Houston home Journal
VQL. LXX. No. 3u. PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870
Strict ion s on i
istallment buying!
Board C Tue T s day
id regulations restricting
bailment purchases of auto
|S: i es washing machines, vac-
JjJ cleaners and other durable
tident Rocsevelt ordered a
Jon the $7,000 000 000-a-year
it business to halt inflation
trends and lessen the de-
L for merchandise absorb-
Jg materials needed for defense
regulations, which involve
restriction on bank loans to fi-
Lcin? companies and tighter
L s for time payments, will be
Lussed when the board meets
lith representatives of financial
institutions here Thursday and
Yiday■ Promulgation is ex
ited shortly thereafter.
Contracts for time-payment
purchases signed prior to promul-
L : ion of the regulations will not
j« affected. Neither will the so
iled open book accounts, such
ithe housewife maintains at
he grocery or department store,
(or the present.
Chairman Marriner Eccles, of
he Board, said residential build
ogand durable goods bought for
reduction purposes, such as farm
jiplements, will be exempt from
|einitial regulation.
Officials declined to reveal in
Jvance of the discussions meth
dsby which controls will be ex
cised. Previous statements
ave indicated, however, that
ley would include a requirement
ora larger down payment, a
eduction in the time allowed for
ayment, and restrictions on
ank loans to financing compa
ies,
Officials indicated the regula
rs will affect the automobile
dness hardest because approx
istely $2,500,000,000 of th e
W 0,000,000 in outstanding in
illment accounts represents au
mobile sales.
The executive order directing
leboard to regulate consumer
'edit was signed by Mr. Roose
elt Saturday on his vacation
'uise. He acted under the
iwers given the executive in
he Trading-With-The-Enemy
ctof 1917 and under his nation
emergency proclamation of
st May 27.
mployment service
: 0R HOUSTON COUNTY
The Georgia State Employment
irvice, office at Macon, Ga., an
lunces a change in the Employ
ed Service for Houston county.
There will be an expansion in.
e service and change in per
nnel. Effective Friday, Aug.
and every other week on Fri-
Branch Office headquarters
hi be opened at the Court
dse in Perry. Mr. W. N. Bal
'd trom the Macon Office will
■n charge.
Ballard has had several!
ars experience with the Em-
Service and is well
ahried to handle any part of
® Service.
The people of Houston county
e asked to contact Mr. Ballard
an y employment or unem
’yment compensation prob-1
No cost to employer or!
‘Hoyee, eliminates expense of
P to Macon.
SPECIAL NOTICE
rr
ne Abraham Baldwin Agri
lUl'al College, Tifton, Ga. is
rin S a 3 day Adult Short)
£ rs ® 1 August 25-26-27) on
e ‘ Cattle and Hogs.” The!
= two days will be spent in j
V ln £ breeding, management,
V n f disease and marketing)
‘, e ? e two enterprises. On the;
‘.day of this course ‘‘Live-|
[;;• and Pasture Day” is being!
i lle experiment station.
county is allowed three;
f nations to take this course. |
C '■ v °uld be interested,please
[ - Tour name in to me at once.
co Urse j g £ ree (j nc juding
l* san d lodging) except for
, Ration, Farmers aitend-
Ir’T de asked to bring their
f to '?and bed linen.
'' ■ T. Middlebrooks,
County Agent.
| FIRE DESTROYS TRUCK |
| AND LOAD NEAR PERRY
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i Fire destroyed a truck load of
electric refrigerators and blocked
traffic on U. S. 41 for a time
about 9 o’clock Sunday night
three miles north of Perry.
The truck, an International
semi-trailer type owned by War
ren Refrigerator Company of At
lanta and driven by Alton Parker
King, caught from underneath,
and the fire spread rapidly. Ex
ploding gas tanks threw bits of
burning debris over the highway
and made passing impossible for
some time. The $5,600 truck and
load was a total loss. The driver
escaped unhurt.
Trooper R. L. Crawford of the
state patrol investigated.
