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Early ffiuuttty Nruis
Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
Published Every Thursday
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Blakely, Ga„ April 2, 1942
A remarkable remark by
N. Frank Pridgen in the Tri-
State News: “When a man
starts throwing dirt you may
be sure he is losing ground.’’
o
A cartoon, good for a laugh,
appeared in a magazine the
other day. It showed a minis
ter reading the marriage vows
to a boy and girl. His last line
went something like this: “I
now pronounce you in class
3-A.”
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Reports from Australia say
the United States soldiers are
marrying native girls in great
numbers and at a very fast
pace. We pause now while the
American girls rise up and
ask: “What have those Aus
tralian gals got that we ain’t
got?”
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The farmer who plants food
stuffs sufficient for the needs
of his family and his farm
stock need not worry about in
flation, labor unions and the
many other every-day worries,
for this farmer is doing his
patriotic duty in caring for
his own.
o
You will have to travel much
and go a long way to find peo
ple more thoughtful and char
itable than those in Blake
ly. Whether it be for the Red
Cross, war relief, or what have
you, Blakely citizens always
subscribe their quota in a short
while.
o
The city of Atlanta is in an
other of its periodic political
rows. This time it is over who
is going to occupy the mayor’s
chair recently vacated by May
or LeCraw, who was called to
the army. The usual problem
in the Capital City is: Who’s
going to be Chief of Police?
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The Early county fat cattle
show, sponsored annually by
the local Rotary Club, is one
of the finest things ever at
tempted by that civic body.
Last week’s show was the best
yet held. Early county farm
ers are being taught the need
of pure-bred cattle and the
F, F. A. boys and 4-H Club
members are learning and
displaying a fine competitive
spirit.
o
Georgia politics are (or is)
beginning to warm up and by
late August should be running
a fever heat. Talmadge sup
porters will be especially de
lighted to hear that Columbus
Roberts has expressed a desire
to run again. A move like
this on Mr. Roberts’ part will
split the anti-Talmadge vote
to such an extent that the
state may be inflicted with an
other four years of Talmadge’s
rule-or-ruin government.
o
We notice where many
towns and communities are
inaugurating the “acre for a
soldier” movement. This is a
very noble gesture and a
mighty fine idea if carried all
the way through. Let’s hope
that the soldiers’ acre doesn’t
turn out as badly as the “God’s;
acre” plan which some rural
communities inaugurated some I
time back. Quite often all |
God got was the “acre” while
the stuff that grew thereon
went for other purposes.
If life begins at forty, as has
been claimed, then the Camilla
Enterprise is just now begin
ning to live. No, not actually,
for the Enterprise has been a
vital factor in the growth and
forward movements of Mitch
ell county since the day it was
born. The county weekly now
has a greater responsibility
than ever before and we hope
the people of Camilla and
Mitchell county realize this
and properly appreciate the
good work being done by the
Enterprise and will call on
Editor Burson and wish for
him “many happy returns of
the day.” The News, now in
its 83rd year, wishes for The
Enterprise continued good
health and much prosperity in
all the years to come.
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Though the rains continue
to fall and the farmers’ faces
continue to do likewise, let us
take comfort in the fact that
there has never been a total
crop failure in Early county.
Probably by the time this ap
pears in print, the sun will be
shining again and in a few
weeks the farmer will be wish
ing for some of the stuff that
now he thinks he is getting too
much of. Which reminds us of
the old lady who was asked on
a cold, gray, dismal day how
she liked the weather. Her re
ply: “God sends the weather,
my dear, and all of it is good.”
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FREE POSTAGE FOR SERVICE
MEN
Under a law recently passed by
congress, the boys in the army, navy
and air forces will be able to write
home without buying stamps. They
will be in a class with congressmen
in the matter of free postage. It is
a deserving gesture towards the
men in uniform. They are scatter
ed now pretty well around the
world and the folks at home are
eager to hear from them. They are
often without stamp money, or,
maybe they find it inconvenient to
keep stamps. With free postage
they will probably be encouraged to
write mother, father and maylbe
sweetheart more often. It will help
the morale in the services and at
home as well. Get after the boy if
he doesn’t write home often now. It
is not because he has no stamps.—
Moultrie Observer.
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A MAN IS A BOY GROWN TALL
He is a person who is going to
carry on what you have started.
He is to sit right where you are
sitting and attend, when you are
gone, to those things you think are
so important.
You may adopt all the policies
you please, but how they will be car
ried out will depend on him.
Even if you make leagues and
treaties, he will have to manage
them.
He is going to sit at your desk
in the Senate and occupy your place
on the Supreme Bench.
He will assume control of your
cities, states and nation.
He is going to move in and take
over your prisons, churches, schools,
universities and corporations.
All your work is going to be
judged and praised or condemned by
him.
Your reputation and your future
are in his hands.
All your work is for him, and the
fate of the nation and of humanity
is in his hands.
So it might be well to pay him
some attention. —New Orleans Ad
vocate.
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ARE YOU A HOARDER?
