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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 17
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA. July 11 (GPS) .—Richard
F. Sams Jr., who operates a 250-acre
farm ten miles from Atlanta, is showing
Georgia the way in diversified farming.
Sams, who didn’t intend to be a farmer
at all, but studied to be a chemical en
gineer, started out with thirty acres and
a house. He made some money from cot
ton in 1018, but began forthwith to re
place cotton with diversified crops. Since
1920. he has grown no cotton at all. di
viding his annual crop as follows: Sixty
acres of peaches, thirty acres of straw
berries, twenty-five acres of collards, fif
teen acres of tomatoes, from twenty to
twenty-five acres each of spinach and
turnips, several acres of broccoli, young
berries, raspberries and a few other crops.
He has kept nn a “pay-as-you-go” ba
sis, expanding as profits came in. He now
has nearly 200 of his 250 acres under
cultivation, nearly 100 acres irrigated,
partly with a pipe system and partly by
canals. He employs from fifty to 250 men
and women during the spring and sum
mer. Ten families live on his farm and
there is enough work, even In winter, for
ten men. Sams knows, he says, because
he has demonstrated it. that a farm can
be made to provide ap American stand
ard of living for its workmen. Here are
the requisites as he lays them down: (1)
Cc-opeation and (2) Research.
Georgia probably produces no more
than half the vegetables sold in her stores
and markets —“And yet. paradoxically
enough,” Farmer Sams says, “there are
so many farmers growing vegetables in
Georgia that few of them are making any
money. The reason is lack of grading,
packaging and distribution. This can be
remedied,” he added —and this gentleman
farmer should know for he had remedied
it on his own farm. Sams twice has serv
ed as president of the Vegetable Growers’
Association of America, iff 1924 and
1935. and now is head of the state as
sociation.
Can’t Afford It: “Rail’oad managers
are ambitious to avail themselves of the
most approved equipment, which would
so reduce their costs as to enable them
to make money on the present rates,”
declares Edward G. Budd, president of
the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing
company. “Their earnings at the moment
are not sufficient to justify financial
people in advancing the money necessary
for these improvements,” he added.
Gist Os the News: Lanins E. (Lon)
Sullivan, of Athens, has assumed his du
ties as Georgia’s commissioner of public
safety, succeeding Major Phil Brew-ster.
who resigned to accept appointment as
assistant adjutant-general of the state.
. . . D.r Joe Bradfield has begun hi
twenty-fifth year as superintendent of
Battie Hill sanatorium, and he hopes to
finish out his life on the job he loves.
He is 74 years old . . . Hilda Williams,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams,
has been selected “Miss Atlanta of 1939."
A student of Girls' High school. Miss
Williams, who is a brunette, is 17 years
of age is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs
118 pounds.
Tate Arena Under
New Management
Robert Tate announced today that he
has leased his boxing arena to W. H.
(“Speedy”) Spear, former state boxing
inspector, who resides at Trion.
Speedy announced that he would start
operating on Thursday nights, starting
July 20. Card to.be announced later.
NOTICE OF MEETING OF V OTERS
OF GORE SCHOOL DISTRICT:
On next Saturday night, July 15, 1939,
at 8 o’clock at school building, there will
be a meeting of the voters and others in
terested in the coming bond election to
be held July 20, 1939, for the purpose of
building an auditorium and gymnasium
for Gore school. We need an auditorium
and gymnasium for our school and com
munity. and ask you to come to this
meeting to find out how We can get this
building.
News Want Ads bring quick results
TWO BIBLES AWARDED BY
CHURCH OF GOD S. SCHOOL
Two new names were added to the list
of Bible winners at the Church of God.
of the union assembly, Sunday, July 2.
They were Juanita Romine, of Sum
merville, and Lorene Jones, of Trion. All
children under 16 years of age. may en
ter these contests. A nice new Bible will
be awarded each month to some boy or
girl that attends Sunday school.
The next Bible will be awarded July
30, 1939. For further details come to our
Sunday school and get full instructions.
CEMETERY NOTICE.
The Wesley Chapel cemetery in Walk
er county, will be cleaned off Friday,
July 21. Please come early, with suitable
tools.
