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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXIII. No. 42
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1933
ESTABLISHED 1870
SEAMAN HARRISON
KILLED ON U.S. SHIP
FARM, FIELD AND FURR9W GEORGIA TEACHERS NR A CODE CHANGES WAGON FAIR WELL ATTENDED
-.t y A8ent TO GET EMPLOYMENT! FOR SMALL TOWNS
Nearly 70,000 persons tramped
Cotton In 1934 j the sawdust of the Georgia State
Many questions have been ask- Program Aided by Se veral Amendments Necessary to I - it ( x l )(,> 'bon that closed in Macon
in the past few weeks as to ~ . Saturday night after
Millions of Federal Funds Conditions in Country
Grovania Boy Victim of Ac-
. j . r- i w? i i ed in the past
cident, r uneral W ednesday w hat the government plans to do
| with the cotton acreage next — I
SAN PEDRO. Calif. Oct. 19. -'year, the only answer I can ATLANTA, Ga.-Five hundred WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 23.
A naval board of inquiry was ex- £ ;ve18 that I do not know deli- applications for the employment —Under the pressure of an ad-
pected to return a verdict of ac- n .'t e ly but have a little informa- of Georgia school teachers in the verse farm sentiment, NRA
cidental death Thursday after tlon - My understanding is that Federal school relief program Tuesday pulled out of the coun-
compleung an investigation of J the cut wanted next year will be have been approved by the State, try’s villages and small towns,
GEORGIA ROAD WORK
WILL START HOI 7
coming
out of the depression in the best
season in years,” officials an
nounced yesterday.
Gate receipts more than doubl
ed those of any season in the
, past few years as crowds filled
| Central City park every night
Construction Starts Week Af-
tsr Contracts Are Let
the death of .lames F Hanison, in th ? neighborhood of 40 per
seaman second class, on the decki cen ^ ^ ess than that planted this
of the battleship U. S. S. lYnn-A ear ; Just how that cut will
sylvania. be distributed is not yet known.
Harrison was engaged in a the statement has been made
friendly wrestling match with that state and county allotments
John S DeJarnette, Jr., another! Wl11 be made - The acreage plai t-
sailor, when he was thrown to! edfor past three or five
the deck, breaking his neck. lie "° ars will in a laree measesure to g e t under way immediately
died within a tew minutes determine our cut u The be; t T h e majority of unemployed
The victim's father, John G. I to do now is wait until we teachers will be given work in
and and announced a protective chain c j beaN -' tain drowned open-.
- - eep mer . day prospects Monday, i
Department of Education
forwarded to the Georgia Relief of local tribunals to
Commission. ! chants from hiking prices too
In t h e four point program! high,
which will be aided by several. This first major change in the
million dollars of Federal funds, industrial recovery program was
one adult school has already be- taken under an executive order
gun operation with qthers slated I by President Roosevelt, forecast
by a single sentence in his Sun
day night address to the nation.
Harrison, lives at Grovania, Ga. | have definite information regard-
—Atlanta Journal. . mg the proposition and then ap-
The body of young Harrison ! V to our own business. This
arrived at Clinchfield Tuesdayi information «ill be put into the
noon under special escort. Funer-i hands of the people as soon as it
al services were conducted at the ' s received.
Hayneville Baptist church at 3] I he cotton loans of ten cents
o’clock Wednesday afternoon, P er P° ,ind are altogether depen
Rev. Haynes, of Macon, officiat
ing. Interment was in Ever
green cemetery at Perry.
Besides his father and mother,
he is survived by two brothers,
J. B. Harrison, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, and Luther Harrison, of
Grovania, and one sister, Miss
Edna Harrison of Grovania.
ORGANIZE CLASSES
FOR ILLITERATES
ATLANTA, Ga.—Organization
of teachers for work in regular
school systems and special illit
eracy classes under the coopera
tion of the state school depart
ment and relief agencies is well
under way, according to officials
of the school department. Three
hundred persons have applied
through county superintendents
and countv relief administrators
for relief teaching work.
The national relief administra
tion recently authorized the use
of relief funds for emergency
work and an illiteracy campaign.
