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Farm Bureau News
me state r’arm Bureau last
week, through the courtesy of
Mr. Benson, received a brochure
from the Secretary explaining in
detail how his new farm program
would work. Farmers no doubt
will be in:erested in Mr. Benson's
views.
First Mr. Benson says the
small farmers, about 3,500,000,
receive little benefit from price
supports, contribute little or
nothing <ls per cent) to the na
tion’s food supply, and therefore
are the heart of the farm prob- ;
lem. Mr. Benson divides farmers
into different groups and recom
mends as follows:
(D Part-time Farmers—find
better off-farm employment op
portunities.
(2) Full-time Farmers On In
adequate Units—move the peo
ple from such units and the
gradual retirement from agricul
ture of the land.
(3) Farmers On Inadequate
Farms That Can be Developed or
Enlarged—within this group Mr.
Benson says are those less adapt
ed to efficient farming and will
be faced with the necessity of
leaving Agriculture. Quoting Mr.
Benson ’ They can best use a
program similar to that suggest
ed for Group ll”—that is. move
them off the land.
Mr. Benson says however
“There are also within this
group many who with adequate
resources, can become efficient
farm operators” For those the
Secretary would find a solution
through an expanded program of
supervised credit for the de
velopment and enlargement of
land resource, individual guid
ance geared to the financing
program, and an education pro
gram to stimulate incentive to
make improvement.
For those farmers on units
producing inadequate incomes
because of insufficient working
capital and inadequate manage
ment skills the Secretary would
resort to a program of super
vised credit, individual farmer i
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WEEKLY
LETTER
YOUR CONGRESSMAN REPORTS .
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"THE HOUR IS LATE”
With these impressive words,
The hour is late—too late for
complacent smoking room con
versation”, the magazine Time
for June 28th refers to the meet
ing now going on between Win
ston Churchill and Anthony
Eden for the United Kingdom
and President'Eisenhower and
Secretary of State Dulles for the
United States. Without a doubt
this conference is of momentous
importance to the free world.
Our relations with Britain have
been steadily deteriorating and
the breach between the two
countries was widened by a
speech made to the House of
Commons just, before Mr. Eden
left for Washington. His speech
proposes appeasement and a
Southeastern “Munich” as the
solution of communist infiltra
tion and aggression in Southeast
Asia. It is difficult to see how
Eden and Chqrchill can expect
United States cooperation on
the basis of Eden’s proposal to
accept the present conquests of
the communists and go even
further and guarantee to pre
serve them.
Our American foreign policy
has been weak, uncertain, vacil
lating, and divided. The ex
travagant talk of some of Amer
ica’s leaders, which amounted to
pure bluff has frightened our
allies and has made difficult the
formation of a realistic coalition ■
of nations of the free world to
prevent further communist ag
gression in Southeastern Asia
Yet it is imperative that some
agreement on this issue be
reached between the two English
speaking nations. If the uncer
tainty, weakness, and division
continue among the Western
guidance, and a program to
stimulate “incentive to make im
provements.”
For those farmers “with in
adequate incomes because of
failure to employ best technical
skills”, a group problem de
scribed by Mr. Benson” as basi
cally the failure to keep abreast
of agricultural developments”,
the Secretary would resort to
education and supervise credit
“in those cases where continual
use of inefficient practices has
depleted capital.”
Mr. Benson fails to attach or
comment on the importance cf
{. rice or lack of price received by
he farmer. Read this column
next week for Mr. Benson’s
recommended support price
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(nations, Southeast Asia will soon
be lost to the communists. This
is truely a dismal prospect and
would eventually mean a ghastly
and bloody struggle for survival
cn the part of the free nations.
Soon the United states would be
an armed fortress fighting for
its very survival.
OTHER MATTERS TO
BE SETTLED
In addition to the question of
; a united defense against com
munist aggression, other matters
of vital importance to America
v/ill no douot be discussed by the
British and United States repre
sentatives. The question of how
German strength may be in
corporated into the defensive
forces of the West in Europe
must be discussed since the pos
sibility of the ratification by
France of the European defense
community plan grows slimmer
each day. Furthermore, in the
Middle East the United States
and Britain should get together
on the question of Iranian oil
and should seek to find a com
mon ground for agreement on
the situation in Egypt.
FOREIGN AID
Scheduled for debate on Mon
day and Tuesday, June 28 and
29th, is the proposed Mutual Se
curity Act of 1954. This is the
bill that would authorize ap
propriations later for military
defense support for our allies in |
Europe and Asia, and technical
aid to friendly nations with
backward economics. The impor
tance of this bill canot be over
emphasized. Realizing its impor
tance. President Eisenhower has
just sent a special message to the
Congress urging that the s3*/2
billion he has requested be voted
by the Congress. As a member of
levels, commodity by commodity.
For example, cottonseed is now
supported at 75 per cent of
parity, ^he minimum allowed un
der the present program. Instead
cf discretionary power at the
hand of the Secretary ranging
from 75 to 90 per cent, Mr. Ben
son, in his new plans, asks that
he has discretionary power to
support cottonseed at any level
from zero to 90 per cent. Market
ing quotas would be eliminated
on some commodities, thus as
ruring that the farmer would re
ceive the minimum guarantee.
Your Farm Bureau, needless to
say, is opposed to and is fight
ing the obnoxious proposals in
the Secretary’s farm program
plan.
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A Diet Badly Needed
the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs I have assisted in the I
preparation of the bill and the
Committee has worked long and
hard to reduce the bill to its low
est possible terms and to pro
tect the United States from any
extravagance or waste in the ad
ministration of the Act.
