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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
The Mule and Its Rider
President Roosevelt saved the rail
roads from absolute financial
wreck and ruin. When he became
president some railroads had gone
into receivership, and others would
soon have done likewise. The Presi
dent loaned them money to pay tax
es, to buy necessary equipment and
to pay operating expenses. It was
he who rescued them from financial
helplessness. Now they are paying
expenses and some are beginning a
gain to make dividends. Do they
appreciate what he did for them?
Not if we judge their sentiments by
the words of some. The president
of the N. C. & St. L., one of the
great railroad systems of the South,
has so severely criticised and de
nounced the New Deal, that mule
shippers and dealers of Atlanta
have said, “We have been your cus
tomers and want to continue as
such, but do not appreciate these at
tacks. The mule business was on the
rocks. Our come back is due to the
administration of Franklin D. Roose
velt.” They said further to him if
the president of this railroad does
not come off his high horse he may
“feel the kick of a mule that will
render him speechless.” In this case
mules could not speak for them
selves, but men spake for them.
This railroad magnate should heed
the words of the mule men.
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The mule is a valuable and useful
animal. It has been said of him
that “he has neither pride of an
cestry nor hope of posteritybut
he is a burden bearer and a labor
ing animal. He cultivates our fields,
draws crops from field and to mar
ket, and bears man and burdens on
his back through field and over hills
and mountains, where railroads and
motor vehicles cannot go. What a
valuable asset he is to man and to
civilization. The mule is the symbol
of the Democratic party. Just as
the mule bears burdens, so the
Democratic party is the political bur
den bearer of the people.
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The mule has played a part in the
history of the world. It will be re
called the story in the Bible where
Balaam was riding a mule and the
mule refused to go because Balaam
was trying to go in the wrong di
rection. Balaam beat the animal,
but it ran up against a wall and
crushed his leg. He smote it again
and it fell down. This is one time
when a mule actually talked, and
it said, “What have I done unto thee
that thou hast smitten me?” Balaam
could not see what the mule saw.
The mule had more sense than the
man riding it. A man was standing
in the way with a sword in his hand.
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Talmadge has been riding the
good old Democratic mule, and has
been doing his best to make that
mule leave the Democratic road and
go the wrong way. The mule may
not crush his leg against a wall or
fall down on him, but that mule is
not going to carry him where it is
wrong to go. He can get ready to
find a place to get off. A man in
this county had a mule which no
one seemed able to ride. A negro
man who had ridden many a buck
ing broncho declared he could ride
him. So he mounted the animal,
which bucked, ran and snorted. It
reared high in the air, put its head
between its front feet, kicked as
high as possible, and the negro came
off his back to the ground with a
thud. The by-standers laughed and
jeered, but the negro arose from the
ground, knocked off some of the
dirt on his clothes, grinned and said,
“Dat mule didn’t throw me. I jess
picked a good place to git off.” So
Talmadge just as well pick a good
place tq get off, or that mule will
surely hurl him to the ground.
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Another place in the Bible where
a mule was an important factor in
concluding a contest. A fellow
named Absalom got such an exalted
idea of himself that he decided he
would put old David out of office and
take the job himself. He was young
and handsome, and made just lots of
fine promises about what he would
do if only he should be made the
ruler of Isreal, instead of David.
He was patted on the back by cer
tain selfish ones, who told him to go
to it. He was apparently making;
some progress in his ambitious ef
forts. One day he decided he would
ride a mule. That animal did pret
ty well until it came to a great oak
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with thick branches, and it ran un
der the oak and Absalom’s head was
caught in the oak; he was taken up
between Heaven and earth, and the
mule walked from under him and he
was left hanging by the hair of his
head under this oak, and that was
the end of Absalom.
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Talmadge is trying to depose
Roosevelt and get his high and hon
orable office. He will fail as surely
as did Absalom, and when the con
test is over that old Democratic
mule he is trying to ride into office
will leave him hanging by the hair
of his head under that Republican
oak which has such inviting shade.
What a noble animal is the mule!
Some mules know which way to go
much better than some men.
