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The Jackson Herald
. By Holder & Williamson
THE COTTON GROWERS
PROBLEM
Governor James V. Allred of the
great State of Texas so well express
es the sentiment we entertain to
wards the President, that we quote
what he recently stated in an inter
view: “If he is available for office
and wants it, then I am for him,”
the Texan said. He is vacationing
in the Mexican capital as an official
guest of the government. “I am
for him because of what he has
done, because he has not a single
heartbeat but for the people, and be
cause he commands the respect not
only of the people of the United
States, but also of the entire world,”
Allred said. He hedged at questions
as to how widespread sentiment was
for a Roosevelt third term, but ex
pressed the belief that Texas and
other Southwestern States would
back him. A poll taken shows a big
sentiment for Roosevelt for a third
term. The reason some people are
in favor of smashing precedents and
electing him again, is they realize
they may never have another Roose
velt. They want to keep him in the
position he now holds.
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No official of this government now
or in the past, and no head of any
government in the new or old world
ever had warmer heartbeat for the
people than Franklin D. Roosevelt.
His love for the masses is genuine.
It comes from the fountain of his
patriotic heart. It \vas his profound
interest in the prosperity and hap
piness of the people, and especially
the farmers, that caused him to ad
vocate reform in the judicial branch
of the government. Especially was
he insistent on new blood being on
the, supreme bench. As long as that
bill was pending prices of agricul
tural products remained steady and
firm. When it became certain that
the bill was dead, then there was a
quick and rapid decline in the price
of grains, and the cotton market al
most collapsed. Enemies of cotton
producers feel assured that since
there is a court that declared un
constitutional farm legislation, any
new legislation would meet the same
fate.
Seeing that financial injury, and
probably disaster, confronted the
cotton growers, certain men in con
gress who had fought the President’s
supreme court bill, declaring he was
making an effort to “pack” the
court, rushed to him to stabilize the
price of cotton at twelve cents per
pound. The price had declined more
than twenty dollars a bale, with
prospects of it going still lower.
Th'e President correctly and wisely
answered it would be futile to “peg
the price” without legislation or
promise of same controlling crop
production and any surplus that may
accumulate. If this is not done,
then may be in 1938 twenty millions
of bales would be produced and a
surplus accumulated that would
greatly strain the United States
treasury to finance. The President
is anxious to balance income and
expenses. Some of the men so ve
hement for balancing the budget are
imploring the President to fix the
price of cotton at twelve cents. In
one breath they tell him to quit
spending. In the next they say
spend millions on stabilization. “Con
sistency, thou art a jewel.”
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The President will do all within
his power to avert financial hard
ship on the cotton producers. He
will not only do what he can to pre
vent further decline in price, but
will put forth efforts to make bet
ter the price. This he can do only
with the co-operation and aid of
congress, which must enact crop
control legislation. Since it was
not done at the late session, assur
ance that this would be done the
first thing when congress convenes
in January will probably meet the
situation. Here is, however, the
trouble about this proposition. Any
bill that congress might pass that is
effective in accomplishing the above
named object, may probably be de
clared unconstitutional by the su
preme court. Or this might happen
-—any bill that has “teeth” and
would protect the farmers, might be
opposed by congress. Especially by
supreme court protectors, because
of anticipation that said act would
be declared unconstitutional. Con
gress may never agree on a bill. All
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may be willing to pass something.
Getting the bill is the question. The
President would then be left with
several million bales of cotton \>n
hand, and the government would
sustain a loss, and he would be
criticised for doing just what these
same critics asked to be done. The
supreme court’s decisions caused, is
part, at least, the present acute
cotton situation.
