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CIRCULATE IN iBEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53; NO. 24 REDUCE CASUALTIES URGED AS NEW TERM DE SCHOOL BEGINS School bells early next month will call 800,000 young Georgians to classes and 8,000 stalwart schoolboy patrolmen to protect them from death or injury as they travel to and from their homes. If the last January-May record is re peated, motor mishaps will claim the lives of forty-two of those children be fore the Christmas holidays close, Com missioner Lon Sullivan, of the depart ment of public safety, said. And, worse still, if the 1938-39 school death rate prevails, a total of 122 school-age chil dren will have been slaughtered by the end of 1939. Still if the balance of the 1938 record is repeated, not one of those pupils will be struck either on streets or while get ting on or off school buses where school boy patrolmen are on guard. Os the for ty-two school-age traffic fatalities of this year, only three were white pupils in transit to or from school and none where school patrols were in existence. The American Automobile association, one of the chief sponsors of the school patrols, says nothing can beat the Georgia record. The tragic part of the picture, how ever, the commissioner said, is that in many communities of the state there are no patrol units. Perhaps a little boy in a rural section of Georgia never would have run blindly across the highway in the path of a tourist’s car last spring if there had been a school patrolman to tell him when al! was safe. Up in North Georgia a 14-year-old girl shouldn’t have had to sacrifice her life to sweep her smaller brothers and sis ters from the path of a huge truck if there had been a patrol boy to wave them to safety as they stepped off the bus. These are just two of the 122 tragic stories told briefly on records in the de partment of public safety. Some wouldn't have been prevented by school patrols but others would. In most communities, the American Automobile association, the Junior Cham ber of Commerce, American Legion, Par ent-Teacher association or civic clubs work with the police officials and the Georgia state patrol in organizing and operating the school boy patrols. Forty leaders from various places of the state received certificates Friday from the safety conference held by the department of safety in Atlanta last week. The school patrolmen, official with their standard badges and white Sam Brown belts, never try to direct motor ists. Instead they hold their fellow schoolmates on the sidewalk until there is a lull in traffic then they give the go-signal by calling "clear”. Or if they are on buses, the patrolmen step down and direct the boys and girls when to board or leave the bus. Again the patrol men do not direct traffic but they are an excellent reminder, as they signal the pupils with their gold and red banners, that there is a law in Georgia which re quires all drivers to stop behind a school bus halted on the highway. “If we continue to set up school pa trols until all 6,000 of Georgia schools are protected, it will continue to reduce the number of school children killed or maimed as well as build up the charac ter of thousands of young men and wom en the proper regard for law, order and human life,” the commissioiner said. Baptist Association To Meet Sept. 6-7 The Chattooga Baptist association will u.°et with the Menlo Baptist church Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 6 and 7. Take notice that the day of meeting is changed from Tuesday to Wednesday. All chairman of the standing commit tees are urged to have their reports draft ed, ready to present to their committees when completed. This is impotant to ex pedite the business of the association. MODERATOR. MOTHER SAVES BABY WAYNESBURG, Pa.—Finding her 4- month-old daughter smothered under a rubber sheet in her crib, Mrs. Thomas McCullough. 20, breathed into the baby's lungs until she revived. WHO KNOWS? 1. Is there a paper mill in the south manufacturing newsprint? 2. Does the Panama or Suez canal handle the greatest tonnage? 3. What per cent, of the land in Alaska is publicly owned? 4. Did Poland and Germany have a treaty of non-aggression and friendship between them? 5. What is the best safety record ever made by American railroads? 6..H0w long has Great Britain been in possession of Hongkong? 7. What is the total American invest ment in the Panama canal? 8. What is the world’s speedboat rec ord '! 9. Was Danzig ever a part of Poland before the World war? 10. What percentage of electric energy is produced by public power brojects? (See "The Answers’’ on Another Page.) Gfe Snmnu'nnlk Nms 126,000 GA. STUDENTS TO GET FREE LUNCHES ATLANTA, Aug. 29 (GPS).—When the mid-day dinner bell rings this fall, steaming hot lunches will be provided ’’n the schools of Georgia for 126,000 chil dren whose tables at home are deficient in vitamin-bearing foods so necessary to well-balanced development and good health. Braswell Dean, director of the state department of welfare, estimated that $9,620,000 of surplus commodities would be allotted Georgia for the furtherance nf the lunch program. The lunches will serve a two-fold pur pose. Th a will be an aid in correcting malnutrition found in the homes of the low-income families and at the same time will furnish the Federal Surplus Com modities corporation another outlet in their effort to remove price-depressing farm surpluses from the market. Only those children from families in the low income group will be permitted to par ticipate in the program. To insure the utmost purity and balance of diet, the WPA will supply trained per sons to prepare and serve the lunches," it was explained. Here and There WIFE TRADE LAPEER, Mich.