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State-County
And Local
Happenings
VOL. 51; NO. 12.
Social Security Law
Divided Into Three
Major Provisions
The social security law, enacted by
the congress of the United States, is
divided into three major provisions,
to-wit:
1. Public assistance.
2. Unemployment insurance. (Un
employment compensation).
3. Old-age retirement benefits.
Confusion seems to have arisen in
the public mind of the people of
Georgia, by reason of not having a
clear understanding of the three ma
jor provisions, especially as they re
late to taxes, and also as to the
constitutional amendments to be voted
on June 8, 1937. The confusion in
the public mind present to the people
the following problems, to-wit:
1. Do any of the constitutional
amendments, to be votsd on by the
people on June 8, 1937, relate to or
have anything to do with,
(a) Unemployment insurance. (Un
employment compensation).
('b) Old-age retirement benefits.
2. Do any of the constitutional
amendments, to be voted on by the
people on June 8, 1937, have anything
to do with, or in any way relate to
public assistance?
Now, the answers to problems
are as follows:
1. The constitutional ameth.
to be voted on Iby the people on Ju.
8, 1937, in no way relate to or have
anything to do with,
(a) Unemployment insurance. (Un
employment compensation).
(b) Old-age retirement benefits.
Two of the constitutional amend
ments, to be voted on by the people
on June 8, do relate to public assist
ance, in the following manner:
1. The federal government has al
ready collected from the people of
each state in the United States, and
have been so collecting since 1935,
and will continue to collect taxes for
the following purposes:
(a) Assistance to old-age needy
people (persons 65 years old who are
needy).
(b) Aid to dependent children.
(c) Aid to the blind.
2. That these taxes levied by the
United States government for the
support of public assistance are not
the taxes referred to as,
(a) Unemployment insurance, (un
employment compensation)
(b) Old-age benefits.
3. The federal government will not
grant public assistance, that is to say,
appropriate money to any state for
public assistance purposes, which pur
poses are, it is to be remembered,
old-age pensions, aid to dependent
children, and aid to the blind, unless
the state in which such grant or ap
propriation is made by the federal |
government matches the fund by tre
percentage required by the social so-1
curity act. As to matching the fund
for old-age assistance, the state has
to match the federal fund dollar for
dollar. Or, the other way around, the
federal government will pay dollar for
dollar what the state pays in old-age
pensions, and the federal government
will also nay a large percentage, by
grant, of every dollar that the state
pays for aid to dependent children |
and aid to the blind.
(a) If the two constitutional amend-'
ments relating to public assistance, |
and referred to on the ballot that
will be used on June 8 as aid to the
old-age needy, are defeated, the fol
lowing will be the consequence:
(aa) Georgia will not get any re
lief by grant from the federal gov- I
ernment to aid the old-age needy.
(bb) Georgia will not get any grant I
from the federal government for de
pendent children.
(cc) Georgia will not get any aid
from the federal government for aid
to the blind.
(dd) Georgia will have to continue
taking care of its old age needy, its
dependent children and its blind., and
in addition to that, will have to pay
the taxes levied by the Federal Gov
ernment for this purpose. Yet, we
will get back no part of the taxes le
vied for these purposes.
Now, it has been pointed out that
what is commonly referred to as “old
age pensions,” “aid to dependent
children,” and “aid to the blind,”
fall within the first major provision
of the Federal Security Act, which
designates this major provision as
“public assistance,” and that the
Constitutional Amendments to be
voted in June 8 relate only to “pub
lic assistance,” meaning “old age
pensions,” “aid to dependant chil
dren,” and “aid to the bUnd,” and in
no way relate to unemployment in
surance and in ho way relate to old
Age Retirement Benefit.
It may be clarifying to point out
the difference between Unemploy-
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Senior Class Night.
The seniors of S.H.S. gave Monday
evening a very enjoyable program as
follows:
Class Song—“Auld Lang Syne”, by
class.
Wedcome address by mistress of
Ceremonies Ida Lois Crawford.
The class history wa? given by the
class historian. Graves Myers 111.
The class poet, Helen Woods, gave
a poem.
