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Volume 38
Dr. W. E. Burdine
Says Legion Can Be
Of Greater Service
Dr. W. E. Burdine, of Blue Ridge,
World War II veteran and candidate
for Commander of the Georgia De
partment of the American Legion
stated this week that in his opinion
the Legion has greater opportuni
ties than any other veterans organi
zation or civic club to be of service
to the nation as a whole.
He said “Contact with Legion
naires throughout the state has con
vinced me that, potentially, the
American Legion has a greater
sphere of activity and resourses
than any other Veterans organiza
tion or civic club. We have our pick
of the nation’s leaders, yet we have
failed to take the lead due to our
ignorance and lack of education as
to our own program. We have failed
to take our proper place as a Vet
arens and Civic organization.
“The reasons for this are many,
but in my opinion the most import
ant reasons our programs are sty
mied is because we spend our time
bickering and feucding at both per
sonal and group levels. We grind
too many axes at the expense of
the individual Legionnairs. In cor
recting these faults I shall make
mistakes, but with the help of all
Legionnaires these mistakes will be
kept at a minimum.
“I am a member of no political
group in the Department of Georgia
and do not intend to become part of
any group. I have made no promises
or commitments and shall make
none prior to election, other than
the program I advocate. If elected
appointments will be made on ab
ility and interest in Legion welfare.
They will not be made on political
promises.
“My solution to these problems
is one of education from Depart
ment to Post levels, and this pro
gram shall be made public in de
tail.”
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VFW To Meet Friday
Night May 9 at
Lake Alice
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of
Forsyth County will meet at Lake
Alice near Cumming, Friday night
May 9, at 8 o’clock. This will be the
sixth regular meeting of the post.
Some important business which
should warrant the attention of
every Veteran who has fought out
side the continintal United States
will be discussed. Especially mem
bers should want to be a part of this
discussion.
Refreshments will be served again
at this meeting. All members who
have been attending have had an
enjoyable time at the gatherings of
the Veterans.
The VFW is the only organization
exclusively for Veterans whose mili
tary duties have taken them outside
the United States. The local post
needs the support of every person
eligible to become a member. We
now have 81 members, but there are
about 370 others who should attend
the next meeting and decide if they
wish to join.
Remember the time, the place and
the date, 8:00 oclock at Lake Alice
on Friday, May 9.
ATTRACTIVE FARM
HOMES
Good looking farm homes are an
index of prosperity, according to
H. W. Harvey, londscape specialist
of the State Extension Service, and
4-H club boys and girls are helping
lead the way in home beautification
work in Georgia. Harvey said this
week that five times during the past
10 years a Georgia club member has
won a national chapionship in a 4-H
home beautification project. In 1946
around 2,000 Four-H club members
attended short courses in home
beautification work and there is
much interest in this project in
1947.
FROZEN—FOOD PACKAGES
To meet the requirement for suc
cessful packaging, the carton or
wrapping paper used in freezing
foods must be moisture and vapor
proof, should not absorb water,
blood oil or grease and should not
impart flavor or odors to the pro
duct.
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May Bth, 1947.
Soil Conservation News
FORSYTH COUNTY
Norman Pilcher in cooperation
with the Upper Chattahoochee Riv
er Soil District had terrace lines run
by the Soil Conservation Service per
sonnel last week.
Banjamin Turner had terrace
lines run last week. Incidently Mr.
Turner is making use of his good
spring pasture by milking fourteen
head of cows and selling Grade A
milk to the milk cooperative in Mar
ietta.
Farmers who have pastures with
Ladino clover in the pasture mix
ture and who were visited by the
SCS personnel last week were: John
Collins, T. M. Lewis, W. M. McGin
nis R. A. Herring and Charlie Bol
ing'.
Farmers who had the opportunity
to visit the Kentucky 31 fescue
grass patch on the Williom Orr
farm last week were: Toy Watson
L. L. Merritt, Norman Pilcher, R. B.
Tajlant, L. D. Stephens, Otis Mash
burn, Tom Pilgrim, Jewel Davis,
and Mr. Hambree. Farmers from
Dawson, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall and
Lumpkin counties have visited the
Kentucky 31 fescue grass patch on
Mr. Orr or Mr. Howard Holland’s
far mthe only two patches in this
county.
