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Newspaper Page TextGot Anything to Sell? Want to Buy Anything? Put a Want - Ad in the Brantley Enterprise 75 Cents or 3 Times $2.00. VOLUME 38 — NO. 44 Another "Noble Experiment"? The following article is reprinted from the U. S. News & World Report which according to the editor’s foreword, reprinted it from the Washington Evening Star: ANOTHER “NOBLE EXPERIMENT” Editor’s Foreword: For many years during the nation wide controversy over prohibition, Deets Pickett was in personal contact with members of Congress on behalf of the Methodist Board of Temperance. He edited all of the Board’s publications in Washington until his retirement in 1953. As one of the leaders in the prohibition movement, he lectured widely. Last week the Washington Evening Star printed the following article by Mr. Pickett: Yesteryear we were a united nation. The Negroes boast ed, with good reason, that they had made more progress in less time than any other belated racial group in the world. In the South, hundreds of millions of dollars had been spent on Negro education. There was close and sympathetic contact at the leadership level between Negroes and whites. Interracial violence was at the van ishing point. Those who were guilty of criminal agression against the well-meaning Negro were from his own low er class, not from the white group. Fifty years of intelligent, constructive work by men of good will has been casually tossed out of the window by one colossal blunder. The damage is incalculable, appal ling; it will become much greater unless checked now. Forcing Negroes into white schools will not gain accep tance ; it will further aggravate the situation. Integration will inevitably collapse. Will some moiety of good will be saved from the wreckage ? Consider national prohibition. The parallel is by no means perfect but is nevertheless enlighting. Prohibition was better planned, better effected, better received. It registered an economic and social success, according to the testimony of many hundreds of businessmen, social workers, educators, economists. But, in the end, it was overwhelmed with complete political failure. In pre-prohibition planning, every possible provision was made against arousing sectional or group intransi gence. An Indiana judge (Artman) ruled that the liquor traffic was “a legalized outlaw” and a long line of Su preme Court desicions went almost as far. But dry stra tegists said: “No; not that way. Let the people act, and before we go ahead, at least two-thirds of the States should be dry by their own action. Futhermore, let us wait tintil we have a two-thirds majority of Congress, a heavy major ity in both political parties in both houses of the Congress and we should await word that every section of the coun try is ready. Lastly, prohibition must come by constitution al amendment, not by statute.” The amendment was submitted by 281 to 128 in the House, 65 to 20 in the Senate. The Democratic vote in the House was 144 to 64 in favor; the Republicans voted 137 to 62. Twenty-four State delegations in the House were solidly in favor; 12 other State delegations had a major ity favorable. Only four State delegations divided advers ely. The amendment was ratified in 13 months; eventually 46 of 48 States approved it. In subsequent years, the drys won elections with mo notonous regularity. In 1926, thirty-five Senate seats weie up. The drys won 29. In such States as Ohio, Illinois* Massachusetts, the wet candidates fell like nine-pins. After that election, there were only five wet Governors left in the United States! A picture of political success if there ever was one, emphasized by the election of Hoovet two years later. Yet just 36 months later, repeal loomed as a certainty. Why? Many reasons, perhaps, but two stand out. Many people felt that they were being coerced in a matter which shou d have been reserved to their own decision. They wou not be placated; they defied the law, they co-operated with the illegal traffic; above all, they complained at the top of their voices, unceasingly. The time came when those who wanted the law and wanted it enforced said: “All right, if their liquer means that