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VOL. 52; NO. 47
BATTLE ON WPA
REVIVED BY FDR;
ASKS 150 MILLION
President Flings Issue Back To Con
gress—Says Millions May Be
“Stranded” By Summer.
WASHINGTON, Feb.
Roosevelt flung the relief issue back
in the face of congress today with an
assertion that unless more money is
appropriated for WPA, millions now
dependent upon federal assistance
may “be stranded” by early summer.
Specifically, he asked for the $150,-
006,000 which congress, in an econo
my effort, lopped from his estimates
of relief needs for the present fiscal
year.
He urged “immediate consideration’
of his request, but the two key men
in the situation in the house—Chair
man Taylor (dem., Colo.) of the ap
propriations comlmittee, and Chair
man Woodrum (dem., Va.), of the
subcommittee in charge, made it
plain that no action would be taken
for several weeks.
“I don’t know,” Woodrum said,
“what action the committee will take
or whether it will take any. I don’t
see that the situation has changed,
and I have not changed my view that
the $725,000,000 we have already ap
priated will be enough.”
Spending Controversy.
Chairman Adams (dem., Colo.), of
the corresponding subcommittee in the
senate, said that whatever bill is ap
proved by the house will receive
“careful study” along with any “new
facts’, that may be presented. He, too,
said that neither the relief situation
nor his own views as to what should
be done had changed.
Behind the president’s request and
these statements by the legislators
lay the deep seated controversy over
the Roosevelt spending policies, and
the results of the session’s first bat
tle on that issue.
Prayer Band Meets
At Pennville Tonight
The weekly prayer band will meet
at Pennville Thursday night at 7
o’clock. We are expecting Elmer Han
kins to be with us.
Our Fellowship club will meet on
Saturday night at 7 o’clock and wc
will have the Rev. Shivers, of Trion,
with us.
Sunday, Feb. 12, we will have the
Rev. Pat Henry, of Bob Jones c<
lege, with us, bringing messages at
2:30 in the afternoon and at 7 in the
evening. Each and everyone are in
vited to attend these services.
Miss Ira Perry Honored
At West Georgia College
CARROLLTON, Ga., Feb. 6.—Miss
Ira Myrtle Perry, Gore, one of the
many Chattooga county students at
tending West Georgia college, was
among the forty-seven making the
Dean s list for the fall quarter. The
Dean’s list is an honor for those who
make outstanding grades.
Miss Perry is president of the
French club. She is also an active
member of the Zeta Sigma Pi, hon
orary social science club; Mu Zeta Al
pha, honorary scientific club; Offi
cers’ club, and 4-H club. She is par
ticipating in the expansive extra-cur
ricular program at the junior college
here.
The vigorous construction program
which has 'been under way since this
unit of the university system was es
tablished is still continuing. Chancel
lor. S. V. Sanford recently dedicated
the new $30,600 Rural Arts building
and now a $50,000 auditorium, dining
hall, gymnasium is nearing comple
tion.
Dr. Sanford, chancellor of the Uni
versity System of Georgia, described
West Georgia as “one of the most
efficient junior college of Georgia and
the South.”
The administration plans to release
4,000,000 bales of cotton, held on
loans, to ease the market.
A new type of radio developed at
Stanford university is expected to
have revolutionary effect.
WHO KNOWS?
1. How did auto and truck sales in
1938 compare with 1937?
2. Does the U S produce everything
necessary to sustain a long war?
2. How much foreign money is de
posited in this country?
4. Does the U S export shoes?
5. Who is Sumner Welles?
6. How many persons have been
included in the baseball “Hall of
Fame” ?
7. Is there any law limiting the
nation’s public debt.
8. Does Germany suffer from un
employment ?
9. was the national income
in 1929?
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Farmers May Get
A Motor Bulletin
Free From Agent
A new bulletin, designed to aid the
Georgia farmer in making a simple
motor, making it portable, and put
ting it to work, is now available to
farmers of this county.
The bulletin entitled, “A Portable
Motor for Georgia Farms,,’ is a pic
ture-book, accompanied by a simple
word description of a portable motor
for use on the farm. It was publish
ed by the Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension service.
