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CIRCULATES IN THE
BEST SECTION OF
NORTH GEORGIA!
VOL. 52; NO. 29.
News At a Glance
About People,
Things In State
Total of $16,000,000 Already Has
Been Allotted to State for Slum
Clearance and Low-Cost Housing.
ATLANTA, Oct. 10 (GPS)—lt’s
spreading all over Georgia, is the
movement for slum clearance. Geor
gia cities and towns with less than
25,000 inhabitants now can secure
slum clearance projects, according to
George B. Hamilton, chairman of the
state housing authority. Arrange
ments have been perfected with the
U. S. housing authority and WPA
for these cities and towns to start
immediate surveys. The allotments to
each city are expected to run between
$250,000 and $500,000, and from twen
ty-five to thirty applications are ex
pected, based on the inquiries already
received.
A total of $16,000,C00 already has
been allotted to Georgia for slum
clearance and low-cost housing, but
it has all gone to the larger cities.
Atlanta’s $9,000,000 is the largest
allocation for slum clearance in tne
state. This will be matched with $900,-
000 put up by the Atlanta Housing
authority, of which Charles F. Pal
mer, president of the Atlanta Cham
ber of Commerce, is chairman. Oth
er allocations made by the U. S.
Housing authority to Georgia cities
are: Augusta, $1,2500,000; Athens,
$270,000; Columbus, $850,000; Ma
con, $1,250,000; Rome, $540,C00, and
feavannah, $2,700,000.
Dependable: “The railroads are the
greatest employers of workers, the
(greatest buyers of supplies, the na
tion’s most dependable transportation
link in time of peace, of war, and ca
tastrophe,” declared J. M. Kurn, trus
tee of the St. Louis-San Francisco
railway. “They are the country’s tax
payers extraordinary. The railroads’
desire is for a co-ordinated transpor
tation system administered fairly for
the good of all the country. With pub
lic understanding of the position and
importance of railroads, an equitable,
fairly administered transportation
system can be evolved for America.
Without public understanding, unfair
abuses and exorbitant taxation of
railroads, as compared with competi
tive forms of transportation, may
prevail to the eternal injury not only
of the railroads but of the country’s
fentire transportation system and our
people.”
Gist Os the News: Harry L. Brown,
assistant secretary of agriculture,
speaking in Atlanta, brought an of
ficial answer from Washington to
Southern critics of President Roose
velt’s reference to the South as “Na
tion’s No. 1 Problem.” Brown said:
“The president had no intention of
casting reflections upon the South,
but rather to call attention to the low
income in his section and all that as
sociate itself with low income is a
national problem.” . . . What may be
the last reunion of the Georgia Con
federate veterans will be held in At
lanta Oct. 13 and 14. Os the thou
sands of men from Georgia who
fought in the War Between the States
only 159 remain to answer the 1938
roll call . . . Plans for continuing the
CCC for the twelfth enrollment per
iod, Oct. 1 to March 31, have been
announced. The program provides foi
twenty-eight camps in Georgia, and
238 in the eight states of the Fourth
corps area.
Works Hard For Naught.
MANHEIM, Pa.—Engaged to help
his farmer-employer cut corn, Earl
Finefrock went to work with vim and
vigor. He was working at full speed
when the farmer came along and
stopped him. He had been cutting a
neighbor’s corn.
FEWER RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
The first six months of the year
saw fewer fatalities as a result of
highway-railroad grade crossing ac
cidents. There were 696 deaths dur
ing this period, a decrease of 162
Compared with the same period of
1937. There were also fewer persons
injured and fewer accidents alto
gether.
WHO KNOWS?
1. How do British investments in
this country compare with 1914?
2. Who is John Charles Thomas?
3. When and where did the first
successful "airplane flight take place ?
4. How long has Speaker Bankhead
been in congress?
5. What nations have the most
gold?
6. How many pennants have the
New York Yankees won?
7. How much money would be rais
ed by a processing tax to aid agri
culture ?
