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The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
Official Organ of Chattooga County
O. J. Espy, Editor-Manager, 1911-38
MRS. O. J. ESPY -Editor
WOODROW ESPY Asso. Editor
LEON GAMBLE Gen. Mgr.
BRYANT ESPY Asst. Mgr.
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The trouble with most hick towns
is that they have too many hicks.
Maybe the world crisis will die
down when the baseball season be
gins.
If you are willing to give, you will
always find individuals ready to
take.
The U. S. has three-fourths of the
world’s gold but it doesn’t seem to
eliminate national problems.
Prosperity may be visible in busi
ness and industry but church col
lections reflect no such improve
ment.
Farmers who plant now know
what they will reap but they don’t
know what they will get for what
they reap.
When you find a merchant ignor
ant about advertising values, you
locate a business that is gradually
going out of business.
The people of Chattooga County
can practice neighborliness and
promote their own general wel
fare without waiting on outside
help.
Those who prefer long life might
as well obey traffic regulations;
the habit may not guarantee im
munity from injury but it will help.
RECRUITING PARTY IN
ROME MARCH 17-20
A recruiting party for the U. S. i
marine corps will be at the Post |
Office building, Rome, Ga., from I
10 am. March 17, to 2 p.m. March
20, 1941, for the purpose of exam
ining and accepting young men for
enlistment in the Marine corps.
The Marine corps offer the
chance to travel extensively and the
opportunity to complete or continue
an education through the numer
ous courses offered free of charge
to all marines by the Marine Corps
institute. There are more than one
hundred of these courses for ener
getic young men to choose from.
Besides the correspondence courses
of the Marine Corps institute the
Marine corps maintains and oper
ates seventeen vocational schools
to train young men in social spe
cial trade.
Variety is the real spice of a ma
rine’s life. He has plenty of time for
reading, recreation and sports. He
has an equal chance to build up
his body with athletics, or to im
prove his mind with study. He also
has a chance to taste real adven
ture and to see how the other half
of the world lives in the outlying
possessions of the United States
and foreign countries. Marines sail
the seas on board battleships, air
craft carriers and cruisers of the
navy. They are on guard at all navy
yards and naval stations within the
United States.
Applicants for enlistment must
be white, single, 18 to 30 years of
age, sixty-four to seventy-four
inches in height, be of good moral
character and in excellent physical
condition. Only those who have sat
isfactorily completed grammar
school are eligible. Men over twen
ty-five years of age must possess
some special qualification to be ac
cepted for enlistment.
“THE GAY PRETENDERS” AT
TELOGA SCHOOL MARCH 15
“The Gay Pretenders,” a home
talent play, will be presented at the
Teloga school Saturday night,
March 15. See and laugh at Rufus
and Deliah, Uncle Hiram and
Aunt Miranda. Proceeds go for the
• ■ ' benefit of the school. A lovely quilt
will be given away: • ■
More than 17,000 of the 25.456
Farm Security Administration bor
rowers in Georgia farmed with writ
ten leases in 1940.
washington dige
New Envoy to Britain
Is Staunch 'New Dealer'
Shares President Roosevelt's Political Views;
Announce 'Social Defense Work' to
Bolster Home Front.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
WNU Service, 1395 National Press
Bldg., Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON. Few American
ambassadors have been chosen be
cause of their philosophy. John Wi
nai.c, just taking over his new du
ties as envoy to the Court of St.
James, was.
Externally he is not the type to
wear knee breeches and genuflect to
royalty.
He is tall, Lincolnesque appear
ing. He is no orator. He has had
no previous diplomatic experience.
He is anything but the glass of fash
ion, although he comes from a
wealthy New York family. He was
once Republican governor of New
Hampshire. President Roosevelt
called him in to head the first social
security board. Later he was direc
tor of the international labor office
at Geneva.
Many persons in Washington will
tell you they cannot see why this
man was chosen for our most impor
tant foreign diplomatic post. Within
limits it is anybody’s guess. This is
mine:
Mr. Roosevelt believes that Amer
ica is to play the dominating role
in the peace that is to come. He
believes that the democracies must
have as definite a program to offer
the bewildered and bleeding peoples
of the earth as the totalitarians. Hit
ler has named his. It is national so
cialism. Roosevelt has his—the
New Deal.
