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kvFence Feeling
In South Georgia
[Rapidly is Fading
Atlanta, Ga. - (GPS) - Tima
Iwas when nobody in Southeast
Georgia would even listen to talk
about fencing- in cattle, let a-
L e consider such a plan. Many
tirnes in the past cattle owners
(and public officials of that sec-
L on have thwarted efforts to
lienee in the livestock. Rural
southeast Georgians have bat¬
tled for what rights they have of free consid-
|ed sage. traditional always have been pas¬
They
successful in defeating proposals
Sto fence in their livestock; they
have considered the word “fence”
fighting language.
That’s why a skeptical public
leaned to the opinon that the re¬
cent proposal made by the WPA
thiough State Administrator Har¬
ry E. Harman, Jr., to fence the
trecherous sighways of Southeast
Georgia against the traffic haz¬
ard of roaming cattle, would be
futile. Based upon past events,
that seemed a reasonable con¬
clusion.
But the citizens of that sec¬
tion are good and sensible peo¬
ple. They, too, have countd the
toll of the dead and injured
A-ere victims of livestock roam-
fig the highways. Today, they
lot only are willing to listen to
he wr J “fence”, but
trongly^avor the WPA’s pro-
iosal to fence in the livestock,
’he offer is now being praised
nd received with general
n Southeast Georgia. There
ome minority opposition,
ourse, but under the
ircumstances, it seems
hat Southeast Georgia will
encing of the greater part of
rincipal highways.
[Annual Singing At
Rising Fawn Sunday
Everyone knows just what
neans when the annual
|singing is announced at
Pawn... It means one of the
hest Jtion. singings in this entire
Well, Sunday is the
and preparations are being
to accomodate hundreds of
ple.
Since the annual event
[first started at Rising
|interest and enthusiasm
grown to such an extent
singers and lovers of music
l f r°m all neighboring sections.
The “card” for the day
cludes some of the best
directors, quartets, duets,
found anywhere, and though
singing heretofore, has been
great event, John Warren,
vill be in charge, says “this
vill be still better.”
Of course, there will be
on the ground and all who
fine singing should be on
fhe latest books will be used.
The event will be held at
school building.
How Much Do You
Know?
1 What is the
draft („e?
2 In what European
I s city °f Moscow located?
? in what European
|>s the city of Helsinki located?
Fro m W h a t state is Lee
jDaniel a United States
T What 19-year-old record
jprofessional |Maggi 0 break baseball recently? did Joe
6 For what is Raymond
p r known in the news?
For what was Ignace
|Padf>rwski, I e a ® e of 80, who. best died recently
|news? known in
8 What is sonnambulism,
pusicai r a phylosophy? term, a chemical
I, I® 9 11 ^ or what major league
team does Robert
[Pitch? .
5,1 For what major
air imifn
Move to Organize
First Aid Started
Here by Red Cross
Mrs. Kirkland of the American
Red Cross, was here Monday in
the interest of organizing a First
Aid course in Dade County.
Professor H.R. Sims, Supt. of
the Dade County High School,
chosen to contact the people and
get enough interest in the course
to warrant an instructor to come
into the county.
This course is absolutely free
in every phase and i s open to
every person in the county. It is
very instructive and covers every
detail in the first aid line, in¬
cluding bandaging, artificial
respiration, broken bones, poisons
and in fact every phase of first
aid will be covered. This will be
valuable to any person regardless
of whether he expects to follow
this kind of work or not.
The place and dates for this
course will be decided on at a
later date
J. C. Christian Opens
New Business Here
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Christian
who for the past several years,
have operated a business just
south of Trenton city limits,
known as the “Log Cabin”, op¬
ened another business here Wed¬
nesday morning.
The location is the corner of
High School street, in the build¬
ing formerly occupied by the
Dyer Mercantile Company, and
later by J. G. Gray.
Besides a general line of mer¬
chandise and Texao gas and oil,.
Mrs. Christian will sell sand¬
wiches, short orders and will
serve regular meals.
Benjamin W. Cole
Is Transferred
To Florida
Private Thomas C. Gray, of
Copperhill, Tenn., one of the 13,-
500 trainee-graduates of the field
artillery replacement center at
Fort Bragg, N. • C., has been
transferred to the one hundred
ninety-first field artillery at
Camp Forrest as a 155-mm. how¬
itzer cannoneer.
