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Blakely, Ga„ April 30, 1942
The first report of tire thiev
ery in Blakely was reported
Saturday night. Better be care
ful where you leave that car
parked overnight.
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The Nipponese are still try
ing to learn where those Amer
ican bombers took off from in
their recent raid on the four
largest cities of that island em
pire. But thus far Uncle Sam
has failed to satisfy their cu
riosity.
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Gasoline will be next on the
rationing program. May 15
has been set as the date for
registration of users of that
commodity, and the allowance
has not yet been determined,
but it is certain to be less than
the present per capita con
sumption. If you are inclined
to grumble about this newest
restriction on one of our lux
uries, “cuss” Hitler and his
fellow cut-throats.
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Hitler’s Sunday speech to
his fellow-Germans sounded
very much like that war-lord
has a case of the jitters. He
failed to promise his people an
early victory and used many
veiled threats against his own
countrymen. If the Fuehrer is
as smart as he has been cred
ited with being, he probably
senses an ominous future as
American military manpower
and production mount with
each passing day.
o
With the registration of all
males between 44 and 65 on
Monday, Uncle Sam now has
his full manpower registered.
This latest registration added
millions of men to those pre
viously registered—2o to 44
and while it is not expected
that those between the ages of
44 and 65 will see active mili
tary service, it is quite likely
that many of them will find
some place in the national de
fense program, thus relieving
younger men now thus em
ployed for military service.
We are going to lick the Japs
and Germans, if it takes the
last man of us to do the job.
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Ellis Arnall, Georgia’s at
torney general and candidate
for governor, is expected to
begin accelerating his cam
paign and limbering up his
guns for heavy action as he
goes on the air next Saturday
night at 10:15 over station]
WSB for another campaign
speech to Georgia voters. Ar
nall, thus far the only an
nounced candidate for the
governorship, set a precedent
last November 1 by announc
ing his entrance in the race
nearly ten months before this
Fall’s primary date of Septem
ber 9. Basing his platform on
the “abolition of Hitleristic
tactics in the state’s govern
ment and a return to true
democracy,” Arnall already
has been active in endeavoring
to secure parity pay for Geor
gia teachers, and is urging
Georgia’s citizens to register
early and take a more active
part in state affairs. The sub
ject of his Saturday radio ad
dress has not been disclosed 1 ,
but several surprises are hint
ed at in its announcement.
Consumers of sugar will
register May 4-7 for sugar ra
tioning books. In the mean
time no sugar is being sold,
and none will be sold in future
without rationing books. Those
who fail to register within the
period of May 4-7 will have to
wait two weeks before apply
ing to the local rationing board
’for their books.
o
If any one entertained any
doubts that the war in which
we are engaged would not en
| tail numerous sacrifices, those
doubts should have been dis
pelled, by the President’s mes
sage to the Congress on Mon
day and his radio talk Tuesday
night. Yes, sacrifices far
greater than most of us have
yet made.
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i STREAMLINING THE NATIONAL
DEBT
While we are planning to meet
and defeat the enemies of freedom
we are running up the national debt.
Nobody is complaining. We have
found something at last worth spend
ing our last dollar to win. We had
many fears while the national debt
was crawling up through the thirties
and into the forties, but billions no
longer alarm us. We have stream
lined the national debt and it is
traveling at great speed. Congress
keeps a limit on it, but the limit is
changed from time to time. There
are predictions that our country’s
bonded indebtedness will pass a
hundred billion, will almost surely
reach one hundred and fifty billion
in time, and if the war goes on long
enough it will reach two hundred
billion dollars. What’s money? If
we don’t win this war we will lose
our money anyhow. That is what
the man with money is thinking. It
is cheaper to win than it is to lose
is an expression you often hear.
We will worry about the debt after
the war. There will be worrying, of
course. If we save our country the
worry will not be so bad as it would
be were we to lose.