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Certain financial magnates, cotton
speculators and enemies of the cotton
growers of the South have been se
vere in their criticism of cotton con
trol production, because they de
clared it was ruining the export cot
ton business. People remembered
too well that cotton was exported
when the price was thirty-five and
forty cents per pound; and if that
were true then, cotton should be
exported when the price was twelve
to thirteen cents per pound. Again,
cotton growers much rather receive
twelve cents for cotton with little
export business, than five cents with
mammoth cotton exports. Now,
however, exportation of cotton has
so enormously increased in the past
few months that this one argument
has been completely answered. The
other argument that other countries
of the world will produce cotton and
put the South out of the cotton busi
ness has also been answered, because
there has been little increase in
world production of cotton outside
of the United States. There is one
thing that will insure fair price for
cotton, and that is to hold produc
tion down to the demand of the
world. This is just what Franklin
D. Roosevelt is endeavoring to do.
At the same time farmers are getting
rent for their land that is left out
of cotton production that would be
planted to cotton were not the New
Deal plan of limiting production in
operation.
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The success of Mr. S. C. Ware,
owner and manager of the Roosevelt
Theatre here, has been phenomenal.
Before Mr. Ware took charge of this
theatre it was not a financial suc
cess because people did not give it
their patronage. Mr. Ware brings
to Jefferson the very best pictures
produced. The same attractions are
shown here that are seen in Atlanta
at the Fox, the Paramount, the Geor
gia and other show houses. Recent
ly he brought here one of Will Rog
ers last pictures, and people crowd
ed the show house to enjoy this pic
ture. The fact is, the attendance at
all times at the theatre is equal to
his most sanguine expectations. But
what would it profit the theatre to
have a good performance if people
did not know about it? Mr. Ware
has not failed to give each week in
The Herald a list of the pictures
that will be seen during the follow
ing week. Good pictures and proper
newspaper publicity have brought
the people to the theatre, and the
owner and manager is rewarded
with success. Mr. Ware is ably as
sisted by Mr. Evans Wright,' who is
on the job every day, and whose ef
ficient services and courteous treat
ment of the public are contributing
factors to the success of this fine
Jefferson enterprise.
Whenever any business or social
organization, local or otherwise, en
dorses the United States Chamber of
Commerce or the Liberty League,
approval is given to the most im
placable enemies to the farmers of
the South and to the most unfair,
unjust and hypocritical critics the
President has in this land. These
organizations are wolves parading in
sheeps clothing.
The state highway board claims
that it' is proceeding slowly with
highway work on account of delay
of federal award of funds. When
did the federal authorities get con
trol of our purely state funds?
There are lots of them lying idle in
the state treasury while people are
clamoring for something to be done
on specific state projects.—Ogle
thorpe Echo.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Nations Banded To Promote
Peace
Geneva.—A new epoch in world
relations has begun here.
For the first time in history, the
nations of the world, banded togeth
er to promote peace, will resort to
economic pressure in an attempt to
end a war.
Fifty-one nations, including all
the recognised powers of the world
with the exception of Germany, Ja
pan and the United States, will be
gin the exercise of economic “sanc
tions” against Italy, found guilty of
resorting to unprovoked warfare.
And of the three powers remaining
outside, being non-members of the
League of Nations, two of them,
Germany and the United States, have
assured the rest of the nations that
Itally can expect no aid from them.
The third, Japan, has made no of
ficial pronouncement of its course.
Italy Hurl* Defiance
As the sanctions went into effect
Premier Benito Mussolini, Italy’s dic
tator, convoked the fascist grand
council to map resistance to the sanc
tions and hurled defiance at the
world, in a manifesto to the Italian
populace, that Italy will henceforth
remember the day as “the day of
ignominy and iniquity in the history
of the world.”
As the League moved to force
Italy out of her Ethiopian conquest,
the individual nations took steps to
see to it that the provisions of the
embargo against the aggressor were
not violated. Canada announced that
violators of the order that prohibits
credits and loans to Italy, shuts out
imports from the kingdom, and pro
hibits exports to Italy of certain key
commodities used for military pur
poses, would be punished with pri
son sentences up to two years, or
fines or both. Poland warned its
citizens that heavy fines and prison
sentences would be meted out.
France Seeks Mediation
France, playing the role of media
tor, saw a last despairing effort to
stop the war before sanctions begin
to pinch when Premier Laval talked
fco both the British and Italian am
bassadors. But he gave assurance
that France would uphold the action
of the League.
