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Wid little burds a singing in de trees
And flowers swayin’ in de evenin’
breeze
De highways beckon come and go
And travel to and travel fro.
Oh, ho! Ho, hum!
Yas sah, whitefolks, spring have
come.
Most of my trips are made in haste
but with spring in the air and a new
world of green spreading the first
blush of summer over the mountain
sides I r&solved to make a recent
journey from Corbin, Ky., to North
Carolina, a leisurely tour; so, more or
less groggy from a delightful Sunday
dinner, I set off from Corbin at 2
p.m. over the winding and beautiful
Rhododendron Trail to Pineville, Ky.,
where I turned off on the Skyland
highway for many twisting miles over
the mountains of old Virginia to reach
the top of Pinnacle mountain and the
Daniel Boone Trail.
Crawling in and out of sharp moun
tain curves for long, lazy hours, night
fall found me swinging a few miles
off my most direct route to reach a
cozy little hotel at Pennington Cap,
Va. Not wishing to miss any view of
the mountains and having fond mem
ories of Virginia ham and hot biscuits
at Pennington Gap, I stopped for the
night and consigned myself to the
arms of Morpheus. No babe in the
cradle ever enjoyed sweeter sleep.
The morning sun cast long shadows
in the room ’ere the comforting hiss
of steam escaping from the radiator
stirred my slumbers. Then shaved
with many a stretch and yawn with
the last few minutes made more has
ty by a whiff of feoffee and ham waft
ing up from the dining room. My
dressing complete, I rushed down mid
many cheery good-mornings to find a
cup of steaming coffee and the morn
ing paper already on my table, so tri
ed to concentrate on news of the day
while ham and eggs were made ready.
At last they arrived and to my mind
the old masters of brush and canvas
have never painted a picture so pleas
ing, so completely captivating as a
great platter filled with fresh eggs
and thickly-cut, lightly-cooked coun
try ham on a zippy spring morning.
No king in his palace has ever break
fasted with more genuine pleasure.
With the inner-man bounteous sat
isfied and the sun high on the moun
tains, I resumed my journey and soon
reached the top of Pinnacle mountain.
Here I parked the car and paused to
stretch, smoke and marvey at the
beauty of the valleys winding for
long, green miles on either side be
low. An iron marker by the highway
attracted my attention and I copied
the following: “Lee County, Va. Area |
446 Sq. Miles. Founded in 1782 and
named for Henry (“Lighthorse Har
ry”) Lee, Revolutionary Soldier and
Governor of Virginia, 1791-1794. Dan
iel Boone’s son was killed by Indians
here.” After reading this blunt state
ment and looking out over the long,
FLYING sparks cause half the fires
that destroy so many homes. Even if
you are very careful with fire, some
day your neighbor will have a fire
which may cause damage to your
home.
Insure today in a well known, de
pendable stock fire insurance compa
ny—as the HARTFORD.
Summerville Insurance Agency
OFFICE: Chattooga County Bank. Telephone 364
LOTS LOTS LOTS
Just out of city limits; two blocks
from school. Lights and water.
NO CITY TAXES
Now is the time to buy property; it is
going up every day.
SEE
ROWLAND B. WHEELER
Office Below New Plymouth Garage.
THE
WAYSIDE
TRAVELER
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R. D. Davison
I wild mountain ranges, unchanged by
i civilization or the centuries, my
thoughts drifted back to pioneer days
and wandering from the roadside to
pluck a few wild flowers peeping from
the ledges, I was surprised to find my
self stepping gingerly and peering
cautionously around each massive
cliff and boulder lest some ild red
skin might still be lurking to pounce
out with warpaint and tomahawk and
deprive me of my scalp. How some
wayside traveler given out a lusty
yell at the moment I fear I would
have gone leaping and bounding down
the steep mountainside like a fright
ened rabbit, but all remained quite
and peaceful and my nervousness
vanished with the first throb of the
motor in response to my foot on the
starter, so down the long slope to
stop for awhile at the famous Nat
ural Tunnel in Virginia. Here again
I gaped and marveled at the won
ders of nature, but as Natural Tun
nel is an attraction worthy of much
space I shall write more fully of this
in the future.