P. S. Barrett is in charge of the
work for the school department.
this part of the program, Dr. M.
D. Collins, state school superin
tendent, announced.
Dr. Collins has placed Paul
Barrett, director of the school
census bureau, in charge of the
details of the huge program, and
the attaches of the education de
partment are working day and
night in an effort to
dent up m the acceptance of the
plan of reduction next year
We do not have this information [proved applications to
in full yet but understand efforts
are being made to rush the pro
per forms, etc., out immediately
so it can be put ir.to operation.
Small Grain
An exception under the order
was that chain stores, wherever
located, will remain under code
regulation. Also small factories,
those doing interstate business
and those employing more than
five people still have NRA watch
ing over them even in the other
wise exempt towns of 2,500 or
less.
submit ap-l The order’s issuance concided
the relief I with promulgation of the retail
heads. trade code.
Dr. Collins himself is attend-1 At the same time also the
ing joint district meetings of the j president had made public his
Georgia Educational association; own definition of the employer’s
and the High School association I right to hire and fire a worker
It is very gratifying to see the
amount of int rest in planting
wheat for home use. The great
er per cent of the people with
whom I talk with are planning
to put in a few acres of this
grain to save a few dollars in
and is conferring with local ion a basis of merit,
school heads regarding the Fed-j Recognizing the weight of
eral program. Approximately j farm sentiment against the price
10,000 unemployed G e o r g i a increases NRA has caused, Hugh
teachers will be given work in S. Johnson, NRA executive, is-
the Federal program, with the j sued a lengthy statement on the
... main emphasis placed on a great president’s order which said that
the food bill next year. There is! illiteracy eradication drive. Free j while “it would be a tragic folly
no doubt but what prices of flour text books will be given children to turn millions of the reemploy-
- of oersons who are already on re-led back on the streets on the ar
gument that thus the cost of
CARD OF THANKS
next year will be considerably
above what they were this year
and a few dollars saved this way
ma yhelp.
10,000 MEN MOVED
TO SOUTHERN C.C.C.
Wo wish to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation for i he
many kindnesses shown us during
our recent bereavetni nt.
Mrs. S. W. Hickson.
Mr. and Mrs. Seatie Hickson,
Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Hickson.
MOON’S BRIGHTNESS
ALTERS EACH NIGHT
lief rolls, it was said.
FIFTH SUNDAY PROGRAM AT
ELKO, GROVANIA & BONAIRE
An unemotional French astronomer,
O. Uougler, of the observatory at
Strasbourg, says Pathfinder Magazine,
has discovered that even the full moon
actually does vary in brightness from
one night to another.
For several years, Itougier reported
recently to the French Academy of
Sciences, in Paris, measurements have
been made-of the brightness of moon
light on all clear nights at two observa
tories, the one at Strasbourg and the
other at Sanary. On comparing the
measurements considerable variations
were found, not explainable by
-dental errors.
In their measurements of the bright
Ten thousand members of the
Civilian Conservation Corps are
being moved into southern camps
from the north where winter cli
mate has made work in the for
ests impossible.
Fifty-one companies from
Montana, Idaho, and Utah, made
up of recruits from New York
and New Jersey will be in south
ern camps when the movement
is completed, headquarters of
the Fourth Corps Area announc-
Saturaay. Approximately thir
ty-five of the companies already I ^hich will
have reached their new camps, 1
and other trainloads are arriving
daily.
Major General Edward L.
King, Fourth Corps Area com
mander, said all new camp sites
have been definitely located and
in many cases actual construc
tion of semi-permanent quarters
is nearing completion.
When all new companies are
set led there will be 50,000 men
working in the south. Forty
thousand of these will be native
southerners and 10,000 will be
New York and New Jersey work
ers. The total will be distribut
ed in 225 camps in the area locat
ed as follows: Alabama, 28;
Florida, 26; Georgia, 43; Louisi
ana, 27; Mississippi, 22; North
acci-1 Carolina, 34; South Carolina, 21;
i and Tennessee, 55.
