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Cumming, Georgia.
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1908
Circulation over Forsyth, Fulton, Cherokee, Dawson, Lumpiun,
Hall and Qwlnnett Counties
THE FAPER THAT APPRECIATES YOUR PATRONAGE
Published Every Thursday at Cummlng, Georgia
HOY I*. OTWELL Editor and Owner
JAMES L. BEEVES Aaaoclate Editor
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Entered as Second Class Matter August 10, 1910.
Second Class postage paid at Cummlng, Georgia.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY
AND CITY OF GUMMING
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Modern Wisdom: A fuss in times saves nine.
It’s good to have a slogan, but it is better
to perform.
Honesty in advertising is the best advertising
policy.
Experience is what those who need it most
can never have.
Intelligent adults are kind to the children
they meet in life.
Emotions are valuable, but civilization teach
es self-control.
The hardest job is the one that you put off
until the last minute.
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Planning for the future is the only way to
improve the future.
The more any individual is certain ke knows,
the less he knows.
The only reason the rich pay taxes is because
the paupers can’t.
Buying goods on credit is much easier than
paying for the goods.
Then there are people who would rather be
sick than working.
The individual “with an idea” is often a nus
iance to his friends.
If you don’t believe anything, there’s no law
to make you believe it.
WINTER GETS ROUGH
The experts who said we would have another
severe winter this year seem to have been right
- so far.
Snow has reached all the way down to Flori
da in the eastern part of the country and in all
sections the winter has been geeting in hard
iicks. Despite the last mothly forecast from the
weather bureau which predicted some sections
would have warmer than normal weather, the
result has been cold weather, blustery wind and
rain in most of the country.
We are apparently in the cycle we have heard
so much about in the last two or three winters
a cycle bringing tougher and tougher winters,
which might last ten years or even forty.
Many of us had hoped that the weather fore
casters might have been wrong last Fall, when
we were warned of bitter winter weather. They
seem to have been right. If the long-term fore
cast is correct, we may see the growth line for
certain plants an dtrees and flowers receded
southward in the next decade.
It has been slowly moving north until recent
years. The “old-time” winters, in other words,
seem likely to remain with us for a time to come.
NATION A l llpi TOII At
AillVt Ml MB t R
The Forsyth County News
A MAN NAMED LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday anniver
sary the world observes on February 12, is per
haps more typical of the American hero than
any other. Born in a log cabin, and beginning
his life as a farm laborer, the lanky American
nevertheless became one of the world’s greatest
champions of freedom and liberty.
Contrary to the belief of many, Lincoln was
an outstanding man in his community long be
fore beig elected President. His nomination by
the Republican Party in 1860, instead of being
the selection of a comparative unknown, capped
capped a brilliant career, which had begun when
Lincoln was chosen captain of a comparry of
volunteers in the Black Hawk Indian War.
His patience, gentle manner and farreaching
vision enabled him to guide this ncoutry through
the disastrous war of 1861-1865. Though soft
spoken, Lincoln was nevertheless unmovable on
matters of principle, never wavered in his cour
ageous efforts to hold the Union together.
As a national figure, no one, with the except
ion of George Washington, has been able to
equal his fame and hold on the hearts of the
American public. No finer tribute can be paid
each day at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washing
ton, D. C. - where humble visitors, at all hours
of the day and night, silently read his immortal
words on the freedom and dignity of man.
MacARTHUR AT 80
The MacArthur legend is destined to live
throughout history. On the one side, his admirers
see him as the most brilliant military leader of
his era, a natural leader and charming person
ality, and a persecuted hero.
General Douglas MacArthur is eighty years
old. A brilliant officer and one of the great con
troversial heroes of the fifties, and idol of the
forties, MacArthur is still active nad still a com
manding figure at eighty.
This “persecution’' began in World War I
when MacArthur got on the wrong side of some
of the inner core in the Army - and the clique
never quite reconciled itself to the growing in
fluence of the Arkansas general.
MacArthur was thought to be, on the other
hand, pompous and publicity-minded to an ob
jectionable degree by his detractors. They also
believed he was dead wrong in Korea and that
he was caught in a bad strategic and tactical
position b ythe Chinese entry into the war -
which he had discounted.
MacArthur and former President Harry Tru
man went to war, and MacArthur was relieved,
when the former President felt he was not get
ting sufficient obedience from the famous World
War IT hero.
Nevertheless, MacArthur exerted a tremen
dous influence on the age in which he lived, es
pecially in the Far East. His name is still almost
reverently respected by the Japanese. His son
commands great prestige as our ambassador to
Japan. And his star-studded carreer is one of
the most brilliant in the Army’s history. He must
go down in history as a great general, by what
ever standard he is judged.
THE END OF THE BARRYMORES
Diana Barrymore, 38-year old actress and
daughter of the late John Barrymore was found
dead in her apartment recently.
Miss Barrymore’s book, of a few years ago,
“Too much, Too Soon,’ told the depressing story
of her life. It was a life of short marriages, illicit
love affairs and bouts with the bottle.
