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THE JACKSON HERALD
Published Weekly
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Entered at The Jefferson Postoffioe
as Second-Class Mail Matter
O’Acitl Organ of Jackton County
JOHN N. HOLDER -Editor
V*. H. WILLIAMSON ... Bui. M’g’r.
Jefferson, Ga., October 8, 1931
OUR CHILDREN SHOULD BE
TAUGHT VALUE OF MONEY
i\ prominent writer stressing the
fast that we do not teach our chil
dren the value of money and the
proper use of the ‘‘root of all evil,”
some principals that
afeould be instilled in the minds of
kk# youth of the land, as follows:
■'Money doesn’t grow on trees.
Somebody has to earn it.
Unit ss one belongs to the billion
aire- class the amount that may be
cannot be stretched to cover the
cii l l of everything that may be de
sired.
Therefore, one is always confront
ed with : choice.
Nothing but money will cover an
o*erdrafted hank account.
Borrowings against the future
most be paid, principal plus interest.
The person who buys on cN-dit
. i>)- t make that credit good.
The man who buys more than he
\s r. reasonably hope to pay for is
honest.”
OUTLAWING HARD TIMES
A Hazlehurst merchant recently
culled his clerks into his office, and
ratified them that the first one of
thvir number who again mentioned
“Hard Times,” might consider him
out of a job, and since this, the
rbr/Johurst News says, this firm has
increased the business one hundred
p!j cent. We quite agree with this
merchant. Constantly reminding
people of hard times only makes
them hoard their money a little
tighter and keep it out of circula
tion.
The Pelham Chamber of Com
merce has requested all stores re
snrting to displaying “depression
and hard time signs” to kindly re
move them and refrain from the
practice further. The request is a
friendly apeal for the good of the
o-n inunity. It was stated that sug
jjesi n was a strong force itself, and
whenever an already depressed citi
an- n is reminded of hard times he
becomes more depressed and busi
ness is not as good with him as it
should be.
3PANKING CHILDREN OUT OF
STYLE
The old proverb of sparing the
rid and spoiling the child is said to
fcn? quite out of date. It is now
burned that physical punishment
sawh as slapping and spanking should
fet- used rarely, and if at all never in
aau'r. The only justification for
striking a child is when he has done
something which if repeated might
<f*hvrtger his life, such as running
the street or playing with match
es. The United States Childrens
Bureau says: “A child who fights
■with his playmates should be re
rawed from them. His inability to
associate with them is ample pun
ishment,” says the Bureau. “One
wsno refuses to eat food set before
Yam may be punished by being de
nied dessert or some dish he especi
ally likes. When the child gets into
a tantrum and smashes his toy, he
is sufficiently punished by not get
ting one to replace it."
FIRST SAVE AND THEN SPEND
For many years, savings and thrift
Lave been urged by bankers and
economists; in the schools savings de
partments have been established and
thrift preached to the children from
the beginning of the school term to
ih close. Asa result postal savings
Lave shown a marked increase dur
ing the past year. The increase
•shows that a year ago, the amount of
ssavings in postal accounts was $175,-
'01X1,001) as of present date, the a
miiunt of savings have increased to
$(100,000,000. A survey made of the
banking institutions including this
amount of postal savings, show that
there are now on deposit in saving
aucoiihts $29,000,000,000 which the
public has amassed.
And now, some of those who ad
vocated the thrift idea, especially
the most reliable and best informed
and bankers, are attribut
ing the depression to the fact of this
bearding of money. The Commis
;sinner of Savings in New York has
publicly pleaded with depositors to
lrtr- some portion of these savings to
L*ay clothes, furniture, land, etc.,
and put the money in circulation.
We are afraid their attitude will
fc* an enigma to those who have
been practicing thrift.
MISTER MERCHANT!
People no longer beat a path to
the door of the man who makes the
best mouse trap. Today, when all
make good traps, the path goes to
the door of the maker who talks the
most about what he has to sell.
Thousands of merchants are mak
ing money while other thousands are
doing well if breaking even. But
invariably the merchant operating at
a profit is the one who advertises.
His mousetraps are no better than
those of others in his vicinity but
through his local newspaper he tells
the people of his trade area about
them and they pass by his competi
tor to buy his goods because they
know what he has to offer.
Never in the history of business
was there a more opportune time to
advertise, never were dividends from
advertising more certain.
The people in your trade area,
Mr. Merchant, are reading the Satur
day Evening Post, Colliers, The
Literary Digest and other magazines
and periodicals of national circula
tion. They are carrying a tremend
ous volume of advertising devoted to
standard, manufactured products,
goods which you have on your
shelves. This advertising is creat
ing a desire on the part of the peo
ple in your trade area to buy.
