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Blakely, Ga., June 18, 1942
TIGHTER GASOLINE CONTROL
ON THE WAY
The gasoline rationing plan, which
has been tested in the eastern
states and found wanting, is now
being revamped to get rid of ob
jectionable loopholes, and the new
plan, originally scheduled to go into
effect on July 1 has been postponed
to July 15. To take care of the
extra two weeks’ lapse of time, it
is announced that the remaining
units on rationing cards now held
by motorists will be good for six
gallons of gasoline instead of three.
Immediately after the present ra
tioning plan went into effect it was
apparent to motorists in the East
that it wouldn’t work as it was meant
to work because it depended too
much on voluntary co-operation in
stead of enfoycable regulations.
In the first place, ration boards,
which decided how much gasoline
each motorist was entitled to, show
ed wide differences in judgment.
In some cases people who were in
real need of more gasoline were
unable to convince an over-strict ra
tioning board of that need. In oth
er cases, the rationers were over
generous with their friends.
Under the new rationing plan, the
boards will be subject to more
careful checking. Everyone will be
given a “A” book, entitling him to
a minimum supply of gasoline, and
will then have to prove in writing
the need for any extra supply. The
ration boards, in turn, will realize
that those requests will be subject
to inspection and won’t take the
chance of playing favorites.
The other major problem in the
present set-up is that there is no
control over the gasoline stations.
They may punch ration cards or not
punch them, as they wish. They are
not apt to get in trouble if they
give extra gasoline to their friends.
Under the new system, the gaso
line station owners will collect cou
pons from the automobile owners
and will only be able to get gasoline
for their stations by turning in these
coupons. Thus, if they give any
gasoline without collecting a coupon
they will reduce the amount they
will be able to obtain in the future.
These changes indicate that the
government is rapidly learning this
lesson: mandatory regulations are
more acceptable to the people than
voluntary methods, when the volun
tary methods offer an opportunity
for the selfish minority to take ad
vantage of the co-operative majority.
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An official communique on the
Coral Sea naval battle with the Japs
early in May shows heavy losses in
flicted on the Nipponese. Official
announcement of the losses inflicted
on the enemy in the Midway Island
battle has not yet been made, but
reliable information is that the Japs
also suffered serious losses in their
attempted invasion of the island.
American losses in each of these en
gagements are said to have been
relatively small in comparison with
those suffered by the treacherous
little yellow imps.
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Several thousand additional Amer
ican soldiers have been landed in
Ireland, the trip across being made
without the loss of life. Accompany
ing this contingent of fighting men
were shiploads of planes, tanks and
guns. All this adds up to the belief
that American fighting men are soon
to join their British allies in the
opening up of another front on the
European continent, with an effort
to knock Germany out of the war
during the current year.
A nation-wide campaign to collect
scrap rubber is under way this
week and gasoline service stations
are acting as receiving stations for
this very vital and much-needed com
modity. The government is paying
a cent a pound for all scrap rubber
and urges every one to search thor
oughly the home and premises for
discarded rubber articles and deliver
them to the nearest service station.
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Fishing licenses for the 1942-’43
season are now on sale at the office
of the sheriff of Early eounty, it is
announced by State Wildlife Director
Zack D. Cravey. The Director ex
pressed appreciation for the cooper
ation given conservation by fisher
men during the past season and said
he is appealing for such support
again.
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Newspaper advertising will cer
tainly be the candidates’ best bet
this year. It has always been the
most economical and most effective
means of reaching the voters, but
the people won’t be able to travel
to create big political gatherings
this year newspaper advertising
will be the candidates’ best way of
“filling the gap.”—Cairo Messenger.
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About a year ago Charles Lind
bergh said that it would never be
possible to base an air force in Eng
land of sufficient strength to be a
serious threat to the European con
tinent. Wonder how he explains
what happened at Cologne, Essen,
and other points in that area. Sure
ly he doesn’t think the 1,000-planes
a-night started from anywhere oth
er than England.—Valdosta Times.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Training and Instruction in Meeting
Air Raid Emergencies Needed
Editor Early County News:
I have just read in a daily paper
an account of the graduation of 88
air raid wardens at Moultrie. It
seems to me it would be a fine plan
for Early county to put on such a
school. Our wardens need some in
tensive training and special instruc
tion in meeting air raid emergencies.
'Many of the wardens do not real
ize the importance of the present
set-up in defense of our country
against air raids. They are some
times careless and indifferent. Some
fail to show up at the post when
their hours for duty come around.
We all know there is no need for
men sitting around the post right
now. But it is like having fire in
surance: “To have it when you need
it you must buy it when you don’t.”
It will be entirely too late to organ
ize and train air wardens when we
begin to see enemy planes fly over
by the hundreds or by the thousands.
Uncle Sam is spending perhaps a
million dollars a day to have these
observation posts manned every min
ute of every day. We should trust
the wisdom of our leaders that this
system gives us billions of dollars
insurance for the future—not even
to mention the lives that may be
saved from death and injury.
