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VOL. 52; NO. 40
RESTORE CREDIT TO
RAILROADS AND SEE
PROSPERITY RETURN
GIVEN A CHANCE, RAILROADS
WOULD BENEFIT THE WHOLE
NATION, SAYS PAPER.
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS).-The
Savannah (Ga.) Daily Times, in a
forceful editorial headed, “If Rail
road Credit Were Restored,” says of
the railroad, “Don’t keep this indus
trial giant tied hand and foot and ex
pect it to survive. Loose its bonds so
it can go to work for the benefit of
L the whole nation.”
Quoting a recent speech by Fred W.
Sargent, president of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway, the editorial
said:
“If the problems of the nation’s
railroads are to be solved, the entire
plan of regulation will have to be re
vised. It can never be solved under
the present scheme of granting huge
direct and indirect subsidies to the
lines’ principal eompetitois.”
“Try to visualize what a change
would come over America if the cred
it of the railroads were restored in
full vigor tomorrow,” Mr. Sargent
continued. “It would mean in large
measure the difference between pros
perity and depression. It would mean
jobs for additional hundreds of thou
sands of men and women.
“From the studies I have caused to
be made, I am satisfied that the rail
roads could use to good advantage,
even under present conditions, sev
eral hundred thousand more employes
than are now on their payrolls. If
their credit were restored so that they
could go forward with their pur
chases, it would mean, also, the res
toration of jobs for many thousands
in factories and supply houses that
furnish the materials to the railroads.
“If the credit of the railroads could
be restored tomorrow it would mean
the starting of factories now closed,
the blowing-in of new furnaces in the
steel mills and the restoration of the
security for old age for thousands of
men and women who put their sav
•> ings into railroad stocks and bonds
to provide a source of income so
their declining years,” Mr. Sargent
declared.
Concluding its editorial, the Savan
nah paper said: “The issue is now
squarely in the lap of congress. Only
congress can break the log-jam of ac
cumulated restrictions, regulations
and laws which have finally brought
the American railroad industry to its
knees. All it now asks is an equal
chance for its life, the same as any
other business. Don’t keep this indus
trial giant tied hand and foot and e:
pect it to survive. Loosen its bonds so
it can go to work for the 'benefit of
the whole nation.”
Would Invite F.D.R.
As Steady Resident
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS).—lvan
Allen, prominent Atlanta business
man and chairman of the citizens’
section of the president’s (birthday
committee in Georgia, has suggested
a state-wide movement to invite Pres
ident Roosevelt to make Georgia his
permanent home when he retires from
public life.
“It is only natural to assume that
our president would like to devote
his time and energy to furthering the
great humanitarian work he has
started at Warm Springs, when he
retires,” Mr. Allen said. “Georgia
could receive no greater honor than
to ’ ave our president decide to make
tfi»M state his ‘first’ home instead of
his ‘second’ home, and I believe such
an invitation would be a fitting trib
ute from Georgia to a ‘great Geor
gian’—Mr. Roosevelt.”
Birthday balls will be held through
out the state Jan. 25-30.
It’s a well-organized office force
that works as hard when the boss
goes out for the afternoon as it did
in the morning when he was present.
WHO KNOWS?
1. Who made the first efforts to
improve chrysanthemums ?
2. How much cotton does the gov
ernment now hold ?
3. What is the national income?
4. How many of President Roose
velt’s original cabinet have died or
resigned ?
5. What percentage of the nation’s
employes are covered by present so
cial security legislation?
6. Is the congress, to assemble in
January, the Seventy-Fifth ?
7. How many notes has this coun
try sent to Germany to protest
against discriminating against Amer
icans because of race or creed?
8. What is the factory value of toys
manufactured in this country in a
year?
9. How many Americans have in
vested in “baby bonds?”
10. When was President Roosevelt
attacked by infantile paralysis?
(See 'The Answers’ dn Another Page)
(Th? Sitmmmnlk Nhus
55-Mile-an-Hour Plan
Is Sought For Georgia
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS).—When
the Georgia general assembly con
venes Jan. 9, one of the first meas
ures to come before it will be one
seeking to increase the maximum
speed limit to fifty-five miles per
hour on Georgia highways. The pres
ent maximum speed limit is forty
miles an hour.
The state board of public safety, at
a session held in Atlanta recently,
voted to recommend such a proposal
to the legislature. No minimum speed
limit will be proposed, although the
legislature might set one to prevent
some municipalities cutting the speed
limit to ten or fifteen miles.
