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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 1
LOCAL MILL RESUMES WORK WEDNESDAY MORNING
2 Changes Made
To City Charter
CANDIDATES FOR
MAYOR, COUNCIL TO
PAY ENTRANCE FEE
In order to clear up certain rumors
that have been going around, I am sub
mitting the bill that was passed while
the legislature was in session concerning
the city of Summerville.
You may see from this bill that only
two minor changes were made in our city
charter, namely (1) To require any can
didate for mayor to pay an entrance fee
of $lO and any candidate for city coun
cil to pay a fee of $5. This was done in
order to help defray the expenses of the
city elections held every year; (2) To
relieve all residents of the city from hav
ing to register every year, after a citizen
has registered once then he or she need
not register again less his or her name
has been stricken from the registration
book for cause; (3) To clarify the man
ner of qualification by each candidate.
Heretofore, a candidate has not been sure
whether he should qualify with the ordi
nary or the mayor.
SENATOR MOSES E. BRINSON.
An exact copy of the bill, as passed, is
I set out below:
A BILL.
To be entitled an act to amend the
charter of the city of Summerville so as
to provide for the announcements of
candidates for office as mayor or as
members of the city council; so as to
provide a registration fee to be paid by
candidates; to also provide for the reg
istration and qualification of voters of
the city of Summerville; to further pro
vide for a board of registrars to purge
the list of registered voters in the city of
Summerville; th.il flection 10 of the act
approved Aug. 16, 190!) (Ga. L. 1909,
page 1360-1380, inclusive.) be stricken
and a new section: substituted in lieu
thereof; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GEN
' ERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA.
AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED BY
AUTHORITY OF THE SAME :
SECTION 1. That the charter of the
city of Summerville be and the same is
herebey amended as follows:
All candidates for office as mayor or
as a member of the city council of the
city of Summerville shall file with the
secretary of the city of Summerville a
written notice of their intentions to be
come candidates for sueh offices at least
fifteen days before the date of election,
said notice to be given the secretary by
noon on or before the 15th day previous
to the election, which notice shall be en
tered upon the records of the city on r
book to be kept by the secretary for sai<
purpose, provided, however, that all can
didates upon registering shall pay to the
secretary of the city of Summerville the
following sums: Candidates for mayor,
$10.00; candidates for members of city
- council, $5.00, and no candidate shall be
placed upon the ticket or be eligible for
election unless he has registereel and
paid the fees herein provided. The sums
received from candidates shall be depos
ited by the secretary of the city of Sum
merville and kept in a separate account
to be used in defraying the expenses of
tlje election.
SECTION 2. Be it further enacted that
Section 10 of the act approved Aug. 16,
1909, (Ga. L. 1909, pages 1366-1380, in
clusive,) be and the same is hereby re
pealed and the following inserted in lieu
of said Section 10:
“Section 10. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid that the secre
tary of the city of Summerville shall keep
a book of registered voters of the city of
Summerville and every bona fide resident
of the city of Summerville who is entitled
to register and vote for members of the
general assembly shall have the right to
register with the city clerk of Summer
ville at any time up until thirty days
previous to the next election for city of-
and that after a voter has regis
tered it shall not be necessary for him to
register again unless the voter’s name has
been stricken from the list by the board
of registrars hereinafter created.”
SECTION 3. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid that at the first
meeting in January of each year the
mayor and board of aidermen shall select
two freeholders who are citizens of Sum
merville to serve with the secretary of the
city as a board of registrars. The duty
of this board shall be to go over and
purge the voters’ list of the city of Sum
merville twenty days before each election,
striking therefrom the names of all per
sons not legally entitled to vote in the
same manner that voters’ lists of the
counties are now revised by the boards
of registrars of the counties. It shall be
the duty of the board of registrars to
complete their work at least ten days be-
Snmnwrmlk Nms
67,XX, 98, and 19—or How
To Get a College Education
STILLWATER, Okla —The drug
store clerk’s system of using num
bers in place of words for the sake
of rapid conversation has been
adopted by the O’Coliegian, Okla
homa A. & M. college student news
paper.
The angry editor who wants to
say “go chase yourself” merely yells
“sixty-seven.” A reporter leaving on
his run calls out the number “six
ty? A double-crosser is *XX,’ a dis
repuatable bum ‘ninety-eight’ and a
big shot ‘nineteen?
