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munity through Agriculture and
Home Economics:
Home Economic*, Outline By Mitt
Genevieve Hill, Teacher
We believe that a Home Making
Program can be effective only when
it is built around the specific needs
of the community m which it is
taught. Therefore, it is the duty of
the Home Economics teacher’s re
sponsibility to make a survey of her
community to see how she can best
serve the homes and students which
she teaches and serves. Therefore,
the following projects have been
taken up this year, with the idea in
mind of meeting the needs of the
home and community: (1) Making
a simple apron for use in the home.
(2) Preparation of certain foods in
the home and the need of certain
foods for the average school girl.
(3) Making inexpensive gifts for
the season of the year, such as rugs
from old hose and rug loops from
loops from hosiery mill. (4) Pine
needle baskets. (5) Colorful peas
ant aprons. (6) Burlap bags and
luncheon sets. (7) Handkerchief
bags, laundry bags, pillow cases,
clothes pin bags and pot holders
from mill cloth. (8) Knitting and
crocheting various personal and
household articles. (9) Christmas
cards. (10) Attractive dresses and
house coats.
Child study occupies our study.
At present the advanced class is
studying the child from one to six
years old and how he grows into a
strong individual.
The care of the sick in the home.
This will include diets for certain
diseases and how to prepare the
foods for the sick.
Interior decoration is taught also,
which means refinishing old furni
ture, selecting furnishing, draperies,
fixing over fire-places. In other
words, how to make the home at
tractive.
Home projects are selected by the
girls. Every girl must have at least
three projects she wishes to work
out. The projects are completed at
home, under the guidance and super
vision of the home economics teach
er. So far, the girls this year have
been working on household articles,
such as dying rugs, cooking break
fast for two weeks, taking care of
the baby after school for two weeks,
making Christmas fruit cake, and
painting furniture.
Agriculture Program, A* Outlined
By Mr. J. L. McMullan, Teacher
At present, there are fifty-two
boys enrolled in Vocational Agricul
ture. The first project taught was
terracing of land to stop erosion.
Pupils were taken out on field trips
to see the actual work in the field,
where the boys were given practical
instruction in terracing.
Every boy has a home project on
which he must keep actual records
for inspection.
At the end of the school term
1937-1938, ten boys secured pure
bred guilts as their live stock pro
ject. It is hoped that from these
guilts the other boys will get a guilt
to begin a swine project at home. At
the beginning of this year, eleven
boys received steers to fatten out
through the winter. These cattle
will be shown in Jefferson on the
first Monday in April. Next day
they will be shown in Atlanta, com
peting with other cattle fattended
by other Agriculture boys.
Cover crops have been planted by
the boys: 78 acres in Crimson clover,
25 acres in Austrian peas. All boys
who have not planted either of the
above, have cover crops in wheat or
oats.
A school project in forestry is
being started by planting 20,000
loblolly pine seedlings on land be
longing to the school. The boys in
the Agriculture department will set
out the trees, keep records on them,
and do all that is necessary for the
growth of the trees. Each year
there will be a re-planting until a
good stand is secured. We have
gathered pine seed to start a seed
bed, from which we hope to get our
own pine seedlings for future use.
We also plan to start a shrub nur
sery, so that we can get shrub
plants for beautifying our homes.
Each boy is to carry out at home
a supplementary improvement pro
ject, such as: Pruning home orch
ards, landscaping the home grounds,
and repairing the buildings around
the home.
We feel that the program in
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Jackson County Home *
Demonstration News
(By Elaie Bowman)
A 4-H Club was organized at
Tallassee School on December 6th.
The program consisted of the “Pur
pose and Function of 4-H Clubs,”
election of officers, club songs, a
game and short demonstration on
gifts for Christmas.
The officers are: Sybil McDonald,
President; Clara Bell Hill, Vice
President; Mary Dooley, Secretary-
Treasurer.
Other members of the club, are:
Margie Bates, Pearl Benton, Louise
Cheatham, Frances Jones, Sue Jones,
Odene McDonald, Annie Payne,
Frances Roberts and Kathleen Sor
row.
