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THE JACKSON HERALD
l'uulished Weekly
*1 .50 A Year—ln Advance
Entered at The Jefferson Post office
ns Second-Class Mail Matter
Ofdci.il Orgtt.i of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON Bus. M’f’r.
Jefferson, Ga., June 18, 1931.
OTHER PANICS
Dr. Sum W. Small, an editorial
rand feature writer on the Atlanta
Constitution, is one of the most re
markable men of our knowledge.
Although past eighty years of age, he
writes with the vigor and versatility
f amin of younger years. Recent
ly he a present at the closing ex
orcises of hk Alma Mater, Emory
mini Henry College, at Emory, \u.,
ami following his alumni address, the
airg.ee of LL. D. was conferred up
wn him, an honor he richly de
serves. He graduated from this
college 60 years ago.
In his “Looking and Listening”
••idurnn last Thursday, he said:
* * *
Our country is just now wallow
ing through a period of economic
t. oubles, business depression, farm
production poverties, suspended fac
tories, low or no wages, and enorm
mu ■ unemployment. Hut those un
welcome things are not novel. We
Issue had them before and many
Aimes worse.
Have we forgotten the Roosevelt
panic of 1907 when the banks all ov
er the country refused to let out to
their depositors more than $5 or $lO
pei day, and in some cities “clearing
Jjuii.se certificates” were used instead
f currency; when w'ork was scant
wages cut to the bone, and there
was scarcely any market for produce
r goods?
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Other Panic* Were Paralyzing
And what about that “Northern
Pacific” stock panic in 1901 that
started in Wall Street and spread
stagnation and distress all over the
land ?
And the Marine bank and Grant
.and Ward panic in 1 884 which large
ly paralyzed the country, stood Pres
ident Arthur on his head, and turned
ihe people democratic enough to
c-lect Grover Cleveland to the presi
dency in November following.
Of course, there arc few now' who
van remember the tough times and
rough sic kling of almost everybody
when the great panic of 1873 came
oti in the beginning of President
Grant’s second term, or the big
“Black Friday” of 1869 that spread
financial ruin over the land.
All those, too, were republican
panics, cut otf the same web of re
publican special interest policies, just
ns the present “dumb panic” is a
republican gift to the people.
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What The People Should Know
When the people are told that the
democratic party does not know how
to govern the nation and that when
Li is in power there are “hard times”
and the country is never prosperous
but when the republicans run it, they
should be told the truth, with the
proof produced.”
A SERIOUS INDICTMENT
A well known newspaper writer
says the most influential school in
America at present is the “movie.”
"That “it teaches girls how to dress
und how to fix their hair; it teaches
older women how to set the table,
how to furnish the living room, how
lo greet guests; it teaches manners,
customs and standards.
“From the movies young America
learns that “nice” people the
kind of people he envies and mimics,
have an abundance of money, made
without soiling their hands; that all
such people serve cocktails in their
homes; that the young smoke many
trignretes and kiss a great deal; that
twth sexes, married and single, take
their love-adventure where they can
find it: that the chief end of life is
to dress well, drive fast, make wise
cracks, make money and make
whoopee.”
The writer did not intend to put
the blame on the picture show busi
ness, because he says the Cinema
provides what the public demands,
but he adds, “Parents and teachers
and religious institutions urge young
people to "be good” and to love
their country, but character-making
5s left to chance environment, the
public prints, the cinema and cir
cumstance.”
Times may be hard for some folks,
but not for 4-11 Club boys. On May
22nd. 74 counties had made reser
vations for 1,073 boys for the 1931
session of Camp Wilkins, the State
-4-H Club camp, at the State College
1‘ Agriculture. At this rate, 107
■county groups that attend Camp
Wilkins this summer should bring
.approximately 1,550 boys, which
would surpass the peak year of
1929 when 1512 boys attended.
