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THE JACKSON HERALD
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Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice
ut> Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON Bu*. M’g’r.
JEFFERSON. GA., NOV. 25. 1937.
THE LEGISLATURE’S
JOB
The Legislature came into session
Monday with some definite tasks to
perform. The members must of
course pass enabling acts for the
constitutional amendments voted by
the people last summer. There are
also some indefinite tasks within
the scope of the call, and it is the
Legislature’s approach to these mat
ters in which the people are most
keenly concerned.
Taxes have already been increas
-ed this year some eight to ten mil
lion dollars, and there is no doubt
ing that additional levies would
cause further uncertainty in busi
ness, which needs just now to move
forward firmly and with confidence
to the new levels 1938 ought to pro
vide. 1 ,
One of the enabling acts will give
■effect to the “property classification”
amendment ratified last June. This
affect, so-called intangibles, and the
Legislature should be careful to pro
vide a fair and reasonable tax on
this type of property. Otherwise,
instead of bringing it on the tax
books of Georgia, the lawmakers
will simply it to - be shifted to
tax books elsewhere, 'j
Intelligent revision of some of
our tax laws does not necessarily
mean increased taxes/ 1 ' We believe
the Legislature realizes this, because
each member has had ample time to
sound out the sentimerlt in his own
community. The cue of the session
might well be taken fr6m the special
session of Congress, which intends
to relieve some forms of taxation
and seek a more equitable adjust
ment of the cost of government, but
which is committed to a balancing
of the budget, not through higher
levies but through strict economies.
—Atlanta Journal.
MARBLE BUST TO HONOR
FORMER MARTIN INSTI
TUTE PUPIL
A marble bust of Miss Moina
Michael, Georgia’s “Poppy Lady,”
will be unveiled on Saturday, No
vember 27, at 12 o’clock on the
main floor of the State Capitol in
Atlanta.
The bust is a tribute to Miss
Michael from the American Legion
and the American Legion Auxiliary
in gratitude for her work in making
Poppy Day a success. It was Miss
Michael, who, when she was con
nected with the Y. M. C. A., over
seas headquarters during the World
War, had the idea that the poppy
should become the symbol of re
membrance of the men who were
killed in battle. The poppy was
adopted by the American Legion
and has been used by them ever
since in carrying on their rehabili
tation program.
Miss Michael is a native of Wal
ton county, and received her high
school education at Martin Institute.
She is connected at present with the
State LTniversity.
FARMERS CAN GROW
COTTON FOR TIRES
Pointing out that the tire industry
Iws used about 8 percent of the
total domestic cotton consumption
in the past 17 years, E. C. West
brook, Georgia Extension Service
cotton specialist, reminded Georgia
farmers that they can best grow the
type of cotton needed in the manu
facture of tires by joining in the
one-variety movement.
“Practically £>o per cent of the
fabd" in the modern passenger car
tire is made from cotton 1 1-32 inch
es in staple length,” Westbrook de
clared. “Cottton farmers who band
togetner in a one-variety communi
ty and grow one adapted variety of
cotton exclusively, stand a much
better chance of producing cotton of
a Staple length required by the tire
industry. J:
“It i obviously to the grower’s
advantage to produce a befter length
RtnpV,” he continued, “since it
brio"* higher prices. With the con
nr>ption of cotton in tire making in
crearinr steadily, there will likely be
a continued strong demand for cot
tor. staple of an inch or longer.”
Georgia Legislature Con- •
venes In Special Session
The general assembly of Georgia
convened at the State Capitol Mon
day. The main purpose of the ses
sion is to revise the tax system; in
other words, to “modernize” it. The
legislature will have an opportunity
to decide whether or not to abolish
the ad valorem tax, or to retain it.
It will be called upon to provide
funds to meet the appropriations of
$20,403,000 made by the regular
session. At present this amount is
not in sight. Just what ottr law
makers have in mind has pot yet
developed. In a radio address Sat
urday night, Governor Rivers re
minded his unseen audienebs that
money spent in taxation is not lost
to the people. The Governor asked
his listeners to consider the blessings
of taxation rather than the burden
of taxation. He said tax money,
after collection by the state, Is im
mediately placed again in the chan
nels of trade through salaries of of
ficials and employes and through ex
penditures for supplies and dispen
sation of the benefits the state gov
ernment has undertaken since he as
summed office.
