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Volume 34.
Characteristics
Of Salesmen
One real test of a man is his adapt
ability to difficult conditions. Perhaps
the reason so many automobile sales
men have been able to adpt themsel
ves to the present difficult situation
is due to their having so many of the
qualifications of a salesmon, as out
lined in a recent article. This citation
may cover the subject tio well on
some points and not enough on athers
but there is plenty here to give con
fidence (and perhaps a smile- to all
automobile salesmen in meeting what
ever theid situation may be:
“A salesman must be a mon of vi
sion and ambition, an after-dinner
s(peajtef, a before-and-afte(r dinneg
guzzler-able to work all lay, drive all
night and appear fresh next day.
“He rffust be able to entertain cus
tomers, wives, sweethearts, and pet
stenos without becoming too amorous
must drive through snow ten feet
deep at ten below, and work all sum
mer without perspiring or acquiring
B. O.
“He must be a man’s man, a model
husband, a fatherly father, a good pro
vider, a Plutocrat, Democrat, Repub
lican, or New Dealer, a technician,
pcolitician, mathematician and mech
anic.
“He must be a sales promotion ex
pert, create a demand for obsolete
merchandise, be a good credit mana
ger, correspondent, attend all dealer
meetings, tournaments, funerals, visit
customers in hospitals and jails, con
tact all accounts frequently, in spare
time look for new business, do mis
sionary work, and attend factory sales
conferences.
“He must be an expert driver, talk
er, liar, dancer, traveler, bridge play
er, poker-hound, golf player, diplomat
financier, capitalist, philanthropist,
and an authority on almistry, chemis
try, psychology, dogs, horses, etc.”—
W. H. B. ,
Recipes Using Georgia
Sorghum Syrup
PEANUT BRITTLE
2 c. sorghum syrup; 1 c. sugar; 2
tbsp. vinegar; 2 tbsp. butter.
Boil all together until forms a hard
hall in cold water. Add 3 cups of shell
ed peanuts and cook to the hard
crack stage. Beat and pour on greased
marble and cut as quickly as it is
cool enough.
SOFT GINGER BREAD
lc. sorghum syrup; 1 c. sugar; 1-2 c
butter, melted; 1 tsp. ground ginger;
1-2 tsp. ground cinnamon; 1 c. milk
4 c. flour; 1-2 tsp. salt; 2 tsp. bk. pd.
1 tsp. soda.
Stir the syrup, sugar, butter and
egg yolks together until light, add
the milk, then the flour, salt, baking
powder, soda and spices together and
beat hard. Then add the whites of the
eggs beaten to a stiff froth, fold in
lightly. Bake in one or twe well greas
ed pans in a moderate oven about
half an hour.
GINGERBREAD UPSIDE DOWN
CAKE
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a hea
vy skillet, and 1-2 cup sorghum syrup
and heat to boiling point over slow
fire. Remove and spread thick layer_
of chopped pecans and raisins over
bottom of skillet. Pour in gingerbread
made by creaming 1-2 cup butter and
1 egg. Beat well. Add alternately 1 3-4
cups flour mixed with 1 tablespoon
ginger and 1-2 cup syrup and 1-2 cups
boiling water in which is dissolved
1 teaspoon soda. Bake in slow oven
until firm. Remove from oven and
turn out on platter. Serve with whip
ped cream or butter sauce.
DEPRESSION CAKE
1 c. sugar; 1-3 c. shortening; 1-2 c.
sorghum syrup; 1-2 cup buttermilk,
3 eggs (save one white for icing) 2 c.
flour; 1 tsp. soda; 1 tsp. each cloves,
cinnanmon, etc.
Cook in three layers, and put to
gether with an icing, to which has
been added chopped pecan or peanuts
Icing can be made of 2 cups granulat
ed scgar. 1 cup water and 1 egg white
Cook sugar and water until it will
spin a thread from tip of spoon. Have
egg stiff, and pour boiling syrup over
same slowly, beating constantly. Flo
vor when slightly cooled. Either add
prepared nuts or sprinkle on top of
spread icing.
More Recipes Next cweek
—BUY DEFENSE BONDS TODAY—
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,000)
Teachers To Get
Recognition For
Aiding Rationing
Atlanta Regional OPA Administrat
or Oscar Strass, Jr., announced that
certificates of merit would be present
ed to approximately 270,000 school
teachers and others who served as
registrars in the sugar rotioning regis
tration in the southeast.
The certificates will be awarded by
the Office of Price Administration in
this region for the executive office of
the president.
They will record that the register
“patriotically and freely sacrificed
time and personal convenience to
serve” and will be awarded in “recog
nition of meritorious service to the
public welfare,” Strauss said.
