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Volume LII, Number 34
FORT VALLEY SCHOOLS TO
SEPT.
Parents Urged to Have Children Ready
So There Will Be No Delay in
Beginning School Work.
At a meeting Wednesday afternoon
the board of education of the Fort
Valley consolidated school set Friday,
Sept. 8, as the opening date of the
Fort Valley schools.
The faculty remains as it was last
term with one exception. Miss Caro¬
lyn Russell resigned to accept ’a posi¬
tion in the Winder schools so that she
could be at home with her mother.
The board elected to fill the vacan¬
cy here, Miss Elizabeth Anthony, of
Macon. Miss Anthony has taught
eight years after receiving her degree
from Mercer University. The past
six years she has been teaching in
the McRae public schools.
The complete faculty for the year
is as follows: »•
First grade—Miss Mattie Luck and
M iss "Willie Mosley.
Second grade—Miss Frances Ar
rington and Miss Emily Shepard.
Third grade—Miss Louise McCowen
and Miss Elizabeth Williams.
Fourth grade—Miss Ruth Richard¬
son and Miss Lula Ree Ethridge.
Fifth grade—Miss Marion Ilorne
and Mrs. Nell Dover .
Sixth grade—Miss Bessie Anderson
and Miss Louise Powell.
Seventh grade—Miss Sarah Lowe
and Miss Gladys Hall.
Superintendent—J. F. Lambert.
Science and principal -— John T.
Clark.
Commercial—W. E. Colley.
Manual training—G. R. Vennes.
History—Miss Elizabeth Anthony.
Mathematics—Miss Inez Walton.
French and English—Miss Nellie
Richardson.
English—Miss Thelma Wilson.
Home economies—Miss Ollie John¬
son and Miss Clara Campbell.
Latin—Miss Francas ifryant.
Piano—Horace Rundell.
Speech—Miss Norma Boyer.
Librarian-—Miss Gena Riley.
“We are assured by the State De¬
partment of Education that there is
in sight enough money to run the
schools four months,” says Supt. Lam¬
bert. “We hope that some provision
for the remaining five months of the
school term wdll be made.” *
Parents of children just entering
school are requested to have them
vaccinated before school begins, so
they will not have to overcome this
extra handicap after school begins.
The book rooms will be open as
usual on Thursday, Sept. 7, for the
distribution of textbooks, The high
school teachers will be at the high
school on that date to assist pupils in
arranging their courses of study and
schedules. Parents and pupils are
urged to cooperate in getting all of
this done on Thursday before school
opens, so that pupils will not lose
time getting this done after entering
school.
. * There are going to be some sup¬
plementary readers and work books
that the state does not furnish free.
We feel that they are necessary in or¬
der that tjie courses be as thorough
as possible,” says Mr. Lambert. “We
shall try to make them as few as is
consistent with a well rounded course
of study.”
Exports of Cotton
Lowest in 60 Years
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Govern¬
ment statisticians painted a gloomy
picture of the cotton surplus problem
today, disclosing that exports during
the marketing season which ended
July 31 were the lowest in 60 years
and that the carry-over of cotton on
August 1 was the largest ever record¬
ed by the government.
The Commerce Department reported
that cotton exports from August of
last year through July this year, ag¬
gregated 3,327,000 bales valued at
$170,682,000. This was a decline of
40.6 per cent in quantity and 44.3 per
cent in value from the previous season.
At the same time the census report¬
ed a carry-over of 13,032,611 running
bales, compared with 11,533,439 bales
a year ago and a ten-year average
from 1929-38 of 6,744,800 bales.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
—Hazlitt.
1 Elm finalist-5131111110
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest .
jay Ces Hear Riley
Wood on City
The regular monthly meeting of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce was
held Tuesday night at the McElmur
ray House with the president, Henry
A. Mathews, presiding .
A statement from J. E. Burnett,
chairman of the committee on the
syphilis clinic, brought out the inter¬
esting fact that the work of the clinic
has grown tremendously since its es¬
tablishment a few months ago. It
has growrn from six or seven patients
a week to over 140 a week.
Mayor A. C. Riley and W. A. Wood,
chairman of the finance committee
of city council, were heard in a dis¬
cussion of the city government, which
proved to be of very great interest
to all present.
Mayor Riley told of how the city
government is operated and how its
personnel functions in a general way.
Mr. Wood told in his talk of the fi¬
nancial side of the city’s operation.
He reviewed the income and expendi¬
tures. He impressed his hearers with
the sound and economical basis on
which the city is operated and partic¬
ularly its program of refunding bonds.
