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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
A Philanthropist Passes
Colonel Sam Tate is dead. The
writer attended his funeral at Tate,
where hundreds gathered to pay
him worthy tribute. He was a
philanthropist and a great man.
Marvelous success crowned his ef
forts in the business world, and he
was considered a very wealthy man.
If all his marble possessions could
have been converted into money at
one time he was one of the richest
men in the world, lie had not only
much real possessions, but millions
in potential possibilities. However,
he cared for money for just one
prime purpose—to use it for service.
One day he and the writer were
walking together in Hot Springs,
Ark., where both were delegates to
the General Conference of the
church in which each paid allegiance.
He said:
“I care no more for money than
I do the leaves out there except that
I may use it for the benefit of man
and the glory of God. So far as I
am concerned, it takes very little to
supply my own needs; yes, I may
say my personal wants. I need lit
tle for myself, and I tell you I want
no more than I need; but how hap
py it makes me to do something for
others. The greatest pleasure I
get out of the operation of our en
terprises, is to give employment to
people, and thereby aid them in
earning so they may support their
families, have homes, and educate
their children. I have no children,
but I experience joy in educating
young men and women, and, in fact,
making what means the Lord has
put into my hands for control and
management serve a good purpose.”
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He proved this statement through
out his life. Churches, schools and
colleges received his support, and
many liberal donations. It is im
possible to tell just how many hun
dreds of people he assisted in differ
ent ways. When the depression
came and enterprises like his could
not only pay no dividends, but could
not earn enough to pay maintain
ance expenses, he would not close
down. It would have caused suffer
ing among those who had worked for
him or his enterprises for years. He
drew heavily on his surplus and
credit, in order to continue operat
ing his plants. After awhile his
distress was relieved as business im
proved, and his property earned
again as before the days of the de
pression. In speaking of this, he
said to the writer, “I gladly risked
losing all to help those who needed
work. I just could not see these
good people suffer.” #
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On the Board of Trustees of an
educational institution, he and the
writer served together; they came in
touch in the business world, were
delegates in the same political con
ventions, worked together in politi
cal campaigns, were members of an
nual and general conferences of
their church, and the writer had op
portunity to study and learn Sam
Tate. Without hesitation, he will
say of Colonel Tate that he was no
ordinary man. In intellect, he was
a giant. Few men possessed such
mentality. In thinking, he was quick
and accurate. In sympathy for the
suffering and needy, in love for
mortality and the church, in meek
ness and humility in his own life,
in ardent desire and earnest prayers
to walk with the Lowly Nazarene
and be like unto Him, he was one
of the most noble beings and con
spicious examples of unselfishness
and service who has blest this old
world with his works and life. A
great and good man has gone.
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Georgia's forests and woodlands
are of such value and importance to
the entire State that everything
possible should be done to safeguard
them and to protect them. Here is
a decision handed down from the
Court of Appeals by Judge John B.
Guerry, which is commented on as
follows by the Atlanta Journal:
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“A tenant was found guilty, in
the Morgan Superior Court, of sell
ing timber from a farm estate on
which he rented a thirty-acre 'tract.
In affirming the conviction, the
Court of Appeals reverted to the old
English law of estovers. An un
familiar word to most laymen, est
overs signifies necessaries, particu
larly the wood which a long-term
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tenant is allowed to take from the
landlord's premises for needed fuel
and repairs. Such a tenant is thus
entitled to: “(1) housebote, or
enough timber to repair buildings
and to use for fuel; (2) plowbote,
or enough to mend instruments of
husbandry; and (3) haybote, or
enough to keep up bridges and
fences.” The court went on to
point out, however, that the cutting
of timber by a tenant for sale for
his own profit is “neither housebote,
plowbote nor haybote, but simple
larceny.” In the case at issue it
was charged that the defendant
had made twelve separate sales of
timber, for which he collected sev
eral hundred dollars, and that he
did not confine his cutting to the
thirty-acre tract which he rented.”
It will be remembered that some
time ago this writer advocated in
creasing the subsidy to cotton grow
ers, rather than to make greater the
government loan value on cotton.
