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RED CROSS
Volume 35
“As A Man Thinketh”
By Rev. Geo. W. Buice
Most Americans, and very prob
ably, most of the peoples of the en
tire world are looking to this year,
1944, as the year of final and last
ing victork. Of course we are with
out foundations in facts as to what
will actually be accomplished this
year, or any other specific time as
to that, but there are facts in Bible
and History to justify our faith in a
final victory and a lasting peace to
follow this awful conflict of nations.
We are all expecting to suffer
our greatest trials during this year,
but, also we are expecting to receive
the greatest news of all times dur
ing 1944. I have already experien
ced the sad sight of a mother’s grief
at the news of her son having
“GONE DOWN IN THE LINE OF
DUTY”. It is horrible beyond words
to watch her trembling hands open
the little yellow envelope and un
fold the tiny slip and hear her hush
ing voice as she begins to read
“YOUR GOVERNMENT REGRETS
VERY MUCH TO INFORM YOU
THAT ” But we may expect to
experience this sad sigh many tim
es over again in the first months of
this year and we may be assured of
that fact. BUT THEN AFTER THE
FIGHTING AND THE DYING
AND THE BLEEDING AND THE
WEEPING ARE OVER, WE WILL
HAVE THE GREAT GOOD NEWS
OF THE “UNCONDITIONAL SUR
RENDER”. And we may be assured
of that also.
In every eincident in history, whe
ther it was in war or other world
changing events, God has always
given VICTORY to those peoples
who were most capable of CHRIST
IANIZING and CIVILIZING the na
tions and of CONFORMING TO
HIS HOLY WILL and of TRANS
FORMING THE WORLD TO HIS
WILL. In this war, there are no na
tions on the axis side capable of
carrying out the high and perfect
will of God Almighty. Therefore,
we may expect Victory for our
Arms. If God is more powerful than
Satan, then we may expect to win.
Bible and History both have proven
this to be true. Light has power
over darkness, good has power over
evil, Rightiousness has power over
sin. If we ever reach the point that
our national life and our individual
lives are all given over to the weeks
of darkness, when the desires of
our hearts are predominated by
paganism, when CHRIST THE
LORD HAS BENN DRIVEN OUT
OF OUR THOUGHTS TO MAKE
ROOM FOR THE IDEALISMS OF
THE PAGAN Gods, then may we
go down in despair and defeat just
as all other nations and kingdoms
have done and will forever do, that
forget God. We will have to suffer
for the unrepented sins which we
have committed and are commit
ting until we have PAID INFULL
for them. God only knows how
much suffering or how awful it
will be, but never will the worst
that is in the world be able to crush
out the best that is in it.
Sometimes we fear that many of
Americans get the idea that we will
win because we are Americans, or
by our great SCIENTIFIC ACHIEV
EMENTS or by our “GETTING
TOUGH ENOUGH AND STAYING
TOUGH LONG ENOUGH.” This
can never win. If these things could
have won, very probably Germany
would have already won this war.
Surely from all accounts, no nation
has ever sent out an army that had
more of SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVE
MENT or more TOUGHNESS than
the Germans possess. If TOUGH
NESS could have won, surely the
Japs would have beaten us into the
ground long ago. It is very clearly
proven that the sustaining power to
endure and conquer comes by a
faith in God that removes fear and
doubt, and gives a man fortitude to
plan his fight, to look elamly into
his most dreaded tasks and say
GOD AND RIGHT BEING ON MY
SIDE I CAN WIN..
No doubting that Washington was
possessed with this sort of intelect
ual reasoning that led him to STAY
IN THE FIGHT and PRAY ON EN
TERING EACH BATTLE until he
had accomplished the impossible
God had spoken to Washington
abount building anew world in
which men could be free to carry
out His temal plans for the develop
ment of HIS KINGDOM of PEACE
Luther must have been motivated
by this sort of confident and steady
The Forsyth County News
Official Organ of Forsyth County and City of Gumming
OE VOTED TO |-ME DEVELOPMENT" OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE. DAWSON, LUMPKIN. HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
(City Population 1,000)
Special Notice
Methodist
Next Sunday, January 16th at the
Methodist Church, Rev. J. Foster
Young, will preach at 11 A. M. Din
ner on the grounds and the First
Quarterly Conference in the after
noon, and after the Conference
there will be an “Open House” at
the Parsonage. The public is invited
to come up and note how the im
provements are progressing.
