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This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C.—One of the
first items to which the Senate will
give attention when it meets again
in January is the President’s plan
for a complete reorganization of the
administrative machinery of the Fed
eral government. This bill, if passed,
will go a long way toward simplify
ing the task of the the Executive. It
embodies reforms which every Presi
dent in recent years has urged
upon Congress. But it contains so
many other provisions, especially con
ferring permanent added authority
upon the President, that there is a
good deal of doubt whether it will
be adopted.
The reorganization plan as it
stands, would give the President
authority to shift and consolidate
the hundreds of bureaus, “admin
istrations,” commissions and inde
pendent officers of the Government,
putting them, with few exceptions,
into the various cabinet depart
ments, consolidating their financial
and accounting systems and cur
tailing the authority of many of
them. It creates a new Cabinet de
partment, the Department of Wel
fare, and changes the name of the
Interior Department to Depart
ment of Conservation. The Presi
dent asked for still another new
department, of Public Works, but
this was striken out by the Senate
committee.
The proposal of the President
includes the enlargement of his
White House staff by giving him
six more assistants whose job would
be to keep track of what the differ
ent departments are doing and
report directly and secretly to the
President. These men were described
in the report of a commission
which worked out the plan for
the President, as persons with “a
passion for anonymity.” Nobody
but the President would even
know who they were.
What is sticking in the craw of
many Senators is that part of the
proposal which would deprive Con
gress of its present power to control
the expenditure of public funds
through the General Accounting Of
fice, which now reports directly to
Congress. The General Accounting
Office must pass on every voucher
for the payment of Federal money
to anybody. If it cannot find ex
plicit authority in law for the pay
ment, the voucher is not approved,
and neither the President nor any
one else has power to force its pay
ment. »This office was created in
1921, under the direction of the
Comptroller-General, who is ap
pointed by the President for a fif
teen year term, but cannot be re
moved by him, and is accountable
directly to Congress. Only one man,
John A. McCarl, has ever held the
post of Comptroller-General. His
term expired on June 30, 1936, and
President Roosevelt has not named a
successor. The effect of the au
thority of the Comptroller-General
and the General Accounting Office
has been to prevent money appro
priated for one purpose from being
used for any other purpose.
The President’s proposal is to
substitute an Auditor-General, who
instead of checking expenditures be
fore they are made, will audit all
payments after they have been
made, under the control of the
Secretary of the Treasury. This is
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the point upon which the opponents
of the whole plan of reorganization
will make their strongest fight.
How far the President will go in
exerting pressure on Congress for
his reorganization plan, and in re
newing his attempt to reorganize the
Supreme Court, remains to be seen.
There was a very “cocky” feeling
among Senators and Representa
tives when Congress adjourned, a
feeling that they had stood out
against the President and won,
in the Court fight. Many felt that
this was a demonstration of the
independence of the Legislative
Department of the Federal system,
and that it would be followed by
further demonstrations that the
Executive could no longer dictate
to them. That feeling has been
strengthened, rather than other
wise, by the recent charges against
Senator Hugo Black of Alabama,
recently named to the Supreme
Court bench.
The allegation, after Congress
had adjourned and Justice Black
had taken the oath of his new office
as a full-pledged member of the
Supreme Court, that he was a
member of the Ku Klux Klan, came
as a surprise and shock both to the
President and to the Senate. A
similar charge was made when the
confirmation was pending, but was
denied in his behalf by Senatorial
friends, who blocked all efforts to
have a committee of investigation
look into the accusation. At that
time, and since, many Senators who
voted for his confirmation have said
they would not have done so had
they suspected that the Senator was
a member of the Klan. Many others
who would not have obected to his
appointment on that ground, are per
turbed because of the alleged lack
of frankness on Mr. Black’s part in
not disclosing the facts, and the ap
parent failure of the President to
inform himself fully about Mr.
Black’s antecedents before naming
him to the irremovable office of As
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court. Even those who recognize
that an ambitious politician is hardly
to be criticized if he seeks and ac
cepts Klan support, deplore the fail
ure to bring all the facts into the
open.
The situation does not tend to
strengthen the President’s influ
ence with the Senate, and it may
encourage for more power, when
Congress meets again.
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story of a hungry man in search of
food. Conservation is the business
of so handling and managing our
soil, water, and other gifts of nature
that hungry men shall not search in
vain.
