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By Holder & Williamson
State Auditing, Agriculture
Smith, in his interesting:
, i rackerland, in the Atlanta
fZ. “• “
••Tom Wisdom, the state auditor,
completed the compilation of a
•** o! -tate employees which, lam
humdinger, not to say an
' e-opfJ'fr. in a numerical sense.
<y .. T |. Register —that's what it’s
,| e( j ( i think —is said to contain
** residences and emolu
ts 0 f ~ver 5,000 men and women
"ho are now on the pay roll of the
, The total represents an
-tonishwg increase—‘an evidence,’
* e y say. ‘of the. expanded and ex-
n dinjr nativities of the state gov
ernnied'. not to mention the cost of
|s maintenance.’
.■One of the ‘outs,’ meaning a
politician who, for the time being,
• on the outside of the state gov
{rnm e„t looking in, upon hearing of
jj, e Wisdom roster, suggested that
instead of calling it a state register
it should be called:
“‘Who's Who and How Come, If
\'ot Why, in the State Govern
ment.'
Mr. Wisdom explains that some of
these employees may have been on
the pay roll for only a short while.
(Jot five thousand are in the roster
jt an y one time. But whether one is
employed by the state for a year, a
month, or a week, the auditor must
list him in his audit.
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Than Tom Wisdom, ho state has
a fairer, more capable and conscien
tious state auditor. Under three
different state administrations he
has served as the one who checks
incomes and expenditures of every
department, and salaries and ex
penses of every state official and
employee. His political opinions or
affiliations play no part in the faith
ful performance of duty. In every
audit made by him he presents facts,
figures and truths without favor or
fear, without endeavoring to punish
political enemies, or reward political
,or personal fi lends. By coloring an
audit, great injustice or favor can
be done a department or an official
or employee. It is not only unfair,
but distardly, for an official to so
color an audit as to make trans
actions appear questionable or
shady, when in truth they are clean
and honest. It may place odium on
an honest official that will cause his
integrity to be questioned and do
lin injury the balance of his life,
fom Wisdom has never done such a
thing. He will not be unjust, either
as a private citizen or public official.
People know they may rely implicitly
on Tom Wisdom to give in his aud
its the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. The writer
has never had the political support
of this gentleman, nor received from
him any favor of any description,
great or small; nor shall he ask or*
ever expect any favor or service
horn this official. These things are
•aid about him for no reason or
motive save to commend the work
•nd record of a good public servant.
Colonel Frank C. Shankelford of
Athens has written to Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace a let
in which he gives his views on
e cotton situation in particular,
“id discusses in general agriculture
* nt i its multiplicity of problems.
e " nicn in the South so clearly and
ully comprehend the farming situ
ion as Frank C. Shackelford. It is
,ei > entertaining and instructive to
fea d his analysis of the South’s farm
Pfoblems. Without reviewing all his
Elements, there is one thing he im
j! resses > emhasizes and repeats in
ls c °nimunication to the Secretary
! 'Agriculture, and that is that we
rm, ' rs ' n Georgia will not reduce
lc, cage, plant soil building crops,
® or co many other things by the
J Un ar y method. He says there
. s (l) be written in the law some
an which we are required or
to co-operate, or there
be no co-operation.
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n ° of the grave problems con
°nting congress at this extra ses
j. #n now in session is just what kind
a '\s should be enacted for the
rieb| ' °f the cotton growers of the
C en ators and representatives
m the South are tremendously in
np 't about passing laws that will
3£:i ' CU^Ure * n f rom
jj ° s an( i ruin, but there is a wide
Ver gence of opinions just what is
est thing to do. Some favor
'°!untary method, while others
The Jackson Herald
are opposed to this kind of legisla
tion; but Colonel Shackelford cor
rectly interprets the situation when
ht says the voluntary method of
crop control will not accomplish far
reaching beneficent results. The
compulsory plan may not be advis
able, or wise, but if not, then an in
tensely persuasive plan may be the
propi i solution of the grave problem
confronting the cotton producers
with a crop of more than eighteen
million hales for the year 1937.
