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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVI }> NO. 44
Fourth of Cotton
Used In Georgia
Mills Imported
Georgia textile mills last year con
sumed more than one-fourth million
bales of cotton more than the farms
of this state produced, according to
an announcement by Columbus
Roberts, state commissioner of agri
culture. Georgia ranks fifth among
the states in cotton production.
Two hundred textile concerns in
Georgia consumed the 1,090,000
bales grown in the state last year
and 297,000 grown elsewhere.
The commissioner ranked Georgia
as fourth in the nation as a textile
state. Massachusetts, North and South
Carolina exceed it he said.
Despite diversification of crops
farmers still lean on cotton as the
chief money-maker in the state.
Roberts said king cotton still is the
leading cash income crop in Georgia.
The total value of the cotton crop
to farmers last year was $83,975,-
000. Next in value was tobacco
which turned in $17,700,000 to
farmers’ pockets.
The Georgia farmer is combining
his cotton growing with other farm
pursuits more than ever. Varied crops
and the dairying and livestock busi
ness caused the farmers’ income,
which formerly was supplied mainly
by cotton, to jump.
That cotton is still the major crop,
Roberts said figures showed all ex
cept a few of Georgia’s 250,544
farms annually grow cotton.
STOLEN BICYCLE
IS RECOVERED
Police Chief Mack Strickland on
Saturday night last recovered a bi
cycle belonging to a son of Mr.
Wyatt Chapman, which was stolen
from near the Blakely Theatre on
Saturday night, May 15. The bi
cycle was found in possession of
Dolphus Mays, negro, but upon in
vestigation, it was found that Mays
secured the same from Raymond
Caesar, negro, who was quickly ap
prehended by Policeman Strickland
and placed in jail on a charge of
larceny.
Father’s Day
Sunday, June 20
He may be the forgotten man three hundred and sixty
four days of the year, but on SUNDAY, JUNE 20th,
he’s king. Sure it’s sentimental, but Dad can stand a
little sentiment once in a while! Our Men’s Depart
ment offers a wealth of gift selections that Dad will
appreciate.
Ties 49c to SI.OO
Shirts 98c to $2.50
Pajamas 98c to $1.95
Handkerchiefs 10c to 65c
Sox 15c to 50c
FULL LINE MANHATTAN
UNDERWEAR
Give him a Shirt he will Give him Pajamas that
be proud to wear. Our , „ , , ,
summer assortment in- are co °l
eludes new colorings in comfortable for hot sum
stripes, checks, figures,
and all white with the mer nights. Shown in
non-wilt collar. “Air Cool- broadcloth and cotton
ed numbers include Man-
hattan’s newest creations cre P e solids with con
fer the summer season. trasting trims.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely's Only Complete Store”
Conntjj JMtw
CAR REGISTRATION
REACHES PEAK IN
STATE’S HISTORY
(Georgia News Service)
Motor vehicle commissioner Mar
cus McWhorter announced last week
that car registrations were at the
highest point in the state’s history.
Mr. McWhorter said the first five
months of the year brought in 413,-
752 motor registrations, or more than
35,000 above the mark at the corres
ponding time last year.
The motor commissioner said the
five-month tag sale figure was only
12,000 behind the total number sold
during all of 1936.
Collections of the bus and truck
maintenance tax have sent approxi
mately $300,000 into the state treas
ury, Mr. McWhorter said.
This amount represented collec
tions from about one-seventh of those
liable for the tax, he said. A pen
alty of 20 per cent of the tax will
be imposed June 15.
Supt. Woodward
Resigns to Accept
Place at Thomaston
Mr. Wade Woodward, Jr., super
intendent of the Blakely public
schools for the past four years, last
week tendered his resignation to
accept the principalship of the Robert
E. Lee Academy at Thomaston, Ga.
Mr. Woodward came to Blakely
from Thomasville, and during his
four years as superintendent the
schools here have shown many im
provements, including the addition of
a home economics department. Ad
ditional rooms have been added to
the high school department, and the
interior of the building has been al
most completely renovated. The
elementary school was recently given
a high rating by the State Depart
ment of Education, and only a too
low salary scale kept the high school
from being placed on the Southern
Accredited list.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodward and their
two children, Wade 111 and Joan,
left Sunday for Atlanta. Mr. Wood
ward plans to attend summer school
at Emory University.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1937.
Employers Warned
About Unemployment
Compensation Tax
Employers of eight or more who
have failed to make reurns in ac
cordance with the provisions of Title
IX of the Social Security Act, which
imposes an excise tax on employers,
commonly known as the unemploy
ment compensation tax, were today
warned by Collector of Internal
Revenue W. E. Page that they faced
delinquent penalties ranging from 5
per cent to 25 per cent of the tax
their pay rolls call for. The returns
are to be made on Internal Reve
nue form 940 and were due on April
1, last.
Collector Page referred to Article
502 of Regulations 90, which pro
vide that “failure to file a return
when due causes to accrue, under the
provisions of section 406 of the
Revenue Act of 1935, a penalty of
from 5 per cent of the amount of
the tax, depending upon the period
of delinquency.” Employers were
granted an extension of time for the
filing of returns and paying of the
tax until April 1 by Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering.
