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The Forsyth County News Volume 50. Health Department News By Grace Palmour, PHN. Don’t let Polio strike you or your family! June 16, and July 14 is the date for your polio clinics sponsored by the Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce. This is particularly for the third injection for those who had two at the fall and winter clinics; But don’t let this stop you if you have not had the first two, come on out and get them and then get the third one from your family doctor. These clinics will be held in the new Forsyth County Health Cen ter. The Jaycees will charge SI.OO for those who can afford to pay; No charge for those who can’t. Did you know that: Polio vacci nation is not complete without three injections. Three "shots”—properly spaced — are 85-90 per cent effective against paralytic polio. It takes about eight months to btcome fully vaccinated. Americans are not adequately vaccinated. Only 42 percent have had any vac cine at all; only 33 percent have had the full series. There is no wenough vaccine for everyone. Ask your doctor about the ad visability of taking Polio Vaccine. Purcell To Speak At State Schools Fire Safety Meet ATLANTA —Declaring his office was behind Georgia's original and unique program of fire safety edu cation among school children 100 per cent,, Dr. Claude Purcell, State Superintendent of Schools, today accepted Safety Fire Commissioner Zack D. Cravey’s invitation to ad dress the Third Annual Junior Fire Marshals’ Statewide Confer ence at Lake Jackson in August. Dr. Purcell, in a letter to Mr. Cravey also congratulated the Com missioner for holding the only such school fire officers’ encamp ment held in the nation. “You are* performing a job out standing amon gour school children in fire safety and prevention,” Dr. Purcell wrote, "I am not surprised that our Junior Fire Marshal Pro gram has been adopted in toto by several of our sister statts where astute officials forsee its inesti mable potential in lives and prop erty saved and fires prevented. Commissioner Cravey said at least one representative from every high school in the state is being invited to the conference this year. Formerly, only one or two students from each county had attended. PCA Directors Will Meet In Athens, June 8 Nearly 200 officers and directors of the 28 Production Credit Asso ciations in Georgia will attend the annual directors’ conference at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education June 8 - Key speakers for the opening session Monday, June 8, will be Dr. E. Broadus Browne, director of the University’s College Experi ment Station; R. A. Farr, presi dent of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Columbia, and S. J. Brannen. Extension economist of the College of Agriculture. Speaker for the conference ban quet Monday night will be the Rev. Bevel Jones, pastor of the Audubon Forest Methodist Church. Atlanta. Other speakers on the pprogram will include J. C. Moore, vice presi dent, and John L. Marshall, secre tary of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank, and George W. Dar den, director, Sandersville Produc tion Credit Association. Special reports and discussions will occupy a large part of the program with adjournment sche duled for noon Tuesda, June 9. It is strange how tired a man can be on Sunday morning, about church time, and how quickly he can recover by mid afternoon, if something turns up. U. S. charges of .“softness” irri tate British. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY Si CITY OF CUM MING DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHICRO HICK, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. (City Population 2,500) Pension Eligibility For Widows And Children of Veterans Some widows and children of wartime veterans may be eligible for pensions and not be aware of that fact, reports Pete Wheeler, director of the State Department of Veterans Service. Pensionsare not automatic, He explained—they must be applied for, if a person meets eligibility requirements. Generally, Wheeler said, these are the eligibility requirements for pensions for widows and children of veterans of World War 1, and 11, and the Korean War: Widows and unmarried children under age 18 (or 21 if attending a VA approved school) may be eligible for pensions if the widow’s income is less than $1,400 a year, if she has only one child, or $2,700 a year if more than one. If there is no widow, or if the widow is ineligible, the child or children may become eligible for pension provided their incomes do not exceed $1,400 each. The widow must have been liv ing with the veteran from the time of marriage until his death, unless there was a separation with no fault on the wife’s part. Remarriage following death of the veteran makes the widow per manently ineligible, in most cases. Wheeler said that since there are other limitations and require ments for widow’s pensions, the various field offices of the State Department of Veterans Service located throughout the state will be glad to furnish details. Or additional information may be obtained by writing the Depart ment at 125 State Capital, Atlanta. Handicapped Awards Announced By Clarke | ATLANTA—Awards in the state wide contest sponsored by the Gov ernor’s Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped and the Associated Industries