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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
WHAT CONGRESS DID
Evidently Congress, which recent
ly adjourned, enacted laws that were
very satisfactory to President Roose
velt. Just before adjournment he
wrote to both the President of the
Senate, Hon. John N. Garner, and
the Speaker of the House, Hon. W.
B. Bankhead, as follows:
“In these closing hours of the
1938 session of the seventy-fifth
Congress I want to extend through
you to the members of the House of
Representatives of the United States
my sincere good wishes.
“I am confident that the country
joins with me in the belief that this
session of the Congress has resulted
in much constructive legislation for
the benefit of the people. Definite
ly, we are making progress in meet
ing the many new problems which
confront us.
“With appreciation of all that you
have done,
“Faithfully yours,
“FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT."
Also in his radio address to the
people on the 24th of June, he said,
“The congress, striving to carry out
the platform on which most of them
were elected, achieved more for the
future good of the country than any
congress between the end of the
World War and the spring of 1933."
Although he didn’t get all the
legislation he wanted, Mr. Roosevelt
had reason to send his letter of ap
preciation to the first Congress of
his second term.
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A tremendous effort was made by
President Roosevelt’s open enemies
and quasi friends during the session
of Congress to destroy his power
and influence. Some major meas
ures were defeated. Some members
of Congress were conscientious in
opposing their passage, but it is said
by writers who were on the ground
in Washington that others were
against them to discredit the Presi
dent. In the defeat of these meas
ures, he seemed to have met a catas
trophe which terminated his leader
ship of his party and his people.
However, instead of destroying the
President, these defeats by Con-
Congress strengthened him with the
electorate. Several times soon after
Congress seemed to have given him
a rebuff, out in the States where
elections were held the voters en
dorsed and sustained him. This not
only caused a cessation of aggres
sive and seemingly uncompromising
opposition to him in Congress, but
recently Congress has co-operated
with him and passed measures spon
sored by him by large majorities.
In other words, the President
came back into power and lead
ership in the National Capitol. The
Wage-Hour bill was brought out of
committee, put on its passage in the
House and Senate, both bodies giv
ing it substantial majorities. On this
bill Congress reversed its former
vote. Reorganization passed by the
Senate, but defeated by the House by
196 to 204, was not brought up again.
If it had been, there is is little doubt
about its adoption with some amend
ments by a large majority in both
Houses. Other important and even
vital measures passed Congress by
big majorities, chief of which was
the “Relief Act” of $3,753,000,000,
to aid the unemployment situation.
The vital issue in this was whether
Congress would tie the President’s
hands by directing how and where
the money should be spent, or to
leave this question with the Presi
dent, as other Congresses had pre
viously done. The President won.
He has a free hand, and not a tied
one in spending. This was a great
victory for him.
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Another bill of importance passed
by Congress was the revised reve
nue £ct. One provision was not
satisfactory to the President, and he
refused to approve the bill because
of this one provision, but let it be
come a law without signing. Other
wise, the new tax act is satisfactory
to him. Congress, in accordance with
the recommendations of the Presi
dent, provided $375,000,000 for
flood control; appropriated money
for a big increase in the naval
strength of these United States;
co-ordinated all government regu
lation of civil aviation in one
agency; ordered broad investigation
of monopolies and trusts; authorized
twenty per cent increase in all de
fense forces, and established a broad
system of crop control and insur
mjce, This was one of the major
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measures passed by Congress. No
Congress that ever assembled could
have given greater or more careful
consideration to agricultural prob
lems than the one that adjourned
only a few days ago.
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The President signed an appro
priation act of $1,089,719,344, for
needs of agriculture. Of this
amount, $760,000,000 will be paid
farmers in benefit funds for co-op
erating with the government in next
year’s crop control program. Con
gress also provided more than three
hundred millions for rural relief and
removal of surplus farm commodi
ties. All these appropriations are
important to agriculture. In addi
tion to these, Congress appropriated
two hundred and twelve millions of
dollars for parity payments on cot
ton, corn, wheat, rice and tobacco
on this year’s crops. What this
means to thfc cotton growers, is that
in addition 'to the money the govern
ment will pay them for soil conser
vation and crop control, they will re
ceive about one and five-eights to
three-fourths of a cent per pound on
each pound of cotton produced in
1938. This is a subsidy, paid to
bring the price of cotton up to about
seventy-five per cent of the parity
price. This Congress considers a
“fair return” is about seventy-five
per cent of parity prices. For ex
ample, in May the farm price of cot
ton averaged 8.4 cents a pound. A
“fair” or “parity” price would have
been 16.1 cents, economists say. A
75 per cent “fair” price would have
been 12.07 cents.
