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By EARL “TIGE” PICKLE
Frequently this column is bom
barded with a request to “write up”
something or somebody. Never does
the person who desires that some one
be “wrote up”, as he or she says,
want their name used. We have
been invited to criticise our city gov
ernment, and county too, and at
times they could stand a little con
structive criticism, thank you. We
have also been requested to chunk
verbal rocks at preachers, teachers
and other leaders. In fact, we have
been invited to do about everything
imaginable in the way of passing
out insults to satisfy someone’s per
sonal grudge. But so far none of
these requesters have cloaked their
ideas with enough diplomacy for us
to fall for them. Evidently we must
be making some new readers for
this column every week, a fact which
pleases us no end, for we thought
that most of you knew our policy well
enough to know that this column is
not a clearing house for insults, gos
sip, small talk and other trivial mat
ters. (This also applies to jokes over
100 years old). What we are trying
to say is that if anybody has any dirt
they want hauled off, please don’t
bring it to us, because our wheel
barrow is broke “plumb” down.
We have seen the following defi
nitions credited to various columns
and individuals. But we think
Dorothy Thompson printed most of
them first; whether it was original
with her, we don’t know. It seems
when any one thinks up something
brilliant and they want to add weight
to their ideas, they give the credit
to Miss Thompson. Certainly this
must be the case because one so
erudite as she could say much bet
ter things than some w 6 have seen
credited to her. Here they are:
Socialism: You have two cows, you
give one to your neighbor.
Communism: You have two cows,
you give both to the government and
the government gives you some milk.
Fascism: You have two cows, you
keep them both and give the milk to
the government and the government
sells part of the milk back to you.
Nazism: You have two cows, the
government shoots you and takes the
cows.
New Deal: You have two cows, the
government shoots one, milks the
other and pours the milk down the
sink.
Capitalist Democracy: You have
two cows, you sell one and buy a
bull.
And Americanism, we might add
is the right to own as many cows as
you like, do what you want to with
them, then sit down and write some
stuff like the above and still not get
chunked in the clinker.
Always Glad to be Enlightened
Mr. Butch Hammack Says in re
gard to our reference here last week
to baby trousers being tri-cornered:
“I thought you and everybody else
knew better than that. I thought you
knew that this old fashion way went
out with the bathtub gin, Herbert
Hoover and rumble seat Fords. Any
body who thinks otherwise doesn’t
know much or is just plain dumb”. We
don’t know much and were dumb,
too, Mr. Hammack, and considering
how everything else has changed in
the past few years, we wouldn’t be
at all surprised if you don’t know
what you are talking about. Things
can and do change fast and if some
one were to tell us that the moon and
sun had swapped nights out, we would
not even so much as arch an eyebrow.
The month of June brings wedding
bells and graduations and the fellow
who said there was nothing quite so
rare as a day in June, was either hap
pily married or never had to listen
to a baccalaureate speaker.
ODDS AND ENDS: “An old-time
fiddlers convention and all the trim
mings that go with it is being held at
Damascus high school Friday night. . .
The F.F.A. quartette, comprised of
Herman Collier, Mack Jarrett, Wilson
Fryer and William Mosely can really
sing and if you haven’t heard them,
then you’ve missed something. . .Rev.
J. S. Hartsfield, one of our favorite
people, has a perpetual smile that is
as infectious as measles in the first
grade. . . Max Middleton has our vote
for the best supply of funny jokes.. .
This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C.—With the first
of the presidential nominating con
ventions barely a month away, hardly
anybody in Washington even pretends
to give any thought to anything but
the possible nominees. As to them,
one can hear the opinions of politi
cians in the National Capital, but it
is not so easy to hear the opinions
of the voters.
If the conventions run true to
form, they will be controlled by
the politicians. If the politicians
control the Democratic National
Convention, the belief is growing
here that the nominee will not be
President Roosevelt, but is much
more likely to be the Secretary of
State, Cordell Hull.
Mr. Hull’s strength derives from
confidence in his grasp of interna
tional affairs and in his management
of American foreign policy in this
critical time. His personal integrity
has never been challenged. He is
far from being a radical, is hardly
even a mild New Dealer. He has a
rugged, home-spun background of
Americanism. He is probably the
only available American who was
actually born in a log cabin, which
is in accord with the best of the
old American traditions. Vice-Presi
dent Garner was also born in a log
cabin, but it is generally conceded
that he is now entirely out of the
running.
Depends on Republicans
The choice of the Democratic
Convention will depend, of course,
to some .extent upon whom the Re
publicans nominate a month earlier.
There seems to be good ground for
the belief that Mr. Roosevelt will
decline a third-term nomination,
even though it might be tendered to
him by acclamation, without a bal
lot.
That is the strategy which the
third-term advocates are following
now, on the theory that no man
could possibly refuse a nomination
tendered so unanimously. But the
fact is, according to those who think
they know what is going on in the
Presidential mind, that Mr. Roose
velt is tired, as every President has
been at the end of a second term,
and that he does not feel equal to
shouldering the responsibility of
leading the nation through a war
period which may go on for several
years with increasing threats to the
security of the United States.
