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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL !
Published Weekly at
Perry, Ga.
JOHN L. HODGES. Publisher.
RUBY C. HODGES, Editor.
Official Organ of Houston County
and City of Perry.
Subscription, $1.50 per year.
Entered at the Post Office in
Perry, Ga., as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
MOUNTAINS ROUND ABOUT
By BESSIE HOUSER NUNN
The mountains round about!
They ever bring
Abundant peace,
And swift release
From doubts that sting,
From worries that loom large;
Beholding—
My soul may sing!
The mountains round about!
Their beauty thrills,
They reassure,
And prove a cure
For our small ills,
When we remember it is God
Who gives
Strength from the hills!
The mountains--how 1 love them
round about!
Their mighty voice
Bids me rejoice
Forget my doubt;
My daily need is not beyond
His care,
The hill tops shout!
WHO PATS FOR ADVERTISING
What is advertising? One
form of salesmanship.
Purpose? To sell.
Who pays for it?
John and Mary Public say 1
they do, indirectly.
Solomon Isaac Business Man
says he knows too well that he
pays for advertising.
But 1 say the customer does
not pay an advertising bill if the
advertising is effective, efficient
ly done, run in the right medi
um at the right time, and is, in
every other respect, right.
For when greater demand for
goods is created by advertising,
more goods can be manufactured!
in larger quantities, and shelves!
restocked at less cost per unit of
production per item of merchan
dise, in consequence of that
created demand, either at less
cost —which amounts to the same
thing.
There you have the theory of
mass production and quantity
buying packed together in a
pecan shell.
Yes, the merchant is sure he
pays the advertising cost. Hut
1 say he does not. for the larger
the volume of business the re
tailer can do, the less his per
centage of overhead, of which
advertising is but one of may
items. No more light, no more
heat, no more of several other 1
overhead items required fori
$llO,OOO turnover than for $lOO,-
000.
Well, if the customer doesn’t
pay and the merchant doesn’t
pay for advertising—then, who
does pay for it?
Why, bless your souls! The
truth of the matter is that effect-r
ive advertising is self-support-j
ing, self-liquidating. Nobody
pays for good advertising, un
less, if we must find someone to
pay for it, 1 guess it comes pret
ty near being the non-adverlis
ing merchant who pays and
pays -whose overhead goes up
as his sales volume goes down—
he and the non-adrtading custo i
mer who buys blind, fails to read'
the ads and in consequence, gets!
stuck with inferior, non-adver- {
tised goods, at higher prices'
than he need pay.
And there you have one an
swer to the old. old question:
Who pays for elfeclive advertis-j
ing, in the final analysis? Not j
the buyer of advertised goods,
not the merchant who sells the
advertising space, but the non
advertiser who fails to get the;
business and the non-ad-reading j
public.--by Prof. John H, Casey,!
Univ. of Okla. The Publishers’!
Auxiliary.
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ICLASSIFIED ADS
Don’t put off painting. But
haveJ. W. Hightower put it on
for you.
Call Perry Pharmacy, No. 2.
For Sale—Just received anoth
er large shipment of the famous
Hickory one and two horse farm
wagons, with locust hubs going
at the same low price,
Merritt & Anderson Bros. Co.
9:15 Hawkinsville, Ga.
Floors sanded with the latest
type machine. Estimates cheer
fully given. Otis Paul,
9:12 Perry, Ga.
For Sale---Just received a car
load of Livermon peanut pick
ers, with automatic and stand
ard feeders ready to go.
Merritt & Anderson Bros. Co.
9:5 Hawkinsville, Ga.
FARMS FOR SALE
On Easy Terms
L. C. HOWARD PLACE
-400 acres, A'A miles east from
Perry, and about three miles
from Houston Lake, near public
road leading from Houston Lake
, to Clinchfield.
ANDERSON. SAM and CON
NIE WILSON PLACE-121.7
acres. 24 miles south from Ma
con, 6 miles northeast from Per
ry, on Macon-Tharpes Mill &
Ferry Public Road.
For prices and terms, write
THE GA. LOAN & TRUST CO.
9:26 Macon, Ga.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
All persons indebted to the
Estate of L. O. Rogers, Deceas-!
ed, are hereby notified to make;
payment to the undersigned ad
ministratrix of such indebted-1
ness. All persons holding claims
against said Estate are hereby
notified to present said claims to
the undersigned administratrix.
MRS. MINNIE COUEY,
As Administratrix of the (
Estate of L O. Rogers, Dec’d. '
LEGAL SALE OF LAND
By virtue of a power of sale
contained in a certain deed with
power of sale given by Henry
Mosely to Henry Cain Solomon,
and by him transferred to H. E.
