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“State every for Thursday of the Dade .’ Simra If You For Pull Dade Can't Out. — Pull
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County
M). 12. VOL. XLYIIi.
WalterS. Brown
Offers Advise
SA YS FARMERS OUGHT TO
UNDERSTAND THE OTHER
PHASES OF THE ACT.
In addition to being inter¬
ested in the cotton and to¬
bacco provisions of the new
farm program, Georgia farm¬
ers ought to understand some
uf the other phases oi the act,
Director Walter S. Brown, of
the Georgia Agricultural Ex¬
tension Service, declared this
week.
‘•The 1938 program is being
built upon the experience
which led to the enactment of
the original Agricultural Ad
justment Act,” the director
pointed out, “and to this has
been added the experience that |
has been gained since then in
administering national farm
programs.”
In view of the favorable vote
on March 12 for marketing
quotas for cotton and tobacco,
Director Brown said farmers
should consider six main
points in the program. He ad¬
vised that this is the easiest
way for farmers to understand
the basic provisions of the act.
The six points are:
1. Continuance of the AAA
Soil Conservation Program
and the establishment of its
objectives as a part of a per¬
manent farm policy represent
a national investment in soil
fertility and insurance lor the
nation of future abundance of
food and filter.
2. National acreage allot-;
meats are established at levels
designed to give production
ample for domestic consump¬
tion, exports, and reserve sup¬
plies, and payments are made
to encourage farmers to pro¬
duce up to these national al¬
lotments.
3. Loan provisions in the
law encourage systematic
storage of surpluses of big
crop years for use in years
of shortage. The government
is authorized to advance mon¬
ey as loans to enable farmers
to hold surpluses until needed.
4. Marketing quol as hack¬
ed by penalties on sales in ex¬
cess of the quotas are to lie
used to secure general partici¬
pation of farmers in a progr .im
designed to hold surplus sup
plies off the market until they
are needed. Marketing quotas
for cotton and flu-cured to¬
bacco were approved in refer¬
enda March 12.
5. Release of corn supplies
from storage under marketing
quotas i* provided to meet any
shortage that develops either
on the farm, in the county or
in the case of national need.
The corn belt, of course, is as
interested in this provision as
Georgia is in cotton and to¬
bacco features.
6. Crop insurance for wheat,
starting with the 1939 crop,
will give the wheat producers
and the bread supplies of the
Nation better protection a-
gainst drought. Gradual ac¬
cumulations of wheat paid in
by farmers as insurance prem ¬
iums will contribute a major
Part of the Ever Normal Gra-
n ary supplies for wheat. This
Provision, of course, is of par¬
ticular interest to commercial
"heat farmers but all con¬
sumers are directly benefited
b> the insurance that we shall
Maintain an ample supply of
* beat at all times.
l nele George Nisbet, of Ris-
Auesday, bawn, was in Trenton
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1938
Officials Draft
Crop Controls
FEDER AL CONTROL OF THE
SALES WILL BE STARTED
NEXT AUGUST.
Atlanta, (GPS)—Juhiliant ov¬
er results of last week’s refer¬
enda among farmers, Agricul-
I ure Department officials in
Washington are preparing to
put marketing control provis¬
ions of the new farm law into
operation to limit sales of three
1938 crops, it was pointed out
in Atlanta.
Authority to impose market¬
ing quotas on all growers of
cotton and flu-cured and dark
types of tobacco was granted
by top-heavy majorities of
farmers who voted in elections
conducted under terms of the
act. Georgia farmers endorsed
the marketing quota systems
for both cotton and flu-cured
tobacco.
Federal control of sales will
start when the 1938 crops start
to market in August. Farmers
marketing in excess of their
federally-allotted shares of
the national quotas will be
subject to heavy penalty taxes.
Ga. Tag Sales
Are Under ’38
Atlanta, (CNS)—282,455 auto j
tags had been issued through |
March 15, deadline for their
purchase without penally,
Marcus Mel horter, director of
the State Motor Vehicle Divis¬
ion, reported. This was 82,513
fewer than had been issued by
March 15, 1937. Revenue pro¬
duced to March 15, 1938, was
$802,894.54.
Just A Friend
Give me a friend that is kind
and true,
One that will help you and
see you through;
One that will work with you
to the end—
Let me ask you, he my friend.
The greatest pleasure of life
today
Is to see a person walk up
and say:
“Here is my hand that I will
lend,
If only you will be my friend.”
Yes, I will help you if I can,
And not drift apart like
shift ing sand;
Here is my band that we may
win
And let me be, Just a Friend.
—By ASA REEVES.
Welfare Board Plans
Five-Million Program
Atlanta, (GPS)—The State
Board of Public Welfare on
April 1 will launch a building
program for Georgia’s elee-
mosvnarv institutions, the first
in several decades, it was an¬
nounced by Lamar Murdaugh,
director of the welfare depart-
men t.
The board has authorized an
application to the Public Works
Administration for funds to be
used in connection with up¬
wards of $1,500,000 in slate
monies, Director Murdaugh 1
said. The director estimated
that the entire program, which
will provide new buildings at
the institutions, would cost
$ 5 , 000 , 000 .
