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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
EXCHANGE NOTES
New* Item* Of Interet Among Our
Neighbor* And Friend*
Commerce- Athen* Highway
. Receive* Aid
(Frotr Commerce News)
According to report the Com
merce-Athcns Highway is to be put
in a No. 1 condition, the work on
same to start immediately.
The State Highway has approved
the project and Jackson county com
missioners have agreed, it is under
stood, that the $11,200 allocated this
county can be used by the Clarke
county commissioners in putting the
road in order from the Clarke coun
ty line to Center.
Mr. Heck of the State Highway
Department has signified his willing
ness to put the next available crew
of surveyors at work on this high
way. When the new road bed is lo
cated then it is probable that the
funds can be secured to put the
road in excellent condition from
this place to Center.
The highway department is al
ready at work on the road near Mays
ville. The road bed is being plow
ed up and will be put in good con
dition. When this is done this high
way will be patrolled as all the re
gular state highways are. The Mays
ville road has long been neglected, a
ride over it was in the nature of a
punishment.
Col. Logan Raiaes Hogs and Cats
(From Banks County Journal)
Col. J. B. G. Logan has two fine
sows, one Poland-China, the other
Essex. One has six pigs, the other
eight. He is also interested in rais
ing cats. His favorite cat was lov
ingly nursing a basket of three
kittens until Monday night when a
neighbors cat made a call and ate
all the kittens, leaving the heads on
ly. When the Col. arose from slum
ber Tuesday morning and viewed
only the heads of his three cats, hp
grabbed his gun and went out look
ing for his neighbor’s Mr. Cat, with
blood in eye, like a Kentucky moun
taineer goes out looking for his
neighbor. He found him, and the
battle was on. The neighbors’ cat
and the kittens heads will be buried
in the same grave.
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(From Atlanta Constitution)
‘Sawnee’ True Name of Georgia
Mountain
When citizens of Forsyth county
point to a rocky crag in the vinicity
of Cumming and refer to it as “Saw
nee” mountain, they will no longer
be subject to correction by geogra
phically-minded travelers. That, in
substance, was the ruling handed
down by the United State Depart
ment of Interior’s division of geo
graphing names recently.
The decision to change the name
of the north Georgia mountain from
“Suwanee” to Sawnee came as the
result of evidence submitted by R.
W. Smith, state geologist. Smith
pointed out that Sawnee was the
original name of the peak prior to
1887, when government mappers er
roneously linked it with the town of
Suwanee in Gwinnett county.
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(From Griffin Register)
Any measure that restricts the
use of whiskey is good—any step
that makes it easy of access or
popularizes it is bad. It is impossi
ble to escape the consequences of in
temperance. Daily the non-drinker
is made to suffer for the excesses of
drinking men and women. Like the
the tetotaller often is the victim of
careful driver of an automobile,
whiskey-inspired recklessness that re
sults in horrible tragedy against
which no caution or foresight on the
part of those victims could insure
them.
(From Banks County Journal)
Nineteen niggers left this town
last week for south Georgia. A
farmer came up and got a truck
load of all ages, sex and sizes.
DAIRY DRIVER USES MILK
TO PUT ON TRUCK FIRE
Belleville, 111.—Besides being good
food for babies, and furnishing vita
mins for young and old alike, there’s
another good use for milk.
It works well as a fire extinguish
er.
When the motor car of Tony
Prado, of O’Fallon, caught fire the
other day, the driver of a milk
truck extinguished the blaze before
firemen could reach the scene. He
poured milk on the motor.
SINGLE COPY sc.
ANTI-WET FORCES
ORGANIZE IN GA.
Creation of the Georgia Temper
ance League, a state-wide organiza
tion headed by distinguished Geor
gia leaders and formed to conduct a
militant drive against the repeal of
the present prohibition laws, was an
nounced Saturday.
Judge John S. Candler, distin
guished Georgia layman and member
of a family for two generations
prominent in the religious, business
and political activity of the state,
has accepted the post of General
Chairman of the campaign.
Milton L. Fleetwood of Carters
ville, publisher of the Ca/tersville
Tribune News and president of the
Georgia Press Association, will di
rect the campaign. He also is vice
chairman of the State Democratic
Executive Committee.
