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' Churches
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
9:45 a. m.—Sunday School, Duke M.
Espy in charge.
11:00 a. m.—Morning worship.
6:30 p. Y. P. U.
7:30 p. m. Wednesday—Prayer meet
-7:30 p. m.—Evening service.
ing.
7:30 p. m. Thursday—Fellowship
Club.
The inspection of the church which
was to have been held on Wednesday
August 17th, has been postponed
because of the condition of the floors.
Further announcements will be made
later.
The pastor is anxious that the
services for the next few Sundays be
well attended. Sunday, August 21st
is te last Sunday the pastor will be
present before leaving for Western
Canada to preach for two weeks. The
services will be held as usual dur
ing the absence of the pastor. Sup
plies will preach until he returns.
Summerville Presbyterian Church
Rev. J. G. Kirchaff, Pastor.
D. L. McWhorter, S. S. Supt
Services 11 a m. each Sunday.
Pcrenial (Springs
R. L. McElroy, Pastor,
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Preaching every Sunday at 11:00
and 7:30.
Church Notices
The Church of God (Union Assembly)
Cor. Highland Ave. and 3rd Street.
Thomas D. Lynn, Pastor.
Sunday School 10:C-0 a. m.
Isom Bailey, Supt.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m.
Berryton Baptist Church
Rev. Dewey Adams, Pastor.
Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
W. B. Cox, Supt.
Preaching Ist, 2nd and 3rd Sundays
Preyer Service, Wednesday, 7:30.
Cotton Crop in State
Put at 939,000 Bales
ATLANTA, (GPS) —A cotton crop
of 393 bales was forecast for Georgia'
by the U. S. Crop Reporting Board!
in Washington, according to advices]
received in Atlanta. The estimate was I
based on a condition of 72 per cent
of normal as of August 1, and com
pares with 1,282,000 bales a yuar
ago.
The forecost for the nation as a
whole was 11,988,000 bales, based on
a condition of 78 per cent of nor-]
mal, which compares with 15,593,000
bales forecast at the same date last
year, when condition was 81.3 per
cent. The national estimate was morej
than 300,000 bales higher than was
expected in trade circles, it was]
stated.
Roosevelt’s Speech
Sober thought should be given by
every Georgian to President Roose
velt’s Barnesville address.
The situation brought about by this
in Georgia, but in the entire history
of the whole United States. The
president has raised a question of
stupendous importance to not only
every living citizen of the country,
but to millions yet unborn.
The matter should, therefore, be
give calm consideration, earnest de
iberation by leveryf Georgian who
has the present and future wellbeing
of his state and nation at heart.
Every trade of partisanship, or preju
dice, of resentment should be laid
aside. Georgia is at a parting of the
ways and decision in so momentous
a matter should not be hastily reach
ed.
Since the founding of this republic
members of the national house of
congress have been elected with the
thought that they should serve—first,
their state and then the nation. It
as been a commonly accepted principle
that a senator is answerable only to
those he is supposed to serve.
The president has challenged this
old order of things. He has unequi
vocally taken the position that a sen
ator’s first duty is to support the
policies of the president. And there j
are unquestionably not a few who 1
hold like views.
That this is a new interpretation
of a senator’s duties does not, of
cessity, prove that it is an incorrect
one. Thousands sincerely believe that
radical changes should be made in
our form of government. And this,
perchance, is one of those changes. |
Be that as it may, the issue is ]
clear-cut. There can no longer be ]
any doubt as to what will be the j
one outstanding, the one vital ques-|
tion to be decided in Georgia at the
coming primary. For, at that time
Georgians will say whether senators ]
are elected to represent Georgia or
the president of the United Staes. ]
Remembering this, Georgians should
ponder the matter well and vote— [
each man as his own conscience die- ]
tates.
Car Fails to Kill
Monster Snake
ADEL. —A rattlesnake so large and
tough that a car running over it
failed to make even an impression
was killed near Adel last week. The
snake was crawling across the road
when Taft Pildheris par ran ovej
him. The rattler crawled into some
bushes, with Pilcer following with
a piece of rail. The snake struck
twice, leaving a trail of poison on
the rail, but Pilcher succeeded in
stunning and later killing it. The
snake had 15 rattles, was seven feet
and eight inches long, and as large
as a quart maasura.
ate Snmnwnnllr Kims
VOL. 25; NO. 23
Baptist Assn,
Meets Sept, b, 7,
The Chattooga Baptist Association
will meet in its forty-seventh annual
session at the Pleasant Grove Baptist
Church on Tuesday and Wednesday
. ptember 6 and 7. Each church is ;
entitled to two Messengers and an
additional messenger for every fifty
members over the first fifty.
in addition, all ordained ministersl
ire entitled to the privileges as mes
sengers to the Association when they
are endorsed by their churches and
when their names appear in the letters
to the association as messengers.
