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THURSDAY. NOV. 14. 1S35
Georgia editors mourn the passing
of Jack Patterson. He was on
the individual characters that has
sat at the editor: desk and he will
be missed. He was always on hand
at the pi ess conventions.
THE EXCEPTION IN JOURNALISM
Arthur Brisbane, noted journalist,
says: "The pathetic thing in journ
alism. as in politics, is the lack 61
names that people know. Millions
of Americans read newspapers with
not the faintest conception as to the
character of the man whose news
paper they read. It might be called
anonymous nonentity. There are
thousands of small town editors
whese papers are exceptions."
And the exceptions. Mr. Brisbane,
are the thousands of small town
editors whose papers are read, mis
takes hunted out and, besides, liter
ally pelted with bullets of criticism
The reader cf a small town news
paper is generally a person inter-
• ested in local affairs, and often this
I reader sends items to be published—
{free of charge, of course. Sometim*
! there arc complications, wording
| must 1st change' etc., and there is
I wher; the editor comes in. Know-
. ling, perhaps. more about him than
Weather forecasters say a mildL kn 1VS about himself
inter Is in store until the first of| b i, iout ,,. ritcr ] c |. the editor s his-
year. Well this is at least cn-| tory
Santa Claus is beginning to load
his sled and work out details for his
annual visit. Letle.-s have already
begun to arrive
c. '.’raging to Santa Claus.
The campaign being conducted to
reduce auto acicdcnts should meet
with public response. The drivers
license is essential for every state.
Unfit and wreckless drivers should
be taken off the roads.
Christmas is just around the cor
ner. Better begin to get ready and
there is one piece of advice we want
to give and that is to shop in Mil-
ledgevillc first. You will not only
find the best, but the most attrac
tive gifts.
Wisconsin no doubt plans to in
crease their jail capacity. A law has
been passed imposing a 30 days jail
sentence for all drunken drivers, re
gardless of who they are. This is n
good law. if enforced. This menace
to the safety of the public should,
and can be stopped.
i light, and it's just too
bad.
Have you ever l'een a small town
editor. Mr. Brisoane? Oh, well, you
know then who the exception in the
field of journalism really is.
Call it shortsightedness if you like,
but farmers are i:ot nearly so much
concerned about threats of a dic
tatorship, even about "who is going
to pay for this,’’ os they are about
showing a orefit in their farming
operations when the year’s work is
closed.
Georgia is facing its moat inter
esting political year. T^iere is to be
a county primary, a presidential
primary, probably, and a state pri
mary for the selection of s IT. S.
Senator. Governor and all state
officials. Many polticans already
have their car to the ground and
hope to get the call for a hat in the
ring.
Office holders and Candidates who
have pledged their allegiance to one
party and are doing all in their
power to promote the interest of the
party have no business taking part
in the primary of the opposing
party. In other words Democrats,
or so called Democrats, have no
place in the party council® when
they dessert to the cause of the Re
publicans.
SLANDERERS” OP AGE GA.
SCATHINGLY REBUKED BY
editor McIntosh
(From Ike Albany mill)
In no sense is “.ural Georgia” half
so bad as a few critics seem pleased
to paint it It may have its weak
nesses, an-t it certainly has Its prob
lems, but It presents a fine and
wholesome side of which Georgians
well may be proud.
If it is a reproach for a people not
to hare accumulated wealth, not to
have acquired the veneer which so
often and so eerily passes for cul
ture; not to have kept pace with the
giddy irowd which begin? the day
at 10 p. m. in many a big town; not
to have given ev«ry boy a**! girl at
least a high school education, and
not to have modernized farm with
machirery for plowing, planting,
cultivating, safeguarding ?nd har
vestin'? the crop:—we say if these
rd.Tect cn a people mark them for
reproach, then indeed is rural Geor
gia In a bad way.
But while no informed person who
has traveled through a good deal of
rural Georgia falls to roiVze that
much reeds to be done tc improve
the condition of thousands of fami
lies. any blanket indictment of t’ :
people who dwelt in the rural com
munities—any charge or intimation
that thev are more social and econo
mic liabilities than assets—is gross
slander.
Take away the contribution of
r iral Georgia to the sum of the
state's prosperity, and signals
•ould soon be flying
Senator Richard b. Russell made
a most interesting speech before the
Kiwanis last week. This distinguish
ed young Georgian has risen high In
the councils of ambition and is reco
gnized as one of the outstanding
leaders. His presentation of the plans j distress
and policies of President Roosevelt j evcr y C ny bank, every wholsale and
and the New Deal were both com- i rc t a |j store, and all but a few of our
prehensive and informative. The industrial plant®, Georgia’s agri
people who heard him came away cu itural products—cotton and cot-
with a clearer understanding of ttojtonseed. peanuts, tobacco, pecans,
entire program. 'grain, hay, watermelons, truck, fruit,
I poultry, eggs, hogs, cattle, syrup—
THE COMMUNITY CHEST !have a value close to a quarter of
billion dollars this year.