Governor Rivers reviewed the ac
complishments of his administration
since its induction and outlined his
program. He defended increase in
the state budget by 10 million dol
lars, pointing out that practically
every dollar of the increase is
scheduled for education, health and
social security purposes.
There is no legal time limit, to an
extra session of the legislature.
Governor Rivers has expressed a
hope that this one will adjourn with
in a month’s time, but it is predict
ed by many that a much longer ses
sion is in prospect. >
Enabling acts for various amend
ments to the Constitution adopted
in June will be enacted. Principal
among these are the homestead and
personal property tax exemption
amendrr^ents; jurisdiction in patrol
traffic cases for ordinaries; extension
of pensions to Confederate widows
married prior to January 1, 1920,
I and others.
Corrections will be made in sever
! al measures passed during the regu
lar session, notable among these be
ing the new net income tax law and
the buss and truck maintenance tax
bill. . I
The Legislature also will be call
ed upon to pass an avalanche of
local bilks and general bills with local
application, as well as general bills
that are “pets” of various members
of the Assembly, which for one
reason or another, failed during the
regular session.
Season Is Opened For
Hunting In Georgia
Atlanta.—Gun fire sounded Satur
day on Georgia’s wildlife front.
Hunters squinted over their sights
from north Georgia’s hills to the
coastal marshes, and many a trap
was set for unsuspecting game.
The Georgia open season for
quail, wild turkey, raccoon and (in
south Georgia only) dove, opened
Saturday. The quail and turkey
season runs until March 1; raccoon
and possum until February 28;
squirrels, January 15.
South Georgia dove shooting ex
tends until January 31; in north
Georgia the season opens December
20 and runs to January 31.
State bag limits are: Two turkeys
a season, fifteen quail daily or thirty
a week; fifteen doves daily.
Deer season, which opened No
vember 15, lasts until January 5,
with bag limit two bucks (no does)
for the season.
Open season on all waterfowl be
gins November 27.
AUDIT REVEALS PROFIT ON
TAGS
Auto license plates for which
Georgia motorists pay $3 a set cost
10.845 cents per cent to manufac
ture, according to an audit of the
State Prison Commission filed Fri
day by State Auditor Tom Wisdom
with Governor Rivers. The audit is
for the first six months of 1937.
The audit also revealed that the
prison commission has repaid $87,-
209.58 of its $200,000 obligation to
the State Highway under a
contract entered into in 1931.. The
money was loaned for the purchase
of land and other, materials by the
prison commission and was to be
paid back from profits on the manu
facture of tags.
During the first half of 1937 the
audit shows receipts plus balance
carried over of $186,399.92 and pay
ments of $105,775.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
COUNTY AGENT S
COLUMN
Farm Program Committeemen To !
Be Elected
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration has ordered that com
mitteemen for the 1938 farm pro
gram be elected during the month
of November. Complying with their
request, we have set Monday, No
vember 29th, from nine to twelve
o’clock, and the following places for
electing committeemen:
Jefferson-Harrisburg Districts,
Court House, Jefferson.
Minish District, Kiwanis Hall,
Commerce.
Attica-Red Stone Districts, Hale
Filling Station.
Talmo-Cunningham Districts, Mur
phy’s Store, Talmo.
Wilson-Miller District, Maysville.
Newtown-Center Districts, School
House, Nicholson.
Randolph-Hoschton-Porter Dis
tricts, Hoschton.
Any one who is co-operating with
the 1937 farm program, and who
shows evidence that he will co-oper
ate with the 1938 program, pr per
son living on a farm co-operating
with the 1937 or 1938 program, will
be eligible to vote in the election
for committeemen.
Wc would like to have a large
number of farmers go to the polls
and express their preference for
committeemen. We would also like
to have men elected who are capable
of doing the work expected of them.
