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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Post Office
As Second-Class Mail Matter
ALONG THE
The motto of the New York Sun is,
“When You See It In The Sun It’s So.”
The Hartwell Sun, Hartwell, Ga., is well
worthy this motto and when its editor,
I/ouie Morris, says a thing works, it
works. Recently a letter has been receiv
ed from editor Morris saying:
“I know you will be interested, alsb
gratified, to learn that Dr. Harmon W.
Caldwell, President of the University of
Georgia, has accepted the chairmanship
of the United Fund of Georgia for
1945. He succeeds Mr. E. B. Emrey, well
known Atlanta business executive, who
has served in this capacity since the or
ganization came into existence.
“It is not generally known, but more
soldiers and Wac’s have been trained in
the State of Georgia during World War
H than in any other state in the Union.
There are at present 65 USO units in op
eration in our Georgia cities and camps,
and the National War Fund is doing a
great job in Georgia for not only those
thousands who are now training for duty,
but for the growing number who are re
turning to our state following foreign
service. Its program is enlarging daily,
and will continue even for a long time
after hostilities have ceased both in Eu
rope and the Pacific.”
Whatever Dr. Caldwell undertakes, he
does well. No more capable and worthy
men could have been ghosen for this im
portant task in Georgia than Louie Mor
ris and Dr. Caldwell, both of whom are
very busy men, but no service is more im
portant here at the home front at this
time than to work for the welfare- and
morale of our men and women in the
armed service. It will give us pleasure to
cooperate in every possible way with the
above named leaders.
v- * * *
Harry Bell Bailey of Augusta was in
Jefferson a brief period Thursday, visit
ing his mother, Mrs. G. W. Bailey. Harry
is a sure enough Jefferson product, as he
was born and reared in Jefferson and re
ceived his early education in Martin In
stitute. For several years he has made
his home in Augusta, is a devoted and
loyal friend to Speaker Roy Harris and
accompanied him to Athens on the above
named date where the speaker addressed
the Lions Club. It is generally accepted
that Speaker Harris will earnestly seek
die Governorship of Georgia in the next
gubernatorial election. He has been a
member of either the House or Senate for
some 20 years and has been Speaker of
the House eight years. The loyal friend
ship and active support of Harry Bailey
will be an asset for him in the contest for
governor.
♦
Captain Emmett Niblack made a visit
last week to his father, V. A. Niblack.
Captain Niblack was active in the mili
tary service of our country in World War
I, and for several years after, but on ac
count of an accident, retired from the
service in 1938. His home is now in High
lands, N. C. Captain Niblack while here
sought information concerning his early
ancestors who settled in Jackson County.
He learned they came here when this
country was a wilderness and inhabited
only by Indians and a few white people.
These pioneer ancestors helped to clear
the forests, build homes, schoolhouses,
churches and fought for their country
when summoned to arms. Emmett is a
desoe idant of the celebrated three Camp
sisters, one of whom was the mother of
17, one 19 and the other 21 children. The
influence of these sisters’ progeny per
meates all parts of Jackson Conuty
and at one time it was almost supreme in
Jack on County political realm. It has al
ways been considered an honor to be a
member of the family of either one of
the Camp sisters.
* # * #
Three Jefferson boys of the armed
forces of our country, Captain Doss T.
Wilhite, Hillyer Johnson and Sergeant
1 hwi" a are enjoying a
leavo 0 f absence from service. Wilhite
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Official Organ of Jackson County
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
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and Johnson are just from overseas and
McElhannon came from Memphis, Tenn.
All have been making brilliant records
in the service and well deserve the privi
lege to visit their homes. Thus far they
have escaped injuries or wounds. It is al
ways so gratifying to a soldier’s family
and friends when he has suffered no
casualty, but when one has been wound
ed it creates within the hearts of loved
ones emotions of regret, because of in
juries, but joy and happiness because he
escaped death. Those in the service from
Jackson County are meeting their re
sponsibilities and performing their duties
just as patriotic men and women are ex
pected to do in these sanguinary times.
