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FARM BRIEFS
By WHITNEY THARIN,
Extension Editor.
At a recent conference in Washington,
D. C., delegates representing Georgia
and five other southern states formally
requested the U. S. department of agri
culture to continue the peanut diversion
program in 1939, The conference had
been requested by the G.F.A. Peanut As
sociation of Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama to discuss peanut marketing prob
lems with department of agriculture of
ficials. It was attended by representa
tives of the GFA association, of Camil
la, Ga., the Peanut Stabiliation Cb-Op
erative, Inc., of Edenton, N. - C.; the
Virginia Peanut Growers’ Co-Operative,
of Waverly. Va.. and the Southwestern
Peanut Growers’ association, of Brown
wood. Tex.
Clarke county (Athens) farm landown
ers last week voted 106 to 1 in favor of
joining the Oconee Soil Conservation
district, established recently by farmers
in Jackson and Barrow counties. It is
one of fifteen such districts organized
under the state soil conservation dis
tricts act, passed by the 1937 Georgia
legislature. The act is designed to enable
landowners to accept the assistance of
the! federal government in combatting soil
erosion on an area basis.
No marketing quota for wheat will be
proclaimed this year, Secretary of Agri
cuture Henry A. Wallace has announc
ed. The announcement followed a deter
mination that the total supply of wheat
estimated for July 1, 1939, will not ex
ceed the quota level established under the
agricultural adjustment act of 1938. This
means a referendum among wheat pro
ducers will not be held this year on the
question of a wheat marketing quota.
The bureau of agricultural economics
reports that prices paid by farmers for
farm machinery other than motor vehicles
in 1938 averaged 58 per cent, above pre
war figures. The index includes many
types of machines, most of which were
priced last year at 50 to more than 100
per cent, above pre-war. Smaller increas
es were reported for machines such as
small gas engines, cream separators,
large grain threshers, and two-bottom
tractor-drawn plows. Prices of hay
loaders, one-row riding cultivators, side
delivery rakes, and seven-foot disc har
rows are more than twice as high as
they were twenty-five years ago.
CHURCH OF GOO OPENS JUNE 4
The Church of God, of the Union As
sembly, will open the new building for
services Sunday, June 4.
We are expecting to have an all-day
service. The public is cordialy invited to
attend.
CHAS. PORTER, Pastor.
TRION THEATER
Thursday Only
Boob Brasfield —Return Engagement
On the Scredn:
‘HONOLULU’’
Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George
Burns, Gracie Allen, Rita Johnson, Clar
ence Kolb, Ann Morriss. Sparkling com
edy, the rhythmic feet of Eleanor Pow
ell ; a generous sprinkling of catch music
ann several impressive production num
bers, staged against a Hawaiian back
ground, all combine to make this one of
the season’s most brilliant screen offer
ings. Only one day.
Since so many people have requested
it, we are having Boob Brasfield return
for another performance.
I' riday
Stage: Senior Play—‘Easy Money’
The seniors will present their annual
play along with the regular picture, for
the regular price of admission.
Screen: “Storm Over Bengal”
Patrie Knowles, Richard Cromwell,
Rochelle Hudson, Douglas Dumbrille. A
sweeping, spectacular romance of the
most daring men in the world —Britain's
famous Indian Army.
Saturday
“MYSTERIOUS RIDER”
Starring Russell Hayden. Weldon ,
Heyburn, Charlotte Fields, Douglas Dutn- I
brille, Sidney Toler, Monte Blue. The
most stirring tale of adventure to come
from the fertile pen of Zane Grey.
PECK’S BAD BOY AT THE
• CIRCUS’
Tommy Kelly and Ann Gillis. All the
thrills that you find at the circus are
found in this story of Tommy and Ann.
Monday-Tuesday
‘I’M FROM MISSOURI’
Southern Women
Eager to Tell!
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have seen so far,” she said, “1206
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nervousness, and other symptoms
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Education, Please!
