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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 14TH, 1934
A severe cold wave had de¬
scended on this section during
the past week to break several rec¬
ords. Thursday was the sixth
straight day of freezing temper¬
atures, which is a new record for
December. The lowest temper¬
ature recorded was 19 degrees.
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It was announced ^t the office
of the county agent L. H. Nel¬
son this week that 1,700 ballots
had been mailed to cotton farm¬
ers in Grady County for the elec¬
tion Friday on continuance of the
Bankhead cotton control act.
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Wally Cawthorn, said by offi¬
cers to be excessively inebriated,
set fire to a quantity of quilts
and other bed clothing in the
county jail Wednesday, Firemen
responded and put out the blaze.
Cawthorn, who had been in
jail about an hour, was almost
burned in what he said was an
effort to warm himself.
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' CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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DECEMBER 19TH, 1919
Thursday night, Dec. 11th.,
Marvin Dollar shot and instantly
Rilled a man by the name of T.
L. Alderman, who entered the
Dollar home in the night unan¬
nounced, and never said a word
until he was shot in the breast
with a shotgun. He didn’t say
anything afterward.
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The County Board of Commis¬
sioners, composed of D. P. Ward,
Chairman, J. A. Wynn, Henry
Mitchell, T. W. Faircloth, A Har¬
rell, and W. A. Shiver, publish¬
ed a signed statement that their
clerk, Mack Johnson had not
been fired, as had been rumored.
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The International World Move¬
ment of North America, an agency
of the Protestant denominations
of this country for the gathering
of statistics and information re¬
lative to the religious and social
conditions, has undertaken a
survey of Grady County, with
the aid of the various churches.
BIBLE VERSE
"No weapon that is formed
against thee shall prosper; and
every tongue that shall rise
against thee in the judgment
thou shall condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of the
LORD: and their righteousness is
of me. saith the LORD."—Isaiah
54:17.
RE-REGISTER TODAY
I THE STATES' RIGHTERS
ARE WRONG
It is an odd but true fact that
those who holler the loudest
about states’ rights are those who
do the least about states responsi
bilities. The latest “champion”
of States rights and apparent heir
to the dishonorable Dixiecrat
mantle is South Carolina’s James
Byrnes. While Governor
madge gets in a weak word now
and then when he thinks it will
make headlines. These men and
all others who sing a similar
and it has now become a very old
song, are simply crying in
wilderness, with their minds 60
years in the past.
Jefferson Davis, President of
the Confederacy, started the re¬
frain when he said “All we want
is to be let alone”. It has been
sung ever since by men who will
not face the future, but look only
to the past. The same words
could be uttered by almost any
criminal behind bars, All he
wants is to be let alone.
With every right there is a re¬
sponsibility. We believe in states’
rights too; but we believe first
in states’ responsibility, The
states must try to solve their own
problems, must take the inita
tive, and then the Federal Gov¬
ernment will not feel called upon
to interfere. The trouble with
the States’ Righters is that they
have a negative attitude—a “don’t
do this attitude,” a “leave us
alone” attitude, and never come
up with any constructive program
to do anything about the prob¬
lems which the Federal Govern
ment and other states feel should
be solved. They have their minds
glued on the past, and are either
incapable of thinking out a con¬
structive program or they believe
this negative attitude will reap
a harvest of votes at election time.
And all too often in the past
such a philosophy have put men
in office time after time.
The Atlanta Journal recently
made a significant comment about
young Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Governor Talmadge, when these
two youthful politicians met in
Atlanta. Their ’ observation was
that Roosevelt had a program
FOR THE FUTURE, while Tal¬
madge had none. We do not
know what Congressman Roose¬
velt’s program for the future is;
but if he is in any way like his
famous father, there is little
doubt but what he has one of
some kind, and we will in all
probability be hearing of it in
the future.
The negative-minded States’
Righters are lost. They are try¬
ing somehow to get back into a
past which is gone. They will
fail, and we might as well forget
them now.
The Honorable James Byrnes,
who has a distinguished record in
government service under Presi¬
dent Roosevelt, apparently now
thinks all of the Roosevelt New
Deal, which he himself help to
administer was wrong since Tru¬
man is the man in the driver’s
seat. Well, Mr. Byrnes will do no
better with the Dixiecrat or
States’ Right movement than did
J. Strum Thurmond. Mr. Byrnes
has no following outside the state
of South Carolina, and the peo¬
ple have no intention of going
back to Civil War days to try to
find out what Mr. Byrnes it talk¬
ing about.
