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Established January 15th, 1904.
Entered as second-class matter
January 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 15 YEARS AGO. *
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DECEMBER 7TH, 1934
The local American Legion held
its monthly meeting at the Wo¬
man’s Club, and laid plans to aid
scores of needy persons in the
county at Christmas time.
CALVARY NEWS
Mr. John Grant and children
of Moultrie spent the Thanksgiv¬
ing holidays with Dr. and Mrs.
C. H. Maxwell and family.
Mr. Cecil Sasser attended home¬
coming -at Young Harris College
during the holidays.
BOLD SPRINGS NEWS
Mrs. S. W. Chastain returned
home after spending a week in
Thomasville as the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Chastain.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Aldridge
visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry
White last Monday.
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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DECEMBER 12TH, 1919
Hon. John S. Holder, of Jeffer¬
son, Jackson County, was a visit¬
or of prominence to Cairo during
the week. He was here in the in¬
terest of his candidacy for gov¬
ernor in .the next state primary.
Mr. Holder is opposed for gov¬
ernor by Hon. Clifford Walker,
who was also a visitor here re¬
cently.
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The reports from the four
of Grady County—the Farmers &
Merchants Bank, Citizens
Cairo Banking Co., and
Merchants and Planters Bank
Whigham—showed deposits
$1,688,341, with resources
two million dollars.
The rule was made that
one jumping on the fire
other than firemen, would
fined $5.
The Cairo Woodmen
elected its officers for 1920
Tuesday night at the Local
room as follows: C. E.
Consul Commander; J. E.
syth, Past Consul
W. H. Duckworth, Clerk; G. W.
Cook, Adviser Lt.; C. B.
Banker, Dr. J. B. Warnell and Dr.
T. J. Arline, Physicians; E. D
Rivers, 3-Year Manager; and T.
C. Bruce, Escort.
BIBLE VERSE
"The discretion of a man defer
reth his anger; and it is his
to pass over a
Proverbs: 18:11.
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* THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1949
THE COLD WAR IS GOING
T o break uncle sam
Somewhere at some early
we are going to be forced to call
a halt on financing the world and
buying nations from Communism.
With our national debt increas¬
ing by millions every day, and
with every citizens in the Unit¬
ed States paying nearly a third
of his income in some form of
taxes, Communism is still over¬
running large areas of the world.
We can not continue many more
years to buy the nations of the
world away from communism.
If we do continue this road we are
gbing to find ourselves in finan¬
cial ruin, and unable to help
even ourselves. When that day
comes we will regret that we
were not more firm with Soviet
Russia in the days when we had
a chance to be.
From the very end of the war,
and in its final stages, Russia
has lost no opportunity to insult
and embarrass the United States
Government. It took our state
department a whole month to get
the Communist in China to re¬
lease our diplomats from jail,
where they had been held on
trumped-up charges. They were
held for one reason: to embarass
the United States Government. If
the most powerful nation in the
world can’t get its own repres¬
entatives out of jail, what can
smaller nations expect at the
hands of the Communist? This
incident alone should mean that
we would never give diplomatic
recognition to the Chinese Com¬
munist. Yet we may do just
that.
It is simply another step down
the road toward war to recognize
Communist China. The free na¬
tions of the world found too late
that they could not do business
with Hitler. We have already
learned that we can not do busi¬
ness with Stalin or his Stooges.
It is sheer nonsense to continue
trying to appease the communist,
whether they are in Germany,
China, Korea, or New York City.
Yet in all probability that is
what our government will con¬
tinue to do. The Communist
have shown time and again that
they would back down when we
really took a stand, and told
them to hault.
Now is the time to take some
firm stands throughout the
world against the Red menace,
before we lose the chance for¬
ever to take decisive action.
Our foreign policy toward Rus¬
sia and Communism ought to be
re-appraised on all levels. We
must change our sights now,
soon face the day when we will
be helpless to change them. It
should be plain now that we can
not finance the world indefinite¬
ly. When the cold war has drain¬
ed our resources to the
we will find ourselves in a
war which we can not expect
win. That is the situation
must try to avoid. And it is
too early to begin today.
