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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
THINGS LEARNED AWAY
FROM HOME
LaGrange, Georgia
Here in LaGrange, a city of some
eighteen thousand citizens, situated
in West Georgia, not far from the
Alabama line, are located some of
the great industries not only of
Georgia, but of the entire South.
Music of looms and spindles in five
large textile industries fill the air
by day and by night. From their
homes hundreds daily wend their
way to these places of employment
to earn salaries and wages with
which to sustain life, have comforts
and conveniences, educate children,
and to lay aside a store for the fu
ture. No empty residences nor idle
people are found in this center of
activity. Cordial hand shakes, con
tented and friendly faces greet one
on the streets, in offices, stores and
homes. Surrounding this city are
farms whose owners have adopted
the latest and most progressive
methods of agriculture, which, co
ordinating with these industries,
produces great prosperity. Abundant
crops, especially of cotton, at a fair
price, redound to the well being of
a people; but when the raw fiber is
converted into the manufactured
prdduct, it doubles, trebles, and
sometimes quadruples the value of
the fleecy staple. The raw material
of a locality converted right there
into the finished product certainly
constitutes an ideal condition. So
these cotton mills mean more than
giving employment and having a
pay roll, but they mean a big in
crease in the value of the crops
planted and produced. It is im
possible to estimate the value of
cotton mills to a community.
One of the mills in LaGrange is
known as the Dunson, built by a
family of prominent and successful
citizens. The other four are the
Calloway Mills, also pwners and op
erators of five others located else
where in Georgia than in LaGrange.
Something like a third of a century
ago the first cotton mill was con
structed in LaGrange by Fuller E.
Calloway. It was a small plant. Mr.
Calloway proved to be a genius in
the manufacturing world, for soon
he added to the plant. There, by
judicious management, he succeeded
in having made sufficient funds to
erect another mill. In the course of
time he had built or bought more
plants. Right in the midst of his
marvelous achievements, the Master
summond him from tipie to eternity.
The name of Fuller E. Calloway
here is respected, honored and rever
ed. Each year his birthday is cele
brated by the Calloway Mills, hearti
ly participated in by all the people
of this community. Since his death
his sons, Cason J. Calloway and Ful
ler E. Calloway, Jr., have carried on.
The former is the chairman of the
board of directors, while the latter
is president of this great organiz
ation. These two young men have
shown that they are worthy sons of
a noble sire. Their wives are daugh
ters of a business wizzard, financier,
scholar and statesman, the late Jud
son L. Hand, of Pelham.
These sons have encountered
panics, depressions, financial string
ency, strikes, and other vexing prob
lems; but success year by year has
crowned their efforts just as was
the case when their father was in
control. They have enlarged some
plants, bought others, and modei-n
--ized all equipment in each. They
give employment to hundreds, pay
just salaries and wages, and have
made reasonably good dividends for
the owners. This has been accom
plished through their indomitable
energy, close and careful attention
to .business, keen sagacity, efficiency
in every department, employment of
those whose hearts are in the work,
and who are faithful and loyal. Fair
and just treatment of employees and
absolute honesty and integrity at all
times with their customers and with
every other person who has deal
ings with them of any kind, is their
motto and purpose. Litigation is
something unneeded, and when dif
ferences have arisen with labor, they
have been submitted to arbitration
or to government authorities, and
everv decision has been made in
favor of the Calloway Mills, which
is unmistakable and convincing proof
of giving their employees a square
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deal. It is said yiat all employees
are now well satisfied and happy.
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While the manufacturing plants
are all located in Georgia, and the
main office is in LaGrange, yet the
Calloway Mills have branch offices in
New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and
probably another place or two, in
each of which is a selling force
which has charge of the sales in that
section and distribution of the goods
of this splendid concern. Not only
are the goods sold in the United
States, but in countries across the
water. Only recently Mr. Cason J.
Calloway and some other textile
heads paid a visit to Japan, where
they spent several weeks. It was as
much a friendly visit to these people
of the Orient as a business or sales
manship undertaking. The whole
idea was to get in more intimate
touch and have a better understand
ing with the people of Japan. Get
better acquainted, if you please. In
speaking of his visit to Japan, Mr.
