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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 Jackton County
JOHN N. HOLDER .-Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON Bu*. M’’r
JEFFERSON, GA., AUG. 15, 1935
VALUE OF GRAND JURIES
North Carolina is said to be giving
thought to the abolition of grand
juries. The Statesville (N. C.) Re
cord says several of the foremost
Superior Court judges of the state
have gone on record as declaring
the grand jury useless. There is
talk of court revision in North Caro
lina am! the Record says one of the
first things suggested by the judges
seen was that the grand jury sys
tem was obsolete and should go into
the discard. Says the Record:
If changing times have obliter
ated the necessity of the functions
of grand juries, and to dispense
with them would save expense which
is paid from tax money, we say let us
no longer have grand juries, or have
a revision of the system under which
they are selected and required to
perform.
However, the Savannah Press
holds a different opinion. The Press
says:
But we think the suggestion of
grand jury abolition is a sort of
“stop, look and listen” sign. We do
not know that they are as obsolete
as some folk would suggest. They
.form a body of representative citi
zens given over to inquiring as to
whether there shall be indictments
brought against one accused of
crime. To be tried for a felony one
must be first indicted. It is a clear
ing house for the office of the soli
citor. He can find out through the
grand jury whether there is pro
bable cause for charging a defend
ant with an alleged crime. And this
saves a lot of work for trial juries,
we submit.
The grand jury is not yet ready
to join the Dodo.
MOSQUITOES
“Things to do during the summer
vacation” was being discussed by
the class. The suggestions were end
less. Repairs at home, gardening,
building a shack, making fly traps
and other things were listed. Speak
ing of flies brought up the question
of mosquitoes.
Last summer the town had suffer
ed from an unusual number of the
pests. This year the health officer
appealed to the state government for
help. The pamphlets received told
of many things the citizens could do
around their homes. It was these,
suggestions that interested the class.
“Prevention is the big thing,”
said the authorities. “You can do
nothing after the mosquitoes are
hatched.”
Mosquitoes need standing water
for breeding, so the government
men were coming to drain the
swamps around the town. What
could the children do? They began
listing places where water collected.
Tin cans in the dump, puddles after
rain, drains and roof gutters, rain
barrels, old wells, and so on. Each
child then agreed to drain puddles,
clean the drains, put small fish in
pools and wells, cover the dumps,
and mend the screens. The coming
of vacation was hailed with more en
thusiasm than ever before. Real
work could be a lot of fun after all!
SELF-RELIANCE IN CHILDREN
A well known physician once said,
“The finest men and women, as a
rule, are those who are reared or
phans,’’ the idea of his thought be
ing that those who have to shift for
themselves, so to speak, develop self
reliance which the average person
brought up under comfortable cir
cumstances lacks.
Parents, as a rule, make life far
too easy for their children. In most
homes it is the child who is given
every consideration, and the elders
get what is left. Even education is
a matter of form. The children are
transported to and from school in
automobiles and instead of tailing all
day to get the meaning of the three
R’s they ate given a few hours of
supervised study, and even their
play for the most part is directed by
older people.
Self-reliance is a condition which
cannot come into being overnight.
It must begin as soon as a child un
derstands the meaning of depend
ence, and wise are the parents -who
let their off. prings use their own in
itiative as they face issues which
come. —Dawson News.
TOBACCO SALES BRING
OVER TWO MILLIONS
DURING FIRST WEEK
According to the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, $2,260,570.48
was paid to growers for 10,730,420
pounds of tobacco during the first
week of the Georgia bright leaf auc
tions, at an average of 21.07 cents
per pound.
The report of the various markets
for last week gave Douglas 1,132,292
pounds sold first hand at 19.63 cents
per pound average; Blackshear 1,-
097,368 pounds at 21.03; Moultrie
(incomplete) 1,110,988 pounds at
22.00; Tifton 1,433,232 pounds at
22.63; Valdosta 1, pounds at
20.47.
