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The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
Official Organ of Chattooga County
O. J. ESPY, Editor-Manager, 1911-38
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The man who takes spare time in
his youth will have very little spare
time in his old age.
The folks who live on interest rare
ly worry about the troubles of the
man who lives on wages.
The war may be responsible but
the production of spring poetry was
off a bit this year, both in quantity
and quality.
The experts are still guessing about
the war—so we will guess that Rus-!
sia, if she enters the war, will fight
on the side of the Allies.
There are some small town mer-1
chants who cannot understand why
advertising pays large corporations ;
and doesn’t pay them; they do not
understand advertising.
CONGRATULATING OUR
GRADUATES
The schools of the nation are clos
ing their doors once again and the
advent of commencement brings many
young men and women to the thresh
hold of a great venture in living.
For a number of years they have
pursued the paths of learning, pick
ing up information and experience
through various school years, and
now, at last, they receive their di
plomas and step into the world of
grownups.
They will find it vastly different
from the environment in which they j
have been nurtured. There will be no i
assignment of particular taste, with I
success surely crowning the efforts I
of those who think and do well. In I
life, unlike in school, meritorious per- .
formance is not always crowned with j
success and laurels.
The high schools of Chattooga
county are graduating a fine crop of
young men and women. Many of
them will continue their education at
college but some will not have that
privilege. They will go forth imme
diately to seek their economic for
tunes in business endeavor, battling
the various forces that operate in the :
struggle for profits.
Those of our graduates who have
the opportunity of attending college
are fortunate only if they make use
of the additional education advant
ages that comes to them. Certainly
the training that college life affords |
is worth what it costs, in time andl
money, but these benefits do not flow
automatically into the being of the
student. They must be earned.
The graduates who have no chance
to continue their studies in colleges
or special schools need not accept any
inferiority complex in regards to their
classmates who study longer. While
it is not to be denied that some ad
vantages accrues to college trained |
individuals, this is not conclusive in
the struggle that engages adults in
the fullness of their existence.
The News wishes to congratulate
the students of our high schools who
complete their courses this year and,
at the same time, to extend felicita
tions to those of this county who
complete their college careers. May
all of them play the game of life
fairly, earning just rewards and re
joicing in the similar success of their
fellowmen.
PREVENT FOREST FIRES
Loss suffered in the United States
every year through forest fires in
vites the serious attention of all
those who possess timber land.
While about half of the fires are ’
caused by lightning, the other half ■
is caused by the carelessness of hu
man beings. . There is no defense j
against the lightning-set blaze except
through attempts to extinguish the I
blaze, but men, women and children
can be more careful whenever they
visit the woods, thus cutting down
the loss of timber every year.
The forest service of the depart
ment of agriculture reports that in
1939 there were 15,725 fires in the|
national forests and that unprotected
forest land reported 145,000 forest
fires- How many smaller fires oc
curred without being reported is un
known.
Many farmers have found a source
of revenue in their forest acres.
Gradually, they are learning not to
burn over their woodlands because of
the effect of fire upon the growth of
timber. Moreover, forest districts
have been organized to maintain look
outs and fire-fighting facilities. Even
with these activities, there are sec
tions of the nation where one can see,
in dry weather, innumerable forest I
fires which burn valuable timber. I
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BRITISH FLEET FOR U. S. LOANS
L. W. (“Chip”) Robert, secretary
of the Democratic national commit
tee, has a plan for refunding war
debts, also for selling more supplies
to the allies and at the same time en
suring Western hemisphere defense.
Briefly put, it is to take a mort
gage on the British fleet in lieu of
war debts.
In other words, the British would
make a small token payment, then
promise to turn their fleet over to
the United States on the war debt
in case of default. In return, the
Johnson act would become inopera
tive, and the United States would ex
tend immediate war credits.
Behind this, of course, is not so
much the matter of war debts, but
the very real fear that the United
States may lose its greatest bulwark
of protection—the British fleet.
How important the British fleet is
to American defense is only just
percolating to the general public.
Real fact, however, is that the Unit
ed States is not now prepared to
defend both the Pacific and At
lantic coasts, and will not be pre
pared for four more years. It would
take at least that long *to build a
second fleet.
