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“State of Dade.*
VOL. XLVIII. NO. 2.
Stalurday, 15th
‘Final Date’For
Drivers’License
Drivers license application
blanks postmarked later than
midnight Suturdav, Januarj
15, will be considered as com¬
ing from "new drivers” and
all new drivers must stand an
examination before getting a
license to drive in Georgia.
This announcement w a s
made by Commissioner of
Public Safety, Pliil Brewster,
early tins week. J’he commis¬
sioner emphasized that there
will be‘’absolutely no further
extension of time. Motorists
have had four and a i.alf
months in which to gel license
and January 15 is absolutely
the last day.”
Meanwhile thousands of ap¬
plications flooded the Depart¬
ment box number 1741 and
clerks worked overtime to get
licenses issued as quickly as
possible.
Georgia was the 43rd slate to
enact a drivers license law and
her act is patterned after those
of other states. It provides for
a maximum line of $50.00 or
six months in jail for anyone
driving a vehicle on the high¬
ways of the state without a
license. It also provides that
driving with another person’s
license shall he punished to
the same extent and that the
lender of the license is also
subject to the fine and im¬
prison ment.
Licenses cost only fifty cents
a year, but are bought for a
two year period. Application
blanks aie available ut sheriff’s
offices, filling stations and
other centrally located points
in every community. All patrol
headquarters and ears have
blanks. No one is authorized
t° accept a license or money
for a license in the depart¬
ment’s name. All license ap¬
plications must be mailed to
box 1741, Atlanta, or taken to
room 135 in the Stale Capitol.
Commissioner Brewster said
there are 2,143 unclaimed
licenses in the department
that were mailed to addresses
given hut returned unclaimed.
He urged anyone who has wait
ed more than two weeks after
sending an application and
not received any word to write
u letter or postcard to the de¬
partment giving correct ad¬
dress. License applications are
photographed to eliminate
chances of mistake in address¬
ing.
Retribution to Nature
_BY PEGGY CLARKE_
A beautiful panorama spread
before the eyes of the enchant¬
ed girl. In tl.e eastern sky a
red glow promised sunrise.
The mountains showed pah-
blue in the distance. Every ob¬
ject was transformed into a
picture of beauty. Housetops,
trees, shrubs, fences and fields
were covered with a sparkling
frost. Skims of pale grey
clouds were in the northern
sky. The entire valley was a
picture of beauty.
Naomi Gregg stood on tip¬
toe, inhaling great breaths of
pure, fragrant air. Dramatical
ly, sincerely she cried out to
the expanse that was nature:
“Oh,thank you! Thank you!
It was dark, dark, dark! My
soul was crushed, beaten, dis¬
mayed. 1 was alone; torturous
agony beguiled me. I am free,
free, free! It is dawn; a new
w °rl<I awaits me. Nature has
covered the black scars of yes-
Sail? ®im?0
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County ♦ Only Newspaper in the County ♦ ^Square and on the Square’
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938
Some Good Advice
For Anyone’s Town
Here is some good advice
dished out to Atlanta, hut it
is just as good for our town
and its citizens:
“Atlanta in 1938 will be just
what we make it,” declared
Charles F. Palmer, new presi¬
dent of the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce, in a recent
speech. “We should seek a
single project around which to
rally. We should study, under
stand and act upon it in no
uncertain manner.
“Atlanta today is what its
citizens made it. Atlanta in
1938 will be wliat we make it.”
Appointment Seen
Sooe For Auditor
Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 13. (CNS)—
Governor Rivers is expected to
announce bis appointment of
a State Auditor within a short
time. The appointment has
been open since last July,
when the term of incumbent
Tom Wisdom expired.
Rumors were busy with the
names of George B. Hamilton,
state treasurer, and close po¬
litical ally of Governor Rivers;
Zach Arnold, secretary to the
the governor, and Grady Head,
revenue commissioner.
Action is not expected until
disposition of the measure
creating the newYiffice of tax
commissioner. It was gossiped
about the Capitol that Mr.
Arnold would |>e given his
choice of the two posts and
that the other would be ten¬
dered to Air. Head, w hose of¬
fice is abolished under the tax
commissioner bill. A strong
bloc in the State Senate is in¬
sisting upon the reappoint¬
ment of Air. Wisdom, whose
services under three preceding
state administrations were ef¬
ficient and acceptable.
