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THE 1954 TWlNS— Governor Herman Talmadge gets a lesson or
the use of the double 1954 Christmas Seals from Mrs. Cleo Roberts
of Winder. Mrs. Roberts has served as 'Chairman of the Barrow
County TB Committee for 17 years. The Seals are now on sale by
tuberculosis associations all over Georgia, proceeds going to financi
local programs of tuberculosis control. %
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
DOXOLOGY
There’s just one scng for us all
to be singing these days—one that
we’ve heard all our lives:
Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow;
Praise him, all creatures here be
low;
Praise him above, ye heavenly
host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost.
We sang it last week in the
Georgia Baptist Convention at Au
gusta, and we sarf : g it again last
Sunday in all the churches. I hope
we are singing it every hour as
we go about our work this week,
watching the oats and other grain
come up.
The drought should have taught
use something. Wisdom is fled
from us if we disregard God’s pro
vidences. There was something
there that He was saying to us.
Let us not forget.
Many people are speculating
about the drought. Some sa yit
was the result of the atomic and
hydrogen bombs. Maybe it was*.
But maybe it was God speaking,
nonetheless. And now that He has
sceen fit to send the Blessed show
ers of the past week, let us give
thanks unto Him. There was no
other way for them to come. One
thing we know, it was desperately
dry, and now it is much, much
better. A few days ago everything
was dying, now everything is be
ginning to show life again.
Many people were praying, and
many of those who werep praying
were repenting. God tells us ex
pressly how to pray, and what to
expect when we truly humble our
selves before Him.
Many people will agree that it
is not enough to shout for joy and
then go right back to the ways of
living that we know full well are
in violation of God’s will. What He
has done once, He Will do again.
He desires to bless us.
Word has come from many sect
ions of the state that water is
gradually appearing in many wells
that were dry, and streams are
slowly rising. Fish ponds that were
dry have wate in them again, and
everything looks better and better.
Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow.
NOTICE
Squarec and Round Dancing at
the Cumming Gymnasium Satur
night November 27. Jake Clay will
be the Caller. We also have a six
piece Orchestra.
Come and enjoy yourself.
Sponsored by V. F. W. POST
NO. 9143.
SINGING NOTICE
.'You are invited to attend the
singing at the Cumming Church of
God Saturday night November 27,
beginning at 7:30. We have the de
finite promise of several trios,
duetts and other special singers.
All singers in and around For
syth are urged to be with us.
If you love good singing we feel
this will be an evening you will be
an evening you will thoroughly
enjoy.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CLAIMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
SAFE-DRIVING DAY
WED., DEC., 15, 1954
A PROCLAMATION
By the Governor
Whereas: .President .Eisenhower
and his Action Committee for Traf
fic Safety, in cooperation with var
ious national organizations, has of
ficially proclaimed Wednesday,
December 15, 1954 as Safe-Driving
Day in the entire Nation —a day to
be entirely traffic accident-free,
and
Whereas: The President has asked
all Governors to appeal to Mayors
and County officials for their ac
tive support and acceptance of the
challenge to remain completely
free from traffic accidents for that
twenty-four-hour period; and
Whereas: All major safety; civic,
educational and industrial organi
zations are participating energeti
cally in this undertaking under the
direction of the State Safe-Driving
Day Director and local Directors;
and
Whereas: Since 937 people met
their deaths in traffic accidents in
Georgia last year which was an
increase of 9 percent over the pre
vious year; and since the number
of traffic deaths to date, although
somewhat undpr last year, continue
at a deplorable rate; and since re
sponsibility for all traffic accidents
rests with individual drivers and
pedestrians, now
Therefore: I, Herman E. Talmadge
Governor of Georgia, do hereby
pledge my full cooperation in this
great and worthy effort; and do
heartily endorse the planned in
tensive public educational program
now under way, calling for the
greatest cooperative job ever un
dertaken in the field of accident
elimination; I hereby do proclaim
Wednesday, December 15, 1954 as
Safe Driving Day in Georgia, and
call upon all men of good will to
exercise their utmost effort to
make this day entirely traffic ac
cident-free.
In Witness Whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the Executive Department
to be affixed, this November 17,
1954. *
BY THE GOVERNOR:
Herman E. Talmadge, Governor
James L. Bently, Jr.
