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CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO- *
AUGUST 17TH, 1934.
Dr. J. R. Dykes, County Health j
Officer, continues to be a very |
busy man—because of a rather
unexpected rush for typhoid vac¬
cinations. He has treated up¬
wards of 1,500 persons (3 treat¬
ments to eacn; during the past
few weeks because two or three
cases developed in the county,
the first in eighteen months.
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Arthur Bell is recognized as
having an unusually keen mind,
for things legal, particularly.
Mental keeness naturally im¬
plies unusua 1 powers of. concen¬
tration. Which accounts for his
forgetting his pipe, his tobacco
and his eye glasses, in succession,
when at the Courthouse the other
day, necessitating return trips
each time, it is said.
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CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
AUGUST 22ND, 1919.
IT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO DO
STRANGER THINGS.
Tickling under the chin by a
pretty girl restored the power of
speech to Will Pahram, a soldier
who mysteriously lost his voice
everseas seven months ago.
Physicians are unable to explain
the miracle, unless the tickling
relaxed muscles controlling the
vocal cords. The girl is Miss
Jane Kuberr.a. She’s just seven.
Editor’s note: We believe it’s
safe to say Miss Kubema or the
former Miss Kuiberna is now 37
years old, and has probably stop¬
ped the speech, temporarily, of
several men by now.
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There was recently haled into
court a little Irishman to whom
it was a new experience. But he
was unabashed.
“Prisoner of the bar,” called
out the clerk, “do you wish to
challenge any of the jury?”
“Well,” he finally replied,
“O’im not exactly in trainin’, but
Oi think Oi could go around or
two with that fat guy in the cor¬
ner.”
BIBLE VERSE
"This people draweih nigh un¬
to me with their mouth, and
honoureth me with their lips: but
their heart is far from me." St.
Matthew 15:8.
WHO WILL INVESTIGATE
THE INVESTIGATORS.
We don’t expect anything to
come of this recent furor over
the investigation of an alleged
wholesale liquor ring, supposed
operated out of Atlanta by
some retailej s who were selling j :
bonded whiskey to bootleggers in |
dry counties. This so-called ring
is said to have existed under pro
tection of state authorities, It
may have existed; but it will
keep on existing, in some varia¬
tion, when this so-called investi¬
gation is over.
The net results will be to spend
some more of the taxpayers mon¬
ey to pay high-salaried investigat¬
ors; and the greatest activity will
be in the newspapers.
We have no doubt that the
present administration would
spend any amount of money (tax¬
payers’ money) to try to pin some¬
thing on a previous administra¬
tion, which could be used in the
next campaign But the point we
are making is that it will accom¬
plish nothing for the average
taxpayer, except to spend some
more of his money. Its only pos¬
sible result will be to help or
hurt some candidate for govern¬
or. And we don’t think it will
even do that.
No matter how bright and shin¬
ing the “investigatior’s” record
is not every employee influenced
by his employer, the man who is
responsible for his paycheck?
And another question which most
of us can answer easily, is this:
has there ever been an impartial
political investigation?
This “investigation” will ac¬
complish a few headlines, a few
news stories and maybe a little
political amunition; and before
the ink is dry on the “investiga¬
tor’s” report, this “liquor ring” or
another one will be in operation
and life will flow smoothly on.
So, we might as well forget the
investigation, and get busy earn¬
ing some money to pay for it.
SOUTH GEORGIA'S
GOLDEN HARVEST.
Look to Georgia’s rich coastal 1
plain, that sweep of loamy fine
soil which extends in a w T ide arc !
from Bulloch county to the Ala
bama line, if you would have an
e pj c Q f man’s ruthless destruc- j
^ venesS) hj s resourcefulness, his j
love for land and his indomitable
will to win.
A century ago this coastal plain
was a forest of long-leaf pine.
Sixty years ago it was being laid
waste by the saw-millers and was
soon to become a stump-scarred
prairie, where not swamp, grown
up in semi-tropical tares. Ad¬
venturing farmers cleared, with
patient, back-breaking, heart
breaking toil, their little patches
of new-bought ground and plant¬
ed them to cotton, much of it the
slowmaturing, long-staple cotton
which throve in the plenteous
moisture, the burning sun of day
and the heavy heat of summer
nights.
The boll weevil, marching from
Mexico and devouring the cotton
plantings as he made his way,
reached this coastal plain in the
1920’s and destroyed the industry.
You cannot protect long-staple
cotton from the boll weevil. It
takes too long for it to fruit.
