Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, August 03, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL VOL. LXVIII. No. 31. PENALTY FOR MISUSE marketing cards County Agent W. T. Middle brooks advised Houston county cotton farmers this week that those who misused their market imr cards in 1938 to help other nroducers sell cotton in excess of firm quotas, will lose both the conservation payments and the cotton price adjustment pay ments to which they might oth erwise be entitled under the 1939 farm program. He said this recent ruling of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration is based on a pro vision of the program that all or any part of a farmer’s payments may be withheld, if he has adopted any practice which tends to defeat any of the pur poses of the farm program. “Under the marketing quota regulations, the holder of a red marketing card is required to pay a penalty on that part of his cotton marketings in excess of his quota,” Mr. Middlebrooks explained. ‘‘The new ruling provides that if a cotton produc er who held a white marketing card, indicating that all his cot ton was penalty free, ginned or sold cotton for a farmer who held a red card, and the county committee determines that this action was contrary to the cot ton marketing quota regulations, neither the white card holder nor the red card holder will re ceive conservation or price ad justment payments in connection with the 1939 program. The AAA found last year that, in some cases, farmers with red marketing cards managed to sell their excess cotton through oth er farmers who held white cards and whose cotton was not sub ject to penalty. As a result, records kept by ginnersand buy ers credited the white card hold ers with more cotton than they actually produced, and this er roneous data gave their farms a higher yield per acre than that to which they were entitled. The purpose of the new regu lation, the county agent said, is to keep cotton producers from defeating the purpose of the pro gram by having erroneous yields established for their farms. As conservation and price adjust ment payments are based on normal yield, it would be possi ble for a farmer to increase his payments under future programs by having excess cotton from other farms sold on his white card and credited to the yield of his farm, he pointed out. COUNTY UNEMPLOYED RECEIVE BENEFITS Unemployment benefits amounting to $64,10 were paid to eight unemployed men and wo men in Houston county by the bureau of Unemployment Com pensation during the week end mg July 22, it was announced today, Payments for the state as a whole totaled $75,804.27, an increase of slightly more than *6,000 over the week before. Workers in other states who Previously had established wage credits in Georgia received 275 checks for $2,270.92 to bring all Percents for the week to $78,- Checks were again sent into lo ‘ counties of the state. Jobs were found for 18 unem ployed Houston county workers ny the Georgia State Employ ment Service during the month m June the Bureau of Unemploy ment Compensation has an ounced. Of the number, all maced in private employment • nc [ none on public works pro jects. . The county is served by the fsf C( i n °® ce > which reported to m Placements of 392 during the 1 on tn- Throughout the state, . cal Employment offices found ! i * or 9,312 unemployed men and women. _ , f People of the city and av! n w. are cor dially invited to j i . mselves of the service ered by the office. i S9oaa era l government spent h i 00 -°OO in controlling grass uppers during 1938. "TRUTH GARBED IN HELL FIRE"I By PAUL MUSE j That’s what Carlyle said about tne French Revolution. In this ■' rather warm figure, while Car jlyle had in mind the whole move ment of the revolution, he had I particularly in view that stage to 1 ! which history has given the ■ name, ‘‘Reign of Terror.” With i the fall of the Bastile, power : was in the hands of the mob. Lecky, the English historian writing of this period says, “For i the next few years France lay among th e great powers of ■ Europe a potent and a wonder; . cut away from her ancient moor ings, drifting without a compass • jor helsman, like some exploding ; fireship, scattering terror and i J desolation along her path ! The edifice of government totter . ed and fell, and all Europe re sounded with the fall.” , The “Reign of Terror,” to the echo of, “Death to the aristo , crats,” was the terrible expres sion of the unleashed passions of ■ an exploited and starving people. i This oppression had gone on for centuries, the privileged classes , living in luxury and the masses ■ living amid all the hardships of poverty. It could not last for ever. The pent up passions of , the oppressed would break out at last. Seeds of injustice had been sown. The people com plained, but royalty and the nobles paid no heed. Speaking of the Guillotine as one of the hor rors of the period, Charles Dick ens observed, “And