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CIRCULATE IN (BEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53; NO. 28 Grand Jury Recommends Total Abolishment of Chain Gang ‘DIXIE FOLLIES’ TO BE GIVEN SEPT. 30 ADMISSION WILL BE 15 AND 25c AND PROCEEDS WILL GO TO SCHOOL ATHLETICS. Summerville “8” club present “Dixie Follies” Saturday, Sept. 30, at 7:30, at the high school auditorium. The cast includes the following : Part. I. Kiddie Chorus by small children. Part 11. Interloutor —Andrew Williams. End Men—Raymond Cooper. Edward Hankins, R. B. Headrick, Marvin White. Circle —Ben McCollum, W. G. Tallent, Cecil Edwards, Julian Cooper, Harde man Reavis, Marvin White. Part 111. “Gypsy Chorus”—Bette Broome, Betty Rivers, Geraldine Hill, Dot Adams, Vir ginia Newsome. Elsie Edwards. Part IV. Black Clouds —Tacoma Washington, Washboard manipulator; Ophelia Wat kins, cuticle hi-falootin’ leader of society, Jane Yancey. Part V—Specialties. Part VI. “ANIN - HER PA" Pendleton Peppercorn—deaf old darky, W. G. Tallent; Gustus Tyler, bashful lover, Ben McCollum ; three sister, P'cilly Ann, Pamely, Polly: Valerie Daton, Edythe Allen, Jeanie Langston. Part Vll—Grand Finale. Miss Betty Hemphill is pianist. Miss Kathleen Strickland, of the Strickland Producing company, Jackson, Ga., is di reting. The benefit will be for Summerville High school athletics. Admission 15 and 25 cents. Make plans to come out for an evening of real blackface fun and entertainment. NEW YORK SOUTHERNER ENJOYS DIXIE EATING SANDERSVILLE. William Roy Hale, native of this city, has topped the old “mountain to Mohamet” trick, and has succeeded in transferring the South land to New York City. The nostalgia stricken Hale, having visions of southern cooking he once enjoyed, has written for prices of water-ground meal, Washington county cane syrup, home-raised salted side meat and other such delicacies, with which to entertain his Yankee friends. Pasture Demonstrations The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company gave to J. N. Young, vocation al agriculture teacher of Lyerly High, three and one-quarter tons of Bosie slag to be used on pasture and winter cover crop demonstrations. The demonstrations will be made by members of the All-Day and Evening classes. The pasture demonstrations will he treated with from six to eight hundred pounds of basic slag per acre and the cove crop demonstration will be treated with four hundred pounds per acre. The following persons have agreed to run the demonstrations: Pasture Demonstration —George Bish op. George Reece, J. W. Floyd. Oats and Vetch —Willard Jackson and Bill Busbin. Austrian Winter Peas —Billy Brooks, Thomas Hogg, Elliot Mathis, C. W. Ray and J. E. Jackson. Crimson Clover —Frank Caldwell, Rob ert Massey, Storey Edwards and Bill Ragland. The basic slag will be applied at an early date to these plots and we want the farmers of our community to watch them until they are completed. WILLARD JACKSON, Reporter. GOV. RIVERS PROMISES TEACHERS $1,700,000 IN WEEK Dr. M. D. Collins, state superintend ent of schools, announced he has been informed by the governor that $1,700,000 represented $1,500,000 due school teach ers and $200,000 needed to carry on the state’s part of the vocational training, will be available in time to get the checks in the mail this week. WHO KNOWS? 1. What is a franc-tireur? 2. What are known as ersatiz mate rials? 3. When did King Edward abdicate? 4. How many times has congress been called in special session? 5. How old is General Pershing? 6. Have deportation charges against Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, been dropped? 7. Does international law recognize the British blockade of Germany as en tirely legal? 8. When did Poland fight Russia? 9. Who ruled the Saar region before a plebiscite returned the area to Ger many? 10. What famous author is now gov ernor-general of Canada? (See “The Answers” on Another Page.) €nuitnuTinllr Npuw Hot Lunches Served To School Children During July the commodity division of the state department of public wel fare served 346 needy families in Chat tooga county with surplus commodities having a total value of $578.75. With schools to open soon, school chil dren in many counties will again receive hot noon-dap lunches prepared largely from surplus commodities. Last year 20,- 000 Georgia school children, 5,000 of whom were located in Chatham (Savan nah) county alone, ate nutritional lunches every school day. School super intendents, teachers, school bus drivers, local health officers, the childrep them selves and their parents have written many letters telling of benefits derived from the hot lunches. They vouch for in creased weight, better attendance, im provements in