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THE JACKSON HERALD
Published Weekly
$1.50 A Year—ln Advance
Entered at The Jefferson Poitofflce
as Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER .. Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON.. Bus. M’g’r.
JEFFERSON. GA., JUNE 29, 1933.
4TH OF JULY CATASTROPHES
Next Tuesday, July 4th, is Inde
pendence Day, and will be celebrated
as a holiday throughout the country.
In recognition of the chief holi
day hazards, fireworks, automobiles
and swimming, the National Bureau
of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
offers the following advice:
If you go off on a motor trip make
sure your car is in safe operating
condition; drive safely; keep to the
right; drive at a reasonable speed;
have 500 feet of clear distance a
hcad before you attempt to pass
other esys. Watch out for pedes
trains.
If you go swimming—swim in safe
places. Things to examine are tides,
currents, depths, sunken debris and
Impurities. P>e sure to stay within
you own limits. Wait at least two
hours after eating, and then take a
long a friend for safety’s sake.
If you must use fireworks —be on
the alert every minute. Give your
self plenty of space. Keep them a-
way front) inflammable materials.
Keep away from smaller children and
anirtials. Cauterize all small cuts
and bruises immediately—tentanus
poisoning is swift and deadly. The
best advice about fireworks is: Use
something else. (
Last year, on thi '‘morning after,”
the Associated Pres* reported 119
motor vehicle death-?, 90 drownings,
10 fireworks fatalities and 26 deaths
from other causes—a total of 245.
This is disgraceful enough but super
ior to the 1931 toll of 354. No one
knows the extent of serious or minor
injuries, because only a fraction of
them is reported. The National So
ciety for the Prevention of Blindness
estimates that 50 persons lose com
pletely the sight of one or both eyes
and that 500 more suffer minor eye
injuries every year. This record is
made by fireworks alone.
ROCK BABIES IF YOU WISH
Old-fashioned mothers and fathers
will find comfort in the statement re
cently given out by Dr. Beasley of
the psychology department of Johns
Hopkins that it is perfectly all right
to rock babies.
Another thing that Dr. Beasley
approves is tossing bubies into the
air. In a common sense way Dr.
Beasley says the tossing no
harm —if the father does not Mrop
the baby, of course.
Dr. Beasley also settled something
else. He made the profound state
ment that he honestly and profoundly
believed that babies as a rule could
be trusted to the hands of mothers
who bore them and to a lesser ex
tent in the hands of the fathers.
The Dawson News adds this com
ment to Dr. Beasley’s statement:
‘‘But when a noted physician put his
©. k. on the age-old habit of rook
ing the little fellows to sleep and
says that a good many of th\ don’ts
about rearing children is pure un
adulterated bunk fathers and moth
ers everywhere are expected to cele
barte the victory they have won over
the other side.”
During the depression, many per
sons have resumed the use of the
old-fashioned lye soap, and here is
a recipe that is recommended: “Pour
one can of Red Devil Lye into one
quart of cold water in an iron or
enamel vessel. Boil until lyc is dis
solved. Allow solution to cool, then
pour cold lye solution slowly into
5% pounds of grease that has been
boiled and strained to remove im
purities and foreign matter. Boil for
ten minutes. Let cool. While cool
ing stir until soap shows signs of
becoming creamy in texture, then
pour into a mold or cardboard box.
Let stand several days, turn out, eut
into cakes, wrap in paper and pack
away.”
The famous Vienna, Ontario, child
hood home of the late Thomas Alva
Edison, will be moved across the in-i
ternational boundary to Dearborn,
Michigan. Henry Ford, motor mag
nate, has purchased the old home- i
stead and has made plans to move it
to the Ford Hisiorical Settlement at
Dearborn. The home was built by
Samuel Edison, grandfather of the
inventor, but in recent years was
owned by Mrs. T. Allen, of Cali
fornia, who permitted Edison to
come and visit the home at any time.
Statement Of Cotton
Allotment Plan, Con
ditions And Benefits
1. Approximately 13 million
bales of American cotton will be
carried over from the present con
sumption year into next year’s mar
ket.
2. Prospects for 1933 and 1934
are a 15-million bale crop.
3. This would place on the pnar
ket a two-year supply.
4. The cotton trade is not ex
pecting more than 7c per pound for
the 1933 a*<! ’34 crop under these
conditions.
6. The full schedule of payments
worked out by Secretary Wallace for
cotton acreage reduction under the
two alternative plans which will be
made available to growers follows:
Schedule of payments with options
on government cotton at 6c a pound:
First figures, yield per acre in
pounds; second figures, benefit pay
ment per acre with option:
100-124 $ 6
125-149 7
150-174 8
175-221 10
225-274 11
275 and over 12 I
In all of these cases the amount of
cotton on which the grower will be
entitled to obtain an option will be
equal to the yield of the land he re
tires from production.
