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THIS WEEK
BBy
Earl
“Tige”
Pickle
Several weeks ago we predicted
that Blakely wouldn’t have a new
school building when school opened
next year. We even offered to bet
hoping against hope that we would
lose.)
“Now, in order for me to win this
bet, I’ve got to take you back to
when the contract wasn’t let.”
Speaking, of course, about that
much-talked-of new school building.
Certainly, you’ve already heard that
not the first lonely, solitary con
tractor bid on the new school build
ing. Various explanations have been
given as the reason. Some say the
trustees placed a time limit on the
construction. And because of the
demand for materials, no contractor
would tie himself up on a time-limit
job. Another explanation is that
the building which has been planned
couldn’t be constructed with the
amount of money the board had, be
cause .materials have taken such a
jump in prices. All of which may
be true. We don’t profess to know.
But what we would like to know is
why the proper authorities who are
ram-rodding this deal have just now
found this out. We don’t know who
is responsible, and care less. What
we’re chiefly concerned about is get
ting a new school building. Here it
is nine months since the old build
ing burned and less than seven
months until a new school term will
begin, and still there 1 is only a
promise of a school building. And a
mighty poor promise.
You may talk of priorities and all
that. You may speak of building a
school plant that will last. But ma
terials can be obtained. If the right
crowd goes to work. We don’t know
how to hold a hammer, saw a board,
or estimate the amount of lumber it
would take to build a doghouse
large enough to accommodate one of
our married neighbor friends, nor
do we profess to be a financial wiz
ard, but we’ll bet that we can take
the amount of money which the
Blakely-Union school district now
has (when and if the bonds are
sold) and build a plant much better
than the one that burned and erect
Herman Cheek a canning plant on
the side.
It’s high time that Blakely had
this new building. Sooner or later
somebody’s child is going to be run
over by an automobile while school
is being held “up on the square.”
Then there is going to be an awful
howl. Let’s get busy and do some
thing.
Just about the time we were
about to say that if the street de
partment had some good weather,
it would hav'e every street in town
torn up by June the first, they go
and fix that awful bump on Flowers
Drive, and now we’re so proud of it,
we’re ashamed to make any sarcas
tic remarks.
There is some talk among tire ra
tioning boards that school buses
will be prohibited from transporting
ball players to and from games they
play away from home. Our idea is
that athletics are a vital part of a
youngster’s education and should be
maintained, if possible. We hope
the rationing boards will see fit to
permit the buses to make these
trips.
Here is an old joke we saw some
place a long time ago and which
came to us the other day while at
tending church (shame on us):
Two telegraph operators were on
a train. To kill the monotony they
began tapping messages to one an
other by knocking on the arm rests
of the seats. One of them tapped
this message: “Isn’t that a pretty
girl sitting over there by that man?
Tapped back the other: “Yes,
wouldn’t I like to kiss her!”
Then there came a tapping from
the man by the girl: “This is my
wife, you dope, just try it and get
your block knocked off.” He was a
telegraph operator and knew the
Morse code, too.
Personal nomination for oblivion:
Soap-box war strategists (there is
one on every corner) . . . feminine
politicians . . . male gossips . . ■ peo
ple who sit right behind you at the
movies and insist on telling what’s
going to happen because they’ve
already seen the show . . . barbers
This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C. President |
Roosevelt, his cabinet members and
other leading government officials
seem to be through molly-coddling
the people of the nation.
Until recently messages to the
public have carried more or less of a
“victory is sure” theme —with ac
companying qualifications vaguely
citing the need for sacrifice, hard
work and unity.
Now the theme has become more
freightening—a “defeat is possible”
theme accompanied by explanations
of the power of the enemy and the
absolute necessity of our perform
ing that “miracle of production” if
We hope to win.
Government officials are still
unanimous in the conviction that the
war will be won by the United Na
tions, but they realize it is going to
call for a lot more effort by the
people than has been demonstrated
so far. They are no longer in a
mood to tolerate labor troubles,
self-centered activities of pressure
groups, etc., which slow up produc
tion. And they will no longer give
consumer interests much considera
tion when they conflict with the in
terest of the war program.
To impress the public with the
size of the job we have to do, the
fact is being stressed that we must
think of winning the war in terms
of offensive action and not defense.
This was made clear when, in re
ply to criticim that our cost lines
are not well protected, Secretary of
War Stimson said:
“The only way to end the war is
to take the offensive and to take it
as vigorously as possible. We are
building an offensive force on the
land and in the air, and we shall
seize every opportunity for attack,
and utilize every opportunity for
surprise.
“We have got to be prepared
also,” he said, “for thoughtless
pressure by our public to string out
our defenses —a pressure which it
yielded to would be the surest way
of losing the war that I know of.
“We have got to be prepared to
take sporadic attacks, and the only
way to end them is to mass our forces
to take effective action against the
enemy.
