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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 Bus. M'g’r.
JEFFERSON, GA., OCT. 1. 133
MANY CHANGES IN SIXTY
YEARS
Our esteemed neighbor, The Ogle
thorpe Echo, became sixty years old
on lust Monday, and with the excep
tion of four years, that splendid
gentleman, W. A. Shackelford, has
been its guiding genius. He says the
time has passed so rapidly that it
seems only a few short years since
the publication came intb being.
However, in reflecting upon the
changes that have taken place, it is
difficult to believe that so much
could have happened in these years.
During these years the Editor has
wen practically the entire population
change, there being left only two or
three people whose names appeared
on its initial list of subscribers.
There are not more than a hundred
people in the county who had seen
the light oi day when the paper’s first
ijsue came out.
l,i material things there have been
ns great changes. There are but two
small buildings uround the square in
Lexington that were standing when
the paper first appeared, and the de
pot in Crawford is only building in
the business portion of town that
was there when it came into being in
that town.
Fully seventy-five percent of the
residences of both towns have been
built or remodled within the life of
the paper.
A prominent Alabama cotton grow
er and mill operator is urging a
complete count of every bale of cot
ton in the country. He believes the
total number of bales of cotton in
the country today may be consider
ably less than is indicated by de
partment of agriculture estimates.
These figures, he points out, are ob
tained by adding to the number of
bales ginned each year, the number
computed to have been carried over
from the preceding year, and he
suspects that the carry-over com
putations have been used for* so many
years now that numerous errors may
have been multiplied. Many things,
he believes, can have happened to
both the figures and the cotton.
Under the federal relief program,
any community in Georgia may have,
free of charge, a well-trained teach
er for those above 14 years of age
who desire to further their study of
elementary subjects. Any one not
enrolled in the regular classes of a
public school is eligible to attend.
The first Georgia class organized
under the new program, which is
designed to aid unemployed teachers
as well as to spread the benefits of
education among adults was organiz
ed last week at Flat Rock, Clayton
county. There are sixteen adults in
tlie Flat Rock class who are studying
reading, writing and arithmetic.
America’s first “flying sleeper,” an
airliner fitted with full-size berths,
took to the air Thursday night from
the Atlanta airport. The persons oc
cupying these berths ate their sup
per in Atlanta, enjoyed a night’s
sleep in the airplane, and woke up
the next morning in New York, 800
miles away. It seems unbelievable.
Only 15 years ago we climbed into
*ir{>lanes not with the expectation of
getting anywhere, but with the hope
that the crude machine would stay
together, the engine would keep run
ning, and that we would get back
on the ground in one piece.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is a
woman of unusual energy. Recently
she celebrated her forty-ninth birth
day by having the Marconis for lunch
eon; and 200 ladies of the American
Federation of Labor for tea. She re
ceived later 50 women interested in
slum clearance and better housing;,
after that she had her birthday din
ner, a family party, and entertained
the grandchildren in the White House
third floor nursery. She left for
New York at midnight to address a
conference on “Young America.”
The real story behind the demand
for resignations from the state board
of control of Arthur Lucas and H. T.
Mclntosh needs no explanation. It
was only a ruse for the governor to
bring about a complete reorganiza
tion of the heads of the eleemosynary
institutions of the state. In other
words, Talmadge wants the heads of
the institutions to be under his
thumb.
FARMERS MUST USE
THEIR OWN PRODUCTS
One of the troubles with farming
these days is the temptation to ex
change our products for things ready
to use from the manufacturers. We
grow wheat, and want to sell it and
buy sliced bread. We sell our cot
ton feed and buy manufactured feed
for our irtMfc*'eflw*. ‘When #F PTffe
we cah’t vie out Viorfcea and ' mules,
but must sell our corn and hay with
which to buy gasoline. All this works
to the disadvantage of the grower of
these products.
The price of raw products is low
and the price of manufactured pro
ducts is high. You may get one dol
lar a bushel for wheat, but you buy
it back at five dollars a bushel in
sliced bread. You can’t afford to
make such an exchange.
We must learn to operate our
farms with the idea of having as lit
tle to buy as possible. We heard a
successful farmer say the other day
that fie needed little to sell because
he had little to buy. He grew the
things he needed and used and hence
did not grow things to sell. In this
way he did not lose the great differ
ence between the price of the raw
product and the manufactured ar
ticles.
