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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A Year—ln Advance
Published Weekly
Entered at The Jefferson Poatoffice
•i Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON Bus. M’g’r.
JEFFERSON, GA., NOV. 10, 1938.
SANDY CREEK FARMERS
PRAISE ABILITY OF
KUDZU IN EROSION
Many farmers in the Sandy Creek
Soil Conservation Service area are
planning: to retire eroded sectors in
their cultivated fields to kudzu be
fore the next planting season, ac
cording to Gus York, agronomist.
With proper planting, proper
land preparation, fertilization, anil
first-year cultivation, kudzu will
provide permanent protection to
severely eroded areas and will af
ford additional hay for feed. Les
pedeza serccia is another perennial
well adapted for erosion control anil
hay production in perrennial field
strips.
When kudzu is used in field plant
ings rows of the products may be
interplanted with a row crop the first
year. By the second year it will
spread over the intervening spaces.
Farmers in the area who had
kudzu in the third growing season
this year harvested excellent yields
of hay in addition to the protection
kudzu afforded their lands.
FARMERS AND COUNTY AGENTS
MEET TO DISCUSS LIVESTOCK
County agents from more than 20
counties will meet in Athens Thurs
day morning at Civic Hall to dis
cuss and formulate plans for raising
more and better livestock in this
section.
Letters to county agents through
out this section have been sent ask
ing them to attend and to bring at
least one farmer fr<Vtn' their county
to the meeting.
Walter S. Brown) director of the
Agriculture Extension Service, has
authorized the county agents to at
tend and is cooperating to make this
meeting a success.
Dinner will be served the visitors
at 12:30 by the Athens Chamber of
Commerce’s Agriculture Committee.
LOCAL GIRL’S 4-H FOOD WORK
WINS MEDAL
Jackson county honors and a gold
medal in the Fourth National 4-H
Food Preparation Contest has been
awarded to Miss Dorothy Blackstock
by the National Committee on 4-H
Club Work in Chicago on approval
of her county agent and state club
leader. The medal has embossed on
its face a feminine figure of victory
bearing a tray loaded with foods,
and is worn with a clasp. A small
4-H clover completes the design.
Over 1,000 of the medals arc
provided for county champions by
Servel, Inc., which also gives state
champions all-expense trips to the
forthcoming National 4-H Club
Congress. At that time, eight Elec
trolux kerosene operated refrigera
tors and SIOOO.OO in college scholar
ships will be presented top winners.
Over 75,000 elubsters and leaders
took part in the contest.
WORLD USE OF COTTON
IN ’3B SHOWS DECLINE
The quantity of cotton consumed
by the world’s cotton mills dropped
from 29,720,000 bales for the year
ended July 31, 1937, to 26,168,000
bales for the year ended July 31,
1938, a decrease of 3,552,000 bales,
a preliminary report of the Interna
tiona! Federation of Master Cotton
Spinners and Manufacturers census
showed.
Consumption of American cotton
fell from 13,279,000 bales to 10,-
923,000 bales.
The total cotton mill stocks on
July 31,1938 and 1937, in countries
reporting, according to continental
distribution, were as follows:
American cotton: Europe, 564,000
bales, against 428,000 bales on July
31, 1937; Asia, 59,000 bales, against
329,000; America 1,284,000 bales,
against 1,394,000. The total mill
stocks of American cotton on July
31, 1938, were 1,926,000 bales, as
against 2,068,000 bales in the year
1937.
Charles M. Spelling, Chancellor
Emeritus of the State University,
celebrated his 76th' birthday Novem
ber 3. He has been connected with
the University for 60 years.
Business Forges Ahead For
The Fourth Month
An Associated Press story from
New York says: “The nation's busi
ness, entering the fifth month of re
covery, had reclaimed Saturday
nearly half the ground it lost in the
slump from relatively high industrial
levels in the spring and summer of
1937.
Employment estimates indicated
well over u million workers have
been restored to factory payrolls
,nd pay envelopes fattened through
added working hours as plants on
•ui tailed schedules speeded up pro
luction.
October figures, presenting a pic
ture of sharp contrast with the rapid
decline of industrial barometers in
that month last year, showed the
vast buliding industry far ahead of
1937 levels.
