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Blakely, Ga., February 19, 1942
Information reaching the lo
cal tire rationing board is that
future quotas allotted by state
headquarters will probably be
not sufficient to supply the
needs of one-tenth of those
who are classified as eligible to
buy tires. Even with this
warning, it is noted that some
of the vehicles holding a prior
ity rating are being used not
altogether exclusively for the
purposes requisite to a priority
rating. The local board again
gives the solemn warning that,
barring some unforeseeable
circumstance, the tires allotted
to Early county will meet only
a fractional part of the needs
of those on the eligible list,
and proof of the abuse of the
eligibility classification will
forfeit the right of the auto or
truck owner to any further
consideration at the hands of
the rationing board.
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We commend to our read
ers the editorial. “Refuting
Propaganda,” from the Atlan
ta Constitution, to be found in
the adjoining column. One of
the greatest dangers facing
the United Nations is a spirit
of disunity among those na
tions, and that is where the
German and Japanese war
machines are expected to get
in some of their most effective
blows. Don’t fall for it, Mr.
American, and when you are
inclined to criticise some of
the seemingly stupid acts of I
of our allies, remember that |
we, too, have been equally *
stupid in failing to heed the
warning that a storm was ap
proaching. Like England and
France, we had indulged all
too long in a policy of appease
ment, and then, when evidence
became all-convincing that we
were in imminent danger* of
attack, we suffered the likes of
Nye, Wheeler and Lindbergh
to throw stumbling blocks into
the path of our preparedness
efforts. Be grateful that our
British allies have managed to
in some measure hold the Nazi
hordes in check until we have
had time to at least begin our
war preparations.
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Are we in America awaken
ing to the fact that this ■war
can be lost —that up to now it
is being lost? Millions evi
dently do not yet seem to
grasp the seriousness of the sit
uation, even with the fall of
Singapore and the invasion by
the Japanese of Sumatra in
the Netherlands East Indies. |
Say they, ‘‘we have the re-|
sources to win.” But re
sources, unless transformed in
to fighting equipment and arm
ed forces, mean nothing. We
have wasted too many precious
hours boasting of our potential
greatness, in bickering be
tween capital and labor, in di
recting our energies toward
the manufacture of those
things which make for pleas
sure and comfort of living, and
closing our eyes to the dangers
that confronted us. Now, when
the storm has struck in all its
fury, we find ourselves far
from prepared to meet it, just
as France and England, after
ample warning, failed to pre
pare for the inevitable on
slaught of the Nazi war ma
chine. The outlook, ten weeks
after Japan’s treacherous at-
tack, is indeed gloomy, but not
hopeless. But nothing short
of an all-out effort is going to
save us from defeat. And the
sooner we realize this and as
sume our place in this effort,
the sooner will come victory.
Today that victory is not cer
tain by any means.
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REFUTING PROPAGANDA
(Atlanta Constitution)
It is an obvious and old trick to
sow dissension among your enemies.
The Germans and the Japanese are
fully aware of this, and as its value.
Already the efforts to bring about
disunity between the allied nations
and especially between the United
States and Britain, are obvious. Some
of them are deliberate, the direct
work of enemy agents. Most, how
ever, are unwitting, done by our own
people who do not take sufficient
■ thought of the implications of what
they repeat, nor the results of their
unthinking criticisms or “wise
cracks.”
Undoubtedly the British have made
errors of judgment. So do all na
tions, so have we. We regret, and
so do the British, now, that Singa
pore was not armed sufficiently, with
the right types of defense, to make
it impregnable to any attack. But
we should regret it still more if, be
cause of withdrawals of defensive
forces from Singapore, the Suez
Canal, India or the British Isles them
selves, were overrun by the enemy.
Another little worm, eating at the
necessary mutual confidence which
the two nations must maintain, is
the idea that “the Briish don’t fight,
they let the Canadians and Austral
ians do it all.” How false this charge
is is shown in statitstics, published in
the Richmond News-Leader.
Those figures show that, from the
opening of the war on iSeptember 1,
1929, to January 1, 1942, the per
centage of casualties in the armed
forces of the empire showed 71.3
per cent were English, Scotch and
Welsh; 5 per cent Colonials; 5.5 per
cent Indians, and 18.2 per cent the
combined dominions of Canada, Aus
tralia, New Zealand and South
Africa.
