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Objectives Of The Soil
Conservation Service
(By C. A. Whittle, State Administra
tor Emergency Conservation Work
In Soil Conservation)
For the purpose of acquainting
citizens of this region with the na
ture and scope of the work to be un
dertaken by the Soil Conservation
Service, a series of articles have been
prepared for these columns.
Broadly defined, the object of
establishing a CCC Camp is to demon
strate how to check erosion of the
soil. The Federal Government has
taken the initiative in establishing
these demonstrations as a result of
finding out the enormous loss the
nation has suffered from erosion, or
washing of the soil. Land abandon
ment, because of soil washing, has
reached enormous proportions, and
has attained the magnitude of a na
tional threat.
In Georgia it has been found that
much of the original top soil is gone.
When the land was cleared of its
forests, the settler found a rich grey
Boil, but as cultivation proceeded,
with no attempt to prevent erosion,
the top soil was washed away, and
the red, unfertile subsoil came to
view. Subsoils being unproductive,
the tendency has been to abandon
the fields depleted of their top soil.
Once abandoned, such soils were
left to the mercy of erosion. Gullies
appeared, converting the land into
a more hopeless condition.
Facing this tragedy of land de
struction, the nation has undertaken
to do something about it. Other na
tions that did nothing to curb soil
erosion has either been wiped out, or
exist only as a sorry remnant of
once proud and prosperous civiliza
tion.
Asa constructive relief measure,
the nation has turned to saving the
soil. Anew organization, the Soil
Conservation Service, has been set
up as a branch of the United States
Department of Agriculture. The best
trained men in soil conservation,
headed by H. H. Bennett, have been
employed to attack the problem.
Technicians have been enlisted to
carry the methods of soil conserva
tion into the fields. The Civilian
Conservation Corps has been placed
at the disposal of the technicians to
execute the plans on areas around
their camps. These are demonstra
tion areas, where the work will show
land owners how to go about saving
their soils.
Co-operation between farmers and
the Soil Conservation Service is es
sential. Unless the farmer con
tracts with the Federal Government
to do certain things on fii* part,
there will be no work to do. In
other words, the farmer and Federal
Government must join hands in
establishing these demonstrations in
erosion control.
Perhaps a series of questions and
answers will provide the best method
of explaining the undertaking.
Q. What is the first step to be tak
en by the farmer to obtain the as
sistance of the Soil Conservation
Service?
A. The first step is to form a Soil
Conservation Association of land
owners in the project area. This
step is taken under the direction of
the Agricultural Extension Service of
the State College of Agriculture.
Q. Is it necessary that a land
owner belong to the Soil Conserva
tion Association to get Federal aid
in erosion control in the project
area?
A. No one can get Soil Erosion
Control service from the CCC Camp
without first becoming a member of
the Soil Conservation Association.
Q. To whom would you apply for
Association membership?
A. To your County Agricultural
Agent, or other representatives of
the State Agricultural Extension
Service.
Q. Why is such an organization
required? *
A. An association gets recognition
easier than an individual in local,
state and national affairs. It pro
vides a way for the Government to
find out those really interested in
Soil Conservation. It makes effec
tive co-operation for soil conserva
tion. It makes effective co-oper
ation for soil conservation easier.
If the people of Georgia will make
it a point to pay their debts as they
market crops and then trade with
those who have helped them during,
the year it will be a wonderful
thing. Sell your crojfs in home
markets, pay as much as possible on
what you owe, spend your money
with home institutions and you’ll
have a clear conscience and the
satisfaction of seeing your commu-1
nity grow and prosper.—Jackson
Progress-Argus. I
YOUR CHANCE OF ESCAPE
Figures taken from the National
Safety Council’s motor vehicle ac
cident reports show that the odds
against you are becoming greater
every day.* The chances are now
declared to be 1 to 100 that you
will be injured in a motor car ac
cident this year. The odds are 1
to 3,500 that you will be killed in
some way by or in a motor vehicle.
The pedestrians’ chances to escape
injury from an automobile in the
streets or on the highways are 400
to one and to avert death about 8,-
000 to one. The Council’s best ad
vice in view of the possibilities is to
be careful. It advises special care
at night. Hulf of all the fatal ac
cidents in whch automobles are con
cerned occurred at night, between 5
p. m. and midnight.
The Charlotte Observer, publishing
these facts in the hopes of bringing
prominently forward the necessity
for more careful driving, says that
one person out of every hundred was
injured in a motor vehicle accident
in 1934. This is based on an ap
proximate total of 1,250,000 injuries
and slightly over 125,0000,0000 pop
ulation. This is declared to suggest
that in a hundred years we will have
as many automobile accidents re
corded as there are people in the
United States today. “If we follow
this line of reasoning,” the Observer
says, “one out of each two persons
now living may expect to be injur
ed within the fifty years, one out of
four within the next twenty-five
years, one out of four within the
next twenty-five years, and one of
five in the next twenty years.”