8. What is a southpaw?
9. Is there a tariff on wheat?
10. Has the low price of cotton in
creased the sale of American cotton
in foreign countries?
(Bm Answers On Anether
®he Nms
Sweet Potatoes
Net More Cash
Than King Cotton
Diversified farming is the key to
the farmer’s troubles, I. Q. May,
farm manager of Ellabelle, Ga., has
found from experience.
May turned to diversification by
necessity. He was allowed 50 acres
of cotton on his farm, but when
he got his report from the govern
ment he found his acreage had been
cut by four-fifths.
“I then planted thirty-four acres
of my cotton land in sweet potatoes
which derived the benefit of ferti
lizer originally intended for cot
ton,” he said. “With the enormous
output of potatoes on these thirty
four acres I find that it is more
valuable to stick to diversified
farming as outlined by those spon
soring this program.”
In Atlanta yesterday with a sam
ple of his potato crop, May said
the first acre alone netted him
$82.80 in addition to enough feed to
take care of his hogs.
“It would have taken three acres
of cotton at the present price to
give me that big a return and four
times as much work,” he said.
100 Million For
State Road Work
Roosevelt Recently Approved $72,-
404,046 Federal Funds For Farm
to-Market Roads.
ATLANTA, Oct. 11 (CNS)—Geor
gia stands today on the threshold of
a new one hundred-million-dollar road
.mprovement program.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt re
cently approved $72,404,046 of fed
eral funds for farm-to-market road
and state highway projects submit
ced by the works progress administra
tion in co-operation with the countie,
and the state highway board.
The approved projects set up ssl,
871,283 of federal funds to carry foi
ward the secondary road prograr.
which has been in operation by work
progress administration and Georgi.
counties since July, 1935.
They also provide $20,532,760 ol
federal funds for improvements u
the state highway system.
The federal funds are to be sup
plemented with approximately $25,-
825,000 of sponsors’ contributions,
chiefly in the form of material ant
equipment.
In announcing approval of the first
group of projects, Miss Gay B. Shep
person, state WPA administrator,
said authorization of the federal
iunds would make it possible to under
take a two-year road building pro
gram in every county in Georgia.
It will give seasonal employment t<
needy farmers, share-croppers and
farm hands who are certiiied foi
work under the special “lay-off” sea
son program inaugurated by works
progress administration in the south
ern states. It also will provide steadj
employment to eligible groups of
workers now on relief projects, shi
said. Employment quotas are beinf
tixed by WPA for each county in the
state. Selection of workers will b<
made from rolls of persons certified
by welware agencies.
The new project will supersede ex
isting road projects in some of the
counties. Work on the county roads,
under the new program, is being un
dertaken upon the request of the
board for specific units.
The works progress administration
is now employing approximately 57,-
000 workers in Georgia, many o
whom are to be used in the new road
program. Other persons are being as
signed from among agricultural
workers when the need arises as crops
are harvested in various sections of
the state.
PLANE TRAVEL UP.
WASHINGTON.— According to the
customs bureau, 6,639 planes, with
45,847 passengers, arrived in this
country or its possessions during the
past year, a pronounced increase over
the 5,851 planes the preceding year.
DEFINED.
Wealth? That’s the stuff you ac
cumulate to make life pleasant for
any ornery son-in-law. —The Akron
Beacon Journal.
FARMERS’ AUGUST INCOME.
The cash income of the nation’s
farmers for August was $631,000,0C0,
according to the agricultural depart
ment’s estimates. This was a decrease
of 2 per cent, from July and 19 per
cent, from August a year ago.
Y.W.A. MEETING.
The Y.W.A. of the First Baptist
church met Monday night in the
home of Miss Almazada Eilenburg.
Miss Ellene Whitworth had charge of
an interesting program.
After the meeting, the girls had a
welner meet.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938.
Local Men Are
Appointed On
FDA Committee
D. P. Henley, Tom P. Johnston, C.
P. Hamilton and James S. Majors
Named on Chattooga Committee.
