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Soy Bean
Demonstration
Plant Opens
'SALINE, Mich., Aug. I.—Center of
interest for farmers within a radius
of 200 miles, Henry Ford’s demon
stration soy bean factory fronting
the Detroit-Chicago turnpike a half
mile west of this charming Michigan
town, has just begun operations.
The factory group comprises two
buildings. One is the historic Schuy
ler grist mill which has been con
verted into a cleaning and storage
plant. A new frame structure back of
the grist mill houses soy bean flak
ing and oil extraction equipment.
Power is supplied by a hydroelectric
plant fed by water brought by mill
race from a dam built across the Sa
- line river along the right-of-way of
the Detroit-Chicago highway.
More than 700 farmers within a
200-mile radius of the Saline plant
are now growing soy beans on 22,-
* 588 acres from seed furnished by the
Ford company. In addition, the Ford
company has 15,524 more acres seed
ed under contract. The total yield of
soy beans for the season is expected
to be 312,480 bushels, at the rate of
twenty bushels per acre.
Under the arrangement between
the Ford company and the farmers
to whom seed was advanced, the
farmers will return the seed from
the new crop at the end of the sea
son. They are then at liberty to sell
the balance of their crop to Ford a.t
the market, or dispose of it to other
buyers.
Most of the crop, however, is ex
pected to be delivered to the Saline
plant. The cleaning and flaking plant
at Saline, together with those at
Tecumseh and Hayden Mills ahve a
capacity of 300,000 bushels a year
and are expected to bo kept busy
s .' r through the twelve months.
The extraction plant in the rear of
the grist mill here has a capacity of
140,000 bushels a year. A similar
amount will be processed at a new
plant now under construction at Mi
lan, Mich. The balance of the crop
will be retained for seed for use in
the spring of 1939.
The historic old grist mill already
has become the mecca for farmers
for many miles around Saline, and it
promises to become the show place of
the Ford soy bean operations in
* southeastern Michigan.
Soy beans brought to the plant
are delivered at the rear. There
trucks dumn their loads into a hop
per, from which the beans are hoist
_ ed by conveyor to cleaning equip
s ment on the second floor and thence
to storage bins on the upper floors.
As the beans are required for pro
cessing they are carried by convey
or to the new building in the rear.
There they are delivered to a hopper
from which they are transferred to
a flaker and then by conveyor again
to a distributor which feeds the
flakes into the oil extraction mills.
The oil, which comprises 18 per
cent, of the soy bean flake, is ex
tracted with hexane, a liquid sol
vent, and then recovered by evapo
- rating the solvent. The extraction
process takes place in a large insu
lated tube set at an angle of ap
proximately thirty degrees with the
floor. A screw conveyor operates in
side the tube, carrying the bean
flakes from the bottom toward the
top as the solvent pours down.
The solvent carrying the oil is
drawn off from the base of the tube
and run through evaporators where
the solvent passes off as vapor and
the oil remains. The solvent is used
over and over again. The oil is used
in the manufacture of car finishes
and in binding foundry cores.
The meal, from which the oil has
been extracted, is carried off from
the top of the mill and is bagged for
use in manufacture of plastic parts
for Ford cars at the Rouge glass
plant.
Aside from the hydroelectric plant,
Y power also will be available from a
standby steam plant.
Lost Rome Man
Found In Hills
ROME, Ga. —Albert Fahy, 48,
prominent department store owner,
lost for several hours late Monday
night last week in mountainous re
gions near Subligna, in Chattooga
county, was found by a searching
party early Tuuesday.
Unharmed, Mr. Fahy had attract
ed the posse of twenty-five men, in
eluding county officers, by building
a fire with sawdust atop a mountain
peak.
Mr. Fahy had gone with Tom Wil
lingham and Graham Wright, attor
neys, and Mr. Wright’s son, Akin, on
* an all-day fishing trip near Sublig
na Wednesday.