Note— Another plan receiving in
formal consideration by some of the
insiders is to repeal the Johnson act
and give immediate credits to the
allies, in return for a mortgage on
the French and British possessions
in the Western hemisphere.
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GREENLAND AIR BASE
You can write it down as certain
that should Hitler send an air expe
dition to Greenland or occupy it
otherwise, Roosevelt would opffose
that occupation, if necessary with
the armed forces of the United
States.
However, should Hitler get to
Greenland first, the United States
would have no adequate airplane
force or naval strength in the At
lantic to dislodge him.
If Hitler took Greenland or Ice
land, the United States would have
about as hard a time getting him
out as the allies had in rooting the
Nazis out of Norway.
Military axiom (emphasized by
this war) is: Once the enemy gets
control of a seaport or an air base,
it is going to be twice as hard, al
most impossible to get him out. So
you may see something done by the
United States about Greenland in
the not too distant future.
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HEMISPHERE DEFENSE
These are days when the United
States is supposed to be bending
every effort to co-ordinate the de
fense of the Western hemisphere;
days when President Roosevelt im
presses upon congress the vulner
ability of the Panama canal and
Latin America to airplane attack.
Boiled down to cold fact, however,
the United States has done very
little toward co-operating with Latin
America on Western hemisphere de
fense.
For instance, four years ago
Brazil asked the United States to
permit the leasing or sale to South
American neighbors of decrepit de
stroyers rusting in Philadelphia and
San Francisco harbors since the
World war. But congress threw up
its hands in horror of rearmament
and said No.
Then in March, 1939, a bill was
introduced in congress permitting
Latin American nations to build
ships in U. S. navy yards and buy
certain equipment from the U. S.
army and navy which would not con
flict with our own national defense—
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940
all paid for in cash.
The bill passed the house of rep
resentatives but hung up in the sen
ate. And there it still hangs. In
j fact, it has been stymied for a year
by Senator Vandenberg.
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LATIN AMERICAN CRITICISM
Meanwhile Latin American na
tions, not understanding the Amer
ican parliamentary system by which
one man sometimes can thwart the
rest of congress are critical, say
ing U. S. doesn’t co-operate.
Note— The senate foreign relations
committee also has buried the Ar
gentine sanitary convention which
permits the entry of dressed lamb
from Patagonia, the Antarctic end
of Argentina, where hoof and mouth
disease does not exist.
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HOW HITLER FIGURES
To understand the present tactics
of Germany you have to go back to
a remark attributed to Hitler before
the war really got serious:
“If the war lasts four years I
would lose 4,000,000 men. It is bet
ter to lose 3,000,000 men in three
months.”
Hitler is determined to push the
war to a quick finish this summer,
no matter how long and tragic may
be the stream of coffins going back
from the front.
Hitler has ample supplies to last
through the summer, but not be
yond. So if the war drags past the
autumn, Germany is lost.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
If you want to read a sizzling book
on politics, get the recently pub
lished “Rascals in Democracy 4 ’ by
Kansas political writer W. G. Clugs
ton.
ARE YOU A REAL 4-H’ER?
By Donald L. Robertson
It will not be long before 4-H club
members will be closing those school
books again and thinking more of
summer camps and finishing proj
ects.
But how many of you are thinking
about the other things, about your
projects that go with your club work ?
How many of you ever stopped to
rea’ize that projects—making a good
dress economically or getting a big
yield out of cotton—-are not all that
you get out of 4-H club membership ?
How many of you are making resolu
tions to make your club the best in
the county, to make new friends in
and for your club, to get more boys
and girls to join you in making the
best better?
Learning new farming and new
homemaking methods in your club is
important. Equally important are
your activities in making the club a
better club, making it help more
boys and girls as it has helped you,
making other members of the club see
the fun there is in playing, working
and learning together, making your
c’ub prominent in the life of your
school and community.
Club leaders will tell you that your
club record is not even considered
when the judges make their selections
of the winners of the Washington
trip each year unless you have taken
an interest in your club and your
fellow members and tried to make
your club better.
What are some of the things you
can do? Well, here are a few:
1. Try to get more members into
the club.
