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Volume LII, Number 16
ARMISTICE WILL
OBSERVED
PROGRAM TO BE FEATURED WITH
ADDRESS BY SAMUEL M. MATHEWS
Services commemorating the signing of the Armistice will be held at
the Fort Valley Methodist church Sunday, November 12, at 7 p. m., in which
all the churches will participate, with the following program:
Organ Prelude Mrs. Chester Wilson
Hymn
Colors Advances!—Rose Williams and Hetty Bowman, color bearers; escorts—
Bob Anthoine, Ashbv McCord, William Sutton. Carl Perry. Ouida
McDaniel, Montese Butler. Ada Edwards and Andrea Houser.
Salute to the F'lags
The National Anthem
Invocation................ Rev. M. I). Reed
Scripture ......................-......... Rev. Walter Clem
American’s Creed, led by Scout George Spear
Editorial—“He Had to Save His Face” Gordon Mathews
Vocal Solo—“There Is No Death" O. 1. Snapp
Editorial—“We Are Talking War Again" Bobby Marehman
Offertory
Introduction of Speaker Geo. B. Culpepper, Jr.
ADDRESS ......... SAMUEL M. MATHEWS
Double Quartet—“Recessional”, Kipling Mrs. W. A. Wooddall, Mrs. R. M.
Houser, Mrs. Glenmore Green, Miss Lula Ree Ethridge, H. M.
Branham, Howard Branham, W. J. Evans, F. \V Withoft.
Colors Retired
Benediction
Postlude
Following are the flag pledges and American’s Creed which should be
clipped and carried to the service:
THE PLEDGE TO THE FLAG OF THE U. S.~“I pledge allegiance to
the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it
stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
THE PLEDGE TO THE FLAG OF GEORGIA—“I pledge allegiance to
the Georgia flag, and to the principles for which it stands, Wisdom, Justice
and Moderation.”
THE AMERICAN’S CREED “I believe in the United States of Ameri
ca as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose powers
are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a
sovereign Nation of many sovereign states; a perfect Union, one and insep¬
arable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and
humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes, !
therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Con¬
stitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all
WM. TYLER PAGE.
1939 Christmas Day
Conies on Monday —
Plan Mailing Early
Late mailing for Christmas this
yeai • will face a double handicap for
delivery, inasmuch as Christmas
comes on Monday and will be a holi
day for all post offices throughout
the United States. Thus all post of¬
fices will be .dosed two days in sue
eession- Sunday and Monday, Decem
ber 24th and 25th.
Much of the greatest joy in a
Christmas gift is in receiving it at
least by Christmas day. Everybody
should begin plans now by which to
mail their Christmas parcels in ample
time for delivery before the last-min¬
ute rush and certainly before Satur¬
day, December 23. Any Christmas
gift could be mailed at any time, even
now, plainly marked “Do riot open
until Christmas.”
The entire postal system, including
every post office in the United States,
will be organized with extra help and
highest possible efficiency for hand¬
ling all Christmas mail with care and
speed, but all of this extra help and
efficiency cannot bring about deliv¬
ery for Christmas day of a parcel
mailed too late.
Make -out your list now and enjoy
the pleasure and economy which will
come with calm, deliberate, methodi¬
cal procedure in buying, packing and
wrapping and mailing your Christmas
gifts.
Also, in order not to rob yourself of
time for the thrills of the season im¬
mediately preceding Christmas, make
out your list for Christmas greetings,
prepare them, address them and have
them ready for mailing quite early
enough to be delivered so that the
recipients will have a chance to en¬
joy them on the day for which they
are meant.
Increase in Post
Office Receipts
Postmaster John H. Jones states
that the receipts, or volume of busi¬
ness done, for the Fort Valley post
office showed an increase of about
eight per cent during October this
year as compared with the receipts
for the same month in 1938.
