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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRADY COUNTY.
VOL. 4
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE, 26 1914.
I. W. J. HARRIS COB
BACK AT JUDGE NAT E. HARRIS.
NO. 49
Hon. William J. Harris, candi
date for governor, has come back
at Judge Nat E. Harris in a spicy
card, and answers his questions
and asks some pertinent one. c
himself in the following article:
"Judge Harris, in his speech,
charges that the Government it
paying part of my campaign ex
penses because I am still Diree
tor of the Census. Such a falst
charge is unworthy of a ma’
claiming to be a Christian gen
tleman and aspiring to be Gov
ernor of his State. Every gov
eminent employee, working seven
hours a day, is entitled to ?
month’s leave each year. As
Director of the Census, often
working fourteen hours a day, I
am entitled to my leave just as
any other Government employee.
What about Judge Harris’ res
ignation as Attorney for the
Southern Railway?
Will Judge Harris deny that
his sons are receiving from the
Southern and Central Railroads
the same amount now that his
firm received before he resigned
and gave up his passes? I would
not charge that the Southern
Railroad was paying his cam
paign expenses because of this
tact, and should apologize to the
people of Georgia for insinuating
that the Government is paying
part of my campaign expenses.
No one has contributed a cent to
my campaign, but what about
Judge N. E. Harris’ campaign
expenses? The papers stated
his friends were raising a S10,
000 campaign fund. Will he
publish a list of those contribut
ing, and let the people of Geor
gia see who is interested in his
campaign? Will he tell the peo
ple for what purpose he will
spend this vast sum?
Since Judge N. E. Harris has
referred to my resignation, I will
ask him to tell the people of
Georgia about his resignation as
attorney for the Southern Road.
Judge Harris and his sons com
posing his law firm are division
counsels of the Southern Rail
road. Judge Hamp McWhorter,
Assistant General Counsel of the
Siuthern Railroad, appoints
these lawyers. W.ien Judge N.
E. Harris was appointed Judge
of the Macon circuit and sent in
hi3 resignation to Judge Mc
Whorter, did not his law firm,
composed of his sons, receive
the sam ray while he was serv
ing as Judge? After his term
on the bench expired, Judge Har
ris was reappointed attorney for
the Southern Railroad by Judge
Hamp McWhorter.
Will Judge Harris now tell the
people of Georgia about his res-
ignatic n as Attorney for the
Southern Railroad? Let him
publish the correspondence and
tell the conversations between
himself and Judge Hamp Mc
Whorter, the Assistant General
Counsel. Did the Southern Rail
road oppose or welcome his res
ignation? Do they prefer to
tave him as their attorney or as
iovernor of the state? He will
not deny that every Southern
Railroad lawyer in Georgia, ex
cept a few personal friends of
mine, are supporting him for gov
ernor. Everywhere I go, the
Southern Railroad engineers and
the men in the shops are my
friends, but nearly all tlie South
ern Railroad lawyers are trying
to control the politics of their
counties and have Judge Harris
elected Governor.
Nearly every railroad lobbyist
and every other kind of lobbyis t
in Georgia is supporting Judge
Harris, and fighting me. They
are fighting me because when I
was a member of the State Sen
ate they knew I served the peo
ple and not the interests they
represented. Why are they sup
porting Judge N. E. Harris?
Let him explain why nearly ev
ery lobbyist in Georgia is his ac
tive supporter. Let him point
to one single lobbyist who is sup
porting me. ,
Judge Harris refers to my
resignation as Director of the
Census, to which position I was
appointed by President Wilson,
on the recommendation of Secre
tary Redfield of the Department
of Commerce, one of the ablest
and best men I have ever known.
I vountarily tendered my resig
nation so as to relieve the Presi
dent and the Secretary of Com
merce of any embarrassment,
and there are no strings tied to
my resignation.
Congress has appropriated
nearly a million dollars for spec
ial work of the Census Bureau
which begins this fall and will
last several months. Senators
and Members of Congress from
nearly every State in the Union
petitioned the Secretary of Com
merce not to accept my resigna
tion, and if the Secretary desires
to have me do this work, it is
the highest recommendation of
me to the people of Georgia and
shows them that I am worthy of
their trust should they make me
Governcr.”
Messrs. Clark & Jones, who have
been running the Surprise Market,
for some time, sold same last week
to Mr. M. L. Mott, who will con
tinue the business' at the old stand.
Mr. Ciarlc will devote most of his
time to his meat business at Way-
ertss. His family will remain in
Cairo for the present.
DIRECTOR FORT
Mr. and Mrs. . Roscoe Luke are
receiving congratulations upon the
arrival yesterday of a baby girl tit
tlieii home on llansell Street.
Friday’s Tliomasvillo Enterprise.'
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
CAIRO, GA.
STEPPING STONES
TO WEALTH.
Thrift in youth means
wealth in old age.
MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK
W. T. Crawford, Pres. Thos. Wight, V-Pres.
J. E. Forsyth, Cashier.
The Grady County campaign
a jainst the hook worm disease
came to a close hist week and the
Progress is just in receipt of the
following letter from Director
Fort, which should be read by our
many readers:
Enclosed I am sending to you
an official report of the work
done by the Director of Field
Sanitation of the Georgia State
Board of Heal h, leading to bet
ter health conditions and the
eradication of hookworm disease,
in co-operation with your Board
of County Commissioners, your
County Educational Department
and the physicians of Grady
county. The report shows, that
Dr. A. G. Fort, Director of the
Department of Field Sanitation
spent 5 days in your county ad
vertising this campaign and vis
iting the schools, in which work
he was ably assisted by Dr.
Haekett of the International
Health Commission and Mr,
Weathers, Supt. of the schools
of Grady county. Dr. A. W.
Wood took charge of the dispen
sary work in Grady county on
May G and continued-same until
June 16, 1914. He gave 36 lec
tures, including lectures at dis
pensary points and 291-1 were
reached by these lectures. Re
port shows that 14 schools were
visited and that 825 students
were instructed on hookworm.
It further shows that of 1433 ru
ral school children examined,
that 1424 were suffering from
hookworm and that of 263 closets
in the rural districts examined,
3 averaged 100 per cent, 158
averaged 10 per cent and 102
averaged 0, because no toilet
was found, making the sanitary
index of your county 7.14 per
cent. We spent 30 days at dis
pensary points, we examined
3078 different people, we found
2376 different people with hook
worm, we treated 2376 once, 994
twice. 274 three times, 75 four
times, 10 five times and 3 six
times making a total of 3740
treatments given. We'found 7
people suffering from the stom
ach worm and 11 suffering from
the baby tape worm.
Your county appropriated
$225.00 and we utilized of that
amount $219 17. For this amount
2376 people were helped from a
physical stand point and benefits
to these will be shown in years
to come, in making of stronger
men and women and of greater
developement in your splendid
county.
We wish to express to the peo
ple of your county our apprecia
tion of their co operation and to
thank most heartily the Board of
County Commissioners, the phy-
cicians, editors and the Depart
ment of Education for their
splendid assistance.
Respectfully yours,
A. G. Fort,
Director of Field Sanitation.
Mr. P. H. Ward, county de
monstrator of Grady, was a visi
tor to the city Tuesday. He is
busy arranging for a big farmers
rally and picnic that will take
place near Cairo in July. Sever
al prominent speakers and ex
perts will he on the program for
this occasion. Mr. Ward is in
terested in the Boys Pig Club of
his county and expects a fine
showing this year in this line.
IIa says that he has some pigs
tiiat gained forty pounds in thir
ty days. That’s going some and
if he keeps up that gait his coun
ty will make-a national record.—
Thomasville Press.
HE Will NOT
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dor
sey, whose prosecution of the
Frank case has brought him
prominently before the people of
the State, and who has been urg
ed in many letters and telegrams
to run either for the United
States Senate against Hoke
Smith or for the governorship,
Sunday announced that he was
not in the race for any ciffice.
Thanking his friends for the
compliment he declares that he
is not entitled to Bny special re
cognition for the faithful per
formances of his duties. The
following statement was issued
by Mr, Dorsey last Saturday.
“My official duties have been
so heavy for some time that I
have been unable to give con-
s'deration to personal or politi
cal matters. During the past
'ow weeks I have received many
requests that I permit the use of
my name for political office. It
I had made earlier reply to these
requests I would have undoubt
edly declined and without giving
the suggestion due consideration.
The number and nature of these
requests have been sucli as to de
mand earnest consideration on
my part.
“I have thought over the mat
ter from every viewpoint and am
finally unable to find any com
pelling reason why I should alter
my original inclination.
“I am grateful for the com
pliment conve;ed by these sug
gestions and am gratified that
they have been based upon ex
pressed approval of the dis
charge of my pi esent duties. I
feel that I am not entitled to any
special recognition for the per
formance of official duties which,
however onerous, are and have
been performed with exual fidel
ity by similar officials of this and
the othtr circuits in Georgia. I
have, therefore, decided not to
offer for any office.’’
STATE, POLITICAL
AND OTHER GENERAL NEWS.
A Name to Remember.
Yes \v« U,o our pressing at the
On Time Cleaning and Pressing
Club, why not you?—Phone 238.
Here is a name—‘’Penslar” •
that will mean a great deal to
every man woman and child in
this citv when they learn what
it stands for.
It is your duty and our pleasure
to tell you.
There is a great firm of Man
ufacturing Chemists in Detroit,
The Feninslar Chemical Com
pany, whose name on the label of
of a remedy is the best possible
guaranty of its purity and medi
cinal worth.
They prepare in their splendid
laboratories over 100 remedies
for,household use.
