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HUSBAND AND WIFE
LEAD CLASS
(By Edna Cain Daniel, in Atlanta
Journal)
Carle W. Collins, who is 27 years
old, and his wife, Lois, who ia 21,
will graduate June 1 from the State
College at Tifton and they will be
at least ten years ahead of any oth
er college gruduate in Georgia. For
when the average graduate emerges
from college, diploma in hand, his
real education is about to begin; he
knows next to nothing about the es
sential matters of earning food and
shelter and supporting a family.
Earning their way and supporting
a family has been the framework of
the college career of the Collinses
and instead of its being a handicap
it seems to have stimulated them,
for they have tied for first honor
with an exactly equal rating which,
Incidentally, surpasses any previous
record at the college.
Cradled in hardship, coached by
poverty, they have done a marvel
ous thing with courage and modesty.
They probably would never have
been heard of outside their own
small circle if they had not tied for
first honor, but when this unique
fact came out their story also emerg
ed bit by bit, and how prosperous
seems the average student, how soft
most lives, how unimportant the
usual performance when measured
by theirs.
Carle W. Collins went to the Tif
ton College from Morven, Ga., with
exactly nothing; he was not steered
on the collegiate path by family
tradition nor supported by family
funds. The first year he earned
his way by serving as janitor for the
college buildings. Having grown up
on a farm, the rising at 4 a. m. to
fire stoves did not seem the hardship
to him perhaps that it would have
been to Little Brother who lived on
Main Street and never got up be
fore day in his life unless it was to
go hunting.
During his first year young Collins
made such progress in his collegiate
work that he was promoted from his
job as janitor and was engaged to
tutor the backward students. Doesn’t
it seem too much to be a backward
student and be pushed along the path
by one who owes so little to good
fortune!
Services as tutor brought him $62
per month and in addition to this he
has earned some money as instruc
tor in the college summer schools
the past three years. Perhaps, all
told, it averaged $75 per month. 1
keep thinking of the average student
from the average family; I know a
number of families who would be de
lighted if their college students
could manage on $75 per month for
tuition and all expenses. Young
Collins not only managed but he got
married as soon as he had this as
sured income, and they both manag
ed.
Lois Belcher, a young: Kiri, also
from Morven, started to school when
Carle Collins did. I don’t know
when they fell in love with each
other, whether before or after they
went to Tifton. But they knew each
other at Morven and had no illusions
about the fact that whatever was
done about their getting on in life
if they would have to do it without
help from their families.
They were married Christmas of
1927 in their freshman year, decid
ing perhaps that it would be easier
for two to live on his income and
get through college than for one.
Perhaps you think it very foolhardy
for two young people to marry under
such circumstances. Cumbered by
the need to afford a clever brick cot
tage or a pseudo Spanish villa in the
home town’s best sub-division, and
a little new car, the average young
man hesitates to claim a bride until
long after he is through school and
safely established in business. Any
other course usually means that the
rash young Newlyweds will roost be
neath the parental rooftree like over
grown fledgelings unlearned in
flight.
Poverty has its compensations and
when the novitiate took the vow of
poverty he but laid aside the things
that would cumber him in the growth
of his soul. The Collinses could af
ford to get married, because they
did not have to have a wedding trip;
she did not have to have an expen
sive trousseau, or receptions and
parties or a background for the en
tertainment of friends in the chick
en ala king manner to which even
the most modest village society is
accustomed.
They did have a car. It is one of
those cheap used cars that does not
look as if it would run, but some
how does. It was not any more of
a luxury than it looked to be; it was
a necessary adjunct to their way of
living. They took a little house in
the country a mile from town be
cause it was cheaper to live outside
the city. He was at the college at
8.30 every morning and worked
there until 10.30 at night; it took
that much time for classes and for
his work as tutor. Outside of those
hours he prepared his own lessons.
They needed a car.
In August, 11*30, Carle, junior, was
born. He almost did not arrive dur
ing summer vacation so as not to
break into his mother’s senior college
year, for she missed the first month
of the full term. Babies cost so
much and take so much time a lot
of people just can’t afford them.
Carle, junior, proved a handicap to
his mother to the extent that she got
a B rating in Spanish for the semi
semester, and this was the first B
of her college career, so she was
much chagrined and went to work
to pull up her average and got the
A rating at the end of the semester,
notwithstanding the fact that in her
case a B which st > >d for baby was
more than most A’s.
As for Carle, junior, he does not
seem to have been stunted by the
circumstances of his arrival. Pic
tures of him at 1* months show a
grand, fine baby.
