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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 2, 1955
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
CARL BROOME...
Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as
second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
Official Organ of Brantley County
ECONOMY BEFORE TAX INCREASE
TAXES IN GEORGIA, and proposed increases of tax
es are uppermost in everybody’s mind. Men and women all
over the state are reaching for their pencils and trying to
figure out how many actual dollars these new taxes, if
enacted by the Legislature, would cost each man and wo
man.
This figuring forces every person to wonder where
he is to get the additional money to pay the new taxes. He,
unlike the state, can’t arbitrarily increase his income. He
hasn’t the taxing power and can’t say he will take some
money from here, and take some from there. His income
is fixed. The only way he can get the money to pay the
taxes would be to economize.
Inevitably, therefore, comes the thought: Why should
he, the citizen, have to do all the economizing? Why
shouldn’t the state, and its present administration, share
the burden and also do some economizing?
Governor Griffin has been approached repeatedly
on the matter of economy in his administration. His an
swer on Monday was: “I don’t know of any money that
is being wasted. If I did, I’d stop it.”
Men who deal in millions and tens of millions, such
as the governor is dealing with in his new tax proposals,
sometime overlook smaller amounts. There may be no vast
bloc sum that can be saved; but there are smaller econo
mies which, added together, would help. And any help at
all, amounting to a few dollars saved for each citizen,
would be appreciated by the people.
Any economy in state government always is opposed
by some people, those who have been profiting by the
waste, those who hold an unnecessary job. Economies can
cost a governor and his administration some votes and,
therefore, is politically inexpedient. But the people right
now are thinking of their pocketbooks and are ready to
fight political expediency that wastes their money.
The governor says he is planning a long-range tax
program, one that will stand up for years. This plan has
some merit. But the people want no intolerable tax burden
laid on them now to prepare for possible state needs in
the years ahead.
Governor Griffin says he doesn’t want the Legisla
ture voting on taxes at each session “like they do on the
no-fence law.” He says he wants no fruit-basket turnover
at every session.
That sounds fine, but the people want no rotten ap
ples in that basket. They want the governor to go through
with care, and with political courage, and cull that basket,
throwing out every possible spending, rejecting every pro
posed increase, that isn’t absolutely essential. Let the ad
ministration share the burden. There is no reason for the
people to have it tough, just so the administration can
have it easy.
WHAT TO PRINT AND HOW
Breathes there an editor so far removed that he has
never heard these questions?
“Why did you put that story on page one? Its awful,
a disgrace; you shouldn’t even print such news.”
“Why is this story buried way back in the paper?
That’s the kind of thing people want to read; it should
be on page one.”
Heard them? Just about every day. What news to
print, where to put it, how to handle it —that is one prob
lem that the newsmen face constantly. And pressure is
often being applied to have him either leave out, or play
it up, depending on the interest of the party concerned.
All he can do, of course, is interpert the event as he
sees it, and try to do what he believes is right.
“My duty,” he tells the people who try to influence
him, “is to report the news as it happens—l don’t make
it; I just tell about it.”
But of course that doesn’t completely solve his prob
lem. How does he tell it, how much can he include?
Palmer Hoyt, editor of the Denver Post, discussed
these questions in a speech at the Oregon Press Confer
ence recently and offered a standing guide to help the
editor find the answers.
A good newspaper, Mr. Hoyt said, must reflect life
in true proportion—it tells the good and the bad, but it
doesn’t overplay one to the total exclusion of the other.
“The reflection that a newspaper must make a mir
row of life is to report crime news, sex deviations, bank
robberies, divorce, juvenile delinquency, in their true pro
portion to the actual flow of our life,” he said. “That is
important. Unless we know what is going on, how can we
correct it?”
We believe that is a good guide. Newspapers which
make crime and sensation the most important part of
their news, are not living up to it. Neither are papers
which refuse to report such news at all. The editor who
serves his public best presents both the good and the bad,
in true prospective —as the events happen, not as he would
like to have them. (From The Publisher’s ’Auxiliary)
dairy products increase
Feed costs on dairy farms can
be reduced as much as $55 per
cow, or 46 cents per 100 pounds
of milk produced, when excel
lent rather than poor-quality
hay and pasture are fed accord
ing to tests. A dairyman who has
EDITOR and PUBLISHER
(From The Atlanta Journal)
good cows and produces and feeds
excellent quality forage can re
duce grain feeding by about 1,300
pounds and still get the same
production as the dairyman who
feeds poor quality hay, plus the
larger quantity of grain and pro
tein.
