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CIRCULATE IN iBEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 47
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT STATE EVENTS
(By Gilreath Press Syndicate.)
ATLANTA, Feb. 7. —When Georgia
and the south do anything, they always
do iit in a big way. Take the weather, for
instance. When we decide to have a snow
storm and freeze wie don’t just have ordi
nary ones. No, sir! We have storms that
set new records for Itlhe Deep South. Why,
the recent cold wave down dn these parts
was big news al over the country. Stories
of our weather was spread all over the
front pages of New York and other east
ern papers. And above all else it proved
one thing—we can gdt along no matter
wthat the emergency. We can always find
something to turn to with which to dig
out. Along that line the Atlanta Journal
had a most timely editorial which said :
“The slap that Mother Nature gave the
Southeast, as violent as the flailing arm
of a polar bear against a tuft of Arctic
grass, brings sharply to mind our ines
capable dependence on railroads and
electric cars. The airines and the high
ways, the buses and the taxis, the vans
and their trailers function beautifully
When the weather is good and condition*
are normal. But when Nature cuts up,
we must turn to the 'old reliables. Rail
road trains and trolley ears run when all
else fails. And transportation of roan and
goods is to a people what 'the arterial sys
tem is Ito man. The railroads and the
street car companies are having their ec
onomic troubles, as for many years past,
but they are a necessity of our existence.
May there come soon a solution of their
basic problems! America needs them, at
healthy and contented servants of th<
people.”
TRUE TO FORM : As predicted by the
thirteen shippers’ advisory boards at the
beginning of the year, freight car loadings
for ithe first three weeks of 1940 showed
a substantial increase over the correspond
ing period ladt year . This reflects im
proved agricultural and industrial condi
tions throughout the country. In the
first three weeks of this year loading of
revenue freight totaled 1,905,927 ears,
compared with 1,698.271 in'the same peri
od ast year, a .gain of 207,656 cars. This
is a gain of 202,v86 ears in tlhe tlhree
week period in 1938 when cars numbered
1 703 541
GIST OF THE NEWS: During the
first three weeks of January 1,712 Geor
gia youths enrolled in the OCC and six
ty-two World war veterans enrolled in
ithe COO veteran camps. The new enrol
lees represented Georgias quota of the
67,000 vacancies in the COO rolls which
occurred Jan. 1 .... Miss Varnelk
Braddy, of Atanta, won $5,000 in the Red
Book Magazine’s letter-writing contest,
in which there were 120.000 contestants
The 27-year-old Atlan|t;ian, a nlative of
Cummings, Ga., attended Bessie Tift col
lege, Agnes Scott and Emory university.
She is now an accountant . .. The South
ern league has set the opening date of its
baseball season as April 12, with the At
lanta Crackers playing Nashville at Ponce
de Leon park. The Crackers also drew
a Fourth of July date at home in the
154-game schedule, which closes Sept. 8
President Earl Mann, of the Atlanta
club, said the schedule was eminently
satisfactory.
GUERNSEY IS SOLD TO TRION CO.
HOPEWELL JOT., N. Y.—The Amer
ican Guernsey Cattle club, Peterlrorough,
N. H., reports that a registered Guernsey
cow has been sold by Foremost Guernsey
Association, Inc., to the Trion company-
Riegeldale farm, of Trion. Ga. This ani
mal is Foremost Nona 506985.
INCOME.
Income payments to individuals in
1939, compareci with 1938, show a gain of
5 per cent. The department of commerce
reports that total individual incomes in
1939 were $69,700,000,000, compared with
$66,300,000,000 in 1938. In 1929. the rec
ord was $82,700,000,000. The department
says “Is view of lower price levels in
1939, the quantity of goods and services
produced last year is approximately the
same as in 1929.”
RATHER INDEFINITE
DALLAS, Tex. —Executors of the will
of the late Mrs. Bertha F. Anderes are
wondering how to get in touch with two
of her beneficiaries who were identified
as follows: "An unknown niece some
where in Switzerland, $100; an unknown
friend, $200.”
2,189,350 ON WPA ROLLS.
WASHINGTON.—On Jan. 10, there
were 2,189,350 persons on the WPA rolls
an increase of 29,403 over the week-ender’
Jan. 3, but considerably under the 3,061,-
283 enrollment, reported for Jan. 11, 1939
WHO KNOWS?
