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State—County
And Local
Happenings
VOL. 52; NO. 7
RAILWAYS OPERATE
FIRST TWO MONTHS
AT LOSS IN SOOTH
HAD OPERATING INCOME OF
ONLY ,$5,927,471 FOR FIRST
TWO MONTHS OF 1938.
ATLANTA, April 20 (GPS).—
Class I railroads in the southern dis
trict for the first two months of 1938
had a net railway operating income,
of $5,927,471, which was at the an
nual rate of return of 1.16 per cent,
on their property investment, accord
ing to reports filed by the carriers
with the Bureau of Railway Econom
ics of the Association of American
Railroads, and just made public by
Atlanta railroad executives.
For the same period in 1937 their
net railway operating income amount
ed to $11,239,985, which was at the
annual rate of return of 2.20 per cent,
or their property investment. Gross
operating revenue of the carriers in
this district for the first two months
this year totaled $76,742,533, a de
crease of 10.4 per cent, compared to
,the same period last year. Operating
expenses totaled $61,386,517, a de
crease of 5.2 per cent, below the cor
responding period in 1937.
Class I railroads in the southern
district for February had a net rail
way operating income of $3,032,632
compared with $6,347,095 in Feb
ruary, 1937.
In the United States as a whole,
Class I railroads in the first two
months had a net railway operating
income of $4,783,395, which was at
the rate of return of sixteen one-hun
dfedths of one per cent, on their
' property investment.
♦ Services at First Baptist
Church Sunday, April 24
Services at First Baptist church
Sunday, April 24:
,«> Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; morning
worship, “Behold He Cometh,” 11
a.m.; 8.Y.P.U., 6:30i p.m.; evening j
service, “The Beginning of Trouble,” j
' 7:30 p.m.
Reasons Why I Should Attend Church
,1. If I am a sinner I ought to at
tend church because:
, 1. I am a lost man.
2. I need to be found.
3. I want to be saved.
4. In a real church, I will hear the
Gospel preached.
5. I will see the way of salvation
made plain.
6. If I am earnest, I may be saved.
■> 11. If I am a Christian, I ought to
go to church because:
1. The church was built by my
Saviour.
2. Common gratitude and decency
demand my attendance.
3. The Scripture commands me not
to, neglect church attendance.
4. It may be possible for me to
pray and wroship at home, but I
notice that people who habitually ab
sent themselves from church do not.
5. In union there is strength, and
in the church I can worship my Fa- J
ther in Heaven in unison with my
brethren, thus benefiting from our
united worship.
6. I have found that away from
the church I grow cold and indifferent
to Christ and His work.
7. The great spiritual forces in the j
community are in the church and
not out of it.
.8. In the church my soul feeds
and grows strong; outside, it grows
weak.
9. I would not want to live in a
churchless town. Then it is not fair
to let others carry the burden of the
church. I ought not to be a religious
hitch hiker.
10. I love the people in the church.
They are not perfect; neither am I.
They are but sinners saved by grace;
set am I. Sinless people do not live
in this world; but in the church, weak
imperfect people grow in the grace
and knowledge of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Many are better today than
they were yesterday, if they are real
born-again Christians.
11. While there may be hypocrites
in the church, I had rather live with
them in the church for a little while
here, than with them forever in hell
in the next life.
12. It has pleased Christ to deliver
his work, to the Holy Spirit working
through the churches, that His gos
pel may be preached for a testimony
among the nations. If I neglect the
church, I have no part in this great
work, my light is darkened and I
stand in the way of sinners.
13. In the church, while I may not
hear an eloquent sermon, I will hear
an earnest man proclaiming a better
way.
Kennedy curbs the presentation of
American women at court; will in
troduce officials’ wives.
