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Gumming, Georgia
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Established 1908
Circulation over Forsyth, Fulton, Chero
kee, Dawson, Lumpkin, Hall and
Gwinnett Counties
THE PAPER THAT APPRECIATES
YOUR PATRONAGE
Published Kvtry Thursday at Cummin* Georgia.
Roy P. Otwell Editor and Owner
James L. Reeves Associate Editor
TANARUS, W. Gunter Associate Editor
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
TER YEAR IN ADVANCE sl-50
Entered ut the Post Office at dimming. Georgia
August 10, 1910, as mail matter of second class
Advertising Kates Made Known Upon Application
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH
COUNTY AND CITY OF CUMMING
> NOTES AND COMMENTS
Half the truth is often more dangerous than
none.
Free advice, regardless of its origin, is almost
worthless.
It's never too late, if you are alive, to be careful
on the highways.
A critic is one who cannot do anything but tell
others how to do.
Army Week will be celebrated by pacifists de
nouncing the brass hats.
This is the time of the year when seed catalogs
can easily mislead you
Persuasion is what you hear from those who
want you to accept their plans.
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If you want to get ahead in life be dependable
for something to somebody.
History may be explained as the prevailing view
of what might have happened.
One of these years Spring is going to come on
time and everybody will be amazed.
With inventories at new highs there will be grief
aplenty if the public stops buying.
There is a time to play, as well as a time to
pray but some persons never try either.
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Every week, nowadays, has two or three names
and the special events tend to multiply.
The growth of a municipality depends upon in
dividuals who do not seek personal credit.
Those interested in permanent peace might plan
a missionary enterprise in Soviet Russia.
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With the books that have been written it would
appear likely that everything has been said.
There seems to be a form of prejudice which
expresses itself in dissatisfaction with one’s kind.
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, ' It is difficult, when you hear a political oration,
to distinguish between the fact and the fiction.
A legal opinion Is practically worthless until the
Supreme Court says it is what the Court thinks.
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i Monopoly, whether state or individual, does not
tend to provide for the real needs of the buyers.
Never tell anybody about your difficulties and
you will not be disappointed at their lack of concern
Statisticians can do wonders with figures but
they have nothing on individuals making income tax
returns.
Do you remember the people who denounced
totalitarian methods while the war was on; well,
they are not always speaking the same piece.
Financial Advice for Uncertain Economic Weath
er: Buy what you must have but otehwise save your
money.
General Marshall as Secretary of State wants
the Russians to understand that this nation knows
what it is going to do.
The life of hard working men is shortened by a
feverish effort to acquire wealth that they have no
prospect of enjoying.
If those who enjoy million dollar incomes are
dissatisfied there are Americans who will take them
and assume all risks.
Our idea of a good community undertaking in
volves adequate baseball diamonds for the young
sters who want to play ball.
Probably the best buy in the modern economic
world is a newspaer which brings you the news of
the day for a few cents.
One virtue of the new policy toward the Rus
sians is that it willfforce the Soviet to reveal its
program, whether it is for peace or not.
The popular idea of a tax reduction bill is one
that reduces taxes in our income bracket and in
creases them, if necessary in other brackets
SOOT TO SAVE FISH
The State onservation Department of Wisconsin
according to a news dispatch from Madison, is using
airplanes to drop lampblack on the larger lakes for
purpose of saving fish from drowning.
Every year, when thick ice forms on the water,
fish are deprived of oxygen. They literally drown.
The lampblack is expected to absorb the sun’s rays
and melt some of the ice, permitting air to reach
the fish.
COST OF LIVING CLIMBS
The economists seem to believe that there will
be something of a slump in prices during the present
year, basing their belief on the fact that the com
modity market alone seems to be on a price spree.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that there
has been a considerable increase in living cost be
tween 1939 and January, 1947.
It should be noted that the items which go into
the ordinary expenses of living show big jumps.
Clothing has advanced from 100.3 to 178.3, fuel from
96.3 to 142, house furnishings from 100.6 to 178.5
and food from 96.5 to 183.8.
URGING FAMILY BUDGETS
The Institute of Life Insurance recently inaug- ,
urated a series of advertisements to proclaim the
central theme that family budgets and family hap
piness go hand in hand.
