Newspaper Page Text
PAST EVENTS
FORETELL
AXIS DOOM
BATTLEFRONT RECORD OF PAST
YEAR SHOWS ENEMY POWERS
ARE NOT ABLE TO AVERT
DEFEAT
There is no way to foretell the date
when the great war in Europe will
end and it is almost impossible to
anticipate the results that will at
tend any specific operation, wheth
er on land or sea.
About all that the arm-chair stra
tegists can do, in an effort to under
stand the trend of the war, is to
gaze upon past events and attempt
to draw conclusions that are legit
mately connected with what the
record discloses.
Superiority Ovecomes Obstacles
We have found little profit in
guessing where generals or admir
als will strike and practically no in
formation in the elaborate effort of
the experts to explain why the ter
rain or the weather makes this or
that necessary.
Obviously, many difficulties can
be overcome by superiority of men
and weapons. This was demon
strated, beyond peradventure, by
the rapid progress of our enemies
in the earlier days of the struggle.
It may be apparent again in the
near future, with our forces driving
home the lesson.
Enemy Power Is Now Inferior
There is one fact of great sig
nificance: Whereas our enemies,
for many months, were steadily ad
vancing upon us, the tide of battle
has definitely changed and, now,
our enemies are steadily retiring,
everywhere on the globe. This sim
ple fact is worth more than much
expert imagination.
The corollary of the truth above
stated is that the overwhelming
superiority of our foes has come to
an end and that today, in men,
munitions and tools of warfare, they
are inferior to the strength that
exerts pressure upon them.
German Fortunes Sharply Decline
It requires little prophecy and
practically no intelligence to real
ize the vast deterioration of Nazi
fortunes. A year ago the Germans
were fighting at Stalingrad and El
Alamein. The U-boats were men
acing transportation across the
Atlantic and the Mediterranean
was all but closed to our shipping.
Today, instead of expressing con
fidence over the fall of Stalingrad,
the Hitlerites are fleeing from
southern Russia and instead of
using El Alamein as a base to cap
ture the Suez Canal the Germans;
are fighting a delaying action toj
postpone the capture of Rome,'
capital of their erstwhile partner!
and ally.
The Mediterranean has been
opened up to Allied ships and the
U-boats, in the Atlantic, have been
beaten, ’ with shipments of men,
munitions and supplies moving
across the Atlantic in great volume
and almost with impunity.
Nazi Reversals Not Imaginary
In addition, the blasting aerial
offensive against German-held ob
jectives has steadily increased in
power as Allied bombers ceaseless
ly pound the Reich and its satel
lite states from bases in Britain,
Italy and North Africa. Moreover,
the retirement of German forces in
Russia may make possible heavy
attacks from Soviet soil.
The reversal of the past year is
not imaginary. It has been writ
ten on the battlefield. It involves
no theorizing as to political devel
opments, psychological gains and
wobbling satellites. The record
speaks for itself. The backward
motions, now thoroughly establish
ed, cannot be dismissed by fanci
ful fears as to possible last-ditch
resistance inside Central Europe.
The cold-blooded fact is that
Hitler and his Nazis have not been
able, in an entire year, to halt the
succession of reverses. Against
enemy forces, not yet at their peak,
the Germans have accepted the de
fensive and despite pessimistic
prophecies and the caution of po
litical leaders, there is no reason
to believe that, when our full force
is applied, the enemy will be able
to stand the pressure very long.
Same Situation in the Pacific
Our war in the Pacific, against
Japan, presents very much the
same general outlook. While prog
ress is not as apparent as on land,
where the retreat of armies and
the loss of cities cannot be con
cealed, there is every indication
that the Japanese have suffered
disastrously in the past year.
The war against Japan is pri
marily a sea-air contest, with
losses of ships and planes more
important than most positions.
Just a year ago the Japanese were
being decisively repulsed in their
desperate and prolonged attempt to
recapture Guadalcanal. Their ex
pansion had come to end earlier in
the year, with the defeat at Mid
way.
The island fighting that has been
in progress in the Solomons for a
full year has depended entirely
upon the ability of each side to re
inforce its initial forces. The
steady success of our drive reveals
the enemy’s lack of a reliable sup
ply route, which would inevitably
be available is Japan had the ships
and aircraft to protect and trans-
®he jhuntnertoill® jwttas
VOL. 57; NO. 38.
Funeral Services
For Miss Adams
Held Sunday
The game fight of 17-year-old
Dorothy Adams against a rare
staphylococci blood stream infec
tion has ended.
“Smiling Girl,” as she was affec
tionately called by nurses and doc-'
tors at Georgia Baptist hospital,
won the love of all she came in
contact, by her unfailing spirit and
happy smile. Her ready wit brought
cheer to all who knew her.
