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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 2
SPECIAL SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE
MAY BE CALLED
GOV. RIVERS SAYS HE MIGHT BE
FORCED TO CALL THE LEG
ISLATURE BACK.
ATLANTA, March 28. —An extra ses
sion of the legislature, called by the gov
ernor and limited strictly to the con
sideration of revenue measures, appeared
a certainty Tuesday.
Following action of the department of
public welfare in ordering 16,000 bene
ficiaries stricken from the rolls, Gov. E.
D. Rivers declared in San Antonio, Tex.,
where he received the word, that he
might be forced to call the legislature
back.
It was the first direct intimation that
the governor would issue the call, al
though he said several days ago that if
a session was held, it would be soon.
Criticizes Legislature.
In his statement in Texas, Gov. Riv
ers criticized the legislature for its fail
ure to provide revenue for the program,
and said :
“We are going to have some sort of
transaction tax, sales tax, gross income
tax or luxury tax to continue to main
tain these services.”
By limiting his call to revenue mat
ters, the governor would cut off all con
sideration of other matters and force the
legislature to face this one problem, then
go home.
Should the call provide for revenue
measures only, the question would be
raised whether the legislature could even
consider economies in the state depart
ments.
It was generally admitted today that
the department of welfare action in re
ducing the rolls of pensioners would jolt
the legislature into action quicker than
any othei - development since the session
ended. Even the threatened closing of
schools did not strike home so
Most of the local government units made
some makeshift plan to keep schools
open, but no local funds of any kind are
available or those on the relief rolls, ex
cept in the largest counties.
Jhe old-age pension advocates were
the most powerful lobby of citizens dur
ing the whole session, and it was the
question of pensions that halted the econ
omy forces which were cutting the pro
posed appropriations bill, department by
department. After the house rebelled and
raised the pension allotment, the lid was
off and the appropriations bill was piled
up until it had to be table.
Coming Census Will
Ask Many Questions
Because of the drastic social and eco
nomic changes which have taken place
in the nation in the last ten years, the
1940 census will probably be the most
important survey made since the first
one, taken in 1790.
And the first one is considered more
important only because it was taken
when there was no idea, not even a rough
estimate, of the number of persons in
habiting this continent.
The significance of the coming tally,
for which actual field work will begin
April 1, 1940, lies mainly in the new
light it is expected to shed upon such
questions as unemployment, shifting pop
ulation, the depression, and increasing
employment of women.
New facts about the alien situation in
this nation may also be discovered, since
many groups are urging that an accurate
count of aliens be taken by the census
staff.
William L. Austin, director of the
census bureau, has already launched the
groundwork for the nose-counting by ap
pointing committees from all parts of the
nation to formulate questions for inclu
sion in the survey.
These committees are considering the
hundreds of questions which have been
suggested by business, industrial groups,
and individuals. The questionnaires will
be made as brief as possible.
A tentative draft of the 1940 question
naire includes these new questions: Are
you working? How much do you make?
Do you own your home and how much is
it worth? Where were you and what were
you doing ten years ago? Some addition
al new questions will probably be added.
The population report w T ill be made to
the president about eight months after
the census officially ends, and reports
on agriculture, manufacture, unemploy
ment, mines, distribution of business, ir
rigation and drainage, and other phases
of American life will probably be ready
by July, 1940.
Simultaneous disarming by all nations
proposed by Gandhi; believes that Hitler
would respond.
Analysis shows that 68 per cent of
world’s 42.942.694 autos are operated in
the United States.
Government census reveals Ireland has
highest percentage of single men and
women in world.
Income tax collections of $473,132,052
on March 15 date were 30 per cent, be
low same period year ago,
Snmnwnnllr fcs
HALE AT 104.
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JAMES PAYNE is 104 years old,
but he’s as spry as a youngster
of 70. The venerable Chicagoan still
reads, and declares he gets as much
enjoyment out of his daily coffee as
he did 30 years ago—more, in fact,
Since he has fewer other diversions
now. He can remember Lincoln
strolling the streets of Springfield
in his youth. Photo shows him at
the family party celebrating his
104th birthday.
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL FOREST
EXPANDS ACREAGE WITH 7,450 MORE
By H. O. MILLS. District Ranger.
The National Forest Reservation com
mission, in a recent meeting at Washing
ton, D. C., approved the purchase of
7,450 acres in the new Armuchee district
of the Chattahoochee National forest.
