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NATIONAL,
STATE AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS
VOL. 50; NO. 45.
Wise Old Owl
Tells A Story
About Brownies
Asks Boys and Girls to Write Let
ters About “How I Can Be
a Brownie.”
“Did you ever hear the story of the
Brownies?” the Wise Old Owl asked
me last night.
I told him I had not, and begged
him to tell it for me.
So he said, “This is not one of my
own stories. This happened to my
grandmother many years ago. I heard
her tell about it many, many times.
“My grandmother was a Wise Old
Owl, too, and she lived in a great
oak tree in a beautiful forest. Every
night she saw the fairies com out
and dance. There was nothing .
grandmother did not know.
“One moonlight night as she sat in
her tree she saw two children com
ing along the forest path. They were
a little brother and sister, and they
walked slowly, hand in hand. The
owl heard them whispering and knew
they were frightened, so she called
out to them, ‘Oo-hoo-hoo! Don’t for
afraid!’
“ ‘Mrs. Owl, we came to see you,’
the children said, and so she flew
down near them and spoke to them
again.”
Billy and Nancy.
“ ‘My name is Billy,’ the litle boy
said, ‘and this is my sister, Nancy.
Mother told us that you knew every
thing and would help us find a
Brownie to do our work for us.’
“The old brown owl laughed, and
the children continued, ‘We want to
play and not have to work. We like
to make a noise in the house and
mother always wants us to be quiet.
The other day mother told us that a
long time ago, Brownies used to come
to our house, and sweep and dust,
make fires, wash dishes, and do all
kinds of things. We want you to help
us find a Brownie, so mother won’t
always be wanting us to help her
when we want to play.’
“ ‘Do you see that big toad-stool
over there?’ the old brown owl asked
them. ‘And do you see that dark cir
cle on the ground around it? If you
will watch carefully you will see an
interesting sight over there in just
a moment’.”
Fairies Dance.
“So Billy and Nancy sat quietly by
the owl and watched the moonlight
spot which she had pointed out to
them. Soon they heard the sound of
fairy music, and as they watched they
saw a band of happy little people
come running, dancing and singing
toward the toadstool. The jolly little
fairies joined hands and danced
’round and ’round on the dark circle
which surrounded the toadstool.
“In a few moments they stopped
their dance and went closer to the
toadstool, all sitting down close to
gether.
“ ‘Stay right here,’ the old brown
owl told Billy and Nancy, and away
she flew and perched on the toad
stool. Then the fairies listened as
the owl spoke to them.
“ ‘Two children came t o me to
night,’ the owl said, ‘to ask me where
they might find a Brownie to do
their work for them. They are wait
ing in the shadows by the oak tree
for their answer’.”
Magic Mirror.
“Several of the fairies hopped to
their feet, disappeared in the dark
ness, and then quickly returned car
rying a beautiful magic mirror which
they placed on the ground near the
toadstool. Then the rest of the fair
ies arose too, and swiftly they all
disappeared in the forest, leaving the
owl alone.
“ ‘Come, Billy and Nancy,’ she call
ed to the children, and they ap
proached the toadstool.
“ ‘The magic mirror will show you
your Brownie,’ the owl told them, so
the children bent to look in the
moonlit glass. They saw only their
own reflections.
“ ‘But we are not Brownies,’ they
cried.”
Brownies.
“ ‘Yes,’ replied the big brown owl.
‘You can be Brownies if you will try.
Brownies are little people who do
good to big people. You are strong
and clever children. You can make
beds, and take care of your clothes,
b? quiet when older folk want you
to be, and do ever so many little
things to help them.’
“So Billy and Nancy said, ‘good
bye’ to the kind old owl, and ran
home determined to become real
Brownies as the owl had said they
might. How surprised mother was
next day when the children did all
their little tasks and many others
for her without even waiting to be
asked! And the game of being Brow
nies became more fascinating for the
little boy and girl than any other
game they knew.
