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THURSDAY, APRIL 11. 1940
Born of the necessity for articulate leader
ship in the still stormy years that followed the
War Between the States; nurtured early on the
substantial, soul-filling ideals that burn in the
hearts of Atlanta and Georgia people; striding
through militant, clear-eyed youth into vigorous,
seasoned maturity as an ever-dependable cham
pion of its own good neighbors—The Atlanta
Constitution, from editor to copy-boy, always
has been and always will be as southern as a
platter of hot biscuit. As Georgia and the
South have moved forward, so has The Consti
tion. And—as this richly endowed region con
tinues its swift forward pace—this newspaper
will move along with it, as close to the head of
the procession as deep interest, complete sin
cerity, spirited enthusiasm and an unswerving
and unswervable devotion to its city and its
state and its people can ever place it. Such na
tures don’t change overnight, especially when
they have been growing stronger for as long as
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COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS
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unions should be photographed. Special church affairs should
be preserved by pictures.
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of the artistic work of the
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message will bring their representative to your home.
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THE JACKSON HERALb, yEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Two Foreign Influences
Marked Early Americas
Most of the coast lines of North
and South America had been
touched or sighted by European ex
plorers before the end of the Six
teenth century and many pushed
back from the shores to investigate
the country beyond the horizon.
By the middle of the Seventeenth
century the spheres of European in
fluence on the two continents had
been temporarily determined. The
Latin races controlled the southern
continent, the lower part of the
northern continent, and had extend
ed their rule far up the West coast,
writes Colton Storm in "American
Collector.” English, Dutch and
Swedish settlements dominated the
eastern seaboard from Florida to
Maine, and the French had plunged
inland from their slight Canadian
shore.
Although the fishers of Brittany
had discovered the rich banks off
Newfoundland as early as 1504 (and
possibly earlier), there was no of
ficial attempt on the part of the
French to explore the New World
until 1524. Then, under the patron
age of Francis I, Giovanni da Ver
razano sailed west for the East In
dies. His voyage was not the com
mercial success he and the king had
expected. The earliest extant print
ed record of his exploits appears
in Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s
hodge-podge compilation of early
adventures, entitled Delle navigati
on! et viaggi, published at Venice,
1550-1559, in three folio volumes.
Like Columbus’ famous letter,
Verrazano’s rough account was orig
inally a letter or report addressed
to his royal patron. The original
letter in Verrazano’s hand has been
lost, but there are at least two con
temporary copies, both in Italian
translations.
Doughboys, Dubs, Dudes—
They’re Old Native Words
“Doughboys,” “dubs” and "dudes”
did not emanate from the World
war, golf courses and ranches, it is
revealed in the seventh section of
the University of Chicago press’ new
American English dictionary. They
are native American words.
“Doughboy,” a word the World
war made famous, originated about
1867 from the large globular buttons
on infantrymen’s uniforms used in
the Civil war, and the first written
use of the word, according to the
dictionary, was in Custer’s “Tent
ing on the Plains.”
“Dubs” appeared in written form
first, in 1887, to describe awkward
prizefighters, according to the dic
tionary. The origin of “dude,” how
ever, is obscure, the dictionary
says, but, synonymous with “dan
dy,” it was in use in 1883.
The dictionary comprises only
words of strictly American origin,
slang and colloquial expressions
which have become a common part
of the language and mutations of the
mother tongue. About four sections
a year are being published and the
dictionary will be completed in 1942.
Sir William Craigie, co-editor of
the famous Oxford-English diction
ary, and James R. Hulbert, profes
sor of English at the University of
Chicago, are editing the new Ameri
can English dictionary, aided by a
corps of research experts.
If you dislike to grate cheese,
try running it through the food
chopper, using the medium blade.
Some cooks think that this method
of pulverizing or cutting it gives
smoother sauces.
The cleaning woman just wanted to see whether people were honest.
Mr. Castins’ Csh also takes milk from a bottle, responds by swimming to the surface when its name is called.
LETTERS OF DISMISSION
Georgia, Jackson County.
