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CIRCULATE IN BEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53- NO. 20 NEWS AT A GLANCE ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS IN GEORGIA SIDELIGHTS ON THE RECENT BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE HELD IN ATLANTA. ATLANTA, Aug. 1 (GPS).—Side lights on the recent Baptist World Alli ance: Although 57,000 persons attended the pageant at Ponce de Leon park, At lanta hotel men said they had several hundred rooms vacant during the recent congress . . The scoreboard in deep cen ter field read Atlanta 5, Nashville 4, throughout the convention even though the Crackers were on the road . . . The Crackers’ president, Earl Mann, switch ed four games on the regular schedule in order to turn Poncey park over to the Baptists . . . Tobe, an elderly Baptist negro, took his first vacation in forty three years last week to attend the con vention ... It was on May 8, 1845, that Baptists from eight states and the Dis trict of Columbia gathered in Augusta, Ga., to organize the Southern Baptist conven ion, and today—ninety-four years later —its organization is composed of 22,075 ministers, 24,932 churches and 4,770,185 members. The temporary city of “Baptist World Alliance” shows on Uncle Sain’s sched ule. A special post office was set up in the Atlanta City auditorium during the congress . . . Someone removed the Ger man flag from Peachtree where flags of all nations hung during the convention. When and by whom the flag was remov ed could not be determined, nor could it be replaced because there was not anoth er German flag in town . . . Three-year old Olive Haley Hewitt came all the way from Jackson, Miss., with his parents to attend the convention, only to swallow a bobbie pin and go to the hospital ... A heart attack cut short Rev. J. H. Mc- Clelland’s attendance at the convention. A few hours after registering he boarded a train for his home in Avon Park, Fla. . . . Tanimola Ayorinde. of Nigeria, Africa, found Atlanta’s 83-degree weath er extremely cool . . . Georgia barbecue came in for high praise from the thou sands of delegates to seven-day conven tion. SECONDARY FACTORS: Dr. B. 11. Meyer, former of the Interstate Commerce commission, said: "All the railroads in the country might be reorganized, consolidations might be accelerated, co-ordinations might be hastened, pooling might be greatly extended, bankers who are thought to exercise undesirable influence might, with draw, holding companies might be elimi nated from the railroad field, financial reorganizations might be suppressed, railroad executives might forget their salaries, the fourth section might be re pealed, every train might be streamlined, and a host of other things done, yet all of these things put together alone would not put the railroads in a position to maintain their properties and earn a profit. They are distinctly secondary con siderations, many are even minor or neg ligible, compared with the decisive factor of equality in competition.” GIST OF THE NEWS: What apparently was Georgia’s first bale of new cotton was sold last week in Savannah to H. G. Bruncke, cotton ex porter. Grown by Sammy Mann, Toombs county farmer, it weighed 305 pounds and brought 16 cents a pound . . . The wa ter pollution that killed thousands of fish in the Chattahoochee river was traced to Sweetwater creek, according to the state division of wild life . . . Now that Mar garet Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind” has been published in Latvia, Japan and Brazil, and negotiations in progress for a Rumanian version, the total number of foreign tongues in which the novel has been issued moves up to sixteen. REVIVAL AT UNITY BAPTIST. Revival services will begin at Unity Baptist church on next Sunday morning and will continue throughout the week. The pastor. Rev. Alex Shores, of Rome, will do the preaching. The public is invited to attend these services. Elephants live to an age of 150 to 200 years. WHO KNOWS? 1. By what vote did the house pass the Hatch bill? 2. What variation in WPA wages actually existed? 3. Is the U. S. aiding Panama in con nection with Canal defense? 4. In what state was Representative Sol Bloom born? 5. What is the annual business of the Post Office? 6. Are all WPA workers required to work 130 hours a month? 7. Has automobile production ever ex ceeded 5,000.000 units a year? 8. How many persons in this country are over 65 years old? 9. Is the New York World’s fair a fi nancial success? 10. Is residential building ahead of last year? (See “The Answers” on Another Page.) gnimnwinlb Nms SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939 $577.96 Benefits Paid County Unemployed Unemployment benefits amounting to $577.96 were paid to unemployed men and women in Chattooga county by the bureau of unemployment compensation during the week ending July 22. it was announced today. Payments for the state as a whole totaled $75,804.27, an increase of slightly more than $6,000 over the week before. Workers in other states who previous ly had established wage credits in Geor gia received 275 checks for $2,270.92 to bring all payments for the week to $78,- 075.19. Checks were again sent into 137 coun ties of the state and ranged in number and amount from one in Early county for $4.40 to 2,631 for $19,215.06 in the Atlanta area, which comprises Fulton and DeKalb counties. In Muscogee county, where several hundred workers are temporarily idle during a mass lay-off of a manufacturing company, 2,061 checks amounting to $13.