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4-H Club Achievement Week Nov. 7-14
Chattooga Member
Has Outstanding
County Record
“Surely 4-H club work has met
the needs of the young people in
my county,” says Charlotte Ballen
ger, Chattooga county 4-H’er, “be
cause when I joined the 4-H club
five years ago there were less than
a hundred members in our county,
and this year the enrollment has
climbed to 429.”
This outstanding club member,
who has served as president of the
local 4-H club, vice-president of
county 4-H council, and been a
leader in her county, has produced
more than S3OO worth of vegetables
from her garden during her five
years of club work, according to
Miss Nell Parish, 4-H club leader
for Chattooga county.
As a leader in club work, Char
lotte has assisted with club pro
grams, directed plays, worked with
style revues, and was county style
revue winner this year.
She represented Chattooga coun
ty at district 4-H meetings in Cal
houn and Carrollton. She was out
standing 4-H’er of the county last
year, won the food preparation
medal and an achievement medal
in clothing.
Os 4-H club work Charlotte has
this to say, “Every community has
various agencies to help make that
community a better place in which
to live. Os course, the church is
foremost in this work and the
schools are secondary. Besides
these two, I know of no organiza
tion that can shed more good influ
<ence on a section than the 4-H
clubs.”
BIG ARMY OF 4-H GIRL
COOKS SERVING NATION
Another feminine army, dis
tinctly different from the WOACS
and WAVES, is valiantly serving in
our country’s war effort Its mem
bers were trained in their own
rural homes. Its uniform is an
apron, its equipment consists of
kitchen stoves and utensils, and
its sole purpose is to bolster Amer
ica’s health and morale.
This army is comprised of round
ly a half million girls between 10
and 21 years old, who are enrolled
in the nationwide 4-H club food
preparation project. Many of them
are entered in a competition in
this activity, seeking to win covet
ed awards providing by Servel
home economics department for
outstanding achievement in pre
paring and serving nutritious, bal
anced home meals, demonstrating
meal planning methods, and judg
ing food products.
These awards include gold medals
trips to the 21st National 4-H Club
to county winners, all-expense
Congress in Chicago Nov. 29-Dec.
2 to state champions, and six S2OO
college scholarships to national
winners. The competition is con
ducted in co-operation with the
extension service.
200,000 4-H GIRLS VIE
FOR ALL-’’ROUND RECORDS
More than 200,000 4-H girls in
this and 41 other states are now
making the final drive to achieve
one of the most coveted objectives
in club work—that of being chosen
as the outstanding all-around girl
clubster in their county, state and
nation. To gain one or all of these
goals, they are participating in the
National 4-H girl’s record contest,
in which superior achievements -in
home economics projects and activ
ities are also rewarded by Mont
gomery Ward in the forms of med
als, trips and college scholarships.
That participants in this annual
contest have well-rounded 4-H rec
ords is reflected in the achieve
ments of previous winners. Their
records show that they know how
to keep healthy, improve their
room, renovate old clothes into
“new” and becoming garments,
prepare and serve nutritious meals,
keep house, can foods, raise gar
dens, beauty home surroundings,
handle poultry and livestock, ex
hibit, demonstrate and judge, as
well as take active part in commu
nity life.
County winners receive gold
medals, recipients of state honors
are awarded all-expense trips to
the 21st National 4-H Congress in
Chicago, Nov. 29-Dec. 2, and na
tional winners are presented with
a S2OO college scholarship each.
This is the twentieth anniversary
of Montgomery Ward’s support in
furthering 4-H club work in co-op
eration with the Extension Service.
SPONSOR PROJECT
Immediately after two Chattooga
county 4-H members spoke to the
Summerville-Trion Rotary club on
“What 4-H Club Work Means to
Me,” the Rotarians decided to spon
sor a 4-H project. The home agent
there said that the club would
sponsor a wildlife project.
Crop production goals for 1943
will be announced soon by the U.
S. Department of Agrictulture, the
Extension Service says.
Chattanooga County 4-H Achievements
Co-Operating With National 4-H Club
Achievement Week November 7 to 14
The Chattooga county 4-H
Achievement Day will be held on
Friday, Nov. 13, at the courthouse.
The 4-H’ers will have an achieve
ment parade at 11 o’clock, C. W. T.,
starting from the north side of the
courthouse.
Mr. W. A. Sutton, Jr., state 4-H
club leader, will be present for this
occasion, and we should feel very
Outstanding 4-H Boys of 1942
This year has been an outstand
ing club year among the boys.
They started out with the motto,
“We are going to beat our own rec
ords this year.”
