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Established January, 1904.
Entered as second-class matter
January 14, 1904, at the Post Office
at Cairo, Ga., under the Act of March
3rd, 1879.
F. J. WIND, Editor from April,
1904, to September, 1922.
H. H. WIND, Editor and Manager.
L. A. POWELL, City Editor.
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ooth old and new addresses.
Advertising rates made known up
on application.
Copy for advertisements must be
in the hands of the printer not later
than Wednesday morning of the week
of publication.
Paying by check now has govern
mental approval, in view of the recent
mail hold-ups. That’s well and good.
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Up to the hour of going to press,
the exact cause and purpose of the
Florida hurricane had not been defi
nitely established.
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The Messenger hasn’t formally fe
licitated Governor-elect Hardman, but
he and our readers know how we feel
about him.
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A good lyceum course in Cairo this
winter would not be a bad thing to
have. Of course, it is too late now to
arrange for such, but Cairo needs
more entertainment of this kind and
less of some other kinds.
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Armed guards for the mails will be
alright, provided they achieve the de
sired objects. But mail bandits are
not disposed to be much affected by
mere threats to use the army and
navy to protect the mails.
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Grady countians have one more op
portunity to vote this year, while Cai
roites have two more—the state and
municipal general elections. After
that, we’ll have a real closed season
for politics and voting.
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The charge has been made that Her
Majesty, the Queen of Roumania, has
submitted to interviews only for pay,
preparatory to her visit to America.
Really, in these days, a personage
like that might figure on paying a
large part of the expenses of a tour
by kindly submitting to P publicity'
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schemes. 1 .
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. 7 The Republicans may succeed in
tablishmg : . . their claim trial , their , .
party’s adlttiiistration brought all our
orbsperit. A party that can win in l
the face of such charges of corruption
as tne , Republicans r, ,„ faced I-,. in the j last, . i
campaign should be able to accomp
lish a small task like getting credit i
for our present era of good business. ;
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COLLEGE STUDENTS
INCREASE. |
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We hear a great deal these days !
about our colleges being crowded and
about the greatly increased enroll
ments.
Bringing the matter home to us, it ;
should be a source ol pride to know j
that this year Grady bounty has ap-j
proximately thirty students in first |
grade colleges over the country, be
sides a large number in colleges of
lower rank and prep schools.
Five years ago, v/e dare say Grady
county had more than half this num
bel*, and ten years ago there were
still fewer in our first-rank
tions of learning.
It is a heartening sign!
We cannot get around the fact that
college life itself naturally broadens a
person almost beyond conception, ro
Cardless of whether the college train
ing itself amounts to so much, or n ■
A . full . college course should be aimed
at, by all means, but one year in col
leg? is of inestimable value to any
ctn-'V:- vs who try to make the most of
their opportuniti
Our future, educationally speaking,
ippears bright.
VITAL STATISTICS
HELP.
Interest in the November general
election naturally centers in the con
sideration of the nine proposed con
stitutional amendments, since the
Democratic nomination in this state
amounts to election.
In view of the fact that there is
not a single “new county” amendment
this year—for which we should be
grateful—probably the most import
j ant of the nine proposals to amend
| the state constitution is that relative
j to bringing our vital statistics laws
j up to the standard of forty-three other
states in the union, since Georgia and
four others are the only ones behind
this respect,
Registration of births and deaths
| has come to be recognized as essential
; in establishing the rights of people,
| as well as in promoting the commu-
1 nity welfare.
j A number of concrete instances may
be cited where reliable dates of birth
and deaths have been found essentia),
but the fact that the absence of such
data is often a very serious matter
should cause us to do our bit towati
the enactment of this legislation, al
ready approved by the legislature.
Viewing the need for vital statis
tics in the broad sense, they provide
for complete and accurate recording
of the dates and causes of all deaths,
and therefore enlighten us toward the
prevention of disease, the promotion
of good health and the lengthening
of life.
Your approval of the amendment
providing for better vital statistics
laws will be a distinct service to the
state, to every community in the state
and to yourself.
There is, of course, no organized
opposition to the measure, though the
efforts of the loyal citizens of the
state are needed to insure a good vote
on the matter.
Let’s make up our minds NOW that
we are going to vote in the general
election—and that we’re going to dc
our part toward giving the state the
better vital statistics laws it needs so
badly!
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GAME LAW VIOLATORS.
Albany Herald: Now that the hunt
ing season is partly open in this state,
we are reminded of the complaints
which are made every year of viola
tions of the game law.
We seera * neod some vigorous
nZTl iany 0I f ° me U ! Ge J aw T\Tr VIolator * *
• for thp hunters 1 who habitu
ally l ’ offend w7 in are this particular field of
lawlessness. Exceeding the bag lira
S&H
r rt ° fc !
The waning Sm! laX game'' umllvHoiiiait:'
4 - game law be obseived. Th...
