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Huge Sums In Gold
Arriving In the U.S.
Large arrivals of gold, said to be one
of the biggest treasure shifts in history,
are coining into the United States from
France and England. Fear of a Euro
pean war is attributed for the shifting
of the gold.
Hundreds of boxes of the precious
metal from the monetary stores of cen
tral banks and private hoards have been
unloaded from fast trans-Atlantic liners
as the transfer was speeded up.
The Aquitania brought $35,000,000,
and a record single cargo of $56,000,000
arrived soon after on the Manhattan.
Ordinarily gold moves from country to
country in settlement of international
trade balances and shifts of private
capital.
The extraordinary large shipments re
cently, however, led some financial cir
cles to believe central banks had expe
dited a shift of reserves both for sake
of safety and to have cash here for
emergency purchases of foodstuffs and
raw materials in event of war.
Bankers pointed out war supplies
probably would have to be bought on a
“eash and carry basis."
LOOKOUT MT.
Mr. and Mrs. James Selman and Misses
Gertrude and Eva Jones were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam McCord, of Huey
Town, Ala., Sunday.
Mrs. J. S. O'Bear and sons. Merlin
and Joseph, and Miss Anna Culberson,
of Gadsden, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. F.
Culberson recently.
Miss Lillian Jones, of the Woman's
college, and Thomas Jones, of the Uni
versity at Tuscaloosa, spent the week
end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
N. Jones.
Miss Marie Smith, of Rome, was week
end guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Smith.
Mrs. Georgia Rose Horton has return
ed to her home in Orlando, Fla., after
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rose and
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cash.
Miss Sybil Mallicoat, of Howard col
lege. Birmingham, spent the Easter hol
idays with her mother, Mrs. Mallicoat.
Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Ford and children,
of Collinsville. Ala., were guests Sunday
of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly O'Rear.
Miss Thema Culberson has returned
home after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Culberson, of Chattanooga.
Funeral services were held for J. T.
Blalock, of New Union, on April 5 at
Bankhead cemetery.
Mrs. Eva Brown was guest of her
daughter. Miss Luella Brown, at the
University of Alabama last week.
Mrs. Earl Jackson is visiting relatives
in Chattanooga.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stewart, of
Chattanooga, visited relatives here last
week.
Try a News Want Ad—They Get Re
sults Quick!
What you don’t know doesn’t • hurt
you, but it amuses a lot of people—
Berkeley (Cal.) Courier.
Kansas Knows.
A good politician never writes any
letters or burns any.—Atchison Globe.
TRION THEATER
(Matinee each day at 1 o'clock except
Monday.)
Wednesday
“GIRLS’ SCHOOL”
Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bel
lamy, Gloria Holden, Cecil Cunningham.
Laughter and tears —romantic interludes
and hopeless despair all tenderly
wrought into this masterful insight into
a girl’s heart. Also Dick Tracy Returns
No. 11 and March of Time No. 7.
The Trion Band will give a concert on
the stage.
Thursday
".JUDGE HARDY’S CHILDREN”’
Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia
Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford,
Betty Ross Clark, Janet Beecher. Super
lative entertainment. Judge Hardy—filni
dom's favorite father—saves his family
from a national scandal by risking his
own reputation.
Friday
“DOWN ON THE FARM”
Jed Prouty, Sprinf Byington, Louise
Fazenda, Eddie Collins, Russell Glea
son, Kenneth Howell. Pa Jones thought
he was great stuff as a farmer—but in
a corn-husking bee he wasn’t worth
shucks. Music short subjects and come
dies.
Saturday
“HEART OF THE NORTH”
Here’s a treat for you cowboy fans!
A western in technicolor. Adventure su
preme in the last outpost of civilization,
where lawlessness is rampant, and justice
is swift.
"CHARLIE CHAN IN HONOLULU”
Monday and Tuesday
“ZAZA”
Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall.
Bert Lahr. Helen Westley. Constance
Collier, Genevieive Tobin and Ann Todd.
Zaza, the toast of Paris, a pathetic but
terfly who singed her wings on a love
that could not be. Claudette delivers one
of the most magnificent performances of
her career.
Wednesday-Thursday
(Matinee Both Days)
“JESSE JAMES”
Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda. Nancy
Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull. Slim
Summerville. Brian Donlevy. The amaz
ing character whose tragic destiny thun
ders out of America’s lawless era. Gov
ernments outlawed him. jails couldn’t
hold him, as Jesse James rocked the
world with bis mad deeds,
Education, Please!
