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THE JACKSON HERALP
Published Weekly
SI .50 A Year—-In Advance
Entered nt The Jefferson Postoffloe
as Second-Class Mail Matter
'Official Organ of Jackion County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
%V. H. WILLIAMSON Bus. M'g’r.
Jefferson, Ga., August 13, 1931
CONSTRUCTION WORK NEEDED
These midsummer sittings of the
Ceneral Assembly have to blow off a
••retain amount of steam. And that
is what is probably taking place un
der the capitol dome with sugges
tions being mndc that State House
officers be impeached because of al
leged shortage in funds—with inti
mations of malfeasance in office and
®thn irregularities.
The present session of the Gener
al Assembly it was hoped would find
way to solve some of the serious
problems which confront Georgia.
Th-i* the affairs of state are in
need of a guiding hand is certain.
Nt)b< <!y s ems to deny that. What
is th "(led are strong men with work
able ideas and with plans that will
bring some relief to the state in its
time of depression and heavy ex
penses. What is desired probably is
not so much of an increase in taxes
a? a further adjustment seeking a
more equitable distribution of the
burden of taxation. We may have
to raim more money but this should
Le done by finding new avenues from
which it can be procured. There
are a great number of things in
Georgia now untaxed that might
equitably be called, upon to bear
their share of the cost of govern
ment. It will require some courage
and statesmanship to find and allo
cate these non-paying units, but it
might be done through careful in
quiry and adequate research. Of
course no one wantj; to see the Gen
eral Assembly go on a tax assessing
spree, hut there should be some plan
worked out by which more money
could be raised increasing
tho taxes now paid j>n the essentials
of life. ~ *
But more important than the tax
question, it seems jp -us, is tha need
just now of confidence in the vari
<jas : tate departments on the P ar *
of the merpbers of the General As
sembly?. The theory upon which
the leaders in the House and Senate
seem to be operating just now is
thut every department of govern
ment must be looked upon as crook
ed in it. operations until it can prove
its"lf otherwise. This idea appears
to bo so general in the operations of
nil the major departments of govern
ment as to make it pretty nearly
unanimous. And the legislators are
giving up so much of their time flat
ting department heads on the rack
they are letting valuable days slip
r.way whieh might be employed in
passing some constructive legislation.
A large number of members of
the Ge neral Assembly seem to be
under the impression that the people
sent them to Atlanta to muck rake.
Asa matter of fact, the people have
hoped that there would be a con
structive force representing them
•luring this biennial session.—Sa
vannah Press. .
The Arnericus Times Recorder
would be especially severe on dog
poisoners. He does not live on
Washington street, Jefferson, w ; th
Iris bed room next to the street, else
he might change his mind. He says:
*‘A Texas man who had been killing
•dogs for the last four years was
•stricken with a strange illness a few
days ago and he was tormented by
visions of his victinis seeking their
revenge. We’d like for all those per
sons who poison and kill dogs—the
best earthly friends man has—to
have a few days attack of the same
affliction.” <
The world is still on w r heels. The
gasoline buggy is doing its full duty
towards either causing or reducing
the present depression. The latest
report on gasoline consumption in
this country is for 45 states and the
District of Columbia for the month
of May. In spite of the “business
depression” the increase that month
over the same month last year was
36,715,000 gallons, or 3.1 per cent.
The same percentage of increase was
registered for the five months since
January 1.
If you are out of work, hunt em
ployment in your own neck of the
woods, says the Salvation Army,
which studies human nature pretty
carefully and has a nation-wide view
■of the present industrial situation
issues a word of warning that is
most timely. It urges those who are
out of work not to leave “home
base” to go wandering around the
country this winter looking for work.
It says every community is to have
its full responsibility this fall and
■winter caring for home folks.
FEBRUARY 12 SHOULD
BE LECAL HOLIDAY, BUT
NOT FOR LINCOLN
Quite a bit of furor was raised in
Georgia when Representative Mat
tox of Colquitt county introduced a
bill in the legislature to make Feb
ruary 12, the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln, A legal holiday. There was
so much opposition to thus honor
ing Lincoln from all parts of the
state, that the bill was withdrawn.