LET PEOPLE KNOW YOU HAVE
SOMETHING TO SELL
Arthur Brisbane says:
“Merchants of New York, Chicago,
Seattle and elsewhere have proved
that the best weapon against depres
sion is intelligent advertising.
“Goods are cheaper, get them,
sell them at low prices, let people
know you have them, and business
will improve.
“Mr. Jesse I. Straus, one of the
ablest New York merchants, follow
ing a very able and energetic ad
vertising campaign based on goods
and prices, announces an increase
now of 42 per cent in the number
of sales. And, what is more import
ant, the fact that it became neces
sary to hire more than 800 addition
al employes to take care of the de
mand created by good advertising.
“There is little good to have what
the people want unless you let the
people know that you have it. Mr.
Straus and his two younger brothers,
Percy and Herbert, understand
that.”
RAILROADS AND INCREASED
FREIGHT
Railroads are asking the Interstate
Commerce Commission for an in
crease in freight rates, which would
increase their income approximately
$400,000,000. At the same time they
are fighting buses, because they are
hauling freight cheaper than the
present railroad prices, and are tak
ing all the business from the rail
roads. We are inclined to think the
railroads are adopting the wrong
policy. If they are losing money, it
would be better’ to reduce overhead
expenses at the present time, rather
than increase rates. Railroads are
a great factor in the progress of the
country, and are a necessity. They
have men with big brains outlining
their policies, and we feel sure they
will work out a plan that will meet
competition, and at the same time
not place a greater burden on the
buying public.
BROWN PREACHED TWELVE
HOURS
We have all kinds of endurance
records. One person prides himself
on how many pies he can eat; an
other on how long he can keep his
airplane in the air; another how
many hours he can sit in a tree; an
other how long he can dance; but it
remains for Rev. G. Z. Brown of Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, Washington
City, to declare himself holder of the
world’s record for long sermons.
He preached 12 hours and 10
minutes on prohibition, fast living,
“the evil in dancing,” famine, blight,
drouth and pestilence, and in the
long sermon he paused only to eat
four lamb chops, some chicken and
a glass of milk.
But an Indian chief, Red Jacket,
whose monument stands in the park
at Buffalo, N. Y., holds the record
for long preaching.
He talked all night and nearly all
day to the Indians of his tribe, per
suading them to not to adopt the
British suggestion and help along by
massacreing the American whites of
Batavia.
TWELVE MONTH SCHOOLS
There is a growing sentiment to
keep all colleges open the entire
year, and we believe the time is near
at hand when all schools will be run
twelve months, with short Christmas
and summer vacations. And we see
no reason why this should not be
done. There is no excuse for teach
ers and children being idle for three
long months.
Riverside Military Academy, a
popular boys prep school, located at
Gainesville, has leased for five years
Hollywood Inn, one of the largest
hotel buildings on the Coast of
Florida, together with 100 acres of
land, and a fine new academic school
building at Hollywood, and has an
nounced that itjs to hold its winter
session in Florida. After the Christ
mas holidays, the entire corps of
cadets and the faculty will report
at Hollywood. It is the purpose of
the school to begin planning for a
twelve month’s school.
A writer in the Atlanta Constitu
tion says: “Retrenchment in the cost
of operating the state government
is going to prove difficult. On every
hand there is a sort of “lip service
sympathy with the administration
demand to cut down expenses. Just
where to begin cutting disturbs the
legislative almost as much at it does
the administrative mind. Increased
appropriations are being sought by
some of the institutions. New build
ings are being proposed. Additional
services to the people are being con
templated. Reorganization, itself,
while designed to prune the pay roll
tree, is inextricably woven, it ap
pears, with the creation of anew
job here and there in the interest
of efficiency.”
THE WOMEN ARE REPROACHED
Is it not strange that the women
are blamed for almost all the evils
of the land, but, as the Dawson News
says: “There is nothing new about
this, either. Man has been doing it
since Eve slipped Adam an apple in
the Garden of Eden—and getting
exactly nothing by it.”