Separated from the others, Mr.
Fahy became lost, wandering for
hours in the lonely, mountainous re
gions.
The Wrights and Mr. Willingham
returned to Rome, called police and
assisted in forming a searching
party.—Atlanta Georgian.
FOR RENT—New 6-room dwelling;
water, bath, electricity; on College
gt„ near school. Suitable for two
small families, S2O month. —B. W.
Farrar, 109 N. Commerce Street,
. Phone 371.
SnmmiTinllr Nma
VOL. 25; NO. 21
Baptist Warns;
Worldly Spirit
Perils Church
Says Christianity, the Religion Giv
en To the World By Christ. Is Sus- 1
feting From a Declining Belief.
RIDGECREST, N. C., Aug. I.
Seepage of the worldly spirit into
church life is threatening the exist
ence of Christianity in America, Dr.
J. B. Lawrence, of Atlanta, asserted
here today as he led dscussions in
the Home Missions’ conference of
Southern Baptist leaders from eight
een states.
The executive secretary-treasurei’
of the Baptist Home Mission board,
speaking on the second day of a
week’s program, pointed out that ■
“Christianity, the religion given to |
the world by Christ, is suffering ■
from a weakening sense of its di
vineness, a declining belief in the
-reat doctrines, and a loss of the
purely spiritual in worship.”
“Restore Devotion”
“New Testament devotion to Christ
must be restored,” he concluded, “and i
the passion to preach the saving Gos
pel to lost men everywhere should I
flame in the breasts of all believers.”
The day’s program, on the theme,
“A Bankrupt World,” also included
addresses by Dr. L. L. Gwaltney, ed- (
itor of the Alabama Baptist, Bir- j
mingham; Dr. E. P. Alldredge, statis
tical secretary, Baptist Sunday
School board, Nashville; Rev. Mau- ;
rice Aguillard, French missionary,
Basile, La., and Dt. A. T. Bequer, |
Cuban missionary, Cienfuegos, Cuba. }
Dr. Roland Q. Leavell, of Atlanta,
superintendent of evangelism of the
Home Mission board and „co-leader in
the southwide Baptist revival, con- ■
ducted a conference on evangelism.
Liquor Denounced.
Speaking on “The Licensed Liquor
Traffic and Its Bearing on Home
Missions,” Dr. Gwaltney said that
“only 44 ner cent, of the electorate
voted one way or the other when
the repeal amendment was submit
ted to the states for ratification.
“The worst feature of the present
liquor situation.” he said, “is the ap
peal being made to women.
“Godly women of this nation ought
to raise a protest against it. Preach
ers ought to lift their voices against
it, and every man who has a mother,
or sister, or wife, or daughter, ought
to mercilessly attack a traffic that
would debauch the womanhood of the
land.”
Berryton Man
Commits £>uicide
By T. jD. LYNN.
H. Delos Dean, of Berryton, shot
and killed himself in the back yard
of his home there about noon Friday.
He and his wife had been sepa
rated for several months and it is
believed he became despondent over
the situation.
Mr. Dean had been employed as a
mechanic by the Berryton mills for
several years.
He is survived by his estranged
wife, two daughters, Mrs. Roy Mc-
Graw and Mrs. Nell Love, and two
brothers, I. J. and A. J. Dean, of
Berryton.
Funeral services were held Satur
day at 2 p.m. at Berryton Baptist
church by the Rev. Dewey Adams. In
terment in Rock Springs cemetery.
Paul Weems Funeral home in charge.
Kelly B. Fincher, the 1-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Fincher,
of Crystal Springs, died at the home
of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
L. Headrick, of Pennville, Thursday,
July 28. at 5 a.m. He is survived by
his parents and one sister. Funeral
services were held Friday at Penn
ville church by the Rev. Sullivan. In
terment in adjoining cemetery, with
Paul Weems Funeral home in charge.
