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“As A Man Thinketh”
By Rev. Geo. W. Buice
“AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL
LEAD THEM”
A few days ago, I saw, in a re
port of a meeting of a group of
Christian young people, something
that was really comforting. In their
meeting they passed a number of
most inspiring resolutions, among
which was one asking for the young
people o four generation to be given
proper Christian guidance and lead
ership by their parents in their
homes. There is nothing else quite
so important in our times, nor quite
so much needed as this request to
be granted them. I have been con
vinced for some years that our
young people of this day are the
finest people we have ever had in
our country.
This may sound strange to many,
especially in the face of the con
tinuous reports that crime among
our children and young people is
increasing by leaps and bounds. The
sad thing we must fact is this fact.
Crime IS INCREASING among our
people especially our children and
young people. However, I still in
sist that we have the finest young
people any country has ever had at
any time. The only thing that is
wrong about those who have turned
criminal, is the fact that they have
been neglected religiously, by the
Home, the Church, and the various
civic and society groups. Young peo
pie who have been taught to honor
and love THE LORD and the
church, are not being carried before
the courts, charged with crime, and
sent away to the penal institutions.
Further-more, we do not find these
fine devout Christian young people
going into the malicious crimes
which are disturbing to the com
munity and destructive to the char
acter of the youth.
What these young people were
asking for in the resolution refered
to above, was, in short, to be
“BROUGHT UP IN THE WAY
THEY SHOULD GO”. How we do
need to turn with sound and sin
cere interest, to the wondrous op
portunity which is ours to teach
these precious children the saving
knowledge of their LORD AND
SAVIOR which their youthful heart
are yearning for. There is no ques
tion that our youth are hungering
for salvation, and the security and
leadership that only Christian fath
ers and mothers, Christian teachers
and Christian institutions can give
them. How wonderful it will be to
realize you have had a part in help
ing these dear boys and girls to ac
quire the ability to live usefully and
honorably as they, more than every
thing else in the world want to do.
Last Sunday, I had the joy of
being with a bunch of Junior boys
in the Sunday school class. The
Superintendent asked me to go in
and talk with the boys in the ab
sence of their regular teacher. In
stead of talking to them, I succeed
ed in getting some of them to talk
ing to me. Just when the music
started, to end the Sunday school
period. I was wishing every man
and woman in that community was
in there listening to those small
bovs telling me how they spent
their Sundays, how they read good
stories, how their mothers had read
manv sacred and inspiring stories
of God and many good soul building
talk his mother had given him on
Sundav afternoons and nights.
WHAT A GLORIOUS OPPORTUNI
TY IS OURS TO TEACH AND
TRAIN OUR FINE YOUNG PEO
PLE! WHAT WILL WE DO
ABOUT IT?
We are all talking about rebuild
ing our world, but these boys and
girls of our day will be men and
women who will rebuild our world
if indeed it will be rebuilt. What
they are going to think and say and
believe and do is to be what this
“RE-BUILDED” world of ours will
consist of. May God help us as fath
ers and mothers and friends of
these wonderous young people. May
we not too long overlook the power
for good they possess and allow it
to be lost.
The LeFevre Trio will be at Ches
tatee High school on Saturday night
January 22 at 7:30. Admission will
be 20 and 35 cents. Proceeds to go
to the school.
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,000)
Geo. P. Brice Elected
Worshipful Master of
Mt. Zion Lodge No. 316
George P. Brice was elected Wor
shipful Master of Mt. Zion Lodge
No. 316 F. & A. M. at the Annual
election of officers. The other offi
cers were as follows:
Roy P. Otwell, Senior Warden;
W. V. Pendley, Junior Warden; T.
R. Brice, Treasurer, W. J. Howard
Secretary, Charlie M. Mathis, Tyler
and Rev. M. M. Mullinax, Chaplin.
The following officers were ap
pointed, Rev. J. B. Driskell, S. D.;
J. M. Cantrell, J. D.; M. A. Cook,
S. S. and. M. B. Woodliff, J. S.
Finance Committee —Bro. W. M.
