Newspaper Page Text
RANKS OF AGING IN
NATION IS GROWING
I
Trend Means More Older
! Workers in Industry.
New York.—Changes in the "age
distribution” of the population that
are occurring as the immigrant por
tion ages soon will present a “new
challenge” to American business
management, Dr. Robert E. Chad
dock, professor of statistics in Co
lumbia university, asserted.
Declaring that older persons are
increasing numerically in propor
tion to the rest of the population
Dr. Chaddock estimated that the
number of those over sixty-five
years old, now about 6,500,000, will
be trebled in fifty years. With the
population approaching a stationary
level, he asserted, the general death
rate soon will begin to rise.
Burden of Aged Grows
“The period of youth in our in
dustrial organization is passing and
our economic structure must be
adapted to age changes,” he wrote.
“Institutions and agencies for the
care of the aged, the burden of old
age pensions and the costs of de
pendency will increase rapidly.
“The increasing burden of the
aged upon the productive workers
need not affect adversely the stand
ard of living, because the propor
tion of persons in the productive
ages, twenty to sixty-four, is not
decreasing and the burden of sup
port for the young dependent group
is declining.”
Adaptation of the industrial struc
ture to employ the ever increasing
number of older workers, forty-five
to sixty-four, will be necessary if
the high American standard of liv
ing is to be maintained, Dr. Chad
dock declared. Otherwise, an in
creasing number may become semi
dependent, he warned, thus increas
ing the total burden of support rest
ing upon the productive workers.
Aged in Industry
Due to the restriction of immi
gration and to the aging of the
foreign-born here, the percentage
of those who immigrated to this
country and are now over sixty-five
is twice as great as that of the
native Americans over sixty-five,
Dr. Chaddock observed.
The net result of all population
changes, he wrote, is a steadily de
clining proportion of persons under
twenty and a corresponding in
crease of those over forty-five.
There is little change in the propor
tion of the productive group, twenty
to forty-four, the survey noted.
Discussing the sex composition of
the population, Dr. Chaddock said
that the trend is toward numerical
equality of the sexes among whites.
He noted that the proportion of
people twenty to sixty-four years
old is much greater in the cities
than in the country. In the rural
districts the number of children in
proportion to the entire population
was found greater than in the urban
areas.
WORLD WHEAT DOWN.
ROME, Italy.—World wheat pro
duction was the lowest this yea:
since 1922, according to reports of
the Internation Institute of Agricul
ture. Export wheat stocks were esti
mated at approximately 671,800,000
bushels, while those nations which
normally import wheat will need ap
proximately 543,600,000 bushels, as
compared with 499,200,000 bushels
last year. .
INSURANCE
TRANSFERS
YOUR RISK
s
Beulah Shropshire
Summerville, Ga.
H. A. Chichester
County Surveyor.
P. O. Box 207
Summerville, Ga.
-
T 1
X. , 4
CONSULT ME—ls you wish to-- . - . •!
t 3
t 3
T I
X —provide an income for your old age. 3
f J
T 3
X —provide a monthly income for your family in event
X of your death. J
4 3
*:* 3
X —provide an education for your children. .•
—pay off the mortgage on your home and other debts. y
I I
X Complete information regarding your Life Insurance 3
X ' v
gladly furnished. *:
x 1
X
| M. L. SMITH, Repre. 1
♦♦♦ *♦
❖ Summerville, Georgia y
I I
X LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY j
< Nashville, Tennessee. J
I Industrial -> Ordinary |
TEACH DRIVING TO
CUT MOTOR DEATHS
High School Courses Urged
as Result of Survey.
New York. —Spread of automobile
driving and safety courses in high
schools as a means of cutting down the
high death rate from motor mishaps
is advocated as a result of a national
survey conducted on the subject by the
Woman’s Home Companion, which
makes a stirring appeal to parents to
insist on safety education for their
children.
Parents are also urged to back up
what can be taught in schools spurred
on by the realization that ‘‘at the pres
ent rate, one out of every three chil
dren faces the probability of death or
maiming from motor accidents in tlie
course of a lifetime.”