From time immemorial we have
heard the financial experts predict
ing that mounting national debts
and unbalanced budgets make for
inflation and ruin. They must have
changed their way of thinking, or
else they are taking some sevene
punishment. We are hunting other
methods of checking inflation.
The world seems to have been
disillusioned about money. It is not
what we used to think it was. It is
not as timid as it used to be. May
be it is distributed so well that it is
hard for a few to put it all in their
vaults and make it timid. Money is
running loose now everywhere. There
is enough for those who hoard it,
and then there is enough left for
those who believe- in spending it.
We will bequeath some nice debts
to those who come after us, but why
worry? If they do not think a free
country is worth their taxes, they
can still find a Hitler to whom they
can make assignment. Moultrie
Observer.
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THE MOONSHINER IS A
RESOURCEFUL FELLOW
The war has hit the moonshiner a
knockout blow. The priority pro
gram on metals has deprived him of
co'pper metal and the sugar ration
ing program will be even a heavier
blow. But he’s a resourceful fellow
and will no doubt continue to man
ufacture and peddle some kind of
a concoction for the gullible to im
bibe. —Dawson News.
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THE FUTURE INDUSTRIAL
SOUTH
Further evidence now comes for
ward in support of the idea that the
country is being made over before
our eyes, though the eyes do not al
ways see clearly what is going on.
The south was rapidly becoming
industrialized even before the war
crisis. But the war industries now
arising as if by magic are changing
the picture even more rapidly. Chem
icals, pulp and paper, metals, iron
and steel, rayon—all these and many
other industries are being built up
in the south as a result of the war
effort. The facilities thus built will
j remain when the war shall have
j been won.
They may well mean a death blow
■to the sectional specialization which
; has had so great an influence in the
I country’s social history in the past
'SO years.—Athens Banner-Herald.
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Simple Susie is of the opinion that
I many of the women of her church
• are more concerned about their
I stomachs than their souls. They
won’t attend a circle meeting unless
I they are fed.—Marietta Journal.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, w.trnv cfopcia
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/TFRANK PARKER e 'I
SLAP resounding
Two well-dressed young women
were riding in a bus. A middle-aged
man sat behind them and overheard
snatches of their conversation each
time the bus stopped.
“I get so sick of all this war
talk,” one of them said. “Why does
everybody worry about it when it’s
thousands of miles away. There’s no
more chance of it getting to this
country than there was in the last
war.”
“Yes and it’s such a nuisance—all
these priorities and shortages and
things,” said the other. “Why, al
ready -some of the dresses the stores
are trying to sell are a sight, and I
wouldn’t be surprised if they stopped
selling us silk stockings altogether
pretty soon.”
“Well,” said the first young wom
an, when the bus stopped again, “as
far as I’m concerned it’s all right
with me if the war goes on indefinite
ly. I’d rather you wouldn’t talk
about it, but; confidentially, my hus
band is making three times as much
money from the war as he ever made
before in his life. I’m beginning to
like this war.”
The man sitting behind rose from
his seat very deliberately. He
stepped alongside of the young wom
an, looked her straight in the eye,
raised his hand slowly and gave her
a resounding slap in the face. “That
is for my son who was killed in
Pearl Harbor,” he said. “And, that,”
as he slapped her a second time, “for
my son who is fighting for you in
the Philippines.”
BOIL ....... attitude
There are millions of us in this
country who need to feel that slap
in the face to make us realize what
it means to be at war.
I don’t think there are many who
are quite so cold-blooded as to ad
mit wanting the war to go on be
cause it is raising their living
standards —but I do know plenty
of business people and skilled work
ers who don’t hide their satisfaction
with the way the war has happened
to bolster up their incomes.
But the reason I think a lot of. us
need to feel that slap in the face (or
a reasonable facsimile), is not for
any unpatriotic attitude we are tak
ing but to make our blood boil with
the realization of what this war
means—to make us think of how
the families of soldiers who have
been killed must feel when they see
Us acting as if everything were nor
mal—to make us realize what this
country would be like if, through
our pleasure-as-usual attitude, the
Germans or Japs might find us un
able to resist invasion.
