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Early (Caumtii Nrrns
Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
Published Every Thursday
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Blakely, Ga., March 12, 1942.
“I pledge allegiance to the
flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic
for which it stands; one nation
indivisible with freedom and
justice for all.”
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February 2nd was a clear
day and the ground hog saw
his shadow if he came out—
which is supposed to mean six
weeks more of winter. Well,
in case you are interested, the
six weeks will be over next
Monday.
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The present seventy-five
shades of men’s hosiery is to
be reduced to four. It won’t
make much difference because
a majority of the young fel
lows who liked the loud shades
will be in the armed service
and proud of the solid colors
Uncle Sam furnishes his
nephews.—Dawson News.
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If you are one of the mil
lions who must file an income
tax report—either Federal or
State —bear in mind that next
Monday night, March 16, is
the deadline for getting that
report into the mails. If you
are in doubt as to whether
you are included in that group
which must file a report, bet
ter investigate. It may save
you some embarrassment at a
later date.
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Due to the heavy and fre
quent rains during February
and thus far in March, road
work and farm work has been
considerably delayed; in fact,
it’s way behind time. Some of
the roads are getting in bad
shape. All the creeks and
ponds in this section are now
full to overflowing for the first
time in over two years. The
rain of last Sunday added an
additional 1.73 inches to the
amount already received in
Blakely.
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Announcement last week by
Price Administrator Henderr
son that there would be no
new tires or retreaded tires
for civilians during this year,
and probably for the duration
of the war, means that when
the tires now in use by the
civilian population begin to
give out. the cars will begin to
go the shed for the duration.
The small amount of rubber
not required in the government
war effort will go to the man
ufacture of tires and tubes for]
those vehicles already outlined ■
as eligible and which are con-!
sidered absolutely essential in i
certain lines of enterprise and
industry.
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Thus far we are taking a
good licking from the Japs in
the war in the Pacific, and
there is little prospect of an
early turn in our war fortunes.
The loss of Java, now con
ceded, leaves only Australia as
a base from which to start an
offensive against the Nippon
ese in the south Pacific, and
it is going to take more men,
planes and tanks than have
heretofore been used to thwart
the invasion of that continent.
It is believed that both Britain
and America realize the im
portance of holding Australia
and are sending strong rein
forcements to aid the Austral
ians in the battle to save their
homeland.
It was announced this week
that, as a further service to
the people of Georgia, the
State Patrol will, in the future,
notice automobiles on the high
ways to see whether or not the
wheels are properly aligned,
and if not, will stop the driver
and advise him of this fact.
No warnings will be issued,
it was said, and the move is
intended to help the car own
er to conserve his rubber tires.
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The stories of the brutal
mistreatment by the Japanese
of the prisoners taken at Hong
Kong, if true —and most likely
they are—are a grim reminder
of the type of foe we face in
our war with the slant-eyed
devils from the Land of the
Rising Sun, and should serve
to strengthen our determina
tion that this semi-barbarian
foe shall be made to pay in
full when the final day of
reckoning comes. And, let’s
not forget, that which is hap
pening in Hong Kong and oth
er lands subdued by the Jap
anese CAN happen HERE if
our own land should be invad
ed by our enemies.
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The chaplain at Pearl Harbor
who found himself officiating at
an anti-aircraft gun instead of an
altar on the Sunday morning of
the treacherous Jap attack and was
heard to shout “Praise God and pass
the ammunition!” came mighty close
to repeating history. Four centuries
ago the great cavalry leader Oliver
Cromwell, Lord Protector of Eng
land, when about to ford a river
with his horsemen and hurl their
strength against the Royalists on
the opposite bank, chose these words
as his last command : “Put your trust
in God, but keep the powder dry.”
—Tri-State News (Dothan).
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Go slow on the amount of money
you give your wife. We see where
a fellow out in Kansas gave his
better half 10 cents a week and she
saved up enough to get a divorce.—
Cuthbert Leader.
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The average American boy should
make a fine air pilot. He has had
so much practice in flying over the
highways in an auto. —Greensboro
Herald-Journal.
