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The Forsyth County News
Volume 33.
Five Point Service
Station Changes Hands
Mr. Edward Fowler, young, energic
son of Judge and Mrs. Jarret P. Fow
ler has recently purchased the Five
Point Service Station from Mr. Cecil
Wheeler who has been successfully
operating this station for some two
or three years.
Five Point Service Station is cen
trally located in Cumming as you go
out of town on Atlanta Highway No.
9 and has all modern conveniences
that any service station offers today.
Mr. Fowler invites the public to pay
him a visit at his new location.
Electric Farm Equip
ment Tour To be Con
ducted on REA Lines.
Ten demonstrations of electric
equipment for the farm and the home
will be held in Forsyth County, begin
ning May 13, as a part of the educat
ional program conducted for its mem
bers by the Forsyth County Electric
Membership Corporation with the co
operation of the Georgia Power Cos.
The schedule in Forsyth County is
as follows: Tuesday, Mayl3, at Lee
Akins store; Wednesday, May 14, at
the R. B. Woodliff residence; Thurs
day, May 15, at Chestatee School;
Friday, May 16, at E. G. Chambers,
Cross Roads.
Thursday, May 22, at the D. P.
Roper store, Cuba; Friday, May 23,
at the L. T. Ledbetter store, Duck
town; Wednesday, June 4, at the
Clyde Pendley store; Thursday, June
5. atP the J. M. Boling residence;
Friday, June 6, at the W. D. Buice
store; and Monday, June 9, at the
U. F. Gunter store.
All demonstrations are scheduled
for 3 p. m.
A preview demonstration in Cum
ming on Monday afternoon, May 12,
at 4 o'clock, has been arranged for
the Forsyth BMC officers and direct
ors, county agents and represent
atives of the newspapers in the area
served by the cooperative.
Purpose of the demonstrations,
which are to be given in the traveling
farm and home coach furnished by
the Georgia Power Company, is to
give the cooperative’s members first
hand knowledge of the many ways in
which the use of electricity can in
crease the efficiency of farm operat
ion and improve household economy.
In charge of the coach will be L. T.
Wansley, an engineer of wide exper
ience in the uses of electricity on the
farm. He will demonstrate various
types of electrified farm equipment,
including motors, pumps, incubators,
hotbeds, dairy appliances and poultry
lighting.
Assisting him will be Miss Sara
Weems, senior home economist of the
Georgia Power Company. She will de
monstrate the ease, convenience and
cleanliness of electric cookery, refrig
eration and water heating, and will
explain all features of the all-electric
kitchen that is built in the coach.
The Forsyth Electric Membership
Corporation, with headquarters in
Cumming, operates 378 miles of line,
serving 1,525 customers. Now under
construction are new lines totaling
118 miles which will provide service
for 425 additional members. Its offi
cers are:
M. A. Smith, president; W. H. Bar
nett, vice president; A. W. Harris,
secretary and treasurer; and Arthur
J. Nix, B. R. Bagwell, Nathan Poole,
Joe Purcell, Homer Buice and A. B.
Reives, directors.
Project attorneys are Col. A. C.
Wheeler, of Gainesville, and Col. H.
S. Brook, of Cumming. L. T. Ledbet
ter is superintendent, and W. E. Lips
comb Jr., bookkeeper.
JUNE SINGING
CONCESSIONS
Several people have approached me
regarding the privilege of operating
a concession stand within the court
house park at the June Singing. 1
have told them that I did not believe
it should be allowed.
This is to advise all parties con
cerned that I will not permit anyone
to operate on the county property.
If you would like to know my rea
sons for this attitude I will be very
glad to talk to you about the matter.
Very Truly yours,
J. P. FOWLER, Ordinary.
American iMedical Assn, is found
guilty in trust case.
Official Organ of Forsyth County and City of Cumming
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
(City Population .1,000)
Two Newton County
Brothers Succeed
With Beef Projects
COVINGTON, Ga„ May 7_When
T. L. Marks’ sons first entered 4-H
club work and wanted to start beef
cattle projects in the hopes of making
some money at fat stock shows and
the butcher shop, the father told
'them:
“There’s no use to parade your cat
tle before the public unless you’ve got
something fit to show. If you boys
want to raise beef cattle and will see
that they are kept in good condition,
then go to it.”
