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PAGE FOUR ATHENS BANNER-HERALD . ¥ ‘Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday '~ and on Sunday Morning b?' Athens Publlahlnc . Co. Entered at the Postoffice at Atheus, Ga., i o as second class mall matter. LIETLE TELEPHONES Buginess Office, Advertising and Circulation Depts.,. 75 Department and Society ~ ~ .. .. .. ~ s: +-1216 % %ruwell «. .. Publisher and General Manager IR 2 P e i Ly e as aw s r o JRBICOR gn C. Lumpkin ~ .. .. .. .. .. .. Managing Editor I National Adv.rtmr{? Rc%r»entatlvn H. Eddy Company, New York, Park-Lexington e ; Chicago, Wrigley Building; Boston, Old South IR S e R R e e & | % Members of The Associated Press | fi:..l‘he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use & ng:bllcatlon of all news dispatches credited to it or therwise credited in the paper, also to all local news hed therein. Alll rights of republication of special 1 tches also reserved. ‘ Leased Wire of the Associated Press with the Lead ing Features and Comics e¢f the N. E. A. ¢ t bIUBS‘?RIPTIor:mRATESbLN Ci:iT‘Y e HExcept by week or mon must paid in vance BT L i 6 o cefae b 6 se Be P 8 o e s ..$6.50 '» mfionth- B e h heee we LD 1 B s e e e s eem DB SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL .Subscriptions on R. F. D. routes and in Towns within 50 mfl‘fa of Athens, two dollars per year. Subscriptions m:: 50 miles from Athens must be paid for at City In certaisi Towns in the trade territory, by carrier 10¢c per week. | Subscribers in Athens are requested to Call 75 before 7 p. m,, daily and 11 a. m, Sundays to make complaint \3{3 frregular delivery in order to receive attention same ¥ ‘ - ——————————————————————————————————t i ———— 'mw__l___.___—-———-———————————-——""" S —————— Fis »“-.g.r = A Thought For The Day i *__._________._.——-———-———-——'_—"—-"—_ =Bo the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth e mouth—Job 5:16. m-.-&!l avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; "o make no effort to escape it is indeed aisgraceful.— . Thucydides, | CATTON'S COMMENT FER A One’ of the troubles with the relief situation is that -it won’t stay -»ut. Is figures slide around like “a globule of mercucy on a glass plate, and about all yvou can say of tlhem is that they never act as you expect them to. For instance: Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins Lannounces that the current ‘work relief program has finally reached its goal by putting some 3,600_000 ““men to work. You would naturally suppose that . this would immediatey be reflected by a sharp drop dn the relief rolls, - In some localities there has been a drop—one of :Eixhtly less than 10 per cent, for the country’s large cities as a group. But in many places the decline _has been far smaller than that, and in 27 cities the “elief load has actuaily Increased. o Nor is that the only gueer thing about it! . Rough estimates put the total number of unem _ployed in Septemeber when the work relief program “pegan to pick up spted at 11 000,000, Yet during “Beptember there were somewhat fewer than 4,000,000 ~©on the relief rolls, ' Unemployment at its peak in this country is be “lieved to have gone as high as 15,000 000—yet the _ relief rolls, at thelr peak, carried only 5,466 000 cases. 545 She relief load, in otheh words has not at any time ded as many as half of the number of people out of work. That obviously means that most un “employed people subsist on savings or rely on the “Help of relatives, without applying for government ~aid at all, - . /. And that, in turn, helps to explain why the relief “¥alls are not shrinking today as fast as we might _expect. The WPA program sis going at top speed rand business and industry generally are providing _more jobs than at any other time in the last four ; yet the numbers on relief diminish only a lit md in some cities do not diminish at all, #¢ Relief apparently is a rotating affair, A great Smany of the people now going on relief must be ~people who have utterly exhausted their resources “through long months and years of unemployment. ' They are people who staved off the necessity .of = ing for charity as long ag it was humanly possi ~ble. Now, just when things are looking up again Wy come to the end of their string. %.. All this seems to show that the business of re %:t is apt to be with us longer than we ordinarily “wexpect. There is a lag in it somewhere, due to the {fact that more than half of the unemployed have «gonsistently got along without asking anyone for “All our talk about the need for ending the dole . 