Those unable to come wall kindly send
contributions to G. E. Anderson or J.
G. Veach. COM.
CEMETERY NOTICE.
All parties interested in cleaning off
Oak Hill cemetery, are requested to meet
there next Saturday, July 15, with suit
able tools,—Reporter,
(Liu? Bnuiiinrrmllr Nms
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY,. JULY 13, 1939
BRITISH KING SIGNS “ROYAL BOOK” AT N. Y. FAIR
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NEW YORK (Special)— The King of England is pictured as he in
scribes the royal autograph, “George VI R.1,” in the guest book reserved
for the names of visiting rulers in Perylon Hall at the New York World’s
Fair. His Queen, who a moment later signed the guest book, “Elizabeth R,”
is pictured seated beside him.
Here and There
6 YEAR OLD SWIMS
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ST. LOUIS. Six-year-old ‘Sunny’’
Kole. of Edwardsville. 111., conquered OF
Man River when he swam across the Mis
sissippi from St. Louis to the Illinois
side in 19 minutes, meantime floating
nearly a mile with the current.
ANCIENT COIN FOUND
IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA
S. Rhodesia.—A bronze
coin found in the Inyanga district of
Southern Rhodesia has been identified
by the British museum authorities as be
inging to the Kusham dynasty of North
west India. The obverse side of the coin
shows the image of Kusham, the ruler
f Havishka, who flourished about
150 A. D.
MAN. 80, GROWS a
NEW SET OF TEETH
SULLIVAN. Ind. —Leven Arnett, of
illivan, 80 years old. will be able to
’at a fine steak with his own teeth for
the first time in many years.
Arnett has thrown away his false teeth
because he is cutting a new set of nat
ural teeth. Several of the new teeth are
lly grown and the others are coming
in fast.
IT’S ‘JUST LIKE MOVIES’.
TRAINSMAN SAVES LADY
Clinging to a fellow trainsman. R. C.
McGaha, of Washington, leaned from the
boose of a freight train and snai< b'>d
Mrs. Elizabeth Funderburke from the
tracks as the train backed on a trestle
When the train rumbled out on the sel
dom-used span, th" woman was too ter
ied to move. McGaha, aided by the con
ductor. held her clear of the ties until
he train rolled t<J a stop.
“I’ve seen those things often enough in
the movies,” McGaha said later, “but I
didn’t think I’d ever be in one myself.”
MOCKING BIRD PREFERS
SECURITY OF HUMANS
I’o NATIVE HABITAT
LINDALE, Ga. —'Mr. and Mrs. Archie
dills, who reside in North Lindale, have
n unusualppeat—a mocking bird.
The songster deserted his natural habi
tat for the Mills' home, spending the
nights in a ca-" provided for him and
mg around the yard during the day
ht hours. Mr. and Mrs. Mills release
him each morning and the bird is so
tame, their little daughter. Matilda, feeds
him from her hand while he basks in the
warm sunshine.
At twilight. “Tip", as the feathered im
tator is called, always seeks entrance to
e house and today is celebrating his
wthday. (six weeks) seemingly perfectly
happy with his adopted family.
(Editor’s Note : Mrs. Mills is the daugh.
er of Mrs. E. L. Worsham, a former
resident of Berryton.)
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Rev. H. E. Wright, of Rome, will
preach at Chelsea Sunday afternoon. July
16. at 2:30.
There will also be singing at Chelsea
as usual Sunday evening, beginning at
7:30. We welcome all visitors.
SINGING AT CHELSEA.
The regular third Sunday night sing
ing will be at Chelsea Sunday night,
July ]6, Everyone invited,
With The Churches
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
One of our major problems today is
to adjust humanity, which since the days
of Adam has moved at a moderate speed.
‘ this age of speed. To place man, whose
j<nnal gate is from 3-5 miles per hour
in the midst of a civilization which runs
at the rate of sixty miles per hour, can- .
not but have its effect on his nervous i
system. Yet in one generation, this has ;
been done. The increase of patients in 1
* ispitals and asylums bears witness that
the human system speeded up to this ab-
■ rmal gait must either give way or an ( i
effective method of relaxation must be
iind.