Well Gene and Joe, the two boys,
have followed their Daddy’s advice
and they haven’t been ashamed to
walk up in front of the judges and
show their cattle either. Asa matter
of fact, they’ve won a number of priz
es, including premiums received at
the Newton county shows and the big
Southeastern Fat Stock Show and
Sale held each year in Atlanta. Sev
eral times their animals have been
declared grand champions.
The two boys have inherited allove
for beef cattle from their father. Prior
to the deperssion, Marks, who has
been living in the Hays Community
of Newton county all of his life, made
some good money out of cattle. But
when the drop in prices came he lost
heavily through no fault of his own
and for a time “coasted along" with
just a steer or two. Then when the
boys became interested In their 4-H
club beef projects, the father decided
to give them the benefit of his exper
ience and his advice, and to encourage
them to raise nothing but “good stuff
This past year Gene, who is 12, and
Joe, who is 16, had four fat steers
each. Both hoys raised one steer a
piece and each one of them bought
three. At thie Newton County Fat
Stock Show in April Gene's Angus
was declared the grand champion.
Both boys’ animals also placed at the
Southeastern Show in Atlanta.
The Marks family grows their own
feed and keep their cattle on pasture
about nine months out of the year.
In October they bring the animals to
the lot, feeding them corn, cottonseed
meal, and hay. The two club boys buy
the corn from their father and also
use his barn and some of the pastur
es. These pastures are made up of
lespedeza, Bermuda and small grain.
Father and sons have a unique
bookkeeping system. When the fat
cattle are sold in the spring the mon
ey is placed in the bank, each boy
having a separate account. During
the year checks are made out to cov
er any expenses that are incurred,
being signed by the boys and counter
signed by the father. After the cattle
have been sold, profits are figured, up
and the money used to buy additional
steers. Then anew account is opened
and the same process is started all
over again.
This year the two Marks boys have
bought them some sheep and in the
future intend to divide their time be
tween beef cattle and the wooly ani
mals. Neither one has been able to
make up his mind, however, as to
whether or not he will grow to love
the sheep as much as the Herefords
and Angus calves.
Haw Creek Church
To Celebrate 100th
On Sunday May 18.
Program 10:30—Welcome Address by
Major Echols.
10:30 Responce by Rev. G. W. For
rest.
11:00—Preaching by Rev. W. H. War
ren.
12.00 Dinner.
1:30 iChurch History by Loyd Ma
jors.
1:45— Singing.
2:oo—Sermon by Rev. Geo. L. Barn
well, alternate Rev. C. A. Wallace.
2:3oMTalks by former pastors.
3:30 Opportunity to everyone to
talk.
The Committee and church extends
an invitation to all former pastors,
.members and the public to be with
us.
COMMITTEE—G. W. Forrest, Loyd
Majors, Major Echols, J. L. Barnes
and A. J. Green.
The Cooperative Singing classes
will meet with New Harmony Baptist
church Sunday night May 11 at 7:30
o'clock E. S. T. We are expecting the
Cherokee Five from Canton and other
good singers. Everybody invited.
W. H. ELLIS
Cumming Georgia, THursday, May Bth 1941.
New Patriotic Songs
Sought By American
Defense Group
Song Writers Urged To Write New
Songs to Stir Aid for Democracies
A nation-wide competition for the
best new patriotic song based on the
general theme of safeguarding cur
liberty by aiding the allies has been
announced by the National Woman's
Division of the Committee to Defend
America by Aiding the Allies. The
Atlanta Defense group shares in the
sponsorship of this contest which is
intended to focus attention on the
two-fold task confronting America: to
act as the arsenal of democracy in
the present crisis and to assume a
responsible role in the future peace.
The contest opens immediately and
closes June 2nd, with winners be
announced not later than July 6th.
First prize will be $300; second, $200;
third $100; fourth, a Pilot Radio Pho
nograph Recorder. There will also be
eleven additional awards of Pilot Ra
(lics. The Composers and authors
will likewise receive all customary
royalties from their songs.
Judges for the contest include Glad
ys Swarthout, Benny Goodman, Sam
uel Chotzinoff, Lanny Ross, Dr. Carle
ton Sprague Smith, Nikolai Sokoloff,
Morton Gould, Alice Duer Miller, Ar
thur Guiterman; Louis Bernstein,
music publisher and vice-president of
the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers; Merritt E.
