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Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
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Blakely, Georgia
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Blakely, Ga., January 22, 1942
The Dawson News tells this
one: “One of the best war
stories we have heard is that
of the woman who walked up
to the defense stamp window
and said, ‘l’ve been saving this
money a long time to divorce
my husband, but I’ve decided
I can stand him better than I
can Hitler’.”
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The local tire rationing
board reports very few appli
cations for new tires or tubes.
Signifying very plainly this
does that Early county’s pop
ulation has accepted cheerful
ly the ban on the sale of these
articles. The sale of any new
tires and tubes under the
rationing plan and with the
board’s approval will be given
due publicity through the col
umns of this newspaper.
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Blakely’s first test blackout,
held last Thursday night and
lasting thirty minutes, was
about as complete as could
have been expected with as
little advance warning as had
been given. The rare instances
in which lights could be seen
in Blakely homes were due
to either carelessness or for
getfulness and in no instance
was a refusal to cooperate
noted on the part of the citi
zens.
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A cheering bit of the news
for our farming population
is that the Office of Produc
tion Management has given
every assurance that sufficient
supplies for fertilizer would be
made available to southern
farmers to meet immediate
needs. It was announced that
if there was not sufficient
Chilean nitrate in this country
to meet the demand, that ei
ther Chilean nitrate or domes
tic nitrate “can and will be
made immediately available.”
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The new automobile stick
ers, which every private auto
mobile or truck will have to
carry after February 1, are
now on sale at the local post
office. They cost $2.09 and '
will be good until July 1, when
new stickers will be sold at
the annual rate of $5 apiece.
Other stickers at varying costs
will be sold for other types of
motor vehicles and motor
boats. This additional cost of
operation of a motor vehicle is
to help finance this country’s
war against its enemies.
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Men are about to lose their
trousers—at least that extra
pair of trousers —arid vest as
well, says the O. P. M. That
extra pair of pants and the
vest that go with men’s suits
are to become a war casualty.
These drastic inroads upon the
civilian male’s attire are fore
seen as responses of manufac
turers to an Office of Produc
tion Management order reduc
ing non-militarjr wool con
sumption 60 per cent. Well,
that doesn’t worry us a great
deal, since we had planned
on having our last summer’s
trousers “recapped” for the
coming summer, and we don’t
much need a vest down in this
section of southwest Georgia.
Not only the present but also
future generations of Ameri
cans will point with pride to
the gallant fight General Mac-
Arthur and his men have
waged against overwhelming
odds on the island of Luzon in
the Philippines. All honor to
them, and may all U. S. fight
ing units show the same mag
nificent spirit as they combat
the enemy forces throughout
the far-flung battle lines.
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A state-wide drive to regis
ter not less than 500,000 Geor
gians—men and women, boys
and girls, white and colored—
for voluntary service in 14
branches of civilian protec
tion will begin tomorrow—
Friday, January 23—and will
continue through January 31.
Locally, the registration will be
in the schools of the county
and in the office of the County
School Superintendent. Full
details of the object of the
registration and the capacities
in which volunteers may assist
in the defense of their coun
try are outlined in a compre
hensive story elsewhere in this
issue of The News. There is
something for every Early
countian to do in the drive for
victory over our enemies. Find
your place and register for
some phase of civilian defense.
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FORWARD MARCH
We are being assured that the
farms and food will win the war.
Others say our industrial mass pro
duction methods are unbeatable, and
another group says that success or
failure lies with our highly skilled
labor. The truth is it will take every
thing we all can do. The cry is
forward march with the plow and
the hoe, the wrench and the screw
driver, the hammer and anvil, blow
torch and chisel, the knitting needle
and sewing machine. Even the girl
stenographer pounding on her type
writer keys is helping in the fight.
—Pickens County Progress.
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HOARDING UNPATRIOTIC
Hoarding in times of national
emergency almost always is unpatrio
tic, the proper spirit is that all
should want to “share and share
alike” in whatever becomes neces
sary in the war effort. The Fed
eral government may be forced to
much extra expense to ration sugar,
even when no actual shortage ex
ists, just because a few fear a short
age and want to “gobble up” large
quantities. Actually, such things like
that retard the nation’s war effort
and because of that they should and
will be condemned, generally.—Cairo
Messenger.
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SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV ROBERT
H. HARPER
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THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS
Lesson for Jan. 25: Matthew 4:1-11.
Golden Text Hebrew 4: 15.