Gill says WPA study shows that
trend in industry throws double bur
den on government.
oTlti> §ummmtiUr X?ms
Co. Commissioners
Will Stage Annual
Meet April 25 to 27
ATLANTA, April 20 (CNS). —A
discussion of the fiscal problems of
Georgia’s 159 counties, which are
j confronting serious conditions of
near-bankruptcy as a result of cur
tailed revenues and the expropriation
of a large portion of their income
to meet expenses of state depart
ments, will feature the annual ses
sion of the Association of County
Commissioners in Macon on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 25-27.
A report upon the legislation en
acted by the regular and extra ses
sions of the Georgia general assem
bly will be presented by Julius Mc-
Curdy, on behalf of the legislative
committee of the association.
Among the. featured addresses on
the program will be those delivered
by Gov. E. D. Rivers, Dr. Charles
H. Herty, W. L. Miller, chairman of
the state highway board; W. T. An
derson, Macon editor; Frank Hay
ward, state forester. Entertainment
features will include, besides a round
of luncheons and dinners, a barbe
cue tendered by the Bibb county com
missioners, a sightseeing trip to the
Indian Mounds, a wrestling match
and the celebrated “Yancey’s Silver
Slipper Revue.”
Outstanding upon the program will
be a report by Charles A. Matthews,
chairman of the board of managers
of the association, who will review
the activities of the organization for
the year. Mr. Matthews was in the
front ranks in efforts to prevent the
passage of legislation that would
have jeopardized further the safety
of the counties and made a strong
fight to secure for them revenues to
replace those expropriated by the
state to meet the mounting expenses
of newly organized departments.
Business sessions of the commis
ioners begin Monday, after luncheon,
and continue through Wednesday
morning, when the new officers will |
be chosen and the next, convention
city selected.
State News
Os Interest
(By Gilreath Press Syndicate.)
Perfect Month: In an effort to re
duce loss and damage to freight ship
ments, the month of April is being
observed as ‘Perfect Shipping Month’
under the sponsorship of the thirteen
shippers’ regional advisory boards, !
which extend throughout the United
States and have a membership of
25,000 shippers representing all of the
principal industries. Consignees of
freight, railroads and express com
panies are co-operating in the nation
wide drive. Claims for loss and dam
age to freight shipments amounting
to $24,381,819 was paid by railroads
in 1937, a reduction of about $95,-
500,000 compared with 1920 when
i claims paid by railroads totaled $119,-
! 833,127. Claims paid in 1937, however,
were an increase of $3,461,332, or
16.5 per cent, compared with 1936.
Freight loss and damage payments
per car loaded with revenue freight
j averaged 64 cents in 1937, compared
I with 58 cents in 1936 and $2.66 in
$1920.
Gist of the News: There are 263
steps one must climb to reach the
dome of the state capitol in Atlanta.
. . . Auto tag sales so far in 1938
have passed last year’s revenue re
ceipts, although the number of tags
delivered is behind 1937. This year’s
receipts, averaging $3.63 per tag, are
$1,337,544.17 compared to $1,183,-
815.74 for last year’s flat $3 tag. The
[ number of tags sold this year is 368,-
754, compared to 390,989 for the same
period last year. ... If you are a
stamp collector you will be limited
to ten covers of the new 1-cent Geo.
Washington stamp which will be re
leased April 24.
Contest-Cash Prizes.
The last week to turn in entries in
this contest to find interesting his
torical facts about Trion and its vi
cinity. The last day is April 24. Find
out all you can that has happened in
and near Trion before 1900 and write
it this week and turn it in to the
Trion Civic library. The prizes will
be $5, $3 and $2.
Go to some of the old settlers and
get them to tell you all they can re
, member about the early days in this
section. Get the descriptions of the
meetings, the parties, the people, the
stories that have been handed down.
Go to work immediately and you
' will have time to compete for one of
these cash prizes and to be of great
service to your comnftunity.
\
; Claude G. Bowers to head Spanish
■ Child Welfare association; refugees
I of both sides aided.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938
QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS FOR THE PRIMARY
AND THE GENERAL ELECTION OF YEAR 1038
1. Poll taxes are assessed and lev
ied as of Jan. 1 of each year and are
in default after Dec. 20 of that year.
