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Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
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Blakely, Ga., September 24, 1942
This doesn’t touch us, but
the editor of The Dawson News
offers the following advice:
“Invest the money you won on
the election in war bonds so
that our country may remain
free to hold another election.”
The courageous fight waged
by our Russian allies to save
Stalingrad in the face of un
paralleled assaults by mech
anized force# of the German
army has been nothing short
of miraculous, and no one
need longer doubt the loyalty
and bravery of the Soviets.
When the history of the pres
ent war is written, the battle
for the industrial city on the
great Volga river will occupy
a prominent place in that rec
ord of .this great world war.
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The state Democratic con
vention to be held in Macon on
October 7 will probably have
a record attendance. Friends
of Ellis Arnall, nominee for
governor of Georgia, will have
control over the convention,
naming the delegates from 89
counties, and most of these
delegations will comprise eight
or more, who will be given
fractional votes in the conven
tion proceedings. Early county
will send an even dozen, each
having a one-sixth vote. Most
of the successful candidates in
the recent primary are expect
ed to attend the Macon gather
ing, and it is not doubted that
the conclave will be a happy,
old-fashioned Democratic love
feast.
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The “Rev.” Gerald L. K.
Smith, many years ago the
chief rabble rouser of the
Huey P. Long outfit in Louisi
ana, and since then engaged
in varied “occupations,” was a
candidate for tl^’^TRepublican
senatorial nomination in the
recent Michigan primary. The
chief plank in the platform of
the former Long lieutenant
was “tires for everybody,”
a promise impossible of fulfill
ment but one designed to
catch the unthinking voter.
Well, Mr. Smith failed to win
the nomination, which should
be pleasing news to the entire
country, for it is another evi
dence that the demagogue is
having a tough time, political
ly speaking, these days.
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The newspapers of Georgia
have been asked by Donald
Nelson, chief of the W ar Pro
ductioil Board, to take the
ill a renewal of the campaign
for scrap metals, particularly
steel. The News has a
sentative at a zone meeting in
Camilla today, and will
ably have an announcement
make regarding the drive in
its next issue. There is a defi
nite shortage of scrap steel,
and a slow-down is faced in
the production of war
ments unless all available scrap
js turned in at an early date.
The shortage is so serious that
some plants producing war Early ma
terials face a shut-down.
countians are going to be asked
to do their full part in the ap
proaching drive, so News read
ers are asked to get ready to
“throw their scrap into the
scrap” as soon as campaign
plans are announced.
Fall has officially arrived,
and the crispness of the air
early these mornings is a re
lief from the excessively high
temperatures of last week.
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Mr. Farmer, take care of
that farm machinery. New
farm machinery has been put
under a rationing program and
its sale is prohibited except
under conditions now being
set up by the Department of
Agriculture. That farmer is
wise who takes every precau
tion to preserve the farming
implements he now has OH
hand.
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FARMERS MEET THE
CHALLENGE
Farmers in south Georgia and
north Florida have joined with farm
ers in other parts of the nation in
setting a new, all-time record in agri
cultural production this year. I* 1
nearly every instance the production
goals announced by the United States
Department of Agriculture are being
exceeded. The nation was aked to
raise 83,000,000 hogs for slaughter;
105,000,000 are being produced.
The goal for milk was 125,000,000,
000 pounds; 130,000,000,000 pounds
will be produced. The government
asked for 960,000,000 cans of toma
toes; over 1,000,000,000 cans will
be supplied. Despite the enormous
increases in food production in the
country this year, there are some
shortages because of the fact that
the demand for food has never been
great as it is at this time. Farm
ers of the nation have a wonderful
opportunity to bring about adjust
ments for increased food production
for home use and for sale.—Valdosta
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TODAY
and
TOMORROW
Bj DON ROBINSON
V
death minutes
“Suppose you’re ordered to hold i
a position until you’re killed or cap
tured; the precious minutes you can
hold U p the enemy’s advance is worth
a gun and a man. You’re expenda
ble. You know the situation and
you don’t mind. But when you
come back here, after seeing your
friends give their lives to save min
utes and see people here waste
hours and days and even weeks . . .”
That’s Lieutenant Bulkeley speak
; n g, hero of the Philippines, who res
cued General MacArthur, who es
ca ped death a dozen times only by
miracles and who, when interviewed
f or an article published in Reader’s
Digest, told the most heart-rending
story which so far has come out of
this war.
That last sentence, about soldiers
giving their lives to save minutes,
while people here are wasting days
and weeks, should be posted on ev
ery building in Washington. And
not only in Washington. The full
meaning of it needs to be brought
home to men in factories who con
sider striking because like
more money or don’t like their boss,
to employers who delay production
to wrangle with the government over
some inconsequential clause in a
contract—and to the people all over
this country who want to help but
are not doing all they can because
of social engagements, or just plain
laziness.