Calloway said, “Japanese are the
most hospitable and friendliest peo
ple I have ever seen.” No doubt
this visit of these textile heads to
Japan means more intimate relations
with that country and an expansion
of the cotton cloth trade. The Cal
loway Mills constitute a big force
in building up trade with our coun
try and other nations. They con
stitute a fine asset, not only to Geor
gia, but to the United States.
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A man who has been of great help
to these LaGrange enterprises is
Hatton Lovejoy. He is their attor
ney. Georgia has no more able and
conscientious lawyer than Colonel
Lovejoy. A man of native ability,
he was well educated, and was
taught from childhood’s hour to do
right. In other words, this Scrip
tural teaching was incalculated into
his mind, “Do justly, love mercy,
and walk humbly before thy God.”
Grandfather and father were both
able ministers of the gospel, and
men of holiness. In general con
ference of the Methodist Episcapal
Church, South, in Asheville, N. C.,
the writer had such implicit confi
dence in not only the sincerity, but
good judgment of Rev. W. P. Love
joy, Hatton’s father, that in matters
of church polity not well under
stood by him, he would not hesitate
to follow the lead of this eminent
scholar and divine, Dr. Lovejoy. In
the House of Representatives this
writer served with Hatton Lovejoy,
who was a profound thinker and a
courageous law maker. He is more
than attorney for the Calloway
Mills, but is their counsellor and ad
viser. In all respects he has shown
over a period of twenty-five years
the safety of his wise suggestions
and able leadership. It is just such
men as above these enterprises em
ploy to aid them in their endeavors.
Employing the best people has had
much to do with their marvelous
success.
Living in LaGrange is our son-in
law, daughter and grandson, Mr. and
Mrs. M. L. Mobley, and John Holder
Mobley; a nephew, Dr. J. S. Holder;
and a niece, Mrs. H. B. McDonald.
We have ties of kinship that bind us
to this city. While down here on a
visit, all these named have put forth
special efforts to make the writer
and wife have a real pleasant time.
Every evening since being here, we
have been feasted. Mr. and Mrs.
Mobley on the first day invited all
the members of the family in La-
Grange to partake with us of a din
ner. The next evening our niece,
Mrs. McDonald, and her husband,
had us feast with them. Then last
night, Dr. James S. Holder and his
fine wife had us in their home for
an evening repast. All our young
kinfolks in LaGrange seem to be
doing well, and all are apparently
pleased with their home. Henry B.
McDonald, husband of niece, show
ed us the United States Soil Erosion
project near LaGrange, which con
sists of thirty thousand acres. Mr.
C. L. Veatch, well known to many
people in Jackson county, especially
in Maysville, where he married, and
in Commerce, where he taught, has
charge of this project as managing
director. Mr. McDonald is engineer
and cost accountant. This project is
a specimen of the work being done
by the United States government, in
not only conserving soil and timber,
but in reclaiming worn out hills and
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
COUNTIES TO TAKE
CCC APPLICATIONS
Applicants for enrollment in the
Civilian Conservation Corps to be
organized in October must make
application through the director of
public welfare in their own coun
ties, it was announced Saturday by
Lamar Murdaugh, director of the
State Department of Public Wel
fare.
Dr. Murdaugh has been informed
by Washington officials that the Oc
tober enrollment in the CCC is ex
pected to be one of the most ex
tensive that has taken place, be
cause of the large number of va
cancies that will be filled at that
time.
The applications will be certified
to the State Welfare Department by
the County Welfare Boards, and
then sent on to Washington. The
applicants must live in the county
where they make application, and
must be qualified for enlistment.
The number of vacancies in the
corps will be especially large in
view of the new law prohibiting the
re-enrollment of members of the
corps who have served a total of
two years and lowering the upper
age limit to 23, necessitating the dis
charge of enrollees who are now
24 years or over.
The new law provides that en
rollees shall be unmarried male citi
zens of the United States between
the ages of 17 and 23, both inclu
sive, and shall be at the time of en
rollment unemployed and in need of
employment.
Enrollees with dependent member
or members of their families shall be
required to make allotments of pay
to such dependents. Others may
make deposits of pay with the chief
of finances, War Department, to be
repaid in case of an emergency or
upon termination of their enroll
ment. Enrollment shall be for a
period of not less than six months
and for not more than two years.
