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THE JACKSON HERALD
Published Weekly
$1 .50 A Year—-In Advance
Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice
as Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER.... Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON.^Ba. M’g’r.
JEFFERSON, GA., AUG. 24, 1933.
GIVE THE NRA YOUR
CO-OPERATION
President is meeting, with al
mdht one hundred per tent co-oper
aiipn in his efforts to bring about
national recovery. The slogan, “We
Do Our Part," underneath* the blue l
eagle, is seen in almost every busi
ness house, and there is an honest I
tlfsire In the hearts of the people to
id in every way possible to restore
to the nation its usual buying power.
Of course, there are some critics,
but, as the Savannah Press said re
cently, this is no time for criticism.
President Roosevelt has ignored poli
tics and precedents, and some of his
measures may not be successful. He
said in the beginning that many of
them were experiments, and if they
proved to be failures, he would try
something qlse. The people are be
hind him, and are anxious to give him
the benefit of every doubt. He has
the sympathy and enthusiastic sup
port of the public. As the Savan
nah Press expressed it, “When Presi
dent Roosevelt was .inaugurated this
country was in a deplorable con
dition. The banks .had suspended;
twelve millions of. puople were out
f work, and conditions confronted
us which in the history of this re-
public were unpreeddented. Obvi
ously some new experiments had to
be tried.”
The person who Sranns on the out
aide of the firing linp and predicts
failure is not helping his country,
but is throwing a ‘tog' into the ma
chinery that the is running
to restore prosperity. ( *
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“BORN THIRTY YEARS TOO
soon;:
t'i '
Make your land ''produce'' fifty
bushels instead of fifteen bushels of
corn. It’s easy when you learn how.
—Thomasville Press. !
This advice is er\rtrely out of date.
It was good thirty yqars ago, but in
this day and time the idea is to bring
your production down to a minimum.
To make fifty bushel*'of corn grow
where fifteen grew before is absolute
starvation. The experts claim that
such practices are bankrupting this
nation.
The federal government and the
states are spending millions of dol
lars in supporting agricultural de
partments, agricultural colleges, ex
periment stations, demonstration
agents, vocational teachers and va
rious other agencies in order to get
the farmers to make fifty bushels of
corn where fifteen grew before or
two bales of cotton grow where one
.grew before, and then these same
governments turn around and spend
millions of dollars annually to de
stroy what they have taught the 1
farmers to make.
No, no. Let’s not try to Ret the
farmers to grow fifty bushels of
•corn where fifteen grew before, and
cotton and wheat and other products
in proportion.
Our esteemed Thomasville friend
should remember we are living in an
entirely different age from that in
which he and we were brought up.—
Winder News.
WHAT WILL U. S. DO WITH
LAND?
Washington, D. C.—What to do
with the 40,000,000 to 50,000,000
acres of land which Secretary Wal
lace plans to take out of the produc
tion of wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco
and other crops was delegated today
to a Michigan professor for decision.
J. F. Cox, former dean of Michi
gan State College, East Lansing,
Mich., selected to head a section of
crop replacements, said he will seek
to stimulate the planting of treesmnd
pastures, projects to stop soil erosion,
and the planting of crops which will
help rebuild soils.
Cox faces this puzzle the lands
taken out of production must be
used only for growing crops for
home consumption and which will not
add to surpluses, and surpluses are
now being produced of nearly every
thing.
We n’t know of any meaner let
ter than “s" to start a word with.
It snags, snores, snaps, snarles,
snatches, snips, and snitches; it
steals, staggers, stares, sticks, and
stills; while the, swine swell with the
swill and switch their tails in the
%\ard.—Dahlonega Nug|et.
THE “BACK COUNTRY” MUST
COME BACK
Commenting on the statement of
The Dawson News that new stores
are opening in Dawson and “mer
chants report that business is pick
ing up,” the Sylvester Local says:
"The country towns are coming
back. Dawson, like most of the
country towns, has lost many of its
old established business houses the
past year or two through bankruptcy.
