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This Week in Washington
Washington, D. C. (Autocaster). —
A good many members of Congress,
both Houses, who came back to
Washington all steamed up to say
out loud what they thought about
the New Deal, have been disappoint
ed to discover that they can get no .
support from their colleagues for
any open attack upon President
Roosevelt and his policies. Being
politicians, they don’t want to put,
themselves in an unpopular position,
so they are keeping their feelings
bottled up for the time being. Be
fore long some of these safety
valves will begin to pop, and many
things will be said on the floor of
both Houses which will make “hot”
headlines; but the fact will still
remain as it is now, that President
Roosevelt is running the government
of these more or less United States,
and Congress is still taking orders
from him.
Summing up the news which re
turning Congressmen and Senators
have brought back from their
states and districts, it comes down
to this: There is a general sense of
better times. Recovery is definitely
on the way almost everywhere. There
is a great deal of popular resent
ment, especially among business men
and industrialists, at what are
termed the dictatorial methods at
Washington, but there is a pretty
general agreement that the objectives
of the Administration are for the
public welfare. What has stirred up
most of the objectors is not the
purposes but the methods.
Atmosphere Clearing
Therefore, since these representa
tives of the people have got back
to Washington, the soft pedal has
been applied to government pro
nouncements. It is being made in
creasingly clear that there is no
real intention on the part of the
government to take over or retain
control of business and industry, to
plunge the country into Socialism.
There has been a good deal of com
pulsion, to compel business groups
to get together and agree to co
operate, and there will be a great
deal more compulsion exercised be
fore all the groups which are con
cerned with vital social services have
been whipped into line. But rath
er rapidly the government is taking
its hands off one trade association
after another, as its organization is
perfected, leaving it to the men in
the industry to maintain the co
operative machinery. Government
will keep an eye out to see that the
old system of unfair competition does
not come back, but within the lim
its of fair play, competition will
not be hampered, but encouraged.
The President has made it clear
to those close to him that he is
not trying to destroy the capitalis
tic system but rather to insure that
it shall continue to work properly.
And an essential part of the capi
talistic system is profits. Without
profits there can be no important
tax income for the government.
And taxes are all-important.
Tugwell Slowed Down
The realization that Mr. Roose
velt, although he listens patiently to
their theories, is not going to play
ball with the radicals who would
turn the whole system upside down
without waiting for any overwhelm
ing demand from the public, has
been a great disappointment to most
of the ultra-radicals who have had
the Presidential ear. Not the least
disappointed man is Professor Tug
well, Assistant Secretary of Agri
culture, who is outspokenly Socialis
tic, and who has staked his career
upon the effort to put a curb on
business enterprise by his so-called
“Tugwell Bill,” which would cripple
the food and medicine industries
and make it almost impossible for
them to advertise at all.
No proposal which has emanated
from Administration circles has met
with such widespread opposition as
this. This opposition is the best evi
dence that the nation as a whole is
very far from being ready to go
Socialist. Tugwell’s plan would put
two of the largest industries in the
world under the complete autocratic
control of the bureaucrats.
This Way Out
But Mr. Tugwell’s plan is not go
ing through. The President has de
clined to swallow it whole, his con
fidants say. There will be some
revision of the present Food and
Drug Act, but the result will not
be oppressive. At least, that is the
outlook now. And the gossip in
quarters where information is us
ually accurate is that Tugwell is on
his way out. The President is a
good politician; the best politician,
probably, who ever occupied the
White House. And a smart politi
cian doesn’t antagonize well-mean
ing folk who have attached them
selves to his bandwagon—not pub
licly. He gives them enough rope
to hang themselves.
So we have seen Mr. Moley re
sign as Assistant Secretary of State,
when everybody though he was go
ing to be the strongest figure in the
Administration; while his chief, Sec
retary Hull, has become the out
standing Cabinet figure. And those
in the know predict that Mr. Tugwell
is headed for a similar exit.
