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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 193*.
I EXHIBITION
I World's Largest-Mightiest
Locor^ti^e^
A Tribute to the South
Through its progresshe policies, the Seaboard has Kept
pace with the advance of the South during its 106 years of
service—service that has been inseparably linked with the
development of this great empire.
The Seaboard has continually improved its services with
innovations to make your journeys more pleasant, more
comfortable, more economical, while the needs of shippers
and receivers of freight have been keyed to modern facilities
and services that produce a complete, economical system.
gfr SEABOARD
RAILWAY
piflpSji here’s
gT -CVERYBODY’S thriUed-when the pleasing ribbon of
* -C light gray concrete swings into view;
The nervous tension, generated by ordinary roads, dis
appears. Conversation resumes. Everybody feels better on
the true and even surface of concrete.
The car leaps ahead faster... smoother.;; safer. Tires sing;
The steering wheel feels firm, free from road shocks;
Motoring zest is quickly regained.
Concrete roads are safer ..; you’re less apt to skid. You’ll
stop more quickly, more surely. There’s less chance of
blow-outs. Light, clean-cut edges make visibility much
better at night. Your car operates more economically.
Route your course over concrete. Stay on it; Insist on it.
GEORGIA NEEDS MORE CONCRETE ROADS
®“An Open Letter to Henry Ford,” is a booklet
worth having. It’s FREE! Write to
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
Hurt Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
OWNERSHIP OF ENGAGEMENT
RINGS
If you have an out-of-date en
gagement ring in the possession of
some pretty girl or some other man’s
wife, here is your opportunity.
A Chicago court has decided that
a ring given a woman as an indica
tion of engagement does not carry
with it the title of ownership, but
that it remains the property of the
man until wedlock has been consu
mated.
Some time ago, a man in Chicago
gave to his fiance a diamond ring
with the understanding that they
were to be married. However, dif
ferences arose and the marriage was
called off. The ring was considered
by the woman as * belonging to her,
but her intended husband thought
different and he sued in the courts
to recover the ring. After trial of
the case, the judge decided that the
title would not pasg to her possession
until after marriage.
Now, the Seaboard dedicates the world's largest and tr •
powerful, streamlined, diesel-electric locomotives to
South - to provide sustained high-speed transportation . .
the utmost in safety and comfort at economical fare..
Again, the Seaboard pays tribute to the South. Again, tho
Seaboard introduces the most modern in transportation for
additional development of this region that is blessed with
unlimited natural resources, and destined to further
grow and prosper.
Again, the Seaboard evidences its faitli in the South. It is
serving the present and building for the future. In return,
the Seaboard asks only fair treatment and the support of
the people in the further promotion of our mutual interests.
STATE TREE SALES APPROACH
9,000,000
Atlanta.—Georgia’s sales of seed
ling trees from its nurseries is ap
proaching 9,000,000 plants, State
Forester Frank Heyward said.
This figure is approximately three
times the total production last year
at the Herty nursery, Albany, and
the nursery at Flowery Branch.
Heyward said approximately 11,-
000,000 more trees were available
and orders were continuing to come
in.
Most of the orders are coming
from citizens who w’ant the trees for
cash crop purposes. Others come
from cities and counties who use
them in reforesting water sheds to
clarify and increase the flow of
community water supply.
Jefferson Insurance Agency
General Insurance,
Jefferson, Georgia.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Some of the Features
Nine diesel-electric locomotives re Iteini built
for the Seaboard by the Electro-Motive Cor
poration. They arc to operate in units of
three—2lo feet long. 13 feet. II inches high,
4 feet, 10 inches wide, equipped for service
weigh 900.000 pounds, and produce 6,ooo horse
power—the world's largest and mightiest!
KNOW ANYBODY LIKE THIS?
If the wise men of today could see
just how wrong their prophesies
probably will be, I wonder if they
would consider themselves so wise?
