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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 41
RAILWAY BUYING
BENEFITS ‘YOUR’
HOME COMMUNITY
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS).—Point
ing out the far-reaching benefits of rail
road buying in nearly every community
in America, the Georgia Cracker, pub
lished at Hazlehurst, in a recent editor
ial, said “when the rails go ahead, we all
go with them.” The editorial, headed
“When the Rails Ring,” follows:
“If you took a map of the United
States and stuck a pin in every commun
ity in which the railroads make purchases
of supplies, fuel and equipment, you’d
be forced to just about corner the pin
supply of a good size store. For, during
19,37, the railroads made purchases from
firms and industries in 12,174 cities and
towns. These communities were located
in 2,638 of the 3,072 counties in the
United States. More than 70,000 differ
ent items, ranging from string to locomo
tives, were bought, and the total spent
reached the staggering sum of $1,133,-
000,000.
“An authority observes that one rea
son why railroad purchases are so wide
spread is that each company prefers to
patronize industries in its own territory
whenever possible. In other words, the
carriers spend their money ■where they
make it. They are a strong influence
tending to decentralize industry—and to
build up local industries and payrolls.
Instead of confining their purchases to a
few great industrial centers —as, for in
stance, would undoubtedly be done if the
railroads were government-owned and po
litically operated—they go in the role of
buyer to the little town no less than the
big city. And, under this stimulating in
fluence, all of America —not just a lit
tle favored part of America —grows and
progresses.
“In those figures, too, you will fin<
your own individual stake in the welfare
of the railroad industry. If the rails an
given the fair competitive break they
ask, they will expand fastter. improve
faster, spend faster. And that will mean
more jobs and opportunities in every
town —and more money for merchants,
doctors, service station operators and ev
eryone else. When the rails go ahead, we
all go with them.”
ROY ALEXANDER
FAILS TO QUALIFY
Roy Alexander failed to qualify for
councilman in the Second ward and is not
a candidate in the election to be held
Saturday, Jan. 6.
The hours of election will be from 9
a.m. until 3 p.m.
The ticket:
For Mayor
G. J. BOLING
F. W. HALL
J. F. PLESS
Councilman—First Ward
HOMER WOODS
D. D. WADE
Councilman—Second Ward
TOM HILL SELMAN
Councilman —Third Ward
C. L. HALE
R. S. THOMAS
Councilman —Fourth Ward
GORDON ALLEN
CLYDE HARLOW
DEATHS
Mrs. Geo. T. Thomas.
Mrs. G. T. Thomas, of Poplar Springs
community, passed to her reward Mon
day Dec. 18, 1939, and she was tenderly
laid to rest Tuesday, Dec. 19, at the
South Carolina Camp Ground cemetery.
Funeral services were conducted at the
church, Rev. Thos. J. Espy officiating
with the Trion Department store in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Thomas had reached her sixty
ninth birthday, and was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Wilson, late of this
county. She moved to Chattooga county
with her parents at an early age, and
spent the remaining days of her life in
this county.
Mrs. Thomas was a member of the
Poplar Springs Baptist church, united
with that church at V’e age of 18 years,
and has been a faithful and devoted mem
ber for fifty-one years.
In 1893 Muss Wilson married Geo. T.
Thomas. To this union were born eight
children. Three of these children passed
away before the going of their mother
and father. She is survived by five chil
dren, three sisters, five brothers and four
grandchildren. Mrs. Thomas had made
many friends, besides her relatives, who
mourn their loss.
W. E. Mathis.
W. E. Mathis, 67, died at the home of
his sister, Miss Essie Mathis, in South
Summerville Friday. Dec. 22. after a long
illness. He is survived by his wife, two
daughters, Mrs. Baxter Cash and Mrs.
J. C. Allison ; three sons, Deed, of Chat
tanooga ; Otis, of Summerville, and Jul
ian, of Lindale; two sisters, Miss Essie
and Miss Ida Mathis, of Summerville.
