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Volume LIV, Number 12
OUTSTANDING
ARE COMING
CONFERENCE
The regional conference for
tist pastors and laymen to be
here on March 28 will be one of
senes of ten such conferences to
held throughout the state during
weeks of March 24-28 and March
April 4. The Fort Valley
church, of which the Rev. M. D.
is pastor, will entertain this
and lunch will be served to the
itors. It is expected that
mately three hundred pastors and
men from the churches of the ten
more district associations in this
tion will be in attendance at the
ference.
These conferences will be under
direction of Dr. James W.
executive secretary-treasurer,
tive committee of the Georgia
Convention, and the list of
speakers and leaders will include
number of denominational
from Georgia and other states of
Southern Baptist Convention.
conference will begin at 10 o’clock
the program fop the day will be
follows:
10 a. m.—Devotional led by the
M. D. Reed.
Announcements and enrollment.
Presentation of denominational
resentatives.
Address on Stewardship-—Dr. W.
White, president,
University, Abilene, Texas.
Open discussion — “Working
gether”, led by Dr. James W.
executive secretary-treasurer,
Baptist Convention.
“The Layman’s Opportunity
Service”—A. W. Schmidt, Amerieus.
Announcements.
Address—“Our Evangelistic
Dr. W. W. Hamilton, president,
ern Baptist Convention.
Lunch at church.
2 p. m.—Devotional, led by
F. Heard, Forsyth.
Open discussion—“An
Evangelistic Program”, led by Dr.
H. Faust, secretary, department
evangelism of the Georgia
Convention.
Open discussion—“Stewardship
Our Denominational Program”, led
Dr. W. W. Hamilton and Dr. W.
White of Texas.
Address- • • Baptists Cooperating
Kingdom Work”, Dr. J. E.
director of promotion, Southern
tist Convention.
Conference song leader, Rev. A.
Hawkes, Thomaston.
Pastors, associational officers
laymen from every church are
ly invited to attend one of these
portant conferences. The
will be devoted to fellowship,
conferences and round-table
sion centering around the vital
of soul-winning, stewardship,
sions, deepening spiritual life,
ing plans and programs for
and associations, and the work of
men. Georgia’s soul-winning
for 1941 will be stressed. There
also be a discussion of the
ministers’ retirement plan.
Ford Is Willing
Make War
DETROIT, March 8.—Henry
who last summer refused to
Rolls Royce plane engines for
land, is willing and always has
willing to manufacture
equipment in his American plants
the British, it was learned from
high Ford official last night.
One of the reasons Ford
down a dual British-United
offer for manufacture of 9,000
engines was because he believed
powerful new plane engine of his
design was a superior type and
be used both by British and
States fighting forces, the
said.
Tests of a two-cylinder segment
Ford’s engine have just been
ed and Army and Navy officials
have inspected it—a 12-cylinder,
cooled type with fuel-injection
and exhaust-driven
have expressed amazement over
possibilities. A Rolls kicks up
proximately 1,000 horsepower,
as the new Ford engine is
to develop between 1,500 and 1,700.
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Read u idcly by the people of progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Cran ford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
LEADERS
FOR REGIONAL
, MARCH 28
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I)R. W. W. HAMILTON
President Southern Baptist
Convention
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DR. W. R. WHITE
President, Hardin-Simmons University
DEATH MRS.
ElEIE JOHNSON
The community was saddened on
)ast Friday afternoon by the death of
Mrs £ffie Johnson. She had been in
ill health for many months and her
death was not unexpected.
“Miss Effie”, as she was known to
numerous friends, had been connected
with the Southern Bell Telephone Co.
for the past fifteen years. She was
47 years old on March 2. Her
band, the late R. M. Johnson, died two
years ago.
She was a member of the American
Legion Auxiliary, and the Fort Valley
Baptist church, from which funeral
services were conducted Saturday af
ternoon by her pastor, the Rev. M. D.
Reed, assisted by the Rev. F. J. Gil¬
bert, pastor of the Butler Methodist
church, a life-long friend of the fam
ily- Mr. Reed paid tribute to Mrs.
Johnson as one who chose “the more
excellent way”, and Mr. Gilbert stated
that in addition tothe Beatitudes we
have one through the beloved
“Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord”. A quartet sang two of Mrs.
Johnson’s favorite songs:
Time We’ll Understand” and
ful Isle of Somewhere. n
Surviving are five sisters and three
brothers: Mrs. W. T. Bell of Ella
ville, Mrs. Ola Jordan of Pelham, Mrs.
Ida Duke of Buena Vista, Mrs. J.