“BETTER EDUCATION FOR GEOR
GIA MOVEMENT”
(By Ralph L. Ramsey, Director)
Public Mind Changing
It seems to us from the reports that
are coming in from all sections of the
state that the public mind is gradually
crystallizing on the situation that now
faces the state government. It is gener
ally agreed that whatever waste may be
found, and whatever economies may be
affected in state government, these will
not solve our problem. Governmental
services have expanded, new demands
have been made, and as a natural and
normal result increased expenditures are
necessary.
Anyone will readily agree that it is
easily possible for governmental services
to be extended to the point where 1 cost
would be out of reach of the people.
This, however, is not the true picture in
Georgia. The expanded program in edu
cation, provision for the aged and help
less, and adequate support for the elee
mosynary institutions are things that
the citizens of Georgia have weighed
carefully and have unequivocally ex
pressed themselves in favor of as many
as three times.
What Education Needs
Speaking specfically of the educational
program, and without in the least dis
crediting the needs of other departments
of service, we would like to summarize
the situation as it stands at the date of
this release*. The educational forces of
the state have been among those who
first urged an extra session of the legis
lature in order that revenue measures
might be passed to meet appropriations
already made. Since the educational lead
ers first expressed themselves in favor
of the extra session, other bodies, includ
ing many city councils and the Associa
tion of County Commissioners of G’Jorgia
have added their request for the recon
vening of the legislative body.
If this should he done, what would be
the outlook for education and its needs
for the immediate future? First, we sug
gest that if the legislature should recon
vene sometime in the month of June, and
we are heartily in favor of this, revenue
measures that could Iri passed at that
time would make it. possible for those
schools which have closed short of their
regular term to reopen for a month, six
weeks, or two months during the summer
and meet the requiements of a full term.
This would eliminate some grave prob
lems that local school people now face.
: Tn many counties accredited schools have
I not been able to run the full nine
months. In some instances only the sen
j ior classes were continued for the full
| nine months, leaving the freshman, sop
i homore, and junior classes short of the
[ requirements set up by an accrediting
system. If these schools do not resume
operation during the summer, students
will have to repeat work that was in
completed last year, and we have a sit
uation that will continue in rather rag
ged, haphazard fashion for some two or
three years to come. This is a vitally
necessary consideration, and we urge
upon the members of the general assem
bly to give this their most caeful con
sideration.
We Owe Our Children
In the second place, it would provide
I ways and means for past-due salaries for
teachers, which would go far toward re-
I storing the professional morale of the
[ teaching force of the state. It is not a
matter of insignificance for a teacher to
! be employed on a salary scale set by the
| state board of education, and that scale
; graduated in recognition of qualifications
| of a teacher, and then have the salary
only half paid. The reflection of this
situation will be seen, naturally and in
evitably, in the livels of the children of
this generation. Not even a wage hand
I can be expected to work at his highest
efficiency when the remuneration re
ceived for that work is so low that it
produces an economic inferiority complex.
No one would dare to say that a teacher,
who is a college graduate and who is
promised only SBO by the state and only
half of that is paid, is not given, eco
, nominally, the feeling of inferiority. We
owe more than this to our teachers and
to our children.
In the third place, it would be the
wisest course possible to have the extra
session of the legislature early in the
| summer rather than as late as August, in
| order that local systems may know some
thing about how to make their budgets
for the next year. Were this the first of
September and the situation which now
exists true at that time, every local sys
tem, county and independent, would be
I forced to make a budget based on only
I half of the state appropriation. This
j would mean, as it has alrelady meant in
|so many instances, that many of our
best prepared teachers would be forced
to leave the profession and seek employ
ment elsewhere!, or they will go to other
states where teachers’ salaries are more
in keeping with the services which they
I render. The greatest contribution that
Georgia can now make to the education
lof its children is the provision for the
| economic remuneration of its teachers,
| sufficiently high to dignify the profes
sion.
We urge an extra session at the earli
est possible moment, in order that these
problems surveyed in this column may be
I met and measurably solved.
Mrs. Eddie King and Miss Tressie
O’Bryant entertained Friday at the home
of Mrs. E. L. Worsham with a joint
miscellaneous shower for Mesdames Roy
a nd Turner Worsham, who are recent
brides. Before their marriages the two
sisters were Misses Ruby and Cleo Whit
ley, of Summerville. About forty invited
guests showered the honorees, after which
refreshments were served.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939
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provides jobs foi 6.000.000 workers —contributes one-eighth of the total
tax revenue collected by the federal state and local governments.
