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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.