About Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1935)
THL PmOW-MOOt—I. BULLBDGEVILLB. OA^ NOWMBB 14. IMS oHje Mnum-Ewaritfr 111! Citanl m% PM '9HU*, Mll^i M ■■■—i «<»M M4 M Pobli.hod Wookly TWnA| ti MiHodgoviUo. G*. It B. MOORE—EDITOR JERE N. MOORE—B—M— Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Omm Tor SUB OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNTY 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. Care Year Mot At MLIEDGEVOU HLLDK CO. Wtjat Si. Gcerfia lihil Stil Coughing? Ag“ggj*«”- SESS55C pSSs 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 . 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