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Early ffinunty Nhiw
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 30, 1940
Progress nearly always ne
cessitates some inconveniences.
This is true in the paving of
city streets and highways, so
take the inconveniences in the
proper spirit and look forward
to the pleasure which the com
pleted projects will bring at a
later date.
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The European war situation
has dimmed considerably inter
est in state politics. Georgians
are at the present time far
more interested in the fate of
the Alllied armies and a pro
gram of preparedness for this
country than they are in who
is to be the state’s next gover
nor.
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The 1939-’4O term of the
Blakely schools will come to a
close Friday night, when the
Senior Class graduation pro
gram is presented. It’s a fine
bunch of young folks who are
to receive their diplomas on
this occasion, and one of the
largest groups ever to be grad
uated from Blakely Hi.
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How did this country over
look General Hugh S. Johnson
when selecting their chief ex
ecutive? He seems to know
the answers to all national
problems, and with some news
paper editors we know as his
chief advisers, running this
old U. S. A. would be just
child’s play for the general.
o
Another landmark in Blake
ly is passing with the razing
this week of the old Early
county jail building on the
northeast corner of the square.
Erected nearly a half century!
ago, the building is being dis-1
mantled to make way for a
new office building on that
lot. The new county jail
building on River street is
nearing completion.
o
The unexpected power of
the German war machine has
driven home to the people of
these United States the neces
sity for an adequate national
defense, and there seems to be
little disposition on the part of
either the Congress or the
populace to quarrel with the
President in his request for bil
lions of dollars to place our
house in order to meet any
emergency.
o
No time should be lost in
rounding up the members of
the “fifth column’’ in this
country. Uncle Sam has been
a little too lenient in dealing
with the various foreign isms
in this country, and no doubt
the nation has many spies
within its borders who should
either be sent back to their
homeland or placed away in
■“cold storage.” Treachery and
treason should not be tolerated
in a country whose doors have
been opened a little too widely
for its own safety.
The condition of the Allied
armies in Belgium and north
ern France became extremely
critical this week, when the
Belgian army on Tuesday sur
rendered to the Germans upon
the order of King Leopold.
The Belgian surrender leaves
an army of nearly half a mil
lion Allied troops trapped in
Flanders, with all English
channel ports in charge of the
Germans, and prospects of
their rescue exceedingly slim.
: From these coastal towns Ger
■ many is Relieved ready to at
tempt a blitzkrieg upon the
British Isles, only a few miles
i distant across the channel.
The Belgian surrender, coming
;as a surprise to her British
and French allies, is accepted
as a serious blow to the efforts
to thwart a German victory.
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THE PRESS
RAMBLER
THE EXPLANATION
There are two reasons that people
don’t n\ind their own business. One
is they haven’t any mind, and the
other is they haven’t any business.—
Mcßae Telfair Enterprise.
WOMAN’S LOVE FOR A DOG
We heard a man wish that dogs
would learn to love him like they
learn to love women. What has al
ways worried us is why a woman
won’t love us as much as she loves
a dog.—Crisp County News.
INSULT TO SOLONS
The Georgia legislature has been
attacked and ridiculed in many ways,
but none is more insulting than to
say that they might adjourn more
quickly, attend to their business
more effectively, if they were paid
a yearly salary and were not given
a per diem. Yet many Georgians
think that would be the case.—
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
FUTURE AIR LINE TRAVEL
Although the sight of an air-liner
skimming gracefully overhead still
gives the average person a thrill as
it is viewed, Harlee Branch, vice
chairman of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority believes 1950 (only ten
years from now) will find the Amer
ican people “accepting airline travel
as complacently as they now accept
riding in a bus.” Mebbe so, Mr.
Branch, mebbe so!—Dawson News.
POST-WAR CHAOS SEEN
Daniel J. Tobin, long prominent
as a labor leader, has proposed the
creation of a special national board
to deal with the problem of unem
ployment and prepare a program for
the protection of labor and business
against economic conditions that may
follow the war in Europe. The sug
gestion should be generally approved.
If such a board should be created
it might at once have to deal with
post-war economic conditions. If the
triumphant march of Germany is not
halted the end will be soon. Then
will follow a chaotic situation that
will tax the best thought of this na
tion . . . —Spartanburg (S. C.) Her
ald.
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OUR QUESTION BOX
1. What is Scotland Yard?
2. What African fly carries the
germ of sleeping-sickness?
3. What allowance is made for the
traveling expenses of the President
of the United States?
4. Who edited the Louisville
j Courier-Journal for over half a cen
tury?
5. Name the Mohammedan Bible.
6. Who said: “I would rather be
| right than president”?
7. Who is an albino?
8. Who was the Roman god of war?
9. Name one of the two great
sacred rivers of India.
10. In what country was gold de
veloped?
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THE ANSWERS
1. The former headquarters of the
London police. Now at New Scot-
i land Yard.
2. The tsetse fly.
3. Congress allows annually $25,-
000 for travel. This sum now covers
I also “official entertainment” expen
| ses.
