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Established January 15th, 1904.
Eentered as second-class matter
fanuary 14, 1904, at the Fost Of
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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The weather may have been
hot and dry during th past 30
days, yet it has been awful nice
on the peanut and cotton crop,
locally speaking.
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO.
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SEPTEMBER 26TH. 1919.
Last Sunday, Mr. Jim Woolfolk,
local policeman, who is always
on the job, pulled one Charley
Thomas, colored, off train 189
from Waycross. Mr. Woolfolk
had received a message that the
negro was wanted for burglary
at Homerville met the train and
got his man. He was placed in
the county jail to be returned to
Homerville the last of this week.
Mr. J. J. Cook, a former resi¬
dent of this county, and who last
year returned to his former home
at Conway, S. C., has purchased
the farm of Mr. Grover Posey,
located four miles north of town,
As usual, a small want ad in The
Messenger by Mr. Posey, brought
the goods. Mr. Cook, who takes
The Messenger seeing the ad and
knowing the value of Grady
county farm lands, came down
and purchased the place. He ex
pects to return to Grady and
make this county his future home.
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• CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO.
SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1934.
Queen Leaves
Miss Lucy Cara Ham, the local
“Peach Queen”, planned to leave
on Thursday night for Atlanta,
where she will board the Georgia
Peach Queen special train for the
Century of Progress Exposition
in Chicago.
A continuous round of
tainment will be provided for the
Peach Queens and “Miss Georgia”
will be chosen from the group.
Local beer dealers have discon
tinued the sale of beer,
ing the announcement of the $1,
000 additional Federal license tax
for dealers in “dry" states such
as Georgia.
It is likely that beer will
now assume the same status as
liquor here and will be available
only from bootleggers.
BIBLE VERSE
"Wisdom is better than wea
pons of war: but one sinner de
stroyelh much good. Scclesi
astes 9:18.
GRADY COUNTY'S
FARM TOUR.
The annual Grady County
Farm Tour which is sponsored
by the local Kiwanis Club has
created much interest not only in
this ‘county and section, but is
creating much interest in other
par ts of the state. Thousands of
words have been published
throughout the state concerning
these annual tours which was in
augurated last year by the local
civic club.
There is much for one to learn
about the various farm practices
that are being carried out by our
progressice farmers, both locally
and elsewhere throughout the
state. These tours, as hundreds
of farmers have learned, mean
much to each tiller of the soil,
and this form of enlightment
should help many of our friends
to improve both farming and liv
- n g conditions. This fact is fully
illustrated when we take into
consideration that in 1948 about
125 farmers took advantage of
the tour, and only a few days ago
nearly 370 made the rounds of
the most progressvie agricultural
layouts. It is said that Exten¬
sion Service officials and others
engaged in agricultural training
service were not only amazed
but astonished at the magnitude*
of the tour as well as the interest
manifested by those who had the
pleasure of going the rounds.
The Messenger does not hesi
tate to congratulate those coun
ty agricultural workers for assist
ing the Kiwanis Club and its
committees in selecting the vari
ous farms that were visited on the
tour. There were a number of
places other than the farms visit
ed, that were in line for a visit,
yet naturally only so many could
be selected as the time consumed
on the tour was limited. Prob
ably a number of these will be
visited on a similar tour next
year.
For a number of years the
Western railroads of this country
used as thir advertising slogan:
’'See America First:.” W r e think
our farmer friends in Grady
County could not adopt a better
slogan than: “Seeing and Know
ing What Their Farm neighbors
Had Done and Were Dong.” We
all have got a lot to learn if we
hate to acknowledge it. These
farm tours, we think, has meant
much to hundreds of farmers in
the past, and The Messenger be¬
lieves considerable more interest
will be shown in the future, and
we don’t hesitate to extend our
] j hearty congratulations to the
j Cairo Kiwanis Club on this out
i standing achievement.
The Moultrie Observe in a re
cen t issue carried what we con
! real outstanding editorial
sider a
] “Grady County’s Farm Tour,”
on
! which we are reproducing here
j with:
; “Grady county has taken some
I thing routine and made a chapter
i in the history of progress with
! it. It is the annual , Grady _ , Coun- _
: ty Farm Tour, which is sponsored
by one of the Cairo civic clubs.
1 For a number of years various
counties in south Georgia have
attempted to conduct tours of
! farms in this area. The thought
has been that actually seeing im
provements in practices and pro-
1 duction would bring other farmers
to adopt them for their own. But
the general attendance on such
tours has ranged from a score of
, perhaps 50 75.
farmers to or
A civic club in Cairo (Kiwanis)
took over the ldea ' n 1 ^ 7, dres ^ d
t .
