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HOUSTON HOKE 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.
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After This War
For years the tragic results of the
expansion of food-producing acreage
during World War I has haunted
American agriculture. Every farm
er, as a matter of patriotism, inter
rupted his rotation of crops to pro- ,
duce food and more food for our
armies and our Allies. Now again
in World War 11, to feed our soldiers
and our Allies and to serve the spe
cial demands of war industry, we
are dislocating our normal produc
tion as a matter of patriotic service.
It seems plain that by the end of
this war American farms will have
created a tremendous surplus pro
duction power which ordinary peace
time requirements will not absorb.
By the end of 1942 our overall
average increase production over
the average for the last 10 years will
be more than 21 per cent. How then
can American agriculture side-step
a post-war farm tragedy even worse
than that following World War I?
Experiments in Rubber and Other
Products.
Our Government is now experi
menting with domestic sources for
rubber. Some sixty thousand acre*
are devoted to the production of
guayule and its possibilities as a
source of domestic rubber. Emer
gency plants for the production of
thousands of tons of synthetic rub
ber from oil and alcohol are now
springing into production.
We have learned how to make pa
per from slash pine and starch from
potatoes. We are learning how to
raise medicinal herbs which we for
merly imported.
Denied the use of kapok which we
imported from the East Indies and
used in life preservers, we have dis
covered that the floss from milk
weed makes better life preservers
than kapok ever did. Factories have
been built and several thousand
acres are now devoted to raising
milkweed intensively.
Already we are producing tung oil
successfully. Thousands of acres
will be needed before we can supply 1
even our present domestic market.
Luckily, we have at hand the Na
tional Farm Chemurgic Council, ,
an organization of research chem
ists from our several industries
who compare notes and gain now
enthusiasm in the research for new
uses of old crops and new crops
which can be cultivated in America.
Our government has established re
gional research laboratories.
More than fifteen thousand differ
ent kinds of plants grow in the nat
ural state in the United States. We
use less than three hundred of these
plants. Farm rhemurgy will not be
complete, nor the post-war problem
of agriculture solved until every
plant is re-examined in the light of
modern science and made to servo
its part in contributing to the com
fort, happiness and security of our
America of the future.
A Plan That Deserves Support.
The United States Senate is con
sidering a plan which will require
the use of 20 per cent of war profits
during the war for the purchase of
Recovery Bonds by each company
in order to have available the nec- I
t ssary cash to quickly change their I
business and industrial plants back
to peace-time activities at the close
of the war and to adjust the employ
ment of their normal number of fac
tory workers.
This percentage of war profits
could also be used in a broad plan
of research by industrial chemists
to develop new uses for products of
the farm by our domestic industry.
If our industry has the knowledge
and the money in hand to convert
an all-out war effort to peacetime
production, maintain employment
and launch the new products discov
ered by science, we have a reason
able chance to absorb our farm sur
plus even in the post-war period.
Depression hit our rural area*
longer and harder than our indus
trial areas. Our hope for the securi
ty, happiness and prosperity of Rur
al America is at stake. If we can
develop this practical plan for tak
ing care of our surplus in the after
war period, we can go forward un
afraid in an all-out production effort
for the winning of this war and in
providing the food necessary for
starving people in the after war pe
riod. We will know that we have
provided an ever-expanding Amer
ica with new crops and new uses.
Worth thinking about.
t Wasted money Is wasted
lives. Don’t waste precious
lives. Every dollar you can
spare should be used to buy
War Bonds, Buy your ten
per cent every pay day.
'~ JUU “'" I MPR OVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY i
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Ol The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
‘Released by Western Newspaper Union.l
Lesson for September 27
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
j permission.
JOSEPH: AN EXAMPLE OF
FORGIVENESS
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 45:M5; 47:11, 12.
GOLDEN TEXT—Be ye kind one to an
other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven
you —Ephesians 4:32.
Forgiveness, opening the way for
the restoration of fellowship and the
1 showing of kindness, brought the sto
ry of Joseph and his brethren to a
happy ending. Under the good hand
of God the story which began with
tragedy is brought to a conclusion
of blessing.
Following the earnest plea of Ju
dah, the heart of Joseph could no
longer withhold itself from the full
; expression of affection and devotion
I to his family.
I. Love Overcomes Fear (vv. 1-4).
Joseph tenderly shielded the fam
ily troubles from the eyes and ears
of strangers by sending out the
Egyptians. It was the first step of
consideration which paved the way
for reconciliation. How often just
the opposite is done—airing family
affairs before the world, and humili
ating those who may be in the
wrong, thus making it difficult for
them to admit their guilt.
Then, too, this was a moment too
tender and delicate to be seen by
outsiders. The tears of a strong man
like Joseph mean a deep movement
of spirit—a solemn and often a sa
cred moment.
