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Thursday, July 7, 1949
Further Losses in
Ga. Employment
Non-^agricultural employment
in Georgia dropped 8,700 work
ers in May with an estimated
713,000 employed as of the mid
month. Gains in construction
and government employment
did not offset the overall losses
in manufacturing, trade, tran
sportatioin, and finance. This
was the fifth consecutive mon
th of declining Georgia employ
ment. May employment was al
most 4,000 lower than the low
est point in post-war years,
which was April 1947.
There has been a decrease of
16,000 in the number of work
ers since January when the
downward trend started and to
tal employment was 25,000 less
than in May 1948. The major
portion of the loss was shown
in the non - durable goods
manufactured with 18,000 few
er people employed this year.
Every major division, except fi
nance and government, op
erated at a lower level of em
ployment as compared with the
corresponding period a year
ago.
Contract construction which
has been practically unchanged
for the past three months
showed a gain of morg than 2,-
000 workers in May. Hiring, due
to new contracts and resump
tion of work on old contracts
after rainy season, caused an
increase in employment in all
segments of the industry with
general building and heavy con
struction both showing an ap
proximate 8% gain over April.
Although following the same
general seasonal pattern of
past years, construction is op
erating at a level which is over
5% less than last year.
Manufacturing employment
has been on a downward trend
for nine months. Durable and
non-durable goods combined to
show a loss of 7,000 workers
since last month. The greatest
losses were shown by the lum
ber, textile and chemical indus
tries. The principal cause of the
decline in lumber and textile
employment was due to lack of
orders while seasonal con
traction in the fertilizer indus
try for the major portion of the
loss in chemicals. Employment
in manufacturing was 23,000 or
8%, less than May last year.
The only appreciable gains
shewn by any phase of the in
dustry occurred in food pro
cessing and transportation
equipment. Generally, food
products manufacturing fol
lows a seasonal pattern with
employment for May 1,700
greater than May of last year.
Employment in the manufac
ture of transportation equip
ment has been gradually in
creasing since the war.
The transportation, commun
ication, and public utilities di
vision showed a loss of 1,500 ।
since last month. Small gains
• by some of the division did not
offset the decrease in employ-1
ment in the railroads and local
bus lines.
A loss of 3.000 workers since
last month was shown in the
trade division. Several whole
salers of specialized products
reported mass separations due |
to lack of orders. The major j
portion of the loss was Shown I
by the retail phase of the di-1
vision with a seasonal reduction I
of almost 2,000 occurring in re
tail apparel and accessory
shops. This division is operating
at a level of approximately 2,-
000 workers less than last year.-
Employment in finance, in
surance, and real estate re
mained practically unchanged
in May. The level was almost
8% higher than last year.
The division and miscellan
eous industries showed a very
slight gain over April but op
erated at a loss of 1,6000 people
as compared with May 1948.
Government employment
gained by 1,000 wrokers in May
with increases shown by Fed
eral, State, and Local Govern
ments. This division continued
to operate at a higher level
than 1948.
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Berryton Message
Pslams 45-s—“ God is gone up
with a shout. The Lord with the
sound of the trumpet sing praise
to God, sing praise.”
Beloved, God is the same yes
terday, today and forever. First
Thessolans, 4:16, “For the Lord
himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout with the
voice of the ark angel.” Isiah
12-6, “Cry out and shout thou
inhabitants of Zion, for great
is the Holy One of Israel in the
midst of thee.”
Yes, it is worth shouting about
when the Lord is in thy midst.
If as many as three will agree
on one thing, in one mind and
one accord, he will be in the
midst of them, and when the
ark of the covenant of the Lord
came into the camp, all Israel
shouted with a great shout so
that the earth rang again.
My friends, some people don’t
understand old time shouting,
but First Peter, 1-8, “Ye rejoice
with joy, unspeakable and full
of glory.”
Yes, when your joy gets to be
unspeakable, a big shout some
times relieves your soul at
isome extent. Some shout at ball
games, some shout at elections,
and other wordly amusements.
If the worldly things make
people shout, how much more
should a man shout when he
finds God to be his Saviour.
Acts 3-8, “And he leaping up.
stood and walked and entered
with them into the temple,
walking and leaping, and prais
ing God.”
Friends, if it’s no sin to shout
let it roll, but be sure it is real.