Coincident with the action of the
safety board, a marked reduction in
traffic accidents on Georgia’s high
ways was reported. Through Nov. 15
fewer persons met with sudden death
on the Highways than during the
eleven months in 1937. A total of 727
were killed during that period this
year, compared to 842 in the same
period last year. Approximately 3,-
500 fewer persons have been injured
in motor’ vehicle accidents this year.
In addition, more than five million
dollars to Georgians have been saved
because of the reduction in accidents
NEWS ATA MI
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
“SOLUTION OF THE RAILROAD
PROBLEM BASICALLY SIM
PLE,” SAYS NEWSPAPER.
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS)—Christ
mas has come and gone, but memor
ies of Santa Claus’ visit lingers on.
That it is a pleasant memory for
most little boys and girls. There are
a few, however, who were not so for
tunate. The following true story is of
one of those little children: Santa
Claus sat smiling on an Atlanta de
partment store throne—behind him
an artificial fireplace casting a real
istic glow. A little girl in tattered
clothing gazed up at him. Patting her,
Santa asked what she wanted for
Christmas.
“I don’t want anything but that
warm fire,” the child replied, and
Santa faced one of those moments
when an answer stuck in his throat
The Solution: “The solution to the
railroad problem is basicially sim
ple,” declares the Muncie (Ind.) Press.
“The lines must be given rate in
creases sufficient to pay costs am
earn a profit. Inequalities in th
method of regulating them and their
competitors must be ironed out. Not
until this is done, and our largest
single industry given a chance to get
back on its financial feet, will indus
try at large be able to rid itself o.
‘acute indigestion’.”
Gist Os the News: Checks aggre
gating $1,507,000 were mailed out to
Georgia school teachers just befor<
Christmas by the state department of
education. The total payment war
$112,000 more than the first paymen.
to teachers this session, made in Oc
tober, and $307,000 above the aver
age monthly payment last year . . .
H. B. Butner, of Jackson, has as
sumed his duties as director of state
game protectors and as state game
technician . . . Georgia’s export fig
ures for October were $1,891,741, com
pared to $1,664,529 in October, 1937,
a gain of $227,212.
State Farmers Benefit
By New Plant Service
ATHENS, Ga.—Georgia farmers
who raise tomatoes for commercial
canneries by contract will gain pro
tection from possible losses on their
crops by a new service instituted
this fall by the University of Geqr
gia’s department of plant breeding
and pathology.
Experts in the department, which
is a division of the college of agri
culture, will analyze samples of seeds
sent to Georgia growers by the can
neries this year and then will advise
the planters on the condition of the
seed.
Since the farmers of south Georgia
raise a good portion of the nation’s
tomatoes for large canneries, the new
extension of the facilities of the col
lege of agriculture is expected to
save possible losses by tomato seed
planters.
Co-operating with the state depart
ment of entomology, research work
ers at the college of agriculture are
also making tests to combat diseases
arising in the fields as the seeds are
growing into mature plants.
Disinfection of seeds with diluted
Ceresan, floating the seeds in the liq
uid mixture, has proved successful
in laboratory tests. Experiments show
that seed disinfected with Ceresan
and dried can be stored until ready
to plant.
The tomato seed testing is being
directed by Dr. J. H. Miller, head of
the plant breeding department of the
college of agriculture. Dr. Miller and
his assistants are working with the
j state department of entomology on
the tomato seed experiments.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938
UNIVERSITY ADDS
NEW FARM SERVICE
IN POULTRY ADVICE
AUTOPSIES ON CHICKENS SENT
IN WILL BE MADE BY THE I
POULTRY EXPERTS.
ATHENS, Ga., Dec. 27.—T0 study
poultry diseases of Georgia and to
help state poultrymen solve disease
problems in chickens and other fowl,
the poultry department of the Uni- :
versity of Georgia college of agricul
ture has added a new farm service
beginning this month.
Autopsies on chickens sent in to
the poultry department will be made
by poultry experts, the causes of death
will be determined, and if sufficient
nformation about the flock is sent
in, suggestions to individual farmers
to improve their flocks will be sent
out.
The announcement of the new ex
tension service which has been in op
eration for a week’s trial, was made
this week by Frank E. Mitchell, head
of the poultry department. The labo
ratory will be directed by Dr. D. C.
Boughton, research zoologist.
Commenting on the new service,
Dr. Boughton said: “The birds should
be shipped in express prepaid alive.
Dead birds can be examined if they
haven’t been dead too long. It is nec
essary that information about the
ranging and conditions of the whole
lock be sent in with* the sample bird
o that correct recommendations can
be made.”