Dorothy died Friday night after
battling the disease since last May.
Physicians say letters from all sec
tions of the country aided in bols
tering her spirit during her last
days.
“Dot” graduated from Summer
v'He High school in the class of
1942. Her courtesy and friendliness
to classmates and teachers won for
her many friends wherever she
went.
She is survived by her mother,
Mrs. V. T. Adams, four brothers, Lt.-
Col. Arthur A. Adams. Camp Stew
art, Ga.; Clyde H. Adams, of Whit
mire, S. C.; Pfc. Buford S. Adams,
somewhere in the Pacific; Corpl.
James E. Adams, of Augusta, Ga.;
three sisters, Mrs. L. B. Moore and
Mrs. Joe Pullen, Jr., of Summer
ville, and Mrs. Raymond Nichols,
of Newberry, S. C., and two half
sisters, Mrs. E. L. Williams, of At
lanta, and Mrs. W. M. Howard, of
Lancaster, S. C.
Impressive funeral services which
were held Sunday afternoon at the
First Baptist church, of Summer
ville, of which Dorothy was a mem
ber, were conducted by Rev. C. C.
Cliett, of Atlanta, and her pastor.
Rev. Madison Short.
The pallbearers were Messrs Mar
vin Pullen, Harry McGinnis, O. H
Elgin, Willis James, Hall Tyler and
J. R. Burgess. Flower girls were
her classmates.
Burial took place in the family
plot in Greenwood cemetery in
Cedartown, Ga.
The beauty and number of floral
offerings bore testimony to the es
teem of relatives and friends. Fu
neral arrangements were under the
direction of Weems Funeral Home.
“SUNSHINE LADY’S” VISIT
TO MISS DOROTHY ADAMS
Dorothy Adams has gone home.
She wanted to go home three weeks
ago before she had her first blood i
transfusion. In fact, she was hop- |
ing to go home the following day
when her friend, the former “Sun- .
shine Lady” of the Summerville |
News, called on her at Georgia Bap- .
tist hospital in Atlanta.
It was six and a half years ago |
that Dorothy, then only 11, wrote!
frequent letters to the mysterious
“Sunshine Lady” who conducted a
children’s column for the Summer
ville News. It was on March 18,
1937, that Dorothy won the prize
and had her letter printed in the
“Sunshine Lady’s” column. Her
subject was “Truthfulness.”
It was two weeks ago last Thurs
day that Dorothy and the “Sun
shine Lady” first met in person.
Dorothy, the bright-eyed smiling
patient who had won all hearts at
Georgia Baptist hospital for her un
failing cheerfulness during her long
fight against a rare staphylococ"i
infection, was pleased when the
“Sunshine Lady,” now a resident of
Atlanta, brought her the scrap book
she had kept of ail the children’s
letters of six and seven years ago.
The doctor came while Dorothy
was examining the book.
“May I go home tomorrow?” she
asked him.
“No,” he replied. “We’re ready to
give you a blood transfusion now.
After that we will give you more
treatments. You will be here an
other week or two—maybe a
month.”
Handing the scrap book to her
mother. Dorothy slid onto the car
riage they brought in.
“Good-bye,” she told the “Sun
shine Lady,” who promised to come
back again when Dorothy had had
time to finish reading the book.
“Is he a good looking man?” she
joked with her nurse, referring to
her blood donor.
He was but the first of six donors,
persons who had recovered from
the malady from which Dorothy
suffered, to give her blood within
the following two weeks.
Last Friday night Dorothy went
home—but not to Summerville.
She went home to God.
port abundant reserves, or men and
material.
The withdrawal of our enemy,
from Kiska and Kolambangara, will
be repeated and for the same rea
son. Ship and plane losses of the
Japanese may be uncertain but the
■ lack of ships and planes alone ex
plains what has occurred in the
Pacific.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1943.
Social Security
Insurance Plans
Are Different
Many people still confuse the
two insurance programs under the
Social Security Act. One is the
Federal Old-Age and Survivors In
surance system which provides
monthly payments to an insured
worker and his family when he is
65 or older and stops work; and
payments to his family after he
dies, regardless of his age at death.
The other is State Unemployment
Compensation, also known as job
insurance, which provides weekly
payments to an insured worker
who loses his job through no fault
of his own and cannot find another
one immediately.
Workers covered by one program
are not necessarily covered by the
other. Both programs, however,
identify the worker’s account by
the same Social Security number.
Unemployment Compensation in
Georgia is operated by the Bureau
of Unemployment Compensation.
