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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A Year—ln Advance
Published Weekly
Entered at The .Jefferson Poitoffiec
as Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON ...Bus. M’g’r.
JEFFERSON, GA., NOV. 18, 1937.
THE JOBLESS CENSUS
No census ever taken hns offered
as much practical inducement for
co-operation as the jobless census
which began Tuesday. Those who
fill out and return the forms will be
doing a much larger favor for
themselves than for the Govern
ment, since the primary object of
the whole undertaking is the ulti
mate provision of jobs for all who
need and deserve them.
As the President has put it, “The
problem is both social and economic.
Our mental well-being requires the
removal of fear from the minds of
those below the borderline of neces
sity. Our economic well-being calls
for the stimulus that wages, paid in
for productive labor, will add to
our national income. To put all
willing workers to work calls for
long-term planning, and long-term
planning calls for facts.”
Surely it is not unreasonable to
expect that those who stand to profit
from this planning will gladly furn
ish these facts.
All persons who are totally un
employed, able to work, and want
to work are eligible to respond to
the census, whether they have lost
other jobs or are seeking their first
jobs. Naturally there is no place
in this sort of census for those who
want to switch jobs, who would like
to improve themselves. If they have
a job already, whether and ully satis
fied with it or not, they cannot regis
ter as being jobless in the hope of
getting a fresh call.
On the eve of the President’s visit
it behooves Georgia to complete its
jobless census promptly and in full
detail, apart from the obvious self
interest which will be served.—At
lanta Journal.
STATE COTTON INCOME LOW
Cotton, Georgia’s staple crop, nets
only an average of S2OO per year
per family.
Of the *B3 million dollars in cot
ton gross receipts, 40 million dollars
is spent for commercial fertilizer to
make it grow.
These alarming facts were relat
ed to members of the Business and
Professional Women’s Club last
week by Dr. Arthur Raper. professor
of sociology at Agnes Scott, in a
discussion of the state’s resources.
Although Georgia has numerous
and rich resources, Dr. Raper point
ed out, there is danger of outside
interests controlling returns from
their development, just as Texas’
oil wealth goes to enrich a clique of
New York investors.
Also alarming is the fact popu
lation is decreasing in the richer
areas of Georgia, thus lowering
property values there, and aggre
gating in the poorer areas, and espe
cially in a 15 or 20-mile radius
bordering the larger cities, he stat
ed.
3 JUDGES TO AIR TAX PACT
SUIT
Suit seeking to set aside the
state’s contract with John Armis
teau, tax expert, has been set for
hearh g at 9 a. m. Thursday before
a three-judge court in Fulton Su
perior Court.
Judge John D. Humphries, E. E.
Pomeroy and Virlyn B. Moore will
hear tne petition.
The suit was brought by C. P.
Aiken as a citizen ana taxpayer, and
names the State Revenue Commis
sion and Mr. Armistead as defend
ants.
The petition alleges the contract
under which Mr. Armistead is to re
ceive 20 per cent of collection on
intangibles turned up by him is il
legal and contrary to public policy.
In the election of officials for the
city of Commerce held last week
537 votes were cast with the follow
ing results: Mayor, Dr. J. C. Verner,
531. Councilman-at-large, J. N.
Harris, 387 votes; H. F. Bray, 367;
M. B. Clinkscales, 296. For "Coun
cilman for first ward, Tom C. Meal
or, 65; W. J. Porter, 56; Second
ward, T. F. Harden, 128; C. C. Wat
ers, 82; third ward, T. C. Hardman,
58; Ila Ison Carlton 41; E. B.
Crow, 26; fourth ward, H. C. Sims,
SO.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betti)
The Associated Press Gallery on
the third floor of the National Capi
tol hus been repaired since congress
adjourned on August 21, at a cost of
seven thousand dollars. Hon. Wil
liam J. Donalson is President of the
Capitol Press Club, and a Democrat
and a fine gentleman, indeed. This
Newspaper Press dispatches news
all over the United States. It has
quite a number of press correspond
ents from all the 48 States of the
Union. #
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Hon. Sam Rayburn, Democratic
majority leader of the House, from
the Fourth District of Texas, went
to the White House, November 12,
and told President Franklin D.
Roosevelt that he called him back
for the special session of Congress
just when the persimons were ripe
and the o’possums were fat in the
Lone Star State of the Union. Mr.
Rayburn is a fine man, and very
I popular on Capitol Hill, in both
Democratic and Republican circles.