Turner, J. H. Watson and Charlie M
Mathis.
The lodge has closed one of the
most successful years in its history
A noted gain in membership last
year. To date only one of our mem
bers is in military service.
The lodge has contributed to the
Masonic Service Association, The
Christmas and Entertainment Fund
for Orphan, at Macon Georgia and
invested in U. S. War Bonds.
Plans are being made for another
year of progress in some improve
ments on the building.
Farmers In State
Improve Quality
Of Cotton In 1943
About 93 percent of Georgia’s
1943 cotton crop was 15-16 inch or
longer staple as compared with 89
percent in 1942 and 16 percent in
1930, according to Frank C. Ward,
cotton specialist for the Agricultur
al Extension Service.
Cotton materials needed by fight
ing foi’ces must be made largely
fiom cotton that io 15-16 inch or
longer in staple and Georgia farm
ers changed their production prac
tices in time to meet this need, he
continued.
Mr. Ward declared that the one
variety cotton program, initiated in
a few communities in 1931, has
been largely responsible for the im
provement in the length & strength
of the cotton produced in the state.
“Farmers did not make any sacri
fice in quantity of cotton produced
in order to supply the better quality
needed for war matedials,” the spec
ialist said. “The yield of 254 pounds
of lint per acre in 1943 was the third
highest on record, exceeded only by
the 1937 yield of 270 pounds, and
the 1911 yield of 267 pounds.
Grades of cotton produced were
“remarkably good” in view of the
shortage of farm labor at harvest
time, Mr. Ward pointed out. Farm
ers and ginners working together
made a “splendid” showing in pro
ducing better grades. Less than six
percent of the crop was reduced in
grade because of rough gin prepara
tion while 18 percent of the 1942
crop suffered from rough ginning.
He revealed that most of the im
provement in staple length of cot
ton in 1943 was made by farmers in
the southern half of the state, but
farmers in the northern half of the
state had already gone further in
the production of the better staples
before 1943 than those in south
Georgia. Farmers ir both sections,
however, improved staple length.
“A considerable acreage of extra
long staple such as Coker’s Wilds
was planted in Georgia in 1943 and
yields were better than variety test
made by experiment stations would
have indicated,” Mr. Ward said. He
predicted that there will be an in
crease in acreage planted to these
long staple varieties in 1944. Return
from such cotton in 1944 appear to
depend upon whether or not Govern
ment loans will again be available.
“The one-variety cotton commun
ity program aided greatly in the im
provement in the length C strength
of cotton produced,” the Extension
specialist said. “In 1943 more htan
1-3 of the Georgia cotton crop was
produced by farmers in one-variety
communities and more than 75 per
cent of the remainder was planted
to the same superior varieties that
had been grown with such good re
sults in the one-variety communi
ties.”
Preachers and Deacons meeting
will be held at Hopewell church on
Sunday January 30th. Everybody in
vited to come and be with us.
Official Organ of Forsyth County and City of Cumming
OF VOTE D TO i'HE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
Gumming Georgia, Thursday, Jan., 20, 1944.
Brannon First To
Enter Congress
Race In 9th District
COL. CLIFTON W. BRANNON
With the declaration, “To the
People of the Ninth Congressional
District of Georgia, I dedicate my
abilities to keeping America Ameri
can, and a land of free enterprise
for the men returning from the arm
ed services and to be a champion
for the rehabilitation of disabled
veterans of World War II,” Col. Clif
ton W. Brannon of Toccoa, one of
Northeast Georgia’s most widely
known lawyers, announced his can
didacy for the Congressional seat
now held by B. Frank Whelchel,
who will not offer for re-election.
Col. Brannon stated that he would
make formal announcement as soon
as the State Democratic Executive
Committee set the date for the Pri
mary, and would qualify as soon as
the Congressional Committee held
its meeting.