The Merchant in search of more
business will advertise in his local
newspapers NOW to reap the hai
vest being sowed by manufacturers.
Arkansas State Chamber of Com
merce.
GOOD TIME TO BUY WINTER
MEAT
Every farmer should have at least
one hog ready for the slaughter pen
when the first real cold weather
comes. Fresh pig meat, with lard,
chitterlings, sausage, etc., are de
licacies relished by every one, and
a supply of meat will reduce the
grocery bill. And now is the time
to buy a few porkers and put them
in the fattening pen, as the price of
hogs has hit the bottom like cotton.
For many years the price of hogs
per pound has been almost identical
with the price of gotton, with occa
sional fluctuations. Forty years ago,
during the administration of Presi
dent Harrison, cotton and hogs were
sold for five cents a pound. After
Cleveland was elected the price of
each advanced to ten cents a pound.
These two products seemingly travel
together in price throughout the
years, and when one advances or de
clines the other does likewise, and
thus the game goes on from one
year to another.
The market quotations in Chicago
reveal the fact that the price of
jiogs is now lower than within the
past quarter of a century.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY VETS
ON PROHIBITION LAW
Georgia is a dry state, and yet the
gntire Georgia voting representation
at the recent American Legion con
vention in Detroit cast their votes
for the following resolution: ‘•Where
as, the eighteenth amendment of the
constitution of the United States has
created a condition endangering
respect for law and the security of
American institutions, therefore be
it resolved that the American Legion
in this 13th annual convention as
sembled favors the submission by
congress of the repeal or modifica
tion of the present prohibition laws
to the several states with a request
that each state submit this question
to the voters thereof.”
Hon. C. M. Harris, representative
from Terrell county, in an interview,
says, “It is my firm conviction, with
the public schools of the state suffer
ing as they are, with every state in
stitution suffering financial difficul
ties and with an ever increasing bur
den of taxation, I would use the
money now being used for the con
struction of roads in this state to
relieve the embarrassing and annoy
ing indebtedness of the state institu
tions.” Mr. Harris loses sight of
the fact that road work is being paid
for by those who drive automobiles,
and they are in no way responsible
for the indebtedness of the state in
stitutions. And then, Mr. Harris
exhibits a bit of selfishness in want
ing to stop road work, as the count\
paper announces that “Six years of
favorable progress in highway build
ing and hardsurfacing have gone
forward in Terrell county, and when
the present projects are completed
the commissioners will have turned
over to the state highway for up
keep approximately thirty-five miles
of hard surfaced roads, probably
not surpassed by any county of as
small area as Terrell.”
The Southeastern Council of Fed
erated Women’s Clubs, in session in
Dalton last week, endorsed a reso
lution asking President Hoover to
set aside a day of prayer for pros
perity. November 11 was suggested
as the date.
Dr. P. D. Miller, secretary of the
education work of the Presbyterian
church in the South, in an address
to the University of Georgia Y. M.
C. A. Cabinet on Sunday, stated that
masses of humanity floating aimless
ly through life without a purpose is
the greatest problem that confronts
his field of action.
Seventeen federal building pro
jects, which have been authorized
for Georgia to cost an ' aggregate
maximum of $5,523,000, will soon be
begun. Most of these buildings are
post offices, the most expensive one
to be in Atlanta at a cost of $2,975,-
000. Post offices at Madison, Mon
roe and Toccoa are included in these
projects.
“We have tried to buy a Bible in
several towns, but failed,” observes
Editor Jack Hilton, of the Banks
County Journal. “If you have a
second hand Bible in good condition,
with concordance, and want to sell
because of depression, bring it to
this office, and we will buy it, pro
vided the price is right. The only
Bible we had, with a concordance,
was chewed to pieces by a pony.”
To stimulate interest in the use
of more cotton, a bevy of northern
Louisiana girls will wear cotton
dresses manufactured by the Calla
way mills of LaGrange at the Loui
siana State Fair opening October 24.
These dresses will cost the wearers
$1.12 each. The Commissioner of
Agriculture of Louisiana is president
of the National Association for the
Increased Use of Cotton.
Mrs. William T. Healey, promi
nent in Atlanta’s social and business
world, has just been named Geor
gia chairman of the Women’s Or
ganization for National Prohibition
Reform and will go to New York,
where she will confer with Mrs.
Charles H. Sabin and other nation
ally known women banded together
for the purpose of bringing about
drastic changes in prohibition and
its enforcement.
