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By Holder & WiUiamton
Georgia’s Financial Troubles
In Savannah last week was held
the annual meeting of the County
Commissioners of this State. The
writer received an invitation to at
tend presumably from the president,
Alvin Keith, of Meriwether, and an
other from Judge Frank Gabriels of
Habersham. The writer appreciates
these, because during those years
while he served as chairman of the
State Highway Board he attended
these conventions, where he mingled
and met with hundreds, and where
each year he made to this gathering
a speech. From time to time since
he relinquished the position mention
ed above, he has been honored as he
was this year by having extended
him a request to be the guest of the
convention and give expression of
his views on road matters. The writ
er regrets the situation was such this
year he could not be in Savannah, a
city noted for its hospitality, and
where in the past he attended gath
erings similar to this one.
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The writer’s first experience with
these meetings was in Bainbridge,
the first year he was chairman of
the State Highway Board. In a
hotel in that South Georgia city he
walked up to the desk to register,
w'hen informed by the proprietor
that .he could not give any accommo
dations. “Every room is taken,’’ said
he. A gentleman walked up about
that time and said, “I will share my
room with him.” The hotel man
then assigned the writer to this
gentleman’s room, a man whom he
did not know. In the room was a cot
and a bed. That night when ready
to retire the writer started to pillow
his head on the cot, but the gentle
man said, “No, sir, you sleep in the
bed, and I will sleep in the cot.”
During the night there was a change
in the weather, and it became quite
cold. The gentleman arose from his
cot during the night, brought the
cover with him, and said to the
writer, “If you do not object, ■we
will sleep together in the bed the re
mainder of the night.” He spread
cover brought with him, which made
it more comfortable for the writer,
as well as the gentleman. Since
then the writer has come to know
this gentleman well. Last week
while at work in the garden one day,
the writer looked towards the gate
and saw a man standing there. Up
on reaching him, the man put out his
hand and said, “I just could not go
through the home town of a man I
slept with seventeen years ago in
Bainbridge without stopping to see
him.” That v man was the Hon.
James Hicks, once assistant Com
missioner of Agriculture, and now
an important member of the revenue
department of Georgia, and a fine
gentleman.
At these road conventions not
only assemble County Commission
ers, but members of the State High
way Department, State officials, con
tractors, road machinery salesmen,
road material distributors, politicians
and others. The city in which the
convention is held has a recreation
room with beverages, while con
tractors, dealers in machinery and
material, usually have all kinds of
things to satisfy the taste of visitors
in their headquarters. If one is not
very careful, he will violate his
vows, break his total abstainence re
cord, or forget there is such a word
as prohibition in the English lan
guage. To express the thought in
more direct phraseology, if there is
a place in all the world where a per
son will get off the water wagon and
indulge his appetite, it is at these
yearly gatherings. He may be a
sober person every where else, but
if he is not careful will fall here.
Besides these mentioned things,
there are entertainments given,
chief of which is the Silver Slipper
Revue, given by the prince of men,
Goodloe Yancey. Here, however,
men give expression to their views
on public questions. This year was
no exception. Different prescriptions
were given by economic and politi
cal physicians to cure the bad finan
cial illness of the State of Georgia.
The County Commissioners passed
resolutions favoring a sales tax. Dr.
R. J. Kennedy, former County Com
missioner, and now president of the
Citizens Road League, favored a two
cents sales tax and an amendment to
the constitution that would provide
for the use of all gas tax only on
the highways —five cents by the
State, and one cent by the counties,
The Jackson Herald
and that this gas tax money never
be used for any other purpose.
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Governor Rivers blames the Legis
lature for the financial condition of
Georgia, and said:
“Enemies of the program” for an
asserted effort “to make the people
believe that there can be enough cut
down in overhead to balance the
budget,” Governor Rivers declared:
41 ... I have witnessed my de
sire to economize in overhead twist
ed and distorted by the enemies of
the program. So much play was
given by these enemies through these
tactics that my efforts to actually
cut down overhead expenses were
diverted into actually cutting down
the services to the people. . . It was
so twisted ai\d exagerated that in the
name of economy the school house
doors were shut all over Georgia . .
. health services discontinued . . .
institutions closed ... it is NOT
economy to stop these services.”