We agree with the Savannah News,
which says:
"There are so many other equally
as famous as Lincoln who have
done things for Georgia and whose
birthdays have so far gone unrecog
nized that we do not expect the Gen
eral Assembly of the state to show
much anxiety to honor one who was
never even in Georgia, when those
who have done so msch for Georgia
have so far failed to receive recog
nition.
"But to our mind February 12th
which happens to be Lincoln s
birthday-should be recognized by
the state as a legal holiday. And
we think this year would be a good
time to do it so that the event might
be properly celebrated in 11)3.1,
when the colony of Georgia will be
200 years old.
"The reason it should be a legal
holiday is because it was on this day
that Oglethorpe and his colonists
landed in Georgia. This anniversary
is now known as Georgia Day, thanks
to the activity of Miss Frances L.
Mitchell of Athens, whose activities
eventually got Qie day recognized by
the passage of an act in the Legis
lature providing for its observance
in the public schools. f
“But it has never been made a
full fledged le§al ~>R)liday and it
seems tb us this would be a good
time to give it such recognition.”
ADVERTISING IS—
“Advertising is telling others
things you would like them to know.
“Speaking to the multitude in
stead of to the few.
"Telling a story in a day that
would otherwise take a year.
"Saving time by multiplying your
sales-appeal.
"Letting everybody know what
only a few people know about your
goods.
“Going to the public instead of
waiting for the public to come to
you.
"Making your business safe for
success.
"Sowing the seeds of ideas that
grow into sales and what is more
good will.
“A wholesale reminder to the pub
lic of what you have tp offer.
“Telling again and again the
things that the public ought to know.
“Re-creating in the minds of the
public, the sales ideas in your own
mind.
“Increasing the radius of your
success by increasing the radius of
your sales-appeal.
“Telling the story in print instead
of in person.
"A method of multiplied telling of
facts that is the most economical.
“A means of making personal ef
fort more productive.
"Making your -,Npice reach from
house to house.” • vdii
Greater Clariton (Pa.) Progress.
OWNER OF CAR LIABLE FOR
DAMAGES 3U>!
Fathers who permit their sons to
drive the family car on Sunday and
take their “sweeties” for a ride had
better take out a sufficient amount
of insurance for all damages that
may occur.
Holding that the owner of a motor
vehicle is liable for the acts of an
other person who operates it with
the owner’s consent and knowledge
and that this liability extends to
invited guests in the car, the Su
preme Court has ruled in favor of
a young woman who sued the par
ents of her suitor. Miss Dellouise
Green, of Polk County, Fla., appear
ed to the Supreme Court after the
lower tribunal ruled against her,
and the case was reversed. Miss
Green sought damages from Mr. and
Mrs. James T. Miller.
The young woman claimed she
was injured in an automobile acci
dent while her suitor, a son of the
Millers, was driving the Miller fami
ly car.
A protest to the plan of the h arnt
Bodrd for selling to Germany on a
credit plan the cotton stock now held
by that organization, has been di
rected to the President of the Unit
ed States by the Savannah Cotton
Exchange. The Exchange declares
that such a move by the farm board
would cause lower prices and would
mean a complete demoralization
from which it would be impossible to
recover. It further states that farm
board policies are destroying the
cotton producers and bringing un
told misery.
MR. LARRY GANTT VERY ILL
(From Athens Banner-Herald)
Colonel T. L. Gantt, dean of the
newspaper profession of Georgia,
and a contributor to the columns of
the Banner-Herald, continues quite
ill at his home on Oglethorpe avenue.
Colonel Gantt has been aligned
with the newspaper profession prac
tically all his life—at least from the
time he was old enough to work.
For marty years he owned and edited
the Banner, and during those years,
he made it one of the best known
newspapers in the state, especially
in the political field. Selling the
Banner, he moved to Columbia, S.