Hoarding is a habit engendered
by the reputed shortage of any com
modity and it has but two motivat
ing factors, hope for profit from the
deal or desire to preserve our own
status of sufficiency in the face of
what appears to be a lack of or
shortage of the commodity.—Thom
asville Times-Enterprise.
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Some observations by Carey Wil
liams in the Greensboro Herald-
Journal:
A boom is the time when every
one is so busy a man hasn’t time to
be circulating a petition.
In the post-war planning, we won
der if they are figuring on fixing up
that veneer on civilization which has
rubbed off?
You don’t have to worry about
preserving the wild life. Just build
a roadside dancing place and install
a music box.
A democracy is a place where they
would fire an incompetent job hold
er if it wouldn’t make his relatives
and friends mad.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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Washington, D. C. (NWNS) —Due
to the widely divergent viewpoints of
congressmen, we cannot expect any
unanimity of agreement on how
much of the social program of the
New Deal should be continued
through this war period. But some
form of general policy on this sub
ject may result from the heated dis
cussions on the interior department
supply bill.
The interior department bill calls
for large expenditures for the con
tinuation of phases of the social
program, some of which can be close
ly related to the war and others of
which could probably be dropped
without interfering with war produc
tion and morale. With huge extra
expenditures due to the war, the
basis of the debate is over whether
some social reforms should be called
off for the duration. It is likely,
although tAere will be bitter opposi
tion to continuation of many of the
New Deal plans, that the majority
in congress will approve most of
them—perhaps with some revised to
tie up more closely with the war
program.
Along with the interior depart
ment bill, the New Deal philosophy
on labor is also being fought over.
For years the administration has
defended labor improvement, and
there is no doubt that it will contin
ue to see that labor gets more than
an even break. But even within the
President’s own executive family
there is considerable difference of
opinion on the union problem.
Thurman Arnold, assistant attor
ney general, who has always been
considered a strong New Dealer, re
cently made a violent attack on un
ions charging that they were de
stroying the small business man,
holding farmers and consumers at
their mercy and interfering with ef
ficient production and the distribu
tion of goods. This charge was made
while congress was discussing the
elimination of the 40-hour week. It
has influenced a number of pro
labor congressmen to review and re
vise their opinions. In congress, as
well as in the War Relations board
and between individual industries
and their unions, labor discussion re
cently has centered on whether la
bor should continue to be limited to
40 hours a week at regular pay and
whether the war workers should be
permitted time-and-a-half for over
time and double time for working on
Sunday.
Several leading industrialists are
now taking the attitude that they
must do anything the government
tells hem to do regarding labor—
but that the final decision should
really be made by the public. They
have asked, therefore, that newspa
permen be invited to be in on all
discussions between management and
labor to report all facts to the peo
ple.
This attitude was expressed by
General Motors, largest automobile
company in our country, when C. E.
Wilson, president, pointed out that
General Motors was working almost
entirely for the government and
therefore any labor dispute was pub
lic business. He inferred that if
wages were increased, as the union
has requested, the tax payers would
actually be the ones who would pay
the increase so they should decide
the issue. The automobile union
agreed that, if negotiations went be
fore the National War Labor board,
they would permit the meeting to
be open to the press.
Meanwhile, the war labor board
already had held its first public
hearing on a wage case when the
negotiations between International
Harvester and the C. I. 0. went to
Washington. For-the first time the
public was able to follow the rea
soning on both sides and make up
its own mind.
Reports to congressmen, particu
larly from the rural areas, show
that a large number of people have
lost all patience with union dicker
ing over higher wages in war work.
All congressmen are receiving de
mands for curbs on labor and many
of them are anxious to go home to
their districts to make careful check
ups on public opinion. Labor, how
ever, is not the only group which is
being taken over the coals here. Prac
tically every part of our war ■pro
gram is being investigated by some
committee or other. The senate na
tional defense committee, headed by
Senator Harry S. Truman, is most
in the limelight right now. Witness
es before that committee have point-
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ed to wide inefficiency, waste and
mismanagement in the handling of
various phases of our war program.
Many of the most heated discus
sions here revolve around the prod
ucts which are being rationed —rub-
ber, sugar, gasoline, etc. Following
the “now we have it, now we don’t”
bungle about the nation’s supply of
gasoline several months ago, ration
ing of any product now stimulates
close scrutiny to determine the ac
tual need for it. There is little ob
jection to the idea of rationing, but
since it is a subject close to the
American people it is a popular on£
to use for stimulating public interest
in inefficiencies in our war program.
There is considerable question, for
example, on the actual need for
the rationing of sugar. Some argue
that it is imperative while others use
figures to show how, in spite of in
creased demand and smaller supply
of sugar, our population could be
adequately supplied by eliminating
some of the industrial needs for
sugar. On gasoline, the need for
rationing in the East seems to be
real this time because of the sinking
of so many tankers.
SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV. ROBERT
H. HARPER
CHRIST AND LIFE AFTER DEATH
Lesson for April 5: Mark 12:24-27;
Corinthians 15:50-58
Golden Text: 1 Corinthians 15:57
“Who knows anything about that?”
