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THE JACKSON HERALD
31.50 A Year—ln Advance
Published Weekly
'JKtalered at The Jefferson Postofllce
as Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON ...-Bus. M’g’r.
JEFFERSON, GA., DEC. 23, 1937.
The Song of Christmas
’The long journey from Nazareth
£• Bethlehem; anew Star in the
ky; heavenly music above the hills
<*/ Judea; the flutter of angel wings;
tke swift journeying of the Sbep
ta*rds; Mary and Joseph and the
new-born Child; the coming of the
Wise Men, with their gifts of gold,
frankincense and myrrh.
From these inspiring things the
£k>ng of Christmas was fashioned
more than twenty centuries ago.
71e years have added new notes of
kaippiness. Carols and song upon
the air, candles gleaming into the
njght, secret whisperings and laugh
ter in the home, greetings going
from friend to friend, deeds of love
atntd mercy done in the name of a
Child.
Ne great symphony or composition
'<an match the Song of Christmas.
Bl rises above the clatter and roar
the city; it throbs through the
scattered town and hamlet; it sings
through the sunlit islands of the
Sbuth; it permeates the frozen
wstes of the Northland. In ever
widening volume its strains echo
around the world.
Before its magic the hosts of dark
ness take flight. It touches the
slumbering chords of memory; it
tarals old hurts and scars; it binds
iwved ones in a closer and deeper
tsi*. There are no friendless or
forsaken within its sound; under its
influence the strong reach out to
Jkelp the weak. Peace and Love and
Joy, these are its loudest notes, and
they are for all men. For the Song
f Christmas is the greatest of all
swngs because it is understood by
unrery heart.
HON. JAMES A. PERRY NO
PESSMIST
James A. Perry, member of the
Ceorgia Public Service Commission,
jwdriressed the Tammany Club at its
auditorium on Whitehall street, At
fanta, recently. The address was in
response to an invitation by the
*snb, and delivered to a very repre
sentative number of its members.
Mr. Perry’s subject was, “What
Tammany Could Do.’’ He briefly
reviewed the proper results from
sanilar organizations throughout the
®untry, and pointed out with much
-Jbftail just how the individual citi
aaen, as well as an organization, such
as the Tammany Club, can shape the
affairs of state. This, primarily, he
aaaid would speedily result if the
-arverage citizen would take the af
fairs of government more seriously,
exacting economy and efficiency in
*he various departments.
iHt* spoke highly of one of the
■suiiii principles of the club, that of
diffusion of general information
•aiong this line.
He spoke with confidence of the
"fixture, elaborating on many favor
atble indications, bespeaking an or
derly adjustment of the present un
settled conditions. Mr. Perry ex
jn-pssed absolute confidence in an
••verwhelming majority of our citi
zens supporting such a plan as out
lined by him.
He called attention to several local
■conditions, to which he directed the
•Attention of the club membership;
among them, the abatement of the
arnoke nuisance in Atlanta, which he
pointed out is costing Atlanta citi
zens a great loss in human suffering
and property damage. He stressed
•Jae importance of rigid enforcement
®T criminal laws, and an aggressive
campaign in curbing and deterring
crime.
On December 15, interest ar.d
principal on the war debts was due
£3e United States by the allied na
tions. Since the loans were made
•only one nation has met promptly
it obligations and that country is
little Finland. England, France and
Italy and the other countries have
fulcd absolutely to meet any part of
•fceir obligations. These debtor na
tions have treated with the United
States in an unbusiness like manner,
ignoring the demands for payment
■ml even as much as the interest.
While no announcement has been
ade from Washington, however, it
* believed that the due date of
tfese obligations will be permitted
pass without recognition of any
tend.
Public Welfare Department
Distribute* $2,917
Jackson county received $2,917 in
December for old age assistance.
Checks for this amount were sent
out by Mrs. W. B. Gunter on De
cember 17, as follows: $2,761 to 369
old age claimants; $l4O to depend
ent thildren, and sl6 to 2 blind per-
sons.
Mrs. Gunter has been notified by
the State Department of Public Wel
fare that there will be no increase
of funds for January, and, there
fore, no increase in ( the number to
receive aid, unless there should be
a decrease in the above number.
There will be a replacement of
149 boys in CCC camps in January,
but most of these will be absorbed
by the larger counties ,and she does
not anticipate that Jackson county’s
quota will be given any increase.
