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Volume LII, Number 37
STATE BANKERS
AT SCHOOL FOR
A 3-DAY COURSE
Financial Leaders Study All Phases
of Banking in a General Clinic
at Emory University.
ATLANTA, Sept. 7.—The chiefs of
Georgia finance were back in college
Thursday as nearly 100 of the state’s
leading bank officials gathered on the
campus of Emory University for a
three-day practical banking workshop
and study conference.
Although at home they usually oc¬
cupy commodious homes, at Emory
the bankers are living the life of any
other college students, almost com¬
pletely filling one of the main dormi¬
tories.
And though some of them can
write a check for six figures, on the
Emory campus, hatless and coatless
they are getting a big kick out of
living as the college boys do.
The same dormitory rooms with the
double-decker beds that suffice for
service for the bankers, and the fi¬
nancial leaders are learning, many, no
doubt for the first time, how it feels
to shave when all the hot water is
gone.
Huckabee Turns Porter
And it’s not beneath the dignity of
a vice president to do duty as com¬
bined bellboy and porter, as Herbert
Huckabee, of Fort Valley, can testify.
Mr. Huckabee, the president of the
Georgia Bankers’ Association, one of
the first to arrive at Emory for the
conference, found no porters waiting
and resolutely settled down to do the
job himself.
He did, but it was many minutes
past midnight before he got to bed.
But though the bank executives are
finding pleasure in the escape from
formality, they are doing plenty of
work at the same time; in fact, any
ordinary college student would quickly
rebel at the schedule the bankers have
set for themselves.
Lectures begin at 9 in the morning
and, with the exception of a luncheon
intermission continue until 5:30 in the
afternoon. And not even in the eve¬
nings are free for relaxation for two
or three nights of the conference are
to be taken up with dinner meetings.
All Dri vers ? Licenses
Have Been Sent Out
The last of 500,000 drivers licen¬
ses, issued by the Georgia Department
of Public Safety, have been mailed,
Commissioner Lon E. Sullivan has
announced.
He said the final batch included
licenses for all applications made
before the July 31 deadline with the
exception of about 2,000 which were
mailed but returned to the department
“unclaimed,” or those which contain¬
ed errors.
Commissioner Sullivan said he
wished to thank in behalf of the en¬
tire department drivers who have had
to wait, some as long as two months,
for their permits.
“We realize the drivers have been
caused considerable inconvenience dur¬
ing this delay and every member of
the department appreciates the con¬
sideration and patiences drivers have
had during this jam,” he said.
When Mr. Sullivan became commis¬
sioner on July 1, there were 400,000
unopened applications piled in the de¬
partment offices. Since that time, he
said, clerks have worked day and
night to get licenses mailed “as fast
as possible.”
“Today the jam is cleared and only
those applications held up for correct¬
ions or delayed for some other specif¬
ic reason have not gone in the mails,”
he said.
Commissioner Sullivan said the sys¬
tem is being simplified so that such
a delay wdll not occur again during
renewal period.
Masonic Meeting
The Master’s Degree will be con¬
ferred at the regular meeting of Fort
Valley Lodge No. 110 F. and A. M.
Tuesday night. All qualified Masons
are invited to be present.
A. J. CULPEPPER, W .M.
T. M. ANTHOINE, Sec.
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Cranford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
PEACH COURT
NOW IN SESSION
Peach superior court convened Mon¬
day morning with Judge Malcolm D.
Jones presiding.
The grand jury was organized with
J. T. Neill as foreman and T. M. An
thoine, clerk. They concluded their
work Wednesday afternoon, after ex¬
amining public buildings, roads and
bridges, books and records of the va¬
rious county officers and found 31
true bills and 5 no-bills from war¬
rants presented to them.
Civil cases are being heard this
week.
Judge A. M. Anderson will be on
the bench next week to hear the usual
run of minor criminal cases.
The presentments of the grand jury
will be found elsewhere in this week’s
paper.
State Bar Lands
Life and Service
Of Judge Russell
ATLANTA, Sept. 5.—Before one of
the largest crowds ever to attend such
a ceremony in the state, the bar of
Georgia yesterday paid tribute to the
late Chief Justice Richard B. Russell,
Sr., of the state supreme court as the
court accepted from the Russell family
a portrait of the jurist which will
adorn its walls together with those
of the great men who preceded him.
The memorial service was read by
Judge Arthur G. Powell, chairman of
the special committee, while Chief
Justice Charles S. Reid, Judge Rus¬
sell’s successor on the supreme bench,
accepted the portrait in behalf of the
court.
