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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 52; NO. 50
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
LAWMAKERS THINKING ABOUT
ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY
SESSION.
ATLANTA, March 1 (GPS).—Your
lawmakers are talking about another ex
traordinary session on Capitol Hill. They
have only slightly more than two weeks
remaining in the present regular ses
sion, which began Jan. 9, but it seems,
according to the admission of some of
the legislators, that they have not had
sufficient time to complete their work of
"rendering a great service to the taxpay
ers of Georgia.” It seems your lawmak
ers are making a drive for economy in
the state government, but they say they
need more time in which to finish the
job. Speaking of extra session, remember
the last one your lawmakers held? It
came to a close about the middle of last
February after lasting eighty-three days
and eighty-three nights, and cost the tax
payers of the state more than $300,000
There is some talk around the capitol of
declaring a thirty-day recess of the pres
ent legislature to avoid an extra session
after the full regulation session, sched
uled to close March 19. Which will it
be? Your gfiess is as good as anyone’s—
except your lawmakers’.
Bulwark Os Industry: “The very com
mercial existence of the industries of this
country has depended, now depends, and
must of necessity forever depend upon
the gigantic and all-encompassing sys
tems of American railroads,” declares
Charles S. Belsterling, vice-president of
the United States Steel corporation. ‘‘The
abandonment of these great rail systems,
in whole or in part, would destroy the
trade and commerce of this country not
only between the states but with foreign
countries as well.”
Gist Os the News: There are now 12,-
777 students enrolled in the University
of Georgia system, an increase of 1,7(12
students over the enrollment at this time
last year. The total includes 7,433 boys
and 5,344 girls . . . Auto license tag rev
enues are running nearly a half million
dollars ahead of collections at the same
time a year ago. The collections through
Feb. 15 were $941,355.81, compared with
$565,605.50 through Feb. 15 last year
.. . ‘‘Facts About Atlanta” will •’’be
compiled by the Woman’s Chamber of
Commerce, and copies will be sent to hot'
the New York and San Francisco
World’s Fairs . . . Atlanta’s Cyclorama,
which houses the world-famous painting
of the ‘Battle of Atlanta,’ is headed for
a record-breaking year. Already the Cy
clorama has attracted 12,065 persons,
compared with 7,883 for the correspond
ing period last year, a gain of 4,182.
Roosevelt tells business that no new
taxes are planned; says confidence is in
order.
SHERIFF TWO DAYS; KILLED.
BURLINGTON, N. C.—Two days aft
er taking the oath of office of sheriff of
Alamance county, M. P. Robertson, and
Policeman S. E. Baughn, of Burlington,
were killed in a gun battle which fol
lowed an investigation of a robbery of a
filling station. The robber, Roy Huff
man, was also killed.
Germany holds her new battleship
peerless because light metals and welding
give bigger craft.
WRONG-WAY CAGERS LOOP
TWO GOALS FOR OPPONENTS
DAWSON, Minn., Feb. 28.—The Daw
son Junior High school basket ball team
scored more points than its rival, Apple
ton, in a game here and still lost the
contest
Excited Dawson players forgot to
change baskets at the opening of their
second period and prompity scored the
field goals before they realized their mis
take.
CORRECTED.
Grandson (beside radio) —I wonder
who is at the mike.
Grandma Prim —Don’t say Mike, Rob
ert —it’s Michael.
Germany’s increased imports of fuel
oil indicates she is storing great quanti
ties for emergency.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What is the Jewish population of
Germany?
2. Have Japanese established canning
factories for fish in-Siberia?
3. Why does Argentina favor trade
with Great Britain?
4. What are the high and low of farm
cash income in recent years?
5. How many banks are there in the
United States?
6. When did the Federal Deposit In
surance corporation begin to function?
7. What is euthanasia?
8. When did President Wilson suffer
his breakdown?
9. What changes have occurred on the
supreme court in the past two years?
(See ‘The Answers’ on Another Page.)
Biunnu'ruilk Jtas
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939.