The latest accusation placed
against the fair sex is by Henry
Stude, president of the American
Bakers Association, who remarks
that “the foibles of Uncle Sam’s
daughters are costing our farmers
at least $500,000,000 a year.” Now
what do you think about that? The
women, have for a long time been ac
cused of causing an over supply of
cotton, and now the great surplus
of wheat is laid at their door. The
women quit wearing cotton stock
ings, and now they have cut out
bread, because it tends to increase
their averdupois—and the result, too
much cotton and too much wheat.
Mr. Stude argues that an increase
in the use of cotton stockings and
bread will help our pocketbooks, our
health, our farmers, and our govern
ment.
GEORGIA FOR ROOSEVELT
Meriwether, the Georgia home
county of Franklin D. Roosevelt, led
the way Saturday for action by oth
er counties towards the organization
of a statewide movement to have
Georgia compliment its distinguished
son by adoption, by giving him with
out opposition the state’s delegation
at the next national convention.
A largely attended meeting of
leading citizens from every part of
Meriwether county assembled at the
courthouse at Greenville and unani
mously adopted a resolution, endors
ing Roosevelt. This action was
closely followed by Baldwin county
democrats who met in Milledgeville
Saturday afternoon and formed an
organization to sponsor the nomina
tion of Governor Franklin D. Roose
velt, of New York, as the party
standard bearer in the 1932 cam
paign.
MR. GREEN BRASELTON ILL
Friends of Mr. Green Braselton
have been greatly concerned for
several days because of a throat
trouble that has developed during
the past few weeks. Accompanied
by Dr. E. M. McDonald, he spent
several days last week under the
care of Atlanta specialists, and the
outcome of their examination is a
waited with much anxiety by his
family and friends. Mr. Braselton
is a member of the firm of Brasol
ton Bros., of Braselton, and is one
of Jackson county’s most prominent
citizens and business men. If the
deep solicitude and good wishes of
his friends avail anything, he will
soon be restored to his usual health
and strength.
COTTON IS SOLD BELOW COST
Athens, Ga., June 9.—Average
cost per acte to grow last year’s cot
ton crop in Georgia was $32.10. The
average yield was 197 pounds of lint
per acre, the highest acre yield in
the state since 1915, but the an
nual return, based on a 10-year
average, was only $26.80 per acre.
These facts were revealed here
today by Professor E. C. Westbrook,
tobacco and cotton specialist of the
State College of Agriculture.
“For the last 10 years the Georgia
farmer has sold his cotton at an
average of 2 cents per pound less
than it cost him to grow it,” West
brook said. “This would mean an
annual return of $2.68 per acre less
than he should' have received.”
Evidently some people don’t think
Georgia has a deficit right now of
about $7,000,000 and obligations ma
turing this year of an additional sl,-
000,000, as some of the institutions
and bureaus are asking the general
assembly soon to meet to make ap
propriations of $2,500,000 in excess
of anticipated revenues. Our law
makers have heard so much about
“deficits” during the past four years
that no doubt their minds are made
up to curtail appropriations, instead
of increasing them. Educational in
stitutions and bureaus must reduce
expenses.
The Clayton Tribune says the
teachers of Rabun county have
not been paid since Christmas, and
adds: “Just why, we cannot explain
lor understand. Certainly it cannot
' be the fault of the teachers them-
I selves for they have kept steadily
on the job doing good work faith
! fully and patiently. Nor can it be
the fault of these good people up
here, the parents, the citizens and
1 the children. They love their schools
' and they appreciate what the teach
' ers have meant to them. The fault
! must be elsewhere.”
Brief News Items
Congregation Limits Sermon to 20
Minutes
Thomasville ,Ga. —“What’s sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gan
der,” says the old adage. Over in
the neighboring town of Pelham
some of the laymen of the Methodist
church are making talks, one by one,
to the assembled congregation. The
weather is warm, so Rev. Mr. Fish
er, the pastor, limited the addresses
to eight minutes per day, and stands
by with a bell with which the talker
is rung off when the designated time ,
expires. '
Just to make it “tit for tat ’ the {
pastor agreed to limit his Sunday
sermons to 20 minutes each, with a
layman standing by to ring him off i
if he slipped over. He failed on the
first attempt, but was promptly
rung off and gracefully sat down.
