As I typed these two editorials from the 1938 Ellaville Sun, I couldn't help thinking about some striking similarities in today's world. The Ellaville Sun Friday, November 23, 1938 No. 21 WE STILL HAVE FRONTIERS IN AMERICA by Charles Wall, Jr. Everywhere man has new problems, expects new securities, new safeguards from society. One of the greatest tasks before the coming generation is to realize that all the frontiers in America have not been hurdled. We have got to catch up with our thinking; realize that the frontier of today is social, not physical. Some talk of the law of supply and demand as though it were a bogey man, and at present it seems to be just that. But by clean, quick, clear thinking it could be met. A depression is another thing we of this great country take as something that has to happen every seven to 11 years. Our employment is another thing that we just talk about and never do anything about. Nowadays one hears a great deal about Communism, the menace of Fascism as immediate dangers to our country. And our civilization is cutting a rough edge or going to the dogs. These are the frontiers we have to climb just as our grandparents climbed the Rocky Mountains. The trouble with the world today is we are living on other people's laurels. We are suffering a time-lag. Something happens and it takes us a couple of years to catch on, or sometimes we never see it. Some of us still think of ourselves as living in an age of laissez faire, although it passed many years ago. We have got to catch up with the times or before many years there will be no times. Nearly every man has lain awake at night wondering what he will do if he loses his job. He has feared poverty, old age and hoped that he will never become a crumb of charity. And he has had fear that some day he will be thrust in a marching army, to become another cause for democracy, in a stupid war. These fears are real. They represent a cross-section of the world. It is the task of the coming generation to find a way around these frontiers. PROTECT AMERICA by Foy Evans While President Roosevelt and the United States as a whole extend a welcome hand to the persecuted of foreign lands, there is one person--an outstanding personality--who takes a definite stand against such wholesale immigration as the United States is practicing. That man is Representative Stephen Pace of Americus. The Democratic representative of the Third District of Georgia. His stand is firm. He minces no words saying what he thinks is right. In public addresses throughout the district he has condemned the present policy and advocates to "deport four million illegal aliens in the United States today and reduce annual number of immigrants admitted to this country." "I intend to offer the press for passage in the next session a bill which I introduced in the last Congress, that is, to close our doors to further foreign immigration and to deport practically four million aliens who are now in this country unlawfully, who add to our relief burden, hold jobs to which American citizens are entitled, violate our laws and have no respect for our flag," he declared on Oct. 11 of this year in Americus when accepting nomination as candidate for representative from this district. Since that time he has reaffirmed those statements. In Columbus last week he asserted again he would press passage for the bill. Going further into the question he said: "The time has come when the admission of foreigners into this country for permanent residence should be limited, at the most to members of the immediate families of those who have previously entered, have become neutralized (naturalized?), who are making loyal citizens, and who are able to guarantee that, if admitted, their wives or children or parents will not become a public care." MISS STANDRIDGE FETES FRIENDS AT "POSSUM HUNT Miss Dixie (Dyxie) Standridge entertained with a 'Possum hunt Friday night. Prior to the hunt the guests assembled around a huge bonfire where refreshments were served. Guests invited were: Misses Clara Mott, Mary Frances Perry, Marion Mott, Dorothy Lowry, Juanita Cook, Hilda Manning, Elsie Rainey, Dolly Lumpkin, Doris Cripps, Lorena Jordan, and Lillian Purvis; Edwards Murray, David McCorkle, Jimmy Harden, Charles Lumpkin, Finis Allmon, Byron Hill, Bobby Rigsby, Carl Hobbs, Frank Bailey, Walter Strange, Roney Jordan, Woodrow Daniel, Mrs. James Hart, Mrs. Georgia B. Perry, Pep Perry and Mrs. George Standridge. ANDREW CHAPEL Mr. R(obert) H(ill) Strange, Miss Juliette Strange and Miss Wille B. Wilson of Ellaville entertained the teachers of Ellaville at a cane grinding at Strange's Mill Friday afternoon. Those attending were Misses Knighton, McGourk, Ross, Tilman, Boroughs, Cherry, Tanner, Collins, Wilson, Mrs. John Lindsay and Mrs. Stanley Greene. Mr. and Mrs. E(dgar) B(utt) Hornady, Miss Mary Hornady and Mrs. G(ilbert) P. DeWolf will have as their spend-the-day guests Thanksgiving day, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Gilchrist. WIENER ROAST GIVEN AT STEVEN'S POND One of the most enjoyable affairs of the week-end was the wiener roast at Steven's Pond, Saturday night. Among those attending were Misses Clara Mott, Helen Stevens, Juanita Cook, Elizabeth Lumpkin, Elsie Rainey, Hilda Cosper, Frances Owens, Lillian Tondee, Carolyn Currie and Irma Wall; Mr. and Mrs. N.C. Hatcher, Kelly Terry, Morris Fulford, Finis Allmon, Redmond Jernigan, David McCorkle, Ernest Williams, Billy Hinton, Carl Hobbs, Bobby Rigsby, Byron Hill, Charles Lumpkin, Frank Bailey, Walter Strange and Woodrow Daniel. end # 21