Associate Justice Louis D. Bran
dies, of the United States Supreme
| Court, observed his eighty-first birth
day on November 13, at work. He
has been a member of the high
bench for twenty-one years, appoint
ed by the late President Woodrow
Wilson, of New Jersey, in 19T6.
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Honoring Governor and Mrs.
Clyde R. Hoey, of North Carolina,
the North Carolina Society of Wash
ington, D. C., will open its winter
social season with a reception dance
card party at the Shoreham Hotel,
November 18. Governor Hoey will
be introduced by United States
Senator Robert R. Reynolds, of said
State, in a brief talk.
Fomer U. S. Senator Atwell F.
Pomerene, of Cleveland, Ohio, died
November 12, at his home at 6:12
p. m. He was seventy-three years
of age. He was a Democrat. He
served here in the Senate from
March 4th, 1911, to March 4th,
1923. He received the highest hon
or at the hands of two Republican
Presidents. President Calvin Cool
idge assigned him to prosecute the
Teapot Dome Oil Fraud cases; and
Former President H. C. Hoover ap
pointed him to head the R. F. C.
Board. He worked against odds to
gain an education, and in 1882 was
graduated from Princeton, New Jer
sey. He later attended the Cincin
nati, Ohio, Law School. His defeat
in 1922 was attributed to a battle
with the Anti Saloon League.
The zoo had two cows installed at
the zoo in the District of Columbia,
on November 12i to show city bred
children the origin of milk. The
fows come from the farm of Mr.
Fred Drews, of McLean, Virginia.
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The Twenty-Fifth District of Illi
nois is represented here in Congress
by Hon. Kent E. Keller, a Free Will
Baptist, who did not vote for Hon.
Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic
standard bearer in 1928. Mr. Keller
is a Democrat, and a fine man. His
majority over his Republican op
ponet was seventy-four thousand.
Attending the annual gathering of
the Land Grant College associations
in the nation’s capital were five Uni
versity officials: President Harmon
Caldwell, Dean Paul W. Chapman,
of the College of Agriculture; Di
rector Walter S. Brown, of the Agri
cultural Extension Service; J. A.
Evans, administrative assistant of
the Extension Service; and Miss
Lurline Collier, state home demon
stration agent.
A two year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. E. Moore of Greene county
fell into a wash tub and drowned
last week. The child’s mother had
been washing clothes and the baby
was left in the yard playing. The
mother went into the house to see
about dinner and when she returned
the baby was dead.
February 23 to 26 were the dates
fixed for the eleventh annual ses
sion of the Georgia Press Institute
by the committee of the Georgia
Press Association Saturday. The
Institute will meet with the Henry
W. Grady School of Journalism, The
University of Georgia, which jointly
with the Press Association sponsors
the Institute.
The Georgia woman who was
charged with putting lye in her hus
band’s whiskey was not guilty of a
very serious offense. Most of the
whiskey made and consumed in
Qeorgia has things in it much more
potent than lye.—The Valdosta Daily
Times.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Woman’s Club Meets With
Mrs. Holder
Mrs. !f. N. Holder, Mrs. Ti T. Ben
ton, Mrs. H. J. W. Kizer, Mrs. 11. D.
Dadisman and Mrs. W. D. Holliday
were hostesses on Monday afternoon
to the members of the Jefferson Wo
man’s Club, at the home of Mrs.
Holder.
The guest speaker for the after
noon’s program was Mrs. H. P. De-
Laperrierc, of Hoschton, who used
for her topic, “A Club Woman’s
Philosophy Toward Literature.” She
began her talk by stating that if one
has the right attitude toward read
ing, they will have the right atti
tude toward life, because reading
makes one think; and that we read,
first, for information; sjecond, for
recreation; ami third, for inspira
tion. Mrs. DeLaperriere spoke most
interestingly pn a number of auth
ors and their works, and also gave
extracts from some of the best loved
poems. She stated that the Bible and
some of Shakespeare’s works should
be in every one’s library, no matter
how small was one’s collection of
books.
Mrs. DeLaperriere stressed the im
portance of good reading, stating
that just as good food was needed
for the body, so good reading was
necessary to the mind. Sh„ ended
her talk by quoting:
Books are keys to wisdom,
Books are gates to lands of pleasure,
Books are paths that upward lead,
Books are friends; come, let us read.
Other enjoyable features of the
program were a piano solo by Mica
Merle Kinningham; and a poem, “In
Flanders Fields,” by Mrs. L. J. Lyle.
