The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, October 04, 1956, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPublished weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia CARL BROOME EDITOR and PUBLISHER Other states $3.50 a year. Single copies ten cents. We charge for cards of thanks, memorials and resolutions. you charge. 'Freedom of The Press' Is The People's Right to Know American prosperity has become so much a part of our daily lives that most of us never give it a second thought. W e consider ridiculous any suggestion that someday we might be deprived of our customary three meals a day, the right to criticize our government, or the very freedom we cherish. We enjoy these blessings today because our fore fathers fought to preserve them. One of the first prin cipals for which these brave men fought and died was freedom of the press. They knew no land could remain free without an unfettered press. Under totalitarian governments, the press is either suppressed or used as a tool to further the government’s hold on the people. Readers of these puppet papers are told constantly of the wonders being performed by the government. Criticism of the government is unheard of. No matter how far such a country may sink economi cally or morally,' the puppet press continues to grind out eulogies and platitudes. By contrast, the American press is highly vocal in critizing public officials and public policies. In no other country are politicians subjected to the same searching scrutiny, the same constant prodding as are American holders of public office. It is impossible for every American citizen to ex amine closely each political candidate, or to follow minu tely the daily work of public officials. The average Am erican relies on his newspaper to do this for him. Through the years he has come to trust this newspaper to furnish him fair and accurate accounts of public af fairs. American press has borne this trust with courage, im partiality and with an abiding sense of responsibility. National Bible Week Is Planned October 15-21 The week of October 15 through 21 is an import ant one. It will be the 16th annual National Bible Week under the sponsorship of the Laymen’s National Committee, an all-faiths group. The theme for the 1956 observance is: “THE BIBLE — TIMELESS AND ETERNAL.” Truth, Hope, Faith, Wisdom and Charity are the five basic virtues. These, too, are timeless and eternal —and these are found in our Bibles. So let National Bible Week be your week, the week to stress the importance of this great book, the treasure house of spiritual strength and faith. There is an Alice-In-Wonderland quality about our federal income tax laws, with their extremely high upper bracket rates. U. S. News & World Report gives an ex ample. The magazine says: “A baseball player’s angry ges ture, during a ball game, may cost the Federal Govern ment $4,200 in income taxes. It also may bring the ath lete a personal profit of $4,200.” Does that sound absurd? Well, here’s the true story. The world’s highest-salaried ball-player (SIOO,OOO a year) was fined $5,000 by his club for a display of tem per toward the fans. This is considered a business ex pense, for the reason that the fine must be paid if the player is to keep on practicing his profession. Thus, his taxable income is reduced by the $5,000. After deductions, the top tax rate on this player’s income is 84 per cent. So the fine gives him a tax reduc tion of $4,200, leaving him only SBOO out of pocket. But that isn’t all. Admirers of the player are re ported to be making up a fund to pay the fine. U. S. News says: “If they give him $5,000, that amount is not taxable at all. In that case, the ballplayer would stand an SBOO loss and a $5,000 gain, for a net profit ofs4,- 200.” Very few of us have any personal experience with either SIOO,OOO incomes or $5,000 fines. But this fac tual illustration indicates just how confused, inequitable, and generally unsound our tax laws are. Like Topsy, they just grew—and grew into a crazy-quilt. That’s why sentiment for a complete overhaul has been snowballing. Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Oct. 4, 1956 BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Official Organ of Brantley County Subscription Rates: Inside Brantley County $2.50 a year, plus 8 cents sales tax. Other Georgia counties $3.00 a year, plus 9 cents sales tax. We charge By HOMER MEADERS Editor, The Cobb County Times We are proud to note that, by and large, our free Alice-ln-Taxland for advertising all affairs for which GRASS HELPED THIS TOBACCO — Work Unit Conservationist Theodore Frisbie and Mack Boatright of Mershon inspect tobacco on the Boatright farm grown this season following coastal Bermuda. Experiment Station tests show tobacco which is rotated with coastal Bermuda is free of nematode damage. Coastal Bermuda Can Prove Boon in Rotation with Leaf By THEODORE FRISBIE Work Unit Conservationist, Soil Conservation Service Pierce county farmers who are cooperating in the Satilla River District program are learning a bout the magic of grass in a cropping system. They are discovering that the attitudes and customs of the mule - powered hamen stock plow days were all right in their time — but that new profits in grass can be reaped through more up-to-date farming meth ods. Three years ago, District Co operator D. J. Harrison planted four acres of tobacco behind a six-year-old crop of coastal Ber muda grass. The result was the best tobacco crop he had ever produced on his farm. The same year, District Co operator F. L. Waters followed a six-year-old sod of common