—Wife-traders George Davis and Clarence June were under or ders to appear for examination on sta tutory charges preferred by neighbors that they swapped wives, children and a cow. , Brought before Justice of the Peace Albert. 11. Perkins, both June and Davis maintained the trading was proper, and that until they are divorced and marry each other’s wives the women are merely acting as housekeepers. The swap was made two months ago. Mrs. Edith June, seven children and a cow went to Davis. Mrs. Mildred Davis and her four young daughters went to June. The cow was given to Davis to provide fresh milk for the seven traded June children. June kept his three oldest sons on his farm to maintain an even balance of children and because he need ed them to help with farm chores. LOCATES JOB AFTER 12,000-MILE TRIP PITTS! I ELD, Mass. —Robert Finch went to a great deal of bother and ex pense to find a job. He traveled 12,0dd miles in search of employment and went as far west as Honolulu to no avail. On his return home, Finch obtained a job with a gasoline filling station two blocks from his house. EXTRA 30 DAYS METED FOR TEARING UP CELL LONGVIEW, Wash.—Serving thirty days on an intoxication charge, Mrs. Susan Dennett was given an additional thirty days for ripping up the padded cell at the Longview jail. The padding had just been installed and it was guar anteed “to withstand the roughest sort of treatment.” INDIAN GRIST “MILL” IS FOUND IN DIGGING SWIMMING POOL SITE ROME, Ga.—An ancient relic from Floyd county’s past history was added recently to the list of items turned up in excavations for building purposes. The relic is an old grist mill, apparently used by some Indian family or pioneer white settlers. The simple outfit, consisting of two stones, was found on the place of Dr. Herman Gray, on Cave Spring road, where a private swimming pool is being built. Instead of the stream-lined modern machines that grind flour and meal, the Indian outfit consists of a flat stone about 10 by 12 inches and a cone shaped rock with flat base, which was used to crush corn or wheat on the flat rock. Evidently representing many a day's work for some fat Indian squaw, the flat stone is well worn in the center. The old fashioned outfit was found in a sandy place about three feet underground, Dr. Gray said. TEXAS TO HAVE TWO HOLIDAYS AUSTIN, Tex.—Texans will clean up their turkey hash just about in time to order the Christmas turkey this year. The Lone Star state will observe two Thanksgivings, the presidential and gub ernatorial. Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel said today he would proclaim both Nov. 23 and Nov. 30 as Thanksgiving day. HURT BOY FEARS PUNISHMENT Baltimore, Md.—While physicians worked for nearly twelve hours to save him from injuries they described as criti cal, a 9-year-old boy refused to tell his name because he was afraid his mother would punish him for tearing his clothes. Finally, he admitted to a nurse that he was Louis J. W. Nelson, Jr., and his parents were notified. The boy, hurt in a bicycle accident, suffered a brain con cussion and possible skull fracture. People who believe in building up Sum merville are the ones who trade here. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1939 NEWS AT A GLANCE ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS IN GEORGIA ATLANTA. Aug. 29 (GPS).—State farmers' market, while the target of criticism in the past, are performing a more useful service from year to year, declared the Atlanta Constitution in a recent editorial. During the produce sea son now’ closing, according to the report of the Georgia Vegetable Growers’ as sociation, much more trading was done than in any previous year, the editorial pointed out. Prices received for practically every type of produce were much higher than in other years. Marketing facilities have been greatly improved. In previous years large quantities of produce was left on hand to spoil. There Was no adequate outlet. This year was different. An out let, as a rule, always was available, the editorial further said. While some of the produce grown in south Georgia was not up to the custo mary standard of excellence, because of excessive rainfall, nevertheless, produc tion per acre was gratifying and prices exceptionally good, said the editorial, which concluded with this statement: "The growing and marketing of vege tables in Georgia, on a planned business like basis, is gradually becoming a com mon-place occurrence. And the state farmers' markets are contributing much o this end.” INDISPENSABLE “Because railroads are indispensable to the national defense, is another rea son why you should support every effort to bring about a square deal in transpor tation —to give your railroads a chance to prepare for the peak loads of peace —or of war,” declares the Association of American Railroads. To this, Col. James L. Fink, chief of the war plans and training branch, office of the quarter master general, war department, in 1936, added : “The importance of the railroad transportation system of the country in its relation to the national defense can, I think, be summed up in one word —-in- dispensable.” GU T OF THE NEWS Cash on hand in the state department of agriculture at the end of the fiscal year June 30 totaled $92,632.63. Depart ment collections amounted to $445,343.38, approximately $30,000 above the $415.