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MOST
COMPLETE COVERAGE
IN THE COUNTY
VOLUME 10
Setting Tobacco
Plants in the Field
j. M. PURDOM
In growing tobacco there is no
operation which calls for more
careful work than that of setting
the plants properly in the field.
Careless work at this time will
result in an irregular stand, as
well as growth of plants that live,
thus making it almost impossible
to secure a really first class crop
of tobacco as well as increasing the
amount of work and worry neces
sary to grow the crop. In other
words, careless work in trans
planting will not only increase the
cost of making the crop but will
also result in tobacco of inferior
quality, light weight an-'iow
value.
Every tobacco grower knows
this, and yet it seems to be human
nature that when tobacco trans
planting is started in the early
spring, when successful trans-
most easily done, there
is an almost irresistible tendency
to work for spaed rather than for
results. When plants are careless
ly set adverse seasons inevitably
result in large numbers of them
dying, and also retards the growth
of thosa which survive.
Only careful hands should be
allowed to pull plants for trans
planting. Particular pains should
be exercised to select plants uni
form in size, retaining as many of
the roots as possible. At the same
time the stems should not be
grasped hard enough to bruise
them. After the plants are gull
ed they should be protected from
the sun and the wind,'and the
roots not allowed to dry out be
fore they are set in the field.
There are many systems used
for transplantirg, and the ques
tion is often asked which is best.
This question usually relates to
machine transplanting vs hand
transplanting, The answer is that
either is good provided the work
is carefully and correctly done,
and that it is just as easy to do
careless woik one way as it is the
other.
To obtain best results one must
have a good healthy plant, which
should be set in moist soil deep
enough so that the bud is level
with the ground. The leaves
should be drawn up around the
bud to protect it against the sun
and wind, and the soil pressed
firmly, but not too hard around
the roots, leaves and stem. When
plants with large leaves but short
stems are used, it is best to leave
the bud below the level of the
ground, as the roots should be
set at least two inches deep, but
the leaves must be carefully fold
ed around it. When plants with
long stems are used it is often
necessary to set them in a slant
ing hole in order to get the bud
at the level of the ground and
avoid setting the roots too deep.
In hand transplanting, when
pegs are used for pressing the
soil to the roots, particular pains
must be used, a 3 otherwise, espec
ially when long stemmed plants
are used, the soil may only be
pressed against the stem with
none to the roots. This is a very
common failing of careless or in
experienced peg setters, but when
it is done ones hopes of a good
stand and a good crop are ruth
lessly blasted.
I am becoming more and more
convinced that it is real economy
to always water the plants when
setting them. Certainly it should
be done if there is the least indi
cation that it is needed. Ones
hopes of a good crop are often
ruined when plants are set with,
out water because clouds and
WILLACOOCHEE TIMES
Some Suggestions
For the People
(Contributed)
The best way to build up Will
acoochee is to spend money earn
ed in Wiilaeoochee with Willacoo
chee merchants.
Among the many overproduc
tions with which the people are
afflicted is the overproduction of
small-bore statesmen.
Why buy tons upon tons of fer
tilizers when a splendid grade can
be made at home, at small costs
of time and labor?
Why motor down to the post
office mornings when wa'king is
cheaper and healthier? Oh, it
saves valuable time.
That a new broom sweeps clean
is demonstrated in many ways—
even new officers start with keep
ing their records clean!
Farmers are advised to build up
their soil with the humus and
vegetable mould produced on it.
That is like spending money earn
ed where it is earned.
Wiggletails are said to produce
mosquitoes and mosquitoes carry
germs that hand folks typhoid
fever. Start at the beginning and
destroy the Wiggletails.
Chains stores and mail order
houses have no property interests
in Willf coochee. Then why make
them wealthy at the expense of
Wiilaeoochee property interests?
What amount of electric '‘Ser
vice charge” are you paying and
what is the service you receive?
Many folks think “Service*
charge” is only another name for
graft.
Church and school buildings are
a city’s best property assets. The
better church and school build
ings the better citizenship and
the better prosperity. No cen
sure can be hurled at people who
tsand for better church and school
buildings.
The recently appointed county
historians and vital statistics reg
istrars have been invited to meet
in Atlanta for a round table dis
cussion of their work. Just im
agine Judge Allen and Judge
Duncan ot Atkinson county
spending $25 each going to Atlan
ta to listen, if possible, to the ex
plosion of a lot of hot air?
