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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL VOL. LXVIII. No. 17. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 27. 1959 ESTABLISHED 1870 farm groups meet ! IN PERRY THIS WEEKj Several farm meetings were I held in Perry this week. Mon day, county agents, county com mitteemen, and compliance su pervisors from fifteen counties held a district meeting at the Court House here. J.A. Johnson, Athens, district agent for south west Georgia, was in charge. Tuesday, a district meeting of compliance agents was held in Perry to discuss compliance work for 1939- Lamar Hatcher, com pliance agent of the A. A, A., | conducted the meeting. R. E. Arline, asst, county agent of] Houston who is in charge of com-] i pliance work here, attended. Monday night, two meetings of the Houston Co. Chapter of th e United Georgia Farmers were held; one for white farm ers at the Perry school, and one for negroes at the Court House. These meetings were for the pur pose of reporting on the mem bership drive being conducted this month and on the results of the community meetings held the past two weeks. The chapter has 115 members | enrolled now, with fifteen new: ones joining Monday night. R. M. Stiles, state chapter president, spoke to the 50 white farmers present at their meet ing. Other speakers included G. C. Nunn, S. W. Hickson, and W. W, Gray, The negro meeting was pre sided over by 0. S. O’Neal, ne gro county agent and the speak ers included R. G, Arnold, rep resentative of the National Farm Bureau Federation, and W. T, Middlebrooks, county agent of Houston county. There were 80 present. Five new members joined and about 12 affiliated. Plans were made to hold meet ings every Saturday afternoon at the courthouse in Perry begin ning April 29 with a meeting at S p. m. The white farmers will hold another meeting Friday night, May 5, at 8:30 p. m. at the Per ry school auditorium. At this time plans will be made for a barbecue. LIBRARY NOTES There is a variety of fiction this season. The novel from all indications which will excite the greatest interest is “Wickford Point” by John Marquand. It is an amusing story of this gen eration with a New England setting. The author won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize with hi s book, ‘‘The Late George Apley.” Pearl Ruck needs no introduc tion, as a Nobel Prize winner her fame is inter national. ‘‘The Patriot,” is a timely novel deal ing with the conflict between China and Japan. Eve Curie is soon to be in America. Her visit will create even a greater demand for the biography of her renown mother which she entitled, ‘‘Marie Cu ne, My Mother.” Library hours, 9a. m. to 6p. m - 9a.m.to 1 p. m.. Miss Ed- j na Batchelor; 1 p. m. to 6. p. m.. i Nrs. J. L. Beavers. Verniece Beavers, Librarian, j book club meets Plans for the annual garden party to be given in May were! o u at re £ u lar meeting of! le Wednesday Afternoon Book] emb, which was held Monday! afternoon at the home of Miss Martha Cooper and Mrs. W. B. I Evans. ™, M iss Olga Thurmond reviewed k A all by Mary Roberts Rine hart and Mrs. C. B. Andrew re- Viewed My America by Louis jdanuc. Mrs. J. M. Gooden pre the business session. De ’gnt tul refreshments were served. . Bie Baptist Pastorium is be ll!g re-painted white and the r °°i covered with a green com position roof. These tenova- L°ns greatly improve its appear ance. | ELKO CHURCHES HAVE 1 I SECOND CONFERENCE] I I The second quarterly confer ence of the Elko circuit was held ! last Thursday at the Bonaire Methodist church with Rev. Silas 1 Johnson, presiding elder, in charge. After a sermon by the elder, a delicious lunch was served by the ladies of the Bonaire commu nity in the Horae Economics de partment of the Bonaire High school. The reports at the afternoon conference showed that much good work had been done under the leadership of the new pastor, Rev. VV. J. Erwin. The Easter offering of over $2OO was ap plied on benevolences. Good re | ports from all departments were made. Plans were made to or ganize a Woman’s Missionary Society on Thursday, April 27. PERRY HIIMTIVITIEB Anna Grubb Is Winner In the district meet held last week in Fort Valley. Anna Grubb j won first place in music. Every ] one who heard the contest said i that Anna played like a maestro. The school was very proud of Anna and is pulling for her in the state meet. We’re confident that she’ll do herself as well as the school proud. Agricultural News The most outstanding F. F. A. member in each chapter in Geor gia has been given a scholarship by a large mail order house. This is based on scholarship, charac ter, leadership, and project pro gram. The winner in the Perry (chapter is Ralph Tabor with Ju lian Cawthorn selected as alter nate. This scholarship will en title Ralph to spend one week at the Georgia F. F. A. camp at Lake Jackson during the sum mer with all expenses paid. KNOW YOUR TIMBER By EMILY WOODWARD What can we do to stop soil erosion? This is a question heard