A report from O. P. Dawson,
county agent, showed this week
that practically every 4-H club boy
took on additional 4-H projects
and completed them.
Dill Ballenger, Jr., won $33.00 in
defense stamps at the county fair
on his livestock exhibit. Billie Mills
also exhibited livestock, and has
County 4-H Council President Writes
Dear Fellow Club Members:
Yes, indeed, the National 4-H
Achievement week is in full swing
and Chattooga county is really do
ing her part in making it a success,
and proud to do so.
Friday, Nov. 13, at 11 o’clock. C.
W. T., we will have our climax—
a big 4-H parade and a program
at the courthouse, with Mr. W. A.
Sutton, Jr., the state 4-H club lead
er, being our guest speaker. We
are expecting every 4-H members'
parents to be present, too.
Below is a copy of an inspiring
message from Sallie Cook, president
of the state 4-H club council:
“Achievement week is the climax
of our 4-H club year. We are now
realizing the value of our efforts
in club work in 1942.
The following quotation is from
4-H Message From State Leader Sutton
To 4-H Club Members of Georgia:
We feel sure you will be interest
ed to know the value of all 4-H
products for this year was more
than $3,500,000. That up to Octo
ber you had collected more than
10,000,000 pounds of scrap metal;
you had purchased over $200,000
worth of war bonds and stamps,
and produced a large share of the
food so necessary to the winning
of the war.
We are sure you realize that
without the help of more than 2,000
4-H club adult advisers, who gladly
volunteered their services for you,
and the guidance and support of
your own county and home demon
stration agents who are the repre
sentatives of the Georgia agricul-
Wickard Congratulates 4-H Club Members
To the 4-H Club Members of the
United States:
I want to congratulate you—one
million five Hundred thousand 4-H
club members —on your contribu
tions during 1942 to the farm and
home front and to the nation’s war
effort. In a time of stress, you
have helped substantially in en
larging the nation’s food and fiber
supply, and in sporing and preserv
ing food. You have gathered thou
sands of ton of scrap metal, rubber,
paper, aluminum and turned them
over to the nation. You have aided
in rural fire control programs and
helped to spread throughout rural
areas the national nutritional pro
gram for the use of right foods
and development of better health.
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Heme demonstration activities in
Whitfield county include a study
of floors and floor coverings,
methods of cleaning rugs, window
shades and blinds, and making
floor wax. Club members are also
doing valuable sewing work for the
Red Cross.
VARIETY IN MEALS
Walton county home demonstra
tion families are making the most
of their home-produced foods, us
ing cottage and yellow homemade
cheese, combined with sweet or red
pepper, ground raw peanuts or
chopped pecan meats, and canned
peaches and pears served in at
tractive and delicious salads.
HOT SCHOOL LUNCHES
Home Demonstration Clubs in
Upson county are co-operating in
providing hot lunches in commu
nity schools. The club members
follow a planned schedule in cook
ing the lunches and have found
that community co-operation, as
well as the health of the children,
is improving as a result of the
work.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942
lucky to get him during this im
portant week of the nation.
Every 4-H club member of the
county is urged to be present for
this event as progress cards, spe
cial awards, and prizes will be giv
en out at this time. And, we espe
cially invite all parents and other
friends to attend the county 4-H
exercises on this day.
started a wildlife conservation
project of raising pheasants and
quail.
J. C. Williams’ livestock won
grand champion in Rome at the
cattle sales, which was SIO.OO cash
premium and a $45 wrist watch,
and he sold it for $220 in cash.
Many other members have done
exceedingly well with one hundred
of them having livestock projects
and all of them trying to live up to
the 4-H motto of making the best
better.
one of our own members —a grend
statement of what you have been
doing: “I can only say that the
spirit of these 4-H’ers is one of in
domitable courage. They are buy
ing war bonds and stamps, raising
food and feed so necessary to main
tain our armed forces and help
our allies. They swear by each lap
of the plow, every stroke of the
hoe, and every can of food, that
the enemies of the United States
shall be defeated, and that victory
shall be ours.”
We are proud of the important
war job we are doing through 4-H
club work, and feel that this 4-H
Achievement week will be used as
a stepping stone to greater 4-H ac
complishments in 1943.”
Sincerely, •
MILDRED JOHNSON,
President Council Council
tural extension service in your
county, these amazing things could
not have been accomplished. These
people deserve our deepest appre
ciation.
In congratulating you on your
1942 accomplishments, we at the
same time challenge you to do a
bigger job of 4-H club work in 1943.
As time passes, we will find the
production of food, the collection
of salvage, the buying of war bonds
and stamps, and the part you can
play in relieving the farm labor
shortage, will be listed among top
priorities in the winning of the
war.
