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THE JACKSON HERALD Published Weekly $1 .50 A Year—ln Advance Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice as Second-Clas3 Mail Matter Official Organ of Jackson County JOHN N. HOLDER .Editor W. H WILLIAMSON But. M'g’r. Jefferson, Ga., August 5, 1926 Two y orris? kdies and two young men were killed Sunday, when their unto sped into the path of a Penn sylvania passenger train after it had waited for a freight on another track to pass. Friend? of Mr. Dan Majfill of the Athens Banner-Herald sympathize with him on account of the passing of his brother, Mr. J. W. Magill, of Hartwell. Funeral services for Mr. Magill were held in Hartwell, Thurs day. Commerce peach growers estimate there will be about 250 cars of peaches shipped from that point this season. For the pest two weeks pick ing, packing and shipping peaches has ■engaged the attention of many inter tested workers. The agricultural community buys more than any other class in the country. About 40 percent of the country’s purchasing power in the farming section. When agriculture prospers there is a good buying de mand all over the country. Five girls were killed and a sixth one had both legs broken on Sunday afternoon, when the car in which they were riding between Gastonia and Bessemer City were struck by a Southern passenger train. One of the young ladies * driving the car. I— --- Editor Shackelford of the Ogle thorpe Echo has been seeing snakes. We suggest that Either Williams of Greensboro, or Shannon of Com merce, go over to Lexington and find out what is the matter with the nestor of the Georgia Press As sociation. . The first br.le of cotton sold in Georgia this year was raised in Web ster, Fla., and sold in Savannah for 99 cents per pound. The bale was then shipped to New York and auc tioned on the cotton exchange bring ing 80 cents per pound, which amount was give to charity. Then it was shipped to Liverpool, where it will be re-auctioned for charity. Expert railroad men say that it takes a fast railroad train an aver age of siven seconds to pass a cross ing. Yet, according to reliable sta tistics, just made public, more than 7,000 automobilists were killed at grads crossings last year over the country. They could not wait seven seconds. There ■+-, only one rule to follow: Let the train go by. What are seven seconds in the life of a motorist? To lose them may.be to save 50 years! Before we get our highways paved, the Savannah Press says the next big problem will be the widening of the hard surfaced roads we now have. “Narrow roads,” says the Press, “were all right in the horse and bug gy days, but, with half the negroes in the State driving second hand autos and half the white folks being in such a helufahurry to get where they are going, it would seem that the only trouble with a 50-yard road would be that it wasn't wide enough." We are surely living in a fast age. WOMEN LOOK ’EM OVER The League cf Women Voters of Athens gave a luncheon recently to which were invited candidates for the various offices in the coming election, with the request that they come prepared to answer certain questions, and state their positions on different problems now confront the voters. The questions were incorporated in the form of a printed questionaire to be filled out and read by the can didates. In additioh to the questionaire each candidate was allowed three minutes in which to address the meet ing, with Judge J. K. Hines, candi date for re-election to the state su preme court, and Eugene Talmadge, candidate for commissioner of agri culture, being allowed five minutes to speak. Fourteen candidates were present, and responded. One local candidate declined the invitation to attend the luncheon, but requested that his an swer to the questions be read. * Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cheatham, af ter spending a few days with the former’s mother, Mrs. J. B. Cheat ham, returned to Toccoa Monday. A Fair Sample of Georgia’s Constructive Policies (From Atlanta Journal) Admirable evidence of Georgia’s roadway improvement in recent years, and also of her public school progress, is to be found in the pic turesque highland counties, where, in the nature of the cause, construction comes hardest and where educational effort meets peculiar barriers. In the record of what has been done of late to link those once solitary reg ions to the life of the commonwealth and of the world every Georgian can take hearty pride and can read therein the pledge of a wondrous future. Roads have been blasted out of mountain cliffs and bridged above gorges and rocky streams, to be sent winding through “valleys of vision” as beautiful as ever human eye be- held. Good schools have been fos tered where once the light of learn ing came in fitful gleams, if at all; and now educational opportunities steadily widening for those mountain children whose lineage is of Ameri ca’s purest Saxon, blood. The simple facts of this develop ment, as set forth elsewhere in The