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH. Houston, Macon and Cran ford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
Masons to Celebrate
90th Anniversary on
Next Tuesday Night
On Tuesday night of next week the
Fort Valley Masonic lodge will cele¬
brate its 90th anniversary with a bar¬
becue and an appropriate program,
which will be in charge of D. W.
Wells. This has become an annual
event for the members of Fort Valley
Lodge and their ladies and is always
an occasion of much enjoyment.
The principal speaker on the pro¬
gram will be Dr. E. M. Highsmith,
M. A., B. A., PhD., head of the school
of education of Mercer University and
dean of the summer school. He was
educated at the University of North
Carolina and Columbia University,
and is a gifted and entertaining
speaker.
FRANK MATHEWS , i
BURIED SUNDAY
B. F'rank Mathews, 49-year-old
Peach county farmer, died at his home
last Saturday after an illness of sev
eral months.
Survivors include three sister.^ Mrs.
Ray Joyner, Mrs. FI. D. Avera, Mrs.
Charlie Williams, all of Fort Valley.
Funeral services were held at the
chape! of McCord and Company Sun¬
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rpv.
M. D. Reed, pastor of the Fort Valley
Baptist church, officiated, and burial
was in Union church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Manning Hayes.
Mac Bryant, E. T. McMillan, E. D.
Leverett, E. D. White and A rthur
Johnson.
LIBRARY
The Thomas Library will be closed
all day Saturday, Armistice Day.
Annual Book Week will be observed
Nov. 12-18, and it is hoped that as
many people as can will read a book
that week.
An excellent edition of the Lavonia,
Ga., Times, devoted to library inter¬
ests in Georgia, is in the library
Stop by and look it over.
Under the AAA farm program,
farmers used green-manure crops on
over 25,000,000 acres in 1938.
FORT VALLEY, l’EACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1939
DR. CH AM LEE TO
PRESIDE OVER
BAPTIST MEET
Augusta, a city rich in Baptist
tradition and intimately associated
with events of historic interest in
Baptist life, will entertain the Georgia
Baptist Convention in its one hundred
and eighteenth annual session this
year. The daily sessions of the con¬
vention will be held at Curtis Baptist
Church, of which Dr. E. C. Sheridan
is pastor, beginning Tuesday morning,
November 14, at 10 o’clock, Eastern
standard time, and closing at noon
on Thursday, November 16.
The conventipn will be called to or¬
der by its president, Dr. Aquila Cham
lee, F’ort Valley, who has served three
years as presiding officer. Dr. Cham
lee will direct the proceedings of the
Augusta meeting through the period
of enrollment and organization, which
is the first item of business to engage
the attention of the convention, At
this time a new president will be j
elected to preside during the remain¬
der of the session, since the conven¬
tion’s constitution limits the tenure
of office of any president to a maxi¬
mum of three consecutive years.
The Georgia Baptist Convention,
the agency through which the various
churches co-operate in carrying for¬
ward the missionary, benevolent and
educational work of the denomination,
was organized in the year 1822 at
Powolton, with six messengers in at¬
tendance.
Two Associations Represented
Only two associations, one of them
the Georgia, the oldest in the state,
were represented in this organization
meeting. The 2,500 churches now af¬
filiated with the Georgia Baptist Con¬
vention are divided into 86 district
associations and the combined moni
bership of these churches at this time
(totals 500,000.
It is not unusual now for the at¬
tendance upon the annual sessions of
the Georgia Baptist Convention to ■
exceed one thousand. The first presi-1
dent of the Georgia Convention was
! Jesse Mercer, for whom Mercer Uni-,
versity was named.
In the opening session Tuesday
morning the convention will receive
the annual report of its executive
committee, which will be presented
by Dr. James W. Merritt, executive !
secretary-treasurer. This report will,
it is stated, set forth a record of
continued progress during the year
in all phases of the convention’s work (
including a still further gain in the
financial support of the co-operative |
missionary, benevolent and education¬ !
al causes of the convention.