of Geor gia, Inc., for high school juniors and seniors have been announced by Clifford Clarke. Jr.. Chairman of the Governor’s Committee. The winners were: First—Ann Andrews, Pelham High School, Pelham; Second —Betty Smith. Bak er High School. Columbus; Third— Bonnie Sue Johnson. Gainesville High School, Gainesville; Fourth — Nedra White, West Side High School, Rocky Face, and fifth— Saundra A. Long, Roosevelt High School, Atlanta. They will receive cash prizes ranging from SIOO to $lO awarded by the Associated Industries of Georgia, and certificates of merit from the President’s Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped. Theme of this year’s contest was: “Hiring the Handi capped in our Town.” The prizes will be presented by Governor Ernest Vandivere at the State Capitol on June 5. Larcre Distiller Seized In Forsyth County Federal and State Revenue offi cers, working in conjunction with Sheriff L. H. Bornett and Deputies carried, out the raid after more than a week of continous observa tion Friday night. May 29. Five men were arrested and four ve hicles conficated. Seized also was 3200 gallons of mash, 156 gallons non-tax paid whisktl and one 8 h. p. Upright boiler. A spokesman for the Revenue Department stat ed more cases are pending further investigation. All men are now lnder bond. BOTTOMS REUNION The Bottoms Reunion will be held on Sunday June 14 at Zion Hill Baptist Church. All relatives and friends are cordially invited to come and spend the day. PREACHING NOTICE / Rev. Bud Boles will preach at Bethlehem Baptist Church Sunday night June 7th. Everyone cordially invited to attend. Cumming Georgia, Thursday, June 4, 1959. Rev. J. B. Driskell Funeral Held Sunday jAt Shady Grove Funeral services for Rev. J. B. Driskell a Baptist minister and former Forsyth County school su perintendent was held Sunday at 2 p. m. at Shady Grove Baptist Church. i Rev. D. M. Nalley and Rev. Jay j Bottoms officiating. Burial was in j Shady Grove Cemetery with Mason ! ic rites. Ministers formed an hon- ] orary escort. Mr. Driskell passed away Friday I after a lengthy illness. He was 73 j years of age. Mr. Driskell had been a school- j teacher for most of his adult life, j He is survived by four daughters i Miss Carrie Bell Driskell and Miss j Ruth Driskell, both of Cumming; | Mrs. Gene Orr and Mrs. E. C. j Waldrip, both of Gainesville; sister, Mrs. W. S. Turner of Cumming; two brothers, George Driskell of Gainesville and Fred Driskell of Cumming, and four grandchildren. Hi-Y - Tri-Hi-Y Officers Study on June B—l 2 Over 700 Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y club officers from nearly 300 Georgia communities will study Christian democratic leadership principles and methods under 60 instructor advisors at the State YMCA Sum mer Training Conference at Rock Eagle Park, June B—l 2. Robert A. Potter, YMCA World Service secretary from New York, will represent the National Council •of Young Men’s Christian Associa tions during group and platform sessions. Other programs will be led by the Rev. Jack Ballard. Atlanta, and the Covington Y Clubs featuring the annual dedication service. “From This Day On” anew wor ship drama. Conference youth officers are: Bob Thielman, Mcßae, president, i Diana Smith, Douglas, and Virgi j nia Bowen, Griffin, vice-presidents, i Kelly McCuthchen, Dalton, secre jtary .and Tom Peters, Monroe, chaplain. | C. Baxter Jones, Jr., State YMCA 1 president, has called a meeting of | the State Y board of directors to be held during the conference, June 11 —12. at Rock Eagle. Cumming delegates registered ' are: Gladysteen Garner( Lynda Hill. Rhonda Rountree and Elaine Graham. Soil Conservation District News | 4 if JAMES T COOTS SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE | ; Invitation bids are out for con struction of the first flood preven tion dam in the Etowah River Reach Watershed. The dam will be located on Brewton Creek near the W. H. Evans property. Bids are expected to be opened June 10 and a construction award made soon thereafter. Work should begin around July 1. This watershed work is a part of the District pro gram. The Soil Conservation Ser vice will furnish technical assist ance in cooperation with the Upper Chattahoochee River Soil Conser vation District. Comnletion of this i dam is expected around November of this year. | Fred Feil, a District cooperator, in the Settingdown Creek Water shed expects to plant five acres of Coastal Bermuda grass this month. W. B. Benefield near Sharon re | ports he is getting ready to seed I new pasture this fall, i Clint Odum west of Cumming I reported that he optned his farm lake for fishing last Saturday. i 1 I Coco-Cola shows a rise in earn ings. Home, The Strength Of The Nation I am glad that we can dedicate our homes at any time; we can live within the purpose of God's will. The home was the first schoo. The Lord instructed the fathers to teach their children the fundamen tal principles of life. "And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shalt, talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest in the wav. when thou best down and when thou riscst up”. Devt. 6: 6—7 The family has the child when it is learning about the world and people, when it is most sensitive to the truth. Failure on the part of the parents then may bring failure in the lives of their children be cause they were not ttold