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CIRCULATE IN (BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 23
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Aug. 22 (GPS).—Geor
gia’s live stock industry during the last
five years was described as “phenomenal"
by Dr. Milton P. Jarnigan, head of the
University of Georgia’s department of
animal husbandry, speaking on the re
cent ‘‘Farm and Home Week" program
at Athens. Dr. Jarnigan added, however,
that the attainments are still far short
of the opportunities and needs. Georgia
is producing only about 40 per cent, of
the milk which would be required to in
sure a healthful ration for all her people,
and there are many thousands of farms
which have no cow. Conditions are much
the same in‘other branches of animal
husbandry. Large sums of money are
leaving the state for the purchase of
poultry and beef products which should
be supplied at home.
“Nevertheless,” comments the Atlanta
Journal editorially, “there is ample
ground for encouragement in the fact
that the total value of the live stock and
live stock products sold and consumed on
Georgia farms has risen to a point where
it exceeds the total value of the state’s
cotton crop. This is not to disparage in
any wise the importance of cotton. Cot
tonseed meal, with its rich content of
protein, is rated as the best cattle feed
to be found on the American continent.
On the proper appreciation and employ
ment of this circumstance depends, in a
small measure, the future of Georgia's
live stock industry.”
UNECONOMICAL
“Two conclusions are inevitable.” de
clares the Wall Street Journal. “One is
that the fraction of tfie public which uses
the common carrier barge lines plying
on the Mississippi river is heavily sub
sidized by the taxpayers at. large. The
other s that artificial waterway transpor
tation in the United States, when its
costs are taken into account, is utterly
'economical as compared with any or
all other forms, and particularly rail
roads. To represent it as anything else
is unadulterated nonsense.”
GIST OF THE NEWS
A total of $13,135,494 was paid by
life insurance companies to Georgia
families in settlement of death claims in
1938. according to a compilation by the
annual message of life insurance com
panies. These payments were made to
the beneficiaries of 12,843 policies ,n
Georgia . . . Failure to receive in full
the appropriation for the secretary of
state’s office has prevented steps to pro
tect valuable state records from fire and
other damage, Secretary and State John
B. Wilson reported recently to Gov. Riv
ers . . . Congressman Robert Ramspect
has opened offices on the third floor of
the Federal building in Atlanta. The
congressman, however, has left the city
for the west coast to be gone albout a
month . . . Mayor William B. Hartsfield
has designated the dogwood as Atlanta’s
official flower . . . Atlanta merchants
have been requested to fly flags in cele
bration of the city’s remarkable record in
reducing traffic fatalities. Atlanta rank
ed second in the entire United States in
reduction of fatalities for the first half
of 1939 and has gone nearly three months
without a traffic death.
CHANGES.
One of the changes in the old-age pen
sion acts illustrate the wider scope of
the security offered. For example, under
the former law a man who had been
earning SIOO a month for five years
would have received $17.50 per month,
single or married; now, he will get
$26.25 if single and $39.38 if married.
ENDED.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon
tana, leader of the fight against the presi
dent’s reform of the supreme court, agrees
that the controversy has ended in its lib
eralization. The senator says he did not :
object to the president’s objectives but to i
his methods.
PASSPORTS
Somewhere in Europe are 500 Ameri
can passports, which authorities fear
may get into the hands of spies. When
American volunteers in the army of loy
alist Spain reached the Spanish border
they were relieved of their passports and
given identification tags. Nobody knows
w’here the passports are today.
30-YEAR-OLD BUTTER.
MAYFIELD, Ky.—-Cleaning a well
workmen discovered a jar of butter,
which Mrs. Sarah Waller says was drop
ped in the well thirty years ago. It was
in good condition, with no rancid taste
or odor.
WINS AND DIES.
MOUNT VERNON, Ala. George
Moore, 16, anxious to win an under-wa- |
ter endurance contest, grabbed a root on j
the bottom of stream. He held on, too
long, and drowned in three feet of water.
WRONG MAN.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Rubin Harvery
met a man on the street, who slashed him
several times on the arm, then stepped
back and said, “Excuse me, I thought you
were somebody else.”