A most interesting business meet
ing was held, presided over by Mrs.
M. M. Bryan.
Each chairman made a most ex
cellent report, showing that the club
is functioning well in each depart
ment.
Mrs. H. E. Aderhold, public wel
fare chairman, stated she had receiv
ed $75 worth of Christmas Seals to
be sold by the club members, aided
by the pupils and teachers of Mar
tin Institute. A prize will be given
the grade selling the largest amount
of seals. Mrs. Aderhold spoke of the
great good derived from the sale of
these seals each year, and told how
this idea to help tuberculosis surfev
ers originated. Mrs. Aderhold gave
statistics of the number of deaths
each year from the great white pla
gue, and stated that eight deaths
from this disease occurred in Jack
son county last year.
Mrs. T. T. Benton, legislation
chairman, read a list of measures
passed by the legislature, and also a
list of those pending.
Other features of the business
meeting was a brief talk on agricul
tural conditions in Jackson county,
by Miss Eugenia Boone; a report
from the annual convention of the
9th district general federation in
Commerce, October 20, by Mrs. C.
H. Legg.
Mrs. M. M. Bryan, president, an
nounced Mrs. H. T. Mobley sponsor
for the Junior Woman’s Club; and
Mrs. Hubert Martin, chairman of the
Ella F. White Foundation Fund.
Mrs. J. D. Escoe, club librarian,
stated that 11 new books had been
added to the library since last month,
and that a tea would be given at the
library one afternoon during the
first week of December, a definite
date to be announced later. Mrs.
Escoe also gave a brief review of
some of the newest books.
After adjournment, the hostesses
served delicious refreshments.
Those present, were: Mesdames C.
E. Hardy, A. B. Elizer, J. A. Wills,
H. P. DeLaperriere, Gordon Harri
son, Effie Flanigan, L. J. Lyle, A. S.
Johnson, H. L. Garrison, H. W. Dav
is, J. C. Turner, H. E. Aderhold, S.
Kinningham, O. L. Singletary, H. J.
W. Kizer, H. D. Dadisman, J. N. Hol
der, T. T. Benton, Stiles Dadisman,
Hubert Martin, E. H. Crooks, W. T.
Bryan, M. M. Bryan. C. H. Legg, J.
D. Escoe, B. E. McCollum, W. S.
Pinson, Misses Sara Wills, Leona
Griffith, Beth Bailey, Eugenia Boone.
Frances Hawks, Florence Lasseter,
Esther Kinney, Elizabeth Collins,
Jean Hicks. Merle Kinningham,
Fiances Smith, Evelyn Cason, Caro
line Radford.
H. H. Payne, a Maysville, Ga.,
boy who is outstanding in agricul
tural activities at the University,
wrote a lengthy article entitled
“Camp Wilkins, Our 4-H Club
Camp.” In the first sentence he
wrote, “If our farmers of the next
generation are to succeed, they
must be as well informed as are
people in other walks of life.” That
statement alone is important enough
to write a book about.
Senator Robert La Follette of
Wisconsin differs with Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau by declar
ing that additional spending by the
government is necessary. La Fol
lette declared the Works Progress
Administration program should be
increased until a job is provided for
every employable man and that ad
ditional spending was needed to
“stem the downward spiral” in
business.
The board of regents of the Uni
versity System Saturday urged the
general assembly to write tax laws
enabling a continuance of the pres
ent “reasonable program” of the
state in behalf of education, public
health and social security. The re
gents said they believed it was pos
sible to write a “reasonable” tax
program without driving business or
enterprises from the state.
LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Mobley were
visitors in Gainesville Sunday.
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Mrs. M. M, Bryan, Mrs. J. C.
Turner aad Miss Ruby Hancock
were visitors in Atlanta Friday.
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Mrs. Alvin Holliday was a recent
visitor in Atlanta, the guest of her
daughter.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hulm were
in the city Sunday, guests of Miss
Callie Watson and Mrs. Mattie Hood.
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Mr. and Mrs. Glad Brock and
children of East Point, and Mays
Brock of Athens, were recent guests
of their mother, Mrs. C. O. Brock.
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Mrs. J. B. Pendergrass has re
turned from a visit to Col. and Mrs.
Harold Sheats at their home in East
Point.
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J. E. McElhannon of Talbotton,
and J. E. McElhannon, Jr., of North
Georgia College, spent the past
week-end in Jefferson.
