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CIRCULATE IN (BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 26
LABOR FACES PROBLEM
WITH UNEMPLOYMENT
ARMY OF MORE THAN TEN MIL
LION IN U. S. ARE STILL
WITHOUT WORK.
Labor day, 1939, recently celebrated
throughout the nation, found five strik
ing developments in the labor situation
throughout the United States.
There still is a vast army of unem
ployed. Memberships in labor unions now ■
are more than double the total of 1929.
Hours of work have been sharply cut..
Wage scales have inceased substantially.
Legislation, the most comprehensive in
all history, has been enacted to help
labor.
The American Federation of Labor es
timates the jobless at 10.400.000 or about
8,500,000 more than in 1929.
Union memberships include 3.900.000
in the American Federation of Labor;
4,000,000 in the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, and 400,000 in the rail
road brotherhoods.
Wage rates for craft unionists have in
creased about 10 per cent, since 1929.
and common labor wage levels have ad
vanced from 43.2 cents to 5Q.9 cents an
hoor, on the average. The average work
ing week now is forty hours, compared
to fifty in 1929, and in some indutries;
notably' textiles, the work week is as
short as thirty-six hours.
Legislation enacted since 1929 and de
signed to improve the position of the
working men and women includes the so
cial security law, with its old-age insur
ance and unemployment compensation
clauses; the Wagner labor act, guaran
teeing collective bargaining rights, and
laws fixing maximum working hours and
minimum wages.
Labor leader’s say these three laws
have virtually affected more workers
than did all the labor legislation enacted
by the congresses from George Washing
ton to Herbert Hoo'ber.
Walker Votes For
1-Man Commission
LA FAYETTE, Ga.—Walker county,
according to incomplete and uuotiicial
returns, voted last Wednesday for the
one-man commissioner form of govern
ment. The county has been operating un
der a five-man commission, members of
which had been subject recently to a
grand jury investigation
The county will elect a commissioner
at the next general election and he will
take charge of the fiscal affairs of the
county government in 1941, when terms
of the present commissioners expire.
farOomeOmte
IN IMPROVEMENTS
Home accomplishments in fifty Georgia
counties, in which 1,228 farm women
have made improvements in their kitch
ens, 1,262 screened their homes, 4,532
families installed electric lights and
1,826 others added electrical household
equipment, were cited this week by Miss
Willie Vie Dowdy, home improvement
economist for the agricultural extension
service.
“These projects,” Miss Dowdy said,
“were carried out according to recom
mendations made by the state home im
provement committee and the county
home demonstration councils. Other proj
ects included the making of household
linens and bedding, refinishing of furni
ture, and study courses in farm credit
and better housing.
“Several counties sponsored farm and
home planning demonstrations,” Miss
Dowdy continued. “Farm women in Mit
chell county reported 165 demonstrations
in progress throughout the county, while
Habersham in North Georgia, has 120.”
Miss Dowdy, who is secretary of the
i committee, also called attention to proj
v ects recommended by the group for the
coming year. The committee, in its rec
ommendations, placed increased emphasis
on farm and home planning, both on an
individual and community basis.
The committee suggested that all coun
ty’ home demonstration councils work on
certain county-wide projects in 1940
Among these were a living-room for the
farm family, home ownership, kitchen
improvement, use of electricity, and bet
ter-built houses.
Trion. Football Season
To Open Friday Night
TRION, Ga., Sept. 13.—Trion High
football season will open this Friday
night at the Trion stadium against Cave
Spring. This game will give fans a splen
did opportunity to judge what kind of a
team Trion will have, as we opened
against Cave Spring last year. However,
we are expecting a lot stiffer opposition
this year. Game will be called at 7:30
with officials from Chattanooga and price
of admission same as last year—ls and
35 cents.
W.M.U, Mission Study
Course Nov. 6 to 10
In a communication from Miss Dallis
Heitt, in response to the invitation to
teach a mission study course in the as
sociation, she has informed us that she
could not be with us and teach at the
time agreed on. but she could be in the
association Nov. 6 to 10.
’ We will have the study course in com
pliance with her time.
MRS. THOS. J. ESPY. Sept.,
Chattooga W. M. U.