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170 Carload* Of Georgia Peache*
Sold Last Week
Macon, Ga. —The movement of {
approximately 170 carloads of Geor- ;
K ia peaches this week consisted ]
mostly of Uneedas with a few cars
of Red Birds, one or two solid cars ,
of Early Rose and many express j
shipments of the letter variety.
Almost the entire movement went I
to New York.
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Northwest Held In Drought’* Grip;
U. S. Aid It Urged
Washington. Drought, which
scared a large part of the country
last year, still holds sway over much
i of the northwest .
Appeals for government financial
aid continue to be made in behalf of
stricken farmers facing the loss of
another crop.
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Crops Suffering From Drouth
Thomasville, Ga.—With water in
rivers and streams the lowest in
years and no rain in prospect, plant
ers over all South Georgia today ex
pressed fear that the early summer
drouth will seriously damage grow-
ing crops.
Many farmers in this immediate
section reported their crops were
withering in the field.
Grass is dying on the lawns of the
city where no water is available from
the city supply.
No rain has fallen in the Thomas
ville area in more than a month. In
several months preceding June rain
fall was far below normal, produc
ing a critical situation for farmers.
The Ochlocknee River, which half
encircles Thomasville at a distance
of five miles from the corporate
limits, is about as low as the stream
ever gets.
J}! * *
Fred Nash, Auto Accident Victim,
Dies Of Injuries
Athens, Ga.—Fred Nash, 40, who
was injured in an automobile acci
dent last Friday afternoon on the
Barnett Shoals road, died today at
11.10 a. m. in a local hospital.
Mr. Nash received three fractures
of the skull, gashes about the head,
and other injuries, when his car col
lided with a car driven by Rogers
Kittle. Mr. Kittle was placed in the
Clarke county jail under SI,OOO bond
on charges of assault with intent to
murder.
“To the victor belong the spoils,”
is a true saying, especially in the
political game. John B. Wilson, who
will succeed George H. Carswell and
assume the duties of the office of
Secretary of State on June 27th,
has written the following letter to
sixteen of the present employes of
the office, some of whom have been
in the office for the past 13 years:
“As you know, your term of office
under Honorable George H. Cars
well, secretary of state, will expire
June 27, 1931. This is to advise that
your services in that department will
not be continued after that date. I
wish to assure you that this decision
is not personal in the least and that
you have my best wishes.”
Mrs. Loula Kendall Rogers, aged
92, oldest living graduate of Wes
leyan College, died at the home of
her daughter in Tennille Sunday.
She was recovering from an illness
I when the shock of the sudden death
in San Antonio, Texas, of her son,
Thomas Rogers, who was en route to
visit her, precipitated her death.
Mrs. Rogers was a member of the
Wesleyan class of 1857. Her only
living class-mate is Mrs. Anne Gun
by Mitchell, of Atlanta. Another of
her class-mates, Mrs. Virginia Con
nor Hopson, of Macon, died in Ma
con last fall. Mrs. Rogers attended
every commencement exercises of
Wesleyan until this year, when she
was too ill to go to Macon.
A group of seven men, employes
of the State Agricultural depart
ment, arc spending several days in
the county, inspecting the com
mercial peach orchards, to see if
there are any diseased trees.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN KILLED AT
CROSSING
A man believed to be Ira Mc-
Daniel, about 28 years old, and
thought to live in the Fulton cotton
and mill district, was killed instant
ly Monday morning when a highway
department truck on which he was
hitch-hiking, was struck by a loco
motive at the East Grogan street
railroad crossing in Lawrenceville.
The dead man was almost decapi
tated when a heavy tractor which
was being hauled on the truck to
Elberton fell upon him.