Discussing his slash of the High
way Department budget, the gover
nor told the commissioners:
“I am not in favor of diverting
highway funds. I have not sought
to curtail highway building. . . .
“Unless the Assembly provides
funds through a gross income tax of
a sales tax, or some other form of
tax, with which to pay these appro
priations there is only one other
place to get the money with which to
pay them. That is from the High
way Department.”
“I do not know what the assembly
will do toward providing these neces
sary funds. Therefore, I am cur
tailing the road building program so
as to put the Highway Department
on a current cash basis, so that, if
the Legislature will not provide the
funds otherwise, we will be able to
get them from the Highway Depart
ment.”
Governor Rivers speech was warm
ly received.
Chairman W. L. Miller, of the
State Highway Board, made a pro
found impression on the convention
by his candor, sincerity and earnest
ness. Of all the public officials of
Georgia, the task of the Chairman of
the State Highway Board is proba
bly the most difficult. He advocated
the plan of allocating funds for
road construction by the State High
way Board. Not a State in the
Union supports its State Highway
Department except by allocated
funds.
Mr. Miller not only expressed
doubt it would be “right or even
honest” to divert gasoline taxes but
predicted that if allocations were
abolished other governmental units
“will not get any more gasoline tax
money than they are getting now.”
Another danger of taking the al
located gasoline tax revenue from
the Highway Department, he said,
“is that your Highway Department
would be forced to the necessity of
maintaining a lobby with every Leg
islature that meets for securing
funds to support your road pro
gram.”
In order to lobby effectively, he
held, it might be necessary for the
lobby to make “definite commit
ments” to secure support and road
building might thereby be “dragged
into the mire of politics and political
tradings and bickerings.”
No man who addressed the con
vention had the delegates ears more
than Chairman Miller. He was given
an ovation at the conclusion of his
address.
Frank M. Kimble, for twenty-one
years County Commissioner from
Worth County, who has succeeded in
paving roads in his county and other
wise handling the affairs of the coun
ty without ever going in debt, said,
“Do not spend more than your in
come, and do not borrow.” Pay as
you go. That is the right slogan.
In the June election the people of
Georgia at the ballot box will be
called on to pass on some amend
ments to the Constitution, one of
which is a bond issue for road build
ing purposes. This amendment
should be defeated. Georgia has
been building highways without
bonding the State, and she can con
tinue to do so. This bond issue,
though not large, is the entering
wedge for future and greater bond
issues. Georgia is one of the few
States in the Union with only a
small amount of bonded indebted
ness, which was incurred just after
the War Between the States. It is
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JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
ANNUAL SUNDAY SCHOOL CON
VENTION TO BE HELD AT
MACEDONIA
Atlanta.—The annual convention
of the Jackson County Sunday
School workers will convene for an
all-day session at the Macedonia Con
gregational church, near Hoschton,
on Sunday, May 28. Church work
ers of all denominations are urged
to be present, and to take part in the
excellent program behig prepared.
As this will be an all-day session,
those attending are requested to
bring a picnic lunch, as dinner will
be served on the grounds.
The meeting will be held under the
auspices of the Georgia Sunday
School Association, of which Mrs. J.
J. Simpson is general superintend
ent, and only those things common
to all denominations will be brought
up, as the aim of the association is
co-operation, not union, and it pre
sents and discusses methods and ma
terials, not doctrines. Sunday School
work will be presented from every
angle.
The Georgia Sunday School Asso
ciation sponsors Sunday school ral
lies, conferences, conventions, etc.,
all over the state. In addition to
this, its workers conduct Daily Va
cation Bible Schools during the sum
mer months. A library is maintain
ed, and hundreds of books are loan
ed each year. These are loaned to
all workers, free of charge. Many
worship programs are mailed and
given to the workers in the various
schools.
EAST SIDE CHOIR NOTICE
The public is cordially invited to
attend the regular monthly meeting
of the East Side Choir, which will be
held at the Diamond Hill Christian
Church, Madison County, Sunday
afternoon, May 21, beginning
promptly at one-thirty o’clock.
Bring your latest song books, and
enjoy the occasion.
Claud Cleghorn, Pres.
Jewett Barnett, Sec’y.
being paid at the rate of one hun
dred thousand dollars per year, and
is nearly liquidated; but the people
by their voice and vote have refused
to put a burden of bonded indebted
ness on the people of this State for
road building or any other purpose.
