Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, June 21, 1940, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWHEELER COUNTY EAGLE H 1.60 A Year, In Advance OFFICIAL ORGAN WHEELER CO M -————- ——-T- — PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY JACK B. GROSS.. Publisher Entered at the Post OHice at Alamo Georgia, as second class mail matter May 10th, lUI3, under Act of March 3rd, 1870. Subscription Rates 12 Months $1.50 6 Months 75 In Advance Plans Being Made For Tobacco Quota Vote On July 20. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace has announced that plans are being made to hold a marketing quota referendum a mong growers of flue cured toh acco on July 20. Representative growers, warehousemen, and busi nessmen of the flue-cured tobac co area have requested a vote be fore the market opens, and have suggested July 20 as the date for the referendum. While the date for the referen dum cannot be set before July 1, the present stocks of flue-cured tobacco make it certain that the total supply for the 1940-41 sea son will exceed the quota level and that a referendum will be re quired. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 directs the Secretary of Agriculture to proclaim the quota at any time after July Ist, When he determines that the total supply is above the reserve sup ply level. This level is 5 percent above the “normal supply’’, which equals 275 percent of a normal year’s domestic consumption plus 165 percent of a normal year's exports. The present stocks of bright to bacco are the largest on record as a result of the huge 1939 crop and sharply reduced exports. Present indications are that the July 1 carryover will be around 1,425 million pounds. The carry over a year ago was 946 million pounds. Reports from flue-eured producing states indicate that ap proximately 740,060 acres have been planted this year. With yi elds of recent years the 1940 ac reage would produce a crip of between 600 and 675 million po unds. The 1939 crop amounted to 1,170 million pounds. The Republican Cry; ‘Forget There Is A War! “After his conference with Republican leaders at Topeka Mr. Taft charged that the New Deal was attempting to rivet alien tion on the war situation ‘to divert attention from its domestic , taihires.’ That may be true, but as Republican party tactics the cry is no good. The wail of one side that its opponents aren't playing fair isn’t, very strong campaign talk. Roosevelt and his associates may be using just the strategy Mr. Tait charges. The point is, are they using it successfully? ...But if Republican cam paigners merely cry, “Forget there is a war in Europe,'' read ers of the press and listeners at the radio will forget them.’’ Milwaukee Journal, (Ind. )Wis. The Republicans, as usual, Guessed Wrong. “THE amazingly fast German thrust in western Europe has put the Republican party on the spot. Despite wide differences of attitude among Republican presidential candidates as to our foreign policy—with Wilkie's stand as far from Dewey’s as Roosevelt’s is from isolationist Vandenberg’s the G. O. I’, has managed to get itself tagged as the party which failed to for see that the German aggression involved a real threat to our national security, while Roosevelt saw it clearly and insistently warned the country about it. In short, most Republican politic! ans misjudged the world situation. The immediate result has been a sharp reaction in their political fortunes anil a eorre- I spending gain tor Roosevelt ami the Democratic Party." The Magazine of Wall Street, Ne v York. IS LINDBERGH FOR OR AGAINST AMERICA? We heard Mr. Lindbergh's two radio addresses. We are frank to admit that we were unable to understand the ‘‘flyers" mean ing in his talks. It sounded to a country guy like he was mak ing a political speech. We used to have great respect for Lindbergh but when he s“ts himself up as a “know-it-all* and a “seer" and “dictator’ as to what this country, America, if you please, should ami should not do, we are of the opinion that he is delving into matters that he knows nothing about. Where has Mr. Lindbergh been for the past three yeats? Has he been reading the writings of the late Senator Borah who only last year stated that on personal and private information that he had from Europe, THAT WAS AUTHENTIC, that there would be no major war in Europe for the next five years!? Why has he not come forward with his ideas and information, if he had any, of what this country should have done and should do today? Why deal in generalities, and wait until a world conflict is raging before he tells us what we should do ? And what we should have done? What did Lindberkh do when he visited Germany, and was ihe guest of Hitler? It would make interesting reading for him to tell the American people JI ST what he and Hitler talked about, we are confident that they did not talk about the weather. Mr. Lindbergh should know that polities and pariotism do not go hand and hand, and his address smirks so much of polities that any student in the fifth grade Could discern that he was making a speech for the “lost cause” of the Republican party. Does any fairminded person in America believe that Mr. Lind bergh has more knowledge of international affairs than our en tire populace? Our Congress and Government Officials’ We doubt it. An empty head is more harmful than an empty gun! Mr. Dewey Tries Talking Through His Hat! “Mr. Dewey, Republican aspirant for the Republican Presiden tial nomination, confidently assured the lowa farmers that they were not so well off as they were seven years ago. The farmers of Henry county gave him his answer to this mis-statement when they voted overwhelmingly for a continuance of the soil conservation program, which is one of the pillars of the New Deal structure.” —Henry County (M<>.) Democrat. The President Has Been Right; His Opponents Shortsighted. “A good deal of the criticism that is now being directed a gainst the President because of the nation’s present state of un