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A 4-H Club Week Story
National 4-H Club Week—Mar.
4-12- a week when 4-H club mem
bers will reminisce of ’49—plan for
’SO celebrate achievements
pledge to be be.ter 4-H’ers—pledge
to l;e more like Sam Black.
iSam Black is an orphan.
At 15, he doesn’t know what it’s
like to have a mother and father
and real brothers. But Sam has
younger brothers—lots of them.
They live with him at the Metho
dist Children’s Home in DeKalb
County.
many of them are in the
same boat with me,” he said, glanc
ing from one bright-eyed young
ster to another—then another.
"They have never known what
it is like to have a home and par
ents of their own,” he continued.
“I want to do everything I can to
make up to them for the way life
has treated me.”
But Sam Black wasn’t feeling
sorry for himself—far from it.
He’s making the most of life—a lot
more than a lot of boys with a
mother and father and real bro
thers are doing.
Through 4-H club activity, Sam
is helping himself and others—
others in the same boat.
His 4-H emphasis project last
year -was gardening.
"Guess I have shown more kids
how to weed vegetable gardens
than anyone else,” he said.
And what did Sam’s weeding and
working and worry win for him?
Just first in the state for garen
ing that and the respect of his
younger brothers and a lot more
4-iH’ers.
iSam, however, was not satisfied
with just winning first in the state
gardening contest. He wanted more
and he got it—got it without the
help of a mother and a father and
real brothers. He was district win
ner in sweet potatoes.
That wasn’t all—not for this
boy! Last year he raised two beef
calves, worked in a dairy, grew an
acre of Dixie No. 17 hybrid corn—
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all in addition to growing two and
one half acres of potatoes, being
an active scout leader, and playing
".'.oil'all on the Avondale high
school team.
He still found time to at rend the
National 4-H club congress in
Chicago last year.
"Since he won the trip to Chica
go, he has almost become an idol
of the young boys in the orphans’
home,” county agent E. P. McGee
said. The county agent continued:
“We are constantly beseiged with
calls from other 4-H members at
the home concerning their own 4-
H projects. We tell them to see
Sam, and Sam is always ready to
help them with their problems and
records.” ’
What better pledge than this
could 4-H club members make: "To
be more like Sam Black.”
Wildlife Camp
(By Joye Faircloth, Delegate 1949)
Five of us, Ina Trawick, Bar
tow Faircloth, Jane Spooner, Gar
ner Trawick and myself, Joye,
Faircloth, completed wildlife pro
jects. The reward for completing
the project was a trip to Camp
Wahsega. This camp is located in
the Blue Ridge Mountains of
North Georgia, in the Chattahoo
chee National Forest, about 350
miles from Donalsonville, Georgia
our home town.
After we arrived at the camp,
we were introduced to some of the
people who make the camp possi
ble. Around seven that night we
went to the recreational hall and
had folk dances and games.
! The camp is very beautiful at
.night when the moon comes over
, the mountains to peek at us. One
can stand for hours and enjoy the
beautiful scenery.
i We started the day off with a
brisk hike up the mountain side.
While we were hiking we learned
about the trees surrounding us.
We learned their names, and what
was manufactured from each.
During the- days we were there
we learned the importance of our
wildlife, soil conservation, and our
forests. I never realized there was
so much to learn about them.
Yes, we did learn many things
while we were at camp wahsega,
but the most important thing we
learned was how to get along with
other people and how to appreciate
them more.
The night before we left, there
was a Candle light service in
which we all took part. Words
can’t describe the beauty of it. The
things we did still linger in my
mind.
It was awfully hard to say
■ good-lbye to the many friends we
made while we were there. But if
we all worked hard maybe we
would get to see each other at the
■ camp next year. Knowing this it
was a little easier to say good
bye.
My trip to Camp Wahsega gave
,me a better understanding of the
1 things I hardly kn-ew existed. It
brought me closer to some of the
people that believe in the same
' things I do. The ones that took the
ame pledge I did.
I pledge my head to clearer
I thinking—-My heart to greater
loyalty—-My hand to larger ser
vice—and My Health to better liv
ing, for my club, my community,
and my country.
If we abide by this pledge, sure
ty there will be a better world in
i which to live.
• • •
My 4-H Forestry
Project
(By Bobby Hornsby)
I have planted six acres of pine
! trees by myself and helped to
: plant 20 more acres.
In June, 1949, I attended the
i forestry camp in Waycross, Ga.
. There were approximately 100
[ boys there. We had fun as well as
: hard work. The fun we had was
swimming, soft ball, and horseshoe.
The work we had was putting out
forest fires, planting pine trees
and going to classes. While we
were in Waycross they made a
movie and I was in it. Melvin Al
day went to the Forestry camp
too. Ray Spooner and Rudolph Mc-
Donald will attend the camp this
year.
In July six others besides my
self, went t-o Aimericus on demon
strations. My demonstrait ion was
on forestry. I didn’t win first place
and I didn’t win last, but I did win
an award of excellence. I am plan
ning to enter the Forestry contest
again this year.
I am learning lots from planting
pine trees. I have learned that we
do need a tree planting program
in Seminole County. People will
say—" What’s the use of planting
pine trees, you can’t make any
money on them, that it will take
too long for them to grow and that
they will probalbly be dead when
the trees get ready to be cut and
sold.” That isn’t true. We planted
some ten years ago and they are
big enough now to sell for pulp
wood and in ten yeans more they
will be big enough to make lumber
out of. If you should die after you
have sei the trees out, you will
prclbaibly have some children who
could realize something out of
them.
I have learned also that it would
not pay to plant, trees on your best
land. You would want them to be
put on -poor land that won’t grow
anything else. You couls make
more on your best land by row
cropping it. The Land where I
planted my trees was the poorest
land we had. The land would grow
good pasture, but you could keep
the pasture and the trees on the
same land.
DONALSONVILLE, (GA.) NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 10TH, 1950.
WILL ROGERS SAID IT FIRST—BUT
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS THOUGHT IT
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