Treasury Post and Money
The resignation of Secretary
Woodin is another story. Mr. Wood
in and the President are the warm
est of personal friends, and there
has never been any friction between
them. But Mr. Woodin is a very
sick man. He is nearly 70, and has
a serious throat trouble which makes
it unlikely that he will ever again
be able to be active in business or
public affairs.
Mr. Morgenthau, who is now the
titular head of the Treasury, is a
middle-of-the-roader, like the Presi
dent. He is cautious, but not afraid
of the Big Bad Wolf of Wall Street.
He is willing to try experiments
with money, but is in no real sense
an inflationist. The silver program,
so far tentative, appeals to him as
something worth trying out cautious
ly. The gold program on which oth
er nations are falling into line, and
which will eventually remove gold
entirely from the field of domestic
currencies and leave it under the
control of the various nations sole
ly as a basis for international ex
changes, is making progress. Not
tomorrow, but sometime soon, there
will be a definite revalution of gold
in terms of the dollar.
In the meantime, credit is expand
ing, somewhat slowly; money is be
ginning to circulate more rapidly;
the effect of the public works pro
gram is beginning to be felt wide
ly, and the hope of the Administra
tion is that the demands of the
inflationists will be stilled in the
face of increasing prosperity.
Home Loan Bonds
Save 548 Homes
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
The Home Owners Loan corpora
tion had saved 548 Georgia homes
from foreclosure of mortgages at
the end of 1933, according to
Frank A. Holden, state manager,
and 25 to 30 applications for loans
are being closed daily. Already the
corporation has released $1,335,799
in Georgia for taxes and repairs.
More than two hundred thousand
dollars was in cash and the rest in
bonds.
Mr. Holden stated that he expects
the rate of loans made to double
during January. Each county in
the state has an appraiser and at
torney and in addition there are
district offices in Macon, Albany
and Savannah, and agents in Au
gusta, Columbus and Rome.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
Brevities in The News
Odds and Ends Found
Here and There
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(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
. . . Robert E. “Fugitive from a
chaingang” Burns was arrested in
East Orange, New Jersey, on charges
of disorderly conduct and driving
without a license or registration. He
says the policeman “picked on” him,
giving him summons for 15 other
alleged minor violations of the law.
. . . Savannah’s new and only post
office substation, No. 1, is in the Ho
tel Savannah. . . . Griffin and La-
Grange closed 1933 with all bills
paid. Griffin has a city manager
and LaGrange a mayor. . . . CWA is
employing 534 men and paying out
SB,OOO weekly on work in Way
cross and Ware county. . . . Cordele
announces plans for her Roosevelt
Birthday Ball to be held January 30
at the country club. . . . Carl Lloyd,
of Moultrie, who protested to Gov
ernor Talmadge against the sale of
liquor in his community, was arrest
ed .last week on a charge of violat
ing the prohibition law. . . Permis
sion to double its power was receiv
ed last week by radio station WGST
in Atlanta. . . . Two county officials
took the oath of office for state jobs
on New Year’s Day when Zach
Cravey, former Taifair county tax
collector, was made Game and Fish
Commissioner, and John Heck, dep
uty clerk of the Cobb superior court
for several years, became a member
of the state highway board. . . . Abit
Nix, runner-up to Governor Tal
madge in the 1932 primary, was
elected president of the Athens
Chamber of Commerce. . . Every
fire alarm answered in 1933 cost
Atlanta S2OO, says Fire Chief Park
er. .. . Grady Cooksey, former city
editor of the Albany Herald, has
been appointed private secretary to
Representative Cox of the Second
district, going immediately to Wash
ington to take up his work. ... 25
Atlanta hotels, beginning operation
under the NRA code on the first day
of the year, gave work to approxi
mately 400 new employees. . . . De
scribing the Atlanta federal peniten
tiary as a “Health Resort,” a feder
al judge suggests that the entrance
requirements be changed “so that a
person does not have to commit a
crime to obtain admission thereto”
. . . Refusal of the Fulton county
superior court judges to submit
more than one nomination to Gover
nor Talmadge for each judgeship in
the Atlanta court after the governor
had asked for more to give him
some choice in making appointments
may furnish another issue in the
next primary. . . . Paul Brown,
Georgia’s new congressman who was
sworn in on the day of the opening
session, will introduce a bill provid
ing for establishment of growers’
markets by the PWA. . . . Robert
Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to Eng
land, pausing briefly en route to
his hunting preserve in Baker
county, expressed the opinion that
England daily is becoming more re
ceptive to the Roosevelt monetary
policy. . . .