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Judge J. A. Dorsey of Griffin has
some thoughts so pertimcnt that
we quote what he says: “Congress,
together with the Liberty Leaguers,
the American Bar Association, the
Society ,for Saving the Constitution,
headed by Gannett, an old reaction
ary Republican, and the reactionary
Democrats headed by A1 Smith, Jim
Reed et ah, have been busy in ‘sav
ing’ the Supreme Court when no
body was trying to destroy it. Yes,
they have been busy trying to ‘save’
the same Supreme Court that invali
dated the AAA and that left the
farmer at the mercy of Wall Street
and overproduction. Cotton is now
bringing around ten cents per pound,
and these same fellows are beseech
ing the aid of this same man, who,
they said, tried to destroy the Su
preme Court, to stabilize the price
at twelve cents per pound by lending
the farmer twelve cents per pound
of this year’s crop of 15,000,000
bales. Knowing that the season for
marketing cotton was coming on
■shortly and no law on the statute
books to protect the farmer, yet
they never one time opened their
mouths in his interest until it is al
most too late. All Mr. Roosevelt
wanted to do to the Supreme Court
was to inject some new blood into
it in the hope that it might validate
a law for the protection of the in
terests of the farmer and common
man, and yet they fought it tooth
and toenail.”
One reason no farm legislation has
been enacted by congress is because
Senator E. D. Smith of South Caro-*
lina, chairman of the committee on
agriculture in the senate, has not
only not brought before congress
any bill from the senate in behalf
of agriculture, but made no effort
to do so. Although congress was in
session since January until it ad
journed, neither Smith, nor the
committee of which he is the chair
man, had any hearings before the
committee, collected and published
no facts, prepared and presented no
bill, although Smith claims to be the
cotton growers great friend and has
himself called “Cotton Ed.” That
is a real good name for him, with
just a little change. He wants con
gress to let the cotton farmer work
out his own salvation with fear and
trembling, but would see the specu
lator ruin him by reducing the pro
ducts of his toil to starvation prices.
“Cotton Enemy” is an appropriate
name for one of the pretended
friends of the cotton growers. All
“Cotton Ed,” alias “Cotton Enemy,”
does is to beef about the President.
If he would co-operate with the
President, instead of fighting him,
and aid cotton farmers, instead of
working for speculators and spin
ners, he could be of some service to
the constituents he should represent,
and to the South.
Just before congress adjourned,
the President made rejoice thous
ands, yea, millions of people when he
sent to the senate for confirmation
as Associate Justice of the supreme
court the name of Senator Hugo L.
Black of Alabama. Black is only
fifty-one years old, is in the full
prime and vigor of life." He is a
lawyer of transcendant ability. In
neither the senate nor the house is
there an abler or more courageous
lawyer than this appointee of the
President. He is also a Southerner
to the manor born. It has been a
long time since a real sure enough
(Southern man has been appointed
on the supreme bench of the United
States. Just how any Southern
Senator could oppose his confirma
tion, is beyond our comprehension.
But his confirmation was bitterly op
posed by opponents of the New Deal
and enemies of the President, for
Senator Black is one hundred per
cent New Deal, and is unwavering
in his loyalty to the President. For
any senator to have thought the
President would appoint any other
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
BENNETT-BELL WEDDING HELD
IN HOSCHTON
Of cordial interest to friends and
relatives in Georgia and Ohio is the
marriage of Miss Marion Bell, of
Hoschton, Ga., and Lamar Bennett,
of Dayton, Ohio. The wedding was
solemnized at the home of the bride’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bell, in
Hoschton, on August 14.
First to enter were Misses Betty
Marie Miller and Anne Palmour,
who lighted the candles, while Mrs.
J. W. Griffith, pianist, and Miss Nan
Gardener, violinist, presented the
musical program.
Miss Vivian Foster, cousin of the
bride, was maid of honor. Mr. Ben
nett had as his best man Alton
Lumpkin, of Xenia, Ohio.
The bride came down the white
carpeted stairs on the arm of her
father, by whom she wis given in
marriage. She was gowned in white
duchess satin, which was made on
princess lines with a long train. The
dress had short puffed sleeves and
down the front was a row of tiny
satin covered buttons from neck to
hem line. The bride used her moth
er’s weddir.g veil, which was of the
finger tip type and was fashioned to
her hair with a halo of orange blos
soms. Her bouquet was of orchid
showered with valley lilies. The
train bearer was little Miss Frances
Lott. The rites were performed by
Rev. W. G. Henry, of Hoschton.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bell enter
tained at a reception. Receiving
with Mr. and Mrs. Bell was Mrs.
Margaret Bennett, mother of the
bridegroom.
Following the reception, Mr. and
Mrs. Bennett left for a honeymoon
in the mountains of North Carolina.
