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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 9
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE ANO
THINGS IN GEORGIA
FORMER LEGION COMMANDER AD
VISES UNITED STATES TO
STAY OUT OF WAR.
ATLANTA, May 16 (GPS). —Stay out
of war! That advice was given the
United States by Frank N. Belgrano,
former commander of the American Le
gion, in an interview given out recently
in Atlanta. The former national com
mander, whose home is in San Francis
co, emphasized that he was speaking as
a private citizen, and not for the legion.
He urged that persons who speak for the
United States, from the president down,
refrain from meddling in foreign affairs,
but devote their energy to the develop
ment of a strong national defense. He
said in part:
‘'The United States could afford to let
Europe slap our face a couple of times
before we take off our coats and go to
war. The cost of war is too great in
human life and suffering; and while the
democracies, with their vast natural re
sources, eventually would whip the dic
tators with their vast armies, neither
side would really win. Just look at the
last war. Our president then was going to
‘keep America out of war,’ but when he
began talking and dickering in foreign
affairs, what was the result?”
Tax A’ictims: “States, counties and ci
ties levy taxes on the railroads which are
greater and greater each year.” declares
Senator Harry S. Truman, of Missouri.
“Railroads have been the victims of every
tax racket known to the country. Pay
ment of these taxes is a real financial
burden, even to the most prosperous
roads. Before the problem can be com
pletely met, the city, county and state
governments will have to correct this sit
uation and show a proper co-operative
spirit if we are to save our greatest
system of transportation.”
Gist Os the News: There was a25
per cent, decrease in the number of
speeding cases on Georgia’s highways
during April. A total of 183 cases was
recorded last month, compared with an
average of 250. The decrease was at
tributed to the new 55-mile-au-hour speed
limit. The former limit was 40 miles an
hour .. . Charlie Yates, British ama
teur golf champion, now abroad defending
his title, has belen elected a director of
the Atlanta Athletic club . . . An esti
mated total of 20,000 men, women and
children bowled regularly during the sea
son now drawing to a close on the At
lanta alleys, an increase of 20 per cent,
over last year.
Crop Insurance Plan
Is Offered Farmers
The agricultural department has sub
mitted to congress a plan for cotton crop
insurance designed to protect the nation’s
2,500,000 cotton farmers from losses
caused by weather, insects and plant
diseases.
“Crop failures occur practically every
year in one part or another of the cot
ton belt,” the depatment said. “As a con
sequence, farmers who experience these
crop losses have little or no income on
which to live.”
Farmers 'taking out insurance would
pay premiums in cotton or its cash
equivalent and would collect indemnities
in cotton or its cash equivalent. Farmers
could get policies assuring them crops
up to either 50 or 75 per cent, of aver
age yields for their farms.
“Cotton crop insurance is not a solu
tion to all the cotton farmers’ problems,
for many are world-wide in their scope,”
the report said. “It would, however, make
a substantial contribution towards the so
lution of the problems that ard caused by
extreme variations in crop production:”
Based on Crop Loss Experience.
A farmer’s premium would be based in
part on the crop-loss experience of his
farm and in part on the crop-loss experi
ence of his county. Thus each farm would
have a separate premium rate. Insurance
premiums received in cash would be con
verted into cotton and carried along with
premiums paid in cotton as a reserve
from which losses would be paid.
The report gave an example to explain
the method of determining a farm's
premium. A farm with an average yield
of 138 pounds per acre during the five
years prior to the crof> insured would he
subject to a premium of 15.4 pounds per
acre, assuming the farm crop loss dur
ing those five years averaged 14.2 pounds
nd the county loss 16.8. This farm would
be assured a yield of 104 pounds per acre
—that is. 75 per cent, of the average
yield.
Benefit Ball Game
For Jim Moseley
On Wednesday, May 24, the local ball
team will play Menlo in a benefit game
for Jim Moseley, who broke his ankle
in a game in LaFayette. The game will
start at 4 o’clock.
