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CIRCULATES IN THE
BEST SECTION OF
NORTH GEORGIA!
VOL. 52- NO. 34
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
FIGURES IN TRAFFIC FATALI
TIES SHOW IMPROVEMENT
OVER LAST YEAR.
ATLANTA, Nov. 14 (GPS).-Mr.
Motorist, please be careful!
Georgia police, sheriffs and state
troopers, who have launched a con
certed drive to stem the tide of high
way deaths and destruction that in
previous years made November and
December the peak (months of casual
ty, would prefer that you heed that
plea now, rather than obey their com
mand later to "Stop! You’re under
arrest.” These two months last year
topped the Georgia death list with
ninety-nine traffic fatalities in No
vember and 102 in December. While
more than 500 have been killed on
Georgia highways this year, the fig
ure thus far shows marked improve
ment over the 1937 total of more
than 1,000 dead. Causes of fatal
crashes were listed as follows: Speed,
passing on hills or curves, mechani
cal defects, brakes, lights, etc., and
drunkenness. Whether the 1938 traf
fic fatalities will be lower than 1937
will depend upon the vigilance of po
lice and carefulness of motorists dur
ing the “two worst months.” Why not
make it the latter? BE CAREFUL!
More Statistics: Employes of Class
I railroads of the United States, as
of the middle of September, totaled
961,868, decrease of 15.10 per cent.,
compared with the corresponding
month in 1937, according to figures
released by the bureau of statistics,
interstate commerce commission.
Showing a decrease in the number of
employes for every reporting group,
the percentage of decreases are: ex
ecutives, officials and staff assist
ants, 4.25; professional, clerical and
general, 9.49; maintenance of way
and aw uci.un.s, 16.16; maintenance of
equipment and stores, 21.14; trans
portation (other than train, engine
and yard-, 8.79; transportation (yard
masters, switchtenders and hostlers),
13.31, and transportation (train and
engine service, 14.71.
Gist Os the News: A total of 264
Georgia banks have become members
of the Federal Deposit Insurance cor
poration since congress created the
agency in 1933 . . . “Caught in the
Whirl,” a novel of contemporary
southern life by Hazle Hancock, of
Savannah, has been released by its
publishers. The author in private life
is Mrs. Ralph Palmer Mattox, sister
of Herman Hancock, veteran Atlanta
Constitution reporter. Writer of
many short stories, poems and lyrics,
the author now makes her first ven
ture in the novel field . . . For the
first time in the history of the Em
ory Players enough co-eds are avail
able at Emory university for the
feminine rolls in the annual fall
play. This year’s play, “The Great
Divide,” will be produced Dec. 3.
Cotton Ginnings.
The census report shows that 6,040
bales of cotton were ginned in Chat
tooga county from the crop if 1938,
prior to Nov. 1, as compared with
7,353 bales for the crop of 1937, ac
cording to Mrs. Rosa N. Shumate,
special agent.
Singing at Gore.
There will be a singing at the Gore
High school building Sunday after
noon, Nov. 20, at 1:30 o’clock.
Special music will be given by vis
iting quartets. Come.
Young People’s League
Synod’s night will be observed by
the Young People’s league of the
four churches —Beersheba, Alpine,
C'loudland and Menlo —at Menlo Pres
byterian church, Nov. 2Ci, at 6 o’clock
in the evening. A beautiful and un
usual program has been planned for
this meeting. All young people and
their friends are cordially invited.
Won’t you come too?
WHO KNOWS?
1. How many persons are eligible
to vote in the U. S. ?
2. When did Italy and Great Brit
ain sign their agreement?
3. When was the Nine-Power trea
ty signed?
4. What did Czechoslovakia lose in
the recent surrender of territory ?
5. How many trade treaties have
been signed?
6. How does our foreign trade
compare with that of 1933?
7. When is “Navy Day”?
8. What will the new naval dirigi
ble cost.
9. What does it cost to take a cen
sus, such as that scheduled for 1940?
10. How many people go to the
movies ?
‘The Answer*’ «n AfWth?* Pejffi
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.