* *
TAXES TAKE 9 CENTS
OF RAILROAD DOLLAR
ATLANTA, March 21 (GPS).—Out
of each revenue dollar received, the rail
roads pay approrimately 9 cents in taxes
to local, state and national governments,
whereas highway carriers pay but 4%
cents and water transportation only 2
cents, it was brought out by D. B. Rob
ertson, president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, in
a recent address before the annual eco
nomic conference at Rollins college.
"So far as the railroads are concerned,
they not only suffered from low traffic
volume, but from depressed freight rates
affecting a substantial portion of their
traffic,” Mr. Robertson said. “We found
public regulation complex and unequal.
The forms of transport, other than by
rail, had enjoyed for years an amazing
governmental favoritism.
“We found that while the railroads
were paying 9 cents out of their revenue
dollar for taxes, the highway regulated
carriers were paying but 4%, and wa
ter transportation but 2 cents out of
each revenue dollar,” continued Mr. Rob
ertson, who is a member of the commit
tee of six composed equally of railroad
presidents and railroad labor executives,
which recently made its report to the
president of the United States.
“Moreover,” the speaker said, “it was
costing the railroads for the maintenance
and capital charges of their highway an
additional 25 cents out of every revenue
dollar, while the other forms of trans
port received their right-of-way without
cost. In other words, railroads had a dis
advantage amounting to 29% cents per
revenue dollar against their highway
competitors. Regulation, taxation and
subsidies were found surprisingly un
equal.
“After a full examination of the wide
range of data and surveys placed before
the committee, were resolved that the only
possible opportunity to approach a solu
tion was by adopting a policy of ‘a fair
field for all and special favors for none
of the various modes of transportation’.”
Cotton Ginning Report
Census report shows that 7,430 bales of
cotton were ginned in Chattooga county
from the crop of 1938, prior to March
1, as compared with 12,136 bales for the
crop of 1937, according to Mrs. Rosa N.
Shumate, special agent.
Nothing that the government can do
will prove a substitute for the effort of
the individual.
fore the election.
SECTION 4. Be it further enacted
that all laws and parts of laws in con
flict with this act be and the same are
hereby repealed.
County Ends Forest Fire Protection With Good Record
The only successful attempt to con
trol forest fires in Chattooga county
came to an end the last day of Febru
ary, just passed, by order from T. P.
Hursey, district forester. Mr. Hursey’s
action was based on a county board de
cision to discontinue financial support of
the work in co-operation with the state.
Since this has been the only successful
work of this nature done in this county,
the district forester is very eager that
the people know the exact date that the
work was discontinued so they won’t be
expecting help from patrolmen when
there aren’t any to help. This was the
third time protection work was tried in
the county, and the first two efforts
were such bad failures that they really
amounted to “wasted money.” The last
work was started after Mr, Hursey came
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1939
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ADOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
GEORGIA OVER BILLION-DOLLAR
MARK—TOTAL WEALTH
$1,044,000,000.
ATLANTA, March 22. (GPS).—ln
dustrially, Georgia now is well over the
mark as a billion-dollar state, it was
revealed in the latest reports from the
U. 8. census of manufacturers for 1937,
and just made public by Ivan Allen,
chairman of the industrial bureau of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The
state had a manufactured proluction of
$708,000,000, a farm production of $323,-
000,000 and a mineral output of $13,-
000,000, the total wealth produced
amounting to $1,044,000,000 for that
year.
The census for the entire state cov
ered 2,875 plants, employing 159,496
wage earners, total wages $110,501,344,
cost of materials, fuel, electricity and
the like, $439,145,132, valued of prod
ucts manufactured $708,652,241 and a
value added by manufature of $269,507,-
109.
While Georgia primarily is known as
an agricultural state, the above figures
show that the value of its manufactured
products are over twice that of the farm
products. This large industrial activity
furnishes most of the tax money which
supports our governmental institutions,
Mr. Allen said. Products of Atlanta’s
manufacturing industries in 1937 were
valued at $152,704,389, representing
the highest such figure in the history of
the city.
Truly Remarkable —“The remarkable
part of the railroad situation isn’t that
the lines are facing the severest crisis
in their history, but that they have
managed to survive at. all during the
past eighteen years—much less progress
and develop as they have done,” de
clares the Grafton (N. D.) News. “Gov
ernment has ‘monkeyed’ with them in
every phase of operation, has taken over
the role of management, and has placed
almost every conceivable barrier in the
way of fair earnings The fruits of
years of such a policy are apparent to
day, with railroad revenues decreasing
anl costs rising.”