- 555.75 were mailed by the bureau. The majority of payments were made to work ers in that group and represented their first benefits, it was stated. GEORGIA FARMERS TO RECEIVE 33 MILLIONS FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL APPRO PRIATIONS TO FARMERS THIS YEAR ESTIMATED. Federal appropriations directly affect ing agriculture in Georgia may approxi mate $33,000,000 in the current fiscal year, it has been estimated. Approximately $8,400,000 will be paid Georgia cotton producers as parity pay ments and the state’s share of the $40,- 000,000 tenant purchase fund will be about, $2,530,000, while agricultural ex tension funds will be $734,338. The agricultural appropriation bill for 1940 also allows Georgia $16,000,000 for soil conservation payments. The bill provides $177,522 for experi ment stations in Georgia. Georgia also will benefit among other things through provisions of the bill pro viding funds for research and experimen tation in the development of suitable nursery stock and a study of soils for the production of tung trees. The state’s quota under the program for the removal of agricultural surpluses cannot be estimated because the surpluses are not known, said a member of the sub-committee on agriculture of the sen ate appropriations committee. American Legion To Meet at Trion Tonight All World war veterans of Chattooga county are requested to meet with the American Legion post, No. 129, Thurs day night, Aug. 3, at the Recreation hall in Trion at 8 o’clock. All who will, please meet at court house. Leave court house at 7 o'cock for Trion. Male kangaroos continue to grow un til they die. Forty-Eight Workers Secure Employment Jobs were found for forty-eight unem ployed Chattooga county workers by the Georgia State Employment service dur ing the month of June, the bureau of un employment compensation has announced. Os the number, none were placed in pri vate employment and forty-eight on pub lic works projects. The county is served by the Rome of fice, which reported total placements of 562 during the month. Throughout the state, local employment offices found jobs for 9,312 unemployed men and women. The people of tire city and county are cordially invited to avail themselves of the service offered by the office. Principal functions of the employment service are to find jobs for unemployed men and women, and to assist insured workers under the Georgia unemployment compensation act in filing their claims for unemployment compensation benefits if and when they lost their jobs through no fault of their own and meet legal re quirements. Crossing Fatalities Show'Slight Decline ATLANTA, Aug. 1 (GPS).— Slowly but surely they’re reducing deaths at highway-railroad grade crossings. In the first quarter of 1939 fatalities resulting from accidents at grade crossings total ed 355, a decrease of seven deaths com pared with the same period last year, ac cording to statistics of the safety section of the Association of American Rail roads, just made public in Atlanta. In the three-month period this year. 1,079 persons were injured in such acci dents, compared with 1.145 in the corre sponding period in 1938. Accidents at highway-railroad grade crossings in the first quarter of 1939 totaled 992, a de crease of eleven compared with the same three months in the preceding year. C. B. FULTON WINS SIOO SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP GIVEN ON BASIS OF SCHOLASTIC AND LIVE STOCK ACTIVITIES. (Special to The Summerville News.) ATHENS, Ga.. July 31.—C. B. Ful ton, Jr., of Summerville, has just been awarded a SIOO scholarship to the Uni versity of Georgia College of Agriculture. One of the twenty-two Georgia youths to receive this award, he was given the scholarship on the basis of scholastic and live stock activities. , This announcement is made today by Paul W. Chapman, dean of the college of agriculture. The scholarships were made available by Sears, Roebuck and company. Fulton, a graduate of Gore High school, did good work while enrolled in that in stitution. His live stock project included four hogs and one beef cattle. He has studied vocational agriculture and is a member of the 4-H club. He will work toward a degree of bachelor of science in agriculture at the University of Georgia. The following is the account of Ful ton’s live stock project: STORY OF MY PROJECT. My live stock projects has consisted of four hogs (one sow) and one beef calf in my three years of agriculture work. Each year I have purchased my hogs through my father. Each year I have helped supply the home with meat. Al though it has not been any actual cash profit to me, I feel that it has been a great help in our home. I purchased my 4-H club calf through the Farmers & Merchants