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Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
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Blakely, Georgia
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Blakely, Ga., June 6, 1940 j
School’s out and vacation!
time for the youngsters is
here 1—
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This diverting thought from
the Dawson News: “If every
one minded hjs own business
what a dull world this would
be.”
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Rounding up the “fifth col
umnists” in this country has
been assigned to the depart
ment of justice, headed by J.
Edgar Hoover. More power
to him!
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While Early countians are
proud of their new jail build
ing, now nearing completion,
it is hoped there will be found
little use for the occupancy of
the “boarding” space therein.
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We wonder if the former
governor of Georgia, Mr. Eu
gene Talmadge, thinks Geor
gians are going to be surprised
when he announces his candid
acy for governor. Gene has
been actively campaigning for
a long time and there will be
no element of surprise in his
announcement.
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If the affairs of the highway
board and other departments
of the state are in order, why
should Governor Rivers object
to any investigation of those
departments? A shadow of
suspicion has been cast upon
certain departments, and any
effort to hinder a complete in
vestigation of those depart
ments serves only to deepen
that suspicion.
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Can it be said of King Leo
pold of Belgium that he is “a
worthy son of a worthy sire?”
His desertion of his British
and French allies, who came to
his country’s assistance, has
placed Leopold in an unfavor
able light throughout the
world, excepting, of course, in
those nations whose cause he
has aided in a very dark hour
of the world’s history.
The President’s defense pro
gram is being rushed through
Congress and is meeting with
only a minimum of opposition
from certain members of the
Republican minority and little
opposition from the Democrat
ic majority. Although this
new defense program means
additional taxation upon the
citizens of this country, it is
believed our people are will
ing to pay the bill in order to
thwart any such disaster as
has befallen the neutral na
tions of Europe. The disposi
tion of the American people
seems to be “to shoot the
works’’ and leave no stone un
turned to place Uncle Sam in
position to tell the foreign dic
tators to stay away from the
shores of the American hemi
sphere.
Just how many British and
French soldiers have escaped
from the German trap in Flan
ders may never be known, but
it seems certain that a majori
ity of them have been res
i cued from what seemed an al
most certain death following
I the surrender of their Belgian
allies. The retreat to the chan
nel coast and the embarkation
of a large part of this army
I under the withering fire of
! overwhelming German num
• bers, from the land, sea and
air, is one of the most remark
able feats in military history
and has greatly strengthened
the morale of the British and
French armies, now forming a
new line in northern France in
an attempt to stay the power
ful Hitler machine in its march
toward Paris.
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THE PRESS
RAMBLER
The Georgia birth rate for 1939
is announced as 21 per 1,000 of
population—exactly the same as the
rate in 1938. The national birth
rate shows a slight decline, being
17.4 per 1,000 population in 1939
and 17.6 in 1938. New Mexico re
ports the highest birth rate, 33.7 per
1,000 population, while New Jersey
comes in with the lowest rate, 13
per 1,000. As usual, states with
large rural populations show the
highest birth rates.—Tifton Gazette.
According to Bradstreet, the busi
ness man who does not advertise
runs a greater risk of failing than
one who does. The figures shew
that 84 of each 100 merchants who
fail in business did not advertise.—
Greensboro Journal-Herald.
The war is coming home to South
Georgia farmers. In the last few
days they have seen their markets
take a dip. Cotton has been losing
heavily, and hogs took a dip. No
one can tell what is happening to
tobacco, but it is possible for the
foreign markets to be practically
closed for a time. Eventually, our
products are bound to be in great
demand. So many nations are turn
ing away from production to destruc
tion that they w ( ill be in dire need
in a few months. Whether they will
have money to buy is another thing.
—Moultrie Observer.
Americanism: Hard-working par
ent, supporting expensive family,
dies; family wonders why the old man
didn’t take a needed rest.—Forsyth
County News.
Times have certainly changed in
this country during recent years. Wno
would ever have thought an unrecon
structed rebel, in the person of Edi
tor Nelson Shipp of the Columbus
Ledger-Inquirer, would be invited to
make the Decoration Day address at
Andersonville National cemetery?
Time is a great healer and this ges
ture shows that we are getting away
from sectional prejudices.—-Dawson
News.
Walter Locke says that education
is the first essential in national de
fense, and he must be right, as the
Germans are saturated with education
and it looks like the world can’t beat
them. But then, we don’t need the
German type of education, which ex
cludes God and includes barbarity,
and substitutes might for right.—
Walton Tribune.
Almost every town in southwest
Georgia shows more or less gain in
population for 1940, which probably
proves that it is one of the best places
in the world to live and as time goes
on more and more people learn of it.
—Arlington Courier.