The Social Security Act, Mr.
Page explained, calls for a pay roll
tax of one per cent of the 1936 pay
roll containing eight or more per
sons on each of some twenty days
during the taxable year, each day
being in a different calendar week.
In states such as this where there
was no approved unemployment com
pensation law in 1936 as yet in op
eration, employers must make re
turns based on a one per cent tax
of their 1936 pay roll. When an
unemployment compensation law is
adopted by this state and approved
by the Federal Social Security Board
an employer will be entitled to a
credit of ninety per cent of his fed
eral tax, provided he has contributed
at least this amount to the approved
state fund.
Collector Page said that recogni
tion of the following facts by all
employers would remove a great deal
of the confusion that apparently
exists as to the provisions of Title
IX of the Social Security Act:
1. The employer’s excise tax, pro
vided for under the Title IX of the
Social Security Act is separate and
apart from the employer’s excise tax
and employee’s income tax provided
for under Title VIII of the same act.
Participation in one does not exempt
an employer from participation in
the other.
2. Officers of corporations are
considered employees for taxable
purposes.
3. No federal credit is allowed an
employer for a state contribution
unless the said state contribution is
paid prior to the due date of the
federal return.
4. Employers alone pay the tax
levied under Title IX.
VISITOR TALKS
TO ROTARIANS ON
TRAVEL EXPERIENCES
Mr. C. H. Stratton, of Sullivan,
Ind., and New Smyrna, Fla., was a
guest of Rotarian Marvin Sparks at
last week’s meeting of the Blakely
Rotary Club, and gave an interesting
talk on the work of Rotary through
out the world. Mr. Stratton, who has
visited clubs in many of the states of
the Union and in sixteen foreign
countries, related in an interesting
manner some of his experiences in
attending these meetings.
Last week’s luncheon was presided
over by President Bill Grist, with
Mrs. Ben Haisten furnishing the pro
gram of music.
STATE REVENUE BOARD
PLANS COLLECTION OF
NEW CHAIN STORE TAX
Atlanta, Ga.—State Revenue Com
missioners worked this week on
plans for collection of Georgia’s
new chain store tax. Morgan Bel
ser, director of the chain store tax
collections for the revenue commis
sion, said most of the large chain
store organizations had expressed
their intentions of paying the tax
without contest.
Early Farmers
Have F. L. B. Loans
Totaling $347,550
In Early county, 140 farmers have
loans totaling approximately $347,-
550 with the Federal Land Bank of
Columbia through the Blakely Na
tional Farm Loan Association, ac
cording to J. C. Knight, secretary of
the association. In addition there
are 125 Land Bank Commissioner
loans outstanding in the county, mak
ing a total of $482,265 outstanding
in Land Bank and Land Bank Com
missioner loans.
Mr. Knight, who has just return
ed from a meeting of national farm
loan association secretaries in Co
lumbia, said that reports at the
meeting indicated that the majority
of land bank borrowers are now hap
pily in a position to meet their in
terest payments with promptness and
regularity. Approximately 92 per
cent of the Federal Land Bank loans
in the states of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
are now in a good standing, he said.
Mr. Knight said that during the
emergency farm financing of the de
pression years many of the duties of
the national farm loan associations
had been taken over by the land bank
but that during the past year the
transfer of such work from the bank
to the associations had been in
progress.
In the four states comprising the
third land district, operating terri
tory has been reallocated to eliminate
over-lapping and competition be
tween national farm loan associa
tions, Mr. Knight said, and where
too many associations have been
found in the same territory, local
directors have cooperated in effect
ing consolidations or in maintaining
a common office and employing the
same secretary-treasurer. The op
erating area is based upon the princi
ple that an association shall serve
a territory large enough to support
sound management but small enough
to permit that management to main
tain intimate contact with its bor
rowers. This program has made it
possible for the associations to take
over the duties that belong to them.
In pursuance of that policy, a
joint management set-up was effect
ed in this section and the Blakely
National Farm Loan Association and
the Baker County, Pelham, Edison
and Albany associations are main
taining a common office at Camilla,
Ga., and Mr. Knight is serving as
secretary of all of the associations.
Farmers of Early county who are
in the market for long-term farm
mortgage loans may secure all infor
mation regarding loans which may
be secured from The Federal Land
Bank of Columbia through the Blake
ly National Farm Loan Association
from Mr. Knight. These loans can
be secured for a period of from 15
to 30 years at a permanent interest
rate of 4 per cent. Loans are made
to buy farms, construct or alter
buildings and refinance farm debts
or for general agricultural uses.
BAPTISTS PLAN FOR
CENTENNIAL DAY ON
FIRST SUNDAY IN JULY
Members of the Blakely Baptist
church, which will be one hundred
years old on July 1, are making
plans for an observance of the cen
tennial on Sunday, July 4.
Dr. Aquila Chamlee, president of
the Georgia Baptist Convention, will
be the centennial speaker at the
morning hour.
One of the goals for the day is
an attendance of 300 at Sunday
School.
