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By J. O. MARTIN
In my memory of January 7th,
I I paid a tribute to Mrs. Pauline
I Martin McCain, wife of J. R
McCain, President Emeritus of
। Agnes Scott College. Mrs. Mc-
I Cain passed away on December
29th and since that date “The
I Women of the Decatur Presby
terian Church” of which she was
! a member (Mrs. Joseph K. Muse,
Mrs. R. L. Pain 1 , Mrs, S. H.
Askew, committee) have issued
in brochure form a most beauti
ful tribute to her memory, as
has been stated previously in
this column she was a daugh
ter of the late Dr. J. E. Martin,
Presbyterian Minister and Mrs.
Martin of Hopewell, Newton
County.
This was a remarkable family.
There were six children born to
i this couple, and every one re
। ceived a college education, an
unusual accomplishment for any
family anywhere to achieve and
all became outstanding citizens.
Miss Pauline, her brother Edd
and I were young teachers in
the Newton System back in the
°arly years of the century; and
having this acquaintance in
memory I requested that she.
Miss Pauline, give me a sketch
of the Martin family, which she
did on February 18, 1953. I give
it herewith:
“My parents came to Newton
County in 1871 from Due West,
, S. C. My father was from Fair
i field County, S. C., out from
Wimisboro, near Columbia. My
f parents were married in October
1864. His father had died short
• ly before. My father had been in
> the Army and had typhoid fever
and was never strong, so he had
. to come home. His only brother,
James, age 17, volunteered to
take his place and was killed in
। his first battle around Richmond.
“This left my parents, grand
\ mother and an aunt in the home
at Fairfield before Sherman
came along and burned it. They
had no home, so they moved to
Due W’est, which was my moth
er’s home. My mother’s
' father was President t>f
Erskine College there. My father
decided to be a minister, so he
' entered the seminary the. re and
। my mother taught music in the
Woman’s College, now a part of
Erskine College. My oldest sis
' ter, "Lois, was born there in Due
West and my grandmother cared
I for her whiie my father studied
। and my mother taught music.
■ My grandmother Martin was a
I part of our family and lived
i with us until she died at Hope
. well in 1871,
1 The children who were born
after they came to Georgia (at
Hopewell) were Grier, who has
been in the paint business (F. J.
Cooledge Company) in Atlanta
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nearly all of his life. He and his
wife still live; Fannie who mar
ried Mr. F. J. Cooledge of Atlan
ta died in 1918; Alice who mar
ried Mr. Jim Stephenson, hard
ware merchant in Covington,
■ died in 1918; Edward taught
school and farmed and finally
bought a big farm at Covington
where he died in 1934; Laura
married L. Wilson Jarman of
Covington, farmer and College
Professor and now President
Emeritus of Mary Baldwin Col
lege, Staunton, Virginia, where
he served fifteen years as Presi
dent. She died in Florida in
' 1949; Pauline, the youngest, mar
ried James R. McCain (Presi
dent Emeritus of Agnes Scott
College) and lives in Decatur.
“You asked how many of. us
' attended college. All six of us
( were sent back to Erskine where
' we graduated.
“When my parents with their
’ first child, Lois, moved to Geor
‘ gia in 1871 there were no pub
lic schools here then, so as soon
। as the older children became
old enough to be in school, Mam
, ma took them together with
‘ some of the neighbor’s children
| and taught them in one of our
! upstairs rooms. Then when pub
lie schools were established and
a school house was built at
’ Hopewell, mother taught there
I 1 until mv sister, Lois, graduated
from College and then she
i taught the school. She married
within two or three years but
1 her husband died during the
;' next five months. She then came
; back and taught the school near
i ly ten years, with one year out
, for study at College during
i which time our Pastor’s wife
taught us. She then married
again a minister and went to
live near Memphis, Tennessee.
She died in 1940.
“My sister, Alice, taught one
j or more years before she mar
l ried. Laura taught one year (at
Palmer Institute, Oxford). Ed’s
: wife. Miss Susie Ramsey, taught
several years at Hopewell before
she married. I taught four years
at Livingston. My father kept
his charge as pastor of Hope
well from 1871 until 1890 and
lived until 1907. He preached at
times when he was so weak he
sat in his chair in the pulpit
and this is the only memory I
have of his preaching at times
he would become so enthused
over what he was trying to im
press upon his audience that he
would rise and stand for a while
in his earnestness.
