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Summerville
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O. J. ESPY, Editor-Manager
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as Second-Class Matter.
Facts, as they are often called, are
peculiar things.
Few workers have any idea that
they are overpaid.
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The speaker who tries to be witty
and wise often fails to be either.
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This week will witness many ner
sons hedging their campaign bets.
Young people are not near as smart
as they think they are; neither are
old people.
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So long as your money holds out
you will have plenty of friends to
help you spend it.
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Getting an early start is the best
way to finish your work in time for
a few hours recreation.
System in business is a good thing
but it is possible for a man to sys
tematize his business to death.
If bragging was equivalent to mon
ey the nation would have an enor
mous crop of millionaires overnight.
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Death takes no holiday on the
highways and it might be well to re
member this when you take a holi
day.
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Running a family on a budget is all
right if the money-maker is able to
keep the income above the budget
figure.
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Serious statistics: Hunters spend
around $750,000,000 a year, and the
question is how much does this mean
per bird?
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Men may seek the opportunity to
render service, but, at the same time,
they bear in mind the dollars offered
per annum of work.
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Individuals will do well to engage
some of their time in worthwhile
work, whether for money, for the
good of the community or for their
own good.
One of these days a community will
possess citizens ready to speak out
for right and condemn wrong without
branding all those who disagree with
them as knaves or sinners.
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Any man who will lend you a few
thousand dollars, without interest,
and say that if you never pay the
sum back it is all right, is what the
modern world will term a friend.
Road .Safety.
Every citizen, especially the auto
mobile drvier, should give serious
consideration to the need for more
caution on the publir highways. The
death toll mounts annually, causing
loss of valuable lives and untold suf
fering. Much property is destroyed
in the process. All because drivers
refuse to obey a few simple rules as
to the manner in which they operate
their automobiles.
Safe driving is not a matter of
great intricacy. To regulate the speed
of the car so as to have it constantly
within the management of the driver
in case of emergency is not terribly
difficult. To watch side-roads to as
certain if careless drivers are about
to enter without sufficient looking
can be done. To exercise patience in
order to save his own life would not
be difficult if the driver kept this fact
in mind.
The pity about the increasing num
ber of wrecks is that very often care
ful, considerate drivers are wrecked
by careless, reckless drivers. A man
going aound a curve on his own side
can be killed by a fool who is hug
ging the ’’inside” regardless of the
right of way. A driver well over to the
right of the road can be maimed and
injured by a fool trying to pass an
other car around a curve or near the
brow of a hill.
Drivers who violate simple rules of !
safety should be arrested, regardless
of whether there is an accident or
not. Drivers generally should practice
courtesy, as most of them do, such as
dimming lights when approaching
other cars in the night time. Signals
indicating that the car is going to
turn off the road are easy to make,
and are due the driver of the car fol
lowing you. If you stop your car, get
entirely clear off the pavement; if
you leave two wheels on you make
it impossible for two cars meeting at
that place to pass safely.
The only way to decrease the hea
vy toll of automobile accidents is to
make drivers generally more care
ful. Safe drivers should have some
way in which to report careless driv
ing on the highways, so that by pun
ishing the heedless driver, an exam
ple may be made to deter others from
endangering human life. There are
entirely too many accidents. Too many
fine lives are being obliterated, all
for the sake of a| few minutes’ less
time in traveling.
Speed is not, necessarily, in itself
dangerous. It becomes deadly when it
coincides with some unusual event, or
if some defect in the car or the road
suddenly develops. Therefore, to
guard against such unforseen happen
ings a driver can not speed too fast.
Most people overestimate the time
saved by running at sixty miles an
hour as against forty-five, for exam
ple. If you make the comparison, even
oa a comparatively loaf xun, you’U
find that the time saved is not en
ough for the increased risk of acci
dent and death assumed.
LETS TAYW DME TO FIGURE
This out/
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"The old effect more by counsel than
the young do by action."
OCTOBER
h 29—First steam frigate, the
JsLjUJk: Fulton, is launched, 1814.
W0 —2,600 couples wed in Ital
ian marriage festival,
1933.
i 31—Nebraska is 36th. state to
L -x/ ' be admitted to the Union,
A1865.
NOVEMBER
s" I—Postal1 —Postal money orders au
thorized by Congress,
~ 1864.
Y 5-, 2—Daniel Boone, famed pio
neer and Indian fighter,
. S-X born, 1734
y 3—Revolutionary Army is
z . disbanded by Washington,
.—£23* 1783.
—Abraham Lincoln is elect
ed to the Illinois Legisla-
/-iv/ ture, 1834. ®"'f
TOMORROW
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-BY ROGERS WINTER
j Newspaper Features, Inc,
(The column this week is written
by J. C. Wilson, manager, Newspa
' per Features, Inc.)
Adoption of the proposed 15-mill
tax limitation amendment to the
state constitution will necessitate the
enactment of nuisance taxes bearing
heavily on small farmers and low
wage earners, Judge Ogden Persons,
lof Forsyth, declared in a recent
statement opposing the amendment.