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Collector Page
Announces Blanks
Are Now Ready
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Issuing a warning to all corpora
tions in the state that they will" be
expected to file income tax returns,
though inoperative or showing a loss
for 1933, W. E. Page, collector of
internal revenue, stated that begin
ning February 15 he will have dep
uties in every county to assist the
taxpayers in filing their returns.
Already all individuals who gave
in returns in 1932 have received
income tax blanks from the internal
revenue department and these, to
gether with all corporations and all
persons whose income since 1932
has increased so as to bring them
within the income tax brackets will
be required to file returns by March
15 to avoid a 25 per cent penalty,
according to Mr. Page.
Individuals, unmarried and earn
ing SI,OOO or more yearly and mar
ried men, earning $2,500 and over
yearly must pay income tax. Em
ployers are required to furnish the
internal revenue department with a
list of all employes whose salaries
require them to pay the tax.
Blanks may be obtained from Mr.
Page’s office in Atlanta and there
are zone offices for the assistance of
taxpayers in Rome, Columbus, Val
dosta, Savannah, Macon and Au
gusta.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
Because of default in the pay
ment of a loan secured by a deed to
secure debt executed by Mrs. Vincie
Freeman to The Federal Land Bank
of Columbia, dated December 8,
1924, and recorded in the Office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county in Deed Book 37, folio
376, which deed and the debt it was
given to secure has been transferred
and assigned to the undersigned,
Mrs. J. E. Freeman, the undersigned
will, acting under the power of sale
in said deed, during the legal hours
of sale at the court house door in
Blakely, Georgia, on the first Tues
day in February, 1934, sell at public
outcry to the highest bidder for
cash the lands described in said deed,
to-wit:
The whole of the North half of
lot of land number three hundred
and ninety-two (392), except 30
3-4 acres belonging to G. M.
Stephens, and Mrs. Demarius
Freeman. Said ninety-five (95)
acres being bounded as follows:
On the north by lands of Joseph
Freeman, on the East by lands of
J. T. Freeman, on the South by
lands of R. G. Freeman, Mrs. De
marius Freeman and lands for
merly owned by G. M. Stephens,
and on the West by lands of Jos
eph Freeman. Said lands being
located eight miles in a western
direction from Blakely, Georgia,
and on the River Road and all ly
ing and being in one body in the
28th District of Early County,
Georgia, being further shown by a
map recorded in Deed Book 37,
page 366, in the Clerk’s Office of
the Superior Court of Early Coun
ty, Georgia. Copy of which is on
file with The Federal Land Bank
of Columbia.
Said property will be sold for the
purpose of collecting the debt which
same was given to secure, and is ad
vertised and will be sold as the
property of the estate of Mrs. Vin
cie Freeman, she being now de
ceased.
A deed will be executed by' the
undersigned to the purchaser at
said sale as authorized by the se
curity deed aforesaid.
This January 9, 1934.
MRS. J. E. FREEMAN,
Transferee of The Federal Land
Bank of Columbia, As Attorney
in fact for Mrs. Vincie Freeman. I
J. W. BONNER, Attorney.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
January 7, 1909
MR. AND MRS. R. E. ODUM left
this morning for Augusta.
MR. GORDON PERRY has gone
to Albany to accept a position.
MR. JOHN B. HODGES, of Jakin,
was a visitor in the city this week.
REV. J. G. CORLEY has resigned
his pastorate of the Colomokee Bap
tist church.
