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**]Vla Makes Best Corn
Liquor,” Youth Says
A 16-ye*r*old Tennessee moun
tain boy shocked a federal court at
Chattanooga recently by telling how
he sat at his mother’s knee to learn
the ancient, but now illegal, art of
making corn liquor.
Chewing tobacco continuously,
the boy said: “Mr knows how to
make the best likker in the world."
He had been arrested with two
other young "hillbillies" when “revo
nooors" swooped down on their
mountain farm, seized the trio, and
smashed a 100-gallon still on the
property.
Far from being ushamed of her
handiwork, the mother, Mrs. Ellen
Parson, seemed proud of it as she
:
"T learned him two years ago how
to make it. I figured he was getting
old enough to make his own living
now. He done work here and there
and saved up enough to get togeth
er his own still.”
“Making likker," she told the
United States commissioner, "is a
heap better than going hungry, and
it ain’t like killin’ and thieving.
“We ain’t starving," she continu
-€?d in answer to questions about how
profitable the business was, "but it
ain’t like it used to be. I know
how to make some mighty fine stuff,
not like this sugar whisky a lot of
folks run off. That cheap stuff sure
is hurting our business. Some folks
]on’t know the difference between
our stuff and hog-wallow that’ll rot
out a man, and that’s a fact, jedge.”
The boy said he got from a dollar
to two dollars a gallon for his pro
duct, and from “Yankees” he got as
much as $5 a gallon without hag
gling.
BLUNDER SENDS
$3,000 IN BILLS
TO TRASH HEAP
Americus.—The trash man hauled
$3,000 in bank notes to the city
dump Thursday but found the pack
age in his shovel and set out to re
turn it in time to meet excited postal
and bank officials who had discover
ed the blunder.
Harry F. Dixon, cashier of the
Bank of Ellaville, signed a receipt
of acceptance of the registered
package at the local post office at
8:45 a. m., Postmaster James
H. Hart said. Hart declared Dixon
decided to leave it at the post office
until after the bank opened at 9
a. m., asking that Paul Tondee, the
assistant postmaster, deliver the
package.
The postmaster said he slipped
the package in the waste basket
under the delivery window in order
to hide it. Several minutes later he
left the office briefly without telling
Tondee of the incident. While he
was gone the janitor emptied the
basket and by coincidence, George
Oliver, Negro city trash man passed
and loaded it on his wagon. Oliver
drove to the city dump one mile
from town and began emptying his
load, discovering the package in
his second shoveling. He headed to
wards town to return it and met
searchers on the way.
Problem
The hill-billy put down his gallon
jug of liquor.
“Maw,” ho drawled, “don’t yer
figger it’s about time we sent our
son ter school? He'll be twenty-six,
come hayin’ time.”
The old lady puffed slowly on her
oorncob pipe.
“Yer right, paw," she agreed.
So the next morning, bright and
<‘nrly, their twenty-six-year-old son
marched off to school. Two hours
later, he was home again, lie found
his father plowing the corn.
“P :w,” he announced, as tears of
disap 'ointment welled in his eyes,
“the teacher sent me back home.
She ; lid 1 cain’t some ter school less
I wear a collar.”
The old man cracked a whip over
the bony nag.
“Like ter help yer out with a col
lar, son,” he cried. "But if I do,
whut’ll I use fer the horse?” . . .
Our subscription list is corrected
to date. Look at the label on your
paper, and see if yours is paid. If
not, send in your renewal at once,
as we must comply with the postal
regulations and discontinue all sub
scriptions not paid in advance.
Old hardwood floors do not re
quire refilling when being done over
Apply two coats of thin shellac, re
wax whole surface and polish.
Flo' s should be treated in this way
twi. e a year.
THE "FRILLS" COME HIGH
(From Detroit Free Press)
An official inquiry into the char
acter and cost of education in New
York state reveals some interesting
and instructive facts.
The New York elementary schools,
as recently as 1850, taught only
eight subjects. Today they teach
18.
And the secondary or high schools,
which taught 28 subjects in 1850,
ceach 63 subjects today.
The.steady increase in the num
ber of subjects taught in the public
schools of New York and many oth
er states raises two important ques
-1 cions.
