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The Jackson Herald
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By Holder & Williamson
The December Election
Farmers who grew cotton this
year will be given an opportunity to
vote on December 10 on the farm
control program. If two-thirds of
those who vote in the election cast
their ballots for its continuance, it
will be in operation in 1930. The
o|law of control is the same for 1939
as 1938, unless some modification of
it or amendment to it is made by
Congress when it convenes in Jan
uary. There is no doubt about the
act needing some changes, so as to
make it more workable and perfect
than it is today; but whatever will
be done by Congress will be to bet
ter the law. The acreage to be
planted will be about the same as
in 1938.
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It is generally admitted by people
that this country needs a farm con
trol act. For some years Congress
has been working on such a law. No
doubt the law would have been
more perfect today than it is at
present time had the Supreme Court
not have declared the original farm
act unconstitutional. Since this de
cision, Congress passed the present
law. Now, if any one can frame a
better or fairer law than the present
act, no doubt Congress would quick
ly adopt it. The thing it does seem
for farmers and their real friends to
da, is to not knock the present law.
Shall 'it be criticised? Yes, but let
the criticism be constructive, and
not be to destroy the act. Recently
Senator George criticised it, but
promises to use his efforts to make it
better.
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Now, when each of the grow
ers of the fleecy staple walks up to
the polls in Jefferson on December
10, some questions he should ask
himself: Is the principle of the bill
helpful to agriculture? If so, how?
To the first, the answer can be truly
given by saying the limiting of the
acreage controls production. With
out a limitation on acreage, proba
bly fifty million acres would be
planted, and a crop grown of twenty
to twenty-five millions of bales. This
would mean a price of two to four
cents per pound. Jackson County
and the State of Georgia cannot
make cotton at such a starvation
price. Such a size crop would spell
disaster to this State. Texas, Okla
homa and may be some other States
might grow cotton at such prices,
but not Georgia and some other
Southern States.
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The farmers of these named West
ern States do not have to buy com
mercial fertilizers. One man with
two mules or a tractor there can
prepare and plant at least one hun
dred acres. It will require little
additional expense to cultivate the
crop. Mexicans, with their large
families, can be hired to pick and
gather the crop at a very low price.
So Jackson County and other Geor
gia people would be forced to aban
don cotton culture, or would go
bankrupt in an effort to produce it.
Some cotton should be grown in
Jackson County and Georgia. It is
needed as a money crop. The con
trol of acreage would be beneficial
to the farmers here by insuring a
continuation of cotton growing here,
and controlling production, and
thereby insuring a better price than
no control.
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In the next place, crop control
means that other crops than cotton
will be planted, and a living made on
the farms in this county by the
farmers cultivating the lands. The
first thing any farmer in this county
should do, is to plan to make hi3
own living on his own land. Hogs,
cows and chickens should be produc
ed on the farm; but, as Dr. Jarnegan
said, “have no hogs, cows nor chick
ens on a farm unless feed is grown
on it to care for them.” So by
growing grain, hay, potatoes, turnips,
peas and things of this kind in
sufficient quantities insures good
home grown chickens, eggs and
meat, and having plenty of milk,
butter and beef. One small farmer
in this county said to the writer a
few days ago, “As I sit at home at
night in a comfortable house, with a
hickory wood fire, and know that I
have plenty corn in the crib to feed
my chickens and stock, and then
some to sell, plenty of meat to last
me all the year, sufficient wheat to
give me biscuit every meal, good
milk and butter every day, eggs for
SINGLE COPY 5c
breakfast every morning, plenty of
hay and fodder to feed mules and
cattle, abundance of peas, potatoes,
turnips, shelves ladened with canned
goods and preserves, my taxes and
all debts paid, and with a subsidy
and rental check due me, I am not
worried. My cotton acreage limita
tion was a blessing to me.”
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Then again, crop control means
the planting of soil building crops,
and better care for the farm lands
of this county. No one will deny
that many of the farms of this coun
ty have not been properly cared for.
