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THE JACKSON HERALP
Published Weekly
$1.50 A Year—ln Advance
■Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice
as Second-Class Mail Matter
'Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON Bus. M’g’r.
Jefferson, Cs., June 11, 1931.
Bishop John M. Moore of the
Birthodist church has issued a call
lo the church setting aside June 17
n day of fasting and prayer di
rected toward counter-balancing the
cnaterial depression by "spiritual ex
altation.”
This has been a fine season for
•snrvesting grain, and while the acre
in Georgia is not so large this
year, the (Train is the finest seen in
many years. Those farmers who
sowed wheat and oats are being
well repaid.
The Kiwanis Club of Winder is
.sponsoring a hospital for Barrow
county, and the Winder News says
the outlook for reaching the goal is
very bright. It will be remembered
that the Mathews Hospital, at Win
der, was burned several months ago,
and has not been re-built.
Reports made to the government
regarding the spending of the sol
fliers bonus represent that about tit)
per cent of the loans went to the
payment of debts, about 25 per cent
to the purchase of new and used au
tomobiles and 15 per cent for cur
rent necessities and luxuries.
Professor Kyle T. Alfriend, Secre
tary of the Georgia Educational As
sociation, in a recent newspaper ar
ticle, said, “The state of Georgia
closed the year 1927 With all obliga
tions paid in full, arid a large sur
i>l us. Georgia at the close of the
year 1930 finds itself owing, accord
ing to the State Auditor’s report, a
net indebtedness of over six million
• James B. Nevin, editorial writer
of the Atlanta Georgian, says: “The
banning of cigarette smoking and
official frowning upon the same at
Wesleyan College was one of the in
teresting news developments of last
week. Wesleyan is the oldest chart
ered female college in the world; it
has an inspiring history and wonder
ful traditions cluster about it. It
p. chaps has a larger responsibility
resting upon it than most female
colleges. Hence this promulgation
against smoking may be something
much closer to Wesleyan’s heart and
conscience than some people sus
pect.”
The Christian Index, commenting
last week on the financial rating of
•contributions to the church by in
dividual members, Rave expression
to sound thoughts and advice. The
editor said: “We have had a habit
of boasting numbers for many years.
There are grounds for pardonable
pride in numbers, but a wheat field
is not measured by the number of
stalks per acre, but by the number
•of good grains it puts into the farm
er’s garner.” “A democracy cannot
go faster than the mass, and the
mass determines in no small degree
the tactics of the leader. He cannot
go faster than the least of his
charge. In caring for the feeble,
the progress of the able and active
is handicapped, but every one of
them shall appear before God. Af
ter all, the thing that counts in the
Kingdom of God is love for God and
one’s fellows expressed in the terms
of service in Christ’s name.”
Dr. Sam W. Small, who writes
each day for the Atlanta Constitu
tion, says: “1 believe myself to be
the only man now living who wit
nessed the inauguration of Jefferson
Davis as president of the Confed
erate States at Montgomery on Feb
ruary 18, 1861, and Abraham Lin
coln inaugurated as president
of the United States on March 4,
following. If there is any other per
son living who witnessed both events.
1 have no trace of him. 1 was a boy
in my tenth year, accompanying my
father who thought it a worthwhile
part of my education to see and re
member those eventful occasions.”
Dr. Small was in Montgomery Wed
nesday, the birthday of Jeff Dtfvis,
attending the Confederate reuinon,
and remarked: “It was here in his
toric Montgomery, where cluster the
traditions of the southland, that he
was sworn in as provisional presi
dent of the Confederacy. It is fit
ting that we should meet here today
and pause to honor his mem t ■ i
his birthday, in this, the very hea i
of the sacred south where there is to
be found more of the traditions and
hospitality of the south than any
where else.”
SAFETY RESTS WITH THE
INDIVIDUAL
During 1930, insurance companies
paid out $300,000,000 as a result of
automobile accidents—only a little
less than was paid out for fire loss.
The automobile death toll of 32,000
was about 7,000 more than were
killed in industrial accidents.
In both waste of life and cost to
the public- casualty insurance rates
are a direct reflection of accident
statistics—carelessly and incompe
tently handled automobiles consti
tute one of our foremost problems.
At one time it was believed that
the ends of safety could be advanced
by improved roads, cars and the like.
But experience has given this theory’
a sad blow. It is not uncommon for
some new and important develop
ment—such as four-wheel brakes,
better tires, or lower center of gravi
ty in a car—to result in more acci
dents, due to the public overrating
the new safety factor. For the same
reason removing hazards from a
stretch of highway will sometimes
result in more accidents occurring
there as a result of more careless
driving.