Senator E. D. Smith, of South Caro
lina, and some other Southern Sen
ators entertain this view in solving
the cotton problem. Secretary of
Agriculture H. A. Wallace, in re
plying to Senator Smith about the
cotton situation, favors a subsidy,
rather than increasing the loan. He
said he believes a subsidy would be
“much preferable” to loans, which
tend to “block exports, pile up
more government cotton holdings on
top of those which have already
been accumulated since 1934.”
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Wallace referred to his speech
last week in Fort Worth, Texas, in
which he said that the accumulation
of loan cotton was “simply piling
up future agony for the growers
and the government.” He said the
government was studying the pos
sibility of subsidizing spinners to in
crease consumption of raw cotton.
“As you know,” he wrote Smith,
“cotton producers themselves do
not have anywhere near enough of
the cotton goods made from the cot
ton they produce, and I am hoping
ways and means can be found to
get more cotton goods to them.”
These are fine words of Mr. Wallace.
Now, what cotton growers are anxi
ous to know, is, can this subsidy be
paid out of the emergency appro
priation passed by the last Congress?
If so, then they want him to recom
mend to the President that this be
done. If it cannot be legally paid
from this source, then for him to
say he will ask the President to
recommend such an appropriation to
be made by the next Congress. If
this be done, then Congress should
find the money for this purpose and
quickly appropriate it. The cotton
growers need a three cents subsidy
on each pound produced, and not
on just normal production.
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One other thought, and that is,
when the Government provides a
subsidy, why wait a year before
paying it to cotton producers?
Farmers are just now being paid
the three cents subsidy provided for
them on last year’s cotton crop.
This long delay seems unnecessary.
This year’s cotton crop will soon be
gathered, and the adjustment pay
ment to cotton farmers, it seems,
ought to be sent to them before
Christmas.
DADDY OF ALL RATTLERS
KILLED NEAR TIMBER
RIDGE CHURCH
Gainesville, Ga. —'Squire J. T.
Wood of near Timber Ridge in the
Glade district brought to The News
office Monday morning the largest
rattlesnake hide seen in this section
in many a day. The snake was kill
ed by 'Squire Wood in August with a
pole in the woods not far from his
home. The snake had caught and
was swallowing a rabbit, all of
which had disappeared except its
hind feet, which were sticking out
the snake’s mouth, consequently it
could not coil or strike and wa3
easily killed. It measured six and
one-half feet in length and eleven
and one-half inches around and had
eighteen rattles. Apparently at
least four more rattles had either
dropped off or been broken off.
'Squire Wood considers this particu
lar snake as the “Daddy” of all the
rattlesnakes in this “neck-of-the
woods.”
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(By Elsie Bowman)
Spices For Variety
Today Americans make a holiday
of October 12, and revere the me
mory of Columbus for discovering
the New World. But we forget that
it was not the lure of anew conti
nent, but partly the urge of the
medieval appetite for spices that set
Columbus voyaging.
Just 446 years have passed since
the world-renowned voyage of Co
lumbus, and Americans are still
hungry for spices. The nation spent
more than 12 million dollars for
more than 110 million pounds of im
ported spices and condiments during
1937, according to the U. S. De
partment of Commerce.
Pepper of various kinds accounted
for nearly 40 per cent of these mil
lions of pounds of seasonings, and
mustard entered U. S. ports in sec
ond largest quantity among the
spices. Cinnamon and its near rela
tive, cassia, from Ceylon, China, and
the East Indies; ginger, mostly in
the form of dried roots from Jamai
ca and West Africa, nutmeg and
mace from the East and West Indies,
cloves from Madagascar and British
East Africa, also poured in, in sur
prising quantities.
Most spices enter this country
whole and are cleaned again, sorted,
graded, ground, blended, and pack
aged by American companies. Since
pulverized spices gradually lose
their aroma and flavor, keep the
boxes tightly covered and the spink
er holes closed.
“Moderation” and “variety” are
mottoes for using spices in season
ing. Without variety even the rar
est and best spices cannot give the
zest to life promised in the popular
quotation. For seasoning, spices
are at their best when they are an
indefinable part of the essence of a
dish.