J. L. Calhoun, extension rural elec
trification specialist and author of
the bulletin, says that “any machine
on the farm ordinarily turned by
hand, can be operated with a small
electric motor at a cost of about 1
cent per hour for electricity. The
small motor may be put to dozens of
farm uses to save time and expense.”
The first part of the book pictures
four steps in making a motor porta
ble for farm use. Each of these steps
is explained by word and picture
In the second section of the publi
cation, factors in making provisions
for attachments are considered. These
factors are the determination of the
size of pulley needed on the driven
mlachiries, so that it will run at its
rated speed, location of the motor,
and the method of holding the motor
in place.
The third part, entitled “The Por
table Motor at Work,” pictures and
describes the use of the motor in
shelling corn, mixing concrete, churn
ing. cleaning eggs, freezing ice cream,
cleaning seed, grinding sausage, cut
ting green feed and sharpening a disc.
The Georgia farmer who plans to
buy a small motor will find the last
section of value, as it recommends
the types of motors in general use
and gives recommendations for their
care.
Copies of the’bulletin, No. 467, may
be obtained free of charge from thi
office of the county agent.
Georgia 1938 Relief
$32,786,602
Emergency relief checks to Geor
gians during the calendar year 1938
totaled $32,786,602.84, it was an
nounced Tuesday by Francis Shurling,
state director of the national emer
gency council.
Public works administration alloca
tions during that period totaled $9,-
809,126.87.
Federal payments to Georgians in
all forms were considerably above the
total of Georgia’s contributions to the
national treasury, it was announced
Official treasury sheets are avail
able for public inspection at Allan t;
offices of the national emergency
council.
Civil Service Exams
Announced
The United States Civil Service
commission has announced that it will
accept applications not later than
March 6 if received from states east
of Colorado, and not later than March
9 if received from Colorado and
states westward, for the positions
named below.
Consultant in employe-employer re
lations, $5,600 a year, office of edu
cation, department of interior. Appli
cants rrtust not have passed their
53rd birthday.
Mediator, and principal, senior, and
associate mediators, $3)200 to $5,600
a year, National Mediation Board and
Maritime Labor board. Applicants for
the associate grade must not have
passed their 53rd birthday.
Industrial economist (labor eco
nomics), $3,800 a year, also senior
grade, $4,600 a year, and principal
grade, $5,6(0 a year, Wage and Hour
division, Department of Labor. Asso
ciate industrial economist (minimum
wage laws), $3,200 a year, also as
sistant grade, $2,600 a year, Mini
mum Wage division, Woman’s Bureau,
Department of Labor. Applicants for
the three grades of industrial econom
ist (labor economics) must not have
passed their 53rd birthday; for the
associate grade (minimum wage laws)
they must not have passed their 45th
birthday; and for the assistant grade
(minimum wage laws) they must not
have passed their 40th birthday.
Agronomist (tobacco investiga
tions), $3,800 a year, and associate
pathologist (tobacco investigations),
$3,200 a year, Bureau of Plant In
dustry. Applicants for agronomist
must not have passed their 53rd, and
for associate pathologist they must
not have passed their 45th birthday.
Full information may -be obtained
from the secretary of the United
States Civil Service Board of Exam
iners at the post office or custom
house in any city which has a post
office of the first or second class, or
from the United State Civil Service
Commission, Washington* D. C t
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BOY SCOUT WEEK
LAUNCHED FEB. 8,
PLAN ACTIVITIES
Celebration Will Mark the Twenty-
Ninth Birthday of the Boy
Scouts of America.
Responding to the theme, “Scout
ing Carries on American Ideals,”
more than a million and a quarter
Scouts and Scouters (adult leaders)
in the United States and over a
thousand in our Northwest Georgia
will today launch a series of activi
ties in celebration of Boy Scout week,
marking the 29th birthday of the Boy
Scouts of America, first incorporated
in the District of Columbia on Feb.
9, 1910, and later granted a federal
charter by congress. Since the earli
est Scouts were enrolled a total of
8,500,000 boys and men have been
members of the Boy Scout movement
in this country and have participated
in its constructive program of par
ticipating citizenship activities, of
which the current plan are typical.