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NEWS WANT AD COLUMN.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939
Assembly Meet Date
Still In Air; Plan
For Revenue Not Set
ATLANTA, Aug. 22 (ONS).--Gov. E.
D. Rivers, issuing a cryptically worded
tatement urging legislative action on
state finances but delaying issuance of
i call to the assembly members to re
turn, conferred again this week-end with
his house and senate leaders seeking a
plan of battle for the emergency session
that appears inevitable.
In the meantime, those administration
leaders who have become enamoured of
a mysterious money-juggling scheme by
which money paid by motorists to sup
port a good-roads program would be used
to pay up debts in other departments,
were warned that diversion in any form,
whether by seizing' highway department
revenue, pegging department and county
shares of the gasoline tax at 1935 or
'938 figures, or subjecting such funds to
the operations of the stabilization fund,
by which 10 per cent, of state receipts
ire put in a gigantic ‘jack-pot’ for ad
ministration at the whim of the governor,
would result in infliction of severe pen
alties upon Georgia by the federal bureau
of roads.
The text of a decision by the attorney
general of the United States in an appeal
by the state of Massachuseets from
the imposition of such penalties, when
that state undertook to divert highway
funds to other purposes through the
‘pegging’ method, contains the statement:
“Congress intended to provide that if
any state after June 30. 1935, should di
vert to uses other than those named any
part of the revenues mentioned (gasoline
taxes and motor licenses) which under
the laws of the state in effect on the
date of the approval of the act would
have been expendable for the purposes
named (highway construction and main
tenance) except for such diversion, then
‘■he allotment to such state from fund
made available by the congress for fed
eral aid . . . should be reduced . . . .
Congress intended to prevent future di
version by the states.”
Other developments included :
1. An apparent decision of the admin
istration to oppose a sales tax. despite
an apparent majority for such a bill, be
cause it was coulped with a plan for a
new non-partisan budget commission,
which would eliminate the governor’s ar-
I bttralTTrower over funds and personnel.
2. Preparation of figures, at the re
nest of a member of the economy com
mittee. on the actual amount due school
teachers from last year. It is planned to
void all the unpaid appropriation of
1838-39 except that actually representing
unpaid salaries.
3. Revelation that the assembly in
[ 1937 adopted an anti-diversion pledg'
and promised to repay to the highway
department money previously diverted
when the federal government prepared to
reduce the Georgia allotment because of
diversion in a previous year.
4. Announcement that the session h.i 1
been “postponed” to permit further
“sounding out of opinion in the assem
bly.” The session date probably will b.
about Sept. 18 or 19. it is now believed
U. of Georgia Graduation
Exercises Friday. Aug. 2. r
ATHENS. Ga.—Dr. M. D. Collins,
state superintendent of schools, will de
liver the commencement address at the
University of Georgia’s summer school
graduation exercises scheduled Friday.
Aug. 25. at 8 p.m., in the university
chapel. Approximately 250 students will
receive degrees.
A large number of the degrees will be
awarded by the graduate school The
largest summer graduating class in the
institution’s history, the 1939 group will
bring total graduates for the year well
over the 950 mark. June and August
graduates last year totaled only 811.
Dr. Collins has been state superintend
ent of schools since 1933 and has been
prominent in Georgia educational and
civic circles for some years. His address
will mark the conclusion of an eleven
week summer term.
SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT
It is advisable that all children en
tering school this year for the first time
be vaccinated. This is for their benefit,
as well as that of the other children.
Please see your family doctor this week
and have your child vaccinated.
FRANK G. DILLARD. Supt.
OBJECTS TO CLOTHES.
NEW YORK.—Della Carroll, blond
dancer, quit her job because officials in
sisted that she wear a transparent bras
siere, alleging that it made her “look
vulgar.”
RAIN ENDS SIT-DOWN.
KINGSTON. Ont.—Sitting on top of
,i 100-foot smokestack, a prisoner at the
Kingston penitentiary threatened to jump
if a guard came near him, but when a
heavy rainstorm drenched him. decided
to come down.
