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Blakely, Ga., April 16, 1942
Our governor came forward
with another brilliant(?) idea
last week, this time about the
Georgia school teacher situa
tion. We hope every citizen
of voting age, particularly the
school teachers, read his ex
cellency’s statement.
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The dogwood, now passing
from the blossoming into the
leafing stage, has been unus
ually beautiful in Blakely this
spring. This native shrub, eas
ily transplanted, is each year
becoming more popular and
increased plantings will add to
the attractiveness of our city.
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The News is glad to note
that the city authorities are
going to wage a campaign for
eradication of the rats in this
community. We should have
less of the dreaded Brills fever
this summer. Not only does
the rat serve as a carrier for
the flea which spreads Brills,
but it also causes much mone
tary loss.
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Major Goodwin of the De
partment of Public Safety an
nounces that driver’s licenses
are now on sale and he urges
Georgia auto drivers to re
new their license before the
expiration on June 30 of their
present licenses. The state pa
trol is d*>endent upon revenue
from the sale of driver’s li
censes for maintenance, this
being the only source of reve
nue for that department.
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Americans are heartened by
the statement of Production
Chief Donald Nelson that
the production of war mate
rials in this country is up to
schedule, and that the turning
of the wheels will increase in
tempo with each succeeding
■week. This encouraging news
comes a*t a time when the war
seems to be casting its darkest
shadow over the fortunes of
the United Nations in the
Pacific and when the German
war lord is planning to strike
with his entire strength on the
Russian battlefront.
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The surrender of the Ameri
can-Filipino army on Bataan'
peninsula, after a gallant fight
against overwhelming odds,
occasioned no surprise and had
for some time been accepted
as inevitable. Only a small
remnant of that fighting force
escaped to Corregidor island,
where they are now the daily
recipient of a tremendous Jap
anese bombardment, and with
no hope of receiving any as
sistance. The heroic fight of
those boys on Bataan peninsu
la, outnumbered seven to one,
and cut off from outside as
sistance, will not be forgotten
by their fellow Americans,
who should now “highly re
solve that these dead shall not
have died in vain.” “Ameri
cans at Bataan!” “Washing
ton at Valley Forge!” Glorious
chapters in the nation’s his
tory.
When Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard stated that American farm
ers would win this war, the farmers
in this section must have taken him
seriously. They are out to win the
war with food, cotton, tobacco and
oils. They do not expect to win in
a walk, but hope to gain the victory
in a half trot. They are going in
high gear. They have not changed
their time. They work, as a rule,
by daylight. Beginning at daybreak
and closing down when dark comes.
However, an Observer informer
found last week that some of the
farms had two shifts: One ran
from daylight until dark and anoth
er took hold of the tractor after
supper and operated it by moonlight
from supper to breakfast. In little
more than a week of sunshine, the
farms of this section have become
fresh plowed. The seed and tire
fertilizer have been put in the soil.
The warm sunshine has co-operated
and soon you will see the new crop
up and growing as you look across
the field. The planting was a little
late.—Moultrie Observer.
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Work faithfully for eight hours a
day, and don’t worry; then in time
you may become the boss and work
twelve hours a day and do all the
worrying.—Frank Pridgen in Tri-
State News.
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Wonder just how many of the ed
itors and columnists who are advis
ing their readers to plant a garden
ever arose the morning after a
swing session with a garden hoe and
attempted to straighten up his back
or stretch out his arm?—Dalton
Citizen.
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A wife is a person who attends
nutrition classes and then fixes hub
by a sandwich and cold drink for
his dinner.—Cartersville Advocate-
Democrat.
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Most motorists are riding on bor
rowed time—time borrowed from
that after their present tires are
gone. And many seem to want to
hasten the arrival of the date when
all of their borrowable time will
have been used.—Cairo Messenger.
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An exchange says if you don’t
know what is meant by priorities,
recall when you were a boy and the
visiting preacher ate three saucers
of ice-cream for dessert and you
got what was left—if any. Well, the
government is the preacher.—Cuth
bert Leader.
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These days if a man leaves the
business for a week he has to learn
the business all over again when he
returns. —Cartersville Tribune News.
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A Southern Negro preacher has the
right idea. He advises his congre
gation to come on to church Sunday
night as he has hired watchmen to
save their automobile tires from
thieves while he saves their souls
from sin.—Dawson News.
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News item states that a fellow has
invented an electric fish bait digger.
That’s nice. But we are not in the
market for one. But tell you what.
If some good fellow will invent an
electric grave digger for “Day Old
Chicks,” we’ll take a couple of them.
We have worn the handle out of a
good scoop digging holes to bury day
old chicks this spring.—Calhoun
County Courier.
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WOMEN AND THE WAR
The recently introduced Mass .bill,
which would allow women to enlist
in the United States Naval Reserve,
should be given serious considera
tion by congress in light of the fact
that such a service proved to be of
considerable merit during the first
World War. •
Some 25 years ago a young wom
| an—said to be the first of the fem
inine sex to enroll for the war —was
enlisted and placed in charge of a
United States recruiting station with
the rank of chief yeoman. In her
wake came many other young wom
en who served in the capacities of
stenographers, clerks and typists,
releasing men for greatly needed
sea service.