The Scout birthday today, will, ac
cording to Scout tradition, be the
time when former and active Scouts
Scouters will be expected to re-pledge
themselves to the Scout promise, in
their own homes or in their troops
and patrols, as a demonstration of the
way Scouting and Cubbing both seek
to supplement and support the influ
ence of the American home.
Scout Church day, Sunday, Feb. 12,
or, in the case of Scouts of Jewish
faith, the previous Friday or Satur
day, will offer each Scout and Scout
er an opportunity to fulfill his sol
emn obligation to the twelfth part
of the Scout law—“A Scout Is Rev
erent—-he is faithful in his religious
duties and respects the convictions Os
others in matters of custom and re
ligion.”
Serum For 250,000
Sped To Kentucky
Fear Heavy Death Toll From Flu,
Pneumonia in Wake of Floods.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 7.—Vac
cine for 250,000 persons was rushed
into 30 flood-stricken eastern Ken
tucky mountain counties today to
fight influenza and pneumonia as
the Ohio river, rising slowly from
Cincinnati toward,, the Mississippi,
spread over additional lowland areas.
Although Red Cross disaster com
mittees along the Ohio river south of
Cincinnati “stood by” for emergency
duty, authorities said conditions are
lot alarming and there was no chance
of 1937’s high mark being repeated.
The Red Cross and Kentucky health
department authorities co-operated in
carrying relief necessities and medi
cal supplies to the mountains. Dr. A.
J. McCormack, state health commis
sioner, personally went into the
stricken area after expressing fear
hat a heavy death list might be re
vealed.
Seriousness of the mountain situa
tion came as the small communities
along creeks, which rose quickly,
flowed over housetops in some sec
dons and then fell as rapidly, had
communications restored.
Dr. McCormack said: “This is the
worst flood in the history of the
mountains” as he asked for an ap
propriation from the emergency fund
of the United States public health
service.
COX CHARGES N.R.L.B.
OPPOSES COLOR LINE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—-Represen
tative Cox (dem., Ga.) declared in the
house today he had information that
the National Labor Relations board
had adopted a program to break
down “the color line in the south.”
He made this statement, without
further elaboration, during an attack
on the board, which he called “thor
oughly disreputable.”
Representative O’Connor (dem.,
Mont.) defended the board, saying it
was the “most maligned” federal
agency.
Roosevelt permits France to buy
war planes and asks rush.
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PASSAGE OF NEW
FARM MEASURE
PREDICTED SOON
Cost-Of-Production Plan For Farmers
Seen As Boon to Nation—Will
Solve Farm Problem.
A cost-of-production farm bill, now
before congress may be enacted into
law in time to apply to 1939 crops, it
was predicted this week. The princi
ple of the bill is said to be directed
towards “solving, once and for all,
the country’s farm problem.”
The cost-of-production bill would
guarantee farmers production cost,
plus a reasonable profit of about 5
per cent, on all crops whose inter
state and foreign commerce volume
exceeds $10,000,'000 annually.
Thus far, the bill has been merely
referred to the senate and house ag
riculture committees.
Another provision of the bill would
permit the secretary of agriculture
to determine the cost of production
for each commodity. Millers and
processors would be required to pay
that price plus the profit and they
would pass it on to the consumers.
P’ices need not materially rise as
a result, it was pointed out. “Legis
lation would give farmers the extra
$7,000,006,000 which would make this
country the $80,000,000,000 nation the
president wants,” one spokesman for
the measure declared.
House Group Okays
Reciprocal Taxes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Two of
President Roosevelt’s three major tax
proposals received the approval of
the house ways and means committee
today.
It voted 18 to 4 to subject salaries
of state and municipal employes to
federal incomes taxes and to permit
the states to tax earnings of federal
workers.
It voted, too, to forbid retroactive
taxation of certain state employes
from whom the treasury said it would
have to collect back taxes and penal
ties because of recent supreme court
decisions—unless congress acted by
March 15.
The committee deferred until later
in the session a decision on the pres
ident’s recommendation for reciproc
al taxation of interest on federal,
state and municipal securities as well
as on salaries.