Thompkins, general manager of Broad
cast Music, Inc.; Dr. Edwin Franko
Goldman, Erno Rapee.
Every song writer who is a United
States citizen is eligible to compete.
Compositions may be in emotional,
humorous, snappy, or stirring and up
lifting veins.. Necessary entry blanks
with complete rules and full informa
tion may be obtained from the Atlan
ta chapter of the Committee to De
fend America by Aiding the Allies.
1328-29 Candler Building, Atlanta.
Among national groups cooperating
in the contest are the National Feder
ation of Music Clubs, National Music
Week, National Association for Ameri
can Composers and Conductors, Amer
ican Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers, and Song Writers’
Protective Association.
Bishop Arthur Moore
Warns Methodists Not
Lose Interest in children
Methodist Children’s Home Decatur
Celebrates 70th’ Anniversary Year
DECATUR, G, Speaking to appro
ximately one hundred pastors and
their wives representing the East and
West Atlanta Districts, Bishop Ar
thur J. Moore tonight called on minis
ters and members of the Methodist
Church for greater support in the
move to improve and expand the Me
thodist Children’s Home of the North
Georgia Conference, located at 500
Columbia Drive, Decatur, now cele
brating the 70th Anniversary Year of
its founding.
Outlining that everything that Je
sus touched on earth was charged and
made glorious, Bishop Moore empha
sized the interest of the Christ in
children, and how he made childhood
a symbol of heaven by the admonition
“except ye becomes as a little child
ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Hea
ven’, and predicted that any church
that failed in its interest and obliga
tion to children would fail and fall
short of its high promise under God.
“A church will not die because its
creed is not right,” said Bishop Moore
“It will not die because of difference
in forms and ceremiony. But if it ever
forgets the value of its children and
loses interest in serving them—such
a church will as surely decline and
lose its spiritual drive. I am sure”,
Bishop Moore continued, "that wle
can count on the faithful interest of
orth Georgia Methodists and espec
ially pastors of the Atlanta and North
Georgia Conference in everything
which concerns our Methodist Chil
dren’s Home.”
Bishop Moore was principal speak
er at a meeting held in the auditorium
of the Joseph B. Whitehead School
on the grounds of the Home, the cere
monies marking the beginning of the
70th Anniversary Year of the Metho
dist Children’s Home. The last meet
ing of the North Georgia Methodist
Conference in November 1940, it was
stated, had voted to celebrate the
70th year of the Home by raising
funds for many needed improvements
including anew boys' home.
Business Firms Begins
Closing Wednesday
June 4th At 1 P. M.
In order that we may all have a
little time for Recreation, Diversion,
Work in our gardens, around the
house or go Fishing and believing
that we will not lose any business in
the long run, We, the undersigned
Business Houses mutually agree that
beginning with the first week in June
and for the months of June, July and
August to close our places of Busi
ness at One O’clock each Wednesday
We agree to place a poster in our
window to this effect. Posters to be
furnished free of charge and same
will be well advertised in the Forsyth
County News for several weeks:
Bank of Cumming.
'Otwell Motor Company, Inc.,
R] P. & I. C. Otwell
Ingram-Moore Company, Inc.
The Forsyth County News.
. W. J. Poole
C. H. Brooks & Son
| Otwell’s Rexall Store
KCumming Motor Company
jfcdward Fowler Filling Station
frGravitt’s Barber & Beauty Shop
J. W. Brown Shop
Ford Chambers Filling Station
L. O. Hammond
L. T. Ledbetter, Proj. Supt.
F. P. Barrett Store
Thornhill’s Shoe Shop
M. P. Holbrooks & Son
H. S. Gordon
| .Gordon’s 5 & 10c Store
‘ Beauty Box
A. R. Housley
J. V. Merritt
G. W. Bramblett
Annual 4-H Club
Achievement Day
At nine o’clock on April 30, two
hundred 4-H Club boys and girls of
Forsyth County met in the Court
House at Cumming to celebrate ano
ther year of 4-H club work. The meet
ing was presided over by Miss Violet
Gravitt, President of the County 4-H
Council.
The gust speakers were A. R. Hous
ley, County School Superintendent;
J. P. Fowler, Ordinary of Forsyth
County; Jessie James, Cobb County
4-H Club Leader.
