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Early ffiauuty Nrms
Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
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Blakely, Ga., March 5, 1942
Recent rains have interfered
with farm work and farmers
are going to get off to a late
start unless there is an early
break in the weather. And this
is the year when those who
till the soil are being called up
on to do an all-out job to aid
in the food-for-victory pro
gram.
o
Heartening is the news that
the FBI is rounding up many
alien enemies in this country.
The task of the department is
a gigantic one, and will re
quire some time, but a start
has been made and arrests
made thus far give an inkling
of the dangers confronting us
from within our own ranks.
The FBI should be given every
assistance needed by the gov
ernment to complete a hasty
round-up of all subversive ele
ments among our population.
o
Most of those Congressmen
who a few months ago were
begrudging the lend-lease aid
being given to Russia by our
government have ceased their
abuse of the Soviets. No, we
haven’t accepted the Soviet
form of government as our
own and we have no idea of
doing so, but we do recognize
the fact that Russia and Amer
ica are fighting a common en
emy, and that, were it not for
the magnificent fight the Red
Army is putting up against the
Germans, the outlook for an
eventual victory for our own
nation would be far from
bright.
o
The war department has ad
vised national headquarters of
the Selective Service System
that in future all registrants
will be inducted into the mili
tary forces at the time of the
army physical examination. It
is stated, however, that in
cases where immediate induc
tion would cause undue hard
ship to the registrant, he will
be given an immediate fur
lough to adjust his civilian af
fairs, and under the new pro
cedure registrants will have
the same rights of appeal and
of personal appearance be
fore their local boards as
they do at present. The effect
of the new order is that, in
stead of receiving notice to
report, for physical examina
tion by the armed forces as
they do now, the registrants
will be given a notice of in
duction.
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Although the United Nations
are exacting a heavy toll, both
in men and ships, the Japs
continue their march of con
quest and are now on the rich
island of Java, and have cut
the Burma road. It is now
considered very probable that
the next stand of battle in the
Pacific will be on the conti
nent of Australia, which the
Allies must hold at all costs if
they are to have a base from
which to stage an offensive in
the future. While the news is
discouraging, it does not come
as a surprise, for it has been
generally believed by military
experts that the Netherlands
East Indies would fall to the
invaders. The war isn’t yet
lost, and we are not going to
lose it, but the road to victory
is likely to be a long and cost- i
ly one, so we may as well
prepare ourselves for much 1
more discouraging news before '
the tide turns in our favor.
The deadline for filing in
come tax returns expires mid
night March 16. If you are in
doubt as to whether or not
you are among those required
to file a return, better investi
gate at once. A delay beyond
March 16 will subject the tax
payer to a penalty.
o
Secretary of the Treasury
iMorgenthau has submitted to
the Congress the treasury’s
recommendations for raising
some nine billions of dollars in
additional tax revenue. These
proposals, if enacted into law,
will, in the words of Mr. Mor
genthau, “affect every Ameri
can home.” Perusal of the
recommendations bears out the
Secretary’s statement. This is
a costly war in which we are
now engaged, and there is no
longer room to doubt that the
people must pay the bill. And
pay it, we are going to do.
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There still seems to be a dis
position on the part of some
of thqse eligible to buy new
auto tires and tubes to regard
the rubber situation lightly
and to feel certain they will
have no difficulty in securing
new tires when those now in
use are worn out. Members of
the local rationing board are
again issuing a warning to
truck, bus and passenger car
owners to use their vehicles
exclusively for those purposes
outlined in the eligibility list.
Present indications are that
future allotments of tires and
tubes will fall far short of the
actual needs of those who are
entitled to purchase them. And
it might be added that use of
the vehicle for purposes other
than those named in the eligi
bility classification forfeits the
right of the owner to any fur
ther consideration from the lo
cal rationing board.
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No business man in any town
should allow a newspaper published
in his town without his name and
business being mentioned somewhere
in its columns. This applies to all
kinds of business —general stores,
dry goods, groceries, furinture deal
ers, manufacturing establishments
druggists, mechanics, automobile
dealers, professional men and in fact
all types of business men. This does
not mean that you should have a
whole or even a quarter page ad in
each issue of the paper, but your
name and business should be men
tioned even if you use a small space.
A stranger picking up a newspaper
should be able to tell what business
is represented in the town by look
ing at the business mentioned in the
paper. This is the best possible town
advertiser. The man who does not
advertise his business does an in
justice to himself and the town. —
American Banking Magazine.
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A ditch in a nearby town is said
to have been cleaned off when a
number of pints of corn likker were
found in the grass. Since that time
most of the ditches in the town have
been cleaned. This may be taken as
a sugestion for the cleaning of
several ditches in Butler.—Butler
Herald,
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The warships we build are tough,
but the ocean can be much tougher
some times. The waves put two out
of action this week in a much more
effective manner than any enemy
ship could ever hope to do.—Camilla
Enterprise.
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In spite of the democrats, repub
licans, or any other organization of
morons, we do not propose to get
up before day, even if the clock regis
ters the hour of nine before dark
ness flees away.—Monroe Adver
tiser.
