r OL. LXXI. No. 5
Knsus FIGURES ON
Houston released
county has a total
Hnulution of 11.303, according to
■ i data from the 1940 census,
■ announced Monday by Direc-
HrJ C. Capt of the Bureau of
IV (_\insus, Department of Com
■of this total, 3,984 are whites
7 313 negroes and one of an
■her'rucc. There are eleven for
Bn born.
IVThe population between male
■d female is about equally di
■ded, with 109, more females
■an males. The males number
■597 and the females 5.706. The
population is 8,634.
1,326 children under
■years of age; 4,997 between 5
■id 24 years of age; 4,377 be
■>een 25 and 65 years of age.
■here are 603 over 65 years old.
■here are 5,787 persons twenty
■ie years old and over,
IBThe state of Georgia has a to
■> population of 3,123,723. The
■irai population of the state is
■373,966.
■ There are 2,038,278 whites; 1,-
■84,927 negroes; 518 of other rac
■;: 11,916 foreign born. There are
■d)34,758 males and 1,588,965 fe
■laies. There are 313,122 chil
dren under 5 years of age. There
■re 158,714 people over 65. There
■re 1,772,936 persons twenty-one
of age and over.
11l DEFENSE OFFICE
I 10 BE OPENED MONDAY
■ Plans are underway f r the
■pening of an office next Monday
■t the American Legion Home as
■eadquarters tor the Civilian De
fense Committee of Houston
■^ounty.
■ Classification of Registration
and assignment of citizens
■» committees are being complet
ed this week. County Chmn. S.
Nunn, E. P. Staples, chmn.
■’ublic Relations, and W.V. Bass,
■ecretary, were appointed by the
■[eneral county committee to
■lame the men registrants on
■ommittees.Mrs. John L.Hodges,
Woman’s Division, and
B. L. Norwood Jr., secre
dary, are classifying the women
■•egistrants. All registrants will
notified at an early date of
committees.
■ Those who signed for First
Training are requested to
Mrs. J. L. Hodges, Eby
or W. G. Riley if they
■?an take the course to be given
2-7 at 8 p. m. at the Legion
I !
■state FARM BUREAU I
■ MEETS, MACON. FEB. 5-6
■ The Annual Convention of the
Farm Bureau will be
■held in Macon February 5 and 6.
■”• L. Wingate, president of the
■Tate Bureau, will preside at the
■neelings.
■ Edward A. O’neal, president!
■|f the American Farm Bureau
■federation, who will address the
■invention, will have an impor
tant message for the Georgia
■ tarmers.
I Jhe principal business of the
■ convention will be the election of
■ cihcers and directors.
■ floyd Tabor, a member of the!
■ >oard of Directors from this
■county, has urged the members
IB 0 attend and take part in this
■ ‘wportant meeting. There are
■ nearly 100 members of the Bu-
B eau m Houston county.
I KIWANIS club meets j
B f ,/:? ch D. Cravey, commissioner)
I i lne 6a. State Dept, of Natural j
I g: SoUr . ces » spoke to the Perry I
■ I . n * anis at Tuesday’s lunch
■ ( n ’ Tie ®6ng. Mr. Cravey spoke!
■ ( vT • of conserving |
I nh *T I - a 8 na tural resources, em-]
| the need of conserva-1
I aad soi| fiBh 3nd game ’ F° rests >:
I nroJ.-j j . Nunn, vice-president, I
I ln tbe a bsence of J. P.
I 4her idge, president. ‘
notice
I l^So 8 in be °P en until Feb.
16ity Taxe the return ° f 1942
w - F. Norwood. Clerk. 1
Houston home Journal
I FEB. I DEADLINE FOR
| AUTO USE STAMP TAX
1
•| If you are an automobile own
er and drive your car without a
use tax stamp pasted on it in
some conspicuous spot after mid
night February 1, you’re liable
to be hauled before the federal
authorities charged with a mis
demeanor.