“Richard Brevard Russell was an
extraordinary person and led an ex¬
traordinary life,” the committee’s
tribute read. “We may be able to
commit to writing some of his achieve¬
ments which give testimony to his
greatness but there was in him and
his life a vastness that evades defi
nition and defeats delineation—vast¬
ness of heart and of mind and of per¬
sonality.
“In none of us, nor in all of us, is
there the skill and competency to pay
adequate tribute to him whom we are
this day called upon to memorialize.”
Every member of the committee
present paid personal tribute. Thirty
five members of the' Russell family,
including Congressman Peterson, of
Ailey, a son-in-law, were present.
Governor Rivers also attended.
Committee members who spoke in¬
cluded A. A. Lawrence, of Savannah;
Judge W. W. Stark, of Commerce:
William Butt, of Blue Ridge; John I.
Kelly, of Atlanta; Henry H. West,
of Athens; James A. Perry, of the
public service commission; Judge G.
A. Johns, of the pardon and parole
commission; Marion H. Allen, federal
collector of internal revenue; Frank
Scarlett, of Brunswick; George P.
Munro, of Columbus; Judge R. G.
Dickerson, of Valdosta;• Paul Aiken,
of Cartersville; I. S. Peeples, of Au¬
gusta, and E. W. Maynard, of Macon.
MRS. G. P. GREENE
IS BURIED HERE
Mrs. George P. Greene, 70, former
Fort Valley resident, died in Hialeah,
Fla., last Friday and was buried here
Saturday afternoon. The funeral was
held at 3 o'clock in the Fort Valley
Methodist church, with the pastor,
Rev. J. E. Sampley, officiating.
She is survived by one son, Myles
L. Greene, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;
daughter, Mrs. George R. Fowler,
Hialeah, Fla; two sisters, Mrs. Tom
Norwood, of Savannah, and Mrs. Jew¬
Forbes, of Atlanta; two brothers,
Pierce of North Georgia confer¬
and Tom Pierce, of Jacksonville.
SERVICES SUNDAY AT
ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH
Rev. Walter Clem, who has been on
months vacation will conduct serv¬
ices at St. Andrew’s church Sunday
evening at 7:30. The public is cor¬
invited.
There are more men ennobled by
study than by nature.—Cicero.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1939
Reiter Prejmration
of Cotton Is Urged
By Georgia
Georgia ginners should
themselves more in the
of cotton, W. H. Lovett, of
president of the Georgia Cotton
ners Association, declared this
in pointing out how ginners can
a quality job of ginning for the
er.
"Poor ginning and ginning wet
ton has cost the state of
thousands of dollars,” Lovett, a mem¬
ber of the State-Wide Program
Better Ginned Cotton committee, ex¬
plained. "Cotton ginning in the state
is one of its largest industries and
the cotton farmer is the largest pur¬
chasing power in Georgia.”
Lovett said the ginners chouid not
only keep their outfits in first class
condition, but should advise their
Corners to bring their cotton in a
dition where the ginner could render
the best service for them. He added
that, on account of curtailment of
cotton acreage and of cotton ginning,
a good , many ginners ■ are not , , keeping
their ,, machinery ... in proper repair.
l he ginning .... business is seasonable ,.
and , some ginners are inclined .... to gin
too . fast ,• . and , run too . tight ,. , . a roll, ,,
., there-by , damaging . the ,, staple , , and , the ,,
'
preparation of , cotton, „ the .. Dublin .. ...
man added. ,, , “Poor i(n preparation ,• , by ,,
ginner liable . , to , cost , the farmer „
is
money, so it is up to , the ginner to .
. keep sharp, , and , , brushes , and ,
saws
systems correctly adjusted, ,. . ,,
air ‘
. by protecting . ,. ,. his customer. „
Lovett said that the work being
done through the sponsorship of the
Better Ginned Cotton committee is
worth thousands of dollars to the
producer and is saving the ginner
a great deal of money and loss of
time trying to gin wet cotton and
cotton that is not in the proper con
dition for processing. He said he was
advising ginners to discuss with farm
ers the importance of having their
cotton in proper condition
bringing it to the gin.
“A gin has not yet been made that
will not gin-cut wet cotton,” the Gin
ners Association president added.
SOUTHERN BUILDING IjN
AUGUST WAS $81,333,000
BALTIMORE, Sept. 5. The Manu
facturers Record announced construe
tion awards in the South in August
totaled $81,333,000, bringing
amount for the first eight months of
1939 to $618,915,000.
