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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
-:- THE COUNTY AGENT -:-
COTTON ADJUSTMENT
PAYMENTS BE MADE
IN SPRING OF 1938
Under the provisions of the law
setting up the cotton price-adjust
ment payment plan, no payments can
be made before 1938, according to
Frank C. Ward, administrative of
ficer in charge of the AAA program
in Georgia.
Ward said a large number of let
ters and telegrams had been receiv
ed urging the AAA to make payments
available immediately to cotton grow
ers who cooperated with the 1937
program.
“Under the act, Congress appro
priated $130,000,000 for price-adjust
ment payments on cotton grown in
1937,” Ward said. “Payments at the
rate established by this act may be
made to growers on proof of their
compliance with the 1938 agricul
tural adjustment program, legisla
tion for which will be the first busi
ness of the next session of Con
gress. Proof of compliance with the
1938 program could NOT be given,
of course before late next spring.
“Participation in the 1937 pro
gram of the AAA is not required of
those applying for price-adjustment
payments.”
Payments will be made to growers
on that part of their 1937 crop not
exceeding 65 per cent of the cotton
production base which was, or could
have been, established for each farm
under the 1937 AAA program. Grow
ers must support their applications
for payments with original sales re
ceipts or certificates on all their
1937 cotton sold before July 1, 1938.
The rate of payment will be the
difference between 12 cents per
pound and the average price of 7-8
inch middling cotton on the ten desig
nated spot markets on the date of
sale, the amount not to exceed 3
cents per pound in any case.
Ward said that communications al
so had been received asking that pay
ments be made on the full 1937 crop
rather than 65 per cent of the grow
er’s cotton base.
Payments were limited to 65 per
cent of the base production to bring
the total estimated amount of the
payments within the fixed appropria
tion of $130,000,000,” Ward said.
“However, payments will be made on
an additional amount of cotton,
above 65 per cent of the base, if
sufficient funds remain available
from the appropriation following
payments on cotton sold up to the
65 per cent limit.”
FARM BRIEFS—
By Whitney Tharin,
Extension Editor
There are 96 farm boys in Thomas
county who now have a better ap
preciation of the important part
good pastures pay in the production
of quality livestock. They recently
made the 60-mile trip from Thomas
ville to Tifton to visit the Coastal
Plain Experiment Station.
There, as guests of Director S. H.
Starr, they saw the pasture experi
ments that have proved successful
for use in South Georgia. They also
saw some of the finest beef cattle
hogs and workstock in tht state. They
saw demonstrations that proved be
yond the shadow of a doubt the value |
of legumes and cover crops. The i
trip for the boys was made possible '
by County Agent P. H. Ward and'
interested Thomas county citizens
HEROES OF AMERKAN HISTORY I
P • * ?rr ’ v 4Th jre I
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OF-THE-ROCKIES-J |
"Kit" Carson started life as /traSS .’.<>■- 1 ' •" ? ' '
an apprentice to a saddle 'VwgLAjjjsj?' '•' J iMQHni '
maker, but soon tired of this “wSHi .!' / t St'.- *Stfg/?w MS
unexci ing occupation and JjgrfjS ■' ■’'■' ' ■ jiSiM&ffl W
joined a party of hunters _, v 1 MM
bound for California. He
spent years exploring the
Rocky Mountain trails, X V / >
and became famous as *\ ’SHM
a guide and pioneer. l *fc*‘ *,j j.
GIUISIOPHEP- |
“Ta KIT CARSON
was organising a com-
pany to explore the h i ndian Agent for New Mexico
West. Carson s fame as except for a brief period
an Indian fighter had during the Civil War when he
preceded him and Pre- attained the rank of
mont invited him to join It Brigadier ■ General, he
the company. This was \ bl ’-. held this position for
the beginning of a life- til V est the rest of his life. He
long friendship between X#Vv^x : ’'\ prevented many Indian
the two frontiersmen. - uprisings and was the
% founder of the reserva- t
Ls LTy?S. XS^ - t’ons on which the In-j .
sSEfr. , /> dians new live. f
Ifc) Grosset & Duntap.-—WNU Service.
whose trucks were the means of
transportation. A local packing com
pany also helped out and a local
cheese company furnished lunch for
the crowd.
