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STH:: JACKSON HERALD Punished WtakJy §1.50 A Year—ln Advance Enteredat The Jefferson Poitoffice ** Second-Class Mai! Matter Offuial Orjin of Jaikton County JOHN N. HOLDER Editor W. H. WILLIAMSON Du*. M’f’r. Jefferson,, Cos., Septur.i'. ’’ 2. J!t26 Markets, Not Credit, Needed Mr. J. A. Wi st brook of Powder Springs had a communication in SnnuuyAtlanta Constitution, in which h ■ aid that the farmer needs markets more than credits, and the Constitution con me nr ■ this idea, and wdd.i. "There is credit a plenty. Credit means debt and debts have to be voluntarily paid, or the securities roust bo yielded. Hence farm debt moans ihat a farmer must be in po sition to make the money of f his fa rin to pay it, or loac that which he had when he incurred it. In the meantime credo- and the lenlting debt - encourages extravagancies, wild-catting, ard every other gold brick scheme under the sun.” They arc eminently correct. The farmer needs market'-, and ns th- 1 Constitution further aa;. s, "What we ivscd is legislation to get the farmer j out of debt, not, further in debt.” | The Bulwark of Pay-A*- i You-Go (From Atlanta Journal) Another high authority-speaks out against the peril of overtaxation, such as excessive bond issues will en tail. This time it is Secretary Jar dine, of the national department of agriculture, and he ,argues the case from the standpoint of the man on the sail. Urging the need state and local tax reform “to lighten the burden on farmers,” he says that although they have profited indirect-' ly and to a (tag fee from the general business betterment brought about 1 by a reduction of federal taxes, they are nevertheless in need of relief be cause “the great bulk of farm taxes are levied by slate and local .govern ments." The .secretary was referring parti cularly, we take it, to regions which hare not been as fortunate as Geor gia in their bond and tax policies. This state, adhering to the prudence 1 and economy which are written deep into its constitution, refused to be swept off 'its feet by the bond-issue furor that broke upon the country in the wake of the World war. The 1 happy consequence is that Georgia taxes today are comparatively low and arc uncommonly invitin I to in dustrial investors as Well as favor able to buyers and owners of farm lands. But a survey of America will show that this condition is far from being general. Between 1919 and 1924, for in stance, state taxes for the country as n whole increased eighty-seven per cent. The debts of state and local government' have been (nounting at the rate of more than n billion dol lars a year. The expenditures of state and local governments, taken in the aggregate, now fm exceed their tax receipts, and the ever-growing deficit is made up by large-scale bor rowing, “What does it help us," asks Roger Habson, “to have federal ex-, penditures cut down two billion dol lars a year, if at the same time local expenditure: are jacked up two bil lion dollars a year?’’ Such are the proves: es by which the tax burden on the rank and file, and ■particularly on farmers, is made heavier and heavier. It i to save Georgia from such danger that the Pay-As-You-Go forces appeal. Let us not sell our freedom and prosperi ty for a mess of bonds. Dr. Hardman says he is in favor of h better system of paying the county school teachers, and so is everybody else. This has been a slogan of can didates from time immemorial. Why don’t ho advance some plan so the people will know how he means to do It? There is a vast . difference in en dorsing an idea and presenting a Workable plan to carry out this idea. Since he entered the -ace for governor, Dr. Hardman has discov ered that thousands of dollrr worth of fruit and vegetables lot in Geor gia every year : cause of no ade quate facilities for canning. Well, we can not see how the governor of Goorgia can remedy this. Dr. Hard man has been such a wonderful suc *e:-vs as a business man, he should vuil3 canneries instead of entering politics. —— k Mcadamea J. H. Campbell, .T. C. Bennett, and Miss Ella Dickson, piotorcd to Hoschton, Friday after n * 11 *° *Ucml c womans auvliarV ■ meeting entertained by Mr=. Ralph Freeman. COMMENTS ON GOVERNOR’S RACE What Georgia Newspapers Have to Say Concerning the Gubernatorial .Campaign (From Walton News) Walton County Road* A citizen living in the good old district of Buncombe, this county, a 'county where, in years gone by, the mads were very, very bad, insists j that th" people of this county have no fight, to make against Mr. Holder [because he is against bonds. He af firmed that new stretches of road are being opened up in that section and that all around us the roads are fins. (From Ashburn Wircgra; Farmer) Unju*t Political Charge* The seeming apathy that has ex isted m the early stages of the pres ent campaign for statehouse offi cers. turned first to amazement arid astonishment and afterwards to in dignation and abhortyice at the charge i made against some of the candidates now holding