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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
Georgia, may s, 1934.
PAGE SIX
Cotton Act Is Aimed At
Big Planters According
To Commissioner Adams
Atlanta, April 2b.—Cotton acreage
reduction enforced by the Bankhead
bill should fall most heavily on the
large planters, permitting most of
the small farmers to continue to
produce their usual crops, according
to a statement Saturday by G. C.
Adams, Georgia Commissioner of
Agriculture.
Commisisoner Adams said he hop
ed county agents would see that the
law is enforced in this way.
In his statement Commissioner
Adams said:
“It seems absurd to me that those
farmers who have had no part in
producing the large bfBdensome sur
plus that has depressed the price be
low the cost of production should be
punished by the government in not
allowing them a fair show with the
large planters who frequently do not
live on their farms at all.
"I greatly hope that the county
farm agents who administer this bill
will use this million bales to see
that every small farmer may be al
lowed to continue to plant his usual
acreage and that the big .city planter
will be required to greatly reduce his
acreage.
“The big agricultural fish have
fattened on the little ones long
enough. The hundred-bale farmer
who plowed up not an acre has re
ceived the same price for his cotton
as the five-bale farmer who plowed
up one third of his, so that all might
get 12c per pound, instead of 5 or 6
cents.
“I see no cause to complain if the
cotton reduction is made on a fair
basis.
“When an eight million bale crop
always sel-ls for more money than a
sixteen million bale crop we should
not strain every nerve to grow cot
ton all over the face of the earth
simply for the benefit of the Wall
Street money barons.
"If it cost 8c to grow cotton, four
bales at 20c will give a profit of
$240, while ten bales at 10c will yield
a profit of only $100.
“The probability is that the ten
bales would not sell for more than
8c, in which case our condition would
be as it has been for the past several
years, except that most of the cotton
grown for these years has been
grown at a loss.’ ’
YEOMANS DELIVERS MEMORIAL
DAY ADDRESS AT THOMASTON
Thomaston, Ga., April 28.—Geor
gia and the state s gray clad legions
bore heavier losses in lives and
property in the War Between the
States than any other Confederate
state, Attorney General M. J. Yeo-
ma. s said in a memorial address at
Thomaston Thursday.
uc—gia gave her all for the Con
ftderacy," the attorney general said
“From 1861 to 1865 Georgia gave 94
regjme.u^, 66 battalions embracing
every arm of the service, and total
ing at least 120,000 men, practically
one-fifth of the Confederate aTii.y,
of which 40,000 were either wounded
o. „...eu in battles.
"In iobo pi.jpeny in Georgia was
returned for taxation at $672,1)00 ano
in 1867 it was returned for $191,000
a loss of $481,000, more than tliree-
l'oartns ol uer entire wealth ’ ’
.vlr. Yeomans cited figures com
piled by the auditor at Richmond,
i a tnai up to December,
1863, Georgia lost 9,500 suidieis;
Alabama, 8,900; North Carolina, 8,-
2oo; »e\as, 6,000,; Virginia, 5,940;
Mississippi, 5,360; South Carolina,
4,o(d); Louisiana, 3,039; Tennessee
2,64o; Arkansas, 1,940; and Florida
1,200.
“The year 1864 was the turning
point in tne war,” Mr. Yeomans
said, “and as usual Georgia was the
ciux of the situation”.
Turning to Georgia's Confederate
veterans, Mr. Veomans expressed the
fear that sufficient funds will not be
realized to pay pensions in full for
1934. He explained that the 1931 leg
islature levied a tax of 20 per cent
on all cigars and cigarettes and ap
propriated the net proceeds for the
years 1932 and 1933 to the payment
of pensions.
He said the legislature of 1933 al
lowed an automatic reduction to 10
per cent, greatly reducing the in
come and making it doubtful if suffi
cient funds will be realized from the
tax to pay the pensions in full.
SOUTHERN METHODISTS
VOTE FOR UNIFICAION
Jackson, Miss., April 80—Amid
wild ; p'acse, the Quadr niniul Gen
eral conference of Methodist Epis
copal church, south, Monday voted bo
sweep aside the .barriers that sun
dered a church three-quarters of a
century ago and to seek unification
of American Methodism.
The program, which brought a
virtually unanimous vote, would bind
the forces of Methodism together in
to a single unity loy 1944.
A commission of five (bishops and
10 ministers will treat with the Met
hodist Episcopal Cliuteh and the
Methodist Protestant Church for the
pioposcd union and report to the next
general conference.