The bride used as her going away
suit a three-piece ensemble of Eng
lish tweed with brown ascessories.
Her corsage was of orchids and val
ley lilies.
The bride is a graduate of the
Braselton High School and for the
past two years has been a student
at the Georgia State College for
Women, where she specialized in
music. The bridegroom is a gradu
ate of Georgia Tech, class of 1935.
He is a member of Kappa Eta Kap
pa, honorary electrical fraternity.
At present he is employed as an
electrical engineer with the Gener
al Motors Corporation at Dayton. *
LEGION TO PROVIDE FLAGS FOR
EVERY SCHOOL
The Georgia department of the
American Legion has announced
plans to put the United States flag
in every schopl building in the state.
The State Board of Education re
cently adopted a regulation that the
flag must be flown at every public
school house.
kind of lawyer to the supreme court
except a New Dealer and his friend,
is aburd and preposterous. Some
thought they could turn down such
an appointment in the senate. They
mis-judged the real situation, for he
was confirmed by a vote of 63 to
16. There is now hope the supreme
court may rule with congress and
the people.
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The cotton growers know who
their real friends are in congress,
one of whom is Hugo L. Black,
named to the supreme court. He is
one of the authors of the labor bill
which passed the senate, but was
prevented from coming to a vote in
the house by the committee on rules.
It was an exhibition of autocratic
power for this committee to refuse
to allow the house to vote on this
proposition. This is not the purpose
of this committee; but its duties are
to see the house votes on every im
portant measure before it. Any
committee on rules in any legislative
body that fails or refuses to do this,
violates the trust reposed in it.
Senator, now Judge Black, says the
labor bill is. to the interest of the
entire country, and that it will not
cripple small Southern indus
tries, as predicted by some of the
enemies of the South and of the
President. The vote on the bill in
the senate was 56 to 28. Of the
senators who voted for it, forty
eight are Democrats. Of the
eight Democrats, sixteen of them
are from the South, while only
eleven Southern senators voted
against it. This bill was promised
to the people in the national De*io
cratic platform, made at the Phila
delphia convention. Ultimately it
will be voted on in the house.
SCHOOL OPENS
SEPTEMBER 6TH
Mr-rtin Institute Will Open Fell
Term September 6, Notice From
Superintendent, List of Faculty.
The fall term of Martin Institute
will begin Monday, September 6th,
9a. m. All the friends and patrons
•f the school are invited to the op
ening exercise of the school in the
mnditorium at that time.
r ' All pupils will report to the school
building Thursday and Friday, Sep
tember 2 and 3, for registration and
classification. Please be sure to
bring your report card and promo
tion card from last year. If you are
enrolling in Martin Institute for the
first time, please bring your report
and your school record from the
last school attended.
It is our hope to have all the
necessary books for every child on
the opening day of school. The
State is furnishing free to every
child in the school the books that
will be Used this year. These books
are loaned to the pupils. Pupils will
be held responsible for the books
that are issued to them. If a book
is destroyed, damaged or misplaced,
that pupil will be required to pay for
the book at a price set by the State.
May I call upon every home to aid
in the proper care of these books.
This is the first time that all the
.books will be free, hence the future
of the undertaking depends upon all
of us, as to how we take care of the
books.
All pupils living in Jefferson, Dis
trict, Number 1, Thyatira, and Aca
demy, attending Martin Institute in
the Elementary School, will please
pay a registration fee of SI.OO, at
the office of Mr. Guy Strickland, city
clerk. All pupils outside of these
districts will pay a registration fee
and a tuition fee of $2.00, payable
in advance. All pupils in the High
School Department will pay only the
registration fee. Since there is no
large book bill this year, every pupil
should pay this fee on the date of
enrollment. When you pay your
fee at Mr. Strickland’s office, be sure
to bring a card to the school build
ing. That is your receipt, and the
school’s receipt that your fee has
been paid.
The following fees will be charg
ed in Science and Home Economics:
General Science and Biology, $1.00;
Physics and Home Economics, $2.00.
Fees in Home Economics and in the
Science laboratory are used to pay
for breakage and material that is
used in the class, for which there is
no provision made for supplying out
of school funds. Each pupil taking
the Science Course must have a
laboratory manual, which is abso
lutely important for the course.