A resolution was unanimously pass¬
ed expressing the appreciation of the
organization to Mr. Wood and Mr.
Riley for having given them such a
clear understanding of the city’s af¬
fairs.
W elf are Di rector to
Speak Here Aug. 22
Braswell Deen,. director of the State
Department of Public Welfare, an
nounees that he will be in Fort Valley
on Tuesday, August 22, and will
dress the citizens of this section at
the county court house at 3 o’clock
that afternoon. He wall discuss some
of the problems of the state and coun¬
ty departments of public welfare.
The general public is invited to
present.
Seen r ity Prog ram
Passes 4th Birthday
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The so¬
cial security program, a keystone New
Deal measure, came to its fourth an
niversary Monday with nearly
000 workers holding old-age insurance
cards and with 1,800,000 of the needy
aged collecting federal-state aid.
The number of workers paying tax
es into the old-age insurance fund had
increased about 14,000,000 in the last
two years.
The number of persons receiving
old-age assistance had more than
doubled the 603,700 of three years
ago, and payments had jumped from
$243,200,000 in 1936-37 to $411,500,000
in the year ended last June 30.
A survey made by the Social Secur
ity Board showed that federal and
state governments steadily have ex
panded benefit programs for aged
and unemployed persons, dependent
children and the blind. The board
pointed out that benefits will be ex
tended even further under the recently
enacted amendments to the security
law-.
The treasury already has paid out
$20,200,000 in lump sums to settle
381,675 claims under the old-age in
surance plan.
Under the unemployment
42.600.000 payments aggregating
$444,300,000 were made during the.
last fiscal year, compared with 17,
900.000 payments totaling $180,000,
000 in the previous fiscal year. Pay¬
ments in’June averaged $10.09 a week
for total unemployment ,and $5.53 a
week for partial unemployment.
Federal, state and local payments
for 718,000 dependent children totaled
$ 103 , 200,000 in the last fiscal year.
In 1936*37, payments aggregated $40,-
800,000 for 175,100 children. The
age family entitled to benefits or de¬
pendent children received $31.10 last
June, compared wifch $23.46 in June,
1936.
The akl-to-the-blind program helped
44,500 persons in June, 1939, with a
total of $11,908,000 paid out during
the fiscal year.
FORT VALLEY. PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939
RIVERS TO FIX
THANKSGIVING
WEEK EARLIER
ATLANTA, Aug. 16.—Governor
Rivers indicated Tuesday he would
issue Georgia’s Thanksgiving Day
proclamation for the date set by
President Roosevelt—one week earlier
than usual.
Comment from governors of other
states was mixed, some saying they
would stick to November 30, others
commending the President’s decision,
Governor Rivers said that he would
be glad to follow the lead of the Pres¬
ident in an effort to boost business,
provided the Georgia law did not re¬
quire him to fix the last Thursday in
November as Thanksgiving Day,
The Chief Executive asked Attor¬
ney General Ellis Arnall for an opin
i ion, and the attorney general replied
, that the Georgia law fixes Thanks¬
, giving Day as “any day appointed or
I recommended by the Governor or the
President of the United States or any
municipal authority as a date for
thanksgiving, fasting and prayer.”
The official directory of the state
government lists the fourth Thursday
;in November as Thanksgiving Day
under the head of legal holidays, and
the state school law provides that the
schools shall observe this date by ex¬
ercises or by a holiday, but the code
provision is the basic law as to the
date, the attorney general held.
WOULD BE EFFECTIVE
ONLY IN FEDERAL AREAS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—A State
Department official said Tuesday the
President's proclamation on Thanks
giving Day has effect only in the Dis¬
trict of Columbia and the territories!
belonging to the United States.
In the past, governors of states gen
erally have issued their own procla¬
mations, he said, conforming their in
'dividual states to the proclamation of
the President.
Of itself, he added, the President’s
proclamation does not have effect in
the various states,
The State Department Is the cer
tifying and issuing agency for presi
dential proclamations,
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State Police Begin
R iff b id En f orcein ent
ATLANTA.—Georgia state troop¬
ers had orders to put their chief
weapon, suspension of drivers’ licens
es, into force Wednesday for drivers
who repeatedly break road rules and
endanger lives.