Two million dollars will be used
w'ooden shelter
Over
go to
Next Sunday, Oct. 99, which is
the fifth Sunday will be a busy
dav on the Elko charge. Services
will beheld at Orovania at U;10
a. m. and at Elko 8 p. m A
special p ogram is being arranged
for the Fifth Sunday Association
service, which is to be held at Bon
aire at 3 p. in. Announcement of
this program will lie found else
where in this issue.
ness of moonlight, sunlight or star- j constructing
light, astronomers always make allow- j for the corps j n the area .
ances for the thickness of air traversed , ha)f a m jl!j on dollars will
A Special program is being ar
ranged for I lie Fifth Sunday as
sociation meeting of Elko charge.
be heid at Bonuire
Met hodist church next Sunday at
3 p. m , Oct. 29. The officials in
charge of this program are Mrs.
R. H. Brown, Grovania, p^esi-
dent; Mr. R H. Howard, Kath
leen, vice, president; and Mr. R.
P Walker. Bonaire. secietarv;and
Mr. J. I). Means, Elko, treas.
The program at tills time will
carry through the victory theme
which has been the basis ol
special program-s at all of Up
churches on the charge during
this month. It is anticipated |dations on Feb.
that this shall he the climax ser
vice, when every church on tin
charge can report the program of
the year carried through to com
pletion. including all of the finan
ces. Reports will he given rep
resenting the total charge on al 1
of the major items.
Special music is being arranged;
brief talks will be made bv Sev-
living could be reduced” the ex
perience of four months showed
the retreat from small towns
could be accomplished without
loss of the program. Re-em-
ployment and wage increases in
the exempted establishments he
said were not sufficient to offset
the hardship caused the mer
chants, and the farmer.
Johnson also spoke in behalf
of the price control plan of the
retail code;
‘‘In recent years and especial
ly with the growth of chain
stores, a practice has grown up
of selling one or two items at a
loss in order to get people into
the store. The little man cannot
afford this. The public is fooled
because what it saves on one
item it looses on another.
‘‘In the last four years, four
hundred thousand small retailers
have been driven out of busi
ness and it is bitterly complained
that this so called ‘loss leader’
was partly to blame. For these
reasons the retail code provides
that it is an unfair practice to
sell any article for less than its
invoice cost plus at least a por
tion of the wages paid to em
ployes in the stores.
‘‘This is frankly an experi
ment. A distinguished commit
tee is to be appointed at once to
watch closely the operation of
this code and to make recommen-
1.”
by the light being measured ; more, ^ market s each month to buy
when the heavenly body Is close to the . „ , r ,, rn ^ nrv A J
horizon, less when it is high in the f° od for ^ 5 °. 000 . ™n Army
\ headquarters said $2,300,000
eral laymen, and the main ad
dress will he delivered by a visit
ing speaker.
Twentieth Amendment
The Twentieth amendment went Into
1 effect as soon as JO states had ratified
j it. According to this amendment the
I terms of the newly-elected President
I and Vice President begin at noon of
j January 20, following election. The
| short session has been abolished und
! the difference In dates is to allow eon-
j grass to meet and canvass the electoral
vote.
sky or directly overhead.
Besides this, Itougier iinds that the
transparency of a definite quantity of
air, such as one xnile, varies from night
to night, presumably because of un
recognized changes in the weather or
in the condition of the higher layers of
tlie atmosphere. When the air is most
transparent the moon seeins unusually
bright. When it is less so, the moon
seems duller.
would be added to business chan- j
nels in equipping the 50,0C0 men
with necessary clothing.
Men in the southern camps |
will receive $1,500,000 in payi
METHODIST NOTES
Services vjil he
monthly, all of which is placed ! M e t hurt ist Church
immediately in circulation.
GRANT INFANT DIES
getting
‘Home,
Difference in Wive*
“My wife's first words on
back from her vacation were:
sweet, home.’ ”
“My wife’s were: ‘What a filthy
house!’ ” •
Found What He Wanted
Shopwalker—I noticed that your last
customer did not buy anything, but he
seemed pleased. What did h* want
■to see?
Bobby Grant, infant Son of Mr.
and Mis. Luther tirant died >Jon-
! day morning after an illness of
‘several weeks.
