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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1944)
PAGE SIX Morganville News Rev. Steffner preached a very interesting sermon' here Sunday night. A large crowd attended. j Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Greene and family are visiting Mr. Green’s father, who is very ill, in Alabama this week. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Holmes and family and Miss Ann Oliver, Mrs. Hazel Lasater and small daugh¬ ter. Linda, visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry G.jver and fami v Si nday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pi sey and small .‘on. James Edvard, Miss BcLje . ean Marl r ( f C.-atta- nooga spent Sunday with Mr. ot’d Mrs Ben Raines. Mrs. Hazel Fugatt of Wildwood, v.sited tier mother Mrs. C. G. Hamlin the week-end. Mrs. Sarah Smothers and chil- dten of Chatanooga, spent Sun¬ day win Mrs. Jewell Handley and s Douglas. Lloyd Raines has received a medical discharge from the Navy BANK BY MAIL We are always glad of the opportunity to meet our customers face to face, but we realize that it is going to become increasingly difficult for you to come to the bank as often as formerly. There¬ fore. we suggest that you hank bv mail. Merely endorse your checks “for deposit only” and mail to us. (Cash should be registered.) You’ll find it simple and convenient. AMILTON NATIONAL BANK nnlHN Main at Market—East Chattanooga—Market at Seventh 1424 McCallie—Itossville, Ga.-Tenn. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Member Federal Reserve System $14,000,000 Saved on Electric Bills Eleven Rate Reductions Made In Past Six Years During the past six years, eleven re¬ of service to the actual consumption in ductions and revisions have been made subsequent years. I he resultant bills in the electric rates of the Georgia Power woidd have been $14,000,000 HIGHER Company, including the three reductions than the actual amounts paid. which went into effect June 1. In the case of residential consumers, The eight reductions previously made, the average price per kilowatt hour lias together with the increased use of elec¬ decreased 16 per cent, from 2.93 cents tricity for which they are partly respou- in 1938 to 2.45 cents at the present time. sible, have resulted in total savings of 1938 ★ ★ ★ more than $14,000,000 since to users of electric service. The three new rate Electricity is one of the fete things reductions, to commercial customers, that has grown cheaper in recent years. REA cooperatives and municipalities, The cost of living has gone up more than will add another $1,000,000 a year in sav¬ 25 cent, business costs have increased, per ings to consumers. our own costs have increased. Blit elec¬ Savings since 1938 were computed by tric service not only has not increased, it applying the average price per kilowatt has come down in price. It is cheaper to¬ hour prevailing in 1938 for various classes day than ever before. Georgia Power Company A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE SEE GRAHAM BLADE CO. YOUR LOCAL 1275 MARKET STREET DEALER CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, THURSDAY JUNE 22, 1944 , FIFTH WAR LOAN POSTER “DORADO” The Fifth War Loan poster “Fire Away,” shows a scene aboard the U. S. Submarine "Dorado.” One of the seamen is using its blinker signal light in a message directed to a pa sing ship. The artist, the celebrated American painter, Georges Schreiber, has caught the action during the very tense moment before the pass¬ ing craft is identified as friend or foe. If the wrong reply is given, the Submarine crew wall spring to instant action. The painting is authentic in every detail for the artist was actually aboard the Subma¬ rine at sea. He ate and slept with the crew. He worked with the men and stood watch with the officers. A short time after leaving the Submarine, it was lost in action with all hands. This poster, which is part of the Abbott Collection of War Paintings, has been given by the sponsor to the Government for inclusion in the historical record of this war. CITATION GEORGIA. DADE COUNTY: To all Whom it May Concern: J. L. Fricks, as Administrator of the Estate of Juliet C. Bran¬ ham, deceased, having applied to me by Pettition for leave to sell the real estate of said de¬ ceased, this is to notify the creditors and kindred that said application will be passed upon at the July Term, 1944. of the Court of Ordinary, of said County and unless cause is then shown to the contrary, said leave will be granted. This 5th day of June, 1944. J. M. CARROLL, Ordinary, Dade County, Georgia. 