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Established January 15th, 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 May 1st,
1004 to September, 1922.
H. H. WIND, Editor and Manager.
L. A. POWELL, Associate Editor.
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LEGISLATURE DOES
MANY THINGS.
The Georgia Legislature has end
ed its biennial session with a record
of 472 bills and 70 resolutions ap
proved by both houses and the Gov
ernor, Roughly, the total of appro
vals by both houses represents about
half of the bills and resolutions in
troduced. Governor Ellis Arnall has
vetoed only six or eight measures,
altogether, and several of the vetoes
were because of technical errors,
duplications or similar flaws.
Viewed as a whole, the work oi
the Legislature is unquestionably
quite creditable, although criticism
has resulted from its action on some
highly controversial matters.
Much of the work done must be
approved by the people before the
measures cap become operative.
Some 40 constitutional admendment
proposals are to be submitted to the
voters for ratification or rejection in
a special general election called for
Aug. 3rd. Well in advance of that
election we shall endeavor to dis
cuss more fully in these columns the
ten or more amendment proposals
of a general nature.
Although Gov. Arnall’s program,
which was ratified, is important,
the most important single act of
session, probably, was the creation
of the commission to redraft the
entire state constitution, the new
draft to be submitted to the next
Legislature, and then to the voters.
Redrafting of the constitution
should be justified by eliminating
the expense and necessity for sub¬
mitting purely local measures to the
voters of the entire state, aside
from numerous other improvements
therein.
V
Hitler emerged from 133 days of
silence last Sunday to assure his
listeners that “our home front has
been stabilized and we have taken
measures which will secure in the
months ahead of us success until
final victory is achieved.” About
the same time Prime Minister Win¬
ston Churchill, in an address, de
dared he has little hope for victory
before 1945. These are statements
that have weight as to our think
ing in regard to the probable dura
tion of the war.
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We find many people who think
victory would be surer and quick¬
er if Eddie Rickenbacker could be
given complete command of the
home front and General Douglas
MacArthur complete command of
the fighting fronts.
BIBLE VERSE
"Let your light so shine before
men. that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father,
which is in heaven." Matt. 5:16
(Read John 15:1-10).
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THE CAIRO MESSENGER FRIDAY, MARCH 26TH, 1943.
OUR HONOR—ANI) THE
WINNING OF THE
WAR.
Effective last Monday, the Office
of Price Administration at Washing
i ton rescinded the ban on pleasure
! driving, and along with it the “hon¬
or system” on which motorists had
been placed, in the 17 Atlantic sea¬
board states.
Simultaneously, it was ordered
that each No. 5 “A” gasoline coupon
cover two weeks instead of one,
making the ration thereon 1 1-2
gallons a week instead of the three
gallons previously available, al
though the coupons are still worth
three gallons apiece. The coupons,
unless there is a revision later,
must serve for twice as long a per¬
iod as heretofore.
“A” gasoline coupon holders are
now permitted only 20 miles a week
on this basis which may be suffi¬
cient to take care of the emergency
needs of most of such families, al¬
though 80 to 90 miles of driving per
month will hardly be sufficient to
keep automobile batteries function¬
ing and the normal running condi¬
tion of many autos may not be
maintained.
It is admittedly a most perplex¬
ing problem for the OP A—to force
needed conservation of gasoline and
motor vehicles and at the same time
to provide sufficiently for neces¬
sary driving and for maintenance of
vehicles in good running condition."
The ban on pleasure driving, theo
j retically, at least, placed the em
j phasis just where it should be—up
on elimination of all non-essential
1 driving. There is real argument for
even a nation-wide pleasure driving
ban. Special enforcement of the
ban was relaxed a few weeks ago
and motorists in the seaboard area
were temporarily placed “on their
honor.” Now that the ban and the
honor system have been abandoned
it is to be assumed that OPA de¬
cided a reduced gasoline ration will
be better.
However, the real problem lies in
the fact that too many motorists in
the seaboard area, along with many
I people throughout the country, still
have not realised fully that we
j have a war to win and that victory
; will demand of all of us far more
than many of us have yet shown
a willingness to accept.
The Atlanta Journal editorially
j accepts the changes of policy by
OPA with reference to automobile
driving with the following timely
1 observations:
The cheaters are going to cheat,
chiselers are going to chisel in
any event. This they already have
demonstrated, Imperative orders
plus the threat of hailing offenders
to ration board courts did not stop
them. The recent withdrawal of
surveillance and the substitution of
the so-called “honor system’" served
so far as we can see, to let down
the bars and give the cheaters and
chiselers as wide a range for their
riding proclivities as their selfish
desires could ask.
The one practical way to prevent
such chiseling by these persons, it
would appear, is to legalize their
driving to the full extent of their
ration books. One way to prevent
crime is to erase the statutes which
declare certain acts illegal. It is
perhaps not the noblest way, but it
has the advantage of achieving sta
! tistical lawfulness.
