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THE CITIZENS JOURNAL, ATLANTA, TEXAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940
The Citizens Journal
(Founded 1879)
J. W. HARRELL, Editor and Publisher
Entered at the postoffice in Atlanta, Texas, as second-class mail matter,
Issued Thursday of each week—209 East Main Street—Phone No. 178
SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable in Adance)
State and Foreign: In Cass and Adjoining Counties.
One Year _...$1.50 One Year $1.00
Six Months 1.00 Six Months 75
Three Months 65 Thr«e Months 50
WRIGHT PAT MAN'S ^
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — TEXAS — '"1
Appropriations for Agriculture:—
The House of Representatives is
now considering the Appropriation
Bill, which includes appropriations
for Agriculture. It will be recalled
that parity payments for farmers
are not included in this Bill. Farm
leaders in the House are reluctant
to make the fight in the House to
restore this item believing that
when the Bill goes to the Senate,
this item will centainly be restored
there and it will be much easier to
get the House to ratify the action
of the Senate in restoring it than
to pass an amendment in the House
restoring it when the Bill is up.
The House of Representatives is
composed of a majority of Mem-
bers from the cities. Not true as
to the Senate where there are two
Members from each State.
The President submitted what
was referred to as a "bedrock bud-
get." He cut expenditures by
$775,000,000. This cut was made
by the President at the expense
of aid to agriculture, $413,000,000;
relief, $562,000,000; flood controi
and river and harbor development,
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Bronchitis, acute or chronic, Is an
Inflammatory condition of the mu-
cous membranes lining the bronchial
tubes. Creomulslon goes right to the
Beat of the trouble to loosen germ
laden phlegm, increase secretion and
aid nature to soothe and heal raw,
tender, Inflamed bronchial mucous
membranes. Tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of Creomulslon with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
$98,000,000; the CCC $64,000,000;
and NYA, $15,000,000. However,
the cut was offset to a consider-
able extent by the President's re-
quest for additional defense funds,
which are expected to amount to
around two billion dollars in 1941,
as compared with one billion in
1938.
Many members have questioned
the advisability of increasing funds
for military purposes, while cutting
domestic aid (parity payments for
farmers, relief funds, CCC and
NYA allotments,) and an effort
will be made to restore at least a
part of these, if not all. The farm
Members are working as they have
never worked before in an effort
to get parity payments for farm-
ers restored and the appropriation
for soil conseervation increased. We
must keep the country, including
the people who live in the cities,
sold on the fact that the prosperity
•of this Nation depends upon the
prosperity of the American farmer.
The farmers' part of the National
income is entirely too low.
The House is passing one Appro-
priation Bill a week. This will re-
quire eleven weeks from the begin-
ning of this session of Congress on
January 3rd.
A Catechism on the Federal Gov-
ernment (Continued)
23. Q. Has the House of Repre-
sentatives always been composed of
435 members?
A. No. Under the first apportion-
ment in 1789, there were only 65
Members of the House. The number
was increased each decade along
with the increased population until
1840, the number of Members to-
taled 232. Whereas, in 1880, the
House increased to 332, and in 1910
increased to the present Member-
ship of 435.
24. Q. Does the Federal Govern-
ment or Congress determine a dis-
trict line of a Congressional Dis-
trict ?
A. No, Congress apportions to
each State the number of ltepresen
tatives that may be elected from
that State to the House of Repre-
sentatives. If the. Legislature de-
sires, it can divide the State up into
the number of Congressional Dis-
tricts equal to the number of Con-
gressmen that may be eleected from
that State. After each decennial cen
sus, the Legislature of a State,
which is given an increase in rep-
resentation, usually re-districts the
State. However, if the State is not
re-districted and there is an in-
crease in representation, the in-
crease will be made up from the
State at large; in other words, Tex-
as has 21 Congressmen at this time.
If the census that is being taken
this year discloses that Texas is
entitled to three more Members of
Congress and is given the increased
apportionment, the Texas Legisla-
ture will likely change the Congres-
sional District lines in Texas, but
if for any reason it does not, the
three additional members will run
at large from the entire State.