studies, health and dis positions of the children. Some school lunch projects are conduct ed in cafeteria fashion, while with others the children are served at their des®s or at tables covered attrac. ’ely with oil cloth. Usually school lunch projects are conducted as'WPA projects sponsored bp city or county governments or by local civic organizations. Some projects are of purely local administration and not op erated as WPA projects. Lunch projects, when certified by the county welfare de partment, receive all available surplus foods from the commodity division. There are many counties in Georgia that do not have school lunch projects. Although there were 20,000 children par ticipating last pear, by comparison with neighboring states, there should be 125,- 000 school children in Georgia served with daily hot lunches. This is more than six times the number actually be ing benefitted. Indians Defeat Cedar Bluff, Ala., Friday By HILL BOHANNON. The Summerville High Indians opened their 1939 football season last Friday by defeating Cedar Bluff, Ala., by the score if 20 to 12. The Indians played brilliant ly for the first half and into the third quarter, scoring 20 points and holding Cedar Bluff scoreless. But in the fourth quarter, the opponents came back very strong, running line plays and throwing long and accurate passes, they scored 12 points before the Indians could bring them to a halt. The line-up : Summerville Cedar Bluff J. Cooper End Tucker Rutherford Tackle Buschillon G. Tallent Guard Summers Hankins .Center Tidwell White Guard Pruitt Elrod Tackle Gossett Headrick End Buschillon Bohannon (C) ..Back Smith (C) Brown Back Storey R. Cooper Back Davis W. Tallent Back Humphries ROLAND HAYES SINGS Don’t miss the song recital, a rare treat from the most renowned Roland Hayes, tenor, who will appear at the city audi- I torium, Rome, at 8 o’clock Friday eve ninig, Oct. 13, for the benefit of the Sum ! merville colored school, which is an ef l fort to make additional room at the I school, especially for home economics and shop work to better prepare negro youth j for their place in life. | In Summerville, $1 reserved tickets 1 and 75c unreserved tickets can be pur chased from the colored school, the drug stores. Rev. Kirckhoff, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. C. L. Jones, pastor of the Hemphill A.M.E. church. Special seats for white people. The purchase of tickets at once will be appreciated so that a last-minute rush will be avoided, and so that Roland Hayes’ guarantee can be sent to him by Oct. 6, as demanded by him. —A Carter, Principal. MENLO GROUP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES | Services for Sunday, Oct. 1: Menlo: Sunday school at 10 a.m. Young People’s league at 7 p.m. » Alpine: Sunday school at 10 a.m. Young People’s league at 6:30 p.m. Beersheba: Sunday school at 10 a.m. ' Worship service at 11 a.m.; message I by the pastor. Young People’s league at 7 p.m. Cloudland: Sunday school at 10 a.m. | “Special Afternoon Service” at 3:30. The Rev. John W. Melton, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Rome, will be I the speaker. “Evangelistic Services” begin Sunday night at 7 o’clock. Two services to be held each day throughout the week. The ; morning servie will be held at the Cloud land school house, while the night serv lices are to be at the church. The public | is most cordially welcomed to unite with ( us in these services. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939 JURORS DRAWN FOR CITY COURT TERM Below is a list of names drawn to serve at the September term, 1939, of City court of Chattooga county. Court will convene Wednesday, Oct. 4 : J. M. Brock Ross Eilenburg Luell McGinnis Claude Baker t n c<- C. L. Eleam James D. Simmons ~ „ „. , „ M. C. Mitchell F. B. Rich Oscar Rogers John A. Ray M. R. Elrod Allen W. Justice S. M. Price J. P. Calhoun J. T. Allman Tom Warnock Alfred Cash J. L. Henderson O. E. Cook W. B. Williams Willie B. Cagle J. T. Arden Anderson Ellis Theo Smith 'Walter Haygood C. G. Lane E. L. Bishop J. N. Taylor J. D. White Sr. J. L. Walker Alfred Wood J. C. Bartlett J. A. Drummond C. R. Lawless R. O. Westbrooks Geo. M. Mosley W. J. L. Mitehell W. W. Cook Jno. S. Johnson Scott Walters Fred Mitchell Age Requirements For Marines Changed ATLANTA, Sept. 25 (Special).