Two Georgians also have been
transferred from Fort Bragg aft¬
er completing work as howitzer
cannoneerss. They are Chester L.
Sylar, Ojf Ringgold, assigned to
the one hundred ninety-first at
Camp Forrest, and Benjamin W.
Cole, of Trenton (New England)
assigned to the one hundred
seventy-ninth field artillery at
Camp Blanding, Fla.
Fighting Boll Weevils
It’s not too late to increase
your cotton yield a few pounds
through dusting the plants with
calcium arsenate. Where boll
weevils are plentiful, calcium
arsenate is a mighty effective
means of controlling this pest.
Just keep close watch on your
cotton and when the weevils
show up, start dusting. All the
weevils destroyed right now will
mean extra pounds of cotton this
year, and with the increased
price of lint, this additional yield
will boost your cotton income,
team does Schoolboy Rowe pitch?
answers
, 28 years.
2. Russia.
3. Finland.
4. Texas.
5. George Sisler’s record
hitting in 41 consecutive games.
6. He is a news writer
columnist.
7. As a pianist.
8. It is neither, it is the
of walking in one’s sleep.
9. The Cleveland team.
10- Detroit Tigers-
‘Square and on the Square’
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941.
T OMORROW
1SUNJ
>BYJ.C. WILSON
Newspaper Features, Inc,
If President Roosevelt is FOR
something, Governor Talmadge
is AGAIN SI it. Talmadge hates
Roosevelt, and at every oppor¬
tunity has obstructed and ham¬
strung the Roosevelt administra¬
tion, going back to the beginning.
When, a few days ago, Presi¬
dent Roosevelt requested Gov¬
ernor Talmadge and other Gov¬
ernors in this section to proclaim
daylight saving time to save
power needed in the national de¬
fense program, all states adjoin¬
ing promptly complied, but Gov¬
ernor Talmadge didn’t hesitate
a minute to give his answer. “I
won’t do it,” he told news men.
Talmadge opposed the Roose¬
velt farm program and did his
best to persuade Georgia farmers
to stay out of it. The farmers
followed the leadership of Roose¬
velt, to their immense benefit.
Talmadge oppose the Roose¬
velt program of public works in
Georgia, which has given employ¬
ment to thousands of Georgians
and dotted the state with mag¬
nificent public improvements,
such as court houses, schools,
civic auditoriums, parks, airfields,
etc.
Talmadge opposed the Roose-
ed the Roosevelt CCC camps,
and said the boys going into the
camps .were “loafers and bums.”
Talmadge opposed the Roose¬
velt old-age pensions, and by
his veto deprived Georgia’s old
people of this help for two years.
In his campaign last year, Tal¬
madge promised solemnly that
he was not going to throw any
more monkey wrenches into the
Roosevelt administration if he
were elected.
What is he doing now? At¬
tempting to raise a hue and
of hatred, against the Negro,
a time when President
is pleading for national unity.
Hitler has boasted repeatedly
that he will overthrow the Unit¬
ed States FROM WITHIN, by
splitting apart the various racial
groups in this country. Tal-
madge’s present hue and cry of
hatred, is not helping President
Roosevelt save the nation. IT IS
HELPING HITLER. These are
Hitler’s own words, in his book
Mein Kampf—“With all Europe
conquered or occupied, it will be
easy to tear the United States
to pieces by buying off some
people and PROMOTING FIGHTS
AMONG THE REST.”
The Negroes in the draft
have gone cheerfuly when called,
all over the South, as they
in the World War, and are de¬
veloping into good soldiers in
the training program. They
as patriotic and as loyal as
race, group or sect. All of us in
the United States are in the same
boat, and we will survive or per¬
ish together.
Talmadge’s harangues
the Negroes is having the effect
of sending swarms of them
the North- This happened in
early twenties. It
thousands of Georgia
who could get no Negro
and it cost Georgia the loss
two Congressmen, on account
loss of population.
Talmadge has trafficked
the Republicans repeatedly,
cause of his hatred of
and because Talmadge
heart is a reactionary
more of Republican than he
a Democrat. If the Negroes
ever put into politics in
South, it will be the
who put them there, not
Democratic party.
