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The Forsyth County News
Volume 33.
“Salute To
Georgia Counties”
A special broadcast honoring For
syth County will be presented here in
Gumming on October 23, when station
WSB, Atlanta, puts on an actual rad
io show in its new series of “Salute
to Georgia Counties” programs.
All musicians and other performers
appearing on the show will be select
ed from the citizens of this County.
Before the radio program is presented
auditions will be held by a special
committee to pick those talented en
tertainers who are to be on the air.
And the night of the show, WSB will
bring its equipment to transcribe the
entire program. Then on Saturday
night, October 25 at 6:30 Eastern
Standard Time—the show will be air
ed over WSB.
Persons desiring to appear on this
all-star broadcast may contact this
newspaper. Musicians, singers, dan
cers or other entertainers are eligible
Marcus Bartlett, production manager
of WSB, is to be here before the
show to supervise the selection of
performers.
Preparations are going forward to
make this one of the County's biggest
entertainments. Hundreds of persons
are expected to attend the show,
which will include good music, sing
ing and brief talks by prominent citi
zens of the County. Highlights of im
portance about the County and its
chief towns will also be mentioned.
Citizens throughout the County are
cooperating to make this one of the
finest shows ever put on here. This
occasion will allow many persons,
who have never seen a radio program,
to watch the South's oldest station
put on an air show with all of the
latest broadcasting equipment.
Everybody attending WSB’s radio
entertainment here will get to take
part in the broadcast, since the pro
gram is to include mass singing by
all those present.
More details about this gala radio
presentation will be given tn next
week’s issue of this paper. Meanwhile
all interested persons are urged to
apply for an audition to appear on
the show.
Schedule For Night
Classes In Commercial
Course at School House
Beginning at 6:30 each evening
MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Typing and Bookkeeping
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
Typing and Shorthand
Advanced classes in typing have
already started alnd will begin in
shorthand as soon as can be arrang
ed. A course in Business English will
be announced later.
All those in the county and outside
who are interested in this type of
training are requested to attend these
classes.
Those who are interested in after
noon classes, please meet at the
School House Monday afternoon at
4 o’clock to organize.
MISS SARAH PETTY TO SPEAK
OVER WSB FRIDAY MORNING
Miss Sarah Petty of Cumming, Ga.,
will be a guest speaker on Penelope
Penn hour over Radio Station WSB
on Friday morning, October 3rd, at
8:05 A. M. She will give a five min
ute talk on Cumming, its historical
background including human interest
stories, and its outstanding features.
She will leave Thursday afternoon
and will be entertained overnight at
the Biltmore Hotel.
PREACHING AT EBENEZER
AND PIEDMONT
Sunday, October 4th at Ebenerer
at 11 A. M. and at Piedmont at 3:00
P. M. We want to raise all the
benevolences at both Will
the people at both places rally to
make this one of the things upmost,
as we want a report made out in
full at Jefferson on the 14th, wheb
the Bishop calls the Gainesville and
Athens district together for a con
ference. Will all the people at both
places rally to my support on this
matter. I will be so glad if I can
report out in full all the benevolenc
es at this meeting.
Thtynks for all the help we can
get.
J. . Coffman, for a full report
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)
Life Blood Of Free
Press Is Advertising
The newspaper industry, both
weeklies and dailies, are solely de
pendent upon the commercial adver
tising that they get to support all
craftsmen of the industry and enable
the nation to have a source through
which matters of vital importance to
| all people may be revealed.
The printed word is proclaimed as
the most effective form of advertis
! ing and without the support of the
j industrial advertisers the American
[ Press will be subjected to curtail
ment of man yof their free public
services.
American business has grown con
tinuously since the founding of the
nation. Newspaper advertising has
played a greater role in the develop
ment of American business than any
other medium known. Today, the
Price Control Bills now pending in
Congress are designed to put a curb
on advertising, which, if enacted by
Congress and made law, will prove
detrimental to the newspaper indus
try.