Arthur S. York, district farm debt
adjustment supervisor, of the farm
security administration, has recently
been in the county doing some work
justment program. Mr. York advises
in connection with the farm debt ad
that the following citizens have been
appointed to serve as members of the
Chattooga county FDA committee:
David P. Henley, chairman; Tom
J. Johnston, secretary; Charles P.
Hamilton and James S. Majors.
Carles Sanders, the county rural
rehabilitation farm supervisor, will
be glad to co-operate with the loca
,arm debt adjustment committee anc
assist the committee in the handling
ji any case.
The FDA program is an
effort to provide facilities for com
posing or otherwise adjusting, with
out legal action, farmers’ excessiv
debts to conform with their capacity
<,O pay. Adjustments may be effect
ed by debt reduction, extension, re
financing and sale, etc. The count;
.arm debt adjustment committee ha:
no legal status—it is similar to ai
arbitration committee. It may stud;
a debt case and arrive at an equitable
solution and accordingly make rec
ommendation to both debtor and
creditors. Either debtors or creditor,
may decline to adjust on the basis o’
tae committees’ recommendation. As
a usual thing, however, recommends
tions based on sound values and J
ability of a debtor to pay, appeal s
strongly to the creditors that adjust
ments are readily accepted. The coun
ty committee may properly conside
all cases involving debts of worthy
farmers. It is not contemplated tha
the committee be called on to act a
a collecting agency. Neither is it con
icmpiated that the committee wi.
encourage any farmer to avoid th<
payment of an honest obligation.
Any' farmer who feels he is elig.
ble for assistance may discuss hi
problems with any of the person:
above named. In the event he shoui
wish the FDA committee to take hi;
_ase under advisement, he should cal
on Mr. Johnston, secretary of th
committee, or Mr. Sanders, count.
-IR supervisor, and furnish definite
information regarding his assets an
liabilities. All details regarding an,
>iven case is treated as confidentia
sheriff Mistaken For
desperate “Outlaw”
BUCHANAN.—Sheriff L. J. White
jf Haralson county, was mistake:
for a desperate outlaw early on.
morning last week, and the citizens
of a certain community were terribly
aroused over preparations which wer
jeing made for his capture. It seems
that Sheriff White drove up to i
church yard in a certain community
and was waiting for the break of day
before going to the location of an il
iict distillery that had been reported
Realizing he had a wait of a sex
hours he lay down upon the seats ii
his car and took a nap.
While the sheriff was in the mids
of his deep slumber, it seems that :
bailiff who was passing spied the
parked car and stopped to investigate.
Making his way cautiously toward i
he peered within and saw the sheriff,
clad in overalls, with his guns laying
upon the seat. The bailiff immediate
ly went to Tallapoosa and reported
the presence of the “outlaw,” and aft
er securing aid returned to the seer
As the posse was preparing to make
the arrest you can imagine the chag
rin of all concerned when they fount
out who the “desperate character’
was.
TEXAN NATIVE FOUND IN
GEORGIA.
WINDER. —Will the unbelievable
never cease? Howard Colvard, Jr.,
and Cecil Green had a Texas horned
toad in a paper bag where they ha<
succeeded in chasing him, after find
ing him on the Gainesville-Midland
tracks, one day recently. It is prob
ably the only toad ever found in this
section of the country, but is believ
ed to have fallen from a freight car
in which it had been shipped with
some merchandise from the west.
They are very common in the mid
west section of the country and in
habit all the plains there. He is, no
doubt, lonely being so far from home
and his friends, and since it is impos
sible to return him to his native land,
the boys have given him to the science
department at the local high school
for observation by the students.
Old Gentleman—You’re an honest
lad, but it was a $lO bill I lost, not
ten Ones.
Small Boy—l know, mister, it was
a $lO bill I picked up. But last time
I found on* th* didn’t h«v* «ny
change.
W.M.U. Holds
Quarterly Meet
On October 4
New President Selected To Fill
Out Unexpired Term of Mrs. Geo.
