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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A Year—ln Advance
Published Weekly
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., MAY 23. 1935.
EROSION AFFECTS MORE THAN
HALF OF GEORGIA LAND
Nearly 59 percent of all Georgia
farm land is affected by erosion, a
survey recently completed by the
Soil Erosion Service shows.
Of the 37 million acres in the
state, approximately 20 mllion acres
arc subject to occasional or severe
gullying, and 231,961 acres have
been destroyed, the report shows.
On an estimated 15,905,599 acres
of the state, from one-fourth to
three-fourths of the topsoil has been
washed away, and on 6,222,655
acres more than three-fourths of the
topsoil and part of the subsoil is
gone.
The most severe erosion is in North
Georgia, where a large part of the
clay loam topsoil has been washed
away, leaving the red subsoil ex
pored.* A great deal of the land in
this part of the state which is now
badly eroded should never have been
cleared, the Soil Erosion Service
says, but should have been left in
trees.
Erosion control demonstrations
have been established near Athens, I
in the Piedmont section, and near
Americus, in the upper Coastal j
Plain. Farmers ar, invited to in
spect the methods which are being
practiced in these two areas to pre
vent land from washing away.
THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH TO
VISITING FARMERS
The President voiced the prevail
ing judgment of this commonwealth
and, we believe, of the country at
large when he declared to the. farm- j
ers in Washington: “I think that!
you and 1 are agreed in seeking a \
continuance of the national policy
which, on the whole, is proving suc
cessful. The memory of old condi
tion' under which the product of a
whole year's work often would not
brmt you the cost of transporting
it to market is too fresh in your
Hindi to let you be led astray by!
the solemn admonitions and speci
otr lies of those who in the past
profited most when your distress was
greatest. You remember that not
so long ago the poor had less food to
cat end less clothes to wear, when
you had to practically give away
youi' products and the surpluses
were greater than they are today
when you farmers are Retting: R
reasonable although still an insuffici
ent price. We are now at the be
ginning of the third year of carry
ing out this policy. You know the
results thus far attained. You know
the price of cotton, of wheat, of to
bacco, of corn, of hogs and of other
farm products today. Further com
ment on the successful partial at
tainment of our objective up to this
time is unnecessary on my part, you
know. I have not the time to talk
with you about many other policies
of your government which affect the
farm population of the country. I
haw not the time to go into the
practical work of the farm credit
administration, which in all of its
ramifications has saved a million
farms from foreclosure and has ac
complished the first great reduction
in exorbitant interest rates that this
country has ever known. Because
your cause is so just no one has had
the temerity to question the motives
of your march on Washington. It
is a good omen for government, for
business, for bankers and for the
city dwellers that the nation s farm
ers are becoming articulate and that
they know whereof they speak.”
The Georgia Forestry Association,
in session in Macon, adopted a reso
lution criticizing Commissioner of
Agriculture Tom Linder for advis
ing Georgians to burn wooded areas
every two years. The resolution fol
lowed a statement printed recently
by the commissioner in the Market
Bulletin, agricultural department
publication. His published state
ment was termed “impracticable, un
wise and most harmful” and he was
asked to publish the resolution on
the front page of the Bulletin,
where his statement appeared.
Only four women have been hon
ored on American postage stamps:
Martha Washington, Pocahontas,
Queen Isabella of Spain, and Molly
Pitcher.
THE 1935 COLLEGE GRADUATES
The college graduate of tradition
is supposed to be a know-it-all young
man who leaves the campus for the
outside world full of confidence that
people are just going to fall all over
themselves to give him jobs and get
the benefit of his wisdom and ener
gy-
The college graduate of real life
in the year 1935 is not a bit like
that. So at least, says Vera Chris
tie, manager of the Bureau of Oc
cupations at the University of Cali
fornia, which is about to turn 3000
young graduates out into the cold
world.
The old-time cockiness, she says,
has vanished. The collegians have
been doing some thinking, in these
trying years, and they know what
they're up against.
Having a greater awareness of
reality, they have also more deter
mination; they have ceased to look
for soft snaps and are looking for
a chance to be of service, instead.
