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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.