One fact is manifest: the age of speed
n travel, business, and recreation is here
to stay. If then, the human race is to
remain sane, some way of counteracting
le effects of our high tension life must
found.
If we go to the source where we find
le solution to all our problems,' the eter
il Scriptures, we will find the way of i
>lth and sanity. Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy, is not merely a com
mandment to please the God of the He
rews. It is a wise provision of a bene
ficent God for the health and comfort oi
>. s people. This blessing has been carried
>ver into Christianity as the Lord's day,
he first day of the week. One-seventh
-f Life belongs to the Lord in the ob
servance of His day. In the Scriptures,
w see that this day is to be spent in
r< taxation and worship.
Man is geared up to work six days and
to rest the seventh. Scientific tests show
that the man who does this will accom
plish more and better work in a year
than a man who works seven days a
week.
Surely the Scriptural way of observing
*he Lord’s day is more pleasing to God
than the current practice in high-stung,
nerve-strained America, which has made
> pagan holiday out of the Christian ,
Holy day.
Relaxation must be practiced or vital
forces will be expended and nerve will
snap. Many otherwise good people are
hortening their lives and displeasing God
y their failure to use the day of rest
the Scriptures teach.
There are two legitimate ways in which
.ve may use the Lord’s day. The first is
n as complete relaxation as possible. II
hould be observed that this will not he
'mind in long, tiresome trips, baseball
games or the movies on Sunday after-
on. A forgetting of the activities of the
■ek and a change of all activity is the
remedy.
The other legitimate activity of the
Lord's day is Worship. This is an essen- ,
tial. It is one of the commands of the
Indestructible Word. Worship is an in
tegral part of rest. It is also necessary
to please God. There is no atmosphere. 1
more conducive to genuine rest than that
which is engendered in the gathering of
the Saints to worship. If we go. not to r
see the other saints, not to criticize, not
for personal motives, but to join in pray
er. praise and to hear a message from
the Bible: if shutting all other things
from our hearts, we wait on God He
will hear uj. have regard to our prayers 1
and touch our souls with rest.
Is it not better to begin and to end the •
day in worship and to retire rested than
to spend it in search of pleasure and rei- l
At the King’s right stands Grover Whalen, president of the Fair cor
poration and official host to their majesties during their visit to the expo
sition. Standing at the Queen’s left are Mrs. Grover Whalen and Governor
Herbert Lehman. Mayor LaGuardia is seen at the extreme right of the
picture. ,
reation and retire exhausted? If we spend
the Lord's day in His way, we will be
recreated and fitted to face the work of
"the following week.
With these self-evident truths in mind
and realizing that in so doing it is
pleasing God, the First Baptist church in-
• ites Christians everywhere to use the
Lord’s day, not longer as a holiday to be
celebrated like the Fourth of July, but as
a day of rest and worship. The church
also invites the public to attend worship
on the coming Lord’s day in the following
services.
Sunday* school at 9:45 a.m.; H. M.,
Woods, superintendent. Subject, ‘Reho
boam : A Man Who Chose To Be a Fool.
Morning worship at 11 o’clock ; “Still
ng the Storms of Life.”
Training union at 6:30 p.m.; Miss
Bailey, director.
Evening service at 7:30; "The Trag
dy of Life Beyond the Grave.”
Tuesday. Fellowship club, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday. 7 :30 p.m., prayer meeting,
The Heavenly Throne.”
SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH.
(J. G. Kirckhoff. Pastor.)
A Daily Vacation Bible school will be
gin Monday. July 24, at the Presbyterian
church. Children of all ages are invited
to come. Miss Estell Sellers, from Rich
mond, Va.. will direct the school.
Sunday Services:
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; D. L. Mc-
Whorter. superintendent.
Morning worship at 11. Communion
'■rvice.
Sunday school at 2 p.m. at Wayside.
Young people’s service at 6:30 p.m.
Evening service at 7 :30 o'clock.
SOUTH SI MMER\ ILLE BAPTIST
CHI RUH.
(Herbert Morgan. Pastor.)
Sunday school at 9:45 H.m.
