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and County of Early
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Blakely, Georgia
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Blakely, Ga„ February 12, 1942
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Uncle Sam’s army will have
additional prospects after the
registration on next Monday |
of all men 20 to 44 years of
age who have not previously
registered.
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■ Uncle Sam will remove Jap
anese silk from his paper cur
rency as soon as the present
stocks of “doctored” paper
are exhausted, it is announced
by Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau. This meets with
our approval. Let’s eliminate
anything originating in Japan
from our American economic
life.
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The extension to February
15 for securing auto license
tags expires Sunday. Gover
nor Talmadge states there will
be no further extension grant
ed. Mr. Auto Owner, better
order that tag not later than
Saturday night or be prepared
to pay a penalty, which is one
dollar for the, sheriff and 20
per cent of the cost of the li
cense tag.
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Some of us are finding it a
bit difficult to adjust ourselves
to the new time. The clocks
were moved ahead one hour
Sunday night, and the nation
has accepted the change with
a minimum of grumbling. Aft
er a few days have lapsed,
we’ll find ourselves working
under the new schedule with
far less difficulties than we
had anticipated.
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Our Congressmen are receiv
ing a first-class “ribbing” from
all sections of the country for
voting themselves a retirement
f un d—just plain pensions. This
action on the part of our law
makers is being roundly de
nounced —and rightly so—for
it is hard for the average lay
man to understand why a Con
gressman, holding elective of
fice, should be entitled to a
pension any more than a city,
county or state official. If they
can’t subsist on a mere SIO,OOO
per annum, why do these Rep
resentatives fight so strongly
to swing on to their jobs? If
they can’t maintain themselves
on the paltry salary, why not
return to private* life and let
others feed at the trough for a
while?
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The war news from the Far
East continues far from en
couraging, and it becomes
evident each day that Presi
dent Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill were giving
us the “straight goods” when
they told us we may expect
reverses for months to come
before the tide of battle turn
ed in our favor. Those of us
who have been laboring under
the delusion that licking the
Japs was a before-breakfast
job have had our eyes opened.
The success of the Nipponese
in their far-flung campaign
in the Pacific, which has al
ready netted them many im
portant naval and air bases,
Is a military achievement that
few, if any, believed possible
prior to the outbreak of war
on December 7.
Rationing of sugar will be
gin at an early date, and those
who have been buying this
commodity in large quantities
and storing it for future use
are going to be embarrassed
when time comes to apply‘for
a ration card and they are
asked just how much sugar
they have on hand? Or will
they add to the practice of
hoarding the deceit of lying?
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Today is the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln. The News
suggests that its readers today
re-read Mr. Lincoln’s Gettys
burg address, truly a master
piece in both its beauty and
brevity. And there is a lesson
lin Americanism which all of
| us should get from the words
uttered by that great Ameri
can three-quarters of a cen
tury ago.
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Traffic accident deaths in
the United States last year
topped all previous records.
I Part of the huge casualty list is
attributed to the mighty na
tional defense effort, but the
carelessness of the average
American auto driver is re
sponsible for a large percent
age of the deaths. What are
we going to do about it? The
same thing we have been doing
in previous years express
horror over an .appalling con
dition, and iet it go at that.
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THE PRESS
RAMBLER
An exchange recently asked the
question, “Where is the State of
Matrimony?” The answer given by
a smart guy was: “It is one of the
United States. It is bounded by hug
ging and kipsing on one side and the
cradle and babies on the other. Its
chief production is population, broom
sticks and staying out at night. It
was discovered by Adam and Eve
while trying to find a passage out
of paradise. The climate is rather
sultry until you pass the tropics of
housekeeping when usually weather
sets in without sufficient power to
keep all hands as cool as cucumbers.
For the principal road leading to the
state, consult the first pair of blue
eyes you run across.”—Dawson News.
Americanism: Congressmen, who
voted against adequate appropria
tions for the Army and Navy in 1939,
now criticizing officers trying to
fight a two-ocean war without ade
quate ' supplies. Forsyth County
News.
Army officials have warned, and
the warning should be strictly ob
served, that parents, wives and sweet
hearts who give out information as
to the location and movement of
soldiers in the nation’s military forces
may be endangering the lives of their
loved ones. The urgency for the
“folk back home” to keep secret all
information regarding United States
troops is just as important as for
the members of the military person
nel. Although information as to
strength, composition, location and
movement of troops may at times
seem inconsequential, it may be 5f
great value to the enemies of the
United States.—Butler Herald.
In 1941 Georgia led the nation
in the number of moonshine stills
captured and destroyed. This is not
a new “distinction” for our state, as
we have headed this list in the past.
The higher taxes on legal liquor is
one of the reasons given for the in
crease in the number of illicit stills
and the fact that the average per
son has a little more money to spend
may account for the increased de
| mand for liquor, particularly the kind
that doesn’t have the heavy tax add
ed to the selling price.—The Valdosta
Times.