Journal today by our staff corres pondent, Mr. HarJlee Branch, will give the reader new faith in Georgia’s principles and policies as well as in her resources. Any state would be proud of the Appalachian Scenic highway between Gainesville and the North Carolina line—proud of the quality and the economy in its con struction, together with the charm and grandeur of the landscape it traverses. This is but one of namer-i ous highways of importance now com pleted or in process ofbuilding. Among them are those from Gaines ville to Dahlonega, from Atlanta to Dahlonega by way of Roswell, Al pharetta and Cumming; from Can ton to the Tennessee line by way of Jasper and Blue Ridge; from Blue Ridge to Clayton by way of Blairs ville, T, oung Harris and Iliawassee; from Clayton to Franklin, North Carolina; from Cornelia to Clayton by way of Clarkesville, Tallulah FalD and Lakemont; and from Gainesville to Seneca, South Caro lina, by way of Baldwin, Cornelia and Toccoa. Such construction in the face of such natural difficulties appear the more notable in light of the fact that it has been carried through without: one dollar of bonds being issued by I the state. Some of the counties con-! corned have provided their part of the cost through local bond issues, | and all have shown a splendid spirit i of enterprise and co-operation. But 1 the state highway department has de-! pended wholly, aside from federal aid, on the fuel oil tax and motor vehicle license fees; and until re cently did it receive anything like its due share of those two soures of re venue. Seeing what he and his as sociates had been able to do for the state in its entirety, as well as for the mountain counties, with that limi ted income. Chairman John Holder concluded that the future could be well cared for without abandoning Georgia’s historic policy of moderate taxes and freedom from oppressive bond issues. On this firm ground it was that he championed the Cash as opposed to the Credit plan, notwithstanding that the latter would have proved far the easier course for the head of the highway department, by dispensing with the need of scrupulous economy and resourceful business manage . ment. Had Holder thought less of the public weal and more of his own convenience, he would never have challenged the proposed state bond issue of seventy million dollars or more, especially when organized poli tics was making a furious drive for its passage. Before the people had time to investigate and reflect, “Pay As You Go” was not the popular slogan it is today. Comparatively few were acquainted with the full record, and all the influence which propaganda could exert as well as all the pressure which vested politics could bring to bear, was clamorously behind the bond project. Against those powers John Holder dared lift a voice of experience, of reason and of warning. His administration was assailed, his motives impugned, his constructive services were denied or belittled; but the truth stood, and the truth will triumph. Because he was a stalwart defen der of Georgia’s tried principles and good name in that hour when her traditions were being scorned and her character being traduced, he logically became the candidate of the clear thinking rank and file in the present contest for governor. His election will mean, not only a vindication, once for all, of prudence as against ex travagance in government, but abo a pledge that the constructive poli cies for which he has stood will con tinue building e greater Georgia. Comments On Governor’s Race (From Dawson County Advertiser) Knocking Increase* Holder Vote They may knock John Holder, a few arc, but they better be'rure of a good foundation, else their knock ing will have no effect, and we be lieve this fact will be realized by an overwhelming vote on September Bth. (From Winder News) I Why ".Ve Arc Not For Dr. Hardman The editor of The News has 2hvays felt kindly towards Dr. Hardman. We supported him in his two other races for governor. Here is why we are not supporting him now: In hri speech at Gainesville last week, a mong other things, he said, that he favored a bond issue that would take care of the rural roads leading to the rural schools and the churche- and court houses, and an equal’amount | for the erection of centralized scr.ooi buildings in every county in the state and a like amount for use for the improvement of highways. It would take a tremendous bond issue to do what Dr. Hardman pro poses. At first he was silent on the bond issue, later he made the impres sion on our minds that he was oppos ed to bonds, and now he seems to favor bonds to a large extent. The Doctor has made the impression on ?ur minds that he has no clear cut convictions in the matter. The News is opposed to bonds for any purpose whatever. We are im proving our roads and schools in fine style and we cart carry out the im provement program as to schools and roads without issuing any bonds. That’s our and that’s why we are going to vote for John Holder for governor. (From Cleveland Courier) Issue