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Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864. -THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 COVINGTON, GEORGIA, NUMBER 28
CD The Covington Star, Est. 1874
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Our Congressman]
Capitol Hill
Washington, D. C.
July 13, 1940
Constituents; Democratic
brse, as the
on draw •s near, everyone
ering whether President
h ill consent to run for
term' and there is much
over who will be
pn in the
as our nominee
declines, but the ques
I preparedness the chief
is
iof Congress.
able information relative
[W methods of warfare
i by the Germans, in their
1 invasion of the low
Belgium and France,
, through, and
trickles that this
1 men realize
of preparedness It grows is not
ortant each day.
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, as was dviiici a • •
moving piftm es ma e
sion show that tie an
tack of Geimntiy simp j
the resistance o e
hat the tank.' an m <m
fly marched behind e
I almost unmolested,
Ln fields of the A les,
hangars and all planes
[as well as the planes
n the open field were
own to atoms in a few
Lf U time. Belgian,' French
tanks were likewise
by air attacks, artillery
useless before it could
in position.
ealized that tins country
Id airplanes, anti-aircraft
’;s anti tank guns, and
(ns [numbers of modern equipment
as quickly as
It we expect to become
[to realized defend that our if land, had but
we
airplanes, tanks and guns
\ would be worthless to
it trained men to oper
r words, we need just as
ined pilots and median
need airplanes, and just
iank drivers and median
meed tanks, and likewise
trained gunners as we
(i-aircraft and anti-tank
it take advantage of the
arned on the European
s. and it is realized that
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Help Save
GEORGIAS
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See and Hear
EUGENE
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Saturday. July 27
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fiday, July 19—July 26
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we must begin ‘the training of
men at once.
Ihe Chief of Staff, General
Marshall, has recommended that
our National Guard be called out
and trained first. Schools for pi
lots and mechanics are being con
ducted and more schools organ
ized. The Regular Army is being
recruited at the rate of thousands
each week. Accordingly we now
have 236,150 fully equipped men
in the Regular Army, and we will
daily ,
increase it by enlistments
until it reaches a total strength of
375,000 men. We have 240,000 men
in the National Guard.
To every one of us to every
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American anywhere — National
Defense is a national necessity. We
must all pay our part of its cost—
': e - oul ? a11 share catastrophe if
' al “ s - It is not a partisan issue,
do hope neither party tries to
make it such. We must all, Dem
ociats and Republicans, pull to
gether so that National Defense
will not fail, and so that it will not
fail we must all understand the
truth about defenses.
; Sincerely yours,
, A. SIDNEY CAMP
! Rain Makes July
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Georgia drivers are proving
that July, which generally has a
j [ rate) can ^ safety month
Catually, it was proclaimed
Safety Month recently by Gover
nor E. D. Rivers in an attempt to
stop deaths, such as were recorded
in Georgia last July,
while reports are incomplete
yet, as
a “gratifying reduction appar
ently is being achieved.”
“Our records show that during
the first week of this month there
were 10 fatalities as compared
^vith 21 in the first week of July
last year,” he said. This past
Fourth, Geirgia had only two
deaths on th e highways, exactly
a third as many as there were
July 4, 1939.”
He urged all drivers and pedes
trians to continue the "good work
and help prevent another 70
deaths this month.”
The rainy weather, he pointed
out, probably held down the a
mount of travel and thus helped
keep the death rate low. On the
other hand, u e said, the wet, slip
pery roads created a hazardous
condition which would have sent
the record soaring unless unusu
al had been employed.
As their contribution to Safety
their one-day-a-week leave and
putting „ in seven days a week
are
down particularly on (1)
drivers (2) speeders, (3) road
hogs (4) drivers who won’t dim.
and (5) those who pass on
and curves.
Talmadge Pledges
Aid for Counties
Under New Plan
Former Governor Decries
The Trend Toward
Consolidation.
Relief for Georgia counties in
their sore financial difficulties
is being offered by Eugene Tal
madge as one of the principal
pledges of his campaign for Gov
ernor, under a new plan outlined
last week at his Baxley meeting.
Talmadge proposes, as Gover
nor, to gi.ve the State’s surplus
road machinery, of which it has
“five times as much as it needs,”
to the counties and let them
maintain the highways as they can
do this work cheaper than the
state can.
“We can help the counties out
of the great deal of their financial
difficulties by giving them road
contracts,” Talmadge stated,
The former Governor, whose
drive for a return to office follow
ing the interim fixed by the State
Constituion is gaining momen
; urn every day, cited the counties
i as the basis of local self-govern
I ment and decried the trend to
I county consolidation. He prom
ised the weight of his administra
, tion. if elected, to stop it.