This addition increases the acreage un
der the administration of the forest serv
ice on the Armuchee district to 39,765
acres. The new purchases will be in Wal
ker, Whitfield, Floyd, Gordon, Chattoo
ga and Catoosa counties and will adjoin
land previously purchased by the forest
service in this area.
A CCC camp located in the ‘Pocket’,
which is in the heart of the Armuchee
district, is carrying out the work pro
gram of the forest service. This camp is
now building roads, foot trails and tele
phone lines which are essential and nec
essary in the administration and protec
tion of the forest. Construction of the
first of seven lookout towers for fires
will be started at an early date . The
first fire tower to be built will be lo
cated on the high point of Johns Moun
tain in Walker county, where the old
'flag pole’ was located for signaling, dur
ing the War Between the States.
Work will soon be started on several
recreation areas, located in the more
scenic parts of the forest, which will be
particularly accessible to the people of
La Fayette, Trion and Summerville. Ad
ditional recreational areas will be con
structed in other parts of the forest when
more acreage is acquired.
The greafest problem in the adminis
tration of th? new Armuchee district is
the prevention and suppression of forest
fires. Some of the finest timber in the
south once grew in this part of Georgia,
but due to the fact that fires have raged
unchecked over most of this area in years
past, the land is now at a very low
stage of timber productivity. Fine timber
can again be grown in this area. This
will bring more jobs and additional rev
enue to the people living in and around
the national forest, provided fires can be
prevented and kept to a minimum.
More than 99 per cent, of the fires on
the Armuchee district are caused by
man’s carelessness and thoughtlessness.
This means that practically all the forest
fires which annually damage the forest
land in this area could be prevented.
Only a little care and precaution is
necessary to prevent these forest fires
from starting. The rules for fire preven
tion are simple.
Don’t throw lighted matches or ciga
rette stubs along the roadside or in
woods.
Don’t leave your campfire or warm
ing fire until it is absolutely out.
If you have fields and brush that must
be burned off, the following precautions
should be taken :
1. Obey the law and advise your neigh
bors before burning.
2. Rake or plow a line around the
field to be burned.
3. Don’t burn on a dry, windy day
when fire is dangerous to handle.
4. Wait until late afternoon of a day
when there is no wind and the ground is
moist from recent rains before burning.
5. No matter how light the breeze, al
ways burn against it.
6. Ask your neighbors to help you if
there is any danger of the fire getting
out of control.
Every person should appoint himself a
volunteer fire warden to see that neither
he nor any other person is responsible
for starting a forest fire. If these rules
are applied to burning, the fire loss this
year will be greatly reduced.
Information regarding the Chattahoo
chee National forest ai d the work of the
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1939
MANY OF SCHOOLS
SOLVE PROBLEMS
COMMITTEE LEAVES FOR WASH
INGTON TO SEEK WPA,
KFC ASSISTANCE.
ATLANTA.—A series of movements to
keep schools open for their regular terms
developed Tuesday as a committee of
Georgia educators entrained for 'Wash
ington where they will seek financial aid
from the Works Progress administration
and the Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion.
In 1934 Georgia received $1,600,000
from WPA in order to weather a finan
cial crisis similar to the current predic
ament. The committee plans to call on
WPA Adminisitrator F. C. Harrington
this afternoon and on RFC officials la
ter. Possibility of loans at low interest
rates to the various local boards of trus
tees will be the object of the RFC visit,
committee members said.
Meanwhile, educational leaders in sev
eral counties announces ways had been
found to maintain the regular school
term in their communities.
“INCURABLE” KILLS SELF
AND SON.
SAYVILLE, N. Y. —Obsessed with the
idea that he had an incurable disease,
Vance Thompson, 34, shot himself to
death after killing his 5-year-old son,
Daniel. Mrs. Thompson had gone to a
movie. Examination of Thompson’s body
showed no trace of an incurable disease.
forest service can be obtained from the
district ranger at La Fayete, Ga.. or
from the forest supervisor in Gaines
ville, Ga.
FINED FOR GUEST’S LIQUOR.
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky.—According to
Police Judge Hunter Wood, a host is
responsible for illegal liquor brought into
his home by guests. Goebal Williams, 36,
paid a fine of $52.50 to find this out.
CARTRIDGE TAKES THUMB.
NEW YORK.—In trying to take apart
a cartridge which he had found in a va
cant lot, Thomas Rittenhouse, 13, was
badly injured by the explosion. His left
thumb may have to be amputated.
