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Official Organ City of Blakely
and County of Early
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Blakely, Ga., October 1 1942.
“GET IN THE SCRAP WITH
YOUR SCRAP”
Plans are announced in this
issue of The News for a coun
ty-wide drive for scrap metals
which will begin on next Mon
day, October 5.
Early countians, in line with
the nation-wide quota, have
been asked for scrap to the
amount of 100 pounds per
person, or a total of nearly
2,000,000 pounds.
High government officials
tell us that unless this drive
results in the turning in of
scrap metals to the amount of
millions of tons, the production
of war implements—guns and
tanks and planes—will be
slowed down, and in some in
stances plants will be closed.
The drive, therefore, is an
individual task for every
American. This time it won’t
suffice to “let George do it.”
Scrap metals of all kinds,
rubber and rags are wanted,
but special emphasis is placed
upon metals. Every man and
woman, boy and girl, is asked
to do his or her part in gath
ering scrap and delivering it
to some central point that has
been designated by the county
committee. The scrap is to be
given, and the receipts derived
from its sale to the junk deal
er, will go toward some char
itable cause to be decided upon
by the county-wide committee.
Those who have large quan
tities of scrap metal and wish
to sell it may take it to the
junk dealer and receive pay
for it.
Every reader of The News is
urged to co-operate in the
drive and to begin now to
search the premises for any
scrap metals and have it ready
for the delivery trucks when
they call for it next week. This
collection of scrap metals, in
huge quantities, is necessary if
we are to win the war. “Get
in the scrap with your scrap”
and give the boys in the armed
forces the proper fighting im
plements.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
The annual baseball classic,
the world’s series, between the
New York Yankees and the
St. Louis Cardinals, is furnish
ing the more rabid fans with
diversion just now. Organized
baseball has already felt the
pinch of the war and the com
ing year will likely witness
the suspension of this popular
pastime in most of the smaller
cities. The major leagues may
survive through the war pe
riod, although it will be re
membered that the season
cut short in the last year of
World War No. 1.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
We are inclined to approve
Secretary of War Stimson’s or
der prohibiting the heavy
weight championship fight be
tween Joe Louis and Billie
Conn. The champion and the
challenger, the former a ser
geant and the latter a corporal,
might use their fighting prow
ess to better advantage on the
fighting fronts.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
Following a three-day rain,
the temperature early Monday
morning dropped to 47 de
grees, an unusually low mark
for the month of September.
One of the reasons why Un
cle Sam is asking for your
scrap metal: A 2,000-lb. aerial
bomb requires 500 pounds of
scrap metals; a medium 27-ton
tank requires 18 tons of scrap
metals; and a 35,000-ton bat
tleship requires 9,000 tons of
scrap metals.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
Nation-wide gasoline ration
ing is on the way. Look for it
early in November. This is
the word from William M.
Jeffers, rubber czar, who
minces no words in telling us
of the seriousness of the rub
ber situation.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
It is predicted that Congress
will pass legislation calling to
military service boys in the
18-to-20 age group. But this
will not happen until after the
November congressional elec
tions.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
There is plenty of evidence
on every side that many Amer
icans are more dollar-eonscious
than they are war-conscious.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
FIRE.
The President proclaims Fire Pre
vention Week to begin October 4.
We need not wait the date to know
the year-round need. Fire takes an
nually 10,000 American lives, hun
dreds of millions of dollars in prop
erty damage. 'Serious enough is
this in peacetime, doubly so in war,
when our every resource, human and
otherwise, must be mustered in sup
port of the fight, and any loss mag
nified by what it takes from that
effort.
Recent fire losses show us painful
ly lacking here. They totaled last
year $303,895,000, an increase of
$17,493,633 over 1940, and for the
first five months of 1942 they are
$9,072,000 above the comparable
period of 1941. Carelessness causes
most fires, an estimated fourth of
which are preventable, many of the
rest more or less so.
Fire Prevention Week serves well
for the time. During that week, the
week preceding and the week follow
ing, a survey of cities shows, fire
losses fall 45.3 per cent. We simply
have failed heretofore to carry the
lessons along. We cannot afford to
fail now. This year, for the first
time, a federal agency, the Office of
Civilian Defense, heads the organi
zations sponsoring the campaign.
That fact points the urgency. The
President emphasizes it.
Any loss of human life, any inter
ference with .production, any loss of
critical materials hinders and im
pedes our war effort ... it is essen
tial that destructive fires be brought
under stricter control in order that
victory may be achieved at the
earliest date.
We can count on the FBI to stop
the saboteur who would set the
flames to serve the enemy. We can
count only on ourselves to avert the
far greater threat of accidental fire
caused by our own negligence and
doing damage beyond the spy’s wild
est dreams.—Atlanta Journal.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
NOTE ON MILKING
Walk out some day into a farm
yard and watch a maid or a hired
man milk the cow. .Because they
know the business they’re about,
they can deal with a cow skillfully,
coaxing the most placid to give her
milk, and soothing the most temper
amental bovine prima donnas among
the herd. They can maniplate the
cow’s udder with the dexterity of
an artist, and elicit the warm white
streams of milk with grace and
ease. But you try it sometime and
.see how awkwardness deepens your
admiration for the men and women
who know that job and do it withi
such ease and nonchalant grace.—
Sylvester Local.
