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VOL. 52- NO. 46
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
HIGHWAY BOARD BREAKS ALL
PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION
RECORDS TO JUNE 30.
ATLANTA, Jan. 31 (GPS).—The
reputation for bad roads, which once
belonged to Georgia, is a thing of
the past—if the money spent for
highway projects means anything.
The present state highway board
broke all previous construction rec
ords during the fiscal year ending
June 30 by spending $20,507,767 on
construction projects it was revealed
in the board’s report, just -made pub
lic. This construction expenditure
compared with $13524,715 in 1937;
$10,746,251 in 1136; $11,619,991 in
1935, and $,016,229 in 1934. Os the
1938 expenditure, $18,944,789 went
for actual construction, $1,145,446 for
construction supervision and $417,-
531 for surveys. Os the contracts let
during the fiscal year $12,608,685
were federal aid projects and $3,215,-
091 state aid projects. The remainder
were county, post roads and miscel
laneous projects.
During the year the board added
834 miles to the state highway sys
tem, bringing the system to a total
of 10,953 miles. On the system of top
soil or sand clay surface roads, 845
miles surfaced with gravel and maca
dam, 2,535 miles that have had sur
face treatment with various mate
rials, 360 miles of penestation maca
dam, 457 miles of bituminous con
crete, 1,921 miles of concrete and
twelve'miles of brick paving. The
highway board is composed of W. L
Miller, of Lakeland, chairman; James
L. Gillis, of Soperton, and Herman
Watson, of Dallas. ,
Do You Know? That materials
from 119 manufacturing plants go
into the construction of a standard
locomotive . . . That railway taxes
amount to almost one million dollars
a day . . . That in 1930, the total
daily mileage run by American pas
senger trains at average speeds of
a mile a minute or more was 1,100
miles, while today it exceeds 40,000
miles . . That railroads of the Unit
ed States paid 10 cents in taxes out
of each dollar of operating revenues
collected in the first eight months of
1938.
Gist Os the News: The Georgia
house of representatives is studying
State Auditor Zaih Arnold’s special
report, which shows the state had
run up a deficit of $4,156,024.77 from
July 1 to Dec. 31, the first half of
the fiscal year. The report shows an
increase of 416 persons on the state
payroll during that period, boosting
the payroll more than $500,000 an
nually . . . Georgia’s new intangibles
tax act would yield $1,281,590.07 if as
sessments for 1938 were collected 100
per cent., declares Revenue Commis
sioner Grady Head. The state’s share
would be $183,609.60, the remainder
going to counties, municipalies and
school districts . . . Samuel Candler
Dobbs, Sr.; in presenting $1,000,000
to Emory university last week, said
he was “investing $1,000,000 in future
students of Emory.”
County Farmers Aid
In Soil Conservation
Many farmers in Chattooga county
who are co-operating with the Coosa
River Soil Conservation district are
planning to sow lespedeza during
February or March on fall-sown oats
and other small grain to provide more
effective erosion control, according
to J. O. Chandler, work unit techni
cian.
This practice is much more desir
able than following oats with cow
peas dnd requires considerably less
labor, Chandler explained. When cow
peas follow grain the land has to be
plowed about the first of June when
other crops need work; and frequent
ly dry weather at that time makes
it impossible to get peas planted in
time. All that is necessary in sowing
lespedeza is to ran a drag harrow
over the land after the lespedeza seed
is sown, so as to scratch the seed
lightly into the soil.
The lespedeza will give good cover
for the land after the oats are har
vested, Chandler pointed out, and be
ing a legume will add nitrogen to
the soil to increase the production
of succeeding crops.
Many farmers have found it desir
able to leave the lespedeza on the
land two years. This enables them to
harvest a hay crop the second year
and still have good protection in the
lespedeza stubble the second winter,
before the land is turned for other
crops.
STEADY WORK—GOOD PAY
RELIABLE MAN WANTED to call
on farmers in Chattooga county.
No experience or capital required.
Make up to sl2 a day. Write Mc-
CO., Dept, S. ; Freeport, QI.
Skews
Dobbs Gift Comes
As Culmination Os
Country Boy’s Rise
ATLANTA, Jan. 31.—When Sam
uel C. Dobbs gave one million dollars
to Emory last week, it climaxed the
life story of a “country boy who
had made good.”