We are sorry that this occasion
happens to fall on the
Church Day” here but we will just
invite you good friends to come
over and worship with us.
Thanks,
T. M. LUKE, Pastor
FOItYSTH COUNTY BOYS ONE
OF 25 TO RECEIVE MEDAL
Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of
Naval personnel, follows in part:
“The men of the Navy gun crew
Unfailingly met each assault with
such terrific barrages of instanta
neous, accurate shell fire that they
forced all raiders from the ship,
damaged several planes, and sent
two of them into flaming, brilliant
destruction. As the weeks wore on,
it became necessary to strap each
man to his gun, and every Armed
Guard member lost from ten to
twenty pounds of weight as a result
of the trials he experienced.”
The Forsyth county boy was Sic
Clarence C. Akins, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Akins.
ing faith and understanding of Al
mighty God when he stood in the
face of the entire organized world
and declared the eternal Gospel of
freedom. He evidently know that he
would be punished to the extremity
of man’s power for the stands he
took. God was planning anew
world and Martin Luther was HIS
SELECTED LEADER FOR THIS
WORLD TRANSFORMATION. Lu
ther must win because of the pur
pose of God for the setting up of
his promise of FREEDOM TO ALL
PEOPLE.
Wellington must have been fol
lowing the impulses of the Spirit
and Message of God when he was
watching the fast dropping sun at
Waterloo and praying with an an
xiety that was mighty close to
crushing fear while he waited for
the long delayed reenforcements.
But God was about to put a stop to
the iniquitous aggression of Napo
leon. Nothing could prevent this
VICTORY.
Lincoln was aware of the Guiding
hand of Almighty God when he
walked calmy through the streets
of the “WASHINGTON CITY”
while everybody was frightened be
yond their power to reason, as the
Victorious REBEL ARMY was cam
ped on the Virginia side of the Riv
er. Why did not this Army ruch in
.to the poorly defended Capitol city
and take an easy victory? God was
about to free a world of an unjust
institution. There was no lack of
valor in our confederate soldiers,
nor their leaders. He was done with
allowing one group of men to hold
another in slavery.
Why did not Hitler march on Eng
land just after Dunquirk and win
this war before America could pre
pare for even her own defense?
God was done with the type of rul
ers that would openly Denounce
His Precious Son as LORD AND
SAVIOR of this world and under
take to mislead a nation to believe
that a man was Superior to the
CHRIST OF GOD.
Why did not the Japs come in to
Pearl Harbor the “NEXT DAY AF
TER” and occupy this fallen out
post of ours which would have
made it almost impossible for us to
have defended our own west coast
against them, much less to have
them “ON THEIR WAY OUT” now
from their own Island defenses in
the far distant Pacific. We could
not have possibly kept them from
doing this on December 8. Why did
they not? Almighty God was about
to deliver the peoples of many
lands from the threat of Pagan do
mination.
Just as Herod failed to KILL THE
INFANT SAVIOR ,God is leading
on to His own finality in the affairs
of man. NOTHING WILL EVER
BE ABLE TO PREVENT GOD
from having His designed Glory
from His Created Universe. MAY
GOD BLESS US AND GIVE US
VICTORY IN 1944.
Gumming Georgia, Thursday, Jan., 14th, 1944.
Executive Committee
Sets Primary Date
The Forsyth County Executive
Committee met Saturday afternoon
at 2 p. m. at the Court House at
which time they set the closing date
for the County Democratic Primary
February Bth, 1944 at 12 NOON
eastern standard war time.
! Those who wish to enter the race
for any County Office must qualify
with Secretary-Treasurer of For
' syth County Democratic Committee
| on or by Noon February Bth.
! The fee set for each office is $75.
The Primary to be held on first
Wednesday in March being the first
day of March 1944 which will be
held by and under the rules govern
ing all County Primary elections.
ROY P. OTWELL, Sec.-Treas.
Forsyth County Democratic Com
mittee.