Meeting In Dalton In
Interest of Wesleyan
Repurchase Fund
Bishop Clare Purcell and a number of
Georgia educational leaders will head a
group of outstanding speakers at the ed
ucational rally of Methodist forces in
behalf of Wesleyan college at the First
Methodist church in Dalton next Friday.
The meeting will open at 10 o'clock
a.m., and will continue until mid-after
noon. A group of Summerville Metho
dists and persons of other denominations
who are interested in continuing Wes
leyan college as a vital unit in Georgia’s
program of Christian education, will at
tend. The meeting will be for the entire
Dalton district.
The rally will mark the opening of the
general state-wide campaign for $600,000
to repurchase the college’s properties,
which were lost last March through a
foreclosure sale. Macon is in the midst
of its campaign for $250,000 in behall
of the repurchase fund and has already
reported right at $150,000 in pledges. No
one will be asked to make a pledge at
the rally, which has been called forth
purpose of acquainting people of this sec
tion with Wesleyan’s plight, the need of
continuing the college, and plans thru
which the call for funds can be met.
The option for repurchasing the prop
erties from a bondholders’ committee
will expire Wednesday, March 15. The
campaign will be conducted throughout
the state between now and that date.
GEORGEPRAISES
OPERATION OF RFC
DECLARES RFC HAS BEEN OF UN
TOLD BENEFIT TO THE AMERI
CAN FARMER.
(By Georgia News Service.)
Georgia’s senior senator, Walter F.
George, last week praised the Recon
struction Finance corporation for mak
ing good what he termed “a promise to
the American farmer.”
The RFC was not subject to ‘‘any just
criticism” for buying obligations of its
subsidiary, the Commodity Credit cor
poration, as a means of providing agri
cultural loans in 1938, he told the senate.
Congress, he declared, promised in the
farm act to make loans available when
agricultural markets needed stabilization.
He added the loan rate was properly
maintained at the original level despite
the fact more cotton loans became nec
essary than the corporation anticipated.
He declared the RFC has served the
country well and had ‘‘been of untold
benefit to the American farmer.”
ROBBERS KILLED BY TRAIN.
NEW YORK. —Fleeing from pursuing
police after they had attempted to hold
up a drug store with a toy pistol, two
men sped up an embankment right into
the path of a speeding train. Both were
killed.
O’Connor calls on “sensible” demo
crats to end “radical control” and agree
on a 1940 candidate.
Nye warns of war peril in the Roose
velt foreign policy ; urges “mind-our-own
business” course.
Treasury reports that’income tax lia
bility on 1937 returns decreased 5.1 per
cent., or by $61,691,888.
To Sell Cotton It
Must Be Advertised
ATLANTA, March 1 (GPS).—The
cotton industry must advertise its prod
ucts and thus create new demands to
overcome an increasing carry-over and
diminishing exports of the south’s No.
1 staple, declared Oscar Johnston, presi
dent of the National Cotton Council of
America, in a recent speech before a
joint session of the Georgia legislature.
His talk was broadcast over the Atlanta
Journal’s radio station, WSB.
Mr. Johnston cited the benefits of ad
vertising by the rayon, citrus and other
industries in creating new uses and
greater consumer demand, and asked for
co-operation and financial support in the
national council’s plan to develop domes
tic markets and fight for foreign cotton
trade.
The council was organized last year
by producers, ginners, warehousemen,
merchants and crushers representing
fourteen states. It plans to raise $240,-
000 to develop cotton uses. This repre
sents 2 cents per bale on the 1938 pro
duction of 12,000,000 bales.
He listed a threatened carry-over of
14,250.000 bales of cotton by the end of
this fiscal year, and indicated decline of
2,172,000 bales, and an average price
decline during the past five years from
17 cents per pound to an all-time low of
5 3-4 cents as making cotton the nation’s
No. 1 economic problem.
He also outlined the council’s plan to
oppose substitutes for cotton, and attack
ed the nation’s protective tariff policy as
one of the chief reasons of the loss of
foreign markets for cotton, America’s
chief export.