NEEDY FAMILIES GET
TURKEY DAY DINNERS
ATLANTA, Nov. 14.—Thanksgiv
ing this year will be more than “just
another day” for thousands of Geor
gia families who depend upon the
state welfare department for food,
Lamar Murdaugh, director, an
nounces.
Murdaugh said at the request of
Gov. E. D. Rivers the surplus com
modies distribution division of the
welfare department, under the direc
tion of Frank C. Shirley, will in
crease its semi-monthly allotment of
food for all families on relief so
that they can enjoy a happier
Thanksgiving than would otherwise
be possible.
The governor, Murdaugh said, sug
gested to the department that it is
the duty of the state to help all of
its citizens celebrate Thanksgiving
in the time-honored manner and the
executive expressed the hope that
“the welfare department can enlarge
its quota of provisions for the fami
lies aided by the surplus commodities
division for Thanksgiving.
Murdaugh said more than 55,000
families were served by the surplus
commodities division of the welfare
department in the last year and that
arrangements are being made to han
dle as high as 73,000 families if con
ditions warrant during the winter
months.
Commodities valued at more than
$2,000,000 were distributed to needy
families by the welfare department
in the last fiscal year. Os the total
cost of the prog-ram in Georgia, over
97 per cent., including the purchase
of commodities and their shipment to
the state, is borne by the federal gov
ernment. The counties bear approxi
mately 1.9 per cent, of the cost in
furnishing warehouses, in cash dona
tions for supplies, fuel and other
items while the state’s share is .3
per cent., or $935 per month the last
fiscal year.
Public Library.
Editor Ralph L. Ramsey, of the
Georgia Education Journal, devotes
the November number of that excel
lent magazine ito the development of
school libraries throughout the state.
“We feel that we can not stress too
strongly the need for promoting and
developing interest in the free public
library.
“Reading is essential to a well
rounded, well-informed person. For
one to be able to read and not have
good books available is as damaging
to a community as for the residents
of that community not to be able to
read at all. No greater contribution
can be made to the building of good
citizenship than supplying each com
munity with books and magazines and
newspapers that will build character,
furnish ideals for living and lay a
foundation for understanding public
questions so vital in a democracy.
“Had I the power I would scatter
libraries over the whole land as the
sower sows his wheat field.”
“Books are trees to wisdom’s treas
ure,
Books are gates to lands of pleasure,
Books are paths that upward lead,
Books are friends. Come let us read.”
PUBLIC LIBRARIAN.
Reserve Could Use Up Million
Bales Cotton Insurance
A million bales of the seven million
surplus bales of cotton now in gov
ernment hands under loan could be
used as a reserve for a crop-insur
ance program, Henry A. Wallace,
secretary of agriculture, said recent
ly at Fort Worth, Tex.
“Holding this cotton off the mar
ket helps the price today, but the
release of this cotton might
lower the price later on,” Secretary
Wallace explained. “If ways could be
found to get a substantial part of
this seven million bales into use,
some of the huge weight which is
crushing the cotton industry would
be moved. If, ini addition to the usual
consumption, a few million of these
bales, for example, could be disposed
of in the next year or eighteen
months, the price of cotton would be
strengthened. In addition, we could
relax our acreage adjustment pro
gram and plant more nearly a nor
mal crop of cotton.”
NEGRO PALLBEARERS.
FOUNTAIN INN, S. C.—Because
of his “special interest in the welfare
and well being of the colored peo
ple” in his community, James H.
Drummond, 64, farmer, merchant and
former state legislator, left written
request that “six respectable negroes”
be the pallbearers at his funeral.
A COSTLY NAP.
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Allan Thomas,
who “dozed off” in a restaurant,
awoke to find that someone had sto
len his shoes from his feet, a ring
from his finger, a stickpin from his
ti*. a hat from his head and sl2 in
from hi* jpwfcyt.
GEORGIA FARMERS VOTE
DEC. 10 ON COTTON PLAN
LOCAL FARMERS IN EACH COM
MUNITY WILL HAVE CHARGE
OF SECRET BALLOTTING.