Mr. Dobbs, who came here as a
drug store helper fifty-two years
ago, knew the hardships of poverty
during his boyhood on a farm near
Villa Rica. At 18, he joined his uncle,
the late Asa G. Candler, in the lat
ter’s Atlanta pharmacy.
Two parallels run through the lives
of both men. Both hleped to make
Coca-Cola an American by-word, and
both helped to build Emory.
The late Mr. Candler, inspired by
his brother, Bishop Warren A. Cand
ler, Emory’s “grand old man,” gave
a total of more than $8,000,C00 to
Emory before his death in 1929. His
benefactions made possible the Em
ory university of today.
Mr. Dobbs also derived his wealth
from Coca-Cola. As advertising and
sales manager of the company, and
later as president, he made the drink
universally known. In 1915, he donat
ed Dobbs Hall, largest of Emory’s
dormitories. Since then, he has help
ed the university in numerous ways
and is a lecturer in the school of
business administration.
When Emory announced grants of
$2,000,000 from the general education
board last week for a University Cen
ter in Atlanta to help Southern edu
cation, Mr. Dobbs came forward
again. This time he offered $1,001,00U
and modestly called it “an investment
in southern boys and girls.” His do
nation and the board’s grant sent
Emory beyond the halfway mark in
her present program of $6,000,000
additional funds for the center.
The agricultural problem is to pre
vent surpluses from beating down
prices and to maistain a satisfactory
balance between production on the
farms and production in the factories.
Ground Floor of Post
Office to Be Finished
Bids will be opened in Washington
at 10 am. Feb. 17 for completion of
the ground floor in the local post
office, according to notice from F. F.
Chapman, postmaster.
When completed there will be sev
eral branches of government agencies
occupy the new offices.
SINGING AT BERRYTON
Singing at Berryton Sunday after
noon, Feb. 5. Singers from Hughes
Ave Baptist church, of Chattanooga,
will be present. Everyone is cordially
invited to attend. '
Twenty Men Will Be
Accepted By Marines
During February
During February twenty men will
be accepted for enlistment in the
United States Marine Coips from this
area, of which Macon is headquar
ters, it has been announced by Major
J. M. Tildsley, officer in charge
Applicants must be between the
ages of 18 and 28; 65 to 74 indies in
height; of good moral character; in
excellent physical condition, and with
at least one year of high school
training.
Full information concerning enlist
ment may be had from the headquar
ters in Macon.
DELAYED CARD.
LYNCHBURG, Va.—A post card
mailed twenty-two years ago by a
merchant in North Carolina was re
cently received by R. P. Beasley,
president of a shoe company which
liquidated over twenty years ago. It
read, “Please have your salesman
come and see me about Feb. 20, 1917.”
DIES TO SAVE S6OO
WESTFIELD, N. J. —Discovering
their house afire, Mrs. Marie londa
rushed to the attic to get S6OO she
had hidden under the eaves. Firemen
confined the blaze to the cellar. How
ever, when Mrs. londa failed to ap
pear, they searched the house and
found her dead on the floor, the S6OO
lying near by.
WHO KNOWS?
1. Has the United States claims to
any land in the Antarctics?
2. How old is baseball?
3. Do American-owned vessels pay
Panama Canal tolls?
4. What is the strength of the
Spanish factions?
5. How many Jews in Europe face
passible economic extinction ?
6. Gan the president spend any
money whatever without the approval
of congress?
7. How would German trade ben
efit through the emigration of Jews
8. Has Italy suppressed Masonry?
(See The Answers’ on Another P»se)
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1939
FATAL ACCIDENTS
SHOW DECLINE AT
GRADE CROSSINGS
ATLANTA, Feb. 1 (GPS).—The
world apparently is becoming safer
at the grade crossings.
That fact is borne out by statistics
of the safety section of the Associa
tion of American Railroads, just made
public by Atlanta railway executives,
Which show a substantial decrease
both in fatal and non-fatal accidents
at highway-iailroad grade crossings
during the first ten months of 1938,
compared with the corresponding pe
riod in 1937.
Accidents at the grade crossings
during the ten-month period of 1938
totaled 2,669, compared with 3,585 in
the same period the preceding year,
a decrease of 916, the figures show.
Fatalities resulting from these acci
dents totaled 1,159 in the first ten
months last year, compared with 1,-
879 in the corresponding period of
1937, a decrease of 360, while persons
injured numbered 3,081 in the 1938
period, compared with 4,082 in the
same period the year before, a de
cline of I,COI.