The advertising campaign was intended as a pub
lie servicec and to help families meet the cost fact
ors of the present day. It recognized that financial
problems often cause trouble and urged family fin
ancial planning, whatever the income of the family
might be.
We call attention to the advertising campaign
beeacuse the idea has merit and itbehooves families
in Forsyth County to carefully consider their finan
cical status in connection with the family existence.
Someone has said that happiness comes to any fam
ily which spends less than one hundred per cent of
its incocme and unhappiness is apt to dog any family
which spends more than one hundred per cent of its
income. The amount of the income makes no differ
ence. The rule is the same.
PAYING FOR THE BIBLE
The news comes from London that a British col
lector recently paid $BB,OOO for a first volume of the
Gutenberg Bible, which was the first book printed
from movable type.
There are some people in this country who will
consider that the amount was excessive. They should
not overlook the fact that higher prices have been
paid for the privilege of reading the Bible.
For many centuries, the Bible was not available
to the common people. The attempt to translate it
into the vernacular tongue and to make it available
to men and women without restrictions met with
considerable persecution. In fact, men gave up their
lives to assert and maintain that right.
The Forsyth County News
EDITORIAL
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That American: incline! to
be too complacent about the detense
strength of our country is an ac
cepied fact. Pearl Harbor was an
outstanding example of our ca.c
leasness in that regard.
We are a peaceful nation, want
nothing in the way of territorial
aggrandizement and therefore feel
that there is no reason why any
other nation should attack us.
We read with mild interest, but
no sense of personal concern, of the
“iron curtains,” the oppression of
small nations at the hands of hur
pean dictators, the activities of
fifth columns, and shrug it otf
with:
“Oh well, it can’t happen here."
Well let’s see whether it can or
not.
Igor Gouzenko, the former Soviet
cipher clerk in the Russian embassy
in Ottawa, Canada, whose disc.o
sures of Soviet espionage in an ef
fort to obtain the secret of the atom
bomb rocked the world, states the
case clearly and succinctly in an
article which he wrote for the
March issue of Cosmopolitan maga
sine.
“Most of the Canadians who
were working as Russian sp.es held
responsible positions in such gov
ernment departments as the Na
tional Research Council, the De
partment of External Affairs, and
the office of the High Commissioner
in Canada for the United King
dom,” Gouzenko states in part. I
With such Soviet infiltration in
to the highest offices of a friendly
nation, for the purpose of weaken
ing; that nation’s defenses, only the
bat-blind indeed can shrug it off
with “it can’t happen here.”
Perhaps the best defense for the
United States would be the slogan:
“Wake up, America. It CAN hap
pen here.”
The tractor manufacturer’s- in
struction book is the daytime flash
light that simplifies repair, adjust
ment and replacement of worn or
broken parts.
Put Spring into
Your Home
DINING ROOM SUITE
9-Piece Suite to make your dining
room exquisitely beautiful—A thrill
ing “April Shower’’ value—
Terms $299.95
Cash $270.00
Farm Equipment
Milking Machines . . .
Milk Coolers . . .
Hammer Mills . . .
Home Freezer Lockers . . .
Farm Equipment Parts
and Service
Nalley & Nuckolls
Gainesville, Ga.
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Thomas Jefferson
APRIL 13,1743 —JULY 4, 1826
(jod Wliojavr u* Life yave ui Liberty at tke same time.
Third president of the united states, author of the
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, FIRST AMERICAN STATESMAN
TO MAKE STATE AID TO EDUCATION A FUNDAMENTAL TENET
OF A DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE, FOUNDER OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA, IN HIS DAY A FAMED DIPLOMAT, ARCHITECT,
' METEOROLOGIST AND HORTICULTURIST- JEFFERSOH
/S REVERED BY ALL FPEEDOM-LOV/NG PEOPLE AS ONE OF
THE GREATEST APOSTLES OF DEMOCRACY WHO EVER L/VEO.
BED ROOM SUITE
Three superbly styled pieces in superior Walnut with
round mirror, vanity.
TERMS—SIO9.9S
CASH—S99.OO
Wilson Furniture Cos.
Buford* Cumming* Duluth
Thursday, April 10,1947.