Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, November 02, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL VOL. LXVIII. No. 44. ANNUAL METHODIST MEET TO BE NOV.B-12 The 73rd annual meeting of the South Ga. Conference, Methodist church, will open next Wednes day. Nov. 8, at 2:30 p. m. in Mulberry St. Methodist church, Macon. Kev. Paul Muse is successfully completing his first year as pas tor of th e Perry Methodist church. The stewards are mak ing an intensive effort this week t 0 have the finances all paid in full by next Sunday. At the stewards’ meeting Tuesday night, a balance of $742.00 was reported due on the main church budget of $3,748,00, making a total of $3,006.00 col lected. The incidental account is about $250 a year and has been paid. Incidental collections pay for lights, water, and janitor. Rev. Silas Johnson, Macon dis trict superintendent, is chmn. of the program committee for the annual conference. Among the speakers will be Dr, W.A.Smart, Emory University, Atlanta; Dr. T. D. Ellis, Louisville, Ky., and Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, Macon. Bishop Ainsworth will be the speaker for the Recognition of Union service on Thursday morn ing when the New South Georgia Annual Conference of the Meth odist Church will be formed. The final session of the South Geor gia Annual Conference of the former Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will be held Wed nesday. Sunday morning at 9 o’clock the annual love feast of the con ference will be held. Bishop J. L. Decell, who will preside over the conference, will preach at Mulberry on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. METHODIST W.H.S. TO HAVE WEEK OF PRAYER PROGRAM The Methodist W. M. S. will observe the Week of Prayer with a program at the church next Wednesday, Nov. 8, from eleven a, m. to three p. m. Miss Mary Culler White, mis sionary to China, will speak at 11:30 a. m. and again at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. G. C. Nunn, vice-pres ident of the Perry society, will be in charge. The morning program will be devotional in nature and the af ternoon session will be devoted to the 1939 Specials for the Week of Prayer. The foreign special is Bennett College at Rio de Ja neiro, South America. The home special is the Retirement Fund for Deaconesses and the Wesley Houses in West Va. and West Dallas, Texas. Offerings will go to these mission specials. Lunch will be served at the noon hour. Mrs. L., M. Paul,Jr., president, and a committtee are making plans for the lunch. Members are urged to attend this observance which will be in spirational and instructive. COLORED PEOPLE TO HAVE ANNUAL FARM EXHIBITION The 2nd annual Corn and Poul try Show and School Exhibition of the colored people of Houston county will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Nov. 9, 10, 11, in Perry. Eegro farmers, farm wives, students, and 4-H club members will stage this show to demon strate the progress that is being! made in carring out the “Live- i at-Home Program.” Exhibits! will consist of canned fruits and i vegetables, shuck and rag mats, j quilts, wild life books, shirts, lye I -oap, corn, chickens, pumpkins, | syrup, ribbon cane, wood work, I etc. One exhibition will show the | amount of food products requir- j tor one person for a year. there will be a corn-husking contest and an agricultural spelling match. Addresses will be made by government officials and educa tors. 0 Feauty lives with kindness.— Shakespeare. HEALTH FORUM TO BE HELD IN PERRY, NOV. 9 Through P.T.A. organizations and school children, an effort is being made to interest the citi zens of Houston county in the forum on Public Health and Child Welfare, to be held Thurs day, Nov. 9, 8 p. m. at the Perry school. School children are being ask ed to make Health Posters and write letters to their parents in viting them to the Forum.P.T.A. groups are urging their mem bers to attend the Forum. Dr. Guy Lunsford of the State Dept, of Health will be the speaker. The Kiwanis club and the P. T. A. are the sponsors. WHAnSPOPPYDAY? What is Poppy Day? Poppy Day is a day observed throughout the United States by wearing memorial poppies in honor of the World War dead. It will be observed this year in Perry on Saturday, Nov. 11. What is the Memorial Poppy? The memorial poppy is a repli ca of she poppies which grew on the battle fields of France and Belgium during the World War. Why was the poppy chosen as the memorial flower? The poppy was chosen as the memorial flower of the World War dead because it grew where they fell, the one touch of beau ty in the desolate battle areas. Who makes the memorial poppy? Memorial poppies are made by disabled World War veterans working in government hospitals and in convalescent workrooms maintained by the American Le gion Auxiliary. Who distributes the Memorial Poppy? Women of the American Le gion Auxiliary, working as un paid volunteers, distribute the poppies throughout the United States. What is done with the money contributed for the poppies? Every penny is used to sup port the work of the American Legion and Auxiliary for the welfare of