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[ he j ackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE MEETING
Distinguished Visitors Enter
tained And Cotton Problem
Discussed on Monday Ev
ening.
The Jefferson Chamber of Com
merce had as their guests at the
Harrison Hotel on Monday evening
several distinguished guests, who ad
ded greatly to the pleasure of the
occasion. They were Congressman
and Mrs. Thomas M. Bell of Gaines
ville, Messrs. E. R. Hodgson, R. J.
Hancock, Walter Hodgson and Mack
Howell of Athens, A. J. Murphy of
Talmo, Miss Edna Duncan of Martin
Institute faculty, Miss Frances Turn
er and Hiram Gardner of Eatonton.
The latter is an employee of the
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of
Columbia, S. C.
Judge W. W. Dickson presided ov
er the meeting, which was opened
with prayer by Rev. L. B. Linn. Fol
lowing this, Miss Duncan favored the
assemblage with a beautiful vocal
solo, with Miss Turner playing the
accompaniment.
A delightful repast was served,
and the usual business transacted,
the only committee reporting being
the transportation committee, through
its chairman, Mr. Summie Kinning
hani, who communicated the status
of the railroad situation, and the
two propositions that are soon to
come before the I C. Commission in
Washington City.
The visitors present were intro
duced and called on for talks, the
subject under discussion being the
present cotton situation. Congress
man Bell, as well as the others
present, expressed their pleasux'e at
being the guests of the Chamber,
and Mr. Bell was profuse in his
praise of the wonderful forward
step Jefferson had taken in paving
her public square and principal
streets. He said that no greater im
provement could have been done, and
that the change was marvelous to
one who had been coming here for so
many years.
Mr. Bell had been asked to dis
cuss the agricultural bills now be
fore congress. He touched upon the
only one voted on by the last con
gress, the Haughan Bill, which pro
vides a revolving fund of $100,000,-
000 to finance the holding of cot
ton, a tax to be collected on cot
ton to repay the fund.
Mr. Bell said that representatives
from the cotton growing states gave
the bill a very exhaustive study, and
he voted against it, because he
thought the tax would be heavier than
the cotton farmer could stand.
He stated that the present cotton
problem is a serious proposition, and
as he is no cotton expert, he could
make no intelligent suggestions. He
stated that cotton acreage will have
to be curtailed, and the Southern
producer will have to grow every
thing he can to feed his family and
his live stock.
The next speaker, Mr. Gardner,
said the Intermediate Credit Banks
have been trying: for several years
to cut down acreage, and unless
something along this line is ac
complished, the South is headed to
wards bankrupted The cotton farm
er is determined to plant every acre
he can in cotton, and he must be con
vinced that diversification is the only
solution. The farmer must plant on
•y a sufficient amount to supply the
demand. Mr. Gardner referred to
his own county, Putnam, which went
broke when the boll weevil reduced
the number of bales in that county
from 17,000 to 178. Since then,
dairying has been the principal vo
cation in that county, and this is
solving the cotton problem for the
Putnam farmer. “To produce crops
an d to market crops,” said Mr.
Gardner, “Is the object of the Inter
mediate Credit Banks, and I think the
best thing to do in the present
crisis is to carry over 3000,000 bales.”
Mr. E. R. Hodgson made a happy
hit with the crowd, telling an ap
plicable joke, and advised people not
to get too serious or two down-heart
ed over the situation—that every
thing will work out all right. We
have had seven years of traveling
through the wilderness of bad crops
a nd low prices, but there is a pro
mised land, and while we do not
hnow who is to be our Moses, we are
eoming out.
Mr. Mack Howell suggested that
Snow Falls Tuesday Morning
Jefferson experienced the unusu
al sight of a snow-fall on Tuesday
morning. The flakes, which were ac
companied by rainfall, were very
large, but of course disappeared as
rapidly as they hit the earth. The
wind was from the northwest. The
fall of snow followed the first real
wintry weather of the season, the
temperature on Monday and Tuesday
mornings almost reaching the freez
ing point. October weather has been
unusually mild and pleasant, and the
sudden climatic plunge Sunday might
caught people uhprepared for the
change. The cold weather followed
a wind storm which came out of the
: northwest Sunday night about 7
j o’clock, causing the mercury to fall
I several degrees. The wind prevent
ed a frost on Sunday night, and the
clouds that returned Tuesday night
again prevented the vegetation from
being killed, so this section had the
unusual sight of snow falling on cot
ton blossoms, as many fields of the
fleecy staple are still blooming.
