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CIRCULATE IN IBEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 52; NO. 52
SIO,OOO APPROVED
FOR SITE MARKERS,
TARVER ANNOUNCES
SITES FOR MARKERS MUST BE
DONATED BY PRIVATE OWN
ERS, TARVER SAYS.
(By Georgia News Service.)
WASHINGTON.—An item of SIO,OOO
has been approved by the house appro
priations committee for the erection o.
markers at Ringgold, Dalton, Resaca,
Cassville and New Hope Church. Georgia,
in connection with the Chickamauga am
Kennesaw National Battlefield park, ac
cording to announcement by Representa
tive Malcolm C. Tarver.
The appropriation was securer! through
the efforts of Judge Tarver, who was
also responsible for creation of the Ken
nesaw Mountain -park, Gladstone Wil
liams, Associated Press Washington cor
respondent, said.
“The sites for the markers,” Mr. Tar
ver said, “which will average five acres
each, must be donated by private own
ers. Acquiring these sites is in the hands
of the Georgia State Parks and Recrea
tion association, of which W. M. Sapp,
of Dalton, is president.
"After acquisition of the sites and the
erection of the markers. CCC camps at
Chickamauga and Kennesaw mountain
will do the work necessary to develop
adequately the sites with necessary land
scaping and planting of shrubbery, build
ing of wayside stations for travellers who
may visit the markers, and other work
of that character.”
‘Money Crop’ In Pines
Urged For Farmers
ATHENS, Ga., March 14.—A “money
crop” in pines was urged for farmers by
Prof. A. D. McKellar, of the University
of Georgia School of Forestry, as he
made his report on the seedlings furnish
ed Georgia farmers by the school nursery
this year.
More than 350,000 pine seedlings,
enough to reforest 500 acres of unpro
ductive land, have been shipped over the
state during the past two months, the
report shows.
Each acre planted in trees, Mr. Mc-
Kellar said, should be regarded as an
“investment which will yield dividends
of increasing size. No longer can a farm
er afford to allow an acre to lie idle and
erode when trees will hold the soil and
grow into a money crop.”
Timber needs cultivation like any oth
er crop, the forestry professor pointed
out, and he outlined a few rules for best
results with woodlots. They included the
following:
“Take out the diseased, crooked and
defective trees when fuel-wood is needed.”
“In growing stands select from 100
to 200 thtrifty trees and mark with a
band of white paint. Reserve these for
crop trees. Thin around them when they
become crowded.”
“Assist small seedlings by cutting the
brush which overtops them.”
“Market the timber by the piece,
board, foot, cord or unit basis, not for
a ‘lump sum’.”
“If the farmer will give as much
thought to the care of his woodland as
he does to his ‘cash crops,’ the net prof
it may be as great with less expenditure
of time and money to produce it,” Prof.
McKellar concluded.
Handicraft Shortcourse
To Be Held Mar. 20-21
Here is our chance for some fun!
March 20 and 21 a handicraft shortcourse
will be held at the courthouse, beginning
promptly at 9:30 each morning.
Miss Reba Adams, state handicraft
specialist, will assist. Instructions will
be given in the following projects: Pine
needle work, light wood work, corn
shuek craft, upholstery and making of
lamp shades.
Select from the above list the project
or projects that you are most interested
in. You may secure a list of the required
materials for this project from the home
demonstration agent. Gather your equip
ment and join us at the courthouse. Bring
one dish for lunch.
MARINE EXAMINATIONS.
A representative from the Marine
Corps district recruiting headquarters at
Macon will be at the postoffice building
at Chattanooga from Monday, March 20.
to Thursday, March 23, for the purpose
of interviewing, examining and selecting
young men for service in the United
States Marines.
To qualify one must be single, white,
eighth grade or above in education, of
good moral character and in excellent
physical condition. One also must be be
tween 18 and 28 years old and 64 to 74
inches tall.
Applicants accepted at Chattanooga
will be transferred to the Marine bar
physical examination and those enlisted
will bet ransferred to the Marine bar
racks, Parris Island, S. C., for basic
training, after which they will be assign
ed to duty at various posts and stations
where Marines serve.