Rumors About
U-Boats
There is little reason to believe
spectacular stories about the capture
of German submarines with fresh pro
visions aboard indicating that these
U-boats are being supplied from the
United States.
Rumors that fuel oil and supplies
for German U-boats are being furnish
ed from American ports are often re
lated in conspicuous detail. An exam
ple is the report that fresh baked
bread has been found on captured sub
marines. This story has gone the
round of ports but, until officially con
firmed, should be heard with consid
erable reserve.
There have been reports of German
submarines operating in American
waters, supplied from a mother ship.
That a large submersible could be
built for the purpose of supplying
smaller U-boats is entirely possible,
and, we should say, probable.
Reports in Washington indicate,
however, that undersea craft, operar
ing on the Western Atlantic, have a
cruising range of more than 15.000
miles. They are capable of 2 months’
cruises and of doing all that has been
done along our coasts.
Jap Fighters
Are Ruthless
It might be a good idea for the
people of this country to take note of
the recent remarks of Assistant-Se
cretary of War John McCloy. It will
help them to revise their ideas as to
the nature o fthe war in the Far East
The accomplishments of Japan, in
a little more than five months of war
fare, successfully refute the popular
American idea that the Japanese can
not fight. Not only on land and sea
have the Japanese fought well, but
in the air they have entirely dissipat
ed the fiction that Japanese pilots
are mediocre flying men.
Mr. McCloy points out that the uni
form note brought back from the
fighting in the Far East “is its ruth
lessness” and he adds that the Jap
anese are “good, well-equipped, ag
gressive fighters in their own light.”
Mr. McCloy warns that the United
States must use its brains and indus
trial and scientific capacities to train
its service men to carry on success
fully against nations which have been
preparing for war for years. “A series
of terrific shocks,” he says, makes us
realize that “it will take had fighting,
the use of our own weapons by our
own people, and painful losses in men
and resources” to win the present
struggle.
WSB Barn Dance
Radio Stars Coming
Here June sth at 8:30
Mr. Ansel Poole was sick first of
the week. We hope he will soon be
out again.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Cox and daugh
ter Miss Amelia Knoedler visited
Miss Knoedler’s grandmother at Cop
perhill, Tennessee during the week
end.
The WSB Barn Dance Gang includ
ing The Swanee River Boys, Pete
Cassel, Chick Stripling, James and
Martha, Cotton Carrier, Hoot Owfl
Hollow Girls, Harpo Kidwell, Jane
Logan, and others in person, will give
a Grand Show For the Entire Family
at the Forsyth County High School
Auditorium Friday June sth at 8:45
P. M. This show is sponsored by the
Parent Teacher Association. This is
one of the most entertaining shows
offered to the public at any time.
Official Organ of Forsyth County and City of Cumming
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
Gumming Georgia, Thursday, May 28, 1942.
FCmaCTORY
iM BUY
mm UNITED
STATES
rWr WAR
MI isWBONDS
STAMPS
Arnall Says Last
Radio Talk Was
“Only A Start
Following up his radio address of
two weeks ago in which he charged
that Governor Talmadge had succeed
ed in practically wrecking Georgia’s
state university system, Attorney
General Ellis Arnall will go on the
air again over station WSB Saturday
night, May 30, at 10:15 o’clock, with
a message aimed at revealing other
shockingly injucrious phases of the
Talmadge administration.
Arnall, in commenting on the talk
in advance, said he would be able to
answer at least one of Georgia’s news
paper editors whose main criticism
of his campaign was that he had hard
ly scratched surface in pointing out
the shortcomings and failures of the
Talmadge regime.
“What I have said so far is only
the beginning,” he declared. “Before
this campaign for governor is over, I
intend to let every person in Georgia
know the brutal truth about every
phase of the Talmadge dictatorship!
In his last radio speech, Arnall war
ned that the only way to save the
University System of Georgia from
complete collapse was to defeat Gov
ernor Talmadge in September.
He pointed out that the exodus of
students from state schools would be
gin in earnest next fall if Talmadge
went back into the governor’s man
sion, with the result that the system
would soon he financially disabled.
Arnall would make no statement as
to exactly what his address this Sat
urday night would disclose, but pro
mised he would continue to carry the
fight to his opponent.
Soil Conservation
Service News
“What Shall Be America’s Fifth
Column?” will be the subject of the
Food for Freedom program to be spon
sored by the Soil Conservation Ser
vice over Station WGGA next Satur
day, May 30, at 12:15 o’clock.
The speaker will be W. P. Black
burn, Jr., of Baldwin, who will de
velop this theme into a timely and
informative discussion of food for vie
tory.
Young Blackburn is winner of the
Northeast District Future Farmers of
America Public Speaking Contest and
will represent 93 schools at the State
Contest later this summer.
