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The Official Organ
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Baker County
Established 1912
VOLUME 27. NUMBER 37..
FOREIGN OILS KEEP
HOME MARKET LOW
Local Dealer Protests Imports
In Competition With Cotton
Seed Oil. : :
Geo. M. Perry, of the Camilla Cot
ton Oil Company, this week issued a
strong protest against importing for
eign fats and oilsfi, to depress the
American mar’et for similar products.
Mr. Perry ciuiged, in a statement
released to the press throughout the
entire peanut, cotton seed and hog
oil belts, that large operators in the
domestic oil markets imported cheap
foreign oil with little or no tariff to
keep the price of American oils low.
The market price being fixed by the
cheapest product on the market.
Mr. Perry stated that the depression
of domestic markets, was in part low
ering our standards of living to that
of other countries from where oils
are imported. Their standards are
called unbearable. ;
The full text of the statement re
leased here this week is as follows:
“The principle fats and oils, in this
country, are those derived from dairy
products ,hogs and cows, cottonseed,
soybean and peanuts.
“The producers of the above fats and
oils, as can readily be seen, constitute
thousands of American families, and
the price level of these products estab
lishes - their standard of living. My
contention is that the pricé Ilevel
should not be set by the standards of
prices of fats from abroad, but
measured solely by the capacity of
the American consumers to pay for
* the products processed from these fats
and oils. The larger operators in the
country now scour and search the
world for cheap fats for their finished
products which. fats bear the do
mestic fats price level down, then sell
to the American consumer and in
crease. their profits and reserves.
“At this point I believe it well to
give a little insight into the operations
of the largest opegator in fats and oils
one hundred and one years, losing
money only one year, with profits in
the depression year of 1932 running
eight million nine hundred and eigh
teen thousand dollars . . . in 1937 run
ning twenty six million eight hundred
thousand dollars.
“The American consumer has bought
from this one company in the past
ten years over one billion five hun
dred million dollars worth of mer
chandise, practically all fats and oils.
Some’two hundred and fifty carloads
of these raw materials are received
at their plants daily, consisting of
whale oil, sardine oil, menhaden oil,
cottonseed oil, soybean oil, peanut
oil, palm oil, cocoanut oil, babassu nut
oil. It is estimated that this one com
pany’s annual outlet to American con
sumers is around eight hundred thous
and tonms.
“It can be seen that thousands of
families. of producers, and others in
directly responsible to and dependent
on such producers, in this country,
could be enjoying higher standards of
living, but for the fact that the fats
price level in this country is kept ruin
ously low by the importation of for
eign fats. The well informed can be
wrong ,and t{iis means' the so-called
“trade agreement” advocates. While
Mr. Wallace, President Roosevelt,»Mr.
Hull and Mr. Sayre are talking about
prevention of foreign fats entering
this country and interfering with our.
trade agreements with this, that, and
the other, the oil from whales that are
being caught by the thcusands and
cocoanut and palm nut oil by the mil
lions of pounds come to our shores
from the countries whose standards
of living we say are unbearable and to
which level we do not want our pro
~ ducers to fall.- The importation of
these fats never stops until the do
mestic fats price level is down and
then importations continue in suffi
cient quantities to keep the domestic
price level down. : :
“] am afraid when President Roose
velt the other day spoke of “a little
thing like oil” upsetting trade agree
ments, he did not realize what a large
number of producers the fats and, oils
‘groups included. The President down
in Alabama tells the South to “get
out of hock” to the North and estab
lish ourselves in industry, livestock,
“ete., and the same day in Washington,
tells the ‘southern Senator Harrison
from Mississippi, to continue to-let
cheap foreign fats come into this
country to beat down the price of
southern, products to the benefit of
northern industry. -e
“@ive the American fats and oils
Che Buker County News
Commissioners In 1
Session Tuesday |
The regular monthly meeting of the
County Commissioners was held here
Tuesday morning with all members
present. .
The Board agreed and passed on
letting Emory University use the J. P.
