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Established January 15th, 1904.
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lanuary 14, 1904, at the Post 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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CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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NOVEMBER 21ST, 1919
Last Saturday, Miss Loraine
Joiner of Meigs, and Mr. Vaugh
an Hurst pi Cairo, were quiet
ly married in the Methodist Par
sonage if rhomasville, Rev. J. E.
Seals, jr formed the ceremony. "
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OAK HILL NEWS
There was a memorial service
Sunday at Bethel church in
memory of Mr. Henry Gainous.
Mrs. Amanda Shirey and grand
daughter, Louise Collins
visitors with her daughter, Mrs.
O. B. Collins Sunday.
Mrs. Briney Vanlandingham
spent last week wth her
Mr. Jimmie Graham.
Mrs. Emma Rehberg and Mrs.
Mattie Lee were visitors to Mr.
Jimmie Graham Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Whit
field made a business trip to
Cairo Saturday. Mrs. Steve Bar
rett and daughter, Alice, visited
Mr. O. B. Collins Sunday after
noon.
■Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Powell, of
Thomasville, spent Sunday here
with homefolks.
CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO. *
NOVEMBER I6TH, 1934
The clearing of the site for
Cairo’s post office building got
underway a few days ago and it
will be completed as quickly as
possible, probably in about ten
days or two weeks.
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The Cairo Ice & Cold Storage
Co., of which Mr W. D. Tram
mell is owner and manager, has
just completed an addition to its
storage plant that will accomo
date approximately 200,000
pounds of farmers’ meat.
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Monday’ observance of Armis
tice Day was one of the most im
pressive in several years. The
American Legion, the Daughters
of the American Revolution and
the schools took the lead in a
fine parade and program. We
need to have some such observ
ance of the day each year.
BIBLE VERSE
"And the Spirit and the bride
say, come. And let him that
hearelh say. Come. And let him
that is athirst say. Come. And
whosoever will, let him take the
•^otcr of life freely."—Rev. 22:-
17.
IS THIS TALMADGE'S
CAMPAIGN START?
Apparently Governor Herman
Talmadge has decided he must
abandon his polite Sunday
school speeches on soil conserva
tion and the like, and get back
to the more politically profitable
race hatred, at which he is adept,
both by inclination and heredity.
The following editorial on this
subject is reprinted from the
Macon News, written by George
Doss:
“The old pattern of racial hat
red in Georgia politics broke out
again last week. It was mouthed
again by Gov. Herman Talmadge,
following the lead of Roy V. Har
ris, of Augusta. The governor
apparently has decided that his
attempt to regain lost political
strength by sane speeches is not
enough. He is again falling back
on the traditional last resort of
Talmadegeism.
In a radio speech, the govern
or said a suit brought by a group
of Irwin county Negroes to force
equalization of school facilities
“is a boring from within, for the
first tme, to destroy our Ameri
can government and to lay the
groundwork for the ultimate es
tablishment of a communistic
state in this country.”
That is tommy-rot of the worst
sort.
The Irwin county suit may be
ill-advised, But certainly no
reasonable person can sensibly
argue that this group has no
right to go into court and seek
the orderly remedy of law when
Negro schools are not equal and
the Constitution says they shall
be. There are reasons for the
differences in white and Negro
| schools and it would be impossi-
1 ble to wipe out the differences in
a day. But wipe them out we
| must if we schools, want to maintain great our
' separate as a ma
i jority of Georgians assuredly do.
j Bibb county has a school sys
tern for Negroes already as nearly
equal to that for whites as any
in the state. Within a year Neg
j roes here will have no room for
: complaint except in teacher sal
aries which are still somewhat
lower because the state scale is
j lower for Negroes and they don’t
§ e * the same local supplements
! some white teachers get. If the
; state equalizes its scale of sup
port and the other counties do
what Bibb has done the Negroes
will have no case in the courts.
.If the governor would devote
his energy to financing the Mini
! mum Foundation Program, which
provides Negro equality, and a
long-range plan to equalize Neg
ro facilities (and federal aid to
j education which Mir. Harris ap
parently opposes would help),
there would be no danger to our
I traditional segregation in the
Irwin county suit. Instead,
spurred on by Harris and his in
flammatory Augusta Courier ar
tides, Mr. Talmadge apparently
has decided to use the suit as his
smoke issue for the 1950 election.
Mr. Harris has been talking
all over Georgia about per capita
j income running exactly in ratio
j to the amount spent on educa
tion. And he says in his paper
we won’t get good teachers un
til we pay enough to attract in
to the teaching profession our
brightest minds. But, when we
read his stuff on the Irwin coun
ty suit, we find that this applies
only to whites. This is the
double standard in logic.
The rotund Augustan says in
the same issue of his paper that
we can’t have equal schools for
Negroes because Negroes don’t
contribute enough in taxes to pay
for them and whites can’t afford
to cany the load. Doesn’t Mr.
Harris see any connection be
tween the poor schools the Ne
gro has had and his failure to
earn enough money to pay taxes
to support his schools?
Mr. Harris goes further. He
says Georgians are spending all
they can on Negro education.
He says we couldn’t get enough
good Negro teachers if we tried.
(Didn’t he just say substantially
the same thing about white teach
ers?) And he says that because
salaries are based on elucational
requirements, Negroes are build
ing up their salaries faster than
whites. He says they are attend
ing “little colleges that aren’t
worth anything at all.” Don’t
Mr. Haris realize that those col
leges are the very ones Georgia
is providing at Albany, at Fort
Valley, at Savannah, for the Ne
groes as equal in our University
System. If their degrees aren’t
THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1949.
worth anything, which we don’t
concede, whose fault is it, Mr.
Harris?
