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The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
Official Organ of Chattooga County.
(O. J. ESPY, Editor-Manager, 1911-38.)
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Entered at the Postoffice at Summerville
Ga., as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Advertising is good for good
business.
Life for a neutral in Europe
is just one fear after another.
The way to prevent fires is to
understand how they start.
There are very few new facts
to be learned from a public
speech.
Evil can be found anywhere;
likewise the same is true of
goodness.
Summerville has many im
perfections but they cannot
eliminate themselves.
When men hate so fervently
that their judgment is warped,
they lose the advantage of in
tellect.
If somebody doesn’t launch a
major offensive soon the war
experts will begin to write
about croquet.
Losing money in a business
venture is not altogether a loss
if you learn something by the
experiment.
Democracy will succeed only
when men and women under
stand that it is not a sign of ig
orance to disagree.
Another thing about the
United States —you can go to
any church you select or you
can stay away from them all.
Who Commits Our Crimes?
The prevalent idea that
young men and women commit
more crimes than other age
groups is given a wallop by
Magistrate Matthew J. Troy
of Brooklyn, who says that a
survey of court cases in 1938 re
vealed the fact that the largest
group of criminals in that city
was 30 to 39 years old.
This is interesting informa
tion, even if it applies to Brook
lyn. There may be some truth
in the observation in other are
as. For example, a recent sur
vey by the Public Affairs Com
mittee shows that of all per
sons arrested and finger-print
ed in an undefinder area in 1938
the age group, 20 to 29, had the
largest number of criminals,
followed by the group from 30
to 39 and, third in order, was
those under 20 years of age.
Men Are Vainer Than Women
Just for what it might be
worth, and to curry a little fa
vor among our women readers,
we record the conclusion of Dr.
Theron W. Kilmer, New York
photographer, that men are
much vainer than women when
they are photographed I
“People say women are vain,”
says the doctor, “but don’t you
believe it. I never saw anything
as vain as a man in a studio.”
Naturally, there will be many
men in Summerville to intimate
that the worthy artist is talking
through his hat, or some other
article of wearing apparel. We
are not inclined to argue very
strongly in favor of the conclu-
sion he announces but, just the
same, we have seen some men
who gave both eyes to their
personal appearance, as if they
had something there.
Deficit Information.
For the information of the
statistically minded we call at
tention to the fact that the
Federal Government, for the
first quarter of the fiscal year
which began July Ist, spent
8976,060,301 more than it col
lected. This is what one techni
cally terms a deficit.
At this rate of extravagance
it will be easily seen that the
deficit for the full year will be
a little less than $4,000 000,000.
With the nation going hog-wild
on preparedness, which always
comes high, it might be estii
mated that the deficit will ex
ceed the indicated figure.
It is interesting to observe, as
a passing comment that some
of the vociferous objections to
a deficit, when incurred for
feeding starving persons, are
quite reconciled to the idea of a
big deficit if the money is spent
for military and naval pur
poses. It seems, from what one
reads, that a deficit for war or
national defense, has some vir
tue that is unconnected with a
deficit incurred in assisting in
dividual citizens.
We confess that we are some»-
what ignorant of the terrors
that lurk in deficits, except in
sofar as a private lack of funds
might be termed a deficit. At
the same time, we moan for the
boys and girls who can hardly
bear to see the government
spend more money than it col
lects. They are in for a bad
winter.
Force Alone Insures Peace.
More than a hundred “lead
ing historians, economists, pol
iticians and socialogists” of the
nation, queried by a committee
of psychologists, agree that the
best factors for keeping this
country at peace included in
ternational education, freedom
from economic nationalism and
the “breakdown of childish pa
triotism.”
We take leave to doubt the
conclusion of the eminent gen
tlemen. The factor that wit
keep this nation at peace is
outside the United States. It is
the belief on the part of possi
ble aggressors that it will not
pay them to attack the United
States.
The guarantee of peace to
day is force and nothing else.