Hobbs of Ideal, Miss Neva Poole
Fort Valley, B. U. Poole of
W w Poole of Id eal, and G. H.
| of Jacksonville, Fla. A number
nieces and nephews also survive.
I Pallbearers were S. M.
iW. T. Bateman, D. W. Wells, G.
(Lowe and Walter H. Lee of Fort
;ley and Frank Newton of Macon.
tei'ment was in Oaklawn cemetery.
K. T. Inspection
Tuesday
Annual inspection of Ivanhoe
mandery No. 10, Knights
will be held Tuesday evening,
18, at seven o’clock. Sir Knight F.
Sammons, past commander of
Commandery No. 8 of Rome, is
inspecting officer. All members
Ivanhoe Commandery are urged to
present and all visiting Knights
dially invited.
D. W. WELLS, E.
T. M. Anthoine, Recorder.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1911
Sergeant Burke
Makes Safety Talk
At Kiivanis
By R. A. HALL
Sergeant Burke of the State
way Patrol, speaking to the
Club Friday under sponsorship
A1 Rocke, program chairman,
an earnest plea for safety
ness in the minds of all drivers,
the grim reaper might be checked
his mad harvest of death on
highways.
'Statistics quoted by Sergeant
and “the utter disregard for the
rights of others exercised by
drivers” illustrated the grave
encountered on our roadways.
No single catastrophe in the
States last year approached the
average ; of almost 100. lives lost in
tomobile accidents, to say nothing
the maimed and injured. 35,000
killed and 1,300,000 were injured
1940. When a powder plant
or a train wrecks or a plant
with attendant loss of life it
headline news. If fatalities
news then, the nation’s death toll
| j the banner headline story 365 days
I every year. “Here today- gone
morrow” will almost certainly
I to those who continue to flout
| traffic laws ‘and rules of safety •
,
i...,, 11944.
It interesting to note that , ,.
was
feeding the speed limit was
j sible for 40 per cent of the
and 26 per cent of the injuries
1940. Every third victim of a
traffic accident last year was a
j destrian. More than 97 per eent
all drivers involved in accidents
a year or more of operating
ence. 86 per cent of all fatal
dents occurred in clear weather
78 per cent happened when the
surface was dry.
In a single day, October 4.
85 persons lost their lives and
were critically injured.
Let us make it “care
! : tomorrow.
25/// Annual Ham
til,,-,*,, IU
1 ’ *
The 25th annual ham, egg and
try show and sale, held here
o and 7 was the biggest and most
st anding one ever held. The 500
well-trimmed, hickory smoked
s j de g an d the 120 dozens of
'eggs, which were attractively
ranged in the. spacious auditorium
the Fort Valley State College,
the keen interest of all who saw
Thursday was devoted to adult
4 _jf short course, under the
of R. J. Richardson, poultry
ist; Kenneth Traener, farm
ment specialist; Jones Purcell,
specialist; R. P. Swan, county
cultural agent; Camilla Weems,
an t state agent; P. H, Stone,
agent for Negro work and others,
Two moving pictures were shown
connection with the short course.
Friday morning, beginning at
o’clock, the college auditorium
filled with those who came from
over the state to hear the
and to see the display of meat.
4-H achievement program was
dered with an address on health
sanitation by Gris Hanson,
health engineer of the state
department. Reports on 4-H
ment and highlights in community
velopment by 4-H presidents and
address by Emmie Nelson, state
club agent; address by W. T.
son, editor of the Macon
who has been an enthusiastic
er of this work from its
and who donated $25 for the best
hams in the show. W. S. Brown
the Georgia agricultural
service, made the principal
$150 in prizes were awarded.
J. Arnica of Myrtle community
ceived first prize of $15 for the
ham; Dudley Barnes of Oak
community received second prize
$10 for the second best ham;
community received $10 for the
display of 10 hams; Oak Grove
munity received second prize for
best all round community display.
'fhe business men, merchants
others gave their hearty
to the show by giving cash for
miums.
MORE MEN GO
TO ARMY CAMPS
Five more men from this county
will go to army training camps this
month according to the local Selective
Service Board.
Wesley McGee and C. H. Header
son , Jr., Negroes, will go on the lHh.
On the 27th Hershel Rigby and
Gladwyn Bernard Treadwell will
to Fort McPherson. Three Negroes
who have not been selected yet will
I also go on the 27th.
| Adequate Labor
j For Defense Jobs
Emphasizing the adequacy of com
petent labor available through the
Georgia State Employment Set vice,
Commissioner Ben T. Huiet, of the
State Department of Labor, says that
approximately 1,500 workers have
be ■ i, referred to defense jobs in other
states through the clearance system
used by the Service.
j Referral and subsequent placement
of these workers in jobs, he added,
was in addition to the normal func
tkms of the agency in matching
and jobs in Georgia and eliminated
useless migration to a great extent.