From Natural Tunnel it is but a
short distance to the Tennessee line
and then only a step to Kingsport, or
“Kangspowt” as it is commonly called
by the many Chattooga county ne
groes who have migrated there. Whip
ping around a corner I faced a big
fellow that I instantly remembered
as Lee Wilson, a negro who lived on
my father’s farm twenty years ago.
So I pulled to the curb and hailed
him; he did not know me at first but
mention of my name brought a wide
grin and next thing I knew he was
pounding me on the back like a long
lost brother. As colored traffic was
heavy on this particular street sev
eral negroes joined us and the crowd
grew as Lee explained to each new
comer, “Here’s a man from Chattoo
ga County, Gawga.” A roll call of the
gathering would have checked nicely
with the sheriff’s “wanted list” of
some ten, twelve or fifteen years ago.
The eager fellows asked many ques
tions of Chattooga and I in turn
amused myself by asking them why
they had left. In most cases the an
swer was, “Des a little trouble wid
de law,” and feeling themselves en
tirely safe in “Kangspowt” they talk
ed freely of their deeds. One big fel
low asked if liquor was yet legal in
Georgia. When informer that Georgia
still has prohibition he replied: “Ah
sho hopes’ Gawga stays dry cause if
Tennessee evah do go wet ah’s gon
na pack up mah moonshine still and
haid right back to Chattooga county.
Man, man, Joshua sho made do sun
stand still, but ah is de man what
made de moonshine still. Ah can take
a hunnert pounds ob sugar and a peck
ob cornmeal and make more likker
dan a Central ub Gawga passenger
train can haul and if Mistuh Frank
Kellett git aftuh me ah’ll run so fas’
and so fur dat Chattanooga county
will be gine him up foah lost and done
collected a new sheriff foah he git
back home.”
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1937.
Who Will Control
Whisky?
By W. W. Gaines.
One of the most ridiculous things
| connected with the entire drive to
repeal the prohibition laws of the
state of Georgia is the cry of “Liq
uor Control Under the Proposed Re
peal Amendment.” Liquor control un
i der law, according to the admission,
or rather charges of the same repeal
forces is an utter impossibility. If
you cannot control whisky by prohi
| biting its sale, how can you possibly
control it by legalizing its sale?
There is a cry from the repealers
j that the state will reap mighty bene-
I fits in the sale of whisky. In many
other branches of the government, it
takes all of the taxes collected to ad
minister the laws under which that
1 department operates. Isn’t it true
then that the taxes which would ac
crue to the state under the repeal of
prohibition, that is, from the sale of
whisky, will be consumed by a new
flock of state employes ? Then what
good will these tax receipts do the
other departments if it takes it all to
operate the department for the pro
posed control of whisky?
The repeal interests say that:
“The package plan of this pending
law is an improved liquor-sale plan.
In the matter of liquor drinking,
however it is the fact that it is drunk I
that counts, not so much the place
where it is drunk. Under the package
store plan, liquor is not to be consum
ed on the premises. It will be consum
ed in the automobile —which it will
turn into an instrument of death. It
will be consumed on the sidewalk,
which will become a place of brawls.
It will be consumed in the home which
will be made more and more a terror
for the wife and children. Hotel rooms
will be turned into places of midnight
revelry, and debauchery. It will be
consumed at picnics and barbecues,
which will become menaces to the
community. The streets and roads will
become avenues of the reeling, shout
ing, swearing drinkers to the distress
of men and women going about their
business, and to the horror of little
children. Nothing could be worse than
this.
“Besides that, while the repeal bill
does carry some salutary restrictions
as to its sale, all of these will be
wiped out by the liquor interests at
the legislature two years hence if liq
uor carries. They did not get all they
( wanted in this bill. But it is a start
er; it enables them to get a wedge in
which will later open the way for
wide open operation.—Another angle
is opened up by the following state
ment by C. C. Buckalew, of Conyers:
“ ‘My boy who cares nothing for
whisky, or is perhaps, prejudiced
against it, picks up his magazine in
his home, or say his Sunday newspa
per, and finds more advertisement
from the liquor trusts and industiy
: than he does from his department
stores. He sees pictures of beautiful
■ women and gallent men drinking and
praising some particular brand of
: whisky. He turns on the radio and
hears a plausible voice of some one I
telling of the delightful effects of
some brand that ‘cheers’.
