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Study and Play
For Boys in The
Forestry Camps
Forestry and Army authorities are
planning systematic activities in edu
cation and recreation in the civilian
conservation corps. Preliminary in
structions have been sent to camp
superintendents covering educational
work to be undertaken on the princi
ples of forestry and for promoting
various athletic games including
ba=eball, football, basket ball and
volley ball. Later, it is thought
athletic contests between camps
may be arranged. All camps have
been located with an idea of having
a field for athletic games conven
iently near, and Saturdays are to be
given over largely to athletics.
Arrangements are to be made to
present moving pictures at camps.
A number of reels dealing with
forestry and wild life, prepared by
the United States Department of
Agriculture, are to be made avail
able for use in camps.
In Georgia, according to State
Forester, B. M. Lufburrow, the staff
of the State Forest Service will con
tribute to the educational activities
of the camps by giving lectures and
field studies in forestry and by pre
senting forestry moving pictures.
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BLAKELY, - GEORGIA
Ga. Offices Open for
Applications for U. S.
Home Mortgage Loans
One of the “new deal” plans to
speed economic recovery—relief for
the mortgage-burdened home owner
—became operative in Georgia Mon
day. Frank Holden, manager for
Georgia of the home owner’s loan
corporation, has a full force on the
job in Atlanta to receive applica
tions from those who are facing the
loss of their homes unless they can
get financial aid. Hundreds have ap
peared at the Atlanta office, and the
same is true in Macon and Savannah,
where branch offices have been es
tablished.
Mr. Holden has given out the
following information in regard to
the functions of the corporation:
Loans may be made to redeem
or recover homes lost by foreclosure,
sold under power of attorney or by
voluntary surrender within two
years prior to the making of the
loans by the corporation. Loans will
bear an interest rate of 5 per cent
on homes under mortgage made
and recorded prior to June 13.
The corporation is authorized to
make these loans up to 80 per cent
of the appraised value of the prop
erty if the holder of the mortgage is
willing to accept bonds of the cor
poration in exchange for the mort
gage. The bonds, backed in part
by money and the remainder by the
mortgages, are to be issued by the
corporation bearing an interest rate
of 4 per cent for eighteen years.
Interest on the bonds only is guar
anteed by the Federal Government.
If the holder of the mortgage
won’t accept the the bonds, the cor
poration can lend in cash, bearing
6 per cent annual interest, up to
40 per cent of the appraised value
of the property. The corporation
may also make cash advances to pay
taxes and assessments on real es
tate, to provide necessary mainte
nance, to make repairs and to meet
incidental expenses up to 50 per
cent of their value where homes
are not mortgaged. These loans
will bear 5 per cent annual interest.
If the corporation acquires a
mortgage it will be on the appraised
value as made agents of the corpora
tion and the loan is to be secured
by a first mortgage. Loans are to
be amortized by monthly payments
sufficient to retire principal and
interest over a period of 15 years.
“The act of congress,” Mr. Holden
said, “does not contemplate that
loans be made by the corporation to
home owners who are not in need
of funds; these can obtain loans
from other sources, especially those
who want cash loans.
“Before any application for loans
on homes mortgaged can be approv
ed it is necessary to know whether
the mortgagee will accept the bonds.
Some time and trouble might be
saved if the applicant desiring a
loan would first confer with the
mortgagee.”
Many attorneys and appraisers
have been named already by Mr.
Holden and others will be selected
as rapidly as possible, it was stated.
There will be a home loan attorney
and appraiser in each of the 159
counties. Recommendations for
these posts are made by the con
gressman.
Ouster Hearing
Against Commission
Concluded Monday
The ouster hearing against tie
Georgia Public Service Commission
ers, ordered by Governor Talmadge,
who acted as both judge and jury,
came to a close Monday. The Gov
ernor announced he would render a
verdict in a day or two. In the
hands of the Governor lies the power
of suspension or removal of any or
all of the five men who compose the
commission, namely: Jas. A. Perry,
Chairman, A. J. Woodruff, Jule W.