much to them, let them have it. We are sick of the everlasting resistance and hubbub. Give us peace an quiet, even with liquor.” Prohibition died because psychological factors deter mine. Logic and theory can’t forever prevail afcamst emotion. So it will inevitably be with integration. Already the people show signs of irritation and weariness. They want friendship between North and South. T ey are as in questions about some of the implications o e ° action. Does it mean a step toward legislation by judicial decree, constitutional amendment by proc ama ion . we in danger of relighting the long dead fires of sectional bitterness ? In the middle is the Southern Negro, who just wants to “get along” with the white folks. He’s in trouble and he knows it. , Responsibility for public education should be reman - ed to the States with more than deliberate B P e ® d * ably a majority of those “learned in the law believe that is where it constitutionally belongs. Return responsibility for education to the States. Eventually; why not now ? Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Srantten BitrrpriHF » ■ Wwi CPL. DAVID R. WHITE Corporal White is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira White of Nahunta. He is serving with the 2nd Regi ment of the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, N. C. Methodist Conference Meets at Pierce Chapel Wednesday The Nahunta Methodist Charge, composed of Nahunta, Atkinson, Waynesville, Hoboken and Pierce Chapel churches, will hold quar terly conference at Pierce Chap el Wednesday night, Nov. 5, it is announced by the pastor, Rev. J. A. Wiggins. The pastor urges all stewards, Sunday school superintendents and other church officials to be present. Rev. J. M. Yarbrough, superintendent of the Waycross District, will conduct the confer ence and preach the sermon. Home Demonstration Work Schedule Given for County In order that more people in Brantley County may become more familiar with the activities of the Home Demonstration work of the Agriculture Extension Ser vice a schedule of events for the month of November is listed be low. Okefenokee Fair, Nov. 3-8. Look for the Brantley Co. H. D. Clubs and the Calvary Commun ity Booths. Nov. 4 at 3:15 p. m. Organiza tion of Nahunta Home Demon stration Club at the home of Mrs. Harry Raulerson. Nov. 5 at 3:15 p. m. organiza tion of Hortense Home Demon stration club at the school lunch room. Nov. 6, Waynesville Community 4-H club after school. At 7:30 p. m. Calvary Community H. D. Club and Farm Bureau at the Community Center. Nov. 11 Hoboken School 8:25 a. m. Two 4-H club meetings. Hoboken Home Dem. Club 3:30 at the home of Mrs. Glen Pres cott. Nov. 13, 9:30 a. m. Plan for tailoring school. Nov. 14, Hortense 4-H club. Nov. 17, Waynesville and At- Jimson Weed Grows Tomatoes At Texaco Service Center Jimson weeds are of little use unless you use them to raise fine tomatoes. So it would seem from what is being done by W. C. Long, Nahunta High School agri cultural teacher, at his service station on Route 301. Mr. Long grafted tomatoes on jimson weeds and has produced some of the best tomatoes you ever tasted. He set out the jimson weed plants last spring and when they were well started growing he grafted tomato plants onto the jimson weed stalks. As a re sult, he has a lot of fine toma toes that grew without any kind of plant disease. Mr. Long has been grafting to mato plants on jimson weeds for several years. He states that the jimson weed has no plant disease and that the tomato-jim son weed in turn never has any plant disease. It seems that the plant disease comes through the roots of the plant and the jimson weed stalks cannot catch plant di seases. On the other hand, toma to plants catch plant diseases easily and cause much loss of to matoes in this section. In other words, weeds are di sease resistant but tomatoes are not. Mr. Long stated that he raised more tomatoes from four hills by grafting on jimson weeds than he raised in his home gar den. The grafted tomato plants pro- Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, October 30, 1958 Manning Wonders If Rattlesnakes Do Charm Animals Do rattlesnakes charm squir rels, rabbits and birds. This is