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Married 26 Year* —And
Never Saw Each Other
"Happy a* a couple of larks" I*
how neighbor* describe Mr. and Mr*.
Jasper Kinder, a model married
couple in the community of Sparta,
Wisconsin. For more than 26 year*
the Kinder* have lived together, and
in all that time they have never set
eye* on each other. Thi* i*. of
course, because they are both blind.
Still they have made more of their
eighties* days than many a family
not so handicapped.
The Kinder* will tell you that
even though they couldn't see, it
love r.t. first "sight when they
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boon, after a quiet wedding, they
act up housekeeping. Mr*. Kinder
was a widow with three children.
Both she and Mr. Kinder have been
blind from birth.
. Nevertheless, everything ran like
clockwork. Mr. Kinder occasionally
Ukes trips; he is sure-footed, and
•the tap-tap of his wooden cane ha*
been heard in every State in the
Union. Life ia too full, he says, W>
be wasted in grumbling.
Early every morning Mrs. Kinder,
good housewife that she is, gets up
and makes breakfast for her hus
band. Then, singing, she goes about
the housework while Mr. Kinder
eats hi* morning meal, takes his
cane, and goes out for a “look
around.”
He taps his way to the stores in
the business section of town, and
buys the groceries. He is perfect
ly at ease on the street and more
conscious of approaching cars than
many a careless pedestrain with op
en eyes.
Both of the Kinders are proud
of their independence. Mrs. Kinder
has been told often that she keeps
her house spick and span. Theies
no dust in the corners; and friends
think the woman must have a sixth
sense when it comes to running
down the least thing that’s out of
place.
In the evening, Mrs. Kinder
spends her time knitting and piecing
quilts. She has cleverly worked out
a sure way of knowing the colors of
the pieces of cloth she puts togeth
er. Cloth of every different color
or pattern is cut into one particular
shape; so that she knows all the
square pieces will be red, the tri
angular ones blue, and so on.
It isn’t all work and no play for
the contented couple. The wife
reads to her husband by feeling out
the words from the Braille books
they get from the library. In turn,
Mr. Kinder will as often as not play
a sonata on his violin, and do it
well, too. They have a home of
their own, and no regrets. Life,
they declare, is what you make it,
and theirs is well-made. —Atlanta
Georgian.
DEATH CLAIMS J. ASBURY WALL
(From Winder News)
J. Asbury Wall, a well known
citizen of Barrow county, passed
away at his home near Winder Wed
nesday afternoon, following a short
illness. Mr. Wall was for many
years a farmer in this county, and
was well known and respected by a
large group of acquaintances.
Mr. Wall was seventy years of
age. He was a member of Pleasant
Hill Methodist church, at which
place the funeral was held Thurs
day afternoon at four o’clock. The
service was conducted by Rev. E.
M. Wist*, pastor of the First Metho
dist church of Winder, in the pres
ence of a large number of friends
and relatives. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Wall is survived by seven chil
dren, five sons and two daughters.
The sons are W. E. Wall and Ralph
Wall of Monticello, Hugh Wall and
Roy Wall of Winder, and Clifford
Wall of Jefferson; the daughters
are Mrs. R. F. Hammond of Stat
ham and Mrs. R. D. Kenney of Win
der. One sister, Mrs. R. 0. Hewitt,
of Edwardsville, Ala., also survives.
PALM TREE NAMED AFTER
ROOSEVELT
Washington. The name of
Franklin D. Roosevelt was assured
Tuesday of perpetuation in scientific
literature.
The Latinized version “Roosevel
tia Franldrniana’’ was given by
Smithsonian Institution experts to a
palm tree discovered on tiny Cocos
Island, off the west coast of South
America, during the President’s
cruise a year ago.
The Agriculture Department is
cultivating the palm as a decorative
tree for semi-tropical areas of the
■country.