Roosevelt declares his congress foes
risked world peace, national well-being
to defeat programs.
Roosevelt orders drive for cut in gov
ernment costs: all agencies to make sur
vey for savings.
UNEMPLOYED ARE
PAID $589.77 FOR
WEEK OF AUG. 710
Unemployed workers in Chattooga
county were paid $589.77 in benefits by
the bureau of unemployment compensa
tion during the week ending Aug. 12, it
was announced today. Number of pay
ments was reported at eighty-five.
Total payments to Georgia workers
(mounted to $76,068.17, represented by
12,406 cheeks which went into 140 coun
ties of the state.
Four hundred thirty payments for
$3,623.82 to workers in other states who
previously had established wage credits
in Georgia, swelled the total to $79,-
91.99.
Number and amount of checks mailed
by the bureau ranged from one check for
&‘.BO in Madison county to 2,572 checks
or $19,080.24 in the Atlanta area, which
embraces Fulton and DeKalb counties.
All-Day Service
At Trion Sunday
The. Rev. C. T. Pratt and his Gospel
ringers, of Dalton, Ga., who are heard
n Monday through Saturday at 6 a.m
ver W.TBY, Gadsden, will be .here, at
the Church of God of the Union Assem
!y Saturday night, Aug. 26, for a one
light service.
They will be at the Church of God at
Trion Sunday, Aug. 27, for an all-day
service. Dinner will be spread. The pub
c is cordially invited to attend each of
hese services.
389 Ga. Farmers Get
U. S. Loans In Year
ATHENS. Ga., Aug. 22 (GPS).—Un
■le Sam made long-term loans during the
past fiscal year to 389 Georgia farmers,
mst of whom had never before owned
land, it was revealed by T. L. Vansant,
late director of the farm security ad
ministration.
The 389 loans required an expenditure
>f $1,597,051, which included necessary
"pairs and improvements as well as the
original cost of the farm, he said. Bor
rowers are given forty years to repay
loans at 3 per eent. interest. The aver
age annual payment of the 389 who ch
ained loans last year is $177.
Due to limited funds, only seventy
ve designated counties were made eligi
le for the tenant purchase program dur
:g the fiscal year, which ended last
one 30. For the 1939-40 year, however,
wenty-four additional counties have been
hied to the list.
Riegeldale Cows Make
New Official Records
PETERBOROUGH. N. H. Thre<
Guernsey cows owned by the Riegeldale
arm (the Trion company), of Trion,
la., have just finished new’ official ree
l'd* for production which entitles them
> entry in the advanced register of the
American Guernsey Cattle club. These
■nimals include 4-ycar-old Bournedale
iscountess 406061, producing 12570.4
lounds of milk and 612.0 pounds of but
•r fat in Class DC; 2-year-old Riegel
lab* Maxim Katherine 471630, producing
837.9 pounds of milk and 570.4 pound’
of butter fat in Class GG. and 2-year-
Id Riegeldale Caroline 465809. produc
•g 8137.4 pounds of milk and 496 7
pounds of butter fat in Class G.
Notice! AH Cotton
Buyers and Ginners
Meeting at courthouse at 2 p.m. Aug.
25. Representative of the state office will
be here to explain forms and records that
you are required by law to keep. This
will help you in keeping these record-.
Please be present.
O. P. DAWSON, County Agent.
REVIVAL AT SARDIS.
A revival meeting is in progress this
week at the Sardis Baptist church at
'hattoogaville.
DECORATION DAY AT AMI
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27TH
There will be a Decoration day the
fourth Sunday, Aug. 27, at Ami ceme
tery. Several good speakers will be pres
nt and singing will be enjoyed through
>t the day. Dinner will be served on the
round. Everybody is cordially invited
to come and spend the day with us.
C. R LAWLESS.
BERT WILLINGHAM,
JOHN TUCKER,
Committee.
All-Night Singing At
Berryton August 26
The first all-night singing ever to be
held in North Georgia will be held at
the Methodist church in Berryton next
Saturday night, Aug. 26, beginning at
8 o’clock.