Gist of the News —For the purpose of
encouraging wider usage of products
made or grown in Georgia, the first an
nual Georgia exposition, sponsored by
the Atlanta Federation of Women’s
Clubs, will be held at the Atlanta city
auditorium May 15-20 “How Edu-
cation Can Best Serve the Economic
and Social Needs of Rural and Urban
Georgia” will be the theme of the sev
enty-fourth annual convention of the
Georgia Education Association, opening
in Atlanta Marh 23 Over 800 WPA
teachers have been added during the
past thirty days, bringing the number
to 1,500 who are engaged in the drive to
eliminate illiteray in Georgia. . . . Hape
ville has decided to remain dry. In a
recent election, the drys polled 416
votes to the w’ets’ 87.
Editorial Oddities —“Efficiency sys
tems are' those that allow the boss to
get off for golfing,” declares the Pike
County Journal at Zebulon. . . . The
Darien Gazette says: “The world needs
a big war —a war on intolerance aftd
selfishness.” . . . The Alma Times de
cides: “All work and no play makes the
Jack.” . . . The Waycross Georgian dis
covers : “Some girls mistake love for liver
trouble.” . . . The Douglas County Sen
tinel at Douglasville gives this alviee:
“If you must break a record —make it
one of the neighbors—or at least, don’t
try to break ,any on our highways.” . . .
The Pelham Journal has this to say:
“Maybe you did win your argument but
you lost a friend much more valuable.”
. . . The Rossville Open Gate declares:
“An intelligent person rarely suspects
that he has discovered an idea.”
to the North Georgia forest district.
Mr. Hursey wishes to express his ap
preciation to all the people who have
helped the patrolmen put over their
work, and to the county board that help
ed make county-wide county-financed fire
control a success in Georgia. He stated
that the county financed plan started in
North Georgia, and that Chattooga
county was one of the counties which
started this movement that is still spread
ing all over the state. Since the North
Georgia counties began this type of fire
control, many south Georgia counties
have followed suit Mr. Hursey regretted
sadly that one of the old “beginner and
stand-by counties” dropped out.
He is not discouraged, however, and is
looking forward to working again in the
county in the future years.
FARMERS ORGANIZE
FOR ONE-VARIETY
COTTON COMMUNITY
PURPOSE OR ORGANIZATION IS TO
GET FARMERS TO GROW THE
VARIETY ADOPTED.
The farmers of Lyerly, Seminole, Dirt
seller and a portion of Coldwater dis
tricts met at Lyerly March 15 and or
ganized a one-variety community. The of
ficers elected were J. E. Hawkins, presi
dent ; C. C. Brooks, vice-president, and
J. W. Chapman, secretary. The variety
adopted was D. & P. L.
The purpose of this organization is to
get as many farmers as possible to grow
the variety adopted, so that the commun
ity will have a more uniform staple and
grade of cotton. By doing this they can
demand a small premium. This organiza
tion makes it possible to get the cotton
classed free by a certified grader.
Mr. Chapman, who is a ginner in this
community, agrees to co-oporeate in ev
ery way, even to the extent of buying
pure seed and selling them at cost, not
charging anything for hauling and hand
ling, and keep them pure by ginning this
variety only in one gin. To get these seed
you must put in your order at once as
we can buy a limited amount only and
no one wants to buy these seed and have
some left over.
Every farmer growing this variety of
cotton automatically becomes a member
of the association. THERE ARE NO
DUES OR EXPENSES.
A second meeting of this organization
is called for Friday. March 24. If you
are interested at all, be sure and come.
Meeting time and place is Lyerly school
house at 2 o’clock.
You may place your order for seed
with Mr. Chapman or the county agent.
Farmers in other communities wanting
these seed, place your order with the
county agent.
Forms For Free Cotton
Classing Now Ready
Forms for making request for the
free classing of cotton of their 1939
crops are available to one-variety com
munities and other cotton improvement
groups at the Atlanta classing office of
the division of cotton marketing, Joe H.
McLure, who is in charge of the office,
announced today.
Representatives of any cotton im
provement group may obtain sets of
these application forms by applying to
the bureau’s office. The address is 520
New Postoffice building, Atlanta, Ga.
Group applications may be filed any
time after members have planted their
cotton, but early applications will be
given preference after allowance is made
for the different dates of planting over
the cotton belt.
Mr. McLure calls attention to the
prospect that applications for the free
classing may come in from as many as
900 to 1,000 cotton improvement groups
this year, compared with the 312 for
the past season, the first year of the
service. “Early filling of applications,”
he said, “will help the classing offices
organize for the larger volume of work
expected this year and assure growers
that their groups will be among the first
considered for approval.” No applica
tions will be accepted later than Sept. 1.