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
RECEIVE INVITATION
TO ENTER CONTEST
CONTEST WILL BRING S3OO SCHO
LARSHIPS TO TWENTY HIGH
SCHOOL SENIORS.
Invitation has been received by Sum
merville High school to enter the sixth
annual Alumni Scholarship contest of
Emory university, it was announced to
day.
The contest will bring S3OO scholar
ships to twenty high school seniors in the
southeast, according to an announcement
by Robert F. Whitaker, executive secre
tary of the Emory Alumni association.
Awards will be made on a geographical
basis. If a winner does not accept the
scholarship for his region, it will be of
fered to the alternate winner.
Last year more than 1,000 high school
seniors in eight states took the examina
tion. Participation is open to seniors in
accredited high schools in Georgia, Ala
bama, Florida, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Vir
ginia.
Awards will be made on a “basic prep
aration” test, including the various fields
of high school work. Students with su
perior scores on the examination will be
awarded “Certificates of Excellence” by
President Harvey W. Cox, of Emory.
Examinations will be held simultan
eously in all participating schools and
will be administered by a school official
or an Emory alumnus in ,the community.
Students wishing to enter must notify
their high school principal before March
10th.
"This is not a college entrance exami
nation,” the Emory announcement em
phasized. “It is designed to find the best
rather than the average student. Success
or failure on this test has nothing to do
with entrance requirements.”
Farmers’ Market Plan
Will Be Submitted To
General Assembly Now
ATLANTA. —Proposals for a real sys
tem of state farmers’ markets, with a
large one in Atlanta, as a nucleus, will
be submitted to the general assembly at
this session. Plans for the marketing
system, evolved by Commissioner of Ag
riculture Columbus Roberts, would carry
out iu detail marketing policies advocat
ed by Mr. Roberts in his race for the
agriculture post in 1936. Federal funds,
,o the extent of $450,000, would be
sought under the proposal, as a grant
under the PWA program.
The department of agriculture will seek
a state appropriation of $550,000 for
matching the federal funds for construc
tion. This grant would permit the erec
tion of an adequate central market in
Atlanta this year. Profits from the opera
tion of the system of farm markets would
permit the department of agriculture to
pend $40,000 annually in the building
jf additional markets, so that within a
few years a complete system of state
markets, on a self-sustaining basis.
The creation of such a system of mar
kets would mean greatly increased farm
incomes in Georgia, by paving the way
for a wider diversification of farm prod
ucts. The problem of diversified farming
in Georgia is not one of growing the
crop, but of marketing it. The present
system of markets, although entirely in
adequate, has demonstrated during an
experimental period that farm prices can
be increased by facilitating the distribu
tion of farm product.
Inadequate market facilities in Atlanta,
one of the chief centers for the purchase
of farm products, is costing Georgia
farmers many thousands of dollars an
nually. The proposed market would not
only be self-sustaining, and would not
only also increase farm incomes, but
would yield the department of agriculture
sufficient profit to permit a rapid expan
sion of its marketing system.
Whether the proposal will be submit
ted to the general assembly in the pend
ing general appropriations bill, or will
be submitted as a special appropriation,
has not been determined.
Department of commerce expects a 20
per cent, increase in use of lumber this
quarter over 1938.
Labor department reports steadiness
in living costs in three months,’ with de
cline in year.
Clothing Short Course
To Be Held March 15
Would you like to have some of your
clothing construction problems so-yed?
A one-day clothing construction short
course will be held at the courthouse
March 15, beginning promptly at 9:30
a.m. Each lady attending is to bring
! scissors, a pattern in size of their bust
measure, thimble, needle and thread.
Pins, tape measure and paper for cutting
standard patterns will be furnished.
Miss Leonaro Andersdn, state clothing
; specialist, will assist with the Course.
During the afternoon session, Miss An-
I dersou will include some fashion trends.
HOUSE OVERRIDES
ECONOMY MEASURE;
DRAFTS BIG BUDGET
*
BOARD OF REGENTS AND ALTO
SANATORIUM APPROPRIA
TIONS ARE UPPED.
