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j\0. 13. VOL. XLVIII.
First Day Of
Liquor Brings
Georiga $5,450
Georgia, one of the final ami
hardest-held strongholds of
prohibition, Tuesday officially
had entered the ranks of wet
states as the first day’s tax re¬
ceipts totaled $5,450.
The act which ended the 22-
vear-old drouth came Monday
afternoon at Albany, when a
flour salesman bought the
first legal pint. He paid $2.25
for it.
The salesman bought the
first pint at the Rialto, a com¬
bination beer parlor and bil¬
liard parlor on Albany’s main
street. A few minutes before,
the proprietor, H. C. Marks,
had been issued the first liquor
license by T. Grady Head, state
commissioner of revenue.
Mr. Head arrived in Albany
shortly after 2 o’clock and
went immediately to the ware
house, near the railroad sta¬
tion. There he conferred with
Captain “Chet” Clark, who is
in charge of the warehouse,
and affxed the first state stamp
on a bottle of liquor.
He then returned to a hotel
room, when after a short con-
fi rence with aides, he talked
to Mr. Marks. He dispensed
with red tape regarding the
posting of surety bonds and
issued the first retail license to
Mr. Marks.
When salesman paid $2.25
for the pint of liquor, he offi¬
cially declared Georgia wet.
Following his act, the poosses-
sion of one qurt of state-tax-
paid whiskey became legal any
where in the state.
Springtime in Ala.
It was springtime down in old
Alabama,
’Way down among the hills,
The bees are humming among
the lilacs,
The air is filled with the blue
bird’s trill.
March winds have swept the
forests clean
Of dead and shriveled leaves;
Soft green grass covers the hill
side,
Gentle spring rain drips
from the eaves.
The showers pass and a heav¬
enly warmth
Is shed by the southern sun,
A thousand raindrops gleam
upon the trees
Like silver cloth, by fairies
spun.
The mocking bird sends forth
his song of praise
From the tallest tree in the
woods,
And all the world seems glor¬
iously glad—
The flowers burst forth on
the wild dogwood.
Aye, we’re glad for all the
goodness,
That God in His mercy has
given,
And we know that springtime
in Alabama
Is a sweet foretaste of heav-
en.
PEARL HALL BEATY.
Special Notice
It has been rumored that I
a member of the so called
age Board.” This will give
n °tiee that such rumor has no
foundation whatever, and I
have absolutely no connection
^•th such board.
—Lewis McBryar.
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TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1938
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NEW YORK—-A stirring scene in front of the Administration Building at
the New York World’s Fair 1939 as the Union Jack of Great Britain is hoisted
aloft signifying that John Bull will be represented at America’s exposition.
The British exhibit will occupy 140,000 square feet, the largest of the 64
foreign displays now being prepared, and will cost aeveral millions.
Annual Soil Conservation
Field Day To be Held in
Rome Tuesday , April 19th
Dillion Myer, assistant chief
of the Soil Conservation Ser¬
vice, will be the principal
speaker at the soil conserva¬
tion field day to be held in the
erosion control demonstration
area at Rome on April 19th,
Project Manager W. II. Howell
announced today.
Promoted by the district
supervisors of the 1,450,000-
acre Coosa River soil conserva¬
tion district, the field day is
expected to attract a even
larger crowd than attended
a similar event last year, when
approximately 1,900 farmers,
business men and agricultural
leaders made a tour of the
demonstration area.
This year the field day will
feature practices that farmers
in the recently organized dis¬
trict can put into effect on
their farm lands to conserve
their soil. On a tour of the
area they will see demonstra¬
tions of cover crops, strip crop¬
ping, pasture improvement,
crop rotations, terracing, re¬
forestation of steep and severe
ly eroded land, woodland man¬
agement and wildlife develop¬
ment areas undar actual farm¬
ing conditions on farms of co-
operators in the area.
Tue address by Myer will
follow a barliebue to be held at
the American Legion Club
house at Lind ale. A former
county agent and a man of
wide agricultural experience,
Myer is also an outstanding
speaker who is able to present
his subject from the practical
viewpoint of ths farmer.
Agricultural leaders through
out Georgia and other states of
the southeast are expected to
attend the field day. Among
them will be Dr. 1 • S. Buie,
regional conservator of the
I sartors.*
Only Newspaper in the County
Soil Conservation Service; Jule
G. Liddell, state coordinator;
\\ alter S.Brown, director of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service; Columbus Roberts
Commissioner of Agriculture,
and others.
