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The Summerville News'
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
Official Organ of Chattooga County
O. J. Espy, Editor-Manager, 19U-3b
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DIVIDED THEY FALL
Another country (Bulgaria) has
fallen to the expanding German
reich. This is the seventh independ -
ent nation (Austria, Czechoslovak
ia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Hun
gary, Rumania, and Bulgaria) that
has succumbed to Adolf Hitler with
out resistence. Five more (Poland,)
Holland, Belgium, Norway, and
France) were taken with practical
ly no fighting at all, with the pos
sible exception of France.
Hitler has succeeded successfully
in subjugating these countries
mainly because he has been allow
ed to ‘grab them off’ one at a time.
One of his “trump cards’’ has been
the disunity among the nations of
Europe. It is a veritable easy task
for a country with the strength of
Hitler’s Germany to subdue a small
country as Holland, Denmark, Hun
gary, or others, if taken singly, even
if they resisted to the limit. If these
countries could have been bound
together in some way the story of
the Second World War would prob
ably have been quite different. Ta
ken collectively; the countries that
have been overrun by nazi troops
have a population nearly two and
one-half times that qf Germany!
It seems incredible that one coun
try could conquer ten or twelve
nations with a population more
than double that of the conquering
nation, but the nazi tactics of sabo
tage, fifth columns, and other un
dercover work are well known.
Keeping these nations disunified
and causing internal disorganiza
tion has been a vital factor in Ger
many’s military and diplomatic
success. Divided they have fallen.
If Hitler is allowed to continue
his aggressions one at a time he
will probably go further in the con
quest of Europe than any other man
in history. If the rest of the na
tions of Europe don’t combine
forces before they, too, become the)
victims of nazi aggression, it seems)
that soon Germany and its sub-i
jugated states will embrace the en-)
tire continent of Europe, except
possible European Russia.
Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Rus
sia, Yugoslavia, Greece, unoccupi
ed France, and European Turkey
remain the only free nations on the
continent. Yugoslavia is even now
practically yielding to German
threats; certainly Spain, Portugal,
Switzerland, Greece, or unoccupied
France would not be difficult ob
stacles if Hitler so desired to over
run them. England and Russia re
main as the only strong forces left
to combat the growing Third Reich
and if the remaining small nations,
together with Russia, don’t now
join the heroic British and Greeks,
Hitler’s dream is likely to come
true.
Together they have a chance of
survival —divided, they will surely
fall.
DEATH -
George Oliver Alexander
George Oliver Alexander, 67, of
near Menlo, died at the local hos
pital Wednesday, March 12, atlll
a.m. after a lingering illness. He is
survived by his wife; one son, two
sisters and five brothers.
Funeral services were conducted
from Alpine Presbyterian church
Friday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. D. A.
Boozer and the Rev. Henry Norris.
Interment in Alpine cemetery. .
Paul Weems Funeral home in)
charge.
Funeral services for the little )
infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon- )
ard Brock were conducted from
the home in East Trion Wednes- I
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, the
Rev. L. B. Harrell officiating.
Little Norman Lamar was 4 days
old. He died Tuesday at mid
night. Interment was in Trion
cemetery. Arrangements by the
Trion Department store.
CONFUCIUS SAY
EVEN ELEPHANT
FORGET
MAN WHO \
NEVER A
ADVERTISE
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England May Get Food
Under Lease-Lend' Bill ?
Increasing Shortages Now Appear Likely; .
Roosevelt Opposed to Censorship < M|
Of‘Defense’lnformation. ||k #'■
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
WNU Service, 1395 National Press
Bldg., Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—In the past few
! weeks the tall figure of a Hoosier
farmer has been seen frequently en
tering and leaving the White House.
This was not so strange to us who
) watch the busy portals because the
■ man was Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard. Like other members of
the-cabinet, he is called in for fre-
; quent conferences with the Presi
dent these days. Cabinet officers and
other government officials have been
helping the President plan the con
crete steps to be taken to aid Brit
i ain under the lend-lease bill.
! But what a lot of us did not guess
I was just what Secretary Wickard
i was up to. The purpose of those
1 visits has not been officially an
j nounced, as I write these lines. But
) it can be safely predicted that he
; was working out plans with the Pres
’ ident to include farm products
i among the first supplies to be loaned
; or leased to England.
i Secretary Wickard was able to
) achieve his purpose partly as a re
i suit of his own persuasiveness, and
partly for other reasons that I will
i explain later.
| Here is the tip-off on the plan the
■ secretary discussed with the Presi
i dent, in Mr. Wickard’s own words.
n It is pretty cagily expressed but if
you know how, you can read be
) tween the lines. This is what Secre-
I tary Wickard said in a public speech
during the congressional battle on
) the lend-lease bill:
Overproduction Held Unlikely.
