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Niagara Fall* It Among
Outtanding Suicide Sites
Niagrra Kalla, N. Y., April 10.—
Thunderous Niagara Falla, long the
favorite playground for honeymoon
•ra. ha* a more gloomy aide—it
rank* a* one of the nation’s out
standing suicide *itea.
At least 280 persona haa hurled
themnelves to death in the swirling
torrent in the past thirty years,
Police Superintendent Kdward T.
Pierce estimated Sunday.
Already this year two persons
have jumped into the cataract.
At one time there was a small
point jutting into the river on the
American side several hundred feet
•hove the So many persons
waded into the river at the point
and were swept over the falls that
it became known as “Suicide Point."
A park superintendent later Bought
to atop the suicide wave by having
the point cut back even with the
shoreline.
When the suicide point was cut
back, Prospect Point and Luna Is
land Point, both near the brink of
the falls, became the most popular
spots for death trips.
Bodies Seldom Found
Suicides usually wade out into
the river until the current sweeps
them over the falls to the rocks far
below. Only when the river is ex
ceptionally calm in the summer are
the bodies recovered.
Recoveries nre usually made in
the whirlpool on the Canadian side
two miles below the cataract.
Pierce said police records reveal
persons have come from great dis
tances to kill themselves.
Often, he explained, they leave
notes in their homes for relatives
telling of their intentions and the
authorities get frantic telegrams to
stop the would-be-suicide.
Pike poles and ropes are kept
handy near Prospect Point but the
roaring waters appear to have an
irresistible fascination. There have
been instances where persons have
been saved only to turn around at
the first opportunity and try it again.
In addition to attracting suicides
the cataracts and swift flowing river
have lured many dare-devils to their
deaths.
Charles Stephens, an English bar
ber, went over Horseshoe Falls in n
wooden barrel in 1920. Only Steph
en’s arm was found after the bar
rell smashed into the rocks below.
In 1883, Captain Matthew Webb,
European swimmer, lost his life in
an attempt to swim the whirlpool
rapids.
As early as 1825 three men in ca
noes were swept over the cataract.
Maude Willard, a concert hall
linger, attempted to ride through
whirlpool rapids in a barrel early in
the 1900’s but died of suffocation
when her dog put his nose through
the hole in the barrel and cut off
the air.
Isolation of Okefenokee to
Be Maintained
A Civilian Conservation Corps
Camp, located seven and a half
miles from Folkston near the dry
terminal of the famous Sewannee
Canal, which provides one of the
main entries to the famous Okefeno
kee Swamp, is declared one of the
most unique CCC units in America.
Under the direction of the Bio
logical Survey, the Folkston camp
is working to improve the Okefeno
kee Refuge, making the refuge more
attractive to wild life and easier to
administer.
The Okefenokee Refuge in south
Georgia, reaching from ten miles
below Waycross to within ten miles
of the Florida line, has no counter
part in the world. Its wilderness
conditions make it naturally so at
tractive to wildlife that little change
will be made. No highways will be
built within the boundaries of the
refuge, as they might impair the
isolated condition of the Okefenokee
and constitute a serious fire hazard.
Ninety species of birds winter at
the refuge and the wood duck is a
year-round inhabitant. Ringtail, pin
tail and black ducks are common.
Other interesting wildlife, such as
otters, bald eagles, ospreys, limpkins
and sandhill cranes frequent the
area. It is also highly probable that
the rare ivory-billed woodpecker
still exists in the swamp.
The Mississippi alligator, rapidly
disappearing from the haunts of
man, and black bass and other fish,
thrive in the cypress swampland.
Although the natural supply of
food for migratory and resident
waterfowl will be augmented, the
isolated and strategic position of the
Okefenokee will be protected to en
courage increased occupancy.
Children Will Cling
To Parental Alibi*
(By Myrtle Meyer Eldred)
Perhaps it i* a mother’s tender
heart, perhaps it is her pride which
refuses to acknoledge that her child
could be different, which k-ad* her
to find so many ready excuses of
her children. Yet it is appalling
how quickly a child responds to the
mother’s excuses by assuming as a
permanent characteristic the one we
assign to him.
"Edward can’t help his quick
temper,’’ said hi* mother in his
hearing, “you know my brother Joe
was just like h ! m, always flaring up
at the drop of hat.”
Yet the tame circumstances which
led Joe to lore his temper could not
possibly be affecting his young
nephew. But when his mother finds
his temper lamentable but excus
able, why try to control it?
One young girl said that all her
life, no matter what happened to
her it was excused on the basis of
her "nervousness.” If she fell up
stairs, which she did frequently, it
was attributed to her nervousness.