The three vivacious subdebs who
were touring Peachtree Road in the
gorgeous sunshine of Tuesday after¬
noon—the top of their maroon con
vertible sport roadster retracted,
their blonde tresses floating in the
vernal breeze, their merry laughter
j i giving musical counterpoint to the
radiance of their shining faces as
t h ey drove hither and yon—were
enjoying and parading the hollow
mockery of the “honor system.”
What did they know, or care about,
the dull metaphysics of public mor¬
ality or the dreary economics of
freight transportation?
All they knew or cared was that
they had a “C” card, a tank full of
gas, no officer or snooper was go¬
ing to stop them, and it was a love¬
ly afternoon.
No less heedless or oblivious to
the national necessities were the
stream of drivers on the same again
thronged highway speeding 40 to 50
miles an hour, and going where or
what or for what purpose? Who
will ever know? Perhaps they were
all on defense business or discharg¬
ing essential duties. Perhaps, but the
odds are heavily against it.
No, The honor system will not
work, ’ any J better than did the sur
veillance . system, against those ,, Who ,
lark laCK thf. me nnnceir.nr'P conscience. Sr> &0, let S nave have
done with the order against plea- ; j
driving. ...
Sure
But, long it may be neces- 1
so as
sary to conserve gasoline and tires, j
let’s have a revision of the gasoline >
ration cards. Let’s have a real i
checkup on the “B” and “C” card;
boys, and let’s winnow the cheaters
and chiselers who are now sitting
pretty in their fraudulent classifica-!
tions and like the wind go wherev
er they listeth, usually at an illegal
rate of speed.
Let’s attack this problem at its
root. 'Take the pilfered mileage
away from these birds, and put the
penalty of the law on every “inno¬
cent and unsuspecting” citizen who
purchases a ration book that he
knows was stolen.
Then the great majority of our
people, the citizens who obey the
rules because they are truthful and
honest and want to help in the war
effort, will feel better about their
own self-denial and will have a
higher respect for public morality.
We feel the real problem involves
not motorists alone but ALL of our
people. Must we suffer bombings of
our cities—which are not out of the
question, by any means—and all of
the other full horrors of war before
we become willing to pay the real
price of victory? Must we suffer
continued chiseling on the part of
many of our people, in various
ways, without realizing that such
chiseling and indifference to the
“all out” war effort only serve to
lengthen the conflict and to there¬
by increase the flow of blood from
our own warriors?
Let us pray that God will make
each of us still more mindful of our
great responsibilities in this crisis
and that He will make each of us
in every way more worthy subjects
of a democracy that is on trial as
never before!
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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MARCH 28TH, 1913.
Cairo prepared to entertain the
Second District High School Meet
April 3rd-4th and secured places for
more than 100 visitors in the homes.
* * *
Prof. G. C. Bowden of the Cairo
Schools announced it had become
necessary to abandon plans for an
eleventh grade because the large
addition recently made to the school
building cost more than had been
anticipated and the trustees were
not able, financially, to care for the
extra cost of the grade.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs. Kincaid at Pine
Park entertained the Grady county
doctors and their families with a!
delightful fish fry at Ballard’s mill. |
The annual convention of the
Grady County Medical Society was ;
held at the time. I
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* CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO. * |
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MARCH 30TH, 1928.
Local civic agencies backed the
local U. S. Sugar Cane Experiment
Station in its efforts to have estab¬
lished a quarantine against im¬
portation of sugar cane from areas
outside infested with the moth bor¬
er, a serious pest.
* * *
County leaders continued the per¬
sistent fight for a north-and-south
state highway through Grady coun¬
ty in the face of a serious threat
presented by legal attacks upon the
state highway mileage allocation
law.
• • •
Cairo prepared to entertain April
9th the South Georgia Methodistj
Conference Missionary Society an-1
nual convention which was to draw
several hundred visitors.
Cotton Rags
WANTED !
We Will I
Pay 10c a Pound For t
Limited Quantity Of r
Clean, All White
Cotton Rags! !
BRING THEM TO i
Jack Gandy’s Service
Station !
CAIRO
WANT ADS
Ada are accepted . . for . in 10
centa per line for first insertion and 6 cents :
line for ever y insertion after the first, lines
six words . There iB a minimum !
of 30 cents, and charges for all Want
are payable strictly in advance except *
a person has a regular account.
display *
SALE.—12-ft, Warren
case, with coil and condenser—
See R. S. Jones at H. V.
c 0 3-26-2t.
Country-cured and
smoked HAMS to weigh from 12
18 pounds. Cash market price,
3-26-tf?
cured hams,
sides and shoulders. Bill's Gro-
3-26-4t.
SALE.—Speed-O-Print dupli¬
cator; in excellent condition. Mail
to XYZ, c/o Cairo Mes-
3-26-2t-pd.
SALE.—12-ft. Warren display
case, with coil and condenser—
See R. S. Jones at H. V.