Many of the old established busine |s
concerns ceased Advertising when tl e
depression reached the bottom. Th< y
slowly lost contact with the public
and were soon forgotten. Bankrupt
cy was the inevitable result.
But now, with business improving,
new stores are opening in Dawson
and they are advertising.
The country towns are coming
back. The farms are filling up with
| people from the over-crowded cities.
They are settling around the country
towns and they will become new
| customers for the country merchants
who carry the things they want.”
It ought to be perfectly clear to
every thoughtful person that if the
country and the country towns do
not come back there will be no com
ing back in any other quarter.
The rural sections are behind the
cities and industrial centers. The
latter may prosper for a time while
the former languish, being carried
forward by the momentum of better
balanced times, but in the end it
must become clear that there can be
no sound rehabilitation of national
propserity till the rural sections have
climbed out of the trough of de
pression. N
ißome of the more important of
the Roosevelt programs are designed
to help the farm and the rural com
muriity. They are vitally important.
They must succeed if national pros
perity is to be restored.—Albany
Herald.
MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES'
MUST DO THEIR PART
The Georgia Relief Copimission,
which met in Atlanta last week, an
nounced that allotments for the j
month have been completed, and that
the commission has been assured by
Washington that quotas for the Geor
gia counties will be paid from Sep
tember to the first of October.
There is no assurance that funds
will continue to come in after Octo
ber 1 unless the municipalities and
counties make a showing themselves
as to what they are doing in behalf
of the poor, the destitute, and the un
°mployed, the new vice chairman
aid. In the view of this fact, Har
;y L. Hopkins, national director, is
urging that all available funds be
raised by the local governments
promptly.
GOING AFTER GOLD HOADERS
The last day of grace for gold
hoaders has passed, and now definite
action will be taken by Attorney
General Cummings against all dodg
ers and hoarders of gold. The at
torney general’s office in Washington
has figured that there are 280 persons
holding $845,026 in the metal which
they have refused to give up, be
sides several million dollars in coins
that are stored away and hidden
from the view of the government of
ficials. ,and
b'O'
I
b .;‘KEEP US ALIVE—I”
In ihese days of national and
world-readjustment every reserve Of
hope, faith, and courage are requir
ed to enable each of us to swim a
gainst the strong tides of life’s de
mands. We cannot afford to cringe
or retreat as we, individually and
collectively, wage war on human
selfishness and greed—the two evil
influences that have brought this
great nation of ours to its prayerful
knees. With new determination, let
us join the old Scotch clergyman
who, in a day of great need, asked:
“Please, Lord, keep me alive as long
as 1 live.”—Birmingham (Mich.)
Eccentric.
“Agricultural Workers” do not fall
within the provisions of the NRA
code, and many people have not un
derstood just what “Agricultural
Worker” included. This definition
has been given out at recovery head
quarters in Washington: “‘Agricul
tural workers’ are all those employed
by farmers on the farm when they
are engaged in growing and prepar
ing fi>r sale the products of the soil
and or live stock; also, all labor used
in growing and preparing perishable
agricultural commodities for market
in original perishable fresh form.
When workers are employed in pro
| cessing farm products or preparing
I them for market beyond the stage
* customarily performed within the
area of production, such workers are
not to bo deemed agricultural work
! era.”
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
NRA INTERPRETATIONS
Q, lam a retail clothing merch
ant, operating under the retail stores
code. We employ our salesman six
hours per day for the five week
days, and 10 hours on Saturday.
Are we complying with t£e agree
ment as regards the hours of our
salesman?
A. Yes. The retail stores code
does not limit working hours in any
one day provided tf. the week’s total
doer. not exceed 40 hours,
Q.i I operate a small grocery
store. Is it permissible foY me to
work my salesmen 10 hours on Sat
urday, provided the are
deducted from other working time
on other days in the week?
