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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. . - 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.