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The Forsyth fCounty News
VOLUME 30
Tomorrow
SUNJ
BY J. C. WILSON
Newspaper Features, Inc,
Candidates for the Legislature are
announcing all over Goorgia, and a
survey of their announcements in the
newspapers reveals a remarkable
unanimity on one important issue,
which is taxes.
Almost without exception he candi
dates now presenting themselves to
the people for election or re-election
to the House or Senate are empasiz
ing this point
“No More Taxes, Strict Economy”
State taxation has increased en
ormously in the past two years, with
the result that the State, collected in
1937 in round figures $42,500,000, as
compared with $30,700,000 in 1936
This was in increase of approxi
mately $12,000,000, or forty per-cent
in one year
When Governor Stivers was a candi
date in 1936, he frankly told the
people that his program was going to
cost money, and it has cost monep
His program is splendid, and has
advanced the State and the public
welfare as much in 'two years as had
been accomplished in a quarter of a
centure preceding the Rivers admini
stration
There is very little criticism of the
Rivers program. Even his leading
opponent, Hugh Howell, makes only
mild critisim of it. The newspapers
of the State are almost a unit in
supporting the Program.
But the fact remains that progress
costs money, just as Governor Rivers
said it was going to cost, and it seems
to be generally admitted that the
people of Georgia are paying as much
for progress as they can afford to
pay until times get better.
The homestead lind personal prop
erty exemptions are a big relief to
small home owners in town and
country alike, and the new intangible
tax law is a big' relief to this class
of taxpayers. Furthermore, the in
tangible tax law is yielding an amount
of revenue that surprises State House
officials.
It is true that the Rivers admini
stration, to a very commendable ex
tent, has readjusted the tax burden
as it promised to do, but yet the
State’s total “take” is forty per-cent
greater than it was two years ago.
This plainly means one thing for
the next Legislature:
"Slow Down!”
That is why the candidates now
coming into the field are so com
pletely in harmony on the subject of
taxes. It is evident that they have
heard the voice of the people, and
that the voice has spoken clearly and
distinctly to this effect:
“We will do the best we can to
pay what’s now demanded of us, but
NO MORE, gentlemen of the Legi
slature, NO MORE”
Drivers License
Applications Must Be
Made Week of May 23.
Over 160 eases Tiave been made for
driving without license and sentences
have ranged from $5.00 to six months
in jail, Sgt. J. L. Bussey in charge of
the third State Patrol district announ
ced in Gainesville today.
“We are starting a final drive to
accept applications and give exami
nations on Monday, May 23rd and
fifteen Troopers will cover the sixteen
counties in this district this week.
They will examine and accept license
applications for all who apply and
will make "road checks” to ascertain
who has not applied. Cases will be
made against all who have not made
application and against any person
permitting an unlicensed driver to
drive his or her car. We intend to en
force 'the drivers license act strictly
because there are too manp persons
driving who would not pass the ex
amination and are a menace to human
life on the road,” Bussey said.
Troopers will be at courthouse for
the "final drive” on the following
date. They will clear all applicants
who apply.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Cumming Ga.
on May 26 at 9 a. m. until finished.
Rustic: Well, sir, lallus do as my
pa did—keep mp money in a stocking
at home
Vicar: But you lose the interest
that way.
Rustic: No I don’t, sir I puts a bit
extra away for that too
Official Organ of Forsyth enty and City of Cumming
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, Cb jtOKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
(City Population 700)
Tuberculosis Control
Improved by X-ray
Stressing the need for a continued
extensive tuberculosis control pro
gram in Georgia, Dr. T. F. Abercrom
bie, director of the State Department
of Publi Health, stated Saturday that
a greater amount of work has been
done by the X-ray Field Unit of the
Division of Tuberculosis Control of
the State Health Department during
the past year than in any previous
year.
A total of 14,847 x-ray pictures were
made and as a result of this field
clinic work 603 new cases of tuber
culosis were located
“As gratifying as the tuberculosis
death rate reduction of 11.4 per cent
for 1937 over 1936 is we should not
be too sanguine regarding the con
tinuance of this reduction, because
there are many factors which will
tend to hold the present death rate
at a level, or at least at a smaller
rate of decline
Ignorance, willfulness and poverty
were cited by Dr. Abercrombie as
the principal reasons for the continu
ance of tuberculosis as a menace in
Georgia, and in every community,
state and country
The majority of people can be
taught and this is being done in a
very satisfactory manner through
various means of* - education. The
ignorant who cannot be taught are
a sourace of menace to the entire
population just as the willful are who
know better but who will not cooper
ate in helping to prevent the spread
of tuberculosis. For both of these
classes it appears that restrictions
are necessary so that they can be
properly taken care of in institutions.