J. C. Jackson, Moderator,
R. H. Garner, Clerk
Atlanta Name
of Warship
ATLANTA, (GPS)—For the third
time in history, Atlanta is to have a
warship named after her, it was an- ]
nounced by Congressman Robert
Ramspeck, who said: “I have re- j
wested that one of the new cruisers ]
being constructed under the Navy’s]
ijllion dollar building program be i
named the Atlanta. I am confident'
t will be done.”
The first “Atlanta” was a Confed-(
''rate steamer. It served its forces
"ell, but finally was badly damaged
in battle and captured on July 17,
1863, in Warsaw Sound.
The second ship bearing the name
Atlanta was said to have “opened an
epoch.” She was the first steel ship
of the United States Navy to be com
missioned on July 19, 1886. Strangely
enough, the ship never saw war serv
ice, it being docked in New York dur
ing the Spanish War. In 1912 the]
essel was dismantled and sold.
Three Claim
‘Conscience Pay’ For
Burned Homestead
EASTMAN. —At the command of
Father Divine of New York City’s j
Harlem section, a 'Negro followef ]
:ently wrote the Eastman Times-'
iournal advising that years ago he]
had burned a home in that city and
now wanted to make'restitution to
he proper party, although he was
unable to give their names or the
exact description. The letter was ]
published in Ithe newspaper, and j
claiming the “conscious payment!”]
shortly after three different Eastman
citizens had written the Negro, ]
Last week the Negro, William But.ier,
wrote the following letter to the |
Eastman sheriff: “Peace to the s’lier
ff of Eastman, Ga., August 8, 11'38. |
Dear Sir: I am riting you to thank j
you for the empermation concerning
the house. I got three letters from
dierent partys, one of the partys gave !
a description of the house jus', as it
were, so I feel they are the one that ]
should have the money. I am sending
zou under separate cover a magazine
containing the messages of Father
Divine. You can read it f you like.”
MADISON MAN MAKES
IT HOT EOR BOLL WEEVIL
MADISON. —A Madison farmer
doesn t believe in taking a beating
from Mr. 801 l Weevil lying down,!
and has prepared a “hot” reception
for the pest which has cost the state i
millions of dollars in the pest. J. ]
W. Hendrix, originator of the novel
idea, has conceived and will soon
ut into practice his idea of graft |
ing peppers on cotton stalks in an
effort to burn the boll weevil when
e attacks. Hendrix is a comparative ]
newcomer at Madison, having moved
lere from Commerce two years ago.
People over the county are watching
,vith extreme interest his first ex
periment along this line. Even if
it doesn’t work, claims Hendrix, it
ure ought to surprise some of those
boll weevil.
Ford Calls Back
24,000 Workmen
DETROIT, Aug. 15.—The Ford
Motor Car Company, which halted
operations a fortnight ago, called
approximately 24,000 workers back
Monday as production was resumed
on the company’s 1939 models. The ]
company employs 85,000 when oper
ations are on a full-time basis.
Georgia Boy’s Body
Believed Found
From the Atlanta Georgian
An arrest in the five-year-old mys
tery death of Johnnie Casey, 19, j
Chattooga youth, was imminent Tues
day, Sheriff rank Kellett reported. [
Investigation of the case was re- ]
opened Monday after discovery of
what was thought to be the remains ]
of a human body in a well near Ar
muchee.
Parents of the boy, Mr. and Mrs. ]
Bob Casey, of Chattooga County, were ]
directed in a mysterious note to
search the well bottom for the body
of their son.
SINGING AT CHELSEA
Everyone is invited to attend the
singing at Chelsea, Ga., Sunday
night, August 21, 1938. It starts
promptly at 7;80 p, m.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938,
E. D. Rivers
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TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIS STEWARD
SHIP SATURDAY, AUGUST 20th, at 3:30
Governor E. D. Rivers will speak in front of the Courthouse
in Summerville, Georgia, at 3:30 p. m. Saturday, August 20th.
Governor Rivers was elected two years ago on a humanitarian
progressive and constructive platform. Every promise of
which he has fulfilled or now is in the process of being fulfilled.
The program of the present administration Georgia is the pro
gram endorsed by the people of this State and your County.
Come Saturday afternoon and hear the leader and exponent
of your program give acount of his stewardship. See the of
ficial records, the pages of which are 8 feet high and 6 feet wide
and reveal the exceptional achievements of the Rivers Admin
istration.