't alter this fact. - o e i West Point Under Fire = A congressman has just been brought to trial and fiuvmmd of having offered an appointmert to West wPoint in return for payment of SIOOO. The offer was g.m to have been made to a star athlete; and one wdnteresting part of the case lies in a statement by %:teme attorney. oo lis lawyer asserted that the appointment was wanade available to please a number of high army “officers who were interested in seeing a football star t to the military academy. ‘“The idea ”he said, 4 that he was a football man going to the mili - y academy to help out the fcotball team.” .~ This, it seems to us_is almost as grave a matter ;3& the congressman’g shakedown, The country main #«tains the academy to provide its army with leaders %sand it wants the best leaders it can get. posing young men to West Point “ to help out &flim footbal, team” is a direct and flagrant perver " » |tg on of the xgason for the academy’s existence L rond - = France Gefs a Warning ws The Dritish government has*-pledged itself anew “%o make the League of Nations an 'effective force r peace, following the Hoare peace plan -fiasco; and n this pledge it is worth noticing that thére. ig a ficect challenge to France, pat ™ “If,” says Stanley Baldwin ‘“we find ourselves §t&ndlng alone to do what ought to have been done y everybody, the country will say this is the last “time we allow the government to commit itself re- SEarding collective security.” wupdßciled down this simply means that it Italy at wdacks England because of the oil sanctions, Francs had better come to England's aid—because, if she does not England will be very busy somewhere else if and when Herr Hitler dscides to even scoreg with -the French. e . It is probable that the French will find the warn &ing too pointed to be ignored. * The U. S. Coast Guard was started as the “Reve ..nue Cutter Service” in 1790, and is now 145 years old ot Man’s sense of hearing is as good ag that of ani * mals and better in some ranges, tests show. e et i e . Birds of prey wear feathered pantaloons, which .. Serve to confuse the victim at which the bird is ¢« Striking with itg feet, ¥ ——— e "’ The sturgeon is known as the royal fish, because .. Bince the time of King Edward 11, the reigning king =of England may claim any sturgeon caught. . The hog-nosed snake shams death by faking a death i,scene and then rolling over on jts back. If it is ‘_»tnmed over on its stomach it quickly turns on its . back again. 'é“z:; A wmedical censug at Enfield PEnglani, showed that 50 per cent of the 549 pupils attending the < Wealthier schools were ‘below par,” while only 25 per cent of the 332 poorer chndren examined received QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS The year 1936 will be a hectic political year, from the election of a president of the United States on down the line of fed eral, state, county and municipal offices. There has been much interest shown on the part of the people as to the qualifica tions of voters. Those who have paid all poll taxes, including the poll tax of 1935, will be eligible to vote in any of the pri maries or general elections held during the year 1936. Those becominy of age in ‘1636, prior to the general election in November, by registering on or before May 3rd, 1936, will become eligible to vote in all primaries and general elections, Females who have ncver registcred can do so without the payment of the 1936 poll tax, but after this year, they will be suhject to a poll tax, which is one dollar, if they vote in future elections, i In a number of counties in Georgia, county executive comniiftees have called primaries for the nomination of county of ficers prior to May 3rd, 1936. In such cases, the Attorney General of Georgia has ruled that such primaries or elections may be held, but that the registrars must keep the registration hooks open until that date and file with the Clerk of the Superior Court z supplementa] volers list. The rulings of the Attorney General relating to such cases are as follows: “Before offering to vote in any county or other primary held before May 3rd, 1936, to nominate candidates for the gen eral election in 1936 all past due poll tax es, if any, including poll taxes for 1935, must have been paid. In addition, the person offering to vote must also Gave been duly registered as provided by law and his or her name must appear on the voters’ list prepared by the Board of Reg istrars and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court. A voter must be thus gqualified to vote in the general elec tion for which candidates are being nom inated before he or she can vote in any primary to nominate candidates for the general election. “In any primary held before May 3rd, 1936, the Board of Registrars may at any time file supplemental voters lists in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court giving the names of voters not on the reg ular voters list that have aqualified