They should continue to hold to the
principles of that great man, Robert
Toombs, who wrote the Constitution
of Georgia, and put in it a provision
against the State incurring a bond
ed debt. Georgia should not issue
bonds, but pay as she goes.
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There has just been handed to the
writer a letter written January 18,
1923, by that well known and dis
tinguished citizen of our county,
Hon. C. J. Hood, of Commerce. The
letter says, in,part:
“Deeply in debt tells the story.
Why in debt? Forty-cent cotton and
further great expectations had a
hand in his credit expansion. Auto
mobiles and other pleasant things his
credit would buy helped him out.
Credit was plentiful.
The farmer is just a human be
ing, and fell for it.
Then came the boll weevil, and
the extent of the damage to credits
has not yet been told. Bankruptcy
in large measure is being used as a
remedy for present conditions.
The farmer needs some credit, not
much, and likely local banks in
Georgia can supply all he Ought to
borrow.
A greater need he and all others
have is to learn to hate going in
debt, hate to sign notes or to go se
curity, hate it worse than he hates
the devil and the thought of going
to hell, because when he is badly
enough in debt he is already there.
“Keep Out of Debt” ought to be
taught in the public schools, in Sun
day schools, and from the pulpit, as
well as honesty and truthfulness.
While “Keep Out of Debt” is good
for farmers, it does not stop there.
Some of our counties who are not
able to pay their school teachers and
their other payables would be helped
by the adoption of this plan and so,
also would our great state be helped
if the members of the legislature
would keep the slogan.”
These words of this banker, farm
er, fruit grower, financier and great
citizen, are commended to the voters
of this county and State just now
when the people are called upon to
pass on State bonds. Let Georgia
continue the noble and safe practice,
“Pay as you go.”
MARTIN INSTITUTE
COMMENCEMENT
Martin Institute will close for the
summer vacation on Tuesday even
ing, May 23, with the granting of
degrees to a large class of graduates.
The following program has been
arranged for the closing exercises:
Thursday evening, May 18, 8.30
o’clock, the Seventh Grade pre
sents “Always in Trouble,” which
program will be found in another
column.
Sunday, May 21, 11:30 a. m.,
Sermon to Graduating Class, by Rev.
George King of Monroe.
Monday afternoon, May 22, 5:00
o’clock, Class Day Exercises, with
the following program:
Welcome, Bobby Hardy.
History, Linda Lord.
Piano Solo, Douglas Barnett.
Will, Woodrow Segars.
Prophecy, Okie Venable and Miss
Vivian Shirley.
Song.
Poem, Miss Nettie Lou Wright.
Tuesday, May 23, 8:30 p. m.,
graduation exercises. Address by
Dr. Spright Dowell, President Mer
cer University.
The Salutatory will be delivered
by Edmund Garrison, second honor
graduate; and the Valedictory by
Enoch Brown, who has the distinc
tion of winning first honor.
Interesting and, entertaining
events of the school already enjoyed
by the public were the Elementary
School Exhibit, May 4; the Senior
Class play, May 5; Miss Maybeth
Storey’s music, recital, May 5; and
Miss Joyce Storey’s speech recital,
May 16.
List of Graduates
Dougas Barnett.
Enoch Brown.
Dow Benton.
Edmund Garrison.
Bobby Hardy.
W. A. Jones.
Lewis Nix.
Bill Purcell.
Woodrow Segars.
Okie Venable.
Melton Harbin.
Lewis McDonald.
Wilma Ann Butler.
Dorothy Elder.
Ruth Garrett.
Virginia Gilbert.
Roselyn Johnson.
Linda Lord.
Sara McEver.
Deanie Murphy.
Vivian Shirley.
Doris Wall.
Lanelle Wilkes.
Ernestine Wilkes.
Nettle Lou Wright.
Geraldine Elrod.
Clara Nell Lavender.
Willie Sue Brown.
Martha Jo Thornton.
Vance Kesler.
Dorothy Lavender.
ROTARY CLUB HOLD WEEKLY
MEETING
Jefferson Rotary was favored
Tuesday at its weekly luncheon at
the Harrison Hotel with a talk on
the Cotten Situation by Mr. H. I.
Mobley, warehouseman, cotton buy
er and fertilizer manufacturer of
Jefferson. On the cotton question
Mr. Mobley is well informed, and
presented facts to the Club that
were quite instructive and interest
ing.