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creases the appetHe and aids diges
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formation of food into living tissue,
resulting in improved nutrition and
building up and strengthening of
the whole system.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Legion and 4-H
Fair Premium List
Is Announced
The following is the premium list
announced this week for the Amer
ican Legion and 4-H Club fair to be
held in Blakely the week of Octo
ber 12th:
Department A—Beef Cattle
I. The best educational exhibit of
beef cattle showing the value of
breeding:
Ist $5.00
2nd 3.00
3rd 2.00
11. Best pen of three or more
pure-bred or grade heifers of any
beef breed and one pure-bred bull:
15t.... $5.00
2nd 3.00
3rd 2.00
111. To the boy or girl who is able
to exhibit his or her 4-H calf the
best:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
4th 1.00
sth 1.00
Department B—Dairy Cattle
I. Best Jersey Bull:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
11. Best Jersey Cow:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
111. Best Jersey Heifer:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
Department C—Swine
I. Best educational exhibit of
swine showing the value of breeding:
Ist $4.00
2nd 3.00
3rd 2.00
11. Best educational exhibit show
ing value of swine sanitation (the
exhibit must show sanitary set-up as
well as animals):
Ist $4.00
2nd 3.00
3rd 2.00
111. Best pure-bred gilt shown by
4-H Club boy or girl:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
IV. Best pure-bred gilt shown by
F. F. A. boy or girl:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
V. Best pair of pure-bred hogs,
any breed:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
VI. Best sow and litter:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
Department D—Horses and Mules
I. Best brood mare:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
11. Best mule colt under one year
old (must be Georgia foaled):
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
Department E—Poultry
I. Best pen of five white leghorn
hens:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
11. Best pen of five white leghorn
pullets:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
111. Best pen of five barred rocks
hens:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
IV. Best pen of five barred rock
pullets:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
V. Best pen of five Rhode Island
Red hens:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
VI. Best pen of five Rhode Island
Red pullets:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
Department F—Farm Crops
I I. Best, most complete, and most
artistically arranged exhibit of home
grown foods, such as fruits, vegeta
bles, nuts, meat, canned goods, etc:
Ist $5.00
2nd 3-00
3rd 2.00
11. Best, most complete, and most
artistically arranged exhibit of farm
feeds:
Ist $5.00
2nd 3.00
3rd 2.00
111. Best community display of all
kinds of farm products:
Ist SB.OO
2nd 5.00
3rd 3.00
IV. Best ten-ear exhibit of any
variety of prolific corn:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd 1.00
V. Best ten-ear exhibit of any
variety of non-prolific corn:
Ist $2.00
2nd 1.50
3rd - LOO
VI. Best exhibit of cotton, includ
ink stalk, sample of lint and seed:
Ist $1.50
2nd 1.00
3rd .50
VII. Best exhibit of Spanish pea
nuts, consisting of six bunches and
one gallon unshelled:
Ist $1.50
2nd 1.00
3rd .50
VIII. Best exhibit of runner pea
nuts, consisting of six bunches and
one gallon unshelled:
Ist $1.50
2nd 1.00
3rd .50
Department G—Ladies’ Dept.
I. Best exhibit of all kinds of
home-canned goods:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
11. Best exhibit of home-made
household articles, such as spreads,
scarfs, towels, articles of clothing, or
any other needle or hand-work:
Ist $3.00
2nd 2.00
3rd 1.00
Department H—Educational
Department
I. Best educational exhibit by a
Senior High School:
Ist $5.00
2nd 4.00
3rd 3.00
11. Best educational exhibit by a
Junior High School:
Ist $5.00
2nd 4.00
3rd 3.00
111. Best educational exhibit by
Vocational Schools:
Ist $5.00
2nd 4.00
3rd 3.00
Today and Tomorrow
(Continued from preceding page)
they continue to eat it, while a new
crop of spinach-eaters comes along
every year. I don’t like it, much,
myself, but for those who do I’m
glad to pass along the good news
that frozen spinach and canned spin
ach are just as wholesome as the
fresh vegetable.
The Massachusetts Agriculture
Experiment Station found that out.
It also has discovered that spinach
contains the essential vitamins, “A”
and “C” which ward off infections,
rheumatism. Go ahead, children; eat
your spinach!
* * *
WATERchemical tricks
In a big industrial laboratory
lately I was shown a new chemical
for waterproofing fabrics. It can be
used on cotton, rayon, silk or wool,
and renders them absoultely imper
vious to water. It does not fill up
the spaces between the threads of
woven fabrics, so one wearing a suit
thus treated can go out in the rain
without getting his clothes wet, and
at the same time get his skin thor
oughly wet.
