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Early ffinunty Nrtns Official Organ City of Blakely and County of Early Published Every Thursday OFFICE IN NEWS BUILDING Blakely, Georgia Entered at the Blakely Postoffice as Second-Class Matter W. W. FLEMING’S SONS, Publishers A. T. Fleming Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year sl-5° Six Months Three Months 50 Watch the date on your label and renew your subscription to the Ear ly County News before the time ex pires. Remember, our terms are cash in advance. Cards of thanks, resolutions or tributes of respect and obituary no tices, other than those which the paper itself may give as a matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 cents per line. Advertising rates reasonable and furnished on application. Member: National Editorial Association Georgia Press Association Foreign Advertising Representative: The American Press Association 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.” 0 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.” 0 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. • o 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. 0 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. 0 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. O 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. O 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 Id. IfOHORROVV] /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 ~]| But • IF S\ / Jfi fife Wk ifiBIBKKfISiBtB _ Vwr the baseball no hands A ?oWAR p ? 1 X_- S-~=£~l PSYCHOLOGISTS SAY ° THEK! THeI YOU F2E IF YOU A/?E FFM/D7O IA | ■ D/VE INTO WF7E/7, DISLIKE FAST , LWa?fiaL: c? J Yj ; AU7O DQH//N6 AND TUPN '/O(F? HFAD A PROFILE j AWAY WHEN AN ACCIDENT HAS HW SF OF A HORSE BELOHHAGTo HAPPENED... BUT/F ONLY TWO OF || THOSE THINGS 807//EP YOU-YOU OUTLINED ON AUJAU... ARE NOT A COWARD... WNU Service ------ ' 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. o “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. O 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. * * * 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. * * * THE giant British passenger mb| igl® 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. * * * ■ 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.