Impetus was added to the plan by
a telegram from Josepus Daniels
United States Ambassador to Mexico,
a layman, who sent a strong appeal
for unification to the conference.
Bishop James M. Cannon, Jr., the
militant churchman w' oso conduct
of a campaign against A1 Smith in
the 1928 Presidential campaign
brought him to trial last week i.i the
District of Columbia Supreme Court,
was among the nrelates on the rost
rum today as the conference got
down to its major work.
Te bishop came to his church's
eonfere-cc posni'blv to face another
major battle of his career—his en
forced retirement four years prior to
automatic superannuation at tne age
of 72.
RALLS MAKES PLANS
TO LAUNCH PROGRAM
OF FARM PROMOTION
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Supervising a program designed to
raise farming standards throughout
the state and to encourage the adop
tion of modern agricultural methods
among the youthful funning stu
dents us well as their elders, llamil-
I ton Kails, outstanding in Georgia
! rural development for the past 15
years, has been engaged for farm
! promotion work within the state.
I Mr. Ralls, former Georgia planter
| and candidate for commissioner of
i agriculture, will hold the post re-
j cently created by the Barrett Gom-
I pany, makers of the American Ni-
! trate of Soda.
I He will launch at once a program
! of cooperation with the county
agents in the state, the teachers of
! vocational agriculture, college ex
perimental statistics, chambers of
. commerce, and railroad agricultural
divisions.
! Mr. Ralls will assume the respon
sibility on the part of The Barrett
| Company for the supervision of the
contests being sponsored among
groups of 4-H Club memliers and the
Future Farmers of America, and for
which prizes calculated to stimulate
interest among youthful farmers of
: the state are being offered.
Entries in both contests indicate
that the largest number of contes-
tants in history will participate,
| warranting an expansion of the com-
I pany's activities on behalf of the
, contests.
I Mr. Ralls, a native of Alabama,
1 grew up on a farm and came to At
lanta as a youth, accepting a post
early in life as agriculturist with the
Southern railroad. For four years he
was county agent with headquarters
in Turner county, and for four years
subsequently he managed a 3,000
acre farm at Hogansville, operated
by J. A. Arnold.
Since 1929, Mr. Ralls has ooerated
his own 600 acre farm at Hogans
ville, and has been active in fields
kindred to agriculture, serving with
the federal land bank in 1933 and
was for one term president of the
Georgia Swine Growers’ association.
In. the last race for agricultural com
missioner, he ran third in a large
field. Mr. Ralls is believed to have
a throuogh equipment for his work
with the Barrett Company, and will
work out from the agricultural de
velopment bureau’s head offices in
Atlanta.
GEORGIA TAX COLLECTIONS
ON INCREASE ACCORDING
TO AUDITOR’S REPORT
Atlanta. May 1.—An increase of
nnnroximately a million and a half
dollars in state revenue for the first
nd R year over the same
period of 1933 was reported by State
A editor Wisdom.
Fuel oil taxes and motor vehice
license fees led in the increased rev
enues. the former increasing S650.-
000 a _ d tbo latter $570,000. Revenue
in both of these elapses is alVited to
the state V«rhw«v department and
the common schools.
BREVITIES IN THE NEWS
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Memorial Day parades and ex
ercises honoring me or.ee mighty
army of the Confederacy found
670 survivors in grey in the state
of Georgia . . . Miss Wilma
Brown, 22, of Atlanta, is reported
on the r.oad to recovery after 65
operations during the past year
. . . “Horse thieves” are at large
again in Georgia for the first time
in many years, witii the sheriff in
Lowndes county looking tor two
mules missing irom the stables of
D. C. Dickerson ... A mule, two
cows and three dogs were killed
near Lawrenceville by a stroke of
lightning . . . Herbert Wind, edi
tor of tne Cairo Messenger ,is a
candidate for the post of eleiK in
the Georgia house of representa
tives . . . The elan of Irish Horse-
Traders, which holds funeral serv
ices only once each year, came to
Atlanta Saturday to bury mem
bers who died since last Sipring
. . . Officials of the University
System of Georgia were in Wash
ington this week seeking the re
lease of $3,000,000 PWA funds to
be used in improving buildings at
state institutions . . .. James D.