The State is not furnishing these
manuals, hence each pupil will pro
vide himself with a manual, the
cost of which will be very small.
Several new rooms have been fitted
up during the summer, to take care
of the crowded conditions in the
school. The Agriculture Department
is being moved into the Dormitory,
which will take care of all the Vo
cational work of the school. Anew
second grade room has been added.
The auditorium has had new seats
and backs for the seats installed,
which adds to the beauty and use
fulness of the building.
It would be ideal if every pupil
expecting to attend Martin Institute
for this year would enroll on the
opening day of the school. The first
day is important, begin with the
class and the teacher. It would be
ideal if every pupil attended every
day, and it is hoped that every pupil
be regular in attendance and punc
tual in reporting. The State is fi
nancing the schools by paying the
teachers salaries for seven months,
and the number of teachers allowed
a school is based on the AVERAGE
DAILY ATTENDANCE of the pu
pils. Hence, it is important that we
attend regularly, to have the num
ber of teachers, needed in the
school. May I call upon every pupil
and parent in the school to fall in
line with the school to make the
new school program a success.
11. J. W. KIZER, Supt.
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Faculty Martin Institute, 1937-1938
Elementary School
First Grade, Miss Sara Wills, Jef
ferson.
First Grade, Miss Esther Kinney,
Statham.
Second Grade, Miss Elizabeth
Thursday, August 26, 1937.
12-Cent Cotton Peg Provid
ed in Money Bill
The Senate and House conferees
reached an agreement before ad
journing on the $150,000,000 de
fiiciency appropriation bill, one of
the last obstacles to adjournment.
The conference committee voted
after three hours of argument to
approve a provision authorizing the
administration to peg cotton prices
at 12 cents a pound by means of a
subsidy.
The subsidy will bo paid out of
a $65,000,000 fund allocated from
customs receipts and specially ear
marked for farm benefit. It would
not increase the total of cash out
lays authorized in the bill.
Cotton raisers would be guaran
teed the difference between the 12-
cent figure and the market price, so
long as the subsidy did not exceed
3 cents per pound.
PATROLMEN TO GRADUATE
FRIDAY EVENING
The officers new Georgia Highway
patrol, who have undergone exten
sive training, will be graduated into
the field of full-fleged highway pa
trolmen at exercises to be held in
Atlanta Friday evening at 8 o’clock.
Eighty men, who are carefully se
lected, will be graduated. Following
the graduation exercises, the men
will be allowed to go to their homes
for a week, make moving arrange
ments, and report for their new
duties September 1. It is planned
for them to start patrolling their
districts by September 10. It is
probable that Paul Collier will be
stationed temporarily at Swainsboro,
and Fred Culberson at Moultrie.
COUNTY AGENT’S NOTICE
We have had very good success
with our rural electrification pro
gram in Jackson county. It will be
necessary, however, for a good many
more of our farm people to sign
applications before we will be able
to secure the approval of the Wash
ington office. This is particularly
true of the line from Commerce
through Nicholson to Brooks Cross
ing. Those who have not signed on
this line, should do so at once. We
will call and visit those interested or
furnish them with an application,
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We are receiving many inquiries
about tobacco growing. If we have
a group of farmers interested in this
crop, we will be glad to secure the
services of Mr. E. C. Westbrook, to
bacco specialist, State College of
Agriculture, who will discuss this
crop with those interested.
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The county agent would appreci
ate it very much if he could find the
address and location of those peo
ple whose names appear below:
T. S. Crisler, Daniel Foots, J. M.
Hooper, Fred Jackson, James John
son, Homer Pursley, Mrs. E. J. Bar
ber, Tom Bowen, M. M. Baker, Coot
Carson, W. A. DeLong, Claud Doss,
J. A. Hutson, H. D. Holeman, W. N.
Mclntyre, Tom Fleeman, W. E.
Farmer, Sam Hooper, Mrs. R. E.
Lee Reynolds, Tommie Watkins, A.
J. Tucker, H. J. Sharp, Sayne Ruck
er, Bud Hopkins.
We have some very important
business to transact with each of
these people, and would like to have
them call at our office at once.
J. W. JACKSON,
County Agricultural Agent.
Bailey, Jefferson.
