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Washington, D. C.—Before Presi
dent Roosevelt left Washington for
a vacation voyage on the new cruiser
“Philadelphia” he took occasion to
send a message to Congress asking
for half a million dollars to be used
for investigating private monopolies.
Concentration of economic power in
the hands of a few persons or groups,
he said, tended toward a condition
which he compared to Fascism.
That Congress will vote the money
is more than likely. That the in
vestigation, to be made by the
Federal Trade Commission, the De
partment of Justice and the Securi
ties and Exchange Commission will
produce any results that will be
politically useful is doubted by
many. And what Congress is most
concerned about, now as always, is
political results.
Congressional leaders do not look
for any important political results
from the expression by sixteen of
the Nation’s financial and business
leaders that they are ready to go
along with Government whenever
Government shows signs of being
willing to play ball with them. The
elder statesmen on the Conservative
side have never had any doubt that
business men were eager to continue
in business and financiers to finance
business, once the hobbles imposed
by onerous taxation were removed
and business was not kept in a state
of suspense and apprehension.
Ease Up On Business
President Roosevelt’s expression
of approval of the evidence of co
operative spirit on the part of big
business is taken in some quarters as
indicating a change of front by the
Administration in its attitude toward
business. Whether that proves to be
true or not, there is no question that
the attitude of a majority in Con
gress has become definitely realistic,
and that no new legislation which is
calculated to have a deterrent effect
upon business expansion and re
employment has a ghost of a chance
of enactment at this session.
The response of the nation to the
new tax bill as finally agreed on by
the conference committee of the two
houses has been to encourage the
conservative Democrats in their at
titude of independence. The new
tax law practically abolishes the tax
on corporation reserves, and so
greatly modifies the capital gains tax
as to eliminate that barrier to the
investment of new capital, for all
practical purposes. There is, to be
sure, some trace left in the new bill
of the Administration plan of taxing
undistributed corporate earnings.
That was retained in principle as a
matter of “saving face” for the
President. But in effect the tax plan
agreed upon is another victory for
the rebellious group in Congress,
who have been heartened by success
to take an even more defiant stand
in opposition to another of the pet
measures of the White House.
Wage-Hour Bill Stymied
That is the bill to regulate wages
and hours of labor by Federal
statute. The Executive pressure
upon Congress to enact such a law
has been tremendous and persistent
ever since the proposal was first
broached. There have been a series
of bitter fights in both houses, chief
ly behind committee-room doors,
over the plan sponsored in the
House by Representative Mary Nor
ton of New Jersey. The original
measure has been revamped and
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modified in committee until it bears
little resemblance to its original
I form. At last it took a form upon
which the majority of the Labor
committee could agree, but it in
stantly ran into a snag in the shape
of the all-powerful rules committee.
Without the consent of the rules
committee, under parliamentary pro
cedure, no bill can be placed on the
calendar for consideration by the
entire House. And the Rules
Committee refused to grant a rule
placing the bill on the calendar.
Five Southern Democrats, Cox of
Georgia, Driver of Arkansas, Smith
of Virginia, Clark of North Carolina
and Dies of Texas, joined with three
Republican members of the commit
tee to refuse the rule. They were
reflecting the general opposition in
the South to any legislative attempt
to put the wages of Negroes on a
level with those of white workers.
Unless Chairman Norton can get
218 members to sign a petition dis
charging the Rules Committee from
consideration of her bill, it has no
chance of passage at this session.
And in view of the time it would
take to make action under a petition
effective, and the almost unanimous
desire of Congress to adjourn by
June first at the latest, the outlook
for a wages-and-hours law seems
doubtful.
Garner Bucking F.D.R.?
It is no secret on Capitol Hill that
there is antagonism between the
President and the Vice-President.
Both men are too good politicians to
admit an open clash between them,
but it is suspected by may insiders
that Mr. Garner is the master-mind
behind much of the political strategy
which has resulted in the defeat of
many of the President’s pet meas
ures.
The President still has many loyal
supporters in both Houses, of
course. There are nearly two hun
dred Representatives and more than
forty Senators who can be counted
upon to stand by Mr. Roosevelt and
the New Deal through thick and
thin. Not the least important of
these is Senator Sherman Minton of
Indiana, who is understood to be
very closely in the President’s con
fidence, and is often regarded as the
President’s spokesman.
Senator Minton succeeded Senator
Black, upon the latter’s elevation to
the Supreme Court, as chairman of
the Special Committee to investigate
lobbying. His attitude in that
capacity has been one of bitter hos
tility toward anyone who criticized
or tried to block the passage of any
measure favored by the President.
(Editor’s Note: The 218 signa
tures necessary to force the wages
hours bill from the Rules committee
have been secured.)
TOMATO PLANTS BRING
GOOD MONEY TO STATE
(Newspaper Features, Inc.)
