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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 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 Cumming, Ga., August 10,
1910, as mail matter of the second class.
Advertising Hates Made Known Upon Application
Official Organ of Forsyth County
and City of Cumming
Doing work ahead of time means more
work.
Many a man, too busy to serve his com
munity, has time to loaf.
Human beings make mistakes—if you are
without error, you are inhuman.
Advertising jis misunderstood, even by!
business men who should know it best.
Law enforcement officers should have a
mind single to one purpose, the enforcement
of the law.
The man who reads his Bible every day
doesn’t have to apologize because some sap
heads do otherwise.
After all, how did people in Forsyth get
along without automobiles, radios and moving
pictures?
It is amazing how easy it is to start an
argument with a man who is getting some petty
graft, on the side.
Life is too short for the average man to un
derstand all mysteries don’t worry; there will
always be mysteries.
Modern men owes much to organized in
dustry but this docvsn’t mean that organized
industry has the right to exploit man.
Housekeeping would be ideal if every
home had a little fairy who would work like
the little fairies of the imaginary world.
Forsyth County will furnish its share of
the victims who die annually in this country
Ithrough avoidable accidents*. Does anybody,,
except the victims. Care?
When two young people think that the
most important business of life is to see each
other, then it is the most important business
of life.
Democracy depends upon average men for
its success but it has a hopeless prospect if the
averageg man hasn’t sense enough to vote right
on issues
Politicians may be a necessary evil but
they are the product of their people and could
n’t stay in office if the people were any better
than the politicians.
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Control of the seas is vital to the cause of
civilization and it is all to intelligent citizens
of democratic nations to recognize the import
ance of sea power.
Cumming, like ether places, wants more
business in order that its people can enjoy im
proved living conditions but few of us ever stop
to realize that improved living conditions might
not be altogether a matter of larger incomes.
The world will be improved if our college
graduates will remember that they do not have
to seek advancement over the dead bodies of
their comrades; the world offers opportunity
to every individual to contribute to the progress
of- mankind.
The Forsyth County News
Labor Must Not Abuse The Right To
Strike Or Jeopardize The Defense
Program.
The strike of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. machin
ists in the San Francisco shipyard area has been
denounced by William Green, President of the
American Federation of Labor an illegal strike.
With this introduction and emphasizing the
fact that the strike is ellegal, according o Mr.
Green, we think it highly necessary for reason
able labor leaders to understand that the pub
lic is against “outlaw strikes” which interfere
with production for defense.
Undoubtedly public opinion will eventually
compel drastic regulation of the power of union
officials to call strikes and probably seriously
curtail the right of laborers to strike if the de
fense program of this nation is placed in jeo
pardy by the irresponsible actions of the mem
bers of local unions who flout the leadership of
their own officials.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of
the Maritime Commission, confronted with the
.situation in San Francisco and realizing that
the Navy defense program is being retarded by
such performances, insists that the Government
would be justified in taking every possible step,
“including the use of United States forces,” to
remove picket lines so workmen, willing to go
to work, can go to work.
This would be a drastic effort to relieve a
situation that perhaps can be better solved by
the pressure of public opinion. It is difficult to
see how the use of force can compel 1 men to
work, if they do not desire to labor, but, on the
other hand, in the case of outlaw strikes, it is
very probable that the use of force to remove
illegal picket lines would be all that is neces
sary to secure resumption of work by many pa
triotic laborers.
While President William Green fears that
such drastic action would defeat its very pur
pose, even Admiral Land admits that men who
wouldn’t go through picket lines might not go
through them merely because the Government
took over.
We have not hesitated to give publicity to the
delays which have occurred in the defense pro
gram because of the unwillingness of industrial
leaders to cooperate with the Government ex
cept upon terms of their own. We fully realize
that serious delays have occurred from this
cause. Just the same, labor leaders might as
well understand that public opinion is more eas
ily affected by the picture of striking workers
than by delays occasioned over the conference
table when industrial leaders disagree with the
Government as to amortization and such issues.
This newspaper speaks as a friend of organi
zed labor but without any disposition to avoid
the full realization of existing facts. This in
cludes a rising sentiment throughout the United
States that the Governmen, having guaranteed
essential rights to labor, must, if necessary, en
force the acceptance of proper responsibilities
by labor leaders and members of labor unions.
The right to strike has been guaranteed to lab
or but public opinion will never sustain this pri
vilege as an instrument to strike down the de
fense of the United States.
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Spreading A Navy “Too Thin”
John T. Whitaker, Chicago News correspond
ent, writing from Portugal, asserts that Ameri
can naval intervention now would strike a tell
ing blow and block three major German offen
sives now being developed.
Mr. W’hitager points out that British seapow r
er is being spread thinner than ever before, so
thin ’that according to German
strategy, it will break.
Says Mr. Whitaker, You can spread almost
anything too thin, even the sleepless heroism
of the British navy which, while, it fights the
battle of the Atlantic, must also fight battles in
Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Morocco,
France and Spain.
Bombers, Tanks And Ships
The latest report on the neews of Great Bri
tain include:
(1) Enough heavy bombers to eliminate the
convey problem;
(2) Heavy tanks to meet the assult of any
mechanized forces which Germany may euc-
ceed in landing in Britain; and
(3) Ships.
This is said to be the substance of confidential
information given the President by James V.
Forrestal, Under-Secretary of the Navy, who
has just returned from a trip to England.
Cousins At SI,OOO Each
A 75-year-old heiress recently left an estate
of $750,000 in Washington and specified that
SI,OOO was to go to each of her cousins, l'egard
less of “remoteness” of relationship.
A news article says that 2 ,006 cousins showed
up. No wonder. People claim “kin” upon slight
pretext and certainly, for sl,ooo> one can find
a lot of kinship.
The Army Grows In Power
General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff
of the United States Army, says, “We try to re
tain a sense of humor” but admits “That it is
difficult to accept gracefully” comments indi
cating that the nation is ‘‘building a manpower
Army on an outmoded pattern.”
He calls attention to the manoeuvres under
way in California, the largest in our peace-time
history. Other large units are being assembled
for special training and the General insists the
soldiers of today have devoted only twenty
hours out of 572 hours of training to close order
drill. The training program is developing sold
iers and leaders and when industry catches up
with the production of modern weapons the
Army will be ready to man them.
Meanwhile, the War Department points out
for the first time in American history a full
strength “panzer” division of American troops
will take the field for full combat manoeuvres
in Tennessee, beginning June 16th. The Second
Armored division, trained at Fort Benning will
have 11,000 men, with mechanized equipment
including more than 2,000 vehicles, ranking
from medium and light tanks to motorcycles.
General Marshall points out that our ground
forces now consist of twenty-seven infantry div
isions, four armored divisions, two and a half
cavalry divisions an-d five general headquarters
tank battalions. Ten more tank battalions will
be activated after June Ist and four more arm
ored divisions are planned, two in the Fall and
two later on.
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Frances Theatre
Camming, Georgia
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JUNE 11 and 12
STRAWBERRY BLONDE
Staring James Cagney and Olivia DeHaviland
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 13 and 14
THE LONE AVENGER
Staring Ken Maynard with the Wonder Horse—Zane Grey’s
King of the Royal Mounted Chapter 8.
Pop Eckler & Young-Uns Saturday P. M.
And night with Brand New Show
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, JUNE 16 and 17
HIGH SIERRA
Staring Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JUNE 17 and 19
HAUNTED HOUSE
Thursday, June 12, 1941.