Newspaper Page Text
The Forsyth County News
Volume 48.
FOOD AND
YOUR BODY
We think it is a good idea, once
in a while, to emphasize the ma
chinelike qualities of the human
body. We should not forget that
food is the fuel that operates the
physical engine upon which life it
self depends.
Eating is not only a prime func
tion of existence, but it is also one
of the most important. Every in
dividual, and particularly our
young people, should be thorough
ly informed as to the principles of
good diet and the peculiar values
of various foods.
Inasmuch as the meals of the
average American family are und
er the control and supervision of
the wife and mother, it is the duty
of these home-makers to study and
understand the proper preparation
of food, its specific properties and
the value and necessity of variety
in the family’s daily diet.
We are not suggesting that in
dividuals become food fanatics or
that our readers take up any of
the various fads that afflict the
public. We do advise every woman,
who is supervising the feeding of
human beings, to study food diets,
calories, vitamins and the other
dota now available with regard to
foods. The more widespread such
information becomes, tht better
will the health and bodily growth
of the people in Forsyth County
become
There are millions of people in
the United States who pay more
attention to the proper feeding of
their poultry and livestock than
they do to the food that their child
ren consume. Some of these people
reside in this county.
For one reason or another, in
cluding lack of information and
scarcity of money, their children
grow up undernourished and ill-fed
their weakened bodies inviting di
sease. If they escape death, their
bodies and general health will pre
sent living testimony in years to
come of the ignorance, and often
times carelessness, of their parents
in regard to food.
Every family diet should include
milk, meat, bread, vegetables and
fruit. Every housewife who reads
this article should check up on the
food served to her family during
the past week. Was it sound from
a health standpoint, taking into
consideration the needs and ages
of the various members of the
family?
TAX CUT
NEARER
There are indications from Wash
ington that both parties are aware
of strong sentiment in the United
States in favor of a tax cut. There
are reports that competition is de
veloping between the leaders of
the parties as to which party will
get credit for pushing the first suc
cessful tax reduction.
Democrats are said to be consid
ering a bill which will reduce taxes
with rumors that reductions might
be voted to take effect early as
January Ist, 1958.
On the Republican side, senti
ment is also building up in favor
of tax cuts, although no definite
shape or form can yet be discribed
as the goal of Republican congress
ional leadership.
As we have stated on other oc
casions, we think the time is right
for tax reduction. The budget
should, and can be, reduced. If this
is done, taxes can be reduced ac
cordingly. Tax relief now would
be a mild stimulant to business,
and would also help the average
taxpayer counteract the effects of
gradually increasing inflation
which —in many cases—has reduc
ed his buying power
PANCAKE SUPPER
The public is invited to a Pan
cake Supper to be held at the Com
munity House, Saturday, April 13,
from 5:00 p. m. to 8:30 p. m This
event is sponsored by the Meth
odist Men’s Club, and all proceeds
will go for furnishings in the New
Church Building Tickets may be
purchased from the M. Y. F., or
secured at the door.
Indirect bribery is what influen
ces many of our men and women
of wealth when they consider the
impact of any legislation.
OFFICIAL OKtiAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHKBO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALI, AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
IKE ON FIFTH
AMENDMENT
President Eisenhower, replying '
to a question put to horn at a
weekly press conference, has ex
pressed the normal American reac
tion to the use of the Fifth Amend
ment by witnesses appearing be
fore investigating committees.
The President, questioned in this
cnnection during the height of the
investigation concerning Dave Beck
president of the International
Teamsters Union, said that the
Amendment was a protection
against self incrimination. He noted
that this was a basic safeguard of
our liberty.
However, he added this very ap
propriate statement: "I must say
I probably share the common reac
tion if a man has to go to the
Fifth Amendment, there must be
something he dotsn’t want to tell.’’
In the Beck case, we do share
the labor leader’s optimism that he
will eventually be acquitted of all
charges. We think the Beck case
makes it quite obvious that Cong
ress should enact wise and fair
laws requiring proper accountings,
elections, and so on, in labor
unions.
Our only hope is that Congress
will assume this responsibility and
see to it that the job is done. Un
fortunately, too many members of
'Congress are afraid of Labor, and
| are afraid to enact proper safe
guards.
This attitude is unjustified: they
need not fear Labor. The average
union member is a good American
and favors proper safeguards regu
lating his leaders as do the major
ity of Americans. Therefort, Cong
ress can escape its responsibility
in this field no longer, in light of
recent revelations
Hooelessness In The
Midst Of Hope
The past year or two have pro
duced ample evidence that mental
illness is no longer hopeless. Twen
ty years ago a patient suffering
from any of the three major men
tal disorders —schizophrenia, invol
utional psychosis and manici-de
pressive psychosis—had no more
than a 30 percent chance to get
well. Today the chances for com
plete recovery or great improve
ment, in the case of these three
illnesss, is 5 percent or better.