Judge Pearson said, in a recent
charge to the grand jury of Butts
other sign's indicate that a rain is
comingjmmediately. In this sea
son of the,year it is never safe to
depend on rain until after it has
fallen. In watering the plants
care should be used not to pour it
on the leaves, because if this is
done hot sun and wind will cause
them to blister.
If as much care and pains are
used in transplanting the first
plants to the field, as is usually
exercised by those who have done
the first transplanting carelessly
and are having to replant for the
second or third time, there will
seldom be any occasion for re
planting.
It should always be kept in
mind that one acre of well set
tobacco will be more valuable
than two or three acres that are
poorly set, and that the easiest
time to get a good uniform stand
is when the first transplanting is
i being done.
WILLACOOCHEE, ATKINSON COUNTY GEORGIA MARCH 14, 1930
Wiilaeoochee’! Financial
Condition Is Improving
Taxpayers of Wiilaeoochee
be very much interested in
ing that considerable progress Ifw
recently been made by the tovkt
in the payment of its bonded in
debtedness.
Interest has been paid on sev
eral outstanding debts, and oie
bond, of one thousand dollars herd
by the Supreme Lodge, Knights
of Pythias, Indianapolis, Ind., has
just been taken up at a cost to the
town of $1,011.67.
The National City Rank of Nejv
York has been paid SIOO.OO fcjr
two coupons against the town and
arrangements are practically com
pleted to pay $280.00 interest on
the balance owed that financial
institution.
Two hundred and eighty dollars
has been paid to the First Nat
tional Bank of Ypsilanti, Mich., V
county, that ‘‘there are no shor
cuts to properity. Prosperity i
the fruit of hard work, economy
thrift and character. Withoui!
these virtues there is no abiding
prosperity;” He spoke the truth;
legislative prosperity is a fake.
The political dope now on tap is
that Jack Slaton wiil oppose Bill
Harris for the United States'
Senate and that Tom Hardwick is
to turn over his following to
Slaton. Maybe so and maybe not,
but the dope is not consistent with
ths modern politics) game, t Hi;—
tory records show that Tom beat
Jack and Bill beat Tom and the
above dope is not in the direction
of evening up the score.
The effort to get a time history
of Georgia written—having each
county written separately—is
bringing to light statements as
history that is really not history.
For example, the statement is
made that Maj. P. C. Pendleton
owned and donated to the railroad
the land on which is located Te
beauvil'e, “Old Nine,” now a sub
urb of Waycross. The fact is the
land was owned and donated by
Maj. Pendleton’s brother-in-law,
Elder Lewis C. Tebeau. a Baptist
Setter Cull Off the By Albert T. Reid
[interest, and the town expects to
be in position shortly to pay inter
est totaling $210.00 to the Conti
nental Bank and Trust Company
of Chicago.
The town, according to Mayor
L. A. Dayis, hopes to be able to re
tire a one thousand dollar bond
held by the Continental Bank and
Trust Company this coming June,
and has promised to take up stil
another one thousand dollar bond,
held by the National City Bank,
next December,
What with the hard times anc
everything, the people of W ilia
coochee cannot help but congrat
ulate Mayor Davis and other city
authorities on the progress they
are making in cutting d wn the
town’s debt. At the present rat
it won’t be long until the town
of Wiilaeoochee will be in a
splendid financial condition.
*)r. B. O. Quillian
Locates in Douglas
Dr. B. O. Quillian, practicing
physician, who left Wiilaeoochee
several weeks ago for Mcßae, has
returned to Douglas and opened
; offices in Dent's Pharmacy,
j Mrs. Quillian and children are
j expected to fern am here until the
closing of school this summer.
Tatter Day Saints
* To Meet at Ax son
rt’ >
The South Georgia District of
the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints will hold a con
ference at Axson, Saturday and
Sunday, March 15 and 16. Three
services will be held each day, be
ginning at 10 AM, continuing at
2 PM, and again at 7 PM.
Elder Chas. A. Callis, president
of the Southern States Mission
; will be the principal speaker, and
a spiritual feast is assured all who
attend.
minister, and hence the name—
“Tebeauville.” Elder Tebeau was
la brother of Mrs. Pendleton, a
! pioneer preacher in that section
i prior to the Civil War.
Another Merchant
joins Campaign
The Times’ Trade at Home
Campaign is off for a good start.
