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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferton Postoffice
A Second'Clats Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor & Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor & Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., APRIL 11, 1940
Election returns from Wisconsin’s
presidential primary cave President
Roosevelt. a large majority over John
Nance Garner. This election was
the nation’s first state test of third
term sentiment. On the Republican
side, returns showed candidates
pledged to Thomas E. Dewey for the
Republican presidential nomination
in the lead. There was no direct
presidential preference vote on the
Republican ballot. The test came in
the race for the 24 scats—four at
large and 20 from the state’s con
gressional districts—as delegates to
the Republican national convention.
State income tax collections in
creased approximately 30 per cent
for the first three months of this
year as compared with the same
period last year, indicating a con
siderable upward trend in business,
Revenue Commissioner T. Grady
Head announced. Collections for
January, February and March of this
year totaled $2,487,359.05. For the
same period of 1939 they amounted
to $1,929,218.97. This was an in
crease of $558,140.68.
Credit keeps the, wheels of com
merce and industry turning. Rela
tively few business transactions in
volve the immediate use of cash.
When you make a telephone call,
when you purchase it new car, when
you order tonight’s groceries, as a
rule you defer payment until some
future day. And the telephone
company and the automobile dealer
and the grocer also live by credit—
when they buy from wholesalers
and manufacturers it is agreed that
payment will be made, not at the
time of delivery, but 30, 60 or 90
days hence. Some 90 per cent of
all business transactions in this
country require the use of credit.
In only 10 per cent is “cash on the
barrelhead” involved.
Domestic and foreign consumption
prospects now indicate that the
world carryover of American cot
ton on August 1, 1940 is likely to
"be about one million bales smaller
than the record high carryover of
14 million bales on August 1, 1939,
the Bureau of Agricultural Econo
mics reports. The carryover in the
United States seems likely to be
about two million bales less than at
the beginning of the current season
—when the total was about 13 mil
lion bales—but stocks of American
cotton in foreign countries are ex
pected to increase by one million
bales or more. The world carry
over will be the third largest on
record and about two-fifth larger
than the 10-year (1929-38) aver
age.
The story of how an ornamental
plant was transformed into a major
field crop in the southeast in less
than a decade is told in Farmers’
Bulletin No. 1810—“ Kudzu For
Erosion Control in the Southeast”
—recently Issued by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. The bul
letin describes kudzu as a “heavy
duty plant” especially adapted to
soil and climatic conditions of the
Southeast. It points out that kud
zu grows vigorously on eroded land,
produces a dense ground cover to
protect the surface of the soil
against beating rains, restores fer
tility on eroded areas by adding
•organic matter and nitrogen, main
tains a stand of plants over a long
period of years without replanting,
and produces palatable hay and for
age.
If farmers in Georgia plant in
1940 as they indicated they would
in a recent report, the State will
have in 1940 as compared with 1939
one percent fewer acres in corn, 7
percent more- acres in oats, 11 per
cent greater acreage in .Irish pota
toes, 3 percent less acreage in
sweet potatoes, 6 percent less acre
age in soybeans, 9 percent less in
peanuts grown alone, 5 percent less
in cowpeas grown alone and 5 per
cent less in the total acreage of
tame hay.—lf yields in 1940 are
not better than they were in 1939,
there will be less legume hay on
hand at the end of this year and
slightly less corn, but more oats.
PEACH CROP OUTLOOK
FINE
Mr.con, Ga.—Prospects “for a
fine crop of Georgia peaches are the
best in several years,” Frank T*.
Gaissert of Griffin, president of t j
Georgia Associaton of Peach Clow
ers, wrote in the April issue of the
Georgia Peach Grower, just i the
press.
Mr. Gaiasert’s statement was made
“to the pouch growers of Georgia,”
following an 800-mile tour of the
state’s peach belt with Emmett
Snellgrove, the association’s exec
utive director.
The two officials canvassed the
state to g an early spring look
at the ci op, and to discuss with
leaders i:i the various sections plans
for the association’s 1940 merchan
dising and advertising campaign.
With a fund which already dou
bles the 1939 advertising appropria
tion, the most vigorous efforts of
the year to sign up growers in the
voluntary movement will be made
during this month, Mr. Gaissert an
nounced.
“W’e are almost certain,” he said,
"to have an enormous crop—lo,ooo
to 12,000 ears. Most orchards are
in excellent condition. The buds and
blooms look extremely healthy and
vigorous.”
Mr. Gaissert said the blooming
periods in the various sections in
dicate that the fruit would not reach
maturity at the same time as was
the case last year.