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KNOW YOUR TIMBER
By EMILY WOODWARD
The forests are answering Uncle
Sam’s call for all-out aid to defeat
the enemy. Forest products are not
serving on front lines in the battle
zone; they cannot be turned into
tanks and guns. It is largely as
substitutes for metal parts and
other materials indispensable to the
actual fighting that the nation’s for
est resources have become a real
factor in the war effort. The mil
lion and a half men called to the
colors before June, 1941, have been
housed in camps and cantonments
constructed almost entirely of forest
products. More than two million
board feet of lumber- were utilized.
Lumber, plywood and wood pulp
products were the basic materials
in the eleven billion 1941 construc
tion job of buildings needed by army,
navy and civilian. For the army,
the forests supplied products for
“portable bridges, hospitals, recrea
tion centers, warehouses, laborator
ies, chapels, offices, mess halls, hang
ars, shipping crates, models, rifle
stocks, ammunition boxes, and many
other necessary items. The navy re
quired duplications of many of
these buildings, plus lumber-built
mine layers, mine sweepers, mosqui
to boats, coast guard cutters, battle
ship decking, shipways, docks, and
drydocks. For wood ships the in
dustry is supplying the navy with
huge timbers, 108 feet long.”
In addition, the forests provide
material for new factories and sub
stitutes for aluminum and steel in
the manufacture of furniture, bar
] rels, etc. In 1942, thousands of
1 tons of steel will be saved through
the substitution of wood in the
| manufacture of 100,000 freight cars.
The business of defense has
brought new demands on the forests
in the form of wood pulp. The cur
tailment of pulp imports due to the
war has dumped a new load on the
nation’s timber resources. Some
idea of the load is indicated in the
following figures on wood pulp usage
in 1941. “More than 43 per cent of
the 9,000,000 tons of paper-board
manufactured last year was used for
defense purposes. Defense require
ments also used 29 per cent of the
2,800,000 tons of wrapping paper
produced in this country, 40 per cent
of 800,000 tons of fine paper, and
9 per cent of 2,100,000 tons of
printing paper. Large quantities of
wood pulp also were consumed in
the manufacture of explosives.”
The fight carried on through the
years by a small army of Americans
to stop Forest waste, is now proving
its worth. With proper protection,
the nation’s forests will meet the
new heavy demands. Fire, the great
i est enemy of the forests, is now
seen as a real aid to the enemy.
STOP FOREST FIRES. It is one
way to help stop the Germans and
Japs.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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TAX income
We are now approaching that one
time of the year«when $50,000-a
--year men look with envy upon those
lucky SSOO-a-year fellows who don’t
have to pay a single cent in in
come tax.
But among the millions who have
always been in the low income
brackets or are facing an income
tax for the first time, there is little
shedding of tears over the plight of
the poor little rich men. They are
too busy with their own problems of
figuring out what they should pay
Uncle .Sam, what deductions they
are entitled to, how to fill in the
blank to Mr. Morgenthau’s satisfac
tion and what the chances are
in spite of their conscientiousness
about it, of avoiding the fate of Al
Capone for errors in calculations.
The income tax is the most diffi
cult mathematical and legal prob
lem which many of us encounter
during any year, and this year it
far exceeds anything we have faced
in the past.
FRAUD tips
The government makes its esti
mates according to what average
payments have been in the past.
And, unless you make a glaring
error, you are probably pretty safe
if you keep within the average for
your income.
Those auditors who check up on
millions of income blanks aren’t or
dinarily going to be too concerned
over whether Mr. Jones says he
gave $25 or SSO to the church. As
long as his figures are reasonable,
there probably will be no questions
asked.
But there is one major exception
to this law of averages. That is
when a complaint is filed by an
outsider.
Income tax auditors tell me that
tips from acquaintances of a tax
payer are the best guides to fraudu
lent reports. They say it works this
way:
Mr. Jones and Mrs. Smith discuss
their taxes. Mr. Smith asks if Mr.
Jones thinks he has a right to take
a certain deduction. Mr. Jones
sneering a little, answers: “Don’t be
a sap. Take the whole 15 per cent
you’re .allowed for deductions. I
always do and I always get away
with it.”
