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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Published Weekly at
Perry, Ga.
JOHN L. HODGES, Publisher.
RUBY C. HODGES. Editor.
Official Orpran 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.
WEEK OF ITHE WAR” 1
Rationing
Price Administrator Hender
son stated National Registration
for sugar rationing books will be
held over a four-day period,
probably during the last week in
March. Approximately 1,400, (
000 school teachers will serve a
registrars, and 245,0u0 schools,
will be used. One adult may
register for each "family unit.
The WPB announced a ration
ing program beginning March 8
for 196,000 new truck and truck
trailers which will be available
for rationing during the next 22
months.
Agriculture
The Agriculture Department
announced farmers’ 1841 cash in
come reached almost $l2 billion
highest since 1920, and 29 per
cent greater than 1940. Th e
WPA said its employment sehed
ules for March will be reduced
62,000, with an equal or greater
reduction tentatively set for
April. To help meet seasonal
farm labor demands. Agriculture
Secretary Wickard asked State
and County Department of Agri
culture War Boards to aid local
draft boards in determining oc
cupational deferments of farm
ers by furnishing necessary in
formation. Sixteen Agriculture
Department Agencies were con-,
solidated by Executive Order
into three new agencies.
Priorities
The WPB froze all stocks o |
new mechanical refrigerators ex
cept those in the hands of retai
crs, in preparation for conserva j
tion of this $280,000.900 industry
and its 36,000 workers to war
production. All refrigerator pro
duction will end April 30. the j
Board said. It also assumed fm'
control of the entire 1942 raw
cane sugar supply, curtan i «
of critical materials in manufac
ture of all musical instruments,
and restricted use of natural gas,
CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN
It is contagious! The odds are
in your favor that if you stage a
clean-up campaign in vour own
front yard your neighbors will
follow suit. Of course you an 1 j
yours did not scatter those pa |
pers in the ditch in front of your
house—nor did you throw th i
trash around your hedge but it
these blemishes are removed i
would be through your own ef
fort. In time, surely, those who
are responsible for the abun
dance of trash on the streets wi
realize what a nuisance and an
eye sore they are creating and
will lake pride in trvii g to beati
fy our little city. Let’s do our
part toward starting a clean-up
campaign!
The Sorosis Club.
SELL YOUR SCRAP
According to estimates there
is enough scrap iron and metal
on farms in' the United Slates t
make 139 modern 35,000-ton bat
tleships, and Georgia farmers
are urged to collect an I «p|
these materials. Walter S.Brown,
director of the Georgia Agricul
tural Extension Service, explain?
that in addition to scrap iron;
(1) Waste paper is needed to
make new paperboard to ship
munitions, clothing, and food.
(2) Old rubber is neeue 1 for out
motorized forces, planes, tanks,
and battleships; (3) Old rags art
needed to make materials for
emergency buildings, wiping
rags for war industries, and re
worked textiles Tne OP.vl is
organizing Salvage Committee
in States and communities
throughout the Nation to devist
ways and means for collecting
and dispensing the materials to
make them available.
Always Sea S.ar
The Pole star (Polaris) can always
1c seen on a cloudless night in
U.e United Slates.
Current
Witl?
HuSlo
SUSPECT
Mrs. Blank had a burglary re
cently. When the news got about,
a neighbor called on her in great
excitement.
I “I saw one of the burglars!” she
declared. "He was standing just
inside the gate, and kept peeping
out at the road and then glancing
back at the house. He was evident
-1 ly keeping watch for the ones in
side.”
Mrs. Blank w’as all agog.
“What was he like?" she in
! quired.
“He was a little man, very shab
bily dressed. I couldn’t see his face
He had an old battered hat pulled
down over it. He was a fellow
you'd feel suspicious about at
! once.”
“What time was this?” asked
Mrs. Blank.
“Just after eleven.”
Mrs. Blank stiffened.
“That was Mr. Blank,” she said.
SKATING SONG
A stout man, fat and forty.
Was trying hard to skate,
To show that he was sporty
And strictly up-to-date,
And as he cut an angle,
Although he tried his best,
His feet got in a tangle
And you can guess the rest.
After Thought
A chorus girl introduced her
young man to another chorus girl,
with the result that he transferred
his affections. The aggrieved girl
gave her rival a piece of her mind
in a letter, which read:
“You Heartless Creature You
knew very well we had been going
about together for six months. Wait
till I lay my hands on you, you
good-for-nothing bleached blonde.
I’ll scratch your face, pull out your
hair, and throw acid on you. Yours
! truly, C N .
“P.S.—Please excuse pencil.”
White Elephants
In n town where everything is up
to date and the people are always
planning some now scheme, a shock
ing thing happened. One of the pop
ular society women announced a
‘‘White Elephant Party.” Every
guest was to bring something that
she could not find any use for, and
yet too good to throw away. The
party would have been a great suc
cess but for the unlooked-for de
velopment which broke it up. Eleven
of the nineteen women brought their
husbands.
Or a Quandary
The sergeant raged as his squad
of recruits turned left when they
should have turned right and vice
versa. Private Higgins was the
greatest offender, and the sergeant,
going up to him, bawled in his ear;
‘‘Haven’t you ever drilled before
in your life?”