The yield of his land will be de
termined on the basis of past pro
duction of the land and the appear
ance of his crop this year and its
general condition.
The plan for providing for cash
benefits without options calls for
these payments:
Yield per acre; payment per acre
without option:
100-124 pounds $ 7
125-149 ” -- 9
150-174 ” 11
175-224 ” - 14
225-274 ” - 17
275 and over 20
A farmer with 10 acres of cotton
would plough up 30 r /c, or 3 acres of
his cotton. If his yield is 200 lbs.
of lint per acre, his cash rental
without the option would be sl4 per
acre, or $42 for the 3 acres. If he
chose to take the option also, he
would get $lO per acre cash rental,
or S3O for the 3 acres, and an option
on 600 lbs. of cotton at 6c per pound.
If the production on the remaining
7 acres is 200 lbs. of lint per acre, or
a total of 1,400 lbs., and sells for 10c
per lb., it would bring $l4O, plus $42
rental, or a total of $lB2 for ten
acres. If the price should go to sl2c,
which is the goal of the government,
the 1,400 lbs. of lint would bring
$l6B, plus $42 rental, or a total of
$2lO. With the option, the 10 acres
would bring'-$l4O, plus S3O i - ental
or $l7O. If the price goes to 10c,
there would be a profit of 4c per lb.
on the 600 lbs. of cotton destroyed,
which would be $24, or a total of
$194 for the 10 acres. If the price
should go to 12c, profit from the
option would be 6c per lb., or $36,
which would give $206 for 10 acres
of cotton.
If the cotton plan is not put into
effect, and the yield is 2,000 lbs. of
lint on 10 acres, it would not bring
more than 7c per lb., or a total of
$l4O for the 10 acres. This would
be sl2 to S4O less on the 10 acres
than would be received if the cot
ton plan is put into effect.
6. A campaign started June 26 to
determine whether or not the farm
ers prefer this option to the harvest
ing of their full crop this fall.
7. Past history has shown that
the change in production of a mil
lion bales of cotton changes the price
approximately a cent per pound.
8. If a 15 million bale crop of
cotton would bring about 7c per
pound this fall, or $35 per bale, or
a total of $500,000,000 or less, then
a 12 million bale crop should bring
about 10c per pound, or SSO per
bale, or a total of $600,000,000.
9. The value to the farmer who
eliminates for and in consideration
of benefit payments would be able
to secure now approximately what is
considered the value of cotton would
be at harvest and some increase as a
result of this destruction in the re
mainder of the crop he produces.
10. Of course, nobody will know
what a 15 million bale crop would
sell for unless we actually produce
and market a 15 million bale crop.
Neither would anybody know what
a 12 million bale crop would sell for
unless we actually produce and
market 12 million bales. But it is
reasonable to assume that a 15 mil
lion bale crop will sell for two or
three cents less per pound than a 12
million bale crop. This is proved by
I the history of the cotton market fol
| lowing the August 8 condition re
i port of 1932. When this report in
dicated 11,300,000 bales, the cotton
I market rapidly rose from 5c to 8c
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
E. H. W., columnist in The Madi
son Madisonian, says the old motto,
“God Bless Our Horne,” which used
to hang on the wall or over the man
tel, should now 4)6 hung over the
family auto.
Jackson county farmers are being
given the opportunity this week of
considering and accepting the gov
ernment’s cotton acreage plan, and
we are informed that a majority of
the planters are heartily in favor of
the cut in acreage.
Advertising which lets people know
that you have what they want is the
most important ingredient in suc
cess. It is like an electric bulb that
tells what the big power plant is do
ing.—Arthur Brisbane.
The U. S. Department of Justice
says there are 185 persons still hoard
ing $1,150,819 in gold. The names
of these gold-hoarders will be pub
lished, and if they still refuse to
turn in the gold they will be prose
cuted.
Among the new comers into Mor
gan county this year is Mr. Frank
Fleming, who moved from Jackson
county to a part of the Enoch Wat
kins place, near Rutledge, now the
property of Miss Theressa Newton.
Mr. Fleming is a good citizen and
industrious and successful fanner.
He reported cotton blooms last week.
—The Madisonian, Madison, Ga.
The patrons of the Southern rail
way line that runs from Athens
through Commerce to Lula are re
joicing that the Public Service Com
mission turned down the proposal
that only one passenger and one mix
ed train be run each day. The road
will continue to run the regular
daily passenger and freight trains.