The convention sermon will be !
preached by the Rev. H. II. Shirley
Elberton, or Dr. R. C. Gresham, Moul¬
trie, alternate. The recognition of new
pastors and visitors, the presentation
of an historical sketch by Dr, B.
D, Ragsdale, convention historian and
! for forty-five years recording secre
tary of the body, and the appointment
of committees will conclude the open
mg session.
Reports <>n All I’hascs
During its three-day session the
j (phases convention of its will receive reports will on all
work and approve
budget for the coming ^
a year,
0f special significance will be the '
report of the inauguration of a re
tirement plan for ministers author
ized by the convention in 1938 and
put into operation July 1, 1939. The
report will show that this movement,
known as the Georgia Baptist Con- j
vention Ministers’ Retirement Plan, j
has already enrolled more than seven !
hundred churches and upward of
three hundred and fifty pastors.
Other reports will cover the work ;
of the following institutions which
Georgia Baptists maintain: Mercer
University, Macon, Spright Dowell,
president; / Shorter College, Rome,
Paul Cousins, president; Bessie Tift
College, Forsyth, C. Lamar McGinty,
president; Norman Junior College,
Norman Park, Paul Carroll, president;
Brewton-Parker Junior College, Mount
Vernon, A. M. Gates, president; the
Georgia Baptist Hospital and School
of Nursing, Atlanta, W. D. Barker,
superintendent; the Georgia Baptist
Orphans’ Home, Hapeville, J. L. Fort
ney, superintendent.
In addition to its institutions, the
Georgia Baptist Convention maintains
a varied program of mission work
under the direction of its executive
(Continued on back page)
John II. Jones to Be
K i i va n is Spea her
The Kiwanis Club heard an inter¬
esting' talk on First Aid at their reg¬
ular weekly luncheon last Friday by
John Smith, of Macon, who is a qua¬
lified instructor on the subject and is
conducting a class in Fort Valley.
A letter of appreciation from the
Perry Kiwanis Club for resolutions
passed by the Fort Valley club on the
recent tragic death of Louis Houser,
a member of the Perry club, was read
by W. G. Brisendine, club secretary.
Attendance prizes were awarded by
W. FI Greene to H. A. Mathews and
Geo. B. Culpepper, Jr.
S. M. Mathews, program chairman
for the week, announces that John II.
Jones, will be the speaker for the pro¬
gram Friday.
It was suggested last Friday that
since Saturday is Armistice Day, (hat
it would be appropriate for each
member to bring an ex-service man.
Business Upsurge
Expected to Cause
Cut Farm Benefits
WASHINGTON. Nov. G.-—Official
predictions that 1940 would bring a
industrial and business im¬
provement led farm leaders to specu¬
late Monday on the possibility that
next session of Congress may be
to reduce government subsidies
agriculture.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco¬
in its annual outlook report,
that farmers are expected to re¬
*i larger' cash income for their
in 1940 than in 1939.
The last Congress appropriated sub¬
sidies to finance crop control pro¬
and for removal of price-de
surpluses, Whiie federal
officials decline?! to give any
* ures for W4 ° subsidies ’ ^ sa,d
if the predictions of better pric
and cnlar S ed markets fo1 ' farm
worG bor " e out - the deman<
government financial aid would
be so great as it has been for
years.
The Economic Bureau’s forecast of
business and industrial ac¬
was based on a number of fac¬
including the export demand ex
to arise from the European
prospects for an increase in the
of automobiles and other dur¬
consumers’ goods, increases in
expenditures and “less cau
buying policies by business men
The bureau said that the war should
the export demand for such
as lard, pork, certain can¬
and dried fruits, and cotton.
products for which a less fa¬
foreign market was foreseen
fresh fruits, tobacco, feeds and
wheat.
Plans I), •ire
To Extend Service
“Electric power by Christmas” for
farm families who arc wfthin reach
,f lines, but are not now members of
electrical co-operative associa
is the goal of the Rural Iilec
Administration in the South,
Officials of the federal agency have
a series of eight confer
with farms in six southern
to induce them to expand their
of electricity,
They point out that farmers in
served by rural electrical co
associations could obtain
by joining their association at
cost of $5 and having their premises
for electricity. Eighty per
of the cost of wiring may be
from the REA on three to
year loans.
