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CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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OCTOBER 19TH, 1919. j
ginners report just made |
The
public shows a decided falling off
from this time last year. On
Sept. 25th., this year, only 710
bales had been ginned , , .
1786 up to the same time last
year. This shows a decrease of
1,070 bales, However, as our
crop was considerably late this |
season, the next report will not !
show quite as large a falling , ... off.
Max, the little son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. Sanders, who has been
confined to his bed with typhoid
fever, is able to 'be out again.
If the strikers don’t strike more
licks on the job, it looks to a man
up a tree, that they’ll strike out.
Then where will they be “at”?
Editor’s Note: So they were
having trouble with strikes 30
years ago. Guess there isn’t any
thing new under the sun.
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CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO. •
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OCTOBER 5TH. 1934.
Sports Notes
Considerable interest was dis
played locally in the Northeast
Florida baseball league play-off
series, between the St. Augustine
Saints, winners of the first half,
and the Palatka Azaleas, winners
of the second half. After getting
off to a poor start, the Azaleas
won the deciding game in the
series last Sunday.
Local interest was created
cause Bonner, star shortstop for
Cairo two years ago, was a main
stay of the Palatka team, while
•the spit-hall twirler, Jake
another Cairo star of two seasons
back, was on the Saints’ pitching
staff. Levy was easily the star
of the first two Saint
with his three-and-five-hit
ing, and he won the second
two timely hits. He gave the
Azaleas only five in losing
Sunday, but Palatka got two hits
in one inning to score the only
run of the game. Bonner was
light on hitting, but his fielding
was a feature as usual.
BIBLE VERSE
"Let not your heart be troubled:
ye believe in God, believe also
in me. In my Father's house are
many mansions: if it were not
so, I would have told you. I go
to prepare a place for you." St.
John 14:1-2.
CONSTITUTION WRITER
TAKES OFF ON OUR
EDITORIAL.
The following is reprinted from
M. L. St. John, political column
for the Atlanta Constitution:
what are the most unpopular it ,
laws Georgia has? At each ses
sion of the Legislature you can
an opponent denounce a
proposed bill as the most out
rageous bill” he had ever heard.
when tax bills are passed, they
unpieasing to the
taxpayers. The other day the
Cairo Messenger made a “man-in
the-street” interview with farm
ers, businessmen and others to
determine what three laws they
considered the most uppopular.
Ranking in first place with the
Grady Countians were the laws
enacted at the recent special ses
sion increasing the tax on gaso
line and cigarettes. These were
closely followed by the b’ill pass
ed earlier this year setting the
minimum price for cigarettes.
The law creating the State Milk
Contro Board and the constitut
ional amendment abolishing the
district school trustees ranked
next in line. Then came the re
registration law. The citizens
generally praised the law estab
lishing the State Patrol. What do
you consider the three most un
popular laws of Georgia?
The President of the Uni
versity of Georgia has an
idea which will appeal to
thousands of deserving boys
and girls who are too poor to
go to State colleges, which
were designed to be free
since, in theory, they were
State supported. Pres. J. C.
Rogers says that under the
State Constitution, education
in the University is a part of
the State system of education
and should be free of fees
now charged, and which
have been charged for some
years, presumably to make
up for the dificiency in legis
lative appropriations.
So, Dr. Rogers strongly urges
making the University education
available to all those qualified
youths without cost to the indi
vidual in the form of fees. Z. B.
Rogers, in the Elberton Star,
points out, truly enough, that it
would require a considerably
j ar g er appropriation than is now
made to carry out Dr. Roger’s
suggestion, but it would be a
cause that would pay
dividends,
The newspapers throughout the
State are beating the drums to
get everyone to reregister. New
tests are going to be made on the
reregistration act, but the papers
are warning the citizens not to
await these court tests—since de
lays might prevent them from
voting in the next gubernatorial
election. Regardless of political
faction affiliation, the papers are
urging the citizens to do their
duty and get on the registration
list. Generally speaking, Gov.
Talmadge and the Legislature are
denounced for enacting this law,
but the papers urge compliance in
order to prevent a restricted bal
lot.