We see but one way in which
farming can make a go of it now,
and that is grow everything the farm
needs, so that as little as possible will
have to be bought.—Winder News.
Keep On Telling Them
If you want to sell ’em, tell ’em
regularly in your home town paper.
—The Jackson Progress-Argus.
The Jackson paper is right. Re
covery must come through the liber
al advertising by merchants. —Greens-
boro Herald-Journal.
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Sears, Roebuck & Company spends
seventeen thousand five hundred dol
lars a day for advertising. Much of
it goes into catalogues which cost a
dollar a* piece and which are distrib
uted by the car loads over the coun
try. If advertising didn’t pay, this
company would quit it. About the
only business men that advertising
ruins are the ones who don’t use it.
—Lavonia Times.
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A most charming lady residing in
i mother town in Walton County was
In to see us a few days ago and, in the
course of our conversation, she took
I occasion to say: “I think the local
papers are eminently correct in in-
sisting that we people residing in
other towns and rural sides are en
titled to a weekly message from
cvefy store that’s bidding for our
patronage. We people like to trade
where we are invited.” Good!—The
Walton News.
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The business man ean help him
self and the paper considerably by
using liberal advertising space. The
home paper has been a mjghty factor
in maintaining the standing and po
pularity of the hQme town as a trade
center, while boosting every home in
stitution and enterprise and doing its
utmost as a messenger of good will,
optimism and faith. It really looks
like home paper should receive
some substantial return for its long
and unfailing and constructive ef
forts.—Walton Tribune.
In the “Buy Now” campaign which
was begun Monday, the nation is
urged,to co-operate by increasing ad
vertising space. The administration
has made public letters from big and
little industries promising increased
advertising campaigns to stimulate
buying. This movement was promis
ed by Mr. Johnson months ago to
merchants as a means of moving the
increased stocks from their shelves
and to offset the increased pay rolls
resulting from increased employment
and higher minimum wages.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
will occupy 40 camps in Georgia this
winter. The state will have four new
camps. Twenty-nine of the 40 will
be on private land, ten in national
forests, and one on state park land,
at Indian Springs. One of the camps
is located in Jackson county, near
Commerce.
The Walton Tribune editor is re
rcsponsible for this: “Closing* fervid
temperance sermon, a Macon Baptist
preacher declared, "If I had my way
about it, I'd dump all strong drink in
the river.” . . . song leader then
announced the hymn, “Shall We
Gather At the River?”
Despite early delays, more than
three-fourths of the SIH.OOO,OOC
which is being paid to southern cot
ton farmers who reduced acreage thi
year has been disbursed.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
DON’T SNUB A BOY
Don’t snub a boy because he wears
shabby clothes. When Bell, the in
ventor of the telephone, first entered
Boston he wore a pair of yellow linen
breeches in the depth of winter.
Don’t snub a boy because his. home is
plain and unpretending. Abraham
Lincoln’s early home was a log cabin.
Don’t snub a boy because df the
ignorance of his parents. Shake
speare, the world’s poet, was the son
of a man who was -atbaMc to 1 write
his own natAe. Don't snub a boy be
cause he chooses a humble trade.
The author of “The Pilgrim’s Pro
gress’ was a thinker. Don’t snub a
boy because of physical disability.
was blind, Don’t snub a boy
because of dullness in his lesson.
Hogarth, the celebrated painter and
engraver, was a stupid boy at his
books. Don’t snub a boy if he stut
ters. Demosthenes, the greatest
orator of Greece, overcame -a harsh
and stammering voice. Don’t snub
any one. Not alone because Some day
he may outstrip you in the race oi
life, but because it is neither kind nor
right, nor Christian.
—Selected.
SUCCESSFUL ENTERTAINMENT
AT JACKSON TRAIL
One of the largests crowds to greet
any occasion recently assembled at
the Jackson Trail school building
Friday evening to enjoy a cake walk
and other festivities sponsored by
the Woman’s Club of that vicinity.