Yet, despite the overall hopeful
outlook, there are today hundreds
of thousands of mental patients
who are entirely without hope. The
reason for this is that only one out
every ten mental hospital patients
is being given the chance to get
better through prompt and ade
quate treatment. The reason for
this is that there is only enough'
staff, equipment and medical sup
plies to permit treatment for 10
percent of all the 750,000 mental
hospital patients. The rest are
doomed to long, hopeless years of
suffering, away from their families
and home, with nothing to look
forward to but endless, desolate
days of sitting and waiting.
Suppose the same situation ex
isted with regard to polio. Sup
pose that after the Salk vaccine
was discovered, only one out of
every ten children was given the
vaccine, while the rest were com
pelled to wait helplessly for polio
to strike. Were this to happen, it
would certainly stir a nationwide
wave of indignation, and it would
not be long before the situation
was remedied
Why then do we stand by so in
differently in the face of such
inhumanity to the mentally ill?
The proof is overwhelming that
the mentally ill can come back. It
is up to all of us to see to it that
they do come back, recovered,
healthy, normal.
This year during Mental Health
Week, the Georgia Association for
Mental Health focusses attention
on the plight of the mentally ill.
During this year’s Mental Health
observance —April 28 to May 4
an extra effort is being made to
enlist public interest on behalf of
the mentally ill, and to arouse
statewide action in their behalf.
If you have managed to survive
the first quarter of the year you
might as well drive carefully and
and see the New Yea'r arrive
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 11, 1957.
WORSHIP AT
CHURCH
We, as a people religiously, have
more or less grown into the habit
of a kind of formal worship. We
meet at the church, sing songs or
hymns, have prayer then preaching
Much of the preaching is not plan
ned to a purpose, it seems. Then
perhaps we have song and a dis
to be criticized and yet we follow
missing prayer. Formal worship is
it. Sometimes we go to Church
when everything that is done
seems that it just exactly fits to
gether and fits into the worship
to make it one united whole. Many
pastors select their songs to be
sung so that it will help carry
home the message, yet we have
members who would object to the
pastor doing that, it is too formal.
It looks to the writer like anything
that will and is calculated to carry
home the message should make it
worth while. Much of the worship
| success is found in the songs sung,
and the spirit expressed therein.
Then comes the message from
the pastor or visiting preacher
whatever that may chanced to be.
Pastor, why did you take that text
to preach from today? Did you
have a definite aim In view? What
was your aim any-how- Was it on
the NEW BIRTH? And I might
say the majority of the diseoruses
are on the new birth to the neg
lecting of the hundreds and hund
reds of text in the BIBLE on the
many phases of CHRISTIAN LIV
ING. An old veteran of the Cross
one said the Ministers who preach
ed about the NEW BIRTH scarcely
ever got any further than the new
birth. If you preached last Sunday,
did you decide before you left
home to what purpose your ser
mon would be, Brother preacher?
Would it be for the purpose of
.strengthening your hearers in
Faith, Hope, Confidence in the
Holy Spirit, Baptism, Atonement,
Resurrection, Ancesion, Persever
anc of Saints, or Predestination
and Foreordination? The hunter
must aim at a bird if he kills one
you know. Do yoa aim it at your
hearers or is it just preaching in
general because it is a custom? Re
member this is just to help you
think about the most important
work of your lives. It is very deli
cate to talk about and how else
may we obtain training along the
line. Many of your objects in pre
paring yourself for your life work
by obtaining information along an
educational way. How can you ex
pect to get it? Pick it up from
some other preacher?
Finally what about the prayers?
Are they long or concentrated and
to the point of this particula wor
ship in which you are engaged. I
am not trying to limit any one be
cause I do not have the power if
I desired. Having had a good ser
mon, good singing a good worship
(with all your mind and soul that
you are able to assimulate) why
have a long dismissing prayer?
J. B. Driskell
Forsyth County
F. F. A. Chapter
Friday night March 29, the For
syth County FFA held its Annual
Banquet this year for the first
time a Parent-Son banquet was
given so that both parents of each
Future Farmers could be honored.
Approximately 130 people were
present at the banquet. Chapter
officers and members presented
an informative program on the
activities of a local FFA organi
zation.
Marjorie Taylor, the 1957-58
Chapter Sweetheart was presented
her official FFA' Chapter Sweet
heart jacket and a necklace at the
banquet.
Chapter members are very jubi
lant that the Cooperative Activi
ties Committee reports enough
points in the contest to send one
deserving member to the Annual
meeting of Cooperatives to be held
in Colorado this year.