FIRST COTTON BALE gTnNED
The first bale of cotton to be
ginned in Houston county this
season was brought in Saturday
from Sam A. Nunn’s farm near
Perry for ginning at Etheridge’s
Ginnery in Perry. The cotton
was a good grade. The 605 lb.
bale brought 20c per lb. at Ether
idge’s Warehouse.
Tuesday, Z. S. Turner of Bon
aire had a 525 lb.bale ginned and
Wednesday W. C. McDowell who
lives on Tolleson’s place on the
Elko road had a 595 lb. bale
ginned at Etheridge’s Ginnery.
These three bales are the only
ones reported ginned this cotton
season which is unusually early
this year.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School--10:15 a. m
Morning Worship 11:30 a. m.
Sermon by the pastor
Vesper Service, Sunday,? p.m.
The Susannah Wesley class
will have charge of the Vesper-
Services next Sunday night. Mrs.
G. C. Nunn is class teacher.
The pastor will bring the clos
ing message.
New comers to our community)
have a special invitation to our
services. Everyone will be cor
dially welcomed.
Prayer Service Wednesday
night, 8:30 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited
to all services.
Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor.
NOTICE
The closing date for the Vaca
tion Reading club has been ex
tended from Aug. 15 to Aug. 25,
Edna Heard, Librarian.
Coolies in East Indies
More than 101,000 coolies now
work on rubber plantations in tha
East Indies.
Never Succeed
When he began his study of voice,
Mario Chamlee was told that he
would never succeed as a singat.
To Foil Bandits
A chair for cashiers that includes
a steel box into which money can
{ be slipped has been invented to foil
bandits.
Wood Engravings
Engraving on plates and wood be
gan in the middle of the Fifteenth
century.
Qualities of Hard-Rubber
I Hard-rubber of first class quality
can be drilled, tapped, turned,
sawed, machined and polished.
Basis lor Opera ‘Fauot’
The poetic and operatic character
Faust is based on a real magician
who lived in the Sixteenth century.
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Housewife’s Friend
( The modern housewife would ob
j serve a 48-hour week if Roy W.
: Cooley, president of the National
Restaurant association, had his way.
Speaking before the annual conven
tion of the group recently, Cooley
• suggested to the restaurateurs that
I “most workers are now on a 40-hour j
week and I think you should give j
the housewife a break. While she j
I can’t very well punch a time clock i
j or ask time and a half for over- |
j time when ‘hubby’ is late for dinner, j
j she can expect to go out for dinner |
once in a while,” Cooley said in ,
suggesting to the delegates that ]
added advertising might help in
putting this idea across. A 1
good housewife believes her food is j
better than that in any restaurant, ,
but she can’t very well get around .
the saving in time and energy,” be
said. '
'Farmers Urged To
Get Legume Seed
Three important essentials for
success with winter legumes are
early planting, inoculation and
phosphate fertilizer, County Ex
tension Agent W. T. Middle
brooks said this week.
In order to be ready when
planting time comes, Mr. Middle
brooks suggests to farmers that
they arrange for their seed, in
oculation and phosphate fertili
zer as soon as possible so the
winter legume crop can be plant-
properly and at the right time.
“The seed may be secured
through the AAA or through ar
rangements by them with local
seedsmen as a soil conservation
material or direct from seedsmen
or cooperatives operating in the
territory,” he said. ‘‘The phos
phate or basic slag may be se
cured through the AAA as a soil
material or direct from dealers.
The inoculation may be secured
from seedsmen or by other ar
rangements in the counties. In
any case those who are to make
arrangements for these materials
should be given orders for, or
| indications of, the amounts need
ed as soon as possible. In so do
ing better service can be given
and assurance that high grade
materials will be ready at the
best planting date which is the
latter part of September in north
Georgia or the first part of Octo
ber in south Georgia.
Mr, Middlebrooks declared that
due to the national defense pro
gram delayed orders will be more
difficult to get transported them
in normal times, and declared
that this is another reason for
early arrangements for needed
material.
‘‘Certain materials such as ba
sic slag have certain amounts al
lotted to each state and delay in
orders may cause a shift to other
states,” the county agent added.