LIN YUTANG
Perhaps the wittiest and certainly one
of the most important books of our gen
eration is written by the son of a Chi
nese missionary. We refer to Lin In
tang's “Importance of Living.” The
present political crisis in Georgia may
very well illustrate the truth of his fa
mous parable on "hick.” It may be that
the present intolerable conditions are
fortunate rather than unfortunate. Per
haps the present is an interlude before
the decided improvement of the future.
A PARABLE
The great Taoist philosopher Liehtse
is responsible for the parable of the
"Old Man at the Fort.”
An old man was living with his son at
an abandoned fort on the top of a hill,
and one day’ he lost a horse. The neigh
bors came to express their sympathy for
his misfortune, and the old man asked.
"How do you know this is bad luck?’’
A few days afterwards, his horse re
turned with a number of wild horses, and
his neighbors came again to congratulate
him on this, stroke of fortune, and the
old man replied, "How do you know this
is good luck?”
With so many horses around, his son
began to take to riding, and one day he
broke his leg. Again the neighbors came
around to express their sympathy, and
the old man replieid, "How do you know
this is bad luck?” The next year .there
was a war, and because the old man’s
son was crippled, he did not have to go
to the front.
THE LESSON
Truly, there may be a lesson in the
above parable for all those who have long
since become weary with the petty poli
tics of the day. Already, there are signif
icant rumblings in the voices of Geor
gians. The non-partisan work of the
women voters of the state in presenting
the position of office-seekers is commen
dable. Emily Woodward’s forums, un
tainted with politics, have done a splen
did work. There are defenite signs of un
rest among our college youth—unsatis
fied with demagoguery, chicanery .waste,
false economy, and the manipulation of
the "interests.” Perhaps, the greatness
and salvation of our state will come from
boys and girls now crossing the thres
hold of life. And so, we say that the
present political crisis may well be the
’bad’ luck before the ’good.’
READING
However, there are things in this won
derful book that have no conceivable
connection with politics, and it is inter
esting to note what the ancient Chinese
thought of "The Art of Reading.” Yutang
states that in his opinion the best formu
la for the object of reading was well put
by Huang Shanku, a Sung poet. He said.
.‘A scholar who hasn't read anything for
three days feels that his talk has no fla
vor (becomes insipid), and his own face
becomes hateful to look at (in the mir
ror)”.
What he means, of course, is that
Detective
Riley
By
Richard
LEE
Dash
Dixon
By
DEAN
CARR
FACTS
YOU
NEVER
KNEW
!!!
• • •
By
H. T.
ELMO
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939
reading gives a man a certain charm and
flavor, which is the entire object of read
ing. This charm and flavor comes from
pur delight in listening to a person who
doesn't repeat himself. How soon we tire
of the girl who describes everything as
being ’cute’! Invariably, this type of
person does little reading. A person who
knows books continually surprises us with
the ’newness’ of his personality. But this
charm should not come from quoting
part of a book, nor from merely ‘steal
ing’ the author’s ideas. It comes, rath
er, from the fact that parts of the book
become woven into our minds. We are
not the same person for having read
them. Our personality may have changed
ever so slightly, but the change is there
just the same.
THE SOUTHERN ACCENT
We should read good books just as we
should associate with good friends. A bad
book is as dangerous to our mental well
being as association with a gang of
crooks and poolroom hangers-on. In the
south, we are justifiably proud of the
pleasantness of the sound of our speech.
Dr. Oberteuffer, of Ohio State universi
ty, a speaker at our G. E. A. conven
tion, told us that he had a “bad” habit
of talking like the people with whom he
came in contact. After one week of as
sociation with southerners he noticed
that his voice had become more mellow.
Now. the reason he thought this was a
bad habit was because he knew he would
lose this mellowness when he went bacK
to Ohio.
Os course, we are not speaking seri
ously about the matter of Dr. Oberteuf
fer's speech, but we do admit that there
is something to the theory that goo<
books and good people tend to make us
better persons.
Illiteracy campaigns, rural libraries
and good schools never hurt anyone.
THE ANSWERS
1. About 200.000.
2. To Dee. 31, 1938, $966,000,000.
3. Yes; prior to the treaty of Ver
sailles.
4. Sixty-two years.
5. Consult an astrologer.
6. Number unknown but 2,000.000 had
tickets on the recent Irish Sweepstakes.
7. In 1937.
8. Explosive bombs.
9. A non-iuetallie mineral, obtained
from rocks.
10. Over $15,000,000,000. or 58 per
cent, of the world's supply of monetary
gold.
If some of the theorists whirling in
swivel chairs would go into discard this
country would come out all right—Berke
ley' (Cal.) Courier.
A TH’ FOR HENRY.
All other things having failed, bank
night is hereby recommended to Secre
tary of Agriculture Wallace for aid with
the farm problem.—Boston Transcript.
