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THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1937.
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greater speed, turns in the track had been repaved with
granite-like surface, yet Wilbur Shaw drove to victory
on Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires setting anew record
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4.75-19 10.60 5 50-19 14.60 cars roared into the treacherous turns and out again.
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5 25.18 12.70 6.00-16 18.40 Firestone patented process, successfully counteracted
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Seven Calves, Three Years
Elberton. Ga.—A cow on the
farm of Captain P. M. Hawes, near
here, has given birth to seven calves
in the past three years. Twins were
born the first and second years, and
the third year triplets.
If salt in salt shakers is damp, put
the shakers on the back of the stove
until the salt dries.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Weevil In Cotton Fields
Louisville, Ga. Reports from
every section of this county tell of
the infestation of boll weevil in
fields of cotton that otherwise are
promising.
To prevent moths eating the felt
in your piano, place a few moth
balls inside.
EX-ATLANTANS ENDING
WORLD JAUNT IN BOAT BUILT
ENTIRELY BY OWNER
Atlanta, Ga. —A 37-foot auxiliary
ketch built from the tree to the
finished product by its owner, Roger
Strout, former Georgia Tech pro
fessor, will sail from Nassau, the
Bahamas, Monday on the last lap of
an a round-the-world cruise.
Mr. and Mrs. Strout, after three
years of voyaging to the far corners
of the earth, still have aboard their
stout vessel enough foodstuffs to last
them the remainder of their trip—
foodstuffs consisting of canned
vegetables, two tons of them, raised
by Mrs. Strout while her husband
was biulding their craft in Savan
nah.
Reads Like Fiction
Behind the cruise is an almost un
believable story of difficulties sur
mounted and the handicap of ex
tremely limited finances overcome
'by the couple.
Strout came to Georgia Tech as
a professor in the physics depart
ment in September of 1927. He of
ten said that he had visited virtually
every state in the Union and that
his great desire was to cruise and
study in the four corners of the
earth.
Several years after his arrival at
Tech he decided to build his cruise
ship. On free days Strout went into
north Georgia hunting timber. His
purchases were limited to one tree
at a time, chosen for perfect grain
and maximum strength.
Not content to have his tree saw
ed by the other hands at near-by
mills, Strout made arrangements
with millmen to work his own ma
terial. The lumber fashioned,
Strout brought it back to Atlanta
aboard his old-model car and it was
a common sight, his fellow profes
sors said, to see Strout’s ship “tim
ber” drying on every available radi
ator at the school.
Held Against The Day
Once dried, the lumber was stored
for future use and Strout went a
hunting more trees.
He was well liked by the Tech
students and many of them helped
their professor in digging up stumps
from which the ship’s knees -were
fashioned.
In June, 1931, Strout had all of
his material assembled. He had al
so saved a small nest egg and he and
his wife left Atlanta in the old car,
shipping their boat lumber to Sa
vannah.
Strout set to work by himself on
the Savannah river to build his ship
and he worked on it for three years.
Mrs. Strout, a frail young woman,
but staunchly supporting her hus
band in reaching his goal, decided
there was something—and a very
important something—she could do
to make the voyage a success.
Raises Needed Food
Accordingly, she set to work in
the spring of 1934 to provision the
dream ship. She raised two tons
of vegetables while her husband
hammered and sawed away on their
craft. Then she canned the entire
two tons and the provisions were
loaded aboard the vessel soon after
it was launched in the Savannah
river.
The Strouts set sail in June of
1934. The craft, 34 feet long, was
of 14-feet beam and equipped with
a 12-hoursepower kerosene engine to
be used only in emergencies. The
cabin was spacious and provided all
the comforts of home.
They sailed out into the Atlantic
and to the West Indies. Prom there
they voyaged to Panama and the
canal. There Strout had an attrac
tive offer from a group of treasure
hunters to charter his ship. He did
so, but the treasure hunting party
came to grief with the law and was
forced to flee. Strout reclaimed his
ship and proceeded through the ca
nal.
