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This Week in Washington
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Washington.—Possible changes in
the Social Security Act is one of
the principal subjects being discuss
ed by administration officials and
members of Congress preliminary to
the opening of the first session of
the 75th Congress, which will begin
on January 5.
The feeling is quite general that
the cast is not sufficiently compre
hensive, in that it does not take in
agricultural workers, domestic serv
ants and employees of educational,
charitable and scientific institutions
and of “instrumentalists of state and
Federal governments.”
The Treasury’s ruling that all
banks which are members of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora
tion are instrumentalities of the
government removes all bank em
ployees from the provisions of the
Act as it now stands.
There is also some talk about the
possibility of elimiminating the in
dividual tax on employees’ pay en
velopes and providing for old age
retirement benefits out of general
taxation. It is not considered prob
able that this will be done.
It is certain, however, that the
whole subject of old age pensions,
either by means of individual con
tributions or provisions for old age
assistance to those in need will be
one of the most actively debated
questions to which the new Congress
will have to find a satisfactory an
swer.
S. S. B. to Baltimore
And in the meantime, nothing
could provide a better demonstration
of the way in which government of
fices have made Washingon the
most crowded city in America than
the fact that the Social Security
Board had to go to Baltimore to
find a suitable building to house its
deparments.
The Board found that it was go
ing to require, at the very beginning
of its work in connection with the
Old Age Benefit Insurance part of
its work, at least 120,000 square
feet of floor space. Not that much
space could be found in the District
of Columbia.
One hundred and twenty thousand
square feet is as much as is includ
ed in a ten-story building, 100x120
feet in area. Moreover, besides
needing floor space, the board found
that it would have to fill that floor
space with such a heavy load that
nothing short of factory construc
tion would carry it.
There will be more than 50,000,-
000 individual filing cards for ready
reference. This includes the origi
nal registration cards filled out by
workers, and the official copies of
them which will constitute the work
ing file. The cards alone will
weigh about 250,000 pounds.
The board found a factory build
ing in Baltimore with three acres
of floor space; is moving into it
and hopes to be ready on January 1
to begin keeping the records of
the earnings of the estimated 25,-
000,000 -workers who come under
the Old Age Benefits provisions of
the Social Security Act. Also, a
record of the payment of the in
come tax of one percent of each
worker’s wages and the additional
payroll tax of one percent paid by
his employer.
The decision of the Supreme
Court by a tie vote of four to four
that the New York state unemploy
ment compensation law is constitu
tional is held here to indicate that
the unemployment insurance pro-
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visions of the Social Security Act
may also be held constitutional.
Trade Situation Improves
The international trade situation
is reported by the State Department
to have been greatly improved since
France joined with England and the
United States on an agreement to
maintain the parity of their re
spective currencies by a stabiliza
tion agreement. Last week the re
maining three nations which are
still on the gold standard joined
this international agreement. They
are Switzerland, Belgium and The
Netherlands, which is Holland.
One effect of this agreement in
regard to currency is expected to be
the working out of a means of
checking excessive exports of gold
from one country to another.
President Roosevelt not long ago
expressed concern over what he
called “hot money” coming into the
United States from Europe. What
he referred to was investments in
American securities against gold
credits in the United States, result
ing in the holding by foreign in
vestors of billions of dollars worth
of stocks and bonds which they
might suddenly take a notion to dump
on the market and so depress prices
abnormally.
There is, of course, no way of
preventing anybody anywhere from
buying shares in American corpora
tions. But if other nations in this
currency agreement cooperate in
checking shipments of gold to this
country it will be much more diffi
cult for foreign speculators to ac
quire such large holdings in the
American security markets as to
constitute a danger to the stability
of prices.
That Peonage Conviction
One of the exploits upon which
the Bureau of Investigation of the
Department of Justice—otherwise
the “G-Men”—is receiving congrat
ulations, is the conviction of an
Arkansas farmer on a charge of
peonage. It is the first serious blow
struck directly by the Federal gov
ernment at a practice which is said
to be common in many parts of the
South and which amounts, in effect,
to enslaving Negroes.
The system is the simple one of
having Negroes arrested on the
charge of vagrancy and then have
the local court sentence them to
forced labor under contract to a
farmer. In this particular case the
farmer happened to be the town
marshal and arrested nine Negroes
as vagrants and had them condemn
ed to work out their fines by labor
on his own farm. The G-Men’s at
tention was called to the incident,
and their investigation resulted in
the conviction of the farmer-mar
shal, who was fined $3,500 and sen
tenced to two years in prison if he
fails to pay the fine.
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Murder Masquerade
(Continued from back page)
slender hands. “Ask me anything
you want, Mr. O’Brien. I shall
avail myself of your suggestion and
answer only the questions I wish
to answer.”
I became conscious of mounting
excitement. Everybody else who
had submitted to Patrick’s inter
rogatories under my roof—Sarah
Darbe, Bessie Williams, Molly
Eames, Walter Treadway, Marga
ret Fairweather—had said in effect:
“Ask me anything you want. I
shall tell the whole truth.”