Georgia has its own Unemployment
Compensation law and it differs in
some respects from the laws of oth
er states. Inquiries about Unem
ployment Compensation should be
directed to the nearest office of the
U. S. Employment Service of the.
War Manpower Commission.
Information on Old-Age and Sur- I
vivors Insurance may be obtained 1
at the Social Security Board, Post
Office Building, Rome, Ga.
9irl Scout Week Observed
By Girl Scouts of
South Summerville
The South Summerville Girl
Scouts attended services at the S.
Summerville Baptist church in uni
form last Sunday night.
The girls rendered a very impres
sive program in honor of the birth
day of the late Mrs. Juliette Low,
who founded Girl Scouting in the
United States in 1912 in Savannah,
Georgia.
Rev. Herbert Morgan, pastor of
the church, brought a very inspir
ing message on the subject, “Build
ing on a Firm Foundation, Which
is Faith in Jesus Christ the Rock.”
Rev. Morgan could not have given
a more appropriate message for the
occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Given, of
Rome, were present for this serv
ice. Mr. Given is president of the
Summerville Manufacturing com
pany. This company sponsors the
South Summerville Girl Scout
troop. Mrs. Given is a member of
the Girl Scout Executive Board of
Georgia. Mrs. Given gave a short
talk to the girls, in which she com
mended them on their progress in
Girl Scout work. This troop was
organized by Mrs. Given last May.
One of the most important events
on the Girl Scout calendar is Girl
Scout Week. This week continues
through November 6. Each day of
the week is dedicated to a special
phase of the Girl Scout program
and affords opportunity to show
the coijnmunity what the girls are
doing to help win the war and why
Girl Scouting is important war
work. The service days of Girl
Scout Week are: Monday, home
making; Tuesday, citizenship; Wed
nesday, health and safety; Thurs
day, international friendship; Fri
day, arts and crafts, and Saturday,
out-of-doors.
N. T. MOSS AND
GRANDSONS HONORED
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Purcell enter
tained at their home near Menlo
Oct. 24 with a dinner in honor of
their father, N. T. Moss. The occa
sion being his 74th birthday anni
versary, and their sons, Pfc. Emmett
D. Purcell, of Merced, Cal., and Ray
mond Purcell, of Savannah, Ga.
Sixty-five relatives and friends
enjoyed the occasion.
WHOKNOWS?
1. What is the estimated number
of replacements needed for the
armed services in the next year?
2. Does German fighter plane
losses exceed Nazi output?
3. How many states have the
sales tax?
4. Has the price of rubber been
constant?
5. How does farm population and
farm income compare with that of
the nation as a whole?
6. How much of the German
army is fighting in Russia?
7. How many railroad workers
are there in this country?
8. How valuable is the aid we re
ceive in foreign countries through
reverse lend-lease?
9. Who were known as the Van
dals?
10. What three nations would
form the proposed Latin Bloc?
(See Answers on Inside Page)
Chattooga County 4-H Members Plan
Observance of Achievement Week
Four-H club members in Chat
tooga county will join Georgia’s
homefront army of 110,000 4-H club
members in taking time out next
week to check up on their wartime
activities and 1943 accomplish
ments, the county 4-H leaders, Miss
Nell Parish and O. P. Dawson,
pointed out this week.
Nov. 6-14 has been designated as
National 4-H Club Achievement
Week, the club leaders explained,
and the 1,700,000 club members
throughout the nation will be re
porting to their clubs, communi
ties, counties, states and nation on
what they have done to help win
the war, and the results of regular
4-H project activities.
Here in Chattooga county, com
munity rallies will be held in each
of the 4-H clubs and there will be
a county-wide Achievement Day at
the county courthouse on Friday.
Nov. 12, at 10:30 o’clock when all
the 4-H club members, together,
with their club advisers, parents
and interested friends will get to
gether to sum up this year’s ac
tivities.
The club members will be review -
ing one of their most successful
years. They have made an out
standing record in the sale of war
,bonds and are producing a bumper
food crop. They have been active
in salvage drives and other war
time activities. Enrollment has
greatly increased this year.
War Food Administration Will Make
Dairy Feed Payments to Producers
The War Food Administration,
through the Commodity Credit
Corporation, will make dairy feed
payments to eligible producers for
the quarter beginning Oct. 1, and
ending Dec. 31, County Agent O. P.
Dawson announced this week. These
payments are being made in an ef
fort to maintain and increase the
production of dairy products and
all applications and payments will
be handled through the local coun
ty AAA office.
“Persons eligible to receive pay
ments are those who sell eligible
dairy products produced from their
own herds during the quarter. Eli
gible dairy products mean whole
milk, butter fat, butter and cream.
