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WASHINGTON, D. C.—The rumor
that congress adjourned when the
president went fishing might be call
ed officially an inaccuracy, but unof
ficially just about true.
When Mr. Roosevelt returned, he
learned that the most important thing
that had happened during his ab
sence was Representative Mcßeyn
olds’ (Tenn.) capture of a 4C*-pound
bass. It is also true that the several
foreign diplomats toasted the health
of King George and that a few con
gressmen tried to balance the budget
in the third race at Pimlici and failed
miserably. The coronation, by the
way, hardly caused a ripple of inter
est here—at least not in official cir
cles. It seemed to have been aecepte 1
somewhat as the British cunterpart of
some local state fair. Few officials
have ever met the new king, but
those who have say that he is a lik
able chap somewhat like his father
and that while he hasn’t the person
ality of his brother Edward he will
eventually become as popuar with
his own people as was the late king.
Until the days of dictatorships, a
government wanting to indicate to
another its anger, recalled its am
bassador. All this has been changed
now. Diplomats remain but newspa
per correspondents are recalled. Il
Duce ordered his newshawks home
from London and banned British pub
lications from sunny Italy. If this sort
of thing continues, newspapers in
democratic countries may have to
form an espionage system in order to
get the low down on doings in the
lands of Mussolinis and Hitlers.
Old timers and lobbyists may not
believe this, but it actually happened.
The house of representatives has de
clined to pass a pension bill! The con
gressional Record shows that the mil
lenium arrived last week when the
house refused to consider a bill ap
propriating $5,000,000 a year extra
for Spanish-American war veterans.
When congressmen decline to vote
pension bills for organized voters you
may rest assured that the appropria
tely have taken seriously the presi
dent’s warning that a budget must be
balanced.
As the zero hour on the supreme
court issue approaches, the capitol is
again whispering about the possibil
ity of a senate tie. In that event that
sphinx of sphinxes, Jack Garner, will
be in the delicate position of having
to cast the deciding vote. The vice
president, who has been a tower of
strength to the White House on crit
ical legislative occasions, has arous
ed the liveliest curiosity as to how he
will perform in the ticklish emergen
cy that may soon cosfront him. Gar
ner, close associates hint, has not
shown much enthusiasm for the pres
ident’s court plan.
Unofficial military observers back
from battle torn Spam, report that no
effective new weapons have been de
veloped since the World war, but that
tremendous strides have been made
in improving the old ones, especially
anti-aircraft weapons. They estimate
that about 90 per cent, of all airplanes
brought down by both sides were shot
down by anti-aircraft guns. The most
effective planes are the light Russian
bombers which carry four machine
guns and are copies of American
army machines. The Italians and Ger
mans actually engaged on the various
fronts, are reported getting tired of
the mess and have been seen to open
ly make an about face when con
fronted with the emergency of hand
to hand encounter with Loyalists. It
is apparent that a poll of foreign
troops engaged in the Spanish stew
would show an overwhelming major
ity in favor of returning to their own
more or less peaceful homes.
27,051,976.
Under the old-age benefits provis
ion of the social security act, 27,051,-
976 workers have been assigned ac
count numbers.
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To Chattooga County Farmers
NEW FARM PROGRAM.
IN PART ILLEGAL.
COMBINES OLD FEATURES.
RETAINS BENEFITS.
PROVIDES rROP CONTROL.
(Special Washington Correspondent.)
The outlook for farm legislation
this session is somewhat clouded but
since some major agricultural meas
ure has been enacted every session
since the passage of the original AAA
it seems reasonable to suppose that
congress will do something about the
situation, since a group of farm or
ganizations submitted a new bill
which revives many of the features
of the old AAA.
Congress, however, is in an econ
omy mood. This was evidenced when
the senate committee on appropria
tions cut $60,000,000 from the soil
conservation program for the next fis
cal year and when the house agricul
ture committee cut from $100,000,000
to $10,00C,000 the proposed fund to
help tenants become farm owners.
Such action does not mean too much,
we admit but it means something
when one tries to understand the
congressional will.
The AAA started the ball rolling
for the farmers by providing a sys
tem of benefits that came to around
$500,000,000 a year and, when this
was upset by the supreme court, the
new plan, devised to promote conser
vation of the soil rather than crop
control, continued the payments. No
body imagined that the substitute
could regulate production and protect
farm income and so we have the lead
ers of agriculture coming to the bat
again with a measure that, on the
basis of the AAA decision, is illegal
in many features.
What causes the rush ? Simply that
far-sighted leaders realize that there
is cause for alarm. They know that
better prices will lead to increased
acreage and this will mean overpro
duction. with piled up surplcses and
another collapse of farm prices. Con
siderably more wheat, corn and cot
ton have ibeen planted than the na
tion can use in a year and while, ex
cept for corn, this may not be seri
ous in 1937 it will mean a wreck un
less the tendency is checked before
good seasons pile up tremendous sur
pluses.
Authorship of the new farm meas
ure is somewhat ha-.y. although the
American Farm Bureau seems to
have a big hand, together with ad
vice and cooperation from several
other organizations. It wocld em-
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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 1937.
body the essential features of the
original AAA and the Bankhead
compulsory production control laws
and provide something like the old
Hoover Farm Board and the Wallace
ever-normal granary plan. It aims
distinctly at controlled production
and parity prices and retains the
distribution cf each benefits, which
sponsors estimate will vary between
a low of $287,000,000 and a high of
s^66, Ofo,ooo, with an estimated an
nual average of about -400,000,000.
