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This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C. —Moviegoers
who saw the* film “Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington” may have got the im
pression that sessions of Congress
are apt to be dramatic and exciting
affairs. As a matter of fact both the
Senate and the House of Representa
tives usually put on a pretty dull
show. Only once in a blue moon is
there anything of emotional or dra
matic interest in the debates in either
House.
Senators and Members as a rule
'keep their tempers under pretty
close control when they are out on
the floor where the visitors in the
galleries can see and hear them.
After they adjourn, what they say
to each other is something else
again.
There came near to being an ex
hibition of fireworks when the Senate
began to discuss the amendments
offered by Senator Carl Hatch of
New Mexico to his bill to keep
Federal office holders out of politics,
which became a law last year. Mr.
Hatch proposed to extend the law
to keep all State employees whose
salaries are paid in whole or in part
out of Federal funds, from taking
part in any way or contributing to
Federal election campaigns.
This proposal was aimed primarily
at State Highway Departments,
which administer highway funds
provided in part by the Federal
Government. In many states, per
haps in most, the Highway Depart
ment has become a powerful arm of
the dominant political machine.
Naturally, many Senators of both
parties didn’t like Mr. Hatch’s new
proposal. There was more sputter
ing and violent language heard on
the Senate floor than at any previ
ous time this session. And when
Senators gather in the cloak room
afterwards the things that some of
them said to some of the others
were almost unprintable.
The Democratic floor leader, Sena
tor Barkley of Kentucky, who had
backed up Senator Hatch, became
so angry, when his party followers
abused him, that he threatened to
resign his position as the party’s
leader, but nobody called that bluff.
The Senate finally passed the new
admendments intended to make poli
tics pure, and tacked on another pro
vision that nobody may legally con
tribute more than $5,000 to any
party campaign funds. If such a
law could be enforced it would hit
the resources of both parties about
equally.
Dramatic Occurrence
The most dramatic occurence in
Washington lately occurred in the
committee room of the Senate Mili
tary affairs Committee. Lester P.
Barlow, a well-known inventor,
many of whose devices are used by
the Army and Navy, explained to
the Committee sitting behind closed
doors the workings of a new bomb
filled with a combination of liquid
oxygen and carbon.
Everybody in the room was sworn
to secrecy but according to Senator
Nye, who said he had never seen a
Senate Committee so thoroughly im
pressed, Inventor Barlow convinced
the Senators that his new military
weapon is the most devastating ex
plosive ever devised.
The detonation of a single bomb
dropped from an airplane would de
stroy all life and all buildings over
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a radius of many miles. The com
mittee was so impressed that before
it adjourned an oath of absolute
secrecy was administered not only
to the Senators but to the commit
tee clerk in attendance, and the
stenographers’ notes of the inven
tor’s statement were directed to be
burned, to prevent a possible leak.
In another Senate committee room
a dramatic episode occurred when a
Negro Communist, Benjamin J.
Davis, Jr., who is a graduate of
Harvard Law School and an as
sistant editor of the Communist
newspaper, The Daily Worker, de
livered a fifteen minute tirade
against the opponents of the anti
lynching bill. He abused Vice-Presi
dent Garner and members of the
Committee by names and narrowly
escaped being thrown out of the
Committee room physically. He was
actually ordered out, with the com
ment by Senator Van Nuys, author
of the Bill, that he had done his
cause more harm than good.
Most Interesting Topic
Outside of Presidential politics
and plans for distributing more
money where it will do the most
good in the Presidential campaign,
the most interesting topic which
members of both Houses are con
cerned with is the proposal to
amend the National Labor Relations
Act to give employers as good a
break as employees now get.
The issue is pretty sharply drawn
between the Conservative Demo
crats, cooperating with the Republi
cans, and the New Dealers in Con
gress over the recommendation of
the Smith committee, which re
ported recommendations for radical
changes in the Labor Relations laws
and the methods of their administra
tion.