Court House in the 12th District for
their use during the time they are
ihere doing Research and Malaria
‘work.
| The Board after taking up their
}regular work and disposing of the
bills, adjourned.
ißaker County Cancer
Control Week April 17
l The week of April 17th has been
iset aside as Cancer Education and En
listment week for Baker County by
|the Woman’s Field Army of the
American Association for Control of
iCancer. Mrs. Price Hall, Captain of
ithe Army in the County, with her lieu
tenants over the County is anxious
!to. enlist everyone interested in help
'ing fight this-disease in the Army
and also to see that everyone has
access to the literature on the sub
ject.
. Last year 90 members were enlisted
‘in Baker County and an even larger
- membership is expected this year.
' The dues for the year are SI.OO.
l In 1988 three cases from Baker
iCounty were given treatment in
|Archbold Hospital in Thomasville.
{T his year 70 percent of the enlistment
‘fees will be used in the County for
| cancer work. ' Some of the workers
in the county are: Mrs. Wheeler Stew
iart, Patmos; Mrs. H. G. Redmond,
Milford; Mrs. Will Johnson, Elmodel;
| Mrs. C. Kidd, Newton; Miss Annie
lEllis, Newton, and Mrs. Fred Cross,
| Providence. Others will be announced
’in next week’s paper. Citizens of
Baker County are urged to cooperate
l,i" this drive to lessen the death rate
iOf cancer.
Water W Or'KS SySsi€m
| The new water works system being
installed here is making great prog
ress and the mayor stated that it is
anticipated the major portion of the
work will be completed within the
next two weeks. :
The streets are all torn up and
pipe lines are being laid from the well,
located on a lot purchased from Mrs.
Reeves just north of her home.
This new water system will mean
lots to the people of Newton and
’especially to property owners in the
way of fire protection and value to
ltheir property.
Fire plugs have been installed and
‘when the town is in position to install
‘a fire department, the water system
;already installed will' be adequate.
~ The mayor and city officials are
to be commended for their efforts in
this progressive movement, and it is
hoped that this is the beginning of
progressiveness for the town and
other projects will be carried for
‘ward.
Hobson Flournoy
‘Wins Albany Trip ~
Hobson Flournoy, son of Mrs. Cor
delia Flournoy, was one of five boys
of Herald delivery boys winning ‘a
trip through the “Herald’s Increasing
the Circulation Contest,” sponsored
‘during the month of March. The trip
consisted of a week-end in entertain
ing in Albany as the guest of the
‘Herald.
~ As part of their entertainment,
!they were carried through the Herald
building and given an explanaton as
to the work of the various depart
ments ‘and how each was carried on.
Also they saw the baseball game, and
the movies, and enjoyed bowling and
skating. The five boys enjoying this
entertainment were from towns near
Albany. |
W. M. S. To Meet 1
Monday Afternoon |
~ The Woman’s Missionary Society ovf‘:
the Baptist Church will meet Monday
afternoon at 3:15 at the home of Mrs.
J. E. Simmons, with Mrs. Robert B.
Short as leader. S
~ Every member of the society is
;ur:ed to be present. :
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producers a break in the way of pro
tection against the foreign fats and‘
oils price level.” |
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDA Y, APRIL 6, 1939
This Week In Review
by
John Callaway Otwell
STATE
Probably many Georgians, particularly South Georgians, follow the radio
skit antics of “Judy Canova” of Unadilla, Georgia.
Judy, in telling of the plan of a member the family to have a beauty
shop job done on the latter’s face, once said it would not be a job but a “pro
ject.” £
If sheer ugliness constitutes the necessity of a project, then the financial
condition of Georgia’s public school system most assuredly ought to be classi
fied as being eligible for a project. But a committee of the State’s school
superintendents and board members were told in Washington last week by
the WPA and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that while they were
“sympathetic,” their attorneys’ rulings prohibited aid to Georgia schools
because paying teachers “could not be classified a project.”
| The foregoing is merely to remind those seeking financial aid that
~extreme caution concerning classification must be observed—and NOT to
‘be interpreted as lamentation by this column because our schools failed to
} get Federal aid. 5 :
| Georgia citizens managed to educate those who really wished to be
}educated for many decades BWPA (Before WPA).
| And, besides, as has been mentioned previously on this page, Federal
'aid might mean operating the schools in accordance with the whims of a
Federal official who might know little or nothing about the educational prob
lems of Georgia or any othey individual state.