a question that has been pondered by many people. The snake ex perts say that rattlesnakes do not charm other animals but L. M. Manning had an experience Thursday, Oct. 23, in Buffalo Creek Swamp that has him puz led. Mr. Manning was squirrel hun ting when he heard a squirrel barking. He crept toward the sound and saw a squirrel coming slowly down a tree. The squirrel would cbme down the tree a lit tle way, stop, then inch forward again and stop, as if attracted by something on the "ground. Mr. Manning shot the squirrel and when he went to pick it up, he found it in the coils of a big rattlesnake which had 10 rattles. He wonders if the rattlesnake at the foot of the tree was charm ing the squirrel down the tree. Mr. Manning stated that var ious people had killed 17 rattle snakes in a three-mile radius of his place last year and that sev eral more had been killed in the same area this year. Births S|Sgt. and Mrs. J. L. Eunice announce the arrival of a baby boy born Wednesday, Oct. 22, weighing eight pounds 15 ounces It has been named John L. HI. Mrs. Eunice is the former Rita Joan Thrift of Nahunta. kinson Home Dem. Club at 2:00 p. m. at the Waynesville Baptist Church. Nov. 18, Three Nahunta High School 4-H Club meetings. Nov. 19, Hickox Home Dem. Club meeting at the home of Mrs. M. L. Anderson, at 2:30. Nov. 20, First day of 3-day tailoring school, Mrs. Georgia Jordan, Pierce Co. Home Dem. Agent guest. Waynesville Com munity 4-H Club. Nov. 21-27 National Farm City week. Nov. 22, Cake Bake sale for County Home Dem. Council in observance of Farm City Week. All ladies in the county are invited to join and attend the Meeting in her community. The program is planned by the execu tive committee of the County Home Dem. Council and design ed to meet the needs of home makers. The subject of the month is “Plan Holiday Foods to use the Home Freezer”. A demonstration will be given at each meeting. Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson County Home Dem. Agent. duces a mild sweet tomato which is all tomato and has no sign or taste of jimson weed. The plants at his service station are still blooming and bearing tomatoes as late as this date of Oct. 29. Raising tomatoes on jimson weed plants is just another of the tricks the agriculturalist ex perts are playing on nature. They even make a jimson weed think it is a luscious red tomato. Mrs. Davis Attends Committee Meeting At Georgia U. Mrs. Nolan C. Davis Jr., who is second vice-president of the state Home Demonstration Coun cil, attendeed the state executive Committee meeting in Athens on the campus of the University of Georgia Oct. 27-28. She was ac companied by Mrs. Virginia Raul erson, County Home Dem. Agent who serves as an advisor to this group. Mrs. Davis is chairman in charge of the program for the state Home Dem. Council meet ing for next year. On October 29, Mrs. Davis spoke to the Pierce County Home Dem. Council held in Pat terson at the Baptist Church. Watch the label on your paper. Don’t let your subscription expire. Georgia Voters Go to Polls Tuesday for General Election 16 General Constitutional Amendments Approximately 3,000 Brantley countians will be eligible to vote next Tuesday, Nov. 4, in the gen eral election but theer are no contested local, state or national races, so a light vote is expected. Polls will be open throughout the county from 7:00 a. m. until 7:00 p. m. Rules for the election which is held by the ordinary, Claude A. Smith, are the same as for a primary election. The only candidates’ names on the printed ballot will be those of Democratic nominees already selected in this year’s state and county primary elections. The major portion of the large general election ballot, which is 17 by 28 inches in size, is taken, up by listings of the 16 general constitutional amendments. Voters may mark those amend ments they wish to vote and leave others if they choose. Amendments No. 1 through No. 16 are the general statewide amendments and few,-if any, of these have created any contro versy. Most are routine and make only slight changes in Georgia laws. Nahunta Plays Screven Here Tuesday Night Nahunta High School opens its 1958-59 basketball season Tues day night November 