Georgia's Fruits and Berries
(From Macon Telegraph)
One of the mysteries 1* why Geor
gians can be so easily fooled by
selfish propaganda from other states.
When they had the most delicious
peaches in the world, and in the
greatest abundance, they allowed
them to rot In the field* while the
housewives went to storekeepers and
bought California canned peaches.
This is a mystery that will probably
never be solved. For several years
the Georgia grower* and Georgia
consumers were told that Georgia
peaches were not good for canning.
And they belicv 1 it.
But the r '>.vth of the canning
industry in Georgia has disproved
the propa" '" !a. It required a long
time to build up enough courage to
cun Georgia peaches, and probably
the thing would not have been ac
compished except for the home
demonstration agent* in the differ
ent counties. In the face of oppo
sition they taught many housewives
how to can Georgia peaches, and
after the canning and preserving it
was found that the Georgia peach is
in every way, fresh or canned, more
delicious than any other peach.
The boysen berry and the young
berry are now making their appear
ance on the Georgia farms. No
finer berries can be grown any
where, but the task ia to keep Geor
gians from being prejudiced because
they are a Georgia product. They
grow elsewhere, but not so well as
in Georgia. The Eldridge berry
farm, eight miles out of Macon to
ward Milledgeville, contains the
largest berry acreage east of the
Mississippi river, if reports be true,
and the only difficulty Mr. Eldridge
reports is in finding local markets.
He is engaged in that struggle at
this stage, but he says he is en
couraged. He believes he will find
local markets.
Mule raising and horse raising
ceased almost entirely in Georgia
because of the same sort of propa
ganda that caused housewives to
forsake fresh Georgia peaches and
buy canned California peaches.
Chickens were driven out of Geor
gia by the same cunning device. So
were hogs'and beeves.
But all of these things are com
ing back. We are bright enough
after we stay asleep long enough.
SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES
GROWING
Wo have become accustomed to
think of New York as the first Amer
ican city, Chicago the second, at
least in size.
But now we shall have to be more
specific, and say "North American
city" or “city of the United States.’
For Buenos Aires, the beautiful
capital city of Argentina, is now the
second city of the Western Hemis
phere. Its population, which has
had a phenomenal growth in recent
years, is now 3,304,000 as compared
with Chicago’s 3,258,444. The two
cities are almost the same size geo
graphically since Beunos Aires in
creased the federal district which
marks the city as our own District
of Columbia bounds Washington.
During the past eight years, Buenos
Aires has grown in population by
400,000 while the whole state of
Illinois was increasing only 200,000.
All this is simply a visible evi
dence of the great forward strides
that are being made by the more
progressive countries of South
America, destined to be great em
pires within the century.
LETTERS GIRDLE WORLD IN 16
DAYS
For the first time in the history of
air mail, a letter can go from At
lanta around the world, via New
York, Marseilles, Hongkong and San
Francisco, and can be delivered back
in Atlanta in 16 days, Lon F. Living
ston, Atlanta postmaster, announc
ed Friday.
Postage for the world-girdling
letter cost $1.31 per half ounce.
If the letter is mailed here in
time for the night pane to New
York, it will leave the United States
at 2 p. m. Saturday on the regular
third trip of the Yankee Clipper.
The letter leaves Marseilles at 2
p. m. Monday on the Imperial Air
ways and six days are required for
the trip to Hongkong. Six more
days on the China Clipper and the
letter lands in San Francisco. One
day is required from San Francisco
to Atlanta.
My-T-Pure Chicken Feeds.
We are exclusive dealers—
N. N. Pendergrass Store.
THE JACKaON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Does War Ever Pay?
There is considerable evidence
right now that things are not going
too well with Japan in its attempted
conquest of China.