Funeral services were conducted from
South Summerville Baptist church Sat
urday, at 2 p.m., by the Rev. Herbert
Morgan, the Rev. C. C. Cliett and the
Rev. Wrathburn Cash. Interment in Sum
merville cemetery. Paul Weems Funeral
home in charge.
Snninwnnlk
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939
CENSUS TAKERS WILL
ASK MANY QUESTIONS
Uncle Sam is hiring and training thou
sands of question askers who will set
forth in a couple of weeks on the first
phase of a job that will take about seven
months to complete—the sixteenth decen
nial census of the United States and its
territories.
AH of the people of the nation, as well
as their homes, their farms, their stores,
their factories, and other properties and
aettivities, will be (tabulated and analyz
ed before the job is finished.
The work will begin Jan. 2 with a cen
sus of business, manufacturing, and
mines and quarries. Next April 1 the
second phase, she census of population,
agriculture, and housing, will begin. Both
tabulations will be completed about
Aug. 1.
Huge Staff to Work.
Director-general of this huge task is
William L. Austin, director of the bu
reau of the census of the department of
commerce.
The nation has been divided into 104
areas to facilitate the census, and a man
ager and a staff of assistants are in
charge of each area. These men have been
in the field for the last month preparing
for the work of the 121,000 men and
women who will actually ask the ques
tions and fill out the blanks which ex
perts will sort, total, and analyze on
complicated machines in Washington.
Ten thousand workers will be required
for the census of business and manufac
turers beginning the first of the new
year.
Every place of business and every
manufacturing plant, mine, and quarry
n the United States will be visited. Data
to be gathered will include the number of
such establishments, the number of sal
aried employes and wage earners, their
salaries and wages, the cost of materials
they use, and the value of the products
they sell or produce.
In small towns or big city alike the
enumerators will visit at least 1.700.000
retail merchants, 180.000 wholesalers,
750.000 service businesses, 50.000 hotels
and tourist camps, 200,000 construction
contractors, 50,000 places of amusement,
,00.000 manufacturing plants—including
those which produce the food, the cloth
ing, the automobiles, the newspapers, the
iron and steel, the machinery, and all
other things which the American people
user —14,000 coal mines, 9,000 oil and
gas companies, and 5.000 producers of
sand, gravel, and stone.
In a word, the census will paint a com
plete picture of the business and indus
trial lifeblood of the nation.
LOW COSfIuSING
PLAN IS REVEALED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—United
States Housing Administrator Nathan
Straus disclosed plans Tuesday for a
farm tenant low cost housing project in
the South, under which homes with one
acre of ground would be rented for ap
proximately SSO per year.
Straus, who recently returned from a
tour of ten Southern states, said the
plans were nearly ready for submission
to President Roosevelt for his approval.
No new legislation will be required, he
said.
Each tenant, he said, would be requir
ed to do property improvement work
worth $24 per year as a part of the con
tract for renting the dwelling.
He said he would discuss the project
with Mr. Roosevelt later this week, and
report simultaneously on housing condi
tions in the states he visited. __
Straus did not specify how many dwell
ings were planned, nor the location of
the first proposed projects.
DOUBLE-HEADER BASKET BALL
On Saturday night, Dec. 30, the Trion
Aces swing back into action after the
holidays when they meet the tough Okla
homa Indians from Shawnee, Okla. On
the same card, at 7:15, the Trion com
pany meets a tough team from Cedar
town Textile company.
The teams have won their last three
games at home, and deserve the support
of the home town fans who like good,
clean basket ball.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What is the status of the Ameri
cas’ 300-mile “safety belt” in interna
tional law’?
2. When did the League of Nations im
pose sanctions against Italy?
3. Who is the national woman's ten
nis champion?
4. What is the size of the U.S. army?
5. How many copies of “Gone With the
Wind” have been printed?
6. Did the U. S. receive any payments
on the war debts on Dec. 15?
7. What was the peak income of U.
S. farmers?
8. What is the Finnish name for
Finland?
9. For w’hom was the Admiral Graf
Spee named?
10. How wide is the Behring Strait be
tween Alaska and Siberia?
(See “The Answers” on Another Page.)
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT STATE EVENTS
(By Gilreath Press Syndicate.)