Col. Brannon made a remarkable
race for Solicitor-General through
out the nine counties of the North
eastern Judicial Circuit two years
ago, and needed only two hundred
and fifty-two popular votes to have
been victorious in that race. The
many friends of Col. Brannon who
have prevailed upon him for sever
al months to enter the race believe
him to be eminently qualified and
ably capable of representing the
citizens of the Ninth Congressional
District in Washington. He is thirty
two years old, and has practiced law
in North Georgia for the past 11
years. He attended Georgia Tech,
and holds an LLB degree from
Woodrow Wilson College of Law,
Atlanta. For four years he was at
torney for a nationally known oil
refining company in Atlanta, and
for the past four years has been
counsel for a large industrial firm
in Toccoa.
In the Spring of 1941, Col. Bran
non won national acclaim in defeat
ing the famed Senator McKellar of
Tennessee, in debate before the
United State Senate Educational
Committee in Washington, and was
largely responsible for the continu
ation of the National Youth Admin
istration until the purposes for
which it was created were accom
plished.
Col. Brannon is one of the Dis
trict’s outstanding civic and rc-lig
ious leaders, and for the past two
years has been district chairman of
the Polio and USO campaigns, and
handled the United War Fund Drive
last October.
Col. Brann< is the son of Gcovge
Wesley Brannon, deceased, former
ly of Forsyth county, near Cum
ming, Georgia. He is married and
has two children. Mrs. Brannon is
the former Ruth Hall, of Winder,
Barrow county, Georgia.
For Tax Commissioner
To The Voters Of Forsyth County
Georgia:
I hereby announce myself as a
Canidate for election as Tax Com
missioner of Forsyth County sub
ject to the Democratic Primary of
March 1, 1944.
I am a citizen of Forsyth County
am 28 years of age, married and
have one child.
As to my ability and character, I
refer you to anyone who knows me.
If you will support me in this
election I promise to serve you to
the best of my ability.
Your vote and influence will be
appreciated.
Sincerely,
OLEN LEWIS
Agent Urges Use Of
Purebred Sires To
Improve Livestock
The quickest and usually the least
expensive way to improve livestock
is to use purebred sires, Extension
Sei’vice County Agent W. L. Hawes
declared today.
“Emphasis on the right kind of
sires does not mean that females in
a breeding program are not import
ant,” he continued, “but one cow
usually produces only one offspring
a year while the male may sire 40
or more calves a year.”
The county agent declared that
the ability of a dairy cow to produce
a large quantity ow milk and butter
depends to a very large extent upon
her inheritance. The cow with the
inherited ability to produce lots of
milk will be more profitable, year
in and year out, than one of poor
breeding. This holds true under any
system of feeding and management
“A good cow will pay the farmer
for the feed she eats, labor, and a
little profit because she produces
enough milk to pay the feed and
labor bill and still have some left
for her owner.
The agent stressed the fact, how
ever, that breeding is not the only
thing of importance. Good feed and
care are very important, he said,
but the best feed and care can only
go as far as the inherited ability of
the cow will permit.
HERE’S WHAT
YOU CAN DO
What can we do to help cheek
this danger?
There are several thinks which
every responsible citizen can do to
help avert the national catastrophe
viliich a return of gangsterism
would mean to us all:
1. Wake up to the facts. Crime
thrives on public apathy. By simply
realizing,, and helping your neigh
bor to realize, the serious nature of
the problem which faces us you can
go far toward combating it.
2. Don’t buy liquor from a boot
legger or in the black market. If
you do you may be risking death
or blindness and you will be direct
ly encouraging racketeers.
3. Report any law violations you
witness to the proper authorities.
If you have prejudices against so
called “tattling,” remember that or
ganized criminals threaten your
freedom and security in the same
way as Japs or Nazis. You wouldn’t
hesitate to “tatle” on one of them.
4. Support law-enforcement agen
cies, whether federal, state or local
by helping to see to it that thev re
ceive sufficient funds to maintain
experienced men at least in the kev
Dositions. The nation’s police need
all the help you can give them.
