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Volume 27
PETERSON SEEKS
SUPPORT OF BILL
Georgian Says His Home
stead Plan Would Be
Less Costly
Washington. Jan. 26-Repre
sentative Peterson (D Ga ) told
the house Wednesday his home
steading plan would be more ef
fective and less costly than ex
isting farm programs.
In a 45 minute address, Peter
son appealed for enactment of a
b 11, offered jointly by Georgia
senators and himself, to retire
liens on farm land and to make
such property available for
homesteading by actual farm
I
families.
With vigorous gesticulations,
th? Georgian to'd Republic ai
their party pit spered in the 19th
century largely because of an
1860 platform plank advocating
a homestead act. He said this
law was passed in 1862.
He warned that the Republic
can party declined again when h
forgot the farmer.
‘ If You Slop Here”
Under questioning from the
floor, Peterson said the adminis
tration’s farm programs had ac
complished many worthwhile ob
jectives. but he added:
“If you stop here, this great
free government shall crumble
and dec^y.”
He said his plan would accom
plish lasting benefit, and would
put farm families in a position to
shift for themselves.
With the $875 000,000 which
President Roosevelt asked for
relief, he declared, the govern
ment could establish 2,000,000
persons as independent farm
ers.
DaniellPraises Plan
Washington, Jan. 26—“ That’s
exactly what the farmers of this
country need,” declared R. G.
Daniell of Metter, president of
the Cotton Producers’ Associa
tion of America. Wednesday af
ter hearing Congressman Hugh
Peterson’s address in house of
representatives on a measure he
is sponsoring to provide for the
establishment of a new national
land policy.
Mr. Daniel, who is in Wash
ington to attend conference in
connection with farm legislation,
was enthusiastic in his praise of
the Peterion measure after hear
ing the first Georgia District
representative explain the bill.
“As a farmer I am personally
aware of the conditions confront
ing agriculture in this country
and I heartly concur in Mr. Pe
terson’s elusions.” Mr. Daniell
stated. “This legislation is
strictly sound, and I was very
much impressed by the amazing
amountof informati m assembled
on this subject by Mr. Peterson.
Debts Must Go
“I certainly agree with our
Congressman that we will have
no true prosperity until we have
liquidated the depressing mort
gage indebtedness of our farm
ers, and it is likewise certain
that their freedom and independ
<nce will not be restored to them
until this measure has been
enacted into law.
“I strongly urge that all the
"farmers of our great section get
back of this measure with all the
power at their command. They
can help Congressman Peterson
and Senator George and Russell,
who have, jointly introduced an
.identical bill in the senate, by
writing to oter members of con*
ESTABLISHED FOR THE WELFARE AND BEST INTEREST OF WHEELER COUN TY.
CW AB FEfD L9M
APPtiCATiONS HERE
Applications for emergency
crop and feed loans for 1939 are
now being received at Alamo by
J. A. McDeermond, Field Sup
ervisor of the Emergency Crop
and Feed Loan Section of the
Farm Credit Administration,
care of D. N. Achord, at the J.
F. Darby Bank.
The loans will be made, as in
the past, only to farmers whose
cash requirements are small and
who cannot obtain credit from
any other source. The money
loaned will be limited to the
farmer’s immediate and actual
cash needs for growing his 1939
crops.
Farmers who can obtain the
funds they need from an indivi
dual, production credit associa
tion, bank, or other concern are
not eligible for crop and feed
loans from the Emergency Crop
and Feed Loan Stctioi of the
Farm Credit Administration. The
loans will not be made to standard
rehabilitation clients whose
current needs are provided for
by the Farm Security Adminis
tration, formerly known as the
Resettlement Administration.
As in the past, farmers wh<
obtain emergency crop and feea
loans will give as security a first
lien on the crop financed.
Where loans are made to ten
ants, the landlords, or others
having an interest in the crops
financed are required to waive
their claims in favor of a lien to
the Governor of the Farm Credit
Administration until the loan is
repaid.
Checks in payment of approved
loans will be mailed from the
Regional Emergency Crop and
Feed Loan office at Columbia,
South Carolina.
