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This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C.—Washington
continues to display more interest
in personalities than in governmental
policies and legislative programs.
That is chiefly because policies and
programs follow pretty closely the
well-established lines of politics, while
nobody can tell what any individual
may do; and occasionally men in pub
lic life do things which put them in
the spotlight and furnish new angles
for political controversies.
Nobody is surprised, or very
much interested, in Washington, over
the action of the Senate in adding
more than $200,000,000 to the Agri
cultural Appropriation Bill as passed
by the House. This is election year
and the Farm vote is important.
The political party in power has
a better chance of getting itself re
elected if it spends another couple
of hundred millions of the taxpay
ers’ money ,in the effort to buy the
votes of the farmers. For that is
precisely what this increase in farm
appropriations, to an aggregate of
nearly a billion dollars, amounts to.
That is standard political prac
tice, regardless of which party is in
power. It does not follow that the
distribution of public funds to Agri
culture or Labor or to any other
organized pressure group results in
swinging great masses of voters
one way or the other. The Farm
vote and the Labor vote are bought
and paid for in every election, but
the sellers have never been able to
deliver the goods.
It is an old political racket which
practically never works, except to
distribute a nice slice of cash to
voters who pocket it and then pro
ceed to vote the way they intended
to anyway.
Promoting Personal Welfare
Recognizing that the farm appro
priation, the purity in politics legis
lation, and most of the other pro
ceedings in Congress which make
headlines have their origin not in
any real purpose of promoting the
general welfare, but are rather in
tended to serve the personal wel
fare of their promoters or the par
tisan welfare of their particular po
litical organizations, experienced
Washington observers refuse to get
excited over them, and Senators and
Representatives as a rule are careful
to watch their steps lest they lose
some votes by taking the unpopular
side.
When it comes to discussion of
personalities, especially of mem
bers of the American Diplomatic
Corps, the gentlemen on Capitol
Hill can say what they please with
impunity. They can’t lose any votes
and they may gain credit as friends
of the plain people when they criti
cize the conduct of the wealthy men,
either in their own right or as hus
bands of heiresses, who represent
the United States as Ambassadors
and Ministers to foreign countries.
Congress has always been too
afraid of criticism from the voters
back home to appropriate enough
money for our diplomatic service to
enable the representatives of this
country to maintain the relations
which the officials of foreign govern
ments which are necessary if the
dignity, power and prestige of the
United States is to be upheld.
The result is that nobody but a
Very wealthy man can afford to ac
cept appointment as an Ambassa-
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do/ to an important nation. Con
gress allows top salaries of $17,500
a year to American Ambassadors,
and such trifling expenses for secre
taries, necessary entertainment, etc.,
that our representatives at every
important post have to spend out
of the own pockets two or three
times the amount of their salaries.
Accounts for Diplomacists
That accounts for the fact that
our Ambassador to Paris is the ex
tremely wealthy William C. Bullitt;
that Joseph P. Kennedy, a multi
millionaire, represents the United
States in London; that “Tony” Bid
dle is our Minister to Poland, and
so on down the line until we get to
“Jimmy” Cromwell, the American
Minister to Canada, who made him
self a front-page headline figure,
drew from the Secretary of State
the sharpest rebuke on record ever
handed out to an American diplo
mat by his Government, and started
a debate in Congress as to whether
or not he was a fit person to repre
sent the United States at Ottawa.
His statement was decidedly un
diplomatic. Anything expressing or
purporting to express the views of
his Government which an Ambassa
dor or Minister Plenipotentiary says
in public is assumed to be an au
thorized official statement by his
Government, and Jimmy Cromwell
hadn’t consulted anybody in Wash
ington before he spoke.
66 No Punishment
Beyond the official rebuke by
Secretary Hull probably nothing
will be done about it. Everybody
likes Jimmy Cromwell. Many envy
him, more or less openly, for his
success in marrying two great heir
esses in succession, his present wife
being Doris Duke, with fifty or
sixty millions inherited from her
father's tobacco business. Every
body likes Doris. They have a num
ber of magnificent estates in Ha
waii, Florida, Pennsylvania, North
Carolina and New Jersey. Jimmy
votes in New Jersey and intends to
run for Senator this year, with the
backing of the powerful Democratic
party machine of Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City.
And there is nothing in the
Hatch “pure politics” law that lim
its the size of contributions to the
party campaign chest which may
be made by the multi-millionaire wife
of a candidate.
NOTICE, TAX PAYERS
The Commissioners have placed in
my hands for collection all past due
tax fi. fas. up to the year 1939. I
have been authorized to collect them
or levy will be made. Attend to
this at once and save extra costs.
W. D. SAMMONS.
CITATION
GEORGIA, Early County:
To whom it may concern:
J. L. Houston, as administrator of
the estate of Hartwell Hunter, de
ceased, having applied to me by
petition for leave to sell the real
estate of said deceased, this is to
notify all creditors and next of kin
that said application will be heard
at the May Term, 1940, of the Court
of Ordinary of said County, and
that, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, said leave will be granted.
This April Ist, 1940.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
THIS WEEK
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By EARL “TIGE” PICKLE
Last week, for the first time,
we were introduced to the Future
Farmers of America. It was at
the annual Father-Son banquet giv
en by the Blakely chapter.
