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Inventory WPA Work Done In County Since’3s (By W. J. Greene, District Manager, Georgia Work '*rejects Administra tion.) The Georgia Work Projects admin istration has just completed an inven tory of all work accomplished in Chat tooga county by the WPA and local sponsors since the beginning of oper ations on July 1, 1935. This invetory is an accounting to the people of Chattooga county on how the WPA has carried out its re sponsibility to assist in putting unem ployed people to work on the most constructive public projects that can be found. The WPA operates entirely through local sponsorship, which initiates projects and provides part of the cost. All these projects that have been completed are property of the county or other local government units. In addition to these county and local projects, Chattooga county has bene fitted from district and state-wide projects. In the matter of employment, WPA rolls during one typical recent week included 252 men and women. This figure has varied up and down over a period of years, according to local con ditions, amount of need, and federal and local funds But all through the years the money paid for wages of these people has been spent with Chattooga county merchants and farmers for food, clothing and shelter; for fuel, and for medical services. It has helped create purchasing power in this coun ty and contributed to better condi tions. The WPA payroll, in most cases, has been the largest payroll in each county. WPA wages have flown in a steady stream into the economic life of the state. Among the tangible benefits from WPA projects in Chattooga county have been improved roads and streets. With the sponsorship of local govern ment units, which intiated and plan ned the projects and paid part of the cost, WPA labor has been used to build 40,128 linear feet of paved high ways, to improve 78,888 linear feet of existing paved highways, and build or improve 111,115 linear feet of unpav ed highways in the rural sections of the county. This work shows the emphasis the WPA is putting on the development of the secondary road system. Most of the construction has been on vital “farm to market” roads. Improved and made passable the year round, these roads are carryiny a steady flow of traffic, including farmers’ trucks, school buses, and automobiles of doc tors visiting the sick and improving health conditions. Other work on the roads includes the building of eleven steel bridges totaling 530 feet in length, and im provement to ten wooden bridges 148 feet in length. WPA labor was used also to build 283 culverts covering a total of 6,408 feet and improvement,, and repair of seventeen other culverts covering 332 feet. Within the limits of municipalities and sponsored by the local govern ments, crews of workers built 2,115 linear feet of sidewalks and laid 20,- 150 feet of curbs. A school gymnasium was built at Lyerly. Other improvements included exten sion of sewer systems by more than . 3,000 feet. These manual projects, however, are only part of the picture. The WPA has assisted local sponsors in bringing many other benefits to the county. For instance, adult education teach ers, paid by the WPA, have taught 163 Chattooga county grownups to read and write. This is part of the great campaign to stamp out illiteracy in Georgia. The sewing room project, which em ploys women having families to sup port, has turned out 28,312 garments. These have been distributed by wel fare agencies to homes of needy peo ple. The school lunch program has been in operation in Chattooga county. This project, through local Sponsor ship, provides’ nourishing meals to school children who otherwise might be deprived of food during school hours. Since the |ork started, 11,950 meals have been served. The book repair project has reno-1 vated 1,942 books for general circu lation in libraries, and 541 books for use in the schools. The WPA has also assisted in starting two libraries in the county. Circulation in the libraries during December was 954 books. The WPA paid for the labor that went into these projects, but they were planned and initiated withir Chattooga county by the sponsors and the completed work belongs tr x the county and the municipalities, for the us of all the peonle. In Georgia the WPA belongs to Georgia and is part of Georgia, op erated by Georgia people for the ben efit of Georgia people. Our only aim is to be of service and to carry out our responsibility to bring together the people who need jobs, and the jobs that need to be done. ANOTHER NEW HOUSE GOING UP IN BELLAH SUBDIVISION \ - Mr. Cecil Herring is building an at tractive new home out in the Bellah sub-division this week. The Summerville News VOL. 54; NO. 4 Gore Pupils To Give 1-Act Plays April 12 The pupils of Gore High school will present a varied program of one-act plays, declamations and readings on Friday night, April 12, at the school house. The proceeds of this entertain ment will send participants to the Seventh district meet at Chickamauga. The two one-act plays offer both laughs and shivers. “Rats” is