Road Projects Set
For Letting This Month
The state highway department
has announced fourteen projects,
to cost an estimated total of
$822,765, to be let February 14tb.
Included in this letting is sub
structure and superstructure
for steel swing spon over Oconee
river near Horseshoe Bend Farm,
known as Soperton and Alamo
road.
Forrest Turner, Tattnall
Escapee Recaptured
Augusta —The elusive Forrest
Turner, escaped convict from
Tattnall prison, was captured
near here today as city and state
patrolmen filled his cabin hidea
way with tear gas.
Captured with Turner was
Bryan Schwab, one of the five
prisoners who escaped January
3rd from the Forsyth public
workscamp, aided police said, by
Turner posing as an attorney.
The Augustachief, C. J. Wilson,
said the men with a quantity of
nitroglycerin, dynamite and
burglar tools, and a car stolen in
Jacksonville was seized.
gress and urging tneir support
of this bill.
Mr. Daniel) said, “It was evi
dent from the frequent applause
and the number of congressmen
w-ho sought to question him that
this bill has aroused deep inter
est.”
Mrs. H. R. Freeman reveives a
guest ticket to Metro Theatre
Mt. Vernon with this clipping of
.jthe Eagle.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY,? i >’<U \UY 3 1939
MUS. FLANDERS, OF
CEDAR GROVE DIES
Mrs. H.T. Flanders, 74, highly
esteemed Laurens county
matron, died early today at a
Dublin hospital after a short
illness. She had been in ill
health for several years.
Funeral services were held at
4 o’clock this afternoon at the
graveside in Lowery cemetery,
with Rev. Ostello Page officiating.
Adams Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. i ( landers was born and
reared in Laurens county and
was a member of the Church of
God.
Those surviving are three sons,
J. L., O L. and W. 11. Flanders,
all of Dublin Route 3; two sisters,
Mrs. Jennie McDaniel,Glenwood,
Mrs. Zinnie Browning, Glen
wood; a brother, 1. S. Browning,
Dublin Route 3, and ten grand
children. — Dub 1i n Courier
Herald Monday, Jan 30.
Chilean Nitrate Industry
Unhurt Oy Earthquake
News that the recent earth
quake in Chile in no way affected
the Chilean Nitrate of Soda in
dustry is welcomed by farmers
and agricultural workers of the
Southern States.
Because of the importance of
Chilean Nitrate to agriculture ir
the United States, particularly
to the South, press dispatches
concerning the disaster, aside
from arousing wide ne" s inter
est and syu a by, h;:d earn ed
some speculation as to the dis
aster’s affect upon the supply of
this widely used fertilizer.
Mines, plants and transporta
tion properties of the nitrate in
dustry are entirely outside of
the area effected by the earth
quake.
“No damage whatever has oc
curred to affect the industry in
which so much American capital
is interested and on which so
many American farmers de
pend.” declares a spokeman for
the industry. “The earthquake
zone is more than 500 miles south
of the nitrate fields. All nitrate
facilities are in northen Chile.
The disaster, wiih it tragic loss
of life, was confined to a relative
ly small area in the southern
portion of Chile. Farmers in
America and throughout the
wourld, who look to this natural
fertilizer for aid in crop product
tion, need feel no concern. The
nitrate supply is in no way as- [
fected by the disaster which has
struck southern Chile.”
Two Youths arrested In
Toombs County Slaying
Vidalia, Jan. 30.—Two Toombs
County farm y: uths have been
jailed in Lyons in the slaying of
Oscar Dukes, about 40, farmer
of near Vidalia, Police Chief John !
Osborn reported here Monday.
Body of Dukes, riddled with
shotgun pellets and his throat
slashed, was found in a stream
in a rural section near here Mon- j
day morning. He had been re
ported missing Sunday. .
Chief Osborn said a coroner’s j
jiry, at an inquest today, order
-61 J. W. Stevens, 20, and G. W.
Calhoun, 21, both farmers, held
without bail. They denied any
connection with the slaying.