I don’t believe in working up a
shout. But if you feel like shout
ing, let it ring out, for life is
short and God wants us to re
joice in Him.
Remember, we are in a tent
revival at Mt. View, one mile
east of Trion, where souls have
confessed the Lord and many
sinners are attending who re
quest prayer. Tune in each Sat
urday over WGWD 9:30 Ga.
time. Come to the Berryton Bap
tist Church. Send all offerings
to Gospel Service. Howard Fin
ster, Trion, Ga.
DIDanOW?
1. How many workers are
now unemployed in the U. S.?
2. What is the cost of social
security in the U. S.?
3. How does present unem
ployment compare with that of
1940?
4. Who was the highest paid
worker in the U. S. in 1947?
5. What is Iron 59?
6. Name the Chief Justice of
the U. S. Supreme Court.
7. How many electoral votes
did President Truman wun in
1948?
8. Which is the longer, the
Panama or the Suez Canal?
9. Whom did William O’Dwyer
succeed as Mayor of New York
City? *
10. What is the value of Lend-
Lease aid sent by the U. S. to
Russia during the war?
THE ANSWERS:
1. About 4,000,000.
2. Approximately $13,100,000-
000 a year.
3. In 1940, 8 million out of a
labor force of 56,00,000 were out
of work; in 1949, 4,000,000 out of
a labor force of 64,000,000 are
unemployed.
4. Charles P. Skouras, movie
theater magnate, who received
SBIO,OOO in 1947. /
5. Iron 59 is one of the Ist opes
of iron.
6. Fred M. Vinson, who took
his seat Oct. 7, 1946.
7. 304, Dewey, 189, and J.
Strom Thurmond, 38.
8. Suez Canal, 104.5 miles;
Panama, 50.5 miles.
9. Fiorello H. La Guatdia.
10. Approximately $11,000,000-
000.
Fire Protection News
By George Bishop,
County Ranger
Some rather interesting facts
are brought out by our fire rec
ords for the past fiscal year
ending June 30. A total of 93
woods fires were reported dur
ing the year that burned 1907 95
acres of forested land. In going
over the reports, I repeatedly
noticed a difference In the acre
age burned where landowners
were present and volunteers
helped, so we checked up and
here is what we found.
We had 48 fires where land
owners lived on their land or
nearby, and these fires burned
423.85 acres. Where landowners
did not live near their land, we
only had 45 fires, but they burn
ed 1484.10 acres, which is quite
a difference.
Landowners themselves were
responsible for 21 of the fires,
and all of these were from care
lessness. none deliberately set
fire on their own land.
Another interesting fact Is
that 35 of the 93 fires occurred
in that part of the county lying
south of Lyerly in an area com
| prising less than one-fifth of
j the land area, and these 35 fires
I burned 1,322 acres, which is
about two-thlrds of the total
'burned in the whole county.
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Louisa’s Leiter
|Dear Louisa:
I am nearing my seventeenth
birthday and am rather large
for my age. Here is my trouble.
I have never been out with a
boy. My parents say they don’t
mind me talking to boys,but I’m
not to go out with them.
There is only one place to go
and that is church. I go to
church regularly with my pra
ents. Since you were a girl once,
I am sure you know that a girl
likes to go to a show or some
where else once in a while. I
realize I should be grateful for
the education my parents are
giving me, but don’t you think
something else should be con
sidered? Almost all the younger
set around me go with the boys
and why shouldn’t I?
Yours truly,
BONNYE
Missouri.
Answer:
I do think other things should
be considered 8., and very defi
nitely so. Every normal girl
likes to go with boys and know
them when she gets in her
’teens, and parents pursue a
very foolish course when they
refuse to allow their daughters
to have friends among the op
posite sex.
The girl who has played with
boys since she was a little thing
is not bowled over by the first
male creature she is allowed to
see. She is a better judge of
boys for having been associated
with them so long.
Your parents should know
that children cannot be pro
tected and tied to their apron
strings forever, and it is far
better to increase their freedom
and their responsibilities as the
years go rather than to thrust
it on them all at once when
they have had no previous ex
perience in meeting problems.
You seem like a very sen
sible, trust-worthy girl and I
am sure your parents would be
making no mistake in allowing
you to go to a party or show
with some nice boy.