Get License Early,
Motorists Urged
As inevitable as spring is the ex
piration of automobile drivers’ licen
ses, so Major Lon Sullivan, public
safety commissioners, has announced
that renewals could be made begin
ning April 15.
The prices are the same as last
year—one dollar for operators and
two dollars for chauffeurs, truck
drivers and others who earn their
living driving motor vehicles.
Over 600,000 licenses must be is
sued before the deadline June 30,
Major Sullivan said, and then con
tinued to urge all drivers to make
applications as soon as possible
“Last year’s sad confusion,” he
said, “was caused by the delay in
making applications. All you need
to do is pick up a blank at any fill
ing station, garage, sheriff’s office or
police department and fill it out.
“Send it along with stub from
your 1938-39 license and cashier’s
check or money order, to the De
partment of Public Safety, Box
1741.”
It’s as simple as that, according
to Major Sullivan. As usual, new
operators must stand the safe driv
er’s test, as must those operators
who are delinquent in filling a re
newal applcation.
Crisis For The Men
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Scarecely a day goes by that some
one doesn’t call attention to anew
crisis, and now a truly appalling
one, at least for the masculine pop
ulation, has come to light. American
women, an insurance company sta
tistician finds, are living longer than
men. Science has added years to
every one’s expectancy, but the wom
en get the lion’s share of the time
added since 1900. From age 1 up,
the feminine part of the population
gets the breaks, until at CO, the ta
ble shows, male mortality has been
decreased less than 7 per cent, while
that of the women has fallen 26
per cent.
Census figures show what a beat- j
ing the men are takng as a result
of this trend. In 1910 there were
106 males to every 100 females in
the total population; by 1920, the
ratio had fallen to 104; by 1930 to
102.5, and we’re about to earn the
had news for 1940. The next set
of figures is even more alarming,
enough to make the strongest-hear
ted man tremble. Gaze upon the
devastating statstics: in 1930 there
were in this country 2,025,036 wid
owers—and 4,734,207 widows, or
more than twice as many. Talk about
occupational hazards!
Men, what’s to hi? done? You can
see what we’re heading for in a few
thousand years; a matriarchy, with
women holding all the reins, and
man merely a short-lived hothouse
flower. Reversed is the traditional
picture of the flail female, the cling
ing vine tenderly supported by the
sturdy masculine gender. Will more
exercise, regular sleep, staying on
the wagon and seeing the doctor and
dentist twice a year supply the solu
tion? We aren’t licked yet, but we
do resent the way the women, seem
ingly fragile as ever, have clandes
tinely toppled man from his former
stronghold of superior vitality.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
“PLUM” JOBS GIVEN
WOMEN AT CAPITOL
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
has increased to three the number
•,l’ women divisional chiefs in the
state department at Washington.
He has appointed Mrs. Ella A.
Logsdon, of Tyndall, S. D., to be
head of the fiscal and budget affairs
of the department; Mrs. Ruth B.
Shipley, chief of the passport di
vision, and Mrs. Blanche R. Hall,
chief of the office of co-ordination
and review.
The three women executives are
veterans in the state depaitment
service, totaling among them 68
years of duty. All began as steno
graphers or cerks.
Mrs. Logsdon becomes head of an
office which prepares the depart
ment budget and steers it through
congress. She has been assistant
chief of the office since 1937.
Mrs. Shipley heads a division
whose income is about $1,000,000 a
year. She supervises the issuance
of thousands of passports and re
newals annually.
Recently she has directed a com
plete revision of the passport system
so as to avoid fraudulent use of them
by spies and other persons. She has
inaugurated a method of thumb
printing passports to prevent their
being counterfeited.
Mrs. Hall directs the checking of
all communications before they leave
the department, to see that they
contain no errors. She is an expert
on diplomatic style.
Mrs. Logsdon succeeds Charles B.
Hosmer, who becomes assistant to
Breckinridge Long, assistant secre
tary of state in charge of the for
eign service. Before the change it
had been the custom to bring a
foreign service officer in every four
years to head the office which Mrs.
Logsdon was appointed to fill on a
permanent basis.
Mrs. Shipley, who entered govern
ment service as a patent office clerk
in 1903, became chief of the pass
port division in the state department
in 1928.
Curious Hay Fever Legend
Justified By Physicians
Cleveland. —People who said they
helped their hay fever by eating
clover honey in the spring and chew
ing ragweed leaves in the summer
received medical justification at the
American College of Physicians.