Action is being deferred on
naming a sucessor to the fate
lion. W W. Larsen, director
of the Division of Unemploy¬
ment Insurance. The work of
tile bureau is going forward
under the supervision of exeeu
five director L. P. James, who
has been responsible for its eon
duct during Mr. Larsen’s ill¬
ness. Strong pressure is being
puf upon Gov. Rivers to name
to the post Representative W.
W. Larsen, Jr., of Laurens
county, son of the late direc¬
tor and a popular member of
of the House.
I lew York Fair
To Honor Press
NEW YCAK (Special— To remind
millions of visitors to tha Now York
World's Fair 1S39 that freedom of the
press has helped preserve the democratic
ferm of our government, a statue dedi¬
cated to that const!national liberty will
be erected on the $60. dOO.OGO-Central
Mall, Grover A. Whalen, president of the
Fair corporation, announces. nude
The statue will depict a partially
woman, representing “the unadorned
truth,” watching the passing show of
world events and recording history day-
by-day. A tribute to the moral standard
of the press as a whole is contained in
the subordinate figure of a child reading
a newspaper. and
Freedom of religion, speech assem¬
bly will be combined with freedom of
press to suggest that these four factors
are the cornerstone of democratic gov¬
ernment.
terday. The new page is clean,
white anti shining. I have
youth, hope and determina¬
tion. A new year has brought
me this. I face the dawn of a
new day—a new year.”
NEW YORK—The largest portrait statue executed in modern times will
honor George Washington at the New York World’s Fair. It will be 65 feet
tall and will depict Washington as he arrived for his inauguration exactly
150 years previous to the opening day of the Fair, April 30, 1930. Its mass
will be 500 times that of a man.
Growers
The Soil,
County Agent
County Agent H. G. Raker
this week that lespedeza
rapidly becoming one of the
soil conserving crops
Georgia. He advised Dade
farmers to work this
into Iheir rotation if
The time to sow lespedeza is
spring, the agent suid.
this is done, and seasons
the land is covered
mid-summer and almost
protection from ero¬
is given throughout the
season.
“A good lespedeza stubble :s
of the best methods of
the soil from wash¬
lie declared. “The dead
cover the land and slow
the movement of water
the slopes. Soil particles
held together by die dense
root system, and this
them in place.”
The agent said that even
this is an efficient
of checking soil losses
is considerable loss of
by leaching as the
decay. This leaching
be overcome to a large ex¬
if a cover crop is sown in
fall to take up the nitro¬
as it is liberated.
lie also pointed out that
sown and fertilized
a phosphate fertilizer, or
on land where the phos¬
content has been built
gives much better results
when sown without fer¬
E.II. (Gene) Bates sends in
renewal for the Times.
lias been a mighty good
for a long time.
New 1938 Tags
Being Distributed
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13. (GPS)
—They’re selling like hot cakes
hut you can’t eat’em—for they
are just the 1938 edition of
Georgia auto tags.
Ever since the new tags
(now ranging in price from
$1.50 to $10.50 for private cars)
were placed on sale January 3,
there has been a mad rush to
purchase them. The early
comers are fighting for low
numbers.
I hose who are not particu-
ar about the number they get,
have until February I to buy
their tags without penalty.
Measure Revises
Tax Collections
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13. (CNS)
—Taxes due to the State of
Georgia \ ill flow into the
treasury through one channel
under the terms of a measure
that has passed the House ami
that will probably pass the
Senate with little change dur¬
ing the present week.
The measure sets up a tax
commissioner, abolishes the
Revenue Commission consist¬
ing of the Comptroller General
and two commissioners, and
eliminates the tax collecting
authority and much of the
patronage of the Comptroller.
Proponents believe it will save
the stale $175,000 annually bv
the elimination of employees
and expenses.
Amendments inserted in the
House removed provisions that
would have permitted inter¬
ference in local tax assessments
by the commissioner.
Community Spirit
' One of the assets
to com¬
munity life is that almost de¬
finable thingealled communi¬
ty spirit. One cannot sum it
up in a sentence, nor can he
easily give a definition of
community spirit.
Thu following will give some
of the conditions that influ¬
ence it:
1. Traditions will give the
forward look or the “holding
back strap” spirit.
2. Each character plays a
good or bad partin that spirit.
The preachers sermons, out¬
look, conduct and activity
plays a great part, depending
on his strength of character.
The school teacher can make
or break this spirit. I bis im¬
portant person has the child¬
ren more hours in the day
than the parents. Lives ure
molded one way or the other.