There are two degrees of mis
demeanor involved. If you are
driving your own car without
having paid the use tax. you may
be fined not more than $25, or
you may be sentenced to not
more than 30 days, or both. If
you lend your car to somebody
and he drives it without the use
tax stamp in evidence, you are
liable to all the above and, in ad
dition, he is liable to a fine of
$25, but runs no risk of going to
jail.
The stamps, which cost $2.09
each, may be obtained at any
post office. It carries you thru
to the end of the fiscal year,June
30. On July 1 you must buy
another, costing $5, good for a
full year. This law also applies
to motorcycles,
TIRE RATIONING BOARDS
TO RATION MOTOR VEHICLES
Information received by 8. A.
Nunn, Civilian Defense Chair
man, from T. M. Forbes, State
Tire Rationing Administrator,
indicates that automobiles and
trucks will be rationed according:
to the plan now in use for auto
mobile and truck tires and using
the same machinery.
This means that the rationing
of automobiles and trucks will
come under the jurisdiction of
the local Tire Rationing Board,
S. L. Norwood, S. W. Hickson,
and A. W. Pratt.
In establishing quotas of cars
and trucks to be sold in each
county, it is necessary to deter
mine, first, how many new mo
tor vehicles are going to be re- j
quired to provide essential ser
vices rendered by city, county
and state governments.
To that end a survey is now be
ing made by the State Rationing
Administration through the
County Defense Committees.
This survey is vitally important
to each community or county, be
cause final quotas will be based
on the information supplied by
each such governmental unit.
Presumably, after needs of
governmental units are deter
mined, each such unit will be
permitted to purchase cars for
| physicians, nurses and veterna
jrians employed by them as well
>as such motorized equipment as
jfire trucks, garbage trucks,school
.busses, etc.
INCOME TAX RETURNS
A representative from the In
ternal Revenue Dept, will be in
Perry Feb. 9 & 10 to assist local
citizens in the preparation of
their U. S. Government income
tax returns.
The following Internal Reve
nue offices in Georgia will be
open every day from 8:00 a. m.
to sp. m. from Feb. 2, 1942 to
March 15, 1942, inclusive: At
lanta, Albany, Augusta, Colum
bus, Macon, Rome, Savannah,
and Valdosta.
148,000 Georgians filed returns
last year and 222,000 must do so
this year due to the lowering of
statutory income limitations. It
is estimated that there will be
75,000 new income tax payers in
IGa. this year due to the new
Haws. March 15 is the deadline
Jfor reporting.
I PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES
Basketball News
Tuesday night, Jan, 20, Perry 1
1 defeated Byron 22-18. Wednes-1
!day, Jan. 21, Perry defeated ,
j Cochran 34-10. Friday, Perry!
'handcuffed the Jordan High 1
I school team 28-21 in a thrilling
1 fast game. |
Friday, Jan. 30, Perry will
tackle Chauncey. This will be (
one of the best games of the 1
year. Next Tuesday night, Feb.!
3, Lanier Hi will meet Perry;
(here. This should be one of the,
1 fastest games of the year.
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 1942
FACTS AND FIGURES ON NATION ISSUED
I
I
Although civilians face drastic curtailment of many things for|
the duration of the war, minimum essentials such as food, cloth-j
ing and shelter will be adequate, according to the report to the
Nation just issued by Archibald MacLeish, director of the Office of I
Facts and Figures. The report was prepared at the requestor'
President Roosevelt.
The last two years have yielded record crop and livestock pro
ductions with still greater increases likely for 1942, the report
points out. Except for sugar, vast quantities of which may have
to be diverted to the making of alcohol for war purposes, no ra
tioning of food is likely at this time.
Restriction of less essential civilian production is expected to
divert an estimated 20 billions of productive capacity to war use.
Plants will be converted not only from the manufacture of auto
mobiles to making tanks, but from fountain pens to fuses, from
rat traps to camp cots, from pipe fittings to hand grenades, from
lawn mowers to shrapnel, from women’s lingerie to mosquito nets, j
To make certain that the available raw materials go for the
production of first things—munitions —first, production cuts have
already been ordered for radios, ice boxes, washing machines,lawn
mowers, garden rakes, paper containers, fancy galoshes and juke;
boxes. Construction projects not vital to the war effort have been
limited. The report forecasts more sweeping reductions by the
new War Production Board to bring to an end the “plush days” of
1941 when more articles were produced for civilian consumption
than ever before.
