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By John N. Holder.
DR. CRAWFORD W. LONG STAMP DAY PROGRAM
APRIL 8, 1940
*4 A. B. Elizer, Chairman
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My profession is to me a minstry from God. lam as much called upon
to practice medicine as a minister is to preach the Gospel.”
DR. CRAWFORD W. LONG.
Committee to Meet Mr. Farley in Athens, Georgia
C. E. Hardy, Mayor of Jefferson, Georgia.
J. C. Turner, Chairman Board Roads and Revenue.
Mrs. Virginia E. Holder, Postmaster Jefferson, Georgia.
J. E. Randolph, Chairman Democratic Committee, Jackson County.
W. H. Smith, Honorary Chairman of Arrangements.
John N. Holder, Representing the Advisory Committee.
Col. Geo. W. Westmoreland, Vice-Chairman Program and Steering Com.
R. S. Johnson, Member Program and Steering Committee.
M. Bryan, President Jefferson Mills.
W. P. Frost, Representative of Rural Mail Carriers.
Col. H. W. Davis, Representative University of Georgia Alumni.
PROGRAM
11:00—11:25 Musical Prelude (Gainesville High School Band).
11:25—11:35 Arrival of Motorcade—Preceded by University of Georgia
Band.
11:35—11:40 America, Sung by Audience.
Invocation—President Harvey W. Cox, Emory University.
11:40—11:55 Parade of Floats, Heralded by Winder Drum and Bugle
Corps and led by the Country Doctor, impersonating Dr.
Long.
(1) Birthplace, Danielsville, Georgia.
(2) College Days, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
(3) Ether Party, Jefferson, Georgia, 1840’s.
(4) Operation, Jefferson, Georgia, March 30, 1842.
(5) Symbolic Blessing of Ether, Brenau College, Gaines
ville, Georgia.
11:55—12:00 Welcome to Jefferson, Col. J. C. Turner.
12:00—12:05 Dr. C. B. Lord to pay tribute to associates and successor
physicians of Dr. Long and to present Dr. Frank K. Boland.
12:05—12:15 Dr. Frank K. Boland, President Crawford W. Long Me
morial Association, to present:
Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper, Daughter of Dr. Long.
Mrs. L. G. Hardman, Sr., whose husband led in honoring
Dr. Long.
Mr. W. H. Smith, Honorary Chairman of Arrangements.
Dr. Sinclair Jacobs, Son of Dr. Long’s associate. Dr. Joe
Jacobs.
Dr. L. C. Fischer, Builder and Treasurer, Crawford W.
Long Hospital.
Col. James R. Venable, great nephew of James M. Venable.
Introduce Dr. William H. Myers.
12:1& —12:25 Dr. William H. Myers, President Medical Association of
Georgia, “Dr. Long’s Contribution to Medical Develop
ment.”
12:25 —12:30 Supt. T. T. Benton to present Governor E. D. Rivers and
visiting State officials.
12:30 —12:35 Greetings from Governor E. D. Rivers.
12:35—12:40 Col. H. W. Davis, present Chancellor S. V. Sanford and
Mr. Abit Nix, President Board of Regents, University of
Georgia.
12:40—12:45 Mr. Abit Nix, to present Representative of University of
Georgia, President Harmon W. Caldwell.
12:45 —12:55 Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell, “Crawford W. Long’s Contribu
tion to Scientific Research.”
12:55 — 1:00 Col. George W. Westmoreland, present visiting Congress
men and Post Office Officials and introduce Senator Rich
ard B. Russell.
1:00 1 ;05 Senator Richard B. Russell, present Mr. Ambrose O’Connell
and introduce Honorable James A. Farley.
1:05 — 1:25 Mr. Farley’s Address (Broadcast over WGST).
Sale of First Stamps to Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper.
National Anthem.
1 :30— 2:30 Luncheon.
Bands to continue playing for a time for the entertain
ment of the people.