It is a sad commentary on civ
ilization that every nation has
to rely upon its own strength
but the Chinese, the Ethiopians
the Czechs and the Poles know
it. They learned the lesson the
hard way. If we don’t care for
the same lesson, we will see to
it that we are strong enough to
give two blows for every one
directed at us
Frankly, we think the world
would be much better if the na
tions of the world which stand
for the orderly processes of
civilization could get together
and preserve the peace of the
world. Unfortunately, every one
of them is anxious to avoid all
risks and to dodge all responsi
bility for law and order in a
world that is lawless and
threatened by international
criminals.
Church-Going Record.
The people of the United
States, as we have said before,
are record-conscious. No matter
what it may be, if an individual
can set a record, he is sure to
receive acclaim.
This being true, we might as
well take some notice of the
fact that Miss Jennie C. Pow
ers, of Germantown, Pa., has
attended church services at the
Westside Presbyterian Church
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939
Head Brewing Industry Program
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Planned in the Public Interest
'lO.oqo millions;
Hu? Tib
Newly elected officers of the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, who
will direct the industry’s public service program. Left to right: Rudolph J.
Schaefer, Treasurer; Carl W. Badenhausen, Chairman; A. Kirschstein,
Second Vice-Chairman; and S. E. Abrams, First Vice-Chairman.
GRATIFIED by public endorse
ment of its policies, the United
Brewers Industrial Foundation at
ita Convention in New York City en
thusiastically voted continuation of
its program tc align the brewing in
dustry with the public interest.
New officers were selected to
carry on the advertising, research
and industry self-regulation activi
ties inaugurated by their successors
as a means of interpreting the in
dustry to the public and the public
to the industry.
Carl W. Badenhausen, of Newark,
N. J., was named Chairman of the
Foundation for the coming year.
Other officers elected were S. E.
Abrams, Milwaukee, Wis., First Vice
Chairman; A. Kirschstein, Wau
kesha, Wis., Second Vice-Chairman;
and Rudolph J. Schaefer, Brooklyn,
N. Y., Treasurer.
every Sunday morning for the
past sixty-four years and four
months.
The lady began her attend
ance w’hen one year old and
when the church closed during
the influenza epidemic of 1918
she went there every Sunday
morning and worshipped alone.
We doubt if anybody in Chat-
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Brewers and allied industry repre
sentatives from all parts of the
United States participated in the
discussion. They approved reports
from nine states in which the indus
try is carrying on a program cooper
ation with law enforcement officials
to “clean-up or close-up” the small
minority of establishments in which
objectionable conditions surround
the sale of beer.
“The Foundation program and ob
jectives should be sufficient evi
dence that the brewing industry in
this country has recognized its so
cial responsibilities,” Mr. Baden
hausen said in assuming his office.
“The faithful discharge of those re
sponsibilities means the preserva
tion for the country of an industry
which has made substantial tax con
tributions, created employment, and
stimulated local business every
where."
tooga County can equal the rec
ord set by this lady but we won
der who can come the nearest
to it. The editor will be glad to
receive information about in
dividuals in the county who
have gone to church every Sun
day for as much as ten years.
Maybe we will discover the
church-going champion of the
county.
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.
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i War In the North Sea.
On the basis of results thus
jfar in the war it may be as
sumed that the U-boat cam
paign is not meeting with much
success. Whether this is due to
surface patrol ships or to the
use of airplanes in spotting
submarines is unknown but the
British have not suffered the
loss of enough ships to indicate
that the blockade is being re
versed against them.
The German high command,
it appears, is feeling out the
airplane as a weapon against
surface ships. Upon several oc
' casions nazi planes have attack
ed British warships. Berlin re
ports “direct hits” and London
avers the contrary. If the aerial
i attacks continue to be launched
ay the Germans one may as
iume that some measure of suc
ess is being had.
In general- expert naval opin
ion is against the theory that
airplanes can successfully cope
with a surface navy. The bombs,
hat they drop do not outweight
he projectiles that the big guns,
fire and, against which the ships
.are armored. Besides, the loss
I hat the air fleet will sustain is
generally regarded as excessive
n view of the slight possibility
of great results.
BRIEFS; VERY BRIEF
Japanese spokesman -admits troops re
treated from Changsha.
Economists see business recovery de
spite influence of war.
Cotton crop forecast at 11,928,000
bales by the government.