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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
Official Organ of Chattooga County
Summerville, Georgia
O. J. ESPY Editor-Manager (1911-38>
D. T. ESPY Editor and Manager
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL—.
THE COST OF LIVING IS UP TO US
Control of commodity prices during wartime is
essential, but control of prices during peacetime
is socialism. Our administration knew this when
it continued the OPA after V-J Day; but there
appear to be elements in our present Government
which are reluctant to give up the wartime pow
ers which were conferred upon them in time of
crisis.
We have to admit that the present adminis
tration made a complete mess of the control of ■
wages and commodities. But politicians are not
supposed to be business men, and wages and
prices are business problems. Our present upset
economy, therefore, was no surprise to far-sight
ed students of finance. It is doubtful if a Repub
lican administration could have done better, but
it may be that it would not have attempted the
impossible-
The probability is that as controls are taken
off, fairly violent flurries will be caused in the
prices of various commodities by excited buyers.
If the bulk of the consumers will be patient, how
ever, for a few weeks’ time at the most, these
prices will seek a normal level just as surely as
water does. But if the whole public gets panicky
because beef or ice boxes shoot up 50 per cent or
60 per cent the minute the controls are taken
off, then we can easily bring about a situation
which would get beyond control and which could
spell desolation and ruin for all of us. Panic is
one of the principal factors which creates run
away inflation.
The word “strike” is becoming rather an ugly
word because the privilege of striking, which is
the prerogative of free people, has been dread
fully abused in the last year by radicals who lack
both common sense and patriotism. The term
“buyers’ strike” is, therefore, repugnant to the
housewife and to other purchases of goods. Why
should we be called strikers because we mind our
own business and decline to manufacture hard
times for ourselves by purchasing goods while
their prices are ridiculously high? We are not de
stroying the nation’s economy—we are trying
to save it!
To sum up—a nasty situation has been created
through Government interference with our free
man’s economy; attempts to rectify the condition
have been prevented by men in Government who
wish to keep control of the American economy—
and others who honestly believed it essential;
grafters and hired radicals are going to cause
flurries in prices as controls are taken off; and
WASHINGTON, D. C.—For bet
ter or worse, the administration
Is committed to a policy of rapid
decontrol of all price ceilings,
both on commodities and labor.
This policy, in direct contrast to
the previously announced policies
of President Truman, as events
show, was forced upon the ad
ministration apparently by a
combination of business and con
gressional leaders and the loud
wails of the people during the
past few weeks over the meat
shortage. Whether this combi
nation represents a majority of
the American people or not like
ly will be determined at the polls
Nov. 5.
Also, whether the new “free
market” will level off as some
predict or whether the nation is
bent upon a period of inflation
“boom and bust,” only the future
will determine.
Compliance with the new con
gressional re-organization law
which requires lobbyists to regis
ter and give their salaries and
the organization which backs
them, is bringing to light some
interesting facts- For instance,
it reveals that the National Fed
eration of Post Office Clerks
hires two lobbyists, one E. C.
Halback who receives SB,OOO and
expenses and another, Leo E.
George, who is paid SIO,OOO and
expenses. Who would believe that
citizens are either going to lose their sense of
proportion on runaway inflation, or they are go
ing to exhibit good American horse sense and
allow the grafters and radicals to stew in the
juices which they will be cooking up. It is en
tirely up to us!
WITCHES, HALLOWEEN AND FUN
Centuries before the Christian era, the ancient
Druids celebrated Halloween with mystic rites
and ceremonies when the occasion was given a
mystic significance by the belief that the souls
of the wicked, who had been condemned to in
habit the bodies of animals, would be called to
gether.
To the ancient custom of the Druids, the Ro
mans added some features and, subsequently, the
early Christian church adopted the even and the
day following and gave new names to them, as it
did with many other non-Christian observances.
Upon Halloween, some years ago, it was sup
posed that witches and ghosts are likely to wan
der abroad. This was no idle theory on the part
of credulous people, because belief in witchcraft
is very old and even the Christian church, by
the end of the 15th Century, had adopted a pol
icy of punishing witches with extreme severity.