Whether the administration is be
hind the proposal seems doubtful al
though its introduction into the leg
islative process followed conferences
of farm leaders with Secretary Wal
lace and other officials. It can be
said, we think, without error, that
generally the administration endors
es the purposes and plan of the pro
posal although there are details that
arouse some differences of opinion,
even among farm leaders themselves.
The President, it is known, favors
the ever-normal granary plan of
Secretary Wallace.
Space does not permit the discus
sion of all features of the measure,
which provides voluntary contracts
for curtailment of acreage, commod
ity laons to aid in maintaining parity
prices for five principal crops, au
thority for the President to raise or
lower the tariff according to the lev
el of prices in order to adjust them
a system of quotas on production of
five crops with prohibitive taxation
on sales of excess production, direct
payments to farmers for conserving
soil, and a definition of “unfair ag
ricultural practices” to include the
sale of wheat, cotton, corn, rice and
tobacco. Existing benefits would be
continued for producers of other
than the five crops named and the
compulsory production features would
apply to them.
Benefit payments to the five-crop
producers would not be based on the
acres taken out of cultivation but
specific quotas would be assigned,
these to be controlled by the adapta
bility of the soil.
TOO MUCH CHICKEN.
SEATTLE, Wash.—There’s one
family in town to whom a chicken
dinner has no appeal. For eighteen
consecutive days chicken was the
piece-de-resistance at the William
Morgan home, honing that each chic
ken would bring to light a SIOO
diamond picked from Mrs. Morgan’s
ring while she was feeding the birds.
The diamond was found in the giz
zard of the very last rooster.
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DALLAS. Texas . . . Pit; the ele
phant, does a headstand in a
private exhibition of gymnastics
before one of the buildings of the
Pan American Exposition c which
opens here on June 12.
GORE EC CLASSES AND 4-H
CLUB HOLD STYLE REVUE
The Home Economics classes and
4-H club of Gore High school held a
joint style revue at the F.F.A. cabin
on May 25. Miss Doris Fletcher, teach
er in home economics at Gore, award
ed the winners in home economics a
pin of excellence.
Winners in the tenth and eleventh
grade home economic revue were:
First place, Clara Robinson; second
place, Elizabeth Scott, and third
place, Mildred Scoggins.
Sara Scoggins was claimed the
winner for the eighth and ninth grade
home economic style revue. Mildred
Nelson came second and Annie Hen
drix third.
Winners in the 4-H club style revue
at Gore will represent their club in
the county style revue which will be
held in Summerville in June. Ellen
Selman was nlaced first in the 4-H
style revue; Sara Scoggins, second,
and Mildred Scoggins, third.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Sunday. May 30:
There seems to be some misunder
standing about the date of the coun
ty-wide Presbyterian rally Ahis year.
It will not be held on the fifth Sun
day of May, but on the first Sunday
in June; that is, June 6. And it will
be held at Beersheba Presbyterian
church. Plan to go. Read the fuller
announcement in next week’s News.
And. by the way, if you do not have
away to get to Beersheba that Sun
day, Igt the pastor or one of the
Sunday school officers or teachers
know.
There will be both Sunday school
and church services at the local Pres
byterian church next Sunday.
LAYMEN’S DAY RALLY AT
JONES’ CHAPEL, BERRYTON
Rev. J. R. McCurdy, of La Fayette,
will be principal speaker at a Lay
men’s Day rally at Berryton Metho
dist church (Jones’ Chanel) next Sun
day, May 30, at 11 a.m. This service
will be of vital interest to all, and
you are especially invited to attend
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OAK HILL: There will be preach
ing service at Oak Hill by the pastor,
next Sunday at 7:30 pm.
A special invitation is extended to
all who will to attend this service.
W. B. HUGHES, Pastor.
MRS. JAMES N. CUMMINGS
IS HONORED LAST SUNDAY
On Sunday, May 9, Mrs. James N.
Cummings was happily surprised by
her children, honoring her with filled
baskets and presents —meeting her at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Coo
per in Summerville, where the day
was pleasantly passed by all having
a good time.
Those who paid tributes to mother
on this happy event were Mr. and
Mrs. John Garmon and children, of
Rome; Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Cooper and
children, of Summerville; Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Cummings and children, of
Summerville; Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Al
lison and children, of Summerville.
Nothing is prettier than the honor
and respect that these children be
stowed upon their loving mother on
this day. which has been set apart
for special honors to the mothers of
our land, and this brings to mind the
commandment to honor thy father
and thy mother.
Mother, we are hoping to honor
and do all we can to make your days
brighter and are ever ready to light
en the burden which you have so long
carried, and feel it a blessing to us
to have you just with us all. We hope
to have the pleasure of paying our
respects to you many times over,
ONE WHO ‘LOVES HER.
Agent for Flowers
PHONE 446
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GRADUATION EXERCISES OF
SUBLIGNA HIGH ON FRIDAY
On Friday evening at 8 o’clock in
the high school auditorium will be
held the graduation exercises of the
Suibligna High school.
The seniors will present the play,
“Rosy Pathway,” to be followed by
an address by Dr. D. E. Reynolds, of
Mount Berry.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these services.
LYERLY WILL OPEN SEASON
SATURDAY WITH LINDALE
Lyerly baseball team will open the
1937 season at Lyerly Saturday aft
ernoon, May 29, at 3:30. when they
meet the Lindale team. Admission is
10 and 15 cents. Everybody come and
see a good game.—Lyerly Team.
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