5. Combat juvenile delinquency.
It is from the youngsters now grow
iog up that the underworld will
snare most of its recruits. Make
sure that your children receive the
training and opportunities which
will mould them into decent law
respecting citizens.
These five points should be tak
en to heart by every patriotic Ame
rican. Our fighting men are dying
on many distant fronts to make the
postwar world a better world. We
will have failed them if they have
to return to a gang infested nation, j
A SUBSCRIBER
Work Moves Rapidly
On New Constitution
The work of the group appointed
by Governor Arnall to redraft a
new state constitution for Georgia
is now moving along rapidly. Sub
committee made their first reports
to the full constitution committee
at a meeting held in the supreme
court chamber.
These reports, in large, were not
detailed outlines, but statements of
progress made. The legislative com
mittee, however, had completed its
work and was ready with definite
recommendations. House Speaker
Roy Harris is chairman o fthe sub
group.
Representative Fred Hand, speak
er pro tern of the House and chair
man of the executive department
sub-committee of the commission,
called a meeting of his eroup fol
lowing that of last Thursday.
(County Population 12,000)
Whitfield Farmer
Shows Other How
To Rebuild Soil
“Our hills were getting away pret
ty fast before we got our Soil Im
provement Association goin,” big,
tall, slow-spoken L. M. Babb, presi
dent of the Whitfield association,
said this week. “The water would
go down hill so fast that even our
good bottom land would frequently
be flooded.
“But we are cutting down on that
now. Since our demonstration farm
ers started terracing and looking
after ou rsoil, the county average
for cotton has increased from 227
pounds to 278 pounds.”
Mr. Babb and Quinton, his son,
are partners in farming. By good
farm management they have been
able to build two staunch hguses at
a total cash outlay of only $1,500.
Most of the lumber was sawed from
timber on the farm. Their county
agent helped with the plans, the
Babbs did the work.
Mrs. Babb buys a $25 War Bond
each month out of milk sales that
she handles. In this family each has
a job to do. Farming to them is
really a better way of life, and thei
Babbs live well.
“Legumes—petch and crimson,
eloper--along with lime and phos
phate, put life into our land,” Mr.
Babb declared. Recently they start
ed growing wheat. On hillsides
black locust help control run-off of
water.
County Agent Keely Greer point
ed out that they are making other
changes in crops, such as introduc
tion of crimson clover in the fall
and addition of lespedeza in the
summer for hay and soil building.
Land that used to lay idle and bare
in the summer is protected now
with a sod of lespedeza, little of
j which is cut for hay. Most of it is
left on the ground "for the land’s
sake.”
In permanent pasture, grass is
giving way to clovers and lespedeza
By addition of phosphate and lime
stone on land where no new seed
were sown, higher type plants have
been brought into growth.
Home Club Members
In Dougherty Aid
County War Effort
Home demonstration club mem
bers in Dougherty County stressed
projects such as food production,
conservation and preservation and
others which would assist in the
national war effort during 1943,
Mrs. L. R. Mathis, president of the
county council in 1943, said this
week.
Gardening, poultry production and
canning were emphasized in the
county and in Albany. Rural and
city women canned 24,270 glass jars
and 2,860 tin cans of food in their
homes and 48,308 cans were preser
ved by 310 families at the high
school canning plant. About 3,000
containers of jams, jellies, fruit but
ters and marmalades were canned
by club members.
Food preparation demonstrations
by Mrs. F. M. Griner, home demon
stration agent, brought out the im
portance of good cooking methods
to save food values and good buying
practices in the use of points and
money. Programs on. clothihg and
home improvement stressed care
and repair, and club women and
girls made many of their Christmas
gifts.
The Avalon home demonstration
club, made up of young mothers,
made an intensive study of prena
tal care and child care and develop
ment.
Six home demonstration club
members, regular sellers at the Al
bany Farmers’ Curb Market, sold a
total of $5,780 worth of produce.