Even after it was discovered that
her eyesight was far from being
normally efficient, her family were
so used to considering her nervous
that she never outgrew the accusa
tion. Nervousness makes as good an
excuse as any for child’s vagaries of
behavior, so why try to be other
wise?
Most children are quite content
to rest upon the alibis their parents
furnish them. If they are called
bashful, bashful they remain. Cer
tainly grown-ups ought to know
better than a small child that he is
bashful. Children have been called
dumb and made no effort because
it seemed useless to be nnything
they were not supposed to be.
As parents we ought to bite out
our tongues before we lash to a
chil<l a characteristic or trait which
he has no inspiration to remove.
Children may be temporarily any
number of things which we should
help them to overcome, but we have
no right to determine in advance
that they are this or that, and so
make it literally impossible for them
to change.
“OLD FOLKS AT HOME”
(From New Orleans Times-
Pieayune)
On the banks of a river of which
only the local residents ever might
have heard, a memorial is being
planned to the man who never saw
it but made it unforgettable. The
Florida Federated Music Clubs is
sponsoring the monument, which will
be raised at White Springs on the
Suwanee river, to Stephen Collins
Foster. The composer of “Old
Folks at Home,” of “Old Uncle Ned”
and of several other ballads partic
ularly dear to southern hearts, was
a native of Pennsylvania and spent
little if any of his time in any part
of the south. Nearly all the early
editions of the song which the Flori
dans now propose to honor spelled
the name “Swanee.”
“Dixie” and “Old Dog Tray” and
“Come Where My Love Lies Dream
ing” are not rated as great music in
the technical sense, and the same
can be said of “Annie Laurie” and
“Home, Sweet Home." Yet many
persons question whether Beethoven
and Brahms and Bach have touched
so many human hearts or influenced
so many lives.
FRESH DOG MEAT
Recently, my nephew and I wont
to an Atlanta meat market to buy
our daily supply of meat for the
dog. There w'e met another custom
er on the same errand. He was a
little colored boy who looked up at
the butcher with an anxious face
and said:
“Mister, is yo’ dog meat good an’
fresh? Is it real fresh?
The butcher assured him it was.
“Well,’’ said the youngster. “I
jes’ wants to be shore it’s fresh, be
cause that las’ dog meat I got here
made pa sick.”—Atlanta Journal.
REAL ADVERTISING
My husband and I wanted to find
a bakery where we could buy some
stale bread for our pig. But when
we arrived in the neighborhood of
the bakery, we couldn’t seem to lo
cate it. We asked a little colored
boy who was standing near to direct
us to a place where we could buy
some bread.
“Jes’ go up de street to de nex’
corner an’ turn to de lef’,” he told
us, “an’ you’ll smell it.”
We found the bakery.—Atlanta
Journal.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
An E*ay Contest For Air
Mail Week
May 15th to the 2lat ha* been set
aside as “Air Mail Week.” During
this period citizens are asked to use
the air mail service as much as pos
sible, and the local postoffice person
nel is anxious that the program and
plans made for the observance of
.he week be made known to every
person in the county.
In an effort to bring the matter
before the public through the school
children of the nation, the director
of Air Mail Week observance has
announced an essay contest open to
all of the school children of the
nation.
“Wings Across America” is the
subject for this nation-wide essay
contest.
The essays are to be based on the
progress, dependability and future
possibilities of this method of mo
dern communication.
Every high school pupil in Jack
son County is urged to enter this
contest. There will be two prizes
for boy or girl every state of the
Union. The first state prize to be
an airplane trip from the winner’s
nearest airport to Washington, D.
C., and return. The second state
prize will be a trophy to be present
ed by the Georgia Air Mail Week
Campaign Committee.
Essays must be submitted not
later than May 1, 1938, and all eli
gible pupils desiring full particulars
of the Essay Contest should see
either their school principal or post
master at once.
Reasons To Go To Church
(By Theodore Roosevelt)
I. In this actual world, a church
less community, a community where
men have abandoned and scoffed at
or ignored their religious needs, is a
community on the rapid down grade.
11. Church work and church at
tendance mean the cultivation of the
habit of feeling some responsibility
for others.
111. There are enough holidays
for most of us. Sundays differ from
other holidays in the fact that there
are fifty-two of them every year—
Therefore on Sunday go to church.
IV. Yes, I know all the excuses.
I know that one can worship the
Creator in a grove of trees or by a
running brook, or in a man’s own
house just as well as in church. But
I also know as a matter of cold fact
the average man does not thus wor
ship.
V. He may not hear a good ser
mon at church. He will hear a ser
mon by a good man, who with his
good wife, is engaged all the week
in making hard lives a littler easier.
VI. He will listen to and take
part in reading some beautiful pass
ages from the Bible. And if he is
not familiar with the Bible, he has
suffered a loss.
