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Insured Jobless
Workers Paid $763
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Insured jobless workers in Chattooga
county were paid $763.19 in unemploy
ment compensation during the week end
ing July 15, the bureau of unemployment
compensation has announced The number
of payments was reported at 123.
Total payments to Georgia workers for
the week amounted to $69,552.88 and
were represented by 11,496 checks which
went, into 137 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
Workers residing in other states, but
who earned their rights to unemployment
benefits in Georgia, received $3,737.66 to
bring total disbursements of the week to
$72,290.54.
SCREEN STARS
Robert Young replaced Robert Taylor
in “Northwest Passage.” while Taylor re
placed Young in “Remember.” Joan
Crawford has been taken out of “Remem
ber” and will be replaced by some other
actress . . .
News from France reports that Mau
rice Chevalier and Eric von Stroheim
are being co-stared in a film. Simone Si
mon and Corrinne Luchaire are sharing
honors in another production . . .
“Enchanted Cottage,” a post-war fan
tasy, which was made in 1922 with Rich
ard Barthelmess and May McAvoy, is to
be filmed again with Ginger Rogers in
the lead . . .
Gladys George will impersonate the
late Texas Guinan in James Cagney’s
picture, “The Roaring Twenties” . . .
Alice Marble, famous tennis player,
will try her hand at a movie career. Miss
Marble won the Wimbleton cup and her
contract with the studio forbids any role
as a tennis player in order that her ama
teur status will not be affected . . .
Two other stories in the Aldrich series
are being prepared for Jackie Cooper and
Betty Field, who appeared in the first
one. “What a Life” . . .
George Raft has again signed a con
tract with Warners and will no longer
be seen as a free lance actor. His first
picture under the new contract will
probably be a remake of “The Patent
Leather Kid.” Mr. Raft is planning to
spend a month in Europe before he starts
work . . .
Ginger Rogers’ next picture will be
“Primrose Path,” which was adapted
from the novel, “February Hill,” pub
lished in 1933 . . .
Among the first-rate movie stars are
many who were turned down at first by
executives as being no good. Robert Cum
mings is one of these, and so are Bette
Davis and Ginger Rogers. Others who
were fired by studios, only to make good
come-backs with some other outfit, were
Loretta Young, Spencer Tracy, Jeanette
MacDonald, Tyrone Power, Paul Muni
and Cary Grant. Deanna Durbin was
also dismissed from Metro with the no
tation on her card that her singing was
“only fair” . . .
Nelson Eddy had an attack of hic
coughs recently as a result of drinking
quarts of ginger ale in a scene in which
he was supposed to drink champagne . .
Madeleine Carroll and Joel McCrea
are supposed to go to Africa for an au
thentic background for “Safari.” Miss
Carroll is hesitating about the trip be
cause she is afraid the climate will un
dermine her health. Edwina Booth was
ill for years with a tropical sickness
after making “Trader Horn” . . .
Paul Muni will get a six months leave
of absence from the movies so that he
can star in Maxwell Anderson's stage
play, “Key Largo.” next fall . . .
THE ANSWERS
1. No.
2. 101.
3. Yes.
4. For the 1939 fiscal year, about $5,-
181.000.000.
5. Between 2,300,00 and 2.500,000.
6. In 1937.
7. Roughly, the moisure in the air.
8. Two.
9. Exact figures uncertain, but prob
ably the new wage rate for skilled work
ers will average about half of the old
hour wage rate.
10. Seventeen.
FLINTSTONE, Md.—Annabella May,
7, is recovering in a hospital from the
effects of a snake-bite which she receiv
ed when she was put to bed for an aft
ernoon nap. A cooperhead snake had se
creted itself in the child’s bed.
LEAVE THAT
TIRED-OUT FEELING
2 WEEKS BEHIND
lust Help Yourself to the Up In
Energy That'll Send You
Bounding Up the Stairs
Life-giving oxygen is carried to
every organ of your body through
the rich-red color in blood. When
you don’t have enough of this rich
red blood color, you are being par
tially starved no matter what you
eat or how much. You feel all-in
before you start anything. You don’t
feel like dragging one leg after the
other. But when you build up this
rich-red color again . . . what a
difference. All tissues of the body
are able to do their work better.