“They are using the starvation
method to make the people want
wish it if something is not done
now to restore the counties to
their proper place in our govern
ment,” Talmadge said. He ex
i pressed himself in sharp disagree
ment with the state auditor’s
claim that an additional seven-and
a half million dollars was needed
to maintain the pesent services,
He said: “They told you people
that in 1932, but we reduced tax
es about ^40 per cen without any
let-up in necessary service. In
fact, we built more roads and
bridges in the four years I was
governor than were built in any
eight year period before my term
or since.”
Talmadge speaks at 2 p. m.
(CST) Saturday, July *.9, at
Zion, CheroKee County. He speak
Toccoa at 3 p. m. (C. 1 '
July 23; at Greensboro at 3.30 p.
m. (EST) Wednesday. July 24;
Thursday, at Macon July at 25; 2 p. and m. at JEST) Warm
Springs at 3 p. m. (CST) Satur
day, July 27.
Radio speeches over station'
WSB have been scheduled by
Governor Talmadge for 9:30 to
10 p. m. (EST) on Friday, July-
19, and on Friday, July 26.
Civilian Leaders
Find Army Life
Hardy But Like It
Uncle Sam’s Army afforded a
surprising appeal to business and
professional leaders from eight
states as they enfere d with en
thusiasm this week the strenu
ous phase of their special 30-day C.M.T.C., volun-j
t e er training at a
at Fort McPherson.
“Everybody came here to get:
training because they felt it was
their duty as patriotic citizens,”
said Adolph Shelby Ochs, general
manager of the Chattanooga
Times, a sergeant-trainee. "They
expected a tough time, But
they are taking to it like ducks to
water, and have been eating their
heads off at a fine mess. Agree
ably surprised, they're really en-,
joying it. If Ihey have it next ;
PPUCati0nS WU1 eXC6ed
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British Anti-Aircraft Guns Alert for Nazis
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surprise attacks by hordes of Hiller’s planes. Elsewhere throughout the United Kingdom Similar defenses
were ready. D' r " ~ of the homeland against Nazi onslaughts by air. sea and parachute troops became *
prcbl-m vital to the continued existence of the British empire after the complete defeat of France.
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Pictured above are three delegates to the National Democratic
c onve ntion as they left Saturday afternoon on the “Georgia Special”
from Atlanta. Reading from left to right, they are John Grier, of
Cordele, Clerk of the House of Representatives; R. Pat Campbell,
Covington, lone candidate for State Senate from this district; Zach
Arnold, Ft. Gaines, Auditor of Georgia and Vice Chairman of the
state Democratic Committee.—Staff photo by Arrowood.
Georgia Gets
$32,644 Gift
For Wild Life
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Secretary Ickes todav appor
tioned $2 . 30 0,000 to various state,
lor improvement of game condi
f jo*is
Michigan reC eived the
amoun t, $127,322. Texas was sec
with $120,927, and New York
thjrd with S120 , 163 .
Participating states. Ickes said.
were ired to contribute 25
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^ <' p rnest orge ( *errier, Lavlor, Albert head E. timekeeper Bindley and of construction Frank Osello, deft to right)
. work the
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per cent of the cost of projects,
plus state contribution will make
$3.0606,667 available lor wild life
I restoration work this year.
; Allotments by-states follow:
! | Alabama, $37,313; Arkansas,
$27,925; Connecticut, $5,853; Flor
; ida> S31,225; Georgia, 32.644;
Kentucky. $31,942; Louisiana,
587; Maine, $27,262; Maryland.
$15,857; Massachusetts, $12,987;
Mississippi. $36,512; New Hamp
shire, 10,694; New York. $120
! 163; North Carolina. 444,732,,
Rhode Island, $1,605; South Caro
lina , $26,375; Tennessee, $28,041;
Vermont, $10,292; Virginia. $38,-'
771, and West Virginia, $34,014.
| 4 .h Members
Learn and Earn
In Meat Project
Bad Weather Keeps Many
From Attending
Gathering.
For the eleventh year 4-H club
sters enrolled in meat animal pro
jects may share in the benefits of
the national 4-H meat animal con
test conducted by county agents
under the direction of the state
extension service, which has ac
cepted the activity as a part of its
state-wide program
The contest encourages young
folks to learn to grow feed and
fatten meat animals in their pro
jects, through which thousands
have been led to start a profitable
herd or flock. Gross returns of
such enterprises often run into
thousands of dollars, and start
young men soundly in farming.
Last year the three boys making
up the national blue award group
reported total returns of their ef
fords were $17,000
Clubsters making the best coun
ty record will be awarded a spec
ially embossed gold fob, and state
winners will receive a 17-jewel
gold watch,' appropriately en
graved. From the latter, one will
be named from each of the four
extension sections to receive an
all-expense trip to the 19th Na
tional 4-H Club Congress and In
ternational Livestock Exposition
in Chicago, November 29-Decem
ber 7. Three of the four will re
ceive blue awara placing in the
nation, and college scholarships of
$200 each provided by Thomas E.
