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Claud? Van Sant, of
nlle, was recently elected
lent of the Hobby Club for
’ear. Other officers include-' Ed
Jroover vice-president; Jack Da
vidson, secretary and treasurer;
ind John Braselton, chaplain.
Sherman Hughes and Howard
Vlillsaps spent last week-end at
iome in Gainesville.
The Glee Cfub rendered several
special numbers before the annual
State Convention of Kiwanians in
Macon Tuesday.
Marcus Sweat spent last week
end at his home in Waycross.
Rev. Chas. Forester was the
speaker in chapel Monday.
Bishop Arthur Moore has been
invited to speak to the students
Monday, October 28.
Forest English was at his home
f in Sandersville last week-end.
Emory Cromer, a student in the
Academy last y ear, was a visitor
ion the campus last Sunday.
Professor and Mrs. W. O. Dor
ough spent last week-end in Cor
dele and Montezuma.
, Rev. and Mrs. Chas. Forester
were in Macon Tuesday. Mrs. For
ester was the accompanist for the
Glee Club at its appearance be
fore the Kiwanians.
CARD OF THANKS
We "Wish to thank our friends
and neighbors for their service
rendered us. during the illness and
death of our father and hus
band.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Mote,
Mrs. M. M. Mote,
Maron Mote,
Howard Mote,
andBoyce Mote.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this opportuni
ty to express our heartfelt thanks
to our friends for the many ex
pressions of sympathy during our
bereavement. We will ever
remember the many kindnesses
from our friends.
Joe Hunt and family.
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Also a 3R. tenant house the a
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Georgians Play
In State Parks
Georgians played more this
summer in their own back yard
than they did last year. At least
that is indicated in statistics made
public by the State Parks Depart
ment. Attendance at the state
parks during July and August
shattered last summer’s record
One park alone showed an in
crease of 55 per cent.
A total of 85,047 persons flocked
to the seven state parks in July
and August for picpics, swim
ming, boating and a general good
time, according to Eugene
well, acting director, who
“I think this is especially sign!
ficant in view of the fact that this
nation has been in a state of anx
iety over the international situa- j
tion.”
Leading all others in attendance
was Indian Springs park, where
a total of 32.930 men, women and
children visited the grounds dur
ing the two months. This com
pares with 21,315 for the same
1939 period. Next came Vogel
State Park with 14,292. Records j
were not available for last year
but this year is said to be a con
siderable increase. The Alexan
der Stephens Park at Crawford
ville attracted 9,066 visitors, com
pared with 6,827 last year, an in
crease of 25 per cent. The Fort
Mountain Park at Chatsworth,
operating for the first time this
year, had 3,505 visitors in July
and August.
Santo Domingo Park at Bruns
wick, a purely historical area, at
tracted 1,115 persons compared
with 1,093 last year. The Laura
S. Walker Park at Waycross drew
13,400 fun seekers and 784 chil
dren who attended camps there.
Gist of the News: History was
printed in Atlanta last week. And
“printed” is the word for what is
said to be the largest newspaper
printing press in the south went
into action. It was the Atlanta
Journal’s new 16-unit press, op
erated by four one hundred horse
motors. The presses have a ca
pacity for turning out 120,000 32
page papers an hour. The new
machinery was dedicated at ap
propriate ceremonies . . . Geor
gia’s 30th division of the National
Guard has been called into active
military service, but one of its
majors will remain behind. He is
Roy Lecraw, mayor-elect of At
lanta, who, by special permission,
will not have to report except in
the event of war . • . The Septem
ber issue of the Tattnall Tattler,
monthly publication of the Geor
gia State Prison at Reidsville, goes
in for “leg-art.” It carries a smil
ing farmerette in the briefest of
play suits on the front cover, and
isside is a page spread of shape
ly girls in sports costumes as
scanty as the law allows . . . The
State Board of Regents has au
thorized a co-operative agreement
between the University of Georgia
School of Medicine at Augusta
and the Department of Health to!
conduct a two weeks course for
physicians of the state on treat
ment of veneral diseases.
With the Editors: Editor Flem
ing is receiving congratulations on
his fine weekly, the Early County
News at Blakely, reaching its 71st
birthday . . . Tom Gregory, Jr.,
former editor of the Eatonton
Messenger, and recently elected
Putnam County school superin
tendent, is serving as temporary
editor of the Montezuma Citizens
Georgian. He will serve in this
capacity until January 1 when he
assumes his school post . . . The
recent souvenir edition of the
Rossville Open Gate-Catoosa
County Record was a knockout.
Bound with a glossy cover, the
supplement carried 16 pages in
addition to the regular edition . . .