Robnson, Jr., son of the executive
vice president of the First Na
tional Bank of Atlanta, lost his
wallet alst week on the eve of his
wedding to Miss Josephine Craw
ford. An ad in an Atlanta paper
brought back the wallet, with rail
road tickets, etc., but without the
$200 cash . . . Mayor Key of At
lanta is spending a week’s vaca
tion at Sea Island bdach . . . Op
position to the return of the open
saloon was voiced by the Georgia
Federation of Women’s Clubs in a
resolution adopted at the close of
the annual session In Atlanta . . .
Clifford M. Witcher, of Atlanta,
blind Georgia Tech student, re
ceived the highest scholastic
award ever offered by the insti
tution at annual honor day ex
ercises . . . Emory Callahan and
J. E Pullian demanded $10,000 of
Howard Hanna, wealthy winter
resident of South Georgia, but
received 6 years each in the fed
eral penitentiary for using the
mails to defraud . . . Miss Nell
Bullard, injured in an automobile
accident 30 days ago, has been
unconscious at Grady hospital in
Atlanta more than 800 hours . . .
A1 Capone is at it again, appeal
ing to the circuit court on the de
nial qf his plea for release on ha
beas corpus. The bearing was held
in New Orleans Monday ... A
painting of the famous Bulloch
Hall in Roswell, C,a., where the
wife of the late President Theo
dore Roosevelt was horn, will
hang in the White House, a gift
of Mrs. E. K. Turner Atlanta ar
tist, t ,oMrs. Franklin Roosevelt.
Return To Dry Law
Fray Recommended
By Methodist Body
Jackson, Miss., April 30—The hoard
of temperance and social service of
the Methodist Episcopal church South
in their quadriennial report to tho
general conference of file church here
demanded that the Unitd States re
turn to nation-wide prohibiion, and
that the question be made an issue
in the election of every senator and
representative “until national pro
hibition is again adopted.”’
I Ths board is headed by Bishop
i James Cannon, Jr., the militant dry
leader of the church at a time when
a movement was being agitated to
' consolidate three general boards, in
cluding Cannon’s board, with other
church boards for the sake of econ
omy.
He entered quietly and almost un-
notoiced just before the conference
voted overwhelmingly in favor of ef
forts toward “unfteation of all
branches of American Methodism by
1944, the centennial date of division
betwen the Methodist Episcopal
church, (North) and the Methodist
Episcopal church, South.
Describing the liquor business as
a “body and soul detroying traffic,”
the temperance bourd’s repot de
clared that “one church cannot, will
not shrrender, retreat or compro
mise.’ ’
The report hrged that the rhurch
memorialize rongress to pass a con-
stithtional amendment resolhtion to
be submitted to the states “to give
the power to congress to restrict or
prohibit the traffic in alcoholic liq-
hors, thus making national prohibi
tion of this national evil a clearcut
| issue in the election of every con
gressman and every senator until
national prohibition is again adopt
ed.’ ’
Unification with the Methodist
Episcopal church was defeated sev
eral years ago by vote of the annual
conferences, but the present effort
brought forth by the commission on
interdenominational relations seeks
to evolve a union which would unite
the branches of American Method
ism by “preserving a listinction be
tween racial and national develop
ments," recognized as one of the
principal reservations of Southern
conferences.
R. J. SPENCE PROMINENT
HAMILTON MAN
DIES SUDDENLY
Hamilton, Ga., May 1—R. J.
Spence, prominent Harris county ci
tizen and former chief of Harris
county police for a number of years
died suddenly a his home near Ham
ilton Monday night at the age of 63
years.
Mr. Spence was torn and reared in
Harris county where he was '.ctive
in the affairs of the county for a
number of years until he retirecd to
his farm near here a few years ago.
He was engaged in farming at the
time of his sudden passing, which
came as a distinct shock and sorrow
to his many friends epid relatives.
Mr. Spence is survived by hi3
| widow and two sons, T. T. Sper.ce,
' a lieutenant of Columbus police, and
Win. H. Spence, also of Columbus,
special bailiff in the office of So
lici.or General A. Jones Perryman,
of the Chattahoochee circuit superior
courts, formerly deputy U. S. mar
shal at Columbus and former sheriff
of Harris enuntv; a brother, Clifford
Science, of Harris county, and three
grand children, Willene, Martha and
Jane Spence, ,of Columbus, and a
number of nephews and nieces sur
vive.
The Southeastern Congress of On-
tometry, with 100 delegates from 11
states attending held a four day ses
sion at Valdosta this week. Dr.
Esther Ingram, of Winter Park, Fla.
president of the organization, pre
sided over the sessions.