She Nms
TO SPEAK AT COURT HOUSE TONIGHT AT 7:30
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DR. C. N. GUIRE, president of the Home Mission of America. Inc., and chaplain
of the Chattanooga College of Law, who will speak at the court house here
tonight (Thursday) at 7 :30. He will also speak at Berryton Baptist church Sat
urday night at 7 :30. His subject will be, “Two Hundred Hours Behind Prison
Walls.”
WAR AT A GLANCE
French troops reported deep into German industrial section.
President Roosevelt indirectly but definitely tells Germany she will pot be per
mitted to take over foreign territory in this hemisphere.
Polish troops, after being driven back and forced to give up a third of Poland,
are now holding on to Warsaw with dogged determination.
Twenty-six ships reported sunk so far in this second World war.
British soldiers reported jarriving in France. This was denied by London until
today.
Germany serves notice she will sink American ships,’carrying contraband.
Canada follows Britain into war.
Germany’s casualty . list is reported to be between 12,000 and 15,000.
Isolationist promise “fight” if Congress called to repeal Neutrality bill.
Polish sources report 100,000 German soldiers have'been shifted from the eastern
to the western front.
‘War Boom’ Has Little
Effect On Jobs As Yet
WASHINGTON.—The bureau of la
bor statistics estimated Friday that the
current war boom reflected in rising pri
ces will have only a negligible effect im
mediately on employment, athough nian
hous of work, it was said, may be in
creased.
Bureau statisticians said they looked
for some employment gains in a few
lines, such as steel and coton, but have
undertaken no spot sampling to try to
gauge the immediate effect of war-boom
prices on industrial activity and jobs.
They said that definite employment
statistics probably would be available by
Sept. 15. They expressed the opinion that
manufacturers were hesitant to increase
pay rolls in the first week of the war
until domestic conditions settled down
after the first wave of war reaction.
Curb War Emotions,
Stephen Pace Urges
Congressman Is Fearful That Warlike
View May Lead Into Conflict.
Congressman Stephen Pace, in a recent
statement to the press, urged Americans
to “keep your sympathies to yourself ’
lest the nation’s feeling for fair play and
justice “sweep us into an unnecessary
war.”
Pace expressed belief “congress will
never vote to send another American boy
across the Atlantic to fight if it is left
alone,” but added ‘the congress will give
the people what they want and demand.”
“But what I am concerned about is the
American people who have a feeling of
fair play and justice,” he continued.
“I am afraid that those feelings wiP
take possession of the people before they
know it and the people will sweep the
congress off its feet.
“I have been alarmed by the attitude
that has swept this country in the last
two weeks. I believe not only that the
United States can stay out of this war
. . . but also that . . . the United States
must stay out of war.”
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939
Red Cross Lists Types of
Supplies To Be Made For
Needy War Victims
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.—The
American Red Cross today sent instruc
tions to a limited number of its large
city chapters on surgical dressings to be
made by volunteer production units for
hospitals in the European war zones.
At the same time a letter was sent
to all of the 3,700 Red Cross chapters
throughout the nation asking them to
make women’s and children’s clothing;
hospital clothing and knitted articles for
the civilian populations in the nations
at war.
This action was in line with a decision
taken at an extraordinary session of the
central committee of the American Red
Cross yesterday and announced by Chair
man Norman 11. Davis, and followed an
offer of assistance by the American or
ganization cabled to the international
committee of the Red Cross in Geneva
when hostilities first broke out. The Pol
ish Red Cross has replied, appealing for
supplies. Word has not yet been received
through the international committee from
the British, French and German Red
Cross societies. Offer of aid by the Amer
ican organization was made on an im
partial basis as required under the treaty
of Geneva.
It was announced here that mass pro
duction will not be undertaken pending
detailed information of needs from the
Red Cross societies of nations at war.