DIES OF STINGRAY STING.
AUKLAND, N. Z. —While bathing in
the surf with her fiance, Jessie Merle
Laing, 18, was pierced to the heart, by
the tail of a stingray. She died almost
immediately after she was taken from
the water.
UNCLE SAMS DEFENSE
PROGRAM UNDER WAY
COMPLETION OF PROGRAM TO PUT
LAND, SEA AND AIR FORCES
IN CONDITION.
With Europe threatened momentarily
with war, America turns to a completion
of the arms reinforcement program,
which, already partially approved by
congress, would put the nation’s peace
time land, sea and air forces in the best
condition in history.
' President Roosevelt’s $552,000,000 de
fense program, coupled with the navy’s
request for about $750,000,000 and the
army’s annual appropriation of $450,-
000.000, promise these results within two
years:
"The strongest American navy in his
tory, rivaled in mighty only by Britain’s.
“An army air corps of 6,000 planes,
among the world’s largest, and a naval
air force of possibly 2,600 planes.
“A regular army of 205,000 officers
and men, fully equipped for the first
time with modern weapons, and a nation
al guard of the same size better armed
than at any time since the World war.
Much equipment also will be on hand for
an army of 1,000000 in event of emer
gency.
“Industry geared to turn out 12,000
warplanes a year and ready to start a
vast flow of munitions on short notice.
“Stronger permanent defenses for the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Panama
Canal, and Hawaii, and numerous new
air and naval bases.”
MEETING OF UNITED
GEORGIA FARMERS
The farmers of Chattooga county have
asked that a meeting be called Saturday
afternoon, April 1, at the courthouse, for
the purpose of organizing a chapter of
the United Georgia Farmers. This organ
ization is affiliated with th.e United Farm
Bureau. There have been several farm
ers in the county who attended the meet
ing in Rome and Cartersville in regard
to this and they all seem very anxious
that this county organize a chapter,
BENEFIT SHOW TO BE
SPONSORED BY LIONS
"RADIO CITY REVELS” WILL BE
GIVEN AT ROYAL THEATER
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5.
On April 5, the Summerville Lions
club is sponsoring a picture show at the
Royal theater. The picture will be “Radio
City Revels,” with Bob Burns, Jack
Oakie and a host of other stars of both
radio and screen.
The proceeds of this show will go to
the benefit of the Summerville school
children, in providing free lunches for
this school term and the beginning of
the September school term. Through the
courtesy of the manager of the Royal
theater, this picture has been secured
without any cost to the Lions club,
therefore, enabling the entire proceeds to
go to the benefit of the above cause.
Free prizes will be given after the com
pletion of the first show at 9 o’clock. All
persons are urged to have their duplicate
tickets in the prize box by 9 o’clock, as
it is not necessary to be present to re
ceive a prize. If claimants are not pres
ent, numbers will be posted at the Royal
theater.
There will be two shows —one starting
promptly at 7 o’clock p.m. and the sec
ond show at 9:15 p.m.
Bring your friends and family and en
joy a roaring good time at the Royal
theater Wednesday night, April 5.
LYERLY F.F.A. CHAPTER.
The small grain demonstration plot,
sponsored jointly by the American Ni
trate of Soda company and the Lyerly
chapter, Future Farmers of America, is
progressing nicely. The wheat was top
dressed with American Nitrate of Soda
about two weeks ago, and Mr. Young
states that you can already tell the dif
ference between the plots side-dressed
with soda and where no soda was appli
ed. The signs showing the rate of soda
applied per acre have been put up and
we advise the farmers to watch the plots
and see the difference the top-dressing
with American nitrate of soda makes.
This plot is sponsored by the American
soda company and Lyerly F.F.A. chapi
ter to show the farmers why their gram
should be top-dressed with soda. You will
find this plot about one-half mile east of
tfie Echols bottoms. So drive
by and watch this plot as it grows and
see the difference American nitrate of
soda makes. Remember there will be paid
a cash prize to the one who makes the
best estimate of the yield.
HERMON MOUNT, Reporter.
JUST IT.
The lesson taught by America’s fine
houses is that a man can make money
without knowing a darned thing about
architecture. —Glendale News-Press.
Congressional approval of legislation
embodying war department requests will
provide the army with:
All equipment for thirty-four modern
anti-aircraft regiments, although some
will be inactive of skeletonized.
