Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
l|ARDMAN'S CAREER
EXAMPLE OF THRIFT
Governor-EIect of Georgia,
Once Country Doctor, Now
Millionaire PhiIanthropist.
Nv Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
ATLANTA. Ga, June 4.-Dr. l.. G
Hardman. who will be inaugurated
Governor of Georgia on June %, start
ed life as country doctor and al
the beginning of his practice rode a
mule in visiting his patients and
mixed his own medicines from drugs
that he carried in his saddle bags.
Today DR.. Hardman is a million
Aire, and has two hobbies-reclaimin
churches that have gone on the
financial rocks and building up run
down farms. He has helped five
churches get out of debt when they
seemed bankrupt and has made thriv-
Ing farms out of land from which
I'll the life apparently had been Slapped.
Served Own Farm Products.
When DR.. Hardnan entertained
Visitors recently at his home in Com
merce. Ca. everything that he served
on his table. even to the rice. was
grown on one or another of the sixty
Farms that he owns in various parts
of Georgia, and his smokehouse was
found to contain home cured hams,
potatoes. apples. rice, sorghum, cane,
firup, peas and every imaginable
product from the farm. Blessing was
and is pronounced at every meal
eerved in the Hartman home. In ad-
dtion to that the day always is started
BY reading chapter of the Bible.
Or. Hardman believes his success
in life is due to the goodness of
Providence and that the guiding prin-
biple for both the individual and
state must be the right.
II committed myself to God when
] was a boy of 49, he said, land
have found that reverence for God
Ind for the church must always
come first"
Heads Business Enterprises.
Georgia's next governor is 20 years
Old but he doesn't look SO. Today
be Is the active president of a bank,
nf a cotton mill, chairman of the
Board of Education in the community,
and owner of sixty farms, all of
which pay. Neither boil weevil, nor
Dad weather, nor overproduction of
Eotton has kept his farms flom pros
pering. Under all conditions he has
made farming pay by his sound COM
mon sense and business management.
He intends to apply the same
methods to the problems that con-
front his as governor. In order to
prepare himself for his new job, he
recently made a tour of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama and Florida to study the
byatems of government in each
btRte.
DIR. Hardman is a teetotaller, abb
khining even from tobacco and
Goffee, and as chairman of the Board
Bf Education in his community he
permits no teacher to smoke.
At zone of his big peach orchards
near Commerce is shipping station,
The doors of which are never locked.
IF people meant to steal they
HAuld break in anyway" he said, Il
tel them. if there is anything they
want come to me and I'll help them
get it.s
Has Wonderful Prize Cow.
DIR. Hardman married 20 years
ago. He has four children, the old
ct Is and the youngest z. When
DR.. Hartman and his family move
TO the Governors Mansion in Atlanta,
1hey will bring with them a prize
cow that furnishes such milk and
negro servants. Della. the cook, and
&bm, the gardener, who have been
O. the family for is years.
DIR. Hardman started practicing
medicine when he was 20 years old.
DIR six years he rode mule in visit
,1nN his patients. Then he bought a
hd'se, finally buggy, and later be-
GaA to acquire the farms which have
helped to make him rich.
In every community near Com
merce he has namesakes, persons
whom he brought into the world
when he was country doctor.