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January 14, 1904, at the Post
fice at Cairo, Ga., under the act
of March 3rd, 1879.
F. J. WIND, Editor from May
1st, 1904 to September, 1922.
H. H. WIND, Editor and Manager
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• CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO. *
APRIL 27TH. 1934.
C. O. Maxwell announced for
candidate for County Commis¬
sioner from District FouY, in op¬
position to the incumbent, C. M.
Harrison, who announced for re
election several days ago.
Mr. John B. Hawthorn died at
his home here Friday night after
an illness of several weeks; he
was in his sixty-first year and was
stricken with paralysis while
making his delivery on his rural
route several weeks ago.
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In Harvey’s grocery adver¬
tisement items are listed at the
following prices: pan sausage,
lb. 10c; p6rk roast, lb. 12 l-2c;
good steak, lb. 12 l-2c; best stew
lb. 10c.
Classified ads: Wanted: Prof,
and Mrs. John S. Herndon to
present this ad at box office and
receive tickets to Syrup City
Theater. Any Show.
* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
MAY 2ND, 1919.
The City Court of Cairo which
adjourned last Friday broke all
previous records. In the 5-day
session 78 cases were disposed of.
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Of all the articles taxed by the
new luxury tax put on by the Fed¬
eral government, that on the
of soft drinks will be felt
than any other. The act stipulat¬
es that one cent must be collect¬
ed by the dispenser as a tax on
each ten cents or fraction there¬
of, in any sale of soft drinks.
The Cairo Orphens Club
at the home of Mrs. J. B.
nell on Friday afternoon with
Mrs. R. L. Brinkman as joint hos
tess. A program on Handel and
his Compositions was given.
County Tuesday oidinarj, Judge W. C. Barrow,
\_ouin..y wimiia-j’, received
long looked for penston money
for Confederate Veterans. $9,
070 was received to be distribut
ed to the one hundred and one
pensioners residing in Grady
County. Every pensioner is ask
ed to call by and get their money
before May 13th.; unless called
for by that date this money will
have to be returned.
BIBLE VERSE
"She of her want did cast in
b 11 that she had, even all her
living." Mark 12:44. Read Mark
12:37-44.
JOHN HERNDON IS
FIRED.
| Yes, John S Herndon, former
; Cairo resident, Superintendent
i and Athletic Coach of the Cairo
Schools has been fired as Super
intendent of the Academy for the
gjj nd M acon) by the Talmadge
State Board of Educa¬
tion! This act should be sent to
Ripley immediately and let this
famous Ripley gentleman, put
this unbelieveable action in “be
lieve it or not ” This act on the
part of the new State Board of
Education, in our opinion, is one
of the most uncalled for things
that has happened in the educa-'
tional history of the state for the
past half century.
The only reason the Board has
advanced for firing John Hern¬
don, ds simply that he did not
enough degrees to continue
^ 0 h and i e the position of Super
intendent. A very flimsy excuse
for a political move, for his con
duct of the State Institution at
has been very outstand
ing, and no one as yet has been
able to say that he has done
anytb J j n g but a remarkable job.
The firing of John Herndon is
a disgrace to the State of Georgia,
especially when we take into con¬
sideration his numerous accom¬
plishments since taking over the
operation of this most worthy
institution. The Messenger joins
thousands of other Georgians in
condemning emphatically this
sort of political policy.
With all due respect to Hern¬
don’s predecessors and successor,
we think we can say without
contradicition that he was one of
the best and most well-liked
school men ever to hold the post
of Superintendent of the Cairo
School. He was NOT fired from
his job in Cairo, but on the other
hand resigned to take over the
job at Macon, and we doubt very
seriously if he had an avowed
enemy in Cairo when he left
to take up his new duties.
There has been hundreds of
columns written and published
during the past few days about
Herndon’s accomplishments since
he has been at Macon, and it
would be almost an impossibility
for us to begin to give space to
reproduction of the many favor
able articles. However, The Mess¬
enger is reproducing an article by
Celestine Sibley, feature writer
on the Atlanta Constitution,
j Which gives some of the insights
as to the way he has managed the
affairs of the Academy for the
Blind. The firing of John Hern¬
don, by the Talmadge-cntrolled
State Board, will have many re
precusssions, and as sure as we
live, there is another day coming.
The article by Celestine Sib¬
ley is as follows:
TAKING ADVANTAGE
OF BLIND CHILDREN
Today this department is shak¬
ing off its preoccupation with
Spring and multiplication tables.