—The age requirements for first enlistment in the U. S. Marine corps has been changed and now men are being accepted for immediate enlistment from 18 to 30 years of age. Men with previous service in the army, navy, coast guard or Ma rine corps will be re-enlisted up to 35 years of age. Former Marines who have not been out of the service for more than four years will be re-enlisted and reappointed to the rank held on last discharge. The Marine corps has established a recruiting office in the Municipal audi torium at Atlanta to handle enlistments in this area, and in order to recruit a larger number of men to bring the Ma rine corps up to an additional strength of 6,(XX) desired by the president. Cotton Ginning Show 148-Bale Increase Census report shows that 222 bales of cotton were ginned in Chattooga county from the crop of 1939 prior to Sept. 16, as compared with seventp-four bales for the crop of 1938, according to Mrs. Rosa N. Shumate, special agent. SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.) The evangelistic services at the Pres byterian church will continue through Sunday evening. There will be no serv ices Saturday morning or evening. Only a few more days of the meeting remain, so let us invite and bring those we desie to hear the Word, praying that men might be born again. Fine crowds have been attending both morning and evening services, but still there are many that should come not as yet attending. Let us, too, be about our Father's business. Sunday Services Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; D. L. Mc- Whorter. superintendent. Morning worship service at 11 o'clock. Wayside Chapel at 2 p.m. Pioneer league at 6 ;15 p.m. Closing services of Rev. John W. Mel ton at 7 :15 p.m. NOTICE. Next Sunday afternoon is our regular singing at Pennville. We hope to have a large crowd and a good singing. We have invited several good singers, and are counting on having the Stephenson and Summerville quartets with us. Ev erybody invited. PENNVILLE CLASS. VVAR AT A GLANCE Opposing forces gathering strength for the fight to repeal the arms embargo. Germany rushes a million men to the western front as French pound main Ger man Siegfried line. Rumor is spread that Russia is ready to move against Estonia so as to make the east Balkans a sphere of influence for the soviets. Winston Churchill, Britain first lord of the admiralty, declared that the mighty British fleet is defeating the U-boats. Churchill stated that the convoy system was now in full operation and that merchant ships were being armed to fight off submarines and airplanes. Warsaw, although nearly completely destroyed by fire and shells, still holds out. With ammunition nearly exhausted. Poish troops fighting hand-to-hand battles with bayonets and knives. Paris reports that a major nazi offensive is scheduled l to get under way Oct. 10. Ditpatches from Norway report a naval battle, in which a large number of war craft was engaged, took place off Norway’s southern coast Tuesday. Germany reported ready to return her ambassador to the U.S. as a peace move. Senator Walter F. George says he will aid in the fight for the repeal of the firms embargo. Cases to Be Tried At the City Court Below is a list of the cases to be tried at the September term, 1939, of the City Court of Chattooga county. Court con venes at 9 o’clock Wednesday, Oct. 4. All cases in said court not listed are sub ject to trial. Cases set for Wednesday, Oct. 4: Henson Bynum, A. E. Roselle, Joe Gil mer, Rich Mallicoat, Hoyt Bailey, Fannie Burk, Mrs. Norman Burk (two eases), Sam Favor (two cases), Norman Burk (four cases), Stewart Jones W. D. Fow ler, T. L. Helton, Ollie McGraw, C. T. Pratt, Tom Henry, M. F. Mobbs, J. G. Teems (tw r o cases), Irvin Simmons, Wil liam Parker, Louis Smith, Dewey Cline, John Culberson, J. R. Clowdis, Julius Watkins and W. R. Lively, J. B. Allen, Ethel Ashworth, Jim Ramsey (two oases). Cases set for Thursday, Oct. 5: Bill Fowler, Arthur Wilson (two cases), J. C. Browning, Howard Broom, Charlie Cox, V. L. Veatch, David Ludy (two cases), Russell Hunter, Mrs. Rus sell Hunter, E. B. Dooly, Frank Edge worth. Charlie Murdock, Bryant Espy, Buster Burks, Myrtle Booker, Austin Hurley. Rome Gets a Live Stock Sale Market In harmony with the ever-growing in terest in live stock in Northwest Geor gia, Rome will have a weekly auction sale, beginning about the middle of Octo ber. The exact date will be announced later. Through the sale, farmers of this sec tion will have an opportunity to sell to the highest bidder all kinds of live stock. With this method of selling, the farmer with one calf gets the full value of his animal just as does the one who sells a carload. Many will not only use the auction sale for disposing of their live stock, but through it they will purchase what they want for replacement, such as Stocker cows, heifers and sows, also feeder steers and feeder pigs. The sale will be held in connection with Rome Provision company's new abattoir and packing plant. Frank Mann, prominent Rome business man, who is head of the company, says that although he expects to have buyers there from oth er cities and towns, as well