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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
Important Questions
Two speeches have come into our
hands, one made by that astute po
litical leader of national fame and
well known political economist,
James A. Farley; and the other by
our fellow townsman, who is a keen
observer of conditions and men and
a student of no mean ability, Colonel
George W. Westmoreland. Both dis
cussed questions relating to social
and farm life. The former dwelt at
length on Distribution, and the lat
ter on How to Make Farm Life More
Profitable and More Pleasant. In
speaking of distribution, Mr. Farley
said:
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“No, I believe the number of
those who would veto any attempt
to solve this great modern problem
of the equitable distribution of the
things that make life worth while is
negligible. The injustice of the
existence of poverty and indigence
in the midst of plenty, when the
means of doing away with them are
at hand, is recognized by all but an
insignificant minority. It is there
fore up to us to concentrate our at
tention on this vital problem and
give our best intelligence and our
unremitting efforts toward its solu
tion. It is a more complex and
troublesome problem than any of
our forefathers ever had to solve,
and will therefore require the use of
every implement that experience
and scientific discovery have put at
our disposal. We did not wake up
to the' fact until it was suddenly
thrust upon us that subsistence for
millions of our population was a
burning question which not only af
fected them individually, but was of
vital concern to the nation and to
the national government.”
In addressing the Jefferson Cham
ber of Commerce, Colonel West
moreland said: “Until the beginning
of the Twentieth Century we had no
unemployment labor problem. The
clearing of the forests, the building
of public roads, steet car lines and
railroads, kept our people at work.
Now, all of these things have been
finished, and have long since reach
ed their saturating point, and are
now on the decline. Street car lines
are probably being junked faster
than railroads; yet, the railroads,
which gave two million people em
ployment in 1920, now employ only
nine hundred thousand. From this
industry alone there has gone into
the ranks of the unemployed one
million, one hundred thousand. To
these have been added laborers from
every other line of endeavor, and
from increased population, until to
day many of our people are not em
ployed. You may take the view
that this is no concern of yours, and
is of no concern of the nation, and
hold it to be an individual problem
which must be solved by each in
dividual; this, to a large extent may
be true, but while you may hold that
this nation does not owe its unem
ployed a living, you can not go
further and say that the nation does
not owe its citizens the opportunity
to make a living. The problem fac
ing us is how this may be done. To
my mind, our part of this problem
in this section is how we can solve
and get away from—l won’t say
slave labor, but I must say dis
tressed labor.
“Some of our educators survey
the field and look out over the situ
ation, and they offer us as our reme
dy classical education. My answer
to them is that if classical education
could save a nation and solve our
problems, why did Ancient Greece
fall? We know with greater edu
cation, as now given, our problem
has become more acute.” He said
public works will not solve the pro
blem.
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“Isn’t it better to face facts and
realize that classical education and
the erection of great public enter
prises never in the past, and in my
opinion will never in the future, save
a nation. Our problem, then, is one
of an economic nature, which goes
solely to the mode and manner of
living, and not one of classical cul
ture. I wish here not to be mis
understood. I am advocating edu
cation, but I am advocating an
education that will help us create
wealth without laying all of the
emphasis upon how to use wealth
when once created.
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l “I advocate this because we can
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not ignore the fact that the farm
must be the foundation upon which
every other thing must be erected.
Upon no other foundation can we
build. We have too long tried to
build skyscrapers upon bungalow
foundations. I believe, for one, that
if it takes a revolution to bring
about an educational system that
will teach us how to make a living,
rather than to enoy a living, that
someone else made, then the quick
er that revolution comes the better
off we are going to be as a people.
Aside from the knowledge that one
must have of farming, certain things
are necessary to bring contentment
and joy to those who live on the
farm. The farmer should be allow
ed comforts and conveniences, in
order that he might live according
to the standard of American living.”
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The thing advocated by Colonel
Westmoreland is a practical edu
cation for the farmer. Teach him
how to make a living, and while so
doing, make his farm better, and
farm life happier. He said, “To
gether with obtaining a needed edu
cation, two things now stand facing
the American people which are
compulsory. They are soil conser
vation and rural electrification. If
our nation does not economically
collapse, it will be prevented by
these two things. We can not build
a nation upon a dessert, and along
with the building of our soil must
come the benefits of sanitation and
the comforts of better working con
ditions, in order that the people en
gaged might be more contented.