Chief Osborn said testimony at
the inquest revealed there bad
i been differences between Dukes
and the two because of the for
f mer’s announced intention to
marry a Toombs County girl?
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POSTPONED TO 10TH
Atlanta, Jan. 31—A 10 day
‘‘moratorium” on the penalty
imposed for failure to purchase
1939 automobile license tags was
provided in an executive order
issued today by Governor E. D.
Rivers
It was explained that the
“moratorium” involved only the
penalty —20 per cent of the pur
chase price of the tags, plus $1
sheriff’s fee and that motorists
would be subject to arrest for
failure to display a 1939 tag after
February Ist.
The penalty extension expires
at midnight February 10. Gov
ernor pointed out that the
economy committee of the legis
lature had recommended against
an extension of the time limit
and that he was not granting
such an extension. He said he
was meiely providing for an
extension of the time limit for
im^b.-ing a penalty because
man.', persons would receive pay
cheek- on February 1.
Alamo Home Economics
Club Organized Thursday
A. Hmm Economics meeting
was.called by our Home Econo
mics teacher, Mrs. Eloise Giles,
Thtir-day afternoon, January 26.
I
T. <pui ipse of this meeting was
tci’TSatWsh a Home Economics
club. We decided to name our
club in honor of Im z Musray,
or; snizer of students Home
economics clubs.
The following officers were
elected:
President-Fredda McMillian.
Vice president —Gretta Bright.
Becr eta r y —J uan it a Adams.
Treasurer —Ruby L-e White
Re porter -E loi se G e iger.
E ected chairman of the com
mittees were:
Prog r am committee —Alma
Smith. .
Social committee —G ene v a
Sears.
Fiance committee —Audrey
Currie.
Publicity committee —S ar a
Hurwitz.
Our next meeting is planned
for February 15.
Elois i Geiger, Reporter.
SEABOARD REMOVES
PASSENGER TRAKvS
After having been taken off
once last year, then restored to
service on a temporary basis,
trains 13 and 14 of the Seaboard
Air Line Ry. will now be perm
anently discontinued. These
trains have been running between
Savannah and Americus, leaving
Savannah in the afternoon and
making a round trip to Ameri
cns. The last trains to operate
on this schedule will be from
Savannah Monday, February 6th,
and from Americxs Tuesday,
February 7th.
The case was argured before
U. S. Court Judge Alexander
I Akerman, in Tampa, Florida!
i last Thursday.
I The large amount of mail which
has been handled cn these trains
j will now have to be handled by
star route, one of which will
start from Helena to Claxton
next Wednesday morning.
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I
I Mrs. C. E. Wrye receives a
guest ticket to Metro Theatre
j Mt. Vernon, with this clipping
of the Eagle.
WER POSTAGE
NEEBED ON TAGS
Law Very strict In Apply
ing For Auto Licenses
If anyone has been sending ap
plications to Atlanta for more
than one automobile license plate
without obeying the somewhat
peculiar Private Express Laws
of the Post Office Department,
he need not be surprised to re
ceive a visit from a postal inspec
tor.
The penalty is a very heavy
one, eyen more so than if one
were drivng an automobile while
drunk.
A post office department bul
letin, issued by L, A. Stone, act
ing inspector in charge at Atlans
ta, says:
“It has come to the attention
of the department that automo
bile dealers, motor clubs, gar
ages, department stores, banks
notaries public and others are
accepting applications for auto
mobile license plates for trans
mittal to the Automobile Depart
ment outride the mails or with
out payment of adequate pos
tage.
The Private Express Statutes
(Section 1710-1715, inclusive,
Postal Laws and Regulations of
1932) give to the Post Office De
partment absolute monopolyol
the transportation and delivery
of letters.
“A letk-ers a message, notice
or ollie exp ।resion of thought sent
by one person to another. It is
just as much a letter if sent in
an envelope frem one to another
unsealed as if sealed, or wheth
er in an envelope at all, if it is
directed as a letter. If matter
convey s live current information
between the sender and the
adressee, upon which the latter
may act, roly or refrain from
acting, such matter is a letter
within the meaning of the Priv
ate Express Statutes.