Heavy constructions awards, trade
-ourccs reported, were the largest
'or the month since 1929. The As
ociated Press index of residential
building, where signs of vigorous
evival first were visible last spring
and early in the summer, by the end
of October had more than doubled
he figure at the 1938 low point.
Building has bfeen industry’s
■-leeping giant since 1931. Business
men have waited for its reawaken
ing as probably the strongest assur
ance of an enduring rise in em
ployment and payrolls.
Widely-spread October gains
helped make the four-month climb
out of the trough of the 1937-38 de
pression one of the fastest in years,
Wall Street analysis noted.
The Associated Press weekly in
dex of industrial activity dropped
from a high‘around 108 last year
to 65.8 at the end of May, 1938.
It now stands at 83.6, up about
27 percent from the year’s low. This
index is based on the average for
the years 1929 and 1930 as 100.”
Hall County to Ship Million
Fryers
Gainesville, Ga. —Turning more
and more toward a program of di
versified farming, farmers of Hall
County have learned that one of
the best ways to have money in their
poekets is through raising chickens.
So many of them have made this
discovery, in fact, that it is now a
matter of record that Hall County
farmers produce annually more than
a million fryers for the late winter
and early spring markets—which is
said to be a national record.
They are now getting ready for
the brooding season. Soon the ad
vance guard of several hundred
thousand baby chicks will begin to
flow in from hatcheries here and
elsewhere for their temporary home
in this county.
At prevailing prices when most of
these chickens go on the market, the
industry grosses upwards of a half a
million dollars, and indications are
the coming season will top previous
ones in revenue,
CRAWFORD ESTIMATES FIRE
LOSS AT MORE THAN $5,000
Walter D. Crawford, owner of the
Crawford Coal and Mattress Works,
estimated damage done by a fire at
his place of business Wednesday af
ternoon at more than $5,000.
The spectacular blaze started
when a spark from a renovator ma
chine was thrown into cotton being
run through the machine and quick
ly spread to other inflamable ma
terial in the building.
“About twenty bales of cotton
were completely destroyed and every
piece of machinery in the plant will
have to be replaced before we can
resume operations,” Mr. Crawford
said.
In nddition to the cotton, there
were 49 new mattresses completely
destroyed and numerous others par
tially damaged, and one sewing
machine burned. Mr. Crawford said
it would cost at least $2,000 to re
pair the building. He said the loss
was not covered by insurance.—
Athens Banner-Herald.
Jefferson Club, 4658, was well
represented in Athens last Thursday
evening at the district meeting of
Rotary. More than one hundred
and fifty Rotarians were present,
and the guest speaker was Rev.
George Stoves, pastor of Mulberry
Street Methodist Church in Macon.
The following members of Jefferaon
Club attended: A. B. Elizer, G. W.
Westmoreland, H. S. Fite, W. H.
Smith, T. T. Benton, M. M. Bryan,
R. B. Maxwell, C. T. Storey, Jr., J.
C. Turner, R. S. Johnson, A. A.
Frost, C. B. Lord, H. J. W. Kizer, J.
T. Stovall, and L. J. Lyle.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Seaboard to Exhibit
Giant Diesel Engine
In Georgia Nov. 20-21
Atlanta.—Merrily rolling along at
its average speed of 75 miles an
hour, one of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway's new Diesel-Electric loco
motives, soon to be placed in service
in the South, will pause in various
Georgia cities Monday and Tuesday,
November 20-21, for public inspec
tion. The engine, which is describ
ed as "the world’s largest and might
iest Diesel-Electric locomotive,” will
pull a string of the newest in stream
lined cars.
The new train will stop at Elber
ton at 3 o’clock p. m., Sunday, No
vember 20, remaining on exhibition
until 3:50. It will be the first train
in the history of this and other
Georgia cities in which it will stop
that has ever passed through with
out smoke or noise, and which is so
clean that the operator may wear
a white suit or ordinary clothes.