Is Bonds Or No Bonds The governor’s race is based on bonds or no bonds for roads and schools, but everybody won't vote for the Issue; they win vote for the man. The next governor that will hold the reins of Georgia will be John Holder. (From Franklin News and Banner) “No Bondi,” Is Enough 'Said Chairman John N. Holder, of the state highway board, is devoting him self stenucusly to his daily round of duties, and is saying nothing about his race for governor. But he said “NO BONDS.” And there he stands like a stone wall in the interest of Georgia’s suffering tax payers. On that issue thousands of Georgians who know him like Holder knows the state, are conducting his campaign for him while he devotes himself to other duties which the office he is so well filling requries at his hands. (From the Swainsboro Forest-Blade) “We Owe Much To Holder” The state of Georgia is due John N. Holder a debt of undying grati tude and devotion for his efferots in defeating the proposed bond issue at the last session of the legislature. Mr. Holder went into the defeat of this measure with all the energy he possesses, not because it was a per sonal matter, nor because he would be affected any more than the other taxpayers of the state, but because he had studied the matter and sifted it from every angle, and fie knew that it would be a great burden heaped upon the taxpayers of the state. In a very great measure Mr. Holder is responsible and deserves the credit for the defeat of this , measure. . . . Mr. Carswell is stumping the state in the interest of his candidacy for] governor, but he cannot get'around the fact that he is favoring a state bond issue. ■ • • i (From the Moultrie Observer) Fear He Will Make Good While few political agitators are calling on John Holder to resign as chairman of the highway board lie is going about aver the state letting, new contracts for paving, fog bridges and for general road improvement. Holder is running for governor with one hand, and proving to the calami ;ty howlers of the state with the other that we have sufficient income I now to enable us to build roads and : pay ior them a3 we go. Maybe those I who are shouting requests to him to !esign fear that he is going to mike out too good a case for the pay-as ! you-go crowd. y * * * Atlantian Writes of Holder’s Candidacy A citizen of Atlanta, replying to an editorial in the Macon Telegraph, says, among other things: i “If I believed in bonded indebted ness; if I was in favor of mortgaging the future generations, the gener ations unborn; if I favored doing i business and charge it to those to * come after us, I would support Mr. Carswell for governor. But if I wanted to “pay as I go”; prevent the burden of taxation from becoming more onerous; oppose bond issues state wide, in face of the fact that the counties are from time to time putting on local bond issues as big 13 they can carry without additional burdens of state bond issues, I would support the great commoner of Jack son county, The Honorable John N. Holder. •‘The honesty of the candidates are not questioned be me. *So far as ( their personal integrity is concerned Georgfa will be safe in the hands of either, but taking the policies that should champion, I say'without hesi tation that I had rather commit the destiny of Georgia in the hands of the Honorable John* N. Holder than ' any other of the candidates seeking I the governorship of the old Empire Slate. If we want the crown of in dustrial glory upon Georgia’s head, and the record of consciencious in dependence beneath her feet, it is decidedly clear that Holder will be elected the next governor of our State.” OUR NEXT GOVERNOR 182 Way St.. Athens, Ga., Aug. 2, 1926.—Dear Herald: Enclosed find two stanzas of “jingle,” v r nich can be sung to a war song of the 60’s. Any Confederate Veteran can sing it. The first line of the war song is “Jeff Davis is the man to command the boys and plan,” etc. The two stanzas are my composition. Yours truly, S. P. Orr. * * * Our Next Governor John Holder is the man, Who a campaign knows how to plan, And he’s very sure the vict’ry to ba gaining; He is running for a place, With others in the race, But theyTl fail to win the goal he’s claiming. He in office has been tried, His experience is wide, And he’ll guide the Ship of State with safety; The thing for us to do ! Is to put John Holder through, As the chief of Georgia’s rulers.’ SIXTY MILES OF MELONS Of the twenty-eight different ! fruits and vegetables which scored so remarkable a shipping record in the week ended July the seventeenth, watermelons led the list with a total of seven thousand, six hundred cars, or enough to make up a train sixty i miles long. More than seven million melons, it is computed, were shipped in the course of the week. THE BAPTIST W. M. S. The Womans Missionary Society of the Baptist church met in the Baraca room Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock in their monthly meeting. The president, Mrs. Southworth,* led the opening prayer, and presided over the business meeting. The reports of officers and circle leaders were very encouraging. Mrs. A. H. Brock, chairman of the nominating committee, presented the names of the new officers for the ensuing year,- and had them voted I upon, as follows: Mrs. Sara South worth, Pres.; Mrs. Cox, Vice-Pres.; Mrs. J. C. Bennett, Secretary; Mrs. Clifford Storey, Treasurer. After the business session, the president turned over the meeting to the Myra Wilhite Circle, who had charge of program, with Mrs. A. C. Appleby leader. The devotional was conducted by Mrs. A. J. Johnson. Song, Revine Us Again. The subject being Cuba and the Canal Zone, the following program was rendered;/ j The Land of Eternal Summer, by Miss Louise Ellington. The People of Cuba, by Miss Mary ] Appleby. | The Social Life in Cuba and Other Facts About Cuba, by Mrs. A. C. Appleby. The World’s Meeting Place, by Mrs. Marion Richardson. The program was interesting and instructive, as the labors of our mis : sionaries and native workers invited us to share in them through prayer and sympathetic wishes and fellow ship offerings. Those present, were: Mesdames Sara Southworth, A. J. Johnson, A. H. Brock, Fannie Turner, Fred Roberts, Marion Richardson, Clifford Storey, A. C. Appleby, J. E. Tribble, J. L. Bailey, John Catlett, Clarence Wil hite, J. C. Bennett, Misses Kate Roberts, Mary Appleby and Louise ' Ellington. I SCHOOLNOTICE Martin Institute To Open Sept. 6th, Registration of Students to Begin Sept. Ist. Registration of students will begin at Martin Institute at two o’clock Sept. Ist. At this hour all students expecting to enter the Senior Class will report. The course of study, books to buy and requirements to graduate, will be discussed with each pupil. Thursday morning at nine o’clock all students that are contem plating entering the Tenth Grade will report. At one o’clock of this same day, Sept. 2nd, Ninth and Eighth Grade students will report. Friday, Sept. 3rd, all grades from first through the seventh will report to their rooms in the school building and register with the teachers. It has been decided advisable to have these three days of registration to help thsjiupils get properly placed and graded. In most cases, a good portion of the first week of school is used to grade the pupils and for books to be secured. These three days of registration will get every thing in readiness for classes to be gin on Monday, September 6th. The Board of Education has auth-j orized the handling of high school books at the school building. It hoped that all students will arrange to secure books as they register. The County Board of Education has authorized a Jefferson dealer to handle the common school books. There will be an incidental fee of one dollar, to be paid before Christ mas, and one dollar to be paid after Christmas. This is not a tuition, but a fee for incidentals. High school students must pay this fee, or make definite arrangements with Supertendent by Sept. 15th. The outlook, at the preseift time, is very bright for one ©f the best school years in the history of our schooL The Board of Education has made it possible to secure a full corps of degree treaehers for otfr high school, and largely normal trained teachers for the grades. It i3 thought that by the end of the school year the accrediting commis sion will place the school from Class Two into Class One. It is hoped that the dates of reg istration will be kept in mind. If you are not planning to start to school for several weeks after the opening, make plans to come and register, so that you may know the class you will enter. Registration, j after September 6th will be done in ! the afternoons after school. Arrangements have been made with Mrs. A. D. Spealman of Hosch ton to take charge of the dormitory in the capacity of matron. Any pupils in the county desiring to se cure rooms and do light house keep ing, should make arrangements with Mrs. Spealman or the Superintendent as soon as possible. There is room in the building for about thirty pupils. O. C. Aderhold, Supt. Eat Georgia Raised Foods An effort is being made by Frank T. Reynolds, of the Georgia Hotel Mens Association, to influence Geor gia hotels to serve Georgia products to their guests. The Atlanta Con stitution: says “Georgia peaches, Georgia water melons, Georgia yams, Georgia cane syrup, Geprgia butter, and so on, are without a peer, in the produc tion of these food and fruit com modities, anywhere in the world. They ought to be featured every day in the year on Georgia hotel tables, for even those commodities that are perishable, except watermelons, can be easily preserved. It is now possi ble to so “cure” the yam that it may be available as a food every day in the year. Georgia peaches can be carried beyond the fresh fruit season in cans or as preserves. Georgia cane syrup, butter, poultry products, etc., are available every day in the year. Illustrate Adth Georgia eggs. One county in the state supplies many of the Florida hotels at a premium from January 1 to May 15—a 