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The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE. GA.
(O. J. ESPY, Editor-Manager, 1911-38.)
Official Organ of Chattooga County.
DAVID T. ESPY, Editor & Manager.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Summerville,
Ga., as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Sometimes a misfortune proves to be
fortunate.
There are some who think a joke must
be bad to be good.
Good business includes a satisfied buy
er and a satisfied seller.
Almost anybody can find a plausible
excuse for not doing anything.
This is a good time to read that book
you intended to study during 1939.
When you pay your taxes do you ever
stop to think what you are contributing
to?
One trouble about being on time for
an appointment is that the other person
is late.
Summerville is your town; don’t fuss
over it unless you have done your part
to make it better.
There is much confusion over the right
of free speech; it does not guarantee
anybody the right to speak anywhere.
The News is usually glad to receive
short letters giving the views of sub
scribers upon matters of public interest.
The real name of the author must be
signed to such communications; other
wise, they go into the wastebasket.
2.100.000.000 PEOPLE.
In the Seventeentn century the popula
tion of the world, according to best es
timates, was around 450,000,000 people.
Since that time, for reasons that are
unknown, humanity took to multiplica
tion and the present population is esti
mated to include not less than 2,100,000,-
000 people. Moreover, the race continues
to multiply, although at a lessened pace.
These figures come from Dr. Raymond
Pearl’s book on the “Natural History
of Population,” which reveals that very
little is known about the rise and fall
of population.
ADVERTISING A BIG BUSINESS.
During 1038 business in the United
States is estimated to have spent sl,-
530,000,000 for advertising, according to
L. D. H. Weld, director of research for
a national advertising agency.
Huge as this sum was, it lacked more
than $200,000,000 of reaching the amount
expected in 1939.
Now, there are people who think that
advertising is an economic waste and
that advertisers throw away their money.
In view of the sums expected annually
by hard-headed business men, we might
assume that it brings in return. Other
wise, the expenditure would be stopped.
FORCE MAY BE NECESSARY.
We yield to few people in our appre
ciation of the Christian doctrine of bro
therly love, but, so far as we are con
cerned, we would not try it on a mad
dog coming down the street, with evident
intentions of biting anything contracted.
Much the same observation is applica
ble to present world affairs. We yield
to no one in advocating peace between
nations but we do not see how there can
be peace unless all nations are anxious
to have peace.
You can place a thousand men in a
building and despite the desire of nine
hundred ninety-nine of.them for harmony
and peace the other man, unless restrain
ed by force, can disrupt the harmony
and communion of all the others.
THIS MAY SAVE YOUR CHILD’S
LIFE.
Boys will be boys, but parents can
very often avoid tragedy by using more
care in teaching them the dangers of
commonplace things. •
For example, recently, in Illinois, an
8-year-old lad tried to start a fire with
gasoline. The explosion killed him and
seriously injured his 6-year-old brother.
Unfortunately, the little fellow is dead,
but are there parents in Chattooga Coun
ty who permit their children to use oil
■id gasoline in starting fires’ If so, is
it not possible to stop the custom, and
maybe save a little life?
It is not unusual to see, in the press,
where youngsters get hold of firearms
and, probably without understanding the
nature of their act, kill somebody. In
Pennsylvania, not long ago, two little
boys got into an argument over some
crackers, it is said, and one shot the oth
er with a pistol. The killer was only 6
years old. Who imagines for a minute
that the tot understood the effect of his
pistol pointing and that he really had a
murderous intent in his heart?
Parents in Summerville should be very
careful to remove firearms from the
reach of children, but more than this,
they should never fail to instruct them
against the danger of such weapons.
NEWS WANT-ADS GET RESULTS
“WE WANT PEACE.”
There is considerable debate over the
policy to be adopted by the United States
in regards to war.
There are advocates of strict isolation,
of disarmament, of co-operation with
other nations, of rearmament and of al
most any position that the mind of hu
man beings can evolve in regards to the
threat of war.
