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Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
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Blakely, Ga., April 10, 1941.
The baseball season will of
ficially open this month. And
the fans will welcome the op
portunity to have their minds
diverted to some extent from
the war news which now con
sumes so much space in the
press and time over radio.
o
A referendum will be con
ducted on April 26 on a pro
posal to invoke marketing quo
tas on the 1941, 1942 and
1943 peanut crops. A favora
ble vote of two-thirds of the
growers voting will be required
to make the quotas operative.
o
Senator Dick Russell and
Congressman Pace of the
Third district are receiving
the acclaim of their constit
uents for the fine fight they
have been making for the
farmers’ interests. And they
are fully entitled to the many
nice things being said of them.
o
We wonder what the Japan
ese foreign ambassador, Mat
suoka, will tell his government
upon his return to Tokyo from
his visit to Berlin and Rome.
Best guess is that he will advise
his country to postpone indefi
nitely any planned attack on
the British and American na
val units in the Pacific.
o
It is interesting to note, and
perhaps it is a good omen,
that farmers are forming or
ganizations to work for a bet
terment of agricultural condi
tions. If the farmers were as
thoroughly organized as labor
and industry, they would be as
sured Os profitable prices for
all farm products.
o
Two other small nations are
this week under attack from
the German war machine be
cause they have refused to
surrender their independence
and join the Axis powers in
their attempt at world con
quest. All honor to the
Greeks and Yugoslavs for the
determined resistance they are
offering the invaders of their
home-lands.
o
The News hopes that away
other than convoying of ships
may be found to get war
supplies to Britain and the oth
er nations which are fighting
German aggression, but if no
way other than convoying can
be found, then convoy these
supplies! If we are manufac
turing supplies for the defeat
of Hitlerism, then let’s see that
these supplies reach their des
tination.
o
Those who have been prais
ing the action of the Mitchell
county draft board chairman
for granting indefinite defer
ment to young men of draft
age because of the strikes over
the nation, evidently are of
the opinion that two wrongs
make a right. The action of
the Mitchell county board, if
imitated by other draft boards,
will result in still further con
. fusion in the nation’s prepared
ness program, and it is to be
hoped that more level heads
are directing the boards in
other counties in this state and
the other states of the nation.
Peanut growers will be given the
opportunity to vote on peanut quotas,
similar to the cotton and tobacco
quotas. It is expected to simplify
the distribution of acreage for grow
ing peanuts. It will also have the
advantage of maintaining the price,
though the government will probably
continue to give assistance in main
taining a minimum prce. Under the
new arrangement, a man could plant
all of the peanuts he Wished to plant,
but he could only market a certain
acreage for edible purposes. The re
mainder of his crop would have to
be sold to the oil companies. The
market price of oil would regulate
the price that would be paid for this
part of his crop. In other words he
would make peanuts from his edible
peanut allotment under the protec
tive price system and the remainder
would be marketed on the open
market.—Moultrie Observer.
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Government economists on the one
hand foresaw this week that the aid
for Britain’s effort will greatly in
crease exports of American farm
commodities, which would undoubt
edly raise prices somewhat, sooner
or later. On the other hand, at
Miami last week, a U. S. Department
of Agriculture spokesman recom
mended that housewives let forth
some loud squawks when food price
increases are found—as an effective,
probably the most effective means,
of combating higher food prices. So
there you are.—Cairo Messenger.
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KNOW YOUR TIMBER
By EMILY WOODWARD
A leaf from the report of the
Chief of the United States Forest
Service is reproduced below because
it shows so convincingly the economic
disaster that results when forests are
misused and conservation is ignored:
“The northern Lake States afford
an outstanding example of the ef
fects of destructive forest exploita
tion. Nearly four-fifths is forest
land. But only one-tenth of this
bears saw timber; more than two
fifths bears inferior stands or is de
nuded of forest growth. In 1890 th e
region supplied 37 per cent of the
national lumber cut. Now it supplies
4 per cent. Probably more than one
fourth of the 1 1-2 million population
has been on relief —a much higher
proportion than in adjacent territory.
