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THE. JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A Year —In Advance
Published Weekly
Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice
as Second-Class Mail Matter
O.'ScUl Organ of Jackton County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON ...Bu. M’g’r.
JEFFERSON, GA., NOV. 4, 1937.
LIFE EXPECTANCY IN
GEORGIA SHOWS GAIN
That Georgia is becoming each
yesir a healthier place in which to
live is substantiated by figures com
piled by the state department of
public health.
At the turn of the century, Geor
gians had an average length of life
of only 27.2 years, but now can ex
pect to live 44.7 years, Dr. T. F. Ab
ercrombie, state director, pointed
out
The ave.age life expectancy for
children born during 1937 to 62.2
years.
Tuberculosis, the principal cause
of death in Georgia in 1900, when
2,830 deaths were attributed to the
disease, last year, through intensive
public health work, was relegated to
eighth place with a total of 1,713
deaths.
Heart disease, however, which was
In third place in 1900, with 1,369
deaths to its credit in the state, last
year had been swept into ftyst place
as the principal cause fflr death,
with 5,608 deaths.
Ranking second last yepr was
nephritis, with 3,446 deaths, as com
pared to 441 deaths from that cause
in 1900, and in third place was
pneumonia with 3,803 TTeaths as
compared to the 2,598 deaths in
1900 when pneumonia was In second
place.
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES STAMP
OUT DEATH DRUG
Announcement by the American
Medical Association that 30 deaths
have been caused by the 1 lise of a
new remedy, despite previous warn
ings against the dangers of the drug,
directs attention again to the cre
•dulty of the American public in mat
ters of medicine.
in the face of clear pronounce
ments that the full properties of the
preparation were as yet unknown
patients readily subscribed to its use
—with tragic results.
The mixture, known as Sulfanili
mide, killed 5 persons in Georgia.
During the past two weeks officials
of the food and drug administration
in Atlanta have dropped all other
business and concentrated their ef
forts to preventing further use and
sale of elixir of sulfanilamide.
The potion—elixir of sulfanila
mide and diethylene glycol—was
manufactured as a cure for strepto-
coccus infections, meningitis, gonor
rhea, and other diseases. Not until
they had administered it to scores of
patients did physicians discover that
the compound used to dissolve the
life-giving sulfanilamide was, in
many instances, deadly.
Officials of the drive declared Sat
urday nearly every shipment of the
drug into Georgia has been traced
and confiscated.
Three Geoigia girls have been an
nounced as winners of statewide 4-H
Club contests, for which they will
receive free trips to Chicago to at
tend the National 4-H Club Con
gress, November 26 to December 4.
The winners are: Miss Nellie Emma
Patterson, of Fulton County, who
won her trip for general excellence
in club work; Miss Miriam Camp, of
Cowen County, food preparation
contest winner, and Miss Ora Kate
Rodgers, of Muscogee County, who
toolc first in a canning achievement
contest.
The carnival spirit reigned in Jef
ferson Saturday night, and almost
every home awoke Sunday morning
to find porch furniture scattered
over lawns and sidewalks. The gob
lins in the person of small boys and
Ifirls w. re privileged characters for
several hours, and where no actual
•damage was done, there was no in
terference. However, at times they
went a little too far in what they
considered a “good time.”
Quite a number of Jeffersonians
spent Sunday in the North Georgia
mountains, enjoying the beauty of
the mountain scenery which at this
time is a riot of color that com
mands the admiration of even those
who are the least enthusiastic over
the lovely combination of colors that
adorn the trees in their fall glory.
Many Animal* Supply
Tests For Human Ills
Mice, guinea pigs, monkeys, rab
bits and hones are included in the
2,000,000 animals, 14 for every doc
tor, that are used annually by the
medical profession for experiments
to test the safety of drugs, furnish
serum and vaccines for human ail
ments of all kinds.
It is a tribute to the skill of
science that nearly half of these ani
mals are mice, used under conditions
that do not involve sacrifice. Some
of the mice, depicting heredity in
disease, have pedigrees as long as
those of royal families.
