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The Forsyth County News
VOL.—2S—NO. 6.
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“THE HOUSE SERVICE BUIUT”
FEBRUARY.
February—fortnights two—
Briefest of the months are you,
Of the winter’s children last.
Why do you go by so fast?
You’re the baby of the year.
And to me you’re very dear,
Just because you bring the line,
Will you be my Valentine?
—Frank Dempster Sherman.
GROUNDHOG
Thursday ending with sufficient
sunshine for the groundhog, marmot,
woodchuck or whatever-you-may-call
it, to have seen his shadow, accord
ing to the old belief there will be an
other six weeks of winter.
FARM RELIEF
DELAYED.
ITesent prospects for farm relief le
gislation at the session of Congress
now convened are aot hopeful.
The pressure of appropriation hills
and the expectancy of a veto from
President Hoover tend to dampen the
ardor of the advocates of immediate
legislation.
The Forsyth County News cannot
solve the problem, but it tan say that
those responsible for legislation will
do well to give it their best efforts.
Conceivably, these may not succeed,
but there is an increasing temper on
the part of agriculturalists to resort
to extra-legal methods of meeting the
situation.
Farm Outlook, 1933
The outlook for agriculture during
1933 is reported somewhat improved
by the Bureau of Agricultural Econo
mics of the Department of Agricul
ture, which says that improved de
mand awaits the recovery of heavy
industries where a large part of do
mestic unemployment exists and cites
some possibility of improvement if
there should be an easing of the
“strangulating effects on our foreign
trade” arising out of unstable curren
cies, international debts and trade
barriers.
The Bureau thinks that a start to
ward recovery will probably be re
flected first in an improved foreign
demand for cotton, the acreage of
which has been reduced abroad in re
cent years. Otherwise, foreign pro
duction of competing products in in
ternation trade is being maintained
"at a high level.”
It is plain that the foreign demand
for American agricultural products
has fallen to anew low level and is
apparently continuing.
TAX NOTICE—I have been appointed
Assistant Tax Collector by Mr. H. L.
Hurt to collect the remainder of the
1932 Taxes. I will be in the office of
S. C. Smallwood at the Court House
every day until further notice for the
purpose of collecting these taxes, and
I earnestly ask each and every one to
make settlement as early as possible,
as I will have tp issue Pi-Fa’s very
soon. 'V,
Your FHeifd.
T. P. THOMAS, JMlgt. T. C.
TO SELL, WE
MUST BUY.
The Forsyth County New’s is anx
ious to build up the welfare of the
people of this nation, and would not
willingly trade its advantages for tile
civilization of other lands.
We say this by preface to further
remarks upon the “Buy America” cam
paign now being waged aggressively
in this country. In many respects,
the slogan is sound, hut in final analy
sis, it is entirely misleading.
The farmer, for example, who has
wheat or cotton to sell abroad, would
suffer considerably if foreign nations
followed such an example and bought
everything from their own land. In
ternational- trade would shrink to no
thing as soon as the doctrine became
generally established.
There is no magic in the name
“United States” to causa foreign peo
ples to he anxious about cur welfare,
or to trade with us to their own advan-
tage. Unless there is mutuality, and
Joint advantages',to be found in every
commercial interchange between nat
ions, there will be little trading done.
The lesson of commerce is that buy
ing and selling is barter, whether done
by direct swapping or indirect settle
meat in eurrencies. We cannot sell
to the nations if we do net buy some
thing from them. Unless we are will
ing to buy from them we will lose
them as customers.
Toby Cock Will Ride
His Pcny To Capital
To Sea Inauguration
CHULA. Ga., Jan. 31—Toby Cook,
7, who rode his shaggy pony 250 miles
to hear Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cam
paign speech in Atlanta, is getting
ready for a 800-mile ride to witness
the inauguration in Washington.
His plans are to use four ponies,
riding one while the others follow
along in an accompaning truck. Rest
ing them in that manner, he expects
to cover about seventy-five miles a
day. Negro servans will go along,
riding in the truck.
He contemplates leaving here about
the middle of February and go by way |
of Fitzgerald, Eastman .Dublin and
Augusta, Ga., Columbia, S. C.; Raleigh
N. C„ and Richmond, Ga.
He is looking to Senator Richard B.
Russell, of Georgia, to prepare a place
for him and a pony in the inaugural
parade.