Dade County Lions Club To
Sponsor Move to Establish
State Park in Sittons Gulch
Dade May Get
Convict Camp
PROPOSED CAMP W OULD BE
LOCATED ON T O P OF
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.
Mr. Conroy Pickering, of
Chalsworth, Ga., was here
Tuesday afternoon in the in¬
terest of establishing a work
eamp on top of Lookout Moun
tain. The purpose of the camp
is to house convicts to be work¬
ed on the LaFayotte-Trenton
road, beginning at the Dade
County line and leading to
Trenton.
Work to the extent of locat¬
ing the eamp was put under
way last week by Ordinary J.
M. Carroll.
Dade County, having no
provisions for a work eamp,
has heretofore sent her pris-
ioners to Walker or an adjoin¬
ing county, and the purpose
of the location of the camp is
to use the slate allotment
which is due Dade County
that purpose. Dade and Walk-
er, through concuring resolu
lions, and after being
upon by the State Penal Ad-
ministration, would auliin/ize
this county to take over the
prisoners of Walker for the
consumation of the allotment
due. Walk r, it is said, has al¬
ready taken up the money due
that county for convict labor,
(Continued on page 5)
Cotton Acreage Allotted Dade
County Totals 1,303 Acres
Dade Conn t v’s cot ton acreage
allotment for 1938 is 1,303 acres
it was announced in Athens
this week by Frank C. Ward.
administration officer in charge
of the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration programs in
Georgia.
Of the 2,036,273 cotton acres
allotted to Georgia under the
new farm act, 1,999,581 acres
w ere divided among the state’s
155 cotton-growing counties
and 36,692 acres were* reversed
for allotment to new producers.
The largest county allot¬
ment went to Burke, which
received 53,772 aeres. Laurens
was second with 53,521 acres
and Carroll third with 43,102
acres. The smallest allotments
went to two costal counties
which grow' very little short
staple cotton—Glynn and Mc¬
Intosh—e: eh of which receiv¬
ed 18 acres. Four counties—
Towns, Rabun, Fannin and |
l nion--do not produce any
cotton at all and consequently
they receive no allotments.
The 2,039,273 aeres allotted
Georgia represented this states
share of the national cotton .
acreage allotment of approxi¬
mately 26,300,000 acres.
The state allotment was ap¬
portioned to the counties
principally on the basis of the
acreage planted in cotton to¬
gether with the acreage divert -
td from cotton during the last
five years. The Act is so speci-
fie on this point that division
of the state’s quota to the.
counties was calculated en
tirel) oil the basis of the lor-
contained in the act.
act, however, provides l
Only Newspaper in the County
Liquor Sales
Are Delayed
RULES NOT REALEASED;
L I C E N S E APPLICATIONS
FACE CAREFUL CHECK.
Sale of liquor in Georgia
did not become legal Wed¬
nesday ns bad been expected,
it beanie known Monday when
it was learned that publica¬
tion of rules and regulations
for liquor sales bad been post¬
poned indefinitely.
Publication of the state
regulations had been schedul¬
ed for Tuesday.
In the meantime, appliea
lion for charters for two liquor
distributing companies and
one distiller were filed Monday
by Secretary of State John B.
W it so u.
The distiller and one of the
distributing companies were
granted tpe charters in Fulton
Superior Court and the other
distributing company was
granted the charier in Dough¬
erty Superior Court.
The date for legal sale of
liquor in Dougherty County,
which had approved sales, ar¬
rived yesterday. T. Grady Head
stale revenue commissioner,
said applications for retail
licenses would be investigated
before being approved.
j Rivers Warns
Home Owners
Many complaints have been
received from home owners
protesting against increases in
tax assessments costing them
the benefits of tax exemptions,
Governor Rivers declared in a
speeeh Friday night.
The Governor charged ene¬
mies of his administration
“and enemies of the people”
are attempting to cheat home
owners out of benefits due
them.
Governor Rivers said:
“Even now the enemies of
my administration are making
every effort to thwart the pur¬
pose of the exemption acts.
“The enemies of exemptions
arc making this fight largely
in ail effort to embarrass me.
Their activities would he ig¬
nored by me if I was the only
one affected.
“But the actual effect of
their efforts to defeat the will
of the people and the purpose
of the Legislature, is to rob the
people of Georgia of their just
rights and to cause them to
pay taxes they should not pay
under the law.”
State Highway Board
Seeks Bids on Projects
Atlanta, (GPS)—Bids on ap¬
proximately $725,000 worth of
paving, grading and bridge
projects have been called for by
the State Highway Board, it
was announced by Chairman
W. L. Miller.
The contracts will be let
April 1. Three of the largest
projects, involving an outlay of
almost $420,000, are in Chat¬
ham County. The largest single
project is a proposed new con¬
crete bride and approach over
railroad tracks on the Savan-
nah-Macon road.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Coyle
and family, of Chattanooga,
w ere Sunday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Jenkins.
■
PLAT OF THEPROPOSED
TERRITORY EXHIBITED
Committee Appointed to
Work Out Details For
Immediate Action.