For the poverty stricken, a very large
number of whom would cooperate if
they could, adequate relief must be
provided for them and their families,
he declared
In spite of the decrease in the
death urate in tuberculosis, tuberculin
tests over a number of years in vari
ous colleges in the state have shown
that there is not an accompanying
decrease in the tuberculosis infection
rate. Some colleges have even shown
an increase in the prdeentage of re
actors. The lack of control of tuber
culosis carriers and communicable
cases among the ignorant, willful and
poverty stricken is responsible for
this widespread infection. Every in
fected person is a potential case of
tuberculosis some time in 'the future,
and this widespread infection shows
the necessity for better control of
these special groups.
Georgia Will Have
28 CCC Camps In Use
Under the revised CCC national
program, Georgia will have twenty
eight camps of the Citizen Conser-.
vation Corps in operation through
the six-month period ending Septem
ber 30, it was announced at the Army
Forth Corps Area Headquarters.
Previous orders for the discontinu
ance of six camps in the state were
cancelled after Congress recently
authorized a $50,000,000 increase in
the CCC appropriation for the new
fiscal year.
Of the twenty-eight Georgia camps,
four will be attached to national
forest projects, seven to private forest
land, nine to soil conservation pro
jects, one to the Bureau of Biological
Survey, three to national monuments
and four to state parks
SENIOR CLASS NIGHT
CHESTATEE SCHOOL
AUDITORIUM, MAY 26
8:00 O'CLOCK P. M.
Play: “Onec in a Blue Moon,”
Juniors
March: “Anchors A weigh”
Song: "Seniors All”
President's address: Fay Bennett
Mock Salutatory: Herbert Harris
Class Inventory: Annie Mae
Whitlow
Poem: Ha'ttie Mae Crow
Class Creed: Eunice Kellogg
Class History: Winburne Bennett
Class Will: Marguerite McClure
Advice to the Juniors: Mary Stan
ford
Giftorion: Charles Woodliff
Class “Thank You”: Kathryn Jones
Mock Validictory: Dorothea Bennett
Class Prophecy: Jessie Belle Day
Seniors Farewell: Inez Howard
Song: “Sensiless Seniors”
He: You should be ashamed of
yourself talking to that sailor on the
corner. Why you don’t even know his
name.
She: I do too. It’s S S Wyoming.
CUMMING GEORGIA, THU AY, MAY 19, 1938.
Georgia Crusade
Against Accidents
Is Bearing Fruit
Highway Fatalities for 1938 Period
Decline by 64 Deaths
Georgia’s crusade against speeding
and recklessness on state highway;
has resulted in a reduction of traffic
fatalities, figures released yesterday
by L. E. Sullivan, director of public
safety, reveal
The total number of traffic deaths
from January 1 through April of this
year w-as 262, or an average of 17
per week, the report shows. This
was 64 less deaths than in previous
years for the same period
Greatest number of accidents was
caused by speeding which- accounted
for 131 fatalities. Reckless driving
and passing on curves and hills
caused 58, improper lighting, 28;
driving while drinking, 20, and mis
cellaneous, 25
Decline Since Januarp
The report shows a steady decline
from January when 76 were killed,
Seventy-one fatalities were recorded
in February, 62 in March and 53 in
April.
During the first six months of its
existence the state patrol recovered
55 stolen cars, conducted over 1,000
special investigations, distributed 15,-
995 warning slips, and brought $17,-
000 in fines to the city, county and
ordinary courts of the state.
The state troopers made 1,459 ar
rests during the six-month period and
less than two per cent of the cases
made have resulted in acquittals. Pa
trolmen rendered first aid to 173 peo
ple injured in accidents.
'Georgia Death Rate High.
During the lour years from 1934 to
1937 there were 4,362 persons killed
in accidents on Georgia streets and
highways, .making Georgians death
rate, on a basis of miles traveled or
gasoline consumed, the third highest
in the nation. In 1937 when 39,743
were killed throughout the nation.
