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People who know everything know
too much.
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The search for truth continues to
be the greatest pursuit of man.
Human beings, with intelligence,
rarely agree upon vital questions.
-Schools, in the present era, must be
something more than intelligence fac
tories.
After the election is over you can
have a lot of fun reading the pre
election dope.
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Hint to whisky sellers: It is not
impossible that this country will again
vote dry.
Now that the weather is getting
colder it might be a good idea to read
a book or two.
Every candidate has kind words
for the farmers; this ought to make
agriculture grow.
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The average 16-year-old son knows
more about his father than the father
knows about the boy.
We are apt to overlook the smaller
acts of life and thus forfeit many of
the joys that accompany good living.
Every farmer can do something to
ward soil conservation and toward
making his own farm-home attrac
tive.
Preachers who are alert to current
issues realize that they must revital
ize religion and let it reform man
kind.
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Men who are too busy to go to
church on Sunday find time to hang
around the radio on Saturdays and
listen to the football games.
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Increased registration does not
mean, necessarily, that the people are
becoming more interested in govern
ment; it may mean that the politi
cians are working harder than usual.
The people of the United States do
not want to engage in another world
war; there can be no disagreement as
to their sentiment. Th° mystery, nev
ertheless, is that this country can be
come involved in any world far.
Safety on the Highways
Seldom does a citizen take a long
automobile journey without coming i
home with some story of danger as |
he tells how he narrowly escaped in
jury when another vehicle forced him
off the road or barely averted crash
ing into his car.
The fact is that something must be
done about highway accidents, but
nobody knows what should be done.
Should high speed automobiles be out
lawed? Few people agree that this
would be the right remedy, although
most of them acknowledge that
speeding is the cause of most acci
dents.
Os course, one -way highways
would cut down the accidents, but the
cost of such a system of roads is
prohibitive in many areas. Rigid en
forcement of all traffic regulations
would also help, but, too often,! the
highway patrolman is not available
because of the simple truth that he
cannot be everywhere.
One contribution to safety on the
highways, however, can be made by
every motorist. You can obey the
traffic regulations, observe warning
signs and drive courteously at all
times. This is what everyone of us
can do to assist in meeting a danger
ous situation, although the objection
immediately comes up that all the
care possible will not save a consid
erate driver from a fool on the roads.
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Farm Prosperity Helps
Industry.
We have long wondered why the
socalled business experts did not
recognize the dependence of indus
trial prosperity upon a reasonable
prosperity for American agriculture.
Any resident of an agriculture com
munity, who has witnessed the drying
up of business when farmers failed
to make money, has also observed
that merchants in such areas do not
buy from manufacturers.
It ought to -be plain that farmers,
whose income is from the soil, cre
ate new buying power and that their
money is naturally expended for the |
things that they cannot manufac
ture. This being .true, it follows that
the more money the farmers of the !
nation Have, the more products of the
factories they will desire and pur
chase. The more they buy the greater .
will be the number of workmen en
gaged by industry.
The curse of American agriculture,
in the oast, has been unwieldly sur
pluses of basic money crops. Natur
ally, the price went (down and with it
the farmers’ opportunity to continue
to consume factory-made products.
Obviously, if the world is able to buy
all the products that American farms
can produce there will be a new I
meaning to prosperity in this country.
It is Intfemtinj' to that hath
political parties are impmjed with
the neeeasity es obtaining, as seen
as markets
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American agriculture products.
Having said so much we would not
be misunderstood. While the farmer
is important to the industrial work
man, the latter is also of great value
to farmers. When the workman has
employment, at good wages, he can
afford to buy farm products, either
directly as food or as commodities
manufactured from farm products.
The circle is round and both farmer
and laborer help each other if they
have the purchasing power that they
should have.
ALMANAC
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"The opportunity of a lifetime seldom
comes to you so labeled ”
OCTOBER
Q 22—Sarah Bernhardt, great
x * Jl? t / French actress, born, 1845
23—American troops abandon
r Manhattan Island. 1776.
/A/if/l Z 2 Tnylor is first to go over
Niagara in a barrel. 1901.