^ up dnd P re - se ’ n e '' 1 0 e
I farmers on a county-wide basis.
Jit toolj like that eggs the to tour ham. The
first year was op
erated it brought out about 125
farmers. What they saw so im
pressed them that they passed on
the information to their neigh¬
bors. And a few weeks ago the
Grady county civic club staked
its second annual tour. This time
nearly 370 farmers made the
rounds of the most progressive
agricultural layouts. Extension
Service officials and others en
gaged in agricultural training
work were amazed at the magni
tude of the tour,
According to The Cairo Mes
senger, the tours are arousing a
THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1949.
major change in the agricultural
practices throughout Grady coun
ty. Where a few farmres were
annually adopting better farming
practices and taking advantages
of short cuts which led to less
expense and better profits, scores
of them now are following newer
methods of producing crops and
handling their land.
The tours are so mapped and
planned that proved practices
which have added production and
helped the soil are witnessed in
detail. Farmers see actual dem
and , , hear with ... •
onstrataons 4 ..
own ears exactly how those
were successful with their prac
tiees performed the job. Ques
tions are answered. The farm
ers then possess the information
and may adapt it to suit their
own particular farming condi¬
tions.
Such projects as these are high¬
ly conductive to better farming,
better standards of living and a
more satisfactory life.”
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UNPOPULAR LAWS.
Insofar as Georgia laws is con
cerned, especially those which
have been enacted during the
past several years, w ehave on
past several years, we have on
unpopular laws as any of our
adjoining states. The press of
Georgia as well as thousands of
voters and tax payers of the state
have criticized our law-makers
for the enactment of certain
pieces of legislation for the past
few years, more than at any pre¬
vious time in our history. The
Messenger fully realizes there are
quite a few of very unpopular
laws in existence, and we can’t
help but agree with much of the
criticism that is going the rounds,
especially during the past few
months.
Just for the “fun of the thing”,
during the past few days a report¬
er for The Messenger question¬
ed a number of voters and tax
payers as we met them on the
street—farmers, business men and
others—and asked them the fol¬
lowing question: “What do you
consider the three most unpopu¬
lar Georgia laws?” It is need¬
less for us to say that we were
very much surprised at what the
average man considered unpopu¬
lar and unnecessary laws on our
statute books, for some twenty
or more dfiferent laws were enu¬
merated. Some of the answers
we expected, yet there were some
we thought were on the popular
side.
It would be a rather hard mat¬
ter for us to enumerate all of the
most unpopular laws or rather
those x laws considered useless
and needless by some of those
questioned. Under the circum¬
stances, and for the lack of space
The Messenger will only try and
give our readers a few of the
opinions and answers given to our
question. Practically every man
questioned said that he consider
ed the recent price increase in
cigarettes ° and gasoline most un
called for, and they were very
emphatic in their answer regard¬
ing the increase in the price oF
gasoline, giving as their reason
that gasoline was no longer
luxury, but a necessity. £ 0
the increase in the price of
“smokes” most everyone J was of
the opinion they were already j
selling at too high a price, and
the tax on them already was
about two-thirds of their cost.
The law naming the sellnig price
of cigarettes also came in for con¬
siderable criticism as strictly
“class legislation.”
Probably the third most un¬
popular law in the sight of the
[
average citizen questioned was
fairly evenly divided between the
milk control law and constitu-,
tional amendment eliminating
district school trustees, yet the i
new registration law complaints
was running a close third. It
seems the biggest objection to
the new registration law is simply
a case ol the cost of re-registra
tion and the red-tape attached to
the same. 1
The liquor, wine and beer laws
also came in for their share of
criticism, but not on as big a scale,
as one would expect. The laws
governing the highway depart
ment, in .the opinion of quite a
number, should be changed,
eliminating the same from poli
t;ci -
While the State Highway Pa¬
trol law' was criticised by some,
yet there was less criticism of
Particular set-up than any
of the above mentioned. There
was by far more complimentary
rem arks concerning these law
officers, and the law
S :jvernin £ them than any
thaj concerns most everyone that
has been passed during the past
10 or 15 years.
It is highly possible that
next Georgia Legislature will and
should do something about mak¬
ing some changes in some of the
above mentioned laws, or elimi¬
nating them in their entirety.
IT IS SAID that $4.00 is a
mighty high price to pay for a
pint 0 f sorry whiskey, but a lot
Q f people have no better sense
than to pay it.
There is an old saying that it
is not what you make that counts,
but what you save. There is more
truth than poetry in this
ment, for only about 98 per cent
of the people are spending around
110 per cent of their income.
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There is always two sides to
every story, and judging from
various statements we have
heard regarding the KKK episode
at Iron City this evidently is true,
and we would hate to say which
side was in the wrong.
