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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
THE PRESIDENT’S FRIENDS
AND ENEMIES
The death of Senator Joseph T.
Robinson of Arkansas removes from
congress one of the great statesmen
of our country, as well as the leader
of the Democrats of Ttie United
States Senate. He was probably in
the confidence of the President as
no other man, except James A.
Farley. To Robinson the President
entrusted the leadership in the sen
ate for all New Deal or administra
tion measures. Skilled in parlia
mentary law, a student of the con
stitution, an able debater —never re
sorting to bombast and abuse, but
was always logical, frank, but cour
teous to opponents, made him wield
the greatest influence of any man
in the senate. If he had lived until
congress adjourned, there is little
doubt that the President would have
made him a member of the supreme
court. In charge of the bill provid
ing for the reorganization of the
supreme court, he was managing the
matter in the senate sagaciously and
well.
Only last week he made a speech
in the senate on the bill, which was
pronounced one of the greatest ar
guments heard in the senate in a
decade. At its conclusion it was
manifest to those near him that he
was pale, and seemed ill. How
ever, he made no complaint. Last
Tuesday night, however, he died in
his home with heart malady. He
will be greatly missed in the senate.
He was the most popular man in
that body. He will be especially
missed in the fight for the Presi
dent’s supreme court bill, which pro
vides that when members of the
court reach seventy-five years of age
and do not retire from the bench
that the President shall appoint each
year one new member until a mem
ber has been named for each one
who has reached this age limit. Over
this bill in the senate, it is not
a contest between Democrats and
Republicans; the latter have re
mained in the back ground, aiding,
encouraging and abetting those mem
bers of the President’s party who
oppose this proposed law. In this
respect the Republicans are show
ing good strategy and wise leader
ship. The senate appears to be
nearly evenly divided. If Senator
Robinson had lived, there is little
doubt about the bill passing. Now
it is a question.
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Senator Logan, Democratic Sen
ator of Kentucky, declared in de
bate that some senators who owe
their election to the President’s pop
ularity are ingrates in opposing him.
Some senators and some newspapers
have taken exception to this state
ment, and declare that senators have
as much right to their opinions,
views and convictions as has the
President. This is true, but there
is no doubt that some men have
seats in the senate due to the Presi
dent’s political strength and efforts
by his friends in their behalf. He
is the leader of the party and the
head of this government, and his
position on great questions should be
given weighty consideration by every
Democratic senator and congress
man. If possible, each should yield
much to harmonize his views with
the head of the government and
leader of his party—with the one on
whom rests ‘greater responsibility
than any one else. Of course, if he
cannot conscientiously agree with
the President, then he should follow
his judgment and the dictates of his
own conscience.
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Here are, howewer, two things
that real true Democrats have no
right to do. (1) In expressing their
opposition to the court bill, to abuse
and malign the President. Seldom has
a committee report been made with
such viturperative and vindictive
language as that used by the ma
jority of the committee which con
sidered the bill, most of whom were
Democrats—in making a report of
the bill to the United States Senate.
They impugned the integrity of the
President. If the senators have a
right to their opinions and convic
tions, the President of the United
States certainly has equal rights.
No where, and at no time has the
President ever criticised, much less
abused and impugned the motives of
a senator for not agreeing with him
on any matter. (2) It is almost un
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thinkable that a true Democrat
would try to destroy the power and
greatness of the President. Yet,
Senator Logan and other administra
tion advocates declared this is just
what some people are making an
effort to do. This is nefarious,
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The hope of Democracy, the hope
of the future success of the Demo
cratic party, a continuation of the
prosperity of this country, and the
exhibition of humanitarianism to the
people, is embodied in Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the New Deal. De
stroy Mr. Roosevelt, and you defeat
the Democratic party, and this will
be followed either by oppressive
selfishness of the great masses by a
powerful class or communism, social
ism, or fascism will run rampant in
our land. It is almost impossible to
believe that people for whom Mr.
Roosevelt has done so much should
wish to destroy his influence. It
is unthinkable that men who
owe their exalted position in either
house of congress to his prestige,
popularity and power should not
only antagonize him, but seek to
send him into political oblivion.