Home-Coming at Tass,
Ala., Sunday, Aug. 14
The second Sunday in August will
be another great day at Tass, Ala.,
in the northern part of Cherokee
county on the old school grounds
where Prof. S. J. McCall and sister,
Mrs. Lorila McCall Kennedy, taught
jin the latter nineties.
Last year there were more than
600 people and this year a crowd of
| more than 2,C00 is expected.
This home-coming does not apply
to the students only, but everyone
who had children, grandchildren, rel
! atives, friends and those who were
interested in education and who at
tended those wonderful commence
ments each year.
Along the winding trails, under
j+he large spreading elms and over
the hills is where, many a beautiful
:omance has culminated.
Come and shake hands with your
' friends whom you have not seen for
years.
A splendid program is being pre
pared,
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938.
Carries First Dollar
He Earned 26 Years
ILITHONIA. —A silver dollar
he earned twenty-six years ago,
his first “pay check,” is still be
ing carried by Alma C. Madden,
Florida mail carrier, who visit
ed in Lithonia last week with
relatives. When Madden was 12
years old he picked 202 pounds
of cotton in one day for Rev. R.
M. Maret. For his day’s work he
received the silver dollar which
he has carried ever since as a
good luck piece.
News At a Glance
About People,
Things In State
NYA Enabled 3,462 Students To
Attend Universities and Colleges
In Georgia During 1937-38.
ATLANTA, Aug. 1 (GPS).—Geor
gia and the south lost one of their
greatest benefactors in the passing
of Dr. Charles Holmes Herty. He
was a great man, was the Savannah
scientist. One of his greatest accom
plishments was the development of
paper pulp from the trees of the
southern states. He won internation
al renown for this accomplishment.
The famous Georgian lived to see his
dream come true more than five
years ago, when, after years of te
dious toil and laboratory research,
the first large-scale production of
newsprint paper was - accomplished at
the Herty test plant in Savannah.
Even though fame came to him, the
slight, soft-spoken scientist never
changed. He continued to go about
his task; a plain, tireless worker
whose primary purpose was the
scientific utilization of the vast for
ests of his native south. He loved
Georgia and Georgia forever shall
love him.
Is It Over? “How much has busi
ness improved since the ‘recession’
reached bottom?” asks the Railway
Age, which asserts that “it was (in
its June 18 issue) the first publica
tion or agency to publish widely
quoted data and comments indicat
ing that improvement in business
had begun. There has since occurred
a sharp advance in stock market
prices,” says the Railway Age, “and
labor leaders are using the improve
ment as an argument against reduc
tions of railway wages. But how
much has business actually improv
ed ? Freight loadings adjusted for
seasonal changes indicate that be
tween the two weeks ending May 14
ind June 25 there was an improve
ment of 2.6 per cent. This, of course,
was much better than continuance
of the decline. And how bad is busi
ness now? As measured by freight
loadings, the total volume of produc
tion and commerce at the end of
June was about 45 per cent, smaller
than it averaged in the five years
1925-29; 12 per cent, larger than in
1932; 8 1-2 per cent, smaller than in
’933, and 26 per cent, smaller than
in 1937.”
Gist Os the News: Funds of the
National Youth Administration en
abled 3.462 students to attend col
leges and universities in Georgia
during the 1937-1938 school term.
Fifty-one Georgia institutions of
higher learning participated in the
program, and these students receiv
ed $228,120.29 during the school
year, an average of $66.41 each. . .
The Lenwood' hospital at Augusta,
largest institution of its kind in the
south, has a maintenance cost of
$1,000,000 each year in the city, ac
cording to Dr. W. M. Dobson, medi
cal officer in charge . . . University
of Georgia now is in the peach bus
iness. Planted five years ago as an
experiment for horticulture students,
e university orchard near Athens
is expected to yield ten carloads of
Agriculturist Meeting At
Athens August 9th-12th
ATHENS, Aug. I. Farm and
Home week, sponsored annualy by
the University of Georgia, will take
place Aug. 9-12. State agricultural
workers, teachers, and interested cit
izens will participate in discussions
and hear prominent agricultural
speakers at that time.