Once again misfortune overtook
him and while he and his wife were
negotiating for clearance papers,
the cabin was broken into and jewel
ry and funds were stolen.
Undaunted, the Strouts sailed on
out into the south PacifTic and ne
gotiated the long voyage to New
Zealand. Mrs. Strout worked the
short-wave radio while her husband
navigated.
From New Zealand the Strouts
cruised to Australia and there their
money gave out. Strout gave lec
tures until he had replenished the
family funds.
Australia to the west coast of
Africa was next and from there to
the Canary Islands and the rest of
the voyage across the Atlantic to the
Bahamas.
And so Monday, the good ship
Igdrasil set sail for New York, the
final lap of the long journey.
A stout ship, a stout-hearted man
and his wife.
Official Returns Give Drys
8,522 Victory Over Wets
Atlanta.—Official returns from
Tuesday’s prohibition referendum
I showed repeal was defeated by 8,-
f>22 votes.
Secretary of State John B. Wil
son, whose office completed the tabu
lation, announced the result ns fol
, lows:
For repeal, 94,575.
Against repeal, 103,097.
Under the referendum act. the
returns had to be filed with Wilson
by f, p. m. central standard time
Friday in order to be counted.
The same limit did not apply to
the vote on 20 constitutional amend-
ments.
Wilson said the speedy return of
the referendum vote so far as he
knew “had broken all records for
speed and accuracy.”
“I want to commend every elec
tion manager in this state, especial
ly the ordinaries of each county, for
their prompt, efficient services in
the recent election and for their
splendid co-operation with this de
partment,” Wilson continued.
OVERCOMING DROUTH ON
FARMS
The United States Department of
Agriculture reported Georgia’s aver
age corn yield last year at eight
bushels to the acre, while the high
est yield for special cultivation in
the state stands at 242 bushels to
the acre.
Where winter cover crops were
used last year their average raech
ed to 21.4 bushels, or 167.5 per cent
increase above the general average.
The cover crops consisted of hairy
vetch or Austrian winter peas. The
Negro farmers were included in
these tests, and they made 18.7
bushels, or 122.5 per cent above the
state average.
It is to be remembered that over
a vast area of the state the drouth
practically destroyed the corn crop.
Government figures make no allow
ance for such catastrophes, however.
The number of bushels are divided
by the number of acres supposed to
have been planted, and the quotient
shows the average yield. The re
markable point is that in middle
Georgia where the vetch and Aus
trion peas were tested in corn culti
vation, more than two and a half
times the general average was
grown. The drouth effect was much
less severe on such land. In normal
years thirty bushels to the acre
would have been expected by the
farmers who made only twenty
bushels in the drouth. Miles Hack
ney, a Negro farmer in Taliaferro
county, attracted widespread atten
tion by producing seventy-six bush
els to the acre.
THE VALUE OF LATIN
(From Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Richard L. Taylor, 15-year-old
student of Baton Rouge, wrote let
ters to 25 more or less eminent per
sons in the United States asking
whether he should include Latin in
his studies.
Now, whether the young gentle
man in future years seriously re
grets not having gained a certain
working knowledge of Latin does
depend to some extent, we think, on
what he does and what his ideas of
pleasure and entertainment turn out
to be. If he decides to be either
doctor or lawyer, he will genuinely
regret not having remained with
Latin. Such a great part of the
terminology of these two professions
5 s based on Latin that lack of some
acquaintance with the language is a
handicap to the student and the
practitioner.
The English and American lan
guages alike derive very largely
from the Latin, and without the
aforesaid working knowledge of it,
perhaps 65 per cent of the words in
our dictionaries lose for us their
basic color and meaning. To know
something of a word’s parentage
and history is to be able to choose
with a great deal more discrimi
nation than otherwise.