It will be perceived by this time
that this story is not being written
according to the rule which dictates
that the striking features of a story
shall pop out in the opening para
graphs and the narrative shall de
scend in a curve of comment and
corollary to swerve upward again in
a closing burst of candle rockets.
It was enough to go from the un
inspiring home of a tenant farmer
to college with nothing to go on, to
serve as janitor to win an upward
way and first honor. That is enough
to ask of any boy and then for him
and the young Lois to tie for first
honors makes it an unusual story in
deed. The reader expected no
more; it was too incredible that they
should also major in matrimony and
child-rearing while carrying on their
college work, earning a living and
doing for themselves. Well, incre
dible as it may seem, there is more.
For the past year or two Mr. Col
lins has also taken care of his par
ents, of a young sister in high school
and of two small brothers, the family
sharing the home at Tifton with
young Mr. and Mrs. Collins. Added
expense came with the death of the
mother and illness and an operation
for the sister. It should be remem
bered here that out of his $62 per
month for tutoring, plus whatever he
got for the summer teaching, Mr.
Collins has also paid SIOO tuition
yearly for himself and his wife, sup
ported a family of seven, afforded a
baby and is this June graduating
from his four-year college course,
sharing first honors with his young
wife.
After this one hears with no fur
ther surprise of the student activi
ties of both Mr. and Mrs. Collins.
Of course, after his long hours of
work he had time to study, to do the
chores in a servantless house, to be
editor of the college annual, presi
dent of the Debating Club and of the
Sigma Club, member of the Presi
dent’s Club, the Ag Club, the Span
ish and the French Clubs, business
manager of the Dramatic Club. Mrs.
Collins is president of the Spanish
Club and of the French Club, be
longs to the Eta Tau Epsilon Sorori
ty and has participated in intercol
legiate debating.
At Morven their former neighbors
recall that young Carle seemed to
get his first inspiration in the Bap
tist Young People’s work in Morven
and that he is now president of the
B. Y. P. U., of Mell Association, in
Tifton section. For a long time to
come the good people who delight to
inspire and help the young, will use
Mr. and Mrs. Collins as an illustra
tion; it is none tfo often they get
one likie it, althought grace is a
mazing and good abounds.
In the meantime, all Mr. and Mrs.
Collins ask of the world is the two
jobs of teaching for which they have
fitted themselves as herein related,
preferably in the same school, be
ing happily married and having a
little son. As Mr. Collins plans to
begin at once to save money for
post graduate college work he would
like a place with a reasonably good
salary. Having come safely thus
far by faith and hnrd work, I feel
somehow he will get it.
SECOND $3 BILL OF ITS
1 KIND IN U. S. FOUND
Madison, \Vis.—A $3 bill has been
found in Madison to disprove re
ports that “the world’s only $3 bank
note” had been discovered in the
possession of Clem Ivey, Cincinnati.
Ben R. Boorman is the owner of
the bill found in Madison. It was
issued by the State Bank of Mount
Vernon, Ind., in 1858, and has been
in Boorman’s possession for many
years.
Ivey’s note is dated June 21, 1841,
and was issued by a Lebanon, Ohio,
bank under authority of the state
of Ohio.
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with safety glass in all doors and
windows at a small extra charge
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the Model A Ford. By reducing the dangers of flying glass, it has saved many
lives and prevented countless injuries in automobile collisions.
Now conies a further assurance of safety to every Ford owTier . . . polished
plate safety class in ALL DOORS AND WINDOWS at slight additional cost.
The charge for this extra protection is unusually low because of large
production and the development of new methods of manufacture. Simply tell
the dealer when you buy the Ford that you want “safety plate glass in all doors
and windows” and the car will be factory-equipped for you in that manner.
Today, as before, the safety glass windshield is furnished as standard equip
ment on all Ford cars without extra charge.
FORI) OtWKIIS This announcement refers only to P)EW CARS. Ford dealers are not in
a position to install safety glass in the ivindows of your present Ford at the above prices •
THE FORD
SOUTHERN PRODUCTS IN
VARIETY
Diversification continues to be a
notable feature of industrial develop
ment in the South, and the range of
products is being constantly en
larged.
A notable step in this direction is
seen in the announcement of the
Slark Thread Company of plans for
a large thread plant in Cobb County,
Georgia, which is to call for an in
vestment of about $1,500,000 and
will employ some six hundred per
sons.
Until a comparatively few years
ago the South produced nothing but
the cotton. The spinning and
weaving and the conversion into
finished products taking place large
ly in New England. The cotton mills
began to develop near the cotton
fields, but for some time only the
coarser products were turned out.