Mrs. Gunter appreciates the beau
tiful spirit exhibited by a few per
sons and organizations in entrusting
to her organization the privilege of
distributing private contributions of
food and clothing to the needy of
the county.
CENTURY-AND-A-HALF OLD
RECORDS
Weston’s Record, a publication is
sued by Byron Weston Cos., Dalton,
Mass., says:
“Thanks to Mr. W. W. Dickson,
Ordinary, Jackson County, Georgia,
we have received two interesting
extracts from the regulations passed
by the Jackson county grand jury in
1797. For the conduct of taverns
it was ordered that no one shodld
‘Extort a larger sum for any single
article than what is here allowed.
For breakfast of good holesome
diet, $.25
For lodging, .12%
% pint Northward Rum .12%’
and so forth. Living may have had
its disadvantages in those days, but
at least it was cheap. Mr. Dickson
also sent us in the specifications for
a jail that was ordered in 1799,
which we do not have room to re
produce. Specifications that the
jury ordered guaranteed that bar
ring fire or flood it would be stand
ing forever.”
NEW EDITOR FOR HOSCHTON
NEWS
The Hoschton News has been sold
by J. F. Stone & Son to C. H. Cook
of Winder. Mr. Cook has had ex
perience in the newspaper field with
the Winder News and Commerce
News. He says, “Our desire is to
run a clean and helpful .country
weekly newspaper.” He has our
best wishes in his new field of en
deavor. Mr. Stone will continue hi3
services with the Federal Govern
ment as one of the rural carriers
from Hoschton. He made a neat
and readable paper of the Hoschton
News while its editor.
GEORGIA CENTRAL WILL NOT
BE ABLE TO MEET TAX BILL
Savannah, Ga.—J. D. McCartney,
assistant receiver of the Central of
Georgia Railway, stated that the
Central would be unable to meet
state and county taxes in Georgia
and Alabama when they fall due
January 1. §
The road also will be unable to
pay rentals on ,the Southwestern,
Augusta & Savannah and Chatta
noochee and Gulf shorelines the first
of the year, McCartney said.
A combination of the business re
cession, increased taxes and wages,
as well as the cost of coal and other
materials were held responsible for
the serious situation in the railroad’s
finances.
Mrs John T. Wilson, prominenl
Atlanta woman, who has spent four
years in Japan, says women don’t
drive cars in Japan. Japanese laws are
that everyone who drives must take
and pass a driver’s test which is very
rigid. They have to learn the me
chanical side of the car, what to do
in any emergency. When they pass
their examination to drive, they al
so have t pay a large fee. Very
few own their own cars and, another
thing, they drive on the left-hand
side of the street.
“The mother who dies in child
birth, needlessly; the father who con
tracts tuberculosis in industry; the
young people who are infected with
syphilis; the children who grow up
deformed by rickets—each contrir
butes to the breaking up of a family,
to social and economic loss. All are
examples of the preventive possibili
ties of public health. . . . ”—Thom
as Parran, M. D., Surgeon General.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
On December 17th the House, by
a vote of 216 for, to 198 against,
voted to re-commit the wages and
hour bill back to the labor commit
tee, of which Mrs. Mary T. Norton,
of the Thirteenth District of New
Jersey is chairman; 133 Democrats
and 83 Republicans voted for a re
committal; 179 Democrats, 6 Re
publicans, 8 Progressives, and 5
Farm Laborites voted against re
committal. Congress will adjourn
this week until January 3rd, 1938.
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The Washington National Monu
ment, at the National Capitol, is
tapering shaft or obelisk of white
marble, 555 feet, 5% inches in
height, and 55 feet 1-12 inches
square at the base. The corner
stone was laid July 4th, 1848.
The Lincoln Memorial, in West
Potomac Park, Washington, D. C.,
was erected by authority of’Con
gress, dedicated May 30th, 1922;
cost $3,00t),000. • The stati/e of
Abraham Lincoln, by Daniel C.
French, is of white qiarble. It is a
seated figure, and is 19 feet high
from the top of the plinth to the top
of the head. On the walls are the
Gettysburg speech, and Lincoln’s
second inaugural address.
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The Capitol fronts east, and
stands on a plateau 88 feet above
the level of the Potomac river. The
southeast corner stone of the origin
al building was laid on the 18th of
September, 1793, by George Wash
ington, first President of the United
States, with Masonic ceremonies.