office and who are either running to succeed j {Jfeiselves or offering for soma oth er state office. Men who are con sidered honorable men by their neighbors and all who know them where hearts are not embittered by j jealousy and envy, or so inflamed by the greed for office that they lose thoir sense of gentlemaniiness, tol- 1 erance and equity and indulge in charges of the yjj*st nature and lan guage most emphatic, virulent and reprehensive. Veritable “bilingsgate” of th - lowest type such as “embez zler," “robber,” “liar,” “crooked as a snake in the grass,” “pilcherer” and all down the vocabulary of vitu peration. (From the Carroll County Times) “A Walkover for Hold**” After an absentee of ? month from the state we return to find that a prediction made by the Times*soma ' weeks ago, namely, that Holder would have a walkover race for gov ernor, seems even more imminent now than when first made by us. Nor does this conditipn indicate for one instant that the people are not in favor of good roads, nor that they are unwilling to pay for their construction. It does indicate, however, that they are opposed to creating a big bonded debt when they can accom plish the .same results on a cash basis i.y using proper economy and busi ness methods. • * • (From the Adel News) H older'* Coursj Approved At last accounts a few -lowspapers and one or two candidates were hop ping on John Holder but he pays little attention to the noise of the politicians. Plain honest citizen that he is. he is just quietly going along and making now friends and votes by his dignified course in refusing to be led into a useless wrangle. * * * (From tlie Moultrie Observer) “In the Last Throe*” John Holder’s opponents arc say ing some very intemperate things ' about him. These things nearly al ways come when the opponents get iu the “last throes." * * * ! (From I.awrenceville News-Herald) Look* Like Holder The Macon Telegraph has come down off its high horse, and admits that Holder will not receive a ma jority over Carswell, Hardman, and Wood combined, and that there will be another primucy at which only the two highest will be permitted to run, and then he will be licked, whereas there seems to be no doubt about Holder getting more county unit votes than all l;is opponents put The Telegraph has uniformly failed to get on the strong side in Georgia primary elections, and history is generally pretty apt to repeat itself, as usual. If Billy Anderson had lived ‘in ye oldo.i times" he would ly*ve bom stoned to death as a false prophet. • • • (From Lavonia Times) The “pay-as-you-go” plan is pretty good, whether used in paving roads or every day business. • * 9 Tine Piastre:* on Paved Ro-ds (From the Valdosta Times) Chairman John Hofder was up in N- i-h Carolina Saturday making a (“good roads” speech In which he showed that this year would see a pi . and highway from a point near < Stone Mountain to Ferry, Ga. The work is under way. was u mod campaign speech if it was made in North Carolina. I . f V • 0 , “The One l**u” (From the Moultrie Observer.) John Holder will be elected gover nor because he took the right side of the bond proposition. It was a high-handed scheme that was laid to ' mortgage the state of Georgia to the [road machinery and road material people through the prosperous me dium of the big city tanks. It was Holder who stepped in and saved the state from this indebtedness. This race for governor is an appeal from the legislature. It will cither pa: Georgia cn record in favor of bonds or against bonds. If Holder is elect- ed, the state will be pledged to a policy of phy as you go. Any at tempt to find other issues and to inject personal matters, is an at tempt to muddy the waters and dodge certain defeat. • • Ousting Holder (From the Wilkes County Forum) ! The Macon Telegraph has classed John Holder so persistently and con tinuously “day by day in every way,” that it i said to have contracted such a rase of sore throat that it can scar cely speak above a whisper. “A Walkover for Holder” (From the Carrol! County Times) Possibly there was never so little interest in a political campaign in this county as is now being mani fested by the voter and the public generally. It is true that there is the usual complement of state house officers to be voted for with two or three candidates to be' chosen from. There are four for governor, but the peo ple refuse to enthuse on either one of these. A vast majority of them seem to take it for granted that John Holder has a walkover, and that there is no need to become ex cited over a fixed fact. * * * Lamar in Holder Column (From the Barnesville News-Gazette) .... Lamar is counted in the Holder column with practical cer tainty. * ♦ * Attending to Busines* , (From the LaGran te Repor'er)- John N. Holder seems to Lave adopted the Coolidge policy of attend ing to business instead of politics in his campaign for election to the gov ernorship. That seems a good indi cation, when you consider the fact that his business is paving highways. Georgia needs paved road ; . 