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THE JACKSON HERALD
Published Weekly
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Eatercd at The Jefferson Postoffice
ns Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackion County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON Bu.. M’f’r.
JrlTerio’i, Ga. t July 16, 1931.
School property that once was
known as Perry-Rainey College,
located at Auburn, Barrow county,
but now’ belonging to the Christian
Education Association, is advertised
for public sale on the first Tuesday
in August. William H. Mewborne is
receiver, and the property is being
*oKJ by the Trust Company of Geor
jfia, receivers. The school has been
abandoned for several years.
Confederate veterans will get their
t”0 promptly on the first of every
month beginning with August, Pen
sion Commissioner John J. Hunt an
nounced Saturday. Judge Hunt said
that Governor Russell has given him
definite assurance of his co-operation
and all that he asks is that the ordi
naries bo prompt in turning in their
pay rolls.
The Dahlonega Nugget editor evi
den*ly thinks some people are late at
church because they want to miss
the collection. He says, ‘Bob Mead
crs put a telephone in the Metho
dist church last week. We don’t
know what it is for unless it is for
the preacher to make a call for the
members not present that the con
tribution basket had already been
carried ’round and they could come
now.”
A farmer near Commerce reports
that boll weevils are on the job in
the cotton fields, and that ‘he found
numerous punctured squares in his
cotton. Similar reports come from
the fields around Jefferson. It seems
that those of us who did not believe
that boll weevils, hot sunshine and
dry weather would mix, are mis
taken. The little pest is getting in
some devastating work in the late
cotton, and it behooves every farm
er to use all methods of extermin
ation and check the increase.
We understand that one of the
recent weddings in this county was
performed in a bean patch. We
never married any parties in a bean
patch, but have tied the nuptial
knot on every road leading out of
Dahlonega, in the court house, jail,
and various other places not used for
marrying ground, and it did just as
well as if a big to do had been held
and an apron presented to the bride
with a smile and a kiss. Likewise
with the bean patch wedding. An
swered just the same as if handsful
of rice had been cast at them. We
have seen this tried.—Dahlonega
Nugget.
Proposed abolition of the state de
partment of health in the reorganiz
ation program now before the legis
lature is disapproved by the Fulton
County Medical Society and the leg
islative committee of the Georgia
Slate Dental Society. Under the re
organization bill the department
would be replaced by a director of
health appointed by the governor.
This, physicians said in a resolution
adopted last night, would “place
Ceorgia’s health work in politics
and destroy an organization for
which we have worked for thirty
years.” The dental group said aboli
tion of the department would estab
lish a “dangerous precedent.”
According to Col. E. M. House,
adviser of President Wilson during
his regime as president of the Unit
ed States, he does not believe that
business and politics will mix—that
is to be successful, a person must
c'ither devote his time to politics or
to business. Col. House is recogniz
ed as an outstanding authority on
political matters. He said. “Hand
ling men in politics is a very differ
ent thing from handling them in
business. Business methods are al
so very different from those of poli
tics. A man once trained in business
■can never get the proper approach
to politics.”
An attack on the disposition made
of the Department of Forestry in the
reorganization bill now before the
house is contained in a statement is
sued Saturday by Bonnell Stone, sec
retary of the Georgia Forestry Asso
ciation. The bill provides for fores
try work in a department of natural
resources along with the State Board
of Game and Fish and the State De
partment of Geology. The set-up
under the bill would be for ap
pointment by the governor of a di
rector of natural resources to serve
two years concurrently with the gov
ernor. Mr. Stone points out in his
statement that a thorough study of
the bill will reveal surprising fea
tures.
WEDNESDAY OF THIS WEEK
ST. SWITHIN’S DAY
It is said that talking about the
weather used to be either a means
of changing the conversation when
the youngster of the household had
made some embarrassing remark, or
else was a sure mark that you did
not know the latest book of the
month, or could not talk about it if
you did, but in face of the brand of
weather we have had this summer,
one feels he is justified in writing
about it. Von Herman, the Atlanta
meteorologist, became disgusted
several days ago, and said he had to
confess he was unable to explain
why rain failed to fall in Atlanta
when plentiful showers were report
ed at Macon, Rome, Thomasville,
and other places. Well, today,
Wednesday, which is generally known
as St. Swithin’s Day, is the day which
legend has it that the forecast for
the next forty days is decided. If
rain comes on this day, rain is ex
pected to continue for the following
forty days. The weather man states
however that the old St. Swithin’s
legend has nothing to do with this
country and its maxim do6s not
hold here. It originated in the
north of England and concerns
weather conditions there, and com
mon talk has caused the legend to be
accepted in this country, when it
actually has no bearing here.
