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KNOW YOUR TIMBER
(Emily Woodward.)
Almost a century ago, in 1841, to be
exact, Charles Dickens visited the United
States and among the observations he set
down in his American Notes, is a well
founded indictment of the wanton de
struction of forest resources that marked
our early history.
The prodigal waste of the nation’s for
est resources was flagrant enough at that
time to move one who had no stake in
this country, to this melancholy reflec
tion :
“The eye was pained to see the stumps
of great trees thickly strewn in every
field of wheat, and seldom to lose the
eternal swamp and dull morass with hun
dreds of rotten trunks and twisted bran
ches steeped in its unwholesome waters.
It was quite sad and oppressive to come
upon great tracts where settlers had been
burning down the trees, and where their
wounded bodies lay about; like those of ;
murdered creatures, while here and there
some charred and blackened giant rear
ed aloft to withered arms, and seemed
to call down curses on his foes.”
Sadly enough, if Mr. Dickens had been I
a recent visitor to this country, his ob- j
serrations could have been accurately re- ‘
corded in the same picturesque words i
that are found in the century-old docu- i
went.
For the most part the stumps have |
been removed from the wheat-fields, how- ;
ever, they still abound in the land in I
sufficient numbers to stir the imagina- ,
tion of a Dickens. Row on row over vast
areas today, they stand like markers in
field of the dead, mute testimonials to the
ruthlessness of the economic warfare j
waged by man against nature.
In the battle which has been steadily
in progress, through the centuries in the
United States, the forests have managed
to survive only because nature is a great ,
ally.
Today, in the south, it is more import
ant than ever before for men to rally to
the protection of the trees. The forests
provide man with many materials that
are essential to his welfare; they give •
employment to thousands; as soil conser- ’
vationists, they are on the job twenty
four hours a day; they are faithful
guardians of our water resources; they
provide refuge for birds and other wild
creatures.
Those who have a stake in the south
have far more reason than Dickens had
to see the tragedy and menace of “thick
ly strewn stumps and withered arms of I
charred and blackened giants," scattered j
over the land.
Considerable progress has been made j
in conservation in Georgia in the past
ten years. It is only a beginning.
Louisiana is reputed to have the best ,
laws governing forest conservation and j
the best program for reforestation of any I
state in the south. Louisiana came to I
this only after destruction of the state's ■
forest resources had brought them to vir- |
tually complete depletion.
Must Georgia wait ’till the forests are |
gone to enact tax and conservation laws '
necessary to the protection and develop
ment of this valuable economic asset?
TRION THEATER
Wednesday
“RETURN OF THE CISCO KID”
Warner Baxter, Lynn Bari, Cesar Ro
mero, Henry Hull, Kane Richmond, C.
Henry Gordon and Robert Barratt. The
Cisco Kid is back and his yen for ro
mance gets him involved in adventures
that make for great entertainment.
Thursday
GIFT NIGHT! sls to be given away
if person called is present.
“AMBUSH”
Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, Wil- i
liam Henry, William Frawley. Ernest j
Truex. You’ll call it thrilling entertain- j
ment. Caught in a net of crime that she ,
did not weave, a courageous girl risks ;
life and happiness to secure justice. A j
family picture that will please all.
Friday
"SOCIETY LAWYER”
Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo j
Carrillo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lee Bow
man, Frances Mercer, Herbert Mundin.
A lawyer in white tie and tails, who got
his greatest thrill out of defending crim- =
inals. He knew every trick of his shady I
profession, until a girl showed him how i
low he had fallen. A good one.
Serial: "Wild Bill Hickok” No. 6.
Saturday
“STAGECOACH DAYS”
Starring Jack Luden and Eleanor ■
Stewart. Takes us back to the stage
coach days. You’ll enjoy the number. Us- '
ual news reel.
“BULLDOG DRUMMOND’S SECRET
POLICE”
John Howard. Heather Angel, H. B.
Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive.
Eduardo Ciannelli. A midnight murder, a j
sensational bank robbery and Bulldog i
Drummond is back, with plenty of thrills |
and chills.
Monday-Tuesday
“JUAREZ”
Paul Muni. Bette Davis. Brian Aherne,
John Garfield, CAude Rains. The st
of how Benito Juarez, an Indian of lowly
birth, leads his nation to democracy. See*
Bette Davis as Carlotta, the Empress.
This picture is rated high. Usual Para
mount News.
Wednesday
“BROADWAY SERENADE”
Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres. Un
less you like good singing and Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer pictures, you had better
stay away.
WILDCAT HUNTERS KILL
328 SNAKES. THEY SAY
HERNANDON. W. Va.—-Boyd Green
and Henry Ellis started out on a wildcat
hunt but came back with a snake story.