A. This is not permissible as the
food and grocery distributors’ code
specifically states.that the maximum
hours of labor shall be 48 hours per
week, and no one shall be employed
more than eight hours in any 24-hour
period, excepting on the day preced
ing legal holiday and on an addition
al 12 days (when the maximum
hours in any one day shall not ex
ceed 10 hours) in -any six months, j
.Sunday is not a legal holiday.)
Q. Do the maximum hours for bar
ber and beauty shops apply to the
owners of the shop?
A. The maximum hours fixed shall
not only apply to persons engaged in
the managerial or executive capaci
ties, but shall apply to owners or
operators of a barber shop or beauty
shop actively working at harboring
or actively engaged in beauty work.
The Herald extends, happy congra
tulations to two young newspaper
editors who have recently wedded
charming brides. Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
Aycock of Monroe have announced
the marriage of their daughter, Wil
lie May, jto Mr. Ernest Camp, Jr.,
associate editor of the W alton 1 ri
bune, of which his father is editor.
The ceremony was performed No
vember 24, 1932. Also, Mr. Fat
Steyens Shackelford of Lexington,
and Miss Lila Elizabeth Edwards of
Savannah, were married on August
18. Mr. Shackelford is the only son
of Editor and Mrs. W. A. Shackel
ford, and is associated with his father
in the publication of The Oglethorpe
Edho. ‘
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This section was visited the first
of the week by a strong northeast
wind, with overclouded skies and cool
weather. The wind was the result
of a terriffic hurrican that developed
suddenly on the New Jersey coast,
catching scores .of fishermen off
guard and causing the death of six
persons. Northeast winds, reaching
gale velocity, swept the Bermudas
and other islands. Storm warnings
were ordered along the coast from
Boston to Cape Hatteras. t
The members of the civilian e&n
servation corps consume 9,000,000
eggs, 1,125,000 pounds of bacon,
5,025,000 pounds of beef, 1,125,000
pounds of coffee, 6,750,000 pounds
of flour, and 2,250,000 pounds of
pork each month. It is said' the
weight of the men throughout the
camps has increased an average of
12 pounds since they enlisted a few
months ago.
Cotton mills maintained high-speed
production during July with con
sumption of the staple reported by
the census bureau at 600,143 bales
compared with 278,568 bales for the
same month last year. At the same
time the bureau in an annual sum
mary, showed that Stocks of cotton
on hand om August 1 are approxi
mately' 1,500,000 bales below stocks
accounted for in this country on the
same date in' 193 ; 2.
Immediate help for the farmer
through “controlled inflation” is the
recommendation of Senator Walter
F. George, of Georgia. He said af
ter a conference with the President
that he had made that suggestion,
with the provision that if any infla
tion were undertaken it should be
done directly by the government
through the Federal Reserve System.
The Farm Administration hopes io
have a cotton acreage reduction pro
gram for 1934 and 1985 ready for
announcement by September 15 and
that the plan will have a stimulating
effect on prices this year. Secretary
Wallace, telling of the efforts toward
a long-time program to adjust the
supply of the staple to the demand
raid it was hoped the details would
be worked out by the middle of next
month.
Twelve persons have died recent
ly in St. Lo # uis, Mo., from “sleeping
richness,” or encephalitis. Eight
new cases were reported Sunday,
increasing the number of known
cases to 129. Dr. J. P. Leake, senior
i sturgeon of the United States public
! health service, said experiments
i would soon be made on monkeys n
I an effort to ascertain if possible how
j the malady is transmitted.
FORMER CITIZEN OF JACKSON
COUNTY BURIED IN OCONEE
COUNTY
Services for Mrs. J. D. Jackson,
74, who died at the home of her
daughter in Bogart were held in tl\e
Union Christian church in Oconee
county Friday at 11 a. m.
A native of Jackson county, Mrs.
