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Blakely, Ga., March 26, 1942
Rains continued to fall in
this section the past week, fur
ther delaying farm operations,
already running badly behind.
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The country notes with sat
isfaction the improvement in
the labor situation and WPB
Chairman Donald Nelson re
ports that production of war
munitions is being daily accel
erated and labor strikes are
almost negligible. _______
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Income tax payments in
March are said by the treasury
department to have smashed
all records. But, the depart
ment hastens to announce,
the total collections amount to
a mere fraction of what this
country is spending in its war
effort.
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The high mogul of the Jap
anese fighting machine boasts
that he is going to dictate the
terms of peace (after the war
is over) in Washington. The
little yellow imps, drunk with
the fruits of their early suc
cesses, will probably be sober
ed up by the time the last shot
is fired, and will have little
say-so when the final day of
accounting comes.
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Georgians are at the pres
ent time giving more thought
to the winning of the war than
they are to politics, but don’t
let this lead you to believe that
the old Cracker State is going
to let this year’s primary go
by without some hot political
battles. Evidence is being ac
cumulated by the proper par
ties to present to the voters of
Georgia in the summer cam
paign that should be sufficient
to convince right-thinking citi
zens that it is time to redeem
this state’s fair name.
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Gasoline allowance for the
eastern seaboard states has
been cut twenty per cent. Thus
far the reduction in deliveries
applies to that supplied the
service stations by the whole
salers, but a rationing card
system is forecast for an early
date. If Secretary of Interior
Ickes will wait sixty days, he
will find that such a step is
unnecessary, for already the
lack of tires has resulted in a
heavy decrease in the pse of
gasoline throughout the na
tion, and a still further de
crease may be expected as the
weather grows warmer.
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The weekly press, more es-'
sential now than ever because j
of the part it is playing in the
dissemination of news relative,
to the many and varied gov
ernment war agencies, is fac
ing a rather difficult task in
maintaining operations due to
loss of much of its national ad
vertising resulting from the
the government ban on the
sale of automobiles and tires,
and priority restrictions. The
local papers which “make the
grade’’ for the next several
months will be those published
in the towns and cities where
the home merchants use suf
ficient space in their local pa
per to warrant the publishers
carrying on. It is not unlikely
that a great many of the na
tion’s weeklies may become
war victims before the Axis
nations are defeated.
A PLACE FOR EXAMPLE
Newspaper publishers are suggest
ing to some of the government agen
cies that one excellent way to save
paper is to cut out about 90 per
cent of the propaganda which pours
from Washington and other centers
of information daily. It goes by
the ton to newspapers—enough of it
every day completely to fill a good
sized newspaper. . Little of it is
used, for most of it is stale when it
reaches news editors’ desks. It is
largely repetition of what has al
ready appeared in news reports
from press associations.
Newspapers are doing their best
to save paper. That is no more than
their duty—a duty which they will
gladly perform as long as may be
necessary, but the average publisher
wonders if government agencies
shouldn’t do a bit of sweeping around
their own doorsteps. It would be
helpful example. The United States
government is a huge organization
of human beings. It conducts a
vast business. Some of its depart
ments are bigger than ‘the entire
governmental organization of many
an important country. It is neces
sary that the central government
keep many printing presses busy, but
waste should be frowned upon. And
there’s a lot of paper waste by some
of Uncle Sam’s agencies. Both for
economy and for example, it should
be stopped.—Albany Herald.
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CHANGE OF PACE
Everyone who has worked for a
newspaper, writes Hilton Gregory,
himself an editor, has experienced
“that access of power as a deadline
approaches.” It isn’t the pressure
that matters, he explains, it’s the
speeding up of the tempo of work
that releases latent powers.
It isn’t always the slowest work
that is best, Gregory suggests—in
reading, for example, the attention
may wander if you go too slowly and
you get more done if you read
faster—more done and better done.
On the other hand, working or
playing at too fast a clip wears men
out unless they occasionally slow
down. It’s the frequent change of
pace that refreshes, whether it be a
change to faster or slower, the au
thor contends. An auto ride at 30
miles an hour over a road you’re
accustomed to hit at 70 will exhibit
a new thrill, and pep you up for
harder drives ahead. So if you’re
fast, slow down; if you’re slow, speed
Ui p—the change of pace will rest
you.—Dalton News.
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING
WRONG
We have a bumper crop of news
paper magazine writers looking for
something wrong about the way the
war is being carried on. It is hard
to pick up a paper or a news mag
azine that is without these articles
of criticism. The public has a daily
ration of it. In the absence of good
news, we have a bountiful supply of
bad news. There is failure here;
there is delay there; the enemy is
going everywhere and getting ev
erything; we will soon be lost.
Doubtless there are many things
about our war plans that are short
of perfection. It is debatable
which will cost us most in the war
effort, delays and mistakes, or the
loss of morale through the over
abundanae of fault-finding and crit
icism. Free speech is sometimes an
asset and sometimes a liability.—
Moultrie Observer.