Schedule For
Renewing Of
Drivers Licenses
Troopers of the State Patrol will
be here on the dates named below
for the purpose of renewing drivers
licenses through the Validating
Machine, which will save an appli
cant the trouble of ordering thru
the mail, as the license will be run
through the machine and given
back to the applicant. Obtain your
1948 drivers license by meeting the
Calidating Machine on o date sched
uled here. This is a special service
the Department of Public Safety is
rendering to expedite the renewing
of drivers licenses.
Wednesday, May 28—10 to 6.
Wednesday, June 4th—2 to 6.
Saturday, June 14—10 to 6.
Groves New
Welfare Director
Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson cele
brated his 44th birthday last week
by attending a luncheon in his hon
or tendered by the employees of the
Executive Department and by ful
filling a campaign promise—remov
ing Judge A. J. Hartley as director
of the State Department of Welfare
Effective next Monday, May 12,
Asst .Attorney-General L. C. (Tiny)
Groves, of Lincolnton, becomes
State Welfare Director by executive
order and Judge Hartley, because
he had become “a political issue”
is assigned as an assistant to At
torney-General Eugene Cook.
The switch in positions gives
Groves a $2,000-a-year increase and
Judge Hartley a corresponding de
crease. The salary of the V/elfare
Director is $7,000 a year, Assistant
Attorneys-General receive $5,000,
annually.
Dr. Paty, Bitter
Over Legislature,
Hits Funds Lack
“I did not come back to Georgia
with the expectation of presiding
over the liquidation of the Univer
sity System.”
With these bitter words of disillu
sionment, Dr. Raymond R. Paty,
chancellor of the State Board of Re
gents, expressed his dismay over
the failure of the legislature to pro
vide sufficient funds for the expand
ed operations of the state colleges.
He had just returned, last week, af
ter two months in Germany inspect
ing the schools and, ironically, re
commending how democracy might
be installed in the shattered univer
sities of that war-torn country.
Dr. Paty said that members of
both houses of legislature had as
sured him, before he accepted his
federal assignment, that increased
funds would be appropriated to
meet the doubled student enrtll
ment, overcrowded conditions and
generally inflated prices.
"The present appropriation falls
far short of our needs,” he declared
"Schools which are attempting to
care for veterans may be facing a
crisis in a few short weeks.”
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
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GOVERNOR THOMPSON ADDRESSES CONVENTION—
Standing symbolically beneath a large picture of President
Truman, national Party chief, Acting Governor M. E. Thomp
son, titular head of the Democratic Party in Georgia ad
dresses the huge crowd of Democratic leaders which at
tended the Macon convention last week.
State Homemakers
Observe National
HD Week May 4-11
Farm women are ir. the spotlight
this week as the Nation observes
the second annual National Home
Demonstration Week from May 4
to 11 and recognizes home demon
stration club members who trans
plant dub work and study into com
fortable homes, nturitious meals,
healthful living and pleasant com
munities.
“Nothing is so good that it can
not be made better; better in terms
of the family’s health, comfort, edu
cation happiness and understand
ing. Under the leadership of the
home demonstration agents of the
Extension Service, the farm women
of America will continue to make
daily home tasks easier, to improve
their homes and communities and
to bring about happier and more
wholesome living in rural America.
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P.
Anderson declared in a letter to
America’s home demonstration club
Today’s Home Builds Tomorrow’s
World is the theme of the week
long observance, according to Miss
Lurline Collier. State home demon
stration leader for the Extensicon
Service. The 46,000 members of
Georgia’s 1,338 home demonstration
clubs will participate in locally-plan
ned special programs, teas, exhibits
and tours featuring 30 ygars of pro
gress in family and community liv
ing since the program was initiated
Georgia home demonstration
agents made nearly 64,000 visits to
34,000 different farms and homes in
conducting their work during 1946,
Miss Collier revealed. More than 3,-
500,000 rural women will participate
in the nation-wide observance.