Incomes are less; taxes are higher.
Many counties are on the verge of
insolvency. The region is a burden
to State and Federal governments.
“Washington and Oregon are
known as the Nation’s wood basket.
Yet they already include localities
where destructive liquidation is rapid
ly running the course. The Grays
Harbor district was built up almost
entirely by forest industries. In
1929 it is said to have 'contained 34
sawmills and 37 other wood-using
plants; in 1939, with old-grown
Douglas fir virtually exhausted, it had
only 10 sawmills and 21 other wood
working plants, and its forestry pay
rolls were only 25 per cent of what
they had been in 1929.
“In 4 Northwestern States, 76
ghost towns already have resulted
from disorderly forest liquidation
and in another 77 communities the
decline of population has kept pace
with the closing of mills due to the
dwindling timber supplies. This is
serious because the economic struc
ture of these 4 States is keyed to
forest industries that support about
60 per cent of the industrial pay
roll.
“Contrast conditions described in
the Lake States with those on an
area of 450,000 acres in a certain
Southern State. On this area there
are 1,300 scattered families depend
ent in part—and a town of 3,000
people wholly dependent— on a for
est economy.
“At one time the sawmill in this
town was cutting timber faster than
'it was growing. This threatened to
stop labor pay rolls that during 35
years had exceeded $27,000,000, and
tax revenues that, helping to support
schools and build and repair streets,
exceeded $2,800,000. But instead
of continuing to exploit the forests,
the cut of the sawmill was reduced
and a pulp mill and certain other
facilities, using largely forest ma
terials formerly going to waste, were
installed. This kept up the labor
pay roll and the tax payments.
“This is not typical of most towns
that depend on forest industries. For
this town is now on a permanent
basis. It, and 1,300 scattered farm
families, should be able to depend for
all time on production geared to the
capacity of the land to grow usable
forests. It illustrates potentialities
adequately managed forests have
for providing employment, raising
standards of living, increasing mass
purchasing power, and making re
lief unnecessary.”
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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FARM GRANT
Washington, D. C.—Following on
the heels of the signing of the largest
lump-sum appropriation in the his
tory of this country—the $7,000,-
000,000 defense bill—a record break
ing appropriation for the benefit of
farmers may be pushed through con
gress.
Favorable reception of the senate
appropriations committee’s request
for a $1,340,610,822 farm grant,
which is $445,000,000 higher than te
President’s budget recommendation,
indicates that many congressmen
dont’t intend to do much scrimping
on domestic expenditures to offset
the huge appropriations for defense.
The farm-aid bill may face a fight
in the house which already had
approved a bill more in line with
the President’s recommendation. If
the senate measure goes through,
however, it will provide more than
double the amount suggested by the
President for “parity payments.”
The President had asked $212,-
000,000 for parity payments to aim
at pricing farm products so that
they would equal at least 75 per
cent of the purchasing power they
equalled in the base period of 1909
to 1914. But the farm bloc sena
tors are attempting to attain a
“parity” of nearer 100 per cent.
Opponents of the larger appropria
tion argue that farm prices and
farm purchasing power will benefit
by the defense spending. They say
there is no justification for a record
breaking subsidy to farmers during
a year when the treasury is being
subjected to the heaviest demands
in our history.
Proponents argue that certain
groups of farmers are worse off
than ever before because their ex
port markets have been cut off.
That is why they have included in
the bill a specific provision that a
large portion of payments be made
to the worst sufferers—those who
grow cotton, wheat, com, tobacco
and rice.
Appropriating billions has be
come more or less routine proce
dure in congress recently. The Of
fice of Production Management re
leased a figure of $39,177,800,000
as the amount of authorized and pro
posed expenditures for defense
alone, but the figure is so astronomi
cal that ordinary congressmen and
officials seem almost to ignore it,
leaving it up to the financial experts
to work out.
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Valuable background information
for planning new taxes was made
public last week when the census
bureau released figures showing
that last year’s tax assessments
averaged approximately $4lO per
family, or about one-fifth of the aver
age family income. Os these taxes,
which totaled over $14,000,000,-
000, it was reported that 36 per
cent went to the federal govern
ment, 25 per cent to state govern
ments and 39 per cent to local gov
ernments.