For the next six weeks, these
leaders and a host of others who have
volunteered their services, will pre
sent to the people of the entire state
the issues involved in the campaign
which comes to an end May 15 in
a state-wide referendum.
“We are confident the vote will be
overwhelmingly in favor of retain
ing the present laws when the people
realize the necessity of maintaining
every possible safeguard against a
free and unbridled flow of liquor
and other intoxicating beverages,”
Judge Candler said.
A broad program of activity de
signed to protect the homes, church
and schools from the devastating ef
fect of the return of whisky was out
lined Saturday by Judge Candler.
This includes:
1. An energetic movement to get
the issues of the temperance cam
paign squarely before all the peo
ple.
2. Consecration of all efforts to
the establishment of law and order
and enforcement and observance in
this state.
3. A permanent program of tem
perance education.
“Georgians do not have to guess
about the result of repeal,” Judge
Candler said. “A full year’s record
is already written in a number of
states. Ido not think we have any
right to believe that out state will
be any different from other states
which have found, under repeal, that
the liquor traffic is the same evil that
an outraged nation outlawed years
ago.”
“It is up to us to study seriously
the question before voting to turn
our state over to the liquor inter
ests.”
“Nowhere has repeal promoted
temperance, and far from reducing
taxes has proved just another meth
od of taxing the people.”
“Business men well know that
money spent for booze cannot go for
shoes, and if whisky produces the
taxes its supporters claim for it, it
would mean that thirty million dol
lars would be taken out of the legi
timate channels of trade every sin
gle year.”
“We welcome the vote, and believe
the people of Georgia will settle this
question for all time. There is no
such thing as local option in this day
of paved roads and any attempt to
enforce it would mean making the
work of the bootlegger more simple.”
Mr. Gaines, Chairman of the Con
solidated Forces for Prohibition, and
Mrs. Mary Scott Russell, President
of the Women’s Christian Temper
ance Union of Georgia, stated that
their organizations are unitedly back
of the Georgia Temperance League.
Indeed, the Georgia Temperance
campaign committee was first set up
by the consolidated forces.
500,000,000 POTATO PLANTS
GROWN IN STATE
Baxley, Ga.—State inspection of
seed sweet potato plants indicates
500,000,000 plants are to be pro
duced in Georgia this year, J. H.
Girardeau, chief of potato plant in
spection, has advised M. S. Yeomans,
state entomologist.
Georgia is now the largest seed
potato-growing state in the Union,
Girardeau said, producing as many
practically as all other southern
states, chiefly by express, mail and
truck.
The office of the state entomolo
gist maintains a close watch over
the plants.
Mi3S Peggy Forsyth, who has been
the guest of Mrs. John Hardy, left
Monday for her home in Fitzgerald.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Steady Increase In
Prisoners Shown By
State Farm Records
Atlanta.—Out of a total convict
population of 4,707 in the Georgia
penitentiary system, 830 are in for
life.
These figures are shown in the
biennial report of the prison com
mission from January 1, 1933 to
Dec. 31, 1934, which also indicates
a 25 per cent illiteracy among the
prisoners.
Other facts presented show that
909 convicts were handled daily at
the state prison farm at Milledge
ville while the remainder of the po
pulation was spread out over the
state in prison camps.
Little more than one-fourth of
them are whites and the remainder
Negroes; 1,034 of the Negroes were
classed as illiterate as against 173
whites; 134 of the Negroes were
capable of reading but could not
write as compared to 49 white con
victs in the same category.
Increa*e in Prisoner*
Only 14 white women convicts
were in the system on January 1,
this year, but there were 282 Negro
women.
In his report to the prison com
mission, R. H. Lawrence, superin
tendent of the state penitentiary,
noted a steady increase in the num
ber of prisoners at the male camp
but commented that there were few
er escapes than at any time in the
history of the System.
He wrote:
“. . . Conditions are somewhat
crowded. However, the men are bet
ter satisfied and we have had less
trouble and fewer escapes than at
any time in the past.”
Throughout the system 872 con
victs escaped during the last, two
years and 450 had been recaptured
on Jan. 1. During the same period
517 were paroled, 103 died, 562 were
either pardoned or their sentences
commuted and 124 paroled prisoners
were returned to their cells.