VII. He will take part in singing
good hymns.
VIII. He will meet and nod or
speak to good quiet neighbors. He
will come away feeling a little more
charitable toward all the world, even
toward those excessively foolish
young men who regard church-going
as a soft performance.
IX. I advocate a man’s joining in
church work for the sake of show
ing his faith by his work.
THE WONDER PLANT
A current bulletin by the Georgia
Department of Agriculture calls
cotton “the wonder plant of the
world,” an apt title for a plant that
yields both food and raiment and
lends itself to no fewer than a thou
sand different uses. As the bulle
tin points out, “Cotton affords em
ployment for more people on farms
and in factories than any other pro
duct in the United States. Our
country’s largest export, it provides
clothing for more than a billion peo
ple. There are about two hundred
cotton textile mills in Georgia, which
employ sixty thousand workers and
produce goods valued at two hun
dred million dollars annually. One
million, three hundred and eighty
seven thousand bales were consumed
in this State in 1937. Georgia ranks
fourth in the United States in the
number of spindles, being exceeded
only by Massachusetts and the Caro
linas. About seventy-five per cent
of the cotton fabric used in making
automobile tires is manufactured in
Georgia.” To all this add the fact
that the hulls and the meal left from
cotton seed, after the lint and the
oil have been sold, are a valuable
food foundation for the livestock
industry, and it is evident that cot
ton is indeed Georgia’s wonder plant.
—Atlanta Journal.
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Charles M. Schwab asked a color
ed porter, who had often attended
him, the average tip he received,
and was told; “One dollar, sah.”
When Mr. Schwab was about to
leave, he handed the man that
amount, whereupon the porter was
profuse in his gratitude. “Thank
you, sah, thank you,” he said with
a low bow. “You are the only
gentleman what ever comes up to
the average.”
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BEST
BEANS
Fyou can bake better beans —
that’s something! Ask any
Boston housewife. Yet, like any
good artist, Boston women are
never quite satisfied with their
creation. They are constantly ex
changing recipes and striving to
produce better and better baked
beans.
But they have not been able to
find anything better than the can
ners of beans have created. If
you have ever eaten canned oven
baked beans you will know that.
If you have never tried canned
oven-baked beans, you will be de
lighted with that mellow oven
baked flavor which savors of long
hours of outdoor cooking such as
woodsmen put into their favorite
pork-and-beans treat.
And for Variety
It is almost needless to suggest
ways of serving them for it is
difficult, indeed, to improve the
completeness of their flavor Just
as they come from the can and
are served piping hot. However,
just for variety, try this nice dish:
Bean and Cheese Casserole:
Dice four slices of bacon and fry
crisp. Remove from the skillet.
Drain off most of the fat, add one
fourth cup of pecans and brown
gently. Add one-third cup of
diced cheese, the contents*of one
can of New England oven-baked
beans and the diced bacon, and
salt to taste. Pour into greased
individual casseroles. Cut two
slices of bacon in halves and
place a piece on top of each cas
serole. Bake in the oven until
the bacon becomes crisp. This
serves four persons.*
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AIR-CONDITIONED COACHES
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
The Southern Railway’s program for air-con
ditioned coaches includes the placing of high
class air-conditioned day coaches in all princi
pal trains. They are now being received from
the shops and have at this time been placed in
the following trains:
From New Orleans and Atlanta To
Washington—New York
Trains 38 & 40
Lv. New Orleans L&N 38 10.15 PM
Ar. Atlanta WP 38 12.45 PM
Lv. Atlanta So. Ry. 40 1.05 PM
Ar. Washington So. Ry. 40 7.25 AM
Lv. Washington Pa. R.R 8.00 AM
Ar. New York Pa. R.R 12.05 PM
Lv. New Orleans L&N 34 6.30 PM
Ar. Atlanta WP 34 8.10 AM
Lv. Atlanta So. Ry. 34 _ 8.25 AM
Ar. Washington So. Ry 34 1.30 AM
Lv. Washington Pa. R.R 2.00 AM
Ar. New York Pa. R.R. 6.54 AM
These coaches returning are handled in
trains 33 and 35.
Air-conditioned Coaches through from New
Orleans to Washington, and connection at
ashington with Pennsylvania Railroad trains
handling air-conditioned coaches.
Southern Railway new type air-conditioned
coaches have deluxe smoking rooms for both
ladies and men containing supply of free towels
and soap, hot and cold water, especially built
comfortable seats, and full length mirrors.
All Dining Cars and Sleeping Cars Air-
Conditioned
C. T. Hunt, Assistant General Passenger Agent,
57 Luckie Street, Atanta.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
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General Insurance,
Jefferson, Georgia.
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