The Jackson Herald
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JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Postal Authorities At
Rotary Luncheon
An interesting feature of the Ro
tary Club meeting Tuesday was the
presence of three distinguished visi
tors, O. L. Rogers, D. R. Niblaek
and A. G. Thrailkill, all employes of
the U. S. Post Office department, who
are in Jefferson in connection with
the handling of the First Day sale
of Crawford W. Long stamps.
Mr. Rogers’ duties are mostly of
a philatelic nature and his office in
Washington City covers a whole
floor of a large city block building.
In Jefferson he has a force of twen
ty-five helpers who are working day
and night preparing the thousands
of letters bearing a Crawford W.
Long stamp that are to be mailed
Monday.
D. Roy Niblaek, son of V. A. Nib
lack of Jefferson, has been connected
with the post office department in
Washington for a number of years
and was sent here from Washington
to assist Mr. Rogers.
Mr. Thrailkill has the transporta
tion end of these thousands of let
ters and his duties are to see that
they leave Jefferson and reach their
destination.
In their messages to the Rotary
Club, they were very complimentary
to the many courtesies they had re
ceived in Jefferson, and Mr. Rogers
was especially complimentary of the
force of workers he is supervising at
the post office. He has covered the
United States in his work, and at no
place, he said, has he been furnished
with a more intelligent and efficient
corps of helpers.
Other visitors at the Rotary lun
cheon were T. O. Galloway and M. L.
Mobley.
Eight Rotarians were absent.
Rev. W. C. Foster
Called To Pastorate
of Galilee Church
Rev. W. C. Foster of Winder has
been called by the membership of
Galilee Christian church to serve as
pastor this year, beginning his pas
torate on next Sunday afternoon,
April 7, at 3 o’clock, and preaching
each first Sunday afternoon there
after throughout the year.
Rev. Foster is one of the outstan
ding ministers in the Christian
church and Galilee is fortunate to
secure his services. Then, Galilee
church has a fine set of people as
members, and Mr. Foster is fortu
nate to be their leader.
The Home at DanieUville, Madison County, Ga., where
Dr. Long was born, November 1, 1815.
Dr. Long attended the Academy in Danielsville and at the age of four
teen entered Franklin College, now the University of Georgia, and gradu
ated with the M. A. degree in 1835. In 1836 he studied medicine in
Jefferson under Dr. Grant.
In 1837, he entered the Medical Department of the University of Penn
sylvania, from which institution he received in 1839 his degree of M. D.
He next went to New York, as an interne in the hospitals of that city.
He remained there for eighteen month. In 1841, when twenty-six years
of age, Dr. Long returned to Jefferson, Georgia, where on March 30, 1842,
he performed the operation on James M. Venable.
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Worth Pendergrass Passed
Away Monday
Death claimed Wilmont Hollins
worth Pendergrass on Monday, fol
lowing a natural decline in health
for several months.
The deceased was 52 years of age
and was a native of Jefferson, a son
of the late Dr. J. B. and Nellie Ed
gerton Pendergrass. The latter was
a native of North Carolina and died
when “Worth,” as he was known to
everybody, was about two years of
age.
Worth Pendergrass spent his en
tire life in Jefferson, where he was
well known. He had a bright mind
and was a talented artist. Had he
applied his talents commercially, he
no doubt, would have achieved abun
dant success. With an inheritance
from his mother’s estate that gave
him sufficient income for his sus
tenance, he pursued no vocation dur
ing his life.
He was a member of the Jefferson
Methodist church and from that
church the funeral will be held this,
Wednesday, afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The body will be carried to the
church at 2 p. m.
Surviving the deceased are his
devoted step-mother, Mrs. Mittie
Dell Heath Pendergrass; a half
brother, Joseph Pendergrass; two
half sisters, Mrs. Harold Sheats of
East Point and Mrs. J. P. Crimmins
of Washington City, and an uncle,
Cas Ellis of Cleveland, Ohio.
WHELCHEL’S TRIAL
SET FOR APRIL 29
Congressman B. Frank Whelehel,
named in two indictments charging
the sale of postal appointments, will
go on trial April 29 in Gainesville,
it was announced Saturday by his
counsel, Paul Carpenter, of Atanta.