The change is about as wholesome
a thing for the country as a whole
as could be imagined.
POINTING THE MORAL
The real moral of the prohibition
referendum of Wednesday is that
neither the wets nor the drys in
Georgia would have any reason to
complain, whatever the result might
have been, when only a little more
than 160 thousand of the combined
forces took the trouble to go to the
polls, out of a population of 3 mil
lion.
Those voting represented less
than half of the number actually
qualified to vote.
Less than a year ago, as the cul
mination of a campaign for the elec
tion of a governor of Georgia, more
than 270 thousand voters went to
the polls and cast their ballots.
Even this was a small number com
pared to the population of adult
citizens whose future welfare was at
stake, but it was approximately 100
thousand more than took the trouble
to vote in an election which the
friends of prohibition regarded as in
volving great moral as well as eco
nomic issues.
The same list of registered voters
used in the gubernatorial primary
was used in Wednesday’s referen
dum. Every man and woman who
voted in the primary for Governor
could have voted in the referendum,
and yet we find this great issue
hanging by a majority of only a few
votes. In county after county, po
pulous and important, half a dozen
votes would have changed the re
sult in that county.—Macon News.
MERCHANTS’ SIDE
This buying at home idea has two
sides. Merchants who neglect to ad
vertise, who fail to shout their wares
cannot complain when buyers, want
ing something, order it instead of
tramping over the town to find out
if Mr. So and So has it.
We know of business men in Pel
ham who think it is a crime to send
money away from town for merchan
dise, or to patronize the products of
out-of-town concerns, when local
plants and merchants have similar
things to sell. These same men, how
ever, neglect to do what is first done
by the mail order people, advertise.
The Journal has talked keeping
money at home for many moons.
Most merchants and business men
have agreed with us. Some of them,
when approached for advertising,
grin and suggest that the public
knows all about them. Others, keen
ly appreciating the advantage of
keeping their name in print, give us
advertisements large or small, as the
circumstances happen to be.
No cross word puzzler will have to
perplex his brain to discover who is
going to get most of the business of
the people of Pelham. —The Pelham
Journal.
If there is any group of people
that has received real benefits from
the Democratic administration it is
the farmer group of the nation.
Especially in Georgia have the farm
ers been rescued from a perilous
condition. These farmers who have
received the greatest benefits are
the very ones who have been among
the most loyal supporters of Gover
nor Talmadge. It is natural that
they should begin to wonder how
the Governor can pose as their friend
and at the same time seek to destroy
the administration that has saved
them financially.—Winder News.
The nation don’t seem to. have
disrupted over Gov. Talmadge s ra
dio attack upon the administration
as much as he doubtless dreamed it
would.—Oglethorpe Echo.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Thirteen Women To Get
Honorary Degrees
Thirteen of America’s most ijlus
| trious women will gather on the plat
l form of the Atlanta city auditorium
next Sunday night to receive honor
ary dagrees from Oglethorpe Univer
j sity In recognition of their out
j standing achievements in various
phases of public life.
Never beferj in the history of
Georgia has such a distinguished as
semblage of women gathered at one
time, and it is likewise probably the
first t-ime in history of American
education that a college, founded
primarily for men, has devoted its
entire schedule of honorary degrees
awarded on a commencement oc
casion exclusively to women.
The women to receive degrees are
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, prima
donna and concert singer; Florence
Kena Sabin, distinguished anatomist;
Josephine Roche, the nation’s mo3t
prontinent business wortien; Annie
Jump Cannon, astronomer; Helen
Rogers Reid, publisher; Martha Mc-
Chesney Berry, Georgia social ser
vice worker; Clara Mildred Thomp
son, educator and another Georgia
whman; Eleanor Patterson, newspa
per woman; Mrs. Georgia Gould, art
patron and poetess; Ruth Blair,
keeper of archives of the state of
Georgia; Caroline Miller, author of
“Lamb in His Bosom;” Caroline
Goodwin O’Day, member of con
gress and another native of this
state, and Amelia Earhart, famous
aviatrix.