Governor Rivers was taking his bitter medicine again this week by re
suming work on the trimming of the Statg, payroll. He already had taken
more than four hundred names from the list of employees.
It is to be hoped that these people fin('il employment promptly in private
industry. And even if they are forced to!work for less money than they
received from the State, they will be relieved of anxiety concerning the
elections every two years. Perhaps manyiof them will steer clear of the
public payroll until Georgia adopts a merit, system for State workers.
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The House Economy Investigating Com;rllittee resumed its work Monday
by probing the affairs of the State Department of Health and the Depart
lment of Natural Resources.
; No one seems to know yet whether this committee really has the au
thority necessary to bring about real econzmy. This body of investigators
was approved by only the House itself. i
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Last week, only a few days after citizens in the Southeast had either
marveled or expressed pure amusement ct}ncerning the story telling how
Miss Lillie Stoate of Oxford, Miss., stationed herself in a drought-stricken
avea of Florida, “bringing rain,” there appeared an editorial in an Augusta,
Georgia newspaper calling for a “rain stoppc‘r."
__ Reason: Augusta’s Augusta National Golf Club had planned to start
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showers which caused postponement of the big golf party until Friday.
l' - Professor Newman F. Baker of Northwestern University Law School
‘made public this week a list of freak laws in various states; this list was
‘published in the Minnesota Law Review, 1939.
| Georgia has a law which makes it a crime for a dentist to be guilty of
“cruelty or unskillfulness.”
| Imagine how anyone could ever prove a poor hard-working dentist
guilty of such a “erime.” .Unless, of course, a group of patients were to
“gang up”’ against him. .
Our eastern neighbor, South Carolina, looked into the future by saying
it will be against the law for “aviators intentionally to kill any birds or
animals.”
While in Alabama it still is illegal to “steal a neighbor’s cook or butler.”
This law must have been passed in slavery days, perhaps modeled after one
of the Ten Commandments which prohibits one to covet his neighbor’s “man
servant or his maid servant.”
NATIONAL
Last week a determined and beauteous young lady of Memphis, Tenn.,
Hope Brewster, 22-year-old musician, bought a $2 skiff, started alone down
the Mississippi River, having announced her intention of going to New Or
leans. Later, however, she was persuaded to return to Memphis after going
only to Helena, Arkansas.
Just another modern maid who aims to “paddle her own canoe.”
President Roosevelt, in Warm Springs, Georgia, on vacation, this week
signed the $358,000,000 emergency army air defense bill and the government
reorganization measure.
' The army bill is intended to increase the number of army fighting planes
from 2,000 to 6,000. (Maybe Hitler now will be anxious to send to us one of
his unemployed ambassadors).
* The reorganization bill, besides authorizing the President to merge and
shift Federal bureaus and commissions subjeet to veto by both houses of
Congress, gives the chief executive six new executive assistants at SIO,OOO a
year each *Tm i
‘Doubtless there will any a “huddle” in Washington in the next few
days or weeks to decide who will recommend whom. .
The Senate passed Monday Senator Bankhead’s bill which would have
the Government sell back to farmers up to 3,000,000 of the 11,000,000 bales
of cotton accepted from the planters as security for loans. The bill names
a selling-back rate of five cents a pound.