“Repeaters” Serving
A # majority of them were serving
first terms; 975 were in for second
pffenses, 256 for third offenses, 72
were serving fourth sentences and
30 were in for their fifth time.
The report was made by E. L.
Rainey, chairman, G. A. Johns, vice
chairman, and Vivian Stanley of the
prison commission.
Of the convicts confined at Mil
ledgeville, the board said less than
one-third physically fit for labor in
the fields and on buildings.
“The production of the farm is
thus handicapped,” the statement
said, “and 100 per cent must eat
and be cared for with two-thirds of
the inmates unfit for out-door duty.”
Increase In 55 Year*
During the past 55 years—lß79
to 1934 —the convict population in
creased from 1,230 to 4,707.
One other section of the report
showed that 2,106 of the present
number are married and 2,601 un
married.
Burglary and murder appeared to
be the most popular offense, for 1,-
416 were serving time for burglaries
and 824 for murders. Only seven
kidnaping offenses were listed. The
lesser violations included five for
wrecking railroad trains; seven for
horse stealing; four for impersonat
ing an officer and two for swindling.
The state farm at Milledgeville
houses male and female convicts
separately; and 52 were reported
confined to the tubercular hospital.
Roosevelt Starts Return To
Capital
Miami, Fla. —President Roosevelt
turned homeward tonight from his
vacation cruise, anxious to read over
the $4,000,000,000 work-relief bill
finally passed by congress on Friday.
Quick presidential approval of the
major administrative legislative piece
is expected, although Mr. Roosevelt
has not indicated when or whether
he will sign the measure.
The work-relief measure was car
ried to Miami headquarters by air
plane today and will be turned over
to the president when he lands along
the Florida coastline tomorrow morn
ing.
All signs indicate a landing at
Jacksonville, from where Mr. Roose
velt will proceed by special train to
the capital, arriving early Tuesday
morning to put into operation a work
relief undertaking.
Salient Provisions and Scope
of $4,880,000,000 Relief Bill
Washington.—The $4,880,000,000
work relief bill enacted by Congress
today:
Stipulates that $880,000,000 is to
be used to continue direct relief un
til jobs can be provided for 5,500,-
000 employable on relief rolls.
Authorizes expenditure of SBOO,-
000,000 for highways, roads, streets
and grade crossing elimination;
$500,000,000 for rural rehabilitation,
irrigation, reclamation, etc.; SIOO,-
000,000 for rural electrification;
$450,000,000 for housing; $300,000,-
000 to aid professional and clerical
persons and education; $100,000,000
for the Civilian Conservation Corps;
$900,000,000 for loans to States, ter
ritories or sub-divisions for construc
tion of non-Federal projects; $350,-
000,000 for reforestation, flood con
trol and prevention of soil erosion.
Assures President Roosevelt a free
hand by permitting him to increase
any of the allocated amount by 20
per cent of the entire fund if ne
cessary. Thus, Mr. Roosevelt can
completely wipe out any of the in
dividual allocations and add that a
mount to one or more of the other
categories.
Makes mandatory that 25 per
cent of the $900,000,000 to be loan
ed to States or municipalities be*
spent for work. This was inserted
to prevent the administration from
purchasing structures such as pow
er plants that are already standing
and which would not provide jobs
for the idle.
Authorizes President Roosevelt to
use work relief funds to finance the
cost of administrating the Agricul
tural Adjustment Act. This pro
vision makes it possible for the ad
ministration to abolish processing
taxes and use part of the money ap
propriated today to pay the cost of
the crop control program.
Permits loans to finance the pur
chase of farm lands and necessary
equipment by farmers, farm tenants,
croppers or farm laborers.
Fixes the maximum fine for vio
lations of rules or regulations pre
scribed under the act at. SI,OOO.
Requires Senate confirmation of
all persons employed in supervisory
capacity under the act and earning
$5,000 a year or more.
GOO, OOO Enrollment
Is Planned For CCC
Washington.—Robert Fenchner,
director of the Civilian Conservation
Corps, reported to President Roose
velt that he had completed plans for
increasing enrollment of 600,000 un
der the new $4,000,000,000 work
program.
Asserting that the CCC had car
ried forward conservation work sev
eral years in its two years’ existence,
Fechner recommended that it be
made permanent.
