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One of the most iusistive demands from
the citizens and taxpayers of Georgia is
that the state government be efficient
and economical. As a requisite prelimi-
Jiary to any new revenue measure, or
even any revision of the existing cum
bersome tax system, the public wants to
know whether the revenue now receiver
is being spent in such a manner as t<
obtain one hundred cents in value foi
every dollar.
Unquestionably the state governmen
of Georgia is not at a ]>eak of efficiency
li must follow, therefore, that it is not
economical. For the test of economy is
not the total of expenditure, but the
value obtained.
In a phrase of President Roosevelt,
which in its application to the suprein
codrt proved not the most popular of his
many admirably turned phrases. "We an
not living in horse-and-buggy days.” Un
fortunately, the system under which
Georgia operates was designed for a pe
riod in which not one of the significant
factors in the state budget, except a pit
tance to the schools, existed. The high
way department, the health department,
the public welfare services, free textbooks
and the ‘guarantee’ of seven months of
salary for teachers have all been enacted
since the last real overhauling of our
state government.
We have made various attempts it is
true, at reform. Most of these have turn
ed out badly, because, the legislation
enacted was so hard-and-fast that it was
disregarded. For example, it is obvious
that a well-directed department of law
could effect important savings; but the
reorganization act of 1931. limiting per
sonnel so drastically on the eve of ma
jor changes in state services, is so inelas
tic that it has either been interpreted out
of existence or blandly disregarded. A
similar fate is almost certain to*over
take the equally inelastic regulations im-
TRION THEATER
Wednesday
The Lions Club will present a min
strel of local talent, in addition to the
regular picture show. On the screen:
•MR. CHUMP’
Starring Johnnie Davis and Lola Lane.
Dick Tracy Serial. No. 13.
Thursday - Friday
“ARIZONA WILDCAT’’
Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Henry
Wilcoxon, William Henry, Douglas Fow
ley. The Wild West was tame until six
shootin' Jane eame along and taught the
boys how to be rough. Short subjects:
‘Syncopation’ and ‘Golden California.’
Saturday
“COLORADO TRAIL’’
Starring Charles Starrett and Irisi
Meredith, in a thrill-packed western.
“NIGHT HAWK’’
Robert Livingstone. June Travh, Rob
ert Armstrong. Ben Selden, Lucien Lit
tlefield. A fast-moving newspaper yarn
is combined with a revival of the rum
running racket to emerge as an action
laden thriller.
Comedy: ‘Chris Columbo.’
M onday- T u esda y
“PARIS HONEYMOON’’
Bing Crosby, Franciska Gaal. Edward
Everett Horton, Akim Tamiiroff, Shir
ley Ross, Ben Blue. Michael Visaroff.
America's favorite troubador—up to his
neck in romantic complications—with
two beautiful girls chasing him across
Europe. Hear him sing “The Funny Ol<
Hills.”
Wednesday—Next Week
“TREASURE ISLAND’’
Staring Wallace Beery and Jackie
Cooper.
THE HALE STORE
MANHATTAN SHIRT SALE
Beginning Thursday morning, May 4th, and con
tinuing through Wednesday, the 10th, we will sell
genuine Manhattan Shirts in fancies, regular $2 value
for only $1.49. This will include some numbers in
Veri-Cool cloth. This is an opportunity for you to take
care of your Shirt needs in a standard brand shirt at
a VERY GREAT SAVING.
THE HALE STORE
GLADIOLI BULBS
A-NO. 1 ASSORTED STATE INSPECTED
(BLOOMING-SIZE BULBS—
SI.OO PER 100, Postpaid
J. K. Kennedy
MENLO, GEORGIA
posed upon the revenue department more
recently. By making our ‘reorganizations’
so drastic, their purposes have been de
feated.
One paramount cause of waste in our
state government has been overlapping
duties of various agencies. In the 1937
assembly there was considerable debate,
some of it distinctly captious and dis
agreeable. over the visits to the same
merchant of perhaps seven different tar
collection agents . The assembly over
looked, in the main, the point that, these
duplications had been created, in good in
tention, by preceding assemblies, as new
revenue devices were adopted. Similar
duplications can be found in the depart
ment of education, the department of ag
riculture and almost every other state
agency. But the responsibility does not
rest with the departments, nor with the
heads of the departments; they are un
dertaking only to follow the law as it is
provided by the assembly.
Many of the duplications of effort es
cape notice because the employes are kept
very busy in the discharge of their du
ties. Yet some reduction of personnel and
even more important savings in expense
accounts could be effected through elimi
nation of duplicate investigations.