“Walking for the Cake” furnished
much fun and merriment, the giving
of a quilt caused intense interest,
and other entertainment features
kept the guests greatly amused. A
nice sum of money was made, which
will be used to cancel the debt on
the school piano, and to buy light
ing equipment for the building.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO
Radio may carry the noise and the
color of political meetings, but the
newspapers, after all, carry the
facts, the permanent record, and
most listeners, having received a
certain fleeting impression of what
occurred from passages overheard in
the invervals of a bridge game or
some other domestic enterprise, look
to the printed pages for news of
what really happened. Ottawa
Journal.
HERE’S A GOODi PARAGRAPH
Our idea of a contributionvtoward
city building is for every person to
do a little public campaigning for
the old home town every day in the
year. If the opportunity doesn’t pre
sent itself to do a promotion act, one
can at least speak a good word about
a neighbor or some business institu
tion. —Thomasville Press.
Georgia soil will produce every
thing needed for support of man and
beast. Her annual fruit crops and
gardens are sufficient to supply the
needs of every grocer in the state
with home grown produce. Her for
ests overflow with timber used in the
manufacture of automobiles, w-ngons,
carts, axe, hoe and pick handles. Her
pastures can supply cattle, hogs and
sheep sufficient for the needs of ev
ery one and have plenty for her
neighbors. Her mills can manufac
ture sufficient cloth clothe every
person and shoe every foot.
Millions in distress have been fed,
clothed and otherwise helped by the
American Red Cross in its function
of national relief agency. Victims of
earthquake, tornado, flood and un
employment were among those re
ceiving assistance. The service is
made possible by the constant sup
port of several million members. En
rollment time is here. Your local
Red Cross Chaper and your Nation
need you. Join today!
The continued drouth in Thomas
county and adjoining areas is having
disastrous effects upon the cucumber
crop now being marketed ar.d produc
tion in many fields has already been
cut far below the normal expecta
tions *with indications that unless
rr.in is had at once the entire crop
will be seriously curtailed.
The City of Savannah is about to
make ornate and elaborate an old
horse.trough on one of the streets of
the city, and the Savannah Press
wants to know, “Where are the
horses to utilize this drinking foun
tain?” Few trucks are pulled by
horses. One never secs a buggy, and
he old horse-pulled carriages have
been carried to the museum. The
ivory stable has given way to the
tiling station; the leather reins have
been supplanted by the wheel; the
Iriver and the footman have been
•outed by the chauffeur.
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The Southeastern Fair closed its
gates Sunday, and the management
.:as announced the greatest attend
ance since the fair was organized.
More than 300,000 persons visited
the fair during the week. The credit
for the success is given to the efforts
of the new president, Mike Benton.
The members of the Georgia Press
were guests of the fair on Saturday,
and through the courtesy of Mr. Ben
ton spent a delightful day.
The City of Valdosta is making big
preparations to entertain the Con
federate Veterans of Georgia on Oc
tober 25-26. The U. D. C. Chapter
of that city is to be the host of the
occasion, and the presence of every
Confederate Veteran is requested.
Up in Ohio, the papers tell a story
about the farmer who thought NRA
stood for No Republicans Allowed.
After looking the town over for a
barber shop without a Blue Eagle in
the window, he disgustedly exclaim
ed: “Ain’t there no place a Republi
can can get a haircut?”
The plan of the government to ad
vance funds to closed banks will -af
fect six banks in Georgia, this be
ing the number that failed to re-open
in the early part of the year when
all banks were closed. Georgia
bankers estimate depositors in these
brnks will receive approximately
$500,000.
The American Red Cross is a
clearing house for humanitarian im
pulses. If you would help your
neighbor in distress, do it the effici
ent way—take membership in the
Red Cross through your home Chap
ter!
Barney P. Nunn, who resides on
Route 2, Commerce, has been grant
ed a patent on a swinging door lock.
He is receiving congratulations on his
invention, his friends wishing that
he will make a fortune on his ac
complishment.
The Dawson News says that one
of every two people in the U. S. is a
church member. Mcst of us practice
if by the absent treatment.—Savan
nah Press
The coming of cool weather will
stimulate the “Buy Now” campaign.
Cooler weather and plenty of adver
tising will speed up buying.—Jackson
Prcgr ess-Argus.
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Jefferson, Ga.
