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The Official Organ
Baker County
Established 1912
VOLUME 28. NUMBER 2.
TOBACCO PRICES ARE
STILL LOW LEVEL
Second Week Brings Little
Change In Georgia Auction
Markets. Grade Improving.
With almost the second week of
sales completed in the Georgia To
bacco auction markets, prices still
continued at approximately their
opening levels and a good volume of
the weed is passing through the ware
houses.
Reports indicated that after the
first opening sales, which were at
least twenty-five percent off last
year’s average, the price went up
slightly but still considerably under
those of last year. Reports the first
of the week stated that prices were
slightly improved although most ob
servers doubted if the state averages
at the close of this week would vary
much from those of the first week.
The quality of the leaf on the mar
ket was reported improved slightly
and accounted for some better prices.
The warehouses in Pelham continued
to receive thousands of pounds of the
weed and all floors were well filled,
although there is not the conjestion
that was present last year. Ware
houses are able to handle the to
bacco as rapidly as it is brought to
market. Sales were about the same
as last week, although some report
that prices were slightly improved.
The official report from the State
department of Agriculture placed the
first week’s sales at 27,024,786 pounds
for a total of $3,985,575.62. The state
average price was 14.75 cents per
pound.
Listing some of the nearby mar
kets Adel sold 1,297,766 at an average
price of 16.43; Moultrie sold 2,448,948
pounds at an average of 14.74; Nash
ville sold 2,762,660 pounds at an av
erage of 14.96; Pelham market sold
1,023,886 at an average of 14.27;
Vidalia sold 2,297,864 pounds at 13.72
cents per pound; Tifton sold 2,778,196
pounds at 15.33 and Waycross sold
1,241,230 pounds at an average of
- 14.72.
Sales continued at almost the same
pace this week throughout^ the belt
and it was estimated that better than
sixty million pounds, or almost two
thirds of the crop, would be sold
by the close of the markets this week.
No particular action grew out of
the farmer meeting held last week to
close the markets and possibly boost
prices. Delegations met with the
Governor in Atlanta, and he offered
to do what the growers considered
best, but no action was decided upon.
Meetings in Washington brought no
particular results.
Latest developments this week hint
at a possible conference next week
between growers and buyers to talk
over low prices and the size of the
1939 crop. A meeting of represent
atives from the flue-cured belts of
Georgia, Florida, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia met with
AAA officials in Washington Tuesday
of this week and unanimously ap
proved this course of action.
Markets will open in South and
North Carolina the end of this week.
Possible action, or results that may
boost prices, will be of little benefit
to Georgia growers if taken next
week a sthe major portion of the
crop will have already been sold.
Sales are continuing at' the rate of
Twenty Thousand Pounds Blackberries
Shipped This Year, Growers Wanted
From The Camilla Enterprise.
More than twenty thousand pounds
of black berries were shipped out of
Camilla during the past season, it was
learned here this week from the rec
ords of the Camilla Ice & Cold Storage
Company. The shipments amount to
a few more than sixty barrels which
range in weight from 350 to 400
pounds per barrel.
Most of the berries were brought
in by colored farm laborers who were
anxious to find the ready cash mar
ket for the native wild berry. None
of the berries were cultivated but
were from the fence rows and briar
patches throughout the county. Prices
paid for the berries amounted to ap
proximately five cents per quart.
This is the first year that black
berries have been pushed much in the
county and the results of this year’s
harvest has been satisfactory both to
the people selling the berries and the
winery who bought the product.
An effort will be made to make the
market for blackberries an annual
affair and it will provide cash money
for farm labor in the late spring when
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Bible Class Holds
Regular Meeting
The Junior-Adult Bible Class of the
Newton Baptist Church held its
regular monthly class meeting Mon
day night at the home of Mrs. R. L.
Hall, teacher. Plans were made for
the regular quarterly picnic given by
the group that lost. The picnic was
planned for Thursday evening.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Cal Hall, Jr., Mr. and Mr.s J. R.