Preaching at 11 a.m.; subject. “Los
ing the Axe Head.”
Preaching at 7 :30 p.m.; subject, “Sin
ners' Excuses.”
“Whosoever Will Let Him Come.”
REVIVAL AT MENLO CHURCH
OF CHRIST.
Mr. Fulford, of Trion, will begin a re
vival at the Church of Christ in Menlo
on the fourth Sunday in July. The pub- j
lie is invited to attend th°se services, j
There will be no daytime service except :
• n Sundays. The day service will be
it 11 o’clock. The night service will be- I
> at 7 :45 o’clock.
Let all come who will and let us make
his one of Menlo’s best meetings.
Patrolmen Here to Issue
Drivers’ License Second}
Tuesday In Each Month
Two state patrolmen will be in Sum
merville the second Tuesday in each |
mnth at the sheriff's office where you
an renew your driver’s license or obtain I
new ones. They will be in the city from |
9 :30 until 3 p.m.
L. J. LEVERETT ARRESTED.
Sheriff J. Frank Kellett last week trail
-) and arrested L. J. Leverett, alleged to
have stolen a car at Flat Rock. Ala., in
Dalton. Sheriff Kellett turned Leverett
over to U. S. Marshal Sid White, who
■rried Leverett to tl)e federal jail in
Cartersville.
Chattooga Represented
Al West Ga. College
CARROLLTON, Ga. —Chattooga coun
ty was represented at West Georgia col
lege. Cnrro”t ; in. by six students during
he past year, from practically every,
(immunity throughout the county.
<if the six students, one graduated with;
honors at the end of the spring term in
June. He was Aaron Buckalew, of Trion, i
Mr. Buckalaw was president of the Men's i
Glee club, a member of the Officers’ club.
V.R.A. council. Chieftain staff, the col
lege annual, composer of the Alma Mater'
?nd he played in the college orchestra. |
Freshmen students from Chattooga;
county include Thomas Adams, Martha (
Floyd. Nell Hammond, Eugene McWil
liams and Jean Wyatt. Os these, sever- ,
al have made distinguished records. Eu-,
gene .McWilliams is a Dean’s list student.!
Miss Hammond is a member of the Alpha
Psi. Home Economics club, and a mem
ber of the local 4-H club.
Summer school students who are at the
present time enrolled at the college from
Chattcoga county are Nell Hammond and
Margaret Hall.
Summer Examinations
On Saturday, July 15
The summer examinations for those
ho failed NOT MORE THAN TWO
objects will be held in the high school
uilding on Saturday, July 15. beginning
at 9 o’clock. This includes the FIFTH
rough the ELEVENTH grades only.
\’o examinations will be given after this
late. FRANK G. DILLARD. Supt.
Y. W. A. Meeting
The Y. W. A. of the First Baptist
church met Monday night at the church
for the July meeting.
'the subject of the program was "Sun
light and Stars.” Miss Edna Thomas was
in charge of the program.
The following members took part on
the program: Misses Dorothy Harlow,
Mildred Fowler. Nell Hammond. Evelyn
Pledger, Almazada Eilenburg and Edna
Thomas.
Two Week-Old Chick
Crows Like Veteran
FRANKLIN. —Fell Williams, of this
city, has a "child prodigy” Tn the way of
an extremely precocious young rooster.
Only 2 weeks old. it has begun to flap
its wings like a full-growTi chanticleer,
much to the humiliation of its more help
less brethren.
Riegeldale Farm Cow
Completes New Record
PETERBOROUGH. N. H.—A new
record, exceeding the average of the
Guernsey breed for her age and class,
has just been completed by a 7-year-old
cow. Willowmere Princess Ann 331321,
of Trion, Ga.. tested and owned by Rie
geldale farms (the Trion company). Her
official record, supervised by the Uni
versity of Georgia and announced by the
American Guernsey Cattle club, is 13.-
567.0 pounds of milk and 684.1 pounds
of butter far in Class A.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
CLEAN UP YOUR OWN
FRONT YARD FIRST,
ADVISES VAN LOON
“The only way in which we can ever
hope to bring about a happier state of hu
man affairs is by doing so first of all
within our own bailiwick,” Hendrik Wil
lem van Loon, genial philosopher-his
torian. cautions would-be reformers in
the current Rotarian Magazine.
