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NO. 10. VOL. XLVIII.
Hundred Million For
Georgia Road Work
Under WPA Program
Will Give Seasonal
Employment to
Needy Farmers
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 6. (CNS)—
Georgia stands today on the
threshold of a new one hundred
million dollar road improve¬
ment program.
President Franklin D. Roose¬
velt recently approved $72,404,-
016 of Federal funds for farrn-
to-market road and state
highway projects submitted
by the Works Progress Ad¬
ministration in cooperation
with the counties and the
Slate Highway Board.
The approved projects set up
$51,071,283 of Federal funds to
carry forward the secondary
road program which has been
in operation by Works Progress
Administration and Georgia
counties since July, 1935.
They also provide $20,532,-
760 of federal funds for im¬
provements to the Slate High¬
way System.
The federal funds are to be
supplemented with approxi¬
mately $25,825,000 of sponsors’
contributions, chiefly in the
form of material and equip¬
ment.
In announcing the first group
of projects, Miss Gay B. Shep-
person, state WPA administra¬
tor, said authorization of
of the federal funds would
make it possible to undertake
a two-year road building pro¬
gram in every county in Geor¬
gia.
It will give seasonal employ¬
ment to need v farmers, share
croppers and farm hands who
are certified for work under
the special “lay-off season pro
gram inaugurated by Works
Progress Administration in
the Southern States. It also
will provide steady employ¬
ment to eligible groups of
workers now on relief projects,
she said. Employment quotas
are being fixed by WPA for
each county in the Stale. Selec
tion of workers will be made
from rolls of persons certified
by welfare agencies.
The new project will super¬
sede existing road projects in
some of the counties. Work on
the county roads, under the
new program, is being under¬
taken as rapidly as possible.
On the state highway system,
work is to be undertaken upon
the request of the board for
specific un its.
File Works Progress admini¬
stration is now employing ap¬
proximately 57,000 workers in
Georgia, many of whom arc to
be used in the new road pro¬
gram. Other persons are being
assigned from among agricul¬
tural workers when the need
arises as crops are harvested
in various sections of the s'ale.
Since the beginning of the
federal work program, con¬
struction of farm-to-market
roads has been one of the maj¬
or activities in Georgia. Recent
compilations show that more
rhan four thousand miles of
secondary roads have been
added to the county road
system as a result of projrets
carried out by WPA in co-op¬
eration with local authorities.
I OR SALE —Large Bay Mare.
Can be seen at W. O. Steven¬
son s barn about 2 miles south
°f Trenton.—J. T. BAUGH,
Trenton. Ga.
TRENTON, UADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1930
CCC to Enroll
49,497 More
By October 20
Georgia's Quota For
Replacements Numbers
More Than Thousand
The Civilian Conservation
Corps announce Thursday that
stele directors had been order¬
ed to select 49,497 men be¬
tween October 1 and October
20 to fill vacancies.
Director Robert Fechner
said this was about 75 percent
of the number required to
bring the CCC to its maximum
strength of 300,000.
He said the Labor Depart¬
ment reported there would he
about 235,000 applicants for-
enrollment during October.
He estimated not more than a
fourth of this number could
be taken.
Stale quotas for the replace¬
ments included: Alabama, 819;
Arkansas, 1,014; Florida, 925;
Georgia, 1,010; Kentucky,
1,051; Lousisiana, 820; Mis¬
sissippi, 637; North Carolina,
1,199; South Carolina, 708;
Tennessee, 541; Virginia, 656.
Connecticut, 516, Delaware,
104; Maine, 257; Maryland, 557;
Massachusetts, 1,442; New
Hampshire, 145; New York,
4,245; Rhode Island, 183; Ver¬
mont, 119.
Card of Thanks
We wish to take this oppor¬
tunity to thank our friends
and neighbors for their kind¬
ness and expressions the of death sympa-j of
thy shown us in
our dear husband and father;
also, for the beautiful florid
offerings. We thunk Mrs.
Ellis for the beautiful so g,
and the Revs. Erwin, Houts
and Morris for the comforting
and consoling words spoken at
the funeral service.
Mrs. Cora Sells
E. M. Sells and family
J. E. Sells and family
Ben T. Sells and family
Malcolm Sells
Jack Sells
various ones.
Everyone is cordi illy invited
to come and enjoy the day
and renew old acquaintances.
Remember the date! Sunday,
October 16th (3rd Sunday.)
Crackers Defeat
Texas Leaguers,
Win Dixie Title
Ancient Leo Moon, about the
pitching of baseballs the past
17 years, won the Dixie Series
baseball pennant for his At¬
lanta Crackers Monday with
a 7-0 decision over the hand¬
cuffed Beaumont Exporters, of
the Texas League.