The one who deserves much, if
not most, of the credit for this sub
sidy or parity price appropriation to
the cotton growers is Hon. R. B.
Russell, Junior Senator from Geor
gia. Some farmers were disappoint
ed with his vote against the agricul
tural adjustment bill when it came
up for passage in the Senate. Some
provision of it was not satisfactory
to him, and he voted “No” on the
passage of the whole measure.
However, his activity in securing
passage of this appropriation that
helps bring cotton more nearly its
parity price has greatly pleased the
cotton farmers, and they are very
loud in their prafse of Senator Rus
sell’s efforts. Senator George sup
ported both the agricultural bill and
the subsidy appropriation, and was
active for relief for agriculture at
all times.
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Concerning the session just ad
journed, Senator George said:
“The three sessions of the Con
gress viewed in their broader aspect
dealt constructively and made note
worthy progress in handling several
important problems.
“The farm program, while not
meeting all objectives, offers a
foundation for a greatly improved
agricultural industry.
“The Revenue Act approaches, in
part, a solution of many of our in
come tax problems, and in a way
that should prove definitely helpful
in future legislation from year to
year.”
Senator Russell observes:
“The session was marked by some
achievements that will, I hope and
think, prove beneficial to all classes.
“The success of the wage-hour act
will depend in part upon its impar
tial administration, and the Revenue
Act should operate to lessen the
burdens of taxation.
“I am, of course, highly gratified
that the relief legislation carries
benefits for the farmers, and am de
lighted that funds were provided to
reimburse the farmers for taxes
they paid under the Bankhead Cot
ton and Kerr Tobacco Acts.”
A member of the House from
Georgia who was always loyal in his
support of the President, was the
Hon. B. Frank Whelchel, Congress
man from the ninth district. He
was kept away from the Captitol
part of the time on account of in
juries received in an auto accident.
He said:
“Yes, sir, I kept my eye glued on
the Record during my bed-ridden
days in the hospital, and I found it
an entertaining, instructive and help
ful journal,” says Whelchel. “The
experience convinced me that the old
judge who rated the Congressional
Record as tops in the matter of in
formation, knew what he was saying.
I learned lota of things I never knew
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Governor's Race
Gets Spotlight
In State Politics
Two candidates for governor fired
their first campaign broadsides Sat
urday and thus grabbed the spot
light from the senate race.
John J. Mangham opened his gub
ernatorial campaign Saturday night
by proposing to substitute a state
store system for Georgia’s present
“disappointing” liquor law, which he
charged was “fathered” by Governor
Rivers.
He said the present plan of selling
liquor from state-licensed stores,
privately operated, “has been disap
pointing even to those who advocat
ed it.” They cannot hope to achieve
much, if any, in excess of $3,000,-
000 annually.”
The Washington state store plan,
which Mangham said he advocated,
would yield Georgia “$3,000,000 or
more a year.”
Other items in his platform in
cluded “the systematic elimination
of waste and extravagance in the
highway department and removal of
all state forces from highways,
leaving the building of public roads
to free labor; maintenance of the
state highways by the counties;
abolishing all highway patrol divis
ions except Atlanta headquarters,”
and “no new taxes levied unless a
like amount is abolished.”
Robert F. Wood, of Athens, a
candidate for Governor declared Sat
urday “my platform can be sum
marized as unalterable opposition to
Roosevelt and Rivers. Both are
complete flops.”
“Roosevelt’s policies in the last
five years, almost without excep
tion,” he told a political rally in Mc-
Donough, “have been ruinous to the
United States.”
At the all-day singing in (Hum
ming, Sunday, Governor Rivers took
the baton to lead singing of the
hymn, “Let the Lower Lights Be
Burning.” He termed this his fa
vorite hymn as a boy.
Later, Hugh Howell, candidate
for governor, led in the singing of
“Amazing Grace,” and in mid-after
noon former Governor Eugene Tal
madge appeared on the platform to
lead for another oldtime hymn.