The lands have been planted year
by year in cotton, the soil has been
washed from the hills down into the
creeks and rivers. The hills have
been eroded and made poorer, while
the filling of streams have made
the bottoms unfit for cultivation, or
in many instances for pastures. Crop
control means conservation and im
provement of lands by not only
planting soil building crops, but in
building proper drainage structures.
The government is now teaching
farmers how to properly drain lands
by the right kind of drainage struc
tures.
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Without crop control, there is lit
tle hope of a long continuation of
the government paying to tillers of
the soil subsidy and rental benefit
checks, and certainly loans on cot
ton will be at once discontinued.
This year the amount cotton pro
ducers will receive from the govern
ment for subsidies and benefits, is
about four and one half cents per
pound on normal production. What
a blessing these checks are to
thousands. One man said to the
writer not long since, “The checks
received this year by me have been
life savers. Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Congress deserve the gratitude
of the people of the South for the
laws passed and the service given to
agriculture. So far as I am con
cerned, I am grateful for the bene
fits I have received.”
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In passing on this matter on De
cember 10th, one should not let pre
judice against the President, Secre
tary Wallace, the State or local au
thorities control or influence him,
but vote for a continuation of con
trol if he thinks it beneficial and
helpful to him, his family, his neigh
bors, his State and his country. If
he thinks farm control is good for
him and his country, he should vote
for it. If not, he should cast his
ballot against it. One should fol
low the dictates of his own judgment
and own conscience, after careful
study of this great and important
question. The writer believes in
the sincerity and honesty of the
farmers of this land. Whatever the
result may be, the writer believes
the voters did what they believed
best for country, as well as them
selves.
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Director Walter S. Brown, of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, said in Athens recently: “The
present world supply of cotton is
about 52 million bales. This is the
largest supply ever available in one
season. Our crop in the United
States this year was held to a little
over 12 million bales, due to the fact
that most farmers co-operated in the
farm program and planted within
their allotments. However, it must
be remembered that last year, with
out a control feature to the farm
program, we produced approximate
ly 19 million bales, the largest crop
in history. Asa result, we had a
record carry-over this year of
around 13% million bales, or an
amount of cotton about equal to a
year’s needs for domestic use and
export. In other words, when we
started harvesting the 1938 crop we
already had enough cotton on hand
to run us another year, without even
taking the 1938 crop into consider
ation. In view of this situation, we
are bound to have another big carry
over next August. It is plain to see
that if acreage is expanded and pro
duction increased, we would simply
be piling more surplus cotton on top
of the present enormous surplus—
and a bigger surplus would mean
cheaper cotton. These facts indi
cate the urgent need for a continu
ation of the Agricultural Conserva
tion program, under which we can
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Hoschton Club Fetes
Husbands
During the years since the Hosch
ton Woman’s Club has been organiz
ed many and varied entertainments
have been sponsored by the club, or
by different departments and divis
ions, but never has the club enter
tained in honor of husbands and
children until when the members
served supper to their husbands and
children and a few friends. This
occasion, which was entirely social,
was one of the happiest in the his
tory of the club.
Asa gesture of affection and es
teem for Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Hen
ry, this affair was given before
Methodist conference convenes.
Club room had a festive air, and the
supper, planned with the likes of
“said husbands” in mind, was serv
ed by the members. Following this,
bridge, checkers, carroms and domi
noes were played.
The following were present: Rev.
and Mrs. W. G. Henry, Mrs. J. P.
Mahaffey and son, James Walter;
Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Allen and son,
Myron; Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lott, Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Adams, Colena and
Billy Adams, Mrs. Julius Adams, Mr.
and Mrs. Haflan Sell and son, Hor
ace, Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Dyar and
children, Ted, Doris ahd Donald;
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Cruce, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Lott and Amye, Frances
and Hilliard Lott; Alice Stone, Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Bell, Dr. and Mrs. L.
C. Allen and Miss Myrtice Allen,
Miss Jurelle Gilmore, Miss Jane
Lott, Mrs. Ralph Freeman, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie McDonald and Martha
Bob and Harry McDonald, Betty
Orr, L. B. Moon, Mr. and Mrs. J. V.
Booker, Vince Booker, Dean Lott
and T. S. Hartley.
