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GEORGIA’S PROGRAM To RE-CREATE , EMPIRE L v TATE oF ■ A56X,/uA f Vhe south f M l\ budget/ X ± MW/ > \BILLS CUrZ and There exists no doubt that the people of Georgia desire the many services per formed by their state grouped loosely to gether under the name of the ‘Program.' They want better highways, with thei attendant economic advantages. They want better schools and eolleges. They want, the assistance program for the aged, the dependent children, the blind and the crippled. They want an expanded public health service, with improved fa cilities at Alto for the tubercular of Georgia. They want better care for the inmates of the eleemosynary instituions For these services they are willing to pay. But they wish one hundred cents in service for every dollar that is paid in taxes. They realipe that, under present conditions, overlapping services with at tendant waste and inefficiency has made it too costly I Georgia has realized this for years, even before the seven-mouth school term free textbooks, the welfare program and the rural post roads features of the ‘Program - became law. There have been attempts at reorganization, but most of them have failed because they resulted in a mere reshuffling of duties rather than in a pruning of non-essentials. With the exception of the creation of the board of regents, efforts at reorganization in the past have failed completely to realize important savings. The most notable attempt at reform in this direction came in 1931. when a series of reorganization bills were passed by the assembly. At that time the board Hcackc' /., L.i’ii’i Ead? Make T.Js Check-Up The Police Siren means “Look-out!” And so do Nature’s signals—head aches, biliousness, bad breath, which are often symptoms of constipation. 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Sitton Ante Service General Repairing Painting—Body and Fen£er Work (On Rome Road, Across Highway from Schoolhouse) TELEPHONE 470 of regents was created, superceding r score or more of local boards of trustees for the various colleges: this worked, saving several hundred thousand dollart in the past eight years ! At the same time the department o‘ law was reorganized, with estimates that important savings would be effected These did not develop: the cost of the state's legal work and litigation has in creased steadily. The purcrasing officer, as an adjunct to the governor’s office, was created : it functioned with such in effectiveness that the last assembly cre ated a new, independent authority. The revenue department was reorganized ; there were no results, and a second re organization. the results of which are not yet determinable, was made in 1938 As a capping of the climax, the budget commission was created. The budget commission is actually th< governor of Georgia. The powers giver him are extremely broad, and additions powers have been assumed because the governor, even when he acts in some other capacity than as chief executiv is not amenable to ordinary- judicial processes. No governor of Georgia, start ing with Hon. Richard B. Russell, Jr., including lion. Eugene Talmadge and Hon. E. I). Rivers, who have served since that time, has been able to perform th duties of budget commissioner satisfac torily. The duties are too exacting, re quire too intimate a knowledge of to many departments and offer too inuc! opportunity for dabbling in political wa ters. Its breakdown was attested wlv the budget commission failed to file with the assembly, as required by law. its re port and recommendations when the leg islators convened for their sixty-day session. These have been the more recent at tempts at reorganization and of reform in the interest of efficiency and econo-m; in Georgia. They have not been success ful. The voters and taxpayers of Georgia want something more than a mere rc grouping of boards and bureaus under a new name, with additional new executives and supervisors. They insist that the as sembly go to the bottom of the probler and actually eliminate duplication of ef fort, obsolete services, unnecessary ef forts —and effect such savings as can b effected. The responsibility rests upon the as sembly Heads of departments can only perform their duties as provided by law. They have not the authority to reorgan ize the affairs of the state. Eycept by overstepping the bounds of a reasonabh discretion as budget commissioner, the governor has no such power. But the assembly has the authority, and the as- I sembly can learn the facts. It is doubtful that the savings that I can be effected will approach balancing the budget. They will make little impres | sion. indeed, in that direction, although ;by increasing efficiency they will give | Georgians the services for which they I are now paing and which they are not getting in full. But. after these savings have been es | fected, the assembly and the state’s ex ecutive will be in a position to present THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1939 to the people of Georgia