Peace-time activities of 2,222 Red
Cross chapters have included as a part of
their normal programs production of sur
gical dressings for local hospitals, and
for disaster relief work, and hundreds
of women volunteers have engaged in
making children’s and women’s garments,
for use of victims of disaster, and also
’NOOOA INTERSTATE
FAIR OPENS MONDAY
FARMERS OF THIS COUNTY ANTI
CIPATING SHARE IN PRIZES
OF $7,500 TO BE GIVEN.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. Sept. 13.-1
Farmers of this county today were brush- I
ing up their sleek cattle and fat hogs,
housewives were selecting their fanciest
crocheting and most tempting canned
goods which their sons and daughters
were scrubbing big potatoes and shiny
red apples all to be entered in the Chat
tanooga Inter-State fair which Monday
swings open its gates at Warner park in
Chattanooga.
There will be a large number of entries
from this county in every department of
this year's fair, county farm and home
agents report, and a large share of the
grand total of $7,500 in cash prizes and I
ribbons are expected to come back here ■
when the awards are handed out.
At Chattanoga, the fai buildings and
cattle barns were in readiness, stands
and booths erected and all preparations
completed for the hundreds of elhibits
that were to start pouring in from 25
counties in the Chattanooga area of Ten
nessee, Alabama and Georgia over the
Week-end. By Monday noon every exhibit
will be in place for the crowds that will
fill the fair-grounds the entire week.
This county will be competing with
others for the total of SSOO in cash
prizes given the counties having the best
collective exhibits. There will be art ex
hibits, photography department, pigeon
and poultry shows all open to farmers o
this county. A mammoth OCC exhibition
will be free to all.
On the entertainment side, President
Joe Engel has booked the Johnny J.
Jones exposition with its fifty shows,
thrilling rides and free acts as the mid
way attraction this year. The Ernie
Young “Cavalcade of Hits” will be the
grandstand attractions bringing beautiful
girls, dancers, singers, comedians and
outstanding entertainers.
A mammoth fire-works display will be
free each night.
Unemployment Get
$2,430.15 In August
Payments of unemployment compensa
tion benefits to eligible unemployed work
ers in Chattooga county in August
amounted to $2,430.15 represented by
369 checks, the bureau of unemployment
compensation has announced.
Payments for the week ending Sept. 2,
were reported at $661.66, represented by
103 cheeks.
August payments wefe the largest in
any month since benefit-paying operations
were inaugurated. They amounted to
$363,347.93, of which $347,840.58 were
paid to workers in 144 Georgia counties.
The remaining sum of $15,507.35 went
to workers in other states who previous
ly had established wage credits in Geor
gia.
Total payments for the week ending
Sept. 2. amounted to $83,658.89, of which
80,033.09 went to workers in the state.
Teachers To Meet
Friday, Sept. 15th
The County Teachers’ association will
meet ill the Summerville High school au
ditorium Friday, Sept. 15, at 1 :30. Ralph
Ramsey, G.E.A. secretary, will be the
speaker.
KATHRYN HENLEY, CjS.S.
have knitted articles for veterans in
hospitals.
The chapters which have been asked
' thus far to make the surgical dressings
include the District of Columbia chap
ter. New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Phila
delphia. Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
■ New Orleans, Atlanta and Chicago. Oth
' ers may be added to the list.
The types of garments which all chap
ters will be asked to have their volunteer
1 production units make are: hospital bed
shirts, operating gowns and convalescent
robes; women’s and children’s dresses
and boys’ shirts and wash suits; men’s
and children’s sweaters, with and with
out sleeves; men's and children’s knitted
sox and stockings; knitted caps (beanies)
and wool scarfs.
I The national organization of the Red
i Cross will establish warehouses for the
will send them to the belligerent coun
’ receipt of these chapter produced articles.
I and as large shipments are assembled
i tries, it was announced.
I As an illustration of the extent to
which this volunteer relief work can re
lieve distress, the work of 8.000.000 wom-
■ en in Red Cross chapters in the years
from 1914 to 1918 produced garments of
a total value of $93,000,000. including
: 3 000.000.000 surgical dressings. 17.-
! 000.000 hospital garments. 6.000.000 ref
ugee garments among other items.
I In Red Cross relief work for drought
stricken, families in the United States in
1930-31 when the U. S. government gave
I the organization huge supplies of cotton
and wheat which were processed for re
i lief. Red Cross chapters produced 38.-
i OOO.OOQ garments, and 700.000 volunteers
i ■ were engaged in the work.