“Frankly speaking, there is little
likelihood that we will produce too
much meat, butter, cheese, milk and
• other dairy products in the months
; to come. I have an idea that all
■ we produce in the South and else
. where will be needed.
“The reports about the British food
situation are not tpo encouraging.
I The British have lost their sources
of food supply on the continent.
I They are handicapped still further
by their shipping losses. The Eng
i lish may want some of our food and
I want it pretty soon. If they call on
us, I think we will answer the call.”
I Almost all of the products to be
sent to Britain under the lend-lease
■ plan will be proteins (meat, milk
i and milk products and eggs). There
! will be, however, some cotton, wheat
and tobacco, but these commodities
' will constitute a minor part of the
'• shipments. The practical arguments
' for sending proteins are obvious:
1. The extra physical demands on
' fighting men require a greater pro
> tein diet.
i; 2. These products up to now have
been shipped to England all the way
from Australia, New Zealand and
i the Argentine. Two trips can be
made from New York to Britain
while one is being made from these
• distant points.
Unfortunately the protein commod
ities which are needed by England
are not the ones we most want to
sell. They do not constitute our
i great surpluses, disposition of which
ihas caused the biggest headaches
j in the department of agriculture
I since the farm problem was tossed
i in the government’s lap.
Surplus Produce Unaffected.
Furthermore, they are the prod
’ ucts which, later on, when the de-
I sense industries expand, we will
■ need at home because if all our un
employed were working full time and
, eating three meals a day, we would
, not have enough proteins at the pres-
■ ent rate of production to satisfy
, them. The things we do .want to
get rid of—the things of which we
have enough and to spare—are not
, as greatly affected by increased em
ployment. Department of agricul
ture experts here will tell you any
! day that in prosperous times there
is not an important increase in the
' use of cotton, tobacco and wheat.
But as far as the British go, they
have to consider first things first,
i and they have all the cotton, wheat
I and tobacco they need, or they can
I get these products as conveniently
from their own dominions as from i
the United States.
So this new “lend-lease” market
; won’t solve the problem of farm sur
pluses. Nevertheless, it w’ill absorb
some of them, for the government
is insisting that along with the pro
. teins, some of the surplus products
I will be included in the commodities
we dispose of under the lend-lease
) plan.
How long this new market over-
i
BRIEFS • • • by Baukhage
On the same day tnat President
Roosevelt declared that he approved
I of wire-tapping by department of
i justice operatives where sabotage
: was suspected, the guards in the
I Capitol building were replaced by
policemen and no one is now permit
i ted to carry packages of any kind
’ into the building. Even cameras
have to be checked at special stands
the entrances.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941
seas will last no one can say. It
is impossible to predict how long
the emergency will last or what the
fortunes of war will be. But the ef
fort of the New Deal planners is to
build up an increasing demand at
home for the things the farmer
raises. As Secretary Wickard says
on every occasion when he gets the
chance:
“Whether they lose or keep the
foreign markets, farmers must try
to increase consumption in their best
market—the domestic market.”
• * *
President Discusses News
Control With Reporters
Imagine the head of a European
state sitting for half an hour while
he was questioned by a group of
newsmen on any subject they chose,
including the government’s confi
dential transactions!
And, yet, that happens twice a
week in Washington at the White
House press conferences. There the
President sits at his desk covered
with papers; members of the White
House staff sitting about him, two
secret service men standing incon
spicuously behind him, between the
stars and stripes and the presiden
tial flag.
To us in Washington, the White
House press conference is routine.
But a recent meeting was so demo
cratic, so unlike anything that could
possibly happen abroad, that it
stands out clearly in my memory.
Mr. Roosevelt started it. The ques
tion which the American public
ought to think about, as he put it,
had to do with the ethics, morals
and patriotism of making public,
matters which might be injurious to
national defense. First, should a
member of congress divulge testi
mony before a secret committee ses
sion; second, should a newspaper
publish or a radio station broadcast
such information.
The issue was raised by the publi
cation of testimony given by the
chief of staff, General Marshall, be
fore an executive session of the sen
ate military affairs committee in
connection with a shipment of army
bombers to Hawaii.
Censorship Not Desired.
The President said he had neither
the desire nor the power to censor
the news, but he wished us to con
sider whether it was ethical, moral
or patriotic to publish any informa
tion which the heads of the army
and navy believed should, in the in
terests of national defense, be kept
confidential.
The newsmen did not question the
advisability of withholding from the
public important military secrets,
but they showed plainly that they re
sented any suggestion that the free
dom of the press be interfered with.