While the national figures show a
definite improvement during the ten
month period, here in Georgia the
.Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast rail
ioad set a remarkable record of safe
ty for the entire year of 1938. In
operating a total of 1,350,045 train
miles during the past year, the A., B.
& C. railroad reported only 37 acci
dents at grade crossings, none of
which resulted in death or serious in
jury to persons Twenty of the 37 ac
cidents, or 55 per cent., were due to
automobiles and trucks running into
the sides of the trains and engines.
State Referendum On
Uniform Time Sought
ATLANTA, Feb. 1 (GPS).—A bill
calling for a state-wide election on
uniform time, which would decide the
long-debated question of whether the
entire state should observe eastern
or central standard time, has been
favorably reported to the Georgia
house of representatives by the com
mittee on the state of the republic.
After considerable argument, it was
decided popular vote will decide the
issue.
For the Inner Man.
“Any dry wine is helpful in sea
sicnness,” says a writer in a symposi
um on this distressing theme. Dry
land is good, too. —Chicago Daily
News.
135,500,000.
Broad changes in present laws and
procedure are recommended by the
special committee appointed by the
president to study the problem of
eliminating duplications in govern
mental questionnaires and forms re
quired of business men. Last year,
the committee reports, business con
cerns had to fill out 135,000,000 re
ports.
So Much
A New York store advertises that
it understands woman in all her
moods. So much for a theory that
what business lacks is confidence. —
San Francisco Chronicle.
Last summer farmers in the United
States harvested about 940 million
bushels of wheat. That crop was one
of the two largest in the past twenty
years. What is more important, the
crop is almost 250 million bushels
more than all the people of this
country use in a whole year.
WPA WILL START SURVEY
OF GEORGIA DEAF PEOPLE
The Works Progress Administra
tion of Georgia is conducting a state
wide survey of all deaf mute people
in Georgia, in co-operation with the
state department of public welfare
and the Georgia Deaf association.
The purpose of the survey is to lo
cate every deaf person in the state
of Georgia, regardless of race, sex or
financial condition. It is necessary
that all totally deaf people be count
ed in order to get a composite picture
of the deaf situation in Georgia.
CENSUS CARD
Name of Deaf Person
Address
Surname ; Given Name ; Race ; Sex
DEFINITION
Include any person who is totally deaf an uses signs or Jip
reading instead of speech for communication.
Tag Deadline Extended
10 Days Dy Gov. Rivers
Deadline for the purchase of 1939
Georgia automobile license tags
Tuesday was extended by executive
order of Gov. Rivers for ten days.
Under the new deadline, set Tues
day by Gov. Rivers, tags may be
purchased until midnight, Feb. 10,
without payment of the $1.25 pen
alty, it was stated.
SUMMERVILLE BUYS
MILL WATERWORKS
(From the Chattanooga Times.)
Sale of the waterworks system of
the former Summerville cotton mills
to the township of Summeville, Ga.,
was announced yesterday by Paul S.
Mathes, who said the township plans
to make improvements and extensions
costing in the neighborood of $50,000.
Mr. Mathes at the same time an
nounced that the mills, which normal
ly employ about 350 persons, will be
reopened before the end of February,
a few weeks later than had been ex
pected at the time of the most recent
announcement late last year. The
plant has been closed down since Aug.
17, last, and the suspension is re
ported to have acutely increased Sum
merville’s relief problems.
The wateiWorks system just sold to
the township includes a large sprng,
a pumping station, mains and connec
tions. The township plans to add a
filter plant and to extend the mains,
according to Mr. Mathes, who heads
the new corporation owning the mill
property.
The mill company retains a spring
and the waterworks system in its in
dustrial village.
The Summerville cotton mills was
bought last summer by the bondhold
ers, who paid for the plant their
$393,000 in bonds. Most of the bonds
were owned in Chattanooga. The new
owners have since incorporated as the
North Georgia Mill company, which si
issuing stock to the bondholders at
the rae of ten no-par shares for every
SI,OOO bond. The officers of the North
Georgia Mill company are Mr.
Mathes, president; Morrow Chamber
lain, vice-president, and Robert F.
Evans, secretary-treasurer.
Efficient Business
Will Profit Under
Gross Tax, Says Head
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA.—The gross income tax
proposed by State Revenue Commis
sioner T. Grady Head, would, the
commissioner declared in a statement
to the press, enable the efficient busi
ness man to make a profit and elim
inate the inefficient man because of
his competition.