Ample provision has been made for spare parts and replace
ments to extend the life of durable machinery now in use in homes!
and shops. The production of new farm equipment was reduced
to 85 per cent of normal. The quota for replacement parts was
raised to 150 per cent. Since Pearl Harbor, cotton and synthetics
are taking the place of silk for stockings and jute for burlap.
Inflation is always one of the problems of a war period. The
Administration’s determination to prevent inflation is reflected in
a section of the report called “The Home Front”, which includes
| a survey of efforts to date to control prices.
Between July, 1940, and December, 1940, inflationary price
rises levied on the country more than two billion dollars in costs
needlessly added to defense expenditures. During the first World
War, the report recalls, more than 45 per cent of the total cost of
the struggle resulted from inflation.
Living costs have been rising in the United States at a rate of
per cent a month. If the spiral continues unabated, living
costs in March of this year will have increased fifteen per cent
since September, 1939, which means that “the great mass of peo
ple will have forfeited to inflation one day’s wage out of every
seven.”
Because of the absence of specific price control legislation, the
Office of Price Administration thus far has had to rely on infor
mal methods of control. In december, the report discloses, these
informal controls covered 35 per cent of the total value of whole
sale goods. The effectiveness of these limited controls is evidenc
ed by a statistical fact: Since September, 1939, uncontrolled prices
have risen one third more than controlled prices.
In describing the war on the home front, the report sum
marizes other measures taken for our domestic security.
The Office of Civilian Defense has assembled a staff of ex-
I perts on air-raid precautions, sending two missions to England.
It has published 58 pamphlets and handbooks on civilian protec
tion, of which five million copies have been distributed. Where in
May 1941, there were only 1,500 local defense councils, by late De
cember there were more than 6,000 councils and 3,500,000 volun
teers enrolled.
A Civil Air Patrol which will embrace 90,000 certified pilots,
has been set up to take over all non-military missions now being
performed by Army and Navy flyers. This will release them for
combat duty.
We entered this war with a more effective machinery tor deal
ing with enemy aliens and sabotage than we had in the last war.
On the first day of war in 1917, only 63 alien enemies were taken
into custody. More than 1,000 were apprehended by midnight on
December 8, 1941.
Througn the registration of more than 5,000,000 aliens which
was largely completed a year ago, “we know how many aliens
there are among us, who they are, where they are, and what they
are doing,” the report explains. “We realize that 95 per cent of
them are law-abiding and democracy-loving sojourners.”
Emphasizing that sabotage is most effectively met by preven
tative methods, the report tells of setting up protective facilities
in defense industries and public utilities which was organized two
years ago. Most of the explosions and fires that have occurred in
plants making war materials have been the result of industrial ac
cidents. Compared to a similar period in the first world war, thus
far there has been a negligible amount of sabotage.”
Ninety-one government monitoring stations in this country
and our possessions are patrolling the radio spectrum twenty-four
hours daily to track down suspicious communications. Evince July,
1940, more than 2,000 cases of illegal or subversive use of radio
have been investigated. Twenty-three operators have been con
victed and 75 radio circuits linked with Germany have been de
tected.
The final section of the Report discusses “Paying for the
War.” There it is estimated that 13,200,000 persons—the great
est number —will pay income taxes this March. The steady broad
ening of the tax base, the spreading of the cost of arming among
more and more Americans, is shown by the fact that under the
1940 tax act 7,520,000 persons paid taxes and that under the 1939
act 4,000,000 persons paid taxes.
By the end of 1941 more than 2.5 billion dollars of tax antici
pation notes had been purchased by the public. These notes were
issued last August by the Treasury as a cushion against the much
heavier tax payments people will have to make this year. By
January 1 about 2.5 billion dollars’ worth of defense savings bonds
have been purchased.