Goat’s milk or goat’s milk products
are not included,” he said.
The county agent pointed out
that payments will be made at the
rate of 40 cents per hundred weight
on whole milk and 5 cents per
pound on butter fat, provided the
computed payments amounts to $1
or more. Acceptable evidence of
the amount of whole milk and but
ter fat produced and sold will be re
quired before an application for
Draft Delinquents to Be Prosecuted
Unless Records Are Cleared
Col. James N. Keelin, the state
director of selective service for
Georgia, stated today that the lo
cal boards throughout the country
are today busy classifying into 1-A,
1-A-K, or IV-E all draft-age men
who have allowed themselves to be
come delinquent by failing to com
ply with their obligations under the
selective service law. These delin
quents will immediately be ordered
to report for induction or for work
of national importance, without re
gard to their order numbers or oc
cupational or dependency status,
and failure to report as ordered will
result in immediate prosecution.
“The manpower situation is
such,”, states Col. Keelin, “that len
iency can no longer be permitted
toward registrants who fail to keep
their local boards notified of
changes of address, who fail to re
turn questionnaires, who fail to
show up for physical examination
1943 AAA PROGRAM CONTINUES
INCREASE IN SMALL PAYMENT
PROVISIONS FOR SMALL FARMS
The AAA farm program for 1943
continues the S2O minimum provi
sion to operators of small farms,
and also the “increase in small pay
ments,” according to Charlie C.
Brooks, county AAA administrative
officer.
The S2O minimum provision,
which affects a large number of
farmers, means that even though a
farmer’s allowance computed for
special crop acreage allotments and
production practices is less than
S2O, he may earn the difference by
carrying out additional production
practices.
The effect of this provision, as
in the past, will be to increase the
small farmer’s opportunity to con
serve and improve soil fertility on
his farm, Mr. Brooks said.
Early this year the county’s
4-H’ers pledge to grow enough food
to feed for a year the men from
Chattooga county serving in the
armed forces at that time. Indica
tions are that this goal will be
reached. Club members have con
centrated on growing seven basic
foods—beef, pork, poultry, peanuts,
Irish and sweet potatoes and eggs
—all of which can be easily mar
keted and shipped.
Club members in this state were
the lirst in the nation to give a
station wagon ambulance to the
American Red Cross and Chattooga
county ranks third in the state’s
donations.
Early in the year “4-H Comman
dos” were organized in the county
to reach into every farm home with
wartime Extension Service pro
grams. Commandos are outstand
ing club members who volunteer to
contact a certain number of farm
homes with special programs.
In early September Georgia’s club
members became the first in the
nation to buy and sell enough war
bonds to pay for a Liberty ship and
to christen such a ship. Chattooga
county again ranked third place in
the state and was first in the sale
of small denomination bonds.
Chattooga county 4-H club mem
bers have set an example and a
goal that challenges the youth of
this nation to a stronger Victory
program in 1944.
payment will be approved. Where
milk statements or sales receipts
issued by co-operatives, dairies,
creameries and others can not be
furnished, the county committee
will consider such other evidence
that the producer can furnish as
the personal certification of the
producer covering the amount sold
number of cows milked, amount
and type of feed used, and custom
ers served. All records of evidence
of sales should be furnished to the
county AAA office.
Applications for payments will be
taken during the month of Novem
ber from all producers covering
their October operations. No ap
plications will be received or ap
proved for October operations after
Nov. 30. Applications covering op
erationns for November and De
cember must be filed not later than
Jan. 31, 1944. “Every consideration
will be given to the immediate ap
proval of all applications and
drafts covering payments will be
issued by the county committee as
soon as possible after the applica
tion has been approved,” Mr. Daw
son declared.
at the time specified, or who is l
other ways neglect their responsi-j
bilities as registrants and thus be
come violators of the selective serv
ice law and regulations. Local
boards will consider each such neg
lect of duty as ample cause for im
mediate reclassification and issu
ance of an order for induction.”
Selective service officials feel that
most delinquencies are the result of
carelessness and can be avoided.
Col. Keelin urges that any regis
trants who have become delinquent
because of carelessness immediate
ly contact their local boards and
explain the delinquency in an ef
fort to get it cleared . before the
local boards report such cases to!
the district attorney for prosecu
tion. By doing this they will avoid
a possible sentence of five years in
prison, SIO,OOO fine, or both, and
will be recognizing their duty anc I
responsibility to their country in.
time of Avar.
There is still time in 1943 for
farmers to plant winter legumes,
apply lime and superphosphate,
build terraces, establish and oth
erwise improve pastures, and seed
mixtures of small grain and winter
legumes.