Officials said that to increase the
corps’ authorized strength from the
present 370,000 would involve about
900 additional camps and 10,000 ad
ministrative officials.
The work bill continues the CCC
for two years with a $600,000,000 al
location and authorizes payment of
salaries since March 31, when statu
tory authorization expired.
Fechner said the total cost of the
CCC up to February 27 was $651,-
087,085 while the value of work done
to December 31 was $335,000,000.
TEN PERSONS DROWNED
IN LOUSIANA STORM
Lake Providence, La., April 7.
Reports reached here today of the
drowning of 10 persons in a house
boat overturned by storm winds at a
logging camp six miles south of Lake
Providence.
Two negroes who escaped from
the boat when it sank last night in
storm winds arrived here today and
told of the accident.
The Audry L. and a government
boat searched the vicinity for the
bodies late today.
Those reported missing, and be
lieved drowned, are:
W. D. Hogue, 70, prominent Nat
chez, Miss., timberman.
John Hogue, his brother.
Eppie Sparks, 25, Lake Providence
Tom Oklahoma, Lake Providence.
A. Abernathy, 34, Lake Provi
dence.
Four negro men and one woman,
ail unidentified.
Thursday, April 11, 1935.
TORNADIC STORMS
RIP GULF STATES,
KILL 26, INJURE 150
Weaving a grisly pattern of death
and destruction; spring tornadoes,
lightning and severe storms laid
waste widely scattered sections of
the nation Sunday.
Mississippi and Louisiana were
hardest mt as deadly cones of twist
ing wind swept at least 26 persons
to their doom and injured in excess
from wind, floods and lightning over
of 150, bringing the total of dead
the week-end to 36.
Alternating snow and rain swept
over the midwest with lowa, Illinois,
Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas suf
fering the greatest destruction. Dust
storms continued to boil in the
southwestern high plains area.
Rain-swollen waters overflowed in
Kentucky, while the Pacific coast
was drenched by fog and rain.
Tornadoes and high winds raked
northern Florida, Louisiana, Texas
and Mississippi.
> In Atlanta, the weather was un
seasonably cool, Sunday’s average
temperature being 45 degrees, 13
degrees below the normal mean of
58 degrees.
Prominent Jefferson Lady
Passes
Mrs. Susan E. Dadisman parsed
away at her home here on Friday,
April 5. She had been in ill health
for several months, but was critical
ly ill for about two weeks. Her
death was the result of a weak
heart. She was 83 years of age.
Before marriage Mrs. Dadisman
was Miss Susan Snellings, and was
the widow of the late Mr. L. M.
Dadisman. She was a native of El
bert county, but had made her home
in Jefferson for a number of years.
Funeral services were conducted
at the residence Saturday afternoon
by her pastor, Rev. J. A. Gray, and
interment was in Woodbine ceme
tery. The pall bearers were Messrs
J. Z. Carter, J. F. Eckles, H. L.
Purcell, C. T. Storey, Jr.. Y. D.
Maddox and Henry G. Johnson. At
the funeral service, the choir, com
posed of Mrs. L. H. Isbell, pianist,
Mrs. J. C. Turner, Mrs. Guy Strick
land, Mrs. C. B. Lord and Miss Mary
Conally, Messrs. L. H. Isbelle and
Clifton Barnett, rendered the old
hymns that she had loved so well:
llow Firm a Foundation, Rock of
Ages, and Abide With Me.
Being a loyal member of the
Methodist church, she was a regular
attendant upon the services of the
church whenever health and strength
permitted, and was always ready to
serve wherever duty called. A
thoughtful neighbor and friend, she
was never too tired to give of her
time and strength to those who need
ed it.
Surviving the deceased are two
children, Mrs. Lizzie Carter and Mr.
Stiles Dadisman; six grand children,
Mrs. E. H. Crooks, Messrs. Howard,
Ralph, Lawrence and Miss Sarah
Dadisman, Mrs. Bill Spratlin; seven
great grand children, Mary Glass
and Martha Crooks, Dean and Car
roll Dadisman, Mary Ann Spratlin
and Sue Dadisman.