It may be that we will have some
kind of compulsory farm legislation
in 1938, and we wish to assure our
people at this time that the com-
mitteemen elected by them from the
district will make all adjustments
of acreage and yields per acre. The
County Agent and his force will
only attend to records and the cleri
cal work connected with the pro
gram. We will not assign any yield
of acres to any individual farmer.
This will be done by the committee
men from each district. We would
like to have men elected, therefore,
who will assume this responsibility
have courage to tell his people what
has been done.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
GEORGIA U. S. SENATORS HAVE
SAME SECRETARIES
The secretarial assistants of the |
Georgia senators—their office forces, j
if you please—remain practically as
they were at the last session of con
gress, what with Miss Christie ’ Belle
Kennedy occupying first place in
Senator George’s office, and Joseph
J. Chappell heading Senator Rus
sell’s corps.
Senator George’s roster, in full,
follows: Miss Kennedy, of Tifton,
secretary; Queen Holden, of Atlan
ta; Thad McDaniel, of Bainbridge;
Bettie Burnett, of Sandersville, and
Caroline Glover, of Newnan.
The roster of Senator Russell’s
office includes: Joe Chappell, of
Dublin, secretary; Joseph B. Wat
son, of Dublin; Margaret Appleby,
of Winder; Rachel Styles, of Atlan
ta; Jewel Cofield, of Monroe, and
Evelyn Wilson, of Duluth.
GEORGIA CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
ELECT OFFICERS
Fitzgerald, Ga.—The Rev. Hoke
S. Dickenson of Valdosta was elect
ed president of the Georgia con
vention of the Christian church at
final sessions here.
A. R. Mayfield, lay leader of At
lanta, was elected vice president, the
Rev. Howard Matheny of Waycross,
second vice president, and the Rev.
Oceola Highsmith of Monroe, record
ing secretary. A. D. Strober of
Savannah was chosen Georgia repre
sentative on the committee of rec
ommendations of the international
convention of the church, and Mrs.
F. A. Beach, Savannah, was elected
to head the missionary society.
At least 109 persons were killed
over the week-end on the nation’s
highways. Four of these were Geor
gians. W. S. Whitaker and M. W.
Deen of Alma were killed when the
automobile in which they were rid
ing overturned. C. K. Hutton, Jr.,
of Mclntyre, and Mrs. J. W. Hardin
of Hardwich, were killed in a head
on crash near Milledgeville.
J. C. Edwards, aged 83, of Clark
esville, who passed away Sunday in
an Atlanta hospital, was bom in
Jackson county. His wife was Miss
Emma Eugenia Wynn of Banks
county. Surviving Mr. Edwards are
two sons, H. E. Edwards of Atlanta,
and Gus C. Edwards of Cocoa, Fla.;
two sisters, Mrs. Albert G. Rice off
Cornelia, and Mrs. Emma Guenther
of Atlanta; a brother, Sylvester J.
Edwards of Smyrna.
President Roosevelt Post
pones Visit to Gainesville
All Georgia was greatly disap
pointed Monday as President Roose
velt announced in Washington that,
on advice of his physician and his
dentist, he has been forced to post
pone his annual Thanksgiving visit
to the state.
Four major events in which the
President was to have been a lead
ing participant likewise were post
poned.
The chief executive announced
that he would leave Washington
late this week or early next t eek
on a brief fishing trip off the Coast
of Florida, after which he hope- to
come to Georgia.
The events delayed by the change
in plans are:
The celebration marking the re
building of Gainesville following its
disastrous tornado and fire of April,
1936.
The conference of the nine south
eastern govern.? rs with President
Roosevelt at Warm Springs.
Dedication of , tbs new Warm
Springs Foundation chapel by Mr.
Roosevelt.
The annual dinner of the Presi
dent and his fellow patients at
Warm Springs.
U. D. C. CHAPTER HOLD
INTERESTING MEETING
The Jefferson Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, held
the regular monthly meeting on last
Wednesday afternoon in the Baraca
room of the, Baptist church, with
Mrs. G. W. Bailey, Mrs. Ethel Han
cock, Mrs. John Hardy, Miss Beth
Bailey, hostesses.
The meeting opened with the
Ritual, led by Mrs. B. E. McCollum,
followed by the chapter song and sa
lutes to the Confederate and Ameri
can flags.