This curious legend was investi
gated by the allergy clinic of the
University Hospitals of Cleveland,
with the result that eating pollen
was tried as a medical remedy and
found quite effective.
One hundred and thirty hay fev
er victims acted as the guinea pigs.
About half of them took injections
of the ragweed pollen, which is a
standard method of relieving hay
fever, while the other half swallow
ed capsules filled with the same pol
len.
Asa result 3 per cent of the pol
len eaters were helped considerably,
24 percent had fair relief and 13
percent were not relieved at all.
This was almost as good as the re
sults of the regular vaccination
method, where 70 per cent exper
ienced considerable relief, 19 fair
and 11 none.
The cap-ule method had one ad
vantage. It was easy to take a cap
sule every day or two, whereas the
vaccination requires going to the
doctor or the hospital to be scratched
with a needle anywhere from 15 to
: 30 times.
The clinic physicians said there is
still a medical controversy over the
pollen eating method, less than a
dozen physicians having tested the
method.
When taken in a capsule one
hundred times as much pollen must
be given as by hypodermic needle.
However, even the 100 times multi
plication only fills a pill that is small
enough to swallow easily.
State Purchases Total
$4,144,665
Atlanta.—State Purchasing Agent
O. G. Glover reported today $4,144,-
665 worth of supplies and materials
were bought for various departments
of the Georgia government in the
first quarter of 1940.
Purchases for the highway depart
ment were $655,579 in January, sl.-
085,902 in February, and $1,410,293
in March, representing the greater
part of total purchases in each
month.
Purchases for the board of regents
amounted to $370,663 and for the
public woliiare department $260,-
579. '
Total net purchases since July 1
were listed at $9,319,326 and the
cost of operating the purchasing de
partment at .87 of 1 per cent.
FIRE AT STATE
HOSPITAL FOR INSANE
Milledgeville, Ga.—lnjury and loss I
!of life averted, property damaged
I checked in the wake of a night blaze
that drove 700 male patients from
their quarters at the State Hospital
for the insane.
A restless inmate, tearing through
the ceiling to reach the roof and
escape, set the fire in the attic of a
35-year-old building near bed-time
Dr. T. C. Clodstelter, a resident
doctor, reported.
A two-hour battle conquered the
flames with the damage confined
chiefly to the roof, attic and top
floor* of the three-story, four-wing
brick structure in which the fire
originated.
Although the occupants of the
sprawling building were character
ized as among the most violent of
the asylum’s 7,200 population—
some of them as potentially dan
gerous — a ll were moved safely
through a covered passageway to an
adjoining building of identical con
struction.
The efficient work of the rescuers
and firemen was credited with avert
ing a tragedy since the menacing
condition of the ancient hospital
building has been noted several
times.
Five large buildings are now un
der construction at the hospital in a
$4,000,000 PWA-aided improvement
program.
As soon as the 700 patients were
safe in the other unit of
the twin buildings, so called because
of their similarity, the attendants
rushed back to salvage their bedding.
Mattresses and blankets were
spread on the floors of the other
building to afford sleeping accom
modations.
Unless unexpected damage was
done by water seeping to lower
floors of the building, they believed
the loss would be comparatively
small.
Democratic Chairman
Petitioned By Votes
A sub-committee of the Georgia
Preferential Primary committee in
session in Macon Thursday adopted
resolutions calling upon James L.
Gillis, chairman of the state Demo
cratic executive committee, to order
a presidential preferential primary
and fix the rules thereof.
Members of the committee pre
sented the petition to Mr. Gillis at
his highway board office in Atlanta
Friday.
The committee meeting in Macon
was the law committee, headed by
Judge Lucien Goodrich. Meeting
with the committee was Edgar B.
Dunlap, Gainesville', general chair
man of the committee seeking the
preferential primary.
The resolution submitted to Mr.
Gillis is backed by a stack of peti
tions nearly two feet high, contain
ing names of 21,930 voters demand
ing the preferential primary.
The petitions was sent to Mr.
Gillis along with the resolution. Mr.
Dunlap has received the petitions
since February 7, when the commit
tee advocating the primary was
formed.
STONE MOUNTAIN
MEMORIAL PUSHED
Atlanta. —Employing a nine-year
old legislative act, Governor E. D.
Rivers planned to set into motion
Wednesday anew movement to com
plete the Confederate Memorial on
1 Stone Mountain.
The governor will present commis
ior.s to a group of officials and civic
leaders given almost limitless pow
ers by law to finish the monument.