The government, realizing this, is
leading in a crusade to conserve our
soil, and at the same time bring, in
a measure, the comforts of life to
those engaged in that task.
“The farm being the basis of all
our weajth, it then necessarily fol
lows that our economic question
rests on the farming interest of this
nation. There will always be a
market for food, but in this con
nection one great question is to see
that all people are fed. A nation
well supplied in food is the best in
surance that we can have against
Communism, Fascism or any other
Ism. Therefore, as land owners, we
should lend every agency possible to
make those on the farm contented
and interested in their tasks. This
can only be done by building up the
productivity of that farm and mak
ing the home more attractive, and
more sanitary by putting into those
homes lights, running water, refrig
eration and other things that would
bring comfort.
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“In truth, the slogan should be,
‘Forward to the Farm,’ and not
‘Back to the Farm.’ Make this
slogan true. Rural electrification,
coupled with conservation of the soil,
enjoyed by an intelligent citizenry
educated to farm, will revolutionize
our economic problems and bring
back to the American country home
peace and contentment, and when
the fields that are now lying idle
begin once more to produce their
abundant harvest, the sun will shine
again upon a contented people.”
STILL DRIVES HIS STEAM
DRIVEN CAR
Walter Huhn, owner of Macon’s
first automobile, has refused a deal
er’s offer to trade for a brand-new
model. “There are only four-team
driven cars like this in the world,”
he said. “One’s in Munich, Ger
many; one’s at the Smithsonian,
one’s in Charleston and this is the
fourth.” The buggy-like relic was
the terror of mules and horses, when
the late Dr. H. H. Johnson brought
it to Macon in 1901. Its forty-five
miles-per-hour top speed made it
several times winner in races held
thirty years ago at Central City
Park. Mr. Huhn, who patched up
the car for himself several years
ago, boasts of getting a mile to the
gallon—the liquid! being water in
this case. A gasoline burner sup
plies the heat for getting up steam
in the 14-inch five-gallon boiler, 300
pounds of steam being necessary be
fore the vehicle will get under way.
The driver sits directly atop the
boiler, with only thin planking and
some asbestos keeping his pants
from scorching.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Long Ticket To Be Ued
For November Bth Election
You can make up your own ticket
if you want to in the general elec
tion November Bth.
A sample ballot prepared by Sec
retary of State John B. Wilson pro
vides a blank ticket with spaces for
writing in names of candidates for
any office.
There are three party tickets on
the ballot, the Democratic, Prohibi
tion and Independent. The Demo
cratic ticket carries the names of
candidates for all offices from Unit
ed States senator and governor
clown through judgeships and solici
tor generals in many judicial cir
cuits.
The Prohibition ticket has nomi
nees for governor, secretary of state,
comptroller general, attorney gener
al, public service commissioner and
commissioner of labor.
The Independent ticket has a can
didate for United States Senate
and two candidates for governor.
There also are independent candi
dates for Congress in several dis
tricts, to be printed on the ballot in
those districts only.
Twenty-three proposed amend
ments to the State Constitution
stretch out the ballot until it is
more than three feet long. Twenty
one of these twenty-three proposed
amendments are local in their na
ture.
The two state-wide amendments
are Nos. 10 and 15 on the ballot.
No. 10 would authorize counties to
levy a tax for protection of forest
lands from fire, and No. 15 would
authorize the Legislature to dele
gate to any county the right to levy
a tax to provide medical and other
care and hospitalization to the indi
gent sick.
No Foreign Interference,
Says President
The United States, through Presi
dent Roosevelt, served notice on the
world it would protect the Western
Hemisphere from foreign interfer
ence and, while desiring disarma
ment, would not disarm “while
neighbor nations arm to the teeth.”
The President, in his first pro
nouncement on American foreign
policy since the Czechoslovakian
crisis, made a virtually precedent
shattering condemnation of nations
which employ force, exile and re
pression as instruments of national
policy.