To get the most flavor from every
fleck of spices, season puddings,
pudding sauces, and sprinkle the
topping on milkshakes at the last
possible moment. In making a spice
cake sift all the spices thoroughly
with the flour—three times for best
results. When seasoning with a
combination of sugar and spices, as
for cinnamon rolls or apple pie,
blend sugar and spices thoroughly
before using.
If your apple pie recipe tells you
to “dot” the surface of the spiced
apples with butter, that’s a good tip
too. Mixing with the fat helps hold
more of the spices until serving
time.
Many cooks have won fame, or at
least praise, by adding an unexpect
ed bit of spice to foods commonly
accepted at their face value. Some
of these additions are now so com
mon as to be part of standard re
cipies, as gingerroot in pear pre
serves, cloves and bay leaf in toma
to soup and sauce, cloves in baked
ham, mustard with the molasses in
baked beans, nutmeg in mashed
sweetpotatoes, and a sprinkling of
cinnamon on cubes of baked squash.
But there are many more unusual
touches that have proved happy dis
coveries. Remember just touches.
A little spice is good, but too much
easily spoils a dish.
SWEET POTATOES NET MORE
CASH THAN KING COTTON
Atlanta, Ga. —Diversified farming
is the key to the farmer’s troubles,
I. Q. May, farm manager of Ella
belle, Ga., has found from exper
ience.
May turned to diversification by
necessity. He was allowed 50 acres
of cotton on his farm, but when he
got his report from the government
he found his acreage had been cut
by four-fifths.
“I then planted 34 acres of my
cotton land in sweet potatoes which
derived the benefit of fertilizer
originally intended,for cotton,” he
said. “With the enormous output of
potatoes on these 34 acres I find
that it is more valuable to stick to
diversified farming as outlined by
those sponsoring this program.”
In Atlanta with a sample of his
potato crop, May said the first acre
alone netted him $82.80 in addition
to enough feed to take care of his
hogs.
“It would have taken three acres
of cotton at the present price to give
me that big a return and four times
as much work,” he said.
Ten Georgians Lose Lives
in Accidents
Ten Georgians were killed in
week-end traffic tragedies. A num
ber of others were injured, several
seriously.
The dead:
Mrs. John B. Ennis, of Atlanta,
fatally injured when nn automobile
and ambulance collided.
Thomas E. Weed of Atlanta killed
when struck by ambulance.
Carmoifc R. Nations of Atlanta
fatally injured when struck by an
automobile.
Elmo Caylor, 19, of Calhoun, Mao
Campbell, 18, of Dalton, and Vaughn
Sutherland, 22, of Calhoun, all
fatally injured when a car over
turned.
Donald Bond, year-old son of Mrs.
Ruby Bond, 27, of Athens, drowned
Sunday when an automobile plung
ed into a waterworks pond at Ath
ens.
Jesse Jones, 40, Sumter County
farmer, died in an Americus hospital
of injuries received in an auto-truck
collision.
Wofford Dunn, 12, of Sparta,
killed when thrown to the pavement
of a highway in a runaway accident.
Gwendolyn McLain, 3-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paschal
McLain, of Emerson, Ga., died at
Cartersville from injuries received
when a car driven by her mother
collided with another machine.
Ginger Rogers and
Fred Astaire at
Roosevelt Theatre
Thursday and Friday at The
Roosevelt Theatre, Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers, in “Care Free.” This
dance team is one of the best on the
screen. With a wonderful support
ing cast the type of picture you will
want to see—more of the songs and
music by Irvin Berlin, America’s
most popular composer. Also, Se
lected Short Subject.
Saturday—Gene Autry, Smiley
Burnette, in “Man From Music
Mountain.” This is a rollicking
Musical Western of the days gone by
in the West. A picture the whole
family will enjoy. Chapter 3 of
“Flaming Frontiers.” Also, Select
ed Short Subject.
Monday.—Don Ameche, Aleen
Whelan, in “Gate Way.” This is a
fast moving entertaining picture
that will hold your interest from
start to finish. Also, selected Short
Subject and News Reel.