Georgia farmers are going to vote
Dec. 10 to decide whether the market
ing quotas that were in effect this
year on cotton and flue-cured tobac
co are to be continued in effect for
the 1939 season. Preparations for the
referendum are now under way
throughout the state.
Voting places will be provided in all
counties and communities where cot
ton or flue-cured tobacco is grown,
Homer S. Durden, state administra
tive officer of the agricultural ad
justment administration, said in ah
announcement concerning the refer
endum.
County conservation committees
will be in charge of the arrangements
and the voting will be conducted like
any regular election. Three local
farmers will be named by the coun
ty committee to serve as election of
ficers in each community. The coun
ty committee also will designate the
voting place in each community and
see that a ballot box and a supply of
printed ballots are provided.
“The ballots will be publicly count
ed in each community immediately
after the polls close,” Durden said,
“and the county results will be an
nounced at county seats by the coun
ty committees as soon as all boxes
report. The county returns will be
tabulated in Athens in co-operation
with newspapers and press associa
tions just as the returns from politi
cal election are regularly tabulated
in Atlanta.
“This is the same procedure that
was followed in the referendum last
PRODUCTION EXPENSES
MAYBE LOWER IN 1939
Farm production expenses are ex
pected to be moderately lower in
1939, according to the bureau of ag
ricultural economics.
Its annual outlook report for farm
labor, equipment and fertilizer, says
that “the combined level of farm
wage rates and prices of commodities
used in agricultural production prob
ably will average a little lower than
in 1938.”
Prices of equipment and supplies
are not expected to change much. On
he other hand, the economists say
hat farmers will probably be able 'to
my farm machinery, automobiles, fer
;ilizer, feed and seed at slightly low
-3 - prices. But building materials are
ikely to be higher in price.
Farm wage rates, an important item
n production expenses have weaken
d during the past year and are ex
pected to average about the same in
1939. They were markedly upward
rom 1933 to 1937 but have declined
since October, 1937. The prospective
improvement in demand for farm
products, however, is expected to halt
this down trend. Any upward ten
dency in wage rates on non-farm jobs
also would tend to support wages of
farm laborers. No shortage of farm
labor is likely.
The marked advance in prices for
arm machinery that began in 1933
continued into 1938 and brought ma
chinery prices to the highest level
since 1920. However, some reductions
in farm machinery prices for 1939 al
ready have been announced, and some
further readjustment downward is
probable for 1939.
In contrast, the trend in prices paid
by farmers for building materials
may be upward. According to the re
port, wholesale prices of building
material declined about 7 per cent,
from mid-1937 to mid-1938. In recent
months, however, there has been some
advance in wholesale prices for lum
ber which may be followed by ad
vances in retail prices to farmers
during the coming year. Building
trade wage rates in rural areas prob
ably will change but little during
1939.
It is believed that fertilizer prices
during the 1939 fertilizer season
“probably will average slightly low
er” with the greatest decline likely
in organic ammoniates. Fertilizer pri
ces this year have been about the
same as in the 1910-14 period and
next year may average from 95 to
100 per cent, of pre-war. It was point
ed. out that the quantity of fertilizer
sales is determined primarily by farm
income in the preceding year. On this
basis, the total tonnage of fertilizer
sold in 1939 probably will be lower
than in 1938.
The Red Cross is making its annu
al appeal to the people of Chattooga
County this month. The organization,
we believe, dees good work and
should have the support of all citi
zens, especially when it asks only one
dollar from each for a membership;
March. This procedure appears to be
the most convenient method of giving
to the public through the press and
radio a prompt report on the results
of the ballot.”
Where cotton and flue-cured tobac
co are grown in the same community
the election for both commodities will
be held in the same place but sepa
rate ballot boxes and separate ballots
will be used. The voting will be sec
ret. This means that each farmer will
mark his ballot privately and cast it
in the customary way, just as in any
regular election.
