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Newspaper Page TextHouston Home Journal VOL. LXXIII. No. 27. PERKY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA„ THURSDAY, JULY 6. 1944 ESTABLISHED 1870 FREE ENTERPRISE ! MADE AMERICA! (EDITORIAL) The fact that America had ready when war came a great in dustrial organization that could be turned from peace time pro duction to the construction of implements of war is due to the system of free private enter prise that this country has en joyed in the past. It has been the genius of the promoters of this great industry that has built an industrial machine efficiently managed and geared to eco nomical production such as the world has never seen. Its performance under the unprece dented demands that have been placed upon it, because of war, has surprised and bewildered even those who thought they knew its power and resource. It has been this industrial ma chine and the genius of its lead ers that have made possible the standard of living that this na tion enjoys, unmatched by any other country in the world. When peace comes again it will be this industrial organization that will! work out the problems of recon struction and rehabilitation. There is no other force or or-! ganization that can do this. For| this reason it is important to the! future welfare of America that | industry be kept free, that the genius of its leaders be not, blighted by too much federal and communistic control. The thing that industry can do does not depend upon brawn and fed eral orders alone. It depends upon the dreams of its builders who have the imagination and the daring to think of the un tried and unknown and to at tempt the impossible. This spring of inspiration must not be dried up by unwise oppression, over restraint and the obsession of control. This is the spirit that has made this country great. It must be permitted to live and dream and create. The Kiwanis clubs of America are sponsoring a movement to ‘’Keep America American”, j based on the idea that free en terprise and individual initiative have made the United States a great nation. Read the Ferry Kiwanis club’s message this week on the inside page. ALL-DAY SINGING TO BE HELD HERE JULY 9 An all day singing will be held at the Ferry school auditorium next Sunday, July 9, by the Houston County Singing Con vention. Singers from different points throughout the state are expected to be present, includ ing several well known quartettes and trios. The singing will begin at 10 a. m. and contiue until 5 p. m. The public is invited to come and bring lunch. Sunday will be a day of enter tainment for those who enjoy hearing or singing gospel songs. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. W. V, Dibble, pastor Warner Robins Methodist church, will preach at the 11:30 a. m. hour next Sunday, July 9. The Revival Service has been postponed from July to some time in the fall. The Honor Roll of Service Men and Women was presented last! Sunday morning with appropriate: exercises. The Susannah Wes-| ley class sponsored the Board.; Ihe class president, Mrs. Evaj Spencer, mother of two boys in • the service, unveiled the Board, j Mi’s. G. C. Nunn, class teacher,' read the fifty-seven names oni the Honor Roll. Miss Carlene Ogletree gave ap reading, ‘‘Youth To-day” and Miss Merriamme Rhodes read an, approariate prayer. Francis Kunn sang‘‘The Lord’s Prayer.”] I’atriotic songs were sung by the congregation. Church Services, 11:30 a. m., and 8:00 p. m . Church School--10:15 a. m. 'toung People’s Service, 7:00 P. m. Rev. J. E. Sampley, Pastor. Lvt. Henry Mathews, Camp Libert, Ala., was at home for the weekend, I FOREST FIRE PROTECTION | By Paul W. Groom, Warden i j The State Forest Fire Patrol, ! las the law-enforcement body of | the State Department of Fores try, became active July 1 to de crease the number of forest fires occurring in the state. The fire patrol is composed of ten men who will investigate as many fires as possible and make charges against those who are violating the forest fire laws. Many landowners are not fa miliar with the forest fire laws of Georgia which provide that any warden of the State may en ter on private land to prevent and suppress fires and to enforce the fire laws. Uncontrolled fires must be suppressed by the party responsible either for the start ing or existence of the fire. The law provides as a penalty for those violating the fire laws: payment of the cost of suppres sion by an organized fire crew, the prosecution as a misdemea nor, or the prosecution as a fel ony. Conviction on a felony charge may result in the maxi mum penalty of two years’ con finement in the penitentiary. The Department of Forestry j hopes it will not have to use the [ extreme method of resorting to | ! the law to prevent the destruc-j itionof many acres of timber-] | land each year and will use the] | forces of law only if they cannot! 