The last word in animal experi
ments is the embryonic chick, mere
ly a bit of unfeeling tissue, which is
showing the way in important cancer
experiments this year.
Guinea pigs used in experiments
number about 200,000, rating a tie
with rabbits. But the pigs are about
to fall to third place, for rabbits are
stepping into anew place of dignity
for small animal-protectors of man.
It has been discovered recently at
the Rockefeller Institute, in New
York city, that rabbits will supply
pneumonia serum better than horses,
which have been the preferred
source in the past.
In fourth place are white rats. If
medicine had known several hundred
years ago what since has been dis
covered about these rodents, the
term “rat” might have taken the
place of honor held by the name
"guinea pig.” Science now knows
that rats are more like man than any
other animal in reactions to diet.
Asa result, they have become the
guides of the scientists who are
showing how to lenghten the span of
man’s life by proper and balanced
diet.
Other friends of the sick are dogs,
cats, monkeys, and ferrets. Not
many are used; they are compartive
ly expensive and are reserved for
work which cannot be done with
lower animals. The horse, because
of its size and consequent ability to
produce in large volume, is a main
source of serums. Calves furnish
vaccines for still other experiments.
The one greatest host of lowly
friends of man in this scientific field
is an insect—a yeast fly. In count
less numbers it is used to study the
laws of heredity, which geneticits
some day hope to make available for
direct medical use.
OVER 7,108 WOMEN ARE
POSTMASTERS IN U. S.
One out of every four postmasters
in the United States appointed dur
ing the Roosevelt administration has
been a woman, William J. Dixon,
superintendent of postmasters, re
cently revealed.
Over 7,108 women were among
the 28,092 postmasters commissioned
between March 4, 1933, and October
1, of this year, the superintendent
declared.
The women executives are follow
ing the example of Miss Mary K.
Goddard, who in 1775 was appointed
head of the Baltimore post office un
der Postmaster General Benjamin
Franklin.
Her present-day successors range
from girls barely over the present
minimum age of 21 to veterans like
Miss Mary W. Stewart at Oxford,
Md., oldest postmaster in the United
States in point of service. Now
nearly 80 years old, she has held the
position since 1877.
Highest paid of the group is Mrs.
Mary D. Briggs, appointed postmast
er at Los Angeles, Cal., following
the death of her husband about a
year ago. She makes SIO,OOO a
year (only the New York and Chica
go posts pay more) and her office,
sixth largest in the nation, did a
business of $10,426,078 last year.
Resolutions expressing the appre
ciation of the faculty and students
of Wesleyan College and Conserva
tory for the generous act of the
five persons who came to the rescue
of Wesleyan in the time of her
emergency were read by Dr. Ander
son at a meeting of the facuty and
students of Wesleyan and the bene
factors and their families. These
five persons, W. D. Anderson, Mrs.
W. D. Anderson, J. H. Porter, T. J.
Stewart, and Robt. J. Taylor, pledg
ed their own securities to the amount
of $350,000, and “assumed such
other financial responsibility as \vas
necessary to enable the institution
to continue her work unhampered.”
Atlanta’s city planning commission
has a request that West Peachtree
street be re-named Crawford Long
Boulevard, in honor of the Georgia
doctor who first used ether as ar.
anaesthetic. The suggestion was
made by Dr. Frank K. Boland.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
COUNTY HEADS BACK
LEGISLATIVE DRIVE
Gainesville, Ga. Commissioners
from 14 of the 18 counties of the
ninth congressional district, meeting
here, indorsed almost unanimously
the four-point legislative program of
the Association of County Commis
sioners of Georgia.
The commissioners also voted to
ask the legislature to exempt coun
ties from payment of the Diesel oil
tax where such fuel is used in road
construction.
A resolution also was adopted
asking that the gasoline tax be paid
to counties monthly instead of in
quarterly installments.
Commissioner C. A. Matthews, of
DeKalb county, chairman of the
state association’s board of govern
ors, presented the points for discus
sion, which included: (1) Allocation
of an additional cent of the gasoline
tax to counties to reimburse them
for tax losses through homestead ex
emption; (2) the fixing of homestead
exemption at $1,250 instead of $2,-
000; (3) legislation to provide for
the state to pay its part of social
security administration costs, so that
the counties will not have to pay
more than their legal 10 per cent;
and (4) classification of intangibles
on the basis of a percentage of their
market value.
