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Volume L1J, Number 41
DR. JACOB WILL
TALK AT SCHOOL
FRIDAY MORNING
A program stressing good citizen¬
ship will be held at the high school
auditorium Friday morning at 11
o’clock.
The program is sponsored by Fort
Valley Lodge Free and Accepted Ma¬
sons in cooperation with the program
of the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
An outstanding speaker, Dr. Peyton
Jacob, one of the state's leading edu¬
cators and president of Georgia
Southwestern College at Americus,
will be the speaker.
“My talk will deal with the spirit
of citizenship,” Dr. Jacob said, “and
not with too many attempts at speci¬
fication.”
“Today there is a great need for
real citizens who understand the
spirit of cooperation, of performing
civic duties for the good of the fellow
man,” he said.
The program was arranged by a
committee from the lodge composed of
Rev. Wm. C. Sistar and O. I. Snapp 1
and it is expected to be of much inter
est to all who will attend, especially
the young people of the community.
The committee has requested all
young people who have recently be¬
come twenty-one years old to register
at either Anderson Drug Co. or Ne
Smith’s Pharmacy and be present at
the program where they will be pre
sented with an attractive certificate
of citizenship by Mayor A. C. Riley.
Dental Inspection
In Peach County
Dr. W. L. Nance and Dr. G. N. Per¬
due inspected the teeth of the school
children of Peach county last Thurs¬
day. This program is put on annually
under the direction of the State De¬
partment of Public Health without
any cost to the school or patrons. A
report is made to the parent of each
child and one to the State Health De¬
partment.
The complete cheek-up shows that
the percentage of children in the low¬
er grades who do not need dental at¬
tention is very small, while in the
higher grades there is a much higher
percentage of teeth marked OK.
The State Department of Health
puts on this program yearly with the
idea that a child’s health is greatly
affected by the condition of his teeth
and the grade of work done in school
is greatly affected by his health. It
is hoped that when parents get these
reports they will try to have these
defects remedied.
You may depend upon it that he is
a good man whose intimate friends
are all good.—Lavater.
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How often we hear thoughtless people re
mark: “Oh, what’s the difference?” when called
to account for not adopting the habit ol saving.
Well. we can answer that. There’s all the
difference in the world, now and every step of the
way from the time one starts a bank account and
begins to save money. The difference is that
between poverty and wealth, between comfort and *
want, between misery in old age or independence
I and happiness. Start your account with our bank
today and learn the habit of systematic saving. ♦
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KIWANIANS HAVE
SNAKE PROGRAM
Kiwanians, last Friday, were high¬
ly entertained by Kiwanian Raymond
Hall, giving a very learned and inter¬
esting discourse on reptiles. He dis¬
cussed different classifications, spe¬
cies and characteristics of many dif¬
ferent kinds of snakes. Afterwards he
displayed several species common to
this section and particularly the dia¬
mond back rattler, of which he had
several live specimen. To climax the
sensational program, he brought in
his hands into the club house an un¬
usually large rattler and demonstrat¬
ed the method of drawing venom
from the fangs.
His gymnastics with the large ser¬
pent created much excitement and it
was a program that will be remem¬
bered for a long time.
An attendance prize was awarded
by W. E. Greene, attendance chair
i man, to Dave Lane.
j Mrs. Greiner to Talk
1 j 11 Va lie v M iss ion
Mrs. Annie Laurie Greiner will
speak at the Valley Mission tonight
and tell some of the varied experienc¬
es which were hers and her travel
ling companion, Miss Annie McGhie,
well known in Fort Valley, on their
recent world tour. Everyone is invit
ed to hear Mrs. Greiner. Service be
gins at seven o’clock.
_ Friends . , of .... Mrs. Gerald ,, , , Garner, ,, for- -
merly , Sarah Vance, will ... , be interest
ed , to . , know that ,, , Mrs. ,, Greiner n • visit- ■ j.
ed her in India and . was present ....., at
christening . . of , the „ Garner . infant . . .
the , , s
daughter , a short i . time , ago. . Mrs. m,
Greiner _ is the „ guest . of r Mrs. ,, A. » L. ,
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PULP AND PAPER MEN
ELECT WM. F. ALLEN
CHARLESTON, S. C, Oct. 28.—
The annual Southern States Pulp and
i Paper Convention elected Richard A.
Laughnian, of Jacksonville, Saturday
to succeed D. G. Moon, of Savannah,
as general chairman.
