Evening star., 1944-04-30
Presidents of Clubs Announced
Sontbe,W Women Elected
To Head Prominent GrOubs
BY Gretchen Smith,
Women's Club Editor


The South may we'll be proud ol
its representation by the women wht
will serve during the coming veal
as presidents of three outstanding
organizations, the OAR, the Wom-
ems National Democratic Club anc
the Washington Zonta Club.
While these groups center theil
activities in three distinct channels
patriotic, political. and business ano
professional, their new leaders have
these points in common-all were
born and reared in the South, all
are personally attractive and good
looking, and the three are grand
mothers, proud of the fact.
Although Chattanooga, Tenn, is
the birthplace and girlhood home OF
Mrs. Julius Talmadge, newly elected
president general of the National
Society Daughters of the American
Revolution, Georgia has claimed her
ever since she married Julius Tai
madage shortly after she met him
at a student dance at the University
in Athens.
Tall, handsome with waving gray
hair coiffed in the latest mode. Mrs
Talmadage typifies the gracious,
cordial and we'll poised woman of
the cultured South.
Like most Southern women also,
she has had extensive experience in
home management and this training
should well qualify her for leader
ship in an organization such as the
OAR whose basic concern is protec-
ton of the American home.
Mrs. Talmadge has known much
success in her life up to and includ-
ing the recent OAR election, in
which she won the presidency by
one vote. But none of her successes
can compare with that which
crowned her unplanned entrance
into a business which sprang, liter
ally, from two small pecan trees
planted as a hobby by her husband
shortly before they were married.
Mrs. Talmadge delights in telling
how. as bride, her husband pointed
out the two small trees which he had
named May and Julius" after the
two of them, and how the trees grew
and fiourished, annually producing
a large crop of nuts. The yearly
harvests became so large, Mrs. Tai
madge relates, that she determined
to do something to prevent the
waste resulting from overproduction
She had the nuts Shelled, salted and
toasted and carried them in small
cellophane bags to shops patronized
by college students in Athens.
Before I knew it," she explained,
"the shops were calling and asking
for more pecans, and I soon found
the pleasant pastime Of shelling nuts
before the fire in the evenings had
developed into business"
Mrs. Talmadge's successful ven-
ture led to her husbands purchase
of three pecan groves, which today
are among the most f1ourishing in
the State. She personally Supervises
the harvesting and shelling of the
pecans, which increase each year
In good years, she sometimes ships
as many as tons of salted nuts to
markets in Washington, Philadel-
phia and New York.
Since her husbands death three
years ago, Mrs. Talmadge has man.
aged many acres of cotton, in addi-
ton to the pecan business, as well as
a plantation which annually yields
sufficient vegetables, fruits and
meats to feed her household of IS
persons.
Mrs. Talmadge's only son is ma
jor in the Army Medical Corps, hav-
ing entered the service shortly
after the outbreak of war. She
has one small granddaughter of
whom she is particularly proud and
whose picture is carried wherever
she goes. The new OAR President
General expects to make her head
quarters in Washington, where she
has spent much of her time since
her widowhood at the Mayfower
Hotel.
Although Mrs. William Clayton
has not yet been elected to the
presidency of the Women's National
Democratic Club, she is the unop-
posed candidate for that Office and
1t is an almost assured fact that she