I have a copy of the Georgia Home
Journal, published at Madison on
August 14, 1874, which offers a very
positive opinion of what “The Com
ing Girl” will be. The editor wrote:
“She will be of some use in the
world, will cook her own food, will
earn a living, and will not die an
old maid. The coming girl will not
wear the Grecian bend, dance the
German, ignore all possibilites of
knowing how to work, will not en
deavor to break the heart of unso
phisticated young men, will spell
correctly, understand English be
fore she affects French, will preside
with equal grace at the piano and
the wash-board, will spin more yarn
for the house than the street, will
not despise her plainly clad mother,
her poor relations, or the hand of
an honest worker, will wear a bon
net, will darn her old stockings, will
know how to make doughnuts, and
will not read the newspaper oftener
than she does the Bible.”
I wonder if “The Coming Girl”
ever arrived, and if so, where she
went?
Mrs. Sarah E. Evans,
In Atlanta Journal.
PEARL BUCK WINS NOBLE
PRIZE; SECOND AMERICAN
Stockholm. The 1938 Nobel
Prize for literature was awarded to
Pearl Buck, American author of
“The Good Earth” and other novels
dealing with China.
Mrs. Buck, formerly Pearl Syden
strycker and now Mrs. Richard J.
Walsh of Great Neck, New York,
was born in Hillsboro, West Vir
ginia, in 1892, and has spent much
of her life in China.
She is the second American to
win the Nobel award in literature,
the 1930 prize having gone to Sin
clair Lewis, author of “Main Street”
and “Babbitt.”
(Mrs. Buck’s parents were mis
sionaries in China and her first hus
band, J. Loossing Buck, was a mem
ber of the faculty of Nanking Uni
versity. They were divorced in
1935).
The Nobel award was understood
to have been based particularly on
“The Good Earth” which also won
the 1932 Pulitzer prize for an Ameri
can novel.
The Nobel literature prize
amounts to 155,000 kroner, about
$37,975.
The Dahlonega Nugget notes the
fact that a farmer was in town
buying pumpkins—and also said he
“was one of our best farmers.” The
Nugget excused him by saying that
“maybe the farmer planted some
thing more valuable on his farm.”
Senator Russell Explains
Subsidy Amendment
In response to many requests for
information by farmers, committee
men, and extension workers as to
the operation of the Russell amend
ment providing subsidy or price ad
justment payments to cotton farmers
on their 1938 crops, Senator Rich
ard IL Russell has issued the follow
ing statement:
"The Russell amendment appro
priates $212,000,000 for use in mak
ing price adjustment or subsidy pay
ments on cotton, corn in the com
mercial corn areas, wheat, rice, and
tobacco. The Act provided a flat
payment of 2c per pound to cotton
farmers as I originally drew it, and
as it passed the Senate,” Senator
Russell states. “The formula for
apportioning the funds for the live
commodities was changed in the
House, but one of the factors in the
formula is still the amount by which
the actual income from each of thesfe
crops in 1938 is below the parity in
come for these crops. On the basis
of the formula it is estimated that
between eighty-five and ninety mil
lion dollars will' be apportioned to
cotton farmers. Such an apportion
ment will permit payments to be
made at a rate probably within the
range of 1.8 to 2c per pound on cot
ton, and this payment will be com
puted on the normal yield of the
cotton acreage allotment established
under the 1939 Agricultural Conser
vation program.
“To illustrate the operation of the
amendment: a farm with an acreage
allotment of 20 acres, and having a
normal yield of 200 pounds, could
qualify for a payment of
4000 pounds of cotton, and if the
rate finally established is I.Bc per
pound the payment would be $72.00;
if it is 1.9 c per pound it would be
$76.00, and if 2c per pound it would
of course be SBO.OO. In order to
receive this payment it is necessary
that the acreage planted to cotton
in 1939 not exceed the cotton acre
age allotment established under the
1939 program.
“The Department of Agriculture
advises me that it is estimated Geo
gia cotton farmers will receive be
tween eight and nine million dollars
addition to any payments made un
from the funds provided by my
amendment. These funds are in
addition to any payments made un
der the AAA Agricultural Conserva
tion Program. This amendment was
attached to the spend-lend or relief
bill passed during the last days of
the third Session of the 75th Con
gress. I offered it in an effort to as
sist the cotton and other farmers to
ward parity, after it became evident
that there would be no material in
crease in the price of cotton this
Fail. It is evident that if we are
to pursue the present policy of re
ducing production it will be neces
sary to increase the farmers’ income
from some source, and I shall not
stop with the appropriations I have
already obtained, but will endeavor
to secure additional funds for parity
or price adjustment payments at the
next Congress.
