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By Holder Sc Williamson
Important Local Enterprise
An editorial in a recent issue of
the Griffin News says: “Every single
housewife in Griffin can do her part
in helping our cotton mills keep
open and in helping our farmers in
crease their cash income. They can
do this by insisting that the sugar,
flour and other groceries they buy
be packed in cotton bags. It may
seem a small matter, but if every
housewife in Griffin were to insist
on cotton bags for sugar and flour,
not to mention other commodities, it
would mean a lot. Now suppose
Griffin housewives should insist on
cotton bags, and every other house
wife in Georgia do the same, and
every housewife in America follow
the example, just imagine the help
it would be to our textile workers
and our cotton farmers. And if
there is a community in the world
that should be vitally interested in
increasing the consumption of cot
ton, it is Griffin. For here we have
both textile mills and a farming
community.”
Not only should cotton bags be
used for above mentioned, but also
for fertilizer. Then if possible to
compete with jute, cotton bagging
should be used with which to cover
the bales of cotton when they come
from the press.
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After reading the above from
this Georgia newspaper, the writer
began thinking of other ways our
cotton mills could be helped, namely,
by using cloth made right here in
Jefferson with which to make shirts,
dress skirts, trousers and towels.
Other mills manufacture socks and
stockings which can be made to have
the appearance of silk, and much
better wear than silk. No article
of wearing apparel has shorter du
ration than silk hose. Cotton hose
are far more durable, and when
given that silk finish are just about
as pretty. It is impossible to enum
erate all the articles made of cotton
that could and should be, used by
the people of this country. Every
use of cotton goods is not only bene
ficial to the manufacturers, but
farmers, also.
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We people in this towm and com
munity hear the Jefferson Mills
factory whistle, see the cotton mill
plant and hear the machinery with
in its walls, but may be we do not
realize what an asset this mill is to
this community. In the first place,
it bears a big part of the tax burden.
It is one of the largest tax payers in
this town. It contributes, then, to
the education of the children; to the
building and maintainance of streets;
to the payment of bonded indebted
ness incurred in building school
structures, and for the water and
sewers; to preserve order, and to
have good municipal government.
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It brings to this town many peo
ple. The officers of the Jefferson
Mills are M. M. Bryan, president
and treaurer; H. A. Carithers, vice
president; and C. D. Cox, secretary.
The office force is W. T. Bryan, cost
accountant; T. E. Stewart, Mrs. Fan
nie C. Wilson, Mrs. Mildred Wright,
and Garnett Spratlin, other em
ployers. The mill organization is—
E. L. Stacks, general superintend
ent; H. L. Garrison, master mechan
ic; E. A. Johnson, overseer carding;
L. Tipton, overseer spinning; C. E.
Toney, overseer weaving; H. J.
Dailey, waste department; W.‘ H.
Spratlin, Jr., waste department; and
W. H. Kirk, waste department.
Those named above constitute the
force of the Jefferson plant. The
Jefferson Mills own two other plants,
one at Royston, and the other at
Crawford. Jefferson plant employs
450 people, Royston 200, and Craw
ford 250. It can thus be seen what
a big force is employed by this cor
poration. All plants employ 900
people.
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The Jefferson Mills as a whole
consumes about 900 bales of cotton
per month, and about 500 bales of
cotton waste per month. Under full
time operating conditions, the com
bined payroll of all three plants
amounts to about $55,000.00 per
month. In speaking of the manu
factured product of Jefferson Mills,
Mr. Bryan, the president and treas
urer, said, “One of our principal
products is a heavy flannel material
used almost wholly in the manu
facture of work gloves. We sell it
principally to the glove manufactur
ers located in Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois, and they in turn sell their
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gloves principally to the mechanical
trades and to farmers and workers
into heavy grain producing sections
of the country. Another principal
product is a variety of cloths for the
summer pants and slack trades, all
of which cloths contain a percent
age of color for decorative purposes.
We sell these cloths to the convert
ing trade located principally in and
around New York, and they in turn
distribute it throughout the entire
United States. Another of our
principal products is a line of
light weight colored material used
for sport shirts. These likewise are
sold to the converters in and around
New York, and they in turn distri
bute throughout the United States.”