In an effort to hurry in all the
' scrap iron and steel in the many junk
yards of the country, Leon Hender
' son, price administrator, has announc
j ed a new and higher price for scrap
5 steel and metal. The new schedule
‘ | segregates various types and grades
1 of scrap, according to their use, and
’ I fixes price ceilings for each type of
■ i consumer. —Exchange.
No man on earth can love his
> neighbor as himself if he has a gar
• den and his neighbor keeps chickens.
Telfair Enterprise.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY. GEORGIA
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HOARDERS selfish
Aside from the unpatriotic, self
centered motives behind hoarding,
I doubt if any hoarder is actually
going to get satisfaction from hav
ing a little supply of goods tucked
away when those goods have be
come unobtainable by her neigh
bors.
There are thousands of house
wives throughout our country who
are busy as squirrels stocking up
for the bleak days ahead. They
hear rumors of a shortage of stock
; ings and rush to town to buy all
they can afford. They hear about a
threatened curb on sugar and hurry
out to get a barrel of it.
The other day a neighbor took me
down in her cellar where she proud
ly displayed her hoard—big bags of
sugar, row upon row of canned
goods, a set of automobile tires,
and a varied assortment of knick
knacks which probably won’t be
available a few months hence.
My reaction was this: if your
friends are later unable to buy sug
gar, you are going to be embarrassed
to serve them sugar in your home;
if certain foods become scarce, you
are going to feel like a fifth-colum
nist to have that food available for
your family; when you put on those
new automobile tires, after most of
your friends have had to stop driv
ing because their tires are worn
out, you are going to be intensely
ashamed of yourself whenever you
pass them. You’re not going to
like being dubbed a hoarder.
SHORTAGES created
One of the greatest faults with
hoarding is that it actually creates
the shortages which the hoarders
fear.
There wouldn’t be a shortage of
sugar today if it weren’t for the
women who have been draining the
source of supply by purchasing
more sugar than they need.
The tire problem wouldn’t have
become acute so suddenly if it
hadn’t been for the thousands of
motorists who heard of an immi
nent shortage and bought up every
tire they could lay their hands on.
The silk and nylon stocking supply
would have lasted a lot longer than
it now will if it weren’t for those
dozens of pairs which thousands of
panicky women snapped up when
they first heard rumors of scarcity
of them.
Faced with priorities and raw
material problems in so many in
dustries, the problem of supplying
the normal needs of the people of
the United States is acute, but the
men and women who complicate
the situation by buying far above
that isn’t the attitude that wins
almost impossible to solve.
UNITY sacrifice
Before this war is over, everyone
of us will be made to realize that
the little things we do, which are
contrary to the interests of the ma
jority of the people, are a help to
the enemy.
We talk about the great unity of
action which suddenly has swept
over this country, but we haven’t
even approached the unity which we
will probably need before we can
attain victory.
Hoarding of food's and luxuries
may not appear to have much to
do ■with this unity we are all talk
ing about, but actually it is an ex
cellent example of the unwilling
ness of many of us to work together
and sacrifice together.
Any hoarder knows that when she
buys a quanity of something be
cause it is likely to be scarce, she
is hoping to get the jump on other
families. She knows that if there
is a shortage of canned goods and
she buys enough to last a year,
there will be many others who will
have to go without.
You can call that selfishness or
family protection, -whichever you
like, but it all adds up to that age
old policy; each for himself and
the devil take the hindmost. And
that isn’t the attitude tha wins
wars.
PETTINESS survival
It’s time all of us made up our
minds to work together, to sacrifice
together, and to suffer together.
The profiteer in industry, the
hoarder in the home, as well as
the do-uothing group which confines
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its interest to watching the war
from the sidelines, must be made
to realize that this gigantic struggle
demands the unselfish co-operation
of every citizen.
We must stop worrying about
what is going to happen to our pet
ty comforts and our little luxuries.
We must realize that these things
are no worth a tinker’s dam com
pared with our battle for the sur
vival of our whole way of living.
I keep harping on hoarding be
cause it is the most apparent cur
rent example of our unwillingness
to forget unimportant personal in
terests.
When I saw dozens of women
lined up in a grocery store the oth
er day, clamoring for their daily al
lotment of two pounds of sugar, it
frightened me to realize how diffi
cultit is going to be for many of
us to agree to act and live un
selfishly.
I’ll feel there is a lot more hope
for our nation when I hear of a
woman who, instead of filling her
sugar barrel, announces that she is
going to give up the use of sugar
until the threatened 1 shortage is
over.
SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
. By REV. ROBERT
H. HARPER
THE HEALING MINISTRY OF
JESUS
Lesson for Feb. 15: Mark 2:1-12
Golden Text: Matthew 14:14
Not long after that busy Sabbath
studied in the last lesson, Jesus was
again in Capernaum. And people
gathered so closely about Peter’s
door that the four mean bearing a
palsied man had to resort to the ex
pedient of which we read in the
present lesson.