Dr. M’Gaha To Fill
Baptist Pulpit Sunday
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Dr. E. Hays M'Gaha, has accepted an I
invitation to speak at the First Baptist I
church in Summerville in the absence of 1
the pastor, J. C. Jackson, at both the I
morning and evening hours Sunday.
Dr. M’Gaha, who is well known as a ’
Bible scholar and theologian, has been <
requested to speak at the 11 o’clock hour <
on the subject of “Solomon’s Temple.” In i
this discussion the speaker will contrast; i
from a biblical standpoint, the building '
of Solomon’s temple to that of, the build- I
ing of the church. This subject will be '
of special interest to Bible scholars,
Christians seeking a deeper experience.
Master Masons are invited.
The public is cordially invited to at- I
tend the services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 I
o'clock p.m.
I MILE OF RAILROAD
TELL WHOLE STORY
ATLANTA, Sept. 13 (GPS).—Back of ;
each mile of railway in the United States
there is an investment of more than
$lll,OOO. What has each mile done, on
the average, in the first half of 1939?
The Railway Age asks and answers this
question in a current editorial, made
public in Atlanta.
“In the first place,” the Railway Age
says, “each mile earned average gross
revenues of $7,722. This total was made
up of $6,220 received for handling
freight, of SB4B for handling passengers,
$205 for handling mail, sll9 for handling
express and of $330 or performing other
transportation services.
“In the second place, the operating ex
penses incurred on this average mile of
railway amounted to $5,996. Maintenance
of roadway and structures cost $939;
maintenance of equipment cost $1,568;
expenses of securing traffic amounted to
$226; the actual cost of running trains
was $2,918, and other expenses totaled
$345.
“Thus, w’ith gross earnings of $7,722
and operating expenses of $5,996 the
average mile of railway earned, in the
first half of 1939, a net operating revenue
of $1,726. But further costs had to be
paid out of this sum. For this average
mile the tax bill amounted to $738 and
its proportion of the rentals paid for
equipment and jointed used facilities av
eraged $2Bl.
“These tax and rental expenses con
sumed $1,019 out of the $1,726 earned
as net operating revenue, leaving a bal
ance of only $707 for a return upon the
$lll,OOO invested in this average rail
way mile. Considering seasonal varia
tions, the net earnings of $707 made by
the average mile of railway in the first
half of 1939 were equivalent to an an
nual rate of return upon investment of
1.57 per cent.”
Get rid of the slowest developing pul
lets and those that lack ruggedness. If
kept they will need to be culled later.
ADVERTISING DIDN’T PAY.
RACINE. Wis. —Dave Luby. who op
erates an appliance store, advertised por
table radios with a sign: “Carry them
with you any place.” One potential cus
tomer took the sign too literally, Luby
complained to police, because he carried
out a radio without paying for it.
Nc War Talk
From His Pulpit
LONDON—The Rev. E. B. Cook, vi
i car of St. Cuthbert's Wells, the largest
I parish church in Somerset, Friday prom
ised his congregation to refrain from
commenting on the war in his sermons.
The vicar remarked : “Everyone has to
think quite enough about the war all the
restj>f the week, and perhaps it ■will be
a relief to some to know’ that in St.
Cuthbert's, at least, there will be no war
talks from the pulpit.
Summerville To
Have New Case
The H. & C. case, Summerville newest
restaurant, will open Friday morning in
the building formerly occupied by the T.
& C. case, under the management of Sid
ney Hall and James Crouch.
The proprietors state that the restau
rant has been completely reorganized un-
I der new management, and that they will
; feature old-style Southern cooking, with
j meals prepared under the supervision of
| an experienced dietician.
The public is cordially invited to come
' by and inspect this modern case.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAJR
DR. GUIRE TO SPEAK
HERE TONIGHT, 7:30
SUBJECT WILL BE ‘TWO HUN
DRED HOURS BEHIND
PRISON BARS.”
Dr. C. N. Guire, president of the Home
Mission of America, Inc., and chaplain
of the Chattanooga College of Law, will
speak at the court house, Summerville,
Thursday night, Sept. 14, at 7 :3O o’clock.