“ th , « <*•>«* ° f «* <»*-«• P r »‘eet
game that remains. “Remains” is
<*e e .rjghi voia, word joi fov the tne game ,. ame birds birds
still with us are but a remnant of th-j i
myriads that once were here. If they j
are not adequacy protected, they will
mime to the vanishing point.
*ne man who exceeds the Lag lim-j
i t or kill game before the Season'opens
propriating is robbing other that which hunters. is not He his is ap- j J
own,
nnd v/b<b bw expressly forbids
his taking. --e Should be prosecuted
and it is the duty of law-respecting
citizens to report, him to the game
warden of the county in which the of
fense is committed.
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The Messenger stands ready to give
impetus to any worthwhile movement
in Grady county. Our chief aim, «?S
tor- wily speaking, at least, is to up
build this section and bring about a
greater appreciation of the advan
tages we enjoy,
Another Grady county consolidated
school district is making plans for a
modern, wi ll-equipped plant—follow
ing the lead of several others in re-
1 cent months. Grady county is cer
tainly going forward well, education
ally. -M
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| The Messenger reprints on this page
! an editorial from the Atlanta Constl
itution on some of the high points of
j the platform adopted at the Macon
Democratic convention last week. The
po!h es outlined in the platform, and
i mentioned in the editorial referred to,
ra e quite significant, and following
! them mi will do much toward restsr
ing the state to its former position of
leadership. The Constitution’s discus
sion is a splendid one.
THE CAIRO MESSENGER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22N1), !92b.
WANT ADS
IMPORTANT—Want Ads are accepted for 1«
cents per line for first insertion and 5 cents
a jj ne f or every insertion after the first, lines
to a" »"
[ads v.here arc person payable has strictly regular in advance account. except
a a
TAKEN UP—One yellow-pided cow
with horns. Owner can get same
by paying expenses. W. R. Harrell.
Whigham, Ga. 10-8-41
FOR SALE—Anyone interested in
buying a nice home and splendid lo
cation in Cairo, with all conveniences,
write Mrs. J. F. STONE, Baxley, Ga.
10-15-2tp:
CORN WANTED—1000 bushels ear
corn at once, See J. E. Hall, Chin.
Cairo, Ga. 15-.lt
CABBAGE PLANTS—Now’s the time
to set for your winter cabbage. We
will ship you promptly any leading
’variety and pay postage; 200 plants,
|45c; 500, 90t; 1,000, $1.75. Carlisle
Produce Co., Inc., Valdosta, Ga.
10-15-2t pd
STRAYED—One male hog, weight
about 100 lbs. cola, black, marked
crop in each ear and underbit in right.
Reward, C. L. Sellers, Cairo, Ga.
j 15-2t-pd.
•TOBACCO SEED—Genuine Bonan
za seed, grown especially for us in
North Carolina. This variety has
proven to be well adapted to this sec
tion and has made a fine seller, an 1
excellent cigarette tobacco. The leaf
is medium long, very broad, ripens
uniformally, cures easily, a bright
golden yellow with good weight and
fine texture. One ounce, which is two
tablespoonfuls, S1.00 postpaid.”
Thomas County Tobacco Warehouse,
Thomasville, Ga. 10-15-tf
ATTENTION, SYRUP FARMERS!
FOR SALE—Grate irons for care
furnices, cut from railroad iron;
lengths 44, 48 and 52 inches; price.
2 %e per pound. Also, lot used belting,
at bargain prices. Phone 137—Kelley
Clark Lumber Co. 10-15-2t.
FOR SALE—I have full supply good,
first-class Fulghum Seed Oats, Ao
pier Seed Oats, Hastings Hundred
Bushel Seed Oats; also Genuine Ab
ruzzi Seed Rye; also regular Georgia
Tall Growing. See us for first-class
extra good stock and close prices,
ROBINSON’S SEED WAREHOUSE,
Cairo, Ga. 10 -S-tf
WANTED—Position as bookkeeper or
assistant bookkeeeper. Age 18, just
out of Business College. B. L. HIN
SON. 10-l-4t. pd.
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LOST_On streets of Cairo or in some
store, Saturday, October, 16, a $10
bill. Reward. W. F. COX Itn.
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in Charlton, Thomas and Cher
oteeCoonties . 425 Atlanta Trust Co,
Building Atlanta ’ Ca ’ 10-22 • 2 t
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““WCl f 2:00 A. M.
doctor iiemember that time von c-ilWl the
long after midnight. You were
to ? w °rried to realize that he had to
ruslf YcT vourY toget out his car and
You never f , • , . ,
was tired—that he had beer, up every
night for a week,
You wanted him. And although he
a thousand reasons why he would
have rather laid in bed and slept—he
came.
And you haven’t paid him yet!
You have a thousand reasons why
you can’t.
If you also had a thousand reasons
why you couldn’t pay the butcher, the
grocer and the other merchants, you
soon would not eat. For business men
refuse further credit to those who do
not pay.
Your wife dresses well. So do you.
And the money you spend is the doc
tor’s money. He wants to give HIS
j v,1 ^ e a new dress, but cannot because
you don’t pay him.
