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THE BUTLKR HERALD, BUTLER, G HO ROTA, APRIL 18, l<>40.
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Watts, Talbotton,
! g Historic City
SB Broadcast
. r . Note: The foltowliiff
‘bout <>ur delightful ad-
, county city, Talbotton,
’ ieft d with interest by all
;ople :
in Atlanta presented on
l’enlope Penn broadcast
v|! last Friday morning, Mrs
\ itts of Talbotton. The talk
\ j[ is . Watts on the broad-
, as follows:
,, pleasure to appear on the
p el1 n program. It is a love-
thal Rich has of asking peo-
,i neighboring towns to ap-
New Strength For
The Staff of Life
(Weldon Meliek in Reader's Digest)
Out in Morris, III., a little flour
mill is today producing the kind of
flour that milling engineers despair
ed of achieving ove r half a century
I —a creamy white flour with the nu
tritive values of whole wheat. Altho
it contains the life-giving ernbyro I paunches, and the white-flour dying
of the plant—the vitamin-packed' like flies.
?° rm ^eluded from ordinary! When mill owners discovered this
" L c ’ ur . clause it causes ran- I they began to sell the wheat germ to
ci i y . orus - ills flour not only , pharmaceutical houses. In two years
fur ourselves i- copmparutively de-
v ,: d of vitamin.'.
For many years no one complained
at >ut this. In fact, housewives were
(el.ghtcd wit i the new flour- :1s
g > uly whit u.e'-, suggested ] unty,
mi i R kept full baking peter cy six
to nine mor. hs As we grew more
vi' min conv.-iou;, tests were mane
'' .how that the best of the wheat
was being lost. Rats were fed on
white and whole wheat flours, the
whole-wheat gourmands developing
chinchilla coats and plutocratic
keeps sweet but is weevil-resistant j the vitamin preparation business
j jumped from tenth to second place
and retains its baking strength thru j
years of storage
nl talk about their towns. 1 o <,i,f er vvitii 42-year-old
j in the drug business—exceeded now
So important is this superior flour i only by cold remedies and laxatives,
to armies and rational civilians that Wheat germ was even used to “for-
1 i itier and Stalin have sent agents , tify,” graham crackers, cereals and
Daniel
us a trip to Atlanta means
Rich's
turn is a small town in mid-
Georgia, the county seat of
county. The beautiful old
S e is in the center of town
, business seution on a square
other foods. Meanwhile our per cap
ita consumption of flour has fallen
off in 35 years from 210 pounds to
152.
Under presure of nutrition groups
and decreasing flour sales, millers
made attempts to salvage expensive
attempts to salvage the wheat-germ
H. Brown, former Chicago newspa
per executive, who holds all rights
on the process. Representatives from
Italy, England, Sweeden, Switzer
land, South Africa, and South
America are also considering con
tracts.
In this country, the small Illinois 1 vitamins. D. T. Hedges, owner of a
ding it- On the streets radi- m jn j g .supplying a dozen large bak- ! string of flour mills, was one of the
rum this are the homes with a criog ulu j chains. Two wholesale bak-1 ex PeriTnenter.s. But lie was unable to
the original beautiful old co- ' ( , r ; es > w ),jt e bread sales in test cities I tlevelo l> a flour that ivould retain the
homes still standing. At this j um p e d 60 percent in three weeks " erm and not turn rancid in storage
the year the town is beauti- a ft er they switched to the new flour, j a P T °cess for making good white
yellow blooms of forsythia j n Nw y or k one restaurant chain; flnur is ever found,” he used to say
odils. adopted as the town has c ] lanR . ot j j ts po ij c y 0 f sponsoring! “ alm °st every human being will
several years ago. I 1)() w hite bread in its bakeshops, and
jtton was incorporated in is revising other recipes to use germ
[hrough the years it has been .flour. Large milling interests are
for its cultured people who ey eing the excitement, wondering
Idiil their share to the his- , whether to ignore the development
benefit
When Daniel Brown heard in 1935
about the bizarre failure of the mill
in Illinois, he recalled those words
of his grandfather, and excitedly
the state. Walter I?. Hill, a or to start paying royalties to Brown 1 hurried to the spot. He found the
old mill gathering dust. He learned
that the operators, unable to sell the
last flour milled, had stored it in a
Chicago warehouse. Brown loaded up
a room in his apartment with this
chancellor of the University who .acquired the Morris Mill after
irjria, lived in Talbotton as a the accidental discovery that it yvas
e have furnished several con- milling wheat-germ flour without
n, also a minister to Cuba, meaning to do so.