RAILS OF SOUTHEAST
TO CUT FARES AGAIN
TO CENT AND HALF
Washington. The southeastern
railroad presidents’ conference voted
Friday to reduce passenger fares to
1 Vz cents per mile in coaches.
The new rates, representing a
‘/fc-cent cut, will be effective as Boon
as tariffs can be published, probably
in January.
The new rates would apply to all
railroads east of the Mississippi
River south of the Ohio and Poto
mac Rivers.
The action was described as an at
tempt by the carriers to retrieve
lost business that attended a gener
al increase in passenger fares last
spring.
Agriculture is especially helpful and
practical, because it not only teach
es general facts and knowledge, but
he learns while he is doing, thus giv
ing the boy the practical side. Also,
it is applied to each boy’s individual
requirement, and helps him with his
own personal plans and problems,
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At present, the Board is erecting
a building on the campus for the
teaching of these two subjects. The
work is being done by the WPA
furnishing the labor and a part of
the material; the Board of Education
of the City and County is to furnish
the balance. This week the “Old
Dormitory” around which many
memories of days past, was taken
down to get part of the material for
the new building. The new building
will be a brick veneer, with class
rooms for agriculture, a shop and a
canning plant to be used as a teach
ing project for the boys and girls
of the Vocational Department.
The pupils of Martin Institute are
always ready to respond to worthy
causes. Each Thanksgiving the pu
pils contribute very liberally in food
for the poor and needy. This year
eight large boxes of food were sent
out on the day before Thanksgiving.
One of the grades is now preparing
a box of Christmas gifts to be sent
to the tubercular children at Alto.
Many of the grades are preparing
gifts for their mothers for Christ
mas.
The relationship of the pupils and
teachers is a democratic relation
ship. The pupil and the teacher can
and does meet on a common level.
Their relationships are not confined
to the school room, but you find that
association in church and in the
homes. Every pupil is free to go to
a teacher outside of the school for
aid in any of the problems facing
the pupil.
May I take this opportunity to
thank every parent and citizen of
the community for their contribution
to the school, not only in material
things, but in sympathy and co-op
eration. The teachers and the pu
pils cannot by themselves make the
school, but the efforts of the people
of the community, and the spirit of
the pupils all combined together
make a good school. We do have a
good school in a good community,
with a loyal faculty and student
body, and patrons. All working to
gether can make the school better.
Visit us and the children at work
any time. We shall be glad to have
every patron come any time,
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The colored school has an enroll
ment of 109, an average daily at
tendance of 80 pupils. These pupils
are taught by William and Martha
Cash. These two colored teachers
are rendering a very good service to
the colored people of our communi
ty.
American-Made Toys
Gaining In Popularity
“Made In America" imprints will
be placed on toys this Christmas
more so than ever before.
This is the case, the commerce
department disclosed, both in the
United States and elsewhere in a
world where munitions plants are
literally crowding out toy manufac
turies. Here foreign toys will
amount to less than five per cent of
the total.
Japan, for instance, has shipped
to the United States and other
countries only about half as many
toys as last year. The department
said the principal reason for the de
cline was the requisitioning of raw
materials for military purposes.
Before the world war foreign toys
-—particularly German—were fa
miliar participants in American
Christmas activities, but now the
United States is exporting nearly
twice as many toys as it imports.
In the first 10 months of this year
—a period covering the bulk of
Christmas imports—the United
States bought $1,361,000 worth of
toys abroad, compared with $2,784,-
000 in the same months last year.
Japan’s shipments here totaled
about SBOO,OOO in the 10 months, or
about half of last year’s figure.
Rivers Wants Hold Regular
Session In January
Atlgpta.—Governor Rivers has an
nounced that he will insist on the
Georgia Legislature’s beginning its
sixty-day session in January, scotch
ing rumors that he would ask for
adjournment until mid-summer af
ter the ten-day organization session.
“It is absolutely necessary that
additional revenue be raised at once
to carry on the administration pro
gram and I expect to insist that the
regular session begin immediatedly
after the ten-day organization ses
sion in January,” Governor Rivers
said.
A movement has been started by
some members of the Legislature,
led by Representative Randall Ev
ans, of McDuffie county, to hold the
ten-day session for the introduction
of bills and then adjourn 'hr recess
until June to study the bills offered.