However, a friend once advised us
never to write of the weather, “Be
cause,” said he “Before the paper
! goes press, there may be a decided
j change.” J3efore this issue of The
I Herald is read, “Jack Frost,” or a
1 heavy freeze, may have killed all
| vegetation.
According to some weather prog
i nosticators, this is to be a severe
winter, if we are to believe in the
law of averages. As we have en
joyed several mild winters, the time
has come for a change.
GENERAL ANDRE vVS FAILS TO
INCLUDE GEORGIA MOON
SHINE IN SELECT LIST
Washington. The only liquor
worth drinking in the opinion of
General Andrews, comes from the
moonshine stills in the mountains of
Kentucky, Tennessee and North Caro
lina.
Sometime or other he intends to
loo"k these moonshiners over but just
now he has other more important
work.
cotton prices are low, but in view of
the increased amount to be harvested,
the crop will bring more than it did
last year. Collections are bad, “But,”
said Mr. Howell, “Things will be o.
k. You can’t down Northeast Geor
gia.”
Messrs. Walter Hodgson and R. J.
Hancock and Mrs. Bell also respon
ded with short talks.
Col. John C. Turner, President of
the First National Bank of Jefferson,
made the principal talk of the e% ren
ing, giving some of his impressions
of the cotton meeting held in Atlanta
on Saturday, and expressing his views
on the present problem. He spoke of
the plan to withdraw 400,000 bales
from the market, and wants to know
who is to furnish the money, and who
is to furnish the cotton. If there
is another bumper crop, and cotton
prices continue to drop, it will be the
farmers loss in the end, and whereby
will he be benefitted by the plan?
The banks may be able to pledge the
borrower to reduce acreage, but no
one can control the planter who
borrows no money. The only hope
he can see in the suggested plan to
bring about a reduction are weather
conditions and insect pests. “The only
way to deal with a surplus,” said
Mr. Turner, “Is to have no surplus;
and the only way to have no surplus,
is to reduce production; and the only
way to reduce production, is for the
government to take control, and say
how much we can raise. The govern
ment controls banks, railroads, and
other industries. In other countries,
the government controls the pro
duction of commodities, and stabilizes
prices, and prevents bankruptcy.
“Our government should create a
Board of Control which would say to
the cotton farmer, ‘You can no
longer raise excess supplies. We will I
make you properous in spite of your
selves.’ The farmer now drags ev
erybody down, because everything
depends on him. When he is pros
perous, everybody prospers; and we
long to see the day when he will
come into his own, and enjoy the
fruits of his labor.”
The meeting closed with prayer by
Rev. A. J. Johnson.
The next meeting w-ill be Monday
evening, November Bth.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Cotton Commission Plans
Storage of 400,000 Bales
Cotton growers, merchants, bank
ers and manufacturers from all parts
of Georgia convened in Atlanta Sat
urday morning at the Chamber of
Commerce , to confer with Eugene
Meyer, Jr., chairman of the Presi
dent’s special cotton commission to
assist the South in the movement to
withhold 4,000,000 bales from the
market and to bring about a drastic
cut in next year’s acreage.
The meeting resulted in an organiz
ation of a finance corporation with
$1,000,000 capital which will make
available ten times that amount to
finance surplus cotton for 20 months
or two years.
Plans for this corporation are in
the hands of an executive committee
of five members who were named
from a special committee of the
Georgia Bankers association, as fol
lows: James S. Floyd, vice president
of the Atlanta and Lowry National
bank, chairman; John M. Graham, of
the National City bank, of Rome;
Charles B. ’Lewis, president of the
Fourth National bank, of Macon; W.
B. Spann, vice president of the Citi
zens and Southern bank, Atlanta,
and Robert Strickland, vice president
of the Fourth National bank, Atlania.
This executive committee was in
structed to form and subscribe the
capital stock of the corporation im
mediately but not to begin function
ing until similar corporations aVe
formed in other states.
The program outlined at the con
ference also calls for a 25 per cent
cotton acreage reduction next year
and the raising of larger food and
feed crops.
The plan of operation as approved
by the conference contemplates r.n
advance of approximately S4O per
bale on the 400,000 bales of Geor
gia cotton to be withdrawn. This
cotton is to be placed in a properly au
thorizezd warehouse, preferably one
controlled by the co-operative mar
keting association, since this organiz
ation is already functioning and has
ample machinery to handle the busi
ness.