(Paid Political Advertisement)
Barnesville Paper
Steps Out
BARNESVILLE. Ga., (GPS) The
Barnesville News-Gazette, official or-
Tan of Barnesville and Lamar County
Ud itself proud when the President
u the United States and some 25.000
'ther people visited the little city last
week.
Tn honor of the President, who vis- 1
: ted there to dedicate the ural Elec
'rifieation Administration project and
'« deliver a political speech endorsing
TT S. District Attorney Lawrence S.
Camp. New Deal candidate in the
•enat" race, issued a 3-section. 24-
nage Roosevelt-REA Edition. B. H.
Hardy is editor and Naomi Kirbo is
'ssistant editor.
Mrs, J. J. Smith
Is Laid To Rest
Funeral services for Mrs. Wilton
Johnson Smith, wife of Policeman
J. J. Smith and a former resident of
this place were conducted from the
Dr. Wallace Rogers, pastor of the
First Methodist church, and Rev. L.
W. Blackwelder, rector of St. George’s i
Episcopal church officiated. Burial
was in the New Salem churchyard at
Haisten Chapel Sunday afternoon.
Rio. Pallbearers were Willie Kilgore,
T. J. Purdy, L. L Hulon, E Kirkland,
ohn McCullough and E F. Calic.
Mrs. Smith, who is 44, died, Fri
day night, at her home in Griffin,
Ga., following a long illness. Sur
viving are her husband two sisters,
Mrs. John N. Thomas, of Summer
ville, Ga., and Mrs. Tom F. Woods,
of Trion, Ga., and a brother, Dr. T
H Johnson, of College Park.
Policeman Wins
Gobler Dinner
By Finding Purse
TIFTON. —The price of turkeys at
Christmas won’t bother Policeman
W. H. Coleman, because his turkey
dinner has been promised free. Cole
man saw a tobacco grower drop a
pocketbook, when he pulled a hand
kerchief from his pocket. A third
man picked it up. Coleman got the
containing thel farmer’s
check for tobaco sold a few minutes
before, and pursued the grower. It’s
was in for a traffic ticket, that Cole
from that grover, who thought he
man’s Cristmas dinner was promised.
If thou hast done foolishly in lift
ing up thyself, or if thou hast
thought evil, lay thy hand upon thy
mout. For the churning of milk
bringeth forth butter, and the wring
ing of the nose bringeth forth blood;
so the forcing of wrath bringeth
forth strife.—Proverbi.
New clothing
Store to Open
For Men, Women and Children
THE MARY PENN SHOP
All of you have known and loved
Mary Penn all your lives. She will
make it possible for every one in
j Summerville, and vicinity to buy at
home. The better type merchandise
I heretofore you were forced to go to
. Chattanooga, Atlanta or Rome to
find. She has associated with her
, Mr. H. P. Selman who has had many
. ] years experience in buying these lines
"om some of America’s best stores
Washington, D. C. Detroit, Mich.,
Louisville, Ky., Atlanta, Ga. and
Chattanooga Tenn. Mr. Selman will
leave for New York and other style
nters to buy the newest Fall and
winter things September Ist.
Wait for their grand opening the
end of September. This will be a
I “homey” shop, where you can all meet
! and really enjoy* your shopping—
at home.
F. F. A. Attend Camp
Monday morning, August 8, the
i Gore chapter Future Farmers of
j America, left to spend the week at
the state F. F. A. Camp.
Fourteen boys, Mr. H. C. Gorden
■’d Mr. Hibben, our F. F. A. advisor
made the trip.
the Gore chapter was represented
in all contests and won the boat
race, the swimming race, the horse
shoe pitching, a riddle contest, and
e of two baseball games, the chap
ter played. We lost one baseball game
and placed second in the “years club”
One of the favorite boat rides was
to the “white shoals” or rapid/;
] about a mile up the lake from camp.
I Mr. Hibben and several of the boys
] went, a few hundred yards up the
rapids where some very fine pictures
were taken.
The original plan was to leave
camp Saturday morning but we de
cided to leave Friday in order to visit
Stone Mountain, Grant Park, the
State Capitol and other places of in
terest. The visit to Grant Park and
j the Cyclorama was probably enjoyed
more than anything else.
T b e chapter is looking forward to
returning to camp next year and we
] hope many more of the boys will at
] tend.
The next F. F. A. meeting will be
] held Friday night, August 26 at the
] '■abin. All members are urged to be
i present.
| •
There are three things which are
; too wonderful for me, yea, four
' which I know not; The way of an
: eagle in the air; the way of a ser
• pent upon a rock; the way of a ship
; in the midst of the sea; and the
i! way of a man with a maiden.—Prnv
i «rh«.