Sincerely yours,
W. A. SUTTON, JR.,
State 4-H Club Leader for rhe
Extension Service
Moreover, your work has helped
make up for the los of those who
have left farms for the army and
navy, or for war industries in cities.
All these contributions lead us to
expect still larger things from you
in 1943, not only in the production
of food and fiber, but especially in
helping to replace the manpower
on the farms. More than ever be
fore, the nation needs the help of
every one of you. In all this work,
we want you to know that you are
a definite part of your govern
ment’s’ organization for helping to
win the war and establishing a last
ing peace.
Sincerely,
CLAUDE R. WICKARD,
Secretary of Agriculture
4-H GARDENERS’ OUTPUT
IN 1942 IS 3,500,000
BUSHELS—A NEW RECORD
A record output of more than
3 1-2 million bushels of garden veg
etables and small fruits will be
produced this year by 4-H club
members throughout the nation, in
response to the government’s call
for super-production of these food
stuffs to meet war demands. This
output is an increase of 60 per cent
over last year’s production by the
clubsters.
Round 350,000 members partici
pated in the 1942 National 4-H Vic
tory Garden contest conducted in
co-operation with the Extension
Service, in which Sears, Roebuck
provided awards consisting chiefly
of U. S. war savings bonds. This
also is an all-time high enrollment
in the 4-H gardening project, and
shows how vital 4-H production is
o the war effort in this as in all
lines.
County winners in this competi
tion received gold-filled medals,
and four representatives of each
state’s blue award group were
awarded a $25 war savings bond.
One of the latter will be consid-
4-H Members Take
Leading Part in
Salvage Campaign
Early in 1942 4-H club members
in this county joined with the oth
er thousands in the state in pledg
ing themselves to do all possible in
the war effort, and just how well
they have carried out their projects
is shown in a special report on the
salvage and defense work of the
Georgia organization, released this
week by W. A. Sutton, Jr., state 4-H
club leader for the Georgia agricul
tural extension service.
By responding whole-heartedly
to all the requests for salvage, by
purchasing war bonds and stamps,
by serving as victory volunteers, as
air-raid lookouts, and through Red
Cross work, they have carried out
an essential part in the work of a
nation geared to win the war.
With almost 500 boys and girls
participating in the war bond pro
gram in Chattooga county, more
than $2,500 worth of bonds and
stamps were purchased during the
first 10 months of 1942.
Many members of the 4-H or
ganization are helping to carry out
the distribution of war informa
tion and directing various cam
paigns by serving in the victory
volunteer or neighborhood leader
ship system. And in addition to
that work they have formed vic
tory squads to help farmers faced
with a labor shortage. Thus far in
1942 they have worked 1,550 hours
helping neighbors on important
farm and home jobs essential to
victory.
In the salvage campaigns, 146
boys and 283 girls participated, col
lecting 43,980 pounds of scrap
metal, with the biggest campaign
still underway. They have collected
4,225 pounds of rubber.
The “H is for health” in 4-H club
hasn’t been neglected, for club
members realize that now as never
before health is of major import
ance, and a large portion of the
members in Georgia have had a
complete physical check-up during
the year. And many of the girls
have found time to do sewing for
the Red Cross in their respective
communities.
One thousand farm implements
were repaired by 4-H members in
a dress rehearsal of what is to
come next year with the sale of
new farm machinery rationed, and
500 articles were made by mem
bers enrolled in agricultural engi
neering projects.
PLANT PINE SEEDLINGS ON
YOUR NON-PRODUCTIVE LAND
Idle land is non-productive, and
therefore, gives no income. Forest
land is productive and does yield
an income. The Georgia Division
of Forestry is urging everyone to
plant all their idle land in seed
lings. With the labor condition
growing more acute on the farm,
many farmers will not be able to
cultivate the amount of land dur
ing the next several years as they
have in the past. If this land lays
idle during this time, it will not be
in a productive condition at the
end of the war, and will only prove
a liability to its owner during
these years. If trees are planted
on the same land now it will be
earmng revenue during this time
and yet it will not be necessary for
the farmer to spend any labor on it.
Pine seedlings are being sold by
the two nurseries owned and op
erated by the Georgia division of
forestry at $2 per thousand f. o .b.
the nursey, which is the cost of
production. A thousand trees will
bring an acre of waste land into
productivity. The cost of planting
in North Georgia averages $2.00 per
acre. So by the owner putting out
$4.00 per acre he will be able to de
rive future income from land that
is not adaptable to anything but
tree growth. After the tree seed
lings are planted, they require no
other than fire protection. How
ever, it is essential that fires are
not allowed to burn over land re
cently planted as young trees are
not capable of withstanding even
the slightest degree of burn.
