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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.” FOR RESULTS, USE THE NEWS WANT AD COLUMN. ©he Sntntmnmlk Nnua » ~ „, 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 ’ll • 1 * . . • ♦ X- > - X' 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.) $1.50 A YEAR