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CIRCULATE IN BEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53; NO. 40 NEWS AT A GLANCE ABOUT STATE EVENTS (By Gilreath Press Syndicate.) ATLANTA, Dec. 20.—The Atlanta Journal commented the other day on a recent editorial appearing in the Claxton Enterprise in which Editor Robert Ma jors discussed a pictorial article in a northern magazine which presented a pov erty-stricken community in the Deep South. “Certainly,” Editor Majors wrote, “we have as much poverty as we can afford. And until we make up our minds to do something about it, we shall continue to have the conditions we abhor to hear about . . . What we need most is to wake up to what is going on, and join hands to eradicate such conditions.” The Journal’s editorial, headed “Sense From Sotßh Georgia,” said : “If the south as a whole would take the attitude sug gested by this south Georgia editor, there would come eventua.ly an improve ment of conditions which by no means are confined to our section. Everywhere there are slums; everywhere there are unfortunates, waifs on the stormy seas of social disorder and an unbalanced econ omy.” For a more immediate result the Jour nal suggests the discouragement to a yel low journalism designed to promote sales by jumping on the South. THEY’RE BETTER TODAY: “With today’s better plant and better metiiods. the American railroads could handle a 1929 volume of business with 350,000 fewer ears than they needed then —-and the 1929 business was 19 per cent, great er than that of 1918,” declares the As sociation of American Railroads. “De spite lean years of meager earnings and unequal public transportation policies, the better railroads of today will handle the nation’s commerce of tomorrow — whatever the need may be.” GIST OF THE NEWS: They’re going to be snappy looking things next year, are Georgia’s 1940 automobile tags. The tags, which, by order of the state legis lature, will advertise the “Peach State,” will have vivid red numerals against a green background ... It cost Georgia $304,395.55 to operate and maintain her prison system in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to statistics just public. After making three annual pay ments, the states owes the federal govern ment $1,343,928.68 on a debt of $1,492,- 000 for the four-year-old white marble prison in Tattnall county . . . William V. Crowley, Attlanta banker will handle the money poured into the party’s cof fers by Georgia democrats during the Jackson day dinner to be staged in At lanta Jan. 8. Major Clark Howell is state chairman. Cotton Ginning Report Qensus report shows that 9,768 bales of cotton were ginned in Chattooga coun ty from the crop of 1939, prior to Dec. 1, as compared with 7,108 bales for the crop of 1938, according to Mrs. Rosa N. Shumate, special agent. CORRECTION In giving the list of candidates for mayor and councilmen in last week’s pa per, The News placed R. S. Thomas’ name on a ticket headed by Dr. F. W. Hall. Mr. Thomas is not running on any ticket, but if elected will work with any one of the three elected for the improve ment and betterment of the city of Sum merville. GEORGIA WRITER HUNTS WAV BACK AUGUSTA, Ga.—Elmer Ranson, now a famous magazine writer, was given six months to live at the close of the war in 1918. He made up his mind to spend those six months in the most pleasant way he could. The Augustan began hunting and fish ing and living in the great outdoors. Now, twenty-one years.later, he’s still hunting and fishing and enjoying life. WHO KNOWS? 1. Has the republican party ever held its national convention before that of the democrats? 2. What official is conducting a cam paign against violators of the anti-trust law? 3. Are the Indians dying out in the United States? 4. What German general, who won fame in the World war, recently cele brated his nintieth birthday? 5. When did Norway and Sweden be beeome separate countries? 6. Who was the youngest man to be come president? 7. When did the United States recog nize soviet Russia? 8. Who is the chairman of the Ameri c , Red Cross? 9. How many European nations have lost their independennee in the past two years? 