Sincerely,
LOUISA
If your young man has no car
and asks you to come in with
your brother and stop at his
mother’s house, I see no harm
In It, unless you go too often
and make a nuisance of your
self. I would also make sure
that he tells his mother that he
asked you to come in or, other
wise, she may, as you say, in
your letter think you are run
ning after him.
You are rather young to be
going with a boy that old but,
as it will probably be years be
fore he can marry, because of
his responsibilities, you will
probably have time enough to
decide just how well you like
him.
LOUISA
Address your letters to:
“Louisa, P. O. Box 532
Orangeburg, S. C.
Dear Louisa:
I am a widower with one
child. Just lately I have fallen
in love with a fine girl who
seems to have all the qualities
any man could desire.
She has agreed to marry me
on one condition —that I let
my child live with his grand
parents. Now my boy and I have
been very devoted to each oth
er, partlcularily since the death
of his mother, and this would
be very hard for both of us.
What would you advise me to
do?
YOUNG FATHER.
Answer:
My advice to you is to break
off with this young woman as
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
•IT’S AMAZING! •
soon as possible, and thank your
stars that you escaped being
tied for life to anyone so sel
fish and heartless.
Any woman who will try to
separate a lonely little boy from
his single parent is hard-heart
ed, indeed. If she loved you very
much, she would be anxious to
mother your little son knowing
how happy such a course would
make you and feeling a natural
sympathy for a motherless little
boy.
Yours,
LOUISA
Dear Louisa:
I make as much money as the
boy I go with, does. Do you
think it will be all right for me
to foot some of the bills when
we go out at night?
I know he cannot afford
to take me lots of places and I
feel that he is probably not
paying his bills in order to give
me a good time. He says it
makes him feel little for me to
pay for anything. He says he
will do what you advise.
BESS
Answer:
I can understand how the
young man feels when you
want to pay half on your bills,
but under the circumstances,
there seems to be only two
courses left to him.
The first is to give up going
out as much as you do and only
to those places and things ne
can afford. If you both feel dis
satisfied with that arrange
ment, the only alternative will
be to have a recreational fund
to which you both contribute
and which he will handle. That
will at least give him the
handling of the money which
will not be as embarrassing as
for you to be publicly paying
the checks.
Certainly, it is very unwise
Tor him to be running up bills
that he cannot pay and you are
not helping him very much
when you allow him to do this.
Good luck.
LOUISA
Address your letters to:
“Louisa, P. O. Box 532
Orangeburg, S. C.
Dear Louisa:
I am a very lonely person—
my neighbors do not seem to be
a bit Interested in me and seem
to ignore me.
My mother always used .to
say, make few ’ friends and
you’ll have no enemies. Louisa,
do you think this Is true?
I’m not a person that can
push myself like some people.
The majority of the people to
day are very forward but I’m
not built that way. I’m not a
well person and am not able to
go much. It seems to me that
people just have no time tor
those who can’t keep up with
their pace.
I have been reading your let
ters in the Pittston Bulletin and
am very Interested in it.
A Lonely Life -Pa.
Answer:
The way to get people inter
ested in you is to be interested
in them, and the way to make
friends is to be friendly and
willing to go more than half
way to make them like you.
It Is a pity that you followed
your mother’s advice about
having few friends because I
have always found that some
of our imaginary enemies be
come real good friends when we
get to know them better.
You do not have to travel the
pace of your neighbors to be
friendly with them. Several of
my good neighbors are people
whom I rarely meet at social
affairs. They go with different
groups of people, But we give
each other plants and flowers,
we exchange recipes, we send
each other’s children gradua
tion gifts, etc. In other words
iwe are good neighbros to each
| other and fee! that we can call
each other if we need help.
What about your church? All
churches are delighted to have
their members take an interest
in the work and meetings. Talk
to your pastor and tell him that
you are interested in knowing
your fellow-members better.
Join your missionary society
and do what you can for that.
Above all be friendly to pepole
I and stop thinking that they
j dislike you. AU of us are at
tracted to friendly, smiling peo
ple who are interested in us or
lin what we are doing.
LOUISA
To the Georgia reader who is
unhappy because the boy she
goes with also goes with an
other girl, I would say: Try and
not let him see how much it
upsets you.
Os course, you could give him
the choice of you alone or not
you at all. But you do run the
risk of losing him altogether.