Representatives of agricultural in
dustries and federal agencies will be
included as speakers on the four-day
program. Sessions will be held in
Sanford Field and at the University
dairy barn to seat the expected
crowds. On Thursday, Aug. 11, the
third annual horse, mule and colt
show will be held as Live Stock day,
and prizes will be awarded.
Farm Forestry day will be observ
ed Friday, Aug. 12, and the fifth an
nual state 4-H club conference will
be held concurrently with Farm and
Home week, Aug. 9-11, Delegates
Seventy Counties
Selected For
Tenant Loans
Cbattoogeu County To Again Par
ticipate In Additional Loans To Be
Made in 1938-39.
Seventy Georgia counties have
been designated by Secretary Wallace
to participate during the current fis
cal year in the farm tenant purchase
loan program, provided under terms
of the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant
act.
■State Director R. L. Vansant an
nounced in Athens this week that
the government, through the farm
security administration, will make
approximately 450 long-term loans
for the purchase of farms to eligi
ble tenants, sharecroppers, and farm
laborers in the designated Georgia
counties.
Georgia counties in which tenant
purchase loans will be made this
year for the first time are: Appling,
Bacon, Baker, Barrow, Butts, Cand
ler, Carroll, Colquitt, Crisp, Doug
las, Early, Elbert, Fayette, Franklin,
Grady, Houston, Jefferson, Johnson,
Lamar, Laurens, Lee, Lowndes, Ma
con, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe,
Paulding, Polk, Randolph, Stewart,
Taylor, Tift, Toombs, Troup, Turner,
Union, Walker, Warren, White and
Wilcox.
Counties participating in the pro
gram last year in which additional
loans will be made in 1938-39 include:
Bartow, Brooks, Bullock, Burke,
Chattooga, Cobb, Coffee, Coweta,
Dodge, Dooly, Emanuel, Gordon,
Gwinnett, Hall, Hancock, Hart, Hen
ry, Jackson, Jenkins, Meriwether,
Mitchell, Morgan, Pike, Sumter, Tel
fair, Terrell, Washington, Wilkes and
Worth.
Mr. Vansant said that Georgia was
allotted $1,587,507.50 of the national
total of $25,100,000. From three to
ten loans will be made in each coun
ty, the number being determined by
the availability of good land to the
number of qualified applicants in
the respective counties.
All tenants, sharecroppers and
farm laborers interested in securing
one of »Ji*>ans should make ap
plication with -the county farm sup
ervisor by Aug. 31. The FSA direc
tor emphasized that loans can be
made only to farm families in the
seventy selected counties during the
present fiscal year.
Preference will be given to appli
cants who can make a down pay
ment or who own live stock and
farm equipment necessary for work
ing a crop, Mr. Vansant said.
The program will be administered
in each of the seventy counties by
the farm supervisor and a county
advisory committee, composed of
three local farmers. The extension
service, through its county agents,
will serve in an advisory capacity.
Sacred Harp Singing
At Courthouse Aug. 14
There will be a Sacred Harp sing
ing at the court house all day Sun
day. Aug. 14. Everybody is most cor
dially invited to attend.
PRESIDENT 8080.
Special Notice
Revival services will begin at Men
lo Methodist church Friday night,
Aug. 5, and will run on until Friday
night. Aug. 12.
Two services daily—-10:30 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. G. G. RAMSEY, Pastor,
peaches this season .. . Although
keeper of the state capitol dome for
eighteen months, R. A. Duke, of So
perton, has never climbed the 222
steps. “It’s too high for me,” he
said.
from the Georgia Federation of
Women’s Clubs and other organiza
tions will attend the meetings.
Separate conventions will meet for
women, for men, and for students.