Cotton being the one product in
which every one in this county is
deeply concerned, what Mr. Mobley
said to the members of the Club
about an improvement in the situ
ation was glad and agreeable infor
mation.
The visitors were Messrs. Henry
E. and Lyman Johnson, picture show
men of New York, Mr. Henry Mob
ley, and Miss Mabeth Storey. Ro
tarians gave Henry Mobley warm
greetings. He has a position as a
chemist with the Federal Govern
ment, but Jefferson claims him as
one of her own. He made a brief
talk.
Messrs. C. E. Hardy, C. T. Storey,
Jr., R. S. Johnson and L. J. Lyle
were delegates from Jefferson Ro
tary, who were in attendance upon
the District Convention in Savannah.
BOX SUPPER AT HARRIS
We are requested to state that
there will be a box supper and cake
walk at Harris School, Saturday
night, May 20, 1939, at 8 o’clock.
Everybody invited.
Thursday, May 18, 1939.
Min Carter and Mr. Campas
Are Wed at Country
Home of Bride
Miss Nonio Grace Carter became
the bride of Joseph John Campas of
Ft. Meade, Fla., at a ceremony
solemnized at 8:15 o’clock Monday
evening at the country home of the
bride.
Rev. George King of Monroe, who
was the bride’s pastor for four
years, performed the ring ceremony
in the presence of only the imme
diate families and a few close
friends.
Miss Bonnie Carter, sister of the
bride, and Charles Comer of Pana
ma Canal Zone, were the only at
tendants. The ceremony was per
formed in the living room before a
background of green trailing vines
and white flowers in vases and tall
baskets. Soft lights from many tall,
white candles added beauty to the
decorations.
As the guests arrived and as they
viewed the many gifts displayed in
the adjoining room, which was also
lovely with its decorations of flow
ers, they were entertained with
piano selections by Miss Virginia
Eberhart of Maysville. Preceding
the ceremony Miss Florence Lassiter
sang “Thou Art So Like a Flower,"
“One Thought of You,” and “Love
ly Night,” with Mrs. J. C. Smith at
the piano. At the strains of Men
delsohn’s Wedding March, played by-
Mrs. Smith, the bridal party took
their places before the minister, and
during the ceremony Berceuse from
Jocelyn was played by Mrs. Smith.
The bride wore a lovely light blue
lace dress, which was very becoming
to her blonde beauty. The maid of
honor was also gowned in a lace
dress. The groom and his best man
wore white linen suits.
Following the ceremony, the
guests were assembled in the dining
room for refreshments. Here the
decorations were unusually attrac
tive. The table was coveted with a
hand made lace cloth and centered
with a lovely tiered wedding cake,
flanked by four tall candle sticks.
Suspended above the table was a
cluster of white wedding bells.
Burning candles were placed on the
buffets and other furnishings. The
bridal cake was first cut by the
bride, and the slice given the bride
groom. The guests were also given
slices from the cake to carry away
with them.
Mr. and Mrs. Campas left during
the evening for a short wedding
trip, after which they will be at
home in Ft. Meade, Fla.
Mrs. Campas is the daughter of
the late W. A. and Minnie Pittman
Carter, and a descendant of two
Jackson county families that were
prominent in the early history of
the county. She was reared at the
old Carter homestead, where she and
her brothers and sisters have resid
ed since the death of their parents.
She is a graduate of Martin Insti
tute and of G. S. C. W., and has en
joyed wide popularity among a large
circle of friends. Her brothers are
Webster Carter of Atlanta, and
Pittman Carter. Her sisters are
Mrs. Guy Strickland of Jefferson,
Mrs. H. L. Whitmire of Miami, Fla.,
Mrs. A. R. Sammon of Winder,
Misses Melba, Minnie and Bonnie
Carter.
Mr. Campas is the son of Mrs.
Louisa Campas and the late Joseph
V. Campas of Ft. Meade, Fla. His
brother is W. P. Campas. and his
sister is Mrs. John Green, both of
Ft. Meade. He received his educa
tion at Georgia Tech and the Uni
versity of Florida.