Secretary, Executive Department
P. S. I heartly Concur in this Pro
clamation.
ROY P. OTWELL, Mayor.
CITY OF CUMMING
CANDIDATES QUALIFY FOR
CITY ELECTION DECEMBER 7.
Those qualifying for the City of
Cumming election to be held on
December 7, 1954 for Mayor and
Councilmen are as follows:
FOR MAYOR
ROY P. OTWELL
FOR COUNCILMEN
PAUL H. WORLEY
W. O. WILLS
JOEL WEBB
E. E. MARTIN
GLADSTON SUDDERTH
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Nov., 25, 1954.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
A Brief Resume of ihe Public
School System in tlhe United Stat
e's. Origin and Development of the
Public School System.
EARLY ATTITUDES
Everywhere, with us, the school
arose as a distinctively local “in
stitution”, and to meet local needs
The Federal Constitution made no
mention of any form of education
for the people, nor does the subject
occur In the debates of the Feder
al . Constitutional Convention.. By
the terms of the “Tenth" Amend,
ment to the Federal Constition
ratified in 1791, education became
onne of the many unmentioned pow
ers “reserved to the States”.
Of the fourteen states constitut
ions framed by 1800.,six made no
mention whatever of schools or
education, and in a large number
of the others, the mention was
vecry brief and indefinite. Nothing
which could be regarded as even
the beginning of a state system or
series of systems of education ex
isted. Nine colleges, a few private
schools offered some elementary
school instruction of an indifferent
character, constituted the educat
ional resources of the new Nat
ion. New England, where a good
beginning had been made in the
seventeenth cenntury, the educat
ional enthusiasm of tthe people
had largely died out and schools
had sadly degenerated. In the rur
al districts, where tthe greater num
ber of our people then lived, there
were practically no schools of any
kind, while in the towns and cities
the schools were good.
EARLY STATE ORGANIZATIONS
The First pemanent law for the
organization of the public school
system, was in the State of New
York in 1812.
ADVANTAGES OF THE STATE
CONTROL OF EDUCATION
State control of public schools
has many advantages: One of the
chief advantages of the state con
trol, is the power of the State to
determine the minimum standards
to be permitted, and to formulate
a constructive educational policy
Once formulated, the State can see
that this policy is carried out. The
educational needs of the State may
thus be considered as a whole, and
be legislated for accordinly. What
the State deems to be wise for its
children, it may require communi.
ties to provide. If any community
is too poor to meet the legitimate
demands of the state, the obligat
ion then naturally restts upon the
State to help such community to
comply with its demands.
(Often the needs and rights of
children can only be properly safe
guarded by the intervention of the
State itself, and this it should have
the power to do when neglect is
clearly evident.
ThePuublic Schools are for the
masses; the Private Schools are
mostly for selected groups. If the
public schools of the United States
should be transferred to the priv
ate school system we would be
turning back the wheels of educat
ion for 142 years.
Chestatee Public School
E. E. ROGERS
Soil Conservation News
Forsyth County
The recent rains have given the
permanent pastures a new life and
those who are following a syste
matic fertilizing program are get_
ting new growth immediately. Tern
porary pastures will be late due to
lateness in getting them seeded. A
check throughout the county indi
cates that many of the fescue pas
tures have turned green over night
At this time twelve cooperattors
with the Upper Chattahoochee Riv
er Soil Conservation District have
indicated they plan to plant pine
seedlings. Also ten cooperators
plan to plant bicolor lespedeza for
bird food.
E. P. Riley near Silver City has
completed clearing twenty five
acres of swamp land that will be
seeded to permanent pasture.
Winfred Waldrip in the Oscar,
ville section reports that his pas
tures are doing fine and he has
enough hay tto do him for two
years.
With \ our County
Agent
Walter 11. Rucker
Royce Samples of Bethelview
Community was officially notified
last week of his selection as a
Sheep Demonstrator.
One sheep demonstration farm is
being set up in each congressional
district and Mr. Samples was select
ed for the ninth district. This pro
gram is b'eing sponsored by Mr.
Mills B. Lane of Atlanta in an ef
fort to promote sheep as an addi
tional source of income for Geor-
gia farmers.
