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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA, MARCH 14, 1946.
PAGE Five
Georgia's Need for
Publicity Filled by Shipp
For His Love of If
By Pat Kelly
Telegraph State Editor
Georgia’s number one public re
lations man is not primarily em
ployed by the state in that capac
ity. He's really assistant commis
sioner of the state Division of
Conservation (part of the Depart
ment of Parks), but from his of
fice daily flows a stream of infor
mation and publicity about Geor
gia that reaches every state in the
union and a goodly part of tho
rest of the civilized world.
Nelson M. Shipp, the gentleman
in question, is a Georgia boostei
for the sheer plasure he gets from
it. When he first entered state
service several years ago, it irked
him no end to disover that re
quests for information about Geor
gia, its beauties, its history, its
points of interest were being large
ly neglected. There was 10 office
in the state capitol responsible for
disseminating publicity a-d tour
ist information.
Various departments received a
number of letters daily wanting to
know about the state—from pro
spective tourists, travel agencies,
school teachers and school chil
dren. Depending upon which de
partment got the letter i was (1)
ignored, (2) filed for some nebu
lous “future consideration” or (3)
given a reply in the form of an
inadequate colorless mimeograph
ed form. This sketchy, haphazard
way of handling things appalled
Nelson Shipp .
"As a newspaperman,” he says,
“I knew the value of getting infor
mation on Georgia into the hands
of folks everywhere. I knew that
most states spent considerable
money on publicity. The average is
somewhere around $100,000 a
year and some states who depend
on tourists a good deal for revenue
—like Florida—spend as much as
a million a year.”
Shipp was particularly concern
ed about the poor impression
school children must have been
receiving of Georgia.
“It is a common practice among
schools,” he explains, “to assign
each child in a class one state to
‘cover.’ Each child writes to the
state he is assigned for material.
Georgia w'as replying to these re
quests from children in a most un r
prepossessing manner—if at all.
How badly our state must have
compared with others whose elab
orate brochures were in eight col
ors and filled with eye-catching
photographs. The trouble is, you
see, children have a habit of grow
ing up but impressions received at
an early age live on. In this way
Georgia must have been chasing
tourists' money away for years."
It is not the tourist alone that
worried Shipp, but the normal
migration of citizenry. Every year
some people move to other states
to make permanent homes. A per
centage of new residents is nor
mal in all communities. Georgia
urns not getting her share because
folks “just cold” didn't know about
what Georgia had to offer in the
way of climate, farmlands, scenic
beauty and general livableness.
Shipp decided that what the
siteuation required was just a lit
tle plain hard work—certainly
money was available as were talk
ing points and interesting high
lights on the state. Being a news
paperman, this prospect was not
discouraging. For 13 years he had
served as editor for the papers in
Columbus, and before that for a
number of years with both the
Macon Telegraph and News as ed
itorial writer. A little labor of this
kind was second nature to him.
By adroit salesmanship, he pre
vailed upon the Arnall adminis
tration to allow him a budget of
some $12,000 for printing and
lithographing. Then with the aid
of Prof. G L. Hutcheson of Murphy
Junior High School and Mrs. J. E.
Hays, state historian and others,
he started work on a many-colored
folder about Georgia.
From every county he gathered
photographs in full color. He had
a special map prepared. He wrote
atteractive descriptions of points of
interest—historic and otherwise.
The result was as handsome a
state brochure as has been pro
duced—even by good will-con
scious Florida and tourist-wise
California. That it filled a crying
need was immediately evidenced
on its release. A flood of congratu-
latteory correspondence found in
way to Shipp's desk—from cham
bers of commerce, from tourists
and resort bureaus, schools and
government agencies.
Over 30,000 were distributed in
the space of 60 days. The last 10,-
000 are in process of distribution
now. And Shipp is planning a
larger and better pamphlet to re
place it.
The once barren source turned
fertile, requests are mounting for
Georgia's information. Other state
departments now turn such corre
spondence over to Shipp’s office.
The average is about 60 per day.
The booklet has been made the
subject of a special radio broad
cast by the U. S. Department of
State beamed to Latin America and
—a novel touch—the harrassed
Army, wondering how to orient the
foreign brides of ex-serviceman,
has requested a supply for every
Holy Spirit Dwells
In Hearts of Men
Noted Minister Says
(Bob Jones)
In the Old Testament days men
wondered why God Who had
eternity to inhabit should conde-
send to dwell in a temple made
with human hands. In this Chris
tian dispensation God does not
dwell in temples and other houses
of worship built by men’s hands.
