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Helpful Facts On
Old-Age Insurance
By JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Manager,
Atlanta Field Office, S.S.B.
Q. Can an employe who has been
having federal old-age insurance de
ductions made from his salary learn
the amount of his wage credits?
A. Over two months ago the board,
working at the rate of over a million
a day, finished recording the wage
items reported by employers for
1937. Since July 1, the board has been
answering requests for wage state
ments. It will continue to send wage
statements to workers who specifi
cally ask for them. Information con
cerning wages for each year will be
available after July 1 of the follow
ing year. For instance, a man in
quiring as to the status of his ac
count now will be furnished a state
ment showing the amount of wages
credited to him for the year 1937,
and similarly, after July 1, 1939, in
formation will be available concern
ing wages credited through 1938.
Q. What information should be
given in requesting this information ?
A. Managers of field offices of the
social security board are instructed
to advise any person wishing to in
quire about his account to give the
same name he used in applying foi
his social security account number
the exact date of his birth, the ac
count number assigned to him, and
his address. Forms for this purpose
are available in field offices of the
board throughout the country.
Q. Who are required to report
these wages items to the social se
curity board?
A. The law requires employers to
make periodic reports. During 1937,
the first year the system was in op
eration, employers reported their em
ployes’ wages every six months, but
under a change in regulations, ef
fective the first of 1938, these reports
are now made every three months.
Employer’s wage reports are filed
with the bureau of internal revenue
as part of their tax returns. These
reports are checked against tax re
turns by the bureau and then turn
ed over to the social security board
for recording of each employe’s
wages to his account.
Q. Must a worker retire from work
at the age of 65 in order to receive
a lump-sum payment unde the fed
eral old-age insurance program?
A. No. Under the present terms of
the social security act, a worker re
tires from covered employment only
in order to receive monthly retire
ment benefits which will be paid be
ginning in 1942. A worker need not
retire to receive a lump-sum payment.
BEAR MAULS GIRL.
CLEVELAND, O.—Julia Zemnick,
21-year-old federal art project work- j
er, was badly mauled ba polar besr '
she was sketching when she lost her
balance and fell from the top of a
wall into the pit occupied by the bear.
While an attendance held the bear off
with a pole, another attendant threw
a lasso around one of her legs and
dragged her from the cage. The girl
was practically scalped and suffered
deep lacerations all over her body as
a result of the bear’s clawings.
BABY CHEWS CORD; DIES.
ST. LOUIS.—Left in a room by
himself for a few minutes, Warden
Robert Smith, 18 months old, began
chewing on the cord of his mother’s
bridge lamp. When the mother re
turned, the baby was dead of electric
shock.
GRACE
(Third Installment)
In trying to lead up to the main
subject—the dispensation, or age, or
era, of grace—it will be necessary to
elucidate the dispensation of law.
That of the Mosaic law: because,
grace and this law, are by so many
people even in this enlightened day
of boasted learning, trying to so mix
and relate the two, that from their
viewpoint, it would be difficult to dis
tinguish one from the other, when
from the true Scriptural standpoint
they are as wide as the poles. The
firts mention of law in the Bible is
recorded in Gen. 47:26, which has no
reference whatever to the ceremonial
law of Moses which was given to the
Israelites by God through Moses on
Mt. Sinai John i:l7. After Moses had
led the Israelites miraculously thru
the Red Sea after their release from
Egyptian bondage on their journey
to the land of Canaan as far as Ka
desh-Bameah, there God called Moses
'ip into the top of Mt. Sinai and de
livered to him the whole code of laws
which was to guide and direct the
lives of the Jews henceforth. This
includes the “decklogue” or ten com
mandments. Because the children of
loral grossly violated God’s laws,
they were prevented from going di
rectly into Canaan as a punishment
for their disloyalty to God and
Moses, but was caused to wander
forty years in the wilderness of Si
nai until of that vast multiude who
came out of Egypt and died in the
wilderness except two, Caleb and
Joshua. Now these were all good
laws, but did those Israelites keep
them? They are good because they
are the product of the divine mind
of God, given specially and specifi
cally for their guidance and no one
else in the wide world. You and I
nor the Gentile and no one but the
Jews were ever under those laws
and they never did—and nobody ever
■will—observe them, for if there
should be failure in one point it
irpuld be same as failing in all;
GEORGIA MOTORISTS PAY $1,407,300
6 MONTHS’ FEDERAL GAS TAX BILL
ATLANTA, Nov. 14 (GPS).—Mo
torists of Georgia paid a total of
81,407,300 in gasoline taxes to the
federal government in the first six
months of 1938, it was estimated by
the Georgia Petroleum Industries
committee. The federal tax of 1 per
cent, per gallon adds one-sixth to the
gasoline tax bill of the automobile
owners of the state.