Farmers would be required to make corresponding reduction in their
1939 acreage below existing allotments. ¢
The measure was sent to the House for action by that branch. |
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INTERNATIONAL ;
In present-day Europe almost everyone makes boastful speeches andi
each of the boastful orators wants to “protect” somebody. A i
Wednesday of last week France’s Premier Deladier told the world its
would be “a mistake to assume that France will not protect her rights and|
live up to her ideals.” : : 1
M. Deladier spoke deliberately and with dignity, if radio reception is any
indicator, in contrast to the empassioned and noisy orations of the dictutors.!
The Italians have not been nearly so “chesty” since the Deladier speec'hl
—as far as news dispatehes have reported. ‘
Germany’s Hitler spoke at Wilhelmshaven at the launching of a newl
German warship Saturday, but only the first few sentences were permitted |
to reach American listeners. The German’s did not explain why the trans
mission was interrupted. :
The ambitious Adolph said at the beginning that his Nazi party ml
responsible for the great activity at the Wilhelmshaven ship building plants.
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~ Patmos News
}, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Starr had as
their dinner guests Sunday, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Killebrew and children,
of Bethany, Dorothy Killebrew, Da
‘mascus, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Sanders
and family, Colquitt, and Mr. Clifford
Starr, Arlington,
My. and Mrs. Oscar Jordan, of
Nickelsville, spent Sunday at the home
of Mr. B. A. Palmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Deberry spent
last Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Spurlock.
Messrs. J. D. Woodard and Herman
Griffin, of Ocilla, accompanied by
Misses Tucker and Kealzer ,of Fitz
gerald, spent a short while with Mrs.
Sallie Woodard Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Starr and Mar
lin Sanders were shopping in Albany
‘Saturday.
~ Messrs. J. E. Griffin, W, H. Moore,
}Bcnnio Palmer were in Albany attend
ing to business on Saturday.
1 Mrs. O. F. Thompson and Mrs. A,
}H. Lanier and children were here on
Friday and attended the operetta,
'Sunbonnet Sue, at Elmodel on Friday
evening.
| The Sunday School Rally brought
'to a climax the attendance contest
between the “West and East Siders,”
!the creek being the dividing line. All
iwish to express thanks and apprecia
!tion to the “East Siders” for the royal
ientcrtaining. Let’s continue our co
operation and keep our attendance up
and it may be the Patmos side will
|do the entertaining next time.
Don’'t forget prayer services at
IPatmos church every Wednesday
tevening‘, and also remember next Sat
urday and Sunday lis our regular
preaching services.
J. F. Killebrew and Dewane Phil
lips, of Bethany community, accom
panied by Pauline Sullivan and Muriel
Lanier, visited Austin Craft at the
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital,
where he is recovering from an ap
pendix operation last Saturday.
| There were about twenty-five ladies
!at the miscellaneous shower for Murs.
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a call meeting {f the Garden was held,
after which refreshments were served
by the hostess, Mrs. Ollie Wiley, as
sisted by Mrs. O. F. Thompson, Mrs.
J. L. Wiley, Miss Mattie Nesbit and
Mrs. J. M. Lanier.
Mr. Oliver Sanders, of Edison, was
in our community a short while Sat
urday afternoon.
Andy Lanier, of Blakely, was a
week-end guest of Reuben Griffin.
Mrs, Mamie Lou Parr, Mrs. Bron
nie’ Hall and Mrs. J. H. Cotton spent
Friday in Albany. |
Mrs. Nancy Gleaton and Mr. and“
Mrs. Fred Gleaton were visiting in our
community Sunday afternoon. ‘
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Davis and baby,
of Albany, and Mr. tnd Mrs. Herbert
Woodard and baby, of Leary, were
guests of Mrs. Sallie Woodard on Sun
day, March 26.
. Mrs. Ollie Wiley and Mrs. Tom
!Maynard spent Saturday in Albany
’and while there visited their sister,
;Mrs. J. W. Nesbit.
~ Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lanier and fam
ily, of Blakely, and Mrs. Christina
Cheshire, of Damascus, were guests
of Mrs. R. R. Lanier and Mrs, Ollie
Wiley Sunday.