“Our present world is nothing to be
proud of." he admits, “and is sadly in
need of a complete overhauling.” But
v best to change this gloomy picture?
In answering this question, Van Loon
asks that be not be suspected of any un
due optimism. “Both by nature and by
raining." he explains. “I am rather a fol
lower of the doctrine which holds out
mighty small hope for the future of the
human race. But if I am entirely hon
est with myself, then I must confess that,
given just one percent of one percent of
i chance, the average man is not quite
so bad as we sometime depict him in all
his sorrowful cussedness and greed. And
I have d.s overed that on the whole he
will function best of all if we appeal to
his sense of duty as a, good neighbor
rather than if we go after him with acts
of congress or orders issued by the board
of selectmen.
“These are necessary, too. for the more
serious aspects of life, and heaven forbid
that we should try (for the next few
million years at least) to do without the
policemen on the beat. But for all or
dinary. everyday efforts to make our
world a little pleasanter and a little more
livable. I wonk! on the whole prefer to
rely upon individual action rather than
upon any sort of mass action.
“If" he continues, “you want to re
duce the particular point of view in
which I see some hope to a short and
eloquent sentence which might well be
come a world-wide slogan, suppose I give
it to you :
“If each of us will take care of his
own particular front yard, then we shall
have a pleasant village in which to live;
and a world full of pleasant villages
would, I think, be a pretty decent one
for most everybody.”
Dr. Hays McGaha
Moi tes Ttz Summerville
Dr. Hays McGaha, a drugless physi
cian of Alma, has moved his practice to
Summerville and has his offices located
temporarily back end of Frazier’s Bar
>e; shop.
Dr.McGaha will be recalled by many of
lis old acquaintances as the missionary
.vho was employed in this territory by the
lurch and who went to India as a med
ical missionary from Alma a few years
ago. He has many relatives in Appling
and Bacon counties.
Dr. McGaha announces that he will do
physical culture work in all its advance
phases including vapor and mineral
baths, adjustings, and the practice of
dietics catering especially to those suf
fering from chronic disease. While he
has had very unusual training in all
phases of the drugless field, including both
(•hiropractic and osteopathy, Dr. Mc-
Gaha frankly states that he does not hold
himself out as a “cure-all,” nor does he
fail to appreciate the medical man in his
Vork. He states that he Tas found there
are certain cases which react to the nat
ural methods when all else has failed,
while in others his work is of little val
ue ; that it is his desire at all times to
co-operate with the medical men and ren
der honest and ethical services to his
own patients.
Mrs. McGaha and their small son.
Billy, will join the doctor in Summer
ville shortly.
Pastures Should Be
Kept Free of Weeds
Weeds in pastures compete with desir
able pasture grasses and legumes just as
weeds in cultivated land compete with
row crops, according to Frank A. McAl
! lister,' Jr., technician in the Chattooga
' county work unit of the Coosa River soil
I conservation district.
Mowing pastures when they begin to
; get weedy will help to control weeds by
: preventing the reseeding of anpuals and
' by weakening the perennial weeds through
i exhaustion of the root reserves, McAllis
! ter pointed out.
In almost every old pasture there are
j some areas that have not been grazed
where the grass has become tough and
unpalatable. Mowing will clip the tough
grass and stimulate the development of
new. tender growth which will result in
| more uniform grazing. It will also tend
; to develop a thick turf, which resists ero-
I sion and aids in moisture conservation.
Many new pastures seeded this spring
contain only a few weeds which can be
destroyed by pulling or digging them up.
The same method can be used on rough
and inaccessible areas. While this is more
laborious than mowing, it destroys weeds
[ much more thoroughly.
Elimination of weeds that compete with
desirable pasture plants for food and
moisture is one phase of more efficient
land use which many farmers overlook,
but it is an operation that will pay good
returns for the labor involved because of
■ the improved grazing and the development
of a more desirable sod from an erosion
ppntrol standpoint, Milt
$1.50 A YEAR