We are shelving our usual cosy
commentary such subjects ... as
on
little girls’ dancing recitals and
aid - the hawthorn-ever-look
prettier. We are departing from
our custom of leaving politics
to the experts for the reason
that this once politics has shown
its ugly face in a field we look
upon as our own—and not just
ours, but the field of every de¬
cent, humane citizen everwhere.
That is the field of children—
specifically blind children.
They fired John Herndon as su
perintendent of the Academy for
the Blind at Macon the other day.
They said they did it for the
diculous reason that he didn
have his master’s degree in edu
cation. But, by cotneidence. the
peraon they chose to replace him,
J. W. Williams, has been political
ly acceptable to the Talmadge re
gime for a long time. We don’t
know Mr. Williams and we don’t
care anything about his politics,
We do know Mr. Herndon and
we know that his interest in pol¬
itics, if he ever had such an in¬
terest, has been submerged en
t’rly in his interst in blind child¬
ren. His whole life for the last six
years has been submerged in
work for Georgia’s blind children.
For the last six months this
re p or j er and a photographer
have toured Georgia's State in¬
stitutions jails, hospitals.
schools for the handicapped and
the delinguent A few weeks ago
we spent a day at the Academy
fcr the Blind at Macon. We
arrived without giving Mr.
Herndon more than a few min
utes' notice. We were cordially
received and turned loose in
the school to look where we
wanted to, to talk to anybody
we chose. '
We sat in the dining room
with the children and teachers.
We went in classrooms and dorm
itories. We poked around the
kitchen and the playground, we
'talked to children, to their teach
■ who happen
ers and to a parent j
ed to be visiting. We sat in the
auditorium and listened to the
glee club sing and at dusk, when
a pretty blind gril sat alone in
the auditorium practicing “The.
Lord’s Prayer” on the pipe organ 1
we turned to each other and said
with one accord:
“This is the best one yet!”
Inspiring and thrilling are tir¬
ed and hackneyed words but they
apply to the Academy for the
jBlind and to the work that John
Herndon has done there,
j John instinct Herndon for handling is a man children, with j
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II he had never heen to school
a day in his life we believe he I
would still be a better superin-1
tendent than most people. The
fact that he doesn’t have a de
gree seems to us to be of minor j
importance compared to the gifts
he does possess. He loves chil
d r en—not in a maudlin, namby
pamby way—.but like the hard
headed, that two-fisted he is. old football j
coacn
He is a sensible, realistic
man who knows that a blind
person has troubles enough in
this life without being set apart
and educated in a cotton-wool i
atmosphere with no contact
with the outside world. As a
result he has cut down the j
hedge in front of the school and
opened the gates. His boys and
girls go to church and Sunday
school, to Scout meetings, to
the movies and the corner drug¬
store with the same freedom
enjoyed by our children.
There's no business of walking
into the dining room in lock
step like convicts in a prison
camp. There is literally noth¬
ing to set the Academy for
the Blind apart from any com¬
fortable, old-fashioned boarding
school anywhere.
When John Herndon went to
Macon at the end of the last
Williams regime, things were al
together different, according to
some of the older students. They
told us of bad food and dirty
beds. They told us of being seg
regated from the outside world
like a leper colony. They told us
of marching, like convicts, where
\er they went.
Eating with a blind child, par¬
ticularly a child with glaring
holes in his face instead of eyes,
might not have been an attrac¬
tive prospect in the old days.
The pitiful face, the fumbling
hands, spilling food and overturn¬
ing things, were undoubtedly
enough to make a seeing teacher
seek out a table in a private
ing room with other teachers.
John Herndon would not have
it that way.
“These children are going to
live in a seeing world,” he said.
“Let’s teach them how.”
Nowadays, not only every
teacher in the school but John
Herndon and his wife and own
children eai at the tables with
I ; pupils. Table
the blind manners
are supervised There is no spil¬
ling or fumbling—and the food
is bountiful and well-prepared.
Mr. Herndon couldn’t bring the
public to the school as fast as
he wanted to so he took the
i school to the outside world. He
. i begged for the privilege of
i rearing at luncheon clubs and
i bought the lunch which his pu
j pils ate. He told civic and frater
nal organizations about the
j school, he begged and bargained
for new furnishings. He inter
, of , Maeon
a group men
[[[[[; 0tl0 11 ° ^ lece arttheal ” ■' eyes L ’ a?i for L
; pupils . who need them. He was
! bimd children chUdren in in Georgia Borgia who
were being kept in utter
ness because they didn’t know
about the Academy so he got in
his car and sought them out.
