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Press And The Church
Are Important Allies
The “good news” of religion is finding its way into
the columns of America’s newspapers with increasing
frequency these days.
Newspapers are devoting more space to coverage of
religion and to inspirational-type features because they
are aware of the reawakened interest of their readers iti
things spiritual.
Whether this interest represents a genuine religious
revival or not, everyone should be happy that Americans
are willing to look anew at their personal and national
moral foundations.
For it is certainly true that the real strength of a
nation lies in the quality of its people and in their char
ater and ideals. “Righteousness exalteth a nation,” the
Bible says. Some historians claim to find a definite cor
relation in America’s past between its times of religious
revival and its periods of prosperity.
As might be expected, the new interest in religion
has brought positive results to the churches. Membership
rolls have boomed, giving has gained and thousands of
congregations have erected new edifices and religious
schools. Our churches have become the envy of the
world.
America’s press rejoices in this development for it
knows that vigorous churches — like vigorous news
papers — are needed to serve America in the critical
times ahead.
In an important sense, America’s churches and
newspapers are allies. The freedom of worship and the
freedom of the press which they enjoy are guaranteed
together in our constitution. And both freedoms must
be continued if either is to survive. This is the lesson of
history from abroad wherever the tyrant’s heel has been
felt.
Time after time, whenever the government of a
nation has seized control of its newspapers, it has crack
ed down on its churches a short time later. The reverse
also has been true.
If church and press had been jealously concerned
with the freedom of the other, both might have retained
their liberty. Truly freedom is indivisible.
May the churches and the newspapers of the United
States remember their historical kinship and may they
serve as sentinels of democracy in preserving and streng
thening religious .and political freedom — By Wilmar L.
Thorkelson, in The Minneapolis Star.
Georgia's Future Homemakers
Next week — October 30th to November sth — is
Future Homemaker Week in Georgia. Governor Marvin
Griffin has proclaimed it. Twenty-two thousand Future
Homemakers in 408 Georgia Chapters will prove it, with
a week-long program of home, school, and community
service. The local Future Homemaker Chapters have big
plans, too. They start by going to church in a group.
They end it with a celebration for their families and
friends that may take in the whole community.
The Future Homemaker group is a unique organiza
tion. They are interested in one thing: good home. That
in itself is enough to make them unique in a world where
so many competitive outside interests draw young people
away from their homes night and day. The FHA’ers are
students of vocational homemaking education, a part of
the Georgia high school curriculum now considered as es
sential as the three R’s.
The public should do all it can to encourage young
people id such fine constructive service. They may be
crowded off the front pages, perhaps by news of the
million and a quarter juvenile delinquents who tangle
with the law each year. But the really big news is in
such groups as the Future Homemakers, quietly going
about honoring their own families, learning good human
relationships, studying about food and nutrition, clothing
and consumer problems, child guidance and care of the
aged, community beautification, and character develop
ment. These are the really important things. By these
things well learned, America will have a good tomorrow.
We salute the Future Homemakers. Their creed says,
“We are the Future Homemakers of America. We face
the future with warm courage and high hope.” And
because of young people like them, so do the rest of us.
The Uncommon Man
Among the delusions offered us by fuzzy-minded
people is that imaginary creature, the common man. It
is dinned into us that this is the century of the common
man. The whole idea is another cousin of the Soviet pro
letariat. The uncommon man is to be whittled down to
size. It is the negation of individual dignity and a slogan
of mediocrity and uniformity.
The common man dogma may be of use as a vote
getting apparatus. It supposedly proves the humility of
demagogues.
The greatest strides of human progress have come
from uncommon men and women. You have perhaps
heard of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Tho
mas Edison. They were humble in origin, but that was not
their greatness.
The humor of it is that, when we get sick, we want
an uncommon doctor. When we go to war, we yearn for
an uncommon general or admiral. When we choose the
president of a university, we want an uncommon educa
tor.
The imperative need of this nation at all times is the
leadership of the uncommon men or women. We need
men and women who cannot be intimidated, who are not
concerned with applause meters, nor those who sell to
morrow for cheers today.
Such leaders are not to be made like queen bees.
America recognizes no frozen social stratifications which
prevent the free rise of every individual. They must rise
bv their own merits. —Herbert Hoover.
PROCEEDINGS
OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
The Brantley County Commis
sioners of Roads and Revenues
met in regular session, October
4th, 1955, present were R. B.
Brooker, Chairman, R. C. Harrell
Jr.? Clerk, Silas D. Lee, C. H.