Mr. Housley spoke of the place that
4-H Club members have in the Nation
al Defense Program. He stressed the
importance of work in the food and
feed projects and brought out the re
sult gained from such projects, not
only in the producing of food and feed
for defense, but also in the buiding of
character and “learning by doing”.
Mr. Fowler gave an inspirational
talk to the boys and girls on 4-H club
work and the benefits derived from it
Mr. James, the principal speaker,
discussed the club work in Cobb
County and the importance of keeping
records up to date. He told of the
dubs organized by the older boys
and girls in Cobb County and the
social and recreational work which
they are doing.
The medals of award were present
ed by Miss Helen Arrendale, Home
Demonstration Agent. They were pre
sented to Cathrine Bottoms, Dress
Revue; Frances Bagley, Food Preser
vation; Dorothy Tribble, Home Beau
tiflcation; and Lena Bell GTeen, Rur
al Electricity. The award of highest
honor was made to Frances Bagley
for her fine work in all the projects
she has completed in 4-H Club work
The County-Wide cotton and corn
contest which is open to all club mem
bers were discussed by B. T. Brown
County Agent. He urged all members
to keep records as this was a very
important part of this contest.
A 4 H club picture entitled “The
River” was shown in the Frances
Theater by Mr. Jamvss. After the pic
ture the boys and girls hiked to Saw
nee Mountain for a picnic lunch. Mrs
Amy Banister, Mrs. W. H. Yarbrough
and Mrs. Poss, a committee of the
Women’s Home Demonstration Coun
cil, vas in charge of the lunch.
(County Copulation 12,000)
“Victims Of Passion”
Sheds Light On Babies
For Sale Racket.
Viewed from a technically legal
standpoint slavery days are over. And
yet, strange paradox though it may
seem, financial traffic in human flesh
and blood is by no means a thing of
the past. For the sale of babies for
adoption purposes, in many cases in
fants of illicit parentage, constitutes j
what may be called a nation wide se
cretive industry, and one behind which
are masked innumerable human trag
edies. The daily press and some mag
azines have now and then published
articles referring to this obnoxious
trade in infantile merchandise but un
til VICTIMS OF PASSION, scheduled
to open at the Frances Theatre, Cum
niing, Georgia, at 10:15 P. M. Satur
day, May 10, and will also be shown
Monday, May 12th, starting at 7:30
P. M.
The publicity spotlight thrown up
on the inner workings of the baby
adoption racket reveals an almoiTi in
credible state of affairs in American
life that will superise and horrify the
public.
VICTIMS OF PASSION is frankly
intended for adult consumption, and
as such must be awarded unlimited
praise. As an expose of the maling
nantly bad, swindlying conditions pre
vailing in private maternity homes
throughout the United States, and
their numlber is legion it stands in
a class by itself. That such conditions
could exist today seems almost im
possible, but the film is founded on
undeniable facts that speak for them
selves.
Farmers Can Improve
Flocks By Following
Five Important Tips
With one-half of Georgia’s poultry
products imported and 27,000 Georgia
farms without poultry, Oren F- South
well, farm management specialist of
the Farm Secruity Administration,
lists five points which he says are re
tarding poultry progress in the state.
They are: lack of proper feed, failure
to hatch early; not using standard
breeds, parasites, and dieseases.
Listing the essential nutrients in
poultry feeding as proteins, fats, car
bohydrates, Minerals, vitamins and
water, Southwell explained these can
only be had through a balanced poul
try ration. He warned against improp
er feeding of young chickens which
will later result in inferior pullets.
“We encourage our borrowers to
have their eggs hatched during the
period January through April so the
pullets will grow off and start pro
ducing eggs in the fall when the price
is generally high,” Southwell said.
“If our families prefer buying chicks
we recommend they do not buy sexed
chicks for we feel they should grow
off their cockerels to help pay the
expense. They, also, should be dis
couraged from buying chicks at auc
tions or from trucks for so often such
chicks are of a poor quality and dis
eased.
“Too many Georgia farmdrs are
still using mongrel flocks when it is
just as economical to grow standard
breeds, which will bring better re
sults and prove more profitable Pnul
try can not make much advancement
in the state until more purebred chick
ens are used. Quality in poultry is
just as important as it is in livestock.
As for the different diseases and
parasites which attack chickens, if a
farmer does not know the prescribed
treatment, he has only to consult his
local FSA supervisor or county Exten
sion agent. Prevention is better than
a cure, however, and there are many
poultry diseases for which there is no
remedj'.