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ATLANTA, March 1. —Drowning out . i
pleas for economy from both extreme ad
mjnistrationists and anti-administration
ists, the house of representatives yester
day whipped into shape the first SIOO,-
000,000 biennial budget in the state’s
history and prepared for a final vote on
the bill today.
Completely reversing its former stand
for reductions, the house voted large in
creases in the school fund, the appropria
tion to the university system and the
tuberculosis sanatorium at Alto, the
health department slash of $120,000 per
year being the only major reduction '
made.
’ Override Harris.
Despite warnings that the increases
made a general sales tax absolutely nec- !
essary the house approved the additions
over the bitter opposition of Speaker Roy
V. Harris and last night it appeared
doubtful if Harris would vote for the
bill when it comes up for final passage.
Off the floor, the speaker warned that
a 3 per cent, general sales tax will not
alone finance the large appropriations,
saying that other revenues are necessary.
General Sales Tax. ,
Meanwhile, the house ways and means
committee narrowed major tax bills dowi)
to one measure for a general sales tax
of 3 per cent., and then postponed ac
tion on it.
The committee by an almost unanimous ,
vote killed the gross income tax and vot
ed, 28 to 12, to report unfavorably a 20
per cent, luxury tax. Action on the sales
tax was postponed over the strong op
position of supporters of the bill.
Tree Planting Record
Increases 500 Percent
ATLANTA. —Georgia produced and
sold fifteen million tree seedlings in
1938, five times more than for any previ
ous year and has become the leader
among the southern states in seedling
production and reforestation, yet has
fallen short of meeting the demand, ac
cording to 11. D. Story, Jr., assistant di
rector in charge of nurseries and foresta
tion.
Os the fifteen million seedlings grown
and planted by the landowners of Geor
gia, thirteen million were grown at the
Hetty nursery at Albany, where only
three million had been grown previously,
and two million at the newly established
nursery at Flowery Branch, which grew
its first crop of seedlings in 1938.
Plans are being formulated by D. J.
Weddell, recently appointed director of
the division of forestry, and Mr. Story
to increase production at both the Herty
and Flowery Branch nurseries in the
hope of catching up with the demand in
1939. Additional land donated by Dough
erty county will be used for increasing
production at the Herty nursery and land
donated by the city of Flowery Branch
and Hall county for the Flowery Brand
nursery will be more extensively planted.
Speaking of Georgia's record in grow
ing and planting tree seedlings in 1938.
W. R. Hine, in charge of co-operative
planting for the regional office of the U.
S. forest service in Atlanta, states: "The
Georgia State Forest nurseries have done
a remarkable job during the past year.
Fifteen million seedlings were raised and
sold which is five times the production
of any former year. It places Georgia
among the leading states in the refores
tation of idle lands through planting.”
Mr. Hine credits former State Forest
er Frank Heyward and the late Dr. Her
ty with the vision and courage to grow
planting stock on such a large scale and
credits Mr. Story with ingenuity in mech
anizing and motorizing equipment that
made possible the large-scale production
gt reasonable cost. He also speaks favor
ably of the manner with which M. F
Murphy, nurseryman, at the Herty nur
sery, handled the greatly increased work.
In disposing of the fifteen million seed
lings in 1938, Mr. Story says much
credit is due the agricultural extension
service and its county agricultural
agents; to the department of vocational
education and its vocational teachers of
agriculture, and to the regional office of
the U. S. forest service.
The planting season, it is stated, is
now drawing to a close and preparations
are being made to plant tree seed in the
nurseries for another crop.
Pines have been the tree species most
in demand and among the pines the slash
ranks first. Black locust and black wal
nut are also grown and have been in de
mand.
NOT ENOUGH MONEY LEFT.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 28.—They’re
running short of money at the mint.
It was announced today that because
there is not enough money left in the ap
propriation to keep the United States
mint here at the present rate of employ
ment, about 385 employes will go ota
part-time schedules effective tomorrow
until July 1.
Highway Funding
Bonds Approved
By Legislature
ATLANTA, March I.—The house and
senate have approved an $8,976,000 ‘re
funding bond issue’ for the state highway
department. The question will be submit
ted to the people in the June general
election, as a constitutional amendment.
The money will be used to pay counties
for highway refunding certificates matur
ing in the next three years, thus releas
ing that sum to match federal road
grants, of which Georgia now has $17,-
000,000 accumulated in Washington,
much of which would be lost unless state
funds for matching are made available.
The bonds would be retired from gaso
line revenues, beginning with 1946. The
rate of interest would be 2 per cent.
The measure, which won quick and
almost unanimous approval in both bodi
es of the assembly, was sponsored by the
highway board.
RIVERSSIGNS BILL
ON CHILD WEDDINGS
SPONSORS AGREE TO CHANGE
SECTIONS TO WHICH GROUP
OR ORDINARIES OBJECT.
ATLANTA, Feb. 28.—Gov. E. D. Riv
ers signed today the Bibb county house
delegation’s bill aimed at "child” mar
riages in Georgia.
The sponsors agreed to push amend- ■
ments to the bill seeking to change two
sections objected to by a delegation of
county ordinaries which visited the gov- ,
ernor.
As signed, the measure shifted respon
sibility for instituting suit against any
ordinary violating the marriage laws per
taining to license issuance from the clerk
of the superior court to the parents or
guardian of either marrying party.
The ordinary would be subject to suit
for violations in all cases where the girl
involved is under 21 years of age. Suit
for SSOO could lie entered and any dam
ages recovered would be divided equally
between the suing party and county ed
ucational fund.
The amendments, which •will be intro
duced in the senate tomorrow, seek to
make the new act apply only in cases
where the girl involved is under 18
years, and to divide damages one-third
to the suing party and two-thirds to the
county educational fund.
Water Is ‘Unsafe’ In
550 Georgia Schools
ATLANTA, March 1 (GPS).—Drink
ing water in 550 schools in Georgia is
unsafe for the 44,664 children who at
tend these schools, declared Dr. T. F.
Abercrombie, state health director, in a
lengthy statement issued recently.
“In many schools the sanitary condi
tions are a hazard to the entire commun
ity,” Dr. Abercrombie said.
The health director said that “under
these conditions it is difficult to teach
children to use sanitary facilities,” add
ing that a survey of 215,560 school chil
dren in 128 counties last year showed
70 per cent, with dental decay, averaging
four cavities per child.
Dr. Abercrombie blamed physical de
fects and illness for the “considerable”
number of pupils who “flunk” their
classes each year.
“Records of the state education depart
ment show that 106,000 ‘repeaters’ in the
first grade alone cost the state over $4,-
000,000 annually, or more than one-sixth
of all the educational operating costs,”
he said.
To illustrate the need for more operat
ing expenses and a wider health pro
gram, Dr. Abercrombie pointed out that
about one-fifth of all deaths in Georgia
occur in individuals who have not reach
ed the end of school age. He pointed out
further that 475 Georgia mothers die
each year from childbirth.
He also stressed the need for health
guidance, dietary and training advice and
preventive inoculations for infants and
pre-school children whose parents cannot
afford to pay for such service.
Survey shows that rural relief costs
increased from $80,000,000 in 1932 to
$400,000,000 in 1935.
MRS. ELAH MAE CRAIG.
Mrs. Elah Mae Craig, 28, wife of Ben
A. Craig, died Tuesday evening, Feb. 21,
at 7 o’clock. Besides her husband, she is
survived by two sons, all of 118 Cherry
street, Rossville. Ga.
Funeral services were conducted from
the Nazarene church in Rossville Thurs
day, Feb. 23, at 10 o’clock. Interment in
the Payne cemetery near Trenton. Trion
Department store in charge.
COTTON’S FUTURE PICTURED
AS BENEATH COLD ASPHALT
j LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28.—J. S.
i Helm, president of the New York As-
I pbalt institute, predicted yesterday the
, industry could use the entire cotton sur
plus of the south fop soil stabilization
! beneath pay«ng,
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAB
GEORGIA POWER CO.