‘‘Yes, sergeant,” replied Higgins.
”1 once drilled for three years.”
“Oh, indeed . . . and where?”
snapped the sergeant.
“In a quarry,” grinned Higgins.
ENTERTAINING
“The now dances certainly pro
vide everybody with occupation.”
“That's right. If you don’t dance
them, you can at least abuse them.”
Nothing But
“Uncle Jim, a kiss can’t be any
thing but a kiss, can it?”
“No, my boy, of course not.”
“Well, when sister kissed her beau
the other night I heard him say it
was Heaven.”
Or Did She?
Hubby—Darling, did you take a
dollar bill out of my right-hand
pants pocket last night?
Wifey— Certainly not. Maybe you
don’t know it, but there’s a hole in
that pocket.
Wrote ‘Sun Song’ While
Mice Crawled Over Face
The famous “Sun Song,” or Song
■ About Creatures, was written by St.
, Francis of Assisi, in Italian. It is
still a widely popular hymn in all
churches, most familiar perhaps in
a translation which begins “All crea
tures of our God and King, lift up
your voice and with us sing Alle
luia!”
Under great difficulties St. Fran
cis wrote this remarkable poem in
; the unusually hot summer of 1225,
j when he was ill and so suffering
from loss of sight that he was un
able to have his eyes exposed to any
light. During this illness the good
man lay helpless, and according to
one biographer: “He was plagued
by a swarm of field mice which
probably had their home in the
straw walls of the hut and which
eventually ran over his face so that
he had no peace day or night: and
yet it was precisely in this wretched ;
sickness that he composed this won
derful masterpiece.”
There is some dispute as to the
authorship of many of the hymns
that are ascribed to St. Francis, j
but none concerning this Song of
the Sun. It is a charming expres
sion of St. Francis’ childlike delight
in God's good works.
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‘Hunch’ Bets Okeh, Says
Expert on Betting Odds
Scientific betting is sounder than
common sense methods of wager
ing, but there are gambling situa
tions in which the laws of probabil
ity cannot be applied, and times
when even playing a “hunch” is dic
tated.
This conclusion was presented in
a discussion of the science of prob
ability, now an indispensible tool in
modem business as well as in sci
entific research, by Dr. Milton B.
Singer, research associate in philos
ophy at the University of Chicago
and authority on mathematical
methodology.
Dr. Singer classified methods of
betting into the scientific, common
sense and superstitious. The scien
tific method is superior to the two
others, he said, because it provides
an exact method of calculating odds
and chances.
"However,” he declared, “it can
not completely supplant the use of
common sense and superstition in
making bets. There are many bets
in which the laws of probability
do not involve repeatable phenom
ena, or because statistics about the
relevant factors have not been gath
ered.”
Sign Language
Something over a century ago, 12-
year-old Alice Cogswell encountered
a young man in the garden of her
father's home in Hartford, Conn.
The young man, Thomas Gallaudet,
had just completed his theological
studies. He was waiting for an in
terview with the girl’s father, whom
he hoped might aid him to deter
mine his field as a missionary. Alice
had been deaf since she was two
years old and, at that time, deaf
mutes were classified among the
feeble-minded and insane.
Idly, Gallaudet attracted her at
tention with a few simple gestures.
To pass the time, he casually point
ed to his headgear and with a stick
wrote on the ground H-A-T. A gleam
of understanding passed over the
child’s face. She grabbed the stick,
copied the word, took the hat and
placed it upon her own head. Point
ing to another object, she handed
back the crude “pencil." Commu
nication had been established.
Thomas Gallaudet's life thereafter
was dedicated to his work for the
education of the deaf.
Cosmetic Hygiene
New York university offers a well
rounded course in cosmetic hygiene
to both men and women. This
course, introduced five years ago by
Florence E. Wall, outstanding
woman chemist and cosmetologist,
teaches students how to know their
own needs and how to choose their
cosmetics wisely and use them to
the best advantage.
The No. 1 cosmetic necessity is a
water softener. That’s any one of
those fragrant needle-fine crystal
salts or powders that you heave by
the handful into your basin and your
tub. They’re important, but not be
cause they waft a cloud of perfume,
but because they make the minerals
in water receptive to soap. Thus, you
get more action from your soap,
little or no curd in the water, and
a better job of cleansing. The
water-softening habit is one in
which this class of students is en-
I couraged for all washing purposes
—hair and hands, as well as bath
and “basin laundering”—especially
in hard-water districts.
Knowledge Trebled
“Knowledge of heart disease has
trebled since the First World war
and has advanced as much in that
1 period as in the prior 200 to 300
years,” said Dr. Paul Dudley White
of Boston, Mass., president of the
National Heart association and Har
vard lecturer, recently.
“What used frequently to be
termed indigestion is now frequent
ly called heart disease, and what
used to be termed a disease of the
arteries is also now frequently diag
nosed as heart disease.
“We still can’t give medicine and
have heart trouble go away, but we
( are learning tremendously more
[ about hygienic measures, such as
proper diet and bodily and mental
care, as an offset to the malady.”