10. How does world trade compare with 1929? (See “The Answers” on Another Page.) {Hip No SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939 ARMY RECRUITING OFFICER HERE JAN. 11 Col. Daniel D. Tompkins, cavalry, the recruiting officer for the regular army for Georgia and Florida, announced to day that a representative of the army recruiting service from his office will be in Summerville Thursday, Jan. 11, 1940, to accept young men for enlistment in the regular army. All young men between the ages g 18 and 35, who are unmarried, free of de pendents and in good health, should meet the recruiting sergeant at the post office promptly at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 11, 1940. Men accepted will be carried to Atlanta at government expense where they will receive final examinations. Those that meet all requirements Will be enlisted and sent to the stations at which they select to serve and those who fail to pass will be returned to Summerville at government expense. It was understood from Col. Tompkins that he now has available quite a num ber of very desirable vacancies for service in the United States with station at such posts in the Fourth corps area as Fort Benning, Ga., Fort Moultrie, S. 0., and Fort Screven, Ga., etc., and also many desirable vacancies for foreign service as signments. Col. Tompkins also said that quite a number of vacancies are now open in troops of the First divisions, which is temporarily stationed at Fort Benning during winter maneuvers now in prog ress. Men enlisted for assignement to the First division will remain at Fort Ben ning with their regiments for the remain der of the winter, after which they will go to their proper stations. Headquarter: of the First division is located at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and the troops are sta tioned throughout the eastern and north eastern states. stilleOunters - AND ALL GET AWAY CANTON, Ga. Ranger Kenneth Douglas has found a mountaineer who runs his legs faster than he does his ‘white lightning” distillery. The ranger recently was attempting to_ catch bird hunters on a posted area when he stumbled into a liquor still in fu' operation. The stiller fled over a hill, he reported. Douglas yelled for him to come back, ex plaining that he was only a wild life ranger, not a “revenooer.” His pleas failed to impress the stiller, who put on extra speed every time Doug las called. \ He stormed into the bird hunters and set off the alarm. So everybody was gone and Douglas was left with a lot of land, birds and liquor. PENNVILLE 4-H CLUB TO PRESENT PLAY The Pennville 4-H club held its regular meeting Dec. 15 at the school house. Dor othy Billman, the club president, called the meeting to order. Minnie Floyd, sec retary, called the roll and read the min utes. It was suggested to the club that a monthly contribution be made. Miss Henry discussed how to remove paint from furniture and refinish furni ture. “Jones’ Christmas” was the play pre sented by the club girls. Those taking part are as follows: Vera Petitt, Bar bara Strickland, Mildred Vines. Minnie Vines, Minnie Floyd, Frances King, Lou ise Pettyjohn Floyd. Pearlie Mae Coley, Alma O. King, Mabel Hennon, Dorothy Billman. The play was written by one of the club girls, Margaret Kerr. The entire school enjoyed singing a number of Christmas carols, accompani ed by Miss Mary Holland at the piano. ALMA C. KING, Reporter. ATLANTAMARKETB Live Stock Strictly corn-fed hogs, 180-340 lbs, $5.20; 245-300 lbs, $4.95; 300-350 lbs, $4.70; 150-175 lbs, $4.95; 135-145 lbs, $4.70; dry-fed beef type steers, $7.50-$9; fat steers, $4.75-$5.25; common, $4- $4.50; fat cows, $4.50-$4.75; common, $3.75-$4.25; canners, $3-$3.50; good hea vy bulls, $4.50-$5; common, $4-$4.25 ; fat calves, SB-$8.50; medium calves, $6.50- $7.50. Poultry—Large white eggs, 24-26e; medium, 20-22 c; heavy-breed hens, 14c; Leghorn, 8c; roosters, 10c; friers, 18c; turkeys, 15-18 c; capons, 18c. Produce-Apples, Stayman, $1.25- $1.35; snap beans, $2-$2.25 cabbage, $1.50-$1.<55; mustard greens. 40-45 c : po tatoes, l()O-lb sacks, Bliss Triumps, $2.25: squash, sl-$1.50; sweet potatoes. 80c-$l; turnips, bunched. 