of God’s love for them. The home can be the best school in the world. I had the privilege of sitting at the feet of some of the greatest teachers in their -day—men like Dr. A. T. Robertson, a world renound Greek scholar and many other great teach ers but the two teachers that meant more to me were my father and mother. They taught me to reverence God and to pray, they taught me to trust Jesus Christ as my personal savior and to study the Bible, God’s book; they taughr me to love right and hate wrong. Is there anything more imnortant to learn in life than these attitudes and truths? The family is the first unit in society—they should stand together if necessary against the whole world, if one suffers al lsuffer. The words and deeds of the par ents may affect the children for ever. “The fathers have eaten sour , grapes and the children's teeth have been put on edge.” I want to live and behave so that my fam ily "Will not be ashamed of me. The homes of a community is ' the best index of its life and char- I acter. As long as there is one bad or weak family, the community is in danger of social disease and shame. A simpple tvnhoid case is a threat to the health of all who live nearby. A bad home may be a germ carrier that may destroy the morals and the happiness of many others. But one good home is a source of strength to al Ithe com munity. Hannah prayed to God for a child, she dedicated him to God before he was born. Her son Sam uel made a great contribution to the whole life of Israel. Because we want a Christian home we want the Bible in our home as the basis of our best teachings. I want Christian friends and Christian work. Henry W. Grady was travelling through Georgia writing up the various towns and interesting peo ple he met. In his travels he spent the night in a country home. That night before retiring, ail gathered in one room and the father read the Bible and all knelt to pray. When he wrote his article he re called this visit and said that the strength of our nation was in these homes that reverence and study of the Bible and pray with their children. The stronger our faith in God the stronger our na tion will be. W. R. Callaway Singing Notice Everyone has a special invitation to attend the Annual All Day Sing ing at Oak Grove Baptist Church Sunday June 7. The Martin Sisters, Melotone auartett, Roy Phillip’s quartett, Shorty Bradford a: and Don ald Step have promised to be with us along with many other good singers.. Make your plans to come and spend the day. Singing will begin promptly at 10:30 A. M. There will be plenty of lunch for everyone at the noon hour. Fay Martin. President Wayman Cox, Vice President Lester Sexton, Secretary If you advertise and don’t get the expected results, change the nature of your advertising. Well aimed advertising will always hit the mark. v County Population 15,000. THE GREAT MENACE TO AMERICA’S CHILDREN: What you Can Do about it Address by Hon. Arthur E. Sum merfield. Postmaster General of the United States before Conference of Women Leader of Civic, Education al, Parent and Religious organiza tions and Women members of The Congress and Government Agencies I want to thank you for taking the time to join us today. I know that your schedules are full and that you are very busy. But we have asked you to be with us be cause we want to discuss a very j serious matter with you. We know how intelligently, how enaciously and yes, how success fully American women can organ ize to fight evil. We know that, in your positions of leadership in important organi zations, as parents, and as citizens, you can be of great help to us in meeting a problem of growing con cern to all of us. I want to discuss this problem with you frankly, tell you what we are doing about it, and ask for your personal support, and the as sisttance and cooperation of the organizations you represent. There is flourishing in this coun try today a vile racket of huge propportions about which the 'pub lic is not too well informed. This racket involves the use of • the United States mails for the wholesale promotion and conduct of mail order business in obscene and pornographic materials. I say it is huge advisedly. We can esti mate at present that the sale of these materials through the mails is running at more than 500 mil ion dollars a year. The especially vicious aspect of this racket is the fact that these purveyors of filfth are aiming their attention more and more at the nation's children tenn-age boys and girls, and even younger. j With complete arrogance, they are violating the homes of the nat ion in defiance of the Federal Gov ernment. They are dumping porno i graphis sewage into the hands of hundreds of thousands of our chil dren, through the family mail box, most of it material that has not been ordered material intended to solicit the sale of utterly obscene picture, slides, films, and related trash. How do these merchants of filth obtain the names and addres ses of children? They have any number of ways. One of the most common is to offer, in a legitimate ad in a normal publication, the sale of a product of interest to a boy J or girl. This would be stamps, or model airplanes, or doll clothes, and the like. These items are fre quently offered at bargain prices. The child, usually with the par net’s assistance, sends for and re ceives the item. Now the mut deal er has the name on his