'The People Will Rule (From Franklin News-Banner) As the gubernatorial campaign en ters its final stages, the overwhelm ing election of John N. Holder, of; Jackson county, is accepted as cer tain by persons conversant with sen timent throughout the stijte. Mr. Holder’s popular vote will far exceed that of the combined opposition, and his majority of county unit votes will be no less preponderating. The certainty of Mr. Holder’s elec tion is based primarily on the real ization that he has rallied to his sup ! port the great mass of Georgians who are opposed to a state bond issue. The campaign has revealed the Jack son county man as the only candi date for governor who is opposed to a bond issue without equivocation or reservation of any sort. Efforts of bond advocates' to ob scure the real issue admittedly have failed. The people have not been deceived. Attempts to divert atten tion have reacted in Mr. Holder’s favor. The people fully understand that the campaign involves a test of strength between those who would contract a heavy public debt, on the one hand, and Mr. Holder, on the other, who is the outspoken champion of the pay-as-you-go plan of highway construction. 1 “It is the field against Holder,” re marked one of the keenest political observers in the state. “It is high way bonds against the pay-as-you-go plan of road building in Georgia. The issue is clear cut and fully under stood by the people, despite efforts to obscure it." ** KNOWS WHO HE HAS TO BEAT The Walton News, giving an account of the speech of George Carswell, candidate for gover nor, at Monroe, one day last week, among bthcr things, said: “Mr. Carswell gave most of his time to a discussion of the record cf one of his opponents, the man he says that he has got to beat, John N. HMdcts-" , A rwtuns In Ssrvice To Hi* i eople • (From Aug data Chronicle) “He is the pressor of a large fortune In service to his people" conclude! a ma*i ifie?r: endorse ment of John N. Holder by a large number of citizens of his home coun ty. This one sentence sums up Jojin Holder, who will be named governor of Georgia September 8, by the larg est majority in Georgia history. John N. Holder, good business man, experienced legislator, rugged in honesty, a democrat through and through, with all tyat the name im- plies', goes quietly forward, attend ing to his duties as chairman of the highway department, building high ways on the “pay as you go” plan, a plan which, gentlemen opposing him, cannot successfully attack, and con sequently they do the most conven ient thing, side-step, evading the big i.-sue of the campaign. Gentlemen who oppose Mr. Holder 'seek to prevent his nomination by attacking his abusfng him in general. One of Mr. Holder’s col leagues on the highway commission, his neighbors back home, and many other citizens throughout the state, v ave answered it eloquently, earnest ly and convincingly. Of course, some charges are so ridiculous that Mr. Holder or his friends would belittle themselves before the hundreds of thousands of intelligent Georgia vot ers to even notice them. S \ With a personal and official record untarnished and unblemished, John Holder stands today, the almost uni- versal choice of the pepple of our state for governor. We say this based on reports that come from ev ery nook and corner of our common wealth. He will carry a minimum of 125 counties and probably 140. He stands four square to every wind that blows. His armor is truth, courage is his helmet, and in his hand is the baton of leadership for a greater agricultural and industrial Georgia, while all who know him, know that in his heart is the spirit oi service. No, he isn’t a rich man, but he is more than that, a successful man who turns his income into helpfulness and service for others. He is impervious t ridiculous and slanderous attacks, because the people of Georgia know him and know what is in hi3 heart. Abase him, slander him, singly if you will, and in concert,' if you please, gentlemen; but remember you can not lift yourself up by tearing the other fellow down. The fear that some gentlemen, sen sing the clement of the situation might desist ev n for a moment in attacking Mr. Holder caused us to heslthte in calling attention to it. But after September 8, there should be a chair of applied psychology a'd ded to the universities, with a special course for aspiring gubernatorial candidates. “He is the possessor of a large fortune in service to his people,” reads the tribute to John Holder from his home people. Could anything finer be said about any man than this? THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA HERE SATURDAY (From Braselton Four-County Booster) lion. John N. Holder and his wife were in Braselton last Sat urday afternoon. Mr. Holder has thousands of friends through out this community, who will give him the biggest vote he has ever received for any office. We firmly believe Mr. Holder is the right man for the governor’s chair and will make Georgia a good executive. We hope the people of Geor