what a
mess the monetary systems of fifty
or sixty countries must be. The
same is true of their other measures.
We measure oil by the barrel. Other
countries measure it by the ton. A
ton may mean two thousand pounds,
or two thousand two hundred and
forty pounds, or a metric ton, which
is about twenty-two hundred pounds.
A barrel of oil in this country
contains fifty gallons. A barrel of
beer is thirty-two gallons. A gallon
in the United States is a trifle small
er than a gallon in England.
There is enough difference be
tween the length of an inch in
America and in England to amount
to several feet in a mile. So, though
we talk the same language, we do
not mean the same thing, even when
we speak about such common things
as inches and barrels and tons.
LANGUAGE meanings
It may come about in the course
of a few thousand years that all the
people of all the world will speak
and read and write the same lan
guage. There are something like
fifteen hundred different languages
and dialects now in use. No won
der the people of the world do not
understand each other.
Even people who use the same
language have difficulty enough in
making their meanings clear to
others. There is only one language
which I know of in which every
word has a precise meaning and
cannot be used to mean anything
else. That is French.
For two hundred years the French
Academy has maintained a bureau
to define every word in the language
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Ferdinand Howell, pitcher for the Eastman company team in Rochester in 1923, had lost his hands in an
accident when he was a little boy. He had mechanical substitutes made, and with one of them successfully
pitched and caught baseballs.
The two soldiers were killed within sight of San Juan hill. Their parents were residents of New York
city. When the war broke out Boro elected to return to Spain and fight for his parents’ fatherland. Juan
stayed in the United States, enlisted.
The horse was kept in the same stall, in the same position, for so long that sunlight formed the outline
on the wall.
and establish the precise word for
every new thing which calls for a
new word. The result is that every
intelligent Frenchman knows exact
ly what any other Frenchman is
talking or writing about.
That is more than can be said for
our own hodge-podge language that
we call English, but which is really
a mixture of almost all the lan
guages ever spoken by human be
ings. I am never sure just what
the other fellow is talking about
until he has g-iven me a few defini
tions.
COINS fewer
I have never been able to figure
out why our Government has never
coined a two and one-half cent
piece. It would be extremely handy
for many purposes. It probably
would become the standard price
for newspapers. Things that are
sold at two for a quarter would
not have to be bought in pairs.
When I was a boy the half-cent
bronze coins*were not uncommon.
We had two kinds of three cent
pieces, one of silver and the other
of nickel. Two cent pieces were
common, made of copper, about the
size of a quarter. We had tiny little
silver five cent pieces and larger
ones made of nickel but about the
size of the dime of today. There
was a silver twenty-cent piece in
general use fifty years ago, not quite
as large as a quarter.
Gold coins have been entirely
withdrawn from circulation, but
their use had been diminishing for
many years before they were offi
cially called in by the Government.
The gold dollar which I used to see
was smaller and thinner than a
dime. Then there was the $2 1-2
gold piece, the half-eagle er five
dollar piece, the ten dollar eagle and
the twenty dollar double-eagle, about
the size of a silver dollar. Some
times I used to see fifty dollar gold
pieces which had been coined by
private mints in California.
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“I Am an American Day”—May
19th—has been proclaimed by Presi
dent Roosevelt, for those who have
attained their majority or become
naturalized citizens during the past
year. One does not necessarily have
to be either to be an American. Dur
ing the last war, many a youth in his
teens and many a foreign-born soldier
died in France, and they were Ameri
cans of first rank. It requires more
than a day on the calendar or the
taking of an oath of allegiance to be
real American. An American is of
the heart and of the mind. Those
who have just become of age and
those who have been naturalized are
welcomed as American citizens. We
hope they never are called upon to
prove their love of this country by
bearing arms, but they can prove in
many other ways they are real Ameri
cans.—Tifton Gazette.
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Spring is that period of the year
when the lady of the house rear
ranges the furniture about once each
week.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
May 13, 1915
MISS PEARL JAMES is repre
sentive for the Blakely Woman’s Club
at the Second District Convention of
Club Women held in Tifton this week.