SttrnnwrutUe
GEORGIA BAPTIST O.U.
MET IN ANNUAL SESSION
The fifty-seventh session of Georgia
Baptist Woman’s Missionary union will
be held at the First Baptist church, At
lanta, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, March 21-23. The theme is “His
Constraining Love.” The program plan
ned by the committee and the speakers
secured will attract the largest number
to attend convention in many years. The
sessions begin at 10 o’clock Tuesday and
close at noon Thursday with the state
president, Mrs. Frank Burney, of
Waynesboro, presiding.
Officers of the union will make reports
during the session.
The afternoon's program will feature
home missions when Mrs. Irene Hanley,
St. Louis, 111., a converted Jewess and
field worker for the Illinois W.M.U., and
Dr. J. B. Lawrence, executive secretary
of Home Mission Board, will be the
speakers.
The Tuesday evening session will be
devoted to foreign missions. Foreign mis
sionaries present will be introduced.
Wednesday morning’s program presents
Dr. Aquila Chamlee, president of the
Georgia Baptist convention; Miss Mabola
Ayorinde, native W.M.U. field work, of
Nigeria, Africa, and Mrs. Frank Burney,
president, Geeorgia W.M.U. Mrs. Peter
Kittles, Georgia jubilee chairman, will
preside over the Wednesday afternoon
hour. The evening program will feature
young people’s work.
The closing session Thursday come:
with reports of various committees and
an address, “The Unchanging Imperative
of Tomorrow,” by Mrs. W. J. Cox.
The Atlanta association, Mrs. J. W.
Awtry, superintendent, is hostess to the
convention. Entertainment in the homes
can be had for $1 per night for bed and
breakfast by writing Mrs. D. C. Rus:
69 Maddox Drive, N. E., Atlanta, for
reservations.
Taxes of Railroads
Nearing 1929 Level
ATLANTA, March 14 (GPS).—De-
claring that “in one regard the income
accounts of the railways are coming more
and more to look like those of the late
twenties,” the Railway Age, in a recent
editorial, said “it is unfortunate, how
ever, that this resemblance is confined
to the matter of taxation. Figures re
cently made available for 1938 show that
railway taxes last year averaged $1,46
per mile of railway line in the Uniter.
States. For the decade ending with 192
the average was $1,464.”
“The tax bills of the railways presen
some interesting comparisons,” the edi
torial said. “Rail mileage today is most
closely matched by the mileage in exist
ence in 1909. Yet with approximately tin
same mileage, railroad taxes were som
$260,000,000 greater in 1938 than i
1909. Railway gross earnings in 1938
were most closely matched by those oi
1916. Yet railway taxes per mile of line
averaged $637 in 1916, compared with
$1,463 in 1938.
“Taxes per mile of $1,463 in 1938 were
most closely matcheel by the average of
$1,467 in 1925. Still, with this close ap
proximation in average taxes, railway
gross earnings were only one-half a:
great in 1938 as in 1925. Truly, there arc
hardships in the return to the levels of
the twenties —when this return is con
fined to the matter of taxation alone.”
Speeds of 500 Miles Per
Hour in Air Are Near
New Type U. S. Warplanes To Be
“Stepped Up,” Army Experts Say.
Speeds of 500 miles an hour in the
air are apparently just ahead for the
army air corps.
At Wright field, the army’s test lab
oratory for new types of warplanes, of
ficers said that Lieut. Ben S. Kelsey, the
pilot who crashed Feb. 11 in a new twin
motor pursuit plane after a near-recorl
transcontinental flight, had “cruised” at
60 per cent, of power on his jaunt. •'
Kelsey’s actual flying time „ for the
2,454 miles from southern California to
New York was just a shade more than
seven hours.
Appendicitis Death
Rate Termed ‘Shame’
Dr. Mont Reid, Speaking In Atlanta,
Cites Deaths as ‘National Scandal.’
The death rate from appendicitis was
declared to be as great a “national scan
dal” as the death rate from automobile
accidents. In a discussion before the
southeastern surgical conference in At
lanta recently, Dr. Mont Reid, of Cin
cinnati, declared the American death
rate from appendicitis was a “national
disgrace” in view of modern medical
knowledge and public educational meas
ures available.