CLOSING NOTICE
Beginning Wednesday afternoon
May 14 all stores and filling stations
in Cumming will be closed after 1
P. M.
Ten Farm Pillars
Listed In Newest
Georgia Bulletin
Ten principles of farm organiza
tion and management that srould
be applied in the most practicable
manner possible by Georgia farm
ers in developing their systems of
farming are described in the newest
Agricultural Extension Service pub
lication, Pillars of Profitable Farm
ing
Written by J, William Fanning,
economist of the Extension Service,
the bulletin, Number 536, discusses
each of the ten principles and sum
marizes the general changes in Geor
gia agriculture during the past 25
years. The ten principles that Mr.
Fanning lists in the bulletin include
high yields, production of food and
feed, distribution of labor, distribut
ion of income, full use of land re
sources, adequate capital, economy
of operation, wise buying and sell
ing, adequate reserve and records.
The 20-page three-color bulletin is
being distributed this week by coun
ty agents throughout Georgia, the
Extension Service reports. “The
years immediately ahead will be es
pecially significant in the agricul
tural development of this state,” Mr
Fanning declared. "New systems of
farming must be more profitable
than those of the past. This can be
assured by building these new sys
tems around those principles of
farm organization and management
which successful farmers have
found over the years to be the basis
for the largest and most consistent
profits."
Many demonstrations and examp
les are cited in setting up the ten
pillars of profitable farming. The
system of fanning which is follow
ed, the bulletin points out should
be selected on the basis of its abi
lity to return the largest annual
profits consistent with the wise use
of all land, labor and capital.
(County Population 15,000)
PRACTICAL TO GO ALL ELECTRICAL
AND SAVE!
By CECIL S. MIZE
Few of us realize that we can cook
for example, with electricity at
about the same cost of the lights
we burn in the average home. For
that reason, we have become accus
tomed to using the word “lights”
when actually we mean the many
other economical services of “elec
trical power.”
We notice by a chart that on a
representative Cooperative we can
buy 25-KWH more for the second
$1.50 than for the first. After using
lights for 25-KWH at a cost of $1.50
one can buy 50-KWH for the same
amount. In the average home 50-
KWH will operate a water pump,
and a small radio; or a larger radio
and refrigerator, plus small mis
cellaneous appliances such as fans.
Not many people would contract to
draw and carry all the water that
is needed in and around a farm
home fore one month for $1.50. And
besides the economy of-the pump,
there is water under pressure for
the kitchen, bathroom, chicken hous
es, and the barnyard.
After appliances which use 75-
KWH for $3 per month has been
added, an additional 751 KWH can
be gotten for the same sl.so—three
times as much as you got when you
paid for lights. Just think of what
can be done with 75-KWH per
month! The water pump, refriger
ator, radio, small appliances such
as fans, heating pads, room space
heaters for the cool—but not cold—
mornings, chicken house lights, and
toaster can all be used now. And
most of them for that same $1.50
it took to put a moderate amount of
lights in each room.
After these labor saving applian
ces are doing their work 24 hours
a day every day of the month, and
one is beginning to really enjoy and
appreciate electricity, the axe can
be thrown aWay, and the wood shed
torn down, because for the same
amount $1.50 cooking can de
done with electricity. And don’t
think that you are the only one who
gains by throwing away the axe,
either, because the homemaker will
enjoy heat by the turn of a knob,
without the sooty business of firing
up the old range. And it’s not as
hot in summer, either. When fruits
are ripe, and vegetables ready to be
canned no one has to declare a holi
day or get up in the morning dread
ing the hot drudgery waiting for
them in that sultry kitchen. It’s cool
it clean, and it’s cheap as cheap as
those lights back there for the first
$1.50.
But before cooking is started and
the work of the day begun, a hot
bath is the pause that really refresh
es. The water heater that has been
installed with the pump and bath
room has already heated the water.
State Receives
Priceless Relic
From Floridian
A priceless relic of the War Be
tween the States was presented to
the Georgia Department of Archiv
es and History last week by Dr.