Each of the honorees has been
chosen because of her outstanding
achievement in some special line of
public service or scientific discovery
or literary work.
CONGRESSMEN SEEK
TO BLOCK TRANSFER
OF GEORGIA COTTON
Washington.—A protest against
removal of cotton from small ware
houses throughout rural Georgia to
concentration points in the cities
will be presented to the Commodity
Credit Corporation by members of
congress from that state.
The cotton in question is that on
which the government has guaran
teed loans in maintaining the 12-
cent peg.
representative Owen said the prin
cipal reason given for the concen
tration was economy in warehouses,
insurance and other costs, but ho
contended any saving thus brought
about would be more than off-set by
the freight cost of moving the cot
ton. Owen, a member of the house
agriculture committee, maintained
the small warehouses needed the
business.
MRS. FANNIE BLACK
IS HONORED ON 80TH
BIRTHDAY THURSDAY
Center, Ga.—Mrs. Fannie Black,
of near Center, celebrated her eigh
tieth birthday anniversary last
Thursday and was given a lovely
party at the home of Mrs. W. T.
Sanders. The rooms were beauti
fully decorated with garden flowers
and the handsomely embossed birth
day cake in pink and white sparkeld
with eighty tiny candles. Mrs.
Black’s relatives and friends made
th<? occasion one long to be remem
bered, and showered her with loving
good wishes and many beautiful and
useful gifts.
Guests included: Mrs. C. L.
Brooks, Mrs. J. R. Jarrett, Mrs.
James Kittle, Mrs. L. H. Crowe,
Mrs. J. I. Reese, Mrs. L. B. Thur
mond, Mrs. I. W. Nelms, Mrs. Fred
Anthony, Miss Louise Crowe, Myra
Lee Kerbin, Virgil Brooks, Wilma
Wright, Glenda Wright, Rovins Jar
rett, Harold Jarrett, R. W. Allison,
Mrs. Lula Thornton, Mrs. G. S.
Wright, Mrs. M. W. Matthews, Miss
Ann Damron, Mrs. George O’Kelley,
Mrs. Mamie L. Rylee, Amma Wright,
Mrs. N. O. Mathews, Mrs. W. L.
Anthony, Mrs. J. W. Johnson, Miss
Barbara Johnson, C. L. Brooks,
Mrs. M. T. Brooks, Grace Rogers,
Woodrow Johnson, Fred Anthony,
Nolin Mathews, Guy Nelms, L. B.
Thurmond, J. I. Reese, J. R. Jarrett,
G. S. Wright, M. T. T. Brooks, Mrs.
J. F. Burger, Mrs. Sallie Sanders,
Mrs. G. W. McElny, G. W. McElny.
Mrs. Strockland, Andy Dares, W. S.
Cosie, George O’Kelly, Mr. and Mrs.
G. H. Smith, Miss Laura Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Sanders, Miss Billie
and Gwendolyn. Sanders and Doyle
Sanders.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
the Encampment and the Grand
Lodge of Rebekahs are in session
three days this week in Fitzgerald.
Captain Henry Brunner of Fitz
gerald is listed as the oldest Geor
gia member, being 94 years of age.
MAY MEETING OF U. D. C.
The of the Jefferson
Chapter, U. D. C., enjoyed an inter
esting meeting at the home of Mrs.
J. B. Marlowe, in Pendergrass, on
last Friday afternoon. Mrs. J. H.
Getzen, Mrs. A. L. McDonald and
Mrs. P. J. Roberti were joint hostess
es with Mrs. Marlowe.
As usual, the meeting was opened
with the reading of the Ritual, fol
lowed with the minutes of the March
meeting and the account of the
Memorial Day program that took
the place of the April meeting.
The treasurer reported bills paid,
and a balance of $36.24 in the treas
ury at present. The registrar re
ported on the set of papers for anew
member, Mrs. Guy Strickland. The
floral committee reported flowers
sent for the grave of a Veteran who
passed recently.
The amount of SI.OO each was
voted to be sent to the Alexander
Stephens Memorial, Mildred Ruther
ford Historical Fund, Emily H. Park
Memorial Library, and the Jeffer
son Davis Highway Fund.