Gradually, however, the scope of
operation widened until today prac
tically all the products of cotton are
being manufactured in the South,
the list including those sheer and
beautiful creations of imitation silk
known as rayon.
What has taken place in the tex
tile field, also has followed in many
others. A score of years ago the
South produced little in the way of
steel, save the heavier and cruder
materials, while the range of prod
ucts today is enormous and the re
finement far beyond anything dream
ed of in the earlier days.
The same thing is true of clay
products, and especially is applica
ble to chemical products. Until the
beginning of this century chemistry
barely had a start in the South. The
old-time coke oven produced nothing
but coke, all the multitudinous by
products going to waste. Now an
almost endless variety of chemicals
and other products are derived from
coal. The same is true of cotton,
peanuts, sugar cane and other fa
miliar crops of the South.
This transition from a community
of raw-material producers to a com
munity of finished-products produc
ers has brought new wealth and new
opportunities to the South in almost
measureless quantity and is signifi
cant of much greater things in the
future. The variety of raw materi
als is almost endless, which means
that there is no end to the possibili
ties of expansion.—Rome Tribune.
SILVER AND DEPRESSION
How depressed silver prices re
sult in general industrial depression
is illustrated by present conditions
in China.
China deals wdth the United
States on the basis of the silver
standard. But now that metal is
worth about 40 per cent less than it
was worth a few years ago. Asa
result, China can no longer buy
from us in the same quantities as
before, and so is establishing factor
ies of her own to produce goods that
once came from the United States.
The silver problem is of vital in
terest to the entire world. There
are many authorities who believe the
United States would be well repaid
if it took the lead in any sound plan
for re-establishing a fair relation be
tween the value of silver and gold.
A temporary fixing of price of
silver at 50 cents an ounce by inter
national agreement, has been pro
posed by Senator King of Utah as an
emergency measure until an inter
national conference can solve the
silver question.
He believes a bettering of the
silver price would improve world
trade and have a vast influence in
alleviating unemployment in the
United States.
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THEM?
' When we were a child it seemed
to us that we had the finest crops
of May and June apples that could
possibly be grown in the w r orld —
the beautiful red kind and the white
or creamery-colored ones. They
were well formed and were delici
ous in taste. Nowadays, it seems,
these variegated products are few
and far between. If they grow in
this country we are not so informed.
Of course, there are a few apples
grown in this county, and when they
hit, the peaches are unusually fine.
The strawberry crop is about gone,
but the dewberry and blackberry is
almost due, and when they come,
along about harvest time, the coun
try farm house will be made doubly
attractive by rich dumplings. No
time like threshing time in Georgia,
for it is also berry and chicken pie
time. —Walton News.
LISTEN
We still have ICE, and will maintain the good
service we started two years ago.
SAME SERVICE-SAME PRICES
Your patronage will enable us to continue sav
ing you money.
J T. BAILEY
Office Phone 234. Res. Phone 123-
A Can of Com
can I do with a can of
* corn?” asks a housewife
who is open to conviction, and an
able answer has been provided
for her in a leaflet recently issued
by the magazine “Charm” pub
lished by L. Bamberger & Cos.
Publishing Company, Newark,
N. J.
This leaflet enumerates twenty
two different things which a
housewife can do with a can of
corn, and gives the recipe for each
of them. These recipes include
Corn and Celery; Creamed Corn;
Cream of Corn Bisque; Fried
Corn; four kinds of Corn Frit
ters; Corn Pancakes; Corn Pud
ding au Gratin; Corn Timbales;
Spanish Corn; Scalloped Corn
and Bacon; Scalloped Corn and
Tomatoes: Corn and Pimiento au
Gratin; Corn and Cheese Pud
ding; Egg Plant with Corn; Corn
two kinds of Corn
Chowder; Corn, Tomato and
Cheese, and Corn Custard gar
nished with Fried Tomatoes.
An Attractive Recipe
One of the most attractive of
these recipes is that for Cream of
Corn Bisque: Melt one tablespoon
butter or bacon fat in a saucepan.
Put one onion and one green pep
per through a food chopper and
cook until the onion is golden
brown. Put the contents of one
can of corn through a food chop
per, and add to the mixture. Pour
in one pint milk, or one cup
evaporated milk and one cup
water. Cream together two table
spoons flour, two tablespoons but
ter, or fat, one teaspoon salt and
one-half teaspoon celery salt. Di
lute with a little hot liquid. Pour
into the hot bisque and stir until
the mixture comes to a boil. Add
one slice lemon, and let it boil
up once. Remove the lemon, and
serve in cups with cheese finger*.*''