DEFINES BANKERS’
PART IN RECOVERY
Head of American Banker* As
sociation Assures the Presi
dent of Confidence and
Desire to Cooperate
Among Bankers
WASHINGTON, D. C. — President
" Roosevelt in IiIb address before the
NRA conference here on March 5 an
nounced that he had received the fol
lowing telegram from Francis M. Law,
President of the American Bankers As
sociation:
“On this your first anniversary please
allow me in behalf of the country's
banks to express our full confidence
and our sincere desire to cooperate In
your courageous efforts to bring about
recovery.*** The banking structure of
the country Is sound and liquid and
banks have never been In stronger po
sition to function effectively. Condi
tions have Improved to the point where
it la no longer necessary for banks to
be super-liquid.*** There Is a definite
call now for banks, not to extend loose
credits or to make improper loans, but
for a most sympathetic attitude toward
legitimate credit needs and for a recog
nition of responsibility for their proper
and vital part In the program of re
covery.”
The Soundness of Banking
In an address before a recent trust
conference of the association’s Trust
Division in New Vork, Mr. Law said:
“A depression cannot long survive a
sound banking structure if the banking
structure is responsive to legitimate
needs and functions In a way that ia
virile and alive. The most cheering fact
of the present situation is the knowl
edge that banks are in strong position.
"Recovery, even to the most pessi
mistic, is no longer a myth or a rumor,
nor is it merely psychological. Abun
dant evidence and proof lie on every
band—tangible proof. With a return of
confidence the wheels have begun to go
round and a great many well managed
businesses may look for a profit during
this calendar year with fair assurance
at least. For what has been achieved
let us thank the President, who bat
labored with courage and patience and
vision. Let us thank the Congress,
whose members during tbe emergency
have put the public welfare above par
tisanship. Let us thank one hundred
twenty-five million of our own citizens
who have refused to be stampeded, but
rather who have kept alive the divine
spark of faith and hope.
Cause for Confidence
“We may reasonably expect that the
recent action of the government In sta
bilizing the dollar will have a marked
tendency to encourage Industrial and
other business commitments. Business
men need not be so exclusively engaged
in taking counsel of their fears now
that uncertainty does not haunt them.
"Much lias been said about the loos
ing of credit by banks. During the acute
.period of the depression banks for the
most pari uave utn.
mally, nor should they be blamed. With
| public confidence shattered the banker
was properly concerned in liquidity,
I having in mind h’s primary obligation
| to pay off deposits. The situation has
| impwud to the point where super-
liqu^H no longer seems necessary.
Contemns have materially changed.
Banks will desire, for every reason, to
return to a more normal lending policy.
This means a sympathetic attitude and
a recognition of responsibility for his
proper part In the program of recovery
by the banker as he passes upon and
meets sound credit requirements ol
business as It swings Into and con
tinues on the upward turn."
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
LEGAL NOTICE
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned as guardian for Mrs.
Sarah Hill Hall, will, after four
weeks advertisement as provided by
law, apply for an order to sell at
private sale for reinvestment the
following property belonging to his
ward:
An undivided one-sixth interest in
the following real estate: 60.6 acres
off the south side of fractional lot
of land Number 297, and the whole
of fractional losts Numbers 298 and
299, all lying and being in the 11th
district of Taylor County, Georgia,
comprising in the aggregate 237.9
acres, more or less, and commonly
known as the W. A. Woodall Home
Place.
Said property being an undivided
interest is uprofitable and decreas-
in value.
Said application will be made to
the Honorable C. F. McLaughlin,
Judge of the Superior Court, Chat
tahoochee Circuit, at the court house
in Columbus, Georgia, on Saturday,
! May 26th next, at ten oclock a. m.
I VERNON HALL,
j Guardian of Mrs. Sarah Hill Hall.
LEGAL SALE
! GEORGIA—Taylor County:
| Because of default in the payment
I of a loan secured by a deed to se-
1 cure debt executed 'by M. R. Camer
on to the undersigned, The Federal
I Land Bank of Columbia, dated the
14th day of July, 1923, and recorded
in the office of the Clerk of Superior
Court of Taylor county, Georgia, in
Book “P” Page 425, the undersigned
has declared the full amount of the
loan, with interest, and advances
made by the undersigned, due and
payable, and will, on the 16th day of
May, 1934, acting under the power
of sale contained in said deed, dur
ing the legal hours of sale, at the
court house in said county, sell at
auction to the highest bidder for
cash the lands described in said deed
to-wit:
Thirty-Eight (38) acres off the
West side of lot of land Number 239
and Thirty-Seven (37) acres off the
East and middle portion of lot Num
ber 240, both in the 13th District of
Taylor County Georgia, and hounded
as follows: On the North by lands
of Mrs. N. B. Hammock and G. C.