- 726.74 collected in 1937-38 .... Re sources of state banks in Georgia in creased $27,033,784 during the fiscal year just closed. Total resources were '179,420.368 on June 30, 1939, compar ed with $152,385,584 the previous year . . . . Atlanta's twentieth traffic fatal ty of 1939 and the first since May 27 ■centred last week when Lawton G. Hall. •>f Atlanta, died at Grady hospital of njuries received a week before. It broke t record of seventy-nine days without a traffic death .... Name of the Atlanta Community Chest has been changed *o he Atlanta Community Fund. In func ion and scope, policies of the fund will be unaltered .... Dogwood, recently • signaled as the official flower of tin <ity of Atlanta, will bloom profusely on he city hall lawn next season, if pres nt plans of the city council materialize. 600 Attend All-Day Meeting At Trion TRION, Ga. —A good time was enjoy ed by those who attended the all-day meeting held at the Church of God of the Union Assembly here Sunday. It was estimated that six hundred or more people from various sections of the state of Georgia, Alabama and Tennes see were present, among whom were fif ,een ministers. The speakers consisted of C. T. Pratt, of Dalton ; G. E. Wiggs and L. L. Coker, of Chattanooga; J. W. Burnett, of At talla, Ala., and W. T. Howard of Ce dartown. The meeting was an outdoor affair, the building being too small to seat the peo ple A table 200 feet long was filled to capacity with dainty food —everyone had plenty to eat and there were boxes that were not unpacked. BATH CAUSES RIOT KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Notified by neighbors that two parents were “beat ing their child to death,” police investi gated, only to find a worn-out mother who admitted that she was giving her son a bath and he didn’t like it so much." Presbyterian-M. E. In Union Revival On Sunday morning, Sept. 3, revival services in which the Presbyterian and Methodist churches are co-operating will begin. Rev. J. S. Thrailkill, superintend ent of the Dalton district, Methodist church, will be the guest breacher. The first service Sunday morning will be held at the Methodist church at which time Rev. G. G. Ramsey, the pastor, will preach. Every service thereafter will be held at the Presbyterian church, Rev. Thrailkill doing the preaching. The morning services will begin at 10:30 and the evening services at 7 o’clock. It is the desire and intention of those promoting the meeting to begin each service promptly on time. Everyone is cordially invited tq attend all or any of these services, DIVERSION ATTEMPT SEEN AS DOOMED AS EDUCATION IS COLD ATLANTA, Aug. 29 (ONS).—Des perate efforts by a legislative group bent upon seizing highway department and county revenues destined for road work and applying the funds to meet needs in other departments seemed doomed this week as the state board of education, aft er listening to pleas by Representative Wilmer Lanier and other diversion ad vocates, failed to endorse their program, but insisted that state teachers be paid promptly and in full. Exponents of the diversion plan were shown to have grossly overstated the in come of the highway department appli cable to construction and maintenance. Highway revenues for the fiscal year 1938, applicable to construction and maintenance after paying refunding cer tificates due the counties, were only $9.- 933,495.41. approximately $1,500,000 be low the income for 1935, before the post roads system became a responsibility of the department. In addition, the current financial po sition of the department has been misrep resented repeatedly, it was shown. Offi cial figures show that the department now owes $700,000 in past-due bills, due to the fact that $929,000 of its funds have been diverted to the stabilization fund ’ In addition, its liabilities upon ex istin contracts is approximately $5,000.- 'ioo, Enough to take up all revenues thru January, 1940. This liability is chiefly the s. ate’s share of contracts upon which the federal government has allotted more than $8,000,000 to Georgia. Diversionists have concentrated their effort* upon seeking a division between the lucational forces of the state and those!interested in completing the high way program and refinancing the shat tered county governments. This move ap pears to have failed completed, when Ral;‘h Ramsey, executive secretary of the Georgia Education association, and other leading spokesmen for the educational forces of the state declined to be drawn into the controversy. Other developments: 1. Few replies were being received to Gov. Rivers’ latest letter, requesting com mittments to the economy committee's plan l of increasing motor vehicle taxes,.- diverting highway funds and increasing the income tax drastically. Most of the replies received were facetious in char acter, indicating that less than forty members of the house would co-operate with the Harris-Carmichael clique. 