This is the one measure now pend
ing before Congress in which the
full power of the Administration is
being exerted. Mr. Roosevelt’s aides
and followers do not want the law
changed. The outcome is still un
certain.
Economy Forgotten
Congress will shortly begin to
give serious attention to new plans
for helping the farmers. There is
every indication that all the economy
talk will be forgotten and that a
great many more millions than the
original budget provided will be ap
propriated for one form or another
of Farm Relief.
Secretary Wallace’s new scheme
of raising four hundred and eighty
millions by a complicated processing
tax probably will not be the answer
which Congress is seeking. There
is a good chance of the passage of a
law to enable tenant farmers to buy
their farm with money lent to them
by the Government on long-term,
low-interest mortgages.
CEDARTOWN MAN HAS
2 ANCIENT KNIVES
Cedartown, Ga.—Boys will be boys
in any age, carrying pocket knives,
bits of string, and jews harps.
Eighty-three yeas ago Littleberry
Johnson, grandfather of Tom John
son, of Cedartown, was such a boy
carrying a pocket knife. Now it be
longs to Tom Johnson. Another
knife, 62 years old, was given to
Mr. Johnson by Henry Tumlin of
Cartersville.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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By EARL “TIGE” PICKLE
To a dear old white-haired lady
with whom we had a very delightful
conversation several weeks ago, we
direct this little paragraph: We know
that you aren’t a pessimist. You
said so yourself. And your counten
ance, which has looked for more than
70 years on a world of sunshine and
rain, a world which is both good and
bad, paradoxical as it seems, defies
that. But you did say that it seemed
that the world of today is experienc
ing more horrible crimes, catastro
phes and such things than ever be
fore. You said that we seemed to
be living in an age of lawlessness,
greed and selfishness. All of which
is true. But only in part.
The world is still overshadowed by
the good over evil, even if the papers
which play up fires, murders, rob
beries and other things of bad re
port, in huge, sensational headlines
make you believe otherwise. If you
look at your paper closely enough,
not a day will pass but that you will
see some little item tucked away on
the back page or buried somewhere
in the middle where some man or
woman has played the part of the
good Samaritan. We don’t know why
these items don’t rate headlines,
which we think they should, but they
seldom do, and by our admission of
this fact we must score another point
in favor of your argument. But
these little items are there just the
same.
Tucked away in the middle of a
daily paper and written in small type
we came across a little item the
other day which proved to us that
the world isn’t suffering nearly so
much from selfishness as it is from
forgetfulness. Or maybe the whole
trouble is that none of us ever stop
to think. There is an old lady who
has spent ten years, the story reads,
in the Cook County Infirmary, a vic
tim of disease and poverty. And
loneliness. She had neither friends,
relatives nor money. For her there
seemed to be nothing left. One night
this old lady was listening to the
radio which the Infirmary supplied
and she chanced to tune in on one
of those programs where a soft mel
low voice reads poetry to the back
ground of distant organ music. She
liked that voice. And when the pro
gram was over she wrote the man to
whom that voice belonged and told
him of her pitiable plight, saying
that for ten years she had been liv
ing a lonely life in this hospital and
all during that time she had not re
ceived one piece of mail. And would
he please send her a Christmas card.
The reader of the poetry was so
moved by the letter that he read it
on his program. All of America
must have been listening in for the
old lady who lived a lonely life re
ceived not one letter, but 20,000
pieces of mail, which is more, accord
ing to the postal authorities, than
the President of the United States
received.
Ollin Hudspeth, Jr., came in from
Miami the other day sporting a coat
of Florida sunshine, to visit his fa
ther for several days. Ollin has been
down there for several months rub
bing shoulders with millionaires and
playboys and having a grand time in
general. Yes, he works, too. One
day when your reporter got himself
confined in a hospital it became nec
essary that he have a pint of blood.
At the time we never thought much
about Ollin being a special friend of
ours, and we didn’t suppose he ever
thought much about us. But he came
in the hospital with a whole bunch
of other good fellows, rolled up his
sleeve and told the doctor to get to
work. He didn’t make any show
about it. He gave it with the same
casual manner as someone asking
for a match. So do you blame
us when we say that down in a cor
nel’ of our heart there is special af
fection for Ollin, Jr., which time
won’t ever erase?