One man’s guess is as good
another’s. The writer’s guess
that Talmadge will run for
Senate in 1942 against Dick
sell. There is a Talmadge
list, made up of the leaders
supported Russell in 1936,
supported Senator George
Lawrence Camp in 1938,
FSA Familes Buy
Cows Sows to Help
‘Food For Defense’
Two months after the United
States Department of Agriculture
launched its “Food for Defense”
campaign, Georgia’s 29,821 Farm
Security Administration families
have added 8,418 cows, 6,321
brood sows, and 1,609,528 chick¬
ens, in addition to those already
on hand, to help feed themselves,
America and Britain, it has been
announced by E. C. Young, state
director of the FSA.
“Two months ago,”
said, “Georgia FSA families, a-
long with others in this region
and throughout the nation, began
a supplementary action program
to grow additional food as their
contribution to the total defense
effort. Objectives were set up
for the food program wherby
each family would increase its
home poultry flock by 50 chick¬
ens, the pullets to be retained
for egg production and the cock¬
erels to be sold as friers. In ad¬
dition, each family was expected
to secure a brood sow, two ad¬
ditional milk cows, or to increase
their poultry flock by another
50 chickens.”
Also, to help in the defense
program, the director explained
14,109 additional brooders have
been built to care for the ex¬
panding number of chickens; 10,-
000 hand mills have been pur¬
chased for grinding wheat into
flour, cereals and chicken feed,
peanuts into peanut butter, and
com into meal; and 18,683 pres¬
sure cookers were bought Loans
were made in a majority of cases
for hog and chicken wire and for
seed to grow feed crops.
Over 8,000 families bought 30
tons of packaged garden seed
cooperatively, benefiting from re¬
duced prices and better quality
seed, enabling some families to
raise vegetables never before
grown, he reported.
“The response to this program
has been gratifying,” Young said,
“with approximately 98 percent
of the families participating, and
1 want to congratulate these
Georgia families on he excellent
job they have done with the
“Food for Defense” program.
Gordon L. Daniel, 63,
Dies on Sand Mt.
Gordon L. Daniel, aged 63, life¬
long resident of Dade County,
died at an early hour Monday
morning, July 21. Surviving are
his widow, Mrs. Rachel Daniel;
two sons, Gordon L. Jr., and Der-
rail Daniel; on e daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Wallen, all of Sand Mt.
Mr. Daniel had been sick only a
few days.
Georgia Governor
Again Opposes
President Roosevelt
Atlanta, Ga.—Governor Tal¬
madge is at it again—opposing
the President of the United
States. This time it is in con¬
nection with our national defense.
Power emergency nowithstanding,
Georgia will not accede to Presi¬
dent Roosevelt’s suggestion
the state adopt daylight saving
time if Governor Talmadge has
anything to say about it. Said
he:
“I won’t do it. I don’t
it’s practical in Georgia since we
have advanced our time an
hour.” The Governor claimed,
however, that he intended no
“disrespect” of the President in
his attitude.
Meanwhile, two Southeastern
states—North Carolina and
bama—immediately were
ted by their governors to accept
the President’s suggestion.
supported Columbus Roberts
Abit Nix in 1940. These
have received nothing from
madge since he was
Officers Are Elected
For Farm Bureau
The regular meeting of the
Dade County Farm Bureau was
held Saturday evening, July 19,
in the court house at Trenton,
.with eighteen members present.
One new member, Jack Sells, was
added to the list.
The following officers of the
Bureau were elected:
President, Gus Forester; vice-
president, Roy Moore; Secretary,
W. I. Price; Treasurer, W. F.
Morrison; publicity chairman,
Elbert Forester.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Director at large, Charles H.
Hale; Sand Mountain, John T.
Shelton; Lookout Mountain, R.A.
McKaig; Rising Fawn, L- M. Al¬
lison; Sulphur Springs, H. G.
Hawkins; Trenton, J. C. Pace;
New England, Elbert Forester;
Morganville, Erskine Blevins;
Slygo and Hooker, E. F. Moore.
Interesting talks were given by
Charles H. Hale, L. L. McCurdy
and O. G. Ariail.
It was agreed that the regular
meeting of the Farm Bureau
shall be the first Friday night
of each month. All members are
urged to bear this meeting date
in mind.
Bradfords Hold
Annual Reunion
To say the least, the Brad¬
fords held their annual reunion.