The dwelling place of God on
earth now is in the heart’s of
saved people. When Jesus Christ
came down to this earth by way
of the body of a virgin He was
God manifest in the flesh. He was
clothed in human form. Before
Jesus Christ went hack to heaven
He said He was going to pray the
Father to send another Comforter
and that this Comforter would be
in people. Jesus had been WITH
His disciples. In the person of the
Holy Spirit He came back and
dwelt IN the disciples. We Chris
tians in our day think of the
wonderful privileges those dis
ciples had. They were with the
Lord. They heard His voice. They
looked into His eyes. They felt the
touch of His hand. They saw Him
perform miracles. They were held
under the sway of His irresistible
personality. They did have a great
privilege, but we Christians have
a privilege today. The Holy Spirit
Who is really the other Self of
Christ, dwells in the body of ev
ery Christian. The same Spirit
that raised Jesus Christ from the
dead is dwelling in the heart of
every Christian who reads these
lines. We should remember that
the Holy Spirit is a Person just as
much as Jesus is a Person. He is a
Person with feelings. We should be
very careful what we think and
sajand do for we on this earth
are entertaining in the homes of
our bodies a Heavenly Guest.
It is not necessary for a Chris
tian to pray for the Holy Spirit to
come into him for the Holy Spirit
is already in the heart of a Chris
tian. “If any man have not the
Spirit of Christ (which is the Holy
Spirit) he is none of His.” This is
definite and plain. If we haven’t
the Holy Spirit, then we are not
saved. People. We should remem
ber, however, that it is one thing
for us to have the Holy Spirit and
it is another thing for the Holy
Spirit to have us. The writer
knows a man who has a wife but
the wife does not have the hus
band. He isn’t loyal to her. He
does not love her. Oh, yes, she le
gally has a husband, but she does
not have the heart of the hus
band. We should be sure the Holy
Spirit Whom we have has us. It is
one thing to entertainn a guest in
our home. It is an entirely differ
ent thing to turn the home over to
the guest. We should turn the en
tire house over to the Heavenly
Guest, the Holy Spirit, who dwells
in our bodies. We sohuld let Him
have access to the pantry, to the
kitchen, to the basement, to the
parlor, to the attic, and to every
section of the house. We should let
Him run the house. We should re
member that after all it is His
house. God made our bodies. So
the bodies in which we live on
earth after all do not belong to us.
We are just living in these houses
while we are down here in this
world. Someday Jesus Christ is
coming again and He is going to
raise the bodies of dead saints and
translate the bodies of living
Christians. Then we are going to
have new bodies, risen bodies. Our
bodies then will not be bound by
the law of gravitation and will not
depend upon material food for
their existence. Since we are now
living in the house God made, the
Holy Spirit should really be more
than guest. He should.be the Host
and orded the house and run the
affairs and have His way. Yes, our
bodies are the temples of the Holy
Ghostf Who is in us and we are
not our own. We are bought with
a price, and what a price! We are
bought with the precious blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Smaller Cities of State
Have Annexation Rights
Under New Georgia Law
Atlanta March 11 —Georgians
who think that the recent general
assembly failed to pass home rule
legislation lose sight of house bill
i 757 which was sponsored by Mrs.
John B. Guerry of Montezuma, Ma
con county.
This measure, now a law, au
thorizes municipalities under 50,-
000 population to annex by ordi
nance territory to be included
within her limits on unanimous
application in writing of the own-
: ers of the land affected,
j It provides also for the manner
in which annexation may be made
and specifies that copies of sur
veys of the annexed territory shall
be filed with the secretary ot
steate.
' Montezuma, Mrs. Guerry’s home
! town, has already taken advantage
of the act and has annexed more
than 400 acres of land adjoining
the city limits.
! The annexation made possible
the completion of a new quick-
freezing plant which is expected
to be ready for use to freeze this
' year’s peach crop.
I Without the home rule feature
of this bill, the plant could not
have been built because its site
■■ was situated outside the old city
limits and the city without an
nexation was prohibited by law
from furnishing necessary water.
| Knowing this to be a fact, Mrs.
j Guperry prepared and introduced
i as a general bill the measure
which was signed into law on Jan.