William F. Allen, of Savannah, was
elected vice chairman and O. W. A.
Rodowski, of Savannah, was re-elected
secretary and treasurer.
Moon told the delegates that the
United States was now producing only
25 per cent of its required newsprint,
and one-third its required pulp is be¬
ing produced in the South, he said.
“Because of the European situa
tion he warned, “we must become
more self-sustaining. The South is
i rich in mineral resources that could
1 well be used to prevent the uncertain
i ty that faces us.”
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939
418 Drivers Get
Licenses Clipped
In This District
At least 498 drivers of this state
patrol district learned through ex¬
perience last month that the Depart
ment of Public Safety’s ban against
violating rules of the road is no joke.
Troopers made 80 arrests and is
sued warnings to 418 drivers by
“clipping” holes in their licenses for
violations, Sergeant R. E. Wood,
commander of the Perry headquarters
Georgia State Patrol, said. Counties
in this district include; Bibb, Bleckley,
Crawford, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Hous¬
ton, Peach, Pulaski, Telfair, Twiggs
and Wilcox.
In the previous month troopers
made only 57 arrests and issued 266
warnings.
“The stricter enforcement speaks
for itself,” the sergeant declared.
Last month Georgia had 42 traffic
fatalities as compared to 90 for Sept¬
ember 1938 or a 52 per cent reduction.
The saving of that many lives is
worth strict enforcement and troopers
under order to bear down on these
speeders, drinking drivers, road hogs
and drivers who fail to stop for the
school busses or who pass other ve
hides on hills and curves.
Speed caused 26 arrests anil driv
in S while under the influence of in¬
toxicating drinks was responsible
^ or *'• Drivers without licenses also
caused 33 arrests,
Throughout the state, more strin
gent enforcement was the order of
the , day , also , and , troopers . arrested
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total ot , 1,684 , „ 0 , drivers , . . last t month,
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compared to , 1,152 August . and ,
1 in *
759 m . July. They issued . 6,338 „ warn
tickets , , , September, „ . , twice .
mg 6 m 1 or
thev . August
as many as gave in
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and three , times as many as in July. ,
The sergeant said the Department
of Public Safety is following convic
of drunk driving charges with
revocation of the driver's license for
six months and that two “clips” or
warning tickets for a similar offense
result in 30-day license suspension.
Wife Fort Valley
Business Man Dies
ROBERTA, Oct. 21.—Funeral serv¬
ices for Mrs. Emory McGee, 44, wife
of a widely known Crawford county
farmer and operator of the City Bar¬
ber Shop in Fort Valley, were held at
3 }>. m.this afternoon at the Roberta
Methodist church.
The Rev. W. L. Anderson, Meth¬
odist pastor, and Elder I). Y. Hicks,
pastor of the Primitive Baptist, con¬
ducted the services and burial was at
Roberta.
Mrs. McGee died unexpectedly late
Thursday night of a heart ailment.
She had been in ill health for a long
time.
Besides her husband, survivors in¬
clude two daughters, Mrs. T. O. Gas
sett and Miss Helen McGee of Rober¬
ta; one son, Ernest McGee, Roberta;
her mother, Mrs. W. M. Lunceford,
Atlanta; three sisters, Mrs. Roff
Durham and Mrs. Ella Quinn of At¬
lanta, and Mrs. Ethel Strain of
Maryland; and one, brother, Dewitt
Lunceford, Atlanta.
LOCAL GIRLS TAKE PART IN
PLAY AT BRENAU COLLEGE'
GAINESVILLE, Ga.—Miss Lynette
Duke, daughter of Mrs. Homer V.
Duke, and Miss Evelyn Halprin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Halprin,
both of Fort Valley, enrolled at Bre
nau College this year, and newly
elected members of the Cushman
Club, the dramatic organization, or¬
ganized on Brenau campus forty years
ago, played in a skit entitled “Went
With the Breeze,” Wednesday eve¬
ning, Oct. 11.
HALLOWE’EN
CARNIVAL
Friday Night, Oct, 27
COME AND ENJOY THE
FUN!
House of Horrors, Country Store and
Other Attractions
EATS, DRINKS AND FUN GALORE
FOR YOUNG AND OLD
Sponsored by Senior Class
M . E. CHURCH TO
DISSOLVE NOV. 10
Methodist history will be made at
a conference of the church in Macon
on Nov. 8-12.
On Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 9,
the last session of the South Georgia
annual conference of the former
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
will begin,
It will continue, until Thursday
morning, when it will be adjourned
forever and the South Georgia Con¬
ference of the new unified Methodist
church will be formed.,
The action will take place in his
toric Mulberry Street Methodist
church, situated on a site used for
worship since the Indians roamed this
area.
In the Mulberry building the Geor¬
gia Annual Conference Of the Method¬
ist Episcopal church was organized
in 1831. Now, 108 years later, the
church will see the old conference dis¬
solved and the new one formed.
The two conferences are expected
to attract approximately 500 Meth¬
odists, according to Warren Roberts,
chairman of the entertainment com¬
mittee, and will be tlio largest in con¬
ference history.
Bishop J. L. Decell of Birmingham
will preside.
The full program has not been com¬
pleted by the Macon committee, com¬
posed of Rev. Silas Johnson, district
superintendent, Dr. George Stoves,
pastor of Mulberry church, and Rev.
Charles A. Britton, Jr., editor of the
Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
New appointments are expected to
be read Sunday afternoon during the
conference. Bishop Decell and his
cabinet will begin their conference
considerations at the church on Tues
day, Nov. 7.
The conference will elect delegates
to the general conference of the
church which convenes ne^t April 24
at Atlantic City, and to the first
Southeastern Jurisdictional Confer¬
ence, which Georgia Methodism is
seeking for Atlanta and which prob¬
ably will meet next June.
NET-W EIGHT TRADING
OF COTTON BENEFITS
GROWERS, CONSUMERS
C. G. Garner, marketing specialist
for the Georgia Extension Service,
said in Athens this week that net
weight trading, as compared with the
prevailing gross weight method of
merchandising raw cotton, would
benefit both cotton growers and con¬
sumers of cotton goods.
The marketing specialist explained
that net-weight trading would neces¬
sitate the sale and purchase of cotton
on the weight of the lint contained
within ttye baley It would provide
for standard tare weights for each
type of bagging used for American
cotton, and thus eliminate the “guess¬
work” and costly stripping of bales
as now practiced under the gross
weight method of trading.
“Tare standardization should entail
no greater costs for bagging, ties,
and other materials,” Mr. Garner said.
“By standardizing bale pattern sizes
and strength, as well as weights,
American cotton could be better pro¬
tected than under existing packaging
practices.
“This greater uniformity and more
adequate protection of bales would
improve the appearance of American
bales and make them more fully com¬
petitive with foreign bales, which now
present a much more attractive ap¬
pearance.”
Mr. Garner said that additional sav¬
ings could be effected by eliminating
much of the weight now carried in
the heavy tare on American hales.
Transportation charges are now being
paid on the extra weight of materials.
Furthermore, many importing coun¬
tries base import duties and specie!
taxes on all imported cotton on gross
weight.
“Most foreign growths now carry
only about half as much tare per 500
pound bale as does our American
cotton,” the specialist declared. “On
this basis, the import duties and tax
es paid on the tare on a bale of
American cotton reflect a distinct dis¬
advantage to American growers.
Standardized light-weight bale pat¬
terns made of cotton, jute or
materials can remove this disadvant
age without sacrificing the essential
element of strength.
10th Year Since
’29 Crash Finds
Market on Rise
Famous “Black Thursday” Split the
Armistice Period Between Old,
New Wars; Billions Lost.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The tenth
anniversary of the stock market crash
of 1929 finds Wall Street, plagued by
another European war, scanning the
road ahead for future trends.
It was just a decade ago, October
24, that the panic of “black Thursday”
swept the markets, ushering in, vis¬
ibly, what later became known as “the
depression." While some called it
merely mass hysteria, others thought
it a product of the earlier world con¬
flict.
Sandwiched just half-way between
the signing of one peace treaty and
a new declaration of hostilities, the
crash struck an army of speculators
in their paper profits pocketbooks
hundreds of thousands of investors
in their real money ones.
Billions Lost in Weeks
In three weeks it knocked 20 billion
dollars from the market value of list¬
ed stocks and before it had run its
course it was to cost billions more.
Suicides and bankruptcies followed in
its wake, homes were mortgaged and
lost to pay its bills and the nation’s
industrial tempo changed from a boom
to hard times beat.
Loan years succeeded, , millions
unemployed, a substantial portion of
the nation went on relief. The de
pression 1 was not confined to this
country alone, but spread * to every
of ... the globe. , Profound ,
corner eco¬
nomic and social changes took place,
world commerce was disrupted and
nationalistic jealousies were aroused.