On the Republican side two facts
stand out clearly. One is that
Thomas E. Dewey continues to gain
popular support and pledges of dele
gates; the other that the politicians
of his party are moving heaven and
earth to prevent his nomination. His
latest acquisitions, the delegations
of Maryland and Idaho, put him
away in the lead in the number of
votes he will get on the first ballot.
There will be 1,000 votes, and he
would have to have 501 to be the
candidate. Nobody has been able to
count a clear majority for him on
the first ballot, but as things stand
now he will have more than any
other one of the leading candidates,
and his friends are working the old
“band-wagon racket” to try to put
him across on the first roll-call.
States Vote Alphabetically
In a national convention the votes
of each state delegation are taken
in alphabetical order, Alabama first
Blakely’s annual flower show is a fine
attraction and is deserving of more
support than it is getting ... If you
don’t boost your own town, its praises
will go unsung. . .Don’t you think our
old pal, Bonnie Knight, who throws
together those chocolate sodas, over
at the corner drug store, has been
looking like the cat which consficated
the canary. We’ll tell you more
about it later. . .Nothing helps the
appearance of a town like a fresh
coat of paint and our congratulations
go to those fellows who have been
brightening up their stores.
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and Wyoming last. Just how early
in the alphabet there will be a solid
state delegation vote east for Mr.
Dewey nobody can tell as yet. The i
indications are that Senator Taft is
more likely to get the votes of Ala
bama, Arkansas, and some of the,
other early alphabet states. The big
delegations come farther down on the
list.
But if a sufficient hurrah is made'
over the first Dewey votes, and
there has been enough build-up for ■
him to convince the delegates far
ther down the line that he is going
to be the nominee, there may start
a scramble to climb on the band
wagon, such as has succeeded in the
past in nominating a candidate
whom the politicians didn’t want
but the voters did.
The main objection of the poli
ticians to Mr. Dewey is that they
are doubtful whether he will play
ball with them. He has not shown
any of the symptoms of being a
machine politician. The politicians
would greatly prefer the nomina
tion of Senator Taft. They are sure
that his political education has been
along strictly party lines and they
are afraid that young Mr. Dewey
has too many “progressive” ideas
which do not conform to traditional
Republicanism, though nobody has
been able to quote him on anything
which does no t follow orthodox
lines.
Young Men Key-note
Young Mr. Harold Stassen, Gov
ernor of Minnesota, who has been
picked to make the key-note speech
at the Rpublican convention, is ex
pected to outline a Republican pro
gram which tallies closely with what
are supposed to be Mr. Dewey’s
ideas. The key-note will be that it
is time for the young men to take I
charge of the nation.
Among the suggestions which Mr.'
Stassen has under consideration
are that the Democrats, under
the influence of Mr. Roosevelt, are
much more likely to get this coun
try into the war than are the Re
publicans.
The key-note speech will sound
off on dictatorship and the theory
that the Roosevelt administration
has been leading the nation to a
strong centralized government. It
will, of course, put forward the con
tention that the Republicans will
make more jobs by setting business
free from hampering fears and re
strictions by the government.
One of the places where the Re
publican program, so far as it has
been shaped at all, expects to come
in for criticism is that it is not
planned to denounce everything the ■
New Deal has attempted, but rather [
the methods adopted. But a very
strong play will be made on the
promise to uncover and stamp out
political corruption and send a lot of
political crooks to jail.
FOR SALE Several hundred
bushels of shelled and ear corn. W.
H. ROBERTS, Donalsonville, Ga.
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system is pictured above. The view at the left shows one of the two station wagons, seen through the windshield of the other, as they main
tain the required distance apart in their work of placing accurately all obstacles to the vision of motorists. The horizontal bar across the
picture aids the survey party in gauging the distance between the two cars, by a process known as “stadia” reading. The view at the top right
shows the two automobiles, the rear car at the left and the lead car at the right, with signal lights and other equipment. Bottom right is th«
instrument panel of the rear car. By reading these instruments, the engineers are able to make a complete field record of their observations.
Gladstone and (J. S.
In “Kin Beyond the Sea,” North
American Review, September, 1878,
Gladstone is quoted as saying: “As
the British Constitution is the most
subtle organism which has proceed
ed from the womb in the long gesta
tion of progressive history, so the
American Constitution is, so far as
I can see, the most wonderful work
ever struck off at a given time by
the brain and purpose of man.”
Peace Sunday
President Wilson designated Sun
day, October 4, 1914, as a day of
prayer and supplication for peace
among men and nations.
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South Main St. Blakely, Ga.
Largest Natural Bridge
The largest natural bridge in the
world is the Rainbow arch in Utah,
which spans Bridge canyon on the
north slope of Navajo mountain.
The arch rises 309 feet from the bed
of the stream below. The abut
ments are 278 feet apart and its
width on top is from 33 to 42 feet.
It could easily span the dome of the
Capitol at Washington, D. C.
Ice Cream From Orient
To Marco Polo goes credit for
giving western civilization ice
cream. He brought the first recipe
from the Orient some six centuries
ago.
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Smallest Electric Motor
The smallest electric motor is said
to have only 13-billionths of one
horsepower. It was constructed in
Washington state, and was displayed
in the house of representatives by
Congressman Hill. It is 0.058 inch
long, 0.058 inch high and 0.062 inch
wide.