25. Q. What is the population of
the average Congressional District
A. Under the census of 1910, the
ratio of population was 194,182 as
compared with 279,712 for the cen-
sus of 1930.
26^BHfl
tricts have approximately the same|
population ?
A. Theoretically, they should
have, but in practice they do not.
It is due, in part, to the fact that
Congressional Districts usually fol-
low county lines, town lines or ward
lines in cities, so that the popula-
tion cannot, therefore, be divided
with exactness. 4
27. Q. What is Gerrymandering,
A. The practice was named for
Vice President Elbridge Gerry, its
inventor. If the Republicans hap-
pen to control the Legislature of a
State when a re-distrieting bill is
pending, they crowd as many of the
Republican voters into one districtl
as they can and vice versa. This re-
sults in what are termed "shoe
paraphrase "gerrymander." The
Federal re-apportionment law re-
quires districts to be compact and
composed of continuous territory,
but as to the compactness, the law
is honored in some States more in
the breach than in the observance.
For instance, Congressman Samuel
Dickstein of the 12th District in
New York City only has 90,671 peo-
ple in his District; whereas, Con-
gressman Donald O'Toole of the 8th
district of New York has 799,407
people in his District.
28. Q. Name the five States that
have the largest number of Repre-
sentatives and the five having the
fewest number of Representatives
in the House.
A. Illinois, 27; New York, 45;
Ohio, 24; Pennsylvania, 34; and
Texas, 21. Each State is entitled to
at least one Representative in the
House, regardless of population.
States having one Member of the
House each aree: Arizona, Dela-
ware, Nevada, Vermont, Wyoming.
From the County
Agent's Office
Forty million acres of U. S. soil
are now growing that wonderful
asiatic crop, Lespedeza. Nowhere
jl uou United States does it grow
. Q. Do all Congressional Dis- betterthan in Cass County. It will
grow in pastures re-seeding under
the most adverse conditions. It
will make a meadow on hillsides or
on bottom lands. One variety, call-
ed Serecia, will make up to two
tons of air dry hay on an acre of
hill side. Feeding tests at expvei-
ment stations say that it is better
than alfalfa. Plant it once and you
are forever through planting as it
will come up year by year from
the original roots.
Tom Dalrymple of Bear Creek
has a hillside meadow that has
choked out all weeds and grass and
on the second year was well estab-
lished. Mr. Latham on the Linden-
Bivins road was successful in es-
tablishing ameadow in Frazier's
Creek bottom seeded to this Sere-
string districts," this term having! cia, Lespedeza. He cut it for hay
been applied first to certain dis-' ^ wa® we" Pleased w,tl! his re"
In No Uncertain Tones
u
of
tricts in Mississippi following the
Reconstruction Period. At one time,
a district in Missouri extended in a
narrow line through the State from
one border to the other. Today a
study of the map showing Congres-
sional District lines reveals some
peculiar formations representing
the exigencies of politics. In one
district in North Carolina, gerry-
mandering resulted in an odd for-
mation resembling the salamander
of Gerry's time, from which was
derived in the Old Bay State the
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suits. The AAA pays, under prac-
tice 18, $1.50 for each acre sowed
to Serecia not to exceed the total
allowed for these practices. If you
would like to know where to buy
seed, how to plant to be sure of a
stand, writ your county agent.
The 1940 AAA program will give
each farm unit a minimum of $50
for soil building. This is decided-
ly the best news that has ever
come <out of that fine program.
You can earn $30 for planting 4
acres of pine trees, according to
practice 28 and any of all farms
can earn a minimum of $20 for
carrying out other practices. Thin-
ning out stands of pine trees prob-
ably will not qualify you for the
$7.50 per acre payment. It will
take a thousand trees per acre us-
' ing 6x8 spacing. 700 hardwood
| trees per acre will be enough. Prac-
tice 28 of the 1940ACP handbook
page 20, says the planting of for-
est trees on old fields or areas from
which practically all timber has
been cut is recommended where
there are insufficient seed trees to
naturally reseed the area to desire-
able species of forest trees.