About four days were required for
Toby to ride from Chula to Atlanta
last fall. He was greeted by Mr.
Roosevelt and headed a parade thru
Atlanta streets in honor of the presi
dential nominee.
STATE EXAMINATION
There will be a State examlßatios
held in Atlanta on February 18, IS3S,
for teachers. If you are interested
see me at once.
Hereafter teachers will not have to
pay a fee to renew certificate.
My office will be open on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
J. B. DRISKJiLL
Superintendent of Schools.
Mr. Homer Simpaon wan in Gaines
ville the first of the week.
“Gen. Oglethorpe”
Stamp Features
Ga. Bicentennial
The special three cent stamp com
memorating the 30Uth anniversary of
the’founding of Georgia and in hondr
of General James Edward Oglethorpe,
founder of the colony, will be ready
for distribution in time for the open
ing of Georgia’s Bicentennial on Feb
ruary 12, according to information re
ceived from Washington this week.
Savannah's post office will place
this stamp on sale February 13 and
other post offices by the following day
The stamp is to be printed la purple
and across the top will be "United
States Postage." The stamp’s central
subject is the likeness of Gen. Ogle
thorpe, a reproduction of a portrait
discovered in England last year and
bought for Oglethorpe University. In
each lower corner is the large numer
al “3” and in a narrow panel at the
bottom of the stamp is the word
“Cents." On a white ribbon directly
above the base panel is the name
“General Oglethorpe” and on either
side of the head are the dates, "1733”
at the left, and “1933” at the right.
THE MORAL, FOLKS,
IS SAD.
A prominent local citizen, complain
ing about business conditions, was re
cently asked why he didn’t get anoth
er job, and his answer was, "pride.”
Getting down to raw meat, the gen
tleman explained a lot of trouble in
the present era. Citizens who talk
about the inability of men and women
to make a living seldom realize that
most of it has been brought about be
cause of the collective pride that
makes men and wonjen keep up with
their neighbors and associates.
There are few people in Cumming
! today who copld not have saved mon
ey during some years of the past de
cade. However, like the rest of us
they concluded that good year were
here to stay, that they “rated” more
and better things, and they spent
their cash and pledged their credit.
It is easy to do in prosperous times,
but when the day of reckoning comes,
as come it will, the price to be paid
hangs over the debtor and is a con
stant threat of extinction from a fin
anclal point of view.
The man who makes SIOO a month
has his eye on bis friend who makes
S2OO. and he thinks of all that he could
do with that much money. The S2OO
a month man looks at the S3OO man,
and thinks the same thing. The same
applies to the S2O a week employe,
the S3O and S4O man.
Now. what is the point? Well, frank
ness compels the' admission that most
of us live beyond our incomes, expect
ing to catch up the slack out of the
next boost in our incomes. When, in
stead of a boost we get a fall, the
burden is too much and the lessened
income cannot be stretched to meet
the situation.
The advice is: Live within your in
come, whatever it may be, because
some day you will have to live on less
than your income if you don’t.
Georgia’s Reforestation
Interest Reported
Strong
Slate Forest Service States
Planting Stock Sold out and
Seed Supply Difficult to
Obtain—Planting Time
Draws Near End
ATLANTA, Feb., B—According to
the State Forester, the depression is
stimulating rathe)- than checking the
interest in reforestation ia Georgia.
The State Nurseries hare sold the en
tire supply of seedlings, both p• es
and hardwoods. The demand contin
ues. Reports to the state forest ser
vice indicate that a large number of
wild seedlings are being transplanted
from the forests to old fields.
The forest service is finding it dif
ficult to obtain all the pine seed need
ed for the state tree nurseries and
reports considerable quantities of seed
sold by Georgia seed gatherers to pri
vate and commercial interests In this
and other states.
State Forester advises all whe con
template planting tree seedlings do so
at once so that the trees may become
established and ready to start growth
with the beginning at spring.
•
CUMYING, GA., FEBRUARY 9, 1933.
Governor Talmadge
Slashes Budget Four
Million Dollars
Atlanta, Ga.,—Governor Eugene Tal
madge Saturday announced that his
budget for 1933-34 will call for a sweep
ing reduction of $4,500,000 in govern
mental expenses.