But the major cause of inefficiency
and want of economy arises from a fail
ure of anyone—the governor, the heads
of departments and the members of the
assembly, as well as the citizens and the
harassed taxpayers —knowing what it wil
take to run the state and how much rev
enue is expected.
As to the latter, the revenue depart
ment can make a close guess—for the
next fiscal year. But with the frequent
changes in tax laws, and the complete
instability of the Georgia tax system with
its almost annual revisions, not even an
astrologist or a clairvoyant, much less
a responsibile official, would undertake
to estimate the revenue two years in ad
vance.
Our inadequate budget system, with
its political control over personnel and
its complete ineffectiveness in determin
ing state needs —so that no estimate was
submitted to the assembly for the next
two fiscal years for which appropriations
were expected—leaves departments to
fight frantically for legislative grants,
deprives the legislators of essential in
formation and leaves the public in the
dark as to the operations of state agen
cies for which they pay.
The state needs more money to pay
old-age pensioners, dependent children
and the maimed their promised grants.
The state needs money to pay for the
schools and colleges. The health program,
the highway program and the agricultur
al program must be financed.
But first Georgia needs a reassignment
of departmental duties to avoid waste,
and the creation of an agency that can
estimate intelligently and fairly the real
needs of the state and end guesswork
government.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
DEBTORS.
GEORGIA. Chattooga County:
Creditors of Miss Minnie Henry, late of
said county, deceased, are required to file
verified statements of their claims with
the undersigned. All persons indebted to
said deceased to make payment to th
undersigned who duly qualified as execu
trix of the will of said deceased on the
second day of May, 1939.
MISS KATHERINE HENRY.
Summerville, Ga.
Enough soil is washed and blown from
fields every year to fill a train of freight
cars long enough to go around the earth
nineteen times at the equator.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY MAY 4, 1089
DEATHS
Twins Die.
Roy Ray and Troy Fay Haney, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Haney, of
Mountain View community, died in a few
hours after birth Friday, April 21. They
were buried together in the Alexander
cemetery. Besides their parents, they are
survived by two brothers and two sis
ters. Trion Department store in charge.
Larry Crider.
Larry Crider, 14-month-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Crider, died Saturday,
April 29. at 1:20 p.m. Besides his father
and mother he is survived by two broth
ers, all of Trion. Funeral services were
conducted from the Trion Baptist church
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 by the Rev.
E. B. Shivers. Interment in the Trion
cemetery. Trion Department store in
charge.
Funeral services for the infant son o
Mr. and Mrs. George Evans were con
ducted from the graveside in the Trion
cemetery Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock.
Trion Department store in charge.
Tony 0. Wotten, (Colored)
Tony C. Wotten, 7. died at his home
near the Walker county line Thursday
Legal Notice— Civil Action
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTH
ERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
ROME DIVISION
No. 298 Civil Action
Proceeding to Condemn Land.
United States of America. Petitioner vs.
1359.8 acres of land in Chattooga and
Floyd Counties, Georgia. the Develop
ment Company of Georgia et al., De
fendants.
Notice to the following persons, firms
and |or corporations, who are known
and who are said to reside outside of
the State of Georgia, to-wit:
Mrs. Powell Glass; Michigan Trust
Company, Receiver for R. G. Peters:
Mrs. Josephine Pitner Patton; R. (Rich
ard) G. Peters: John Pitner; Robert
Pitner: William Pitner; Aubrey Bar
ton; Floyd Landrum; Jim Landrum;
Mrs. Nellie (S. IV.) McMillian: Ethel
Nix Moore; Bud Nix; Mrs. Walter
Tate; Argidell Nix ; Lillie Nix
Drummond : James Drummond ; Mamie
Drummond: Martha Goodwin Denny
Galphin, individually and as Executrix
of R. A. Denny, deceased; Joe Lump
kin; Will Lumpkin: J. R. Pitner. Jr.:
R. 11. Pitner; W. C. Pitner: N. K.
Bitting; Miller Brothers Company, a
corporation, Felix G. Miller, President;
Frank L. Miller. Jr.; Miller Brothers (a
firm composed of G. H. and F. L. Mil
ler): G. 11. Miller: F. L. Miller: 11. IL
Shackelton (Shakelton) ;
and
Mell J. Price, who is a minor and
non sui juris;
and
the following persons, firms and jor cor
porations. whose residences are unknown
and who are themselves wholly unknown,
to wit:
(a) The following persons or their
heirs at law, the following corporations,
or their assigns and |or successors. I
whose names and residences are un
known, to wit: Byron Landrum, Frank
Landrum; Joe Landrum, Jr.; 11. F.