len F. Owen. Dr. Harry Bard-
isident of Candler college In
Cuba, was reared in Talbot- converted into a flour mill when I turn rancid - Tests showed it con-
The birthplace of this new white .
flour was an abandoned brewery, I flour and . Wa L ted / The / lour , didl},t
e of the outstanding facts of
;t is that the first session of
ireme Court of Georgia v as
Talbotton in 1848 for which
larker. The building which
it burned a few years ago, so
ited Daughters of the Con-
y erected a marker com me ra
the spot,
ave three churches, Methodist
ami Episcopal. The Episcopal
was built in 1848, and a re
ion of a rural English Parish
in White's Historical collec-
Georgia it is cited as one of
st outstanding pieces of love-
itocture in the state. It is of
ludor Gothic design. The altar
Prohibition came. Its powerful aera
tion system was out of all proportion
to the requirements of a small mill
This mistake was discovered before
the system was hooked up, and n*
attempt yvas made to use its full po
tentialities. During a reconditioning
in 1930, Mill Superintendent E. J.
Miller end his son Edgar, decided to
use the latent equipment to clean
flour ore thoroughly—by forcing
continuous breezes thru the grist.
When this new system yvas put in-
to operation the superintendent could
not find the wheat germ when he ex
amined the grist streams. Being oily
the germ ordinarily would be flat
tened out in one piece as it passed
iiigs are hand carved native thru the rollers and be screeded out
It lias a pilcher pipe organ with the bran and shorts. But it was
is operated by hand pump. n 0 t in these byproduct stock feeds
enerations of little boys have j where it belonged. Microscopic in-.
at the pump and during a ■ spection of the flour made his heart- barrel for use of his method,
sermon have had to
awake.
M' mist church was
IS >"'s U is Southern Colonial
i red brick with white col-
Ui Baptists have a modern
re of trick.
is-l.o\Vrt Memorial Hall was
rom the hundred year old
(oilege and as now used as a
by lane. It is of Southern
1 architecture with large
olumns. It is the home of the
)n Woman's Club and the
bill. Both of these clubs have
a great (leal to our town,
support a modern library
ount .v is small and it is truly
final. Our greatest money
the peach crop. We have
i"o hundred and twenty-five
ld trees in the county.
' u wish to see a very beauti-
mive down this week and
orchards in full bloom. The
"* 'afievs are a sea of pink.
"" i-' ; on two paved h’ghwayi,
M a can and Atlanta-Flori-U
arc four railroads in the
Southern, A. B. & C., Con
■eorgia and Talbotton road
'otton hag a woman pres--
I ' irginia Persons. She
U P in one of the New
' ■ ' a few years ago as be-
>ii-- two women railroad
II a in the country.
11 o' 1 Talbotton is a citv full
‘ tl0n and Tull of the past and
. <0r " and Progressive at the
line.
ou '’ peach crop, cotff.ri.
,in< * lumber are our most
1 Products.
he sink. The cold-air treatment had kept
I tlie rollers and the grist so cool that
built I the germ remained brittle, pulveriz
ing and sifting into starchy white
white flour. This meant ruin. The
new equipment had failed. Everyone
knew you must keep wheat germ out
or your flour would spoil. The plant
was closed down.
Later tho, Miller discovered 1 that
the freak flour had inexplicably not
turned rancid. Col. H. L. Goodwin,
Sr., president of the mill at that
juncture, was the first to realize that
M)jllic-r had stumbled on something
momentous. More flour was milled
and an effort made to sell it, but the
claims were laughed at as prepos
terous.
tabled wheat germ and made good
bread.
He leased the mill with a pur
chase option, organized a company,
and bought up all rights to the proc
esses. His first flour was milled in
1936. It contained some but not all
of the wheat germ. Two more years
of experiment were necessary to
adapt the aeration system to its
new purpose.
Apparently the new process sta
bilizes the germ oil in a way that it
keeps indefinitely. 'The first germ
flour is now four years old, but it
makes just as good bread as yester
day's grind. The new bread is
creamy white.
Brown prefers to license his pro
cess to existing mills rather than to
compete with them by building new
mills. He will charge five cents a
and
has assigned 20 percent of the U. S
loyalty income to his alma mater,the
University of Chicago, with the
stipulation that part must be grant
ed in annual scholarships to mem
bers of 4-H Clubs and descendants
of American Legion members.
European mills will probably take
to the new process more quickly
than our own. The Japanese are act
ively after Brown's methods. France
recently passed a law requiring a
high germ content in all wheat flour
Mexico's public health department
lias requested the government to buy
rights to the Morris Mills method
and make its use compulsory.