Legitimate advertising increases de
mand, which in turn creates increas
ed production ana lowers the cost of
the consumer. Once the Price Con
trol Bills become law and should the
President exercise the authority as
authorized by such fbills, the life
blood that keeps American newspap
ers thriving would begin to dwindle
and would result in a lower income
for the newspapers, which would
eventually decrease the industry’s ef
ficiency and curtail the progress of
American business
Speaking for our own publication,
and in behalf of all other newspapers
I urge our Senators and Congressmen
to be on watch for such bills as will
hinder the progress of American busi
ness, and vote against all legislation
authorizing the elimination of adver
tising in the nation’s newspapers.
And suggest that our representatives
urge legislation that will be in the
interest of the promotion of Ameri
can business by advertising through
the American Press instead of resort
ing to other methods of less import
ance.
The average newspaperman spends
the best part of his life learning the
art of the industry. He makes and
spends his money in the community
that he serves. He gives much of his
space and time to the promotion of
both civic and religious activities and
to deprive him of the revenue that
he receives from advertising would
be forced to close their doors, if it
were not for industrial advertising
support.
THINK IT OVER GENTLEMEN.
If you men who have been chosen by
the people to represent them in gov
ernment want to see your daily and
weekkly newspapers remain in a
healthy and prosperous condition, you
must do your part to defend them in
their fight for the life-blood of their
existence, legitimate advertising. On
the other hand, if you desire to see
them fade out of the picture, you may
vote in favor of legislation eliminat
ing advertising, and it won’t be long
before you'll be seeing a sign hung
over the doors of these worthy insti
tutions, bearing the message, “Sher
iff’s Sale,” or some similar message.
—The McDuffie Progress.
“Have You Bought
Your Hunting
Licenses?”
You can get them at Mr. J. V. Mer
ritts, office at Courthouse. Come fel
low's and get yours before you hunt,
Also I want your cooperation during
the entire season.
Squirrel season opelied October 1.
Remember the doves. Don’t shoot
until December Ist. If you do you
will violate State and Federal Laws.
Sincerely,
DOYLE McWHORTER, Ranger
SPECIAL NOTICE
I have a number of notes and ac
counts that I have carried for a long
time. Cotton and other farm products
are bringing a good price. I meed
the money to meet my obligations.
Mr. Colbert Buice is collecting for
me and extra trips are expensive.
Please pay him or call at my office
and pay at once.
Thanks,
MARCUS MASHByRN
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Oct., 2nd, 1941.
Emory Enrolls 2,000
Students 1941-42
Emory University’s eight Atlanta
divisions, plus two junior colleges at
Oxford and Valdosta, were all in ses-,
sion today and enrollment prospects
for the 1941-42 session were estimat
ed by officials at more than 2,00 stud.)
ents.
Expansion of the universit ycurri
cu'lum includes opening of' anew
night division of the Lamar School of
Law and launching of a special pro
gram of teacher training, the latter
in cooperation with Agnes Scott Col
lege.
At the same time, President Har-.
vey W. Cox in a report mailed to
more than 10,000 Emory alumni enun
dated the educational objectives of
Emory, one of the first times that a
Southern university president has an
nounced an “'educational platform"
Four important planks in the “plat
foim” were:
1. Over all objective of Emory is to
build men.
2. Emory believes that mere ohysi
cal power and technical skill is not
enough. Emory training shall always
include emphasis on character, cul
ture, and religion.
3. Emory follows the “one-crop sya
tern” and that crop is brains.
4. Emory seeks to teach the ideals
of the American way of life.
Because of heavy registration for
science courses, the science labora
tories have been renovated and en
larged and considerable new equip
ment Installed. More than 20 new
factulty members have been announ
ced, including replacements and in
creases in the university staff.
Long Term Leases
Adopted By F. S. A.
A program to stabilize farm operat
ions in For3yth County, by aiding
landowner and tenant alike through
lease agreements of mutal advantag
has been formulated after a series
of meetings of Farm Security Admini
stration officials in Region V.