Mrs. J. P. Mahaffey, president of
the Hoschton Woman’s Club, called
the November meeting to order, and
Mrs. 6. N. Dyar read the club col
lect.
Miss Myrtice Allen read the Twen
ty-third Psalm, and the president ap
pointed Mrs. W. D. Bell, Mrs. Ralph
Freeman and Mrs. Ralph Lott a
committee to revise the constitution
and bylaws.
By vote of the club, the money
cleared at the benefit party is to be
used by the club house committee.
Amye Lott gave a piano solo and
Miss Leta Braselton gave a vocal
solo, accompanied at the piano by
Mrs. H. F. Braselton. Rev. W. G.
Henry talked on “Poetry as an Ex
pression of Religion.”
Hostesses for the afternoon: Mes
dames J. P. Mahaffey, 0. N. Dyar,
Hoyt Cruce and W. H. Maddox.
Out-of-town visitors were: Mrs. J.
O. Braselton, treasurer G. F. W. C.;
Mrs. H. F. Braselton, Miss Leta
Braselton, Mrs. Fred Baird, all of
Braselton, and Miss Susie Tanner, of
Atlanta.
Martin Institute Project
Okayed
Six projects costing $138,912
were authorized Wednesday by the
Works Progress Administration of
Georgia. Of the sum, $7,946 will
come to Martin Institute to erect a
vocational education building.
Other locations and costs are:
Hall county, $40,617 for the erec
tion of a municipal building in
Gainesville to be used as a fire sta
tion and office, part of the funds will
be utilized in operating a quarry as
a source of material; Warren coun
ty, $17,813 for county-wide improve
ment of school buildings and
grounds; Richmond county, $4,556
to improve the county board of
health building in Augusta; Morgan
county, $22,948 to improve city
streets in Rutledge; Cherokee coun
ty, $45,032 to improve streets in
Canton.
continue to adjust acreage in 1939.”
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The Extension Director urged all
cotton producers to study the facts
carefully before the quota election.
He said it was especially important
for all farmers to indicate their
wishes by voting. “Talk to the
members of your county conserva
tion committee, your neighbors, and
your county agent,” he said. “Be
sure that you understand clearly
what the effect will be if quotas are
approved or rejected. Then vote ac
cording to your own best judgment.
But be sure to vote.”
New Survey To Find
How Roads Are Used
By Jackson Drivers
The Road Use Survey, anew
phase of the comprehensive highway
and traffic study being conducted in
the state by the Division of Highway
Planning of the State Highway
Board, will be launched in a week or
ten days in Jackson county, it was
announced in Atlanta by O. T. Ray,
state director.
The Road Use Survey, which will
determine what use is made of state
highways, county roads and city
streets by the residents of Georgia,
will be conducted through the high
schools of the state, it was announc
ed. The plan evolved calls for train
ed instructors to appear before in
dividual classes and to inform the
students how to assist the driver of
the family car or truck in filling out
a questionnaire which will be dis
tributed to them. Highway maps
will be handed out with the question
naire as an aid in filling out the
forms.
Dr. M. D. Collins, state superin
tendent of schools, has endorsed this
method of obtaining the required
data.
“There is a very definite place in
which the high school students,
teachers and superintendents can fit
into this highway program, and,
thereby, bring to the attention of
the children some very definite and
concrete civic lessons, as well as
tying up the interest of the com
munity with the educational pro
gram,” said Dr. Collins. “We want
Geortia to lead in the contribution
whicl the school can make to tho
highway program.”
Many other states, which also are
conducting highway planning sur
veysJin co-operation with the United
Statin: Bureau of Public Roads, have
employed the pupil-interview method
of obtaining Road Use data with
great success, Mr. Ray stated in his
announcement of the start of oper
ations in Jackson county. Each stu
dent is instructed to interview his or
her parents and to bring in one fill
ed out questionnaire form. Stu
dents whose family is without a car
or timek are required to Interview a
neighbor who owns an automobile
and who' has no child in high school.
“This is a very important phase of
work of the Division of Highway
Planning,” said State Director Ray,
“and we are counting on the com
plete co-operation of school superin
tendents and teachers, as well as of
the high school students of the state.