The Observer, on another tack,
but continuing to urge caution and
care and greater care, when driving
motor vehicles, discusses automobile
insurance. “In the form of insur
ance premiums it cost the people of
this country $180,000,000 last year
to protect themselves against lia
bility for personal injuries to others
in the operation of their cars,” it
says. “It is not overdrawn to re
fine this colossal insurance outlay as
a penalty which the people inflict
upon themselves for their own care
lessness.” It is not argued that
liability insurance is not a good thing
to carry; in fact there is good rea
son and wisdom in doing so.
“In these days not only of increas
ing traffic perils, but of damage suit
rackets as well, the motorist, who
dares to go out on the highways with
his car unprotected as to such in
surance is rather foolhardly, ex
pressing it mildly and with as much
dignity as the case permits,” says
the Observer. “But the point is that
the very circumstance that the A
merican people pay such a large a
mount a year to insure themselves
against injury which they may do
ethers proves that they are financial
ly-conscious as to accidents but not
victim-conscious. They are thus
merely attempting to idemnify them
selves against the money damage
which may be done by an accident
without seeming to have the slight
est regard for the death-damage to
the victims of their driving.”
The Observer concludes: “And
America, that is in the habit of kill
ing 36,000 of its own people annual
ly with this moloch of highway mass
acre, will not find the yearly figures
going down so long as this mental
attitude persists—the attitude mere
ly of financially penalizing ourselves
for what ever damage our careless
ness in driving may invite.” It seems
harsh criticism —but what can be
said for the situation which called it
forth?
NOT SO SERIUOS
“Mummy, may I go in for a
swim?”
“Certainly not, by dear, it’s far
too deep.”
“But daddy is swimming."
“Yes, dear, but Tie’s insured.”—
Sporting and Dramatic News.
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"You seem able bodied and heal
thy; you ought to be strong enough
to work,” she remarked, scrutiniz
ing^.
“Yes, ma’am, I know. And you
seem beautiful enough to be on the
stage, but evidently you prefer the
simple life.”
He got a squax-e meal without any
further reference to work.
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The Sunday school lesson was from
II Kings 22 and read: “Josiah was
eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned thirty and one
years in Jerusalem." On telling a
bout the lesson to his mother, Paul,
aged four, said: “The lesson was a
bout a good rain, and there was a
little boy named Josiah, and it be
gan to rain when he was eight and
when he was thirty-one it was still
drizzlin’.” —Selected.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
U. S. WILL HELP THOUSANDS
ATTEND SCHOOLS
AND COLLEGES
Atlanta.—A program that will en
able several thousand Georgia col
lege and high school students, who
are unable to attend classes, to go
to school during the coming term
was announced recently by the
National Youth Administration.
R. R. Paty, Georgia director of the
administration and head of the ed
ucational division of the public works
administration, called a meeting of
the heads of all colleges in the statq
participating in the school aid pro
gram, for 11 a. m. (central daylight
time), in the Atlanta Y. M. C. A.,
last Monday to discuss the program.
All colleges of non-profit making
character, are eligible and 48 par
ticipated last year.
Principals of high schools in Ful
ton and DeKalb counties also at
tended, but meetings for other high
school heads will be held at strate
gic points in the state later.
Under the program, colleges will
be awarded sl2 a month for each of
12 per cent of its enrollment on
October 15, 1934, and high schools
$6 a month for 7 per cent of the
persons between 16 and 25 who were
on relief in May, 1935.
The maximum pay for college
work shall be S2O a month and for
high schools $6.
To receive aid the college student
may or may not be on relief rolls.
THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES
We have never been able to un
derstand the many technical terms
used by the medical profession.
Comparatively few laymen have any
conception of their ailments as ex
plained to them by their physicians.
It may be well that they do not, for
after all, the patient is more inter
ested in recovery than in the charac
ter of disease from which he is suf
fering.
The Journal of the American Med
ical Association has come to the as
sistance of the uninformed layman
and recites an incident that occurred
in a court trial down in Mississippi.
The star witness was a physician and
while on the stand he was asked the
following questions: •
Q —“ Doctor, in language as near
ly popular as the subject will permit,
will you please tell the jury what the
cause of this man’s death was?”
A—“Do you mean the proxima
mortis?”
Q —“l don’t know. Doctor, I will
have to leave that to you.”
A—“ Well, in plain language, he
died of an edema of the brain that
followed a cerebral thrombosis or
possibly embolism that followed in
turn, an arteriosoclerosls combined
with the effect of a gangrenous cho
lecystitis.”