The accused were tortured into a confession and
then burned. Thousands of people were put to
death for witchcraft, with quite a number execut
ed in the 17th Century, in the colonies of Massa
chusetts, Connecticut and Virginia.
Fortunately for us, the idea of witches and •
witchcraft has been abandoned by intelligent
people. The day carries no special significance
in that regard but the hangover from ancient
times encourages the young people to take ad
vantage of the occasion for minor depredations,
largely consisting of tricks, stunts and disguises.
Because occasionally youthful exuberance re
sults in actual damage to property, community
leaders are taking cognizance of the suggestion
that some organized entertainment be given to
your people. This gives them something to do, in
nature with the occasion, and prevents a surging
rampage of youth, embued with the idea that
“anything goes” on Halloween.
While there have been a few excesses in past
years in Summerville, the young people of this
community have usually behaved themselves on
Halloween. They are to be congratulated on their
good judgment and good sense and we do not
think it is too much to assume that they will
behave well this year.
TN THE WRONG ORDER’
“We are discovering the right things in the
wrong order,” declares Dr. Raymond D. Fosdick,
president of the Rockefeller Foundation, in warn
ing that man’s mastery of nature “threatens to
blow our civilization into drifting dust” unless it
is equalled or surpassed by adequate knowledge
of human problems.
The theory that men are developing wrong, or
discovering the right things in the wrong order,
may sound plausible, but there is no proof what
ever that it is correct. The sentiment stems from
the apprehensions of serious-minded thinkers but
such fears have been expressed throughout the
ages as new developments have compelled man
kind to rearrange its affairs.
ENORMOUS SAVINGS
The long-term savings of the American people
amounted to $150,000,000,000 at the middle of
1946 and have probably increased since the mid
year, according to the Institute of Life Insurance.
The long-term savings include U. S. Savings
Bonds, net funds on life insurance policies, sav
ings accounts and net savings and investments
of individuals in savings and loan associations.
The report indicates that savings of individuals
reached an abnormally high level during the war
and that the current trend is more in line with
normal savings practices. With such a fund of
savings, the average American should be inter
ested in any method of keeping prices down be
cause the lower the prices, the more the money
will buy.
post office clerks, protected as
they are by civil service, would
need lobbyists in Congress to pro
tect their interests? Then there
is the American Medical Associa
tion which hires Joseph S. Law
rence at a salary of $15,000 plus
$5,000 a year set aside annually
as a retirement fund, plus ex
penses up to $2,400 to tight the
battle of the doctors on the con
gressional front. Another high
priced lobbyist is Lachlan Mac
leay representing the Mississippi
Valley Association at an annual
salary of $15,000 and expenses;
William S. Snow representing the
American Fisheries Association
Cooperative and other canneries
at about SII,OOO per year. The
American Legion has three men
on their staff, Harry V. Hayden,
Jr., at $4,300, Francis F. Sullivan
at $7,200 and Col. John Thomas
Taylor at SIO,OOO annually. The
American National Livestock As
sociation pays F. E. Mollin, $9,900
plus a SSOO bonus. Some of the
labor lobbyists include Nels Peter
Allfass, International Association
of Machinists, $8,000; W. D. John
son, Railway Conductors, $6 500
with a raise to SB,OO after Nov.
1; Jonas A. Mcßride, Locomotive
Firemen & Enginemen, $7,000;
Id. C. Cone, Railroad Signalmen,
’55,250; John W. Edelman, Tex-
Tile Workers (CIO), $5,200; Earl
C. Bassett, Railroad Trainmen,
$7,309; E. L. Doyle, Maintenance
of Way Employes. $8,600; George
D. Riley, Railway & Steamship
Clerks, $4,836; W. C. Hushing,
American Federation of Labor,
i $7,280, and others.
* * •
Ten nationally known educa
tors, representing all phases of
the American educational sys-
tem and headed by George F.
Zook, president of the American
Council on Education, as chair
man, has completed a report to
the state department on educa
tional problems of the military
government in Germany, after a
three weeks tour of the American
zone in Germany.
