Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, February 23, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL VOL. LXVIII. No. 8. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939 ESTABLISHED 1870 ORGANIZATIONS OF I BAPTISTS ACTIVE; I 1 At £n ordination service held I c lin cUy night at the Perry Bap-! I tist church, Hugh Lawson was I ordaii ed as a deacon. D ev J. A. Ivey, pastor of the I church, was the moderator and I the deacons composed the ordi- I nation council. I Rev B. C. McWhorter, pastor I of the Uriadilla Baptist church, I nread ed the ordination sermon. I his forceful message, he out lined the duties of a deacon and gave tl e qualities a man holding this oil ce should possess. R ev . C. H. Tucker offered the prayer. At D e Sunday morning ser vce Rev. P. C. Barkley, Cairo, occupied the pulpit. An offering f or work among Baptist or p; ans was taken at the close of I the service. Attendance at Sunday school I a: d both church services was un usi ally good. M onday afternoon the Clifford j Hmter S.S. class held its month ly n.eeting at the church with Miss Evelyn Hunt, the presi- I dent, presiding. Enlistment, present keynote of the activities of the class, was the subject of a talk made by Rev. Mr. Ivey. Mrs. D. H. Smith presented the program and Mrs. prank Moody, the devotional. The Girls. Auxiliary to the W. M. S. met Monday p. m. at the home of Mrs. J. L. Gallemore, the co-charman, who was assist ed by Mrs. A. C. Pritchett, the chairman. Merryll Hunnicutt had charge of the program in which Carolyn Moody, Janet Parks, Betty Boler, Margaret Leaptrot, Nan Thompson, Sue Webb, Jerry Cater, and Emily Thompson took part. The sub- I ject of the program was “The Magic Carpet.” Delicious refreshments were served to the seventeen present. Tuesday afternoon the Royal ! Ambassadors met at the church with Mrs. PL T. Gilbert, the counselor, assisted by Rev. Ivey, the co-counselor, and Mrs. Mayo Davis, pianist. A group of boys presented a missionary program. Refreshments were served. The boys are enjoying the basketball goals and equipment recently presented to them by the Men’s Bible class of the S. S. The monthly meeting of the I Sunday School Teachers and Workers Council was held at the j church Tuesday night. The Sunbeam band, the W. M. S. Auxiliary for children through nine years of age, met at the church Monday afternoon last week with Miss Martha Cooper in charge. | BOOK CLUB MEETS The Weduesday Afternoon Beck club met last week at the home of Mrs. S. A. Nunn with Mrs. W. T. Middlebrooks as co hostess. Mrs J. M. Gooden, the president, was in charge of the business session. Mrs. H. T. Gilbert used‘‘Home Decoration”by Ross Stewart and j John Gerald as a basis for her talkon Interior decoration. Fashion Is Spinach” by Eliza beth Hames, was reviewed and un article by this author, given by Mrs. G. E, Jordan. Plans were discussed for the annual luncheon to be held March 1 The program committee, of which Mrs. S. L. Norwood, Jr., ■s chairman, will be in charge of for this affair. Phe hostesses served a dainty salad course at the close. NOTICE A representative from the In- Ln’nal Revenue office will be in Perry March 1 from Ba. m. to noon to assist taxpayers in . e Preparation of their current ] ncome tax returns. i _ What fo ks aint up on, they’re oo\vn on. Wise ’em up—ad vertise. If you’re so sure people don’t eacl.our a ds how come you are wading this? jKIWANIS DIST. HEAD j j PERRY CLUB SPEAKER I 1 i » j W. W. Walker of Monticello' Lieutenant Governor of the 9th ! Division of Georgia Kiwanis was . the guest speaker at the weekly I luncheon meeting of the Perry Kiwanis club held Tuesday at the 1 American Legion Home. This was his official visit to the club. His topic was “The Paradox of an Idle Kiwanian.” 