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS).-<lt has
“Gone With the Wind.” Meaning the
South's first Hollyw’ood-style star-studded
premiere party, which cost the produc
ers and distributors a cool $100,060. But
before leaving Atlanta the officials said
there'll be no moaning like that when the
picture is “Gone With the Wind.” They
said : “It was well worth it—every cent of
it.” They were convinceu the premiere
with all its costly embellishments would
set them back not a cent less than $160.-
000.
Hiring of airliners, special trains and
entire floors of hotels cost plenty of mon
ey, they insist. Moreover, studies calcu
late their daily losses of five figures when
such stars as Clark Gable, Claudette Col
bert, Olivia de Havilland and Ann Ruth
erford are absent from the sets. But with
it all, everybody was pleased with the
way in which Atlanta put on the party,
which, they agree, would do credit to New
York and even Hollywood, itself.
While the premiere party has GWTW,
the picture is far from “Gone With the
Wind.” It is still blowing strong in At
lanta. It is enjoying an indefinite run at
Loew’s Grand Theatre and, according
Manager Eddiie Pentecost, tickets are
still in demand. Two performances are
being given daily, at 1:30 p.m. (2 p.m.
on Sundays) and 8 p.m.
(SPEEDING SAFELY AHEAD: The
Lnited States is leading the rest of the
W’orld in the amount of high-speed rail
road mileage. In fact, one large Ameri
can railway system, with its 14,382 miles
of daily runs scheduled at sixty miles and
more per hour, has more mile-a-minute
mileage than the grand total of any for
eign country. No other period in the his
tory of American railroading has been
such striking gains in the speeding up of
rains as lias that of recent years. That
this greater speed has not been accom
plished at the expense of safety is em
phasized by the Association of American
Railroads. During the past tten years,
the association points out, fatalities to
passengers in train accidents averaged
only one for each 1,498,000.000 (approx
imately one and one-half billion) miles.
It would take a person 2,850 years to
cover such a distance, provided he trav
eled at the rate of sixty miles per hour,
every hour of the day and night and ev
ery day of the year.
GIST OF THE NEWS: Approximate
ly S,(XX) students are taking the newly
instituted "Safe and Sane Driving”
course in twenty-five of Georgia’s high
schools. Georgia is the only state boast
ing of such a course, and directors of the
program hope to continue and expand it
until every school in the state lias the
course . . . Mrs. Camimie D. Thomas, of
Newnan, one of only ten women R.F.D.
arriers in Georgia, in her twenty-three
years of “totin’ the mail” has covered al
least 230.000 miles. Said she, “I love the
people I serve” . . . “Who Killed Aunt
Maggie?” written by Medora Field (Mrs.
Angus Perkerson, wife of the editor of
the Atlanta Journal’s Sunday magazine)
has just gone into its seventh printing
. . . Major Graham C. Dugas, recent dis
coverer of a rich gold mine in Lumpkin
county, and Mrs. Bessie Brady Ballen
ger, Atlanta and Lakemont socialite, were
married last week at Lake Rabun ....
Thirteen southeastern conference foot
ball coaches have voted William A. Alex
ander, of Georgia Teeh, the outstanding
conference coach for the season just
c-losed.
Dr. Dennis Opens Office
In the Ramey Building
Dr. W. R. Dennis, veterinarian, has
opened an office in the Ramey building
near Trion. Mr. Dennis is from lowa
and is a graduate of Cornell university.
Mr. Dennis is doing all veterinary
work for Riegeldale farms and also w’ishes
to do private practice.
16 MILLIONSPAIDIN
DIVIDENDS IN STATE
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (GPS).—Nearly
$16,000,000 are being distributed in div
idends by companies operating in Geor
gia, according to a check-up just com
pleted in Atlanta.
Largest of these is the Coca-Cola com
pany, which pays $11,975,700 on its
common stock and $900,000 in semi-an
nual dividends on the “A” stock. Second
largest is the Georgia Power company,
paying $662,625 on its $6 preferred
stock and $75,000 on its $5 preferred,
both quarterly.