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A WORD OF THANKS
Macon, Ga., March 17, 1942.
Editor Early County News:
For some time I have intended
writing and thanking you personally
for the fine cooperation you and
your good paper have given to the
Recruiting Service of the United
States Navy.
I am constantly reminded of your
tireless efforts. It is effort, energy
and ability like yours, from all sec
tions of the state, that have given
the state of Georgia FIRST PLACE,
in the per capita enlistments, for the
entire United States. It is your
constant publicity that has made this
great task easier.
We, of the recruiting service, who
lin many instances, are working day
and night to keep up with the tre
mendous Naval expansion program,
will be calling on you for a contin
uation of your good w r ork. In turn,
if there is any way that we can
better cooperate with you in serving
the people of your community in
this national emergency, it will be
I our pleasure to do so.
Your friend sincerely,
STANLEY A. JONES.
Lieut. Commander. U. S. Navy,
Officer in Charge.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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CANS food
In a few months you may be
able to measure the healthfulness of
canned foods by their availability on
the market.
Some favorite canned goods will
be taken off the grocer’s shelves al
together, some will blossom out in
new clothes and some will be availa
ble in limited quantities.
One of the favorite canned sup
pers—canned pork and beans—is
scheduled to be eliminated entirely,
for in the plan to conserve tin it has
been decreed that beans can be
cooked at home as they were by
grandma.
Even Fido will be affected.
Canned dog food, which uses 820
tons of tin each year, will no longer
be sold in cans. It has been found
that de-hydrated dog, food can keep
a dog just as healthy as canned
food.
Baking powder, cereals, flour and
spices are among the other products
which will be cut off entirely from
their tin can supply.
SALVAGE . . . collections
There will probably soon be ma
jor additions to the list of foods
which can no longer be supplied in
tin cans. But this can be postponed
if we all save tin cans and turn them
in when there is a local tin can col
lection.
The government estimates that it
can salvage 120,000 tons of tin and
scrap steel in a year if we will all
see to it that tin cans go to war
instead of to the garbage heap.
The tin cans turned in will be re
processed with chemicals. To make
this as simple as possible it has been
requested that housewives give tin
cans the following treatment before
bundling them up for collection:
1. Remove both ends of the can
and wish it.
2. Step on the can lightly so that
there is still about a quarter inch
of air room between the walls of
the can for chemicals to flow through
when it is being reprocessed.
3. Put both ends of the can inside
the can itself.
That’s all there is to it.
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PRICES protected
Although the quantity of foods
available in tin cans will be consid
erably reduced, this will not mean
a scarcity of all the food we need.
Neither will it mean increased prices
for canned goods.
In our new national policy of sub
stituting government control for the
old competitive system of selling on
which America has thrived, both
prices and proper distribution of
food will be under the close scrutiny
of Washington.
Already Mr. Henderson, who is in
charge of the gigantic problem of
handling supplies and governing
prices, has fixed prices on many of
the most popular lines of canned
goods. He has issued a regulation
fixing the manufacturer’s and job
ber’s price on 11 canned fruits and
15 canned vegetables—and severe
penalties have been set up for any
violations of his price edicts. Al
though he has not yet fixed retail
prices, this will be done quickly if
it is found that retailers attempt to
raise prices on these canned goods.
The 11 canned fruits which should,
stay at the same price level from
now on are: apples, apple sauce,
apricots, cherries (red, sour pitted),
cherries (sweet), fruit cocktail, fruit
salad, peaches, pears, pineapples and
plums.
The 15 vegetables on which Mr.
Henderson has fixed prices are: as
paragus, beans (all dry varieties),
beans (lima), snap beans (green and
wax), beets, carrots, corn, peas,
pumpkins, sauerkraut, spinach, to
matoes, sweet potatoes, tomato cat
sup, and tomato juice.
HEALTH .... capsules
It is expected that other pack
aging materials, in addition to tin,
will soon be rationed by Mr. Hen
derson. The cardboard used in many
packaged cereals and other grocery
products is becoming scarce due to
huge requirements for cardboard in
packaging shells and other muni
tions. Glass, although plentiful, will
probably become harder to get as
more and more manufacturers turn
to glass containers for their prod
ucts. Only about 1 per cent of
packaged foods are now’ packed in
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glass, so it is easy to picture how
impossible it would be for the glass
industry to expand enough to supply
containers for the food products
which will be cut off from tin.
Packaging is a problem of minor
importance among the great prob
lems we face today, but it serves as
an excellent example of the changes
in every little thing which will re
sult from our war program.
If we have to go back to the
cracker-barrel era of retailing, we
can do it without any particular
hardship. The main thing is to keep
sufficient food available to protect
our health —and there is no question
that this will be done.
In fact, the government is taking
more interest in our health today
than it ever did before, and even
though our food may not be deliv
ered in fancy packages, we are apt
to come out of this war a much bet
ter and more intelligently fed peo
ple than we are today.