Total net tax receipts for the year ending last July were 7.6
billion dollars, an increase of nearly 41 percent over the preceding
year. In spite of these growing receipts, the Government has had
to look to borrowing for an ever-increasing proportion of the cost
of war. Our net deficit, which was 3.6 billion dollars in the fiscal
year of 1940, is expected to exceed 12.6 billions by next July.
While the national debt has reached a record level, the average
rate of interest the government is paying for the money it bor
rows has dropped to the lowest level in our history, from 2.566
percent in December, 1940, to 2.409 percent in December, 1941.
During last December spending for war rose to 1.8 billion dol-
I lars, representing 22 percent of the national income, which is“only
| a fraction of wffiat we must do to survive as a free nation.” The
fiscal year of 1943, when we will spend 56 billion dollars, or more
I than one-half of our national income, will find our war effort com
i paring favorably with that of other nations. Britain today is di
verting about one-half of her national income to war, while Ger-
I man’s war effort is consuming about 60 percent of her income. The
higher German rate, however, is made possible by the systematic
| looting of materials and finished goods from the conquered coun-
tries of Europe.
(FARMERS MUST SAVE |
1 BURLAP & PAPER BAGS
Georgia farmers, processors,
ginners and others this week
■were called on by T. R. Breed
dove, chairman of the State ■
! USDA War Board, to conserve |
burlap supplies and thus make a
larger part of the customary im
ports available for military uses. |
Most of the burlap supply J
comes from India, Mr. Breedlove (
pointed out, and about two-thirds :
of the imports are required for (
military uses.
Mr. Breedlove also said seri
ous shortage exists in heavy pa
i per bags. He recommended more
(extensive use of wooden contain- (
lers and cotton or heavy paper (
(bags this year for packing such
(commodities as potatoes, flour,
and fertilizer, though increasing
demands for army tents, uni
forms, and sandbags have placed
heavy burdens on cotton fabric ,
manufacturers.
The War Board chairman urg
led that all users of burlap take
special care of bags, both filled
or empty. Among suggested
means of safeguarding available
supplies, he cited these; Don’t
stack filled bags too high; avoid
(dropping them; use no hooks;
I store them in a dry place, safe
from rats; open bags at the
seams, instead of cutting the
cloth; and wash, dry and store
empty bags in a safe, dry place
' when emptied.
VICTORY BOOK CAMPAIGN
: SPONSORED BY BOOK CLUB
Our soldiers, sailors, and ma
( rines _ want books to read. On
: January 12 all over the United
States a Victory Book campaign
was begun. The purpose of this
1 collection was to provide books
for our defenders while they are
in camps and on the ships, for
their recreation rooms off the
government property, and for li
braries in defense areas.
Miss Louise Rainey has charge
1 of the campaign in Houston coun
ty. She has appointed the fol
lowing committee; Mesdames
Ernest Tharpe, Warren Hodge,
Hollis Kezar, W. K. Pierce, Lin
; wood McCormick, Cecil McCrav
en, M. A. Stubbs, George Col
lins, and Stewart Bryan,
The Wednesday Afternoon
Book club has charge of the col
-1 lection in Perry with the follow
-1 ing committee: Mesdames J. L.
Beavers, J. B. Calhoun, A. P.
Whipple, S. L. Norwood Jr., and
1 Miss Martha Cooper. The col-,
lection in Perry will be made on|
February 10 with a house to
house canvass.
For our soldiers, sailors, and
5 marines give a book that you are
1 now reading and enjoying, the
book that you would really like
to keep for yourself. Don’t give
5 any old book, something that you
would not have in your own li ■
( brary. These boys may be called
on to give their lives to protect
you; so you should give the best
1 that you have to them Keep
’ them reading in their camps and
on their ships and keep them
reading books they like and
1 books that will help them.