The old legend originated from the
story of St. Swithin, an ecclesiastic
of the ninth century who at his own
request was buried outside the
church of Winchester where the pas
sersby may tread upon his grave and
the rain fall upon it. Later the
bishop was canonized and his body
exhumed and moved inside the
church. This was to have taken
place on July 15, but torrents of
rain fell on that day and the cere
mony was postponed, and the rain
poured for forty days. Since then
the legend has resulted that if it
rains on July 15 it will rain for the
following forty days. It is said that
climatic conditions in this part of
England often cause it to rain at
this season.
COLORED PEOPLE IN NORTH
SUFFER FROM UNEMPLOYMENT
Colored people who left Georgia
and went to Northern States are
suffering greatly from the depres
sion, because when workmen are
laid off, the colored men and women
are the first to go. In St. Louis,
Mo., for instance, negroes comprise
nine per cent of the population, but
sixty-six per cent of the unemploy
ed are colored citizens. The St.
Louis Dispatch says: “During times
of peak prosperity strenuous meth
ods have been used to lure the negro
from the rural South to man the
mills of the North. Various forms
of ballyhoo, with the underlying
theme of higher wages, have been re
sorted to. For the most part un
skilled labor, the negro is the first to
suffer in a depression. The Urban
league reports a burden of evidence
showing a tendency to replace negro
workers with white. Comparatively
the negro in the South is much bet
ter off. It will be well to remember
these facts when next there is talk
of a cheap and mobile labor supply.
Perhaps in the future the negro will
not be so ready to take the bait of
quick money in the No.rth.”
And now comes the news that in
overhauling the interior of the capi
tol building all those elaborate oil
paintings of former celebrated
statesmen, including that of the late
Senator Thomas E. Watson, have
been moved out and stored in a
junk house a long distance away
from the capitol building. Too bad.
We are here today and gone tomor
row and the vicissitudes of life stamp
out our memory, even though we
were great for a time.—Thomasville
Press. They should have done like
Ex-Governor Hardman placed a
bronze tablet in the walls of the
capitol building.
The Clayton Tribune says that by
actual count, 7,000 visitors were fed
and slept in Rabun county during
the Fourth of July holidays. It is
estimated that at least 25,000 people
visited the county on the two-day
holiday. And, as unbelivable as it
may seem, there was only one auto
mobile wreck on the roads, and that
was not serious. Large numbers of
people had to seek lodging and
meals at other places, because hotels
were unable to accommodate them.
All mountain resorts entertained the
largest crowds in their history.
Atlantans will ballot in the Decem
ber general election on whether they
want eastern standard time. Thb
of what standard time At
lanta should use has been a peren
nial question for more than half a
dozen years. Many hard battles
have been fought over the eastern
standard time issue as well as on
proposals to establish daylight sav
ing time in that city.
HOW MUCH IS AN INCH OF
RAIN?
Engineers engaged in hydroelec
tric work and other dam construc
tion are obliged to know the aver
age rainfall and the probable annual
run-off from a given watershed.
Contractors judge an inch of rain in
terms of their contracts. It delays
their work, while much of their
overhead continues. A farmer sees
in rain the ruin or salvation of his
crops. Few realize what an inch of
rain means in terms of water.
When an inch of rain falls, the
water that has been held suspended
in the air until precipitated on the
earth weighs 113 tons to the acre.
It would take more than twenty-two
trucks, each truck carrying a tank
holding five tons of water to haul au
inch of rain to an acre garden spot.
Multiply 113 tons by the acreage up
on which the rain has fallen, and the
total tonnage becomes almost un
believable.
For example, in Richmond, Va.
beginning on the night of July 30,
1923, 7.24 inches of water fell, de
luging the city and country with
818 tons of water to the acre. The
combined weight of 320 locomoties,
weighing one hundred tons each,
scattered around a forty acre tract
of land would not have equalled in
weight the rainfall on those forty
acres.
There is said to be a place on the
Ganges River where the average an
nual rainfall weighs more than 48,-
000 tons to the acre. Some years,
in Los Angeles, each acre gets less
than 400 pounds of water.—Earth
Mover.
STACKING HAY FEVER
Hundreds of thousands of Ameri
cans unknown to their immediate
confidants, are wincing just now in
private as they anticipate the ap
proaching season of hay fever. This
peculiar and recalcitrant disease does
not evoke the general sympathy it
merits from non-sufferers. Because,
chiefly, of its explosive physical
manifestations, hay fever is rather
generally regarded as humorous;
though not by an one ever tortur
ed by its relentless attacks.