The Leader remembers well its
first experience with one of your
‘P T ' m & donnas, After we had
been switched in the face several
times by a double-action tail, stabbed
in the back with a horn and kicked j
from the stool we quit in disgust, j
Editor McGill was writing from
serration, not experience, or neverj
would he have penned the beautiful
words found above. We’ll take ours
from a Grade-A bottle every time.—
Cuthbert Leader.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
It looks like the only way to win
the war is to kill off several million
Germans and Japs. Destruction of
property in enemy territory will nev
er bring victory. Material things
can be replaced, but no so with life
and brutal as it may seem we are
going to have to do a lot of killing
before victory is ours.—Dawson
News.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, m.*»cnv cfopcia
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TODAY
1 and
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
V
ELECTION . . . .
Let’s stop bemoaning the
that we have an election coming up.
We’re lucky to be having an elec
tion. In Germany, in Italy and
even in many of our Allied nations
it has been years since the people
have had an opportunity to express
their views through the democratic
method of a national election. Even
in England elections have been called
off and the people haven’t had a
chance to vote since 1935.
Of course anyone in this country
can see that the election prospects
have, at times, seriously interfered
with the most efficient execution of
our war program, Bu‘t that is no
reason for us to let Hitler put even
a temporary end to the working of
the democratic process when we are
fighting the war to protect that sys.
tern of government.
We should all look at the coming
election as an opportunity to look
over the records of our congressmen
and re-elect them or replace them,
depending upon whether they have
proven themselves fit to be part of
a governing body which must solve
the most complicated problems which
have ever faced our nation.
FAVORS Inflation
It is true that many of our legis
lators, in seeking re-election, have
attempted to do favors for their
constituents at the expense of the
rest of the nation.
The farm bloc has fought to boost
the farmer’s income by practically
exempting farm products from
price ceilings and, as a consequence,
the cost of some foods has as much
as doubled during the past year.
Representatives from labor dis
tricts, plus other members o'f the
government who have an eye on
the large labor vote, have inter
fered with all efforts toward curbing
wages and outlawing strikes. As a
consequence, strikes continue to be
called in vital industries and wages
continue to rise.
Any congressman who has given
thought at all to the dangers of in
flation realizes that increasing costs
for necessities such as food, coupled
With a policy of increasing wages to
labor in proportion to the rise in
the cost of living, is a sure-fire plan
for bringing it about.
But because some congressmen
think in terms of possible votes in
stead of the national welfare is no
reason for not having an election.
In fact, it is an excellent reason for
having one—to give the voters a
chance to show that they at least
are not ruled by narrow, selfish
considerations and will not support
the men who are.
PARTY . ability
Because this is not a presidential
election year, ordinarily the vote
would be light and a large number
of voters wouldn’t bother to look in
to the records of the various candi
dates. There are still plenty of us,
who have always voted the Repub
lican or Democratic ticket, who
would just wait until election day,
go in and mark our X’s alongside of
the names nominated for “our par
ty” and feel that we had exercised
our rights as citizens.
But it is probably more important
this year that the voters forget par
ties than that the candidates do.
Each candidate will again be listed
on the ballot as representing a cer
tain party, but the thing which should
concern us is what he stands for
personally, what he has done person
ally and whether he has the brains
and the honesty to cope with gigantic
legislative problems.
The new congress will not only be
responsible for formulating the pol
icies of our nation during the war,
but, if the war should end before
will have the responsibility of
formulating a plan for peace to pre
Vent future wars,
The whole future of this country
will probably be be in the hands of
the new congress so that, even with
out a President up for office, it may
prove to be the most important elec
tion of all time.
DECISIONS opinion
It has always been a question
whether a congressman’s job is to
express the opinion of his constit
uents or to take his election to mean
that the people want him to make
decisions for them.
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ence of measuring public opinion,
however, have made it apparent
that there might soon be no need
for a congress if it was elected
merely to speak the sentiments of
the people. A public opinion expert,
such as Dr. George Gallup, could
then serve as an inexpensive substi
tute for congress.
But there is little doubt that dur
ing this war period and the adjust
ment period which follows, the job
of congress must be more one of
making decisions for the people than
it has ever been before, In the
coming election we should not be
content with electing men who will
limit their work to speaking for us.
We should consider each candidate’s
qualifications in the light of his abil
ity to guide us through one of the
most perilous periods in the history
of the world. The ability of the
next congress is our responsibility. If
we elect the wrong men in Novem
ber the consequences are frightening
to contemplate.
—Throw Your Scrap Into the Scrap—
SIX-INCH
S-E-R-M-O-N
By REV. ROBERT
H. HARPER
FAITH IN CHRIST AS OUR
PERSONAL SAVIOUR
Lesson for October 4: Acts 16:13-15;
Romans 5:1-11.