Talton and by said H. E. Talton to
|S. T. Bryan, said deed and trans
fers recorded in deed book 46
page 40, Clerk’s Office Houston
Superior Court, will be sold be
fore the Court House door in
Perry, Georgia, during the legal
hours of sale, on Tuesday, Sep
tember 3,1940, to the highest bid
der for cash the following prop
erty: “All that certain tract or
parcel of land, containing 36
acres, more or less in lot No. 9
in the 11th District of Houston
County, Georgia. Bounded on
the North by lands of the Penn-
Dixie Cement Corporation, East
by lands of said corporation and
lands of Solomon Estate, South
by the Green Land and West by
I Beaver Creek Road, lands of
'Davis, Henry McGee and the |
Piney Grove Church, School, and |
Hall Lands, said Western boun-|
dary being irregular.
Said lands being more particu-;
larly described by a plat made!
by T. F. Flournoy on March 30,
1934, which plat is recorded in
i Map Book 1, page 266, Clerk’s
! Office, Houston Superior Court,
and having more definite descrip
tion in deed with power of sale
to secure debt.
Said lands will be sold as
the property of the ETstate of
Henry Moseley, he having died
since the making of said securi-j
ty deed. The said Henry Mos
ieley having failed to pay a cer
tain promissory note which was
I due on the first day of Novem-l
|er, 1937, and having failed to
pay a certain promissory note
I due November first, 1938, the
I power contained in said security
deed becomes operative.
There will be due on the day
lof sale the principal sum of
$247.80 and $29.60 interest, and
'all cost of this proceeding.
The proceeds of said sale will
;be applied first to the payment
lof said principal debt, interest
land all cost of this proceeding, j
land the remainder if any, will
'be paid to the legal representa
tive of the Estate of Henry!
| Moseley, deceased. A deed to i
i the purchaser will he made by
I the undersigned.
S. T. Bryan, by
J. W. Blood worth,
his atty.-at-law.
City of Authors
• The city of Florence in Italy has '
been a favorite of poets and writers 1
for centuries. Its visitors have in- |
elided Milton, Landor, George Eliot, |
j the Brownings, Longfellow, Lowcl,
I and the Hawthornes,
i OUR DEFENSE
The Army of the United States
(This it the Third of a Series Prepared by the National
Defense Advisory Committion)
The Constitution of the United
| 1 States gives Congress the power
r to raise and support armies, and
’ designates the President as Com
manrier-in-Chief.
The army is divided into three
main sections. The Regular Ar
my, the National Guard, and the
t Organized Reserves. Under the
■ President, the Secretary of War is
responsible for running the Ar
my. Under him is the Assistant
- Secretary of War, responsible for
. getting the military supplies for
. the Army, and of adequate piO
. vision for mobilizing materials
and industrial organizations es
sential to wartime needs. It is
the blueprint and general outlines
( laid down by the Assistant Sec
retary of War over a period of
years that form the basis of what
are known as War Plans, To fa
cilitate the carrying out of these
plans, the President appointed
the National Defense Advisory
Commission.
The General Staff
The soldier head of the Army
is the Chief of Staff. He is re
sponsible for planning, developing,
and executing the Army’s pro
gram for national defense. He
has to train a million new men,
to make an army of them. There
are live Divisions under the Chief
of Staff, each responsible for a
separate function.
The Personal Division takes
care of the lighting men of the
Army, it enlists, classifies, as
signs, promotes, pays, transfers,
retires, and discharges. It is re
sponsible for making the best
| use of Our man-power. The Mili
tary Intelligence Division is re
sponsible for furnishing all kinds
of military information.
The Operations and Training!
Division handles the training of
men from the time they join tillj
(they are ready for duty, and be-i
yond that Carries Out the vocati-j
onal and educational work to fit 1
the men for new duties and new
techniques.
The Supply Division provides
for all equipment, buildings, sto
rage, transportation, and distri
bution of supplies, care of the
sick, and for keeping track of
army equipment-
The War Plans Division is re
sponsible for the use of our armed
forces in war, the location of for
tifications. and for ihe general
strategy of defense.
Directly under the Chief of
Staff comes the Regular army,
which is the full-time piofession
al part of our laud forces. It is
always ready, at the drop of the
bomb, to go into action as the
spearhead n{ our initial protective
force. It is designed to be aug
mented by the National Guard \
in time of need. Together these
forces make up our initial protec
tive force. This force, with the
Navy, would act to defend the
nation while wc prepare addition
's! units needed for subsequent
! tic Jon.
The success of the plan de
| pends ou equipment for the ini
! tial protective force, and having
[ material ready at once for additi
onal forces. That is why the
j President has asked for the addi
tional material for 800.000 men
(over the standing Army of 1,200,-
■OUO lie requested.
