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T h.iraday, April 7th. 1938
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Outcome of Farm Act Explained
In Relation to Business
outcome ed the farmers’ ref
'T'v.fi federal marketing con
erpndtm on tobacco
controls for cotton and on
March 12 means that the full re
force of the newly enacted
SicuTtural put Adjustment into operation Act this of
1938 will ^
with respect to these crops,
“*? vason act must henceforth
L thfl , the
reckoned with as a vital factor
t h agricultural outlook, as well
„ e the general
as a major influence in
in ess situation, states the current
hl Se „ Guaranty Survey a
Inthlv of The
3 review of business and fi
conditions in the United
States and abroad, published Mon
day Agricultural Adjustment
The regarded the most
Act of 1938 is as
ambitious experiment in farm relief
ever tried by a democratic nation
and one of the most important pieces
cf economic legislation in the his
tory of the United States,” the Sur
vey continues, •'Except that it em
bodies no provision for processing
taxes, its terms are much more
sweeping than those of the original
AAA, the principal features of
which were declared unconstitu
tional by the Supreme Court Amer
ican agriculture can be brought un
dpr centralised control to an un
precedented degree.
Probable Effects of the Aet
-Any attempt to judge the prob
able effects of the act on the agri
cultural situation or on American
economic life as a whole encounters
many difficulties at the outset.
r far-flng and diverse
Agriculture is'a
combination of separate elements
that respond in very different ways
to a given set of conditions, and the
act itself is a miscellaneous assort
ment of experimental and semi
experimental features that mostly
defy production. Moreover, climatic
conditions play such a vital part in
determining the course of
tural developments over a shorn
period that few positive statements
can be made except with reference
to the long-term outlook.
“However, some general conclu
sions can be draw’n with reasonable
assurance. One is that the cost of
farm relief will be substantially
greater under the new act than it
has been in recent years, It is
probably safe to say that the act will
do nothing to aid American agricul
ture in recovering the foreign mar
kets lost in recent years. Any ef
fect that the law may have will be
in the opposite direction, since the
marketing controls and crop loan
provisions rest on the Idea of pre
war price parities and are entirely
unrelated to existing prices in world
markets. Neither a resticted output
nor a pegged price is well calculated
to recover foreign markets
The Farrq Situation as • Whole
“An examination of the agricul
tural situation as a whole leaves
considerable room for doubt whether
rigid governmental controls are still
required, even as a short term ex
pedient. The acreage expansion of
the World War period was mostly
confined to whe-t and a few other
crops. The increase in wheat acre
age has been more than canceled,
snd the total amount of farm land
has increased since before the war
only half as fast as our own popula
•5«O90«Q#O
to regain the foreign markets, we ac
cepted the surplus theory and pre
ceeded to limit output. As a con
i sequence, cotton production in for
eign countries expanded rapidly;
and this year we plan a sharp re
duction of cotton acreage, despite
the fact that many foreign custo
mers would admittedly prefer to
follow their traditional practice of
using American cotton if a depend
able supply could be had at a com
petitive price.
“In the case of wheat, the diffi
culties were due in a large measure
to a rapid process of mechanization,
whioh increased output and depres
sed prices but at the same time re
duced costs. The oversupply situa
tion spread in varying degrees to
other farm commodities with the
shift of wheat acreage to alterna
tive uses.
The Long-R’nge Outlook
“Crop control is subject to the
same weaknesses as any other form
of economic planning. The forces
determining demand, supply, prices.
and costs, and the conditions result
ing from the operation of these
forces! are beyond tihe power of any
human agency to determine; and no
individual or group can adequately
comprehend the vast and compli
cated network of cause and effect.
Attempts to alter one factor affect
others in unpredictable ways. Arti
ficial price maintenance tends to
stimulate production and restrict
demand. Limitation of output en
courages the use of substitutes or
throws the market into the laps of
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NOTICE!
The State of Georgia has extended the time for making
applications for the Home and household tax exemp
tions from April 1 to May 1. Lets show our appreciation
by making applications now-Don’t wait, you might for
get.
MISS EVA STEPHENSON,
Tax Receiver
Newton, County.
Newborn
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Gabbage, Miss
Mary Evelyn Freeman, of Macon
Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Goolsby ami
daughter. Sara, of Monticello, spent j
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E N.
Freeman.
Misses Miriam Jones and Helen
Porter spent the week-end in At
lanta.
Mr. Doyle Rates, of Atlanta, spent
the week-end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J, R. Estes.
Mrs. Jamie Knox spent Satur
day in Covington.
Miss Katie Kendrick, of Coving
ton, spent Saturday night with hei
parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Butler.
Miss Virginia Stanton, of Porter
dale, spent Friday night with her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Stanton.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Porter, and
Mrs. G. A. Jones spent Sunday in
Atlanta.