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Just think how the employees con
tribute to the welfare of the com
munity. They spend money with
merchants for food, other necessities
and luxuries of life, call in the phy
sicians when they become ill; buy
cars, gas and oil; patronize picture
show, buy caskets for their dead,
purchase each year from farmers
hundreds of dollars of farm produce,
wood, etc., and support the churches
of the city. It is impossible to esti
mate the importance this mill is to
the rural community in providing a
market for many things offered for
sale by the farmers. When for some
reason the mill stands still for a few
days the people then know and ap
preciate just what a blessing it is to
this city and community.
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Farmers are not the only class of
people who lately have experienced
difficulty in making their income
equal to their expenses, but during
the past year or two it has been al
most impossible for cotton mills to
balance their budget. In facg, some
of them have had a loss in operating
their plants. One big plant in one
of the Southern States has spent a
million dollars more than it has
made in the last two or three years.
Some other mills have not paid ex
penses. None have made money
during this period. There are times
when cotton mills have healthy earn
ings. It is then that they must put
aside a surplus for hard times. If
they did not. have such a surplus on
which to draw to pay losses in times
of depression, they not only can not
operate during such periods, but
would go bankrupt. Cotton mills
have expenses every day, whether
in operation or closed down. So it
is necessary for them to prepare for
hard times in seasons of prosperity.
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One of the puzzling problems be
fore this Congress is just what to
do with an accumulation by the Unit
ed States government of more than
ten million bales of cotton. Loans
were made to farmers on this cot
ton, but it could not be sold for a
price great enough to repay the
loans. The cotton market is already
too low, but if this cotton surplus
should be offered for sale at any one
time it would greatly depress the
price of the fleecy staple. This
problem is now before a committee
in the Senate, of which the Junior
Senator from Georgia, Hon. Richard
B. Russell, is a member. It is ex
pected that Congress will legislate
on this question before it adjourns.
Over 6,000 Dozen
Eggs Marketed
Weekly in State
Tifton, Ga.—More than 6,000 doz
en eggs are being marketed each
week by 360 Georgia 4-H club mem
bers who are participating in the egg
marketing-leadership contest of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension Ser
vice.
The club boys and girls are
marketing eggs in 24 counties of the
state, according to R. P. Richardson,
Extension poultry marketing special
ist, who is supervising the contest.
The purpose of the contest, which
was started this spring, is to give
4-H club members an opportunity to
demonstrate their leadership in en
couraging entire communities to
adopt improved methods of market
ing eggs.
County winners will be selected
about June 15. District winners will
be named in July. The state win
ners, one boy and one girl, will be
selected at the Southeastern Fair in
Atlanta, in October. The state win
ners will receive free trips to the
World’s Fair in New York with all
expenses paid by a large grocery
store with headquarters in Atlanta.
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JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
County Agent Aniwtri Common
Question* on AAA Program
Because of general interest in the
1939 AAA program, the following
questions and answers covering the
main phases of the operation and
purposes of the program, have been
prepared:
Q. What are the purposes of the
1939 farm program in brief
A. The purposes of the 1939
Agricultural Conservation Program
are three fold: (1) To enable farm
ers to receive parity income from
their products. (2) To assist farm
ers to co-operate in adjusting pro
duction to demand. (3) To assist
farmers in preventing further
erosion of farm land and in main
taining and rebuilding the fertility
of their soils.
Q. Granted that the program aids
conservation and soil-building prac
tices, why is it necessary to pay
farmers to improve their own land?
A. From a national standpoint the
soil is an important resource, the
preservation, maintenance and re
building of which is necessary for
future welfare. For this reason it is
a sound economic policy to appro
priate money for the preservation of
this national resource just as other
natural resources are preserved and
protected for future generations.
Q. Does the farm program, in ad
dition to being a soil conservation
measure, control production?
A. Yes. Certain agricultural com
modities are being produced because
of conditions beyond the farmers’
control, in excess of the demand for
these products. One purpose of the
program is to assist farmers in mak
ing the necessary adjustments with
out serious economic dislocations.
Q. What fcrops are included in
the production control part of the
1939 program?
A. These crops, the production of
which have not yet been adjusted to
domestic and foreign demand, are to
bacco, cotton, wheat, peanuts and
rice.