“It appears that a processing tax
is the only source from which addi
tional funds can now be obtained to
finance the present program. Re
lief from some source is essential if
the farm incomes of the nation are
to be restored and maintained.
PROTESTANT METHODISTS TO
HOLD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AT ATLANTA NOVEMBER 17
The one hundred tenth and final
session of the Georgia Annual Con
ference of the Methodist Protestant
Church will be held at Cedar Grove
Church, near Atlanta, beginning
Thursday, November 17. Cedar
Grove church is five miles south of
East Atlanta, on the Flat Shoals
road.
The Methodist Protestant church
has 26 pastoral charges, with 32
churches in Georgia. All of these
congregations are in the upper half
of the state. The membership is in
excess of 2,200. The largest church,
located at Tyronne, has 350 mem
bers.
At its conclusion, the conference
will lose its present identity and be
come a part of the new unified
Methodist Church.
The new conference will result
from unification of the three main
branches of Methodism—the South
ern Church, the Northern Church
and the Methodist Protestant
Church, which was completed last
May when the southern branch rati
fied the merger at the General Con
ference in Birmingham.
Some articles crowded out of this
Issue will appear next week.
NATIONAL ELECTION
RESULTS
An analysis of last week’s elec
tion returns reveals that while New
Deal candidates suffered a striking
setback the Democratic party still
carried sufficient states to command
control of the national electoral col
lege if a presidential instead of a
congressional contest had been at
stake.
Measured in terms of statewide
contests, the Democrats polled a ma
jority of the votes cast in 25 states
having a total electoral vote of 302.
There are 531 votes in the national
electoral college, which determines
the election of President and vice
president. A majority is 266.
Thus, as most observers agree,
the New Deal is far from losing its
position as the dominant political
force.
Tuesday’s balloting added 11 Re
publicans to the roster of the na
tion’s governor’s, increased the
party’s membership in the house by
more than 77 and gave it at least
eight additional votes in the senate.
Against the Republican triumphs,
there were offsets. One of these was
a narrow Democratic victory in the
all-important state of New York,
which returned Herbert 11. Lehman,
Democrat, in the governor’s chair.
In addition the Democrats took
California, who has had a Republi
can governor for many years, and
replaced the Republican governor of
North Dakota with one of their own
party. They also placed a Democrat
in the governor’s chair in Maryland
previously held by a Republican.
The U. S. Senate results are:
Democrats elected 20; holdovers
45; total 65.
Republicans elected 11; holdovers
12; total 23.
Farmer-Laborites elected none;
holdovers 2; total 2.
Progressives elected none; hold
over 1; total 1.
Independent Republicans elected
none; holdover 1, total 1.
Necessary for a majority 49.
The Congressional results are:
Democrats elected 258. Present
cong. 328.)
Republicans elected 165. (Pres
ent cong. 88.)
Progressives elected 2. (Present
cong. 5.)
Necessary for a majority 218.
The election of governors were:
Democrats elected 15; democrats
lose 11.
Republicans elected 18; republi
cans gain 12.
Farmer-Laborites elected none.
Progressives elected none; pro
gressives lose 1.
Pension Factors
Advocacy of liberal old age pen
sions appeared to be one of the vote
getting factors in many races of the
last election.
Although the California proposal
for “S3O-Every-Thursday” to the
unemployed over 50 was defeated,
there was a heavy vote for it—and
it had been denounced as “unwork
able” by Townsendites and some
other backers of pensions for the
aged, as well as by business men.
Sheridan Downey, supporter of
the program, won election to the
senate on the Democratic ticket and
Culbert Olson, Democratic nominee
who had promised to give it a “fair
trial” if it was approved in the ref
erendum, was elected Governor.
Across the continent, Leverett
Saltonstall, who captured the gov
ernorship of Massachusetts for the
Republicans, had the backing of the
Townsend organization.
In Colorado, the voters approved
continuance of $45 monthly pensions
for the aged, disregarding warnings
from opponents that the state would
face financial collapse. A S4O month
ly pension proposal led in North Da
kota and Missouri reduced the age
for beginning pension payments
from 70 to 65.