Atlanta, Ga.—Another cash crop
of recent development and rapid
growth, with tremendous possibilities,
that will bring a very neat piece of
cash money to Georgia this year, is
tomato plants. In 1934 there were
1,200 acres planted, this year there
are 6,000 acres, or an increase of
466 per cent. Georgia tomato plants
are now being shipped to truck grow
ers in the east, and this year’s ship
ment will reach a total of 700,000,-
000 plants, which will bring to grow
ers an estimated total of $750,000.
Georgia tomato plants are cheaper
than Northern plants, grown in hot
houses, earlier than Northern field
grown plants, they are tougher and
heavier and more resistant to insects,
winds and low temperatures. The
plants that bring the best prices and
receive preferred consideration are
those certified by the Department of
Entomology 7 , of which Manning S.
Yeomans is the head. He has taken
special interest in developing this
new industry and the results are high
ly gratifying. Mr. Yeomans does not
advise growing tomato plants as a
side-line, because he says it is a
“highly specialized proposition.”
Try the News for Job Printing
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Today and Tomorrow
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instill false doctrines into the minds
of their people, the light of truth has
never been completely extinguished.
Some spark has always remained
burning, to burst into flame and set
the world afire sooner or later.
Men’s bodies can be conquered
and kept in bondage by force. Man’s
spirit can never be imprisoned. The
real conquerors in history are those
who, by teaching and example, have
inspired men to seek for truth and
to live by it rather than by force.
The conquerors whose influence
continues to prevail and grow are
the great ones whose task it was to
set the human spirit free, not to en
slave it.
* * *
VIGILANCE . . for democracy
None of the modern dictators be
gan with force. They lured enough
people into accepting their rule, by
promising to free them from real or
actual oppression, danger or distress.
Once they had enough followers to
back them up, they began, one by
one, to curtail the liberties of the
whole nation.
Dictatorships come about by
gradual and devious infringements
upon individual rights, under the
specious plea that only by surrender
ing their rights can the people be
saved from economic or physical
starvation. Resistance to the pro
gram of wholesale salvation is
branded as unpatriotic, selfish or
even treasonable.
Free people can be and have been
bamboozled by such tactics, because
they did not recognize the signs of
the times. The time to exercise the
eternal vigilance which is the price
of liberty is when men in power be
gin to call names, to denounce those
who disagree with them and to pro
pagandize programs which can only
be made effective by the use of force.
HOME COMING DAY AT
OLD PLEASANT GROVE
R. F. Owen, Pastor; C. H. Chandler,
Song Leader
Date: Fifth Sunday, May 29th.
11 a. m.: Aldersgate, the gospel
of Christ “cleans from sin” and
gives spiritual tonic—Rev. R. A.
Wright and Pastor.
Noon: Lunch, pleasant association
together.
2 p. m.: “Knew ye not that your
body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost?” Can the soul and mind be
normal in a pestered body as seen
in preventable diseases of helpless
children?—One of our Physicians.
2:30 p. m.: Some of the most
useful men in church and state
came from the Mission Charges and
little Sunday Schools —Lay Leader
Bell.
2:50 p. m.: Does the care or neg
lect of the rural church and farm
home usually go together?—Prof. O.
F. Morton.
3:10 p. m.: Suppose the faithful
drop the church, how would it af
fect our civilization of “human
freedom and property rights” based
on the law of Moses?—Rev. E. M.
Overby.
A guiding principle, “Do the best
you can with what you have to do
with.”
Scriptural warning, “The way of
the transgressor is hard,” but suc
cessful Christian living is glorious.
1,445 GEORGIANS
PLACED ON JOBS
State and federal employment
offices placed 1,445 Georgians on
jobs during the week ending April
30, according to M. A. O’Connor,
state director.
The Atlanta District led in place
ments in private industry, with 82,
while the Augusta District came next
with 71.
The State Employment Service
placed 691 persons, of whome 252
got private jobs and 439 went on
public works. The federal oiffice
placed 754, of whom 605 went on
public works. Placements in pri
vate employment constituted 27.7 per
cent of the total.
CITATION
GEORGIA, Early County:
To all whom it may concern:
C. E. Boyett, of state state and
county, having in proper form ap
plied to me for permanent letters of
administration upon the estate of
V. M. Jarrett, deceased, this is to
cite the creditors and heirs of said
deceased to be and appear at the
June Term, 1938, of the Court of
Ordinary of said county, to show
cause, if any they can, why perma
nent letters of administration should j
not be granted.
Witness my official signature, this:
2nd day of May, 1938.
Ordinary, Early County, Georgia.