One correspondent said frankly
that the chief of staff ought not to
tell things to congressmen which he
did not want to get out because such
information always leaked. The
President replied, quietly, that nat
urally, one did not like to withhold
any information asked for by con
gress.
Another reporter asked how the
press was to know what information,
once they had received it, ought to
be withheld, and what could be
printed. The President answered
this could be determined by what the
heads of the army and navy felt
would be injurious to national de
fense. The President admitted he
had no specific proposal to suggest.
No definite conclusion to the dis
cussion was reached atthe interview.
The incident had one effect. Short
ly after the meeting, a writer who
is usually excellently informed, stat
ed that the President had turned
down flatly a plan to place all in
formation concerning defense under
what amounted to a censorship
board. It had been long known
that such a plan was placed on the
President’s desk at the time war
broke out abroad. The President
turned it down then. When it came
up the second time, he again turned
it down. Later, Lowell Mellett, ad
i ministrative advisor to the Presi
dent, said no plan of censorship was
being considered.
If war comes, some method of
regulating the publication of milita
ry information will probably be put
into effect. But until that moment,
the press and radio will fight for
freedom of speech, the spoken word,
1 or the written.
The average American soldier
eats about 40 per cent more than he
does in civilian life, according to the
national defense advisory commis
sion. He gets much more than 40
per cent more meat. In some lo
calities as many as one-third of the
draftees who are otherwise eligible
for army service have to be turned
down because of physical conditiops
due entirely to deficiency in diet.
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TRION NEWS
Trion Woman's Club Meets i
The Trion Woman’s club held its ;
regular meeting Thursday at Rle- ;
geldale tavern. I
A most interesting program was |
presented by Miss Ethel Simmons !
who was chairman of the March
program.
“Education in Latin America”
was the subject and Miss Dora
Bankey gave a talk on “Education
in Public Schools”; Mrs. Charles
Bell talked on “Universities in Latin
America.”
A group of grammar school chil
dren sang several appropriate
songs, accompanied by Miss Fran
ces Ballard.
Miss Ballard gave a lovely piano
selection, “Rhapsody,” by Donavon.
A social hour was enjoyed.
Dr. and Mrs. Funderburk
Entertain
An unusually pretty party was a
dinner party given last Friday eve
ning, March 14, by Dr. and Mrs.
N. A. Funderburk.
Vari-colored sweet peas and jon
quils were artistically arranged
throughout the living rooms and
dining room.
A lovely four-course dinner was
served after which bridge was
played.
The ladies were given attractive
hand-painted tallies with the color
motif of green and white to carry
out the St. Patrick idea.
The men found their partners by
amusing and original rhymes, de
scriptive of those with whom they
were to play.
The guests included Mr. and Mrs.
A. D. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. G. L.
McCartha, Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Mur
phy, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cole, Mr.
and Mrs Ralph Coarsey, Mr. and
Mrs. John Agnew, Miss Ethel Sim
mons and Burrell Simmons.
Kitchen Shower For
Mrs. Collette
Mrs. G. L. McCartha and Mrs. A.
D. Elliott entertained the members
of the American Home and Wel
fare committtes of the Woman’s
club Tuesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. McCartha, honoring
Mrs. George Collette, whose mar
riage took place Saturday.
The guests were served coffee
and sandwiches upon arriving and
following refreshments, bingo was
played and an interesting contest
“Lover’s was enjoyed.
Last Mrs. Collette was given a
card with the first clue to a treas
ure hunt.
After following the successive
clues she found a large collection
of useful gifts.
Those invited were Mesdames
George Collette, Lewis Andrews,
Ralph Coarsey, Chester Elliott, T. E.
Lawson, N. B. Murphy, L. B. Har
rell, L. C. Dalton, Bill Hammond,
A. McM. Myers, Frank Scoggins, R.
p. Hardeman, G. W. Cole, N. A. Fun
derburk, J. A. Agnew, Misses Ethel
Simmons, Mary Alice Reese, Joseph
ine Martin and Dora Bankey.
Ivey Neighbors and Horace John
son, of Tyner, Tenn., spent Sunday
with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Ross
Arden, and Mr. Arden.
Mrs. Pete Boney spent the week
end with relatives at Tallapoosa.
John Hunt, of Ware Shoals, is in
Trion on business.
John Allen Justice, student of
West Georgia college, at Carrollton,
is spending the spring holidays with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Justice.
Melvin Tate, of Ware Shoals,
spent the week-end with his sister,
Mrs. Ed Giles. •
Miss Pearl Welchell, a teacher of
Trion grammar school, spent the
week-end with relatives in Chick
amauga.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thaler, Miss
Kathryn Smith and Miss Alice Hix I
were luncheon guests Sunday of)
A. R. Strang in Cleveland, Tenn.
J. A. Mount, of Lyerly, is in Rie
gel hospital for medical care.