C., and there engaged in the news
paper business and later moving to
Spartanburg, where he established
an afternoon paper which proved
successful.
# • •
In the stormy political days of Ben
Tillman, in South Carolina, Colonel
Gantt led the fight which placed
Tillman in the Governor’s chair and
later in the United States senate.
Before moving to South Carolina,
Colonel Gantt was one of the moving
spirits in the creation of the Athens
Dispensary. It proved a success
here and when he moved to the Pal
metto State, he carried with him the
Athens dispensary plan and inau
gurated a state-wide campaign for
its adoption in that state. He suc
ceeded and for a number of years,
South Carolina used the dispensary
system patterned after the Athens
system.
* * *
Colonel Gantt is a remarkable
man in intellect, resoui-cefulness and
as an all-round newspaper man. As
a writer, editorial, news and descrip
tive, he has few equals.
Asa political writer, he enjoys a
national reputation and during the
first Cleveland campaign in the ’Bo’s,
the Democratic papers of the East,
especially the New York World,
used a great many of his political
articles. One in particular that he
capitalized on was the slogan which
became an issue in the campaign of
Cleveland and Blaine, "Rum, Roman
ism and-Rebellion,” which contribut
ed more to the defeat of James G.
Blaine than any other feature in
jected into the campaign. Colonel
Gantt, in an article, played the slo
gan up and colored it as only a
writer of his ability knows how to
do. It was reproduced in thousands
of newspapers of the country, be
sides being printed in pamphlet
form and distributed throughout the
nation by the Democratic paity.
Possibly the most bitter campaign
he conducted was that of Ahan D.
Candler for Congress, oppoising the
late Emory Speer of Athens.
Colonel Gantt, for some reason,
held a grievance against Emory
Speer, one of the brainiest men who
ever sat in the halls of Congress. He
gave his support to Allan D. Candler
of Gainesville, and strange to say
a slogan, originated by Colonel
Gantt, contributed largely to the
success of Candler. In a statement,
across the front page of a Banner
one morning there appeared the
headlines, “Allan D. Candler, the
one-eyed plow boy of Pigeon Roost
for Congress.” That slogan Spread
over the Ninth district as rapidly
as a prairie fire and with all the
fiery oratory and brilliance possessed
by Emory Speer, he could not check
its spread. Candler was elected by
an overwhelming majority and re
mained in Congress for several
terms, dying in office. The slogan
Colonel Gantt originated lhe
One-Eyed Plow Boy of Pigeon
Roost” was responsible for the mak
ing of a congressman, who other
wise would have Tiever been known
outside private life.
The Athens Banner-Herald says.
“From all sections of the country,
the wave of an era of prosperity is
being felt. The imaginary period
of depression brought on by pessi
mists and pessimistic talk has spent
its course, and now we are facing a
return of settled and substantial
conditions.” The depression may be
“imaginary” where the Banner edi
tor goes, and a “wave of an era of
prosperity” may be felt somewhere,
but we are afraid be is stretching bis
own imagination to a very inordi
nate degree.
The runover race for governor in
Mississippi between Hugh L. White
and Mike Sennett Conner smacks of
much local interest,'in that Mr.
White is related to some of the fami
ly by that name in Jackson county.
His grandfather was a brother of the
late John White,’ of Athens, founder
of the Georgia Factory, now the
Oconee Manufacturing company. Of
this family there were ten brothers;
nine of the brothers came to Ameri
ca from their native country, Ire
land, and several located in Georgia.
One in Jackson county, and one at
Covington, while Mr. John White
located in Clarke county.
A GOOD WORLD IN WHICH
TO LIVE
At the union church sendee held
Sunday night at the Jeffrt'son Bap
tist church, Rev. T. H. Shackelford
of the Methodist church, preached a
most excellent sermon on “Is the
World Growing Better or Worse?"
He took the view that conditions
point to a better world, and gave
many interesting instances to prove
this. He spoke not only of the re
ligious world, but also of the ma
terial.