This would be the result, he pre
dicted, “under a fair and equitable tax
system in the field of freedom in price
competition,” thus working for the
general good of business in the state.
“We realize,*’ said Commissioner
Head, “that we will be confronted
with the argument that a gross in
come tax does not take into considera
tion whether or not persons, firms
and coporations are making or losing
money in their business.*’
Mr. Head has emphatically recom
mended enactment of a one per cent,
gross income tax, with an exemption
of SIOO a month to each taxpayer in
the interest of people of small income.
He estimates an annual revenue of
twelve and a half million dollars from
! such a tax and envisions, as a result,
i repeal of the state ad valorem tax by
Jan. 1, 1940.
In the past hundred years, the crop
I production per farm worker has in
| creased threefold.
| Anyone knowing of a deaf person
please clip out the following census
card, filling in their name, race, sex
and their address and forward or de
liver the names to your local depart
ment of public welfare representative
in your county, at which time the
census cards will be picked up and a
personal interview made with each
deaf person to secure conldential in
formation from each one by an au
thorized representative of the WPA.
Pay For Georgia
Teachers Uncertain,
Assembly Informed
ATLANTA, Jan. 30 (CNS).— City
and county school superintendents
have been informed by State Auditor
Zach Arnold that the state will be
unable to pay for seven months of
school this year. The state auditor
likewise filed a report with the as
sembly showing that, even if appro
priations were paid in full this year
as a result of new revenue measures,
it would probably be impossible to
pay for more than six of the seven
month school term guaranteed by the
state through legislation passed in
1937.
Mr. Arnold mailed the following
notice to srhooi superintendents:
“Because of an anticipated effici
ency of $8,500,000 in federal fund
revenue of the state for the period
ending June 30, 1939, you can expect
to receive payment of the amount re
quired by you to meet teachers’ sal
aries, as approved by the department
of education, about March 20, 1939,
for the month of December (1938)
and an additional payment to cover
approximately 30 per cent, of your
January teacher salaries about the
middle of June, 1939.
“The balance to be paid on Janu
ary, February and March is condi
tioned upon sufficient funds being
raised to pay the appropriations in
full by June 30, 1939, and the fund
for April are contingent upon suffi
cient appropriation, together with the
funds being provided to cover the
payment. The payments on the equal
ization fund will be made regularly !
as heretofore.’
School salaries last year held the j
center of attention. They were paid
by a drastic application of the pro
vision for a ‘stabilization fund,’ gar
nered from the grants to all other
purposes, and by the use of some of
the funds that would go normally in
to the textbook fund.
All available resources have been
applied to teachers’ salaries this
year, but the revenue available for
general appropriations is $8,500,000
short, and unless provision for extra
revenues is made by the assembly at
this session, the sum available for
payment of salaries to teachers will
be reduced seriously below that for
the preceding fiscal year.
Menlo P.-T. A. To
Meet February 13
The Menlo Parent-Teacher associa- |
tion <,lll meet on Monday evening,
Feb. 13, at the school auditorium.
The losing side in the membership
drive will entertain the winners. All
members are urged to attend.
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Light Pruning Is
Recommended For
Trees In Orchard
Light pruning of apple and pecan
trees was recommended this week by
County Agent 0. P. Dawson, who said j
the old theory of heavy pruning is
rapidly being replaced.
Recent experimental work has
shown that young trees cut back too
much are forced to devote their sea
son’s growth to replacing the wood
pruned away, rather than to produc
ing fruit, he declared.
“A common practice is to fertilize
young growing trees rather heavily,”
Mr. Dawson said. “After vigorous
growth has been produced, it seems
unwise to destroy most of the work
accomplished by too-heavy pruning.
Light pruning, with as even a dis
tribution of fruiting wood as possible,
should be the aim. This will establish
trees that will give maximum produc
tion and have longer life.
“Young apples,” he advised, “should
be pruned enough to train the trees
properly, and to establish scaffold
branches at the proper heighth, usual
ly two to three feet from the ground.
Pruning should avoid sharp angles
or weak crotches, especially in the
scaffold limbs. Later pruning should
consist mainly of removing dead or
broken branches and slightly cutting
back vigorous branches that would
tend to throw the tree out of balance.