Q. Does the general public bene
fit from taxpayers’ money paid farm
ers to carry out their part of the
program?
A. Yes. Sustained purchasing pow
er of farmers enables them to pur
chase their share of industrial pro
ducts, and thereby insures continued
employment in factories and trans
portation agencies.
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Largest Compliance Expected Thi*
Year In Federal AAA Act
More Jackson county farmers are
expected to participate in the cur
rent Triple-A farm program than in
any year since the program started
with the 1933 “plow up”, campaign.
We will not know officially the
exact percentage of co-operation in
the 1939 program until the acreage
is measured and compliance is
checked. The best estimates, how
ever, indicate a very high percentage
of participation, both on an acreage
and on a farmer basis.
It appears at this time that ap
proximately 98 per cent of all cotton
acreage and about 98 per cent of all
cotton farmers in the county will
take part in the cotton program.
Estimates of state-wide participa
tion in this year’s farm program over
the state as a whole are above the
national estimates made by Secre
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace.
A recent statement of Secretary
Wallace, based on reports of intend
ed participation from the states,
disclosed that nearly six million farm
families will receive Triple A pay
ments in 1939. This represents
about 85 per cent of all farm fami
lies in the United States.
The Secretary’s statement also
said that participation in this year’s
program will include approximately
$2 per cent of the farmers in the
cotton-growing areas, 80 per cent in
the commercial corn and wheat
areas, between 70 and 80 per cent in
the tobacco, rice and potato areas,
and 80 per cent of all commercial
dairymen.
Approximately 80 per cent of all
farm land, and approximately 70
per cent of all privately owned range
and pasture land in the United
States will be included in the 1939
Triple-A Program.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
Rev. George W. Hulme of Monroe
has accepted a call to the pastorate
of the Hoschton Baptist church, and
began his work on April 23. He
will preach there once in each month.
King And Queen Sail
From England On
Epochal Trip to U. S.
Portsmouth, England.—Amid the
roar of a naval farewell that drown
ed out the good-byes of the Royal
Family, King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth sailed Saturday for Que
bec on an unprecedented 11,000 mile
tour of Canada and the United
States.
Never before have a reigning
British soverign and his queen visit
ed the New World.
The king’s mother, Queen Mary,
wiped tears from her eyes as she
watched the King and Queen sail
aboard the shiny, white-painted liner
Empress of Australia. The Queen’s
mother will celebrate her 72nd birth
day during the more than six weeks
that King George and Queen Eliza
beth will be gone.
Their daughters, Princesses Eliz
abeth and Margaret Rose, excitedly
w'aved big white handkerchiefs as
the German-built liner moved slow
ly out of the harbor and the King
and Queen waved back from the for
ward end of the promenade deck just
below the bridge.
Thousands of spectators massed
on the shore to watch the Empress
of Australia, with the royal party of
30 as its only passengers, slide out
toward the sea through the narrow
harbor mouth while warships and
shore batteries saluted.
The Royal party is scheduled to
debark at Quebec May 15 and leave
the next day for a trans-continental
tour. The King and Queen are ex
pected to enter the United States at
Niagara Falls June 8 on their return
from the Pacific coast and remain
four days, visiting Washington, New
York and Hyde Park.
GILLIS NAMES 60 MORE
TO STATE COMMITTEE
James L. Gillis, chairman, has an
nounced complete personnel of State
Democratic Executive Committee.
Mr. Gillis added 60 names to the
60 already selected at district con
ferences. The new members are
rovers supporters, with the exception
of six named by Hugh Ilowell, de
feated candidate for Governor.
Mr. Howell was permitted to name
three delegates each from the
Seventh and Ninth Districts, in
which he polled his heaviest vote.
The other 54 include Mrs. E. D.
Rivers, wife of the Governor; Down
ing Musgrove, the Governor’s execu
tive secretary; Marvin Griffin, form
er aide in the Governor’s office, and
a large group of others.
The minority members named by
Mr. Howell include Milton L. Fleet
wood, Cartersville; N. A. Morris,
Marietta; Mrs. W. B. Mebane,
Rome; Arthur Nix, Dawsonviile; M.
C. King, Blue Ridge, and Mrs. J. C.
Dover, Clayton.