Leaving Elberton at 3:50 p. m.,
the mighty locomotive, which is 210
feet long, 13 feet eleven inches high,
and nine feet three inches wide, will
be in Athens by 5 o’clock, and open
to public inspection there until
8:45. V
The train, which was first exhibit
ed in Washington, D. C., where it
drew a crowd of approximately 20,-
000, will be shown in Atlanta from
8 a. m. to 3 p. m., Monday, Novem
ber 21; will be in Roekmart from
4:10 to 4:40 the same afternoon; in
Cedartown from 5:10 to 6:10, and
then will go to Piedmont and on into
Birmingham.
Among others on the train will be
W. L. Stanley, chief public relations
officer of the Seaboard, and H. E.
Pleasants, division passenger agent.
Assistants will be on hand to ex
plain in detail any questions the
public may ask.
The Seaboard spent $1,600,000 on
the unit in order to lead the way in
modern transportation as it has done
throughout its 106 years of service
to the South.
The Seaboard is the first southern
line to introduce air-conditioning in
its passenger coaches and Pullmans,
and to recently was the only rail
road providing completely air-con
ditioned equipment from Atlanta to
the northeast. Its work in offer
ing de luxe reclining seat coaches
has resulted in -greatly increasing
coach traffic to Florida and the mid
south, but its greatest step is provid
ing Diesel-Electric transportation.
A. E. GITTENS PASSES
Lawrenceville, Ga.—A. E. Gittens,
56, died at the home near McKen
dree Church Sunday morning, fol
lowing a few days illness. He was a
widely known farmer, and an active
member of the McKendree Metho
dist Church. He is survived by his
widow; four sons, Tracy and Robert,
of Hoschton; Curtis, of Atlanta, and
Alton Gittens; daughters, Misses
Caroline and Geneva Gittens, all of
Lawrenceville; Mrs. Ray Payne, of
Atlanta, and Mrs. Loyd Skelton, of
Winder.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at the Center Church,
near Hoschton. Interment was in
the churchyard. Rev. W. G. Henry,
Jr., officiated.
MRS. H. J. COOPER, HALL
COUNTY, BURIED
Gainesville, Ga.—Funeral services
for Mrs. H. Journey Cooper, 76,
member of a prominent Hall county
family, who died at her home at
Chestnut Mountain after a long ill
ness, were held Sunday afternoon at
the . Chestnut Mountain Baptist
Church. Rev. J. N. Jarrard officiat
ed, and interment was in the church
yard. A native of Hall county, she
had lived in the Chestnut Mountain
community most of her life, and was
the last surviving charter member of
the church there, having united with
it sixty-two years ago. Her late hus
band had been a religious and edu
cational leader of the community.
Surviving are five sons, Professor
J. P. Cooper, Lincolnton; Frank and
Dan Cooper, Chestnut Mountain; R.
F. Cooper, Fort Pierce, Fla.; H. D.
Cooper, Maysville; six daughters,
Mrs. G. N. Cash, Fort Payne, Ala.;
Mrs. J. M. Cash, M isses Hattie and
Ida Cooper, Chestnut Mountain;
Mrs. L. A. ■Coker, Gainesville; Miss
Beulah Cooler, Atlanta; two sisters,
Mrs. F. C. Bell, Hoschton; Mrs. Har
ris Cooper, Bartow; two brothers, J.
P. BeH, Pendergrass; D. J. Bell,
Moran, Texas; twenty-one grand
children and four greatgrandchil
dren.
George Shaw was in Madison the
past week-end, visiting relatives.
Red Cross Roll Call To
Begin November 11
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The National Red Cross Roll Call
will begin Friday, November 11.
There are few people who do not
know of the benefits of the great
humanitarian organization. Its scope
of activities knowing no length nor
breadth, nor color nor creed; the
Red Cross administers to all alike
when disaster or distress comes.
Once a year the roll call for mem
bers is made, beginning on Armistice
Day and lasting through Thanksgiv
ing. It is during this time that peo
ple will be given opportunity to en
roll, and this year it is hoped that
Jackson county’s membership will be
the largest in its history.
Nation-wide, the Red Cross makes
an appeal no public-spirited citizen
will deny, because a real opportunity
is given the members to have a per
sonal part in alleviating suffering
and distress throughout this great
nation of ours.
Join the Red Cross when called
upon, and obey the injunction of the
Master who said, “When ye have
done it unto the least of these, My
brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
NOVEMBER MEETING OF M. E.
