Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, August 18, 1944, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWHEEEIR COUNTY EKGLE fLSS A Yaar, in Advance UmCLAL ORGAN WHEELER CO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY EMORY FIVASH ASSOCIATE EDITOR Subscription Ritea It Months ——iL so Months * 75. In Advance ANTI-4th TERM PLATFORM I’m against President Roode* velt for the fourth term because 1. I was against Roosevelt for toe First Term. (I was for Hoove r and Bankruptcy.) 2. I was against Roosevelt for the Second Term. (I wae for Landon and lambasting the Administration.) 3. I was against Roosevelt for the Third Teim. (I was lor Willkie and Wall Street domina tion.) 4. lam against Roosevelt for the Fourth Term. (I’m just against him—like I ve always been. I’m still trying to beat something with nothing ) Misso uri Democratic Stale Committee. WHY? The rank and tile Republican is as palrotic as any other man. His son is fighting for our coun try. What we can’t understand is how the rank and tile Republican esc be hoodwinked, year after year, into thinking that Du Pont, Morgan, Rockefeller, Guggen heim, Pew and other multi millionaires give a damn about the farmer and working man. — We, The People. US PEOPLE I- - - By G. C. Barnhill It is going to be the hardest thing in the world to stir up much excite ment this year with our politics, just at the time our armies are finishing up part of our enemy fighting forces. We are bound to have some tho, even if a new political strategy has been developed in this modern day, where candidates never mention each other, but talk abo;.t issues. After all this may be the best way, because it Is a solution to the present day problems that is needed. There is another fact, Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln are dead, end all have monuments of marble and love, their contribution was great, they served well the problems ol their day and generation. Tha problems of today will in no way compare to the ones they had. We must face, the front as we are pass ing into new attitudes that will be for the best of all mankind. All this blood is not being spilled In vain. GOOD LEAF BRINGS 44 CENTS PER POUND Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 15. —Many better quality grades sold at their highest levels of the season on th a Georgia-Florida flue-cured tobacco markets today as demand continued strong for medium to better grades, War Food Administration reported. Good cutters averaged 44 cents a pound and choice quality lugs sold at 43 cents, while most leaf grades remained steady. Prices for green grades and nondescript showed de clines of |1 to $4 per hundred pounds. The amount of damaged tobacco increased on many markets in com parison with Monday a*id,was esti mated at over 10 per cent by some observers. The general quality of the offering was lower, due to a larger proportion of low and com mon leaf and nondescript grades. Monday sales averaged 46.7 cents, an increase of .78 over last Friday's average. Averages by markets ranged from a low of 32.89 to a high of 38.49. The volume of sales was the heaviest this season. Nashville reported sales of 600,- 000 pounds today at an average of 37 cents, ranging from 6 to 43, with 800,000 pounds left over. Statesboro sales totaled 240,000 pounds, high 43, low, 25. Adel sales totaled 308,000 pounds for >118,410, an average of 38.44. Vidalia Mid 530,000 pounds, high 48, bw •. j _ WHBELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMU.iA. Friday, _ August 19*4 LOOKING W AHEAD SY GEORGE S. BENSON R. P.-tsideH:^>rdingeoUc(ie , Seaecf. .Arkomat , * Federal Aid School teachers are influential people. They choose their calling as a rule because they love chil dren, and love influences children. Youngsters, in turn, control their homes and parents more than they realize; in ways they don’t know about. Thus a good teacher is a power in the community. Any poli ; tiefan could cut quite a splash if i only he could line up all the teachers 'behind him. The idea is not new. Starts are made in that direction often. Plans to harness the public schools of America in a bureaucratic treadmill have come before Congress four times since 1937. They have failed every time but each new attempt shows more strength. The most re cent one, discussed in this column about a year ago, gained enough momentum to get talked about from Bangor to Burbank. Maybe Nine Lives This latest sally on the public school system was led by Senator Lister Hill of Alabama', helping Sen ator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah. The bill, (S. 367) as finally rejected by the 78th Congress, is dead but the senators’ ambitions can still wiggle. Hill is campaigning now for re-elec tion on a platform of “federal aid to education,’* and that’s been a hob by of Thomas’ for a long time. The issue will be revived. Polit ical problems have away of comipg to life repeatedly until they are solved, and this one is not solved. Teachers have a right to earn as much in the classroom as they might get for manual labor in a factory and, until teachers’ pay is adjusted, state school authorities will have their troubles born of somebody’s mistakes; maybe their own. Government has no magic source of wealth. It is the taxpayers who have to meet school bills and' teach ers’ salaries whether the money is paid out in small amounts by a duly elected neighbor at the county court house or disbursed by billions in a distant city by some appointed bureaucraj. ■ Money Has Power Federal aid to education, if it comes, will be federal control of schools eventually, whether the au thor of the bill wants it or not. Whoever signs the checks can com pel obedience to orders, even from teachers. Obviously most public school systems need, not federal support, but better state support. There are at least six good reasons. Three are plain and practical, the others basic. (1) Federal control would cost taxpayers more for the same results than state control; an extra han dling charge. (2) Federal control of public schools would rryjke one more huge bureau with an army of henchmen in a maze of pyramiding salaries. (3) Federal control will ride down traditions. How the Sputh will bris tle at the first official effort to seat white and colored children together at school. It might easily result in widespread violence. Wrong in Principle The foregoing objections are prac tical ones. But it is wrong in prin ciple to rob parents of tfieir influ ence in public schools. (4) Concentrating school funds in the hands of far-away strangers is saying to all parents, “Hands off school!” (5) It is also fruitful of racketeer ing. (6) Worse yet, it violates the prin ciple of state sovereignty which is the backbone of American freedom. Any time rich Washington sets up a W.P.A. for teachers/local sources of school revenue will start drying up. Soon the U. S. Treasury will be footing all bills and that suggest ed 200 million dollars a year in crease in pay for teachers will not be a drop in the bucket. In many states teachers need and deserve more pay. If it comes the people will pay it and they’d better handle it locally. A local solution to the problem is possible anywhere. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MR. JAMES R. CARR Vidalia, Ga., August 10.—James Robert Carr, 78, civil engineer and surveyor, died at the home of his foster daughter, Mrs. Agnes Powell, 105 Brown street, Tuesday evening after a 10-day illness following e stroke. Funeral services were held at the Murchison chapel in Vidalia Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock with the Rev. C. R. McKibben, pas tor of the Vidalia Methodist church, officiating. Burial was in the Mor rison cemetery near Higgston. An honorary escort was formed by Andrew Gay, H. Leon Adams, S. W. Vann, J. T. Williamson, Angus McQueen, Willie Carr, Robert Saf fold, Dr. C. W. Findley and T. R. Lee and T. Q. Vann. Mr. Carr was the son of the late John Carr, who came to Georgia from Maryland and the late Mrs. Sophia Wilson Carr of Hancock county. He moved to this section of the state more than 40 years ago after preparing himMlf at the Uni vmity of Georgia for his untr m : \ I WHERE CAN I GET I J THE SAME BRAND OF Li fl !f ■ I \ MOTOR. OIL USED BY I ( AMERICAN AIRLINES ? I ( ASK FOR SINCLAIR PENNSYLVANIA AT /yl STATIONS DISPLAYING | ® 1 THIS SIGN I J v —rs V z \\ I A 2 Er ' 1 "SAVE WEAR • WITH SINCLAIR" jit /I nT ill 5 Ar Ti OIL IS AMMUNITION-USE IT WISELY w M. C. HARTLEY, Agent, Alamo/ Georgia. Nr" flFw Ability and Bex^onsiidlity WHEN a particularly tough and important job come* along, it usually lands in the lap of someone who is already doing a lot of other jobs well. People like this—who are used to getting results —aren’t too plentiful. They need to have both ability and a sense of responsibility. One alone won’t do—for ability can sometimes be misdirected, and a sense of responsibility without ability can lead to troublesome meddling. It’s men with this combination of talents who have been carrying a heavy load on the home front these past few year*. On the farm and in industry they’ve been meeting—and solving—the difficult wartime problems of production. After the war is won, somebody must shoulder the equally big job of getting this nation back into peacetime production, of laying the groundwork for ths better and more prosperous America we all want. This is a challenge, and an opportunity, for the producers of America —for the men and women who have a sense of responsibility and have shown their ability to get things done. General Electric Co., Schenectady. N. Y. Hmt the G,nw»l fl•c^ric r«dio program,! "Tha G-E All-girl Orchartra" Sunday K> p.m. rwr.NSC-' Tha World Today” new,, awry weekday 4r45 pun. EWT. C»S BUY WAK BONOS Q ” GENERAL @ ELECTRIC a civil engineer. He was a member of the Shoals Methodist church. Mr. Carr was never married but adopted a daughter, Mrs. H. C. Pow ell, of Vidalia. Other survivors arc his brother, G. M. Carr, a contractor of Macon, and two sisters, Mrs. C. H. Allen of Barnett, Ga., and Mrs. Addie Wardlaw, of Tarrytown. Willys builds the ■ dependable Jeep kfU c M Trvck d tauonav Cor *r light Trader M y Power Plant READ THE