Beloved Moultrie
Woman Succumbs
Mrs. W. L. Bennett, 65, died at
her home on South Main Street
shortly after 5 o’clock Sunday after
noon. She had been in ill health for
several months. Her condition took
a turn for the worse about three
weeks ago. It had neen known for
hours by intimate friends and mem
bers of the family that Mrs. Ben
nett had but a slim chance to re
cover, but they refused to relin
quish all hope until the brave heart
could carry on no longer. When the
word went out that Mrs. Bennett
had joined her husband, the late Dr.
W. L. Bennett, who lost his life as
the result of an automobile accident
in March 1940, scores called at the
home to extend their condolence to
the sorrowing members of the fam
ily and to voice their regret in the
?oss of a good friend and a fine and
unselfish Christian character.
Funeral services were-held or.
Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock from
the residence. It was conducted by
Rev. J. R. Webb, pastor of the Me
thodist church, assisted by Dr. R. C.
Gresham, of the First Baptist and
Rev. I. P. Tyson. Burial was in West
view cemetery beside her husband.
Prior to her marriage about 40
years ago, Mrs. Bennett was Miss
Alice Rogers, of Cumming, Georgia
Dr. and Mrs. Bennett moved here in
1917 and she had resided here since.
She was a member of the Methodist
church and was an active and ef
fective worker. She had infinite
tact, that rare quality of being able
to get along with folks —all kinds,
the young, the high, the low and
the in-betweens.
Mrs. Bennett will be greatly miss
ed in the neighborhood where she
lived so long and usefully. The little
children will miss her especially,
for she was patient and understand
ing and always seemed to have on
hand the little knick knacks that
small boys and girls are so fond of.
The death of her own little grand
daughter, a child of silvery beauty,
about a year ago, was a stunning
blow but her own faith in the good
ness of God seemed to further in
crease her devotion to children
everywhere.
One of Mrs. Bennett’s close friends
said she “was the last person to
believe ill of another; and the last
to relinquish hope of good in an
other. If any one ever caught the
spirit of that injunction ‘Love thy
neighbor as thyself’ it was Mrs. Ben
nett.”
She is survived by two daughters,
Miss Margaret Bennett, a member
of the high school faculty and Mrs.
Paul Watts, a brother W. L. Rogers
of Winter Garden, Fla., and two
sisters, Mrs. R. E. Brogdon of Bu
ford, and Mrs. Vada Hutchcins of
Cumming.—Moultrie Observer.
Farm Machinery
In spite of the fact that we will
build approximately double the 1943
output of farm implements this
year, farmers will have to continue
operating chiefly on a maintenance
basis .according to G. I. Johnson,
Extension Service engineer. They
will need to use their spare time
this winter for repair work so that
their implements will be ready to
operate next spring and summer.
The War Food Administration has
constantly stressed the maintenance
program for farm machinery, build
| ings and equipment.
Poultry Short Course
Will Be Held Here
Tuesday January 18.
*A one-day poultry short course
will be held at Cumming, Georgia
January 18th, and at Dawsonville,
Georgia January 19th. The Poultry
Department of The University of
Georgia is co-operating with all lo
cal agencies in the promotion of
these short courses.
This is the second time that short
courses have been held in the broil
er area of North Georgia under the
sponsorship of the Poultry Depart
ment. In November short courses
were held at Gainesville, Georgia
and Canton, Georgia. More than 450
people that represented a total an
nual broiler output of 3,000,000 at
tended these short courses. Also re
presented at these two courses were
producers of more than 75,000 lay
ers.
The Poultry Department has se
cured Professor R. M. Smith from
the Poultry Department of The Uni
versify of Arkansas, and Professor
C. L. Morgan, Head of the Poultry
Department, Clemson College, S. C.
to assist with the program. In addi
tion to these men, Professor J. C.
Bell and Professor J. B. Cooper of
The University of Georgia Poultry
Department will participate in the
program.
Professor R. M. Smith comes of
Arkansas, which is one of the lead
ing broiler producing states. He is
thoroughly familiar with the prob
lems of the broiler grower, and has
done quite a bit of research that
has benefited the producer. Profes
sor Smith is qualified to give the
management practices used in the
I Arkansas broiler area.
Professor C. L. Morgan has been
head of the Poultry Department at
Clemson College for several years.
He has done quite a bit of research
in feeding and management prac
tices. We feel that we are fortunate
in having two men assist with the
program that have the experience
and ability of Professor Smith and
Professor Morgan.
