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TL}FSDAY, MAY 12, 1936.
The CIGSM
Mrs. J. I'. Campbell is one of Athens’ charming visi 3|
tors. For many years she and Mr. Campbell made their |
home here, where he was connected with the botany de-|
partment of the University. They are now making their
home in Winchester, Va., but epend a great part of the
winter in Chicago. !
~ Miss Roberta Hodgson, member of the history faculty
of the University, left Saturday for San Francisco where
she will sail for the Philippine Islands. From there she
plans to sail to China. If she stops by Korea she may run
into Corinne Gerdine, who ig teaching school there. Co
rinne has been in Korea since last summer, While teach
ing the natives, her brother is doing missionary work, If
the Banner waves your way, “Bon Voyage,” Miss
Hodgson.
“Miss Roberta,” gs she is affec-’
tioately known by many, is one of
the most widely traveled women
of Athens and her views on mod
ern political problems are highly
respected. She ig loved by old and
young alike. Not only is she a
grand person s a teacher, but
those who are so fortunate as (o
number her among their friends
know that “she’s great to have as
a friend.”
Dyar Massey, sophomore at the
University, = ‘has become more or
less known to Athenians in various
and sundry ways., Besides being
an outstanding student scholasti
eally, he is prominently connected
with The Red and Black, student
publication; the University Thea
ter, and Demosthenian Literary
Society. Now comes the news that
Dyar’s brother, John, has becn
made student president for
his high sehoo! in Greenville, S.
It the Baxterg don't stop having
honorg heaped upon them, there
won't he anmy more left pretty
soon. Not eontent with post of
valedictorian, Harry, must be de
clared the most outstanding stu
dent on the campus. And from
Katy's . informal “third degree”
you certainly seem to deserve it,
Harry.. (By the way, younger
brother Ed seems to be holding
his own pretty well, thank you.
You'll he hearing more from the
Baxter quarters, Katy forecasts)
“ Atheniang are still enjoying the
presence of Mrs. Arthur St. Clair
Butler 111 and baby Arthur St.
Clair Butler 1V of Richmond, Va.,
who are visiting Mrs, J. F. Hart
on Miledge. Mrs. Butler wag for
merly Mis Nela Avery and at
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS NOTES
BY MRS. PAUL MORROW:
Economic Welfare Chairman of The
Athens League of Woomen Voters
Every ' thoughtful citizen should
heartily approve the efforts of that
great organization of women, known
as the League of Women Voters
to replace the old political spoils
system by the merit system. The
League is working to bring about
a demand for trained personnel in
government service. They say that
instead of “to the victor belongs
the spoilg,” it should be “to the
victor belongs the responsibility ot
good government.” The League’s
battle cry is “Find the man for the
job, not the job for the man.”
In carrying out this campaign for
governmental efficiency the League
of Women Voters, local, state and
national, is asking business men,
party leaders, social leaders, judges,
legislators and educators to join
with it, in making the slogan a
reality, “Find the man for the job,
not the job for the man.” \
In his address before the League
in Cincinnati, Frank Bane, execu
tive director of the social security
board, said, “The problem of ad- |
ministering the social security acti
is going to be largely one of ro-l
cruiting competent, qualified per
sonnel, and it is definitely a sml<>|
problem.” He pointed out that old
age assistance, unemployment com—}
Ipensation, aid to dependent children
and to the blind was directly ad-l
bninistered by the states with help
rom the federal government. The
hersonnel of course to do this \\'m'k;
is selected by the states. |
The consumer came in for his
B-hare of consideration during the!
ational convention. Mrs, Harris
" Baldwin advocated that the fed
-ral government get up such re-l
search facilities as were nm-essaryl
o establish standards for all goods
yought by the consumer. She stat-i
»d that the housewife could not|
ee through a tin can; so the lnhelfi
hould cont: n ‘the grade, and other|
nformation. l
The League is also demanding
dequate food, drug and cosmetic
§egislation and strengthening of|
public agencies dealing with con
sumer interests.
The League is supporting the
hew federal food and drug act (8.5)
ow before congress for enactmeng
nto law. The need for greater in
erest on the part of the public is
wvell illustrated by the report from
he U. 8. Food and Drug Adminis
ration during December. The re-‘
port stated s3hat ‘“the inspectors
ound rancidity, decomposition, l
mold and just plain dirt in 3750
pounds of walnut meats, 6115 poundsi
f pecans, 4240 pounds of Brazn
uts, 1700 pounds of prunes, 15.750%
pounds of dried peaches and 33,130
pounds ofsdafés and 244 barrels of
S-hestnuts: ~All of these goods were
seiged and destroyed. Other goods
ound during the same month to be
Bunfit for food, were 860 pounds of
butter, 1200 pounds of deéomposea‘
Aried skim milk, 225 cases of de
:omposed canned tomatoes, 960
By KATY
| tended Lucy Cobb and Mary Bald
win colleges. Mrs. Butler was ex
tremely popular with the college
crowd. (P. S. The baby hag gor
-1;.'(-0115 red hair!)
