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CIRCULATE IN BEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53; NO. 18 NEWS AT A GLANCE ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS IN GEORGIA STATE RANKS FIFTH IN REDUC TION IN ALTO DEATHS DUR ING THIS YEAR ATLANTA, July 18 (GPS ).—Georgia is a safer place in which to live nowa days. The state has made the fifth great est reduction in automobile deaths dur ing this year, it was revealed by the Na tional Safety Council Public Safety Mag azine in a nationwide motor vehicle acci dent statistics. With a 20.8 per cent, re duction in the number of lives lost and injuries recorded as compared with the same period last year, the safety council lists Georgia as having the fifth greatest ‘saving of human life” on the highways in the nation. Pennsylvania with 29 per cent.. Minnesota with 21 per cent., Wy oming with 30 per cent, and Utah with 31 per cent., were the only states in the forty-eight having better records. The Georgia record shows that sixty nine lives have been figuratively “saved” during the first five months of 1939, since there were 337 killed during the same period last year and only 268 this year. So far this year, the 268 deaths and ap proximately 9,380 injuries cost some $12,060,000, as against the cost of $15,- 165,000 last year, which show's a cash saving of $3,105,000. The 1939 total shows not only 69 less lives lost than 1938, but it shows 82 less lives lost. 2,870 less injuries and $3,690,000 less cost than the same period of the year prior to the establishment of the Geor gia state patrol. Commissioner of Public Safety Lon Sullivan said all agencies will be enlist ed in a statewide, intensive campaign in September to point toward a “saving" of 200 lives in Georgia this year. America’s Need: “America is a land of mass production and mass distribution. That’s why it must have efficient, low cost mass transportation,” declares the Association of American Railroads. “And mass transportation ran be provided by : individual carrying units coupled togeth er in trains, pulled by one powerful ma chine, and guided along steel rails by flanged wheels. That means railroads. The future of America is tied to the fu ture of its mass transportation—its rail roads. Therefore, it is essential that you support every effort to bring about -a square deal in transportation.” Gist Os the News: An increase of $65,181.88 in the collection of federal taxes in Georgia during the fiscal year ending June 30 was reported by Marion H. Allen. U. S. collector of internal rev enue. The year’s collections totaled $33,- 728.656.35 in the state, compared with $33,663,464.47 for the preceding twelve months . . . Georgia led all peanut-pro ducing states this year both in acreage and amount of increase over 1938. The state's 1939 acreage was reported at 746,000 acres, compared with 691,000 acres last year . . . During the first six months of this year, the state bureau of unemployment compensation distributed $1,500,000 in unemployment compensa tion and placed 42.000 unemployed men and women in jobs throughout the state . . . Georgia’s estimated cotton acreage of 2,064,000 acres for this year is the same as that in cultivation on July 1 of last year, but 23 per cent, smaller than on July 1, 1937, Heffner-Vinson Show Here Tuesdy, July 25 For the first time. Summerville will have the opportunity to see one of Holly wood's beautiful movie stars in person, when Mildred Harris Chaplin, glamorous star of stage, radio and screen, and for mer wife and leading lady of the screen’s famous comedian, Charlie Chaplin, comes;? to Summerville Tuesday night, July 25, for a one night's engagement only, with the Heffner-Vinson Players, that famous attraction that has so endeared itself to ihe hearts of theatergoers by its annual visits with truly meriterious attractions. The Heffner-Vinson Players have been coming to Summerville for the past few years, and the high-class entertainment, and clean business methods have always made Jimmie Heffner, the manager, and his company welcome visitors. This year in recognition afid celebra tion of the twenty-first anniversary tour. Jimmie Heffner has entirely reconstruct ed his offerings, and has a production of amazing magnitude and unlimited va riety. The feature play this season is one of Broadway’s comedy successes, entitled “The Jones Family,” with Jimmie Heff ner. the south’s favorite comedian, at his best in the comedy role. More than ten big-time vaudeville acts are being carried, and