“The goal,” announced FSA Super
visor Norris E. Bagley, “is a mini
mum of te|n long term leases, in
cluding definite provisions for farm
and home improvement, in each
county of the State. These model
leases will be used to demonstrate
that only through this security can
a proper conservation of both human
B(nd natural resources be obtained.”
These model leases will include
clauses seeking to:
1. Compensate tenants for making
permanent improvements, either by
allowances or rent or partial repay
ment.
2. Make use of soil conservation
opportunities.
3. Provide for repair and improve
ment of housing standards.
4. Provide for w'oodland manage
ment.
5. Assure responsibility of both
landlord and tenant.
6. Establish the debt-paying cap—
acity of each farm and provide a
proper farm and home plan to assure
adequate income to meet all obli
gation’s.
Under provisions of the long term
leases, the FSA will offer two plans
for in.orovemf'nt loans to tenant's.
Under one, the tenant will borrow
the money and when the lease ex
pires, the owner would pay him for
the improvements, five percent a
year depreciation will be calculated.
Under the second plain. funds for im
provements would be paid to the
tenant, with the landow-ner repaying
the money in ten installments, plus
five percent interest, out of the rent.
Minimum housing standards in the
lease would require screens and
proper repair for doors and windows;
sanitary toilets, pure water supply,
sound floors and foundations, good
roofs, safe chimkieys, adequate sleep
ing quarters, shelter for livestock
and poultry, kitchens equipped for
food storage and utensils, etc.
Supervisor Bagley stated also that
an outstanding provision of the
model lease is agreement of the
landowner to give the tenaht free
use of sufficient pasture and garden
space.
“The Georgia Farm Debt Adjust
ment ,Specifcli*t will work closely
with the counties on this tenure im
provement program of long reaching
value,” Mr. Bagley ectncluded.
Jews in Nazi-dominated Poland are
reported in great distress
Forsyth County Fair
Opens Monday With
Big Premium List
The Forsyth County Fair will open
Monday October 6th at 5:00 o’clock.
The Fair Board is preparing for the
biggest fair ever held in Forsyth
Jtkninty. The [premium list has been
increased making it more attractive
to the public to enter exhibits. Spec
ial plans are under way preparing for
livestock and poultry day Friday
October 10th. Let’s make this the big
gest livestock and poultry day ever
held at the fair. The Mad Cody Flem
ing Shows have promised us a bigger
and better Miday than they have ever
‘shown in Forsyth County. The Fair
Board is asking for your cooperation
to help make this a successful fair.
Extension Worker
Urges Farmers To
Fall Planting
Attention was called this week by
an official of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service to the tremendous im
(portance of planting acreages to feed
and food crops and the winter covers
(during the next GO days
V
L. C. Westbrook, district agent for
the Extension Service in northeast
Georgia, pointed out that a step-up
in production as well as intense soil
building on farms is more than ever
to meet the needs of Rat
ional defense.
“At the present time farmers have
an excellent opportunity to do a great
part in producing more food and feed,
as a means of adequately filling their
larders •and bins and thus contribute
to the national emergency,” West
broolf declared. “We can best fight
the with increased produc-
agricultural commodities.
and matures of
small legumes for tem
porary 'grazipg afford a good chance
A, add to the' feed supplies on the
larm."' he continued. 'These grain
crops can also conserve the soil and
insure a continuation of good crop
yields.
“Cover crops provide good insur
ance for soil building and some acre
age should be utilized to such crops
on every farm.” Westbrook asserted.
"Better soils through use of cover
crops will materially aid in securing
the boost in food production called
for under the present emergency.”
The Extension district agent stated
that farmers who need assistance in
getting seed and other materials for
fall planting can contact the local
county agent or other farm workers.
NEWS RECEIVES LETTER FROM
FRANCES OTWELL, STUDENT AT
BRENAU COLLEGE.
September 29, 1941.
Mr. Roy P. Otwell, Editor
The Forsyth County News
Cumming, Georgia.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Now that I am happily situated
here at Brenau College, I wish to
write to the Forsyth County News
and tell you how much I enjoy my
home town paper, especially since I
am away from' home.