Tuesday and Wednesday—Alice
Faye, Charles Winninger, in “You’re
A Sweetheart.” This is Miss Faye’s
best picture, with Charles Winninger
to furnish the laughs. Plenty of
music and heart throbs. Chapter 12
of “Flash Gordon’s Trip To Mars.”
Also, Selected Short Subject.
MISS MONTGOMERY WEDS
MR. ELROD
Augusta, Ga.—Miss Doris Mont
gomery and Frary Elrod were mar
ried Sunday evening, October 9, in
Aiken, in the presence of a few
friends who motored over with them
from Augusta. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Montgomery. Mr. Elrod is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Elrod, of Jef
ferson, and is a graduate of the
University of Georgia. For several
years he has been assistant to Bright
McConnell, county agent. Mrs. El
rod is a graduate of Tubuman
School, and holds the responsible
position of clerk in the county
agent’s office. The young couple are
at home at 1107 Greene Street.
The above announcement was re
ceived with sincere interest by the
many friends here of Mr. Elrod. He
was born and reared in Jefferson, and
comes from a long line of prominent,
pioneer Jackson county families.
He is a young man of many splendid
characteristics, and enjoys wide
popularity wherever he is known.
His family and friends here were
delighted Sunday to have the op
portunity of meeting his fair young
bride and extending happy congratu
lations and best wishes.
W. L. Barnett and wife, H. E.
Barnett and family, spont Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Price and
children at Maxeys, and found Mrs.
Price in bad health. Miss Hazel
Moore came home with them for a
visit.
Thurday, October 20, 1938.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Eligibility For Government Loan* on
Cotton Crop
Jackson county farmers who are
classified as non-cooperators under
the 1938 farm program can secure
government loans only on that por
tion of their crop produced in excess
of their marketing quotas.
This provision was written into
the farm program to protect the
farm co-operators who are eligible
to receivo loans on all of the cotton
produced in 1938 on their allotted
acres.
Non-cooperators cannot get loans
on cotton produced by them within
thbir quotas. Loans to farmers
who have not co-operated under the
program can be made only on cotton
produced this year in excess of
quotas. Rate of loans to this group
of cotton growers will be only 60 per
cent of the rates applicable to farm
ers who are classed as cooperatops.
A non-cooperator is a producer
whom the county committee has ad
judged to have knowingly planted to
excess of the cotton acreage allot
ment established for his farm. If
the committee determines that a
producer has not “knowingly over
planted” he will be considered a co
operator and will get the full gov
ernment cotton loan rate.
The amount of cotton eligible for
a loan in the case of non-co-opera
tors cannot be determined by the
county committee until the actual
production in 1938 is reported to the
county office and the farm marketing
quota is adjusted on that basis.
For an example, if a non-cooper
ator produces 4,500 pounds of cotton
and his marketing quota is only 3,-
000, he is eligible for a loan on 1,500
pounds. However, if a producer
who knowingly over-planted his
acreage allotment has a marketing
quota of 3,000 pounds and produces
less than that amount, he is not
eligible for a loan.
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To Visit State Forest Nursery At
Flowery Branch
Several people have indicated a
desire to visit the State Forest Nur
sery at Flowery Branch, Georgia, be
fore the digging season begins.
Since considerable interest has been
shown by the people of North Geor
gia in the succes of this project, it
has been decided to hold a sort of
“Open House” for visitors on Thurs
day, October 20.
No special program will be ar
ranged. However, visitors will be
welcome at any hour from 9 o’clock
a. m. v until 6 p. m. to inspect the
area..
Some members of the State Di
vision of Forestry personnel will be
on hand to explain the technical side
of seedling production and demon
strate the technique of planting.
If you can arrange to go, we are
sure the trip will be worthwhile.
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Record-Keeping For Poultry Raiser*
In Jackson County
Jackson county poultry raisers are
urged this week to join in a state
wide record-keeping project. The
project is being launched coincident
with the new poultry fiscal year,
which begins October 1 on most
farms. The chief requirement is
that co-operating poultrymen keep
’complete flock records for a full
fiscal year.
Egg production in Jackson county
is fairly high, but we have never
gained sufficient recognition for our
Jiigh producing birds, because re
cords have generally been lacking.