The bureau will supply free cotton
market news service again this year to
supplement the free classing for the im
provement groups. With thiis service,
the groups can have the markets posted
several times each day on bulletin
boards placed at local gins or other
points accessible to their members.
The idea that financial difficulties will
prevent the Japanese from building a
larger fleet is like the idea that lack of
money would force Germany to surren
der in 1915.
Last July, Chattooga county ranked
fifth in the results obtained in the five
protected counties in North Georgia.
From July up until the time protection
service was suspended by the county
board. Chattooga county had risen to
first place.
The people of Chattooga county should
be proud of the fact that their county
was top-Ainking at its close. This great
progra.m was due to one man’s efforts —
B. F. Gr/gsby. He covered bis district
fires and ibout half of the ones in the
west district. You should be proud of
him.
County fire control system comparison
for month of February t
Miles Traveied—-Floyd, 1,533; Bartow.
1,128: Cherokee, 1480 (two cars; Chat
tooga, 870.
Number of Fires—Floyd, 10; Bartow,
Rivers Signs Bill To Put
Peaches On Auto Plates
A peach on every plate will be
Georgia’s slogan in 1940 when it
distributes its auto licenses.
With a stroke of his pen yester
day. Gov. Rivers made law a bill
authorizing the state revenue com
missioner to order the design of a
peach embossed on one corner of
next year’s license plates. The fruit
Ls to be in natural colors, while be
neath the numerals will be the
phrase “The Peach State.”
The Georgia Junior Cliamber of
Commerce sponsored the measure.
LAWMAKERS HOME,
BUT FOR HOW LONG
ATLANTA, March 21 (GPS).—The
gentlemen often referred to as Georgia’s
lawmakers have left Capitol Hill in At
lanta and gone to their respective homes
—but how long will they remain there?
Because of failure to pass many of the
proposed major bills during the regular
session, which lasted seventy days from
Jan. 9, another extra session looms Inci
dentally, remember the last VERY extra
ordinary session? It ended about the
middle of February, 1938, after lasting
eighty-three days and eighty-three nights,
and cost the taxpayers over $300,000.
Anent the session just closed, here are
some of the things that took place with
in the dignified walls of the general as
sembly :
A friend and a foe of the sales tax
measure drew blood in a free-swinging
brawl on the floor of the house. Repre
sentative IV. H. Lovett, of Laurens coun
ty, suffered a cut face that bled profuse
ly, and Representative H. L. Lanham,
of Floyd county, dislocated a finger, in
a wild melee in which fully twenty leg
islators who tried to stop the battling
pair were punched and shoved around.
The two pugilistic members later shook
hands, okly after Speaker Roy Harris,
pounding vainly for order, threatened,
"I will call out the National Guard if
this thing is not stopped.” In a subse
quent vote the tax measure was defeat
ed, 103 to 89.
Taking official cognizance of the com
bative situation in the lower house, sev
eral senators petitioned President John
B. Spivey to “leave the doors of the sen
ate open so we can get out if a fight
starts over here.” To which President
Spivey replied: “You senators need not
be alarmed. We are not going to have
any fights in this body. We all love
each other.”
The house economy investigating com
mittee had to halt its work with its job
still incomplete. The five-man group has
recommended measures to effect saving of
over a million and a half dollars.
Bills were introduced which would cut
the legislators’ pay from $7 to $3 per
day and reduce the traveling expense
from 10 cents to 5 cents per mile. They
did not pass.
A constitutional amendment was intro
duced that would remove the state capi
tal from Atlanta to the town of Mitchell,
a small community near Gibson, in Glas
cock county. It was not approved.
Representative Allen was sued by L.
W. (“Chip”) Robert, Jr., secretary of
the democratic national commiteee, for
$50,000 on charges of alleged slander.
The suit was withdrawn.
Speaker Roy Harris admonished
“drunken members of the house,” and
warned them he would enforce rules pro
hibiting drinking while the house is in
session.
Other things happened while the Geor
gia general assembly was in session,
such as passing a few minor bills, but
you get the general idea, don’t you?
10: Cherokee, 14; Chattooga, 3.
Acres Burned —Floyd, 51; Bartow,
51.5; Cherokee, 475; Chattooga, 9.
Average Acres Per Fire —Floyd, 5.1;
Bartow, 5.15; Cherokee, 33:92; Chat
tooga, 3.