ADVERTISING SEEN AS FORCE
IN BUSINESS GROWTH OF NATION
Upward Shift
Cited by Speaker
BOCA RATON. Fla. — Adver
tising in the decade ahead will
become a major factor in the ex
pansion of our national economy,
advertising executives were told.
‘‘lt must play a vital part in the
basic task of expanding our stand
ard of living fast enough to keep
up with our productive ability,”
Arno H. Johnson said.
Mr. Johnson, vice president
and director of research for J.
Walter Thompson Co., New York,
told the American Association of
Advertising agencies convention
about the job of advertising in
the continuing expansion of our
national economy.
He called attention to the need
for raising sights in advertising,
based on the opportunity and job
to be done.
“The magnitude of the job to be
done in changing consumer habits
as well as the great opportunity
for expanding sales in nearly
everyfield of production is chal
lenging.
“It suggests the need for reex
amination of advertising budgets
to see if they are adequate for
the job to be done and for the
opportunity that exists,” he said.
Pointing out the importance of
selling S4O billion dollars more
goods and services to consumers
in 1955-56 to assure a continuing
expansion in our national econo
my, Mr. Johnson observed:
“We need this higher level of
consumption to support a total
production large enough to pro
vide the revenue both for a bal
anced budget and a continued
strong defense.”
He noted that a higher stand
ard of living is being made pos
sible because of a shift upward
in family incomes.
“The number of US families
(consumer spending units ) is ex
pected to total 56 million in 1956
or 42 per cent more than in 1941.”
“These people, as they move
into higher income brackets, have
an opportunity to take on the
habits and desires of the income
groups into which they move,” he
said.
They don’t take on these new
habits automatically, and Mr.
Johnson sees the major job for
advertising selling as one of
changing these concepts in line
with the changes in income.
“An added source of purchas
ing power is the fact that con
sumer short term credit is low in
relation to discretionary spend
ing power,” he said.
The present level of consumer
credit at about S3O billion dollars
worries some, but consumer dis
cretionary spending power in 1956
is expected to be six times the
1940 level,” Mr. Johnson said.
In evaluating dairy feeds, each
increase in crude fiber content
of one percent decreases the val
ue of the feed by nearly three
precent.
"We use McCulloch Chain
Saws because they have
what it takes to perform
day in and day out on any
kind of logging job . . . And \
we recommend them for
loggers who want to lower
costs and speed up produc
tion ..."
So says Albert Belcher.
president of W. A. Belcher Lumber Company, past presi
dent of the Alabama Forest Products Association and a
director of the Southern Pine Association. «
"We've been using McCulloch Chain Saws exclusively since
they came on the market in 1948," he says. "Their light
weight, ease of handling and dependability make McCul
loch's four outstanding models top choice with us."
W. A. Belcher Lumber Company is one of the largest
lumber manufacturers in the South.
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WILSON’S GARAGE
Phone 2-2721 Nahunta, Ga.
LESTER’S AUTO SERVICE
2129 Norwich St. Phone 9346
Brunswick, Georgia
Commission Meets
To Study Georgia
Water Resources
Prolonged droughts in Georg
ia have focused attention on
Georgia’s water resources and for
the first time since 1897 a com
mission begins the study of wat
er with plans for a revision of
Georgia’s water laws.
The group known as the Geo
rgia Water Law Revision com
mission was named in April by
Governor Marvin Griffin. Mem
bers were scheduled to hold their
first official meeting on June 1,
in Atlanta.
With Municipal demands the
highest on record; the industrial
expansion with its requirements
for water growing daily; the
farmers’ need for irrigation
mounting, thus is provoked the
exclamation “there ought to be
a law!’’ But the kind of law that
will answer all of the problems
relating to water resources is
the task facing the new com
mission.
During the drought of 1954,
Georgians turned to irrigation as
an answer. Last year over 27,-
000 acres of Georgia’s farm land
were placed under irrigation and
consumed 160,000,000 gallons of
water per day or as much as 1,-
300,000 people are using at a nor
mal rate of municipal consump
tion.