“Applications for automobiles
and drivers licenses are Tetters’
when forwarded for she purpose
of having licenes issued in re
sponse thereto and may not be
conveyed for others outside the
mails without the payment of
postage by concerns or individ
uals who are receiving compen
sation for such services.
Even though no direct charge
is made for the service, if the in
dividual or concern transporting
the applications, or causing them
to be transported, receives all or
part of the notary fee, the de
partment holds that compensa
tion for such service has been
received.
“ The application of each indi
vidual or concern constitutes a
letter’ when sent for purpose of
s curing a license. Applications
of various persons may be group
ed. and mailed in one package
provided the package is indorsed
on the outside to show the num
ber of separate applications en
closed and there are stamps af
fixed to the package sufficient to
I cover the: postage at the rate of
three cents each (two cents for
local delivery) on the application
of each person were mailed sep
। arately-
“If the agent prefers to have
I the applications transported and
delivered outs ile the mails, he
may do so by placing eachappli
-1 cation in a stamped envelope in
accordance with the provisions
I of Section 1712, Postal Laws and
I Regulations of 1932 (39 US C
1 500), which read in part as fol
” lows:
? 1 ‘All letters enclosed in stamp-
ed envelopes, if the postage
Local and Personal News
That Will
Interest and Inform You
Sample Copy c Number 47
FOES OF THE NEEDY
‘ "Relief expenditures on a
I large scale should not continue
. when they have proven compara
tively futile,” declared Rep.
Emmett D. Owen, Griffin, in
joining with Eugene E. Cox, of
Camilla, and Hugh Peterson, of
Ailey, in voting against the fed
eral relief bill.
The Georgia Homestead pub
licly asks the representative if
he believes that the prevention
of starvation by thousands of
Georgians, the provision of
homes for those who otherwise
would have been homeless and
the furnishing of clothing for
those Georgians who otherwise
would have suffered this winter
is “comparatively futile.”
The Georgia Homestead de
clares with every bit of emphasis
at its command that regardless
of the bill, regardless of how
long it may take to pay it (even
if it is necessary for Representa
tive Owen’s children to help pay
it) Georgians must not be allowed
to starved to death.
Ihe fact that an end to relief
- xpenditures would throw thouss
ands of Georgians from their
homes, remove from them their
only source of food, cause wide
spread disorders and perhaps
bloodshed, would not by any
stretch of the imagination give
business and industry “some
incentive to go forward and
absorb our unemployed.”
It seems that, well-known
person may be lurking in the
woodpile of Mr. Owen’s state
ment.
The Homestead wonders if the
incentive” mentioned may be
the incentive of starving people
jeing forced to work for wages
that would only partly fill their
stomachs, but yet would provide
some limited amount of food.
Such conditions probably would
ippeal to Northern capital de
siring wide profits earned with
the sweat of underpaid Southern
workers.
Yet, the possibility that aban
donment of relief programs
would result in a general lower
ing of wages and living standards
because more people would be
thrown into an already glutted
employment market does not, on
the other hand, guarantee that
industry would absorb more
workers.
In the final analysis, it is not
obvious that lowered incomes
mean less buying power and
therefore an even larger cut in
private employment?
The Georgia Homestead sug
gests that Georgians obtain
copies of The Congressional
Record for the last Congress and
see if Messrs Owen, Cox and
Peterson have previously indi
cated any overpowering desire to
reduce federal expenses.—The
Georgia Homestead.
Mrs. R. W. Winham receives a
«uest ticket to the Princess The
ater, Mcßae, with this ciippin
of the Eagle.
stamp is of a denomination sufs
ficient to cover the postage that
would be chargeable thereon if
the same were sent by mail, may
be sent, conveyed and delivered
otherwise than by mail, provid
ed such envelope shall be duly
directed and properly sealed, so
that the letter cannot be taken
therefrom without defacing the
envelope, and the date of the lets
ter or of the transmission or res
ceipt thereof shall be written or
, stamped on the envelope.