Sufficient semi-automatic rifles, anti
tank guns, communication equipment,
new or modernized artillery, gas masks
and other arms for a basic land force of
400,000, along with necessary reserves
of ammunition.
More than 150,000 of the new semi
automatic rifles, which the army con
siders the world’s best infantry weapon,
are to be turned out in two years.
President Roosevelt has asked an
emergency appropriation of $110,000,000
for the armament program, and an addi
tional $55,000,000 is included in the war
department’s annual supply bill.
Manpower is causing the war depart
ment little concern. General Malin Craig
told a house committee recently that this
was the army’s smallest problem.”
The army air corps is starting a re
cruiting campaign to double its supply of
military pilots, in advance of the admin
istration program to give primary avia
tion training to 20,000 college students
each year.
One major rearmament difficulty, some
experts believe, is training American
factories to produce munitions. A $32,-
000.000 appropriation for "educational”
purposes is included in the defense pro
gram.
The meeting Saturday * afternoon is
solely for the purpose of discussing the
purpose and answering any questions we
may be able to answer in regard to this
organization and for the farmers of this
county to decide whether or not they
want such an organization.
The meeting should at least be of in
terest to every farmer in this county and
if it ia possible to do so you should at
tend this meeting.
To Conduct Revival At
Trion Baptist Church
REV. E. B. SHIVERS, pastor of the
First Baptist church at Trion, will
conduct a revival April 16. continuing
for ten days, at the Trion church. Rev.
Shivers attended Mississippi college,
Theological seminary, of New Orleans.
He was pastor of Rawleigh Baptist
church, of Rawleigh. Miss., before ac
cepting the post at Trion church.
Youths From Many
Nations To Attend
Poultry Exposition
Hundreds of boys and girls from all
parts of the world will be in attendance
at the seventh annual World’s Poultry
Congress and Exposition, to be held in
Cleveland, 0., from July 28 to Aug. 7,
Arthur Gannon, Georgia eytension serv
ice poultry specialist, said this week.
These boys and girls will represent
youth organizations from all continents.
A Hall of Youth, comprising 20,000
square feet of floor space, has been made
available for the sole use of the young
people interested in the poultry industry.
Many activities and various sorts of en
tertainment are being sponsored for the
youngsters during their stay at the ex
position.
"The object of inviting these organiza
tions is to give the boys and girls an
opportunity to display or exhibit the ap
plication of their national agricultural
problems for youth, as they apply to the
poultry industry,” Mr. Gannon declared.
"Representing the United States will be
4-H clubs, Future Farmers of America,
find the Boy Scouts of America, with
around 1,000 participants from at least
forty states.
“Each of the national organizations
will develop an exhibit, which will be
made by national organizations, rather
than on a state basis,” the poultry spe
cialist continued. “Youth of foreign na
tions will take part in each youth event,
and foreign teams will present demonstra
tions in their own language.”
The youth program will consist of dem
onstrations and demonstration contests,
judging contests, exhibits, entertainment,
and a youth camp, the poultry specialist
added. A large number of boys and girls,
other than those taking part, will be
visitors at the congress, and arrange
ments have been made to house them at
the youth camp.
DEAN CHAPMAN ADVISES
CHICKENS, LESS COTTON
COLUMBUS, Ga.—Dean Paul W.
Chapman, of the University of Georgia
College of Agriculture, addressing poul
trymen assembled here for the annual
baby chick and egg show, advised Geor
gia farmers to substitute chickens for
cotton on their farms to make a profit.
“When compared with other sources of
income,” Dean Chapman pointed out,
“Poultry makes an excellent showing. On
the basis of the last census of Georgia
farms, poultry farms ranked second only
to dairy farms in the returns per acre.”
Poultry is important from a live-at
home as well as from an income point of
view, Dean Chapman, added, since a farm
family of five persons requires 2,600 eggs
each year and fifty to 100 birds for meat.
Try a News Want-Ad —They get re
sults, and are priced reasonable.
WHO KNOWS?
Here’s a test for those who have kept
up with "Who Knows?” each week.
The ten questions below are taken
from questions asked in previous weeks.
How many can you answer?
1. When did the Spanish Civil war
begin?
2. How many banks are there in the
United States?
3. What is euthanasia?
4. When did the Federal Deposit In
surance corporation begin to function?
5. What is the cost of a modern de
stroyer?
6. How many soldiers were killed in
the Spanish Civil war?
7. W’ho was Johann Guterberg?
8. Is there a law limiting the nation’s
public debt?