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ATLANTA,' GA. —Leo M. Frank
Monday was resentenced to be hang
ed to death on June 22nd for the
murder of Mary Phagan, an Atlanta
factory girl. Sentence was pro
nounced by Judge Hill, of the su
perior court here.
* * *
THE CITY COURT of Blakely
convenes in quarterly session next
Monday. The following list of jurors
have been summoned: H. C. Jones, G.
L. Dykes, D. H. Davis, T. R. Mash
burn, R. L. Webb, G. S. Walker, L.
Tolar, P. P. Beasley, J. L. Bunch,
D. R. Deal, A. A. Downs, J. S. Davis,
W. C. Bryan, W. C. Hunt, J. N.
Widner, H. D. Johnson, M. A. Wood
ward, C. L. Webb, L. W. Jenkins, T.
L. Willis, O. H. Wade, E. B. Hamil
ton, P. N. J. Dozier, W. J. Hayes,
Sr., J. C. Weaver, J. J. King, J. J.
Anglin, Theo White, Joe Allen, T.
K. Weaver, C. H. Hammond and J. J.
Wiley.
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IGNORANCE
•
Ignorance has three children—
pride, vanity and ignorance, and her
stepchildren are admiration and
impudence. Ignorance and supersti
tion bear an almost mathematical re
lationship to each other, and ignor
ant people live in the domain of ab
surdity. Some are born ignorant,
while with otßers it is a voluntary
misfortune.
If a man wishes to build a home
he consults an architect. If he is in
difficulties he takes the advice of a
lawyer. If his soul is troubled, he
seeks consolation from the minister.
But nine out of ten sick people, in
stead of going to a doctor, take the
advice of some ■well-meaning but in
competent friend, or, following their
own inclination, make a diagnosis of
their ailment and treat it with med
icines of which they have not the
least idea as to how they may act.
This week I had a man call upon
me, suffering from angina pectoris,
a disease of the heart—and one that
experienced medical men fear. It is
always serious and attacks may re
sult in death. I asked the patient
how long he had been suffering from
this condition and he nonchalantly
said: “About three years and it’s get-
steamship, Lusitania, was sunk 10
miles off Old Head, Kinsale, Ireland,
last Friday afternoon about 2 o’clock
by two well-directed torpedoes from
a German submarine. Os something
; over 2,000 people aboard, only 700
were saved. There were something
like 200 Americans aboard, about
125 of whom were saved. Among
them were Alfred Vanderbilt, multi
millionaire, Charles Frohman, Elbert
Hubbard and many other noted
Americans.
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■ ABOUT 10 or 11 o’clock Tuesday
. night a vacant tenant house on Cuth
bert street, belonging to Friendly
. Terrell was burned by an incendiary,
a few minutes later a vacant
tenant house belonging to Mr.
John L. Underwood on his - farm
a short distance further on the Cuth
bert road was also fired, and while
these two were yet burning, the
C. M. E. Church in Rosstown was
seen to blaze up. There have been
several other suspicious fires in
Blakely during the past 12 months
and a good stiff reward for the fire
bugs by the city council and the
county commissioners might bring
■ something to pass.
ting worse all the time; and the at
tacks come more' frequently and last
longer. The last one caused me so
much pain I decided to call on you.”
I immediately suspected that the
sufferer had been treating himself
and asked him what treatment he
had been taking; to which he answer
ed, that different friends had recom
mended various remedies which he
purchased from his druggist.
“Were they doctors?” I queried.
“Oh, no!” answered my patient,
“but I think I did get some benefit
from a preparation made from the
venom of the black widow spider.”
Within the past year I have nad
three women who had gained flesh
treat themselves with a preparation
containing a dangerous drug—a drug
which even experienced physicians
are fearful of using—and nearly
lost them due to the toxic effects of
this poison.
If sick people could only be made
to believe that the thing to do is see
a doctor when they feel ill, many
lives would be prolonged and much
suffering eliminated. The same drug
frequently does not act in the same
manner on different people. Let your
physician be the one to prescribe for
you. And above all things, have faith
in him.