the disabled veterans, their families aud the families of the dead. Who wears the Memorial Poppy ? Every American who wishes to honor the war dead and aiJ the war’s living victims. F.F.A. CHAPTER NEWS For the past week the Agricul ture students have been study ing tree, seed, and shrub identi fication in preparation for the State Fair contest which is to be held Thursday of this week. All of the students competed with the three highest being the win ners of the local contest. Those winning from Perry school are: Courtney Mason, Malcolm Rape, and Ralph Tabor, This is a contest sponsored each year by the State Vocation al Agriculture Department. No doubt, these boys will represent Perry real well in the contest. Besides this contest, Friday will be the F. F. A. Livestock show with animals from all over the state competing. Saturday will conclude the F. F. A. program with all Georgia Plantater Stu dents receiving their recognition and awards. The F. F. A. basketball team has played two games thus far and has won both of them. The next game will be with the Vi enna Agricultural club Friday night, Nov. 10. There will be one game each week during the remainder of the basketball sea son, if possible. The F. F. A. chapter should be commended for having its F. F. A dues paid 100 per cent. This is the earliest that this feat has been accomplished. Courtney Mason, Reporter, LARGE SWEET POTATO J. T. Lewis of Elko brought an eight lb. sweet potato to the Home Journal office Friday. This is the largest potato brought in for several years. By the way, it tasted mighty good, too, fried for breakfast for several morn ings. Thanks, Mr. Lewis. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1939 HIGHLIGHTS IN GEORGIA NEWS Since Thanksgiving is less than a month off, the turkey is a timely subject of interest. Of course, Georgia doesn’t raise as many turkeys as some 6ther states, but the estimated pro duction for this state is around 100,000. For the nation, the 1939 production has been esti mated at 32 million. This com pares with 26 million in 1938,and the previous high record of 28 million in 1936. The most popular sport in Geor gia is quail shooting. The open season runs from November 20 to March 1 each year. Carelessness in the woods is held responsible for 75 per cent of Georgia’s annual timber mor tality by State Forrester W. C. Hammerle, who said the fire loss was $3,796,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30. He added that 98 per cent of the forest fires each year in Georgia are man-caused. The state of Georgia possesses the largest forest area of any of the states, 23,750,000 acres. Loans amounting to $1,737,495 to 842 Georgia borrowers of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation have been paid in full, while 10,- 597 other borrowers are in satis factory standing, it is reported. The HOLC refinanced 14.850 mortgages to the extent of $33,- 664,632 during its lending period from June 13, 1933, to June 12, 1936. What is thought to be the first golf course in the United States was laid out at Darien, Ga. NEW SYSTEM OF CROP ROTATION EASIER Systematic crop rotations by sowing every third terrace in the field to grain and planting cot ton or corn in the intervening strips is not only proving effec tive for controlling erosion, but is also much easier than using the old system of planting solid fields. That has been the experience of A. D. Gunnels, farmer in the Athens demonstration area of the Soil Conservation Service, since he adopted the practice oi strip cropping. Some of Mr. Gunnell’s grain strips were followed by lespede za, while others were sown to cowpeas and sorghum this year after the grain was harvested. After this season, however, he will follow all grain with lespe deza, he says. “By sowing lespedeza at the time of top dressing the grain,” Mr. Gunnels said, “I can get this out of the way when work is slack. But the time for sow ing cowptas comes when crops need cultivating, which means that the cowpeas are often sow ed when the ground is wet or when it is too late to make much growth. “Now that my crops are plan ned in strips, grain will follow cotton this fall and the grain-les pedeza strips will go into cotton or corn next spring,” he de clared. “For the first time, I know months in advance what crops lam going to plant and where I am going to plant them, and carrying out a systematic rotation is easy. “I have one third of my land planted to cotton, one third to corn, and one third to grain, fol lowed by lespedeza,” he added. “With this proportion establish ed by strips, all I have to do to carry out the rotation is to move up the hill one strip with each crop.” Mr. Gunnels plans to harvest his lespedeza strips for seed this fall, and to leave the stubble to protect the land this winter and to be turned for cotton or corn next spring. FIRE The kitchen at the Houston County Public Works camp was destroyed by fire last Friday. Finely-ground diphenylamine should be applied to any break in the skin ot cattle, sheep, horses, or hogs, which may be exposed to screw worm flies. Georgia, officially will observe Thanksgiving on