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OB. CIBA8. A HEBTT AITLEA8
TO IB GARDEN CLUBS OF
GEORGIA
Georgia, perhaps more than any
ether Southern state, has gone for
ward if the matter of reforestation
nf its millions of ecres of if rd which
were denuded of its great forests of
pine timber in the days when the
large sawmills cut this magnificent
asset of the state; but there is still
much to do.
Kven as I sit here writing this
statement fires are spreading over
vast tracts of land. These fires are
a 'and of heritage which have come
a wa to us from past generations
«'• our people. They arc either de
liberately set to clear up the woods
for a meager short-term grazing of
a low class of stock, are intentional
ly set by naval stores operators for
the protection of their workings, are
maliciously set. or finally
result of carelessness on the part
of hunters, passing motorists,
whatnot.
The chief damage by these fires
is in the destruction of the billions
of seedlings which spring up by
iural reforestation. This year has
been a very fine year for pine masts
(seeds), and every agency In the
state should cooperate in trying to
preserve these tiny seedlings so that
they may grow up and furnish the
raw material for the mills which I
am confident will be in operation
in Georgia by the time they have
grown to pulpwood size. Such mills,
through their purchase of i
tcrials in the form of pulpwood. will
provide a cash crop for many of
nur people and will create payrolls,
thereby bringing an era of pros
perity to the state.
The Garden Clubs of Georgia can
do a great service in developing
sentiment against the annual burn
ing of the .roods through coopera
tion with the schools (especially the
country schools), through stimula
tive articles in the weekly press of
the state, and through personally
interesting owners of land who re
side in the twons an^ cities of the
state.
It is amazing how easy and how
rapid is the development of interest
in the growth of pines, but a be
ginning has to be made and that is
where the Garden Clubs can help, j
We have demonstrated in this
laboratory the entire suitability of
the fiber of these young pines to
make a very high grade of news
print. rayon and other articles made
from cellulose.
The time for action is right now.
for under the laws of Georgia it is
permissible for an owner of land to
bum his woods provided he gives
twenty-four hours’ notice of such a
plan to all property owners adjoining
hi- land I almost weep when 1 think
of the millions end millions of dol
lars of useable material which is go
ing to be sacrificed within the next
six weeks unless the better thought
of our people prevails.
In the development of this thought
let me urge the active participation
of every member of every Garden
Club in the state.
TUB PMON-ElTGRfln, MLLSDGKVILL*. GA, RBBUABT 7. IMS
BETHLEHEM NEWS
The many friends of Mr. Lewis
Stevens regret hi? continued illness
and wish for him a speedy recov-
Mrs. Lula Pearl Hight, of Macon.
v;-s called home last week on ac
count of illness of her mother. Mrs.
Jim Mixon.
Mrs. Leila Haddock, of Hardwick.
Mrs. Julian Stevens and daughter
Nora. Mrs. Roger Stevens and little
daughter, also Hardwick, were
week-end visiters in the community.
Mr*». L. A. Roach and Mr. Marion
Reach, of Ivor, were htc guests <-f
their sirier. Mrs. Jonas Davis, on
last Sunday.
There has been so much sickness,
flu has been ranging for some time
that Sandro* School has been slight
ly on the decline, but our Supt.. Mr.
Herbert Lavender is a consecrated
■cv.kcr and re hope he will have
the enthusia-tic supl art of the school
as the dread sickness abates. Let s
everybody go next Sunday, time 2:30
p. m.
Among those attending the bridge
opening were Mr. John Davis and
Mr. Jonas Davis and their visitors.
COMING DOWN MY CREEK
By Harry § OH well Edwards
Jan. 28.—When I wa* 4 years old
quite a vista, looking back over my
shoulder with the little chap at the
far end Jourael down a lung
red hill in Milledgevillc to see a
wonderful bridge over the Oconee
River, balanced up in the air on
stilts. It was a wooden tunnel, a
thrilling, yet, to my tomantic mind,
a gruesome thing. The floods got
that bridge. It had been high enough,
but the river got it at last.
