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Volume LIV, Number 19
GOVERNOR TO
SPEAK HERE ON
FRIDAY , MAY
Several hundred friends and
mirers, both white and colored,
expected to greet Governor
Talmadge on May 9 when he will be
at the Fort Valley State College to
speak on a memorial progi am dedi
oated to the late William Meii a
Hubbard, highly respected Negro
ucator of Forsyth. The program will
begin at 2:30 o’clock.
The Governor was a triend of the
deceased educator and had agreed to
come prior to the death of Professor
Hubbard, which occurred on March
23. Since the service had been changed
from the annual “Hubbard day” to
a memorial service, the Governor will
be the first speaker for services ded
ieated to the memory of this one who
has contributed so much to the educa
tion of Negro youth in Georgia as
founder and president of the State
Teachers and Agricultural College at
Forsyth from 1902 to 1939, and di¬
rector of public relations for the
Valley State College since.
Governor Talmadge will be intro¬
duced by George B. Culpepper, Jr.
Dr. Aquila Chamlee, president emer¬
itus of Bessie fift College and long¬
time friend of Professor Hubbard,
will also participate in the program.
At the completion of the services,
the congregation will he asked to ad¬
journ to the farm cooperative units
for their dedication in the memory of
the late educator as “The William M.
Hubbard Farm Cooperative Units.
State Farm Youth
Called on to Aid
National Defense
Increased food and feed supplies
being given impetus throughout Geor
gia in a drive aimed to encourage and
assist the state’s 80,000-odd 4-H boys
and girls to grow and preserve
tional products Director Walter S.
Brown, of the Agricultural Extension
Service, reported this week.
Due to reduced exports of the main
ash crops, emphasis is being placed
on the production of those crops
which can he utilized at home as food
and feed, thus contributing to a
at-home plan and at the same time,
helping to fill the gap caused by ex
port losses of cotton and tobacco, the
extension service director said, in
pointing out that 4-H members can
do much in this respect to make Geor
gia farming more sufficient.
Last year, according to Director
Brown, Georgia’s 4-H boys and girls
produced some $3,000,000 worth of
products in their projects, the major
ity of which were crop s needed for
food and feed on the farm. This year
a great increase in the |ood produc
tion phase of the 4-H program is
expected, he explained.
In addition to increased production,
Mr. Brown said agricultural Extension
workers in Georgia are stressing the
importance of proper diet and addi
emphasis . . ■ , being ■ •
tional . , is „ put . u p
ects dealing with health and better
}lome ™G rX’f management practices rconstitute
state’Tblggest e you t the
crop and our farm
>outn particularly are in* position yoto to
aid our national defense through
tightening up on production of food
and feed products, so that our nation
might be better prepared in case of
emergency, the state Extension di
rector asserted.
“ Increased production of food crops
will also afford club members a
greater opportunity to can and pre¬
serve more products for use during
seasons of the year when such food
are not available on the farm in the
fresh stage,” he continued, “Then,
too, plenty of wholesome food will
help to improve the farm family’s
diet, and thus make stronger people
and a stronger nation.”
8 Mules, 14 Hogs
Lost in Barn Fire
Eight mules, fourteen hogs and 700
bushels of corn were destroyed
Wednesday night of last week when
fire razed" a large barn on the Bate
man farm near Byron.
The flames were not discovered un
til the building was a mass of flames,
01 he geafoer-Qfcibune
Read widely by the people oj progressive PEACH , Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
KEEP SOIL FI ND,
REP. PACE URGES
WASHINGTON, April 28.—The
House Agriculture Committee was ad¬
vised Friday against any effort to
economize in non-defense govern
j mental expenditures by eliminating
j $500,000,000 annual appropriation
f or so jj conservation.
After Representative Pace, Demo
cra ^ Georgia, had expressed concern
over the possibility of losing the fund,
Representative Flannagan, Democrat,
| Virginia, expressed belief that Con
j g ress would never repeal it.