' within , the past * , few „ days, , he . said, .,
more than 500 carpenters * from North M
Georgia were referred . to , jobs . , outside
the state through the clearance
system, an arrangement between state k
employment offices and other state
services to supply needed workers who
are not available locally.
Commissioner Huiet sai<l in one
instance a firm in Virginia sent it*
superintendent and doctor to a state
employment office to interview and
examine applicants before they were
p,; ire< 1 and transported by bus to their
. new jobs.
Although thousands of workers are
b e j nf , i a j<j 0 ff of projects rapidly
, nearing completion , Commissioner
Huiet stated they are being absorbed
by private industry and other defense
projects as released. Thus far, he
'added, ' workers apparently have step
ped from one job into another and no
wholesale unemployment has resulted.
j To speed up job defense placements, Board has
he said, the Social Security
created 13 federal offices to form
what may be described as a job-rout
j ng system, or a method for
state transfer of workers, especially
j n occupations essential to defense.
These offices, he said, do no hiring,
They do not accept applications from
workers, nor find jobs for them. They
do no t accept requests for workers
f rom employers, Their business is
to help local employment offices fill
defense jobs quickly and efficiently.
The man in charge of each of
these federal offices receives regular
reports, form which he knows the
extent the national labor supply, as
well as the requirements of defense
industries,
1 Existence of this new machinery
Commissioner Huiet said, serves as ,
a better method of preventing
waste and delay of planless niigra
tion and assures those who travel to
new jobs that there is a job waiting
for them that they can fill. Through
the system, he added, production can
be speeded up; employers will have an
additional aid in getting workers
they need them and workers, with
skills needed for defense, will have a
better opportunity to work where they
are most needed.
FIRST LOG OF MARINES
j USED FOR MANY
j Battered and worn is an old day
j i00 k that rests in the archives of the
1 Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
yet within its covers are some of
mogt d j ss j m jj ar entries ever included
in & s ; ng j e v0 ) U me. Its pages reveal
rec ords of Masonic meetings, tavern
bills, hardware accounts and data
comprising the first log of the
Marines.
| ' Flames of the Revolution had not
ye t begun to smolder in 1749, when
a Quaker gentleman neatly inscribed
j n the leather-bound book the minutes
' six
0 f a Masonic meeting. For some
i thereafter accounts of similar
years
| meetings ledger were of Tun faithfully Tavern, formerly entered in
the a
riverside hostelry pear the Delaware
(Continued on back page)
Fanners Urged To
Refrain From Use
Of Fire On Farm
Refrain from using fire on the farm
as much as possible and by all means
be careful with the necessary spring
burning, lest such fires should get
HU (. () .f eordro ] a)u j spread into adjoin
j np woods and other areas where
Un toId damage often results, County
Agricultural Agent, R. P. Swan sug
ges ted to Peach County farmers this
week.
Attention was called to the fact by
the county agent that burning of weed
and stubble land results in the loss
of much nitrogen and organic matter,
and if piled the concentration, on
small spots, of phosphoric acid and
P° as
| For example, the 3,000 pounds of
cotton stalks from a yield of a bale
of cotton per acre contains 30 pounds
of nitrogen. This amount of nitrogen
is equal to the nitrogen contained in
225 pounds of nitrate of soda. The
corn stalks from a acre producing 20
bushels' of corn contains about 16
pounds of nitrogen winch is contained
ln 100 pounds of nif iuU oi so<
Mr. Swan explained that in most
instances there were a few gullies or
<lndld spot* on I u lunn <n " ’
surplus 1 stalks and other residue could
be dumped . , to great , advantage, , rather ,,
than disposing .. . of it by burning, This
1 ! 1 BUch ga ll ed areas,
he added.
In addition to losses of organic
matter and fertilizing materials, the
Extension agent stated that uncon
trolled fires on the farm often do
great damage to timber, destroy
Borders and covers for wildlife, burn
^ arm buildings in many cases,
increase . > soil’erosion through burning
of protective ground cover.
■ It is all right to use a little fire
in clearing new ground or other neees
'gary work, but even in these cases, be
sure that the fire is kept under con
trol and not given a chance to spread
j n to other areas, the agent said.