Among other things, the report
urges encouragement of the ma
jor purpose of German education
to develop a democratic and
peaceful way of life; elimination
of class distinction in elementary,
secondary and vocational schools;
encouragement of teacher train
ing since under the denazifica-1
tion program more than half all J
school teachers were ousted; vo
cational and profession studies
and assistance to students from
all class levels in universities;
youth activities programs among
voluntary associations to train
youngsters in the democratic way
of life; adult education to
place greater emphasis on cur
rent economic and social prob
lems; administrative control
which admits no compromise in
setting as objectives for the Ger
man people the ideals of freedom
of teaching, freedom of private
and public expression and free
dom of publication and a con-
I tinued veto power of the educa
tional and religious affairs
branch of the military govern
ment over undemocratic propos
als of the education ministry;
more adequate space available
for teachings and for living ac
commodations in university com
munities and a revival of cultural
contacts in the form of American
publications and documentary
films to strengthen the latent
forces of democracy.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: SUMMERVILLE, GA.
Extension News
Sears 4-H Poultry Chain
The climax of the Sears 4-H
poultry chain has been reached
and there are several happy club
members, too.
At the county poultry show,
the club members placed as fol
lows:
George Crowe Jr-: Blue award,
S2O.
Julia Ann Garvin: Blue award.
S2O.
Kathryn Brady: Red award,
$lO.
Charles Ward: Red award, $lO.
Zillah Warnock; White award.
$lO.
Rachel Cooper: White award.
$lO.
Juanita Dendy: White award,
$lO.
James Houser: White award,
$lO.
Leroy Wofford: White award.
$lO.
The club members were given
an opportunity to sell the 12 pul
lets on display and only three
sold. The rest bought their pul
lets back to contiue their poultry
project.
The district poultry show was
held in Rome on Thursday, Oct
24. in front of the Sears, Roebuck
& Co. store. Four counties, Chat-,
tooga, Bartow, Floyd and Polk
competed for five first places
there. Chattooga County is the
proud winner of two first places,
George Crowe Jr. and Julia Ann
Garvin, both of Menlo 4-H Club.
These 10 contestants have done
a good job with their poultry pro
ject this year and are to be com
mended highly. However, they are
not planning to sit back on their
laurels now. Each contestant is
going to continue his project and
to enlarge on it. Three of them
plan to use their profit for a col
lege education.
* * *
Clothing
As nylon fabrics appear, in
blouses, dresses, underwear and
curtains, the question of how will
they launder arises. The same
care should be taken in washing
and ironing nylon as any other
fine material, using lukewarm
water and mild soap and squeez
ing without twisting and wring
ing. Let nylon dry naturally, away
from stove or fireplace.
Ironing may not be necessary.
Curtains do not need stretching.
Hems, pockets and trimmings
may be improved with an iron.
In the finishing of nylon, it is
made highly wrinkle resistant.
This eliminates most of the usual
ironing.
Dresses made of nylon fabrics
may be laundered several times
before any pressing is necessary.,
The dress is rolled in a towel 1
and hung on a hanger to dry. If ■
ironing is necessary, use the same j
temperature you would use forj
rayon, ironing from the wrong |
side, while slightly damp. If dry
when ironed, some fabrics have
“shadow wrinkles.” The same dry
cleaning agent used to remove
spots on other fabrics may be
used on nylon. However, dyes in
nylon, as in other fabrics, may be
sensitive to some clothing fluids
so a test should be made on the
underside of hem or belt.
* * -
Home Industries
Place small boxes close togeth
er and paste to a sheet of card
board. Cover around the outside
with wallpaper, crackle paper or
white wrapping paper on which
a design has been painted. This
may be placed in table or dress
ing table drawers and used as
container for pins, toilet articles
or other small objects that are
likely to become lost in a large
space. A hinged cover could be
made so the box could be used
as a decorative object on top of
a chest of drawers.
FARM BUREAU
NEWS
The Chattooga County chapter
of the Farm Bureau held its reg
ular monthly meeting Friday.
night, Oct. 25. in the court house, j
About 45 members were present ■
and the speaker was C. G. Gar
ner, from the extension service ■
in Athens. He made a most in
teresting talk, chiefly on the sub- !
ject of organization, marketing:
and planning. He stressed plan-'
ning and looking ahead to the I
future by giving several exam-i
pies of successful and unsuccess- i
ful organization. He said each in- j
dividual farmer that does sound j
planning and looking ahead will'
come nearer being a successful'
farmer than the one who does
very little planning.
