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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXIH NO. 48
FOUR CANDIDATES
FOR TWO PLACES
ON CITY COUNCIL
SPIRITED ELECTION FOR TUES
DAY, AUGUST IST, IS
FORECAST
Four candidates are contesting for
two vacancies on the City Council to
be filled in the election on Tuesday,
August 1. When the entries closed
Monday the following; had posted
notices of their candidacy with the
City Clerk: Messrs. J. 0. Bridges,
S. G. Maddox, Alto Warrick and
Oscar Whitchard.
The members of council whose
terms expire at the end of the cur
rent year are Messrs. H. B. Ains
worth and J. 0. Bridges. Mr. Bridges
is seeking re-election, but Mr. Ains
worth will not seek another term.
The hold-over members of Council
are Mesrs. R. C. Singletary and R.
C. Howell.
This is an off-year in the Mayor’s
election, the two-year term of Dr.
Barksdale running through the year
1934.
As a result of a constitutional
amendment approved by the voters
of Georgia in the 1932 election, pay
ment of poll tax and registration
are necessary prerequisites to vot
ing. The time limit for the pay
ment of the tax and registration for
the August 1 election is Saturday
of this week.
The approaching election gives
promise of becoming a lively affair.
THOS. E. PERKINS
DIES AT NEW YORK
Former Georgian Was Nephew Os
Messrs. J. S. and R. C. Sherman
New York.—Thomas E. Perkins,
38, a native of Lumpkin, Ga., and a
member of the New York Stock Ex
change since 1928, died here Sun
day after a brief illness. He was a
member of the brokerage firm of
Perkins and Benton. He is sur
vived by his wife, his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Perkins, of Lump
kin, Ga., three brothers and two
sisters. Burial was at Beallsville,
Md., Tuesday.
Mr. Perkins was a nephew of
Mr. J. S. Sherman and Mr. R. C.
Sherman and had some years ago
visited .Blakely. Friends here will
learn with regret of his death.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
Dry Goods have gone up, but we still
have some at the low prices.
40c Printed Pique and Lace Voile, yd. 25c
25c Printed Voile, yard 19c
20c Printed and Solid Voile, yard 10c
35c Piques, Meshes and Linens, yd — 19c
Pretty patterns in Play Cloth, yd. 10c
Best grade Cheviots, yd 10c
35c White Seersucker and Pique, yd. 25c
SI.OO Wash Dresses, pretty patterns.— 79c
95c all silk Flat Crepe, all colors, yd. 69c
SI.OO Full Fashioned Hose 69c
Kotex 25c
All Men’s Straw Hats and Sport Shoes
greatly reduced.
We have just received a new shipment
of Silk Dresses, regular $3.95 values, to
close out at $1.95. Come in and see them.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GA.
€arljj ffiomitg JXcws
Early County Cotton
Growers to Receive
SBO,OOO in Cotton Cut
Early county cotton growers will
receive $79,762 from the Federal
government for the plowing up of
7,545 acres of cotton, it was reveal
ed in the final tabulation of the fig
ures Wednesday, according to Dr.
W. A. Fuqua, County Agent.
858 farmers signed the reduction
agreement. Os the 24,342 acres in
cultivation by these farmers, 7,545
were signed up to be taken out of
production. The estimated yield of
this acreage was 180.5 pounds of
lint cotton per acre.
Farmers will receive $29,486 in
cash benefits without option.
Those who took options will re
ceive $50,276.
Bales optioned totaled 2,072.
All signed contracts -were placed
in the mails Wednesday afternoon
for dispatch to Washington for ac
ceptance or rejection. It is expected
that instructions will be received
within the next few days, but—
Farmers are again warned not
to begin the destruction of the crop
until official word is received.