Perhaps Doctor Marden felt that
he had made a false step; for he
immediately added, “I have no an
ticipation that you will ask me any
question that I shall not prefer to
answer fully.”
“Doctor Marden,” Patrick began,
“at what time did you go to the
masquerade?”
“Somewhere between half-past
nine and ten,” Doctor Marden an
swered.
“How did you get there? By
car?”
“No. It was such a beautiful
night and as there is only concrete
road between our house and the
Stow house, my granddaughter
suggested that we walk. Besides
she thought that there might be
some difficulty in parking.”
“What time did you get home?”
“I left earlier than my grand
daughter. Half-past twelve I should
say.”
“Doctor Marden, between the
time you arrived and the time you
went home, did you leave the Stow
house?”
Doctor Marden answered instant
ly, “Yes.”
“Why did you leave it?”
“Well, for no reason or several,
just as you choose. I am not much
of a dancing man, Mr. O’Brien, and
after I’d been there about an hour,
I began to find it very hot and also
I wanted a smoke.”
He smiled and Patrick met his
charming candid amusement with
a warm Irish appreciation.
“What time was this?”
"I should say about half-past
ten—certainly not much before and
certainly not much later.”
“By what door did you go out?"
“Through the kitchen and out the
little door in Mrs. Stow’s garage.”
“Why did you go out so secret
ly?”
“In order to be alone. My head
was buzzing a little with the warm
air and I didn’t want anybody to
come with me.”
“Did you put on your outer
clothes?”
“Yes. I retrieved my long cape
and beret from the garage where
I left them when I came in.”
“Did anybody see you go out?”
“No! Yes!” Doctor Marden re
considered ; smiled reminiscently;
smiled with that tender gentleness
which I might describe as my fa
vorite of his many charming ex
pressions. “Mrs. Avery’s little
niece, Sylvia. She had gone out
into the kitchen. For some reason,
none of the maids was there.”
“Did she recognize you?”
"Yes. I lifted my mask.”
“Did she speak?”
“Before she could say anything I
put my fingers to my lips and she
kept perfect silence.”
“Where did you go?” Patrick
asked next.
“I took a little stroll,” Doctor
Marden answered, “through the
meadow which stretches between
Mrs. Stow’s and Mrs. Avery's
house.”
“You were in costume, Doctor
Marden. Did your walk injure it—
I mean, dew, vines, weeds, etc.?”
“There’s a very pleasant little
path between the two places,” Doc
tor Marden informed Patrick po
litely.
I had a feeling that I was watch
ing the preliminaries to a duel of
two skilled fencers.
“I went through the opening in
the hedge, across Mrs. Avery’s
drive, across the lawn in front of
her gardens and onto the path lead
ing to what Mrs. Avery calls the
Spinney.”
“Did you see anybody on the
place or on the road?”
“Nobody.”
“Go on!”
“I walked into the Spinney. As I
entered I heard voices.” He paused
politely. “Does this interest you,
Mr. O’Brien?”
“Very much. Whose voices were
they?”
“There were two voices. One
was a woman’s. I did not recog
nize it. The other was a man’s—
Doctor Blaikie’s.”
“Did you hear what they said?”
“I heard nothing!”
“But as you got nearer-:—”
“When I realized that there was a
tete-a-tete going on in the Spinney,
I stopped, started to turn back but
the voices stopped and I heard
footsteps retreating. I waited a
minute and kept on until I came
across Doctor Blaikie.”
“You did not see the lady at all?”
“No.”
“You spoke with Doctor Blaikie
of course.”
“Yes—for several minutes.”
“And then you went on?”
“Yes.”
“Was your conversation a long
one?”
“A very brief one.”
“What was the nature of your
talk?”
“It’s one of those talks that you
can’t reproctuce because really
nothing was said. I knew that a
lady had just left the Spinney. I
think he knew I knew that. I don’t
know whether he was embarrassed
or not. I was a little conscious of
the situation. I think I told him
that I’d come out because the house
was so warm and that I wanted to
smoke ”
“Had you lighted a cigar yet?”
“No. But I told Doctor Blaikie
that I was going back to the
house and I asked him to join me
in a smoke.”
“What did he say to that?”
“He said no; that he was re
turning at once to the dance.”
“Did you go after that?”
“As I remember, that was my
last remark.”
“You left Doctor Blaikie in the
Spinney?”
“Yes.”
“Had he turned—had he started
to leave the Spinney?"
“No.”
“By what path did you go out
from the Spinney?”
“I continued along the path that
runs beside Mrs. Avery’s Little
House; then up onto the road and
then back to the Stows’.”
“Did you smoke on the way
back?”
“Yes—one cigarette.”
“Did you meet anybody else on
the way back?”
“No.”
“How did you enter the house?”
“By the garage door—as I left
it.”
“Did you leave your cape and
cap there?”
“Yes.”
“Did anybody see you come in?”
“I think nobody noticed it; for
the reason that the kitchen was full
of masks. They had come out,
I think, for water. There had been
plenty of punch about, but no wa
ter and apparently a big group
had suddenly invaded the kitchen.