To those who have endured, and
expect to have to endure, hay fever,
Dr. Theodore Appel, secretary of
health for the State of Pennsylvania,
brings word of cheer. Writing in
the United States Daily, Dr. Appel
professes confidence that science will
yet learn to prevent the disease; that,
indeed, science already has made
considerable progress in its warfare
through the use of pollen extracts
administered as a serum.
Citing the fact that “many still
look upon the use of pollen extracts
for the prevention of hay fever as a
new-fangled idea,” Dr. Appel is not
surprised that “fails to capture
either their interest or their
confidence. However, assuming that
doubt exists as to the efficacy of
pollen extracts, the prospective sub
ject should at this time display an
active interest in it. The protection
which pollen injections can give de
mands time to establish itself.
Treatment should begin at least five
or six weeks before the expected on
set. A fair percentage of failure to
secure results by this method cam
be attributed to the fact that treat
ments are not always started suffici
ently in advance of the hay fever
season.”
This is fair warning to potential
sufferers from hay fever. If an an
tidote is to be tried, now is the time
to try it.—Atlanta Journal.
Mr. Henry F. Branham has an
announcement in the Covington
News, offering his name as a candi
date for Justice of the Peace, to suc
ceed the young gentleman recently
appointed private secretary to Gover
nor Russell. Here’s hoping he will
be elected. He has hundreds of
friends in Jackson county who would
delight to cast a vote for him.
We congratulate the Monroe, Ga.,
Kiwanis club on the wisdom display
ed by the members in choosing Edi
tor E. A. Caldwell president. That
he will guide the affairs of the club
in a sane, sensible manner, and
direct the work in a way that will
prove beneficial to both the organi
zation and the city of Monroe, is our
prediction. A more conscientious,
progressive executive leader could
not have been selected.
A decision of statewide interest to
school officials and patrons has been
rendered by Judge Z. A. Littlejohn
of the Southwestern circuit. The
court holds that local trustees can
not under Georgia law enter into a
written contract with school teach
ers, and that, if they do, it will not
be binding upon them. The decision
says it is obligatory upon county
boards of education to enter into
written contracts with teachers. This
is rarely done, according to authen
tic information.
AN ENJOYABLE BIRTHDAY
DINNER
This writer, in company with Jim
Echols and Russ Pharr, spent a part
of last Sunday at the birthday din
ner at the home of Hon. John R.
Worley, near Dry Pond. This is an
annual event, in honor of the birth
day of Mrs. Worley; but as most
ladies do not like to tell their ages,
and being a little bashful myself, we
forgot to inquire what mile post she
was passing. However, she has
reached a pretty far advanced age,
and her vision is now looking down
the slope toward the Western hori
zon. We arrived a little late, and
are not in a position to go into de
tails, and what we say is not intend
ed to cover the whole ground. Per
haps that will be done by some other
writer. Several good singers rent
the atmosphere with melodious
songs, some S9IO, some duet, several
quartette, and congregational songs
galore.
At the luncheon hour, Brother
West said grace, and then business
picked up. Iced tea, lemonade,
iced water, and all the way from
barbecued shoat to cakes and pies.
The program of music and talks was
renewed after the eats, conversation,
meeting old acquantances and mak
ing new ones, etc. About three o’-
clock the great crowd began to dis
purse, and we cannot begin to tell
where they came from; but from
what we could see and hear, every
one had killed a big un and wound
ed a few little ones, and the pleasant
memories will long be cherished by
all who attended.
Mr. Buford Glenn was master of
ceremonies.
Reporter.
Things don’t move quite fast
enough for a country editor who is
“saving his state” serving in the
legislature. Editor Rush Burton,
representative from Franklin county,
in answer to a question, “Are, you
having a good time in Atlanta?”
says: “If getting up two hours be
fore breakfast and worrying away
two hours waiting for the dining
rooms to open, then worrying away
two more hours waiting for the leg
islature to convene, then listening
two hours or more to two hundred
folks jabber about everything under
the sun from prize fights to fourth
of July picnics, then waiting two
more hours for a committee meeting,
then getting loose for the day con
stitutes having a good time, I have
had it. Yes, almost every day. But
one tires of resting sometimes and
wearies in waiting for a cumber
some body to act.”
Miss Camilla Kelly, of Memphis,
Tenm, officially known as “Judge
Camilla,” in a sound speech says
that in women, misbehavior is “just
a .little worse than in men.” Judge
Camilla says God holds womgp to a
higher degree of resposibility, be
cause they are mothers of the race.