. While Mrs. Jack Bocock, of
Richmond, Va. was visitiing here
she was seen wearing a lovely
w.ne celored knit suit and with
Miss Josephine Nickerson was
le(‘]ing out to Beach Haven, the|
’hnautil’ul country home of Mrs. |
i(" A. Rowland and Mrs. P’inckney
' Steiner. Mrs, Steiner has recent
}ly returned from Augusta and is
'making her home here. She was
ifln- former Miss Alice Rowland
!and was g prominent member of
' the Augusta Junior lLeague. I
Katy did a little “snooping” into
the past the other day and discov
ered that the pictures of several
Atheng women were displayed in
the first beauty section to be fea
tured by the Pandora, . the year
book of the University of Georgia.
Said beautites were none other
than Mrs. Steven Upson (then
Miss Liouise Lumpkin); Mrs.
Someville Hall (then Miss Alice
Willlams); Mrs. Frank Lipscomb
(then Miss May Hodgson); Mrs.
Robert Hazlehurst, Nashville,
Tenn., (then Miss Louise Dußose,
| sister of Prof. Marion Dußose);
Mrs. John Bankg (then Miss May
Burnett); and the late Miss Ger
|trude Thomas, sister of Mrs.
‘Richard Johnson of Atlanta.
Katy isn’t telling you the date
(beautiful women aren’t “dated’)
| but the Pandora since then has
| increased in size a great deal. In
"rsaid jssue it was only about nine
‘;mches by nine and one-half. And
the art work, compared with the
lmore modern one, was really
quite simple. My! How the en
rollment has increased.
S 0. S. (save our story) Bax
iter——ls thig year’s Pandora to be 2
credit or a discredit?
leases of eanned peas, containing
(weevil, 110 pounds of dirty apple
butter, hesides chese, salmon, can
ned tuna fish and tomato puree
tall in condition unfit for use. Lead
%and arsenic in dangerous quanti
'ties were found in 20 bushels of
icrab apples, °,160 pounds of cocoa
and five barrels of bhoiled cider,
I One hundred gallons of wine were
contaminated with flourine and
other dangerous substances—often
used to kill roaches. All of these
would have been consumed by the
’unsuspecting publie, had the U, S,
ifood inspectors not been on the
job.
. There is a bill in congress now,
iknown as the Dismay bill, whieh
| provides for establishment of a na
’tional academy of public affairs to
ieducate and train men and wom
len for public service, This idea
was advocated several years ago
‘by Will Durant. Many club wom
en have indorsed the Dismay bill.
The ILeague of Women Voters
lare fighting the REqual Rights
|amendmont to the constitution ot/
|the U. 8. The League does believe
lin equal rights in suffrage, but
!needs protection in other fields of
lendeavor. This equal rights amend
ment would invalidate all special
protective legislation in the inter-
|ests of women both in society and
'in industry. Wpomen are different
lfmm men and do need legislative
protection in hours of work, wages
I;and general welfare. A blanket
!equal rights amendment would des
troy all that women have fought
for, all that they have won in pro
tection during their years of poli
i tical equality.
I The Leagye decided to continue
|its efforts to obtain child labor
{legislation including the child labor
amendment to the constitution.
Rep. Ramspect of «Georgia has a
bill in congress, making the ap
lpointment of first, second and third
tlass postmasters subject to the
provisions of the civil service acw.
This will be a step forward in the
merit principle to the federal serv
ice and make good men no longer
subject to party whims evey few
years. ‘
Notice of Election
An Election will be held on the
22 day of May 1936, for the un
expired term of George C. Arm
strong as Alderman for the Third
Ward, The election to be held at
the Y. M. C. A, Building on said
day. The polls will be open from
9:00 a. m. to 4:00 p- m. All candi
dates shall be required to file their
names with James Barrow, Clerk,
as a candidate for said position,
five days) before the election,
JAMES BARROW,
l Clerk.
BOGART NEWS
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Gainesville was hardly over its very first tragic &
astonishment when workers were in the thick of o
the big job of restoring electric service to the
stricken city and its guburbs.
Service to twothirds of our customers was dead —the whole city and
suburbs were endangered. Under tremendous difficulties, in alternating
frecze and downpour, extra hundreds of men were mobilized and thrown
into the breach, working day and night. Reserve generating stations hum
med into action, the whole available resources of men and materials were
organized to make unremitting counter-attack on the storm—until the
city and its environs were normal again.
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% Despite all precautions known to science and ingenuity, these calamities,
and others, strike swiftly. It takes a close-knit and alert organization, a
spirit that puts service above all personal interest, and abundant resources
' of men, materials and money that
*'will not ask one moment’s delay, to
" act swiftly and surely in such an
emergency.
+ When these disasters fell, men
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ingly; in ice, in ice water, in fire, in
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
and director of the school news, is
suffering from mumps at her home
here. Miss Langford has been un
able to meet her classes for sev
eral days. Her many friends wish
for her a speedy recovery.