In preliminary tests, Dr. Boughton
md the research staff have found
round and tape worms, traces of coc
idiosis, fowl paralysis, fowl typhoid,
tumors, and nutritional deficiencies
prevalent among chicken diseases.
Besides helping the actual flocks,
he tests made at the university will
present new material for research
projects to be conducted by the Geor
gia scientists. Collections of specimens
will be kept for teaching and demon
stration purposes.
Change of Practices
Gives S7OO Increase
To Farmer’s Income
WHITE OAK, Ga., Dec. 28.—A. A.
Buie, progressive Camden county
farmer and hog producer, has in
creased his income by more than S7OO
through use of a swine sanitation
plan and a change in his system of
marketing.
In former years, Mr. Buie raised
his hogs without special care and
had received about SSOO income from
their sale as meat animals. Today, he
goes in for purebred breeding stock,
and his sales now total over $1,200
a year.
Not only has he increased his in
come, but he has reduced his cost of
production. While he formerly fed
his hogs all the year to get them fat
enough for sale as meat, he now
feeds them only a few months before
disposing of them as breeding stock.
County Agent Raymond Brockin
ton says that the Buie herd is one of
he best he has ever seen. Some idea
of its popularity may be gained from
the fact that Buie was not able to
'ill the demand for breeding stock
during the past year. However, he is
enlarging his herd for the coming
year.
In addition to the income from the
sale of pigs, Buie has realied quite
a nice sum in prize money. For the
past two years his entries have walk
ed off with most of the honors in the
ton litter show, held in Savannah
each fall.
His prize litter captured every first
place possible in the 1937 event. This
year the Buie entries again came
through as his eighteen pigs took six
of the principal awards, bringing in
$77 in prize money.
Buie gives full credit for his re
markable record to the adoption of
approved practices, outlined by th'
Georgia agricultural extension serv
ice. He has worked in close harmony
with County Agent Brockington since
1936, when he changed his system of
marketing his hogs from meat ani
mals to breeding stock.
Today, this successful hog produc
er is a real disciple of the swine san
itation plan.
Guernsey Bulls Sold
TRION, Dec. 24.—A registered
Guernsey bull has recently been sold
by the Trion company-Riegeldale
farm to Carl L. Law, of Scottsboro,
Ala. This animal is Riegedale Du
gald’s Allen 264974, according to the
American Guernsey Cattle club, Pe
terborough, N. H.
The Riegeldale farm has 'also sold
a registered Guernsey bull to H. M.
Shelton, of Pisgah, Ala. This animal
is Riegeldale Linda’s Viking 262466.
Another registered Guernsey bull
was recently sold by the farm to the
( University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
; This animal is Riegeldale Ann’s Maj
esty 262467.
Never criticize a book you haven’t
1 read dr a person you do not kndw.
Unemployment Program To
Be Discussed Here Jan. 3
All phases of the Georgia unem- j
ployment program, which becomes
efiectve Jan. 1, will be discussed at
a public meeting to be held in Sum
merville at the courthouse on Jan.
3, 1939, at 7:30 p.m.
Admission will be free and every
one is invited to attend. R. C. Wilson,
field advisor of the Georgia unem
ployment compensation bureau, with
headquarters in Rome, will preside
and .explain the purpose of the meet
ing. Frank E. Coffee, of Birmingham,
Ala., associate informational service
representative of the social security
board, will discuss the social securi
ty and state acts.
Following introductory remarks,
the meeting will be open to questions
from the audience, and workeis and
employers alike are invited to ask
any questions regarding the Georgia
act.
The various free public state em
ployment offices, of which there is
one in Rome, will begin receiving
claims for benefits Jan. 1, 1939, from
jobless workers who have been en
gaged in employment covered by the
state unemployment insurance act.
The bureau of unemployment com
pensation emphasized that it will be
useless for persons who have not
earned their right for benefits by en
gaging in “covered employment” to
file claim for benefits, but added
workers could register for jobs any
time. The employment office cannot
create jobs but will find work for as
many persons as possible.
Eligible individuals who file claim
for total unemployment benefits on
or after Jan. 1 are required by law
to a two weeks’ waiting period
before qualifying. At the end of the
first and second weeks they must
report back to the employment office
to ascertain whether or not work has
been found and to file continued claim.
They cannot receive payments on the
basis of these two weeks; therefore,
the third jobless week will be their
first compensable week of unemploy
ment.