LABOR PEACE?
As the year ends, nothing definite can
be reported about the efforts to bring
about peace between the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations and the American
Federation of Labor. Last week, the pres
ident expressed hope that the warring
labor factions would come to an agree
ment soon, but there does not seem to be
much prospect for peace at this time.
Britain and France place contracts for
470 bombers here.
McNary predicts defeat of reciprocal 1
treaty law in senate.
STH SUNDAY MEET ATS.
SUMMERVILLE DEC. 31
The fifth Sunday meeting of the Chat
tooga association will be held at the
South Summerville church Sunday, Dec.
31. All churches are invited to attend.
Sunday school at 9:45; Mr. Fletcher,
superintendent.
Preaching at 11 a.m. by the pastor,
Rev. Morgan.
Dinner will be served at 12 o’clock.
Song service at 1 p.m.
Dev. 1:15 by Rev. Frank Waters.
Quartet by Stevens Bros.
Message by the Rev. Jimmy Parker at
1:30 p.m.
Quartet by Teague girls.
Message by Floyd Creasy, well-known
evangelist from Westmoreland, Tenn., at
2 o’clock.
Message by Rev. Maffett at 2:30.
Message by Rev. Shivers at 3 o’clock.
Judge C. H. Porter, of Rome, will
speak on Crime at 3:30.
Everyone is welcome.
one-Warms"
TO GET NO LOANS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—1 n an ef
fort to encourage soil conservation prac
tices, Secretary Wallace has directed
that the farm security administration re
fuse loans to tenants or sharecroppers
when the would-be borrower’s farm plan
provides for only one cash crop.
The policy is expected to popularize
crop-rotation and diversification in sin
gle crop areas, particularly in the cotton
South.
The new FSA requirement is part of
a program which Wallace announced
Monday night to change agriculture de
partment practices to increase their ef
fectiveness in conserving soil and fores
try resources.
“Land is still wearing out faster than
we can restore it,” Wallace said. “We
are making substantital progress toward
conservation, yet we realize that all we
have done is only a start in the right di
rection.”
In addition to the FSA, the agencies
.affected directly by Wallace’s program
are the agricultural adjustment admin
istration, the soil conservation service,
the forestry service, the bureau of agri
cultural economics and the extension
service.
Through the programs operated by the
units, farmers will be asked to place
greater emphasis on conservation. In
some of the programs, farmers will be
required to take such steps.
The AAA will pay greater subsidies
farmers co-operating in the crop control
programs who employ conservation prac
tices not carried out normally on a large
number of farms. Payments for common
conservation practices were decreased.
MILLIONS IN BONUS
MONEY GO BEGGING
When Uncle Sam winds up the job of
passing out the bonus next month, he
may find that veterans have not claimed
from forty to fifty millions of the money.
Authorities estimate that between
140.000 and 150,000 eligible World war
veterans have not applied for bonuses
totaling about $70,000,000. No applica
tion can be filed after midnight Jan. 2.
and some officials predict that even a
last-minute rush would leave at least
100,000 who had not applied.
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
With the beginning of a new year and
long winter days and nights ahead, try
visiting (Tie library, and finding an in
teresting volume or so to pass away dull
hours.
We wish the public to understand that
membership in the library is absolutely
free to everyone in the county. It is not
limited to Summerville or its vicinity.
There are many books that one would
enjoy; books for small children, boys and
girls and adults. Start 1940 with more
reading, reading that instructs and builds
character —read history, biographies—
such biography as the Life of David Liv
ingstone and find what it means to you.
I know the county is really proud of
her library. It gives her a higher cultur
al rating. Don’t you like to say, “Yes, we
have a public library.” If you are proud
of your library, then help keep it going.
The supervisor who inspects our library
has said positively if we do not increase
its circulation, the library will be closed.
In the future the library hours will be
from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
A recent order for a number of new
volumes has been placed. All are invitetd
to come and enjoy these new books.
KATHARINE HENRY,
President of Library Board.
CROPS.