bank in Sum merville, who loaned the boys the money until the calves were sold before paying for them. I entered my calf in the Fat Catte show in Atlanta in the class weigh ing under 700 pounds, placing second in the 4-H club pen and fourth in open pen. winning prizes of sls. Upon my first year entering agriculture work I made an experiment which was very profitable and interesting. I sowed crimson clover for my winter cover crop, then the following spring I planted the land in corn. That fall when the corn was gathered there was an increase of about one-third in the yield making for ty-nine bushels on the two acres that had been planted in clover, compared with thirty-one bushels on the same amount of land in the same field that had not been sowed in cover crop. Since, we have made it a habit to plant cover crops each fall. It not only increases yield but it also protects the soil. I now have a fine full-blooded Poland- China sow with a litter of pigs. I plan to go into hog raising on a small scale, so as to have a small but steady income all through the year. I like agriculture fine and am inter ested in agriculture as a future success. Double-Header At Menlo Saturday The Dixie Spinners, of Chattanooga, will play the Menlo team in a double header at the Menlo park Saturday. Aug. 5. Everybody invited to come out and witness two good games. HOWELL CEMETERY. All interested in the Howell cemetery please meet there Friday, Aug. 11, with tools for cleaning it off. J. L. ALEXANDER. HERE AND THERE GROUNDHOG AND BULLDOG BATTLE TO DRAW IN DEN PITTSVILLE, Pa.—Robert Mitchell’s Boston bulldog, “Fido,” emerged victor ious from a tooth and nail battle with a woodchuck —but he certainly was shorn of glory. “Fido” pounced on the chuck as he scampered toward his den. The chuck (groundhog if you prefer) grabbed “Fido” by the nose, and “Fado” grabbed the chuck by the jaw and both began to pull. First thing Mitchell knew, the chuck had dragged ‘Fido” right into his hole. And he still was holding on when Mitch ell dug them out an hour later. Mitchell killed the chuck and releas ed “Fido.” 29 PI PS IN EIGHT MONTHS RECORD FOR CAROLINA DOG WILSON, N. C. —A dog owned by Ernest Lucas is doing her bit—and a bit more —toward keeping up the canine pop ulation. Last December she presented her master with fifteen puppies. The score dropped with another litter yesterday— she had fourteen. HIS DEAR POSSESSION STOLEN, IT’S DEER HEAD ATLANTA. —Theft of a deer head was a dear loss to an Atlanta dentist, he mournfully reported to police recently. The dentist, Dr. Harold L. Holtzen dorff, said the head was stolen from a wall of his office at 291 Peachtree street. “I shot the animal four years ago, near Brunswick. Ga.,” he said. “It was a fine eight-pointer, I valued it more than money.” NEW 1940 CENSUS TO BARE TRENDS OF TIME WILL BE MOST COMPLETE STATIS TICAL INVENTORY OF POPULA TION EVER ATTEMPTED. The United States Census bureau, with an appropriation of $45,000,000 in hand, will begin soon to take the most com plete statistical inventory of the national population and resources ever attempted. The count, which will begin in Alas ka in October and in continental United States next April, may furnish the key to current social trends in the country and be valuable in the formation of so cial and economic legislation. Advisory committees have helped select the questions. The population schedule will contain thirty-seven questions, with a fifteen-question unemployment supple ment. One family in each twenty-five will be asked some additional questions. These questions, many of them social and economic in character, will be asked by 140.000 enumerators who will make a door-to-door canvass. Training of these workers will begin long before the begin ning of the actual count. Every person will be asked if he was at work for pay or profit during a spec ified week, if he was seeking work, or if he held a non-paying job. These questions will give accurate unemployment figures. A question on income will be included, and to determine the rate of internal mi gration the bureau will ask where every person's place of residence was in 1935. Rich’s to Present First Television Program In South Week of Aug. 7 Pioneers in progress always, Rich’s now brings television to Atlanta and the south, just four months after the launch ing of the first regular American service of television at the New York World’s fair. The telecasts will feature speakers of note, famous personages, radio stars, dancers, singers and dramatic fashion presentations for 1940. Twice daily between the hours of 9 and 11 a.in. and from 3 to 5 p.m., per form: ices may be witnessed in the stu dio, which will be located on Rich s sixth floor. On the selling floors of this great southern institution will be specially con structed rooms, where the public may sit at ease and in comfort, watching pro jected on the screen, with sound, the en tertainment being given on the sixth floor. Hundreds of visitors are expected to attend this birth of a new industry. The performances are without charge, and are brought with television, to the south, by Rich’s, in the interest of science and in dustry. POPLAR SPRINGS HOME-COMING. Home-coming day at Poplar Springs Sunday, Aug. 6, Rev. A. H. Mahan will preach. Everybody come and bring well filled baskets. RIDING BULL TO FAIR. ATLANTIC, lowa.