Mr. Matthews announced tha: as
sociation’s legislative program now
has received official approval by
commissioners of 130 of the state’s
159 counties.
Approximately 50 commissioners
and other county officials attended
the conference.
U. S. AND CANADA MADE
5,110,000 CARS IN 1937
A total of 5,110,000 passenger
cars and trucks were made in the
automobile plants of the United
States and Canada in the twelve
months ending September, 1937, ac
cording to a report of the automo
bile manufacturers’ association.
The vehicles—4,lß2,ooo cars and
928,000 trucks —have a wholesale
value of $2,876,500,000.
With the exception of the calendar
year of 1929, the production is the
greatest twelve months output in the
industry’s history. Assemblies in
1929 totaled 5,621,715 units.
The association reported total
registration of motor vehicles in the
United States now stands at 29,000,-
000, also anew high margin. THe
previous high was 28,221,290 at the
end of 1936.
World registration of motor ve
hicles is placed at 41,750,000 units,
compared with 40,286,570 at the end
of 1936.
The report covers the industry’s
1937 model year, or the twelve
months immediately preceding the
automobile presentation period which
is now in progress at the New York
show.
GRANDMOTHERS AND DEBU
TANTES ON SAME LEVEL
O. O. McEntire, well known
columnist, says you can’t tell a
grandmother from the young debu
tante. She wears the same knee
length skirt, smokes cigarettes,
drinks cocktails and puts on a swell
rhumba in the night joints.
In the old days grandmothers used
to begin to resemble their role
around 40 and they became increas
ingly plain in their manner of dress
until at 50 they seemed incredibly
old.
They went to bed with the chick
ens and arose with the rooster. Any
little attention wa§ gratefully re
ceived. How different today, when
many grandmothers are the zip to a
party! They are lots of fun, of
course, and good company; “But,”
says McEntire, “Somehow we con
tinue to prefer our grandmothers old
fashioned.
ERNEST ROGERS WILL TEACH
AT EMORY
Ernest Rogers, editor of The At
lanta Journal Radio Page and head
of the news staff of radio stations
WSB and WAGA, will serve this fall
part-time instructor in the Emory
University Journalism Department.
His classes will be on radio writing.
With this course, Emory becomes
one of the first schools in the coun
try to give an authoritative course in
radio writing. A final examination
in a WSB or WAGA studio will con
clude the course. Every member of
the class will be required to stand a
microphone test, while reading a
fifteen-minute news broadcast.
Not a passenger lost his life in a
train accident on the railroads of
the United States in the first six
months of 1937.
NOTES FROM THp NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
Hon. R. P. Hill, of the Fifth Dis
trict of Oklahoma, died October 29.
Mr. Hill was one of the few men
ever to serve two States in Con
gress. FirsJ, was elected from the
Twenty-Fifth District of Illinois, ill
1912. He later moved to Oklahonu
and became District Judge. He wa?
elected to succeed Hon. Josh Lee on
November 3, 1936. Mr. Lee was
elected to the Senate. Mr. Hill was
a fine man, and a Democrat. May
he rest in peace with the Great Chief
Justice of the Universe, who doeth
all things well.
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Lots of Democrats and Republicans
are returning to the National Capi
tol for the special session of Con
gress on November 15, in the politi
cal arena of America, on Capitol
Hill.
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Rents in the District of Colum
bia on all types of dwellings have in
creased 33 per cent above the aver
age for 1935. Washington, D. C.,
is considered the highest price city
to live in in the United States; al
though it is a great place to live.
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The National Cathedral of Wash
ington, D. C., received $25,000 un
der the will of the late Ogden L.'
Mills, former Secretary of Treasury,
under former President Herbert C.
Hoove. The will was filed for pro
bate here on October 29.
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Navy Day here brought 135,000
people to the National District of
Columbia on October 27, despite an
all-day down-pour of rain.