If. the worker is eligible for bene
fits, his benefit check will be mailed
direct to him and should be received
during the fourth week of unemploy
ntorit. ’ ■*
At the meeting in Summerville the
complete program of benefit insur
ance will be discussed, including the
procedure for filing claims and the
several eligibility requirements that
each qualified claimant must meet.
Workers and employers, jobless
persons and persons with jobs, are
invited to be present and enter into
the discussion. The meeting will be
purely informational in nature and is
planned only for the purpose of help
ing people of this vicinity obtain full
infoimation about the Georgia unem
ployment insurance law.
Price Os Auto Tags
Announced at Capitol
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS).—The
1939 price tag has been placed on va
rious types of automobile registra
tions, it was announced by the state
motor vehicle unit of the department
of revenue at the state capital.
The rates for passenger cars, fixed
by the last legislature when the flat
$3 rate was abandoned, are: $1.50 for
cars weighing up to 2,500 pounds;
$2.50 from 2,500 to 3,000 pounds;
$3.50 from 3,000 to 3,506; $4.50 from
3.500 to 4,000; $5.50 from 4,000 to
4,500; $6.50 from 4,500 to 5,000;
$7.50 from 5,000 to 5,500; $8.50 from
5.500 to 6,000; $9.50 from 6,000 to
6,500, and $10.50 above 6,500 pounds.
Rates on trucks not for hire range
from $2.50 for half tons to SI,OOO for
ten tons or over, and for trucks used
for hire from $5 for half tons to
$2,000 for nine tons, with double
rate for trucks equipped with solid
i tires.
For hearses and ambulances, rates
range from $1.50 to $10.50; for
trailers, from $2.50 to SI,OOO, and for
buses, from $1.25 to $5 per hundred
pounds.
Applications will be accepted by
mail at any time, but they will not
be filled until the general sale starts
Jan. 2, and there will be no special
numbers reserved, it was pointed out.
Reservation of special numbers in the
past resulted in confusion of records
and made audits almost impossible,
it was stated.
Egg Goes Irish,
Has Green Yoik
BRUNSWICK.—Page Mr. Ripley!
For on display at a Brunswick hard
ware store is an egg with a green
yolk. Seeing is believing. The egg was
broken the other morning by Mrs.
I Eva Knight who lives near the old
I Cypress mill site, as she was prepar
l ing breakfast for her family, and so
I amazed was she at the unusual sight
that the peace of the family bieak
i fast w r as greatly perturbed.
Other than the green yolk, the egg
1 was In perfect formation and was
Jackson Day Chairman
■ J
Ryburn G. Clay, president of the
Fulton National Bank of Atlanta,
in accepting appointment as state
chairman of the Jackson Day Din
ner to be held in Atlanta January 7, |
urged all Georgia Democrats to
forget factional lines and join in
i observing the birthday cf “Old
Hickory,” Andrew Jackson.
Leads 7th District
r
I
G. C. Byars, of Rome, who has
been appointed seventh district
chairman on the Georgia Committee
for the Celebration of the Presi
dent’s Birthday, January 30. He
will organize counties in his dis
trict in the drive to raise funds
to fight Infantile paralysis.
Chattoogaville Club
Studies Cake Baking
The Chattoogaville Woman’s Home
Demonstration club held its regular
meetng at the home of Mrs. Earl
Gaylor. A very interesting demonstra
tion on “Christmas Decorations” was
given by Miss Henry. A tray of
presents, with a cord tied to each
gift, was presented by Miss Henry.
Each member pulled a string and re
ceived a useful gift.
Cora Jackson carefully and thor
oughly demonstrated the following
principles of cake baking:
1. Have all utensils and ingredi
ents ready before starting. A round
bottom bowl is best type of mixing
bowl to use. A wooden spoon is best
suitable.
2. The shortening must be the best.
3. Fine grain sugar makes finer
texturp.
4. Use pastry flour.
5. Sift flour before measuring,
combining dry materials and sift
again.
6. Use best brands of baking
powder.
7. Break eggs carefully. When
whites are added separately, beat
stiff, add last. Long beating is the
only way to make a fine-grained
cake.
When fruits or nuts are added,
dredge in flour. Grease cake pan in
which “butter cakes” are baked.
“Butterless cakes” should never be
oiled or floured, or lined with paper;
fill cake pan two-thirds full of mix
ture.