A $250,000 church, erected on the
campus of Emory University, was
dedicated Sunday to the memory of
Rev. Wilbur Fisk Glenn, prominent
deceased pastor, who served the
North Georgia conference for a half
century. The building was erected
through the generosity of his two
children, Mr. Thomas K. Glenn and
Mrs. Charles Howard Candler. Mr.
Glenn was a native of Jackson coun
ty, born at the old Holder home
place, on the Jefferson-Gainesville
road.
The Elberton Star closes a splen
did editorial with the advice, “Be
fore the present period of depression
can be called a thing of the past, we
must get back to a sensible, sane
basis of living, pay our honest debts,
be satisfied with what we can have
and pay for, and quit trying to
“keep up with the Jones.” Such a
program will take the hide off in
places but we will be the better for
it after the wounds heal.” The
Star says we have got to quit spend
ing more than we make.
Thieves are no respecter of per
sons, otherwise they would not have
selected a Methodist preacher and a
newspaper on which to practice their
profession. In Gainesville last week,
two hard-hearted rogues stole a car
from Rev. Zach C. Hayes, pastor of
Chicopee Methodist church, and also
one from the Gainesville Eagle.
Preachers and editors have so little
of this world’s goods, the thief should
have taken his “booty” from more
prosperous persons.
Preparations are under way in two
Georgia cities and in two South
Carolina cities for entertainments in
honor of the members of the great
motorcade to be sponsored over the
Piedmont Air Line Highway on
Tuesday. November 3, by The At
lanta Journal and the Atlanta Motor
Club. This motorcade will celebrate
the completion of the last link of
paving on the Atlanta-Toccoa-Green
ville-New York Highway. The motor
cade will leave Atlanta in the morn
ing, stop at Gainesville for a short
rest, have lunch at Toccoa, stop at
Clemson College in the afternoon,
and enjoy a big banquet and dance
at Greenville at night.
Payment of 27.71 per cent of all
1928, 1929 and 1930 unpaid appro
priations to the common schools and
state institutions will be made from
the proceeds of the recent sale of
$2,700,000 of Western and Atlantic
railroad rental warrants, Governor
Richard B. Russell, Jr., announced
Friday after receiving from State
Auditor Tom Wisdom a schedule of
distribution. Most of the $1,902,-
112.20 yield will go to the common
schools, their claims against the
treasury amounting to a total of
$3,740,148.39. Confederate veterans
and widows will receive $214,380.32.
Fire Prevention
Week
o
Twenty-one factories and mercantile establishments
burn every day.
Six thousand lives are lost in dwellings every year.
Eighty per cent of fire losses are due directly to care
lessness.
Protect lives and property from disastrous fires.
*
Before starting winter fires, burn out chimneys, clear
dead leaves from gutters, remove trash, paper and other
inflammable materials from your premises. Burn grass
before windy, wintry days begin.
Make a determined effort to save Jefferson from fire
losses.
Remember, Chicago burned sixty years ago because
the famous O’Leary cow kicked over a lamp.
Fire Prevention Committee
Jefferson City Couneil
BAPTIST GROUPS PLAN MEET
INGS ALL OVER STATE
W’ith meetings scheduled for thir
teen different centers, Georgia Bap
tists will on October 11 begin a
series of important conferences, to
cover practically the entire state, in
the interest of the simultaneous
every-member canvass movement,
now engaging the attention of the
entire Southern Baptist Convention.
Dr. Fred F. Brown, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Knoxville,
Tenn., and secretary of the promo
tion committee of the Southern Bap
tist Convention, together with James
W. Merritt, executive secretary
treasurer of the Georgia Baptist
Convention and chairman of the pro
motion committee for Georgia, will
appear on the program of each one
of the thirteen conferences.
The first of these meetings will be
held in Athens on Sunday, October
11, where Dr. Brown and Mr. Mer
ritt will speak at both the First Bap
tist Church and Prince Avenue Bap
tist Church. This is the only meet
ing scheduled for this section of
Georgia.
Announcement is made that an is
sue of the Georgia Magazine, organ
of the Georgia Association, will be
printed on white paper made of
slash pine. The Forest Products
Laboratory at Madison, Wis., will
produce the paper, and it will be
made from Georgia pine cut £y Alex
Sessons, of Cogdell, and shipped to
the laboratory for this purpose. A
factory to manufacture paper from
slash pine will be erected and equip
ped at some point in Georgia at an
early date, and the success of the
venture will mean much to this
state. It will be a ne\v industry
that will bring millions to the state.