Felton, Perry T. Knight and Walter
R. McDonald.
Charges against the commission of
neglect of duty and domination oy
the public utilities, were filed by the
executive committee of the Georgia
Federation of Labor.
Miss Petrona Underwood is visit
ing friends in LaGrange this week.
TALK ON NATIONAL
RECOVERY ACT ALBANY
MONDAY AFTERNOON
L. P. Dickie, of the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce, will speak at a
meeting in Albany at the municipal
auditorium Monday, July 24, at 2:30
o’clock in the afternoon, on the
National Recovery Act. The Albany
Chamber of Commerce extends an
invitation to citizens of Early coun
ty to be present.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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GREED . . in human nature I
Nellie Gray died a few weeks ago.
A chronic invalid, tricked out of her
small inheritance as a young woman,
she had been the town pauper of
West Stockbridge, Mass., for twenty
years. Then a brother died and left
her $85,000. The first thing Nellie
did with the money was to pay back
to the town all the money the tax
payers had contributed to her sup
port.
Only one of Nellie’s relations ever
did anything for her when she was
poor. He was a cousin who was al
most as hard up as she was. But as
soon as she got her inheritance rela
tions flocked to her house from all
directions. When she died seventeen
different families claimed a share in
her estate. They had left her to
starve, but now they wanted her
wealth.
The probate court examined all the
claims. There was no claim on behalf
of the only relation who had ever
done anything to befriend Nellie
Gray. He said he didn’t need it; he
could get along. He wouldn’t like
anyone to think he’d been kind to
his cousin in the hope of gain. But
the court dealt out even-handed
justice and this cousin got half of the
estate, to the disgust of the seven
teen greedy ones.
In this imperfect world it is not
often that I run across a human sit
uation which so well bears out the
belief that right and justice will al
ways triumph in the end.
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SUPERSTITION . pains inside
In my boyhood I used to hear back
country people say that it was dan
gerous to drink from an open stream
or spring. They told weird tales of
persons who had swallowed frogs’
eggs which hatched in their insides.
Sometimes it was lizard eggs. I re
member reading many years ago a
gruesome tale of a man who had
thus accidentally swallowed an alli
gator egg and was devoured from
within by the reptile which hatched
in his stomach.
I imagine that belief is as old as
humanity. Folk ignorant of physi
ology attributed internal pains to
some sort of an actual reptile in their
vitals. But I had supposed that every
body knew enough in these enlight
ened days to realize the impossibility
of such happenings, until I saw a
newspaper article from a seashore
resort the other day.
According to this story a young
woman walking on the beach picked
up what she thought was a pearl.
She put it in her mouth and acci
dentally swallowed it. And some time
later, according to the account, she
died in agony, devoured by an octo
pus which had hatched from the egg
that she had mistaken for a pearl.
Apparently there are still people
gullible enough to swallow such
stories. Age-old beliefs do not vanish
as speedily in the face of knowledge
as I had imagined.
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HUMOR . . . with cheese
The funniest sayings are often not
so intended. The best bit of uncon
cious humor which I have heard
lately was told to me by a very able
woman physician who specializes in
mental cases in a New England city.
One of her patients attempted sui
cide by taking three boxes of rat
poison. That was an overdose, and
nature got rid of it so quickly that
he recovered. But he had his own
theory of why it failed to work.
“Os course, I see now what was
the matter,” the poor semi-lunatic
told the doctor. “The directions on
the box said to spread the rat-poison
on pieces of cheese, and I forgot the
cheese.”
CHANCE . . . and a “dud”
At a church lawn-party not long
ago I heard the minister’s daughter
complain, half seriously, that young
men shy off from girls who live in
a parsonage.
“What chance has a minister’s
daughter?” she sighed, with one eye
on the handsome young man who
| tends the soda-fountain in the vil
lage drugstore, who was devoting
himself to a couple of chattering
high-school girls.
