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By Holder & Williamson
Work And Rest
When the language, “Georgia
Peaches, refers to Georgia young
ladies, this is the highest compli
ment that can be paid to any fruit
of the orchard, field or forest. The
climax of all the pulchritudinous of
the Lord’s creation is a beautiful
young lady, and when she is nick
named with appellation “Georgia
Peach,” that is the crowning honor
that could be given this luscious
fruit of the orchard. The Georgia
peach is not only beautiful, but is
pleasing to human taste. Peach pie,
peach dumpling, peach ice cream,
peaches and cream, and peach pre
serves are all satisfying to the ap
petite, but no treatment given the
peach can make it more luscious
than the ripe peach itself just as it
comes from the tree. Nothing that
can be done to it by any plan or pro
cess can make it bettkr or more
palatable. The peach untreated and
unadorned is the best.
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Every farm in Jackson county
should have an orchard to provide
fruit for the family. This can be
done at small cost, and just think
what a benefit it is. It provides
fruit in season, but which can also
be dried, preserved or canned, so as
to have plenty for the winter
months. Fruit is one of the pre
scribed foods for good health. The
writer does not believe in trying to
live the life now of the horse and
buggy days, but there are some
things in that age that were good
for people then and still desirable,
one of which was the family orch
ard, with a great variety of fruit.
That same thing is just as good in
these times of steam, electricity, au
tomobiles, radio and air planes.
County and Home Demonstration
Agents are stressing this when they
write or talk to the masses on the
subject of farm life.
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No section produces more luscious
peaches than Jackson county. The
writer has visited all peach sections
of Georgia. Especially the orchards
in the locality of Perry, Fort Valley,
Thomaston and Gay, the very heart
of the peach belt, but no where are
there more beautiful commercial or
chards than those of C. J. Hood, C.
W. Hood, Homer Harber, L. G.
Hardman, John Hood, Colonel E. C.
Stark, W. J. Colquitt, Miss Annie
Hawkins, and Claud M. Barnett.
The last named is near Jefferson, in
Harrisburg district, on the Jefferson
and Commerce road. It has three
thousand trees of Red Bird peaches.
Most of these trees are three and a
half years old. This orchard is as
near to perfection itself as is possi
ble for an orchard to be.
Time and again as the writer has
passed this assemblage of peach
trees he has remarked, “What a
pretty orchard.” It delights the
eyes to look on such a scene. Some
time ago Claud and the writer at
tended services in the Presbyterian
church here, and at the conclusion
Claud said to the writer, “Peaches
will be ripe one of these days, when
I will call you over the phone and
I will expect you to come out and
eat peaches.” May be the writer
was somewhat responsible for the
invitation by saying last year that
in visiting this section Claud was so
busy he did not even look up when
visitors passed his place, much less
provide peaches and cream for them.
If there is one thing these Barnett
boys will not stand for, that is
charged with not being friendly,
hospitable and neighborly. It is a
characteristic not only of these
young men, but their forebears, to
love their neighbors as themselves.
They not only loved their neighbors,
but their community, their' county
and the church. There is one thing
these people do not love, and that is
selfishness.
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Any way, one day the phone rang,
and the voice was that of Claud,
who said, “Be ready to ride with me.
I will be for you in a few minutes.”
Sure enough in a brief period he
and his car were at The Herald of
fice door. The writer rode with
him to his orchard, where peaches
were being gathered from the trees.
Some mothers and their children
were just as busy as they could be
picking the beautiful peaches from
the trees. This scene reminded the
writer of days of Auld Lang Syne,
when his mother would have her
own children and others about her
gathering the fleecy staple. These
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active workers, the peach pickers,
were friendly, and seemed perfect
ly happy doing this work. Some of
the workers were school children,
who were so glad to find something
to do during vacation.
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Mr. Barnett said in reply to some
questions, “I will produce this year
about three cars of peaches, none
of which will be shipped on the rail
road, but all have been sold to
truckers. Only this morning a big
truck load was carried to Atlanta
to the State Market, where the fruit
will be retailed to consumers.
Weather conditions caused me to
have some split seed this year. That
is one reason I did not ship.” Mr.