(2) When planting these trees in
furrows, these furrows should be on
a contour.
3. For pine trees 6x8 spacings
and 8x8 or 700 hardwood trees per
acre.
The species recommended for
Cass county are short leaf, loblolly,
long leaf, and slash pine; black lo-
cust, osage, orange white and red
oak, mulberry, shage bark hickory,
white ash, black walnut, magnolia,
and sweet gum. Talk this over with
your committeemen. Mr. Lester
Young of the State office says "No
credits will be given under this
practice for thinning out stands of
native trees."
Now it should be remembered
that the $30 each farm may earn
through this practice may be earn-
ed in no other way and if you do not
earn it by planting trees you will
never earn it.
These trees may be ordered from
the State Forest Service, College
Station, Texas, at the rate of $2.00
per thousand, with the freight costs
to be added.
One car of Basic Slag has been
delivered to Cass county, the first
ever to come to our county. Basic
slag has 75% lime and 12% phos-
phate, two elements that are ab-
sent from our soil. Lime and phos-
phorous are needed on land where
legumes are planted. It will in-
crease the grSwth of legumes as
much as five times, and therein lies
its charm. Twenty-five farmers se-
lected from the most progressive
in the county by the Land Use Plan-
ning board, will meet at the coun-
ty agent's office soon to complete
their applications for Tennessee
Valley Authority phosphate and to
hear Mr. Thornton, who is in charge
of that program, give the purpose
of the program, and tell the gov-
ernment's requirements. These 25
farms will keep records of the re-
sults of the application of the phos-
phate and will teach the farmers of
the county the value of phosphate to
the soil, when applied under le-
gumes. The legumes will soon make
nitrogen by the use of small no-
dules on their roots and soon the|
land has increased its fertility. An-
imals who iat the legumes that has
a high phosphorous content will do
much better than animals without
thiR food element.
Continutag our prnrtice of point-
ing out fqflmers
serving their fellowman we point
out this week two farmers who have
done much in Cass county:
CHRIS NELSON
Chris Nelson has an enviable rec-
ord of serving his fellowman in
Cass county. He has served many
years as committeeman for the AA
A. He is now the county commit-
teeman of that organization. For
the past two years he has been on
the tenant purchasing committee
of the Farm Security Administra-
tion. He has helped select 14 ten-
ants in Cass county and has helped
select them a farm. A government
representative, inspecting the work
of Mr. Nelson and his fellow com-
mitteemen, which include Mr. Ar-
thur Thompson, Mr. Dee Floyd and
Mr. Clarence Frost, had this to say
"The work of this committee in
Cass county has been of the highest
order. Good men have been selected
and farms have been selected care-
fully. That type of committee work
will always be a credit to the sys-
tem of letting the farmers work out
their local problems by the commit-
tee system."
ARTHUR THOMPSON
Arthur Thompson of Bryans Mill
is well respected and beloved far-
mer, very successful as a farmer
and as a business man who has giv-
en frequently of his time to help his
fellow fanners. He has been an of-
ficer in the farm organization ev-
ery since it was started in Cass
county. He has been a member of
the tenant purchase committee of
the farm security program, where
he has distinguished himself for his
level headed judgment.
Mrs. Mary Avery
Dies Monday
Mrs. Mary Avery, 70, died at her
home in the Smyrna community,
Monday, January 29. She is sur-
vived by three sons and two daugh-
ters: L. G., Charlie, and Johnson
Avery of Atlanta; Mrs. 11. G. Rags
dale of Vivian; Mrs. C. W. Guthrie
of Gibson, Mo.; twenty-one grand-
children and eight great grand-
children.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Smyrna Baptist church at 3
o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, Janu-
ary 30, conducted by Rev. E. B.
Hamilton. Interment in , Smyrna
cemetery under the direction of the
Hanner Funeral Service.
One-fourth of the rain that falls
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leaves and branches and dissipat-
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Harrell, J. W. The Citizens Journal (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1940, newspaper, February 1, 1940; Atlanta, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth336365/m1/2/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.