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ITY PROGRESS-PAGE
GRADY COUNTY
GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS
S. R. Blanton & Son, Owners.
S. R. Blanton, Editor and Manager.
Z. V. Blanton, City Editor* Mana
ger Mechanical Department.
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF GRADY COUNTY
One Dollar Per Year, In Advance
Adverting Rates Reasonable and
Made Known on Application.
Entered at Cairo, Ga,, Postoffice
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Looking Forward.
Cairo has the most wonderful
chance of becoming a city of
5000 people by 1920 we know of
in Southwest Georgia.
Her lands are as good cotton
producing as is in the state. She
is the Queen of the South in the
syrup industry. Here is where
the pecan industry is at its
height. Here is where as good
tobacco grows as can be found
in the universe.
Now gentlemen, with all these
agricultural advantages, besides
the many advantages derived
from the location of this city,
and the many manufacturing in
dustries that might be induced
to come here, why is it not pos
sible for Cairo to have 5000 souls
by 1920. It is possible if the
merchants and business men will
get together and pull, pull, pull.
The Progress will do all she,
can to make this possible if only
the business men will help.
If you will only ask you can as
certain the fact that the Cairo
freight office handles as much
traffic as any city on the A. C. L.
Ry. three or even four times as
large. This fact alone shows
what a colossal country trade
Cairo has. A town with 2500
people handling as much freight
as cities of 5000 to 7000 p'eople
speaks for itself. It needs' no
euology on our part. The figures
will show.
Now you have been shown a
few things that will make Cairo
the mecca of Southwest Georgia
if you will only get up and hustle
and put shoulder to shoulder and
go arm in arm for the growth of
this little city.
Some time ago we saw where
efforts were being made to get
City Mail Delivery for Cairo. By
all means lets have it. This is
one important step for the future
growth of our town. Let’s go
after it, and get it, and all other
legitimate enterDrises that will
help Cairo to 5000 people by 1920.
You already have a Board of
Trade, and now lets organize the
5000 dub, and pull, and by 1920
our dream will be realized.
Where now stands vacant busi
ness lots-you will see two and
four-story buildings and where
the pines and oaks are now grow
Justice-Justice, Where Art Thou?
“The harvest is over, the sum
mer is ended, and we are not
saved.”
The fall term of Grady county
superior court has come and
gone; and still outraged law and
innocent blood cries in vain for
redress and vengeance.
Out on the Akridge road seven
miles north of Cairo, stands a
little cottage, silent desolate and
forsaken. Its floors was recent
ly steeped in the blood of its in
mates.
In the dead of night, when the
family were peacefully sleeping,
after a day of toil in the sun-
scorched field, a black demon,
with worse than murder in his
heart, stealthily enters, aiming
to gratify a hellish lust and then
murder the entire family.
That he failed in part is due
solely to a protecting Providence
and a brave girl,, who, with her
life blood, gushing from gaping
wounds, fought the black deipon
until he retreated, and actual
murder, and worse than murder,
was averted.
The criminal was arrested soon
after the crime, and Sheriff Nich
olson, regarding his oath of
office more than the natural de
sire to see swift justice meted
out, carried his prisoner to saf
ety in the county jail of Bibb
county.
In the main ^time, the Bodi-
fords have recovered—or nearly
so. Public sentiment Mas cooled,
and 90 per cent of the people of
Grady county are willing for the
negro to be brought pack and for
him to have a fair trial.
Last week was Superior court,
and the people believed that Ed
LeConte would be brought back,
tried for his crime, and given
the limit of the law, which is a
life sentence at hard labor. 1 *
But not so.
Judge Park first put it up to
the Grand Jury. That /body re^
commended that he be brought
ing in all their glory you will see
residences and manufacturing
enterprises,
Now just a. few words iu con
clusion. Whenever you attempt
a good work, you will find other
men doing the same kind of work,
and probably doing it better.
Envy them not. Envy is a feel
ing of ill-will to those who are
in the same line as ourselves,
a spirit of covetousness, and will
in the future hurt you as well as
your town.