British has, perforce, fought a de
fensive war ever since Dunkirk. She
has had the enemy at bay and thus
saved the entire free world. Even
as we, today, as explained by Presi
dent Roosevelt, must fight a defen
sive war until we gain the necessary
superiority in force.
But don’t listen to anyone who
tells you that propaganda-inspired lie
that the British let others do their
fighting for them. The. statistics on
casualties are sufficient refutation
of that stupid canard.
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EARLY TO BED—EARLY TO RISE
(Moultrie Observer)
The clock certainly does move
along in these war days. It is al
most time to get up when you go to
bed, and before you get through
with your breakfast, dinner is ready.
Get back to the office after dinner
and look at your watch and it is
almost time to go to supper. With
speed like that, we ought to win the
war in a jiffy. Some of us may not
understand what it is all about. The
getting up by electric lights and go
ing to bed by the sun, but it is not
ours to reason why. It is ours to
do, etc. In the meantime the sun
goes along unperturbed. Takes its
time about rising, and these length
ening afternoons takes its time about
setting. The sun helped out in one
historic way'by stopping and giving
a little more daylight, but in this
small skirmish, it shows no signs of
getting jittery. It is lengthening
the space of daytime, but doing it
in the old way, by degrees. We have
know that early to bed and
early to rise would make you healthy,
wealthy and wise, but we are just
learning that it will also help you
win a war. So mote it be.
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THE FUTURE INDUSTRIAL
SOUTH
(Rome News-Tribune)
Further evidence now comes for
ward in support of the idea that the
country is being made over before
our eyes, though the eyes do not al
ways see clearly w'hat is going on.
The South was rapidly becoming in
dustrialized even before the war
crisis. But the war industries now
arising as if by .magic, are changing
the picture even more rapidly. Chem
icals, pulp and paper, metals, iron
’ and steel, rayon—all these and
i many other industries are being
built up in the South as a result of
the war effort. The facilities thus
built will remain when the war
shall have been won. They may
well mean a death blow to the sec
tional specialization (which has had
so great an influence on the coun
try’s social history in the past 50
. years.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
THIS WEEK
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Pickle
(Note: In case there are some of
you who do not read these dispatches
with any regularity, this little piece
is about Miss Sharon Bridges, age 4,
and our favorite girl friend.)
Likely as not, along about 10
years from now, when Miss Sharon
is numbered among Blakely’s sub
debt set and' some of her chums will
glance through her scrap-book and
see this little essay and start teas
ing her, your correspondent’s head
is apt to fly off with one mighty
stroke from Miss Sharon’s pen knife
or finger-nail file, or whatever wea
pon happens to be at hand. But, be
that as it may, your correspondent
feels that he would be derelict in
his duties if he didn’t record the
past two weeks in her life, during
which time she has been the pet and
pampered guest in his home. Now,
Miss Sharon is no ordinary lady.
Sometimes early in the morning
when she climbs out of her bed and
comes into our room and jumps up
and down on our hapless and aching
head in an effort to start conversa
tion, we doubt if she is even a lady
at all. This new Eastern War Time
seems to fit right in with Miss Shar
on’s scheme of life. Because it seems
we have hardly closed our eyes for
a good night’s rest when she bounds
in our room with all the fury of a
she-tiger and starts taking her set
ting-up exercises on our tired and
weary body.
Now, Miss Sharon isn’t all play.
She attends school each day. In fact,
she is the teacher and pupils. One
second she is the teacher and the
next she is the pupil. It has fallen
to your correspondent’s sad lot to
be one of her pupils. We are the
bad boy in school. For no good rea
son at all, she has named us Edward
Hardwood. Edward is the product
of her own mind, thank you, a ficti
tious character, who is always the
villain, who pulls the other little
girls’ curls and puts ink on their
dresses. Edward will do anything as
long as it is bad. He gets scolded
a hundred times a d'ay and equally as
many paddlings. But Edward is al
ways at school A good story, as
Miss Sharon knows, must have a
villain, which explains the perpetual
presence of Mr. Hardwood.