Barnett grows the Red Bird, and no
more beautiful or luscious peach
ever came from a tree. He carried
the writer to different parts of his
orchard, all of which had just been
cultivated and sowed in peas. In
the fall he sows among his trees
Austrian peas, and in the summer
with cow or Brabham.
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He drove by his cozy home, and
asked his wife if she had anything
to send to market. Her answer
was, “Not now.” The writer then
asked Claud what he usually sold to
the market. His answer, “Butter,
eggs, chickens, and products of the
soil.” About his cows, he said, “I
do not milk many cows. Only what
I can look after myself, but they
are Jerseys, and give rich milk. In
stead of being a burden on me to
care for these cows and milk them,
it is a real pleasure to do this work.
I provide for their every comfort
and well being, and they pay me
back with big dividends. I sell other
things, and make my farm profita
ble. Then the fact this is my home,
where I have a job the year round,
brings a comfort and satisfaction
that cannot be expreessed in words.”
He continued, “If a person will
work intelligently on his farm he
can have plenty good things
sufficient clothes, a house to live in,
and his own bed to sleep on. He can
have a car and ride when he wishes.
It takes work, but what has a man
got to do but to work and rest? He
can do his reading and listening to
the radio while he is resting, and so
far as I am concerned I get tired of
resting too long. Work itself rests
me.” The writer suggested that he
would soon have electricity. “Yes,
soon we will have electricity just as
do folks in towns and cities, which
means we not only will have electric
lights, but also water in our home.
Now we have telephone and radio,
and paved roads. A bus carries
country children to school, books are
provided for them free, and no
charge is made for teaching. Just
let me tell you the best place in the
world to live, is right out here on
our farm, where we are happy
making a living, which includes
many benefits and luxuries, along
with food and clothing.
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It is a fact that when one has
a WPA, PWA, or a political job
of any kind, he never knows one day
whether he will have one tomorrow.
Always he is afraid of losing his
job. That never worries me. I know.
I have a job every year, and every
day in the year; and I am not afraid
to express my convictions on any
question for fear I will lose my job.
One may not have so much money
to handle in farming, but if he
makes a living it does not take so
much money.” The writer enjoyed
this visit to this Jackson county
farmer, who is making a sure enough
success tilling the soil. This farm
er has found peaches profitable.
Others find cattle a good money
crop. Jackson county is gradually
finding other money crops besides
cotton.
REV. CLAUD HENDRICK
AT METHODIST CHURCH
SUNDAY MORNING
District Superintendent Claud
Hendrick of Gainesville will occupy
the Methodist pulpit on Sunday
morning, and at 2 p. m. will preside
over the third quarterly conference.
The members of the church will be
delighted to hear Mr. Hendrick, and
visitors will be given a cordial wel
come.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Prickett and
son of Athens were recent guests
of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Craft.
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JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
BAPTIST ARMY TO
MARCH, SING, IN
ATLANTA, JULY 22
Atlanta, Ga.—An army of thou
sands of Baptists, marching through
Atlanta’s streets and singing religi
ous and patriotic songs, will open
the sixth meeting of the Baptist
World Alliance here on Saturday,
July 22.
Dr. Louie D. Newton, general
chairman in charge of arrange
ments, predicted this occasion will
be one of the most outstanding ever
held in this city, and said it is bound
to make a profound impression, both
on residents of this city and the
visitors from all over the United
States and many foreign countries.
The parade will begin at noon
Saturday, July 22, from the state
capitol. It will proceed through
Five Points, out Peachtree to Ponce
de Leon, and wind to Ponce de
Leon baseball park, where the first
session will begin at 2 o’clock.
Order of Parade
Leading the parade will be a
squad of motorcycle policemen, fol
lowed closely by a brigade of promi
nent Atlantans on horseback.
Next will come the Atlanta Shrine
band, with 60 members in full uni
form, followed by officials in auto
mobiles.
These cars will carry officials of
the Alliance, headed by Dr. George
W. Truett, of Dallas, president, and
Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke, of London,
general secretary.
Cars of prominent Americans
and Georgians will follow, among
whom will be Senator Walter F.
Geopge, Governor Rivers and Mayor
Hartsfield, and this division will be
followed by some 30 cars represent
ing the city’s principal organizations.
Representatives of foreign coun
tries will ride in the parade in au
tomobiles decorated with flags of
their respective countries.