“Schools are doing far too little to
teach safe driving,” the survey reveals.
“In fact most of them give no automo
bile safety training. When they do try
to teach highway safety, they often
find themselves handicapped by having
to offset the poor influence of parents
As children approach driving age they
should be taught in the high schools,
by experienced, and qualified persons,
how to drive safely. There is no good
reason for not giving driving and high
way safety instruction to every high
school student in the country. The es
sence of the bad driving problem would
be attacked, for not only do the rec
ords show that drivers of high school
age are poor operators, but from our
high schools will come most of the
future operators of motor cars.
Action in Nine States.
“Steps have been taken toward pro
vidingdriving instruction for high school
students in nine states, the District of
Columbia and the city of New York.
Several of the states have been doing
it for some time. In New Jersey,
where 50 high schools provide this
training, credit is allowed to students
taking the safety courses.
“In the Garfield high school, Akron,
Ohio, there is a student Motor Traffic
club which studies the difference be
tween highway conditions before and
after enactment of traffic laws.
“There should be more of that sort
of thing.
“The most effective instruments for
improving the situation, so far as the
younger generations are concerned,
■eem to be education and example. The
latter is of first importance to parents
because with operation of motor vehf
cles, as with other phases of family
life, the child is deeply influenced by
what the parent does. If you are care
less and reckless with your car, you
cannot expect your children to drive
much differently. If you scoff at traffic
laws your child cannot help agreeing
with yon that such laws are silly and
not to be taken seriously. If you are
a parent who tells your hoy or girl to
watch out the rear window for motor
cycle officers while you challenge death
by stepping hard on the throttle, you
have no right to expect youth to be
law-abiding.
Death Toll 36,000.
“Approximately 36,000 persons were
killed in this country by automobiles
In 1934, an all-time record! During
that year one human being was killed
by automobiles in the United States
every 15 minutes, and somebody in
jured every 31 seconds!
“No further statistics are necessary.
If only every parent in the country
would think about these simple fig
ures! If they were any kind of men
or women they would do something
to remedy the tragic situation. Once
a sufficient number of parents realize
what it means, some sort of solution
will be forthcoming.
“Members of parent-teacher associa
tions, and those parents who try to be
an influence for good in their com
munities through service clubs or other
organizations, can do a great deal to
arouse other parents to action.
"People are not behind the vehicular
traffic laws. Until they support these
laws, ar substitute new ones which
are universally popular as well as effec
tive, there will be little slackening in
the fatality rate. They will not back
up the laws until they are willing to
obey them, and they will not do that
until they are awake to the murderous
potentialities of automobiles winch are
not operated by safety-conscious driv
ers.”
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936.
U. S. ALWAYS ALERT
TO SPY OUT SPIES
Constant Vigil Kept Against
Foreign Prying.
Washington.—The publicity given
to the recent arrest of a former
naval officer and the conviction of a
former naval petty officer, both
charged with espionage, have fo*
cused attention on a war behind the
scenes that is constantly but secretly
waged in the United States as well
as in other nations.
It is a war of espionage versus
counter-espionage, spy and under
cover man versus agent and officer,
and it rarely breaks through the
screen of mystery that surrounds it.
It is probably safe to say that
spies never won a war. Most major
powers, however, maintain rather
elaborate organizations for collect
ing and classifying information
about the political, economic, social,
military, naval and aviation develop
ments of other countries. Consular
and diplomatic representatives,
commercial attaches, military and
naval attaches and paid agents, or
spies, all unite in the task of ob
taining as much information as pos
sible about every conceivable form
of activity. Military and naval se
crets are zealously sought after, and
are in turn, carefully guarded.
Fund for Information.
With the increasing world tension,
and the strengthening of our mili
tary and naval establishments, the
war behind the scenes has com
menced even in democratic Amer
ica. The office of naval intelligence
of the Navy department has avail
able for the “collection and classifi
cation of information” during this
fiscal year about SIOO,OOO more than
was appropriated for this purpose
during the year just ended. And
“G-2,” or the intelligence service of
the army general staff, has been
active in Panama, Hawaii, the
Philippines and in the continental
United States.