This spirit is brittle in the
teachers hands. Likewise, the
business men, farmers, black¬
smith and the community
paper.
3. Every home plays a part
and makes its good or had
contribution. The church,
schools, el libs and business
places.
4. To be a well rounded
citizen and contribute to this
community spirit, one must
have first-hand knowledge of
the workings of these public
institutions. One cannot und¬
erstand the community life
unless he sees the community
at worship. One must see and
hear and feel along with the
community as they worship
else the contribution to the
community spirit will he
dwaited. My father was a
great hearted, community
spirited man, hut when the
people began to seek his re-
Roosevelt's Radio
Talk Kills Georgia
State Sales Tax
President Roosevelt’s recent
message to Congress, broad¬
casted over a nation wide net
work, definitely precluded
passage of a sales tax at the
present special session of the
Georgia General Assembly,
according to Georgia legisla¬
tors opposing enactment of
such a law.
“That finishes the sales *ax
in the Georgia Legislature,”
remarked one representative,
after demonstration had sub¬
sided at the State Capitol, im¬
mediately after the Presi¬
dent’s speech. “The President
made the best agrument that
could have been made against
a sales tax,” he added.
The Georgia House of Rep¬
resentatives then adopted a
resolution approving the Presi¬
dent’s program as outlined.
A Correction
According to Coach Lichten
of the Dyer Mercantile basket-
hall team, the article in Iasi
week’s issue of the Times in
which we stated the Dye* boys
defeated the Peerless team
that “entertains the Celtics
when they visit Chattanooga”
is a mistake. He says the team
they defeated was none other
than the Peerless Rams.
Thanks, Coach, for calling
this to our attention.
FOR SALE —Span of 7 year
marcs, sound and w ill work
Also, 1 8 months
mule and 2-horse wagon.
kinds of farming implc-
ill S ell in part or to
y Pe P sooe J.V. Dcukins, (Ced-
r’"“"""™ m ent n, Ga.
0
If You Can’t Pull
For Dade —
Pull Out.
$1.50 A YEAR
Balanced Budget
Held Impossible
From Liquor Sale
Atlanta, (GNS)~ Aceordin g
many legislative leaders,
of a liquor sales tax
only partially solve the
financial problem of
meeting the deficit of between
$3,000,000 and $4,000,000 in
the general appropriation of
$20,401,00. They also make
the point that if the revenue
is not realized from the liquor
tax it obviously will be neces¬
sary to provide needed income
either from some other single
tax that will bring a large sum
or from various new forms of
taxes, in order to balance the
slate’s budget. Indication of a
realization of this comes from
the introduction last week of
gross income tax and of gener¬
al sales lax legislation.
Regardless of the action of
the General Assembly on one
or all of the three proposed
large income reducing meas¬
ures—liquor lax, gross income
tax. and sales tax -it is point¬
ed out that it will lie neces¬
sary for the legislature tore-
main in session long enough
to pass oilier bill* needed to
complete the ground work of
the general tax revision pro¬
gram sponsored by Governor
Rivers.
Major legislation still facing
the General Assembly includes
revision of the tax commis¬
sioner bill and modernization
of cooperation law. Leaders
declare that the original tax
commissioner bill as recom¬
mended by the General As¬
sembly’s tax commission
would have been satisfactory
hut that the bill was amend¬
ed before passage that its de¬
sired effect was nullified to a
large extent.
It is necessary, according to
to put teeth in the lax
bill in order to
many oilier taxes on the
of Georgia.
Accordingly, a return to the
bill recommended by
tax commission is consid¬
by many as necessary to
waste of effort and
of new tax measure.
advice as well as other
he faced a large adult
school class each Sun¬
and cared for the church
then it was that he be¬
of greatest value in lend
himself to a great com¬
spirit. The “com¬
spirit” characterizes
community and yours is
by its non-progressive
or hy its progressive spir¬
Each individual contributes
by his or her inter¬
in these worthy institu¬
5. Co-operation is the moth¬
of a great community spir¬
The mother has children.
the children go alone, apart
mother cooperation they
separated parts and
The community’s in¬
will he wide il the
is healthy and utilized.
good people will seek
lodging there and
community’s grow th is
Its schools and
are lighthouses.
pride will grow
that of the highest type.
visitor will be its adver¬
Yours for greater Communi¬
Spirit. —Fred Forester.