Our war program is making a
tremendous drain on the south’s
forests and unless some provisions
are taken now for the future, the
country is going to be seriously
handicapped through lack of lum
ber during the future years.
The Georgia Division of Forestry
will send one of their representa
tives to inspect any area and to ad
vise on proper species, spacing, and
the most economical method by
which plantings can be made. Any
one desiring this information can
contact the State Forester, 435
State Capitol, Atlanta, or the Dis
trict Forester, Gainesville.
ered in selecting sectional and na
tional winners. All-expense trips
to the 21st National 4-H Club con
gress in Chicago Nov. 29-Dec. 2, will
be awarded to the two highest scor
ing participants in each of the four
extension sections, who will also re
ceive a SIOO war savings bond
apiece.
The 4-H’s Offer a
Sound Investment in the Future—
The work of the 4-H organization is one of the best guarantees
we have that the American way of life will not perish. For these
boys and girls . . . numbering many hundreds in Chattooga county
will be the future leaders of this country .. . leaders with
practical idealism that will guarantee the best for all oT us. We
are proud of the work being done by the 4-H clubs in this county,
state and nation, and we take this method of saluting them during
their NATIONAL 4-H CLUB ACHIEVEMENT WEEK NOV. 7-14.
The 4-H stands 4-Square for the better things in life and its
working to make sure we have them. Four-H members have in
vested more than $200,000 in War Bonds and Stamps, collected
millions of pounds of Salvage Materials, produced record-breaking
project yields in the Food for Victory Program.
Congratulations to the 4-H for its 1942 Accomplishments
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
A Salute
To the 4-H Soldiers of the Soil—
Celebration of National 4-H Club Achievement Week Nov.
7-14 gives us an opportunity to salute the 4-H members of this
county, state and nation for their outstanding accomplishments
during 1942.
They’re really Soldiers of the Soil, and they’re leading the
Victory Procession with their contributions to the war effort. No
soldier, sailor or marine will go hungry because 4-H members
failed to produce all possible foodstuffs.
This year they adopted a 7-Point Victory Program, and here’s
some of the things they’ve accomplished. . . . Produced food crops
valued at $1,220,000. . . . Produced livestock worth $1,035,000. . . .
Raised 660,000 chickens and turkeys. . . . Collected 10,000,000 pounds
of scrap. . . . Purchased $200,000 in War Bonds and Stamps.
Our Hat’s Off to the 4-H!
MANIS & SELF CASH GROCERY
Subligna, Georgia
Head, Hands and Heart Working for Victory
95,000 strong, the 4-H members in Georgia are working whole
heartedly, with busy hands and a clear head, for the victory we’re
sure to achieve.
Backing the war effort 100 per cent, the 4-H members are
completing their greatest year and we want to congratulate them
while they are celebrating NATIONAL 4-H CLUB ACHIEVEMENT
WEEK NOV. 7-14.
Four-H members have turned m a record-breaking produc
tion of food stuffs this year . . . they’ve purchased thousands of
dollars worth of War Bonds and Stamps . . . collected millions of
pounds of Salvage Material.
These sturdy young boys and girls will be the future leaders
of this nation and we re plenty proud of the work they’re doing now
BALLENGER’S STOLE
Gere, Georgia
Congratulations, 4-H Club Members—
Congratulations, 4-H Club members of Chattooga county for
doing a swell job during 1942! We’re proud of the work you're
doing through your 7-Point Victory Program to win the war.
And now, while you are celebrating NATIONAL 4-H CLUB
ACHIEVEMENT WEEK, we want to recognise the worthwhile con
tribution you have made to our united cause, and to urge you to
even greater accomplishments during the next year.
Upon you depends much of the future of our nation, and we’re
sure that you will continue to respond as you have so nobly done
in the past.
Keep up the good work in food production, the salvage cam
paigns, the bond buying program—we’re back of you 100 per cent.
O. L. CLECKLER
Menlo, Georgia
Congratulations, 4-H Members
On Your 1942 Accomplishments
We want to join you in your celebration of NATIONAL 4-H
ACHIEVEMENT WEEK NOV. 7-14 by extending our congratula
tions for the excellent work you have done in 1942.
From your organization will come the leaders of tomorrow,
and already you are showing those qualities that leaders should
have. But right now, in this time of stress, we re particularly
proud of the leadership you have shown in the food for victory
production program, in the salvage campaigns, in your bond buy
ing programs.
Keep up the good work—you’re more than doing your part
. . . you’re real soldiers and we’re proud of you.
D. W. COPELAND
Lyerly, Georgia