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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 §ummmtillß Nnus 6 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.