“Os course, more pruning is neces- i
sary in the case of peach trees,” the
county agent said. “Trees should be
held within reasonable bounds for the
harvesting of the fruit from the
ground or from low ladders. It is cus
tomary to head peach trees near the
ground. With the increased use of
tractors and heavier harrows, it is
advisable to head them slightly high
er than was previously done.
“Pecans require very little prun
ing. They are usually headed high
enough from the ground to allow
tractors and spray machines to be
used under the lower limbs. Spacing
is more important with pecan trees
than pruning. They should be spaced
12 or 15 to the acre. Where trees
have been planted closer than 60 to
70 feet, it will be necessary to thin
them as they reach maximum size,”
$1.50 A YEAR
CALHOUN METHODISTS
WILL BE HOST DALTON
DISTRICT MEET FEB. 7
BISHOP DECELL TO SPEAK—
NINETY-ONE CHURCHES TO
BE RTPRESENTED.
Ninety-one churches throughout
Northwest Georgia are to be repre
sented in a gathering to be held at
Calhoun on Tuesday, Feb. 7. There
will be morning, afternoon and night
sessions at which representative
speakers, including Bishop J. L. De
cell, of Birmingham; Dr. Nat G. Long,
Emory university, and Dr. R. L. Rus
sell, of Gainesville, will appear on the
program.
Bishop John Lloyd Decell, in charge
of Georgia and Alabama conferences,
will make his first official visit to the
Dalton district on the occasion of
this meeting. He will be present
throughout the day.
Rev. J. S. Thrailkill, presiding el
der of the Dalton district, has ar
ranged a program which will include
consideration of missions, education,
evangelism and young people’s work.
Preachers, laymen, missionary socie
ty leaders and church school work
ers will be in attendance throughout
the day. Hosts of young people from
the Dalton district area are expected
at the night session . when Bishop
Decell and Dr. Long will be the chief
speakers at te Youth’s Crusade rally.
Mrs. Ritchie Guest Os
Junior Woman’s Club
Luncheon at Riegeldale Tavern Plan
ned for Thursday, Feb. 9.
The Summerville Junior Woman’s
club is fortunate to have as their
guest at a beautifully planned lunch
eon at Riegeldaletavern on Feb. 9,
Mrs. H. B. Ritchie, sate commander
of the woman’s army field division of
cancer control. Mrs. Ritchie has been
an untiring worker in Georgia, is an
earnest, interesting speaker, and her
visit, coming as it does at the begin
ning of a special drive for cancer
control, will mean much to our club
in their efforts to do their part in
helping fight “Enemy No. 1” in the
field of diseases.
We are looking forward with
pleasure to this visit with our dis
tinguished guest.
Farm & Home Week
Dates Are Announced
Dates for the 1939 Farm and Home
week, annual gathering of farmers
and their families at the University
of Georgia College of Agriculture,
were announced in Athens last week
by Dean Paul W. Chapman.
He said Aug. 7-12 has been set
aside for the six-day meeting, which
is sponsored by the college, in co
operation with the Georgia agrical
farm agencies.
In announcing dates for Farm and
Home week, Dean Chapman said the
second week in August “offers about
the best time during the summer for
farmers and their families to get
away from their work.”
State-wide meetings for farmers,
their wives, and 4-H club members
have been held simultaneously during
Farm and Home week for the past
five years. Previous to that time,
these sessions were held at different
times during the year. The annual
conference of 4-H club members was
begun shortly after the college of
agriculture was established.
The program for men will bring to
Athens a number of outstanding
leaders in the field of agriculture.
Subjects of interest to the farmer in
planning his farm program will be
discussed by members of the college
staff, extension specialists and visit
ing speakers.
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Agricultural society also will be held
during the week, while Georgia poul
trymen will attend a week’s short
course in poultry.
Women delegates will hear discus
sions on home-making by leading
home economists at a short course
sponsored by the Georgia Home Dem
onstration council.
Another feature of the Farm and
Home week program will be the third
annual community entertainment con
test, sponsored by the 4-H club de
partment of the Georgia extension
service. The winning county in each
of the four extension service districts
will compete for first honors in the
state-wide contest at that time.
ONLY ONE.
The only aircraft manfacturer in
this country which failed to accede
to Secretary Hull’s request that
American airplanes and equipment
not be sold to countries using them
to bombard civilian populations was
the United Aircraft corporation, of
New Hartford, Conn. As late as last
month, it obtained a license to ex
port 600 propeller blade forges, val
ued at $102,000, to Japen.