Penland, and T. V. Rhoden. The
following pauper list was approv
ed and ordered paid: Ocie Moody,
$10.00; Thelma Sapp, $10.00; Rosa
Rainge, $10.00; and Dora Mer
ritt. SIO.OO.
The following Commissioners
' were paid for six days service
each: R. B. Brooker, $30.00; R. C.
Harrell Jr., $22.28; Silas D. Lee,
$30.00; C. H. Penland, $25.85; and
T. V. Rhoden, $30.00.
The following Road Hands were
paid for the months of Septem
ber, 1955: Perry Crews, $173.85;
Woodrow Wilson, $165.85; I. C.
Harris, $173.85; J. F. Willis,
$181.85; Monsie Wilson, $204.28;
Edwin Herrin, $173.85; Elvin
Griffin, $160.00; Ottis Morgan,
$165.85; Talmadge Gunter, $173.-
85; Walter Lollie, $152.38; Ros
coe Murray, $176.00, and O. G.
Lee, $225.00.
The following General Bills
were ordered paid: Southwell
Motors, $315.96, tires; Georgia
Power & Light Co., $42.18, lights
and power; S. E. Blount, $75.00,
janitor; C. Winton Adams, $25.00,
salary; George Loyd, $190.00, sal
ary; Sarah Dot Simpson, $99.80,
salary; Mrs. Llawanah Cox, $40.-
00, preparing voting list; J. R.
Walker,' $63.34, salary; Georgia
State Forestry Comm., $475.00,
budget; B. O. Jones, $150.00, sal
ary; Dept, of Public Welfare,
$671.47, budget; Nahunta Ice Co.,
$1.26, ice for couijt; Knox Hotel,
$11.38, meals for Jurors; H. E.
Raulerson, SIB.OO, bailiff; B. E.
Thomas, SIB.OO, bailiff; Oliver
Johns, SIB.OO, Bailiff; Mrs. E. H.
Kelly, SIB.OO, Bailiff; Llawanah
Cox, $5.00; Preparing Grand Ju
rors Presentments; The Leaphart
Hospital, $259.20, treating prison
er; H. S. Wilson, $275.67, repair;
Morgan’s Pharmacy, $13.03,
health supplies; Bennett Broth
ers, $29.59, supplies; Rebecca D.
Griner, $266.20, salary; Lorena
R. Strickland, $148.10, salary;
Wayne County Health Dept.,
$211.25, salary, supervisor and
head nurse; Dr. E. A. Moody,
$38.50; Salary & Treating Priso
ner; Kerby Concrete Co., $164.18,
concrete; City of Nahunta, $29.50,
water; Satilla Lumber Co., $158.-
77, lumber; D. F. Herrin, $333.50,
salary and fees; Paford Bridge
Co., $870.19, concrete; J. W.
Brooker, $108.77, supplies; B. O.
Jones, $179.20, prisoners board
bill; Washington National Ins.
Co., $59.93, insurance; The Brant
ley Enterprise, $115.50, supplies
& advertising; Brantley Tele
phone Co., $55.16, phones and
calls; J. B. Strickland, SB.OO, re
vising voters list; Virgil, SB.OO,
revising voters list; Silas D. Lee,'
SB.OO, revising voters list; T. E. j
Raulerson, $383.09, fees and set- ’
vices rendered; Sinclair Refining
Co., $219.91, gas and oil; Yar
brough Bros., $10.12, repairs; R.
C. Harrell Jr., $17.50, refund; At
lantic Eng. Const Co., $633.16,
construction on Highway 32; Ar
chie A. Johns, SBO.OO, salary; Col
lector Internal Revenue, $237.90,
W. H. Tax withheld; Teachers Re
tirement, $115.35, county agent,
and home demonstration agent,
retirement.
There being no further busi
ness the meeting adjourned in
regular order.
R. B. Brooker, Chairman
R. C. Harrel Jr., Clerk.
Conference
Os Legion
Set Sunday
Mrs. Iris Blitch, Bth District
Congresswoman, will be princi
pal speaker at the Bth District
Conference of the American Le
gion to be held Sunday after
noon, October 30, at the Ameri
can Legion Hall, Post 181, on
Highway 121, north of Black
shear.
Earl Sauls, commander of post
181, will preside at the meeting
and introduce the visiting guests.
Delegates are expected to attend
from all Legion posts.
A buffet supper will be served
following the meeting.
Enrolled in the Georgia 4-H
canning project in 1954 were
21,382 girls, and 16,592 of them
carried the project to comple
tion.
Last year Georgia county a
gents assisted more than 90,000
farmers with swine disease and
parasite problems.