T his particular section is suffering
extremely, because it is not the
beneficiary of the bumper crop. The
diouth cut production in this vicini
ty, compared with the yield in cot
ton area of the country, thirty per
cent or more. So in this vicinity
there is a depression not only be
cause of low price, but also because
of a short cotton crop. This section
has had a short cotton crop for
three years.
Mr. 0. L. Singletary is one of the
most energetic and resourceful citi
zens of this city or county. Only
three years has he been residing in
this midst, yet no man is a more
optimistic believer in the future
possibilities and achievements of this
county than Mr. Singletary. Reared
in North Carolina, a leading tobacco
state, Mr. Singletary believes Jack
son county has just as good tobacco
Soil as the same Piedmont region in
the “Tar Heel State.” Experts,
both official and private citizens,
concur with his analysis of the situ
ation. One man said, “Jackson coun
ty has possibilities of tobacco cul
ture just as South Georgia or North
Carolina. Some men will make a
success of tobacco growing here, and
some a failure, just as some farmers
accumulate property by growing cot
ton, while others go broke. It de
pends on the man.”
“The Early History of Jackson
County,” written by that eminent
writer and scholar, G. J. N. Wilson,
says the money crop grown here by
white pioneers was tobacco. Mr.
Singletary points to this with satis
faction. He also believes in raising
cattle, hogs and chickens. There is
no section where bermuda and other
pasture grasses grow in greater lux
uriance than right here in this coun
ty, which grasses are of inestimable
value in live stock production. He
believes every farmer should have
enough cattle, hogs and chickens,
not only to supply his own family,
but a surplus to market. Some cot
ton, some tobacco, some cattle,
should be produced in this county,
so that cotton will not be the only
money crop. He said, “Jackson
must have some other money crop
besides cotton. The time has come
when agriculture here cannot suc
ceed without a variety of crops.”
Mr. Singletary is devoting much of
his time and using his resources to
help develop a more successful agri
culture in Jackson. He not only be
lieves in growing more than one
money crop, and in .cattle, but he
is an ardent advocate of conserva
tion, the prevention of soil erosion,
and reforestration.
This writer favors all legitimate
investments receiving a dividend, and
fair compensation for those who
produce, whether the investment is
in industries or agriculture, or
whether laborers till the soil or en
gage in other pursuits. The oil mill
industry, for instance, is entitled to
reasonable dividends on their capital
stock; but the farmer who grows the
cotton seed should be paid by the
oil mills fair and just prices, so that
the farmers may have some profits,
also. Some discussion is being car
ried on in the newspapers between a
representative of oil mills and a
banker and farmer at Greensboro,
Ga. One thing certain, every per
son who handles cotton seed or cot
ton makes a greater profit than the
man who grows the cotton and the
cotton seed. The oil mills and farm
ers should co-operate in such a way
as to give the oil mill a dividend,
and the farmer a profit in the seed
grown by him.
H. C. Tate of Atlanta, who hav
ing spent three months in an At
lanta hospital and underwent a very
serious operation, spent last week
end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin C. Tate, of Jefferson. We are
glad to see him out again.
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JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Secretary Wallace Report* To
President Wants Security For
Farmer And Consumer
“Security for both and
consumer” is the theme of the an
nual report just submitted by Secre
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace to President Roosevelt. Out
lining an agricultural program de
signed to promote security for the
farmer and consumer, and to encour
age balanced increasing production
on farms and in factories, the report
analyzes the community of interest
that exists between farmers and
city dwellers. It declares that “On
this foundation, with the tools of
group unity used in truly democratic
processes, we can begin to build
security for farmer and consumer.”
Pointing out that the agricultural
supply situation is very different
now from what it was four or five
yeas ago, the Secretary observes
that the continued assent of con
sumers to farm programs designed
to give farmers a fair and stable in
come, will depend on the willingness
of the farmers to keep the granaries
full.
Wallace declared in his report
that maintenance of an ever-normal
granary is the farmer’s duty to the
consumer. The consumer, in return,
may repay the farmer by helping to
safeguard farmers from bad results
when the granary overflows, the re
port continued.
The Secretary said that while the
ever-normal granary will be most
useful in the production and con
sumption of corn and wheat, it can
also be applied, in a different way,
to cotton.