Are the pupils benefited by in
creasing the number of subjects
they are expected to learn to the
point where they cannot get more
than a smattering of any of them?
And is not the cost of many of
these educational "frills” out of all
proportion to their value to the pupil
or to the community which pays for
che upkeep of the schools?
The inquiry in New York showed,
for example, that in 72 schools sur
veyed it costs a maximum of $347 a
year to teach a junior or senior dra
matic and public speaking, and $134
a year to teach him or her music.
The maximum cost of teaching the
same boy or girl mathematics, his
tory and other academic subjects is
$36 a year.
MARGARINE PLANT
VIEWED AS BIG AID
TO GEORGIA FARMS
Georgia added another chapter to
the south’s industrial renaissance
with the opening of the state’s first
margarine factory in Atlanta.
The plant, established by Swift &
Company, is the largest in the south
and one of the pioneers in this sec
tion.
The plant will consume the milk
output of 2,500 to 3,000 average
Georgia cows. It will take at least
25,000,000 pounds of their cotton
seed oil and peanut oil per year.
And if the soybean is developed it
will provide a market for their soy
bean oil.
Dairymen will have an added
reason for rejoicing over the new
industry. It will take their skimmed
milk—milk for which formerly
there was no market, milk that fre
quently was poured down the sewer
.—and convert it into a product that
will raise the standard of living for
many Georgia families.
Do It Now
If you have hard work to do,
Do it now.
Today the skies are clear and blue,
Tomorrow clouds may come in view.
Do it now.
If you have a song to sing,
Sing it now.
Let the notes of gladness ring
Clear as song of bird in spring,
Let every day some music bring;
Sing it now.
If you have kind words to say,
Say them now.
Tomorrow may not come your way,
Do a kindness while you may,
Loved ones will not always stay;
Say thorn now.
If you have a smile to show,
Show it now.
Make hearts happy, roses grow,
Let the friends around you know
The love you have before they go;
Show it now.
—Anon.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Our enemies are our outward con
sciences.—Shakespeare.
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If we could read the secret his
tory of our enemies we should find
in each man’s life sorrow and suffer
ing enough to disarm all hostility.—
Longfellow.
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Love your enemies, or you will not
lose them; and if you love them, you
will help to reform them.—Mary
Baker Eddy.
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A merely fallen enemy may rise
again, but the reconciled one is
truly vanquished.—Schiller.
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An enemy despised is the most
dangerous of all enemies.—Publius
Syrus.
To prevent a gas stove from rust
ing rub the entire inside with a flan
nel cloth which has been saturated
with sweet oil.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Giving Uaeful Gifts
Another Christmas season nears,
and the annual task of selecting gifts
begins to furrow the brow of every
member of the family. What to
give dad in lieu of the proverbail
necktie? What to give mother be
sides the customary pair of hose?
What for sister and what for broth
er?
It is all very well to do shopping
for the small boy and girl who want
G-men outfits, steam engines, elec
tric trains and dump trucks, and
dolls, baby carriages, toy stoves and
toy dressers, but it ceases to be an
easy task to go shopping when they
want bicycles, bedside radios and the
like. Bicycles and radios run into
money, and few are able to lavish
many bicycles and radios upon their
offspring.
Asa matter of fact, there is very
little left for the modern papa and
mama to give at Christmas time.
Every day is Christmas for the
youth of today, that is, if Christmas
was measured in terms of receiving
gifts. Every visit to town includes
a trip to some dime emporium, and
nowadays, toys are on display the
year ’round.
A sensible plan is to give useful,
serviceable gifts. This does not
mean, of course, that the small kid
dies are to £>e denied their trains and
their dolls. Come what may, they
must have these, for Christmas with
out dolls, drums, horns and the in
evitable filled stocking would be a
poor Christmas indeed. But we re
fer to gifts for the more mature;
gifts for the man and gifts for the
woman. Give them something they
can use; something serviceable.
And when you do that, your gift is
all the more acceptable.—Dawson
News.
NORTHEAST GEORGIANS
PLAN LIVESTOCK GROUP
Athens, Ga.—Organization of the
Northeast Georgia Livestock Im
provement Association, comprising
12 counties in the Athens area, will
be held here within the next few
weeks, the Chamber of Commerce
has announced.