Some reports had it that adminis
tration leaders thought such a recess
might be advisable, as the financial
situation would begin to pinch hard
er toward June and impress upon
the legislators the necessity of pass
ing new tax measures.
The governor said that while he
had heard suggestions of such a
plan, he believed the majority of
the members of the General Assem
bly are ready to tackle the problem
of the state finances in January and
he will urge them to do so.
Construction of 539 Miles of
Lines Will Aid 20 Counties
Atlanta.—. Bids for construction of
539 additional miles of lines to serve
more than 2,000 farm homes in 20
counties will be received the end of
this month by two Georgia munici
palities.
On December 28, the Jackson
Electric Membership Corporation at
Jefferson will receive bids for 220
miles of lines with 1,157 meters in
seven counties—Banks, Barrow,
Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and
Madison.
Two days later, the Central Geor
gia Electric Membership Corporation
at Jackson will receive bids for 319
miles of lines to serve about 875
farm homes in Butts, Spalding, Jas
per, Putnam, Morgan, Lamar, Ful
ton, Henry, Monroe, Bibb, Jones,
Fayette and Clayton counties.
WISDOM BECOMES
STATE CONFEDERATE
PENSION DIRECTOR
Atlanta, Ga. —‘Former State Audi
tor Tom Wisdom assumed his duties
Friday as director of the Confeder
ate pension division.
He succeeded L. Thomas (Pat)
Gillen, who resigned to become per
sonal aide to Governor Rivers.
Wisdom, succeeded by Zach Ar
nold as auditor last spring, has been
serving as director of the unemploy
ment compensation division of the
State Department of Labor. He re
signed that job effective Friday. He
was auditor eight years and state
school auditor eight years.
Thursday, December 22, 1938.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Electittn of County and Community
Committeemen
Georgia farmers, having settled
the question of marketing quotas in
the December 10 referendum, arc
now turning their attention to elec
tion of the community and county
committeemen who actually super
vise the operation of the federal
farm program in the field.
The community and county com
mitteemen are being elected
throughout the state during the
month of December. All elections
are scheduled to be completed by
December 31.
Ev#ry farmer who signed a work
sheet indicating his desire to co
operate in the 1938 farm program is
automatically a member of his coun
ty Agricultural Conservation Asso
ciation.
Each community within a county
is entitled to elect three community
committeemen and a delegate to the
county convention. The county con
vention elects the County Commit
teemen. The county convention
delegate may or may not be a mem
ber of the community committee.
The community committees, under
the articles of association, are to as
sist the county committee in de
termining acreage allotments, norm
al yields and other agricultural facts
required under the program; to in
form farmers of the purposes and
provisions of the programs; and to
asist in conducting community meet
ings where the programs may be dis
cussed.
The county committees are re
sponsible for determining farm acre
age allotments, normal yields and
other agricultural facts, as well as
supervising the entire farm program
within the borders of the county.
The county committee also elects the
officers of the County Agricultural
Association.
The election in Jackson county is
Wednesday, December 21.
Keep Chickens Healthy
Jackson county farmers are ad
vised that no evidence has been
found to show that fowl paralysis
can be cured. The disease, com
monly known as range paralysis, at
times grows serious among Georgia
flocks. Few poultry raisers with
large flocks do not have some cases
to develop. The mortality is often
light, or there may be a loss of
or more during the pullet year.
Experiments have been conduct
ed on the theory that increased use
of vitamin E in chicken feed would
cure fowl paralysis, but so far ex
periments have not been successful.
Vitamin-E is a necessary require
ment in poultry rations, otherwise
eggs would not hatch. However, it
is pointed out, that since most feed
stuffs, such as green feed, corn, oats,
and wheat, contain some vitamin E,
the ordinary ration contains enough
without adding it as a supplement.
Range paralysis symptoms usually
begin to appear about the time the
chickens are fryer size, and they will
go down one or more at a time from
then on for 12 months or longer. It
may affect the largest and healthiest
looking pullets, especially about the
time they first begin to lay. The
chicken becomes lame in one or
both legs, or loses the use of its
body, or becomes blind in one or
both eyes. Any bird that develops
symptoms should be killed at once.
Poultry Meeting* To Be Held
We wish to call attention to a
series of poultry meetings to be
held in Jackson county the first week
in January. Tfiey are as follows:
Monday night, January 2, at 7:30,
Commerce, old High School Build
ing.