A Juror—“Wtell, I’ll be damned!”
The Court—“ Ordinarily I would
fine a juror for saying anything like
that in this court, but I cannot in
this instance justly impose a penalty
upon you, sir, because the court was
thinking exactly the same thing.”
From the foregoing, the dumbest
citizen should be able to understand
the language of physicians and the
meaning of the technical terms used
by them as applied to the various ill
nesses which persons are subject to.
—Athens Banner-Herald.
GEORGIA AND HER PEOPLE
A visitor from a western state
toured Georgia; he was captivated
by what he saw and learned while
passing through and meeting the
people. When he returned home he
wrote an account of his visit to
Georgia and here is what he had to
say of the state and its people:
“The state of Georgia is truly a
land of charm. There is beauty and
fascination in the flowering moun
tains of north Georgia, with their
Indian legends. There is a lure in
the great agricultural region with
its cotton, its grain, its fruits, and
its nuts. There is romance on the
tropical sea coast, where the monks,
the adventurers and the pirates left
their marks. But above all there is
appeal in the hospitality of the peo
ple. The opulence of the land
through the many years of Georgia
history has givep the people time to
cultivate the art of living. The
graeiousness and sincerity of their
every act makes a deep and lasting
impression. Their soft and easy
speech, their dignity and thoughtful- i
ness, and their courteousness and re
finement are so impressive that it
seems at times as though they ai - e
people of a different land. The con- j
tribution made to civilization by this j
people has not been surpassed, for
while the rest of the world talked a
bout life Georgia people had lived
it.”
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
Mrs. Ruby McElhannon of Gain
esville, Hall County, Georgia, the
Queen City of the Empire. State of
the South, was a visitor at the Na
tional Capitol August 24. She is
the daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. McElhannon, of Jackson
County, also, the sister of Misses
Elizabeth and Stella McElhannon of
Gainesville, Ga., No. 35 Rice St.
While here she was the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Willie S. Lanier. She is a
fine lady.
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Hon. Howell Cpbb, Jr., attorney
at law, of Athens, Ga., the Classic
City, has been a prominent visitor at
the National Capitol for the past
week.
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Senator Walter F. George, who
was first elected to the Senate on
October 17, 1922, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the late Hon.
Thomas E. Watson on September
26, 1922, will leave the National
Capitol this week to join Mrs. George
at their home at Vienna, Dooley
County, Georgia, the Empff-e State
of the South.
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Hon. Charles F. Risk, the new
Congressman from the First District
of Rhode Island, who was elected in
a special election on August 6th,
1935, was sworn in as a member of
the 74th Congress on August 19, by
Speaker J. W. Byi*ns. He is thirty
eight years of age, and a Republican.
The House now stands 322 Demo
crats, 103 Republicans, and ten Pro
gressives.
AN OBSERVATION ON SUCCESS
The most impressive characteris
tic of Will Rogers’ life was his self
denial.
He did not smoke, and neither did
he use alcohol.
Rogers got things done, and did
things himself.
He was a worker, a producer, as
well as a performer.
Look about the world for other
successes.
Mussolini is one; Hitler another,
and Stalin a third.
No matter what you think of dic
tators, it takes considerable personal
force, intellect and intelligence to
govern people.
And all of them have attractive
points.
There are some things about even
Hitler which we admire; and the his
tory of this country in another 50
years may find us emulating some of
his policies.
Well, to get back to our subject:
Neither Mussolini, Hitler nor Sta
lin use either tobacco or alcohol.
They have jobs to do, perhaps
their own heads to save, as well as
countries to develop. But they do
work, and they do produce.
This is no preachment against li
quor or tobacco.
This is merely an observation on
success.
Take it or leave it.—Exchange.
EPIDEMIC WANING SAYS
HEALTH OFFICERS
The infantile paralysis epidemic is
waning.
United States public health offi
cials in Washington say reports on
new cases are progressively shrink
ing.
The disease swept sections of Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Maryland and
the District of Columbia. It also
reached alarming proportions in
Massachusetts.
More than 800 cases were report
ed to the public health service
within a period of two months.
The prevalence of the disease caus
ed authorities of the states to place
sharp restrictions on public gather
ings.
Will Put 72 Thousand To Taking A
Census
Washington.—Two programs im
tended to supply work have been an
nounced by Secretary Roper’s cen
sus bureau and by Under-Secretary
Tugwell’s rural resettlement admin
istration.
Roper said 72,000 white collax
workers will be employed from re
lief rolls to list the aged eligible
for pensions, to make a census of
business and to study retail distri
bution.
Tugwell’s organization announced
30,285 families on impoverished
lands would be given financial help
in relocating themselves on fertile
farms. The lands they now live on
will be used in building up forest
reserves and in fighting erosion.