1. When was Senator Huey Long as
sassinated?
2. Where was the late Senator Borah
born?
3. What was the president’s estimated
expenditure for the federal government
during the next fiscal year?
4. How much money has congress ap
propriated for the TVA?
5. Who developed the process for mak
ing newsprint out of southern pine?
6. How old is Frank Gannett, who
seeks the republican presidential nomina
tion?
7. How much water does the city of
New York use in a day?
8. When will the next president be in
augurated?
9. Do the people of Brazil speak the
Spanish language?
10. How long did Italy remain at peace
after the World war began in August,
1914?
(See “The Answers" on Another Page.)
Bnmnwrmlk Nnus
11,300 STATE FAMILIES
REFINANCED BY HOLE
More than 11,300 Georgia families, re
financed by tlhe Home Owners’ I»an cor
poration when they faced the loss of their
homes through foreclosure only a few
years ago, today are clearly on their way
to debt-free home ownership, or already
have achieved that goal.
Os these borrowers, HOLO Regional
Manager H. E. Cox reported today, 950
have paid in $1,925,284 to cross off their
debts in full. Some 10,358 others either
are entirely current, less than three
months in arrears, or are meeting all cur
rent bills and, in addition, making regu
lar monthly payments to liquidate their
arrearages.
“Still 1,902 others are making adjust
ed payments sufficient to keep their ac
counts active and we expect the great ma
jority to rehabilitate themselves,” said
Mr. Cox. “Considering that the average
borrower was two years delinquent in
both principal and interest and between
two and three years on taxes when he
was refinanced, the record proves that
what most of our borrowers needed was
only a fair chance —embodied in long-term
loans at a low interest rate—to overcome
the hardships the depression forced upon
them.”
In all, Georgia borrowers have pair
back $8,737,326, or approximately 25.1
per cent, of their entire principal indebt
edness.
The other side of the picture—the man
ner in which the corporation is liquidat
ing the properties it has been forced to
ac-quire and which came to it through vol
untary deed or abandonment —also was
given by Mr. Cox.
The HOLC now owns 500 homes in
Georgia and, in addition, has sold 1,122,
of which 609 were sold last year. These
homes were sold for $3,025,180, about
$548,400 below their capitalized value —
representing a book loss of S4BB a hmne
in addition to selling costs, including
commissions of $200,566.
“But into that capitalized value was
written not only the unpaid balance of
the mortgage loan, including unpaid ad
vances and interest, but also delinquent
taxes which may amount to hundreds of
dollars, foreclosure costs, and the costs o‘
repair and reconditioning,” said Mr. Cox.
“In other words, the cost of leniency l —of
giving the borrower a chance to pull thru
—is represented in the book loss the fig
ures show. Sales costs appear in the op
erating expenses of the corporation, paid
out of its own revenues. They represent,
for the most part, commissions to private
brokers who handle our properties at set,
minimum fees.”
The homes .the HOLC still owns, capi
talized at $1,587,358,. according to Mr.
Cox, have a present estimated market
value of $1,316,200.
“But merely to say the corporation is
‘losing money’ in the amount of loss it
takes, on its sales of homes is like saying
a buiness is losing money because one de
partment shows a loss,” said Mr. Cox.
“The HOLC could hardly be expected to
sell foreclosed homes —many of them run
down and needing extensive repairs, all
.burdened with unpaid taxes —at a profit
Every mortgage institution loses money
on the sale of foreclosed homes, and
makes up for it on its good loans.
“Each month the corporation sets aside
reserves, and its losses, together with op
erating expenses, are being imeit through
the ‘spread’ between the interest it re
ceives on its loans and the lower interest
it must .pay on its bonds.”
The HOLC granted 14,850 loans in
Georgia prior to the close of its lending
period in June, 1936, amounting to $33,-
664,632. To give a comparison on the per
formance of Georgia borrowers with thos<
in the rest of the country, Mr. Cox offer
ed the following figures:
The HOLC made more than a million
loans, amounting to appro ornately $3.-
OOO.OOO.fXX), throughout th? nation. Bot
rowers have paid back $700,600,000 or
21.8 per cent. of the principal iiideinfd
ness, while 65,000 borrowers have paid
in $155,000,000 to cancel their debts in
full. Some 639,401 borrowers are current
less than three months in arrears or liq
uidating their arrearages, while 135.51 .\
others are making adjusted payments.
