The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-12-12
EDUCATIONAL FILMS
ON CLEARING LANDS
Phone Official and Powder Company
Get Some Good Pictures OF
Interest To Farmers

President j. Epps Brown, of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele-
graph Co., cooperating with the Du-
Pont Powder Company, the Union
Stockyards, of Montgomery, the In,
ternational Harvester Co. and the S.
A. Lynch Enterprises, me, in order
that the business men and farme
throughout the South might see what
great good results would accure to
individuals and communities alike
through the medium of employing all
the agencies modern science has pro-
vlded for both farming, marketing
and properly preparing all products
Tor distribution and sale, has had
made two great educational moving
pictures, Putting The Idle Acres To
Work" and Views of Montgomery's
Mammoth Union Stock YARDS
These pictures teach lesson which
will be, it is thought, the means of
causing many communities to build
grain elevators similar to those at
Eufaula and Decatur, Ala, and
throug.l South Georgia, stockyards
OF as modern type as the one at Mont
gomery, as we'll as to employ the eco
nomic means science has provided for
retaining swamp and cut over lands
Wrought the use of dynamite to dig
bitches and drain the land, as well
as remove the stumps after which
modern farm machinery may be
used.
President Brown, when the idea of
using moving pictures to show the
pubic the idea, the U. S. Govern
ment, the executives of the Tele-
phone System, the Railroad Com
panies, the greatest powder makers
and machinery manufacturers in the
World-the DuPonts, of Wilmington.
Del, and the International Harvest
er 20. OF America, the U. S. and State
Boards of Health, as we'll as the for
ward looking Governors, Judges of
Enc supreme Court, prominent Nav
ors OF Southern cities, Chambers of
commerce and fnanciers of nation
wide repute had of the program of
reconstruction for the South. invited
and secured the cooperation of these
lndlvuals and corporations and he
went further, realizing the tremen-
dous amount of good the women of
the nation had done during the war.
and invited leaders among them and
their organizations as whole to par
tlclpate in the work.
Putting The Idle Acres To Work"
is largely devoted to showing how
land, stump encountered and swami
covered, may be reclaimed. A field
from whcih great pine trees have
oeen recently cut leaving stumps
weighing from to tons each. is
pictured. The impossibilty of farm
ing on it in such way as to get the
maximum result is apparent. The
next picture shows the introduction
OF the charges of dynamite under
tnese mammoth stumps and in rand
secession is shown prominent bank
ers, Supreme Court Justices. women
known all over the country in club
and organized women's circles speak
ing, or as one orator said delivering
Ihe funeral Grafton of the stumns
and malarial carrying mosquitoes that
breed in them" Then Judge Price
Gilbert, of the Georgia Supreme
Court is seen at the electric explod-
ing machine and in the space of time
measured by the bat of an eve the
huge StumpS are seen rising hiob in
the air, torn by the roots literally
Tree from the ground. Before the
FUMES OF gaseous vapors and smoke
have left the gaping wounds in the
earth tractors and harrows are sent
IN to action and right before the ewes
of the audience this heretofore i'm
possible land is seen being plowed
ana narrowed until it resembled q
Held OF land in cultivation for half
century, as smooth and clear of
obstruction as the surface of foor
FleWs OF bitches dug by dyr.lni52
are then shown.