The service of the warden is vol
untary and without compensation, as
it should be. It is a patriotic con
tribution. Surely in times like these
our people will gladly cooperate in
such a work. The farmers have
grass, the merchants have a business
to keep going, and all have important
matters to demand their time and
attention. A good citizen, none the
less, will be on hand promptly to
take his turn at his observation post,
along with his neighbors—and count
it a privilege to do so.
F. B. MELTON.
Know Your Timber
Editor Early County News:
At long last the people of Georgia
are becoming tree conscious. On all
sides there is growing evidence that
Georgia citizens are beginning to
realize that the conservation of the
state’s forest resources is not the
responsibility of any small group or
even of the forest owners them
selves. Regardless of who may hold
the titles to the forests, all citizens,
men and women, boys and girls, have
a stake in them.
In the rural rehabilitation program
now in progress in Greene county,
an excellent forest conservation plan
has been put into effect. Participat
ing in the program with farmers and
landowners are leaders in every
field. The value of the forests and
conservation methods are being
taught to the youth in the schools.
The Board of County Commissioners
I has offered a standing reward of
$25 for evidence leading to the
conviction of any person setting for
est fires. County police are cooper
ating by arresting all incendiary sus
pects. Fire wardens are on the
job in every district in the county.
Civic clubs are lending a hand in the
educational campaign.
When every county in the state is
organized and working on a program
of forest conservation similar to
the one in Greene county, Georgia
will have the foundation for an in
dustry that will go far toward bring
ing new economic independence to
the state.
The recent order of the War Pro
duction Board, freezing for 60 days
the sale of softwood construction
lumber for non-military purposes, is
indicative of the growing importance
of forest conservation. With pine
trees taking their place with metals
|as key material in the defense pro
gram, Georgia must put an end for
all time to forest waste. Those who
i are responsible for forest fires, ei
thed carelessly or deliberately.
J should be dealt with as any other
I saboteur who gives aid to the enemy.
EMILY WOODWARD.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
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Washington, D. C. (NWNS)—-Al
though there have been many new
“alphabetical” branches of govern
ment established during the past
two years—the OPA, the WPB, the
OFF, etc. —some of the old favorites
which became famous under the New
Deal are now vanishing. The house
of representatives has voted against
the continuation of the CCC (Civil
ian Conservation Corps), the Presi
dent himself has asked for a major
reduction in the size of the WPA
(Works Progress Administration),
and the NYA (National Youth Ad
ministration), a favorite of Mrs.
Roosevelt’s, may be curtailed.
All of these groups were estab
lished originally because of the un
employment situation. The reason
for their existence has now pretty
well disappeared in view of the
labor shortage in many industries
and on farms. The NYA may be
continued to the extent that it trains
young men for skilled war produc
tion jobs, but it looks as though the
CCC, which at one time had 300,000
men in its camps, will be closed up
entirely. Investigation shows that
many of the CCC camps are in
areas where men are urgently need
ed for farm work, so the men who
will be dismissed from these camps
will be urged to go to work on the
farms.
During the past year the depart
ment of agriculture has been urging
farmers to increase their production
of food in order to have enough sup
plies to feed the United Nations as
well as our own nation. The farm
ers have responded admirably—but
to the extent that with many farm
boys having joined the armed forces
the problem of harvesting and car
ing for crops has become a major
one. Young women and school boys
and girls have been urged to volun
teer their services to prevent any
food from going to waste.
Recently a new committee called
the Wartime Food committee was
named by Donald Nelson, chairman
of the War Production Board, to
handle the gigantic problem of de
termining the food needs of the
United Nations and seeing to it that
those needs are met to the full ex
tent of our facilities. The commit
tee has asked for reports from oth
er countries on their needs and is
also surveying the situation here.
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard,
who is head of the new committee,
is not yet ready to say whether or
not we will be restricted on _ the
purchase of some domestic food
items, but tie made it clear that the
armed forces of all United Nations
will be given precedence over civil
ians.
In spite of the greatly increased
need for food from the farms of this
nation, one of the major problems
appears to be storage and process
ing, rather than production. All in
dications are that this year’s crops
will be the greatest in history.
But the committee faces prob
lems like these
This year’s crop of wheat, coupled
with present surpluses, is expected
to give us a two-years’ supply. Stor
age facilities cannot be readied to
hold all of the wheat and much of it
may consequently have to be piled
on the ground. Should the commit
tee ask farmers to reduce their acre
age when they do their fall sowing
or should we attempt to store up
still greater supplies for the future?
Another problem is the record hog
crop to be marketed next winter.
Meat packing facilities do not seem
to be great enough to handle the
expected crop. Should new packing
facilities be rushed through, should
the marketing period be lengthened
or what other plan can be worked
out to see that there is no waste?
Then there is the problem of the
greatly increased production of soy
beans and peanuts, requested so that
oil could be obtained from them to
take the place of oils which we for
merly imported and can’t get at pres
ent. There is a definite shortage of
processing equipment to get oil
from these crops. New facilities
probably can’t be provided in time.
Can present processing equipment
be speeded up to carry the whole
load?