2. Help plan more club projects,
such as a school play or some school
landscaping, or help your club plant
some flowers on the school grounds.
3. Help dad make a better farm or
mother make the home more attrac
tive.
4. Ask your assistant agent or your
home agent to tell you one or two
soil building practices that dad can
adopt on the farm which will be paid
for by payments under the AAA pro-
MARINES TO ENLIST
THIRTY-FOUR MEN
FROM THIS SECTION
During the month of June the U.
S. Marine corps district recruiting
station at Macon, Ga., will enlist 34
men from this section.
Applicants must be single, between
18 and 25 years of age, from 64 to 74
inches in height. Only men of good
moral character and in excellent phy
sical condition, who have satisfac
torily completed grammar school will
be accepted. Exceptional men will be
enlisted from 25 to 30 years of age.
Young men interested in furthering
their education and extensive travel
while serving their country may re
ceive full information concerning a
four year enlistment in the marines
by calling at, or writing to the U. S
marine corps recruiting station, Ma
con, Ga.
gram and then help him adopt these
practices.
5. See if you and mother can’t
carry out a canning program to take
care of the family food supply next
winter, and be sure proper vegetables
are planted to do this.
Help your dad or mother start a
poultry flock.
THE GOSPEL TRAIN
(May be sung to the tune of “The
Yellow Rose of Texas”)
The gospel train is speeding
To that happy land so fair,
She stops at pardon station
And she takes on all who’s there;
So get your ticket brother
Board this train without delay,
And go with us to Heaven
In the good old fashioned way.
CHORUS
Hear the whistle blowing
The chiming of her bell,
Rumbling of the drivers
A story sweet they tell;
The power of her engine
Is the Holy Ghost divine,
We’re going home to Heaven
On the grand old gospel line.
Our engineer is Jesus
And we know he’ll take us through,
Our train is bound for glory
Guided by a holy crew;
The Holy Ghost and Father
Gives us power day by day,
We’re going on to glory
In the good old fashion way.
Our coaches they are streamlined
And equipped with every need,
Our rails are faith and patience
On we go with mighty speed;
The ties are God’s great promises
O’er which we daily ride,
We’ll all shout, “Hallelujah”
When we reach the other side.
There’ll be a delegation there
To greet us on that shore,
When we arrive in Heaven to
Abide forevermore;
’Tis just a one-way ticket
All your sins you must resign,
So there’ll be no returning
On the grand old Gospel line.
—•THOMAS D. LYNN.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for representative to the
Georgia legislature from Chattooga
county. Subject to the Georgia dem
ocratic primary Sept. 11, 1940. Your
vote and influence will be appreciated.
R. L. (BOB) SMITH
MEMORY
Willie, said his mother, reproving
ly, what did I say I’d do if I ever
caught you at the jam again ?
Willie wonderingly scratched his
head with jammy fingers.
Why, thats funny, mother, that
you should forget, J have, too.
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DEFENSE AND POLITICS
Our problem, is in production and
not in politics. There is a crisis in
national defense. It is a need for
immediate rearmament. It is a
problem of industrial production
and it is that alone.
The record of this administration
and the published programs of both
the army and navy are absolute
proof that it is moving to a solution
far too slowly to be of any use. It
can be made to move much more
rapidly. ’
Ours is the most efficient indus
trial production machine in the
world. It has the best production
managers, men amply able to get
this vitally necessary increased
speed for the government. But this
government has no such men.
The screamingly obviously neces
sary first step is to get them—right
now. They don’t have to hold office.
They will come on request.
They will see what is needed.
They will get their fellows in indus
try to co-operate voluntarily.
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Are we doing that? We are doing
just the reverse of that.
It is well known in Washington
that the President was planning to
put three Republicans in his cab
inet in the vital post of war, navy
and commerce. Names mentioned
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WAS IT JUST SOCIAL TALK?
J. P. Morgan, financier, (at right)
and British Ambassador Lothian at
English speaking Union dinner.
are Frank Knox, Alf Landon and
Fiorello LaGuardia.
Is that a production measure or a
defense measure? It is not. It is
pure politics. It is third-term poli
tics.
It is said to be to “unify the coun
try” on the rearmament program.