Delegates to attend the state
Farm Bureau convention in No
vember were chosen at the meet-'
ing.
At present there are approxi- I
mately 360 Farm Bureau mem
bers in Chattooga County. A spe
cial drive is to be put on this
week and next to try and meet
the 500 membership goal that is
set for the county. Every farmer
is urged to help with this drive.
H. G. Baker is president and
W. M. Storey is secretary of the
Chattooga County Farm Bureau.
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WANT ADS
JUST ARRIVED Carload of
small and medium size Upright
and self-player pianos with
benches to match. The pianos
have beautiful keyboards and fin
ish, and look and play like new.
Each piano is tuned and guar
anteed. Drop in and see them, or
write JONES PIANO CO., 615
Shorter Ave., Rome, Ga.
WANTED Young woman to
learn good jobs for the future.
Excellent working conditions,
good pay while learning. Apply
Walker County Hosiery Mill, Ly
erly, Ga. 8-1-ts
WANTED —To drill water wells,
anywhere, any depth. Modern
machinery, quick service. All
kinds of pumps furnished and
installed. Call or write W. M
Kittle, Box 132, Ringgold. Ga
WANTED Farm help, good
wages, nice houses. Apply to E.
L. Pless, Cloudland, Ga. ts
WELDING PAYS—Have it done
the Cranmore Way. We are
well-equipped to do any Kind
of welding, large or sma l jobs.
J. W. Cranmore, Phone 406. La
Fayette, Ga. ts
FOR SALE
Large east-front lots, facing pav
ed Lyerly highway, just below
cotton mill. Take your choice
Terms if desired. Located in the
Burnham-Farrar Subdivision.
Farrar Real Estate Agency
109 N. Commerce St.
FOR SALE
One 10-room house with bath and
one 3-room house with 2%| acres
of land, inside city limits. Also
furniture.
HOLLIS-TAYLOR REALTY CO.
STRAYED OR STOLEN—Oct. 21,
from my house in Bellah Addi
tion, one Walker male puppy fox
hound, 5 months old, black and
white and tan. $5 reward offer
ed for return or information
leading to his whereabouts.—O.
A. Mathis.
FOR SALE
Grocery store, stock and fixtures,
6-room house with bath not com
pleted; 2 acres of land; inside
city limits.
HOLLIS-TAYLOR REALTY CO.
FOR SALE—I 934 V-8 Ford autcT
movile; new upholstering, new
paint, good condition every way.
See O- A. Mathis at Snow White
Case, South Summerville.
FOR SALE
On Penn Road, 415 feet off high
way, we have for sale a new
building 12 by 20 on lot 100 by
175, with city water and electri
city. The building is new and
could be made into a nice home.
Weatherboarded and ceiled.
Across street from new swimming
pool. Price $1,500.
Farrar Real Estate Agency
109 N. Commerce St.
FOR SALE
Good farms, all sizes, and several
: good dwelling houses- See us first,
i we probably have just what you
I want.
HOLLIS-TAYLOR REALTY CO.
FOR SALE—CoaI circulator, oil
heater, small monkey heater.
Telephone 123.
FOR SALE—I pair of mules with
gear; one 2-horse wagon, some
farming tools. Leaving town.—
Mrs. Geraldine Price.
FOR SALE
Seven-room house with big lot
and garage. Good well. Just off
Dixie Highway outside city limits.
HOLLIS-TAYLOR REALTY CO.
FOR SALE
This is the bargain you have
been looking for: New 4-room
dwelling, never occupied. Electri
city and city water. In Powell sub
division. $2,350.
Farrar Real Estate Agency
109 N. Commerce St.
LOST —Pair of lady’s glasses with
plastic frame. Finder please
contact me at Nancy Jim Cloth
ing Store.—James H. Floyd.