He is depriving his wife of the very
I things YOU are giving yours.
He wears shabby clothes and goes
without things he needs because he
cannot collect from you the money
that is actually his, though it remains
in your bank account.
Is this fair? Are you willing that
the world should judge you on this ?
| Call or write your doctor today.
Tell him you never before realfv
thought much about this subject. Tell
him you forgot he was human—and
you sort of figured that doctors expee
ted to w lit for their money.
■Tell him you are sending him all or
part of what you owe him.
Treat your doctor at least as fairly
as you treat your grocer.
All the doctors in town are reading
this. What do they say about yor
| when they get together? Do veer
j “ears burn?”—Advertisement,
THE PLATFORM.
Atlanta Constitution: A new day is
dawning in the adminstration of Geor
gia “__ governmental affairs.
That the , operation Of the seivice
departments of the state shall be re
moved entirely from politics, and each
placed upon a sound and constructive
business basis, is the voice not only of
the organized democracy of the state:,
as voiced in its platform adopted so
unanimously at Macon, but the pledge
of the governor-elect who gave his un
si inled indorsement to every declara
tion in the platform before it was
submitted to the convention.
Outstanding in its several firm and
militant declarations to the ends
sought is that declaring for a com
plete reorganization of the highway
department, the selection of an ad
minstrator of that department who
shall be a business executive of known
ability, and who shall be restrained
from seeking other elective offices un
til after “a substantial time following
the expiration of his term of service
on the board.”
In order that there may be no beat
ing the devil around the bush on this
score the platform avows that no
member of the board shoud be per
mitted to seek elective office while
serving the state in that capacity.
In order to make the highway de
partment thus politically watertight,
of course, the present law must be
revised by the next legislature. Gov
ernor-elect Hardman, who was for
mally nominated in convention Thurs
day, pledges such recommendations in
his first message.
It matters not whether the board
may consist of three or five or more—
there can be no politics, and no use
of the machinery of the department
for political preferment, so long as the
members of the board are legally in
hibited from elective aspirations while
in the service of the state for the pur
pose of building, in a strictly business
like manner, a complete system of
paved highways.
As the method of financing high
way construction the platform speci
fically declared against the present
“matching system” by which counties
are called upon to issue ad valorem
bonds to do the state’s job. It did not
declare for or against state bonds. It
should not have done so. It did de
clare for a method that shall give
equal opportunities to the “weak”
counties and that shall assure a speedy
completion of a state system of coun
ty-seat-to-county-seat paved highway 4
“through the weakest as well as the
strongest.”
That is, if declared for a state and
not a county unit system of road con
struction.
It is a heartening and far-reaching
declaration.
Other outstanding features in the
platform, for which The Constitution
has fought vigorously and consisted i
ly> are< firgtf a complete reorganiza
tion of the agricultural department, j
and the eliminati on of a political force I
of unnecessary office-holders; second,
the equalization of school opportune
ties by which every boy and girl in
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' , ‘" rdm " h " n ol il| l revenue
fourth, the reorganisation department; of the bank- |
ing department and the revision of the l ? 1
i awc V . i w y ? f 5 e f 0s,t, .. r , ,«
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j, g thoroughly ,, protected; fifth, the
unswerving application of business,
wise economies to every depart
ffi&nt of state government; and sixth,
the rev ision of the tax laws by which
there may be a more uniform distri
bution.
With the pledges of '
the mcCmTg i
adminstration, headedby \y,\a of Geoi -
gja’s most successfpl business mer
is hoped and beheVed the next as
setnbly, w’hosb members have already
fc e en chosert, will cooperate in seeing
that the job so fittingly begun is m<.
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as fittingly completed
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Now—at a time when the people of
most sections further north are en
gaged chiefly in planning their 19271
cotton crop-—Grady county farmers
are planning . to pick . up a little extra
money on cabbage—in mid-winter.
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r~ ihe r Grady County n 4 Building d i j- and
Loan Association will be somewirat
civic in its purpose—and it should
render a great service.
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* CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO. *
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October 20, 1911.
Resolutions, drawn up by Congress
man S. A. Roddenbery, and adopted in
a mass meeting of Gi’ady countians at
the conclusion of the first Grady
County Fair, declared the attraction
to have teen an excellent one in every
particular, and expressed a desire that
ii be made a permanent institution,
A hospital for Grady county was a
■bject for much discussion.
Conditions of prosperity were evi
dent; business was good, it was indi
cated.
FOR SALE
One 10 H. P. gasoline engine
One 5 H. P. gasoline engine
in first class condition
One 15 H. P. steam engine
One 20 H. P. steam boiler
The prices we ask will move
this machinery.
MANRY IRON WORKS
Phones 992-J and 260
Thomasville, Georgia
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Our Cairo office is open each Tuesday
from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. If your eyes trouble
you, you should not delay giving them at
V tention.
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£ 8 glasses that are correctly fitted, that are com
fortable and that look well.
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O. J. WIMBERLEY
4 Miles North of Cairo, Ga.