Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-30
CA1L OF THE SOUTH BRINGS
UNCLE GEO. SHERAM BACK
FROM CALIFORNIA HIKE
5jghty-FiVe-Year Old Con-
federate Veteran Returns
From Hollywood, Giving Up
Movie Ambition

some people lnlSnl nave cameo II
nostalgia, but Uncle George Sheram,
beloved S5-year-old Confederate vet
eran, of CoSginsville, Ga. called it
''home Sickness and when the hom-
ms urge struck him while in Holly
wood, Cal, during the longest trip
of his colorful career awaiting a
call to set in the movies, he hit the
high road for Georgia and home.
Uncle George got back about a
week ago ana visited his friends at
Tie Journal Saturday to let them
know that he had returned from
trip which came near resulting in
abandonment of his native state for
d career in cinema.
BY joe" said Uncle George, Il
sure would have liked to be in the
movies, and was waiting for Il cali
when [ got homesick. There just
wasn't nothing else to do, so start
ell back to Georgia. The Fox 0eO.
rle offered me a job to go to South
America. but [ reckon that's too fan
from taW. [ was going to stay in
California and. play in the pictures,
hut | guess Ia rather be here"
Long Hike West
Uncle George started from Mem
phis in June, after the Confederate
reunion, and hiked most of the way
to the Pacific coast. His original
idea was 10 sell newspapers in Los
Angeles, but he ran up against 4
syndicate Of news dealers who ire
vented him from getting estab-
lished.
lie did very little walking on the
return trip, he said, being picked ny
by motorists frequently One man
he said, gave him lift of 1,500
miles, doing the distance in six days
I'd rather been walking though
was the tag the veteran put to the
account.
Uncle George. who will celebrate
his S5th birthday October II, Is
known throughout the south as one
of the unSWerVinG sons who fought
through the War Between the
States, and when they began having
Confederate reunions, distinguished
himself by hiking to and from them
until last year, when he rode a
train.
En- route to the west, Uncle
George says he was treated with ut
most courtesy and hospitality, max
ing friends in every place he
stopped
Pleased by California
California struck his fancy, and
it probably may be partia' y eX-
planned by his own statement.
by Joe" he says, you neVel
saw such pretty wimmin in your life
as you'll! run across out there III
Georgia, he says, is quite good
enough for him, and it doesn't mat
ter if living is cheaper on the coast,
the, red old hills and all that goes
with them is what he's used to and
what he loves best.
At eighty-fve, after completing
the transcontinental journey alone,
he appears fit, his kindly blue eyes
sparkling with a light which makes
u recital of his age appear anOma-
lous. There is a surety to his tread
which would do credit to a much
younger man, and his sense of the
humorous and his mental processes
are still alert.
Uncle George wears his hair long,
letting it fall in silver strands about
h. shoulders, and he sticks to the
beard he has been wearing for many
years. 1t thus is natural to agree
with his antipathy for bobbed hair,
which, he SAYS, makes women look
too mannish.'
Il reckon this country's pretty
much the same all over" he says,
END in my travels 1 find good folks
and bad everywhere.
Tell everybody I'm mighty glad
to be back, movies or no movies"