Boys receiving pigs in the Chap
ter Pig Chair are beginning to get
their new pig. Monroe Gunter, a
first year Ag student, has received
the Chapter Boar. Boys receiving
gilts are Kenneth Conner, Donald
Castlberry, Bob Tidwell, Donald
Nickols and Regis Glover
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
The local Waterworks Depart
ment reports 4.48 inches of rainfall
within a twenty-two hour period
last week.
Flooding within the Settingdown
Creek Watershed reached the
height that it reached in 1951-52;
however without the eight flood
retading structures on the tribu
taries of Settingdown Creek the
flooding would have been much
more. The addition of three struc
tures this summer will eliminate
flooding still further. All other ma
jor streams in the county were
| out of their banks too.
C J. Lankford, SCS Farm Plan-
I ner continues to complete Basic
Soil And Water Conservation Plans
with landowners in the Setting
down Creek Watershed.
Patten Bros, of Roswell,, Georgia
were low bidders for the construc
tion of a flood retarding structure
on Dudley Branch above 9-E high
way.
With y our County
Aejent
Walter H. Rucker
Nitrogen is generally the key to
greater crop yields, and hence,
greater profits.
Whether we are dealing with cot
ton, corn, pasture, or any other
farm crop, plants are limited by
the food that we feed them, and
nitrogen is the one element most
often found lacking.
If we, ourselves, ate only bread
and wate for a year, or two years,
then we would surely develop defi
ciencies in our bodies because the
bread and water does not furnish
needed vitamins and proteins. Our
capacity to work would not only
be lessened but we would find our
selves much fore susceptible to
colds and other diseases.
The same holds true for crops.
Regardless of how much phospho
rous and potash we feed our crops
unless we balance that food with
adequate amounts of nitrogen our
crop yields are limited.
To cite examples on experiments,
total profits from corn jumped
from $28.50 per acre when 30 lbs
of nitrogen was used to $58.50
when 120 pounds of nitrogen was
applied.
Cotton profits climbed from $28.-
05 per acre with a 20-pound nitro
gen application to $81.50 with 80
pounds.
Of course we cannot expect each
acre to give responses like the
above unles we know its needs.
The only sure way that we can
knkow this is to have a sample of
our soil tested. From this we learn
what deficiencies our soil has, if
any, and how we can correct them.
FREDDIE MILLER SHOW
PLANS ARE COMPLETE
The Freddie Miller Talent con
test to be held on April 12 at the
Cumming Gym is expected to have
more contestants than last year,
much interest is being shown and
the final arrangements for the
show were completed last Friday
night at the monthly meeting of
the Forsyth County Chamber of
Commerce and it is expected that
the final show to be held on April
26th will be one of the largest as
semblies of talent ever to appear
on a local show.
SINGING NOTICE
There will be a singing at Cum
ming Second Baptist Church on the
Second Sunday night at 7:30.
Windy Bagley and Sunlighters,
Broughton Wallace and family, the
Martin Family Singers, Gene Lum
mus and family, the Martin Sing
ers and the Standley Trio.
Every one is cordially invited to
attend.
Steve Grogan, V-President
County Population 15,000.
Mr. Hugh Wallace
Killed In Accident
Mr. Namon Hugh Wallace, age
22, was killed instantly in a car
accident Friday April sth. Hugh
had been out of service only a
few months and was employed by
General Motors.
He was a member of Zion Hill
Baptist Church and is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Namon
Wallace, one sister Miss Hazel
Wallace, two brothers Marcus and
Harold Wallace and a host of re
latives and friends who mourn his
departure.
Funeral services were conducted
from Zion Hill Baptist Church on
Sunday April 7th, with Rev. Frank
Vaughan and Rev. Henry Warren,
officiating..
UNLIMITED
FORGIVENESS
I’ll forgive you, but I’ll never
forget. In that is the denial of true
forgiveness. He casts our sins be
hind His back. He plunges them
into the deepest sea, as far as the
East is from the West, so far does
he forgive us. Divine forgiveness
through the death on the Cross is
not a calculated item, but a gift of
grace, unmerited and freely given
in love, without stint or limit.
You cannot place boundaries
around God’s forgiveness. God for
Christ’s sake has forgiven us.
Each forgiven person should
keep in mind that we are to offer
the same to others. The old Jewish
teaching was that three times was
enough to forgive anyone who has
offended you. Simon Peter thought
| seven would be about right, but
I Jesus said sevtnty times seven
I unlimited forgiveness, yes, just
I keep on forgiving. I am so glad
j that God will forgive such a blund-
I ering person as I am if I ask in
true repentence.
Have we been hurt by someone?
then do we forgive or do we carry
resentment and pleen in our hearts
against that one who did wrong?
"Forgiveness is a necessity in the
life of the Christian disciple”. The
unforgiving heart is sinful. Our
'forgiveness of others is not the
[ground of our being forgiven, but
it’s condition.
