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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXV. No. 14
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1936
ESTABLISHED 1870
AKIN MAKES RECORD
COLLECTING TAXES
M. E. Akin, tax collector of
Houston county, made the best
record in the whole state of
Georgia in the collection of state
license taxes in 1935. Mr. Akin
collected $1,318.50 for the state
in 1935 with only three persons
in the county having to pay a
penalty for delayed payments.
This year Gov. Talmadge has
granted a thirty-day extension
of time for payment of state li
cense taxes without a penalty.
The new deadline is May 1 in
stead of April 1.
The state collects approximate
ly $800,000 per annum from oc
cupational and license taxes,
which are paid to the various
county tax collectors and remit
ted by them to the comptroller
general.
On 1936 state license taxes,Mr.
Akin has collected $527.50 to
date but feels confident that he
will receive the usual amount by
May 1. Refusal to pay is a mis
demeanor.
These taxes are levied as fol
lows: $3 on every gasoline pump,
$10 on dealer in a u t o ac
cessories, $25 on auto dealers,
and on every occupation and cor
poration on which the state
levies a license tax. This is not
a property tax.
1 2 SCHOOL TRUSTEES
TO BE ELECTED APRIL 3
SOIL CONSERVATION FARM PROGRAM
STUDIED BY COUNTY AGENT & OTHERS
DR. SUITON TO SPEAK
HERE SUNDAY NIGHT
,, . , ,i County Agent W. T. Middle-
Vacancies on the boards of brooks £ & ng much stu dy to
trustees of five schools in Hous- the new n B ational soj , conS erva-
ton county will be filled Friday, lt j on pr0 g rarn a nd expects to ex-
April 3, when twelve trustees plain th * final details in a few
are elected. The vacancies are -
all caused by the expiration of
trustees’ terms.
Elections will be held at the
following places: Perry, Elko,
Hayneville, Grovania, and Hen
derson.
days to farmers at meetings over
the county.
Mr. Middlebrooks attended a
meeting in Americus Friday to
hear a report from Frank Ward,
the special delegate who had
. , , ! spent two weeks in Washington
The trustees whose terms have be jp agricultural depart
ment formulate a substitute for
Triple A.
Among tho 200 agents and as-
expired are: F. M. Greene, J.A.
Grubb, G. C. Nunn, Perry; J. N.
Buff, J. H. Clark, and H. S. Ke-
zar, Elko; E. H. Wimberly, A. J.
Parker, O. G. Harrison, Hayne
ville; C. G. Harrison,C. E.Pyles,
Grovania; P. H. Hodge, Hender
son.
The Perry school has five trus
tees. Three are elected at one
time and two at a later date.
The terms of J. P. Etheridge and
Dr. H. P. Dobbins will expire
in 1937.
IN MEMORY OF ED I. HOLMES
TEN DIE FROM TRAIN-
BUS CRASH AT BYRON
TALMADGE ON WSB
FRIDAY NIGHT AT 8:
15
Governor Talmadge announced
Monday two more radio address
es over WSB, The Atlanta Jour
nal’s station, from which he
spoke Friday night. Both will
be delivered from 8:15 to 8:45 p.
m.,Eastern Standard Time. They
are scheduled on April 3 and
April 10, successive Friday
nights..
MUSIC CLUB MEETS
The Perry B Natural Music
club met Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. L M. Paul, Sr.,
with Ruth Tabor and Elizabeth
Short as hostesses.
The club was opened with the
theme song, then the junior
Pledge and Collect was given.
The program consisted of Irish
music in observance of St. Pat
rick’s Day. The Counsellor,
Miss Roselyn Paul, told some poster of every
facts about St. Patrick “When 1
you think of Ireland you always
think of the story of how good
St. Patrick drove all the snakes
out of Ireland, you think of the
shamrock, which is the official
emblem of the country, then
surely you think of Irish pota
toes. But the strange part is,
that Patrick, while he
patron Saint of the Irish
was really not an Irishman at all,
but was born in Scotland, and
the only reason he ever came to
the “Emerald Isle,” was because
he was stolen by pirates and
they took him to Ireland, where
he was found to be a Swineherd,
so this accounts for the green
pigs that we use on St. Patrick’s
Day,” Miss Paul said.