The last will and testament was
given by Susie Grace Langston.
Presentations of gifts to senior
class taken from a scene in Macßeth
with the three witches, Thelma Ruth
Cooper? Pauline Allman and Ruth
Franklin, was very good: , ......
After the program the faculty and
the seniors enjoyed an informal danee
at the Sturdivant gym.
The Summerville News
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TOURS, France ?. . The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield
Simpson, for whom he gave up his throne, discuss marriage plans in a
garden of the Chateau de Cande. after a six-months separation. Now
that coronation ceremonies for his brother George VI are over it is
expected their wedding will take place in June.
Mrs. Mankin Cites
Amendment Merits
(By Georgia News Service.)
- " TT LLA RICA, Ga.—.“ The dawn of
a x. era for the people of our
beloveu ’z” through adoption of
the general classification tax, home
stead exemption and other amend
ments to be voted on June 8, was pre
dicted by Mrs. Helen Douglas Man
kin, Fulton county representative, in
an address before the Parent-Teach
er association here.
“In Georgia today,” she declared,
“we have a hodgepodge of taxes, a
chaotic condition with reference to
taxes.”
Mrs. Mankin cited the successful
efforts in other states to cope with the
tax situation, and urged her hearers
to approve the amendment provid ng
for a general classification levy, un
der which, she said, “an intelligent
system can be worked out where the
burden is more equitably distributed.”
“Under our system,” she pointed
out, “a dollar, if it be invested in
your home, has to pay just as much
tax as a dollar invested in a business
adventure where it is used for making
profit. In other words, a dollar in
vested in your home, producing noth
ing, is called upon to pay just as much
tax as a dollar invested in the most
profitable business venture. The re
sult has been that real estate and
homes have been called upon to bear
an undue and excsesive burden and,
really, during the depression, real
estate lost its value 'because the taxes
became so oppressive.*
Discussing the homestead exemp
tion amendment, Mrs. Mankin cited
the “curse” of the tenant farmer and
of the slums, and declared the gov
ernor “wants to see Georgia as a
state of home owners, not a state of
tenants.”
“He wants to make a man feel that
if he is careful and buys a small home
for his family,” she said, “that he
will be secure in the possession of
that home so that if adversity comes
his roof will not be swept from over
his head by an inability to pay
taxes.”
Jno. D. Rockefeller
Dies Sunday, May 23
One of the world’s test financiers,
who used his talents and mad 1 a bil
lion dollars and gave away 750 mil
lions, Jno. D. Rockefeller, who was
nearing his ninety-eighth year, died
in Florida early Sunday morning. The
funeral services were conducted in
New York City Wednesday and burial
was in Cleveland, Ohio.
He desired to live to be lf)0 years
of age. and retired from business
several years ago.
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NEW YORK . . . Standing beside a picture of the Perisphere'" and
Trylon, dominant architectural group of the New York World’s Fair
of 1939, Mrs. Roosevelt is photographed examining the models in the
Empire State Building. “The Fair can be a powerful influence for
education, for art « . . its possibilities are remarkable,” said the First
Lady. ... . ,
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937.
.Model Boy, Murderetr
IHIIIIk' HEES
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. . . . Les
ter Brockelhurst, 23-year-old Sun
day School teacher and model boy
who doesn’t drink or smoke, ad
mits three murders and innumer
able holdups and thefts.
Baptist Sunday School
Convention To Meet
The Chattooga Baptist Sunday
School convention will be held with
the Menlo Baptist church May 3(. H
M. Woods is superintendent.
The following program has been
arranged.
10:00 A. M.—'Sunday school. (Les
son taught by Col. B. E. Neal).
11:00 A. M.—Address by Dr. T. W
Tippett, Sunday school secretary.
Announcement of committees.
12:00—'Lunch.
1:30 P. M.—Discussion; Daily Va
•ation Bible school, led by G. R. Gib-
son.
2:30 P. M.—Place of Sunday Seho-1
In Evangelism Program of the Churc
—John G. Black.
3:oo—Business session; adjourn.
This meeting will be featured by
the address from Dr. T. W. Tippet 1
executive secretary of the Georgia
Baptist Sunday School convention.