Sunday in a “big way”. Brad¬
fords and many, many friends,
came far and near to attend the
event.
The reunion was held at the
usual place on Lookout Moun¬
tain.
Uncle Jim Bradord, one of the
oldest of the Bradford family,
had charge of a very inspiring
program. The Dade County Five
and Bradford Quartets furnished
some very fine singing through¬
out the day and along with the
rest of the program, was en¬
joyed very much.
Those making talks were: Bro.
Bartow McFarland, Uncle Jim
Bradford, Rev. Lankford, Rev.
David McKitchen, Bro. Carl Bak¬
er, Bro. C. W. York, Elbert For¬
ester and Horace Williams. Of
course, everyone enjoyed the pro¬
gram that had been arranged,
but on the other hand, we got
a great “kick” out of watching
Uncle Marsh Bradford “limber
up” after dinner by kicking
“nigh” on to 10 feet high. Uncle
Marsh gets around like a 16-
year-old.
Everybody on the mountain
must have brought a basket of
dinner, from the looks of the big
table which was loaded from one
end to the other. (And did we
eat)!
We had a grand time and look
forward to the Bradford reunion
every year.
Extension Influence
The 1940 reports of the coun¬
ty extension agents in the Unit¬
ed States indicate that organized
extension programs were conduct¬
ed in nearly 84 percent of all
rural communities and that 5,-
741,615 rural families were defi¬
nitely influenced by some phase
of the extension program. Of
this number, 4,791,433 were farm
families and 950,182 were other
families. Changes in practices re¬
sulted from the agriculturoi ex¬
tension program on 3,802,114
farms. The home-economics ex¬
tension program influenced the
adoption of improved practices
in 1,698,577 farm homes and in
567,456 other homes. The 1,420,-
297 4-H club members came
from 860,019 farm homes and
from 217,277 other homes.
Governor this time and if elected
again either as Governor or to
the Senate will receive nothing
from Talmadge except a kick in
the pants.
ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTY.
Bob Tessier, New
Manhattan Coach,
Here With Wife
Bob Tessier, new line coach at
Manhattan College, New York,
is here with Mrs. Tessier visit¬
ing Mrs. Tessier’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Brock. They are
enroute to New York to make
their home, where Bob will as¬
sume his new position September
1st.
He has been at the University
of Idaho for the past six years
under Ted Bank, head coach,
who resigned to take the position
of Atheletic Director of the Unit¬
ed States Army. He is a Tulane
Green Wave player of 1933-34-35
and he and Mrs. Tessier, who
was Miss Meredith Brock, have
been visiting his mother in Ntew
Orleans.
Lions to Sponsor
Alumnium Collection
Project For Defense
At the regular meeting of the
Dade County Lions Club held
here Tuesday night, it was agreed
for the club to sponsor a move’
to collect alumnium; the project
being cooperative with the na¬
tion-wide drive to gather up all
the metal for defense use.
Chairmen for the various com¬
munities were appointed to see
that the alumnium is collected*
and brought to some designated
place.
Those appointed were: Trenton,
O. G- Ariail; Rising Fawn, J. L.
Fricks; Morganville, E. R. Wells;
Wildwood, J. M. C. Townsend;
New England, Robert Forester.
The places to bring the material
are: Fricks’ store, Wells’ Store,
Townsend’s store, Lockmiller’s
store, Crisps’ Store, Driggs
Moore’s store, Grady Forester’s
store.
Any kind of alumnium, such
as pots, kettles, pans, etc., should
be brought in. Dade County
should make a fine showing in
this drive and it is hoped that
everyone will cooperate in every
possible way-
Date Changed For
Filing Social Security
Claims Here
We have been requested to an¬
nounce that the date for filing
social security claims and regis¬
ter for work with the social se¬
curity representative here has
been changed from every other
Wednesday to every other Mon¬
day. The representative will be
at the usual place Court house,
on Monday, August 11th.
A sub. office has been opened
in Rossville and will be open
Wednesday, Thursday and Fri¬
day of each week.
Birthday Dinner
Mrs. G. A. Overdear of Flat
Rock, Ala., was entertained with
a birthday dinner Sunday, July
20, at her home. She celebratd
her 72nd birthday.
Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Overdear, of Flat
Rock; Mr and Mrs- J. O. Over¬
dear and children, Roy, Harold,
Bill, Carl, Buddy, and Pauline,
of Chattanooga; Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Suits, of Chattanooga; Mr-
and Mrs. Bill Tonner, of Pisgah,
Ala.; Mr. and Mrs- Tom York,
and children, Melvin, Michael,
William, Garland, Stella, and Jo-
line, of Flat Rock; Mr. and Mrs.
Olen York, also of Flat Rock;
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Adkins and
children, Cecil, Dortha, Amon,
and Duell, of Lookout Mountain;
Loma Moore, also of Lookout
Mountain, and Mr. J. A. Odell.
X-Ray Clinic Here
August 18th
Miss Martha Wright, County
Health Nurse, announces that an
X-ray Clinic will be held here
August 18, by the State Health
The ‘State of Dade'—Pick
Of Georgias 159
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Talmadge Likened
To Hitler, Stalin,
Mussolini, Franco
Atlanta, Ga.—(GPS) — Com
menting 0 n the final Cocking-
Pittman “trial”, the Atlanta
I Constitution saki editorially, in
part:
“The axe has fallen. Summary
execution has been meted out to
two of Georgia’s leading educa¬
tors. Dean Cocking, of the School
of Education at the University of
Georgia, at Athens, and Presi¬
dent Marvin S. Pittman, of the
Georgia’s Teacher’s College at
Statesboro, have been ousted
from their posts by a Board of
Regents packed by Governor
Talmadge. The Governor had al¬
ready announced what the out¬
come would be.
“One-man rule — dictatorship—•
holds the state capitol today,
whether Georgians like it or not
On absurd, trumped-up charges,
shown to have no foundation in
fact, two good men have been'
deprived of their posts of ser¬
vice to the state, simply because
Gene Talmadge so decreed.
“Never was there more sum¬
.
mary acquiescence in the will of
a dictator, under Hitler in Ger¬
many, Mussolini in Italy, Stalin
in Russia or Franco in Spain,
than was witnessed yesterday
under Talmadge in Georgia. The
only difference is that, whereas
in Georgia the dictator appears
satisfied in driving these men
from their posts as educators,
in other dictator-ridden lands
they would probably have faced
a firing squad or executioner.
The individual fate would have
been different, but the principle
or lack of it, is the same.
“As far as Dean Cocking and
Dr. Pittman are concerned, the
thing is ended. But as far as the
state of Georgia, the University
System and the young men and
women of Georgia who seek edu¬
cation are concerned, it has but
begun. For the state, the univer¬
sity and its youth all suffered,
at that heamg yesterday, a blow
from which they cannot fully re¬
cover for years to come...And
the youth of Georgia has seen,
today, an event which cannot
fail to reduce the freedom of
education in Geogria, which can¬
not fail to weaken and to taint
the state’s university... Monday
was the saddest day in Georgia’s
history of many, many years.”
Speaking editorially, The At¬
lanta Journal said in part:
“There was lynching in the
Hall of Representatives of the
Capitol of Georgia Monday.
Neither wisdom, justice nor
moderation was shown in the
mock trial given Dean Walter D.
Cocking, of the University School
of Education, and Dr. Marvin S.
Pittman, president of the Teach¬
ers College, at Statesboro. Both
edupator^ were dismissed by a
vote of 10 to 5 of the Board of
Regents on charges not prev¬
iously made known to the victims
and on evidence that would not
be admitted to any court of jus¬
tice in any court of justice in a
civilized community anywhere.”
The Journal’s lengthy endi-
torial concluded with this para¬
graph: “By a vote of 10 to 5
this humiliating chapter of his¬
tory was written. Dean Cocking
and Dr. Pittman have been de¬
nied the right to a fair trial
and deprived of their jobs with¬
out due process of law or com¬
mon decency. But the injury to
them as individuals will be right¬
ed long before the State of Geor¬
gia recovers from the damage
it has suffered in ‘the decent
opinion of mankind’.”
P . S.—After the* ‘trial” Gov¬
ernor Talmadge was asked if he
thought the men obtained a fair
hearing. He replied: “I certainly
do. I appointed men that would
give them a fair hearing.”
Department.
Suspects of tuberculosis or any¬
one wishing an examination, are
requested to report to Miss
Martha Wright before the date
set for the clinic.