O
At a fancy dress dance for chil
dren a policeman stationed at the
door was instructed not to admit
any adult.
An excited woman came running
up to the door and demanded ad
mission.
“I’m sorry, ma’am,” replied the
policeman, “but I can’t let anyone in
but children.”
“But my child is in there as a
butterfly,” exclaimed the woman,
i “and has forgotten her wings.”
“Can’t help it,” replied the po
-1 liceman, “orders is orders. You’ll
! have to let her represent a cater
pillar.”—Exchange.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, AKFLY. GEORGIA
TOMORROW
/J FRANK PARKER
ELEANOR Mayris
That Eleanor Roosevelt-Mayris
Chancy affair, which the radio and
daily newspapers made almost as
much of as they did of the bombing
of Hawaii, is the best example we
have been offered since the war
began of how far we still have to
go to reach that much tooted “uni
ty” which we are supposed to have
today.
It doesn’t matter much how any
of us feel about Mrs. Roosevelt’s
justification in employing a dancer
at $4,000 a year to take charge of
the physical fitness division of the
Office of Civilian Defense. That’s
of minor importance. When we are
spending a few billion dollars each
month on our defense program, and
when huge departments are being
frantically built up overnight to try
to guard the interests of all of our
citizens, there will be plenty of
wrong decisions which will cost us
a lot more than $4,500 a year.
Maybe Mrs. Roosevelt did give a
friend a break. Most of us do that
ourselves once in a while. But it
also isn’t unreasonable to assume
that Mrrs. Roosevelt was convinced
that Miss Chancy could handle the
job to which she was assigned.
Personally, I doubt if such a job
is necessary. But I think the blame
for all the furore about the appoint
ment —all the moral-breaking caus
ed by the publicity it received—
should be put squarely on the
shoulders of the politicians, the
New-Deal haters and the scandal
mongers rather than on the busy
shoulders of the wife of the Presi
dent of the United States.
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UNITY criticism
Even without Joking into the de
tails of I’affaire Mayris, it is ap
parent that most of the excitement
about it was cooked up by the Presi
dent’s “ill-wishers.”
We have gone far enough in our
slow progress toward unity for all
to realize there is something that
smacks of unpatriotism these days
about being too open in criticism of
the President.
Most all of the Roosevelts have
done things which they undoubted
ly regret. They have all had a turn
at receiving unfavorable publicity.
It was only a few months ago that
we were all in a dither over the
“Captain Jimmy” affair. What next
month’s Roosevelt story will be I
don’t know and don’t care.
But I do know it’s not going to do
us one bit of good in trying to win
this war to sit back and criticize
the Roosevelts. Maybe it’s an en
joyable parlor sport, but it’s going
to be an expensive one—expensive
in both lives and security—if we
carry it to the point where it con
tinues to raise havoc with the mo
rale which we are having such dif
ficulty in building.
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MUD-SLINGING . . . freedom
This war is between those w’ho
love freedom and those who oppose
it. Right through the war it is im
portant that we hold on to ’all of
the freedom that we possibly can —
which includes the freedom to criti
cize.
But we must guard against criti
cism that is exaggerated, untrue
or played up for an ulterior motive.
Undoubtedly the man who en
joyed the Chaney affair most was
Adolf Hitler. To him it meant that
there was still plenty of wrangling
among us. Probably he enjoyed
it almost as much as he does the
stories which indicate that some of
us are mad at the British for not
winning more battles or about cer
tain Englishmen being mad at us
for trying to run things too much.
To him those stories mean that our
morale isn’t what it might be.
None of these stories is of any im
portance except as examples of
what not to do. Constructive criti
cism, suggestions for improvements
and exposure of any major abuses
of power will be welcomed all
through the war. But those of us
who go in for name-calling, mud
slinging and scandal-mongering aim
ed at causing unnecessary in
ternal disruptions will soon become
about as popular as a labor leader
who calls a strike in a defense in
dustry.
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als already using Mrs. Roosevelt’s
actions as vote-hunting ammuni
tion, it is hard to see how we are
going to bolster up our unity during
an election year. The chief hope
is that enough influential leaders,
such as Wendell Willkie, will put
labels on all partisan actions—la
bels which will make it clear to
every voter when anyone is seek
ing selfish gain at the expense of
his country.
There won’t be much to worry
about if the followers of both par
ties will take the advice of Joseph
W. Martin, Jr., Republican leader
of the house of representatives, who
said in a recent talk:
“With the fate of the war hang
ing in the balance no man or wom
an should think of injecting politics
into the war effort. We must ob
tain the greatest non-partisan effi
ciency procurable among our 130,-
000,000 free, capable people. Give
us a great non-partisan American
effort. Let men and women of ev
ery party; of every section of the
country; of every phase of our na
tional life join in one great push for
victory. With such an effort we
will not fail.’ ’
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The Gazette would like to join
the local rationing board in urging
that the board not be held respon
sible when an application for tires
or tubes is refused. The board is
under oath and has rigid rules to
follow. And, in the case of the
Tift county board, the members
will have just as hard time getting
tires as you do. It is reported that
even Vice-President Wallace is hav
ing difficulty in getting new tires
for his car, the application of his
driver having been turned down by
one rationing board. This is a time
when every American must do his
duty to win the war. The ration
ing board is doing its duty; you
must do your duty. The Gazette
publishes each week, a list of those
to whom new tires and tubes are
allotted, so that the public may
know this fact. If you believe that
some of those to whom tires and
tubes are allotted should not have
them, take it up with the local ration
ing board or the state ration
ing board in Atlanta. If you be
lieve that some of those entitled to
new tires and tubes are abusing'the
privilege, you may follow the
same course. That is one of the
reasons the weekly lists are pub
lished. Instead of jumping on the
board for turning down your re
quest, the members are entitled to
sympathy. Theirs is a thankles'
job, as they must turn down their
friends in many cases. And it is a
payless job, the members donating
their time to the country’s service.