Mr. Samples will receive a herd
of 100 ewes which have been bred
to begin lambing the latter part of
December. He will be assisted in
the sheep demonstration by the
county agent and Mr. Dennis C.
DeLoach, newly appointed sheep
specialist with the Agricultural Ex
tension Service State office in
Athens. Mr. DeLoach will also be
available to any Georgia farmer to
aid with problems of sheep pro
duction.
Sheep raising is a relatively new
enterprise for Forsyth County. Dr.
and Mrs. Marcus Mashburn, Jr.,
have the largest flock of sheep al
ready in the county. Joel Webb has
started a smaller flock and several
other farms have begun with two
to six sheep each.
It is thought by experienced peo
ple that sheep will fit especially
well into our small farms of North
Georgia. This would be very true
in our broiler area where litter
from our poultry houses can be
used on the pasture. For several
years now, sheep have gcenerally
given higher returns, per dollar in
vested, than any other type of live
stock.
I It is expected that the demon
stration sheep for Mr. Samples
| farm will have arrived by the time
that this is printed. Several dhys
will be required for the sheep to
j become accustomed to their new
surroundings. After this, special
tours will be planned for people
who want to observe, first hand
problems that confront the sheep
grower.
1954 Christmas Seal
Sale Underway
Row after row of children, hold,
ing hands around Christmas trees,
are the outstanding feature of the
1954 tuberculosis Christmas Seals,
which went on sale in Forsyth
County this week.
A. R. Housley, Chairman of the
Forsyth County Tuberculosis Com
mittee, called attention to the al
ternating green and red Seals, mak
Ibg what appears to be a double
Seal.
"The 1954 Seal design is signi
ficant in many ways,” said A. R.
Housley. “The children, whose fac_
es are blank, represent the millions
of children of the world whose liv
es have been saeved since the
Christmas Seals were first sold.
"The Christmas tree was part of
the design of the very first Seals,
sold in Denmark in 1904. The
double Seal is a reminder of the
need to double our efforts to bring
this curable and preventable dis
ease under control.”
Letters with Seals have been
mailed to residents of Forsyth
County, A. R. Housley said, and he
expressed the hope that everyone
will make a generous contribution
as soon as possible. Anyone not
getting these Seals should call 2461
and ask for a supply.
PIMIENTO PEPPER MEETING
There will be a meeting Friday
night, December 10, 1954, at the
Courthouse in Cumming, Georgia,
for the purpose of obtaining grow
ers of Pimiento Pepper for 1955.
All farmers who are interested
are urged to be present.
The meeting will begin at 7:00
O’clock. Be there on time.
The Oscar Ville community is to
be congratulated on the fine com
munity work they have done the
past year. A number of the com
munity home owner planted Chin,
ese seedlings last spring. Most of
these seedlings came from a neigh
bor in the community who has
been growing them since 1941.
County Population 15,000. Number 47.
RURAL TELEPHONES MUSHROOM
in past Nine years
The number of farm homes and I
rural business establisments pro_
vided telephone service through
the Cumming Exchange has mush
roomed during the past nine years,
according to L. H. Collins, manag
er for Southern Bell Telephone
Company.
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c From 12 telephones in 1945 the
number of telephons serving the
rural areas around Cumming hasc
increased to 731, a phenomenal
growth of 5991 percent.
“Rural telephone development
has been one of the outstanding
phases of our record-breaking ex
pansion since 1945”, Mr. Collins
stated.
Since 1945 one out of every four
telephones added in Georgia by
Southern Bell has been a rural
telephone, of the 380,000 telephones
the firm has added in Georgia dur
ing this period 95,000 have been
rural. At the beginning of this
nine-year period of tremendous
growth Southern Bell served 280,-
000 telephones, of which 25,000
were rural.
Among the larger rural projects
worked here during the past few
years were those serving the Can
ton Road Area, the Coal Mountain
Section and the Atlanta Highway
area.
In gaining 95,000 farm telephones
in Georgia the telephone company
has spent more than $29,000,000,
exclusive of necessary cable and
central office equipment inside
city and town limits. The 28 mil
lion went for poles, cross arms,
cable wire and telephones used on
rural lines alone. Approximately
6,600 miles of new pole line has
been builj; in addition to expansion
of existing lines and the joint list?
of rural power poles. This involved
the construction of 120,000 poles
and the placing of 40,000 miles of
iron wire and almost 120,000 miles
of wire in cable.