Whereas, R. E. Maddox, Admin
istrator of Mrs. G. E. Hill, repre
sents to the Court in his petition,
duly filed and entered on record,
that he has fully administered Mrs.
G. E. Hill’s estate. This is, there
fore, to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said
Administrator should not be dischar
ged from his administration, and re
ceive Letters of Dismission on the
first Monday in May, 1940.
L. B. Moon, Ordinary.
NOTICE
All creditors of Tenie H. Baird,
Sr., deceased, are hereby notified to
present their demands to me, and all
persons owing said deceased are
hereby notified to make payment to
me.
S. N. HILL,
Administrator of the Estate of
Tenie H. Baird, Sr., Deceased.
NOTICE
State of Georgia, County of Jack
son.
Henry J. Brooks Vs. Mrs. Mary
Jane Brooks, W. H. Brooks, Virgin
ia Brooks, Lonnie J. Brooks.
In Superior Court of Jackson
County, August Term, 1940. Bill in
Equity.
To Lonnie B. Brooks, a defendant
in the above case.
You are hereby commanded to
appear at the August Term of said
court, to be held on the first Monday
in August, 1940, to answer in said
matter.
Witness the honorable Clifford
Pratt, Judge of said Court.
This March 2nd, 1940.
C. T. Storey, Jr.,
Clerk Superior Court, Jackson
County.
CRIME NEVER PAYS
A Denver woman’s cat died and
the health department told her to
bring the body to their office to dis
pose of it.
She laid it careully in the fanciest
cardboard box she “could find, tied
flowers to it and started out. En
route she stopped at a store and
when she returned to her car she
saw a woman tampering with the
lock.
She watched while the woman
opened the door and stole the dec
orated box.
Without opening it, she took the
package into the rest room of a
near-by department store. The
lady who owned it trailed her but
waited outside the door. Fifteen
minutes elapsed. When the woman
failed to jreapear in that time a
matron was called.
They found the thief in a dead
faint. The dead cat was on her
lap.
Butter thin slices of stale sponge
cake, sprinkle with brown sugar
and cinnamon, toast for a minutes
or two and serve hot with afternoon
tea.
New Pneumonia
Serum Described
(Cleveland.—A new remedy for
pneumonia, which in its first trials
on about 1,500 human beings in the
past few months has proved better
than anything previously known, was
described to the American College of
Physicians here Wednesday.
Its greatest benefit is in causing
much less nausea than other reme
dies, but it also has shown a definitely
lower death rate.
The drug is sulfathiazole, a “rela
tive” of the recently discovered
“wonder medicine” sulfanilamide,
and is the second such “relative” to
prove good for pneumonia.
This latest pneumonia remdy is
not yet on the market, even for sale
to physicians. The report, the first
to a lagre medical society and the
first to cover large numbers of cases
of pneumonia treated with the rem
edy, was made by Harrison F. Flip
pin, M. D., and Leon Schwartz, M.
D., both of the University of Penn
sylvania school of medicine.
Fogs Are a Real Problem
Fog, that thick pea-soup kind for
which England is noted, interferes
so much with the operation of rail
ways that special means have to be
taken to cope with it. Fog signal
men are placed at important points.
They live near their work, and on
their own initiative go to their posts
when fog descends. Or they may
be called from signal boxes. They
use 300,000 detonators—or “torpe
does,” as they are known in Ameri
ca. The noisemakers tell the engi
neers the position of the signal hid
den from view by the fog. As an
additional safeguard, the Great
Western railway has its own system
of automatic train control. If the
line is clear a bell rings by the
engineer’s side. If not, a siren blows
and brakes are automatically ap
plied. The device is operated by
signalmen through an electric ramp
at each caution signal on 2,855 miles
of track and 3,250 engines.
Iceland Splitting
Indications that Iceland is split
ting in two have been found in fis
sures or cracks stretching from
northeast to southeast of the island,
all lying in the same direction.
Reykjavik has received reports that
near these cracks, which reach far
down into the earth, is a row of
volcanoes from which erupt fields of
lava larger than any other of sim
ilar type in the world. Scientists
will take measures of the distance
between mountain peaks on each
side of the crack to determine if
they are moving apart. If they
are it will be evidence of Alfred
Wegener’s theory of continental
drift, that America has been slip
ping away from Europe for millions
of years and that the Atlantic was
thus formed between them.