Shepard on WSB
Program Saturday
C. L. Shepard will be one of the
speakers on the Andrew College pro
gram to be heard on radio station
(WSB gaturday afternoon from 3: o5
to £ ^ Bishop Arthur Moore and
I f)r oiliff, president of the col
i i egei will also be speakers on the pro¬
The college glee club will sing
and Miss Chastain of Thomasville will
play the merimba.
'
_ Will Attempt Groiv
to
Yj Unobtainable Is’ II tlCTbS If /
At a meet,ng f -~T7u of the boa ^ d , of c le
agreement was reached with .
Dr ’ H ’ A ’ Langenham, representative
I of one °f the worlds laigcst importers
'of medical herbs, whereby this com
pany would provide seed, a superin
tendent for the experiments an<
) financing to the extent of approxi¬
mately $20,000 over a period of three
years.
, Though of the plants to be
| some
| grown are common in Georgia now,
ai " on * them , the ordinary
| weed Dr Sanford wartled Georg,a
* ’
farmers nol= to attempt growing such
plants on thelr own untl1 experiments
' determined wh * ther th °f 7 hlch Could
be . Georgia had
grown in
value and could be grown at a profit.
The herbs upon which experiments
will be conducted heretofore have been
grown almost exclusively in the
: Mediterranean basin. Both plants and
j j seeds now are almost unobtainable in
this country,
Among them are belladonna, or
nightshade, from which
j respiratory pine, used as stimulant a heart and stimulant, in testing a
the eyes, is derived; hebane, of the
same family, from which comes
scopotamine or the “twilight sleep”
use< l in obstetrics; digitalis, or fox
glove, a heart stimulant, and jimpson
weed, whose derivative has similar
properties to that of belladonna,
Half the seeds of plants suceess
fully produced will be bought at the
market price by the co-operating com
pany, and the remainder will be dis
tributed to farmers when it is estab
lished the plants can be grown at a
profit.
GOLF TOURNEY
NEARING CLOSE
By R. A. HAIL
The Pine Needles golf tournament
moved on toward the crowning of the
club champioh the past week, and the
launching of powerful offensives by
the remaining contestants is expected
next week.
Pairings in the championship flight
are Felton Hatcher vs. Jimmie Duke,
Everett Johnson vs. George Wheaton,
Jim Ethridge vs. Raymond Hall, and
Harris Hafer vs. Ashby McCord. Two
of these matches have already been
played.
Jimmie Duke continued his steady
march toward the finals by defeating
Felton Hatcher while Everett Johnson
staged the most surprising upset of
t he tournament by defeating well
sorted, hard hitting George Wheaton,
Matches in the first flight are: Sin
clair Frederick vs. Fred Fagan; Judge
A. M. Anderson vs. Thomas Edwards;
Frank McDaniel vs. Oliver Snapp,
Fred Thomson vs. Johnnie Brown.
Second flight matches are:
Vavis vs. Bill Brisendine; E. M.
Whiting or Eston Adams vs. L. E.
Williams: A. O. Riley vs. Leighton
Shepard, Jr.; and L. E. Jones or Lynn
j Brown vs. Eric Staples.
Third flight matches are: William
\ Carithers vs. Miller Edwards; 1 ,’
Adams . , , E. M. Minting Harry
or vs.
Palmer; J. W. Robinson vs. Johnnie
Houser, and L. E. Jones or Lynn
Brown vs. J. F. Lambert.
Fourth flight matches: Sanders
Harris vs. Dave Lane; W. E. Greene
vs. L. E. Houston; E.. J. Saywell vs.
Harry Pittman, and Albert Evans vs.
1H'. E. Evans,
The losers in the various flights will
up the ’consolation flights.
J Cary Ritch, the club pro, became a
full fledged member of the “Yellow
Dog” society recently, and having re
covered from the initiation ceremonies
announces that immediately
the present tournament there will be
regular week-end blind bogeys played.
THOMASVILLE READY
FOR FLOWER LOVERS
UN PILG RIMA GE EVENT
The fifth annual pilgrimage of
1 Georgia homes and gardens will be
an outstanding event of next week,
with Thomasville being the first of
several Georgia cities to act as host
to lovers of beautiful homes and
i gardens.
| The pilgrimage will formally open
at Thomasville on Tuesday, March
18, at which time six of the beautiful
plantation estate gardens will be open
to the public and several of the fine
homes in Thomasville will be open
for ’inspection, together with the
gardens of these homes,
The tour of the places to be visited
Thomasville will get underway at
8:30 o’clock, GST, and both the plan
tation estate gardens and the town
bouses and gardens will be open until
s j x o’clock in the afternoon.