Airplanes, tanks, motorized equip
ment, have turned the war making
system upside down. The finest per
sonal courage and the most thorough
training and strategy seem almost
helpless before the modern death
dealing machines. It is a ghastly
thought that the mechanical and in
ventive powers which the Creator
gave to man to lift himself up out
of the dust, are being used by the
war makers to reduce men to dust
again, and lay their torn and out
raged bodies away in the sleep of
death.—-Crisp County News.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
☆ Jess ☆
Washington, D. C. Congress,
I awakened to the need of strengrhen-
national defense, came almost
unanimously to the support of the
President’s proposal to begin at once
a program of airplane building and
manufacture of armaments on an un
precedented scale. Where the money
is to come from is yet to be deter
mined, but it is certain that some in
crease in taxes will be necessary.
Republicans in both houses joined
with Democrats in voting new de
sense appropriations. Partisanship
is buried to that extent. But it is
far from -being buried so far as the
methods of .spending the new funds
are concerned. What is being sought
is a plan for creating some sort of
a defense planning board which
would have full charge of the pro
duction of munitions, and would be
entirely free from political control.
At the same time Congress is try
ing to work out some system which
would put all military aviation un
der unified control, reorganize the
Army and Navy by getting rid of
inefficient officers who have risen to
their present posts by the antiquated
seniority system, and in general pep
up the whole military establishment.
The feeling in Congress is that
there should be greater and more
direct responsibility to Congress and
less to the Executive in all of the
contemplated preparations for war.
While the President is, under the
Constitution, Commander-in-Chief
of the Army and Navy, there are
many Senators and Representatives
of both parties who point out that
the United States is not yet at war’,
that it is the earnest hope of every
body that we shall not be at war,
and that in any event the size and
character of the fighting forces of
which the President is the Chief
must be whatever Congress chooses
to provide.
Sharp Issue
A sharp issue is shaping up be
tween those who believe that prepa
rations for national defense ought
to be made with the cooperation
of the ablest men in the nation, re
gardless of party, and those who
hold that these able industrialists,
organizers and counselors should
subordinate themselves to the Pres
ident. That has been done in time
of war. In time of peace it has never
been done.
The advisory board Which the
President appointed last Fall to ex
amine the state of the nation’s pre
paredness for war, which included
prominent men of both parties,
lasted only a few weeks, solely be
cause its members found that they
could not function against the op
position of the President’s close
political advisers, or as subordinates
subject to the Executive’s orders.
Well-meaning patriots who have
proposed that the President put
eminent Republicans in his Cabinet
in this emergency have cited the
changes in the British and French
Governments since the present
European war began. They overlook
the fact that those are Parliamen
tary governments, in which the con
stituent assembly has supreme
power and the governing body or
Cabinet is chosen from among the
members of Parliament. Thus two
or half a dozen parties may be rep
resented in a coalition cabinet.
But under the American system
the Executive is entirely distinct
from Congress, and the members
of his Cabinet are his personal ap
pointees, a sort of superior chief
clerks, whom he can dismiss at will.
They must be completely subordi
nate to the President.
Emphatically Rejected
Therefore the President’s idea of
putting a few leading Republicans
in his Cabinet to emphasize the
non-partisan spirit of the times nas
been emphatically rejected. Rumor
has it that he offered Col. Frank
Knox, Republican Vice-Presidential
candidate of four years ago, the
post of Secretary of the Navy, just
vacated by Charles Edison, who is
running for Governor of New Jer
sey.
It is whispered, and widely be
lieved in Washington, that Mr.
Roosevelt’s invitation to Gov. Lan
don to visit him at the White House
was with a similar purpose; that i‘
was cancelled when Mr. Landon
made a speech criticizing the Presi
dent’s war policies, and renewed
i only when word leaked out that it
; had been cancelled.
At <any rate, Mr. Landon, as
titular leader of the Republican
Death Grapple
Party, after a pleasant call at the
White House, said that he was sure
all Republicans would be good
patriots and do whatever they could
to help the defense program, and let
it go at that.
Much attention is being given here
to former President Hoover’s letter
to Senator Tobey, written last Sep
tember when the war started and
the first talk of a “coalition govern
ment” began. After pointing out
that members of the Opposition
Party if appointed to the Cabinet
would not in any way be represen
tative of their party, but merely in
dividuals, Mr. Hoover said that the
proposed suspension of partisan
politics “would mean one-party gov
ernment. It would be the start of
totalitarian government.”
He urged then, and has since
urged, that Republicans give every
possible support to a sound policy
of national defense, but should not
cease to debate the best method
of keeping this country out of war.
Defense Planning Board
While aircraft manufacturers,
makers of military equipment of all
kinds, every sort of industrialist or
business man who might be called
upon to help in the defense prepara
tions, have signified their willing
ness and readiness to help, there is
a great deal of reluctance among
business leaders to place them
selves under political or bureaucrat
ic orders as to methods of opera
tion.
Therefore, the idea of a defense
planning board, composed of mili
tary men, industrialists and members
of both houses of Congress, is get
ting serious consideration.
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OUR QUESTION BOX
1. What country was ruled by the
Emperor Maximilian?
