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Cummins, Georgia
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Established 1908
Circulation over Forsyth, Fulton, Cherokee, Dawson
Lumpkin, Hall and Gwinnett Counties
The Paper That Appreciates
Your Patronage
Published Every Thursday at Camming, Georgia.
Roy P. Otwell ....Editor and Owner
James L. Reeves. ... Associate Editor
A. L. Henderson ....Associate Editor
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Entered at the Post Office at Cummlng, Ga., August 10,
1910, as mail matter of the second class.
Advertising Kates Made Known Upon Application
Official Organ of Forsyth County
and City of Cumming
Advice unlimited: Avoid automobile acci
dents
Snappy remarks are often senseless utter
ances.
Experience is rarely valued by those who
need it most.
The chief trouble with the human race is
human beings.
The end of a friendship: “And you know
what she said?”
Isn’t it funny how little value other people
put on your time?
There is, and there always will be, only
one answer to force.
Health is as important as brains, if you
know what we mean.
Never try to find out what people think
of you; you might not like it.
Most people will go to any amount of trou
ble to be able to have a good time.
It won't be long now before careless swim
mers will be worrying the lifeguards.
Advertising in The Forsyth County News
can be a paying investment. Why not try it?
Going to church may hurt some people,
but we are willing to bet it won’t hurt you.
Correct this sentence: “Mr. Officer, this is
the first time I have ever exceeded the speed
limit.”
Don’t forw your opinion of higher educa
tion by the antics of a few ools who go to col
lege.
It won’t be long now before some people
will be telling you how much he prefers cold
weather.
The world, if it can manage to last for a
little while longer, will be saved by the June
graduates.
Service to youth is as fine a contribution
as any adult can make to the improvement of
Gumming.
One of the easiest things to do is to start
an argument and one of the hardest things to
do is to stop one.
The very best compliment you can pay a
newspaper is to keep your subscription paid up,
believe it or not.
An advertisement is a signboard and one
in The Forsyth County News is read by the buy
ers in this territory.
Feeding the nation way be a glorious call
ing but the farmers of the nation are anxious
for adequate cash returns, too
There aren’t many workers, however effi
cient, who won’t take time out for a little re
laxation when the boss is absent.
You can do your part in making Cumming
the town you want it to be, but you will never
accomplish it by talking.
Don’t strain yourself trying to reform the
world—lit has been here a long time without
you and will last a long time after you depart
Adults whose memories go back far
enough to remember the pranks of their own
youth, lose little sleep over our modern boys
and girls.
Our own experience is that it is of no use
to tell anybody our own experience because
they will not be satisfied until they get their
own experience.
If you value your life, have yourself ex
amined physically at regular intervals, and, if
you are strong mentally, let an expert look over
your brain work.
The Forsyth County News
The Farmers’ Stake
“It the Nazis win, we might as well kiss
our expoi't market forfarm products goodbys,”
says Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, who
insists that the stake of farmers in the conflict
now going on is as great or greater than that
of any other group.
Mr. Wickard knows what German domina
tion of Europe will mean to world trade. The
Nazi system o fexploiting the peoples, as well
as the resources, of conquered nations means a
revolution in economic affairs that will inevit
ably eliminate the competition of free peoples
in the production of commodities for exchange.
There are some people in Forsyth County
who have the idea that the agricultural prob
lem of the United States revolves solely around
surplus production. This, says the Secretary, ap
plies to cotton, wheat and tobacco, but it has
no bearing upon pork, dairy products, eggs, to
matoes and some other foods.
When the fighting in Europe ends, “a large
part of the world will be looking to the United
States for food.” Our farmers will be able to
prosper in such a market but they will not have
a chance if the outside world is dominated by
Germany and their trade controlled by Nazi
masters who will take it only upon their own
Itidrms.
British Battleships
A London dispatch says that the British
have commissioned the second, new 35,000-ton
battleship and British newspapers indicate that
the British navy will soon be reinforced by five
new battleships of this type.
Several years before the war, after the ex
piration of the naval limitation treaties, the
British projected a fleet of five new battlaships,
to have a speed of 30 knots and to carry ten
14-inch guns. The keels of two of these ships
were laid on January 1, 1937, the day after the
naval treaties expired, and since then, other
ships have been under construction.
Defense A Tremendous Job
Some idea of the task ahead of the United
States,' in the matter of complete defense, is
evident when one hears that Germany is spend
ing upwards of two and a half billion dollars
a month and the United States has paid out only
approximately four billion dollars since the
start of the defenne program
While the United States has authorized the
expenditures of large sums for national de
fense and to aid Great Britain, the nation has
a long way to go before it will equal Germany’s
armament industry. It is estimated that Ger
many, in addition to her present immense ex
penditures, had npentnot less than $50,000,000
on armaments before the rest of the world
realized the menace and took up the challenge.