to vote, and when a copy of the same has been furrished to the election managers, such persons then may vote.” In this county, it is likely that a pri mary for the nomination of county offi cers will be held early in the spring. Usu ally this primary is held at an earlier date than the state primary which cannot be held earlier than about the middle of September. The presidential preferential primary, the date of which will be fixed by the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, will likely be held early in March. The voters of Athens and Clarke county will be treated with a variety of elections this year with numerous candidates from whom to select their choice, GETTING HIS JUST DESSERT The self-imposed kidnaping by Caleb J. Milne, 4th, was an unusual case. The young man was stage-stiuck, broke and framed a kidnaping scheme which came near working. His alleged purpose was to get money and notoriety, Hi« grand father is a wealthy man and devoted to his grandsen. The young man decided to get spending money easily, so he kidnaped iimself and wrote a letter demanding a ransom cf $20,000. In order to convince hig relatives that he was really kidnaped, along with the letter, he sent his watch home, which he hoped would be convinc ing evidence that he was in the hands of kidnapers. His schemes carie near work ing, but G-men were too smart for him. They suspicioned a frdme-up and when questioned closely, the young man broke down and admitted that the attempted kidnaping was of his own making. Now the young man is in jail awaiting a trial on the charge of using the United States mails for the purpose of defrauding. He should be dealt with severely and punish ed in keeping with the crime. Kidnaping had grown to be a profitable industry until congress enacted what is known as the Lindbergh bill or law—then the Department of Justice in Washington took a hand in the enforcement of the law and since that time, few kidnapers are now at large. The young man should be made an example of and sentenced for a term of years to be served in prison. TOWNSEND'S OLD-AGE PENSION BILL While we feel that the proposed Town 'W‘gd old-age pension bill is impractical, ye it‘is remarkable the following that has been chegted for its support in both branches of*econgress. The amount of S2OO to be pthhly to those over 60 years of age wou mGrupt the nation, unless some feasable plar can be found to increase the.revenues of the govern ment., . We believe in the old-age pension sys tem, and hope that some way can be found whereby the aged can receive a stipulated sum monthly, sufficient to support those eligible for the pension, However, an unreasonable amount would defeat the purpose of the plan and prevent future legislative action that might bring the de sired results. We are of the opinion that when the bill is introduced in congress, amendments will be made to it that will enable its friends to agree and cause to be enacted such a measure as will relieve the pres ent situation and provide for those who are dependants. S The last religious census taken in the United States proved that the country was nearly “half religious”. Figures showed that approximately 54,576,350 persons, or 44 per cent of the total population, were churchgoers, | THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! S \ : 2 e £ ?e’wn\-""'d e 0y Br g if cc Y \0 2 Bl 10 ¥ \GHES ouott - an® 7 va‘ R\q\ e 0 < w© ™ e & o NOT at 6"i <@ref S : R 4 fl"ece:a ooV fi‘“ = 2 0“ - e 0 ; ///. S - é ‘_-w,’; ‘ : ;.:" ‘ - e \h .":/ e fg%‘/ fmm . N WK A i ra’?‘“& é{’?{,%i P ik EAR ol e m PN Z' “ dee .___.—‘-__._——A________________.______—_-_——-————-—-——-———‘ ’ by Man: Reymond BEGIN HERE TODAY Against the wishes of her grandmother, aristocratic Mrs. Willard Cameron, Dana West brook marries a struggling physician, Dr. Scott Stanley. Before her marriage, she had broken with wealthy Ronald Mcars, Dana’s half-sister, Nancy, is in love with Ronald but hides it behind an antag-: onistic attitude. Both Mrs. Cameron and Paula Long, who has loved Scott for years, hope the mar riage will go on the rocks. Paula, patient of Scofit's, is alwd ca'ling him, and, managiny to see him at par ties. Dana has become aware of Paula’s infatuation. Scotty deeply in love with his wife, is uncomfortable over the situa tion. One stormy night Paula’s housekeeper calls Scott -and tells him Paula is ill. He gofi?” to see her. He stays away al night, and Dana, not know ing Paula has attempted sui cide, calls a cab and goes to her grandmother. Mrs. Cam eron determines to do all she can to make the separation permanent. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXIII. Scott awoke at noon to a full and complete realization of the catastrophic events of the night before. Within the last 12 hours a girl had tried to kill herself and him. Seven hours had elasped and Dana had not telephoned. Scott picked up the crumpled note lying near his pillow., e 118 t have gone to sleep with it in his hand. He read it again, grim ly and Dbitterly. In the cold, reasoning light of day the words had sounded worse than they had a few hours ear lier. They had a calculating ring, “I'm going while I can leave with some dignity.” What «id she mean by that? Was she ashamed of being poor and having to skimp and retrench when all her friends lived so dif ferently? That must be what she meant. What was really_in her heart must have come out in that damned silly note. She had seiz ed upon the pretext of his going out last night, and had rushed home to her grandmother. “Don’t ask me to come back, Scott, because I don’'t want to.” He reread the words, his anger growing momentarily. Dana didn’t want to come back to him. She had not written that note in an emotional outbreak, but cold ly calculatingly. Well, he wouldn't ask her to come back. Not until she had suffered plenty for mak ing him suffer as she had. Not until she had made some move toward reconciliation. ~ All of their friends probably knew by this time that Dana had left WPm. If ithey Were pitying him they could Kkeep their pity. He didn't want it. The longing to see Dana, to shake some sense into her stupid head, and then to feel her soft lips against his, seeking forgive ness, was setting him crazy. He caught a glimpse of his face as he passed a mirror. It was easy to see why men cracked up When women played such tricks on them. And Dana had pretended that all she wanted was his love. Like hell she did! The telephone rang and he raced for it, feeling a surg= 7 pure relief. But it was not Dana's voice that came to him; it war Miss Paine at the office, asking if he coud comg down immediate ly. There was work to be done work that could not wait. . Miss Pane told him, as soon as he reached the office that Dr. Osborne had called and wanted to see him, { Scott found the older man sit ting at his desk, his arm in a sling. Dr. Osborne said abrupt ly, “Stanley, I'm out for a while as you can see. Slipped on some€ damn steps. This sprained arm is going to put me out of com mission as far as operating is concerned. for some time.” “I'm sorry to hear it, sir., When did it happen?” “Early this morning. The worst of it is there’s a ticklish opear tion somebody's got to perform.” Scott sat down. A ticklish ope eration somebody' had to perform, Dana had left him. She’d gone back to her grandmother after ariting something nonsensical about dignity. ‘He brought his wandering at- B R e T i ll:!"’ it “iif‘l' | . it l | (it 7 o P £ -fi",\?,‘ l =<Y '; {; "ii- S ; \ 4 \\\\ 1‘ i /// / 7\ o 3 e Unly Ihing YN | PN HDi | i 3 a 4 der th ! ?/ under the sun! A sruroy old philosopher once remarked, “There is nothing new under the sun except babies.”” In that same phrase, it seems to me, he tried to tell us that the worries, the trials, the problems which confront us in the daily round of life—new though they may be to us—are indeed old problems which men before us have met and overcome. As we turn to a New Year in our chronicle of time, this should be a heartening thought, “What man hath done, man can do.”” Indeed, for us in a country rich in natural resources, the solution should be easier—provided, we all pull together. Ne one is more conscious of his responsibility in the work of furthering fun damental prosperity than the sound-thinking banker. Within our bank the subject is before every officer and many hours are spent in earnest study of methods whereby the utmost co-operation can be given to this end. Thus it is that I presume to say to each business man, to each employer and em ployee, “In every way tending toward improved conditions, you can count to the fullest extent on co-operation from the Citizens & Southern National Bank to the end that 1936 may be for all of us A Happy and Prosperous New Year” @ Tlhke. MAN-ON-THE -STREET 3 & T . \/ THED < : HE-CSITIZENS & SOUTHERN =i! ATHENS E AR 3 ooy NATIONAL BANK * : S ) m‘,.;'::j { No Account Too Large... None Too Small Thie is number 158 in a series of visits : ; This banl: is a member of the by “The Man-on-the-Street”’ FromgaL DEposIT INSURANCE CoapoRaTION tention back to find the older man regarding him anxiously. “You're not looking so fit your self, Stanley.” ,“I was out late last night. Had an emergency call.” “That's bad.” Dr. Osborne was tapping the edge of his ma hogany desk with a nervous hand. “You see, Stanley, I had made up my mind to ask you to perform this operation for me.” Scott’s pulse leaped. It was the professional instinet, savoring op portunity and Dbattle. “I'd be happy to do it.” ‘“Are you sure you're