WASHINGTON laxity
Let’s talk about Washington first.
Out in the Pacific, in Egypt, in
planes over France and Germany,
the finest of our nation’s young- men
are giving their lives every day—
perhaps every minute—to protect
our country and our liberty. We are
sending supplies to them, but if even
one gun, or tank, or plane, which
might be added to their force is de
layed by Washington inefficiency, it
means lives are unnecessarily lost.
In war times we become hardened
to death—unless jt is the death of
some loved one, some close friend,
or husband, or son.
Take the case of a mother who
has spent over 20 years raising her
son, sacrificing to give him an edu
cation and an opportunity to make
good in the world. To her that son
becomes her life. Imagine how she
must feel if she realizes, when she
gets the notice of his death, that it
could have been prevented if—if
what?
If he had had the support of a
tank or a plane which desk men in
Washington didn’t order in time. Or
if a plane, out on the high seas,
had started out a day earlier instead
of being delayed by some govern
ment worker having to leave the of
fice early to have cocktails with one
of his girl friends.
I don’t blame Washington partic
ularly. We all still have a lax atti
tude about this war. But it’s time
we realized that the very delay costs
lives.
LABOR blood
And now for the workers in war
factories.
I don’t agree that they are all ov
erpaid. .Some of them are still eai n-1
ing a wage on which I would not
like to try to support my family.
But in most cases they are earn
ing more than they have for many
years.
Not long ago there was a strike in
a plane factory because the workers
Wanted a dollar a day more. Maybe
they should have had it. Maybe the
company’s earnings were high
enough to pay it and still make a
profit. But the fact that they Con
ordered their selfish demands more
important than the lives of the men
needed those planes can never
be forgiven,
I admit it is almost impossible for
those of us who are fas from the
war fronts to measure our actions in
terms of life and death—but any
worker or employer who lets any
thing interfere with war production
can put this down as a certainty:
every delay in production is being
paid for with the blood of American
soldiers.
SCRAP bullets
And it’s not just Washington and
labor and employers who should take
the blame for blood being spilled.
Every one of us could probably do
something we haven’t done which
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TEACHERS GET A BREAK.
The teachers get a sudden increase
in their salaries of 25 per cent. This
will help the hard pressed school
boards and superintendents who have
been bidding against employers in
war work for talent. We do not
know why the raise in the pay of
teachers came on the morning after
the election unless it was the reward
for the good work the teachers did
on election day. If they did as well
in all of the counties as they did in
Colquitt county, we strongly approve
the action of the governor in prompt
ly increasing their pay. It is also
to be noted that the governor has or
dered that all pension applicants be
put on the payroll. This will take
a little time, as it takes a lot of in
vestigating now to get a pensioner
on the list and the federal govern
ment refuses to furnish the money
if they are not put on there accord
ing to the regular system. Another
thing that stands in the way is that
the welfare offices are short of help
and find it impossible to fill vacan
cies with salaries prevailing at what
they are now. However, some good
can come to the old people from
that order from the governor, ■ and
we are sure that the welfare workers
will make the most of the opportun
ity working overtime to get every
possible new pensioner added to the
list.—‘Moultrie Observer.
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FOR PROTECTION
In urging compulsory fingerprint
ing for every person in the United
States over the age of ten years, the
National Identification Association
has aroused opposition in some quar
ters. Yet the arguments .in favor of
the plan seemed to outweigh those
against it, if viewed from a strictly
logical point of view. To name a
few of the arguments on the “pro”
side, one needs but to cite the pres
ence -of unregistered aliens in our
midst who are in this country to do
us no good; the big problem of evac
nation of populations from coastal
regions, in case of the necessity for
such action and, lastly, but by no
means least, the vital importance of
j identifying defense industry work
ors. One has only to call to mind
landing in this country of the
Nazi saboteurs to take an adult, view:
the fingerprint situation. The
ze , n With nothing to fear certainly
i ias IK) hesitancy about being finger
printed. The others—those who aim
at the destruction of this country—
j will squeal. But it seems that by
fingerprinting all, there is protection
for' ail.—Atlanta Constitution.
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HOUSEWIVES RESOURCEFUL
Housewives are resom-ceful. Find
ing that sugar cannot be obtained
for making jelly, preserves, etc., they
have discovered that pure Georg's
cane sytup is a good substitute and
as a result their families will con
tinue to enjoy these “sweets”
j throughout the war.—Dawson News.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
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would save lives.
Take scrap iron. Whenever
steel company has to let a blast
furnace go out because of a shortage
of iron, it means that the production
of planes, tanks and guns will be
delayed.
Right now steel companies are not
turning out all of the material they
could because of the shortag-e of
scrap iron.