A characteristic which emphatic
ally stamps Miss Sharon as being a
modern miss is her great love for
the telephone. It never rings but
what she is first to answer, not to
mention a number of calls she makes
herself. Sometimes she will run out
of numbers and call up the opera
tors. They are very courteous and
nice to her and take pains to give
her the best of service. But then
Miss Sharon is used to having the
best, no matter what it is. At least
she gets it at our house. She rules
our domicile like Talmadge does
Georgia. If she says “jump,” you
don’ ask why, but how far. And
your correspondent never questions
her command. For instance, she
observed her fourth birthday the
other day and she decided that we
should sing “happy birthday to you.”
Your correspondent is the world’s
wost singer and’ explained it to her
fully, he thought, but she said sing,
and so sing he did.
Yes, sir, it’s quite a wonderful ex
perience to have a young lady visit
you. She sings. (She dances. She
tells stories. She kisses you good
night. good-morning and good-bye.
It’s never a dull moment with her
in the house. If you are beginning
to get the idea that Miss Sharon is
quite a wonderful creature, it just
proves that we are conveying to you
our correct thoughts. She is double
okay and an excellent tonic for the
war jitters.
A lady in town the other day said
she heard that a fellow she knew
was in the army, but she knows it
isn’t true, because she saw him at
home the other week end wearing
“civilized” clothes.
From a reader in Edison comes a
letter with much interest and a
question w’hich goes something like
this: “I notice quite frequently
where you are the champion of
some cause and you always seem to
get a reasonable amount of results.
Up here everyone is growing onions.
There are acres and acres of them,
just like cotton in the summer.
Wouldn’t it be very fortunate if
some ingenious soul could think of
some way to take these surplus on
ions and make rubber to take care
of the present tire shortage? What
do you think about it? Can’t you
tell us some way to get rid of these
surplus onions?”
Quite frequently we have trod on
ground which an angel would even
fear to fly over. We have solved
all kinds of problems, such as how to
prepare supper on thirty cents on
the maid’s night out, what not to do
until the doctor arrives, how to
best burn oak leaves to pester your
next-door neighbor, answered ques
tions on matrimony, mended broken
hearts, .broken leases, and legions of
other odd and trying jobs which no
one except a man of such stamina
and brilliant mentality as ours would
have undertaken. But so far, this
’is our first problem in supplying a
inew use for surplus crops, especial
■ly the socially-outcast onion. But
never let it be said that we let a
i friend down, especially one so nice
as to ■write us a letter asking for
’first-hand information. In order that
| our findings might benefit all man-
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kind and that the civilized world
might profit thereby, we are going to
reveal the facts publicly. So we
euipped ourself with two bags of
onions (Bermuda, if you please), two
candles, a slide rule, a copy of Grier’s
almanac and several other necessary
tools which all great scientists em
ploy, hied ourself off to an old corn
crib, threw the whole mess in an
old burlap sack, set fire, and after
fifteen minutes’ deliberation, came
up with the following boon-to-man
kind findings:
Equip every man, boy, woman and
girl with an onion. This applies to
all nations. Then there would be
such an all-fired odor that every
person would desire to be by him
self or herself, which ever the case
might be, and that would immediate
ly end the war and would be a defi
nite guarantee that another would
never begin. Everybody would be
so far from anybody else that they
wouldnt’ get close enough to start an
argument, which, after all, is what
starts a war.
If the world doesn’t take to this
plan, we would open a hamburger
stand on every corner in America.
Because all hamburgers seem to
have 9-10 onions and the other 1-10
made up of anything that happens
to be at hand. This project alone
should take care of the Calhoun
county onion surplus.
If this project failed to take care
of the surplus crop, we would supply
seevral million tons to people who
would want to eat them to guaran
tee a good seat in an aid-raid shel
ter. However, this has been pointed
out in a previous dispatch.
Another ten million tons we would
dump in Japan and Germany so those
dirty skunks could improve their
stinking atmosphere.
And if all this failed to work, next
year we would do just one thing:
We would stop planting the durn
things.
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ONE AMERICA
(Cordele Dispatch)
“We face a period of consumer
rationing of every article which re
quire an appreciable quantity of
strategic raw materials.
“We’ve barely begun to sacrifice,
and while it may find us soft at first,
we’ve come from strong forbears,
and there is no fear in my mind that
Americans can’t take it.”
That’s straight talking, and it
comes from William P. Witherow,
President of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers, a man in a
position to know what he’s talking
about. In a recent speech he warn
ed us Americans of the trials ahead,
and he called for unlimited opera
tion “in deed, in fact, and in every
action” to meet the test.