WANTED TO BUY Good used
bicycles. See Jim Berry, at Ber
ry’s Goodyear Store, Summerville,
Georgia.
FOR SALE—One young mare, one
young mule and one old mule.
Mrs. James S. Majors, Menlo, Ga.
FOR SALE—I 942 Dodge carry-all
truck. $795. James Marks,
Phone 186-J.
LOTS FOR SALE —One north of
J. G. Teems and one north of
Paulie Teems. In city limits, just
off highway. See Mrs. George
Teems
FOR SALE—3IS acres of land. 120
acres in cultivation, balance in
woods and pasture;'good pear or
chard and pecan orchard on
place and 3 springs and fish
pond. Place 2 miles south of Men
lo.—W. M. Jackson, Phone 562,
Menlo, Ga.
General Sales Tax
Looms in Georgia
ATLANTA, Oct. 30 (GPS).—
Don’t look now, Mr. Taxpayer,
but all indications point to the
fact that you likely will be pay
ing a general sales tax in Geor
gia before too many months have
rolled by.
For example, State Auditor B.
E. Thrasher Jr. has suggested a
gross income tax law, providing
for the expansion of present sales
and income levies, as a solution
to Georgia’s problem of obtain
ing $30,000,000 additional annual
revenue. He previously had warn
ed that the state will be short
that amount in a proposed com
prehensive public service pro-
j&T/l Rom where I sit ~ty Joe Marsh
An Important Job
Well Done!
Stranger dropped into Andy Bot- erate beverage like beer are pleas
kin’s tavern the other day; had a ant—homelike—law abiding. When
friendly glass of beer, and asked if they aren’t, the brewing industry
he could look the place over. tells them: “Clean np or close up!”
“Haven’t I seen you here before From where I sit, it’s a far cry
from time to time?” asks Andy from those gangster-operated
showing him around. The stranger dives that flourished under Prohi
allows he’s a representative of the bition—for unlicensed drinking—
brewing industry—checking up on to a place like Andy’s tavern, clean
places that sell beer—as part of and orderly—and open for inspec
what the brewers call their “self- tion day or night —to you, your
regulation program.” brother, or a law enforcing agent.
And Andy doesn’t take offense at ZH
being checked on. It’s to his inter
est to see that places selling a mod-
Copyright, 1946, United States Brewers Foundation
Thursday, October 31, 1946
gram. He also is on record as
thinking a sales tax necessary.
Before outlining the gross in
come tax program, the auditor
pointed out that additional rev
enue is needed only if Georgians
wish the continuation of services
now offered or promised by the
incoming administration. The de
cision, he explained, lies between
curtailing services and increasing
taxes.
The gross income tax program
advocated by Auditor Thrasher
contains a general sales tax pro
vision plus different state income
tax laws. This proposal calls for
the abolition of Georgia’s present
income tax and the placing of a
2 per cent tax on all incomes over
SI,OOO. The sales tax would be
1 per cent on goods sold by re
tail merchants and y 2 per cent
on merchandise sold by whole
salers to retailers. Result: One
iand one-half per cent sales tax
! passed on to the consumer.
Such a program, combining
sales and income levies, would
bring in $45,000,000 annually.
Subtracting the loss of present
incomes taxes which would
amount to $15,000,000, a figure of
$30,000,000, or the needed extra
amount, is obtained.
Further evidence of this trend
was seen in a recent speech by
State Treasurer George Hamil
ton, who blasted Georgians pres
ent system of “representation
without taxation,” and called for
a general sales tax for the state
as the only equitable form of tax.
Sate Revenue Commissioner M.
I E. Thompson, the lieutenant gov
| ernor - nominate, also recently
called for a revision of the state’s
tax system, especially mentioning
the ad valorem taxes.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
All persons indebted to the es
tate of J. O. Tinney, deceased,
are hereby notified to immedi
ately make payment of said in
debtedness to the undersigned.
All persons having any claim of
any nature against the estate of
said J. O. Tinney, deceased, are
hereby notified to file same im
mediately with the undersigned.
This 26th day of October, 1946.
WALTER B. SHAW,
! Administrator of the Estate of J.
O. Tinney. 6t/Decs