Less than two months before Oc¬
tober 24, 1939, stock market prices
had reached the high point of their
fantastic post-war climb. Shares
not many years before had sold in
the below-$100 class were up as high
as $400 and $500, and paper profits
were counted in the billions.
For example, the average of a
group of 60 representative stocks
reached its record peak of $157.70 on
September 3. By November 13, when
things had begun to straighten out
again it touched its low for the year
at $83.80. In July, 1932, at the bot¬
tom of the depression in the securities
markets, it stood at $16.90.
Great Britain had devalued her cur¬
rency in 1931, the United States fol¬
lowed suit in 1933 and beginning with
1934 a vast hoard of gold began to
pour into this country. Foreign cur¬
rencies again became unsettled, the
nations primed the pump with huge
armament expenditures, and
wars, such as the invasion of
and the civil hostilities in Spain fol¬
lowed.
A boom in 1936-37 was followed by
a “recession,” which ended just
the peace of Munich in 1938 led
trading public to believe war had
averted. The recovery
with slowing down movements,
with the outbreak of war last
business activity, stock market
commodity prices were stimulated
the boomlet which followed it.
Concert Series to
Begin on
An event of the musical season
be the appearance of Edgar
Clark, the popular young director
the music department at the
Valley State College, on Sunday,
29, at the school auditorium. As
singer, Clark has won the praise
critics all over the country with
stirring voice and fine
He has shown his versatility by
ing to the baton and has met
unusual success as a choir
His time is divided between his
als, private pupils, elassroom
composition.
Clark’s fourth annual recital
open the concert series at Fort
State College. Mathilda Vance
an accomplished pianist and
will assist at the piano. The
choir which has been
over radio station WMAZ for the
two years will be heard in
numbers, The concert will begin
6:30 p. m. The general public is
vited. There is no charge for any
the concerts on the concert series.
BABY MOVIE TO
BE SHOWN HERE
On Thursday, Nov. 2, at 2 o'clock
p. in., Dr. R. Floyd Payne will bring
to the women of Fort Valley and sur¬
rounding section a moving picture,
“Around the Clock with You and Your
Baby”, which will be shown at the
Woman’s club house.
Dr. Payne is director of the west
central region for the State Health
Department, having twenty-two coun¬
ties under his supervision, among
which is Peach county, and is well
qualified to speak on the subject.
The movie is most educational, and
should hold the interest of every
thinking mother, as well as other
women, in Fort Valley, and it is high¬
ly endorsed by our doctors.
Immediately after the showing of
this picture, Dr. Payne will hold an
open forum of discussion, and answer
any question that might be asked.
The child welfare committee of the
Woman’s club sponsors this movie,
and Mrs. E. J. Say well, Jr,, chairman,
states that an interesting program has
been planned. All women are cordial¬
ly invited to attend. There is no ad¬
mission charge.
Geo. Broadrick Is
Popular at Colli
George Broadrick, student at Young
Harris College, Young ,, Harris, Ga.,
has thus fa) . proved to be a most vaIi _
| aWe student Ge0 rge has already
established himse ]f a s outstanding in
both , ,, school , , work , and , extra-curricula ,
activities,
In the tennis matches between the
two rival societies he was one of the
foremost players .winning with ease
his match against one of last year's
college team. That same night lie
participated in the first public debate
of the year, his side winning and he
showing a remarkable ability in
speaking and debating.
Broadrick, as he is called by most
of the student body, was one of the
two freshmen that have been taken
in by the Quill Club, which in all
only ten members. He has also been
made a layman in the ministerial
conference, which, in all of the stu¬
dent body, gives only eleven of these
offices.
Probably the most creditable thing
that he has done was in the freshman
election when George was one of the
three selected for presidency. Two of
the candidates being from the same
society, George’s votes were split, yet
even then he was defeated by a mar¬
gin of only six votes. There was a
slight misunderstanding in the rules
of the election so one group demand¬
ed that a new election be held be¬
tween the two highest which would
give George the office with votes to
spare. At a meeting of the society
the night before the re-election was to
be held, George made the announce¬
ment that the winner had won fairly
and therefore was entitled to the
place, so to prevent a new election,
which probably would have defeated
this hoy, he withdrew from the race.
Not only did this show the metal of
which George is made, hut caused his
popularity to be greatly increased.
All of Young Harris is expecting
great things from George Broadrick
during the coining year.