“Tell all our boys and girls,” the
Wise Old Owl finished last night, “to
write to us this week about ‘How I
Be a Brownie,’ and there will be a
50-cent prize for the one, not more
than 12 years old, from whom w«
teceivt th* beet letter,”
The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937.
Freak Tomato Plant
Also Bears Potatoes
Millport, Ala.—Potatoes on a
tomato plant?
They’re growing that way down
on the farm of W. W. Waldrop,
Millport automobile dealer.
Stories of the freak plants have
been in circulation several
weeks, «nd to substantiate them
Mr. Waldrop has placed on dis
play a plant bearing nine well
formed tomatoes and eight po
tatoes.
Examination of Waldrop’s to
mato patch is reported to have
revealed several such plants.
W. C. Sturdivant
Re-elected Mayor
. ‘Vvly-Elected City Officials Meet
J nday and Organize For the _
Year’s Work.
In the mu ’oal election held last
Saturday, W. < Sturdivant was re
elected mayor of the city of Sum
merville for another one-year term.
Councilmen elected were as follows:
First ward, 0. J. Espy; second
ward, Roy Alexander; third ward,
E. Beatty; fourth ward, Harry Mc-
Ginnis. There was only one ticket in
the field and a camparatively light
vote was polled.
Penn Selman, who qualified as a
candidate for councilman from the
second ward, withdrew form the race
before the election.
The newly-elected mayor and coun
cilmen met Monday in the directors’
room of the Farmers & Merchants
bank and, after being sworn in by
J. E. Baker, organized for the year’s
work. E. Beatty was elected mayor
pro-tem.; 0. J. Espy, clerk; Homer
Woods, treasurer of bond fund, and
J. E. Baker, recorder.
Frank Thomason was re-elected
chief of police, and T. C. Whitley
was re-elected night chief.
The special license taxes for the
year 1937 will be practically the
same as last year. A few changes
and additions were made. A list of
the special license tax for 1937 is
published elsewhere in this week’s
issue of The News.
The matter of fixing the property
tax rate for this year was.deferred
until a later meeting.
TRUSTEES ELECTION.
An election of school trustees will
be held Saturday, Jan. 23, in those
districts where vacancies have not
been filled, caused by resignation or
moving away.
KATHRYN HENLEY,
County School Supt.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to each and
everyone who extended kindnesses
and sympathy during our recent be
reavement. —R. C. Dady and Family;
J. R. Wyatt and Family.
Optimist Tries to Sell
Snow Plows in Hawaii
Honolulu. —The American official
invitation to Switzerland to have its
fleet participate in the opening of
the San Francisco exposition of 1915
has been equalled by an optimistic
manufacturer in Springfield, 111.,
who is trying to find a market for
snow plows in Hawaii.
Roger J. Taylor, deputy United
States customs collector in Honolu
lu, got the request recently. Shov
ing the electric fan to one side and
gulping a glass of ice water, he
opened the letter and read:
the snow plow. The
greatest plow on the market for
speed, performance and durability.”
Taylor admitted the snow plow
might'possibly be used on the sum
mit of Mauna Kea, the only place
on the island where snow ever ap
pears, but the great problem would
be to get it up there.
Steal Railroad’s Middle
Leaving Only Two Ends
Washington. Because of some
mysterious and backbreaking skull
duggery in the dead of night on
Hannah street, the interstate com
merce commission authorized the
Pittsburgh & Susquehanna railroad
to go out of business.
The embarrassing truth is that
somebody stole a couple of blocks
of the railroad, leaving it with two
ends, but no middle. Walter N. Todd,
receiver of the P. & S., has a pretty
good idea who ruined his railroad,
but he’s not telling. Nobody much
rode on it, anyway. One night, when
Receiver Todd was looking the other
way, mysterious marauders ripped
iup all the rails of the P. &. S. on
Hannah street. They also dug up all
[the ties.
