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Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
Published Every Thursday
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Blakely, Georgia
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Blakely, Ga„ Sept. 11, 1941
The main drawback to the
enjoyment of American holi
days is that after the celebra
tion there are invariably sever
al hundred funerals to be at
tended and thousands of dol
lars in doctor and hospital bills
to be paid.
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Many Georgia school teach
ers have resigned their posi
tions in recent weeks and gone
into other lines of work, and
as a consequence many schools
have had difficulties in filling
the vacancies created by
these resignations.
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Editor Carey Williams asks
in the Greensboro Herald-Jour
nal the following question,
which no doubt many News
readers have often asked:
“Life has its complications, but
why is a dog always waits un
til 2 a. m. in the morning to
turn over the garbage can?”
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With the New York Yankees
the sure winner of the Ameri
can League championship, our
interest in the approaching
World’s Series has declined
no little. Should the St. Louis
Cardinals win the National
League championship, that in
terest will virtually disappear.
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Early county schools will
open for the fall term Monday.
The Blakely schools will oper
ate under difficulties due to the
loss of the building by fire last
June and the students will be
placed in several places until
a new building is constructed.
It’s a condition that can not be
helped and the best must be
made of it.
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America’s first shipment of
gasoline to Russia since the in
vasion of that country by Ger
many reached Vladivostock
the past week. Which was
highly displeasing to our hot
headed little friends, the Japs.
But not sufficiently displeasing
to warrant any interference
with the shipment as it passed
through Japanese waters.
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When all this “unpleasant
ness” is over and there is no
longer need for talk of “isola
tion” or “intervention,” we
would like to know who wrote
the pure drivel that is now
emanating from the mouth of
Charles A. Lindbergh, once a
hero in the eyes of his fellow
Americans. But, perhaps, the
author of this pro-Nazi propa
ganda will forever keep his
identity a secret.
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Railroads of the country
are bringing their gas tank
cars out of “cold storage” and
will haul gasoline from the
oil wells of the West to the
Eastern states to relieve the
gas shortage in this section, j
It is expected that as a result |
of this action the gas shortage !
will soon be relieved and the
necessity for rationing re
moved.
“Blakely High Will Have Football
Team, Coach Hammack Says”—
Headline, Early County News. From
which we infer, Butch that your
prospects are better this year than
they were last year. Cuth/bert
Leader.
We respectfully call the at
tention of Coach Hammack to
this “unclean dig” from our
neighboring contemporary and
urge that he “avenge the in
sult” on the field of battle dur
ing the coming football season.
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Mrs. Sarah Delano Roose
velt, mother of President
Roosevelt, died Sunday in her
eighty-seventh year. She had
the unique distinction of being
the only woman to see her son
thrice elected to the presiden
cy. The President, her only
child, has the sympathy of
his fellow citizens in the great
sorrow which has come to him.
We have our opinions and you
have yours; we express our opinions
in this newspaper; if you want to
express yours, under the same con
ditions, get a newspaper.—Forsyth
County News.
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We could easily call the name of
the prettiest lady in the county but
there is no sense losing friends. —
Pelham Journal.
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Recent statistics from the United
States Department of Agriiculure
show that grass or hay is the nation’s
second most important crop. It
comes next to corn, and is ahead
of cotton. It is estimated that
one hundred million tons are
annually produced on Ameri
cans farms. Grass is nature’s patch
work quilt. Its kindly warmth and
varied beauty covers the fields and
meadofws. It is a soft-toned rug gent
ly laid on pastures and hillsides. It
forms a restful carpet in forest glade
and mountain valley. Studded with
flowers in season, it .becomes a varied
rug of Oriental design, ever chang
ing as the seasons turn in their ap
pointed cycles. Food for man’s do
mesticated helpers, sustenance for
wild-life friends, source of beauty
and inspiration for humanity, grass
is one of the great gifts of nature.
—Christian Science Monitor.
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SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV?ROBERT
H. HARPER
THE ETERNAL GOD, THE
THE SOURCE OF HELP
Lesson for Sept. 14: Reverlation7:
9-17
Golden Text: Revelation 4: 8.
Except in Revelation, the Bible
tells little of what heaven is like.
But we should not be perplexed. It
is enough to know that man shall
be happy in heaven because God is
the center of life there as he must
be among his people here if they
hope to attain unto the perfect.
Many will be in heaven. The un
counted multitude from all nations
that John saw are already there.