Rhodes, Mr. Price Hall, Mr. William
Norris, Mr. Edwin Hall, Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Hall, Mrs. Virginia Bowen,
Mrs. Leland Wilder, Misses Ellen Hall,
Annie and Alma Ellis and Mrs. R. L.
Hall.
JUDGE GARDNER
SITS ON VOTE CASE
Will Sit With Supreme Court
On John Wood, Ellis Arnall
Vote Case.
Hon. B. C. Gardner, Superior Court
judge of the Albany circuit, was
designated last Friday to sit with the
Georgia Supreme Court in litigation
growing out of the contest over the
state office of attorney general.
The case before the Supreme Court,
set for hearing on Thursday the first
week in September, is an appeal from
a quo warranto proceeding instituted
by former Congressman John S.
Wood, of Canton, against Attorney
General Ellis Arnall, in the Superior
Court of Coweta County.
Chief Justice Charles S. Reid vol
untarily disqualified himself from sit
ting with the Supreme Court in the
Wood-Amall litigation, because of a
similar action instituted against the
Chief Justice by Monroe Stephens, of
Blue Ridge, which has not yet been
tried ni the Fulton Superior Court.
Both cases are based on claims of
election in the general election held
on June 6, when neither Chief Justice
Reid nor Attorney General Arnall of
fered for re-election.
" Judge Lee B. Wyatt, of the Coweta
Superior Court decided the casd in
favor of Attorney General Arnall, and
Mr. Wood appealed it to the Supreme
Court.
First Cotton Bale
Brings 16 Cents
Savannah, Ga.—Georgia’s first bale
of cotton for this season, was sold
here last week for sixteen cents a
pound to H. G. Bruncke, cotton ex
porter. The bale, which weighed 305
pounds, was grown by Sammy Mann,
Toombs county farmer. The cotton
was graded at strict good ordinary.
Board of Education
In Regular Session
The Baker County Board of Edu
cation met here Tuesday in the County
School Superintendent’s office in the
court house and took up their regular
routine of work, which was disposed
of very rapidly.
almost thirty million pounds per week
and the government estimates place
the total yield at a little more than
90,000,000 pounds this year.
cash is sort of “short.”
Announcement was made this week
by the Monarch Wine Company, of
Atlanta, that they would like to con
tract a thousand acres of blackberries
for cultivation. Patches in other
states, namely Oregon, Washington
and North Carolina, have been very
successful and the market is proving
beneficial to farmers.
Farmers in this county who would
be interested in the cultivation of one
or two acres may Contact Mr. E. L.
Butler at the local ice plant for full
details or County Agent N. D. Mc-
Rainey. Mr. Butler has recently
made investigation on cultivating
black berries and says that he believes
they can be easily grown in the
county. The cultivated berry is much
larger than the wild berry and will
be much easier harvested. Patches
planted this year will be ready for
harvesting next spring.
The Monarch Wine Company will
contract the entire harvest from as
many local farmers who would like
to add patches.
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939.
A Georgian Reports Impressions
Os South America
Rio de Janeiro
Sunday, July 9, 1939.
7:30 P. M.
To avoid interruptions—and they
are many on this boat—l left the
dinner table hurriedly, seized my tools
and hastened to the bridge deck to
the radio operator’s office. Here I
think the boat rocks even more than
below, but the news “must go
through.” The radioman seems to be
idle at present, so he’s playing the
radio—another distraction —and the
music is coming from his beloved
Sweden, I suppose—l don’t even rec
ognize it. I note that we get almost
any powerful station except one in
the United States; we are too far to
bother about that though.