It should also be noted that the
: brothers were afraid, and well they
might be, because of their sin
against Joseph. After almost 50
years these unrepentant men found
themselves face to face with the
one whom they had supposed they
had disposed of, and they knew their
; sin had found them out. It always
does, sooner or later, but inevitably.
How great and noble was the for
giving love of Joseph; an example
to us, especially appropriate and
needed in a world of hate and bit
terness.
11. Grace Overrules Sin (vv. 5-8).
The guilt of these men was none
the less and Joseph coyld not re
move it, but he encouraged them by
showing how God had used their
evil devices lb work out His own
good pleasure. He can make the
wrath of man to praise Him (Ps.
76:10).
It is worth stressing again that in
the very hour when the prospects
: for Joseph’s future usefulness
1 seemed ruined, God was opening the
door lo the greatest experiences of
his life and was preparing him to
I serve the thousands whose lives
were saved by his wisdom and abil
i ity in the years of famine.
Nothing is more important in the
life of a child of God than to be
yielded to His will, unmoved by cir
cumstances, abiding His time, re
sponding to His guidance whether it
be by the opening or closing of
doors, prosperity or adversity. And
herein is the marvel of it all—even
sin may be overruled by God’s grace
for His own glory. That does not
invite anyone to sin that grace may
abound (Rom. 6:1, 2), but it does
offer encouragement to the one
who has fallen, that God can re
deem the years that the locust have
eaten (Joel 2;25).
Our lesson also sets us an exam
ple ol how true forgiveness acts,
something we need. So often when
forgiveness is asked or granted
there is an “I can forgive but I
s can’t forget" attitude, which means
| that while hostilities have ceased,
j at least temporarily, there is no real
I friendship or the disposition to show
j kindness. Is there any real forgive
' ness at all in such an attitude of
heart and mind? We fear not.
111. Kindness Provides the Best
(vv. 9-15; 47:11, 12).
It might have been enough to send
food and a kind greeting with the
; brothers to their own land, but love
does not seek the minimum expres
sion of its feeling. It asks not how
little, but how much can I give or
do.
Bringing his aged father and
brothers into the land of plenty was
not enough, Joseph also gave to
them the “best of the land” (47:11).
His thoughtful consideration in send
i ing for his father (Gen. 46:5-7) was
1 part of the same piece of kindness.
Joseph pqts to shame the modern
• “hard-boiled” attitude toward needy
and aged members of the family.
In their eager and relentless pur
suit of fame or riches, many ignore
or trample upon the members of
their own families. Often they are
ashamed of the broken bodies, the
humble apparel, the broken or un
educated speech of their parents.
They fear lest their new-found
friends in the circle of wealth and
supposed "position” will think them
strange or ridiculous. God pity the
man or woman who is ashamed of a
humble or aged father and mother!
Joseph, who really had an exalted
position gained by merit and by the
blessing of God, never forgot his
place before God as a son in the
family and as a brother. Let us
consider him and do likewise,
l ,
Prepare Now for
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y
AFTER VICTORY
The problem of changing from
war work, after World War I, to
peacetime production, plunged us
into a long and grim depression.
Rural America felt this depres
sion five years ahead of industry
and business. We tried to warn la
bor and capital but they would not
believe the warning and insisted the
rainbow and the pot of gold at the
end would last forever.
Finally, the bubble broke and the
storm came. We had 12 million
unemployed, the domestic market
for farm production was gone, and
even the smaller export market sur
vived only when we loaned Europe
the money to buy our products.
Farm income was reduced, mort
gages increased and many farmers
lost their farms while industry, big
and little, was at its wits’ end to
survive.
To Prevent a Worse Depression.
Our problem is to prevent even a
worse depression at the end of mis
war. Every industry, big and little,
has been retooled to produce air
planes, tanks, cannon and weapons
of war. Millions and millions of dol
lars have been spent for this pur
pose.
When this war is ended it will
take the same millions of dollars
to turn these industries back to
peace-time production.
Lessons of World War I.
We learned after World War I that
our country cannot prosper unless
agriculture prospers. We know now
that our country cannot prosper un
less agriculture, business and indus
try, and labor are all prosperous.
Whatever our personal feeling may
be, the fact remains that all of
these groups taken together make up
our domestic market which con
sumes over 90 per cent of our total
production.
Labor can purchase its maximum
of farm products if each worker has
a permanent job at good wages. The
employer can pay good wages if he
has something useful to manufacture
and some one has the desire and the
money to buy it. Jobs at good wages
depend upon an employer who is
making the money necessary to pay
the wages.
Farm Trices Reflect Good Business.
This makes it plain that with em
ployers and business busy in use
ful undertakings, with all workers
employed at good wages, farm
prices will be good and consump
tion at its maximum.
The key to the situation is that
employers shall have the cash mon
ey at hand to change from war man
ufacture to peace-time activity with
the least possible delay when this
war ends.