They especially like books on
the following subjects: Applied
I psychology, Current events, Mili
tary publications, Crime and the
*|F. B. 1., Police systems and
fingerprinting, English Gram
■ mar, Arithmetic, Algebra, Ge
: ornetry, Trigonometry, Calculus
1 and tables of logarithms, Up-to
date technical books not older
5 than 1935; Accounting, Short
hand, Business and salesman
-1 ship, Lettering and mechanical
(drawing, Photography, Cartoons,
iwell illustrated books of all
I types, books about Music,Sports,
II Novel and play-writing, Poetry,
Geography, travel in the last ten
years, Biography, History, es
; pecially since 1900.
> The boys like fiction books also,
and under this head come adven
■ ture, aviation, historical novels,
, humor, mystery, sports, an d |
, western.
Look through your books and j
! select the best. Be a “Book Bud-]
• dy” to our boys in the service.
. Make our defenders happier by
• giving them something good to
; read. Do your part in this na
: tional Victory Book Campaign.
• Give all you will and get your
neighbors to give also.
ESTABLISHED 1870
R.E.A. MEMBERSHIP
MEETING TO BE FEB. 4
The annual membership meet
ing of the Flint Electric Mem
bership corporation of the Rural
Electric Administration will be
held in Reynolds, Ga. next Wed
nesday, Feb. 4, at two o’clock in
the afternoon. Floyd H. Tabor
of Houston county, chairman of
board of directors and president
of the corporation,urges alljnem
bers to attend.
Walter W, Gray of Perry is
Houston county’s member on the
board of directors. With 1,700
consumers, Houston leads the
eleven counties of the corpora
tion in the consumption of elec
tricity.
The board of directors for 1942
will be elected next Wednesday.
Members who cannot attend
should turn their proxies over to
neghbors who are going to the
meeting or mail them to Mr. Ta
bor or Mr. Gray. This is impor
tant, Mr. Tabor says.
The meeting scheduled for
Jan. 16 was postponed to this
later date, Feb. 4.
GARDEN CLEAN-UP REDUCES
CROP DAMAGE BY INSECTS
A preseason garden clean-up
will help to reduce crop damage
by insects in 1942 and is especial
ly important if there is a short
age of some insecticides, accord
ing to County Agent W. T. Mid
dlebrooks.
U. S. Department of Agricul
ture entomoligists point out that
many kinds of insects live over
winter in truck crop residue left
on the land, in weeds, leaf litter,
and under* boards and trash piled
on the ground. Others take ref
uge in ditches, waste places, and
in and around storage houses,
Mr. Middlebrooks explained.
“It pays to plow under, feed,
or destroy the plant residue, and
remove litter and trash from
garden sites as soon after har
vest as possible, even when there
is no possibility of a shortage of
insecticides. This year garden
sanitation is more important than
ever because of the increased
need for many vegetable crops as
defense food.
"Many commercial and home
gardeners did not plow their land
immediately after harvest this
past season,” the agent says,
“but there may still be time to
reduce insect populations b y
plowing as soon as soil conditions
| permit. Land not subject to ero-
Ision may be plowed before win
| ter weather is over to expose
! many insects and insect eggs to
freezing, and to bury £live those
hibernating in weeds and plant
residue.
“Many insects that pass the
winter as eggs on grasss and
weeds, are unable to survive if
! buried in the soil by plowing.
Tomato hornworm and tomato
fruit worm, which developed
during the later part of the sea
son on crop remnants, are re
duced this way.”
GEORGIA LEADS IN
LAND REFORESTATION
Last year the farmers of Geor
gia again led the nation in the
reforestation of worn out land.
Over 4,700 farmers planted 36,-
000 acres. The extension for
ester and county agents assisted
890 farmers in timber estimating
and around 4,000 followed recom
mendations with respect to prop
er marketing practices. There
were about five million acres of
forest land under organized fire
control in the state and another
five million received some part of
protection.
CARD OF THANKS
For the many expressions of
sympathy extended to me in my
recent bereavement, I am sin
cerely grateful.
Mrs. William B. McKinley.
Tax Receiver’s Notice
Office is now open for receiv
ing 1942 Tax Returns and Appli
cation for Exemption for Home
stead and Personal Property.
You must make application each
year to get exemptions. Office
now located in rear of Perry
Loan and Savings Bank.
E, W. Marshall, T. R.