The question to be decided in the
case of cotton is whether or not mar
keting quotas are to apply to the
1939 cotton crop. All farmers who
produced cotton this year with
a staple of less than 1 1-2 inches will
be eligible to vote. Quotas are not
applicable, under the farm act, to cot
ton with a staple of 1 1-2 inches or
as Sea Island cotton.
Therefore, a farmer who produced
such cotton this year is not eligible
to vote unless he also produced some
cotton with a staple of less than 1
1-2 inches.
No cotton or flue-cured tobacco
producer will be entitled to more than
one vote whether an individual, part
nership, corporation, association or
firm.
All farmers who engaged in the
production of flue-cured tobacco this
year will be eligible to vote in the
election on tobacco quotas.
In order to become effective, cotton
quotas must be approved by a two
thirds majority of the farmers voting
in the cotton election, and flue-cured
tobacco quotas must be approved by
a two-thirds majority of the farmers
voting in the tobacco election.
GEORGIA CORN CROP
FAR ABOVE AVERAGE
4,000,000-BUSHEL GAIN IS ESTI
MATED BY UNITED STATES
STATISTICIAN.
ATHENS, Ga., Nov. 15.—Georgia’s
1938 corn crop was estimated at well
above average, probably the largest
since 1921, in a report issued today
by D. L. Floyd, agricultural statisti
cian for the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Peanuts, tobacco, soybeans, sor
ghum syrup, pears and sweet pota
toes, also were listed as showing
substantial increases over last year,
but Irish potatoes, cowpeas, apples,
pecans and sugar cane are expected
to show harvests smaller than in
1937.
Indicated corn production for Geor
gia, Floyd said, is 53,164,000 bushels,
more than 4,000,000 bushels in ex
cess of the 48,334,000-bushel harvest
a year ago and far above the 38,453,-
00-bushel average for the ten-year
period from 1927 to 1936.
Production of peanuts is estimat
ed at 488,000',000 pounds, the largest
crop on record, compared with 392,-
600,000 pounds in 1937 and 284,146,-
000 for the 1927-36 ten-year period
Hot dry weather in late summer
damaged Georgia’s pecan crop to
some extent, Floyd said, cutting it
to an estimated 81122,000 pounds as
compared with 8,400,000 pounds a
year ago. The crop, however, will be
in excess of the 6,670,000-pound aver
age for the 10-year period of 1927-36.
Guest Artists at Menlo.
An unusual program that will ap
peal to many people will be given in
the Menlo auditorium Friday evening,
Nov. 18, at 8 o’clock.
Entertainers invited to participate
on this program are listed below.
Each is an artist in his or her field,
and there will be a wide variety of
selections.
The Lawrence quartet, composed
of Harry, Joe, Paul and Etheridge
Lawrence, of Chattanooga.
Mrs. Etheridge Lawrence, violinist,
Chattanooga.
Miss Frances Ballard, pianist, vio
linist and whistler, La Fayette.
Mrs. Dewey Pennington, reader,
La Fayette.
Miss Virginia Dillard, reader, Sum
merville.
Miss Martha Young, soloist, Lyerly.
Rev. Jimmy Parker, Menlo.
EMPLOYMENT GAINS.
According to Miss Frances Per
kins, secretary of labor, more than
646,000 persons were re-employed in
private industry from June to Sep
tember of this year.
“The time has come for farmers
the country over to make up their
minds where they stand. Without
their farm program, surpluses will
pile up, prices will be ruined, and in*
come will fall,”~Socretary of Agri 5
culturf Walls?*,
HUNTING SEASON TO
OPEN NOVEMBER 20
ATLANTA, Nov. 14 (GPS).—As
the official hunting season in Geor
gia approaches, a warning to all
hunters to exercise care and caution
! in the use of firearms is issued by
Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, director of
the state department of health.
The quail and wild turkey hunting
| season will open Nov. 20 and continue
! through March 1, and the duck sea
| son opens Nov. 26 and continues thru
Dec. 26.
“Georgians, 65,395 of whom are
licensed to hunt with a gun, should
be especially careful while hunting,
since Georgia ranks third among the
states from accidental discharge of
firearms,” Dr. Abercrombie said.