England, her stand reinforced by
the return to power of her conserva
tive government, was expected to
stiffen her resistance to any devia
tion from the course outlined at
Geneva.
Germany’s Hitler gave assurances
to both British and French envoys
that Germany would not serve as a
dumping ground and clearance point
for contraband goods for Italy. And
the United States has already pro
claimed an embargo against both
Italy and Ethiopia.
In answer to these measures Mus
solini prepared for his most energe
tic campaign so far in Africa. He
removed General De Bono from com
mand of the fascist troops and plac
ed in charge Marshal Pietro Badog
glio, “first soldier of Italy,” and one
of the outstanding strategists of the
World War. This move was inter
preted as the beginning of a deter
mined push from all three fronts in
Africa.
On the surface all was quiet as
the momentous step upon which the
very existence of the League itself
depends was taken. It was felt in
all quarters that if the League is
unable to carry through its program
to successful conclusion the blow
will be the killing one.
ROOSEVELT CLUBS WANT
PRIMARY IF THEY HAVE
TO PAY FOR IT
Atlanta, Nov. 23.—Georgia Roose
velt clubs today were on record ap
proving a Presidential preferential
primary early next year and financed
by them if necessary.
A resolution adopted at a confer
ence of representatives of approxi
mately 100 counties here last night
advocated the primary, but carried
a provision that, “no such action will
be taken unless necessary.”
It was explained the state Demo
cratic executive committee had not
yet acted on the question.
The conference was attended by
more than 300 persons, representing
the Georgia Roosevelt clubs, the
Roosevelt re-election clubs, Young
Voters’ clubs, women’s organizations
and railroad clubs.
Co-ordination of all the clubs was
brought about at the meeting.
EXCHANGE NOTES
Nw* Item* Of littered Among Our
Neighbor* And Friend*
President I* Brief Viiitor At
Gainesville Thursday
(From Gainesville Eagle)
Time, tide and the President’s
special stop for no man. At least
not in Gainesville, as some 500 local
citizens who swarmned around the
Southern railway station on Thurs
day at noon found out. En route
to his home at Warm Springs, Presi
dent Roosevelt passed through Gain
esville at 12:40 o’clock. The train
reduced speed and the hundreds who
had gathered, expecting it to stop
and the President speak, were not
entirely disappointed, having a good
glimpse of the Ghief Executive as
he sat at the rear window in the
vestibule car. The President smiled
broadly and waved—and the crowd
cheered and waved back. Mr.
Roosevelt is the first President since
Warren Harding to pass through this
city.
Farm-To-Market Road Project I*
Approved In Hall
The sum of $283,000 has been
appropriated and turned over to R.
E. Williams of Marietta, district
director of PWA to carry out the
county-wide farm-to-market road
program voted for Hall county. The
proposed plan will lead to the im
proving or construction of seventeen
roads within the county area, and
will prove of inestimable benefit to
the farmers and merchants of this
section. Work is slated to begin im
mediately.
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(From Gainesville News)
Second Crop May Cherries Are Ripe
On Tanner Tree*
Cherry trees in the orchard of M.
F. Tanner, who lives near the Black
shear Place on Gainesville Route 3,
are bearing their second crop of May
cherries and Wednesday Mr. Tanner
brought twigs containing some cher
ries to The News office. The first
crop of the cherries was plentiful,
he states, while the second crop
will not have as many cherries and
they are somewhat smaller. It is
due to the late fall, it is stated, and
while apple and peach tree blooms
are common, it is very unusual for
cherry trees to have a second crop.
Judge Stark Clear* Docket In Bank*
(From Banks County Journal)
Banks superior court was in ses
sion last week, and Judge Stark a
bout cleared the docket. This was
the shortest calendar we have had in
20 years. Sol. Gen. Pratt sent sev
eral to the chaingang. The follow
ing out of town attorneys attended:
Cols. Henry Davis, Geo. Westmore
land, of Jefferson, W. D. and Pierce
Martin and E. C. Stark of Com
merce, Sam and Hamilton Kimzey,
R. C. Scott and Col. Greggs of Cor
nelia.
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Rev. E. T. WiLon Goe* To Atlanta
(From Atlanta Journal)
Rev. E. T. Wilson, of Walhnlla,
S. C., has accepted a call to the
Peachtree Road Presbyterian church,
it was announced Tuesday by Miss
Mattie Torrey, church secretary.