A recent flood of medical literature on
ca'Ses of ruptured appendicitis “is a sad
commentary upon our national intelli
gence,” he said, and that the death rate
from the disease, apparently . must be
dropped in the laps of school children. He
cited the effects of campaigns in Cincin
nati, Atlanta and Philadelphia as ex
amples.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939
ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR
GEORGIA EXPOSITION
FROM MAY 15 TO 20
GEORGIA CLUB WOMEN AND CTH
ERS CO OPERATING IN MOVE
TO BOOST STATE PRODUCTS.
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA. —A Georgia exposition, to
stimulate the home market for all prod
ucts of Georgia fields and factories, will
be staged at the Atlanta City auditorium
May 15-20 under auspices of the Atlanta
Federation of Women’s Clubs, it is an
nounced by Mrs. James R. Little, federa
tion president.
‘.With the great World’s fair just
opening in New York, presenting Geor
gia advantages and Georgia products to
the rest of the world, Atlanta’s federated
women consider it especially appropriate
to educate our own people to the vast
scope of Georgia resources and Georgia
products,” Mrs. Little said.
“This particular period, when our
pride in our state will be stimulated by
the showing we make before the world ii
New York, is the time at which we can
start a ‘buy Georgia’ movement among
our own people which will really pu<
Georgia industry and Georgia products
of all kinds years ahead in their rate of
progress,” the Atlanta club leader point
ed out.
“The Atlanta Federation of Women’s
Clubs feels that although the exposition
will be held in Atlanta, it is an exposi
tion of Georgia products for the whole
state and of tremendous interest to the
state federation. Mrs. Albert Hill, state
president has endorsed the project, and
the Atlanta Federation of Women’s Clubs
Will also pay to the state federation ten
dollars for every ten dollars paid to a
federated club in a county.”
The exposition in Atlanta, Mrs. Little
stated, is being organiped with the close
co-operation of the agricultural extension
department of the University of Georgia,
the agricultural department of the state
of Georgia, Georgia manufacturers and
others.
Gore F. F. A., Home
Ec Club to Give Play
By BILL KING.
A play entitled “The Wild Oats Boy,”
will be presented by the Gore chapter.
Future Farmers of America, and the
Home Economics club Friday night at
7:30 o’clock in the high school auditor
ium. The play is a comedy drama in
three acts. In the play there are thirteen
characters.
How would you like to earn a fortune
of $50,006 by going to bed at 8 o’clock
‘very night for three months? This is Ed
die chore, according to the will of his
adopted father, and for a fast-stepping
nightbird like Eddie, who sometimes does
not go to bed at all, it is some chore. If
he does not carry out all the conditions
->f the will, the relatives will get the
$50,000 to divide among themselves. Ed
die is supposed to marry Judy, who is to
inherit the fortune with him, but she has
quarreled with him because of his dissi
pating habits, and he is having a hard
time winning her back. Naturally, the
relatives do all in their power to keep
the lovers apart and particularly to spoil
Eddie’s in-bed-at-8-o’clock record. As in
all plays, everything turns out all right.
Anyone seeking an evening of good en
tertainment should see this play.
Eastern Time Bill
Killed In Senate
ATLANTA, March 14 (GPS)—The
state of Georgia will not operate as a
unit of eastern standard time.
The state senate said as much when
the body killed the house bill which
would give the entire state a uniform
time —eastern standard time.
The senate first amended the measure
to make sun time, or “farmers’ time,”
the official time in the state, although
few of the members could explain ex
actly what that time was.
The vote for sun time amendment was
23 to 19, but after its adoption the sen
ate voted 19 to 16 against the measure
as amended. Twenty-seven votes ( a- ma
jority of total membership) were requir
ed for passage.
Governor Signs
Post-Road Bill
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA. —Gov. Rivers last week
gave executive approval to a legislative
act allocating all revenues from sale of
automobile license plates to the post-roads
division of the highway department. .
The measure, by Gross, of Stephens,
will give “off the highway” roads an es
timated $1,500,000 state funds. Accord
ing to Mr. Gross, the present post-roads
system has been receiving only about
.$200,000 annually, the balance going into
the general highway fund.
