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FARM BRIEFS
By WHITNEY THARIN,
Extension Editor.
The Rural Electrification administra
tion has selected a Georgia agricultural
extension service bulletin on the use of
portable electric motors for distibution
to every REA project in the nation. An
order for 150,000 copies of the bulletin
has been received by the extension edi
tor. The order was accompanied by a
government voucher to cover printing
costs. John Carmody, administrator of
the REA, explained that the publication,
entitled “A Portable Motor For Georgia
Farms” and written by J. L. Calhoun,
extension rural electrification specialist,
had been selected for distribution on all
REA projects because “the portable mo
tor is valuable to farmers everywhere.”
Dean Paul W. Chapman of the Uni
versity of Georgia’s College of Agricul
ture has announced that SIOO scholar
ships will be awarded to twenty-three
outstanding Georgia farm boys who plan
to attend the university Jn September.
The scholarships to be awarded “deserv
ing” farm youths are made possible by
an Atlanta business firm, (Sears Roe
buck and Co). The farm boys will study
agriculture or agricultural engineering.
Selection of the winners will be based
upon practical work with live stock and
poultry and on general scholarship as
evidenced by high school records. Proj
ects whiph boys have carried on in con
nection with 4-H club or other demon
stration work will be taken into consid
eration. Applications for the scholarships
must be filed through county agents or
vocational agricultural teachers, in time
to reach Dean Chapman at Athess be
fore July 1. Announcement of the awards
will be made about Aug. 1.
The question has been raised as to
when acreage devoted to small fruits,
such as strawberries, and vegetables is
considered as being non-depleting under
the Triple-A farm program. Triple-A of
ficials say that acreage devoted to small
fruits and vegetables that are entirely
consumed on the farm is considered as
having been produced in home gardens
for use on the farm and such acreage is
classified as non-depleting. On the other
hand, the acreage devoted to any small
fruit or vegetable, a part of which is
used for commercial purposes, shall be
considered as soil-depleting.
The seasonal incease in hog market
ings now in progress probably will con
tinue into June, according to the bureau
of agricultural economics. Marketings of
fall pigs are expected to get under way
in large volume in the next few weeks;
the 1938 fall pig crop was 18 per cent,
larger than the 1937 fall crop. Consumer
demand for hog products thus far in
1939 has been stronger than in the early
months of 1938. For the entire 1939 de
mand is expected to be stronger than in
1938, but any improvement from present
levels which may occur probably will not
be great.
Marked changes have been made in the
poultry and egg industry in recent years.
Twenty years ago the production of
chickens and eggs was commonly regard
ed as a “pin money” enterprise for the
farmer’s wife; today it is a commercial
ized —in many ways, a mechanized —in-
dustry that adds more than a billion dol
lars annually to the farm income. Near
ly 6,000,000 farms in the United States
have poultry flocks.
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There is a persistent demand upon the
part of the people of this state that the
government of Georgia shall be efficient,
and that every possible saving be effect
ed through proper economy before fiscal
and revenue revision is undertaken by an
emergency session of the assembly. The
tendency in governmental costs, whether
national, state, county or municipal,
seems upward today, and the people are
asking that there be a time of taking
stock to determine that duplication of
effort, carelessness, expediency, political
influence and inefficiency do not take
too great a share of the tax dollar.
Money saved by a state, or any unit
of government, is not 'new money’ that
can replace taxes directly. But. if every
economy is effected, if the governmental
agency operates efficiently, there is that
much more money available without in
creasing the tax burden. The savings in
Georgia are going to be important; they
will not render it unnecessary to revise
our tax system and get more revenue, but
the increased efficiency and the economy
incidental to it will mean that the tax
dollar will be spent more wisely.
Where will these economies be found,
and what will they amount to?
Some of the spectacular claims by self
assertive exponents of economy are obvi
ously without merit. The instances of
culpable waste are not met so frequent
ly. But there are many instances where
loopholes in our laws have caused the
same work to be done twice, or have ne
cessitated one agency maintaining an ex
pensive division when much greater econ
omy and efficiency could have been ob
tained by grouping that work with sim
ilar work in another agency.
The most fertile single field in which
money can be saved, probably, is in the
item of salaries fqr teachers. The ‘sev
en month school act’ was a fine piece of
legislation ; but it left the way open for
one spectacular bit of waste that can not
be charged to the department of educa
tion, which must administer the law as
it appears on the statute books. In al
lotting money for teachers, no provision
was made that, in order to receive state
funds to pay a teacher’s salary, the
teacher must actually teach a minimum
class of twenty students. As a result,
while overburdened teachers vastly in th<
majority lacked their full pay, an esti
mated $200,000 annually went for teach
ers who had four, five or six students.