GEORGIA’S PROGRAM
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The problem of refinancing Georgia
does not resolve itself into a simple
question of providing additional funds,
but requires a systematic study of the
real needs of the state, both today and
for the future. This complexity of the
inter-relation of state and local affairs,
together with the acute need for some
permanent and stable body to study the
needs of departments and correlate bud
getary requirements, was discussed at
the sessions of the county commissioners
recently.
County finance has broken down. Into
this enter a variety of factors, including
legislative control of importance phases
of local affairs, the failure of the state
to reimburse the counties for homestead
exemption losses, the repeated appeals to
county authorities on behalf of relief
projects and contributions, sometimes of
dubious legality but necessary to avert
local disaster, made to school districts.
State finance has broken down. The
eleemosynary institutions, for the first
time since the Reconstruction era. have
been compelled to suspend vital sei-vices
to the people. The institutions seeking to
rehabilitate the blind and deaf, that in
tended to make self-supporting citizens of
the feeble-minded, may be saved by trans
fer to the state department of education.
Similarly the correctional institutions for
boys and girls may be turned over to that
department. These transfers are consid
ered, not because of any ordered plan,
but because by the transfer certain fed
eral funds may be used in their support.
The breakdown goes further. Georgia is
an agricultural state, but the department
of agriculture must function as best it
can. on fees paid for inspection services,
with no money from the general treasury
for its useful work. The university sys
tem, key to dependable progress in Geor
gia, is so threatened that a responsible
member of the house economy commit
tee expresses an opinion that it must be
curtailed further because of want of
money, and the chancellor, fighting des
perately to perserve the oldest state-sup
ported system of higher education in
America, wonders whether it will be nec
essary to close the school of medicine.
The financial loss is great. The federal
government had made large grants to the
board of regents for badly-needed build
ings to house the students in the various
colleges, to erect new libraries and class
room buildings. But, despite a solemn
covenant with the people of Georgia and
“Clean-Up Week” 200 Years Old;
Launched by Oglethorpe in 1739
FEW Americans may be aware of it,
but this year is the 200th anniver
sary of one of our best known na
tional campaigns—“Clean-Up Week.”
Delvers into history will find that in
1739 General James E. Oglethorpe,
founder of Georgia, also became a
founder of an American civic tradi
tion when he instituted a campaign to
make Savannah look more present
able. An offer of a feast of bread and
beer to participants helped spur the
townsmen to cooperation
A report by William Stephens, sec
retary to the “Trustees for Establish
ing the Colony of Georgia in Amer
ica,” shows that General Oglethorpe
found the public square and other
open parts of the town overgrown
with weeds and shrubs —too unkempt
even for a pioneer settlement
Something had to be done, so the
General decreed that at sunrise on
October 16, 1739. everybody should
"go to work in clearing this great
Nusance.”
Beer and bread, provided by Ogle
thorpe, at a community breakfast
started off the “cleaner-uppers” and a
similar repast, also with the General’s
compliments, was given at the end of
the day’s work.
It is reported by historians that sev
eral hundred acres were thus cleared
and everybody “without distinction
took Pains to do what he could” —the
General included. > t
Oglethorpe was av. advocate of beer
as a beverage of moderation and this
was not the first time he had used the
offer of beer to reward performance. ,
the government of the United States, the
state can not provide its share of the
money, and the building must cease.
Reflecting upon the transfer of the
eleemosynary institutions to the over
burdened department of education, one
thought must occur 'to Georgians imme
diately : the step may be desirable, and
doubtless will be, but it is being under
taken because of pressure of financial
distress, and not because any study of
state needs indicates its desirability;
there is no agency in Georgia to plan for
Georgia or to chart the probable needs
and revenues of the state.
This was re-echoed in the address to
the county commissioners of Dr. R. J.