Douglas Corrigan To
Visit Atlanta Sept. 6
ATLANTA, (G,PS) Douglas
(Wrong Way) Corrigan is coming
to Atlanta —if his compass doesn’t
“fool” him again.
After talking to the ocean-hopping
Irishman by long distance telephone
Jesse Draper, head of the Atlanta
Chapter of the National Aeronauti
cal Association, said Corrigan prob
ably would visit Atlanta on Septem
ber 6. Mayor Wm. B. Hartsfield has
appointed a committee to have charge
of “Corrigan Day” with Mr. Draper
as chairman and W. P. Moore as vice
chairman.
In an interview before he left Dub
lin, the now-famous flyer said that
at one time during his ten-hour flight
he figured he was somewhere in Geor
gia. Corrigan still maintains he flew
the Atlantic Ocean “by mistake” but
during a recent visit in Boston a lie
detector said he was “fibbing.” Those
witnessing the test roard with laugh
ter when the machine contradicted
the flyer’s story that he thought he
was flying from New York to Cali
fornia, but nobody laughed any louder
or harder than Corrigan, himself.
The public apparently likes the
grinning aviator because he has tak
en his success in a fashion that the
American people admire. The pro
posed Atlanta visit undoubtedly will
attract many persons from all sec
tions of the state—because Georgia
folk like a good sport.
Wilhoit Protests
Action of Public
Service Commission
At the first meeting of the Geor
gia Public Service Commission in
this month, they restored Trains (
13 and 14 on the Seaboard Air Line
Railway between Americus and Sa-]
vannah.
Commissioner Jud P. Wilhoit stat
ed in a separate opinion that these
trains were taken off by the votes of ]
Commissioners Walter R. McDonald,
Matt L. McWhorter and Perry T.
Knight over his protest on the 3rd
day of May, 1938, but now with the]
same facts before them, Commis
sioners McDonald and McWhorter re
verse themselves and vote to restore
this service for a four months trial
period.
Commissioner Wilhoit said in his
dissenting opinion when the trains
were removed in May “My vote
against the removal of these trains
j is predicted on the fact that in my
i opinion it is a step in the wrong di-
I rection for the railroads. I am of
, the opinion that more service at
] lower rates that will attract the bus
] iness is the only hope of the rail
-1 roads to regain their lost revenue,”]
! and he now says that the trains
j should never have been removed and
! the service should now be restored!
without limitation.
' At the same meeting the telephone
rates in the City of Monroe were ]
reduced, but the Commission refused ]
] by the votes of the same Commission-
I ers to adopt a motion by Wilhoit:
i that the rates to subscribers in the j
I country connected with the Monroe
Exchange be given similar reduction, j
Commissioner Wilhoit agrees with
j the Commission that the rates in the ;
City of Monroe have been entirely
I too high and should be reduced but
says tat the rates paid by rural sub-
I scribers are from $6.00 to 89.00 a
year higher than the rates at ex
changes similar in size served by the
same company in this State and that
they should have been reduced also.
Operating Income
Os Railroads Off
In South Thus Far
ATLANTA, (GPS)—Class I rail
roads in the Southern district for the
first six months of 1938 had a net
railway operating income of $20,911,
130, which was at the annual rate
of return of 1.36 per cent on their
property investment, according to re
ports" led by the carriers with the (
Bureau of Railway Economics of the
Association of American Railroads,!
and just made public by Atlanta of
ficials. For the same period in 1937,
their net railway operating income
was $42,067,176, which was at the
annual rate of return of 2.72 per cent
ona their property investment, and
for the corresponding period of 1930
was $42,941,024 or 2.64 percent on
investment.
Gross operating revenues of the!
Class I Southern railroads during the
six-month period of thi year amount-’
ed to $229,764,336, a decrease of
32.8 per cent under the same period
in 1930. Operating expenses were
$179,717,239, a decrease of 9.2 per
cent under the corresponding period
in 1937, and a decrease of 33.6 per
ent under 1930.
A net operating income of $70,289,
305 was reported by all the Class I
railroads in the United States during
the first six months, at the annual
rate of return of C>,67 per cent on
investment, which compares with
5299,466,304 or 2.84 per cent on their
property investment in the same per
] iod last year, and $369,416,251 or 3.46
per cent in 1930.
He that COVereth his transgressions
shall not prosper; but whoso confes
sed them shall obtain mercy.—Prov
erbs.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in
his words? There is more hope of
k fool than of him,—Provwbi.