When Brutus, Caesar’s supposed
friend, struck him, he covered his
face with his mantle, for “it was in
gratitude more strong than traitor’s
arm that vanquished him.”
To show the lengths to which
some would go to discredit the Presi
dent and bring upon him reproach, a
Republican in congress named Fish
kept insisting on an investigation of
the President’s income tax returns.
He continued making such demands
that this be done that finally his in
sistence was acquiesced in, and the
investigation made. The work was
not done by prying, smell
ing and inconsiderate agents of
some bureau, but it was thoroughly
done by an investigating committee
of the house, men elected by the
people. Some were Democrats, and
some Republicans. Representative
Treadway, Republican, of Massa
chusettes, pronounced the returns
“eminently fair.” This was the
unanimous report of this entire
committee. This is mentioned to
show how desperate are the efforts
by his enemies not only to dis
credit, but destroy the good name of
the President.
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Predatory wealth, selfish interests,
political animosity and unholy pow
ers are making their greatest stand
against the President. The last
mighty bulwark of these interests is
the supreme court, which stood un
falteringly against the President,
against congress, and against the
people, until the President made de
mands for change in the number of
supreme court justices. Since then,
most of the decisions of this body
have sustained the acts of congress.
It is a grapple between the peoples’
President and certain great interests
and powers. His enemies have done
even worse than attack the President
by questioning his income tax re
turns; they have assailed Mrs. Roose
velt, who lent her services to charity,
for which it received all compensation
for her efforts, except a dollar paid
to her for each address, ten dollars
in all. This attack on her not only
seems incredible, but it is a di
abolical shame. One writer, in speak
ing of this political outrage, says
“people who would be guilty of such
a thing would violate a tomb and de
file the precincts of a sancutuary,”
It is a mean effort, a last stand
against the President, an effort to
besmirch his reputation.
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Three times the people at the bal
lot box have passed on Mr. Roose
velt. First, in 1932, in November, in
which he was overwhelmingly elect
ed President. Second, in 1934,
when the electorate increased the
Democratic majority in the house
and the senate. Third, in 1936, at
the polls in November, in which Mr.
Roosevelt carried every state except
Maine and Vermont. The people are
no less for him today than they were
in those three elections. The mass
es of this country know that they
have a true, sincere, unselfish and
courageous friend in the White
House, and they will show to the
world they appreciate him every
time they have an opportunity to do
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
AL SMITH’S ATTITUDE
NOT PLEASING
Dr. R. L. Russell, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, Gainesville,
has just returned from a tour of
Europe, having sailed six weeks ago
to represent the Gainesville Rotary
Club at the International conven
tion. Albert S. Hardy, in his column
in the Gainesville News, has the fol
lowing to say about Mr. Russell’s
trip:
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There were various meetings of
Rotarians on the boats going and
coming and at other places in Eu
rope besides the convention city.
In fact, wherever a number of Ro
tarians gathered something of a
meeting was held, though many were
informal. Coming back on the Man
hattan, a meeting was held on board
and as it was learned that A1 Smith
was on board he was invited to
speak to the Rotarians. According
to Dr. Russell, it was the “same old
Al,” who, still smarting from his
own defeat as well as his resentment
against the elevation of his erstwhile
friend and booster, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, to the Presidency, took
occasion to indulge in a few jibes
at our present great leader. This
did not raise Al in the estimation of
Dr. Russell and the other Rotarians,
and the former “Happy Warrior”
would have been better off if what
he said had been left unsaid.
One observation of Dr. Russell’s
was particularly significant. On
every hand he observed women and
old men at work in the fields, and
inquiry as to why developed the
fact that the young and middle-age
men were either in the army or were
at work in munitions plants. The
countries of the old world are eith
er at war or are preparing for war.
At one place he wished to buy a
Sheffield steelbladed knife. The
hardware store where he tried to
make the purchase informed him he
could not be supplied because every
ounce of steel was now being used
in the manufacture of implements
of war. After observing such con
ditions over there it was most re
freshing to Dr. Russell and the oth
er American Rotarians to get back
to this “Land of the Free and Home
of the Brave,” where peace prevails,
except industrially, and there is now
no thought of war and a firm </<?.
termination in the minds of the!
people that there shall be no war
here and certainly they will engage
in no more wars on foreign fields.”