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Mr. and Mrs. Comer Daley of At
lanta were in the city Sunday, visit
ing the latter’s mother, Mrs. Beulah
Whitmire.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. Harold Smith
and son, Jimmie, of New Holland,
were visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Smith Sunday.
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We regret to chronicle the illness
of two of Jefferson’s prominent
matrons, Mrs. Stanley Kesler and
Mrs. A. H. Moore. Both, however,
are convalescing.
Mr. and Mrs. O. Q. Ledford and
daughters, Misses Marion and Betty
Ann, of Columbus, were guests Sun
day of their mother, Mrs. Mamie
Foster.
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Mrs. J. E. Randolph returned Sun
day from a few days visit to her
mother and sister in Athens, both of
whom were confined to their beds
with sickness.
H. H. Chatham, who has been in
Jefferson the past year connected
with the Georgia Power Cos., has ac
cepted a position in Atlanta, and
has already taken up his duties.
Mrs. Chatham will join him there at
an early date. '
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There will be no preaching ser
vice at the Methodist church on
Sunday morning, the pastor being in
attendance at conference. However,
he expects to return in time for the
evening service. The Church School
will meet as usual at 10 a. m.
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The Missionary Society of New
Liberty church, on the Hoschton cir
cuit, has voted that all members of
the society will dedicate all eggs laid
on Sunday to the budget of the
church, and they are asking other
members of the church to let their
Sunday eggs also go for this pur
pose. The eggs will be sold, and on
the first Sunday in each month the
money will be given the preacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Blazer of
Maryville, Tenn., spent Sunday in
the city, guests of Mr. and Mrs. O.
L. Singletary. Mrs. Blazer is the
former Miss Conchita Bertran. She
was reared in Jefferson, and her
many friends always accord her a
hearty welcome when she returns
for a visit.
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Miss Mary Pendergrass is spend
ing this week in East Point, the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Harold
Sheats, during the absence of Col.
Sheats, a membor of the Fulton
County Legal Department, who is in
Washington City to appear before
the United States Supreme Court to
defend a mandamus action against
Fulton county attacking the constu
tionality of the Georgia poll tax
law. The suit was brought by Nolen
Breedlove, a war veteran, who was
refused registration as a voter a
year ago, when he declined to pay
several years’ back poll taxes.
Rev. A. B. Elizer, pastor of the
Jefferson Methodist church, Rev. R.
W. Green, pastor of the Jefferson
circuit, and Col. George W. West
moreland, a -delegate from the Gain
esville district, will go to Atlanta
Wednesday to be present at the
opening of the North Georgia Cdn
ference. Both Rev. Elizer and Rev.
Green have done splendid work dur
ing the year, and are held in
high esteem by their parishioners
and by other citizens here, and their
return by conference will meet with
sincere gratification. The appoint
ments will probably be read on Sun
day afternoon.
ROOSEVELT THEATRE
PHONE 192. • JEFFERSON, c A
7:00 TO 11:00 O’CLOCK EACH~NIGHI
Matinee Wednesday, 1:00 p. m; Friday, 1:00
Matinee Saturday at 1:00 p. m. — 3 how s
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Alice Faye, The Ritz Brother!, Don Ameche, ln
“YOU CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING”
Alio, Adventure! of a Newi Reel Cameraman, “P* c i nf;
Thorobredi”
ADMISSION 10 AND 20 CENTS
(Miss Elizabeth Collins)
SATURDAY
Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, i n
“RIDERS OF WHISTLING SKULL”
Fox Selected Comedy, “Freihiei”
Admission Matinee EVERYBODY 10 CENTS
Adminion Night, 10 and IS Cent!
(Calvin Varnum)
MONDAY
Warner Oland, Joan Woodi, J. Edward Bromberg, in
“CHARLIE CHAN ON BROADWAY”
Univerial News Reel, The Lateit In World’i Events
Also, Selected Short Subject
Admission 10 and 25 Cents
(Storey Ellington)
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, Lowell Thomas, in
“BORNEO”
CHAPTER 12, OF “THE PAINTED STALLION”
Warner Selected Short Subject, “At The Races”
Matinee Wednesday 1:00 p. m.
Admission, Matinee and Night, Everybody 10 Cents
(Miss Dortha Elder)
If your name appears in this advertisement, clip and present
it at the door for a complimentary seat.
