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Blakely, Ga., March 19, 1942
Millions of tons of scrap iron
have been added to Uncle
Sam’s war chest as a result of
the recent observance of “Mac-
Arthur Day.” This scrap goes
to the foundries for remelting
and molding into weapons of
war.
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If another reminder were
needed as to why we must win
this war, read the tragic story
of how thousands of Greeks,
their food supplies stolen by
their German conquerors, are
slowly dying of starvation. It
must not happen here!
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A 20 per cent cut in’gaso
line consumption has been
ordered for the eastern sea
board states, Georgia included,
effective today. A more dras
tic cut may follow later if
the sinking of oil tankers in
the Atlantic continues at its
present pace. Along with the
curtailment in gas sales comes
an order that all service sta
tions may remain open only
72 hours each week, with Sun
day closing mandatory.
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Although it is believed the
government has its best mili
tary heads directing the war
efforts of this nation, there
are many outsiders, including
Congressmen and certain state
officials of high rank, who
profess to believe they could
do a better job. If the advice
of some of these brilliant(?)
minds were followed, the re
sult would probably be anoth
er Dunkerque or Greece. It
is evident that some of these
wise guys don’t know their
geography, or else are talking
just to impress those of their
constituency who are gullible
enough to swallow their drivel.
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The German dictator, in an
unheralded Sunday speech,
again promised his country
men that the Russians would
be “annijiilatingly defeated”
this summer. If we remember
correctly, Adolph told his peo
ple last fall that the Russian
army had already been . de
stroyed and the “remnants” of
that army were being rounded
up. Since that time the Red
army has come to life and has
driven its German foe out of
much of the territory overrun
in the early days of the Ger
man blitz attack. The Fueh
rer’s Sunday speech reads like
an attempt to bolster morale
on the home front.
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Just when we had reached
the conclusion that a cheap
valuation had been placed on
human life, a Tulane Universi
ty professor, after some astro
nomical mathmetical deduc
tions, comes forward with the
assertion that the killing of an
enemy soldier nowadays costs
no less than $50,000. And we
don’t have the amount to pay
for slaying one beastly little
Jap! In comparative figures,
the professor, Dr. Logan Wil
son, said that in the time of
Julius Caesar the cost was 75
cents. In the Napoleonic wars
the cost had jumped to $3,000.
In the Civil War it was $5,000,
and in the World War $21,000.
It is hard for some of us to
grasp the fact that Japan’s at
tack on this country came un
expectedly and found us un
prepared to immediately cope
with a carefully and long
planned war by the Nippon
ese. It is going to take weeks,
and perhaps months, to place
in strategic points in the far
Pacific a fighting force of suf
ficient strength to begin an of
fensive against the enemy. In
the meantime, still other re
verses may be expected. This
is going to be a long war, and
a costly one, both in the num
ber of lives that will be lost
and the amount of money that
must be spent, and there seems
little likelihood of any “good
news” for some time to come.
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ONE USE FOR MONEY
The war throws into bold relief
the fact that ypur money is no longer
the equivalent of general purchasing
power. It is a symbol of wealth, but
a million dollars may not buy a new
automobile or a new tire for an old
car, or more than 8 ounces of sugar
when rationing begins. Production
of refrigerators, radios and type
writers will be restricted as supplies
of essential materials are ( dra/fted
for military purposes. Food there
will be in plenty, but less of it in tin
cans. As the war is prolonged,. the
list of rationed and wholly unobtain
able articles and materials will be
lengthened until the potential pur
chasing power of the people greatly
exceeds the supplies of many luxuries
and some things strictly utilitarian.
If money talks at all, it will be
only in a whisper in some markets,
but the Cleveland Trust Company
points out that “money can still be
used to pay debts and individuals,
corporations and municipalities ought
to use it that way vigorously.” This
good old-fashioned advice might have
been called from Poor Richard’s al
manac or a McGruffey Reader, but
it is up to the minute in its practical
application to a new system of emer
gency economics. Certainly the man
who digs out of debt by the use of
money he can’t spend otherwise, after
his income tax is paid, can cross off
one big worry for the duration of a
tempestuous present and an ambig
uous future. Savannah Morning
News.
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NO PLACE FOR PLAY NOW
Donald Nelson, director of the war
production board, in his second
speech since he accepted the position
of head of the war effort, charged
that the production goals set could
be topped if every machine in this
country were put on a full twenty
four-hour basis. Nelson said this week
that about 20 per cent of the war in
dustries still were working only 5
and 5 1-2 days a week. He also
said that 31 aircraft engine and pro
peller plants, 153 machine tool plants
were operating with one or two
shifts.
Nelson this week cried for 24 hours
a day full production of every ma
chine.
That is what it is going to take and
that means even back in the agricul
tural districts like this section. We
are going to have to pitch in and
work many hours more and more days
to get the crops planted, cultivated
and harvested that are necessary.
There is no place for play now—
unless it be for short rest periods
that the human body requires to keep
in top shape.—Camilla Enterprise.