About the cotton situation, the
report says:
“It seems improbable that this
country will regain its former pro
portionate share in the world’s cot
ton trade; but it may win a greater
total export trade in cotton than it
has ever had before. Cotton con
sumption is increasing, despite the
competition of rayon and other syn
thetic textile fibers. Better condi
tions in international trade might in
crease the consumption immensely,
perhaps in directions as yet scarce
ly entered upon. There is a large
potential demand for cotton cloth
ing, which will become actual as
purchasing power rises. Certain of
the newer cotton-growing countries
will probably themselves supply the
increase in their domestic demand;
but even in Europe economic recov
ery will mean more consumption of
cotton, and presumably some in
crease in the demand for American
growths. It does not follow, be
cause world competition in cotton is
increasing, that the United States
must resign itself to a constantly
diminishing cotton trade.
“The retention ofV)ur place in
the world’s cotton market will re
quire vigorous action along two
lines: First, and most important,
toward improved international trade
relationships, and a more liberal at
titude by the United States itself
toward imports; and second, toward
a rational crop adjustment, which
will correctly balance price against
volume so as to give the largest net
farm income. In the long run the
world price of cotton will be de
termined by the total world supply
and demand relationship. Cotton
acreage adjustment in the United
States should be a flexible, changing
adaptation to the changing domestic
and world market situation, with al
lowance for the necessity of selling
abroad each year something like 40
percent of our cotton crop.
“Loans have their place in cotton
policy; but used for any length of
time to keep the domestic price of
cotton above the world price, they
have two bad results; (1) The Gov
ernment acquires a huge supply of
cotton in loan stocks that constitute
a weight on prices of American cot
ton, and (2) American cotton does
not move freely into the export
trade because foreign cotton, unaf
fected by such loans, can be had at
a lower price. The 10-cent cotton
loan of 1933 helped to give farmers
rather than speculators the advant
age of the subsequent rise of prices,
and this year’s 9-cent loan should
check the price decline. Neverthe
less, such loans are stimulants.
They may do hax - m if over-used or
used in the wrong way. High loans
necessitate rigid control of produc
tion; other wise the Government lets
itself in for a heavy loss. Then, as
Census Cards Distributed
For Umemployed
The Unemployment Census began
in every community of the United
States Tuesday morning and cards
were distributed by every post office
in the nation.
The Jefferson postmaster has ask
ed every person to fill out a card
if they come under one of the fol
lowing classes:
(1) —Persons who are totally un
employed, able to work and want to
work.
(2) —Persons who are partly em
ployed and want more work.
(3) —Persons who are working on
WPA or any other emergency work
project, supported by public funds.
All cards were distributed Tues
day and must be maile dduring the
next four days, Saturday being the
last day in which cards are to be
mailed.
Persons who are not familiar
with the census are asked to come
to the post office, and an explanation
will be given.
117 LOSE LIVES IN NATION’S
TRAFFIC
At least 117 persons died in traf
fic accidents over the week end—
some in wet, stormy weather in the
east on Saturday, and the remainder
as a warm, bright Sunday attract
ed thousands to the highways.
Michigan led the death parade
with 14 fatalities. Pennsylvania was
second with 10, and Illinois had
eight. Georgia had only two.
Mrs. C. O. Willias, 32, of Atlanta,
was killed near Center Hill when the
car in which she was riding crashed
into a pole Sunday.
Virginia Davis, 5, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Shalva Davis of Gain
esville, was killed Sunday in a col
lision near Duluth.
THE FARM TENANT ACT
J. \. Johnson, well known Jack
so.> -.junty planter, is one of nine
prominent Georgians who constitute
the State Farm Security Advisory
Committee. This committee will
name the counties to be included in
the farm purchase loan program of
the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant
Act.
Under terms of the act, passed by
the last session of Congress, 10 mil
lion dollars was provided for tenant
purchase loans in 300 counties
throughout the nation. Of this
amount, Georgia was allotted $635,-
003. The list of Georgia coun
ties in which loans will be made has
not yet been announced.