Instructions to clear the roads of
'commissioner *. repeaters” came last Saturday from
Lon Sullivan, Depart¬
ment of Public Safety. He said the
str j ct enforcement of road rules is
| ' an effort to-bring the fatality rate at
least 200 below that of last year,
Because speed, or driving too fast
! f or particular conditions, is causing
eg per cent of Georgia’s fatalities,
, drivers who fail to observe the 55
mile state limit especially will feel
the suspension order,
j Commissioner Sullivan said driving
whjie drunk or drinking will continue
to carry a mandatory revocation, as
provided in the safety act, which
means a minimum suspension of six
! mon ths.
j A driver convicted more than once
in the year of breaking the speed law
! will receive an automatic 30-day li
cense suspension. A subsequent of
f ense vvill bring a 90-day suspension
iatl( j a third conviction will class the
driver as a 'consistent repeater” and
consequently will mean revocation,
| Other offenses, which patrolmen
; w j]j record indelibly by clipping the
; driver’s license will include:
One light or no tail light (if the
'driver, however, has an extra bulb in
his car for such emergencies, his li¬
cense will not be clipped).
Failure to dim or to have lights
properly focused.
Passing with insufficient clearance
either on curve, hill or straight-of
way -
Miscellaneous or careless driving
(parking which includes no hand signal, illegal
and failure to observe signs
and signals.
Improper use of equipment, which
includes defective brakes, n® roar view
, mirror, improper tags or overloaded
i vehicles.
THREE GIFTS
BAPTIST
Three recent gifts to the Fort Val¬
ley Baptist church, have been an¬
nounced by the officers of the church.
Robert Persons and Judge Ogden
Persons, of Forsyth, have given the
church a peal of bells as a memorial
to their mother. The Persons broth¬
ers were born here and their mother
taught school here for many years.
A piano was given to the church by
Mrs. Eddie Cooper Adams and Miss
Anna H. Cooper in memory of their
mother, Mrs. Ella II. Cooper, who was
the church’s oldest member at the time
of her death.
William Crawford, of Atlanta, son
of Mrs. S. J. Crawford, donated hard¬
wood flooring for the main auditori¬
um.
JUDGE M’CLELLAN
IS . , Nf!<l\l(/t c’l'Df/iirpi iNfj »' I IIjIj If f
MACON, Aug. 16.—Superior Court
Judge W. A. McClellan was in critical
condition last night in a Macon hos¬
pital, where he is under treatment for
a stomach ailment and heart trouble.
Judge McClellan had been ill at his
home at 227 North avenue for several
weeks and was removed to the hospital
Aug. 9.
He is said to have suffered a set¬
back yesterday.
Home-Comin £5 o Day
Society Hill Church
-
Announcement has been made that
Dr. M. D. Collins, state superintendent
of schools, is to be guest speaker at
the annual home-coming and all-day
singing at Society Hill church, Craw¬
ford county, on Sunday, August 27.
Rev. Gideon Horne, one of the
state’s oldest ministers is to be spe¬
cial speaker.
The morning session is to begin at
10 o’clock with Sacred Harp singing.
All .Sacred Harp singers are request¬
ed to be present for the purpose of
organizing a class. Bring your books.
Prof. Hannah and choir, of Macon,
will be in charge of music and singing.
A selected string band will render a
number of selections.
Lunch will be served by the ladies.
The public is expected to bring lunch
—a well filled basket.
Prof. Sutton and his Wesley Chapel
class will sing in the afternoon. Miss
Louise Sutton will be at the piano.
Everyone is cordially invited.
Four Sermons on
Four-Square Gospel
Rev. Carl Wilson continues the
meetings in the Congregational church
with increased interest being shown.
Mr. Wilson, being a Four-Square
evangelist, will speak Monday, Tues¬
day, Wednesday and Thursday nights
of next week on the Four Phases of |
the Four-Square Gospel.
For Sunday night, Aug. 20, he has
selected as his subject “The Great
Battle of Armageddon.
96j)47.95R Pounds
of Tobacco Sold
ATLANTA, Aug. 15—A total of 3-
3,507,282 pounds of tobacco sold on
the Georgia bright leaf markets last
week for $3,779,938.76 at a state-wide
average of 11.20 cents a pound.
This average was more than 2 cents
a pound drop from the week before
and more than 3 cents under the op¬
ening week.
Commissioner of Agriculture Col- ,
umbus Roberts reported total sales for
the season at 96,047,958 pounds, with
a yield of $12,623,409.88, at an aver¬
age of 13.14 cents.
Roberts’ report showed about half a
dozen warehouses ended the sales sea¬
son Friday and that most of the oth¬
ers in the 15 Georgia cities were plan¬
ning to close this week. He said indi¬
cations were a record crop was grown
this year “as it is thought this week’s
sales will swell the total beyond the
103,305,159 sold in 1930, the record
crop so far.”