So somebody asked concerning fu
ture life. ‘Confucius confessed his
ignorance of life beyond the grave.
Happily we are not left to our own
efforts to learn of eternal life—it is
revealed in the New Testament.
The Sadducees tried to entangle
Jesus with a subtle question. He at
once disposed of them with a state
ment concerning spiritual relation
ships beyond the grave. Then he
declared that God is the God of
the living and not of the dead. At
the burning bush God spoke of being
the God of men long dead. This
showed that they were living still—
in the perfect life.
Paul writes of the certainty of
endless life and of its nature. It is
spiritual life. With spiritual bodies
we shall be freed from the limita
tions of time and sense. Some min
isters read with mournful accents
Paul’s words. “O death, where is
thy sting?” They should rather be
read in exultant tones as a cry of
victory through Him who has robbed
death of its sting and stripped the
grave of its power.
Let us indeed thank God “who
giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.” It is more than
victory over physical death. With
out the hope of overcoming sin,
eternal life would be a greater trag
edy than eternal death. But eternal
life brings the blessed possibility of
moral resurrection to every man. So
amid the constant wreckings of ma
terial things, let us have the asur
ance that our lives are not being
lived in vain here.
—O
SACRIFICE SUPREME!
In Elbert county a copper still
was turned in on MacArthur Day
without comment. There is no tell
ing what people will part with to
win this war.—Lavonia Times.
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DON’T PAMPER THE
NEUROTIC
Most neurotics regard them
selves as invalids who must be
treated with special consider
ation as the natural right of
their disease. But they, as all
who sympathize with their pet
weaknesses, are entirely mis
taken for this sort of “nervous
ness” is not a disease in the
physical or medical sense of
the word. It is really a symp
tom of disarranged physical
functions or of bad mental
habits.
One of the most aggravating
causes of nervousness is
self-concentration, constantly
thinking and talking about
one’s own feelings and condi
tion, imagining that they are
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of March 31, 1892.)
PINE VIEW NEWS, by Bumbo:
“Capt. E. Hilton was over from Hil
ton Station this week ... We have
two new citizens—a young lad is
putting up with Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Murkerson and a wee miss is at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Turner.”
• » »
UNIONVILLE NEWS, by C. B. A.:
“Cotton planting will soon be all the
go if it doesn’t get too cold . . . Prof.
W. B. Stuckey’s school is still in
creasing, there now being 60 pupils
. . . Messrs. J. T. King, Joel Single
tary and William White were all out
to Sunday School last Sunday.”
* * *
THE DEATH of Mr. A. J. Mer
cier is chronicled in The News this
week.
» * »
THERE WAS quite an enjoyable
party at the residence of Col. W. A.
Jordan last Monday night, according
to Mr. Willie Quinn. Miss Ella
Jones took first prize, Mr. Wade
Powell second, and Jim Odum third.
• • •
MR. J. B. CHANCY has about
completed the improvements in his
store.
* * *
MR. JOHN W. WADE, first honor
man from Mercer last year, will take
the place in the Blakely Institute
made vacant by the resignation of
Miss Lila Jones.
» » »
MR. JOHN T. WILLIAMS and his
force of hands have returned from
Albany.
in some way unique, more se
vere, more threatening, more
interesting, more to be pitied
or wondered at than any expe
rienced by other persons. This
constant dwelling on and ex
aggerating one’s ills develops
a morbid attitude of mind
which reacts harmfully upon
all the physical faculties.
The most helpful treatment
in these neurotic cases is to
use every possible device to
prevent the “patient” from
talking about his condition.
When he starts on all the de
pressing details, try to change
the subject, tactfully but per
sistently. See if he cannot be
made to talk about politics,
the next door neighbors, or
anything else except his own
self-centered interests.
MR. HARTER KING was over
from Columbia Sunday.
« * *
MRS. C. H. PUiREFOY, after a
visit to Florida, is now in Blakely.
MESSRS. Jack McKissaek and H.
H. Buchannon, of Columbia, were in
Blakely last Sunday.
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MR. S. A. LESKER was down
from Dawson this week.
MR. E. J. HIGHTOWER, of the
railway mail service, was in Blakely
last Sunday.
MRS. R. C. KNOWLES, of Jersey,
City, N. J., is the guest of Mrs. B.
M. Fryer.
* * *
MRS. S. D. PAGE returned Satur
day from an extended visitt to North
Carolina.
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CEDAR SPRINGS ITEMS: “Mr.
J. E. Roberts and little son, of
Horn’s Cross Roads, visited here last
week . . . Mrs. G. A. Evans returned
Sunday to her home in Josephine . . .
Cols. R. H. Sheffield and A. G. Pow
ell, of Blakely, attended justice court
here last week . . . Mrs. B. Chancy
and Mrs. John Deal and children, of
Blakely, are visiting relatives here
this week.”
We hear the past generation talk
about the “good old days”—the days
of horses and buggies, camp meeting
wagon trips and “ankle express”
parties. Now that a lot of us will
soon be learning to walk over, will
we be referring to these days 20
years hence as the “good old days?”
Calhoun County News.