Farm production in the Unitetd States
during 1939 was nearly 4 per cent, larger
than the average for the 1923-32 “pre
drought period” despite the fact that crop
land harvested was only 325,000.000 acres
as compared -with an average of 354,000.-
000 acres in the earlier period. Higher
yields offset the reduction in acreage.
! DECEMBER PAY WILL BE
SENT STATE TEACHERS
ATLANTA, Dec. 27. —.School teach
ers’ salaries for December, the fourth and
last month which the state board of edu
cation has guaranteed for the year, will
be mailed out next week, it was announc
ed Tuesday at the eapitol. The salaries
total about $1,400,000.
B. E. Thrasher, Jr., assistant
auditor, said there is approximately
SBOO,OOO on hand in the general fund, and
an additional $750,000 to $1,000,000 is
expected to come in this week from coun-
I ty tax collectors who have been collect
ing the general property tax.
“The anticipated revenue from the
property tax will be more than enough
to pay the teachers’ salaries,” Thrasher
said. In previous months the governor
has been impounding highway revenues
to meet the school payroll, but Thrasher
said no such action is needed to pay the
December salaries. The impoundings to- 1
tai more than $3,000,000, which under
the law must be repaid before the end of
the fiscal year, June 30, 1940.
Gov. Rivers was at his home in Lake
land yesterday and there were no devel
opments on a projects loan from the
banks to the schools to repay all or part
of the funds impounded. The chief'exec
utive is expected to return to Atlanta
today or tomorrow.
STATE BANKS MAY SET
RECORD F 0 R LOANS
ATLANTA. Dec. 27.—The year 1939
has made banking history, and almost
certainly will prove to have been the
most active financially in Georgia annals.
This belief was expressed yesterday,
both by Atlanta and Georgia bankers,
following release of statistics by the
American Bankers’ association. These es
timates, expanded to cover the entire
year, indicated 600.000 new loans for a
total of $260,000,000 and 550,000 renew
als of outstanding loans amounting to |
$360,000,000.
Since more services, particularly in
housing and personal finance, were avail
able than ever before, no informed per
son questioned that' the figures, even if
somewhat scaled down when in final
form, would prove to have established
new highs in every field.
Even so, according to the association’s
report, business firms in Georgia are us
ing only about one-fourth of the open
lines of credit maintained for their use
on the books of the banks.
The figures were based on reports from
fifty-nine banks, or 17 per cent, of the
349 commercial banks, and made allow
ance for the concentration of lending ac
tivity in Atlanta.
It was found that the average number
of new loans per bank was about 2,800
and that the average amount was $lO2.
Renewals averaged 2,200 in number and
$1,280 in amount. New mortgages aver
aged 80 per bank and W’ere for an aver
age of $1,219.
Four banks alone reported their open
lines of credit amounted to $21,000,000 !
and that only slightly more than $6,000,-
000 of it was used.
No comparable statistics of previous
years were available in Atlanta.
WITH THECHURCHES
SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
(J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.)
Beginning the first Sunday of the new
year we are planning a church loyalty |
program. It will take the co-operative ef
fort of every member to make the pro- [
gram successful. The churches of Atlanta j
have recently completed such a campaign |
with great success.
Sunday Servies.
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; D. L. Me- I
Whorter, superintendent.
Morning worship at 11 a.m.
Wayside Sunday school at 2 p.m.
Pioneer league at 6:15 p.m.
Evening service at 7 :15.
Christmas Tree Industry
Valued At $10,000,000
Over nine million Christmas trees that
were first spotted last July, cut in early
autumn, and shipped by Thanksgiving,
are now the centerpieces in as many
American homes.
The Christmas tree business in Ameri
ca is a $10,060,000 industry, and nearly
half of the trees used come from Maine.
Balsams and spruce are the main trees
used for Christmas.
PRICES
The sharp upw-ard movement of many
basic raw materials, notably cotton, silk
and grains, which has been a feature of
commodity markets recently, causes the
federal monopoly committee to warn that
advancing prices may upset the national
economy. The widest advances are shown
by products controlled by foreign nations
or cartels, including cocoa beans, shel
lac, burlap, silk, bananas and some oth
er products.