WORLD WHEAT CROP
ESTIMATE INCREASED
The 1938-39 estimated world wheat
production is now indicated by the
bureau of agriculture economics to
be about 4,448 million bushels. This
is about 65 million bushels more than
the estimate of a month ago and
about 630 million bushels more than
the 1937-38 harvest.
Work On Stone Mount
May Re Resumed Soon
ATLANTA, Feb. 7 (GPS).—Legis
lative action to allow completion of
the famed Stone Mountain Confeder
ate memorial with funds borrowed
from the federal government has
been started by Gov. Rivers. He pro
posed creation of a state park au
thority, similar to the state hospital
authority, that would be empowered
as a semi-public corporation .to issue
bonds and retire them out of pro
ceeds from the memorial as a tourist
attraction.
Senate and house subcommittees,
requested by the governor to study
the proposal, have approved the plan
and are having bills drawn. The ac
tion came after Walter C. Hill,
chairman of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce, on developing the memor
ial; C. F. Palmer, immediate past
president of the chamber, and Alvin
B. Cates, current president, conferred
with Gov. Rivers and the two sub
committees on the plan.
Sponsors of the new movement said
$1,750,060 would be needed to gain
title to the land, set up a state park
area on some 3,000 acres adjacent to
the mountain and complete the carv
ing. The memorial, started in 1915,
was halted for the third time four
Lyerly Chapter F.F.A.
To Hold Small Grain
Demonstration Test
The Lyerly chapter, Future Farm
ers of America, is again going to
hold the small grain demonstration
contest sponsored by a nitrate of soda
company. All of the demonstrations
have been spoken for, before we ask
ed for one, but due to the excellent
co-operation''of Mr. Young and the
F.F.A. boys of last year, the soda
company made an exception and en
tered Lyerly school in the contest.
This contest is sponsored each
year to show the farmers the benefit
of using nitrate of soda on their
small grain.
The plot will consist of one-half
acre with no soda, a half acre with
20 pounds of soda, a half acre with
100 pounds, and a half acre with
150 pounds of soda. The soda is fur
nished by the company. The plot will
be located one-half mile east of Ly
erly in the Echols bottoms.—Herman
Mount, Reporter.
Mrs. B. R. Broome
Dies in Oklahoma
Mrs. B. R. Broome, a former be
loved resident of this place, died at
9:15 Tuesday morning, Feb. 7, at the
home of her son, B. R. Broome, Jr.,
in Oklahoma City, after a long illness.
Mrs. Broome was bom and reared
in this county, the third daughter of
the late beloved Mr. and Mrs. George
W. Morton, of near Subligna. Early
in life, she joined the Presbyterian
church and was an active and devot
ed member until her health failed.
She has suffered with inflammatory
rheumatism for the past 30 years.
She was 68 years of age. She bore
her suffering so courageosly and
cheerfully.
She resided in this county until
about fifteen year ago when she and
her husband left to live with their
son in Oklahoma City. She spent
1937 visiting relatives here and in
Chattanooga.
Mrs. Broome has many frends and
relatives in North Georgia who will
be saddened to hear of her death.
Besides her husband, B. R. Broome,
of Oklahoma City, the deceased is
survived by three sons, F. W-, of
Summerville; B. R., Jr., of Oklahoma
City, and G. C., of Chattanooga, be
sides nine grandchildren and several
brothers and sisters.
The funeral services will be held
Thursday in Oklahoma City.
Battle Os Atlanta,
Modernized, Draws
Visitors From Afar
ATLANTA, Feb. 7.—One of the
bloodiest battles of the War Between
the States, in which Confederate val
or and heroism reached new heights,
is being fought again—for ten hours
per day.
Atlanta city officials have reopen
ed to the public the huge three dimen
sional presentation of the Battle
of Atlanta which was fought between
the forces of Sherman and Hood on
July 22, 1864.
Modem splendor has been added to
the fifty-year-old painting through
the installation of the latest type of
theatrical lighting. The modernized
“battle” exhibit, immediately popular,
is expected to be one of Georgia fin
est tourist attractions. Mayor William
B. Hartsfield says it is the finest pos
session the city has, symbolizing the
heritage of courage and character
which the Confederates handed down
to present day Georgians.