Nov. 23 with the President, who will carve his turkey in Warm Springs on the earlier date. Governor Rivera is to issue a proclamation for the state in accordance with the President’s visit. The first successfully operated cotton mill in the South, the Bol ton factory, was built in Wilkes county, Georgia. The dryest October of the cen tury has damaged the game and fish of Georgia, it was pointed out this week by Charles N. Elliott, Director of the Division of Wild Life. Many of the smaller streams and lakes have nearly dried up in all parts of the state, Elliott declared, and this has severely handicapped all wild life. The first Protestant Sunday School in America was founded in Savannah. The first agricultural experi ment station was founded in Georgia at Savannah in 1735. James N. Kane, of New York, wrote the Department of Agriculture seeking verification of the fact so it might be includ ed in the third volume of “Fa mous First Facts.” Georgia His torical Society’s records show a 10-acre garden for experimental purposes was maintained by the trustees of the Georgia colony in 1735 and that products from all sections of the world were brought there to be tested be fore being planted generally in Georgia. SURPLUS COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION NOTES Commodity distribution i s sponsored and supervised by the State Department of Public Wel fare. The surplus foods distributed by this project are purchased by the Federal Surplus Commodity Corporation which allocates and ships these commodities to the State for distribution in accord ance with regulations fixed by the corporation. Purchases are made with pri mary view to aiding agriculture and assisting the farmer by re moving price depressing sur passes from commercial markets and so it is that sometimes the surplusses which are purchased are not always commodities most needed by relief people. There are two state agencies authorized to determine eligibili ty for recipient of surplus com modities, the State Department of Public Welfare and the State Farm Security Administration. The Department of Public Wel fare is responsible for the certi fication of all families and indi viduals except those on the Farm Security program and for the certification of all organizations, institutions, school lunches, nur sery schools, etc., which receive surpluses in bulk. It has desig nated the Director of the De partment of Public Welfare in each county as certifying agents under state supervision. Th e State Farm Security Administra tion has designated Home Super vision of the Farm Administra tion as the carrying agents for families on the Farm Security program. During the fiscal year July 1, 1938 through June 30, 1939, sur plus commodities in the amount of $12,637.17 were distributed in Houston county. Sallie Frank Thompson, Welfare Director, Cooper in Germany “The Prairie,” one of Fennimore Cooper’s most American stories, was written at Bad Duerkheim, Ger many; and today there is a small museum there in his memory. A Strange Market One of the world’s oldest and strangest markets is the huge out door camel market in 'tripoli, North Africa, which attracts more than 6,000 Arabs and their families each month frbm all parts of the Libyan desert. Carrying all their worldly possessions on the backs of cam els, these Arab nomads travel as far as 1,000 miles to sell a camel, buy yard-goods for clothing and I meet friends. KIWANIS CLUB HAS TALK BY DR.SAMMONS Dr. J. E. Sammons, pastor of the Vineville Baptist church, Ma con, was the speaker at the Per ry Kiwanis club Tuesday at its luncheon meeting. His subject was Our Greatest Asset- the Children, He based his talk on the Kiwanis motto: “We Build.” The library reported $35 more contributed for the Perry Li brary. Any one having an old typewriter not in use was asked to lend or donate same to the li brary. The Ga. Power Co. donated $25 to the Library, it was an nounced. TRAMPLING DM PEArTs By PAUL MUSE Some people become greatly disturbed at times, fearing that they have committed “the un pardonable sin.” Th e Scrip tures speak of a sin, that is “not unto death,” and also of sin that is “unto death.” In yet plainer terms the Bible tells us that “all manner of sin”shall be forgiven, except “the sin against the Holy Ghost.” Perhaps all sin is the same in the eye of God. Undoubtedly, however there are sins that are worse than others in their chill ing and killing effect on those who commit them. It may be true, no doubt frequently is true, that such deadly sins do not ap pear to those who do them as very “bad.” In this connection we may recall that the Bible also says that while men judge ac cording to outward appearances, God judges according to inward facts or effects. As is almost in variably the case with any form of wrong doing, that which ap pears to be a little thing, turns out in its effect to be big. Nothing is more ruinous to one’s morals, to one’s moral con nections, and nothing deadens one’s conscience to just what is right or wrong as to treat as common that which God has de clared to bp uncommon; to treat as ordinary that which God has marked