It is constructed of sand stone from
quarries on Aquia Creek, Virginia.
The original designs were prepared
by Dr. William Thornton, and the
work was done under the direction
of Stephen H. Hallett, James Hoban,
George Hadfield, and B. H. Latrobe,
architects.
The House, on December 18, en
acted a bill to reduce home owners
costs, by a vote of 325 for, to 23
against. A previous standing vote
had been counted, 267 for, to SO
against.
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Senator E. D. Smith, of South
Carolina, the Hot Spur State of the
Union, sent to the floor of the
United States Senate on December
18th, a bill to require the Federal
Government to buy up to 6,000,000
Dales of cotton. Under the measure
cotton would be purchased until the
price reached 12 cents a pound, or
the 6,000,000 limit was reached.
Purchases would be carried out
through the Commodity Credit Cor
poration. Senator E. D. Smith is
serving his fifth term in the United
States Senate. He is a fine man,
and an able statesman; and not only
should South Carolina, but every
State below Mason and Dixon line,
should feel proud of him in the up
per House of Congress.
IRENE DUNNE AGAIN SEEN AS
COMEDIENNE IN “AWFUL
TRUTH”
Irene Dunne will again be seen in
an all-comedy role in Columbia’s
“The Awful Truth,” which opens
Thursday and Friday at the Roose
velt Theatre. Cary Grant this time
serves as Miss Dunne’s screen co
hort with such favorites in support
as Ralph Bellamy, Oecijl Cunning
ham, Alexander D’Arcy, Robert Al
len, Joyce Compton and Esther Dale.
In “The Awful Truth” Miss Dunne
is seen as the prim, staid wife of
Cary Grant, a bounder of sorts who
simply can’t get used to marriages
ties. He takes an innocent vacation
in the guise of a business trip and
returns to find his wife has been
out all night with a romantic foreign
vocal teacher. The car, she ex
plains, broke down and they were
forced to spend a night at an inn.
Accusations and recriminations fill
the air before Mr. and Mrs. decide
to separate. In court the only bone
of contention proves to be Mr.
Smith, the prolific wire-hair terrier.
Irene wins custody of the pup but
the court allows Cary to visit the
dog once a month.
With the living Christmas tree in
the public pa2'k, the bright array of
decorations and lights in the stores
and the miriad of soft colored lights
in the windows and on the lawns of
the private homes, Yuletide cheer is
enjoyed everywhere. The crowds
of busy shoppers add interest to the
pre-holiday season in preparation
for a Christmas abounding in peace
and happiness.
EAST SIDE CHOIR AT WILSON
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOpL
The East Side Choir met with the
people of the Wilson Junior High
School community, in the auditorium
of the building, Sunday afternoon,
December 19, with the counties of
Jackson, Banks, Clarke, Madison,
Morgan and others represented. A
large crowd was in attendance, a
beautiful afternoon, and one of the
best programs ever rendered it
north Georgia, which follows:
Opening song, L. E. Patton, Pres.
Prayer: Jim T. Nunn.
Arranging Committee: David
Vaughn and Eddie Harris.
Leaders: G. R. Griffith, L. L. Wil
liamson, Mrs. Dorsey Suggs, Jim T.
Nhnn, Fred Brown, Miss Francine
Minish, Sam W. Lord, Miss Louise
McEver, Aubry Benton, D. C. Short,
Jewett Barnett, Lester Howington,
Mrs. Olin Minish.
Talk: Hon. T. T. Benton, County
School Superintendent.
Collection: $1.63.
Leaders: W. E. Burt, Grover Sail
ors.
Talk: Hon. W. D. Meadow, Clerk
Superior Court, Madison County.
Leaders: L. E. Patton, dedicated a
song to Rev. Joe Brown; Gilbert Log
gins, Jack Wilbanks, Rev. Joe
Brown, Dr. C. E. Pittman.
Election of Officers: Claud Cleg
horn, President; Jack Wilbanks,
Vice-President; Jewett Barnett,
Secretary-Treasurer; Eddie Harris,
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; W. D.
Meadow, Chaplain.
Leaders: Miss Elizabeth Neltns,
Miss Winnie Sue Carithers.