Interest may be expected to rise
in the senatorial campaign around
July 4, when Senator Walter F.
George opens his campaign for re
election at a home-coming celebra
tion in his home city of Vienna, and
Lawrence S. Camp, campaigning on a
“100 per cent Roosevelt” basis, de
livers speeches at Dublin, Cuthbert
and Adel in a high speed Independ
ence Day schedule.
FIRST COTTON BLOSSOMS
Cotton blossoms are a common
sight now in most fields, but the first
to reach The Herald office came on
the 22nd from the. crop of A. C.
Park. Thad Mauldin brought one
on the 23rd; W. H. Deavors, the
25th; and J. R. Worley, the 27th.
or suspected.
“And I satisfied myself that the
boys on Capitol Hill were doing their
utmost to advance the interests of
the country. You’ll read that ‘Con
gress did'nothing,’ but I am telling
you that isn’t true. Congress did a
good job with the lights before it.”
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Senator Barkley, Democratic lead
er of the Senate, pointing to what
he said was beneficial legislation for
the farmers, labor, business and the
common man in general, said he had
no patience with those who harped
on the increase in the national debt.
He said every bit of this increase
had gone into public benefits that
have enriched the whole country.
“Hoover (former President Hoo
ver) increased the debt from 16 bil
lions to 23 billions in four years,
and did not leave a trace of benefits
to any community in America,”
Barkley charged.
“The net increase in national debt
can be paid today with one-fourth of
the net increase in the income of
the American people in the year
1937,” he added.
The net increase in the nation’s
debt during this administration had
been only five billion dollars, not the
15 billion dollars cited by Roosevelt
opponents. Ten of the fifteen mil
lions increase in the public debt will
be repaid to the government, as this
amount was loans. ,
Prominent Young Woman
Answers Last Summons
At an early evening hour Wednes
day, June 22, the Death Angel car
ried from our midst to her eternal
home the soul of one of Jefferson’s
most popular and beloved young
matrons, Mis. Alva Appeby Moore,
wife of Richard Dudley Moore of
the business firm of Moore & Elling
ton.
Mrs. Moore*was born in Commerce
April 10, 1893, a daughter of Mrs.
Mary Williamson Appleby and the
late Alvin C. Appleby. When she
was five years of age the family
moved to Jefferson, where the re
maining years of her life were pass
ed. She was a graduate of Martin
Institute and of Shorter College. At
the age of ten she united with the
Jefferson Baptist church, of which
she was a loyal, devoted member.
In November, 1919, she was mar
ried to Richard Dudley Moore, Jr.,
a union that was marked by a beau
tiful love and faithful devotion.
In the early part of the year, Mrs.
Moore suffered a collapse in health,
and, although she was given the best
of medical service, from the very
beginning, her family and friends
feared the worst. With a cheerful
hopefulness and an unselfish desire
to shield her loved ones from grief,
she was bright and happy, and
throughout the long weeks of ex
treme suffering, was always thought
ful of their comfort.
In the business world, Mrs. Moore
had established herself as a person
loyal to duty, and honest and cour
teous in her dealings with the public.
For several years she filled an im
portant position in the First Nation
al Bank, and was always kind and
courteous, and was never too busy
or too tired to render a sei'vice to
the patrons of this institution.
Asa follower of the Lowly Na
zarene and a worker in her church,
she was noted for her Christian at
titude, and was in the front ranks
where duty called and where her
services were needed. As she travel
ed down the pathway of life with her
sunny disposition, she benefitted
those she met, always aspiring to a
better knowledge of her Lord and
Master. She was a constant worker
in all religious activities, and as a
tribute to her faithfulness, the mem
bers of her missionary circle placed
with loving hands, but with grief
stricken hearts, the beautiful flow
ers that surrounded her casket, and
they also served as an honorary es
cort at her burial service.
While she was devoted to church
work and filled an important part in
the business world, it was in her
more intimate life—that of her hus
band, her mother, her home and her
friends that she found the greatest
cheer, comfort and happiness, and
she never failed to express a wish to
share with others the good things
which came to her.
Funeral services for Mrs. Moore
were held in the Baptist church at 5
p. m. Thursday, conducted by Rev.