an amusing comedy that deals with an inventor’s problems in selling a strong rat poison that has an objectionable odor. The love interest is amply fur nished by the bachelor unde and an indignant landlady. “The Ghost Walks Fast” will make you hold your breath while shivers run down your spine. The setting and characters include a lonely country inn, an escaped convict, an actress, a ghost hunter and a GHOST. This play, under the direction of Miss Buford, wil be carried to the district meet on April 19. Final selection of a first-choice and an alternate in the boys’ declamation and the girls’ reading will be made Friday night. Mr. Entrekin and Miss Rush are in charge of the declamations and readings. The program will start promptly at 7:30 p.m. and admission charges are 10 and 15 cents. Everyone is cor dially invited to attend. C. E. Bell To Preach At Methodist Church C. E. Bell, superintendent of Trion schools, will preach at the Methodist church here at 11 a.m. Sunday in the absence of the pastor, Rev. Chas. C. Cliett, who will preach at the Chick amauga Methodist church the same hour. Mr. Cliett will preach in his own pulpit at 7:30 p.m. Annual W.M.U. Meet Great Success Tuesday JJns. H. D. Brown, assistant asso ciations! superintendent, presided at the Chattooga associational meeting of the W. M. U. at the First Baptist church here Tuesday, April 9. Dr. Clark, a returned missionary from Japan, gave a very inspiring message in the morning. Talks were made by Miss Dollie Hiett, a state worker, and Mrs. James Clegg, of Dalton, divisional vice-pres ident, and Mrs. Atkinson, divisional young people’s leader. Mrs. John League was chairman of the lunch committee; a lovely lunch was served at noon in the church din ing room. The following officers were elected for this county: Mrs. E. Price was elected superin tended to succeed Mrs. T. J. Espy, Sr., who recently moved away; Mrs. M. Strawn, assistant superintendent; Miss Minnie Justice, secretary. The district secretaries were Mesdames FUrchel Gass, Rob King and Brad High Mrs. Howard Ragland, of Trion, was elected young people’s leader, with Mrs. James Matthews, assistant young people’s leader. One of the most impressive parts of this meeting was the young service Monday evening. Mrs. Claude Adams, of Trion, presided. A choir of twenty-two Trion Junior G. A. girls sang very impressively. Miss Dollie Hiett spoke to the young people. MRS. ANNIE SCOTT BREAKS WRIST IN FALL SUNDAY Mrs. Hattie Shropshire, Miss Beu lah Shropshire, Mrs. R. N. Little and Mrs. Annie Scott motored to Carroll ton Sunday to attend the funeral of I Mrs. Carrie Hill Davis. When Mrs. ! Scott was getting out of the car she i fell and broke her wrist. Her many friends will be verj glad to know that she is improving fast at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ben Edmondson. WHO KNOWS? 1. How long was M. Daladier pre mier of France? 2. When did Germany secure the Sudeten lands of Czechoslovakia? 3. What is the name of the famous mountain pass which divides Italy and the Austrian part of Germany? 4. What is meant by “parity” for farmers ? 5. the submarine Squalus, which sank last May, be recommissioned? 6. How long did the Spanish Civil war last? 7. When did the present war be tween Japan and China begin? 8. How can a citizen secure fish from the government bureau of fish eries for stocking a stream or lake? 9. How many agents are employed by the federal bureau of investiga tion? » 10. How much money did the two major parties spend in the 1936 elec tion? (See ‘The Answers’ on Another Page) SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940 Rural-School Aid Planned For State Rome Meeting Will Be Held on April 23 at 2:30 P. M. The state department of education is sponsoring a series of district meetings for educators and laymen for the purpose of devising ways of improving rural education. Meetings at seven points in the state, scheduled April 15-23, are to deal with the rural education problems with informal panel discussions in which laymen as well as educators will carry on a kind of public round-table discussion with the audience privileged to ask ques tions and participate. The schedule of meetings is Gaines ville, April 15; Statesboro, April 16; Blackshear, April 17; Moultrie, April 18; Perry, April 19; Griffin, April 22; Rome, April 23, at 2:30 p.m. An impetus to hold these meetings, it is stated, grew out of a largely at tended and enthusiastic conference on rural education recently held in con nection with the Georgia Education association at Macon. Enlarged Community Service. The panel at each meeting will be called upon to discuss an enlarged program of public service by rural schools. Among the questions that will be discussed will be: “What re sponsibility should the school assume in dealing with the farm problems with which people are confronted ? What adjustments in our present school program must be made in or-' der for them to best service our farm people?” Other questions deal with impov-ement and beautification of homes, health, recreation, the advis ability of developing school communi ty canning plants and shops for re pairs of farm equipment, and finally the training of rural teachers for these services. Setting up a program to deal with rural problems not only for boys and girls in the schools, but for out-of school youth, and for adult men and women will be discussed. Georgia Schools Go To the Farm. A moving picture, “Georgia Schools Go To the Farm,” is to be presented > show how teachers of vocation?