You build up this vital blood ele
ment by getting the good out of the
iron in the food you eat and with
the help of Sargon. Sargon brings
you iron in the form your body can
use. Then the rich-red color in
your blood increases, and you get
that feeling of well-being that
makes you feel like going places
and doing things.
So get the genuine Sargon today
and start taking it faithfully. It
won’t be long before you’ll be look
ing back at that tired feeling you
used to have and wondering why
you ever put up with it. Generous
amount of Sargon costs little. Get
your supply of Sargon Tonic at
McGinnis Drug Company.
LOOKING AT WASHINGTON
\IMOI RNMENT IN SIGHT.
ISOLATIONISTS TRIUMPH.
WPA FACES PROBLEMS.
PREVAILING WAGE LOSES.
DIFFERENTIALS ABOLISHED.
ENFORCED VACATIONS.
NAVAL AIR BASES.
Early adjournment of congress seems
assured now that legislators have definite
v abandoned the effort to revise our neu
ality laws at this session and to re
tore prevailing wages for skilled work
ers on WPA projects.
The efforts of the administration to
get rid of the mandatory embargo on the
shipments of arms and substitute for it
a “cash-and-carry” plan ran into the de
termined opposition of a group of sena
tors, whose delight in prolonged debate
could definitely prolong discussion for
many weeks. Dissatisfaction of labor lead
ers over abandonment of the prevailing
wage for skilled workers on relief jobs
led to an effort to secure a congression
al amendment, but analysis of the sit
uation demonstrated that a majority of
congressmen were not willing to alter
the provisions that congress itself insist
ed upon.
The only legislation of major import
ance left before congress, after these con
troversal issues were dropped, was the
new lending program. The original pro
posal had already been altered to some
extent, notably in regard, to the amount
available for foreign loans, and it is
hardly possible to outline its form until
congressional action is completed. That
he lending idea, as opposed to the out
right spending idea, will be adopted in
irineiple seems assured but congress is
expected to make changes which will
revive, to a limited degree, federal con
tributions to some projects.
The widespread discontent of WPA
vorkers over the abandonment of the pre
vailing wage, expressed by serious strikes
in certain areas, was directed against
congress. The prevailing wage was writ
ten out of the law’ by congress and nei
ther the administrators of WPA nor the
president had any power to change it.
Declarations by officials, including the
president, served notice upon strikers that
they could not strike against the govern
ment, and WPA officials warned that
those absent from work for five days
would be dismissed. Little headway was
made by the protest and the strike tech
nique seemed to work against the hoped
br result in congress.
Realizing that favorable action was
improbable and that the prevaling wage
fight was lost, some labor leaders turned
their attention to a drive to secure addi
tional funds for the PWA, which pro
vides full-time jobs al prevailing rates
>f pay in many sections. As the reader
knows, the PWA carries on large-scale
construction projects under private con
tract, giving to the sponsor a grant-in
id and often assisting the enterprise
with a loan. Just how far this move will
■ is uncertai».
The WPA administrative troubles will
be aggravated on Sept. 1 when the pro
vision of the new relief act goes into
effect, providing for the elimination of
all differentials in pay between the re
gions of the country, except those due
to difference in the cost of living. This
will result in a reduction in pay for
northern and some western sections, and
an increase in pay in the south. Natur
ally there will be violent protests from
the workers whose wages are cut, but of
ficials also expect that the new wage
scale in the south, which will be high in
contrast with prevailing wages, will up
set labor relations in that section.
While the abandonment of the prevail
ing wage is based upon the theory that
relief wages should be somewhat lower
than private wages in order that workers
will be encouraged to seek private em
ployment, the effect of the abolition of
the differentials will be to place wages
in southern areas out of line with those
normally paid in private employment.
Another complication for the adminis
trators of WPA is the requirement that
all workers who have been on the rolls
eighteen months or more must be given
i month’s vacation without pay. This
means that about 650,000 workers will be
laid off on or before Sept. 1. Moreover,
the WPA rolls will have to be cut down
to 1,500,060 by next June 30. At present,
it is planned to decrease the rolls until
October or November, increase them dur
ing the winter and make cuts again as
spring gets under way. The number on
WPA rolls is estimated to be 2,500,000.