Mrs. J. C. Head Named
Secretary
Mrs. J. C. Head, prominent Jack
son county member of the State
Home Demonstration Council, was
elected secretary of the organiza
tion at the final session of home and
farm week at the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture.
Mrs. H. G. Wiley of Crisp county
was elected president.
The council promotes county and
state activities fostered by the
home demonstration department of
the U. S. department of agriculture
extension service. There are 67
county councils with 2,200 farm wo
men members in Georgia.
Mrs. Head will make the body a
very efficient officer.
Carnesville is soon to have a
bank, as the building is under con
struction. J. F. Colbert, a citizen
of that city, will operate the new
financial institution. As Carnesville
has no bank, this will fill a long felt
need in the community.
again giving them a value.
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For seven years Rev. Guy Pitt
man has been pastor of the same
church in LaGrange, The Dunson
Mill. It is very evident his congre
gation is well pleased with him and
ask for his return, or he would have
been moved three years ago. It is
a rule of his church that a pastor
can serve only four years on a
charge, unless the Board of Stew
ards, endorsed by the Presiding El
der, ask for a continuation of his
service at that charge. In that case
he can serve for a longer period
than the quadrernium. Rev. Pitt
man was reared in Jackson county,
and is the adopted son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. 0. Pittman, people noted
for their piety and integrity. It is
gratifying to the friends of this
preacher to know he is held in such
high esteem by the people whom he
serves. One man said in LaGrange,
“Rev. Pittman is a good man, and a
splendid preacher. Also, he is a
pastor who gives careful, personal
attention to his membership, and is
a faithful shepherd for his flock.”
Mr. H. D. Venable, son of the late
Rev. W. E. Venable, is a successful
merchant here, and has the respect
and confidence of the people. It
rejoices our heart to find here good
old Jackson county friends who are
prosperous and happy.
State Patrol Districts
Announced
Ten district headquarters for the
Georgia state patrol were announced
Saturday by the Department of
Public Safety.
Jackson, together with 15 other
North Georgia counties, is placed in
the third district with heudquarters
)n Gainesville.
Robert G. Mayo, treasurer of the
department, described the announce
ment as “tentative” and said the list
of district headquarters was subject
to the approval of the Department
of Public Safety.
Under the tentative set-up, head
quarters in each district will be re
sponsible for highway patrol duty
and, on request from city or county
officisjs, will aid in criminal cases.
Headquarters and counties em
brac od in each of the 10 districts:
First district —Headquarters, Grif
fin; counties: Carroll, Douglas, Ful
ton, DeKalb, Heard, Coweta, Fay
ette, Clayton, Henry, Troup, Meri
wether, Spalding, Pike, Lamar,
Butts, Harris, Talbot and Upson.
Second district Headquarters,
Cartersville; counties: Dade, Walker,
Catoosa, Whitfield, Murray, Gilmer,
Chattooga, Gordon, Pickens, Floyd,
Bartow, Cherokee, Polk, Haralson,
Paulding and Cobb.
Third district Headquarters,
Gainesville; counties: Fannin, Ra
bun, Union, Towns, Lumpkin, White,
Habersham, Stephens, Dawson, Hall,
Banks, Franklin, Forsyth, Jackson,
Madison and Clarke.
Fourth district Headquarters,
Madison; counties; Gwinnett, Bar
row, Rockdale, Walton, Oconee,
Newton, Morgan, Greene, Jasper,
Putnam, Baldwin, and Hancock.
Fifth district Headquarters,
Washington; counties: Hart, Elbert,
Oglethorpe, Wilkes, Taliaferro, Lin
coln, Warren, McDuffie, Columbia,
Glascock and Richmond.
Sixth district Headquarters,
Americus; counties: Muscogee, Chat
tahoochee, Marion, Taylor, Schley,
Macon, Stewart, Webster, Sumter,
Quitman, Randolph, Terrell, Lee,
Clay, Calhoun and Dougherty.
Seventh District Headquarters,
Perry; counties: Monroe, Jones,
Crawford, Bibb, Twiggs, Peach,
Houston, Bleckley, Dooly, Pulaski,
Dodge, Crisp, Wilcox and Telfair.