Scott. Jr.; Hugh M. Scott; Mrs. Laura
S. Scott, widow; Effie Hammond; Lin-
ton Hammond; Will Landrum; Deaton
Brown Henstead; M. E. Carney; Mrs.
.'i. C. Landrum, widow; M. C. Lan
drum. Jr.; Sallie R. Murphey; Mrs. Will
Fowler, formerly Mrs. W. E. Burton;
Maude Carney ; Engle Griffitts;
(b) Heirs at law of the following
named persons, successors and assigns
of the following named corporations,
whose names and residences are un-
| known, to wit:
j J. D. Allen; Emma Burton ; Mary E
Cleghorn, widow of C. C.. Cleghorn ;
John R. Crandall; John T. Dent ; W
W. Gamble; Hiram D. Hill; H. D.
Hill; Andrew J. Lawrence; A. J. Law
rence. R. G. Peters Salt and Lbr. Co.;
J. 11. (James HL) Plummer: Wesley
Shropshire. Jr.; Wesley Shropshire, Sr.;
M. H. Smith; C. C. Cleghorn. Sr.. John
S. Cleghorn; Octavia J. (leghorn;
Win. B. W. Dent; Stephen Frazier;
i Jar. It. Gamble: Reulten Jordan;
John T. Meador; Levi Pierce; Mrs.
Allie Pitner; James N. Wootten ; Mary
M. Banks; \\ . W. Bobo; Cherokee
Manufacturing Co.; Bud Earle; Eliza
’th Earle: Herbert Fielder; Hallie
Moore Gilbert; Sarah Earle Goss; Elija
(Elijah! Goss; J. E. Goss, R. A. Jones;
j W. R. Jones: Mary E. Moore; Laura
Moore Pollock; Mattie Moore Quarles;
■ Frank Reagan; Henry F. Scott; Dav'd
Smith; W. J. Trapp: John M. Vandiver:
; John C. Wells; Henry Banks; 1. E.
Barnett; Leo Barton; W. L. Barton:
| Joseph G. Blance: B. 11. C. Bomar;
j Mary E. Cantrell; Pelmyra Carney; A.
I E. Earle; E. B. Earle; M. B. Earle;
■R. Earle; Agnes Landrum; James W.
Landrum; Joseph W. A. Landrum; M.
C. Landrum; M. M. Landrum; Monroe
M. Landrum; Abel A. Lemon; E. J.
Martin; Martha S. Martin; Rebecca
Barnett Martin: Jake C. Moore; Elvira
i Nix; H. F. Scott: Henry L. Sims; W.
L. Alexander; B. H. Anderson: H. H.
Anderson; Armuchee Cooperage Com
pany: Mrs. R. F. Chastain: Mrs. Jennie
E.. Connelly; Equitable Mortgage Com
pany : Equitable Securities Company;
Charles N. Fowler. Receiver of Equitable
Mortgage Company: James M. Gifford,
Receiver of Equitable Mortgage Com
pany ; Ellen L. Green : Donald Harn
j mond: Mrs. Corn High • Jewel) Belting
'CompgtQ; ft Manulactur-
afternoon, April 27. Funeral services
were conducted from the Trion Commun
ity church Saturday afternoon at 1:30
by Rev. Ferguson. Interment in Penn
ville cemetery. Trion Department store
in charge.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank each and every one
for the kindness and sympathy shown us
during the sickness and death of our lov
ing mother and grandmother. We also
wish to thank Dr. Shamblin for his serv
ice, also the Rev. R. L. McElroy and the
Rev. Cash for their comforting words.
We also thank the quartets. May God’s
richest blessings be upon you all.
MR. & MRS. T. W. B(X)KER
AND FAMILY,
MR. & MRS. G. W. WOOTEN
AND FAMILY.
MRS. PAT GAINES & FAMILY
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
On Tuesday afternoon, the W. C. T. II
will hold its regular monthly meeting at
the Hale store at 3 o’clock. All members
and everyone interested in the work oi
this important organization are urged to
i attend this meeting. A tea will be given
| from 4 to 5 o’clock, honoring the leaders
j and workers of the young peoples’ groups.