Situated at various points in the
parade will be the Georgia State
Girls’ Military Band, the Salvation
Army Band and the Police Band.
£ John Hoffman, prominent Atlanta
voice teacher, will lead the ainghng
of the marching Baptists from a
truck, equipped with an amplifying
device, which will allow the singers
to be lead by his voice.
While the parade is proceeding to
Ponce de Leon Park, it is planned
that other thousands will be in the
stands there, and will hear a broad
cast of the parade and the singing
broadcast from the line of march,
and amplified by equipment on the
field for those in the stands.
As the parade enters the stadi
um, Mr. Hoffman will leave his truck
and go to the speaker’s platform
located in what is now center field,
and direct the singing both of the
marchers and of those who have
been waiting in the stands.
The Saturday afternoon meeting
will be first of nine gatherings to be
held in Ponce de Leon Park. Each
night meeting will be conducted
there, and a session Sunday after
noon will be held at the park.
Arrangements have been made to
build a huge speakers stand, and to
augment the regular grandstand
and bleacher seats with rows of seats
on the playing field, so that 25,000
persons may be seated for the big
sessions. Morning meetings will be
held in the City Auditorium.
Shortly after the parade has ar
rived at baseball stadium, the roll
call of delegates will be held. This
is expected to be one of the most
colorful features of the Alliance,
with natives of many lands, many
of them wearing their native cos
tumes, responding when their coun
try’s name is called.
EIGHT YOUNG MEN ARE
LICENSED TO PREACH BY
GAINESVILLE CONFERENCE
The licensing of eight young
men to preach was one of the high
lights of the Gainesville district
conference held at the Clarkesville
church on June 14. Those receiving
their licenses to preach were: Mel
ton Harbin, Pendergrass; T. J.
Turner, Tallulah Falls; Murray
Jackson, Toccoa; L. M. Davidson,
Cleveland; Grover Goss, Flowery
Branch; T. F. Henry, Toccoa; John
Roquemore, Demorest; and Claude
Adams, Flowery Branch.
Tests have shown that a motorist
reaches the “danger period” when
he has driven eight consecutive
hours, or covered 250 miles. At
this point he should stop driving or
exercise extreme caution.
COUNTY AGENT'S
COLUMN
Horn* Mad* Electric Fencing May
Prove Injurious to Stock
Local farmers are warned this
week against the use of a home
made electric fence for enclosing
livestock. Electric fencing is an ef
fective and economical means of
confining livestock, but may prove
detrimental both to animals and hu
man beings, if not properly em
ployed.
I would discourage the home
building of a fence controller, and
above all, farmers are warned
against connecting a 106 110-volt
service direct to the fence. Such
practices have alread resulted in
the death of a mule in Walker coun
ty, and a cow in Catoosa county.
In all cases, use a commercial
controller in building an electric
fence, since the purpose of this de
vice is to transform and manipulate
the current in such a manner that it
will give a periodic shock without in
jury to the animals.
The design of such a device re
quires the service of a competent
electrical engineer. Local electri
cians may be experienced in house
wiring, but often they are not fa
miliar with milliamperes' require
ments for safety, and the effects of
electric shocks on the heart.
And it is still more important to
properly install controllers on elec
tric fences, because domestic ani
mals are more sensitive to shock
than human beings.
Compliance
The field reporters are busy check
ing performance under the 1939
Farm Program. These reporters have
checked approximately 400 farms
during the past two weeks. The first
30 farms that have been figured in
the county office came within the cot
ton acreage allotment. One pro
ducer had overplanted 0.1 of an
acre. All those producers who have
overplanted will be notified in order
that they might destroy the excess
antount. We have previously noti
fied every producer in the county
that he would be unable to co-oper
ate with the 1939 program if he had
overplanted his cotton allotment
did not destroy same before the cot
ton reached the boiling stage. This
has been changed by the Washing
ton office, and each producer who re
ceives a notice that he has over
planted his cotton acreage allotment
will be permitted to destroy the ex
cess acreage within one week after
he is notified that he has over-plant
ed his allotment. We are anxious that
every farmer co-operate and receive
full benefits from the Farm Pro
gram this year, and this will only be
possible by the producers staying
within their allotments, and by
planting their full acreage of soil
building crops. We would like to
suggest that any farmer who fails
to get in sufficient summer soil
building crops to get his soil build
ing payments, can earn this pay
ment by planting winter legumes in
the fall, such as vetch, crimson
clover and Austrian peas.