News At a Glance
About People,
Things In State
ATLANTA, (GPS)—On the sub
ject of advertising, the Altanta Geor
] gian recently carried an excellent
] editorial headed “Advertising Re
] duces Cost.” The editorial said in
I part: “It is a foolish error to believe
1 that money spent in advertising in
] creases the COST of the products
of industry. There is one automo
bile in use in the United States to
day for every four or five people.
How many automobiles would there
be if millions of dollars had not been
SPENT IN ADVERTISING? How
many of the millions of people now
profitably employed in the production
and distribution of automobiles would
HAVE JOBS?. . .It is an economic
truth and an indisputable fact that
the cost of goods or services in any
industry or profession is REDUCED
BY ADVERTISING. . .It is the sim
plest economic that any product can
bo made or any service rendered
CHEAPER BY VOLUME. Advertis
ng is the one indispensable factor
in PRODUCTION BY VOLUME. It
multiplies both the uses and the
USERS of a product, and in that
exact proportion reduces the UNIT
COST of production.”
Concluding its sound argument m
favor of advertising, the editorial
said: “Why should anybody doubt or
dispute the essential part ADVER
TISING HAS PLAYED in recom
mending the beneficial products of
industry and labor to USE BY THE
PEOPLE ? Who would buy a product
he KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT?
How is he to know of its uses or
qualities or its VERY EXISTENCE,
if these facts are not brought to his
attention by SOME FORM OF AD
VERTISING? Advertising is noth
ing more and nothing less than dis
semination of INFORMATION AND
KNOWLEDGE which enables the
people to avail themselves of the
means of CHEAPER AND BETTER
LIVING.”
CAN IT BE TRUE?. . .that the
American Railroads are over-capital
ized, when the total par value of all
outstanding stocks is only 28 cents
property. . .and the bonded indebt
edness—on which interest (known as
for each dollar invested in railroad
fixed charges) must be paid—is only
44 cents for each dollar invested. . .
and the total of both stocks and
bonds is only 72 cents for each dollar
invested ?
GIST OF THE NEWS: The Nation
al Youth Administration, which spent
$173,512 in Georgia during the last
school year to keep 7,944 students
in 723 high schools, has authorized
expenditures of $210,413 for the 1938-
39 high school aid program in this
state. Funds for aiding college stu
dents next year also have been in
creased, allocations being 1.3 per cent
greater. A total of $234,726 will
enable approximately 3,500 college
students to attend 52 Georgia institu
tions. . .Miss Alice Talton, of 278
12th Street, N. E., won the title of
“Miss Atlanta 1938.” The brunette
beauty will go to Atlantic City to
compete for the title of “Miss Amer
ica” September 6.
EDITORIAL DDITIES: “An ath
letic man, nowadays, is one who hires
a boy to mow the lawn while he plays
golf to obtain a little exercises,” says
the Telfair Enterprise at Mcßae. . .
“If it’s a fair question, were all
road hogs brought up on yellow
corn?” asks the Dallas New Era. . .
“You can get a lot of fun out of
life sometimes if you will keep your
mouth shut and listen to what other
people say,” advises the Alma Times,
whose watchword is “Watch Alma
Grow”. . .The Wrightsville Headlight
declares: “If you haven’t anybody
else to gossip about declare a recess.
Your neighbor needs a rest”. . . Says
the Georgia Cracker at Hazlehurst:
“One thing you cannot accuse Con
gress of neglecting—-that is making
appropriations”. . .The Covington
News makes this discovery: “The
law of supply and demand doesn’t hold
good. Think of the reformers there
are, and how little reform.”
New Paper at
Columbus
COLUMBUS, 'Ga., (GPS)—The
newest paper to make its appearance
in the Georgia weekly field is the
lOolumbus Advertiser. It appears
each Thursday. It is styled “An
Independent Newspaper, Fairness To
ward All, Malice Toward None,” and
is dedicated to “The Upbuilding Sf
Columbus, Muscogee County and the
Entire Chattahoochee Valley.”
In announcing its purpose, the pa
per said in part: “We believe that
Columbus not only ‘has room,’ but a
need for a weekly newspaper that
will be edited and published along
the lines upon which we propose to
give you The Advertiser from week
to week. And certainly we would be
laboring in a non-ambitious paradise
f we did not hope at some future
time to carry this paper beyond the
weekly field, and lend a hand, no
more aggresively, but more often, to
the service of the people.”
Mrs. T. F. Woods and children of
I Trion, Ga. and Mrs. John N. Thomas
and children attended the funeral of
reir sister, Mrs. J. J- Smith in
Griffin, Ga., Sunday.
Miss Edna Thomas returned home
] vith them. She has been at Mrs.
mith’s bedside for th* post two
I months. . . .
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