Similar adjustment problems con
tinue to face all branches of indus
try as well as agriculture. Although
our national income is at a record
high and millions of people have
better jobs than they ever had be
fore, there are also a record number
losing their jobs and their business
es as a result of war time restric-
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tions.
In many cases the men who lose
employment in one industry can soon
find a new job in war work, but
there is a major adjustment problem
which is only partly solved.
Many hardships have resulted
from necessary but drastic rulings
by the Office of Price Administra
tion. The new price ceilings have
for example slowed up the women’s
clothes industry to the extent that
150,000 people may be made tem
porarily idle; the gasoline restric
tions have meant loss of jobs not on
ly to gas station attendants but to
thousands of people working in road
stands and pleasure resorts who de
pend on the automobile to bring
their customers to them.
Hard as it may seem, there is no
solution which will not interfere
with our war program to save the
job of many in these groups. But a
large percentage of them can shift
to war work or farm work for the
duration.
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SIX-INCH
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By REV. ROBERT
H HARPER
The Task Committed
To the Disciples
Leson for June 21: Matthew 28:16-
20; Mark 16:14-20; Luke 25:49-53.
Golden Text: Mark 16:15.
A young man once asked the Duke
of Wellington if he thought it well
to try to evangelize the heathen.
The Iron Duke turned upon the
questioner and asked, “What are
your marching orders, sir?” In the
last meeting of Jesus with his dis
ciples, he gave them their marching
orders, his last command, which
should settle for all Christians the
question of evangelizing the heath
en and all men everywhere who are
without Christ, regardless of ques
tionings and difficulties.
It was a stupendous task commit
ted unto those men who had no great
patrons nor worldly influence, but
it was backed by the authority of
him to whom all power had been
given, and they had the promise of
his presence even unto the end of
the world.
In the account of Mark we find
the Great Commission, as in Mat
thew, but also more details, includ
ing the response of the disciples. It
is said they “went forth, and preach
ed everywhere, the Lord working
with them, and confirming the word
by the signs that followed.”
Also in Luke it is said that the
disciplbs “worshiped him, and re
turned to Jerusalem with great joy;
and were continually in the temple,
blessing God.”
We as Christians should share in
the task that was committed to the
disciples. How can we share? Us
ually through the church of which
we are members. Even now, when
the work is circumscribed on account
of war, there is some opportunity to
do missionary work, and doubtless
there will come to the churches an
unparalleled opportunity when the
war is over.
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An economist is the man who can
roll million and billion around on
his tongue but has to get somebody
to endorse his note when he wants
a loan.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News]
of June 16, 1892.)
MR. AND MRS. O. E. HALL, of
the Rock Hill neighborhood, have a
new baby boy in their home.
* * *
MR. T. W. WADE returned from
Macon last week.
* * »
MR. HARTER KING was over
from Columbia Sunday.
* * *
"COL?R. H. POWELL and Mr. D.
W. James went to Albany last Tues
day.
• * *
MISSES Willie Haddock, of Da
mascus, and Eunice Colley, of Arl
ington, are the guests of Mrs. John
Henderson.
* * »
MAYHAW NEWS: “Messrs. J. T.
Nix and J. W. Floyd have the brag
cotton crops . . . Mr. Allen Murchi
son, of Racketville, is visiting the
family of Mr. Tobe Pyle at Hot Pond
. . . Prof. George has a good school
at Mayhaw.”
* * *
THE People’s Party, the so-called
Third Party, met and organized in
Blakely Wednesday. The following
executive committee was elected:
Dr. Y. T. Urquhart, chairman; B. C.
Minter, secretary; 510th district, L.
C. Weaver; 1141st district, J. C.
Chandler; 430th district, T. S. Min
ter; 866th district, Dr. J. J. King;
1164th district, Dr. M. F. Pickle.
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MESSRS. John Hodges and T. S.
Minter, of the 26th district, were in
town Wednesday.
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CAPTAIN MARTIN, who has been
conductor on the Extension since
Capt. Guerry left, has been suc
ceeded by Capt. Rickett.
• * *
MRS. W. B. STANDIFER and
children left Tuesday for Gaines
ville, Ga., where they will spend some
time.
* * *
PROF. G. M. McDANIEL’S school
at Sowhatchee closed last Friday. An
interesting program was presented.
Those listed on the program included
William Ely, Azola Lasseter, Oscar
Lane, Susie Lane, J. I. Perry, Robert
W. Lane, Joe Anglin, Holly Alston,
Eula Lane, Walter Jones, Henry
Martin, Ambrose Martin, Lena Las
seter, Adah Wiley, Jessie Elmore,
Fannie Jones, George Elmore, Lena
Lane, Rufus Lane, Taylor Anglin,
Nannie Weaver, Espy Anglin, Abda
Ely, Pinkie Weaver, Eugene Martin,
Mary Weaver, Henry Anglin, Minnie
Weaver, Esper Spence, Thomas
Lane, lola Ritchie, Hugh Martin,
Eliza Chambers. Miss Ida Lane was
the musician.
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A chewing flea is eating pepper
plants down about Griffin. If he
likes hot stuff someone should give
him a snort of Georgia moonshine,
and he would be off the peppers for
life.—Dalton Citizen.