A four-page pamphlet souvenir
history is being prepared for distri
bution to members of the church and
any others who might be interested
in the one hundred years of Baptist
activities in Blakely.
POLICE HAD BUSY DAY
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
About twenty cases, involving
drunkenness, disorderly conduct,
etc., were docketed Saturday and
Sunday by Policemen Strickland,
Pickle and Chandler. The defend
ants, representing both white and
colored, were arraigned before May
or McDowell Monday morning and
drew fines of from $2.50 to $25.00
each.
NEGRO WOMAN IS
SERIOUSLY CUT HERE
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Maggie Brown, negro woman liv
ing in the northern section of
Blakely, was seriously cut on her
face and back Sunday afternoon by
Crawford Cain, negro, who was
arrested on the scene of the cutting
by Chief of Police Strickland and
placed in the city jail on a charge of
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
It was necessary to take seven
stitches in the jaw of the woman,
while four were needed for the
wound in the back. Cain was sen
tenced by Mayor McDowell to fifty
days on the streets or a fine of
$25.00, and his case will probably
be investigated later by the Early
county grand jury.
Payments to Aged
Persons and Others
To Start in July
Payments to 25,000 aged persons,
25,000 dependent children and 2,500
needy blind persons under the
state’s new Social Security laws
when the program has reached its
maximum operation were envisaged
today by Lamar Murdaugh, state
public welfare director.
Murdaugh said the payments of
benefits would be started in July
and applications for them are be
ing accepted in all counties.
He estimated 10,000 old age pen
sion checks would be paid in July,
but could not predict when the pro
gram would swing into full effect.
The amount of money available
for the department will govern
progress to a great extent, he said.
The appropriation, available July
1, for all Social Security measures
is $3,250,000.
“If the appropriation given is re
duced to any appreciable extent un
der the grandfather clause, the
number of benefits will have to be
reduced accordingly,” he said.
The grandfather clause requires
the governor to shave appropria
tions to meet state income in event
revenue is not sufficient to pay the
entire appropriation bill.
He said the State Department will
leave up to the individual counties
the question of reducing the num
ber of beneficiaries or of reducing
the amount of payment to each in
event budget paring is necessary.
He indicated it will be July 15 be
fore first pension checks are mailed.
The state board met Wednesday to
approve county welfare depart
ments, and the remainder of the
month will be spent in organizing
and setting up these departments.
During the first fifteen days of
July he intends to have applications
filed through the county welfare
boards approved by the state board
for payment starting July 15.
Summer Needs
Fly Swatters Films
Od-O-Ro-No Roach Poison
Dusting Powder Insect Spray
Quinine Talcum Powder
Stationery Hair Tonic
Toilet Water Perfume
Sun Glasses
Unguentine for Sun Blisters
Balkcom’s Drug Store
Blakely, Georgia
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
Old Age Pensions
Favored 3 to 1 By
Georgia Voters
The vote for old-age pensions
and other social security benefits in
the general election last week was
almost three-to-one in favor of the
constitutional amendment.
Secretary of State John B. Wil
son certified the result of the elec
tion on the constitutional amend
ments to the state executive depart
ment late Friday, after handling
more than 17,000 reports to compile
them.
The vote on the social security
amendments was 148,584 for and
55,829 against authorizing the state
to levy taxes for social security, and
139,413 for to 56,286 against allow
ing the various counties to partici
pate in social security payments.
The vote on $2,000 homestead ex
emptions was 137,781 for and 61,-
734 against, while the vote on S3OO
personal property exemptions was
135,266 for and 58,475 against.
The classification tax amendment
showed a closer vote, being 121,513
for and 65,618 against, while the
extension of pensions to widows of
Confederate veterans married as late
as 1920 had the closest vote of all,
or 116,962 for and 71,688 against.
The amendment providing for the
Legislature convening itself was rati
fied by a vote of 118,726 for to 67,-
334 against.
All twenty-six of the proposed
amendments were ratified by safe
majorities.
Official returns from the prohibi
tion referendum showed repeal was
defeated by 8,552 votes.
The official vote, as announced by
Secretary of State Wilson, shows:
For repeal, 94,575.
Against repeal, 103,097.
J. H. McFAY DIES
AT HOME IN LIBERTY
HILL COMMUNITY
Mr. James Henry McFay, 56, of
the Liberty Hill community, died Sun
day afternoon after an illness of two
years.
Funeral services and interment
were in the Blakely cemtery Mon
day afternoon with the Rev. P. Z.
Smith officiating, and the J. J. White
Funeral Home in charge of arrange
ments. Pall-bearers were his four
sons and two sons-in-law, namely:
J. 8., William, Delmar and Josie
McFay, Beecham Thomas and Henry
Gowan.
Mr. McFay was a native of Chi
cago, 111. He came to Early county
twelve years ago from Geneva coun
ty, Ala., and was engaged in farm
ing.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Arrie
McFay; four sons, J. B. McFay of
Bluffton, William, Delmar and Josie
McFay, of Early county; six daugh
ters, Mrs. Beecham Thomas, Mrs.
Olin Deal, Mrs. Henry Gowan, and
Misses Frances, Marie and Coralee
McFay, all of Early county.