Mr. Carlton Harwell has return
ed home after staying in Florida for
several months.
The Ladies’ Bible class met with
J. L. Epps at the home of Miss Mel
lie Pitts Monday afternoon.
Mr, C. A. Newton, of Shady Dale,
spent Sunday with friends here.
The Woman's Missionary Society
will hold its regular monthly meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Charlie
Robertson, president, Tuesday af
ternoon, April fifth.
Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Wade, of
Atlanta, spent tthe week-end with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Gay.
The Woman’s Missionary Society
held their spring mission study cla; s
two afternoons the week of March
twenty-fourth and two March
thirty-first, at the home of Mrs, H
G. Smith, mission study chairman,
The book studied was “Rebuilding
Rural America,’”
tion. The liquidation of farm prop
erty necessitated by the Inflation
and speculation of the war and
early post-war years has been largely
completed or averted by govern
mental loans at low rates of inter
ert.
“As a result of these and other
factors, the position of agriculture
has improved The Department of
Agriculture estimates that farm in
come in 1937 was the largest since
1929. despite the sharp drop in farm
prices in the latter part of the
year. Under such conditions, it is
at least questionable W’hether dras
tic crop limitation, accompanied by
benefit payments, is any longer re
quired to prevent the production of
a series of unmanageable surpluses
of farm products and a serious and
lasting agricultural depression.
Surpluses Due to Special Factors
“In so far as agriculture in recent
years has been faced wtih the threat
of unsalable or price-depressing sur
pluses, the situation has been due
to a number of special factors. Dur
ing the decade following the World
War, the United States insisted on
receiving payment of its loans
abroad but refused to accept the im
Port surplus that constituted the
only means by which the payment
could be made. The natural effect
of this policy—a stagnation of ex
port trade—was averted by the
making of new loans abroad.
“When the depression put an end
to the new loans, export trade de
clined sharply; and large quantities
of cotton, wheat, and other farm
markets products that abroad had previously became surplus found j
products. Then, instead of seeking
AIiiioii Nevis
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dobbs spent
Wednesday in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Forbes, of
Atlanta, were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Grady Crowell, Sunday.
Mr. Thomas Wallace visited rel
atives in Atlanta this week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pickett, of At
lanta, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Dobbs, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Hammond
and son, of Porterdale, were the
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.
P. Hammond.
Misses hollie and Mildred Neely
visited friends in Eatonton, Sunday.
Mr. Thomas Wallace, Billy Smith
and Miss Elizabeth Berry motored
to Athens, Sunday.
Miss Hazel Dobbs spent Saturday
in Atlanta.
Miss Leila Mae Ray was the
week-end guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. E Ray.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Owens and
children, of Atlanta, visited Mr. ana
Mrs. Will Owens, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Dobbs, Miss
Virginia Hammond, Mrs. M. D -
competitors. Restriction of the out
put of one commodity results in an
increased supply of others. Demand
increases unexpectedly, and drought
or other climatic conditions sudden
ly upset the most carefully laid
plans. In these and innumerable
other ways, man falls short in his
efforts to supplant natural forces in
determining the direction and scope
of economic activity. Experience
has proved that W’hile schemes in
volving payments for non-produc
tion may be defended as means oi
temporary relief to a depressed
group passing through a period of
necessary but painful readjustment,
in the long run they are unsound
and cannot be justified as a per
manent feature of any nation’s eco
nomic system.
THE COVINGTon NEWS
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Reveal Several Interesting Angles
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rum should govern beach wear,
What if they try to be liberal and
let slip by some daring design
which would give the life guards
stiff necks and perhaps result in
some unfortunate drowning? Or
they might, in reactionary mood,
go to such lengths of modesty in
their decrees that the beaches
would be deserted and more than
one resort owner go bankrupt as a
result!
Bronze Suite Shown!
I No longer is it simply a manner
of donning something designed to
I adequately cover a person and yet
stand up under water treatment,
! Today a beach outfit is almost a
wardrobe in itself. A bathing suit
1 is only incidental— although still
! rather necessary—to a smart sum
mer resort ensemble. The modern
! maid must have slacks, robe, sun
j bonnet, swim cap, beach sandals, !
j shade bag for and accessories, design matching sun blanket the rest in |
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j of the outfit and various other
items. j
One of the smart new numbers
is, appropriately enough, made
| from a Probably material the called idea ‘ behind blister i
crepe”.
A hundred years after the inven
tlon of the steel plow and the grain
harvester finds 1,2500,000 farm trac
tors in use, electric power available
By JEAN ALLEN
International Illustrated News Writer
NEW YORK—It's a matter of
form, in more ways than one, just
what milady should wear on the
beach, and, since the season is
about to start, it seems fitting
that this matter should be given
some consideration.