D. C. MORGAN,
THIS WEEK
By Earl (“Tige”) Pickle
We w'ere talking with one of our
friends the other day who comes un
der the heading of “old timers” and
he fell to conversing on modern
youth and modern customs and
finally got around to the customary
“I don’t know what the world is
coming to”. Then he told us about
one of his friends who lives in the
blue grass region of Kentucky and
raises thoroughbred horses, as an ex
ample of this modern world and of
how times have changed since he
was a boy. He knew the weights
of his horses, their names, their tem
perments, their ages and just which
horse stayed in which stable. But
later that night when he was asked
who the young man was who accom
panied his young red-headed daugh
ter out that evening, the Kentuckian
replied, “Oh, I don’t know, some
young man who comes to see Marge.”
And our friend continued with his
story by saying that this man knew
all about his horses but didn’t know
who his daughter was with nor when
she was coming back. Oh, well, I
hope my ole timer friend doesn’t
do too much worrying about what
modern youth is coming to, because
from where we are sitting it seems
they are doing alright. Anyway
when people quit comparing ox carts
with automobiles and start facing
facts, they will see that modern
youth is no worse than when grand
pa was a lad in pistol-legged pants.
And maybe better.
* * *
Which reminds us of the story of
what an old fashioned grandmother
said to her granddaughter when she
saw her kissing her boy friend in
the shadow of the oleander bush.
“Why, aren’t you ashamed? I never
thought of doing such a thing when
I was a girl.”
“Which is probably the reason you
didn’t do it, Grandma”, replied the
young miss.
* * *
I hope Mr. Chester (Grandpappy)
Loback has changed his perspective
on how boys should be brought up.
If he hasn’t, I see some very dark
and nebulous days in store for young
Howard Garwood, grandson of Mr.
Loback. Once when Mr. Loback’s
youngest brother-in-law, who was
still in triangular trousers, smashed
a perfectly good watch, he declared
that every boy should be kept in a
barrel and fed through the bung
hole until he was twelve years old.
And then his wife, who thought the
whole affair was funny, sarcastically
asked, “What would you do after
then?” Mr. Loback laconically said,
“I would stop up the bung hole.”
* * *
A kind and sincere “thank you”
for the many friends who wrote, tele
phoned, sent word and came in per
son to say that they missed us and
hoped we would soon be back again.
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SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
May 8, 1913
THE Central Railroad is putting
in a spur track at its local yards to
take care of its immediate needs.
A PETITION is being circulated
to re-establish the post office at
Bryant, Ga., the new name to be
Bancroft, Ga. The lands surround
ing the station have recently been
purchased by white people, where
formerly were only Negroes.
THE NEWS learns of the mar
riage on May 7 of Mr. L. L. Mitchell
and Miss Janie Sammons, both of
the Kestler district.
THE MAYHAW CROP is a good
one this year and jelly glasses are in
great demand. One glass of may
haw jelly put up by a southwest
Georgia housewife is worth a dozen
glasses of the store-bought stuff.
MR. J. LESTER BATTS, of near
Kestler, and Miss Maude Harrison,
of Bluffton, were united in mar
riage on May 3.
RANDOM NOTES, by Caesar:
“The election of officers at the Sow
hatchee Baptist church for the Sun
day School last Sunday resulted as
follows: J. L. Ricks re-elected as
superintendent; J. W. Davis, secre
tary, and J. M. Lane teacher first
class. . .We now live in hopes and
every one prophesies that we will
have rain in a few days. . .A 12 1-2
pound young lady arrived recently
at the home of Mr. J. M. Lane.”
THE County Commissioners, in
session Tuesday, offered a reward
of $50.00 for the arrest, with proof
to convict, of the incendiary which
recently burned the barn of Mr. T.
E. Grier.
Notice to Farmers!
We are overstocked on one-horse
Cultivators. Cultivators, with trip
feet
$25.00 each.
Middleton Hardware Co.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
COLOMOKEE will be the mecca
of all the singers in these parts next
Sunday, as there will be an all-day
sing and dinner on the grounds.
OUR HAT is off to the city dads.
They are having the cemetery fence
repainted following the splendid
cleaning up given it by Street Super
intendent Irwin.
MESSRS. Chipstead Grubbs and
Luther Warrick went over to Al
bany Monday night and brought back
a new automobile through the coun
try.
ROCK HILL ITEMS: “Mr. Grady
Clark, of Ashford, Ala., is visiting
his brother, Mr. A. H. Clark. . .Mr.
and Mrs. Branch Temples spent Sun
day with Mrs. Mollie Smith . . . Mr.
and Mrs. Duncan Hall spent Sunday
with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Ab
Spence, in Blakely. . .Mr. S. W. Ses
sions and children, Miriam and
Ernest, spent Sunday with relatives
in Columbia. . .Mr. Charlie Hall, of
Dothan, spent from Tuesday until
Friday of last week visiting at the
home of Mr. O. E. Hall.”
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