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The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
(O. J. ESPY, Editor-Manager, 1911-38.)
Official Organ of Chattooga County.
DAVID T. ESPY, Editor & Manager.
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The human body, like an automobile,
ought to run in low gear at times.
Regardless of your income, if it is less
than the outgo, you are financially de
funct.
The United States is too big a nation
to be afraid of playing its part in the
modern world.
War news has just about pushed oth
er news out of the newspaper, but this
doesn‘t mean that there was no other
news.
The law is a great calling but it can
not rise higher in the estimation of peo
ple than the lawyers who make it ef
fective.
The world would probably contain a
greater number of human beings if more
of them lived their own lives, without
so many inhibitions.
Americans who pity the poor Poles
might use some of their sympathy on
their fellow Americans, especially those
who have been without work for years.
Highway fatalities are picking up.
During the last two months for which
figures are available the casualty rate
moved upward, reversing a trend of many
months. This ought to remind you to be
careful I
FREE SCHOOL LUNCHES
DURING THE last school year some
thing like 800,000 school children in
more than 14,000 schools in low-income
areas received free lunches, largely thru
donations of surplus commodities by the
Federal Surplus Commodities Corpora
tion.
This year, it is announced, the pro
gram will be greatly extended. It is hop
ed that, by the end of the coming school
year, free lunches will be available for
not less than 5,000,000 children. School
and public health officials declare that
the lunches last year resulted in better
health, with improved attendance and
scholarship records for the undernourish
ed children who got the free lunches.
There are critics who denounce such
activities on the part of the Federal
Government. They would, apparently,
prefer to see the surplus food commodi
ties rot in storage than be utilized, thru
Federal initiative, in the development of
growing children.
Everybody knows that in the United
States there is, as there has been for
years, a large surplus of food commodi
ties. They hang over the market, de
pressing the prices that growers receive,
and disrupting orderly processes of trade.
It is far better, we think, to use these
commodities to give undernourished chil
dren an opportunity to grow strong bod
ies and we are for any method that leads
to such a result.
It has been an amazing fact that in
our depression of plenty there have been
men, women and children in the United
States who have gone hungry. So far as
the men are concerned we might be will
ing to let them fend for themselves but
as for the women, and particularly the
children, we assert that government, whe
ther State or Federal, has a direct obli
gation to see that their health does not
suffer through improper and inadequate
food.
NORMAL CHILDREN
HAVE PROBLEMS
FORTUNATELY for the children of
Chattooga County, there seems to be
little occasion for any Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, if we
understand the word cruelty in its usual
sense.
The day of barbaric and unusual pun
ishment h/S passed for most children in
this nation, although occasionally one
hears of incidents of brutality towards
children that are shocking to all of us.
However, parents do not complete their
obligations to children when they refrain
from inhuman action toward them. Nor
do they comply with their responsibility
when they provide reasonable shelter,
clothing and a hit-or-miss amount of
food.
There is much for all of us to learn
in child nutrition and child psychology, in
understanding the normal development
and growth of little bodies and the ap
preciation of **he importance of providing
tiny souls with ideals and aims that
will make their lives fuller and perhaps
more glorious.
We purposely do not call attention to
such evils as child labor, the mishandling
of children who clash with the law, the
care of foundlings or the special treat
ment required for the physically afflicted
and feeble-minded. Rather do we refer
to the normal child in the average fam
ily where father and mother, busy with
their own cares and problems, are apt to
pass up those that seriously affect the
lives of their little boys and girls.
Given average physical and mental in
heritances, such as normal birth, there is
no reason why proper parental care
should not develop the average baby into '
an adult, fitted to assume a place in the .
and industrial life of the nation.
There is no reason for a normal baby not
to have a normal growth, excepting
sometimes, the inattention and neglect of
parents, who should know better.
The visibly afflicted child attracts the
attention necessary to secure needed cor
rection of its disabilities. But, very often,
the apparently healthy and normal child
requires some special attention which it
fails to receive, resulting in retarded de
velopment and growth for that child,
giving an outlook that is abnormal in
some degree and adversely affecting the
entire life of the individual.
PROGRESS WITHOUT EXPENSE
COMMUNITY progress is not always a
matter of expense.
In flush times we easily got the habit
of appraising a civic undertaking's worth
by the amount of money it cost. Nothing
could be more foolish.