When the price of cotton went to
ten cents Monday, a newspaper re
porter in Greenville, Miss., said,
“Cotton went to 10 cents a pound
today. And there was jubilation
down here where the staple means a
roof over the head and beans in the
pot.” “Ten-cent cotton!” It’s more
than a market quotation. There is
magic in the words and music in the
syllables.
Cotton leaped $4.25 a bale to the
highest price in over two years Mon
day under one of the largest buying
waves in the history of the New York
Cotton Exchange. Anticipation that
farmers would co-operate with the
government in curtailing acreage
brought a flood of buying orders into
the market shortly after the opening
and swept prices to the highest level
since April 1, 1931. All contracts
on the New York exchange went a
bove 10 cents a pound.
The Court of Appeals recently
handed down two important decisions
in regard to the operation of auto
mobiles. One held that when father
maintains a car for family use and
while the car is being driven by one
of the children it ran into another
car, the father was subject to suit
for damage even if the son or
daughter was of legal age provided
they were living at home as one of
the family at the time. The other
held that when an automobile came
up behind another and blew for the
road that it was not only a rple cf
courtesy but also a rule of law that
the car in front pull to the right and
let the second car pass, and that the
driver of the first car was subject to
a fine if he failed to comply with this
rule of the road.
per pound. When later, the esti
mates increased the crop, and the
final production was 13,000,000 bales,
it is common knowledge that cotton
sold for Gc per pound, or a total of
$390,000,000, or $100,000,000 less
than a 11,000,000 bale crop would
have sold for.
11. The present cotton market,
of course, is the result of approxi
mately 20 per cent devaluation of
the dollar, together with a sudden
spurt in buying, and the consequent
speculation. If the dollar drops any
lower, and if other business condi
tions do not revive, there is little
hope in the minds of anybody of
holding the present prices of cotton
in the face of a prospective yield of
14 or 15 million bales. The general
estimate is that acreage has been in
creased nearly 10 per cent, with a
considerable increase in fertilization
in the eastern part of the belt.
In 1932 the total value of the Geo
gia cotton crop was only $29,475,000;
in 1931, $46,876,000; in 1930, SBB,-
929,000; and in 1929, $132,785,000.
The total value per acre of lint and
seed for the same years was as fal
lows: 1932, $9.49; 1931, $13.63;
1930, $23.02; 1929, $32.72.
COURT HEARING IN HIGHWAY
ROW JUNE 30
The developments in the highway
controversy so far are that a hearing
will be held on June 30 before three
Federal Judges in injunction pro
ceedings brought by Commissioners
J. W. Barnett and W. C. Vereen,
ousted highway board, members, in
an attempt to end military control
over the state highway system.
Jud Wilhoit, Georgia’s one-man
highway commission under Governor
Talmadge’s military rule of that de
partment, was in Washington seeking
release of about $10,000,000 in fed
eral road funds allotted to the state
but held up pending settlement of
the troubles between the Governor
and the highway board.
The authorities in the Capital
City informed him that no federal
road funds would be given Georgia
until the courts decided who is en
titled to be in control.
John I. Kelly, attorney for deputy
Sheriff 6. C. Wooten, whose attempt
to serve Governor Talmadge in a
superior court case resulted in the
arrest of Wooten by the militia, has
entered suit for $25,000 damages.
When the deputy handed the Gover
nor the summons, he tore the paper
into fragments, hurled them in th#
officer’s face, .and ordered him from
the room, saying:
“Get out and go to hell!”
The adjutant general, seated near
by, followed the deputy and arrested
him and his fellow officer as they
entered an elevator.
Preparations to intervene in the
federal court suit of the majority
members of the state highway board
against Governor Talmadge, seeking
elimination of martial law Control
of the highway department, were be
ing made Tuesday by the city of At
lanta in the interest of Atlanta’s
share of federal road funds.
dr. McDonald goes to
HOSPITAL IN CLEVELAND
Dr. E. M. McDonald, whose health
has been slightly impaired for the
.past month, is leaving today, Thurs
day, for Cleveland, Ohio, where he
will undergo medical examination at
the Crile Clinic, one of the famous
hospitals of the United States. He
is accompanied by Mrs. McDonald,
Miss Sarah Frances McDonald and
Mrs. J. O. Braselton of Braselton.
They are making the trip *by
motor, and will travel leisurely,- en
joying the many places of scenic
beauty along the section through
which they journey. Before return
ing they expect to visit the Century
of Progress Exhibition. That Dr.
McDonald will be greatly benefitted
by his stay in Cleveland and on his
return will be in fine physical con
dition and able to resume his prac
tice, is the sincere wish of his many
friends.