35-50 c; turnip salad, bushel hampers, 40-45 c. Brazil-U. S. pact to use each other's ships exclusively is near. "Federal highway aid covers 17,000 miles in fiscal year. INFANTILE PARALYSIS WAR ORGANIZED I > ■ ’ ■ '■ .. , j Mon Ifeelt MS -9k- SBjwWjEW'. . f USB. 3 • - i -•% jbMMMBMMbmI |||O' ! . A; i LI -'■■■■ ' 2 z _ x < Leaders from all parts of Georgia are shown as they attended the Organization Luncheon for the 1919 “Fight Infantile Paralysis” drive, Saturday, December 16, at Atlanta. Reading left to right, back row, they are: Tom Bryan, Co-chairman of Seventh District; Cicero Kendrick, Labor Section Chairman; Dr. M. D. Collins, School Chairman; Ivan Allen, Citizens Chairman; Walter Brown, Chairman Agricultural Section; Scott Candler, Fifth District Chairman; Andrew Smith, Chairman Fi ■ A District; Seated, left to right: J. M. C. Townsend, Co-chairman, Seventh District, Margurite Moody, Headquarters Secretary; Governor E. D. Rivers, State Chairman; Mrs. Robin Wood. Women’s Chairman; and H. T. Dobbs, Executive Director of the Drive. These outstanding Georgians have pledged unanimous support to the fight, which is expected to be the most successful in the history of the cause. ANNUAL MEETING OF CREDIT ASSOCIATION Stockholders of the Rome Production Credit association will hold their annual meeting in Rome at the post office build ing on Monday morning, Jan. 15, at 10 .’clock, according to an announcemet by Ben C. Jackson, president of the asso ciation. At this meeting, complete and detail ed reports will be made by the officers of the association on its operations for the yast year, directors will be elected and other important business transacted. In announcing the date of the annual meeting, Mr. Jackson said that it was hoped to make the atendance of stock holders at this year’s meeting the largest in the history of the association. He said that the annual meetings of the associa .ion afford the stockholders an opportun ity to learn every detail of the operations ’ their organization. The Rome Production Credit associa tion, which makes short-term loans to fi lance all types of farm and live stock ,v. j<ioiis, serves, Caioosa, Chattooga. >.ide. Floyd, Pau'ding. Polk and Walker ounties, and in 1939 made loans totaling 50,000 to its 372 members. i ULE HUNTERS URGED TO BUY LICENSE EARLY ATLANTA. —“Shop for your Christ mas hunting license early and avoid the rush,” was the advice given ‘Holiday’ sportsmen by the state department of revenue today. “Division of wild life authorities have predicted a record sale for the Christmas season and we don't want any prospec tive hunter to have to wait for his li cense.” License sales so far this season have been much greater than those for any corresponding period and wild life rang ers say that ever more hunters will take to the field if the state-wide draught, un favorable to quail hunting, is relieved by rain, it was reported. ONE DEATH FOR EACH ONE AND ONE-HALF BILLIONRAILWAYMILESSETS RECORD ATLANTA, Dec. 20 (GPS).--Did you know that today you are safer riding on a train than you are in your own home? That’s hard to believe, isn't it? But statistics have proved it. During the past ten years, according to the Association of American Railroads, fatalities to pas sengers in train accidents averaged only one for each 1,498.000,000 (approximate ly 11/’I 1 /’ billion) miles. It would take a person 2,850 years to cover such a dis tance, provided he traveled at the rate of sixty miles per hour, every hour of the day and night and every day of the year. Another amazing thing the statistics reveal is that white the railroads have perfecting safety on their lines, they have at the same time been speeding up their trains. In fact, no other period in the history of American railroading has seen such striking gains in the speeding up of trains as has that of recent years, the records show. In 1928, except for one or two short runs in New Jersey, there was not a single train in the United States scheduled from start to stop at NO ANSWER FOR THIS ATLANTA, Dec. 19 (GPS).—A South Dakota newspaper asks these questions: “Would you taek the news of your daughter's wedding on a telephone pole? “Would you use a hotel register or telephone directory to tell that you had enlarged your store? ‘‘Would you put the news of your wife's party on a billboard or mov ing picture screen? “Then why in heck don’t you put your advertising in the newspaper, too?” SIX ARRESTED IN CREEK POISONING SYLVESTER, Ga.. Dec. 19.