“Every farmer in this nation is
behind soil conservation,” he asserted.
j Pace had cited testimony by Secre¬
tary Morgenthau before the House
t Ways and Means Committee Thursday
I : that the conservation item was one
j that might have to be re-examined in
the light of national defense.
The Georgia representative declared
j j Provides the soil benefit subsidies appropriation, to farmers comply¬ which
ing with soil-building practices pre¬
scribed by the Agriculture Depart¬
ment, was “the finest thing” the
farmer ever had.
“But everyone knows that Mr. Mor¬
genthau has a great influence,” Pace
added.
The committee is considering legi¬
slation to bring about “parity prices"
for farmers. This would equalize
prices with those prevailing in 1909-
14.
BYRON REVIVAL
BEGINS SUNDAY
1 p„„ Kev. j. t runt™ c.nntor m. m Wav i ,i i, i a nf
| es that leV!Vai services will begin at
the Byron Methodist church Sunday
I morning, with services continuing
day at 3:30 p. m. and 8:30
I Rev. I. L. Bishop, pastor of the
berta Methodist church, will do the
preaching
Everyone is invited to attend the
: servie.'
| Judge Anderson Will
j f [(>{(!• JJirOrS' EXCIISCS
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In an effort to solve the problem
of hearing excuses from jurors on the
opening day of court, Judg eA. M. An
Person requests that the following
statement from him be brought to the
attention of those who have been pie
rented with jury summons for the
week of May 12.
“Some confusion and inconvenience
results from the presentation of ju- .
rors’ excuses singly and at various
times prior to opening of court Ju
rors have difficulty in getting m touch
with me as I am usually engaged in
some other court, and it is also diffi¬
cult for me to get a clear idea of the
i number of excuses I will he able to
g>' a >V
j * have, theieioie, man. , anangc
ments to be at the Peach county court
house at £ p. m., Satuuay, j a.v
for the purpose of checking over my
J UI Y »>st to determine , , ■ the number numbu I J
can excuse, and at the same time, to
hear excuses. I believe that it will be
far more convenient for all concerned,
if those who expect to make excuses
W1 “» reasonably possible, xirifklmLi withhold
earlier requests and meet me at that
time. I desire that those who expect
to present excuses on the first day
°f court also to meet me at that time,
jf they can conveniently do so.
| “I am making this arrangement and in
an effort to serve you better to
enable me to handle this problem a
little more satisfactorily.”
HUGH ADRIL COLLINS
■
ENLISTS IN U. S. NA\ A
Hugh Adril Collins, son of Mr. and j
Mrs. W. W. Collins of RFD 2, enlisted
I | in the United States Navy Monday
at the Navy recruiting station in Ma
eon. Collins is to serve a minority
enlistment, and will receive his dis
ebarge on the day before his twenty
: first birthday.
Immediately after enlistment he
was transferred to the Naval Train
ing Station, Norfolk, Va., where for
the next eight weeks he will undergo
a period of preliminary training prior
to assignment to the United States
fleet.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941
Senior Class Honor
Students Are Named;
Miss Culpepper First
According to an announcement of
the honor students of the senior class
j Mias 0,1 *' rst Mary Pl aco Lillian because Culpepper of high was marks giv
in all studies.
Miss Virginia Collier won
place. Third place went to Miss Hel¬
en Cliett and fourth to Miss Meida
Cleveland.
There are fifty-two members of the
senior class, who will graduate on
May 27.
Cotton Acreage
Unfair to Slate ,
Tom Under Says
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ATLANTA, April 30.—Cornmis
sioner of Agriculture Tom Linder as
sorted Tuesday that since the start of
the federal government’s cotton con
trol program “the total reduction in
cotton acreage has been put upon”
Georgia and other southeastern states.