'Vhen EXHAUSTION leads to Headache Don’t let headache double the mis¬ ery of exhaustion. At the first sign of pain take Capudine. It s quickly upset brings by relief, the pain. soothes It is ^ j nerves dissolved—all ^ liquid—already f ready to act—all ready to ( 1 bring comfort. Use only as di- \ _ rected. 10c, 30c, 60c. CAPUDINE and is buck at home now. Mr. and Mrs. J>rn MdlGun ; i e small son, of Chatt mooga, visited Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hughes recently. They keep fijhting- You keep buying WAR BONDS •AXIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED!” LITTLE PEOPLE, ALONG THE EDGE OF TOWN (By Margaret W. Jackson) ! In all the War Loan drives,! we have had some wonderful workers in Hilltown, as in other towns, and they have worked hard and long hours and thought nothing of them¬ selves if they might only sell Bonds for the big drive. But of all the workers, the one who gave me most pleas¬ ure was Beryl. She’s a woman, some forty-odd, a widow with one son, and she’s not anything wonderful to look at. You have to know Beryl to appre¬ ciate her. But in a town like Hilltown everyone does know her, so she is appreciated. She used to work for me, at house cleaning and other times and I have a great af¬ fection for her. She is a thor¬ ough and painstaking woman. She hasn t had a lot of school¬ ing but she has a good mind and always knows what she is talking about. And she has the standards of a truly great lady. She is selfless, patient, modest and upright. She re¬ spects herself and others. Beryl works all day every day at hard job. But after work she was one of the vol¬ unteers who went out and sold bonds. I went with her a few evenings, and the rest of the time she went alone. She was given what was considered the barest part of town, the fringes and edges of the west end. where the houses are very small and the incomes smaller still. But in those fringes Beryl sold $2,500.00 worth of Bonds, all small denomination and she won one of the prizes the com¬ mittee had set up. How did she do it? Certain¬ ly not by salesmanship. She is instinctively given to under¬ statement. But she went into every house. She sat down. She went into the problem of how this household could buy a Bond as a serious problem of the war effort. Almost every one of those little houses has a service flag in the window. And inside there is always a shining gold pil¬ low cover with the flag and anchor of the navy or the flag and eagle of the army on it, placed prominently, and near¬ by a picture of the lad, or lads, in their country’s service. There is so much love and pride—but even in good times not much money. Beryl was thoughtful, and she knew their problems. They were her own. But she would ask, “Have you got a stamp book or two?” Often they had —a dime book never filled, a book with quarter stamps grandma gave one of the chil¬ dren. These books were put on the table and their value counted. Well, with those and so much money, a small bond could be bought. Really? Yes, you need so much. Now, how much money have you got? They would dig around and consult, and get Dad in from the back garden and all put out what they had, in small bills, in coins. Now, they had only to find so much more— maybe only four or five dol¬ lars more by now. Beryl knew where the fourteen year old could earn a dollar, where the high school girl could get seventy-five cents for staying with some child. She helped them. They put the stamp books and the coins all in a box and she went away and came back again and there it was, $18.75! “The boy buys a bond every month,” they told her. “But we know we’re supposed to buy an extra one!” Their pride, their pleasure in them¬ selves and their Bond, their patriotism were- pure as crys¬ tal, bright as the stone for which their salesman was named. THE EMPTY CHAIR (By Ben Ames Williams) There are a hundred and thirty million people in the United States; say thirty mil¬ lion homes. In those homes there are to¬ day 10 million empty chairs. Maybe its his chair at the din¬ ner table, kept there so you can imagine he is sitting in it. Maybe it’s his chair by the fireplace in the living room, the one where he used to sit in the evening. Some of those chairs will al¬ ways be empty; but most of them will one day be filled again. Yet even when we’re sure of that, pretty sure of that, the sight of those empty chairs leaves in us a greater empti¬ ness, loneliness that is hard to take. And for most of us there is nothing tangible and import¬ ant which we can do about it, no obvious way in which we can help the boy who once sat in that empty chair to finish! his job so he can come