Mr. Smith doesn’t take Mr. Jones’
advice but the more he thinks
about it the more annoyed he be
comes over Mr. Jones getting away
with such obvious fraud. He de
cides that it’s time Mr. Jones
stopped “getting away with it”—so
he send a tip to Washington. And
that fixes Mr. Jones.
PROTECTION .... honesty
A lot of people think of the inter
nal revenue bureau as a sort of
gestapo which analyzes each report
with the sole aim of proving that
each taxpayer is trying to cheat the
government.
Actually, the whole point of check
.ng our blanks is to protect the hon
est taxpayers among us. Like the
police force, the internal revenue
department is something that was
organized at the suggestion of the
people to see that we all pay our
fair share of the cost.
Like any other law, the tax law
was formulated to make definite
rules which would serve the com
mon good. It may include weak
nesses and injustices, but it is aimed
at a fair division of the cost of gov
ernment according to the ability of
each of us to pay.
The chief reason that the income
tax regulations have become as
complicated as they are results
from an effort to have a rule to
cover every contingency.
Anyone who analyzes the tax law
will realize that parts of it can be
interpreted in many different ways.
Court cases have also demonstrated
this. But in spite of its complica
tions, the internal revenue depart
ment isn’t apt to "bother anyone who
fills in his blank guided by the one
rule, “Honesty is the best policy.”
HEADACHES relief
This year the government is sav
ing itself a lot of auditing expense
and saving millions of taxpayers a
lot of headaches by naming the
amount which should be paid by all
"Step Up, Ladies and Gents—
iSlilli 1 lOSiiHMi
individuals with incomes up to
$3,000.
Thus a married man with one
child and an income of $2,500 can
simply check the government’s tax
table and find out immediately that
his tax is $44. If he pays the $44
he knows that his report will not
■be questioned'—he is paid in full
without having had to do any arith
metic whatsoever.
The taxpayers in this group have
the right to fill in a regular form in
stead, if they think it will benefit
them, but unless the circumstances
are unusual it is just as economical
and much less of a strain, to pay
the specific amount. The table is
set up on a basis of allowing about
a 10 per cent deduction for contri
butions, expenses or anything else
which might be deductible. Some
may profit a little by paying this
amount and some may lose a little.
But in most mases, millions of past
tax reports show, it is close to the
amount that should be paid l .
This is the first step in many
years toward simplification of the
income tax. If it proves popular,
other simplifications will probably
follow 7 . Some day, perhaps, even
the rich men may be able to face
March without nightmares.
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NOBLESSE OBLIGE
The boy who helps a timid woman
to cross a traffic artery, the auto
mobile driver who w r aits for an elder
ly pedestrain who is caught be
tween the change of traffic lights,
the girl who is quick to pick up a
parcel for a shopper with overloaded
arms, the man who gives quick in
dication of willingness to step aside
so that another may also have room
on the sidewalk, the driver who
slows down so that a commuter may
pass safely from the curb to the
street-car he is trying to catch, the
trolley-car conductor who goes to the
trouble to re-open his doors for a
late-comer, the man-in-a-hurry who
doesn’t want a newspaper but still
can remember to be gracious when
telling the newsboy so —.
People like these make one think
Confucius did not speak in vain when
advising us all to hebave when out
of doors as though “entertaining a
distinguished guest.” Christian
Science Monitor.
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FARMERS ARE PATRIOTIC
The armed forces of the United
States will include the sons of farm
ers, laborers, professional men and
other workers in the United States.
It is natural to expect that each class
will gladly contribute to the national
war effort and, at the same time,
the safety of its sons. We feel sure
that the farmers of Pike county, like
the other workers, will accept every
necessary regulation that speeds the
day of victory. If this means crop
regulation, well and good. What
ever it means, our farmers will not
lag behind the rest of the popula
tion in expressing true patriotism.—
Pike County Journal.
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When Napoleon greets be
yond the river Styx we imagine the
greeting will go something like this:
“I knew it couldn’t be done, Adolph.