Attorney Carpenter reported that
the agreement on date of the trial
had been reached with United States
Attorney Lawrence Camp.
The congressman will plead not
guilty before a federal jury in the
Gainesville Division of the Northern
District of Georgia, the attorney
said. The defendant was indicted
by a Federal grand jury on March
22. He is free under $5,000 bond.
Jointly indicted with Congressman
Whelehel was 11. Grady Jones, Pick
ens County commissioner, who was
accused in one indictment of con
spiring with the congressman in re
ceiving money on the latter’s behalf.
Mrs. Claud Hancock returned
Sunday from a visit to Mr. and Mrs.
Brannon Hancock in Augusta.
HON. JAMES A. FARLEY,
Postmaster General
Jefferson i3 happy to have Hon.
James A. Farley, Postmaster Gener
al of the United States, as honor
guest to make the principal address
and sell the first Stamp, commemo
rating the use of ether in the per
formance of an operation by Dr.
Crawford W. Long, March 30, 1842.
Thursday, April 4, 1940.
I)r. Crawford W. Long Conies
Into His Own 98 Years After
Discovering Ether’s Use
j Weighted for decades by the
' world’s indecision of his claim, the
statue of Crawford W. Long, Geor
gia’s discoverer of the use of ether
anaesthetic in surgical operations,
should literally square its shoulders
this week, as it stands staunchily in
I the national Statuary Hall at Wash
ington, D. C.
Last Saturday was the 98th anni
versary of his discovery, and on next
Monday in Jefferson Postmaster
eral James A. Farley will arrive
from Washington City to speak at
commemoration services, honoring
the famed former Jeffersonian and
his “boon to mankind.”
The feature of the dedicatory pro
gram will be the first appearance of
special two-cent stamps, issued in
Long's honor by the United States
post office department, an official
governmental act which virtually
should put at rest claims by other
seekers of the recognition.
As one of the two Georgians rep
resented in Statuary Hall, Crawford
Long's statue stands in tribute to
his contribution to science, beside
that of Aexander H Stephens, fam
ed Confederate statesman, who
strangely enough, was Dr. Long’s
room mate while attending the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Father Illustrious
Destiny decreed that Crawford
Williamson Long became famous,
even to the choice of name. His
father, a successful planter and for
many years clerk of the state su
preme court, was a close friend of
William H. Crawford, who was suc
cessively United States senator, min
ister to France, secretary of the
treasury, and candidate for the pres
idency in 1824. Dr. Long was nam
ed for this illustrious predecessor.
Long attended the academy in
Danielsville, Ga., (his birthplace)
and later entered the University of
Georgia at Athens. Known as “the
baby of the campus” on account of
his youth, he was only 20 upon grad
uation. Historians say Long and
Stephens, then embryonic notables,
“felt the stimulation of contact with
each other.”
Receiving his degree of M. D. in
1839 at the University of Pennsyl
vania, he went to New York and ;
spent 18 months with leading teach
ers, before returning to practice in
Jefferson. He was then 26 years
old.
In the same year as an unknown
and obscure country doctor, he mar
ried Mary Caroline Swain, niece of
the governor of North Carolina.
Great Physician
According to students of his ca
reer, Crawford Long would be one
of the greatest physicians even dis
carding his discovery of ether. He
treated typhoid fever practically as
it is done today, cured tuberculosis
with correct diet and fresh air, suc
cessfully operated for cancer of the
breast, and cured many a case of
lockjaw.
It was customary, history relates,
in Jefferson in the forties, for bands
of young people to stage “ether frol
ics.” The order was to sprinkle ether
on handkerchiefs and inhale it. In
dividuals (were variously affected,
and some tended to laugh while oth
ers cried or sang.
Dr. Long attended one of the
frolics, and later noticed bruises on
himself had caused no pain at the
time received. From this he decid
ed sulfuric ether might be a practi
cal anaesthetic in surgery. Thus the
operation with Venable as patient.
