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Cummins. Georgia
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Established 1908
Circulation over Forsyth, Fulton, Cherokee, Dawson
Lumpkin, Hall and Gwinnett Counties
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Published Every Thursday at Cumming, 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 Cummlug, Ga., August 10,
1910, as mail matter of the second class.
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Official Organ of Forsyth County
and City of Cumming
The democracies of the world ought to ap
preciate sea-power.
Clothes may make a man but it takes hos.-
iery to make a woman.
Hess leaves Germany and the Nazis say
he is crazy; this is not what the rest of the
world says.
One good thing about being sick is the
chance that the doctor will say, “Don’t work
so hard.”
The United States may love peace but her
people are not easily bluffed, as Tokyo prob
ably agrees.
Russia and Japan, as we see it, are ready
to use the bayonet whenever the loot seems
easy to grab.
Every community has what might be con
sidered publicity hounds but they do not chase
the news.
You would be surprised, we suspect, to
know what some of your so-called friends say,
behind your back.
Gumming should rigorously enforce traffic
regulations; if they are not to be enforced, why
have them?
Religion has no business mixing in political
affairs and political affairs should not be con
cerned about religion.
Life would become simpler if men and wo
men were just a little bit more sincere in then
contacts with others.
Our Own Advice: Just attend to your own
improvement and let the well-known human
race get along as best it can.
Every profession is judged by the opinions
that are expressed by members who talk about
their associated, workers.
The individual who has an advantage, how
ever acyuired, is loath to surrender it, even at
the call of justice and fair play.
We still insist that agriculture is entitled
to a larger portion of the naional income and
we don’t care how the matter is arranged.
Now, that Mother’s Day has passed, it does
not mean that you have to wait until next year
to show your Mother what you think of her.
We may be wrong but we have no idea
that the Nazis will stand up under the bombing
that is peing prepared for all loyal sons of
Hitler.
Advertising, even in The horsyth County-
News, cannot make a business man but a busi
ness man can make a business by advertising
You might be amazed at the results of a
classified advertisement placed in the columns
of The Forsyth County News at a trifling ex
pense.
When dictators unite to plunder free peo
ples, it is time for free peoples, everywhere, to
make common cause in their own interests and
safety.
If nothing but force and brute power is to
count in the administration of world affairs,
the United States might as well develope force
and brute power.
We wouldn’t be surprised if the Axis pow
ers decide to make war upon the United States
in order to safeguard the peace of the Western
Hemisphere.
The time has come for the United States
to accept its responsibility in the world as the
largest and richest nation on the globe, even
if Herr Hiler does not like it.
Nobody seems to be worried over the hun
hundreds of Americans who are injured every
day on the highways of the nation, least of all
the juries that acquit drunken drivers.
The Forsyth County News
Those Amendments
It isn’t too early to discuss the June elec
tion, briefly and to the point.
Georggia will vote on 68 amendments to
the constitution on June 3. There are two of
these which are of very real importance to the
citizens of the state.
One of them would make the term for the
Governor of the state four years instead of two.
This amendment, The Constitution believes
should be adopted. It has many virtures to
commend it. Ii would enable the Governor to
give four years of attention to the job. He would
not be forced to start running for office after
being on the job one year. It would free him
from many political obligations which now
plague him and make him a less efficient public
servant. There are other excellent reasons. The
four-year term is a constructive move and is
earnestly recommended to the people for pas
sage.
The second amendment is one which would
set up an annual session of the legislature.
Thus amendment, The Constitution believes
should be defeated.
A session of the legislature held each year
would keep the state almost constantly in the
turmol of politics. One session would hardly
be over before the political maneuvering- lead
ing to the second session, would begin. The
expense is another item which should prohibit
it. The plain fact that Georgia does not need
a session each and every year, is another ex
cellent argument against the proposal.
The are the two proposed amendments .of
the most importance to the peopel of Georgia.
There is time to think them over. There is time
to make upone’s mind to give the Governors of
Georgia and the state itself a respite from
politics and a more efficient administration
through a four-year term. There is time to de
cide that a legislative session once every two
years is enough.
Having decided to vote for the four-year
term and against the annual legislative session
proposal, Georgians may well go ahead and
vote “yes” on all the remaining 66 amend
ments. One of them provides for all nonprofit
rural electrification projects to be tax exempt.
The others are local in character.