5-cent to 10-cent dozen premium over Flor ida eggs. Why should not Georgia hotels, certainly of the better grade, feature Georgia eggs all the time? It would stimulate egg production, which can be made profitable. There are as good “country-cured” hams raised in Georgia as in Virginia. And yet the markets cannot get Vir ginia hams in sufficient quantities to meet thp demands. Why not feature Georgia country hams on the hotel menus, and let the guests find out how delightful they are? In than a year the demand for Georgia country hams would increase ten fold.” Miss Minnie Head and Mrs. Jim mie Cothran are spending the week in Atlanta. TANNER-GRIER Lumpkin, July I—Exquisite sim plicity and rare beauty marked the wedding ceremony of Mis3 Emelyn Francos Grier, of Lumpkin, and Mr. Ernest Tanner, of Atlanta, which was : solemnized at high noon, in Lumpkin Methodist church, on J*ne3o, Rev. ty’ M. Carmichael officiating. The church was appropriately dec orated in southern srailax, palms and ferns, Vith tall floor baskets holding ; white lilies, and old-fashioned cande labra holding white tapers. Mr. Frank Thompson presided at the piano. Prior to the ceremony Mrs. Watson House sang “Angel Guard Thee” and “The Sweetest Story | Ever Told.” During the ceremony “To a Wild Rose” was softly played. The bridal party entered to the strains of Medelssohn’s Wedding \ March. First came the ushers, Mr. L. P. Grier, brother of the bride, of West Palm Beach, Fla.,-and Mr. Chas. Farrar, of Williamson. Next came the bridesmaids and groomsmen down op posite aisles. Miss Carter wear ing a gown of orchid with picture hat of orchid and pink, and Mr. Horace Bridges of Atlanta. They were fol lowed by Miss Elizabeth Morton in a gown of rose georgette with pic ture hat of rose, and Mr. Ralph Bridg es, of Atlanta. The bridesmaids car ried bouquets of pink roses. Miss Louise Humber, maid of hon or, enterred alone, wearing a gown of a lovely shade of green with picture hat of rose and green, carrying a bou quet of roses showered with lavender sweet peas. The bride entered with her father, Dr. R. L. Grier. She wore a gown of flat crepe in shades of tan and cork, with hat, gloves and slippers to match, and carrying a bouquet of bride's roses showered with swanso nia and sweet peas in pastel shades of pink. The groom entered with his brother, Mr. Bryson Tanner, best man, from Gainesville. Preceding the bride was the flower girl, dainty Miss Jean Thompson, car rying a pink basket filled with pink Preceding the groom was the ring-bearer, Miss June Moseley, carrying the ring on a satin cushion. Both these winsome maids wore frocks of pink nialine with silver trimmings over pink S3tin. The bride, a resident of Lumpkin, ! is the only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. .R. L. Grier. She numbers her friends I by her acquaintances; and is a teach er of prominence 5n Georgia. Mr. Tanner is a business man of Atlanta, and is connected with the Georgia Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Association. He is a grandson of , the late Rev. W. H. Bridges and Mrs. Bridges of Jackson county. The wedding journey includes a tour through the mountains of North j Carolina and Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Tanner are at home .to their friends in Sylvania, where Mr. Tanner will represent the com pany with which he is at present con nected. —Lumpkin JoarnaL SOILS ADAPTED TO ALFALFA The State of Georgia can be divid ed into roughly four areas—the mountain region; the limestone val leys of the northwestern part of the State; the Piedmont region, a belt through the central part of the State; and the coastal plains area, that consists of all that section south of a line through Columbus, Macon and Augusta. Of these regions the Piedmont, or the central part of the State, that is this section through here which is made of practically all red soil, is best adapted for alfalfa pro duction. In this region the heavier stiff clay soils seem to be best adapt ed, although alfalfa can be grown successfully on some of the heaviest types of the sandy loam. The lighter, gray' soils should be the last to be used for alfalfa in this section. The reason alfalfa is best adapted to this section seems to be because most of these soils are either neutral, or show very little acidity, which is unfavorable to pro duction of this crop. The work at the Georgia State College of Agriculture doe not show any very marked affect from lime on these soils. However, as a general policy of alfalfa production, it is best to use some lime. Another reason for alfalfa being adapted to this section is the mineral content of these soils, as alfalfa is a crop that requires a considerable quanity of mineral elements. O. W. .Jones, Special County Agent, Banks and Jackson Counties. Commerce, Ga. Mr. John Miller of Atlanta was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pinson here Sunday. He \vas ac companied home by Mrs. Miller an little daughter, who spent several days here visiting her parents. .