—Averaging twelve miles a day, Ted Terry, Sun Valley, Id ano, cowboy, is en route to the New York World’s fair astride a 1,600-pound bull. Ted and “Hitler” started their journey from Idaho on Sept. 15, 1937, and expect to arrive in New York by next year, sure. 100-YEAR LIFE PREDICTED BLOOMFIELD. N. J.—George But terworth. a retired contractor, is no man to be afraid of the future despite his 70 years. Butterworth is so confident he'll live to be 100 that he has paid in ad vance for a Florida hotel room for the next thirty years for his winter sojourns, he revealed today. PLUNGES 80 FEET, SURVIVES NEW YORK. —A few cuts were all the evidence Mrs. Edna Burdich. 28. had to show today for her hair-raising plunge in an automobile off an eighty-foot via duct. “Where’s my purse,” Mrs. Burdich calmly asked of horrified rescuers who rushed to her car which landed right side up. She was taken a a hospital against her wishes. A JOE SHE DIDN'T KNOW BROKE UP HER MARRIAGE INDIANAPOLIS.—A fellow named Joe she didn’t know broke up Mrs. Beu lah Cummings’ married life, she com plained in a suit filed here. She asked $5,000 damages for mental anguish from an Indianapolis drug firm and a San Francisco manufacturing com pany because of a postcard sent her ad vertising a medicine. She said the card was signed “Joe” and mailed from San Francisco. Joe said he was having a great time at the Ex position. and we have “lots to tell you when I get back.” A plug for the medi cine followed. Her husband, Mrs. Cummings said, read the card and left her. Lions Club Holds Interesting Meeting The Summerville Lions club held an interesting meeting Tuesday night at the Riegeldalo tavern. The meeting was called to order by the president. Homer Woods, who ap pointed the chairmen of the eight com mittees which will serve during the next year. Tailtwister G. J. Boling was very busy collecting fines for infractions of Lions rules. The club had as honorary speaker Lion E. P. Hall, Jr., editor of the Walk er County Messenger at La Fayette. He made an interesting talk on his trip to the Holy Land, which was greatly en joyed by the members of the club. Plans were made for a broiling party for the ladies at the next regular meet ing, which will be held at Hair’s lake on Tuesday evening, Aug. 15. JAMES MATTHEWS, Publicity Chairman. LYERLY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS OPEN AUG, 14 SEVERAL NEW COURSES WILL BE OFFERED FROM WHICH PUPILS MAY SELECT SUBJECTS. Lyerly had the largest enrollment last year in the history of the school and we are expecting a still larger enrollment this year. The new high school building which was completed a few weeks before school was out last year will offer many more accommodations and advantages to the pupils of this area. We are offering several new courses from which the pu pils will be able to select the subject that will best qualify them for life’s work. One of these will be a commercial course which will include typing, book keeping, shorthand and general business training. By taking this course and com pleting it. a boy or girl will be quali- I fled when he finishes high school, to go out into the business world and hold a ' position that has in the past required ; spending a large sum of money and many’ j months of study in a school away from j home. We have a larger and better library and are adding many new books this year. Our new laboratory will be better equipped Our ph ..deal education program will offer better facilities in the way of playground equipment. We appreciate the interest and efforts of the parents in keeping their children in school last year and are expecting you to do the same this year. You are cordially invited to visit your school at any time. Program Shaping Up For State Press Meet OTLANTA, Aug. 1 (GPS).— Arrange ments are being completed for the speak- [ ing program of the Georgia Press asso- | ciation’s fifty-third annual convention, to be held at Calhoun Aug. 23-26, it was announced. Floyd Hackenhull, editor of Circula tion Management, will be one of the speakers. Gov. Rivers will deliver an ad dress, and Ralph McGill, executive edi- ' tor of the Atlanta Constitution, will de- | liver the memorial address. The convention program will include as much work as entertainment, it was , stated. Thorough studies of job printing, advertising and means of capitalizing upon circulation are scheduled. The association hopes to inaugurate an annual custom by giving a dinner for past presidents at the opening of the 1939 convention, it was pointed out. A ban quet on Lookout mountain and a dance also are scheduled. Chattooga Chosen For Tenant Purchase Plan Chattooga county has been designated by’ Secretary Wallace as one of the ninety-nine Georgia counties in which the tenant purchase program will operate for the 1969-40 fiscal year. As provided in the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant act of 1937, the federal government