The Barrymore family was for many years
the first family of the theater. There were Lionel
Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore
who set the ladies on fire-and several others, in
cluding Diana, who made her social debut in the
n 1938-39 social seaso, and then followed with
her thenatrical debut in the play, “The Roman
tic Mr. Dickens.’’
We symphatize with the problems thrust upon
some young people, especially in the theatrical
world, Also, Diana Barrymore came along at
a time when World War II placed a great strain
on all of us. and maintaining equilibriunm and
moral values were made complicated and dif
ficult for some.
fFor the youg, who had not had any years of
maturity and wisdom in which to crystallize
their philosophies, it was a difficult era.
In addition to this, youngsters who lacked the
guidance and patient care of their parents,
which is so valuable, were doubly handicapped.
But in spite of all these reasons, the life of
Diana Barrymore constitutes a poor commen-
on the American scene.
The nation as a whole may face the problem
of too much income, but this worry does not
yet afflict the average American.
No organization can be stronger than the
brains that direct it.
The amazing fact about our educational pro
cesses is the very little that students seem to
learn.
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Mrs. Katherine Dußose Davis in
the Sharon Community completed
last week the planting of 4,000
loblolly pine seedlings on Class
VII land. Mrs. Davis is a cooper
ator with the District.
Lloyd Howard in the Ducktown
Community seeded approximately
45 acres to fescue and ladino clover
last fal land reports a good stand.
In addition to his pasture plantings
seven acres of alfalfa were planted
for hay purposes. Howard is in
creasing the size of his farm hold
ings in order that he may have a
beef cattle operation unit.
Many farmers in this county use
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By FULTON LOVELL
Director, Georgia Game and Fish Commission
NEVER PRICE A DOG, IF YOU
DONT WANT TO SELL IT
TVIO STRONGER bonds of friendship have ever existed
In between canine and human than that of Michael
Moneymaker, an operator of a commercial hunting site in
Gwinnett County, and his two five months old
Fulton Lovell on his preserve.
“I learned a great lesson with Katie,” said
Mike, a man greying at the temporals with a Tennessee mountain
accent. “I learned never to put a price tag on a dog if you don’t
wa it to sell it.
“I hr.d some visitors who hunted behind Katie and, like everybody
else, were thrilled by the way she hunted, pointed and retrieved. One
of the fellows was so impressed that he asked me how much I would
take for her. v.
“I picked a figure out of the air and gave it to him. We con
tinued to hunt and, after a break for some food, he took me up
on it.
“I saw right then that I had gone too far and couldn’t back out.
So, that’s how I got rid of one of the finest dogs I ever owned.”
With that, Mike hesitated, then said, “until these pups came along.”
They Made the Hunter Eat His Words
Mike recalled one of his experiences with the young dogs in the
field.
“I had taken a party out early in the morning with my best
P'-'r.ter,” he said, “but decided to give the pups their first real try
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boarded the jeep, dogs, hunters and myself and headed for a
I knrw would yield some birds. As we bumped along the field
» br;h hunters looked at the young dogs, then at me. I knew what
t..ey were thinking.
“It wasn’t long however, until they shucked their pessimism as
they watched the two dogs perform, breathtakingly. As a matter
of fact, one of the hunters confessed his surprise on the way home.
“ 'When I saw those pups I never thought we’d finish out the day’ ”,
he said to me, “ ‘I could just picture them running up bird after bird.
But, by George, I was wrong real wrong.’ ”
It does a man good to see a human being so intent on making a
si’ccess of dogs like Mike Moneymaker is. He does it because he en
j»,rs it, not for the monetary gain that often accompanies the training
c a good field dog.
“!’ll give you three hundred for those pups,” a man offered
Mike after seeing the two youngsters work.
“Not in a million years,” Mike replied, “I learned my lessor* Don’t
ever price a dog if you don’t want to sell it.” > -
“Or buy it,” the man replied.
Thursday, February 11, 1960.
DISTRICT
NEWS
Soil And Water
Conservation Work
JAMES T. COOTS, Soil Conservation Service
small grain crops as a winter cover
in their conservation crop rota
tions. Some of these district coop
erators are Joel Tallant, Roy Ben
nett, Doug Sewell, T. T. Cantrell
and Emmett Reid.
Newman Mathis ip the Cross
Roads Community has converted
twelve acres of crop land to per
manent pasture.
Recent heavy rains have caused
a number of creek banks to over
flow. Big Creek is probably the
worst one to overflow due to a
small channel capacity. This small
capacity is due mostly to much
debris and sand in the channel.
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GAME
and
FISH
setter pups.
At that age, one would expect to have a bird
dog galloping gaily through covey after covey,
unaware of the world around them, utterly frus
trating the poor hunter.
But not so in the case of Mike’s young canines.
Although they have barely escaped the cradle,
they can hunt, point, honor and retrieve with the
best of ’em.
A year or two ago, Mike had another setter
bitch, Katie, that never failed to wow the hunter 3
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