The corporation has sold 80,824 homes
to date—it now is disposing of them at
a rate of more than 4,000 a month —and
still owns 77,229, some 10 389 less than
were on its looks six months ago. Book
losses on sales to date have averaged
$975. Foreclosures dropped in November
to 409. as compared with 8,000 foreclos
ures monthly in the late summer and fall
of 1936.
STILLS.
Airplanes are being used by the treas
ury department to spot illicit stills in
mountain hideaways. This is dhown by
the annual repotr of Secretary Morgen
t.hau who says that Coast Guard aviators
spotted 923 of the 11,425 stills seized or
destroyed by the olcohol tax unit last
year.
FINLAND
The proposal to make a loan to Finland
is meeting with considerable opposition.
Congress seems reluctant to assume re
sponsibility for a loan limited to non
military supplies. The fear is that it
will be a precedent to make similar loans
to other belligerents.
TWIN HURTS.
LOS ANGELES. —Twin sisters, Miss
Louise Vento and Mrs. Josephine Bono,
18, are seeking $50,000 damages, claim
ing that their backs w*ere broken in the
same place, at the time time, in the same
automobile accident.
101 LIVED LONG ENOUGH.
NEWARK, N. J.—Celebrating her one
hundred and first birthday, Mrs. Lina
Wilkinson declared she hopes it will lx
her last, saying, “I’ve lived long enough.”
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940
FINAL REPORTS IN POLIO
DRIVE AT STATE DINNER
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA. —Final reports of the 1940
Fight Infantile Paralysis campaign will
be made at the Georgia state dinner to be
held at 7 o’clock Saturday night, Feb. 10
in the Henry Grady hotel, Atlanta, it
was announced by State Chairman E. D.
Rivers, of the Committee for the Celebra
tion of the President’s Birthday.
The dinner will mark the close of one
of the most intensive and spontaneous
state-wide campaigns ever held, in which
thousands of Georgians gave of their time
and funds to make the fifty-eighth birth
day anniversary of President Roosevelt
one of the memorable occasions of his
fight for humanity against the last great
plague, infantile paralysis.
Gov. Rivers will serve as toastmaster,
and after a good dinner and some excel
lent music, the reports of all section, dis
trict and county chairmen in the Georgia
organization for the fight on infantile pa
ralysis will be made.
W. V. Crowley, vice-president of the
Fulton Nation bank, of Atlanta, an<
treasurer of the campaign, expects the fi
nal report of the Georgia organization tx
the national organization to be one of th:
finest ever made.
From advance reports in a number o
counties, the 1940 campaign will net one
of the largest amounts ever raised for the
cause, Mr. Crowley said. He praised th:
fine spirit exehibited by those Georgians
to whom the leadership of the campaign
was entrusted in the various sub-divisions
of the state.
Plans are being made to broadcast the
dinner program on a statewide radio
hook-up.
Trophies will be awarded to the win
ning county or counties, school amd dis
trict, for the best showing in the cam
paign.
H. T. Dobbs, executive director of the
Georgia organization, emphasized the fact
that half of the money raised in Georgia
remains in this state for the care and
treatment of victims of poliomyelitis. The
remainder of the net fund will go to the
national foundation for infanttile paraly
sis, to be used in research into the cause
and prevention of infantile paralysis.
Mr. Dobbs expressed belief that in the
final report “Georgia, as usual, will lead
the nation.”
U. S. Marine Corps
Nears 25,000-Goal
With its authorized strength of 25,000
approximately reached by recruiting over
6,500 addition men, an increase of about
37 per cent., and replacing normal month
ly losses since September, recruiting for
the U. S. Marine corps will be greatly
curtailed after January. From month to
month thereafter only a limited number
of men will be enlisted to replace those
discharged, retired and .transferred to tin
fleet Marine Corps reserve after comple
tion of 16 and 20 years service.