R. Gibson, Resigned.
The executives and members of
Chattooga county’s W.M.U. held their
quarterly meeting Oct. 4, 1938, in the
baptist church at Menlo. There were
quite a large crowd there to transact
the important business in selecting a
.lew president to fill out the unex
pired term of Mrs. George R. Gibson.
The meeting was opened with song,
“Leaning On the Everlasting Arm.”
Prayer, Mrs. E. M. Jennings.
Song, “Like a Shepherd Lead Us.”
Devotional, Mrs. J. C. Jackson;
Gen. i:l.
The out-of-county visitors were
Mrs. Clegg, divisional superintendent
rom Dalton, and also Mrs. Price,
Dalton.
Mrs. Jimmie Parker, assistant pres
.dent, at this time asked Mrs. Clegg
ii she would take charge of the
meeting.
Mrs. Clegg called for reports from
.reasurer. Mrs. McConnell responded.
Jhe gave an account of all business
transactions and asked all churches
o meet their quota of Chinese Pas
tor ‘B”.
Personal Service —By Miss Effie
Leath. Told of much work being done
m county.
Training School —Mrs. J. C. Jack
son asked that the W.M.U. pray much
ind help all they could in sending
representatives from our county to
Training school, and she also urged
„ach union to meet their proportion
ment on Golden Jubilee.
New Business—Mrs. Gibson’s res
gnation was accepted and the fol
owing were named as nominating
:ommittee: Mrs. Robert Harlow, Mrs.
j. L. Pollock and Mrs. W. H. Clark
son. Mrs. T. J. Espy was nominated
president and Mrs. J. C. Jackson as
nission study instead of Mrs. E. M.
jennings, who had resigned this of
fice, and Mrs. J. A. Leag.ue was
Mfesen as chairman of Golden Jubilee
n Mrs. G. R. Gibson’s place.
Mrs. T. J. Espy at this time re
sponded very graciously by accepting
he nomination and asked that all
adies assist her in her new duties.
Prayer was offered here by Mrs.
Jlegg in behalf of the new president
md all leaders.
A short talk by Mrs. J. L. Pollock
vas given in appreciation of Mrs.
Jlegg and her splendid and untiring
vork.
Mrs. Espy invites all ladies of the
xecutive committee to meet with
.er on the next meeting day, which
vill be in January. Mrs. J. C. Jackson
;aid that would be too much to feed
is all and asked each lady bring a
lish or sandwiches and this was met
zith a hearty response.
No other business. Prayer by Miss
Uffie Leath.
MINNIE M. JUSTICE, Sec’y.
TATTLER OFFERS AID
N CRANKING AUTOMOBILE
LEESBURG. —While cranking his
ruck preparatory for hauling pea
mts the other morning, Jack Coxwell
vas rather surprised by the unwel
zomed presence of a reptile friend,
sou can imagine his astonishment
vhen he stepped on the starter ana
saw his visitor trying to give him
help. Quickly deciding that the job
vas too big for him to tackle he turn
ed the truck over to the rattler, and
to show his gratefulness killed the
nake with a nearby hoe.
FITZGERALD BONDS.
Fitzgerald, Oct. 10 (CNS) —Work
is expected to start soon on additions
to the high school building, enlarg
ing the city hall and the negro school
and erecting a new jail. A bond is
sue, to finance the city’s share of the
•ost, amounting to $63,000, has been
approved by Fitzgerald voters.
Medical Officers—Have your spec
tacles helped you any?
Seaman —Do they: they kept a
tough sailor off the battleship Idaho
from hitting me already.
Outlandish Okra
Grown By Warden
NEWNAN. —Bob Dukes, well-known
warden of the Newnan jail, took a
local reporter into his garden to prove
the truthfulness of his statement that
he had grown a stalk of okra twelve
feet and three inches high. The re
porter vouches for the measurement,
and goes on to add that this gigantic
stalk also is six inches around at the
ground.