LIZARD GETS THE SPIDER,
BUT CAT GETS LIZARD
Los Angeles.—A mortal enemy of
black widow spider and her eggs has
been found by Dr. Raymond B.
Cowles, of the University of Cali
fornia, at Los Angeles. It is a lo
cal lizard, known popularly as the
alligator lizard.
Harmless to human beings, the
lizard has been successfully used in
Dr. Cowles’ own home to eliminate
the poisonous spiders. There’s only
one catch to the arrangement—
while the lizards prey on the spiders,
the common house cat preys on the
lizards.
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Firtt Grade
We are sorry to hnve four of our
pupils move away this week. They
were Lois Tanner, Edith, Cornelius
and Floyd Scoggins. Twenty-one
pupils won prizes for perfect attend
ance last month. We have made
some turkeys to decorate our room
for Thanksgiving, and we are learn
ing a Thanksgiving song. Those on
the Honor Roll for October were:
June Vandiver, Billy Webb and
Tatum Cochran.
Second Grade
Our teacher gave us some bird
cards Wednesday. We enjoyed
them. We are sorry that Carlton
Gailey moved away. We are very
glad to have Verner Evans come to
our class. We have a real pretty
Thanksgiving border in our room.
Third Grade
We are going to have our chapel
program Friday. Anne Vandiver
and Mary Joe Underwood made
Honor Roll for October.
Fourth Grade
For Language we have been
dramatizing the use of sit and set,
and writing the story of Thanksgiv
ing. In Geography, we are begin
ning the study of Europe. Friday,
we had an Armistice Program. It
consisted of the reading of the
Seritpure, prayer, Armistice acros
tic, poems, and a group of war
songs.
Fifth Grade
We are making pottery from red
and white clay. We are learning
songs which pertain to Armistice
Day.
Sixth Grade
The sixth grade is making the Sa
hara desert, a castle, camel, and a
product map of Africa. We are
working hard on our projects, in
order to receive a prize.
Seventh Grade
Our Home Making Class is mak
ing shoe bags for Christmas pres
ents. The boys are making what
nots and book-ends.
4 High School
Maysville teams played Homer
last Friday night. Three games were
won by Maysville. The fourth
grade pupils and some high school
pupils put on an Armistice program
in chapel Friday. Since the ninth
grade Home Ec girls have complet
ed their fall* cooking course, they
are now making their dresses. The
tenth grade Wealth Class has been
studying the Nervous System. One
day recently they studied blood un
der the microscope. The work in
the library is progressing nicely,
under the supervision of Miss O’-
Kelly. The books are being circu
lated among the students.
EDITORIAL ODDITIES
The Butler Herald says: “There is
also this to say for the straight and
narrow way: One does not meet
any drunken drivers.” The Fannin
County Times at Blue Ridge dis
covers: “A glutton is the one who
put the ‘eat’ in death”. The Alma
Times declares: “The Chicago Cubs
now know how it feels to be purg
ed”. The Pike County Journal at
Zubulon comes forward with this:
“Many a sick person gets well the
day the football game is to be
played”. The Columbus Advertiser
says: “Don’t forget that the ‘I do!’
man of 1938 will soon be the ‘I
won’t’ man of 1939”. The Camilla
Enterprise presents this fine bit of
logic: “If you are not doing good
business these days it’s because no
one knows you are in business. You
might try advertising”. The Doug
las Coutny Sentinel at Douglasviile
makes this suggestion: “Too many
are willing to submit to the present
belief that ‘business is bad ’. Why
not adopt a slogan that ‘Business is
Good’.”
THE ANNUAL RED CROSS DRIVE
The annual Red Cross drive for
membership began on November 11,
Armistice Day, and will last through
Thanksgiving, November 24.
The committees here and at Tal
no, Hoschton, Pendergrass and
Braselton are untiring workers, and
will unite to enroll a long list.
The service of the Red Cross is
too well known in this community to
be commented upon or eulogized,
and it is sufficient to call the atten
tion to the dates. We firmly be
lieve that our people will rally to
the support of the workers and give
to them the largest number of mem
berships the local Chapter has had
since its organization.
To give pickled beets anew and
different flavor, add a few pickled
onions chopped fine.