Smith, East by lands of Mrs. N. B.
Hammock and A J. Fountain Est.,
South bv lands of J. H. Childres and
J. T. Childs and on the West by
lands of I. F. Peebles. Said lands
des'-rth-.H Iving West of the
Butler and Rupert public road as
surveyed by H. P. Wallace on the
20th day of June, 1923, copy of
which is attached to abstract on file
with the Federal Land Bank of Co
lumbia.
The undersigned will execute a
deed to the purchaser as authorized
Iby the deed aforesaid.
| This 18th dav of A-nril. 1934.
| THE FEDERAL LAND BANK
OF COLUMBIA.
C. B. MARSHALL,
j Attomev for The Federal
Land Bank of Columbia.
WASHINGTON . . . Lieut.-Col
Q. A. Lynch (above), U. 8. Arniv
now detached, and described by
Hugh 8. Johnson as “the most u j
vanccd thinker in the U 8 Armv,"
18 the new member of the NR.\ admin
i»trative staff and understudy tu
-ohnson.
LEGAL SALE
I
| FOR YEAR’S SUPPORT
1 GEORGIA—Taylor County:
■To Whom It May Concern:
I All persons are hereby notified that
I Mrs. J T. Adams has filed ap-
! plication in this office for 12 months’
| support out of the estate of J. T.
. Adams, deceased, and said appli
cation will be heard before the said
! Ordinary at the May term, 1934,
j of said court to be held on the first
I Monday in May, next.
I Witness my hand and official sig
nature this the 30th day ,of April,
1934.
I L. T. PEED. Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Under and by virtue of power ol
sale contained in security deed from
Mrs .J H. Adams to F. R. p unis
dated September eleventh, 1928. and
recorded in Deed Book “S”, page '6
Clerk’s Office, Taylor Superior Court
to secure a note of even date there
, with of $275.80, and 8 per cent in'.
I terest from its date, which note and
security deed and the land therein
described have been assigned to the
undrBigned, who will expose for sale
j before the court house door in Tav-
I lor county, Georgia, within the legal
I hours of sale to the highest bidder
for sach on the first Tuesday in June.
1934, the following described proper
ty: “All that tract, parcel and piece
of land, lying, being and situated in
th Daviston District of Taylor coun
ty, Georgia, and containing fifty
acres, more or less. This being the
north corner of the home place of
the said Mrs. J. H. Adams and
bounded on the north by lands of J,
A. Heath; on the east by lands of T.
J Amos; on the south by lands of
Mrs. J. H. Adams, and on the west
by lands of Cliff Royal.” The above
' described property to be sold to sat
isfy the above described note.
The proceeds from said sale to be
used, first in the payment of the
principal and interest of said note,
and the expenses of the sale, and
the balance, if any, to be turned over
to Mrs. J. H. Adams, or her legal
representatives. Good and sufficient
title will be made to purchaser
MRS. M. A. HALL.
O. E. SCOTT. Attorney,
Cordele, Ga.
FOR LEAVE TO SELL
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Thelmon Jarrell, administrator ot
the estate of Miss Callio Wade de
ceased, having filed his written peti
tion for Leave to Sell certain land of
said deceased located in the County of
Taylor, this is, therefore, to cite all
an<( singular the creditors and next
of kir. of Miss Callio Wade to show
cause, if any they can, at the next
regular term of the Court of Or
dinary to be held on the first Monday
in May, 1934, why the prayer of said
petitioner should not be granted.
This the 5th day of April, 1934.
L. T. PEED, Ordinary.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
AND DEBTORS
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
All creditors of the estate of Mrs.
S. F. Robinson, late of said county,
deceased, are hereby notified to ren
der in their demands to the under
signed according to law, and all per
sons indebted to said estate are re
quired to make immediate payment
to the undersigned.
This March 5th, 1934.
J. R. LUNSFORD,
Executor of Mrs. S. F. Robinson
Deceased, Reynolds, Ga.
The highest point yet reached in
the employment .of civilian labor on
the $6,352,000 construction program
now under way at Fort Benning was
attained Monday when, according to
a news dispatch, 1,666 men started to
work. It is expected that the next
two months will see a marked in
crease in the number of men em
ployed as there are several large
projects on which extensive work has
not begun.
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