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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. 1 I 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. I 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.