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If Fulton County has many
more Carpenter trials, the Com
missioners there will have to
several additional mills to pay
court expenses.
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A & P Tea Company
To Fight Suit
Jacksonville, Fla.—Describing
the suit to dissolve the Great At
lantic & Pacific Tea Company
as a threat to the welfare and
living standard of every Ameri¬
can citizen, officials of the Com
pany announced last week they
would oppose it with every legi
timate means.
The suit, filed in the federal
court, for the Southern District
of New York, asked the court to
dispose of its manufacturing and
processing facilities and to break
up the Company into smaller
chains. The A & P statement
said in full:
“This action is a threat to the
welfare and living standards of
every American citizen. If suc¬
cessful, it will mean less food on
every dinner table and fewer dol
lars in every pay envelope.
“This is not just an effort to de
stroy A & P but an attack on the
entire system of efficient
cost, low-profit mass distribution
which this company pioneered. *
‘A & P was the first chain
store in this country and the
methods we developed have been
] adopted by other grocers, as well
, as. merchants in other lines,
There are .today literally hun¬
dreds of chain stores and volun¬
tary groups of individual mer
chants operating with the same
methods and in the same pattern
here under attack,
“If the anti-trust lawyers suc¬
ceed in destroying A & P, the way
will be cleared for the destruc¬
tion of every other efficient large
sca ]£ distributor.
There is nothing even ap
monopoly here; for as
every housewife knows, the re
tail grocery business is the most
competitive in the country and
on ; ; y a sma ^ part
Nor was there ever any charge
that we raised prices; fol* the
whole basis of this attack is the
fact that we sold good food too
cheap.
‘There is nothing in our opera¬
tions, or in any previous in court the
decisions involving us or
anti-trust laws themselves to
justify the dissolution of A & P.
“Obviously, it, is the theory of
the anti-trust lawyers that the
people of America have no right
to patronize a company if their
patronage will make that com
pany grow; and that any big
business must be destroyed sim¬
ply because it is big, and even
if the public gets hurt in the pro
cess.
‘This action is just opposite to
the purpose of the anti-trust
laws, which were meant to in¬
crease competition and keep
prices down; for if it succeeds, it j
will serve only to cut down com¬
petition A & P’s policy and force always prices maintain- up. ]
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ed and kept alive the spirit of.
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the - OT , ners of A & P
could make enormous amounts of
by breaking up this com
pany, as the anti-trust lawyers
wish, and selling off the parts.
“But we believe this attack is
a threat to millions of consumers
who rely on us for quality foods
at low prices; to hundreds of
thousands of farmers who rely
on us for fast, low-cost distribut¬
ion of their products; and to our
110,000 loyal employees.
“There has never been any:
question in our mind that it is]
good business and good citizen¬
ship to sell good food as cheaply it!
as possible, and we feel that
is our responsibility to our cus¬
tomers, our suppliers and our em¬
ployees to defend this company
and that theory by every legiti¬
mate means.”
Local Kiwanis Club
To Be Represented
At AuQUSta 3 Meet
The K j wan ^ Q ub 0 f Cairo will
represented at the 1949 con
vention of the Georgia Kiwanis
District to be held September 25
f at Augusta, Club President
J. Norwood Clark announced this
week.
More than 30 clubs In the dis¬
trict, which embraces a member¬
ship of 5,000 business and pro¬
fessional leaders, are- expected to
send delegates to the three-day
meeting, Clark said.
The speaking program will
feature the appearance of Donald
T. Forsythe, Carthage, Ill., pub
hsher, and John R. Wright,
Lakeland, Fla., insurance execu
tive, both trustees of Kiwanis In
ternational. Hamilton Holt and
Mark A Smith, Macon industrial
ist and educator, respectively,
an d past international presidents
of the community service organi¬
zation, also will participate in the
program.
L. M. Shadgett, Athens, gover-
1 of the Georgia district, will
nor
; presfde at the convention, which
W U1 highlight committee confer
ences, a discussion of plans for
the coming year, and election
officers.
j Forsyth, who will serve as the
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official representative of Kiwanis
International at the convention,
| is president of .the newly-incor¬
porated Greater Weeklies Asso
ciates, an organization made up
Q f more than 250 outstanding
weekly newspapers throughout
the United States. He also is a
past president of the Illinois
Press association, a member of
the board of trustees of Carth¬
age College in his home city, and
a director of the Marine Trust
] Company at Carthage.
| Delegates who will represent
the Kiwanis Club of Cairo at the
convention will include Edwin
Carlisle, Alvin Wight and Sam
Pierce. Alternates include J.
Norwood Clark, J. Edward For
syth and R. Harris Jefferson. It
is hoped others from the Cairo
j Club will attend.
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