All phases of broiler raising will
be discussed. Special emphasis will j
be given to disease control and man
agement practices that will tend to j
reduce chick losses.
Report Of County
Vocational Cannery
The Forsyth County Vocational
Canning Plant has reached new
heights in service to the community
during the past year. The cannery
has served 296 families compared
with 206 families the previous year
There has been 44,222 pints of ve
getables and meats canned during
this*season while the total for the
previous year was 34,000 pints of
vegetables and meats.
The plant has been over run with
meat during the fall and winter
months and the same can be said of
the vegetables, during the summer
months. For several months the can
nery has canned an average of 18
beefs a week and at the same time
canning large quanities of greens,
pumpkin and pork. We have can
ned to date 140 beefs this season
and there are several throughout
the community yet to be canned .
The plant is certainly doing its
part toward supplying the home
people with food—thus contributing
much to the war effort.
District Office To Have
Farm Marketing Aide
The Gainesville District Office of
the State Department of Forestry
Is prepared to assist landowners
with their timber problems. Mr. O.
F. Martin, Jr., District Forester, an
nounces a plan whereby a Farm
Marketing Aide is now available'to
the landowners of this District.
Mr. George Himelright, Jr. has
been named as Marketing Aide and
for the past two months received
training for his duties under the
supervision of the District Forester
Mr. Himelright’s duties will include
timber cruising, timber marking,
consulting and advising on timber
problems and assistance to timber
owners in marketing their timber.
In Addition to other services per
taining to forestry.
Boeing’s Fortress output increas
ed 146 per cent, during 1943.
(County Population 12,000)
40 Year-Old Cumming
Bank Shows Growth
The growth of the Bank of Cum
ming that is now observing its 40th
anniversary is one of the outstand
ing achievements of the town and
County, according to B. L. Redd, a
long time cashier.
During these years he says the
deposits and resources have risen
from less than $100,000.00 total to
more than one-half million total as
sets.
This nank serves well Forsyth
and Dawson Counties and bordering
country territories.
Officers and personnel of the
bank are: Roy P. Otwell, president;
R. A. Ingram, vice-president; B. L.
Redd, cashier; P. H. Worley, assist
ant cashier; Margie Forrist, book
keeper; Bette Anee Moore, book
keeper. Directors are: Roy P. Ot
well, R. A. Ingram, Thomas J. Pir
kle, B. L. Redd, and Rebecca Otwell
Local Workers Help
Bethlehem Exceed
Ship A-Day Promise
300,000 men and women from all
narts of the country are sharing
the company’s honors in having
achieved the greatest shipbuilding
record in history during the year
1943- —380 fighting and cargo ships.
The government has permitted
Bethlehem to reveal the fact that it
exceeded in output its promise,
which seemed fantastic when made
at the beginning of 1943, that it
would turn out a ship a day of ma
jor fighting and cargo craft.
The remarkable program carried
out by Bethlehem included a 35,000
ton battleship, 27,000 ton aircraft j
carriers, 13.000 ton heavy cruisers,
10,000 ton light cruisers, 6,000 ton
light cruisers, 2,100 ton destroyers,
1,620 ton destroyers .destroyer es
corts, tank landing craft, infantry
landing craft, and many types of
cargo ships including a large num
ber of Liberty ships and Victory
ships.
The value of the year’s work was
i equivalent to over 1,000 Liberty
I ships and, in terms of man-hours,
I the company estimates the A943
program was equivalent to the con
struction of 22 battleships. Approxi
mately 70 percent of the ships built
were fighting craft and 30 percent
cargo vessels.
In addition to the amazing pro
duction record of new ships, Bethle
hem yards also repaired, converted
and serviced over 7,000 vessels, thus
playing a major role in keeping our
fighting fleets in trim.
Approximately 300,000 men and
women were employed by Bethle
hem in its shipyards, steel mills and
other divisions to accomplish this
program. But because the company
has set its sights still higher for
1944 it will be necessary to add still
more to its present army of employ
ees.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
War Finance Committee
Clarkesville, Georgia
January 10, 1944
Mr. Roy P. Olweil, Chairman
County War Finance Committee
Cumming, Georgia
Dear Mr. Otwell:
The Fourth War Loan Campaign
officially begins Tuesday, January
18, and ends Tuesday, February 15,
1944.