WOMAN PRESIDENT? NO!, SAYS
MRS. FDR
New York.—The market for a
woman President went down so far
it almost disappeared Saturday un
der the bearish influence of Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
No woman seemed to want the
job after the First Lady declared in
Illinois:
“I don’t believe a woman could
he President for some time to come,
as women have not yet enough ex
perience in public office to command
the following and confidence of the
country as a whole.”
the American proportion of the
world’s production declines, it takes
more curtailment of our acreage to
produce a given increase in the
world price.
“There are limits beyond which
the adjustment of cotton production
cannot be pressed. These limits al
so influence the amount of our
cotton-growing industry far above
the profitable demand, there are
limits to the profitable acreage.
Continued unrestricted production
would mean very low prices. Too lit
tle and too much production may be
equally disastrous. The welfare of
the South requires a middle course,
which will keep the place of the
United States in the world’s cotton
market without swamping that mark
et periodically. The South needs in
creased production of home food
and feed crops, stimulation of cot
ton consumption within the United
States, continued moderate 1 adjust
ment of production, continued soil
conservation and soil building, and
conservation payments including
price-adjustment payments to the
co-operating producers.’’
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
Thursday, November 18, 1937.
WORK ON JEFFERSON
GAINESVILLE ROAD
Contract Made With County By
State Highway Board, Work Be
ing Done And Contract Carried
Out By Roy Jackson of Winder.
The State Highway Board has
given to Jackson County Commis
sioners a contract to clear and grub,
grade and soil 4.70 miles of road
from Jefferson towards Gainesville.
The terminus of the project is the
top of the hill just this side South
Oconee river, at the Webb old place.
The contract was made on Septem
ber 9th, and is signed by W. L. Mil
ler, Chairman, and E. A. Stanley,
State Highway Engineer, represent
ing the State Highway Department;
and John C. Turner, Chairman, of
the County Commissioners of this
county, representing the county.
On September 24, R. W. McCrum,
Office Engineer, notified the County
Board that work could begin.
The contract includes clearing and
grubbing, comon, borrow and ditch
excavation, surfacing with local ma
terial and select material, piping,
etc. The price paid is twenty-five
cents per cubic yard for common
excavation, fifty cents ditch excava
tion, fifty cents for surfacing, and
one hundred dollars per acre for
clearing and grubbing. The total
amount of this contract is $26,586.-
51.
To the contract is attached a sheet
which provides, “No contract is fro
be sublet. If any part of any con
tract is sublet, such contract is to
become null and void, and no furth
er payments made from the time
the Treasurer of the State Highway
Board is officially notified by the
State Highway Engineer or any
member of the Board, until it is in
structed to proceed with the pay
ments by the State Highway Board.
Placed in all county contracts upon
instruction of the Chairman of the
State Highway Board.” A provis
ion in the contract is to the effect
that no part of the work shall be
sublet, except upon the approval of
the State Highway Board.
The Board of County Commission
ers of Jackson made a contract with
Roy Jackson, Barrow County, on
September 7.
Roy Jackson leased and rented to
the county his machinery, equip
ment, tools and labor in doing the
work embraced in the contract by
the State Highway Board to Jackson
County, at the same unit price the
State Highway Board contracted to
pay Jackson County, with the total
amounting to the same $25,586.51.
In other words, the contract was
.transferred to Roy v Jackson, with
these provisos.
In doing this work, Roy Jack
son shall use the convict labor of
Jackson county from time to time,
the compensation for such labor be
ing SI.OO per day to the county for
each convict so used, which shall be
retained by the county out of esti
mate sent by the State Highway
Board for work done. This is the
price allowed by the State Highway
Board for convict labor to the coun
ties in road building. This county’s
Commissioners, therefore, receive
compensation for convicts at the
same price received by them from
the State Highway Board.
The contract also has a provision
any specific item shown on said sche
dule which party of the first part,
the County, may be able to accom
plish without the use of any ma
chinery, equipment, tools and labor
of second party, the Contractor,
shall be performed by it, and the
amount set out as the unit price
therefor, shall be reserved and re
tained by party of the first part,
which is the County.
The price of twenty-five cents per
cubie yard for common excavation,
fifty cents for ditch excavation, and
fifty cents for surfacing, and one
hundred dollars per acre for clear
ing and grubbing, are considered
prices at which a reasonable profit
may be made.