Mr. Moseley was one of the best play
ers on the team and will be missed. All
proceeds of the game will go to Mr.
Moseley. A large crowd is expected to.
attend.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939
Two-In-One Chick
Born At Edison
EDlSON.—Freaks come and go, but
Horace Sheppard, of this city, believes
he has all comers beat when it comes
to freak chickens.
The other morning a four-legged,
two-headed chick was hatched on his
! farm and was still alive five days la
ter. There is a fully developed head at
each end of the chicken’s body with an
extra pair of legs under the extra head.
The chick is a White Rock and appar
ently is as healthy as others in the
flock.
Rome Motorcade To
Pasr. Through City
Wednesday, May 24
A huge motorcade, headed by the Rome
I High school band and displaying badges,
j banners and hatbands advertising the
city of Rome, will leave Rome next
Wednesday morning, May 24, and will
proe«H to the new DeSoto State park,
near Mentone, on top of Lookout moun
tain, where the dedication ceremonies
will be held.
The motorcade will pass through Sum
merville, Menlo, Cloudland and Mentone,
and the high school band will stop here
for a brief concert at the courthouse.
Citizens of Summerville and Chattooga
county who wish to participate in the
celebration are requested to join the mo
torcade here and go to the scene of the
festivities on the mountain.
The new park is described as “Ala
bama's Greatest Scenic Panorama” and is
located on top of Lookout mountain, five
miles south of Mentone and ten miles
northeast of Fort Payne, being close to
the Georgia line.
The dedicatory ceremonies will be it
tended by delegations from many sur
rounding cities, with prominent speakers
and with an abundance of music, it is
stated. There also will be a huge barbe
cue complimentary to the visitors.
There are 4,649 acres in the new park.
HERE AND THERE
MAYOR WELCOMES NOTABLES
NEW YORK.—Mayor P*. H. LaGuar
dia held two receptions on May 2, at the
newly established city hall at the World's
fair, one for Crown Prince Frederik and
Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark, and
the other for Bnig.-Gen. Vladimir Kok
kinaki and Maj. Makhail Gordienko, the
two Russian aviators whose attempted
non-stop flight from Moscow to New
York ended in a crash in Canada.
YOUNG GIRI. FOILS
KIDNAPING ATTEMPT
ANDOVER, Mass. —With a courage
beyond her years, Charlotte Leaud, age
12, daughter of a Boston wool manufac
turer, foiled the kidnap attempt of an
unidentified motorist who faced her into
his car in North Andover.
Only slightly bruised, the child was
pushed from the automobile by her
would-be kidnaper on a road leading to
ward the main Boston-to-Portland high
way. Charlotte said she believed she had
inflicted telltale scratches on her ab
ductor’s face.
Charlotte and a schoolmate, Joan
Sweeney, also 12, were bicycling near
their home when the kidnaper’s car eas
ed to a halt a few feet away and the
driver invited them to “take a ride with
me.”
Both girls refused and were pedaling
away when the motorist leaped out,
caught up with Charlotte and dragged
her into his machine.
MOTHER GETS LIFE IN
STEPSON’S DEATH
MILWAUKEE, Wis. —Mrs. Anna Lou
ise Sullivan, 50, the mothdr of seven
children, began a life sentence on May
6, on her plea of guilty to the poison
murder of her stepson. Mi's. Sullivan ad
mitted the killing of James Sullivan, 18,
as well as her former husband, Fred
Rickleffs, 35.
She was also said to have admitted
dropping poison into the food of her
present husband, Michael Sullivan, and
two of his children by a former marri
age. All three are seriously ill.
THOROUGHLY JINXED
REDMOND, Ore.—Dean Von Matre
submitted his name for Redmond's most
unlucky man. A fire broke out in his
cleaning establishment and virtually de
stroyed the plant with several dozen
suits and dresses. Later he was fined $5
and assessed $2.50 in costs when his car
ran over a fire hose. The fire was the
blaze that destroyed his own shop. What’s
more, he wasn’t driving his ear at the
time.