Now safety authorities recognize
that the most important factors are
not roads and automobiles, but the
driver and the pedestrian. They
must absorb the “safety idea” if
any definite progress in automobile
accident prevention is to be made.
The difficulties in spreading this idea
are obvious—at present about 40,-
000,000 people drive the 27,000,000
cars in this country.
So the problem comes down to
this—a sense of responsibility on the
purt of the individual motorist and
pedestrian. Users of the streets and
highways have it in their power to
make those streets and highways
safe—no one else can do it for them.
NOW FOR NEXT MOVE
Now that schools are out and
books ure laid aside till September,
the problem with the thoughtful
parent is: “What shall I do to em
ploy the time of my children?”
These very thoughtful people can
not appreciate the idea that to have
the boys and girls in idleness will be
almost, if not quite exasperating.
Not that they do not love the little
ones, but because of the old adage,
“An idle brain is the devil’s work
shop.” The greatest care should be
given to the matter of choosing for
the offspring the tasks that are not
too hard but that are honorable.
They may involve a little labor, and
yet that is not bad. The greatest
successes in the human family are
men who have been willing to ex
ercise both brain and muscle. It
won’t hurt some of them to hoe corn
and cotton and do other duties on
the farm. The girls might take
cooking and sewing lessons from
mother as the days go by.—Walton
News.
THE USE OF THE VETO
The governor of North Dakota,
speaking in the conference of gov
ernors at French Lick, advocated
freer use by state executives of their
veto power to control the danger
ously mounting expenses of govern
ment. And the Atlanta Constitu
tion said: “Such a courageous use
of the power here in Georgia in
the last four years would quite like
ly have averted the unfortunately
great deficit now afflicting the state
and dismaying the minds of the in
coming general assembly.”
Those immense moving vans that
transport household goods from one
sectiorr~to another resemble a one
room dwelling out in the middle of
the highway; but a Walton county
man, while driving his car along the
road one night recently, and seeing
one of these vehicles, thought he
was approaching a covered bridge.
Slightly checking his speed, the
driver made ready for the crossing,
when there was a smashing impact,
which threw him into the road and
turned his car into a bent and twist
ed mass of iron. The covered bridge
was a large moving van.
At the recent commencement ex
ercises a{ Mercer University, the
honorary degree of LL. D. was con
ferred on Mrs. W. J. Neel of Cnr
tersville. Mrs. Neel has been state
president of the Baptist Woman’s
Missionary Union for twenty years,
and the degree was given her for
her many outstanding activities and
benefits to the denomination.
Has it ever occurred to you that
the governor chosen at the last elec
tion has not yet been inducted into
office, and yet this time next year
U tote will he in the middle of
another political fight? There will
be candidates for everything from
coroner to president, and the politi
• ••••! ''tomna will he filled with orators
extolling their fitness for otiice.
THE STONE MOUNTAIN
MEMORIAL
There has been considerable com
ment recently about just what is to
be done towards finishing the Stone
Mountain memorial. Mayor Key of
Atlanta is insisting upon the owners
of the propety deeding the moun
tain side to the city of Atlanta in
fee simple before any more work is
done, and they refuse ,to do this un
less they are asstlred the work will
be completed.
The DeKalb New Era, a news
paper published within a stone’s
throw of Stone Mountain, in com
menting on the completion of the
monument, says:
“People occasionally ask whether
this monument will ever be complet
ed. Very probably not. It would
be exceedingly difficult to secure any
financial assistance to carry forward
this work now. As the years pass,
interest in it will gradually fade.
The only thing which will not fade
is the scar on the face of the moun
tain. This will remain an eternal
and tragic reminder of a high and
noble impulse which came to naught,
and in this way it may after all be
the most fitting memorial to the
Confederacy that can be conceived
—something entered upon with
militant ardor and yet something
which failed, and left only tragic ruin
behind.”
CHECKING TREASURY RAIDERS
(From Moultrie Observer)
The Albany Herald observes that
Alabama is passing through, quite
the same experience Georgia has
had the past two or three years with
current debts. While we are speak
ing in terms of five and seven mil
lion dollar deficits they are con
fronted with a fifteen million dollar
deficit in the neighboring state.
There is a disposition among some
of the lawmakers to allow the debts
to run along. Maybe they take the
position that times like these are not
debt paying times. The opponents
of higher taxes in Alabama have
gotten together and formed a bloc,
declaring they will not stand for any
further increase in taxation. They
take the position that the people
cannot stand further tax burdens at
this time.
The opponents of measures to pay
off the debts of the state are being
criticized and considered obstruc
tionists. There are many who want
the institutions provided for and the
good name of the state safeguard-
ed.