Her father, overhearing her, re-
I marked:
“You make me think of a Metho
■ dist parsonage in England where
! there were two daughters. They may
i have felt much as you do, but those
two girls gave the world two of to
day’s most famous men. One of them
became the mother of Rudyard Kip
ling, the greatest living poet, and her
sister’s son, Stanley Baldwin, became
Prime Minister of England.”
I saw the minister’s daughter a
little later, talking earnestly with a
young college professor on vacation,
whom most of the village girls have
branded as a “dud”. I couldn’t be
sure, but I thought she was letting
him hold her hand.
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JOBS . . . first-rate men
The mark of a first-rate man is
that he is not above taking a second
rate job if there is a chance in it to
prove his own first-rateness.
One young man, I know lost his
job in the hardest part of the de
pression. He tried anything else he
could get to do, but all he could get
was a chance to sell advertising on
commission. He went at it as if it
was the biggest job in the world, and
within six months his commissions
werer running to as much as the high
est salary he had ever earned. Now
he’s the star man of his newspaper
organization.
Second-rate men want firlst-rate
jobs handed to them. First-rate men
make their own first-rate jobs.
PUBLIC SALE
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
By virtue of an order of the
Court of Ordinary of Decatur coun
ty, Georgia, will be sold at public
outcry at the court house door in
Blakely, Ga., between the legal
hours of sale on the Fir»t Tuesday
in August, 1933, to the highest
bidder for cash, the one-fourth un
divided interest of John Gordon Gol
den in all of the pine timber which
is suitable for saw mill purposes
growing upon those parcels of land
described as being all of lots of land
Nos. 330 and 347 lying south of
Cedar Springs branch and east of
Sowhatehee creek, except two acres,
more or less, known as the Cedar
Springs cemetery, and fifty acres
part of said lot No. 347 and being
the fifty acres conveyed to Maud S.
Hudspeth by J. H. Crozier. Also
the north half of lot No. 329. All
of said lands being in the 26th
district of Early county.
E. E. GOLDEN,
Guardian of John Gordon Golden.
A. H. GRAY, Attorney.
LEGAL BLANKS:
Chattel Mortgages, Security Deeds,
Promissory Notes, Negotiable Notes
Secured by Bill of Sale, Bonds for
Appearance, Distress Warrants, Mag
istrate Fi. Fas., Mortgage Foreclosures,
Installment Notes, Warranty Deeds,
Justice Court Summons, State War
rants, Forthcoming Bonds, Bonds for
Appearance—-and many others.
Early County News
SUMMER CROPS AND THE RAILROADS
With the summer crops of ths South now moving to mar
ket, the importance of the railroads in the efficient and order
ly distribution of the products of farm and orchard again be
comes apparent.
Railroad trains, moving on regular schedule and to fixed
destinations, make it possible for the grower, the buyer and the
dealers to co-operate to the best interest of all. No market
gluts need occur when the major portion of a crop moves to
market by railroad, for cars may be readily diverted from a
destination where' there is an abundance to some other desti
nation where there is a shortage. Federal and state agricultur
al department surveys have testified as to the stabilizing effects
which the orderly handling of shipments by rail has upon
markets as compared with the demoralizing effects following
“dumping” of shipments moving by motor truck.
The movement of peaches and watermelons from the
South by railroad has been heavier than in recent years, and
good prices have been paid for these.
An unusual and interesting development in the handling
of Georgia peaches this year has been the movement of solid
cars by express service.. Express rates are nearly double the
rates by regular freight service. Yet, in spite of this increase
in the transportation charge, favorable markets with good
prices have made it worth the buyer’s while to have his cars
shipped by express even at the higher rates.
Except for short hauls to nearby markets the farmer must
continue to rely upon the railroad to handle the bulk of his
crop. That handling will be performed with the maximum of
efficiency, economy and safety—and where damage does occur
the owner will be compensated for his loss.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
H. D. POLLARD,
Receiver.
Savannah, Ga., July 18, 1933.
C. A. LESTER
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THE NEWS FOR JOB PRINTING