Unable to touch the south¬
paw slants of the old-timer,
who pitched for Beaumont
back in 1924, the Exporters
contributed only three one-
base blows.
The Crackers, Sou them
association champions, didn’t
drop a game in the series,
winning four and tying Sun¬
day’s thriller in 13 innings.
While Moon was soft-balling
the Exporters intoa deep sleep,
his diminutive shortstopping
champion, Buster Chatham,
was leading the assault on
Dizzy Trout, eccentric right¬
hander, with a pair of lengthy
home runs over the left-field
paling that accounted for 3
runs. Trout, who won 23 games
over the regular season, was
touched for nine hits und six
runs in his 8-inning stretch.
The Crackers won the Sou¬
thern league pennant,and then
went ahead to defeat
Memphis and Nashville, in
order, to win the Satighnessy
play-off before engaging Beau¬
mont.
Home Coming to be
At Piney Grove
The Times has been asked to
announce that a home corning
service »will he held at the
Piney Grove Baptist church on
Sunday, October 16lh.
An appropriate program for
this occasion is now being ar¬
ranged by the program com¬
mittee for your enjoyment.
The day will lie taken up in
preaching, songs and talks bv
GEORGIA PRESS DAY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER \
8th, AT SOUTHEASTERN FAIR \
an afternoon
The annual will be ob¬
tion at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta,
served this year on October 8th, according to arrange¬
agreed upon by Mike Benton. President of the
ments President of the Georgia
Fair, and Jere N. Moore.
Press Association. the men and
The old custom of a dinner for press
ladies, and the courtesies of the Fair, will be
their efficient handling by "Red
in effect with the same extended
Edgerton The invitation this year will be
to to newspaper newspap men in nearby towns in adjoining
at the Fair> w ith hundreds
IT newspaper folks taking in the exhibit buildings.
Will Solve ‘Nation’s No.
One Economic Problem’-Babson
Balanced Abundance Urged
By Secretary of Agriculture
Dividends Paid
In Georgia
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 6. (GPS)—
A total of $5,897,155 in divi¬
dends is being paid to share¬
holders of corporations whose
activities are centered largely
in Atlanta ami other sections
of Georgia, hut whose opera¬
tions arc, in some instances,
international in scope.
The dividends, which started
going out October 1, represent
the quarterly distribution of
profits. Thus, the total gives
only a part of the industial and
commercial situation in this
section, since many corpora¬
tions are on a semi-annual
basis, paying their sharehold¬
ers in July and January.
Doyle Family
Holds Reunion
The Doyle Reunion was held
Sunday, September 18, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Doyle in Slygo.
Those attending were Mr.
Wra. Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. Edd
Doyle, Maey, Dabbs, Williard
and Randal Doyle, Mr. and
Jolm Doyle, Howard
Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. A.
S. Doyle and son, A. S. Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Doyle
and children, Anita, Audrie,
Anthony and Delilah Doyle,
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Doyle
and children, Mr. and Mrs.
James Doyle and daughter,
Patricia Ann, James (Bud)
Doyle, W. M- Doyle, Mr. and
Mrs. C. Z., Schmids, Mr. and
Mrs. Bradford Gross, Mrs.
Dove Johnson and daughter,
Mr. and Airs. John llonley
Dabbs, and daughter, Albert
Dabbs, Mark Dabbs, Clara
and Edith Frazier, Grover
Doyle, Mr. und Mrs. Joe Doyle
and son Bernard.
The occasion was enjoyed by
all those attending.
of fun on the Midway.
All newspaper representatives will begin register¬
ing in at 9:00 o’clock at the Main office on the Fair
Grounds. A tonr of inspection of exhibits will begin
at 10 o’clock with the Woman’s Department and
School Exhibits, the Poultry Department, the Com¬
merce and Agriculture Building, and ending in the
Livestock Building where a special program of enter¬
tainment on the stage will be presented, with a radio
broadcast at It: 30, over which many press members
will be presented to the radio audience. Then the
gathering at th^ club house for luncheon at 12:30,
after which tbe^ Midway fun begins.
r
Noted Economist
Pictures “Dixie on
March** in Report
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 6. (GPS)—
Declaring that “Dixie is well
on the way toward solving the
nation’s No. 1 economic prob¬
lem,” Roger W. Rahson, nat¬
ionally known economist, in
one of his recent commidity
reports, headed “Dixie on the
March, Industrial Trends,**
painted a highly encouraging
picture of the South’s future.