SHORT—KNIGHT
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Short, of Com
merce, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Mildred Luticia, to
Ivan LaVerne Knight, of Cornelia
and Denmark, S. C., the marriage to
be solemnized in the autumn.
THIGPEN—HOLLIDAY
Mrs. Georgia Messer of Athens
announces the marriage of her
daughter, Elizabeth Thigpen, to Dr.
J. Carl Holliday. The marriage was
performed in Anderson, S. C., on
July 11.
so at the ballot box.
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The President probably will not be
a candidate for election for a third
term. Millions of people prefer him
over any other citizen of this re
public to be at the head of this
government another four years after
the expiration of his present term.
However, it is believed Mr. Roose
velt will not consent to this. No
other man could have filled his place
as well as Senator Robinson, but
certain great powers in this country
are seeking to nominate a Democrat
for President who will prove to be
not only opposed to the great princi
ples advocated by Mr. Roosevelt,
but will be a re-actionary and a tool
in their hands. These efforts are
just what is going on in the United
States of America today. If such a
man is nominated, these powers will
not care one iota whether he or the
Republican opponent is successful.
They know they will have a friend
in the White House, matters not
which one carries the election.
Should they succeed, the people will
be without a friend or leader at the
head of this government, but they
will again become “hewers of wood
and drawers of water.”
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(Eugenia Boone, H. D. A.)
The home agent will take the
county representatives in the team
demonstration bread and style re
view contests to Monroe to com
pete in the district contest July 22,
23 and 24th. All the girls have
worked hard, and we hope they will
be rewarded.
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Screens A Necessity
Surprising as it may seem, a sur
vey of rural house needs made in
1934 by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture and State agricultural
colleges showed that at least two
million farm homes were without
screens. Family health needs should
place screens among the first items
on the list of home improvements.
Some kind of screening can be in
stalled for very little cost. Netting
tacked over the window frames is
possibly the cheapest temporary so
lution of this need. Adjustable
half-screens are not expensive, and
if there is a boy or a man in the
family who can make frames to fit
the lower sashes and tack screen
wire on them, the cost would be
still less. Screen doors are just as
important and in regular stock sizes,
which can often be trimmed to fit,
are relatively cheap. They should
have springs to close them automa
tically.
Ideal screens are full length for
all windows, so that either sash may
be opened, and ventilation is better.
Why are screens so important?
Any entomologist or public-health
worker explains that the fly carries
disease germs and filth to our food.
Two or three flies in the house soon
breed others. Screens having a
mesh of 16 strands to the inch are
satisfactory for excluding flies and
the smaller mosquitoes. In humid
regions, especially near the seacoast,
bronze wire is undoubtedly the least
expensive in the long run. In dry
climates, black or painted screen
wire will last fairly well, and give
satisfaction. In moderately moist
climates, the best grade of galvaniz
ed wire is better.
Electric Refrigerator
Place the refrigerator convenient
to the outside door, the work cabi
net, the sink, table, and dining room,
I'tut not too near the stove, or out in
the sunshine, in order to get the
most out of an electric refrigerator.
It is desirable, though not abso
lutely necessary to have the refrig
erator on a separatae circuit, and if
possible the door should open away
from the work space near it. The
cabinet should stand from 2 to 3
inches out from the wall.
For ordinary operation, it is rec
ommended that the temperature con
trol be set at not less than 30 de
grees F, or more than 45 degrees F,
or 50 degrees F. When the temper
ature control has been set for quick
freezing, it should be re-set to the
usual position when the freezing
operation is completed, to avoid un
necessary consumption of electricity.
The cooling unit should be defrost
ed regularly.
If you want to get the most out
of the refrigerator, here are some
good don’ts: Don’t put hot foods in
to the refrigerator, don.’t crowd the
shelves and hinder free air circu
lation, don’t open the door unneces
sarily, and don’t store things in the
refrigerator that do not need re
frigerating, such as potatoes, canned
goods, and bananas.