/ ulture and home economics arc ealing with rural problems. This pic ture was filmed in Georgia and re ’-ased as a production of the state board of education as a contributior to the Georgia Programmer Lmprove nent of Instruction, and was made by the division of vocational educa tion. Members of the Panels. As a member of each panel, M. E. hompson, assistant state superin ■’ent of schools and director of th gia Program for Improvement of s ruction, will explain the purposes ! general scope of the discussions another member of each panel, Dr. D Collins, state superintendent o f I 1 lie schools, will summarize and i ress important points developed by '’ I panel. District Supervisor J. H. Cook will ’irect the panel discussion at Rome. Announcements state that the pan els will be composed of persons from various parts of each district and will include a representative of the coun ty school superintendents, principals or superintendents of rural schools, leadl'.ers of vocational agriculture and home economics, county board mem bers and local trustees, parent-teach er associations, laymen, administra tors of vocational education, clergy men, and classroom teachers. MR., MRS. F. SHROPSHIRE HURT IN ACCIDENT Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Shropshire and four children, of Gore, were hurt when their car hit the rear end of a freight train Saturday night at the crossing just above town. They were rushed to a local hospital. It was re ported that Mr. Shropshire was injur ed more seriously than the others. Unemployed Workers Get 034 During Week Unemployed workers in Chattooga county were paid $34.94 in benefits by the bureau of unemployment com pensation of the state department of labor during the week ending March 30, 1940, it was announced today. Number of payments was reported at 6. Total payments to Georgia workers that week amounted to $67,863.44. represented by 11,038 checks which went into 118 counties of the state. Six hundred eighty-eight payments for $5,826.54 to workers in other states who previously had establish ed wage credits in Georgia, brought the total to $73,689.98. Number and amount of checks mail ed by the bureau ranged from one check for $1.65 in Brantley county to 2,308 checks for $17,694.61 in the At lanta area (Fulton and DeKalb coun ties). Clean-Up Week Begins April 15 Clean-Up week, sponsored by the Chattooga Garden club, will begin Monday, April 15, and continue thru Friday, April 20. Clean up your own property and and have all rubbish ready for dis posal by Wednesday, April 17. A truck will pick up all trash Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Please bum all brush, paper, etc. Several of the business places have already started improvement and we hope to have 100 per cent, co-opera tion from all property owners in town. With the effort of every citizen in Summerville we can accomplish the one big thing which this campaign stands for—the health of our com munity. Don’t stand by and watch your neighbor make improvements; do something about your own property. Plant flowers, grass and beautify your own place and make it an envi ous site for all passersby. Let’s clean up Summerville 100 per cent! Boy Scout Drive. A county-wide drive is on to obtain as many members of Boy Scouts over the entire county as possible. There are two Scout troops in Sum merville, one in Trion, one at Sublig na and one in Menlo. If you are a boy between 12 and 16 years of age, and wish to be a Scout, look up one of these troops. Other troops are being formed. The weiner roast for Chattooga Scouts and Scouters will be held at the Boy Scout cabin, out from Sum merville, Friday at 5:45 p.m. Come to the Summerville court house and the local Scouts will escort you out to the cabin. Fun and frankfurters Friday for Scouts and Scouters. Mrs. Carrie H. Davis Dies In Carrollton ‘he many friends here of Mrs. Carrie Hill Davis regretted to learn jf her death at Carrollton. She resided here when a young girl and lived at the present Presbyterian manse. She was such a charming per •'.onality, and had many friends here and in La Fayette where she had also resided. She married Jeff Davis, a beloved Methodist minister, who survives. She was greatly beloved by many upon the different charges that ’? r husband had served. She was a devoted aunt of Archie ’ill, a former very popular resident ! this county. The funeral services were conduct 'd in Carrollton Sunday. Several from here attended. MR. AND MRS. CAMERON CELEBRATE TWENTY-FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY On April 4, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Cameron celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at