In the interim between World
i Wars One and Two, congress saw
fit to enact a law which provided
that the naval reserve be composed
exclusively of males, hence the ne
cessity of the Mass measure to re
open naval ranks to women.
That women may be expected to
play an increasingly important part
i is further emphasized by the declara
tion of Mrs. Roosevelt, the first lady
of the nation, that a feminine land
army will be needed this summer to
! help gather the crops. The “farm
| erettes,” she explained, would be
'■ paid prevailing wages.
Certainly there is much which the
I women of America can do to help
win this war. The hand which rocks
the cradle may yet help to rock the
world.—Brunswick News.
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Washington, D. C. (NWNS) —A
freezing of our whole economic sys
tem —including wages of labor, prof
its of corporations, prices to the
consumer and rents —is now under
stood to be getting serious consider
ation here and has been a subject
of considerable discussion by cabinet
members and the President.
The present system of issuing sep
arate orders from the Office of Price
Administration to put ceilings on in
dividual items which seem to be get
ting out of line, although effective
so far as it goes, has not prevented
general inflation and it is agreed
here that some overall control is
needed to do the joib.
Request* for voluntary control*
on some prices have not worked
out satisfactorily, indicating that a
formal mandatory method of gov
erning prices and wage* is neces
sary to prevent the dollar from
decreasing greatly in it* value to
the consumer.
This is made evident by figures
compiled by the department of com
merce which show that for the nine
months from March to December of
1941, prices on uncontrolled items
rose 16 per cent while prices on
controlled items rose less than 1
per cent. On goods for which vol
untary controls were asked, prices
rose just as mulch as on those for
which no controls were asked, indi
cating that voluntary plans are prac
tically useless as a means of con
trolling prices.
Stating its views on this subject,
the department of commerce report
said:
“Experience to date suggests for
mal 'control over key prices only is
inadequate to prevent a genera]
price rise. Widespread regulation at
both wholesale and retail seems re
quired in the absence of a more
stringent fiscal restraint.”
The administration is known to
feel that much could be done to
prevent inflation if congress would
pass heavy tax legislation to go into
effect immediately for collecting
much of the increased wages going
to labor and the increased profits
being made by corporations. But
with an election approaching, it
doesn’t look as if congress is going
to be in any .hurry about putting
through tax legislation. Hence, some
other plan is needed at once to curb
inflation and the answer may be an
overall control of all business trans
actions.
The Canadian plan of freezing
wages, but with a provision that ad
justments be allowed if the general
cost of living rises, is known to have
been studied in detail and may be
recommended as the most satisfac
tory plan for controlling labor’s pay.
A limitation on profits of corpora
tions to 6 per cent has been dis
cussed many times and it is certain
that if wages are controlled the
profits of corporations will be limit
ed at the same time.
At first most of the discussion on
these subjects revolved around con
trol only in war production indus
tries, but it is now felt that such
control should apply only to non-war
industry also to avoid putting war
production in the position of being
less attractive to both labor and
capital than non-essential industry.
At the present time, average
wages are higher than they have
ever been in this country and
profits of corporations, in spite of
high taxes, showed a big increase
in 1941 as compared with 1940.
Control of all prices is said by the
Office of Price Administration to
require no new legislation, the of
fice now having the authority to
enforce ceiling prices on any or all
products. If it wished, the OPA
could issue an order that all whole
sale and retail prices be limited to
the maximum price at which they
were sold on a certain specified
date.
Congressmen back from trips to
their home sections, realize that the
people are demanding more string
ent control over labor and the re
peal of the 40-hour week law, but in
spite of pressure of public opinion,
many members of congress are ex
tremely wary about such legislation
for they feel that its effects may not
be clearly understood by the people.
Senator Elbert D. Thomas, in dis
cussing the subject recently, warned
that the abolishment of the 40-hour
week at this time of rising prices
“would mean the return to sweat
shop hours and pay.” He pointed
out that organized labor -would not
suffer by such legislation since it is
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protected by union contracts. The
40,000,000 factory and office work
ers who are not organized and can
not take care of themselves, he
pointed out, are the ones who would
be hurt by getting rid of the Fair
Labor Standards act.
Other congressmen find a lot of
the pressure for scrapping the 40-
hour week law is brought by peo
ple who think the discussion is over
whether labor should be permitted to
work more than 40 hours a week.
Actually, it is concerned entirely
with whether the workers should
continue to be paid a higher hourly
rate for the hours which they do
work over 40 each week. In most
war production industries the men
already are working 48 or 52 hours
a week but under the law are being
paid time and a half for each hour
they work over 40.
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Your contribution to the Navy
Relief may feed and clothe the fam
ily of a sailor.