Invitation received and accepted
to meet with Rogers Baptist Church,
Sunday afternoon, January 16, 1938.
Announcements.
Berea Quartette sang: “Acquaint
ance With the King,” and “There
Will Be No Shadows.”
Leaders: Mrs. Eula Ingram.
Pianists: Mrs. Olin Minish, L. E.
Patton, Mrs. Grover Sailers, Miss
Geneva Williams.
Closing song: Miss Julia Langford.
Benediction: G. R. Griffith.
L. E. Patton, Pres.
Jew'ett Barnett, Sec’y.
There will be no reservations of
special automobile tag numbers for
next year, as there has been in the
past, it was announced Saturday by
Marcus McWhorter, director of the
tag division of the State Revenue
Commission. Mr. McWhorter has
received hundreds of requests from
state officials and others who have
been accustomed to matching their
tags with their telephone numbers,
street addresses, birthdays, mar
riage dates, and other events easy to
remember, but he is refusing all
such requests, he said. Those who
want low numbers will have to get
in line on the .day the sale opens
and get them, Mr. McWhorter said.
He declared that there would be ab
solutely no variations from this rule.
The present legislature has been
accused of being surrounded at all
hours with busy lobbyists, and it is
alleged that many members have
been carried upon the mountain
top; in fact, one member stated that
he had been interviewed interesting
ly, but now it develops that there
are only two lobbyists at this extra
session, or, at least, only two have
registered. The two registered are
Victor Lamar Smith, attorney for
the Metropolitan Insurance Com
pany, and Rembert Marshall, attor
ney for the Southern Railway. Capi
tol observers comment that if all
those who are actually lobbying pay
the $250 fee, the state might not
need additional revenues.
Miss Earlene White, president of
the National Federation of Busi
ness and Professional Women’s
Clubs, is suggesting the names of
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs.
Eleanor Patterson, Washington news
paper publisher, as candidates for
the U. S. Senate. Mrs. Roosevelt
made no comment on the suggestion.
According to our way of thinking,
she would make a great senator.
MASONIC OFFICERS ELECTED
FOR 1938
At the last regular meeting of
Unity Lodge, No. 36, F. & A. M.,
Jefferson, the following officers were
chosen for the year 1938:
J. H. Hartley, W. M.
F. C. Gurley, S. W.
I. L. Ethridge, J. W.
S. J. Suddath, Sec’y.
W. P. Frost, Treas.
C. Cf. Mauldin, Tyler.
J. C. Turner, Chaplain.
H. L. Purcell, S. D.
W. T. Cody, J D.
M. M. Dodd, S. S.
D. A. Gause, J. S.
ROOSEVELT THEATRE
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7:00 TO 11:00 O’CLOCK EACH NIGHT
Matinee Wedneiday, 1:00 p. m; Friday, 1:00;
Matinee Saturday at 1:00 p. m.—3 shows
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, in
“THE AWFUL TRUTH”
Also, Selected Short Subject
ADMISSION 10 AND 20 CENTS
(Miss Elizabeth Echols)
SATURDAY
Stnith Ballew, Heather Angel, in
“WESTERN GOLD”
Selected Comedy, The 3 Stooges, in “Setter Downers”
Admission Matinee EVERYBODY 10 CENTS
Admission Night, 10 and IS Cents
(Hayes Davis)
MONDAY
Patricia Farr, Scott Colton, in
“ALL AMERICAN SWEETHEART”
Universal News Reel, The Latest In World’s Events
Also, Selected Short Subject
Admission 10 and 25 Cents
(Miss Edna Gilbert)
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Jack Holt, Katherine DeMille, in
“UNDER SUSPICION”
Chapter 5, of “Secret Agent X-9”
Also, Selected Short Subject
Matinee Wednesday 1:00 p. m.
Admission, Matinee and Night, Everybody 10 Cents
(Ernest Shoemake)
If your name appears in this advertisement, clip and present
it at the door for a complimentary seat.
FRANK RITCHIE, SR., DIES AT
COMMERCE
Commerce, Ga.—Frank Telford
Ritchie, Sr., 53, well known con
struction engineer and contractor of
this section, died Monday afternoon
of a heart attack suffered Sunday.
Funeral services were held Tues
day morning in the' First Baptist
church, and burial followed in Grey
Hill cemetery.
Mr. Ritchie was a native of
Banks county. He was a member of
the First Baptist church.