Golden Text: Romans 5:1.
Leaving Genesis for Studies in
the Christian Life (Personal, Fam
ily, Church), we begin with the su
preme topic, given above.
The story of Lydia shows that
faith is the gift of God. He opened
his heart. And God works upon
men’s hearts in varied ways. It is
our duty to preach the word; God
gives the increase.
Paul writes concerning justification
by faith. Through faith man is for
given and made right before God. In
its widest significance, justification
includes regeneration. The heart is
also changed through-faith and with
pure motives and God’s help a re
deemed man is able to live the good
life.
Faith, then is followed by changed
living. The believer may even re
joice in tribulation—rather in the
victory he wins over it. In many
ways men achieve by overcoming
difficulties. Setting a propeller in
motion, they use the opposition of
the air to conquer the air. So we
may overcome by the very obstacles
that meet us in the Christian life.
The state of the redeemed is rec
onciliation with God. Formerly
estranged from him by sin, they
are restored to God’s favor and con
secrated to his will.
This state is made possible by
Christ’s sacrifice. If that sacrifice
avails for us, we must sacrifice our
lives to Ghrjst—to be used in his
service. “Freely we have received,”
let us freely give to him in giving
to other men.
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of September 29, 1892.)
THE WIND for the past few days
has been blowing from the east.
* * JR
MR. JIM COYLE, who has been
telegraph operator here for several
weeks, has resigned and is succeeded
by Miss Maggie Callen.
* * *
THE street lamps were lighted last
night for the first time in quite a
while.
* * »
QUITE a number from Blakely
and Early county will attend the
Chattahoochee Valley Exposition at
Columbus.
* * #
DR. B. R. DOST OR and son, B. R.
Dostor, Jr., left Friday for Phila
delphia, where the latter will enter
the Jefferson Medical College.
He * *
MR. JOHN W. DEAL is in Atlan
ta this week.
He He He
MR. ROSWELL SMITH is visiting
in Atlanta this week.
He He He
BLAKELY cotton market: Good
middling, 7 l-2c; strict middling,
l-8e; middling, 7 c; strict low
dling, 6 7-8c; low middling, 6 5-8c.
* * *
'COL. H. C. SHEFFIELD, of Arl
ington, was in Blakely Tuesday.
* * *
MR. P. D. DuiBOSE went up to
Fort Gaines Tuesday.
* * »
MR. T. W. WAD'E returned from
Macon Monday.
* * *
.MR. G. C. PORTER, of Gordon,
Ala., was a visitor to Blakely Tues
day.
* Hs
MIS.S SIDDIE PLATT is visiting
in Arlington.
* * Hi
MISS MARY SUE DEAL, of Co
lumbia, is visiting relatives in
Blakely.
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t WE’RE PREPARED! \ \ /s
SERVICEMAN • Let our BLUE check RIBBON over &
X and adjust your McCor
♦ mick-Deering Tractor and
i Farm Machines. Let that him
* replace any worn parts
might cause a breakdown.
Our bins of Genuine IHC
Parts and our Blue Ribbon ZenuIne
Service Department are gjjws
X maintained for your con
* J venience and protection. *
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♦ t MIDDLETON HARDWARE COMPANY
*>
imr. osgar McLendon was
down from Fort Gaines this week.
* * *
MISS CONNIE STRONG, of Heck
ham, is visiting in Blakely.
* * *
MRS. KATIE WALKER visited
Walker Station Sunday.
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MR. BRYAjNT TIMMONS, of the
6th district, was in town Tuesday.
MRS. T. M. HOWARD has return
ed from a visit to Americas.
* * *
CART. F. B. DILLARD, of Fort
Gaines, was in Blakely this week.
^ iji
MR. JUDSON L. BROOKS, of Ce
dar Springs, was in Blakely Tuesday.
* * *
THERE was a big public speaking
and Democratic rally at 'Cedar
Springs last Friday. Hon. W. C.
Sheffield, president of the Cedar
Springs club, requested Col. R. H.
Powell, of iflakely, to act as chair
man. Speakers on this occasion were
Col. A. L. Hawes, Capt. William M.
Hammond, Hon. Ben E. Russell and
Hon. Reuben Jones.
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.SHORT STOPS ADS in The News
this week represent: R. L. Howell,
j Central Drug Store, D. W. James,
[J. J. Smith, Thomas Williams, F. M.
Platt, W. C. Cook, H. C. Fryer &
Son, Fort & Mims, E. L. Fryer.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR SCRAP
Retailers face a most unusual
Christmas trade season. Observers
generally predict a record-breaking
volume of trade and only the ordi
nary wartime restrictions are antici
pated. Christmas parcels for the
overseas forces must be mailed be
tween Thursday, October 1, and No
vember 1, which will call for Octo
jber I merchandise displays, insofar as
possible. The old “Shop Early—Mail
Early!” slogan will have a greater
meaning than ever.—Cairo Messen
ger.