FOR SALE—Two nice building lots
on Dixie highway, just outside city
limit*. Terms.—George D. Morton,
Summerville, Ge-, Route 4
Baptist Executive
Committee Meets
At Lyerly Sunday
Leader of Each Department of the
Church Work Will Tell Os Their
Plans for the Year 1937.
The Chattooga Baptist Executive
committee .will hold its regular
monthly meeting with Lyerly Baptist
church Sunday, Jan. 10), at 2 p.m.
The committee, being desirous that
our people renew their interest in the
Lord’s work for this year, are ex
pecting to have the head, or leader,
of each department of our church
work tell, briefly, what they are
planning to do for the Lord, and with
His help, during the year 1937.
After the foregoing, we hope to
have time to hear some ringing tes
timonies from individuals praising
the Lord for the blessings He is vis
iting up them and their churches;
giving praise to Him for what He
has done, for what He is doing and
for what He is going to do for the
faithful throughout eternity.
Every church and Sunday school
in our association should be interest
ed in announcing these meetings, and
in getting a large delegation to at
tend.
B. E. NEAL, Chairman.
Bill To Widen
State Highways
To Thirty Feet
Senator-Elect Jackson, of Cochran,
Sponsorer of Bill, Says Will De
crease Highway Accidents.
ATLA.NIA. Legislation raising
Georgia’s minimum width for trunk
line highways from twenty to thir
ty feet will be sought in the 1987
session of the general assembly as
a safety measure, -Senator-elect Guy
Jackson, of Cochran, said Tuesday.
The bill being drawn by Senator
elect Jackson, would require the
highway department not only to
make thirty feet the minimum width
of future highways, but would mean
the widening of existing pavements,
it was explained.
Senator Jackson said:
“If Georgia does not take action
to control the rapidly growing high
way traffic problem, the national
government undoubtedly will take
steps to require wider roads through
the state.
“The federal government even
now is advocating a five- or six-lane
highway across the country.
“I believe the widening of our
existing roads by a third will re
lieve the pressure for some time,
although it’s certain that we are
coming to one way roads as a real
safety move.
“The bill will provide a reason
able time for the widening of the
existing main cross-state routes.”
$396,000,000 Spent
By U.S. For Georgia
Federal government expenditures
in Georgia under the recovery pro
gram had totaled more than $396,-
000,000- at the last date of computa
tion, Nov. 20, it was announced last
week by Erie Cocke, state director of
the national emergency council.
Much of this will be repaid from
loans made to home and farm own
ers, merchants, business concerns,
industries, banks, cities, counties and
the like, Cocke said. The program be
gan in March, 1933.
That total, however, does not in
clude funds expended through regu
lar appropriations and channels for
construction and pay rolls, such as
the war department, the department
of commerce, and the like.
NOTICE.
We are pleased to announce that
Mr. J. L. Kirk and associates have
taken over the operation of the Sum
merville Telephone company, as of
Jan. 1, 1937. Mr. Kirk is an exper
ienced telephone man and we are as
sured that in the future our City
and County will have adequate and
modern telephone service.
While over seven thousand feet of
cable and other supplies have been
ordered, we know that the patrons
will realize it will take some time to
rebuild the system, particularly in
view of the fact that this construc
tion work will have to be done under
adverse weather conditions. How
ever, the work will proceed as rapid
ly as possible and when completed it
will be a credit to the city.
We recommend Mr. Kirk to you and
know that you will bear with him
until the new system can be com
pleted.
WALTER STURDIVANT
PENN SELMAN.
MisS Ovelle Thomas spent a few
days last week in Chattanooga, the
1 gttaat of friend*.
Money Increase
For Farmers Be
Evident In 1937
Harry Brown Sees Higher Prices for
Georgia Farm Products During
the Year 1937.