Our need now is for men in
public office who can look to the
future and come forth with con¬
structive programs through which
some of our numerous problems
may be solved, men who will
assume states’ responsibilities
first, and then talk about states’
rights. When we have public of¬
ficials who will take the initia¬
tive and try to work out these
problems, there will be no in
terferance from outside sources.
When these kinds of leaders
emerge, the people will follow
them, and the States’ Righters
and Dixiecrats will be lost, where
they deserve to be.
RE-REGISTER TODAY
rHE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1949.
DON'T LOSE YOUR RIGHT
TO VOTE BY DEFAULT.
Grady County is now in the
midst of re-registering nearly 7,
000 voters. The Registration of
fice opened on the second floor
| of the Court House in Mon _
day Nov. 28th. Three members
of the Board and a deputy-regis
trar are on duty most of the time
six days a week. This is costing
County a considerable
amount of money, which the tax¬
payers will eventually have to
pay. The response to-date has
not been encouraging.
There was talk that the Janu¬
ary session of the General assem¬
bly might do something about this
law, that it might be repealed or
changed in some way. But the
chances are that nothing will be
done at that time. We can’t af
ford to take the attitude of “Wait
and see”. If we do Grady Coun¬
ty may go into the next election
with about half as many voters
as were on the list last year.
It would not be beyond the
realm of possibility that the 1
sponsors of this law would de
liberately work for a small reg¬
istration. A small list of voters
can be controlled easier than a
large one. And there is little
doubt that one of the things in
the minds of its sponsors was the
reduction in the number of voters
in the state. Therefore it might
fit into their pattern to lull vot¬
ers to sleep by suggesting that
the law might be repealed. Then
when it was too late, when there
was little time left for pepole to
register, many voters would wake
up to find the law still in effect
and find themselves disqualified,
simply because they neglected to
go through the simple proceedure
of reregistering.
Every voter in the state of
Georgia—-1,200,000 of them—
were disqualified by this law.
The safe and sure way is to go
NOW and get your name back
on the voting list. The registrars
here are anxious for every vot
ing citizen to come in and re
register, so they can get the job
over with and get back to their
own work.
You can now walk into the of
fice at the court house and regis
ter in a matter of minutes, be¬
cause they are not crowded. But
if you wait until the last days,!
the office will be crowded with
people who put the job off until
the last minute. Then you may {
have to stand in line and take up J
much more of your time than it 1
will take now.
In a day when people in other
parts of the world are losing their
right of free government, it is !
imperative that we in this coun¬
try guard the privilege of free 1
a
ballot. Grady has the reputation
of progressive county. In 1
a
mafny things it is first. Let us be
the first county to get 100 per- j
cent re-registration, or even more
voters than were on the old lists. !
W ith a little effort on the part of
all, it can be done.
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DON’T DELAY—RE-REGIS¬ i
TER TODAY.
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THE LIFE PRESERVER
IS A MILLSTONE
The Re-registration law which
was passed to perpetuate a poli
citical regime in )?ower will j
probably it down into seal everlasting its doom and oblivion, cast j
j
Every time a person goes up to
re-register, he thinks about Gov¬
ernor Talmadge, and the trouble
he has put him to. A shrewd poli¬
tical observer recently estimated
that the law might cost Talmadge
100,000 votes in the state, In
addition to the people who will
re-register and resent it, there are
thousands of people ordinarily
for Talmadge who will neglect to
register at all, and this will take
more votes from the Administra¬
tion bandwagon.
It is indeed an odd turn of
events to see the instrument a
man thought was a life-preserver
turn into a millstone around his
neck. There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.
The Cairo Library
Exhibiting Famous
Paintings Now
The Cairo Public Library will j
have on display for two weeks be- |
ginning Friday, December 15th, a I
collection of famous paintings de- I
picting the Madonnas and Child.
; This group of reproductions is a
loan from the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art of New York City
and represents the paintings of
many great artists. The Madon
nas include those portrayed by
Bottecelli in The Madonna of the
Veil, Virgin and Child with For
get-Me-Nots by Rubens, Bastism
of Christ by Da Vinci and many
others.
The public is cordially invited
to study these paintings. This
exhibit marks the fifth group of
\ | paintings that the Library has
presented for the pleasure and
enjoyment of the people of this
1 section and will reflect the spirit
ual note of the Christmas season,
Snuff out your pipe ashes be¬
fore throwing them into wooded
areas.
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