home and sit in it again. Most of us would feel a lot better, we wouldn’t feel quite so lone¬ some, we wouldn’t miss him quite so much, if we could find ways to help him do the job which only he can do. Of course there are some little ways to help. I Refusing to buy from black markets help some. Saving gas and tires helps some. Salvaging paper and grease and metals helps some. Just living our lives, trying to keep things as nearly nor¬ mal as possible, writing him letters ,sending him snapshots, leaving out of our letters every word that would worry him— all that helps a little. Buying War Bonds helps. A lot of other things help a little; they help him a little. But they help us a lot. They help fill that empty loneliness. They help us a lot now. Some day they'll help us a lot more than they do now. Because some day, for most of us the boy who went away will come back and sit again in that empty chair. At first he’ll do most of the talking, telling us as much as he can tell us, answering our ques¬ ^ tions. But after a while it will be turn to ask questions. He’ll do it, too. Here’s one of the first questions he’s going to “Well, what have you all doing while I was away? That’s when the little things e can do today are going to us most; that day when comes home and starts ask¬ questions; that day when Fifth War Loan Part of Second Front Invasion (By Lowell Thomas) I think we should all regard the Fifth War Loan drive as a part of the Second Front in¬ vasion. Over there American soldiers have the military task to be done with steel and ex¬ plosive, bitter combat and un¬ flinching heroism. Over here we are confronted with the financial phase, which is a necesary part of the critical and perilous effort for final victory. It has been pointed out all along that the dollars of the civilian collaborate with the bullets of the soldier. This now becomes true in the most point¬ ed and dramatic way. When we buy bonds in the Fifth War Loan Drive we are actively taking part in the Second Front invasion. That stupend¬ ous effort of war and valor is many times as great as the blows we have struck in the past. The sacrifice of our troops must be many times as great, and so must our pur¬ chase of bonds. What is re¬ quired of us is the least that can be asked—that we buy twice as much. If we buy bonds to the ut¬ most of our means, we are good citizens backing the best of soldiers. If we fail, we are unworthy citizens, letting down the bravest of the brave. War Bonds Has Money Beat There are many things peo¬ ple do not realize about War Bonds. For example, the ques¬ tion is often asked—“What is the difference between money and War Bonds?” The answer—Upon demand your government will pay you, today, or ten years from tjfilay, $75 in legal tender for $75 in dollar bills. This guarantee is printed on all paper money. And, also, upon demand, after ten years, the same govern¬ ment will pay you $100 for an E War Savings Bond that cost you only $75. This guarantee is printed on all E War Sav¬ ings Bonds. War Bonds earn you inter¬ est—money does not. Beyond that there is no real difference, because the guarantor (your government) is the same in both cases. Put your money to work earning interest for you today. Invest in War Bonds during the Fifth War Loan. Remember, nearly everything you buy today is inflated or expensive, except War Bonds. Everything bought today may depreciate in value, except War Bonds. MY PLEDGE (By Stephen Vincent Benet) (Pulitzer Prize Winner) I pledge myself as an Am¬ erican to work for victory. I do so voluntarily, in faith and loyalty because I believe in my country. I believe in its freedom and its greatness, in the liberties I share with all Americans, in the way of life we, the people have made with our own laws and with our own hands. I mean to preserve those lib¬ erties and that way of life, with my own hands, here and now. I mean to secure them for the future by investing to the full in War Bonds and in Stamps. The task I am called upon to do may be small or large— I mean to see that it gets done. It may mean hard work and sacrifice—I mean to see that it gets done. As an American citizen. I take my place beside the arm¬ ed forces of the nation, to ^ my utmost for the country I love—to maintain its cause against all enemies and every danger. And to this task I pledge my whole strength and my whole heart. Now, as never before, your country looks to you to do your patriotic duty. For this is the showdown. And what’s your part in this bitter strug¬ gle? Right now, it’s to get be¬ hind the 5th War Loan and invest in War Bonds. BUY EXTRA BONf>S—5th War Loan! uie empty chair.