In this secret “war” the romanti
cized secret service plays, in peace
time, little or no part.
Upon their own officers and en
listed men (mainly the officers), the
two services largely depend for the
direction of counter-espionage acti
vities, although both act in fullest
collaboration with the govern
ment’s “policemen” of the Depart
ment of Justice.
The “G-2” officers handle the
army’s activities and officers spe
cially assigned to intelligence duty
act in the same capacity for the
navy. The army has at least one
intelligence officer at every post of
any size; the navy has intelligence
officers in every district and on
duty with the fleet at sea.
To Prevent Leakage.
While these officers are active in
counter-espionage work, they are
interested also in the establishment
of regulations to prevent leakage of
our own secrets. The army has
adopted a beneficent, rather liberal,
but effective system in this respect;
the navy, with newly established
“security units” in the fleet, rather
strict censorship, restrictions upon
visitors, and increased secrecy and
some suspicion all down the line, has
adopted in the past three years some
of the most rigid regulations of its
peace-time history.
The counter-espionage work of the
intelligence services is, necessarily,
as secret as it can be made. Much
of it is the routine checking of mi
nutiae; some of it is keeping tabs on
foreign visitors or suspected aliens
in cooperation with the Immigration
and Naturalization Service and
other agencies.
The navy—and the army, too —en-
larges its activities and broadens
the scope of its intelligence work
by employing suitable reserve offi
cers—many of them in key posi
tions for such work—to assist in
counter-espionage measures.
Bathing Suit? Shucks!
94, He Swims in Nude
Blair, Neb. —Burl King, ninety
four, “ain’t never wore a bathing
suit yet,” and the mere fact that
it was his birthday caused no change
in his nudist principles of the last
nine-odd decades.
Twenty grandchildren stood on a
bank of the Missouri river here
and watched King present his an
nual aquatic exhibition, which in
cluded difficult dives.
His eyes dimmed by cataracts and
his hearing almost gone, King still
takes a daily swim in the Missouri,
in season.
Asked if he minded a few pic
tures, King replied:
“Take all you want, if you want
’em in the raw. I’m ninety-four to
day and I ain’t never wore a bathing
suit yet—and I’m too old to start
now.”
Arms Race Is Called
World Recovery Curb
Washington.—The world economic
system has recovered about half its
depression losses, but growing
practices of nationalism and heavy
expenditures for armaments are re
tarding further improvement, the
Foreign Policy Association said.
The gain, to date, according to
the statement, has been reflected
not only in industrialized countries
but in those that produce raw ma
terials as well.
The statement, prepared b y
Winthrop W. Case, continued:
“Increasing rearmament and the
growing fears of war remain a real
obstacle to healthy recovery and
the full restoration of confidence.”
TEN MILLION TREES
PUT OUT IN STATE’S
BIG SOIL PROGRAM
ATHENS, Ga.—A report issued by
Luther Enrod, associate soil conser
vationist for Georgia, showed recent
ly the extent of work done in this
state since the program was inau
gurated.
During this time more than 1,000
miles of terraces have been built,
more than ten million trees and on
Some 18.C00 acres of land, and 250,-
000 shrubs and vines have been scat
tered over 8,000 acres in the state.
The report also showed that 24,157
acres have been planted to strip crops
and 4,842 acres in permanent pas
tures. Elrod also said that 10,000
farmers have been reached through
the program, and some 5,000 other
persons have made inspection tours
of the various projects.
o
Uses First Pay Check
to Repay Relief Fund
Paterson, N. J.—Amir Hassman,
a forty-seven-year-old Arabian who
believes, he said, that “a man who
breaks promises soon breaks friend
ships,” has started to make good a
debt of $29.10 to Paterson.
Several months ago Hassman,
who has been in this country six
teen years, lost his job. At first he
refused to take relief because, he
said, it was against his “princi
ples.”