2. No one who is a poll tax de
faulter can legally vote in any pri
mary or in any election by the peo
ple.
3. Male- citizens who became 21
years of age after Jan. 1, 1937, are
not due any poll taxes for 1937, and
can, if properly registered, vote in
the primary or general election of
1938 without the payment of poll
taxes.
4. Female citizens who register 'd
for the first time after Jan. 1, 1937,
are not #ue any poll taxes for 1937
and can vote in the primary or gen
eial election of 1938 without the pay
ment of any poll taxes.
5. Female citizens who registered
on or before Jan. 1, 1937, and were
21 years of age on or before Jan.
1, 1937, are due poll taxes for 1937
and cannot vote without paying all
poll taxes due.
6. Anyone who will become 21 years
of age on or before Nov. 8, 1938,
may, if registered before May 8,
1938, vote in the primai-y and general
election of 1938.
7. Those who were legally regis
tered and qualified to vote in the
general election of June 8, 1937, and
who pay their 1937 and all past due
poll taxes before May 8, 1938, can
vote in the primary and general
election of 1938.
8. Before offering to vote in any
primary or general election for 1938,
the person offering to vote must;
NEW FISHING LAWS
IN STATE OF GEORGIA
UNLAWFUL TO TAKE AT
ANY TIME FROM WATERS EX
CEPT BY HOOK AND LINE.
A resident fishing license law was
passed by the general assembly of
1937:
Every person is subjected to this
license with the exception of chil
dren 15 years old and under and per
sons fishing in their own county with
a pole and line and not using live
minnows. License fee is $1.25.
It is unlawful to take at any time
from any of the fresh waters any
fish except by hook and line, which
include pole, rod and reel, set hook
or trotline with natui’al or artificial
bai;.
It is unlawful to use at any time
in any of the fresh waters any seins,
net. trap or similar device to catch
fish.
It is unlawful to poison fish by any
means whatever; to dynamite fish;
to shoot fish with any kind of fire
arms; to gig or spear fish; to grab- -
ble fish.
It is unlawful to peddle or sell
fresh fish without obtaining a li
cense ($5), or to sell fresh water fish
from April 15 to June 1.
It is unlawful for any non-resident
in this state to fish in the fresh wa
ters with first procuring, a non-res
ident license ($5.25) from the au
thorized license agent.
It is the duty of any game pro
tector to confiscate and destroy any
seine, net, trap, basket, gig or simi
lar device when found in use in any
of the water. Fish caught illegally
are to be confiscated and given to
some charitable institution or hos
pital.
Penalties.
Killing of fish by the use of dyna
mite or any other destructive sub
stance: Code of Georgia provides
l lor a fine of not less than SIOO or
more than SI,OOO and costs, or not
less than three months or more than
twelve months on public works or in
1 the common jail, any or all in dis
cretion of the court.
All other violations of the fishing
laws of the state to be fined as for
a misdemeanor,
The game and fish department doe 3
not cost the taxpayers of Georpia a
j single penny. It receives on legisla
tive appropriation whatever, being
supported entirely by funds received
from the sale of hunting and fishing
and trapping licenses.
You can help us .better enforce the
| law by joining your local game and
fish club of your county.
By discouraging all forms of game
and fish law violations. Some of your
best friends perhaps ignore the law,
but you can appeal to their spirit of
sportsmanship.
By reporting all violations of the
law to your game protector and iet
tmg him know you are behind him
in his efforts to enforce the law.
By writing the department, the di
j vision of wild life, or Joe D. Mitchell,
| director of wild life, making any sug
gestions which may occur to you for
the better enforcement of the law,
and to build up the needed sentiment
have been duly registered as provid
ed by law and his or her name must
appear on the voters’ list prepared
by the board of registrars and filed
in the office of the clerk of the su
perior court.