All of the outstanding quartets and
song leaders of this section have been
invited and several have definitely prom
ised to attend, so we are expecting to
have a fine singing.
All singers and the general public are
cordially invited to attend.
MONTHLY BENEFITS
ARE PAYABLE ON
JANUARY IST, 194 D
Monthly benefits to retired workers un
der the amendments to the social secur
ity act will begin Jan. 1, 1940. according
to Joseph R. Murphy, manager of the
board's field office in Atlanta. “Many
old people are under the erroneous im
pression that these benefits are now pay
able,” he said.
Those who reach 65 before Jan. 1,
1940. can qualify for monthly benefits
because the amendments provide that be
ginning Jan. 1, 1939, wages received aft
er age 65 count towards benefits. How
ever, claims for such benefits will not
be accepted until Oct. 1, 1939. For an
old person to receive a monthly benefit
he must have worked in covered employ
ment at least half as many quarters as
there are calendar quarters elapsing aft
er the year 1936 or a minimum of six
calendar quarters for those who are now
65 years of age. They must also receive
at least SSO in wages in each of the six
calendar quarters or a total of S3OO. The
fact that many of these old people have
already received lump-sum settlements
under the social security act will not af
fect their rights to monthly benefits un
der the amendments if they are other
wise qualified.
Lump-sum payments under the original
at in the event of death before Dec. 31.
1939, will continue to be paid this year
and in certain cases after the end of
this year.
Commenting on the amendments to the
act, Mr. Murphy said that in addition to
the lump-sums payable to the estates of
workers who die before Dec. 31. 1939,
there are eight types of benefits payable
beginning Jan. 1. 1940.
There is a monthly benefit payable to
the fully insured worker, his wife —if she
is 65, his dependent children under 18,
his widow if age 65 or if she has one or
more of his dependent children under 18
in her care, dependent children, depend
ent parents —if there are no dependent
widow or children. Where a worker does
not quality’ for a monthly benefit there
may be a lump-sum payable in the eve it
of his death equal to six times his month
ly primary insurance benefit.
Homes Becoming
More Dangerous
Hang your hat on a traffic signal in
stead of the home hat rack. It is safer,
according to the National Safety Coun
cil's latest information. The streets and
highways are getting safer year by year,
but our homes are becoming more dan
gerous.
Home fatalities in the nation exceeded
traffic deaths in 1938 by more than
>OO. This means that home accidents
increased 2 per cent, while traffic fatali
ties showed gratifying decrease of 20 per
cent.
if all the accidents that occurred in
the nation's homes last year had hap
pened in Georgia, every man. woman and
hild in Georgia would be carrying a
sear or wearing a bandage; and there
would be enough over for nearly all the
iitizens of Florida.
If all the nation’s disabling home
accidents had happened in Augusta and
Macon, the entire population of those
cities would be crippled for life.
If all the nation’s deaths from home
accidents had occurred in Rome. Ga., that
city would be wiped out of existence.
What makes the home so dangerous?
We do. We become careless about the
home. We take chances. Bad falls
down the stairs; off the step-ladder; in
the bathtub; burns or scalds in the
kitchen; loose rugs; slippery floors;
breaking ehairs; defective electrical fix
tures; furniture out of place; unlabeled
poison bottles: scores of such lurking
dangers are all too ommon but go
unheeded.
The resulting accidents range all the
way from a jarring shake-up to a crip
pling injury or a fatal skull fracture.
Nearly all are avoidable; nearly all can
be guarded against and we should edu
cate ourselves and be educated against
their occurrence. Ignorance or careless
ness about such matters should be the
object of education by newspapers, the
schools and all civic organizations.
Warning, correction and removal of
such dangers, and plans for making the
American home safe for American fami
lies, are very fitting and timely activi
ties for Parent-Teacher Associations,
Women’s Clubs and 4-H Clubs. Chil
dren should be included if these home
safety activities are to be most effec
tive. Such a program is perfectly in
harmony with the Georgia state safety
program.