The REA listed Georgia as leading
South in co-operative assoeia
having 33 such organizations.
has 22, Mississippi 18, Ala-
10, North Carolina 14, Tennes-
10, and Florida 3.
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Winter small grains planted this
will provide food and feed for the
when badly needed.
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Over 1,850 freezer locker plants,
farm families and others store.
foods in season for out-of-sea
use, are being operated in 38'
COTTON LOAN
liASE RATE IS
HA CENTS LB.
WASHINCTON, Nov. 7.—The Ag¬
riculture Department announced Tues¬
day it would make loans available to
growers on this year’s cotton crop at
a base rate of 8.3 cents per pound.
The loan program provides allow¬
ances for location differentials under
which cotton stored near principal
markets will be eligible for a higher
rate than cotton stored under loan
at remote points.
The base rate of 8.3 cents will ap¬
ply to 7-8 inch middling cotton.
In figuring loans! on cotton, the
government will allow each borrow¬
er 40 points for tare.
9.30 Js Top Figure
Under the location differential pro¬
vision, the loan rate will vary from a
low of 8.70 cents per pound in
parts of western Texas and in New
Mexico to a maximum loan rate of
9.30 cents for some points in North
Carolina and in Virginia. Rates in
all Gulf of Mexico and California
points will be 9.20 cents.
Announcement of the new loan pro¬
gram comes at a time when about
10,100,000 bales of surplus cotton
from previous crops are stored under
government loan programs.
The full loan rate will be available
only to co-operating cotton producers
who have not on any farm knowingly
planted or permitted the planting of
cotton in 1939 in excess of the cotton
acreage allotment established for the
farm during the past season.
Non co-operating farmers—those
who exceeded their planting allot¬
ments—will be eligible to receive a
loan at 60 per cent of the rate appli¬
cable to co-operating producers and
only on that part of their production
in excess of their marketing quotas.
Premiums and Discounts
The program also will provide a
schedule of premiums and discounts
under which cotton grading above and
below middling 7-8 will be eligible for
a variation in rates. This schedule
was to be announced later.
Loans will be available until May 1,
1940.
Local banks and other lending agen¬
cies may make loans to producers
upon cotton which is stored in ap¬
proved warehouses and sell their
notes to the Commodity Credit Cor¬
poration from time to time prior to
30 days from the maturity of such
notes.
The farmer loans will bear 3 per
cent interest instead of 4 per cent as
in the past.
Class in First Aid
Being Taught Here
A class in first aid was started
Monday night at the fire department
with 18 taking the course, the class
being made up of members of the fire
department and others. The class is
being instructed by John Smith, of
Macon, who is connected with the
Southern Bell Telephone Co., and is
a qualified Red Cross instructor.
Those who satisfactorily complete
the course will be awarded a card or
certificate.
Kiivanis Governor
Names Lieutenants
CHICAGO, Nov. 9. 1 .ieutenant
governors for 1940 in the Georgia Ki¬
wanis district will be announced to¬
morrow by George FI. Simpson, of
Valdosta, governor-elect of the Geor¬
gia district, to the annual meeting
Kiwanis International being held here
this week.
The following nine lieutenant gov¬
ernors will take office in January:
James V. Carmichael, Marietta; W.
Frank Graham, Newnan; G. Maynard
Smith, Cairo; L. H. Battle, Douglas;
Mayor A. C, Riley, Fort Valley; F.
Frederick Kennedy, Augusta; Ed
ward L. Aimand, Jr., Monroe; Ros
coe E. Ledford, Vidalia, and Reginald
R. Trice, Macon.
The Kiwanis governor will bring to¬
gether all his lieutenants for an in
tensive training within the next thir
ty days. These men will then con
training schools for the 1940
presidents, secretaries, etc., for all
the clubs in Georgia.