I tried it myself.”—Dawson News.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
ENCOURAGE GOOD EATING
HABITS EARLY
A recent survey by public
health officials throughout the
country has brought out the
fact that the majority of col
lege students are addicted to
the worst possible eating hab
its. Freshmen especially, once
they have left home cooked
meals, seem bent on breaking
every known rule of dietetics.
Milk, fruits and vegetables are
shunned. Soft drinks, sweets
and soda fountain concoctions
are consumed in amazing quan
tities. Meals are gobbled at
irregular hours and in between
time snacks destroy appetites
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of March 10, 1892.)
THE DEATH of Mrs. A. J. Mc-
Dowell is chronicaled in The News
this week.
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DR. T. M. HOWARD went up to
Macon this week.
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MR. J. F. CREEL, of Bluffton, was
a visitor to Blakely Saturday.
DR. 0. B. BUSH was up from Col
quitt Wednesday.
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SHERIFF BLACK was over to
Arlington Tuesday.
JUDGE G. D. OLIVER visited Da
mascus Wednesday.
COL. CLARENCE WILSON and J.
T. McAllister were down from Fort
Gaines Tuesday.
A BABY BOY arrived this week
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Morse.
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MIRS. L. E. BLACK, Mrs. J. F.
Rish and Misses Della Rish, Ray
Alexander, Buster Smith and Gem
Mulligan were visitors to Columbia
this week.
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PINE VIEW NOTES, by Bumbo,
says: “Spring is here, a flock of wild
geese passed over the other night;
our peach orchard has taken on a
pink robe and the mayhaw ponds
a white one. . .Mr. *S. R. Johnson,
of Harperville, was in our burg this
week. . .Mr. J. A. Cannon, of Sow
hatchee, has organized a Sunday
School at Racketville.”
for plain, wholesome food.
Much is being done in the
class-rooms toward pointing
out the dangers in these dietary
indiscretions. However, I feel
that the starting point is not in
college but in the home. Well
balanced meals served at regu
lar hours should be an unbrok
en rule in every home and for
every member of the family.
The children will eat what is
set before them and will look
forward to their meals-at the
proper time. Thus, regularity
and proper selection of foods
become almost instinctive.
Good habits established during
childhood will remain not on
ly in college, but through life.
MR. WILL McDOWELL was over
from Albany this week.
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MR. JIM MULLIGAN was up from
Miller County this week.
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MISSES Hattie Smith, of Smith
ville, Ala., and Anna Osborne, of
Howard’s Landing, were visitors to
Blakely Friday last.
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LIST OF JURORS drawn to serve
at the April, 1892, term of Early
Superior Court. Grand Jurors —Z.
T. Webb, C. R. Narramore, W. R. Mc-
Clain, A. H. Smith, T. C. Boyd, J. A.
Williamson, Thos. Henderson, M. F.
Pickle, Thos. E. Sheffield, B. M.
George, J. C. Chancy, R. H. Brooks,
J. W. McLendon, N. H. Metts, R. H.
Keaton, A. Fort, G. S. Waller, R. S.
Grimsley, J. D. Jones, J. H. Crozier,
W. B. Standifer, J. L. Kelly, T. M.
Howard, J. W. Fort, A. J. Singletary,
S. K. Bush, S. A. Lindsey, S. B. Tim
mons, W. L. Elder, W. M. Hamil.
Traverse Jurors— J. B. Mosely, F. M.
Mosely, S. R. Olive, H. J. Harris,
W. D. Hodges, W. J. Roberts, H. M.
Haynes, L. E. Weaver, M. W. Widner,
W. J. Billings, T. J. Dancy, L. C.
Waller, R. B. Folsome, J. H. Harris,
T. B. Harris, J. W. Warren, J. S.
Chambliss, J. D. Oliver, Moses Aman,
W. G. Gill, J. G. Henderson, Thos.
Gordon, T. G. Harvey, J. M. Gay,
C. E. Stuckey, T. L. Smith, W. C.
i McCarty, J. H. Broodwater, C. A.
> Westbrooks, R. T. Flowers, G. T.
Wiley, R. W. Brown, S. G. Pcikle, S.
E. McLendon, J. P. Nelson, E. D.
Taylor.
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