'accomplish the reduction of the I number of fires occurring each jyear through cooperation and ed ! ucation. The fire patrol is offering its assistance to Georgia timberland owners in preventing fire in the woods. It is hoped through this help to reduce the considerable number of fires occurridg in Georgia woodlands annually. J. r. LANGSTON DIES John T. Langston, 60, died at his home in Kathleen, Ga., June 26. He had been a prominent farmer of that section of the county for the past 40 years. The deceased is survived by wife, the former Miss Virginia Frescot; two daughters, Mrs. j Dennis Rowland, Perry; Miss Betty Ann Langston, Kathleen; one son, Marvin Langston, Kath leen; one gandson, Bobbie Row land, Perry; three sisters, Mrs. S. R. Wilkes, Kathleen; Mrs. W, T. Jones, Warner Robins; Mrs. H. G. Leaptrot, Macon; four brothers, I. M. Langston, Kath leen; W. C. Langston, Perry; Gussie Langston, Macon; Emory Langston, Elko, Ga., and a num ber of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, June 28, at 3:30 at the Tucker Funeral Home with the Rev. Roy, pastor; of the Elko circuit, officiating. 1 Interment was in the Perry cemetery. MOIST W.S.C.S. MEETING The Methodist W. S. C. S. met at the church Monday afternoon with the president, Mrs, G. W, Hicks, presiding. An interesting program on Medical Work in Africa was pre sented by Mrs. A. P. Whipple and Mrs. M. G. An inspiring devotional on ‘‘Four Anchors of the Christian Faith” was given by Miss Pearl Ed- 1 , wards. | RONfl QUOTA NOT REACHED Houston county lacks almost j $lOO,OOO of reaching its quota of j 5503,000 in the sth War Loan I Drive which ends Saturday, J uly j 8. Up to Wednesday morning, t I July 5, $405,000 of Bonds had) ibeen bought in Houston county. [ The sale of E Bonds is lagging j 'in this county but all E Bonds j j bought in July will count on the) I quota of the sth War Loan Drive. The quota of other types of] Bonds has been met. ; $30,000 of Bonds were bought i during the Bond Rally Saturday j p. m. and $3,200 at the Rally the j previous week. ! J. P. Etheridge, district chmn, | land Mayo Davis, county chmn., I I are confident Houston county i I will go over the top in this Drive. Don’t disappoint them! Rev. and Mrs. A, A. Waite Jr. | of Midland, Ga. are spending to-!, day (Thurs.) with her parents,! Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Sampley. * i THEY DIED TO MAKE THEM FREE This poignant picture made by an Army Signal Corps photographer shows a kneeling Roman mother and her child gently and reverently placing flowers over the still forms of two American boys who paid the supreme price to liberate them from the Nazi and Fascist (trip. Look at their faces and you will see that both mother and child realize that these Americans died for them Remember this picture when you are asked to buy an extra War Bond during the Fifth War Loan. (A S. Treasury Department The Farmers’ Contribution % & g to Financing the War * Hoad, Dept, of Agricultural Economics pARMERS are buying War 1 Bonds to help make it possible for their countrymen fighting on the battle fronts of the world to defeat the armed forces of the aggressor nations. As a whole, farmers have shown that they are willing to make as many sacri fices as any other group in order to win the war. In proportion to their net incomes, they have and will continue to purchase their full share of War Bonds, which consti tutes one of the important means for obtaining money or credit to finance the conduct of the war. While farmers would help finance the war for patriotic rea sons alone, fortunately War Bonds also serve to help them accom plish certain personal welfare ends. Among these ends are the future security of their farm busi ness and the attainment of certain accomplishments for their fam ilies. During the war, at least half of the productive effort in indus trial plants is being used to pro duce the instruments used for fighting. This means a shortage of goods available for civilian pur poses, both for production and consumption. Farm machinery, buildings, fencing materials that are depreciating and wearing out with use cannot be replaced at the usual rate. The ability to main tain as good a standard of living as we have under wartime con ditions is to a considerable extent explained by the fact that we had acquired durable capital goods be fore the war which are being worn out in production during the war. By purchasing War Bonds with the money which normally would be used for replacements, safe keeping is provided for reserves which can be used after the war to purchase new machinery, build ing and fencing materials not available now. There is also an income which would be normally spent for dur able consumption goods. By spending as little as possible now, farmers help to prevent further inflation in the prices paid for the inadequate supply of manu factured goods for civilian pur poses and also by refusing to fol low the upward spiral of land prices, they can help prevent un due inflation in land