The Observer can sympathize with
both factions. We hold with those
who think that promises should be
paid. We also hold with those who
think there must be a stop some
place in the matter of raiding the
treasury, pushing through large ap
propriations and then starting a cry
of wolf and a demand that we raise
more money to pay the debts and
save the good name of the state.
There should be more enthusiasm
in the fight to rid the state of debts
if there was not a feeling that just
about the time the debts are all paid
we will have another one of those
spending spells. We will hear that
some other state is more “progres
sive” than our state, and we will be
shown that it is absolutely neces-
sary to spend more millions to keep
up with the Joneses. There will be
lobbies standing by to urge the large
appropriations, the newspapers will
lack the courage to stand up and
fight against lobbies and reckless
spending and the governor will lack
the courage to veto the appropriation
bill and we will find that there are
more debts piled upon the state.
The trouble with these periodical
spending spells is that they generally
come along when times are prosper
ous and then pay day comes along
when times are hard, prices low and
money tight.
If there was some way to hold ap
propriation bills down in the future
we think the people would be in
greater haste to pay off the debts.
Since there is no way to hold down
the spenders except to keep the
treasury empty it is not a bad thing,
maybe, to carry along some debts
and some “distress.”
The Madison Madisonian very
wisely thinks that the people of
Georgia are r.ot going to be in a
hurry about swapping the constitu
tion framed by Toombs and men of
his statesmanship for an instrument
inspired by the present school of
Georgia polities, and adds further:
“And yet Mr. Strozier, Judge Orville
Park’s law partner, is quoted as say
ing those Georgia people who do not
favor anew constitution are just
ignorant, and controlled by their
prejudices and passions . Maybe he
thinks tv" inrnorant because
they uii not know any better than
to pay to his law firm last year fees
from the state treasury that are said
-o approximate one hundred thous
ands dollars.”
HON. J. MORGAN NIX ELECTED
SENATOR
At an election held in Jackson,
Banks and Hall counties on Wednes
day, Mr. J. Morgan Nix was chosen
to represent the 33rd district in the
State Senate, which convenes on
June 24.
Mr. Nix is a resident of Com
merce. He is a native of Jackson
county, and is 68 years of age. He
Is a son of the late Tom Nix, and is a
[ large land owner. Mr. Nifc is a
; member of the firm of Davis and
Nix, leading merchants of Com
-1 merce. He has served as mayor of
that city, and has been on the coun-
I cil several terms. For one term he
was on the Board of Commissioners
l of Roads and Revenues of Jackson
i
rounty.
In young manhood, Mr. Nix mar
lied Miss Dora Bennett, a daughter
of the late Captain Alva T. Bennett,
captain in the Civil War, command
ing Company ”E,” 34th Georgia
Regiment, and a representative in
the Georgia legislature from Jack
son county for eight years. Mrs.
Nix is a sister of G. D. Bennett,
Clarke county representative, and
Dr. J. C. Bennett, of Jefferson, presi
dent of the Ninth District Medical
Society and Grand Marshal of the
Grand Lodge of Georgia, F. & A.
M., and Rev. Joseph Johnston Ben
nett, former secretary and treasurer
of the Georgia Baptist convention.
Hon. Abit Nix, prominent Athens at
torney, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Morgan Nix, as is Ernest Nix of
Jacksonville, Fla. The senator-elect
has four daughters, viz: Mrs. Mas
sey, of Greenville, S. C.; Mrs. Wil
liams, of Tifton, Ga.; Miss Lurline
Nix, of Commerce, and Miss Lucile
Nix, of Winston-Salen, N. C. From
young manhood he has been a con
sistent member of the Baptist
church; a member of Hudson Lodge,
No. 294, serving as treasurer for
years, and is likewise a member of
the Odd Fellows.
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM
The Georgia General Assembly,
which convenes June 24, will have
many matters of extreme import
ance to pass upon, and one of the
most momentous is the re-district
ing of the state, in order to reduce
the number of congressional dis
tricts from twelve to ten.
According to the federal census,
Georgia lost in population between
the years of 1920 and 1930 suffici
ently to reduce the number of con
gressmen in this state. Much of
this loss in population is due to the
exodus of the negro to the Northern
states. However, it represents a
loss in population and a reduction
of representation in the National
House of Congress. It will be a
difficult problem to decide just
which two congressmen are to lose
their jobs.
WORDS OF WISDOM
The Saturday Evening Post, in a
recent well-worded, calm and delib
ate editorial, points out a real dang
er from communist activities in the
United States today. It shows that
there is no reason for hysteria but
that there is definite reason for
curbing this menace within our own
boundaries.