HAUNTED MAN SURRENDERS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —Remorseful
and haunted by fear of capture as he
wandered across the eastern United
States, a 25-year-old negro surrendered
himself to Patrolman R. L. Parker and
told of killing his brother-in-law in a
suburb of Birmingham two years ago.
“I want to give up and get it all over
with.” Grady Long, of Edgewater. Ala.,
a coal mining community near Birming
ham, told the officer. -
He said he killed David Cade, his sis
ter’s husband, in a fight in Augudt, 1937.
Long waived evtradition and asked to be
sent to Birmingham to stand trial.
FAIR ASSOCIATION
ELECTS OFFICIALS
At a meeting held this week the Chat
tooga County Fair association elected the
following officers and directors for 1939 :
President, O. I’. Dawson; vice-presi
den,t J. L. McGinnis; secretary and
treasurer, Homer Woods; assistant sec
retary, Miss Julia Stevenson; home dem
onstration and 4-H club department,
Miss Mildred Henry.
Directors—John A. Agnew, Trion ; W.
O. Sturdivant, Summerville; O. L. Cleck
ler, Menlo; J. L. Blair, Lyerly.
Ladies’ Department—Mrs. J. L. Mc-
Ginnis, Mrs. Paul Weems and Mrs. T. J.
Espy, Sr.
The fair this year wil be held a week
earlier than last year—Oct. 19, 20, 21.
To Erect Park
On Taylor Hill
The purchase of three acres
of ]and on top of Taylor’s hill,
just south of the city reservoir,
in Northwest Summerville, by
the city, has been announced.
It is stated that the land will
be converted into a civic park.
The site is ideally located to
ffive a splendid view of the en
tire city of Summerville and
may be appropriately called the
Summerville Scenic park.
A community house may be
erected in the park at a later
date, it was stated.
The News will give other de
tails of this development as
soon as plans are completed.
Head Urges Tighter
Collection of Taxes
ATLANTA, May 16 (GPS).—State
Revenue Commisisoner T. Grady Head
has suggested to the house economy com
mittee ways and means of increasing the
state’s revenues—by adding larger pay
ments to the already heavily taxed citi
zens of Georgia. He claims state revenues
could be increased by approximately $3,-
500.000 a year through tightening of the
tax collection laws and their enforce
ment.
The principal source of possible revenue
expansion, he said, would be created by
repeal of the state law permitting fed
eral income tax reductions from the state
income tax returns. He estimated this
repeal, if enacted, would yield about $2,-
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Super-Highway System Will Not Solve
Our Traffic Problems. Says Road Bureau
The project for trans-continental sup
er-highways, which has been under dis
cussion for several years, does not meet
with the approval of the bureau of public
roads which says the system would not
be adequate to meet traffic needs and in
addition the traffic would not be suffi
cient to pay for the highways through
any reasonable schedule of tolls.
In contrast, the bureau says the traf
fic problem of the nation lies principally
in and around our large cities. Conse
quently, construction of a special system
of direct inter-regional highways, with all
necessary connections through and around
cities, is recommended. Existing main
highways would be utilized in large part
to make up a 26,700-mile system.
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The bureau reports that traffic maps
show that 90 per cent, of the traffic on
main highways near the entrances to
large cities is bound to or from points in
the cities themselves and cannot be rout
ed around with by-passes. Consequently,
emphasis is placed upon the need for ex
press highways through cities.
The study just completed by the bu
reau of public roads was made at the
request of congress. It estimated the cost
of six trans-continental toll highways at
$2,899,800,000. or an average of $202.-
270 a mile. On the basis of traffic
studies, and a toll charge of 1 cent per
vehicle mile for passenger vehicles and
of 3.5 cents for trucks and buses, the
bureau concludes that tolls would not
cover even half the cost of such a system
of super-highways.