After the program an ice
course was served.
Reporter.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Edward Isaac Holmes, the son
of Charles Holmes and Eliza Pau
line Holmes, was born Nov. 19,
1881 at Caryville, Fla., and died
at Elko, Georgia on January 17,
1936.
On the following Sunday he
was buried at Henderson from
the Methodist church which he
joined early in life.
The beautiful floral offerings
were symbolic of the respect and
love of his many friends and
relatives who attended the fu
neral services.
By the death of his father and
mother he was left an orphan
when he was about six years old.
He met with those experiences
in life which trained him in the
school of being a self-made man.
He possessed a gentle nature.
In his attitude he was reticent
and retiring. When questions of
right and wrong were to be
answered he never faltered in
expressing his conscientious con
victions.
He was a devoted husband and
a thoughtful father and a good
citizen, whom everybody appre
ciated. For years he was super
intendent of the Methodist Sun
day school at Henderson and was
like his Master, as the children
loved him. He was gentle, kind
and liberal. He was interested
in every phase of church activity
and was known to be a loyal sup-
department of
its work. He gave himself so
unstintedly to tne tasks set be
fore him that he was acknow
ledged to be a success in all his
sacrificial services.
As a devoted husband, as a
loving father, as a citizen and
loyal friend, he was greatly be
loved and highly esteemed. His
1S the 'contribution of life, character
people, an( j sacrifice will long be remem-
sistants in the rural program
present at the meeting was D.
H. Daniel, cotton committeeman
from Houston county.
Other Houston county farmers
present were: J. N. Buff, W.
B. Hodge, J. E. Ason, O. B. Ed
mondson, J. T. Lewis, and W. S.
Gray.
Mr. Middlebrooks said that the
general feeling among county
agents and others who attended
the meeting is that a major pro
portion of Georgia farmers will
take part wholeheartedly in the
new soil conservation program.
He points out that under the
new program farmers will get
two kinds of payments for carry
ing out certain soil improvement
practices on their farms. They
will get a diversion payment for
shifting land from soil depleting
crops, such as cotton and tobac
co, to soil building and soil con
serving crops, like legumes and
grasses They will also get a
small soil building or a soil con
serving payment based on the
total acreage they have planted
in soil building or soil conserving
crops.
The diversion payment on cot
ton will be five cents a pound for
the normal yield of the land
shifted from cotton. A farmer
may shift up to 35 percent of his
base cotton acreage, provided
the county as a whole does not
shift more than 25 percent. The
tobacco payments will be five
cents a pound for the approved
yield of the land shifted from to
bacco, and a farmer may shift
up to 30 percent of his base
acreage. The diversion payment
on peanuts for harvest as nuts
will be 1 1-4 cents a pound, and
a farmer may divert as much as
20 percent of his base acreage.
The soil depleting base for any
farm will be the total acreage in
soil depleting crops harvested on
that farm in 1935 plus the rented
acres in 1935 under the adjust
ment program, modified to take
care of unusual situatians.
To get a diversion payment, a
farmer must have an acreage of
soil building and soil conserving
crops on his farm equal to one-
fifth or more of the total acre
age planted in soil depleting
crops such as cotton, tobacco,
corn, and a long list of other
cultivated crops.
The payments will be divided
so that the man who furnished
the land will get three-eighths,
the man who furnished the work
stock and equipment one-eighth,
and the other half will be divid
ed between landlord and tenants
in proportion to the share of the
crop each is due to get in 1936.
The program will be adminis
tered, much the same as the ag
ricultural adjustment program,
through community, county and
state committees, composed of
leading farmers, and under the
supervision of the State Agricul
tural Extension Service through
its county agents.
To be eligible for the payments
at harvest time next fall, farmers
have to plan now so they will
have the proper acreages of soil
building or soil conserving crops,
and tnen fill out a preliminary
work sheet setting forth their
plans. When they show that
they have met the requirements
set down in the new law they
can get the payments.