‘lf’ Great Britain Wins.
If Great Britain wins the war, her
chosen representatives will dictate
the terms which will shape the new
world. If they are to be persuaded to
do the job on the American plan
they must understand what that plan
is. Therefore, since the man whose
function it is to interpret the United
States to Great Britain in the pre
peace days is our ambassador, he
must truly represent his President.
Os course all ambassadors are sup
posed to be the personal representa
tives of their head of state but un
der these circumstances the Presi
dent’s envoy extraordinary must be
a man who Mr. Roosevelt believes,
believes as he believes.
That is the reason the President
sent Harry Hopkins over in the fate
ful interlude between a Kennedy and
a Winant.
John Winant will talk to the king
or the prime minister or whomever
is head of the peace-making govern
ment, in the language of President
Roosevelt. That is not precisely the
language which Joseph Kennedy
spoke so understandingly to the Eng
lishman he knew best and respected
highly, the late Neville Chamberlain,
the language of the conservative lib
eral, the man of property. Winant’s
language is the language of what he
would probably describe “social val
ues”—for he is the New Deal in
carnate.
• * *
President Has Plan
For ‘Social Defense’
At a recent White House press
conference the President took a lot
of time to answer an open letter
from an ex-marine, World war vet
eran. The writer said that when
the last war was over he had an
nounced that he’d cheer the boys to
the next one and then enjoy a big
steak and onions. But when he tried
it after seeing some draftees march
by, the steak didn’t taste. He want
ed to know what folks, too old to
join the army could do for national
defense. The President said he
would announce a plan soon. That
plan is based on a report submitted
by a committee, the chairman of
which is Mrs. Florence Kerr, assist
ant WPA commissioner here.
Later I asked Mrs. Kerr about it.
This was her reply:
“There are social defense jobs to
be done in every home town in
America. From border to border
and coast to coast communities need
more services in health, welfare, ed
ucation, recreation. Everywhere
there are things to be done to make
America a better place in which to
live.”
Fields of training, says Mrs. Kerr,
in which millions of men, women
and youth will be engaged for de
fense on the home front will in
clude: Food training programs,
dealing with all subjects related to
food, food conservation, food han
dling, gardening, canning, mass
BITS ■ • • By Baukhage
C. The Niagara County, N. Y.,
(where I went to grade school) Fed
eration of Sportsmen’s Clubs, made
up of the membership of the coun
ty’s eight conservation clubs, spon
sored the ’ county's 4-H club first
year tree-planting projects. The 4-H
members actually planted the trees
on idl6 land of the county; and lead
ers of the forestry project of the
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941
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feeding, vitamins and their impor
tance, food for children, food for ill,
diet, nutrition and many other topics
related to food and the home front.
Aptitude testing, first aid and safe
ty first: community organization,
map reading, map making, drafting,
community health, sanitation and
hygiene: are just a few of the other
fields in which more trained work
ers are needed.
“On a volunteer basis present and
ex-teachers of language could devel
op nation-wide opportunities for
classes in Spanish,” Mr< Kerr said.
“Western hemisphere relationships
give such training universal appeal,
and many individuals will respond
to such an opportunity to equip them
selves better for world citizenship.
“Co-operating with private organi
zations, such as Girl Scouts, Camp
fire Girls, and other recreation
groups, great numbers of women
can be interested and trained in per
forming their home defense service
through volunteer leadership of
girls.”
« ♦ *
War-Gas Driven Cars
Increase in Finland
Recently we reported the experi
mental work being done by the de
partment of agriculture laboratory
in Peoria, 111., in the manufacture
of alcohol from corn residue. In
Finland, where necessity has be
come the mother of invention, re
ports coming to Washington show
that they are already running auto
mobiles without gasoline. The Finns
have wood-gas carburetors in their
cars. Finland in normal times im
ports all of its petroleum. In these
times it can get little or none.