list, and soon the child is receiving lewd solicitations through the mail. These racketeers also buy pre pared mailing lists of children’s names, of which there are many. They even go to the extent of gathering up high school year book from which they take name sand match them up with addresses in city telephone books. Recently, we conducted a raid in New York City in which we confiscated 17 tons of highly obscene pprinted and filmed materials. The producer of tthese materials had in his pos session a mailing list of names and addresses of 100.000 persons, in cluding many high school students. If you were to read some of the solicitation material that these de bauched persons send to the child ren, I believe you would be sicken ed. You would also be deeply dis turbed to read the letters our post masters receive from parents. Such letters for example as one from a mother who wrote: “The enclosed material was received by my son, age eight years, a few days ago. Is there anything that can be done to stop this?” The material sent to the eight-year-old boy began with the statement: “I am writing to you as a person interested in collecting all types of art photo graphy of nudes.” Or like the letter which read: “Is there anything that can be done about literature like the enclosed? This is a moth er’s plea to you to do all in your power to stop the flow of this ’filth from seeping into our homes. Number 23. Thank you for anything you can do to protect my 10 year old girl." Or the letter which stated: "I am enclosing a folder sent to boys at our camp. Is there any way that this terrible literature and its sour ce can be destroyed?” It is appar ent that many children .without parental attention, do fail into the trap of ordering such material, for the filth merchants regard theig traffic with children as a major and growing part of their highly ! lucrative business. Most parents who intercept these solicittations in the mail are, of course, shocked and greatly concerned. Last year, our Postal Inspection Service in vestigated 14,000 complaints about obsenity in the mails. Nearly two thirds of these complaints were from parents objecting to the re ceipt of lewd material by their adolescent children. In the case of a single mailing by one purveyor of filth, over 5,000 complaints were received, and all but three were from parents pro testing mailings to their children. On the basis of all the facts we have, our Inspection Service esti mates that probably 700,000 to one million children this year will re ceive such invitations to depravity through the mails! This is big business. It thrives on the curiosity of adolescents. It has no boundar ies based upon social position, re ligion, race or location. Your child, or the child next door, may be on a list. If not, he —or she— may get on one. For the lists are expand ing. Nobody is immune. Obscene mail is addressed to both sides of the track. It finds its way into orphanages. It is addressed to chil dren as young as eight years. Yes, their parents will be wor ried- and well they should be. For it is well known to law enforce ment groups that juvenile delin quency stems in measurable part from the demoralizing influence of exposure to obscenit and porno graphy. Consider this, if you will, in the light of a recent report on delinquency by a Senate subcom mittee. The report states that one out of every five boys in this coun try, of ages 10 to 17, has a court record, charged with breaking the Law. Again and again, in the in vestigations of armed robbery, ex tortion, embezzlement, and forgery, authorities find that those guilty of these crimes were early collect ors of obscene pictures and films. And it is well known that almost jail sex criminals and sex murderers prove to have a long record of addiction to pornographic and sa distic material. Your children may never be exposed to this material. But they could be victims of sex criminals who have been exposed to it. Let me quote from the report of the Senate subcommittee that studied this problem: l “There is a Peru liar resemblance to narcotics additiction in exposure of juveniles to pornopranhv. There is the same aapttern of progres sion. Once initiated into a know ledge of the unnatural, the impres sionable young mind with the in satiable curiosity characteristic of those reaching for maturity in evitably hunts for something strong er, something with more ‘jolt,’ something imparting a greater thrill. "The dealer in pornography is acutely aware of this progressive facet; his array of material to feed this growing hunger is care fully geared to the successive stages. Like the peddler of nar cotics. his only nterest is to insure that his customers are ‘hooked’, he knows that once they are ‘hooked’ they will continue to pay and pay.” It is clear the Congress is con cerned with this problem. Much good should come from the hear ings now being held by the House Post Office and Civil Service Sub committee On Obscene Literature, headed by Congressman Kathryn E. Granshan. I am sure you also will agree that this, indeed, is a problem that must be met. .1 per sonally am both revolted and in censed bv this dppraved, arrogant and poisonous attack on the minds of our children. These feelings are shared, I can assure vou, by our postmasters around the country and by my associates in the Post Office Department. TO BE CON .TINUED NEXT WEEK.