METHODIST
IN
OFFICIAL ROLL
OF METHODIST
CHURCH GIVEN
The official roll of the Fort Valley
Methodist church as announced for
the church year, 1939-40, is as follows:
Auditors: J. E. Bvoadrick and J.
E. Burnett.
Trustees: W. R. Edwards, W. E.
Greene, W. L. Houser, John A. Hous¬
er, J. D. Kendrick, Sam. M. Mathews,
R. L. Marehman, Sr., and E. M. Whit¬
ing.
Stewards: 11. J. Avera, II. M. Bran¬
ham, J. E. Broadrick, V. Lynn Brown,
Jr., Dallas Broome, W. E. Butler, J.
E. Burnett, George B. Culpepper, Jr.,
W. R. Edwards, R. M. Houser, R. P.
Houser, H. Huckabee, J. B. Hunni
cutt, J. D. Kendrick, A. L. Luce, C.
II. Matthews, W. Miller Mathews,
Sam. M. Mathews, A. C. Murray, J. T.
Neill, Harry Pittman, C. H. Sammons,
C. L. Shepard, Sr., Fred W. Shepard,
Dr. Frank Vinson, E. M. Whiting, J.
A. L. Wilson, Chester Wilson.
Council of Missions and Church
Extensions: J. H. Edwards, T. J.
Shepard; from Woman’s Board, Mrs.
H. V. Williams, Mrs. W. R. Edwards;
from the Young People’s Division,
Bob Anthoine and Mary Lillian Cul¬
pepper.
General superintendent: H. A.
Mathews.
Golden Cross Director: Miss Ern¬
estine Bledsoe.
President Young People’s Divi¬
sion: Mary Lillian Culpepper.
Board of Christian Education: Dal¬
las Broome, chairman; FI. A. Math¬
ews, general superintendent; J. j,
Broadrick, superintendent adult divi¬
sion; Miss Ernestine Bledsoe, Young
People’s Division superiffrcTulfait; Miss
Emily Shepard, superintendent Chil¬
dren’s Division; from Woman’s Mis¬
sionary Society, Mrs. Marion Ilaslam,
Jr.; from Young People’s Division,
Mary Lillian Culpepper and Bobbie
Marehman; elected by quarterly con¬
ference, J. T. Neill, Dallas Broome, G.
M. Ilaslam, Jr.; from Board of Stew¬
ards, Geo. B. Culpepper, Jr.; and the
pastor.
Church school officers: H. A. Math¬
ews, superintendent; assistants: J. E.
Broadrick, adult division, Miss Ernes¬
tine Bledsoe, Young People’s Divi¬
sion, Miss Emily Shepard, Children’s
Division, G. M. Ilaslam, Jr., general
secretary and treasurer.
President Woman’s Missionary So¬
ciety, Miss Annette Shepard.
Sister of Fort Valley
Man Dies in Macon
MACON Nov. 6.—Mrs. Martha
Irene Rice died at her residence, 460
New street, at 6 p. m. yesterday after
a long illness.
Mrs. Rico was born in Taylor coun¬
ty July 4, 1901, the daughter of W.
W. Duke and Mrs. Ida Bell Sledge
Duke, and had made her home in Ma
con for the past four and a half years
and at other times prior to that. She
was a member of the First Baptist
church.
Surviving are a son, Ernest Foy
Rice, Woodruff, S. C.; five
Mrs. S. M. Arrington, Mrs. R. H.
Beach and Mrs. J. T. Mooney of Mu
con; Mrs. George Simpkins and Mrs.
O. H. Crawford, Woodruff, S. C.;
three brothers, L. P. Duke, F’ort Val
ley; II. S. Duke, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
and W. N. Duke, Atlanta.
Funeral services were held in the
chapel of Hart’s mortuary at 10 a. in.
today. Rev. J. Maurice Trimmer,
pastor of the F'irst Baptist church,
officiated and burial was in the Liz
enby cemetery near Byron.