Congress enacted the federal gas
oline tax in 1932 to bolster up tem
porarily internal revenue receipts,
which in that year had dropped to
less than one and one-half billion dol
lars. It generally was understood that
the tax would be repealed when in
ternal revenue reached its pre-de
pression level, it was pointed out. The
federal levy, however, has been ex-
Large Feed Supplies;
Increased Live Stock
With large supplies and relatively
low prices of feed grains in prospect
for the 1938-39 marketing year, the
outlook is for continued liberal feed
ing of live stock and for fui'ther in
creases in the production of meat
animals, poultry and dairy products.
In the annual outlook report on
feed crops and live stock, the bureau
of agricultural economics points to
the unusually favorable growing sea
son this year and the very large sup
ply of feed grains and hay carried
over from 1937. As a result, the sup
ply of feed grains per animal unit
again will be well above average, and
about the same as last year. The sup
ply of hay per animal unit will be
the second large in thirty years. By
products feeds, although in smaller
supply than last year, are above av
erage and are large in relation to live
stock numbers.
These supply estimates take into
consideration the moderate increase
in live stock numbers during 1938
and expected increases during the
next several months. The live stock
population (including poultry), in
terms of grain-consuming animal un
its, “will probably be about 5 per
cent, larger” on Jan. 1, 1939, than at
the beginning of 1938, the bureau
said. Despite this increase, the grain
consuming live stock population in
early 1939 is expected to be about 8
per cent, below the average for the
pre-drought years 1928-32.
According to the report, some im
provement over the present low level
of feed grain prices is in prospect.
But the yearly average for 1938-39
may be below the 1937-38 average. ,
Increased supplies will be at 1 as't
partly offset by the effects of the
prospective higher loan rate on corn,
improvement in the general business
situation, and increased numbers of
live stock.
It is believed that the relationship
of live stock prices to feed prices will
continue favorable for live stock pro
ducers at least until the approach of
the 1939 harvesting season, and long
er if feed grain production in 1939
i$ again near average.
If a marked reduction in wheat ac
reage in 1939 results from the wheat
program, the total acreage devoted
to all feeds, including feed grains,
hay, forage and pasture, probably
will show a somewhat corresponding
increase. The bureau points out,
however, that the increase in acreage
seeded to feed grains next year “may
not be large,” and the total acreage
seeded probably will be “consider-
GOOD TIDINGS
Come listen! I’ll tell you a story
Os Jesus, our Saviour and King;
He came from portals of Glory,
Salvation for sinners, to bring.
Our Lord was despised and rejected,
Acquainted with sorrow and grief;
Was wounded for our transgessions,
And died on the cross like a thief.
He was led as a lamb to the slaugh
ter,
He suffered in anguish and pain;
He made His grave "with the wicked
In a tomb where none other had
lain.
He arose as the angel hath spoken,
He’s now at the Father’s right
hand;
Awaiting His final appearing,
With clouds at the Father’s com
mand.
The righteous and also the wicked,
Will rise on that great final day;
The righteous will enter that city,
But the wicked will be turned away.
They’ll be as the five foolish virgins,
Who knocked at the door—too late;
They’ll hear Him on that final morn
ing,
Pronouncing to them their sad fate.
Depart from me, I never knew you,
To regions of darkness and gloom;
You always found space for sin’s
pleasures,
But for Jesus you never had room.
Today is the day of Salvation,
Accept it before it’s too late;
Get ready, to enter with loved ones,
The beautiful, beautiful gate.
No sickness nor death will annoy you,
In heaven that city of light;
We’ll join in the glorious home-com
ing,
With Jesus and angels so bright.
Composed July 9, 1938,
By THOMAS' D. LYNN..