Civilization is a question of living.
Whatever makes life more pleasant, con
venient and cultured is a distinct advan
tage to the people of any city or town,
j There are many social activities that
I could be developed that would add much
to our community life without adding to
the cost of our daily existence.
Civic leaders, in looking for something
to do to improve Summerville should not
overlook the boys and girls who are
growing up in our midst. To add to the
joy of their young lives is a worthy
object. It can be done without involving
great expenditures if a score or more
adults will give some of their time to the
purpose.
There are undoubtedly additional fa
cilities to be developed for the benefit of
adults. These do not have to cost money.
Numerous clubs, associations and organ
izations, for cultural educational, spirit
ual purposes, are not represented here.
To develop and round out the lives of
some of our adult citizens they should be.
If the present crisis could force us to
I look to our own inherent capacities for
some of the things we have been accus
tomed to buy, the people of Summerville
might find out that they have rare talent
in their midst and unsuspected powers
along many lines.
COUNTY TAX LEVY
FOR THE YEAR 1939
I GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
i It appearing to the Board of Commis-
I sioners of Roads and Revenue of said
| county that the taxable value of the real
and personal property of said county, as
same appears on the digest for the year
1939, aside from the corporations which
make returns direct to the comptroller
general is $3,946,170.00 including home
stead exemptions and after deducting
homestead exemptions the taxable value
is $3,005,560.00, and it further appearing
to the Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenue of said County that it will
require, in addition to the taxes received
from said corporations the sum of $82,-
090.73 to pay the necessary expenses and
the obligations of the County for the
year 1939 aside from the tax levy for ed
ucational purposes, it is therefore order
ed that a tax levy of 27 mills or $27.00
on the one thousand dollars be and the
same is hereby levied on every species of
taxable property, both real and personal,
to pay the necessary running expenses
and the obligations of the county for the
year 1939.
It is hereby ordered by the Board of
Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of
said County that the tax levied as afore
said be, and the same is hereby levied
for the following specified purposes:
To pay the legal indebtedness of the
county due or to become due during the
year or past due including one mill to pay
interest on bonded indebtedness of SIOO
and to retire $2,000.00 of said and one
and three-fourths mills to pay past due
indebtedness, making a total of two and
three-fourths mills or two and 75-100
dollars on one thousand dollars of taxable
property, estimated to raise $9,205.90.
To build and repair court houses, jails,
bridges, or other public improvements,
six and one-half mills or six and 50-100
dollars on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to raise $19,-
536.14.
To pay sheriff’s, jailer’s or other offi
cers' fees that they may be legally en
titled to out of the county, one mill or
one and No-100 dollars on the one thou
sand dollars of taxable property, estimat
ed to raise $3,005.56.
To pay expenses of the county for bail
iffs at court, non-resident witnesses in
criminal cases, fuel, servant hire, sta
tionery and the like, two and one-half
mills or two and 50-100 dollars on the
one thousand dollars of taxable proper
ty, estimated to raise $7,513.90.
To pay expenses incurred in supporting
the poor of the county, and as otherwise
prescribed by the code, one and one-fourth
mills, or one and 25-100 dollars on the
one thousand dollars of taxable proper
ty, estimated to raise $3,756.95.
To pay jurors a per diem compensa
tion, one and one-fourth mills or one and
25-100 dollars on the one thousand dol
lars of taxable property, estimated to
raise $3,756.95.
For the working and impropements of
the public roads of said county, same,
together with the commutation tax, to
be known as the “Public Road Fund,’’
and to be used and expended for the pur
pose of paying the salaries and wages of
employes engaged in working, repairing,
and improving the public road, and the
support of the chaingang while engaged
working upon the public road, of said
county, four mills or four and NorlOO
dollars on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to raise
$12,022.24.
To pay ten per centum of the cost of
administration, and the cost of paying
the assistant and benefits provided for
under the terms of the act of the general
assembly of 1937 of the state of Georgia,
entitled “Public Assistant to Aged.” same
to be paid to the County Department of
Public Welfare upon the request of the
director thereof, three mills or three and
No-100 dollars on the one thousand dol
lars of taxable property, estimated to
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER 7, 1939
raise $9,016.68.
To pay expenses of quarantine and nec
essary sanitation, three-fourths mill or
75-100 dollars on the thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to raise $2,-
254.17.