A. L. Potts, of 309 Thompson
street, East Point, driver of the
truck, and Jack B. Storey, of Jef
ferson, who was riding on the seat
with Potts, were thrown to the
ground. Storey suffered slight in
juries, but Potts escaped.
The accident occurred just on this
side of Lawrenceville, where the
Loganville branch of the S. A. L.
crosses the highway. On account of
dwellings on either side of the road,
the view of the railroad track is ob
structed, and the approach to the
track is on a down-hill grade. So
few trains run over the branch line,
that Mr. Potts was right at the
train before he saw it, and the acci
dent was unavoidable. Carrying a
heavy tractor on the truck, and
coming down a rather steep grade,
it was impossible to come to a stop.
The engine struck the rear end of
the truck.
Mr. Potts is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Potts, of Brockton, and has
been a valued employee of the State
Highway department for four years,
working with the shops at East
Point, and this is his first accident.
CONGRESSMEN CALLED TO
ATLANTA
Congressman Charles R. Crisp, of
Americus, has called a meeting of
the members of the Georgia dele
gation in the lower house of con
gress to be held in Atlanta Thurs
day, June 25, to consider the state’s
redistricting problem.
“All the members of the delega
tion have been invited to a confer
ence in Atlanta,” Congressman Crisp
said, “only to consider the import
ance of getting action on the re
districting matter. I have no plan
and I doubt that any other member
has any particular plan. lam of the
opinion that this matter should be
left to the wisdom of the legislature,
out am also of the opinion that a
conference of the delegation might
prove helpful to the legislature in
its handling of the matter.”
GEORGIA TRUSTEES COMMEND
SOULE
Athens, Ga., June 15.—'The gener
al board of trustees of the Universi
ty of Georgia in session here today
adopted resolutions commending the
president of the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture, Dr. Andrew M.
Soule, and said the value of the ser
vices of the college to the state
“cannot be computed.”
The general board of trustees ex
tended to Dr. Soule thanks for his
“able, conscientious and untiring
work in directing the affairs of the
college,” and “success with which
his labors have been crowned.”
MRS. MAGGIE BENTON
GETS SII,OOO DAMAGES
Atlanta, Ga.—The court of ap
peals today affirmed the vedict of
SII,OOO damages awarded to Mrs.
Maggie Foster Benton, Athens, in
the death of her husband who was
killed by a Seaboard Airline rail
way train in Barrow county in 1928.
The husband was driving a truck
across a grade crossing, the records
said, when the train struck him.
Mrs. Benton claimed the railroad
failed to give proper warning of the
train’s approach.
We have been advised by the
General Electric Company that the
original one millionth General Elec
tric Refrigerator which is finished in
gold plate will be presented to Mr.
Henry Ford and placed in his Muse
um, the Edison Institute of Techno
logy, at Dearborn, Mich. The pre
sentation will be made by Mr. Gerard
j Swope, President of the General
| Electric Company, during the regu
| !ar General Electric radio hour on
i Saturday, June 20th, and the entire
I proceedings will be broadcast over
the N. B. C. Network.
When Governdr Hardman surren
ders the portfolio on Saturday, June
' 27, to Governor Russell, he will hand
| over also a state deficit of approxi-
I rnately $10,000,000, all of which has
accumulated since the solons sat four
rummers ago, and all this notwith
standing the fact that the law mak
ers spent eighty days the first of
this year in an endeavor to reduce
the deficit.
WOMAN’S CLUB MEETS
The Jefferson Woman’s Club held
the final meeting of the club year on
Monday afternoon, at the home of
Mrs. L. H. Isbell, with Mrs. Isbell,
Mrs. C. B. Lord, Misses Whitaker,
Collier and Alexander joint hostess
es.
The Litany was led by Miss Jewell
Alexander, and this was followed by
reports from the departments and
discussion*- of the plans and pro.
grams for the new year, begining in
September. The president, Mrs. L.