It is to be kept off the market for
'at least 20 months, or until market
ing condition become satisfactory
for its price. Its removal relieves
the congested condition of the market
and eliminates the possibility of
“dumping” of distressed cotton by
individual farmers who are forced to
sell under present conditions to meet
obligations.
Under this plan there will be no
calling for additional margins from
the borrower on withdrawn cotton,
such as would ordinarily be the case
with short-time loans if the market
should go down below the loan value
placed by the lending bank.
After 20 months, or at such time
as the Market became satisfactory
and stabilized, the withdraw cotton
would be sold in orderly fashion
through the cooperative marketing
association.
Meanwhile, it was planned that the
cotton farmers of Georgia, along with
those of the other cotton growing
states reduce their 1927 cotton acre
age at least 25 per cent, to eliminate
the possibility of another bumper
crop next year and a repetition of
the present crisis. To insure this
acreage reduction the banks, which
finance 90 per cent of the farmers of
the south, will make a 25 per cent
acreage reduction a condition of
credit. In other words, unless a
farmer will agree to reduce his cot
ton acreage 25 per cent and plant
additional food and feed crops, he will
be refused credit at his bank and will
be unable to finance his 1927 farm
ing operations.
The rate of interest charged to
farmers whose cotton is withdrawn
and on which advances of S4O per
bale are made, should not be more
than 6 per cent, it was stated at
the conference.
Almost simultaneously with action
to organize the finance corporation,
J. E. Conwell, president of the Geor
gia Cotton Growers Cooperative as
sociation, anounced that his organiz
ation has increased by 2 cents a
pondd its advance to members on all
except the lower grades of cotton,
thus raising the advance to 9 cents on
cotton graded as strict middling;
white or better. Every bale pooled
with the association has been with
drawn from the market, Mr. Conwell
announced. This action, Mr. Conwell
said, w’as taken to give further relief
to cotton growers of Georgia and the
south.
i Vote Against Crisp County
Amendment
We are carrying in another column
an ad sent out from Cordele by a
committee of citizens asking the
voters on next Tuesday to vote n
gainat the amendment authorizing
Crisp county to vote $1,250,000
worth of bonds in order to enable
that county to engage in the com
mercial sale of electric current. This
' committee, headed by the Chairman
of the Board of Roads and Revenue
of that’county, sees in this amend
ment a very dangerous precedent.
If the bonds are voted, and Crisp
county is unable to promptly meet
their obligation, it will hurt the sale
of the bonds of every Georgia coun
ty. If this amendment becomes ef
fective, it will establish a precedent
j that will easily enable other counties
to have passed similar amendments
: allowing them to vote bonds in ex
! cessive amounts in order to engage
in various commercial enterprises, and
| before we know what we are doing
' Georgia will be bonded far in excess
| of its ability to pay, and our splen
! did credit seriously jeopardized.
Chairman Urges Full Vote
On Nov. 2.
National Democratic Congressional
Committee.--Washington, D. C. Oc
tober 22, 1926.- To the Voters of
Georgia! It is importnat to the
South that everybody who is quali
fied to vote should go out to the
polls and cast their ballots for the
nominees on November 2nd. The vote
in the November elections is taken
into consideration, and our numerical
strength is measured by this, in
stead of the vote in the primary
elections. Asa result of a light vote
in November elections, efforts are
made by Northern members to re
duce our representation in Congress,
and it is important that ALL THE
PEOPLE vote and help preserve our
representation. '
W. A. Oldfield, Chairman,
..National Democratic Congression
al Committee.
. i ~
TAX COLLECTOR S NOTICE
Second Round
Wo will be at the following places,
! at the dates and times given, for the
purpose of collecting taxes for the
year 1926.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 1926
Arcade, 9 a. pi.
Red Stone, 9.30 a. m.
Attica, 10 a. m.
Archer’s Store, 10.30 a. m.
Sykes, Gin, 11 a. m.
Wages’ Store, 11.30 a. m.
Center, 1 p. m.
Nicholson, 2 p. m.
Barnett’s Gin, 3 p. m.
Pittman’s Store, 3.30 p. m.
J. D. Standridge, 4 p. m.
Wednesday, November 3rd, 1926.
Brockton, 8.30 a. m.
Commerce, 10 a. m. to 2 p. m.
Apple Valley, 3 p. m.
Thursday, November 4th, 1926
Doss Gin, B.SO a. m.
Wheeler’s Gin, 8.30 a. m.