Harry L. Brown, director of the
state agricultural extension service,
predicted last week that Georgia
farmers will receive more money
from crops in 1937 than they did last
year.
Advising farmers to study the ag
ricultural outlook before making
plans for 1937, Brown said improved
farming methods and higher prices
were the main reasons 1936’s crop
brought more than the year before.
Adjustment of cropping plans so as
to conserve the soil and provide more
of the state’s food and feed needs is
essential, he said.
He also cautioned against heavy
increases in planting soil-depleting
crops, such as cotton and tobacco, j
saying increases will lead to unbal
anced farming and lower prices.
Reviewing the 1936 crop year,
Brown said the crop rpeorting serv
ice estimates that farmers in the
state grew principal crops worth
about $191,123,000. This is a 13 per
cent, increase over the value of the
1935 crops, he said, and almost twice [
the value of crops in 1932.
The cotton crop in 1936, he said,
exceeded the value of the 1935 crop
by 15 per cent. Tobacco brought
farmers 36 per cent, more -money and
peanuts |26 per cent. more. Peaches
were 38 per cent, more valuable to
growers in 1936 than in 1935, while [
the watermelon crop doubled in val
ue. Pecans lead the list in per cent,
with an 81 per cent, increase in value.
Heralding the development of live
stock raising as an important indus
try in the state, Brown said that live
stock brought raisers $58,000,00ft in [
1936, and more than that in 1936.
ized themselves last yearTlast ,xIE |
Farmers in the state organized,
themselves last year as never before,:
he said, and began adjusting their
farming practices to five live stock j
its proper place.
The result is, he said, that farmers
are not only raising more beef cat
tle, hogs and work stock, but they
are raising a better quality.
As steps toward better farming,
BrowrFsaid that farmers of the state
have terraced thousands of acres of
land to stop erosion, and have in
creased acreage planted in food and
feed crops to conserve and improve I
the soil. Approximately 1,700,000 ac
res have been planted in these crops
during the last five years, he esti
mated.
“That has meant that we have
shifted some land from cotton and
Other soil-depleting crops, but by
better farming have increased
our yields of cotton,” he said.
“The average yield of cotton in the
state the last four years has been
230 pounds per acre, compared to
176 pounds per acre the preceding [
ten years,” he declared and “last
year’s cotton crop, despite a serious
drought, has been the largest since
1933.”
FOR SALE—Pigs: One Poland-China
brood sow; two Poland - China
shoats; three Poland-China pigs.—
B. W. Farrar.
Blind Men Meet After 20
Years; Recognize Voices
Medway, Mass.—A door opened
in the home of Dennis Reardon,
ninety-four, and a voice said, “How
are you, Denny?” Blind, Reardon
replied, “How are you, Jack?” and
was led to the arms of George W.
Bartlett, ninety-two, of Brockton,
also blind. Th# meeting was the i
first in twenty years. They were
tentmates in the Civil war.
Miss Sewell Leaves
Superintendent Post
With Fine Record
The county board of education held
its last meeting of the administration
under Miss Maude Sewell as super
intendent on Dec. 29, 1936, at which
time all teachers’ salaries and other
bills were paid, leaving a clean slate
and a substantial balance with no in
debtedness to the new administration.
During Miss Sewell’s ten years of
able and efficient service the educa
tional affairs of the county have
made marked progress and the fi
nances of the (board have been han
dled in a capable business-like man
ner with all teachers paid promptly
at the end of each school month.
The board gave Miss Sewell the
assurance of the high regard and
deep appreciation they hold for her
for her devoted ten years of service,
and presented her with a handsome
silver vase engraved in these words:
“Miss Maude Sewell, in Appreciation
of Her Untiring Service, from boun
ty Board of Education, 1086.”
' Small Wives “Bully”
' Mates; Called Best
Aberdeen. Small women
1 make the best wives, according
• to the Right Reverend Mr. Fred
eric L. Deane, Protestant bishop
of Aberdeen.