Finally, however, Hassman was
convinced that at least he should
get enough so that he might buy
food. So he reluctantly applied to
Poormaster James O’Gorman. In
sisting he needed little on which
to live, he accepted a SI.BO a week
food allowance. He lived on that
until two weeks ago when he ob
tained a job at 66 cents an hour.
Today he received his first pay
check and went immediately to
O’Gorman. He turned over $lO of
his salary and promised that the
other $19.10 would be forthcoming
within a few weeks.
Women Who Have Pains
Try CARDUI Next Time!
On account of poor nourishment,
many women suffer functional pains
at certain times, and it Is for these
that Cardui is offered on the record
Os the safe relief it has brought and
the good it has done In helping to
overcome the cause of womanly dis
comfort. Mrs. Cole Young, of Lees
ville, La., writes: “I was suffering
With Irregular ... I had quite a lot
a pain which made me nervous. I
took Cardui and found it helped me
In every way, making me regular
and stopping the pain. This quieted
my nerves, making my health much
better.” ... If Cardui does not bene
fit YOU, consult a physician.
><>37
(mnphde Gvl.- Complete£i| l(ew
4
HE JJSr3>O2T SEDAN w. ||a
W -»k. 'llhk
Wih'lßl n
t w &£.'WUr 1 Wb J
From Diamond Crown Radiator to
new Modem Tail-Lamp ... from Turret new diamond crown
HIGH-COMPRESSION . SPEEDLINE STYLING
valve-in-head engine Ton to Stylcrest Wheels ... it’s the
1 J IMPROVED GLIDING
perfected newest, most beautiful and most KN , E J‘ ACT '° N t? E *
HYDRAULIC BRAKES ’ (<rt no * xtra
dependable of all low-priced cars. new all-silent,
• ALL-STEEL BODIES
THE ONLY COMPLETE CAR- tZZZZ
PRICED SO LOW SUPER-SAFE
GENUINE HSHER SHOCKPROOF STEERING*
NO DRAFT VENTILATION (ot »o .xtao corf)
•Kmt-Aaion mJ Shodtproof Suer- Wk '' lUanm,n ‘
.» Morfcr D. Lox. only. B ,o M
—7: n , .-, BM For economical traiuportalum. A
Michigan.
TOWN SEDAN
McWhorter-Selman Chevrolet Co.
Summerville, Georgia.
Tax Collector’s
Round For
1936
/ will be at the following places on days and dates
name below for the purpose of collecting Taxes, and
will be in Summerville every day except days men
tioned below. I will be glad to stop any place on road
if you will notify me. My book will close on Dec.
20, as Georgia law directs, and Fi Fa will be issued
and interest charged after this date: ,
T r i on Nov. 9, Nov. 23, Dec. 7, Dec. 14
Menlo November 10, Nov. 24, Dec. 8
Lyerly-Nov. 11 p.m., Nov. 25, Dec. 9
Paul Cook Nov. 13 a.m., Dec. 10 a.m.
J. E. Clowdis Uec. 10, noon
Mrs. Van Fleming Dec. 10, noon
Holland Nov. 13 p.m., Dec. 10, p.m.
Mrs. John Holland Nov. 13 noon
D. A. HemphillNov. 18 a.m., Dec. 11 a.m.
E. E. Martin Nov. 18 noon
Chelsea Nov. 18 p.m., Dec. 11, noon
DirtsellerNov. 11 a.m., Nov. 30 a.m.
W. B. Ward Nov. 30 noon
BerrytonNov. 30 p.m.
Dry Creek Road Nov. 3
SublignaNov. 17 a.m., Dec. 4 a.m.
Pat Anderson November 17 p.m.
Dirttown Nov. 19 noon
Ben Morgan Nov. 19 p.m., Dec. 4 p.m.
C. P. Hamilton Nov. 17 noon
W. B. High Nov. 19 a.m.
T. R. Simmons Dec. 2 a.m.
W. R. H. MadduxNovember 20 a.m.
A,. F. Williams November 20 noon
Wilbanks-LoweryNovember 20 p.m.
Cloudland December 2 p.m.
TAX COLLECTOR.
J. A. SCOGGINS
Tax Collector