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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1038
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TWO NEW FORDS
Ford V-8 Tudor Sodom with 40-hp. ongino, s624'R’— with 85-hp. engine, s&64'Ar
Di LUXE FORD V-8: Pro
vides all the basic Ford fea
tures, with extra luxury.
Remarkable amount of
equipment included in
price. Hydraulic brakes.
85-hp. V-8 engine. Sets a
new high for low-priced
cars —in appearance and
performance.
Prices begin at...5684^
AND THE NEW MERCURY 8
jfor 1939
Tho Mercury V-8 Towa-Sodaa 5934-R-
• The new cars in the Ford Quality Group
for 1939 give you a broad choice. Whichever
you choose, whatever you pay, you'll get top
value for your money. That is true of the lowest
priced car or the highest. All have one impor
tant thing in common—inherent quality.
Their quality comes from fine materials,
precision workmanship, and from the fact that
back of these cars is the only automobile plant
FORD MOTOR COMPANY - MAKERS OF FORD, MERCURY. LINCOLN-ZEPHYR AND LINCOLN MOTOR CARS
WORLDLY BREVITIES
(By Science Service)
Termites have been found in
every state except North Dakota.
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There are still 132,000 one-room
school houses in the United States.
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Anew use for soap—in making
cake—is reported by a soap manu
facturing company.
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The world’s tallest tree on record
is the Founders tree, a redwood, 364
feet high, in California.
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When the biggest ocean liners
step up their speed, they use 50 per
cent more oil for every knot above
28.
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As feed for farm animals, corn is
rated pound for pound the most
valuable, then wheat, barley and rye,
and then oats.
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Medical research has greatly re
duced cases of diphtheria in chil
dren, and also in cats, which are very
susceptible to this disease.
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When sugar cane was first used for
sweetness, about the fourth century
B. C., people merely drank the juice
or chewed the cane.
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Cornell university holds a brief
school for missionaries each winter,
to teach nutrition, farming, health
and other subjects that will enable
them to help a community.
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A white man—a sea captain of
Nome, Alaska—crossed Bering
Strait on the ice by dog sled, show
ing that America’s early natives
could have come from Siberia that
way in prehistoric times, even with
out boats.
VAN CLEVE
Furnishes Flowers of all kinds for
all occasions— Pot Plants, Cut Flow
ers, Corsages, Bouquets, Flowers for
weddings or funerals.—Mrs. J. C.
Bennett, Local Representative.
Dc Luxe Ford V-8 Fordor Sedan $769-R
of its kind—where production processes are
controlled from iron ore to finished car—-"and
savings passed along as extra value.
Things are happening in the automotive
world this year! Nowhere is the advance more
marked than in the Ford Quality Group. See
our dealers before you buy any car at any price.
ir Delivered In Detroit taxes extra
SILKLESS SILK STOCKINGS
WILL MAKE APPEARANCE
A $10,000,000 plant to be erect
ed in Virginia by the Celanese Cor
poration of America for the produc
tion of an entirely new synthetic
yarn will make serious inroads into
Japan’s silk trade with the United
States, hosiery producers say. The
new yarn will be specially adapted
for making hosiery.
Hosiery, has remained virtually
the only outlet of silk since rayon
entered the textile field, producers
said, rayon yarns being too lustrous,
too inelastic and insufficiently sheer
for production of hosiery for the
American market, although it has
pushed silk out of practically every
other field where silk before had the
balance of power.
Of the $100,000,000 worth of raw
silk imported annually to this coun
try, about $75,000,000 worth was
used for hosiery, it was estimated.
Japan is the source of about 90 per
cent of American raw silk imports,
and hosiery producers said these
figures showed how hard hit Japan
would be by the new products, pro
viding they lived up to experimental
tests.
BROTHER AND SISTER,
APART 41 YEARS, MEET
Hornell, N. Y.—A sister and
brother who had believed each other
dead for forty-one years have been
reunited.
The sister, Mrs. Adolph Class, c*f
Hornell, came to this country from
France when she was 14, and her
brother, Theodore May, when he was
12. Both lived with relatives near
Buffalo, until Mrs. Class was mar
ried and moved to Jamestown. Af
ter forty-one years Mrs. Class learn
ed a Theodore May resided in Tona
wanda. She investigated and found
that it was her brother. Each had
received information, they said, that
the other was dead.
Let T*e Herald do your Job
Printing. Keep your printing dol
lars at home.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
FORD V-8: Now five inches
longer from bumper to
bumper. Roomier bodies—
more luggage space. New
styling. Hydraulic brakes.