DICKSON CIRCLE
The monthly meeting of the Dick
son Circle of the Baptist Church was
held at the home of Mrs. R. M. Cul
berson, with Miss Sallie Loyd joint
hostess.
The meeting was opened with
prayer by Mrs. J. C. Hanson, after
which Mrs. J. T. Stovall conducted
the Bible Study. Next lesson as
signed is Galatians and Ephesians.
Mrs. J. C. Bennett presided over
the business meeting. Reports from
officers and committees were given.
Mrs. George Bailey finished up
the quilt she had donated to the
Circlf, and presented it to them at
this meeting. A committee will have
charge of sale of quilt.
The Circle was delighted to have
anew member, Mrs. Frank Staton.
The December meeting will be
held with Mrs. J. C. Hanson.
The program chairman, Miss
Joyce Storey, gave a lesson from
Year Book, and finished up the Mis
sion Study Book, “He That Giveth.”
Members present, were Mesdames
J. C. Hanson, Fannie Turner, Tom
Turner, George Bailey, J. T. Stovall,
Frank Staton, J. C. Bennett, R. M.
Culberson, Sallie Loyd, Misses Joyce
and Mabeth Storey.
A social half hour was enjoyed,
the hostesses serving delightful re
freshments.
THE MASSEY CIRCLE MEETS
The Massey Circle of the Baptist
Church held their regular monthly
meeting with Mrs. Soney Ramsey,
Monday afternoon, November 6,
with four members present, and one
visitor.
The secretary being absent, Miss
Clyde Pirklo acted as secretary.
Minutes of October meeting read,
and approved.
Collection * taken, and received
$4.20.
Mrs. Wilhite read the report on
personal service‘for the past month,
Mrs. Garrison being absent.
The Circle is planning on selling
stew at an early date. We are going
to have the best stew yet, and we
are looking for your orders.
No other business, we went into
the study of the lesson. Before be
ginning our study, we repeated to
gether our Watch Word, followed
with prayer by Mrs. McCollum.
Mrs. Ramsey conducted the study,
second chapter of our Mission'Study,
subject, “It Is Required.”
The meeting was closed with the
Lord’s Prayer in concert.
We then enjoyed a social half
hour together, in which the hostess,
assisted by her son and Alva Ray,
served delicious salad, cookies and
coffee.
Those present, were Mesdames F.
D. Wilhite, R. S. Medlin, B. E. Mc-
Collum, Soney Ramsey, and Miss
Clyde Pirkle.
FOR RENT OR SALE
Fer rent or sale, 39 acres of land.
4-room new house, good barn, in
city limits of Jefferson, on Daniels
ville Road. Apply to Mrs. M. P.
O’Callahan, Athens, Ga.
ROOSEVELT THEATRE
PHONE 192. - JEFFERSON, GA.
7:00 TO 11:00 O’CLOCK EACH NIGHT
Matinee Wetlneday, 12:00 m.j Friday 12:00 m.
Matinee Saturday at 1:00 p. m. —3 how
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, in
MY LUCKY STAR
Selected RKO Short Subject
ADMISSION 10 AND 20 CENTS
# (Miss Coetta Moon)
SATURDAY
Buck Jones, Dorothy Faye, Hank Mann, in
THE STRANGER FROM ARIZONA
Chapter 6, J. Mack Brown, Flaming Frontiers
Selected Our Gang Comedy
Admission Matinee EVERYBODY 10 CENTS
Admission Night, 10 and IS Cents
(Jim Davis)
MONDAY
Michael Whalen, Lyn Bari, Henry Armetta, in
SPEED TO BURN
Universal News Reel, The Latest In World’s Events
On Stage in Person, Hank Penny and his
Radio Cowboys
Admission 10 And 25 Cents
(Miss Mildred Wade)
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
The Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, in
ROOM SERVICE
Last and Final Chapter of Flash Gordon
Also, Selected Short Subject
Matinee Wednesday 12:00 m.