a single, clear cut question : “Shall we reduce our serv ices. by eliminating the welfare payments o the aged, to dependent children and to the crippled and blind? Shall we reduce the school term? Or shall we enact ref enue measures to pay the bills?” Under those conditions, but only under those conditions, can Georgia vote ap proval of tax revision and additional revenue bills. THEY SAY By Hl BERT DODD. And He said, Whereunto shall we liken .he Kingdom of God? or with what com parison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the ,eeds that be in the earth: but when it .s sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches: so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.' —Mark iv :30-32. That Kingdoms have small beginnings and they grow seems to be the teaching of this saying of Jesus. The history o, the Kingdom of God in the world veri fies this description of it. It did not start in a great mass movement. One man, the Man Christ Jesus, had an idea, a vision planted in his mind and heart. He drew twelve men around him and patiently in stilled into their minds and hearts tin vision. At the end of three years, there were still only several hundred who han the vision of the Kingdom of God, am the record tells about only one hundred and twenty who were gathered together .n the “Upper Room” on the Day ot i’enecost. But from so small a beginning the plant grew until it filled the Roma' inpire within three hundred years. William Carey, the first Protestant missionary to enter India, labored so. even years to secure one convert; Ros ert Morrison did the same thing in China: and the first Protestant mission aries to Japan did likewise. Small be ginnings, these. This was about the be ginning of the Nineteenth century. In 1963, one hundred years later, the sta tistics show more than 622.000 Protes tant Christians in Asia, including Ja pan, Formosa, British Borneo. Ceylon and Cyprus. It took a century for the plant to take firm root, but the marvel ms growth of the last thirty-five yean justifies the rooting season, for in 1938. there were nearly two and a quartet million Protestant Christians in that continent! This parable ought to teach us today a valuable lesson. It ought to teach us that the movement which will lead the world out of its present chaotic eondi tion probably will not be born in a great mass-meeting. But there is a boy or girl —yea. many boys and girls—somewhere who will catch the vision of real Chris tian living and service. Then that vision will grow until it fills the whole earth ! The young people of the Methodist church have launched what is called the Youths’ Crusade. This is a great move ment ; but it should be remembered that it must needs fail as a Kingdom of God movement, unless the vision becomes in stilled in the individual hearts and minds of the young people. Oh. how we want a revival of the re ligion of Jesus! The revival that will sweep the world —and some of us feel we are on the threshold of it —will not be gin in a big and showy way, auspicious ly, as they say; but will probably be orn in some little prayer meeting where the “nobodies” attend, and few of them. The revival may start in your heart or mine. Let everybody pray, “Let the re vival come; and let it begin in me!” IN MEMORY OF MRS. M. B. BAILEY Oh. dear mother, how we miss you. In this world no more to roam; But we know that we'll be with you In that bright, eternal home. Our dear mother, she is waiting for us all to meet her there, Where we 11 all be together And there'll be no more sad partings, When we meet our mother there. We are living for that day when we can see our sweet, precious mama again and set her smiling face. Although it's sad and lonely without her. we can live to be with mama in that sweet heaven of rest anti then we won’t have to part again. Mama had been in ill health for a long time, but she bore it with patience She always tried to be submissive to the Lord s will. There is a vacant place in our home that can never be filled, but we realize that our loss is Heaven's gain. We know that mama is walking the streets of glory. She will never have to -uffer any more. She will never know any more sorrow. She's singing the praises of God. We know that mama is better off than we are, but, oh, it is so lonely without her. She was such a dear, sweet mama. Always kind and good. She always tried to help us bear our trou bles. Mama loved her church and church work. Though she hadn't liebn able to at tend church much in two or three years, but she enjoyed listening to the good preaching and singing over the radio. Oh. it don't seem sometimes like we can ever live without her. But heaven is nearer since mama is there. Mama is a bright shining light in the windows of heaven. And may we all follow in her footsteps, so that when our work is done on earth we can meet mama in that beautiful land where we will nev er have to say goodbye. May God bless all our dear friends for their kindness and sympathy to us is out prayers. HER HUSBAND & CHILDREN. Col. Ayers