1 The club sponsored “Calf Con test Show” will be held in Perry Saturday, March 11-13. Con testants from over the county .will have their calves on exhibit in Perry on this date, and prizes I will be awarded to the winners. [The Kiwanis club will award the 1 prizes of $5.00, $3.00 and $2.00 furnished by the club. The public is invited to the ex hibit free. The calves will then be shown in Macon March 13. The Perry Public Library open ed Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the An derson Building, where the Per ry Beauty Shop formerly was lo cated. The Kiwanis club who • sponsored and brought this new i addition to our city are asking j the co-operation of everyone in [visiting, reading and donating ''any books possible, i The City Council pays $25 perl month and the PWA pays two' i librarians. All books may be withdrawn free. There are approximetely 200 books already on hand, including i many of the latest best sellers. If anyone having books to do nate will call the library they i will be called for. ; The permanent librarian will i be announced later. ; LIVESTOCK ON FARM IN • GEORGIA GROW INCREASE , Livestock reported on Georgia farms as of January 1, compared j with the same date last year, : showed increases in hogs, all cat tle, milk cows and chickens, | while horses, mules and sheep ’ numbers remained unchanged. The increases were hogs 14 per ! cent, all cattle 3 per cent, milk ; cows 1 per cent, and chickens 14 per cent. ’ Total value of all livestock on farms Jan. 1, 1939 was estimated [ at $90,891,009 as against $BB,- ; 861,000 last year and $97,037,000 1 in 1937. Estimated price per head shows less than last year for mules and sheep, slight in ‘ creases for all cattle, milk cows I and hogs, while prices of horses j and chickens remained unchang ed. Number of horses on farms January 1 was placed at 31,000 head and mules at 337,000, or the same as one year ago. Current estimated value for all workstock was $53,674,000, compared with i $55,005,000 last year and $61,- ; 622,000 the year before, i Estimated number of hogs was - 1,554,000 head against 1,363,000, 5 with value of $11,132,000 as com pared with $9,695,000, or an in crease of 14.8 per cent in value i over 1938. I j Cattle on farms showed a total • j number of 970,000, with value ot ! $20,925,000. One year ago the corresponding totals were 942,- iiOOO and $19,421,000. i! Chicken numbers amounted to i 8,143,000 valued at $5,049,000, > while last year the totals were 1 7,138,000, and $4,426,000, res ; pectively. I i ■| METHODIST CHURCH NEWS r j } Worship Services—Sunday i 11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p, m. Church School—Sunday 10:15 a. m. 'Young People’s Service—Sunday 6:30 p. m. Mid-week Service II Wed. 7:30 p. m. )! Rev. Paul Muse, Pastor. , »' t| . j Ads is short for advertise-' ments. Pronounce it aids an d! believe it or not you’ll be right, j 2 ‘ I -i If you like knocking, knock a | home run.—Advertise. t' Home Journal readers are 3 thrifty. They patronize those , who advertise. J i HOW FARM PAYMENTS ARE CALCULATED 7 | Under the 1939 farm program, two separate kinds of payments will be made-- conservation pay ments and price adjustment pay ments. Conservation payments are the regular Triple-A payments au thorized each year for soil con servation accomplished through acreage adjustments and the carrying out of soil-building practices. Farmers cooperating in the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram of the Triple-A in 1939 can get these payments on cotton, tobacco, peanuts, and wheat up to a given amount for each farm, for carrying out approved soil building practices. Payments will be made also on Irish potatoes in Chatham coun ty, the only Georgia county des ignated as being in the commer cial Irish potato area. Georgia has about 200 farmers in 20 counties who are classed as com mercial wheat growers and are eligible for wheat payments. On these crops the payments are figured at a specified rate per pound or bushel. This rate applies to the normal yield of the farm’s acreage allotment in each case. Both the normal yield and acreage allotment are established jby the county committee, in ac cordance with provisions of the program. The conservation pay ment rates are as follows: Cotton, 2 cents per pound. Tobacco: Flue-cured, .8 cent per pound; Burley, .8 cent per pound; Georgia-FJorida Type 62, 1.5 cents per pound. Wheat, 17 cents per bushel. Peanuts, 15 cents per hundred weight. Irish potatoes (Chatham coun ty only,) 3 cents per bushel. The payments jfcr all the above crops are figured by multipling the payment rate times the nor mal yield times the allotment For instance, if a farm has a cot ton allotment of 20 acres and the normal yield