yet there is not in France, with its rich va riety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a pepper corn, which will grow to maturi ty under such conditions more certain than those that have pro i duced this horror.” The Apostle was not just “making talk” when he said, . “Whatsoever a man (orapeople) soweth, that shall he also reap.” This is ever true, whether of a nation that sows economic and , social injustice and reaps revolu tion and chaos, or of an individ ual who forgets and neglects God and reaps the fruit of sin. i Lecky was not a very religious i man himself, but he names as one of the prime causes of the i French Revolution the religious ; decay of France in the decades preceding the revolution. i It is a pity, a tragic one, that ,so many yeople—at times an en i tire people—will not hear the ; “still small voice” of God calling them to religion, righteousness i and sanity. On every hand. ' through six thousand years of history, God has hung His truth, that when people treat God and religion lightly they face moral degeneracy and ruin. One of the saddest commentaries on the 1 degeneracy of human nature is that frequently people will not heed God unless they are hit in the stomach, struck unconscious ’ for a season, floored by “the * truth garbed in hell-fire.” Often then it is too late. As Carlyle ' says again, “Truth, and lacking ; that, LIGHTNING.” 1 JOURNAL HAS BEST FARM NEWS SERVICE ) ; The Georgia Farm News Ser ’! vice, selected by the American 'Association of Agricultural Col lege Editors as the best in the nation, furnishes news and fea -1 tures from the state’s farm front for regular publication in The Houston Home Journal. The Farm News Service is is -1! sued by the Georgia Agricultural j Extension Service. It covers I every phase of the federal and ! federal-state farm programs now loperating in Georgia, including (the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration, Farm Security Ad i ministration, and Soil Conserva tion Service. Readers of the Home Journal j will continue to receive accurate, i up-to-the-minute information on These agricultural agencies in the future through the same ;Farm News Service that has been selected for this high | award. Grazing control, weed control, water and soil conservation, fer tilization, and re-seeding or sod ding are important factors in, successful management of thej 1 pasture. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939 REV. SILAS JOHNSON TO CONDUCT REVIVAL -mg& > HHUhBBHHHH REV, SILAS JOHNSON Revival services at Andrew Chapel Methodist church will be gin Sunday morning, August 6, at 11:30 o’clock and continue for several days with services at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. Rev. Silas Johnson, district superinten dent of the Macon district, will do the preaching during this re vival. Before becoming Dis trict Superintendent, Rev. John son was for several years Pastor of Vineville Methodist church in Macon. Most of the people in Houston county already know him and know of his ability as a preacher. Every one is urged to attend the services during the revival. OCT. 31, TIME LIMIT TO ASSIGN PAYMENTS Georgia cotton farmers parti cipating in the 1939 Agricultural Conservation Program have un til October 31 to file assignment of payments for advances to pro duce this year’s crop, Homer S. Durden, state administrative officer of the A. A. A. announc ed in Athens this week. He said landlords, fertilizer dealers, banks and other credi tors making advances to farmers should bear in mind that assign ments not executed prior to Oc tober 31 will not be approved. “Price adjustment payments earned under the federal farm program cannot be included in an assignment,” Mr. Durden said. “Only conservation pay ments will be recognized.” He advised all county offices that Form ACP-69, used in all transactions, must be signed by the assignee, witnessed by a dis interested person, and filed in the office of the county agricultu ral conservation association, in which the related assignment is filed or at immediately prior to the time application is made by the assignor to the United States for payment. The Triple-A official said 33,- 000 Georgians had assignments certified under the 1938 program, involving $2,044,569.75. Payments on the 1939 assignments will not be made until late this winter or early spring of 1940. JOHN WILLIAMSON WINS TRIP TO N. Y. FAIR In a recent sales contest con ducted by Rogers stores, one store manager in each district was awarded a trip to the New York World’s Fair with all ex penses paid. John Williamson, manager of the Rogers .store in Perry, won the trip in this dis trict with seventeen stores com peting. Mr. Williamson will leave in a few days to join the group of forty, consisting of the winning district managers in the whole chain of stores, to make the trip to New York. The only known copy of the second Constitution of Georgia, that of 1789, is