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Crystal White Bread
Has become the favorite in a wide territory.
Constant increase in sales are proof
that it is good.
CALL FOR IT BY NAME AT
YOUR GROCER’S
WHITEHURST BAKING COMPANY
South Main St. BLAKELY, GA.
MORE BILLIONS
WILL BE USED
FORRECOVERY
MORE THAN SEVEN BILLIONS TO
BE USED DURING YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30
President Roosevelt last week
frankly reported to Congress a pros
pective nine billion dollar recovery
campaign deficit for the next two
years and asked that the lid be clamp
ed on and the government go on a
pay as you go basis by 1936. In a
message transmitting a budget with
estimated expenditures chargeable en
tirely to the recovery effort of al
most seven billion five hundred mil
lion dollars for this fiscal year ending
June 30, he asked for a two billion
war chest to continue and taper off
the drive in the following year. The
nine billion deficit would swell the
public debt to an all time high of
thirty one billion eight hundred
thirty four million.
The President made no recom
mendations for new taxes. He spoke
optimistically of the business outlook
saying the cornerstone of a better
foundation is the good credit of gov
ernment. “If we maintain the course
I have outlined we can confidently
look forward to cumulative beneficial
forces represented by an increased
volume of business, more general
profit, greater employment, a dim
inution of relief expenditures, larg
er and greater happiness,” he said.
He noted that the budget submitted
shows a reduction of six hundred and
eighty four million nine hundred
thirteen thousand in the regular ex
penditures over the budget submitted
a year ago by outgoing administra
tion.
Greatest Road
Program in History
Is Under Way
The federal government is in the
midst of the greatest road con
struction program in its history,
with more than half of its $400,000,-
000 road building appropriation al
ready contracted for.
Plans got under way immediately
on the passage of the national re
covery act last June, which provided
that the huge sum should go to road
building, and at the rate work is
now progressing, officials of the
bureau of public roads declare, the
entire amount will be obligated by
next June, and a large portion of
the projects completed.
This $400,000,000 is the largest
sum that the federal government has
ever allotted to the states for this
purpose in any single year and also
it is the first time it has given the
states money to be used on roads
other than those which make up the
federal aid system. Os the present
appropriation not more than 50 per
cent may be expended on federal
aid roads, the act declares, with not
less than 25 per cent on extensions
into and through cities and not more
than 25 per cent on rural or feeder
roads.
Small Projects Carried Out
The law also provides that the
projects on which this money is
spent shall be spread over 75 per
cent of the counties of every state.
Officials declare that this provision
makes for small projects, rather than
construction of trunk highways.
Reports show that highwayXvork
under this plan has been one of the
speediest ever devised for putting
men to work. Recently the bureau
of public roads announced that 59
public works highway projects had
been completed at a cost of sl,-
301,000, and there were then em
ployed on the projects under con
struction a total of 134,805 men.
CRUSHING— WiII crush your feed
at $3.50 per ton—strictly cash. T.
H. DAVENPORT. H-2t
WHERE MONEY
CREATING HUGE
DEFICIT IS GOING
RFC AND FARM AID HELP
BOOST FIGURES IN
BUDGET
Here is where some of the govern
ment’s large emergency outlays are
going in piling up this year’s huge
$7,309,068,000 deficit.
Reconstruction Corporation—Total
$3,969,740,000.
Big items include loans to banks
and trust companies, $780,000,000.
Mortgage loan companies, $200,-
000,000.
Agricultural credit corporations,
$180,000,000.
Land banks, $171,000,000.
Preferred bank stock purchases,
$1,350,000,000.
State relief advances, $462,089,-
858.
Finance farm marketing including
Commodity Credit Corporation,
$500,000,000.
Conservation corps, $341,705,600.
Public Works—Total, $1,677,190,-
000.
Big items include grants to states
and municipalities, $203,174,000.
River and harbor, $131,934,000.
Highways, $344,426,900.
National defense, $177,944,000.
Civil works, $400,000,000.
Deposit Insurance Corporation,
$150,000,000.
This distribution does not include
the president’s extra-budget request
for $1,166,000,000 which would go
chiefly to the RFC, civil works and
the conservation corps.
Federal Pay Cut
Is Continued
For Six Months
The 15 per cent reduction of pay
of federal employes will be contin
ued for another six months, by ex
utive order of President Roosevelt.
In his budget message to Con
gress, the President asked that the
cut be changed from 15 to 10 per
cent, thus—congress willing—assur
ing restoration of one-third of the
pay cut beginning July 1, the start
of the fiscal year.
The President acted Tuesday upon
the findings of the Department of
Labor on the local cost of living,
as provided by law.
Two sets of findings were given.
The first, based on the cost of liv
ing for families of wage earners
and lower salaried workers in thir
ty-two cities, showed the average
cost of living for this group in the
last half of 1933 was 21.1 below the
average of the base period of De
cember, 1927, to June, 1928.