9. Persons must be so qualified
that they can vote in the general
election for which candidates are be
ing nominated before they can vote
ir the primary to nominate candi
dates for that election.
10. The law requires that a per
son offering to vote in the general
election to be held Nov. 8, 1938, must
be properly registered and must have
paid all poll taxes due, if any, before j
May 8, 1938.
11. The law requires that before a
person can vote in any general elec- j
tion he or she must be 21 years of
age on or before the day of the gen
eral election and also must have
been a resident of the state for twelve !
months and of the county six months
before the general election.
12. Any person who becomes qual- j
ified to vote in the general election
of Nov. 8, 1938, six months before
the date of that election, that is, on I
or before May 8, 1938, can vote in j
any primary held after May 8, 1938. |
Remember that May 8 is the dead- j
line for qualifying to vote in the j
state-wide primary for nominating
candidates for the general election of
Nov. 8.
M. J. YEOMANS,
Attorney-General.
April 8, 1938.
TWO-COLOR STAMP
FOR AIR MAIL WEEK
SAYS STAMP WILL BE SYMBOL- 1
IC OF AIR MAIL AND DESIR
ABLE AS COLLECTION.
ATLANTA, April 15.—A distinc
tive, two-color air mail stamp will be
issued by the United States post of
fice department as a special recog
nition of National Air Mail week,
May 15-21, which will 'be the great
est effort in the history of this serv
ice to increase its effectiveness and
popular support.
An announcement today at Nation
al Air Mail week general headquar
ter by Major Paul R. Younts, execu-1
tive chairman, said this stamp will j
be symbolic of the air mail and j
should be highly desirable for the j
many thousands of collectors who will
send and receive letters on the spe
cial flights that week.
Major Younts said he has been in
formed by Postmaster General Far- \
ley that this stamp will be of 6-cent
denomination, the same size as the j
commemorative issues. The border, of
distinctive air mail design, will be
printed in blue and the central design
will be in red. This design will depict
an eagle with outstretched wings,
bearing in its talons a shield, olive
wreath and a bundle of arrows. Nu
merous ornamental details have been
included in the over-all design.
This stamp first will be placed on
sale May 14, at Dayton, Ohio, which
is the home of the Wright brothers,
who built the first sucessful air
plane, and at St. Petersburg, Fla ,
where the first passenger flight was
made. On the following days of Air
Mail week, this stamp will be on sale
at many thousands of post offices
throughout the United States.
“The National Air Mail week com
mittee regards a s particularly
thoughtful the co-operation that the
postmaster general and the depart
ment are giving by the issue of this
new stamp,” said Major Younts.
“While the air mail service is essen
tially a practical activity for the
benefit of our nation’s business and
society, there remains a certain ro
mance and sentiment in this service, j
just as there is at once sentiment j
and practical purpose in our nation
al defense activities. Os course, the
realization is general throughout the
country that aviation is essential to
our national defense, but it also is
true that the still further develop
ment of the peace-time air mail serv
ice will increase our national solidar
ity and safety.”
The National Air Mail week chair
man pointed out that hundreds of
privately owned airplanes will take
to the air, piloted by their owners,
on May 19 to provide a special pick
up air mail service which will extend
into a great number of communities
which now are remote from the reg
ular transcontinental air mail lines.
He reported that the private fliers
are co-operating with enthusiasm in
throughout Georgia.
What ever Georgia hunter and
fisherman ought to know, and bet
ter do. A license must be on your
person at all times when fishing or
hunting.
Rivers Expected To
Reach Final Decision
On Plans This Month
ATLANTA, April 20 (CNS).—
Dates have not yet been fixed for
the opening and closing of entries in
the various state races in Georgia
this fall. Tentatively, it was learned
last week, it is planned to hold the
state democratic primary during the
week of Sept. 12, and the closing
date for entries will be set at either
June 1 or June 15.
