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THIS WEEK
EHMi
By
Earl
. “Tige”
Pickle
You’ve sat in a court room and
listened to the lawyers and solicitor
general argue until everyone in the
court room was completely worn out,
their nerves on edge, especially the
jury and the witnesses. Here is one
we swiped from an exchange which
is credited to The Pathfinder, that
explains what we’re writing about:
The examination of the witness had
been long, and attorney, witness and
judge were all tired.
“And about how far is it between
these two towns?” the attorney
asked.
“About six miles as the flow
cries,” replied the witness.
“You mean the cry flows, I sup
pose,” interjected the attorney.
“No, no,” interrupted the judge,
“he means as the fly crows.”
All of which reminds us to ask you
this tongue twister. Let’s hear you
say “chew, chew, until you jaws
drop.” Say it fast, but not in po
lite company. And if you do, don’t
say we didn’t warn you.
Then there was the country news
paper editor who had been reading in
the daily papers how these big pa
pers posted hourly bulletins regard
ing important news. To give his
paper a streamline standard, be
thought he would try his hand at
posting hourly bulletins on the se
rious illness of Judge Rollins, the
town’s Mr. Big.
At 1 p. m. he posted this bulletin
outside the newspaper office: “Judge
Rollins seriously ill. Not expected
to live.”
2 p. m.: “Judge Rollins slightly
better.”
3 p. m.: “Judge Rollins takes turn
for worst. Death almost certain.”
4 p. m.: “Judge Rollins died ten
minutes ago and went to Heaven.”
About an hour later the town wit
and practical joker passed along by
the newspaper office and picked up
the piece of chalk and scribbled this
bulletin:
“5 p. m.: Great excitement in
Heaven. Judge Rollins has not ar
rived yet.”
. When Bill Standifer, only son of
Dr. Jack Standifer, was made a Mas
ter Mason in Magnolia Lodge last
week, he was the fourth successive
generation of Standifers to hold
membership in this lodge. This is
rather an unusual occurrence and
happens only once in a great while.
Bill’s great-grandfather, Dr. William
Metellus Standifer, was a charter
member of Magnolia Lodge, which
was organized in 1849. (All the
time we bet you were thinking that
nothing happened that year except
the gold rush to California). His
grandfather, Dr. William Bryan Stan
difer, for whom Bill was named,
and who died during the week Bill
was taking his second degree, joined
the lodge in 1880, and held the po
sition of Senior Past Master at the
time of his death. His father, Dr.
Jack G. Standifer, who in a large
measures deserves the credit for
Magnolia’s enviable position among
other Georgia lodges, became a mem
ber in 1916 and is the third ranking
Past Master in the family. Then
last week Bill became a member.
And, for the sake of the record, to
make the occurrence seem even more
unusual, may we remark that Dr.
Standifer presided during the cere
monies.
So you thought Masonry was a
secret organization, and you wonder
ed how we knew all this. Well,
brother, we were right along by Bill;
in fact, part of the time we were
leading the way. Your corresponds
ent was definitely there.
One of the finest traditions of the
old South which seems to be as strong
as ever, is the annual practice of
rural churches to sponsor ad-day
sings and dinners on the ground. It
is a custom which began way bacx
yonder. As to the exact date, no
one seems to know. People
judge time by these sings. Some
time you will hear a person say
something like this: “Why, yes, I re
member him;. he died about two
weeks after the sing in 1928. ’ Or,
“Come to see us; come during July
and go to the sing.” It is a custom
which dates way back and an event
which is looked forward to by hun
dreds of people each year. What
started all this reminiscing was the
WASHINGTON
Washington, D. C. (N.W.N.S.)
“Politics more than ever” seems to
have replaced “politics as usual” in
both the house and the senate with
the arrival of the electioneering sea
son.
This was clearly demonstrated in
the senate in the recent vote con
firming Thomas F. Meaney as a fed
eral district judge of New Jersey.
Mr. Meaney had been nominated
by President Roosevelt clearly be
cause the President wanted the elec
tion backing of boss Frank Hague,
powerful New Jersey political ma
chine leader, who wanted Meaney
appointed.
In a three-hour speech in the sen
ate, Senator Norris said: “This is no
local matter; this is a national issue.
Confirmation of this nominee of the
notorious Hague machine will be re
ceived with shame and condemnation
by the liberty-loving people of this
nation.” Those favoring this nomi
nation were challenged to give their
reasons, but except for a few re
marks by Senator McGauran of Ne
vada, they remained silent. Senator
Smathers of New Jersey, chief sup
porter of the candidate, said that he
would not make a two-hour speech
he had prepared in order to save
time and permit the senate to vote.
When the vote was taken, only one
Republican voted for Meaney and
only one Democrat voted against
him. The nomination was therefore
confirmed by a vote of 39 to 20.
An equally pointed example of
“politics first” was displayed in the
house of representatives when its
members agreed to lop off more than
half of the appropriation requested
for the Office of Price Administra
tion. Leon Henderson, head of the
OPA, had estimated that he would
need $161,000,000 to carry on the
work of his office during the next
year, but after only a cursory analy
sis of his needs the house voted to
cut his appropriation to $75,000,000.
It was evident that this cut was
made, not as a means of reducing
government costs, but to punish Mr.
Henderson for his unwillingness to
play politics.