Then they built another higher up
the air. It, too. departed for the
coast. Or maybe Mr. Sherman burn
ed it. And then other bridges, each
even higher, but somehow never safe
from that river made a new record,
and a bridge departed.
On yesterday I drove over and saw
Governor Talmadge dedicate still an
other mighty bridge across the Oco
nee. and Mrs. Samuel Cook unveil the
bronze tablet and I wondered if
any one else present realized that
when Mrs. Cook took her first out
ing across the river ninety yean
ago. over the “safe” bridge of that
period, it was little more than a third
as high a sthe new one of 1935; and
that the engineering calculations as to
altitude were correct from the be
ginning. of each, as measured by the
data available?
What no one foresaw, or could
foresee, was that the river was to
grow shallower, and that its water
shed was to be freed of obstruction,
thus letting in at flood seasons, the
rainfalls with a speed not before
known. A speed which the lower
reaches of the river could not match.
The press has already recorded in
rhetoric and picture man’s triumph
nature, on yesterday. It was an
inspiring scene; doubly inspiring to
those who saw the slender hand of
Georgia’s aged but still beautiful
daughter as it rested in the young
and virile hand of Georgia’s gover-
bringing the lapse of a hundred
years: joining an immortal past with
a glorious present.
Much water has run under those
Milledgevillc- bridges since the In
dian sold his title to the western
banks, and the white man discarded
his ferry. What changes;! The little.
home rockaway horse had dragged '
away, in little less than two days, j
Yesterday I came the whole way in j
on hoar without seeing a horse- j
drawn vehicle. Wave after wave of 1
statesmen in those faraway days
flooded the gray Capitol which over-!'
looks the Oconee. We still praise |
them for their wisdom, their patrio- j
tisrn and valor. But in the same'
building today are high school class- ‘
cs better informed as to life and I
world conditions. Those old states-1
men lived their three score years
and ten, inspired by the ideals of
saintly mothers, and broufiht the
old state through many perils into
the sunlight of today. Symbolical
of these mothers was the little hand
in the governor’s: a gesture of con
fidence and friendship; a consecra
tion for service to Georgia. It seem
ed to me. looking on, that the gov
ernor felt it. too. and that of it was
horn the emotion that made his
speech a little gem.
The Extra Bolls
Are The Profit)
V/OU have got to produce t certain amount of cotton to]h
^ for the labor, fertilizer and other incidental expenses. If yom
produce only the number of bolls necessary to pay these expense J
job will have no profit leffi It is from the extra bells oo each stallg
that your profit comes; Therefore, ft It only srartl Aatvhit yon'
«e looking for ii a fertilizer that will put these extra boils on
every stalk.
For fifty years Royster has done nothing but study plant foods
for various crops—cotton in particular. It has been oar life worfii^
to produce an early-maturing, heavy-producing cotton plant, an&
W *hat our efforts have met with success. It stands to reason^
that on# who has spent a life-time at one job must succeed;
Be sure you get the extra bolls that mean profit. See yov^
Royster sgent and let him know how many tons of Royster Field
Tested Cotton Fertilizer jou will need. /
^R&ysti
ritiB TisTio.ritmiiis
C. E. SMITH, Agent, Milledgeville, Ga.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank each and even*
f-ne for the kindness that was shown
In nur mother, and the floral offer
ings and deem-?; sympathy that was
given during her illness and death.
M?v God’s richest blessings be
with all of you and that g««od wishes
of cv< -.-body be yours always.
The- king you again.
MRS W C. RESEAU MRS. W. Y.
SAPP. MRS. T. A. CHAMBERS.
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A meeting of the parents and
trari s of the Peabody Practice
Sehoo. was he’d in the Assembly
Room of the high school. Friday.