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SAVE THOSE TUBES
Those familiar tubes in which
tooth paste, shaving cream and the
like are placed, may seem small but
in the aggregate they have a valu
able place in the war effort.
These tubes are almost pure tin
and tin is one of the metals that is
exceedingly scarce, ■while major
sources of supply are cut off. To
save the tens of millions of tubes
that are in use every day will help
materially in meeting the situation
and here is a small but valuable serv
ice that is open to all.—Exchange.
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War brings about many strange
happenings. The automobile and oil
industries collaborated Ito put the
horse and buggy on the shelf. Now,
one mid-western oil firm has just
purchased a number of horses and
buggies for use by foremen in the
oil fields. One of the first models
i delivered to the company was a sur
■ rey about twenty years old but never
used.—Dawson News.
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That old admonition, “Cheer up—
the worst is yet to come!” now has a
greater meaning, probably, than ever
before.—Cairo Messenger.
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SELFISHNESS hope
In our nation, where we boast of
complete freedom of religion, a
casual look at the way we live
clearly shows that many of us in
terpret that freedom as freedom
from religion.
A lot of us, in recent years, have
been living pretty self-centered
lives. We have watched out for
our own interests and our own
pleasures, and have concerned our
selves as little as possible with the
problems and struggles of the rest
of the people.
Now we realize that our selfish
interests must be made secondary
to the common good.
We are having a difficult time to
part company with those selfish in
terests. Housewives are hoarding
sugar and canned goods to get the
jump on their neighbors. Labor
unions continue to fight for higher
wages. Farm groups continue to
try to grab, out of the war, an ex
tra profit for our rural population.
And politicians find it difficult to
forget politics and follow their ha
bitual tactics of trying to get grants
for their constituents at the ex
pense of he rest of the nation.
But in spite of many examples of
continued selfishness, there is a
bright ray of hope in the fact that
all of these actions are being
fought by the public on the grounds
that they are selfish. Selfishness,
in the eyes of most of us, is becom
ing an unpardonable trait. It is
rapidly reaching the “last ditch”
stage in this country.
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SERVICE thrills
Although the war has not yet
been felt here to any great extent,
millions of people already have be
gun to realize that there is some
thing bigger and more important to
work for than themselves.
Even those who have volunteered
to aid in local defense work —al-
though! they may not yet have been
called upon to sacrifice much time
or to do a great deal of work—
have been led by an unselfish urge
to give up certain comforts and
pleasures in order to do something
for their community.
Women who may have spent most
of their working hours pursuing lit
tle social pleasures are finding a
new satisfaction in spending more
time doing things for others.
Boys who have become accus
tomed to spending their spare time
in selfish pastime are suddenly find
ing the biggest thrill of their lives
in donning a uniform and going
into the service of their country.
Men in factories, who have never
before taken an interest in any ac
tivities outside of those of direct
concern to themselves or their fam
ilies, are feeling a surge of satis
faction as they realize the vital part
they are playing in the service of
mankind.
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RELIGION struggle
As the war progresses, it is apt to
appear more and more as a pre
dominantly religious war. . .as a
struggle between spiritual values
and barbarism.
In addition to the Axis nations
personifying barbarism and the
United Nations representing the
more spiritual goals, it will include
many struggles within nations and
within individuals in each nation.
The “Mr. Hyde” in many of us
will be subordinated to the “Dr.
Jekyll.”
Out of it all will undoubtedly
come a reawakening of spiritual
values among the people on both
sides of the struggle and we can
anticipate a higher form of civiliza
tion wherein greed and brutality
and selfishness will be more hate
ful than ever before to all the peo
ples of the world.
Religions of all kinds have al
ways been strengthened by strug
gle. It seems to follow then that
the greatest struggle in which man
j has ever engaged will produce a
■ more vital religion than we have
| ever known. The only other choice
| would be the total destruction of
I all spiritual force—and it is doubt
ful if man is capable of destroying
that no matter how much he might
try.
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In Germany and Italy, where re
ligion has until recently been an
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important part of the life of the
people, the attempts to smother it
will eventually lead to rebellion.
History shows many efforts which
have been made to kill religious be
liefs and substitute the worship of a
state or a man, but it has never
worked for long. There is an in
definable element in the human
make-up which is quickly starved
without religion—and man has al
ways overcome anything which in
terferes with satiating this hunger
of the soul.
In Russia, where an effort has
been made in recent years to stifle
the religious beliefs of the people,
it is expected that all opposition to
religion will be swept away by the
glorious strugggle the people of that
nation are carrying on in the serv
ice of mankind.
The basis of all religion is un
selfishness and it is impossible that
millions of Russians can perform
the heroic, unselfish act which
they are performing today without
having a vital religion surging
through their souls.
In spite of the efforts of Com
munist leaders to push religion into
the background, it seems quite
probable that a victory for the Rus
sians will be an even greater vic
tory for God —and that the new Rus
sia, after the war, will be a highly
religious nation.
SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV. ROBERT
H. HARPER
JESUS THE MESSIAH
FORETELLS HIS DEATH
Lesson for March 22: Mark 8:27-37
Golden Text: Mark 8:35
When Jesus asked the disciples
the opinions of men concerning him,
their answer indicated that men
ranked him among the greatest of
Israel’s past. But he is infinitely
more than the greatest among men,
and the matter of supreme import
ance to every man is his own opin
ion concerning the Christ. In an
swer to the second question, “But
who say ye that I am?” Peter said,
“Thou art the Christ.” .
Immediately Jesus evidently up
set the twelve by fortelling his
death. Peter’s statement shows that
the disciples did not think the Mes
siah could die. Later they were des
tined to learn, as thousands since
have learned, that through sufferings
and death the Messiah would be
come the Savior.
Afterward Jesus invited the disci
ples and the multitude to share
the fellowship of his sufferings that
they might also share in his life.
“Giving is Life, Withholding is
Death,” is the title of a poem that
finds an illustration of the Golden
Text in the topography of Palestine.
What Galilee receives it gives and
around it is a verdant life; farther
south a larger sea keeps all its store
and there is barrenness around it
and awful significance in its name.
The lesson closes with the star
tling question of profit and loss.
Reason can give but one answer to
the Master’s question. Nothing can
compensate a man for the loss of
his soul. Then let us rejoice that
in Him who was made perfect
through suffering we may lose our
selves evermore.
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PROPER POSTURE WHEN
SITTING
If every living room in the
country were equipped with a
full-length mirror I am sure it
would help to cure some of the
bad habits often assumed in the
simple act of sitting down. One
glimpse of that awkward fig
ure with slumped shoulders,
legs sprawled apart or draped
over the chair arms should be
enough to bring spines erect,
heads up and shoulders
straight.
The ugliness of such con
tortions is bad enough but the
damage that is being done to
the internal organs is far
worse. When we insist upon
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of March 17, 1892.)
MR. J. J. SMITH is beautifying
his premises by having a picket fence
built around his front yard.
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A ROYAL GOOD TIME was en
joyed by the young folks at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Willis, out
on Howard’s Landing road, last Fri
day last.
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MR. J. B. CHANCY is having his
store repaired and refitted.
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. MIR. O. E. HALL was up from
the Rock Hill settlement Tuesday.
MR. JOSEPH WIDENER, of Da
mascus district, was a visitor to
Blakely this week.
MR. 808 ODUM and wife, of
Newton, Ga., are visiting the family
of Mr. Cal Odum.
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MRS. B. H. ROBINSON is down
from Macon visiting Mrs. O. E.
Morse.
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MISSES Emma Fryer and Beulah
and Cora Black visited Columbia last
Friday.
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ENGINEER STEWART and Con
ductor Guerry, of the Southwestern
Railroad, are in Blakely this week.
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SHORT STOPS ADS in The News
this week represented: Geo. E. Chip
stead, Williams & King, A. E. Page,
W.C. Cook, J. W. Anglin, S. D. Page,
J. B. Chancy, Deal & Bro., W. A.
Buchannon, E. M. Brunson, J. J.
Smith, Central Drug Store.
slouching instead of sitting up
right, the lungs, stomach, and
intestines are put under pres
sure, circulation is impared and
muscles are cramped. No won
der legs “go to sleep” or back
and neck become stif and lame.
You can be just as comfortable
in a correct sitting posture.
The hip bones, not the mid
dle of the spine, were design
ed to support the body weight
while seated. See to it that
they do. Hold your head up
and the shoulders and back
bone will naturally follow. It
is not necessary to assume a
stiff, tense pose, but the body
must be kept in proper align
ment for health as well as ap
pearance.
AT THE meeting of the County
Commissioners, the contract for the
new jail was let to the Manley Mfg.
Co., of Dalton, Go., for the sum of
$6,178.00.
MR. W. L. McDowell returned to
Albany Sunday.
CEDAR SPRINGS ITEMS, by K.,
“Miss Ida Sheffield has returned
from a visit to Colquitt, accompan
ied by Mrs. M. D. Roberts and Miss
Jackson. . .Messrs. Drew Roberts and
Chas. Middleton, students at school
here, visited their homes in Miller
county last week. . .Mrs. Julia Porter
and Mrs. J. L. Kelly and baby visited
the family of Mr. Joel F. Porter in
Fort Gaines last week. . .Mr. W. C.
Sheffield visited Bainbridge last
week. . .Rev. J. W. Glenn filled his
regular appointment at the Metho
dist church last Sunday.”
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We’ll go the limit in giving space
to the Red Cross, Boy Scouts and
various agencies of the government
seeking to further the war effort,
but it’s a poor time for grafters to
try to ride the weekly newspapers
under the guise of patriotism and
home defense. If the Tribune pub
lished half of the material reaching
it each week it would not have space
for anything else.—Walton Tribune.
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This is certainly a war of libera
tion. Many people have been lib
erated from the making of future
auto installment notes.—Greensboro
J oumal-Herald.