The second set of findings, based
on a special study of the cost of
living of government employes in
Washington, showed a decline in the
cos of living during the past three
months of 14.6 per cent.
"In view of the above,” said a
White House statement, “and be
cause the law provides for index |
figures covering all parts of the
country, it is necessary to continue
the present scale until June 30th,
1934.”
The first cut in pay for the gov
ernment workers will have been in
effect one year on July 1.
All government officers and em
ployes have had a 15 per cent cut in
pay during this period.
POULTRY SALE HERE
NEXT TUESDAY
There will be a poultry pick-up
car in Blakely next Tuesday, Jan
uary 16th, from one o’clock p. m.
until the sale is completed, accord
ing to an announcement by Dr. W.
A. Fuqua, County Agent.
The following prices will be paid:
Hens, Leghorn, 9c lb.
Hens, heavy, 11c lb.
Roosters, lb., sc.
Fryers, 15c lb.
Turkeys, 14c lb.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, ”T AKF.LY, GEORGIA
Editors of Trade
Journals Forecast
Big Gains In If 34
Washington, D. C.—Many indus
tries made marked gains in the third
and fourth quarters of 1933, and all
are highly optimistic for 1934, ac
cording to a national survey of edi
tors of trade publications, copyright
by Nana, Inc. NRA codes, they
said, have brightened business pros
pects, been the direct means of in
creasing buying power psychology
through restored confidence and of
purchasing power through re-employ
ment.
“At the dawn of 1934, prospects
for the automotive industry are
brighter than at any time since
the debacle of 1929,” said James Dal
ton, editor of Motor.
“The textile-apparel industry will
enter 1934 in a much better position
due to NRA, with its reduced hours
and minimum wage scales, and the
production control also should be
most helpful,” said A. W. Zeloinex,
of Fairchild Publications.
“Activity in invention and develop
ment of new machinery has been
unusually pronounced during 1933,”
said John Haydock, editor of Ameri
can Machinist. “In anticipation of
a restored market, manufacturers
are announcing large numbers of
new models which will make old
equipment obsolete and furnish
strong stimulus to plant moderniza
tion in 1934.”
“Adoption of the retail code in
creased operating costs but removed
all uncertainty and difficulties,” said
G. M. Lehhar, editor Chain Store
Age. “Chains have met gratifying
sales gains. Expansion in 1934 will
be on a more active scale than at
any time in 3 years.”
“Prospects for the bituminous
coal industry in 1934 appear the
brightest in several years,” said Sid
ney A. Hale, editor Coal Age. “As
a result of the control set up under
the NRA code and the wage agree
ments of last summer, definite checks
have been placed upon vicious
slashing of prices and wages. As di
rect labor costs represent 65 per
cent of the cost of production, the
importance of stabilization cannot
be overestimated. The fact that the
industry has succeeded in checking
the steady decline since 1926 is
distinctly encouraging.”
“The furniture industry welcomes
1934 with confidence,” said J. A.
Gary, editor Furniture Age. “The
fact that the industry enjoyed a 25
per cent increase in the last half of
1933, coupled with the fact that
earning power has broadened and
increased very materially, form the
basis fpr these predictions.”
“Demand for castings of all class
es is expected to be much more act
ive during 1934,” said Dan M. Avey,
editor The Foundry. “Large users
have sustained a volume of business
which has increased steadily since
last July.”
“The sharp recovery registered in
the paint and varnish industry has
resulted in a sales volume for the
year well ahead of 1932, an improve
ment strongly reflected in state
ments of earnings of leading manu
facturers. Prospects for increased
activities in these fields in 1934
appear to be very good,” summar
ized George H. Priest, Jr., vice
Pacific Princess
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“Contractors and builders in gen
eral are looking forward to a year
jof greatly increased home building
I and construction activity,” said
■Joseph B. Mason, managing editor
American Builder.
“The steel industry looks forward
to an almost certain augmentation
of volume from expanding automo
bile demand, impetus from public
works and construction, and rail
road rehabilitation,” said John H.
Van Deventer, editor Iron Age.
“The textile industry ends 1933
with a record,” said Douglas Woolf,
editor Textile World, “above what
might be termed a normal year for
the last decade. It enters 1934
with greater expectation of stability
and profit than at any New Year in
the last several years. This prom
ise comes not only from realization
of a large latent demand but from
belief that operation under NRA
codes enables the industry to stamp
out wage chiseling and other unfair
practices which hitherto destroyed
profit possibilities.”
“If success attends removal of
livestock surplus through the
AAA and increasing employment and
buying power through NRA, the
meat-packing industry with its
supplementary livestock production
and meat-distribution industries can
look forward to more prosperity in
1934 than since the pre-depression
years,” said Paul I. Aldrich, editor
the National Provisioner.