Home demonstration club women
and 4-H girls participated in scrap
drives, War Bond and Stamp drives
salvage programs and the communi
ty chest drive, Mrs. Mathis declared
Removal Notice
I have moved my store to New
Post Office Building, formerly oc
cupied by Cumming Feed Store and
wish to thank every one for their
past patronage and invite one and
all to come to see me at my new
place.
L. O. HAMMOND
Number 3.
Today & Tomorrow
By Louie D. Newton
January 19, 1807, at Stratford,
Westmoreland County, Virginia,
Robert Edward Lee was born. He
died October 12, 1870, at Lexington,
Virginia, where he had served as
President of Washington and Lee
University, following his surrender
to Grant.
General Andrew Jackson secured
an appointment for young Lee to
West Point, in 1825. He graduated
in 1829, second in his class. In 1831
he married Mary Parke Custis, the
great granddaughter of Martha
Washington.
On active duty with the Army as
an engineer, he superintended the
construction of works to protect St.
Louis from the erosion of the Miss
issippi, was later in charge of the
defenses of New York harbor, and
in 1846 went on duty in the Mexican
War.
The military record of General
Lee in the Mexican War and the
War Between the States stands un
matched, I think, in American his
tory. He would, of course, give that
honor to General Stonewall Jackson
But it is not about Robert E. Lee,
the soldier, that I wish to write this
week, but, rather, Robert E. Lee,
the Christian gentleman.
If you ask me to name the great
est man we have produced in Ameri
ca, I would be a bit slow to answer.
I would want to say Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Geo.
Washington, and still others, but I
think I would wind up with Robert
E. Lee.
And why? For many reasons, of
course; but chiefly for this reason:
He was consistently the most com
pelling example of the Christian
gentleman that we can find in the
history of our country.
Never once, insofar as I have been
able to discover, did Robert E. Lee
appear less than the Christian gen
tleman. I have read Freeman's mas
terful biography of Lee. I have read
a dozen others. None of them, not
even Freeman’s exhaustive treatise
reveal Lee as less at any time than
a Christian gentleman.
He was genuinely good. Listen to
these searching words: "Duty is the
sublimest word in the English lan
guage. .The Bible is our sufficient
rule and guide for both our faith
and practice. .The church of Jesus
Christ has my full allegiance. .To
find and fellow the will of God is
my life plan and purpose.” How
rich we are in remembering this
week the example of Robert E. Lee
the great Christian gentleman.
1944 Polio Drive
Opens In Georgia
All Georgia joins with the rest of
the nation this week in the 19*14
drive for funds to support the Nat
ional Foundation for Infantile Para
lysis, the organization whose work
to subdue and relieve this dread dis
ease covers the whole United States
The campaign in Georgia is head
ed by Hal Dumas, president of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph company, and a statewide or
ganization has been set up through
leaders in each of the state's ten
congressional districts. District
chairmen in the drive, which begins
January 1 and ends January 31, .are
First, William Murphey, Savan
nah; second, Fred Scott, Thomas
ville; Third, L. Anderson, Columbus
Fourth, Dr. Hubert Quillian, La-
Grange; Fifth, N. Baxter Maddox,
Atlanta; Sixth, Dr. Guy Wells, Mil
lodgeville; Seventh, Judge J. M. C.
Townsend, Wilwood; Eighth, Dr.;
Joe Thrash, Douglas; Ninth, Steve
Tate, Tate, and Tenth, W. R. Ring
son, Augusta.
Governor Ellis Arnall is honorary
state chairman of the campaign;
Mrs. Arnall is state chairman of
women’s activities, and George
Googe is state chairman of the lab
or division of the drive.
Fifty per cent of the money raised
in the campaign will be returned
to the state where it is contributed
to help polio victims there, while
the remainder goes to the National
Foundation to finance research into
the cause, cure and prevention of
the still mysterious ailment.
It has been pointed out by leaders
that danger of contagion is greater
now than ever before, due to the
large mass movements of populat
ion now prevalent throughout Am
erica as a result of war conditions.
?H
RED CROSS