MR. J. F. LORD and family, of
Tennille, Ga., have moved to Blake
ly are now conducting the Hotel
Blakely.
MESSRS. L. C. HOBBS and D. D.
Woodard have bought out the Lind
sey Stables and will conduct the
same in future.
MR. PERRY BAKER and Miss
Bertha Williams, of Hilton, were
married last Sunday, Judge J. B.
Chancy officiating.
THE NEW BOARD of County
Commissioners were inducted into
office last Tuesday. Mr. W. E.
Hayes was elected Chairman.
THE Blakely Institute reopened
last Monday. There was one new
face in the faculty, Miss Bertha
Bunn, who takes charge of the fifth
grade.
UNION DOTS, by Uncle Joe, tell
us that: “Mr. Cecil Cox and Miss
Annie May Brightwell were married
last Sunday, Judge Hamp Grimsley
performing the ceremony.”
MISS LOLA CROZIER entertained
a number of her friends last Friday
night. Those present: Misses Lil
lian Stuckey, Lola Crozier, Marie
Howell, Clyde Womack, Ellen Cook,
and Messrs. Claude Howell, Barbrey
Hobbs, Justin Robinson, C. H. Puri
foy, Julian Lord, Kenneth Smith.
THE RESULT in the city election
last Saturday: For Mayor—M. T.
Chipstead, 116; C. M. Deal, 84. For
Councilmen—J. W. Strickland, 122;
A. J. Fleming, 112; C. F. Coleman,
104; T. F. Cordray, 105; A. E. Alex
ander, 92; I. D. Felder, 90; J. J.
Smith, 71; Howard Flowers, 70;
J. W. Griffin, 26.
CENTERVILLE NEWS, by Red
Rose and Violet, says: “Among
those who attended preaching at
Lucile Sunday were Misses Rhea
and Bessie Gowan and Messrs. Fred
King, Connie Gruber, Lawrence Ed
wards and Hubert Gruber.” “Mr.
Ben McLendon and Miss Freddie
McLendon were married Sunday
morning. They left for Florida on
Monday.”
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about INSURANCE
THE CITY COUNCIL has re
elected Mr. J. N. Green as Super
intendent of Water and Light Plant;
Mr. Robert Alexander, Clerk; Mr. S.
J. Stuckey, Marshal; Col. R. H. Shef
field, City Attorney.
MASTER KENNETH SMITH en
tertained for his young friends last
Thursday night. Those present were
Misses Lola Crozier, Ellen Cook,
Lillian Stuckey, Hazel Felton, Lu
cile Barksdale, Clyde Womack,
Bessie Standifer, Marie Howell, and
Messrs. Kenneth Smith, Claude How
ell, C. H. Purifoy, Lester Camp, Mur
ray Brunson, Julian Lord, Barbrey
Hobbs, Justin Robinson.
THE Blakely Chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacy met
at the home of Mrs. Walter Thomas
last Wednesday afternoon. The most
important business was the placing
of the order for the Confederate
monument. Those present: Mrs. W.
L. McDowell, Mrs. J. E. Martin, Mrs.
A. D. Harriss, Mrs. Meri Underwood,
Mrs. J. W. Vinson, Mrs. M. E. Beus
se, Mrs. C. T. Alexander, Misses
Virginia Smith, Blannie Smith, Re
be Standifer, Mamie Jones, Velma
Alexander, Faye Jones, Fannie
Purifoy, and Mrs. Thomas.
WHO’S AFRAID OF THE
BIG BLACK BEAR?
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
J. J. Brown, the once-upon-a-time
big chief in state politics—around
the Department of Agriculture, any
way—shouldn’t admit he was afraii
of the big bad wolf but when it
comes to big black bears, it’s diffei
ent.
Mr. Brown and a party were in
a boat on the Altamaha river on
a deer hunt. A big bear swam cut
and threatened to eat up the party,
so the animal was shot. The judge
who tried the case against Mr.
Brown agreed so it must have been
a bad bear indeed. Anyhow, Brown
was discharged on the count of
hunting bear out of season.
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