* * * *
At the last meeting of the Jefferson
Chamber of Commerce Morris Bryan
well expressed the railroad situation here
in these words, “When I came here 29
years ago there was talk of discontinuing
operation of the Gainesville Midland, but
it still carries on every day. Whether
freight is received here through Athens
or Winder is a matter for the manage
ment to determine. The road should be
operated ;n such a way that the property
will receive all possible revenue and at
the same time give to the public the best
service it can render. What we people are
concerned about is that good service be
given in bringing freight into Jefferson
and carrying freight out of Jefferson to
points of destination. Also, we should
give to the railroad our cooperation and
help.” The' writjer gladly endorses the
sentiment expressed by Mr. Bryan when
he asked the local people to cooperate
with the railroad and keep it running.
* * v- *
According to a statement issued by
State Auditor, B. E. Thrasher, to March
31, the finances of Georgia are in a
healthy condition. The statement shows
that cash on hand and reembursements
due from the U. S. Treasuiy amount to
$40,736,417.65, while the total accounts
payable and reserve are $40,067,407.99,
leaving a surplus of $669,009.64. The
auditor adds this note to the statement:
“Since March 31, the ending date of
this financial statement, the quarterly
budgets have been approved for the last
quarter of this fiscal year which ends
June 30, 1945.
“The total amount of the budget ap
provals for the year is $60,260,483.10.
“If an anticipated reduction in income
tax fails to materialize, and the state col
lects the same money as last year, $61,-
772,210.04, then the budget approvals
will be one and one-half million dollars
less than the income. If the reduction in
income tax does materialize, and the in
come of the state drops to about the aver
age of 1942 and 1943, $58,400,000.00,
then the budgets approved for this fiscal
year will be $1,800,000.00 in excess of the
income, which will require the use of part
of the reserve fund which is held for
debt payments. Time will give us the an
swer to this problem.”
# X *
Since being pastor of The First Meth
odist Church in Jefferson, Rev. F. E.
Crutcher has shown himself to be some
what of a human dynamo. He has been
to the home of each family of the church
who lives in this area, has visited sick
people whoever they may be, conducted
funerals, preached sermons in his church
and elsewhere, raised benevolences, was
active in Crusade for Christ, but for four
months his prayer meetings have been
conducted by members of his church and
others. These Wednesday evening gath
erings have been very interesting and
have been well attended. This manner of
conducting the mid-week services has
been somewhat an experiment with the
pastor, but it has been a success.
*
At the cattle show in Atlanta last week
Jackson County came away with second
prize, that of Reserve Champion steer
owned bv Cecil Martin. For several Years
Jackson County and Martin Institute
have brought first or second prizes away
from the catle shows in Atlanta, Macon
and Augusta. J. L. McMullan attends all
these cattle shows with the boys who car
ry their cattle. He advises, encourages and
inspires the young F. F. A. of America to
raise the best cattle that can be produced,
give them the best feed that has been
grown and the best care that it is human
ly possible to render.
In addition to his work with young
cattle faisers. He teaches not only his
students, but farmers to do their repair
and shop work in the shops on the
campus of Martin Institute. In teaching
this work sometimes he renders a needed
service to someone. A minister in render
ing services to his membership went
through a muddy road, his car bogged,
a piece of wood in the muddy road almost
wrecked the car. Professor McMullan re
paired that car with the aid of students
in the shops, and the pastor’s car was
returned to him in good running condi
tion with little expense to him. It was a
needed service and one gratefully receiv
ed. No one in this county gives more un
selfish service than J. L. McMullan.
* * * *
How well a man lives is a matter that
depends largely upon his income and
how he divides it. If he earns S4O a week
($2,000 a year) and spends every bit of it
on himself, he can live about as well as
MILLION POUNDS OF POULTRY BEING
PROCESSED WEEKLY FOR ARMED FORCES
More than one million pounds of
poultry continues to go to the arm
ed services each week from the sev
en-county area in North Georgia af
fected by War Food Order 119, L. T.