Judge Persons said that he per
sonally would be benefitted by the
amendment since his property con
sists mainly of real estate subject to
city assessments. He stated: “It
would reduce the taxes on my prop
erty to a great extent if the amend
ment were adopted; therefore, my
opposition is not based upon self
interest, but upon what I believe is
to the best interest of the people of
' the state.”
The proposed amendment limits
taxes on intangible property to 5
i mills, whereas the present constitu
j tion limits it to 5 mills on both tan
gible and intangible property.
. “Strange to say, the amendment
classifies corporate franchises as
| tangible property,” the judge said,
“thereby denying the state the right
to college taxes thereon and cutting
off at least $389,06.0 of state revenue
that would go to support of schools
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936
and other institutions.”
Annual stat* receipts from ad val
orem taxes approximate $30,000,000,
the judge pointed out, and this sum is
inadequate to meet the cost of serv
ices rendered to the people by the
state.
“How, then, with a rising cost of
government and lowering of tax val
ues, would it be possible for the state
to meet its obligations to the people
if it is to be limited to only a 5 mills
levy on intangible property?” he in
quired.
iCities, counties and independent
school districts would be hamstrung
financially by the proposed amend
ment, Judge Persons declared, and
would be forced to put property as
sessments sky-high to raise funds for
schools and other purposes. New bond
issues would be imperative, in addi
tion to calling for federal aid.
“Schools would be hardest hit by
reduction of tax revenues caused by
the 15-mill limitation plan.
“Then there is the provision which
greatly favors investors in money,
mortgages, notes, stocks and bonds,
by exempting their property from all
county, city and school taxation. It is
also questionable under the amend-
TRION THEATER
THURSDAY—IO-25c
GIFT NIGHT. $50.C0 will be giv
en if name drawn is present.
TWO AGAINST THE WORLD
Plenty of punch-paOked situations
and much dramatic action, coupled
with a fine plot and good dialogue
make this a splendid picture. Twenty
years ago a murderess today a
mother . . . has she the right to for
get? Starring Humphrey Bogart,
Beverly Roberts, Linda Perry.
Friday—loc-20c
YOURS FOR THE ASKING
Bright, fast comedy and a convinc
ing performance on the part of Geo.
Raft who gives his role of the gamb
ler with social ambitions. Gambling
was his business . . Society was his
ambition . . . but blondes were his
downfall. He found that love was a
gamble and even a house can’t win.
Assisting: Delores Costello Barry
more, Ida Lupino, James Gleason, Ed
gar Kennedy.
SATURDAY—IOc-25c
ARIZONO RAIDERS
Larry Crabbe, Raymond Hatton,
Marshall Hunt, Jane Rhodes, Johnny
Downs. This is a western that ev
eryone will enjoy to the limit. Just
as good or better than a feature. Ro
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the west’s two most popular heroes.
A Zane Grey story. And—
HOT MONEY
Get-rich-quick-Wallingford type of
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million dollars and the heart of his
secretary. Ross Alexander, Beverly
Roberts, Joseph Cawthorn.
Monday and Tuesday—loc-20c
EARTHWORM TRACTORS
Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy
Kibbee, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes,
etc. Joe E. in all his hilarions histo
ry has never made a picture so up
roariously mirthful. He thought he
was a natural born salesman—every
one else thought he was nuts —but
Lady Luck was his pal, because he
was too dumb to take “no” for an
answer.
ment, if such property owner would
be liable for taxes for the payment
of any local bonds that may be issued
after 1936. What possible reasoning
could justify discrimination of only 5
mills limit on the security holders of
wealth, whereas the same amend
ment would impose a 15 mills tax on
the owners of real estate, including
the humble cottage and smal farm?”
The judge continued, “Surely, this
inequality would depress the value of
real estate as an investment; while
the favored owners of securities would
reoeie all the benefits of social serv
ices including free tuition and school
books for their children, which their
real estate owning neighbors would
ha* to pay for. Such inequality among
taxpayers is not only unconscionable,
but is indefensible in any tax Sys
tem.”
FOR SALE—Good farm, consisting
of 75 or 80 acres. Sufficient timber
from which a good house and barn
could be built. This land is near
McWhorter’s store in Teloga dis
trict and also near church and pub
lic school. See or write Mrs. V.
Hammond, Summetville, Gh.
LOST— Orie i4-month-old Brendal
bull dog, weight 65 pounds; name
"Tarzan”. Bobtail, trimmed ears
and undershot jaw; white markings
on chest. Last seen 8 o’clock Mon
day morning walking up dirt road
toward Subligna. A’ liberal reward
is offered for this dog, or for in
formation leading up to his finding.
Please notify Wallace Holland at
Summerville hospital or Holland
Bros., Holland, Ga.
A CARD TO THE
PUBLIC
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I am the Democratic candidate for sher
iff of Chattooga County by virtue of the
nomination by the voters in the Primary of
March 11. If elected Mr. Frank Fisher will
be my chief deputy for the full term of four
years; and I will live in the residence part of
the jail, and act as my own jailer. I wish to
thank the good people of all parts of the
county for their kindness and good faith
towards me and for their promises of sup
port in the election next Tuesday.
This October 28,1936.
Frank Kellett
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