The big U. S. mills have stated
they will furnish wheat-germ flour
To unerstand the
this technical accident, gianee back
over 70 years of milling history.
When the Hungarian. HeLfenberger
revolutionized white fimr milling
with mass production high-speed
steel rollers, he wasn't able to sal
vage quite as much l’iour from the
grain as had the slower stone-grind
ing method. As the wheat was grad
ually crushed between several pairs
of the high-speed rollers, each suc
cessive pair adjusted to squeeze the
grains a little more, .frictional heat
activated the oil in a grayish speck
at the base of each kernel about the
size of a pinhead. This speck soft
ened and went thru the rollers whole
instead 1 of powdering. And when the
loosened .flour was sifted after being
milled that three percent of the
wheat kernel was strained out.
The speck thus sacrificed to in
dustrial progress was the richest
known source of thiamin, or Vitamin
B, without which we would stop
growing, lose weight, appetite, mus-
ab °ut Rich's Penelope cle control, mental efficiency and
hearing. Excepting yeast, wheat
germ is the best source of Vitamin
G, essential to the breathing of all
tissues. Not to mention son e ten
other members of the Vitamin B com-
pier which the wheat germ contains
That's tiie concentrated health cap
sule we've been throwing to the hogs
all these years. The part we saved
sicnifirnnee of 35 soon as There is sufficient public
demand. Advertising agencies are
hounding them to fall in line and
give the copy writers the first de
cent chance they've ever had to say
something good about white bread.
Half a billion pounds a year of na
ture's best health insurance can be
restored to our diets at no cost to
the consumer. As Dr. W. H. Eddy,
biochemist of Columbia University,
reported to U. S. Surgeon General
Thomas Parren, putting B and G in
a natural carrier where everyone,
including the poor, will get them,
will be a .foolproof guarantee against
deficiency of these all-important ele
ments.
" ^ ears but young in
er °,ne hundred
?nrt
years oiJ,
•‘le a century young, B;,
v ' ''hug this we have one
r , , mayors in the stx:s
j, er "* 10 is ol 'ly 21 years
con i * and Ta lbotton olF’ir
°f < dd Southern invitation.
m u w « and stay
awhile.
SCOUTS TO RULE
MILLEDGEVILLE ON BOYS’
DAY
Milledgeville, Ga., April 11.—Lu
ther Reid Troop 71, and Thomas
Bivins, Troop 64, candidates for
mayor in the forthcoming Boy Scout
election of municipal officers for the
first annual observances of Boy's
Day here, Wednesday announced
their supporting tickets for the six
posts on City Council.
The election is scheduled for May
8 at the city hall in Milledgeville.
All bona fide Boy Scouts in the coun
ty are eligible to cast ballots in the
election. Successful candidates will
take office on June 5.
Lifetime Job With
$10,000-Yearly Pay
Humored For Camp
Atlanta, April 8.—A Sl0,000-a-
year life time job as U. S. customs
court judge in New York has been
decided upon for U. S. Attorney
! awrence Camp cf Atlanta. The Con
stitution says in a special story
from Washington.
Gladstone Williams, ^Constitution
staff' correspondent, wrote that Presi
dent Roosevelt is expected to send
Camp's nomination to the senute
Thursday.
Neil Andrews, a former assistant
U. S. attorney at Atlanta, will be
put forward as a candidate to suc
ceed Camp, the article said. Andrews
is a special assistant to the attorney
general in Washington. He is in the
anti-trust division of the department
of justice.
Camp was backed oy President
Roosevelt in an unsuccessful • effort
lo unseat Senator Waiter F. George
in 1938. His appointment to one of
several judgeship vacancies had been
urged, the Constitution said, by
Representative Robert Ramspork, of
Atlanta and Sydney Camp, of New-
nan.
Senator George was represented as
undecided whether lie would actively
oppose Camp's nomination for a
judgeship.
FRIENDS TO HONOR
MEMORY OF MERCER
JANITOR FOR 40 YEARS
Forsyth,.—Friends and alumni of
Mercer University here next Sunday
will take the first step in a plan to
honor the memory of R. E. Lee Bat
tle, .for man,’ rears a negro janitor'
at Mercer in Macon.
Dr. Louie D. Newton, Atlanta Bap
tist minister and chairman of the
memorial committee, said a monu
ment at Battles grave in t.he negro
cemetery here will be dedicated at 3
P. in.
The monument, gift from W. H.
and Cleveland .-'.lien of Elbvrtjn, ; s
of Georgia granite and bear-, the
dates of Battle's birth and death,
wich the inserini:( n, “Faithful serv
in’. of God a id man. for 40 years at
Mercer UniveisitJ.