WITH THE STARS
‘Dawn,’ based on the tragic career of
Edith Cavell, will start production soon.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Anna Nea
gle will have the leads . . .
Dorothy Thompson has written a story
about two journalists embroiled in wbrld
politics. It is entitled ‘American Girl;’
and is based on her romance with Sin
clair Lewis. Warners may make it into
a picture . . .
Paul Muni, who was tentatively as
signed to the hading role in 'The Bishop
Walked With God,’ has been withdrawn
and the studio is seeking Carl Esmond
for the part. Esmond was the German
aviator in ‘Dawn Patrol’ . . .
When Geraldine Fitzgerald gets back
from Ireland she will he cast with John
Garfield in ‘Forgive Us Our Trespasses’.
A remake of ‘Around the World in
I Eighty Days’ is scheduled for the near
future. The picture is adapted from the
Jules Verne novel and was made sever
al years ago in France . . .
Vivien Leigli may appear in ‘Rebecca’
when she finished her role of Scarlett
O’Hara . . .
Universal will release the English
made picturization of ‘The Mikado,’ star
ring Kenny Baker, with the D’Oyly
Carte players, during the coming season.
Also on their schedule will be seven out
door pictures with Richard Arlen and
Andy Divine and seven westerns starring
John Mack Brown . . .
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce will
appear in a sequel to ‘The Hound of the
i Baskervilles.’ It will be entitled ‘Sher
lock Holmes.’ . . .
Alice Faye is spending a while in New
York and will be there until after the
i premiere of her new film, ‘Rose of Wash
ington Square’ . . .
Joe Penner and his wife sailed to Ber-
j muda, recently, for a holiday . . .
Buck Jones and Hoot Gibson may be
seen soon in a film with Errol Flynn.
; Parts are being written in for the cow
boys in ‘The Diary of the Sante Fe’ . .
Greer Garson, a British actress, has
been assigned the lead in Metro's film
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1939.
The next greatest saving that can b
effected, probably, would fall in the de
partment of law. The ‘Reorganization
Act of 1931’ provided for a new handling
of the state’s intricate legal affairs, but
did not foresee the day when new agen
cies, federal spending, and a broader pro
gram of state service would require a big
ger legal staff. As a result, with the cre
ation of each new agency, there has been
created an expensive legal staff, when by
much less costly enlargement of the ex
isting constitutional department of law
the legal work would have been handled
more effectively, more efficiently and
with a probable saving of $100,090 an
nually.
The failure to establish, by legislative
enactment, a uniform salary scale cover
ing all departments of the state has re
sulted in many inequalities in pay for
minor employes in various agencies.
There is a spread of almost 100 per cent.,
for example, between the lowest pay
scale for typists and the highest pay
scale. In the one instance the salary level
is too low; in the second instance it is
too high. A possible saving of $50,000 a
year from stabilized state salary sched
ules could be achieved, but, more import
ant, the morale of employes would be
vastly improved by a recognition that in
state departments there applies the rule
of “equal work, equal pay.”
Miscellaneous savings, that may be ef
fected by lopping off a few non-essential
services or by reducing overhead in cer
tain departments, such as public welfare,
by a simplification of procedure, and
which can be achieved by a unified pur
chasing system for state departments and
by “borrowing” engineering services for
other agencies from the highway board,
in their total may amount to $150,000
annually, or even slightly more.
All these savings total $500,000, or
approximately half the cost of the sys
tem of free textbooks or the cost cf op
erating the Alto hospital. The saving is
important for two reasons: first, because
it means more services for the same
pioney, and, second, because waste is a
habit and bad habits grow.
But these savings will not finance
Georgia’s Program. Only additional rev
enue can meet payments for the seven
inonth school term, the assistance pro
gram for the aged, dependent children
and the crippled and blind. And revenue
can be obtained by a state from only one
source; taxes on its citizens.
version of ‘Susan and God’ . . .
A picture costing $1,000,000 will be
made with Richard Dix playing the part
of George Washington. The story will
be based on the first president’s life . . .
Johnny Weismuller is anxious to get
out of the jungle and wear a tuxedo in
a picture for a change. He says his fan
mail indicates that people think he can
do nothing but babble and let out blood
curdling yells . . .