Mr. Gillis announced additional
personnel of the committee without
comment, and said there was no
plan for immediate organization.
Ninth district committeemen from
the State at Large are: T. T. Ben
ton, Jefferson; Mrs. L. G. Neal,
Cleveland; O. G. Glover, Canton;
Arthur Nix, Dawsonviile; M. C.
King, Blue Ridge; Mrs. J. C. Dover,
Clayton. Other committeemen from
this district are: H. C. Camp, Bar
row, Winder; L. J. Irwin, Haber
sham, Clarkesville; R. G. McConnell,
Hall, Gainesville; Mrs. J. W. Sharp,
Towns, Young Harris; W. J. An
drews, Stephens, Toccoa; Tom Can
dler, Union, Blairsville.
REPORT CHANGES IN STATE
JOBS
Sam Boykin, attorney for the
State Industrial Commission, will be
come secretary-treasurer of the
State Highway Department, and O.
G. Glover, present secretary, will
head the new State Purchasing De
partment, according to reports cur
rent Saturday at the State Capitol.
Governor Rivers has been working
out plans for the new Purchasing
Department for weeks, preparing to
launch it on July 1. Several names
have been mentioned as director of
the department, but Glover seems to
be the choice at present. He former
ly was assistant purchasing agent.
John Lewis, present purchasing
agent, is scheduled for transfer.
He was once considered the most
likely candidate for attorney-direc
tor of the State Hospital Authority,
succeeding the late M. J. Yeomans,
but a change in plans has been re
ported.
Thursday, May 11, 1939.
Electricity Will Do
Wonderful Work
Wire Your Farm For Eloctric
Service Now 1
John M. Carmondy, REA Adminis
trator, has just approved the con
struction contract and ordered the
W. A. Mathis Company, Athens, Ga.,
to start work immediately. It is
only a matter of days until the dig
ging of post holes is begun. After
that, the poles begin to go up, the
wires strung, the transformers in
stalled. Be ready for electricity as
soon as it is turned on.
The story of safe and adequate
wiring should be told again anti
again and again. Poor wiring will
be a constant handicap to you. You
must have adequate wiring in order
to get the fullest benefits from pow
er.
REA has worked out suggestions
and specifications for good wiring.
We have complete information about
it at the project office, Lee Street,
Jefferson, Ga. Come in and talk it
over with us.
A drop cord with an electric bulb
on the end is not good lighting. But
you can have good lighting. Modern
fixtures and lamps are not expensive.
Here again we can help you with in
formation on modern, approved fix
tures and prices.
Electricity is a faithful servant.
If you use it properly it can be per
suaded to do almost any kind of
work. Electricity will water your
horses, it will wash the dishes, it will
bake a cake, it will do the milking,
and then it will keep the milk pure
and wholesome and clean so that you
can get top prices for it at the
creamery.
Don’t cheat yourself with skimped
wiring. Give electricity a chance to
work for you and it will pay its own
wages.
Yours very truly,
R. J. Kelly, Superintendent.
Jackson Electric Membership
Corporation
State Revenue For 10
Months Shy $8,937,036
The revenues of the state of Geor
gia for the first ten months of the
present fiscal year lacked $8,937,-
036.24 of paying the general fund
appropriations for that period.
The deficiency is greater than had
anticipated, as the previous estimate
had been an $8,500,000 deficiency
for the year ending June 30.
In a statement issued Thursday
State Auditor Zach Arnold set up the
entire revenue from July 1, 1938,
to April 30, 1939, as $35,103,076.90
compared with $35,427,823.39 foi
the same period last year.
However, the general fund, used
to operate the schools, colleges, hos
pitals, other institutions, and to pay
old-age pensions and other general
functions of the state government,
had dropped from $12,579,735.50
last year to $10,568,102.69 this
year, while allocated funds used foi
the Highway Department and other
special functions had increased from
$22,848,087.69 to $24,534,974.21.
The chief losses were $465,000 in
drivers’ license fees, $450,000 in
general property taxes, $150,000 in
cigar and cigarette taxes, $440,000
insurance premium taxes and $102,-
000 in motor vehicle fees and main
tenance taxes.