Men, she thinks, “have been a little
deceived by their superiority com
plex.” Arthur Brisbane remarks,
“Misbehavior in women is as shock
ing as the sight of a rose floating in
a sewer. If it were a turnip or a
potato, it would not be so bad. Wo
men are the roses, men the turnips,
and women ought to remember it.
But they don’t, when they drink
cocktails, dress indecently, cultivate
the use of profanity, drag jewels
that foolish husbands give theffi
through speakeasies, where gangsters
are quietly taking notes.”
Governor Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
pledged to economy and simplification
of the state government, this week
will ’face the first crucial test of his
administration policies in the gen
eral assembly, when the measures
calling for reorganization and
greatly reduced appropriations,
reach the floor of the house. That
the reorganization bill will not pass
without a stiff fight was predicted
following condemnation of provisions
affecting the health department and
the forestry department. These de
partments are among those recom
mended for abolishment, and will
fight for their lives.
Reading the presentments of the
grand jury covering reports of coun
ty officers in 1880. Editor Jones, of
the Butts county newspaper, has dis
covered that fifty years ago the
county was operated for only a
fraction of what is now spent. The
entire amount spent in operating
the county and schools was less then
than the present county gasoline
tra of $9,884.37.
The friends of Prof. Guy Waddell
were glad to see him here Monday
on business. He had charge of Apa
lachee school during the- years 1924
and 1925. He has been doing some
special work at the University sum
mer school, at Athens. He is now
superintendent of public schools at
Lakeland, Ga.—Madison Madisonian.
GEORGIAN AMAZED AS TREES
SINK SLOWLY INTO EARTH
Valdosta, Ga.—While skirting the
upper side of the Tillman plantation
at Mineola, Young Tillman was sur
prised to see a large pine tree totter
slightly and then sink gradually out
of sight into the ground.
In a short time another large
tree shook and then began slowly to
sink. Then Tillman realized that
he was on the border of a limestone
formation noted for its “lime sinks."
Quite a number of trees are swallow
ed up in this way in the lime sink
regions when the ground gives way
and the trees, roots, body and tops,
plunge into great holes which open
under the surface of the earth.
These sinks are along the swamp
bordering the Withlacoochee River,
a territory which is believed to be
honeycombed with subterranean
streams and passages.
UNION CHOIR NOTES
The Union Choir met at Oconee
church the first Sunday afternoon in
Juls.
Called to order, and opening song
by George Shaw. Prayer by Prof.
W. E. White.
A committee, C. Bryant and
Charlie Davis, handed in the follow
ing names to lead fifteen minutes
each: Will Wilson from Elberton,
W. H. Deavors, Sam Roberts, C. Bry
ant, Hoyt Hanson. Duett by Hoyt
Hanson and Mrs. Wilson. Song by
little Miss Wilson.
The cloud cut the crowd, but the
singing was good. Organists: Mrs.
Nunn, Mrs. Evans.
The choir closed to meet at Red
Stbne church, on the highway from
Jefferson to Athens, the first Sunday
afternoon in August.
Prayer by Prof. W. E. White.
George Shaw, Pres.
At a meeting of the city council
of Lexington, Ga., it was voted to
cut out at the end of this month
the street lights. The town is badly
in debt to the Georgia Power Cos.
for street lights, although almost all
of the city taxes collected for the
past two years have been paid on
street light bills. The situation
arises from the fact that so many
people have failed to pay taxes. The
Echo, published in Lexington, says:
“It is to be hoped that those tax de
linquents Who are responsible for
such a state of affairs will realize
their community obligations and
prevent the discontinuance of the
Street lights and possibly that of
the entire current service.”
Messrs. H. W. Davis, H. L. Pur
cell, C. E. Robinson and J. F. Eckles
represented the Albert Gordon Post,
American Legion, at a dinner at
White Sulphur Springs, near Gaines
ville, Saturday evening, given in
honor of State Commander William
Parker of Cedartown, and Com
mander-Elect Quimby Melton of
Griffin. At the meeting, plans were
made and committees named to con
duct an active campaign to elect Mr.
Edgar B. Dunlap of Gainesville na
tional commander, at an election to
be held in Detroit in September.
“Times may be tight,” says one of
our exchanges, “But they loosen up
considerably for holiday outings.
Take for example the past July 4.
The number of vacationists passing
through en route to the mountains
would reach unbelievable propor
tions. Oh, yes, we all complain and
grumble, but we manage to buy gas
for the old bus.”
Mr. George McDonald, of Benton,
Ark., came to Lavonia Wednesday
for a visit of several days. He was
accompanied by his mother, Mrs. J.