Admission, Matinee and Night, Everybody 10 Cents
(Marvin Sykes)
If your name appears in this advertisement, clip and present
it at the door for a complimentary seat.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
After November Bth, 1938, which
is election day, the Democrats and
Republicans will be returning to
Capitol Hill. Most of them have
been away in their respective States
and Districts since June 16th, when
Congress adjourned. The session
was under the wise leadership of
Speaker W. B. Bankhead, of the
Seventh District of Alabama, and
the majority leadership of Hon. Sam
Rayburn, of Fouth District of Tex
as. Both are fine men, indeed, and
Jeffersonian Democrats of the first
brand.
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Governors will be chosen in thirty
three States on November Bth. The
State of Maine re-elected its Gover
nor in the month of September, and
all of its four members for the 76th
Congress.
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I enjoyed my vacation very much,
indeed—of 60 days, and 10 days for
good measure—in Georgia, the Em
pire State of hte South.
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Senator Walter F. George, of
Vienna, Dooley County, Georgia, was
re-nominated United States Senator
in the Democratic State Primary of
September 14, 1938, over former
Governor, Eugene Talmadge, and
Hon. Lawrence Camp. Senator
George was first elected in a
special election called by Governor
Clifford Walker, then Governor of
Georgia, on October 17, 1922, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of the late Senator Hon. Thomas E.
Watson, of Thomason, McDuffie
County. Senator George’s next
term will begin January 3rd, 1939,
and end January 3rd, 1946, which
will make him twenty-two years in
the Upper House of Congress from
the Empire State of the South,
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I was sorry, indeed, to learn of
the death of Hon. John W. Welch,
of Athens, Ga. He was a fine man.
May he rest in peace with the Great
Chief Justice of the Universe, who
doeth all things well.
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Senator E. D. Smith is in a hos
pital at Florence, S. C., the Hot
Spur State of the Union. Senator
Smith was re-nominated for another
term in the United States Senate in
the South Carolina State Primary,
on August 30th, 1938. His next
term will make him thirty-six years
in the Upper House of Congress.
He was re-nominated over Governor
Olin D. Johnson. He is seventy-four
years of age. #
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Hon. Joe H. Skelton, Jr., of Hart-
THUR3DAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938
well, Hart County, Georgia, has a
nice position here on Capitol Hill, in
H. 0. B. Postoffice, under the pa
tronage of Hon. Paul Brown, of the
Tenth District of Georgia. Mr.
Skelton is a fine young man, indeed,
and very popular on Capitol Hill
with all people that he comes in con
tact with each day. He is the son
of Hon. J. H. Skelton, Sr., of Hart
well, Hart County, Georgia.
P. T. Anderson, Sr., vice president
and general manager of the Macon
Telegraph Publishing Company, will
lead the Macon drive to raise $250,-
000 of the $600,000 needed to re
purchase Wesleyan College property
from bondholders. Dr. Dice R. An
derson, president of the school which
is operated by the Methodist church,
said the drive will be supple
mented by a statewide campaign.
Under an agreement with bondhold
ers, authorities explained, the school
could purchase the properties for
$422,000, plus interest and rental
which would bring the total to $600,-
000.
Four law clubs named in honor of
four famous Georgians have been
organized by law students at the
University of Georgia. The clubs
were named for Robert Toombs,
Confederate leader who attended the
University; Benjamin Harvey Hill,
Georgia statesman and graduate of
the university; Sylvanus Morris,
dean of the University Law School
for many years, and T. R. R. Cobb,
Georgia graduate and author of the
Confederate Constitution. The clubs
are intended to train students in
presenting and arguing cases.
John W. Welch, well known and
popular business man of Athens,
died suddenly in that city on No
vember 2. For a number of years
he was a leading cotton factor in
Georgia. At the time of his passing,
he was chairman of the Athens Civil
Service Commission, and secretary of
.the Athens Elks Lodge.
Georgia flue-cured tobacco farm
ers have received an average annual
income of 13.7 million dollars for
the five crops marketed under the
federal farm program, Homer S.
Durden, state administrative officer
of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration, gaid Saturday.
* Before putting away spare silver
clean it thoroughly. Wrap it up in a
dark blue paper with a few camphor
balls, and when the silver is unpack
ed, even months afterward, it will be
found to be as bright as when placed
away. Filligree ornaments should
always be keptin dark blue, soft
paper.