Mrs. J. C. Bennett presided over
the business meeting. The treasur
er reported $13.71 in treasury.
A motion was made and passed
to buy some of the books written
by the late Mildred Lewis Ruther
ford, to be used by the chapter as
program material.
The corresponding secretary was
asked to write a card of thanks co
Mrs. Estelle Cash Pike, who sent
the chapter a large number of copies
of the Confederate Veteran. These
magazines will be also valuable to
the program committee.
Mrs. T. T. Benton, chairman of
the finance committee, stated that
the fruit cake will be given away
the second Saturday in December,
and urged that all who had tickets
turn them in by that date.
The nominating committee sub
mitted the following names as of
ficers for next year:
Mrs. J. C. Bennett, President.
Mrs. L. J. Lyle, First Vice-Presi
dent.
Mrs. Jack Murphy, Second Vice-
President.
Mrs. J. D. Escoe, Recording Secre
tary.
Miss Vennie Barnett, Treasurer.
Mrs. J. E. Randolph, Registrar.
Mrs. John Getzen, Historian.
Mrs. J. D. Escoe, Corresponding
Secretary.
At the close of the business meet
ing, a most interesting program was
presented by Miss Beth Bailey, Mrs.
Lizzie Bennett, Mrs. J. E. Randolph
and Mrs. J. D. Escoe.
After adjournment, the hostesses
served delicious refreshments.
Those present, were: Mesdames
G. W. Bailey, John Hardy, T. T.
Benton, B. E. McCollum, J. C. Ben
nett, J. D. Escoe, G. W. Foster, J.
E. Randolph, Ethel Hancock, Guy
Strickland, Misses Beth Bailey, Ma
beth Storey, Vennie Barnett.
Commissioner Phil Brewster of
the State Department of Public
Safety has stated a “deadline” for
securing drivers licenses would be
set soon and urged motorists to ob
tain the permits to avoid standing
an examination. “We postponed
the deadline for securing drivers
licenses a few weeks ago iir order to
give every driver in the state ample
time to get blanks and mail in ap
plications,” he said. “Over the past
few weeks we have issued approx
imately 300,000 licenses and the
time is nearing when we must be
gin a cheok-up of drivers.”
Surprising may seem, ap
proximately two-thirds of the motor
ists in the United States have never
purchased anew car. There are
26.000,000 car owners in the United
States, according to Tod Stoops, of
the Hoosier Motor Club, in Indian
apolis, yet only 9,000,000 have
bought new cars.
ROOSEVELT THEATRE
PHONE 192. ~ JEFFERSON, G A
7:00 TO 11:00 O’CLOCK EACH NIGHT
Matinee Wednesday, IsOO p. m; Friday, 1:(X).
Matinee Saturday at liOO p. m.—3 shows
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Anthony Martin, Leah Ray, Dixie Dunbar, J n
“SING AND BE HAPPY”
Also, Selected Short Subject
ADMISSION 10 AND 20 CENTS
(H. L. Bentley)
SATURDAY
Tex Ritter, The Boy Scouts, in
“THE RIDES WITH THE BOY SCOUTS’’
Selected Comedy, Charlie Chase, in “The Big Squirt”
Admission Matinee EVERYBODY 10 CENTS
Admission Night, 10 and 15 Cents
(Miss Emma Hutching)
—, t— —.—
MONDAY
Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, in
‘THINK FAST MR. MOTO”
Universal News Reel, The Latest In World’s Events
Also, Selected Short Subject
Admission 10 and 25 Cents
(Ralph Hale)
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
George Brent, Charlie Winninger, Anita Liouse, in
“THE GO GETTER”
ALSO, START NEW SERIAL
Also, Selected Short Subject
Matinee Wednesday 1:00 p. m.
Admission, Matinee and Night, Everybody 10 Cents
(Charlie Hooper)
If your name appears in this advertisement, clip and present
it at the door for a complimentary seat.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MEETING
The Jefferson Chamber of Com
merce met at the Harrison Hotel
Tuesday night, November 16, Mr.
H. W. Davis, president, in charge
of meeting.