County Agent II. G. Baker
has been invited to bring a
large delegation of farmers
and business men to the field
day. The event will be of spec-
cial interest to farmers in
Dade County.
This was the first soil con¬
servation district organized
in Georgia under the new dis¬
tricts law passed by the state
legislature. The erosion con¬
trol demonstration area at
Rome and one CCC camp area
assigned to the Soil Conserva¬
tion Service are located in the
district. Rome is headquarters
for soil conservation wurk in
the district. Other work cent¬
ers are located at Cartersville,
Cedartown, Calhoun, Dallas,
and Summerville.
Vt ith the district supervisors
as the governi g body, the Soil
Conservation Service, the Geor
gia Agricultural Extension
Service and other stale and
federal agencies are coopera I -
ing in developing a proper land
use program, designed lo con-
serve soil and other resources
and increase the income of
the farmers. Supervisors are
Smiley Johnson, chairman,
Silver Greek; R.P. Bryson, Lyer-
ly; Robert Campbell, Cedar-
town, and J. G. Brandon, Car¬
tersville. County Agent J. V.
Webb is secretary.
The field dan tour will afford
farmers throughout the dis¬
trict as well as other sections
an oportunity to see in opera¬
tion on farms like their own
proven methods of soil and I
Ulisin^Fav^i^Ga.
Hugh Howell
In Race For
Governorship
Hugh Howell became a can¬
didate for Governor of Georgia
Tuesday without the support
of his former political chieftain
ex-Governor Eugene Talmadge.
Talmadge issued a blunt, 54-
wovd statement saying he did
not “encourage” Howell to
make the race, and was “not
supporting” him.
It was this statement, in
fact, which brought the an¬
nouncement from Howell:
“I supported Governor Tal-
madge when lie ran for Gover-
ernor both times. I am not
withdrawing from the race
for Governor of Georgia.” It
was Howell’s first public an¬
nouncement that he was in
the race.
Georgia’s present Governor,
E. D. Rivers, of Lakeland, has
not announced his plans for
the 1938 campaign.
Although Talmadge turned
thumbs down on the aspira¬
tions of Howell, who was bis
former state democratic chair¬
man, Tom Linder praised How
ell in a pamphlet being circu¬
lated over the state. Linder,
like Howell, long was a close
personal and political friend
of Talmadge.
Governor Rivers won the
nomination overwhelmingly 2
years ago in a field of three,
including Charles Redwine, of
Fayetteville, the Talmadge-in-
dorsed candidate.
Refore Talmadge bestowed
bis political blessings on Red-
wine, Hugh Howell had been
mentioned as a possible choice
of the Talinadgeitos for the
governorship. Exactly what
Howell thought of this rebuff
is a seeret of Howell’s, but he
went along with the party,and
made several speeches for Red
wine.
Howell, 48 years old, is an
lawyer. lie attended
the public schools of Warren-
ton, Harlem and Vidalia and
was graduated from Emory
at Oxford. Later he
taught school for two years
coming to Atlanta to
law. He once served
special assistant United
Attorney to prosecute
W.D. Manley, the banker, and
served for a time as as¬
solicitor general of
county under Judge
M. Dorsey.—The Atlanta
u lion.
Service
At M. E. Church
Plans are being made for an
day service at the M. E.
south, hereon Sunday
22, celebrating the 7th
of the opening.
It is hoped that the remain¬
indebtedness will have
paid off, and that the
can burn the note
the dedication service he
on this same day.
Members and friends are
asked to contribute one
or more and to join in
this a red letter day
the history of the church.
The encouragement of wild
anil animals on the farm
he made an interesting
fascinating hobby. Wild¬
can make the home a bet¬
place in which to live.
conservation, Howell
out.
lout, lie explained mat scparule
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'Square and on the Square J
Producer Not Required
To Sell Cotton to Get
Adjustment Payments
Georgia Firms
Pay Dividends
Atlanta,Ga. 'GPS)—A total
of $3,591,880.69 in dividends
will be paid by Georgia firms
to stockholders about April J,
it was announced. 'The Coca
Cola Company, which will pay
$1,995,950 as 50-cent quarterly
dividend on its common stock,
is the largest disburser.
The second largest on the
list is that to be made h> the
Georgia Power Company, to¬
taling $737,587 and represent¬
ing a quarterly dividend of
$1.50 on its $5 preferred stock
and$1.25 on its $5 preferred.
