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Blakely, Ga., February 27, 1941
March 1— Saturday—is the
deadline for securing, without
added cost, 1941 automobile
license tags.
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Says Ernest Camp in The
Walton Trbune: “Sally Rand,
of the fans, had the Georgia
legislature perspiring when she
visited them recently. Sally
declared that she liked the old
men best, and the grizzled old
coots believed her.”
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Georgians had larger in
comes in 1940 than in 1939,
at least payment of income
taxes would so indicate. A to
tal of $43,116,024 was paid to
the federal government in in
ternal revenue collections, it is
announced by treasury offi
cials. Os the total, $21,709,-
171 represented income tax
payments. The total revenue
payments in 1939 amounted to
$34,137,426.
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Do you doubt that Ameri
cans like their fun and are
willing to pay for it? Not, if
you will consider that the peo
ple of this nation spent one
billion dollars for amusements
in one year’s time. Authority
for this statement is the fed
eral bureau of the census,
which says the average Amer
ican family spends $30.00 in
one or more of the 45,000
places of amusement in this
country.
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It is the opinion of American
military experts and other ob
servers that Hitler’s all-out at
tack on the British empire is
very likely to be launched
within the next few days. The
situation in the Far East, where
Japan threatens trouble, and in
the Balkans indicates that the
Axis powers are planning an
early attack in an effort to
deliver a knock-out blow be
fore American aid to Britain
growers to larger proportions.
The Old World seems des
tined to witness at an early
date the greatest slaughter of
human beings and destruction
of property in all history.
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The Senate is expected to
debate this week on
the lease-lend bill to aid Brit
ain and a vote on the measure
is expected to follow soon—
probably early in March. That
body, like the House, is ex
pected to give the bill its ap
proval. Machinery is already
being set up to carry out the
provisions of this, one of the
most vitally important pieces
of legislation ever enacted by
the American Congress. The
sincere hope of an overwhelm
ing majority of the citizens
of these United States is
that the aid promised Britain
under the bill may reach them
in time to help save that de
mocracy from falling under the
Axis '.powers’ march toward a
world conquest.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
(Excerpts from Early County News
of February 27, 1891)
WITH this issue, Dr. T. M. Howard
takes over as editor of The News,
with Mr. A. J. Fleming as assistant
editor. Dr. Howard’s salutatory is
published.
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MISS ANNIE BEAUCHAMP, of
Bluffton, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
W. C. Cook, this week.
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MRS. EMMA P. JONES is the
guest of the family of Mr. E. H.
Kellum this week. Mrs. Jones is en
route to her home in Texas.
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OUR LITTLE “DEVIL” now is
Cobb Barksdale.
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MR. CLEM BRYANT, of Clay
County r has rented the Singletary
residence on Cuthbert street and will
reside here in order to send his
children to school.
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MESSRS. J. B. Chancy and W. B.
Stuckey have opened up a general
insurance office in Blakely.
a a a
COL. W. A. JORDAN and family
have gone on a visit to Georgetown.
Mr. Will Appling, of Columbia is at
the depot in place of Col. Jordan.
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“BIG, FAT” Jim Mulligan, of Mil
ler County, not Slim-Jim, of Early,
was in town last week.
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WE EARNESTLY BEG our city
fathers to remove the hogs and cows
from the streets of Blakely.
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MR. PLATT has numbers and num
bers of wild goats in the swamps of
Dry Creek and they are as fat as
goats ever get. They are as wild
as deer and even more cunning than
tame goats.
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THE TOWN COUNCIL has “set
out” a nice lot of shade trees lately.
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The farmers and the agricultural
department at Washington are look
ing after their own interests and they
miss very few tricks. Just now they
are watching the lend-lease bill that
proposes aid to Britain.
Doesn’t Britain need some more
cotton?
Doesn’t she need a little more to
bacco?
They are investigating the matter
quickly, though no big publicity is
given to their plans. Britain is two
years behind in taking tobacco in this
country and we have surplus tobacco
stored and watiting for her. Can this
tobacco, and cotton as well, be de
livered under the plans of the lend
lease bill? Farm leaders think so.
The Agricultural department thinks
so, and it is hinted that the presi
dent will be favorable to such a pro
gram. Britain needs destroyers,
bombers and cargo ships first and
worst of all, but she also needs cot
ton and tobacco. They both play
a part in war.—Moultrie Observer.
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Weekly newspapers surpass city
papers in advertising value, accord
ing to an eastern newspaper man;
who has been in the newspaper busi
ness for thirty years, including six
years as managing editor of the great
New York Herald-Tribune.
Country weeklies are highly de
sirable as an advertising medium
because they are thoroughly read,
he said. “This is so true that I do
not hesitate to say that an advertiser
can, by using weekly paper, reach
each week four times as many people
as that paper has subscribers. In the
case of city paper he could advertise
for a year and not reach every sub
scriber of that paper.
“The reason is that the country
weekly is read thoroughly by all the
family and all the neighbors, while
the city paper is read by only a com
paratively few subscribers. The aver
age city newspaper reader is a head
line reader, while the reader of the
weekly paper, on an average, reads
his paper from cover to cover.”—
Newnan Herald.
