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By Holder & Williamson
OPPORTUNITIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
All amendments to the constitu
tion, twenty-six in number, were
overwhelmingly approved by the vot
ers of Georgia in the election on
June Bth, and repeal of prohibition
met with a big defeat. This writer
favored twenty-four of the amend
ments, opposed one, and was some
what neutral on another. He is
therefore, fairly well pleased on
these matters. He opposed with all
earnestness the repeal of the twenty
three years old prohibition law, and
he is gratified with the expression of
the people of Georgia at the ballot
box on this far reaching and im
portant question. It is hoped the
wet advocates will not try to disturb
the law again.
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By comparing the vote on the
amendments, and that on repeal, it
will be ascertained that hundreds of
voters cast their ballot on prohibi
tion, but did not express themselves
on some of the amendment. Hundreds
of others did not go to the polls. The
views expressed by some voters at
the Jefferson ballot box, some ladies
and some gentlemen, l’eflect the
feelings of hundreds. Their state
ment was about as follows: Just a
little more than three months ago
the legislature passed twenty-six
amendments to the constitution to
be submitted to the voters of Geor
gia in this election. This is too
great a number of changes in the
organic law to be passed on at one
time. Also, the time has been two
short to have ample opportunity to
study the meaning and effect of all
these big questions. For these, and
other reasons, we shall not vote on
any question except prohibition, and
we hereby cast our vote for prohi
bition, and against repeal. No doubt
these reasons caused many to
fail or refuse to exercise their right
of franchise on June 8.
However, submitting all these
amendments at one time, and giving
such a short time for study and in
vestigation of the same, gave
strength to some of them, at least.
The intense organized campaign
conducted by the Governor, State
Executive Committee and friends of
local amendments, aided in the rati
fication of the entire number; but
the one amendment that had
more to do with putting across all
the proposed changes to Georgia’s
organic law, was the old age pen
sion and social security proposals.
This had more strength than any
other; yes, in all probability, more
than all other proposed changes in
the constitution. This is the one
proposition that will be matched by
the federal government with an
equal .amount to that put up by both
the state and counties.
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Of all humanitarian benefits ever
proposed by federal or state govern
ments, old age pensions stands at the
head of the list. This money will
go to a class of people who are old,
needy, and cannot work to earn
their living. Most of them are
among the best people, generally
speaking. They have lived useful
and honorable lives, reai'ed families,
paid taxes, supported the army and
navy and all governments under
which they live, federal, state and
county, and have contributed much
to the welfare of their communities.
Only this week the writer saw an
old man who had reared a family of
splendid children, which required all
his earnings during all these years
to properly maintain his family and
educate his children. He did a good
part by them; but now, in his old
age, he lives with one of his off
spring. To keep from being a bur
den, he works all he can. In his
younger days he was one of the best
wheat harvesters who ever went in
to a field. At the harvest this year
he would insist on using the wheat
cradle from time to time. He needs
a pension. He deserves a pension in
his old age to provide him a living
and the comforts of life, and not
feel that he is a burden on any one.
The amendments making provision
for just such citizens as the one
mentioned above had such force and
impetus that not only went over,
but was a mighty force in winning a
sweeping victory for all the amend
ments.
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The power and influence of the
The Jackson Herald
Governor in sponsoring and vigor
ously urging the ratification of all
the amendments, had much to do
with the victory won. Then there
was another thing that helped in the
intensive fight made for their ap
proval, and that was the opposition
of Talmadge. When Talmadge en
listed in the fight against all the
amendments, no doubt he lined up
some of his quondam friends and
followers with him, but he also
aroused into vigorous action the
powerful political forces which en
compassed his defeat a few months
ago. These forces were friends and
supporters, not only of the present
Governor, but also friends of the
Junior Senator from Georgia, who
defeated Talmadge for the senate
last September; and last, but not
least, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
admirers and loyal friends, who
have not forgotten how he was
criticised, maligned and ridiculed by
the Ex-Governor last year. The
people thought then, and still think,
that Mr. Roosevelt is the best friend
the average man, the old people and
the plain citizens ever had in the
White House. They know that old
age pensions and social security con
stitute an important part of the
New Deal of President Roosevelt.