'CLASSIFIED ADS
For Rent—4 room apartment,
large rooms, private bath, locked
garage, hot and cold water. $3O
month. Harry Griggs.
Lost - White and brown speck
ed female setter dog. ten days
ago, name on collar. Reward, j
Call T. F. Perry, Ga.
Lost—Bull dog, Haggerty
breed. Mahogany brindle, white
markings, heward if returned |
to F. C. Tounsley, Phone 210,
Perry, Ga.
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For Rent—To couple with no
'small children, three furnished
j rooms, with private bath and'
modern conveniences, $22 per
month. Apply
Mrs. H. E. Gordon, Perry, Ga.
A. W. DAHLBERG
Certified Public Accountant
Perry, Georgia
Audits - Systems - Income-Tax "
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NOTICE
Tax Receiver's Rounds
Will be at the following places 1
for the purpose of receiving 1942
tax returns and applications for
personal and homestead exemp
tions. Applications must be made
et ch year for exemptions.
Monday, March 9, 1942
Henderson, 10 a. m. to 11:30
a. m.
Elko, 12 N to 1:30 p. m.
Grovania, 2 p. m. to 3 p. m.
Hayneville, 3:30 p. m. to 4:30
i m.
Tuesday, March 10, 1942
Clinchfield, 10 a. m. to 11:30
a, m.
Kathleen, 12 N. to 1:30 p. m.
Bonaire, 2 p. m. to 3:30 p. m.
Wednesday, March 11, 1942
Hunt’s Store, 10 a. m. to 11
a. m.
Centerville, 11:30 a. m. to 1
p. m.
Elberta, 1:30 p. m, to 2:30 p.m. j
Friday, March 13, 1942
Wellston, (Watson & Lever
ett’s Store) All Day.
Tax Receiver’s rounds will be
made on Eastern War Time.
Will be in my office every day
except when on rounds.
v E. W. MARSHALL.
* Tax Receiver.
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NOTICE
This is to notify all parties con
cerned that the partnership of
i Massee & Barfield has been dis
solved by mutual consent; the
isaiu banie/d assuming all obli
gations of said firm and receiv
ing all the assets of said firm.
1 This 12th day of December. 1941,
3:26 Massee & Barfield.
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LIBEL FOR DIVORCE
; Georgia, Houston County.
In Re Martha Corbitt vs James
G. Corbitt—Libel for Divorce.
The defendant, James G.Corbitt,
is hereby cited and required, per
sonally or by attorney to be and
appear at the Superior Court of
1 Houston County, Georgia, to be
; held on the 6th day of April,
1942, then and there to make
answer in writing to the plain- j
tin’s libel, as in default thereof
the court will proceed according I
to the statute in such cases made
and provided. Witness the hon- I
oralleA. M. Anderson, Judge of |
said Court. This the 13th day of
February, 1942.
I (yV Tommie S. Hunt, Clerk
' Court, H. Co. Ga.
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LIBEL FOR DIVORCE \
Georgia, Houston County.
In Re W. B. Mclnvale vs Ma
mie S. Mclnvale—Libel for Di
vorce. The defendant, Mamie S.
Mclnvale, is hereby cited and re
quired, personally or by attorney
to be and appear at the Superior
Court of Houston County, Geor- !
uia, to be held on the 6th day of
April, 1942, then and there to
1 make answer in writing to the
1 plaintiff’s libel, as in default
thereof the court will proceed ac
i cording to the statute in such)
. cases made and provided. Wit
ness the Honorable A. M. An
(ierson. Judge of said Court, this
the ISth day of February, 1942.
V t Tommie S. Hunt, Clerk
Superior Court, H. Co. Ga.
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Chinese Tongs
! Certain Chinese societies are
' called tongs because it refers to the
' living room of a Chinese house and
1 was probably applied to the societies
because they originally met in the
‘ houses of the members. _ 1
RUBBER IS SCARCE
We have a stock of Wagons that require no Rub
ber. Buy Now for Moving Fall Crop.
Several USED COMBINES. No more New Ones Available.
For Planters, Distributors, Manure Spreaders,
Lime and Fertilizer Spreaders, Weeders, Disk and
Drag Harrows, Mowers, Rakes, Plow and Planter
Parts, Plows, Plow Gear—Call to See Us.
Several Good Used Tractors, Threshers, Bind
ers, Hay Balers, and Peanut Pickers.
Some Good Mules, Fertilizer, Seed and Feed,
Everything for the Farm.
Geo. C. Nunn & Son
Phone 31 Perry, Ga.
GARDEN SEEDS
Of All Kinds
For that Victory Garden the Government
has asked citizens to plant this year.
A Home Garden is a “MUST” for All
Farm Families.
Come in right away and get your SEEDS while
they are available.
J. W. Bloodworth
t Phone 94 : Delivery Service : Ferry, Ga.
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Farmers are urged to buy these parts now
while a full stock is on hand.
No new machinery will be available this
spring, due to the war. So check over
your machinery and let us supply your
needs in Parts.
Andrew Hardware Co.
PHONE 500 PERRY, GA.
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