4, with Screven High School in the Na hunta gymnasium. Game time wil be 7:30. The boys, 1957-58 State Class B Champions, compiled a 27 won 5 lost record last season. This season will find the Wild cats minus three of last years mainstays: All-Stater Donald Cleland, Burnette Dubose, and William Royster. Returning let termen from last years squad are Carol Allen, Marvin Griffin, Cecil Drury, Tommy Jacobs, Lay ton Johns, Alvin Mobley, George Thomas, Julian Willis, and Char les Wilson. Newcomers this year are Carol Chancey, Ned Hend rix, and Lamar King. This year the girls will be coached by Miss Margaret Ever hart. The girls lost several of their mainstays from last years squad. These were Jane and My ra Strickland, Margie Herrin, Mary Cross, Emilee Rowell, Judy Thornton, Lana Hendrix, and Delores Lee. The returning let termen from .last year are. Alice Sue DePratter, Sylvia Rowell, Mary Grace Edgy, Molly Grace Sadler, Sandra Wiliams, Chris tine Cross, and Una Wilson. New comers to the team this year are Arlene Strickland, Sherry Hen drix, Judy Crews, Idell Brocker, Frances Sadler, Gerald Wills, Ann Thomas and Linda Dubose. The Managers of this years teams are Harry Herrin and Shir ley Wainwright. The remaining schedule is as follows: Nov. 4 — Tues., Screven .... Here Nov. 7 — Fri., Nicholls .... There Nov. 11 — Tues., Darien . .. Here Nov. 18 — Tues., Hoboken There Nov. 25 — Tues., Glynn Academy Here Dec. 5 — Fri., Camden County There Dec. 9 — Tues., Blackshear.Here Dec. 13 — Sat., GTC Prelim. There Dec. 16 — Tues., Jesup .... Here Jan. 2 — Fri., Blackshear There Jan. 6 — Tues., Hoboken .... HOre Jan. 9 — Fri., Waycross .... Here Jan. 13 — Tues., Patterson There Jan. 16 — Fri., Nicholls .... Here Jan. 20. — Tues., Folkston There Jan. 23 — Fri-., Darien .. . There Jan. 27 — Tues., Waycross There Jan. 30 — Fri., Camden County Here Feb. 3 — Tues., Patterson . .. Here Feb. 6 — Fri., Glynn Academy There Feb. 10 — Tues., Jesup .... There Feb. 13 — Fri., Folkston .... Here OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Calvary Community Host to Waycross Commerce Chamber The Calvary Community was host to the Waycross Chamber of Comerce at its first out of the county meeting Tuesday night, Oct. 28, in the Community Club house. There Were fifty Waycross business people and over fifty farm people of the Calvary com munity. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Gordon NeSmith, Chair man of the Agriculture Commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Charles Mayo, President. Representing Brantley County with short comments were; Mr. George A. Loyd Co. Agent, Mr. Jack Moore, Ag. teacher, Hobo ken, Mrs. Virginia Raulerson Co. Home Dem. Agent, Mrs. Ma cie Colvin Home Ec. teacher, Hoboken and Mr. and Mrs. Lon nie Aldridge of Calvary com munity. Mr. Silas Lee was in charge of the singing. A program was presented by the Chamber of Commerce and closed by Mr. Miles of Coggins Still. Dinner was prepared and ser ved by the Calvary Home Dem onstration Club women and their daughters. John Dewey Wiggins, son of Rev. J. A. Wiggins, pastor of the Nahupta Methodist Charge, has been promoted from Lieuten ant - colonel to full colonel in the Marine Corps. He is station ed in Okinawa and has been in the Marines for 18 years. Lee Broome, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Broome, is a candidate for Mayor of Blackshear. The election will be held in Decem ber. Value of High School Band Outlined by Director Norras By MILTON NORRAS, Band Director Some of us may have asked “what is the value pf a band in our high school?” The boy or girl who participates in the band receives the several benefits it offers to a student. The most obvious benefit that the band offers is the learning of a new skill — playing an in strument. Once this skill is mas tered the student is able to con tribute a part in the music of the band. From the beginning band to the most advanced group, learning is done in groups. Most of us like doing things with others so playing in the band is a doubly rich experience. Although much of the music is produced by the entire band, and each member is considered as part of the group, the instru ment can be played alone. This is