Os these, 650,000 will get thirty-day va
cations and, in addition, it is understood
that 200,000 were laid off in July, an
other 200,000 will be laid off in August
and about 300,000 in September.
Under the provisions of the law, wage
differentials must be warranted by the
difference in the cost of living. This
SITTON GARAGE
General Repairing
Painting—Body and Fender Work
(On Rome Road, Across Highway From Schoolhouse)
TELEPHONE 470
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1939.
means that the WPA must make findings
of facts upon which to base subsistence
wage scales. This must be determined by
July 31 and Col. F. C. Harrington, ad
ministrator, must set the new wage lev
els. Under present regulations, the un
skilled WPA workers in New York, for
example, get. $56 monthly averaging 130
hours at work. Most of the southern un
skilled workers get $26, with a few
getting sl9 a month for working 140
hours a month.
With $65,000,000 authorized for the
purpose of developing and expanding air
bases in the Pacific. Alaska, at Jackson
ville, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico
high officials of the navy, after a con
ference with the president, have decided
to spend more than a third of the sum
available this year. In the Pacific, bases
are to be constructed at Midway, John
son and Palmyra Islands, Oahu, Hawaii,
and in Alaska at Kodiak and Sitka. The
largest base on the continent is schedul
ed for Jacksonville, Fla., and the Puerto
Rican base will be developed in confor
mity with a plan to make it, together
with the army program, of tremendous
strategic value in the Caribbean area..
GOOD TIDINGS
By THOMAS D. LYNN.
O they crucified the Saviour,
Yes. they nailed Him to the tree;
There He shed His precious life-blood.
That we all might be made free.
Then a man whose name was Joseph,
Thus according to the word.
Gave to Christ his own sepulcher;
There he laid our blessed Lord.
As it dawned toward the morning,
Just before the break of day;
Lo I they came to anoint the Saviour,
But the stone was rolled away.
And behold, two shining angels,
They were clothed in bright array;
Said, “We know ye seek the Saviour,”’
But he ’rose this very day.
Then he led them out to Bethany,
And ascended upon high;
And, according to His promise,
He is coming bye and bye.
With a host of shining angels,
All arrayed in spotless white;
And the graves will all be opened,
That will be a fearful sight.
When the dead shall all awaken,
And shall stand before the Lord;
Both, the righteous and the wicked,
Shall receive a great reward.
Though ’twill be a sad aplaudit
For the wicked on that day,
When they stand before the Judgment
And shall hear the Master say.
"Now depart; I never knew you,
To the regions of the lost;
You have heedless spurned the gospel,
And you now must pay the cost.”
Correction.
The July 13 installment of Good Tid
ings, on the subject of Titheing, carried
i statement which read, “Jesus Christ
was made a priest after the law of a
•arnal commandment.” The reading
should have been, “Jesus Christ was NOT
made a priest after the law of a carnal
commandment, but after the power of an
endless life. —Heb. 7 :16.”
BOYS IN DUEL.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico. —Two “ri
vals in love” decided to settle their dif
ference with pistols. They paced off,
counted to three and fired at each other.
< )ne fell, seriously injured. The partici
pants were two boys, Enrique Vasquez,
'(>, and Jesus Ramos, 11. The “woman in
he case” is 10 years old. Ramos got the
worst of the duel.
Prompt Help For
A Listless Child
Scolding won’t help a boy or girl
who is listless, dull or cross from
constipation. But, here’s something
that will!
If sluggish bowels have your child
headachy, bilious, upset, give him
a little Syrup of Black-Draught to
night. Like the original famed
BLACK-DRAUGHT, its principal
ingredient is an intestinal tonic
laxative. Helps impart tone to the
bowel muscles.
Children like the taste of Syrup of
Black-Draught. It is an all vege
table product. When simple direc
tions are followed, its action is
gentle, but prompt and complete.
Comes in two sizes: 50c and 25c.
F. H. A. LOANS
80 Pct. and 90 Pct.
You Build—Summerville Grows
HALE REALTY CO.
ROME. GEORGIA
A SHUT-IN.
(By Mrs. Earl Miller.)
Listen ! You people who have good health,
You should be thankful, for it's better
than wealth.
In this little poem it is hard to begin
To try to tell the life of a poor shut-in.
