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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.
The official decision to launch a
third party—called the National
Progressive Party, and headed by
Governor Philip LaFollette of Wis
consin—is of major political im
portance. The chief significance of
the move lies in its possible effect on
the existing parties, and on future
elections.
The history of the third party
movements in this country has been
generally a history of practically
complete failure, so far as the par
ties themselves were concerned'. To
day who remembers the Locofocos,
the Free Soilers, the North Ameri
cans, the Blue Light Federalists, the
Anti-Masons —all important third
party movements in their time?
The last third party drive that got
anywhere at all was that of 1924,
when the senior LaFollette ran for
president with Senator Wheeler as
his team-mate and polled a total of
5,000,000 votes out of 30,000,000
cast. But the ticket received the
electoral vote of only one state,
Wisconsin.
Occasionally, however, a third
party bolt has been the decisive fac
tor in a national election, and has
so made an important contribution
to the course of government. This
was the case in 1912, when Theo
dore Roosevelt, having split with
Taft and the regular Republicans,
led the “Bull Moose” revolt. The
Rough Rider did not get elected, in
spite of the advantage that he had
been President, and enjoyed an im
mense popularity but he took
enough of the Republican vote to
elect Wilson, and to leave Taft the
worst beaten incumbent in American
history. And the wounds that the
split caused in the Republican ranks
took a long time to heal, and are
generally believed to have been a
major factor in the re-election of
Wilson in 1916, when he beat
Hughes by the narrowest of margins.
The potential importance of the
National Progressive Party thus lies
in the possibility that it may have
some such effect as this on the
current political set-up. And the
stage is certainly set for a political
upheaval, and the realignment of po
litical groups.
The party in power, the Demo
cratic, has its most dependable sup
port in the South. It was this solid
South following which kept it going
during its bad years after the war,
when many commentators forecast
its imminent demise. But, as every
one knows, the South is largely con
servative. The principal Southern
Senators —Byrd, Harrison, Glass,
Bailey, etc. —incline toward the
right. The New Deal on the other
hand, is leftish. Its most consistent
congressional supporters are North
ern Democrats, from states which in
former times were often or usually
counted in the Republican ranks —
Pennsylvania, New York, the New
England group, the corn-belt, and
the far West. It is the industrial
East and Middle West, rather than
the agrarian South, which is most
enthusiastic for the Roosevelt poli
cies.
At the same time, there are many
followers of the New Deal, including
a sizeable bloc in the House, which
believe that the President has not
gone far enough left. These men
are semi-radicals—they do not go as
far as do the extreme left-wingers,
who vote for minority tickets such
as the Communist. And it is to this
left group, and to the left sympa
thizing constituents who elected
them, that Governor La Follette’s
new party, will offer its principal ap
peal. Furthermore, the party starts
with one state apparently “in the
bag”—Wisconsin has always sup- |
ported the La Follettes with hardly ■
a deviation, and there is no indica
tion that sentiment among Wiscon
sin voters has changed.
To sum up, the La Follette move
ment is for the first time offering
these semi-radicals a party headed
by men with national political rep
utations who will sponsor platforms
that are largely in accord with left
wing views. At the same time, there
is a growing movement on foot for
a coalition between Republicans and
orthodox Democrats for the purpose
of beating the New Deal and to
elect, if not a Republican, a conserv
ative Democrat. It is said that in
some states, such as Florida, where
it is practically impossible for Re
publicans to win a seat in the Sen
ate, Republican voters have changed
their registry, so that they , may vote
for anti-New Dealers in the Demo
cratic primaries. And even so
strong a Renublican spokesman as
Mark Sullivan has given his approval
to this course.
So, if the coalition of conserva
tives makes headway, and at the
same time the National Progressive
Party manages to enlist a substan
tial share of American left wingers,
where will the New Deal be? It is
all in the guesswork stage as yet,
of course—in politics, as someone
once said, almost anything can hap
pen and it usually does. But Gover
nor La Follette’s move has certain
ly broadened the room for political
speculation, and has further con
fused the political outlook.
FEDERAL SPENDING
FOR RELIEF OVER
FOURTEEN BILLION
Federal relief expenditures for the
four year period of 1933-37 totaled
$14,218,773,200, according to recent
data i eleased by the government
central statistical bureau. The monev
was distributed as follows
General re1ief—52,905,833,000.
Work programs designed primarily
to employ relief labor—s4,72o 027 -
000.
Work program of civilian conserva
tion c0rp5—51,864,150,000.
Specialized types of assistance to
unemployable (both under the social)
security act and now under the act)
—5270,438,000.
Rehabilitation loans to destitute
and low-income farmers—s23l 128 -
000.
Emergency public works—s3,Boo,-
740,000.
Surplus commodities distribution
for re1ief—5426,304,000.
Not included in the above figures
is the total of about $5,085,000,000
contributed to the program by state
and local governments.
LAWRIN WINNER OF
KENTUCKY DERBY RACE
Lawrin, a 10-1 shot and a rank
outsider, won the 64th Kentucky
Derby at Churchill Downs, Louis
ville, last Saturday. Lawrin carried
the colors of Herbert M. Woolf, of
Kansas City, Mo.
Chancellor Adolph Hitler of Ger
many was entertained in lavish style
by Mussolini, Fascist dictator of It
aly in an historic meeting of the
two leaders the past week.