Nobody paid any attention to me
and I went back to the dance.”
“You were there then at the un
masking?”
“Yes.”
“And what time did you say you
went home?”
“About half-past twelve.”
“You walked home?”
“Yes.”
“Did you go straight up the
Head?”
“Yes—exactly the way I came.”
“When you were in the Spinney,
did you hear any noise in the
bushes, let us say, or among the
trees?”
“I heard nothing.”
“Don’t you yourself think, Doc
tor Marden, that it’s a little strange
that you did not volunteer this
information the first time I talked
with you?”
Doctor Marden smiled. “I think
it might seem so. But what would
you have done, Mr. O’Brien? There
was a woman involved. I didn’t
know what sort of trouble I might
get her into.”
“Well, of course you realize,”
Patrick advanced, “that some peo
ple might say that you invented the
woman to save yourself.”
(To be continued next week)
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SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
December 7, 1911
MR. O. B. HOBBS is off the road
for a few weeks.
MESSRS. J. T. Donalson, of Thom
asville, and J. E. Hudspeth, of Cedar
Springs, were in the city Saturday.
REV. AND MRS. B. W. Davis, of
Camilla, were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Jones the past week.
MR. OTIS HAYNES was home
from the 2nd District A. & M. school
for the week end.
MISS MAUDE JORDAN has re
turned from a visit to Macon.
MR. M. M. SMITH was down from
Clay County last Tuesday.
MISS KATE TURNER, of Monte
zuma, is the guest of Mrs. J. C.
Bryan.
THE county commissioners, in ses
sion last Tuesday elected W. G. Platt
janitor of the Court House. Col.
B. R. Collins was elected County At
torney, and Dr. C. R. Barksdale
physician.
THE DEATH of Mr. George D.
Howard is chronicled in this issue of
The News.
THE PRETTY HOME of Mr. R.
M. Underwood, in Arlington, was
badly damaged by fire Thursday
morning.
MISS BLONNIE MOSELY and Mr.
Ike Bivings were married at the
Methodist church in Jakin last Thurs
day.
THE DEATH of Mrs. W. J. Jor
dan of the Colomokee district is re
corded in The News this week.
MR. HERBERT FORT, while visit
ing at Arcadia, Fla., was accidently
shot this morning.
THE BABY SON of Mr. R. O.
Waters was badly burned last Sun
day.
MRS. W. A. BARKSDALE enter
tained Thanksgiving for the young
ladies at her home with a 6-o’clock
tea. Those present: Misses Sturkey,
McLlanahan, Montfort, Shook and
Colsher, and Messrs. Lewis Fryer,
John Butler, Henry Moye, Wallace
Wright, Alvin Gray and Dr. R. W.
Davis.
MR. R. R. McLENDON went down,
to Tallahassee the past week.
MISS IRENE ALEXANDER, of
Blakely and Mr. Emmett R. Duke,
of Dawson, were married last Sun
day. Rev. O. L. Jones performing
the ceremony.
THE DEATH of Mr. Edmund Shef
field, of Cedar Springs, is recorded
in The News this week.
THE DEATH of Mr. Lewis A.
Free, of Kestler, is chronicled in The
News this week.
MISS LUCILE BARKSDALE en
tertained a few of her friends last
Monday night.
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THE LIST of appointments of the
South Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
Thomasville district, include: Presid
ing Elder, Rev. J. M. Ou tier; Thomas
ville, Rev. G. W. Mathews; Albany,
Rev. R. L. Ballard; Blakely, Rev. J.
C. Flanders; Bainbridge, Rev. Walter
Anthony; Cairo, Rev. W. L. Wright;
Camilla, Rev. P. Chatfield; Arling
ton, Rev. E. E. Rose; Colquitt and
Damascus, Rev. H. P. Stubbs; Boston
Circuit, Rev. W. T. Stewart; Donal
sonville Circuit, Rev. H. L. Pearson;
Brinson Circuit, Rev. J. D. Snyder;
Pavo Circuit, Rev. J. Shirak; Jakin
Circuit, Rev. M. M. Leggett; Whig
ham Circuit, Rev. C. E. Roberts; Pel
ham, Rev. J. W. Libby; Baconton Cir
cuit, Rev. S. C. Oliff; Attapulgus
Circuit, Rev. R. F. Owens; Dixie Cir
cuit, Rev. W. L. Walker; Climax Cir
cuit, Rev. Leland Moore; Babcock
Circuit, Rev. Walter Williams; Cal
vary Circuit, Rev. C. B. G. Johnson;
Faceville Circuit, Rev. C. B. Matter
son; Metcalf Circuit, Rev. J. E. Chan
nell; Cooledge Circuit, Rev. J. W.
Hanes; Hilton Circuit, Rev. C. L.
Wall; Faircloth, Rev. J. M. Clark.
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p. m. in the fall and spring and 7 p.
m. during the winter. Visiting breth
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W. H. IVEY, W. M.
R. H. ! TUCKEY, JR., Sec’y.