Members of the General Assembly
were acquainted with the detailed ac
count of his program when they re
turned from the week-end recess Mon
day. Much satisfaction was express
ed at the economy move.
Reduced tax revenues in 1933-34
will necessitate reductions in appro
priations for all state purposes, Gov
ernor Talmadge announced, and he is
cutting departmental expenditures
$2,300,000 per year. Departments
must readjust their own finances ac
cordingly, the Governor stated.
Ccclidge Memory Is
Paid Tribute by Nat
ional Leaders
Hoover Heads Group That
Hc3.r£ Justice Rugg
1 Extol Deceased
WASHINGTON, Feb. C.—(AP)—
Tribute to the memory of Calvin Cool
idge was paid Monday by the nation's
highest officials in a ceremony as
simple as the life led by the former
President.
Held in the spacious chamber of
the house of representatives, the me
morial service consisted of a eulogy
by Arthur P. Rugg, chief Justice of
the Massachusetts Supreme Court;
two hymns, an invocation and a bene
diction.
Led by President Hoover, who ser
ved in the Coolidge cabinet and suc
ceeded him as chief executive, the
procession of officials that, wound
slowly into the chamber include: Vice
President Curtis, members of the Su
preme Court and the diplomatic corps.
Members of the senate, over which
Mr. Coolidge presided as vice presi
dent before the death of President
Harding elevated hint to the higher
post, suspended proceedings and mar
ched in a body to the house.
After an opening prayer Vice Presi
dent Curfis announced the memorial
session had been called “to pay tri
bute to a great man and a popular
President a man who was loved and
is mourned by all the people—Calvin
Coolidge.”
Chief Justice Rugg, who was grad
uated from Mr. Coolidge’s college—
Amherst—and was a close personal
friend, praised the former President
as “the incarnation of the ideal of the
America of his day.”
GALLERIES ARE FILLED
Long before the hour of 12 o’clock
when Speaker Garner called the as
semblage to order, the 600 seats in
the galleries were crowded by invited
guests.
Many members of the house were
in formal mourning clothes.
The Marine Corps orchestra, sta
tioned in the speaker's lobby, played
softly.
The senate met half an hour eailier
than usual, worked for a while on an
appropriation bill and at noon took
a recess, then, forming a column of
twos, the entire membership walked
through “the longest corridor in the
world” to the house side and took
seats in the larger chamber.
"The depth and breadth of his na
ture, the acuteness of liis mind, the
soundness of his moral purpose, the
resources of his wisdom," Justice
Rugg said, “were sufficient for every
day and for every ’ emergency.
“His capacity, his temperament, in
dustry and simplicity were adapted to
the times aud to the work to be done."
Justice Rugg treated the life of the
la'o President in chronological order,
beginning with his birth in 1872 in
the little village of Plymouth, Vt„ and
closing his sudden death last January
5 at his Northampton, Mass,, home.
MONEY TO LOAN
Regional Agriculture Corporation of
Macon Georgia. Applications for crop
production and live stock loans from
Forsyth County Farmers may be given
to any of the below named committee
men.
ROY P. OTWELL, Chairman.
■” T)R. MARCUS MASWBURN
B. L. REDD
—OOO—
WHY NOT DROP YOUR CHECK
IN T|HE MAIL TODAY—FOR THE
FORSYTH COUNTY NEW*-.
HELPING OTHERS BY
HELPING YOURSLF.
Sometimes we wonder whether good people get
tired of hearing us talk about saving money and
putting their money in the bank.
If we are persistent, is only because we know
how much it means.
The man and woman who know how to save
and who have some money in the bank, are real
assets to the community. They represent the sta
ble independent citizens who travel through life
fearlessly but conservatively.
The money they deposit in the bank is financial
insurance for them in time of need. But it goes
still further. That same money makes possible
the loans which the bank can extend to business
and industry. These loans in turn expand busi
ness and give employment to men and women in
the community.
Truly they are contributing citizens who, in help,
ing themselves, also help others.
Bank of Gumming,
B. P. Roper, President
Institute Leaders
Are Luncheon
Speakers
A symposium on “How the News
papers Can Combat the Depression,”
led by Milton Fleetwood, editor of the I
Cartersville Tribune News and an ad
dress on “Balancing the Newspaper
Budget,” l>v Carl W. Ackerman, dean
of the Pulitzer School of Journalism,
will feature the luncheons to be given
this week in honor of the visiting
members of the Georgia Press Asso
ciation.