All of the following counties have
perfected their own organizations,
to become part of the larger group:
Clarke, Jackson, Oconee, Oglethorpe,
Stephens, Banks, Barrow, Franklin,
Walton, Morgan, Madison and Hart.
Dean Amis is chairman of the
Clarke county association, and the
directors include the chairman, H. O.
Langford, T. W. Morton, Harris
Thurmond, H. H. Hinton, W. A.
Sams and L. B. Thurmond.
CCC WILL ENROLL 52,000 YOUNG
MEN
Atlanta.—Robert Fechner, Civilian
Conservation Corps director, has an
nounced a January replacement
program to enroll 52,000 young men
and war veterans in existing vacan
cies in the corps as of December 31.
Colonel Clifford C. Matthews,
Fourth Corps Area CCC officer, said
that the quota for this area had not
yet been released by Washington.
Fechner said that the enrollmertt
program would bring the strength of
the corps up to approximately 310,-
000, including 6,600 Indians on
western reservations, and 4,000 ter
ritorials in Alaska, Hawaii, Virgin
Islands and Puerto Rico.
BANDIT BLUFF CALLED
BY BANK CASHIER
Comer, Ga.—Cashier Willis Noeil
balked an attempt to rob the Rowe
3anking Company by coolly “calling
r bluff” while alone in the bank
Friday.
A man, displaying no gun, shoved
a box through the cashier’s window.
It contained a note reading: “Let
this man have $2,500. We are watch
ing you and have our guns trained
on you.”
The cashier said the intruder
claimed he was forced to deliver the
note. Noell then told him to re
turn to the men who wrote it and
tell them to come in and he would
“talk it over with them.”
The man left and never return
ed.
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Clarence Austin, who has been in
the American Army, located in the
Panama Cunal Zone for some time,
came home Saturday night to his
parents for a thirty days leave of
absence.
Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gor
don Austin and family Sunday were
Misses Burnice and Coetta Moon,
Mrs. Ed Smith and children, and
Tim, Berry and Luke Morris, Misses
Loyce Austin and Clara Mae Massey
of Gainesville.
Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. Grady
Moon and family Sunday, were Mrs.
Mary Hays of Jefferson, Bill Sim
mons, Carl Williamson and Pat
Butler of Athens, who, with their
string band, furnished some extra
good music for the day.
George Henry Fite visited C. E.
White Sunday.
Miss Claudell Adams continues ill
at this writing. We hope.she will
soon recover her former good health.
Misses Viola and Noma Austin
and Bernice Moon visited Miss Clau
dell Adams Tuesday of last week.
Miss Melba White of Athens was
with her brothers here for the week
end.
Cecil White and Windom Adams
were in Winder recently on business.
J. P. Adams has had his timber
sawed recently, and Gilbert Adams
is having his timber worked into
lumber now by C. F. Porter.
Mr. and Mrs. Jewel Mize have
taken rooms with Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Adams.
AGRICULTURE DEPT.
ESTIMATES COTTON
CROP 12,008,000 BALES
Washington.—The Agriculture De
partment reported Thursday this
year’s cotton crop is estimated at
12,008,000 bales of 500 pounds,
gross weight, compared with 12,-
137,000 bales forecast a month ago,
18,946,000 bales produced last year,
and 13,201,000 bales, the average
production for the ten years, 1927-
36.
The Census Bureau reported cot
ton of this year’s growth ginned
prior to December 1 totaled 11,-
223,157 running bales, counting
round as half bales and excluding
linters, compared with 16,175,505
bales for last year and 11,493,140
bales for 1936.
The best oven temperature for
baking ham is between 250 and 275
degrees Fahrenheit. This gives a
most delicious ham, which slices
well. If a glazed appearance is de
sired, use a left-over sweetened
fruit juice for basting the ham.
This also adds to the flavor.
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General Insurance,
Jefferson, Georgia.
PIANO FOR SALE
Upright Piano in this vicinity,
will sell for balance due, rather than
ship to Atlanta. Write Durden Piano
Company, Station C, Box 154, At
lanta, Georgia.