It would take a master to describe
what I have seen today. I believe
there is a Spanish proverb that says,
“He who has not seen Seville ha^
not seen a marvel,” but I should like
to change that to apply to Rio de
Janeiro. I don’t believe anybody
could do it justice and I am positive
I can’t. We knew last night that
we would arrive during the night and
I left word to be called in time to
watch as we entered the harbor, which
I had heard was the most beautiful
in all the world. Os course I have
not seen all of them, but I’d bet on
Rio. From a distance of many miles
the lights were plainly visible. I
took my place in the bow of the boat
at 1:45 and at 3:00 we came to a
standstill just a short distance from
the pier. Os course we couldn’t dock
till morning and what a relief to have
the boat at a standstill and no chug
ging motors after 18 days! The first
light that was discernible was that of
the figure of Christ atop the highest
mountain peak, Corcovado, which I
learned is the “Lookout Mountain” of
the many peaks roundabout.
This Christ was erected in 1930
by public donation in commemoration
of the most recent revolution, or I
think it was the latest one. It is
built of concrete blocks and is 120
feet high and 40 feet wide. Flood
lights keep it lighted and you can
see it for miles and miles. The Crois
on Mt. Royal at Montreal is compar
able to it. The Statue of Liberty has
nothing on this piece of work.
Down below were the lights of Co
pacabana which is about the wealth
iest district, suburb, or whatever it
is, of Rio. It has a circular beach
and the highway runs along the beach
in front of the section of homes and
hotels. This boulevard has a string
of electric lights that cause the whole
scene to appear a fairy land. As we
came nearer to the entrance of the
harbor we could see “Sugar Loaf,”
a huge peak of sheer granite. This
peak simply towers over the bay and
rather acts as an entrance gate. On
and on we went with more sections
and more lights showing more plain
ly and the Christ seemed to be “shed
ding a silent blessing on us.” I never
felt such a thrill in my life. From
my perch in the bow I did not miss
a thing! I nearly froze out there, but
I felt glued to the spot. I’ve never
seen so many mountains. Somebody
said that they are not like mountains
—they are like huge mole hills, one
after the other, with all sorts of vary
ing sizes and shapes and nearly all
rock. One range looks exactly like
a sleeping Indian.
We were up and ready to get off
at 9:30. There was no trouble, al
though the doctor came aboard. We
didn’t have to be inspected, or any
thing, but of course the Captain had
all the “low down” on us.
A perfectly delightful little Filipino
came aboard and offered his services
as guide and furnished the cars for
us to see all we could possibly see
till 3:00 P. M. when we had to be on
board again. Imagine seeing Rio in
5% hours! But we did a good job
of it thanks to John Da Cruz, which
is the nice little man’s name. He
chanced to ride in the car I was in
and I was delighted. From him I
learned many interesting things. He
speaks 7 languages, so I found at
least two I could use. He charged
us only two dollars each for the big
gest day I ever had.
And oh, this Brazilian money!
Their monetary unit is the milrei and
so help me! I’ve never seen so much
money for five dollars of ours. A
milrei is about five cents and that
five cents is divided into reis. I had
rather show you one than try to ex
plain it, and for fear this bit of in-
BY MARY MILLER
formation is forgotten in the rush.
Da Cruz told me that they used to
have coins, and large ones, of lead!
And Germany bought them up in
scads and took them to Germany and
converted them into bullets! Can you
beat that? As a consequence Brazil
has only small coins now and paper
money. A big bill which looks like
an American dollar bill is fifty cents.
Oh, but I love this money!
And how Brazil does NOT like
Germany and Italy, especially Ger
many. The guide said that once 90
percent of their exports were to Ger
many and now only fifteen or twenty
percent goes to that country. Ger
many now is required to make a dec
laration as to what she is to use every
article for before selling to her. When
I asked what percent of the popula
tion was German, he said, “NO per
cent!”
The Government closed down the
German schools a month ago. What
Germans are here live in the southern
part of Brazil. There is no German
settlement here. When these Ger
mans opened a theatre and charged
Brazilians twenty cents and Germans
ten cents the Government burned the
theatre. I think the Germans will
NOT get a foothold in Brazil.
As for what they (Brazilians)
think of the United States, the guide
said that if Roosevelt jumped into
the fire, Vargas, their president,
would jump too! Anything the U. S.
does is a model for Brazil. “We copy,”
said he.