Wells, in charge of the southern
field office of the Dairy and Poul
try Branch of WFA, said this week
in Atlanta. Wells said this volume
represents more than two hundred
truck loads of live chickens, enough
to feed 650,000 men a fried chicken
dinner.
The entire purpose of the poultry
freeze order, affecting the seven
counties in North Georgia, Wells
said, is to procure poultry for the
armed services, including Army,
Navy, Coast Guard, and all other
services active in the war. He em
phasized the fact that the men and
women in uniform are getting this
$560,000 LEFT
POLIO FOUNDATION
BY FDR POLICY
The Georgia Warm Springs Foun
dation is the beneficiary of a life
insurance policy for $560,000, taken
out several years ago by the late
President Roosevelt, the Eastern
Underwriter, an insurance paper
published in New York, has an
nounced.
In their article, the magazine said
Keith Morgan, a foundation vice
president, and close friend of the
late President, conceived the idea
for the policy and arranged that
the premiums be paid by a group
interested in War Springs.
Morgan, associated with an agen
cy of Equitable Life Assurance
Company, placed the policy with 12
companies when Roosevelt was gov
ernor of New York.
LAYMEN IN WINDER
WILL HOLD REVIVAL
-.BwD— erent ETH ETH ETH ET
Beginning on April 22 and run
ning through April 29, there will be
a series of services at the Winder
church wholly in the hands of the
Laity. The morning service of April
22 featured a message by Dr. Hubert
Quillian, lay leader of the North
Georgia Conference; Mrs. Arthur
Moore will be the guest speaker at
the closing morning hour, April 29.
Each evening an outstanding
churchman from a neighboring town
town will be the speaker. The Club
' Choir made up of some 20 men will
furnish the music for these serv
ices. The theme for the week as
stated is, "Opportunities and Re
sponsibilities of the Christian Lay
man.”
The Federal Housing Administra
tion (FHA) is one useful govern
ment agency that costs the taxpay
ers nothing. Since June, 1940, six
years after its organization, FHA
has been paying al loperating ex
penses of its mortgage insurance
program out of income and has ac
cumulated a reserve fund of more
than $80,000,000. In its 10 years of
operation, FHA has granted mort
gage insurance on six billion dol
lars' irt lors-is for home huildinp orjd
repairs.
anybody until some unforseen calamity
hits him. If he has a wife and child and
an aged parent to support, each individu
al must subsist on about $lO a week.
How well the people of any nation live
is a similar matter. It depends upon the
national income and how it is divided.
Just like family income, national income
changes from year to year and it is not
always divided the same way. National
income is the grand total of what every
body in the nation earns. It includes all
wages, salaries, farm yields, interest,
rents, profits and dividends.
¥ * * *
The United States Department of Com
merce keeps track of our national income
figures pretty well, year by year. Already
it is known that the income of all Ameri
cans totaled 160.8 billion dollars in 1944
and that workers got 72 per cent of it, or
116 billion dollars.
Last year the national income dollar
went like this: 72 cents to American
workers, six cents to corporations, eight
cents to small businesses in the form of
profit, seven cents to farmers as return on
what they produced, and another seven
cents to landowners and stockholders in
form of rents and dividends, and to mon
ey lenders in the form of interest. Of
course all years aren’t alike but they vary
less than you might think.
poultry and it is bringing a meas
ure of pleasure and contentment
to them which, he stated, should
be gratifying to every poultry pro
ducer, dealer, and processor, as well
as each person who helps in the
preparation of the poultry for the
armed services.
Wells said the supply of poultry
during the last few weeks has been
just about equal to the capacity of
the plants authorized to handle it
and very* little has been released
to the civilian trade. In fact, the
only releases of poultry granted,
have covered either sick or injured
chickens.