In 1930, the crop said for $10,.767,
000, an average ef 9.86.
on WPA
CHURCH In South 1
,
in Pay
Wage Average Will Be
Raised $2.50 a Month for Over
Two Million Workers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Com¬
F. C. Harrington announced
a new schedule of monthly se¬
wages for WPA project work
which, he said, would raise the
average about $2.50 a month
approximately 2,194,911 persons.
This, he added, would mean that the
average of $53 a month would be
up to about $55.50. The new
become effective September 1.
In general, Harrington said, the
schedule would mean a substan¬
increase in WPA wages in south¬
states. In northern states pres
scales will be retained with some
which include compara
minor reductions in most in
Revision of the WPA wage schedule
required by the new relief act,
provides that the rates in
sections shall vary no more
does the cost of living.
Although the act provides that no
change shall he made in
national average WPA wage, Har¬
said the $2.50 a month in¬
was considered permissible un¬
terms of the statute. WPA offi¬
said the act did not define the
“substantial.”
As an example of the changes, the
said that the new rate
skilled labor in New York city
be $89.70 compared with an old
of $92.30, whereas in Birming
Ala., the new rate would be
compared with the old $71.50.
BARTOW COW DEIS
D1ES n rw?c< SAlLJRUAl o a mfl » n A V"
Folowing is a news account of the
of B. Cowden, father of Mrs.! Mrs. |
H ..Jones of Fort Valley.
had been with her father at j
and at an Atlanta hospital
about two weeks and was joined 1
Rockmart Saturday and Sunday by j
Jones and her daughter, Peggy.
ROCKMART, Aug. 13.- Bartow
76, secretary-treasurer of j
States Portland Cement |
Rockmart, died Saturday
at a private hospital in At¬
after an illness of several days.
Mr. Cowden was born in Piedmont,
Jan. 26, 1863, the son of Dr.
and Mary Ferguson Cowden.
His wife, who died several years ago,
the former Margaret Burkett of j
Mr. Cowden, a pioneer figure in the
industry, was widely known
the Southeast. For 35 years he
been connected with the Southern
Portland Cement Company, at
Surviving are his children: Mrs.
D. Scott, Birmingham, Ala.;
James Smalley, Chattanooga,
Mrs. John H. Jones, Fort Val¬
Mrs. Frank R. JClark III, Eliza¬
N. J., and Bartow Cowden of
also a sister, brother and
Funeral services were held Sunday
the First Methodist church, Rock¬
Dr. Marvin A. Franklin, Birm¬
Ala., officiated.
Is Elected
A t Camp Meeting
JACKSON, Aug. 16.—Re-election
all officers of the Indian Springs
camp meeting, now m ses
on, was announced Tuesday -when
for the 1940 event, were
,
Officers are Dr. J. M. Glenn, Still
president; Rev. Leonard H.
Savannah, vice president;
L. Luce, Fort Valley, secretary,
R. P. Sasnett, Jackson, treasurer.
The board of trustees selected as
leaders Dr. H. C. Morrison,
Ky., and two brothers, Dr.
Owen and Dr. Joseph Owen of
Progress was reported in raising
for the erection of a memorial
the late R. F. Burden of Macon,
served as president several years.
Nearly 42 per cent of the Univer¬
of Georgia’s students are women.
PORTION
ROAI)
Judge M. C. Mosley has been
formed by W. L .Miller, chairman
the State Highway Board, that
or five miles of the proposed
between Fort Valley and Reynolds
approved for construction.
tual work on the road, it is under¬
is contingent on release of the
highway board’s funds which
been held up by orders of the
ernor.
i i vo n ia ns E njoy
General’s Speech
Kiwanians were given a program
unusual interest at their regular
luncheon last Friday by Geo.
Culpepper, Jr. Mr. Culpepper pre¬
General II. D. Russell, promi¬
attorney of Macon, who dis¬
in a most interesting and in¬
manner, “Modern Warfare
Armaments.”
General Russell is a man of wide
experience, at present being
major general, commanding the 30th
of the National Guards, which
composed of units in North Caro¬
South Carolina, Tennessee and
which is the Old Hickory
He was commander of one
the armies in the war games held
Mississippi last year and gave an
account of his part in those
games.
He outlined briefly the methods of
which have been used from
time of Alexander the Great in
Macedonian conquests to the
day. General Russell said that
of the machine gun,
the World war, was the
means of defensive warfare
introduction, '
its to find some
of neutralizing its effective
had failed thus far.
In concluding his remarks General
Russell said that if anyone wanted to
a person who favored war, that
would not be found in the
Jonas G. Hillyer, who will have
of the program Friday, an
that L. A. Whipple, promi
citizen of Cochran, former
her of the State Board of Education,
will be presented and talk on the
School Situation in Georgia.