He is survived by his wife; three
sons, J. S. Ritchie, of Gadsden, Ala.;
T. E. Ritchie, of Richland, Ga.; and
F. T. Ritchie, Jr., of Commerce; two
daughters, Mrs. J. A. Ariail, Jr., of
Roopville, Ga.; and Miss Sarah
Ritchie, of Athens; two brothers,
Professor H. B. Ritchie, of the Uni
versity of Georgia, Athens, and W.
L. Ritchie, of Milledgeville, and three
sisters, Mrs. Dixon Williams, of Mil
ledgeville ; Mrs. C. A. Mize, instruc
tor at the University of Georgia, and
Mrs. J. O. Montgomery, of Com
merce.
PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
MEETS
The Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Presbyterian church met Monday
afternoon with Mrs. 0. L. Single
tary.
The house was beautifully decor
ated with holly, mistletoe and other
Yule-time symbols.
The president presided over the
business session.
Ministerial Relief is the subject to
be studied during December; and
Mrs. J. C. Turner, Secretary of C.
E. and M. R., had charge of the
program.
Mesdames W. M. McDonald, S.
Kinningham, Claude Barnett and O.
L. Singletary assisted the leader,
and presented a most interesting
program.
At the close of the meeting, the
hostess, assisted by Mrs. Claude
Barnett, served delicious refresh
ments to the following members:
Mesdames J. C. Dooley, S. J. Smith,
S. B. Archer, H. M. Silman, Hal
Moore, W. M. McDonald, C. E.
Barnett, 0. L. Singletary, Claude
Barnett, S. Kinningham, Fred Brock,
J. C. Turner, Miss Etta Alexander,
and Clarence Alexander.
In this the last issue of The
Herald before the New Year, The
Herald wishes to extend greetings
and best wishes to all friends for a
ha PPy Christmas and a prosperous
New Year.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 x%yf
JOHN J. HARBER DIES IN
ATLANTA
John J. Harber, a former promi
nent citizen of Commerce, and a son
of the late G. W. D. Harber, passed
away last week at his home in At
lanta, following a brief illness from
heart trouble. He had been con
nected with the State Highway of
fice force for several years.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Clark, of Macon; a
daughter, Mrs. Frank Eskridge, Jr.,
of Atlanta two sons, Dr. G. D. Har
ber of Macon, and J. J. Harber, Jr.,
of Atlanta; four sisters, Miss Pa
tricia Harber, Mrs. George Porter,
Mrs. Charles Jordan and Mrs. Mary
Mauldin, all of Atlanta; three broth
ers, W. Y. and Henry Harber of
Commerce, and Leo Harber of At
lanta.
MRS. THOMAS I. TODD PASSES
Mrs. Pearl Estelle Nixon Todd,
wife of T. I. Todd of Winterville,
passed away Monday at a hospital
in Athens. Mrs. Todd was a lative
of Jackson county. Funeral s rvices
were held at Prospect Me hodist
church, of which she was a member,
Tuesday afternoon.
Surviving Mrs. Todd are hr i hus
band, Thomas Iverson Todd Wint
erville; two daughters, Mr Card
well Baker, Atlanta, and M s Mary
Todd, Carlton; five sons, Raymond,
Marion N., Tribble and R< ert T.
Todd, all of Athens, and J , m Todd
of Sarah, Ga.; two brothers, J. M.
Nixon and E. D. Nixon.
H. H. GUEST DIES AT ABBEVILLE
Abbeville, Ga.—H. H. Guest, coun
ty game warden, die' at hi- home
Thursday. Mr. Guest had been ill
with pneumonia for several days.
He was 38, and leaver his vfe, two
small boys, M. C., Jr., ai 1 Jackie;
his father, M. C. Guest; two broth
ers, Allen, of Abbeville, i Mack,
of Sumter County; four phi era, Mrs.
Rogers Daniels, of Ather?; Mrs. J.
S. Feeman, of Cordele; Mrs. J. H.
Howell, of Americus, and Mrs. W.
W. Barnett, of Colbert.
The Guest family came to south
Georgia about thirty-five years ago
from Jackson county.
The funeral war held at Hill
church Friday afternoon by Rev. J.
E. Summers, assisted by Rev. J. A.
Thornton. Mr. Guest was a mem
ber of the Kramei Methodist
Church.
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