CIRCLE NO. 1 MET WITH
MRS. KESLER
Circle No. 1, the Methodist Mis
sionary Society, held its regular
monthly meeting Monday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Stanley Kesler.
Mrs. H. R. Howell was in charge
of the program, which was on “Win
ning Japan Through Education.”
Scripture, Phil. 2:3-16, followed
by prayer by Miss Ethel Moore.
Mrs. Guy Strickland and Mrs. J.
A. Wills read papers on—Our First
Kindergarten Work in Japan, and
The Training School in Osaka.
Mrs. Curtis Anderson’s group made
$11.30, and Mrs. Willie Suddath
made $10.31, in the contest in the
number of feet of pennies for the
third quarter pledge.
Dues collected, $4.00. Received
from the sale of pencils 25c.
The November meeting will be at
the home of Mrs. Curtis Anderson.
At the close of the meeting, the
hostess served delicious refresh
ments.
The ladies spresent, were: Miss
Ethel Moore, Mesdames Curtis An
derson, J. A. Wills, L. B. Isbell, H.
R. Howell, Guy Strickland, H. I.
Mobley, Stanley Kesler, J. N. Holder.
OYSTER SUPPER AT METHODIST
CHURCH
The ladies of the Methodist church
are asking everybody in the city to
enjoy with them an oyster supper
at the church on Friday evening, be
ginning at G o’clock. A fry or a
stov: will be only 25 cents, and this
is as low-priced as supper can be
served in the home. Experienced
cooks will prepare this delicious pro
duct of the sea, and the ladies will
appreciate your patronage. All the
men in town are asked to bring their
wives or their sweethearts.
Many carriers on rural routes
throughout the state will soon be re
tired because of completing the
number of years entitling them to
pensions. The policy of the govern
ment seems to favor consolidating
routes where a carrier is retired,
rather than appointing new carriers.
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This season’s cotton crop has been
harvested before frost came to kill
the stalks and leaves. This is un
usual, but there has never been finer
weather for picking cotton.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. , 933
CIRCLE NO. 3, OF METHODIST
MISSIONARY SOCIETY, MEETS
Circle No. 3 of the Methodist Mis
sionary Society met at the home of
Mrs. Byrd Martin on last Monday af
ternoon, with Mrs. Lucy Carr as as
sistant hostess.
The meeting was opened by Scrip
ture reading by Mrs. A. H. Mcßee,
followed by prayer by Mrs. Sam Kel
ly.
A leaflet was given by Mrs. H. D.
Dadisman and Mrs. E. H. Crooks.
An article, “Old Gold Tidbits,”
was read by Mrs. Noble Patrick.
A poem, “The Bridge Builder,’’
was given by Mrs. J. D. Escoe.
The business meeting was presid
ed over by Mrs. Crooks. The min
utes of last meeting were read and
approved.
Mrs. A. H. Mcßee gave the treas
urer’s report, as follows: $2.75 clear
ed from children’s party, and $7.25
from rummage sale.
Plans were discussed for an oyster
supper, to be given at the church on
next Friday night.
The social service report was as
follows: 10 visits to sick, 2 trays to
sick, 4 flower pots to sick, $1.50
value of clothes to needy.
After adjournment, the hostesses
served a delicious salad couse, with
coffee.
Those present, were: Mesdames H.
D. Dadisman, J. D. Escoe, E. H.
Crooks, Noble Patrick, Hubert Mar
tin, E. H. Hall, A. H. Mcßee, I-ucy
Carr, Byrd Martin, Sam Kelly.
MISSIONARY CIRCLE MEETS
Circle No. 2, Methodist Missionary
Society, met Monday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. H. J. W. Kizei,
with seven members present.
The subject for the lesson was,
Japan.
The Scripture Lesson was read
Mrs. J. E. Randolph, who had charge
of the program.
An interesting leaflet, "Kinder
gartens in Japan,” was read and dis
cussed by Mrs. J. C. Smith.
Comments on the lesson, by Li.'-
W. C. Smith .
The business meeting was lead b.
Mrs. H. J. W. Kizer, after which the
hostess served a delicious ice COU: ' t-
The next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. H. T. Mobley, with
Mrs. W. C. Smith leader.
Give your cook a “night-off E ‘
day evening, and eat oysters a.
Methodist church.