Tuesday night, January 3, at 7:30,
Jefferson, Martin Institute.
Wednesday night, January 4th, at
7:30, Talmo.
Thursday night, January sth, at
7:30, Braselton, School Building.
Mr. Arthur Gannon, Poultry
Specialist of the Agricultural Ex
tension Service, will be in charge,
and we are anxious that our people
attend one of these meetings.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
Work of re-building the burned
block on the public square is pro
gressing rapidly, and it will be only
a short time before the stores will be
again occupied by progressive mer
chants. *
Vol. 63. No. 27.
Supt. R. J. Kelly Report*
on Progress of Rural
Electric Lines
Specifications have been approved
and bids called for the construction
of the rural electric lines of the
Jackson Electric Membership Cor
poration, declared R. J. Kelly, super
intendent, in a letter to members
and prospective customers of the co
operative. The actual construction
firm is selected by competitive bid.
The complete text of the letter
follows:
To The Members and Prospective
Customers of The Jackson Electric
Membership Corporation:
Since I last reported to you, our
rural electrification project has been
making real progress. Our engineer,
The J. B. McCrary Engineering Cor
poration, has prepared construction
lines, and has asked contracting
firms to bid on them. Those bids
will be opened on December 28,
1938.
REA experts have examined the
specifications carefully, and found
them to be entirely adequate. By
following them, the construction
firm, to be selected by competitive
bid as above, will build sturdy, ser
viceable lines. They will bring us
electricity—yet, they will not be
more expensive than we can afford.
As soon as the bids are opened,
The J. B. McCrary Engineering Cor
poration, and REA will examine
them, to be sure that the bidders
have followed specifications. It will
probably take a couple of weeks to
get the constryetion contract execut
ed and approved by Administrator
John M. Carmody in Washington.
Then the contractor will be noti
fied to start to work at once. With
in a few weeks we should see some
actual construction activity right
here in our community.
Some projects have been held up
by difficulties in obtaining right-of
way permission from property own
ers for the lines to cross their land.
Ou,r loan from REA is for building
lines. None of the money can be
used for buying rights-of-way.
Since it is to the advantage of ali
of us to build the lines efficiently and
as inexpensively as possible, I hope
that you will sign a right-of-way
agreement readily when our repre
sentative calls on you. The form
has been carefully checked by our
attorney, George W. Westmoreland,
and REA lawyers. It is not a deed
to your land, nor is it a mortgage of
any sort. It merely permits the line
to be built on your property, and it
permits us to service the lines after
they are built.
Remember this is your office.
Come in and see what we have for
you. Go over the maps, read the
pamphlets we have available, let us
help you plan to use electricity
abundantly from the beginning.
Yours very truly,
R. J. Kelly, Supt.,
Jackson Electric Membership Corp.
THESE GOOD SHOWS COMING TO
THE ROOSEVELT THEATRE
Thursday and Friday: Tyrone
Power, Loretta Young, in “Suez.”
Here is a picture to suit every one.
It has romance, thrills and history
in the making. Believe it or not.
Also, Selected Metro Sport Reel.
Saturday: Buck Jones, Dorothy
Fay, in “The Law Of The Texan.”
If you want action, gun play and
thrills, be sure and see this one.
Also, chapter 12 of Johnny Mack
Brown, in “Flaming Frontiers.” The
comedy will be “The Three Stooges”
to entertain you again.
Monday: Henry Fonda, Barbara
Stanwyck, in “The Mad Miss Man
ton.” Here are two of your favorite
stars again in a gay, rollicking story,
to entertain, you. Don’t miss this
one. Universal News Reel, the Lat
est in World’s Events. Also, Select
ed Short Subject.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Andy
Devine, Preston Foster, Charles
Bickford, in “The Storm.” This
one will live in your memory for a
long time. Don’t fail to see it, with
these stars to entertain you. Chapter
6, of “The Lone Ranger.” Also, Se
lected Short Subject.
Coming soon, “Test Pilot,” and
“You Can’t Take It With You.”
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Williams, Mrs.
McKnight and Miss Laura McKnight
of Greenville, S. C., were guests
Sunday of relatives and friends in
Jefferson.