We are making arrangement to
secure lime for our farmers, and
would like to talk with those who
are interested in buying any quanti
ty, large or small. We believe that
practically all of the land in this
county is in need of lime. This is
especially true, with reference to
summer and winter legumes.
Canning Plant
We are opening the Canning
Plant at Jefferson, Tuesday, June
27, to serve any one desiring to use
it. It will be open each Tuesday
and Friday during the remainder of
the summer. If we have enough
producers, we will operate the plant
as many days each week as neces
sary to meet their needs.
We would like to ask that any
one bringing produce to the plant
not to come any later than noon
with their produce. Every thing
brought to the plant should be pre
pared at home for canning, with the
exception of corn. If you live only
a short distance from the plant you
can prepare your com at home.
Those living several miles from the
plant, should bring their corn and
prepare it at the plant.
We will furnish cans, supervision,
fuel, equipment, etc. The price of
the cans will be 5 cents for 3 lb.
cans, 4 cents for 2 lb. cans.
Those canning peaches, making
preserves, jellies, etc., should bring
sufficient sugar with them to make
Thursday, June 29, 1939.
AMERICAN LEGION
CLOSES 21ST STATE
CONVENTION
Atlanta.—Hoyt C. Brown, 44, of
Baxley, was elected commander of
the Georgia department of the
American Legion Thursday, to suc
ceed Logan Kelley, of Buford, as
the Legionnaires ended their 21st
annual convention with the adoption
of strong patriotic resolutions fol
lowing a stirring plea to oppose any
war referendum.
J. Pat Kelly, past state command
er, was elected national executive
committeeman, defeating Kelley.
Many resolutions were adopted
with little discussion, except on one
seeking deportion of all members of
organizations professing allegiance
to a foreign country.
Division commanders were elected
as follows:
1. Arthur Dillon, Savannah.
2. Henry L. Holland, Fort Valley.
3. Frank Pons, Augusta.
4. Louis Mauldin, Clarkeaville.
Area commanders were elected as
follows:
1. Sanford Butler, Savannah.
2. Hoyt Wimpy, Thomasville.
3. J. J. Pryor, Fitzgerald.
4. Kelly Bowman, Barnesville.
5. W. A. Dodge, Jr., Atlanta.
6. Stewart Wooten, Milledgeville.
7. Victor Waldrop, Cartersville.
8. Branch Lee, Waycross.
9. A. B. Cameron, Gainesville.
10. Paul Ponder, Madison.
“Citisenship Day”
As one of its endeavors to teach
Americanism, the Legion voted to
sponsor a state-wide “citizenship
day” each October 12, when all
boys and girls reaching the voting
age that year will be encouraged to
study this form of government. It
was sponsored by the Americanism
committee, of which Walter Le-
Craw, of Atlanta, was chairman.
Mrs. J. Pat Kelly of Valdosta was
elected president of the Legion
Auxiliary.
Chosen to serve with Mrs. Kelly,
of Atlanta, formerly of Valdosta,
were Mrs. R. G. Vinson, Thomas
ville, first vice president; Mrs. R. S.
Innes, Atlanta, second vice presi
dent; Mrs. Fred Vandiver, Man
chester, historian; Mrs. Carl Saye,
Athens, chaplain; Mrs. W. S. Davi
son, Baldwin, national executive
committeewoman, and Mrs. C. H.
Alden, Cornelia, alternate national
executive committeewoman.
CLAIM TO OFFICE
OF ARNALL TAKEN
TO COURT BY WOOD
John S. Wood, of Canton, moved
into court Saturday with a claim to
office as attorney general of Geor
gia.
Incumbent Ellis Arnall, appoint
ed by Governor Rivers for the un
expired term of the late M. J. Yeo
mans, accepted service of a sum
mons to show cause why he should
not surrender his office. Preliminary
hearing was set by Superior Judge
Lee B. Wyatt at Newnan for July 1.
Both Wood and Arnall have
agreed to appeal to the Georgia su
preme court for final adjudication of
the controversy on whether vacancy
in a constitutional office may be fill
ed in Georgia’s off-year general elec
tions.