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THE SUBSIDY SYSTEM
President Truman is of
opinion that we should have
subsidized system which
guarantee employment for
one, with a profit for every
ness.
According to the Stokes
Controls for Automobile
“the government would tell
how many shirts you could
must buy each year, and what
you must pay for them;
co lor and what kind of cloth. The
government would then appor
tion the shirt business among the
shirt makers, on an equitable
basis, of course, and would tell
them where to -buy their buttons,
cloth, thread, etc. All other per¬
sonal wants would have to fol¬
low the same pattern, including
the automobile you own or sell.
“Its really simple. In exchange
for security you surrender all
your personal liberties, You
work where and when the gov-
ernment directs you in exchange
for housing, food, clothing and
amusement coupons, which di
rect you where to live, what to
eat, what to wear, what amuse
ments you can indulge in. ‘Se
curity’ is as simple as that.
“In order to avoid over-produc
tion consumers must be guaran
teed. You can guarantee con .
sumers only through rationing,
You can’t leave anything to
chance. tt^g governnaent de
cides that auto factories will pro
duce six million cars it mu:t al J
provide six million purchasers-
not maybe, but absolutely, i-i
order to guarantee purchases .
must decide who can and will buy
this year and when and what
model and what color and regular
or automatic transmission. So you
draw for your work so many outo
purchase tags each year, with di
dections as to date of use, etc.
“Everything else is the same.
Under such a program we should
be guaranteed jobs from the
cradle to the grave—simple? If
that’s what we want we are on
the way!
“Again the 50 billion (keeping
this in millions became too burd
ensome expense for 1950) is 1
mere
chickenfeed when we take a look
at the additional billions Presi-j
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dent Truman proposes to spend
under the label of social welfare.
It is little wonder that such great \
Americans as General Eisen- j
hower, Herbert Hoover and '
James Byrnes are speaking out! j (
against this growing j
cancer on;
the economy and freedom and are!
urging us to insist that our elect- j
ed representatives pay heed to
the wise council of Thomas Jef- ■
ferson on government
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A NEW HIGH—OR LOW
(Baxley News Banner)
We are always for States’ rights
as long as States exercise the
rights they have, but up in Rome,
Ga., a good example of misplaced
States’ rights is occurring in the
Federal trial of a Date County
sheriff, three of his deputies and
eight other persons for mob vio
lenee.
The 12 defendants are charged
with participating in the flogging
of seven Negroes by robed and
hooded men presumed to be
Klansmen, since some cross
burning occurred before the
roes were molested.
According to some of the
tims, the sheriff was present dur¬
ing the cross-burning and
flogging, but refused protection
of the victims, despite their pleas,
The strange and, we
unprecedented feature of the trial
is that of a representative of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
appearing as a witness for the de¬
fense to refute the testimony of¬
fered by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Or is it strange
that the GBI is used in such a
manner, since the late Dr. Samu
el Green’s successor as Imperial
Wizard once headed the GBI?
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KLAN PLAN
The klan is girding its sheets
now to fight Communism (so they
say). But how is the Klan going
to fight Communism in Georgia
when there isn’t any to fight?
It is quite true that Com
munism is a growing menace in
the world at large; but the Klan
will have quite a job finding any
Communism in Georgia.
if they did finally track down
some puny little Stalin worshiper,
!
they would probably discover that
he belived in so many of the Klan
principles that they all would
wrap up in the same sheet to
gether.
The plan we recommend is
this: organize a White Legion,
and all Klan members embark
once for China, and meet those
Red Hordes face to face. That
would please the
people here in Georgia, and j
there’s no doubt that the Chinese
Reds would give them a warm 5
welcome.
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WRONG APPROACH
A news column says: ‘The,
State Department has embarked
on a new program to teach its
diplomats abroad ‘the human
touch’ in grappling with
problems American
faces all over the world
Since our diplomats must
and match those of Soviet Rus
sia, it would seem more appro
priate to be teaching them
inhuman touch.’
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If atomic power was “given
by mighty hand of God as
a hill billy song had it, do you
suppose he gave it to Russia too?
^>r did Harry Hopkins do that?
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naturally we follow with
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We have been making compari¬
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