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©@@®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®@&®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® ® ® ® g i Governor Talmadge Has Supported | | Your Schools With Money—Not With i i Promises as His Predecessor Did i ® t ® s g Don’t you consider Georgia’s Public Schools the most important public institution in the State? If the boys and girls of ® Early County and the other counties of the State are given a high school education, don’t you think that fact paramount to all g g other issues raised in this campaign? @ ® Talmadge’s opponent and his cohorts have become so hysterical about the so-called discrediting of higher institutions of ®, J learning that they’ve entirely forgotten the public schools where the great masses of the people get all the schooling they g J ever get! ® g HAS TALMADGE FORGOTTEN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS DURING THE PAST TWO YEARS? What does the rec- J 3 ord show in Early County Schools? ® ® When Talmadge took office in January, 1941, isn’t it true that the teachers of Early County had been paid only part of ® g their salaries for three years past? Isn’t it true that for two successive years prior to Talmadge taking office that the schools g ® of Early County closed before the end of the spring term due to lack of funds, except that four of the larger schools remained g g open by borrowing money and seeking public donations? g. g Isn’t it true that your County Board of Education during 1937-38, 1938-39, 1939-40 terms of schools had to borrow money g ® constantly from local banks —loans ranging from $1,000.00 to $10,000.00 — in order to keep Early County Schools open? g ® When Talmdage took office in 1941 the State of Georgia owed Early county teachers literally thousands of dollars in g 8 back salaries. Are there any back salaries due the teachers now? No! Talmadge has paid them every cent due them, as ® well as kept up current salaries. It hasn’t been necessary for the Early County Board of Education to borrow any more money! g @ a ® What have these increased funds enabled your Board of Education to do besides pay the teachers in full to date? Oh, © yes! those twenty odd steel body, comfortable, safe school busses for your children! They cost more than $13,000.00, and g ® they are paid for in full! And another thing—the Bookmobile which enables the rural people to enjoy library facilities same S as the folks in town. This was made possible by increased school funds contributed to this Federal Aid Project! g I ELECT TALMADGE AND YOUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE AS THEY HAVE SINCE is? @ | JANUARY, 1941! g ® ® ® @ © @ ® I Early County Talmadge Committee ! ® s B@®®®®®@®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® THIS WEEK S' All the heroes aren’t in the armed services. We’re thinking just now of the Eirly county youth who, a few weeks ago, rescued three girls from drowning. His name is Pete Smith. A more heroic deed can cardly be imagined. At the risk of his own life, his energy almost spent, he made three trips into the water to snatch three lives from a watery grave. After rescuing one of the girls and carrying her up a steep bank to safety, a dynamic feat with in itself, he went back into the water and dragged another to safety. By this time he had almost absorbed all his energy, but he jumped back into the water to bring the third to safety. Older men on the banks pleaded with him not to try the impossible. But their pleading went unheeded and the youth went in again. This young lady had already gone down for the last time, but Pete Smith dived down, found the unconscious girl lying on the bottom. He brought her to safety and be gan artificial respiration. His energy was gone. He was completely fa tigued. Another man on the banxs helped to apply artificial respiration, which brought life back to the drown ing girl. Yes, this lad is just as much a hero as if he had single handedly destroyed an enemy ma chine gun nest. His own life was hanging in the balance each ime he went into the water. And cer tainly he was aware of th e dangei, because the bystanders on the bank were shouting for him not to trj the impossible. But just the same he did the impossible and saved an other life. Such bravery should not go unheralded. Pete Smith deserves the Carnegie medal for heroism and bravery. Bernard Herring has joined the Army Air Corps. Well, what s news about this? So have a lot of othei people, including Bill Duke. Nothing except that Bernard happens to be one of our favorite persons, bo is Bill, for that matter, but this para- graph is about Bernard. Bernard is one of those rare specimens who possesses the enviable qualities which makes everybody like him. Never heard anybody speak anything but admiration for him. He possess es a keen wit which will keep you laughing all the time you are in his company. He loves a g’ood joke and will laugh just as hard if the joke is on himself as if on some one else. He is a born optimist. He always sees the bright side. In fact, we doubt if he knows there is a dark side. Now that he goes to join this columnist’s other stalwart fighting friends —to name a few, Ralph Hobbs, “Sunshine” Grier, James Bry ant, Alex Howell, John Deal, DuPont Strong, Carter Davis, Ottis Hall, F. B. Martindale, and a host of others —we are predicting an early Allied victory. By Earl “Tige” Pickle Some one has given us a subscrip tion to a Honolulu newspaper. The name of this kind benefactor stiil re mains a mystery. But we’ve learn ed more about Hawaii from reading the Star-Bulletin in the past few weeks than we ever could have by studying geography. Life seems to be going on there much the same as at home. People over there are be ing born, getting married (Note: marriage comes first), dying, buying defense bonds and working in de fense plants just the same as in the good