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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- Continued on Back Page