Scientific soundproofing.
Triple-cushioned comfort. 85
or 60 hp. V-8 engine.
Prices begin at... .SSB4A
MERCURY 8: An entirely
new car. Fits into the Ford
line between the De Luxe
Ford and the Lincoln-Zephyr.
Distinctive styling. 116-inch
wheelbase. Unusually wide
bodies. Remarkably quiet.
Hydraulic brakes. New 95-
hp. V-8 engine.
Pricas begin at...5894^
TERRELL COUNTY FELICITATES
THE LOWLY PEANUT
Georgia’s lowly peanut was king
last week in Dawson and Terrell
county, when the citizens assembled
at Dawson to hold the Southeastern
Peanut Festival.
Terrell county’s 1938 peanut crop
will bring farmers a greater source
of revenue, exclusive of agricultural
adjustment benefits, than the coun
ty’s cotton crop. Terrell county’s
cotton acreage allotment for 1938
was 23,190 acres; the peanut allot
ment, 28,010 acres.
Terrell county had already gin
ned on October tenth 10,300 bales
of cotton. It is estimated by Coun
ty Agent Dallas Spurlock that the
county will produce approximately
12,000 tons of peanuts. The cotton
produced in the county this year will
bring the farmers $500,000 plus
$160,000 for cottonseed. The pea
nut crop will net $780,000, through
the agricultural adjustment program,
the farmers of the county will re
ceive $32,000 in peanut benefits or
rentals. From the cotton rentals or
benefits, $148,500 will be paid cot
ton growers, plus $130,000 for sub
sidy payments.
WELL DONE
I saw a snowflake, pure and white,
It fell to earth, was lost from sight
’Midst other snowflakes falling there
I could not find it anywhere.
Its drop of water cheered the earth,
Helped it produce a plant of worth;
The plant in time gave food to some
The snowflake’s task we call well
done.
I saw a little baby boy,
Some father’s pride, some mother’s
joy;
He grew to mandhood strong and
true,
And sought the Savior’s will to do.
His sphere in life was only small,
He had no special service call,
But gladly helped and cheered some
one;
The message came to him “well
done.”
—Ruth Sloan Weniger.
Want Forces Gipsies
To -Stop Wanderings
If you have ever envied the gipsies
and their care-free manner of liv
ing, envy them no longer, for the
30,000 gipsies in the United States
have fallen upon evil times.
In many sections of the country,
particularly in New York, San Fran
cisco, Detroit, Chicago, and other
large cities, you will find their names
on relief rolls. But even if some of
the gipsies can still exist without aid,
their doom is seen.
The American public, generally
speaking, is hostile to them, both be
cause some have often been way
ward and mischievous and because
they do not adopt stundurd ways of
living.
Fortune telling by gipsies is ban
ned in many communities, and
gipsies are excluded from many race
tracks, carnivals, amusement parks,
and county fairs. Hundreds of towns
will not permit gipsies to halt in
their limits.
There are other reasons why at
least half of these roving children of
nature are stranded in the large
cities. Horse trading is an all but
vanished art, and coppersmithing, at
which the gipsy men are adept, is
now a unionized trade. Slowly the
wheels of progress are running them
down. Life has become too com
plex, too mechanical for them to
exist as they once did.
When the earliest recorded gipsy
bands appeared in Europe, during
the Middle Ages, they were accord
ed the privileges of pilgrims. Soon,
however, wherever they stayed a
while, their paganism, their aloof
ness from the normal pursuits of
mankind, their petty thieving, and
the baseless rumors of cannibalism
and child-snatching which rose up
about them marked them as unde
sirable. From country after country
they were driven onward.
Nearly all gipsies in America are
citizens, but always on the go and
without doctors to register their
births, they often have difficulty in
establishing their citizenship. School,
church, and burial records are
meager. To add to the confusion,
most of them have two names, and
in addition to having a home name
and a traveling name, gipsies fre
quently change their names when
members of their family die.
They would require training in
discipline to fit into a workaday
world. Various suggestions have
been made for the gradual improve
ment of their condition, but in gen
eral, the country is just awaking to
the plight of this small, but pathetic
group of wanderers.
Strange Fatality Follows
(From Albany Herald)
There are, of course, plenty of
men who would be perfectly willing
to pay any price for the glory of be
ing president of the United States.