According to information reaching
the legation here in your capital city
the Finnish ministry of supplies and
transport has issued orders to the ef
fect that automobiles all over Fin
land, including privately owned cars,
busses and trucks, must be fitted
with the wood-gas carburetors as
soon as possible. The only excep
tions are ambulances and the cars
and trucks of the fire brigades. Ev
ery day now sees an increase of
the wood-gas driven cars on the
streets of Helsinki. By early No
vember, 1,900 wood-gas carburetors
were in use in Finland, as well as
4,250 charcoal-gas carburetors, an
other substitute for gasoline.
And this affects the farmer, too.
All tractors in agricultural use are
being fitted with the wood-gas car
buretors. Nearly all busses are al
ready running on wood-gas, and pas
sengers are gratified with the ab
sence of the noxious gas fumes usu
ally associated with gasoline-driven
busses—one of the advantages of
wood gas.
New service stations have had to
be set up, for the servicing now is
not merely a question of supplying
the fuel but also of cleaning the car
buretors and emptying the ashes,
which must be done under cover.
Last August, when wood-gas car
buretors were introduced into Fin
land, the state appointed a commit
tee to find means to finance their
purchase. This committee’s recom
mendation, to set up a guarantee
company in which the state would
take part, was carried out by the
establishment in October of a joint
stock company, Wood-Gas Generator
Credits, Inc., which extends credits,
up to a maximum of 70 per cent of
the cost, toward the purchase of the
new carburetors.
The ministry of supply and trans
port also appointed a technical com
mittee to work on improvements
and modifications of the carburetors.
The state granted SIOO,OOO to start
this work.
Although the development of wood
gas in Finland thus far has been a
temporary expediency it may have
a future as a fuel in the motor world.
In that case, Finland, according to
the Finnish experts, with her wealth
of forests, would be in the first rank
of motor-fuel producing countries.
At all events, she would be inde
pendent as far as her own auto traf
fic is concerned.
However, if and when the Finns
once again secure their political in
dependence, it is to be hoped they
will be part of a world where com
plete economic independence is not
necessary—a world where there is
a free flow of all the products of the
earth and of industry between na
tions.
U. S. department of agriculture pro
vided instruction to the young people
in tree planting.
* • *
The United States is worrying
about? another, surplus—surplus of
unemployed rural youth, while
Switzerland, a peaceful oasis sur
rounded by a sea of bayonets, has’
quite another problem.
I WENT AND SAW
BY THE PARSON
I am now forsook. That is, I sold
my car. Os course, that is not just
right, and there is only one way
, to correct it, and I do not have the
difference between my due bill and
the amount of a new car. If anyone
regrets it any more than I, I would
be glad to swap them the due bill
I for a new’ car.
The first friend to lend a hand,
I mean lend a car, was the Rev.
Madison D. Short, Sr., pastor of the
First Baptist church in Summer-
,< ville. Others have
offered, which I
j will gladly accent
when necessary.
i There is more to
;. this fellow Short
'than one would
; ordinarily think.
Ask him to let you
put your hand on
k his arm and feel
iwhat a muscle he
| has, but don’t let
I him put his hand
I on you for he is a
professional wrest-
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I JBfer
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lev, and you might not like some of
his twists and grips.
I did not intend saying anything
about the physical man, for there
is much more to Madison D. Short
than that. He came here about a
year ago, found a new church with
out pews, and with a debt. The pews
ire in, and a beautiful auditorium
i it is. Two notes have been burned,
and in just a few Sundays another
one will go by the way of crema
tion. I don’t know how many mem
bers he has received into the
church, but I do know that he has
an excellent record. Sometimes
when we do not have service at the
Methodist church it would be nice
or the people to drop over to the
Baptist church and hear him.
We have started a church loyalty
ampaign at the Methodist church
ihat will last for ten Sundays. The
oil call last Sunday found a few
:f our members absent. We are ex
acting all the members who do not
' ave legal excuses to be present,
xt Sunday morning.
Next Sunday night I will preach I
n “The Most Horrible Sin In the!
Vorld.” The first one to guess it j
vill receive a prize at the service |
text Sunday night. Everybody is i
nvited to come and partake. Watch
e news items for the various sub
acts. If you would like to have a I
church calendar, I would be glad
to give you one if you will either
come by the parsonage or let me
, know.