It believes in neither a fool’s para
dise type of indulgence on the one
hand, nor violent suppression and re
action on the other.
In concluding its comment, it says:
“It takes effort, even for a nation as
great as this, to remain sound and
whole.”
Night baseball in Atlanta is prov
ing quite popular, drawing crowds of
from seven to ten thousand people at
each game. The writer attended
one a few nights ago, and the big
grand stand could hardly seat the
people. We concluded the Baxley
Banner was correct when it said,
“It seems to us the times are not
so hard, after all. People still have
money to go to theaters, play pool,
and indulge in numerous forms of
pleasure.”
Editor Hilton, over at Homer, is
bewailing the fact that he has only
three small broilers; several hundred
people owe him money, and these
several hundred persons have several
thousand chickens. Now, if his sub
scribers do not read,between the
lines, they are simply dumb. How
ever, he says, “Don’t bring us roost
ers. We don’t like his crow nor his
meat.”
The legislature at its coming ses
sion must find $7,000,000 to pay old
debts, and $30,000 000 to koon the
state going, and tk.' ineo? .ing admin
istration is pledged not only not to
increase JaxeT, but to drastically re
crorse taxes, but to drastically re
duce them. It just can not be done.
NEW YORK PASTOR
INAUGURATES 8 O’CLOCK
SERVICE FOR GOLFERS
New York. —The Sunday equable
that disrupts the peace of nearly
every home where the head of the
house would rather play golf than
go to church has been settled in at
least one congregation.
The Rev. Mr. Arthur Stanley,
pastor of the White Plains Congre
gational church, has inaugurated a
special 8 o’clock service for golfers
at which sports garb, including
knickers, blazers, hobnailed shoes
and caps, will be the accepted thing.
Not only has this mandate pleased
the members of his congregation,
the women included, but it has re
ceived the approbation of ministers,
priests and rabbis from Fifth avenue
to Long Island urban communities.
“It’s a most excellent plan in the
country,” said the Rev. Harold L.
Gibb, assistant pastor at the fashion
able St. Thomas’ Episcopal church
on Fifth avenue. Mr. Gibb, how
ever, does not think it would be quite
proner to wear knickers in city
churches.
“If people want to come to church
in knickers, God bless them, was
the way the Rev. William H. Fri
day of the Olivet Baptist church,
Valley Stream, L. 1., voiced his ap
proval of the plan.
Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen, execu
tive director of the United Synago
gue of America, believes that “it is
possible to feel prayerful in any
garb.”
“It is the spirit that is important,
not the clothes,” he said-
The idea is hardly an innovation in
the Catholic churches, it was ex
plained by representatives of that
faith. The early services are often
attended by those in sports garb.
As far as clothes are concerned
“anything that is reasonable, is per
missible.”
“The churches must adapt them
selves and their programs to present
day conditions,” agreed the Rev.
Harry Belcher, pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, Hempstead,
Long Island.
“So many men find it difficult to
get outdoor exercise during the
week that it seems logical to take
this into consideration in arranging
one’s services.”
MISS MILDRED DALTON MEM
BER FUND FOR FUN CLUB
Cashing in on a year of thrift,
Miss Mildred Dalton, a student of
Martin Institute, and a member of
the Fund for Fun Club, organized a
year ago by Mrs. Mildred Seydell,
feature writer on the Atlanta Geor
gain staff, left this week with five
other members of the club for a
week’s stay in the North Georgia
mountains.
The six young ladies dined Sat
urday night at the Biltmore Hotel
as guests of Mrs. Seydell, after
which they were guests at the Fox
Theater, where they witnessed a per
formance of “Daddy Long Legs.”
At 7 o’clock they appeared over
WGST during The Georgian-Ameri
can hour to tell the folks back home
of the start of their vacation.
The club was conceived a year
ago by Mrs. Seydell, with the idea
of furnishing a vacation to young
girls of meager income.
Members of the party spent Sat
urday night at the home of Mrs. Sey
dell, and will make headquarters at
the Seydell cottage at Lakemont for
a week.
The party consists of Mary Berry,
Bolton; Sallie Cook, Atlanta; Evelyn
Hargrove, Sallie Cook, Smyrna;
Grace Branch, Dublin; and Mildred
Dalton, Jefferson.
It is estimated that North Geor
gia will ship between 700 and 900
cars of peaches this season, and a
far better price is anticipated than
has been received in several years.
Also, the trees are in a healthy
state of cultivation, and the crop
has prospect of being of high
quality. Jackson county has several
commercial peach growers at Apple
Valley, Commerce and Maysville, and
a large crop, with good prices, will
mean much to the county. The
gathering and packing of the crop
will aid the unemployment situation.