The Reading, Pa., Eagle, in com
paring the growth and success of
the church with the growth and de
velopment of commercial enterpris
es, takes a sound and substantial
view of the situation, in the follow
ing editorial:
"There are 232,000 churches in
the United States with an enrolled
membership of 44,380,000. Has any
other organization anything by com
parison? There is a reason.
“In addition there are 16,000,000
children to fill in the ranks. Is
there any other organization with a
reserve force so mighty?
The church spends $851,000,000
annually to benefit mankind. Does
anything else do as much lor hu
manity?
"The number of churches comes
within one-tenth of equalling the
public schools. Does the reader
know of any other body with such
an amazing back-ground?
"The Sunday school enrollment is
one-sixth smaller than tfye public
roster. Mull that over! At the
same time, remember that the form
er is voluntary and the latter com
pulsory. 4 ,
“Twenty cents of every churar
dollar is devoted to benevolence dur
ing normal times, and the figure is
much higher in times of stress. Has
any other organization such a re
cord?
"The church census shows that
Christianity is more than holding its
own. That cannot be said of any
other organization —political, social
or business.
“No—emphatically no—the church
is not dying and Christianity is not
on the decline. Nothing with such
a foundation can pass out of exis
fence.
“The golden rule is that founda
tion and every church is a school in
which it is more than taught—-it is
lived.
“Call on Sunday and learn that
Christianity is a going, glowing,
growing concern. And everything
in it is voluntary!” *
Some of the members of the Geor
gia Legislature want to declare a
moratorium on the $8,500,000 debt
of the state. A resolution was in
troduced in the House providing for
the appointment of a jaint senate
and house committee to confer with
heads of state departments and in
stitutions regarding the voluntary
renunciation and cancellation of 60
percent of unpaid appropriations. If
these departments and institutions
had known they were to get -only 40
per cent of the appropriations, they
could have managed on that amount,
but many of them owe 100 per cent,
and their creditors will not be satis
fied with a smaller amount. The pay
ment of this deficiency is a binding;
legal and' moral obligation,! and
should be paid. However, it is ridi
culous to think of paying this debt
without an increase rh taxes.
Wherever the money corned from,
somebody must pay it.
The proposal of the Federal Farm
Board tp sell cotton to Germany on
credit, at the present market prices,
payable in two years, at 4% per
cent interest, as a means of reduc
ing the large stock of cotton which
is being held by that organization,
was greeted with decided dis-favoi
among a large per centage of inter
ested people and then was declined
by Germany. That country would
agree to take only a small amount of
our surplus cotton. But the Ger
man government has offered to buy
500,000 tons of United States, wheat
for delivery in the spring of 1932.
This would relieve the farm board
of about 17,000,000 bushels.
Rev. J. O. Burnette, pastor of the
Maysville Methodist Circuit, was in
Jersey, Walton county, recently, to
attend a family reunion, honoring
the eighty-sixth birthday of his fath
er, Mr. A. P. Burnette, who is the
father of seven sons and daughters,
thirty grand children, and eleven
great grand children.
Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Elder and
daughter, Miss Alice, of Sanford,
Fla., ha\ e arrived at their summer
home here. They were accompanied
by Miss Mary Helen Morse and Jim
Spencer, also of Sanford. The many
friends of the Elders are glad to see
them and to see that Mr. Elder is
getting along so well since his re
cent illness. —Clayton Tribune.
WHY NOT A GEORGIA PRODUCT
DINNER EVERY DAY
If every family in Georgia when
they sit down to dinner served only
Georgia products, in so far as it
could be done, just think what an
effect it would have on production,
and what a saving there would be in
family finances. Editor Mclntoph,
of the Albany Herald, does not say
that such a dinner was served, at his
table, but he,gives a menu that the
Savannah Press says must cause
Mclntosh to be still smacking his lips
after partaking of the following.