Miss Helen Eller, of Rome, kas
week-end guest of his sister, Mrs.
Roland Bankey, and Mr. Bankey.
Charles Bell, Jr., student of West
Georgia college, at Carrollton, is
spending the spring holidays with
his parents, Prof, and Mrs. Charles
E. Bell.
Gene Ballard, of Menlo, who is in)
the local hospital for treatment, is)
improving.
Bobby Bell, student of South)
Georgia college, at Statesboro, was
week-end guest of his parents, Prof, I
and Mrs. C. E. Bell.
Mrs. J. W. Parris, Mrs. Harris
Smith, Mrs. E. L. Gray and Miss’
June Gray spent Thursday in,
Rome.
A. D. Elliott, John Hammond and
L. B. Colbert attended a textile
meeting in Atlanta Saturday.
Mrs. W. B. Mitchell and little son,
William, left Tuesday to join Dr.
Mitchell and make their home at
Fort McClellan, Anniston, Ala.
Rev. J. F. Fulford exchanged pul
pits Sunday with Rev. Nolan, of
. ) Sparta, Tenn.
. : Mrs. Minnie Mullinax, Mrs. Bar
. ney Hayes and Mrs. E. J. Cooper
; went down to Rome Friday.
I) Mr. and Mrs. Scott Parris, of
) Barnesville, spent the week-end
>) with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Parris.
■ ' E. L. Gray made a business trip
1 to Chattanooga Monday.
5 Mr. and Mrs Charles Phillips
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
A-. L. Landers. , I
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Hartline Wife
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guests Sunday of Mrs. Mary Tuck
er, of Jamestown.
Mrs. L. B. Colbert, Mrs. Earl Wil
liams and Mrs. Bruce Blackwell
attended the music festival at
Shorter college, at Rome, last Sat
urday.
William Harrison continues ill at
the local hospital.
Mrs. Erby Barnes and daughter,
Doris, of Summerville, are in Rie
gel hospital being treated for in
juries received in a car accident
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hauser will
spend this week-end in Rives,
Tenn., the guests of Mrs. Hauser’s
mother, Mrs. Katie Warren.
Miss Gartrelle Duff was week
end guest of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Duff, of Menlo.
Miss Martha Rackley, of Shorter
college, Rome, was week-end guest
of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Hardin. Miss
Rackley had as a guest Miss Mar
guerite Acuff, also of Shorter.
F. D. Griffin spent the week-end
with his family in Chattaonoga.
Miss Sarah Poore and Mrs.
Gladys Keller were week-end guests
of Mrs. S. F. Griffetts and Sergt.
Griffitts at Fort Oglethorpe.
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Murphy had
as dinner guests Monday evening
J. J. Abbott and W. W. Sibley, of
Ware Shoals, S. C., and W. E. Reid.
Miss Pluma Bohannon spent the
week-end in La Fayette the guest
of Miss Lillie Tate.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pooder, who
have been in Trion for several
weeks, have been transferred to
Winder, Ga.
Mrs. F. V. Malloy, of Chicago, 111.,
came Monday to be with her hus
band, Dr. Malloy, and they will
make their home at the Trion inn
for awhile.
Hillman Hix, of Fort Benning,
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Ga., spent the week-end with his
parents here.
The Rev. M. D. Short, of Sum
merville, was the guest speaker at
Trion Lions club Monday night.
Mrs. Marshall Wilkins spent the
week-end with her parents at
Gore.
Dr. and Mrs. M. J. Shargel, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., arrived Saturday
night. Dr. Shargel will be con
nected with Riegel hospital, and
they will take an apartment in the
Plaza apartments.
William Berry, of the New York
office of the Trion company, is in
Trion for a few days.
Dr. J. J. Abbott, of Ware Shoals,
S. C., is spending a few days in
Trion on business.
Dr. and Mrs. N. A. Funderburk
had as dinner guests Tuesday eve
ning at Riegeldale tavern Dr. and
Mrs. Hyden, Dr. and Mrs. M. J.
Shargel, Dr. and Mrs. F. V. Malloy,
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Thaler, Dr.
Margaret McLeod, Dr. Talley, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Hauser and Miss
Hazel Walker.
Mrs. W. P. Cole, Miss Belva Cole,
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Cole, Miss
Jane Cole and Woodfin Cole, of
Carrollton, will come Saturday to
j spend the week-end with Mr. and
I Mrs. G. W. Cole.
W. W. Sibley, of Ware Shoals, S.
, C., is guest of Mr. and Mrs. N. B.
Murphy.
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