sees need for increasing flow of new funds into industry to sus tain recuverj’! | KNOW YOUR TIMBER , (Emily Woodward.) What can we do to stop soil erosion? This is a question heard so frequently now that Georgians have become con scious of the need to save the land. One answer to this question is PLANT TREES. A careful study of soil and water losses from seven types of cover and land used in Mississippi’s coastal plains region re vealed a loss of oil from barren and cul tivated lands 4,300 times greater than from lands protected by forest or grass cover. In experiments in which forest litter was applied to the surface of compact eroded subsoil, erosion was virtually stopped. It was also demonstrated that annual light surface fires sharply in crease surface run-off and erosion from forest and grass lands. Valuable information as to methods for •ontrolling erosion has been obtained from studies by the Southern Forest Ex periment station. These studies show that trees and other soil-bindisg plants can be established successfully on gullied lands, using inexpensive check dams am other simple site-improvement measures For successful planting of impoverished eroded sites, the station has found: (1) hat top-grade seedlings must be used: (2) that southern pines can l>e estab lished satisfactorily by planting the trees in holes filled with topsoil, thus dispens ing with check dams, bank reduction, and >ther more expensive preparatory meas tires; (3) that it is not necessary to plow or remove heavy grass before plant ing shortleaf or loblolly pine; (4) that losses of broadleaf planting stock can be prevented by heeling-in the trees in sand instead of loam. The control of erosion on roadbanks constitutes a serious problem and usual ly requires rather costly remedies. Stud ies have shown that eroding cutbanks can be stabilized successfully without re lucing them to gentle gradients and without resorting to the more costly sod ding methods in everyday use. A special method of preparing and planting banks has been developed that gives greatly superior results to those obtained from the usual method of contour trench planting. This study has shown: (1) hat relatively wide spacing of small Bermuda-grass sods or broadcast sowing to seed of several herbaceous species can be relied upon to provide a satisfactory plant cover; (2) that cutbanks should be planted in the spring rather than in the fall, but that sloping and other prepara tory work on the banks should be done preferably in the fall; (3) that light top dressing of fertile soil is a minimum re quirement in stabilizing cutbanks, and ,4) that light applications of fertilizer are also helpful. During the first three months of 1939. Great Britain and France have secured licenses for the export of arms, ammu nition and instruments of war to the value of more than $24,000,000. With the exception of $4,199, the entire amount is for aircraft. During the same three months Germany and Italy obtained licenses to the value of slightly more than SIS.(XX). Japan received no licenses and (Ilina's totalled $244,764. dIFVROI FT ? '- Out - Accelerates •• Out- Climbs and OUTSELLS the Field! , gi * liliO Ii 1 i % V- f® fl ■ Chevrolet is the fastest selling car in the nation today, solely and simply because it’s the biggest value! KKugKffrJHilM Take performance. Chevrolet is best! Because it out-accelerates, out-climbs and out-performs all other low-priced cars—bar none! Take styling. Chevrolet is best! Because it alone of all low-priced cars brings you the en viable beauty and style leadership of Body by Fisher! /KllfkSuff Take features. Chevrolet is best! Because it’s i the only low-priced car combining the outstand motors E v*l L ue ing quality features of high-priced cars, while saving you money on purchase price, operation The Only Low-Priced and upkeep! Combining «''' "''' "AU THAT’S BEST AT LOWEST COST!” McWhortcr-Selman Chevrolet Co. Summerville, Georgia. GOLD. The flow of gold into the United States continued in March when $365,436,437 worth of the yellow metal came into this country. This was the largest volume for any month except September and October of last year. From England came $250,- 065,107. In October, 1938. the total was $562,381,161, of which $443,404,000 came from England. That the British are transferring huge sums of gold to the United States is apparent from the fig ures for 1938, when Great Britain sent us $1,208,801,000. RAWLINS, Wyo.—When tire auto mobile driven by (’. E. Okerberg hit. an antelope, the antelope was killed, the au tomobile wrecked and Okerberg suffered eight broken ribs. 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HUNTINGTON, Ind.—Leaving her two kittens in a hen's nest while she went to hunt mice, Farmer Leroy Beal's cat was surprised when she found that a sitting hen had adopted the kitten and would not let her get near them. Peace was restored by a farm worker, who re stored the kittens to their mother. AQ Q SALVE ■B vb ■■ COLDS Salve. Nose Drops P nce Liquid, Tablets 10c & 25c