Some of the answers which the
law must give will be in relation
to stream pollution, the right of
industries to take water from
streams, protection of the cities’
supply, regulation of dam con
struction, protection of the farm
ers, definition of water surplus,
and the right to divert streams
or change their flow. All of
these question are directly re
lated to water resources. What
ever water law is adopted, its
workability will depend in great
measure on public understand
ing and recognition of facts re
lating to water, its sources, and
the great variety of its uses.
Scott Candler, secretary of the
Georgia Department of Com
merce, has been named chairman
of the Water Law Revision Com
mission which has a member
ship of 17 representing every in
terest in the state.
BEST CORN VARIETIES
Latest tests at the College of
Agriculture Experiment Stations
in Georgia showed that Georgia
101 is the variety of corn with
the highest yield per acre in the
mountain and Piedmont regions
of the state. Coker 811 had the
highest yield in the coastal plain
area.
More than 1,000 scientists and
3,000 technicians are now work
ing on cancer research sponsor
ed by the American Cancer So
ciety. Help support this work
with a contribution to the ACS
Crusade.
South Georgia
4-H Forestry
Campers Named
One hundred and five 4-H Club
boys from 46 South Georgia
counties have been named dele
gates to the South Georgia 4-H
Forestry camp at Laura Walker
Park near Waycross, June 6-13.
R. J. Richardson, state 4-H
Club leader for the University
of Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service, said delegates were
selected on the basis of work in
4-H forestry projects.
The camp is conducted by the
Agricultural Extension Service
and sponsored by the Union Bag
and Paper Corporation. Tuesday
night. June 7, Union Bag officials
will visit the camp. Among them
will be W. J. Bridges, manager,
and B. E. Allen, assistant man
ager, woodlands division, who
will speak.
On June 8 the boys will tour
Union Bag’s Savannah plant.
Kirk Sutlive, director of Union
Bag’s department of public re
lations, will speak at this time.
Other Union Bag officials will
take part in the instruction pro
gram, according to C. Dorsey
Dyer, Extension /forester. They
are: W. N. Haynes, district for
ester, Waycross, whq* will con
duct a special fire control dem
onstration in cooperation with
George Lavinder, district forest
er, Georgia Forestry Commission,
Waycross; E. L. Molpus, super
intendent, conservation depart
ment; J. D. Zimmerman, forest
er at Helena; R. E. Lee, 111 and
J. C. Santoro, foresters at Sa
vannah; and T. E. Arnette, for
ester at Swainsboro.
Other instructors will be: J. F.
Spiers, area forester, Southern
Pulpwood Conservation Associa
tion, Statesboro; J. it. Wall, and
Raymond Hill, assistant district
foresters for the Georgia Forest
ry Commission, at Camilla and
Waycross; B. S. Booth, district
ranger, Georgia Forestry Com
mission, Waycross; J. F. Collier,
Ben Hill county agent; L. T. Tor
rance, Coffee county agent; C.
O. Brown, Sandvik Saw and
Tool Co., Tifton; and Nelson
Brightwell, Extension forester,
Tifton.
Other camp speakers are Guy
ton DeLoach, director, Georgia
Forestry Commission, and W. A.
Sutton, associate director of the
Agricultural Extension Service.
Richardson said the following
county agents will assist in di
recting the camp program: W.
G. Nix, Crisp; R. R. Campbell,
Colquitt; Carter Martin, Dodge;
George Loyd, Brantley; R. P.
Leckie, Pierce; Lamar Powell,
Tattnall; Vernon Reddish, Tay
lor; W. D. Drennon, Baker; C.
T. Beckum, Jr., Crawford; D. E.
Medders, Bryan; and J. D. Davis,
Daugherty.
Three 4-H Council officers will
help with the camp. They are:
Joe Harrison, DeKalb county,
state boys’ vice-president; Bruce
Bliss, Glynn, state reporter; and
Dan Minchew, Appling, South
east district president.
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NAHUNTA CITY
REGISTRATION BOOKS OPEN
If you wish to vote in Nahunta city
elections in the future, please go to the
city hall and register.
The City of Nahunta will use only the
city registration list in all city elections
in the future.
If you wish to vote for mayor and
council of the City of Nahunta, you will
have to register with the city clerk at the
city hall 15 days prior to the next city
*
election which will be held the first
Wednesday in October, 1955.
FRED STRICKLAND, MAYOR
CITY OF NAHUNTA
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