established for the farm is 200 pounds of lint cotton [per acre, the payment is 2 cents per pound ,on 4,000 pounds (20 x 200 pounds), or $BO A part of the conservation pay -1 ment of a farm is in the form | of assistance for carrying out soil-building practices, such as terracing, liming, seeding le gumes, establishing pasture, and! planting forest trees. Each! practice is measured in units. j Construction of 200 linear feet] of terrace counts as one unit; { seeding an acre of lespedeza counts as one unit; and planting an acre, of forest trees counts as five unts. The rate of payment or assistance for carrying out these practices is $1.50 per unit. This means a farmer can get soil-building assistance at the; | rate of $1.50 per unit up to a! HE LOST HIS SOUL IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT By PAUL MUSE The vast majority of the world’s people are poor as toi i material, wealth. They do not possess enough of this world’s goods to be burdened, and con-1 tinually worried lest they lose ; them. Many of these poor peo-| pie are very poor. Their worries | of this nature come from the! struggle to “keep body and soul : together.” Such people have a I hard time. Nor is this “hard! time” always their fault. Itj may be, often is, the result of a social system that is out of bal ance. There is a poverty, however, That is more terrible than any i that comes of a scarcity of ma | terial resources. It is poverty of soul. There are numbers of peo ple who have been very success ful in accumulating the wealth of mere stuff—money and pro perty—but they are almost total ly bankrupt of spiritual resources and the everlasting security and comfort that reside in these in tangible possessions. Wealth does not necessarily damn a man. He may do great good with it. I i But .the man who allows wealth i land the getting of it to dominate ; him is a pathetic figure. He is a 1 most unhappy man. He lives ; full of fear, lest he lose what he | has. He is afraid to die, because | he has nothing laid up beyond 1 the grave. The Christ could say things That no one else dare say. He ! said that this unfortunate kind iof a person is a “Fool.”A“Fool,” ■ given amount, or maximum, for his farm. This maximum is figured as the sum of three items, as follows: (1) 70 cents per acre for the cropland on the farm in excess of the sum of the acreages for which payments are calculated 0 n cotton, tobacco, peanuts, wheat and in Chatham county, potatoes. (2) $1.50 per acre for the commercial orchards on the farm January 1, 1939; (3) 25 cents per acre for the fenced non-crop open pasture land in excess of half the crop land. To show how this maximum assistance for soil-building prac tices is calculated, take the case; of a farm with 100 acres of cropland, a cotton allotment of 20 acres, a peanut allotment of 5 acres, 4 acres of commercial or chards, and 56 acres of fenced non-crop pasture land. The rate of 70 cents per acre of cropland applies to 75 acres (acreage of cropland in excess of cotton and peanut allotments); the rate of $1.50 per acre for commercial or chards applies to 4 acres; and the rate of 25 cts. per acre for fenced non-crop pasture land applies to 6 acres (acreage of pasture in excess of half the cropland). To get the maximum soil-building assistance payment for the farm, the three items are added, as follows: Cropland (75 x 70c) $52.50 Commercial orchards 4 x $1,50 .... 6.00 Pasture land (6 x 25c)._ 1.50 Total $60.00 In the above example, the sum of $6O is the largest amount available to assist the farmer in carrying out soil-building prac tices. If he carries out 10 units at $1.50 per unit, he gets only $l5; but if he carries out as many as 40 units, his payment is the maximum amount available for his farm, or $6O. No conservation payments of any kind will be made when the cotton allotment is knowingly over-planted. Provision is made for deductions from the conser vation payments on oiher crops when the allotments of such crops are overplanted. 1 Price adjustment payments, i conditioned on compliance with j 1939 acreage allotments, will be made on cotton and wheat in ] Georgia. These payments will be on the normal yield of the acreage allotment established for each crop, at the following rates: Cotton, 1.6 to 1.8 cents 1 per pound; and wheat, 10 to 121 cents per bushel. Price adjust-1 ment payment checks will be en-| tirely separate from conserva ! tion payments. 