Damage—Floyd, ssl; Bartow, ssl;
Cherokee, $958; Chattooga. S7B.
Average Time to Extinguish Fires —
Floyd. 2 hours 10 minutes; Bartow, 52.5
minutes; Cherokee, 2 hours 16 minutes;
Chattooga,, 1 hour 30 minutes.
Number of Contacts Made by Chief
Ranger—Floyd. 231; Bartow. 104; Cher
okee, 117; Chattooga, 308.
Number of Talks—Floyd, 0; Bartow,
0; Cherokee, 1; Chattooga, 0.
Number of Schools Visited—Floyd, 4;
Bartow, 12; Cherokee. 1; Chattooga, «.
Talks in Schools—Floyd, 2; Bartow,
6; Cherokee, 1; Chattooga, 8.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAR
MILL STARTING UP
UNDER NEW NAME
NEW LEADERSHIP
The familiar sound of the
whistle at the cotton mills at 7
o’c 1o c k Wednesday morning
brought to the people of Sum
merville the realization that the
mill was to start operations
again, after having been closed
down since last August.
The mill is starting up under
a new name and under the lead
ership of new capitalists, the
style of the new concern being the Sum
merville Manufacturing company. Hugh
Given, of Rome, is president; J. M. Cur
ran, of New York, vice-president; D. J.
Barry, of New York, vice-president;
James Curran, secretary and treasurer,
and Frank C. Pittman, superintendent.
It is understood that operations will
begin with one shift throughout the mill,
and that full production will probably be
started within about a month, or as soon
as possible.
When full production is reached it is
estimated that approximately 350 people
will be given employment in the mill.
E. P. HAWKINS LOCATED
IN OLD BOTTLING PLANT
E. P. Hawkins, of Murphy, N. C., is
another addition to our city. He is lo
cated in the old bottling plant. Mr. Haw
kins is engaged in the manufacturing of
shuttle block, used in cotton mills.
We welcome Mr. Hawkins to our city.
M. L. FISHER PURCHASES
SHACKLEFORD’S 5-10 c STORE
M. L. Fisher, Jr., of Carrollton, has
purchased the Shackleford 5 & 10c store
here. Mr. Fisher will be in charge of the
store.
The News and the people of Summer
ville welcome Mr. Fisher to our city.
MISS BOLING IN RECITAL.
The Fine Arts department of La-
Grange college presented a recital in the
college auditorium on Monday evening,
March 13.
Among those taking part was Miss
Rachel Boling. . Miss Boling chose for
her piano selection “Russian Romance”
by Rubenstein.
Miss Boling is a member of the
sophomore class at LaGrange college.
Executives of W.M.U.
Meet at Trion April 4
The executives of the Woman’s Mis
sionary union of the county will meet
with Trion Baptist church on April 4
at 2 o’clock. All ladies are invited and
urged to attend this meeting, as plans
are to be made at this time for our an
nual meeting, which will be held with
Lyerly Baptist church on April 11.
AU secretaries are asked to either
bring or send their yearly (1938) report
to this meeting in order for me to be
able to make my report at the annual
meeting.
MINNIE JUSTICE, Secretary.
Erosion-Control Plan
Solves Wood Problem
The complete erosion-control program
which farmers are carrying out in the
Coosa River Soil Conservation district is
helping farmers to solve their wood prob
lems as well as their feed problems, ac
cording to Carl F. Bohleber, area for
ester.
Just as the increased use of close-grow
ing hay crops and improvements of pas
tures to control erosion has simplified the
feed problem, better woodland manage
ment is helping farmers to get the most
effective return from their woodland.
Instead of the old practice of clear
cutting a portion of their woods each
year to get fuel wood, farm lumber and
posts, farmers are protecting their land
and improving their timber stand at the
same time by selective cuttings.
The removal of diseased, slow-growing,
and misshapen trees for fuel and farm
lumber promotes the more rapid growth
of straight, healthy trees for a future
timber crop, he explained. Protection
from damage by fire and grazing main
tains a protective ground cover, and in
sures the establishment of a fuU stand
of trees.
Many farmers are planting small areas
of black locust trees on their farms to
provide a supply of durable fence posts
for future use. This will eventually elim
inate the necessity for frequent replace
ment of fence posts and wiU thus conserve
both time and timber on the farm.
AU erosion-control practices tend to
provide a better farm program by reduc
ing the outlay of cash for farm needs
that can adequately be met at home,
Bohleber pointed out.