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By EARL “TIGE” PICKLE
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Hold on just a minute! Like a
slap in the face or a swift boot to
the heels of one’s trousers, this war
talk is gettin’ down-right personal.
Conversation like this is being heard
everywhere: “We should build a
bigger navy;” “we oughta have more
pilots;” “Roosevelt’s army ain’t big
enough.”
This talk is well and good enough.
And all of which is a great idea.
But who is this “we” and “they” of
whom you speak when you say
“they” should build up the army
or “we” ought to have more planes
and men? Right there, gentlemen,
is where that personal touch has
been injected. This “we” and “they”
business needs analyzing. Does it
mean “you” and “us” or does it
mean the other fellow? You might
be thinking it means the other fel
low, but it doesn’t. If this thing
lasts long, it would mean just what
it says. It means “we,” which is to
say “you” and the rest of “us,”
Which includes your reporter, and
that is why this department wants
to clarify and analyze this “we”
business.
Does it mean the young fellow
who got married just this year and
who is dreaming great dreams about
the day when he gets that farm paid
for and when it will be all his? It
does. Well, who is going to keep
those taxes and those yearly notes
paid while he’s gone?
And how about the lad who is go
ing to graduate from college this
week? And what’s going to happen
to her whose picture he’s been car
rying around in his pocketbook, and
which he has been proudly display
ing to all and sundry? What’s go
ing to happen to that job he has
been slaving to qualify for during
the past four years? What about
her?
What about that fellow who has
worked long enough to get his salary
to where he can just now take it
easy? If he is called, do you think
he is going to want to throw it all up
to work in a place where they will
pay him one dollar a day and force ’
him to sleep in a tent?
This is just an example of what
this “we” business means. And this
is the price of liberty. And freedom.
And don’t think that your liberty
and freedom won’t be in jeopardy
just because this war is going on
across the Atlantic. That ocean isn’t
nearly as wide as it was when the
last war was fought. Scientists and
skilled mechanics of the German
government have been narrowing
that ocean for almost a quarter of a
century. And they have just about
got it down to their size now.
0, well, we don’t know why we got
into such a morbid trance about this
war today unless it’s because we got
to thinking about how pretty those
tulips were in Holland. And then
the German bombers came.
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If, like another columnist, your
correspondent were giving away or
chids, he would dispatch a couple of
his prettiest over to Miss Cena Lo
back, a member of last week’s grad
uating class. Besides tying for top
honors, she received five of the
awards given by the school for dis
tinguished service. According to our
information, this is the first time
this has happened. We don’t have
any orchids, but we’re taking off our
battered Panama to her. (This
doesn’t have anything to do with the
honors, but Cena was also one of the
beauties in her class.)
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Imagine it if you can, a dozen
German bombers unleashing their
deadly weapons on our little city,
destroying our municipal plant, dis
rupting our water and light supply,
bombing our school and public build
ings. Can you imagine the untold
suffering that would follow? Fields
of growing corn and cotton blown
to pieces. Men, women and children
killed and maimed. And above all,
the people who were fortunate
(or maybe we should say unfortun
ate) enough to be spared, these are
the people who would really suffer. It
is for these people in Europe for
whom the Red Cross is making a na
tion-wide appeal. Early county’s
quota is S6OO. If you haven’t made
your donation, won’t you send it in
today? Take it to Mr. Robert Stuck-
ey, at the First State Bank, or to
Mrs. R. C. Singletary or Mrs. C, L.
Glessner.
In our “hats-off department” is
also Arthur Sherman, who received
the Harry Stone medal. This medal
is given annually to the best all
round boy in the senior class and is
considered the highest honor that
can come to a student at Blakely Hi.
Congratulations, Arthur, it couldn’t
have happened to a nicer fellow.
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Another Derby Entry
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
chief himself, is expected to enter
that baby-buggy race we mentioned
here several weeks ago. He joined
the “proud-papa” department on
Friday of last week. We heard that
he was so excited he didn’t know
which way was up-town. k
UNEXPECTED CHANGE makes
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ly county. Exceptional opportunity
for right man. See G. E. Taylor,
Colquitt, Ga., or write Rawleigh’s,
Dept. GAF-30-201T, Memphis, Tenn. ’
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS
All creditors of the estate of
Jim Thompson, late of Early county,
; deceased, are hereby notified to ren
-1 der in their demands to the under
| signed according to law, and all per-
I sons indebted to said estate are re
. | quired to make immediate payment
i to me.
This 28th day of May, 1940.
L. F. DOUGLASS,
Administrator of the Estate of
Jim Thompson, deceased.
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