Nelson Black of Miami, Fla. It is
a Confederate War picolo, retrieved
for Dr. Black’s father from a Feder
al wagon train by Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, of the First Division, Second
Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
The flute was originally owned
by William Neyle Habersham of
Savannah, member of the disting
uished family for whom Habersham
County was named. It is believed
one of his sons lost the instrument
during the battle of Atlanta.
Naval Reserve
Week Endorsed
Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson has
“heartily agreed” to proclaim the
week of May 18 25 as Naval Reserve
Week. He endorsed the plan for re
cruiting Naval Reserve personnel in
Georgia proposed by Rear Admiral
L. T. Dubose, commaidant of the
6th Naval District, in a conference
with Naval Reserve officials last
week. Co-operation with the drive
by civic organizations was urged by
the governor.
Peanuts, the most important hog
fattening crop in south Georgia, on
good land will produce good pork.
Number 19.
and it’s ready with a turn of the
hand for use—steaming hot and
plentiful. Washing dishes, washing
clothes, cooking the dinner on the
electric range is all more pleasant
and can be done much faster. May
be the hot water will cost some
more than the $1.50 we paid for
lights, but it’s really wonderful and
plenty cheap -and besides it won’t
cost much more.
Let’s stop this talk about cost now
and get down to real business mak
ing money with electricity to pay
for those luxuries that are being
enjoyed. And remember a penny
saved is a penny made.
First let’s SAVE by preserving
the meat, those parts of chickens
that are usually thrown away, those
green vegetables that have spoiled
in the past years, and those peaches
strawberries, and other fruits that
are so good when they were in sea
son. With a home freezer the sea
son will last the year around. They
will be good and won’t spoil, and
cost very little. A home freezer will
do this for the thrifty farm family
and keep butter ready for the mark
et -a few more dollars for the farm
purse.
Outside lights are around the barn
water is plentiful for the stock to
enjoy and to help produce more
eggs for the market. But the corn,
wheat, oats barley and hay are
hard to handle. Besides, the stock
waste a lot of it. What could be bet
ter than to grind the roughage and
make it taste better, too. Hay driers
keep the hay clean, and preserve
the food value. Some hay can be
sold at better prices because it is
a higher grade.
Pig, lamb and chicken brooders
soon pay for themselves by helping
the young to grow faster with less
food, and more will reach the mark
et because they are kept warm and
dry. It all costs about 1.5 cents per
KWH too, because this farm floes
everything with electricity.
After we have stopped to think,
have really done some planning,
and figured this thing but, we won
der why REA wasn’t “invented” a
long time ago, because anything
can be done around the farm home
with electricity, and it is the only
thing we can get that will make
lights, cook, hea water, pump water
run motors to make working a
pleasure—any of the 300 uses of
electricity on a farm and in a home.
But the best part about electricity
is that the more that it is used,
the cheaper it is. If water heating
and cooking are done by some other
fuel, then its costs more to pump
water and run motors.
The only thing to do is GO ALL
ELECTRICAL and do any and
everything with electricity.
Georgia Support
Of VA Fund Bill
Assured Cheatham
Georgia’s two Senators and ten
Congressmen are unanimously pled
ged to support the national Deficlen
cy Bill when it comes to a vote in
Washington. In letters to C. Arthur
Cheatham, state veterans service
director, the law makers have de
clared they will vote in favor of the
legislation which will provide the
funds necessary for a continuation
of services to ex-servicemen by the
Veterans Administration.
The VA is currently faced with
the prospect of insufficient money
with which to carry on its hugh nat
ionwide program. The Deficiency
Bill has been devised to relieve the
situation by the assignment of
"emergency" funds. Cheatham,
aware of the situation, alerted the
Georgia Congressional delegation
on the urgency of the temporary
legislation.
BASEBALL
The Cumming Boys will play the
Lathemtown boys at Lathemtown
Saturday afternoon at 3:30.
Buford will play Cumming here
Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Everyone
is invited to come out and help the
boys win.
We will have our schedule printed
in a few days so be on the lookout
for it in the News.
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