EAGLE Go to Church Sunday LOST—Kerosene ration book with the name Sammie Harmon. If found return to Local Ration Board. Pay Your Subscription WANTED —To buy a^Ladie’s Bicycle. Address Box 56 Glen wood, Ga. BUY aTTa S*WARLDAN BONDS Francis Scott Key wrote the Star- Spangled Banner Sept. 14, 1814, during the siege of Ft. McHenry by the British. Coal has been known for over 2,000 yean, Birth Certificate GEORGIA, Wheeler County. Notice is hereby given that Nea Thomas Clark, filed with the Court o Ordinary, of Wheeler County, Geor. gia, a petition to establish the time and place of birth. Said petition having been filed on August 26, 1944. D. N. Achord, Ordinary. Resume of Raisin Lore As old as eating almost is the his tory of the raisin. For as long as man has grown the grape and pressed its juices he has been drying raisins in the sun. In exotic Babylon...at all fresco garden parties in palaces along the Nile...in the tents of patriarchal Bible tribesmen . . . everywhere throughout the East, ancient epi cures munched daily on the raisin. Along with figs, nuts, dates, cheese, lamb, honey, oil, grain, and spice, raisins were a common part of Oriental eating. The Crusaders, rediscovering the art of lavish living, brought back the raisin as a luxury to Europe with them. Then trade began, by way of Italy and Asia Minor, and in the holds of sea-going galleons, the shoulder packs of bold world-trav elers, could be found the rediscov ered, newly-popular old raisin. Housewives, from then on, searched stalls and markets of the country fairs where such imported luxuries were sold; for these “raisins of the sun” added new glory to their fa mous pies and puddings. We Americans came fairly by our native love of raisins. For very early in this country the Spanish padres were drying grapes under the mellow Mission sun. The Gold Rush brought settlers to the San Joaquin valley, where they soon found growing golden muscats more profitable than panning treasure from the streams. Though the first shipments east across the Rockies did not occur until later in the seventies, colonial cookery was replete with uses for the raisin, too. For plantation ves sels, laden with tobacco, came back from Europe stocked with raisins in their holds. And so we find, in nearly every early cook book, a whole school of tarts, trifles, tipsies, ansies, and such tidbits, all plen ifully enriched with raisins. Today more than ever, our cook ry abounds in uses for the raisin. 7e munch them between meals for hey are energy restoring. We nur ured a whole generation of our WATCHES FOR SALE . ♦ Unredeemed Watches for sale, Elgin, Waltham, Hamilton all in first class shape Guaranteed. Prices from 22.50 to 35.00 when in Vidalia see them. Ben D. Patrick, over Darby Banking Company. FOR SALE One ’36 Chevrolet pick-up truck, first class condition, t new tires. Will sell cheap or exchange for 11-2 ton truck. C. B. Griner, Alamo, Ga. LOST—Gasoline ration b»ok “T” with the name of W E Gilder. If found return to the Local Ration Board. Go to Church Sunday Birth Certificate • —— i GEORGlA—Wheeler County: Notice is hereby given that Nancy Mae Clements, filed with the Court of Ordinary, es Wheeler County, Georgia, a petition to estab lish the time and place of her birtb. Said petition having been filed on August 11, 1944. D. N. Achord, Ordinary* BIRTH CERTIFCATE Georgia, Wheeler County. Notice is hereby given that Eliza beth Moss Bell, filed with the Court , of Ordinary, of Wheeler County, Georgia, a petition to establish the time and plaee of birth. Said petition having having been filed on August 11, 1944. D. N. Achord, Ordinary I INSUIIE/^4^- ^WITH WAR BONDS By JEAN MEBRITT Helm Hone ImUtit* children on their iron-endowing vir tues. And we use them to add flavor, variety, and sweetness to all kiMds of wartime foods: Gourmet French Toast Rinse— % cup seedless raisins * Hot water. j Chop coarsely, using scissors or | sharp knife on cutting board. 1 Combine with— % cup honey 1 4 tablespoons soft butter or margarine ‘ 1 teaspoon grated orange rind. ’ Beat with a fork until well blended. . Serve with— > Hot French toast or griddle : cakes. Serves & Baked Raisin-Prune Whip : Combine— । Vz cup coarsely chopped seedless raisins 1 1 cup coarsely chopped cooked prunes ■ Vs cup chopped walnuts • V* teaspoon cinnamon . 2 tablespoons lemon juice. [ Combine, beating until stiff, but wot ! Vs teaspoon salt 3 egg whites. Add gradually, beating ' continuously— ’ % cup sugar. * Fold in fruit mixture, pour toio I buttered shallow baking dish, and , bake in a moderately slow OVID , (325’ F.) for 40 minutes. Cool in , baking dish. The whip will ehrink , as it cools. Serve with chilled cus tard sauce. Serves 4to & Wartime Meet Loef । Combine in order given, mixing , well— -1 ^.Sround lean veal (part pork, if desired) . % cup seedless raisins i 1 large onion, chopped i 1 cup uncooked rolled oats ' , 2 teaspoons Salt % teaspoon poultry seasoning 1 egg, beaten 1% cups water. Paek into a greased small loaf pan or shape into a loaf, and bake in a 1 moderate oven (350’ T.) for J hour.. Serve hot or cold. Serves 8. •