JOHN H. BAIRD PASSES AT DRY
POND
John H. Baird passed away Sun
day at the home of C. F. Porter, at
Dry Pond. Mr. Baird was reared
near Hoschton, a son of J. M. and
Adeline Skelton Baird. Until a few
months ago he was a salesman in
Atlanta, and made his home in that
city. For several months he has re
sided at the Porter home, Mrs. Baird
being a sister of Mr. Porter. He
was an excellent citizen, and his
passing has brought sadness to a
wide circle of friends.
Funeral services were conducted
at Maysville Baptist church on Mon
day by Rev. C. A. Strickland and
Rev. Wylie Holland, and interment
was in the city cemetery.
Surviving are his wife; his father,
J. M. Baird, of Winder; three sisters,
Mrs. I. A. Shaw, of Atlanta; Mrs. W.
E. Stewart, of Winder; Mrs. W. M.
Gregory, of Birmingham, Ala., and
four brothers, Amos Baird, of Los
Angeles, Cal.; William Baird, of At
lanta; Columbus and Tommie Baird,
both of Abbeville, Ala.
J. F. BENTLEY CALLED BY
DEATH
A death occurring recently at the
home of his son near Gallilee called
home one of the oldest citizens of
the county, Mr. J. F. Bentley. He
had been in declining health for a
number of years, but was confined
to his bed only a short time.
When quite a young man Mr.
Bentley united with the Baptist
church, and was a loyal attendant at
all services until his health failed.
He was a Deacon for more than 40
years, and at the time of his death
was a member of Crooked Creek
church. He was 82 years of age.
A loyal, devoted husband and
father has gone to his reward.
Funeral services were conducted
at Crooked Creek church, and in
terment was in the church cemetery.
Surviving are four children, Mrs.
Richard Medlin, Mrs. H. P. Coley, (I.
S. and E. E. Bentley.
Merchants and representatives in
the general assembly from this sec
tion of the state were invited by the
Merchants Committee of the Athens
Chamber of Commerce to meet in
that city one night this week to dis
cuss tax problems that will confront
the special session of the leigslaturc
which convenes Thanksgiving Day.
Merchants were invited to discuss
with their representatives what taxes
should be enacted into law.
At least 172 persons were killed
in automobile accidents throughout
the nation over the week-end. Sev
eral persons died in Georgia. Near
Red Oak, 18-ycar-old Spurgeon
Whitehead was injured fatally when
pinned under a car after it over
turned Sunday. L. O. Perry, 65,
farmer living near Cartersville, was
killed on the Dixie Highway when an
automobile hit him.
ROOSEVELT THEATRE
PHONE 192. i-j JEFFERSON, GA.
7:00 TO 11:00 O’CLOCK EACH NIGhT
Matinee Wedne*day, 1:00 p. m; Friday, 1:00;
Matinee Saturday at 1:00 p. m. —3 shows
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Ronald Colman, Jane Wvott, in
“LOST HORIZON”
Fox Musical Comedy, ‘Rhythmn Saves The Dav’
ADMISSION 10 AND 20 CENTS 1
(Mrs. Thelma Blood worth)
SATURDAY
Bob Steele, Laff McKee, in
“GUN LORDS OF STIRRUP BASIN”
Fox Comedy, Tim and Irene, in ‘Will You Stop’
Admission Matinee EVERYBODY 10 CENTS
Admission Night, 10 and 15 Cents
(Scott Mauldin)
MONDAY
Loretta Young, Don Ameche, in
“LOVE UNDER FIRE”
Universal News Reel, The Latest In World’s Events
Also, Selected Short Subject
Admission 10 and 25 Cents
(C. N. Pinson)
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Jean Parker, Douglass Montgomery, in
“LIFE BEGINS WITH LOVE”
Chapter 10, of “The Painted Stallion”
Also, Selected Short Subject
Matinee Wednesday 1:00 p. m.
Admission, Matinee and Night, Everybody 10 Cents
(Bill Jones)
If your name appears in this advertisement, clip and present
it at the door for a complimentary seat.