Co. 3-26-2t.
SALE.—Watkins pepper, lin¬
iments, insect dust, fly spray,
and poultry minerals, and all
products. J. R. Hall. In
every Saturday. 2-26-2t-pd.
Cairo Mar. 22nd pocket
book containing currency and val¬
papers, including social se¬
and other identification
Liberal reward for return to
office. No questions.
Payne. 3-26-2t-pd.
SALE. — One International
P30 power unit and Cracker Jack
B. feed mill; also one portable
mill unit mounted on Chevro¬
truck in good condition, re¬
tires, consisting of Interna¬
P300 power unit with 3U J.
feed mill, v-belt drive. See W.
Mixon, Cairo. 3-26-2t«
SALE.—1937 Ford Tudor se¬
dan. Cash or terms. See Mrs. Ed
Rushin. 3-19-2t.
WANTED.—Immediate open¬
ing; good Watkins route in the
of Cairo, car, experience un¬
average earnings $25
pay starts immediately.
company, best known prod¬
biggest demand. Write J. R.
Co., 70-88 W. Iowa Ave.,
Tenn. 3-19-2t-pd.
am in the market for
white No. 1 Shelled Corn, $1.35
bushel. Will call for it. $1.40 a
delivered. C. L. Thompson,
O. Box 295, Thomasville, Ga.
3-19-2t.
Dr. F. W. Roebuck, Optometrist
Examination by Appointment
Phone 337, Wight Building.
Closed Thursday Afternoons.
FOR RENT. — All
conveniences. Call 329. N. Broad
3-5-2t-pd.
SALE.—One 3 gal. ice water
cooler; good as new, used one
Apply Messenger office. R
3-19-21. a R
H. L. CHENEY, Dentist a ■
Phone 1. Roddenbery Building
Out of office Thursday afternoons. a I
CRUSHED.—stationary mill a R
located opposite light plant in
will crush your feed all day
Saturday. MIXON'S. 2-19-2t.
— Black Poland China
male hog; wt. about 250 lbs.;
fork and underbit each ear.
for information. G. C. Har-;
Rt. 1, Whigham. 3-5-4t-pd.
conveniences; RENT.—6-room also house garage with apart¬ all I
For information call by Mad¬
Service Station. 3-19-2t.
settled, reliable col¬
ored woman to do housework and
e for child. See Mrs. Marie ML
at W. J. Boyett's office,
3-26-lt-pd.
Spring came in Sunday and a o
frost followed Monday. But
or freezes from now on
be quite unusual.
MONUMENTS ss
Concrete, Granite
and Marble
SLABS, COPING,
ETC.
For Quality Work and
Best Prices, See
H. F. BEARDEN §
South Ga. Funeral Home
Phone 75 Cairo
"•■put l
Chicks Of Outstanding Qualit '•--r
Our Chicks Produce Better Layers and F
Growing Broilers. All Chicks Are Ga. U. S. Apm-ove/t^ s
lorum Controlled. 1 !J ‘
Breeds That We Hatch and
Prices Are:
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White Leghorns 1 ~c each
New Hampshires llc each
Cornish-Leghorn Cross .... n c each
PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW!
Herring’s Poultry Farm
Calvary, Georgia
“The Home Of Quality!”
Chicken
Bring Your Chickens To
MIXON’S
Chicken Truck Will Be There All Day
SATURDAY
HIGHEST CASH PRICES
LOOK!
Colored Hens, pound . 23c
White Leghorn Hens, lb. 17c
Colored Fryers, pound 25c
Roosters, pound . . 10c
Ducks, pound . . 14c
WE PAY CASH FOR MIXED,
BROWN OR WHITE EGGS!
Bring Them MIXON’S All Day
To Saturday
Important Notice To
Cin OF CAIRO MOTOR
VEHICLE OWNERS!
Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the pro¬
visions of an ordinance of the City of Cairo, all persons,
firms and corporations within the city, of whose place of
business is located within the corporate limits of the City
of Cairo, and who own a motor vehicle or motor vehicles vehick; on
April 1st, 1943, are required to register said motor 4
or motor vehicles at the office of the City Clerk
Treasurer.
Said registration must be accompanied by payment of
a fee of 25c per vehicle; and for each registration owners
of such vehicles will be issued a small sticker which must
be affixed to the front of each vehicle so registered in 3
position so it shall be plainly visible at all times.
After a reasonable time, non - display of such stick¬
er will be considered prima facie evidence that any ve¬
hicle is not duly registered and such owners shall be sub¬
ject to the penalty provided in the ordinance.
Registration is also required for any motor vehicle puf'
chased, transferred or traded for after Appil 1st, 19«
within five days after such purchase, transfer or trade.
The 25c registration fee funds will be used to defra?
expenses of this and future annual registrations and i°
that purpose only.
The hearty co-operation of everyone will be greatly
appreciated.
CITY OF CAIRO
J. W. Thomas, Chief Of Police