Maysville, 10 a. m. to 12.30 p. m.
Diamond Hill, 1 p. m. to 1.80 p. m
Holly Springs, 2 to 2.30 p. m.
Dry Pond, 2.30 p. m. to 3 p. m.
Friday, November sth, 1926
I T. Hogan’s, 8.30 a. m.
L. F. Sell, 9.30 a. m.
Hoschton, 10 to 11 a. m.
Braselton, 11 a. m. to 12 m.
Evans Store, 1.30 p. m.
Talmo, 3 p. m.
Pendergrass, 4 p. m.
Respectfully,
J. B. HOGGINS, T. C.
By A. S. JOHNSON.
HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE
SUBJECT IS ANNOUNCED
Athens, Ga.—The subject for the
1927 annual state high school debate
has been announced by Dr. J. S.
Stewart, professor of secondary edu
cation at the University of Georgia,
as follows:
“Resolved, That the appointment
of judges in this state by the chief
executive is preferable to their elec
tion by popular vote.”
High school officials and students
interested in the subject are in
formed by Dr. Stewart that 186 pages
of briefs and excerpts bearing on
thin t°Pic are to be found in the ref
erence shelf, volume 4, number 2,
published by the 11. W. Wilson com
pany, 958 University avenue, New
York.
Thursday, October 28, 1926.
ELECTION TUESDAY
Regular State Election on Next Tues
day, Voters Urged to Cast
Their Votes
The polls will be opened at the
voting precincts in Georgia next Tues
day for the regular state election,
and citizens are urged to go to the
polls and cast their votes for the
nominees, who were chosen in the
primary election. The ticket to be
voted is a long one, carrying the
names of candidates for one United
States senator, congressman, gover
nor, and other state house officers,
judges and solicitors, representatives,
and nine amendments to the con
stitution.
With the exception of a Republi
can candidate for congress in the
seventh district, and probably can
didates for the house of represen
tatives in some of the counties of
North Georgia, the ticket to be voted
is democratic.
The congressional race in the sev
enth district will be between Judge
Tarver, democratic nominee, and
Charles Adamson, of Cedartown, re
publication candidate. The office is
now held by Gordon Lee, who is re
tiring at the expiration of his present
term because of ill health.
Mr. Adamson, the republican can
didate, originnlly came from pennsyl
vania to Georgia, and is considered a
pioneer in the cotton mill industry in
the state.
Hancock-Merck
A wedding around which there
centers sincere interest on account of
the popularity of both bride and
bride groom, occurred at 3 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist
Parsonage on Martin street, uniting
Mr. W. H. Merck and Miss Erma liaa-'
cock. Rev. L. B. Linn performed
the ceremony, in the presence of the
the immediate families of the con
tracting parties. Immediately follow
ing the ceremony, Mr., und Mrs.
Merck left for a short wedding trip.
The bride was beautifully dressed
in a rose colored crepe, with blonde
shoes and hat.
Mrs. Merck is one of Jefferson’*
most beloved young ladies. She is th*
aecond daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. B. W. Hancock; for several year*
has taught in Martin Institute, and
in other schools of the county, with
signal success. She is a young wo
man of the highest type of character,
and has scores of friends throughout
the county who wish for her the
greatest happiness.
Mr. Merck is the older son of Mrs.
Mollie Merck and the late Mr. A. B.
Merck. lie has a position with the
N. N. Pendergrass Store, and is held
in the highest esteem by everybody,
and is sincerely appreciated for his
many excellent qualities of man
hood.
The weedding unites two fine re
presentatives of two of the oldest and
most prominent families of Jackson
county.
Music Club Notes
■ The Junior Music Club, composed
of the pupils of Mrs. J. S. Ayers, met
in the fifth grade room to reorganize.
Unlike the custom of last year of
having a president, it was decided
that each of the larger girls would
be responsible for the programs.
Sarah Johnson was elected secre
tary and treasurer.
It was decided to meet every two
weeks, on Wednesday.
The club was divided into groups.
Each one will be respmsib’e for He
refreshments of a meeting.
The next meeting is to be Friday,
October the twenty-ninth, in the
school auditorium.