All sales of Savings Bonds, E, F
and G and Savings Notes C made in
January and February will be cred
ited to the campaign if cleared by
the Federal Reserve Bank on or be- j
fore February 29, 1944. Ask banks
and agents to mail their items on or
before February 26.
Sales of 2 1-2 percent and 2 1-2
nercent Bonds, and 7-8 percent Cer
tificates end February 15.
The quota for your county at sale
orices has been fixed as follows:
E Bonds to individuals $42,300
F and O Bonds individuals 3,900
Other Bonds individuals 17,500
Total to individuals 63,700
Total to corporations 5,000
Grand total for your county $68,700
Further information will be sup
plied later.
Yours very truly,
FRANK GABRELS
Chairman—7th District War
Finance Committee—Georgia.
Number 2.
Today & Tomorrow
By Louie D. Newton
GOD’S TREES
Look out of the window at those
trees—oaks, pines, sycamores, map
les, sweet gums, cedars, magnolias,
mulberrys, elms—all the trees!
Whose trees are they? Your fath
er’s trees, you may well answer,
since your father owns the land on
which these trees are growing.
Who planted them? Your father,
your grandfather, someone in the
long ago planted them. Maybe you
planted one or two of them.
Count them—the ones that your
father planted in the orchard, and
everyone that you have ever heard
of anyone planting. Is that all of
them?
But your father will be saying:
“What I really did was to replant
the tree when it was very small. As
a matter of fact God planted it, and
all the rest of the trees.”
Ah. That brings on more talks,
doesn’t it? Just look at the trees
that no man ever replanted! There
they stand, in exactly the right
place, planted by God. Some of them
on the hill, some of them in the val
ley; still others in the swamps.
God’s trees!
Have you every replanted a tree
a tiny sprig of dogwood, maple, oak
sweet gum, manolia ,apple, plum,
pomegranate? Here is what Henry
Van Dyke once wrote about replant
ing one of God’s trees:
“He that planteth a tree is the
servant of God,
He provideth a kindness for many
generations,
And faces that he hath not seen
shall bless him.”
Which brings me to the point o£
this week’s column: Why not re
plant one of God’s trees this month
Select a place where there should
be a shade tree, or a place where an
apple or peach or pear or plum or
walnut or pecan or some other fruit
bearing tree might grow. Ask your
father and mother to let you plant
a young tree this January. Some
day, when you are a grown man or
woman, you will rejoice to look up-
on that tree, and say: “This is one
of God’s trees that I planted when
I was a child. Its shade, its beauty,
its fruit have blessed me and others
and I am grateful to have been a
servant of God.”
And remember this: All the trees
belong to God, therefore, let us pro
tect them, and enjoy them, giving
Him thanks always for His count
less blessings.
Crawford Homemaker
Well-Prepared To
Feed Their Families
Crawford County home demon
stration club members are better
prepared now to feed their families
than at any time in the past, Mrs.
J. V. Felts, president of the county
council during 1943, said this week
in reviewing the year’s accomplish
ments.
“At the first of the year,” she con
tinued, “the council decided one of
the most important factors in pro
moting victory gardens would be in
sect control, so a suppl yof insect
dust was obtained and placed at the
disposal of home demonstration
members and anyone else having a
garden. The results were gratifying
because more people had better gar
dens that ever before.”
Edible soybeans were bought by
the council and distributed to club
members to lx? grown as an experi
ment, .and they proved very satis
factory, she declared.
Mrs. Felts estimated that club
members averaged canning 500
quarts of vegetables, fruits and
meats per family of four. “Through
the ; encouragement of County
Agent Carl E. Douglas and Home
Demonstration Agent Rosa Lee Far
ris, they responded nobly to the na
tion’s call for more food.”
The council helped in War Bond
drives, contributed time and money
to the Red Cross ,and helped in sal
vage and health campaigns. The
council sponsors an exhibit from
some community club at the State
Fair each year, and in 1943 won
third place and a $125 prize.
Wise use of food, the Agricultur
al Extension Service says, can short
I en the war, save the lives of our
men and conserve our resources.
RED CROSS