Wilson, of Chicago. Further par
ticulars may be secured from
county agents.
Finances Schools’
Biggest Problem,
Says J. I. Allman
“Young men are leaving school
teaching because they can't make
a living at it,” Georgia Education
Association President J. I. Allman
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of Georaia Education Education Conference
This was one of the five pro
blems he listpd as particularly
affecing local school
tors.
“If the financial problems were
solved,” he said, “the solution to
our other problems would follow
in order.”
He said that there was need| |
for a stronger professional spirit, ' i
and better and more standard
methods of financing school trans-"
portation.
Mr. Allman further insisted that
difficulty was encountered in
finding teachers to fit a particu
lar job.
Students and teachers from all
parts of the state attended the
conference, which adjourned late
Friday. It was under the direc
tion of the College of Education at
the University.
A series of intensive and infor- j
mal discussion groups were fea
tured, with the theme. “Needed
Leadership Toward Better Edu
cation in Georgia.
HEY!
Boys and Girls
CAKE EATING
CONTEST
At the
STRAND THEATRE
Covington
Saturday Morning
July 27, 10:30 o’clock
Admission
3 Benson’s Bread
Wrappers
Serve Benson’s Bread
and Cake with Every
Meal
BENSON'S
BAKERY
SECOND SECTION OF
YOUR COUNTY
NEWSPAPER
Many Crops to
Be on Display at
Tifton Meeting
Farmers and agricultural work
ers attending the Southern Grass
land Conference will see much
more than grass when they go to
Tifton on July 25 and 26. They’ll
have an opportunity to see many
crops growing that are suited to
southern conditions, such as corn,
cotton, soybeans, crotalaria, kud
zu, peanuts, velvet beans, sor
ghums, and millet.
Experimental plots include va
rieties, rate and date of seeding,
fertilizing and rotations with win
ter cover crops, as well as rota
tion of corn with summer legume
cover drops.
Those who attend the confer
ence will have an opportunity of
learning how they can extend
their rotations, for instance, to in
elude soil buildings crops, and at
the same time, choose varieties of
soybeans that are disease resist- |
ant, that give one and one-half to :
two tons of hay per acre, or va
rieties that yield 1,000 pounds of
seed per acre and, winter cover
crops that double the yield of
corn. They will see, too, selections
of Bermuda grass that produce
three cuttings of hay per year
with a yield of two and one-half
tons per acre.
“If we are to produce more cat
tle in the south, we will have to
produce more feed both in the
pastures and in field crops,” says
E. D. Alexander, Extension agron
omist. “Experimental plots at Tif
ton will show cattle grazing on
improved lowland pastures fer
tilized and unfertilized. Ten years
of grazing these pastures have
shown that fertilizing lowland
pastures can double the carrying
capacity of pastures and, in addi
tion, increase the acre production
of beef about four times.”
Upland pastures of Bermuda
grasses, new paspalums from
South America, Napier grass and
Kudzu are under grazing tests.
Experiment Station officials in
charge of these tests will explain
to the visitors at the conference
establishment and management of
the different pastures, the advan
tages, disadvantages and peculiar
ities of the various plants and
mixtures.
Nava! Reserve to
Enlist 5,900 Men
Five thousand unmarried young
men between 19 and 26 years with
two y eal ' R of col!e S e wil1 have a
chance this summer to cruise 30
days on a Navy Warship, expense
SPEED BOAT
RACES
Sunday, July 21 — 2:30 D, S. T.
JACKSON LAKE INN
Jackson, Ga.
NEW REGULATION BOWLING ALLEYS
DINNERS — SPEED BOAT RIDES
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Ambulance Service Day and Night
716 Floyd St. Covington, Ga.
free, and qualify for commission*
as reserve Ensigns.
Applications are being taken at
Naval District and Naval Reserv*
Headquarters and at the Navy Re
cruiting Station, 301 Post Offic*
Building, Macon, Georgia. As part
of the Navy Expansion program,
the government will pay travel ex*
penses and stand cost of food,
lodging, uniforms and other equip
ment.
Candidates who successfully
complete the 30-day cruise are el
igible for appointment as Naval
Reserve Midshipmen and enroll
ment in a 90-day course on shore
to qualify them for appointment
as Ensigns in the Volunteer Re
serve.
The first cruise will begin
about July 16 on the USS Wyo-i
ming and additional cruises will
begin periodically until January
During the three-months shore
course, candidates will receive the
same pay and allowances as Mid
shipmen of the regular Navy. This
course, however, may be postpon
ed in order not to interfere with
college courses or other civilian
activities.
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More than one-half million dol
lars is lost annually through rough
ginning of cotton in this state,
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