Perhaps the government isn’t call
ing for materials loud enough to
make us realize the importance of
them. But we all know there is a
war on and we are not as well
equipped as we should be. Let’s not
wait for the government to come and
get the scrap we might turn in—let’s
make it our own business to find out
what is needed and see that every
ounce of it available in our neigh
borhood is put into the war.
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SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV. ROBERT
H. HARPER
JOSEPH: AN EXAMPLE OF
FORGIVENESS
Lesson for Sept. 27: Genesis 45:1-15,
47:11, 12.
Golden Text: Ephesians 4:32
In the present lesson the writer
is reminded of a touching scene he
beheld as a boy—the reunion of a
brother and a sister after a separa
tion of 25 years. How blessed were
the circumstances of life that
brought them together again! And
how remarkable were the circum
stances that brought Joseph and his
brothers together in Egypt!
The lesson caption indicates the
forgiveness of Joseph as an import
ant thing to be. considered, and so it
is. But Joseph stressed the provi
dence of God—by which his father’s
-p allr iily were to be sustained in Egypt,
“God sent me before you,” he told
his brothers, “to preserve you
remnant in the earth.”
The beautiful story, ■ so simply
told, is complete in itself—Joseph’s
revelation of himself to his brothers,
his interpretation of the tragic past
as the working out of God’s provi
dence, and his announcement
full provision would be made
them and all their father’s household
in Egypt.
Then Joseph “fell upon his brother
Benjamin’s neck, and wept.” And
he kissed his other brothers and
wept upon them. And it is said they
talked together—how long and
fectionately can only be imagined.
The last two verses of the
tell of Jacob’s settlement in Egypt,
under Joseph and a friendly Pharaoh
—where they were destined to
main in peace until there rose
king „ who knew not Joseph.”
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I.2f 's Double
Our Quota
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County New*
of September 22, 1892.)
IN THE Democratic primary for
Representative, Mr. J. P. Lane de
feated Mr. H. J. Harris.
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THE People’s Party, by delegates
met in Blakely last Tuesday. F. M.
Pickle was elected chairman and J.
L. Horn secretary. C. R. Narramore
was nominated as the party’s can
didate for Representative from
Early county.
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PINiE VIEW NEWS, by Bumbo:
“Messrs. A. R. Roberts, Green Mur
chison and J. M. Beasley killed 15
rattlesnakes last week . . . Messrs. J.
P. Lane and J. L. Perry, of Sow
hatchee, were visitors here last week
. . The Pine View Democratic Culb
effected permanent organization on
last Wednesday, with T. C. B'oyd,
president, J. Q. Scarborough vice
president, and J. K. Ritchie secre
tary. Rules committee, A. C. Shef
field, W. J. Batchelor, W. R. Bell,
J. M. Beasley, A. J. White, R. D.
Gowen.”
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MR. J. B. CHANCY has put a
neat picket fence around his home
on Landing street.
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DR. M. F. PICKLE, of Cuba, and
Mr. T. S. Minter, of Josephine, were
in town Monday.
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MR. W. S. BEAUCHAMP has fin
ished the brick work on the new store
of Major T. F. Jones.
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MR. H. M. HAYNES is having a
time with .that Texas pony he bought
last week.
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MR. W. C. BROWN is now with
The News.
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MESSRS. R. L. Howell, L. E.
Black, J. tB. Chancy and D. D.
Strong went to the political speak
ing at Jakin last Friday night.
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MESSRS. C. H. Robinson and A.
G. Powell went over to Arlington on
the train Wednesday. After finishing
their business, they proceeded to
walk home.
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BLAKELY cotton market: Good
middling, 6 7-8c; strict middling,
6 3-4c; middling, 6 5-8c; strict low
middling, 6 l-2c; low middling, 6
l-4c.
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COL. R. H. POWELL attended
Clay superior court in Fort Gaines
last week.
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MR. F. F. KOERBER, of Columbia,
was in Blakely Monday.
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MR. F. S. JONES left Monday for
Athens to enter the University of
Georgia.
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COL. R. H. SHEFFIELD has re
turned from Cedar Springs.
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MR. W. H. DOUGLASS was over
from Damascus Saturday.
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MRS. R. W. W/ADE and Miss
Pearl Wade left Monday for Macon,
where Miss Pearl resumes her stud
ies at Wesleyan College.
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MESSRS. R. H. Powell, Jr., and
Will Fort returned to Macon this
week to resume their studies ait Mer
cer University.
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JUDGE H. C. Fryer and Mr. G. E.
Chipstead left Monday for Milledge
ville tx> enter their daughters, Misses
Lillie and Lena Fryer and Henrie
Chipstead at the Georgia Normal &
Industrial College.
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