The post-roads division was set up to
give country roads on which rural post
men travel all-weather surfacing.
RAY LEE COMPANY
SUCCESSFUL BIDDER
FINISH POSTOFFICE
WORK TO BE COMPLETED IN 120
CALENDAR DAYS FROM TIME
OF BEGINNING.
Contract has been let for the comple
tion of the ground floor of the postoffice
building here to the Ray M. Lee com
pany, according to F. F. Chapman, lo
cal postmaster.
The work will be completed within 120
calendar days from receipt of -notice to
proceed, which will be started soon.
Miss Doris Lee, of New York Cjty,
will paint mural in the lobby after the
completion of the changes to be made in
the building.
Singing At Chelsea.
There will be a singing at Chelsea Sun
day night, March 19, beginning at 7
o’clock. We are expecting some good
quartets and class singing. The public is
invited.
New Cotton Bulletin
Is Free to Farmers
Cotton, Georgia's chief crop, is the
subject of a new bulletin issued this
week by the Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion service. The publication is designed
to help Georgia farmers produce cotton
as economically and efficiency as possi
ble.
The booklet, entitled “Cotton Culture
in Georgia,” was prepared by E. C.
Westbrook,-extension cotton specialist. It
covers every phase of cotton production,
from the selection of varieties adaptable
to Georgia soils, to the storage and mar
keting of lint and seed. The thirty-six
page publication contains thirty pictures,
in addition to a Georgia cotton scene on
the cover.
Copies of “Cotton Culture in Georgia,”
also known as Bulletin 469 of the Geor
gia agricultural extension service, may
be obtained free of charge by Geoergia
farmers from the offices of county agents.
In announcing the new bulletin, Ex
tension Director Walter S. Brown called
attention to the fact that the “annual
average cash income from cotton alone
is more than the combined annual cash
income from all of Georgia’s other crops,
including live stock.’
“So long ar cotton remains the chief
cash crop in Georgia,” Director Brown
said, “it should be produced as economi
cally as possible and given its proper
place in the farm program.
“On many Georgia farms, this will re
quire complete readjustment of the en
tire farming system. It will mean addi
tional acres devoted to soil-building
crops, to food and feed crops, and the
introduction of other revenue-producing
enterprises that will assist cotton in car
rying the load. Cotton has a definite
place in the farm picture in this state
but no farmer can afford to depend upon
it as the sole source of income.
“To produce cotton profitably, it is
necessary to secure high yields per acre,
thereby lowering the cost of production
per pound. High yield alone, however, is
not sufficient. The yield must be obtain
ed at a reasonable per acre cost.
“The object of this new bulletin is to
help Georgia farmers produce better
quality cotton at a low cost of produc
tion.”
A feature of the bulletin is the chap
ter on fertilization, which gives general
recommendations for the state as a
whole, as well as recommendations for
specific soil areas. The fertilizer recom
mendations are based on experiments con
ducted by the Coastal Plain Experiment
station, the Georgia Experiment station,
the University of Georgia College of Ag
riculture, and individual farmers co-op
erating with these agencies.
In preparing the bulletin, Westbrook
had the co-operation and assistance of
agricultural specialists of the experiment
station, the college of agriculture, and
the United States department of agricul
ture.
TIME TO FORCE GRAIN.
Most leading grain farmers agree that
often the spring application of nitrate of
soda to oats and wheat is delayed too
long for best yields. Our experiment sta
tions advise us to apply quickly, avail
able nitrogen to grain in south Georgia
in February, and in North Georgia the
first part of March. We will apply Ar
cadian nitrate the week of March 13 to
our F.F.A. grain test. This test is locat
ed about one-half mile from Lyerly on
the farm of Echols, worked by R. C.
Floyd.
We are conducting this fertilizer ex
periment on wheat to show the people of
our' community not only the proper time
for top-dressing their grain, but also to
show us the proper amount to use. We
have a two-acre patch divided into one
half acre plots and are using nitrate of
soda at the rate of 100 pounds per acre,
200 pounds per acre, 300 pounds per
acre, and none per acre. We want our
friends who reqd this paper to visit our
demonstration and estimate what they
think the yield will be from each of the
plots.—Herman Mount, Reporter.