“My mother always taught, I
suppose, in the Sabbath School.
She organized the “One Cent
Band,” which she called it,
where each child was supposed
to give at least one cent, or pen
ny, a week; and after the regu
lar Sunday School classes were
held, all the children and young
people would gather around the
chair where she sat. Once a
month she held a Missionary
meeting directed from a map on
the near by wall where she
would locate the missionary
which the church supported. On
other Sundays she taught a reg
ular Bible Lesson when a little
iron Bank was passed to receive
the “One Cent” or more collec
, tion. She organized the Women
of the Church into the Ladies
Aid Sosciety which met once a
month. She took a part in this
until her death in 1911.”
Mrs. McCain also gave me a
• sketch of the life of Dr. Henry
' Quigg. This sketch will be given
I later.
Another eminent Presbyterian
Minister of West Newton. This
sketch will be given later.
Robinson Attends
Short Course At
University of Ga.
Plans are nearing completion
for an “auld lang syne" reunion 1
of all GSCW alumnae attending
the GEA convention in Atlanta.
_ March 18 to 20.
According to Mrs. C. D. Ram
sey, Jr., of 709 Floyd St. Coving
ton. the reception-tea will bo held
in the parlors of the Henry G’-pdy i
Hotel from 3 until 5, March 18.
I Arrangements for the event are
being made by Mrs. Wilbe R.!
Wilson GSCW alumnae leader, in 1
cooperation with the two GSCW
| clubs in Atlanta.
Among the faculty and admin
istration who will be on hand i
to greet alumnae will be Dr. i
Henry King Stanford, GSCW
I president; Dr. Donald MacMahon,
■dean of instruction; and Sara
j ßethel, alumnae secretary.
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WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON — The De
partment of Agriculture is about
to embark on a nation - wide
search for empty spaces —moth
balled merchant ships, empty
airplane hangars, vacant garages,
abandoned Army bar r a cks,
closed -down movie houses.
The department needs more
space in which to store an esti
mated 280 million bushels of
farm products which are expect
ed to be harvested this summer, i
but for which there is no avail-1
able storage.
If the search is unsuccessful. ;
still another headache will be
added to the Republican ad
ministration with which to cope
in its effort to solve the delicate
farm situation.
Under current government
price support laws, farmers who
avaif themselves of federal sub-1
sidies must find storage space |
for their crops. If they can’t, I
then they have to assume any
loss resulting from spoilage.
The search for space by farm
ers will therefore be a hotly com
petitive one, with the adminis
tration blamed by those who lose i
out. ,
They will charge that the gov- i
ernment has not done enough to ■
build bins itself or to induce
private construction.
This was a major issue, used
adroitly by the Democrats in the
19 4 8 presidential campaign
against the Republican 80th
Congress. It was credited with
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• TREATY FIGHT — An unu
sual aspect of the prolonged and
vain search for a compromise on
the Bricker treaty constitutional
amendment is the fact that at no
time was the administration’s
top foreign policy spokesman in
Congress a party to the negotia
tions.
The absence of Senator Alex
ander Wiley (R), Wisconsin from
the conferences caused con
siderable speculation, for he is
chairman of the Senate foreign
relations committee, which
handles treaties.
Wiley’s non-participation un
derscores his opposition to the
Bricker formula for curbing a
President’s treaty - making
powers. It is no secret that
Wiley would prefer to leave the
Constitution alone. He may go
along, however, with mild pro
prosals being advanced by Sen
ate leaders.
Senator Walter F. George (D).
Georgia, the top - ranking mi
nority member on Wiley’s com
mittee, was a leading negotiator
until his patience ran out. Some
wondered if George was not pull
ing GOP chestnuts out of the
fire. The senator is a recognized
authority on constitutional mat
ters, especially those in the for
eign field.
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• RATS! — The rats have been
virtually conquered, but mice
still infest the hallowed halls
and walls of the nation’s Capitol.
They come in through pipelines,
largely sewers extending to less
revered reaches of Washington.
Several tiny black rodents
make the Senate press gallery
their home and appear occasion
ally elsewhere in the sprawling
building.
However, rats have apparently
disappeared entirely, although
rumor has it there is still a hold
out colony of large-size rodents
in an unused and unvisited area
below ground.
Rats were once so bad a prob
lem that the authorities employ-
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