A chemist friend tells me of
another new trick, to make water
wetter. The time and difficulty of
getting some kinds of materials
watersoaked is one of industry’s
tough problems; wool, cotton, many
other things, have to be soaked for
dyeing. A new chemical called
“tergitol,” a synthetic alcohol, mixed
with water in the proportions of one
ounce to ten gallons, makes the
water so wet that it “soaks in” at
once. One use of this new ‘wetter
water” is washing poison spray
residue off apples. Another is re
moving old wall paper.
It struck me this treatmen tof
water ought to make it easier to
wash clothes in “hard” water. I
suggested that to my friend. He
tried it out and said I had guessed
right.
SINGER SEWING MACHINES
Sales and Service
J. I. SUMNER,
Agents Blakely, Ga.
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HEROES OF AMERICAN HISTORY I
ETHE WIZARD of K
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Edison was born In a little Ohio town ■/ -i
and had very little schooling. At of:
seven he was a "News Butcher" on a smj H
railroad train. Later on. he printed
a weekly news sheet, by hand, in a V:;l
smoking car which he fitted up as a
chemical laboratory. On one occa
sion. his chemicals set fire to the train,
and the severe box on the ear that
he received from the conductor as a / \ J
parting shot led to a deafness which ' b 1
has persisted all his life. As a result
of saving the life of the station a.- ytjEEj
master's little child, Edison got a f Nfj
new start as a telegraph oper-|(([ Z
ator. But his genius >
for taking things I t
apart and improv-, ~ |I However, the same genius
ing them soon lost * finally bore fruit. It is to
him this job., ■ Edison that we are Indebt-
4 ■' VrVl > ed for such things as the
A,| If electric light, moving pic-
* \ Lufwes, the phonograph, the \
w/z I® ’ recor 3s * or w b' c b ho made 3| k
—’l" j .Ta from hard soap, the electric
train, and countless other M
* Ingenious devices.
© Gr asset A Dunlap.—WNU Service.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
September 26, 1912
MR. J. O. BRIDGES has let the
contract for the erection of two
five-room residences in the western
part of the city.
* * *
COL. Wallace W. Wright and Mr.
W. W. Fleming attended the Ninth
District Senatorial Convention in
Arlington last Friday.
* * *
THE EDITOR says this week that
“a boy at home is worth two run
ning on the street.”
♦ ♦ ♦
MR. WALTER JORDAN is down
from Dawson to spend a few days
with Blakely friends.
♦ ♦ ♦
MRS. T. J. LANIER went down
to Kestler to spend a few days with
friends and relatives.
♦ * *
MRS. S. H. HARRISON died at
her home near Lucile the first of
the week.
* * *
JUDGE J. R. POTTLE came down
from Atlanta Friday and spent
several days with his friends in the
city.
* * ♦
LITTLE Miss Mary Haynes en
tertained last Thursday in celebra
tion of her birthday. Those present
were little Misses Margaret Deal,
Nell Alexander, Dorothy Toole,
Laura Lee Stuckey, Sybil Middle
ton, Mary Haynes, Kathleen Robin
son, Evelyn White, and Masters
John Underwood, Harvey Middleton,
Lamar Toole, Tom Robinson and
Horace Jernigan.
MR. F. S. JONES, of Bainbridge,
spent Sunday with honje folks.
♦ ♦ ♦
MISS WINIFRED BROOKS left
Sunday for Wesleyan to resume her
art studies.
♦ * ♦
MR. T. F. CORDRAY has been on
the sick list for several days.
* * ♦
MR. AND MRS. B. R. Collins
went down to Colquitt Sunday.
* * *
MR. J. T. FREEMAN has been
on the sick list this week.
The longer you put off terracing,
the deeper the gullies, the poorer
the soil, the lower the yields, the
cheaper the land will become and
the harder it will be to build up
again.
CITATION
GEORGIA —Early County:
To whom it may concern:
Hightower Hall having in proper
form applied to me for Permanent
Letters of Administration on the es
tate of Mingus Hall, late of said
County, this is to cite all and singu
lar the creditors and next of kin of
Mingus Hall to be and appear at my
office within the time allowed by
law, and show cause, if any they can,
why permanent administration should
not be granted to Hightower Hall on
said Mingus Hall’s estate.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this 7th day of September,
1937.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.