Kennedy, a member of the state board
of education, a leader in southeast Geor
gia, a spokesman for a grofip primarily
concerned with better roads but interest
ed in building a better state: Georgia
has no agency to determine our needs or
to point the way to a better distribution
of our income. More money is required
for essential services; it must be provid
ed this year, or the schools will not open
this fall. But Georgia requires a budget
commission to plan year after year for
what will be needed, so that the legisla
ture will have more to guide it than haz
ardous guesses.
Unquestionably the problems that con
front Georgia today are susceptible of
solution. A readjustment of state finan
ces, the enactment of new revenue meas
ures to balance the state budget, the sim
plification of our maze of departments
and bureaus and the establishment of a
non-partisan commission to examine bud
getary needs sufficiently in advance of
action by the assembly to enact, the state
to function in an orderly manner—these
things are imperative. The assembly
alone can solve the problem, and Geor
gians have faith that their representa
tives will not shirk the task.
GUERNSEYS SOLD.
TRION, Ga. —A registered Guernsey'
bull has recently been sold by the Trion
eompany-Riege’ldale farm to N. L. Coar
sey, of Brookfield, Ga. This animal is
Riegeldale Mack Barrister 270099, ac
cording to the American Guernsey Cattle
club, Peterbuorough, N. 11.
Five registered Guernsey cows have
also recently' been sold by' the company
farm to H. A. Marion, of Lindale.
Oi
General James E. Oglethorpe
On an earlier occasion, while leading
a fleet of small boats carrying Salz
burgers and Moravians for coloniza
tion in Georgia, he kept the oarsmen
from lagging by “placing the food and
beer in the forward boat whereby
none might eat and drink who did not
follow,” according to “A Short His
tory of Georgia.” by E. Merton Coul
ter.
In 1734 Oglethorpe returned to Lon
don to report to the Trustees. Among
instructions he left with his acting
successor. Thomas Causton, was “to
favor the setting up of brew-houses,”
in furtherance of the General’s policy
of developing a colony of sober and
industrious persons who would use
beer as a beverage with their meals
and shun excessive use of strong
drink.
Forum For Future
Farmers Planned
ATLANTA. May 23 (GPS).—As part
of the summer camp program of Geor
gia’s Future Farmers at Lake Jackson
this summer, ,a series of weekly forums
is being planned by T. G. Walters, as
sistant supervisor of vocational educa
tion, in co-operation with the Georgia
State Public Forums; of which Miss Em
ily Woodward is director.
The camp session begins in early June
and extends through late August. Selected
groups of boys from Georgia’s rural
areas will be brought to the camp each
week. The forum is designed to reach
each group with a discussion of some
subject related to social and economic
problems on the farm.
A FEW OF OUR BIGGEST
TROUBLES TODAY.
But they also have erred through wine
and through strong drink are out of the
way, the priest and the prophet have err
ed through strong drink, they are swal
lowed up of wine, they are out of the
way through strong drink, they err in
visions, they stumble in judgment.—
Isaiah 28:7,
For all tables are full of vomit and
filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
—lsaiah 28 :8.
Yea. they are greedy dogs, which can
never have enough, and they are shep
herds that can not understand, they all
look to their own way, every one for his
game from his quarter.—lsaiah 56:11.
And Jesus knew their thoughts and
said unto them, Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation and
every city or house divided against it
self shall not stand. —Matt. 12 :25.
May God bless these words.
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time to get one. Until June Ist I will sell, for cash, the
sets listed for $lO. Any radio you select is in first
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6- Crosley Console ' Any of
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8-tube Crosley Table J
6-tube Silvertone Battery Table Set I g
6-tube Emerson Battery Table I •
Two 8-tube G. E. Consoleseach, $19.50
One 6-tube All-wave Philco Consoles24.so
One 10-tube Silvertone Consolesl7.so
One 9-tube RCA-Victor All-Waves34.so
One 9-tube Philco Consolesl7.so
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BIRTHDAY DINNER
Those who enjoyed a birthday dinner
last Sunday in honor of George Shaver
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Willingham were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Shaver and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Shaver and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McKin and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bun-age and
daughter, Homer Everhart, George and
Tommie Deering, Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Pledger, Oren a Pledger, Mrs. Della Deer
ing and family. All reported a nice time.
There were* 39 present.
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