ALLEN SWORN AS U. S.
COLLECTOR
In a simple ceremony requiring
only a few seconds, Martin H. Allen,
Milledgeville attorney and banker,
became Georgia’s new collector of
internal revenue, succeeding W.
Eugene Page, Columbus publisher.
Administering the oath to the new
collector was United States Circuit
Judge Samuel H. Sibley, of Mariet
ta.
Mr. Allen was sworn in at the of
fice of the internal revenue collector
in the old Post Office Building in
the presence of leading government
officials and business leaders.
The new collector announced that
Frank B. Boyce, Jr., assistant col
lector for the past four years under
Mr. Page would remain in his pres
ent position.
Thursday, July 22, 1937.
EXCHANGE NOTES
New* Item* Of Intere** Among Our
Neighbor* And Friend*
Herri* Family Hold* Reunion
(From Commerce News)
The reunion of the descendants of
the late Claiborn and Sara Harris
of Forsyth county was held in At
lanta at Grant Park Sunday, July
11th. Rev. Claiborn Wallace from
Forsyth county, the oldest member
of the families, was present. He is
nearing his 80th birthday. In his
talk he said he had baptized over
one thousand people. Mr. D. M.
Nix and family represented the late
J. L. and Martha Harris from Jack
son county.
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L. J. Yarbrough Move* Falmily To
Madison
(From Madisonian)
The family of Mr. L. J. Yarbrough,
who has been operating The Madi
sonian Linotype for several weeks,
came in from Commerce Monday to
make Madison their home. They
are occupying the Adams cottage on
Plum street. Besides Mr. and Mrs.
Yarbrough, the family consists of
Miss Sarah Frances Yarbrough of
Atlanta, Mrs. H. C. Bowman, Ma
con, Jack Yarbrough, of Lakemont,
Ben Yarbrough, Madison, and Miss
Sarah Ann Dowdy, whose father was
killed in the Gainesville cyclone.
The family is Methodist in religion,
while Mr. Yarbrough is Past Master
of Hudson Lodge, No. 294, F. & A.
M., Commerce, and a member of
Harmony Grove Lodge, No. 30, I. 0.
O. F. It is an excellent family add
ed to the citizenship of our town.
Mr*. Bowman Visit* In Jefferson
Mrs. H. C. Bowman, who came
here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. J. Yarbrough, the first of the
week, has gone to visit relatives and
friends in Jefferson and Winder be
fore joining her husband in Macon,
where they will make their home.
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Miss Elizabeth Kesler Weds Bruce
Skelton
(From Winder News)
The marriage of Miss Emily Eliza
beth Kesler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Kesler, to Mr. Bruce
Skelton of Athens and Atlanta, was
solemnized June 24, at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Skelton in At
lanta. Rev. Skelton, father of the
bride-groom, officiated, using the ring
ceremony. Mrs. Ernest Wright, sis
ter of the bride, was the only at
tendant. The bride was attired in a
smart model of medium blue chif*
fon, with accessories of white. Her
flowers were a shoulder bouquet of
sweetheart roses and sweet peas.
Mr. and Mrs. Skelton will reside at
387 Hill street, Athens.
Hogan Opens New Garage
J. H. Hogan has purchased the
Marion Kilgore garage, on Athens-
Atlanta highway and will opei'ate it
in the future. Mr. Hogan has been
a resident of Winder for the past
year, coming here from Jefferson.
Will Motor To New York In Tin
Lizzie
Local Legionnaires, members of
the John Rich Pentecost Post of this
city, sensing the interest to be cre
ated in using the Carrington Ford
of ancient times for the trip, have
begun to lay plans to travel to the
New York City convention by way
of this mode of travel. The Ford is
one of the early 1914 models, and is
probably the only Ford in Georgia
of that early a model that is in real
running condition. It is certain that
there is no other make car of the
same age now in use in the state. It
is owned by the Auto Sales Com
pany, and has been in use a number
of times during the past year.