“You must remember that in this
war we have not anybody in Eu
rope holding Germany behind a
front line. We cannot produce our
way out of the war. We cannot
buy our way out. We can only
fight out by hard, intelligent fight
ing.
“This does not mean that defen
sive efforts will not be made to pro
tect the country as far as they can
be made without destroying our
striking forces.”
By shifting our thinking toward
offensive action —and by emphasiz
ing that we may have “to take
sporadic attacks” until such action
is effective, Mr. Stimson, and other
government spokesmen are re
lieved to have done much to give
the public a new realization of the
task that lies before us.
In addition to showing us the ab
solute need for faster and faster
production, it has also been made
clear that there is going to be no
more fooling about the sacrifices
which the people of this country will
have to make in the near future.
Last year an effort was being
made to do two jobs—fulfill consum
er needs and produce quantities of
war supplies. That didn’t work.
This year all possible production fa
who eat onions (we ran up with one
of these in Atlanta last week).
Our nomination for Georgia’s
most patient man: Walter McDon
ald, chairman of the Public Service
Commission. He sits through some
of the dullest hearings and listens to
some of the most trivial evidence
and not once does he seem to grow
tired. He’s a prince of a fellow.
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
cilities are being turned over to
war production—and the production
of consumer goods will quickly be
cut to bare necessities. We’ll prob
ably get plenty of the foods neces
sary for health—but imported foods
like tea, coffee and cocoa will prob
ably be cut and there will be a great
change in the packaging of our
domestic foods. (Example: Baked
beans canners won’t get any tin
cans. Housewives will buy dried
beans instead and bake them them
selves.)
Clothing will be supplied, but the
production of clothes will be greatly
decreased, styles will be limited,
materials will be reduced in weight
and quality. Most luxuries will be
sidetracked and delivered to the
consumer’ only in cases where they
don’t require war materials, where
they don’t interfere with war trans
portation and whgre they don’t re
quire the type of skilled labor which
could be at work on war production.
Many things we think of as ne
cessities now will v become scarce or
go off the market. We will be
rationed on many food products as
well as on such things as gasoline,
fuel oil, perhaps on clothes, and on
every sort .of mechanical gadget
that is available at all. Rationing
will take place gradually—but when
it comes on any line of goods it will
be felt immediately as it was in
the case of tires.
Prices will probably continue to
rise on some types of goods but a
real effort is being made to put the
clamps on price rises as well as on
wage increases. ' Both are too apt
to invite inflation. The price ex
perts expect the cost of living to go
up a little higher before the year is
over, but it won’t continue to soar
as it has in the past year. And the
things we will be forced to do with
out will probably actually mean de
creased cost of living, but a lower
standard of living, for many fami
lies.
Blakely F. F. A. News
Last Thursday night at 8 o’clock
the Blakely F. F. A. Chapter held its
regular meeting. James White pre
sided.
The program consisted of speech
es by F. F. A. members. Following
this the members enjoyed a fine
weiner supper.
Due to the fact that our Federal
Government is asking, for an in
crease in poultry, as well as other
farm commodities, the Blakely Fu
ture Farmers of America have pur
chased a 520-egg capacity incubator.
This project will be canned out as a
co-operative activity among chapter
members.
The following boys will speak in
the finals of the Chapter public
speaking contest: Andy Lanier, Em
ory Durham, Charles Shierling, Bob
by Fleming, Mack Balkcom, James
White, Kenneth Tabb, Robert Col
lier and Leonard George. These boys
were selected from the entire chap
ter.
—REPORTER.
LOCAL WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR THE
MONTH OF FEBRUARY
Temperature: Mean maximum,
57.0; mean minimum, 37.3; mean,
47.1; maximum, 76 on the 6th;
minimum, 27 on the 3rd and 28th;
greatest diaily range, 30 degrees.
Precipitation: Total, 6.22 inches;
greatest amount in any 24-hour pe
riod, 2.04 inches.
Miscellaneous: Number of days
with 0.01 inch or more of rainfall,
8; clear, 9; partly cloudy, 9; cloudy,
10; killing frosts on the 2nd, 3rd,
4th, Bth, 12th, 13th, 20th, 21st,
22nd, 26th, 28th.
J. G. STANDIFER, Observer.
Local U. S. Weather Bureau.
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Edisons Ideas Go to War
American scientists and inventors, many of them working in the
laboratories of American industry, will play a big part in helping
to win the war.
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•1. Thomas A. Edison, bora 95 2. ... he built the first of
years ago on February li, was America’s electric power systems,
one of America’s greatest inven- and discovered some of the princi
tors. In addition to his famous pies which other scientists used to
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proved that Edison wouldn’t know G-E Research Laboratory, are
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tasks in America’s war effort. to bring victory.
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