Plans For Farmers'
Markets Under Way;
8 To Be Established
Plans for establishment of eighit
farmers’ markets throughout the
state got under way last week when
the Commissioner of Agriculture ask
ed fmr offers of market sites and
buildings. The general assembly of
1935 passed a bill authorizing the
markets, but did not appropriate any
money for the purpose, so they will
have to be opened on donated land
and buildings, according to the com
missioner.
The act of the legislature which
provides for the markets gives the
commissioner broad powers, includ
ing those of fixing prices, declaring
boycotts on out-of-state products if
the home grown produce is sufficient
to meet demands, and other far
reaching powers over farm products.
Savannah has already asked for
one of the markets, and the com
missioner has indicated that he has
the matter under advisement. Ma
con, Columbus, Atlanta, Augusta,
and other trading centers are also
being considered as possible sites.
Vol. 60. No. 31.
GEORGIA LEADING
IN HIGHWAY FUNDS
Atlanta, April 6.—With an appor
tionment of $20,361,000 under the
federal work relief bill, Georgia
leads the southern states in funds
provided for road constrution and
grade crossing elimination.
North Carolina comes second with
$19,575,000 and Alabama third with
$16,864,000. The smallest share in
the south—sll,6lo,ll1 —goes to
Florida.
The apportionment by states was
announced in Washington by xtepre
sentative Cartwright (D., Ark.),
chairman of the house road commit
tee.
Of Georgia’s share, the highway
department will have $12,795,000 to
put on roads. The remainder, $7,-
666,000, is allotted for elimination
of grade crossing as a safety meas
ure.
W. E. Wilburn, chairman of the
state highway department, said he
had not been notified officially of the
amount Georgia is to receive, nor
when it will be made available.
This money does not have to be
matched by state funds.
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Three Parks Completed
By CCC
Three state parks created at a
cost estimated to exceed $1,000,000
have recently been completed in
Georgia by the civilian conservation
corps and are ready for public in
spection. They are Indian Sprngs
historical park at Indian Springs,
Alexander H. Stephens Memorial
Park at Crawfordvil’e and Vogel
Recreational Park at Neel’s Gap.
A museum houses relics of the
Creek Indian Tribe, who i formerly
occupied the region, al the Indian
Springs park in central Georgia.
Originally 1,000 acres remained in
public ownership after the Creeks
vacated this territory following the
signing of a treaty in 1801. The
acreage was sold down to ten acres,
j however, and later citizens bought
| in 162 acres which they donated to
the state.
Civilian Conservation Corps men
have been encamped at Indian
Springs for almost two years, build
ing trails, walk-ways, museum, casi
no, pavillion and auditorium.
The memorial park at Crawford
ville, Ga., was constructed in mem
ory of Alexander H. Stephens, vice
president of the Confederacy. It sur
rounds his home, which was com
pletely restored. In reconditioning
the old plantation home known as
"Liberty Hall,” the CCC restored the
slave quarters and a small plant
where Stephens generated his own
gas for lighting purposes.
This property was donated to the
state of Georgia by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. On a
172-acre tract adjoining the main
home site trails were laid out, a
swimming pool put in and bath
houses erected.
Much effort was spent on the
Vogel recreational park which is lo
cated in Union county at Neal’s Gap.
This 257-acre place was donated to
the state by Fred Vogel, Jr., of Mil
waukee, Wis.
Here the conservation corps, work
ing with the state forestry depart
ment, created a bird sanctuary as
an encouragement to iand owners to
make it a refuge to protect all game
birds and animals.
Buildings were erected; cottages
were built for week-end
trails were opened for horseback
riding and other recreational fea
tues added. Fifty-seven acres are
under water, and the entire layout
is rich in scenic beauty.
Must Not Fish April 15 to
June 1
Georgia piscators who find such
great delight and recreation in sit
ting on the banks of the lakes and
streams angling for the finny tribe,
will be denied their sport from April
15 to June 1. This is the spawning
season and all rivers, lakes and
creeks will be closed for fishing be
tween these dates. The ban also
applies to the lakes in North Geor
gia owned by the Georgia Power
Company.
State Game and Fish Commission
er Z. D. Cravey says: “We are going
to make every effort possible to se©
that people do not fish in Georgia
waters during the spawning season.
Game protectors have been instruct
ed to make cases against violators."