R. M. Rigdon and Rev. A. B. Elizer.
The pall bearers were M. M. Bryan,
W. T. Bryan, C. T. Storey, Jr., Jim
mie Tompkins, J. F. Eckles and 11.
W. Davis.
Many floral tributes sent by lov
ing friends covered her last resting
place. These were a silent testi
mony to her popularity and the es
teem of her many friends.
Surviving the deceased are her
husband, R. D. Moore; mother, Mrs.
A. C. Appleby; and eight brothers
and sisters, H. M. Appleby of Win
der, Geo. D. Appleby of Jefferson,
Oscar and Hugh Appleby of Florida,
Mrs. S. J. Nix and Mrs. Ben Steele
of Sanford, Fla., Mrs. H. E. Taylor
of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., and Mrs.
Fred Evans of Atlanta.
The out-of-town friends and rela
tives here for the funeral service
were Dr. and Mrs. Thurman Sparks,
Columbia, S. C., Miss Blanche Ap
pleby of Atlanta, Mrs. H. P. Camp,
Mrs. C. T. Bacon and Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie McCurdy of Maycville, Mrs.
Stoy Harris, Miss Alma Thurmond,
Mrs. Bob Nix, Mrs. Dillard Nix, Dr.
and Mrs. J. H. Campbell, Mrs. Col
lins, Mrs. Castellow of Commerce,
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ellington and
daughter of Oxford, Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmie Tompkins of Sandersville,
Mrs. Gussie Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Appleby, Misses Margaret and
Mary Jane Appleby of Winder, Mrs.
E. L. Williamson, Mrs. Luther T.
Roberts, Mrs. Comer Weaver, Mrs.
Ina Barber, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ev
ans, Miss Evelyn and Fred Evans,
Jr., of Atlanta, Mrs. H. E. Taylor of
DeFuniak Springs, Fla., Miss Allea
Betts of Athens.
Thursday, June 30, 1938.
10 PER CENT HIKE
IN GEORGIA AGE
PENSIONS ASSURED
An increase of 10 per cent in
monthly allotments to Georgia coun
ties for payment of old-age pensions,
aid to the blind and care of depend
ent children will be effective July 1,
State Welfare Director Lamar Mur
daugh announced Saturday.
In Washington to confer with
federal officials, he declared that
the bigger funds will be made pos
sible by an allocation of $717,680 to
Georgia by the Social Security Board
for July, August and September.
The result, he said, should be a 10
per cent increase in the number of
persons receiving public assistance
checks. Counties are required to
provide 10 per cent of the total
amount of pensions paid to their
residents and must be able to match
state funds in order to share in the
increase.
The Civilian Conservation Corps,
Mr. Murdaugh announced, has call
ed on the State Welfare Department
for 1,806 new enrollees to be taken
into CCC camps early next month.
About 8,000 Georgians are now en
rolled, each sending $25 a month to
his family to help the general relief
program.
The Social Security Board allo
cation, he asserted, will cover the
Federal Government’s 50 per cent
share of public assistance payments
for the three months. Of the total,
$567,000 will go into old-age pen
sions; $22,680 to the blind; and
$128,000 to dependent children.
The director reported that June
payments have been the largest of
the twelve months the Georgia so
cial security program has operated,
$378,783 going to 42,876 persons.
Payments were distributed thus;
$280,654 to 30,857 aged persons;
$11,955 to 1,057 blind persons; and
$86,174 to 10,962 dependent chil
dren.
A BRIDGE TO BE
BUILT ACROSS
TALLULAH GORGE
•
At an early date the State High
way Board will let a contract to
build a bridge at Tallulah Falls
across the Tallulah Gorge. The
bridge will stand someone hundred
and seventy-five feet above the river
bed, one hundred feet downstream
from the dam, with a roadway-twen
ty-five feet wide, a four foot side
walk for depestrians on each side, a
total width of thirty-two feet in the
clear, and about thirty-five feet
above the level of the present road
way, atop the dam. This will give a
magnificent view of the Tallulah
Gorge. The massive piers of con
crete rising from the sides of the
gorge, will have a center span of
two hundred and twenty-two feet,
the side spans one hundred and
forty-two and eight tenths feet, from
pier to abutment. The total length
of the bridge will be five hundred
and five and four tenths feet.