Jimmie Heffner promises to bring to Summerville the biggest and best show' that he has ever brought here. As an extra added attraction this sea son. Mr. Heffner brings to you "Gypsy” Kaye Lee, exotic dancer direct from Cuba Casino in Havana, Cuba, whose exotic charm and beauty makes her a sensation everywhere. The doors will open at 7 :15 and over ture by Jimmie Heffner’s Rhythm Swing sters at 7:30 and the show starts at 8 o’clock. The admission will be 30 cents for the adults and 15 cents for children. ©hr Nma SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939 Notice to Legionnaires In Chattooga County Thursrday night, July 20, will be the regular meeting of the Chattooga county post, American Legion, at Dr. Hair’s cabin. We want every Legionnaire in the county to be there. Legion dues are $3 a year; 25 cents a month, less than 1 cent a day. Listen, buddies, preferences for assist ance-service now goes to Legionnaires. A Legionnaire pays his dues promptly with out solicitation. A Legionnaire is a real Buddy inter ested in the success of his post. Are you one your commander knows? The new cards will be here by August. We have elected W. F. Aldred com mander for the new year, so let every body help him to build this post member ship up to 100 members in 1940. WIVES OF VETERANS The Wives of today may be Widows Tomorrow We. of the American Legion, KNOW of the advantage it is to YOU and your children to have your veteran husband ACTIVE and in GOOD STANDING with his American Legion post. Year in and year out, the command ers and officers of American Legion nosts over Georgia have worked untir ingly to increase their membership but housands of veterans don’t seem to ap nreciate what the American Legion does •>:• them. In the future, in all cases of requests -or assistance and service through the American Legion, we are going to give preference to those veterans who BE LIEVE IN and STAND BY the AMER ICAN LEGION . . . You can’t blame for that. We know what we ARE DO ING and WHAT WE CAN DO for those who work in the interest of our organization . . . That’s just plain com mon sense. Our comrades are passing away at an alarming rate (almost 130 a day) and in creasing EVERY YEAR. In Georgia we have many, many widows of veterans w’ho could be drawing a pension but their short-sighted, neglectful, indifferent husbands FAILED to leave behind cer tain information that the government DE MANDS. Consequently, these poor wid ow’s are suffering and are being DENIED government aid and protection. This question is serious, ladies. Far more serious than many of you think. TODAY, you should write the ordinary of the county in which you were mar ried. give him the date and place of your marriage, to w'hom you were married, and ask the ordinary if your marriage is re corded in his books, and if not. what ev idence does he want to have it record ed. (Just think of the thousands of poor folks in Georgia w’ho don’t know what this means). ALSO, you should write the bureau of vital statistics in Atlanta, or the health authorities of your county, and give the ige, sex, date and place of birth of each hild, and find out if the birth of your hildren is properly recorded, if not ask them what evidence is needed to have these births recorded. When your veteran husband is laid 1o rest, we sincerely trust his comrades will be able to say . . He was a good Legion naire. It should also be mighty consoling to him to know’ that he is ACTIVE to day in an organization that will have the interest of his loved ones at heart after he is gone. Such is the spirit of the American Legion. Imprope 7 Sewage Disposal Dangerous Warning prospective home builders in communities beyond the limits of regu lated w'ater and sewer systems of the dan gers to health from improperly construct ed w’ater supply and sew'age disposal fa cilities, Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, director of the state department of health, urges such builders to contact local public health officers for information of approv ed standard designs or wells and septic tanks. ’ “With the very large increase in home building it is of extreme importance that home owners give attention to the im portant requirements for safe water sup ply and sanitary sewage disposal sys tems,” the health director stated. He pointed out that epidemics are very rare within the incorporated limits of the larger ckies where regulations are en forced by propel - authorities to secure safe w’ater and sewage disposal systems. As a health