Sub-stations in Atlanta and August::
will be closed in February and the dis
trict recruiting headquarters at Macon
will accept approximately 15 men each
month from this territory.
Full information concerning the Marine
Corps and application blank for enlist
menit may be had by calling at or writing
the U. S. Mhrine Corps Recruiting Sta
tion, Macon, Ga.
Gulls Challenge
Georgia Anglers
For Frozen Fish
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 6.—Latest
wildlife story is that of a clash between
Georgia fishermen and gulls—over frozen
fish. There were so many fish that this
party had to fight off the gulls.
That’s what Julius F. McGinley told
about a trip to Beach Hammock, where
tons of frozen fish, victims of the recent
bitter weather, were floating dead in the
ocean.
In McGinley’s party were three other
anglers and they helped themselves t:
choice trout and sea bass. Just for good
measure they brought in a sack of fresh
mullet.
The gulls, apparently unwilling to dip
into the icy water, attempted to take the
fish away from the fishermen after they
had been brought to shore.
VOLUNTEERS.
Americans enlisting in the fighting
forces of foreign gopernments will not
lose their citizenship, says the president,
unless they take an oath of allegiance to
the nation for which they fight,
TRADE.
Exports from the United States in De
cember amounted to $368,000,000. the
highest month since March, 1930, and im
ports were $247,000,000. For the year
1939, total exports were $3,177,000,000
a gain of 3 per cent, over 1938. Imports
amounted to $2,318,000,000, 18 per cent,
ahead of the previous year.
A SICK THIEF.
CHARLOTTE, N. C. —It must, have
been a sick burglar who broke into a lo
cal store. He took six bottles of malaria
medicine, twelve bottles of castor oil anti
twelve boxes of cough drops.
SNOW AIDS CAPTURE.
LEWELLEN, Nelb. —When Joe Clay
decides to play robber again, he’ll prob
ably be more careful of the weather. A
grocer, on discovering his store robbed of
$l3O in cash and $lO7 in merchandise,
found a broken rear window. Outside tli r
window were tracks in the snow. The
grocer followed the trail right to the home
of Joe.
RAILROAD TAX BILL
IS $1,000,000 A DAY
ATLANTA. Feb. 7 (GPS).—The old
phrase of doughboy, gob and leatherneck
■ —(‘Another day, another dollar”- —has
been changed now. as far as railroad
taxes are Concerned, to “Another day,
another million,” according to the Rail
way Age, which reports that in 1939 the
railroad tax bill approximated an even
$365,000,000, the biggest bits taken by
the fax collectors in a decade.
In a comparison of railway financial
results in 1939 with those of 1934 and
1929, the Railway Age shows that in the
last ten years railway revenues have de
clined 36 per cent, while taxes have fallen
only 8 per cent.'; and that in the last
five years revenues have increased 23 per
cent, while railroad taxes have jumped
by more than 52 .per cent.
From consuming 6.3 cents of each dol
lar of revenue in 1929 and 7.3 cenlts per
.revenue dollar in 1934, railroad taxes in
1939 jumped to such heights that they
absorbed more than 9 cents out of every
dollar of operating revenues received by
the steam lines, figures show.
Every community in which the rail
roads operate is benefitted by these taxes
for they are used to pay the general cost
of government, including fire and police
protection, sanitation, courts, schools and
even the highways.
GORHIOME EULUB
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
The Gore Home Economics club met
Thursday. Jan. 18, to elect officers for
the new year. The following were elected :
President. Betty Jim Owings; vice
president, Charlotte Ballenger; secretary
and treasurer, Sara Baker program com
mittee. Louise Perry chairman, Mary Ann
King, Velma Fulton; social committee.
Betty Perry chairman, Lorene Owens,
Helen Owings; refreshment committee,
Willie Mae Warren chairman, Lola Mae
Cargle, Margaret Aired ; decoration com
mittee, Dorothy Hendrix chairman, Hel
en Conley. Mozelle Anderson ; song lead
er, Maynelle Owens; pianist, Velma Ful
ton ; scrapbook committee. Isabel Cordle
chairman. Mary Nelle Woods, Lucille
Hawkins, Dorothy Mae Mjoore, Dorothy
Lee Cargle; reporter, Alice Johns.
ALICE JOHNS. Reporer.