Georgia reported 1,095 of these traffic
fatalities, the figures show.
“Wild” Family Hunt
Starts In Alabama
A “wild man”, a “wild woman” and
a child are being hunted through the
soggy, mud-ridden swamps of Choco
locco, near Anniston, Ala.
The strange hunt started when
reports reached officials tb,.: folk
by the mountain had been frightened
and whole flocks of live stock had
stampeded at the sight of this family
that wore no clothes.
One farmer, brought the first word
of the strange family to Sheriff Cot
ton. He had encounter with the family
he said, when they approached his
home and then, apparently frightened,
fled away
Officers, revealing the tale given
them, said the farmer did not know
whether to shoot or not as he didn’t
know whether it was “legal”
Piecing togeather the various tales
given them, officers gave this de
scription of the man:
He walked stooped like a gorilla.
He roared like a lion
He wore no clothes but he had
more hair than humans
The child, they said, was “animal"
like
from no one nother Vra
But where the strange family came
from no one knew, unless driven from
an abode in the swamp bp high
flood waters.
Authorities themselves, while ma
king no comment on the actual ex
istsence of such a “wild family” said
they would continue their search, a
search given impetus when huge foot
prints were found near the farmer’s
home.
Preachers Meeting At
Hightower Baptist
Church Sunday May 29
Preachers meeting to be held at
Hightower Baptist Church on the sth
Sunday, 29th of May 1938.
PROGRAM
9 'to 10—Sunday School.
10 to 11—Song and prayer.
11:00—Preaching by Rev. Henry W.
Warren
12:00—Dinner.
1:05 Dis'’ssion United Prayer, Led
by Rev. Wm. Flannigan
2:00 Discussion—Secret Prayer, Led
by Rev. Archie Holland
2:4s—Things to pray for, by T. P.
Tribble.
3:3o—Dismiss.
Triple-A Program
Encourages Crops
Tor Use On Farm
t
A
Farmers who think they will not be
permitted to produce food and feed
crops needed for home consumption
Ninder the 193S AAA program, have
feained the wrong impression, accord
\lng to County Agent Otto Mills,
t Under the 1938 program, the agent
dßaid, special emphasis is placed on
production of adequate food and feed
;£rops for home needs. Each farm has
a total soil-depleting acreage allot
ment which takes into consideration
soil depleting food and feed crops
needed for home use.
f Food and feed crops can be produc
ed on any acreage within the total
Soil-depleting acreage allotment, can
be used for food and feed crops that
are not classified as soil-depleting
such as cowpeas, soybeans, millet, and
Sudan grass for hay, and lespedeza,
clovers and alfalfa.
The agent emphasized, however,
that production of food and feed crops
classified as soil-depleting on acreage
in excess of the total soil-depleting
acreage allotment would result in de
ductions in payments on soil-depleting
crops such as cotton, for which an
individual soil-depleting acreage al
lotment is established.
To illustrate the opportunities for
producing food and feed crops within
the provisions of the program, the
agent used as an example a small,
two-horse farm with 50 acres of crop
land. Assuming the cotton allotment
is-15 acres and the total soil-depleting
abetment is 40 acres, this farm would
have 25 acres for general soildeplet
ing crops (difference between total
soil-depleting allotment and the cot
ton allotment) and 10 acres for crops
not classified as soil-depleting (dif
ference between total cropland and
total soil-depleting allotment)
Part of the 25 acres available for
general soil-depleting crops could be
used for corn and, in areas where
double cropping is possible, 'the rest
be used for small grains follow
ed oy another crop such as corn, po
tatoes, sorghum, or vegetables.
The farmer would gain an addition
al acreage of food and feed crops by
bouble cropping, a practice which map
be used to some extent in most parts
of the Southern region. The 10 acres
of cropland in excess of the total soil
depleting acreage allotment could be
used to produce summer legumes for
hay, or for lespedeza clover, or alfalfa.
A Practical Bread Plan
WHEAT WEEK
GEORGIA BAPTIST ORPHANS’
HOME, HAPEVILLE, GA.