The figures, reported Monday,
showed August industrial awards of
$13,848,000, including a $3,000,000
per mill addition at Houston, Texas,
were the highest since April.
Such engineering projects as dams,
airports, sewers and water works, and
public electric construction fell 25 per
to $13,734,000, while highway and
bridge construction dropped 28 per
cent from July to $12,737,000,
Reviewing the construction' awards
a whole, the Manufacturers Record
said the total so far accentuates “the
high degree of activity that has lifted
level of this year’s work far above
aggregates for other years within
last nine.”
16,087,000 GRANTED TO I
GEORGIA BY U. S. 1937
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, T e i
Bureau reported Georgia re¬
$6,087,000 as grants-in-aid
the federal government in 1937
highways, education, agriculture,
assistance and relief, and for
other purposes.
This compared with $4,482,000 in
This same source gave the 48 states
two years ago, or 13.9
cent of their total revenues. In
Alabama received $7,378,000,
with $5,307,000 in 1932.
CARD OF THANKS
1 desire to express my sincere ap¬
for all the kindnesses and
shown during the illness
death of my husband.
MRS. R. M. JOHNSON.
SCHOOLS OPEN
HERE FRIDAY
Fort Valley’s public schools are all
set for beginning another term to¬
morrow when students will meet in
their classes for lesson assignments.
Books were being issued to the
students today to avoid confusion af¬
ter school opens.
The first session opens Friday
morning at 8:15 o’clock. A chapel
program will follow, after which stu¬
dents will return to their rooms for
classification and lesson assignments.
School will then be dismissed until
Monday.
Kitvanians to Hear
Talk on Cotton
, Kiwamans . at then- regular weekly
unc eon ast ,,,<a . v > heard a program
011 <lm,nl events, presented by W. E.
Greene, program chairman for the
day.
Mr ’ <’ ree " c presentcd S ’ M ' Math "
7*’ wh ° lla,i chosen as his 8ub i ect
tor discussion , the European Crisis,
1
Mr. „ Mathews gave keen analysis
* a '
of , the situation . existing in the affairs
of _ the . ,, European nations that
are now
engaged " , in . war.
j 1 Two new members, A1 Rocke and A.
J- , ,, Culpepper, , were introduced,
’
i William Marchman, ,
i program chair¬
nian lor „ this , . week luncheon,
s ’ an
nounces that B. F. Archer, Jr., ’ field
>
director of the Georgia . unit of the
(National .... , Cotton , Council _ of America,
' will talk to the club about Cotton, „
Many Causes for
Veh icle Accidents
Causes of vehicular accidents ran
a wide gamut on Georgia streets and
: highways last month, investigation re
ports and press clippings received at
,the Department of Public Safety show.
Speed, drunk drivers, failure to give
observe signals and other infract
ions of road rules caused most of the
I tragedies. Animals, poor brakes or no
lights figured in a number of others,
One of the most sensational acci¬
dents occured between Nashville and
Alpharetta when two machines collid
ed head-on and killed four persons '
Failure of another South Georgian to
stop before going from a side
1 main road resulted in his death and
! a
j injury to the other driver.
A prominent congressman, and his
vacation-bound, slowed down
to avoid hitting a covey of quails and
were rammed by a Texas woman ex
ceeding the speed limit. To avoid
striking a dog, a kind-hearted moto
near Winder overturned his own
car and injured his family,
A horse got the blame and cost
owner $25 damages when he tore
loose from his stake and ran over
a car and an Emanuel county farmer
was taken home to his family dead,
when a motorist rammed into his
buggy. A negro was ground to a pulp
and four others injured when the
driver failed to see a train in time,
and another drunk negro was charged
with sideswiping a car and causing
a three-way collision near Dublin
which injured 11 victims.
A Fulton County Patrolman rescued
an unconscious driver from a flaming
car which had been struck by a speed¬
ing hit-and-run, and an Atlanta driver
got a nasty spill, rammed his car into
pole and sent his companion to the
hospital, when his car door flew open.
A Savannah mother dashed her
little son to the pavement by apply¬
ing her brakes suddenly to avoid being
struck by another machine and a
Bibb county farmer died almost in¬
stantly when he failed to make a turn
and plowed into a pine tree.