The Fighting Arms
The arms, the lighting units of
Our Army, are the Infantry, Uav
airy, Field Artillery, Coast Artil
lery, Air Corps, Corps of Engi-j
nseis, and the Signal Corps. All
I the present time, the mechanized
forces in the Catvalry, the Infan- I
try, and some Field Artillery I
have been transferred to a new!
j armored force, just experimentally j
organized. If the force performs)
as expected, it may become a new)
fighting army, including several
armored divisions of the type of!
the now famous “Panzer” divis-j
ions of the Germany Army. These i
divisions, comprising about 10;
percent of the German Army, are !
what made the “Blitzkrieg”!
possible.
The Infantry is the main fight- !
1 iug part of the Army, in the bat
tle the Infantry slugs it out with
i t he enemy. In order to under- j
: stand w hat the nation has to do. 1
I let ns take .John Smith, the av
erage recruit, and See what hap
pens to him when he joins the'
Army, and see w hat we have to
provide him with to make him a
Soldier.
I John joins the Infantry today.
(He raises his right hand, takes the,
,oath of allegiance, and by doing!
, that, lie sets in motion a long
integrated chain of activities to
supply him with the wherewithal
to fight. 1
Clothing An Army
First comes clothes. Shoes,
socks, pants, helmets, blankets,
tent, gas mask, trenching tool,
reserve ratioos;in fact, everything
1 that makes him a self-supporting
man of War. 2,000,000 John
' Smiths need two million times as
1 much material —and the proper
1 material has to be ready as each
John Smith raises his right hand.
In order to be sure that it is
ready, the War Department
breaks down these requirements
into many yards of wool cloth
for pants, so many hides for shoes,
so many tons of steel for trench
ing tools, hob nails, etc. Then
the National Defense Advisory
Commission goes to work.
It finds the Cloth for the uni
forms, which will have to be spec
ially woven, but there are more
than enough factories ready 10
do the job aud deliver the goods
before the men are ready for them.
America’s slice supplies are al
ready at work on the shoes that
won’t bite the foot that fills them.
The National Defense Advisory
Commission tells the army how
the orders should be distributed
to get the best and fastest re
sults without interfering serious
ly with other necessary produc
tion, without causing tiansporta
tion delays, aud without Causing
local labor shortages. This job is
not Only done for today, but for
next week and next year, so that
the whole process Can run Smooth
ly while we ready two million
men for arms.
This means that the Defense
Commission must look behind the
manufacturer who Supplies, let us
say the blankets, and see that he
is assured of an adequate wool
supply, aud that the manfactur*
jers of looms have enough replace-
I merit parts ou hand so that repairs
[can be made at once, that there
I are enough dyes to produce regu
lation olive drab, so that there
will be no breakdown in the whole
long chain
That is all merely the first step
neeessaiy to see that John has
the proper equipment to exist as a
soldier. But a man can’t fight
without weapons. Aud that is
the next step—to provide the
Army with the tools of its trade.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Judge
To the Citizens of Houston
County:
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for Judge of the Superior
Courts of the Macon Circuit, to
succeed myself for the remaind
er of the unexpired term of the
'late Judge McClellan. I hope
that you will carefully inquire
into my record, and if you find
that record to be good, I trust
that you will accord me the time
honored democratic custom of an
endorsement for the remaining
two years of this term.
Very respectfully,
A. M. (Phil) Anderson.
For Legislature
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for the office of Represen
tative of Houston County in the
General Assembly of Georgia,
subject to the rules and regula
tions of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee, in the State
Primary of September 11th. If
I honored with this office, I prom
! ise to represent the county to
! the very best of my ability. The
i vote and support of the citizens
(of the county will be highly ap
j preciated.
Very respectfully yours,
W. W. Cray,
Old Thirteenth District.
'To the Citizens of Houston
[County:
It is my desire to represent
i.vouinthe General Assembly of
: Georgia as a member of the Leg
islature. I hereby announce my
candidacy for this office and
I pledge myself to represent you
I faithfully and conscientiously,
I if you confer this honor upon me.
! Your vote and support is hereby
solicited and will be deeply ap
preciated.
My candidacy is subject to the
rules and regulations governing
the State Democratic Primary to
j be held Sept. 11.
H. P. Dobbins.
nines oi xiiass
Single strands of “continuous fila
! ment” fiberglass have been drawn
more than 5,000 miles in length, m
farther than the distance from New
i York to Moscow, « ,
HOUSTON COUNTY TAX LEVY FOR 1940
The Tax Receiver having filed his digest for the year 1940 the
Court proceeded to levy a county tax for the year 1940,
The aggregate value of the property of Houston County on th*
digest of 1940 is $2,632,688.00. ne
The Alternative Road Law embraced in Sections 95-801 to
95-811, inclusive, of the Code of 1933, being operative in Houston
County:
It was ordered that a tax of four-tenths of one per cent, or
' four mills, be levied upon all the taxable property of Houston
' County, on the digest and not on the digest, for a road fund to be
1 used for working and maintaining the public roads of Houston
r County.
j It was further ordered that an additional tax of eleven mills
g be levied upon all the taxable property of Houston County, on the
i digest and not on the digest, for all the other several county p ur .
