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SCHOOL OPENS
SEPTEMBER 6TH
The fall term of Martin Institute
will begin Monday, September 6th,
9 a. m. All the friends and patrons
of the school are invited to the op
ening exercise of the school in the
auditorium at that time.
All pupils will report to the school
building Thursday and Friday, Sep
tember 2 and 3, for registration und
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.
H. J. W. KIZER, Supt.
JUST WANTED TO KNOW
The house wife was employing a
Hew maid. She explained very care
fully to Luella, the colored girl,
that she could afford only one ser
vant, and this servant would have
to do all the cleaning, cooking, wash
ing and ironing. Luella looked at
her inquiringly, and asked:
“Does ye have retching at your
house?”
“What do you mean, Luella?”
“Does I have to walk around de
table and hand things, or des ye jes’
retch for ’em?”
A WORD OF ADVICE
This is the last issue of Georgia's
Health before your child enters
school in September. We have con
tinuously urged our people to see
that their children are prepared for
school. This is the duty of all par
eats to their children and to the
state; to the children, because it
gives them an equal opportunity to
work with other children; to the
state, because it saves the taxpayers’
money by making it unnecessary to
attempt to teach children who are
physically unfit.
The time is short now for correc
tive operations should they be need
ed, but if steps are taken at once
the child will be over a tonsil oper
ation in time for the September op
ening of school. Similar operations
may also be done —NOW.
See that your child is at once vac
cinated against smallpox and im
munized against diphtheria. In com
munities where there is typhoid
fever, the child should be protected
against this disease, too, by vacci
nation. We cannot urge too earnest
ly the importance of these preven
tive measures.
It would be well to take your
child to your family physician for a
thorough physical examination, pay
ing especial attention to the condi
tion of the eyes and ears. The
child who cannot see well cannot
study well; one who cannot hear
cannot receive the instructions that
are given by the teachers. Al
though your child may be perfectly
well apparently, he may need some
kind of medical attention. An ex
amination will determine just what
his condition is now.
There is another danger against
which all school children should be
protected; this is the amount of ex
ercise that an individual child should
have. Children who have suffered
from infectious diseases earlier in
life perhaps have been left with a
damaged heart, and too strenuous
play is not advisable in such cases.
Only your physician can tell you
just how much exercise your child
should have.
These precautions are all neces
sary to the future well-being of your
child. The Georgia Department of
Public Health wishes to be of service
to every citizen of Georgia in every
way possible, and will be glad to
have your inquiries in regard to any
health problem that you may have
in your home or community.—Geor
gia’s Health.
Old Age Benefits Office
Established
Athens. —A field office of the
Social Security Board that will serve
Jefferson has recently been estab
lished in Athens, Georgia. This of
fice, in addition to serving Jackson
county, will serve Fannin, Union,'
Towns, Rabun, Gilmer, Lumpkin,
White, Habersham, Stephens, Hart,
Franklin, Banks, Oglethorpe, Daw
son, Forsyth, Hall, Madison, Elbert,
Lincoln, Wilkes, Taliaferro, Walton,
Green, Morgan, Barrow, Clarke and
Oconee counties. ,
The function of the office is that
of assisting in the maintenance of
wage records of workers for whom
Social Security Account Numbers
have been set up, and in the adjudi
cation of claims for benefits. In ad
dition, the office is prepared to
furnish employers, woi'kers and all
other interested persons with infor
mation regarding the federal old
ige benefits plan and their rights
ind obligations under the Social Se
curity Act.
The approximate number of em
ployees in Jackson county for whom
wage records are being maintained
is 2,300.
No monthly old age benefits are
payable until the first of January,
1942. But there are two types of
lump-sum payments that can be
made at any time after January 1,
1937. One is a death benefit. The
other is a benefit which a worker
may receive for his own use after
he reaches the age of 65. Many
such claimants have already filed ap
plications for lump-sum payments of
federal old-age benefits.
Those claimants are men and wo
men who have earned wages in a
factory, shop, mill, mine, store, ho
tel, filling station, or some other line
of business, included under the law,
since the first of this year; and who
have attained the age of sixty-five
since January 1, 1937.
Questions and problems that em
ployers, employees and interested
individuals may have regarding the
federal old-age benefits program
should be directed to the Social Se
curity Board, Room 214, Hinton Se
curities Building, Athens, Georgia.
THE JACKSON HERALD. JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
The 75th Congress of the United
States adjourned August 21 at 7.22
o’clock p. m., until January 3rd,
1938, unless called back by the
Pre.>tident before that time in extra
session. This session has been a
very successful one, under Speaker
W. B. Bankhead, of the Seventh
District of Alabama; and the floor
leadership of Hon. Sam Rayburn of
the Fourth District of Texas, the
Lone Star State of the Union. They
are both fine men, and Democrats,
and are valuable assets to the de
mocracy of America on Capitol Hill
in the political arena of the nation.
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Governor Bibb Graves, of Ala
bama, appointed his wife, Mrs. Dixie
Bibb Graves, as United States Sen
ator on August 20th, 1937, to suc
ceed Senator Hugo L. Black, who
was appointed Associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court
by President F. D. Roosevelt on Au
gust 12, to succeed Justice Willis
Van Devanter, who resigned June 2,
1937. Hon. Hugo L. Black was
confirmed by the Senate August 17,
1937, by a vote of 63 for, to 16
against. Mrs. Graves will serve un
til April 26, 1938. A special Demo
cratic primary has been called by
Governor Bibb Graves for that date,
to elect a successor for the long
term, ending January 3rd, 1945. (
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Justice Hugo I* Black, of Bir
mingham, Ala., who has recently
been appointed Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court at the corner
of First St. and Maryland Ave., N.