“ ‘He takes a walk or ride and sees
the streets and roads lined with glar
ing advertisements imploring him to
drink. Night comes on, and illumi
nated billboards and electrical signs
on stores flash forth their pleas for
him to drink. He sees the picture of
his favorite football player, movie
star, or distinguished Kentucky gen
tlemen indulging with pleasure in
their favorite brand of whisky. He
goes to the movies, perhaps trying to
get away from it all or fighting the
temptation to drink, but from the
screen he hears and sees a more pow
erful appeal than ever from the talk
ing screen advertisement. It’s the
same old story that he has to drink
these brands if he is to be fashion
able and poular. The goods are pre
sented in bright-colored, beautifully-
I decorated and harmless looking pack
ages.
“ ‘By this time, the boy and girl
who had no previous inclination to
drink finds his resistance weakening,
and his fear of the effects of alcohol
j subsiding. Thus he becomes a social
drinker, and is on the same path
where every drunkard made his first
tracks.’ ”
The repealists speak of how much
money will be collected in taxes from
I the sale of whisky, and that the boot
| leggers will be put out of business.
The bootleggers are already in busi
, ness and have their clientele and or
ganizations well established. It is ad- j
mitted that the price of whisky under ;
repeal will be much higher than at
the present time, since the taxes
would have to be added to the prices
at which whisky is being sold now J
The bootlegger then will be in an
■ even better position to sell his whisky |
;at a lower rice than the folks who j
| cry that they are trying to get taxes ;
i for the state of Georgia through the |
sale of whisky.
The bootlegger can open him up a
legal store on one corner and still
maintain his present warehouses for
the sale of illegal whisky and make
j a double profit.
Who will the repeal of prohibition |
I benefit, It will benefit the bootleggers :
; because they will have a double mar
| ket: one from their present bootleg
' customers and the other from the le
i galized stores which they will open
; up. The distillers will profit because
i of all this greatly increased alcoholic
consumption. The politicians will ben-
I efit greatly because they can put new
names on the payrolls of the state
and therefore build their political
fences even tighter to perpetuate
themsleves in office with an army of
political henchmen.
Under these circumstances, who
will control whisky? Whisky drink
ers, gather yourselves together and
fight against the repeal measure. The
j repealists say that it will increase the
cost of the whisky you love so well.
Prohibition people, gather your
selves and fight against repeal, for
you have ever seen the dangers of
whisky drinking, have ever hated the
stench of alcohol, have ever hated the
dishonor and remorse that follow in
the trail of alcohol.
So stick to your guns; fight to the
last ditch, and vote against the re
peal amendment on June 8.
CCC to plant 20,000,000 trees seed-
I lings in parks this year,
DISCREDITED.
Perhaps in good faith —let’s al
ways be generous—we were told when
repeal of the national law was advo
cated, that
(1) Certainly bar rooms or saloons
would never again be allowed! The
American people would never toler
ate that and the government would
take steps to prevent it.
(2) States retaining their dry laws
could rely upon the protection of the
federal government.
(3) The operations of the bootleg
ger would perforce, come to an end.
At any rate the federal government
would now be able to suppress it.
(4) The consumtion of liquor would
undoubtedly be reduced if only pro
hibition were repealed.
Well—let’s see. What has really oc
curred ?
(1) There are more saloons today
than ever before in the nation’s his
tory. There were 177,000 saloons in
the United States when prohibition
went into effect in 1921. Now, since
repeal, there are 437,000 liquor places.
No effort has been made to prevent
their operation or prescribe adequate
rules for their control. Moreover,
they are viler and more devastating to
character than ever. Today they sell
minors and adults alike and both men
and women are their patrons. They ac
tually employ women and girls.
(2) No serious effort whatever has
been made to protect the dry states.
On the contrary, the federal govern
ment actually issues liquor stamps to
all liquor dealers in dry states who
ask for them.
During the last fiscal year the
number of federal liquor stamps sold
to persons and institutions was 4,337,
of this number 800 has been issued
to persons in Atlanta.
To quote from a most able and re
liable columnist —“Washington’s in
terest in prohibition enforcement has
ceased and the federal government is
concerned now only with the taxes
involved.”
(3) Rather than being suppress
ed and destroyed, the activities of the
bootlegger have increased. This is
especially true in states where sale
of liquor is legalized.
The report of Joseph H. Choate, Jr.,
late director of the National Alcol
holic Control administration, shows
that (a) The capacity of the boot
legging plants in America now ex
ceeds the capacity of legal distillers.