Os course, this does not conclusively
dispose of the proposal to construct sup
er-highways. With the exception of a few
roads and some bridges, the present high
way system of the nation has not been
financed by tolls. It is not to be expected
that future highway construction will
be financed by any system of tolls.
A new avenue for assistance in con
structing highways is included in the bu
reau’s report, suggesting that there be
created a “federal land authority,” capi
talized adequately and with authority to
issue its own securities which could ac
quire. hold, sell and Itpse land in con-
BARDEN CLUB FLOWER
SHOW HELD MAY I2TH
The Chattooga County Garden club
held its annual flowtr show last Friday,
May 12, at the Farmers & Merchants
bank. The Home Economics class of the
Summerville High school, presided at the
punch table.
Many beautiful flowers were displayed
and the following prizes awarded :
Iris—Best single specimen, Mrs. Mack
Agnew; best three, one variety, Mrs.
Mack Aghew; best six, different varie
ties, Mrs. Mack Agnew.
Roses—Best single speciman, Mrs. T.
J. Espy; best three, one variety. Ruby
Beavers; best six, different varieties.
Mrs. C. A. Wyatt.
Garden Flowers—Most attractive ar
rangoe.mnt in a high container, Mrs.
Quarles : most attractive arrangement i:i
a low container. Mrs. Penn Selman.
Lilies—Most attractive arrangement,
Mrs. Joe Beavers.
Peonies —Bost display. Mrs. Fred Hall.
Wild Flowers Prettiest collection,
Mrs. Howard Pless.
Miniature Arrangements Mrs. Mc-
Ginnis.
Miniature Gardens—Mrs. M. M. Allen.
Snapdragons—Best collection, Evelyn
Pledger.
Bubble Bowls—Mrs. W. B. Hair.
Flowering Shrubs—Most attractive ar
rangement, Mrs. Homer Edge.
Shadow Boxes—Miss Mary Penn.
Evelyn Pledger won the sweepstakes
prize on her bowl of snapdragons.
The judges for the flowers were from
La Fayette.
Braswell Deen. To
Speak Here May 19
Ou Friday, May 19. Mr. Braswell
Deen, director of the State Department
of Public Welfare, will address the citi
zens of Chattooga county at the court
house at 10 a.m. Mr. Deen is anxious
for the public to be present and par
tiularly wants the members of the
County Welfare Board and members of
the Board of Commissioners, together
with other county and city officials.
000,000 annually.
Another $1,000,000 could be gained
annually by closer attention to collection
of delinquent income taxes, he asserted.
He proposed that his office be allowed
to retain 10 per cent, of delinquent tax
collections to enable his office to employ
sufficient men for this purpose. At pres
ent, the revenue retains 1 per cent, of
all revenues collected.
nection with all forms of public improve
ments. The idea is that by careful man
agement and handling of land, the gov
ernment could earn enough to pay an
important portion of the cost of improve
ments.
In submitting the report to congress,
the president called special attention to
the principle of “excess-taking” of land
for highways, saying that if it is adopt
ed. the ultimate cost of a national system
of highways will be greatly reduced. The
idea is that when the government gets
ready to construct a super-highway, it
should condemn a strip of land much
wider than that to be used by the high
way. Then it could sell or rdnit the prop
erty on each side to private interests
when its value had been enhanced by the
construction of the highway.
The super-highway system would con
sist of 14,336 milete of highways. The na
tional system of inter-regional highways,
suggested by the bureau, would consist
of 26,700 miles. The report includes a
map showing the proposed system. De
scriptions of the highways in the pro
posed system would require too much
space for this column, but it is based,
apparently, upon the necessity of concen
trating upon the highway traffic problem
in and about large city areas, where most
congestion occurs. In fact, the bureau
thinks that the task of the future is to
build express highways through the cities
where the bulk of the nation’s unemploy
ed are found and that the solution of the
traffic problem may provide work for a
program to employ vast amounts of fu
ture WPA labor.