Finally, if Richard should happen
to find reading one of the material
occupations and joys of his life, he
will miss the Latin. Not only will
his appreciation of the words he
scans be less, but also he will proba
bly miss the flavor of many allusions
to Latin history and mythology that
deck the pages written by the master
poets, novelists, essayists and his
torians. He can get this latter in
formation without reading Ovid and
others among the Latin masters, but
the chances are against his doing it
unless he sets himself definitely to
it.
PAGE THREE.
Court Fight On Election To
Continue
Atlanta. The 26 amendments
Georgians voted to their constitution
in Tuesday’s election remained un
der contest in two cases pending be
fore the stnte supreme court.
R. A. Moore, of Douglas, and
George Goode, of Toccoa, attorneys
respectively for Coffee and Franklin
county taxpayers who failed in ef
forts to halt the election, said they
would press their appeals before the
high court for a ruling declaring the
election act unconstitutional.
Moore went further to say that if
for any reason his appeal should not
he heard or the court should not re
view (he case he intended, on the
part of his clients, to bring injunc
tion proceedings against collection
of taxes under any of the amend
ments.
Both Moore and Goode contended
the election was not a proper one
for acceptance or rejectin of con
stitutional amendments, and sustain
ing of their position by the supreme
court would nullify the vote on the
amendments.
Goode’s Franklin county case will
he argued before the supreme court
June 23, but a date has not been
set for the Coffee county appeal.
The question has been raised in
political circles of the mootness of
both suits in view of the fact an in
junction was sought against ex
penditure of public money for hold
ing the election.
Some take the stand the holding
of the election dissolved all points at
issue.
However, Moore said he and
Goode were attempting “to work
out an idea to keep the case from
becoming moot.”
In their suits, the attorneys con
tended amendments could be voted
on only at “general elections”—in
effect those now held in November
—and that the election last Tuesday
was a “special election.”
Moore said “only a fraction of the
voting population has spoken, and
it was not a general election by any
manner or means.”
The two cases, the attorneys say,
in no way involves the prohibition
repeal referendum vote submitted at
the same time as the amendments.
SAM BAIRD DIES FOLLOWING
LONG ILLNESS
(From Hoschton News)
Sam Baird, 67, well known farm
er of Zion community, died early
Friday morning, June 4. He had
been in failing health for the past
few years.
Mr. Baird was a member of the
Baptist church and w r as one of its
most ardent members and support
ers. He lived his entire life around
and near the Zion community.
His wife preceded him to the
'grave several years. He is survived
by three sons, W. O. Baird, of Madi
son, RFD; June Baird, of Buford,
and Emory Baird, of Braselton R-l;
five daughters, Mrs. Omer Titshaw,
of Atlanta; Misses Blondine, Nealie
and Flora Baird, all of Braselton
R-l, and Mrs. Dean Davis, of Madi
son RFD; two full brothers, Henry
F. Baird, of Hoschton R-l, and John
0. Baird, of Braselton; two half
brothers. Mody Baird, of Winder,
and W. B. Baird, of Braselton R-l;
one sister, Mrs. Lula Cook, Law
renceville.
Funeral services were held at
Zion Baptist church, Sunday after
noon, June 6, Rev. Wiley P. Holland
in charge.
Burial was in the adjoining ceme
tery.
$500,000 RURAL ELECTRI
FICATION LOANS GIVEN
9 GEORGIA COUNTIES
Washington.—Rural electrification
loans approximating a half-million
dollars and designed to supply elec
tricity to 2,500 families in 9 Geor
gia counties were approved recently
by the Rural Electrification Ad
ministration.
Confirmation of the approval was
furnished Senator Russell and Con
gressmen Owen and Deen, who were
active in passing the petitions for
the loans.
The bigger loan, aggregating
$425,000, goes to the Satilla Rural
Electrification Association to build
460 miles of distributing lines in
the counties of Appling, Atkinsons,
Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Pierce,
Ware and Wayne, serving 2,045
families.
The other loan goes to the Upson
County Rural Electrification Asso
ciation. It aggregates $67,000 and
will build 62 miles of distributing
lines to serve 324 families in Upson
County.