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THIS WEEK
nßy
Earl
“Tige”
Pickle
A lady in our town who does a
little farming on the side writes
quite frequently to one of her Negro
tenants. She addresses her letters
like this: “Hank Johnson, Col., Blake
ly, Ga.” Os course, as almost ev
erybody knows, “Col.” is the ab
breviation for “colored.” But Hank
evidently didn’t know this, for he
answered the letter and addressed it
like this: “Miss Ella Jones, Col.,
Blakely, Ga.”
(Note: Miss Ella will probably
slay us for telling this, because she
doesn’t care for publicity, but we
would like to say she is one of the
grandest persons in the world and is
probably loved by more people than
anybody in Blakely. Some day when
we write that book we are always
talking about, there will certainly
be one chapter devoted to her. To
us, she typifies everything that is
fine and good and charitable.)
Guess who called us on the tele
phone the other day? A purely so
cial call, too. Nobody but Mrs. Mat
tie Powell, who called us to say that
she had taken our advice about a
motion picture and had just been to
the show and seen it, and that it
was just as good as we said it was.
Despite the disagreement “Miss Mat
tie” and we have had over the serv
ice of her telephone company, we
continue on good terms. Deep down
in her heart we don’t think “Miss
Mattie” really dislikes anybody.
Speaking of motion pictures,
there is really a great movie coming
to the Blakely Theatre today and
Friday. It’s “Sergeant York,” which
is to us the greatest picture to come
out of Hollywood during the .year
1941. It stars Gary Cooper, who
Won the Academy Award for his
portrayal of Sergeant York, hero of
World War I. This picture has ev
erything a good motion picture
should have. In order to get this
picture so soon after release, the
management had to increase the
admission prices, but it is well worth
the price. By all means, see it if
you can.
Just to show you that a reporter
doesn’t know nearly everything that
is going on around town, we passed
Sevola Jones’ store the other day
and discovered that he had recently
remodeled and enlarged his store
building. This was all done several
weeks ago and we didn’t know it
until last week. This remodeling
job gives Sevola one of the largest
stores in our town. Sevola really
“knows his meats and groceries”
and has an excellent habit of giving
you what you want, when you want
it, and how you want it.
The other day we were talking
with three British cadets who were
passing through our town by the
thumb route. We asked them when
were going back to Britain.
One of them piped up with this very
apropos remark: “Hell, we’re in
no hurry; they’re having a war
over there.”
Last week when Dick Rogers
opened his new dime store, Blakely
had for the first time in its history
a really first-class ten cent store,
which is something no other town in
southwest Georgia the size of
Blakely can boast. Dick’s store is
not affiliated with any chain, which
is another thing of which to boast,
and he is the sole owner. Dick is
really a progressive fellow and
doesn’t believe in having anything
but the best. Our town could use
about a dozen others like him.
Here is one dug up by C. D.
Duke, Jr., of Edison, about a fellow
who was really wrapped up in tax
trouble. C. D. Writes that it is a
letter that the fellow wrote to the
company about an account which had
been long overdue:
Gentlemen: . ...
My shattered financial condition is
due to national laws, state laws,
county laws, city laws, corporation
laws, liquor laws, mother-in-laws,
brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, and
outlaws. Through these laws, lam
compelled to pay a business tax,
amusement tax, head tax, school tax,
gasoline tax, light tax, excise tax,
and even income tax. I am re
quired to get a business license, car
license, truck license —not to men
tion marriage license and dog li
cense. I am also required to con
tribute to every society and organi
zation which the genius of man is
capable of bringing to life; women’s
relief, unemployment relief, and
This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C. —The great
power which the President wields
over congress was measured recent
ly when the house of representatives
supposed to be in favor of a bill to
drop the 40-hour week law, defeated
that measure by 226 to 62 when word
was received from an “unimpeach
able source” that the President op
posed the measure.
Not only did indirect word of the
President’s attitude turn the tide on
this bill but it also led to a clear
understanding among the majority
of the house that at the present
time there is little use in opposing
the President on any measure.