Separate sessions will also be held
’or workers in agriculture and its
dependent industries, for members of
4-H clubs, for producers of live stock
and students of animal husbandry,
for members of the Georgia Agricul
tural society, for forest workers, and
■>r health and educational workers.
The first day of Farm and Home
week will be devoted, to community
entertainment contests, morning and
afternoon. Outstanding speakers on
agricultural topics in Georgia and
the nation will be heard the second
day. Home demonstration work and
the horse show will occupy the third
day, and the last will be given to
'-H club work,
Mother, Son Meet
After Thirty Years
•CEDARTOWN. Mother and
son were united after thirty
years this week when Mrs. Ben
Mathis, of Polk county, learned
that her son had been living only
a few miles away. Perry Mathis
left home in Atlanta in March,
1908, to find work, and that was
the last Mrs. Mathis heard of her
son until last week, when he
wrote to her saying that he was
living in Dallas, only a few miles
away, and that he was married
and had five children. The two
planned a long-waited reunion
this week.
Haden Urges
Better Homes
For Farmers
Practical Benefits Shown By Im
provements on Own Land—FHA
Other Lending Agencies Needed.
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA. —Actual experience on
his own lands has proven that noth
ing finer for rural Georgia can be
done than to bring about more com
fortable and attractive homes along
with good roads, according to Chas.
J. Haden, in an interview in the cur
rent issue of the Southern Highway
Journal.
“The increased value of the homes
by the improvements, increase the
landlord’s security and thus stabilize
the assets,” said Mr. Haden. “This,
too. is not a theory with me. As the
landlord, I have put it into practice i
and it works.”
Mr. Haden, long a public-spirited
citizen, with wide experience in ag
riculture and improvement of living
conditions of farmers states that
what he advocates can be success
fully applied in harmony with the
help now being rendered by the fed
eral housing administration and oth
er federal lending agencies.
Says Mr. Haden’s article, “If the
landlord would advance enough, add
ing it to the selling price of the !
farm and including in the purchase '■
money notes, what is necessary to |
buy such things for the improvements
as the purchaser cannot perform or
pay for, the landlord is safe in his
investment.
“ ‘Back to the land’ must become
more than a slogan. It must be an
achievement if America is to remain
safe and solvent. The people will :
return to the farm when conveniences |
and more cheerful living conditions
lure them back.
“It costs less relatively to improve
homes on the farm than in the city.
A considerable part of the actual ■
labor can be performed by the farm- ;
er and his sons. It thus becomes a
home-made and home-paid payroll.
Nearly every farm has standing tim
ber enough to produce the lumber.
I This brings that item down to the
cost of sawing and dray age. Much of
| the work could be performed at
times when farm work is temporar
ily suspended.
“If the landlords would sell ten
ants on long, easy payments, small
farms, the interest would yield more
on the same amount of money than :
invested in federal or other secur-1
ities.”
Mr. Haden declares that the best |
antidote for growth of large cities
is a nation-wide movement for a
more attractive life in the country.
Man Dynamometer Is
Unusual Feature Os
Farm and Home Week
On display during Farm and Home
week, Aug. 8-13, at the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture, Ath
ens. will be a man dynamometer, a :
device for comparing man power with
that of a one-quarter horsepower elec
tric motor.
This electrical register is designed ,
■o demonstrate that a man’s labor is j
worth only 10 cents a day turning j
hand-operated farm devices, because |
electricity can do the job for that
I imount.
Each visiting farmer will be invit
’d to turn the crank of the dynamom
’ eter and a he does so an electric me-
I ter will record his output of energy.
He will be asked to observe the ease
with which the one-quarter horse
! power motor can do the work at little
expense.
On display with this dynamometer
will be six of the more than a dozen
| uses of the one-quarter horsepower
portable motor on the farm. These
: will include a corn sheller, tool grind
j ar, sausage grinder, barrel churn,
j green feed ehooper, and an ice cream
I ieezer.
