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THEY SAY.
(By Hubert Dodd.)
“You can teach enthusiasm.”
My teacher friend said this. It’s
an unusual statement. A usual state
ment from him would have been that
you can each arithmetic, grammar,
geography or some other objective
subject. But enthusiasm is a subjec
tive subject. There are no text books
on it. It’s just in me—or it isn’t If
it’s in me I am a teacher of it, and
if it’s not in me a text book wouldn’t
help me if I had one.
Now, if you want to see how effi
cient a teacher you are of enthusiasm
you may note how enthusiastic your
boy or girl is about church attend
ance or church support!
But a better mirror of yourself as
a teacher of enthusiasm may be seen
by observing the eagerness your boy
or girl shows toward spending money
to support the tobacco industry, or
the strong beverage industry, or the
movies, or Sunday baseball, or slot
machines!
So you can teach enthusiasm, can’t
you?
Don’t be dull, then, but enthusias
tic; but be sure your fervency is
boiling the right pot.
Be an enthusiast for great things,
and the world you move in will get
“het up” about something other than
trivialities.
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LETTER FROM C. A. DODD.
When once we were purged from
our old sins and we then turn back
after a taste of the good things and
experienced the presence of the Holy
Spirit, is a state that is much worse
than is the heathen who has never
been awakened. It will require a
greater effort to be restored to
Christian normalcy by far than to
awaken in the heathen’s breast a new
life and hope. I am persuaded most
of our church life, which at one time
thrilled us and made us to rejoice,
has been lost, and we are drifting to
nowhere with no compass or guide.
Our children are fully aware we
are bewildered and confused.
Is there left hidden in the human
breast any power we could use to in
duce the Holy Spirit to return. If so
and it’s asleep, how can it be arous
ed to action?
Dear preacher, can yo ulocate the
trouble? And are you able to pre
scribe and give a remedy?
Or is the whole body sick from its
head to the feet?
Shall we all be placed in the hos
pital and cry out for a specialist?
I fear we are sick from head to
foot and may never recover.
If you know a sure remedy, tell us
something.
C. A. DODD.
Menlo, Ga., Dec. 28, 1936.
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PASTURES.
After seeing the fine exhibit of
live stock at our fair, I knew that
at last our people were getting
“stock-conscious.” Good pastures are
the first necessity in the successful
raising of live stock. Over a quarter
of a century ago I started raising
live stock in this county. At that time
and down to this day our farm pa
pers and books on Southern farm
ing say that Bermuda grass is the
best grazing grass for the South. I
am going to flatly contradict that
statement. Bermuda grass is a migh
ty poor grass in a pasture and it is
the hardest to get rid of in farmland.
Johnson grass don’t compare with it.
The only real praise I can give
Bermuda is that it will grow, but
after it has grown, so that an animal
can get a good bite of it, it is then
too tough to eat. If I had my pas
tures to plant again I’d leave Ber
muda strictly alone.
We have three plants that appeal
to me for pasture. There may be
others.
Lespedeza (Japan clover) you all
know about. Carper grass and Dallas
grass are not so well known, but
they both start earlier, stay later
and grow in hot weather better than
Bermuda. They are not pests because
they can be plowed under and killed.
Stock prefer either of them to Ber
muda. You can sow the seed in your
old pasture on top of the ground, but
they are very slow in getting a cover
that way.
Harrow a piece of land where you
can extend your pasture. Sow “all
three” in March and turn stock in
about July 1 and I am sure you will
never go back to Bermuda.
One other plant that goes well
some years is white clover and I
would add a few hands full of seed
when starting my new pasture.
Crimson clover seed sown on pas
ture in September will give early
grading. Maybe ten or twelve acres
of “wood pasture” might support a
cow but not very well. A pasture is
a perinanent thing; it will pay to
prepare well. H. M.
Tree With a “Handle”
The “tree with a handle" is near
Madisonville, Tenn. A small limb
of this tree, by some freak, has
practically completed a circle and
grown back through the trunk.
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Pretentious, Portentous
Pretentious Is the word usually
applied to a building which is
showy or magnificent. It is pos
sible to speak of a building of por
tentous size, meaning abnormally
large; portentous involves the idea
of future expectations; ominous.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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December X 9, 1936.
Dear Mr. Jones:-
It is with great pleasure that
I an infonsed, through Mr. Keith Morgan, Vice-
President of the Georgia War® Springs Foundation,
that you have accepted, the Chairmanship of the
neely created Georgia State Conuaittee for Warn
Springe.
I have complete confidence that
the undertaking of thia Committee to raise the
aua or >loo,Ouu in Georgia for the purpose of
' helping to perpetuate the work of the Georgia
Sara Springs Foundation will be successful.
The great cooperation rendered
to me by Georgians in the tee?, of building Warm
Springs into a national force will always be
deeply appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
Harrison Jones, £eq.. Chairman,
The Georgia State Committee for Warn Springs,
Atlanta,
Georgia.
Sturgeon Once “Albany Beef”
«In the old Dutch days in New York
sturgeon were plentiful and of for
midable size, specimens taken in
the North river often running to
eight feet long. The roe was highly
prized by the Indians. Because
their spawning beds were in the
upper Hudson, the sturgeon was
commonly called “Albany beef.”—
Gm Logic.
Plant Acts as Compass
The compass plant (Silphium la
ciniatum) is native to the prairie re
gions and is also called resinweed.
It has a tall, resinous stem and
nearly vertical root leaves. Wh< n
growing in open situations, expose 1
alike on all sides to the sunlight, the
edges of most of the leaves point
approximately north and south.
Origin of Damask
Not many know that the word
“damask” comes from the ancient
city of Damascus, where elaborate
designs were woven into silk, mak
ing the city famous for such pat
terns.
Home, Sweet Home
The largest and most magnificent
private dwelling in the world is said
to be the Palazzo Doria in Rome,
now over 400 years old. As many
as a thousand persons have lived
under its roof at one time.
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