Social security board finds 528,575 el
igible for benefits.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAK
STATE CAMPAIGN
FOR POLIO DRIVE
NEARS COMPLETION
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA.—'Literally thousands of
pledges of support and co-operation to aid
in the “Fight Infantile Paralysis” cam
paign poured into the state headquarters
of the Georgia Committee for the Cele
bration of the Presidentt’s Birthday last
; week, where plans are rapidly being com
; pleted for the state’s greatest drive for
; funds to battle the “maiming death.”
“These voluntary pledges are coming
’ from persons in all walks of life and from
I persons in all walks of life and from ev
! ery corner of the state,” H. T. Dobbs,
I executive director of the Georgia com
mittee, said. “The’ people of Georgia have
I year by year become more and more in
fantile paralysis conscious, and conscious
of the crying need of aid for victitms of
the disease, so that it becomes increas
ingly easy to attract the attention of ev-
I erybody in the state to the drive for
funds,” Mr. Dobbs added.
“This is attributed to a large extent to
the year-round interest stimulated by the
establishment of the Georgia state chap
ter of the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, Inc., which has done
so much for polio cases throughout the
state,” he said.
It was pointed out that the plan for
disbursement of the funds raised will be
the same as last year—so per cent, will
l>e sent to the national foundation to be
used for research, and the other 50 per
cent, will remain with the Georgia chap
ter of the national foundation for the ex
clusive use of victims in this state.
Section chairmen have been selected,
and throughout the state counties or
ganized under the district chairmen have
started planning various events, which
| will climax the drive on the president's
I birthday, Jan. 30.
WPAPLANSBIG ROAD
PROGRAM FOR 1940
A road construction pro
gram in Georgia during 1940 -will be un
dertaken by the works progress adminis
tration, and plans calling for expendi
tures of $15,063,294 by the federal gov
ernment and $5,857,989 by the state and
counties, have already been announced.
T(ie work will be sponsored by the
state highway department and counties
in which improvements are made, and
i will affect all sections of the state.
Approximately 2,200 miles of road will
be improved under the plan which R. L.
MacDougall, administrator, said should
bring maximum development to the sec
ondary road system “through combining
the efforts of the federal, state and coun
ty governments.”
The arrangement for the state highway
department to sponso r the project “is an
innovation to WPA operations in Geor
gia,” the administrator said in his an
nouncement.
“In the past road work has been con
ducted under the sponsorship of individ
ual counties on a multiple project basis.
The state highway department also has
sponsored projects on an individual ba
sis.”
Benefits Same.
The new plan, MacDougall explained,
will permit “the same benefits of state
wide planning for secondary roads that
are now available for the primary road
system.”
The work will be concentrated on sec
ondary roads, but will give every road
job “the benefits of the highway depart
ment's engineering staff. From the point
of view of WPA operations, it will give
better engineering and supervision pos
sibilities.”
The project is the largest, both in vol
ume of work and amount of money ever
approved in Georgia, MacDougall said.
Extensive use will be made of the state
highway planning survey which has been
undertaken to determine where roads are
most needed.
“The statewide road project will ab
sorb individual projects now under op
eration and calling for the expenditure
of approximately $5,000,000.” the an
nouncement said. “All individual road
projects now under way will be carried
to conclusion or to a satisfactory stage
under the new one-project plan.
Tlie outline of work for the year calls
for grading and surface stabilization of
1.547 miles of road at a cost of $8,213.-
055. Bituminous surface treatment will
be given 588 miles of road at a cost of
$6,165,392.
Informed of MacDougall's announce
ment. Gov. Rivers said the state had filed
application for a state-wide WPA road
program some time ago.
“Under the plan it is our duty to fur
nish equipment,” he said, “and to par
ticipate insofar as funds will permit.”
DIONNE TYPISTS.
NORTH BAY, Ont.—The Dionne
quintuplets are the proud possessors of
specially constructed typewriters, given
to them by a United States manufactur
er. The machines have keys for French
accents, signs for multiplication, addi
tions, subtraction, division and every
thing.