“This is your Experiment station,”
Doctor Starr said in welcoming the
visitors. “It doesn’t belong to us. It
belongs to the people of Georgia. We
are just here running it for them.
We are always glad to have visitors
and wish that more groups of farm
youths could arrange to visit the
station.”
If citizens in other South Georgia
counties would respond as generous
ly as did Thomas coonty citizens,
Doctor Starr’s wish could come true,
to the benefit of a large number of
farm youths.
♦ * *
Farmer-stockholders in 550 pro
duction credit associations organized
under the Farm Credit Administra
tion now number upwards of 258,-
000, a new high for these coopera
tive short-term farm credit organiza
tions in their four years’ existence.
Loans of these associations outstand
ing on September 1 amounted to
$162,500,000, an increase of $27,-
000,000 over the amount outstand
ing on the same date last year.
* * *
The United States imported 253,-
000 bales of cotton in the year end
ing with July but this cotton was
virtually all long staple needed by
specialty manufacturers to supple
ment certain qualities not found in
domestic cotton.
* * *
Argentina, which produced 373,-
000 bales of cotton in 1935-36, this
year is expected to produce only
148,000 bales, due to drought con
ditions and damage from locusts and
the cotton boll worm.
* * *
Persons interested in building or
remodeling a farm home will get
some good ideas from two bulletins
which may be obtained free from
the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. The bulletins are
entitled “Farmhouse Plans” and
“Modernizing Farmhouses”. A post
card will bring them. Some of the
plans have been worked out especial
ly for the South, including at least
one house plan prepared by the Uni
versity of Georgia.
* * *
Georgia farmers, with turkeys to
sell and Georgia housewives think
ing of Thanksgiving and Christmas
dinners, will be interested to know
that a reduction of about 10 per
cent in the number of turkeys on
hand September 1 compared with
numbers last year is indicated by
reports received by the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics.
ICE CREAM SUPPER
AND CAKE WALK
There will be an ice cream supper
and cake walk at Lucile school
house, for the benefit of the Lucile
F. W. B. League, Friday night, Oc
tober 1. Everyone invited.
Study in Contrast*
The hottest national monument and
the coldest resort In the United States
are only 20 miles apart, says the De
troit News. The explanation is the
mile difference in altitude between the
White Sands of New Mexico, and the
town of Cloudcroft in the same state
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
ECONOMIC
HIGHLIGHTS
Happenings That Affect the Din
ner Pails, Dividend Checks and
Tax Bills of Every Individual.—
National and International Prob
lems Inseparable from Local
Welfare.
Administration spokesmen es
pecially the President—have often
drawn an analogy between War and
Depression. Nineteen-seventeen and
1933, they believe, presented similar
grave problems that had to be
promptly met with similar remedies.
There is likewise a practical analo
gy between the expansion of the
Federal government in war time and
its expansion during depression. An
enlightening comparison is published
in a recent issue of the U. S. News.
When America entered the war the
national debt was $1,225,000,000 —
sl2 per capita. When the war was
over in 1919, the debt had arisen to
$25,482,000,000 —$240 per capita.
When America experienced its last
boom year, 1929, the national debt
was a little less than $17,000,000,-
000—5139 per capita. In 1937, with
recovery at an advanced stage, the
debt had increased $11,500,000,000,
to $37,000,000,000 —$277 per capita.
Thirteen new major departments
were created in 1917 and 1918—of
which some of the most important
were the Alien Property Custodian,
scene of grave post-war scandals; the
American Relief Administration, the
Railroad Administration, the War
Finance Administration, the War In
dustries Board and the Veterans’
Administration. As soon as the war
was over, liquidation of these bu
reaus began. Today only one, the
Veterans’ Administration, remains.