prices. While we hope that farm prices will not drop too severely, it seems fairly certain that wartime prices will not continue indefinitely after BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS ' Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. Morning Worship Service 11:30. Training Union, 7:30 p. m. Evening Worship 8:30 p. m. Prayer Service Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. the war ends. Many farmers are wisely investing as much as pos sible of their wartime cash in comes in War Bonds as a sort of prudent insurance to protect the family against the hazards of a possible low income period some time in the future. It also serves to provide a special reserve fund for sending the children to col lege when they reach that stage in their development. For the tenant farmers, War Bonds furnish an excellent means for creating a reserve for the down payment on a farm, when more 1 farms are for sale at normal prices. Past experience has shown that the tenant farmer who has accumulated his operating capital and is ready to buy a farm at a time when a land boom is raging, will do better to remain a tenant a few years longer. The increased cost of land rents when prices of farm products are at high levels is small compared to the capital losses on a 160-acre farm that de clines 25 dollars per acre below the purchase price, due to lower prices for farm products. It re quires a good part of the produc tive lifetime for most people to save $4,000, for about ten dollars must be earned in order to save one dollar. In any event, it is a serious matter for anyone to lose the savings accumulated from many years of productive effort. This did happen to many thou sands of both farm and non-farm families during the drastic decline in prices following World War I. As contrasted with the last war, farmers are following sounder financial methods. More of them are aware of the truism that prices rise when many are eager to buy, and that prices are low when sellers are plentiful. From the standpoint of personal finance, usually only those things which are immediately necessary should . be purchased when prices are high. If credit is used to gain ownership control over land or any durable production goods at materially higher prices, the source of repayment should be in sight within a relatively short time, a year or two at most. In general, it would be advisable to incur only short-time debts which can be repaid before prices fall. War Bonds furnish a convenient investment medium to help farm ers who wish to follow a prudent financial policy. U. S. Treasury Department ANNOUNCEMENTS The Baptist W.M.S. will meet at the church next Monday at, 4 p. m. The circles of the Methodist W. S. C. S. will meet next Mon day 4p. m. as follows: No. 1, Mrs. C. H. Tucker: No. 2, Mrs. Frank King; No. 3, Mrs. Watt Boler. SOFTBALL LEAGUE NEWS By G. F. NUNN The curtain went up Sunday on the second halt of the Com munity Softball League Pennant race, with the players of all four teams giving the fans three fine ball games to watch. There was good pitching, fancy catching, spectacular fielding, fine hitting and heads-up base running on exhibition as the Parrots, first half winners, got back to their old tricks by drubbing the Owls 3-2, and the Eagles, cellarites of the first half, stepping out to take the current leadership with a double victory over the Hawks. After spending a miserable Sunday watching the All-Stars blast out hits almost at will, the Parrots snapped back to normal, fielded like champions, got their three runs, held the Owls to two, and started themselves another streak. H. Braddock, with a homer and a double, and Hen dricks with two solid singles led the Parrots at bat, while for the Owls, A Hardy smashed out two hits to lead his team. Young Ed Thompson provided the payoff I catch for the winners when he .dragged down Wilson’s long drive for the final out, with a | man on base and the Owls need ' ing only one run to tie. Had he 1 missed that ball, the chances are I good that the man on base would have scored and possible even the hitter, in which event, there would have been a different story. The double win of the Eagles over the Hawks was sweet meat for the winners, as they had not' forgotten the way the Hawks ran rough-shod over them for an opening twin win in the first half. Beckham and Wilson were rival hurlers in the first game, and though each allowed eleven hits; the Hawks were victims of ten men left on bases and there in lies the story. The fielding of Heller, Eagle centerfielder in this game was nothing short of sensational as time after time he raced to his right or left, up or back, to drag down fly balls, while his accurate throwing to the bases kept the shifty Hawks glued to the bags. In the sec ond game, Norwood tangled with Wilson in another pitchers’ bat tle, and though shaky at times, Sam allowed no runs and ohly one hit for seven and a third in nings. On