DEATHS
Joseph H. Ratliff
Joseph 11. Ratliff, 75, life-long resident
of Chattooga county, died at the home
of his brother, R. W. Ratliff, of Dirt
town, Saturday, Feb. 3. after a lingering
illness. He is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. Charles McLain, of DeFunik
Springs, Fla.; three brothers, John, of
Holland; R. W. and Walter of Dirttown;
two sisters, Mrs. John White, of Hol
land, and Mrs. Homer Patrick, of Rome.
Funeral services were conducted from
Bethel Presbyterian church Sunday at 2
p.m. by the Rev. Pendley. Interment in
adjoining cemetery. Paul Weems Funeral
home in charge.
William J. Donald.
William J. Donald. 85, prominent citi- |
zen of Subligna, died at the Summerville !
hospital Sunday at 6 p.m., after having I
been in declining health for several years.
Mr. Donald is survived by three daugh
ters, Mrs. J. F. Watson, of Chattanooga;
Mrs. Minnie Carpenter, of Subligna, and
Mrs. Bessie White, of Detroit; two sons,
Walter, of Omega. Ga., and R. W., of
Subligna; three sisters, Mrs. Dora Car
son, of Cassville; Mrs. Nokian Henderson,
of Atlanta, and Mrs. Sallie Irvin, of Cal
houn.
Funeral services were conducted from
Subligna Methodist church Tuesday at
11 a.m. by the Rev.‘George R. Erwin.
Interment in adjoining cemetery. Paul
Weems Funeral home in charge.
Mrs. Lena Mae Comer.
Mrs. Lena Mae Comer, 29, died Sun
day afternoon, Feb. 4, after a lingering
illness. Surviving are her husband, John
N. Comer; father, J. 11. Brown, of Sum
merville ; four brothers and three sisters.
Funeral services were conducted from
the Trion Baptist church/Tpesduy after
noon at 1 o’clock by the Rev. Shivers
Interment in Pennville cemetery. Trion
Department store in charge.
W. H. Gilreath.
W. H. Gilreath, known by the people
of Chattooga county as “Uncle Henry,”
died Sunday, Feb. 4, at an early hour.
Mr. Gilreath was a life-long resident
of Trion. At the time of his death he was
near his 83rd birthday.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nan
nie Gilreath; six daughters, Mrs. Louis
Kinsey, of Chattanooga; Mirs. Will Mc-
Ginnis, of Texas; Mrs. Anderson Grif
fetit Mrs. Chas, llollis. Mrs. J. C. Lang
ston and Mrs. Joe Farley, all of Trion;
two brothers, twenty-four grandchildren
and twenty-three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted from
the Macedonia church Monday at 11 a.m
by the Rev. Shivers and- the Rev. Black
Interment in church cemetery. Trion De
partment store in charge.
Mrs. Martha Jane Adams.
Mrs. Martha Jane Adams, 47, died al
her home in Trion Sunday, Feb. 4, a*
3 a.m.
She is survived by her husband J. H
Adams; two sons, L. F. and J. C.; twe
daughters, Kathleen and Sybil; father
J. B. Bryant, and five sisters, all of
Trion.
Funeral services were conducted from
the Trion Methodist church Monday aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock, by the Rev. Shivers
and the Rev. Harrell. Interment in Trion,
STATE 3RD IN NATION
IN DEATH REDUCTION
ATLANTA, Feb. 7 (GPS) Georgia
is one of the three safest States in which
to live. At least it was in 1939 when
Georgia ranked third in the national
standing in reduction of lives lost in traf
fic accidents, Which led all either causes of
death throughout the United States.
Georgia scored a 14 per cent, reduction
in traffic deaths over the previous year.
This state’s record of 112 was Ithe great
est number of lives saved in any single
state during 1939. according to the na
tional safety council’s survey just com
pleted in Chicago. There were 711 traffic
deaths in the stage in 1939 compared with
823 the previous year.
The only states topping Georgia's rec
ord were Utah with 24 per cent, drop in
deaths, and New Hampshire with 18 per
cent. There were itwenty-six states report
ing reductions in traffic deaths. Atlanta
was third in her population group with a
51 per cent, reduction.