Renew your subscription to The News
now —Special offer now on.
ing Company ; Mary A. McNeil; Ben
jamin Pierce; A. Richardson; Alonzo
Richardson; Sary I. Stiles; Joshua
Touchstone; Nancy E. Treadwell; S. L.
Treadwell; W. P. T. Treadwell; J. N.
Vaughn ; May Walton ; Mrs. Joe Winn ;
Gussie Yarbrough; Eli Buckner; W. E.
Burton; Mrs. Gill Chenney: Mrs. Gill
'heny; Mary E. Cleghorn; R. A. Den
ny ; Peter Dozier; Mrs. Mattie Drum
mond; R. C. Fair; Robert C. Fair; Mrs.
Maggie Gordon ; L. P. Hammond; Miles
R. Hammond ; M. R. Hammond ; W.
Cicero Hnmmond; Hugh Johnson;
James 11. Johnson ; Mrs. Sue T. Lump
kin ; Elizabeth Touchstone Miller; Betty
Touchstone Pierce; Mrs. Allie Pitner;
J. R. Pitner. Sr.; B. B. (Benjamin B.)
Touchstone; B. B. Touchstone. Jr.; Jim
Touchstone; Joe Touchstone; Nancy
Touchstone; Smith Treadwell, Sr.; Mrs.
Jane Whitmire; Charles G. Williams;
E. M. Wright; Mrs. Mary E. Wright;
M. E. Wright; W. A. Wright; W. I.
Wright; Bank of LaFayette; J. W.
■Cannon; John A. Clements; William A. i
Heartsill; W. A. Heartsill; J. J. Heg
wood; Mattie Heggwood ; Thelma Hegg
wood: Sarah E. Houston; Lizzie R
Mathews; T. 11. Moore; W. P. Neal;
W. A. Partee; John R. Ponder; M. M.
Price; W. T. Rea; James N. Tate; W.
P. Roper; Mattie W. Salmon; J. W.
(John W.) Salmon; Pau) E. Sessions;
J. H. Talley; R. E. Talley: W. H. Tal
ley ; J. D. Talley; N. E. Talley; J. D.
Thornton ; Pleasant Burnett; Pleasant ‘
Burnett-Bowers; Frank Cordell; H. H.
Corlton; Mrs. Allie Pitner; William
Powell; Maggie May Sims Price: Wesley
Shropshire; Mary J. Sims; Mary W.
Talley; William H. Talley; G. W. Da
vis ; J. C. Kelly ; Mrs. Tennessee Miller !
(widow of G. H. Miller) ; Mrs. Mattie
J. Miller (widow of F. L. Miller) ;
Abraham Bruce; F. L. Miller; G H.
Miller; Mrs. Mary Hamilton; George
Morton; Henry Barton; J. M. Bellah.
Trustee in Bankruptcy of N. K. Bitting; i
Will Laudrum;
and
To all and every jterson unknown or
known resident, who claims any right i
title or interest in said described lands
or the funds which may be paid into |
the Court as the result of this proceed- I
ing, whether under or in right of any |
of the above-natnetl or otherwise.
YOU AND EACH OF YOU are re- I
quired and admonished to take notice l
that the United. States has filed a pe>ti- I
tion in the District Court of the United '
States for the Northern District oi I
Georgia, Rome Division, to condemn |
! 1359.8 acres of land, being all of land |
lots 222 and 257 and east one-half of
laud lot 245, in District 6, Section 4, of
Chattooga County Georgia; and all of
land lots 2 and 240 of Chattooga County,
all of land lots 136 and 240 and South
one-half of land lot 229, of Floyd
County, and all of land lots 11 and 293
and all of fractional land lot 320, of
Chattooga and Floyd Counties. Ga.. in
District 25, Section 3, and all of said
lands being in Chattooga and Floyd
counties. Georgia, and aggregating 1,359.8
acres, more or less.
This matter will be heard in the Unit
ed States Court Room at Atlanta. Ga..
on the 13th day of May. 1939. at 10
o’clock a.m. If you or either of you have
any rights in the premises or desire to be
heard in the matter, you are required,
then and there to make known your ob
jections, if any. your claims as to the
value of the property or your respective
interests therein, or in the funds arising
therefrom, or any other matters material
to your respective rights in the property
sought: to be condemned; otherwise, the
Court will proceed as law and justice
may appertain.
YOU WILL. THEREFORE. TAKE
NOTICE.-
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
said United States District Court, at At
lanta, Ga.
This 28th day of April, 1930.
J. D. STEWARD.
Clerk of the United States District
’ Court for the Northern District of
| Georgia.