I cannot emphasize too
strongly that this foreign aid is
not a “give away” program. It is
designed primarily for our own
national security. It is popular
to criticise foreign aid and its
enemies like to picture it as a
global WPA But if Western
civilization is to be saved, the
Western world must remain
strong and it is absolutely essen
tial that we help the nations of
Western Europe increase their
military power, their industrial
strength, and their psychological
health and their will to fight.
EUROPE SAVED FROM
COMMUNISM
It is popular to say that the
money America has spent since
the end of World War 11, in rq-
I storing the economics of the
I countries of Western Europe and
: in making it possible for tnem to
rebuild their military strength,
has been money wasted or poor
,ed down a rat hole. It was
my pleasure to hear General
Gruenther, who is the Supreme
Commander of the NATO forces
in Western Europe, testify on
•he situation in Western Europe
today. General Gruenther says
that our military strength at
home and our foreign aid pro
।m am have prevented Soviet
military expansion in Europe. No
less an authority than the Wall
Street Journal in its issue for
June 25 corrobrates General
Gruenther’s views. The General
is a brilliant and capable Army
Officer and is certain that for
our security we must maintain
the strength of our allies in
Europe. The same thing is true
with reference to our allies in
Asia where the danger of com
। munlst aggression has shifted
since the free world has grown
| stronger in Europe.
TRADE or aid?
People are inclined to forget
that our own economy has been
strengthened and kept on a rea
sonably high plane by our for
| f ign aid program. It has enabled
। the countries of Europe to trade
with America, thereby maintain
ing our own economy and at the
same time strengthening the:r
I economies. The only alternative
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 30, 1954
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts $1,598 368 61
Government Bonds L 917.531.25
State and Municipal Bonds 548.823 25
Cash on Hund and Due from Banks 705.199 21
Banking House. Furniture und Fixtures . . . 110/791,52
Other Real Estate 891.00
Accrued Interest on Bonds Purchased .... 48 94
$4,881,851.78
LIABILITIES:
Capital $ 100.000 00
Surplus i 00.000.00
Undivided Profits ........... 9621273
Reserves 99.964 33
Deposits 4,485.474.72
$4,881,651.78
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
STATE'S SURPLUS
OVER s2l MILLION
ATLANTA—(GPS» It’s a good I
thing the State of Georgia didn’t
purchase all that red ink some
people were saying would be
needed at the end of the fiscal ■
year, just ended. Reason: She |
wouldn’t hav any use for it.
This became evident as State
Auditor B. E. Thrasher Jr. re
leased final year-end figures
which showed that revenues
were $225,440,107 and budget al
locations were $224,959,941, a
difference of nearly one-half a
million dollars. In all, the state
ended the fiscal year with a
surplus of $21,195,278.
The auditor pointed out, how
ever, that most of the surplus
funds have been committed for
the coming year. Approximately
$19.5-million is to be spent for
increased costs of the various
departments, including more
than sls-million which will go
to the S ate Department of Edu
cation for additional teachers,
upgrading teachers’ salaries and
other cost items under the Mini
mum Foundation Program.
The brighter - than - some-ex
pected fiscal picture is due main
ly to two things: (1) Increased
sales and gasoline tax collections
and (21 a six per cent across
the-board cut in spending or
dered by Gov. Herman Talmadge
at the beginning of the last fiscal
year.
Business Trips Won't
Jeopardize Veterans
G. I. Bill Training
A prolonged business trip will
not jeopardize a trainee’s GI
to economic aid if of course a
trade policy that would lower our
tariff barriers and permit n
c; eased trade between other na
tions of the world and our own
nation. The present Congress is
not willing to lower trade bar
riers, so some aid must continue.
President Eisenhower recently
emphasized the importance of
increased trade in the case of
’apan whici' will inevitably tu'n
to trade with the communists if
we do not make it possible ior
her merchants to trade with us.
Bill training entitlement if in
the VA’s judgment there is suf
ficient justification for the trip,
Peter Wheeler, Director of the
State Department of Veterans
Sendee, said today.
Wheeler citied the case of a
WW II veteran who is pursuing
GI Bill training at night. He
holds a job that normally doesn't
require him to travel, but he
finds that he must take a three
week business trip and conse
quently interrupt his training.
How does he stand as to
whether he can resume his GI
Bill training upon returning
from the trip? He has nothing
to worry about on that score,
Wheeler said, as the VA con
siders such a temporary inter
ruption as one caused by “valid
reason,” so long as it doesn’t last
for more than four months.
If it should last longer,. the
veteran would be required to
show the VA that he couldn’t
possibly have resumed his train
ing earlier. Each case is weighed
on its own merits.
Wheeler invited interested per
sons to come by the nearst
branch office of the State De
partment of Veterans Service
for advice ad assistance.
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Thursday, July 8, 1954
Scholarships To
Piedmont Hospital
Are Announced
Nine scholarships will be
awarded within the next month
by Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital
School of Nursing for its fall
term beginning in September.
Miss Genevieve Garren, school
director, today asked that ap
plications be sent in without de
lay by interested high school
graduates between 17 and 30
years of age. The scholarships
will be awarded on a basis of the
graduates’ high schpol records
and in the order received. More
than one girl in one community
is eligible.
George R. Burt, hospital su
perintendent, stated that this
year’s nursing students will
probably be among the first to
serve in the new Piedmont, to be
built on Peachtree Road. It is
expected that ground will be
broken within the next few
months for the structure, slated
to be one of the most modern
hospitals in the entire nation.
Piedmont is a non-profit com
munity hospital and will con
tinue to operate that way, ac
cording to Burt.