They do 'not believe in secret
medicines. They think you have
a right to know what you are tak
ing. And you have.
So they put the full formula on
every label—the name and the
exact quantity of every ingre
dient—all in plain English so you
can judge for yourself.
If they were not sure that each
of these was the best possible
prescription—if they were not
sure that their skill in compound
ing these remedies was unsur
passed, they could hot afford to
do this.
We like to handle drugs of
quality. That is the way we get
our trade. That is why w.e ob
tained the agency for these
splendid remedies known as
Remedies
Remember the name, “Penslar.
Remember what it means. "High*
est Quality and Formula'-on-the-
iabel.” We’ve a great deal
more to say about Penslar.
Watch for it. Come in and ask
about Penslar Remedies . You
may need a really reliable remedy
some day —learn about it now.
The Grady Pharmacy
THE PENSLAR STORE
An American miner from Mex
ico, named A. IT. Malaney, who
quit that country to prospect
gold among the Georgia hi I Is,
has created a sensation Here by
appearing with two gold ingots
worth $1,600, which he says he
took in a few days by crude
methods from a mine in Forsyth
county.
Malaney says the state and the
people of the state are overlook
ing a tremendously big bet. He
believes Georgia would resemble
the California of the Forty-Nin
era, if anybody just had the
nerve to go at Georgia gold min
ing in earnest.
Malaney says the people of
Georgia ridicule the idea of there
being gold in these hills, but
they simply don’t know what
they are talking about. They
will go to Mexico or California
for gold, yet will spurn it right
here at their feet,” he said.
Tent City, a small suburb of
Atlanta, has the distinction of
being the first southern commun
ity to elect a woman mayor. It
also has two women in its coun
cil, and a woman police chief.
The women of the community
held a caucus previous to the
election, and agreed to combine
on Mrs. D. C. Manry. The op
position scattered between three
other candidates and Mrs. Manry
had an easy victory.
The council is composed of
four persons, two men, and two
women. On the police force,
taking directions from the wo
man chief of police are one police
man and two police women.
Electricity has begun to be
come a household world even in
the smallest towns and rural
communities of Georgia since the
developments by the Georgia
Railway & Power Company at
Talullah Falls carried power into
so many new and undeveloped
sections.
Time was when the housewife
dreaded washing day and its
companion, ironing day. Now
the electric washer robs the wash-
tub of its terrors, and the elec
tric iron makes ironing a delight.
No more the unsafe and filthy
oil lamp or the flickering gas jet.
The incandescent bulb has taken
its place, Gone too is the old
time cumbersome chandelier
with its mountain of quiverinr
glass. In its place is the grace
ful electric cluster.
Then there is the electric cook
ing stove, the electric percolatoi
for coffee, the electric broiler,
electric curling irons, electric
fans and a thousand and one
other electrical conveniences.
Alonzo Iler, a well known
South Carolinian, was in Atlanta
this week with the first copy of
the oldest, newspaper of which
there is any record ever publish*
ed in Georgia. It was printed in
Augusta Saturday May 5, 1838,
and is consequently nearly 100
yeas old.
It: is called the “Augusta Mir
ror,” and was published by W.
T. Thompson and James McCaf-
forty at 261 Broad street. Its
object, according to the quaint
wording of the editors was "po
lite literature and useful intelli
gence.”
In addition they promised to
publish each week for their read
ers "the latest popular piece of
music, arranged for the Piano
forte and Guitar.”
The leading article in this is
sue was a portion of the now fam
ous “Georgia Scenes.” The
paper contained much poetry,
but no advertisements, which
leads the modern reader to won
der how the editur managed to
pay his hills.
The Georgia legislature opened
this year’s session Wednesday,
facing a busy and turbulent fifty
days. Among the big problems
to be . fought over are the tax
equalization question, prohibi
tion, child labor, the school book
question, the Western & Atlan
tic lease, to say nothing of the
problem of retiring and re-issu
ing the state’s bonds.
W herefore the present session
will be one of the busiest, and
perhaps one of the most notable
n the history of Georgia. To
add interest and excitement to
the proceedings at the capitol, it
is an election year and campaign
politics is making itself felt al
ready on the floor of both house
and senate.
One of the things which is be
ing watched most closely is.
.vhether or not the house this
year will develop the leader which
it lacked last season. The per
sonnel of the house, practically
intact, save where successors
have been named to take the
place of five deceased members,
being watchfully scanned.
There are ho changes at all in
the senate.
The opening days show that
leaderless or otherwise the house
forces are sure to be divided on
the paramount question of tax
equalization, and the opponents
of the measure who lost by one
vote last year are sure to make a
lard fight for a repeal of the
neasure this summer.
, Just what part the prohibition
question will play in the sum
mer’s doings is hard to predict,
but it will certainly share a part
of the spot-light. It will be re
called that the senate ' last year
passed a bill making the Webb
law operative i n Georgia.
W’hether the advocates of that
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