'yet he thinks himself wise. In his self-estimate of wisdom his j motto is, “A fool and his money j are soon parted;” it is wise to 1 hoard; it is foolish to give and | spend. Jesus’ picture of the j fool being parted from his money I is that of the man who had given j his life to accumulating “much ‘goods.” He was so successful ■ in his aim that he found that his I storehouses were not sufficient jto accommodate what he had | made.So he built more and larger barns, and when he had gone out and no doubt squeezed all his laborers and tenants of all “the law would allow,” and may be more, he began to feel good over his profits. He said, “Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; .... be mer ry.” He perhaps complimented himself on being a very wise man. But poor deluded fellow! He had let the “almighty dollar” dead weight his soul and shut out the light of eternity. Into 1 this darkness God spoke: “But! God said unto him, Thou fool, j i this night thy SOUL shall be re-! quired of thee; then whose shall; those things be, which thou hast provided?” Indeed, whose shall i they be? Most certainly not the man’s who had saved them. Ulti-1 mately, oil that a man ever saves is what he gives away. “What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his [own soul?” WESLEYAN ALUMNAE j CLUB HOLDS MEETING! I A meeting of the Perry Wes-j leyan Alumnae club was held at j the home of Mrs. George Nunn| Friday, Feb. 17. Mrs Ruth Houser Garrett of Fort Valley, a Wesleyan Trustee, made a plea for Wesleyan and discussed the state-wide cam paign to repurchase its property. A skit was given by Mrs. Wordna Gray, Miss Martha Cooper, and Mrs. S. A. Nunn. A piano solo was rendered by Mr. Pat Cart ledge, a pupil of Wesleyan Conservatory. The following officers were elected: Miss Martha Cooper, president: Mrs. Wordna Gray, vice-pres.; Mrs. Floyd Tabor, sec.-treas.; Mrs. Fred Thomson, publicity chmn. Mrs. W. B. Evans, retiring president, and Mrs. G. C. Nunn urged Wesleyan Alumnae in Houston county to do their part in making a success the present campaign to save the physical properties of the college. . The home was attractively dec orated with spring blossoms. At the close of the meeting tea was served by the hostess. The out-of-town guests were; Miss Wilma Orr, Mrs. Lee Hous er, Fort Valley; and Mrs. Mar shall Haslam, Marshallville. BONAIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST i Misses Ardelle Sisson, Junette and Elizabeth Sutton, Nettie Perdue, and Messrs Henry Sut ton and L. D. Vandergriff motor ed to Atlanta Sunday where they were guests of friends. Messrs. Louie and Harold New berry, of Mercer University, and Messrs. Lloyd Newberry and William Brake, teachers in the Sparta High school, were the guests of Mr. and. Mrs. S. W. Newberry, Wellston, for the weekend. Misses Grace Hayes, Lillian Kirtland, and Lucile Goss were the guests of Miss Mary Lever ette during the weekend. Miss Susie Watson was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Charlie Andrews,in Macon last weekend. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Smith and son, C. T., -Jr., Bainbridge, and Miss Vivola Smith, a teacher at Centerville, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs, C.L. Wiliams. Mrs. W. B. Wills was the .guest of her sister in Griffin last [Saturday. - Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Scarbor ough, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Sasser and Messrs Clarence and Alton 1 Sasser were spend-the-day guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Watson, Centerville, Sunday. Mrs. A. L. Sasser spent last weekend as the guest of relatives ; in Forsyth. Rev. W. J. Erwin visited Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Talton Sunday. Mr. Thomas Sisson, who is at tending Abraham Baldwin, Tif ton, spent the weekend with homefolks in Bonaire. Mr and Mrs. W. B, Tinsley and family, Senoia, spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. C. H. White, Kathleen. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Treadwell, Valdosta,spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Howard, of Wellston, Miss Carolyn Tucker, Macon, is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mr and Mrs. H. A. Tucker, Centerville, Mr. Adrian Perdue, Jackson ville, Fla., spent the weekend with his parents in Kathleen. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Holland and son, Ernest, Jr., and Mr, C. j J. Holland, Macon, were spend the-day guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wheelus, Kathleen, Sun dey. Miss Betty Woodard spent thei i weekend in Kathleen with Mr.; and Mrs. L. C. Watson. Miss Mary Langston visited I Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Henry, Kath-| leen, during the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perdue, Jr., and daughter, Fort Valley, I spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. jj. W. Perdue in Kathleen. According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult. J— Plutarch. -FARMERS’ SCHOOL I BEING HELD HERE ( A soil conservation school for 1 the Perry soil conservation dis trict is being held in Perry Feb. 23, 24, and 25. Dr. 0. C. Aderhold, professor of vocational education at the University of Georgia, is direct ing the school, which will cover all phases of farm life from home-making to livestock. He is being assisted by Byron L. Southwell, animal husbandman at the Georgia Coastal Plain Ex periment Station, Tifton, who will have charge of the livestock course; Kenneth Trainer, 'Litton, extension economist, who ha s I charge of the farm management course, and Miss Inez VVallace, Tifton, assistant home economics supervisor, who is instructor in home-making. The course is for vocational teachers, county agents, and any others who are interested in the school and its subjects. Two farms in the Perry dis trict have been selected for dem onstrations during the course. They are the J. T. Garvin place at Centerville and the farm of Mrs. J. C. Henderson near Elko. A work plan for each of these farms will be mapped out so as to show the crops best suited to each acre of land culti vated, where terracing and other soil erosion control are needed, where livestock would prove ■ profitable, etc. APPROPRIATION BILL ! PREPARED BY HOUSE ATLANTA, Ga.---The house appaopriations committee Tues • day recommended expenditures of $40,542,8.00 for the next two years to operate Georgia gov ernment departments supported ; by general funds. The bill proposed $20,171,400 ; for the 1939-40 fiscal year, and $20,371,400 for 1940-41 Regular ! session of the general assembly in 1941 was provided for,account ing for the difference in the two years. Generally the measure follow ed current appropriations. Legislators estimated an addi tional $8,000,000 would have to be “found” to meet the propos ed appropriations, and Represen tative Lanham of Lloyd announc ed he would offer a substitute proposal requiring all state funds be pooled. Lannarn’s measure would dis card the present system of allo cating portions of state revenue, j except lor constitutional require • ments. The committee bill does not alfect the allocated funds which last year amounted to $16,657,934. The appropriations bill follow ed Governor F. D. Rivers’ asser tion Monday he did not approve of a proposed 20 per cent reduc tion in all departments and urg img current appropriations “IUU cents on the dollar,” Earlier in the session he had informed legislators an addition al $8,500,000 in revenue would be needed to finance ’state services and suggested a one per cent re tail sales tax or luxury taxes. Administration leaders have abandoned the idea of a gross income levy and modified sales tax possibilities to a “two per cent sales tax with liberal ex emptions.” They likewise dis carded a proposal to hike gaso line taxes from six to seven I cents and ranked luxury taxes las second choice to the modified 'sales levy. I j BAPTIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS - Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. | Sunday Preaching Services, j 11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Mid-week Prayer Service, Wed - I nesday, 7:30 p. m. The church welcomes you to (its services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. A good reputation is more val uable than money.-- Publius Sy rus.