in the library of 1 the University of Georgia, COUNTY SCHOOLS TO BEGIN TERMSEPT.iI The white schools of Houston} county will open Monday, Sept. 11, for the fall term. The colored schools of the county will open Monday, Sept. 25. All of the schools will close Dec. 15 for the holidays and open Monday, Jan. 1, for the spring term. These dates were set Tuesday. Aug. 1, by the County Board of Education at the regular month ly meeting held in Perry at the office of Supt. S. W. Hickson, The length of the spring term will be dependent upon ho w much financial support is re ceived from the state. Assuranc es of support from the state dur ing the fall months has been given Mr. Hickson. PERRY LIBRARY HAS NEW LOCATION The Perry Public Library is now located in the Jernaghan Office Building, having been moved Tuesday, Aug. 1, from the Anderson Bldg. The library has grown consid erably since its opening this spring and has a circulation above the average of towns the size of Perry, in fact, the circu lation is larger than many towns twice the size of Perry. Mrs. J. L. Beavers, librarian, states that the library is equipped for reference work. Library membership is free to anyone residing in Houston county. KING RE-APPOINTED PERRY POSTMASTER . _ I Otis A. King has been ap pointed Post Master of Perry for another four year term. Mr. King received notice of his ap pointment from Senator R. B. Russell several days ago. Mr. King is a World War veteran and a member of the American Legion. He was city clerk of Perry at one time and operated a grocery store here several years ago. CAMP MEETING AUG. 3 The annual camp meeting of Christ Santffied Holy church will be held on the camp ground of the Home and farm located on Highway Route 41, 6 miles north of Perry, Aug. 5-20. A new tabernacle has recently been completed. Any sanctified person has the privilege of building camp house or erecting tent in accordance! with rules of building committee. Lack of time and money pro hibited the building of the dor mitory and mess hall this year. The public is invited to attend the meetings. VESPER SERVICE The Vesper Service at the Per ry Methodist church was con ducted Sunday evening by the Susannah Wesley class. Mrs. E. F. Barfield, class president, pre sided. Those taking part on the pro gram were: Mrs. G. W. Hicks, Mrs. Earl Ogletree,Miss Frances Couey, Mrs. J. L. Beavers, Mrs, J. L. Hodges, Mis. J. Q. Crosby, Mrs. J. M. Gooden, and Mrs. Hollis Pafford. The Ladies’ Bible class will be in charge next Sunday night. NOTICE An aluminum preserving ket tie and two glass pitchers are missing from the kitchen at the American Legion Home. Anyone knowing anything about these articles is requested to notify Mrs. Hollis Kezar,president of the Auxiliary or Mrs. J. B. Calhoun, secty. Approximately 21 per cent of the high school graduates in j Georgia attend college, GARDEN GOSSIP By HUBERT B. OWENS The editors of Holland’s Maga zine have, in the July issue, pre sented their answer to the chal lenge offered the South in the Report of the National Emer gency Council on economic prob-j lems in this region. The Council, in drawing up this report for the President, was aided by an ad visory committee of Southerners “known for their interest in the region and their familiarity with its problems.” The people who drew up this report live in the South and love it as much as any of us do. Their findings caused President Roosevelt to pronounce the South “The Nation’s No. 1 Economic Problem.” It said in part that: “The South’s people are the poorest in the nation. They are in need of food, clothing, houses. “Half of the South’s people are poorly housed. Homes in Southern towns are overcrowded. More than a fourth need toilets. “The South spends on educa tion less than half as much per person as does the rest of the country. “The South leads the nation in child labor. “The South has poor health protection. ‘.Many Southern towns have poor water supplies. “The all-too-common diet in the rural South is fatback, corn bread, molasses. “The South’s natural resources have been ruthlessly wasted. “The South's farmers produce far less than their national share of eggs, milk, butter, hay, pota toes, and oats. ” No one can truthfully deny these charges—they apply to your town and its environs. “What,” asks Holland’s Maga zine, “are we who live in such a town going to do about it?” Believing that the most effec tive approach to the many na tional and regional problems is through the town, Holland’s has established a Southern Institute for Town Service which is dedi cated to better town building just as the smallest wheel in the clock is an important part of the whole, so each town in the coun try is an integral part of the United States and we cannot ex pect national problems to be solved until those of the towns have been solved. Prosperity and economic security begin at home. The aim of the Southern In stitute for Town Service is to en courage