The Churches of the Hightower As
sociation are asked to help feed our
orphan children. So when you harvest
your wheat will you contribute a bush
el or more to help feed these depend
ent children? If you fail to have the
wheat will you buy some from your
neighbor and contribute it?
During the month of April $46.62
was sent to the home by the following
churches in our association: Ball
Ground $33.84, Canton North Church
$3.00, Crabapple $5.03, Mt. Zion $4.75.
WHAT IS THE PLAN?
1. Announce it and urge the import
ance in your church.
2. Set a part Wheat Week, and get
it together.
3. See that each farmer in your
church has an opportunity to do
nate. Others may buy and contri
bute.
4. Set a goal as to how many bushels
your church can give.
5. Get Wheat growers to pledge.
6. Get others to “Buy A Bushel”, and
donate it.
The Practical test of Christianity
may not always show up in what you
believe. But will certain be verified
by what you do.
Mrs. Rosa Philips
Passes in Atlanta
Mrs. Rosa Phillips, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Whitmire of Cum
ming passed away in the Georgia Bap
tist Hospital in Atlanta Sunday afer
noon about 6 o'clock.
She was buried at Longstreet Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock after ser
vices being conducted by Revs. J. W.
Sutton and J. H. Bolding.
Surviving are her husband and two
sons, of Bolton, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. J.
N. Whitmire, Mr. and Mrs. C. W Whit
mire, Mr. Clayton Whitmire, Mr. and
Mrs. L. B. Stow and family of Cum
ming, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pruitt and
family of Bolton, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Mathis and family of Powder Springs
Barretts Funeral Home of Bolton
were in charge
(County Population 11,000)
Planning Division
Completes Survey
Of 36,000 Miles
Beginning of the eighth month of
the work of the Division of Highway
Planning of the State Highway Board
finds the statewide road and traffic
survey well advanced, with 36,000
miles of roads surveyed and in
ventoried and more than 40,000 trucks
and busses weighed, W. L. Miller,
chairman, announced today.
Planning division engineers, who
are surveying and mapping every
public road in Georgia, have com
pleted their work in 52 counties of
the state and are surveying and in
ventorying an average of 20 miles of j
road each day, it was announced.
Their work wi llresult in the pre
paration of new and comprehensive
county maps, which not only will be
more complete than any heretofore
drawn but which will reveal any
discrepancy that might exist between
the actual mileage of all roads in the
state and the current estimated total
of 103,612 miles. These maps will be
used in the future planning of high
ways in the state, Mr, Miller said
“Origin and destination studies,
which have been carried on at the
planning division’s 54 truck and bus
weighing stations since March 21,
have shown unusally good results,,’
Mr. Miller asserted today. “Of the
vehicles passing the various points
of operation since this phase was
launched, origin and destination re
turns have been received from 10,951,
representing 25 percent of the total.
This is a very satisfactory average
and one that indicates that, the
Georgia Motorist is anixous to co
operate in any movement designed
to improve the highways over which
he rides.”
Another phase of the highway
survey, know as the Blanket Count,
is being conduceted at 14,000 inter
sections of main and county roads,
unpaved as well as paved in the state.
This survey supplements the origin
and destination investigation, an 1
involves not only a careful cencus of
traffic from 8 a. m. to 4 p. mj each
for one year, but also gathers inform
ation as tothe vehiele’3 place of
ownership, the origin and destination
of the trip and the purpose of the
journey. Aid in making a fair distri
bution of the cost of highways in the
future between urban and rural tax
payers will be one direct result of the
correlated origin and destination
studies, Mr. Miller Said
The third major division, the finan
cial surveys, is determining, through
a painstaking study of the receipts
and expenditures of the various units
of government within the state,
whether the present sources of in
come are sufficient to maintain
properly Georgia’s present system
of highways and to build new high
ways in keeping with increasing
traffic demands. The financial survey,
whose accountants are visiting every
county and every municipality in the
state, also will ascertain the registrat
ion fees and fuel taxes paid by each
type of motor vehicle and what pro
portion of these are paid by urban
and rural residents; the annual road
way costs for the several types of
surfaces and the average life of each
type, and the relative use of the
various highways of the state by its
residents.
Since going into operation on April
3, the 12 Automatic Traffic Recorders,
the “electric eye” of the Division of
Highway Planning, scattered through
out the state, have recorded the pass
ing 0fy326,873 vehicles. Seven of these
recorders are located on main high
ways and five on unpaved “farm-to
market" roads and give complete
pictures of the traffic patterns at
their particular types of locations.