If there are those skeptics who
insist that this great country of
ours is headed for chaos, starvation
and possible revolution, then let
them take a look at the boys who
make up the membership of the
thousands of Future Farmer chap
ters all over America. And find out
what they are doing.
In our opinion, two of the great
est influences working for the eco
nomic good, in relation to agricul
ture, are the thousands of 4-H clubs
and FFA chapters all over the Unit
ed States. These groups are work
ing diligently and unselfishly for
the benefit of agriculture in the
future. At the present, not such a
great deal can be seen that they
have accomplished. But the idea is
spreading. More and more farmers
every year are adopting the ideas
learned by their boys who study
farming as it will be done in the
future. These boys don’t believe in
poor-blooded stock. Neither do they
believe in letting the soil wash away.
They know that these two factors
alone hold the future prosperity of
farming. And they are doing some
thing about it.
But to us the most important
thing already accomplished by these
groups is the high plane on which
they have put farming. They are
making it a more respectable pro
fession, and this is as it should be.
We know as well as the next one
that following a mule isn’t the most
glamorous of jobs. In fact, there
is positively no glamor to it at all.
But it is the oldest of professions
and, therefore, is the most honora
ble. And we never could under
stand why some people would refer
to certain jobs and sarcastically re
mark: “It beats farming.” This is
the main fact that the FFA groups
are teaching: That farming, the
oldest form of earning a living, is
interesting and can be made profit
able. These groups were the first to
recognize the fact that all our eco
nomic and social troubles were link
ed with agriculture. Because from
time immemorial agriculture has
been the backbone of our entire
economic and social system.
So, by establishing farming on a
high plane and making it interest
ing and profitable so the boys and
girls who now make up the farming
population won’t have a desire to
seek a livelihood elsewhere, these
groups are solving the worst prob
lem first. All too long our educa
tors have been teaching and groom
ing our young people for so-called
“white-collar” jobs.
Early county is indeed fortunate
in having four wide-awake chapters,
under the leadership of four capa
ble and interested men: E. H. Cheek,
Blakely; G. G. Siniard, Jakin; O.
F. Morton, Hilton, and A. P. Lewis,
Damascus.
Yes, the skeptics, who believe
that some day starvation and revo
lution will overtake us, should take
a look at the FFA and 4-H boys.
These boys will be the leaders of
tomorrow.
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OPINIONS AND OTHERWISE:
Our estimate is that the census
will show the population of Blakely
to be between 2700 and 2900 peo
ple, white and colored. It was a
bit over 2100 in 1930 . . . Our town
never has got around to paying trib
ute to a man who did much toward
the building of Blakely and Early
county—we mean the late Mr. J. S.
Sherman, who was for almost a
quarter of a century president of
the First National Bank . . . Pretty
Mrs. Warren Baxley is not only the
wife of a doctor, but has two broth
ers and a brother-in-law who have
the M. D. degree attached to their
names . . . We have been informed
that Mrs. Alice Bryant, of Jakin,
is The News’ oldest reader, but our
informer didn’t know the exact
number of years . . . Nobody can
tell a joke quite as well as our
friend and neighbor, H. T. Williams.
. . . The sweetest voice and smile
we have seen and heard in a long
time belong to Mrs. D. W. James.
The kind of youthfulness which she
possesses, despite her years, must
have been what old Ponce de Leon
gave his life in seeking . . . The Cash
Drug Store closed last week and
left scores of men with no place to
go but home. And that includes us.
COLOMOKEE G. A.
AND SUNBEAMS
Elinor Sammons was hostess to the
G. A. and Sunbeams on Wednesday,
March 20, at 3 o’clock. The subject
was “A Great Message for All the
World.” The great message was the
one that Jesus gave to His disciples,
Matthew 28:19-20.
There are many people in the
world today pleading for help. Their
faces are sad because they do not
know about Jesus and His power
to forgive our sins.
We gave our small amount of
money for Home Missions this
month. We hope that it will help
people in our own United States who
do not know about Jesus to learn
about Him.
After the program we enjoyed
an Easter egg hunt. Betty and
Reese Tedder found the prize eggs
and each was given an Easter basket.
Mrs. Fred Sammons, Miss Geta
Smith, Nell Hayes and Hazel
Chandler were our visitors.
We were glad to welcome four
new members. This makes our total
membership 26.
Let’s all get our umbrellas to
keep off the April showers and go
to our next meeting April 7th at
Margie Tedder’s.
—Dorothy Bostwick, Reporter.
ALL-DAY SING AT
AMERICUS SUNDAY
The News has been asked to an
nounce that there will be an all-day
sing at Americus, Ga., next Sunday,
April 7. All singers and lovers of
music are cordially invited.
MAN WANTED for Rawleigh
Route of 800 families in Seminole
(Ga.), Henry (Ala.) Counties,
Blakely. Write today. Rawleigh’s,
Dept. GAD-30-SAB, Memphis, Tenn.,
or see Frank R. Baker, Columbia,
Ala., Route 2. 28-4 t
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is having a chicken supper Friday
night at the home of Mrs. Joe Chap
man. Everyone has an invitation.
Be sure to come out and be with us.
What a supper you will get.
—REPORTER.
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