He advised Shetland islands
j schoolboys that if they wished to
"live good, useful and long
i lives,” they should choose a bride
! of about five feet in height.
“It generally is better when a
wife is ‘top dog’ in the home,”
Bishop Deane declared. “Small
j wives can ‘bully’ their husbands,
but big wives are nearly always
bullied, even by small husbands.”
366,582 In State
Sign Age Blanks
New York Tops List of States In
Number of Applications With
3,433,631 Employes.
The social security board report
ed Tuesday New York, with 3,433,-
631 applications, topped the list of
states in the number of employes
applying for participation in the
old-age annuity program.
The total number of applications
for all states was 22,129,617. The
board noted this total was incom
plete, since -more than 24,000,000
workers are represented on em
ployers’ applications.
Pennsylvania was second, with
2,165,478 applications,' and Illinois
third with 1,680,059.
Other state totals included:
Alabama, 132,186; Arkansas, 93,-
279; District of Columbia, 124,000;
Florida, 252,970; Georgia, 366)582;
Kentucky, 260,082; Louisiana, 20)1,-
177; Mississippi, 84,925; Missouri,
604,225; North Carolina, 485,182;
Ohio, 1,469,838; Oklahoma, 348,121; ’
South Carolina, 81,701; Tennessee, [
304,942; Texas, 590,539; Virrginia,
202,112; West Virginia, 295,406.
GIRL’S GOLD SEARCH ~
STIRS PROSPECTORS
I
[Old Stories of Lost Mines
■ Revived in California.
Nevada City, Calif.—The treasure
hunt conducted in this mountain
country by sixteen-year-old Jean
■ Kus ter of San Francisco has set
old prospectors’ tongues wagging
all along the Mother Lode on a
subject of which they never tire—
Jost bonanzas and hidden treasure.
1 The objective of young Miss Kus
iter is a spot pointed our to her sev
ieral years ago by her grandfather,
[Jefferson A. Casserly, a miner who
/died last month and named her his
heir.
Gold Nugget Legacy.
“Remember this spot, child, it
will make you rich,” Casserly was
quoted as saying. And in support
of his promise, he left a legacy in
his strongbox for Jean —a single I
gold nugget worth $5,000.
But whatever the girl may un
cover at the mysterious site can be
ino more dazzling or romantic than
[ the other lost caches of gold with
[which legend so liberally endows
the Southwest.
Several hundred miles south of
Nevada City, another woman treas
ure hunter, Rose White, pursued a
i long and fruitless quest for the lost
[ Padre mine. She received the
[ secret from E. H. (Doc) Bragg, a
! friend of her father’s, as he lay
i dying. Bragg claimed to have
[ bought the mine from Indians and
Ito have taken out SBOO,OOO in gold
before he was driven away by an
I early-day racketeer.
! More widely known is the Brey
; fogle mine, on the rim of Death
I valley. Breyfogle, sole survivor of
a prospecting party that tried to
/ cross the valley in 1862, found the
lode while wandering about half-
I [crazed by thirst. The ore samples
;he carried back to civilization made
mining men gasp. Although he
made several trips back to the val
ley he never could get his correct
bearings. Many parties have
■ searched for Breyfogle’s mine.
Famous Gunsight Mine.
In the same region is the gun
sight mine. A man straying from
[ an emigrant train broke off a piece
of rock to hammer his gunsight
I 'into position and was astonished to
I [find the rock almost pure silver.
He kept his secret to himself for
the time being and stayed with the
party. Later he was unable to find
his way back to the vein.
There is said to be a treasure of
Mexican gold and jewels buried
near the summit of Cahuenga pass,
a heavily traveled thoroughfare to
Los Angeles. It had been sent to
this country from Mazatlan to buy
munitions for the revolt against
Maximilian, and was stolen. The
authority for this legend is Major
Horace Bgll, a Lol Angalgs
8 PAGES
This Week
State To Take
Lead In Warm
Springs Project
State Asked to Raise One Hundred
Thousand Dollars to Endow
Foundation.