so frequently now that Georgians have become con scious of the need to save the land. One answer to this question is PLANT TREES, A careful study of soil and water losses from seven types of cover and land use in Mississip pi’s Coastal Plains Region re vealed a loss of soil from barren and cultivated lands 4,300 times greater than from lands protect ed by forest or grass cover. In experiments in which forest litter was applied to the surface of compact eroded subsoil, ero sion was virtually stopped.lt was also demonstrated that annual light surface fires sharply in crease surface run-off and ero sion from forest and grass lands. Valuable information as to methods for controlling erosion has been obtained from studies by the Southern Forest Experi ment Station. These studies i show that trees and other soil building plants can be establish led successfully on gullied lands, | using inexpensive check dams land other simple site-improve ! ment measures. For successful (planting of impoverished, eroded sites, the Station has found: (1) I that top-grade seedlings must be iused; (2) that southern pines can |be established satisfactorily by i planting the trees in holes filled ■with topsoil, thus dispensing j with check dams, bank reduc tion, and other more expensive 'preparatory measures; (3) that |it is not necessary to plow or re ! move heavy grass before plant | ing shortleaf or loblolly pine; 1 (4) that losses of broadleaf ■ planting stock can be prevented jby healing-in the trees in sand j instead of loam. The control of erosion on road : banks constitutes a serious prob- ! Gem and usually requires rather, costly remedies. Studies have! 1 shown that eroding cutbankscan 1 Ibe stabilized successfully with-j , I out reducing them to gentle, i gradients and without resorting ’ i to the more costly sodding meth- ( • ods in everyday use. A special ■'method of preparing and plant ing banks has been developed ; INTEREST SHOWN IN BAPTIST SERVICES Much interest is being mani fested in the Revival services in progress at the Perry Baptist church. The attendance has been very fine. Earnest and soul-stirring mes sages are being brought daily by Rev. E. M. Altman, pastor Grant Park Baptist church, Atlanta. Services are held at 10 a. m. and Bp. m. each day. The meeting will come to a close Sunday night with a baptisimal service. Twenty-one persons have appli ed for membership in the Baptist church, two for the Methodist, and one for the Presbyterian. Song services are being led by Rev. Ben Scarborough. The children are taking an active part in the singing. Monday night the First Grade Band of the Perry school played religi ous songs. Th e junior choir sings every night. A young people’s service was held Tuesday p. m. at the church with sixty-five boys and girls present. Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor, is gratified at the response of all denominations to the meeting. The public is cordially invited to attend all services. GIVING AN OPIATE TO CONSCIENCE By PAUL MUSE It is frequently done, but it doesn’t “get us anywhere.” The fact is, it leaves us “worse off.” , When the Psalmist said, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made,” he announced a truth concerning our nature that few people, it is to be feared, ever carefully consider. A man can’t just throw himself around, just treat himself any sort of way and expect to develop into the kind of man he ought to be. It will not hurt rough pig iron much to j leave it out in ail sorts of weath er. But if you treat refined pol- • ished steel that way you ruin it. j Man in his make-up is finely j wrought metal. He is not com mon pig iron. Conscience is a most delicate and important part of man in his “fearfully and won d e r f u 11 y made” nature. It is a monitor made to stand guard over the moral. If conscience .is rightly trained and properly treated one may safely follow its promptings. But if one abuses his conscience it breaks down and deteriorates just like anything else does that is abused. “Let conscience be your guide,” is good judgment so long as one has been careful in living up to the highest dic tates of a conscience that has been rightly schooled. But to follow a conscience that has been misused, trampled upon and ig nored is to go in the wrong di rection. Many people compromise. They offer conscience a sedative. They try to “hush up” conscience by giving a half loaf. Any many actually fool themselves into a BAPTIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Sunday Preaching Services, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Mid-week Prayer Service, Wed nesday, 8:00 p. m, Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. The church welcomes you to i-its services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. that gives greatly superior re suits to those obtained from the usual method of contour trench planting. The study has shown; (1) that relatively wide spacing of small Bermuda grass sods or broadcast sowing to seed of sev eral herbaceous