developing a wild streak in the eighth, he was re lieved by Beckham, who allowed one more hit but saved Sam’s shutout for him, the final score being 3-0. Leading the Eagles at bat were Heller with four hits and Whitten and T. Marshall with three hits eacn, while for Hawks, Chapman and Watts had three each. Too much praise cannot be heaped on trie efforts of Watts, borrowed catcher for the Hawks. Maskless and shoe less, he squatted behind the plate with no protection other than his ability to move quickly, and for two games, caught the hardest, fastest pitching seen at the park all the year. Time and again he leaped up to catch pitches that appeared to be head ed over the backstop and hold the runners on base, and on sev eral occasions, tipped fouls caught him squarely on the head, but he stayed in there with them. The day’s results left the Ea gles on top for the first time, while the Parrots are only game off the pace with a chance to catch up and go ahead next Sunday, when the same teams meet again, this time with the Hawks and Eagles in the single game opener and the Parrots and Owls in the dual attraction. Spirit runs high, good play and good sportsmanship are on exhi biton you fans be there and see the fun. STATE ELECTION Only 139 votes were cast in Houston county the State Demo cratic Primary election held Tuesday. There was opposition in only one race, that of U. S. Senator. Senator George receiv ed 121 to 18 for his opponent, Goolsby. WASTE PAPER The Boy Scouts collected a ton of Waste Paper last week in Per ry. Have your Waste Paper ready for them next week, Wed nesday, July 12. lOBSERVATIONS ON , FARMS IN HOUSTON W. T. M., County Agent t Parts of the county have been suffering for rain. In these sec ! tions the corn crop seems to be ; suffering most. One thing is ’ very noticeable, crops following 1 winter legumes turned under are ■ suffering less from drought than where winter cover crops were \ not turned under, John L. Da vis made this observation and > called same to my attention on i his farm. W. E, Davis states he has as good a prospect for a ! corn crop as he has ever had at 1 this time of year. 1 I visited the farms of L. D. Hamsley near Hayneville. He has about 16 acres of cotton that was planted early, got a good ’ I stand and is fruiting extremely 1 i well. Several colored farmers in this section have some nice I looking cotton and peanuts. Frank Thomas and his boys 1 across the highway have very , good looking cotton and peanuts. A. C. Pritchett has a field of ■ cotton near the Houston Lake road that bids fair to make a high yield. Jim Story has the best looking early watermelon patch I have had the privilege of I seeing this year. As a whole, I most of our watermelons will be jaboutlUdays later than usual and prospects look fair for a 'good crop and a fair price. Canta ! loupes are beginning to move land are bringing good prices, jsORPLUS WAR GOODS WILL BE SOLD SOON j Businessmen, operators of in dustrial plants and public offici ■ als in this area are invited to a meeting at Macon July 26 at 3 ■ o’clock for the purpose of being given information on how ttiey ■ may purchase some of the $75,- i 000,000,000 worth of surplus war .[goods the U. S. government plans to sell, i The Macon meeting will be , held in the Dempsy Hotel and Lee Trimble, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, is in charge of lo cal arrangements. Officials of municipal and county governments, public schools and state educational and eleemosynary institutions are in vited to attend the meeting as well as businessmen because much of the war materials to be sold may be used by public in stitutions. The Macon meeting is one of a series to be held in Georgia so as to acquaint the public with its opportunity to buy surplus war materials instead of its being sold to a preferred class. BIRTHDAY PARTY Johnny Gallemore Jr. was given a birthday party by his mother, Mrs. J. L. Gallemore, Monday afternoon, July 3, in celebration of his fifth birth an niversary. A red, white, and blue color scheme was carried out in the decorations, favors, and refreshments. The patriotic color motif was used in decorating the pretty birthday cake. Individual cakes iced in red and each one topped with a blue candle was served with vanilla ice cream. The fa vors were peppermint and other candies wrapped in “Victory” paper. Assisting in entertaining were Mrs. C. B. Wall of Jeffersonville, Mrs. Hugh Grayson of Macon, Mrs. H. T. Gilbert, and Mrs. A. G. Watts. Eighteen little friends were present to help Johnnie celebrate on this happy occasion. NOTICE All men who have served overseas can join the Vet erans of Foreign Wars Post at Perry. All honorably discharged ser vicemen, whether disabled or not, may apply to Commander S. li. Riccio, Anderson Bldg., Perry. Ga. for assistance in ob taining employment. The office phone number is 175, Perry. As every thread of gold is val uable, so is every moment of time.—John Mason.