"A Georgia dinner began with
vegetable soup, and the vegetables
came from the family garden. There
followed fried chicken, with boiled
and sliced farm-laid eggs in the
gravy. There were brown field peas,
snap beans, corn on the cob, okra,
beets in their own red juice, cabbage
and tomato slaw, Georgia pone bread
with buttermilk, fresh peaches with
cream, and some of mother’s famous
pound cake. Every item on the
menu of that glorious dinner was
home-produced. And there isn t a
farm in South Georgia, large or
small, that cannot have the same
sort of dinners—and whose folks
should be ashamed not to have
them.”
It is strange how many people
permit themselves to be duped by
fakers of one variety or another.
The Valdosta Times says of a medi
cinal concoction: “A man has been
making about $5,000 a year selling
a fake cure for diabetes. His medi
cine, which sold for $2.50 the pack
age or three for $6, was made of
ground marsh buck bean plants and
stems of the scouring rush. y The lat
ter is used for scouring because it
has a high silica content. The gov
ernment experts who analyzed his
concoction state that his herb tea
constituted “an extremely danger
ous treatment,” which was likely to
result in death if used by elderly
persons With diabetes. The man ad
vertised his tea as “Nature’s Own
Remedy” in the cheaper magazines,
and sold the stuff by mail.”
Since so milch has been said about
making another day a legal holiday
in Georgia, it may interest you to
know that the legal holidays in
Georgia now are January Ist, New
Year’s Day; January 19th, the birth
day of Robert E. Lee; February
22nd, Washington’s birthday; April
26th, Confederate Memorial Day;
June 3rd, birthday of Jefferson Da
vis; July 4th, Independence Day;
Labor Day, the first Monday in Sep
tember; Thanksgiving Day, the last
Thursday in November, and Christ
mas Day. Special days observed in
the school include Uncle Remus Day,
December 19th; Georgia Day, Feb
ruary 12th; Arbor and Bird Day,
first Friday in December; and Tem
perance Day, the fourth Friday in
March.
Representative Mooty of Troup,
speaking on personal privilege in the
House, told the lower branch of the
general assembly that George Cars
well, former secretary of state and
candidate for governor, was short
$26,000 when he went out of office,
but the money had been paid back
an to the treasury. Mr. Carswell ex
plained that the money was on de
posit in the bank of which he is
president located at Irwinton.
The Savannah Press expresses the
idea that instead of closing the Con*
federate Veterans Home, as would
be done if a resolution introduced in
the legislature by the representatives
from Colquitt county should pass, it
would be better to amend the law
so that widows of Confederate sol
diers can live there.
An open cotton boll was sent to
The Herald office Thursday, August
6, by Mr. Claud Venable, who lives
on Route 5; and another by Mr. J.
H. Gooch on August 7. Mr. Gooch
lives on Route 2. The hot, dry
weather will cause cotton to mature
and open rapidly, and the fields will
soon be white.
Among the witnesses subpoened
here this week to testify in the
Phillips-Williams case is Editor E. A.
Wilbanks of the Buford Advertiser.
Mr. Wilbanks is also cashier of the
Shadburn Bank, at Buford, one of
the banks defrauded by Phillips and
Williams.
Two Atlanta business men, W. E.
Keith and W. E. Brinberry, were
among six persons instantly killed
in an aisplape crash at Cincinnati
Sunday morning—the most tragic
aviation disaster since that in which
Knute Rockne lost his life.
The governor of California wants
everybody to take a six-day vacation,
and Will Rogers very wisely remarks
that this won’t effect over ten per
cent of the people—too many of
them vacate all he time.