ANNOUNCES CUT IN
COMMERCIAL RATES
WILL RESULT IN SAVINGS OF
$190,000 TO ESTIMATED 20,-
000 CONSUMERS.
ATLANTA, March I.—A reduction in
commercial electric rates of the Georgia
Power company, which will result in
savings of approximately $190,000 annu
ally for an estimated 20,000 consumers,
went into effect today, P. S. Arkwright,
president of the company, stated.
The reduction is being made automati
cally as the result of operation of a pro
motional rate schedule put into effect in
1934. The so-called “immediate” rate for
users of commercial lighting service will
be wiped out and the lower ‘inducement’
rate will be applied to all consumers in
this class. Under the commercial rate
schedules prescribed by the Georgia Pub
lic Service commission in March, 1934,
it was provided that the immediate rate
should be eliminated at the end of a
five-year period and the inducement rate
made available to all commercial light
ing users.
Approximately 16,000 consumers have
already earned the lower inducement rate
through increased use of their electric
service and will not be affected by the
new rate schedule, according to the an
nouncement. The principal classes of con
sumers affected by the rate reduction are
stores, filling stations, boarding houses,
churches, schools and other public build
ings, offices and others using electricity
primarily for lighting. A special rate used
principally for commercial refrigeration
in grocery stores, meat markets, restau
rants and other establishments will not
be changed by the reduction in the light
ing rate. Approximately 5,200 consumers
use the two-meter rates for lighting and
refrigeration.
All commercial consumers on the im
mediate lighting rate (with the excep
tion of minimum consumers) will re
ceive reductions by being transferred to
the inducement rate. Small consumers,
using less than 200 kilowatt hours a
month, will receive the largest propor
tionate reductions.
For a consumption of 100 kilowatt
hours per month, the bill will be reduced
from $5.37 to $4.82, a saving of 55 cents
or slightly more than 10 per cent. For
200 kilowatt i. urs the bill* will be re
duced from $10.37 to $9.32. a saving of
$1.05, or 10 per cent. For consumptions
above 200 kilowatt hours (with the ex
ception of a few consumers using more
than 1,000 kilowatt hours) savings will
be $1.05 in every case.
In addition to the savings of approxi
mately $190,000 a year to be shared by
20,000 consumers, simplification of the
power company’s commercial rates will
result, as three rate schedules will be
consolidated into one.
President Roosevelt’s popularity level
ing off after rise since November, Gallup
survey indicates.
Drive Opens March 13
On State Illiteracy
ATLANTA, March 1 (GPS). —March
13 will mark the opening of a general
campaign to eradicate illiteracy in Geor
gia.
The adult education division of the
WPA, the state board of education and
the GEA will co-operate in a state-wide
movement to reach 150,000 adults who
are unable to read and write, it was an
nounced by Secretary Ralph L. Ramsey,
of the Georgia Education association.
“For the first time in the history of
the state we have both the means and the
organization to attack this evil,” he said.
The aim of the campaign is to eliminate
illiteracy in the state by 1940, the year
of the next <pnsus, Mr. Ramsey added.
President calls conference aimed to
provide greater opportunities for youth
under democracy.
WIFE KEPT DATE INDEX,
HE SAYS; WINS DIVORCE
SEATTLE. Feb. 28.—Virgil E. Mad
sen told Judge Chester A. Bachelor his
wife went out with some man every
night and kept a card index of her “boy
friends.”
He won a divorce, from Beulah Flor
ence Madson, who was 15 when he mar
ried her last July.
CHIEF SPEEDS UP THINGS—
ROBBERY AT OWN HOUSE
HUNTINGTON PARK. Cal., Feb. 28.
•—“There’s been a robbery at 6508 Tem
pleton street,” a feminine voice reported
to Chief of Police W. L. Hultquist.
“All right, madame, we’ll send an of
ficer right over to investigate,” the chief
replied.
Then, comprehension—
“My gosh, that’s my house,” the chief
yelled and leaped on a motorcycle.
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Exports of cotton in first half of the
current season 42.8 per cent, below same
period a year before.
New ore-extracting process is said to
increase greatly our available mineral
resources.