Word Candlestick’* Origin
Traced to Rushes, Knots
The origin of the word candle
stick is found in the long stick of
wood to which was fastened a bun
dle of rushes or a pine knot. This
was carried from place to place as
needed or spiked to the wall. Later,
relates Alice R. Rollins in the Los
Angeles Times, when the art of
candlemaking was developed, the
candles were placed on candle
beams—a rude chandelier of cross
sticks of wood or strips of metal
with sockets or spikes, in sliding
stands, in sconces, which were also
called prongs or candlearms.
The candles were made of tallow,
spermaceti and bayberry, the lat
ter obtained from bayberries which
grew plentifully in New England
and was noted for its pure, spicy
fragrance. In a letter written by
Robert Beverly in 1705, he states
that “nice people often put them
out on purpose to have the incense
of the expiring snuff.”
All the lighting devices in the
American colonies for the first 200
years were generally the work of
individual workmen. They were
made by blacksmiths, tinsmiths,
pewterers, glass-blowers, carpen
ters or whatever the craftsman
might be. Each of these created
his own designs which were made
for local distribution as necessity
demanded and of which no two were
exactly alike.
Candlesticks were made in wood,
iron, brass, pewter and later silver
and glass. As the Colonies became
more prosperous and trade with the
mother country increased many
beautiful examples in silver, glass,
pottery such as delft, and later in
the . Eighteenth century porcelains
such as Chelsea were imported.
Traveled in His Canoe
to Minister to Indians
Jacques Marquette, one of the
most noted of the pioneers of France
in the New World, was born in
France in 1637, became a Jesuit
priest in 1666 emigrated to Can
ada to establish missions and ex
plore new lands for his country.
At that time, writes Leslie Hart
ley in the Washington Star, the
French settlements were mere trad
ing posts, widely scattered, and Fa
ther Marquette was forced to trav
el hundreds of miles in his canoe
to preach to the Indians and estab
lish mission houses along the Great
Lakes.
In the spring of 1673 Marquette
joined Joliet in an expedition by
canoe by way of the Illinois to the
Mississippi river and down that
stream to Arkansas. De Soto had
discovered the Mississippi more
than a hundred years before but
nothing came of his discovery. Mar
quette, however, who had endured
much suffering on the journey, pre
pared excellent maps and wrote de
scriptions of the new country which
resulted in others following and de
veloping the Mississippi valley.
Two years later Father Marquette
started on a missionary journey
along Lake Michigan, was taken ill
from exposure and died May 18,
1675.
The town of Marquette, Mich.,
and the Marquette river are named
in his honor.
Copyrighting the Bible
Only new translations of the Bible
are copyrighted in the United
States. Anybody may print the
King James or other old versions.
In Great Britain, however, a copy
right on the authorized or King
James version of the Bible rests
perpetually in the crowm. This ver
sion was translated and published
at the expense of the crown for the
established church of which the king
is head. The right to print it is re
stricted to the king’s printer and to
Oxford and Cambridge universities.
It is still customary in Great Brit
ain and her dominions for publish
ers who desire to print the autho
rized version to apply for permission
from either the Oxford or the Cam
bridge University press. The char
ter of publication originally granted
by the crown to these publishing
houses is recognized and respected
by British publishers. This rule
does not apply to publishers in
America or other countries.
Healing Properties of Hoi Springs
Tradition says that the curative
properties of the waters at Hot
Springs, Ark., were known to the
Indians long before the Spanish ex
plorations; that they warred for
them, finally making an agreement
whereby all tribes had access to the
springs. They were probably known
to De Soto and were visited about
1800 by French hunters and by
members of the Lewis and Clark ex
pedition in 1828. In 1832 congress
created a reservation to prevent ex
ploitation of the waters for private
gain, but litigation ensued which
was not ended until a Supreme court
decision in 1876.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 12,434
bales of cotton were ginned in Jack
son County, Georgia from the crop
of 1938, prior to December Ist, as
compared with 14,618 bales for the
crop of 1937.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15. I#3B.
A Talc of Two Town*
By CARLA E. ROSENTHAL
McClure Newspaper Syndicate,
WNU Service.