It is readily agreed that the people of
the United States prefer peace to war
and that, so far as possible, they intend
to live peaceably with all nations. Be
cause of this, it is observed that practi
cally every step taken by the govern
ment, or suggested by political leaders, is
prefaced upon the theory that it will
keep us out of war.
In this antipathy to war the people of
this country do not subscribe to the doc
trine promulgated by Mussolini and Hit
ler, who insist that a nation’s strength
is in its military power and that war
glorifies a people.
TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION POLL.
The poll being conducted by the Chat
tooga County Teachers’ organization
among all senators and representatives of
the state is getting encouraging results.
This poll is not yet a week old and fifty
six returns have been received to date,
with only two doubtful.
The pledge sent to all legislators reads:
“When the economy committee’s investi
gation’s work is completed, I am ready
and willing to join my fellow legislators
in providing funds with which to com
plete payment of teachers’ salaries prom
ised by the state for the fiscal year
1938-39, and to provide permanent and
adequate finances for schools in the fu
ture.”
We are asking all school officials,
teachers and patrons to join us in this
worthy undertaking and help make it 100
per cent. It should not be necessary for
any legislator to need encouragement to
return the pledge, because all clear-think
ing people know that our school financial
break-down needs immediate attention
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939
and your legislators are the doctors, duly
elected by the people as their representa
tives for the sole purpose of finding a
solution for the problems of the state.
The school financial condition is needing
a solution. At present there are several
thousand teachers in Georgia who have
taught two or more months without re
ceiving their promised salaries from the
state, and without any assurance what
soever that the state will ever pay them.
What would you do if you were a teach
er? After spending years in training and
thousands of dollars for your education
and then the state refused to pay you for
your services, how would you feel about
the matter? What would our legislators
do if they were school-teachers working
under the same condition as we? And
what would state officials do if they were
not paid promptly and far more than
the teachers? If teachers mean so much
to your children, community, state and
democracy, if teachers render such a vi
tal service to all, then why not pay them
along with all other state employes?
SUMMERVILLE CEMETERY
The Summerville Cemetery assoiation
will work in qonjunetiou with the city
officials the coming summer in keeping
the cemetery clean. Owing to the limit
ed funds of the city, it will be unable to
assume the burden of expense in taking
care of this work; therefore, an appeal
is being made to all who will to have a
part in this noble work.
C. L. Hale, a member of the eity coun
cil, was named by the city council to rep
resent the city and is authorized to re
ceive donations for the cemetery associa
tion. You are urged to make your con
tributions at once in order that the work
of keeping the cemetery in good shape
can begin before the grass and weeds get
ahead of us.
BUILD HOMES CHEAPER.
One of the best ways to encourage
home building is to reduce the cost of
constructing a home.
In the United States, despite the intro
duction of modern methods in most in-
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dustries, the building of a house contin
ues to be an individual affair. Little or
no effort is made to take advantake of
the economy which would be possible
through mass production.
The Farm Security Administration,
which adopted “self-line” technique in
building small five-room frame houses
near New Madrid, Missouri, reports that
it has been able to build small, frame
houses for as little as $l,lOO each. “Each
step in the prefabrication process,” says
the FSA. “was arranged so that mate
rials and semi-finished products flowed
smoothly from one group of workmen to
the next, with a minimum of delay and
lost motion.”
German tone toward Poland hardens
as demarche on Danzig is admitted in
Berlin.
TWELVE MONTHS’. SUPPORT
Chattooga Court of Ordinary'—At Cham
bers—April Tenn, 1939.
The appraisers of Mrs. Carrie Nelson,
widow of said Jim Nelson, for a twelve
months’ support for herself and two mi
nor children, having filed their return;
all persons concerned hereby are cited to
show cause, if any they have, at the
next regular May, 1939, term of this
court, why said application should not
be granted. 4t-Apr27
11. A. ROSS, Ordinary.
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