Bermuda grass with tobacco and produced over $1,500 worth of tobacco per acre. It was the best crop he had ever produced. The next year, Mr. Waters came right back on the same land with to bacco and made a very poor crop. He was puzzled and so were we. This year, Mack Boatright, one of Pierce county’s first farmers to cooperate in the District pro gram, planted his entire 11-acre allotment of tobacco in a field which had been in both coastal Bermuda and common Bermuda for six years. The lower one third of this field was well-es tablished to common Bermuda grass when he established the coastal Bermuda in the remain der of the field. Mr. Boatright made more than 2,500 pounds of leaf per acre. It was the “brag patch” of the Mershon area. After Mr. Boatright had fin ished gathering his tobacco, the Soil Conservation Service man agement agronomist, John Pol lock, happened to be in Pierce county. John engaged yours truly in a discussion of some of the merits of coastal Bermuda grass, including a most important asset in tobacco rotation: that is, the ab ility of this grass to control ne matodes. Nematodes are the tobacco plant’s worst enemy. These miscroscopic worms eat in to the root tissues of tobacco, causing what most farmers re fer to as knot root. Pollock informed us that Dr. Burton of the Tifton Experiment Station, the man who originated coastal Bermuda, claimed that this grass would control nemato des but that common Bermuda would not. Now, Mack Boatright had to bacco following both coastal Bermuda and common Bermuda grass. The roots of the old to bacco stalks would tell us if Burton’s claims were true. They would explain, too, what hap pened to Lee Waters’ tobacco the second year behind common Ber muda grass. So we proceeded to the Mack Boatright tobacco patch, only to find that he had gone over the patch with a rotary mower to get rid of the old tobacco stalks and favor the coastal Bermuda which was now about knee high. The common Bermuda had not recovered too well from the year of cultivation. We started pulling up tobacco stalk stubs and examining the roots—first in the area where there had been common Bermu da, then in the area where there had been coastal Bermuda ahead of the tobacco. Here is what we found: The tobacco stalk roots behind the common Bermuda were al most completely destroyed by nematodes. The tobacco stalks from the coastal Bermuda area were as clean as a whistle. Dr. Burton is as truthful as a deacon, even *if he is a steward in the Methodist Church. We went up to Mack Boat right’s home after examining his tobacco stalk roots. During the conversation which followed, a bout grass, Mr. Boatright said: “I wouldn’t care if I had my whole place in coastal Bermuda. I’ve found I can grow better crops in grass than I can with out it. “I tell you one thing, I’ll never grow another crop of tobacco behind anything but coastal Ber muda grass. I’m sold on it.” District Cooperator Herman Carter had been following corn and crotolaria with tobacco and making excellent crops for five or six years. Two years ago, he almost had a crop failure due to several poor stands of croto loria, which resulted in terrific nematode infestation. We induced Mr. Carter to move his tobacco onto a field of three - year -old Pensacola bahia grass. He followed this advice and this year, he made his best tobacco crop ever — 2,496 pounds per acre of top quality leaf without irrigation. We were trying to sell a good Cooperator in the upper end of the county on grass and rota tions for his tobacco acreage a few days ago and he said: “I haven’t enough land to do that.” He had an 11-acre tobacco al lotment which would require 44 acres for a grass-based rotation. When we showed him the aver age cash return of the additional tobacco he would produce, he said: “I can’t afford not to have that much grass.” Bids Asked on Additions to Pierce Schools The State School Building Authority this week begins adv ertising for bids on Pierce coun ty’s $788,000 school building pro gram. A legal advertisement is being published in The Blackshear Times this week and through October 18 in connection with the letting of the contract. Bids on the project will be ac cepted by the School Building Authority in Atlanta through 3:30 P. M., Thursday, Nov. 1, 1956. Included in the project is con struction of buildings at Lee Street School, Pierce County Training School, Patterson Schools, Blackshear High School and Grady Street School, all of the construction being additions to present school plants. News Clinic Planned for Club Women The Blackshear Times and oth er newspapers of the Georgia Press Association will sponsor a “How To” news clinic for publi city chairmen of Georgia women’s clubs at 1:00 p. m., October 4 in Atlanta. Site of the clinic will be the 33 Gilmore St. building of the Geor gia State College of Business Administration. The meeting will feature Mrs. Margaret Turner, woman’s club news editor of The Atlanta Journal and other club editors of Georgia. It will be con cluded at 4:30 p. m. the same day. Purpose of the clinic will be to acquaint publicity chairmen with the proper methods of recogniz ing and preparing local club news. A light luncheon will be served at 1:00 p. m. and the clinic sessions will get under way at 2:30 p. m. Other editors to participate in clinic discussions: Mrs. R. E. Led ford, The Vidalia Advance; Mrs. Stanley Parkman, The Carroll County Georgian, Carrollton; Mrs. R. H. Stovall, The Meriweth er Vindicator, Greenville; Miss Lucy Sappington, Barnesville News-Gazette; Mrs. Ed T. Meth vin, Eastman Times-Journal; Mrs. Virginia Polhill Price, Louisville