Mr. Henderson now employs 34,-
576 people in Washington, in the
field and on rationing boards and
estimates that to do his job ade
quately he will need to employ 88,-
000 people during the coming year.
But Mr. Henderson, in handing out
these jobs, is accused of the unpar
donable practice of picking people
according to their ability instead of
their party affiliations. The politi
cally-minded house members can’t
see permitting such a potentially
juicy vote-getting organization to be
kept out of politics.
Mr. Henderson said that the dras
tically reduced appropriation would
necessitate his cutting his present
staff and that “unless additional staff
is available there will be utter disor
ganization and anarchy in the dis
fact that several people have
stopped us on the street this week
and asked us to announce the annual
sing at Bethel church, which is right
on the Clay and Early county line,
and is to be held Sunday. It must
be that it is going to be the biggest
of all time, as workmen have been
building dinner tables and prepar
ing for the crowd for several weeks
now.
We’ve been thinking that our old
bus needed a repaint job, but now
we’ve postponed it. We’ve got so
many government stickers on it
there is no place to smear the paint.
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tribution of scarce commodities as
supplies run out.”
“I am convinced that I failed,” he
said, “in presenting the budget to
the appropriations committee, to
bring home to the members a full
realization of the enormous adminis
trative job embodied in rationing
scarce goods to 130,000,000 people,
in fixing rents for 90,000,000 peo
ple, and holding down the cost of
living by price ceilings affecting
3,000,000 business enterprises.”
But Mr. Henderson, and practical
ly everyone in Washington, realizes
that the funds were cut off, not be
cause house members thought they
weren’t needed, but because Mr.
Henderson hasn’t been “playing ball”
with the politicians.
Realizing the eye-on-the-election
attitude of both houses of congress,
and knowing that congressmen think
taxes hurt votes, Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau recently re
leased a clear presentation of the
state of the nation’s finances and
pleaded for higher taxation during
the coming year.
He said the expenses of the gov
ernment in the fiscal year which
ended June 30 had been $32,397,-
000,000, about 80 per cent of which
was for war activities. Net revenue
receipts during the year were $12,-
799,000,000, leaving a deficit for the
year of $19,598,000,000.
He estimated, because of the
greatly increased war expenditures
planned for the new fiscal year, the
deficit for the year ending June 30,
1943, will be almost three times as
much as this year’s deficit, based on
revenue from taxes ' now on the
books.
“The magnitude of this figure,”
he said, “emphasizes the urgency of
obtaining additional revenue. This in
dicates clearly that the tax bill now
before congress should be the start,
and not the conclusion, of the war
time revenue program. It is evident,
however, that no matter how vigor
ous the tax policy, it will still be
necessary to borrow many billions
during the fiscal year 1943.”
FOR COUNCILMAN
To the Voters of Blakely:
I announce my candidacy for re
election as a member of the City
Council of Blakely in the election to
be held on the first Tuesday in Aug
ust. I appreciate your support in
the past and, if re-elected, will give
my best efforts toward our city’s in
terests as I see them.
Sincerely,
L. B. FRYER.
FOR COUNCILMAN
To the Voters of Blakely:
I take this method of announcing
my candidacy for re-election as a
member of the City Council of
Blakely in the election to be held on
[Tuesday, August 1. If again honor
ed by you with re-election, I shall
continue to serve our city to the
best of my ability. I appreciate the
expressions of your confidence in the
past. Sincerely,
C. R. BARKSDALE.
FOR COUNCILMAN
To the Voters of Blakely:
I am a candidate for Councilman
in the election to be held on the
first Tuesday in August. If elected,
will have road in front of my home
worked, also big ditch rear of my
home cleaned out.
L. C. HOBBS.
July 14, 1942.
BLAKELY CHAPTER 44 R. A. M
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and fourth Monda*,
Bights of each montl
at 8 o’clock. Visitins |
companions invited.
W. P. Smith,
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J. G. Standifer,
Secretary.
Come to
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Saturday, July 18,4 p. m.
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Announcements
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
To the voters of Early county:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for re-election as Representative in
the General Assembly from Early
county in the primary of September
9. If again named to serve you as
your Representative I shall be guided
in my official conduct at all times by
what I consider to be the best inter
ests of my county and state. I shall
appreciate your support in the forth
coming primary.
Sincerely,
J. O. BRIDGES.
FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURTS
I hereby announce my candidacy
for Judge of the Superior Courts of
the Pataula Circuit for the next en
suing term, subject to the rules of
the Democratic primary to be held
in 1942. Grateful to the people and
voters throughout the circuit for the
confidence and generous support
heretofore given me, I again solicit
them, and if honored by a re-election
I shall exert my best efforts to the
fair, faithful and full discharge of
all the duties of the office to the
best of my ability.
Very respectfully,
C. W. WORRILL.
FOR MAYOR OF THE CITY OF
BLAKELY
To the voters of Blakely:
I take this method of announcing
to you my candidacy for Mayor of
the City of Blakely in the election
to be held on the first Tuesday in
August, 1942. It has been my privi
lege and pleasure to have been a res
ident of this city for a good many
years and to have served you on the
Council and in other capacities. I
deeply appreciate your expressions of
confidence in the past and assure
you that if honored with election as
Mayor, I shall exert my best efforts
toward the continued progress and
welfare of our little city.
■Sincerely yours,
S. G. MADDOX.
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