President Roosevelt was particu
larly vehement in his opposition to
the recent proposal of the.farm
bloc of the senate to attach a farm
relief measure as a rider to the 32
billion supplemental war-fund bill.
The farm measure was aimed at
stopping the government from sell
ing its store of surplus farm prod
ucts at less than parity. Although
the President opposed that plan,
since he believed it would add a
billion dollars to the annual cost of
the nation’s food bill, he attacked
most strongly the suggestion of try
ing to get it through congress and
past the President by having it
hitch-hiked on a measure which it
knows will be approved.
During the past few years this
practice has increased considera
bly and a number of measures,
which never otherwise would have
become law, have ridden through
congress on the heels of favored
legislation. The fair trade price
fixing law, which ended' price cut
ting in many lines of products, is
an example of a law which was
sneaked through by this method in
spite of presidential opposition.
The defeat of the bill aimed at
ending the 40-hour week will proba
bly mean that any other legislation
aimed at more government control
over labor will be postponed for
some time. As long as there are
no serious strikes in war industries
—and Senator Thomas, chairman
of the senate committee on educa
tion and labor, assures us that there
won’t be—the house will probably
steer clear of labor- measures.
The President and Mrs. Perkins
both pointed out that elimination of
the 40-hour law' would not increase
defense production but would sim
ply mean that certain labor groups
would work more hours on a lower
wage scale. Now it is required that
labor be paid time and a half for
all hours of work exceeding 40 a
week, but so long as they are paid
overtime there is no limitation on
the number of hours they work. It
was therefore argued that the leg
islation would only mean an in
crease in profits for war industries
without increasing production. It
was also pointed out by labor lead
ers that such a measure would not
affect union contracts calling for a
40-hour week and would only hit
those who are not union members.
Miss Perkins, giving her opinion
on the measure, said: “If I could
see that it would increase produc
tion, I would be for it, but I see no
economic reason to support it.”
While the record 32 billion war
appropriation bill was under con
sideration in the house, the Presi
dent demanded further increases in
the speed of production and asked
that all war industry machines be
kept in operation 168 hours a week.
Donald Nelson, head of the War
Production board, immediately re
plied that steps would be taken im
mediately toward this end. In his
statement the President warned
the gold-diggers’ relief, also to ev
ery hospital and charitable institu
tion in the city.
For my own safety I am required
to carry health insurance, life in
surance, fire insurance, property in
surance, liability insurance, burglary
insurance, accident insurance, earth
quake insurance, storm insurance,
unemployment insurance, and old
age insurance. My business is so
governed that it is no easy
matter to find out who owns it. I
am inspected, rejected, dejected,
examined, re-examined, informed,
required, summoned, fine, command
ed and compelled, until I provide an
inexhaustible supply of money for
every known need, desire and hope
of the human race. Simply because
I refuse to donate to something or
other, I am boycotted, talked about,
lied about, held up and robbed, until
I am almost ruined. I can tell you
honestly that, but for miracle that
happened, I could not enclose this
check. The wolf that comes to many
dbors has just had pups in my kitch
en. I sold them and here is the
money.
Above, all honesty is the best
policy.
Yours very truly,
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
that victory would depend on the
flow of arms from our factories
this spring and summer.
New plans to foot the huge cost
of war are now being considered
by the ways and means committee
of the house. Secretary Morgen
thau is said to have asked that an
additional $7,000,000,000 be added
to our tax bill next year and has sug
gested that $2,000,000,000 of this
come from individual incomes.
Whether this figure will be agreed
to is of course uncertain, but there
is little doubt that individual in
come taxes next March will be
much higher than they are this year.
To raise the other $5,000,000,000
it has been suggested that an addi
tional $3,000,000,000 come from cor
poration taxes, $1,000,000,000 from
new excise taxes and $1,000,000,000
from tightening up the present tax
laws.
efforts to prevent infla
tion are being made by the Office
of Price Administration. That of
fice has issued many orders recent
ly fixing maximum prices at which
manufacturers and wholesalers can
sell many food products, including
a great variety of canned goods.