National Forests Have
Been Re-Opened
Recreational areas and forest roads
which have been closed to the public
for approximately two weeks have
been reopened. The closing of the
areas was due to the extremely high
fire hazzards which existed prior to
the past rainy spell. The ban on trav
el on the Chattahoochee Forest was
lifted by the U. S. Regional Forester
in Atlanta.
—BUY DEFENSE BONDS TODAY—
President Roosevelt
Decreases WPA
Grant For Fiscal Year
President Roosevelt, in a special
message to Congress, reduced his
WPA request for fiscal 1943 from
$465 million to $283 million. He said
the war effort is drawing workers
from every available source, thereby
reducing the need for a work relief
program. To meet labor shortages, he
said, even organized migration of
workers may be necessary. The re
vised WPA program would provide
for an average monthly employment
of about 400,000 persons “who will
not be hired by private employers be
cause of age, lack of skills, or other
handicaps.”
Chairman McNutt of the War Man
power Commission directed the U. S.
Employment Service to maintain
lists of skilled occupations essential
to war production in which a national
shortage exists, and to make prefer
ential referrals of workers to employ
ers in war industries. He directed the
WPB to classify war plants and war
products in the order of their urgency
to the war program. He also instruct
ed Selective Service local boards to
confer with local U. S. Employment
Service offices before reclassifying
any men skille in war occupations.
I, miles of Dixie
Coastline Ordered
Darkened at Once
In an effort to protect shipping
against the menace of subs, Major-
General William Bryden, commander
of the Fourth Corps Area, Saturday
imposed sweeping lighting restrict
ions on a 1,200 mile stretch of coast
of four southeastern states, Georgia,
Florida, South and North Carolina.
The restrictions apply in some cas
es to lighting as far inland as 30
miles
However, generally they apply to
all lighting as far as 10 miles inland
and from all city ighting in communl
ties of 5,000 or more population with
in a distance of 30 miles if the city
lighting has an objectionable loom as
determined by inspection from the
sea.
The area affected extends from the
North Carolina-Virginia border south
ward around the tip of Florida to
Cape Romano on the Florida west
coast beliw Fort Myers.
Prohibited lighting includes Neon
or otherwise illuminated signs, flood
lights, bright illumination of athletic
fields, such as baseball parks and ten
ns courts, enterior lighting (except
street lights) within 500 yards of the
coastline and bonfires or other lights
on beaches.
FORSYTH COUNTY LEGIONAIRES
ATTEND MEETING WEDNESDAY
Messrs. Roy Otwell, J. L. Reeves.
J. V. Merritt, Harris W. Moore, L. E.
Cox, Ralph Williams. W'illie Pirkle,
Ddis Mashburn and others from For
syth County attended the Ninth Dis
trict American Legion Meeting at
Winder Wednesday.
(County Population 12,000)
! Police Force
Necessary
The people of the United States
are considered to be law-abiding but
ligures for 1,008 cities over 10,000
population show that there are 1.72
police employes per 1,000 population.
This is slight increase over the pre
vious year.
Few Americans would suggest that
we abolish all police and depend upon
individuals to comply with the law.
In the international field, strange to
say, there is opposition to the crea
tion of a police force to keep the
peace of the world.
If law-abiding people require police
in order that established laws can be
enforced in organized municipalities,
it appears reasonable to think that
the world at large requires a police
force to insure the maintenance of
peace and the establishment of jus
tice.
No Effective
Revolts Likely
Returning correspondents, after
being confined in Germany and Italy,
are releasing interesting stories about
conditions in these two coiintrles.
The fact that these experienced ob
servers are unmuzzled and can now
wcrite a sthey please should not ob
scure the fact that they have had re
latively meager opportunities to sur
vey conditions in the countries where
they have been kept under guard
since the war began.
Reynolds Packard, United 'Press
correspondent, after three years in
Italy, with five “weary months of in
ternment,’’ reports that the people of
Italy are firmly under Adolf Hitler’s
thumb an dfear the bogey of Russian
communism, but concludes that “most
of them are ready to rally to the Unit
ed Nations on the day American and
British troops land on Italian soil.”
This is very interesting but it
should not lead anyone to believe that
all we have to do to capture Italy is
to land a few troops! Obviously, if
the situation described actually ex
ists, the British would have landed
troops in Italy many months ago.
It is rather difficult to forsee ef
fective uprisings on the part of the
peoples of Europe. Even if one grants
the doubtful assertion that they are
“for us” the obstacles to successful
revolt, under modern military condi
tions, seem to be well nigh insuper
able.