“We will be glad to help farmers
and give information as to what
plans have been made in their
respective counties for these ma
terials.”
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REVIVAL AT BONAIRE
Revival meeting will begin at
the Bonaire Baptist church Sun
day, Aug. 24. Rev. H. B. An
derson of Kennedy Memorial
Baptist church, Fitzgerald, Ga.
will do the preaching. Services
will be held at 11 o’clock in the
morning and at 8:30 o’clock at
night.
The public is invited to attend.
Salt in Sea Water
Each gallon ot sea water contains
about one-fourth pound of salt.
180 Degree Camera
A camera which registers the 180
degrees from horizon to horizon has
been developed.
Large Ears
Heredity expert claims that if one
parent has large ears, all of the
children will have large ears.
Texas Hide Production
Texas produces more hides than
any state in the Union but the
state has comparatively few tan
neries.
Glass Walls
Complete outside walls of a house
or other building can be built with
glass blocks, a new building materi
al. Made in various sizes, the blocks
are sealed, hollow and patterned so
that they pass light but are not
transparent. Their enclosed hollow
centers insulate much more effec
tively than do ordinary windows.
“Mississippi River
The Mississippi river proper rises
in the lake and swamp region of
northern Minnesota, 1,472 feet above
sea level, in Lake Hermando de
Soto, Becker county. It empties
into the Gulf of Mexico, the gulf
having a mean elevation of 500
feet.
Mosquito Bit*'
How does a mosquito bite? First
1 he lights on the victim, places his
j mouth, which is a hollow tube about
J three-eighths of an inch long, on the (
i skin. The stinger, a raspy drill |
I partly covering the outside of the
j mouth, sinks swiftly, penetrating the 1
1 skin. The mosquito starts his feast
)of blood. The irritation of a bite i
j is caused by the mosquito’s saliva,
! deposited in the wound to prevent
j the blood clotting in the insect’s
1 tubelike mouth.
Wheat Growers To
Vote On Quota In ’42;
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Commercial wheat growers]
wiil vote again next spring on a I
marketing quota program for I
their 1942 crop, VV. T. Middle- j
brooks, Houston county agent,
announced this week.
The county agent’s statement
followed Secretary of Agricul
ture Claude R. Wickard's action
in proclaiming a 1942 wheat mar
keting quota for 1942. The sec
retary previously had set a 55,-
000,000-acre wheat allotment for
1 next year.
The early announcement of
the quota, Middlebrooks said,
will give growers an opportunity
to plan their 1942 wheat plant
ings before seeding time. The
proclamation, under law, is re
quired whenever, prior to May
15 of any marketing year, it ap
pears the wheat supply will ex
ceed a normal year’s domestic
consumption and exports by
more than 35 per cent.
Commercial wheat growers of
the nation approved a 1941 wheat
quota program by an 81 percent
vote May 31.
Under 1942 regulations, no de
duction will be made from agri
cultural conservation program
: payments with respect to wheat
if the acreage harvested for
grain or any other purpose, after
reaching maturity, is “not in ex
cess of the largest of (a) the
wheat acreage allotment, (b) 15
; acres, or (c) if no wheat is mar
keted from the farm, three acres
; per family on the farm.’’
i Kates of payment and penalty
, have not yet been announced for
• 1942.
In connection with the secre
tary’s proclamation, R. M. Evans,
• national AAA administrator,
pointed out that the wheat carry
over on July 1, 1942, is expected
• to be the largest on record in the
United States—64o,ooo,oo6 bu
! shels, plus an anticipated, 1942
: crop of about 660,000,000 bu
■ shels.
“The purpose of the marketing
quota program,’’ County Agent
Middlebrooks said, “is to divide
a limited market equitably among
all growers and to protect all
wheat prices and income by keep
; ing part of the surplus olf the
market until needed.”
BAPTIST W.M.S. MEETS
; The August general meeting
; of the Baptist W. M. S. was held
at the church Monday with Mrs.
C. E. Brunson, the president,
presiding.