Mr. Dukes can’t recall just how
many pods have been taken from the
twelve-footer for the table but says
“they would certainly make a lot of
gumbo.” And what’s more, there are
still a few uncut pods on the very top
•»( th« stall*.
Peace Preacher
Jailed for Noise,
Spurns Liberty
MADISON, Ga.—An itinerant
preacher whose peace lecture re
sulted in his arrest on complaint of
a Madison businessman spent his
fourth day in the Morgan county
jail today, making no effort to avail
himself of Sheriff George Saye’s
offer to drop disorderly conduct
charges if he would leave town.
The sheriff said the man, whom
he named as the Rev. Aston Jones,
traveled about in a sound truck la
beled “World Peace Car.” He was
arrested in the public square here
Saturday after P. H. Ponder, a
warehouseman, objected to the noise
of the truck’s loud speaker and
swore out a warrant for Jones.
Previously, Saye said, the mayor
and the chief of police had asked
Jones to tone down the loud speak
er, but he refused to do so.
Declaring the preacher was stay
ing in jail “of his own accord,”
Sheriff Saye said he had made no
request for a hearing and had not
tried to get bond.
Governor Asks
Pine Plantings
Will Be Means “of Helping Out the
Situation Regarding Low Farm In
comes.”
Gov. E. D. Rivers addressed an ao
peal to Georgia farmers and land
owners today to plant worn-out Geor
gia lands in pine trees as a means
“of helping out the situation regard
ing low farm incomes.”
The governor’s letter addressed to
the farmers and land owners of Geor
gia is as follows:
Dear Friend:
Much is heard at the present time
regarding low farm incomes. It oc
curs to me that there is one definite
way of helping out this situation
which is so simple that every farm
er in Georgia should give thought to
it. I refer to the growing of pine
trees on idle lands.
Probably every farm in Georgia
has two or three acres of worn-out
land too poor to pay for the cost of
cultivation. This land can be planted
to pine trees at a very low cost, and
thus brought into a condition which,
after a few years, means that a sus
tained annual income will be forth
coming.
Recent estimates indicate that
there exists in Georgia today some
one and one-half million acres of
abandoned agricultural lands. If yield
ing an annual revenue of only $1 per
acre, a conservative figure for sn
acre of thrifty Georgia pines, this
would mean that the sum of a mil
lion and a half dollars extra revenue
would be available to our farmers.
Largely through the efforts of
that great Georgian, Dr. Charles
Herty, the production of crops of
trees to be manufactured into paper
bids fair to become one of the state’s
leading industries. More pulp mills
will enter the south. We must make
plans to accommodate them, partic
ularly by being sure that sufficient
wood is available to them for manu
facturing purposes.
Every idle acre in Georgia should
be planted with pines. The cost is
low. Pines literally produce revenue
while you sleep. The forestry divis
ion of the state department of nat
ural resources has millions of seed
ling pines available for the cost of
production to land owners in Georgia.
These trees will rapidly attain mer
chantable size.
In writing this letter, it is my pur
pose to encourage Georgia farmers to
avail themselves of the opportunities
oi expanding their sources of reve
nue. Although timber production is
but one of these, because of the low
initial costs and small amount of sub
sequent care necessary when plant
ing pines, it seems to me that every
farmer in our state should give se
rious thought to the possibility of re
foresting two or three acres of his
worn-out land with pine.
Land too poor for agricultural crops
is ideal for pines. Why allow it to
remain nonproductive when for the
expenditure of only a few dollars it
can be converted into a continuous
source of revenue?
Yours for a more properous Geor
gia, E. D. RIVERS, Governor.
With over twenty million pine seed
lings ready for planting this fall the
division oi forestry of the department
of natural resources supported the
governor’s appeal with the announce
ment that trees sufficient to plant
the idle acres were available at the
state nurseries at actual cost of
growing. Orders can be placed with
the department at the state capital,
Atlanta.
Teacher—Now, Hayton, if I sub
tract 20 from*4s, what’s the differ
ence?