All the redeemed of 2,000 years
gone are there and all the re
deemed of the ages to come will be
there. Will you?
Some imagine that the celestial
citizens go on achieving in heavenly
way the good things they have sought
here on earth —that the lover of
flowers may cultivate fadeless gar
dens where no adverse seasons or
cankeifworms destroy and that the
scientist may thrill with a growing
knowledge of the universe. This
we know—that music will be at the
command of all, employed in the
praise of God.
And there, as here on earth, the
Lamb wll serve his people. He will
be their shepherd in a perfect land
which shall know no hunger nor
thirst, and no sorrow nor crying,
for God shall wipe away all tears
from the eyes.
It was encouragement to suffering
saints in John’s time, who faced
imprisonment and death, to look
beyond the veil which separates
them from the perfect world. And
it should give us an assurance, in
the midst of our own difficulties, to
look beyond this troubled world to
a better. And that assurance w-ill
be ours if our faith is right and
our trust is sure.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA'
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Washington, D. C.—A bitter fight
between those who want to spend
new billions for social reforms and
those who want to pare domestic ex
penses to pay for defense, is being
waged in congress. Its outcome prob
ably will determine our policies in
this regard for the duration of the
war.
The move to cut down expenses
on non-defense items in the budget
was started by the senate finance
committee immediately following
that committee’s approval of the
largest tax bill in the history of our
country. Impressed with the pro
portion of tax money which must
go into non-defense items, the com
mittee approved an amendment to
the tax bill asking for an immediate
estimate from the bureau of the
budget on how to effect savings up
to $2,000,000,000. It also approved
a resolution asking for a committee
of both houses of congress, the di
rector of the budget and the sec
retary of the treasury to inquire
into methods of saving.
On the same day that these
moves to reduce governmental ex
penditures were made the special
committee investigating old-age in
surance made a report urging that
the government pay S3O a month to
all unemployed people over 60
years old and estimated that this
would cost from three to four bil
lion dollars annually. Senators im
mediately pointed out that if this
recommendation was carried out it
Would require more funds than the
total tax bill which is expected to
come to about $3,500,000,000. Nev
ertheless, Senator Doiwney of Cali
fornia is offering this proposal as an
amendment to the tax bill.
The members of the committee
supporting the bill, in addition to
Mr. Downey, were Senator Pepper
of Florida and Senator Thomas of
Idaho.
Although this bill is apt to be
waved aside, it is indicative of the
thinking of part of the congress
which favors continuing to pour
billions into new social reforms
even though the government debt is
up to the 50 billion mark. And
many congressmen find it embar
rassing to oppose such measures
when they realize there are 12,000,-
000 voters who would benefit by it.
Byrd States View
Taking a more realistac attitude,
however, the finance committee is
insisting on government economy.
Explaining the stand of the com
mittee, Senator Byrd said:
“The pending 1941 tax bill of ne
cessity imposes an additional and
egregious burden on perhaps more
taxpayers than ever before reached
by direct federal taxes.
“This step now is absolutely nec
essary in the teeth of the current
defense emergency, but it is shame
ful that there has been no earnest,
sincere effort to reduce non-essen
tial, non-defense expenditures of
the federal government. Reductions
made in these items this year
have been inconsequential and
probably will be wiped out en
tirely when all the supplemental
deficiency appropriation bills are
passed.
“It is little short of outrageous
to impose the burden of this tax bill
upon the citizens of this country
without at least a sincere attempt
to reduce federal expenditures out
side of essentially emergency
itans.”
Although the debate on the tax
I bill is being conducted pretty much
along party lines, the Republicans
urging economy and the Democrats
defending New Deal expenditures,
it is expected that some economies
in a non-defense spending will be
forthcoming. The debate on the
tax bill is creating more heated
arguments even than surrounded
the famous lend-lease bill. On the
outcome of the tax measure and
its amendments, our financial pol
icy for the future will be set.
Labor, Materials, Priorities.
As a result of the appeals for
unity in the address of President
Roosevelt and many national fig
ures in the unions on Labor day, it
is expected that labor problems
may be somewhat reduced, al
though the shipibuildng, aviation
and automobile industries feel no
assurance that there will not be
new outbreaks to interfere with
their production schedules.
Many industrialists with big gov
ernment contracts are coming to
'Washington with bags full of sta
tistics to show the government they
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now are actually losing money on
defense production due to increased
cost of materials, shortages of ma
terials, increased labor cosits and
expensive adjustments in govern
ment specifications for the defense
items they are making.