Offer the world’s highest office to the
man willing to accept it with the
understanding that he would die
before the end of thirty days, and
there would be thousands of takers,
every one eager for first chance.
There is little likelihood of any
such condition being laid down, but
it is an interesting fact that a super
stitious man might hesitate before
becoming a candidate for the presi
dency in* 1940.
It is a curious fact that,' beginning
with 1840, all presidents elected at
20-year intervals have died in of
fice. And the fateful 20-year period
recurs in 1940. Here is the strange
record, according to the Florence
Herald:
William Henry Harrison, elected
in 1840; Abraham Lincoln, elected
in 1860; James A. Garfield, elected
in 1880; William McKinley, elected
in 1900, and Warren G. Harding,
elected in 1920, all died while hold
ing office of president.
Harrison, who was 68 at the time
of his inauguration, died of pneu
monia exactly one month later. Lin
coln was re-elected in 1864, but was
assassinated in the month following
his second inauguration. Garfield
was assassinated a few months after
taking office. McKinley’s election
in 1900 was for a second term, of
which he had served a little more
than six months before his assassi
nation. Harding died suddenly at
San Francisco, after serving two
years and nearly five months.
Thus it will be seen that of the
six presidents who have died in of
fice, five are included in the fore
going list. The other, Zachary Tay
lor, was elected in 1848 and died in
1350.
The Diamond Industry
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For many years Americans have
been setting a record of luxury
that in many respects outdistances
the glory of Solomon, the grandeur
of the Caesars, and the pomp of the
Dukes of Burgundy. Certainly* the
American people have more and bet
ter diamonds. The average Ameri
can stenographer wears a finer dia
mond in her engagement ring than
any possessed by the bojeweled royal
ladies of Henry VIII’s court.
The American people purchase
three-fourths of all the finest stones
taken from the great South African
mines, and in addition, purchase a
large per cent of valuable stones
that come from other sources. Deal
ers say that in no part of the world
is it more difficult to sell a cheap
diamond than in America.
Until 1728 nearly all diamonds
came from India, for it was in that
year that diamonds were first dis
covered in Brazil. In the lutter half
of the nineteenth century Brazilian
mines began to show strain of over
work, and then came the news of a
surprising diamond discovery in
South Africa.
Unlike the discovery of gold in
California, finding of diamonds in
South Africa was much less spectac
ular. The children of a Boer farm
er had collected some curiously
shaped pebbles while playing along
the bank of a nearby stream and dis
played them to some visitors, only
one of whom was impressed. That j
visitor’s name was Van Niekerk. He j
offered to buy one of the pebbles!
from the children but their mother,
scoffed at the idea of selling such an |
apparently insignificant thing and
laughingly presented the stone to I
the visitor. By that simple act of
genorisity the whole course of South
African history was changed.
The recipient of the gift, how
ever, was not particularly excited
over the stone and let it lie on a
cupboard for several weeks. Final
ly he threw it out with some trash,
but later recovered it in order to
show the object to a traveling trad
er. The trader sent the pebble to
a mineralogist, who discovered that
it was a diamond weighing over
twenty-one carats.
After that, Van Niekerk was on
the lookout for strange pebbles, and
when a short time later a shepherd
boy showed him one, he bought it
for 500 sheep, ten oxen and one
hprse. The boy thought he had
made a clever trade, and wltfle he
had, the stone was sold for over
$50,000 in Hopetown, and later Earl
Dudley bought it for around SIOO,-
000. This was the purchase that
focused the eyes of the world on
South Africa as a diamond center,
and soon fortune hunters were flock
ing there from all parts of the
globe. In the Tnidst of quiet Boer
farms sprang up mining villages,
steeped in the same picturesque law
lessness that marked America’s
western mining camps.
But while diamonds are generally
associated with the greatest ease
and freedom of life, those who work
in diamond mines are virtual prison
ers. Diamond mines are roped off
with wire charged with electricity.
JOHN T. MORRIS PASSES
Gainesville, Ga.—Funeral services
for John T. Morris, 68, who died
Wednesday at his home at Buford,
were held Thursday afternoon at
Walnut Church, Jackson County.
Rev. L. P. McNeal officiated, and in
terment was in the churchyard.
Born in Barrow County, he had lived
at Buford some time, was a con
tractor, and a member of the Metho
dist Church. Surviving are his wife,
three sons, Alpin Morris, Atlanta; L.
P. Morris, Atco; Luke Morris,
Greensboro, N. C.; four daughters,
Mrs. Albert Peeples, Hoschton; Mrs.