The peoples of the Axis nations and
the conquered countries in Europe
may rise up in time against their
present masters, but there is no rea
son to expect this to happen until
the military strength of Germany has
been broken by force of arms. So long
as the German Army retains its fight
ing strength and maintains its coher
ent organization, the prospect of suc
cessful revolt seems to be slim.
Unemployment Comp.
Decreases 20 Percent
A decrease of 20 per cent in un
employment insurance payments un
der the state Unemployment Copen
sation law in April as compared with
the previous month was reported to
day by Commissioner of Labor Ben
T. Huiet.
Payments for the month, he ann
ounced, amounted to $410,704 and ap
pear to reflect for the most part the
continued unempliyment of workers
that began around the first of the
year when seasonal shut-down, prior
ities and plant conversion threw them
out of jobs.
In each of the 8 major industry
groups. Commissioner Huiet said, de
creases in the amount of benefits
paid to workers were noticed. Heav
iest declines were in payments to
manufactu ing and c nstruction work
ers which dropped some -58,000 and
$38,000 respectively, as compared
with March figures.
Number of ini ais claims filed tot
aled 6,795, a slight increase over the
previous month, while continued
claims at 48,705 rep esented a de
crease of approximately 8,000.
With 47,113 checks issued, size of
payments averaged about $9.35, the
highest in any month since the bene
fit-paying program was inaugurate.d
April payments brought the cum
ulative to al to $1,969,303 for the year
and to app oximately $12,700,000
since the benefit-paying program was
started in 1939.
Number 22.
“Honor System”
On Trial
Millions of motorists and gasoline
station operators in seventeen sea
board states are operating under an
"honor system’’ in regard" to the us©
and sale of gasoline.
The success of the prbgram de
pends upon the conscience of motorist
in registering for rationing cards and
the good faith of station operators in
selling gasoline in accordance with
the cards of the motorists.
Considerable speculation exists as
to whether the “honor system” will
work. There are numerous reports of
motorists claiming cards to secure
gasoline in accordance with their de
sires rather thon their needs. The
suggestion is advanced that some un
scrupulous station operators will sell
gasoline regardless of the rationfhgi,
cards in possession of motorits.
War May End
Soon, But
The decision of the War Produc
tion Board to postpone construction
of war plants, which cannot be in pro
duction by the middle of 1943, is open
to various interpretations.
One might jump to the conclusion
that this action indicates a belief that
the war will be decided before these
plants can become a factor. This op
timistic deduction is supported by
numerous reports from Europe and a
widespread fueling that has|
been a turn in the course of the war.
One of the reasons advanced for
the decision is the severe shortage
of raw materials which requires a
choice between immediate production
of arms and munitions an dthe con
struction of new plants. This is em
phasized by the suggestion that if
new plants are erected in the future,
they will probably be constructed of
wood.
Unfounded optimism as to the pre
sent courge of the war may be sub
jected to a severe strain in the near
future. Undoubtedly, Germany retains
considerable striking power and de
velopments thus far do not commit
the Nazis to any campaign. While an
all-out assault upon Russia seems to
be required by the mfTRSry situation,
there is always the chance that Ger
many will surprise her enemies in
another area.
While there is more than a possi
bility that war plants, which will get
into production later than 1943, will
not be necessary, this is no time for
undue optimism. We must not build
hopes upon the failure of our enemies
and nothing has happened to warrant
the amazing surge of confidence that
is apparent in the United Nations.
Jap Strength In
Planes And Men
There is considerable speculation
as to the military strength of Japan.
For years, Tokyo has been especially
vigilant in maintaining secrecy as to
preparations for war.
Recently, a Chinese General told
Guenther Stein, a Christian Science
Monitor correspondent, at Chungking
that Japan has about 6,000 Army and
Navy planes, of which only 3,000 are
first-line aircraft.
About 1,000 are engaged on differ
ent fronts in the Pacific, from New
Guinea to Burma. Some 400 are in
China, concentrating their attacks on
potential airfields. About 800 planes
are in Manchuria for use possibly
against the Soviet Union and another
800 are held in reserve in Japan and
Formosa.
Japan’s production is estimated at
not more than 750 engines and, after
allowing for the replacement of worn
out motors, the monthly output or
new aircraft is estimated at about 310
Discussing the present distribution
of the Japanese Army, the Chinese
General estimated that 800,000 sol
diers are in China, 450,000 in the
Southwest Pacific, 700,000 in Manchu
ria, 200,000 in Jopan and Formosa
and about 300,000 under training.
| The Chinese strategist seemed to
think that Japan is beginning to feel
a lack of manpower, mainly on ac
count of great losses suffered. These,
in his opinion, amount to onethird of
Japan’s mobilization strength. He es
timates that about 400,000 Japanese!
soldiers were killed in the fighting in
China and about one-third of the 1.-
200,000 wounded have been perman
ently disabled.
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