Dr. Willis Sutton, superinten
dent of the City Schools of At
lanta, will speak in Perry next
Sunday evening at 8 o’clock at
the Methodist church. His sub
ject will be “Gideon as a
man." Dr. Sutton is an excel
lent speaker and the people of
this community are fortunate in
having the opportunity to hear
him. He is coming here on the
invitation of Rev. W. P. Blevins.
Large congregations are at
tending the series of meetings
which began Sunday to continue
two weeks or through Easter
Sunday, April 12.
The messages of Rev. Mack
Anthony, of Columbus, who is
conducting the services, are be
ing well received. Rev. Mr. An
thony is an earnest as well as a
charming speaker.
Services are being held twice
daily, at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m.
The public is invited to attend.
COALSQN THARPE PASSES
The toll of the dead resulting
from a crash between the South
land Express, crack passenger
flyer of the Central of Georgia
Lay-! railroad, and a Southern Stages
NEGRO CONVICT FATALLY
SHOT IN ATTACK ON 60ARD
CCC BOYS WORK TO CONTROL
SOIL EROSION IN GEORGIA
bered by those whom he influenc
ed in his personal contacts. He
has left an example of life which
is mostly of emulation. He will
be remembered by those who
loved and knew him as one, sin
cere in conduct, loyal in
and true in love.
No greater legacy can be left
as a monument to sacred mem
ory, to those who hold in high
esteem the true virtues of life. 1
May his kind be multiplied and
his virtues practiced, to insure
more loyal leaders and sacrifi
cial workers.
A Negro prisoner who had
been returned to the Houscon
county chain gang after an un
successful escape attempt was
fatally wounded Friday by a
guard when the prisoner advanc
ed on him with a shovel, accord
ing to County Warden H. P.
Chapman.
Warden Chapman listed the
convict as Alex Sutton, who was
convicted of burglary in Peach
county a few months ago and
sentenced to serve five years.
Sutton escaped early Friday
afternoon from the Houston
gang while working near the
Wellston community. Warden
Chapman tracked him with dogs
within eight miles of Macon
where he was captured and re
turned to the chain gang.
Then, according to the officer,
the Negro grabbed a shovel
from a fellow convict and ad
vanced on a guard, L.P. Hudson,
service' Chapman said that Hudson fired,
'the bullet striking the Negro in
the leg, and as the man continu
ed to advance, the guard fired
again, the shot taking effect in
the prisoner’s left side near his
heart. The Negro died Friday
night.
An inquest was held Saturday
and Mr. Hudson was exonerated.
May peace be to your ashes as
Circle No. 1 of the Baptist W. you lie beneath the sod so sa-
M. S. will meet Monday at 3:30 cred to you.
p. m. at the home of Mrs. E. W.
Traylor with Mrs. H. T. Gilbert
as co-hostess.
Circle No. 2 will meet Monday
at 3:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs.
Bruce Smith with Mrs. Dan Bled
soe as co-hostess.
At the resurrection morning
may you awake to say: “I did
not live in vain.”
Mrs. Kate Hodge.
METHODIST W. M. S.
BAPTIST NOTES
j A meeting of the Executive
! committee of the Perry Metho-
!dist W. M. S. was held Monday
! afternoon last week at the home
! of Mrs. Vernon Tuggle, with
; , „ , : Mrs. A. M. Anderson, Jr., and
TheSgt. Clinton C. Duncan! Sunday School — Sunday, Mrs . w. T. Middlebrooks as co
chapter of the U.D.C. will meet 10:15 A. M., W. B. Roberts Su- hostesses.
Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. at the perintendent. Plans were made for the spring
home of Mrs. C. E. Andrew Morning Worship — Sunday, quarter’s work in the business
with Mesdames C. S. Gurr and n -30 A.M. j meeting presided over by Mrs.