Nashville was reported unofficial
ly last week as the top market in
sales volume and average prices, but
in official count one warehouse at
Nashville was reported missing.
With returns from the one ware
house- missing, sales for the opening
week at Nashville were listed at
768,464'p0unds at an average of
24.50 cents per pound. This average
was the highest given in the official
report to date.
Hahira, with two warehouse re
ports missing, was given an average
of 24.00 on sales of 202,776.
HOW QUICK CAN YOU STOP?
Some time ago a questionnaire
was submitted to motorists by the
city of Memphis concerning the dis
tance necessary for stopping cars
going at given speeds. The survey
demonstrated that the average driv
er has an exceedingly poor concep
tion of stopping distances—and that
he believes he can bring his car to
a halt in a much shorter space than
is actually required.
For example, drivers were asked
how many feet would be needed to
stop a car with four-wheel brakes
moving at a speed of 40 miles per
hour on an ordinary highway. Two
per cent of the drivers answered
ten feet or less; 15.9 per cent an
swered 11 to 20 feet; the heaviest
majority, 23.2 per cent, answered 21
to 30 feet, and 14.1 per cent an
swered 51 to 60 feet.
The true answer is 80 feet—
and it was given by less than 6 per
cent of the drivers. Only a minority
of motorists realize that, no matter
how good a car's brakes, it is im
possible to stop within fifty feet—
that a car going 40 miles an hour
will skid farther than that with lock
ed wheels.
Memphis has provided a good ex
ample showing that we vitally need
continuous and internsified “school
ing” for drivers—and that the driv
er who has operated a car for twen
ty years should be given attention,
as well as the beginner.
Adequate knowledge of the limi
tations and capabilities of the motor
car is a fundamental of accident pre
vention.
CCC VENTURE A SUCCESS
By the end of this month, if all
goes as expected, there will be ap
proximately 600,000 young men in
the famous Civilian Conservation
Corps. The work of doubling the
strength of the corps has been going
forward rapidly, and an enrollment
of 400,000 was recorded early in
July.
New camps are being established
in every state in the unon. The War
Department is building 1400 new
sets of camp buildings, and tent colo
nies are being erected in many lo
calities.
All in all, the work of enlarging
the organization is going forward
with the same quick efficiency that
has characterized nearly all the CCC
operations. Here it seems, is one
fight-the-depression venture which
has been a huge success. It has
taken thousands of young men off
the streets, enabled them to earn a
living and build themselves up physi
cally and mentally; and nt the same
time it has been doing a great deal
of highly valuable work in the con
servation of our natural resources
of woodland, stream and field.
GAINESVILLE VOTES $60,000
BOND ISSUE
Gainesville, Ga. By a vote of 483
to 22, Gainesville electors today ap
proved an issue of $60,000 in muni
cipal bonds for enlargement and oth
er improvements for the city water
system.
The money raised with the bond
i issue will be used togothei with a
federal grant of $50,000 for the
erection of new buildings and con
struction of basins and a steel tank.
Miss Annie Bob Johnson had as
her guest last week, Miss Margaret
Seymour of Elberton.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERjON, GEORGIA
BRILLIANT ORATORS TO
DISCUSS “NEW DEAL”
AT DINNER SATURDAY
Atlanta, Ga. - Georgians from
many sections are making reserva
tions for the dinner on the Hotel
Ansley roof Saturday night, August
17, when the Georgia League of
Women Voters will sponsor a dis
cussion of the “New Deal'’ by two
gifted orators of different views.
The speakers will he Graham
Wright of Rome, an outstanding
critic of the major premises of the
“New Deal,” and Judge Blanton
Fortson of Athens, vigorous in his
defense of the Roosevelt policies.