Hostesses and assistants will be on
hand to give assistance in directing
visitors and members of the local
Boy Scout troops likewise will assist
motorists in and about town.
Three Toms Inn, popular winter re¬
sort hotel there, will be headquarters
and members of the
Garden Club will be on hand to handle
ticket arrangements as in the past
and all participants m the pilgrim
wiU start from that place ’
STUD f]]\ T ^ PRACTICE
FOR PLAY CONTEST
Have you noticed what is going on
around you? It’s spring! Flowers
are blooming, birds are singing. Do
you know what’s happening in your
town? Do you know what
going on in the homes and at school?
j high The school most is important play practice. thing at If you the
would like to find any of the ex
pression students, morning, noon or
night—look for them at the school
house.
The Fort Valley High School Dra¬
matic Club is working hard and spend¬
ing all their time preparing for the
one-act plays Which are to be held at
the high school auditorium in only a
few weeks. Watch for the date.
That which is everybody’s
is nobody’s business.
53 YEARS OF
SERVICE
Only newspaper in the heart
of one of America’s
rich agricultural
sections.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance
$7,000,000,00 AID
FUND IS ASKED
FOR BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, March 12.—Presi¬
dent Roosevelt sent to Congress Wed¬
nesday a request for a $7,000,000,000
appropriation to carry out a “fixed
policy of this government to make for
democracies every gun, plane and mu¬
nition of war that we possibly can."
In a letter to Speaker Rayburn,
transmitting detailed estimates of the
budget director for the $7,000,000,000
expenditure, Mr. Roosevelt asserted:
“I strongly urge the immediate en¬
actment of this appropriation.”
The Chief Executive declared Amer
j ,ca has felt that “It was imperative
jto the security of America that we
encourage the democracies heroic ie~
j sistance to aggressions, by not only
maintaining, but also increasing the
J |country. f,ow of material assistance from this;
Therefore, he said, Congress had en
| acted and he had signed the Biitish
bill.
| (In London, Prime Minister Church
i 111 announced to the House of Com
| mons law that and the termed Brit ^ h it ald “new b,H had be "
come a magna
, inspiring of faith”)
jeharta ... an act
! The President's request for the big
' gest peacetime appropriation bill in
the nation’s history went to Congress
[ less than 24 hours after he signed
the bill into law and approved the
first list of supplies to be shipped to
Britain and to Greece.
Other Major Items
The appropriation estimate of Bud¬
get, Director Smith broke the $7,000,-
1000,000 down into various categories,
|of j which the largest by far was $2,
' 054,000,000 for “aircraft and aero¬
; nautical material, including engines,
i spare parts and accessories.”
Other categories were:
For ordnance and ordnance stores, •
supplies, spare parts and materials,
j including armor and ammunition and
their components, $1,343,000,000.
For agricultural, industrial and
other commodities and articles, $1,-
350,000,000.
For tanks, armored cars, automo¬
biles, trucks and other automotive ve¬
( hicles, with spare parts and aeeesso
lies, $362,000,000.
J j water For vessels, craft, and ships, equipage, boats and supplies other
materials, parts and accessories, $629,
000,000.
For miscellaneous military equip¬
ment, supplies and materials, $260,
000 , 000 .
For facilities and equipment for th«r
manufacture or production of defense
articles, including the construction,
acquisition of land for sites, $725,
000,000.
For testing, inspecting, repairing,
or otherwise putting in good working
order any defense articles for the
government of “any country whose
defense the President deems vital to
the defense of the United States”—
$ 200 , 000 , 000 .
Exams Announced for
Mechanic-Learner Jobs
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
announces an open competitive exam¬
ination for filling vacancies in the
position of Mechanic-Learner, $3.60 a
day, in the War Department, Ord¬
nance Service, Augusta Arsenal, Au¬
gusta, Georgia, for which the receipt
of applications closes March 17, 1941,
Applications must be on file with the
Manager, Fifth U. S. Civil Service
District, New Post Office Building,
Atlanta, Ga., on or before that date.
Applicants will be required to pass
a written mechanical aptitude lest and
must have reached their 16th but must
not have passed their 25th birthday
on the closing date for receipt of ap
plications. These age limits will not
he waived in any case.
Full further information and ap¬
plication blanks may be obtained from
the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil
Service Examiners, at any first or
second-class post office in the State
of Georgia; or from the Manager,
Fifth U. S. Civil Service District, New
Post Office Building, Atlanta.
To be worth anything, character
must be capable of standing firm upon
its feet in the world of daily work,
temptation, and trial; and able to
bear the wear and tear of actual life,
—Smiles.