Hunters Directed
To Off ice of T. C.
The form for application for hunt¬
ing and fishing licenses can be ob¬
tained at the office of T. E. Tharpe,
Peach county tax collector. The sale
of these licenses is in the hands of
the Department of Revenue, T. Grady
Head, commissioner, Atlanta, and the
form, together with fee (money or¬
der) should he sent to that depart¬
ment.
The Department of Revenue is the
only one handling the sale of the li¬
censes. Persons applying should send
their money order and keep the stub.
They can then go ahead and hunt or
fish for ten days, producing the mon¬
ey order stub on demand, by which
time the license should be received.
The state resident hunting license
costs $3.25; the county resident hunt¬
ing license costs $1.00; the state resi¬
dent fishing license costs §1.25;
(fees are listed on the application.
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51 YEARS OF
SERVICE
Only newspaper in the heart
of one of America’s
rieh agricultural
sections.
$1.50 I’er Year in Advance
42-Hour Work Week
For 2,382,500 Wage
Earners Is in Effect
Wage-Hour Officials Estimate 690,000
Will Get Pay Raise.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. —The
Wage-Hour Administration estimated
Sunday that 2,382,500 wage earners
would work a shorter week and 690,
000 workers would receive pay in¬
creases when the wage-hour law en¬
ters the second year of its control
over wages and hours on Tuesday.
On that day the 25 cents an hour
minimum wage in force during the
first year of the act changes to .30
cents for employes producing goods
sold in interstate commerce. At the
same time the maximum work week
drops from 44 to 42 hours and em¬
ployers will be required to pay time
and a half for all work done in excess
of the 42-hour limitation.
The 30 cent base pay rate will re¬
main in force for the next six years
unless the law is revised by congres¬
sional amendment. At the end of six
years, the rate become- 40 cents. The
maximum work week, however, will
be reduced to 40 hours next year.
Officials said that approximately
three-fourths of the workers now re¬
ceiving less than 30 cents an hour
are concentrated in 11 southern states
and five northern industrial states.
more than 1,000,000 of those
working longer than 42 hours a week
are in the industrial states of Illinois,
Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsyl¬
vania and Massachusetts.
The bureau said that in Virginia
anil North Carolina, 1 out of 7 work
ers covered by the act was now get
ting less than 30 cents an hour; in
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,
1 out of 4; Tennessee, Alabama and
Louisiana, 1 out of 5; Arkansas, 1
out of 3, and Mississippi, 4 out of 10.
The largest single concentration of
j workers below the 30-cent minimum
was found in southern saw mills where
it was estimated that 94,000 out of
134,000 were below the 30-cent level.
1 West Urged to Join
Dixie in Rate Fight a
ATLANTA, Oct. 25.—Western pub¬
lic utilities commissioners Monday
were asked to join with southern and
southwestern states in demanding a
unified freight rate for the entire
United States.
The invitation was issued in a tele¬
gram signed by Governor Rivers as
chairman of the Southern Governors'
Conference and by Walter R. McDon¬
ald as president of the Southeastern
Association of Railroad and Utilities
Commissioners.
The telegram was addressed to a
meeting of the midwestern and west¬
ern trunk line commissioners meet¬
ing in Omaha, Neb., in a session sim¬
ilar to one held by southern commis¬
sioners here last week end. It follows:
Meeting Held Friday
“Governors and state utilities com¬
missioners of the southeastern and
southwestern states met in Atlanta
last Friday and Saturday for purpose
of co-ordinating plans for presenta¬
tion ease in class rate investigation
and information was developed of
meeting called by you for western ter¬
ritory.
“It was unanimous opinion of all
present at Atlanta meeting that
southeastern and southwestern states
seek one uniform class rate level and
classification for application through¬
out entire territory east of Rocky
mountains, thus eliminating all ter¬
ritorial rate barriers.
“We are organizing along this line
and invite co-operation of western
trunk line territory states in present
ing to Interstate Commerce Commis
sion a united front seeking a non
discriminatory uniform national rate
level.”
Satisfaction with the progress be¬
ing made toward giving the south
and other handicapped sections rail
freight rate parity with the official
territory of the north and east was
expressed by McDonald.
Commissioner McDonald reported
that both the governors of southern
states and the utilities commissioners
are agreed on the fundamental prin¬
ciple of standing for national unifica¬
tion of a system of rates giving pari
, ty over all the country—equal rates ill
all sections, mile for mile.