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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. H. GROSS, Proprietor
Entered at the Poat Office at Alamo,
Georgia, aa aecond c!m» mail matter, May
18th, 1918, under Act of CougreM.
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
David Morris Potter, Jr., Augusta,
has been given the graduate school
award of the Bulkley fellowship lu
history at Yale University.
Congressman Castellow In letter re
ceived recently In Fitzgerald asserts
that W. A. Adams has been reappoint
ed postmaster at Fitzgerald.
Forty-six young Lowndes county
mon have been selected from among
more than 800 applicants as recruits
for the civilian conservation corps.
Richard W. Smith, of the state de
partment of forestry and geology, is
making a survey of Henry county to
locate deposits of mica, feldspar and
primary kaolin.
Moultrie merchants observe that
advances in the price of cotton, hogs
and corn have made this "a chang
ed world.” Moultrie is the site of a
large packing house.
The income of the general treas
ury of the state for the first four
months of this year was $1,689,311.30
leas than the Income during the first
four months of 1932.
Reports from newspaper corre
spondents all over the state show that
business is "picking up.” Prices are
advancing, factories are turning over
wheels and farmers are getting ready
for better prices.
The Georgia public service commis
sion has under advisement a request
made by the Savannah traffic bureau
for reduction of express charges on
shucked oyster to the level of those
for other seafoods.
E. Walter Tripp, candidate for In
ternal revenue collector for the north
ern district of Georgia, is receiving a
hearty support by the laboring people
throughout the district. His many
friends feel assured that he will be
the chosen one for this position.
Exports of merchandise from Geor
gia In 1932 were valued at $23,403,595
compared with $31,233,564 in 1931. ac
cording to information made public
recently by the statistical division of
the commerce department.
A cabbage with twin heads, the total
weighing eight pounds, was grown on
the cabbage patch of E. A. Moreland,
near Thomasville. The same step
supports both heads, which aro per
fectly formed and a fine variety.
One of the large granite quarries
In Hancock county, about three miles
out of Sparta, on the Duggan prop-
erty, has been leased by the Chupp
Granite company, and much building
atone will be cut and shipped out of
that county.
The Christian Index, Dr. 0. P. Gil
bert, editor. In its current issue, car
ries tho program of th 8 centennial
celebration of the Mercer University,
Macon. The celebration will take
place at Penfield, just out of Greens
boro, the original site of the univer
sity.
Publication of a new weekly news
paper, the Metter News, will be launch
ed in Metter in tho near future. H. R.
Yandle is the editor and proprietor.
He and his wife have been connected
with newspapers in Athens and in
Lyons. Mrs. Yandle is now postmaster
of Metter.
Reduction in railroad passenger
faros between all points In Georgilf
to 2 cents a mile for one-way tickets
and to one-aud-one-half cents a mile
for round-trip tickets has been order
ed by the public service commission,
James A. Perry, the commission chair
man. has announced.
The demand for lumber has been
picking up within the past few weeks,
wholesale dealers have announced at
Moultrie. Orders are being received
from many cities. For the first time
in a number of months one big whole
saler at Moultrie declared that he
made some profit in April.
A distinct upturn In economic con
ditions as they affect the fanner and
business generally is reported by Com
missioner of Agriculture G. C. Adams.
Speaking at the annual agriculture
day celebration sponsored by the Can
ton Chamber of Commerce, he pre
dicted a gradual return to better con
ditions for the rural population, es
pecially in the South.
New hands are tending lighthouse
on Tybee Island, for Captain Wil
liam Lindquist has retired after 36
years devoted to keeping ships off the
rocks and sand bars of the Atlantic
coast. The captain figures a third of
a century given to seafaring entitles a
man to the calm of a landlubber's life,
so he and his wife have settled down
In a cozy little home in Savannah,
which he bought with bis savings.
National Topics Interpreted /
by William Bruckart
Washington.—ln all of the hustle
and bustle of getting things done tn
this crisis, it seems
Reversal of to me that one of
Power, ‘ he ™
formations of all
time has taken place. I refer to the
reversal of powers that are exercised
by congress and the Chief Executive.
Actually, in the period of a little over
two months, or since Franklin D.
