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Thursday, July 20, 1961
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Channing Cope
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i Continued From Page 1
’ Southern farmlands washing
’ into the sea; the gullies grow
ing deeper, the rills widening.
He had watched the fine rich
loams of Southeast farms de
stroyed by heavy rains, and
the red clay bake and pack in
to hard earth by summer sun,”
it was said. This turned him to
championing efforts to get
I Georgia farmers to plant
i grasses to hold the soil efforts
' which brought him many state
honors after 1927.
In 1950, he was named Pi-o
gressive Farmer Magazine’s
Georgia “Farmer of the Year."
Earlier, he had won the first
Southeastern Peanut Bowl
; Award, and was once made an
' honorary citizen of Abbeville,
, La.
i Mr. Cope, son of a Baptist
i preacher, was born in Louis
| ville, Ky. He moved to Atlanta
j shortly after World War I and
I worked with Georgia Power
■ Company’s Agricultural Divi
| sion.
It was during this time,
friends said he watched wide
spread soil waste and decided
to do something about it. In
1927, he bought with a friend
the 700-acre Yellow River
Farm in Newton County, near
■ Covington, and began to ex
periment with various types of
i grasses.
In 1932, he made an unsuc
cessful bid for a Georgia con
j gressional seat, running on a
I platform against the Volstead
Act. In 1947, he gave up his
post with Georgia Power Co.
| to devote fulltime to his farm
and his writings.
From 1945 to 1950, he wrote
a daily column for The At
lanta Constitution and made
I daily broadcasts for Radio Sta
| tion WCON (WGST).
His column and broadcasts
j were spiced with humour, and
I until his death, he still made
| farm comments broadcast over
। a Covington station. The broad
। w’asts were on Saturday, and
j Mr. Cope was scheduled to
j make one this Saturday, the
| family said.
Mr. Cope was well-known
I for his humour. Constitution
1 friends said the most likely
pose of the man was one of him
' sitting on his front porch rock
। ing. He very rarely visited The
. Constitution during his column
; days, mailing his pieces in from
his farm, and sitting back and
rocking once they’d gone off.
Some even compared the
Kentucky native’s humour to
that of another Kentuckian,
I Irvin S. Cobb. Atlanta Consti
: tution Publisher Ralph McGill
j once tabbed him the modern
I “Johnny Grassseeds.”
Mr. Cope's definition of
j “Front Porch” farming was one
whereby farmers planted
! “waterproof grasses,” that is.
I grasses which would grow all
year in rainy season or out.
Then, the farmer could sit
back, according to Mr. Cope,
and “farm from his front porch
if he were equipped with a tel
evision outfit or a highpowered
telescope and electrical con
nections to his (farm) gate.”
National Geographic Maga
zine, one of many publications
to which Mr. Cope contributed,
once carried the tale of a Cope
“Emissary” cruise on the Gulf
around St. Petersburg. In it,
Cope told about dreaming up
the “Fuddy Duddy Society of
America.”
The “Fuddy Duddy Society,”
according to Mr. Cope, was
limited to membership of those
“who long to stop competing,
I give up responsibility, stop
i belonging, observe silence, be
alone, think vicariously, ob
serve women passively, live
: simply, be independent, point
I with pride and view with alarm
I and seek serenity.”
That was in the mid-forties,
some years before American
exurbia and status-seeking in
trospection became a national
pastime. Mr. Cope said some
“800 serene souls” belonged to
his “Fuddy Duddy” organiza
tion.
Besides his daily column ap-
I pearing in The Constitution
I from 1945-'SO and his daily
' broadcasts on WCON (now
' WGST), Mr. Cope turned to
- writing. His book, “Front Porch
Farmer,” sold in 1949 72,000
I copies and contained a fore-
I word by Author Louis Brom
: field (“The Rains Came,” etc.)
| Like his columns, critics said
I it was spicy reading.
In it Mr. Cope summed up
I his philosophy of farming in
the closing chapter.
i “Farming,” he said, “is a
i way of life. There is more tn
: dependence to be found on the
I farm than elsewhere. Security.
of course; anyone can make a
. living farming. But farming is
I characterized by a form of in
| dependence not to be found in
|| towns or cities. It comes from
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being in position to make yout
own decisions. . . . You are not
a part of some gigantic ma
chine . . . with an electric wire
and an automobile, you can
have the comforts of the city
without its evils.”
But his comments were not
all humor. His championing of
grasses for Georgia lands he’ii
seen ravaged by erosion is
credited to saving much Geor
gia land and widespread adap
tion of fescue and Kentucky 31
grasses and kudzu. And his
promotion of grass planting
brought him the Progressive
Farmer Magazine “Georgia
Farmer of the Year, 1950"
award, the 1948 Peanut Bow!
Award and various other hon
ors.
Yet, for all his championing
of grass planting to protect the
land, a long-time dream the
Kentucky native cherished
from the time he moved to his
Yellow River farm in 1927 was
never realized. Yellow River,
which he longed to see “turn
back green.” its original natur
al color without silt, still some
times runs yellow.
Mr. Cope was a member cf
the Church of the Good Shep-
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herd Episcopal Church.
He held a 1939 law degree
from Woodrow Wilson School
of Law and was a “Kentucky
Colonel,” and a member of
Lions International, Swine
Breeders Association, Georgia
Sheep Breeders Association.
4-H Clubs of Georgia. Friends
of the Land and various con
servation groups.
He is survived by his widow,
the former Miss Ruth Gentry
of Gainesville, and by a broth
er, Willard Cope of Englewood.
Fla.
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