He declared that the governments
of foreign nations “must not threat
en the world with the disaster of
war” and asserted no useful pur
pose is served to suggest “either to
the American people or the peoples
of other nations that the American
government in its policies, its prac
tices and its servants are actuated by
motives of dishonor or corruption.
“To do so,” he said, “is, of ne
cessity, an attack on the American
system of constitutional represen
tative government itself.”
The President voiced his views
Wednesday night in an address
broadcast from the White House to
the eighth annual New York Herald
Tribune forum on current problems.
Armistice Day Proclaimed
In State
Governor E. D. Rivers issued a
proclamation Saturday designating
November 11 as Armistice Day in
the state of Georgia. The governor’s
proclamation made it a legal holiday
throughout the state and directed
that the Capitol be closed.
The proclamation urged schools
and civic organizations to observe
the occasion with ceremonies mem
orializing World War soldiers “ —the
heroic dead and those who live.”
The governor’s proclamation also
set November 4 through 11 as
“American Legion Week” and urg
ed all communities to observe it with
programs sponsored by the Legion.
BUTTS COUNTY PEPPER
PROFIT PASSES COTTON
Jackson, Ga.—Butts county farm
ers are bringing pimiento peppers to
the Jackson plant, which will close
down after this week.
In spite of unfavorable weather
conditions, the pepper crop has been
a profitable one for farmers in this
section. This season the value of
the pepper sold and the wages paid
workers at the canning plant has ex
ceeded in value the cotton crop.
COUNTY AGENTS
COLUMN
Georgia’s 4-H club champions of
the past and present will relate the
history of their work on Saturday,
November 5, during a broadcast to
be held in conjunction with the Na
tional Farm and Home Program.
G. V. Cunningham, state 4-H club
leader, announced this week that the
program will be held in celebration
of National 4-H Club Achievement
Day. The broadcast over radio sta
tion WSB, Atlanta, will last for 30
minutes, beginning at 12:45 p. m.,
Eastern standard time. Mr. Cun
ningham has asked clubs all over the
state to hold “listen in” parties for
the broadcast.
The champions will be interview
ed by Charles Smithgall, of the WSB
staff, who will be master of cere
monies. The interviews will be in
terspersed by musical numbers.
Elizabeth (Nancy) McCreery, of
Savannah, Ga., and presidnt of the
state 4-H club council will be inter
viewed on the organization of the
4-H clubs in Georgia.
The Jenkinsburg club orchestra,
of Butts county, is scheduled for two
semi-classical musical numbers,
while a hill billy band from Douglas
county will provide “mountain
music” as needed.
Among those who will be inter
viewed are Mrs. Cora Waites, of
Lithonia, pioneer Georgia 1 club work
er, now the mother of two 4-H club
girls; and J. H. Marshall, Evans
dairyman, who in 1933 won a col
lege scholarship in a 4-H club na
tional dairy contest. Bill Munday,
of Jonesboro, and Tallulah Odom, of
Covington, will tell their success in
showing live stock. They have won
more money in open ring and 4-H
at fairs than any other club
members in Georgia.
Joe Martin, of Lafayette, one of
the current 4-H dairy champions,
will tell how he worked with his
animals to win the success that
comes to champions.
With the referendum on cotton
marketing quotas for 1939 scheduled
to be held December 10, Homer S.
Durden, state administrative officer
of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration, this week urged Geor
gia farmers to “gain a clear under
standing of how quotas operate” be
fore casting their ballots.
“We are very anxious for every
cotton grower to understand clear
ly what a marketing quota is and
how it affects his farm,” Durden
said. “The marketing quota system
was voted into effect by farmers for
the 1938 season, and we have oper
ated this year under that system.
On December 10, cotton farmers will
decide whether they want the quota
system in effect for next season.
“Marketing quotas for cotton are
provided for in the present farm
legislation, to be used by producers
when the surplus supply of cotton
gets too big. To become effective,
quotas must be approved by a two
thirds majority of the producers
voting in a referendum.”