their home. A three-course dinner was served and the house was beautifully decorated with bridal wreaths, hya cinths and buttercups. Gordon Cameron was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cameron and was reared in Walker county, en tering business in that county where he met and married Josie Anderson, who was the fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Anderson, Both Mr. and Mrs. Cameron were students of Martha Berry schools, Rome. They have lived at Welcome Hill for about fifteen years. Three daughters were born: Nellie B. Cam eron, who is now Mrs. M. D. Williams; Annie Lee Cameron, who is now Mrs. Fred Cordle, and Miss Jeannette Cam eron. They have one grandson, Rob ert T. Cordle. The News wishes to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Cameron on their silver anniversary and wishes for them con tinued marital happiness. Bossy Gets Boost With An Egg Nog CARROLLTON.—Got a cow with that whipped-down feeling? Beat her up an egg nog. If your cow has the same ailment that C. C. Richards’, Whitesburg farmer, prize milk cow had, the egg nog will snap her out of it. Mr. Richards’ Bossy fell ill last week. Tonics were administered. No good. Death was on her tail. Then, as a last resort, Mr Richards prepared a gross dose. He whipped up a dozen eggs, added the appropriate nog. Bos sy took it lying down. But after the first dose, she got up. Mr. Richards repeated the treatment. Now Bossy is loping along the road to health. News At a Glance On State Events (By Gilreath Press Syndicate.) ATLANTA, April 9.—The memory of the late Dr. Crawford W. Long literally has been stamped on the present generation. In honor of the famous Georgian, credited with being the first surgeon to use ether anaes thesia nearly 100 years ago, a memor ial stamp bearing his likeness was put on sale Monday. The first sale was made at Jefferson with Postmaster- General James A. Farley and other notables taking part. Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper, of Col lege Park, Ga., the only surviving daughter of Dr. Long, received the first stamp. She is now 80 years old. Going to New York prior to the Jef ferson celebration, Mrs. Harper ap peared on the “We the People” radio program and described how her fath er conducted some of his early experi ments on her when she was a child. In New York she also said there was one flaw in her happiness at the rec ognition of her father as the first t use ether anaesthesia —the picture r him which appears on the postage stamp. Said she: “Postmaster Farley picked the very last picture ever taken of my father, when he was an old man. I wanted him to look like a young man, just as he graduated from college.” $32 PER SECOND: Purchases of fuel, esuipment and materials by Class I railroads in the United States totaled $1,014,000 in 1939, according to the Railway Age. These purchases I again were made in every state in the Union. In spite of the figures we read daily, a billion dollars still is too large for our complete comprehension, so let’s break this total down to more understandable units. Railroad buy-. ing in 1939 averaged more than $2,- 779,000 for each day in the year; al most $116,000 for ever hour, day and night; $1,930 for every minute of every hour, and more than $32 for each second of each minute. In the time you have taken to read this par agraph, the purchases of the railroad industry averaged around $2,500u GIST OF THE NEWS: Gov. Rivers has proclaimed May 1 as Child Health day in Georgia and urged a special »ampaign to eradicate diphtheria in he state .. . Summer unofficially arrived in Atlanta last week when the mercury hit 88 degrees, breaking ! 61-year record .. . Further proof' that summer is just about on us is the fact that baseball season is getting j under way. The Atlanta Crackers op- ; on at Ponce de Leon park Friday with the Nashville Vols . . . Fertilizer tag! sales for the first three months of 1 1940 were for 478,883 tons, a gain of 24,098 tons over the same period last year . . . Georgia’s income tax co’ lections, totaling $2,487,459 for the "irst three months of 1940, are $558,- 140 ahead of the same quarter last year . . . The state purchasing de partment bought $4,144,665 worth of supplies and materials for the vari ous departments of the state govern ment during the first quarter of 1940 The total savings for the quai*ter were estimated at $706,059 . . . Al though the census-takers are still tak ing, Georgia’s 1940 population is es timated at 3,146,111, a gain of 23,180 ove r the 1939 estimate. These figures come from the state department of public health. Public Library (At Court House) Books overdue in March: Black Knight (705); Tobacco Road (707); At the Foot of the Rainbow; (988); Among Those Irtesent (1037); Interpreter’s Souse (863); Ararat (1084); Johnny Got His Gun (1088); Night Rider (1089). New Books (Easy) The Postman (Kuh); Humbo the; Hippo (Berry); Daniel Boone (Trou- j sey); The Fireman (Kur); Fairy Tales: from Grimm (Grimm); Tommy Grows Wise (Gay); Stories About Henry (Tibbett); The Book of Houses (Pease); Lil’l Hannibal (Bailey); Book of Meat and Light (Pease). New Books (Adult) The Danger Trail (Curwood); Pri vate Duty (Baldwin); Ammorelle (Hill); Betty Zane (Grey); The Case of the Sulky Girl (Gardner); Cards On the Table (Christie); Jonathan’s Daughter (Christie); Murder in Mes opotamia (Christie); Code of the West (Grey); Hotel Hostess (Bald win). We thank each of you for returning so many January and February over due books. There are still more due, the return of which will be greatly appreciated. Remember prompt returning is the life of a library upon which its cir culation depends—a weak or strong I bookshelf. Let’s try to make April a I 100 per cent, circulation. We ean do | it. So please, dear readers, come to see us, get books and return prompt j ly. This is your library. MARY H. ADAMS, Librarian. Mrs. Buskin Made District Major Os Cancer Campaign Mrs. E. R. Buskin has been appoint ; ed Seventh district major of the Wom ■ en’s Field Army in the annual cam paign to aid the movement for con ; trol and cure of cancer in Georgia. Mrs. Buskin was appointed by Mrs. H. B. Ritchie, of Athens, state com- I mander, and the campaign in Chat tooga, Floyd, Walker and Dade coun ties will be under her leadership. Georgia has made great progress ir creating an effective public sentiment in support of eradicating cancer and ranks with the foremost states in this phase of public health, according to Mrs. Ritchie. Mrs. Ritchie, in announcing the ap pointment of Mrs. Buskin for Seventh district major, declard the people of Chattooga county have shown much interest in the movement to control and cure cancer and the co-operotion of the entire community is assured. Nation-wide interest in the cam paign against cancer is indicated by the support given by leading persons in all fields of human activity. Spencer Tracy, distinguished star of the motion pictures, urges “intelli gent and constant support” of “the brave men and women who have dedi cated their lives to relieving the suf fering from cancer.” “It is human nature,” he said, “to instinctively turn away from that which is horrible and distasteful. The very word, cancer, is repulsive. Yet like every evil, it can - be conquered only when brought out into the open. Cancer recognizes neither cast nor creed. It is not a problem to be faced by a selected few, because it cannot help but affect us all, fortunate and unfortunate alike. I have just had the privilege of reading the courageous reports of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Inc., the results of their good fight over a period of twenty-five years.” “I found in them not fear and de spair, but hope and confidence of eventually destroying a terrible haz ard to the health and happiness of every American home. Cancer can and is being controlled. It is an enemy in retreat. The brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to re lieving the suffering caused by can cer, so much of it unnecessary, merit our intelligent and constant support. By familiarizing ourselves with the danger, and with prevention as our watchword, we best can be prepared to make the fight against cancer a winning one.” Calling on all citizens who have the public interest at heart and all agen cies and organizations to give whole hearted co-operation in the war being waged against cancer, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gov. E. D. Rivers, of Georgia, have issued offi cial proclamations setting aside the month of April as Cancer Control month. The proclamations point out that cancer is second among the “killer” diseases, a place it should not right fully occupy since cancer is curable if treatment is started early. •OPERETTA AT MENLO. The Music department and a sup porting cast of high school students will present a Spanish operetta, “The Toreadors,” in the Menlo school audi torium, April 19, at 8 o’clock. This is a light musical comedy with a mixture of romance, music and danc ing that will furnish an evening of splendid entertainment. Further announcement will appear next week. WITH THECHURCHES METHODIST CHURCH (Chas. C. Cliett, Pastor.) Sunday school at 10 a.m.; Dr. E. j R. Buskin, superintendent. Preaching by C. E. Bell at 11 a.m. Epworth league at 6:45 pm. Sermon by the pastor at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, prayer service, 7 p.m. PLEASANT GROVE BAPTIST Rev. Steve Cloud, of Millport, Ala., will preach at Pleasant Grove Baptist church Sunday, April 14, at 11 a.m. Every one, especially the members, are urged to come out and hear him. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. (J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.) Sunday Services: 9:45 A. M.—Sunday school; D. L. I McWhorter, superintendent. 11 A. M. —Worship. 2 P. M.—Wayside Sunday school. 5:45 P. M.—Fellowship hour for ; leagues. 6:15 P. M.—Junior and Pioneer : league meet. 7:15 P. M.—Preaching service. The young people, that is the older | group, will attend the young people’s rally at Rome Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Transportation is provided for all and I we will leave from the church at 2 o’clock p.m. $1.50 A YEAR