He is survived by his mother
and fasher, three brothers
two sisters. Fred, Felix, W.
Helen, and Ann.
Funeral services were held
held at the
during t h e
! week as follows;
Sunday Scho d. A. M. Ander
son. Jr., Superintendent, 10:15
| a. m.
Preaching at 11:80 a. m. by
Bov. J. H. House of Fort Valley.
Preaching at 8 o. m. h\ Rpv.
W. B. Brvant of .Marshallville.
Epwoith Leagues, Sunday. 7:00
p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at
and 8 p. m.
C.,! All without other church en
gagements are cordially invited
Trua to Form
“Men are very Inconsistent.”
“I don’t think so,” answered Miss
Cayenne. “Eve fed Adam a sour ap
ple and men have been complaining
about their meals ever since?”—Wash
ington Star.
Time Limitations
“Do you intend to do much investi
gating?”
“No,” answered Senator Sorghum.
“A time comes when you’ve got to ap
ply a remedy. You can’t go on with
a diagnosis forever.”
Wednesday, official children's
day, and Friday, later also desig
nated for the youngsters, saw!
the greatest audience, EL Ross!
Jordan, secretary-manager, said.
Premiums for agricultural,
livestock, and vocational school ’
contests have already been
awarded, but officials said they
would be busy several days
checking and distributing prem
iums in the poultry, flowers, fine
arts, 4-H club, and culinary con
tests,
Mr. Jordan said the fair asso-
sociation around the first of the
year ‘‘would begin planning a
bigger and better expositton be
cause we are now on our feet
and believe that better times
have started back.”
STATE GRAIN CROP
OUTLOOK IMPROVED
Is
^ Clerk—Me, at eight o’clock, Tuesday afternoon at Centerville.
to vtOreViin with us.
Pastor, Rev. W. F. Smith.
Not So Dry
“So your friend the statistician
spending his vacation at the beach.”
“Yes, he thought he’d like to study a
new set of figures.”—Philadelphia Bul
letin.
Much brighter prospects for a
winter grain crop in Georgia
were reported Saturday by G. C.
Adams, Georgia’s commissioner
of agriculture, who said a gener
al rain during the past week had
relieved drought conditions in
numerous sections of the state.
‘‘It was a splendid rain and a
great boon to the small grain
crop,” the commissioner said.
‘‘It will enable the planting of
the grain, whereas the ground
had been so hard before it fell
that the farmers couldn’t plow.
‘‘Cotton is practically all gath
ered in Georgia, so the rain
didn’t do any serious damage tol
it.”
Farmers of the state, the com-j
missioner said, ‘‘are in somewhat
better condition now than they
were a year ego.
‘‘They arc still pleading, how
ever, for a better price for their
products so they cum get on their
feet, and become buyers of high
er priced manufactured products.
‘‘In south Georgia,the farmers
are busy grinding cane, and
thrashing peanuts. Peanuts are
bringing very fair prices this
year—about $50 a ton - or about
100 per cent more than they sold
for last year. The crop is not so
big, but it is of good quality.”
YOUNG PEOPLE’S MEETING^
Al ANDREW CHAPEL NOV. 3
Arrangement* have been mad'
with the Gvo'gia Sunday School
a-S'ii-ia* ion to send a a roup oi
■ipeikiTH from Atlanta for an tn-
terdenominat ional Young People's
meeting to be In*id « n Nov. 3, in
he afternoon and night at An
drew Chapel on Houston Lake.
Further announcement will be
made rela ive to the piOgram in
the next issue. The program is
being prepared l>y the visitors
witli the aid of Some special nUm
iters hy various groups in the
county.
A committee composed of both
Methodists and Baptists ha< heei
ippoioleii for the purpose of mak
tig all arrangements i ecessaiy (
i»ake this oec iSion a un-at sue
CeSs. They have announce i Lhei
plans for a picnic supper ;n d «•
ler roast or a i>ij c nip tir
• ri the 1 >k* side under the fuI
noon. All .tOiirig people in firm-
on cattily ,hc inv'Ud it) Conn
tnd bring Bund w ii-lieS and mar'll-
rn-ilows. VV’oitieis. hot eoffm
ind the camp fire will he furnish
3fi hy the local young people.