a splendid type of recreation. Then there is physical devel opment. To play a wind in strument (any horn) well one must develop good breathing and good posture and fine muscular control. Also marching helps build physical fitness and endur ance. All of the activities of the band require physical and men tal alertness. The band program in our county involves three schools, Nahunta High and Elementary Schools and Hoboken School. The students who are in these bands are: Nahunta High School; Jimmy Allen, Elaine Allen, Cary Burris, Dorothy Davis, Kenny Davis, Judy Dowling, Charlene Gibson, Donald Gibson, Freddye Lou Gibson, John Gibson, Kenneth Griffin, Lorna Harden, Ronnie Hendrix, Lynn Herrin, Maxie Herrin, Patsy Hulett, Eddie Hun ter, William Jacobs, Linda Beth Manor, Marion Morgan, Becky Omick, Ronnie O’Neal, Denny Rhoden, Wendell Rozier, Charles Stephens, Sara Jane Strickland, Sandra Williams, Hubert Wilson, Ray Garner, Georgia Gaudet, Roy Rooks. Nahunta Elementary School: Jackie Brooker, Dale Hullet, Lin da Riggins, Nancy Moody, Mar tha Thomas, James O’Neal, Den nis Raulerson, Tommy Graham, Hymerick Thomas, Buddy Allen, Keep up with the News About Your Home County Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) High School Classes Visit Nuclear Plant On Friday, October 31, the Chemistry and Physics classes of Nahunta High School will leave for an educational tour of the Oak Ridge Nuclear Plant. The group plans to stay in Knoxville, Tennessee, Friday and Saturday nights. The tour of the Nuclear plant will be on Saturday, November 1, and will include the Ameri can Museum of Atomic Energy and four areas of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the graph ite reactor, the swimming pool reactor, the Oak Ridge research reactor, and the radioistope pack ing area. । The group is also looking for ward to the mountainous section of North Georgia and Tennes see, especially the array of beau ty afforded by the mountainous area at this time. The students will travel by school bus to Oak Ridge. Mr. Ray DePratter is the driver of the bus. Mrs. DeWitt Moody, chemis try and physics teacher, is in charge of the tour. The following students will make the tour: Kenny Allen, Gene Crews, Edward Davis, Al ice Sue DePratter, Billy Gibson, Harry Herrin, Jerry Herrin, Jean Esther Highsmith, Blanche Johns, Layton Johns, Gerald Kelly, Betty Ann Lanier, Aley Lee, Sandra Lee, Linda Beth Manor, Norma Manning, Carolyn Morgan, Royce Morgan, Larry Rowell, Sylvia Rowell, Mollie Grace Saddler, Joe Sears, Robert Sloan, George Thomas, Gerald Thrift, Connie Turner, and James Walker. Tommy Tucker, Billy Rowell, Wayne Dubose. Hoboken School: Jerry Dicker son, Charles Gillis, Jimmy Hick ox, Lamar Thomas, Lester Du bose, Rita Jacobs, Helen Thrift, Patsy Carter, Regie Driggers, John Dryden, Lonnie Dubose, Norman Dowling, Gary Jacobs, Scheryl Kelley, Carolyn Larkins, Nancy Morgan, Shirley Lee, Dorothy Dubose, Diane Calvin, Hubert Pearson, Mary Alice Stone. 86 New Firms Locate on Power Lines Eighty-six new industries rep resenting a capital investment of $28,345,000 have located on the lines of the Georgia Power Com pany during the first nine months of 1958, Eugene A Yates, Jr., manager of the company’s industrial development division, announced Saturday. This com pares with 54 new industries rep resenting an investment of $9,- 235,000 located in the power company’s service area during the same period of 1957. 0 Under the power company’s classification, a new industry is any manufacturing or processing plant representing a capital in vestment of $50,000 or more and employing at least 10 workers. In addition to the new plants located in Georgia during the nine-months period of 1958, 33 existing . industries constructed new facilities to expand their operations. These new facilities represent an investment of $33,- 010,000. In the first nine months of 1957, 47 manufacturing plants increased their productive capac ity at a cost of $32,585,000. The production units will give employment to 6,104 Georgians at annual wages of $18,118,700. Manufacturing plants and addi tions established during the first nine months of 1957 provided 5,742 jobs totaling $16,205,000 in annual wages.