In an editorial in the Market Bui
letin, Mr. Linder said “Georgia’s
acreage has been reduced approxi
mately 60 per cent. This is far more
than any other one state. Yet today
cotton growers of Georgia are being
asked: to still further reduce their
crops.”
Mr. Linder declared that “since the
beginning of the AAA the total acre¬
age of cotton in the United States has
been reduced about 5,000,000 acres,
During the same period there has
kecn 3 Auction 5,000,000 acres in
t he southeastern states. In other
«■* *•——«*
Mississippi is the same today that it
^ before the AAA first began oper
a S: -
The agriculture , .
commissioner
that wh,k ' G * or * , “ cotton
farmers are l being induced . to grow
,ess cotton the government is buying
132,000 bales of cotton in Brazil and
it to Europe “because
is cheaper in Brazil than it is in the
United States.”
He added that Georgia farmers
were producing everything that their
allotments would permit them to pro¬
duce, “yet they are unable to make
. .
ends mect and many of them are j
loging their homes.” He said cotton ,
wouId ]mve to sell for 2 0 cents a I
J)0und to g j ve growers the same pur- j
chasing power they had from 1909 to j
1913 . j
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jj y ART ATTACK 1
FATAL TO ROSS ;
James M. Ross, resident of Fort
Valley for the past 13 years, died
suddenly at his •'home here Saturday j
morning following a heart attack.
Mr. Ross was a section foreman of |
t , Centia , „ ,, ,( oigia . ,, ,ai way. TT
e o
had worked for the company for
' was a mun x i «> 4
Valley Baptist church. |
Funeral services were held at the
j,y jrt Valley Baptisj; church at 3 p. m. I
Monday , with Rev. M . Reed and 1
Rf>v L , e. WiHiams officiating. Burial
in 0aklawn ceme tery.
Surviving « . • are his , . widow; ., a daugh- , ,
^ Mrs . R. L. Robertson, Fort Valley;
a son , j. M. Ross, Jr., Columbus; a
sister> Mrs. J. T. Bray, Flovilla; and
f our brothers, L. B. and L. F. Ross
0 f Claremore, Okla.; E. O. Ross, Wier
ton, West Va., and L. R. Ross, At
] an t a .
Pallbearers were L. B. Ross, L. R.
toss and four brothers-in-law, H. N, i
of Augusta and E. €., J. T.,
J. H. Moulton of Macon.
Two Boys Will Go |
Washington Trip j
on
Virgil Young, member of the
schoolboy patrol, whose duties are on
one of the school buses, has been se
lected to make the trip to Washing
ton along with Calvin Johnson whose
selection was announced last week.
Funds for the second boy s trip _
were raised by contributions,
The -boys will he accompanied by
state troopers and other schoolboy
patrolmen on the trip next week, May
7-11.
SAVINGS BONDS
NOW ON SALE
The United States Defense Savings
Bonds and Postal Savings Stamps will
j |, e placed on sale in the post office,
beginning today, as a part of the na
J tional effort to make America im
: pregnable.
Postmaster General Frank C. Walk¬
er, in a letter to postmasters through¬
out the country, said that the help
of local postmasters would be “a real
service to the country”. He trans¬
mitted the thanks of Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau for the
help that local postmasters had al¬
ready given in the sale of United
J States securities, and also Mr. Mor
genthau’s thanks in advance “for the
l co-operation which he knows you will
give to this new effort”.
The new defense savings bond js
[similar to the familiar “baby bond”,
of which more than five billion dollars
worth have been bought by more than
two and a half million Americans
since 1935.
| A defense bond may be purchased
May 1, or thereafter, for $18.75. In
ten years this bond will be worth
$25. This is an increase of thirty
three and one-third per, cent, equal to
an annual interest return of 2.9 per
cent, compounded semi-annually. Any
time after sixty days from the date
of purchase, the bond may be re
deemed for cash, in accordance with
' table of redemption values printed
a
0,1 the lace of the bond.