safeguard, builders of homes should exercise great care in the proper planning and executing of their home wa ter supply and sewage disposal systems. “The department of public health, county board or district public health or sanitation personnel in all states today have employes who are technically train ed and experienced in safeguarding the public health, both in the individual home and in larger communities. For the home-builder outside of community pub lic health regulations, sewer systems, and water supply, properly designed and con structed wells and septic tanks with their disposal fields are safe. When not properly constructed they are a nuisance and a menace to health for both the in dividual and the community,” Dr. Aber crombie said. For this reason he advises anyone building a home beyond a community wa ter supply or sewer system to first con tact his local public health officer for approved standard designs for wells and septic tanks, TENANT FARMERS MAY GET FORTY-YEAR LOANS CONGRESS CONSIDERING PRO GRAM TO HELP TENANT FARMER BUY FARMS. Congress is considering an expanded federal program to encourage farm ten ants to buy their own farms. Pleased with the success of a two-year experiment under the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant act, senators approved the new program without a dissenting vote, and early action in the house is pre dicted. Instead of loaning money for farm purchase, as it has been doing the fed ral government under the new plan would give a 100 per cent, mortgage guar antee on money borrowed from private sources up to a total of $350,000,000. Borrowers would have as much as for v years to pay back the loan at 3 per ■ent. interest. No down payments would be required. Federal aid to enable landless farmers to establish themselves on a place of their own has been carried out on experimen tal scale during the last two years. For 'he first year. congress appropriated $10,000,000, which bought farms for 1.885 farm tenants, sharecroppers and laborers. The next year the fund was increased to $25,000,000 which was invested in al most 5,000 farms. Rev. Pratt On the Air The Rev. Charles T. Pratt, who is now conducting a revival here, at the Church of God, of the Union Assembly, will be gin a series of broadcasts over Station W.TBY in Gadsden, Ala., Aug. 7. A contract has been signed for the roadcasts to continue four weeks. These roadcasts will be heard each week-day norning, Monday through Saturday, at 6 :30 o’clock. The Rev. Pratt has been preaching bout thirty years and is well known throughout the southern states. Tune in WJBY each week-day morning and hear him. OYER 2,500,000 MEN EMPLOYED BY CUC /N PAST SIX YEARS The civilian conservation corps said in t progress report that in six years of operation it has given employment to -',500.000 young men, war veterans. In dans and Territorials on more than 150 ypes of work. The enrollees, the report add, had al ocated to dependents out of basic cash illowances of S3O a month an aggregate f more than $500,000,000 during the six years. WHO KNOWS? 1. How do foreign currency specula tors work? 2. What percentage of wage-earners ire covered by the Wage-Hour act? 3. Can the federal housing adminis tration insure loans on existing prop >rties’i 4. What is the extent of outstanding ax-exempt securities? 5. Was the British pound devalued before the dollar? 6. How many men comprised the crew of the Dixie Clipper on its first commer cial flight to Europe? 7. How many states tax cigarette sales’! 8. Why do foreign countries restrict the sale of American automobiles? 9. When will minimum_pay rates, un der the wage-hour law, advance to 30 cents an hour? 10. Did Great Britain, before the World war. warn Germany that she •ould fight if France were attacked? (See “The Answers” on Another Page.) With The Churches NEW HOPE. NORTH, SERVICES Rev. James P. Craft will fill his regu lar appointment at New Hope, north, church nett Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. His subject will be “Freedom Tn Christ.” Sunday school will be held at 10 o’clock, with Supt. John Frank McCon icll in charge. The annual revival services or this church will begin one month hence, the fourth Sunday in August. The Rev. Mr. Shivers, of Trion, will assist the pastor. All who have not church connections elsewhere, and who can attend this church for any or all services, are cordially in vited to do so. SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.) The Daily Vacation Bible school be gins Monday morning