TRIO OF YOUNG BUSINESS MEN
PLAN SOUTH’S GREATEST FAIR
* >2*
Re-elected to their respective office* following the tremendous
euccess of their efforts ic;t year, the above trio of young Atlanta
businessmen will again be in charge when the gr.tes swing open
September 29 on the Southeastern Fair and Cotton States Exposition
at Lakewood Park, Atlanta. The fair and exposition will continue
through October 6, and because of the 40th year jubilee celebration
of the first Cotton States Exposition, will be south-wide in im
portance. .They are, left to right, V/. J. Davis, Jr., treasurer; Mike
Benton, three-times president, and John Armour, vice-president
of the Southeastern Fair association.
“KING COTTON” WILL BE HONORED
DURING SOUTHEASTERN FAIR
ATLANTA, GA. Commemorat
ing the Cotton States and Interna
tional Exposition held here 40
years ago, “King Cotton” will play
an important part during the
Southeastern Fair and Cotton
States Exposition, opening at Lake
wood Park September 29 and con
tinuing through October 6.
The former Agricultural build
ing at the fairgrounds will be
known as the Cotton States Expo
sition Building this, year, and the
cotton motif will be prominent
throughout the eight days of fun
and frolic.
Huge paintings of the original
exposition at Piedmont Park here
TVavel anywhere ..any day 41/A
on the SOUTHERNJ/jr
A fare for every purse. .. / m miib
ONE WAY and ROUND TRIP COACH TICKETS
lira for Each Mile Traveled
£ ROl ND TRIP TICKETS—Return Limit 15 Day*
raW for Each Mile Traveled
* pjSl ROUND TRIP TICKETS—Return Limit 6 Months
fcjEj y for Each Mile Traveled
* M ONE WAY TICKETS
VoA for Each Mile Traveled
*Good in Sleeping and Parlor Cars on payment of
proper charges for space occupied. No surcharge.
Economize by leaving your Automobile at home and
using the Southern
Excellent Dining Car Service
Be Comfortable in the Safety of Train Travel
E. E. Barry, Asst. Gen’l Passenger Agent, Atlanta.
-Southern Railway System _
“CAR NUMBER 20”
According to an advertisement of
a large life insurance company, the
driver of every car No. 20, will have
an accident before the year is over—
if the accident experience of 1935
duplicates that of 1934. And statis
tics for the first six months of the
year indicate that little, if any, pro
gress has been made in curbing the
dangerous driver.
Every driver should decide for
himself whether he wants to be at
the wheel of “car number 20.” The
decision is really within his power.
He can drive carefully, in accord
ance with the law and good judg
ment —he can keep his speed to rea
sonable levels, maintain his car in
first-class mechanical condition so
far as safety devices are concerned
and work on the basis that it is bet
ter to give up his right-of-way than
risk a trip in an ambulance. Or he
can take chances—he can regard
crowded streets and highways as
play-grounds, where his reckless and
adventurous instincts may be in
dulged to the full without regard for
others or himself.
The laws of chance are immutable
—and every motorist who is deliber
ately careless, can be certain that
eventually he will lose. He may get
away with reckless acts a thousand
times—the thousand and first time
he will pay the price. Gambles with
death always lose—the dice are
loaded before you start the game.
One car in twenty will be the cause
of some one’s death or maiming this
year! Are you going to be the 20th
driver?
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1935
40 years ago, that attracted the
attention of the world to Atlanta
and the southeast, will form a
background for the more modern
day cotton and kindred exhibits,
and governmental and state co
operation will make the Cotton
States Exposition one of the most
educational and interesting phases
of tills year’s fair.
The Cotton States Exposition
will be an added feature, however,
and will In no way detract from
the many other educational and
entertaining features of the fair
which have made the Southeastern
more than south-wide in import
ance and scope during recent
years, it is assured.
NEW METHOD FOUND j
TO PREVENT ROADS
FROM BEING DUSTY
No longer need country folks be
annoyed by dusty roads. Anew
method of making dirt roads hard
and dustless has just been announc
ed by the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads.
The trick is to give the roads a
coating of calcium chloride from
time to time. The chemical glues
the surface of the road together
and makes what road experts call
a “soil pavement.” It is both hard
in wet weather and dustless in dry
weather.
So, if you live in the country, you
can, at the expense of only a few;
dollars, settle the dust problem and
watch the Sunday motor parade ia
comfort.—Exchange. (
Dismal Dawson—Kin you helg
me? I’m tryin’ to git back to m©
poor old mother. She ain’t seen m©
face fer 10 years.
Citizen—l guess that’s the trutH.
Why don’t you wash it?—Pathfinder,
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