a s extraordinary; to handle carelessly that which God has made a superlative in His firmament of truth. To do so is to trample under foot the pearls of the infinite. No one can do this without suffering an awful deadening of conscience. Violation of the Sabbath is a case in point. God did not or dain the Sabbath, with its safe guards, “just for fun.” There is a great purpose involved, chiel of which is the religious culture of men. God iias made the Sab bath law one of his pearls of truth. He intended it as one ol superlatives. To belittle the Sabbath is to belittle everything the Sabbath was meant to make sacred and preserve. Any one who gets his or lor consent to make the Sabbath common, as any other day,at the same stroke strikes his conscience a deadly blow concerning all other super latives of God. One may not in tend to do as much, perhapt never does intend it, but in sin ning against one of God’s prime sanctities, one stabs his consci ence to death. One is then read ier to break other laws of God. He has pushed God aside at one point so that he more easily pushes Him aside at another. The man or woman who tramples upon God’s pearls may continue to have a form of religion, but it is barren and lifeless, as one will discover sooner or later the need in hours of heart-breaking trial of some power and comfort j greater than human. Cuba Once Was Cubanacan Visitors to Havana learn that th* city was called San Cristobal de It Habana when founded by Velasquez in 1515. Cuba was named Cubana- 1 can when Columbus first landed there in 1492. The Brazilian Venice Pernambuco is called the Brazil ian Venice because of its canals, deepened to obtain filler for low lands. The city is the easternmost in South America, and the white crested surf of the Atlantic never ceases beating upon its shores. In the old part of the city the streets are narrow and the houses tall, the idea being to obtain the maximum of shade, - ESTABLISHED 1870 i’4o PARITY PAYMENT PROVISIONS GIVEN i County Agent W. T. Middle brooks this week announced terms and conditions under which the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration will make 1940 pari ty payments to Georgia produc ers of cotton, tobacco, and wheat. He said payments, conditioned upon participation of farmers in the 1940 Agricultural Conserva tion Program, will be made from the $225,000,000 appropriated for this purpose. “The provisions are similar to those in effect for the 1939 parity payments,” Mr. Middle brooks said, “but have been strengthened by including these additional requirements: one, that the producer plant within the total of the acreage allot ments of cotton, tobacco, and wheat established for his farm under the 1940 Farm Program; and two, that the producer not offset performance on the farm by overplanting the three com modities on other farms in which he has an interest.” The county agent said rates of payments will be announced lat er, after the 1939 season average prices are determined. He point ed out that the rate for any crop cannot exceed the amount by which the 1939 average farm price of the commodity is less than 75 per cent of the parity price. No parity payment was made on tobacco in 1939, since the 1938 average farm price was above 75 percent of parity. “The changes,” Mr. Middle brooks said, “are intended to bring about a more effective ad ministration of the program than has been possible under previous regulations. Under the 1939 price adjustment program, a pro ducer could qualify for a pay ment by adhering to the allot ment of another commodity on the same farm or overplanted the same crop or other commodi ties on another farm. The new provisions make it possible for the county or state AAA com mittee to withhold all or part of the payment in such cases under the 1940 program.” The agent said producers of winter wheat may apply for and receive 1940 parity payments be fore their 1940 performance is checked on cotton and tobacco, upon agreeing to make refunds if subsequent check-ups show that they have over-planted their allotments of either of the other two crops named. LIBRARY NOTES The majority of people read for pleasure. Entertaining new novels are: Adams, S. H.-“ Both Over Twenty-One,”an absorbing mod ern novel. Gale, Zona--“Magna,” an ar ; tistic love story, the last book of a foremost American novelist. Miller, Helen T.-Song After Midnight,” a charming love story of a Southern girl. Norris, Kathleen-“ Lost Sun rise,’’the story of two sisters and their families, full of lovable rpn (if ipa Vercel, Roger-“ Tides of St. Michel,” modern drama enacted within the stone walls of an Abbey. Quite a variety of non-fiction is being added. Barton, Bruce~“Man Nobody Knows.” Gilfillan, Laura--“I Went to Pitt College.” [ Heiser. Victor-“An American Doctor’s Odyessy.” Library hours 9 a.m. to 6 p.m, Verneice Beavers, Librarian. ELKO CHARGE NOTES 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. m, and 8 p. m. Third Sunday—Bonaire, 11:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. Fourth Sunday—Elko, 11:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. , Rev. W. J. Erwin, Pastor.