LATER
The following telegram was re
ceived by Dr. W. A. Fuqua Wednes
day, which contains information of
interest. Read it carefully:'
The following telegram has just
been received from C. A. Cobb
with instructions that it be relayed
to you: “The Secretary of Agricul
ture has authorized acceptance and
approval of all producer contracts
where the same are approved by
County Committee. Printed in
structions and emergency permit
blanks on way to be used by farm
ers to secure permit from County
Agent to destroy immediately cot
ton without having to await ar
rival of formal acceptance blanks.
Instructions and emergency per
mit blanks should reach you Fri
day. In no event shall producer
begin destruction of crop until his
application has been approved and
permit issued by County Agent.”
Act cautiously and await arival of
permit blanks.
J. PHIL CAMPBELL.
Every farmer is urged by County
Agent Fuqua to make a step-jack
and step off his acreage to insure
against plowing up more than the
pledged acreage. It is urged that
the land be stepped when committee
arrives. The committee reserves the
right to restep or recheck the acre
age, it was stated.
The states of Alabama and Ar
kansas, in the elections of Tuesday,
voted for repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1933.
PLANS ARE BEING
MADE FOR COTTON
CONTROL PROGRAM
CROP OF 1934 AND POSSIBLY
THAT OF 1935 WOULD
BE CURTAILED
With the cotton reduction plan
to take three million bales of the
1933 crop out of production about
completed, the Federal government
is laying plans for a production
control program for next year’s
crop and possibly that of 1935, ac
cording to reports from the farm
administration at Washington.
Formal activity in drafting the
new cotton program will begin as
soon as distribution of about SIOO,-
000,000 to more than 700,000 farm
ers in 16 states has been completed.
The bulk of these payments for
agreements to cut the output of
farms of this year’s growing crop
from 25 to 50 per cent will be fin
ished in three weeks; in two months
the job will be complete.
Producers and representatives of
the cotton industry will be consult
ed in drafting the new plan but it
was reported by authoritative sour
ces that administrators already have
come to an agreement on many
fundamentals.
The chief of these is that they
intend to employ the principle of
the voluntary domestic allotment
plan as far as possible with a pros
pect of another campaign this fall
to obtain agreements from growers
to cut next year’s crop and giving
Secretary Wallace an option to re
quire those agreeing to make a
substantial reduction again in 1'935.
Payments would be based entire
ly on the principle that growers
will receive “parity” prices based
on pre-war averages on that portion
of their cotton required for domes
tic consumption. Only farmers
agreeing to reduce their acreage
a given percentage would be en
titled to these payments.
A parity price is one designed to
raise the purchasing power of the
farmer’s dollar to the same level it
had during the pre-war period.
The new plan will bear many re
semblances to the wheat program
on which administrators will con
centrate next.
The campaign to reduce cigar
leaf tobacco acreage this year in
five growing districts will get under
way this week. Growers will be
offered cash payments in proportion
to the estimated value of their
product in the growing districts of
New England, Pennsylvania - New
York, Ohio-Indiana, Wisconsin-Min
nesota and Georgia-Florida.
During the next week administra
tors also expect to approve the
first of the milk trade marketing
agreements submitted 'to them.
These include one covering the Chi
cago milk-shed and another the
Georgia milk-shed, centering at At
lanta. These agreements as submit
ted provide for minimum prices to
be paid producers for fluid milk
and cream and also minimum prices
at which they may be sold by pro
cessors and distributors and prices
to be charged consumers.
Other plans for marketing other
farm products are being prepared by
those manufacturing butter and
dairy products, meat packers, whole
sale distributors of food and sugar.
Are You Qualified
To Vote in City
Election August 1 ?
This final warning is issued to
those who desire to vote in the city
election on August Ist that all past
due poll taxes must be paid not later
than Saturday of this week.
If poll taxes were not paid prior
to December 20th last it will also
be necessary to re-register on the
county books.
If the prospective voter voted in
the last city election and has com
plied with the above requirements,
re-registration on the city books is
not necessary, according to Miss
Cora L. Saxon, City Clerk.