• • •
The most lively subject of dis
cussion here, as it has been for the
past few weeks, is the problem of
strikes in the defense industries and
the activities of the new mediation
board in Coping with the strike situ
ation.
It is. generally believed that the
mediation board does not have
enough power to do an effective
job of dealing with organized labor
or with un-co-operative employers,
since the board’s only enforcement
power is based on the rather in
tangible methods of appealing to the
patriotism of those involved or
seeking the pressure of public opin
ion. These methods may prove to
be effective in many instances, but
are not thought strong enough to
deal with large-scale strikes.
Senators and representatives are
becoming aroused over the situa
tion as a result of floods of letters
from mothers of soldiers who can’t
understand why their sons are
forced to join the army at s2l a
month when high-paid defense
workers are permitted to refuse to
produce necessary equipment.
Many congressmen also are in
fluenced by the polls of public opin
ion conducted by the Institute of
Public Opinion under the direction
of rD. George Gallup. Last week a
Gallup poll on the labor situation
gave many of them new courage
to support drastic labor legislation,
if necessary.
For the Gallup poll shows that if
the mediation board can not stop •
SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV. ROBERT
H. HARPER
CHRIST SHOWS HIMSELF ALIVE
Lesson for April 13: Luke 24: 13-17
Golden Text: Revelation 1: 18.
It was not strange that the ap
pearances of Jesus after the resur
rection made a profound impres
sion and were minutely recorded.
Suppose in this day, surfeited with
wonders, a man undeniably dead
and buried should rise from the
tomb and appear unto his friends!
In the lengthening shadows of the
afternoon, two disciples journeyed
toward the little village of Emmaus
when a stranger—so they thought
him—drew near and walked with
them. Informed of their conversa
tion, he began from Moses and the
prophets and “interpreted to them
in all the scriptures the things con
cerning himself.’ What a masterly
exposition it must have been and
how we wish it had been preserved!
Still the two knew him not.
Invited to abide with them when
they reached Emmaus, he went in
and was at length known to them in
the breaking of bread. Then he van
ished out of their sight. And the
two recalled how their hearts had
burned within them as Jesus talked.
They rose and returned to Jerusa
lem—impelled by a great truth. For
truth cannot be hid. Finding the
eleven, they told how Jesus had ap
peared unto them.
To those who think of Jesus, talk
of him, and long for him, he will
certainly appear—to the eyes of
faith even as he appeared to mortal
eyes in glorified body long ago. Let
our hearts be fixed on our risen
Lord and he will draw near and
walk with us—through life’s length
ening shadows and on to God’s
house, to be there with him for ever.
o
Some of these big town newspa
pers are going to get a lot of us
country boys into trouble with their
purfumed ads. There’s nothing so
hard to explain to a woman as a
strange perfume in her home.—Cal
houn County News.
strikes, 72 per cent of voters favor
a law forbidding strikes in defense
industries.
Anti- strike sentiment was partic
ularly strong in the small towns
and rural areas.
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A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of April 10, 1891.)
MR. R. H. LANIER was over to
Damascus Saturday.
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DR. T. M. HOWARD and Mr. A.
Fort have recently purchased a block
of land south of Blakely known as
the Robinson land.
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THE FIRM of Robinson & Faulk,
composed of W. H. Robinson and C.
J. Faulk, has been dissolved, W. H.
Robinson retiring, having sold his
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MR. CHARLIE RAMBO, of Bluff
ton, was in town Tuesday.
* * *
MR. JOHN W. DEAL has gone on
a fishing trip to the Dead Lakes.
* * *
MR. CLEM BRYANT has puchased
the stock of goods of Mr. A. Y.
Thompson.
* * •
MR. AND,MRS. W. H. Shaw, of
Clay County, are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. G. D. Howard.
* * *
THE APRIL TERM of Early su
perior court is in session here this
week and has attracted many visi
tors to town.