makes long-term loans to worthy tenants, sharecroppers and farm laborers for the purchase of family-sized farms. County Farm Supervisor Odis R. Moss announced this week that he is prepared to take applications for the tenant pur chase program. Chattooga county farm ers desiring to obtain a loan for the pur chase of a farm may obtain application blanks at the FSA office in the court house. He pointed out that limited funds will make possible only a relatively small number of loans this year. Loans are re payable over a forty-year period at 3 per cent, interest. The tenant purchase program has been in operation in Chattooga county for the past two years and. during that time, loans have been made to eight tenant farmers, who are now operating their own farms. Additional loans will be made here this year. Farmers who already have appli cations on file for a tenant purchase loan will not be required to fill out new forms. STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. $1.50 A YEAB BAPTIST EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MET ON TUESDAY, JULY 11 SOCIETIES ASKED TO ORGANIZE UNIONS AT SEVERAL PLACES IN THE COUNTY. The executive committee meeting was held at the First Baptist church in Sum merville Tuesday afternoon of July 11. Mrs. T. J. Espy, president, presided. Song. “I Love To Tell the Story.” Devotional, Mrs. Howard Ragland. Prayer. Mrs. Jackson. Voted to have speaker for association, Rev. Jackson to see Mr. Smith, modera tor and Rev. T. J. Espy. Letter of appreciation for flowers from Miiss Kathryn Henry’ was read. Reading of letter from Georgia Baptist Orphan home asking for coupons. A vote to collect coupons was carried. Mrs. Espy asked the following societies to help in organizing unions at the fol lowing places: Menlo at Perennial Springs. Summerville, at Berryton. New Hope, South, at Poplar Springs. Pleasant Grove, at Ebenezer. Subligna, at Bethlehem. Mrs. Bagley, at Welcome Hill. Trion, at Mountain View’ and Spring Creek. New Hope, North, at New Antioch. Lyerly, at South Summerville. Reports from associational officers: West, Mrs. I. Baker; personal service. Miss Effie Leath, studied book on “Soul Winning”; mission study, chairman ab sent. Have rally in September, all churches co-operating. Vote was taken to have Miss Dollie Hight come for three days the last week in September. She is to select the book she is to teach. Training School. Mrs. Jackson —She asked to have canned goods to training school during year and to give gener ously to the “House Beautiful.” All societies are asked to report “Golden Jubilee” -collections to Mrs. J. A. League or Mrs. Singleton. Those be hind with collection, please sent in at once. White Cross —Mrs. Cordle, Summer ville, gave towel. Mrs. Pollock suggested seme one take jellies and preserves to hospital. Each White Cross chairman take up with their societies. Stewardship—Chairman absent. Margaret Fund —Mrs. Pollock asked all to remember students with “love gifts.” Press chairman absent; report by Mrs. Espy. Publications —Chairman absent. Young People, Mrs. J. Parker—Miss Ester Gray was elected young people's leader instead of Mrs. J. T. Woods. Mrs. Robert Harlow’ made a talk and show’ed us how to use standard of excel lence. Talk by Rev. J. C. Jackson on Georgia Baptist hospital. Mrs. Espy suggested all who could go to Rome to hear Baptist Alliance speaker. ALMAZADA ELLENBURG. Acting Secretary. BUSINESS. The general opinion of financial ex perts is moderately optimistic about bus iness conditions for the remainder of the year, unless there is a war in Europe. Inventories have been worked down and consumption has outrun production and the industrial production index is expect ed to pick up during the next few weeks. SLEEPS BETWEEN RAILS. NEW YORK. —Tired of waiting for a subway train, after a night spent in Brooklyn, a sailor, Seaman Paul W. Worshau. 22, low’ered himself from the station platform and started to walk down the track. After walking a short distance, however, be became fatigued and went to sleep in a depression be tween the rails. At least two trains zip ped over him before he was noticed and awakened, unhurt. Farm & Home Week Will Open August 7 ATHENS. Ga.. Aug. 1 (GPS).—The annual Farm and Home week ■will open iin Athens next Monday, Aug. 7. Pro grams on better farming, soil conserva- I tion, live stock, rural electrification and l home economics, together with plenty of ; entertainment, will be provided for the hundreds of Georgia farmers, their wives I and children who attend. The week’s program, sponsored annual j ly by the University of Georgia’s college of agriculture and the Georgia Extension service, will open Monday with registra tion of various groups of farmers, home demonstration club members and 4-H club boys and girls. Group meetings devoted to specialized phases of agriculture, home economics and 4-H activities will be held simultan eously on the campus during the visitors’ five-day stay. The main program will open Tuesday morning with the third an nual community amateur entertainment contest taking the feature spot, and an extension service pageant scheduled for the afternoon.