There is plenty of work here, ac
cording to my friends John, but the
wages are scant, being forty to fifty
dollars monthly for the average
worker, and I believe he said six hours
per day. How big an American dol
lar looks to these people!
Mussolini's daughter was here re
cently! apd was not received very cor
dially. She was met at the boat and
escorted to the hotel, of course, but
“she spent the week-end in her hotel
rooms so far as I know,” said the
guide.
And now the sight-seeing tour: We
went through the citys’ main street,
Averida Branco, and on around the
edge of beaches, all with names I can
not remember, except Copacabana,
which I mentioned before, and Ipa
nema, which is the name of the
American settlement and it is quite
large and farthest from the city prop
er. You see, all the buildings are
practically on the water because the
mountains rise behind them. There
are some homes stuck up on the side
of the mountains and look as though
they would fall off. We climbed
twenty-eight hundred feet to Mount
Corcovado’s peak. What a ride, and
what a view at every turn, that fairly
held us speechless. From the top,
where is the Christ, we got not only
a bird’s eye view of the Bay of Rio
and the city itself but of its relation
to the surrounding country, its many
suburbs with their extensive ocean
beaches, and also of the coqptless
other mountain peaks. If the day had
been cloudy we would have been
ruined, but it was a perfect day. The
ride down the mountain side through
its tunnel of green jungle, with the
many glimpses of the valley below,
was magnificent. Somewhere in the
descent we stopped to look at the
Cascatinha Falls, a work of nature I
should say—on to a restaurant, high
above everything, and overlooking a
huge lake, where was a yacht club,
and on which were numerous sail
boats. I never have seen anything
so amazingly beautiful except, maybe,
at the Blue Grotto in Italy. The
water was so blue—oh but I can’t
describe it. We took one look at the
menu which was in French and about
which we were all a little dubious
so we called in our faithful guide who
suggested a certain kind of fish that
was really.excellent.
On the way we saw natives of many
hues! John said, “Too much inter
marrying of blacks and whites.” But
some were light enough and some
were cream colored, ranging to the
blackest of the blacks.
There must be enough money here
because I can’t recall seeing a poverty
stricken hut anywhere. I have an
idea that’s coming tomorrow at San
tos. We saw banana trees in many
places and orange trees. Natives were
selling avocado pears, oranges, straw
berries, wild raspberries, tiny bananas
and almost any kind of fruit on the
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Commissioners In
Session Tuesday
The Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues met here Tuesday morning
in the Clerk’s office at the court house
and transacted such business as came
before them for action.
The board held a short session
which included approving bills and
having warrants issued for same.
Several important matters came up
for discussion but all were not dis
posed of.
After disposing of all business that
could be disposed of at this meeting,
the board recessed until Friday, Aug
ust 18. They will meet to dispose
of some unfinished business and to
complete Tax Levy for 1939.
Rich’s To Present
Telecast Showing
Rich's, Atlanta, presents premier
showing of miracle of modern age in
telecast, week of August 7th.
Pioneers in progress always. Rich’s
now brings Television to Atlanta and
the South, just four months after the
launching of the first regular Ameri
can service of Television at the New
York World’s Fair.
The telecasts will feature speakers
of note, famous personages, radio
stars, dancers, singers and dramatic
fashion presentations for 1940.
Twice daily between the hours of
9 and 11 A. M. and from 3 to 5 P. M.,
performances may be witnessed in the
studio, which will be located on Rich’s
sixth floor.
On the selling floors of this great
southern institution will be specially
constructed rooms, where the public
may sit at ease and in comfort, watch
ing projected on the screen, with
sound, the entertainment being given
on the sixth floor.
Hundreds of visitors are expected to
attend this birth of a new industry.
The performances are without charge,
and are brought with Television, to
the South, by Rich’s, in the interest of
science and industry.
Auto. Registration
List Shows Gain
Atlanta, Ga.—There are already
more automobiles registered in Geor
gi than there were in the whole year
of 1938, according to the motor ve
hicle division of the State Revenue
Department. Registrations on July
24 were 455,450 as compared with
452,661 for last year on December 21.