Delay in fixing the dates is due to
the indecision of Gov. E. D. Rivers
over his political plans for the fall.
Off record statements attributed to
the governor and statements by an
unquoted but readily indentifiable
“administration official spokesman”
indicate that Mr. Rivers, while ten
tatively committed to the race for
governor to gratify the members of
his official family, has not abandon
ed by any means his desire to seek
the senate post now held by Walter
F. George.
Gov. Rivers is expected to reach a
final decision this month, friends say.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
AND RAILROADS
That railroad taxes pay for the ed
ucation of one million, six hundred
thousand school children each year is
the striking statement of H. D. Pol
lard, receiver for the Central of Geor
gia railway, in an advertisement pub
lished elsewhere in this issue today.
Discussing the importance of the
railroads as a supporter of the pub
lic school system, he says:
“In m%ny school districts the rail
roads pay more in taxes than do all
other taxpayers combined. The rail
roads of Georgia pay nearly seven
hundred thousand dollars each year
in school taxes. What hurts the rail
roads hurts the schools, and what
helps the railroads helps the schools.
When railroad business is bad and
they have to suspend or postpone tax
payments, the school year must of
ten be shortened and facilities cur
tailed.”
Mr. Pollard stresses the fact that
school' teaffhers, parent-teacher asso
ciations, individual parents and any
one else interested in the schools
“can help keep them open by patron
izing the railroads.” He says:
“School teachers travel frequently
—to summer schools, to conventions,
to vacation centers. Frequent meet
ings of educational or parent-teacher
associations are held—for instance
the National Education association
of the United States will meet in
New York June 26-30. Individual par
ents are often in position to send
business over the railroads—freight
shipments perhaps, or perhaps pas
senger business on personal or busi
ness trips of themselve or friends.
School children themselves frequent
ly can use the railroads going to or
from schools or colleges.
“Any school teacher, any delegate
to an educational convention, any
parents of a school child is helping
himself as well as the railroads and
the schools when through giving bus
iness to the railroads he strengthens
their ability to support the public
school system through their taxes.”
Honor Roll of Lyerly High
School For Eighth Month
First Grade: Anne Brogdon, Nan
cy Ellen Smith, Danny Jean McNair,
Charlotte Espy.
Second Grade: Barbara Kimfoell.
Third Grade: Reese Cleghorn, Wal
lace Johnson.
Fourth Grade: James Kimfoell,
Frank Weesner, Pauline Vaugha,
Betty Williams.
Sixth Grade:: Helen Dobbs.
Seventh Grade: Tommy Weesner.
Ninth Grade: Margaret Weesner,
Ernestine Woods, Mary Alice Rut
land, Sara Holland, Nancy Holland.
Margaret Smith.
Tenth Grade: Harold Cook, W. H.
Smith, Edna Rae Dobbs.
Eleventh Grade: J. D. Massey.
Services pt Presbyterian
Church Sunday, April 24
Services at the Presbyterian church
Sunday, April 24:
Preaching at 11 am. by J. McD.
Richards, president of Columbia sem
inary.
Sunday school at 9:45.
Wayside at 3 p.m.
Young people’s meeting, 6:30.
the preparations for these special
flights.
He explained that these special
i flights, over routes that are being
mapped by the state chairman in each
of the forty-eight states, will dem
onstrate the speed and efficiency of
the air mail in “a most impressive
manner to communities far distant
I from the regular routes.”
A Premier
Medium For
North Georgia
$1.50 A YEAR
OLD-AGE PENSION
ROWS OREAK IN
MORE COUNTIES
HUGH HOWELL CALLS FOR DE
CENTRALIZATION OF OLD
AGE ADMINISTRATION.
ATLANTA, April 20 (CNS).—A
series of disagreements over the
handling of old-age pension payments
arose in various Georgia counties this
month. In the wake of a speech at
Newnan by Hugh Howell, guberna
torial candidate, who called for de
centralization of administration, re
duction in overhead and the prompt
payment of pensions to the needy
aged of the state “while they are still
alive to enjoy it.”