The people deeply resented the ac
tive opposition of Talmadge to these
amendments, because they felt that
he was still keeping up his un
righteous and unholy war against
Roosevelt, as well as opposing the
most humanitarian legislation ever
proposed. Talmadge now says he
bows to the will of the majority. He
is mistaken. The voters sat him
down so hard that he is bouncing
up and down like a rubber ball. He
thinks he is bowing, but he is de
luded, he is just bouncing.
Repeal was defeated by a larger
majority than the vote cast against
it two years ago. The repealists felt
that the great impetus of the twen
ty-six amendments would help put
over repeal. Thousands, like the
people of Jackson county, favored
the amendments, but opposed re
peal. Some that are living, and
some w r ho have gone on, contributed
to the result. Two men, both had
served the state as chief executives,
now sleeping in the silent city of
the dead, no doubt exerted an in
fluence in this ' contest. They, are
L. G. Hardman, author of the first
state prohibition law; and N. E.
Harris, who was governor when the
law was amended and strengthened.
Jackson county ag'ain rolled up a
fine majority against legalizing the
sale of intoxicants in Georgia.
Not only Jackson, but every county
in the ninth district showed a ma
jority against repeal. The New Deal
program in Georgia may need the
revenue that would have gone into
the treasury from liquor taxes, but
there are other ways to get this
money. The Governor said he took
no part in the contest on prohibition.
His home county voted against
abolition of prohibition, but some of
the Governor’s closest friends and
most able lieutenants were so
strong for repeal that the Governor
would have been held responsible
by some of the prohibitionists for
taking this law from the statute
books if the efforts of these close
friends had succeeded. The re
results are good for the Governor,
politically. That, at least, is the
way we look at the result. May the
Georgia New Deal be good for the
state. The Governor has fine oppor
tunities, but great responsibilities.
Last week in making mention of
the city board of education, we
omitted the name of Mr. Stanley
Kesler. No man on the board is
moi'e interested in education, and
the Jefferson school in particular
than Mr. Kesler. Not only is he an
able and conscientious public official,
but he is one of the best of business
men, and has achieved splendid suc
cess in the business world. Also, he
is a public spirited eitizen, earnestly
interested in social, civic ad re
ligious betterment of the communi
ty. He has many sincere and loyal
friends, who have absolute faith in
him. We regret the failure to re
cord his name as a member of the
city board, because there is no man
in our community who is a better
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JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
INCREASED TAXES
TO REPLACE LOST
LIQUOR REVENUES
State officials were speculating
Friday on the plan that will be
adopted to replace the $3,000,000 in
liquor taxes that the legislature an
ticipated, but will not get.
The easiest way out was figured
to be an increase of the ad valorem
tax from the present three mills to
the constitutional limit of five mills.
This can be done by the governor
and the comptroller general, who
fix the ad valorem tax rate during
July of each year.
The ad valorem tax amounts to
approximately $5,000,000 a year at
three mills, and produced about
$5,000,000 a year during the decade
that it was fixed at five mills, previ
ous to the Talmadge administration.
The suggested incr-ease would bring
in about $2,000,000.
Another expected source of new
revenue is the intangible tax author
ized by the voters last Tuesday. This
is expected to bring in from $1,000,-
000 to $2,000,000 in new revenue.
Then there is the shadow of a
state sales tax looming up again.
Governor Rivers at one time advo
cated a general sales tax, but he
said he was opposed to one dur
ing his last campaign. Many legis
lators, however, still favor such a
tax.
COUNTY SINGING CONVENTION
NOTES
The fifty-ninth annual session of
the Jackson County Singing Conven
tion is scheduled to meet with Mount
Olive Baptist Church, north of Com
merce, Saturday and Sunday, July
24-25.
Sam Lord, president of the con
vention, has appointed the following
as entertainment committee: Barney
Nunn, Mrs. Keff Short, Guy Wil
banks, Miss Ruth Massey, Miss Mary
Ray.
In connection with this commit
tee, it is the duty of every citizen of
Jackson county to co-operate with
them in looking after the visitors on
the above dates.
Every church, Sunday school and
singing society in the county are
urgently requested to elect a dele
gation to represent them at this
session of the convention.