The contract is to be completed
without delay.
Work has been in progress on this
project for some time, errl consid
erable dirt has been moved.
BISHOP, 70, LOOKS FOR 10
MORE
Hope, Ark. Seventy-year-old
Bishop John M. Moore, of Dallas,
Texas, told the Little Rock confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, that he planned to
remain active at least another 10
years after his retirement from the
house of bishops next year.
“I’m only 70 and plan to remain
active at least 10 years, even though
the general conference may be
through with me,” Bishop Moore
said. “I plan to carry on in church
work.”
The conference immediately
adopted a memorial to the general
conference requesting it to amend its
regulations in such a manner that
Bishop Moore’s retirement might be
extended four years.
“Thank you,” the churchman
said, after the memorial was adopt
ed, “but I believe I would rather re
main on the outside.”
Vol. 62. No. 16.
SPECIAL ASSEMBLY
WEEK AWAY
Only a few days remain until the
Georgia General Assembly meets in
extra session to consider revision of
the state's tax system and several
other vital matters.
Governor Rivers has tentatively
and unofficially set the date for
Monday, November 22. He indicat
ed last week his official call would
not be made until a day or two be
fore actual convening.
Already, John B. Spivey, presi
dent of the Senate, and Roy V.
Harris, speaker of the House, have
opened their offices at the Capitol,
to begin work of organization.
According to present indications,
the official call will contain the fol
lowing points: .
1. Tax Revision.
2. Prison Reform.
3. Civil Service.
4. Local Bills.
5. Departmental Bills.
6. Enabling Acts for new consti
tutional amendments.
7. Correction of defects in exist
ing legislation passed by the last ses
sion of the General Assembly.
Governor Rivers has made clear
that he will not suggest any specific
measures for taxation, but will
present a number of alternative
plans. He said even these, however,
will be suggestions, for if the Legis
lature wishes to enact some creation
of its own, he is perfectly willing, so
long as it will finance* his program.
Georgia Has Record Red
Cross Year
State-wide accomplishments of
the American Red Cross in the past
year set a peace-time record in
health, safety and disaster activities,
is reported by Judge W. W. Dickson,
chairman of the Jackson County
Chapter.
Red Cross membership in the
state also sprang sharply upward to
the highest point it has reached
since the world war—68,163 mem
bers, he said, and Chapter officials
in Jefferson, along with other Red
Cross officers throughout the state,,
are determined to reach an even
higher goal this year.
Nationally, Judge Dickson added,
the Red Cross has just completed its
busiest year since 1917-18.
In addition to other achievements,
the Jefferson Chapter, and other Red
Cross Societies in the state, con
tinued aid to disabled ex-service
men, their dependents, and to men
still in active military service, giving
assistance to more than 5,700 cases*
“These accomplishments show a
marked increase over previous!
years,” Judge Dickson added. ButJ
they are nevertheless only a start
along the road which we must travel.
If we had the means, all of our
services could be doubled, and even
trebled, and still not meet all of the
demands with which we are con
fronted.
“What we need is more partners
under this Red Cross emblem—
more members to share in the work
we are doing. So remember the
Red Cross, and greet the Red Cross
worker who comes to you with a
smile—and with your membership
fee.”
GUARD AGAINST COLDS;
WARNING IS SOUNDED
BY DR. ABERCOMBIE
Georgians were warned Saturday
by Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, director
of the State Department of Public
Health, to be on their guard against
colds and to take extreme pre
cautions when such illness develops
with its resultant danger of influen
za or pneumonia.
Overheating of homes and offices,
with lack of proper ventilation and
healthful humidity, he cited as a
leading cause of respiratory diseas
es. Dr. Abercrombia advised pa
tients to go to bed immediately and
send for a physician as soon as
symptoms of a cold or any slight
symptoms are felt.
He recommended the fundamental
rules of avoiding crowds, keeping
away from persons who are cough
ing or sneezing, regular sleeping
hours, avoidance of drafts and pro
per consumption of nourishing food.
Because pneumonia frequently at
tacks well persons suddenly, he said,
no cold should be considered a minor
ailment.