When quotas are voted into effect,
Durden explained, the quota of an
individual farm is all the cotton pro
duced on the cotton acreage allot
ment of that farm. This means that
the farmer can sell all the cotton
grown on his allotted acres without
any penalty or restriction, whatever.
If a farmer over plants his acre
age allotment, his marketing quota
is the amount of cotton produced on
the allotted acres, or the normal pro
duction of the allotted acres, if that
happens to be larger than the
amount actually produced.
In either case, the quota also in
cludes any cotton produced in a
previous year which would not have
been subject to a penalty if it had
been marketed in the same year in
which it was produced.
In a year for which quotas are
voted into effect, any cotton that a
farmer sells in excess of his quota
is subject to penalty.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
“UNCLE REMUS” WIDOW PASSES
SATURDAY AT DAUGHTER’S
HOME
Atlanta. Mrs. Joel Chandler
Harris, 84, widow of the creator of
the “Uncle Remus” negro folk tales,
died at the home of a daughter, Mrs.
Edwin Camp, here Saturday night
after a long illness.
Mrs. Harris had been an invalid
since April, 1925, when she was
stricken with partial paralysis.
Thursday, November 3, 1938.
Southern To Spend
$5,000,000 On
Rolling Equipment
Atlanta.—R. B. Pegram, vice
president of the Southern railway
announces his road will spend $5,-
000,000 in its territory subject to
the approval of the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Mr. Pegram said the railway had
agreed to buy additional new freight
train cars to be built by manu
facturers located on its line us fol
lows: 1,300 forty-ton sheated box
cars by the Pullman Standard Car
Manufacturing Company in Birming
ham, Ala., the amount of the order
being approximately $3,000,000; 1,-
000 fifty-ton all-steel drop bottom
high side gondola cars by the Mt.
Vernon Car Manufacturing Com
pany at Mt. Vernon, 111., the amount
of the order being approximately
$2,000,000. It was further an
nounced that the company is negoti
ating for construction of approxi
mately twenty-five 70-foot express
cars to be used in passenger trains.
The Southern has also decided to
supplement its present order of 250
forty-ton steel under-frame compo
site superstructure stock cars now
under construction by the Ralston
Steel Car Company of Columbus,
Ohio, by ordering an additional 100
cars of this type from this company.
Good Shows Coming To
Roosevelt Theatre
The Roosevelt Theatre presents
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don
Ameche, in “Alexander’s Ragtime
Band,” Thursday and Friday. This
is one of the best pictures to be
filmed, with practically all of Irvin
Berlin’s hit-tunes in the program.
It depicts the history of the ragtime
band, with music, heart-throbs and
tears. A most enjoyable program.
Also, Selected Short Subject.
Saturday: The Three Mesquiteers,
“Call The Mesquiteers.” A rip
roaring Western, with gun play
action and thrills. These stars al
ways turn in a good performance.
Chapter 5 of “Flaming Frontiers.”
Edgar Kennedy Comedy, in “Years
of Experience.”
Monday: Joe E. Brown, Man
Mountain Dean, in “The Gladiator.”
Joe E., the man with the wide open
face built for laughs only. We will
have Man Mountain Dean on the
stage in person. The man who steals
the show in this picture. He is one
of the world’s greatest wrestlers.
This is a chance of a life time to see
a real star in person. Also, Select
ed Universal News Reel.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Bever
ly Roberts, Bruce Cabot, Tommy
Ryan, in “Tenth Ave Kid.” This is
a good entertaining picture for the
whole family. Also, chapter 14 of
“Flash Gordon’s Trip To Mars.”
OLDEST METHODIST
CHURCH IN STATE
MARKS BIRTHDAY
The First Methodist Church at
Washington, Ga., is one of three
churches in Wilkes county complet
ing 150 years of service this year.
It is the first of that denomination
in the state to mark such an anni
versary.
The sesquicentennial was celebrat
ed Sunday in a day-long home-com
ing program, beginning at 10 a. m.,
and continuing through the evening
service. Dr. W. P. King of Nash
ville, Tenn., preached at 11 o’clock.