The country doesn’t need any uni
fication on that. It is almost unani
mous on that.
The real purpose is plainly to
break down our two-party system
using this as an excuse—and to regi
ment the election.
With the trend toward dictatorship
the greatest threat in the world, this
is the last thing the head of a Demo
cratic party should be trying to do.
The two-party system is the es
sence of our democracy and the
American way of life. This is a
blow at its heart.
Mr. Roosevelt pleaded for the ad
journment of politics. He, himself,
is the hottest political issue.
If he wanted to adjourn politics,
he would announce himself in pub
lic, as he has to some people in pri
vate, as not available for a third
term.
• • •
Nobody can believe even Mr.
Roosevelt’s assurances, except in.
writing and in public, that he is not
a third-term candidate. Yet, no
self-respecting Republican could ac
cept a place on this cabinet without
believing that.
If any did, he would be exposing
himself to sucker stultification after
a third election of Roosevelt, after
the powers of a dictator had been
granted the President.
In the direction of a real solution
of the overwhelming vital problem:
of production, to bring an uninstruct
ed political amateur into the war.
department, for example, to take
the gimp and tucker out of Louis
Johnson, would be a catastrophe.
This barefaced use of a national
crisis for the purposes of a partisan l
political attempt to perpetuate a!
particular President is the blackest
mark with which this administration
has yet smirched its own record—
more impudent than the 1937 con
spiracy to revolutionize this to a per
sonalized government by the court
packing and other defeated legisla
tive plans—worse than the purges
and the WPA political bribery and
coercion of 1938. As in those other
cases, there is strong hope its stench
is so great it can’t be swallowed. ’
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A TON OF TRIPE
Secretary Ickes, the original triple
termite, made a speech before the
Amalgamated Garment Workers.
After a few punches at the eco
nomic royalists, it gloated that they
are flocking to the Roosevelt stand
ard under the stress of threatening
war.
Therefore, Mr. Roosevelt—and,
incidentally, Mr. Ickes—must now
be drafted because “democracy uni
versally demands it,” both at home
and abroad.
IIUTSIDE BUYINIi IS
KEEPING STATE POOR
ATLANTA, May 29 (GPS).—Why
does Georgia continue to be poor?
Judge Samuel H. Sibley, of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
circuit, gives the answer. Georgia is
poor because of a series of economic
maladjustments. Georgia is poor be
cause of an unwise exchange of the
wea’th- of the state for things out
side the state.
“If we exchange our food and fac
tory products for firecrackers you
need not ’ask a Solomon what the re
sults will be,” said the Marietta
jurist in a recent address before the
Atlanta Rotary club. “Isaiah, 2,600 <
years ago, asked ‘Why do ye spend
your money for that which is not
bread and your labor for that which
satisfieth not ’ He didn’t say, . .but
the answer is easy. We are fools.”
Georgians each year send nearly
the whole value of their agricultural
products out of the state for “the
automobile riot,” Judge Sibley said,
cotton tobacco and peanuts go up in
exhaust fumes.
“I know that some of it is profit
able and wisely used,” he said. “I
doubt if over 30 per cent of it is. I
am not mentioning upkeep cost, ga
rage fees or the like for we keep '
that cost at home. I am drawing at
tention to the biggest continual bon
fire this state ever staged, even in
war, going on every year. We lit
erally burn our wealth and have noth
ing to show for it but the recollec
tion of a good time, a damage suit,
a broken leg, a mortgaged home, or
a vacant chair.”
The judge explained he was not
against interstate commerce. He is
for it, but in moderation.
“We must use Georgia-raised prod
ucts where we can and organize the
distribution and sale of thesm,” Judge
Sibley continued. And to encourage
diversification, he thinks the market
must be taken to the disillusioned
farmers.”
RECITAL GIVEN TUESDAY
EVENING BY MISS PITTS’ PUPILS
The piano, voice and expression
pupils of Miss Annie Pitts gave a
very good and classical recital Tues
day evening.
Everyone attending enjoyed this
good program. Miss Pitts has taught
here for the past several years and
her pupils always show their capable
training. ,
Roosevelt vetoes Rivers bill to put
defense first.
Adult education is held a vital force v
.n fight on totalitarianism.