Jackson had spent most of her life
in Jackson and Clarke counties, with
the exception of a few months’4r
Sewanee, Ga. She returned to th*
homo of her daughter, Mrs. R.
B. Wages, in Bogart, seven weeks
ago. Before her marriage, she was
Mary Frances Milligan, .daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Milligan of Jay
son county. Mrs. Jackson was a
member of the Christian church since
childhood. She and her husband
celebrated their fiftieth wedding an
niversary four years ago.
Surviving Mrs. Jackson are her
husband, J. D. Jackson, Bogart; three
daughters, Mrs. J. M. Austin, Atlan
ta; Mrs. W. P. Johnson, SeWanee,
and Mrs. R. B. Wages, Bogart; son,
W. G. Jhckson, 'Bogart; sister, Mrs.
Will Sweat, Bethlehem; eight grand
children, and nine great grandchil
dren.
CIRCLE NO. 3, METHODIST M. S.
MEETS
Circle No. 3 of the Methodist Mis
sionary Society met with Mrs. Lucy
Carr on last Monday afternoon.
The meeting was opened with
Scripture reading by Mrs. A. H. Mc-
Ree, followed by prayer by Mrs.
Carr.
Mrs. J. D. Escoe was in charge of
the program, which was on “Service
to Others,” and a most interesting
one was given, as follows:
A True Love Story, Mrs. H. D.
Dadisman.
The Daily Round of Common
Deeds, Mrs. Sam Kelly. .
A Tale of the Trail, Mrs. J. D.
Escoe.
The Place of Women in the
Church, Mrs. Noble Patrick.
The business meeting was presid
ed over by Mrs. H. D. Dadisman.
The minutes of last meeting were
read and approved. The collection
amounted to 65c.
A rummage sale was planned for
next Saturday afternoon.
The social service report was a
follows: Visits to sick, 6; Flowers to
sick, 4; Cash to needy, $1.20;
Clothes to needy, $1.35. .
The committee for arranging hos
tesses submitted the following as
hostesses for the remainder Of the
year:
September: Mesdams H. D. Dadis
man, Billy Wall, Noble Patrick,
October: Mesdames Byrd Martin,
Sam Kelly, Lucy Carr.
November: Mesdames J. D. Escoe,
C. E. Robinson, G. W. Foster.
December: Mesdames A. H. Mc-
Ree, Lewis Mobley, Hubert Lyle,
Cap Duke.
The meeting closed with the Lord’s
Prayer, and a social half hour was
enjoyed.
CIRCLE NO. 1 MET WITH
MRS. HOLDER
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Circle No. 1 of the Methodist
Missionary Society held the August
meeting on Monday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. J. N. Holder, with
eight members present.
The theme for the afternoon’s pro
gram was “The Place of Women in
the Church.” The worship service
was led by Miss Ethel Moore, who
read the Bible lesson from the 4th
chapter of John, and then gave an
interesting talk on “The Attitudes of
Christ Towards Women.”
Following this, Mrs. Guy Strick
land read a paper on “What Women
May Be.” ,
The minutes of the July meeting
were read &y Mrs. J. N. Holder, the
secretary being absent.
Mrs. H. I. Mobley presided over
the businoss meeting, in which /.here
was a discussion of raising the third
quarter pledge. It was decided to
ask the committee to continue with
the plans for the Silver Tea.
The collection for the afternoon
was $3.75.
The September meeting will be
held with Mrs. Guy Strickland.
After adjournment, the hostess
served refreshments, and a social
meeting was greatly enjoyed.
The ladies present were Mesdames
11. I. Mobley, J. N. Holder, J. A.
Wills, Curtis Anderson, Stanley Kes
ler, L. B. Isbell, Guy Strickland,
Mic3 Ethel Moore.
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Hart, Madison, Morgan, Walton,
j Barrow and other counties south of
j Jackson report new bales of cotton
! received last week. In almost every
I instance there came a report that
J cotton has deteriorated very rapidly
j curing the past two weeks.