gia will send men to the legis lature svho will stand by Mr. Holder and kill every bond Is sue that comes up before them. Unjust Criticism (From Djhlonega Nugget) We learn that Mr. Carswell, one of John Holder’s opponents, is criticis ing Mr. Holder as Chairman of the Highway Board, for the expenses of a delegation that was sent to a dis tant state, at the time when Mr. Hol der was suspended by the Governor and had nothing to do with it. Mr. and Mrs. Jo3e Ferrer of CiCnfuego, Cuba, after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. P. Bertram left yesterday for their home. Their son. Taco, who scent the summer here, went home with them. Mano lo remain* here to enter Emory Aca demy, While hero Mr. Ferrer de cided to send his o’her son, Pepin, ij Emory Academy for the next term. State Bon<fS*The Vital Question In Governor’s Race (By W. If. Williamson) This is the las’ issue of The Herald before the Sta..* election on next Wednesday. I The Herald is vttally interested ir. gcod government and the election of ! competent men to fill every office. We consider all the candidates men of superior intelligence and integrity, j and whomsoever the people select,! Georgia will be well governed. < With the exception of the office of governor, there are no issues of su- I prerne importance which overshadow 1 the candidates themselves,, It is merely a race to decide which is l the moat popular, and each voter has the privilege of expressing his choice far his favorite. In the governor’s race, there is one great issue, and only one—whether or .not the people will have saddled upon them a debt, of a hundred mil lion or more dollars in bonds, which will enslave the people of Georgia for generations to come. Of the four candidates for the office of governor, only one, 4k )l, n N. Holder, is outipok en and unfalteringly opposed to the issuance of State bonds to build roads. He is running on the Pay- As-You-Go Platform, which is a safe slogan to follow in any line of busi ness, whether State or private. The other candidates are non-committal, or they are in favor of bonds, or they are on one side one day, and on the other the next. • They have no set- tled convictions on this important question. These candidates have sought to darken and be cloud the issue in the campaign. They have resorted to abusive and slanderous statements, and have engaged in mud-slinging that is beneath the dig nity of a candidate for governor. The people of Georgia are not in favor of a State bond issue, and by their ballots will resent such methods of campaigning. If John N. Holder can not; be elected to the high office of governor on his own merits, he cer tainly would not deserve the votes of the people if he endeavored to ride into office by slandering his op ponents. Again, we repeat, the on? greai, issue in this campaign is whether or. not Georgia shall place a mortgage of millions of dollars upon her people. No one questions that Georgia wants paved highways, no one questions that Georgia wants better educational advantages, but shall we pay for them as we get them, or mortgage our future with a great bond issue? In 1877, the bonded indebtedness of this State was $10,777,009. To date we have paid on this debt $5,- 888,000 on the principal, and we have paid $18,531,000 interest, and we still owe the remaining $5,000,000 of the principal. At the rate the State is now retiring this principal, viz: SIOO,OOO each year, it will be fifty years before this debt is final ly paid; or, in other words, the prin cipal and interest on this debt will ag gregate of nearly $35,000,- 000 when it is finally paid. This is an object lesson that stares Georgia in the face, and it should bo a tower from which warning light should be flashed the people at all times, telling us of the seriousness of debt, and the ruin that comes from the extravagant use of the State’s credit. Mr. Holder is the only candidate for governor who is pledged to keep this great State out of this large in debtedness. He has been chosen to carry the banner of anti-debt, and we feel sure hs will receive the ma jority of the votes cast on next Wed nesday. His election seems assured. His friends in Jackson county arc standing loyally behind him, and will go to the polls and cast their votes to vindicate the principles for which he stands. Detours And Construction Politicians there may be who are so wise that they can build hard-sur faced roads with no need for de tours while construction is going on, and so powerful that they can con trol the rain from heaven, making it to fall on field and garden, with never a drop on ways of travel. But the Gainesville -Eagle doubts l that such wonder-working are really to be found in Georgia, although there are partisans and propagandists for state bonds who seem fully equal to pro fessing those miraculous gifts. The Eagle’s remark is prompted by an attempt of theirs to misrepresent the roads of Hall county and to bp little the work of the highway de partment. During the recent down pours a certain detour between Gainesville and Buford, around a stretch of the main road which 13 being hard surfaced, became soaked and heavy. Thereupon the camp of politics whose strategy it is to dis credit or ignore what is being achiev ed for Georgia, set up a cry that hotels were empty, that crop values were being destroyed, that ruin ar.d uesolation were threatened—all “On Account of State Highway.” The incident would have been too triylal for comment cave for the fact that it was so characteristic of the meth ods cf extremists trying to force an i:v men t; state bond irsvve on the taxpayers. See us for Meat, Lard, Fleur, Sugar, or anything in f.hc Grocery Line.