Stricken with poverty but un¬
beaten in spirit, the South Geor
g* farmer turned to tobacco. The
soil and weather which were fit
ted for long-fiber cotton proved
to be nearly ideal for the bright
tobacco required for American
type cigarettes.
Already there had been pione¬
ering in tobacco. Zealots had been
preaching it and in 1917 440 acres
had been planted to “Virginia
bright,” the harvest had been 840
pounds to the acre, and the then
handsome price of 23 cents a
pound had been got. The next
year 3,750 acres yielded a $1,000
000 crop, a veritable miracle and
a promise of untold wealth in
future years, But 1921 told a
different That was the
little depression after World War
I. The price dropped to 19 cents
and the tillers of 13,000 acres went
broke. But in a few years Geor¬
gia was harvesting around 50,000,
000 pounds every season and
finding it a profitable crop.
Then came 1930 with a yield of
103,000,000 pounds from 114,000
acres, but a ruinous price of 9
cents. The great depression deep¬
ened and in 1931 the price had
fallen to 6 cents.
The agricultural policies of the
Roosevelt New Deal rescued the
industry, the price-support plan
being helped immeasurably by
the great increase in the con¬
sumption of cigarettes and the
ever-expanding demand for to
bacco.
The crop this year, being
auctioned in 19 South Georgia and
three Florida towns, is expected
to be about 131,000,000 pounds.
The support price guarantees a
base of better than 42 cents. The
production average will be about
1,000 pounds per acre. The gross
of, say, $400 an acre may appear
large, but the labor factor in the
growth of tobacco is high. Prep¬
aration, cultivation and curing re¬
quire many man-hours of hard
labor and a skill born of exper¬
ience.
Many millions of dollars will
be loosed into circulation in the
next few weks. South Georgia
will hum with trade; debts will
be paid, new things bought, and
plans laid for a bigger and better
crop next year.
The fact that the United States
Treasury alone has saved the mar¬
ket by buying great quanities of
tobacco and giving it to impov¬
erished Great Britain and Europe
and is underwriting present prices
does not dull the optimism of the
growers.
They see no limit to the de- [
mand for their golden harvest.—
The Atlanta Journal.
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A man whose normal weight is
150 pounds would weigh about 50
pounds if all the water in his sys¬
tem were dried up.
THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY. AUGUST 19. 1949.
US I
JUST BETWEEN j
By
CLIFF OWSLEY
I want to do a little figuring
here, and show you how these
recently added taxes, which the
Honorable Herman Talmadge has
provided us with, will defeat their
own purpose.
This fellow I know smokes
about two packs of cigarettes a
day (too many of course). That’s
14 packs a week. Before the
new taxes were added, he payed
3 cents tax to the State of Geor¬
gia on each pack: 14 week times ciga¬ 3 j
equals 42 cents per
rette tax which Ife paid.
Since the tax has been added,
if he bought his cigarettes in
Georgia, he would pay 5 cents
per pack, or 70 cents per week to
the state.
But enough is enough! He does¬
n’t buy them here any more, and
I can’t blame him. He gets them
from another state for $1.50 a
carton, oi* 15 cents a pack.
So, in adding new taxes, the
state of Georgia, instead of gett¬
ing more money, has actually lost
42 cents a week, from one person,
or $1.68 per month, or $20.16 in
a year. Multiply that by thous¬
ands of smokers who think
enough is enough, and you’ll see
what I mean. And you would be
surprised at the number of peo¬
ple who are doing this.
The following little article has
been going the rounds for years.
Who wrote it or who published it
first, I don’t know. I first came
upon it in my senior year in High
School, when Claude Raines came
to the school one night to make a
speech in his race for Congress.
He left some papers on the table,
and the next morning I picked
them up, and found this among
them. Mr. Raines was defeated
in that race, but was later elected,
and is now a Congressman from
Alabama. It reads as follows:
“I had 12 bottles of whisky in
my cellar and my wife told me to
empty the contents of each down
the sink or else. I said I would
and proceeded with the unpleas¬
ant task. I withdrew the cork
from the first bottle and poured
the contents down the sink with
the exception of one glass, which
I drank.