Only when authorized plants do
not have capacity to pack poultry
for the* armed forces is a release
granted for the disposal of chickens
which have reached marketable
condition in other channels, he said.
DR. J. CRUDUP ACCEPTS
BRENAU PRESIDENCY
GAINESVILLE, Ga.—Dr. Josiah
Crudup, head of the physics depart
ment of Mercer University, Macon,
who was elected president of Bre
nau College Friday at a meeting of
the board of trustees, has wired his
acceptance, it is announced by
Judge A. C. Wheeler, president of
the board. He was elected to begin
his duties here on June 1, or as
soon thereafter as he can be re
leased at Mercer.
Dr. Crudup, who has been at
Mercer 20 years, is also professor
of navigation for the Navy there,
is secretary of the faculty and ex
ecutive secretary of the Mercer
Alumnae Association.
Since the death of the late Dr.
H. J. Pearce in May, 1943, Brenau
has been under direction of an op
erating committee composed of Mrs.
H. J. Pearce, Miss Eva Pearce and
Miss Ella Winfield, with Judge
Wheeler as an ex-officio member.
Chartered in 1878 as a nonsec
tarian, privately endowed institu
tion for the education of women,
Brenau was first known as the
Georgia Female Seminary, and Dr.
A. J. Wilkes was its first presi
dent.
NEW PRESIDENT
IS DEPENDABLE,
SAYS DIPLOMAT
President Harry S. Truman should
“measure up fully to the tasks
which confront us today,” for he is
a “solid, dependable sort of Ameri
can, with both feet squarely on the
ground,” Hugh G. Grant, former
United States Minister to Albania
and Thialand, said Thursday night
in a talk before the Georgia As
sociation of Credit Men.
“His administration will not be a
personal government,” Mr. Grant
added, “but rather a government
comprising groups of strong, hut
practical-minded men. This.” he
asserted, “should be highly benefici
al in the difficult period of the liqui
dation of the war and the making
of the peace with all of the com
nipvHjps involved both at home and
abroad.”
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1945
$375,000 ASKED FOR
NEEDS AT GRACEWOOD
The special State Committee on
Institutions Saturday reported that
facilities at the Gracewood Train
ing School for Mental Defectives
“are inadequate” and recommended
that Georgia allocate $375,000 in its
postwar building plans for needed
improvements and the expansion
of the institution’s facilities.
The committee also urged the con
struction of a separate unit for Ne
gro mental defectives near Grace
wcod. It was pointed out that now
there is no place in the state to care
for this type of patient.
“There are at present 150 on the
waiting list (for Gracewood) and
this list would be larger except for
the fact that the county welfare de
partments have failed to make ap
plication for any except the most
desperate cases because they real
ize the impossibility of accepting all
children that should be sent to
Gracewood,” the report stated.
“It seems clear to us that the
state must make plans to care for at
least 800 or 1,000 children who have
sufficient mentality to receive train
ing. In addition, there will be prob
ably 300 to 400 purely custodial
cases in which training is impossi
ble.
TEACHERS TO AGAIN
GET EXTRA PAY
Georgia school teachers will re
ceive an extra two months’ pay
again next year, Governor Arnall
has anounced.
Shortly after he sent checks to
teachers for the two additional
months this year, the Governor in
formed public school officials that
the “state will be in position to
guarantee the funds for the two
extra months’ teachers’ salaries for
the next school year, July 1, 1945-
June 30, 1946.”
“Or rather,” he aded, “$21,348,000
wil be available to the state board
of education for the state’s part of
the cost of public school education,
to be administered by the board to
the best advantage to provide the
necessary education to the children
of this state.”
MAYSVILLE SOLDIER
PRISONER OF WAR
Pvt. Julius Baugh, missing in ac
tion since December 17, is a pris
oner of the Germans, he has writ
ten his wife, Mrs. Mozelle Baugh,
of Maysville from Stalag XII-A. The
son of Mrs. A. W. Baugh, he has a
nine-month-old daughter, Linda.
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