Pitcairn Taxes
The only tax on Pitcairn island,
of mutiny of the Bounty fame, is
for 12 cents for a gun license. The
money is used for buying the sta
tionery needed by the chief magis
trate. Tithes of about SI,OOO a year
are collected and used for mission
ary work in other parts of the Pa
cific. The island has a population
of 200. Oranges are its chief export
and goats are its only live stock.
PAGE SEVEN
Court Longer And
Stay Married Longer
In 1870 one marriage in thirty
three went on the rocks, in 1900 ono
in twelve, and in 1930 one in six,
according to Dr. E. A. Ross, noted
University of Wisconsin professor.
This year experts are estimating
that one out of every five marriages
will end in the divorce courts. These
and other serious facts along the
same line have prompted an exten
sive survey by Professors Leonard S.
Cottrell, Jr., and Ernest Watson Bur
gess of Cornell University. Under
the title of ‘Predicting Success or
Failure in Marriage,’ some findings
of a sevene-year study have been re
leased.
From interviews with 526 married
couples it was found that longer
courtship is in favor of better har
mony and adjustment after marriage.
With courtships of less than a year
there was incomplete adjustment.
Between three and five years seems
to be the best term of courtship.
Those married after courtships of
three months or less showed a 80
per cent greater risk of ending in
divorce. Wives who worked before
marriage are more permanent than
those who had never worked.
Education does not lessen the
chances for marriage adjustment. It
was found that college graduates
were more successful in marriage
than grammar and high-school grad
uates.
WOMEN’S STYLES
The question as to why women are
content to wear almost anything, no
matter how freakish and unattractive,
provided it conforms to style, has
long been a subject of discussion
among men, but as yet they have
never arrived at the answer.
The Albany Herald reports a con
versation between a married man and
a batchelor on the matter, and here is
what the former told the latter:
“My friend, you probably know as
much about why women think as they
do about fashions and styles as any
married man knows, which is exactly
nothing. What a married |man
learns, if he is wise, is that it is
foolish to worry about things that
worrying will not help. Styles
change, and women accept the
changes as birds accept the seasons.
“It never occurs to them not to
like the latest thing in hats, dresses,
hosiery, shoes and accessories, ami
they don’t argue about it. If anew
style is becoming to some and total
ly unbecoming to others, it matters
not. All women accept it, and there
the matter rests.
“A man’s opinion has no more
value than a burnt match, for with
every woman the thing that really
counts is what other women think.”
A REMARKABLE RECORD
Last week the commercial airlines
completed a year of flying without
a serious accident or fatality to pas
sengers. This record is almost un
believable. However, the records
show the report otf the companies t
be true. With the improvements in
the mechanism of airplanes, their
safety has been increased, and the
patronage of the public indicates
the confidence it has acquired in
that mode of travel.
During the past year there were
2,028,817 passengers using trans
portation over these lines. The pa
tronage accorded these air lines in
dicates the popularity of air service
as a mode of transportation for
both pleasure and business.
UNEMPLOYED COMPENSATION
IN JACKSON COUNTY
Unemployed worker,? in J ckson
County were paid $424.85 in bene
fits by the Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation during the week end
ing March 23, it has been announced.
Number of payments was reported
at 63.
Total payments to Georgia work
ers that week amounted to $85,-
533.29, represented by 14,033
checks which went into 125 coun
ties of the state.
Six hundred eighty-nine payments
for $5,705.94 to workers in other
states who previously had establish
ed wage credits in Georgia, brought
the total to $91,239.23.
Number and amount of checks
mailed by the Bureau ranged from
one check for 50c in Coffee County
to 2,662 checks for $20,185.10 in
the Atlanta area, which embraces
Fulton and DeKalb counties.
Run dried apricots through the
food chopper, mix to a paste with
honey and serve with waffles for
Sunday night supper.
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Cook green peas with a few fresh
or dried mint leaves; or sprinkle
cooked peas with chopped mint just
before serving.