T. C. Rogers, the president.
Dainty refreshments were
Three years ago on March 31,
the Civilian Conservation Corps
was established, according to L
E. Rast, state coordinator of the
Soil Conservation Service. To
day about sixteen hundred en-
rollees in 9 camps assigned to
the Soil Conservation Service
are working in cooperation with
farmers and extension workers
to control erosion on thousands
of acres of Georgia land.
Before work is started farms
are surveyed by a technician ol
the camp. The type of soil, de
gree of slopes, and extent of
erosion are determined. With
this information in hand the far
mer and a soil conservationist go
over the farm and assign each
field to a particular use that will
best control erosion and give the
owner the greatest return in
crops.
Farmers terrace cultivated
land where terraces are needed.
The camp workers construct ter
race outlet channels for conduct
ing excess rainfall from terraces
to stabilize areas, to prevent
new gullies from forming. ' Gul
lies are stabilized with check
dams and soil holding vegetation.
Steep, hilly erosible areas are
retired from cultivation and
planted with such erosion-pre-
venting crops as trees, grass and
legumes. Corrective methods
applied include crop rotations,
strip cropping, contour-tilling,
terracing, and care of the land
based on soil adaptability.
One of the purposes of this
work is to give farmers through
out the state an opportunity to
see what they can do to control
erosion on their farms. Visit
one or more of the camp work
areas this spring or summer to
Mr. Clyde Coalson Tharpe,
age 61, died March 19 at his
home at Henderson after an ill
ness of several months.
Mr. Tharpe was considered one
of the best farmers of his com
munity and lived up to his name
until his health failed.
He had many friends and was
well known in Houston and sur
rounding counties. He was kind,
generous, and unselfish in his
relations with his family and
friends.
He was a member of the Hen
derson Baptist church for many
years and a deacon of the church
at the time of his death.
The funeral was held at his
home, March 20, with Rev. Mr.
Collins, of Hawkinsville, and Dr.
Soloman, of Fitzpatrick, Ga.,
brother-in-law of the deceased,
conducting the services. Inter
ment followed in the Henderson
cemetery.
Mr. Tharpe is survived by his
wife who was Miss Mattie Lee
Pearce; two daughters. Miss
Martha Ruth Tharpe, Atlanta,
and Miss Elizabeth Tharpe,
Washington, D. C.; three sons,
Coalson, Jr , Fort Benning, Ga.,
Jim and Duke. Henderson. A
number of other relatives sur
vive.
bus, in the heart of Byron bat-
urday night, mounted to ten
Monday as four critically injured
victims died in Macon.
Among the three who died
early Sunday morning was the
bus driver, O. H. Looney, of Ma
con. Three passengers in the
bus, two of them Negroes, are
in Macon hospitals, two of them
in critical condition.
Six of the thirteen people rid
ing in the bus were killed in
stantly or died within a few
minutes of the crash, while
three others died a few hours
later.
Although the entire train—lo
comotive, three express cars and
two coaches—was derailed, rail
road officials said none of its
crew or passengers was injured.
The following deaths were
verified by a check on local mor
tuaries:
Mrs. Sara Sumter, 45, Ameri
cus, Ga.
W. J. Whitehurst, 45, Macon.
O. H. Looney, 35, bus driver,
Macon.
J. B. Horne, 45, Macon.
Eli Williams,80, Negro, Byron.
Lloyd Allen Jones, 25, Negro,
Byron.
Emma Law, 55, Negro, Monte
zuma.
Henrietta Martin, 30, and the
latter’s two children, Lucy Mae,
three; and Wilson Martin, 18-
months-old son.
A formal investigation, at
which officials of the bus com
pany and the railroad gathered
to fix responsibility was held at
10 a. m Tuesday.
POLITICAL PARTIES
IN GEORGIA TO MEET
GORDY SISTERS ON
DEAN’S LIST AT G.S.C.W
Milledgeville.Ga.—Misses Mar
tha and Miriam Gordy of Perry,
are included on the current
Dean’s list of the Georgia State
College for Women, where they
are students. To be eligible to
this scholastic honor a student
must have a general average of
87 or above. Tne list on which
the names of the two Perry girls
appear is based on the work of
the winter quarter which ended
on March 18.