up to it? As a matter of fact, I hyve al ready recommended you to these people, who are perfectly willing to put the case in your hands. It's a ticklish job, though.” Scott asked quickly. “What's the operation ™ “A boy, fine young son of a friend of mine, shot himself ac cidently while hunting. The bul let lodged. It's within a fraction of the heart. A man who didn’t know exactly what he was doing and didn't work with the utmost surgical precision — well, you know, the bullet might just as well have knocked off the young ster.” ¢ ‘Where is the boy?” “They are bringing him by plane. If you feel you want to tackle it, go ahead. But if you have any doubt of your fitness to day, be honest with me.,” “Mi-do .7 Scott sald. 'Tm all right. Don’t worry.” That reservoir of vitality which could always be tapped for emer gencies already was giving him new strength. Dr. Osborne, watching Scott, saw the somber, strained look drop from his face and the calm professional mask take its place. He nodded with satisfaction, “Go on out to St. Armand’s. The boy will be there in half an hour. Miss Paine related the story to an eager listener. “It was exciting, Edith. First about Dr, Osborne having the accident, and then the news that they were bringing the little fellow home in a plane. “And the most exciting thing bf all was when Dr. Stanley walk ed in, white as a ghost. He look ed as though he didn’'t know or care where he was going. 1 thought that if I ever saw a hor rible hangover, he had it. “I felt so sorry for him, having an opportunity like that and hav ing to pass it up. But when he came out of Dr. Osborne’s office, he didn’t look like the same man. His voice was steady and he said, 'Get St. Almond’s on the phone and tell them to get an operating room ready for an emergency.’ “ llt's ready now,’ I told him. ‘Dr. Osborne took care of that.’ “Then he dashed off. He still looked white and worried, but different, somehow.” There was the smell of ether iln -the spotless, - white-walled room. Nurses moved swiftly, Isoundlessly. Grave eyes stared at Scott’'s hands as he worked. There was that ugly bit of lead lodged in some fatty tissue. So elose, so perilously close to that throbbing, pulsing oval. One slip of the knife, one fraction of an inch closes as his instrument mov ed toward the deadly leaden bit, |and it would be all over for the slim, blond-haired younster whose 'life had been entrusted to Scott's hands. Strange, that one coud go about ‘such business with unemotional detachment, Scott felt the ten sion Ilift, It was that psychologi cal moment when the worst of a critical operation is over. The rest was simply a matter of tieing up the job, retracing steps with sure, steady fingers. It had been a long time, but is seemed only a metter of seconds now. They were wheeling the little chap away. The boy was going to be all right. : WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1936. Scott was, all at once, the cen ter of a group, talking in the vi brant, but muted tones doctors use in an operating room. “It was a beautiful job, Stanley,” “One of the prettiest pieces of work I've ever seen.” ! Voicer all round. Congratulat ‘ing him. The admiring ' eves «f nurses, paying silent tribute 10 profssional skill. . And then the deep voice of Dr. Osborne: “I had to slip in én ithis, Scott. You measured up. Somehow I knew you'd turn the i trick. And now the drama was over, and the deadly weariness wa¢ stealing over him again. Scott was tired. He must get back home and rest. Tog his empty, lonely home. The boy in the v, ite hospital bed was going to live. But Dana had gone. (To Be Continued‘ ? Prominent Figures in Hotel World to Attend Georgian Celebration Ralph Hitz, manager of the Hotel New Yorker, will be among the prominent guests of Luther W Nelson when the gala opening of the newly remodeled Georgian hotel is held. The date of the cele bration will be annouj"ced later by Mr. Nelson. f Julian Price, president of the Jefferson Standard Insurance com pany and Howard Holderness, treasurer of the company both of Greensboro, N. C, will also bhe among the guests. The hotel is modernized and is being remodel ed from the basement to the top floor. Work has been in progress for the past several weeks. NO SEARCH NEEDED HARTFORD, Conn. — Dr. Le¢o F. Gervais didn’'t want a search started for.his body. He fell through the ice and, rescuing himself, lost his derby. “l thought the hat wmight ke found floating around and you 1 ight start looking for a body,” he told police. NEW BUDGET SEVERALo DOLLARS R SEVERAL HUNDRED Get the cash now and pay up those old bills and repay on easy monthly low. cost plan. Quick Service—~No Red Tape— SEE US TODAY. COMMUNITY SAVINGS & LOAN CO. 102 . Shackelford Building College Avenue—Phone 1371