One of them kicked a rock, off a cliff
and heard a rattlesnake. Investigation
disclosed four copperheads, four rattle
snakes and 320 young snakes ranging in
length from three to five feet. All the (
reptiles were killed in twenty minutes.
With The Churches
MENLO GROUP PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCHES
(D. E. Boozer, Pastor.)
“Whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved,” Romans
10:13.
SERVICES FOR AUG. 13:
Menlo:
Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Morning worship at 11 o’clock; ser
mon by the pastor.
Young People’s services at 7 p.m.
Alpine:
Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Young People’s league at 7 a.m.
Beersheba:
Sunray school at 10 a.m.
Young People's league at 7 :30 p.m.
Cloudland:
Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Morning worship at 11 o'clock; ser
mon by John Lester Edwards.
Young People’s league at 6:30 p.m.
“Whosoever believeth in Him shall
receive remission of sins,” Acts 10:43.
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939
CHURCH OF GOH
(Chas. Jones. Pastor.) j
Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. ]
Prayer services Thursday and Satur
day at 7 :30 p.m.
Bible study. Sunday, 5 :30 p.m.
Radio broadcast, 6:30 a.m. Monday ,
through Saturday over WJBY, Gadsden. ‘
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SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH.
(J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.)
Religion is not a coward’s shelter: it
is a brave person's cause. Churches were
never meant to be merely safe in. Relig- <
ion will recapture its divine power when *
'it nerves (he soul with courage. Churches 1
will change the world when they cease 1
to be retreats and become the source and
inspiration of men and women who go
out from them armed against fear and
valiant against every form of evil. t
Sunday Services: (
Sunday school at 9 :45 a.m.; D. L. Me- t
Whorter, superintendent. >
Morning worship service at 11 o’clock. 1
Sunday school at Wayside at 2. p.m. j
Young People’s and Pioneers at 6 :30. \
Evening preaching service at 7:30. c
METHODIST CHURCH.
(G. G. Ramsey, Pastor)
Church school at 9 :45 a.m.; Dr. Tff. R.
Buskin, superintendent.
Preaching service at 11 a.m. by the
pastor.
No preaching service at the evening
hour.
BETHEL METHODIST.
Revival services will begin at Bethel
Methodist church Sunday evening at
7 :30 o’clock.
Services, morning, at 10 o’clock.
Evening at 7 :30 o'clock.
G. G. RAMSEY, Pastor.
“IN CONFIDENCE”
Senator Nye, of North Dakota, advo
cates the establishment of permanent
senate-house committee which, with the
president, shall consult in confidence on
all major decisions of foreign policy.
BITTER FIGHT.
A bitter struggle between the CIO and
the AF of L is certain if the former tries
out its plan for invading the building
trade field. The building trade unions,
numbering more than 800.000 members,
have been the backbone of the older or
ganization, which is certain to put up a
vigorous fight to retain complete juris
diction.
FATHER DIES AS BABY IS BORN.
MORRISTOWN, N. J.—Mrs. Ruth
Motty, of Whippany, wondered why her
husband, William, did not come to the
hospital where she had just given birth
to an eight-pound daughter. Doctors had
not told her that he had been killed in
a motorcycle crash just a few hours be-'
fore.
TO THANK FINLAND.
Secretary Morgenthau is taking a va
cation in the Scandinavian Peninsula and
the only official act that he will perform
abroad will be to thank the Finnish gov
ernment formally for meeting its debt ob
ligations to the United States.
i MoNutt, in Cleveland address, backs
’ Hull's policy of co-operation with “like
-1 minded nations.”
America’s treaty move against Japan
is hailed in France as “cold showers” for
I aggressors.
i
. General Franco demands fifteen days’
work annually without pay from all able
bodied Spanish men.
Deposits in country's mutual savings
banks up to $10,390,965,769 in half-year,
a high record.
SUSPENDED.
Dismissal of 650,000 persons who have
been on the WPA rolls for eighteen
months or longer have been suspended.
Senate action in modifying the compul
sory dismissal provision resulted in the
suspension until a final decision is made
by congress.
I The National Labor Relations board,
on July 1, had 4,217 eases pending, but
had closed 18.249 since the fall of 1935.
Os those closed, 9,418 were settled by
agreement of both parties, 2,825 were
dismissed, 4,827 were withdrawn and
2,257 wrnre strike cases.
WORTH THE TRIP.
New York Father —What is there
about Europe that is so wonderfully at
' ' tractive?
, New Y’ork Daughter—One meets such
nice Americans.
JUST NATURAL.
“Captain, sir. I was not intoxicated!”
“But the sergeant says you were try
’ ing to climb a tree.”
“Yes, sir. You see. a couple of alliga
tors had been following me around until
| they got on my nerves.”
1 j General Motors reports $100,992,531
net income for first half, against $33,-
020X119 a year ago.