HOPE reality
So far, the spirit of a large por
tion of the American people is not
keyed up to a victory pace. Even
some of us who are eager to do all
we can toward winning the war
can’t seem to break away from
normal living and give ourselves over
to that blood-sweat-and-tears way of
life so necessary to the war effort.
We can’t get the war in our bones.
We have too much of a feeling that,
although some a»e suffering, a lot
of us may escape from any real sac
rifice. We live on hopes that the
German people will rebel, that our
forces may be a lot more powerful
than the newspapers tell us, that
the Russians will destroy the Ger
man army, that our navy has a se
cret weapon that will wipe out ene
my ships and submarines, that some
unexpected miracle will take place
which will suddenly bring the war
to a glorious close.
It’s all right to hope those things
—but it’s all wrong to depend on
any such vague possibilities. We
need to expect a long war, plan for
real hardships and, instead of hop
ing for personal escape from partic
ipation in the war, go out looking
for every door we can open to get
into it.
PREVENTION cure
Maybe we need more bands play
ing.
Maybe we need to see thousands
of soldiers marching through the
streets with their mothers and
sweethearts tearfully running along
i beside them.
I don’t know just what it is we
■ i need, but words don’t seem to be
;; enough. Words roll off our minds
I without cutting below the surface.
-’Hold Him, Sam’l, Don’t Let Him Run Aways
—"x L * *
WHAWN--7 ’ Wr' __
There is no question but that Amer
ica would rise up in a body to drive
out any enemy which tried to invade
us and destroy our homes—if we saw
enemy soldiers and enemy destruc
tion with our own eyes.
But the difficult thing, those who
are trying to build morale in this
country agree, is to arouse us before
we see war in order to force the
war into enemy lands before it comes
to us.
All our lives we’ve had it preach
ed at us that an ounce of prevention
is worthy a pound of cure, but we’ve
never taken prevention very seri
ously. We have excellent facilities
for patching up people hurt in auto
mobile accidents but we are lax about
preventing accidents.
Now, with the most horrible wave
of destruction ever known to man
approaching our shores, the future
of our nation depends on a quick re
versal of that attitude. We must give
every ounce of our energy to the
cause of preventing a disaster for
which there will be no cure.
SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV. ROBERT
H. HARPER
SUNDAY: THE DAY OF ACCLAIM
Lesson for May 3: Mark 11:1-11,
Luke 19:41-44
Golden Text: Mark 11:9.
In beginning the study of the
greatest week in all the ages of hu
man history, we consider first the
Triumphal Entry, or, as the lesson
caption has it, The Day of Acclaim.
We find useful lessons in several
things along the way of Christ’s en
try into Jerusalem —the lowly prep
aration made for the King of kings
in harmony with his voluntary hu
miliation, the obedience of the two
disciples sent for the colt, the ready
assent of the owners, and the answer
the disciples made when question
ed, “The Lord hath need of him.”
Anything the Lord needs should be
gladly given. If a sufficient number
of Christians would now consecrate
their all to Jesus, preparation would
certainly be made for his triumphal
entry into all the affairs of men.
It is sad to suspect that many
who hailed Jesus with glad acclaim
on Palm Sunday turned against him
in the days that followed. Certain
it is that, while a multitude went
with him on the Day of Acclaim,
there were few left him at the last.
On the way into the city, at a spot
on the road from Behany where the
Holy City was first seen, Jesus
paused and wept over it as with
prophetic eye he saw Jerusalem en
circled by mighty Roman armies
under Titus.
The great thought of the lesson is
that Jesus is King. May God
strengthen every reader to be true
under all circumstances —that their
profession may be sincere. Whatev
er the difficulties that may beset
them in following Jesus, no harm
will come to the souls of those who
give themselves in unquestioned loy
alty to the King.