Up to now the preponderance of
military success has been with the
Rising Sun. But new* how comes
from the district north of Hankow
that the Chinese are striking back
with remarkable success. The effort
to organize Chinese in the occupied
territory to fight Chinese outside it
has not been successful. The con
tinual wearing away of guerilla
warfare is not doing the far-flung
Japanese troops any good. And the
strain of month after weary month
of what was to have been a quick
and brilliant victory is a very try
ing one, both from the military and
the financal angle.
The war cost, in men, money,
and resources, is piling up—and
precious little is coming, back from
China except the endless stream of
little urns containing ashes of what
weere Japan’s best young men.
There is evidence, which, on the
face of it, indicates an increasing
desperation on the part of Japan.
The decision to interfere arbitrarily
with the ordinary neutral trade of
what is left of China is one which
may offend powerful nations like the
British and American, neither of
which is without power in the Paci
fic.
Such policies are not idly or
thoughtlessly adopted. Increasing
desperation in civilian bombings and
restriction* of medical supplies and
relief food reaching the Chinese are
not marks of confidence.
Meanwhile Japan is gradually
losing the foreign markets in the
gaining of which her star rose so
meteorically in the years preceding
the Chinese adventure.
A country making the all-embrac
ing effort of a vast war on foreign
soil can scarcely give the attention
to foreign trade which it demands.
Germuny found that out in 1914-
1918, and even today with her in
dustrial plant centered on the arms
industry, she knows it is true.
pan is unable to buy abroad as free
ly as before its Chinese war because
of a shortage of foreign exchange.
It cannot fill foreign orders as sure
ly or as promptly.
There has been some increase of
export to the Chinese occupied ter
ritory in Manchuria and north China.
But it is very doubtful if it com
pensates for losses elsewhere.
The war is now approaching the
end of its second year; jt is costing
Japan a billion and a half dollars a
year in straight appropriations alone.
The Japanese population is begin
ning to feel the pinch.
Leaving moral considerations
aside for the moment: Does all this
pay?
GEMS OF THOUGHT
To rejoice in the prosperity of
another is to partake of it.—William
Austin.
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He that swells in prosperity will
be sure to shrink in adversity.—Col
ton.
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In a State, pecuniary gain is not
to be considered to be prosperity,
but its prosperity will be found in
righteousness.—Confucius.
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Through the wholesome chastise
ments of Love, nations are helped
onward towards justice, righteous
ness, and peace, which are the land
marks of prosperity.—Mary Baker
Eddy.
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The increase of a great number
of citizens in prosperity is a neces
sary element to the security, and
even to the existence, of a civilized
people.—Buret.
NINTH DISTRICT MASONIC
MEET SET
Gainesville, Ga.—The program
committee for the Ninth District
Masonic convention met here Tues
day afternoon and arranged the best
program in the body’s history, ac
cording to C. R. Allen, secretary.
August 16 is the date set.
Grand Master W. M. Sapp, of Dal
ton, will be among the several of
ficers of the grand lodge to attend.
This is the thirty-fourth annual
meeting, and will be the twelfth con
secutive gathering here.
J. C. Pratt, of Dacula, district
worshipful master, is chairman of
the committee, other members being’
Frank Gabriels, Clarkesville, district
deputy worshipful master; Joseph E.
Blackshear, W. G. Mealor, T. Q.
Jones, C. C. Pierce, C. R. Allen and
Vasco Hulsey, all of Gainesville
Lodge, No. 219.
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There were eight hundred twenty
nine oases of typhoid fever report
ed to the Georgia State Board of
Health last year, according to the
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HAIL INSURANCE ON GROWING CROPS
Weather reports show the earliest and most de
structive hailstorms to date this year in history.
A number of hail losses are now being paid in
every Southeastern State. A hail storm of only
a minute’s duration will cause loss of your in
vestment and destroy your income for the year.
The satisfaction you will get when clouds begin
to gather this summer will be worth the cost. I
would be glad to serve you by issuing you hail
insurance policy covering your crops.
J. STOREY ELLINGTON, AGENT,
Jefferson, Georgia.
THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939.