as local buyers, he, himself, will be present dur ing the_ sales to bid on the live stock and he assures the farmers that they will get the market price for all the ani mals they sell. BOY SCOUTS ENJOY BARBECUE Dignity is not what you need —it’s an appetite—when you attend a barbecue like the one Robert Dan Davison gave the Boy Scouts Sept. 20 at their new cabin, which was in full spirit of his ap preciation of the activity sponsored by the Summerville Lions club, and I be lieve I can speak for every one present, that they enjoyed every minute of this occasion. Approximately two hundred people at tended this event, which was in dedica tion of the boys’ cabin, and at this time the charter was presented to the Boy Scout Troop No. 9. I again say, thanks a lot, Mr. Davi son, for your interest in this troop, and the welfare of the boys which I am sure will be long remembered. W. E. TURNER Scoutmaster. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship at 11 o’clock, “Wells of Salvation.” B. T. U. at 6:15 p.m. All other night services will be called off for the duration of the revival at the Presbyterian church. Regrets Necessity for excessively High Tax Rate Levied By Board ARNALL RULES AGAINST RIVERS (By Georgia News Service.) ATLANTA.—Stating that he could “never compromise” in his duty as attor ney-general of Georgia, even though “as a friend and as a public official” he is “desirous of upholding the governor,” At torney-General Ellis Arnall handed down an opinion last week that the grandfath er clause in the state’s general appropria tion bill cannot be applied to funds al-1 located to the highway department and . state departments. This was contrary to the governor's own opinion expressed in his letter to the attorney-general asking for a ruling. The so-called grandfather clause is a provision in the appropriations act re ducing appropriations pro rata in case of deficiencies in revenue. Gov. Rivers con tended that this clause applied to those departments supported from general funds. In concluding his opinion to the gov ernor, Attorney-General Arnall said: “I regret that I cannot agree with the con struction that you (Gov. Rivers) would place upon the law in this instance. As a friend and as a public official desirous of upholding the governor of this great state, I am glad when I can conscienti ous-ly support you views, but I can nev er compromise with my duty as attorney general—a duty to construe the law as I honestly believe it to_be. I know that you would never want me to be remiss in this obligation.” Capital observers were of the opinion that this ruling would prevent the diver sion of highway funds and might make an extra session of the legislature nec essary. Cedartown Editor To Head District Group Roy Emmett, editor and publisher of the Cedartown Standard, was unanimous ly elected president of the Seventh Dis trict Press association, at an organiza tion meeting held at Cartersville Satur day, Sept. 16. W. R. Frier, of the Bartow Herald, was elected vice-president, and E. P. Hall, of the Walker County Messenger, La Fayette, was chosen secretary and treasurer. Editors from various parts of the Sev enth district attended the meeting, which was presided over by M. L. Fleetwood, publisher of the Cartersville Tribune- News. Ed Burch, of the Dalton Citizen; Hen ry Nevil, of the Dalton News, and Ed mund Hughes, of the Cobb County Times, composed the nominating committee, se lecting the first officers. It was agreed that the president could serve but one term, and that the next meeting of the district group would convene in Rome on the first Friday in November. Douai on Press Agents. Ways and means to combat press agent evils were discussed, and plans laid to handle the matter in a practical man ner, President Roy Emmett announced as one of the features of the initial meeting. HOME ECONOMICS NEWS Friends—Friendships. Six ways to make people like you: 1. Become genuinely interested in people. 2. Smile. I 3. Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. 4. Be a good listener. 5. Talk in terms of the other man’s interests. 6. Make the other person feel import ant and do it sincerely. Says Dale Car- | negie. Characteristics of good friends, are you one? Honesty, tactfulness, self control, reliability, co-operation, kindness, loyalty, tolerance, courage, industry, gen erosity, cheerfulness, sincerity, punctual, appreciation, sense of humor, congenial ity. Rev. Kirckhoff, of the Presbyterian church, gave a very interesting and in spiring talk on this subject. He gave the evidences and power of true friends and friendships by telling the story of Jon athan and David, and of Ruth and Na omi, all four being interesting biblical characters. His definitions: A strong and habitual inclination be tween two persons to promote the joy and happiness of each other. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief. Let it creep gently to a height. If it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.—Sophomore Class. STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. $1.50 A YEAR COUNTIES SUFFERING FROM LOSS OF REVENUE IN THE EXEMP TION OF TAXES. Summerville, Ga., Sept. 18, 1939. Hon. C. H. Porter, Judge, Rome Judicial Circuit: We, the Grand Jury selected and sworn for the September, 1939, term of Chattooga Superior Court, have, to the best of our several abilities, thoroughly investigated every case brought to our attention, and w r e are pleased to advise that we find very few serious infractions of our laws. While many matters have been brought to our attention which de manded that we return true bills for misdemeanors committed, however, in very few instances has it been necessary for use to cause to be returned true bills on charges of a felony. We do not believe that violators of our minor laws are to be regarded as criminals on account of their having violated our' minor laws, but we believe that, in part, this is due to the lack of thoughtful consideration of the youth of our county. Through our several committees we have carefully investigated the different institutions and the different branches of our county government and are attaching hereto the reports of our different com mittees. EXHIBIT “A” contains the report of our committee investigating the books and records of county officials. EXHIBIT “B” contains the report of the committee investigating the condition of our courthouse and jail. EXHIBIT “C” is a report from our committee investigating the pauper farm and convict camp. EXHIBIT “D” is the report rendered by our county depository. We are conscious of the fact that the two most unpopular subjects in the world are war and taxes. We regret that many of the nations of the worty are now plunged headlong into a war which ap parently was brought on by one man in his desire for more territory. Out of this war many of the peoples of our own land are now suffering and will continue to suffer by unscrupulous people profiteer ing in the sale of the necessities of life, as many merchants who had merchan dise on their shelves and in their ware houses advanced their prices of food stuffs, in many instances as much as 50 per cent, within one week after foreign nations began their warfare. We believe that cases of this kind should be investi gated by our federal government. We have faith in an all-wise Providence to believe that right and not might will prevail. Our county, together with all other counties of our state, is suffering from the loss of revenue in the exemption of taxes on home-owned property and house hold and kitchen furniture. While thia is a boon to small taxpayers, yet we be lieve that the lawmakers of our state should have, before exempting these small taxpayers, levied or made some pro visions of some other taxes or revenue whereby the schools of our state would not have to close their doors and deprive the youth of our land of an education or forced the school-teachers, poorly paid as they are,., to teach on a credit not knowing when or ever they will be paid for their services. We have thoroughly investigated the financial condition of our county, and while we deplore our present condition, we do not accuse any of our officials of mismanagement or of corruption. As we believe that our present officials are do ing all within their power to again place our county on a firm financial basis. And to that end we commend the Board of Roads and Revenues in employing Mr. R. M. Crawford as a full-time purchas ing agent to supervise the buying of all supplies and materials necessary for the conduct of the county's business. We believe that even the most humble taxpayer of our county is entitled to the full knowledge of the financial condition of our county ; hence, the facts and fig ures contained in this report are taken from the audit of Chattooga County, Georgia, made by Respess and Respess, certified public accountants, Atlanta, Ga., and are from July 1. 1937, through Feb. ■ 28, 1939 or a period of twenty months:, Revenues j Ad valorem Taxes : Digest, 1937 ....$65,885.03 Digest. 1938 .... 69.464.80 $135,349.83 Public Service Corporations: Year 1937 $ 8.091.55 Year 1938 10.608.02 $ 18.699.57 Not on digest and interest 343.67 Total ad valorem taxes $154,393.07 Beer license .... 570.00 State Funds; Gasoline tax ... .$23,897.14 Road construction aid 39.481.63 W. & A. Rentals Warrants . .. 7,632.04 71,010.81 Refunds and sun- dries 832.26 Total Revenue .. . $226,800.14 (Continued on Last Page)