120.000.000 YEARS OI.D.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The skull of
the largest sea monster ever found is on
exhibit at the Harvard museum. Zoolol
ogists say the skull belonged to a sixty
foot plesiosaur which inhabited the seas
about 120.000.000 years ago. Discovered
in an exposed sea bed in Australia, the
skull is ten feet long and three feet high
and contains 92 interlocking spiked teeth.
President, in message to the young
democrats, warns party not to Choose
conservative in 1940.
First Lady to Lecture
In ’Nooga on Sept. 12
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CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 22. —Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt will lecture
at the Memorial auditorium on Tuesday
evening, Sept. 12, under auspices of Ca
dek Choral society, opening the 1939-40
season of Chattanooga's civic chorus. Her
subject will be “The Relationship of the
Individual to the Community.” Mem
bers of the Choral soiety will be seated
on the stage and under direction of Con
ductor J. Oscar Miller will present sev
eral selections.
Condutor Miller has arranged a series
of brilliant concerts for the current sea
on. New York soloists will assist at the
December and May concerts when the
singers will be accompanied by a forty
piece orchestra with Ottokar T. Cadek as
concent master. Chattanooga soloists will
be featured in March.
Mrs. Roosevelt’s lecture is on the reg
ular season ticket of the Choral society.
The other attractions include Handel's
oratorio, “Samson." Dec. 12 ; a program
of popular music. March 8. and the May
music festival to consist of an artist re
cital. May 6. and a concert performance
if Bizet’s opera. “Carmen,” May 8.
H. M. Hawkins
Injured By Auto
H. M. Hawkins, prominent local dairv
farmer, was seriously injured last Fridav
morning about 7:30, as he was struck
by an automobile driven by Clifford
Rounsaville, colored, on the Rome high
way. near Georgia Power sub-station.
Mr. Hawkins was rushed to Summer
ville-Trion hospital where he remains in
a serious condition.
NEW FEDERAL REGULATIONS
COVERING DOVE SHOOTING
The new federal regulations covering
the seasons on doves has just been re
leased by the department of interior for
the state of Georgia.
Recent investigations show that newly
hatched doves are still on the nest in
September, and as the state desires to
co-operate in this respect .with the fed
eral government, hunters are requested
to conform with the dove shooting sea
sons below:
Northern zone (counties of Troup.
Meriwether, Pike. Lamar. Monroe, Jones,
Baldwin. Washington. Jefferson and
Burke and all north thereof) Sept. 15-
Oct. 14 and Dec. 26-Jan. 31 (split sea
son-dates inclusive) ; southern zone (all
south of above-named counties) Nov. 20-
Jan. 31 (dates inclusive).
Bag limit: 15 in one day.
State Can Pay As
If: Goes—Carmichael
ATLANTA, Aug. 22 (GPS).— Opera
tions of the state government “from this
time forward can be put on a cash, pay
as-you-go basis without enacting a sales
tax, gross receipts tax or luxury tax,”
declared Rcpresentatige James V. Car
michael, vice-chairman of the house econ
omy committee, in a recent address be
"ore the Decatur Rotary club.
Discussing the economy committee re
port at length, he held that the legisla
ture should act upon its recommendations
s follows: 1. Reduce appropriations
more than $1,600,000. 2. Repeal the
stabilization law. 3. Peg allocated funds
at the 193.8 level. 4. Repeal the state in
come tax law provision exempting fed
eral income taxes.
He declared past deficits can be met
by any of the following alternatives:
I. Diversion from allocated funds already
on hand. 2. A bond issue to be retired
over a long period. 3. An emergency tax
to expire automatically when the deficit
is paid.
COMMERCE.
Harry Hopkins hopes that the depart
ment of commerce, which he heads, will
play a vital and more influential role in
the business activities of the nation.
Since Mr. Hoover served in the same ca
pacity, the department has shrunk con
siderably, its 17.971 employes of 1933
falling to around 13.500 when Mr. Hop
kins took over.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
MOVEMENT TO HELP
PRIVATE BUSINESS
SHOWING PROGRESS
ATLANTA. Aug. 22 (GPS).—The na
tion-wide movement to combat assaults
on private enterprise is making definite
progress, according to Atlanta business
I leaders who are interested in the proj
’ ect. The movement, sponsored by the
: Transportation Association of America
l through its newly-formed agency, the
: American Enterprise association, is re
ceiving favorable editorial comments
from newspapers throughout the country.