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.
tended repeatedly by congress, de
spite the fact that income of the fed
ei’al government has increased stead
ily. In 1937 internal revenue receipts
reached an all-time high record and
stood at more than four billion dol
lars above 1932 receipts, the year the
duplicating gasoline levy was enact
ed, the committee stated.
Petitions have been with congress
by about half the state urging that
the federal government withdraw
from the field of gasoline taxation,
and relinquish it to the states which
depend upon their gasoline tax rev
enue for funds to build roads. The
present law extends the tax to June
30, 1939, at which time it will lapse
unless congress again passes legisla
tion extending it.
ably below the 1928-32 average for
the third consecutive year.” But an
other large carry-over of feed grains
is in prospect, “and if yields are
near the levels of 1937 or 1938, sup
plies in 1939-40 again will be large
in relation to live stock number on
farms.”
Horses and Mules
Continue to Decline
The downward trend in horse and
mule number on farms in the United
States probably will continue for sev
eral years, says the bureau of agri
cultural economics.
Its annual report on the outlook for
horses and mules points out that the
832,000 horse and mule colts in 1937
was 400,000 head 1 short of the num
ber of work animals disappearing
■that year. “Even with expected in
creases in colt crops and smaller dis
appearance,” the report said, “it still
will be several years before the de
cline in work animal numbers will be
checked.”
Major changes in the farm power
situation are attributed to various
events of the past several years. The
droughts of 1934 and 1936 force:! the
sale of horses and mules in some
areas. Sleeping sickness and old age
increased the death rate of the work
stock. And farm labor has become
more “mechanically minded” as many
farm operations have shifted to trac
tor power.
The result has been a decrease in
the amount of farm work done by
workstock and an increase in the
amount done by tracitors. The rapid
ity with which this shift continues
and the time when it will be halted,
the bureau points ouit, will depend
V “We Merchants
KNOW That’s True”
the cotton mill in
our town is running regularly and its
employees are getting full time wages,
my business is good, and that’s true of
the filling station and the furniture
store and the doctor.
“We’ve watched this mill grow and the
town grow with it. The mill owners
have always done their best to provide
more jobs, better wages, and better
living conditions.
“An industry that pays $45,000,000
yearly to Georgia workers—that buys
an average of a million bales of cotton
a year, most of it from Georgia farm
ers—that pays a substantial portion of
Cotton Exports To
Chile Increase
September Shipments Show Consid
erable Gain Over Same Month
a Year Ago.
Exports of American cotton to
Chile amounted to 1,481 bales in Sep
tember, which is nearly twice the
amount in August and considerably
larger than the amount exported to
Chile a year ago.
This continues the trend in Chile
coward an increasingly large con
sumption of American cotton. For
he year ended July 31, 1938, Chile
purchased 11,510 bales of American
cotton, valued at $1,025,000, as com
jared with 5,202 bales in the corre
sponding period of the previous year
upon the relative prices of work ani
mals and tractors and of feed grain
and tractor fuel, upon the farm la
uor situation resulting from changing
economic conditions upon further im
provement in tractors, and upon the
development of disease contfol.
Horse and mule prices reached the
highest point in seventeen years dur
ing 1937, but during the latter pari
of 1937 and well into 1938, pricer
dropped 10 to 15 per cent, below those
of the previous year. But compared
with prices of all farm products, pri
ces of horses and mules were high
during the first eight months of 1938
than in any other since 1916. This
price relationship is expected to en
courage colt production during the
next year nr two.
$1,500 IN PHONE BOOK.
BOSTON. —Returning home late
Saturday night with $1,500 in SIOO
bills, Joseph V. Harkins put his day’s
receipts from his jewelry store be
tween the pages of his telephone di
rectory. Monday morning, a telephone
employe delivered a new directory
and carried off the old one—and Har
kins’ money. After a search through
75,000 old directories, Harkins found
his $1,500.
theTanswers
1. 54,324,930.
2. On April 16, 1938.
3. At Washington, in 1922.
4. 16,200 of her 55,000 square
miles; 4,800,000 of her 15,300,000
population.
5. Eighteen.
6. It is about twice as much.
7. October 27.
8. Not more than $3,000,000.
9. About $50,000,000.
IC. An estimated 85,000,000 persons
a week.