For a great many months South
«ern Bell has been adding more than
1,000 rural telephones In the state
each month. This year the firm
will spend $4,000,000 for rural de
velopment, and telephone engi
neers estimate that a like amount
will be spent for the same purpose
next year.
"Few firms are investing so
heavily in the rural sections of
Georgia,” Mr. Collins said. “But
Southern Bell believes that the
telephone is on the farm to stay.
Tn Georgia and the rest of the
South our agriculture is going
through an evolution from one
crop to full diversification, from
hand-labor and mule power to a
great degree of mechanization. To
day more than ever before the
telephone is hiighly useful, if not
necessary, to efficient farm man
agement operation and marketing.”
ASC NEWS
It is the udty and responsibility
of each farmer in Forsyth County
who has made a request for as
sistance under the 1954 ACP Pro
gram to either report the complet
ion of the practice or cancel it as
soon as possible. The 1954 Program
Year will end January 15, 1955 and
it is imperative that all practices
be accounted for by this time.
Each farmer will be notified of
the closing date but in the mean
time it would help to accelerate
the payments for farmers who
have completed their practices if
reports were made immediately af
ter the practice has been carried
out.
Approved farmers who have
made requests for assistance under
the Drought Emergency Program
are being issued Purchase Orders
for feed grains and mixed feeds.
The Farmers who are eligible are
receiving a reduction in the cost of
their grains and mixed feed.
Every farmer who desires assist
ance under the 1955 ACP Program
should read the mail they receive
within the next few weeks and file
their request during the initial
sign-up period which will be an
nounced as soon as possible
21st Annual Meeting
Cotton Producers Assn.
Meets December 2nd.
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Mr. John H. Davis
Directors, friends and all patrons
of the Farmers Mutual Exchange
are invited to attend the 21st An
nual meeting of the Cotton Pro
ducers Association in Atlanta, on
December 3nd.
Cotton Producers Association is
planning to have the biggest and
best Annual Meeting it has ever
had. The program will include
three nationally known speakers, a
report on various Divisions of The
Cotton Producers Association, a
banquet, and an amateur talent
contest with participants coming
from a wide area of the Southeast.
Speakers include Mr. John H.
Davis, Director of the Moffett Pro
gram in Agriculture and Business,
Harvard University; Mr. Hugh H.
Comer, Chairman of the Board of
Avondale Mills, Sylacauga, Ala
bama; and Mr. M. J. Briggs, Gen
eral Manager of the Indiana Farm
Bureau Cooperative Association.
Mr. Davis, formerly Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, whose
Department at Harvard is working
on ways and means of farmers
and business people working to
gether to improve the economic
condition of both, will speak at
the December 2nd afternoon ses
sion of the meeting.
Mr. Comer, a witty well-known
speaker who is a past Director
of the National Cotton Council of
America, will speak at the banquet
to be held on the night of Decem
ber 2nd In the Gymnasium of the
Atlanta Division of the University
of Georgia.
Principal speaker for the meet
ing on December 3rd will be Mr.
Briggs who helped organize the
Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative
and later became its General Man
ager. It has become one of the
largest and most successful farmer
cooperatives in the country. Besides
all his work with cooperatives, Mr.
Briggs is an active Indiana dairy
farmer.
The talent show will be made up
of the top talent coming from all
five districts the Cotton Producers
Association serves. Participants
were chosen from the winners of
talent shows held at local Farmers
Mutual Exchange or Warehouse
Annual Meetings. The talent in
cludes boys and girls who sing,
dance, play musical instruments
and do acrobatics.
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If you wish to go to this meet
ing and do not have a way, please
contact the manager, Mr. Hugh
Crawford on December Ist, so ar
rangements can be made. The store
will close at noon December 2nd,
so the personnel will be able to
attend this meeting.
Singing Notice
The Seven County Singing Class
will meet with Pleasant Grove M.
E. Church, Forsyth County on the
fourth Sunday night, November 28
at 7 o’clock. Everyone has a Spec
ial Invitation.
Committee: Ira Cowart, E. A.
Butler, Keith Taylor.