“During the ten-year period, 1928-
38, there were 1,153 deaths in Geor
gia from this cause, and in 1937 there
were 104 deaths with a rate of 3.4
as compared to a total of 124 in 1936,
with a rate of 4.1.
The health director explained that
many of these deaths are the result
of slipping, stumbling or falling by
huntsmen, causing the accidental dis
charge of guns with fatal results to
the huntsman or his companions.
Risky and unsteady footing while
Climbing banks, slipping on frozen
ground, failure to keep the gun lock
ed in the “safe” position, and carry
ing the gun in a dangerous position,
were named as some of the main
causes of these accidents.
The deer season opened this week,
j and will last through Jan. 5. The bag
I limit is two (bucks only) in one sea-
I son.
State Meeting of Taft
Highway In Chipley
CHIPLEY, Ga., Nov. 15.—Mayor J.
) W. Caldwell, of Chipley, who is vice
; president of the Taft Memorial High
i way association, has called a Georgia
J state meeting of the organization to
! assemble at Chipley Friday, Dec. 2.
A complimentary barbecue will be
| served to the visitors, who will come
from seventeen Georgia counties tra
j versed by the Taft Memorial high
j way in its course from Sault Ste.
! Marie- Canada, to Fort Myers,
a distance of 1,710 miles. Tuese Geor
; gia counties are; Walker, Chatto9£3;
} Floyd, Polk, Haralson, Carroll, Heard,
; Troup, Harris, Muscogee, Chattahoo
chee, Stewart, Webster, Terrell,
Dougherty, Colquitt and Brooks.
It is expected these seventeen
counties will furnish 150 delegates to
the meeting, the visitors to include
members of the boards of commission
ers and the mayors and other city
officials along the route.
The Taft Memorial highway has
been officially routed by the highway
boards of the six states of Michigan,
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia
and Florida and the legislatures of
these states have officially designat
ed the route by name in honor of the
late president and Chief Justice Wil
liam Howard Taft. The association
sponsoring the highway was organiz
ed under the laws of Ohio in 1930 as
p. non-profit, non-political organiza
tion. The six states interested, with
i federal aid, have spent more than
! fifteen million dollars on the Taft
project during the past eight years
and considerable construction is now
in progress in several of these states.
Mayor Walter C. Sturdivant is the
Chattooga chairman of the Taft Me
morial Highway association.
THE LYERLY F.F.A. PLOT
NEARS COMPLETION
The nitrate soda plot of cotton con
ducted by the Lyerly chapter, Future
Farmers of America, is nearing com
pletion. The plot is on the Lyerly and
Holland highway south of Lyerly, on
the farm now cultivated by Harris
Edwards and family.
The cotton which was side-dressed
with soda in the spring has shown a
marked difference over the cotton
which had no side dressing of soda.
The picking of the cotton is almost
finished. The cotton with the soda is
much larger in stalk, has more and
larger boles to the stalk and has less
diseased boles and stalks than that
which had no soda.
The plot is sponsored by a nitrate
of soda company. Guessing cards were
given out and the one guessing near
est to the correct yield will be given
a prize of $2 by the soda company.
The winner will be notified when the
picking of the cotton is finished.—
Herman Mount, Reporter.
DOUBLE TROUBLE.
EMPORIUM, Pa.—Rushed to a hos
pital for treatment for a spider sting,
McClellan Shadman, 20, underwent
I an appendix operation, had his ton
sils removed and was treated for
I three hernias.
KILLS BULL WITH KNIFE.
GLENVILLE, W\ Va. Knocked
i down and gored by a bull, William
Powell. 66-year-old farmer, locked
his legs around the animal’s neck,
grasped a horn and severed the
1 bull’s windpip* with hi* bn#*,
PAGES THIS
WEEK OF
THE NEWS.
$1.50 A YEAR
2,892 CHATTOOGANS
RECEIVE $6,176.33 IN
MONTH IN BENEFITS
SIXTY-NINE ORPHAN CHILDREN
RECEIVNG BENEFITS IN
CHATTOOGA COUNTY.