“Speed of production is the es
sence of victory. The rules of the
game can not be changed if we are
not to encourage defeat.
“For us there is just one America,
and as one people we must protect
that land of free men against the
encroachment of enemies of free
dom —armed or otherwise —so that
these United States and all they
symbolize may endure for us and
our posterity.”
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Wasted talent: The street
corner habitues who know far
more than those directing the
war efforts of the United Na
tions how this fighting business
should be handled in order to
w*in a quick and smashing vic
tory. Every town and city
has them.
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CHILDREN TEETH NEED
CARE
Many parents who are other
wise scrupulous about the phy
sical welfare of their children
are apt to be lax in giving prop
er attention to their first teeth.
Despite constant warnings of
doctors and dentists, the notion
still persists that since these
so-called “milk teeth” will be
replaced later on by the per
manent molars, they do not
need any special care. Such an
attitude is as dangerous as it
is false., The condition of a
child’s teeth has a direct bear
ing on his general health.
Moreover, when the first teeth
are well cared for the perman
ent set is given a sound, heal
thy foundation. More impor-
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of February 18, 1892.)
THE NEWS gives credit to James
G. Blaine, of Maine, for saving the
U. S. A. from going to war with
the Republic of Chile.
* * *
MR. S. W. McGLAMORY is now
74 years old, but is mighty spry.
MR. S. D. PAGE has returned
from a visit to North Carolina.
* * *
THE DEAL BROTHERS have torn
out the entire inside of the old
James store and are remodeling it in
a fancy and costly style.
* •* *
MR. W. B. STUCKEY has been
electe<| to teach the school at Urqu
hart.
* * *
DR. PRESTON A. RAMBO, of
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, is on a visit
to his old home in Bluffton.
♦ * *
THE DEATH of Miss Belle Slap
pey, of Hilton, is chronicled in The
News this week.
MESSRS. A* G* Powell and Gus
Jones visited Damascus Sunday.
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MR. AND MRS. J. T. Hammack
visited in Bluffton Sunday last.
MISS ALICE EWELL is teaching
; school in Clay county.
MR. AND MRS. W. H. SHAW, of
Clay county, are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. G. D. Howard.
MR. JOE IVEY got his hand hurt
while coupling cars at Hilton last
week.
tant still, habits of mouth hy
giene instilled in a young child
are of inestimable value be
cause they carry over into later
life and insure, in some meas
ure, protection against the
adult diseases which have their
source in infected teeth and
gums.
A child should learn to use
his toothbrush as soon as he
learns to use his fork and
spoon. Incidentally, be sure he
has a tiny brush with soft bris
tles that will not irritate the
delicate gums. Regular visits
to the dentist two or three
times a year are imperative,
not only to check any dental
trouble, but also to establish
the child’s confidence and dis
pel any fear that may arise in
his mind.
MR. PERRYMAN DuBOSE was
down from Atlanta Saturday.
• * *
MR. W. H. DOUGLASS was over
from Damascus this week.
• • •
MR. J. K. RITCHIE, of Pine
View, was in town last Tuesday.
■* * *
CEDAR SPRINGS ITEMS: “Mr.
J. L. Brooks has opened up a grocery
store on Main street . . . Baby girls
have arrived the past week at the
homes of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Shef
field and Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Regan
. . . Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McGlamory,
of Elmore county, Ala., have moved
here and occupy a house on Blakely
street . . . Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Martin
have moved to our village and' occu
py a house on Forest Avenue . . .
Miss Mollie Roberts and Mr. William
Mosely, of Donalsonville, were visi
tors here the past week . . . Dr. 0. B.
Bush and Prof. Bill Anderson, of
Colquitt, visited here last Friday .. .
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Roberts, of Col
quitt, visited here last Sunday . . •
I Dr. J. H. Crozier and little daugh
ter, Nannie, are visiting at Cotton
Hill, Clay county . . . Prof. Stone,
of Rackettville, was here Sunday .. •
Judge R. W r . Sheffield is visiting his
sister, Mrs. Chloe Lane, at Sowhat
chee . . . Rev. J. W. Glenn, of Bain
bridge, filled his regular appoint
ment here last Sunday.”
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After looking over some of the
ladies the government has decided to
ration rubber to girdle manufactur
ers. At least, the ladies are not go
ing to be left in bad shape.—Dawson
News.