The opportunity is given the citi
zens of Baldwin county to contribute
to the Community Chest and thus
provide funds for the needy that
they might not suffer during the
coming year.
The commander of the Salvation
Army was asked to send a greeting
on New Years and was given the
facilities of the telegraph company
without cost and his message was.
"Others." The great lesson taught
in that marvelous story of Victor
Hugo’s, Les Miserables, is to give
and not take.
The needs in this county are
many. There arc those who have
no means of helping themselves,
who are the responsibility of the
community. They must be cared for.
There is not a citizen, at least wc
hope there isn’t, who knew these
individual cases, that they would not
hesitate one second to see that these
people are cared for. That is just
what the Community Chest docs In
a systematic, orderly way. It seems
that none suffer, yet that those
worthy do not take advantage of
your charity.
Give liberaly this year. You deny
yourself none of the pleasures of
life, and how much greater is the
service you give when you help pro
vide for the needy and aflicted.
God loves a cheerful giver.
Where does it come from? Prom
rural Georgia.”
And if it were not for that huge
um. thero’d be mighty little busi-
less moving through banks, stores,
shops, service stations, warehouses,
real estate and renting agencies, and
lot of other places. Oil mills would
be forced to shut down, and cotton
mills, tc-o. Fertilizer manufacturing
plants v.'-juld he deserted and silent.
Sawmi.ls would cease operations,
our credit structure would collapse,
and the tax cc hector would have
mighty few callers. For while the
millions which Georgia farms,
chards and pastures yield every year
may not make Georgia farmers rich
without them business of every
class in our state would quickly
collapse.
And there’s something else that
comes out of rural Georgia—some
thing easily overlooked and unap
praised by one who seeks to evalu
ate. solely on a cold-blooded basi«
the PM-ets of the state: something
fer wliicn there is no financial
yardstick because the values
volvcd are not material values.
Wc have reference to those good,
wholes ‘.n e people who live
farms and in *hc villages where
folks still have time to be neigh
bors. where chtrches and schools
are still social centers, and u
a man does not have to be well
thought of.
Some of the finest men and wo
men in America live in rural Geor
gia. and the childcen they ore bring
ing up will make for their state some
of its sturdiest citizens when the
next generation swings into the
saddle and gets its feet in the stir
rups. Not many of them are rich,
but plenty of them are wel-to-do
and without them Georgia would
nave no future.
Slandering rum) Georgia is stu
pid. for it ignoics facts and makes
of specie us half truths. II
foolish to argue that the rural sec-
ns of our state arc not backward
many ways ina deficient in many
things, but it Is no less foolish to
hold it up to the world as benighted
ind uc-C3'’.ent. for it is neither the
ino nor the othc-r. Some rural fami-
ics are pathetically poor, and the
jpur cf ambition seems never tc
lave touched »hom. but they are no
mere depended and ?ar less pathetic
than many mere thousands who live
in the country’s industrial sections,
rr flgnt for life in the congested
slums cf our great cities. There is
loss crime in all of rural Georgia
combined than there is in any one of
half a hundred of the country’s best
great cities.
Rural Georgia may not be Utopia,
but neither is it the hopeless, help
less and hapless region which some
of its maligners seem to enjoy
representing it as being. In it live
and labor some of the finest people
in America.
THE NEW8PAPEB
Former Governor Francis of Mia-
aouri, pays this tribute to the gifts
a newspaper makes to its commun
ity:
E*ch year the load paper five,
’ran *500 to (1,000 in bee line, to
the community in which it b lo-
cated.
“No other agent can or will do
"The editor, in proportion to hL:
means, does more for his town
than any other ten men and, ii
fairness, he ought to be supported,
not because you like him or admire
his writings, but because the local
paper is the best investment a com
munity can make.
"Today the editors of the local pa
pers do the most for the least money
of any people on earth."
JEFFERSON'S TEN RULES
1. Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before
you have earned it
4. Never buy what you don’t want
because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of eating too
little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that
do willingly. m
8. How much pain and evils have
cost us that have never happened!
9. Take things always by the
smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before
you speak: if very angry, count
hundred.
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P. N. BIVINS SPEAKS BEFORE
C C. C BOYS
Mr. P. N. Bivins, superintendent
of education in Baldwin county, was
the guest speaker at the CCC camp
on Wednesday evening. #
The educational activities of the
camp are in charge of Mr. R. A.
Braswell. He is planning a series of
weekly programs and ci ti2nil
Miltedgovilte arr being invited ou,
to spenk. Mr. U R. Langley wu , ^
the speaker next Wednesday .
Mr. Braswell b a former 'mem
ber of the state department of eduia.
tloo and U assisting the young min
at the camp in study and educa-
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