Bonnie Hunt, Mrs. Otto Crowe and
Mrs. William Bracewell; a brother,
James Morris, Winder; a sister, Mrs.
Fannie Adams, Buckhead.
TERRY—PERRY
Married, at the famous Matrimon
ial Oak, on Sunday, October 30th,
1938, Mr. Clarence Perry to Miss
Era Terry, Judge A. J. Lyle of
ficiating.
HABIT
Habit is hard to overcome. We
take off the first letter, it does not
change “a bit.” If you take off
still another, the whole of "it” re
mains. If you take off still another,
it is still not “t” totally used up.
All of which goes to show that if
you have a habit you wish to be rid
of, you should throw it off altogeth
er.—The Cross.
PAGE THREE
° Maysville School News •
First Grade
Tho first grade is still enjoying
school. We are learning how to
mix colors. We like to paint. Twen
ty-one pupils were not absent dur
ing October. We hope to have a
larger number next month.
Second Grade
We had 23 pupils that won prizes
for perfect attendance in October.
We got our report cards Wednesday.
We are decorating our room for
Thanksgiving. Our sand table has
Pilgrim men and women, turkeys,
pumpkins and a forest scene. We
had our pictures made, and we put
the class picture and our teacher
over the library table.
Third Grade
We have anew blackboard in our
room. We have anew doctor and
nurse. J. C. Savage is our doctor.
Mildred Porter is our new nurse.
Evelyn Rylee has moved from Mays
ville. We are missing her, too. We
have anew pufdl. His name is
Homer Gilstrap.
Fourth Grade
The fourth grade is studying
Food, in Health. We have learned
why we eat, what to eat, and some
rules for eating. In Language, we
finished writing letters to‘our friends
in Vermont. ■ln Geography, we fin
ished the booktlets on Afriga.
Fifth Grade
We have been making corn shuck
dolls and Indian head bands. We
made wigwams, and dyed cloth. We
have been studying the poem, “Hia
watha.” We have memorized the
part about his school. We had a
play in chapel Friday entitled, “In- ■
dian Children.” Betty Webb made
Honor Roll for October.
Sixth.' Grade
We had our Halloween program
Friday night. Our teacher gave as
our report cards Wednesday. Hoke
Yarbrough and George Webb made
Honor Roll.
Seventh Grade
The Junior Audubon Club held its
first meeting November Ist. Sever
al people were nominated as officers
of the club. These will be elected
November 4th. Our badges have
the black bird on them.
We have 27 members. Those lead
ing in the rock collection this week
are Annie Mae Jordan, Mattie Lee
Jordan, Sadie Crisler and Charlie
Jarrett. Those who made Honor
Roll for October were Lucy McCoy,
Cota Wade, Smith Pounds, Agnes
Yarbrough and Nellie Mae Walls.
High School
The Home Ec girls made candy
for the Halloween Carnival last
week. They also finished their
aprons, and made paper aprons for
serving Friday night. The 9th grade
Home Ec girls are making dresses.
Basketball season opened last Tues
day night, with our boys playing
Commerce. The Science class is
studying the types of heating. The
Seniors are studying the Romantic
Poets of English Literature. The
tenth grade is studying the first con
jugation. In Literature, they are
studying the realistic short story
writers.
WOMAN, 81, "JUST HOLLERS"
AT FIRST MOVIE
Macon, Ga.—“l just hollored,”
said Mrs. F. M. Shores, of Macon,
in describing reactions upon seeing
her first motion picture during a
celebration of her 81st birthday.
The little blue-eyed lady— she
weighs just 76 pounds—explained
she went to the movie as the guest
of two members of her Sunday
school class. Of the comedy she
said: “I saw so much I couldn’t tel!
you what I did see. And I didn’t
have time to get scared, I laughed so
much.”
She said her son told her she
would become "a nighthawk,” and
added “. . . . And it was 12 o’clock
before I got home.”
She lives alone with her yellow
cat, two hens and a rooster in the
same cottage in which she has resid
ed for forty-three years. That it
lacks electricity, plumbing and a
telephone worries her not at all.
She is proud of her garden, and
works it herself.
“I have just been chasing a cow
out of it,” she told visitors.
GRIFFIN TO ABANDON
LEVY OF STREET TAX
Griffin, Ga.—Griffin voted Thurs
day to abandon street taxes.
Last year the.street tax brought
in about $5,600 to the city treasury.
City Manager Dick Drake said. He
did not specify how the sum lost
would be made up.