Passenger cars registration have
increased 22,000, trucks not for hire
7,000, trucks for hire 1,300 ,state-city
county trucks 500, and passenger cars
160, trailers 500, dealer’s tags 300,
school buses 23, motorcycles 171 and
ambulances 76. The only decrease was
in ambulances, which have declined
from 446 to 440.
Bogus Dollars Rain
On Monroe’s Streets
Dawson.—lt was literally “dollars
from heaven” in Monroe recently,
when amazed citizens noticed large
bills lying around on the streets. Fed
eral agents, however, disproved the
idea that the greenbacks were really
manna, but explained that counter
feiters had sought this method to get
rid of $6,000 in spurious notes in fear
of being caught So reluctant citi
zens had to relinquish their one and
ten dollar bills ,and now have vowed
to refuse to believe their eyes when
it rains anything except “cats and
dogs.”
“Fish Tale” Has
String Attached
Gainesville.—Ben Parks, of this
city, is still wondering at the apparent
super strength of a bass he snared
recently. According to this “complete
angler,” whose veracity is unqes
tioned, he landed the beauty, which
appeared to be much heavier than its
216 pounds, and to his amazement dis
covered a heavy 13-foot window sash
cord tied to its gills. Then the ques
tion “How did such a small creature
break a line of window sash cord?”
Parks said, “I’ll bite,” which is prob
ably what the fish did.
Regular Services At
Baptist Church Sunday
Regular preaching services will be
held at the Newton Baptist Church
Sunday. The Rev. R. H. Forrester,
pastor, will deliver both morning and
evening messages. The public is cor
dially invited to attend both services.
A County of Good
Farms, Good Schools,
Good Churches and
Good People.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
WAGE-HOUR CHANGE
URGED BY REP. COX
Cox Says Bill Handicaps Ag
riculture. Small Mills Can’t
Compete.
Passage of the Barden bill to ex
empt small industry and agriculture
of Continental United States and the
U. S. Possessions and Territories,
from the requirements of the wage
hour law was advocated by Congress -
man Gene Cox of Georgia, in a spe
cial interview on the economic crisis
in Puerto Rico.
Congressman Cox said he favored
passage of the Barden bill because it
in part would give relief to those who
find it impossible to carry on under
the law as administered.
“The wage-hour law is monopolis
tic,” he declared. “It is destroying
small business everywhere. Small
operators with high unit costs can’t
compete with the larger operators.
The law handicaps agriculture, which
is already over-handicapped, and ia
greatly increasing unemployment in
the country. The Barden bill takes
care of agriculture and other closely
allied industries.”
The Puerto Ricans claim that a
great part of their economic crisis—
estimated to be causing unemploy
ment of more than half the workers
—upon the attempt to rigidly apply
the wage-hour requirements to the
Island.
The fruit and needlework industries
have suffered in particular, causing
unemployment of thousands upon
thousands of Puerto Ricans, they con
tend. They point out that their ad
verse condition is reflected right
back to the United States, their $90,-
000,000 of purchases from the main
land in 1937—including about $16,-
000,000 of cotton products—having
dropped to only $81,000,000 in 1938.
Cordelia Kidd Is
Birthday Honoree
Mr. and Mrs. Cuffie Edwards en
tertained their little granddaughter,
Cordelia Kidd of Elmodel, with a
lovely birthday dinner at their home
Sunday.
Dinner was spread in the yard un
der the large shade trees. Salads,
pies, sandwiches, cake and tea were
served the guests.
Those present were, Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Edwards and son, Jerry, Mr?
and Mrs. Lewis Collins and Mr. Roy
Collins, of Meigs, Mr. and Mrs. James
Cullen Edwards and son, J. 8., Misses
Jewel and Toy Collins and LaVaughn
Fulford.
Why Pisa Tower Leans
The leaning tower of Pisa was in
tended to stand upright but the soil
beneath gradually gave way on one
side until the marble structure wee
16 feet out of the perpendicular.
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