Eighth District Headquarters,
Swainsbofro; counties*: Wilkinson,
Washington, Jefferson, Burke, Bul
loch, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen,
Emanuel, Jenkins, Screven, Candler,
Effingham, Wheeler, Montgomery,
Toombs, Tattnall, Evans, Long, Lib
erty, Bryan, Chatham and Mcln
tosh.
Ninth District Headquarters,
Moultrie; counties: Early, Baker,
Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Decatur,
Grady, Thomas, Worth, Turner, Ben
Hill, Tift, Irwin, Colquitt, Cook,
Berrien, Brooks, Lowndes and La
nier.
Tenth District Headquarters,
Waycross; counties: Jeff Davis, Cof
fee, Bacon, Appling, Wayne, Atkin
son, Ware, Pierce, Brantley, Glynn,
Charlton, Camden and Echols.
The Patrol Training School
In Atlanta
Paul A. Collier and Fred Culber
son, Jefferson’s representatives in
the training school for patrolmen
now being conducted in Atlanta,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
home folks in Jefferson, and they
are making good in the school and
will also make good when they are
placed on duty. But some of the
101 prospective patrolmen who en
rolled in the training school three
weeks ago have dropped by the way
side. Only 89 were on roll the first
of this week.
The future Georgia state patrol
men are being taught to “take it,”
and if they can’t are being given
immediate “walking papers.”
Several have found the going too
tough and have asked to be excused.
Others have been dismissed because
of irregularities found' in their ap
plications.
Under the direction of Major
John C. Carter, head of the state
police, the patrolmen-to-be are be
ing given stiff daily workouts and
training classes. Their day begins
at 6:30 o’clock, and they are kept
continuously* busy, except during
meajs and an hour’s rest period each
night, learning the duties of a high
way patrolman. -Saturdays and
Sundays are holidays.
Thursday, August 19, 1937.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
“Living At Home”
A “Live-at-Honie” program among
Georgia’s farm families has been
stressed more in the past several
years than ever before. At least,
one hears more about it nowadays.
We are giving here a story written
by a person who has followed this
program all through the years.
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(By Mrs. J. M. Odom, Home Demon
stration Club, Berlin, Ga.)
My husband and I have canned a
total of seven hundred and ten
units (including mostly pint cans and
pint bottles, since there are only
two of us in the family, but with
the addition of a few number three
cans) at the Moultrie Canning Plant,
which is operated in connection with
the agricultural program fostered by
the Moultrie High School. The total
cost was exactly twenty dollars; fif
teen dollars and eighty-three cents
of which went for containers, and
four dollars and seventeen cents for
the use of the facilities of the can
ning plant.
By contrast, the retail value of
the products (although it does not
seem to me that it is quite fair to
compare the purity of the farm
grown product with the adulteration
which one is practically forced to
expect in the commercial product),
as judged by current prices, is
seventy-two dollars and fifty cents,
so the savings thereby effected total
fifty-two dollars and fifty cents. The
average price per unit is two and
eighty-two one hundredths cents.
The products canned include for
ty-one pints of carrots, one hun
dred and seventy-seven cans of to
matoes (number two and three
cans), one hundred and thirty-four
cans of soup mixture (in pint cans),
and forty-four pints of butterbeans.
The cost of the product canned,
for all practical purposes, can be
counted out. My husband grew
three acres of tomatoes for the
market. When the market failed,
instead of allowing the tomatoes still
remaining on the vines to decay, we
used them in making tomato juice,
soup mixture, and catsup, as well as
canning the tomatoes themselves.
We also exchanged two or three
bushels for beans, which a neighbor
grew, but which we did not have in
our own garden. The carrot seed
cost ten cents, but we used them
from February until June, and we
used compost for their fertilizer.
The okra used in the soup mixture
as planted between the corn rows,
and the corn itself is grown as a
maintenance crop with which we
feed our mules, cows, hogs, and
chickens.
This account does not take into
consideration the fact that our fall
garden kept us supplied with green
vegetables during the entire winter,
and that we have dug enough pota
toes to keep us supplied until those
which we shall plant in September
mature, nor is there reason for
stressing the savings that the own
ership of a cow and chickens can
produce in any family, since these
should be considered more in the
nature of staples and not by-pro-
ducts. It does seem to me import
ant, however, that farm families
should realize that many vegetables,
for which one pays dearly during the
winter season, are allowed to go to
waste during the time when they
are most prolific—probably for that
very reason. Canning is the only
way I know of to cheat the law of
supply and demand.
