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“PRAYER HEAP"ERECTED
AT BERRYTON LAST WEEK
Strange things have happened through
out past ages, even B. C. 1739 Jacob and
his brethren took stones and made a heap
and ate upon it. —Gen. 31 :46.
According to reports, about seven mem
bers of the Berryton Baptist church, each
carrying a stone, went upon the hill west
of Berryton and began a “‘prayer heap.”
It is said that thirty-nine went to
pray Thursday afternoon, each carrying
a stone to place on the “heap.” Thurs
day night another group went to pray
with stones to place on the “heap."
DOCTOR. 104, ACTIVE.
BETHEL. Ohio. —Although he has
passed his 104th birthday. Dr. William
E. Thompson, still answers the calls of
a few patients.
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WITH THE STARS
Mae West, who has not appeared in a
picture since "Every Day's a Holiday"
in 1937. is to be eo-starred with W. C
’ields in a tale of frontier life. The pic
ure is expected to have one of the high
st budgets of the season . . .
"Jubilo,” which has been made before
with Will Rogers in the title role, is to
be produced again, this time with Gene
lutry and Jane Withers in the leading
parts . . .
Vardis Fisher's forthcoming Harper
prize novel, "Children of God,” has been
bought to be used as the basis of the
picture, "Brigham Young." The novel is
about the establishment of the Mormon
colony in Utah and it was entered in the
contest without a title or the author's
name. Louis Bromfield, one of the judges
in the contest, read it and, as a result,
the Twentieth Century-Fox studio trac
ed the author and placed the book under
option in case it failed to win the prize
Una O’Connor is being brought from
London to play the part of the maid in
"We Are Not Alone” . . .
Monogram is getting ready to make
"Rip Van Winkle." Fred Stone and Jean
Hersholt have both been mentioned as
possibilities for the title role . . .
Sam Wood, the director of “Goodbye
Mr. Chips,” has signed a long-time con
tract with Goldwyn and his first assign
ment will be to direct "Raffles.” with
LOOKING AT W ASHINGTON
With three battleships under construe- |
tion, five additional dreadnaughts author- .
ized and the navy department ready to j
request funds for two other monsters, the j
United States is preparing the way for
a navy which will be equal to any afloat.
In addition to the battleships now be
ing built, there are seventy-five vessels
under construction and the number will
grow to ninety before the year ends.
These ships are in various stages of con
struction. Many months must elapse be
fore they will join the fleet. In the mean
time, the peace and security of the Unit
ed States must be protected by the navy
“in being."
When the United States destroyed hun
dreds of millions of dollars worth of cap
ital ships under construction a decade or
so ago. in the hope that naval armaments
might be limited by international agree
ment. it was thought that the iihtiofis
of the world might escape the expense of
building huge navies. This ideal gave its
last flicker when Japan served notice, in
accordance with the treaty, that she
would be no longer bound by the Wash
ington and London naval limitations
pacts.
Since then the nations of the world
have engaged in a strenuous naval race.
As Germany. Italy and Japan moved to
strengthen their fleets, thus threatening
to destroy the status quo. Great Britain
and France responded with new building
programs, and the United States, slowly
the tardily, entered the competition.
Despite popular opinion about air
bombs, fed by fanciful imaginations, sea
power today is measured and depends
upon battleship strength. Every naval
power is constructing dreadnaghts, with
larger tonnage and bigger guns. Some of
them began construction before the Unit
ed States, and, as a result, will have
their new battleships on the seas long
before ours are available.
It will be late in the fall of 1941, or
maybe 1942, before the first of the new
American battleships join the fleet. Be
fore that time, the British will probably
have five new dreadnaughts in active
service.
The 45,000-ton “super-ships" are only
blue-print dreams. Their keels will hard
ly be laid before 1940. Construction will
require about four years. Expected to
■ost around $100,000,000 each, the ships
in the opinion of naval experts, will be
the most powerful afloat, with greater
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939
David Niven and Olivia de Havilland . .