The piOgiatn will lx gin at 4:80
Following the afternoon s-ssioi
recreational games will be cnjo\
ed, followed by supper and tin
evening session. Meetings held
in Andrew Chapel.
ATLANTA, Oct. 23. — Work on
the first projects of Georgia’s
$10,091,000 public works road
building program will get under
way within a week after Nov. 7
with construction of approxi
mately $650,000 worth of bridges,
grading and paving ordered to
begin then.
The state highway board today
called for bids on the first lot of
projects to receive federal ap
proval under the program, in
cluding five paving jobs, eight
new bridges, and the grading of
part of the Barnesville-Fort Val
ley road.
Fifteen days will be required
for advertising the bids, allow
ing contracts to be let Nov. 7.
the contracts will specify that
work must start in seven days.
Chairman J. J. Mangham of
the highway board said other let
tings would be held as fast as
projects are approved in Wash
ington.
Projects to be included in the
first letting are:
4.984 miles of lime rock and as
phalt paving in Ware county on
the Waycross-Pearson road, be
ginning at Fulwood creek and
extending to survey station 814.
4 281 miles of concrete in Lau
rens and Wilkinson counties on
the Dublin-Jeffersonville road
beginning at Danville and ex
tending to present paving pro
ject. M
5.562 miles of concrete in Polk
county on the Dallas-Cedartown
road, beginning at Rockhart and
extending to the present paving
project.
3.244 miles of lime rock base
and aggregate top in Glenn
county on the Brunswick-Jesup
mgnway beginning at survey
station 92 and ending at survey
station 74.
2.715 miles of concrete in Hall
county on the Gainesville-Cleve-
land highway beginning at sur
vey station 694 and endirg at
survey station 541.
4.071 miles of grading in La
mar county on the Barnesville-
Fort Valley road beginning at the
Monroe county iine and extend
ing southward.
One bridge over the Canoochee
river on the Savannah-Reidsville
highway.
Two bridges between McRae
and the Wheeler county line in
Telfair and Wheeler counties on
che McRae-Alamo highway.
One bridge over Big Indian
treed and another over the Talla-
ooosa river in Carroll county on
the Heflin-Carrolton highway.
Two bridges in Jones county
one over Lock creek and the
other over Sand Creek on the
Macon-Gray highway.
One bridge over Alligator
creek in Wheeler county on the
McRae-Alamo highway.
Crocodile Devours Boy,
Is Given Human Funeral
A vicious crocodile was liuried with
great ceremony In the vicinity of IvL-
manis, Borneo, recently, hut not be
cause of any reverence paid the ugly
beast. The crocodile, according to a
witness who described the gruesome
Incident, had eaten a small native hoy,
snatching the child from his mother’s
side while hotli were bathing In the
river. So ruthlessly did the reptile
mangle and dismember its prey be
fore swallowing It that the mother re
fused to allow the men who later cuj)-
fured the crocodile to open its car
cass and retrieve what was left of her
son. In order to satisfy the native
Mohammedan priest, who Insisted that
the dead boy be given the proper
rites, tlie body of the crocodile was
wrapped in white and conducted to
the burial spot decided upon with all I
the ceremony and emotional mourning [
that normally accompanies a human I
funeral In that region. I
Minlc
“Is your friend a musician, foo?”
“Well, he blows his own trumpet.”
35,000 Mile* R. R. in Russia
There are over 35,000 miles of rail
ways and 20,000 miles of rivers. mils
and lakes navigable for steamers In
Russia. Moscow Is the capital.
Canada Ha* Nickel, Aabestoe
The world’s great reserves of nickel |
and asbestos are in Canada. Nickel'
comes from the Sudbury district, iu
Ontario and asbestos from southern
Quebec. Recently Canada exported
0,559 tons of asbestos, of which more
than 70 per cent went to the United
States, where it is used in the manu
facture of gaskets, brake and clutch
lining, llreproof fabrics and many
kinds of insulating material. Canada’s
production of nickel In one month
amounted to 3,279,230 pounds.