species can be | relied upon to provide a satisfac tory plant cover; (2) that cut | banks should be planted in the j spring rather than in the fall, but that sloping and other pre paratory work on the banks i should be done preferably in the 'fall; (3) that light top dressing 'of fertile soil is a minimum re- Iquirement in stabilizing cut banks; and (4) that light appli cations of fertilizer are also help ful. DIST. LEGION MEET TO BE HERE APRIL 30 A joint meeting of the third district American Legion and its , Auxiliary will be held at the Le gion Home in Perry next Sun day, April 30. Logan Kelly, of Buford, department commander, and Mrs. W. S. Davidson, of Baldwin, department president, will be the principal speakers. Stanley Jones, state adjutant, ■jand other state officers are ex pected to attend. District Commander Abe Cook, of Hawkinsville, and District President, Mrs. Carl Smith, Fitz gerald, will be in charge of the program. A luncheon will be served at 1 io’clock and the conference will i open at 2. All local post and j unit members are urged to at ! tend conference. i Post and units from Hawkins ville, Fitzgerald, Eastman, Cor , dele, Columbus, Unadilla, Mon tezuma, Fort Valley, Americus, Rochelle, Richland, Cuthbert, ■ Reynolds, Butler, Dawson, Ash | burn, Vienna, and Pine Moun i tain will be represented. C. C. Pierce, local commander, and Mrs. J. B. Calhoun, auxili ary president, are in charge of arrangements for the meeting. “feeling'’that what they have done is all right. The real ef , feet in the moral and spiritual man is the same as that in the physical when an opiate relieves pain but does nothing to cure the source of the trouble. Whether it be in the physical or moral man, repeated doses of opiates, while giving apparent relief, leave the victim to die, uncon scious of the deadliness of his malady. j Through the conscience God ' calls on a man or woman to make 1 a real sacrifice for him. A sel | fish nature offers a sleeping por | tion to conscience and compro mises with a meager offering. I God calls many a man to give himself whole-heartedly to the Church and its program. The devil persuades the man that go ing to Church occasionally and contributing a bit to community interests will be “just as good" --he gives conscience an opiate. There are large numbers of Church people who ease their consciences on the matter of at tending Church services by “go ing to Sunday School," and then for the rest of the day they are done with Church -and God too, very likely. And they do not feel bad about it. Certainly not. They have offered sedatives to conscience so long that conscience is doped to death. The souls of such people cry for bread, but get only a stone. A poor starv ed soul housed in a pampered body, with the keeper, con science, “out cold" with sleeping portions! NOTICE If you have information re garding James Madison Haw kins, pioneer Georgian, Mrs. J. E. Hays, state historian, would like to have it. The Georgia Department of Archives and History has some information on the noted citizens, but additional data is being sought. KIWANIS CLUB MEETS The Perry Kiwanis club cele brated its first anniversary Tues day with their sponsor, the Ma con club as its guest. There were twenty members of the Macon club present at the week ly luncheon meeting. The program was presented by Mr. Anderson, president of the Macon club. P. T. Anderson and Leon Cagijl brought birthday greetings to the Perry club. En tertainers were Mac and Slim and their Hill-billy band. The Macon club was guest of the Perry club at its installation meeting a year ago. Turn idle time into dollars — Advertise. NEW SPEED LIMIT TO BE ENFORCED IN STATE Watch your speed! That is the warning issued by Major Phil Brewster, commis sioner of the Department of Puo lic Safety, who has begun strict enforcement of the new Georgia 55-mile speed limit. The depart ment also will patrol the high ways and make cases against the owners of cars not bearing prop er license plates. Orders for the patrols through out the state were handed down following a conference in Atlan ta recently of the commanders of the ten state patrol districts. “We find that one-half of the 816 automobile deaths last year were attributable in some way to speed,” Major Brewster said “ And we believe that a strict observance of the new 55-mile speed limit law by all Georgians will result in saving at least 200 lives. ” FIGHT THE BOLL WEEVIL With cotton up or coming up throughout the state, the next job ahead of Georgia farmers is to fight the boll wee vil. By starting early and doing the job right, an intelligent fight on the boll weevil can add thous ands of dollars to the value of Georgia s cotton crop. Where boll weevils are numerous in the fields before squares begin to form, these early, over-wintered weevils can be killed by making from one to three pre-square ap plications of calcium arsenate. The pre-square poisoning may be done by using calcium arsenate dust or by mopping the cotton with a mixture of