In this day of reduction of sal
aries, it is refreshing to note that
Walton county is increasing the pay
of the teachers, and also paying
them promptly. The superintendent
has also announced nine busses, with
a capacity of 427 pupils, will trans
port every high school pupil in the
county to an accredited four-year
high school. Walton county educa
tors evidently intend that every
child be given an opportunity to
secure a high school education. This,
in case the child is unable ~to attend
a college, will in most instances, fit
hun for the duties of citizenship.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
We had 137 at church last Sunday,
81 in the morning, and 56 at night.
That was a gain of 17, and some
were prevented from coming in the
morning by the rain.
The showing of the officers was as
follows: Stewards had 8 out of 11
present in the morning, and 7 out
of 11 in the evening. Average per
cent of attendance for both services,
68 per cent. Sunday school teach
ers had 5 out of 9 in the morning,
and 2 out of 9 in the evening.
Average per cent of attendance for
both services, 39 per cent.
The officers of the W. M. S. had
4 out-of 10 present in the morning,
and 5 out of 10 present in the even
ing. Average per cent of attend
ance, 45 per cent.
The Senior League had 4 out of
9 present in the morning, and 5 out
of nine in the evening. Average per
cent of attendance, 50 per cent.
The Hi-League had 4 out of 9
present in the morning, and 1 out of
9 present in the evening. Average
per cent of attendance, 28 per cent.
This record of the officers was
not as good as last Sunday, except
the Senior League. Their average
rose from 44 to 50 per cent.
You ask what is the matter with
the people that they don’t go to
church? Here is one thing, THE
OFFICERS DO NOT ATTEND ANY
BETTER THAN THE MEMBER
SHIP. THE OFFICERS SHOULD
BE EXAMPLES. IF ONE BLIND
MAN LEADS ANOTHER, BOTH OF
THEM WILL FALL INTO A PIT.
IF WE DO NOT GO TO CHURCH
IN THIS BEAUTIFUL OCTOBER
WEATHER, MOST OF US WILL
BE WITHOUT AN EXCUSE.
T. H. Shackelford.
Editor Ernest Camp, in his
“Would-You-Believe-It-Column,” in
the Walton Tribune, prints a com
munication from one of the sub
scribers, which says: “On our farm
we have a mule which likes persim
mons. When there’s none on the
ground the mule will kick the tree
violently until he brings down a
shower of persimmons. He then
cats his fill.”
Harold Martin, son of Col. G. P.
Martin of Commerce, has been made
associate editor of Red and Black, a
publication edited by University of
Georgia students. Young Martin is
a Senior in the Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism, at the Univer
sity.
WORKERS COUNCIL, SAREPTA
ASSOCIATION, TO MEET AT
COMMERCE, OCTOEER 16
The Workers Council of the First
District of Sarepta Association will
meet at the First Church, Commerce,
Friday, October 16th, at ten o’clock.
Each W. M. S. and Young Peoples
Society are urged to send as many
representatives as possible. The
program follows:
10—Music.
10.10— W. M. U. Song, Tell The
Story.
10.20 Devotional, Mrs. C. C.
Tooke.
10.30 Welcome Address, Mrs. C.
E. Pittman, Pres. Commerce W. M.
S.
10.35—Response, Mrs. M. M. Bry
an, District Sec.
10.40 Welcome Visitors and New
Societies.
10.45—Reports from Chairman
W. M. S. Societies.
Special Song.
,11.00 —Stewardship, Mrs. W. •
Stark.
11.10— Talk on Golden Anniver
sary of Ga. W. M. U., Mrs. W. P-
Warren.
11.20 Talk, Dr. C. C. Tooke.
11.40 Address, Dr. Scott Patter
son, Returned Missionary from Af
rica.
12.10 Song, Commerce Quartett.
12.30 Benediction.
Lunch Hour.
2.oo—Young People’* Program
2.oo—Music.
2.10 Song.
2.20 Devotional, Mrs. R. M. R‘S*
don. ,
2.30 Report from Young P e0 ‘
pie’s Societies.
2.40 Commerce Sunbeams, Mr.
Stoy Harris.
3.oo—Commerce G. A., Mrs. Cai
Williamson.
3.20 Commerce Y. W. A., Mis.
Ralph Dunson.
3.30 Duet, Thelma and Zeima
Wood.
3.40 Talk, Mrs. Walter Johnson,
Young People’s Leader, Saiepta
Union.
Miscellaneous Business.
Song, Blest Be The Tie a
Binds. „
4.oo—Benediction, Dr. C.
Tooke.
Mrs. B. A. Harrison has been ap
pointed county treasurer of Fran*'
county, to succeed J. F. Tabor,*
died recently. An election " 1
held November 25.