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May be the defense program is
going to bring a union of farm
ers to fight their own battles. Hun
dreds of men are leaving the farms
to work on defense projects, where
they are being made to join a union
before they can go to work. Later
when the men are back on their
farms, and a strike of carpenters
or some other group is called, these
farmers will quit their plowing,
if they are true union men, and
picket the cotton warehouse. Or,
perhaps, they will return home
with a fine idea of how organized
workers get what they want, and
will strike for higher prices for
farm produce. When the farmers
are strongly organized, they will
have the world by the tail, with a
dowm-hill drag.—Tifton Gazette.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. WCAK-FT V GEORGIA
THIdhfEEK
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Washington, D. C.—The week’s
debating on the lend-lease bill has
brought no new problems to the
fore. Led by Senator George, Dem
ocrat of Georgia, the administration
forces started the week by urging
immediate enactment of the bill,
and it is expected that it will go
through with few changes.
There has been a sudden change
in sentiment here in regard to com
promises on the bill. The propon
ents are vigorously fighting any at
tempts to amend the bill, and short
of a freak such as occurred when
the amendment to take powers away
from the President in the future
was Voted into the House bill while
Democratic members were out to
lunch, it is extremely doubtful that
there will be further amending.
Chairman Walsh, Democrat of
Massachusetts, of the Naval Affairs
Committee, has put himself on rec
ord as opposing convoying of ships
to Britain and has written an amend
ment which would definitely forbid
this. But this amendment is being
fought on the grounds that the
House has already written such a
section into the bill.
Would Prohibit Troops
Another proposal made by Sena
tor Ellender of Louisiana, would
prohibit the use of United States
troops outside this hemisphere and
American possessions, but the Ad
ministration answers that no move
of this nature is contemplated and
such an amendment would just add
extraneous matter to the bill.
It seemed likely at the beginning
of the week that Wendell Willkie’s
suggestion that the specific nations
to receive aid be named, stood a
good chance of enactment, but the
growing tension in the Balkans and
in the Far East has been seized upon
as a very definite argument against
such specific commitments.
It is pointed out by administra
tion forces that the governments of
such countries as Yugoslavia, Bul
garia, Turkey, the Netherlands and
the East Indies which might be con
sidering resistance against Axis ag
gression, might reconsider if they
thought they would be excluded
from American aid without lengthy
Congressional debate.
Yet, Senator Reynolds of North
Carolina, is determined to press for
an amendment to exclude the Soviet
Union from any possibe aid under
the measure.
None of these amendments ap
pears to have a chance to go through
although Senator Walsh’s “no con
voying” proposal has the best
chance. The most optimistic esti
mate of opposition votes has been
30, and the most pessimistic as low
as 14. The main purpose of the
opposition seems to be to express
voluble concern about the war path
which they consider the administra
tion is treading and hope to invoke
a note of caution into future policies.
Aid Continues
While the debate on the lend
lease bill continues, aid to Britain
has by no means been halted. Since
October, 1939, the United States has
supplied more than 755,000 tons of
cargo ships to Britain, an undeter
mined number of airplanes and tons
of supplies and ammunition.
Our own defenses, too, are not
being overlooked. Development of
Guam and Samoa, Pacific islands, as
naval aviation “lookout stations”
was unanimously recommended last
week by the House Naval Committee.
The fortification of Guam has
come up before in Congress, but ap
propriations have never been voted.
With the uneasiness about the Far
East being voiced, however, there is
little doubt that it will go through
this time. In this same bill is con
tained a provision which would au
thorize construction of fortifications
on the bases leased from England.
Not much is heard in Washington
about the taxes necessary to provide
for aid and our own defense, yet
they will become a major issue after
March 15th. In the meantime, the
Treasury is preparing to start an im
mediate campaign to tap the savings
of children, housewives and small
salaried workers for a large part of
the $9,000,000,000 it must borrow
in the next year to meet expenses.
As soon as the House has acted
on minor Senate changes in the bill
authorizing a debt limit increase to
$65,000,000,000, Secretary Morgen
thau will announce a five-point mon
ey-raising plan.
Five-Point Plan
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$1 will be offered as a national de
fense series.
Sales of baby bonds in denomina
tions of from $25 to SI,OOO will be
pushed.
A new type of bond maturing in
40 years and bearing 2 per cent in
terest is proposed.
Regular SI,OOO Treasury bonds
will be offered.
Either Postal or Treasury “savings
certificates” in denominations of $1
and up are included in the plan.
As part of the thrift program,
adults and children will be urged
to make regular weekly or monthly
purchases of whatever type of secur
ity best fits their purses. The Treas
ury now plans no sales quotas for
states or communities as was done
in the World War. In fact, Secre
tary Morgenthau has instructed his
aides to avoid in the sales campaign
any coercion or propaganda of the
type used in some communities for
the sale of Liberty Bonds during
the World War.
The entire campaign will empha
size two ideas, helping national de
fense and thrift.
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Georgia farmers are turning to
scientific farming more and more as
they find that many such practices
really pay. During the past fall a
total of 16,600,000 pounds of win
ter legume seed were planted, the
largest acreage in history being
sown with various cover crops. This
was an increase of 68 per cent in
1939 and 300 per cent above the
ten-year average.—Dawson News.
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