Sardis and Clark’s Station Baptist
churches, in Wilkes county, cele
brated their sesquicentennial during
the past summer. Sardis has the
honor of being the church where
Jesse Mercer served his first pastor
ate.
F. D. R. TO LEAVE FOR GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 22
Washington.—President Roosevelt
expects to be busy between now and
November 22 on new budget esti
mates for the government depart
ments.
He told reporters Tuesday he
would leave Nov. 22 for his annual
Thanksgiving visit to Warm Springs,
Ga. He said he may visit Chatta
nooga, Tenn., on his way to or from
Warm Springs to fulfill an engage
ment there in connection with a
Civil War memorial celebration.
Mrs. F. P. Holder spent Sunday
with relatives in Atlanta.
Vol. 63. No. 21-
Medical Programs
On Move In Seven
Georgia Counties
R. L. Vansant, state
the Farm Security Administration,
announces that seven Georgia coun
ties now have medical aid programs
designed to provide emergency medi
cal care at a nominal stipulated
monthly sum for low-income farm
families on the FSA program.
Counties in which such programs
already are operating include: Clay,
Candler, Greene, Carroll, Haber
sham, Harris and Pickens. He said
plans are being made to inauguate
similar programs in a number of
other counties during the coming
year.
Under terms of the agreement,
the Farm Security Administration
lends the money to the participat
ing families, who pay a certain small
amount each month. In return, they
receive adequate medical care, with
the services of doctors being paid
from the central fund.
THE MYERS FAMILY WILL
RESIDE IN WASHINGTON CITY
(From Athens Banner-Herald)
It was with sincerest regrets wo
learned of the removal of Mr. and
Mrs. David J. D. Myers and their
daughter, Miss Mary, to Washington,
D. C., on the first of November.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers have a daugh
ter, Miss Sadie, who resides in Wash
ington, and holds a responsible po
sition with the federal government.
In order that the family might be
reunited, Mr. and Mrs. Myers de
cided to change their home. "For
many years they have resided in this,
city, a greater portion of the time
living at the Georgian hotel.
For many years, Mr. Myers was
in the consular service of the gov
ernment, being located in a number
of foreign countries until his retire
ment a few years ago, since which
time he has lived in Athens with his
family.
The writer of this column has
known Mr. Myers since his college
days at the University of Georgia.
Shortly after his graduation from
that institution, he entered the con
sular service and remained in that
department of the government until
his retirement. Their host of
friends here are exceedingly regret
ful of their departure and extend to
them every good wish for their hap
piness in their new home.
FLOWER SHOW FRIDAY
AFTERNOON
Between the hours of 1:30 and!
5:00 on Friday afternoon the Jef
ferson Woman’s Club will hold the
annual fall “Flower Show” in the
Georgia Power Company building.
On account of unseasonable weath
er, flowers are not plentiful, but
every person is ilrged to make the
occasion a success by sending what
ever they may have in the way of
open blossoms, growing vines, decor
ative plants, etc. The committee in
charge requests that the flowers be
sent, if possible, during the morn
ing, or at least before 1:30 in the
afternoon.
MULBERRY ASSOCIATION MEETS
WITH CHURCH AT BELMONT
Belmont Baptist Church, of which
the Rev. Homer Morris is pastor,
entertained the Mulberry Association
in its sixty-fifth annual session, Oc
tober 12-13. The Association re
elected as its officers the Rev. J. O.
McNeal moderator, and the Rev.
Wiley,.!?. Holland clerk. The intro
ductory sermon was preached by the
Rev. T. W. Gee, and the Rev. Wiley
P. Holland delivered the missionary"
sermon the second day. Definite
plans were made at this meeting for
an Association-wide evangelistic
campaign to be conducted in April
of 1939.
CIVIL WAR VETERANS
GET MONTHLY PENSIONS
Atlanta. The State treasury
started disbursement Saturday of
$77,460 for monthly pension pay
ments to Confederate veterans and
widows.
The payments go to 166 old sol
diers, 1,167 “class A” widows, who
married veterans previous to 1881
and to 2,582 “class B” widows, who
were wed between 1881 and 1920.
Funds are from th cigar and ciga*
rette tax funds.