The dinner will begin at 7:30, with
Josephine Wilkins, president of the
League, presiding. Following the
invocation by Rev. Dr. M. Ashby
Jones, the speakers will be introduc
ed by Judge Edgar Watkins. Miss
Wilkins stated that she hoped for
the co-operation of one of the radio
stations in broadcasting the address
es.
Widespread comment on the din
ner includes praise by Judge Wat
kins, Marion Smith and Whilip Welt
ner, among others, of the League for
making it possible for interested
citizens to hear the discussion.
Judge Fortson and Mr. Wright
will discuss particularly industry and
agriculture under the federal gov
ernment recovery program.
764,865 IN SCHOOL
Georgia has a total of 764,865 pu
pils enrolled in its public schools, a
survey announced by the United
States Department of Commerce re
veals. Of the total, 664,468 are in
the elementary schools and 100,397
in the high schools, the survey shows.
The figures are for 1933 and 1934.
The statistics show that the aver
age attendance was only 589,297
with the schools’ average 136 days
a year. The schools had 19,951
teachers in addition to 128 super
visors.
The report also shows that the
current expenses of operation dur
ing the year were $15,106,402 plus a
capital outlay, for buildings and im
provements, of $1,041,857. The
cost of current expense per pupil in
the state was fixed at $25.63 as com
pared with $30.20 in 1931 and 1932.
BACKBONE OF TRANSPORT
In spite of all claims to the con
trary, the railroads remain the back
bone of the nation’s transportation
system.
Other carriers may supplement the
rails and perform a valuable service.
But it is a limited service.
Trucks can handle but a fraction
of the nation’s fregiht, and almost
none of its heavy, transcontinental
freight—wheat, machinery, etc.
Buses can provide inexpensive and
excellent short-haul passenger ser
vice—but the vast bulk of travelers
still go by rail when embarking on
a lengthy journey.
There are definite limits to the
airplane—its high cost, its relative
ly sparse coverage of the nation, its
inability to handle freight.
The waterways are limited by
geography and by seasons. In ad
dition, they have proven to be con
stant money losers, and can only be
kept in operation by vast govern
mental subsidies.
The railroads touch every portion
of the country. They provide ser
vice to remote areas, tiny hamlets,
little known farming and mining dis
tricts. They run on regular sche
dules. They provide maximum ser
vice at a minimum cost. The rail
roads did much to bring civilization
to the wilderness in the beginning
of this nation’s expansion—they do
much to keep civilized places from
degenerating back to wilderness now.
In addition, the railroads are one
of our greatest taxpayers, employ
ers, purchasers of supplies. They of
fer a gigantic market in normal
times for lumber, steel, copper, coal.
Thcv are a bulwark of all
—and an essential public servant.
Jefferson and community should
not let another canning season pass
without installing a canning plant.
At Commerce the Kiwanis Club was
responsible for the establishment of
a cannery, and the News says: “The
local canning plant has been in op
eration almost constantly since the
beginning of the fruit and vegetable
season. If the Kiwanis club had
done nothing else for the town than
j furnish the canning plant it would
have the everlasting good will of the
ladies for making their work lighter
and of the men for the decrease in
their winter grocery bill. Canning
is an easier work with the equip
ment at the plant, consequently
more canning is done.”
SOIL-BUILDING CROPS ARE
GROWN ON RENTED ACRES
More than 27,500,000 acres have!
been shifted from surplus basic
crops this year as rented or con-1
tracted land under 1935 adjustment j
contracts, according to county agent !
W. Hill Hosch. This represents a
bout one out of every twelve acres
of cultivated land in the United j
States, he says.
“The use of the rented and culti-1
vated acres has been the leading fac- j
tor in the largest increase in legume |
acreage ever reported in the United I
States,” the county agent continued. '
According to figures compiled by the '
United States Department of Agri- 1
culture, the 1935 acreage of alfalfa!
hay is 1,750,000 acres larger than i
last year’s, having risen from 11,-
482,000 acres to 13,198,000 acres, a
14 percent increase.