E., salary will be $20,000 per year.
He is a fine man, and a Democrat of
the Jeffersonian brand, and at this
time the State of Alabama is a
shining spot in the South. Justice
Black on the Bench, Mrs. Graves in
the Senate, Hon. W. B. Bankhead
Speaker of the Democratic House.
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Senator Tom Connally, of Texas,
made a great speech in the Senate
oh August 17, for the confirmation
of Justice Black. Senator Royal S.
Copeland, of New York, against.
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President F. D. Roosevelt, on Au
gust 18, 1937, made a great speech
at Manteo, Roanoke, N. C., cele
brating the 350th anniversary of the
birth of Virginia Dare, the first
child of English parents born on this
continent.
Repeal of Section 213 of 1932
Economy Act, so called marriage
clause, was the outstanding achieve
ment enacted by the past Congress
in behalf of government employes.
Credit for this is due Hon. Robert
Ramspeck, of the Fifth District of
Georgia, the Empire State of the
South. The people of the Fifth Dis
trict of Georgia should feel proud
of this man in Congress and de
fender of the peoples’ rights.
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President Roosevelt vetoed on
August 21 a measure for the Fed
eral Government to chip in $500,000
for a permanent memorial to the
date Will Rogers, of Oklahoma,
humorist, killed in an air plane crash
three years ago.
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Senator A. W. Barkley left Au
gust 25 for Paris, France, to attend
a conference of the Inter-Parlia
mentary Union. He will be accom
panied by Senators J. F. Byrnes of
South Carolina, the Hot Spur State
of the Union, E. D. Thomas of
Utah, Sherman Minton of Indiana,
Robert Lafollette of Wisconsin, Wal
lace H. White, Jr., Republican, of
Maine.
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Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves, the new
lady Senator from Alabama, was
sworn in on August 20th as a mem
ber of the Senate, by Vice-President,
Hon. John N. Garner, of Texas.
Mrs. Graves makes the fourth lady
Senator to serve in the Senate.
Mrs. Rebecca Felton, of Georgia,
Mrs. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas,
Mrs. Rose M. Long of Louisiana.
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The State of Washington has six
fine and able men in the halls of
Congress. First District, Hon. War
ren G. Magnoson; Second District,
Hon. Monral C. Wallgreen; Third
District, Hon. Martin F. Smith;
Fourth District, Hon. Knute Hill;
Fifth District, Hon. Charles H.
Leavy; Sixth District, Hon. John
M. Coffee. Senators Homer T.
Bone and Lewis B. Schwelleback
represent the Upper House. They
are fine men, and Democrats of the
Jeffersonian brand.
Some articles crowded out of this
issue will appear next week.
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COMMON HONESTY FOUND TOO
RARE
Common honesty among people is
something that is getting to be en
tirely too rare, Judge William H.
Barrett, of Augusta said in an inter
view.
Character Development
“The salvation of our country de
pends not so much on teaching peo
ple to be smart—highly intellectual
—as it does upon teaching them the
good that comes from developing
honesty—character, if you please,”
he said.
“One person who is genuinely
honest can always have more in
fluence among people than a host of
others who do not see the value of
truth,” he added.
Judge Barrett said he could not
say whether crime is on the increase
or decrease, since “that is a matter
of statistics,” but pointed out that
there are a few crimes that are more
common among youth today.
“The machine age is having its
effect on juveniles, for there is
considerably more stealing of auto
mobiles among young people today
than formerly,” he said. Further
more, I find more young people to
day who are used as tools by pro
fessional criminals; they are not the
real perpetrators of crime, but at
the same time they finally come to
grips with the law,” he added.
The judge said that abolition of
the prohibition amendment has not
succeeded in doing what it was sup
posed to do because “there are
about as many liquor cases as there
ever were.”
“It is foolish to think that we can
ever do away with liquor entirely;
the thing we must do is to shoW
people the value of letting it alone
—impress upon them that it stands
in the way of happiness, wrecks
homes, and prevents success,” he
amphasized.
Melons, pears and peaches may,
with the aid of 3 vegetable cutter,
be made into balls to be used in
salads when fresh fruits can no
longer be obtained. Pack balls into
glass jar, pour enough thin syrup
over them to come almost to top of
jar, then seal.
PLAN YOUR TRIP BY RAIL
At
NEW LOW FARES
FAST CONVENIENT SCHEDULES
ALL STEEL EQUIPMENT
AIR-CONDITIONED
SLEEPING CARS and DINING CARS
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Inquire at Ticket Offices
E. E. BARRY,
Asst. Gen’l Passenger Agent, Atlanta
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
“INSIDE” A fORNADO
Will Keller, a farmer living near
Greensburg, Kan., got a look inside
a tornado funnel, and lived to tell
the tale. So far as is known, he’s
the only man in the world who has
ever survived such an experience.
When he discovered a tornado
approaching, he hurried his family
into a cyclone cellar, but himself
lingered at the entrance to watch
the twister approach straight at
him. A hundred feet away the
whirling top of destruction sudden
ly lifted off the ground. Realizing
it would miss him, Keller relates, he
stood still and the funnel passed di
rectly over Keller’s Read. Thus he
was able to look right into the heart
of th 6 funnel, and see a circular
opening about 100 feet in diameter
that extended tubelike upward for
about half a mile. The walls of the
funnel were rotating clouds which
were brilliantly illuminated by con
stant flashes.
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