Roosevelt became President, congress
has abdicated much power In favor of
the President and the President, In
turn, has given to congress a veto
power which it never has had before.
It w’lll be recalled that the Consti
tution prescribes the limits of author
ity of the legislative, executive and
judicial branches of our government.
Congress was supposed to be the check
on the executive powers Just as the
President, through the exercise of a
veto on legislation, was to be the
check on acts of the national legisla
ture. The courts, or the Supreme
court of the United States, were given
a whip hand over both.
The circumstances of It all are so im
portant and the procedure so unique
that a review of the period probably
is necessary to set out the picture.
Further, there is no doubt In the
minds of many authorities and many
students of government that the things
which have happened are going to af
fect the future of this nation vitally
and in ways of which we do not
dream. From the perspective of the
present, it is made to appear that
they could not have happened except
for the crisis through which the na
tion, and the world, has passed. Yet It
remains as fact that congress has
turned over to President Roosevelt
authority which It may recall to itself
only with the greatest difficulty.
• • •
Chronologically, events have trans
plred something In this order:
The President took office as the
banking structure of the nation was
crumbling. He act-
Epochal ed without delay,
and then asked con
gress to support his
hand with the legislation that was nec
essary. Congress had no choice. It
voted the emergency banking bill
through In record time. That legisla
tion would have taken years otherwise
to have been enacted. Hut congress
was scared I
Next came the authority for reor
ganization of the government. It was
put through quickly because every
body In congress wanted to save
money and balance the budget. Also,
most members of congress saw a nice
sideroad which they could travel and
avoid meeting face to face with the
question of reducing the payment to
veterans. They did not fancy cutting
government salaries, either. So they
thought it was fine to “let Franklin do
it.” He acted promptly and with neat
ness, saving probably more than four
hundred millions a year in what he
believed to be unwarranted payments
to veterans and one-fourth ns much
more in other ways.
It was in this legislation as well as
In the banking act that congress be
gan to give away its control. The
statement can fairly be made that the
bulk of house and senate members had
no comprehension of what was done
by the banking act, but the same can
not be said of the reorganization act.
That was simple legislation. It said
In plain language that the President
could make about any changes tn the
structure of the government which he
deemed advisable. He was to do it by
executive order and If congress had
not acted affirmatively in a prescribed
time, the executive order stood ns law.
To those unacquainted with the pro
cedure, the reversal of practice may
not be so apparent But after con
gress had delegated that authority to
the President, it can stop his action
only by a two-thirds vote. That Is
difficult to obtain except in an emer
gency.
• • •
Assume, for an illustration, that
congress Is dissatisfied with some
move made by the
Veto Power President in connec-
Hon " ith reorgnnl
of Congress zatlon flnd (t pagses
a resolution setting aside that par
ticular executive order. Mere passage
of the resolution does not make it the
law of the land, for there is yet the
signature of the President to be ob
tained. If the President chose to veto
the resolution, the congress then to
make its will effective must repass
that resolution by a majority of two
thlrds. It thus exercises veto power,
something hitherto unknown.
Now, as to the banking act: the Pres
ident was given broad discretionary
power to reconstruct the banking sys
tem. True, it was an emergency, a
crisis. But that legislation went so
far as to permit the Chief Executive
to take over and operate the federal
reserve banks. By that means, it is
not beyond a stretch of imagination
that he actually can control the com
mercial banks of the country. The tie
up between the federal reserve banks
and the privately owned commercial
banks is so close that control of the
one opens hundreds of avenues by
which the other may be reached.
Congress can withdraw that power
bv repealing the legislation. It is
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA
supreme in that field. Yet, In order
to repeal the law, the repealer must
be signed by the President.
* * *
Along came the farm bill to which
was added the Inflation amendment
presented by Senator Thomas of Ok
lahoma. No more dictatorial power
ever was accorded the head of any
government, except the absolute mon
archy, than Is given to the President
of our country. In the farm bill It
self there Is power to control crop
production, a power to restrict acre
age, if the Chief Executive wants to
go that far.