“From a sales outlook standpoint,”
said W. C. Callahan, managing ed
itor Automotive Daily News, “the
morale of the automobile dealer or
ganization as a whole has been
greatly strengthened through adop
tion of the National Automobile
Dealers’ code.”
“The outlook for the petroleum
industry for 1934 is good,” said War
ren C. Platt, editor the National Pe
troleum News.” “The Federal gov
ernment, in cooperation with the oil-
State governments under the new
oil code, is reducing materially the
unlawful production of crude oil,
which has been the cause of the
unstabilized condition of the indus
try and its ruinous prices and cut
throat competition.”
400 Georgians
To Die In 1934
Auto Crashes
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
The lives of approximately 400
Georgians will be lost in automobile
accidents during 1934 if the death
toll continues in proportion to that
recorded in 1933, according to Chas.
Cook, secretary of the Dixie Motor
Club of Atlanta. His report esti
mates that there are 40,000 “unfit”
automobile drivers in the state who
would be barred from the highways
if a driver’s license law were passed.
“If it were well known that 400
Georgians would die during 1934 by
some incurable disease,” said Mr.
Cook, “the legislature would be con
vened immediately and kept in ses
sion until relief measures were
passed.”
The motor club’s records show
that 374 persons were killed in au
tomobile accidents in 1933, with 70
of these deaths occurring in Atlan
ta. Drinking drivers were involved
in 369 accidents, the report re
vealed.
DR. W. R. BELCHER
SPECIALIST
Diseases of the Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat
Eyes examined, glasses fit
ted. Tonsils removed by
Diathermy or Electro Co
agulation. Painless. No
bleeding, no stopping from
your work. No danger. Ab
solutely guaranteed as to
results.
EUFAULA, ALA.
Will be at Dothan on Fri
days
and at BLAKELY, GA.,
MONDAY, JAN. 22
at Balkcom’s Drug Store
Expect to be at Blakely once a i
week after tkat date
Cravey Pledges Aid
To Increase Supply
Os Fish and Game
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Hon. Zach D. Cravey, of Mcßae,
was sworn in as Commissioner of
Game and Fish by Governor Tal
madge on January 1 to succeed Pe
ter S. Twitty. Mr. Cravey is a well
known Georgian, and comes to this
office after thirteen years of service
as tax collector of Telfair county.
“For the purposes of enforce
ment of the Game and Fish laws, I
shall have an adequate staff of war
dens in the field. However, in
view of the fact that the game an
imals and birds, as well as the food
and game fish species belong to the
citizens, I want to make the point
clear that violations of the law re
ported to me will have immediate
attention, for the game hog, out-of
season hunter and other sorts of
violators are a constant menace to
your property and mine,” Mr. Cra
vey said.
“I also propose to give some at
tention to a program of work de
signed to reestablish game in por
tions of the state where it is rapid
ly disappearing. As your custodian
of our wild life, I shall give it every
opportunity and encouragement nec
essary to its full development, and I
shall work to give Georgia is prop
er place as one of the foremost
fINNOUNCEWENT
We have moved into our new “home”
in the former Duke store on southwest corner
of the square. We are now better prepared
to wait on our customers with larger store
room and a more modern equipment. We
cordially invite you to come to see us. We
will carry at all times a full and complete
line of Meats, Vegetables, Groceries, Fruits—
in fact ours is a complete market and grocery.
We appreciate your patronage and shall
exert every effort to please you.
Remember our prices are right. Will
compete with any competitor in Blakely.
Watch this space each week.
BRAGAN’S MARKET
“ON THE SQUARE”
Phone 41 Free Delivery
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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War of 1812
Pension Roll
Lists 7 Names
Seven persons are still receiving
pensions for service given by sol
diers in the War of 1812.
In his annual report as adminis
trator of veterans’ affairs, Frank T.
Hines said that five widows, one
remarried widow and one daughter
of men who fought “for the freedom
of the seas” were on the 1812 pen
sion list. They include Arminia I.
Anderson, Cedar Grove, Ga., hus
band; Robert Anderson, fifer in Na
bor’s company, South Carolina mi
litia. Each pensioner gets SSO a
month.
Os those receiving Civil War pen
sions there is one mother of a sol
dier, Mrs. Samantha R. Button, of
West McHenry, 111., now nearing her
103rd birthday, who sent her boy
—Clinton D. Rorer—away with Com
pany H, Eighth Illinois cavalry on
February 23, 1864, when he was 16.
He died of typhoid fever June 4,
1864. She is in receipt of S3O per
month under special act of congress,
hunting and fishing states in the
Union.”
No announcement has been made
as yet by Mr. Cravey in regard to
the details of his field staff or
plans of administration beyond
the principles outlined in this inter
view.