under the direction f Miss Esfell Sellers. Miss Sellers comes from the Assembly Training school at Richmond. Va., arid it is a pleasure to have her with us to help with our school. We are expecting a large attendance of boys and girls as all are invited and urged to come. There will be classes for beginners, age 3 to 5; primaries, ages 6 to 8; juniors, ages 9 to 11, and inter mediates, ages 12 to 15. Sunday Sendees: Sunday school at 9 ;45 a.m,; D. L. Me? COTTON ACREAGE NEAR LAST YEAR’S PLANTING TOTAL IN CULTIVATION JULY 1 IS 24,943,000 ACRES, DEPART MENT SAYS. Cotton in cultivation July 1 totaled 24,943,000 acres, of 99.7 per cent, of the acreage in cultivation a year ago, the ag riculture department reported. In Georgia, the area in cultivation an its percentage of the area one year ago is 2,064.000 and 700, exactly the same >.n in 1938. The condition of the crop and forecast of probable production of lint eotton will not be issued until Aug. 8, the de partment being prevented by law from making public such information prior to he August canvass. A year ago the area in cultivation was 25,018,000 acres, abandonment was 1.1 per cent., area picked 24,480.000 acres, yield 235.8 pounds per acre and total production 11.944.000 bales of 500 pounds each. Two years ago the July acreage was 34.090,000. abandonment 1.4 per cent., area picked 33.623,000 acres, yield 269.9 pounds and production 18,946.000 bales. The ten-year (1929-38) average planted area was 34,929.000 acres, abandonment 2.2 per cent., area picked 3.166,000 acres, acre yield 198.1 pounds, and production 13,493.000 bales. Urges Cotton Crop Insurance. Congress is being urged by the Federal < ’rop Insurance corporation to extend to i tton farmers the crop insurance now applicable to the wheat growers. Cecil A. Johnson, assistant manager of he corporation, * Id the house agricul ture committee actuarial data accumu lated during the first year of the wheat insurance program “would be of invalu ■ble aid in formulating plans for the otton crop insurance.” Representaitive Anderson, of Minnesota, declared the wheat insurance program “could not possibly be held successful so far. and it might take five or six years to test it.” “It would be premature to include cot on now,” he said. In answer to a question by Anderson as to how he could “justify including •itton in the program when the admin istrative cost of insuring wheat was reater than the premiums collected,” Johnson replied : “Any private corporation would amor tize the first year’s cost over a period of years. No one ever expected the pro gram to be self-sustaining the first year." Farm Department Free of Debt First Time In Two Years ATLANTA, July 18 (CNS).—For the first time in years, the state department of agriculture is free of debt, has money on hand and can discount all its bills. The condition is in sharp contrast to conditions two and a half years ago when Columbus Roberts took the oath of office as commissioner of agriculture and found that debts of the department totalled $82,509.29. Most of these obligations were incurred in establishing the farm market system, which then earned virtually nominal profits. Since that date, Commissioner Roberts has paid off the debts in full. $52,509.29 came from savings effected within the de partment: $31,000 came from a refund of part of the department’s contribution to the stabilization fund. In addition, the department of agricul ture now receives, for the first time in many years, no grant from the general fund, but operates exclusively upon fees for services performed, a remarkable ex ample of the application of business methods to public affairs. i Whorter, superintendent. Morning worship at 11 o’clock. Wayside Sunday school at 2 p.m. Pioneer league at 6 :30 p.m. Evening service at 7:30. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; H. M. Woods, superintendent. Morning worship at 11 o’clock; sub ject. “Watch Your Step.” Training union at 6:30 p.m. Evening service at 7:30. Fellowship club, Tuesday, at 7 :30 p.m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday. 7 :30 p.m. METHODIST CHURCH Church school at 9:45 a.m.; Dr. E. R. Bnfkin, superintendent. Morning worship service at 11 o’clock : subject, “Life’s Compensations.” There will be no evening service. Therefore, we are urging a full attend ance at the morning sergice. CHURCH OF GOD A revival is now in progress, with the Rev. C. T. Pratt, of Dalton, doing the 1 preachir ;. Services every night at 7:30 ■ o’clock. Come out and hear this man