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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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FEBRUARY 8TH, 1935
Dr. J. V. Rogers, chairman of
the Board of trustees of the
Cairo Schools, announced the un¬
animous re-election of Supt. John
S. Herndon, as head of the schools
for the 1935-36 term, for the
sixth straight year.
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Mrs. W. H. Waldron, a beloved
pioneer resident of this section,
passed away at the home of Mr.
John Defrietas, in Thomasville
during the week.
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“Governor Talmadge’s firm
stand against all new tax pro¬
posals will not injure his popu¬
larity, to say the least”.—'Editor
ial.
Spence School Honor Roll
2nd. Grade: Gladys Frazier,
Rose Vick, Ethel Oliver, Leon
Sizemore. 3rd. Grade: Thelma
Scoggins, Elene Spence, Francis
Taylor, Dorothy Thompson, Al
line Waldron, Harry Bullock.
4th. Grade: Lena Williamson,
Ruth Hooper. 5th. Grade: Annie
Belle Frazier. 6th. Grade: Hil¬
ary Davis.
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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FEBRUARY 13TH, 1920
Syrup of the 1919 season made
in Grady county and marketed
prior to Feb. 1, was conserva¬
tively valued at $1,547,805. The
largest crop previous to this was
in 1913. These figures bear out
the claim that this county is the
home of Georgia cane syrup and
that Cairo is the largest syrup
market in the world.
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A rigid quarantine was placed
on all cases of flu in Cairo, by
Mayor Miller and the city coun
cil, and all doctors were requested
to report each case so the protec¬
tive measures could be taken.
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Fire at Peoples’ Still, several
miles north of Whigham last
week destroyed the commissary,
barn, wagon sheds and other
smaller buildings, causing a total
of $8,000 in damages, none of
which was covered by insurance.
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The production of cotton in
Grady decreased about 50 percent
in 1919 over the previous year.
BIBLE VERSE
"Thou wilt keep him in per¬
fect peace, whose mind is stayed
on thee: because he Irustelh in
ihee."—Isaiah 26:3,
RECREATION PROGRAM
FOR GRADY COUNTY
IS OUTSTANDING
The Cairo Recreation Depart¬
ment program as carried out for
the last nine months of 1949 und¬
er the supervision of a capable,
fulltime director is quite out¬
standing. The extensive bene¬
fits of the program are reviewed
in the news column of The Mes¬
senger this week. The local pro¬
gram has attracted wide interest
and has won commendation in
nearly all of the other centers of
this area, bringing appreciation
for Cairo in this respect..
If you have not acquainted
yourself with the program and its
extent—if you’re among the com¬
paratively few who are not parti¬
cularly interested in or specially
benefited by the program—we
recommend close reading of the
news item telling about it. You
at least need to be informed on
what is going on in our county.
But, of course, the news item
does not tell the full story. The
real benefits cannot be effectively
evaluated in any news item.
These are not only extensive but
varied—and they will continue
to reflect themselves in the years
ahead, in the lives and character
of countless young people, and
others.
Had you noticed that juvenile
delinquency has been at a parti¬
cularly low ebb in this community
and area during the recent
months? There must be a good
reason for it. We are confident
at least one of the major reasons
is to be found in the summary
of the 1949 activities of the Cairo
Recreation Department.
The net cost of the recreation
program, is a mighty small in¬
vestment for such a large and im¬
portant return as we believe we
are getting on this program. Then,
too, this program is just another
means of bringing many people
of the county together helpfully.
That in itself is worth a lot.
We note that plans call for the
program to continue in 1950 on
an even more effective and effi¬
cient basis, with improvements
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THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1950.
from experience. The continued
program commends itself as a
MUST for our community and
county.
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TOO MANY FUND
RAISING DRIVES
We foresee a day coming, not
far off, when the people will have
to unite against some or all of
the many drives to get money out
of the pocket of John Q. Public.
Therefore we wish to sound a
warning to the planners of fu¬
ture fund-raising campaigns.
DONT PLAN ANY MORE. If
you do, the public is going to re¬
act against some of the present
ones which are worthy and de¬
serving of support.
Right now the various begging
campaigns overlap one another.
We are not out of one before the
next one is in full swing: drives
to raise money for everything
under the sun from a fund to sup¬
port homeless cats to the gigan¬
tic March of Dimes and Red Cross
campaigns. And no doubt others
are now on the planning boards
of the nation’s publicity mills.
Well, the planners can just stop
right where they are; because we
are fed up.
Things have come to a poor
state. Why, and honest, individu¬
al begger can hardly make a liv¬
ing any more, to say nothing of
owning an automobile and sup¬
porting a chauffeur. The high
pressured, organized begging has
practically put them out of busi¬
ness. With all the pensions and
welfare agencies operating now,
it seems that none would have to
beg on the streets. Still, a few
of the hearty souls brave the or¬
ganized competition, and probably
chisel a living. Organized or un¬
organized, we hold no brief for
them.