If in doubt about your status as
to qualification for voting, better
attend to the matter his week.
U. S. SPENDING
THIS YEAR TO
BREAK RECORD
OPERATING UNDER TRIPLE
BUDGET, TOTAL IS TO BE
ELEVEN BILLION
Under the new triple budget sys
tem the United States government
during the fiscal year just begun
will break all records for peacetime
expenditures by spending or lending
almost $7,500,000,000.
In addition, federal agencies may
issue $4,000,000 in interest-guaran
teed bonds for home and farm mort
gage financing, bringing the total
possible outlays to the staggering
sum of almost $11,500,000,000. Only
the war years surpassed this peak.
Operating under three budgets for
the first time in history, Uncle Sam
has one budget to cover ordinary op
erating costs, one to cover the recon
struction finance corporation ac
count, and a third for the emergency
expenditures involved in the public
works and road buildng programs.
Expenses in the ordinary budget
have been slashed to the utmost. This
budget is virtually balanced. The
other budgets are almost entirely
outgo with no immediate balancing
income.
The three budgets threaten to pile
up the largest peacetime deficit for
any fiscal year in history, possibly
amounting to $5,000,000,000 and
about equal to the deficit on the
ordinary budget for the combined
three years of the depression. The
Roosevelt administration points out,
however, that vitually all this ap
parent deficit will be repaid eventual
ly. The program to aid mortgage
ridden home owners is financed by
bonds that eventually will return to
the government the money expend
ed.
Budget Declared Balanced.
The 30 per cent of the cost of the
public works and road building pro
grams which the government is fur
nishing outright will be covered in
time by a special tax bill passed by
the last session of congress. The other
70 per cent of the cost of this pro
gram must be furnished by states,
cities and municipalities.
With the triple budget system the
government can claim that its budget
is balanced, although emergency ex
penditures actually far outstrip in
come. Creation of three budgets is
a move to balance the ordinary
budget without cutting off the
government’s gifts to states for re
lief to business.
The ordinary budget for the year
consists of $2,773,000,000 to cover
operations of ten major departments,
independent offices, interest on pub
lic debt, bank deposit insurance and
farm administrations. Income from
taxes is estimated at $2,200,000,000,
leaving the budget still $600,000,000
out of balance. This budget for the
year just closed was based on a fig
ure of $3,614,000,000.
New President
Os Rotary Club
Assumes Duties
W. A. Hall, recently elected Presi
dent of the Rotary Club, was offi
cially installed and assumed his duties
at the weekly luncheon held at noon
last Thursday.
Assuming his new position, the
President pledged his best efforts
and appealed for the cooperation of
the Club members. He announced
the appointment of Rotarians Fryer,
Stuckey and Bill Grist as the program
committee. Other committee ap
pointments will be announced later,
he stated.
Rev. J. S. Hartsfield, of Eastman,
a former member of the Club, was
present and spoke briefly to the Ro
tarians.
Mr. Edwin G. Barham was a guest
of his father, Rotarian Felix Barham,
and also spoke briefly to the Club.
Lieutenant Frances Balkcom, Pa
trol Leader Lillian Fryer and Assis
tant Patrol Leader Frances Grubbs,
of the local Girl Scout Troop, drop
ped in to thank the Club for sponsor
ing the Scout movement.
Mr. Hammack
Writes Interestingly
Os Texas Trip
Center, Texas, July 9, 1933.
Editor Early County News:
I have been planning a “Western
trip” through Alabama, Mississippi
Louisiana and Texas for several
weeks, and thinking that the farmers
and my friends might be interested
in a “write-up” of the trip, as to
what I have seen along the way, I
am sending you a few notes of the
trip.