BANK HOLIDAY
_ j
II. Huckabee, vice president of the
Bank of F’ort Valley, announces that
the bank will be closed on Monday,
Nov. 13, instead of Armistice Day,
whieh comes on Saturday.
The AAA farm program provides
the machinery for adjusting produc
tion of major crops as quickly as nec
essary to any changes in demand
which may occur.
51 YEARS OF
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THIS WEEK
MACON, Nov. 9.—By rising accla¬
mation, more than 400 delegates t >
the South Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in
session yesterday, called upon “Chris¬
tians everywhere” to join in earnest
prayer for world peace.
They unanimously adopted a resolu¬
tion by Rev. William F'. Quillian, gen¬
eral secretary of the Board of Chris¬
tian Education and formerly president
of Wesleyan College here. His reso¬
lution asked the conference to voice
a protest against war of every kind.
It also added earnest prayer that
“the spirit of God may so guide th-•
president and congress of the United
States that our nation shall not be¬
come involved in war, but that we
may use all legitimate means to pro¬
mote peace throughout the world.”
Action came at the final session o£
the old conference, which will give'
way today to formal unification of
the three branches of Methodism and
the proclamation of a new South
Georgia Conference.
Today representatives of the Meth¬
odist Episcopal Church, South, the
Methodist Episcopal church and tha
Methodist Protestant church will con¬
vene as a united South Georgia Con¬
ference of the Methodist church.
In the wind-up of business, Rev .
L. A. Harrell of Valdosta, chairman.
of the committee on Christian educa¬
tion, told the conference a total of
$490,000 had been raised toward the
$000,000 needed to repurchase Wes¬
leyan college here from its bondhold
ers. Of this, $100,000 recently was
given by James H. Porter, of Macon.
Bishop J. L. Decell said pastoral
assignments for the new united con
ference would be announced Sunday
afternoon.
The 73rd session of the South Geor¬
gia Conference was opened with de¬
votional exercises by Dr. Ed F. Cook.
Bishop Dccell called for the or¬
ganization of the conference.
Rev. T. H, Thomson was elected
secretary and the Revs. C. W. Curry.
J. A. Smith and J. N. Shell were
named his assistants.
Rev. K. H. MacGregor was elected
statistical secretary, with asistants
from each of the districts.
The roll of the clerical members of:'
the conference was called by the sec¬
retary, district by district, with tha
district superintendents answering
against them.
The eight district superintendents
reported briefly on the year’s work
in their districts and had their char¬
acters passed.
Bishop W. N. Ainsworth of Mae on
greeted the delegates and welcome!
them here.
Dr. T. 1). Ellis presented the cer¬
tification for recognition and estab¬
lishment of membership for the con¬
summation of the plan of union.
Sixty-one charges were served by
the missionaries during the last year,
it was reported by Rev. H. C. Jones,
secretary of the board of missions.
He also reported 1,600 additions to
the church, that 1,200 church schools
raised for benevolent collections
$9,000, that there are 1,500 women
in the missionary societies and that
more than $100,000 was raised for all.
purposes during the year.
It. S. Wimberly, Lumpkin, present
ed the report of the board of lay ac
At the close of the afternoon ses
sion of the conference today, laymen
attending the conference will meet
and review their work, and a lay lead
er for the new year will be elected to
succeed C. L. Shepard of Fort Valley.
WESLEY AN TO OBSERVE
FALL' HOLIDAYS AGAIN
MACON.—Fall holidays, which be¬
gin at Wesleyan College Wednesday
afternoon, will be observed this year
for the first time in many years.
Wesleyan girls will return to regu
lar classes Monday, and preparations
will immediately get underway for
annual Thanksgiving day home-com
in ff activities on Nov. 23.
F’ort Valley girls to be at home,
during the holidays are Misses Betty
Liipfert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William J. Liipfert, Mary Nell Samp
ley, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. E,
Sampley; and Frances Wilson, daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wilson.