Georgia was mentioned as one
of the stutes with wonderful
possibilities for future de¬
velopment with outside capi¬
tal.
“In industry, even more
than in agriculture, the South
is rapidly expanding and di¬
versifying,’’ the Bahson report
stated. “Long awake to her
outstanding industrial op¬
portunities, she is not only
making the most of them her¬
self, but is attracting outside
capita] in raising volume. And
with astounding results! More
than half the industrial de¬
velopment of the entire coun¬
try during the past two years
has been in the South. Con¬
tracts for industrial plants
costing than $322,000,000 were
placed tUfe^re in 1936. The figure
dropped to around $244,000,-
000 in 1937, reflecting prevail¬
ing economic conditions. To¬
day Dixie has about 25 percent
of the manufacturing estab¬
lishments in the United
States.”
Of Georgia’s progress, the
report said: “Rapid strides are
being made in Georgia in the
development of the chemicals,
woolen and worsteds, cellulose
products, plastics, full-fashion
ed hosiery, ceramics and food
industries. Pulp and paper
mills and extensive chemical
plants are prominent among
Dixie’s newer enterprises. In¬
teresting and profitable re¬
sults are being achieved in the
mineral field. In a word, the
South’s industrial program is
moving at top speed and pro¬
mises ultimately to equal, if
not exceed, the soil as the chief
source of cash income.”
Other highlights of the re¬
port were summed up as fol¬
lows: “Indications are that
newsprint production will
eventually become an import¬
ant Southern industry . • • All
the signs point to further re¬
markable developmpnt of the
South’s mineral resources . . .
New industries the country
over are requiring more
chemicals in their manufac¬
turing processes. Hence, con¬
tinued chemical expansion in
the South is anticipated . . .
The South at present has over
70 per cent of the country’s ray
on capacity. Southern textile
industries will keep growing!
Wool may be next.”
The Bahson report, which
constitutes the most encourag
ing forecast for the South that
has been made in some time,
concluded with this state¬
ment:
“Dixie is well on the way to¬
ward solving ‘the nation s No.
1 economic problem.’ Her in¬
dustrial growth has been sen¬
sational. Each day further
strides are made toward the
diversification .which is es¬
sential to a basically sound
economic se t up. New capital
(Continued on page 4)
In a recent address before
the International Conference
of Agricultural Economists at
Quebec, Canada, Secretary
Wallace expressed the hope
that the principal of balanced
abundance can be accepted by
industry as well as by agricul¬
ture.
“In agriculture, with the
Ever Normal Granary principle
recognized in the 1938 Agri¬
culture Adjustment Act,” the
Secretary said, “we are in
position to make a steady ad¬
vance toward working out that
principle of balanced abund¬
ance which will prove in the
long run to be best both for
farmers and consumers. Can
industry,” he asked, “work
some form of Ever Normal
Warehouse which will best
sustain employment and
which will result in a more
continuous flow of industrial
goods into consumers’s hands,
even though the prices of in¬
dustrial goods fluctuate more
widely than in recent years?
“With industry in the Unit¬
ed States controlling prices
and regulating production to
sustain controlled prices, in
most cases with the protection
from foreign competition af¬
forded by extremely high
tariffs, our agriculture must
either have corresponding
power, or we must bring about
I a situation in industry where
production is sustained on a
level of a more more consistent
abundance.
“Some of us in the United
States do know that the con¬
trol of prices by corporations
had helped retard the distribu
tion to consumers the gains
from increased productivity.
As industrial output per work¬
er rises, prices must fall and
wages must rise, if consumers
are to benefit. If corporations,
through their control over
prices, hold back too much of
such grains for profits, buying
power does not keep pace with
consumption.
“It is clear that the 1929 de¬
pression was preceded by such
maladjustments,” Secretary
Wallace concluded. “Between
1923 and 1929, the income of
farmers rose 4 percent. Income
paid out to workers and other
employees increased 22 per¬
cent. But income paid out as
in terest and dividends increas¬
ed 50 percent. If corporations
bad put more of the efficiency
gains of the twenties into low¬
er prices and higher wages,and
less into rapidly rising profits,
the stock-price bubble would
never have been blown so large
and the whole sorry economic
sequence after 1929 might
have been greatly different.”
Revival Meeting at
Piney Grove Church
A revival meeting began at
the Piney Grove Baptist church
Suuday night, and will con¬
tinue through this week and
probably next week. Rev. Will
Oliver is in charge of the ser¬
vices. You are invited to come
and take a part in these ser¬
vices, beginning at 7 o’clock.
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