Dean Ackerman, wbe will speak at
the Friday luncheon, is one of the
nation’s best-known teachers of journ
alism and is widely known as an auth
or and contributor to national maga
zines. Mr. Flettwood, who will lead
the discussion at noon Thursday, as
editor of Cartersville Trlbune-Newa,
Leads one of the most successful
country weeklies in the South.
The luncheons will be held at 12:30
p. m. on Thursday aud Friday in the
Emory cafeteria.
THE CELEBRATION OF THE
BICENTENIALOF GEORGIA
IS TO BECIN FEB. 12.
There is going to be a birthday
party February 12, 1933. It is the two
bundredeth birthday of the State of
Georgia and every man, woman, and
child who says, “I am a Georgian,”
is invited to this celebration which
will begin on Georgia day and last
through Thanksgiving with the major
celebrations taking place between
April 15 and October 15. The Schools
churches, and cities and counties will
take part and sponcor this celebrat
ions. On February 12, many of the
churches will celebrate with pageants
depiciting early worship.
in the School much will be said
about James Oglethorpe, the first
Governor and the founder of Georgia.
He brought the f rst settlers
from England and named the land in
the name of his King. Many things
have been accoulpMshed by great
Georgians, which makes us very preud
of our state. It was in Georgia that
the young Physician Crawford Long,
forever, abated the agenies of surgery
by successfully adm'nistration of :*
first anesthetic. The first state uni
versity was founded in Georgia. The
first steamship to I’.csa the Ai.aatte
sailed from Georg's. Georgia had the
first Woman senator, Mrs. Reba-ca
Fulton. Because of thse many great
thlugs and the climate, and the great
men and women that have lived In
Georgia. Georgia is indeed a happy
state to live in.
Ramspeck and Wood
To Be Honored by
" t ' . Forest Association
•i j
Congressman Robert Hamspeck and
John Wood will be gueeta of the Che
SI.OO PER YEAR
rokee National Forest Association at
a luncheon to be held Thursday at
noon at Zimmer’s Lodge, in Dahlonega
Ga., according - to an announcement
made by H. B. Smith, of Dahlonega,
chairman of the board of directors of
the association.
The luncheon is being held in an
effort tov secure federal funds to com
plete Highway No. 9 from Roswell
north through Dahlonega. Mr. Smith
said in commenting on the proposed
plan to open the Cherokee reserve.
"All grading and base work has
been completed on the highway, and
all that is necessary is to put the top
surface on,” he said.
With the completion of the highway
the Cherokee forsm, consisting of
nearly 360,000 acres, will be open to
the people of the elate and nation.
Work on the highway has been going
on for the last two years, and the di
rectors of the forest hope to get the
highway completed as soon as possible
Georgia Governor
Will Conduct
Discussion
Eugene Talmudge, governor of Geor
gia and a dominant figure in Georgia
politics for the last six years, will
preside at an "open conference” for
tlie discussion of "Public Opinion on
Problems of Government" at the com
bined Press Institute and Institute of
Citizenship. The conference will be
gin at 2:3o'o’clock Thursday, Febru
ary 9.
For six years commissioner of agri
culture in Georgia and a keen student
of public opinion and political prob
lems, Governor Talmadge promises to
make one of the important contribu
tions to the joint institute.
Participating with the governor will
be former Judge M J. Yeomans, Tom
Wisdom, Dr. Gordon Singleton, Dean
Edgar H. Johnston, Judge O. A. Park,
and Hughes Spalding.
Mangham Plans $25U,-
000 Saving To State
ATLANTA, Feb. Kth_"l can save
Georgia $250,000 a year if given the
power,” stated Purchasing Agent J. J.
Mangham, who took state office on
January 11th.
The Purchasing Department, red
haired step-child of 1931's Reorgani
zation bill, has been operating with no
funds since its creation. Mangham,
a Bremen wholesale grocer, is wily
in business matters and plans to set
up a business-like standard for his
department.
He plans to take over the purchas
ing power for all state departments
and conduct the buying so that the
state may get the best price obtain
able on every item from typewriters
to paper clips. Three legitimate bids
must be made before the new Pur
chasing Agent will let any contracts.
Legislative approval of a small appro
priation to his department will result
in untold savings, Mangham said.