Brenau has a beautiful campus of
400 acres, and the college itself
boasts of 39 buildings. It is certainly
one of the beauty spots of the South
and is only 50 miles north of Atlanta.
My roommate is Pat Uzzell from
Asheville. North Carolina, and we live
in Van Hoose Hall which is the new
est dormitory on campus. I really
love it here and already think Brenau
is a wonderful school. I have pledged
Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority.
Courses in speech, dramatics, music,
physical education and prepares for
the degree of A. B. or B. S. are of
fered here. I am thoroughly enjoying
my journalism course under I)r. Brig
ham.
I look forward to every Friday
when I get my paper and can read
the social activities and what is
going on in Cumming.
Hoping to see my letter in print, I
am
Very sincerely,
FRANCES H. OTWELL
HELP WANTED—GirI or Woman to
help do housework, regular position.
MRS. ROY OTWEUL. Cumming Ga.
(County Population 12,000)
Committees on Forsyth
County Radio Salute
COMMITTEE ON CITY AND
COUNTY HISTORY
Col. H. S. Brooks, Representative
R. A. Ingram, Mrs. Laura Hocken
hull.
COMMITTEE ON MUSIC AND
CONTESTANTS
H. W. Moore, Mrs. H. P. Matthews,
Mrs. Marcus Mashburn, Mrs. William
Poole, Miss Mary Gaffney
COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL
PROGRAM
Professor H. G. Cheek, Mrs. Ralph
Otwell. Mrs. Dean Barrett, Miss Fran
ces Davis, Miss Mary Gaffney.
COUNTY SCHOOL PROGRESS
AND SCHOOL HISTORY
A. R. HOUSLEY, C. S. S.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
J. L. Reeves, A. L. Henderson, B.
L. Redd, Mrs. Paul Holbrook, Mrs.
Geo. L. Merritt.
COMMITTEE TO SERVE WITH
MARCUS BARTLETT
Mrs. Roy Otwell, Mrs. Haynje
Brooks.
COMMITTEE TO WORK UP COUN
TY CONTESTANTS AND COUNTY
WIDE ENTHUSIAM.
Col. D. Carl Tallant, Judge Jarrett
P. Fowler, George W. Bramblett, J.
V. Merritt, L. E. Moore, H. P. Mat
thews, Dr. Marcus Mashburn, Dr. W.
E. Lipkcomb, J. C. Fleming.
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
COUNTY WIDE INDUSTRIAL AND
SOCIAL LIFE
B. T. Brown, A. C. Kennemore, Mrs
Joe Brooks, Mrs. N. E. Bagley, Mrs.
Ralph Holbrook,, Mrs Frank Roper,
Mrs. Joe Wheeled, Miss Lou Ellen
Tomme, Miss Sarah Pe.tty.
’——— . —** *•”
Per-Acre Yield Of
Cotton Shows Big
Gain, Brown States
Though soils In Georgia due to
warm open winters and heavy rain
fall, which promote decay and leach
ing of plant food, present particularly
•serious problems 1 in soil management
the Georgia farmer has increased his
per acre yield of cotton 36.8 percent
during the last 10 years and made an
average yield of 234 pounds per acre
during this period( as compared with
209 pounds average during the 10
year period previous to coming of
the boll weevil, says Walter S. Brown
director of the Georgia Agricultural
Extension Service.
The director declared that the Geor
gia farmer has also increased his
acreage of corn, hay and small grain
34 percent during the la-st decade and
during the same period has increased
the acreage of important food crops
49 percent. The acreage planted to
soil conserving crops during the last
10 years has increased more than 100
percent, he said.
Tracing other improfements made
in Georgia agriculture, Brown said
the acreage in improved permanent
pasture has increased nearly 60 per
cent during the last five years.
“When we come to livestock, we do
not have such a definite check,” the
Extension head declared. “The actual
numbers of cattle and hogs have not
increased materaiily. However, by
purchasing large numbers of pure
bred breeding animals each year, to
gether with improved feeding and
pasture, our farmers have very great
ly improved the grade and quality
of our livestock and the income from
livestock and livestock products has
climbed steadily upward for the past
15 years.