Among the publishers that have
already certified their intentions of
attending is Prof. Theodore Sisk,
Toccoa. Others have the matter
under consideration.
Jewett Barnett, Sec’y.
MRS. BELLE MURRAY CLAIMED
BY DEATH
Mrs. Bell Murray passed away
at her home near Auburn, May 22.
Mrs. Murray had been ill for
several months.
Mrs. Murray was formerly Miss
Belle Fleeman. She was born and
reared in Jackson county, near Jef
ferson, but had lived in Barrow
county for the past two years.
In early life she was married to
Mr. C. O. Murray, who passed away
December 29, 1925. She was a
kind wife and gentle mother, and
loved by all who knew her.
She was a member of the Talmo
Baptist church. At her death she
was 54 years of age.
Funeral services were held at
Nicholson Baptist church. The ser
vices were conducted by Rev. J. O.
McNeal. Interment was in the Mur
ray cemetery.
Mrs. Murray is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Ora Chester, and
Miss Lena Murray; two sons, Thom
as and Horace Murray, all of Au
burn; three brothers, Messrs. Edd
and Ben Fleeman, of Jefferson; and
Henry Fleeman, of Gainesville.
She is also survived by three sis
ters, Mrs. J. W. Elrod, of Auburn,
Miss Carrie Fleeman of Jefferson,
and Mrs. Ina McNeal of South Geor
gia; and four grand children.
REV. H. LEE SMITH TO CONDUCT
SERIES OF MEETINGS
The Rev. Harry Lee Smith, of
Tucker, will speak each evening this
week at the Payne Memorial Metho
dist church, as a part of a special
young people’s revival service. The
Rev. Mr. Smith is a member of the
North Georgia Conference, and a
student at Emory University.—At
lanta Georgian.
asset as a fine citizen than Stanley
Kesler.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(Eugenia Boone, H. D. A.)
The County Home Demonstration
Council held its regular monthly
meeting at the court house Tuesday
afternoon, June Ist, at 3 o’clock.
Ip the business meeting, a motion
was carried to postpone next meet
ing of the council until the first
Tuesday in August.
Miss Boone announced the girls
camp will be held July 14th, 15th
and 10th. The 16th the home
demonstration club members are
especially invited to come.
After the business meeting, Miss
Martha McAlpine, child specialist,
and Miss Leonora Anderson, . cloth
ing specialist, gave very interesting
talks. Miss McAlpine discussed
Family Relationships and Measuring
Childrens Growth. Miss Anderson
talked on* Childrens Clothing, and
showed members present some of
the best types of clothing for chil
dren. Several patterns were cut.
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The Wilson 4-H club held its
second meeting Friday morning at
the school house, with fourteen
members present. A number of the
aprons and caps were cut, and can
ning exhibit recipes were given to
each club member. This club has
made a very good beginning. Keep
up the spirit.
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Recipe For Making A Home
(By Miss Slyvia Slocum, by way of
Progressive Farmer)
Take a half a cup of friendship, add
one cup of thoughtfulness;
Cream together with pinch of pow
ered tenderness, ’
Very lightly beaten into a bowl of
loyalty,
With one cup of faith, one of hope,
and one of charity;
Be sure to add a spoonful each of
gaity that sings,
And the ability to laugh at little
things;
Moisten with the sudden tears of
heartfelt sympathy,
And bake in a good-natured pan;
serve immediately.
CHEROKEE POST TO BE SUBJECT
OF NEW SUIT
The complicated Cherokee Circuit
judgeship contest Saturday became
more complex when Judge Claude C.
Pittman, of Cartersville, refused to
recognize the commission issued
earlier in the day by Governor Riv
ers from his sick bed to John C.
Mitchell, of Dalton, who was elect
ed Tuesday.
Judge Mitchell was expected to
begin suit immediately to obtain the
office.
The Dalton man went to Carters
ville from Atlanta immedjately af
ter obtaining his commission from
Governor Rivers, and demanded the
office of Judge Pittman, who has
been holding over by order of the
Supreme Court of Georgia.
In a statement Saturday after
noon, Judge Pittman said:
“Without a moment’s hesitation, I
rest my case upon the Constitution
and laws of Georgia, confident that
my position at this time will be ulti
mately sustained.”
