The Ellaville Sun Friday, August 26, 1938 No. 9 MY, BUT I'M GLAD ITS 1938 by Charles Wall, Jr. During the recent rainy season I've been rummaging and rambling around in old magazines, letters, newspaper clippings and what not. I have unearthed many exciting things and never had as much fun in my life. These old mementos carried me back a few years, in fact back to the midst of the depression. Remember, or maybe I should say, how could you forget. Let's start in the unforgettable year of 1931. Herbert Hoover was president of the United States. Huey Long was dictator of Louisiana. Franklin D. Roosevelt was governor of New York. Jim Farley had an idea Roosevelt would be the next president. Prosperity was just around the corner and it stayed around there for a long time. Radios blared, "Happy Days Are Here Again". Men sold apples on street corners, a few begged. Thousand-page novels had gone out with Dickens. Father Coughlin was not infesting the ether with his voice. New Deal was a bridge term. The Brain Trust was teaching school. Hitler was in the background. Mussolini attended strictly to his own business. Jane Withers was teething. Cellophane had just been invented. There were no canned juices. Many public schools were closed for lack of funds. Major Bowles had never thought of the idea of letting anybody perform over the radio. People were taught that America was the greatest country in the world. Every city had its Hooverville. Men starved o! n the city dumps. We were on the gold standard. It cost us three cents a mile to ride on the train. A letter traveled for two cents postage, if you were lucky enough to have two cents. Amos and Andy were rulers of the ether waves. It was 1931 and, my, but I'm glad it's 1938. THE SUN TO PUBLISH COMPLETE SCHOOL NEWS IN PAGE FEATURE All Students to be Urged to Contribute Articles From Their Schools The Sun announces plans for a greatly expanded and organized coverage of Schley school news during the 1938-39 term. Teachers throughout the county system expressed much satisfaction over the worth of last year's limited program for publishing news items prepared by students, and are anxious to place the coverage upon an organized basis during the coming term. The Sun will devote a regular page to publication of these stories and immediately after class work is begun, teachers will assist students in setting up staffs for preparing regular contributions. The page will be given a standing heading modeled after a regular newspaper, the name yet to be chosen. Students expressing most interest will be given temporary appointments as editors and all will be urged to take part. Those who show the greatest ability and desire to work will be advanced to permanent positions. As a means of increasing interest among the students and adding effectiveness to the page, news pictures! will be published whenever any of value are submitted. SCHLEY SLANTS NEW FISHING STORIES Dr. T.W. Wilson and family returned from a trip to Florida with a new assortment of fish stories. And while the doctor admits he didn't strike any of the luck which brought him such attention last summer, he says he was well satisfied. The following clipping from The Tampa Morning Tribune should prove that: "The party composed of Dr. and Mrs. T.W. Wilson and daughter Susanne, and son Tom, of Ellaville, Ga., and Mr. and Mrs. L.S. Lightner, Tampans, caught 26 fish out of the old Tampa bay with Capt. Barney Barnhill as guide. The party returned to Cuscaden's Gandy bridge fishing park with drum, 12 to 25 pounds, and 11 mangrove snapper, one to three pounds. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Happiest wishes to: Mrs. J.L. Carter, Aug. 26; Miss Hellen Murray, Aug. 28. USRY JOINS TONDEE'S Barney Usry, popular Schley County young man, has joined W.T. Tondee's store as clerk. NOTICE I will operate a daily bus to Americus to transport students to Georgia Southwestern College which opens its fall quarter September 14. All who are interested in making reservations are urged to see me or register at Causey's Barber Shop. L.S. M'Mickle (Transcriber's Note: I thought it interesting how the last name was printed. In stead of the lower case "c" in McMickle, an apostrophe was substituted.) MISS ELLISTON IS BRIDE OF DONALD SMITH Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Elliston announce the marriage of Miss Ruby Virginia Elliston of Ellaville and Columbus to Mr. Donald P. Smith of Atlanta. The marriage was quietly solemnized in Columbus Sunday, August 7. The young couple will make their home in Atlanta. end # 9