2. Who said: “All Gaul is divided
into three parts”?
3. How are the majority of the
cadets at West Point and Annapolis
chosen?
4. What is Bedloe’s Island, in New-
York harbor, noted for?
5. Name the two great mountain
ranges of the United States.
6. What is “Big Ben”?
7. What was the name of King
Arthur’s queen?
8. In what state is the Great Salt
Lake?
9. Who wrote “Gunga Din”?
10. What is amber?
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THE ANSWERS
1. Mexico, from 1864 to 1867.
2. Caius Julius Caesar (100-44
B. C.)
3 They are appointed by members
of Congress, frequently after com
petitive examinations have been held.
4. It is the site of the Statue of
Liberty.
5. The Rocky Mountains and the
Appalachian Mountains.
6. The name given to the bell in
the clock-tower of the Houses of
Parliament, London.
7. Guinevere.
8. Utah.
9. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
10. A yellow-ish fossil resin found
on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
EYE DISEASES
It is positively difficult for the
average layman to appreciate the
wonderful advance made in recent
years in the treatment of various
diseases of the eye, which have re
sulted in the preservation or res
toration of vision. Os course there
is much more to be done, but the
trail blazed by von Helmhotz, von
Graefe and other scientists is rapid
ly being extended by others and it is
difficult to predict just what to ex
pect next. To cover so vast a field
would require volumes, while I, of
necessity, must be brief.
Thousands of children confronted
with a condition which means death
or a life of blindness, have had their
eyes salvaged by radon seeds and
gamma ray radiation. The restora
tion of sight by the transplantation
of tissue has given other thousands
a clear view of the outside world.
Parts of the cornea have been trans
planted from a dead eye to a living
human being who would have stum
bled through life blind.
In the field of contact glasses and
telescopeic spectacles, great progress
has been made, and the dream of
Sir William Herschel of supplant-
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
June 3, 1915
MR. AND MRS. Victor Killebrew
and little Herschel, of Albany, are
visiting the family of Mrs. J. B.
Hobbs this week.
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SHERIFF E. J. HOBBS, of Fort
Gaines, was in the city Tuesday.
MISS Elizabeth Elliott spent a day
or two this week with relatives in
Columbia.
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MISS RUTH CARTER, of Bluff
ton, spent a few days in the city this
week, a guest of Mrs. F. P. Davis.
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DR. P. H. FITZGERALD went upj
to Omaha, Ga., Tuesday to see his
father who is quite sick. We hope
he finds the old gentleman much im
proved in health.
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IN RESPONSE to the request of
the people of Blakely, the city au
thorities held an election Monday to
sound the sentiment of the citizens
of Blakely on the question of build
ing a municipal ice plant in connec
tion with the water and light plant.
The proposal met with such popular
favor that 188 citizens cast their bal
lots “for municipal ice plant,” while
not a single ballot was cast in oppo
sition to it.
ing an irregular and imperfect cor
nea by a glass lens has been real
ized. As a consequence, thousands
of individuals have been enabled to
carry on their work as bread win
ners, free from charity or depen
dence on their families.
Formerly, in detached retina cases
which underwent surgical attention,
approximately 1 per cent recovered.
Today, due to different technique,
fully 50 per cent of such cases retain
their vision. Cross-eyed persons have
benefited materially as a result of
the vast work done by surgeons in
this line, and it is a generally ac
cepted belief among experts that an
other ten years’ work will enable
specialists to guarantee such pa
tients a hundred per cent of re
covery in all such operations.
In addition, the neurologists and
the brain surgeons have done mas
terful work in the prevention of
blindness, by recognizing early and
promptly treating conditions which
would ultimately mean total blind
ness. “Today instead of phalanx
after phalanax marching toward in
evitable darkness,” says Dr. L. H.
Hardy, “there is more chance than
ever before of these unfortunate
ones either retaining or improving
their vision.”
THE Cozy Theatre announces that
Friday night they will show a 4-reel
picture, “the only authenic pictures
of the war that have been produced.”
“On Belgian Battlefields” is the title
; of the picture.
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MISS PAULINE SMITH, of Al
bany, spent Monday night and Tues
day in the city with Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Smith.
£ as- jjt
MESSRS. C. H. Purifoy, Chipstead
Grubbs, Murray Brunson and Gate
wood Freeman motored up to Cuth
bert last night.
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THE election for ordinary wjill
come off on next Tuesday, June Bth,
and the candidates are “on the go”
from morning until night.
MRS. J. B. JONES and children
' left Tuesday for Camilla to spend
' some time with relatives and friends.
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MR. JOE VINSON, of Fort Gaines,
spent Tuesday in Blakely and bid
pretty lively on the Gay building
■ when it was cried off at auction. Mr.
• Vinson is an uncle of “Our Joe” and
i doubtless found his day pleasant in
Blakely, though local parties outbid
him on the building.