4. “Marse Henry Watterson (1840-
11921).
5. The Koran.
6. Henry Clay (1777-1852).
7. A person with white skin and
i hair, and pinkish eyes; a man, animal
or plant abnormally white in color.
8. Mars.
9. The Ganges, the Jama.
10. Scotland.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
fa FRANK PARKER e *l
L 9 STOCKBRiDSE S J
FRONTIERS here
One of 'the common fallacies
which has been widely preached by
folk in high places who ought to
know better is that there are no
opportunities left in America for
young men. The last frontier has
vanished, say these prophets of de
featism.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. There are greater oppor
tunities for young Americans to
'build fortunes out of the country’s)
| natural resources than ever existed)
I in the pioneer days, Langbourne M. ’
i Williams, Jr., president of the Free-!
port Sulphur Company, told a rep
resentative group of college students
at the clinic on “New Frontiers in
American Life,” just held at the
University of Rochester.
“Opening up the new frontiers to i
get at the wealth behind them j
merely calls for a different technique
than that of the gold hunters of
“’49” Mr. Williams said. “The
schools and colleges are training
youth to find wealth where their
grandfathers never dreamed it ex
isted.”
Critics of the profit system are
undermining the principles upon
which America has become the
wealthiest as well as the freest na
tion in all history.
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WEALTH everywhere
Billions of dollars of new wealth
have been created, literally, by hu
man minds applied to technical re
search. Sea water is being coined
into gold—for the bromine used in
anti-knock gasoline is extracted
from the sea. Also out of the sea
is obtained the lightest of all metals,
magnesium, used in airplane con
struction. The raw material of this
new wealth is the trained intelli
gence of the men who create it.
Application of brain power takes
nitrogen for fertilizers, dyes and
explosives, out of the air. New
fibers and fabrics are found in air
and water and coal. Ores which
used to be considered worthless
now yield riches by the application
of human ingenuity. One of the
richest gold fields in the world lay
untouched until someone thought of
sending mining machinery into the
mountain tops by airplane and
bringing out the gold by the same
means.
“There are new frontiers practi
cally in everybody’s backyard,” said
Mr. Williams. “They are in the
things that we have waisted for hun
dreds of years because we thought
they were worthless. Those who
benefit by their development are not
only the technical men but the thou
sands of workers for whom new
jobs are created.”
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RUBBER frontier
Another 1 of the speakers at the
clinic on New Frontiers was David
M. Goodrich, chairman of the B. F.
Goodrich Company. Mr. Goodrich
pointed otft that in the field of rub
ber one of the broadest new fron
tiers of industry is being opened up
to development.
Although America is the largest
consumer of rubber, this country
does not produce a pound of it.
That fact has started men of imagi
nation to push back a frontier of in
dustry. Capital and man-power
combined have developed synthetic
materials replacing rubber, such as
koroseal, with qualities in many
ways superior to natural rubber.
Mr. Goodrich, like Owen D.
Young and other industrial leaders
who addressed the three-day session
at Rochester, hammered home the
principle that universal prosperity
and human happiness is only to be
achieved by the greater production
and wider distribution of real
| wealth. Those who teach that there
;is only a limited amount of wealth
I available for the needs of an in
creasing population are doing a dis
service to all the people.
I am convinced that the future of
, America depends upon the intelli
gent exploration of the new fron
tiers which scientific research and
technical training are constantly
I opening. The greatest raw material
of wealth today is trained intel
! ligence.
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HOTELS industry
I’ve spent a lot of time living in
hotels of all grades and sizes in
every part of the world, in the
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course of a long lifetime. But I have
learned a lot I never knew about
hotels from a report just issued
by Thomas D. Green, President of
the American Hotel Association, in
connection with “National Hotel
Week,” which is to be observed all j
over the country from June 2nd to
‘8 th.
I didn’t know that there are 16,-
000 hotels in this country containing
1,200,000 guest rooms, valued at
$3,000,000,000, employing 325,000
people. The hotels of America spent
$300,000,000 last year to serve one
billion meals to guests and 220,000,-
000 meals to employees.
That makes hotel keeping a big
business. The hotels of the nation
are among the largest buyers of
food-stuffs, also of soap. I never
counted them, but the hotel associa
tion says that the average hotel
room contains fifty different articles
for the use of guests.
Mr. Green says that the average
American hotel makes one cent
profit on every dollar spent, which
doesn’t make it sound like a get
rich-quick business.
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LUXURY recent
A hundred years ago few hotel
guests demanded or expected a
separate room. Five strangers in
one bed are recorded in a New
York hotel of 1840. The first real
hotel in America was opened in
New York in 1794. The first luxury
hotel was the Tremont House in
Boston, with 175 rooms, the largest
hotel in the world. Opened in 1829,
every guest got a piece of yellow
soap for his individual use, but there
was no such thing as a private
bathroom. It was many years later
before the first elevator was in
stalled in the Fifth Avenue Hotel
in New 1 York. Most of the guests
were afraid to use it.