Georgia Third High
In Spindle Activity
Atlanta, Ga. (GPS)—The 2,-
889,756 active spindle in Geor-
gia textile mills during Febru¬
ary placed the state third
line in production of the
teen major cotton
states, it was announced.
Georgia’s spindle
was exceeded only in
Carolina and South
and was greater than
chusetts, the fourth
state, according to the Federal
Bureau of Census.
Early, Short Crop
Seen For Peaches
Macon, Ga. (GPS) — Although
expected earlier than usual
this year, Georgia’s peach crop
will be 25 per cent or more be¬
low normal in size, it was re¬
vealed in a survey completed
by the Georgia Peach Growers’
Exchange. This condition is
due to frost and freezing tem¬
peratures during the bud< ing
ami blooming periods, it was
pointed out
" Damage, which is considered
“spotted”, is confined to orch¬
ards between .Macon and At¬
lanta, the survey revealed.
Georgia peach orchards gen¬
are considered in good
and unless there is
damage in the next
weeks Georgia will at least
a moderate size crop, it
stated.
First Tenant Purchase Loan In
Made to Wilkes Farmer
Washington, Ga.—A
farmer realized a life¬
ambition last week when
became lam! -oh m r
tenant purchase
provided under the terms
the Bankhead-Jones 1 arm
Act.
He is 37-year old Jim Webb
of the Irvin Court
community. He re¬
the first of 175 such
to he made in Georgia
this year
A large crowd gathered to
Senator Richard B. lluss-
Jr., present the govern¬
cheek for $2,500 to I an-
at public ceremonies held
Saturday. The program
presided over by K. L.
share-croppers, lor negro
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If You Can't Pull
For Dade —
Pull Out.
$i.50 A YEAR
Frank C. Ward, tripIe-A ad¬
ministrative officer for Georgia,
advised farmers this week that
those who have cotton under a
1937 Commodity Credit Corp¬
oration loan must pay that
loan before the cotton is sold.
“A producer does not have
to sell his cotton to qualify for
a cotton price adjustment pay
mi nt,” Ward explained. “Cot¬
ton not sold before July 1,1938,
w ill be considered to have been
sold on June 30, 1938, Vl \whelher
it was under a loan or n^)t.
"‘'Flic date of sale controls
the rate of payment,” he
tin ued, “because the rate is
based on the average price of
cot ton on the ten designated
spot markets on the date of
sale—or on June 30, if the
cot ton is not sold prior to that
date.”
Ward said that some farmers
have been selling their “equi¬
ties” in the cotton loan and
receiving sale certificates in
return. He warned that pay¬
ments cannot be made to pro¬
ducers on the basis of such so-
called sales and the persons
buying “equities” on loan cot¬
ton cannot obtain payments
when they resell the cotton.
“Under the law, cotton price
adjustment payments will be
made on a part of the 1937
cotton crop, the rate of pay¬
ment in each case to he the
amount by which the average
price of cotton in the ten spot
markets on the date of sale is
below 12 cents, but in no case
to he more than 3 cents per
pound,” he declared.
“When a producer sells his
cotton prior ty July 1, 1938, if
the sale is a bona fide sole with
the title passing from produc¬
er to buyer, he may receive a
cotton price adjustment pay¬
ment on that cotton, at the
rate appicable oq the date of
sale.
“If the cotton is under a
loan, title and possession can¬
not he delivered, and, therefore
payment cannot be made on a
sale of the producer’s equity.
No payments will be made in
connection with the re-sale of
the cotton purchased from a
producer.
“In ease a producer does not
sell his cotton prior to July 1,
1938, he may receive a cotton
price adjustment payment at
the rate applicable on June
30, 1938, regardless of whether
or not the cotton was under a
loan.”
Yansant, state director of the
Farm Security Administra¬
tion. Local arrangements were
, in charge of Farm Supervisor
j George W. Robinson and Coun
Agent j. R . McDaniel.
| With the tenant purchase
j oan ^ fanning bought a 148-
acre farm, 12 miles from Wash¬
ington. He paid Owner Guy
Norman, also a Wilkes county
farmer $1,500 for the farm and
will use the remaining $1,000
for making improvements. His
1938 farm plan calls for 75
acres in cultivation, with an
i-stimated income of more
than $700 from all sources.
Born on a Wilkes county
farm, the son of a sbare-crop-
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