The governor himself would be an
ex-officio member of the committee,
to be composed of Mayor W. B.
Hartsfield of Atlanta; Mayor Andrew
Robertson of Decatur; Commissioner
Scott Candler of DeKalb county; H.
Lane Young, Walter C. Hill, and J.
Lawrence McCord.
Financial backing already has
been pledged to the movement, in
which the first objective will be to
acquire title to the mountain and
necessary surrounding property.
Make French dressing for fruit
salad substituting sherry for vine
gar or lemon juice and adding one
teaspoon powdered sugar to each
I' cupful of dressing.
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Mix grated American cheese with
canned tomato pulp to make a thick
paste, season it with salt, dry mus
tard and a little leaf thyme, spread
on small squares of bread and broil
for two or three minutes to toast the
cheese and slightly brown it. Serve
as a hot appetizer.
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RED BLOOM COSTS MORE AND IS
WORTH MORE!
Jefferson, Ga., October 21, 1939.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
Dear Sir; . „
I have used your Red Bloom guano two year. I made 16
bales cotton on 20 acres. I used a little side dressing on 8
acres; the other 12 acres had no side dressing. This year I
have 1 4-10 acres where I have already picked four bales.
I used no side dressing on another tract of 5 acres; I used 10
hags of another kind, 4-8-4 guano and will make only two
bales. The grade or quality of the land is the same. This
last cotton turned a pale yellow color in July. The cotton
where Red Bloom was used, is greener now than the other was
in July and August. It was easy to see at a distance by the
color where the Red Bloom was used. I will want your Red
Bloom next year. Come to see me in time so I can get it
before the rush. w 0 TATUM .
Grayson, Ga., Feb. 1, 1940.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
Dear Sir: , .
I used Red Bloom fertilizer last year. I like it fine and
can recommend it to be all right. & WOODRUFF .
Docula, Ga., Feb. 3, 1940.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
Dear Sir: , . . ~,
I used your 2-9-3 Red Bloom fertilizer last year and with
the cheap grade 2-9-3 I made an average crop as good as with
other higher grades. A „ Mc CLESKY.
THE LAST WORD ON FERTILIZER PRICES
RED BLOOM 2—9—3
RED BLOOM 3—B—s 22.50
RED BLOOM 4—B—4 23.50
RED BLOOM 57—5 26.00
RED BLOOM GUANO IS THE KIND THAT MAKES MORE
COTTON AND CORN THAN OTHER FERTILIZER. THE
PRICE IS RIGHT. COME, TELL ME HOW MANY TONS
YOU WANT. YOURS TRULY,
G. W. WOODRUFF
Winder, Georgia
Drunkenness is nothing else than
a voluntary madnses.
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Rarely do we like the combina
tion of two strongly flavored fruits
or vegetables; one usually kills the
other. But not so with turnips and
carrots. Try dicing them and cook
ing them separately, draining off
the juices, then mixing them in hot
cream sauce seasoned with a very
little bit of minced parsley. They
are delicious; one flavor helps the
other and the two together are bet
ter than one.
UNCLE NATCH EL SAYS...
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ALWAYS DRINK PLENTY O MILK
SONNY, its NATCHEL FOOD-)jjg
That’s good advice from
Uncle Natchel. Milk is Na
ture’s food for growing boys.
And Natural Chilean Nitrate
of Soda is Nature’s food for
growing crops. Into Chilean
Nitrate, Nature has put prac
tically the same elements that
milk contains. These protec
tive elements are in Nature’s
NATURAL
CHILEAN
NITRATE Of SODA
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940
THERE IS A
DIFFERENCE IN—
Fertilizer
Red Bloom
Has The Difference!
Mushrooms should never be cook
ed more than a few minutes, and
never over a very hot fire. And the
simplest way of cooking them is
usually the best. Avery fine season
ing and thickening agent for gravies
is made from dried powdered mush
rooms. The thinly sliced stems of
mushrooms and the juice in which
they are cooked is also highly prized
for meat sauces and gravies. Nice,
too, as an addition to cream sauce
or cream gravy served with fried
chicken.
own balance. They combine
with Chilean’s quick-acting
nitrate to nourish your crops
and improve your soil.
Whenever, wherever you use
Nitrate, be sure it is Chilean
Nitrate of Soda, the only natu
ral nitrate in the world.
No price increase; plenty
for everybody’s needs.
PROTECTIVE
ELEMENTS
Boron
lodine
Manganese
Potash
Magnesium
Calcium
ana many more