—Tifton Gazette.
O
Because of a feared shortage of
newsprint, a majority of the daily
newspapers in the country have
agreed to cut the size of the papers.
Comics may be the first feature of
your favorite daily to disappear.
Ain’t war h—l?—Dawson News.
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SELECT YOUR FOOD WITH
CARE
The business woman who de
pends upon restaurant food for
her daily diet must exercise
considerable care in the selec
tion of her foods if she would
•avoid digestive disturbances
and the danger of becoming
overweight. Most modern res
taurants employ trained die
ticians and offer the best food,
but they are also quite apt to
cater to their patrons’ weak
nesses for tempting dishes
which may be too rich to be
wholesome.
An occasional spree in the
way of a restaurant dinner
with all the frills does no one
any particular harm, but habi
tual overindulgence can play
havoc with the digestive ap-
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpt* from Early County News
of March 4, 1892.
MR. BIEL STINSON and Uncle
John Davis, of Mayhaw, were in town
this week.
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A FLOCK of wild geese flew over
Blakely Sunday.
MR. CHAS. LIVINGSTON and
Miss Madgie Mayo were married in
Albany last Sunday.
a * *
MR. J. F. BUSH, of Mayhaw, was
in the city Saturday.
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COL. R. H. POWELL visited Col
quitt on Tuesday last.
a a a
MR. P. N. J. DOZIER, of the Cuba
District, was in town Monday.
a a a
MR. A. G. POWELL visitfed Cor
dele this week.
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MISS ANNIE LIVINGSTON visit
ed Albany this week.
a a a
MR. J. T. FREEMAN was a visitor
to Columbia this week.
a a a
MR. J. W. SUTLIVE and Miss
Clyde Holland, of Fort Gaines, visit
ed relatives here last Sunday.
a a a
DR. C. J. MULLIGAN was over
from Arlington Tuesday.
a a a
FROM DAMASCUS DOTS: “On
Tuesday morning at the home of
Dr. W. R. McClain, Mr. Thomas Pal
mer and Miss Jossie McClain were
united in marriage, Rev. Mr. Hickson
officiating.”
paratus, the complexion, and
the figure.
Select the foods you eat
when dining out with the same
care the housewife uses when
she plans meals for her fami
ly. Don’t order the “blue plate
special” just because it will
save you a little time. A cook
ed-to-order meal may take ten
or fifteen minutes for prepara
tion but it’s worth it. Stick
to the simple basic foods —
broiled lean meats, fish, fresh
vegetables, milk, eggs and
fruits. Avoid the goulashes
and a-la-Newburgs that must
be heated and re-heated over
the steam table. An ounce of
caution in the choice of food is
far better than a pound of soda
bicarbonate or weeks of reduc
ing workouts.
MRS. A. F. FLEMING is visiting
in Americus this week.
CEDAR SPRINGS ITEMS: “Mr.
James Mulligan, of Miller County,
accompained by Mr. Pearson, was in
the village the past week . . Mt. Y.
Mosely, of Steam Mill, was here Sun
day. . .Messrs. W. D. Hodges and
J. N. Haley, of Josephine, were here
Saturday. . .Mr. John Ison and son,
of Thomas County, and Mr. K. W.
Golden, of this place, have formed
a partnership in the logging business
. . .Mr. James B. Roberts, of this
place, and Miss Annie Laurie Perdue,
of Griffin, Ga., were married at
the residence of Mr. J. S. Roberts last
Thursday, Squire R. T. Rutherford
officiating. . .Mr. Brown Mosely, of
Jakin, was a visitor here Sunday . . .
Dr. O. B. Bush, of Colquitt, was in
our village Monday.”
SHORT STOP ADS this week rep
resent: J. B. Chancy, J. J. Stnith, W.
A. Buchannon, Geo. E. Chipstead,
A. E. Page, Williams & King, W.
C. Cook, J. W. Anglin, Deal & Bros.,
A. J. Mercier, H. C. Sheffield, Thos.
Williams, Calvin Jones Barber Shop,
Fort & Mims, Dr. B. R. Dostor Drug
Store. ,
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The person who says he does not
deserve hell is the one who deserves
it most—according to one writer —
still we have read where it specifical
ly states “Judge Not”.—Arlington
Courier.
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Breathes there a proud father with
soul so dead who never repeats the
cute thing that junior does.—Greens
boro Journal-Herald.