Dr. Tippett is the outstanding Sun
day school expert in Georgia today
and the people of Chattooga county
have an unusual privilege in hearing
him.
Dr. and Mrs. M. N. Wood, of Men
10, have received an invitation from
their grandson, Tom B. Carroll, Jr.
to attend the graduating exercises at
the University School of Medicine,
Augusta, where he will receive his
M. D. Thursday night, June 3. This
institution is alma mater to Dr.
Wood, he having graduated from
there nearly fifty years ago. Tom B
Carroll, Jr., is the only' son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. B. Carroll, of Valdosta,
Ga. His mother, the former Effie
Wood, was reared in Chattooga coun
ty, graduating from Menlo High
school and later G S C.W., Milledge
ville. She is the "eldest daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. M. N. Wood.
Thirty Seniors Get
Diplomas Tuesday
Jno. I. Allman, state supervisor of
education, made a very interesting
address Tuesday evening at the high
school auditorium and made a plea
for better school attendance and stres
sted the importance of education. The
seniors winning medals this year
were: For scholarship, Miss Ida Lois
Crawford; for activties, co-operation
in all school activities. Graves Myers
111, and for athletics, Earl Beatty,
Jr. Thirty seniors received diplomas
Tuesday evening at an impressive
service, thus finishing another very
successful year in our rapdi-growing
local schools.
There are to be many changes in
the faculty for next year. Sunt. J. H.
Cook, after seven consecutive, faith
i ful years of service here, has resign
ed and Frank Dillard, of Marietta,
will take his place as head of the
Summerville school system. Prof.
Young and Coach Boney and Mrs. J.
W. Brinsfield will not be here next
> year. Mrs. Brinsfield has also taught
here for seven years and has many
friends here who wish her much hap
piness in her new home in Rome.
FDA Program Has
Adjusted Debts Os
1,514 State Farmers
More than 1,500 Georgia farmers —
1,514 to be exact —have had their
debts adjusted by the federal farm
debt adjustment program since Sept.
1, 1935.
H. A. Clietet, state FDA supervis
or, announced in Athens this week
that various debts of this group have
been decreased from $2,387,284 to
$2,006,903, a net reduction of $280,-
381. He said adjustment of these cases
had resulted in county treasuries be
ing paid some $48,615 in delinquent
ixes.
The supervisor is assisted in ad
ministering this program by five dis
trict supervisors, a state committee,
and a committee of citizens in each
county. Farm supervisors of the re
settlement administration and county
agents of the state extension service
also lend aid.
The state supervisor said the suc
cess of the FDA organization had
been realized largely because of the
co-operation of creditors of the farm
ers, including banks, insurance com
panies, and individuals.
Chett praised particularly the fine
work of the county committees, mem
bers of which serve without The
334 committeemen are appointed by
the governor, after recommendation
by the state committee.
The homes of numerous Georgia
’atm families have been saved from
‘orecloseure because of the activities
f the farm-ddbt adjustment section
,f the resettlement administration.
Full-Time Secretary
For Farm Association
National farm loan association in
Catoosa. Chattooga, Dade, Fannin,
Cilmer, Murray, Walker and Whit
field counties have adopted a joint
management plan whereby these as
sociations will employ jointly the ser
vices of a full-time secretary-treasu
■er with headquarters at Dalton, Ga.
The plan became effective April 1,
'937, and W. T. White has been nam
d secretary-treasurer.
The associations which have enter
ed into the joint management plan
ire: The Ringgold National Farm
Land association operating in Catoo
sa, Walker and Dade counties; the
Fannin County National Farm Loan
association operating in Fannin and
Gilmer counties; the Lookout Nation
al Farm Loan association operating
’n Walker and Chattooga counties;
•he Murray County National Farm
Loan association operating in Murray
county, and the Whitfield County Na
tional Farm Loan assocation operat
ing in Whitfield county.
Each of the associations retains its
separate identity and there will be no
change whatever in the relationship
of its members. Heretofore each as
sociation has had its own part-time!
secretary. Under the joint manage
ment plan the associations have agre
ed to co-operate in the employment
of a secretary-trea surer, who will de
vote his full time to the several as
sociations employing him. While his
headquarters will be at Lalton he
will make regular visits to all of the
members of the association.