—Six ne groes were arrested on charges of poison ing fish in Spring creek, records of the Flint River district of the division of wild life revealed here today. The cases were filed by Ranger Joe Glawson, who made the arrests after the negroes had escaped from the scene of poisoning. Four persons were accused of shooting ducks out of season and will face charges in federal court. Other alleged violators included a per son hunting quail out of season and a squirrel hunter shooting withot a license. MERGER. The much-discussed unification of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph i companies will be recommended by the federal communications commission, which will propose that the new company take over the leased wire and teletype services of the A. T. & T. company in order to bolster its revenues. Obsolencence : in equipment of both telegraph companies 1 in the opinion of the commission, consti tutes a threat to national security in time of war. an average of more than sixty miles an hour. By' 1930. the total was approxi mately 1.100 miles. In nine years this mileage has increased almost sixty times. During the past year, the study shows, the number of separate runs operating daily at sixty miles and more per hour increased from 864 to 997, and the daily mile-a-minute performances jumped from 47.087 ito 54,956 miles, an increase of 16.7 per cent. If the mile-a-m.inute per formances of weekly and semi-weekly transcontinental and Florida streamlin ers are included, the figures reach 1.070 runs with an aggregate mileage of 65,- 034, or a 15.5 per cent, rise over last year. This places the United States far in the lead in the amount of high-speed railroad mileage. In fact, one large Amer ican railway system, with its 14 ' miles of daily runs scheduled at sixty miles and more per hour, has more mile a-minute mileage than the grand total of any foreign country, the survey re vealed. COUNTY UNEMPLOYED PAID 522.47 DEC. 0 Unemployed workers in Chattooga county were paid $22.47 in benefits by . the bureau of unemployment compensa- I tion during the week ending Dec. 9, 1939, ■ it was announced today. Number of pay ments was reported at six. Total payments to Georgia workers that week amounted to $56,543.14, rep resented by 8,827 checks which went into 104 counties of the state. Five hundred sixty-two payments for $4,707.34 to workers in other states who i previously had established wage credits in Georgia, brought the total to $61,- 250.48. Number and amount of checks mailed by the bureau ranged from one check for $2.60 in Wayne county to 2,426 checks ! for $18,327.66 in the Atlanta area (Ful ton and DeKalb counties). DEATHS Odie Cornelius Bloodworth. Odie Cornelius Bloodworth, 44, World war veteran, died at a Summerville hos pital Friday, Dec. 15, after a brief ill ness. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Jessie Mae and Annie; one son, Freddie; three brothers, L. F. and R. L., of Trion, and A. B._ of Summer ville. Funeral services were held from Trion Baptist church Sunday by the Rev. E. B. Shivers. Interment in Trion cemetery. Paul Weems Funeral home in charge. Minnie Mae Warren. Minnie Mae Warren, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dellas Warren, of Dry Valley, died at a Trion hospital Friday, Dec. 15. Besides her parents she is survived by two brothers. Funeral services were conducted from Macedonia Baptist church Saturday by i the Rev. Herliert Morgan. Interment in adjoining cemetery. Paul Weems Funeral home in charge. WITH THE CHURCHES SUMMERVILLE METHODIST CHURCH (Chas. C. Cliett, Pastor.) Sunday school ait 10 a.m.; Dr. E. R. Buskin, superintendent. Christinas message at 11 a.m. by the pastor. No evening services. Prayer service at 7 p.m. SUMMERMLLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH . (J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.) There will be a beautiful Christmas I candle-lighting service at the ejiureh Sun day evening at 7 :15 o'clock. The manger scene will be >depicted and appropriate carols will be sung. An offer- ! ing for disabled and aged ministers will be taken. The service is under the direc tion of Mrs. Leon Gamble, and all are urged to come. Sunday Services. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; D. L. McWhorter, superintendent. Morning worship at 11 a.m. Wayside Sunday school 2 p.m. Pioneer league at 6:15 p.m. Christmas Candle-Lighting service. STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. $1.50 A YEAR NEW STATE RECORD ‘ IN PARALYSIS FIGHT (By Georgia News Service.) ATLANTA. —The people of Georgia will unite this year as never before in the “Fight Infantile Paralysis” campaign and will stage the greatest “President’s Birthday Celebrations” in the state’s his i lory on Jan. 30. This was the confident prediction made ■ by section and district chairmen, repre i senting every part of Georgia, who gath ! ered at a luncheon at the Henry Grady hotel as guests of H. T. Dobbs, executive director of the Georgia Committee for the Celebration of the President's Birth l day. Principal speaker was Gov. E. D. Riv ers, who is serving again this year as chairman of the Georgia Committee for the Celebration of the President’s Birth day. “We have established what we believe is an enviable record since the Georgia chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was chartered,” said | the governor. “We are glad to be able to say that not a single application for aid that has been reported by a county com mittee has been turned down, and we hope none ever will be. We already have : aided seventy-one cases in forty-three different Georgia counties. "Now, as we enter a new campaign for badly-needed funds with which to con tinue the ‘Fight Infantile Paralysis’ cam paign, I want to express my confidence that the people of our state Will rally as j never before in support of the campaign I to wipe out this scourge. This is a fight J for humanity and challenges the support of every individual of every creed who I believes in helping his fellow man.” The reports of visiting chairmen, all 1 volunteer workers, drew the enthusiastic I praise of Executive Director Dobbs, who voiced his own belief that Georyia peo ple can be depended upon to respond to the appeal for help in the ‘Fight Infan tile Paralysis' drive. “These chairmen are not speaking idle words when they predict that the people of their sections can be counted on for support,” said Mr. Dobbs. “They came to this meeting after having sounded out the sentiments of the citizens of their sections, their neighbors. They know whereof they speak. "So, there is every reason to believe that Georgians, who have heretofore es tablished national records by contribut ing more pro rata than citizens of any other state, will unite and set a new rec ord. It is up to us, people of the state where the fight against infantile paraly sis started, to do just that. So, let’s plan now all of us, to join in the president’s birthday celebration on Jan. 30 and ev eryone do his part, large or small, as best he can. The support of everyone means a lot.” INVESTMENTS The temporary national economic com mittee is conducting a series of hearings connected with the investment banking situation in the country. The committee seeks to discover the extent to which con centration exists in the industry, the man ner in which business is negotiated and divided, and how far bankng processes have been adjusted to the provisions of the banking aet of 1933. SHIPS. A survey of ocean transport facilities to Europe, made by the department of agriculture, shows available tonnage about 80 per cent, greater than in 1914. The American Merchant Marine is near ly four times as large and neutral ton nage has made increases in the last twen ty-five years. WIRE TAPPING. The supreme court has outlawed use of wire-tapping evidence in federal crim inal trials, regardless of whether obtain ed indirectly or directly. A section of the federal communications act prohibits any person from intercepting any com munication and divulging its contentts i without permission of the sender. CONFLICT, i The opening hearing of the special house committee investigating the opera tions of the National Labor Relations board, reveals a conflict within the board I through the testimony of William M. Leiserson. its newest member, who crit cized board methods and the w-ork of the secretary. PRODUCTION. Industrial produettion in November soared to 125 in terms of the federal re serve board's official index, which com pares with 119 in 1929. the highest for any year in the boom of the late twenties. In March, 1937, the index reached 122. SAFER AT SEA. The navy’s bureau of medicine and surgery reports that fifty-four sailors died as a result of automobile accidents in the fiscal year 1989, while only thirty-three were drowned at sea. SALES. Department store sales for November were 6 per cent, over those in the corre sponding months of 1938, according to figures released by the federal reserve board.