Donald Nelson, speaking to the Defense
Conference on Consumer Goods, in Washing
ton, recently pointed out that Germany “strip
ped her society of every single feature that did
not contribute directly tomilitary strength” and
tha the nation became a vast workshop. Thin
is the sober truth.
Hitler has developed the German nation
as a machine for war, not for service to civili
zation in time of peace. He hassacrificed every
freedom and driven his people into his work
shops to produce arms and equipment for his
soldiers
Mr. Nelson wonders whether the people of
the United States have any idea of the vast ex
pansion of arms production which has taken
place in Europe, where Germany now has the
benefit of the productive capacity of France,
Belgium, Holland, Norway, Poland, Czecho
slovakia and the Balkin areas.
Industry Delays Defense
The defense of the United States is vital to
every American and anything that delays the
program designed to protect this country is
harmful to the people of the United States
This statement applies to labor troubles.
It also applies to reluctant industry which is
delaying expansion for production.
There has been so much discussion about
labor’s demand for wages that most Americans
have no information about the delays that have
occured because industrial leaders have at
tempted to secure the best possible contract
frow the government before turning the wheels
to arm the soldiers of the nation.
At this time, we are advised by Arthur
Krock, of the New York Times, that “more
than $1,000,000,000 in new armament con
tracts” are being held up because industry and
government cannot agree upon the protection
that should be given industry for plant expan
sion.
The reader may be aware that the govern
ment wants production multiplied by private
capital wherever possible. Industry wants con
tracts that will enable it to pay for he construct
ion out of he profits of manufacture. Industry
wants protection against the non-use of plants
after the emergency has ended.
This seems reasonable but the hitch, is
deeper than one suspects. The government con
tends that if industry is unwilling to assume
the risk of erecting the necessary plants, then
the government should finance the plants after
the emergency. During the emergency the
plants would be leased to industry.
Mr. Krock says that “industry suspects ex
treme New Dealers of harboring a scheme of
government-owned industry after the war.”.
He suspects that “industry would probacy
have been slower to proceed” if it had under
stood that the government intended to own the
plants it financed.
Hrere we have a sorry example of industry
slowing up defense while attempting to secure
the adoption of a policy which would not only
guarantee industry a profit but, under some
circumstances, would amount to givnng in_
dustry the plants erected for the emergency.
We are for private industry, as a choice,
but if private industry is unable to finance the
plants that defense of the nation requires, then
the government should build them, and, aUei
building them, the government should own
them. There is no excuse for the government
paying such exorbitant prices for war materials
as to give industry an opportunity to secure vast
plant expansion at the expense of defense.
There’s nobody quite so pompous as a man
who has the idea that he must maintain a repu
tation as an authority or play the role of an
intelligent human being.
When Will We Fight?
President James B. Conant, of Havard
University, expresses the right idea when he
says it is not a question of whether the United
States will fight but, “When shall America
fight?”
He reasons correctly when points out that
such a conflict is inevitable unless we are wil
ling to yield to control of this hemisphere to
the Axis powers.
Dr. Conant suggests that the United States
can avoid a later battle “against desperate
odds” by “becoming a naval belligerent now.”
He points out that war materials and food must
be delivered to the British people because the
blockade of U-boats, raiders and air force has
been “more damaging, perhaps, than we have
yet been told.
The Harvard educator, just back from a
two-months trip to England, insists thalt every
Nazi victory makes our task the harder and
that “from now on each month that we delay
will mean at least four months added to the
war.’”
WHAT MAKES A CITY GREAT?
By CHARLES M. SHELDON
What makes a city great and strong
Not architecture’s graceful strength,
Nor factories’ extending length,
But men who see tbe civic world
And give their lives to make it right,
And turn its darkness into light,
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What makes a city full of power?
Not wealth’s display, nor titled fame,
Nor fashion’s loudly boasted claim,
But women rich in virtue’s dower,
Whose homes, though humble, still are great,
Because of service to the state.
What makes a city men can love?
Not things which charm outward sense,
Nor gross display of opulence,
But Right which Wrong cannot remove
And Truth which faces civic fraud,
And smites it in the name of God.
This is the city that shall stand,
A light upon the nation’s hill,
A voice that evil cannot still,
A source of blessing to the land,
Its strength not brick, nor stone, nor wood,
But Justice, Love and Brotherhood.
Frances Theatre
Cumming, Georgia
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MAY 21 and 22
SOUTH OF SUEZ
DON'T FORGET THE WRESTLING MATCH EACH WEDNESDAY NIGHT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MAY 23 4 24
Gene Autrey RIDING ON A RAINBOW
Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Carol Adams, Ferris Taylor Georgia Caine.
Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted Chapt. 5
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MAY 26 427
CRASHING THROUGH
Staring Jane Newell, and Warren Hull
TUESDAY MAY 27
The Pine Ridge Boys on Stage IN PERSON with
a New Show ,
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MAY 28 4 29
The Woman Who Dared
Staring Claudia Dell, Lola Lane, Mattie Fain.
Thursday, May 22, 1941.