Trenton’s Dade County Times
carried this: “They tell it on a
local young squirt that the brake
on his car became out of order
and it was three weeks before he
discovered it” . . • Lakeland’s La
nier County News says: “We’ve
never had any time to lose with
pessimist. Life’s too short to
ten to such creatures” . . . The
Summerville News believes:: “If
human beings knew half
they think they know the world
would be much better” . . .
erville’s, the Clinch County News
decides: “Any person who puts off
small things from day to day, will
' probably want to do the same in
i a moment of crisis” The Pel
. . .
ham Journal gives this advice: “It
; is a wise youth who selects the
service he prefers in lieu of wait
ing to be conscripted and take
what is dished out to him” .
The Alma Times asks: “Why is it
that men of fifty years of age are
not as intelligent as their sons?”
A more cordial relation between
i sportsmen and landowners will
tend to increase conservation of
Georgia's wildlife, both game and
fish.
Lack of sufficient pasturage is
a handicap to most Georgia farm
ers from the standpoint of live
stock production, even on a home
consumption basis.
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tfter five years of controlled fertilization, a "fool proof" chrysanthemum
has been developed by University of Chicago botanists. It blooms two
months earlier than customary and withstands sub-zero temperatures.
Students Betty Jane Nelson and Gladys Garner are admiring plants
}j ave been exposed to a 35-degrees-below-zero temperature and are
nevertheless very much alive.
Activities of Health Department
Reporting an increase in public
h< alth activities throughout the
State whereby more of the popu
lation is now protected by an in
crease in local health service, Dr.
T. F. Abercrombie, director of the
State Department of Public Health,
described activities of the health
department for the past six
months Friday at the
nual meeting of the Georgia State
Board of Health.
The meeting was presided over
by Robert F. Maddox, Chairman,
and was attended by the follow
ing members; Dr. Cleveland
Thompson, Millen; Dr. J. R. Mc
Michael, Quitman; R. C. Ellis,
Americus; Dr. J. A. Corry, Barnes
ville; Dr. C. L. Ridley, Macon; Dr.
W. P. Harbin, Jr., Rome; Dr. H. W.
Clements, Adel; Dr. C. L. Ayers,
Toccoa; Dr. D. N. Thompson, El
berton: Dr. M. D. Hodges, Mari
etta; Dr. W. T. Edmunds, Au
gusta; Dr. Pope Holliday, Athens;
Dr. Paul McGee, Waycross.
The director’s report of the ac
tivities of the various divisions of
I he department was for the six
month period ending June 30, and
included a comparative report of
deaths for the six-month periods
of 1939 and 1940, which he point
ed out indicates there may be an
increase in the death rate for 1940.
“For this reason,” he said, “the
reports of diseases considered a
menable to public health measures
are being watched closely to guard
against any increase that might
Cotton Marketing
A national cotton
quota for the marketing year
ginning August 1, 1941 was an
nounced this week by T. R
Breedlove, acting administiativ
officer in charge. The nation?.
quota is the same as the one ii
effect this year.
With normal yields, it will make
possible the marketing of approx
imately 12 million bales of cotton,
produced on an acreage near that
of the 1940 season. In 1940 cot
ton acreage allotments totaled
27,900,000 acres, while farmers
planted about 25,100.000 acres.
The 1941 marketing quota will
not become effective unless ap
proved by two-thirds of the eligi
ble cotton growers who vote in a
referendum to be held Saturday,
December 8.
The cotton marketing quota
program for 1941 will be the
same as that in effect for the 1938,
1939 and 1940 crops, Mr. Breed
love reports. The 1940 quota
was approved by 71.2 percent
the producers who voted in
referendum held December 9,
1939. Similarly, the quota pro
grams for the 1938 and 1939 crops
were approved by a large major
it yof the producers voting in the
two referendums.
“Regardless of the outcome
the December 7 referendum,
conservation phases of the
farm program will be in effect
1941,” the AAA official
I out. “Marketing quotas are
signed to supplement the
vation part of the program by
suring farmers who plant
their acreage allotments that
efforts to adjust supplies will
j be nullified by
Farmers who plant within
acreage allotments under the
servation program will be able
market all of the cotton grown
their allotted acreage without
| alty. in
“If marketing quotas are
feet .producers who market in
cess of thir quotas will be
quired to pay a penalty of
cents a pound on all cotton
in excess of marketing quotas
up for thei rfarms. iWth
in effect, cotton loans may
made as authorized by the
cultural Adjustment Act of
oe prevented.” The report showed
an increase of 6.5 in the crude
death rate for the State, the rate
increasing from 478.7 to 509.7 for
the six-month period. However,
the birth rate shows an increase
of 3.5, a rise from 9.1 to 9.4.