old U. S. A. In fact, certain parts of Hawaii are buying more war bonds and stamps than then quota. The war, with its flying for ! tresses and fast pursuit ships, has i certainly brought far-away places right to our front door. Time was, I not so long ago, when we thought 'Hawaii a distant land overrun witn I enchanting and seductive dark ; skinned ladies wearing grass skirls who had nothing more to do tnan ! dance the hula on the snow-white 'beaches while a tropical moon snone idown from above. Hawaii seemed to IUS to be a land of pineapples and I eternal romance. But it is a land I just like ours. Inhabitants work, i fight and play much the same as iwe With emphasis on the fight, For it was this territory which was I first visited by the little yellow men 'from the Land of the Rising Sun. ; Here is located Pearl Harbor. (Note: Most American newspapers 1 carry the slogan, “Remember Pearl Harbor,” but not the Honolulu Star- Bulletin. On the front page in bold-face letters are these words: “Remember Make Island. For several days now your report er has been spending a good bit of 'his time in bed upon the recommen dation of his doctor. To pass tne time away we have been listening vO the radio. All kinds of programs, good, bad and indescribable; soap operas, singing commercials, ail the cigarette each of which EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA HOMEW>® FRONT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ' SOLEMN NEWS— Scores of trucks and busses in the southeastern states are already idle —chocked up on wooden blocks without tires. That’s solemn news for the home front. News that our boys have begun to recapture tropic rubber shores from Japan is cheering, but rubber for civilians is still out of the pic ture. Folks who travel are going to get their toes stepped on and find many an elbow in their faces in transportation jams by September, says ODT. Drivers are warned to save tires by reducing speeds and making fewer stops. EUROPE’S FOOD SHORTAGE — While our government is buying a million pounds of vegetables to ship our fighting men, shortages harass the conquered people of Europe. In Norway, onions, picked in a marsh, were sold at 49 cents a pound. Could you feed five people on two pounds of vegetables a week? In France, former land of good eat is pronounced by the announcers as the best (and he can prove it by “in dependent, scientific research”), sym phonies and the nasal noise of the hill-william bands, but nothing has grated on our nerves quite so much as the tune, “He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings.” For some reason, every program manager thinks his, program is not quite complete unless this tune is played, which accounts for the fact that we have heard it between four and five thousand times within a period of two weeks. Why don’t we turn the radio off? What for? Don’t your neighbors have ra dios? Besides every delivery boy knows this tune and insists upon whistling it as soon as he turns on Church street. By now we suppose all of you first-aid pupils know what to do if you find an injured man in an auto mobile. If he is conscious, pull him from the car, lay him on the ground in a comfortable position and call a doctor. If he is unconscious, let him stay in the car, take off his tires and scram away from there as fast a# you can. ing, that’s about all there is to keep the conquered citizens alive. Dairy products are so scarce that in Ger many they’re using lubricating oil for butter. LARGE CROPS HERE— WPB figures show 350,000,000 quarts of food will be canned in the southeast this year, and farmers are producing record amounts of wheat, corn, cheese, eggs, poultry and cereals. The government is paying good prices in the South for dehydrated potatoes, onions, cab bage, beets, carrots and turnips. Millions of pounds are needed for the army. The OPA now believes there will be no decrease in the amount of our sugar rations for at least another year. Sugar Stamp No. 8 is good for five pounds, but it must last over a longer period of time. WORK CLOTHING PEGGED— During the last war the mail order price of overalls jumped frojn 82c to $2.95. A new rise was threaten ed last week, but OPA took steps to see that work clothing doesn’t sky rocket this time. Boy Scouts have volunteered to help control inflation by delivering leaflets which explain price control to every home in the country. JUNIOR SALVAGE CORPS— School children will be organized into a “Junior Salvage Corps” to conduct a house-to-house scrap can vass starting October 5 . . . Some war relics are being scrapped to re lieve the acute metal shortage, but things of true historic value should not be sacrificed until we clean out all the back-yard junk. The ornamental yucca plant is go ing to pinch-hit for hemp and jute fibers which we used to get from the Far East. It can be used to make rope, twine, burlap, and ma terials used in mattresses and in up holstery. Civil Service announces many job openings connected with the war effort. • The post office can furnish details. BLAKELY CHAPTER NO. 282 ORDER EASTERN STAR Holds regular meeting nights ev ery second and fourth Thursday nights, 7:30 o’clock p. m. MRS. SALLY GOOCHER, Worthy Matron. Mrs. Nora Scarborough, Secretary. WANTED! HARDWOOD LOGS! Highest Price Paid CONTACT SIMMONS BROTHERS ARLINGTON, GA. ♦♦♦♦♦♦ WE’RE PREPARED! ♦ Let our BLUE RIBBON SERVICEMAN check over AJ) and adjust your McCor- If ( mick-Deering Tractor and y\ Farm Machines. Let him 1 replace any worn parts that might cause a breakdown. BSSBSU Our bins of Genuine IHC Parts and our Blue Ribbon Service Department are maintained for your con venience and protection. MIDDLETON HARDWARE COMPANY WHAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS AND WHAT SHE TEACHES A Statement of Catholic Doctrine—Pamphlet Mail ed on Request. Address: 2699 Peachtree Road, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia : :