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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
RANDOM THOUGHTS
One of the best appointments
made by the Governor was naming
Zack Arnold of Clay county his
chief assistant. The Governor need*
ed someone to handle minor mat
ters and to be an official shock ab
sorber. He found the man in Zack
Arnold, who will be in the front
room of the Executive’s office with a
desk and a stenographer. For sever
al years Mr. Arnold represented
Clay county in the house, where he
made an enviable reputation as an
able, faithful and conscientious
legislator. With a wide acquaintance,
a profound knowledge of the consti
tution and laws of Georgia, a keen
mind and a happy and magnetic per
sonality, he will be a bearer of bur
dens for His Excellency. Already
he is Mayor of Fort Gaines, Judge
of City Court of Fort Gaines, and
Secretary of Georgia Municipal As
sociation, all of which he will well
fill, besides the positon to which he
has recently been appointed. How
ever, he should not let the newspa
pers publicize his multiplicity of
jobs too often; not that he will not
perform all duties pertaining to
them efficiently, but someone may
get jealous who has no job at all.
Just because Lamar Murdaugh,
Director of the Department of Pub
lic Welfare, bought seventeen hun
dred dollars worth of hogs and cows
from Eugene Talmadge after he left
the governor’s office, is no ground
for criticism of either. Talmadge
was a private citizen, and as such
had a right to sell products from his
farm to the state. Murdaugh being
at the head of the Welfare Depart
ment, was vested with power and
authority to make the purchases for
it, provided the price paid was as
low as or lower than similar pur
chases could be made from any one
else. Talmadge has been criticised
for selling hogs, cows, corn, etc., to
the state while he was governor.
Since the governor has power to
approve or disapprove any •purchase,
it is at least unethical for the gover
nor of a state to buy from the gov
ernor as an individual and citizen.
It has also been pointed out that
there is a law on the statute books
forbidding the governor or any state
official from purchasing for the state
from themselves or from any con
cern in which they have a financial
interest. But the sale ipade by Tal
madge after he -was a private citi
zen was both legitimate and ethical.
Of course, Murdaugh should not be
censured for the performance of
his official duties.
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Here is something that sounds
very peculiar. This news item js
taken from an Atlanta daily:
“Fifteen districts in Fulton county
voted dry in the June 8 election, and
these districts are really going to
be dry, county police officers averr
ed. Districts in the county which
may expect rigid enforcement of the
state’s dry law in view of their
vote are—” and it names the dis
tricts. Judging from this statement,
police will enfore the dry law in
militia districts where a majority of
the voters cast dry ballots; and in
districts that voted for repeal, the
prohibition law will not be enforced.
That seems to be the meaning of
this statement above quoted. Why
not enforce it in all districts, wheth
er they voted for or against repeal?
The director of the police depart
ment of Augusta says liquor shall
be sold in Augusta as long as he is
in charge of that city’s police de
partment. His attitude is, the state
law prohibits the sale of intoxicants
everywhere in the state, including
Augusta; but the city will not abide
by the law, nor enforce it. The
chief of police of Augusta has ve
toed the law made by the people.
Surely he has been hearing and
reading about what the supreme
court of the United States has been
doing with laws passed by congress,
declaring them unconstitutional. So
this Augusta chief has usurped pow
er of the courts, and declared the
peoples laws null and void, and of
no effect in Augusta. This is an
archy. This is open rebellion
against the authority of laws, courts,
executive, legislature, and the peo
ple. Is the Augusta police chief
bigger than all the above named?
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The Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia were
to meet Thursday and increase sal-
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aries of faculty members 5 per cent
in all colleges of the system and, ac
cording to reports, elect a vice
chancellor as an assistant to Dr. S.
V. Sanford. Salary increases for
650 faculty members were approved
by the education committee at an
executive committee meeting Thurs
day morning. The new schedule fol
lows: Senior colleges, instructors
$1,350 a year; assistant professors
$1,800; association professors $2,-
100, and professors $2,700. Junior
colleges, instructors $1,200 a year;
assistant professors SI,BOO, and pro
fessors $2,700.
The above is taken from the news
columns. No one is a better friend
to the University of Georgia than
the writer. During his service in
the general assembly as representa
tive, senator, speaker of the house,
as an editor and as a private citi
zen, he has consistently and earnest
ly espoused the cause of this insti
tution of learning. Tom Shackelford
and he were authors of its first
direct appropriation for maintain
ance. Before, however, increas
ing salaries, the young men and
young women who are students
should first be given the benefit of
additional appropriations. After
making for them tuition free,
then, if there is a residue of the
new appropriation, divide it among
the teachers. Some consideration
should be given the sons and daugh
ters of the tax payers who furnish
the money, as well as giving all to
those who receive it and spend it.
Marion H. Allen of Milledgeville
is the new Collector of Internal
Revenue for Georgia. He was en
dorsed by Senator R. B. Russell, Jr.,
while Senator Georgia asked for the
appointment of R. E. Matheson of
Hartwell. Both men seeking the
place are well qualified and worthy,
but Marion Allen had managed the
campaign for the President in this
state, and did a good job. The
no doubt* felt under spe
cial political obligations to him, and
gave him the appointment. This
was no reflection on either Senator
George or Mr. Matheson. Asa pa
triot, a statesman and an unselfish
public servant, Senator George ac
quiesced in the appointment, and
joined his colleague in confirming
same by the senate. Senator George
said, “Marion Allen is the personal
choice of the President for collector
of internal revenue, a choice made
between two well qualified gentle
men whose names were presented to
him, Mr. Allen by ,my colleague,
and Mr. Matheson by me. So as
sured, I will request the finance
committee to report favorably his
nomination. The final issues now
before the congress and the country
demand of me and I shall continue
to give to them all of my strength.
This I am sure the people expect of
me.” This is a patriotic position,
and the people will remember Sena
tor George for his unselfish'iness.
“What you recently stated about
Martin Institute pleased me very
much. It is a fine institution, and
one whose great service is hard, to
estimate.” So stated a-few days ago
Mrs. John Hood, of Commerce, who
was once a popular member of the
faculty, as Miss Norma Alexander.
She is now the wife of that good
business man and highly esteemed
citizen of Commerce, Mr. John
Hood. Only a few days ago, while
passing the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Hood, the writer’s wife said, “The
lawn in front of this home is large
and beautiful. It has such a pretty
carpet of grass. No where is there
a better kept or prettier front yard
than this one.” A home may have
all the conveniences which will con
tribute to ejoyment of it, which al
so brings real pleasure to its own
ers; but what can elicit more joy to
the heart than an appeal to the
esthetic nature, and what can make
a stronger appeal to this noble part
of mortality than a cozy cottage
embellished with anew coat of
paint, environed by a shady grove,
and out in front a lawn with a per
fect carpet of green? This evidences
that the owners of that home ap
preciate it, and enjoy living there
better than any where else in the
world. Such a home as above men
tioned describes that of Mr. and
Mrs. John Hood.
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Colonel Luke Davis, of Com
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR WARNS
FOURTH OF JULY SWIMMERS
Predicting that there will proba
bly be more swimmers in the water
on the Fourth of July than on any
other day of the summer, Dr. Robert
A. Fraser, Chief Medical Director of
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, offers three simple rules,
which should go far in preventing
the large number of swimming ac
cidents which occur every year dur
ing the summer months.
Dr. Fraser has been making a
special study of hot weather acci
dents and disablements. “If every
one,” he says, “will remember the
following three rules, many lives
will be scared and much sorrow
avoided: First, never go swimming
alone; second, keepout of the water
for at least one full hour after a
meal; third, never dive into water
until you are sure of its depth.
“They are just ‘common sense
rules’,” Dr. Fraser said, “yet failure
to observe them probably accounted
for the great majority of the 5,500
swimming fatalities estimated by the
National Safety Council for the year
1935, the latest figures that are
available.
“Many people are drowned every
year because they insist on going
swimming alone and are powerless
to help themselves when seized with
a cramp or faced with some other
sudden emergency.
“As for keeping out of the water
directly after eating, a life guard at
one of the large semi-public swim
ming pools here in the East tells me
that he and the other guards know
that their b%sy period will occur in
the hour between two and three
o’clock ever*y day, when dinei-s rush
from the table into the water and
are seized with cramps. More peo
ple get into difficulty during that
hour than at any other time during
the day.
“And finally, the dangers of div
ing into water without first know
ing the depth are obvious to every
one.”
MRS. E. C. WAGES DIED
* SATURDAY
Mrs. E. C. Wages, aged 52, died
at the residence on the Talbassee
road Saturday afternoon at 5:40
o’clock.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday at 2 o’clock at Prospect
Methodist church by Rev. Max
Whittemore, pastor, assisted by Rev.
D. L. Hagood, pastor of Crawford
Mqthodist church. Interment was
in Wages cemetery.
Mrs. Wages was a native of Jack
son county. She was a member of
the Prospect Methodist church. She
is survived by her husband, E. C.
(Babe) Wages, a daughter, Mrs.
Allean Jones, Athens; three sons,
James Wages, Bogart; Hugh Wages,
Athens; Buster Wages, Bogart and
the following grandchildren: Maggie
Jones, Sara Wages, Mary Wages,
Cecil Wages and Shirley Wages.
Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Martin, who
have been in Sale City, spent Sun
day and Monday in the city, and left
Tuesday for Charleston, S. C.
merce, recently made a speech at a
meeting of the Commerce Kiwanis
Club, in which he said, “The time is
come when the people of Jackson
must all pull together. Selfishness,
prejudice, politics and every other
consideration must be put aside for
the welfare of the county. Jack
son is not receiving the recognition
she deserves, largely because, may
be, individuals or communities are
jealous, for fear some other person
or some other community will re
ceive more benefits or favors than
they will get. This spirit should not
prevail. The time was when no
county in Georgia had more influ
ence in public affairs or was given
greater consideration than our own
good county. Let us again get to
gether, and work together for the
whole county.” These sentiments
so well expressed were loudly ap
plauded. The writer joins heartily
and unequivocally with Colonel Davis
in his patriotic efforts in behalf of
Jackson. Only a few weeks ago, in
private conversation, Mr. M. B.
Clinkscales gave expression to about
the same thought that came from
the heart and lips of Luke Davis.
They are both right. The patriotic
people of Jackson county are in full
accord with these views. Put Jack
son on the map.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Some Good Wood* For Fence Pott*
While Jackson county farmers
have been relying chiefly on creosot
ed sap pine for their fence posts,
there are many other kinds of trees
on Georgia farms which can be used
for this purpose.
Among other trees suitable for
fence posts are persimmon, red mul
berry, catuipa, wild or black cherry,
white oak, red cedar, cypress, and
black locust.
The most durable wood fdund in
Georgia probably is the black lo
cust. An eight-inch post of the
black locust has been known to last
from 20 to 30 years in the ground.
While the white oak is valuable
for posts, the black oak is not suit
able, because it has pores which
readily admit moisture from the
soil. The white oak can easily be
recognized by its light gray, flaky
bark.
With the exception of the long
leaf pine, the red cedar and the cy
press are the only two conifers
common to this state that produce
durable wood. The cypress usually
grows on the edges of swamps and
marshes, while the cedar is usually
found on dry, abandoned fields.
The wild or black cherry is an
other very durable wood, but is sel
dom used for posts, because of its
value as lumber. However, some of
the stunted trees are often used for
this purpose.
Although the sap wood of the
persimmon will rot away in a few
years, the heart of the tree, which is
a large part of it, is very durable.
The red mulberry is a soft wood,
but has proven more durable than
either beech or maple.
The less-common catalpa tree is
another soft wood which, however,
is not so susceptible to decay. Easi
ly recognized by its large heart
shaped leaves, it is found scattered
individually on the edges of short
stretches of woods.
REA Has Allotted Over Two Million
To State Projects
Georgia’s rural communities have
made rapid progress in providing
electric service for farm homes dur
ing the past two years, according to
Walter S. Brown, acting director of
the Georgian Agricultural Extension
Service.
In a statement issued at Athens
this week, the director said figures
from Washington show that the Ru
ral Electrification Administration has
allotted a total of $2,394,200 for
18 projects in this state since the
organization of that fedei’al agency
two years ago.
Brown said some of the projects
have been completed, others are in
the, process of construction, while
still others have been approved but
work on these has not yet been
started. He said these 18 projects
provide for a total of 2,383 miles of
electric line, serving 11,058 addition
al farm families.
Projects either have been com
pleted or are under construction, he
declared, in the following counties
of Georgia: Newton, Toombs, Lownd
es, Troup, Wilkes, Catoosa, Crisp,
Carrroll, Douglas, Colquitt, Irwin,
Burke, Walton and Taylor. He said
these projects have been made pos
sible through the efforts of the REA
and cooperating county agencies.
They provide for a total of 1,606
miles of line, serving 8,159 custom
ers, and were financed to the ex
tent of $1,675,200 by the REA.
The report shows also that loan
contracts have been executed for
projects in Crisp, Bacon, and Up
son counties, but work on these has
not been started. Allotments total
ing $517,000 have been made in
these counties for building 670
miles of line to serve 2,064 custom
ers. An additional $202,000 has
been allotted for a project in Lamar
County to construct 207 miles of
line for serving 835 more farms.
The director pointed out that the
largest single state project is in
Bacon county, where the work is
being sponsored by the Satilla Rural
Electrification Corporation of Alma.
The project provides for 460 miles
of line, serving 1,620 additional
farm families, .for which the REA
has allotted $425,000.
Through the cooperation of the
county agents and interested citi
zens of Jackson, Barrow, Madison
and Banks Counties, plans are being
made for approximately 300 miles
of lines to serve 1200 to 1500 cus
Thursday, July 1, 1937.
COMMITTEE SEES
NO PRESENT NEED
OF EXTRA SESSION
Unless Governor E. D. Rivers dis
regards advice and counsel of his
close advisers, there will be no extra
session of the Georgia Legislature in
July.
This has developed since mem
bers of a committee appointed by
the governor to consider the advis
ability of the mid-summer session
dispersed after lengthy conferences
Wednesday.
While the committeemen avoided
public statement regarding the out
come of- the all-day conference, it is
understood sentiment within the
group was overwhelmingly opposed
to an extra session at this time.
Recommendation against a sum
mer session will be made to Gover
nor Rivers when he returns from
the Pacific coast. However, if he in
sists an immediate session is neces
sary to produce sufficient revenue to
finance his program in full, the com
mittee will suggest the week of July
12 as the time for such a meeting.
Unofficial reports from Wednes
day’s conference were that grave
doubt was expressed by members of
the committee as to whether it
would be possible to legislate in
telligently on vital tax issues on
such short notice.
The whole purpose of a July ses
sion, as indicated originally by
Governor Rivers when the subject
was broached just before he left,
would be to enact laws classifying
property for taxation and produce
much-needed revenue from intangi
bles. Such legislation is made possi
ble under the classification tax
amendment to the state constitution
ratified in the June 8 election.
HEALTH OFFICERS PLACED ON
GUARD
Atlanta.—Southern health officers
were on guard against scattered out
breaks of infantile paralysis, de
scribed as a hot weather disease by
the physician in charge of a Mem
phis isolation hospital where five pa
tients were being treated.
The same physician reported more
cases in his section than at the same
time last year.
Mississippi has had a total of
eighty-five cases reported this year,
six new ones. Authorities said it
was an. “alarming number” for so
early in the year.
In Alabama, however, where 391
cases were reported last year, norm
al conditions exist, with seventeen
cases reported since January 1.
Dr. J. N. Baker, Alabama health
officer, said epidemics usually travel
in cycles and seldom occur in suces
sive years.
Tennessee has had only twenty
two cases reported this year, against
a total pf 385 throughout 1936.
Arkansas reports of only a few
cases.
Only “two or three” cases were
reported in Georgia, where more
than a dozen were treated last year.
Officials said the report was “about
normal.”
Health authorities generally warn
ed parents to use the anti-polio nasal
spray on their children and them
selves.
Parents were urged also to keep
their children away from public
gatherings in communities where
paralysis cases have developed.
2,329 To Be Taken From WPA Roll*
Atlanta.—Further reduction of
W 7 PA rolls, ordered from Washing
ton, will bring Georgia’s quota down
to 22,671 persons, Miss Gay B.
Shepperson, Georgia administrator,
said. This meant cutting 2,329 off
of the 25,000 now being carried in
this state.
WPA made. its first reduction
earlier this month, when 3,500 names
came off the rolls in Georgia, with
June 15 as the deadline.
Miss Shepperson said figures in
dicating reductions and remaining
quotas for the several districts in
the state would be available later.
She added that proportionate re
duction in administrative pay rolls
also would be made.
tomers. These lines have already
been established and blue prints are
being made and an application for
funds to build these lines will go to
the REA sometime in the near fu
ture.
J. W. JACKSON,
County Agricultural Agent.
Vol. 61. No. 48.
STATE READY TO
EXPEND 50 MILLION
Thursday, July 1, will usher in
the greatest money-spending era the
State of Georgia has ever known.
It is the beginning of the new fiscal
year, changed this year to conform
with that of the federal government.
It marks the beginning of the
first 20-million-dollar appropriation
bill ever enacted by this state. The
largest heretofore has been about 12
million. The 20-million-dollar figure
is only for those departments which
get fixed sum appropriations for the
general fund of the treasury.
It does not take into account
those departments, such as the High
way Department, the Department of
AgriciAlture, the wild life division
of the Department of Natural Re
sources, and others who operate on
fees they collect.
These departments get all their
fees except 3 per cent, which they
pay to the state as a sort of govern
mental overhead.
With these added, the figure from
state sources alone, will be well
along toward the 40-million-dollal!
mark.
With grants from the federal
government for the matching of
state funds, it is estimated that
money for the state department to
qspend will be enhanced by another
10 million, making in all an esti
mated grand total of nearly 50 mil
lion dollars that the State of Geor
gia will spend between Thursday and
July 1 of next year.
In return for this ,the people of
Georgia will get:
First—Old-age pensions.
Second —Aid to dependent chil
dren.
Third—Aid to needy blind.
Fourth—Enlarged public health
service by appropriation from $125,-
000 to $600,000.
Fifth—Rural post roads, if bus
and truck maintenance tax is up
held.
Sixth —Unemployment insurance,
through state assumption of 90 per
cent of tax levied on pay rolls by
government.
Seventh-—State-wide employment
service, taken over from federal
government.
Eighth—Enlarged forestry depart
ment.
Ninth —New state park service. /
Tenth—Seven months’ school termi
throughout the state.
Eleventh—Free school books fot
all children in the state.
Twelfth—lncreased higher edu
cational facilities.
Thirteenth lncreased highway
building through regular program.
Fourteenth—State highway pa
trol. 4
In order to provide for this huge
spendir(g program, ♦the /following
new taxes have been levied:
First—Bus and truck maintenance
tax, now under fire in the courts
and thrice suspended by executive
order.
Second—lncreased income taxes.
Third—lncreased beer taxes.
Fourth—lncreased wine taxes.
Fifth—Doubled cigar and cigar
ette tax.
Sixth—Chain store tax.
Seventh—Heavy drain on wealth
ier counties to provide better schools
for poorer counties, necessitating
heavier local taxes to maintain
standard of excellence in wealthier
counties.
Eighth—State driver’s licenses. 1 :
GAS TAX INCOME VASTLY !
INCREASED Jfl
1
Atlanta.—Georgia’s six-cent gaso
line tax has yielded $1,608,145.38 so
far this month, an increase of $168,-
784.97, over the same period last
year, Comptroller General Williao|
B. Harrison announced.
Harrison predicted the next
twelve months would bring in $19,-
000,000 from the gasoline tax,
whereas the normal scale ranges
between $15,000,000 and $17,000,-
000. •'
Part of the increase has been due,
he said, to effectiveness of the “boot-
leg gasoline tax” act passed by the
1937 General Assembly. The act ali
tered the method of collection. 1
The kerosene tax of one cent ai
gallon showed an increase of over;
SI,OOO when it jumped from $l7,
433.09 in June, 1936 to $18,629.97,
this month.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cannon and
the latter’s sister, Mrs. Hawkins, oi
Atlanta, were visitors here Sundajr, j