Soon after his baptism Jesus went
into the wilderness for a trial of his
strength against the devil.
The first temptation came after
Jesus had fasted 40 days and 40
nights and was very hungry. In an
swer to the devil’s urging, “Com
mand that these stones be made
bread,” Jesus quoted' a great truth
“Man shall not live by bread
alone.” At no time did Jesus call
for a decision between needful ma
terial things and spiritual things.
But he did command that spiritual
things be given the first place.
The second was a temptation to
demonstrate trust in God by doing
a foolhardy thing. Should a man
risk his life, violate one of the
Ten Commandments, and then ex
pect to exemplify a great faith by
calling upon God to preserve him?
The devil often attacks in the cita
del of our strength, hoping to thrust
a spear through the joints in our
heaviest armor. He tempted Jesus
to demonstrate his faith by doing a
! presumptuous thing.
In the third temptation Jesus w r as
I invited to compromise for the quick
I domination of the world, of the
■ world as it was, steeped in sin, to
“stoop to conquer.”
Jesus is an example unto us in
i this respect—he prevailed against
: temptation because he was in per
; feet union with God. And you and
I can prevail against all the temp-
I tations of the evil one if we are in
i perfect accord with the Father,
who has promised not to allow any
I temptation to overtake us greater
I than we are able to bear.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
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TOMORROW
FRANK PARKER q
DEATH accidents
A year ago, when everybody was
making fine-sounding resolutions
for 1941 accomplishments, I remem
ber there was a lot of to-do about
all of the things which were going
to be done to prevent motor acci
dents during 1941.
Police leaders, politicians, insur
ance companies, traffic engineers,
school teachers and newspapers all
were making suggestions galore.
Now the results are in—and 1941
proved to be by far the blackest
year in history for traffic deaths,
traffic injuries and accident costs.
Here are the amazing results
which even dwarf most figures on
war casualties: 40,000 deaths by
traffic accidents; 1,500,000 injured;
$2,000,000,000 accident costs.
This year most of us are mor?
concerned with the protection of our
homes and families against bombs
than we are with traffic problems.
But it’s a safe bet that, no • matter
what unexpected attacks this coun
try might suffer—no bombings, no
sabotage and no fifth column activi
ties can possibly approach the
damage to life and property which
we are certain to suffer from at
tacks by speeding automobiles,
drunken drivers and careless pe
destrians.
LAWS . . . j, violations
Traffic accidents are so common
that most of us have become hard
ened to them. We take for granted
that every week or so we will hear
of some friend or acquaintance who
has been hurt in an automobile ac
cident. It’s just part of the weekly
news—like marriages, anniversa
ries and death from natural causes.
When we are driving ourselves,
we take for granted we will see
some accidents now and then. We
also take for granted (even though
we may curse them.) that we will
meet a lot of careless drivers on
the road, that we will see constant
traffic violations by other motor
ists—and the most honest of us will
admit to almost daily violations on
our own pai*t, particularly speed
law violations.
In fact a lot of us feel sort of
priggish about obeying speed laws.
Not wanting to be stick-in-the
muds, we join the speeding throng
driving merrily along the roads
which are each year smeared with
more blood than a batlefield.
“TICKETS” . jail
It is estimated that 70 per cent
of the traffic accidents in 1941 hap
pened while a driver was violating
a traffic law.
That fact points the way to what
must be done and what eventually
will be done to cut down the slaugh
ter on the highways. The chief so
lution will be real law enforcement
with heavy penalities for violations.
If every driver knew that “a tick
et” would be apt to mean the loss
of his license, if he knew that reck
less driving was subject to a jail
term and that having a friend who
knows the judge wouldn’t help—
that realization alone would be apt
to cut down accidents 50 per cent.
No column like this, no scare pic
tures of acidents, no boring talks
to schools or clubs on traffic acci
dents are going to help much un
less the law holds a big club over
the head of the motorist. We ought
to all be pretty well convinced of
that. For we have all heard this
accident story over and over again
yet each year the death toll mounts.
The protection of life and proper
ty is one of the fundamental pur
poses of law and of law enforcement
agencies. Most all of us may con
tribute at one time or another to
the danger of the highways—but it
seems to be up to our law-making
bodies and our policemen to make us
behave.
BLAME defense
Personally, I don’t remember
ever hearing anyone accept the
blame for an automobile accident.
I’ve heard dozens of people tell
me about their accidents. They tell
in detail, about how they were driv
ing along at a normal speed when
suddenly a fol driver did such an
such and they just couldn’t avoid
hitting him. The “fool driver” is
always the other guy.