(b) Approximately one-half of the
liquor consumed in the United States
since repeal is boogleg liquor and the
seizure of illicit distilleries has in
creased since repeal.
These conditions exist despite a
present working force of 4,500 men
in the federal department of control
as against 1,100 'in the days of na
tional prohibition.
(b) Rather than a decrease in the
consumption of liquor there has been
quite naturally a tremendous increase.
The best available data indicates 1.-
515,000,000 gallons of beer and 1,-
680,000,000 gallons of liquor for the
year 1936—an all-time high. Hard
liquors alone show 36,€00,000 gallons
increase for 1936 over 1935.
The foregoing facts are not to be
wondered at. They are the
Any way you slice it...
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X X \ Oft x / * / */ report of Federal 1 rade
X X \ O.fcv / /Ov JK Commission of Novem-
// \ X X 20, 1936, for last half
f X \ I /S? / JrX Ik 0/ 1935, aad coferiwg 295
r X \ \t?/e /C? s » X combined weaving and
f! \ K \ spinning textile manufac-
// lAeo L \ \
// 25.6< \
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\\ f0 TO C ™j ON jO^ ROfITS \
\ TO THE Mj I Q/ , I
V\ COTTON 4ARMCR \ ~ J
42.5* #
are only
100 Geriti to- a
The above chart shows where the average Georgia
cotton mill’s dollar goes. Note that together, the
cotton farmer and mill worker already get more
than two-thirds of this dollar.
Now, if the amount that either of these two
receives is to be increased, where will it come from?
It could not come out of the mill s profits, as it is
easy to see from the chart above what a small increase
could be secured from this source.
It could only come from higher prices to the
consumer.
the
BJr COTTON-MILLS fl
in Georgia!
result of legalizing the sale of liquor.
Let's make no mistake. By all
means let’s vote with the facts before
us in the light of duty as citizens who
love Georgia— its men, women and
children —and propose to keep on un
til this monstrous evil is destroyed.
CHEST CLINIC.
The division of tuberculosis control
of the state board of health will hold
a chest clinic on June 23, 1937. All
those interested in being X-rayed
please get in touch with your family
physician immediately. Miss Mabel
Wright, tuberculosis nurse, will be in
the county from June 8 to June 14.
This service is free, but only a lim
ited number of persons can be ex
amined, so you are urged to get your
appointment early.
RARELY MENTIONED.
■Comprehensive plans are being laid
for a national fight against syphilis,
the scourge that has rarely been dis
cussed thoroughly in public in the av
erage town or city. Dr. Thomas Par
ran, Jr., surgeon general of the U.S.
public health service, is one of the
Leaders in the attack.
The captain was examining youths
for promotion. Stepping up to one
bright young man he asked, “What
must an officer be before he can have
a full naval burial?”
Young Man—Dead, sir!
EXEMPTION
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■ID WE’RE EXEMPT
CHOOLS AND GOOD
SINCE THERE AINT
(E5 TO KEEPEM UP
VOTE AGAINST..
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Exemption Amendment
Association of County Commissioners
CA MalUtewS- Cleirmino/hoerdo/Manayen
ABSENT-MINDED PROF.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—Another
instance of the absent-minded pro
fessor comes from Smith college. Dur
ing a visit of Secretary Perkins to the
college, a professor decided to give a
dinner in her honor. The day came
and the guests arrived, and looked
around expectantly for Miss Perkins.
Suddenly, the professor realized that
he had forgotten to invite the honor
guest, who was then on her way back
to Washington.
PHONE LINKS U.S.-CHINA.
WASHINGTON.—Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Mme. Chiang Kaishek,
wife of the president of the Chinese
republic, exchanged personal greet
ings during the inauguration of di
rect radio-telephone communication
between the United States and China.
It was 11 o’clock at night in Shang
hai and 10 o’clock in the morning in
Washington during the conversation.
“SCARED FROM DEATH.”
Belleville, 111. Warren Frank
Paule, 2, was “scared from death” re
cently. The child fell into a cistern
and, while he remained submerged for
two minutes, he was so frightened he
held his breath, thus keeping water
out of his lungs. He was “sound as
ever” when rescued from the well.
FOR TAXI call P. L. Harwell, Phone
408-1-2, day or night.