C. McDonald, who remained over in
Jackson county for a short visit be
fore coming to Lavonia. They are
former Lavonians, and have many
friends and relatives here.—Lavonia
Times. '
Sure! we all admit it. Nobody but
a fool will drink himself to death.
But what may be said of Wilson, who
worried himself to death; of Hard
ing, who worked himself to death;
of Bryan, who ate himself to death?
There are outstanding examples of
millions who have thus intemperate
ly destroyed themselves. “There
ought to be a law ag’in’ it!”—The
Charlton County Herald.
Editor T. W. Wrench, of The
Charlton Cpunty Herald, published
at Folkston, threatens to move his
printing plant, if the merchants do
not give him some advertising. The
editor says, “If you ever expect to
give us any flowers, prepare to give
them now.”
The contract for erecting anew
postoffice building in Toccoa has
been let to a Montgomery, Ala.,
firm for $41,000.
UNITY
A good way to keep boys in Su n .
day school is for men to form a wall
around them so high they can’t Ke ;
out. In other words, boys go where
men go. So you men join us next
Sunday morning at 10.30 o’clock.
Our C. E. was attended by a large
crowd Sunday night, and Mr. J. g
Loggins of Jefferson made a splerj
did talk.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kent spent
Sunday with Mrs. Mollie Highfield.
Mr. D. J. Hill and family 0 f
Gillsville were here recently.
Mr. James Bowen of Gainesville
was in our community awhile last
week.
Miss Magnolia Harper spent Sun
day with Miss Jessie Belle Highfield.
Friends were indeed glad to see
Miss Willie B. Fleming Sunday
night. She has been in Atlanta dur
ing the past year, but is now at
home recovering from an operation.
We are mighty glad she is lots bet
ter.
A marriage of much interest to
friends here, was that of Miss Dollie
Greenway to Mr. William Arwood,
Jr. Congratulations.
May life hold no problems
You cannot unravel
And love smooth all paths
That together you’ll travel
May each day be filled
With the sweet joy of living,
With caring and sharing
And loving and giving.
While fatalities from automobile
accidents in 82 cities showed a de
crease in June of this year as com
pared with the same month last year,
census bureau reports show that At
lanta has made an unenviable record
of 100 per cent increase in death
from this cause.
Up to the present time, the Geor
gia legislature has not held any Sat
urday sessions, but a reminder that
the people of Georgia expect the
legislators to come early and stay
late in order that the legislative
problems may receive thorough at
tention has been given to the house
by Speaker Arlie Tucker, who warn
ed against another adjournment from
Friday to Monday.
The Ninth District Masonic Con
vention will be held at Gainesville,
Thursday of next week, beginning at
10 a. m. Full program printed in
our last issue. Unity Lodge will be
represented by Worshipful Master
J. C. Turner and Senior Deacon H.
L. Purcell. Grand Marshal J. C.
Bennett and several others from the
local lodge expect to attend.
Usually the first page news of the
Monday daily papers tells of the
numerous auto wrecks, but airplane
accidents over the last w’eek-end
claimed the lives of nine persons in
the United States and Canada, and
another died as a result of injuries
he suffered in a plane crash last
Wednesday.
The new air plane of Mr. Asa G.
Candler of Atlanta made a record of
2,178 miles from California to At
lanta in 12 hours and 1 minute,
averaging almost 160 miles an hour.
The plane had originally intended to
make a non-stop, one day trip from
California to Savannah, but was
forced down at Dallas, Texas, on ac
count of rain and fog.
While many sections of Georgia
were visited last week by rain, other
sections remained dry with record
breaking temperatures. However,
national authorities reported that,
with only a few exceptions, between
Texas and the Blue Ridge mountains
have crops suffered seriously I rrt,n
drouth. In Georgia, the damage has
been placed at $1,000,000.
The DeLaperriers, of Hoschton,
were welcome guests here last wet
end. They stopped at the Bynum
House. They own considerable lands
in this county and are always inter
ested in the affairs of the county.
Clayton Tribune.
One family in ten bought am"
automobile last year. In fact, m
the United States we spent a tota
of $2,159,000,000 on new cars.
don’t indicate “hard times’ ' n ,
strictest sense of the term. Am a
of these cars burned gas.
With the extended economic de
pression, baseball attendance ’
fallen off to such an extern
many minor league clubs face ,u
—hence, the origin of night ,as
ball. The novelty and convenien
of baseball at night swelled the g a
receipts, and saved the minoi
gues.
Georgia and Oklahoma are said
have suffered most this surnl
from drought conditions.