31.
I Fulton and some of the other
| counties with large cities amend
ed the measure to make it apply
only to cities under 50,000 popula-
! tion.
The measure reads in part:
| “Lands to be annexed at any
! one time shall be treated as one
body regardless of the number of
'owners and all parts shall be con
sidered as adjoining the limits of
the municipality when any one
part of the entire body abuts such
limits.
"When such application is acted
upon by the municipal authorities
and the land is, by ordinance, an
nexed to the municipality, a com-
! plete survey by a competent sur-
I veyor, not necessarily a county
, surveyor, shall be filed as a part
I of the ordinance . . . and a copy
, certified to by the clerk or similar
official of the municipality shall
be filed with the secretary of state
of Georgia
“When so annexed, such lands
will constitute a part of the lands
| within the corporate limits of the
| municipality as completely and
fully as if the limits had' been
marked and defined by special act
^ of the general assembly.”
| Voter Registration
By July 5 Will Be
Legal, States Cook
Attorney General Eugene Cook
has ruled that under the 1946 Act,
persons may continue to register
for state elections through July 5,
of this year. Persons whose names
appeared on the 1944 voters’ list
or who have registered since its
filing will automatically appear
on the voters' list for all general
and primary elections to be held
during 1946.
This provision applies to Geor
gians whose names were stricken
from the voters’ list in the past for
non-payment of poll tax. Under
the new ruling, such persons must
register to be eligible for voting in
j 1946 elections, even though the
poll tax is no longer a requisite for
voting in Georgia.
Cook observed also that there is
a law requiring registrars to com r
plete their lists of registered voters
by June 1 each year. If the
registrars do this, then it is also
their duty to prepare a supplemen-
, tal list of persons who register be
tween June 1 and July 5.
| Cook’s interpretation of the new
; Act appeared in a letter o J. Lon
Duckworth, chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee.
2.051 Loans Have Been
Granted Georgia Vets
Atlanta, March 12—A total of
12.051 loans with a cumulative
1 value of $8,878,853 have been
made to Georgia veterans under
the loan guaranty provisions of the
servicemen’s readjustment act of
1944, Vaux Owen, Georgia regional
manager of the VA, disclosed Tues
I day :.
I With the aid of a government
guaranty, 1,837 veterans are pur
chasing homes, 87 are buying
farms and farm equipment, and
127 have bought their own busi
ness, Owen said.
i The cumulative value of home
loans is $8,331,623; farm loans,
$200,854; business loans, $346,375.
Three home loans amounting to
$5,245 and two business loans to
taling $1,400 have been repaid in
full, Owen reported'.
j To date only one veteran in
Georgia has defaulted on a loan
being paid by the VA. The single
default was on a business guar
anty commitment.
STATE MOTHER
TO VISIT TRUMAN
Grantville, March 12—Georgia’s
State Mother, Mrs. Stewart Colley,
Grantville, will be received at the
White House Monday with the 47
other State Mothers. The group
will assemble in Washington next
week to discuss means of helping
returning service-men to shift to
civilian life.
I Lord Halifax, Norton Long, vet
eran housing official; Chester
Bowles of the OPA, and David
Melcher,atomic information execu
tive, will be among the principal
speakers for the meeting.
"JES’ AIM NATCHEL, SONNY!"
From original color painting used
for 19.16 Uncle Natchel Calendar
FIGURING THINGS OUT
TERRELL PLANS
BOND ELECTION
{ Dawson, March 11—A double
bond election will be called in
Terrell county within 30 to 40 days
on proposals to issue $115,000 in
school bonds and $75,000 in bonds
to build a new hospital,
i Money derived from the propos-
ed $115,000 bond issue would be
used to build and equip a four-
room annex to the Dawson High
school, build and equip a voca
tional building and build and
equip a physical education build
ing. Bonds would be payable over
20 years at two per cent interest.
| Funds derived from the $75,000
bond issue would be used to buy
a site, build and equip a hospital
for Terrell County. Bonds would be
, payable in ten years at two per
cent interest.