The provision for increases in
payments under S2OO is on a slid
ing scale so that farmers in the
lower payment bracket receive
proportionately larger increases in
payments than those in the higher
brackets, Mr. Brooks explains.
The total payment computed for
any person for any farm, if less
than S2OO, will be increased by a
specified amount. The amount of
increase ranges from $8 for a S2O
payment to sl4 for a -60 payment,
and is sl4 for all payments between
S6O and $lB6. Payments between
$lB6 and S2OO will be increased to
| S2OO.
$1.50 A YEAR
Dr. Funderburk
Died Saturday
Os Heart Attack
Dr. N. A. Funderburk, 49, well
known former resident of Chat
tooga county, died of a heart at
tack at his home in Rives, Tenn.,
Saturday, Oct. 30. Dr. Funderburk
will be remembered by a large circle
of friends in the county as being
partner with Dr. W. B. Hair in
Summerville’s first hospital in 1927.
Later he was head of Trion hos
pital until September of 1942. Due
to the condition of his health at
that time, it was necessary that he
cut down on the amount of work
that he was called on to do, al
though Dr. Funderburk was not the
type of doctor that could be stopped
where there was need for medical
or surgical services in his neighbor
hood.
Two years ago Dr. Funderburk
established the very modern and
efficient Funderburk Clinic in
Rives, Tenn., where he was con
tinuing to give his individual at
tention to all those who needed his
help.
Dr. Funderburk was born in
Monroe, N. C. He received his de
gree in medicine from Emory uni
versity.
In addition to his wife, Iva Mae
Hauser Funderburk, and daughter,
Miss Nell Funderburk, he leaves 5
sisters, Mrs. B. K. Laney, of At
lanta, Ga.; Mrs. Lee Medwin and
Mrs. Henry Gribbe, of Monroe, N.
C.; Mrs. John Bass, of Wingate, N.
C., and Mrs. H. W. B. Whitley, of
Reaford, N. C.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at the Church of Christ at
Rives, Tenn., by the Rev. L. D. Har
deman, assisted by the Rev. J. F.
Fulford. Interment in the Rives
cemetery.
William M. Jones
Dies in Lyerly
William M. Jones, 69, prominent
retired merchant of Lyerly, died at
his home Sunday night after an
illness of several years.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from Lyerly Baptist church, of
which Mr. Jones was a member.
The pastor, the Rev. Charles M.
Massey, officiated, with burial in
the local cemetery.
Surviving are his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. Bessie White and
Mrs. Eva Jennings, both of Detroit;
two sons, Porter, of Chattanooga,
and Broughton Jones, of Detroit.
NOTICE
There will be a all-day meeting
this Sunday, Nov. 7, with dinner
on the ground at the Summerville
Church of God. We ask every one
that will to bring a basket. We will
have some good singers, also some
visiting ministers to preach for us.
Come one, come all. Everybody
welcome. —Rev. T. W. Waits, Pastor.
PFC. LUMAS E. RAMPLEY
i AWARDED GOOD CONDUCT
MEDAL AT LUBBOCK, TEX.
South Plains Army Field, Tex.—
Pfc. Lumas E. Rampley, of Sum
merville, Ga., Route 1, son of Mrs.
Clifford E. Rampley, of Summer
ville, has been awarded the Good
Conduct Medal by his squadron
commander at this advanced glider
pilot training center at' Lubbock,
according to an announcement by
Col. Norman B. Olsen, commanding
officer.
Pfc. Rampley, who is an airplane
engine mechanic at SPAAF, was
presented the medal in recogni
! tion of meritorious service in which
!he performed his duties in an ex
cellent manner, displaying exem
' plary behavior, efficiency and fi
delity. To be eligible for the medal,
[a soldier must have completed at
I least one year’s service.
SIX CHATTOOGA COUNTY
MEN AT GREAT LAKES
NAVAL TRAINING STATION
New recruits at the U. S. Naval
Training Station, Great Lakes, 111.,
are six Chattooga county, Georgia,
men.
They are now receiving instruc
tion in seamanship, military drill
and naval procedure. Soon, they
will be given a series of aptitude
tests for determining whether they
will be assigned to one of the navy’s
service schools, or to immediate
active duty at sea.
Upon completing their recruit
training, these men will be home on
a nine-dav leave. They are: Dennis
M. Cox, 36, Summerville; William
E. Gregory. 34, Route 2, Summer
ville; William E. Holcomb, 19, Rt.
4, Summerville; Roy C. Watson, 30,
Box 22, Summerville; Robert Mar
tin, 19, Menlo, and Charlie Coker,
133, Route 1, Trion.