On July 6th I and my wife, Willie
Jim and his mother - all left Bluffton
at 6:30 a. m., with Willie Jim at
the wheel. We came byway of
Eufaula, Montgomery and Selma,
Ala., Meridian and Jackson, Miss.,
Monroe and Shreveport, La., to
Marshall, Texas, 708 miles. We spent
our first night at Forest, Miss.,
which is about half way.
Now, about the crops and other
things we saw. After passing Fort
Gaines the crops were off some and
from Eufaula, Ala., all the way to
Marshall, Texas, they are burning
up for want of rain. The corn is
from hand high to tasseling, but
very little of it is any good. The
tassels are dying and hardly any of
it will ever shoot, caused by too
much rain in «the spring, to plant
anything, and after it quit raining
it was too late, besides it turned
off dry and did not rain any more
until about May Ist. The cotton
is the same way. The most of it
has only had one plowing. Some
seems to have been planted a little
sooner, or fertilized, and is around
knee high and is just beginning to
bloom. From the best I could guess,
not over a third or possibly a fourth
of the lands (all the way we came)
are in cultivation. Most of it is
eaten up in bermuda and Johnson
grass, some lying out and and bal
ance in pastures. But I saw very
few cattle and no beef type cows—
or hogs. We saw only four or
five poor “shoats” during the trip.
Another thing—from Union Springs
to Marshall, Texas, I did not see a
single white person at work in the
fields. We saw some white women
hoeing cotton. I offered to set the
crowd up if they would show me
ONE.
We spent our first night at For
est, La., which is about half way
to Marshall. On Friday we ate
dinner at Monroe, La., and were at
Marshall —our first stop. There we
spent two nights and a day, visiting
some relatives of my first wife
who were school mates of mine
when we were kids in Alabama—
had not seen them in fifty years.
Sherman is a much larger city
than I had guessed it was. They
have 20,000 to 25,0000 people there.
It is a county seat and has the
largest Negro college in the State.
We saw several saw-mills along and
a lot of lumber to sell at Minden,
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FACTORIES BUSY,
EMPLOYMENT UP
AS PRICES MOUNT
REACTIONARY TENDENCIES US
UAL AT THIS SEASON
ARE ABSENT
The Associated Press reports from
New York that mid-summer season
for relaxation, finds industry as a
whole perspiring freely in the most
ardent production schedules of the
past two years.
Reports of the past week were
augumented by many summaries of
June activities, which confirmed a
more buoyant rise over 1932 figures
than the weekly reports had indi
cated.
With reactionary tendencies con
spicuous by their absence—even aft
er 15 weeks of steady business ex
pansion—last week’s news was
marked by constantly enlarging or
ders for many lines of trade, includ
ing foodstuffs, shoes, ready-to-wear
clothing, millinery, machinery and
equipment, steel, and to some extent
building materials.
One of the most important effects
of the general improvement con
tinues to be the weekly decline in
the number of unemployed. There
were additional announcements last
week of wage boosts from several
manufacturing centers.
“Trying to Beat the Gun”
At the same time several observ
ers contend that current statistics
reflect the efforts of manufacturers
to “beat the gun”, namely, to build
up inventories of finished goods be
fore higher wages and material costs
result in advanced prices.
With a gain of 17.7 per cent over ,
the comparative period a year ago,
electric power production for the
latest reportable week scored the
biggest advance that has marked ten
weeks of increases.
Automobile production, as estimat
ed by Cram, totaled 58,022 units last
week, an increase of 16.107 over the
preceding week’s output which was
reduced because of the independence
day holiday.
Car loadings for the week ending
July 8, which included the July 4
holiday, totaled 539,223 cars, an in
crease of 29.6 per cent over the like
1932 period, and the ninth consecu
tive week when traffic showed an
improvement over last year.
During June cotton mill operations
were 125 per cent of the average
rate from 1922 to 1927. This com
pares with 58 per cent in June, 1932.
Since March of this year, cotton
mills have increased operations by
45 per cent, whereas normally sched
ules are curtailed approximately 10
per cent during this period.