Mrs. G. S. Riley presented an
informative program on “An
Urgent Gospel Demands Train
ed Workers.”
Miss Emma Curtis talked on
“The Training School at South
ern Baptist Thological Seminary
at Louisville, Ky.,” and Mrs.
Emmit Akin on "Southwestern
Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas.”
Mrs. Alton Hardy discussed “The
Baptist Bible Institute in New
Orleans, La.” and Miss Martha
Cooper “Foreign Mission Work
of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion.”
Mrs. Akin was in charge of
the devotional period.
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Contrary to popular beiiet, George
Washington did not w<Mr wig.
Koman Empire Postal (System
The Roman empire brought its of
ficial postal system to a high degre*
of efficiency.
Sweet Pea saia».'
In oriental countries flowers are
often added to salads for decor%»
tion.
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What’s Wrong? j
In a hall seating 2,000, Taft at To- i
peka had an audience of 700. Over j
in another hall to hear a hillbilly i
concert were packed 1,500 with thou- j
sands outside unable to enter. Down ,
at Lawrence the other night Gannett j
had an audience of 300. Maybe that |
is what is the matter with the Amer- j
ican people.
Odd Monuments
At Enterprise, Ala., there is a
monument to the boll weevil; in ,
I New York city one is erected to an |
amiable child, and at Mont St.
I Michel, Brittany, there is one com
memorating an omelet. At Little
i Compton, R. 1., there is a monu
ment to a hen; at Winnipeg there
is a monolith to wheat, and at Llan
dudno, Wales, there ia a statue of
the famous white rabbit.
(state pecan crop
j AGAIN FIRST IN U. S-
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j Georgia’s pecan crop will again
lead the nation with an estirnat
|ed 9,472,000 pounds compared
i with 8,526,000 pounds last year,
I the Federal Crop Reporting
Board revealed Tuesday.
The nation’s crop will total
more than 87,000,000 pounds, the
board added, compared with a
yield of more than 88,000,000
last year.
Other states expected to pro
duce larger pecan crops this year
include Alabama with an antici
pated crop of 3,876,000 compared
i with 2,219,000 last year; Florida
with 1,586,000 compared to 1,-
462,000; South Carolina, 1,462,-
000 compared with 1,355,000 last
season, and North Carolina, 1,-
349,000 and 993,000.
SIX FARM FAMILIES
NAMED AT FARM-HOME MEET
Six families—the Richard G.
Garrards, Wilkes county; the
John Foster Hesters, Walton;the
Russell 11. Bakers, Chatooga;
the W. C. Hodges, Bulloch; the
J. J. Harris, Mitchell; and the
U. C. Stewarts, Thomas are
Georgia’s 1941 Master Farm
Families.
Wednesday these families were
honored at a Farm and Home
Week program at the University
of Georgia College of Agricul
ture in Athens. It was the first
time since Master Farmers were
selected that awards were made
in the name of farm families.
Heretofore, the honors went to
individual farmers.
In addition to the farmers and
1 their wives, each family’s chil
dren were seated on the stage of
the new auditorium where the
program was held.
The six outstanding families
were chosen for their achieve
ments in farm and home living.
The movement is sponsored joint
ly by the Progressive Farmer, a
southern agricultural publication,
the Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service, and the College of
Agriculture.
MEETING CLOSES
Christ’s Sanctified Church, lo
cated on the Macon highway
nine miles from Perry, complet
ed a ten days’ meeting Sunday
night. Hundreds of the church
members from fifteen states at
tended the meeting which was
declared a success from every
standpoint.
The vilest-smelling compound
known to man is mercaptan.
Grand Slain Golfer
Bobby Jones, the “grand slam’’
golfer, won his first tournament
when he was eight years old.
Gerontocracy
Gerontocracy, government by old
men, prevails very widely in primi
tive society.
International Post Ollices
There are six international money
| order post offices in the U. S., locat
ed at El Paso and Laredo, Texas,
New York, San Francisco, New Or
leans and Seattle.
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Greek Training Table
Candidates for athletic games in
ancient Greece lived on new cheese,
dried figs, boiled grain with warm
water and no meat.