COOKING SCHOOL
MARCH2B AND 29
The Chattooga County Garden club
will sponsor a cooking school, given by
the Georgia Power company. March 28
and 29. The school will be held in the
Selman building behind the McGinnis
Drug company.
The school will be helpful to all the
women and men of the city and commun
ity. There will be many valuable prizes
given away during the two days, and
these prizes have been donated by the
enterprising merchants and wholesale
firms.
Tickets will be on sale for the school,
at both drug stores in town, Saturday,
March 18, and members of the garden
club will have them available.
It is hoped by the sponsors that every
person in Summerville and adjoining com
munities will take advantage of this op
portunity to see and learn the latest
methods in preparing foods. Classes will
begin at 2 p.m. each day.
New Auto Associate
Store Opens In City
One of the outstanding events in Sum
merville’s business history is the opening
of the new Western Auto Associate store,
managed and operated by A. F. McCurdy.
Most car owners in this vicinity are
familiar with the Western Auto Supply
company, of Kansas City, Mo., because
this is the firm that used to send out so
many of the little catalogs known as the
‘ Auto Owners’ Supply Book” offering at
tractive prices on practically everything
needed for an automobile. It is the oldest
and largest organization of its kind in
the world, founded in 1909 and now op
erating more than 180 stores all over the
United States.
This company is now co-operating with
more than 1,000 individual merchants
throughout the country to enable them
to offer the public merchandise with an
established reputation for quality at mon
ey-saving prices that would be impossible
without this combined buying power.
The Western Auto Associate store here
in Summerville will carry the same gen
eral line of supplies, accessories and
tools hitherto offered only at the big city
stores.
It is stated that the new store offers
the largest and most complete stocks of
auto supplies and accessories in this city.
Every item is of selected quality and
backed by Western Auto's guarantee of
“Satisfaction or Money Back.”
Mr. McCurdy is well known in Sum
merville, and has a host of friends who
wish him well in his new enterprise.
He explains that because of his favor
able arrangements with the Western Auto
Supply company he will be able to offer
the same merchandise at approximately
the same prices as those in the big com
pany’s main stores, thus bringing car
owners of Summerville the benefits of
that company’s big buying power and
volume distribution.
The new store is now open for busi
ness, but Saturday, March 18, will be
"Official Opening Day” and Mr. McCur
dy promises to have special prices on a
number of popular items in honor of the
occasion.
Cheering Individuals
I wish I could write or say something
that would comfort and cheer up the in
dividual.
The most of us are tossed to and fro
like the waves of the sea.
We hardly know what to tie onto. The
bodily appetites are not a guide to life
by any means.
Some things have to be discarded, some
regulated and some have to undergo an
operation before there is any hope to en
joy life or peace of heart.
“If thy hand offend, cut it off.
"If an eye, pluck it out.
“Better this than that thy whole body
be cast into the fire.”
Any sin that hangs on to us will, if
not rid of, destroy our comfort and keep
us in the fire.
Few individuals can practice self-sur
gery—and none can rid themselves of the
spiritual enemy, but must resort to use
the Great Physician to do this work, and
daily follow His instructions to prevent
a relapse.
We dare not lean unto our own under
standing or try to walk alone. For this
is why life is all confusion and has no
thrill, no hope and no real purpose.
There is no safe harbor in which to
anchor our vessels.
I fear for that individual who boasts
he is always safe. No need to watch long
er. He is resting in an easy Zion.
This man is in great danger, blind and
cannot see afar off.
May the Good Lord pity anyone who
would hand out such stuff as this to men
who know their vessel they occupy is
going down daily. Watch daily and pray.
C. A. DODD,
Menlo, Ga.. March 13, 1939.
Ranger airplane engine, the world’s
lightest-in-line air-cooled motor, is ap
proved : new speed seen.
Pipe smokers ■warned by Dr. E. P-
Fowler they may become deaf from biting
stem too firmly.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAR
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
“GEORGIA SHOULD PRODUCE ITS
OWN FOOD” SAYS TLMELY EDI
TORIAL IN ATLANTA DAILY.