Mr. Wilson’s acceptance of the call
was disclosed to the congregation
Sunday in a letter from the well
known South Carolina%ninister. It
is expected Mr. Wilson will be in At
lanta Thursday for the annual tur
key dinner, commemorating the
sixteenth anniversary of the found
ing of the church. Mr. Wilson will
fill the pulpit left vacant by Rev. R.
William Oakey, who recently ac
cepted a call to the Presbyterian
church at Milledgeville.
Mr*. W. W. Stark Given Office In
General Federation
(From Commerce News)
Friends of Mrs. W. W. Stark are
interested in knowing that she has
been notified by Mrs. Roberta Camp
bell Lawson, President General Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs, that at a
recent meeting of the National Board
meeting of that organization, she
was unanimously appointed chairman
of the Bible Committee. It will be
the duty of Mrs. Stark, as chairman
of this committee to prepare a pro
gram on the/study of the Bible to be
carried out in the General Feder
ation of Women’s Clubs, which in
clude all clubs of the United States
and twenty six foreign and Terri
torial Countries.
Thursday, November 28, 1935.
Record-Breaking Crowd
Will Greet President
In Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga.—Half a million Geor
gians of all ages and from all walks
of life will thunder a welcome to
President Roosevelt here Friday, a
welcome which will tell him that
Georgia is for him and for his pro
gram and that the state will again
unfurl the Roosevelt banner in 1936.
Unless all indications fail it will
bring together the greatest crowd in
Atlanta’s history and probably the
greatest ever assembled in the south.
The day’s program, commemorat
ing the Roosevelt home-coming cele
bration, will be climaxed by a pa
rade through the city, led by the
President himself, and by an ad
dress by the chief executive in Grant
field, when many observers predict
he will fire the opening gun of his
campaign for re-election.
The visit of the President to At
lanta is of prime interest, not only
to the south but to the entire na
tion.
As the presidential party, which
will motor from Warm Springs, en
ters Fort McPherson, a 21-gun sa
lute will be fired by a battery of
artillery, personally commanded by
Brigadier General Robert O. Van
Horn, the post commander.
Immediately after the meeting at
the fort the presidential party will
be escorted into the city. It will
proceed through Lee street into
Whitehall street and out Peachtree
to Ponce de Leon avenue, down
Ponce de Leon to Piedmont avenue
and out Piedmont to the park for the
exchange of greetings with the
school children.
Arrangements have been made for
crowds to line the entire route of
the parade from Fort McPherson to
Piedmont park.
No inkling has come from the
“Little White House,” at Warm
Springs as to whether Mr. Roose
velt’s speech will be of a political
nature, although many of his Geor
gia friends believe it will mark the
start of his campaign in the South
for re-nomination.
Governor Talmadge, though not
invited to participate in the program
officially, will be present, along with
five other governors of southeastern
states.
Besides Governor Talmadge other
chief executives expected are: Bibb
Graves of Alabama, Dave Sholtz of
Florida, Olin D. Johnston of South
Carolina, Hill McAlister of Tennes
see and J. C. B. Ehringhouse of
North Carolina.
They will be seated on a platform
adjoining the stage from which the
president is to make his address.
Admission Tickets
Not Necessary For
Roosevelt Address
All persons desiring to hear the
address of the President at the foot
ball stadium in Atlanta Friday will
be admitted regardless of whether
they have a ticket or not. Tickets
will not be necessary for admission
to Grant Field. The meeting will be
entirely open, and every citizen ot
Georgia is cordially invited and
urged to attend. At first, the com
mittee thought best to issue tickets
but finding that this would cause
confusion, Senators George and Rus
sell and Chairman Earl Cocke issuer
statement that all who come will bi
admitted.
Pioneer Citizen of Hoschton
Passes
Mr. William O. E. Adams of
Hoschton passed away Saturday
morning at 3:30. He was born in
Walton county, but had lived in
Hoschton for fifty years, and was
Hoschton’s oldest citizen. He was
74 years of age.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at the Methodist
church, with Rev. W. J. Shell officiat
ing. Interment in Hoschton ceme
tery.