CROP,FEED LOANSNOW
AVAILABLE TO FARMERS
Emergency crop and feed loans for
1940 are now* available to farmers in
Chattooga county, and applications for
these loans are now being received at the
county agent’s office by Geo. H. Harri
son, field supervisor of the emergency
crop and feed loan section of the farm
credit administration.
These loans will be made, as in the
past, only to farmers whose cash require
ments are small and who cannot obtain a
loan from any other source, including
production credit associations, banks, or
other private concerns or individuals.
As in former years, the money loaned
will be limited to the applicant's neces
sary eash needs in preparing and culti
cating his 1940 crops or in purchasing or
producing feed for his live stock.
Borrowers who obtain loans for the pro
duction of cash crops are required to give
as security a first lien on the crop financ
ed or, in the case of loans for the pur
chase or production of feed for live stock,
a first lien on the live stock to be fed.
BAPTIST EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE TO MEET
The Baptist executive commitee will
meet at Summerville Baptist church Sun
day, Feb. 11. at 2 pan. There will be no
arranged program. The meeting will be
open for discussion of our associatioaral
work. If interested we will be glad to have
you attend and take part.
The fifth Sunday meeting for March
will be discussed. It is understood that
this meeting will be turned over to the
Sunday school convention.
If any church desires this meeting,
please take action and let it be known at
the committee meeting next Sunday.
Member of Committee.
TENANT LOANS.
The farm security administration says
that it has received 133.096 applications
for loans under the Bankhead-Jones farm
tenant act which was passed to help ten
ants, share-croppers and farm laborers to
buy farms. The administration estimates
that it can make 6,971 loans.
* ARMS.
In December, licenses for the export
of arms •mounted to a value of $35,262,-
313. Meanwhile, the state department re
veals that the European war sent our
arms export business to $204,555,780 in
1939. more than double the total for
1938.
STAR IN COW.
MILWAUKEE.—The deputy sheriff
from some Wisconsin county who lost his
officer’s badge cam get same by applying
at the Milwaukee stockyards of the Equi
ty Live Stock Co-Operative association..
It was found in the stomach of a cow
recently slaughtered there.
PAINFUL RESCUE.
MARISSA, Ill.—Making a desperate
attempt to prevent her daughter from
falling on an icy sidewalk, Mrs. Mida
Collins stumbled and fell herself. The
girl was uninjured, but Mrs. Collins suf
fered a fractured leg.
cemetery. Arrangements by Trion De
partment store.
David DeWitt Smith.
David DeWitt Smith, the 1-day-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Smith, died early
Monday morning at the home of his par
ents near Holland. Funeral services were
conducted from the graveside In New
Hope. South, cemetery Monday afternoon.
Paul Weems Funeral home in charge.
Mrs. Melviney Crye.
Mrs. Melviney Crye. age 83, died Mon
lay, Feb. 5. at 3 :36 o'clock at the home
f her son-in-law. Arnold Lewis. She is
urvived by seven sons, E. M. and Frank
Crye, of Caney Creek. Tenn.! Lee Crye.
Carnegie. Okla.; Marion Crye, La Fay
ette : Charley Creye, Chelsea; Harrison
tnd Scott Crye. of Jamestown. Ala ; three
laughter, Mrs. Joe Little. Rome; Mrs.
Martha Clifton, Gaylesville, Ala., and
Mrs. Luke Lewis, Blanche, Ala. She is
also survived by about forty grandchil
dren and several great-grandchildren.
Interment wa: in Jamestown with the
pastor the Rev. Martin, officiating. Bart
lett Funeral home, of Fort Payne, in
charge.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAB
BOY SCOUT WEEK TO
BEGIN TODAY, FEB. 8
The nation’s 1,350,000 Cubs, Boy
Scouts and their leaders will celebrate the
|thirtieth anniversary of the incorporation
I of the Boy Scouts of America in a week’s.
' observance beginning today, Feb. 8.
Boy Scout week is the most important
■ in the Boy Scout calendai* and nine mil
lion present and former Scouts and lead
ers will join the celebration which this
year has as its theme, “Scouting-—The
American Way.”
The scout program with its patrol
method and other group action features
is a “school for citizenship.” Since scout
ing provides for democratic group decis
ions and group action, the celebrations
throughout the nation will lie greatly va
ried. Each troop will celebrate the birth
day anniversary in accordance with its
own plans.
