The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965, April 20, 1944, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO Dade County Times Trenton, Georgia Entered at the Postoffice at Trenton Georgia, as sec¬ ond class mail matter. ELBERT FORESTER Editor and Publisher MEMBER GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) 12 Months $1.50 6 Months 75c 3 Months ......................... 50c Advertising rates furnished up¬ on application. Legal advertise¬ ments payable in advance. Parties writing to the paper for publication are requested to fur¬ nish their names, otherwise the communication will not be pub¬ lished. It will be withheld on re¬ quest, but the name must be given. _ All communications and items are received for re-edited, publica¬ tion subject to being Such re-written and changed. are printed as a matter of news and do not necessarily reflect the views or ideas of The Times. IIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIMIMMIIIIIIIIIMMMIMMIIUIIMHIIMMIIIIMIIIH THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1944. .................................................. On Charity Tox Roll The Booneville Power Adminis¬ ter has recently announced a rate reduction to public agencies “dependent” on the Federal a- gency for their supplies of pow¬ er. On the same day, an “in¬ dependent” private utility show¬ ed payment of $13,109,155 in taxes for 1943—or 23 per cent of its gross income. If the private company were tax exempt like Booneville, it would probably outstrip the Fed¬ eral project on rate reductions because of much greater econo¬ my in management. Reduced rates that the comparatively few customers of a Federal power plant enjoy, are made possible by increased taxes on the gen¬ eral public. Tax exemptions puts Federal power projects in the same tax classification as charitable in¬ stitutions. Pulling Together No industry is proceeding more scientifically to readjust from a war to a peace basis than is avi¬ ation. Level heads are seeking to coordinate its activities so that it can render the greatetst pos¬ sible service in its field of trans¬ portation. While the public generally thinks of passengers and mail as the principal airline load, the railway express agency has been conducting exhaustive customer surveys in order to keep ahead of the demands for increased air express service. The agency be¬ came interested in the possibili¬ ties of commercial air transport as early as 1919. In 1927, it in¬ augurated its air express divis¬ ion, giving scheduled air service across the nation. From 1933 to 1943, inclusive, the weight of its air express shipments increased from 404,640 pounds to 31,066,414 pounds. Thus again do we see Ameri¬ can enterprise increasing its field of activity and preparing in ad¬ vance to meet service demands that arise almost overnight. Getting Results One man who went into gov¬ ernment war service and isn’t afraid to tell the public his de¬ partment got results, is William M. Jeffers, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, and former director of the synthetic rubber program. In a recent statement Mr. Jef¬ fers said synthetic rubber is now about on schedule; absolutely es¬ sential civilian needs are being met; by early autumn more rub¬ ber should be going into tires; we can produce enough synthetic rubber for any needs, and will be in the position in the future to dictate to producers of natur¬ al rubber what the price shall be. This is good news for Ameri¬ cans who have become used to a prediction of “shortage” the moment bureaucratic planners take control of any of our basic industries. But that is the bureau crats’ w r ay—they w'ant to keep the people under their thumbs. Jeffers is not a bureaucrat—he is a plain American business who is used to getting results. He says: “We don’t w r ant the government in business. We business in government.” And that is the only that will get this nation tires ny other commodity that eople have enjoyed and built up the American of living. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, TH URSDA Y, APRIL 20 - l94 ^;_ What is the To give the devil his due, erybody knows the OP A has tough job, and every ed citizen is willing to plenty of allowances for voidable errors. On the hand, the public will not acept so-called price which, in reality, is arbitrary unjustified profit control. To illustrate how price tion is twisted to effect control, Mr. C. F. Hughes, in New York Times, says: 40,000 medium trucks manufactured for a civilian at a cost which reflected labor and material charges. OPA agreed to let the charge the extra costs, but is sisting that dealers exclude additional amount from mark-up. Financing, overhead and other expenses therefore ignored .... rather than price control, is viously the objective." Similar demoralizing tion has been perpetuated in “highest price line order which OPA applied to ious lines of women’s and dern’s clothes. At a session of retailers Washington, one small merchant told of a whole lage having to go 13 miles buy apparel which was ed from his store because could not purchase the lines any longer had been discontinued) and OPA regulation forbade stocking anything at a price. Such regulation shakes confidence in the sincerity purpose of the regulators. Smoking Judging from the resulting from careless habits, one questions whether public