of God. i You are also invited to attend the fol lowing services: Sunday school at 10 a.m.: services at :11 a.m.; services at 7:30 p.m. We also give free Bibles away. Come i and Warn bow you may get one Over 150 ILPA iTorArers In State Get $l5O Per Month More than 150 administrative employes of the Georgia WPA get $l5O a month or more, a house investigating committee in Washington disclosed. The list was made public by house in vestigators of the relief system, who said it was furnished by the WPA itself. Highest of the Georgia salaries was that of Miss Gay B. Shepperson, admin isistrator, SSOO a month. Salaries of the sixty-four 150 or more employes in the state executive offices in Atlanta totalled $15,000 monthly. Revival At Welcome Hill Baptist Church A revival is in progress at the Wel come Hill Baptist church, with the Rev. Herbert Morgan conducting the services. Sixty conversions have already been made in this revival. Everybody is cordially invited to come and help us reach the •>st. Here and There CONTRACTOR ESCAPES DEATH UNDER TRAIN ATLANTA.—Trapped in his car by a ladder he was holding against the side, L. S. Rawlins, 64, College Park roofing contractor, had a narrow brush with death Saturday afternoon when an A. & W. P. freight train struck his automobile at the Harvard street crossing in Col lege Park. He was carried to Piedmont hospital seemingly badly hurt, but his wounds were found to consist of only scalp lace rations and bruises. Isis step-son. Herman Moore, 16. driv ing the car, told the family that he saw he train as he approached the crossing and put on the brakes, but they failed to mid. He said he had time to tell Mr. Raw lins : “Jump, the brakes won’t hold,” before ie himself dived to safety out the door on the driver’s side. Mr. Rawlins couldn’t get out because of the ladder and was dill in the front seat when the train truck broadside. The car was badly smashed. FIRE ALARM ALIBI BRINGS 30 DAYS - NEW YORK. —Tickle Samuel Wilson, 4, in the ribs and the reaction is some times surprising. Friends who knew his weakness, he explained to the judge to day, did just that, with the result that Wilson reached for a nearby fire alarm tnd gave it a yank. “I’m just ticklish, judge, that’s all,” lio said. This alibi for turning in a false alarm ailed to strike the court’s funnybone. Vilson got thirty days. CHIGGER VICTIM GETS FIRST AID ATLANTA. —A Fourth of July cas lalty of a different kind received treat ment at Grady hospital when John Raab, "4, requested the aid of physicians. Mr. Raab, a victim of chigger bites, was so severely chewed that he was run ning a temperature when he arrived at he hospital. As physicians applied ointments to oothe the itching skin, Mr. Raab ex plained that he got the chiggers while attending a barbecue in Gw’innett county. DOLLARS (?) RAINED FROM SKIES PROVE COUNTERFEIT It rained dolls ”s from heaven—or so Monroe, Ga., residents thought for a while recently—but the “dollars” turned ut to be counterfeit. Federal agents said that citizens found nearly $6,000 in currency of $1 to $lO denomination in yards and on streets, but here were no reports of the spurious otes having been passed. The agents surmised that a counterfeit r had discarded the bills in fear of sing caught. , PHONES RING AGAIN AFTER 18 YEARS DAWSONVILLE, Ga.—For the first time in eighteen years. Dawsonville, seat of Dawson county, today had telephonic communication with the rest of the world. Eighteen years ago the Dawsonville exchange was burned down, and it was >’ily recently rebuilt with service being ■e-established last week. BURIES 23 SIOO BILLS: CAN’T FIND THEM NOW DE TvXT.B. 11l. —One night last win ter Ray Yocum dug a hole two feet deep n his back yard and buried twenty-three SIOO bills sealed in a fruit far. For the last two months he has been trying to make Mother Nature pay back that loan. He confided last week that last Novem ber he lent an uncle $2,500. The monev was repaid shortly in twenty-five SIOO bills. Yocum kept S2OO and decided to bury the rest. The ground froze and Yocum, not need ing the money, virtually forgot about it until two months ago when he made ar rangements to model his home. Believing he remembered the exact spot where the jar was buried, he start : ed digging and hfts #! it IN- STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. $1.50 A YEAR DIVERSION OF ROAD FUNDS NOT LIKELY UNLESS WORK STOPS SAYS TREMENDOUS LOSS WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH A MOVE. ATLANTA. July 18 (CNS).