Statehouse Office
Seekers Are Busy
Atlanta, April 14—While guber
natorial aspirants ponder over when
—and whether—to toss the hat, can
didates for statehouse offices are
quietly beating' the ballot hushes.
Some of these jobs pay only $1,-
f’OO less than the governorship, or
556,000 a rear. None of them carry
what some are wont to call the "pain
and suffering” that goes with the
governorship.
Open announcement for these posts
"ill come more freely once the dem
ocratic executive meets and sets the
deadline for qualifying, fees and pri
mary regulations. The deadline prob
ably will he Aug. 1, the fees $350
for governorship and $250 for state
house and congressional posts.
Hotest secondary race developing
yet is the contest for commissioner
of agriculture, the four-year, $6,00(1
a year job Columbus Roberts will va
cate after his race for governor.
Four candidates have announced,
have been campaigning for weeks,
and at least four others are on the
verge.
Another warm race is expected
for two of the five posts on the pub
lic service commission. The incum
bents up for election are Chairman
Walter R. McDonald and Jud P.
Wilhoit. Neither has announced for
mally yet.
Treasurer G. B. Hamilton, who is
not expected to run for governor,
has no announced opposition for the
exchequer, but probably will.
Two of the six members of the su-
■j-” , ...IS
preme court are up for renomination
with no announced opposition yet.
They are Chief Justice Cl S. Reid
and Associate Justice Warren Grice.
On the court of appeals two more
aie up for renomination, Judge H.|J
McIntyre and I. H. Sutton. Judge
Alexander Stephens whoso term doe»
not expire this year, has indicated
he may oppose Supreme Justice C.
S Reid, which would leave open for
competition his ""expired term.
No formal announcements are out
jet in opposition to School Superin
tendent M. D. 'Collins, Attorney
General Ellis Arnall, labor Com
missioner Ben Huit, or Comptroller
General Win. B. Harrison. Rumor is
that all will have opponents.
Veteran Secretary of State John
B. Wilson, who has not said wheth
er ti will he for renomination, or for
the governorship, has one avowed
opponent for the former post, Jesse
Hall, Atlanta attorney.
Georgia's ten congressmen must
run again, as they do every bien
nium. Representative B.Frank Whei-
chel has two avowed opponents in
the ninth district. In the first, State
Senate President John Spivey of
Swainsboro and Superior Judge Jo
seph Grice of Glentiville are consid
ering opposing incumbent Repre
sentative Hugh Peterson of Ailey.
Races for the 205 house and 62
senate seats in the general assembly
are shaping up, but activity in these
campaigns is in its first blush.
Georgians do not elect a United
States senator this year, since senior
Senator Walter F. George was re
elected for six j’ears in 1938 and
junior Senator Richard B. Russell
does not come up again until 1942.
Timber Land For Sale Cheap
315 acres of land with about ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
FEET of pine timber with good framed four roomed, metal
roofed dwelling, one horse farm and small creek running
through it, for sale cheap- Situated about four miles north -
east of Butler known as the Lifsev Old Place.
Out of ten places we have recently sold off all but four.
For terms see—
W. E. STEED
Butler, Ga.
4u Oven
r /lM£l?/Cr1
The Change To The Electric
Range Is 5 Times Faster
Than 6 Short Years Ago!
Just six short years ago, one
Electric Range was bought to
every fifteen of the flame-type
stove Granny bragged about.
Now, that wide margin has been
narrowed down to a thin one to
three! Tins proves which way the
wind blows . . . proves that to
day — all over America — the
trend is to the Electric Range!
Once you step up to a gleaming white, beautiful Electric
Range, turn the switch, watch its surface coil glow red in
a jiffy . . . see no flame, smoke or soot . . . smell no fuel
odor . . . then, you will have the answer to why so many-
thousands of Georgia housewives have changed to Elec-*
trie Ranges! *
But that will be only part of the story. For cleanliness!
is only one of the reasons why women who know ranges
and cooking methods are turning to Electric Ranges so
rapidly. All -’round performance . . . new speed . . .
greater economy . . . ease of operation . . . time-saving
features — these, too, are important reasons why more*
and more women are turning their backs on “non-elec
tric” stoves in favor of modern Electric Ranges.
Before you buy any range, be sure to investigate the
Electric Range. See why L’s clean. See why it’s safer. See
why it’s easy to use — completely automatic. See why it
costs no more to run than “non-electric” stoves. Visit our
nearby store and see the modern Electric Range. Your
better judgment will tell you it’s the range to buy!
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