This is an important election. The people
of Fulton county long have expressed a desire
for a four-year term and the 1 same sentiment
has been heard over the entire state. Fulton
county can do much toward abtaining the four
year term and defeating the annual legislative
amendment by turning out a large vote. The
largest county in the state ought to make that
its obligation.
It is time to start thinking about this
election.
The Atlanta Constitution
Are You A Citizen Interested?
On June 3 in Georgia will occur one of the
most important events which can happen in a
democracy. It is a general electtion in which
people of Georgia themselves will make or re
fuse to make changes in the fundamental laws
which govern them. They will do this directly
by their ballots without even the intervention
of their elected representatives. It represents
the very essence of the democratic form of
government. It is itself the difference between
a democracy and a dictatorship.
No Georgian can be evry proud of how we
have availed ourselves in the past of the sacred
privilege of self-government. The majority of
us by staying away from the polls have ignored
the privilege and failed in the duty. Who can
be surprised that democracy has won the con
tempt of dictators who observe that for the
most part we are just not interested in taking
part in governing ourselves?
We must answer on June 3 whether we
will give our Governor and our constitutional
officers four-year terms instead of two,
whether we will create machinery to make pos
sible hospital facilities for our rural, and for
that matter urban population, or whether we
will continue to ignore the need. We are asked
whether we will require rural electric associat
ions to continue to pay taxes; whether we will
largely increase the powers of our Justices of
the Peace.
In all we are asked 68 questions and our
Answer will be the law of Georgia. But the most
important question to be answered will not be
written on the ballot; it is: “Are you as a citi
zen enough interested in your citizenship to
help govern yourself, or will you let others
do it?”
We Must Avoid Inflation
The people of the United States are begin
ning to wonder whether expenditures neces
sitated by the defense program will result in
inflationary prices and thus carry us to anot or
pinnacle from which we will inevitably descent
into another depression.
It may be said at the beginning that the
first requisite for another depression is a period
of inflation. Consequently, responsible econo
mic experts, in and out of the Government, are
agreed that steps should be taken to prevent
advancin g prices which will culminate in a
wild orgy of buying.
With the increased tempo of defense spend
ing, the people of the United States will have
more money to spend. It is also certain that as
industrial plants are turned from normal pro
duction into the production of defence mater
ials, the shortage of goods may become pio
nounced.
Given more money and fewer goods, it is
certain that prices will go up as prospective
buyers bid against each other for. decreasing
supplies. This would be the case in any free
economy. Consequently, the Government is al
most compelled to take steps to limit the buy
ing power of the public.
As we understand it, and we admit that we
do not know too much about it, this can be done
in several ways. One is to set a price upon
goods and commodities. Another way is to pro
vide heavy taxation in order to crai noff excess
purchasing power. This end is also accomplish
ed by persuading the people to invest in Gov
ernment bonds for defense financing.
The British Government recently attempt
ed to inaugurate anew system of control. It
provided heavy income taxes, which included a
plan for compulsory saving. Thus, a man who
paid SIBB a year in taxes was given a credit of
S4B, which sum would become available to him
at the end of the war.
This plan has several advantages, includ
ing the absorption of excess purchasing pow
er during the emergency and an automatic pro
vision for a savings account to cushion post-war
decreases in the income of individuals. It may
be copied in this country.
We hope the people of the United States
will be smart enough to encourage the Govern
ment to take whatever steps are necessary to
prevent a repetition of the inflation orgy which
developed in the United States during the last
war. The remedy may seem to be harsh now
but it will be easy if it enables the nation to
avoid a disastrous depression after the defense
effort is unnecessary.
Speaking as a newspaper man, you would
be surprised at the number of individuals who
suggest that we write an editorial along the
line of the article we wrote a few days before
which they didnot read.
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it will bring you great good fortune, and much
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cash to keep The Forsyth County News coming
your way for the next twelve months.
Women Behind the Lines
Britain's IKF.S. Distributes
t .S. Clothes in Bomb's Uohe
"TEA” TIME —Safe from air raiders .n a:. English country
side billet this young London evacuee, dressed in clothes from ,
the American Red Cross, pauses at tea time for a cup of mil!;.
The attractive woman's Voluntary Services worker is one nt
the thousands of gallant British women who are distributing
clothes made by Red Cross volunteers in the United States.
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CUMMING, GA.
Thursday, May 29, 1941.