Complete information on the ini
:a! costs and operation of the equip
ment will be available at the exhibit.
I Attendants will be with the exhibit
I throughout Farm and Home week to
] answer questions pertaining to all
' types of electrical farm equipment,
$1.50 A YEAR
Farmers To Make
Applications
For Farm Loans
Information, Application Blanks
May Be Obtained From the County
Agent at Courthouse.
Farm tenants, sharecroppers, la
borers and other families who live
in this county and who can qualify
under the provisions of the “Bank
head-Jones Farm Tenant Act,” may
make application for federal loans
to finance purchase of family-sized
fS’ms this year,” said C. D. San
ders, county FSA rehabilitation sup
ervisor.
This county was designated to
have the tenant purchase loan pro
gram in addition to the other serv
ices of assistance to low income
farm families included in the FSA
rural rehabilitation program.
I*hmilies in this county who wish
federal aid to purchase a good farm
may visit Mr. Sanders at the local
FSA rehabilitation office in the
court house building in Summerville.
Information and application blanks
may also be secured from the county
agent in the court house building.
The application period will be open
until Aug. 31, so all who are inter
ested are advised to act without de
lay. Applications made in this coun
ty are submitted for examination of
the local FSA advisory committee,
composed of residents of this county.
Approved loans will be certified by
this committee within the limits of
the funds available for the present
fiscal year’s program.
Land must be bought at reason
able prices and must be capable of
affording an abundant living for the
family and margin of profit neces
sary to meet loan payments. “FSA
will not list land for sale,” said Mr.
Sanders. Options may be taken for
lands only after the application per
iod is over. The FSA will recognize
no obligation to buy until after ap
praisal of land and official approv
al of the purchase proposition.
Farm and home plans will be made
out for each farm considering the
available family labor and the pro
i duction possibilities of the farm to
i be bought. No loan will be approved
in this program where the farm and
home plan does not reveal sufficient
probable income to justify adequate
■ farm buildings. “All services of the
■ rural rehabilitation program will be
made available to farm families who
acquire lands in this program,” con-
I eluded Mr. Sanders.
Dr. Herty Honored
In New Textbook
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA.—Coincident with Dr.
Charles H. Herty’s death, the state
department of education began send
ing out a new textbook on Georgia’s
natural resources, in which a trib
ute is paid to the lasting worth of
the work of Dr. Herty. This book is
being sent to all of the teachers in
the state school system.
The book consisting of 222 pages,
part of Georgia’s program for im
provement of public school instruc-
I tion will be used in the eighth grade
' and will be supplied to all eighth
: grade students.
The late Dr. Herty is given credit
for a great deal of the advance in
Georgia naval stores industry as
■ well as for his expansion of the pa
i per industry in the south.
M. E. Thompson, assistant state
[ school superintendent, had charge of
the preparation of the book, which
i contains sections on state parks, wild
life, mining and geology.
Gore F.F.A. Will [
Attend State Camp
By BILL KING.
The Gore chapter of Future Farm
ers of America will attend the state
I camp during the week of Aug. 8
i through 13th. Between twenty and
I thirty boys will go to camp at this
I time.
The camp is located in Newton
county, thirteen miles below Coving
ton, on Jakeson lake.
The kitchen and dining hall, which
are not completed, are being built of
solid granite. Since the kitchen is
not completed, cooking will be done
on outdoor fireplaces.
For sports, baseball tournaments
will be held each day between the
different chapters. There are approx
imately twenty-five miles of water
front which will afford excellent
swimming, boating and fishing.
Final plans for attending the camp
will be made at the meeting Friday,
Aug. 5. at the cabin. All members are
urged to be present.
Boy Scout News
All boys who are interested in
scouting, come out to the scout meet
ing Friday night at 7 o’clock. There
will be some very interesting things
1 at this time,