—Boggs Eros. 3c Dadisman, Phone 245. WINDER GROUP SEEKS TO REORGANIZE BANK CLOSED IN CHAIN FAILURE Winder, Ga.—Since the closing of the Winder branch of the Georgia State Bank, efforts have been made by those interested locally in the Winder blanch to get it disconnected from the parent bank and reopen for business by the state banking de partment. The Winder branch is only about a year old, h-a3 good clean papers, and splendid deposits, and was clos ed in the failure of the parent bank. Some of the best business men of Winder were associated with the lo cal bianca and say that it has been organized for such a short*time that its affairs are necessarily in good shape, with good deposits and no insolvent or worthless papers. C. O. i Maddox, an experienced banker and president the local branch, has ! been appointed liquidating agent. The Kiwarns club of Winder has taken an interest and he is asking the other Kiwanis clubs of the state to assist in getting this branch dis connected from the parent bank. * * m MAYSVILLE TAKES STEPS TO REORGANIZE BANK Maysmlle, Ga.—A mass meeting was held here Friday night for the purpose of formulating plans for organizing a bank over the assets of the Maysville branch of the Georgia State bank. It was agreed to give all depositors of the old bank an opportunity to take stock in the new, and a committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions. About 100 attended the meeting, and all seem ed optimistic over the outlook for reopening the bank for business. JUDGE PARK SEES EARLY RE OPENING OF CLOSED BANKS j Judge Orville A., Park, who has I been representing the state banking department ire the hearings on the affairs of the Bankers Trust com pany, returned to Atlanta Saturday after a conference with the comp ! troller general of Florida, predicting the reopening: of all Georgia and Florida banks which were forAd to close by the failure of their fiscal agent, the Bankers Trust company. “Within a short time,” Judge Park said, “the remainder of these chain banks will reopen almost without ex ception, I I refer to the towns where there was are is a real need for a bank. Some members of the chain never had a reason for ex istence, either because the town could not support a bank or because there was already another strong bank situated there.” HOWELL TAYLOR VISITS RELATIES AND FRIENDS Mr. Howell Taylor, an Elbert coun ty boy who holds a responsible trav eling position with the Guf Refin ing Cos., with headquarters at Pensa cola, Fla., is on a visit to his parents, Mr.' and Mrs. C. P. Taylor. Mr. Taylor's family, consisting of wife and five children, are with him. They are making the trip through thf country.—Elberton Star. Mr. Taylor, who for a number of years made Commerce his home, is here with his family spending a few days. . For all we know, he may still have some of the ink on his hands that tmide them so white and cleg# while he was associated with the News, force. His friends here are •glad to have him come back to see them.—Commerce News. NEW VIRGIL Our literary school will close next Friday, and we regret very much giving up Miss Jordon, as she has proven herself one among the best teachers, and a kind friend to all. The protracted meeting closed at this place last Saturday, with four teen new members. Much good was done throughout the meeting. Mr. and Mis. T. W Phillips and baby of Pleasant Grove spent last week with their parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Phillips, attending the meeting at this place. The little babe of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Doster was very sick last Satur day, but vve are glad to say is bet ter at this writing. • Mr. John Stewart of Jefferson was visiting relatives here last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Phillips and daughter were the Sunday afternoon gQests of the latter’s mother, Mrs. Roxey Phillips, and family. Rev. and Mrs. J. O. MeNeal and children, and Rev. Lucious McNeal and son. dined with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Phillips la3t Friday. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Whitehead visited relatives near Hoschton last Sunday p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Bryant ana children spent Saturday night and Sunday with their parents at Pender grass. All School Books strictly cash to every one. —Boggs Bros. & Dadisman.