The fund-raising drive has be¬
come big 'business in this country.
The war accentuated the trend,
encouraging more of them to hit
the saw-dust trail, with the re¬
sult that the saturation point has
just about been reached. There
is only room in a year for about
40 big, all-out drives. We must
be nearing that number now.
If some of them don’t cease
and desist, the public is going to
turn its back on all of them, and
simply quit giving. That would
probably stop them.
To discourage any others that
now at this moment may be
crouching to spring on us, we
hereby issue an ultimatum: if we
hear of one more new fund-rais¬
ing campaign we will throw up
our editorial hands, and say: . . .
PIDDLE! We shall then and
there withdraw our heretofore
unbounded support of all drives
and campaigns, and from that
moment pursue a “hands-off”
policy when it comes to begging
money from the public. With all
such drives, we shall then and
there and thenceforth and forever
disavow ourselves of such rights
and responsibilities thereunto ap¬
pertaining.
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MANY VETS OPPOSE
ALL BONUSES
A $40,000,000 soldier bonus bill
came up for discussion on the
floor of the Georgia General As¬
sembly, without anyone think¬
ing it had much chance of pass¬
ing. Howard E. Caldwell, a vet¬
eran from Atlanta, wrote the At¬
lanta Journal, expressing his op¬
position to the proposed bonus;
and we believe he also expressed
the feeling of most veterans on
this matter. We reprint Mr.
Caldwell’s opinion on the bonus:
“Edward J. Southard may speak
for himself and for many other
veterans when he asks for a
bonus, but he does not speak for
me or for any veterans with
whom I am acquainted.
Throughout the greater part of
the war I was a Pfc in the Infan¬
try. Thus, my job was as hard
and my money wages were as low
as those of just about any ex
GI you might name. There is not
enough money in the country to
pay me for that job. I wouldn’t
do it for money.
“I was well paid, however, for
I, along with the rest of the pri¬
vates and the generals succeeded 1
in winning the war and preserv¬
ing our country. I was paid in
freedom, in the opportunity to
make my own life in my own way,
in the ability to stand on my own
two feet and sa y that the govern
ment is my servant because I
supported it rather than to say
that I am the servant of the gov
ernment because it supports me.
“Southard may say: ‘if you
want my vote, curry me suh.’ He
may want to sell his birthright of
freedom for a mess of pottage,
but the man doesn’t live who can
buy my vote. I’ll take my bonus
in more freedom, a balanced bud¬
get and lower taxes for all tax¬
payers, veterans and non-veter¬
ans alike.”
HOWARD E. CALDWELL
Atlanta.
Veteran Caldwell expresses the
opinion of many, if not most, of
the ex-GI’s rather eloquently.
The government has given veter¬
ans who could and would take
advantage of it, something far
more valuable than a lumpsum
bonus ever could have been. The
Government gave the veteran a
fine opportunity to be educated,
or to improve his earning capaci¬
ties through training. Most veter¬
ans took advantage of one or more
of the training programs, at least
to the extent that they drew the
compensation, whether they seri¬
ously tried to improve earning
capacities or not. Some did;
many did not.
For the few who honestly could
not, for one reason or another,
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benefit from the education or
training offered, there is some lit¬
tle argument that they should
have a bonus. But for the vast
majority of veterans, no bonus
should be considered now or in
the future.
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NOT DIPLOMATIC BUT TO
THE POINT
‘The United States is ready to
lick hell out of Russia on an
hour’s notice.”
That’s what Secretary of De¬
fense Johnson said in Washing¬
ton last Friday, in some of the
toughest language yet used in the
cold war. It may not be diplo¬
matic, and it may not be entirely
correct; but it is refreshing to
hear a high Government official
speak in plain language, come to
the point, and say what he thinks.
It has been said over and over
that the only language Russia
understands is force, We im
agine they can understand this
pronouncement by the Secretary
of Defense.
Secretary Johnson said furth
er: ‘Joe Stalin will know that
if he starts something at four a.
m., the fighting power of the
United States will be on the job
at five a. m.” Johnson declared
that this nation’s defense setup
is more powerful than it has been
since 1945. “In all we are doing,
we are seeking peace,” he said,
‘There is only one nation i n the
world that would start a war. We
seek to have a military establish
ment sufficient to deter that ag
gressor and to lick hell out of
her if she doesn’t stay deterred”
What’s more, Johnson said, he
is “not sure peace would last a
few hours today, if Russia con
sidered this country unprepared
for war”.
Let us hope the Secretary 0 f
Defense is right in his opinion of
what the United States could do
to Russia if they should start a
war. But right or wrong, this
kind of talk will probably make
the Russians sit up and take no
tice.
In dealing with “diplomats”
who carry guns around in their
briefcases, maybe this is the kind
of “diplomatic” language they
can understand.
-V
TIMES CHANGE
Times certainly change: who
would have thought we would
ever consider the atomic bomb a
mild sort of war weapon?
-V
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