The life of Jefferson Davis will
feature the June program.
Following the business session,
the program was given, “Heroism
of Southern Women.” This pro
gram, prepared by Miss Miriam
Bennett, was as follows:
“Women of the South,” Mrs. J.
C. Bennett.
“Refugeeing to Georgia, as told
by a Southern Woman,” Mrs. J. H.
Getzen.
Poem, “Dixie,” Mrs. Guy Strick
land.
“Nancy Harts of the Confeder
acy,” Mrs. J. D. Escoe.
Readings, Sara Nelle Marlowe.
Song, Valera McDonald.
Song, Valera McDonald and Gene
Marlowe.
A pleasant feature of the meeting
was the social period, during which
the hostesses served delicious re
freshments.
The following were present: Mes
dames Sam Kelly,, Lucy Carr, Guy
Strickland, A. C. Appleby, John
Hardy, Geo. Bailey, C. T. Storey, Sr.,
T. T. Benton, Effie Flanigan, J. C.
Bennett, J. B. Pinson, J. B. Marlow,
J. H. Getzen, A. L. McDonald, P. J.
Roberts, W. L. McDonald, Misses
Vennie Barnett, Sara Craft, Mar
jorie Holder, Annelle Suddath, Mi
riam Bennett, Valera McDonald,
Sara Nelle Marlowe, and Gene Mar
lowe.
LOVELY PARTY GIVEN YOUNG
SCHOOL SET
On last Friday evening Miss Edith
Rankin, daughter of Mr and Mrs. C.
E. Rankin, was the charming hos
tess at a lovely party given for a
group of the High School set. Doro
thy Perkins roses and other spring
flowers were used lavishly through
out the home. Proms, music and
dancing were enjoyed during the
evening. Delicious refreshments,
consisting of punch, wafers and
sandwiches, were served at intervals
and at the conclusion of the proms.
This was one of the happiest oc
casions in the lives cf these young
people, and all the guests felt in
debted to the hostess for an even
ing of pleasure.
Miss Rankin was assisted in en
tertaining by Mrs. C. E. Rankin,
Mrs. S. C. Nunn, Miss June Potts
and Miss Irene Rankin.
The following were the fortunate
guests: Misses Marjorie Daniel, Bil
lie Hardy, Edith Harwell, Edith Mc-
Donald, Edith Rankin, Hazel John
son, Hazel Langford, Thelma Lang
ford, Vera Culberson, June Potts,
Melba White, Anne Appleby, Ruth
Nunn, Sara Hanson, Eloise Hood;
Messrs. Morris Bryan, Jr., James
Carter, Raymond Rigdon, Jack Han
cock, Jack McDonald, John Hancock,
Randall Toney, Sam Dean Bennett,
Harry Storey, Jackson Caldwell, Tap
Wilhite, Billie Duke, Billie Frost,
Harold Purcell, Clifton Gurley, Cecil
Hancock, Vernon Carter.
MR. G. P. BOONE DIES AT
MAYSVILLE
Maysvlle, Ga., May 20.—G. Per
rino Boone, 80, a prominent busi
ness man and one of the charter
members of the council of the town
of Maysville and who served for a
number of years as mayor and was
also a prominent figure in the civic
Und y.oliftical development of this
community, died at his residence
here this morning.
He is survived by his wife and
one brother, Thomas K. Boone, of
Maysville; three sisters, Mrs. J. A.
Maddgn, of Atlanta, Mrs. J. W. W.
Simmons and Mrs. J. D. Whelchel,
of Gainesville.
Mr. Boone was the uncle of Con
gressman Frank Whelchel, of Wash
ington.
ROOSEVELT THEATRE !
JEFFERSON, t -i GEORGIA.