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(Emily Woodward.)
The Georgia Forestry association is
gratified to be able to pass on to Geor
gia owners of timberlands the results of
experiments made by the Southern For
estry Experiment Station for improving
timberlands by intelligent "weeding.”
Our last press bulletin had to do with
determining the kind of trees that should
be classed as "weeds.” The next step in
the process is getting rid of these weed
trees profitably. Should all trees be gir
dled and cut for pulp or fuel wood, or
should the cutting be confined to those
trees only that will “pay their way,”
leaving or girdling the others. Wholesale
girdling is not recommended, neither is
cutting for pulp or fuel wood when it I
cannot be done at a profit. The first
step, therefore, is a careful survey of
markets for pulpwood, fuel wood, ties,
posts, or some of the other one hundred
or more wood markets.
We quote from the experiment station
bulletin :
"We have kept accurate cost records
of the cutting on about 400 acres of sece
ond-growth timberland and also on enough
trees of the various species to determine
what type of tree cannot be cut at a
profit into any salable product. We firs
cut the pines on the various areas and
determined the cost and profit, and then
from the same areas cut the hardwoods.
“The defective or low-quality pine was
cut into pulpwood at the following cost
per 144 cubic feet:
Marketing cost, including paint etc.s .035
Oil, wedges, saws, saw-filing etc.. .115
Labor • 1.030
Total $1.1,80
"We obtained an average of 1.35 units
of pulpwood per acre from this cutting,
or a net income of sl.ll per acre with
pulpwood at $2 per unit. It’s not bad to
have someone pay you for letting him
pull the weeds out of your corn patch, ;
is it?
"Except for the large and extremely
rough trees with large branches clear to
the ground, from some of which it was
practically impossible to split the bolts,
we made a profit on all pines four inches
d.b.h. and larger that had at least two
sticks of pulpwood. In the hardwood por
tion of the stand, however, we had no
market for red and black gum of low
quality. We also lost money on large and
very rought oak of several species and
on most of the large hickory. Furthermore’
it was generally not profitable to cut
hardwoods below seven inches d.b.h. into
either chemical wood or fuel wood. On I
th(‘ remainder of the hardwoods we made I
a reasonable profit.
“What disposal can be made of the
red and black gum and the extremely
rough and limby pines and hardwoods re
mains a problem. Since a market for both
red and black gum for pulpwood, posts,
and piling promises to develop in the
near future, it seems desirable to save
these trees until the market develops or
until we are sure that a market will not
be available. If we save the gums, we
then have per acre only about two fi
nancially mature trees out of the ten to
twenty with which we started. It is of
ten suggested that timberland is cheap
and that instead of girdling large wolf
rees we should let them stand and buy
more land. In some cases this may be a
good practice, but each ‘wolf’ tree may
occupy one-tenth of an acre of ground,
and girdling usually costs less than 5
cents a tree. If an acre were fully occu
pied with such trees, it would cost a
maximum of 50 cents an acre to girdle.
Where can other land be bought for 50
cents an acre?
“Our studies of improvement cuttings.
TAX RECEIVER’S
ROUNDS FOR 1939
I will be at the following places on dates and
days below for the purpose of receiving taxes for
1939. I will be at the office every day except days
mentioned above. I will be glad to stop any place on
my rounds if you will notify me:
TRION—
MARCH 6, MARCH 20, APRIL 3, APRIL 17
MENLO—
MARCH 7, MARCH 21
LYERLY—
MARCH 8, MARCH 22
HOLLAND-
MARCH 28 P. M.
COOK STORE-
MARCH 28 A. M.
DRY CREEK—
APRIL 19, NOON
DIRTSELLER: E. D. Harrison—
MARCH 30—10 A. M.
HAYWOOD—
APRIL 19—10 A. M.
SUBLIGNA: Self Store—
APRIL 12—10 A. M.
P. A. MORGAN STORE—
APRIL 12—1 P. M.
E. E. MARTIN STORE—
APRIL 14—10 A. M.
CHELSEA—
APRIL 14, NOON
On days I am on my rounds, will leave the office
at 9:30 a.m. and be back at 3:30 p.m.
DEMPO DALTON.
TAX RECEIVER
in both pines and hardwoods indicate
that such cuts are immediately profitable,
and furthermore that they leave the
stands in such a condition that they will
later produce a greater volume of higher
quality and value.”
4-H CLUB MEETING.
Our 4-H club meeting was held at our
regular time. Miss Henry gave us our
record books, and explained to us how to
keep them daily. We enjoyed our two
hours of work. Miss Henry asked us to
bring our material to make our aprons
next time. —Virginia Jo Hawkins, Bep.