—The pos sibility of diversion of any large portion of the funds appropriated by the general assembly to the state highway depart ment to other purposes was discounted as a likely solution of Georgia’s tangled finances this week, when it appeared that repudiation of existing contracts, with holding of funds due counties on refund ing certificates and tremendous losses in depreciation of existing roads would be the consequences of such a move. Highway funds usually are anticipated by contracts for five or six months, un der present circumstances. If was reveal ed. When the present board took office, the funds were anticipated for eight months, but this has been reduced 1 to the present scale of five months, figures dis closed. While this anticipation has heen re duced slightly by the refusal of the gov ernor to approve any county grading con tracts, return of prisoners to the state, necessarily to be absorbed in part in high way construction, will almost offset the sum retained as a result of ending county work. By cancelling all existing contracts, shutting down all maintenance operations and withholding the money due next Ap ril to the counties, about a million dol lars a month could be seized from the highway department, beginning next De cember. However, that legislative approv al could be obtained for such a plan is extremely doubtful, and the stabilization act. under which it might be possible to proceed without direct legislation, expires Dec. 31. 1939, by operation of law. Other developments during the week included : 1. Denial by state highway officials that they had concurred in a rumored plan to divide the department into three autonomous bureaus. 2. Rumors that the state highway hoard again will appeal to the governor for authority to let county contracts for grading with convict labor. Chairman W, L. Miller is reported to feel that the con victs, now being returned to the state in "rce» numbers, will have to be absorbed in highway construction and that dupli cation of camps by the department, when county camps already well equipped exist, is uneconomical. 3. Return to the state penal board of convicts by several counties, with an nouncements by approximately thirty counties that unless highway work is re sumed by Aug. 1. 1939. they will return their prisoners. 4. Announcement by officials of the Citizens' Road League of Georgia of in creasing interest, especially among mem bers of the general assembly, in the seven point ‘All-Georgia Plan’ of state financ ing presented by Dr. R. J. Kennedy to the Association of County Commissioners. 5. Rejection of diversion proposals and recommendations for a sales tax by a conference of school-board members and school superintendents. Fight Card For Tate Arena Tonight, 8:15 Jack Baggett has been signed to meet Maxie Morris in the feature bout at Tate arena tonight (Thursday). July 20, at 8:15 o’clock. Leon Espy, Summerville pride, will meet Harlon Holmes in one of the spe cial bouts. A red-hot colored bout is also being arranged. There will be thirty rounds of boxing. Promoter Spear announced. CORN DEMONSTRATION. The Menlo chapter. Future Farmers of America, has been and is at the present conducting a demonstration concerning the application of nitrate of soda on corn. Most of the leading farmers agree that the nitrogen plant food is usually exhausted before the corn is grown if all is placed under at planting time. Often late applications of nitrate of soda de lay maturity too much. Our experiment stations advise us to apply available ni trogen to corn about forty to forty-five days after planting. We have applied Chilean nitrate of soda to our corn test. This test is located about one mile east of Menlo on the Menlo-Summerville high way on W. R. Chappelear's farm. At the present time, the demonstration is under normal farming conditions, and the re sult of the soda is showing the people of the community and those who notice the test the proper time for side-dressing their corn and the proper amounts to use. The demonstration consists of two and one-half acres. There are three plots: (1) one acre on which 200 pounds was ap plied; (2) one-half acres on which none was applied, and (3) another acre with ! 200 pounds. We want our friends who read this article to visit our demonstra tion. ask questions about it, and estimate what they think the yield will be from each of the three plots. A few prize's, worthy of your time, will be given to those guessing nearest to the actual yield. Watch our demonstration and prof it accordingly.