! poses for which the law authorizes and directs county authorities
to levy taxes; said tax of eleven mills to be levied for and divided
j among the several county purposes as follows:
t Ist. To pay the legal indebtedness of the county due and to be
, come due, due and past due $2.50 per $l,OOO or 2.50 Mills
, 2nd. To build and repair court house
and jails, bridges and ferries,
and other public improvements .75 per $l,OOO or ,75 Mills
, 13rd. To pay sheriffs, jailers and oth
er officers fees that they may be
legally entitled to out of county .75 per $l,OOO or .75 Mills
. i 4th. To pay coroners all fees that
. | may be due them for holding
,1 inquests... .05 per $l,OOO or .05 Mills
,15th. To pay the expenses of thecoun
,j ty for bailiffs at court, non-resi
dent witnesses in criminal cases,
fuel, servant hire, stationery,
and the like .75 per $l,OOO or .75 Mills
6th. To pay jurors a per diem com
pensation .50 per $l,OOO or .50 Mills
j 7th. To pay expenses incurred in sup
porting the poor of the county,
and as otherwise prescribed by
the Code $1.25 per $l,OOO or 1.25 Mills
;Bth. To pay interest and provide a
sinking fund on $200,000 of
Houston County Road Bonds $4.00 per $l,OOO or 4.00 Mills
9th. To pay any other lawful charge
against the county_._ .45 per $l,OOO or .45 Mills
TOTAL $ll.OO per $l,OOO or 11 Mills
The Board of Education of Houston County having recom
mended the following county tax for a county wide tax for a pub
lic school fund for the year 1940: It was ordered that a special
! school tax of five-tenths of one percent, or five mills be levied
'upon all the taxable property of Houston County, on the digest and
noton the digest, to supplement the public school fund apportioned
to Houston County by the State of Georgia.
PERRY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Board of Trustees of Perry Consolidated School District
having recommended the levy of the following taxes on the proper
ty of said district for a public school fund for the year 1940; It
was ordered that said taxes be levied as follows:
To pay interest and provide a sinking fund to pay
'585,000 of school bonds 4 Mills
To supplement the State public school fund receiv
ed for said district 5 Mills
TOTAL 9"Milii
CENTERVILLE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Board of Trustees of Centerville Consolidated School Dis
trict having recommended the following tax for a public school fund
for said district for the year 1940; It was ordered that a special
school tax of five mills be levied upon all the taxable property of
. said district to supplement the State school fund received for said
district.
BONAIRE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Board of Trustees of Bonaire Consolidated School District
'having recommended the following tax for a public school fund for
i said district for the year 1940: It was ordered that a special school
tax of five mills be levied upon all the taxable property of said
• district to supplement the State school fund received for said
district.
* HAYNEVILLE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
’ The Board of Trustees of the Hayneville Consolidated School
; District having recommended the following tax for a public school
i fund for said district for the year 1940: It was ordered that a
special tax of five mills be levied upon all the taxable property of
. said district to supplement the State public school fund received
| for said district.
| ELKO CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
: The Board of Trustees of the Elko Consolidated School Dis
trict having recommended the following tax for a public school
fund for said district for the year 1940: It was ordered that a
special school tax of five mills be levied upon all the taxable pro
perty of said district to supplement the State public school fund
received for said district.
HENDERSON CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Board of Trustees of the Henderson Consolidated School
. District having recommended the following tax for a public school
; fund for said district for the year 1940: It was ordered that a
special school tax of five mills be levied upon all property of said
district to supplement the State public school fund received for
said district.
BYRON CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Board of Trustees of Byron Consolidated School District
having recommended the following tax for a public school fund
' for said district for the year 1940: It was ordered that a special
1 school tax of two mills be levied upon all the taxable property of
1 said district in Houston County to pay interest and create a sink
■ ing fund for school bonds for said district.
GROVANIA CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Board of Trustees of Grovania Consolidated School Dis
trict recommended the following tax for a public school fund for
said district for the year 1940: It was ordered that a special
school tax of five mills be levied upon all the taxable property of
said district to supplement the State public school fund received
for said district.
; GEORGIA, HOUSTON COUNTY.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true extract
from the Minutes of the County Commissioners of Roads and
Revenue of Houston County in session August 15th, 1940.
Witness my official signature and seal of said Commissioners
this 16th day of August, 1940.
C. E. BRUNSON,
Clerk of County Commissioners
of Roads and Revenue of
Houston County, Ga.
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