Labor Orzanizer In Crawford
(From Oglethorpe Echo)
A Mr. Duncan, purporting to re
present one or the other of the war
ring national labor organizations, we
could not ascertain in which, made
his appearance in Crawford one day
last week-end and proceeded in an
attempt to organize a local union
among the operatives of the Jeffer
son cotton mill located on the out
skirts of town. The management of
the mill became suspicious, so we
are told, that all was not regular
with the efforts of the man, made
some investigations and procured
facts that led to the summoning of
an officer who advised the assumed
organizer that it would be best for
him to make himself scarce here
abouts and he forthwith proceeded
Vol. 61. No. 51.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Some Advice On Fighting The
Garden Insect*
The county agent this week offer
ed farm men and women some help
ful advice on how to combat garden
insects, and thus save the crops of
flowers and vegetables.
To make an intelligent campaign
against insects, it is .necessary to
know their eating habits.
The entomologists tell us that
some insects prefer solid food be
cause they have mouth parts equip
ped for biting and chewing plants,
while other pests take their nourish
ment in liquid form, because their
mouths are made for sucking plant
juices.
Among the chewing insects, are
leaf-eating beetles, grasshoppers,
caterpillars and other worm-like
forms. You may combat the insects
with stomach poisons, such as arseni
ca sprays or dusts. On the other
hand, the sucking insects, such as red
spiders, scale insects, aphids, and
mealybugs, draw their food from in
side the plant, and must be killed
with nicotine or soap sprays, or with
pyrethrum or sulphur dusts.
In small gardens poisons may not
be necessary. In this case, the in
sects are infested leaves may be
picked off by hand and destroyed.
Where the plants are infested with a
large number of leaf-eating beetles
or plant bugs, lay a large piece of
cloth on the ground and shake the
insects off by tapping the plant with
a stick. The insects that fall off
may be destroyed by gathering them
up and dropping them into a pail of
kerosene.
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Georgia Increase Cultivated Acreage
3 Percent In 1937
The July report of the Georgia
Crop Reporting Service, just releas
ed, shows that Georgia farmers have
placed an estimated three per cent
more acreage in cultivation this
year in 1936. Principal acreage in
creases have been in cotton, peanuts,
hay, Irish and sweet potatoes, and
oats.
On the other hand, acreages of
corn, wheat, cowpeas, soybeans,
sorghum, sugar cane, and tobacco
show reductions from 1936 figures.
Although wet and cool weather
over much of the southern portion
of the state made necessary con
siderable re-planting of some crops,
farming operations on the whole got
off to a good start and the general
situation appears favorable for this
time of the season.
Increased yields per acre over
last year are indicated for most of
the main crops, with the exception
of tobacco. This does not apply t>
cotton, however, as no condition;
figure will be available for that crop
until after August 1.
Despite a 2 per cent decrease in
acreage, the indicated corn produc
tion in Georgia for 1937 is 35 per
cent above last year’s crop of 33,-
624,000 bushels. • Current acreage is
4,119,000, with a probable out-turn
of 45,309,000 bushels.
Early season intentions pointed to
a substantial increase in acreage of
tobacco, but ravages of blue mold,
a plant disease, cut the number of
avaiable plants, and thus caused a
reduction of acreage from 85,600 in
1936, to 71,800 acres this year.
Georgia’s peach crop for 1937 is
estimated at 2,496,000 bushels,
compared with 5,589,000 bushels
last season. This is a 55 per cent
decrease in production.
J. W. JACKSON,
County Agricultural Agent.
At a meeting of Clarke county
farmers in Athens Saturday, they
voted unanimously to affiliate with
the United Georgia Farmers Asso
ciation, a state-wide organization,
and Harris Thurmond of Oconee
Heights was named chairman. The
purpose of the state organization is
to cooperate with farmers of the
South in adopting a program for the
common good of Southern Agricul
ture.
to do so. There has been no friction
whatever between the operatives
and management of the mill, so we
are informed, and this attempt to
organize the labor probably with a
view of bringing about strike trou
ble evidently came from the out
side. This mill i3 a subsidiary of the
Jefferson mills at Jefferson, Ga.