Dr. Guire's subject will be “Two Hun
dred Hours Behind Prison Walls.”
Dr. Guire is a Baptist minister, hav
ing served in the ministry for twenty
four years, and during that course of
time has traveled extensively, and has
had the pleasure of speaking in the pul
pits of fifty-six different denominations.
The Home Mission of America, Inc., is
sponsor for Giure's Boys' Town, which
is designed to be one of the greatest
projects ever launched in the This
home will be a place for the rehabilita
tion of the boys who are problem boys,
and very likely, if a great interest w T as
not taken in them, would become the
criminals of tomorrow. This organization
is interdenominational, and non-sectarian.
The chief purpose will be crime preven
tion. and the proper training and direc
tion of the youth. In connection with this
project, there will be a school with the
proper Christian teaching.
It is planned to make the farm about
50 per cent, self-supporting by using the
older boys to raise such produce to ac
commodate the table, and oerate a can
nery, and in this manner store away food
supplies for the winter season. This farm
will have their own milk cows, fatten and
kill their own meat which will lessen the
expense of maintenance.
If you haven’t had the peasure of hear
ing this man of God. who has devoted
much of his time in research and investi
gation for crime prevention, you should
hear him tell of his personal experience
behind prison walls. The people who are
free to roam the hills, and pass through
the valley without the slightest care, are
very much in the dark as to what really
takes place behind prison doors. In this
'engagement Dr. Guire will tell us the
cause and the cure for crime. This should
be most interesting to our citizenry in
terested in the betterment of this, our
great nation.
It will be remembered that Dr. Guire
filled the pulpit two Sundays several
months ago at the South Summerville
Baptist church. All those who heard him
are anxious o hear him again.
Roland Hayes Recital
In Rome October 13
Roland Hayes, a negro, who is the
world's most celebrated tenor, will give
a song recital at the City auditorium in
Rome Friday evening, Oct. 13, at 8
o’clock. Reserved seats are $1 each; un
reserved, 75 cents.
There will be a special section for our
white friends, who are cordially invited.
J. L. McGinnis and J. R. Jackson will
have tickets at their drug stores; also
the principal at his residence next door
to the colored school.
The net proceeds of this concert will be
used by the Summerville colored school
in making addition room, especially for
shop work and home economics. Home
economics is being carried on at the prin
cipal's residence, where he is now for the
third year, sacrificing a room free of
charge for this department, organized
voluntarily under his administration.
The immediate purchase of tickets by
both our white and colored friends is
solicited and appreciated, as we must
have Roland Hayes’ guarantee in New
York at least one week before the date
of recital.
A. CARTER, Principal.
GOLD.
Although the United States already
has more gold than can serve any useful
purpose, the outbreak of war in Europe
is expected to increase this country’s
holding of gold.
COMPLETION OF ROAD
SYSTEM URGED SOON
ATLANTA, Sept. 13 (CNS).—Pres
sure for rapid completion of Georgia
links in the national defense system of
roads is expected to spur highway con
struction in the state in the next few
months. One small letting this month has
been authorized, and other projects will
be cleared as rapidly as possible.
While details of the road system, as it
applies to national defense needs, remains
of course a secret, it is known that some
important links in this state remain un
paved. One major link that is not a sec
ret is the new road linking Columbus and
Fort Benning, the country’s largest train
ing camp, with the eastern ports. Other
important items are said to be in the
vicinity of the coast.
In addition, the upsurge in farm prices
Occasioned by the European conflict has
centered attention on the lagging Post
Roads system, and it is expeted that the
state highway department will give rapid
attention to these needs. Many important
farm-to-market roads have been survey
ed, but construction must be pushed
rapidly.
That these emergencies will play an
important part in state fiscal plans is
evident. The emergency is generally re
garded as striking the final blow to the
proposals to seize highway funds for
other purposes. This was indicated when
Gov. Rivers lightened somewhat his tight
control over highway purchases, indi
i eating that there would be less interfer
’ ence with Chairman W. L. Miller and
his associates on the highway board in
“ their efforts to push the work of the de
partment.