The judgeship entered litigation
last fall when the Democratic pri
mary nominee, James A. MacFar
land, of Dalton, died before the
election in November.
The general election was held, but
no name from this circuit appeared
on the ticket, and Judge Pittman
held over.
Governor Talmadge appointed W.
A. Ingram, of Dalton, to succeed
Judge Pittman, and the latter refus
ed to relinquish the office, whereup
on Ingram brought suit and the
Supreme Court held no vacancy ex
isted.
The high court did not say in its
decision when a vacancy would
exist, and many lawyers hold the
effect of the court’s ruling was that
Judge Pittman would be continued
in office indefinitely, at least until
the court modified its ruling.
The June number of Contact,
published by the Georgia Vegetable
Growers’ Association, states that for
the 1937 planting thirteen cars of
certified seed potatoes were used by
seven North Georgia counties. This
represented a total of four thous
and, six hundred and eighty hun
dred-pound bags—a sizeable quanti
ty of seed.
Thursday, June 17, 1937.
Woman’s Club Meets With
Mrs. L. H. Isbell
A most interesting meeting of the
Jefferson Woman’s Club was held on
Monday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. L. H. Isbell, with Mrs. W. D.
Holliday and Mrs. Efflie Flanigan
co-hostesses.
The meeting opened with the
Litany, read by Mrs. J. D. Escoe.
The minutes of last meeting were
read and adopted.
The president then asked for the
yearly report of each departmental
chairman. These proved most in
teresting, and showed that the club
has done splendid work and accom
plished much in its various depart
ments during the last year, under
the leadership of its capable presi
dent, Mrs. M. M. Bryan.
Miss Lurline Collier was guest
speaker, and was introduced by Miss
Eugenia Boone. Miss Collier's talk
was both informative and interest
ing, as she spoke of agriculture and
the part it played in the welfare of
our people. She told of the prob
lems of the rural population, and
stated that the solution of these
problems will depend on the people
themselves, and that one of the
greatest problems that confronted
the farmer was the inability to sell
farm products because of the com
petition of protected markets. Geor
gia, Miss Collier stated, is 20th in
population, but rates 40th from the
standpoint of income
She also stated that education was
one of the vital problems, also, fac
ing the rural people today. Last
year 53,000 white boys and girls
between the age of 14 and 17 did
not attend school one day.
In closing her talk, Miss Collier
highly commended the Jefferson
Club in their various phases of work.
Adjournment followed, the hos
tesses serving delicious refreshments.
Those present, were: Mesdames
George Appleby, R. M. Rigdon, E.
H. Crooks, Harold Duke, C. H. Legg,
Guy Strickland, W. D. Holliday,
Stiles Dadisman, Bill Spratlin, H. I.
Mobley, J. E. Randolph, C. D. Cox,
Claude Barnett, J D. Escoe, M. M.
Bryan, J. W. Jackson, Piffle Flani
gan, L. H. Isbell, H. E. Aderhold,
Y. D. Maddox, Stanley Rosier, B. 11.
Collier, H. W. Davis, J. N. Holder,
T. T. Benton, G. W. Hyde, A. B.
Elizer, E. H. Deaton, Misses Francis
Smith, Lurline Collier, Eugenia
Boone.
Singing Convention Coming
To Jefferson in September
On the third Sunday in Septem
ber the Northeast Georgia Singing
Convention will meet in Jefferson.
This was decided by a unanimous
vote taken Sunday at the quarterly
session held in Toccoa. Several
representatives went in person, and
also carried petitions, inviting the
convention to come to Jefferson. The
meeting will be held in Martin In
stitute auditorium, and a great
crowd will come here to partici
pate in and enjoy the singing. It
will be a red letter day for Jackson
county singing organizations, and
everybody interested in making this
session one of the most successful
ever held is asked to put their
shoulders to the wheel and push for
a great day.
This convention is composed of
singers from thirteen northeast
Georgia counties, and meets four
times each year. The session held in
Toccoa on last Sunday was one of
the best meetings in the history of
the organization.