2. It was revealed that the current fi nancial plan advocated by Representative James Carmichael, ehiief spokesman for the diversion group, anticipated cuts of T. 500.000 for schools or public welfare pensions from the minimum figures urged by the economy committee of which he Was a member. Mr. Carmichael proposed a twenty-million-dollar budget as ‘the maximum', while the committee report which he signed urged a minimum an nual budget of $21,500,000. 3. Porter Carswell, past governor of Georgia Rotary, publisher of the Waynes boro True Citizen and executive secre tary of the Citizens' Road League of Georgia, joined Morris Tift, Albany lead er and spokesman for the county com missioners, and others in opposing the diversion plan, especially in the light of the uncompleted highway program and the recent ‘mandate’ for increased high way work given in the June general election. 4. Capitol observers, believing that the machinery for calling the session might be dominated by Speaker Harris and his diversion clique, expressed belief that in View of their obvious defeat both in in formal polls of the assembly and in their failure to lure the educational leaders into their group, there would be no early session of the assembly. Notice To Traverse Jurors of the County Notice to traverse jurors subpoenaed for criminal week, Sept. 18, of the Su perior court at the September 1939 term : Judge C. H. Porter having advised the sheriff of Chattooga county, Frank Kel lett, that Dean Owens, of counsel for B. W. Farrar, says that William Schley Howard, leading counsel for the defend ant, is sick and unable to attend the Sep tember, 1939. term of Chattooga Superior court and that the cases of the State vs. B. W. Farrar will not be tried at that term. This is to notify the traverse ju rors that the sheriff, J. Frank Kellett, will mail a postal card to the jurors ex pected to be present on the 18th day of September. Those not receiving a card need not report but might be subject to call if needed. Judge Porter has requested this notice be published in The Summerville News. SANT SAVES MAN OCEAN CITY, Md.—A dive into a nearby sandpile saved the life of Edwin S. Cropper, oil company workman, whose clothing was set afire when a short cir cuit occurred while he was working on a gas pump. The sand extinguished the blaze and Cropper suffered only miipir burns about the hands and arms. SCHOOL TO OPEN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Notice To Fourth Graders of School All fourth graders, who were in Miss Fisher's room in South Summerville last year, will report to the MAIN GRAM MAR SCHOOL BUILDING on Friday, Sept. 1. for registration, and on Mon day, Sept. 4. will attend school at the OLD Y.M.C.A.. connecting the milk Through the kindness of Frank Pitt man. the Summerville Manufacturing company has donated the use of the “Y”, rent free, to the Summerville public school system, until another building can be built on the main campus. FRANK G. DILLARD, Supt. Menlo School Opens On August the 31st The Menlo High school began its reg ular session Thursday, Aug. 31. The teaching staff follows: Elementary’ School Miss Kathryn Story. Miss Mildred McWhorter, Miss Claire Dodd, Miss Charlotte E. Goblet, Miss Martha Sue Davis. High School—Miss Edna Perry, Miss Mary Risk. R. R. Harris and John E. Herndon. Mrs. C. A. Wyatt will teach music in the schools. The first meeting of the Menlo P.-T. A. was held in the school auditorium Thursday morning immediately after the opening exercises. FARM DEPARTMENT AUDIT SHOWS MONEY ON HAND FOR USE ATLANTA. Aug. 29 (CNS).—The current audit of the department of ag riculture, recently completed by State Auditor Zack Arnold, when the fiscal ' year ended July 1, 1939, shows that the economies put into effect by Commission er of Agriculture Columbus Roberts have resulted in getting the department out of debt and placing it on a sound financial footing for the first time in many years. The income .of the department increas ed approximately $30,000 during the past year, the report shows, due chiefly i to the fact that the restaurant operated at the farmers' market in Atlanta earned a substantial profit. However, the income remains far below the level granted previous commissioners. Nevertheless, the department had a surplus of $89,432.63 at the end of the fiscal year, sufficient for its operation during the next three months, when there are virtually no fees or other income ac cruing. For once it will not be necessary for the department either to borrow money or to accumulate bills. In addition, during the past two years, the entire deficit left by his predecessor has been paid by Commissioner Roberts, so that the department of agriculture is entirely debt free. A final payment of $50,260.13. a little more than half of the total deficit facing Mr. Roberts when he took office, was made June 30. Despite this expenditure, the department lived within its decreased income and accumu lated a surplus. Sanitation Program For Construction Os Pit Privies at Lyerly In an attempt to produce better sani tary conditions in Chattooga county, the county and state departments of health have started a community sanitation project. Under this project the WPA is furnishing all labor necessary to con struct and install sanitary pit privies for all property owners who will agree to furnish the materials required. These privies are not to be installed on prop erty which has a sewer line available. The project is located at Lyerly, and materials are being furnished by Lyerly Lumber company at a very reasonable price. The pogram is so arranged that prop erty