There are several angles to be
considered Especially if said
angles belong to a comely blonde.
What I had in mind, though, be
fore allowing the fancy to drift on
,he subject, was the problem con
fronting those whose duty it is to
rule just what goes and how much
show’s.
Silk worms aren’t going to have
to work overtime this year, judg
Ing by previews of beach styles.
Not that the designs of last season
,axed the imagination unduly; but
some of the more extreme new
models are so streamlined they
practically float away—or would if
a young lady wore them into the
water
It seems hardly fair that any one
committee should be burdened with |
deciding what standards of deco
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Hammond, Mrs, C P. Hammond!
an( j ^ Nm , ]v Hammond formed a
party on a fishing trip to
the big pond, Tuesday.
Friends of Mrs. Emmett Camp
bell regret to learn of her illness
and wish her a speedy recovery.
Miss Daisy Belle Dobbs, of Athens,
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr
and Mrs. R. W Dobbs.
Mrs. Edgar Wallace and Mrs. O
P. Dobbs visited Mrs. S. W. Whit
aker. in Conyers. Wednesday.
Little Miss Mary Alice Parker was
the guest of her grandmother. Mrs
R. A. Parker, this week.
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Mrs. G. Benton was in Atlanta I
last Thursday.
Mrs. L. H. Ocok attended the fun- |
eral of Mr. Marvin Middlebrookx
in East Point, last Monday.
Miss Kathryn Corley spent Sat
urday night and Sunday in Coving
ton, as the guest of Miss Marjorie
Wright.
Airs. M. E. Jackson and Miss Bra
bara Jackson, of Hayston, spen
Thursday with Mrs. C. C. Epps.
Mrs. T. C. Parker, Mrs. L. O.
Piper, Mrs. Fred Walton. Misse.
Verdell Dobbs and Mae Greer at
tended the Rural-Urban conference
in Atlanta, last Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Benton and
Miss Anne Benton visited relatives
in Montioello, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pennington
and little daughter, Anne, were the
guests of Mrs. B. L. Johnson, in Cov
ington, Sunday.
Mrs. B. J. Anderson, Mrs. J. H.
Anderson, Mrs. S. J. Belcher, and
Mrs. George Allen spent last Wed
nesday in Atlanta.
Mrs. Sherrod Campbell, Jr., and
little son, Sherrod III, of Mansfield,
were the guests of Mrs. Campbell s
mother, Mrs. W. G. Benton, last
Wednesday.
Miss Mary France Robertson
spent the week-end with her paren’s.
at Pine Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Skinner and
son, James, of Covington, were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Epps,
Sunday afternoon.
the name is (hat after the first
couple sunbaths of the season, it
will be impossible to tell whether
it's blister crepe or blistered epi
dermis.
That isn’t the only new material
on the market, however. Swim
suits are being shown which have
been fabricated from glass, rubber,
newsprint and even bronze! I
haven't seen any of these bronze
creations, but it strikes one that it
might be a bit awkward to arrive
at the beach and find that a most
necessary rivet missing. . .
was
There seems to be only one
thing the stylists have overlooked
in creating their fashions for the
forthcoming beach season There
are suits for lounging, sports wear
tea on the beach, sunbathing and
promenading. But apparently they
have neglected to design any for
swimming. Certainly there must
be one or two girls left who are
old-fashioned enough to want to
actually go in the water. For
these apparently there is no hope
unless they resort to the old swim
ming hole and go their sisters one
better by adopting a style a little
more streamlined than ever!
on 1,000,000 farms, 85,000.000
of land in organized drainage
tricts 19,000.000 acres are under
gation in the West, and
acres under irrigation in the East.
PAGE NINE
Agricultural
News of Interest
Final Count of Votes in the
Recent Farm Poll
Announced.
The official and final Georgia
vote on the proposal to establish
marketing quotas for cotton and
flue-cured claimed by tobacco Secretary has Agriculture been pro- j
of
Henry A. Wallace. In the cotton!
referendum, 121,272 Georgia farm-!
ers voted for quotas and 22,706 voted :
against. Of the total of approx- J
imately 200,000 Georgia farmers j
eligible to vote on cotton quotas.
143,978 actually voted and 84.2 per
cent of those who voted favored the
quotas.
Some Improvement in the prices of
the better grades of cattle may take
place during the late summer and
fall months, according to C. G. Gar
ner, marketing specialist for the
your Sherwin Williams dealer says
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Sen.’ice, but this improvement may
not be marked unless there is con
siderable upturn in industrial ac
tivity and employment. Garner said
the number of oattle on farms Jan
uary 1, 1C38, was the smallest num
ber sinoe the peak reached in 1934.
He advised that some increase in
cattle numbers Is likely to occur in
1938 due to the large supply of fesd
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