Haytan—That’s what I say. Who
(uarea ?
PAGES THIS
4 JWEEK OF
THE NEWS.
August Surplus
Commodities In
County $1,600
Georgia Total of Surplus Commod
ities for Month of August Exceed
ed $300,000.
Figures released today by Leroy
jH. Tolbert, district commodity sup
-1 ervisor, disclose that the state de
partment of public welfare distribut
ed surplus commodities in Chattooga
county during August, 1938, having
a total value of $1,600.48.
The total value of surplus commod
ities distributed during the month by
the state department to needy Geor
gia families exceeded $300,000, all of
which was furnished by the federal
government at no cost whatever to
the state.
The state department pointed out
that distribution of federal surplus
commodities in Georgia is made pos
sible by close co-operation between
state, county and federal govern
ments. County governments furnish
warehouse space to meet state and
federal standards, and in addition
, supply a small amount of transpor
tation, and a small fund for other
than labor costs.
The state government furnishes
statewide supervision through the
commodity division of the state de
partment of public welfare, and fi
nances all of this supervision at no
cost to the counties. Likewise the
purchase of surplus products is con
ducted and financed by the Federal
Surplus Commodity corporation at no
cost to the counties receiving the
foodstuffs.
Distribution is made to families
who do not have money to buy food.
Each family is individually certified
by county welfare directors as being
in need, before distribution is made.
In this way there is no interference
with the commercial grocery busi
ness. Frequently when the economic
condition of families improves enough
to take them off relief rolls, they buy
commodities from local merchants
which they learned to use during the
I time they received surpluses. In this
manner, commercial grocery trade is
; stimulated.
Cross Pacific On Junk.
LOS ANGELES.—Dr. E. Allen Pe
terson, 37-year-old osteopathic physi
cian, his young Japanese bride, Tane,
and two Russians recently arrived in
Los Angeles after an eventful trip
across the Pacific made in a thirty
six-foot Chinese junk. The trip took
almost three months and was made
without the help of any of the mod
ern instruments of navigation.
Dog Watches Boy.
GARDENVILLE, Pa. When
searchers found Paul Baeder, 3, after
a twelve-hour search, Senta, the
boy’s pet collie, was sitting right be
side him. The child had wandered
from his home on the estate of H. S.
Lockwood and become lost.
HELPFUL JOLT.
KANSAS CITY. —Mrs. Sadie Whi
ley, with a piece of candy lodged in
her throat, was rushed to a hospital.
The ambulance came to a stop with
a jerk before the hospital entrance,
giving Mrs. Whiley a severe jolt. Up
came the candy and away went Mrs.
Whiley.
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATION.
The United States Civil Service
commission has been unable to se
cure a sufficient number of qualified
i applicants for the position of lofts
man, paying a salary of $7.39, $7.87
\ and $8.35 per day, at the Charleston,
■S. C., navy yard. An announcement
' advertising that applications were
; being received for this position w r as
issued on May 25, 1938, and the ex
amination has been given periodic
publicity since. The closing date for
receipt of applications has been ex
tended indefinitely and applications
(will be received until further notice.
In order to be qualified for ap
j pointment applicants must have com
i pleted a regular four-year appren
ticeship as loftsman or four years of
practical experience as loftsman, the
substantial equivalent of such ap
prenticeship. The duties of the posi
tion are to lay out and develop the
lines of a shop, full size, on the floor
or scrive board, and to develop and
make full size wooden or paper tem
plates for different parts of the ship.
Applications must be filed with
the recorder, board of labor employ
i ment, U. S. Navy yard, Charleston,
South Carolina. Application blanks
may be obtained from the secretary,
Board of U. S. Civil Service Exami
ners, post office at any first-class
post office; from the recorder, board
of labor employment, U. S. Navy
yard, Charleston, South Carolina; or.
i the manager, Fifth U. S. Civil Serv
ice district, new Pos* nffir* hwiMing.
‘Atlanta* Georgia
$1.50 A YEAR