In Dodge county, where 166 pen
sioners were cut off the rolls and
two members of the county welfare
board resigned, County Commission
er W. D. McCranie ‘washed his hands’
of the problem and left administra
tion up to the State Department of
Public Welfare. For several days he
declined even to make new nomina
tions to fill the vacancies on the
county board, but finally relented
and named two new members, when
assured that reviews would be grant
ed those pensioners stricken from the
rolls. Members of the original board,
Mr. McCranie stated, were appointed
last year by Lamar Murdaugh, di
rector of the public welfare depart
ment, who in many counties ejected
nominations of the county commis
sioners and named his own board
members.
In Schley county, grand jurors
were charged to make a complete in
vestigation of the payments of old
age pensions and to embody a list
of the pensioners in the grand jury’s
presentments.
A need for decentralization of ad
ministration was pointed out by Ml.
Howell in his address at Nawnan on
the eve of the flare up in these va
rious counties. In a statesmanlike ad
dress he demanded that the present
high cost of distribution of pensions
be eliminated and that the money be
paid to all eligibles promptly.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Now Heard Everywhere
ATLANTA, April 20 (GPS).—The
lid is off. In Georgia and the rest of
the nation that familiar old sound of
hickory cracking rawhide can be
heard, folowed by pleasant shouts
from the crowd. There’s nothing to
equal it. It is our national pastime.
The 1938 baseball season is under
way. For the next five months the
grand old game will hold the spot
light in the small towns as well as
in the big cities.
The Atlanta Crackers, Georgia's
only representative in Class A-l base
ball, opened its thirty-eighth season
last week at Ponce de Leon park be
fore a crowd of 13,561 paid custo
mers. The opening day program was
featured by a pitch by Dixie Dunbar
Atlanta’s gift to Hollywood, and a
hit by Gov. Ed Rivers. Then the game
started, another season was on.
Bidding for their ninth pennant,
the Crackers play half of their 154
games at Ponce de Leon park, in
cluding twenty-four week-end games
arranged by President Earl Mann
largely for the benefit of out-of
town fans.
“The Old Maids’ Convention”
To Be Given By Trion 8.8. -
The Trion 8.8. H. club will present
the “Old Maids’ Convention,” at the
Trion theater, Thursday evening, Ap
ril 21, immediately after the picture.
Come out and we will assure you
one good hour of fun.
The cast of characters is as follows.
Josephine Jane Green, Mrs. Lorene
Hammond; Priscilla Abigail Hodge,
Mrs. J. Leo Baker; Calamity Jane
Higgins, Mrs. Ross Thomas; Rebecca
Rachel Sharpe, Dora Bankey; Tiny
Short, Mrs. Marshall Wilkins; Mary
Ann Fraddler, Mrs. John Sally; Je
rusha Matilda Spriggins, Monica Pen
nington; Patience Desire Mann, Mrs.
Scott Parris; Sophie Stuckup, Ethel
Simmons; Juliet Long, Mrs. Paul
Maffett; Charity Longface, Dorothy
Smithson; Cleopatra Belle Browne,
Mae Smith; Polly Jane Pratt, Eliza
beth Cook; Violet Ann Ruggles, Mrs.
Howard Ragland; Belinda Bluegrass,
Barbara Justice; Frances Touchme
not, Mrs. G. W. Chandler; Hannah
Biggerstaff, Marie Clemons; Profes
sor Make Over, “Spud” Hughes.
Service at Methodist Church
For Sunday, April the 24th
Services at the Methodist church
■ for Sunday, April 24:
i Sunday school, 9:45; preaching,
. morning, 11:00, subject, “The Com
: mon Sense of Jesus”; evening, 7:30,
; “And Underneath Are the Everlast
t irtg Arms”; young people’s service,
6:30 p.m.