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SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV ROBERT
H. HARPER
GROWING TENSION WITH FALSE
LEADERS
Lesson for April 19: Luke 11:37-48;
52-S4
Golden Text: Luke 11:23.
The course of an individual who
begins with indifference toward Je
sus and ends in final rejection of
him is like that of the Pharisees, who
began with criticism, tried again and
again to entangle the Master with
cunning questions, and finally de
nounced him before Pilate’s judg
ment seat.
The criticism of the Pharisees that
Jesus “had not first bathed himself
before dinner” he turned to good
account as he stressed the primary
need of clean hearts. He then de
nounced the Pharisees as hypocrites
who tithed even little garden plants
but passed “over justice and love of
God.” One of the lawyers—“scribes”
who were versed in ecclesiastical
law, was told that he and his fel
lows were accustomed to load the
people with grievous burdens which
they themselves would not touch
with one of their fingers. Further,
Jesus said they built the tombs of
the prophets, whom their fathers
killed, and indicated that they failed
to follow in the footsteps of the
prophets.
As Jesus was leaving the place,
the scribes and Pharisees jostled
him, and tried to provoke him into
damaging utterances. But never
once, then or afterward, were they
able to provoke Jesus to say any
thing that would substantiate the
base charges they eventually
brought against him.
Two things may be noted about
this lesson—the emphasis which Je
sus places upon inner purity, and
the warning, which may be drawn
from the growing hostility of false
leaders, against an attitude of indif
ference toward Jesus. He that is not
with Jesus is against him. whether
he be merely indifferent or openly
hostile to him.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
TAKING CARE OF HEALTH
TAKES TIME
On a subway train the other
morning I overheard two
young women discussing a
prominent actress. One of
them made the remark: “It
must be grand to have nothing
to do but take care of your
self. I’ll bet she wouldn’t look
like a million dollars for long
if she had to get up to go to
work every day.”
I couldn’t help smiling, for I
happen to know that the
Broadway star who aroused
their envy is one of the busiest
women in New York with far
less time for personal atten
tion than the average stenog
rapher or housewife. During
the theatrical season, she
gives eight performances ev
ery week, makes personal ap
pearances for innumerable
charities, takes part in a week
ly radio program, manages her
business affairs, correspond
ence,, rehearsals, reading new
plays, and what not. The time
she devotes to herself is lim
ited and must be sandwiched
■in between all her other activ
ities. She still does take care
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpt* from Early County New*
of April 14, 1892.)
BLAKELY is now a weather serv
ice station and warning weather
flags will be floated from the Con
federate flag pole. (Blake].y’s weath
er records antedate this by some 15
years.)
MR. R. H. POWELL, JR., has
been selected as one of the sopho
more speakers at Mercer University.
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THE young people of Blakely had
an entertainment at the home of
Col. W. A. Jordan on Wednesday
evening. The Lime Branch string
band furnished the music.
OUR town council has contracted
with the Dawson Variety Works, of
Dawson, Ga., to build a college in
Blakely at a cost of $5,000. (This
was really a high school, but it was
called the college and College street
was so named.)
THE superior court of Early coun
ty convened last Monday with Judge
J. H. Guerry presiding.
of herself. Otherwise she
would never be able to stand
the strain nor safeguard the
beauty that has brought her
so much admiration.
Too often we are inclined to
excuse our own failings by the
alibi, “I haven’t time.” If we
were a little more honest we
would say “I haven’t the
spunk!” We hate the thought
of giving up rich foods that
bog down the system with de
posits of fat and waste prod
ucts. We dread to start a
sensible regimen of exercise
though we know it will put a
spring in our step and sparkle
in our eyes. We would rather
ride than walk when our bod
ies are starving for fresh air.
It’s hard to turn down an in
vitation even though nerves
and muscles are begging for at
least one night of rest. So it
goes. No matter what else
we lack, we all have time,
especially the little time re
quired to keep physically fit.
There is always time to do the
things we like to do. Isn’t
there time for the things that
will make us look and feel a
hundred per cent better?
Think it over.
MISS LEILA METTS, of Damas
cus, is the guest of Mrs. T. R. Mims.
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MISS ILA JONES, of Bluffton,
and Mr. W. J. Carswell, of Waycross,
Were married in Bluffton on Wednes
day night.
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MISS MAGGIE BELL visited in
Bluffton last Friday.
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MR. NICK HIGHTOWER, of Da
mascus, was in Blakely Wednesday.
MR. AND MRS. R. H. Walker, of
Columbia, were visitors to Blakely
Wednesday.
MR. J. W. DEAL returned Tues
day from a fishing trip to the Dead
Lakes.
DR. J. H. CROZIER, of Cedar
Springs, was a visitor to Blakely
this week.
MR. JOSHUA JONES, of Arling
ton, was a visitor here Wednesday.
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COL. R. H. SHEFFIELD, Messrs.
E. T. James and Will Odum and
Mrs. Mamie McGregor visited Da
mascus Sunday.