Riegeldale Cows Make
New Official Records
PETERBOROUGH, N. H.—Two
Guernsey cows owned by Riegeldale
farms, of Trion, have just finished
new official records for production
which entitles them to entry in the
advanced register of the American
Guernsey Cattle club. These animals
include 2 1-2-year-old Fancy’s Fair
Lady of Erinvine 436236, producing
9712.1 pounds of milk and 491.8
pounds of butterfat in class FF, and
2-year-old Douglaston Gharlotte 44,-
5870, producing 9682.0 pounds of
milk and 502.0 pounds of butterfat
in class GG.
In Fashion Now.
Some of the new scarfs are lovely.
There are Rodier woolens in warm
colors, and velvets in checks. Taffe
ta printed with pictures is another
outstanding design.
A new evening bag which features
the cosmetics in a pocket concealed
behind the drop front will be wel
comed by the woman who likes the
inside of her bag for other things.
Fabrics for evening are truly sump
tuous. There is a crepe almost as rich
as velvet and failles as well as moires
are quite elegant. Jerseys are good
also, but silk velvet is definitely the
iavorite fabric for evening.
One Parisian designer is trying to
introduce a skirt for afternoon and
nformal evening which is almost an
-:le length.
SAVES CITY $1,500.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Residents of a
north St. Louis street got wind of
-he fact that the old-time wooden
paving blocks were to be replaced
ay asphalt. So, they got busy and
ripped up the blocks, to be used for
stovewood, thus saving the city sl,-
500 for removing them.
National allotments established by
the agricultural conservation pro
gram are large enough to assure con
sumers a dependable supply of food.
Get the farm machinery under shel
ter for the winter —more equipment
rusts out than wears out on all too
many farms.
It took twenty years of straggle
before the farmers finallv got a law
in 1933 that was based on the prin
ciple of farm equality.
Field tests are the best to deter
mine what grades of fertilizer to use
for certain crops.
the taxes that support our schools and
roads and institutions—is tremendous
ly important to the commercial life of
every community and to the State as a
whole—LET’S KEEP THE COTTON
MILLS IN GEORGIA.”
LET S KEEP/^r
COTTON MILLS
IN GEORGIA
Housing Conditions
In Georgia Surveyed
ATLANTA, Nov. 14 (GPS).—WPA
workers are surveying housing con
diations in eight Georgia cities, gath
ering data for local housing authori
ties on slum clearance projects and
proposals, it was announced by the
state office of the works progress
administration in Atlanta.
Surveys are being conducted in At
lanta, Savannah, Augusta, Macon,
Milledgeville, Columbus, Albany, and
Marietta. Similar projects will be
started soon in Athens and Rome,
and applications for projects in
Brunswick, Cedartown and Thomas
ville are pending.
A total of $16,C00,000 already has
been earmarked for slum clearance
and low-cost housing projects in Geor
gia. Atlanta’s $9,000,000 is the larg
est allocation for slum cleanance in
the state. This will be matched with
$900,000 put up by the Atlanta hous
ing authority, of which Charles F.
Palmer, president of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, is chairman.
Golden Gleams.
No man is free who is not master
of himself—Epictetus.
Riches do not consist in the pos
session but in the use of things.—
Plutarch.
What care I for robe or stole?
It is the soul, it is the soul;
What for crowd, or what ‘for frest ?
It is the heart within the breast.
It is the faith, it is the hope,
It is the struggle up the slope,
It is the brain and eye to see
One God, and one humanity.
—Loveman.
Our eounti-y hath a gospel of her
own to preach and practice before the
world—the freedom and divinity of
man, the glorious aims of universal
brotherhood, and the soul’s fealty to
none but God. —Lowell.
39 WET COUNTIES; 9 DRY.
ATLANTA, Nov. 14 (GI*S).
Here’s the liquor situation in Geor
gia:
Thirty-nine counties have * voted
wet and nine dry since Georgia’s leg
islature enacted the local option al
cohol control act in the 1937-38 spe
cial session. s> check-un in the revenue
department disclosed.
Dade county, the latest to vote, op
posed sale of liquor legally within its
borders by a vote of approximately
two-ito-one.