Southwell urges that more families
eat the eggs produced on their farms
as they are an essential part of
diet. “Eggs are now selling at a low
price’,’ he said, "and as they carry a
high protein content I do not know of
any product that can be bought for so
little money that would give as much
protein as eggs.”
HOMEMAKERS CLASS TO MEET
MONDAY NIGHT AT LAKE ALICE
The Homemakers Class of the Bap
tist Sunday School will meet on Mon
day night May 12 at 8 o’clock at Lake
Alice. All members are urged to be
present and any one wishing to join
the class are urged to come.
Hostess: Mrs. Joe Summerour, Mrs
Hugh Matthews and Mrs. Hullet Rop
er.
Number 10.
Dairy Cows Occupy
Important Place In
Health Of Families
Good pric es realized at recent cat
tle sales in Athens indicate that peo
ple appreciate the dairy cow. And af
ter all, they should, because the pro
ducts of the dairy industry are a main
stay in the welfare and defense of the
country.
Not only does the cow occupy an
important place in the diet of fami
lies but also this animal provides milk
and other dairy products to keep the
nation's soldiers in top condition, in
order that they might. be well-prepar
ed for any emergency event.
In Georgia there are approximately
394.000 dairy cows worth some sll,-
500,000. Products from these cattle
each year are valued at $17,000,000 in
money and much more than that
amount when valued in terms of ad
ded good health to Georgia families.
Although several thousand heifers
become milkers every year in Geor
gia, Frank W. Fitch, dairyman for
the Agricultural Extension Service,
points out that some 60,000 farm famt
lies in the state do not possess even
one milk cow and that Georgia’s con
sumption of dairy products is some
what lower than that of the nation as
as a whole.
However, r. Fitch asserts that some
progress has been made in the dairy
industry during recent years. For in
stance, since a decade ago, the pro
duction per cow in Georgia has in
creased 20 percent, this fact being
equally due to better management
practices and improved breeding. Al
so today there are many thousands
of farms which ten years ago did not
have a single cow, with one or more
cows.
The recent enormous increase in.
number of soldiers in Georgia army
camps has called for more milk and
dairy products to sufficiently feed
these enlisted men, he said. This con
dition has cheated a shortage of dairy
products in many sections of Georgia.
Asa means of supplying this need
and also to provide more of these pro
ducts to the civilian population, Mr.
Fitch declares that farmers would do
well to raise more heifers and m
many roses to start a small dairy
herd, from eight to ten cows. At least,
the average farm family should have
two good cows to supply the dairy
products used in the homie, he said.
The Extension diaryman said Geor
gia is a desirable place for dairying
and with more pastures and feeds
coming into use each year, dairy cows
in this state will undoubtedly contri
bute greatly to the hialth of the peo
ple and will consequently provide one
of the best bulwarks of defense that
this nation can possess in time of
peace or war for both the civilians
and the soldiers.
French Club *
Entertains at Banquet
The French Club of Cumming High
School under the supervision of Mise
Helen Adams, French teacher enter
tained at a French banquet Tuesday
evening May 6tli at the High School
Auditorium.
The program given by the club was
in French as follows:
1. Marsaillaise The National Athem
of France By Class.
2. History of France, was given in two
parts By Annie Doris Burruss ami
Dot Hansard. i
(Account was translated from the
criginal French—By Mattie Powell and
Gladys Green.)
3. Conservation in French by Dorothy
Holbrook and W. L. Bramblett.
4. A group of folk songs; including
Sur le post d' avignon, Trere Jacques,
An Clair deluse were sung by Mattie
PHwell, Vivian Boyd. Iroogene Anglin,
Elizabeth Burruss, Ivan Monroe, Eu
gene Cox, Ruth and Ruby Redd. Also
a French dance was presented.
5. Art and Archetecture—Jly Dot Trib
ble. ,
6. Marsaillaise.
7. Ellene Smith and Joan Terry exhi
bited maps of France drawn by menu
bers of the class.
Refreshments consisted of fruit sal
ad. crackers and punch.
Everybody received a small crystal
figure as a souvenir.
Approximately 50 guests composed
of the Local Board of Trustees, faculty
members and other friends of the
school attended.
Reich says ship seizures violate
International and U. S. Law.