A well-to-do Millen business man
was killed when his car bounded on
soft shoulders and overturned and a
jammed steering rod caused the death
of a 70-year old woman and injuries
of three other persons. A locked steer¬
ing wheel was responsible for an ac¬
cident in which a Gainsville bailiff
broke his neck, which he didn’t dis¬
cover until some time later. The
Hawkinsville fire chief also sprained
his neck when his motorcycle spilled
him and his son out for a fishing
trip. A carload of Augusta young
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LETS CONTROL
OUR FEELINGS ,
PACE URGES
AMERICUS, Ga., Sept. 2.—Rep.
Stephen Pace, Democrat, Georgia,
urged Americans today to “keep your
sympathies to yourself” lest the nat¬
ion’s “feeling for fair play and justice”
sweep us into an unnecessary war.
In a statement to the press, Mr.
Pace expressed belief “Congress will
never vote to send another American
boy across the Atlantic to fight if
it is left alone,” but added “the Con¬
gress will give the people what they
want and demand.”
“But what I am concerned about
is the American people who have a
feeling of fair play and justice,” he
continued.
“I am afraid that those feelings
wjl , take possession of the people be _
.f ore they know it and the people will
| . sweep t be Congress off its feet.
,.j have been alarmed by the atti .
tude that has swept this country in
the last two weeks. That is, that if
war comes in Europe, the United
States is bound to become involved. . .
I believe not only that the United
States can stay out of this war. . .
but also that ... the United States
must stay out of war.”
He expressed hope President Roose¬
velt would not summon Congress into
special session immediately, pointing
out that the Chief Executive has all
the powers needed now to direct the
nation’s foreign affairs.
NY A Aid in Peach
County Is $15,840
Plaris for the National Youth Ad¬
ministration in this area and through¬
out the entire state during the coming
fiscal year will center about increased
aid to deserving students to enable
them to attend high school and col¬
lege and an expansion of resident and
work projects, it was announced
today by State Administrator D. B.
Lasseter.
Results of a tabulation just released
show that during the last fiscal year
approximately $15,840 went to Peach
county youth in the form of wages
on work projects, exclusive of those
receiving student aid. The average
wage of the young people working on
local projects and those assigned to
resident projects was $10.50. All these
youth were between the ages of 18
and 24 inclusive, out of school and
unemployed. There need had been cer¬
tified by local authorities.
NYA projects in Georgia include con¬
struction of schools, community cen¬
ters, canneries, vocational buildings,
recreation facilities, repair of public
buildings, clerical activities, and sim¬
ilar endeavor. These projects are spon¬
sored in each locality by cities, count¬
ies, school districts and other public
bodies.
During the past fiscal year NYA
spent more than $906,400.00 for work
projects in Georgia, more than 75 per
cent of which went to youths in the
form of wages. The remainder was
used for materials and supervision,
which was greatly supplemented by
contributions from project sponsors.
Yonths are paid only for the num¬
ber of hours actually worked on such
enterprises. Related training, which
the youths take on their own time,
includes study of subjects related to
their work experience, such as scien¬
tific agriculture, auto-mechanics, ra¬
dio, carpentry, masonry, home eco
nomics, crafts, ceramics, and sewing,
and supplementary study of English,
mathematics, history, and citizenship.
Recreation is likewise engaged in on
the youths’ own time.
The NYA staff devotes time to vo¬
cational counselling of youths and
their placement in private industry
to their individual interests
aptitudes, as determined through
work on NYA projects. NYA
maintains a close relationship
the state employment service in
placement of young people in pri¬
jobs.
The NYA State Office in Atlanta
a vocational information
of assistance to all agencies
with young people and their
to economic life in Geor¬
communities.
TEXT OF
TO PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Here
the text of President Roosevelt’s radio
address of Sunday night:
Tonight my single duty is to speak
to the whole of Americu.
Until 4:30 this morning I had hoped
against hope that some miracle would
prevent a devastating war in Europe
and bring to an end the invasion of
Poland by Germany.
For four long years a succession of
actual wars and constant crises have
shaken the entire world and have
threatened in each case to bring on
the gigantic conflict which is today
unhappily a fact.
It is l ight that I should recall to
your minds the consistent and at
times successful efforts of your gov
ernment in these crises to throw the
full weight oT the United States into
the cause of peace. In spite of spread
ing wars I think that we have every
right and every reason to maintain as
a national policy the fundamental mo
ralities, the teachings of religion and
the continuation of efforts to restore
peace—for some day, though the time
may be distant, we can be of even
greater help to a crippled humanity,
The Use of Force
It is right, too, to point out that
the unfortunate events of these recent
years have been based on the use of
force. And it seems to me clear, even
at the outbreak of this great war,
that the influence of America should
be consistent in seeking for humanity
a final peace which will eliminate, as
far as possible to do so, the continued
use of force between nations.