W'ILD winds whip down on the Cordele region —a tornado strikes
near Augusta — flood waters invade the streets and homes of Rome
—the most punishing winter in years flails the state with its fury. Calamity
strikes swiftly —and swiftly its damages must be repaired if human suf
fering and property loss are to be held within even half-way bearable
bounds. '
Before the frightening noise of the Gainesville tornado had well died
down, Georgia Power Company trucks were rumbling into the city with
extra men and supplies—to plunge into our part of the
huge job of rebuilding the town of which we are an old
citizen. By sundoWn of that terrible day, lines had been
stretched through and over blocks of ruins to the parts
of town undamaged; by three minutes after midnight, hun
dreds of men had restored the power supply out of the
wreckage of poles and wires— and electricity was there for
all who could use it; for the rapid strokes of emergency
or the long pull of reconstruction. From that minute on,
power has been ready to serve each home and each busi
ness as rapidly as shattered structures were rebuilt and
officially pronounced fit to receive it, safely.
\ Order Out of Chaos :
Between 6:09 P.M. and midnight, December 28, the
Atlanta ice storm broke ten high voltage transmission lines
supplying the city — put eleven other main circuits out of
commission — crashed, twisted and otherwise rendered
useless literally thousands of smaller, more segregated lines.
Supt. E. N. Anthony and Misses
Marvolene Joiner and Mildred
Whitehead were in Watkinsville
Monday on business. i
Miss Nell Griffeth, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Griffeth, spent
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IN MaTERIALS, MONEY omd MEN/
A peaceful north Georgia city wakes to an April morning. Its people go
their usual ways, unworried, unhurried, only mildly disappointed to be greeted
by drab skies and a strange calm instead of the bright sunshine and scented
breeze expected of Springtime in these greening hi 115.... Unannounced, un
prepared for, a deathly blast of hellish wind roars down, strikes---and
is gone. Gainesville is a twist of broken wreckage. Death and destruc
tion have paid an awful visit.
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tor the New Year in Atlanta. A drizzly rain began to fall, while the temperature
wavered between just above and just below the freezing point. When early winter
darkness fell on the evening of Saturday, December 28, the sheath of ice on
poles, trees and streets was growing thicker.... Before midnight, the whole
Atlanta area was groaning beneath the killing pressure of relentless
tons of ice. Limbs of giant oaks snapped like match-stems. Streets
were strewn with debris. Atlanta and her neighbors were paralyzed.
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ger—workmen repair broken
lines in a tangled web of icy
limbs and wires during the
Atlanta ice storm.
the week-end here with her parents
and friends. Miss Griffeth is at
tending G. S. W,
Among those spending Mother's
Day at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
O. H. Bradbury were Mr. and
flood. Street car men dragged wreckage from the tracks, scraped away ice,
watched sleepless through the night at their stilled cars, hoping against
hope to resume their runs. Technically trained men left their desks for
posts in the field; others took up the burden of their work, in addition to
their regular duties. Ordinary shifts were forgotten—ten, eighteen,
twenty-four hour hitches of duty were performed; gladly, uncomplaining.
Telephone operators handled calls at the rate of 1,200 an hour. One girl
trudged six dark, slippery miles to be at her post when needed. Tired, hol-
low-eyed linemen grabbed sandwiches, gulped hot drinks,
returned to their jobs. Sales officials sliced bread, office men
poured coffee, bookkeepers drove trucks. More men were
needed. They were recruited by radio and through the
newspapers — from any distance, at any necessary expense,
Men were fed at their work, men were quartered, men
were fitted with proper clothing for their tasks. An army
was in action—an army of loyal, capable, competent
workers; real men, real women.
Service Is Our Job :
It is the tradition of the Georgia Power Company that
service to the public must not fail. If it should fail, it must
be restored, and quickly—no matter what the cost may
be, no matter what self-sacrifice may be required. That is
the tradition also of the men and women who make up the
Company. The past winter has proved it. We are proud
of them, as you are proud of them.
When the crises came, the Company was ready also
with resources of money, materials, experience;, Our storm and calamity
losses of the past winter exceed a million dollars, but the service goes on,
even better than it was before. Warehouses filled with materials, ready
and waiting for just such needs, prevented delays, saved hours and weeks
in the task of rebuilding, made possible the rolling of carloads and truck
loads of supplies into Gainesville within a few hours after the tornado
struck. Resources of experience also counted heavily in making the work
effective, efficient, cohesive in the midst of chaos. It is the Company's duty
to be ready without notice to transform itself from efficient routine into
efficient emergericy action—and it was ready. :
This advertisement is published in tribute to the men and women who
made this record possible. For the Company itself, we seek no credit. It is
simply part of our job—an important job the people of Georgia have en
trusted to us, one we hope always to perform to their comélete satisfaction,
GEORGIA POWER
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Mrs. Charles L. Shimp and hfinl
Lucile Jarrett ,of Atlanta; Mr.
and Mrs. George C. Christiag,
Miss Blanch Jarrett and James
Christian, of East Point; Mr. and
Mrs. Baxter Jarrett and Carolyn
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Jarrett, of Gainesville and Miss
Attie Jarrett and Billy Betts of
Athens.
W. A. Nunnally spent Sunday
night attending to business near
Watkinsville .