This Summer the youngsters
in the Glee Club were to have
appeared at Madison Square
Garden in New York to sing lor
the meeting of Lions Interna
tional. They were pretty excit
ed about it when we talked to
them—but now they say they
won't go. They say they won't
THE CAIRO MESSENGER, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949.
go without John Herndon.
We don’t blame them.
have they got to sing about? They
ga j d they were proud to be re
presenting Georgia. Can they be
p rou d now that their State has
allowed politicians to take ad
vantage of blind children?
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SUPPORT YOUR TOWN.
A certain mule while pastured!
in bountiful meadows was attract
ed by the more tempting appear
»nce of distant fields. Shunning
the abundance at hand, he wand
new spots less plentiful and al-,
ered afar, always finding the
ways leaving them untasted for
new fields inviting him on.
The growing hunger on ly
spurred him on until exhausted
by it> he fell to the sands of a
desert from which he never
rose again. ,
People who shun the stores in
any town because of the allure
ments of those in larger cities,
often find themselves getting
less than they expected for their
money.
Get in the habit of seeing your
local dealer first. If he dosen’t
have what you want, he’ll gladly
get it. And you will be helping
him to serve you better by help
ing him to make it pay. It will
pay you dividends too. Support
the town than supports you.
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SchooI Lunchroom
Had Fish-Cooking
Demonstration
A seafood cooking demonstra¬
tion was put on at the Cairo
School Lunchroom last Friday by
Mrs. Dorothy Robey, Home Eco¬
nomist for the Fish and Wild¬
life Service, Mrs. Lucy B. Ed¬
wards, Assistant State Supervis¬
or of the School Lunchroom Pro¬
gram, and Mrs. J. H. House, man
rgkr of the Cairo School Lunch¬
room. This Demonstration was ar¬
ranged by Clifford B. Lowden,
Fishery Marketing Specialist and
County School Supt. Lloyd Con¬
nell, and was sponsored by the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Russell Brown of the B and B
local Seafood Market, furnished
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the fish used in the demonstra-1
free of charge,
About forty people, most of
them connected with the Grady
County school lunchrooms, at- j
tended the demonstration. The j
purpose of the demonstration was j
to teach the people of the County j
the value of fish as a food and i
to show the different ways to
make fish attractive as well as
edible. Six different ways of pre
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REV< s . WILKES DENDY WILL
RECEIVE DEGREE FROM
HIS ALMA MATER.—
The Rev. S. Wilkes Dendy,
minister of the First Presbyterian
Church of Dalton, will receive a
doctor of divinity degree on May
30 from Presbyterian College,
S. C., his Alma Mater. The de¬
gree will be conferred upon him
during graduation exercises at
which time the school will gradu¬
ate the largest class in its his
tory.
At 11:15 on Sunday morning,
May 29, at the First Presbyterian
Church in Clinton, Mr. Dendy
will give the baccaluareate ad¬
dress.
This will be of much interest
locally where Mr. Dendy served
as minister of the Presbyterian
church for eight years and was
actively interested in all church
and civic affairs. The present
Fresbyterian Church was built
during his pastorate. He moved
from Cairo to Dalton on July 15,
1936. Since his home there he
was first president of the Rotary
Club, an honorary member of
the Civitan Club, Past Modera¬
tor of the Synod of Georgia, form¬
er trustee of his Alma Mater, and
former president of the North
west Georgia Council of Bay
Scouts of America. He was in
1947 elected Dalton’s “Man of
the Year” by the city newspapers
for his work among children.
“RASPBERRY RED" AT
WHIGHAM GYM.—
The sixth grade of Whigham
Public School will present a two
act play, “Respberry Red” at the
gymnasium on Friday, May 6th,
at 8:30 o’clock. The public has
a cordial invitation to attend.
The proceeds -from this enter¬
tainment will be used for class¬
room improvements.
SPECIAL!
USED CAR VALUES
1947 Chevrolet Club Coupe
1941 Ford 2-door
1941 Plymouth 2-door
1948 Plymouth 4-door
1940 Studebaker 4-door
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1937 Ford (85) 2-door
1942 Ford 4-door
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