Over in Morgan county last week
several head of cows belonging to
Mr. Lon Nolan were seized with
hydrophobia. They were killed, and
their bodies burned, and all parties
who had anything to do with hand
ling the infected cows were given
the Pasteur treatment.
Fifteen persons were killed and
eight others injured in auto crashes
on last Sunday. None of them was
Georgians.
Franklin county is organizing a
County Chanber of Commerce, and
the county agent has announced that
Franklin will stage a fair this fall.
HERMAN DeLAPERRJERE
THANKS VOTERS
I wish to thank my loyal friends
for their support in my race for the
senate, and while I did not win it
was extremely gratifying to me to
know that I carried nine of the fo Ur .
teen precincts in the county, by a
large majority. My interest in th e
progress and development of our
state and county has in no way de
creased, and I shall note with pleas,
ure every measure designed by the
General Assembly to benefit the
masses of our people.
To my good friends whose efforts
in the interest of my race were con
stant and untiring, I owe a debt of
gratitude. To them and to all those
who rallied to my support and stood
so loyally by me, I extend my sincere
thanks and appreciation.
Respectfully,
Herman DeLaperriure.
THE A. & M. SCHOOL PROBLEMS
The A. & M. Schools in Georgia
are coming in for a lot of criticism,
and there is a growing sentiment
that they are not doing work com
mensurate with the large amount of
money they are drawing from the
state. The Hartwell Sun says:
“Hartwell Schools graduated more
from the High School Department
this year than the total attendance
at some of Georgia’s A. & M.
Schools. In addition, the Hartwell
School has about six hundred other
students besides the graduating class
and the entire school is operated for
around twenty-four thousand dollars
a year. They teach vocational agri
culture, home economics, etc. This
is not given as a boost for the Hart
well Schools but just another reason
for the abolition of some of Geor
gia’s A. &M. Schools. Some of
these schools ask for a state appro
priation of around thirty thousand
dollars a year to care for a student
body which numbers less than Hart
well’s graduating class. And when
we say this some fellow rises up and
accuses us of being opposed to edu
cation.”
PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
The regular meeting of the Wo
man’s Auxiliary of the Presbyterian
church met at the home of Mrs. J.
V. Alexander on Monday, June Bth.
The president, Mrs. S. Kinningham,
had charge of the business meeting.
Disposing of a few items of unfinish
ed business, and having reports from
the circle chairmen and treasurer,
she called on Mrs. Hall Moore, who
gave a very interesting and instruc
tive report of Presbyterial, which
was held at Toccoa during the month
of April.
Mrs. C. E.Barnett had charge of
the program, which was on “Home
Mission Schools.” Her Scripture
tvas taken from John, 14th chapter,
1-11 verses. The Theme was: “The
Way, The Truth, and The Light."
This devotional was made more im
pressive by the reading of two
stanzas of the song, “In the Shadow
of His Wings,” by Mrs. J. C. Turner.
Song, All Hail the Ptrwer of Jesus
Name.
Prayer, by the Leader.
A. piece on “Soul Winning" was
road by Mrs. S. B. Archer.
Spiritual Nurture and Living
Testimonies, Mrs. A. H. Moore.
Influencing Homes and Schools,
Mrs. W. H. Smith.
After enjoying a social half hour,
adjourned to meet with Mrs. W. M.
McDonald in July.
MEETING OF BAPTIST W. M. S.
The June meeting of the Woman’s
Missionary Society was held at the
church Monday afternoon.
The meeting was called to order
by the president, and opened with
prayer by Miss Myra Wilhite. The
business session was held first, and
reports from officers and chairmen
given.
Mrs. Rigdon, Mission Study Chaii
man, gave an interesting outline on
blackboard of the Bible Study f°i
the next circle meetings. She also
gave an encouraging report from the
Rally meeting recently held at Pen
dergrass.
Mrs. T. T. Benton had charge of
program, rendered by the Myra Wil
hite Circle, which gave deep thoughts
for the present day need on Youth.
Those taking part, and making cleai
and uplifting the subject, \outh,
were: Mrs. T. T. Benton, Miss Myra
Wilhite, Miss Elizabeth Rigdon.
with closing prayer by Rev. R- W
Rigdon.
Those present, were: Mesdames L
T. Benton, Clifford Storey, J- •
Bennett, Styles Dadisman, R- L. Cat
roll, Soney Ramsey, R. M. Rigdon.
George Bailey, Fannie Turner, Mis*
cs Cora Hunter, Myra Wilhite, Eliza
beth Rigdon, and Master Gibson
Ramsey.