In the June 6 election, Wood ob
tained 3,500 votes, although his
name officially was barred from the
ballot by Rivers. The latter follow
ed a ruling by Attorney General
Yeomans that the office could not
be filled in the June election.
HOLLOWAY—MANUS WEDDING
SOLEMNIZED SATURDAY
Of interest to their many friends
in this section is the announcement
of the marriage of Miss Dorothy
Manus, of Jefferson, to Rudolph
Holloway, of Winder. The marriage
was performed in Jefferson Satur
day evening, June 17.
The bride is the attractive daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Manus, of
Jefferson. Mr. Holloway is the only
son of Mrs. W. M. Holloway and the
late Mr. Holloway of Winder. He
is connected with The Winder News.
Mr. and Mrs. Holloway are re
siding at his home on Georgia Ave.
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the products they desire.
Every one should bring a small
amount of salt to season their vege
tables.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
Vol. 64. No. 2.
HITLER WILL FAIL,
SAYS EX-KAISER
OF GERMANY
London.—Former Kaiser Wilhelm,
last of the Hohenzollern Kmperorts
who dreamed of a Germany supremo
throughout the world, believes that
any attempt at world dominatioh by
Reichsfuehrer Hitler is foredoomed
to failure.
These were the words of the oc
togenarian ex-Emperor who from his
chateau in the Netherlands has sur
veyed for almost two decades the
fast-moving panorama of events in
Europe:
“Providence never intended that
there should be a world empire.
“All attempts in history to achieve
world domination have failed.”
In utttering these words, Wil
helm must have been thinking of
his own career, first with Bismark
and later with chancellors of hia
own choosing, during which he ex
tended and consolidated the German
regime and at length fell to disaster
in a clash that started just a quar
ter century ago with a shot fired in
Serajevo.
On few occasions has Wilhelm
deigned to speak of the man who
served as a corporal in one of hia
Bavarian infantry regiments and
later emerged to build a nation
greater in scope, population and
military power even than he was
able to do.
Former Georgian Returns to
Winder After Forty-Seven
Years
(From Winder News)
After years of dreaming and an
ticipating imagine the thrill of see
ing again friends and county which
you had not seen for forty-seven
years! That thrill was experienced
by Clifford Lanier, of Dallas, Tex.,
when he arrived in Winder Monday
to visit his cousin, Mrs. J. W.
Shields.
Asa child Mr. Lanier lived with
his family pear Statham, which was
the old home of his father. Several
months after his father’s death, hia
mother returned with her family to
Texas, which was her native state.
Since that date 1892, the visitor had
not touched Georgia soil.
When Mr. Lanier grew up ho
chose printing as his work and has
spent many years working on week
ly newspapers, so he was an “edu
cated sightseer” when he visited our
ship Wednesday. At present Mr.
Lanier is connected with the adver
tising department of Holland’s Mag
azine, which is published in Dallas.
The Texan will leave Monday for
his home with many pleasant mem
ories of Georgia stored in his mind,
his own career, first thinking of hisn
Sutton Outlines Care For
Mules
Atlanta.—Plenty of salt to lick,
regularity in feeding and watering,
frequent rest periods and careful
grooming were recommended as
treatment for mules to stave off
heat collapse.
Dr. J. M. Sutton, state veterinari
an, issued advice in the Market Bul
letin of the department of agricul
ture. A recent report from Dublin
said approximately 40 mules died of
heat in that vicinity of Southeast
Georgia.
Dr. Sutton explained heat exhaus
tion is actually dehydration of the
animal caused by loss of body salts
through perspiration. Warning signs
are dryness of hair and appearance
of a salty crust on the skin. If a
stroke developed, he advised:
“Apply ice to the head—pour cold
water oyer the entire body and call
a veterinarian immediately, as the
animal will not survive more than a
few hours unless prompt remedy is
applied.
NINTH DISTRICT U. D. C. RALLY
The Ninth District U. D. C. Rally
will be held in Toccoa on June 28th,
at the Presbyterian church. The
meeting will begin at 10:30.
Luncheon will be served at one
o’clock to all members present and
their guests, the cover charge being
50c each.
Miss Nelle Coburn of the Gorden
Keller School of Nurse’s Training,
Tampa, Fla., is spending a few day*
with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. T. Cooper, of Braselton.