12.7 BALES
ON 5
ACRES j
SOUTH CAROLINA
CHAMPION TOP-
DRESSES WITH POTASH M
WALLACE L. MARTIN, Gray
Court, S. C., was awarded first
prize in the 1937 five-acre cotton
contest by Clemson College. His
five-acre yield was 6,075 pounds
of lint with a staple length of 1 1/16
inches. His seed were W. W.
Wanamaker's Wonder Wilt, strain
7. Mr. Martin says: "At planting I
gave each acre 900 pounds of
fertilizer analyzing G’/z % nitrogen,
8% phosphoric acid and 7 ! /z%
potash. I later gave each acre 160
pounds of top-dresser analyzing
10% nitrogen and 15% potash. I
had given the land high-potash
mixtures for the last five years.
Potash helped to mature my cot
ton and prevented Rust" *
It will pay you to get the extra
yields and extra quality that extra
potash adds to your crop. Top
dress with 100 pounds of NV MU
RIATE per acre, 200 pounds of NV
KAINIT, or use a mixed-goods top
dresser containing plenty of genu
ine NV POTASH. All of these are
on sale by your fertilizer man.
N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY., Inc.
Hurt Building, ATLANTA
” Z NV POTASH
WE RECOMMEND AND SELL
GENUINE NV POTASH
Our Fertilizers are made with genuine NV
Potash.
PEOPLE’S WAREHOUSE
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
DIME INTANGIBLE
TAX PAYERS MAY
FORGET OBLIGATION
Atlanta, Ga.—Twenty thousand
Georgia taxpayers who owe as much
as a dime on intangible property
may forget their obligations, the
revenue department reported last
week.
Cost of clerical help and postage
in sending the returns to county
tax collectors would amount to more
than the payments from these tax
payers, and their returns on being
discarded, said M. J. Hines, Jr.,
director of the intangible tax di
vision.
Those who owe eleven cents and
more will have to pay, however.
Their returns are being sent to
county collectors.
Hines said he had not examined
the returns sufficiently to give fig
| ures on taxpayers liable for large
' amounts.
Revenue from the intangible tax
■ goes to the counties with the ex
' ception of five mills of each dollar,
which the state will retain to pay
administrative costs. Total collec
tions on intangible property are
expected to exceed $2,900,000.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire in this manner to ex
press our deepest appreciation to
our friends for every manifestation
of your kindness during the long
illness and at the death of our loved
one, Mr. Thad H. Wiseman. We
shall ever hold in grateful remem
brance this expression of your friend
ship.
MRS. T. H. WISEMAN,
MRS. J. B. CHANCY,
MRS. H. WOODSON SMITH.
NORTH CAROLINA
EXPERIMENT STATION
recommends top-dressing cotton
with 125 to 250 pounds ofKAINIT
or 50 to 100 pounds of MURIATE
per acre on fields which rusted
in the past and where the fertil
izer contains only 3% potash.
SOUTH CAROLINA '
EXPERIMENT STATION
found that 120 pounds of MURI
ATE per acre increased the yield
by 686 pounds of seed cotton per
acre. In these tests fertilizer was
used at 600 pounds per acre. 5-10-0
produced 557 pounds of seed cot
ton, 5-10-5 produced 1,015 pounds
and 5-10-10 PRODUCED 1,243
POUNDS. The potash was equally
effective applied at planting or
as a top-dressing.
GEORGIA COASTAL PLAIN
EXPERIMENT STATION
produced 1,092 pounds of seed
cotton per acre with 600 pounds
of 3-9-5 fertilizer. By adding 50
pounds of MURIATE top-dressing
the yield was increased to 1,142
pounds, with 100 pounds of MURI
ATE the yield was 1,221 pounds,
with 150 pounds of MURIATE the
yield was 1,316 pounds and with
200 pounds of MURIATE the yield
was 1,403 pounds.
| Letters to Editor
.
CONGRESSMAN COX AND THE
WAGES AND HOURS BILL
Editor Early County News:
Again we witness the spectacle of
Congressman Cox leading a coalition
of Southern Democrats and anti-New
Deal Republicans to kill the Wages
and Hours Bill in the House Com
mittee on Rules. This unwarrant
ed use of power to stifle legislation
which involves the interests of a
great majority of our citizens is not
only undemocratic and contrary to
the intent of Constitutional govern
ment, but it exemplifies a type of
arrogance on the part of Cox and
his allies that compares favorably
with Czar Cannon of unsavory fame.
Cox keeps yapping about regi
mentation and dictatorship and pro
fesses to be waging a fight to main
tain our form of government. Yet
he and his allies use a dictatorial
power, conferred on them as mem
bers of the Committee on Rules, to
prevent the elected representatives
of this country of ours from con
sidering this all important piece of
social legislation. If this kind of
action is not a slap in the face of
democratic government, what in the
name of heaven would you call it?
It is not for Cox and his coterie to
decide what is best for the nation,
but the Congress.
Free and open consideration of
this bill by Congress is the demo
cratic method. Stifling of this bill
in the Rules Committee because of
personal or political considerations
is the undemocratic method. Cox’s
action from start to finish has been
that of the autocrat. The people
in this county don’t like autocrats.
O. R. BROOKS.
COLUMBIA THEATRE
COLUMBIA, ALABAMA
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