The Grady County Progress,
published at Cairo, issued a vei y
creditable snecial edition this
week in which the advantages of
Cairo and Grady county are ably
set forth. The editor in a word
of explanation, tells of the many
troubles which attended the is
suing of the edition and consider
ing these the Progress has done
exceptionally well. The edition
will do much good for the com
munity and. it is a credit to the
publishers.—Waycross Daily
Herald.
here for trial, certifyiug that
they did not believe that violence
would be offered the prisoner.
Then the Judge fell upon anoth
er plan. Half a day was con
sumed in hearing evidence as to
the danger of violence should the
negro be brought back. About
ninety-five per cent of the peo
ple sworn testified that they did
riot believe that violence would
be offered.
Then jt was that the Judge an
nounced publicly that he would
disregard the wishes of the peo
ple, the recommendation of the
grand jury, the necessity for
quick, lawful justice, and act ac
cording to his convictions.
The people of Grady county
are disappointed—humilated—
outraged.
The action of Judge Park, af
ter the recommendation of the
grand jury and the testimony of
two score good citizens that the
prisoner could have and should
have a fair trial, is saying to the
world that we are all a lawless
people, and our guarantee of
safety is worth nothing.
But this is not true.
The negro Leconte should have
been brought here and tried at
this term of court. There are
eight indictments against him,
aqd altogether he might have re
ceived a life-time sentence, and
this would have satisfied public
sentiment.
As it is, the crime goes un
avenged, and outraged law and
insulted innocence hath no peace
of mirid.
‘Tis true, that the Bodifords are
of < humble origin, uneducated
and poor in 'this world’s goods
But that fact does not lessen the
crime nor deny them the same
protection that the law throws
around the rich, the cultured and
those pf higher birth.
Waterloo
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
It was ninety-eight years ago, June 18, 1815—that; the “Man
of Destiny” found himself “down and out” at Waterloo. The
credit for the job was given to Wellington and Blucher, .but they
did not deserve it. It was not Wellington, it was not Blucher, it
was not the wandering Gruochy, or the “Hollow Way of Ohaine”
that defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, it was the Almighty Himself.
But for the rain that fell in. torrents on the night of the 17th
of June, turning the earth into muck and 1 preventing the move
ment of the French artillery, Wellington would have been beaten
to a finish long before noon, and Blucher upon his arrival, would
have been quickly disposed of by the united and victorious army.
Napoleon was not downed by Man, It took the great forces of
Nature—the snow and frost of the Russian Steppes, the torrential
rains of the Waterloo campaign, to put a quietus upon the little man
whose genius seemed too big for all human combinations.
And right here it is we find the explanation of the undying
charm of the Napoleonic story. The millions who read the story
with an almost hypnotic interest, know very well that Napoleon
was a bad man, inordinately ambitious, brutally selfish, remorse
less in his methods as a hungry Bengal tiger, indifferent to the
miseries of the millions of fellow human beings he used as the in
struments of his will—but he was so smart, so amazingly great in
thought and action, so like a demigod in “doing things”
—they forgot all else, and in a delirum of admiratibn threw their
hats widly in the air and yelled, “Long Live the Emperor!”
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significant matter when compar
ed to the real value it will be to
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Progress. tf
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Fine butter cow, full Jersey.
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Will give 3 t> 4gallons milk.
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machines also carbon parper in
all colors.
Give us your c rders for these
things, please.
Wanted—Pecan grove, 25 to
200 acres, one to five years old,
price must be reasonable. Ad
dress W. H. Platt, . Thomasyille,
Ga.
How Many Little Enemies Have
You?
By HERBERT KAUEMAN
Copy right! HcrbortKnufman: 1013.
The biggest enemies of mankind are microscbpit/iBjg- 1
beasts are not dangerous; their size advertises their me'rf- •
ace. -W;-*
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The mastodon, the saber-toothed tiger, the mammoth, ■
are all dim and distant memories. We can always han
dle anything huge—human brain has never yet failed ; 'to
defeat animal brain.