“In my opinion, It takes a better
farmer to do these things in Georgia
than it takes to make good crops in
other sections of the country having
less serious soil erosion problems to
contend with,” Director Brown con
cluded.
NEED FOR MILK
More milk is needed to be produced
on Georgia farm, says the Agricultur
al Extension Service. Pn the first
place, it will add to the farm family
food supply. It also affords the farm
family the health protective food ele
ments and will furnish supplemental
cash income for farm people.
Number 40.
Survey Of Highway
Transportation To
Be Made In Georgia
All farmers and others wlio own
trucks are to be asked to help the
War epartment in its transportation
planning for national defense, Direct
or Walter S. Brown, of the Georgia
Agricultural Extension Service, an
nounced today.
Director Brown's announcement fol
lows a request by M. L. Wilson, dir
ei-ior of the Extension work kfor the
U. S. Department of Agriculture in
Washington, asking the cooperation
of all state extension services in the
survey to be made.
Each truck owner will receive in
the next few' days a special National
Defense inventory card from th
Georgia Highway Traffic Advisory
Committee to the War Department,
with the request for immediate re
turn of the card (postage free) with
information regarding the make of
his truck, kind of body, capacity,
time of year the vehicle is most ur
gently needed In the owner's business
and whether in in emergency he
would be willing to hire or lease it
to a Government agency.
Similar facts, Brown said, will al
so be requested on all busses, and on
all freight trailers with a capacity of
3,000 pounds or more. The inventory
cards are 5 by 1 8 inches in
Those for trucks are white, those for
busses, blue. The information Riven
on each individual card will be con
fidential, iand will be used only for
planning for national defense
The truck and bus inventory is
being made throughout the country
at the request of the War Depart
ment and the National Defense Ad
visory Commission, by units of the
Federal Works Agency in coopera
tion with each of the State motor
vehicle registration agencies. The
Public Roads Administration is dir
ecting the inventory, land the WI*A
will provide clerical assistance and
nrfalyre all returns. The inventory is
expected to provide detailed records
of truck and bus transportation faeil
itie.s fo rthe first time.
On a ton-mile basis, trucks haul
about'a sixth as much freight as the
railroads. Taking into account die
tances traveled, passenger travel is
about equal on railroads and busses.
Yet there is no central record of
these highway transportation facili
ties, such as the records available on
railroads, water shipping, and avia
tion.
The purpose in collecting these re
cords of trucks and busses, the Fed
eral Works Agency explains, is more
effective planning of highway twins
portatlon in the assembly of defense
industry materials, delivery of milt
tary and civilian supplies, relief of
dock and terminal congestion, and
‘movement of padsemtfer traffic in,
emergencies.
England was forced in the midst
of war to make an inventory similar
to the one the United States is now
about to begin.
WSB Salute To 52nd
County This Week
With its broadcast of October 4.
WSB's "Salute to Georgia Counties”
program will celebrate its First Anni
versary and inaugurate another full
eyar of weekly shows dedicated to
the State's county life.
The 52nd county to be spotlighted
on the "Salute to Georgia Counties”
show is F'annin County. The program
originates this week in Blue Ridge
the county seat.
Taking the counties in alphabetical
order, WSB ha* sent announcers, pro
duction men and engineers to Geor
gia county seats each week to trail
scribe these programs.
Over two more years will be ru
quired to complete “Salute to Georgia
Counties” in each of the State’s 159
counties.
Production Manager Marcus Bart
lett and Marc Toalson, chief audio
engineer, began the series last year
with a salute broacast to Appling
county. They have been on hand for
the local show* practically every
week since that time.
Communications from throughout
Georgia, and from former Georgia re
sidents now living in other parts o r
the country, have streamed into “The
Voice of the South” lauding the fine
quality of the county salute programs
and their value in stressing the ad
vantages to be found in this Statfe.