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THE “FIFTH COLUMNIST”
Do you know of anyone who)
might become a “fifth columnist”
should this nation become involved
in war? If you do, it is your duty
as a citizen to make a report to
the proper authorities.—Cairo Mes
senger.
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OUR LITTLE ARMY
How did it make you feel when
you learned through news items that
this great U. ,S. A. of ours was
maintaining an army of defense of
approximately two hundred thou
sand, to protect a little hand full of
people of one hundred and thirty
I million?—Calhoun County Courier.
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KEEP THE POLL TAX
The poll tax in Georgia is only a
dollar a year. It seems to us that
all citizens should be glad to pay it
for the privilege of voting. There
is a movement on foot to abolish
the poll tax. There is also a move
ment on foot to secure suffrage for
the Negro. The Negro, if allowed
to vote in the southern elections,
would only be a political football.
Many old citizens recall the days
when the negro voted and much
blood was spilled every election year.
—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
[ ESnSSW'*
LANGUAGES
Language is the dress of thought
and it is the thread of life running
through all the ages and thereby
serving to keep man in touch with
the things which went before his
appearance on this earth. And lan
guages are distinctive and typical of
the people who speak them. Some
one said that if he wished to sing
well he would prefer Italian. If he
wanted to make love properly, Span
ish was ideal. If he wanted to ex
press himself before cultured mtn
he would speak French, and if he
wanted to drive and curse a lazy
horse the English tongue was ex
ceptionally appropriate.
The average American has no
conception of the great number of
different languages used by mankind
to covey their thoughts. Few are
aware that Chinamen living in the
southern part of that wonderful
land cannot speak with or under
stand the members of their own
race and country who live in the
north of China. In India, with its
diversified races and languages,
business is conducted every day
among its 450,000,000 population in
one hundred and twenty-six differ
ent tongues, several of which are
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
May 27, 1915
CANDIDATES whose announce
ments appear in this issue of The
News to succeed Judge G. D. Oliver
as ordinary include: T. J. Lanier, E.
S. Collins, W. J. Kenney, Sr., Char
lie C. Lane, Theo White, P. N. J.
Dozier, App Barksdale, J. Brad Oli
ver, and A. J. Fleming.
* * *
COL. B. R. COLLINS delivered
the commencement address at the
Fort Gaines school Tuesday night.
It goes without saying that his sil
ver-tongued oratory charmed those
hospitable people.
* * *
MORE THAN two hundred voters
of Blakely have signed a petition
asking the City Council to call an
election to determine whether or
not the city shall embark in the
enterprise of erecting a municipal
ice plant in connection with the wa
ter and light plant.
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DR. C. S. MIDDLETON went up
to Washington, D. C., last Friday
evening on a business errand in
connection with a patent device.
“Doc” has some wheels in his head
which he thinks will be of much util
ity in the business w’orld when he
gets them arranged into a working
model as an interest calculator. We
hope that his invention may prove a
success and that he’ll reap both fame
and fortune from it.
used by more than 200,000,000
people.
Each African tribe has its dis
tinctive idom. Some of these lan
guages have less than two hundred
words, but are amply sufficient to
express what those speaking wish.
In fact teachers say that a person
with three hundred different words
at his or her command needs no
more to carry on an intelligent con
versation and clearly present any
thought.
During the World War, American
surgeons at a base hospital were
mystified by the language spoken
by an American soldier who had
been badly wounded and has a skull
fracture. For sixty days he seemed
to be jabbering in an unknown and
unheard of tongue. As his mind
cleared and he became normal the
situation was explained satisfac
torily.
The young man, the son of a mis
sionary, born in the north of India
near Thibet, acquired the Thibetian
language and then Hindustani, from
the servants—in fact, spoke them
before he learned English. With the
injury to his head his mind reverted
to childhood days again and he was
simply talking the two tongues he
first acquired, and nobody under
stood a word.
LITTLE Miss Laura Powell James,
weight 9 pounds, arrived at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. James last
night to keep company with the two
bright little girls already in this
home.
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TEN HOURS FROM BLAKELY:
(From Panama City Pilot) —Messrs.
Wilk Roberts and James M. Miller,
of Blakely, are in town this week,
having motored down from the Ear
ly county city on Monday. Their
little Ford made the trip easily in
ten hours, their route including
Neal’s Landing, where they crossed
the river, Greenwood, Marianna,
and Round Lake. From Round Lake
they followed the new county road
down the A. & St. A. B. Railway, and
state that barring innumerable stump
holes yet unfilled, that highway does
very well. (Editor’s note: Panama
City is today only a bit over two
hours from Blakely.)
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A LOT OF RATS
Speaking of rats (not Hitler this
time), health officials are planning
to dynamite the city dump at Syl
vester as a climax to the anti-rat
campaign in that city. The author
ities expect to kill a million rats,
which is a lot of disease-carriehs for
a place the size of Sylvester.—Tif
ton Gazette.