The national farm loan associations
are organizations through which far
mers of this section may secure long
term farm mortgage loans from the
Federal Land Bank of Columbia. The
associations represented in the set-up
have loans outstanding of approxi
mately $1,050,000.
Farmers of this section desirous of
securing long-term farm mortgage
loans may secure all inforation about
same from Mr. White.
HOLIDAY NOTICE.
The undersigned banks will observe
Jefferson Davis’ birthday Thursday,
June 3, and will transact no business
on this date:
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Chattooga County Bank.
Bank of Trion,
SPEAKS AT MENLO
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DR. T. W. TIPPETT, executive sec
retary. Georgia Baptist Sunday
School convention, speaks at Menlo
Sunday, May 30, at 11 a.m. Dr. Tip
pett is leading Georgia Baptists in
the greatest all-round development of
the Sunday school movement in the
’ history of the Georgia Baptist con
vention. Every Baptist Sunday school
worker in the county ought to avail
himself of this opportunity to hear
and to become acquainted with Dr.
' Tippett.
VOCATIONAL FORESTRY CAMP
TO BE HELD JULY 25-AUG. 5
The vocational forestry camp will
be held July 25 to Aug 5 at Young
Harris college, Young Harris, Ga., ac
cording to announcement made by
Claude E. Boggs, educational manager
of the state division of forestry.
Harold Hood, from Summerville
High school, will attend this camp.
Approximately 180 boys from rural
I high schools throughout the state will
j compose the student body of the
camp this year.
The camp is held each year in or
der to extend, under practical forest
conditions, the teaching which has
been carried on in the agricultural
class rooms of the high schools. In
structions in the camp will be con
ducted by members of the staff of
the division of forestry and vocation
al teachers.
Harold Hood made a grade of 84
; on the examination held in March and
will attend camp this year.
Sam Sitton, who attended the camp
last year, will attend again this year.
Apollo Boys’ Choir,
The Birmingham Apollo Boys’
| choir, directed by Coleman Cooper,
i was presented in concert last Satur
i day evening by the Aeolian Music
| club. The program interestingly va
ried in content included compositions
from the time of Palestrina in the
Sixteenth century to Strauss of the
present time. The audience was deep
ly impressed with the choir’s ability
to interpret sympathetically the dif
ficult music of Beethoven, Mozart and
other master composers. Equally de
lightful was their interpretation of
lighter numbers such as “The Story
Os a Tack.” by Parks, and “The Blue
Danube,” by Strauss.
Special numbers included a quartet
and several solos. The soloists were
Bennie Tingle, Lawrence Carlton and
Blakely Adams.
In their singing the choir achieved
a beauty and clarity of tone and a
perfection that is remarkable. Not
only has their director, Mr. Cooper,
given them excellent training musi
cally, but he has given them a spirit I
that is impressive. The boys lifted
their voices and sang with an atti
tude of reverence that affected all
who heard them.
This concert is doubtless regarded
as the outstanding musical event in
La Fayette’s history. Those who heard
their songs and came in contact with
the admirable personalities of the,
choir boys are richer for the expe
rience.
The music club is gratified by the
appreciative response given the choir
during their stay here. The boys were
entertained in the home of members
and friends of the Music club.
FOR SALE —One hundred bushels
Whips and New Era peas at $1.85
bushel. A few bushels Brab peas at
$2.50 bushel.—Cleckler Cash Store,
Menlo, Ga.
Eckener at Inquiry
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LAKEHURST, N. J. . . . Dr. Hugo
Eckener, builder of the ill-fated
Zeppelin Hindenburg, heads the
German inquiry board seeking to
learn cause of the disaster which
took a toll of 36 Uvea.
8P A G E S
THIS
WEEK
Wise Old Owl Asks
For Children’s Ideas
On Improving Club
By “THE SUNSHINE LADY.”