No doubt Jesus startled his critics
when he read their thoughts and, to
confirm his authority to forgive
sins, bade the man arise and walk.
Perhaps dissipation had led to the
poor fellow's affliction. There is
often a direct connection between
sin and disease. The great need of
the palsied man was healing of soul.
Let us in our healing ministry pre
serve the order that Jesus indicated
in his answer (Matthew 11:5) to
John’s disciples.
Consider the example of the four
friends. They felt a brother’s need
and a brother’s woe, cooperated to
help him, were not deterred by diffi
culties, and were resourceful. Love
always finds away. They believed
in Jesus. It is said that he saw their
faith—the faith of the four friends
and the faith of the afflicted man.
Such a cooperation of faith is
greatly needed by those who are
concerned to help others. It would
seem that the great crowd that
gathered so closely together that day,
in their selfishness and indifference,
that the four friends could not reach
the door, fell back when the palsied
man took up his bed and went forth.
I And they were amazed and glorified
' God. A larger cooperation of faith
I today would give new power to the
churches and lead many to a new
evaluation of the gospel of love.
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Instead of brushing up on manners,
maybe junior would have better man
ners if father would use the brush.—
Crawfordville Advocate-Democrat.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
HEALTH HABITS FOR
HOUSEWIVES
Mothers—when your work
is done, the children still at
school and the house complete
ly quiet, how do you spend
your afternoons? Do you de
vote an hour to your own phy
sical welfare or waste the time
puttering with “odd jobs,”
thumbing through the latest
fashion magazines and munch
ing on your favorite sweets?
For most busy housewives mid
afternoon is their only free
time (the bridge club doesn’t
meet every day!) and some
part of it should be given over
to a routine of mild exercise,
a refreshing bath or a short
walk in the open air.
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of February 11, 1892.)
THE DEATH of Mr. George T.
Davis, of Liberty Hill, is chronicled
in The News this week. He was given
a Masonic funeral.
MARBLE PLAYING has already
begun on the streets of Blakely.
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THE Kickapoo Indian Medicine
show, which for the past two weeks
or more has been the topic and ex
citement of Blakely, has gone and
is now in our neighboring city of
Arlington.
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DR. PRESTON A. RAMBO and
Mrs. C. L. Rambo, of Bluffton, visited
Blakely last Sunday.
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MR. F. F. KOERBER, of Colum
bia, was a visitor to Blakely Monday.
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MRS. A. Y. THOMPSON and child
ren visited Leary last week.
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MR. OSCAR H. SHEFFIELD has
been appointed a Fellow in the de
partment of Engineering at the Uni
versity of Georgia at Athens.
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DISPLAY ADS in The News this
week represent: Royal Baking Pow
der, E. L. Fryer, George E. Chip
stead, Robinson & Davis, Central City
House (Macon), W. C. Cook, Thos.
Williams, Calvin Jones Barber Ship,
The Macon Telegraph, H. C. Fryer
& Son, Winchester Repeating Arms
Co., Fort & Mims, New Home Sew
ing Machines, Black Drought, Satur
day Evening Post, Jacobs Pharmacy
(Atlanta).
Every woman owes it to her
family as well as to herself to
keep in the best possible physi
cal condition for the welfare
and happiness of husband and
children depend largely upon
the health of the mother. When
she is tired most of the time,
nervous and fretful, “all run
down” or “all keyed up,” she
cannot possibly cope with the
thousand and one problems
that are her inevitable lot. It’s
perfectly natural for a mother
to devote most of her time and
energy to her family, but there
is no reason under the sun why
she should sacrifice her own
well-being by neglecting to
give herself the care her body
requires in order to be in its
best working order.
MRS. M. FAULK and Mr. C. J.
Faulk, of Dothan, were visitors here
Munday.
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MESSRS. J. W. SUTLIVE and J.
T. McAllister, of Fort Gaines, were
Visitors in Blakely last Friday.
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OUR TOWN COUNCIL has recent
ly been working on the College ques
tion. The contract for building the
college has been signed and provides
for the erection of a wooden building
near the Methodist church. (This was
the old Blakely Institute building and
lasted until the brick building recent
ly burned was completed. It was
to have been a college, hence the
naem of the street in front of the
Methodist church is known as Col
lege street).
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The ladies who drive around the
block or on Broad street for hours
at a time are not going to like to
walk the same spots when the tires
go out.—Thomasville Times-Enter
prise.
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Now isn’t it funny that so many
of us prefer being a big frog in a
little puddle to doing our croaking
with the rest of the little frogs in a
big puddle?—Pelham Journal.
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The average working girl spends
20 per cent of her income on clothes
to achieve her No. 1 purpose in life,
getting a man, says a news item.
When she lands the man she spends
most of his income to keep him, if
he is worth it.—Dawson News.