January 25. 1935. 3:00 o'clock, for
the uurpose of organizing a Parent-
Teachers Association.
The first nart of the program was
given by the students of the school
end was introduced by Miss Rurfitt.
This included a dramatization of
“The Three IJUIe Pig«” by the Pre-
srhool. the rhythm band, second
grade, the high school violin club,
and song by Calvin Hollis. '•
Miss Burfitt then opened the dis
cussion on the necessity of organiz
ing an associal.on and appointed V*
F. W. Hendrickson to act as chair
man. Various viewpoints and inter
esting discussions bv Supt. P. N.
Bivins. Dr. H. A. Little. Mrs. Guy
H. Wells and Dr. Tom Alexander
of Columbia University. Mrs. Hen
drickson appointed Miss Burfitt.
Mrs. D. T. Turner, and Mrs. Guy H.
Wells to serve as a nominating com
mittee for the officers cf the as
sociation.
It was voted to hold the next
meeting on February 8. 1935. at
3:30. The regular meetings will be
held on the first Friday of each
month and dues will be If. cents
annually.
After the business meeting was
adjourned, delightful refreshment^
were served in the Home Economics
Denartment.
The following people were pres-
Mrs. R. L. Haves. Mrs. Geo. B.
Wood. Mrs. J. B Cov. Jr.. Mrs. C. A.
Giles. Mrs. Martha Sibley, Mrs. O
Banks. Mrs. S. E. Wright. Mrs.
Frank Little. Miss K. Butts. Miss
M. Jenkins, Mrs. J. B. Pafford.
Mr*. Gladys B. McCrndy. Mrs. Ed
ward W. Allen. Mrs. Geo. K. Bell.
Mrs. W. E. Bass. Miss Jewell Huff.
Miss Martha McKinney. Miss Ger
trude Hunt Mrs. C. G. Cox. Mrs. G.
t, Echols. Mrs. Chas. Hudson. Mrs.
r. c. Gilman. Miss Mary Lo<* Ander
son. Miss Gus.de Tabb. Miss Mil
dred Johnson. Miss Louise McDan
iels, Miss Louise Jeans. Miss Jane
Chapman, Miss Martha Pinson. Miss
Florence Oplingcr, Miss Sara Mar
tha Mathis, Miss Mary E. Smith.
Mrs. Russell Bone. Mrs. Hoy Taylor.
Mrs. Furman Bell. Jr., Mrs. Rich
ard Binion. Mrs. Guy Wells, Mrs. J.
E. Chandler, Mrs. D. E. Atkins. Mrs.
E. H. Tennille, Mrs. A. C. Tennille.
Mrs. E. L. Massey. Mrs. E. E. Crooms.
Mrs. J. B. Helton, Mrs. J. T. Hollis.
Miss Lucy Hatcher, Miss Barbara
Chandler;, Miss Caroline Hooten,
Mrs. Jerry Moore. Miss Eleanoi
Brannen, Miss Louise Hatcher. Miss
Martha Nelle Day. Miss Frances
Stewart, Mr. P. N. Bivins. Mrs.
Homer Shy. Mrs. D. M. Rogers. Mrs.
R. K. Kines, Mrs. Sidney D. Stem-
bridge. Mrs. D. T. Turner. Mrs. G.
W. Johnson. Mrs. John L. Rhodes.
Mrs. T. B. Durras, Mrs. Docie Bh-d-
soe. Mrs. R. S. Crumbley. Mrs.
Gladys Hogan. Mrs. E. R. Lawrence,
Mrs. W. G. Johnson. Mrs. Felix
Harrington, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Rlo<>d-
wn::h Mrs. L. P. Harrington. Mr-.
T. A. Ashfield, Mrs. J. W. Butts. Jr..
Mrs. Geo. Fowler. Miss Austclle
Adams. Miss L. R. G. Burfitt.
Respectfully submitted.
AUSTELLE ADAMS. Acting Sec’ty.
cation Benevolent
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