Mr. Haris has made one more
highly interesting statement
which law-respecting Georgians
might ponder. He says that “the
Negroes who were responsible
for bringing the suit in Irwin
county should be taught by the
white people of this state in no
•uncertain terms that they will
not tolerate their school system
being destroyed by these law
suits.”
How, Mr. Harris? By providing
equal schools quickly? No? By
sheets and fiery crosses and
lynchings? What is to prevent
orderly lawsuits in our estab
lished courts? Isn’t that the way
of democracy? If the Negroes
are wrong, doesn’t our democracy
insure that they will lose their
fight? And if they are right
what can we do about it except
do what the courts order? You
wouldn’t want to join the Com
munists in their efforts to over
throw our democratic govern
ment, or would you, Mr. Harris?
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MR. TARVER, SUGAR
CANE AND THE JEEP
Mr. Jack Tarver of the Atlanta
Constitution is all worried and
bothered about the jeep taking
the place of the old reliable mule
in the syrup-grinding process
down here in South Georgia. He
has heard that jeeps were being
used to pull syrup mills. Well,
Brother Tarver can find him
something else to worry about;
because it ain’t necessarily so.
We have not seen any jeeps
grinding cane in Grady County,
and as everybody knows this is
the syrup center of the nation.
Even Mr. Tarver ought to know
that.
But just in the event some re
mote farmer has ground a little
cane with a jeep, we won’t take
issue with this usually reliable
reporter. We merely want to as
sure him that this jeep busi
ness is no wide-spread practice
on the cane-grinding front. Any
way, here in Grady we don’t need
the mule or the jeep for grind
ing cane—as long as REA juice
and gasoline motors last.
However, you might be inter
ested in what Mr. Tarver had to
say about it. Sometimes people
are interested in what he writes.
His dissertation follows:
DON'T MOBOLIZE CANE
GRINDINGS
“A South Georgia sugar-cane
mill is being pulled by a jeep.
I always knew some day the
mechanical age would go too far.
Look, I can go along with pro
gress as well as the next one.
But this is ridiculous. The slow
plodding mule, laying into the
harness, his ears resignedly flop
ping, is more than a symbol of
mortal futility, more than an an
nual reminder of the fact that
we spend the bulk of our time
going around and around, neve
getting anywhere.
The mule at the cane-grind
ing is a cherished institution, an
integral part of an ancient ritual,
H e lends a flavor, yea, an un
mistakable aroma to the pro
ceedihgs which can never be re
placed with the fumes of burn
ed gasoline. Certainly his hush
ed hoof-falls on the path-worn
circle of hard-packed clay in in
stantaneous rhythm with
melodic trickle of the just-freed
juice, cannot be supplanted by
the gear-changing protests of a
laboring engine.
Scrap the black iron
boiling pan, if you must, Haul
the cane from the fields in
helicopter, if necessary, instead of 1
wobbly-wheeled wagons. Spray
DDT to keep the party-crashing
bees away and use paper cups
rather than coffee cans to let the J
invited But replace sample the the mule skimmings. with j
a i
motorized unit? No, No, a thou
sand times never!
Why, if they get away with
that kind of heresy, it will just
be a question of time before some
of this ultra-modern crowd tries
to banish the washpot at pender
b’ilings.”
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Just think of all the books that
will have to be published by the
time all the 16,000,000 men under
arms in World War II get around
to writing their books. Come to
think of it, why didn’t everybody
that had anything to do with the
first world war write a book.
WOMAN'S CLUB MEETS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9TH.—
The November meeting of
Cairo Woman’s Club was held at
the Club house on Wednesday,
November 9, with the president,
Mrs. R. R. Van Landingham,
presiding.
The president through club
records enumerated past achieve
ments of the organization in an
attempt to see what plans could
be done to advance during the
ensuing year, to see what
vities might be undertaken
ccntinue the progress of the
Club.
What the State Federation
Clubs has accomplished was told
by Mrs. H. L. Cheney. Amang the
many projects of the federation
was the student aid fund which
has afforded the means for the
education of fifteen hundred ‘
girls; through this same source
the salary of the first domestic
science teacher of Georgia was
paid. Through the federation
the 4-H Clubs were also devel- j
oped.
“Things We Might Do” were j
brought out by Mrs. W. G. Mizell.
A community Christmas tree, an
annual festival, adopt European
club and make the city more
attractive and beautiful were!
FOR SALE
USED
FORD-FERGUSON TRACTOR
Just like new, motor has just been reconditioned and
this tractor has a new Sherman step-up transmission.
A real buy.
CAIRO TRACTOR COMPANY
"At Ford Corner"
Phone 62-W Cairo, Ga.
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The business session was then
held. Mrs. Francis Brannon,
treasurer, reported: balance on
hand May 29, $540.41; paid out
since May 29, $503.11; total re
ceipts, $260.79; balance Novem
ber 9, $305.05.
An invitation to the district
meeting which was held in
Moultrie on Wednesday, Novem
h er i6, was read,
After an informal discussion on
h ow to raise funds for the club’s
projects for the year a motion
was carried to divide the mem
bership into ten committees ask
j ng each commitee to raise its
proportionate part of the total
amount needed.
A bountiful covered-dish lunch
eon was enjoyed preceding the
meeting,
The long tables were adorned
with yellow and white mums and
autumn leaves,
Mrs. W. G. Mizell was chair
man G f the hostesses.
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SING AT BEACHTON
NEXT SUNDAY.—
The Thrd Sunday Grady
County Sing will be held at the
Beachton Baptist Church next
Sunday afternoon, November
20, beginning at 2 o’clock.
_ verj , ° y 1S cor ^ y mvl e
H. C. Collins, Chairman.
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