But just as it takes two to make
a fight, it also takes two to make
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an automobile accident, and the
chances are that in the majority of
cases both are contributors toward
the accident. The other man may
be driving like a fool, but if you
were driving slower, or nearer your
side of the road, or weren’t ab
sorbed with the radio program, per
haps you could have scrambled out
of the way of the fool driver.
Most of us ought to know by this
time that there are always a lot of
fool drivers on the road. There
fore, it isn’t enough to just drive
carefully and say: “If I get hit
it’s the other driver’s fault.” In
addition to obeying the rights of the
road yourself, you must be pre
pared to defend yourself against a
dangerous driver who may always
be approaching around the next
curve.
A lot can be done by the police.
A lot more probably will be done
by them. But meanwhile, let’s all
of us be constantly on guard to
keep out of the way of those driv
ers who ought to be in jail, but
aren’t.
Many a tombstone is erected on
the grave of a man who wasn’t at
fault.
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THERE’S GENERALLY A WAY
OUT
A farmer had an old blind nag
that was more burdensome to him
than helpful. The animal was graz
ing on a nearby lot one day and
stumbled into an old well. The
farmer considered the cost and ef
fort that would be required to ex
tricate the unfortunate old horse
and decided that both the animal and
the well were of no value to him.
He then proceeded to shovel dirt
into the well to bury the old horse
and at the same time rid himself of
two nuisances. As the dirt rolled
in upon him, Dobbin packed it down.
More dirt and more packing brought
him nearer to the top of the ground
each hour, until he was near enough
to the surface to jump out and to
freedom.
No Aesop fable ever pointed a
clearer moral. Pack your troubles
under your feet and rise on them
to freedom and happiness.—Marietta
Journal.
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RELIEF FROM WORRIES
When we get all filled up with
worries and war news we concen
trate on the pleasure we will get
from eating corn on the cob next
summer and cheer up again.—Tel-
fair Enterprise. Why such long
range concentration. Ain’t you got
no sausage or backbones or spare
ribs, or turnip greens or fryers? Save
the corn until these have passed out.
—Cuthbert Leader.
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The familiar chant of the tobacco
auctioneer may soon disappear if a
bill introduced in the Kentucky legis
lature becomes a law. It provides
“that the auctioneer shall speak in
such a manner. . .that persons stand
ing within fifty feet of him shall be
able to clearly hear and distinguish
his voice and words in conducting a
sale.” And we know men who have
spent a life-time in learning the
“chant” that sells tobacco.—Dawson
News.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
The Best Exercises for
Abdominal Organs
This is one of the oldest of
exercises, but still one of the
best. It is unsurpassed as a
trunk exercise because its ef
fect is chiefly on the abdomi
nal muscles and the internal
organs with beneficial results
in reducing large abdomens.
Those individuals who have
lost tone in their abdominal
muscles may find it quite diffi
cult, but if you cannot con
veniently sit up and touch your
toes at first, you may aid your
self by raising the right leg up,
hands straight over head and
kick the right leg down toward
the floor with a swing, pulling
yourself to a sitting position
with the kick.
Lyin flat on the back, ex-
The Same Business Under
a New Name
THE-
Georgia Furniture Co.
(Successor to Lanier Furniture Co.)
Effective January 1, 1942, the Lanier Furni
ture Company became the Georgia Furni
ture Company—a change in name only, for
the store is under the same ownership, the
same management and personnel, and the
same policy—a policy which through its fair
dealings with the public, has in a few years
grown to be one of this city’s and Southwest
Georgia’s largest furniture establishments.
This policy will be continued.
The Lanier Furniture Company expresses
its sincere appreciation for your patronage
in past years and the Georgia Furniture
Company bespeaks for itself a continuation
of your good will.
GEORGIA FURNITURE CO.
M. ROBERTS, Manager
tend both arms straight be
yond the head, palms together.
Raise the body to a sitting posi
tion without bending the knees
and try to touch your toes with
the finger tips. Repeat six
times, counting each time you
touch the toes. Those who
still encounter difficulty may
raise both feet up, and as they
kick the feet down, swing up
and touch the toes with the
hands. Each morning, how
ever, they should try this ex
ercise until they can comfort
ably sit up without raising the
legs from the floor.
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The day is dawning when the peo
ple of this country will place a high
premium on character instead, of on
the amount of one’s possessions.—
Forsyth County News.