Bette Davis and Warners have had an
other clash over the title of her latest
picture. The original title, “Elizabeth,
the Queen,” was changed because Errol
Flynn wanted to be represented in the
titled, to “Elizabeth and Essex,” but
Lytton Strachey wanted SIO,OOO for the
use of that title so the names was again
changed, this time to “The Lady and the
Knight.” Miss Davis considers this title
undignified and not in keeping with "the
picture. She has threatened to withdraw
from the cast in case it is used . . .
In order that Maeterlinck’s “Blue
Bird” will be ready for release by Christ
mas time, pi*oductibn is to begin at once,
starring Shirley Temple . . .
The Mr. Moto series starring Peter
Lorre has been abandoned. According to
the studio, it conflicts with the Charlie
Chan series but anti-.Tapanese feeling by
the public probably has something to Io
with the discontinuance . . .
“Gone With the Wind.” which is to
be released sometime in November, is ex
pected to run from three to three and a
half hours . . .
Executives are delighted with Ann
Sothern’s performance in “Maizie,” and
as a result have signed her to a long
term contract . . .
Mickey Rooney and Virginia Weidler
leave Hollywood next month for England,
where they will appear in the film. “A
Yank At Eton” . . .
speed and heavier striking power than
any vessel now contemplated. In fact, the
navy department is expected to recom
mend that future battleships be of the
45,000-ton size.
In the spring of 1940. the North Car
olina and the Washington, both 35,000-
ton battleships, will be launched from
navy yards in New York and Philadel
phia. In addition, three other 35,000-ton
battleships, authorized by congress in
1939, are just getting under way in pri
vate yards, and a fourth is to be built
at the Norfolk navy yard.
The keel of the South Dakota was laid
early this month at Camden, N. J. Sister
ships, the Indiana and the Massachu
setts, will be constructed in private
yards, and the Alabama at the Norfolk
yard. These dreadnaughts will probably
join the fleet in 1944.
The first of the giiint 45,000-toii ships,
named the lowa and the New Jersey, will
be constructed at the New York and Phil
adelphia navy yards. It will probably be
a year before the keels of these ships are
laid. Their speed will be thirty-five knots,
fastest of any battleships, and they will
I mount nine sixteen-inch guns in triple
| turrets.
Comparing American battleship con
struction with that of other leading pow
ers. we find :
The British will have two new 35,000-
I ton ships in service with the fleet before
the end of next year, with three others
scheduled to be completed before 1942
ind four 40.000-ton ships to follow,
Germany has two 26,000-ton battleships
in commission, two 35,000-ton ships
scheduled to be ready next year, and
three others to follow.
France has two new 26,500-ton ships
with the fleet and the first of four new
35.000-ton capital ships will be in serv
ice late this year or early in 1940.
In Italy, two 35.000-ton vessels are
near completion and may be ready for
service this fall. Two others are under
construction.
Little is known of the situation in Ja
pan, although it is believed that two or
more super-ships, of 40.000 to 46.000-
tons, armed with sixteen-inch of eigfit
een-inch guns, are under Construction.
The Japanese navy has adopted a policy
of secrecy since the naval treaties ex
pired, apparently believing that this
country would not embark upon any large
baval construction program. Now the
Japanese realize that it is impossible for
Japan to meet the American program,
but “face" continues to prescribe the se
crecy originally adopted.
The Russian navy is an unknown
quantity, although Russia has tried for
some time to have battleships construct
ed in the United States. A firm of naval
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KNOW YOUR TIMBER
(Emily Woodward.)
Vacation time is here again, the time
to turn from hot, busy streets in search
of swimming pools and the cool shade of
friendly trees. Why not take advantage
of the vacation season to get better ac
quainted with the trees —the friends that
give so much and ask so little?
A natural aboretum, Georgia offers
abundant opportunity to those who would
add the lore of trees to their store of
knowledge. From the seacoast where
giant oaks form spacious outdoor cathe
drals with their interlacing moss-hung
branches to the mountains where hem
locks lift their shimmering emerald
plumes above flowering laurel and rho
dendron, the pageant of trees is never
ending.
