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Screen Stars
Louis Brumfield’s “And It All Caine
True,” which was originally acquired by
Warner’s for Dick Powell and Gloria
Dickson, has been re-cast with Janies
Stewart. Ann Sheridan and Humphrey
Bogart as the leading players . . .
Joan Crawford will play the lead in
“Witch of the Wilderness.” It is the
story of a rich yachting party, ship
wrecked on the South American coast . .
A French film company which will
make English language films in Astoria
will use as its first story Charles Nor
ris’ “Bricks Without Straw.” Sylvia
Sidney is to have the leading feminine
role . . .
Tyrone Power will have the part of
Major Satti in Louis Bromfield’s "The
Pains Came.” Myrna Loy and George
Brent are the other principal players . .
Jean Arthur has been assigned to Clar
ence Budington Kelland’s "Arizona.”
which she will start as soon as she fin
ishes “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”.
Jackie Coogan will have a part in
"Million-Dollar Legs,” which features
his wife, Betty Grable . . .
Binnie Barnes spent her vacation in
New York and Havana, Cuba. When she
returns to Hollywood she will start work
in “He Married His Wife” with Warner
Baxter . . .
Robert Donat is to be featured in a
re-make of "Beau Brummel” by Metro.
The picture may be produced in London
as Warners and Edward Small threaten
the actor with an injunction if he at
tempts to work for another studio in the
United States . . .
King Vidor, who made "The Citadel”
last year, has been put in charge of
“Northwest Passage.” He will finish the
picture, which was begun last summer . .
Irving Berlin has written six new
songs for “Cupid Goes to Press.” Only
one is for the jitterbugs as Mr. Berlin
thinks that swing is on the way out . . .
The man who is to play the part of
Frank Kennedy, second husband of Scar
lett O’Hara, is Carroll Nye. Until a few.
months ago he was the radio editor of
a Los Angeles newspayer . . .
In filming “Stanley and Livingston,”
the make-up men had quite a problem
to match up real natives with ones back
home when they shot some of the scenes
on the lot. The American negro women
refused to shave their heads as the Masai
tribe in Africa do and it was only after
rubber coverings were made that could
be pulled over the wearers’ heads that
production was resumed . . .
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Patrolman Harold Nickerson of the Detroit Police put his ticket book away
when Betty Dane, Wayne University student, explained that her driving with
an egg was only part of a sorority initiation stunt. She did it, too, without
breaking the egg, by using a Chevrolet, in which vacuum from the motor sup
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Larger and Modern Army Is Planned
To Guard Nation In Uncertain Future
Thursday. April 6 has been designated
by the president as Army day. In accord
ance with a concurrent resolution, passed
by the Seventy-Fifth congress, the chief
executive has invited the governors of all
states to issue similar proclamations and
has ordered military units everywhere to
assist civic bodies in observance of the
day.
Army day, 1939, comes with the nation
devoting more attention and larger funds
to the improvement of its army than ever
before in time of peace. While the navy
has always been relied upon to protect
this country in an emergency and to de
fend it against invasion until military (
forces could be adequately prepared to
meet any emergency, recent events in the
world have convinced military and polit
ical leaders in this country that the
United States requires a larger, more
modern and better trained army.
Accordingly, plans are under way to
give this country one of the best-equipped
armies in the world and to have behind
it an organized industry, geared to shift
quickly into war-time production, sup
plemented by plans to have as many as
one million soldiers under arms within
about three months of "M-day,” which is
‘‘mobilization day.”
National defense measures are receiv
ing prompt consideration by the present
congress, which is providing huge sums
for the army. The appropriation bill ‘or
the fiscal year 1940 will be the largest
since the war and is expected to run
around $520,000,000. More than $350,-
OOe.(MK) will be provided for expansion
of the air corps and some $110,000,000
is expected to be available for the pur
chase of modern equipment.
In addition, there will be suras for im
provement of the defenses in the Panama
Canal zone, for the defense of Hawaii
and the coasts, probably for the construc
tion of a third set of locks at Panama
and about $34,000,000 for educational
orders to industrial plants in order to
train them for mass-scale production in
event of war.
The regular army will be stepped up
to 220.000 officers and men, as compared
to 180,000 today. This, with the National
Guard of about 210.000 men. will com
prise the immediately available military
force of the nation. Behind it will be a
"protective mobilization force” of 730.-
(XX), including the 430,000 already men
tioned and some 270.000- replacements.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939
With the money provided for equipment,
B there will be purchased anti-tank guns,
I tanks, gas masks, semi-automatic rifles
and other modern equipment to provide
I these soldiers with the best-existing
j- weapons. Particular attention will be
I paid to critical or “hard-to-manufacture”
I items for anti-aircraft rebiments.
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e The air defense bill will provide for
expansion of the army air corps to 6,000
planes, by July 1941, as contrasted with
i the approximately 1,700 planes on hand
< today. These will be given the necessary
t‘ equipment, bombs, bases and barracks,
f Some forty-three new squadrons will be
t organized by the air corps. This will be
- built up to 4,663 regular and reserve of
ff,ficers and 44,537 enlisted men. Produc
i> tion capacity of the aviation industry
e will be increased to approximately 12,000
- planes a year. Roughly, the air corps
r ‘ will be almost quadrupled.
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The third set of locks for the Panama
o Canal is intended to be far larger than
I the present locks and will be largely
I limited to naval use. The locks will be
t situated some distance from the present
ones in order to avoid hazards from air
attacks and sabotage. While this project
has not yet been approved by congress,
it is expected that it wil win out over
the proposed Nicaraguan or Mexican
casal.