9. What was the national income in
1929?
10. What js she distance from Guam
to Japan?
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAR
MRS. E. R. BUFKIN IS
COUNTY CHAIRMAN OF
WOMEN’S FIELD ARMY
CHATTOOGA COUNTY WENT OVER
QUOTA LAST YEAR IN FUNDS
FOR THE FREE CLINICS.
Mrs. E. R. Buskin has been appointed
county chairman of the Women’s Field
Army of the American Society for the
Control of Cancer, by the state com
mander of the Women’s Field Army for
1939. This is Mrs. Buskin’s second year.
Chattooga county went over its quota
last year in raising funds for the free
clinics in treating cancer.
The funds raised last year are being
used for the support of a free cancer
clinic in Dalton, which is open for any
one who is financially unable to pay for
medical treatment. The organization de
sires the co-operation of every one in this
cancer control campaign.
For any information or literature on
cancer control, see Mrs. E. R. Buskin,
county chairman, Summerville, or Mrs.
G. L. McCartha, assistant chairman,
Trion.
The advisory board is composed of O.
L. Cleckler, Grady Cole, Walter Sturdi
vant, 11. T. Phillips, Homer Woods, G.
J. Boling, T. J. Espy, Jr., Mrs. E. R.
Buskin, Mrs. G. L. McCartha.
Executive Committee —Mrs. E. R. Bus
kin, Mrs. G. L. McCartha, Dr. R. E.
Talley, Dr. H. D. Brown, Dr. R. N. Lit
tle, Dr. N. A. Funderburk and Dr. S.
B. Platt.
Publicity Directors Mrs. Emmett
Clarkson and Mrs. R. S. McWhorter.
DRIVING RECORD.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. —Harry Borchers has
the record of having driven 375,000 miles
in twenty-two years without a single
accident.
SEIZE LOTTERY TICKETS.
BOSTON.—Police seized 2,000 books
of tickets, estimated to be worth sl,-
000,000, and arrested two men at a Bos
ton hotel. The tickets were for sale in
New England.
IDEA!
Antique statue of Cupid, dug up in It
aly, has a hand, both legs, a nose and
an ear missing. Wouldn’t that be an idea
ornament for the city park of Reno? —
Arkansas Gazette.
President urges congress to end the
$30,000,000,000 limit on bonded indebt
edness.
Elliott Roosevelt terms Garner in lead
for party's presidential nomination in
1940.
Federal Surplus Commodities corpora
tion to buy 81,000,000 bushels of wheat
mortgaged in 1938.
Home Economics News
HOUSEHOLD PESTS
Have you ever known a housewife to
be frantic over the presence at the nev
er-ending procession of household pests?
There is scarcely a home that does not
have this trouble some time or other.
They should be eradicated because they
destroy property and are a menace to
health.
An Ounce of Prevention Equals a
Pound of Cure—Disenfect by: Sunlight
around everything; dryness in and
around everything; cleanliness on and
through everything.
To Keep Out Pests.
1. Close runways with putty and
plaster of paris.
2. Wooden moldings and plastic wood
will fill cracks.
3. Sheets of tin will cover holes in
floor.
4. Strong-smelling, pungent powders
may discourage vermin.
5. Poisons and fumes introduce danger.
6. Infammables bring fire hazards.
7. Traps, if carelessly placed, may en
danger pets.
8. Eternal vigilance is the price of
prevention.
To Exterminate Ants.
1. Keep food covered.
2. Place legs of refrigerator tables,
etc., (in small tops or similar) in water
with film of oil.
3. Find point of entrance and treat
with kerosene, close runway if possible,
trace ants to nest and destroy there with
boiling water.
4. Place a mixture of sugar and borax
near runway or around nest.
5. Use ant traps.
To Prevent Clothes Moths.
Cleanliness, brushing, airing in sun
light are first preventatives. Clothing in
use are safer than ones packed away.
Brush and clean thoroughly before pack
ing. Add moth preventative. Seal boxes
to make moth-tight.
To Prevent Roaches.
These delight in warm, moist places
such as sinks, kitchen closets, refrigera
tor. mops, etc. Clear away every crumb
scraps of food. Place alum or borax
wherever signs of trouble. Rancid grease
will trap them. Sodium floride ia recom
mended for severe infestations. Call an
exterminator in extreme cases. Note:
Water bugs and cockroaches are cousins.
HARRIET WHISNANT.