Norma Shearer thinks she photographs
better in black and white, Joan Craw
ford knows that technicolor flatters her.
They are co-stars in ‘The Women.’ One
wonders what the outcome will be . . .
Because of her stage success, ‘Phila
delphia Story,’ Katherine Hepburn is
getting good offers from studios that
wouldn’t look at her six months ago . . .
Isabel Jewel makes a hit in ‘Of Mice
and Men’ . . .
CARD OF THANKS.
We take this method of thanking our
many frie’nds, both white and colored,
for the kindness shown us during the ill
ness and death of our mother and grand
mother. Especially do we thank Mr. and
Mrs. Hale, Mrs. John B. Whisnant, Mrs.
Trimble and Mrs. Smith, of Summerville;
Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy, of Menlo; also
P. L. Hendrix (colored). The floral of
ferings were many and beautiful. May
God’s richest blessings ever abide with
each one.
JULIA STURDIVANT,
SQUIRE STURDIVANT.
HAWKINS STURDIVANT.
MARY ELLIS (Grandchild)
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seen “a spooky-looking thing.” The “spir
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“BETTER EDUCATION FOR GEOR
GIA MOVEMENT”
(By Ralph L. Ramsey, Director)
"Education, Please.” has been making
an effort for the past ten or twelve
weeks to furnish information and mate
rial to the people of Georgia with refer
ence to the needs of education in this
state. We have steadfastly' believed that
education must undertake to meet what
ever problems the state faces, and we
sincerely believe that 'lack of education
and lack of information is the funda
mental cause of most of our problems.
Fact-Finding Committee.
A fact-finding committee was appoint
ed by the department of superintendents
and board members of the Georgia Edu
cation association, and was endorsed by
the representative assembly of the G. E.
A. The purpose of the committee and its
work was to find the facts of the finan
cial situation of the state government as
it affects the state school program. The
members of the committee are business
and professional men, all of whom have
business obligations or hold positions
which demand their attention. But they
have given themselves without reserva
tion to this work, and the results are
now ready for publication and for the
information of the public.
Wrong Impressions.
There have been misconceptions on the
part of the general public as to why the
appropriations made to the general fund
by the legislature of 1937 for the year
1938-39 have not been and can not be
paid. Due to certain statements made
and reports given out during the session
of the legislature, the general impression
has been that funds to pay these appro
priations were available. The statement
has been made more than once that the
teachers of the state, whose salaries are
now paid only in half, could have been
paid had the funds not been wasted. It
was to try to ascertain if these state
ments were true and to try to find out
the actual facts that do exist and furnish
the information to the public that the
committee was appointed, and to this
task they have devoted a great deal of
time and labor for the past thirty days.
The committee having finished its work,
20,000 or more copies have been printed
and will be distributed to the public.
Facts.
After all studies have been made and
all investigations have been completed,
the fact remains that a 12% million dol
lar income will not pay a 21 milion dol
lar appropriation. Any waste and ex
travagance that can be found should be
and is condemned. No excuses should be
offered for it. Useless employes should
be dismissed. Departments which are not
rendering a real and necessary service
should be discontinued. But in the face
of this, and banding such waste and ex
travagance as contemptible in every
language, we respectfully remind the
members of the general assembly and the
public that the teachers of the public
school system and the university system
are not to blame for this situation and
Jiould not be penalized if it exists. We
respectfully remind those whose respon
sibility it is to make appropriations and
to raise revenue to meet them; those
who made appropriations on which sal
ary schedules were based and on which
teachers agreed in good faith to teach
and have taught; those who made
pledges by resolution that they would
keep faith with the teachers, and bn
which pledge of faith teachers continued
to teach on the belief and with the hope
that the pledge would be fulfilled, that
the state still owes the teachers of
Georgia $5,268,000, and will owe them,
as a binding, moral obligation, on July
1, whatever balance remains unpaid at
that time.
And we remind those to whom this
service has been rendered that this obli
gation can not be met and this program
be continued without additional revenue.
It is an abiding and an accepted princi
ple in mathematical science that two and
two makes four. Twelve and one-half
million dollars won’t add up to twenty
one million dollars. The only way this
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and the people of this state, if they want
this program to continue and the schools
to remain open, must accept the respon
sibility of supporting the members of the
legislature in whatever revenue measures
may be found necessary to meet these
needs.