Man in his natural state finds
it difficult, if not impossible to
forgive, because of the rancour and
provocation, therefore true forgive
ness is a gift of God through
grace. Forgiveness works!
W. R. Callaway
IE YOUR
BRAIN HUNGRY?
It would be an interesting race
of human beings in this world if
the minds of men and women de
manded food with the safne insist
ence that the stomach docs.
Suppose your brain, if neglected
and forgotten for a day, would set
iup the same insistent clamor for
[sustenance that your body does.
Would you know more, or do you,
maybe, take care of the normal
cravings that visit intelligent minds
and see to it that you provide a
[diet for the thinking machine, as
jwell as for the stomach?
| Truth is supposed to be the goal
'of education and philosophy and
; religion, as well. The truth will set
you free, the Bible declares.
How many of us realize that the
best pursuit of truth comes only
whgn a mind is free of passion,
prejudices and popular superstit
ions? How many of us make any
systematic effort to remove such
j cobwebs from our brains?
PAN CAKE SUPPER SPONSOR
ED BY METHODIST MEN’S CLUB
I
! The Methodist Youth Fellowship
of Cumming Methodist Church
have tickets to sell this week for a
“Pancake Supper’’ sponsored by
'“Methodist Men's Club”* Saturday
evening at 5 p. m. to 8:30 p. m.
! The money earned by these young
■ people will go toward furnishing
their classrooms in the new church
building.
If you are approached please
help by buying a ticket and come
out to the supper. If you are not
contacted either mail SI.OO Adults
or 50 cents for a child to L. B.
SCOTT, Cumming, Georgia.
Number 15.
SILVER DOLLAR
CLEAN UP
Plans are being completed for
the city wide cleanup program;
which is being sponsored by the
city officials together with all civic
clubs.
All business houses and residents
are asked to join in this program
and especially on April 15th and
16th each business house and resi
dence owners are asked to make
special effort to clean up and paint
up their premises
On Wednesday April 17th, every
one is invited to meet at the Court
House at 2 p. m. to help clean up
the city, which will include cutting
high grass in corners and else
where and picking up paper and
unsightly debris all over the busi
ness district. To make this more
interesting for the young and also
the older people Silver Dollars will
be hidden in the places needing to
be cleaned up most.
It is hoped that this method will
prove most interesting and every
one will join hands to make our
city a cleaner and more attractive
place to live.
Mr. Glad Sudderth is the general
chairman and any further infor
mation in regards to this event can
be secured from him. So why not
join with all interested in this
program and be at the Court
House, Wednesday April 17 at 2
P. M.
SPRING
BASKETBALL
Each year, about this time, on
the eve of the approaching Major
League season, baseball fans in all
parts of the country follow the ex
hibition games of their favorite
teams in the West or in Florida.
This year, as in the past, many in
teresting developments occurred iri
the baseball world and it may be
that 1957 will prove to be an un
usual year for the national past
time.
For instance, one Major League
manager is batting his pitchers
eighth instead of ninth, and using
a fairly good hitter in the ninth
position of his batting order. This
defies all baseball tradition and
could be a significant departure if
the method is successful and adopt
ed by the clubs.
Another Major League manager
is using one of his top hitters in
the second position in his batting
order, rather than putting him in
the fourth, fifth of sixth spot. This
manager reasons that, with his top
hitter batting second, it will give
him more chances to bat and get
more chances to be on base for the
fourth and fifth hitters
These innovations, plus the hope
that springs eternal in the breasts
of rookies up for trial, makes it
quite possible that the favorites in
1957 will not walk off with the flag
The favorites, of course, are the
Brooklyn Dodgers in the National
League, and the Yankets in the
American.
A poll among the various Major
League managers shows these
teams to be the favorites. Last
year these two teams played in the
World Series the New York Yank
ees beating the Dodgers in seven
games.
i Our long-shot hunch, for baseball
I addicts, is (hat the two dark horse
team one for each team -are the
Detroit Tigers in the American
League and the St. Louis Cardinals
in the National. The last time
these two teams met in a World
Series was in 1934, in the days of
the Gas House Gang and Mickey
Crockrane’s Tigers. That was
I twenty-three years ago, and maybe,
the wheel has completed its cycle.
SILVER CITY
Silver City Community, one of
the most progressive in the County
is happy to have made its contri
bution to the Annual Red Cross
Drive of $110.25. Mrs. A. C. Kelly
and Mrs. A. C. Smith, Jr. Com
-1 munity Representatives.
SINKING NOTICE '
! Everyone has a special invitation
|to attend the singing at Coal Mt.
Baptist Church Sunday night
April 14, beginning at 7:30 o’clock,
J. C. WHITMIRE
CLYDE CRONIC
KEmi TAYLOR