During depression, the Administra
tion created over twice as many new
major bureaus as were created in
war time. These include the AAA,
the CCC, the Electric Home and
Farm Authority, the Federal Deposits
Insurance Corporation, the Farm
Credit Administration, the TVA, the
WPA, etc. And—though business
activity has recently approximated
boom levels in many lines—there
seems to be no move on foot to elim
inate bureaus. To the contrary, as
the News says, “Most depression
born agencies are regarded by ob
servers as permanent.” Thus, where
the war bureaus were created and
designed to meet an emergency, and
were abolished as soon as the emer
gency passed, most of the depression
made bureaus have apparently be
come an established part of the gov
ernment.
There has been another vital
change in the character of govern
ment bureaus. Former bureaus, such
as those of the war period, were
established by Congress, and were
responsible to Congress and the Ex
ecutive branch. Many of the new
bureaus are corporations, incorporat
ed under the laws of Delaware. They'
are not accountable to. Congress. This
was pointed out by the President’s
Committee on Government Reorgani
zation when it said: “The novel ele
ments in this (present) period are
the extended use of the corporate
form and introduction of the ‘Au
thority’ . . . There are now over 100
separately organized establishments
and agencies presumably reporting to j
the President.”
The number of employes added to
government payrolls in the war and j
depression periods is more difficult
to adequately compare. Civil Serv
ice figures are available— in 1918
there were 917,000 of these workers, I
as against 438,000 in 1916; and in
1937 there were 857,000, as against!
559,000 in 1929. However, a very
large proportion of the employes of i
the new bureaus, particularly the in-j
corporated ones, do not require Civil!
Service status, and no authoritative]
census of their number is available.
These facts indicate the reason'
back of the demands for reorganiza
tion of government bureaus. How
ever, there are several strongly op- |
posed schools of thought on the sub
ject of how reorganization should be
accomplished. Under the President’s
plan, the dominance of the Execu
tive over both new and old bureaus
would be increased, and some of the
independent bureaus, such as the Ra
dio Commission, the ICC and the Fed
eral Trade Commission, would be
brought under Presidential control. ]
Other advocates of reorganization are ]
against this extension of Executive
authority, and want a form of re
organization that will maintain the
independence of the independent bu
reaus, and will consolidate other
I bureaus uner Congressional control.
* * »
Biggest political job in the U. S. is
the Presidency. Second biggest, many
think, is Mayor of New York. That
is why a New York mayoralty con-
WHITE POND NEWS
Mr. Leslie Prince spent the week
end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Prince.
Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Willis, of
Quincy, Fla., and sons, Douglas, Otis
and Bennie, and daughter, Cleo Wil
lis, spent the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Willis and family.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lanier and
children, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. McDowell.
Mr. George Prince, of Panama
City, spent the week end with his
uncle, Mr. J. R. Prince, and family.
Miss Pearl Willis spent a short
time with Mrs. Frazier Saturday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Hunt spent
the week end in Alabama with Mrs.
Hunt’s mother.
Mrs. Arthur Toole and little
daughter are visiting her mother at
Rowena.
We are glad to have Mr. George
Phillips and Mr. T. B. Houston,
teachers of Liberty Hill School, join
our League. We know they will take
an active part in helping us carry
on our League work.
Premier Mussolini, of Italy, met
Chancellor Hitler, of Germany, in a
conference at Munich last Saturday
and later reviewed the German army
at Mecklenburg in a meeting that
will possibly have wide influence up
on the stability of Europe.
Every small child needs a low
chair, a stool, or a box on which to
sit or climb sometimes during the
day, as, for example, when he dress
es, and gets into bed.
LOST—2 1-2 year old bay horse
colt, blaze face, black mane and tail,
four white feet. Reward $5.00.
MARCINE GIBSON. Colquitt, Ga. 3t
test is an event of national signifi
cance and interest.
The recent election proved two
things—one, New York voters still
like the New Deal—both Democratic
candidate Mahoney and Republican!
candidate La Guardia supported its'
principles. Second, Tammany is very
much on the skids—it threw its whole
weight behind Senator Copeland, who
ran in both primaries, and he was
badly beaten in each.
The Democratic machine is Ma
honey’s biggest asset. La Guardia
has no machine—but he is a colorful,
vote-getting personality, has made a
remarkable record for efficiency and
honesty as Mayor, and has practical
ly all the New York newspaper sup
port.