ATLANTA, March 14 (GPS).—Head
ed “Georgia Should Produce Its Own
Food,” a timely and interesting editorial
appeared recently in an Atlanta daily,
which said in part: “It is a well-known
fact that the soil and climate of Georgia
are suitable to the production of practi
cally all the foodstuffs, of the highest
quality, consumed by the people of the
state. Despite this fact agricultural prod
ucts by the thousands of carloads are
shipped into the state every year.”
After citing figures to show that Geor
gians are purchasing millions of dollars
worth of agricultural products, as well
as manufactured goods, from other states
—things that could be grown and made
in this state—the editorial concluded
with this comment:
“To say that the problem is difficult
to solve is putting it lightly. But the
Georgia Vegetable Growers’ association
(which held its fifth annual meeting
recently at the state experiment station
near Griffin) is contributing much to
ward a solution. Nothing should be left
undone to encourage the farmers to pro
duce, and the people to consume, Geor
gia-grown products.”
NET DEFICIT:
Class I railroads had a net deficit aft
er fixed charges of $122,911,784 in 1938,
the second largest deficit of this kind in
history, according to the Bureau of Rail
way Economics of the Association of
American Railroads. The one exception
was 1932 when there was a net deficit
of $139,203,821. This second largest net
deficit in the history of the railroads took
place in 1938 despite the fact that total
fixed charges of the Class I railroads
last year were the smallest for any year
since 1921.
GIST OF THE NEWS:
Georgians live an average of seventeen
years longer now than at the turn of the
century, according to Dr. Grady N. Co
ker, president of the Georgia Medical as
sociation, who, in a recent speech in Can
ton, urged the legislature not to econo
mize on the operation of Georgia's public
health department . . . Assistant Chief
C. C. Styron has been elevated to head
the Atlanta fire department, succeeding
Chief O. J. Parker . . . The exhibition
schedule of the Atlanta Crackers has
been revised to include games at Savan
nah from March 19 to March 27, inclu
sive: at Waycross March 28-29; at Val
dosta March 30-31, and at Atlanta April
1 through April 12. The regular season
opens at Ponce de Leon park April 14
... A. full-length motion picture, with
principal scenes laid in the Cherokee Na
tional forest of North Georgia, will be
made by the United States forest service.
Home Economics News
The club presented a short three-act
play in chapel Tuesday, entitled, “This
Modern Generation.” The girls have
started units in foods. At an early date
they will sell cakes, candy, cookies, etc.
So come to town and buy your favorite.
Date announced later.
In Unit of Care of House, “The Bed,
Its Care, Ete.,” was discussed. You may
think this a very silly thing, but get down
to the question: how many of you read
ers really know how to make up a bed
correctly?
To Make a Bed
1. Straighten mattress and mattress
pad.
2. Spread bottom shep right side up,
wide hem at top, even and straight. Leave
no wrinkles. Smooth tuck in on sides,
making corner square.
3. Put second sheet on wrong side up;
tuck in at foot, leaving about ten inches
to turn at head. Mitre only the bottom
corners of this sheet.
4. Spread blanket or extra covering
next, if used. Turn top edge of second
sheet over blanket for protection. Tuck
in bottom.
5. Tuck in sides of top sheet and blan
ket together, making corners square.
Leave no wrinkles.
6. Put on spread.
7. Place pillows as you want them.
To Mitre a Corner of a Sheet (sq.)
1. Take corner of sheet between thumb
and finger, draw around corner of mat
ress. ; .
2. At same time, slip other hand un
der side edge of sheet, draw upward into
a diagonal fold.
3. Lay this fold up over matress.
4. Now turn the part left banging un
der the mattress.
5. Drop upper fold, tuck in mat
ress. This makes a boxlike corner and
holds bed clothes firmly.
Since the bedroom is primarily a place
for sleeping, the bed is the most import
ant piece of furniture in the room. Sleep
is nature’s restorer and is most necessary
to health, happiness and well-being. The
average person spends at least one-third
of bis life in bed. For this reason? it is
wise to select the very best mattress and
springs possible. A firm flat bed is nec
essary for good posture for growing
bodies. —Leatha Johnson.