calcium arse nate, syrup and water. After cotton begins to square, regular inspection should be made of the fields. If many weevils are found, calcium arsenate dust should be applied. Wait about five days and then inspect the fields closely again. If many weevils are still present, apply two additional applications of calcium arsenate dust five days apart. Most farmers know how to mix the sweetened poison and how to use the calcium arsenate dust. Those who do not can get the simple directions from their county agents. In order for boll weevil control methods to be most effective, it is necessary that all farmers in a cotton-growing community adopt control measures. But individ ual farmers can do a lot to save their own crop regardless of what their neighbors do. The reason this is true is that usually there is not much movement of weevils from field to field until the migration period begins about mid-summer. Therefore, farmers who do early poisoning will obtain protection for their bottom crop regardless of wheth ■er their neighbors poison. But what would be of most value to everyone concerned would be for all farmers who can possibly do so to poison, r Do You Belong \ to the World's Biggest ! Sunday School Class? • You do, if you are one of the many readers of this paper who follow closely the Sunday School lessons that we publish each week. Dr. P. B, Fitzwater, who prepares this exposition of the weekly lesson, is a member of the faculty, , | of the Moody Bible In stitute of Chicago and is recognized everywhere as an authority on all 1 things biblical, I • If you are not a member oj thh record-breaking class, join notv, by simply turning to the lesson in thh issue ... Sell your friends about it. • 'CROSS MARKS SPOT iOF FATAL ACCIDENTS I Places in Houston county on State Routes No. 7 and 11 where 40 persons have been killed in traffic accidents are being mark ed with white crosses by Sheriff C. C. Pierce. Placing of the crosses in this county is a part of a state-wide movement by the Dixie Motor Club of Atlanta, which is supplying Sheriff Pierce with the crosses. County officials and civic bodies in all parts of Geor gia are said to be cooperating in the movement, putting up cross es furnished without cost by the motor club. Crosses are to be placed for the time being on only main thoroughfares. One cross is to put up for each person killed, even where several deaths have occurred at the same spot. Main roads in many Georgia counties have already been marked, re ports from several sections of the state show, and the crosses are said to be attracting wide spread attention and much fa vorable comment, “I am very much pleased to help in this work,” Sheriff Pierce said in discussing the matter. “We need something to make driving in Georgia safer and I believe that any person who sees such striking reminders of the death of others will be in clined to drive more carefully.” MORE FEED CROPS Acreage devoted to food and feed crops in Georgia increased from 4,438,000 in 1929 to 6,957,- 000 in 1938. At the same time the state crop reporting service pointed out that last year only 2,064,000 acres were in cotton, compared with a yearly average of from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 acres in 1914-1920 period. Last year’s cash income from all crops and livestock, including govern ment payments, was estimated at $151,418,000, while in 1924, when more cotton was raised, cash income from crops was computed at $90,033,000, It was explained, however, that the government’s A. A. A, program, plus ravages of boll weevil, cotton prices and migra tion from farm to city played an important part in the cotton de cline. Last year slightly more than 90 per cent of the Georgia cotton farmers participated in the AAA. Much of the addition al income has come from culti vation of flue cured tobacco, pe cans and peanuts and the raising of livestock, Georgia leads the nation in peanut production with more than 600,000 acres devoted to that crop last season. AUXILIARY MEETING | The American Legion Auxili ary met last Thursday ‘afternoon at the Legion Home. Mrs. Cal houn, the president, presided over the business session. The unit will give a table and four chairs for children to the Ferry Library. National De fense Chairman, Mrs. L.M.Paul, Jr., said flag codes had been dis tributed in the school and essays would be turned in April 27. An effort is being made to register and mark every grave of a World War veteran in Houston county, it was reported. The program arranged and 1 presented by Mrs. Max Moore iwas as follows; Piano solo,Mer (riamme Rhodes; reading, “Child j Welfare,” Miss Eugenia Daniel; j talk on Cancer Cure by Dr, J. L. 1 Gallemore. Delightful refreshments were I served by the hostesses, Mrs. G. } W. Rhodes, Mrs. W. G.Riley.and jMrs. H. C. Armstrong. | ’ Advertising makes dreams of better days come true, right now write ads, write us, we’ll do the rest. Even though a man might be color, blind it is easy enough for him to detect a ‘green back’.