14 MAGNATES VOW
TO AID ROOSEVELT
Washington.—A group of “big
business” leaders, following an un
heralded, secret conference with
New Deal spokesmen Friday threw
full support behind President Roose
velt’s drive to lift the nation back
to prosperity.
Fourteen of the nation’s leading
business moguls pledged whole
hearted co-operation with the admin
istration in its drive to stimulate
business and increase employment.
JEFFERSON U. D. C.’S TO BE
ENTERTAINED BY ATLANTA
CHAPTER
The Jefferson Chapter of U. D.
C’s. has been extended an invitation
by the Camp Tige Anderson Chapter
of Atlanta to be in that city on
Saturday afternoon, July 23rd, at
which time they will be royally en
tertained by this large group of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
there.
The Jefferson Chapter has for a
number of years been a standard
Chapter, and is outstanding among
the U. D. C. groups in Georgia and
elsewhere, and that they have been
thus honored by the Atlanta Chap
ter, which is the largest in the en
tire organization, is most gratifying.
M. M. Bryan is in Chicago this
week.
Vol. 62. No. 48.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
We would like to call to the at
tention of our people again that
Wednesdays and Fridays are can
ning days at the plant in Jefferson.
The canning plant at Commerce is
open on Tuesdays and' Thursdays.
This gives our people a place to can
their produce everyday in the week
except Mondays and Saturdays. We
would suggest that those who have
produce to can to always keep these
days in mind, in order that they
may not be disappointed when they
bring their produce to either of the
plants. Both of these plants are
able to take care of 1500 to 2000
quarts of produce per day.
We would be glad to keep the
plant open at Jefferson five days out
of the week, if our people will raise
sufficient produce to use it. It costs
approximately $5.00 per day to op
erate the plant. This includes su
pervision, labor, and fuel. We must
have at least four to five hundred
cans before we can operate the plant
economically. Let me again state
that the plant is open on Wednes
days and Fridays here and that the
Commerce plant is open on Tues
days and Thursdays.
Our Supervisors are checking per
formance in each militia district in
the county. We are anxious that
our farmers co-operate and assist
the Supervisors in every way possi
ble and see that every field is meas
ured that is being cultivated on
their farms. This is the most im
portant point. It seems that the
farm program in the future will be
based upon the amount of cultivati
ble land on each farm.
We understand that a number of
our farmers have been unable to get
their grain harvested. If this is the
case, we would appreciate those who
have not had their grain harvested
notifying our office in order that we
may be of assistance in securing the
necessary equipment with which to
harvest this grain.
We notice that the boll weevils,
are beginning to cause damage orx
our farm. This being the case, we
would sunggest that our farmers be
gin to use some method of conntroll
ing this pest. Each farmer knows
what he has done in the past to con
trol boll weevils and the most ef
fective remedy that he has found
should be the one to use at this time.
We are dusting on our own farm.
We understand that other farmers
are mopping their cotton with a
mixture of syrup, arsenate, and
water. Either of these have their
merit and can be used to a good ad
vantage. •
J. W. Jackson, County Agt..
Georgia Veterans Leave For
Gettysburg
About sixty-five Georgia veterans
left Tuesday for the battlefield at
Gettysburg and their joint reunion
with the veterans of the Federal
army.
Each of the veterans was accom
panied by an attendant, or aide.
And, as one grizzled warrior of the
sixties said, “I was just a rear-rank
private in ’64, but I’m going to Get
tysburg like a general.”
Most of the veterans are expect
ing a big time at the double encamp
ment, but a few were predicting dire
results when the boys in gray and
the boys in blue begin swapping
tales at the reunion. However,
they were all agreed that there
would be little trouble if the “Yan
kees don’t try to claim they whipped'
us.”
For the past week attendants at
the Soldiers’ Home in Atlanta have
been kept busy patching uniforms
that haven’t been worn since the last
reunion and the lucky three from
the home who are to make the trip
are as excited over the prospect as
a trio of school children headed for
a football game.
The entire army of southerners
and their attendants are being trans
ported to the site of the Gettysburg
battle at federal expense. They wiH
be returned heme at the end of the
week.
The next total eclipse of the sun,
visible in the United States, will oc
cur on July 9, 1945, and the path of
the total eclipse will cut across Ida
ho, Montana, and North Dakota.
This phenomenon will take place at*
or near, sunrise. . _ .