The policy of this office is to fix
prices at wholesale and then ex
pect the retailer to keep his prices
in line. If the retailers try to take
advantage of the absence of fixed
prices for them, however, such
price fixing will follow rapidly.
Voluntary consumer organizations
in most towns are making an ef
fective effort to keep retail prices
in line. It is believed that if they
keep in touch with the price ceiling
orders issued by the Office of Price
Administration they will keep pres
sure on retailers to refrain from
taking more than a fair profit on
any stabilized line.
—Buy Defense Bonds—
SALE UNDER POWER
Default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness secured
by that certain security deed exe
cuted by William D. Cowdrey to The
First Joint Stock Land Bank of
Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama,
on the first day of November, 1926,
recorded in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Early Coun
ty, Georgia, in Book No. 38 of Deeds
on Pages 283-6, the undersigned will
under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in said security
deed sell at auction to the highest
bidder for cash, at the Court House
door of Early County, at Blakely,
Georgia, between 10 o’clock A. M.
and 4 o’clock P. M. on Tuesday,
April 7th, 1942, the property describ
ed in said security deed, which de
scription is hereby referred to and
made a part hereof, said property
being situated in Early County, State
of Georgia, to-wit:
All of land lot Number Two
Hundred and Thirty-nine (239) in
the Sixth (6th) District of Ea;rly
County, Georgia, lying East of the
Old Damascus Road, containing Two
Hundred Sixty-five and Eighth
tenths (265.8) acres, described as be
ginning at a point on the North line
of said lot where the Old Damascus
Road intersects the Arlington-Blake
ly Road; thence North Eighty-seven
(87) degrees and Fifty (50) minutes
East Thirty-three Hundred and Eight
(3308) feet to the Northeast corner
of said lot; thence South one (1)
degree and Fifty (50) minutes East
Thirty-five Hundred and Twenty-one
(3521) feet to the Southeast corner
of said lot; thence South Eighty
seven (87) degrees and Fifty (50)
minutes West Thirty-two Hundred
and Ninety-one (3291) feet along
the South line of said lot to a point
where said line the Old
Damascus Road; thence along said
road North Two (2) degrees East
Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-six and
Sixty-seven Hundredths (1956.67)
feet to a point; thence North along
said road Eight (8) degrees West
Sixteen Hundred (1600) feet to the
point of intersection of said road
with the Arlington-Blakely Road, the
point of beginning, more particularly
described by plat of Jno. H. Lowe,
C. E., dated November 6, 1926, at
tached to and made a part of the
description of the above described
security deed.
This sale will be made for the pur
pose of paying the indebtedness se
cured by said security deed, together
with all expenses of this sale.
A conveyance will be executed to
the purchaser at such sale as is
authorized in said security deed.
THE FIRST JOINT STOCK
LAND BANK OF MONT
GOMERY MONTGOMERY,
ALABAMA.
J. M. WILLIAMS, JR. Attorney.
MASONIC NOTICE
to. Magnolia Looge No
86 Free and Accept
ed Masons holds reg
ular commun oatlom
on ® rst aQ d
/ \ Monday nights 1e
'S each month. The
time is 8 p. m. in the summer, 7:30
p. m. in the fall and spring and 7 p.
m. during the winter. Visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to attend.
J. T. JORDAN, Worshipful Master.
J. G. STANDIFER, Secretary.
CEDAR SPRINGS 4-H CLUB
We held our second meeting Mon
day morning, Feb. 23, the day after
Washington’s birthday. We had a
very good program for Washington’s
birthday. We discussed our problems.
We have been working and some of
the members have set out fruit trees.
The boys are getting their land ready
to plant corn, peanuts and cotton.
Some of the girls are going to raise
chickens. Part of the boys are, too.
We are learning fast about how to
farm. We are working and trying
very hard to do our best.
FLETCHER F. PERRY, Reporter.
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