At a regular meeting of the
Dade County Lions Club held
at New England Tuesday nigh!,
is was unanimously agreed to
sponsor a ino»c to establish a
State Park in Sitton’s Gulch
and on Lookout Mountain.
A committee was appointed
by J. L. Fricks, president, who
presided over the meeting.
The committee, working in
conjunction with the Board of
Directors of the Club, is to
take immediate steps to take
the propositiou up with the
proper state authorities and
work out the details necessary
to get the move underway.
W. T. McCauley exhibited a
plat of the territory propose*!
for the park, furnished him by
the Director of State Parks.
He also lmd the secretary of
the club read a letter from
Mr. Elliott of the State Park
which letter stated
that we may he assured of the
cooperation of the Slate De-
part men I and that the site
selected was an ideal location.
State officials have previously
visited the proposed site.
Col. J. M. C. Townsend dis¬
cussed the possibilities of es-
tablishing the Park in detail.
(Continued on page 5)
that no county’s allotment
for 1938 and 1938 may be less
than 60 percent of the acreage
planted to cotton in 1937, in-
eluding 60 percent of the acre-
age diverted from cotton in
1937.
Approximately two percent
of the stale’s acreage allot¬
ment was reversed for ap-
portioment to growers—that
is, growers on farms which did
not grow cotton during the
last three years.
Allotments to individual
farmers within each county
arc now being ealulated. Each
farmer will be able to grow
and market without penalty
all of the cotton he can pro¬
duce on bis allotted aeres, re¬
gardless of the amount.
The marketing quota pro-
vivisions of the act, made
effective by the overwhelming
vote of cotton producers in a
referenda March 12, levy a
j K . na liy <,n producers who fail
t o slay within their acreage
allotments. Under this
provisions, each farmer’s
marketing quota is the actual
production on his allotted
aeres or the normal produc¬
tion, whichever is higher.
Sales in excess of the mark¬
eting quotas will he taxed two
cents a pound during the first
marketing year and 3 cents a
pound if sold in subsequent
years. The tax will he collected
]>y the buyer at the lime of
the sale.
The penalty, however, does
no j apply on any farm where
t | ic production is 1,000 pounds
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(Continued on page 5)
“Square and on the Square
$1.50 A YEAR
Superior Court
Holds Two Days
BOTH COURT AND GRAND
JURY ADJOURNED WED¬
NESDAY AT NOON.
The regular March Term of
Dade Superior Court opened
here Monday with Judge C. C.
Pittman presiding.
A. W. Peck was named fore¬
man of the Grand Jury, with
Vi . I. Price, Clerk and R.E.
Cole, Bailiff.
Judge Pittman charged the
Grand Jury at length with ref¬
erence to their duties as sworn
and as to the responsi¬
bility resting upon them in re¬
gard to the enforcement of the
various laws.
Both Court and Grand Jury
completed their deliberations
and adjourned yesterday at
noon. Only two Civil cases
were up for trial: McBryar
Bros, vs Chas. Stephens and
Wife, verdict for plaintiff (suit
account); Simmons Plating
W orks, Inc., vs Samuel A. Lit-
tlegreen, (suit on acct.) verdict
plaintiff, by default.
Following is a list of cases
t ried and dispositions made:
State vs Brad Stephens and
Lawrence Daniel, (larceny),
not guilty.
Harold Gass, (mfg. liquor),
guilty—$200. and costs or six
months. Filed motion for new
trial.
Jim Mahan (selling whiskey)
guilty.
Lonnie Raines (abandnoment
of minor children), guilty—$3.
week to children forl8montls
and costs.
Geo. Brooks (drunkness), not
guilty.
Lot Fulghum (assault and
battery), mistrial.
J. W. Avans (assault and at¬
tempt of rape), not guilty.
Melford Lea (larceny), gulilty
6 mo. chaingang.
J.P. Morgan (assault and bat¬
tery), not guilty.
The following plead guilty to
their charges:
John Graham (drunkness)
$15. costs.
W. A. Biddle (operating auto
mobile in toxic u ted, $30. costs.
Robt. Reeves (assault and
battery), $50. including costs.
Earnest Phillips, (reckless
driving), costs.
Eli Wheeler (possessing)cost.
Ralph Johns (operating au¬
tomobile intoxicated), $40. and
costs.
Earnest Breedlove, (operat¬
ing automobile intoxicated),
$40. and costs.
Horace Taylor (drunkness),
costs.
Lot Fulghum, abandment of
minor children, $3. per week
to children.
Gordon Gold, (larceny-three
eases), $50. or 6 months.
(Grand Jury Presentments
on page 5.)
Card of Thanks
We wish to extend our ap¬
preciation to onr friends for
their kindness and sympathy
shown us during the illness
and after the death of our be¬
loved husband and uncle; also
for the beautiful floral offer¬
ings.
Mrs. W T . P. Deakins,
Chas. A. Griffith.
_ *
G. L. Gass, of St. Elmo, vis¬
ited his sister, Mrs. Hattie
Wilson Monday.
Mrs. Hattie Wilson was in
Trenton Tuesday on business*