NOTHING UNUSUAL
IN DISCOUNT PLAN,
HOLDER EXPLAINS
Highway Department Often lasue*
Acceptance*, Ex-Chairman Says
(From Atlanta Journal)
Charges by Governor Talmadge in
public addresses that there had been
irregularity in connection with the
discounting of due bills of the State
Highway Department by members of
his family were denred vigorously in
a statement issued Saturday by John
N. Holder, former chairman of the
Highway Board and several times
candidate for governor of Georgia.
Mr. Holder stated that he is out of
public life now and did not intend to
pay any attention to the charges until
he was asked to do so by A. P. Brant
ley, Blackshear business leader and a
friend of long standing.
Mr. Holder made public the letter
he had received from Mr. Brantley
and also his reply, containing an ex
planation of the transactions referred
to by Governor Talmadge, from Lee
M. Cauble, Manager of the Atlanta
Equipment Company, a firm the
governor said did not exist,
Mr. Holder stated that the accounts
discounted by his relatives are “not
a drop in the bucket” compared to
other accounts of the Highway De
partment that have been similarly
discounted, and called upon the High
way Department to make similar
transactions public.
The letters follow:
Brantley’* Letter
Blackshear, Ga., August 7th, 1933.
Hon. John N. Holder,
Jefferson, Ga.
Dear Mr. Holder:
I am enclosing you a clipping from
the Coffee County Progress under
date of August 3rd, entitled, “Gov
ernor Talmadge Speaks Here Tues
day.”
I know that the facts in regard to
any checks issued by the Highway
Department are not as stated in this
clipping, and if you will write me
what the actual facts were, I will
appreciate very much your doing so.
I am, with kind regards and best
wishes,
Yours sincerely,
A. P. Brantley.'
Explanation Of Deal*
Jefferson, Ga.
August 15, 1933..
Mr. A. P. Brantley,
Blackshear, Ga.
My Dear Mr. Brantley:
I am grateful to you for your let
ter of recent date in which you give
expressions of confidence in me. Al
so, I thank you for calling my atten
tion to speech of Talmadge made at
Douglas in which he made certain
criticisms against me and members of
my family.
I am a private citizen, and have
j been for more than four years. I
| hold no office, have no commission,
and have no official responsibility,
whatever. Asa private citizen., I
have a legal right to engage in busi
ness transactions as any other pri
vate citizen. It would have been
legal and not improper for me to
have sold equipment to the State
Highway Department if I had chosen
to do so. But I did not sell the
equipment mentioned by Talmadge
to the Department, nor aid in the
sale, nor share in the profits of the
sale. Neither did any member of my
family sell, aid or share in the pro
fits of the sale.' Nor did we know
anything about this sale until long
after it was made. ’ ’
The Atlanta Equipment Company,
of which Lee M. Cauble is manager,
sold to the State Highway Depart
ment some equipment. A full state
ment of this Company follows:
Company’s Statement
“When Governor- Taimadge in a
speech called attention to an ac
ceptance given the Atlanta Equip
ment Company for purchase of ma
chinery and parts, I gave no answer,
because I thought Captain J. W Bar
nett’s explanation, that millions of
of dollars of acceptances have been
given on the State Highway Depart
ment to different persons and con
cerns for material, equipment and
work, would satisfy any fair-minded
person that giving an assignment is
regular, legal and customary, but I
have just seen a statement of Gov
ernor Talmadge, which says, ‘These
checks were given for equipment pur
porting to have been purchased from
the Atlanta Equipment Company.’