In the Thomas Inflation amendment,
the authority is given the Chief Execu
tive to change the value of your money
and mine, at whatever time he sees
fit. He can make the gold dollar
worth half what it was heretofore;
he can use silver to an extent he
deems necessary, and he appears to
have been given power to arrange
treaties on monetary standards with
out even consulting again with the
congress. It had always been sup
posed that the Constitution required
the advice and consent of the senate
on treaties, but the authority now ap
parently rests In the hands of the
Chief Executive alone.
Between the banking legislation and
the farm bill, with Its Inflation sec
tion, congress voted the President the
right to organize a new “army” of up
wards of 250,000 men. The reforesta
tion bill that became law called for
the mobilization of a "citizen's con
servation corps,” a legitimate peace
time organization for the purpose of
re-establishing a source of timber sup
ply. Mr. Roosevelt was given wide
discretion as to bow that corps would
be recruited, trained and used. It Is
a matter clear out of the hands of
congress.
Others are yet to come. Among
them Is the railroad legislation that Is
now shaping up. The President can
become monarch of the rail systems
through the federal co-ordlnator for
which the legislation provides.
• * *
One hears a good deal of discus
sion in Washington respecting the
powers which the
Power, in President has been
Better Hands ^ Generally
speaking, the con
clusion Is that they are In better
hands than If they remained with
congress under the present circum
stance. Tho President has demon
strated that he knows what he wants,
and most members of congress are
afraid to deny requests which he
makes.
Take the Inflation amendment for
example. Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly
saw a tidal wave of inflation senti
ment In congress. It was there. So
In order to maintain control, he placed
himself nt the head of the Inflation
parade. It Is unthinkable that he will
ever use all of the various powers
given him lu the Inflation amendment,
for he knows that the remedy would
be worse than the disease they seek
to cure in most Instances. But by the
simple expedient of Inviting the Infla
tionists to dump all of their remedies
Into one basket and to give him dis
cretionary power to use them as he
desires, he continued to command the
forces. I have heard It suggested fre
quently that many of the inflationists
do not realize yet how they let the
thing get away from them.
And it did get away. Having made
the means available once, there are
not so many senators and representa
tives who will vote to make it manda
tory now. If they did, the President
could veto the bills and there seems
little chance of enough votes to pass
that sort of thing over the veto of the
Chief Executive.
• • •
Observers here used to think that
Calvin Coolidge kept the politicians In
congress “up in the
Keeps Them air” by the manner
Guessing ln ’2 lch „ he
guessed them. The
judgment now Is that Roosevelt has
improved on the Coolidge plan to the
point where his plans take on ele
ments of mystery. The action In the
case of the Inflation ghost is typical.
It was wholly unexpected. He keeps
things to himself until his mind Is
made up. Then, without further ado
a brief message goes to congress and
the thing is done. The method has
proved immensely practical as well as
effective. Whether the results are
right or wrong Is not within the realm
of my discussion.
• • •
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader In the senate, con
tinues to have his troubles in keeping
Senator Huey Long, of Louisiana, on
the party reservation. Senator Long,
the self-styled kingfish, just won't
stand hitched. Consequently, clashes
between Robinson and the klngflsh are
frequent since the Democratic leader
Is equipped with a vicious tongue and
more than the average amount of cour
age.
The kingfish does more talking than
any other senator. It irks Roblnsoa
to see his plans upset as the klngflsh
frequently upsets them by his long,
rambling speeches into which he sprin
kles numerous quotations from ths
Bible.
©. 1939, Western Newspaper Union.
TORNADOES FATAL
TO 58 IN SOUTH
Terrific Winds Also Sweep
Through Illinois.
Shreveport, La.—Tornadoes which
swept through Louisiana, Arkansas
and Missouri almost destroyed one
town and took a total of lives which
mounted to 58 as reports from isolat
ed communities were received.
The town of Minden, in northwest
ern Louisiana, bore the brunt of the
storm. Deaths In Minden and the Im
mediate vicinity were placed at 40,
but It was feared search of wreckage
would yield more bodies.
The storm which wrecked Minden
appeared first near Magnolia, Ark.,
Just north of the Louisiana Jine. It
did minor damage In Magnolia and
swept through Calhoun, a few miles
to the south. Then it tore into Louisi
ana and through Minden, wiping out
an extensive residence section and
damaging business buildings. Arcadia,
some twenty miles east, next reported
the tornado.