Benefits in excess of $6,176.33 per
month are being paid to more than
2,892 persons in Chattooga county
through the local welfare office, ac
cording to a report by Lamar Mur
daugh, state director of public wel
fare, it was announced today by R.
W. Bagley, local welfare chairman.
For the first time in the history of
this state, pensions are being paid to
blind persons, helping them to take
care of their needs. In Chattooga
county, five blind persons are being
aided and others will be added to the
list of beneficiaries as rapidly as
funds are made available, it is point
ed out.
Sixty-nine children, without par
ents or relatives able to take care of
them, are being paid benefits in Chat
tooga county. Blind persons, depend
ent children and old-age pensioners
in Chattooga county were paid a to
tal of $2,284.50 in October, the max
imum monthly rate until more funds
are made available to the state de
partment of public welfare for dis
tribution to the counties.
A detailed report on the activities
of the Chattooga county welfare of
fice, as announced by State Director
Murdaugh, shows that since July 1,
1937, 555 applications for old-age pen
sions have been filed in the Chattoo
go county office. Os these, 343 have
been investigated and the following
dispositions made: Two hundred twen
ty-seven approved, 116 denied as in
eligible or disposed of for other rea
sons. The 227 approved eases have
brought into the county from July
1, 1937, through Sept. 30, 1938, $16,-
085.00. Applications have been re
ceived from nineteen blind persons,
ten of which have been investigated.
Six were approved and four denied.
Payments in the amount of $567 were
made to these approved cases.
Ninety-one families applied in be
half of 256 children for aid to depen
dent children under the sccjsl secur
ity act. Twenty-seven applications
were investigated. Twenty-two appli
cations, representing 76 children,
approved and five, representing 17,
were denied. During the period of
operation of the social security act,
these 76 approved children were ben
fited in the amount of $4,779.00.
From local funds (general relief)
during the month of September, 38
families, representing 239 persons,
received $198.50 in benefits in the
form of cash, groceries and medical
care. From July 1, 1937, through
Sept. 30, 1938, the general relief
funds distributed amounted to $2,-
672.74.
Surplus food and clothing, valued
at $2,995.83, were distributed in the
county to 517 families, representing
2,450 persons.
During this same month, $697.50
was received by families by allotment
from thirty-one Chattooga county
boys in the Civilian Conservation
corps.
In addition to all of these activi
ties, the local office certifies eligible
applicants for employment by the
Works Progress Administration. The
benefits from this program are in ad
dition to the $6,176.33 being brought
into the county by other activities.
The applications for WPA employ
ment in September were ninety-one,
adding to the large number of per
sons already gaining relief from this
source in the county.
The allotment made to Chattooga
county from federal, state and coun
ty funds for assistance under the so
cial security act, is $2,300 per month.
Ten per cent, of the above is paid by
the county, 90 per cent, by the state
and federal government. The state of
Georgia is paying 90 per cent, of the
salaries and travel expenses for au
thorized personnel who administer
old-age pensions, aid to the blind and
to dependent children. Expenditures
of local administrations for the month
of September amounted to $325.00,
which was for salaries and travel ex
penses of three employes. The state
department paid $124.35 of this ex
pense.
ECHOLS 4-H CLUB.
The Echols 4-H club met at the
schoolhouse Monday afternoon, with
the president, Kathleen Wofford, pre
siding. The secretary, Effie Moore,
called the roll and read minutes of
the last meeting. Plans for a club
bulletin board were made and the fol
lowing committee appointed: Ocie
Jones, Lottie Bell Dooley, Effie
Moore, Nellie Mae Dooley and Sara
Frances Arnold.
The club song was sung and club
pledge was given by the club. It was
decided that the club should have a
Scrapbook. Those in charge were Sy
bil Jones, Katheryn Tallent *and Hel
en Lancaster. A program Committee,
composed of Kathleen Tallent, Lottie
Bell Dooley and Sybil Jones, was ap-
M<wre. ftepomr.