( Briefly, the nation is modernizing its
army and practically putting the air
corps on a war footing in time of peace,
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t Industry is being prepared for instant
full-scale production in an emergency.
Plainly, these steps reveal the opinion
of military experts that any war in
II
j which this country will be engaged will
be a “totalitarian war.” That is to say,
•* they expect it to require the enlistment
of the full strength of the nation, both
in manpower and in industry.
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i This is the military picture in the
- United States today. All of the items
t mentioned above have not yet been ac
-1 complished by legislation and some pro
-5 posals now being discussed will be in
i eluded, such as the provision for large-
scale purchase and storage of certain
strategic raw materials not produced in
a sufficient quantities in this country.
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] In the face of a chaotic world and
_ without knowing what conditions may
v confront this country in the vent of a
, war in Europe, the government of the
. United States is preparing a system of
. defense that will be adequate to protect
; the United States. Even if a war in Eu-
- rope should be won by the totalitarian
powers, it is the intention of responsible
officials here that the United States will
be able to protect its interests in the
world that would be created by such a
victory.
SOUTH SUMMERVILLE BAPTIST
CHURCH
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; Wheeler
Edwards, superintendent.
Preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m.
by the Rev. S. B. Harrington, of Hazel
hurst. Miss.
All members are requested to be pres
ent at these services.
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GEORGIA’S PROGRAM
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The final effort to enact some revenue
measure to meet the existant crisis in the
schools, in the department of public wel
fare an other vital state agencies was
sponsored by men who were public-spirit
ed. removed in the main from partisan
politics, and thoroughly well-intentioned.
The bill they offered, a mell-devised 2
per cent, sales tax based on the Missis
sippi model, was the best tax measure
offered at the session, and was the bill
that should have been presented some
weeks earlier.
Nevertheless, the house was altogether
right and wise in rejecting the measure.
The condition of the state government in
Georgia is not to be remedied by tempo
rary measures. We are suffering today
chiefly because we yielded in the past to
the siren voices of expediency. We have
had too many plans offered, and accepted,
as panaceas for Georgia’s perpetual fis
cal difficulties; all have been proven
worthless and a few harmful. Beginning
with the reorganization acts nearly ten
years ago, there has been a steady series
of measures to change and reshuffle agen
cies, None of these efforts, whether ini
tiated by the assembly or conducted by
the executive independently, have amount
ed to anything important in effecting
economies. We have had a steady pro
cession of tax bills. In every instance,
the authors have believed that the addi
tional revenue provided would balance
the budget. It never did.
There is no doubt that, in most phases
of our progress, we have created agen
cies whose services overlap the services
of existing departments. Even in the de
partment of education, a state agency
justly regarded by the people of Georgia
as extremely economical and efficient and
staffed by workers genuinely devoted to
their duties, there were found elements
of waste. This was occashioned by a
gradual accretion of new duties and
functions. In the highway department,
in which both house and senate expressed
complete confidence and in which the
people have confidence, it is admitted
that the sudden effort, necessary to
avert loss of federal funds, occasioned
some extravagance in the engineering and
drafting divisions, because Georgia has
been planning its road work from year
to year instead of from decade to decade.
These illustrations are chosen because
they are departments above the general
Georgia, or even national, level for effi
ciently : the condition in most depart
ments suggest larger savings.
Yet if every employe deemed ‘useless’
were dropped from the state’s payroll, it
is doubtful that the savings would total
$200,000. an unimportant amount. The
real waste is in wasted effort, wasted
time and duplication of duties from one
agency to another. The purchasing sys
tem, for example has been under attack
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during the session just ended, and rem
edial legislation was enacted. But the
loss to state, which may have totalled
close to a million a year, was loss oc
casioned less by intent than through the
laxity inherent in the system.
Our tax system in Georgia is inade
quate to raise the needed revenues. Most
of the members who voted against new
taxes know this, and admitted this
knowledge. They took, however, the po
sition that it is essential to do three
things: (1) to eliminate waste from
government; (2) to determine actual
needs; (3) to reform the entire tax
structure, so as to avert the necessity
for constant changes in methods of tax
ation.
In this they were right. There is no
reason why waste can not be eliminated
largely from our government: Maryland.
Mississippi and other states have done
so. There is no reason why a real budget
commission, headed by a full-time expert,
should not make careful analyses of de
partmental needs, the assembly can pro
vide for such a needed service. There is
no reason why a tax system should not
be developed that will provide all re
quired revenues, until 1949 when the
PNEUMONIA TREATMENTS NOW
VERY MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE
But Coughs From Colds Break
Down Resistance
The scientists and doctors of
the world have made great
strides in the diagnosis and treat
ment of the dreaded pneumonia.
They have learned the various
types and almost every city has
hospital facilities that are fast re
ducing the death rate.
Most doctors agree that when a
person’s resistance is low he is
much more susceptible, and that
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social security board’s program obviates
the necessity for large expenditures for
old-age assistance.
Nor was the time adequate to do all
this at the regular session. Nor was the
attitude of the general public sufficient
ly clearly defined to authorize such an
attempt at that time.
But the effort must be made, and the
members of this assembly are the ones
to make the effort. It is unthinkable
that Georgians, whether teachers old
persons, children or the inmates of our
instiutions, should be deprived of neces
sary services because of the break down
of our fiscal system.
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