A tornado also struck a small re
gion along the northern Arkansas-
Missouri border, wrecking 14 homes
between West Plains, Mo., and Salem,
Ark.
More than 1,000 persons were re
ported injured In the tornadoes, many
critically. Damage to crops and
farms was heavy. Most of the vic
tims were negroes.
Complete breakdown of communi
cations made relief work difficult in
the hard-hit Minden area.
Chicago.—Terrific winds of tornado
force, accompanied by lightning and
a deluge of rain and hall, swept over
parts of Chicago and the western sub
urbs, causing one death, the serious
Injury of four persons and damage
estimated at many thousands of dol
lars.
Tornadoes In central Illinois claimed
the lives of at least three additional
victims. In Fulton county two were
killed and at least fifty injured.
Property damage In the county was
estimated at more than $200,000.
Pulitzer Awards to
Journalists Announced
New York.—Edgar Ansel Mowrer,
correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News in Berlin, has been awarded the
Pulitzer prize for the best foreign
correspondence during 1932, it was
announced by the trustees of Colum
bia university.
Mr. Mowrer was singled out for the
most distinguished award In Journal
ism for his dally dispatches describ
ing and interpreting the turbulent po
litical upheaval in Germany which led
to the rise to power of Adolf Hitler
and his National Socialist party.
Other journalism prizes announced
by the Pulitzer committee of awards
are as follows:
For tlie most disinterested and meri
torious public service rendered by an
American newspaper during the year,
a gold medal costing SSOO awarded
to the New York World-Telegram.
For the best editorial article written
during the year, a prize of SSOO was
awarded to the Kansas City Star for
Its series of editorials on national and
Internationa) subjects. For the best
reporter’s work during the year. SI,OOO
was awarded to Francis A. Jamieson,
staff correspondent of the Associated
Press at Trenton, N. J., for his cov
erage of the kidnaping of the Lind
bergh baby.
11. M. Talburt of the Washington
Dally News won the prize for tb»
best cartoon of the year.
Clawed by Polar Bear
as He Seeks Death
Milwaukee, Wis.—William Eck
hardt, nineteen, was severely clawed
by a polar bear at the Washington
park zoo here when he leaped Into
a bear den In what was described
by authorities as a suicide attempt.
The zoo attendants rescued Eck
hardt, one turning a water hose on
the polar bear and a wolf, which oc
cupies the same den, while his com
panion lowered a ladder upon which
the youth climbed to safety.
Eckhardt was taken to n hos
pital and held for observation. Rela
tives said Eckhardt became discour
aged looking for a job.
Stork Visits Burning
Hospital; 226 Saved
Sayre, Pa.—Birth, death and fear
mingled in a flaming drama when fire
ravaged the Robert Packer hospital.
A baby was born in the hospital
at the height of the terror. Infant
and mother were rescued unhurt. An
old man, suffering from a broken
arm, was carried from the burning
building only to die of shock.
Two hundred and twenty-four oth
er patients were rushed out on cots
or carried down ladders. Os these.
27 were Infants, many of them less
than twenty-four hours old.
Mayor Arretted on Dry Charge
Casper, Wyo. — Federal officers
served warrants on two-score Casper
residents, including Mayor E. W. Row
ell, Police Chief Quealy and Sheriff
G. O. Housle, on charges of conspir
acy to violate the prohibition law.
Pitched Ball Fatal to Youth
Collinsville, Okla. —Henry C. Car
ter, seventeen-year-old high school
student, died In a Tulsa hospital of
a skull fracture received when he
was hit by a pitched ball In a sand)
lot baseball game.
This Week
h Arthur Brisbane
London Telia Us
In the Water Now
Inherited Ability
Whose Gold la It?
What little information, if it be
Information, Americans get, concern
ing "conversations” at Washington be
tween Premier MacDonald and Pres
ident Roosevelt, comes from London.
You are told. It seems hard to be
lieve, that the United States will agree
“to a modification of the gold embar
go.” President Roosevelt would hardly
allow Englishmen or Frenchmen to
draw out United States gold while
forbidding Americans to have any.