NO PREACHING AT METK'"n"
CHURCH IN MORNING; UNlflw
SERVICES AT NIGHT
Rev. T. H. Shackelford p astor
the Jefferson Methodist church *
been given a two weeks vacation h
the church, and there will | )( . '
preaching or prayer meeting smj ““
during this week and next, exc
on next Sunday night, when uni
services will be conduct j n
church by Rev. R. M. Rigdon,
tor of the Baptist church. On Sundn
night, August 23, union service*
be held in the Baptist church, Re,
T. D. Johnston occupying the pulpit]
MISSIONARY CIRCLE MEET AT
CHURCH
The members of the three circles
of the Methodist Missionary Society
held a joint meeting at the church
on Monday afternoon, and complet.
ed the study of the mission book
Trailing the Conquistadores. The
lesson was presented in a most in.
teresting manner by Mrs. J. q,
Smith and Mrs. T. H. Shackelford.
The study of the Carribean Islands,
including Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domin
go and Porto Rico, was divided into
six lessons, and proved to be one of
the most interesting and instructive
books chosen by the Superintendent
of Mission Study.
Following the meeting, Mrs. J. C.
Smith and Mrs. Stanley Kesler en
tertained those present with a water
melon cutting. The members pres
ent, were: Mesdames T. H. Shackel
ford, J. C. Smith, H. J. W. Kizer, A.
S. Johnson, Effie Flanigan, P. Cool
ey, Stanley Kesler, J. A. Wills, Guy
Strickland, Ella M. Gunnells, J. X.
Holder, Miss Edna Moore, and Rev,
T. H. Shackelford.
UNION CHOIR NOTES
The Union Choir met with Red
Stone church, August 2. Called to
gether by the president. Opening
song by G. W. Shaw. Prayer by
Col. Charles Smith from Elberton.
Committee, W. H. Deavors, Red
Stone; H. K. Freeman, Galilee.
Leaders: W. B. Wilson, Elberton;
Hoyt Hanson, Galilee; R S. Mur
phy, Fair View; C. E. Shuler, Dry
Pond; W. H. Deavors, Red Stone;
Henry Murphy, Fair View; Prof. L.
R. Sheridan, Red Stone.
Duet, E. B. Wells and Miss Lueile
Sheridan; E. B. Wells, Oconee coun
ty; Miss Lucille Sheridan, Red Stone.
Quartette, L. R. Sheridan, and
Sons, and Miss Lueile Sheridan.
The singing was just fine. Weal
ways like to meet with the good
people at Red Stone, for we fee! like
we are welcome.
Organists: Miss Idell Maddox,
Miss Lueile Sheridan.
Closed to meet at White Plains
the first Sunday afternoon in Sep
tember, on the Jefferson and Hosch
ton highway.
We hope to have the Four County
Choir to meet with us on that date.
So don’t forget the time and place.
Closing song, E. B. Wells. Prayer,
by John Arnal.
G. W. Shaw, Pres.
C. Bryant, Sec’y-
THE CRIFFITH REUNION
Saturday, August 22, is the regu
lar day for the gathering of the On ■
frths and their friends, at the home
of Mrs. John W. Griffith, near Cente
Grove. We hope to mqet many 11
these relatives.
Robert Griffith, Pres.
W. L. Barnett, Sec’y.
WOODBINE CEMETERY . ! ’ llD
BE CLEANED OFF
Now is the time to put oui
tery in a better condition.
Those who have loved ones
ried in Woodbine cemetery. a
ed to clean their lots, and a i
beautify our City of the H >■_
vou can send money to Mrs. •
.Bennett, and she will have the '
done for you.
TO CLEAN OFF CEMETERY aT
PENDERGRASS
All parties interested, are
ed to meet at Pendergrass, TuetfJ
morning, August 18th, for 11
pose of cleaning off cemetery.
Methodist and Baptis
Missionary
By Mrs. Glenn Braselton
Jim Cooper, Com.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. J- 1 L er o
family, of,this city, and Mrs.
Wilson, of New Holland, are
at Black’s Creek church, in J
county, five miles from 1 1 , re .
where they will attend the a, ' n
union of the Lord family w >
held today. Mr. Lord an - 0 f
son are the only representativ
the Lord family in Hall county.
Gainesville News. __
KEYS FOUND and
A bunch of keys were foun ‘ ner
brought to Herald office,
please call.