To pay agricultural and (or) home
of records of birth, death, disease and
health one-half mill or 50-100 dollars on
the one thousand dollars of taxable prop
erty, estimated to raise $1,502.78.
To pay agriculturale and (or) home
demonstration agents, one and one-half
mills or one and 50-100 dollars on the
one thousand dollars of taxable property,
estimated to raise $4,508.34.
To pay for the conservation of natural
resources and fire protection of forest
lands, one mill or one and No-100 dollars
on the one thousand dollars taxable
property, estimated to raise $3,005.56.
To provide medical or other care and
hospitalization for the indigent sick peo
ple of the county, one mill or one and
No-100 dollars on the thousand dollars
of taxable property, estimated to raise
$3,005.56.
It is further ordered by the Board of
Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of
said county, that, in addition to the
taxes hereinbefore levied and assessed, a
tax of five mills, or five and No-100 dol
lars on the one thousand dollars of tax
able property is hereby levied and as
sesed in accordance with the acts of the
general assembly, approved August 18th.
1919, amending Paragraph 1, Section 4.
Article 8 of the Constitution of the State
of Georgia, on every species of taxable
property, both real and personal, in said
county, except within the corporate lim
its of the town of Trion, for the support
of the public schools of said county. Said
levy for the support of the public schools
lof said county is made in accordance
with and upon recommendation of the
Board of Education of said County to be
distributed equitably according to the
school population, tax values, number
of teachers, and grade of license, among
the public schools of said county, outside
of the independent system now excepted
in the town of Trion.
Be it further ordered by the Board of
Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of
said county, that in addition to the taxes
hereinbefore levied and assessed, the fol
lowing taxes are hereby levied and as
sessed in accordance with the act ol
1908, for educational purposes within the
school district hereinbefore specified, the
Board of Trustees of said School district
having in each instance determined the
amount necessary to be raised by local
tax on all of the property in each of said
districts as will raise the necessary
amounts to be collected, to-wit: On all
the taxable property, both real and per
sonal, in the county for school purposes
for the year 1939, except in the independ
ent school district, and all lawful com-
I missions.
It is also ordered that the following
tax rate fixed by the county school sup
erintendent and trustees of the local tax
digest be and it is hereby levied and or
dered collected:
Chelsea School District —For mainten
ance, three mills.
Cloudland School District—For main
tenance, four mills.
Echols School District —For mainten
ance, three mills.
Gore School District—For mainten-
ance, five nfills; for bonds, four mills.
Hanson School District—For mainten
ance, two mills.
Lyerly School District —For mainten
ance, five mills; for bonds, four mills.
Pine Grove School District—For main
tenance, five mills.
Subligna School District —For main
tenance, two mills; for bonds, four mills.
Teloga School District —For mainten
ance, two mills.
Summerville Consolidated School Dis
trict—For maintenance, five mills; for
bonds, seven mills.
Menlo School District—For mainten
ance, five mills; for bonds, six mills.
It is hereby ordered that the tax col
lector of said county collect the taxes
herein levied in and for the Shcool Dis
tricts heretofore specified, and pay over
said taxes to the proper authorities of
the aforesaid school districts, passed at
regular session, this the 7th day of Sep
tember, 1939.
F. A. JUSTICE, Chairman
H. B. HIX,
C. S. FOWLER,
G. W. AGNEW.
J. B. VAUGHN.
WANT ADS
T T
WANTED—To drill water wells any
where, any depth. Modern machinery,
quick service; all kinds of pumps fur
nished and installed. Call or write W.
M. Kittle, Box 132, Ringgold, Ga.
WANTED —To bale hay ; fast power
baler. Write or see Earl Gaylor, Ly
erly, Ga. st-Sep7
TWO 120-ACRE farms for sale on Look
out mountain near Cloudland. See Sid
ney Hawkins 4t-Sepl4
SALESMAN WANTED.
MAN WANTED for Rawleigh Route of
800 families. Write today. Rawleigh’s,
Dept. GAI-261-SA, Memphis, Tenn.
FOR SALE —Farms. Residences: 140
acres, 3 houses, water, S2O acre; 100
acres, good dwelling, private water
works. S2O acre’; 80 acres. 40 under
cultivation, 200,00 feet timber, S2O
acre; 6-room dwelling, near schools,
rents $lB month, $1,600 ; 6-room dwell
ing. rents sls month. $1.200. —B. W.