Opening prayer was offered by
Rev. A. B. Elizer.
Minutes of the meeting held Oc
tober 14, read and approved.
Various committees called on for
reports.
J. W. Jackson made report on the
super-phosphate and other things of
interest to this section.
Referendum No. 72 from the U.
S. Chamber of Commerce read and
discussed, also vote taken on same.
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Holder were
our honor guests, and Mr. Holder
made a short talk.
Closing prayer was offered by
John N. Holder.
Those present were: T. T. Benton,
R. S. Johnson, J. E. Randolph, C. H.
Legg, H. J. W. Kizer, I. N. Hayes,
A. B. Elizer, H. W. Davis, J. C.
Turner, J. W. Jackson, J. F. Eckles,
J. N. Holder and Mrs. J. N. Holder.
Construction will begin Decem
ber 9 on a health and physicia! edu
cation building costing SIOO,OOO at
the Georgia State College for Wo
men at Milledgeville. The construc
tion of the new building is in line
with the development of a health
and physical educational program.
Under this program, students are
given instruction in health and phy
sical education on an enlprged basis
so that, upon graduation, they are
qualified to teach a modern health
program or to return to their respec
tive communities with a well-orga
nized plan for the development of
health.
Dr. Wallace Rogers, presiding el
der of the Decatur-Oxford district
for the past four years, was the one
preacher in the conference who had
to be moved. The Methodist law
stipulates that a man serving as pre
siding elder for four years must go
back to the pastorate. Dr. Rogers
was assigned to Epworth, Atlanta,
and Rev. T. M. Sullivan was made
presiding elder of the Decatur-Ox
ford district.
Raw cotton expected from the
United States during the three
months from August to October,
1937, showed an increase of 1.5 per
cent in quantity and a decrease of
8.5 in value, in comparison with the
>a:ne period last year, according to
figures released Friday by W. H.
Schroder, district manager of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce.
THURSDAY, I
OFFICERS OF HOSCHTON
METHODIST MISSIONARY ■
SOCIETY I
President, Mrs. R. L. Pirkle. 9
Vice-President, Mrs. J. P. Pirkle.H
Recording Secretary, Mrs. JohnH
Braselton. ■
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. 9
Lloyd Lott. ■
Treasurer, Mrs. Harlan Sell.
Local Treasurer, Mrs. Claude
Fowler.
Superintendent ef Bible Study,
Mrs. W. D. Bell.
Superintendent of Supplies, Mrs.
Bascom Freeman, Mrs. M. B. Bla
lock.
Superintendent of Christian So
cial Relations, Mrs. M. B. Allen.
Children’s Work, Mrs. W. G.
Henry, Mrs. H. F. Braselton, Mrs.
Maggie Hill, Mrs. Billie Maddox.
Superintendent of Publicity, Mrs.
H. P. DeLaperriere.
World Outlook, Mrs. C. T. Mc-
Donald.
Chairman Spiritual Life and Mes
sage, Mrs. M. B. Cruce.
SMALL CITY INCOME
IS AVERAGE OF $1,500
Washington.—The annual income
of the typical American family in
the average small city is about sb
-500, the Bureau of Home Economics
reported Friday.
One of the nineteen small cities
selected as representative of Ameri
can communities which have popu
lations ranging between 9,000 and
19,000 was Griffin, Ga.
Average rents of the group rang
ed from sl3 to $24 a month. They
were lowest at Griffin. Griffin’s av
erage income was $1,186 per family
per year. Twenty-one per cent of
Griffin’s families own their own
homes, compared with 59 per cent
at Provo, Utah, and 17 per cent at
Astoria, Ore.
UNITED STATES DUNS
13 WAR DEBTORS TO
PAY $1,680,170,447
Washington.—The United States
prepared new bills Thursday f° r
thirteen war debtor nations to re
mind them that they will owe SL
-680,170,447 on December 15.
There appeared little ~i prospect
however, any country besides b in "
land will make a payment, f lll
sum represents a semi-annual ,n *
stallment totaling $160,173,726, pl us
payments already in arrears of $L‘
519,996,720.
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FOR RENT—One apartment, See
Mrs. Arthur Pittman.