“The machinery was sold by the
Atlanta Equipment Company to the
State Highway Department. One
rale was Purchase Order No. 19C29,
invoice No. 6115. The State
Highway Department, not being in a
position to pay cash, issued an ac
ceptance. Another purchase was
made from my Company, Purchase
| Order No. 33326, and invoice No
ko7. An acceptance was also given
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 4 ,
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for this equipment. N 0 ~ I
me in the sale or shared a ‘ ds 4 I
the profits except the party JZ ° f I
courited the paper at g 0 di - I
annum. Pr ce "t p„ I
“The equipment is now i„ „ I
the State Highway Depart** ‘ n I
s giving perfect sau.sf a , tin ' I
same class of equi pmi , Ilt , * h,s I
sold to counties and contract een I
State Highway Departments I
other States, and it is
be the greatest economy machine 0
grading made by any Company.
Acceptance* Given
“As above stated, acceptance,
were g.ven for this equipment L
I sought to have them cashed at t h
smallest, possible discount, as m *
profit on each sale was \-J
small, because of a liberal Z
count I gave to the State Highway
Department. Acceptances g iV en by
the Highway Department are
es to pay’ on a certain date, and ar i
similar to scrip given by cities and I
warrants issued by counties. Be
cause these acceptances issued me
were not payable in the year i n I
which they were given, and banks
have a rule not to handle paper of
this kind, I could not get money on
them from the banks. 1 needed the
cash to carry on, and appealed to a
friend to loan me the money on the
acceptances, which he did more from
personal friendship than for profit.
“These transactions were regular
legitimate and honest, and there is
no reason why they should have been
given any publicity more than the
many other transactions of a simi
lar nature in which millions of dol
lars of acceptances have been given.
“I will thank those in authority at
the State Highway Department to
publish a complete list of aW assign
ments made since January Ist, 1931.
If so, it will be seen that these two
acceptances, referred to by the Gov
ernor in his speeches, are but drops
compared with the number and a
mount of these ‘promises to pay’
given by the Department.”
“Yours truly,
“Lee M. Cauble,
“Mgr. Atlanta Equipment Company.”
Eight Per Cent Discount
These “acceptances,” or “promis
es to pay,” were cashed by a mem
ber of my family, who received an
8 per cent per annum discount.
When they became due, a check was
mailed by the treasurer of the State
Highway Board to the purchaser of
the acceptance. These checks were
mailed to Mrs. Holder, who endorsed
and collected them. Talmadge says
there was something strange or un
usual in Mrs. Holder signing her
name “A. M. Holder.” “A. M.' are
the initials of her given name, and
if she chooses to do her banking busi
ness in this manner we can not see
that it is any of Talmadge’s con
cern. She carried a bank account,
and signed her name in this manner
long before Georgia had a dictator.
Neither I, nor .any member of my
family, has had any business dealings
with members of the State Highvaj
Board, any engineer connected with
the department, nor any other per
son connected with the department,
and the transactions with the Atlan
ta Equipment Company were regular,
legal and honest, and no member of
the Highway Department, from
Chairman to rodman, aided us in any
way directly or indirectly to obtain
one illegal penny from the depart
ment. In fact, no one connected
with the department knew we had
secured someone to discount the ac
ceptances -until so notified b\
Cauble. .
Talmadge knows that hundreds
other acceptances like these two. 8
mounting to millions of d°
have been issued by the Highway
partment, and paid when due, and
not a word of criticism has bee
made. If these were not legal, th
none of the other acceptances is
sued by the department,
they were for two dollars two hou
sand' dollars, or two hundred thou
sand dollars, were legal.
Whether they were discounted
banks or private individuals, am
do not doubt but that numbers oi
banks have discounted these P-‘P
the transactions were the same,
the transaction of cashing e
ceptances of the Atlanta Eo-.pmen
Company was not lega l an De .
the treasurer of the
partment would not have P al d
acceptance. The fact„tha 1 . as
a check for the same when it
yiue, is evidence that there " g .
illegality or dishonesty in the
aC i°am loathe to try your patience
with this long letter, but t me
due mv friends an exp l •
as much as Talmadge continues
insinuate that my dealing® _
business transactions were
With best wishes, and sentimen
of high esteem, 1 am,
Your friend,
' John N.t Holder.