AUTO REGISTRATION IN THE
STATE SETS A NEW RECORD
Automobile registrations have al
ready broken all previous records in
this state, with two months to go,
it was disclosed by Marcus Mc-
Whorter, director of the state motor
vehicle division.
To date 452,052 motor vehicles of
all classes have been registered com
pared with 426,078 for the entire
year of 1936, when anew record
was set. The chief gain has been in
passenger cars.
Registration of busses and trucks
under the new maintenance tax act
has slowed down, it was said. The
total registrations are 56,639, com
pared to an estimate of 80,000 due
to buy the maintenance tags.
EPISODE 10— AMBUSH
Clark springs back from the fall
ing rafters just in time and gets out
of the building safely with Kit. The
villains escape with one of Clark’s
men. Escobedo lets him think that
the Rider has been captured in Box
Canyon and then allows him to es
cape knowing he will tell Clark.
Clark and his men ride to the
Canyon to assist the Rider and
there they are attacked by Escobe
do’s men. Seeing his men outnum
bered, Clark rides out in front of
the enemy and they all pursue him,
leaving Jamison and the men. He
is driven to the edge of a gap and
as he spurs his horse to the leap he
is shot and falls over the edge.
Under auspices of the Affiliated
Democratic Women’s Clubs of Geor
gia the first jury school for women
will be held in Savannah this week
with Judge J. Saxon Daniel, United
States district attorney, acting as
instructor. Announcement of the
school was made by Mrs. J. A. Roili
son, of Waycross, who said jury
duty will be one of the main topics
of the convention of the organization
at its convention Thursday and Fri
day. The school will be patterned
after the ones conducted in New
York with signal success. Jury
duty for women, Mrs. Rollison add
ed, will be provided in legislation to
be submitted at the next regular
session of the General Assembly.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
will meet with governors of the
Southeastern states at Warm Springs,
November 26. The President is to
be at Warm Springs Thanksgiving,
November 25, to carve the holiday
turkey at the Warm Springs Foun
dation’s annual dinner. He will also
make a stop at Gainesville Thanks
giving morning to participate in
dedication of Roosevelt Square.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 19J7
ATMOSPHERE OF WEST RE
QUIRED FOR ODD PLOTS
Screen writers are known for their
vagaries in pursuing the elusive
muse.
Fred Myton, who with George
Plympton authored the screenplay
for “Gun Lords of the Stirrup Ba
sin,” Republic release coming Satur
day to the Roosevelt Theatre, does
his best work in a room fitted up
with western paraphernalia. “It’s
easier to write about a maddened
steer,” he says, “when I can look up
on my walls and see buffalo horns,
colorful dried gourds and antique
saddle trappings.”
“Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin” is
a tale of jealousy on the mesas. A
family feud wages between the
Dawsons and the Stocktons, so that
Gail Dawson’s marriage to Dan
Stockton becomes a perilous and al
most suicidal venture. The picture
builds up to a climax, in vigorous
style, yith Bob Steele, as Dan, hap
pily reconciled to Louise Stanley as
Gail.
W. G. Eager, manager of the
Georgia Public Utilities Company, in
a pamphlet sent out to the employees
of the company says that, during the
bloodiest period in history, the Na
poleonic wars, the total of battle
casualties, wounded and dead, in 19
years, was 684,270. In one year
alone, 1935, in the United States
there were 1,317,000 men, women
and children killed or wounded in
automobile accidents. The casualty
rate by automobile accidents today,
in the United States, on a basis of
population, is 90 per cent of the
total annual casualties of the world
war, for all countries involved.
Examinations will be held in Al
bany, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Co
lumbus, Dublin, Macon, Rome, Sa
vannah and Waycross on November
sth and 6th, under the direction of
the State Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation, to give persons who
desire an opportunity to secure work
as clerks, typists, secretaries and
stenographers. Unemployed P er *
sons, who have the necessary qualifi
cations to perform work of the above
nature, should stand this examina
tions. It might result in securing a
position.
Editor John Holder of The Jack
son Herald must have been looking
in on a women’s convention. He
writes a half column tribute to tung
oil in Georgia.—Bill Biffem, in Sa
vannah Press.
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again. Bird & Owen’s. We
deliver. Phone 210.