To spread investments widely
' among all the people in America,
a
limit of $5,000 has been set on the
amount of these bonds to be bought
by any one person in one year. The
bonds are in denominations of
—...... *>*>■-
which are sold for 75 per cent of their
maturity value and all of which ma
" in t»„ Y
'
for larger investors who can afford ..
«J uwh,MW l ° f°’ 00 ° w ° rth ° f
bonds a year, the Treasury
ment has issued two additional kinds
of defense savings bonds, but-these
will be sold only through hanks and
by direct mail from Washington, D.
C. They are intended for associa
tion, trustees and corporations, as well
as individual purchasers.
For the smaller investor who wants j
to buy a government bond on ari easy
payment plan, the post office will
have a new series of postal savings
stamps, at 10c, 25c, 50c, $1 and $5.
Each purchaser of any savings stamp
higher than 10c will be given, free of
charge, an attractive pocket album in
which to paste his stamps until he
,ms cnou » h to buy a $25 bond or one
of higher denominations. Thirty mil- j !
lion of these albums are now being I
prepared.
The cover design of the albums is
in color, featuring a United States I
battleship and an eagle bearing the 1 j
American flag. On the hack cover is I
a paint ing of the Minute Man statue :
by Daniel Chester French, which
the American citizen ever
jn defenge of hjs c „ untry . 1 ke i
is “America on Guard”,
Secretary Morgenthau said that
' ‘ ~ " to "
^ \ , hc,p . th ,
3 that * I
1 ountry. He added -you can
fe ^"d your own money and your
own future, while helping the nation
al defense, by buying United States
savings bonds now”.
Senator George Says
II. S. Desires Peace
COLUMBUS, Ga.—Senator Walter
F. George, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, in an
address here last week, said that this
country is committed to peace and
security—not conquest. '
Speaking before a group at Fort 1
Benning, assembled to honor 29 offic- j :
ers from 11 South American coun
tries attending the infantry school,
Georgia's senior senator declared that.
the United State’s pledge to nations
of the western hemisphere, Great
Britain and this nation would be car
ried through.
Senator George criticized those j
who would retard the defense program
in any way. He expressed the opin
ion that this country has the ability
to oppose any aggression from
abroad.
Tells People What
They Can Do to
Help Fight Cancer
M It has been shown that about 1500
persons die in the state of Georgia
each year from cancer, and of course
a number of these are from our own
county of Peach,” says Mrs. Frank
Vinson, captain of Peach county wom¬
en’s ‘ field army for control of cancer.
To be able to carry on the organi¬
zation and educational work it
takes funds, so the people will be giv¬
en an opportunity to enroll in the
women’s field army and pay the dol¬
lar enlistment fee, or make a contri¬
bution to its work. Every dollar will
help to spread the message of hope.
Each person who enlists will be join¬
ing a great national health movement
and will receive in return information
that may save that person’s life or
someone else near or dear to him.
| “When a member of the Peach
I county organization approaches
you
for a contribution,” says Mrs. Vinson,
“it is hoped that you will willingly
enlist by paying a dollar or make
some contribution.” •
I Miss Mary Lillian Culpepper and
! members of the Junior Woman’s Club
w jU have charge of ‘tag day” Sat
urday, May 3.
Resources of Georgia
Insured Banks Now
Totals $628.954,000
The 266 insured commerial banks in
)tl( , gtate of Q eorg j a kad resource s of
*028,954 000 on December 31, 1940,
1 acCord j to announced by
ng a survey
Denosit Insurance Cor
i The insured banks were listed as
r having : on () denosjt deposit $559 *>oo.i,uzu,uuu. 020 000 Time nme
deposits amounted to $128,716,000,
while demand deposits totalled $430,
With an increase of $44,985,000
over December 31, 1939, loans and
discounts amounted to $262,686,000.
Georgia banks listed direct and ]
guaranteed obligations of the United
States government at $73,244,000 as
of December 31, 1940. Other securi
ties were listed at $49,236,000.