“During the same time the soy
bean acreage went up 1,200 acres,
from 4,223,000 to 5,463,000, an in
crease of over 29 percent. Lespede
za has increased greatly in acreage
as evidenced by the volume of seed
sold to growers. The hay acreage
for 1935 was 66,096,000, an increase
of 5,384,000 acres.
“This improvement in farm man
agement practice, which conserves
and builds up soil fertility, insures
that the American public will have
continued adequate supplies of meat,
milk, vegetables, cotton and other j
food and fiber products, in propor
tion to needs.
“The 1935 total of rented or con
tracted acres is divided among four
groups as follows: cotton, 10,293,- j
000; tobacco, 430,000; corn, 11,969,-j
000; and wheat, 4,912,000. A pre- j
liminary estimate shows that well
over a third of all rented or con- ,
tracted acres this year were planted
to crops that improve and conserve
the soil. In the South cotton and
tobacco acreage has been widely used
for feed and food crops for home
use. It is estimated that less than
15 per cent of the total contracted
or rented land was idle or fallow;
and that of the fifteen percent the
larger part was fallowed for definite
purposes of moisture conservation
and weed eradication.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MEETING
The Jefferson Chamber of Com
merce met at the Harrison Hotel
Thursday night at 8 o’clock, Mr. H.
E. Aderhold, president in charge of
meeting.
Opening prayer offered by Mr. M.
M. Bryan.
Minutes of the me.eting held in
July was read by the secretary, Mr.
J. F. Eckles.
Report and discussions made of
drainage district and Curry’s creek,
the Chamber of Commerce will assist
the city authorities in getting the
creek drained.
Mr. W. Hill Hosch, our county
agent, made report on agriculture,
Mr. J. C. Turner, the Chairman of
Roads and Revenues, on roads, Mr.
W. H. Smith on new industries.
Mr. J. E. Randolph made short
talk. We were glad to have him
back in meeting, after being absent
some time on account of illness.
Judge Gillard of Gainesville was
present, and made an interesting
talk.
Closing prayer was offered by Mr.
J. C. Turner. '
Those present were: M. M. Bryan,
W. H. Smith, J. C. Turner, Judge Gil
lard, H. E. Aderhold, T. T. Benton,
W. Hill Hosch, H. W. Davis, C. H.
Legg, J. F. Eckles, C. E. Robinson,
H. L. Purcell, J. E. Randolph, H. J.
W. Kizer.
UNLICENSED CRAFT COMMON
IN STATE
Despite the existence of a state
law barring from the air unlicensed
aircraft there are 44 such planes in
the state, as compared with 53 licen
sed airplanes, figures released by
the Bureau of Air Commerce of the
Department of Commerce revealed.
One of these planes, flying from
the Marietta airport, was responsible
for the death Monday of O. L. Suth
erland, operator of the airport, and
L. Alton Mitchell, a student pilot,
according to department officials.
United States laws require only
that planes operated in interstate
travel be licensed.
The report, as of July 1, 1935,
shows 1,911 planes of a total of 6,-
972 operated in the country are un
licensed by the federal authorities,
indicating that a high average of
the planes operated in Georgia do
not carry government licenses. .
The report listed 125 pilots, li
censed, in the state. Of these 68
hold transport licenses; eight, limit
ed commercial licenses; 46, private
licenses, and three, amateur licenses.
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COUNTRY GIRL MAKES HIGHEST
AVERAGE
Miss Helen Janet Pierce, of Eton
Grammar School, made the highest
average in Georgia in the state ex
aminations for seventh grade work
given at the end of the 1934-35
term. She also made the third high
est average in the United States
from a list of thirty thousand stu
dents in three years of grammar
school work. Miss Pierce made this
record in her tenth year and will en
ter high school before she has reach
ed the age of eleven years. At an
Educational rally recently held in
Tennessee she received honorary
mention from the educators of Ten
nessee.