News and Farmer; Mrs. Charles C. Graves, Tri-County Advertiser, Clarkesville; Mrs. Catherine C. Morrison, Dade County Times, Trenton; Mrs. C. M. Methvin, The Vienna News; Susan Myrick, The Macon Telegraph. Chairman of the clinic com mittee of the Georgia Press As sociation is Leodel Coleman, edi tor and publisher of the Bulloch Herald, Statesboro. Publicity chairmen interested in attending the clinic should write for cred entials to Harvey Walters, sec retary-manager, Georgia Press Association, 24 Ivy Street, S. E., Atlanta 3, Ga. There is no regist ration fee. Mrs. O'Quinn Os Patterson Passes Away Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Walker O’Quinn, 80, a prominent resident of Patterson who died last Friday morning, were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at the residence, conducted by Elder Henry Tyre and the Rev. H. Lester Dixon. Burial was in the Patterson Cemetery. She was a native of Pierce County, the daughter of the late D. J. and Holly Davis Walker and her husband was the late Dr. J.H. O’Quinn of Patterson. She was a member of Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. R.D. Thomas, Patterson, and Mrs. George Pomeroy, Tallahas see, Fla.; two sons, Foster O’- Quinn, Patterson, and Osborne O’Quinn, Ft. Pierce, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Lonnie Hope, Dou glas, and Mrs. A. J. Thomas, Patterson; n grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers were the grand sons. Darling Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. GAME V and' < FISH & As Our Cities Grow, So Grows Pollution TTNTIL just a few decades ago, most people lived on farms and in small towns. Water pollution was not a major problem then as it is today. New, three out of five of us live in cities, and the problem of pollution increases every day. These cities, along with their growing industries, dump enormous amounts of waste into our lakes and streams. The chemicals in this waste have a tremendous effect on the water. In some cases they use up oxygen to the extent that everything within the water dies. In others, they use enough to kill the smaller -- ■ i J * plants and animals which fish need for food, and as a result the fish die of malnutrition. Food From Water A large amount of our food comes from the water, and scientists agree that with the rapid increase in population that we must turn to the waters even more in the future. Yet inland and coastal waters are actually producing less food than before. The salmon industry in one western valley dropped from $5 million to $1 million in a few years. Here in Georgia, our fishing industries have dropped in certain sections. Pollution takes its toll of our food supply in other ways. Livestock cannot safely drink from polluted waters, and crops irrigated by polluted water can carry disease Most Used Raw Material Water is the most used raw material in our factories. It takes 365,000 gallons to produce a ton of rayon yarn; 510,000 gallons for 1,000 yards of woolen cloth; over 1,000,000 gallons for 1,000 barrels of aviation gasoline. Experts pre dict that in 1975 U. S. industries will need some 215 billion gallons per day. The pulp and paper mills here in Georgia use an average of 300 million gallons per day; the textile mills use 100 million gallons per day, and steam power plants use 1,600 million gallons per day. Treating Our Wastes The more industry Georgia attracts, the bigger and more prosperous our cities will become —and greater will be our volumn of waste. The only way we can preserve our water resources is by treating these wastes. Waste treatment plants or basins eliminate or re duce the harmful effects of wastes. Some people object to this treatment because of the expense involved. Ac tually, studies show that sewage can be treated at a cost to each family of less than a nickel a day. Industry can reduce pollution by process changes and treatment basins. Many of them have done so, but others still object because of the expense. Industry needs water. It is important that water be made available, but it is also necessary that it be restored to good quality after use. Need for Cooperation Pollution is everyone’s concern. It affects sportsman, manufacturer, parent, doctor, farmer and all alike. Each one of us in one form or another pays a price for the pollu tion of our waterways* There is an urgent need for cooperation among our communities and our State and Federal governments in solving the water pollution problem. Local sports men clubs, conservation clubs, health organizations, and industries should continue their united efforts until our waterways are clean. Some progress has been made, but the damage grows. Many communities and industries have done their part, but too many others are spoiling the handiwork of the few. It doesn’t do much good for a man to clean his yard if his neighbor keeps dumping garbage in it. More needs to be done, and done quickly, for the longer we wait, the more expensive the remedy becomes. Uqh+ Touch IN WEIGHT hew McCulloch OIRICT'DRIVE Since it’s lighter in weight than any Other high-capacity direct-drive saw. the McCulloch D-44 allows you to cut more wood without getting tired. This makes the D-44 ideal for cutting firewood, felling and buck ing pulpwood, tending woodlots, and many other types of cutting where a Speedy, lightweight saw is called for. Come in for a demonstration of the D-44 today or tomorrow. See how easily it outperforms all other direct-drive saws! Wilson's Garage Phone 2-2721 FULTON LOVELL Joe McPine Sez: Buy Your McCulloch Chain Saw from Prices Start at $238.00 Nahunta, Ga.