Upon counting, the votes which
had been deposited in the contain
ers in the several stores participa
ting in the campaign, Thursday
afternoon, it was revealed that
something more than 1400 votes
had been cast for numerous per
sons up to that. time.
It is understood that many cus
tomers are witholding their votes
until a later date, so the Times
has no way of knowing just how
many votes are out to eventually
be turned in. The campaign is
to run until April 26, and there
is no way of telling who may
finally win the radio.
At the present time, Opal
Corbitt leads; Edna Gibbs comes
second, Hubert Corbitt is third,
and Montez Wall, fourth. But
urn over to the page advertise
ment, read the ads. of the mer
chants in the campaign, and con
sult the list of contestants pub
lished therein.
As evidence of the growing
interest in the Times’ Trade al
Home Campaign, readers will
notice that A Corbitt has come
in this week. Read his adver
tisement in the page ad.
Quarterly Conference
At Beulah Church
The second Quarterly Confer
ence of the Wiilaeoochee Charge
of the Methodist church will be
held at Beulah church next Tues
day. March IS.
There will be preaching at 11:30
by Rev. J. R. Webb, presiding
elder of the Waycross district
Dinner will be served at the
church and the conference will be
held immediately after dinner.
All officers are expected to be
present, and the public is invited.l
Mr. Joe Gootee of Clarksville,
Tenn., arrived in Wiilaeoochee a
few days ago, Mr. Gootee is
to be associated with Messrs.
Gaskins and Ladson in the grow
ing of this year’s tobacco crop.
A
COMMUNITY
NEWSPAPER
NUMBER 42
The Illiteracy Cam
paign In Georgia
There is now on a most determ
ined campaign against illiteracy
in Georgia. This campaign is not
confined to any one section of the
state, but extends from Tennes
see to Florida. There is not a
county in the state but that is
alive to the importance of lifting
this ban of ignorance from its
citizens, both black and white, for
the illiterate and ignorant citizen
is always at best a negative citi
zen.
Under our ultra democrat ie
form of government the g; .stiy
illiterate voter has the same . irbts
of suffrage as the most intelligent
and moral citizen. Now the illiter
ate voter is always potentially a
corrupt voter, as was evidenced
several years ago when the illiter
ate voters in one of the conn -it s
in a mid-western stale public y
acknowledged the sale of .
ballots. Over 90 percent of toe
VGters openly told of the prost; ac
tion of their franchise. Practically
every citizen who sold his vote
knew not how to read. Numb- s
of them acknowledged that they
did not know the jifference 1 >
tween a local magistrate and he
president of the Union. Like A : i
of old, “They were naked and net
ashamed,”
Our very form of government
depends on the education and in
telligence as well as the morality
and patriotism of its electorate.
Ignorance is usually sordid, sc-Lh
and vicious. Our lawmakers in
both state and national legislative
bodies are called “representa
tives,” and in deed and in truth
they do represent the intelligence
and morals of the citizens who
elect them. No vicious and illiter -
ate electorate will elect an intelli
gent and highly moral man for
any public office. And, or he
otherhand.no highly moral ml
well educated citizenry will be
represented by the illiterate boor.
But now to come to the point
on this subject off illiteracy. On
the score of illiteracy, Georgia
ranks forty-third state in the Un
ion in the percent of illiterates— .
that is, there are only five other
states that have a higher percent
age of illiterates than Georgia.
In round numbers there are
280,000 persons in Georgia over
10 years of age who can not read
or write. Over 90 percent cf this
280,000 are over 18 years of age.
Of this vast number there are in
round numbers 75,000 whites or
about 26 percent of the total num
ber who are white illiterates.
In the records of the counties,
Lincoln, one of the old aristocratic
counties of middle Georgia, stands
at the head both in absolute num
bers as well as in percentage of
white literates. There are only
58 whites, or 1.8 percent of the
total white population of this
county, who are illiterates. At
kinson has 274, or 7.7 percent of
whites over 10 years of age who
are classed as illiterates, and 476
or 26 percent of its colored people
who are illiterates. In the 155
counties in Georgia, Atkinson
ranks sixty-ninth in the total num
ber of illiterates.
In their great desire to stamp
out illiteracy in the state, the
teachers have volunteered their
services free of charge for three
afternoons or evenings, as may
be the most convenient, to all
adults over 15 years of age who
may desire an elementary knowl
edge of reading, writing and
arithmetic.
Now along with other schools
in the state, the superintendent
and other teachers of the Wdla-
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