The “eye” located at Red Oak, a
few miles below Atlanta, is leading
the recorders in the total number of
vehicles registered, with 91,609, and
the others located on paved highways
follow in this order. Cartersville,
72,048; Midway, 54,000; Statesboro,
28,371; Perry, 28,000; Covington, 14,
536, and Naylor, 11,000. Totals for
the five recorders placed on rural
roads include Hazelhurst, 6,300; Sale
City, 6,000; Davisboro, 5,620; Thomas
ton, 4,498, and Brookton, 4,441.
The weighing of trucks and busses
at 54 "loadometer” stations scattered
throughout the state was started last
September and the quota of 60,000
vehicles recorded is expected to be
filled well in advance of the "dead
line” on the same date this year.
Trucks and busses not only are weigh
ed and measured, but ’the character
of the load is determined and the
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NUMBER 20.
WASHINGTON'
" FROM CONGRESSMAN * |
B. FRANK WHELCHEL!
Visitors -Miss Piggie Jones Canton,
Ga., Smith Johnson, Woodstock, Ga.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Natt Pratt, Ellijay,
Ga.
Recovery—lt is estimated that real
recovery will be felt in the United
States when the national income
reaches between ninety and one hun
dred billion dollars. This will mean
all those un employed at present will
have jobs. The President hag offered
Congress a full recovery program
which is outlined as follows; Some
increased spending to add to the
total of dollars that the unemployed
and the country’s farmers have to
spend, and in this way bolster pro
duction; Induce railroads and bus
iness men and prospective home
builders to borrow money and invest
in new plant and equipment, inven
tories, or in homes, A study of private
price controls in industry in order
to effect changes in the country’s
anti trust laws.
Navy Bill—The navy expansion bill
in the Senate was passed by a vote
of 56 to 28. The Bone amendments
to define a mid-Pacific line of limi
tation for fleet activity and to con
fine construction to Government ship
yards were defeated. An amendment
limiting the three new projected
battleships to 35,000 tons each, until
it is certain that other nations are
building larger ships, was upheld.
Relief—The four and a half billion
dollar relief-recovery spending bill is
supported by both the A. F. of L. and
the C. I. O. The House Apporintlons
Committee was informed by Relief
Administrator Hopkins that he plann
ed to care for an average of 2,800,000
unemploped for seven months with
the $1,250,000,000 fund which Presi
dent Roosevelt asked
Federal Housing Funds amounting
to approximately $63,000,000 were
made available by private lending
institutions to finance the construct
ion or purchase of 14,200 small homes
under the FHA plan during April.
This Amount exceeded by $13,000,000
the figures for April 1937 which set
the high mark in FHA records for
last year. These figures do not in
clude modernization and repair loans
nor large-scale projects.
W. P. A—All of the 2,600,000 W. P.
A. Project workers received the
following announcement with their
pay checks from Harry Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator:- It
has been my desire that everyone
connected with the Works Progress
Administration should know and
understand the rules under which
we work. This is especially true of
any question involving personal rights
For this reason, I want to repeat
once more our rules about elections
so that there can be absolutely no
misunderstanding. Every person, who
works for the WPA, has the right
to vote in any election for any candi
date he chooses. Moreover, no WPA
worker is required to contribute to
anp political party or any campaign
fund in order to hold his job. No
supervisor or administrative person
may attempt to influence the vote of
any worker or solicit contribution*
to campaign funds from the people
who work under him. Anyone who
uses his position with the WPA in
any way to influence the votes of
others by threat or intimidation will
be dismissed. No one will lose his
WPA job because of his vote in any
election or his failure to contribute
to any campaign fund. What’s more,
I want you to let me know if any
body tries to tell you anything
different.
TRUSTEES ELECTION
There is to be a trustees election
for the consolidated district of Italy.
Oak Grove, Harris Grove School Dis
tricts on Saturday May 28tb, 1938 at
Big Creek Court House No. 765 at
from 1 to 4 p. m. all registered
voters eligible to vote. A represent
ative trustee from each district to
hold said above election, by order
of the Forsyth County Board of Bd
ucation
J. B. Driskell, C. S. S.