25 English defeat the French
at famed battle of Agin-
- court. 1415
26 Massachusetts organizes
Minute Men Militia. 1774
27—A Clifford gets first
United States baby car
riage patent. 1829
28—First child born in an air
plane, near Miami. 1929.
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ALPINE.
Our meeting closed Sunday night
with seven additions to the church
Rev. Cecil Thompson did the preach
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Hope Davenport, Mrs.
Ethel Davenport and Rev. Cecil
Thompson were dinner guests Sunday
night of Mr. and Mrs. Herman White.
Miss Vera Mae Anderson, of Trion,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Anderson.
Rev. Cecil Thompson spent Sunday
with J. D. Clevenger and Mr and
Mrs. Will Farr.
Mrs. John Black was the guest of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Spraggins, last week.
Miss Helen Wyatt entertained her
Sunday school class on Wednesday
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936
The Burning Match
OBITUARIES
LEWIS KELSEY WAITES.
; Lewis Kelsey Waites, age 4, son
i of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Waites, of
• Berryton, died Monday at 4:30 p.m.,
j from burns received when their home
was partially burned.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
, and Mrs. G. S. Waites; four sisters,
, Mrs. Ruth Ponder, Eddie, Edith and
Foy Waites.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Berrytcn Baptist church, by
the Rev. Dewey Adams, of Shannon
Interment at Aragon. The Paul
Weems Funeral home in charge of
arrangements.
MRS. VESTIE M. HALLAUER.
Mrs. Vestie Millican Hallauer, wife
of Hurman Hallauer, died Thursday,
Oct. 15, at 8 p.m., at her home in
Trion.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by two stepchildren, Hurman
Hallauer, Jr., and Annie Jewell; one
brother, Arthur Millican, of Menlo.
Funeral services were cohducted
from the residence Friday afternoon
at 2:30 by the Rev. Gibson. * Inter
ment in the Trion cemetery. the
Trion Department store in charge
HENRY DEWEY DAWSON.
Henry Dewey Dawson, age 36, of
the Teloga settlement, died Oct. 8 at
12:30 a.m. from self-inflicted shot
gun wounds.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Dawson; two broth
ers, Roy and Ezra Dawson; two sis
ters, Mrs. Wheeler Edwards and Mrs.
Foy Gentry, all of Teloga.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Macedonia Methodist church
with interment in adjoining cemetery.
The Paul Weems Funeral home in
charge of arrangements.
from 4 to 7. Invited guests were Rev.
Cecil Thompson and Miss Allene Bo
wers, of Rome. A picnic lunch was
served.
Mi. and Mrs J. H. Gibbs and Miss
Mary and Miss Frances Mitchell, of
Gadsden, and Bill Smith, of Menlo,
were spend-the-day guests of Mr. and
; Mrs. Roy Alexander Sunday.
! Miss Allene Bowers has returned
to her home in Rome after spending
• last week with Mr. and Mrs. Grady
’ Powell.
’ i Among those attending the family
1 reunion given by Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
’ i O’Briant Sunday were Gus L. and J.
1 B. O’Briant, of Rome; Mr. and Mrs
, Cox and “Bud” O’Briant, of Gadsden;
Mrs. Josie Burgess and Miss Virdie
• Forest, of Center Post; Silas O’Bri
ant,, of Centre, Ala., and Mr. and i
Mrs. Luther O’Briant, of Bolling. At !
noon a picnic lunch was served.
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’BY ROGERS WINTER I
Newspaper Fecrtures, Itic.
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, In the democratic state primary of
. Sept. 9 the people of Georgia dealt
with Gov. Talmudge by overwhelm
ingly defeating him for the senate
• and overwhelmingly defeating his
hand-picked candidate for governor.
On Nov. 3 they will deal with his 15-
mill tax limitation amendment to the
constitution, and all indications are
that they will defeat it as overmhelm-
’ ingly as they defeated him.