H. Isbell, appointed Mesdames M.
M. Bryan, H. E. Aderhold and T.
T. Benton, a committee to present
these plans at the September meet
ing.
Miss Alexander, the Librarian, re
ported that much interest was being
taken in the library, and that sev
eral new books had been purchased.
A large number of people are read
ing the books, and the club feels
that making it possible for people
to secure good literature is one of
the greatest and most far reaching
activities of the club.
The treasurer reported sufficient
money in the treasury to meet all
obligations.
The president appointed the
chairmen of departments for the new
year as follows: American Citizen
ship, Mrs. E. 11. Crooks; American
Home, Miss Sarah Whitaker; Educa
tion, Mrs. T. T. Benton; Fine Arts,
Mrs. E. L. Pirkle; Legislation, Mrs.
J. D. Escoe; Public Welfare, Mrs.
E. M. Mr3. M. M. Bryan
and Mrs. H. J. W\ Kizer; Internation
al Relations, Mrs. H. D. Dadisman;
Press and Publicity, Mrs. J. N. Hol
der; Tallulah Falls School, Mrs. J.
E. Randolph.
At the close of the business ses
sion, a Study in Citizenship for Wo
men was given by Mrs. Kesler, Mrs.
Escoe and Mrs. Holliday.
Miss Mary Pendergrass gave two
readings, “Those Funny Little Pig
tails,” and “Miss Capenvia;” and
Miss Frances Benton rendered a
piano solo, Hungarian, by McDonald.
Sandwiches and tea were served
by the hostesses. Those attending
the meeting were: Mesdames L. H.
Isbell, Claud Barnett, Effie Flanigan,
J. N. Holder, T. T. Benton, V. A.
Niblack, Stanley Kesler, W. T. Bry
an, H. E. Aderhold, M. M. Bryan, J.
D. Escoe, C. D. Cox, W. D. Holliday,
Grantland Hyde, Joe DeFoor, J. E.
Randolph, Misses Frances Smith,
Gladys Rigdon, Frances Benton,
Mary Pendergrass Jewell Alexander,
Leona Griffeth and Cora Hunter.
Miccosukee, a lake in south Geor
gia, near Valdosta, has a habit of
disappearing every seventh year,
and this is the year for its evanes
cense. Where the water of the big
fresh water lake goes to nobody
knows, but it is believed it drains
away through some subterranean
passage. W’hy it should happen onlj
once every seven years, however, is
unexplained. Furthermore, fisher
men say the drying up doesn’t affect
the size or numbers of the fish. It
is slowly drying up now.
We extend happy congratulations
to the Atlanta Constitution, one of
Georgia’s great dailies, on entering
its sixty-fourth year. The Constitu
tion was recently awarded the Pulit
zer prize for distinguished service,
a merited honor, and one that caus
ed the friends of the paper much
gratification.
A Methodist church at Deenwood,
in South Georgia, was blown down
during a storm last Sunday, and a
fertilizer plant at Albany was burn
ed after being struck by lightning.
The wind, rain and hail storm dam
aged peaches and crops in Middle
Georgia.
The legislature meets June 24, and
Governor-Elect Russell will be inau
gurated June 27. In his campaign
speeches, he indorsed greater econo
my in governmental affairs, and
expected to take an immediate stand
for scaling down appropriations to
meet the requirements of the state
treasury.
A series of courses designed to
assist parents in the bringing up 0
children will be offered at th'
Emory University summer schoo .
And we venture the assertion, tin
teachers will be old maids and bac u
lors. W’ell, we know lots of children
whose parents need some instruction
along this line.
The Dawsofi News notes the f
that boll weevils have come out o
hibernation, and are attacking 1 1
cotton . If it is as hot and di\ 1
that section as it is here, the li ft 1
pest can not long survive. Tin
trouble in this county is the cotton
plant is too small for the weevil
get much subsistence.
Individual radio receivers aie
be installed at each bed in 105 Arm>
hospitals.