Through this survey the Georgia
youth is given an opportunity to
serve his government in supplying
essential information on one of the
foremost problems of the day—
scientific highway planning and traf
fic control—and I am certain that
they will take full advantage of it.
“To the school in each county
which returns the largest percentage
of properly filled out questionnaires,
the Division of Highway Planning
will present a large and complete
county map, which will show all
roads, churches, schools and dwell
ing houses.”
The Road Use Survey, by learn
ing from car owners what portion of
their total travel is on each class of
road, will be enabled to determine
the amount of driving performed by
the various population and geogra
phical groups in the state on each
class of road. An analysis of these
findings will reveal whether those
contributing funds for highways,
roads and streets are deriving bene
fits proportionate to their expendi
tures in taxes.
U. S. Allotments To State
In Year Near $150,000,000
Georgia has been allotted almost
$150,000,000 during the present
year by New Deal agencies, it was
disclosed in a summary of expendi
tures and allotments announced
Thursday.
Allotment of federal aid for vari
ous Georgia activities during 1938
ran slightly more than $147,000,000,
the survey revealed.
Included in this figure are public
works allotments in 1938, actual ex
penditures by the Works Progress
Administration, estimates oq cotton
and tobacco subsidy payments, and
outlay of the Civilian Conservation
Corps, as well as commitments
through the WPA for farm-to-mark
et roads and the state highway pro
gram.
Thursday, December 1, 1938.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Cotton Growers To Decide On
Marketing Quotas December 10
Jackson county farmers will go to
the polls on Saturday, December
10th, to express their approval or
disapproval of the cotton marketing
quotas for 1939. All farmers who
produced cotton in 1938 with a sta
ple length of less than 1 % inches
will be eligible to vote in this elec
tion. All farmers, regardless of
whether or not you are owner, oper
ator, tenant or sharecropper, arc
eligible to vote if they produced
cotton in 1938.
Those in charge of the voting
places will have a list of the cotton
producers for their respective com
munities.
The County Committee of Jackson
County will have charge of the elec
tion. The community committee
men, assisted by local farmers, will
have charge of the election in their
respective communities. There will
be no voting by mail, proxy, or
agent.
In case several persons, such as
husband, wife and children, partici
pated in the production of cotton
in 1938 under a lease or share
cropping agreement, only the person
or persons who signed or entered in
to the lease or agreement may vote.
Two-thirds of those voting must
vote in favor of marketing quotas
for the election to carry.
Our farmers may vote at the fol
lowing places:
Jefferson-Harrisburg Districts, Jef
ferson, Court House.
Miller District, Miller Court
House.
Wilson District, Maysville.
Minish District, Commerce.
Talmo-Cunningham Districts, Tal
mo.
Randolph-Hoschton-Porter Dis
tricts, Hoschton.
Newtown-Center Districts, Nichol
son, School Building.
Red Stone District, J. W. Arnold’s
Store.
Attica District, Hale’s Filling Sta
tion.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
21-Year-Old* Lead
Criminal Roster
Criminals are growing older!
This was disclosed in the third
quarterly bulletin issued by the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, which
showed that during the first nine
months of 1938 there were more ar
rests of persons 21 years old than
for any other age group.
Previously, the bulletin pointed
out, from 1932 until the middle of
1935 age 19 was the group in which
the largest number of arrests oc
curred.
Since the middle of 1935 there
have been more arrests for ages 21,
22 and 23 than for any other groups,
while the compilation for 1937 re
flected that 18 per cent of persons
arrested were less than 21 years old.
During the first nine months of
this year, howeVer, the proportion
was 19 per cent.
The figures show the great ma
jority of persons arrested are com
paratively young. In fact, 53.3 per
cent of the total of those arrested
were less than 30 years old.
Approximately 30 per cent of the
arrest records examined represent
ed persons taken into custody for
murder, robbery, assault, burglary,
larceny and automobile theft.
Arson, with a total of 723, was
lowest on the list, and larceny, with
a total of 48,886, was highest. Crimi
nal homicides totalled 4,987.
As for sex, men and women ran
a rather close race for the dubious
honors of leading the lists.