Suspense ran high in Jefferson,
March 30, 1842, for the then-youth
ful Georgia physician—dubbed by
distinguished doctors in surrounding
counties as “a green kid still wet
behind the ears” —was defying all
medical science by successfully re
moving a tumor from the neck of a
friend, James M. Venable, while the
patient was under influence of eth
er.
Politically, Dr. Long opposed se
cession with his friend, Stephens,
who later became vice president of
the Confederacy. Patriotically, both
“followed their state,” and the phy
sician was appointed head of the
military hospital on the University
of Georgia campus.
Other Claimants
Statues and monuments have been
erected to other claimants to the
the discovery of ether’s use in oth
er states. Horace Wells in 1844,
through use of nitrous oxide had a
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tooth extracted. In Hartford, Conn.,
is a monument to his memory.
Another whose claim was suppor
ted by some is Dr. William Morton,
a Boston dentist. Morton also re
moved a tooth on September 30,
1846, after u chemist, Charlqa T.
Jackson, suggested the use of ithcr
to him.
The Georgian’s claim to priority
got a boost from Dr. Jackson him
self, who visited Athens in 1854,
and examined Long’s sworn proof-
Later he published an article in the
Boston Medical and Surgical Jour
nal, declaring Long’s discovery an
tedated Morton’s.
Dr. Frank K. Boland, Atlanta, a
prominent Southern physician, in a
recent medical article, asks “why
should such divergent views be holcf
on this matter, when it seems sim
ple arithmetic should settle it, 1842
being four years earlier than
1846?”
He W. “Year* Ahead”
A monumental plaque was erect
ed in Long’s honor at the University
of Georgia in 1921, directly in front
of the historic library building.
Another ardent supporter in his
drive for sole recognition has been
the University of Pennsylvania,
where he .received his M. D.
Moving to Athens soon after the
discovery, he lived there until his
death, June 16, 1876, at the age of
61. His wife was killed in a Texas
| railway accident in 1888. Their
i bodies lie side by side in
Oconee Hill cemetery at Athens.
Crawford Long died after 40 years
of continuous practice in which' hi?
blazed a trail across the medical ho
rizon of the world, as his biographers
declare, “years ahead of his day.’*
No Cars on Square Monday
After 9 O’clock
That everybody may fully under
stand and co-operate in handling the
traffic in Jefferson on April Bth, the
Traffic Committee makes the follow
ing suggestions:
First, that the people of JefFei-son
do all their hauling and delivering
with cars as much ahead of time as
possible.
Second, that all people, on April
Bth, leave their cars at home, thus
leaving parking space for our visi
tors. ,
Third, that every one take notice
of the fact that the Square will be
roped off at 9 o’clock and no cajp,
except those in processions that are
allowed through the ropes, will en
ter after that time.
Fourth, that all of the people be 1
considerate anil helpful to our visi
tors, and show them every courtesy.
We know that our people will be
glad to do this and we call it to your
attention that every one may under
stand.
Respectfully,
TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION
COMMITTEE
By R. M. Culberson, Chairman.
STAMP DAY NEWS
The Rev. A. B. Elizer and Dr.
Frank K. Boland of Atlanta will be
guests of the Atlanta Journal on its
Editorial Hour Friday night. The
program will be broadcast over WSB
at 9:30 o’clock.
Reverend Elizer and Dr. EoianJ
will discuss Dr. Crawford W. Long
and the celebration of Monday.
WSB featured the stamp sale on ite
“Welcome South, Brother” program
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper only
surviving child of Dr. Long, was
heard on the Columbia radio net
work Tuesday night on the “We The
People” program-
The April issue of the Progressive
Farmer has a picture of the artist’s
conception of the first operation un
der ether and a story on Dr.. Long
by Charles I. Reynolds, Jr.
Newspapers every where are giv
ing Jefferson publicity in connection
with the Crawford Long stamp pro
gram. Orders for the stamps have
been received at the post office here
from every foreign country.
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Thompson
of Monticello announce the birth of
a daughter, whom they have named
Elizabeth Kay. Mrs. Thompson is;
at the home of her parents, Mr. andL
Mrs. McClure, in Commerce..