Readers should not attach too much
emphasis upon the route proposed in any
system of highways. Os course, it. will be
impossible to locate such a system in a
wiay to give every community one of the
main highways. The idea seems to be
that any system will include the develop
ment of existing highway facilities so
that feeder-lines will enable practically
all citizens to take advantage of the im
proved highways. The suggestion that
considerable improvement can be made
in our highway system in the interest of
national defense is advanced and will
probably have some weight at this time
when practically every official is "nation
al-defense” Conscious.
I TO PREACH SUNDAY AT
SOUTH SUMMERVILLE CHURCH
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The Rev. H< rbert Morgan, well
known evangelist of Chattanooga, Tenn..
who will preach at South Summerv iile
church Sunday, May 21st. Everyone is
welcome.
Nation’s Relief Roll
To Be Cut By 900,000
While congress goes to work on Presi
dent Roosevelt’s request for . $1.763,000,-
000 to finance federal relief in the fiscal
year which begins July 1, the WPA an
j nouneed plans to reduce relief rolls by
900,000 persons this summer to compen
sate for the reduced relief budget. The
sum asked by the president is a third
less than that for the fiscal year 183839.
Os the total appropriation for the new
year, $1,477,000,000 is earmarked for the
WPA and the rest for the national youth
administration and the farm security ad
ministration. No specific grant was asked
i for the public works administration, and
senators immediately said they would
seek to insert public works funds in the
grant.
Members of congress generally approv
ed the sum asked by the administration,
and it appeared that the money would be
granted without much controversy, but
argument was certain on how it was to
be spent.
In his relief budget message the presi
dent indicated he favored unrestricted
use of relief funds by the government,
but at least three proposals are pending
in congress for controlling spending.
One would allocate federal money to
the states in ratio to relief needs and
population, with the states being required
to supply at least one-third of all relief
monies; a second would turn relief ad
ministraltion over to the individual states,
and a third would have congress deter
mine relief grants to the states with a
federal administrator supervising all re
i lief projects.
FHA To Continue
ATLANTA, May 16 (GPS).—Pros-
I pective Georgia homebuilders whose plans
have been delayed because fate of Fed
eral Housing administration legislation
was uncertain, may now proceed, assur
ed of full GHA co-operation, it was re
vealed by R. E. Matheson, state director.
“In my opinion,” Mr. Matheson said,
“the major features of legislation under
Title 2, which covers insurance on new
and existing construction, will be pre
served and the amount of insurance
which may be outstanding at. any time
will be increased from three to four mil
lion dollars.
FOR', RELIEF.
The conference of mayors continues to
advocate the continuance of relief by the
federal government because the cities
say they are unable to shoulder the bur
den. While opposing the proposal that
relief be turned over to the states, some
of them appear concerned over the in
creasing deficit and suggest a pay-as-you-
I go plan.
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Closing Exercises Os
Gore High School
The closing exercises of Gore High
school will begin this week, May 19, with
the seniors presenting a three-act com
edy, "Aunt Tille Comes To Town.”
Saturday evening. May 20, Senior
j class exercises.
i Sunday morning May 21, at'lo o’clock,
j Union Sunday school in the school au
ditorium, followed by the baccalaureate
at 11 o’clock, given by Dr. Warren G.
Cutts, pastor of the First Baptist church,
; Calhoun, Ga.
Tuesday evening. May 23, graduating
exercises. Miss Sara Scoggins will give
rhe salutatory, and Harold Storey the
valedictory.
Dr. D. E. Reynolds will give the ad
dress to the graduating class. County
Superintendent Miss Kathryn Henley will
present the diplomas to the seniors.