AT THE METHODIST CHURCH
’ SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1933 *
If I had but one more time to go
to church I would select a Commun
ion Service. Next Sunday is Com
munion Sunday at cur church. Ev
erybody is invited to come.
At 11 o’clock: Text, Rom., 5,8:
Christ died for us.
At night the sermon will be ad
dressed specially to those who think
they have a long time to live. Text,
Ps., 90, 12: So teach us to number
our days that we may apply our
hearts unto wisdom.
Sunday night’s music will be in
charge of our Hi-League.
You are invited.
E. G. Thomason, Pastor.
MARTIN INSTITUTE MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
Miss Nixon Mobley has been re
elected by the Board of Education
as director of the Musip Department
of Martin Institute for the coming
school year. Courses in public
school music, choral and glee club
training, and piano, will be offered.
The board heartily recommends Miss
Mobley to the public as a very ef
ficient and modern teacher. The
splendid work rendered during the
past year demonstrates the possibili
ties of a great future for the de
partment.
In another column will be found
the births in the county that have
been recorded in the Ordinary’s of
fice during the month. If the birth
of vour child is not on the record, it
should be. as the filing- of these re
cords is highly important. In many
instances birth records settle ques
tions which vitally affect a person,
and undue litigation sometimes a
rises from a lack of registration of
one’s birth. Parents are reminded of
/his important matter and are urged
♦o have a proper record made of the
birth of their children.
Mr. Henry McDonald, a son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. S. McDonald of Buford,
who formerly lived in Pendergrass,
was recently appointed first alternate
candidate to the United States Mili
tary Academy by Congressman John
S. Wood, and left Sunday for West
Point, New York, to undergo the en
trance examinations.
The first day of summer, June 21,
has passed, and the days are now
growing shorter.
ROOSEVELT THEATRE
JEFFERSON, GA.
WESTERN ELECTRIC SOUND SYSTEM
8:00 to 11:00 O’clock Each Night
Matinee Monday, Wednesday, Saturday
2:30 to 5:00 O’clock
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Maurice Chevalier and Helen Twelvetrees in
“A BEDTIME STORY”
Vitaphone Comedy “Hot Competition”
Admission, 10 and 15c.
(Mrs. Curtis Anderson)
SATURDAY
Another Zane Grey Western
“UNDER THE TONTO RIM”
Taxie Beys Comedy “Strange Intertube”
Admission, Matinee, Everybody 10c.
Admission, Night, 10 and 15c.
(James Carter)
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Special 4th of July program guaranteed to
make you laugh
Joe E. Brown in
“ELMER THE GREAT”
Vitaphone musical short subject
Admission, Matinee 10 and 15c.
Admission, Night, 10 and 25c.
(Miss Louise Ellington)
WEDNESDAY (Bargain Day)
Joan Bennett & Spencer Tracy in
“ME AND MY GAL.”
“THE DEVIL HORSE”
Cartoon short subject
Admission Everybody 10 Cents
Matinee and Night
(Miss Annie Pinson)
If your name appears in this advertisement,
clip and present it at the door for a compli
mentary seat.
* COME TO '
LAKE ELLIS
TALMO, GA.
We now have our lake, buildings
and grounds ready for swimming, boat
riding, and picnics. Our lake is filled
from spring water, and is fresh and
nice. You will enjoy the swim. Shower
bath in each dressing room.
Bring your families, parties and
Sunday school picnics to our lake. We
assure you a good time.
Howard Woody in charge, and in
vites you to come to see him.
Yours for a good time.
Committee in charge.
SLOWED US DOWN A BIT
The cut rent economic depression,
in spite of the hardships and priva
tions which it entails, has also had its
benefits. For one thing, it has made
people more friendly, more consider
ate of the other fellow. Too many
of us during the past have been self
ish, wrapped up in our own affairs,
and heedless of those about us. Now
that is all changed. We have become
acquainted with our neighbors, and
renewed friendships. We take more
interest in our homes and our chil
dren, and we have discovered that
pleasure can be found in the simple
things of life. —Fulton County Re
view.
JEFFERSON, GA., JUNE 29, 1023
In our issue of June 15 there " aj
published a notice of an examination
to be held for the position of collec
tor of cotton statistics, in which i
was stated that the person app >
must have had at least two yeais
perience in gi'owing or ginning
manufacturing cotton goods. -
amendment to the notice ha?
sent out, striking out this 1 ct <“ ‘
ment, and extending the
filing the application from
to July 10.
If the oven is very hot P U; a ■
of waxed paper under the 1 a
cover. This will prevent the _
tents of the casserole baking
quickly.