In addition to the products listed
above, we have canned this year
thirty-five quarts of pure pork sau
sage, twelve roosters, (yes, they le
just as tender as can be, after an
hour in a steam pressure cooker),
and forty-six quarts of “home-made
catsup, which is not to be compaied
with the commercial product, since
it contains salt, sugar, vinegar, pi
mentoes, red pepper, black pepper,
paprika, cloves, allspice, and cinna
mon, as directed in the Four-H Can
ning Guide. We have also cured
four hams, and, before the year is
out, will have a good many othei
meat products in our pantiy. Per ,
haps that has been our greatest cost
—we have had to build in new stor
age shelves since we started can
ning. . ~
In closing, I should like to add
that it is not only the savings which
our few days’ work at the canning
plant have effected that make my
husband and me so very proud of
Vol. 62. No. 3.
ALL SCHOOLS MUST
FLY AMERICAN FLAG
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The stars and stripes will ffy
over every Georgia schoolhouse this
year—or else.
The state board of education ruled
that teachers will not be paid thetr
salaries unless the flag is flown
daily. (
The state, Governor E. D. River*
said, in announcing the new regu
lation for the board, will not furnish
the flags.
The American Legion, through.
State Adjutant Stanley Jones, quick
ly came to the aid of flagles*
schools with a promise to “take tbe
program under our wing and ae®
that every school gets one.”
Mr. Jones said various individual
Legion posts have been furnishing
schools flags as a part of the Le
gion’s "Americanism” program.
“The furnishing of flags to schools
will become one of the Legion’s ma
jor activities until every school has
one,” he said.
“Numerous posts will want U>
furnish their local schools with
flags, and the Legion will enlist other
organizations in providing flags; for
the remainder.”
Dr. Collins estimated 2,009' of the
6,000 schools of the state now dis
play the flag officially as accredited
schools.
The education department will
promulgate a manual showing pro
per raising and lowering ritual.
Georgia To Teach Girls To
Cook, Boys To Farm
Seventh grade Georgia school girls
will learn something about home
economics and seventh grade school
boys will study agriculture under a
requirement voted by the state board
of education.
“You may not be able to feaeft tt
boy to become a farmer, but you cer
tainly should make an effort to ta*eh
him the rudiments of agriculture,”
Dr. R. J. Kennedy of Statesboro, a
member of board, said.
“Every girl should know how to
cook and sew and manage a heme.
Well-baked biscuits, a neat home
made frock, and a tidy kitchen do a
great deal more than you might sup
pose toward making a happy homo
and keeping the individuals in it
contented.”
Dr. Kennedy pointed out that the
board’s new required courses affect
ed both rural and urban public
schools.
“It’s a great thing to know how
to plant and harvest a crop, even if
the closest you get to a farm is te
fly over one in a passenger plane,”
he said. “The economic status at
the farmer is reflected in our oa
tional prosperity.”
Dr. Kennedy said the seventh
grade was selected because many
pupils leave school after completing
their elementary education.
Highway safety and temperance
will also be a part of the required
study of Georgia high school stu
dents.
The American Red Cross will co
operate in the teaching of first aid
and will train high school instruc
tors to direct the course.
One of the textbooks to be used
will be “on sane and safe driving
on the highways.
A general text on safety will cov
er accident prevention in everyday
life.
The temperance textbook will
cover alcohol and narcotics.
Growth of the state government
of Georgia in the past few years is
attested by the fact those agencies
located in the City of Atlanta now
occupy offices in 15 different build
ings in the metropolitan area, ac
cording to a survey just made.
the results, but a certain sense of
achievement and the knowledge that
we have lived up to the best moder®
ideas of conservation by going: &
long way towards eliminating waster
of both materials and money.
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I am sure the farmers and. the
farm wives of Jackson county have
enjoyed reading this story and wffl
profit greatly from it if they will fol
low the advice given in the story.
Living at home and boarding at the
same place is the only way we wriH
ever be successful farmers. Let me
urge every farmer who reads tills,
article to try some of the tilings
suggested in this story.
J. W. JACKSON,
County Agricultural Ageni-