By W. L. NEESE.
Deputy Clerk,
(SEAL)
LAWRENCE S CAMP.
United States Attorney
HARVEY S. TI'SINGER.
Ui 9.
Education, Please!
“BETTER EDUCATION FOR GEOR
GIA MOVEMENT”
(By Ralph L. Ramsey, Director)
Georgia and the Land—
One of the big problems facing Geor
gia today is soil erosion. It is interesting
to note how this problem is inextricably
tied up with the related problems of
‘farm tenancy’ and ‘mortgages.’ When a
person does not own his farm and is
planning on tilling someone else’s land
the following year, he is not concerned
with preventing rich top-soil from wash
ing away. Too. when there are heavy
mortgages on property, the farmer is
forced to concentrate on the planning of
the so-called "cash crops”-—cotton, corn,
tobacco. All three of these cash crops
quickly rob the soil of’ its richness. The
water during storms rushes down the
furrows, and land is- wasted.
Relief And the Land—
During 1934. when were were shoulder
ing the brunt of the depression, condi
tions were such that it was necessary for
about one-eighth of Georgia’s total farm
|K»pulation to be dependent on relief.
Though the majority of these families
were tenants, share-croi)pers or wage
hands, it was noted that one out of every
six of these destitute farm families was
a land-owner. Because, ours is first of
all an agricultural state, our progress
is largely governed by whether or not our
farmers are well off. The above condi
tions must certainly affect both our eco
nomic and social stability. Georgia is
third in the United States as far as farm
population is concerned, but in 1935
ranked thirty-ninth in total farm income
per farm. Georgia is second highest,
among all states in farm tenancy. In
1936, Georgia had more farmers who had
been on the land only one year than any
other state. In 1934. there were 72.000
farms in Georgia without a milch cow,
and about 30,000 farms without chickens.
Six out of ten farm homes in Georgia
are 25 years old or older, and about
one-sixth of these farm homes have no
privy or toilet of any description. We
quote these facts to show the seriousness
of our state's agricultural problems. We
can't solve a problem unless we first
know that it exists. The above facts are
good for us to know. We should not be
ashamed of knowing the truth, because
how else, then, shall we become free?
What's Being Done—
Knowing these things, we should be
heartily in favor of the work of those
agencies who are striving to belter con
ditions. In Georgia, we have every rea
son to be proud of the work done thus
far by the agricultural extension service
of the college of agriculture of the Uni-
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versity of Georgia in co-operation with
the farm security administration. The
form of these two groups has been along
the lines of rural rehabilitation, com
munity and co-operative services, farm
debt adjustment, farm tenant purchase,
and resettlement projects. The main ac
tivities have been in the rural rehabili
tation program, and it is this to which
we can profitably direct our attention
and support.
Rural Rehabilitation —
Only those farm families who are un
able to obtain financial assistance from
any other source can qualify for a rural
rehabilitation loan. Every borrower from
the farm security administration must
have a very definite and satisfactory farm
background, and in addition, each family
should evidence enough initaitive, re
sourcefulness and managerial ability to
enable it to successfully operate a farm.
The latest scientific developments are
available to those who participate, and it
is good that this is so. It is with pride
that Georgians note that in spite of our
comparative poverty, our record for re
paying loans of this type is as good as
that of any other state. We also note
that these families have taken full ad
vantage of the opportunity offered, for
the increase in their net worth since
1935 had jumped from SSO to $l5O. By
the beginning of 1937. their net worth
had increased to approximately $250. By
the end of 1937, the figure had jumped
to $503.23! This is splendid work, and
the Better Education For Georgia move
ment is very glad to draw what attention
it can to the contribution of the farm
security administration and an educa
tional institution, the University of
Georgia, which should receive the appro
bation of all.
GEORGIA PRODUCTS
WEEK MEETS GOOD
RESPONSE IN STATE
Plans for Georgia Products week, May
15-20, have met with enthusiastic re
sponse throughout Georgia, according to
Mrs. James R. Little, president of the
Atlanta Federation of Women's Clubs,
which is sponsoring the week. Selling
Georgians on Georgia’s natural resour
ces, agricultural products,’and manufac
tured products is the aim of the Georgia
Products week. Mrs. Little said she hop
ed it would be possible to persuade the
women of the state to always buy a Geor
gia product as first choice whenever a
native product is of equal value.
Official backing and approval has been
given to Georgia Products week in a proc
lamation issued by Gov. E. D. Rivers
resignating May 15-20 as the period of
observance.