Pine, maple, beech, chestnut, dogwood, I
elm. ash, magnolia, bay—each an open I
page of the great Book of Nature from
which man far too seldom reads. In com
non with man, trees are divided into
amilies and tribes. They breathe, eat.
drink water, and by these functions each
tree produces sufficient energy to snp
ort its own <panufacttitirtg plant. The
■ir and the soil are their cupboards. The
roots, feeding at Mother Earth's breast,
gather water and mineral salts. Here a
ap is formed that makes its way to the
leaves conveying these elements for a
strange process that goes on there. Be
cause the leaves do the breathing, they
are often referred to as the lungs of a
tree. Oxygen is exhaled and carbon-acid
gas is inhaled. With Old Sol serving as
a power plant, the leaves are converted
into starch factories. These busy little
plants, unconcerned with wage-hour dis
putes. work from sun-up till sundown.
It is not for their own existence and
growth alone that they labor so diligent
ly. Man. so indifferent to their bounty,
must be served. He must have wood to
build houses, for work implements and
for a multitude of other domestic and
commercial uses; he must have turpen
tine. resin, fruits, nuts, maple sirup; and
•ertainly he needs the beauty and frag
rance of the flowers. One could go on
from page to page and volume to volume
in presenting the romance of the trees,
but the vacationist will find it much
more delightful to go in search of a bet
ter acquaintance with trees to the trees
themselves.
One who loves trees and knows the joy
of their companionship. John Muir, has
Urged other men to share in the joy he
has found, itt this poetic appeal: "To
learn how they live and behave in pure
wildness, to see them in their varying as
pects through the seasons and weather,
rejoicing in the great storms, putting
forth their new leaves and flowers, when
all the streams are in flood, and the birds
inging. and sending their seeds in the
thoughtful Indian summer, when all the
landscape is glowing in deep, calm en
thusiasm —for this you must love them
nd live with them, as free from schemes
and care and time as the frees themselves
architects in New York are designing a
capital ship for Russia but unless it can
be built in another country* where ma
chinery and experience are available, it
will be many years before Russia will
possess super-ships.
In view of the fact that several years
will elapse before the American battle
hips are available, it is apparent that
the present acute international tension
ill reach its climax before the strength
of our fleet is greatly augmented. In oth
er words. Our battleship progtarii is being
undertaken to safeguard the United
States in ah uncertain future. The new
dreadnaughts may not be needed. A turn
of affairs in international politics may
resent the world with bright hopes of
eace for many years. By contrast, the
esult of an international conflict’might
ring the United States face to face with
several great powers, not at all friendly
to us, and in dire need of a navy strong
enough to make unprofitable any designs
upon this hemisphere.
Because it requires years to construct
ships that comprise a first-line navy and
because no man can safely predict th?
future, the people of the United States,
it is safe to assume, have concluded that
insofar as a navy is concerned, it is
wise in times of peace to prepare for war.
IN LOVING MEMORY.
In loving memory of our mother, Mrs.
IV. E. Ratliff, who passed on to her rest
June 27, 1937 :
It's been two long years since you left Us,
How lonely and sad it is here;
But God has given His promise
That we’ll all meet again, mother dear.
We know you are happy witn loved ones.
And you're watching each day for the
rest;
And we hope some day soon to be there
To join you and all of the blest.
You had many friends here who loved you
And your passing was so hard to bear;
But you’ll meet many loved ones in glory,
Who will say, Sister, you brought me
here.
Oh. that we all could be like you :
So honest, kind-hearted and true;
And we some day hope to gain Heaven
By the guidance and help gained from
you.
Yes. we've missed you so sadly, dear
mother,
All the long days and months and
years through ;
But we know the day is soon coming
When we’ll be forever with you.
By her daughter,
MRS. H. D. MALLICOAT. JR..
Akron. Ohio.
POLE-CLIMBING SNAKE.
EUFAULA. Ala.—A six-foot snake
which had climbed a forty-foot pole only
to be electrocuted caused a short-circuit
which deprived Eufaula and nearby Tb
beville of electric current for a short
while.
WARNING.
The development of new machinery and
other labor-saving methods may be ex
pected to decrease the number of jobs in
manufacturing industries, says a WPA
report, warning against relying too heav
ily on rising production and manufac
turing as an outlet for the increasing
labor supply of the country.
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All too often the lack of proper ex
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some extra kilowatt hours which you can use over
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hours you may want for the operation of more elec
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If you are a typical consumer, with a monthly
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Os course, not ALL homes receive 22 “Free Kilo
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