The Misses Gordy are
bers of the sophomore
Miss Martha Gordy has been
doing cadet teaching in the pri
mary grades at Stapleton,
during the past quarter.
ATLANTA, Ga —The political
situation in Georgia will be en
livened by meetings of both Re
publicans and Democrats during
the next two weeks. Both are
looking forward to their respec
tive national conventions.County
conventions of Republicans are
to meet in their respective coun
ty courthouses at 2 p. m. April
if to select delegates to the
state convention in Atlanta May
9. The State Democratic Execu
tive committee will meet in At
lanta to consider the question of
holding a presidential preference
primary.
Many counties have filed ur
gent requests for a state-wide
presidential preference primary,
l’he meeting of tne committee
will be held April 15. The cus
tom in Georgia has been for the
executive committee to fix a clos
ing date for candidates and, in
the event two or more were en
tered,. a time for the primary.
The names of the candidates ap-
j pear on the ballot and the win-
mem- ning candidate selects his dele-
class. j jrates after the primary is over.
The committee has the power to
select delegates to the national
Ga., / convention if no primary is held.
WORLD IN LIGHT GLOBEI YEOMANS DISMISSED
ATLANTA, Ga.-Did you! Manning S. Yeomans state
know that “the world is in a \ entomologist, a son o. Attorney
light globe.” When you switch General M. J. Yeomans, was
on an electric lamp you’re using!dropped last week by Governor
materials that come originallyalmadge. 1 he governor ap-
from almost every country in pointed to the post J. H. Girar-
the world, dealers in lighting jdeau, of McRae, for a number of
equipment said here. In that!y ear f sweet potato inspector in
little globe that cost you 15 or 20 i department of Entomology,
cents, there’s antimony from! While the governor made nocom-
.Vlexico, thoria from Brazil, niter m ont on the change, observer--
and silica from Chile, cobalt | pointed out Attorney General
E. W. Traylor in charge of the Vesper Service, 6 30 p. m.
program. All members are urg- ve p -- . — - - —
program. All memoers are uig- , • - * Mnatino- w Pf i 8-00 n m uainiy reireaniiients wcic
ed to attend as plans for the ob- 1 rayer MeA g £ uff • Pa P sto i [ served by the hostesses after the
SM-von/io nf Mornriviol Hnv will! XVUV . 0. . > 'UnoinoaQ W9R mmnlfltpH.
servance of Memorial Day will
be made.
Right and Ignorance
It is a great tiling to have a sense
of right, but it is nearly always con
fused with ignorance.
1 Mrs. J. M. Holloman, Mrs. C.
P. Gray, and Mrs. W. W. Mar
tin attended the Major Bowes’
Amateur program in Macon Sat-
1urday.
business was completed.
Sixteen were present.
*okyo,
an Edo.
Tokyo Once Edo
Japan, was formally
known
and nickel from New Calendonia,! Yeomans^ had not indorsed the
„ bismuth from Australia,tin from governor s financial set-up and
see how erosion control methods (-^ e Malay Peninsula, manganese; ^ ave an °P inion certain depart-
and ! from India, potash from Russia, i m ?^ts could n °t operate legally
iasodium carbonate from East without an appropriation act.
_ I Africa, arsenic from Greenland Manning Yeomans term
are applied by the enrollees
farmers working together.
METHODIST NOTES
Church School— 10:15 a. m.
Worship Services--S u n d a y,
11:30 a. m., and 8:00 p. m.
Young People’s Service 6:15 p.m.
Rev. W. P. Blevins, Pastor.
I —and so it goes down a long list
of items. As has been said, the
[electric lamp is literally the
i light of the world. (G. P. S.)
pired Jan. 1 this year,
fused to withdraw 1936
run his department.
ex
ile re
funds H
Numerous Towns Nauied “Union”
There are 18 cities and towns in the
United States named “Union.”
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Achieving High Things
A man seldom reaches heights above
his habitual thoughts. It Is he who
aspires to high things that achieves
high things.