Activities of this new agency, which
will be national in scope, will be kept
strictly non-political and non-partisan.
Also they are not for profit, except such
j as will come, through general return of
I prosperity. Its purpose is to bring about
a better understanding of national pol
icies and which, if any, are tending to
restrict, artificially, the free play of eco
nomical forces in all lines of business.
At the same time the organization will
combat proposals that threaten private
enterprise or seek to substitute subver
sive doctrines for those basic principles
upon which our government was found
ed and through which our country has
prospered.
As pointed out by leaders of the or
ganization, the trend which is destroying
private enterprise in America is graphi
cally illustrated by the fact that in 1928
25 per cent, of our new capital was
utilized for governmental expenditures
and 75 per cent, was available for in
vestment in private business, while in
’938. 80 per cent, of our new capital
was commandeered by the government,
leaving only 20 per cent, for the expan
sion of private enterprise. And business
expansion with its attendant real jobs
for labor is absolutely necessary for re
covery.
The association, which maintains head
quarters in Chicago, will supply its local
committees of “minute men and women”
in more than 300 communities of between
5.000 and 50,000 population with factual
((formation on all current national issues
hat relate to private enterprise.
The agency will oppose the diversion
| of capital to government and the exten
sion of government into competition with
private business. It will enlist the ef
forts of agriculture, industry and trans
portation leaders. It will oppose the reg-
I indentation of industry and industrials
and seek to reduce to a minimum the
spending program of the national govern
ment. It will oppose increasing the na
tional debt by spending and lending pro
grams, and will point out the results that
follow the adoption of the administra
tion's plan to finance self-liquidating
projects.
DEATHS
Mrs. Jennette Johnson.
Mrs. Jennette Johnson, age 53. died in
the state sanitarium at Milledgeville
Sunday evening, Aug. 20. She is survived
by her husband, one daughter, two sons.
The remains were brought to Trion in
a Trion ambulance and prepared for
burial.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Trion Bap
tist church. Rev. E. B. Shivers officiat
ing. Interment in Trion cemetery. Trion
Department store in charge.
Atlanta Markets
Live Stock
Strictly corn-fed hogs. 180-240 lbs,
1.00; 245-300 lbs, 5.80; 145 lbs down,
4.50; sows and stags. 180-400 lbs, 5.00;
400-500 lbs. 4.50 down; grass-fed steers
and heifers. 5.00-5.50; fat cows. 4.75-
5.25: canners, 3.25-3.75 ; good heavy bulls
5.00-5.50; good calves. 8.00-9.000; med.
calves, 6.00-7.00; common calves, 5.00-
>.50.
Poultry
Large white No. 1 graded eggs. 21-22e;
med. white. 18-19 c: heavy hens. 13c;
leghorn hens, 10c; friers, 12-15 c; roos
ters. 9c.
Produce
Apples, bulk, 45-75 c per bu.; butter
beans, 60-75 c per bu.: snap beans, 75-
' .00 per bu.: green corn, 13-18 c dozen
ears; eggplant. 75-90 c per bu.: okra.
50c half bu.; pears. 60c per bu.; field
was, 50-75 c bu.; peppers. 75-90 c bu.;
•i tatoes, 1.50-1.65 cwt.; squash, 1.75-2.00
bu.; sweet potatoes. 80-1.00 bu.; turnip
alad, 35-50 c bu.; watermelons, 10-20 c
each.
WHO KNOWS?
1. When was Poland partitioned?
2. Are movie actors organized?
3. What is the smallest amount of
money that an individual can use for
food and maintain good health?
4. Who is Sean Russell?
5. What is meant by adjournment
“sine die”?
6. How does the United States rank
as a producer of oil?
7. Who is the commander of the U. S.
I Asiatic Fleet?
8. What is the Falanga Espanola?
9. What is the telephone number of
the White House?
10. What is the world’s armament
bill?
(See “The .Answers” on Another Page.)
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