7:30 TO 11:00 O’CLOCK EACH NIGHT
* MATINEE WEDNESDAY, 3:30; SATURDAY 2:30
Special Morning Matinee* Wednesday and Friday 10 O’clock
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
ALL STAR CAST, IN
“GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS OF 1935”
SHORT SUBJECT, "STRANGE AS IT SEEMS”
ADMISSION 10 and 20 Cent*
(L. P. Marcier)
SATURDAY
808 STEELE, in
“TOMBSTONE TERROR”
COMEDY, THELMA TODD, IN “ONE HORSE FARMER”
Addiction Matinee EVERYBODY 10 CENTS.
Admi**ion Night, 10 and 15 cents
(Bee Dalton)
MONDAY
ANNA STEN, FREDR'C MARCH, in
“WE LIVE AGAIN”
Universal News and Musical Short Subject
Admission 10 and 25 Cents
(Mrs. H. T. Hogan)
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
CHARLIE RUGGLES, MARY BOLAND, in
“PEOPLE WILL TALK”
10TH CHAPTER OF “RUSTLERS OF RED DOG”
CARTOON COMEDY, “BUDDY’S CIRCUS”
Matinee Wednesday 3:30 P. M.
Admission, Matinee and Night, Everybody 10 cents
(Mrs. Douglas Taylor)
If your name appears in this advertisement, clip and present
it at the door for a complimentary seat.
NOTICE
Tax Payers
O
The Tax Equalization Beard
will be in session next week. If
you have not made your Tax
/ i
Return, please do so at once.
A. O. HOOD
Tax Receiver
PARTY GIVEN BY BILLIE DUKE
' On Saturday night at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Duke,
Billy Duke entertained a crowii of
the members of the young set at
a delightful party. Proms were the
main feature of the evening. Deli
cious refreshments were served, and
all the guests thoroughly enjoyed the
evening. The host was assisted in
entertaing by his mother and sister,
Mrs. John Duke and Mrs. Lucy Mae
Hartley.
The following were invited: Misses
Edith Rankin, Ruth Nunn, Mary
Daniel, Melba White, Ann Appleby,
Emilyn Rigdon, Emma Nelle Nunn,
Edith Harwell, Vera Culberson,
Thelma Langford, Sally Bryan, Mil
dred Smith, Eloise Hood, Hilda El
der, Frances Holliday; Messrs. Billie
Duke, Randall Toney, Brit Elrod,
Vernon Carter, Stuart Lord, Garnet”
Spratlin, Sam Dean Bennett, Cecil
Hancock, John Whelchel, James
Whelchel, George Thompson, Ralph
Vandiver, and William Hosch.
For the governor of a state which
has benefitted so greatly as has
Georgia to become caustically criti
cal of the efforts which have been
made to improve the economic and
social conditions of the people who
have honored him with the highest
office in their gift is past understand
ing. Just what motives lie behind
the governor’s attitude is beyond
the comprehension of the average
person.—Valdosta Times.
THURSDAY. MAY 23, 1935.
WEST shows how to win
MEN IN FILM
“It’s been too easy in the past,”
says Mae West, “I’m going to show
them what I can do when I really
set out to get my man!”
And with the production of Para
mount’s “Goin to Town,” coming
soon to the Roosevelt Theatre, Mae
West puts her new policy into effect.
Paul Cavanagh, handsome and en
gaging English actor, is the man of
Mae West’s choice.
How this determined lady gets
what she goes out after and how
Cavanagh is brought around to ad
mitting that he loves her is brought
out in the climax of “Goin’ to
Town.”
Cavanagh’s rivals in “Goin’ to
Town” include Ivan Lebedeff, Tito
Coral, Gilbert Emery, Monroe Ows
ley, Fred Kohler, Sr., and Grant
Withers.
The hitch-hiker is a highway nui
sance, and other states could well
follow Pennsylvania in declaring wai
on him. There are, of course, lots
of harmless hitch-hikers, but
motorist has no way of telling "
is deserving and who intends to tin- 1
bandit when picked up. Capt. '
son C. Price announces at Hari;
burg that anyone caught thumbing a
ride in Pennsylvania will be ja' e
or fined, and he adds: “The hitin
hiker and a pan-handler are 1 ®
same, except that the pan-han £
whines for a dime and the hitch • 1
er wants a ride that is often wo..
$lO bill.’’—Columbus Ledger.