owners have only to contact J. W. Chapman, Lyerly, Ga., and make ar rangements for securing materials. This having been done, the material is ob tained. unit constructed and installed on •our property under supervision of the state department of health without any further attention being required of the property owner. This program has been in operation in several adjoining counties for some time and has proven to be very effective. We sincerely hope that you will see fit to take advantage of this unparalled opportunity to obtain a satisfactory san itary disposal unit on your premises, not only for your benefit, but also for the benefit of your neighbor and community. Holiday Notice We will observe Monday, Sept. 4. as a holiday and no business will be trans; acted—Ennucrji & Mercfegnta Bank STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. $1.50 A YEAH School will open on Friday, Sept. !,■ at 8:30 in the morning. All pupils will report at that time. No pupil will be permitted to enter school in the FIRST grade, unless he is 6 years old or WILL’ BE 6 BEFORE JAN. 1, Grammar school pupils will report to their school in the room to which they were promoted. High school pupils will report to their respective rooms in the high school building. Bring your promo tion cards. On Monday, Sept. 4, regular schedule will begin. The hours will be from 8 o’clock in the morning until 3 in the aft ernoon, with one hour for lunch, from 12 until 1 every day. All high school FEES will be due and payable on the first day of school, Fri day, Sept. 1. FRANK G. DILLARD. Supt- Johnston Cemetery All who are interested in the Johnston' cemetery at Chattoogaville are requested to meet there Saturday, Sept. 2. for the purpose of cleaning it. off. Saturday, Aug. 26, was the regular cleaning day for the cemetery, but due to the fact that so few came to work, a very small portion of it was cleaned. If you can't come, send someone to help in the work of caring for the place where our dear ones sleep. Singers To Meet Here Sunday, September 3 Singers and song lovers farm all parts of Northwest Georgia, parts of Alabama and Tennessee will gather here Sunday for the regular September meeting of the Chattooga County Singing conven tion, which will convene at the court house Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. A. B. Day, of Menlo, president of the convention, states that many well-known quartets, singers and song leaders have been invited to attend the meeting, and one of the outstanding quartets in the south —the Vaughan Radio quartet, of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., —-will be here. This quartet, will also appear in concert at the courthouse Saturday night at 8 o’clock and the public is invited to come out and hear these famous singers. A small ad mission will be charged for the concert to help pay the expenses of the quartet. Chattanooga Inter- State Fair Sept. 18-23 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —With its prize list increased and new entertain ment features added, plans are under way here for the second annual Chatta nooga Inter-State fair, which will throw open its gates at Warner park on Sept. 18th. President Joe Engel and his corps of assistants are planning to make the 1939 fair bigger and better than any exhibi tion ever held here. The cash prizes have been increased by hundreds of dollars and many new departments added for the fair this year. A midway, big grandstand show, fireworks and numerous free at tractions will provide entertainment for the thousands who will file through the gates at Warner park during fair week. Agricultural agents in the Chattanoo ga area report that entries this year will be outstanding both from the stand point. of quantity and quality. Every county in this section of Tennessee, Ala bama and Georgia will be represented at this year’s fair with agricultural, live stock, cooking and needlework exhibits. Counties in the Chattanooga area, with the exception of Hamilton, will be com peting for the total of SSOO in cash prizes that will be awarded for the best county exhibits. There will be a special department at the fair in which 4-H club boys and girls and Future Farmers will display their products and handiwork. In the woman's building will be the cooking exhibits, canning displays, flow er show and sewing exhibits. An art ex hibit, photography department, rabbit show, pigeon show and poultry show will be other features that will attract interest. Much emphasis has been placed on the cattle show this year which is expected to be the biggest ever held at the Inter- State fair. An outstanding array of cash prizes are offered for both beef and dairy cattle and already reservations are com ing in fast. There is no charge for entry in the cattle show and many growers of the tri-states area are expected to enter their herds. On the midway the Johnny J. Jones exposition with its half hundred shows rides, free acts and other attractions has again been booked by President Engel. The Ernie Young revue will be the gran 1- stand attraction and will bring to Chat tanooga some of the most outstanding singers, dancers, comedians and enter tainers in the amusement world. A mam moth fireworks display will be held each night. Entries for the 1939 fair are now be ing made and the premium list can be obtained by writing Mrs. A. T. Atwood. I secretary, Inter-State Fair, CfoattanoO' ga, Tenn.