The following “mystery cake” rec
ipe was used:
Two cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 2
cups raisins, 1 cup nuts, 4 table
spoons butter (melted), 2 teaspoons
soda (level), 1 teaspoon each nut
meg, cinnamon, cloves, two 10-cent
cans tomato soup. Mix well, bake in
three layers.
considered “fresh,” as Mr. Knight
had gathered the egg from her yard
only last evening. The unusual egg
was laid by a Black Leghorn hen
1 and the only reason that Mrs. Knight
can account for the unusual color of
the yolk is that her chickens have
access to a large spinach patch.
$1.50 A YEAB
CHATTOOGA COUNTY
SUPPLIES 4,387 OF
‘COVERED WORKERS’
TRUST FUND OF $15,000,060 LAID
BY TO BEGIN PAYMENTS IN
LATE JANUARY.
Chattooga county supplies 4,387 of
Georgia’s 400,000 “covered workers,”
’ who, on Jan. 1, 1939, will become eli
: gible for benefit payments, if and
| when they lose their jobs through no
fault of their own, under provisions
iof the Georgia unemployment com
\ pensation act.
Chattooga county is located in the
( Rome area, which has 13,742 “cover-
I ed workers.”
A “covered worker,” under provis
ions of the law, is a person who has
| worked for an employer paying an
excise tax of 2.7 per cent, upon his
total annual pay roll.
Payments of benefits to eligible
workers will actually begin the lat
ter part of January and will be made
from a trust fund of approximately
fifteen million dollars which has ac
cumulated since the act was passed.
The law provides that claims for
benefits may be filed Jan. 1 and that
( eligible claimants must serve a two
weeks’ waiting period. The third
week -will be the first compensable
j week and, therefore, at least three
weeks must elapse from the time a
worker files claim until he receives
i his benefit check.
Other requirements to determine
who is eligible for benefits provide:
A worker must have earned wages
i between January and October of 1938
in an amount sufficient to comply
with the law from a person, firm or
corporation which has qualified as an
I employer.
That he register for work at the
( nearest office of the Georgia state
I employment service.
Be able and available for work and
' file claim for benefits.
In the event a worker does not ob-
■ tain employment within two -weeks,
■ the law requires he must report each
week he is unemployed at the em
ployment office and file continued
i claim for benefits.
If the worker continues unemploy
ed indefinitely, he cannot receive a
benefit check for more than sixteen
weeks.
A worker’s weekly benefit for to
tal unemployment will be approxi
mately 50 per cent, of his full-time
weekly wage but not more than sls
per week nor less than $5 or three
fourths of his full-time weekly wage,
whichever is the lesser.
A worker partially unemployed may
be eligible for benefits if his hours
of work (have been reduced.
COTTON GINNING REPORT.
Census report shows that 7,298
bales of cotton were ginned in Chat
tooga county from the crop of 1938,
prior to Dec. 13, as compared with
10,893 bales for the crop of 1937, ac
. cording to Mrs. Rosa N. Shumate,
i special agent.
TVA Leases 350 Acres
For Negro State Park
The lease of 350 acres of land in
the Chickamauga reservoir area to
the Tennessee state department of
conservation for development as a
state park for negroes was announced
last week by the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
The tract is located on the south
ern shore of the proposed Chicka
mauga Take, about eight miles from
Chattanooga, near the village of Bar-
■ tlebaugh. It will be near the new
parkway leading from Chattanooga
to the new Harrison Bay state park.
Establishment of the new park n'ear
Bartlebaugh w-as recommended by the
Hamilton county regional planning
• commission, the Chattanooga Cham
i ber of Commerce, the Hamilton coun
| ty court, and other local groups. The
' authority contributes the use of the
| land, "on certain stated conditions,
1 ■ subject to requirements for reservoir
purposes, for a fifteen-year period,
‘ the lease being automatically renew-
I able. TVA will also co-operate in the
development of plans for the park.
, The Tennessee state department of
1 conservation will assume the main-
• tenance.
‘ The construction necessary to devel
opment will -be done by the CCC under
• the supervision of the national park
service. The 350-acre tract includes
■ within its bounds two hills with an
i attractive cove between. It is pro-
1 posed to provide areas for picnicking
• and facilities for boating and other
> lake front activities. It is expected
■ that work will begin some time be
t fore spring.
i The authority also announced a li
cense agreement with the Tennessee
state department of conservation
t granting exclusive fishing, boating
I and swimming privileges to the state
; for the Cove Lake state park in the
i Norris reservoir area. This agree
t, ment is an extension of the authori
t ty’s former lease agreement, which
> covered only use of the authority’s
land surrounding CoVd Lake.