Loss Of Farm Export Market Signals New Policy Shift
Secretary Wickard’s Purdue speech hints a permanent decline in foreign farm product demand. Officials foresee reductions in farm numbers and adjusted production, plus a push to raise the home market by boosting incomes and regional competition. The Morale Division builds civilian-style effort, with films, publications, and hostesses shaping a fighting morale. A cotton reduction plan pays farmers for lowering acreage to consume surplus via manufactured goods.
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Washington
Wickard
Purdue University
United States
Army Builds Morale With Real Cooks In New Force
The piece explains that the U S Army emphasizes nutrition and morale by employing trained cooks rather than informal kitchen workers. It notes Napoleon’s idea that armies move on their stomachs and stresses practical meals as essential for effective service.
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Napoleon
Uncle Sam
Soil erosion costs U.S. billions, Bennett warns
H H Bennett head of the U S soil conservation service says erosion costs the United States over 3.8 billion dollars annually. He notes half the land is damaged and that conservation work covers 250 million acres now with hope to balance waste in ten years.
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United States
H. H. Bennett
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Bennett
Pine seedlings planted on farms under district program
About 70 000 slash longleaf and loblolly pine seedlings arrived from the Soil Conservation Service and are being planted on farms under the district conservation program. Farmers supplement with additional seedlings from state forest service. Plantings this season push the county total well over half a million since November. State Forest Service reports ample seedlings, with a planting season lasting about a month or six weeks. The season is described as a mighty good planting period.
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Soil Conservation Service
State Forest Service
W. E. Neisler
R. L. Philman
J. A Payne
B. A. Hollis
Alfonzo McCrary
D. W Harp
H. A. Sealy
C E. Purvis
S B. Fubanks
J J. Casson
F C. Gholson
Eli Gaultney
W. J. Butler
J. H. Neisler
Simon Gray
Georgia Forestation Progress Reflects 1940 Public Support
A Georgia Forestry Association statement credits the 1940 press coverage, Extension Division of Agriculture, fire protection grand juries, progressive county fire control, railway and naval store support, pulp mills, allied industries and the state forestry department for strong forest conservation momentum entering 1941. The report highlights broad public interest and coordinated efforts to develop and protect Georgia’s forests.
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Georgia
T. Guy Woolford
Georgia Forestry Association
Department of Agriculture
Georgia Railroad
State Department of Forestry
Local Tire Sale and Farm Rent Notice
Childs Service Station in Butler Georgia offers reconditioned tires from 16 to 21 inches at reasonable prices. FARM FOR RENT three or four horse farm near Mauk with home dwellings and tenant house, good outbuildings, orchard, hog wire fence, rent paid by government rentals. contact Mrs Geo W Duncan at 1082 Lawyers Lane Columbus Georgia phone 5449 M.
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Childs
Childs Service Station
Butler, Ga
Duncan
Mauk
Geo. W. Duncan
Lawyers Lane
Columbus
More Housing Space Needed in Expanding Poultry Flocks
County poultry raisers are expanding beyond 260 yard flocks toward hundred layer operations. County Agent EB G Blackwell says the 14 by 24 foot 100 hen house suits early stages, with open fronts and space for roosts feeders nests and scratching. Plans available from the county agent or Agricultural Extension Service Athens.
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EB. G. Blackwell
Agricultural Extension Service
Athens
Gems of Thought Wisdom and Proverbial Truths
A compact collection of aphorisms and quotes on wisdom from Phoerbs to Emerson. The lines urge acquiring wisdom and understanding, noting wisdom often lies closer when we are humble, and that counsel requires the wisdom to apply it.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Gov Talmadge Cuts State Budget Across Departments
Atlanta January 24 Gov Talmadge orders major budget trims totaling 78000 across fourteen departments for the current quarter. Public Safety faces largest cut from 196072 to 163526 while Revenue and other agencies see smaller reductions. The action notes added personnel before the election and cites Confederate pensions changes and a new banking superintendent.
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Atlanta
Talmadize
Department of Public Safety
Jnc. E Goodwin
New Safety
Talmadge
Treasury
Comptroller General's General Office
Confederate Pensions Office
Planning Board
Industrial Board
Veterans Service Office
Public Service Commission Utility Division
Public Service
Department of Banking
R. E. Gormley
C. B. Golson
J. C. Beasley
Reidsville
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America
Baukhage
National Farm and
Home Hour
WNU Service
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Y.M.C.A
Adjutant General
Army Motion Picture Service
Moving Picture Service
Moving Picture
Bell
Post Exchange
Army General Store
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Ill
Stars & Stripes
France
Harold Ross
Paris
New Yorker
Alexander Woollcott
John Winterich
Major Winterich
Harry Terry
The
Commerce Magazine
G. Wallace Arm Forester
Emily Woodward
Hotel Lanier
Macon, Georgia
Emerson
Gov
O. I. C. Pigs
E. F. Parr
Reynolds, Ga
N. L. Halley Reynolds
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