Sunday School Sentence
court sentences you to at
tend Sunday School regularly for the
next three years,’’ said City Judge
A. H. Borland, of Durh-im, N. C..
• to a 17-year-old youth convicted of
{ hitting a woman in the face with a
j mud pie.
Adverse Advertising
Some Columbia, S. C., merchants
I believe in adverse advertising. A
| downtown restaurant has a sign on
the wall which reads “The Only Sec-
I ond-Class Cafe in the World,’’ while
I a peanut vender advertises his com
i modity as “guaranteed worst in
! town.”
Bat Diet for Eyes
Long life and good eyesight were
insured by the eating of bats, ac
cording to a Sixteenth century Chi
nese materia medica. The Chinese
also believed, says Natural History
Magazine, that bats fly with their
head downward because their brains
•re so heavy.
FALL GARDENS CAN
HELP DEFENSE WORK
All Georgia farmers who are
participating in the United States
Department o f Agriculture's
“Food for Defense” program
could make a substantial contri
bution both toward the defense
food campaign and feeding them
selves this winter by planting
fall gardens now, according to
R.F. VVhelchel.farm management
specialist of the FSA.
In this day of rising prices,
Whelchel explained, the farmer
has a never before equaled op
portunity to prove his value to
his country by living at home
the year round. This cannot be
accomplished fully without fall
gardens, which, the specialist
points out, have been woefully
neglected all over the state for
the past 30 years.
‘Trices are rising,” Whelchel
said, ‘‘and the farmer that can’t
tied himself from his farm this
winter will be in a bad way. The
country is faced with the danger
of inflation with food prices sky
rocketing. From July 1, 1940 to
July i, 1941, the retail price of
fat back meat went from nine to
15c, bacon from 20 to 30 cents,
eggs from 19 to 33 cents, lard
from seven to 11 cents, and but
ter from 28 to 38 cents. The
farmer should produce these and
other foodstuffs for himself and
every time he fails to do so, but
goes into the market to buy them,
he penalizes himself and his fam
ily and adds to the demand which
in the end will force the prices
still higher.
‘ ‘There is no need to elaborate
on the value of fall gardens both
as a money-saver to the family
and as a tremendous factor in
improved family health through
better diets. With every Geor
gia county organizing a nutrition
committee, each chairman could
i make no better recommendation
toward solving the nutrition
problem than to ask every farm
family to plant a fall garden,and
tend it carefully. Check your
planting calendar for things to
plant in Augustand September.”
LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS
Approximately 40 per cent of
all the livestock and livestock
products raised in Georgia is
marketed, while the remaining
GO per cent is used at home. That
interesting bit of information is
contained in compiled tabula
tions of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service. Over a 15-year pe
riod, 1925-1939, the gross income
of livestock and products in
Georgia amounted to $1,037,045,-
000, of which only $421,526,000
was marketed. On the average
annual basis, the gross income
was $69,469,667, of which mar
ketings included $28,101,733.
Income from livestock and
; products include milk, hogs, cat
tle and calves, eggs and chick
ens. Farmers received the
greatest average cash income
from milk compared with other
livestock commodities, the 15-
year statistics show. Average
annual value of milk marketed
was $9,786,000, while the total
annual value of milk sold and
used at home was $28,412,000.
Gross income from hogs per year
was $19,502,000; cattle and
calves, $4,806,000; eggs, $8;891,-
000, and chickens, $7,525,000.
White House Design
The design of the White House
and the terraces is said to have
been suggested by that of the duke
of Leinster’s palace at Dublin.
Stars Visible to Eye
Under the best conditions, not
more than 6,000 stars are visible to
the human eye.
Earliest Song
One of the earliest songs known
was composed on the death of Char
lemagne in 813. It is still preserved
in the national library at Paris.
National Forest Acreage
There are now approximately
172,000,000 acres of national forest!
in the United States.
‘Uninhabited’ Island Resort
The only island resort in Europe
which is uninhabited is the Scottish
island of Staffa. Thousands visit it
every year but no one lives thei».