There is a movement, started by
William Allen White, to boom La
Guardia for the Republican presi
dential nomination in 1940. White
calls him “another Lincoln.”
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“For Health’s Sake”
By MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
KIDNEY COLIC
The ureter is the small tube in
which the urine passes from the kid
ney to the bladder The channel is
narrow and is likely to become ob
structed by various things, such as
small stones, strictures, inflamma
tion, and pressure from without,
such as tumors of the womb, etc.
When suddenly obstructed the
urine accumulates in the kidney and
causes pain, often quite severe. This
is known as “kidney colic”. Formerly
the pain caused by a stone lying in
the ureter was regarded as due mere
ly to the presence of the stone in
a tender channel. This idea is now
known to be wrong. Stones usual
ly cause no pain unless the ureter
is obstructed and the urine accumu
lates and overdistends the kidney.
The pain, “kidney colic,” resulting
is not unlike the pain produced by
an overfilled bladder. In both cases
the pain stops as soon as the over
distension is relieved.
Back-pressure causes serious im
pairment to the kidney function.
The kidney works in away much
like a filter and cannot function
properly against back-pressure. Un
fortunately for human beings back
pressure on the kidneys often may
cause little if any pain like “kidney
colic”. In such cases great damage
may be done before the obstruction
is suspected by the patient or the
doctor. It is only comparatively re
cently that local infections in one
part of the body were found to cause
disease in distant parts. Even more
recently it has been learned that
unsuspected obstructions in the ure
ter or at the bladder neck may seri
ously damage a patient’s health with
out pain or “kidney colic” directing
attention to an obstruction. Back
pressure may cause uremic symp
toms, high blood pressure, prema
ture aging, pernicious vomiting of
pregnancy, aclampsia, etc.
Luckily for the majority of pa
tients who have “kidney colic” the
pain sharply directs attention to its
cause and is a blessing in disguise,
as small stones which cause pain in
the kidney region can nearly always
be made to pass without an opera
tion. If neglected a stone is likely
to become impacted and remain for
a long time in one place, urine pass
ing down without sufficient obstruc
tion to cause pain. The stone gradu
ally increases in size until all ef
forts to dilate the ureter and cause
its passage are futile. An opera
tion then becomes necessary. This
is the state of affairs likely to arise
when the “kidney colic” symptoms
are neglected. Attended to, early
minor measures, can nearly always
prevent an operation or serious dam
age to kidneys by back-pressure and
infection. ,
As regards back-pressure dam
age to kidneys when no “kidney col
ic” arises the results are likely to
be more serious, because the ob
struction may not be suspected un
til blood, pus, and germs in the
urine, high blood pressure, or uremic
symptoms appear. These finally lead
to investigations to clear the diag
nosis. Persistent or recurrent in
flammation of the kidney or the blad
der nearly always is caused by back
pressure.
All of us have enough sense to
see that sewer pipes in our homes
are kept open. Yet a great many
neglect their own bodily drainage
until much, and perhaps, irreparable
damage is done.
The yacht, Endeavor I, unsuccess
ful contender for the America cup
and which has been lost at sea since
September 13th, has been found off
the Irish coast.
The Chinese-Japanese undeclared
war goes on with heavy fighting.
Several of China’s great cities, in
cluding Nanking, have been bombed
from the air and thousands of civil
ians have been killed.
Speeders Have Defects
Mental obsessions similar to those
which cause persons to leap from high
buildings are thought by an English
doctor to cause many auto accidents.
Experiments show that many drivers
have an insane desire to speed regard
less of the danger.
Watches Once Small Clocks
Watches originally were small
clocks and were worn hung from
the girdle because they were too
large for the pocket.
Red Coral Always Prized
It is red coral that is and always
has been prized, not solely for jew
elry and buttons, but as a charm to
bring safety, health and secrets not
revealed to the ordinary person. As
ancient Gauls rushed headlong in
to battle, they trusted their safety to
their swords, strength and the
“magic” coral imbedded 'in their
shields or helmets. Many Italians
and Indians regard coral as protec
tion against the “evil eye.” The
world’s red coral comes from the
reefs off the Mediterranean coast of
Africa, says the Washington Post,
and is obtained chiefly by Italians.