' Miss Emma Lee Wiley spent the
past week-end in Blakely, the guest of
relatives.
A large attendance of “Patmosites”
attended the operetta, “Sunbonnet
Sue,” directed by Miss Lois Wiley,
at Elmodel last Friday evening. It
will probably be shown at some other
schools, so Le sure to see it, as its
'well worth your meney . ' 1
i The Ladies Aid Society will meet
at the church next Thursday after
’noon. All members are urged to at-i
‘tend. i 2 |
The farmers of our community are:
taking = advantage of the pretty
weather to get their farms in shape.
Some are well on with their planting.
James Griffin has many friends
here who are interested to know that
he was among those making the
dean’s list during the second quartor[
at Norman Junior College, Norman
Park. James was a 1938 graduate
from Elmodel High School. Congratu
lations, James!
* Mr .and Mrs. W. L. Duke, of Da
mascus, vistied here Sunday. !
' Mesdames Ollie Wiley, J. M. Lanier, |
W. T. Maynard and Miss Mattie Nes- |
bit formed a congenial party visitinzi
in Blakely Tuesday. : ]
: - iresting People ‘
~ “A'man dat can’t trust gdy,"
said Uncle Ebex, ‘s bofi‘x?! ad- '
_mit dat he can’t trust even hisself.”
A County of Good
Farms, Good Schools,
Good Churches and
Good People.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Flint River Lo 8
}Sml Conservation
Election Called e
A referendum on ¢reation of a pro-'
posed Flint River Soil Conservation
District will be held April 15 in nine
Southwest Georgia counties which
would comprise the district. J. C
Richardson, Dougherty county agent,
said today that all persons owning
farm lands in these counties, both
white and Negro, are eligible to vote.
Counties participating in the ref
erendum are: Baker, Calhoun, Dough
erty, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell
and Seminole. Voting places will be
open between 8 a. m. and 2 p. m. in
all places where general elections are
held. Votes may be cast by mail,
and official ballots may be secured
from county agricultural agents, who
will supervise the election, assisted
by agricultural committees of cham
bers of commerce and farm leaders,
Mr. Richardson said. .
The ballot is to be marked eithe:
for or against “creation of a soil
conservation district of the lands ly
ing within the boundaries” of the
counties affected, “‘excluding the ecity
of Albany.”
The district would be an agency of
the state and a public body, under the
provisions of the soil conservation dis
tricts law of Georgia. .
Educational Work
In County Continues
The two Baker County Senior High
Schools will remain open for the full
nine months, the teachers agreed to
teach on in both Newton and Elmodel
schools, so that they might be able to
finish their work. The two Junior
High Schools, Patmos and Bethany,
are going to have eight months of
school. And the Grammar Schools
of the county will remain open for
seven months. These plans have been
made by the Counyt and local boards.
Mrs. H. C. Jernigan
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Those present were: Mrs. R. B.
Short, Mrs. J. H. Hall, Mrs. J. H.
Milward, Mrs. C. H. Hall and guest,
Miss Anna Bull, of St. Petersburg,
Fla.
The hostess served sandwiches and
drinks.
Wood Used for caduceus
The caduceus originated in the
prehistoric times in Greece. Hermes
or Mercury, in Greek and Roman
mythology, was the messenger of
the gods, and the patron of com
merce and of peace. His staff was
of olive wood with two serpents
coiled about it and with two wings
at the top. According to seme leg
ends the sarpent was sacred to
Aesculapius and Hygeia as a symbol
of health, apparently because it
changes its skin periodically and so
is an emblem of restored vitality.
Albany Theatre
ALBANY, GA.
® TODAY AND TOMORROW ¢
See your own friends in the movies!
Bobby Short and Joe Simmons
both play leading parts in’
4 ”
'KIDNAPED”
100 boys and girls from in and
around Albany in the cast!
First All-Talking Picture
Evét Made In Albany
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“KING OF CHINATOWN?”
Akim Tamiroff - Anna Wong
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EASTER SUNDAY AND
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