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Patched pants, half-soled shoes
and tight belts are in store for ev
ery one of us before we win this
war, but if it takes that and more,
it will be much easier than being a
slave of the axis.—Dawson News.
The DOCTOR
by W.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D.
SEE YOUR DOCTOR FIRST
My office files contain the
records of more than 10,000
men, women and children who
have subscribed during the
past 25 years to my method of
exercise. They come from all
walks of life; rich, poor and
in-between. They represent
every type of physical form;
fat, thin and normal. They
vary in ages from eight to
eighty. The stories contained
in those records are fascinat
ing, but they do not interest
me nearly so deeply as anoth
er list—a list containing the
names of those who came to
the gymnasium for consulta
tion but never returned.
Hardly a day passes with
out a visit from some man who
tells me that he wants to get
a little exercise. . He will say
that he isn’t quite fit, that he’s
a bit sluggish, or has lost his
pep. He felt great during his
college days when he was get
ting lots of exercise and he
knows that a “course of
sprouts” will put him back on
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpt* from Early County New*
of April 28, 1892.)
MR. LISBON AVERITT -was in
town last Tuesday.
LAST TUESDAY was Memorial
Day and was greatly celebrated in
Blakely.
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MARSHAL CHANCY, with a large
force of hands, did a good job in
cleaning the cemetery last, Monday.
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THE DEATH of Mrs. Chloe Lane,
widow of Joseph P. Lane, is chron
icled in The News this week.
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MR. K. W. KING, of Florida, and
Miss Mattie King, of Blakely, were
married Wednesday, Rev. W. F. Hix
on officiating.
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MR. H. H. BUCHANNON, of Co
lumbia, was a visitor here Sunday.
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MESSRS. R. W. Davis and A. J.
Singletary went to Whitney last
Monday.
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MRS. T. J. COX, of Macon, is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Williams.
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MRS. C. H. PERRYMAN and Mrs.
J. B. Shaw are visiting in Thomas
ville.
his feet again. When I ques
tion him I discover that he
hasn’t seen a doctor for years.
Such a man may be sure
that exercise will be beneficial,
but I’m not. lam well aware
that in most cases exercise is
desirable but I see no reason
for working in the dark. I
can understand how any man
who has been active for years
loathes a suggestion that he is
no longer capable of doing
what he could do with ease
20 years ago. He thinks the
“slow and easy” slogan is sis
sy stuff. He doesn’t need a
i doctor to tell him what to do.
What happens in these cases
'will always remain a mystery.
Many of them, I suppose, de
cide to get their expercise in
some other way since I insist
upon a physical check-up. But
I do insist upon it, not only for
those who come to the gym
nasium, but for those who do
their work at home. Don’t
take a chance. Consult your
doctor and be sure that the
exercise you are doing to im
prove your health will in no
way endanger it.
MISSES Theresa Swann and An
nie Davis, of Lime Branch, visited
relatives here Sunday.
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MESSRS. W. A. Jordan, L. E.
Black, J. B. Chancy and E. L. Fryer
are on 7 a fishing trip to the Dead
Lakes.
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MR. AND MRS. J. R. Mills and
daughter, Mr. A. S. Mills and Mrs.
Ben Mills were visitors to Blakely
Tuesday.
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OVER SII,OOO has been sub
scribed to rebuild Andrew Female
College at Cuthbert. Work will be
started at once on a brick edifice.
PINE VIEW NEWS, by Bumbo,
tells us that: “Rev. Samuel Ely, of
Sowhatchee, visited here last Thurs
day . . . Mrs. Jennie Williams, Mrs.
Chewning and son, Johnnie, and Miss
Laura visited Mrs. Hammond this
week . . . Mr. Hiram Kinchen, of
Cuba, was over last week ... Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Blocker and family
i visited Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Spence
I last Saturday . . . Mr. J. A. Cannon,
lof Sowhatchee, Racketville’s worthy
i Sunday School superintendent, de
livered a splendid address last Sab
| bath.”