preparedness, comes from men, including some prominent Re publicans, who would have been the first to assail him if he had launched his preparedness program two years, u. year, or even six months ago. The truth is that the President foresaw events more clearly and accurately than did his critics....He has been right from the start, and more farsighted than his opponents.’' New Bedford, Mass., Standard-Times, (Ind.) WHAT THE NATION’S NEWSPAPERS. REPUBLICAN, IN DEPENDENT, AND DEMOCRATIC THINK OF ROOSEVELT. We reproduce below editorial extracts from numerous news papers throughout the United States on Pre-ident Roosevelt' attitude and stand on preparedness; also as to the policies he has pursued for united economy and preparedness. The daily newspapers will not give you this cross-section of current opin ion, as they are biased and afraid of big Im mess, but the t'ree Press brings it to you; of course you do not have to read it un less you want to. Roosevelt's Demands Are Fair To All Real Americans “WE olught to have two President- one for each parly, per haps. But Roosevelt is the only President we have right now, and he will be President until January. He is asking only what is obviously needed armaments to defend our shores, arni ments, perhaps, to sell to the Allies. But his demands are so fair, his position is so dead right, that there is nothing to do in this country so far as our foreign relations are concerned now bat to stand by the President." Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, Rep. No Honest Business Need Fear The Democrat Party. “The only kind of business which need fear the democratic party and democratic policies is crooked business, big or little! Under our present profit system a fair and reasonable profit is not only desirable but is a necessity. But, the worker, the far mer and the small business man are far more entitled to a li\- ing profit than are the great combinations of wealth and spe cial privilege entitled to added profits on the billions of unholy dollars which they have garnered during the past years, by gra ce of favors from the party now seeking a return to power.” Pueblo, Colorado, Times. Rep. Hamilton Fish, of New York, Dubbed "Poor Fish." Congressman f ish, of Roosevelt's own district Ims ;m upre effrontery to say that the defense program of this country is a failure and that this is due to Roosevelt P.‘limps the Republi < ans have some excellent issues on wh-di to go to hr' with the President, but national oefcas • is not one of th. m. The e- teem ed congressman should watch out lest he soon become- referr ed to by the term, "Poor Fish.”— Springfield, Mass., News (Ind.) Republicans Playing Politics When Defense Needed. "If Roosevelt is merely seeking to break down opposition to a third term, as Mr. Landon suspects, it would have been tar bid ter for the Republican leader to have given his complete eoopei ation in a non-partisan endeavor to make the United Slates in vulnerable to attack... Mr. Landon has succeeded only in con veying the impression that Republicans, rather than Mr. Koo c veil, are playing politics at a time when adequate defense of the nation is in the balance.” -Boston (Mass.) Transcript. Wheeler County Eagle, Alamo, Ga. June 21, 1940 Aspirant Dewey Discovers ‘There IS A Foreign Policy. “Dewey has finally discovered that there is such an item as foreign policy in the affairs of the national government but the country doesn't yet have a clear idea about what he think of it. Dewey is very sure that the President is ‘directly responsible’ for any deficiencies in defense equipment. We had assumed that Congress had something to do with appropriating money for the Army and Navy but maybe Dewey knows belter. At any rate he speaks of our ‘national disgrace' and ‘national calamity’. \\ hen did he become so expert about national defen-c that he is quali fied to pass out high-powered opinions like these?" Utica New York Pre . (Republican) Glider and Fighter . ■ • % Jt _ .OSO j--" I ^—4l” k • k'g - K X X gw \ • > xfex TOP —It has come to be generally acknowledged that motor.ess ri ghts are the best preparation for the flying of powered aircraft. 'll ; i >"39 T I?’. '9 vq \ W - J » luoßangeV asu r Mi 1 Uh z \ io** Bp w \ zoyM 7Range »o- ft o rafter too Jr JM ■ Jr < New H-C gives me Double-Range Anti-Knock "I get Double-Range Anti-Knock.” That’s what motorists arc saying about the new H-C Gasoline. The two speedometers above indicate the two important speed ranges where knock less power is needed. Some gasolines give high anti-knock in one driving range but not in the other. However, the new Double-Range H-C gives you high anti-knock in both. Try a tankful of the new Double-Range H-C today. It sells at regular price. J*l*7f/- 77^9 ■ ■ ■ Agenf Sinclair Refining Company (Inc.) M. C. Hartley Agent, Alamo. a ft Ip ’ ’’ ■■ ’■■■■■" » S! utaiinttmr .1. .T ''-mi* 1 I /HOMELIKE Q/ q, C ■ criere lion __ REAL HOTEL SEOICE Krv IFM FMI TH ' iation exp i'^ point out that the powerful German ••hrlt« a:' ■. ranch - been de\ asta: ing Europe’s battlefields, was imf: ar.wjd 5I arocp o: pilots who ast■ r the World War learned to “ ; | i' il! '• th'ver plains, and enthusiastically endorse this phase pilot wa’ - ; p. The photo -hows a pilot sitting in front ot his plane '-Th th. controls m hand while waiting to be pulled off for a w:n-h c :•. As - • n a- -he gliding plane gams heigiit, the table is eat raid the glider is left to his own skill. B' iTW'V- -Shown here in flight is the E. S. Army Air Corps’ fast ' " ’ ’ : ' ■ ::c ■ Girtiss P- ti! advanced pursuit plane. It is the 1 ' loimbei ol su.h fighters now building in accordance w - rh r ( ' wwe-iime order of over si 4,000,000 for pursuit plan. - ■ : Wi. type authorized by the War Department. The plane is a WHv superebarged, high-speed, single-engined, one-piece, all metal type, amt is e.|uipped with machine guns synchronized to fire through its electric propeller. It carries oxygen equipment permit ting extended flight range at extremely high altitudes.