1 This proposal is the most reaction
ary and destructive of the public
interests in the whole history of
! Georgia. The consequences of its rat
ification are appalling to contem-
I plate. It would reduce the services
rendered by the government, both
1 ttate and local, but especially local, to
! something* less than what they were
a century ago. In fact, it is not ex
aggeration to say that it would prac
tically break down the county and
• municipal governments throughout
the state.
In the first place, it would reduce
the revenues of the public schools
from 40 to 50 per cent. Such a reduc
tion would necessitate either a reduc
tion of 40 to 50 per cent, in the pay
of teachers, or else a reduction of 40
to 50 per cent, in the length of the
school term. Georgia already is near
the bottom of the list of states in
public education, and this would
throw back the public schools of
Georgia to the point at which they
stood immediately after the War Be
tween the States.
As an example, the revenue of the
public schools of Atlanta and Fulton
county would be reduced more than
eight hundred thousand dollars per
year. The revenues of the schools of
Augusta and Richmond county would
be reduced more than four hundred
thousand dollars per year. The rev
enues of the schools of Decatur and
DeKalb county would be reduced
about two hundred thousand dollars
> per year. The revenues of the schools
i of Car roll county would be reduced
about fifty thousand dollars per year.
The revenues of the schools of Quit
man and Brooks county would be re
duced about thirty thousand dollars
per year. These examples are typical
of what would happen to school sys
tems in every county in the state.
With reference to functions of mu
nicipal and county governments oth-1
er than schools, the result would be
equally as disastrous. C. A. Mat
thews, county commissioner of De-
Kalb county, and president of the
County Commissioners’ Association of
Georgia, makes the statement that
the revenues of DeKalb county for ■
purposes other than schools would be (
ent down to such a point that the j
county would be obliged to stop all ,
road work, discontinue its county po- J
lice, discontinue its health service and
shut off all relief for paupers. There (
would barely be enough revenue to
cner 'te the courts. What would hap
pen in DeKalb county is typical of
what would happen in every county :
in the state.
Typhoon damage heavy in Japan;
Emperor is driven to cover.
Nine months’ steel output up 38
per cent from 1935, magazine says. ;
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STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
Farmers & Merchants Bank
As Called For By Superintendent of Banks at Close
of Business September 30, lJ3b.
Resources:
Loans and Discounts
Government bonds jg
Other Bonds n gg
County Warrants y - 7019 ka
Banking House, Furniture & Fixtures - 7,912.50
Other Real Estate i’esn7i
Checks for Clearing - - L»»uu
Cash on Hand and Due From Approved
Depositories - 146
Advance on Cotton ‘
TOTAL $368,250.68
Liabilities:
Capital Stocks 2 !’?nn no
Undivided Profits 5,447.53
Ppcprvps J,v I O.ov
Depose I::::::::::::::: 330.227.85
T0TAL5368,250.68
Available Cash: 1
Cash on Hand and Due From Approved
Depositories $146,702.81
Government Bonds 86,550.49
T0TAL5233,2'53.30
Deposits:
Demand Depositss23l,o9B.69
Time Deposits 99,129.16
TOTAL !__5330,227.85
City Registration
Notice
The City Registration Books are now open. In or
der to be entitled to vote in the Municipal election to
be held on the first Saturday in January, 1937, you
must register before Dec. Ist. It will also be neces
sary for you to have all past due taxes paid for the
years 1933, 1934 and 1935 in order to become a quali
fied voter in the Municipal election.
Registration Books can be found at the Chattooga
County Bank and the Farmers & Merchants Bank.
Be sure to register and pay your past-due taxes
before December Ist.
FRANK THOMASON, City Marshal.
Temperance Meeting.
Rev. Nath Thompson, one of the
leading preachers of the North Geor
gia Methodist conference and the
leader of the Anti-Saloon League of
Georgia, will speak to a union meet
ing at the First Baptist church at 7
p.m., Oct. 29.
Let every one in Chattooga county
who wants to see booze driven out,
come to this meeting.
All the pastors please announce
this meeting in your churches.
Church people of Summerville come
and hear this great temperance
speaker. E. P. EUBANKS.
Prices in Britain rise again to the
highest level in five years.
2C0,000 youths in the CCC camps
are studying for the future.
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