Radio will play an important role in
the Boy Scout week celebrations linking
together, if only for a short time, the
scouts in the great rural areas with those
in the cities and towns.
The high point of the week’s observance
will be a nation-wide broadcast from the
White House, Thursday evening, Feb. 8,
j in which President Roosevelt, as honor
ary* president of the movement and him
self an active scout leader, will talk to
his “fellow Scouts and Scouters” as well
as the millions of friends of scouting.
Speaking also during the presidential
broadcast will be Walter W. Head, of St.
Louis, president of the Boy Scouts of
America, who will speak from Detroit
Mich., where he will be attending a din
ner of scout leaders. Mr. Head will speak
briefly and then introduce the president
of the United States and at that point
the broadcast will switch to the nation’s
capital.
A feature of the White House broad
cast will be the annual rededication by
the nation’s scouts to the scout oath
which is the guiding principle of scouting.
At the conclusion of his address, Pres
ident Roosevelt will ask the scouts, lis
tening in every part of the nation as well
as in all of its possessions, to take the
scout oath or promise, led by Dr. James
E. West, Chief scout executive and editor
of ‘Boys’ Life’ who will be ‘cut into’ the
broadcast from Miami, Fla.
Sunday, Feb. 11, will be Scout Rev
erence day* and in thousands of churches
of every denomination there will be scouts
attending special services. More than half
of .the nation’s 43,368 Cub Packs, Boy
Scout troops and Senior Scout groups are
sponsored by the churches and synagogues
of America. Scouts of Jewish faith will
hold their special services Friday evening,
Feb. 9, and Saturday.
Special emphasis will be placed upon
the twelfth point of the scout law which
reads, <‘A Scout is Reverent. He is rev
erent toward God. He is faithful in his
religious duties, and respects the convic
tions of others in matters of custom and
religion.”
In many communities scouts, by patrols
and troops, will take an “Old Scout Cen
sus,” systematically calling at all resi
dences according to pre-arranged plans,
to record the names and addresses of
those who were once scouts of scout lead
ens. Many of these “Scout Alumni” will
be invited to participate in scout activi
ties during Boy Scout week.
Scouts will wear their uniforms and
have special roles and demonstrations in
public and private school assemblies. Fra
ternal and civic clubs will have Boy
Scouts as their guest speakers who will
give first-hand accounts of what scouting
means to them.
Hundreds of troops and cub packs will
have special “parents' night” meetings in
which the parents will be participants in
some of the activities. Other troops will
have itheir meeting during Boy Scout
week set aside for troop reunions with
former members returning to renew ac
quaintaenes and for an evening of fel
lowship and fun.
The outdoor activities will also have
their part in the celebration where weath
er conditions permit. There will lie camp
ing trips, hikes and outdoor rallies, and
there will be inter-troop winter sports
carnivals where snow and ice conditions
allow.
YOUTH ADVANCE AT
METHODIST CHURCH
“The Gulf Between Youth and Adult
and How To Bridge It” is the subject that
the pastor will use next Sunday at 7
p.m. at the Methodist church. This is in
keeping of the program of the Methodist
denomination that is observing February
as Youth Advance month.
In this message the Rev. Mr. Cliett
expects to explain why* there is not an
tinderstanding lietween all adults and
young people. He plans also to tell how
an understanding can l>e accomplished.
The adults as well as the young people
are urged to lie present at these services.
YOUTHS IDEAL WANTED
The unmarried people who read these
columns are asked by the Rev. Chas. C.
Cliett, pastor of the Summerville Meth
odist church, to write him their ideal of
the opposite sex. What kind of a boy or
girl you would like ifo marry. Their dis
position. education, religion, and habits
are the main points to discuss. Anything
else is welcome in these letters.
Mr. Cliett. expects to use these letters
in sermons at an early date, to be an
nounced in this paper. All letters will be
kept confidential, therefore, it is not nec
essary that the letters be signed. On men’s
night the men’s letters will be read and
on ladies’ night the ladies' letters will be
read. A special musical program will be
an added feature. Mr. Cliett requests that
these letters be sent at once to help him
in this program.