If you are crazy about him,
just hold on and perhaps he
will tire of the other girl. It I
i wouldn’t hurt to have an oc-'
casional date with another boy.
LOUISA
Address your letters to:
“Louisa, P. O. Box 532
Orangeburg, S. C.
Dear Girls:
The art of getting along with
people is an invaluable one. I
sometimes think it would not be
' a bad idea for schools to teach
sociability and courtesy to their
pupils along with the reading
and writing and ‘rithmetic.
We all know capable men and
women who are honest and de
♦pendable. but who never seem to
I get the breaks when it comes to
। promotion. There are others
■ who, while lacking in these vir
tues, seem to go swimmingly a
long until they reach the top.
In almost every case you will
. find that this latter class are
■men and women whom people
‘like personally. They are cordial
and friendly but their best trait
is in keeping off other folks’
, toes.
They positively do not belong
;to the class who pride them- I
.selves on being frank and telling
' others exactly what they think
And we cannot call them hypo
i crites. They are/ however, great
"believers in tact. If they fall to
I agree with their companions on
some question, rather than have
a row they discuss other sub
jects instead. They never ask
their friend why they buy such
unbecoming clothes, or Infer i
that they are spending too much
money on their new house or!
cars. They realize that such
things are not their affairs and i
politely let them alone.
After all, tact is really only a
form of courtesy. If we teach |
our children to be kind, to never
offend other people unless It bt
a question of morals or charac-'
ter. we need not worry about I
their getting on with other I
folks.
Yours,
LOUISA.
Dear Louisa:
I am engaged to a girl who I
have thought was perfectly
wonderful until a few weeks
ago. Up until then I thought
she was everything fine and I
could not understand how she
could be so good and still be
human.
And then one day my sister
laughed and said that Sally
didn’t need a press agent—that
she was always telling people
what a special person she was
and how fastidious she was and
how the family couldn't do
without her. I got mad and said
some harsh things but sister
kept on laughing and said that
some dya I would wake up and
she hoped wouldn’t be too late.
Well, since then I have no
ticed little things she does and
says about herself that I’m not
so sure are true. One of the
family said something about
her bad temper the other day
and on a camping trip I found
out that she didn’t know how
to boil an egg although she had
told me about all the cooking
she had done.
She has always insisted that
one thing she didn’t do was to
talk about people, but since I
got to thinking it seems to me
that she knows something bad
about most people we mention.
This situation has me wor
ried. If she lies about some
things, maybe she is telling un
truths about everything. I am
all muddled up about her. What
would you advise me to do?
PUZZLED. Ark.
Answer:
Some girls enjoy dramatizing
themselves. They are really
very conceited and like to imag
ine themselves as the peerless
creatures they set themselves
up to be. They talk about them
selves so much that they al
most convince themselves that
they are what they say they
are. And it is yery easy to con
vince someone who is in
fatuated with them of prac
tically anything.
A real test is in being around
I them enough in their own
| homes under all kinds of cir-
I cumstances. They usually show
! their true colors there, if you
stay long enough.
I Personally, I prefer a girl who
i is natural, who admits that she
is no angel but who has a good
disposition. I’d be aware of the
girls who are always back-bit
। ing someone. They can turn
out to be dangerous creatures
notwithstanding the good
Things .they can say about
themselves.
Yours,
LOUISA.
Address your letters to:
Louisa, P. O. Box 532
Orangeburg S. C.
Comment On Sports
WASHINGTON — No one was
. sorry when Commissioner
Chandler decided to let the
the 'jumpers back into the Ma
jor Leagues. Those who jumped
had realized what others knew
I they would realize sooner or
later. The U. S. system of or
ganized baseball was the finest
I sports organization the world
’ has ever seen. It is the cleanest, I
most successful sport, on such
। a scale, yet developed. But it is
! not perfect, and possibly the
limitations on players are too
strict.
That last issue will be set
i tied by the courts, and the
■ manner in which Chandler
praised Mickey Owen, as he an
nounced the end of the ban on
jumpers, indicats the Commis-1
sioner feels some concern over
pending lawsuits. It should be
! stated for the record here,:
! however, that any changes or
dered by the courts, in the club
players relationship as it has
existed through the years
should be carefully appraised
by fans before applauded.