All evening programs begin at 8
o’clock
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
EVERY CITIZEN HAS
STAKE IN RAILWAYS,
DECLARES EDITORIAL
SAYS NATIONAL ECONOMIC LIFE
I AFFECTED BY PROSPERITY
OF RAILROADS.
ATLANTA, May 16 (GPS). —If you
i are a farmer, a worker, a manufacturer,
a parent or a taxpayer, then you have a
: stake in the railroads of this country,
declares a recent editorial in the Daven
! port (Iowa) Democrat and Leader, copy
of which has just been received in At
lanta. The editorial, header! "Your Stake
in Railroads,” follows :
“The railroad problem has long been
■ in the headlines. But it hasn’t been there
just because the public is interested in
i the personal troubles of the railroads. It
I has been there because of the fact that
{ every phase of our national economic life
j is affected direc'tly or indirectly by rail
road prosperity and depression.
“Are you a worker? Then it's very
I likely that the continued existence of an
I expanding railroad industry is vital to
| your job—'the lines spend more than a
i billion a year for supplies, and hundreds
of different kinds of businesses get the
orders.
Are you a farmer? Then you look to
the railroads for quick, safe transport
of perishables to distant markets. The
i increased speed and efficiency of freight
transportation by rail has made it pos
sible for the orange raisdr of California
to sell his crop in New York, and an
darly vegetable grower in the South to
sell his produce in the middle west.
“Are you a manufacturer? Then you
, may look to some railroad or other for
i orders—and you certainly look to the in
| dustry for the efficient service that will
j carry your products to a buyer thousands
of miles away at a reasonable cost.
“Are you a parent with children in
school? The railroad industry is one of
the largest payers of school taxes in this
country—taxes which would have to be
made up by higher levies on all other
property if the lines went bankrupt, or
were socialized.
“Are you a taxpayer? Again, you have
I a vital interest in the railroads, which
are assessed tremendous sums annually
Iby all units of government, and pay a
I good share of the taxes which keep gov
ernment services of all kinds going.
“So it goes, throughout our eco
nomic society. All the railroads ask is
a fair break with their competitors. And
giving them that fair break would mean
a better break for worker, manufactur
er, farmer, investor —all of us.”
Cotton Regulations
For Year Disclosed
The 1939-40 cotton marketing quota
regulations, which include an increase
in the penalty rate of excess sales and
several minor administrative changes,
have been announced by the agricultural
adjustment administration.
The provide for collection
of a penalty of 3 cents per pound on cot
ton from this year’s crop sold in excess
of the marketing quota, and 2 cents per
pound on excess sales of penalty cotton
carried over from last year. The petnalty
on all excess marketings last year was
2 cents per pound.
While most of the new regulations
were substantially similar to those in. ef
fect for the 1938-39 season, they provid
ed for blue marketing cards this year in
addition to white and red to be issued
for “carry-over penalty cotton” held by
a producer.
In addition, the AAA announced “it
has been found necessary” to require gin-
■ ners and buyers to report on all seed cot
ton purchases, and cotton ginned for a
producer in less than bale loits” in order
that penalties may be determined cor
rectly.
Mule Amputates
Farmer’s Thumb
SPARTA.—Farmers have the worst
I luck! And we are sure that Eugene
Foster. negro farmer who lives near
i Sparta, is certain that his luck is of
the poorest kind.
The other afternoon he was brought
into town for medical treatment of a
thumbless hand. It seems that he has a
very tempermental mule. So much so,
in fact, that if things do not go his
way he does something about it. When
Foster aroused his teniperment he just
I calmly bit his thumb, making a dean
amputation.
This is the first instance that we
have known a mule to do such a thing,
and no doubt, Foster will let the mule
have his way in the future.
TO VOTE ON WAR.
With the conclusion of public hearing
on the neutrality act, interest has shift
ed towards the revival of the war refer
. endum amendment. Public hearings before
a subcommittee of the senate judiciary
committee began last week and a number
of witnesses are expected to be heard.
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