Surviving are five sons, J. A. and
M. A. Adams, Hoschton; O. J. Ad
ams, Athens; O. G. Adams, Cornelia;
E. E. Adams, DeLand, Fla.; three
daughters, Mrs. Fred Thurmond, |
Statham; Miss Clara Adams, Gaines-'
ville; Miss Curtis Adams, Hoschton ;<
two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Flanigan, Au-j
burn; Mrs. Annie Chandler, Ninety-j
Six, S. C., and nine grand-children, j
Vol. 61. No. 10.
PRESIDENT GREETS
GEORGIA FRIENDS m
AT WARM SPRINGS
Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 21.—Re
turning to his favorite health resort
after an absence of a year, President
Roosevelt, a picture of health from
his recent cruise through Caribean
water, arried at Warm Springs late
today to receive an enthusiastic wel
come from hundreds of his Georgia
friends and neighbors.
The special train which brought
the President and his party from
Washington pulled into the unpre
tentious Warm Springs station at 4
o’clock, exactly on time. Several
hundred persons, including officials
and unofficial committees from
Greenville, Manchester and sur
rounding towns were on hand to
greet the nation’s chief executive,
while a special guard of honor was
provided by the Meriwether Civilian
Conservation Corps, more than 200
strong.
Following the arrival at the sta
tion the President and his party
drove to the “Little White House”
on top of the hill, which will be the
nerve center of the nation’s vast
governmental machine for the neat
three weeks. Here Mr. Roosevelt
will remain until the morning of
November 29, when he goes to At
lanta to address a mammoth Geor
gia home-coming celebration, which
is expected to witness an outpour
ing of Georgians to hear him give
an accounting of his New Deal ad
ministration.
After delivering the Atlanta ad
dress he will again return to Warm
Springs, remaining until December 8
before departing for Washington via
Chicago, where he speaks to a na
tional conference of agricultural
leaders December 9. Mrs. Roose
velt did not accompany him on the
trip from Washington, but is expect
ed to join him later.
While the President came to
Warm Springs primarily for the an
nual Thanksgiving Day dinner of the
Warm Springs Foundation, of which
he is the honorary head, he will
make use of the occasion to exercise
himself in the health-giving spripgs
of the foundation, his favorite day,
of recreation. dons
Dating back to the time bef uman 1
was elected governor of New.* beau'
Mr. Roosevelt has made a plirist,
spending the Thanksgiving pe
Warm Springs. This year hisr bere
call for staying a bit longer npathy
usual. sonal
Just what the presidential p.w v
gram calls for on the present Geomi
gia visit remains to be seen, but un- :
doubtly his absence from the capital
will necessitate a constant flow of
government officials between Wash
ington and the “Little White House”
on Pine mountain.
MR. W. E. JACKSON DIES IN
COMMERCE, TEX.
Announcement comes from Comi
merce, Tex., of the death of Mr. W.
E. Jackson, who passed away at his
home in that city recently.
The deceased was born July 13,
1869, in Pendergrass, Ga., the son
of Jimmie and Eva Jackson. In
1894 he moved to Texas, settling in
Commerce, and had since made that
city his home. On December 23,
1904, Mr. Jackson was united in
marriage with Miss Mary Harwell,
who survives him.
Other survivors are four children,
Mrs. Mary Ethel Vandivervoort of
Carrizo Springs, Tex., and Allen,
Curtis and Martha Jackson, Com
merce, Tex., and two grand-children,
Betty Sue and Jane Ray Jackson,
also of that city. Also, two sisters,
Mrs. Joel Alexander of Pendergrass,
and Mrs. Ina Moore of Talmo, and
a brother, Arthur D. Jackson of
White Plains. Mr. Jackson made his
last visit to relatives in Georgia
three years ago. The Commerce,
Tex., paper said of the deceased:
“Mr. Jackson accepted Christ and
joined the Baptist church at the age
of fifteen. For 51 years he has been
a Christian. Mr. Jackson wa; a
loyal attendant at all the services of
the church. Like Barnabas, he was
a good man, and honored by the en
tire citizenship. The host of friends
present at the memorial services
were silent witnesses to the esteem
of this good man."
Mr. H. I. Mobley and Miss Nixon
Mobley were dinner gaests Cur.day
of Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Mobley at
their home in Gainesville. ,