THE SPIDER AND THE DAUBER
Sylvester, Ga.—The Black Widow
spider has met its conqueror in the
lowly dirt-dauber.
A Sylvester housewife found sev
eral Black Widow spiders dead in a
dirt-dauber nest while she was house
cleaning.
Dr. P. W. Fattig, curator of Em
ory University, in Atlanta, said
that while he had never known of
dirt-daubers killing Black Widow
spiders, they sting other spiders to
death and store them for food.
And by the same' token, he rea
soned, the daubers might store away
Black Widow spiders for breakfast.
Alabama claims to have taken a
decided step forward, in perfecting
its plans for the employment of a
“people’s public service attorney”
who is paid by the state. He is to
represent any person who wishes to
file a grievance against any public
utility. Bibb Graves, the governor
of Alabama, is said to be very much
pleased with this piece of legislation
which he largely fathered. The
newspapers quote him as saying it
is the most far-reaching achievement
of his administration.
The Athens Banner-Herald voices
the opinion that if women wear ap
parel without sleeves, then men
should be peimitted to go without
coats. In fact, the editor goes a
Mttle further, and says that in this
hot and suffocating weather, they
would be justifiable in walking the
streets in “shorts.”
Mayor James L. Key’s plan to
open a municipal liquor store in de
fiance of Georgia’s laws has received
another setback at the hands of the
city council. A proposal for the
move with proceeds going to restore
city employes pay cuts lost out 27 to
2 in a parliamentary motion as the
councilmen held it out of order.
Thursday, August 8, was the
seventy-sixth birthday of the Gaines
ville Eagle, the oldest newspaper in
this section of Georgia.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935.
SUMMER HEAT
Too many cautions cannot be
printed against sunburn. No matter
how much is said or written, no mat
ter what one’s past experience may
have been, the majority of people
show unreasonable haste in acquir
ing a sunburn. “I’m going to be tan
ned like an Indian,” they say, forget
ting that the Indian’s red-brown skin
is natural.
Children are in danger, because
they don’t know there is any danger.
In the summer, they have all day
for play. The release from school
is tempting, with so many things to
do. If parents aren’t mindful and
watching, the first day or two in the
summer sun may bring a serious
burn. Then a week of suffering, of
ten confined to bed.
And it isn’t always as simple as
that. Burn from the sun is no differ
ent from any burn. It isn’t confined
to a sore skin. Poisons, or body
toxins, are formed. The child may
be feverish and nauseated. In at
tempting to throw off the poisons,
the kidneys may be injured. Some
times severe prostration results.
In all cases of sunburn, it is ad
visable to place a child in a physi
cian’s care. Wise treatment will
prevent the complications. But the
greatest wisdom is shown at the be
ginning. Take the sunburn grad
ually, a little each day. Give the
skin a chance to tan painlessly.
The daily papers carried a list
Tuesday of 600 WPA projects scat
tered throughout the state that are
expected to be under construction
right away. Road construction,
building of schools, street paving,
landscaping of parks, waterworks
construction and extension, erection
of golf courses, sewer extensions,
street repairs, building of hospitals,
are just a few of the projects that
will account for the spending of the
money and relief of the unemployed.
Included in the list was $8,955 for
road improvement in Jackson county.
Mr. F. P. Nix of Murrayville,
Hall county, to date has produced
3,168 pounds of tomatoes on one
sixteenth of an acre of land. He
sold the tomatoes at the Growers
Market in Gainesville for 5 cents per
pound, realizing $158.40. Mr. Nix
had growing on his small plot of
land 176 tomatoe plants. The plants
grew 5 to 8 feet high, and produced
from 12 to 18 pounds of tomatoes.
On last Friday at the close of
Piedmont College summer school,
Robert Getzen, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Getzen of Pendergrass, receiv
ed his A. B. degree. Mr. Getzen has
accepted a position as teacher and
coach in the Winder school for next
session.