Georgia has been asked to take the
initiative in a great national human
tarian campaign to combat one of the
oldest and yet least-understood dis
eases which cripples and kills man
kind today—infantile paralysis.
Medical history shows that infan
tile paralysis, correctly called polio
myelitis, is not a new disease. Its
origins are lost in antiquity. And it
remains today one of the most cruel
and crippling diseases known to man,
and one of the most expensive where
treatment is concerned.
Georgia has been asked to sub
scribe SIOO,OOO to this campaign. The
other forty-seven states are to follow
Georgia’s lead. Harrison Jones, vice
president of the Coca-Cola company,
has accepted the chairmanship of the
state committee. The funds raised
will endow the medical and research
work of the Warm Springs Founda
tion, to which the national and the
world looks for help.
In the early years when organiza
tions began to fight plagues and epi
demics, they did not pay so much at
tention to this malady—poliomyelitis
—which left crippled men, women
and children in its wake.
There were other diseases which
were taking thuosands of lives, and
so the helpless cripples—the children
who must go through life paralyzed
and broken —were left while the fight
went on against yellow fever, small
pov, bubonic plague, typhus fever,
and other diseases which killed
swiftly.
With those maladies either halted
completely or with serums or vac
cines found to prevent them, the
threat of diphtheria also was at last
removed. Fathers and mothers who
give their children the preventive
serum no longer must nurse a terri
ble and abiding fear of that dread
disease.
But today the fear of poliomyeli
tis is one which confronts every mo
ther and father and every communi
ty, large or small. The disease strikes
quickly; it paralyzes the victim, and
it affects young people, old people
and children.
Not until 1909 was poliomyelitis
definitely accepted as an infectious
disease. In that year it was success
fully transmitted to monkeys by re
search physicians.
There had been cases of the disease
all over the nation before that. But
the work was speeded when Ameri
ca’s first epidemic, in Rutland county,
Vermont, attracted the attention of
the medical world in 1894.
It swept across the seas, and in
1905 Sweden had an epidemic.
Back it came to America, and in
1907 frantic mothers and fathers of
New York City endured the agony of
an epidemic in that city.
For two years, in 1908 and 1909, it
was epidemic in Massachusetts. The
very next year Minnesota experienc
ed the horor of haviny many of its
hospitals crowded with paralyzed
children and adults. There have been
others every year.
Georgia knows that in tms past
year poliomelitis was in epidemic
form near its borders, and that many
cases were reported within the state.
Meanwhile the work goes on in
laboratories. Literally thousands of
test-tubes have held serums and vac
cines and blood tests. Thousands of
experiments have been made and are
being made.
This program is one which the peo
people of Georgia must realize con
cerns research more than it does the
hospitalization of patients. That work
is going on, too, but Georgians are
asked contribute the SIOO,OOO, along
with the remainder of the nation, that
the future may be made safe; that
when babies come into the world they
may <be given a serum or a vaccine,
and that the mother and father may
then be relieved of the agony of fear
some some djy infantile paralysis
may strike that child. It has been
done in diphtheria, smallpox and in
other diseases. And Georgians are
asked to take the leadin supplying
money for it to be done in poliomye
litis. Vast sums of money were spent
to combat and conquer the other dis
eases, and now the great push is be
ing organized to conquer infantile
paralysis.
Already much work has been done.
The Warm Springs Foundation is
not merely the small hospital at
Warm Springs. The foundation has
an influence and sponsors work all
over the nation. Through its help
pools have been built in other cities
where treatment may be given;
braces, methods of treatment, are
developed at Warm Springs for the
world.
The great problem of the orthope
dic physician and surgeon, after pa
ralysis comes, is to get to Work on
(CoMinvwl an La»t Paga.)
$1.50 A YEAR