Walkerville Watershed Area
Is Toured By Congresswoman
Congresswoman Iris Blitch was
guest speaker at a barbecue
chicken supper Monday night,
October 24, following a tour of
the Walkerville Watershed Pro
ject earlier in the afternoon.
Pierce county made the first
application for water conserva
tion under Federal Law 566, the
Flood Control Law, and it was
not until after considerable ef
fort on the part of members of
the Walkerville Watershed As
sociation, the Satilla River Wat
ershed Association and the in
fluence of the Bth district Con
gresswoman that the project was
put on top priority.
Mrs. Blitch, accompanied by
Col. C. H. S. Russell, met the
group of Walkerville citizens
and members of the Walkerville
Watershed Association at the
Community Center at 3:30 P.M.
to begin the tour of the water
shed and to see the progress
made on the project.
Charlie Waters, president of
the Walkerville Watershed As
sociation, welcomed Congresswo
man Blitch and expressed ap
preciation for assistance in mak
ing the watershed project a
reality.
Theodore Frisbie, Pierce coun
ty work unit conservationist, dis
cussed the engineering, feasibility
and what the completed project
will mean to this area.
In addressing the group, Con
gresswoman Blitch said, “What is
being done in Walkerville repre
sents the first flatwoods water
shed program of its type and will
make Pierce county a conserva
tion show place of the nation.” -
In the Walkerville Watershed
project through an intensified en
gineering and conservation pro
gram, Pierce countians are mak
ing the watershed that comes
down Walkerville Creek work by
utilizing the creek and its six
contributing branches, and man
made ponds and ditches to create
a streanf to compound water.
The flow of water through this
area is regulated slowly to con
serve water and soil.
Some of the man-made ditches
connecting are 17 miles long. A
total of 68 farmers are involved
in the project.
Congresswoman Blitch was in
troduced to the 150 persons at
tending by Col. C. H. S- Russell,
Chamber of Commerce manager.
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Baptist Colleges
In State Enroll
2,519 Students
The six Baptist Colleges in
Georgia have reported a total
of 2,519 students enrolled for the
new school year and the largest
number in the history of the
institutions.
This figure indicates a gain of
about 225 students over last year.
Mercer University at Macon
has an enrollment this year of
1,198 compared to 1,075 for last
year. Special students at Mercer
bring the total enrollment up to
1,500.
Bessie Tift College at Forsyth
reports an enrollment of 253 stu
dents compared with 197 last
year.
HUGE MENAGERIE
CHILDREN 50c — ADULTS SI.OO Plus Tax
THE BRANTLEY COUNTY LIONS CLUB BENEFIT MORE FROM
THE ADVANCE SALE OF TICKETS, SO IF YOU ARE GOING TO
THE CIRCUS — BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE FROM ANY
LION CLUB MEMBER.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, October 27, 1955
Pierce Farmers Recieve
Shipment Os 250 Sheep
A truck load of bred ewes were unloaded at the
Pierce County Stock Yard Monday morning bringing to
a climax the first concerted effort of the Blackshear-
Pierce County Chamber of Commerce and the county
agent to get farmers into sheep raising in this section of
Georgia.
Arriving at approximately 10:-
00 A. M., a number of farmers
were on hand to unload the 250
animals and transport them to
their individual farms throughout
the county.
The ewes were shipped by
truck from Lebanon, Tennessee.
They are western sheep born in
the heart of the sheep country
near San Angelo, Texas. Os Cor
riedale and Rambouilett white
faced type, the yearling ewes
were bred with Suffolk males, a
Brantley County Lions Club Presents
Kelly-Morris Circus
Nahunta - School Grounds
Tuesday, Nov. 1
। ONE DAY ONLY — 3:30 AND 8 P. M.
r HUNDREDS OF FEATURES —
| 35 TONS OF ELEPHANTS
SEE “BIG BLANCHE” BY ACTUAL
DIMENSIONS THE BIGGEST CIRCUS
ELEPHANT ON EARTH.
SEE “CAPT. ENGERER” AND HIS FIRE
FIGHTING LIONS AND TIGERS.
CLOWNS — AERIALISTS — ACROBATS
mutton type black-face ram, after
being shipped to Tennessee. Some
will drop their first lambs in
less than one week.
Accompaning the load of ewes
to Blackshear was Herman A.
Friedsam of Marshallville, Ga.
Friedsam handles all shipment of
sheep into Georgia for the Agri
cultural Extension Service. He
said that in the past ten days
1450 head of bred ewes had been
brought into Georgia, a good
number to farms around Camilla.