We hear that our friend Hubert
(Little Gil) Gilbert is in danger of
losing his job at the auto store, of
which Alex Howell is manager, be
cause of his sudden intense interest
in telegraphy. Ever since a certain
very pretty young lady has been in
the office he spends much of his
time trying to find out what the
Morse code is all about. Alex says
as far as Little Gil is concerned
those tapping telegraph keys don’t
spell a thing but 1-o-v-e.
When a used car salesman tells
you that the tires on a car he is try
ing to sell are “pretty good”, he
means that if you are extraordin
arily lucky, you might get home with
out a puncture.
Fame is fleeting: What ever be
came of that fellow, Wrong Way
Corrigan?
A New York man, who is 105 years
old, says he managed to reach his
age because he abstained from meat,
alcohol, tobacco and women. If we
ever reach such an age we are go
ing to think up a colossal lie to tell
the newspapers, too.
PUBLIC LAND SALE
GEORGIA, Early County:
Whereas, heretofore, on the 13th
day of November, 1937, John Hunter
did execute to E. C. Smith, a certain
security deed to the following land:
“The west half of the north one
hundred acres in lot of land number
326 in the twenty-sixth land district
of Early County, Georgia,”
to secure four notes of even date
therewith for Four Hundred Dollars,
all as shown by a security deed re
corded in the Office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Early Coun
ty, Georgia, in book 47, page 4; and
Whereas, two of said notes have
become in default, and the under
signed elects that all of said notes,
principal and interest, become due
at once.
Now, wherefore, according to ori
ginal terms of said security deed and
the laws in such cases made and
provided, the undersigned will expose
for sale to the highest and best bid
der for cash, the above described
land, after proper advertisement, on
the first Tuesday in April, next, be
tween the legal hours of sale, be
fore the Courthouse door in Early
County, Georgia. The proceeds from
said sale to be used, first to the
payment of said notes, principal, in
terest, and expenses and the balance,
if any, to be delivered to the said
John Hunter.
This fourth day of March, 1940.
E. C. SMITH,
As attorney in fact
for John Hunter.
Stapleton & Stapleton, Attys.,
Donalsonville, Ga.
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WORKERS’ COUNCIL
TO MEET AT EDISON
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The Workers’ Council of the
Bethel Association will meet Sunday
afternoon, March 31, with the Edi
son Baptist church at 2:30 o’clock.
Miss Susie Eubanks, of the State
Sunday School Department, will de
liver the principal address, using for
her subject, “Soul-Winning Oppor
tunities in the Sunday School.” Rev.
Rufus Higginbotham, of Fort
Gaines, will also appear on the pro
gram. Important items of businass
will be transacted at this session.
Every Baptist who is interested in
his denominational work has a most
cordial invitation to be present,
while all members of the various
committees are urged to attend.
J. D. PARKER, Moderator.
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them a generous supply of essential minor and sec
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We recommend this complete, balanced fertilizer. 9
Farmers Gin & Warehouse Company
Blakely, Georgia
LOUISVILLE MAN OWNS
CENTURY-OLD MUSKET
Louisville, Ga.—The gun is an an
cient twenty-eight gauge muzzle
loader that came into the possession
of Mr. E. C. Dillard, Louisville, after
having been in his family before
1850.
The rifle is so old that even the
name of its maker has been forgot
ten. And the lightness of the fire
arm leads sportsmen to suspect that
it was designed as a lady’s gun.
The gun’s genealogy runs like this:
The rifle was originally owned by Mr.
Boyce of Milledgeville, Georgia.
When Mr. Boyce left for Mississippi
about 1850, he gave the gun to his
grandson, the Rev. A. G. Fergusson
who was Mrs. E. C. Dillard’s father.
So Mr. Dillard is now the fifth gen
eration to own the rifle.