The out-of-town guests at the
wedding were: Mrs. Cornelia Care
foot of Ft. Meade, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Deavors of Atlanta, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Comer of Panama Ca
nal Zone, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mote
and Miss Joe Anna Mote of Athens,
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Sammon and lit
tle Miss Sallie Sammon and Mr. and
Mrs. B. C. Hill, Jr., of Winder, Rev.
George L. King and Morris Kelly of
Monroe.
Those assisting the Misses Carter
in entertaining were Miss Virginia
Eberhart of Maysville, Mrs. B. C.
Hill, Jr., of Winder, Mrs. H. R. How
ell, Misses Annie Hawkins and Myra
Wilhite, Mrs. A. R. Sammons and
Mrs. Guy Strickland.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Williams,
Ralph, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Sherman
Williams and Miss Jean Williams of
Atlanta were dinner guests Sunday
of their mother, Mrs. H. I. Mobley,
and Mr. Mobley.
Vol. 63. No. 48.
State Income Tax
Collections Off
Income tax collections in Georgia
for 1938 will be off approximately
20 per cent as compared with 1937
—a revenue loss of more than sl,-
000,000, S. O. Gillespie, director of
the state income tax unit, revealed.
Although the 1938 fiscal year will
not end until June 30, Gillespie has
figures compiled through April 30
and has estimated the amount to bo
collected between that date and tho
end of the fiscal year.
Through April 30 of this year
the state had collected a total of
$3,944,844.27 in income taxes. Gil
lespie estimates approximately
SBOO,OOO in additional taxes will bo
collected by June 30, bringing tho
total to $4,744,844.27.
Last year collections amounted to
$5,802,172.38. On the basis of
these figures, one readily can see
that the difference will be about sl,-
067,328.11.
Principal reason for this big de
crease, says Gillespie, is the oper
ation of a law passed by the legis
lature in 1937 providing thai on
their 1938 returns taxpayers could
deduct federal taxes paid the pre
vious year.
“ALWAYS IN TROUBLE" TO BE
PRESENTED BY SEVENTH
GRADE
The Seventh Grade of Martin In
stitute will present “Always In
Trouble" on Thursday night at 8:30
o’clock, in the school auditorium.
This is a lively farce, full of laugh
provoking situations and witticisms.
Gideon Blair, aged 93, and a mul
ti-millionaire, has determined to
marry his grandchild, Rosebud, to
the son of his old friend. If cither
of the young people refuse to marry
the other, the one refusing loses a
million dollars.
Tom, who has never seen Rose
bud, mistakes an old ma' i for the
heiress, and hires Tutt to imperson
ate himself, thinking the heiress
will refuse to marry him.
After a hilarious mixup things are
finally straightened out.
Misery Moon, a boy, furn
ishes many laughs and chuckles.
The public is invited to attend
Admission 10c.
ILA F. F. A. CHAPTER
CONDUCTING NEW
OATS EXPERIMENT
The Ila chapter of Future Farm
ers of America is conducting an ex
periment with oats this year to de
termine the amount of nitrogen
necessary for good production under
local conditions. The demonstra
tions are underway on the farm of
Hoke Hix, off the Commee ■ road.
It is divided into four half-acre
plots showing 100 pounds per acre,
200 per acre, 300 per acre, and none
per acre. Arcadian nitrate of soda
is being used. The Barrett corn
company is cooperating with the F.
F. A. members in the undertaking.
“Our purpose is not to say what
amount should be applied,” a spokes
man for the experiment declared.
“We want the public to come by and
see for themselves.” When tin grain
is harvested and threshed later, ac
tual yield of each plot will be an
nounced.
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Purcell take
this method of extending to their
many friends and those of their
son, who suffered to seriously from
a broken arm, sincere thanks and
appreciation for the sympathy, love
and friendly ministratiors extended
them during the days he was in the
hospital and since his return home.
The words of sympathy, the visits,
the many gifts, the flowers, were so
numerous that it is impossible to
thank each one personally, ' it in
their hearts they will ever hold
thankfulness, gratitude and appre
ciation for each and every person
who remembered them so tenderly.
MACON COUNTY SHIPS YEAR’S
FIRST PEACHES
Montezuma, Ga.—Fiist peachea
for 1939 from Macon County left
here Saturday. Twelve half-bushel
baskets of Georgia Maid peaches
were shipped by J. B. Fr. tcrlin. Six
baskets went to New York and six to
New Orleans. The peaches were of
nice size and well-colored. }