And that’s all that really matters
—even if we eventually sit down to
a dinner of health-blooming cap
sules.
SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
Bv REV. ROBERT
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THE TRANSFERRED CHRIST
MEETS HUMAN NEED
Lesion for March 19: Luke 9:28-43a
Golden Text: Luke 9:43
Ofttimes a human face may be
transfigured by a great emotion; it
was not strange that the whole per
son of Jesus was glorified when he
knelt in prayer on a mountain.
Moses and Elijah appeared in
glory and talked with him about his
death which he would “accomplish
at Jerusalem.” He was going to
that death willingly. When the three
disciples awoke, how did they know
the men who talked with Jesus? On
ly through the power of heavenly
experience. Perchance we shall bear
our personality into heaven, know
one another there, and be strength
ened now by the thought that unseen
dear ones hover about us.
Peter wanted to remain in the
presence of heavenly glory and he
proposed that three tabernacles be
built on the mountain. But, even
while he spoke, there came to a voice
from the cloud, saying, “This is my
Son, my chosen, hear ye him.”
Thus did Peter learn that mountain
top experiences must be followed by
service to the unblessed in the valley
below. There the multitude was
found. And there, as the caption
has it, “The Transfigured Christ
Meets Human Need.”
Let us seek the mountain-top of
the spirit in the contact of our
knees with the lowly earth, that we
may gain a light for our pathway,
and also a light to ililumine the
needs of our own time.
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Patrick Henry wanted only liberty
or death. The boys in those days
hadn’t taken up a retirement plan
for congressmen.—Carey Williams in
Greensboro Journal-Herald.
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What sort of entry do you suppose
the Recording Angel makes when a
person feeds conterfeit coins to a
slot machine? —Olin Miller in Atlan
ta Journal.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
FOLLOW YOUR DOCTOR’S
ORDERS
An annual physical exami
nation is essential to keeping
fit since it leads to early dis
covery of any abnormal condi
tion. However, we defeat the
purpose of this safety measure
when we fail to co-operate
with our physician’s advice.
Suppose, for example, that
the doctor finds nothing se
riously wrong, yet the patient
complains of frequent head
aches, chronic fatigue, ner
vousness or some other indis
position. Perhaps the trouble
lies solely in faulty living
habits. Too little sleep, insuf
ficient fresh air, failure to re-
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of March 24, 1892.)
MR. J. B. BEASLEY, of Pansey,
Ala., was a visitor here Saturday.
DR. STAFFORD RAMBO and Miss
Ollie Rambo, of Bluffton, were visi
tors to Blakely last Saturday.
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MR. J. B. LIVINGSTON was over
from Albany last Monday.
DR. W. B. STANDIFER was a vis
itor to Albany Sunday.
* * *
ATLANTA has been troubled late
ly by hogs and other animals root
ing up the graves, destroying flow
ers and otherwise depredating upon
her beautiful cemetery—Oakland.
Blakely doesn’t seem to fare any
better than the Capital City in this
respect, as hogs can frequently be
seen rooting around and over the
graves in her cemetery. (Happily,
50 years has remedied this condi
tion in both cities.)
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BLUFFTON’NEWS: “Eddie Saun
ders, a former Bluffton high school
pupil, was back to see us Sunday...
Willie Bridges, of Early county, vis
ited relatives here this week . . . Mts.
T. M. Killingsworth visited in Fort
Gaines this week . . . The honor roll
of the Bluffton high school for the
past month includes: Albert S. How
ell, Lawernce Rambo, Henry Harri
son, Miss Willie Veda Rambo, Miss
Simma Royal, James Killingsworth,
Herman Collins, Tom Norton, Cleve
land Lay, Miss Ida Morris.”
lax or to get enough exercise
can give rise to upsets which,
while not indicative of organ
ic disease, do keep one’s effi
ciency below par.
The doctor can tell you
what to do but it is up to you
to do it. You pay him for his
advice. Isn’t it rather silly to
ignore it? You cannot expect
him to work miracles and give
you relief if you deliberately
continue the habits which have
led to the trouble in the first
place. When you seek your
physician’s help, rest assured
that he is only too willing to
give it, but his suggestions can
be of little value without the
wholehearted cooperation of
his patient.
MR. W. A. BUCHANNON visited
Fort Gaines Tuesday.
• * *
COL. R. H. POWELL is attending
court in Clay county this week.
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DISPLAY ADS in The News this
week represented: Royal Baking
Powder, George E. Chipstead, Geor
gia Chautauuqa (Albany), Thomas
Williams, J. W. Anglin, J. J. Smith,
Crugei’ & Pace (Albany), H. C. Fry
er & Son, S. Alesker, Neuman & To
bias (Albany), O. P. & B. E. Wil
lingham (Macon), J. B. Chancy,
Deal & Brothers, E. L. Fryer, Cen
tral City House (Macon).
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