is interested in the of life and property. Smoking, in those who the habit, is a process akin to breathing. Many ers will strike a match in powder magazine or an oil re¬ finery. It is an unthinking and discarding the match, the dottle, or the cigarette butt often done without mental ac¬ tion of any kind. For these hab¬ it-formed acts, there is no except that which lies within the willpower of the Conceding that millions people will smoke, regardless the time, place or danger in¬ volved, the National Board of Fire Underwriters concludes mere signs of warning are prac¬ tically useless, and affirmative measures should be adopted to reduce the hazard. For signs in stores, factories, and other places must not be only eye catching—near sign should be a place to the “weed” in whatever form the person is using it. In homes, trays and other should be placed in every hallway, porch and kitchen, though residents may not If it is necessary to smoking “on the job” due dangers involved, places be made available where can smoke without doing secretly. It is probable that catastrophe of the Shirtwaist fire, in which girls lost their lives, would have occurred if provisions been made for the employes smoke. Learning The Hard Way The American worker and th American taxpayer, who in majority of cases are one the same person but perform separate and distinct are learning by dear that government ownership industry does not produce millenium. Taxpayers find that the ute government goes into ness, it puts taxpaying prise out of business, to detriment of remaining ers. The worker finds that “heartless corporation” is a sister compared to a hearted government which recognizes no local latory measures that are to private corporations for protection of workmen and public. Labor is finding that officials in charge of plants, which are exempt public regulation applying private industry, grow ed to being a law unto selves, and deem it their to fix wages and salaries to themselves. Officials WOKING AHEAD *y GEORGE S BENSON PresidcHt-JiardiHCf College | . Searcy, Jrkausat GRAFTED STOCK Pride of race is something America has never developed to a high degree because it is peo¬ pled with so many different races. Just the same, Americans have every right to pride in fine heritage. Edmond E. Lincoln re¬ cently put it in a few words. He said “America has been develop¬ ed by the most corageous, in¬ dustrious and honorable peoples of the earth. We have built up from the best of the best of for¬ eign countries.” Some peple have come to the United States who did us no good. Mr. Lincoln does not dis- pute that. He makes plain, how¬ ever, that all of America’s early settlers and most of the immi¬ grants who came later, so dif¬ ferently outwardly, were a lot alike inside; and in important ways. They were brave, honest, hardworking, God-fearing folk. All they lacked was to get used to one another, and that has largely been done. Look at Results Products of hard work and hon¬ esty, so valuable to individuals, give strength to nations accord¬ ingly. Half the people in Ameri¬ ca own the homes in which they live. That’s national stability. More than one person out of five in this country has a savings account in the bank. One Ameri¬ can in 14 owns shares in some corporation and 68 million (more than half of us) have insurance. None of these things could be said truthfully of any other country on earth. And how we do get around! Our entire 135 million popula¬ tion could have sat down at once quite comfortably on thee uphols tered seats of nearly 30 million passenger automobiles that were licensed in the United States in 1941. Where everybody who works can make progress; where those who are rally capable can a- chieve wealth and influence, pride in doing things is gradually developing a tradition that makes all Americans feel the fusion of an American race. Our Own’ Standards In America we are short on heraldry but we are long on bathtubs. Free to live our lives in any honorable manner, and quick to learn from each other, the families of America are growing more alike in habits and in aims. Meanwhile living stand¬ ards rise and American culture advances far beyond that of old- world races. They are cramped by meaningless restraints and crippled by unprofitable disputes about matters that seem quite abscure anywhere else. “For several specific reasons,” Mr. Lincoln says, “it does not seem probable that the United States will finally succumb to subversive influences which have been exerting themselves from abroad.” Seeking religious lib¬ erty, economic rights and politi¬ cal freedom, the pioneers of A- merica fled Europe because even then they could see, at least dimly, calamities that later came upon it. They quit all European classes and became individuals. Keep Our Culture Having spent eleven years in other lands, 1 am glad I am an American and I could never ad¬ vocate ignoring the rest of the world. But no isolationist could be farther than I from trans¬ planting foreign problems in A- merica. As we are situated now, we can assist people everywhere and it is our duty. But the surest way to make America useless at home and abroad is to pollute our free air with philosophies that that the founders of this free country so specifically ex¬ cluded. Nothing could be more deadly to the American way of life, no plague more completely blight¬ ing to democracy as we under¬ stand it in the Unitted States than a dominantly strong cen¬ tralized government. It is com¬ pletely foreign to American id- for political reasons generally know little or nothing about the businesses they operate at pub¬ lic expenses. Hence, they are unfamiliar with labor’s prob¬ lem. Labor organizations are hav¬ ing their eyes opened to the re¬ strictions on liberty that im¬ mediately follow public owner¬ ship of any industry. All citi¬ zens are becoming aware of the lost taxes and increased debts that follow destruction of pri- vate business. Famines Follow War The Department of Agricul¬ ture’s tabulations on what farm¬ ers intend to plant in 1944, indi¬ cate that the so-called guaran¬ teed support prices failed to coax them into seeding more oil crops such as soy beans, peanuts, flax¬ seed, or dietary standbys such as peas, beans and potatoes. Flax plantings for linseed oil are down sharply. Apparently increased acreage will go into feed grains because of shortage of livestock feed last year. “Failure of farmers to go along on some of the War Food’s pro¬ grams,” says Business Week, “is due to fear that there will be too few hands and new machines. Dairy product needs cannot be met; milk output for months has consistently been behind year- ago levels.” Farming has long been the professional “fixer’s” plaything. Let us hope that it is not thrown too far off center by the theories of the parlor cowhands. AT SION FIRST OF A OV* 666 use 666 TABLETS, SALVE. NOSE DROPS eals. Permitted to run its course unrestrained it will choke our freedom, our prosperity, and fin¬ ally our ambition. NOTICE Tax Payers! TAX COMMISSIONER'S 1944 SCHEDULE: Meet me at the following places listed below for the purpose of making your 1944 Tax Returns. Everyone who is eligible for The Exemption must make return and sign application. If yiu fail to do this, we cannot give you the exemption. If you cannot see me at Trenton, I will appreciate you meeting me at one of the places listed below: SLYGO (873rd DIST.) —W. P. COLE’S HOME 10 A. M. to 12 Noon APRIL 5th BYRDS CHAPEL (875th DIST) —SLATON’ STORE 10 A. M. to 12 Noon April 7th WILDWOOD (974th DIST)—TOWNSEND’ STORE 10 A. M. to 12 Noon April 11th MORGANVILLE (974th DIST)—E. R. WELL’S STORE 10 A. M. to 12 Noon April 12 MORGANVILLE (974th DIST)—W. H. CROSS STORE 1 . PM. to 3 P. M. April 12 NEW ENGLAND (1037th DIST.)—MRS. FORESTER’S STORE 10 A. M.-12 April 13 NEW ENGLAND (1037th DIST.) — D. T. BROWN’S OFFICE 1 P. M. to 3 April 13 RISING FAWN (1038th DIST.)—BOTH STORES APRIL 14 HOOKER (1089th DIST.)—MISS WINFREY’S STORE 10 A. M. to 12 Noon April 17 CAVE SPRINGS (1129th DIST.)—WILL BRADFORD’S HOME 10 to 11 A. M. AMOS’ MILL 1 to 2 P. M.—GRADY FORESTER’S STORE 2 P. M. to 4 P. M..........................................APRIL 18th NEW SALEM (1214th DIST.)—LEON MOORE’S STORE 10 A. M...........April 19th COLE CITY (1222nd DIST.)—M. J. AVANS’ HOME 10 A. M.........................April 20th AVANS POST OFFICE 12 NOON ....................'.....................................April 20th CRISP’S STORE 3 P. M...................................................................April 20th COLE CITY (1222 DIST.)—M. T. PATTON’S HOME 10:00 A. M.............April 21st LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN (1037-974) GEO. HALES STORE 10 A. M.-12 April 22nd H. B. GRIFFIN'S 1 P. M......................................................April 22nd My Books will close April 29th. I especially urge every Tax Payer who has not made his Returns, to give this your personal attention. I thank you for your cooperation. W. F. Morrison TAX COMMISSIONER, DADE COUNTY, GA. Hay Production April, May and June will be planting time for cowpeas, soy¬ beans, millet and sorghum, ac¬ cording to E. D. Alexander, agro¬ nomist for the Extension Ser¬ vice. These should be planted so as to get highest yields of high quality hay. Small grain-winter legume mixtures will be cut and cured. Cut the hay early enough to make the best quality and cure properly. In the milk to early dough stage of the grain is the best time to cut. Cure so green color and leaves will be retained. Food Production Recognizing the food produc- ; tion program as the No. 1 pro¬ gram, all 4-H Club members in J Georgia are being encouraged to increase their food production projects. Greater emphasis is being placed upon higher yields per ATTENTION FARMERS Paints - Roofing - Bridles -- Check Lines - Cement - Farm Tools * * # * Chattanooga Hardware Company 2615 South Broad Street Chattanooga, Tennessee Cattle Show - Sales Four-H club and FFA memb¬ ers who raised or secured good feeder steers this past year are making a good profit now, C.G. f Garner, Extension Service mark¬ eting specialist, points out. They are now showing and selling them at the 13 fat cattle show- sales in Georgia which started last December at Albany and will continue until May. At the show-sales to date, most of the boys have made a profit on their steers. Prices have been better than expected so these shows are expecting many more entries for next year. acre and greater production per animal unit. Community and county meetings have been held and the need for food production stressed. News articles have been written, radio talks made, dem¬ onstrations given and home vis¬ its made by county agricultural and home demonstration agents.