During the six-month period
29,533 birth, 16,035 death and
1,494 stillbirth certificates were
registered with the State Health
Department, as compared with 28,-
311 birth, 14.950 death, and 1,456
stillbirth certificates registered for
the first six months of 1939.
Notable among decreases in
death rates from various
is the number of maternal deaths
which dropped from 173 to 159,
the rate from 6.1 to 5.4, showing
a decrease of 11.9 per cent. The
infant mortality rate decreased 9.1
per cent, and there was a
decline of 1.6 per cent in the still
birth rate.
Diseases showing decreases in
death rates are typhoid fever,
phus fever, dysentery,
litis, pellagra, diarrhea and
ritis, malformation and early
fancy diseases, and suicide.
On June 30 there were 507 pub
lic health workers employed
full-time health departments,
public health nurses in the unor
ganized counties, and 34 worker:
in regional health offices,
a total of 577 persons engager
in local public health work ii
Georgia, serving 71.8 per cent o
the State’s population.
Farmers Burn
Many Acres Of
Valuable Timber
Uncontrolled forest fires have
always been a bane to timber
growers in Georgia, although a
great deal of educational work
has been done by the various pub
lie agencies operating in the state
last year saw the worst fire sea
son in 10 years.
Wondering why this should oc
cur, the Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension Service set out to deter
mine why people burned
woods. Eighteen hundred
nvers were plied with the
tion: “Why do people burn the
woods?” Landlords and
both white and colored, were
vassed. And here’s what was
found:
High ranking reason for burn
ing (357 farmers) was to obtain
better or earlier grazing. Most ol
this occurred in south
Famers who burned to kill
and pests totaled 320, while
burned to kill boll weevils, 113
farmers burned during a
time when the damage would
least to keep from having a fire
during an «specially
| period, and 101 stated that
fires usually started from
burning of fields, terraces
j hedgerows plowing, preparatory to
| Not all of the 1800 famers be
lieved in burning the woods.
ever, despite their personal
vtctions many of them
losses from woods fires.
hundred and nineteen such
ers figured that people burned
j woods because they were
j aware of the damage being
j 45 others stated that their
fires usually started from
burning thickets and swamps
run out rabbits and other
44 farmers figuied that some
burned “just to see the blaze.”
Other reasons for burning
eluded smokers, improved habi
tat for game, habit, or
spite, and to protect fences
buildings. Seventeen farm
thought fire was good for the
ber.
Some of the reasons for
ing were based on a
I conviction that fires would
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tually alleviate certain conditions.
And the fact that a man may burn
during a time when a fire would
do less damage in order to keep
from having a fire during a dry
windy season indicates that he is
confident that a fire will occur
anyhow— and that it will be un
controllable.
Farmers used to follow cotton
with cotton on the same piece of
ground, year after year. This was
done because it was thought to be
a proper practice, since it had
been done for generations. Then
farmers discovered that such a
practice impoverished the soil. So
they instituted rotations of va
rious crops in order to return to
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the soil certain minerals which a
one-crop system had depleted.
Nowadays, every farmer in Geor
gia practices some system of crop
rotation.
When farmers become convin
ced that uncontrolled woods fires
are injurious t otimber and cause
erosion, every one of them will
make it a practice to keep fire out
of the woods.
FIRST GRADY SHOW
Farm folk in Grady county
have decided to exhibit their young
livestock every year from now on,
since their first fat calf show and
sale held recently proved to be
successful. Grady County
Th ursday, October 17, l94Q
H. L. Trussell reports that 23 calv
es were entered in the show. Elsie
Maxwell, county 4-H club girl, won
both grand and reserve champion
ships. Prize money totaled $85, all
of which was donated by Cairo
businessmen. The show calves
were sold for $689, along with
134 other head of cattle which
sold at the sale for $2,788. The
livestock committee of the local
chamber of commerce
the show' and sale in cooperation
with the county agent and voca
tional agriculture teachers.
We are none of us perfect.
we do anything at all we will
criticized, but I reckon it is better
to be criticized and thought
I than ab out
entirely forgotten. w
should like for folks to know
live inthe same world with
and if we try we can teac h them,
tht we have 0Ur lttie them
well as they have Place a ,
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too, for they ,
are nearly as kr
from being perfect as we. Then
are none of us but who get
solation from here. con.
Awards totaling 20,000 for
tree seedlings, tit
for use ln 4-H for.
estry projects, will be given t«
the winning county agents this
fall in a reforestation contest.