“I extracted the cork from the
j second bottle and did likewise
i with the exception of one glass
which I drank. I then withdrew
the cork from the third bottle,
emptying the good old booze
down the sink save for one drink
which I drank. I pulled the bot
tie from the cork of the next one.
drank one sink out of it, and pour
j ed the rest down the glass,
j glass “Pulled and the poured sink the from cork the down next
! bottle. I pulled the
; the next
! cork out of my throat, poured the
j sink down the glass, bottled the
j drink I had emptied and drank everything the pour. I stead- When
! ied the house with one hand
: and counted the bottles and corks
1 and glasses with the other, which
were 29. To make sure, I count
ed again when they came by and
j I had 74, and as the house came
j by I had I counted all the houses again and and bottles finally
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j ' and cept corks bottle, and glasses which counted I drank.” ex
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Here’s something Cairo might
well consider: many small towns
have found a municipal-owned
MISS THOMPSON HONORED I
AT SHOWER THURSDAY.—
Miss Barbara Sauls and Miss
Ann White entertained at a
lingerie shower on Thursday af
ternoon at the home of Miss
White when they honored Miss
Ellen Thomson, a bride-elect of
the month.
Arrangements of roses and as
ters formed the attractive decora
tions for the rooms thrown open
to the guests.
Chicken salad sandwiches,
pickles, cheese rolls, potato and
tomato chips were served with
pineapple punch colored with
cherries and mint.
The guests were: Miss Ellen
Thompson, Misses Virginia
Thompson, Jean VanLandingham,
Rebecca Roddenbery, Betty Chen
ey, Ann Palmer, Myrna Williams,
Sue Nell White, Florence Worthy,
Abbie Thursby, Mesdames A. L.
Thompson, B. A. White, B. W.
Mauldin, A. C. Sauls, A. A. Me
Neill, Paul VanLandingham, Ed
Farnell, P. O. Chason, Jimmy
Bearden, Clower White and Lot¬
tie Levie.
Closing Out At Below •
Wholesale Cost
THE FOLLOWING NEW EQUIPMENT
18' Tyler Open Style Dairy Case
19' Tyler Mirror Back Double Duty Vege¬
table Case
1 Tyler Frozen Food Case
2 Taylor 64 or Ice Cream Machines
Electric Motors, Copper Tubing, Expan¬
sion Valves, Fittings, Etc., for Re¬
frigeration Repair.
This Equipment will be sold at rediculous
low cost.
Brown Equipment Sales Co.
1003 North Monroe St. Phone 3212
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South Broad St. CAIRO Phone 244
whiskey store the answer
their financial problems.
During 1948, 318 Minnesota vil¬
lages and cities with populations
ranging from 73 to 9,427 operated
city-owned whiskey stores. Of
the 284 reporting on their fiscal
operations, only 3 reported a loss.
Total profits for 1948 were $5,444,-
705. The town of Thief River
Falls (population 6,019, or about
the same as Cairo) had the largest
profit, amount to $119,578. Bet¬
ter look at the figure again. Hat¬
field, the smallest town, with a
population of 73, showed a profit
of $5,139 on its 1948 operations.
I am a loyal Cairoite; and if
Thief River Falls, Minnesota,
made $119,000 profit out of a city
owned whiskey store, I believe
cairo could make $120,000.
Of course any such move here
would meet strong opposition.
There are those who make money
selling whiskey illegally. They
would fight it tooth-and-nail.
Then there are those who would
wade through evil up to their
necks without saying a word
against it, but scream their heads
off if you mentioned bringing it
out in the open. Yes, such a
thing would meet strong opposi¬
tion. But it would be rather
nice to have all those bumps and
holes out of Broad Street, put up
some fine new public buildings,
pave all our streets, and even
have lights on them, And all
this without raising taxes. Might
even reduce taxes.
AFTERNOON PARTY FOR
MRS. BERRYHILL.—
Mrs. Dave Bowen and Miss
Edith Russell Bowen entertained
with an afternon party on Tues¬
day in honor of Mrs. Bob J.
Berryhill, a recent bride.
Bowls of mixed asters formed
the beautiful decorations for the
living room and dining room.
Potato chips, roasted pecans,
spiced crabapples topped with
mint, and chocolate spams were
served with coco colas.
The bride was presented with
a bottle of sachet as a memento.
Fourteen girl friends of the
honoree were invited; Mrs. M. H.
Berryhill, of Lakeland, was an
out-of-town guest.
Wong, used by a least 150,000
000 Chinese, is the world’s most
common family name.
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Water Maid 3 Lb. Bag 4 Boxes
RICE SALT 15c
Barge No. 1 Tall Can Campbell's Tomato Can
SALMON 43c JUICE 10c
A. J. 2 Boxes 3 Lb. Can
GBITS SPB¥
K. P. Luncheon 12 Oz. Can Super Large Box
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Welches Grape Pi. Bottle 3 Boxos
JUICE 5N3 JELL
IN OUR MARKET
Chuck and Pot Lb. Sliced
Morrell or Cudahy
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Grade A Lb. 42c
WEINERS 33c lb.
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