It is, of course, impossible to pre
diet the future. I have my constant
stream of information from American
representatives and other sources
throughout the world. You, the peo
ple of this country, are receiving news
through your radios and your news
papers at every hour of the day.
You are, I believe, the most en¬
lightened and the best informed people
in all the world at this moment. You
are subjected to no censorship of news,
and I want to add that your govern¬
ment has no information which it has
any thought of withholding from you.
“Cannot Prophesy”
1 myself cannot and do not proph¬
esy the course of events abroad—and
the reason is that because I have of
necessity such a complete picture of
what is going on in every part of the
world, I do not dare to do so. And
the other reason is that I think it is
honest for me to be honest with the
people of the United States.
Presentments of Grand Jury , Peach
Court for Term , 1939
We, the Grand Jury chosen and
for the September Term of
County Superior Court, submit
our presentments for the term.
We have attended to all matters
to us seriously and consci
entiously. All members! have been
unless formally excused.
The committee appointed to exam¬
the books of the county have ex¬
those of the Clerk, the County
the Tax Collector and Jus¬
of the Peace. We find all these
be neatly kept and in good condi¬
We note from the auditor’s re¬
there is considerable volume of
due the county, some of them
back to 1934. We earnestly
that the proper county offic¬
use every possible effort in col¬
the taxes due the county.
The Committee on Roads and Bridg¬
report, having examined them, find
in good condition.
The Committee appointed to exam¬
the school buildings and other
of the county find the jail
painted, clean and well-kept.
find five (5) colored prisoners and
white prisoners.
We examined the high school build¬
and find that it is well kept and
good condition with the exception
the window's which are now being
We did not visit the grammar school
Byron school buildings, but under¬
that all these are in good con¬
and well kept.
The county has twelve (12) Negro
which seem to be in good con-
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MESSAGE
UNITED STATES
I cannot prophesy the immediate
economic effect of this new war or
our nation, but I do say that no Amer¬
ican has the moral right to profiteer
at the expense either of his fellow
citizens or of the men, women and
children who are living and dying in
the midst of war in Europe.
Some things we do know. Most of
us in the United States believe in
spiritual values. Most of us, regard
| less of what church we belong to, be
lieve in the spirit of the New Testa
[ ment—a itself great the teaching which oppos- aimed
es to use of force, of
force, of marching armies and falling
bombs. The overwhelming masses of
our people seek peace—peace at home,
and the kind of peace in other lands
which will not jeopardize peace at
home.
We have certain ideas and ideals of
national safety and we must act to
preserve that safety today and to pre¬
serve the safety of our children in
future years,
Historic Precedent
That safety is and will be bound up
the safety of the Western Hem
isphere and of the seas adjacent there
to. We seek to keep war from our
firesides by keeping war from coming
to the Americas. For that we have
historic precedent that goes back to
the days of the administration of
President George Washington. It is
enough and tragic enough to
every American family in every state
in the Union to live in a world that
is torn by wars on other continents,
Today they affect every American
home. It is our national duty to use
every effort to keep them out of the
Americas.
And at this time let me make the
simple plea that partisanship and self
ishness Tie adjourned, and that na
lional unity he the (bought that un
derlies all others,
This nation will remain a neutral
nation, but I cannot ask that every
American remain neutral ill thought
as well. Even a neutral has a right
to take account of faets. Even a
neutral cannot be asked to close his
mind or his conscience.
I have said not once but many times 1
that I have seen war and that I hate
war. 1 say that again and again.
I hope the United States will keep
out of this war. 1 believe that it will.
And I give you assurances that every
effort of your government will be di¬
rected toward that end.
As long as it remains in my power
to prevent, there will be no blackout
of peace in the United States.
and well kept.
The committee wants to commend
County Board of Education for
splendid work they have done.
The county is due M. C. Mosley, Or¬
$500.00 for services and travel¬
expenses in handling the affairs
the county from January, 1939, to
1939, and recommend that
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Saturday, Sept. 9
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‘OUTSIDE THESE WALLS’
Monday, Sept. 11
HENRY FONDA in
a YOUNG MR. LINCOLN »»
Tuesday, Sept. 12
YOUNG, ANNABELLE in
BRIDAL SUIT
Wednesday, Sept. 13
MELVIN DOUGLAS In
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Thursday and Friday, Sepl. 14, 15
TYRONNE POWER and SONIA
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