It is suggested also that the United ,
States will arrange to tie up the
pound and the dollar so that “Britain
will keep her export trade in the
face of the devaluated American cur
rency.”
Must we have Inflated dollars at .
home without getting the benefit of
them In trade abroad? That would
be too bad.
Further, you are told there will be
"a general revision of war debts,”
and Britain's payment due the Unit
ed States on June 15 probably will
not be paid.
Foreign countries have told us how
many ships and what kind of guns we
might have, which of our new battle
ships we must "Junk.” It they are now
to tell us what we may do with our
dollars, while at the some time es
caping payment of their debts, you
will give them credit for doing a com
plete Job.
Using the language of the old “Mid
way,” Uncle Sam may say, “I'm In
the water now.”
The house has passed the “Infla
tion bill," so-called, and those that
spend public money will be able to
say, If they choose, “what’s a billion
among friends, or ten billions?"
However, there are two kinds of
Inflation, common sense use of the
nation's credit with the backing of
Its gigantic wealth, and foolish in
flation, based on reckless spending and
money printing. To the question,
“What do you think of Inflation?”
the answer Is the same as you would
give to the question, “What do you
think about drinking?” It all depends
on how much you drink.
One thing is certain. Millions
will conclude that the best thing to
do with a dollar Is to spend it. That
will help business and employment.
And American common sense can be
trusted to use American credit wisely.
Dr. Leonard Huxley Is dead at the
age of seventy-two. He was a son of
Thomas Henry Huxley, the great bi
ologist, and his death reminds you that
talent really Is inherited, under favor
able conditions. Dr. Leonard Huxley
was a distinguished editor, biographer
and poet. His two sons, Julian Hux
ley and Aldous Huxley, are both bril
liantly successful men, one as a bi
ologist, the other as a novelist. The
three Huxleys who descend from “the
great Huxley" are fortunate in that
they Inherited intelligence without In
heriting a fortune that so often stupe
fies Intelligence.
Our American "great men" of In
dustry and finance concentrate on dol
lars. Their sons, as a rule, concentrate
on self-Indulgence and pleasure.
A former United States senator
questions the right of the government
to make Americans give up their gold.
His amount of gold, only $l2O worth,
would not upset any gold basis, but
he proposes to test in court the legal
ity of an order that says to Ameri
cans :
"Gold is too precious a metal for
Americans, and they will kindly bring
tt all In.”
Most Important, prices and prosper
ity are rising. Prices of Nebraska
farm products, on the farm, have in
i creased from 28 to 212 per cent. Corn,
’ from 8 cents and less to 28 cents.
■ Wheat, from 20 cents to 55 cents.
’ Eggs, from 7 to 11 cents a dozen.
■ Oats from 5 to 15 cents a bushel.
I Hogs, from $2.85 to $3.65 per hundred-
I weight
| And the best of It Is that farmers
will get a large part of the Increased
values. They still hold on their farms,
unsold, and now in active demand,
farm products that have increased in
' value by more than $51,000,000.
I
The announcement that twenty-five
' out of twenty-seven directors in a
■ New-York bank "ran a pool in stocks,”
using their own money and possibly
money belonging to depositors, Is cal
culated to disturb the public mind.
It la especially damaging to the
banking profession as a whole, and
unjust to men by whom banks have
been managed wisely and conservative
ly, riding out the storm of depression,
as if by a miracle.
The port of Los Angeles announces
heavy gains in imports, largely beer.
In the month of April Uncle Sam's cus
toms collections at the port Increased
$50,000, thanks to beer from Canada
and Mexico.
Once bootleggers would have got the
$50,000, multiplied by ten. with beer
! at $1 a bottle. Mexico ships “from
the second largest brewery In the
world” beer, “Carta Blanca Pilsner
Mexicans,” and names it “Exquisitla."
© 1433, by Kins Features Syndicate. Ine.
WNU Service
HARBINGER OF SPRING
The spring peeper, of small body
but great voice, is the smallest mem
ber of the tree frog family and the
one batrachlan that tells us when
spring is here. Its voice then re
■ounds from the damp meadows,
marshes and ditches. The spring
peeper averages about one inch in
length and is the first of the sing
ing frogs to be heard in spring.
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