Deposits, loans and discounts of the
13,438 insured commercial banks all
over the country reported an increase
for the year just passed.
W. R. BITTICK RETIRES
1 fPIUTR , IVL> 1 A I OF f A
The Macon Telegraph carried a
picture of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bittick,
former Fort Valley residents, in its
edition this morning with the fol
lowing comment underneath:
"Fishing days are here for W. R.
Bittick, veteran Central of Georgia
railway engineer who retired yester¬
day after 38 years and five months
of service. Mr. Bittick, shown above
with Mrs. Bittick at their residence,
201 Villa Esta drive, isn’t worried
about ‘ time on his hands. He says
He } nas 10 in fishing usning puies poles rigged riggt.u and ami
ready !» to go when the fishing season
<ipenH.
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PEACH WONT BE ON
1942 LICENSE TAGS
ATLANTA, May 1, Governor Tal
madge’s economy program is moving
in ' on Georgia’s 1942 license plates,
So vapidly is it moving that it’s
Koi,lfr to shove the peach right off j
next year’s tag and shrink the plate !
itself to the size of the 1939 and 1940 |
edition.
This means that Georgia automo->
biles next year- will not be sporting
a ] ar g e tag bearing a luscious peach, j
but wdl reVel . t to t he plain models
with only a few numerals and a daub!
0 £ paint. I
Governor Talmadge thinks that this
c hang will save the state between i
$00,000 and $80,000 a year. |
Carlton Mobley, assistant attorney !
general and aide to Governor Tal
ma dge, estimated the state would save
2 2 cents a tag by returning to the
1940 size.
Men commonly think according to !
their inclinations, speak according to
their learning and imbibed opinions,
but generally act according to custom. I
—Bacon.
JONES SEES 90 7
BILLION DEBT
WASHINGTON, 30.—Jesse Jones
forecast Tuesday that the national
debt would mount to at least $90,000,
000,000, jmd declared “we have not
yet made any sacrifices.”
“But they are in store for us, plen¬
ty of them,” the secretary of com¬
merce added in an address prepared
for the annual convention of the
United States Chamber of
“A few months ago we were wor
rying about whether we could afford
to increase government borrowing au
thoirty above $45,000,000,000,” Jones
recalled. “It seems probable now that
it will grow to at least double that
amount, even allowing for paying as
much of this extraordinary cost as
our economy can stand from
taxes. \
“Frankly, it has never occured
me that could not carry a national
debt equal to a year’s ‘income, and as
we build the national income we can
carry more debt.
Must Pay Back
“But whatever amount we have to
borrow, we must commence to pay
back the day the emergency is over.”
The cabinet official declared
“much more” money will be appro¬
priated for national defense within
the next four years, and pointed out
that the cost of maintaining the
Army and Navy will mount as the or¬
ganizations are expanded.
“We are just nov>*. beginning to
have some idea,” he said, “of what
all this is going to cost—hut only a
rough idea, because it will cost more
than we now think.”
At another point in his address, the
Texan cited an .estimate that “one
fourth of the normal man-power
working hours will be required to pro¬
duce and manufacture things neces¬
sary to the defense program.
“That means,” he said, “that one
hour out of every four must be taken
from the production and manufacture
of things we use in our normal every¬
day life. That means that we will
either have to get along with fewer
of the things to which we are accus
tome< | and lake f granted, we 1
or or
must superimpose on our normal econ
omy a 25 per cent increase in our
production capacity—25 per cent more
work hours.
“The latter will be costly, will in
volve should serious be avoided fiscal if possible.” problems Call- and |
ing for the fullest cooperation in im
plementing the aid-to-democracies
program, Jones said:
We have chosen our course and
should not waste too much time over
road maps.
We do not want to get in the war,
now, a year hence, or 10 years hence.
It has been decided by our duly elect¬
ed representatives, the President and
the Congress, that the best way to in¬
sure against our getting in is to give
all possible aid to those countries
which are fighting to ‘preserve their
independence and our way of life.
Saying he questioned the judgment
of “those few Americans who are out
of step with our defense program,”
Jones remarked that if he believed
the conflict overseas was “just an¬
other’ European war, “I too would
favor going about our business and
letting them shoot it out.”
However, he said he was convinced
the war was “a life ar| d death strug¬
gle between two powerful forces with j
totally different concepts of life and
government.
To Back Tax Plan
The United States Chamber of j
Commerce was expected to indorse an j
emergency federal fiscal policy of
greatly increased taxes, drastic econo
mies in nondefense expenditures, and
sale of government bonds direct to f [
the public, where possible, instead of
to hanks.
Another resolution, it was learned, I
will the pledge defense 100 per cent and support third; for j
program a
probably will declare unqualified op- I
position to enactment of any com
pulsory antistrike legislation,
Angeles, Cal., were nominated Araon
Among regional speakers on “Busi
ness and Defense Activities” was Wal
ter L. Graefe, of Griffin, Ga., who
predicted that the South would show
more development “in the next few
years than any other section of the
country. ■
Recalling that the Roosevelt admin
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President Reported
Calling on House to
Beat Parity Raise
WASHINGTON, April 28.—The
White House was reported Sunday to
urged House conferees to stand
pat against a $238,000,000 increase
in farm “parity” payments voted by
the Senate.
This action was accepted at the
capitol as indicating that the admini¬
stration was prepared to give strong
backing to a suggestion by Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau that Con¬
gress scale down non-defense expendi¬
tures by $1,000,000,000. He proposed
cuts in expenditures on farm benefits,
the Civilian Conservation Corps and
the National Youth Administration.
House Majority Leader McCormack,
of Massachusetts, said he was opposed
to the “parity” payment increase, bet
Senate Democratic Leader Barkley, of
Kentucky, said it was “obvious that
we can’t save a billion there,” adding
that he did not know where Congress
could cut ordinary expenditures very
much,
G. O. P. Backing Parity
At the same time, Senate Republi
can Leader McNary, of Oregon, said
he had assured representatives of farm
organizations that there would be.
strong Republican support to maintain
the "parity” figure at the $450,000,000
level voted by the Senate,
Parity payments are designed to
raise farm purchasing to the level
of pre-World War days. 1
The House approved an outlay of
$251,000,000 for this purpose and
committees of both houses planned to
meet this week to compose their dif¬
Chairman Russell, Democrat,
Georgia, of Senate conferees, a cham¬
pion of the increased payments, said
Morgenthau’s statement had not,
altered his view that the larger
should be voted.
Morgenthau’s suggestion that COG
and NYA funds be cut, left congress¬
men wondering, too, what reductions
could he made there. The CCC re¬
ceived $279,000,000 for the current
year and was listed for $270,000,000
in the new budget.
The budget made a much deeper
cut in NYA funds, since that organi¬
zation got $157,000,000 this year and
was allotted only $101,000,000 for next
year.
Relief Saving Possible
Some legislators said it was more
likely that savings would be attempt
ed in relief funds. The VVPA. Was
given $1,350,000,000 this year, 'but
President Roosevelt recommended on
ly $995,000,000 for the year beginning
next July 1, noting that the defense
program was expected to increase em
ploy merit.
Both houses planned to mark time
early this week while committees' get
legislation in shape, Leaders indicat
ed the House might act on a bill au
thorizing the government to take over
idle foreign flag vessels in United
States harbors and Barkley said it
would be given swift consideration in
the Senate.
Representative Vinson (Democrat,
Georgia) planned to ask preferential
position in the House for his bill pro
viding a 25-day “cooling off” period
before strikes could he called in de
fense industries, but leaders showed
apathy toward it.
In eastern lands they talk ill flow
ers, and tell in a garland their loves
and cares.—Percival.