DR. G. H. DeLaPERRIERE DIES
IN HOSCHTON
Hoschton, Ga.—Dr. Green Her
schel DeLaPerriere died Monday in
Hoschton, Ga., where he was visiting
his brothers.
Dr. DeLaPerriere had been prac
ticing medicine in Irving, Texas, for
the past 20 years, but prior to that
time had practiced in Hoschton,
where he was born, and in Atlanta.
He was the eldest son of the late
Dr. W. P. DeLaPerriere, prominent
doctor, merchant and planter of
Hoschton.
In addition to his wife, he is sur
vived by three brothers, Arthur L.
and Herman F?, of Hoschton, and
Julian DeLaPerriere, of Atlanta, and
a sister, Mrs. John 11. Hosch, of
Gainesville.
Funeral services were held at the
Hoschton church at 3 o’clock Tues
day afternoon. Burial was in the
churchyard. ,
Vol. 61. No. 46.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Soil Building Plan To Suit Each
Farm Possible With AAA
The time for signing work sheets
is now past, and these farmers who
are definitely taking part in the
program will want to select carefully
those soil-building practices that
they particularly need, and then
make plans to carry them out.
The agricultural conservation pro
gram offers participating farmers an
opportunity to meet some of the
urgent conservation needs of their
own farms. Soil-conserving or soil
building practices are often costly,
but the payments they earn will help
each farmer to bear the expense of
adopting them.
Farm needs vary widely. Some
farmers may need to establish or
improve permanent pastures, others
may need additional acreage in sum
mer and winter legumes, while still
others may need terracing. What
ever the need, it is very likely to be
on the list of practices for which
payments are being made under the
agricultural conservation program.
Farmers who have signed work
sheets should study their own farm
needs, and then study the approved
practices and select those to be
carried out on their farms in 1937.
By concentrating on the practices
most needed, farmers may utilize
fully the provisions of their farm
program, and thereby accomplish
something of permanent value for
their farms. (
Home-Made Shower Bath Can Be
Fixed In Any Farm Home
Keeping cool may be a problem
to some farm families this summer,
but the heat will not worry those
which have a shower bath installed
in the home.
The first step in constructing a
shower is to set off a small portion
of a room or porch, and enclose it
with a wooden wall or curtains. Then
obtain a barrel or similar container
and place it above the shower space
on the supports.
It will then be necessary to drill a
hole in the botton of the barrel for
inserting a pipe. The standard
equipment to complete the shower
consists of two three-quarter inch
galvanized long nipples, a valve, a
shower head connection and a show
er head. Of course, costs may be
cut down by using other materials,
such as hose and a hose nozzle or a
perforated bucket.
To complete the job, a floor space
of three or four feet square must be
concreted or covered with a layer of
galvanized metal. The floor should
slope gently toward the center
where a pipe through the floor will
carry off the waste water. ~
Where running water is not avail
able, the barrel will necessarily have
to be fillled “by hand.” In this
case, the larger the barrel, the more
water can be stored and the more
showers can be taken from a single
filling.
A barrel of at least a 50-gallon
capacity is recommended, but of
course, a smaller one may be used.
Filling the barrel by hand may
sound like a lot of work, but a re
freshing shower bath in mid-sum
mer is well worth the amount of
effort it requires, and most of us
need one after plowing all day.
J. W. JACKSON, i)
County Agricultural Agent. :I
EAST SIDE CHOIR TO MEET AT]
JEFFERSON SUNDAY
A cordial invitation is extended
all singers and those who enjoy good
singing to meet with the East Side
Choir at the Jefferson Presbyterian
Church, Sunday afternoon, June 20,
Singing will begin promptly at one
thirty o’clock, so come early and
enjoy the occasion. 4
L. E. Patton, Pres. 9
Jewett Barnett, Sec’y.
MISSION STUDY AT HOSCHTON
JUNE 23-24 (
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The annual mission study institute!
of the Mulberry Association, W. M.
U., will be held at Hoschton, June
23 ami 24.
The faculty will consist of trained
leaders in this work. Among them
will be Mrs. W. O. Mitchell, North
Central Division vice-president; Mrs.
G. C. Green, North Central Division
misson study chairman, and others.
A special class for Sunbeams is
benig panned. j