Farrar. Agent, 109 North Commerce
St.; Phone 371-2.
PIANO FOR SALE.
Upright piano in this vicinity like
new. Will sell at bargain cash or terms.
Write Durden Piano ConiPflny, Station
0, Box 154, Atlanta, Ga. St-OctW
YOUTH’S VIEW
OF TODAY’S NEWS
By WILLIAM CLEGHORN.
With the Southern league race closing
in a week, most sport fans are looking
forward to a sparkling football season.
The Crackers lost their chance for the
pennant this week but rate an excellent
chance to win the complicated play-off.
The Summerville Indians, coached by
competent Hoyt Farmer, are praticing
daily, getting in shape for a tough cam
paign. They open here in two weeks with
Cedar Bluff furnishing the opposition.
The complete schedule follows:
Sept. 22 —Cedar Bluff, here.
Sept. 29 —Cedartown, there.
Oct. 6—Sewanee M. A., there.
Oct. 13 —Hapeville, here.
Oct. 27—Bremen, here.
Nov. 3 —Toccoa, here.
Nov. 10—Marietta, here.
Nov. 17 —La Fayette, here.
Nov. 24 —Pending.
Nov. 30 —Trion, here.
For the first time since these tradition
al rivals began their yearly series, Trion
and Summerville will tangle on Sturdi
vant field, or they won’t play at all. The
outlook for the coming season is not par
ticularly bright, for there are very few
experienced players on the squad. But
there is a good chance that some of the
25 players now out will come up with
determination and a fight that will pro
duce a winning team. Coach Farmer will
probably build his team around these re
turning veterans, last year’s Captain
Headrick; a mighty defensive man, Bo
hannon ; the plunging fullback, Tallent;
a fiery lineman, Hankins, and the 235-
pound powerhouse, Elrod. New men who
are looking good in practice and will
probably see lots of service are White,
Brown, Warren and Pullen.
With six of the present scheduled
games on the home field, Summervillians
should wake up and give the Red and
Black team some encouragement.
I purposely filled this column with a
lighter theme this week as the daily pa
pers are displaying war news in heavy
black print on ever page. But as this is
the main news that the public is reading,
here are a few points gathered at ran
dom : One noted columnist said this week,
“The first thing that dies in any war is
the truth.” How true this is we never
know until years afterward when the
real truth is brought to the front. We
are still learning facts from the World
war when everything was camouflaged.
Somehow, you can’t seem to realize what
really is being played on the stage that
is called No Man’s Land. Every country
thoroughly censors the news that is given
to the world at large, and by the time
we read the news it is so distorted we
seldom know what to believe. Each pow
er says they are accomplishing their ob-
Mr. MERCHANT!
An advertisement in the News is
seen by more than 7,500 readers
each week. The News columns is the
cheapest and best way to carry your
message to this mass group of able
buyers who scan these columns each
week seeking today’s best buy.
The Summerville News
GOOD WILL
Conservatively speaking, 90 per
cent, of our new business comes
to us through the influence of our
present customers. We feel that
this fact is evidence of our desire
and ability to render a helpful
service. We are deeply apprecia
tive of the good will of our many
customers who recommend us to
others.
FARMERS & MERCHANTS
Open 8:30 a. m. BANK CLOSE 3:00 p. m.
Make Our Bank Your Bank—Use Blue Checks
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
State-County-City-Depository
jectives, but is this true?
Stocks soared to an all-time high this
week as far as rise and amount of trad
ing is concerned. Some showed an up
trend from 1 to 15 points rise and stable
stocks were sold or cash so their owners
might speculate in “war” stocks.
Be thankful that we play with base
balls and footballs—not cannonballs, is
the thought for this week.
THE ANSWERS
1. Yes; in 1926.
2. In Geneva, Switzerland, in 1864.
3. In 1924.
4. Michigan.
5. March. 1938.
6. The title of Hitler's autobiography.
7. More than one-third.
8. Dixon’s Inlet, 700 miles from the
northern boundary of Washington.
0. Woodrow Wilson, in 1914.
10. About 25,000.
Income of Class I railroads nearly
doubled in seven months compared with
1938 period.
Department of commerce puts national
.income for seven months at $37,985,000,-
000. up 3 per cent.
Reports by 224 department stores had
a decline of 15 per cent, in installment
sales in 1938.
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