Those belonging to the club, are:
Fannie Matt Carruth, Nelle Black
stock, Julia Mauldin, Joan Wills, Iris
Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Waggoner
Alexander, Edith Rankin, Frances
Ellington, Eloise Spealman, Lois
Spealman, Rose Daniel, Sara Frances
McDonald, Joyce Storey, Gertrude
Linn, Adell Head, Louise Roberts,
Mrs. M. M. Bryan, Imogene Storey,
Eleanor Prickett, Mabeth Storey,
Sallie Bryan, Mildred Wilhite,
Doris Hancock, Summie Smith, Mar
tha Dean Cooley, Anita Lunsford and
Frances Staton.
Dr. J, H. Eakes, presiding elder of
the Grifi”n district, and a leader for
a number of years in the North Geor
gia Conference, died suddenly at his
I home in Griffin Monday.
Vol. 51. No. 26.
Cuba Visited By Terrible
Storm
Havana, October 22.—Reports of
more than 650 persons killed in Wed
nesday’s hurricane, an unknown num
ber of injured and 6,500 homeless
were mingled with frantic appeals
for aid early this morning.
Ten or more towns and villages are
said to have been completely de
stroyed. The damage is expected to
reach nearly $100,000,000.
It is reported that three hundred
persons were killed at Batabano, a
town of some 2,000 inhabitants, on
the southern coast of Havana pro
vince, by the Carribean tornado.
30 Reported Dead in Town of Bojucal
At Bejucal, midway between Ha
vana and Batabano, thirty persons
were said to have perished and many
to have been injured. This town has
a population of 5,000.
The village of Gabriel reports 11
dead und eight injured, and the town
of Guanabacoa three dead, 150 in
jured and 1,500 families homeless.
Eight persons were killed and ma
ny injured at Central Fajaro. The
sugar factory was destroyed. At
Guira del Melena nine are dead, 22
injured and most of the town wreck
ed. Eight were kiiled at Camp Co
lumbia.
175 House* Wrocked in 2 Cuban
Towns
At I’unta Brava and Bauta 175
houses were wrecked. At San Jose de
Las Lejas 40 were injured and 204
houses destroyed.
The village of Tapaste is reported
to have been completely razed, us also
was the village of Jamaica.
Much dumage was done in the vil
lages of Jul'UCO, Santa Maria del
Uusrio, where most of the houses
were blown down. All the buildings
on Santa Fc and Baracoa beaches
were wrecked. At Camp Columbia,
which was almost completely wreck
ed 18 army airplanes were destroy
ed.
Official reports from scattered
towns and cites in Havana, Matanzus
and eastern Pinar del Rio provinces
indicate that the storm was the most
terrible experienced in 80 years. It
is feared that when their relief work
is complete their investigations of
the story of destruction and loss of
life in Havana city will be repeated
on a smaller scale throughout the
urea.
The presidential palace in Havana
was invaded by the flood and the in
terior was badly 'damaged. Other
large buildings in thp city suffered
similarly. Temporary shelters are
being erected for the homeless. There
are many thousands of persons need
ing relief.
Counties Get Gas Tax
Money
Jackson county will receive $3,-
264.99 gas tax for the third quarter
of 1926, under the provisions of the
law assigning to the counties one
cent of the per gallon amount of tax
collected.
From one cent per gallon of the
tax collected the counties will get a
total of $448,804.08 —which includes
about $4,000 brought over from late
payments on the’ previous quarter—
the general fund in the State treasury
will get $442,518.03, and to the high
way department will go $663,777.04.
The total fund distributed amounts to
$1,548,813.10, for this quarter.
The largest county allotment goes
to Emanuel County, which has more
State-aid road mileage than any oth
er county in the State, being $7,-
808.84. The smallest amounts goes
to Rockdale County, $657.29, and
the next smallest to Glascock, $778.-
74.
Some of the county distributions
are: Bibb $3,000.65; Bullock, $4,-
308.08; Burke $4,579.56; Butts, $2,-
229.06; Chatham, $3,007.80; Clarke
$2,321.93; Columbia $2,543.41; E
manuel $7,808.84; Floyd, $3,322.11?;
Glascock $778.74; Greene $3,743.67;
Henry $2,243.34; Houston $4,472.40;
Jefferson $4586.71; Jenkins $2,-
764.8 ; Jones, $3,729.38; Muscogee
$2,879.20; Richmond $4,229.49;
Rockdale $657.29.
Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Howell were in
Atlanta on Wednesday evening of
last week, to attend the wedding of
the former’s brother, Dr. Edgar Vas
ton Howell, to Miss Margaret Kath
erine McWilliams. The wedding was
solemnized at Trinity Methodist
church, and Dr. Howell was his broth
er’s best man.