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Made
by S. A. Frederick
S. A. (“Cousin Clair”) Frederick
himself and his partner,
A. C. Riley, while playing golf
Thursday afternoon. A long,
shot rolled the ball into a 8th
and when he realized he had
a hole-in-one, “it just about left
Clair’ speechless,” the Mayor
It is a distinction to which all golf¬
aspire, but few achieve.
Textbook Plan
To Save State Money
ATLANTA, Aug. 16.—The State
Department’s newly adopt¬
plan to distribute free textbooks
a per-pupil basis is expected by
Superintendent M. D. Collins
save the state $500,000 a year.
Discussing the plan which went into
Tuesday, Mr. Collins said the
would not produce a dollars
cents surplus but would result
the elimination of waste such
that created the last two years
school officials ordered more
than were needed.
Under the new system, each school
draw from a book fund set up in
favor and predicated on the num¬
of pupils enrolled. When the
is exhausted, no additional books
be given the school in that term.
The new regulations are retroactive,
C. S. Hubbard, of the Text¬
and Library Service said.
Schools that have overdrawn their
the last two years will receive
books this year to even the dis¬
though arrangements have
made to care for emergencies
charging withdrawals against al¬
for the 1940-41 school year.
Eating fish and milk together is not
unless the fish is spoiled.
51 YEARS OF
SERVICE
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of one of America’!
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sections.
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GOVERNOR OF MAY
EXTRA SESSION
Check Shows Legislators in Disagree¬
ment: on Any Solution to Prob¬
lems Says Governor.
ATLANTA, Aug. 17.—Governor
Rivers has all but abandoned his an¬
nounced plan to call the general as¬
sembly into special session early next
month, it was earned authoritatively
yesterday.
The decision that a session is in¬
advisable was reached following a con¬
ference between the chief executive
and Senate President John B. Spivey
and Speaker of the House Roy V.
Harris yesterday afternoon.
Formal announcement of abandon¬
ment of the session plans will not be
made for several days. In fact it may
never be made. The Governor may
just let the situation rock along, hop¬
ing that in the months to come the
legislature may, on its own iniative
work out some solution to its prob¬
lems.
Governor Rivers determination not
to call the extra session is said to have
been made after he had read various
published reports from newspapers
over the state revealing a widespread
conflict in the minds of representa¬
tives and senators on what could and
should be done if a session is called.
He is known to feel that at this time
a session would only bring about a
continuance of the strife which marked
the closing days of the 1939 regular
session and that too few members of
^the house have changed their views
tax revision since the close of the
regular session,
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~OUUU I II If I US III
' Abandonment Slllt
RICHMOND, Va„ Aug. 16.—A
three-judge federal court refused to¬
day to grant an injunction sought by
t * ie state of Georgia to prevent aban
‘hniment by the Southern railway of a
; 40-mile stretch of the Atlanta-Fort
Valley line in Georgia.
i
j The state of Georgia, the Georgia
Public Service Commission and Fay¬
■
ette county, Ga., brought the action
against the Interstate Commerce Com¬
mission and the Southern Railway,
seeking a stay of abandonment of a
portiori of the Atlanta-Fort Valley
line between Roseland and Williamson,
Ga. The line originally was chartered
by Georgia as an intra-state carrier
and it was subsequently acquired by
the Southern.
The Georgia plaintiffs contended
the ICC was without power to enter
an order in the absence of evidence
j showing that the entire Fort Valley
line constituted a burden on interstate
commerce.
In denying the injunction and dis¬
mission of the complaint, the court
held the state charter was subordinate
to performance by the carrier “of its
federal duty efficiently to render
transportation services in interstate
commerce” and that the order was a
valid exercise of power by the ICC.
The opinion was written by Judge
John J. Parker of the U. S. fourth cir¬
cuit court of appeals. U. S. District
Court Judges Robert N. Pollard and
Armistead Dobie concurred. The
judges heard arguments in the case
Aug. 8.
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PEACH
THEATRE
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Monday, August 21
PAT O BRIEN and JOAN
BLONDEL ill
i6 KID FROM KOKOMO ...
Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 22, 23
| VICTOR McLAGLEN and BRIAN
AHEARNE in
“CAPTAIN FURY”
Thursday and Friday, Aug. 24, 25
IRENE DUNNE and FRED
MacMURRAY in
INVITATION TO
HAPPINESS 99
Saturday, August 26
BILL ELLIOTT in
u LAW COMES TO TEXAS”
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‘WHISPERING ENEMIES’