Though the present system
may have its faults, it has pre
■ vented the raiding of poor clubs
by rich ones, and put the team
player relationship on an order
ly basis. Under the new system
lof a player council, minimum
! starting salaries and other in
| novations, the Major League
baseball player has a good deal
today. Therefore, if the jumpers
■ can reinstate themselves, and if
everyone forgets the whole af
fair, it wil be a better day for
organized baseball.
The end of baseball that ।
might need revision is the min
|or league end. Players belong
ing to minor league clubs often
have a tough grind, and quite i
1 often they are the victims of
■ unfair and unfree competition. i
For instance, if the Cincinnati i
Reds have a dozen good pitch- |
ers in their minor league or-1
ganizatlon, and the New York
Giants haven’t any, there Is no;
good Way for the minor leaguer
in the Reds chain to sell his
services to the Giants. He has
signed a contract which pro
hibits that. Os course, thats
just like any other contract, but
If the player is desirable, the
Reds, or any other Major League
club, can keep him where thev
want him. They can release him
under certain circumstances
that bar the player from sign
ling with he Giants, etc.
There may well be need for
revision of the contract blnd
' Ings regarding minor leagues.
All things being average, how
ever, the excellent player will
be brought up to the top by the
parent club because such policy
is the only way the Major
League club can stay in busi
ness. After all. the team Is or
ganized to play winning base
ball.
Sults now pending, like one
by Max Lanier, will be a good
i barometer of future action In
volving minor league baseball
government. All parties are
'carefully watching the court
battle and some aren’t saying
as much as they’re thinking.
ONE MINUTE SPORTS QUIZ
1. Who fought Middleweight
champ, Marcel Cerdan, June 15
in Detroit?
2. For whom does Walter
Masterson now pitch?
3. Who is the new manager
of the Chicago Cubs?
4. Where and when is this
year’s All-Star game being play
ed?
5. The Chicago Bears recently
traded Bobby Lane to what
team?
ANSWERS
1. Jake LaMatta.
2. Boston Red Sox.
3. Frankie Frisch.
4. Brooklyn, July 12th.
5. The New York Bulldogs.
NEW MOON NEWS
By MRS. J. A. SENTELL
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Mauney and
: daughter, Ellen, were visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Hughes and
■ family, Sunday afternon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Tucker
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gene
Lawson and family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes were
I Sunday afternoon guests of Mr.
j and Mrs. Jodie Maye Tallent
and family.
John Sen tell, Clayton Smith,
James Mosely and Willis Sentell
attended the cattle and hog sale
.at Centre, Ala. Tuesday after
!noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Parker
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. N.
Mauney Monday morning.
Mrs. Grace Sentell and, child
ren spent Wednesday afternoon
with Mrs. Loy Murphy and fam
ily.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Murphy, of
Cullanhee, N C. were visiting
his brothes, Loy Murphy and
other relatives Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Mauney
I spent Wednesday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Sentell and
। family.
A bolt of lightning struck the
I switch box at W. C. Sentell’s
home Tuesday, blowing it open
and bursting the fuse. Light
ning also struck Buster Hughes’
home breaking windows and
tearing up electric meter and
clothes lines. No one was in
jured.
Mrs. Linnie Osment visited her
son. Oscar Waltz, and Mrs Waltz
and daughter, Joan, recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Parker
visited Mr. and Mrs. Ted Mauney
and Ellen Wednesday morning.
SALAD SUGGESTIONS
Salads should be served cold,
crisp and free from surplus wa
ter. They should be pleasing to
the eye, harmonize in color and
flavor with the rest of the meal
and be perfectly seasoned with
the ingredients well-blended.
“PAUPER” LEAVES $57,326.
Duluth. Minn. — When Mc-
Clain Lauver, 73. died here of
heart disease, his relatives dis
claimed responsibility for his
burial and the State appointed
a Duluth funeral director, as
administrator to rake charge.
Simple services were held here
and his body shipped to Gettys
burg, Pa., for burial. An ap
praisal of Lauver’s estate how
ever, revealed that it will
amount to $57,326. including
$16,439 in Government bonds
and $10,126 in cash in a savings
account. The rest is in excellent
common stocks.
Swimmingly" is defined as
"with easy, unobstructed prog
ress.” Is that the w’ay YOU
move through thje water? if
not, enroll in Red Cross Train
ing Classes.
Bob Jones
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