The newly appointed super pri
orities board, headed by Vice Presi
dent Wallace, is expected to look
into all problems which are delaying
production and , to figure out how
best to allocate supplies to take
care of the interests and both de
fense industries and the civilian
population. President Roosevelt ex
pects the new board to speed pro
duction of arms for all anti-Nazi
nations and at the same time to
give due consideration of keeping
the home fires burning in America.
On the new 'board, besides the
vice president, are: William S. Knud
sen, director general of the Office
of Production Management; Sidney
Hillman, OPM associate director
general; Harry Hopkins, special as
sistant to the President; Leon Hen
derson, federal price administrator;
Secretary of Navy Knox, and Secre
tary of War Stimson.
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“TESTAMENT OF AN EDITOR”
We like people who give us news
items.
We adore club reporters who get
their news in the day after instead
of the week after the club meeting.
We are fond of folks who know
typewritten copy should be double
spaced, and correspondents whose
handwriting requires no special de
coding.
We appreciate readers who realize
that no conclave is held in the news
paper office each press day to decide
which small item will appear on the
front page and which inside. While
we do plan to give front-page space
to the several most important stories
each week, there is, in our minds,
an equality of importance between
the Smith’s “company” on Page 1
and the Jones’ dinner guests on
Page 7.
We are grateful for fellow citi
zens who do not make a gleeful prac
tice of pointing out typographical
mistakes that get into the paper. We
invariably find them ourselves the
moment the paper is off the press,
and seldom think them funny.
And we greatly esteem those fine
souls who take the trouble to com
pliment us when they have enjoyed
“a piece” in the paper.
There are indeed, some very nice
people in the world.—Pleasant Hill
(Mo.) Times.
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We used to have shows to come
to Dahlonega most every fall and
the dancing girls, who were old
women painted and powdered up till
they didn’t look to be over 15 or
16 were well patronized by the old
and young men. I generally attend
ed, too.—Dahlonega Nugget.
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A foresighted man who saves l»s
money for a rainy day has something
to fall back upon when the drought
comes.—'Fitzgerald Herald.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
September 7, 1916
REV. J. A. J. DUMAS spent Mon
day in Arlington.
« * *
MRS. J. S. MIMS, of Macon, is
spending a while in the city, a guest
of Mrs. P. H. Fitzgerald.
♦ * *
MR. MURRAY BRUNSON has
bought the M. B. Brooks stock of
groceries on South Main street.
• • •
MISS RUTH STRICKLAND re
turned Saturday from an extended
visit to her sister, Mrs. H. H. Hobbs
at Wauchula, Florida..
* * *
MESSRS. I. D. Felder and Justin
M. Robinson went up to Atlanta
Tuesday on a business mission, re
turning this morning.
* * *
MR. J. C. CHANCY left Monday
night for Baltimore, where he will
enter Johns Hopkins Hospital for
treatment.
* * *
MISS Margaret McCullough, of
Waycross, arrived last Friday to
spend several days in the city, the
guest of Miss Neta Stuckey.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. Lewis Gay of At
lanta, are in the city on a visit to
relatives.
PROTECTION!
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A Complete Line of Ford, Chevrolet and
Plymouth Mufflers and Tail Pipes.
Grist Service Station
UNCLE SAM GRIER, of the Free
man neighborhood, dropped in to
see us a few minutes Monday morn
ing and incidentally remarked that
he had left home about sun-uip afoot
and had reached Blakely about twen
ty minutes to eight o’clock. Mr.
Grier belongs to that fast vanishing
band of Southern heroes—a Confed
erate soldier. He was horn April 19,
1839, and in spite of his years fre
quently makes the ten mile trip from
his home to town and back on foot,
thinking but little of the feat. How
many of his comrades in arms can
do that stunt?
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The trouble with these firms man
ufacturing bad breath killers is the
failure of their ads to guarantee over
fifteen-minute periods of effective
ness.—Cuthbert Leader.
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Won’t be long now before cane
grinding time, and who is there but
doesn’t get a thrill out of seeing the
faithful old mule walking around in
a beaten path of pumice while the
trickle of sweet cane juice comes
from the mill into the crocus-sack
covered barrel? Somehow, the new
electric cane mills don’t have the
appeal of the old-fashioned method.
—Dawson News.