The monsters of the paleolithic age could not ev'en
survive against the crude weapons and the rude strata- ;
gems cf our half sensate savage forbears. The elephant,
the rhinoceros, the hippotamus, are too evident and clum
sy to escape the hpnter. Thtir lumbering hulks offer
many oppoatunities for deadly thrusts, bone-smashing
shots and the hidden stake. Ten years of organized ef- ;
fort on the part of a single well trained army corps would
easily rid the earth of every dog sized beast oh any confi
dent. Man’s safety and welfare are never imperiled by a
pachyderm drove or a caribou herd, but his existence from *'
the first dawn has been threatened by the hidden hosts ■/
lurking.in the ieaves, skulking in the grasses, sneaking f '
the-morass', ambushed in the dirt, secreted- in -the water, /
and f inating in the very sunlighted air.
Worm and beetle and locust and a million crawling 4 \
blights contest with him every hour for the-fruitage of
his fields.
Scale and maggot ceaselessly reduce his orchard yields >
Microbe and bacillus, descendants of a million gener- :
ations of implacable forbears, nurtured upon the vitals %
and blood, or all the people since the loss of Paradise, still •
take their annual toll of death despite the measures of. '
medicine and the cunning of science.
Man dies of little things. The span of existence *;
would average twice its present length if our sight could -
magnify the, vile and venomous hereditary foes of human- jfel
ity'. Slowly and awkwardly, but steadily and surely, we t' ,
are learning" to attack the invisible brotherhood; but heal- ■.
th and security cannot be assured by the mere extermina- , y
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Chloride of '
tion ,of foulness and purification of rivers,
lime, and carbolic acid, and the use of competent antisep
tics are only half-way measures, We drain polluted ponds •'
and oil the stagnant scum of dead pools to eradicate the ,
breeding grounds of mosquitos and kindred winged pests, V.
We regulate our dairesand our abattoirs and lower ;
the tide of mortality from unclean feeding, but our great
est battle is within ourselves. . Pernicious little habits
gnaw’ upon human will, weaken the engines of vitality and ;
bore their tunnels througe the reservoirs of force and
character. Self-respect and restraint of passions are as ,
essential to longevity as defense of food supply and physi- l
cal prophylaxsis. The mind must be kept -wholesome., :
Dangerous desires must be controlled by the shackles of
will. y*.
Every ■ time we act, every time we think, the mind/ •
makes a record, Each repetition of a performance of
thought deepeds the groove and tends to render the next .,.
similiar impulse more,automatic, until in time the brain./ ‘
becomes like a phonograph disc, and without apparent / -
consciousness we find ourselves guilty of crimes against* f
mAVolitir * . '•
morality.
Then habit becomes master and the man the slave.
The fight for self-control is easy at the outset. It grows
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more arduous and heart-breaking as the years progress.
On guard! Clean thought as weil as clean air and ^
of mir
clean water. Physicial- cleapliness is a matter <
well as'body. •••. : u/ "
Mr. Business Many
give .Cairo'
We are trying to
arid Grady county the best news-
now drawing riear to that mark
and adding new pnes every day.
Now gentle -reader, just a word
or two to you; Bear with us for
paper they have ever had. We awhile, and anyone you can, tell
allnw von to iiide-p. our efforts; • [them of the Progress, her hopes
aims, then we believe it will
allow you to judge our efforts.
But we need your assistance.
We do not believe we are-
getting the patronage we should!
We are for you, Cairo and Grady
county first," last and always, ehd
we believe we should receive
more business at your hands than
constantly trying to improve and
we expect to have two thousand
subscribers when bells toll fcr
Christmas morning, We are
be only a short time until we
have that .old silver dollar jing
ling in our pocket.
, Every dollar, that We are able
to saye, scrape and get together,
above necessary .expenses, we
guarantee you will go into im-
we are now receiving. - We are provements, until we feel like
we are giving Cairo and Grady
county what they deserve, the
best weekly newspaper in South
west Georgia.
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