I ITTLE Mrs. Marshall had run
L across from her own piazza to
that of her new neighbor, “just to
get acquainted,” and in the process
of getting acquaint-
QMAD? ed had ha PP ened to
vllwn I mention that she
C ILJ n V was venerable
drIUK I parent of a high
______ school boy and a
5 T fC I normal school girl.
The new neighbor
opened her eyes wide. She sur
veyed Mrs. Marshall’s “bob,” her
short skirt, her slim, lithe figure,
and spoke incredulously. "I’H have
to believe it if you say so, but, hon
estly, I thought you were the sister
of those children. In fact, I
thought that perhaps you were a
normal school girl yourself.”
Mrs. Marshall laughed. “I wish
I were," she said. “There’s noth
ig I’d like better than attending
that splendid normal school of ours.
We call it ours, though really it is
about 20 miles from our town.”
She smiled reminiscently. “You
don’t know, of course—you’re a
newcomer and don’t know our an
cient history—how this county was
almost rent asunder, as they say in
books, over that same school.”
“Tell me about it,” begged the
new neighbor.
Mrs, Marshall settled herselfj
comfortably in the rocking chair.
“I really believe,” she began, “it
wouldn’t have happened if there
hadn’t been such a dearth of news.
You know how it is sometimes —no
murders, no fires, no headlines of
any kind. I can imagine it must
have been dull in the Hanford Ga
zette office—the paper had the same
name then as it has now. And
probably that was why the edi
torial writer had an inspiration.
“That evening there appeared an
editorial in the paper, gently sug
gesting that Hanford should have a
normal school.
“And of course the Griswold Star
could not let that editorial pass un
noticed. Griswold and Hanford were
always racing each other neck to
neck. They competed on every
thing. So when the Hanford Ga
zette said that we needed anew
normal school the Griswold Star
immediately piped up that they
should have it. There was a reply j
in the Gazette the next evening, fol
lowed by another in the Star, and
the battle was on.
“After a while the papers from
other sections began to take notice
of the rumpus. And finally it
reached the ears of the state com
mission of education. And what
did they do but send a delegation
to investigate matters.”
Mrs. Marshal laughed softly.
"The delegation came to Hanford
and the people welcomed them roy
ally. The leading citizens gave them
a big dinner, and took them for
an automobile ride around the
place, showing up all the sites they
thought might be suitable for a
normal school. Then the delegation
went to Griswold and received a
royal welcome. The leading citi
zens gave them a banquet and
took them automobiling, show
ing them all the sites that might
be desirable for a normal school.
And then the delegation went home
rnd the commission considered. A
faw days later we heard that the
normal school was to be at Dan
borough, which was between Han
ford and Griswold, about 20 miles
from each.
"Well, it took quite a while for
the folks in our town to get their
breath, after that knockout blow.
But the Hanford Gazette put the
best face it could on it. That eve
ning there appeared an editorial,
congratulating the county that at
last it was to have a normal
school, and declaring that since it
was largely due to the efforts of
Hanford and Griswold that the
school was to be built, it would
be well for Hanford and Griswold
to shake hands, forget past differ
ences, and vow eternal friendship.
“The editorial writer of the Star
was so affected by this article that
he came to Hanford that very eve
ning to personally call on the writ
er. The Gazette office was closed
by that time, but he located the
editor at her home.”
"Her home?” demanded the new
neighbor. "Why, I thought—was the
editor a she?”
“Yes, of course—maybe I forgot
to say so,” returned Mrs. Marshall
placidly. "He found her making
fudge—and he came several times
after that to talk about various mat
ters. Each time he found himself
liking Hanford better and better,
and finally he decided to settle
there.”
“Did he go to work on the Ga
zette?” asked the new neighbor.
“Oh, no,” said Mrs. Marshall.
“He retired from the newspaper
business just about the same time
the Gazette editorial writer did. You
see, her father had a dry-goods
store, and he wanted somebody to
go in with him as a partner—
and —”
“And what?” asked the new
neighbor.
"And now,” finished Mrs. Mar
shall, "the daughter of the two ex
editors is attending Dansborough
Normal school.”
"You villain!” said the new
neighbor.