Second Grade, Miss Elizabeth Col
lins, Davisboro.
Third Grade, Miss Irene Rankin,
Anderson, S. C.
Fourth Grade, Miss Frances
Smith, Jefferson.
Fifth Grade, Miss Cathryn Mob
ley, Jefferson.
Sixth Grade, to be supplied.
Seventh Grade, Miss Catherine
Jones, Ball Ground.
High School
Mr. Roy Cheatham, Mathematics,
Jefferson.
Mr. J. L. McMulle, Agriculture,
Hiawassee.
Mr. I. N. Hayes, Science and
Coach, Dante, W. Va.
Miss Florence Lassiter, Erfglish,
Fitzgerald.
Miss Caroline Radford, French,
English, Monroe.
Miss Jean Hicks, History, Atlanta.
Miss Frances Hawks, Homte Eco
nomics, Athens.
H. J. W. Kizer, Supt., Jefferson.
Vol. 62. No. 4.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Improper Curing Of Hey Retulle I
Low Quality
Because hay of an inferior quali
ty lacks the necessary protein and
vitamin content, Jackson county
farmers are advised to provide No.
1 hay for their livestock, where this
is possible. * . $.
Low quality hay generally results
from late cutting and improper
curing, and that can usually be
avoided. Hay is one of the finest
of dairy feeds, if it is of good quali
ty.
As an illustration of how the
time of cutting affects the feeding
value of hay, it has been found that
many non-legumes contain nearly
twice the amount of protein when
cut before they head out. The near
er mature the plant becomes, the
more fibre and less protein it con-
tains.
There seems to be a direct re
lationship between the vitamin con
tent of the milk produced and the
roughage which a dairy cow con
sumes. Therefore, it is important
that the animal receive a hay of
high-vitamin content. It has been
definitely proved that, with dairy
cows, high vitamin content in the
feed increases the vitamin content
of the milk, and its value as a pro
tective food.
To obtain good hay, the county
agent offers the following sugges
tions:
1. Seed liberally to prevent,
coarse, stemniy hay.
2. Cut early. Harvest alfalfa
when one-tenth to one-fourth in
bloom; lespedeza when about 50%
in bloom; soybeans when seed are
about one-half developed; cowpeas
when the first pods begin to turn
yellow; and cereals, such as wheat,
oats, and barley, when the seed are
in the milk stage of maturity. Su
dan grass for hay should >be cut as
soon as the heads begin to form.
3. Cure hay as rapidly as possible,
but guard against over-curing.
We will begin checking compli
ance this week on all farms covered
by the 1937 work sheets. Each pro
ducer is requested to co-operate
with the supervisor in checking his
farm. This is important because the
producer should furnish soifie one or
do the work himself in assisting the
supervisor in measuring the acreage
on his farm. The supervisor has
been instructed to ask this co-oper
ation. Refusing to assist in measur
ing the land will hold back our work
here in the office, and might result
in the producer not receiving his
check.
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Another change that has beenr
made from the 1936 program is
where the producer makes applica
tion for a soil builping payment, he
will have to turn under all vines,
stems and leaves of the plants of
summer legumes, such as peas, vel
vet beans, soy beans, etc., before
this payment will be made. Each
producer will receive his cotton pay
ment without this extra work, if he
has planted sufficient soil building
crops to qualify for this payment.
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If any producer wishes to secure
his Class 2 payment without truning
under his summer legumes, he can
do so by planting summer legumes,
such as vetch, Austrian peas, and
clovers after cotton. We will assist
any producer who desires our ser
vices in securing prices on winter le
gume seed. We would like to sug
gest that these seed be bought at
once, in order to avoid higher prices,
and that they may be planted dur
ing the month of September or the
first part of October. You cannot
qualify for your Class Two payment
by planting rye or any of the other
small grains.
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Make sure that the supervisor
makes a careful list of every crop
grown on your farm, and that this
list is turned in to our office. This
is important, in order that each
producer may receive the most bene
fits from the farm program,
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Another change that has been
made is that the supervisor must re
port the names and number of ten
ants on each farm checked. We ask
each producer’s co-operation in this
change. Listing the share croppers
will insure each producer receiving
his proportionate part of the govern
ment benefits.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.