The principal gains were $406,-
000 in federal funds for unemploy
ment compensation, $770,000 in al
coholic beverage taxes, $450,000 in
motor fuel taxes and $94,000 in oc
cupational taxes.
METHODISTS ADOPT
SOUTHERN RULE ON
DEBTS OF CHURCH
Kansas City.—The Methodist
Uniting Conference adopted as a
rule of its new church Thursday a
southern church provision that no
church building may be formally
dedicated until it’s free of debt.
The title presiding elder, used by
the southern church, will be aban
doned in the new organization. Dele
gates voted to use the northern
church term district superintend
ent. A district superintendent or
presiding elder is the chief adminis
trative officer of a church district,
a subdivision of the church confer
ence.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Carter and
family and Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Eckles spent Sunday in Dahlonega
and Cane Creek Falls.
Vol. 63. Nf. 47.
County Officials
Study Means To
Recoup Losses
Savannah. Ga.—The collective fi
nancial headaches of Georgia’s coun
ty governments provided the chief
topic of conversation at the 25th
annual convention of the Association
of County Commissioners here thin
week.
Aligned with the problems of
finding revenue to meet county bills
were discussions of services to be
rendered by the local agencies in
welfare, education, road-building and
health.
There are 159 counties in Georgia
and their problems are almost as
numerous. Parallel to the state
financial crisis has been a drop in
revenue to the county governments,
starting with the loss of tax income
through state homestead and person
al property exemptions.
Under this state law, home own
ers were exempted from taxes up to
$2,000 and personal property was
exempted up to S3OO. The counties
looked to the state government to
replace lost revenue—estimated in
1938 us totaling $1,876,184- and
various proposals—all unsuccessful
—were advanced in the last session
of the general assembly.
Running $5,200,000 short of ap
propriations, the state also left the
counties with the alternative of
putting up money for their schools or
closing the terms early. Many coun
ties were able to finance their schools
out of relatively flush treasuries,
others borrowed money and others
cut down on the schools.
The board of managers of the as
sociation some time ago proposed as
a remedy that the state abandon
the ad valorem tax field to the coun
ties, permitting the latter to increase
individual property levies to make
up losses from exemptions.
Meanwhile additional losses in
revenues hnve occurred in the state
budget pruning, particularly in tho
effects of slashes in the highway de
partment. Loss of highway con
tracts to be carried on with convict
labor cut out at least a part of the
means by which some counties sup
ported convict camps.
Carney Cite* Crow A* Great
Menace to State Wild Life
v Asking co-operation of all ports
men in stamping out violat jna of
the game and fish laws pf the state,
Game Protector Carney, Saturday,
said that while humans do enough
damage to the game supply, one of
the greatest menaces of all is the
common crow.
Mr. Carney declared that fewer
crows mean more game and urges
that sportsmen and farmer.? get right
after the crows when the eggs and
young are in the nest. He suggests
farmers put an old cat or mechanical
owl near the nest and then be ready
to blast the crows with guns.
The game protector repo: ted that
reports from lakes in Rabun, Haber
sham and Stephens counties indi
cates the fishing is fine in these wat
ers. He pointed out the .;cenery is
beautiful and says citizens will sure
ly enjoy an outing in the mountains
at this season of the year.
Mr. Carney said that he hoped the
recent lay-off of game protectors in
the state had not Beriously jeopar
dized the work being done to pro
tect and further Georgia's wild life
and urged all sportsmen to co
operate with the wildlife protection
campaign, which he said was once
more functioning.
MISS GENEVIEVE HILL VISITS
DRY POND COMMUNITY
Miss Genevieve Hill, home eco
nomic teacher of Martin Institute,
gave a series of very interesting and
instructive lessons on interior dec
orating and handicrafts to the ladies
of the Dry Pond community. After
each meeting a recreation oi games
and contests were held.
The last meeting was held Satur
day afternoon, May 6th. The les
son on Knitting and Mexican
Drawn Work was reviewed, with in
terest and enthusiasm by the 25
present.
We enjoyed having Miss Elizabeth
Hood of Jefferson with us at our last
meeting.
During the social hour a contest
was held, and delicious refreshments
were served. We are looking for*
ward to having Miss H>!l wit v us
again in the near future.
Reporter. .