Members of the Sunshine club, and
all other boys and girls who wish to
become members, we want your sug
gestions as to how to make it a bet
ter club. How do you thing our club
could be improved and made more in
teresting ? We will give a prize of 50
cents to any boy or girl, 13 years old
or less, whether a club member or not,
who writes us the best letter telling
his or her ideas of what our club
should be. You who are not yet mem
bers can win your membership certif
icates, you know, by writing to us
four times.
This week the Wise Old Owl has
chosen several pieces written by club
members which he thinks are worthy
of being printed in the Sunshine Club
Corner, and he will send remembranc
es to the authors of these contribu
tions.
My Dressing Table.
I made my own dressing table. I
took two boxes and set them on
bricks. I put a plank under the boxes
and on top of the bricks, and put an
other box on top of these two. I cov
ered it with yellow cloth, and I made
my stool out of a nail keg. I put cot
ton on the top of the keg and cover
ed it with yellow cloth. I made yel
low curtains with white in the mid
dle.
Virginia Johnson —11 Years Old.
How many of our other boys and
girls have made something of which
you are especially proud? Tell us
about it when you write to us.
“The Last Supper.”
Once upon a time an artist was
starting to paint the picture of the
Last Supper. He could not find any
one who had a sweet smile always on
his face like Jesus. So for years and
years he hunted. One day he was
going down the street and he saw a
man whom he thought would do, and
he went back to his house and paint
ed him for Jesus. But he didn’t have
anyone to paint for Judas. Years la
ter he went to the jail and picked
out a man he thought would scit for
Judas. And when he finished paint
ing him, the man asked the artist if
he recognized him. The artist told
him, “No.” The man told Leonardo de
Vinci that he was the same man who
had posed for the character of Jesus.
Catherine Green —11 Years Old.
Do you know the stories of other
famous pictures? What is your fa
vorite picture? Have you one in your
home that you particularly like? Or
have you seen an interesting picture
in a book or magazine that you could
describe for us? Sunshine club mem
bers are privileged to write to on
any subject they choose, you. know,
and the best of their contributions
will be printed and rewarded with
“surprise gifts” from the Wise Old
Owl. And when you have written to
us sixteen times, including the four
which won your membership certif
icate, and have had at least four of
youi" compositions printed, you will
become an honor member of the Boys
and Girls Sunshine club.
Here is one more for today, a poem
by Elsie Edwards.
Robin Redbreast.
When I went out to work one day
It was a stormy day in May.
A dreary trail I went along,
But soon I heard a merry song.
I saw a pretty Robin Redbreast
Singing gayly by his nest.
When I heard the cheerful song
It seemed my work was not so long.
I hope that you will all be good
To the Robin in your neighborhood.
Elsie Edwards —13 Years Old.
What have you done to protect our
friendly birds, boys and girls? What
can you tell us of the ways in which
birds help us? Let us hear from all
of you.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
At the Sunday evening preaching
hour, the young people of the Meth
odist church will present a short
pageant, “Alcohol On the Throne.” As
this is the only service in Summer
ville at this hour we invite every one
in all the churches to come. You will
miss something if you do not attend.
The pageant will be followed by a
message by the pastor.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Summerville: Maq 30, 1937:
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; Duke
M. Espy in charge.
There will be no morning service
due to the Sunday school convention
in Menlo.
B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p.m.
Evening service at 7:15 p.m.
WARSHIPS.
The navy department announces
that construction is behind on forty
four of the sixty-seven warships now
being built. Bids on the first new
battleship will be received from pri
vate shipbuilding companies on June
17. The second 35.000-ton dreadnaught
will be assigned to a navy yard.
Baccalaureate Sermon.
Rev. Edmund D. Viser, of Cleveland,
Tenn., delivered a very impressive
message to the senior class and a
large audience Sunday at the high
school auditorium. He appealed to the
graduating class of thirty memligrs
to have a fixed purpose in life and to
keep Jesus in their lives, if they
wanted to succeed in this day of great
competition.
The two numbers given by the male
quartet. Messrs. Cook, Harpen, Cain
and Worsham, “Come When Life’s
Fount Is Flowing,” and “I Want My
Life to Count For Jesus,” were es
pecially good.
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