These are busy times. The war I
program is crowding men’s time
and pocketbooks. This is a danger- .
ous period; therefore, let us be
careful that we reserve some time
i for the devotional period. Men will
I work on Sunday now that have
never worked on Sunday before. ;
Many people are getting time and i
half-time for extra hours. We are
11 in a current that is moving
■ swiftly. Let us be careful in our re- j
i adjustments that we do not forget
God.
I have been requested to write on ,
the unpardonable sin. This I shall
io during the next few weeks. If;
there are other subjects that you
would like to have me write on, I
would be glad to give it considera- '
tion, and, if possible, conform tc
your wishes. If I am unable to dis
cuss the subject, I will be frank tc
tell you of my ignorance. Go tc
church Sunday, and tell son
nreacher that you enjoyed the serv
ice.
IN MEMORY OF OUR DEAR MO
THER, MRS. G. W. FULLER.
j In memory of our dear mother,
Mrs. G. W. Fuller, who departed this
life Feb. 29, 1940. Mother was in her
wheelchair eight years before her
death. Dear mother always met us
at the door in her wheelchair. No
me knows how we miss her.
Her smiles we will see no more,
j Our hearts are filled with sadness,
Though some sweet day
! "We will meet to part no more.
Mother lived a true, Christian life
j since youth. All who knew her lov
| ed her for she always had a kind
j word for those she met.
God looked down where she lay
and said: “Your work is finished,
thou faithful servant. Come higher
unto a place I have prepared for
you.”
Lonely are our hearts today, for
the one we loved so dearly has for
ever passed way. In silence you suf
fered, in patience you bore till God
called you home. But we long to
meet you, dear mother, up in hea
ven some sweet day. But Jesus lov
ed her more and he has sweetly
called her to yonder shining shore.
The golden gates were opened,
A gentle voice said “Come”,
And with farewells unspoken,
You calmly entered home.
She is gone but not forgotten;
Never will her memory fade,
Sweetest thoughts will ever linger
Around the grave where she is
laid.
Written by her daughters,
MRS. BEN WILSON.
MRS. GLENN LOVE.
Oil lamp brooders,for small lots
of chicks can be constructed at
very little cost by anyone handy
with a saw and hammer.
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Tax Receiver’s
Rounds
FOR 1941
I will be at the following places to receive tax re
turns for 1941 on days mentioned below:
Menlo March 12, April 9 and 23.
W. B. Ward’s: March 26, a.m.
Cook’s Store: March 18, a.m.
Holland: March 18: p.m.
Subligna: March 13, a.m.
Morgan’s Store: March 13, p.m.
Lyerly: March 27, April 10 and 24.
Haywood & Dry Creek Road: Mar. 19.
D. A. Hemphill’s Store: Mar. 20, a.m.
Trion: March 11 & 25; April 8 & 22.
1 will be in my office all the time except on days
mentioned above.
Geo. D. Erwin
TAX RECEIVER.
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New Cotton Seed
NO. 12-—D & P. L.—Direct from Breeder
$6.00 per 100 lbs
Delinted and Treated with Ceresan
Test Shows 18% Improved over D. & P. L. 11-A
Be sure your sacks are sealed with D. & P. L. Seals.
- LIMITED AMOUNT
So if you are interested
GET THEM AT ONCE
Lespedeza Seed and Kingwa Soy Bean Seed, bushel, $2.25
Summerville or Menlo Gin Co.
Summerville or Menlo, Ga.
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INDIGESTION
may affect the Heart
Gas trapped in the stomach or gullet may act like i
hair-trigger o» the heart. At the first sign of distress
smart men and women depend on Bell-ans Tablets to
set gas free. No laxative but made of the fastest
acting medicines known for acid indigestion. If the
FIRST DOSE doesn’t prove Bell-ans better, return
bottle to us and receive DOUBLE Money Back, 25c.
I T. J. ESPY, JR.
I;! Attorney-aULaw
;! Summerville, Georgia.
Office ever McGinnis Drug Co.