Two opponents of the bill say
it will not keep Negroes from
voting. The Lowndes County
News says it was designed to do
iso, but it actually doesn’t—“it is
i simply a subterfuge to Herman
. Talmadge’s campaign promise of
I disfranchising the Negro.” The
i Rockmart Journal makes this
comment on Talmadge’s “bloc
voting” angle: “Bosh!” It pre
dicts more Negroes will vote be
cause of the act.
Collection of taxes past due has
paid Hancock County out of debt,
, The Sparta Ishmaelite reports
j th a t the county had nearly $10,
qqq j n warrants outstanding on
? Jan _ ^ and in addition, $8,000
| worth of bills. The county com
missioners employed a special
j deputy sheriff to collect the past
j due taxes. He and another work
| er collected not only enough to
pay G ff the warrants, but had
j $ 1,500 left over,
While some counties are in
j creasing made their taxes, Butts Coun
ty news by cutting its tax
four mills. It has paid up a
road bond issue voted in 1923,
. which was costing four mills in
| mains taxes a year. The school tax re
at 15 mills for maintenance
and support and four mills to re
■ tire bonds. Carroll County in
j creased its rates by four mills to
pay for blacktopping roads. Han
cock County increased its tax
three mills to try to get on a
sound cash basis, and also upped
the school tax three mills,
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’Tis strange but very true,
quite a few places of 5usiness as
well as their owners leave town
when the grand jury meets.
THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949.
THE MISTAKES OF
HERMAN.
No one underestimates the
! drawing power of the Talmadge
! name; yet an objective observer
j could hardly come to but one con
clusion regarding the present gov
ernor’s political career to-date.
And that conclusion would be
^ a t he has made a mistake in
aln , ost ever >' move , he , has
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His first error was in allowing
his name to be entered against
his ailing father, in a shrewd po
litical maneuver to keep the gov
ernorship in the family. Many
of these write-in votes were later
proved false and illegal.
On the basis of that very shady
and still questionable write-in
deal, he and his supporters took
the governor’s office by force,
the only time anything like this
has happened in the democratic
history of the United States.
In the controversy that follow
ed, he made the ill considered
revealing statement (which has
not been forgotten) that he would
be governor no matter what the
State Supreme Court decided,
This was later withdrawn, and he
submitted to the Court’s decis
ion, and vacated his illegally
held governorship.
Then when he was elected gov
ernor, his entire program seems
to have backfired in his face.
With a House and Senate in his
hands (At least a safe majority,
which is the same), he proceeded
to enact laws that the people, in
cluding former Talmadge sup
porters, have consistently re
sented and disliked.
The minimum price on cigar
ettes has hurt him, and recently
the new tax on cigarettes and
gasoline has added more dis
satisfaction. His major piece of
legislation, the Re-registration
law has caused nothing but head
aches and objections, and if car
ried out, which seems most doubt
ful now, will not accomplish
what he thought it would.
Others have broken with the
governor because, they say, he
failed to keep his promises, and
failed to stay on the job at the
capital.
With a legislature like putty
in his hands he can not name one
single law that has added
strength to his political stock.
An objective and impartial ob
server must come to the conclu
sion that Herman has made noth
ing but mistakes. And as a re
sult right now finds himself at
the lowest ebb in his political ca
reer. Against one strong oppon
ent (not a half-dozen weak ones)
not many people would give him
much of a chance to retain his of
fice, provided he is eligible to
seek re-election.
This odd turn of events is all
the more surprising, when one
considers that he entered the gov
ernorship with the best start any
man ever had in office. It is a
pity; and many will be sorry the
young governor has not made a
better showing.
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FALSE FACES ARE
NOTHING NEW.
In the North and the West,
w'here people act very strange
ly anyway, they say a new craze
is sweeping the country. “It’s
the wearing of false faces by
persons who seem otherwise nor
mal. Rubber masks which trans
form the wearer into pirate,
witches, or John L. Lewis may be
obtained at any drugstore or
novelty shop. They are selling
like hot cakes, they say.
The innovation of rubber
masks to do the trick may be
new, but the wearing of false
faces has been going on a long
time, and at one time or another
practiced by nearly everybody.
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What poor fools, we think, the
steel mill workers are, in going
out on strike.
-V
No doubt the reason a dog is
man’s best friend is due to the
fact he can’t talk back.
If opportunity knocked on
some folks heads instead of their
doors, she'd get much better re
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