They stay at home from morning till
night,
Everything is peaceful, nice and quiet;
But they get so lonesome blue and sad
And wonder what has gone with the
friends they’ve had.
Their friends used to love them long ago,
When they could entertain, or go to a
show;
But now they are sick and all broke down
And their friends hardly ever come
around.
How nice it would be as you go out in
town
l’o stop and visit a shut-in as you make
your round,
And leave a nice little vase of flowers
Which they might enjoy for many hours.
>r if a neighbor would try to make it a
rule
Co visit a shut-in en route to Sunday
school —■
How much pleasanter the day would be
or a poor shut-in—don’t you see?
There’s nothing a shut-in enjoys any
better
Than watch for the postman and receive
a letter;
Or a shut-in's life wouldn’t seem so hard
If friends would remember them with a
post-card,
And tell them they love them; and can
sympathize—•
What a pleasure 'twould be, you’d be
surprised.
A shut-in eats their own food all week,
Should a neighbor bring them the same,
oh, what a treat —
Dr bring them a dish of the same ice
cream,
How much better to the shut-in ’twould
seem.
Yes! A shut-in has a lonesome time.
Their family goes visiting while they
stay behind;
But they don't envy their family’s fun,
For they know their 'Happiest days are
done.
There'll be no shut-ins in that beautiful
land—
Ml will be well, won’t that be grand?
We’ll all be together, and shout and sing.
For up in heaven there'll be no aches
and pains.
RAILROADS.
Operating revenues for Class I rail
roads increased 12 per cent, in June
'hove the same month of 1938, according
to preliminary figures.
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DRY VALLEY
Miss Dorothy Gaston was the guest of
Miss Henrietta Murphy Sunday.
Rev. B. H. Howard was guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Gilbreath Saturday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ott and family
attended the singing at New Home Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Garrett visited
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Mahan Sunday.
Misses Hazel and Nell Tallent spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Lawrence, of La Fayette.
Misses Blanche and Catherine Gaston,
of Rome, spent the week-end here with
homefolks.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Martin were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mar
tin Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. 0. C. Mahan. Jr., spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs Ollie Mahan.
HEIGHT PROVES VALUABLE.
AYDLETTE, N. C. —Because his coin
's nion was six feet tall. James Doxey,
', is alive today. The elder boy, identifi
-1 only as “Jack,” held the younger boy
'P in five feet of water all night after
heir boat had dumped them into Curri
uck Sound. They were rescued by coast
uardsmen after an all-night search.
I
| It’s our number
THERE are seventeen million telephones
in the United States but for dependable in
surance the telephone number you want is
371. When you call that number you will
get courteous reliable service at once.
I
Summerville Insurance Agency
Office: 109 N. Commerce St.
Phone 371 Summerville
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ADMINISTRATOR’S
AUCTION SALE
Friday, Aug 4, 10:30 A.M.
DR. RUDICIL ESTATE
SUB-DIVISION
200 Beautiful Building Lots
15 Baby Farms, River Bottom Land.
3 Good Houses, and Barns.
2 Springs; Lake Site.
10 Business Sites.
Lights, Telephones, Bus Line, Schools,
Churches.
Between Summerville and Trion, Ga., on Route No. 1
running from St. Marie, Mich., to Fort Myers, Fla.
This will be your last opportunity for many a year to
buy land between Summerville and Trion, Ga.
This is rich bottom land; buy yourself a
home on the highway and make a living
with a baby farm on the river bottom land.
» EASY TERMS
EDEEI Shetland Pony, Pit Barbecue,
F JIVIjD. Cash Prizes, 40-piece Band.
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MARINES TO ACCEPT 25
MEN DURING AUGUST
During August twenty-five men will be
accepted for enlistment in the United
States marines from this area of which
Macon is headsuarters, it has been an
nounced by Lieut.-Col. J. M. Tildsley,
officer in charge.
Applicants must be between the ages
of 18 to 28; 64 to 74 inches tall; of
good moral character and in excellent
physical condition. At least one year of
high school education or the equivalent
required.
Full information concerning enlistment
may be had from the headquarters in Ma
con, Ga.
Ami Cemetery
The Ami cemetery will be cleaned off
Saturday, Aug. 5. All come and bring
suitable tools.—Guy Toles.
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