Awhile back I was learning Sonny how to handle
a shotgun so he could figure out where Brer Rabbit
natchelly was going to be on his next jump. Sonny
got the idea mighty quick for a boy his age. Maybe
it s because he s noticed how us farmers always tries
to do things the natchel way. For instance, it just
comes natchel to use Chilean soda to give our crops
a quick start and keep em growing strong and
healthy. v
Us farmers has been using natchel soda for more
than a hundred years. Seems like just being natchel
makes it different from any other kind.
Maybe folks wont he able to get all the soda they
want this season, but if we’re careful with what we
get it may do.
1}A«£
CHILEAN NITRATE off SODA
WORDS OF WISDOM
FROM A TEEN-AGER:
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war bride transport. Shipp for
warded a thousand copies.
Shipp's office also has been in
strumental in publishing a state
parks folder, and a Georgia Firsts
leaflet prepared by Annette Mc
Lean, museum custodian.
Georgia is publicity conscious
and tourist-wise at last. Add to
this, Georgia is friendly, hospitable
and beautiful—that its climate
is the same—that its greatest per
iod of development lies just ahead
—and you have a result that indi
cates the next few years may be
the most important in the history
of the state—from the standpoint
of population, growth, and popu
larity.
YOUTH ASSEMBLY
ENDS SESSIONS
PIANO TUNING
C. W. SMITH
SALES & SERVICE
209 E. Gordon Street
Phone 497-W Thom cm ton, fia
Atlanta, March 12—After unani
mously adopting a resolution pro
viding for another session next
year and hearing Bishop John M.
Walker of the Atlanta Episcopal
j Diocese, who stressed the import-
I ance of loyalty to God as a cardi-
; nal legislative moteive, the first
I Georgia Youth Assembly adjourn-
■ ed Sunday.
Among bills passed during the
■ first session was one providing for
I a compulsory course for seniors of
Georgia high schools in social hy
giene and the fundamentals for
marriage and personal problems.
Among those defeated was one
dealing with the labor question.
This would have required labor
unions to incorporate. Previous re
ports had erroneously said this bill
would require labor unions to co
operate with employers in prevent
ing strikes.
AIIUS WROTE Billy Gregory of Griffin —
words written in his entry in our recent
Better Home Towns letter-writing contest on
the tourist business — an entry that won for
Billy a 8500 Victory Bond, top prize.
This seventeen-year-old high school senior
S j-!' '
has the right idea — the first step is to
clean up a city . . . plant (lowering shrubs
and small trees at its entrances . . . inspire
the citizens to heroine friendly, cordial . . .
provide clean, attractive sleeping accommo
dations . . . feed ’em properly . . . and
lust, hut not leust, give the tourist some
thing to do and to see.
Words of wisdom from a teen-ager —
words, indeed, ihat every city, town and
hamlet in Georgia can heed with profit!
AN ATTRACTIVE TOWN IS LIKE A
MAGNET — travelers go miles to places
where they like to stop. Those pluces are
towns that ure clean, uttructive and pro
gressive. Will your town he on the “iet’s
stop” list of tourists — or will they race
through it and on to a town that has much
more to offer them?
There’s money — plenty of money — in
the tourist trade, make no mistake about
that! Tourists WANT to spend — an*d they
don’t particularly count
the cost when they’re
off on a pleasure trip,
regardless of whether
it’s for tne day, week
end or full vacation!
So it’s up to you —
and oil the other folks
in your town — to decide whether or not
you wunt to rash in on some of that new
income. You’ll all profit! The time is
right at hand when you have to DO SOME
THING ABOUT YOUK TOWN —or he
lost in the parade of progress.
Get busy now — find out what you ear*
do to muke your town attractive to tourists
— whut you, and your town, can do to offer
good food, good lodgings, interesting things
to sec, for the great hordes of tourists that
will soon be traveling in Georgia. Traveling
— with money to spend!
HERE’S HOW: Write for the free book
let that explains the Georgia Better Home
Towns Program. It’s a plan of action — that
tells you why, and what, and how, to do the
simple things to make your town a BETTER
home town. Or, if there is a Better Home
Town Committee already at work in your
community, it tells you how to put your
shoulder to the wheel to give them a hand.
It’ll pay you — and your town — more tliun
a hundredfold!
So 6end for the Georgia Better Home
Towns booklet — it’s
chockful of numerous
thought-provoking sug
gestions and ideas. Ad
dress a postal card to
Georgia Power Com
pany, Box 1719, Atlanta
(1), Georgia.
BETTER HOME TOWNS DIVISION
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE