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R. I. MOORE—EDITOR
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THURSDAY. JAN. 23. 1S36
been heard regarding the proposal.
A dissenting voice, however, is rais
ed by John J. Clancy, captain or
police at Savannah, who says driv
ers, not cars, need regulating. He
cites instances of ambulance or po
lice calls which make fast driving
imperative.
There is a great need of one sort
or another to do something about
the breath-taking rate of deaths
hicn result from fast or careless doesn’t make much deference as t<
driving. Some people who drive aj th ^ politics of the editor." he assert-
rapid rate of speed know cd. “What makes a difference
while they chronicle the day to day because we changed our ways but
story of returning prosperity in their because we did not change our ways
financial sections, severely criticize I when a change had become abso-
the President and all his efforts. ] lutely necessary. So there had to be
both editorially and otherwise. a New Deal. Every act of the
Mr. Filene’s address traced the Roosevelt Administration has been
development of journalism into a, an effort to get adequate buying
large scale uusinbss enterprise in j power into the hands ct* the masses,
the course of which the independ- so they might keep business good
ent type of metropolitan newspaper and themselves employed."
has become a rare exception. “It Mr. Filene was speaking as an
insider, one well known to those
quarters characterized by President
Enforce the law requiring all •
hides t'< have lights and you v
end many accidents.
well how to handle the machine, but
in a crisis they are not able to pre
vent an accident, while. tTi the other
hand, many who drive merely know
the operation of the automobile and
nothing about its intricate mechan
ism.
In this time when each year’s
“model" exceeds in speed and gen
eral improvements the one of the
year before, there no doubt would
be issued if a mere 60-mile
it were placed on speed. Auto
thusiasts would hoot at the idea of
driving so "slowly." To regulate the
drivers themselves would require a
traffic cop at every road intersec
tion. and they prcbably would get
run over, even at that.
It would seem that the only solu
tion to the problem is for every
person who drives an automobile to
consider it a personal repscnsibility
to prevent accidents, and to drive
with the simple aim ol
other driver as well
right on the highway.
if automobile tag:
• dollars must be forth-
time :s short
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Georgia, a dry state, yielded to
the federal agents over two hundred
thousand dollars worth of illicit
stills and whiskey last yea
NO SIGNS YET
I'cmor Talmadgc. who made
iotcmenl that with the repeal
of the processing taxes, cotton would
twenty cents a pound in thirty
: days, is recently very quie*. There
iare no signs that couon is going to
twenty cents a pound, but there
have been considerable declines.
When you see a fellow who knows
everything, and makes prophecies
; galore, ty? is generally taflking
■ through his hat. Talmadgc didn’t ex-
Ccmply with the aocal made by poct pro^^ng tax to be re
cur new Mayor and keep the trash poa i e( j j n toto. and the fact that it
from your door. Mr. Merchant a ^ knocktd him into almost „
clean side walk is an asset to your hal He is sort of flabbcr-
business and the community. pasted. It was his ammunition, and
" the fact the people he has always
Georeia farmers received S159. p , aycd wlU) , h) . ones to
OM.OOO from their chief crops last y,,, ax Ls nDt ^ saIm . -Gene
year This is the sreatest sum «- hF was a few days a*o.
ceived since 1930 and yet they say ^ lhm „ a dlctator hc do esn't
the New Deal hasn't helped agncul- ^ dolng „ we,l. 'Gene has
ture [already flopped, but he will flap
j awhile longer, maybe.
Senator Russell has asked for anj But we are not yet ready to be-
appropriatkm to develop the lung j lieve he is going to be president.—
oil industry in South Georgia. These dm ton Citizen,
experiments will be of great value!
to this state and will lead to the! RECALLING GENE’S PROPHECY
development of a great industry it I .. Km Uu . AAA and
remove the
the experiments prove profitable, j processing laxes trom co tton. and
—— | the price will go to 20 cents i
President Roosevelt has declared pound overnight."
more than once recently that hej The prophet was Governor Eu-
will not retreat from his war gene Talmadgc. arch foe in Georgia
greed and privilege. There are sojof the administration program which
many people who would put prop- did more to improve the condition
erty rights above human rights. I 0 f Georgia formers than all other
— I influences and activities combined
The bonus will be paid. Baldwin. The prophecy was made by the gov-
county tx-soldiers will receive oxer emor not merely
two hundred thousand dollars. Whatj ber of times,
these veterans do with the money j Well!
will be their business, but you can The supreme court killed the AA
owns the paper—not who writes the
editorials. And it just happens to be
a fact that most of our great Amer
ican dailies are owned or controll
ed by Rig Business or by banking
interests."
The growth of this type, he con
tinued. is not the result of venality
of influence on editorial policy by
advertisers. Nor have the news
papers trimmed new* policies to fit
reactionary policies. Not personal
political policies of publishers, but
the determination to ad\*ancc the
interests of Big Business, of which
they are a part, is the key to the
bias of most newspapers against
liberal ideas, he declared.
"To secure advertising of national
advertisers, the newspapers had to
become big", Mr. Filene asserted. "To
do that required new and expen-
equipment and that required
new capital. In many cases
aridng the 1 rewspapers which had been fighting
‘each other pooled their interests and
merged, and the papers which did
merge into large units presently
found themselves in financial straits.
That’s where the banks came in.
Th^re was no conspiracy. The
spaper business, to them, was
just like any other business: and
business which had once
been profitable could nc longer meet
it obligations, creditors simply had
■ take some action. !f the property
JUld be merged with other propor
es. that was one way out. All over
the United States the same thing
began to happen. The day of person
al journalism xvas ending. The dav
of Big Business arrived. It could not
be otherwise. So the newspapers and
Big Business want recovery but not
reform.”
“We must admit.” concluded the
leteran Bostonian, "that it is a seri-
situation when the owners and
financial hackers of mort of our
larger newspapers do not want the
masses of America to understand
what the Roosevelt Administration
has been really doing. But all that
really need to do Ls to under
stand the nature of these attacks.
Tne privileged classes made a re
ligion of their privileges but when
machines became so productive
that their output could not be sold
able to buy
rest assured that the bonus payment
xvill be a stimulant to business of
every kind.
The decision knocked out the
processing taxes.
What happened "overnight'
Did cotton go up? It did—exact
ly as a brick goes up when it falls
from the top of a twenty-story build
ing.
while, let those who berate agri
culture for production control answ
er truttfully whether they have
ever in history continued to operate
their mills and factories at starva
tion prices. And who has done the
most plowing up, southern farmers
who plowed up cotton in 1933, or
factory owners who plowed out their
employes between 1929 and 1933?
Roosevelt in his recent Atlanta
speech as “well-warmed and well-
stocked clubs." And r.s such he has
performed a timely and valuable
service. After these painted warn
ings from such an authoritative
source, the average newspaper read
er can well afford to pass over the
feelings of Big Bush. ss and be
guided by the facts of business.
Pieck—SIMMER SON A ROBINSON.
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unless the
it, that old attitude of capitalism
longer worked. Coolidge Prosperity
turned into Hcovcr Depression not
GET FACTS ABOUT IMPORTS
Worn the PrafresslTe Farmer
A lot of distortion dt facts and
plain lies are being broadcast by
various agencies inimical to the AAA
regarding the increased volume of
our agricultural imports in the last
year due to what they call “crop re
duction.” Hog imports particularly
have held the spot-light The terri
ble tragedy of a hog shortage so
great that we have to import pork
is being painted in lurid pictures!
Yet, it is awful, isn’t it? Unspeak
able! What is this country coming
to?
But have you ever stopped to get
the facts? We quote from Wallace’s
Farmer: "Over the fifteen months
ending September 30. 1935, our net
exports of pork, after subtracting all
imports, amounted to 139.8R2.000
pounds.”
Furthermore, do a little checking
for yourself on the side and see
ho has really been cutting pro
duction-agriculture. or those who
;houling loudest about starving
families in the cities because all the
little pigs were murdered! Did you
the significance of what Presi
dent Roosevelt said in Atlanta:
"National surveys prove that the
■er-Re of our citizenship lives to-
ly on what would be called by the
medical fraternity a third-class diet.
If the country lived on a second-
class diet, we would need to put
r more acres than we use today
into the production of food-stuffs
for domestic consumption. If the
tion lived on a first-class diet,
would have to put more acres than
have ever cultivated into the
production of an additional supply of]
things for Americans to eat. Why]
we living on a third-class diet?
For the very simple reason that the
masses of the American people have
not got the purchasing power to eat
more and better food.”
Lxst industry produce as abundant
ly as agriculture has always pro
duced and see what happens. Mean-
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integrity, efficiency and qualifica
tions of the men and wi
are seeking the nominatio
Baldwin county is in a class by
itself. Who would have ever thought
a primary to nominate county offic
ers could be held and an unopposed
ticket be handed the voters. We say
again it ir a compliment to the Nmv York market closed Wcdncs-
day. cotton futures had declined
nineteen to thirty-five points. Wed
nesday’s market rallied, but failed to
hold it* maximum gains. January
closed Wednesday at 11.60; Decem
ber at 10.10.
Of course the governor of Georgia
was talking through his red su
spenders when he promised south
ern farmers that with repeal of the
processing taxes the price of cotton
would jump to twenty rents a pound
••ox'emight." He knew better, bet
how good that sounded to friend
farmer- “Repeal the processing taxes
and the price will go to twenty cents
a pound overnight.” j
It’s geing to be a long night, gov
ernor.—Albany Herald.
The federal tax for the payi
of unemployment insurance and old
nge pensions are now effective
Georgia under the social sect
bill but Gervginns cannot pat
pate in the benefits. Georgia would
have had old age pensions next
had not the Governor vetoed the
constitutional amendment passed by
big majorities by both houses of the
legislature.
We cannot stop auto accidents
the highways by talking about it
Violator.* of traffic laws and
rules of the road must be punished
severely. Sudden death seems t
make little impression on man;
dri ren. and they continue to drix*
at xvreckless speed, incompetent
drivers are allowed to continue or
their way. and worn out. lightless
breakless cars, continue to ride the
A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
The ever-increasing number o'
automobile accidents has railed forth
various suggestions of preventixre
measures. Ccmgrcssmin Robert Ram-
speck. of Decatur, would reek a fed
eral law banning the manufacture
of automobiles for sale or use in
interstate commerce with a speed
rapacity of over 60 miles an hour.
Bell’s
"SAVE US! SAVE US! LEST WE
PERISH”
As one of the country’s leading
industrialists and largest advertis-
ers for a generation. Edward A. Fil
ene. Boston merchant and economist
of note, would seem to be qualified
to discuss the metropolitan press.
And when he declared in a nation-
xxdde radio address last week that
Big Business is drix-ing independ
ence from American journalism hi*
evident purpose was to render a
public service. He said he had eon-
eluded it xvas high time the pub
lic might understand why most of
the newspapers which were loud in.
their praise of President Roosevelt
while banks were closing and busi-
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