BAPTISTS IN SESSION IN
MACON
Rev. R. M. Rigdon, pastor of the
Jefferson Baptist Church, is in Ma
con attending the 116th annual
Georgia Baptist Convention. A pas
tors conference was held Tuesday
evening, but the convention proper
was not called to order until Wed
nesday morning. At the close of
Tuesday’s session, Mercer University
and the Baptists of Macon were
joint hosts at a barbecue given at
Mercer. Dr. Aquilla Chamlee, presi
dent of Bessie Tift College, is presi
dent of the convention. Dr. B. D.
Ragsdale* historian of the conven
tion, will speak, and other noted
ministers will address the assembled
body, and reports of the year’s ac
complishments will be heard with
much interest.
NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE
TO OPEN THURSDAY
North Georgia Methodists will
open their annual conference at 9
o’clock Thursday morning at the
Wesley Memorial church, and will
vote on unification of the church
branches at 11 o’clock, Bishop W. N.
Ainsworth has announced.
Other principal items to face the
conference are pastoral assignments,
election of delegates to the gener
al conference to be held at Birming
htm. next May, and adoption of a
budget for the coming year.
Bishop Frank Smith, of Houston,
Texas, will be conference speaker
this year, preaching the Sunday ser
mon and making several other ad
dresses.
EPISODE 12—HUMAN TARGETS
Clark is swept out of the path of
+ he boulder by two of his men, the
boulder blocking off the trail be
hind the pioneers. The villians
sieze them and string them across
the mouth of the tunnel as a shield,
while they prepare to escape. The
Rider is seized in the tunnel and as
Escobedo prepares to shoot his cap
tives the Stallion comes thundering
through the tunnel, forcing Escobe
do over the edge of the cliff. Mean
while, Kit has returned with the
pioneers and they finish off the vil
lians. The trade treaty is put
through and the wagon train re
turns east, leaving the Rider, a
Goddess to the Comanche Indians, to
continue preserving peace.
Georgia’s 1937 cotton crop should
amount to about 1,470,000 baies of
500 pounds each, according to the
November 1 report of the Crop Re
porting Service. The report, re
leased last week, bases the harvest
on the 2,631,000 acres in cultiva
tion, for an estimated average yield
of 267 pounds per acre. This figure
would equal the highest yield on
record—in 1911. The average yield
■ last year was 228 pounds per acre,
and in 1935 the state average was
i235 pounds.
THussbxv; NQ VEMB!! _ [
LAXITY IN FOOD AND DRUG
LAWS
For several years now Congress
has had before it legislation that
would tighten the federal food and
drug laws. Subjected to all kinds
of pressures Congress has let the
matter slide.
Now we get the tragedy of the
“elixir of sulfanilamide,” which has
caused more than 50 deaths to date.
This tragedy can be attributed
pretty directly to the laxity of our
existing legislation. Dr. Moms
Fishbein declares bluntly in the
Journal of the American Medical As
sociation that present federal laws
governing the food and drug admin
istration are “so woefully inefficient
as to hamper its authority.”
Let’s hope that we don’t need an
other tragedy like this one to jar our
national legislators into action.
LATEST REPUBLIC
ACTION FILM HAS
MYSTERIOUS PLOT
Again the “Three Mesquiteers,
who are becoming traditional figures
of the romantic screen, are on the
war path in a hard ridin’, gripping
struggle with a mysterious cult ot
the Great Painted Desert.
The film which makes four of the
series of eight being produced star
ring Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan
and Max Terhune, will open Satur
day at the Roosevelt Theatre, with
the newly discovered Mary Russell
as the leading woman.
It will be remembered by all lov
ers of clean wholesome, outdoor ac
tion drama that the “Three
quiteers” first rode to the aid of dis
abled World War veterans and their
families who were being ousted fiom
homesteads by lordly cattle barons.
Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of
Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta,
says of a former Jeffersonian: B r '
L. E. Roberts, of Fairburn, was
preaching at Druid Hills the other
night on “The Heart of Christian
Service,” basing his sermon on ‘he
13th chapter of First Corinthians.
He helped us to understand anew
that “out of the heart are the is
sues of life,” and that only 1 ' u
life which. is hid with Christ in tod
can possess the surpassing sense o
peace and power for which we deep
ly and restlessly yearn.”
The Public Works Administration
has called for bids oh
000,000 worth of new projects m
nine southern states. The list
eludes school buildings, pa' ,ll
waterworks, and sewerage projet. ,
electrical plants and hospital-
Cities and towns in Georgia get ' r
projects are Athens, Atlanta, C
town, Ft. Valley, Demorest, Gum
ming, Senoia, Augusta, Rutledge.