CARROLL IS AHEAD IN COTTON
GINNING
Carroll county took the lead in
Georgia for the number of bales of
cotton ginned prior to November 14,
1938, with 24,371, the Department
of Commerce reported.
Burke county, which led the state
last year during a comparative gin
ning period, dropped to second place
with 21,215 bales. Carroll county
last year had ginned 35,643 bales
and Burke 41,606 bales.
Total ginnings for Georgia were
817,727 bales compared with 1,360,-
939 last year.
Jackson county ginned 11,855, as
compared with 13,723 in 1937.
Vol. 63. No. 25
Funds Proffered
Georgia Counties
For Child Health
Financial aid can now be offered
to counties in Georgia interested in
well-baby health centers, according
to announcement by Dr. T. F. Aber
crombie, director of the State Health
Department, who states that through
a special grant given the Georgia
Department of Public Health by the
United States Children’s Bureau,
this service, which has not previous
ly been made generally available in
small towns or rural districts, is now
procurable.
“Most large cities now have well
established child health centers, at
which mothers may obtain instruc
tion and advice in regard to fhe care
and feeding of infants and young
children, and now with financial aid
available, this service may be ex
tended into smaller towns and rural
districts,” the health director stated.
Dr. Abercrombie declared the pur
pose behind the organization of the
well-baby health centers is not to
treat sick children, but to ascertain
the physical condition of supposedly
well children, to keep track of their
progress, and to prevent illness.
“It is expected that all measures
looking toward the prevention of
disease will be employed in the
establishment of these centers. An
important feature of this work is
the immunization of every child
against diphtheria, smallpox, ty
phoid fever, etc., he said.
All well-baby health centers, he
stated further, should be organized
on a sound, systematic basis, and
should be held on regular days at
regular hours so that there will be
no disappointments for parents who
bring children for examination. The
personnel necessary for conducting
a clinic of this type includes a phy
sician, a public health nurse and
three or four volunteer workers of
the community.
Details of the steps necessary in
organizing and conducting a clinic
may be had by any community,,
group, or individual interested by
writing to the Georgia Department
of Public Health. The department
will also be glad to send a represen
tative to discuss this matter in any
community where there is a possi
bility of establishing and operating a
child health center, Dr. Abercrombie
stated.
Personnel of “The Way’*
The personnel of the Pageant,
“The Way,” to be produced at the
Baptist Church December 18 at 8
o’clock, is as follows:
The Voice, Miss Joyce Storey.
Angel of the Lord, Miss Cully
Roberts.
Madonna, Mrs. Luther J. Lyle.
Abraham, H. W. Davis. ,
Moses, H. E. Aderhold.
Elijah, H. A. Stephens.
Isaiah, L. F. Elrod.
Singers, Misses Reins, Cason and
Connally, Mrs. C. B. Lord, Dr. C. B.
Lord, Clifton Barnett.
Heralds of the Angels, Misses Ma
beth Storey, Billy Hardy, Beth Bail
ey, Mrs. Jack Hardy.
Also, Shepherds, Wise Men, and a
foreign group whose names will be
announced next week.
Miss Miriam Bennett, Pianist.
Mrs. Morris Bryan, Director.
FARMER IS KILLED WHEN HIT
BY AUTlft
Winder, Ga.—Jim Brown, 55-year
old Barrow county farmer, waar
instantly killed Monday afternoon
when struck by an automobile on
the Atlanta highway about five miles
west of here.
L. L. Trego, assistant district
manager of a refining company in
Columbia, S. C., and listed by
Sheriff J. T. Williams as driver of
the car which struck Brown, said
Brown stepped into his path from
behind a truck. State Trooper H.
W. Beckham, who investigated the
accident, said L. C. and G. C. Sparks
of Ashland, and G. R. Sparks, of
Commerce, witnesses to the acci
dent, reported it appeared to be un
avoidable.
Brown was hurled about 30 feet
and his body was badly mangled.
He is survived by his wife and six
children. His home was about three
miles west of here.
Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Elizer were
in Talapoosa Thursday at a Thanks
giving dining at the home of friends,