Our United States Senate is
searching for a plan that will pro
duce maximum revenue to the gov
ernment to insure victory; provide
a fund at the end of the war big :
enough and quickly enough to con
vert business and industry from war j
work to peacetime necessity, but
without the government having to
borrow and lend the money for this
purpose after the war is over.
Here Is a Simple, Practical Plan.
For the solution of all these 'prob
lems there is one simple plan of out
standing practical value, based on
the idea that war profits from all
companies, big and little, should be
used for this purpose.
The tax rate on war profits is fig
ured at about 90 per cent. Business
and industry, big and little, would
be permitted, however, to deduct
from their taxable war profits 20
per cent of such profits, provided
the deduction is used to purchase
United States Recovery bonds.
Recovery bonds would be a spe
cial kind of bond for this purpose
only. Recovery bonds could not be
sold or borrowed upon during the
war, and neither would they pay any
interest. They must be held by the
purchaser until the end of the war.
The day the war is over these
bonds would automatically start to
bear interest, could be bought and
sold, and become the same as any
other government bond. The pur
chaser could sell them or borrow
upon them to obtain the money to
change his business and plant from
war production to peace-time pro
duction when and as he needed mon
ey to do this job.
Profits for Peace-Time Recovery.
In other words, business, big or
little, would be required to contrib
ute 20 per cent of its own war
profits to provide the money to
change its own plants back to peace
time production.
The fairness and equity of such a
plan is perfectly plain. Each com
pany, by using 20 per cent of its own
war profits to buy Recovery bonds,
builds Us own backlog to bridge
from war production to normal
peace-time activities. Big compa
nies and small companies will buy
in proportion to their size and needs
until the war is over. In the mean
time, our government receives the
maximum in revenue to produce for
victory, and we, the people, have es
tablished security against the worst
depression of all time.
With such a plan adopted and in
operation, we can all give our maxi
; mum to the war effort, secure in the
j fact that when the war is over we
can quickly and safely go back to
the paths of peace. The necessity
| for such a plan is so apparent, the
evils of depression so grim and
j widespread that we, the people, can
I well afford to take time out to sup
i port our senators and congressmen
in this effort to bypass another de
pression.
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Perry, Georgia
Audits - Systems - Income Tax
Petition For Divorce
Lewis Davis vs Elberta Davis.
Petition for divorce, in Hous
ton Superior Court, October
Term, 1942.
Tc the defendant, Elberta Davis:
The plaintiff, Lewis Davis,
having filed his petition for di
-1 vorce against Elberta Davis, in
this Court, returnable to this
term of the Court, and it being
made to appear that Elberta Da
vis is not a resident of said;
County, and also that she does;
not reside within the State and ;
an order having been made for
service on her by publication,
this, therefore, is to notify you,
Elberta Davis, to be and appear
at the next term of Houston Su
perior Court to be he held on
the first Monday in October,
1942, then and there to answer
said complaint.
Witness the Honorable A. M. i
Anderson, Judge of the Superior)
Court. This Aug. 11, 1942,
Tommie S. Hunt, Clerk.
Petition For Divorce
Gussie May Coleman vs Levi
Coleman.
Petition for Divorce. In Hous
ton County Superior Court, Octo
ber Term, 1942.
To the defendant, Levi Cole
man.
The plaintiff, Gussie Mae Cole
man, having filed her petition for
divorce against, Levi Coleman, in I
this court, returnable to this j
term of the court, and it being;
made to appear that Levi Cole-1
Coleman is not a resident of said
county, and also that he does not)
reside within the state, and an)
order having been made for ser-j
vice on him, Levi Coleman, by;
publication, this therefore is to i
notify you, Levi Coleman, to be!
and appear at the next term of |
Houston County Superior Court
to be held on the first Monday in j
October, 1942, then and there to!
answer said complaint.
Witness the Honorable A. M.
Anderson,Judge of said Superior
Court. This lUth day of August,
1942.
Tommie S. Hunt, Clerk,
Superior Court of Houston
County, Georgia.
j
ORDINARY’S CITATIONS
( GEORGIA, Houston County.
O. A. King, Guardian of Mau-j
rice White (Garrett), having ap-|
plied for Letters of Dismission
from his guardianship; this is
therefore to notify all persons
' concerned to show cause, if any
i they can, why his application
should not be granted at the
! Court of Ordinary on the first
; Monday in October next, i
This September 7, 1942,
JOHN L. HODGES, |
Ordinary. l
GEORGIA, Houston County.
R. L. Greer having applied for
1 Letters of Administration with (
; the Will Annexed on the estate;
| of N. A, Greer, deceased: this is)
, therefore to notify all persons
. concerned, to show cause, if any
they can, why his application
i should not be granted at the
i Court of Ordinary on the First j
Monday in October next
1 This September 7, 1942.
JOHN L. HODGES. |
• . „ . • Ordinary, j
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