and aid the many groups and individuals who have long endeavored to make our towns better places in which to live; and to fuse and make known their knowledge and experience so that all may see the value of. wise social and economic plan ning. To promote personal re sponsibility and cooperation among all, that we may work to gether intensely and unselfishly for the betterment of our towns, and so preserve and develop, for ourselves and for our children, our Southern heritage of natural 1 beauty, great human and natural resources, and rich culture. The Institute is ready to aid every town in developing a pro gram for its improvement. Their program includes Round Table discussions, Town conferences, Lecture and Consultation service, an Award of Merit, and a Seal of Honor. A free booklet entitled “Organizing Our Town and The Town Score Card” by R. C. Mor rison, Director of the institute, offers many suggestions. Another publication which would be help ful to those interested in thisi program is “Town Building”] by Bernard Smith, price fiftyi cents, written especially for JJol-( land’s Southern Institute for! Town Service. I heartily recommend this pro-[ grain to the attention of all in-i dividuals, Garden Clubs and oth-j er civic minded organizations in | Georgia towns. Any town would! do well to take stock and seek 1 ways for improving its social,! economic, and governmental life. Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of the Druid Hills Baptist church, in Atlanta, to whom much credit for bringing the Baptist World Alliance Congress to Georgia, was honored by the thousands of delegates to the seven-day con i vention. He was selected asso ciate secretary of the Alliance. ESTABLISHED 1870 jFARM & HOME WEEK I FOR FARM FAMILIES ( I Hundreds of Georgia farmers, 1 their wives and children are I completing preparations to be in ! Athens during the week of Au i gust 7 to take part in programs on better farming, soil constrva j tion, livestock, 4-11 club activi- I ties, rural electrification, and ! home economics. The event will be the annual Farm and Home Week of the University of Georgia’s College of Agriculture and the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service. The week's program will open on Monday, August 7, with regis tration of the various groups of farmers, home demonstration club members and 4 H club boys and girls. Group meetings devoted to specialized phases of agriculture, home economics, and 4-H activi ties will be held simultaneously on the campus during the visi tor’s five-day stay at the Univer sity. The main program will begm Tuesday morning, August 8, with the third annual Community Amateur Entertainment Contest taking the featured spot in the morning and an Extension Ser vice pageant scheduled for the afternoon. Five counties, Sumter,Liberty. Cobb, Greene, and Gwinett, will compete in the entertainment contest. The Extension pageant will depict the history of the Service which this year is cele brating its 25th anniversary. In addition to these features, August 8 will also be observed as Rural Electrification Day. Master Farmer awards will be made to four Georgia farm fam ilies on Wednesday, August 9, as a feature of Soil Conservation Day. Better farming will be the theme of the program on Thurs day, August 10. Home demon stration club women also will ob serve Thursday as their feature day of the week’s activities. The College livestock will be inspected by the visitors on Fri day—Livestock Day—to bring the program to a close. Four-H club boys and girls at tending the annual state confer ence, will hold their meetings throughout the entire week. Recreation and entertainment will highlight the activities of the youngsters. METHODIST CHURCH NEWS I Worship Services—Sunday 11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting discontinued until after September 15. Church School—Sunday 10:15 a. m. Rev. Paul Muse, Pastor. ELKO CHARGE NOTES i Schedule of services for the Methodist churches of the Elko charge is as follows: First Sunday—Grovania, 11:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. Second Sunday--Andrew Chap el, 11:30 a. rn. and 8 p. m. Third Sunday—Bonaire, 11:30 a. rn. and 8 p. m. Fourth Sunday—Elko, 11:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. Rev, W. J. Erwin, Pastor. ' } BAPTIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS ! Sunday Preaching Services, 111:30 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. ( Mid-week Prayer Service, Wed- I nesday, 8:30 p. m. i Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. The church welcomes you to I its services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. I PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE Perry Church Sunday School-10:15 a. m. Worship Service-11:30 a, m. Clinchfield Sunday School-3:00 p. m. Worship Service-8;30 p. m. Rev. R. F. Boyd, Pastor. i Mrs. S. L. Norwood, Jr. and son, Sam, returned Sunday from Forsyth.