However, the University of Georgia
has for the past few years won na
tional prizes for the egg-laying abili
ty of their hens.
This project is one in which poul
trymen should be very interested be
cause the records are easy to keep
and much vlauable information can
be secured from them.
Record books and instructions
may be obtained from the county
agent. Carbon copies of the records
are sent by cooperating poultrymen
to our office each month, from which
a state summary is prepared. A copy
of this state summary then is mail
ed to the cooperators.
""We are not interested in signing
up a lot of names but we are anxious
for interested poultrymen to take
part in the project. We would
rather have one good record-keeper
who will continue the project for a
year than have a large number who
will drop out in two or three months.
At the end of the year, we ex-
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DISTRICT GOVERNOR
OF ROTARY
Hon. Porter W. Carswell, Visit*
Jefferson; Talks Made by Him
Monday Evening and Tuesday
Noon; Other Visitors.
Jefferson Rotarians were greatly
pleased to have as a visitor and
guest this week the District Gover
nor of Rotary, Porter W. Carswell,
of Waynesboro. Monday evening at
the Hotel Harrison he had a round
table talk with Jefferson Rotarians.
Tuesday at the noon luncheon he
was guest speaker, and delighted hia
hearers with brilliant epigrams, apt
comparisons and illustrations and
words of wisdom. He went from
Jefferson to LaGrange.
Jefferson Rotarians were made
very happy by having a solo from the
sweet singer, Miss Florence Lassi
ter, with that accomplished musician.
Miss Mabeth Storey, at the piano.
Other visitors who delighted Ro
tarians with their presence were
Mr. and Mrs. S. Kinningham, and the
new assistant county agent, Mr.
Joseph D. Bilderback.
Election Reform Move Is
Started
Atlanta. —A movement to tighten
Georgia election laws gained mo
mentum with announcement from
Secretary of State John B. Wilson
and representative-nominate Thad
Bynum of Rabun county they would
recommend specific action to the
next general assembly.
ln a report to Governor Rivers,
Secretary Wilson said the present
acts governing elections were “very
vague and indefinite.” Wilson said
he would submit a supplementary
statement after listing recommenda
tions for specific changes.
Bynum, in a statement issued at
Clayton, said he would off or a bill
to limit campaign expenditures to
entrance fees and “necessary ex
penses of advertising and traveling.”
He said the object of his measure
would be to “have elections on the
merits of the candidates instead of
the voters being influenced by fi
nances.”
The state Democratic convention at
Macon last week went on record in
a platform plank asking the assem
bly to investigate the elections laws
to determine whether they needed
strengthening.
WILHITE—TUCKER
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Wilhite of
Jefferson announce the marriage of
their daughter, Nell Elizabeth, to>
William Kidd Tucker of Royston, the
marriage having been solemnized in
Abbeville, S. C., on September 25th,
1938.
The above announcement is of
sincere, loving interest to the many
friends of the bride, who has made
her home here for several years.
She is the attractive daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Foster D. Wilhite, and
a grand-daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. G. Maddox and Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Wilhite. Her ma
ternal grandparents were the late
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stark. Her only
sister is Mrs. J. D. Fambrough of
Oconee county, and her brother is
Gilbert Wilhite, of Atlanta.
Mrs. Tucker received her high
school education in Martin Institute,
afterwards graduating from business
college. She has filled with splendid
ability positions here and in other
cities, and at the time of her mar
riage was working Royston. She
has an attractive personality, and
numbered her friends by her ac
quaintances.
Mr. Tucker, we understand, is a
popular business man of Royston.
THE JACKSON COUNTY CHOIR
AT CABIN CREEK
The Jackson County Choir will
meet with Cabin Creek Church, five
miles south of Commerce, just off
the Athens Highway, the fifth Sun
day, October 30, at 10 o’clock. Of
ficers to elect for 1939. All singers
and lovers of music invited. Bring
lunch for the noon hour.
G. W. Shaw, Pres.
E. G. Loggins, Sec’y.
pect to have some valuable statis
tical information on poultry keeping
in Georgia.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.