Visitors are expected at the cyclo
rama, in Grant park, from through
out the world. The first paying cus
tomer, when the modernized painting
was reopened for exhibit on Jan. 11,
was from far-off Oregon.
The new lighting effects bring out
details in the huge picture and give
emphasis to details which have never
been discernible before.
SSO BABY BONUS URGED
AS PROTECTION FOR NEEDY
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 7—A SSO
“'baby bonus” for needy mothers is
advocated in the Pennsylvania legis-
J. Baker, of
$1.50 A YEAR
THE NEWS AT A
GLANCE ABOUT
THINGS IN GA.
Improved Business Conditions In the
Southeast Reflected In Monthly
Report of Federal Bank.
ATLANTA, Feb. 7 (GPS).—Geor
gia is playing an important part in
leading the nation back to prosperity.
Improved business conditions in the
southeast were reflected in the
monthly report of the Federal Re
serve Bank of Atlanta, which show
ed the six states of the Sixth federal
reserve district stepping ahead of the
rest of the nation in business pros
perity. Business activity in Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis
sippi and Tennessee continued its
previous upward trend, the survey
said, with more than seasonal in
creases in retail trade, substantial
gains in construction contracts and
building permits and a small increase
in pig iron production.
The report showed Atlanta’s retail
sales up 5.8 per cent, in December
over the corresponding month in
1937, with building permits slightly
off. The value of Georgia’s 1938
crops was estimated at $151,630,000,
a decline of 15 per cent. (Total re
ceipts were only 5 per cent, smaller
because of a large increase in gov
ernment payments.) Employment in
Georgia in December registered a
gain, as did payroll averages. Build
ing contracts also were up.
Lip Service: “Georgia citizens
crowded the public service commis
sion’s office in Atlanta to protest
against removal of one of the trains
serving their part of the state,” com
ments the Arkansas Gazette. “Just
jumped into their cars and went to
the capitol to speak their minds about
cutting down their railroad facili
ties???”
Gist Os the News: Georgia’s house
of representatives has gone on a new
working schedule, convening at 9:30
am., instead of 10 a.m., and remain
ing in session until 2 pm. Gosh, what
hard hours! . . . The National Youth
administration will aid 1,736 students
in Georgia colleges under its 1938-39
NYA program with an allotment to
taling $234,360 ... In this era of
“holds-outs”, the Atlanta Crackers
are experiencing no such trouble this
year along that line. President Earl
Mann’s masterful handling of pre
season details has resulted in virtually
every one of his 32->member roster.
Hence, the stage is just about set for
the players to report to Manager
Paul Richards at Savannah March 5
for spring training . .
BASKET BALL.
The Lyerly Athletic club basket
ball team will play the Dixie Foun
dry company team, of Cleveland,
Tenn., in Lyerly on Saturday, Feb.
11, at 7:30 p.m.
Lyerly High school won a double
header from Summerville High school
at Lyerly Tuesday night—the girls
winning. 14 to 12, and the boys win
ning, 39 to 34.
High scorer for the Lyerly girls
was Edwards, with 10 points. For
Summeville girls. Dalton was the
high scorer with 5 points.
In the boys’ game, Smith and
Jackson, for Lyerly, with 9 points
each, were the high scorers. For Sum
merville, 'Cleghorn, a substitute, was
high score man, with 12 points.
U.S. Housing Expert
Coming To Georgia
ATLANTA, Feb. 7 (GPS)—As part
of a scheduled southern tour in the
interest of slum clearance, Nathan
Straus, administrator of the United
States Housing authority, will visit
Atlanta Feb. 15 and 16, to confer with
local and state housing authorities
and other high officials. Mr. Straus
left Washington Wednesday and will
return there about March 5 or 6.
Besides conferring with local and
state housing authorities and public
officials, Mr. Straus, during his two
day visit in Atlanta, will inspect some
slum areas, according to Charles F.
Palmer, chairman of the Atlanta
Housing authority. It is believed the
slum clearance program in Atlanta,
now set at more than $14,000,000, will
be expanded following the adminis
trator’s visit.
In visiting Georgia, Mr. Straus re
turns to the same home of his grand-
Lazarus Straus, who settled
and later operating a
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