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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered >t The Jefferson Postofiico
A Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor & Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor & Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., APRIL 18, 1940
Governor Rivers has proclaimed
May 1 ns Child ! lealth Day in Geor
gia anJ urged a special campaign
to eradicate diphtheria in the state.
The Union County Citizen at
Blairsville thinks: “If after dinner
speaking could be eliminated the din
ners wouki be just as good."
The Felham Journal tells of a
Georgia newspaper man who sent a
letter to his mother just prior to his
wedding which he headed: “Just
Before the Battle Mother.”
Atlanta is not the only Georgia
city that can have world premieres
of famous motion pictures. No sir,
Albany stepped out with the world
premiere of “The Biscuit Eater,”
which, with several movie stars in
attendance, was the highlight of the
city’s civic pride and progress cele
bration, and all of this just after
being blown away by a cyclone.
It is reported that Hawkinsville
Is considering surrendering its
school charter and returning into the
Pulaski county system. Since the
close of the school year 1935-36, six
teen cities have surrendered their
school charters and returned to the
counties in which they are located.
They are: Adairsville, Bainbridge,
Blackshear, Blakely, Dexter, Hazle
hurst, Lavonia, Lithonia, Lula, Mans
field, Maysville, Pearson, Royston,
Sandersville, Senoia and Vidalia.
Home gardens 12 months in the
year instead of 12 weeks in the year
are needed in Georgia. An impor
tant step in buiding a better farm
program is a bigger and better home
food supply, and a garden certainly
plays a big part in this respect. Fam
ilies should be planning a summer,
fall, and winter garden while they
are planting the spring vegetable
patch. Some vegetable crops can be
planted in every section of the state
every month in the year.
The Georgia department of the
American Legion is making an in
tensive drive to lead the parade
when the national organization holds
its annual convention in Boston this
year. Commander Hoyt C. Brown
and Adjutant Stanley A. Jones are
confident that they will reach the
goal by bringing the membership of
the department so far beyond the
quota assignment that there will be
no trouble in winning the coveted
distinction of first place in the big
parade.
Just why anybody would want to
succeed Governor Rivers as Govern
or of Georgia we do not understand,
but there are indications that we
will have a good crop of candidates
and that some of them will be very
capable and acceptable men. The
man who is sworn in as Governor in
January, 1941, will have to be a su
perman or the job will be his undo
ing. He will find the treasury empty,
the state owing something like $50,-
000,000, the schools without money
and insufficient funds to pay pen
sions for the last half of that fiscal
year. He will have to load the Leg
islature in some plans for balancing
the state budget and that is not a
job for an ordinary man.—Moultrie
Observer.
Recently there has been through
the South the representative of a
newspaper of national circulation
who has been looking us over. He
comes to this refreshing conclusion:
Agriculture is being steadily,
though slowly, transformed from a
one-crop system to a variegated
economy. One state still gets as
much as 90 per cent of its cash crop
income from cotton, but the South,
year by year, is producing added
quantities of nuts, fruits, vegetables,
meat, dairy products, forage, poul
try. There is much more soil con
servation ; the forests are being bet
ter preserved and more trees are
being planted. The South is still
the most rural part of America, is
steadily becoming better balanced.
In education the South is making
striking progress.
Paving doesn’t hinder nut grass.
Several inches of asphalt were laid
at Leesburg in a business section
paving project. After being spread
while hot it was thoroughly rolled
by heavy machines. Hundreds of
shinging green blades nppea-. 1
through the black arphalt stw.al
days later.
With May 5 set as the Eat day
to register in order to be üble to
vote in the coming state and nation
al elections, citizens huve but fifteen
more days in which to get their
names on the list. May 5 comes on
Sunday end it has been ruled by At
torney General Ellis Amall that
registration must be completed the
day previous, or Saturday, May 4.
At a testimonial dinner, given by
the Tennessee Copper Cos. at Duck
town, Tenn., honoring Jack Town
send, who was retiring after 38
year’s service for the Company, his
friends presented him with a gun
and a dog, so that he might spend
the rest of his life hunting on his
Georgia farm near Talking Rock,
where he will make his home. Mr.
Townsend is a brother of J. B. and
J. G. Townsend of the Dahlonega
Nugget.
The salesman who called on S. C.
Moon the other day could hardly be
lieve hi ears when Mr. Moon intro
duced himself as £>. C. Moon. It
seems that within the past few days
he visited a drug store in Athens,
where the manager had that name,
and also in Westminister where the
same thing happened. Mrs. Moon
says that there is still another one
in Columbus, although the salesman
hasn’t discovered that fact yet.
And another thing about it is that
the wife of each of these men who
are distantly related, by the way,
has a man’s name—Jimmy, Gus,
Jack and John. —Gainesville News.
With the advent of paved high
ways and automobiles, affording
swift and enjoyable transportation,
a number of writers in national
magazine's have written at length
on what they call “the passing of
the small town.” There are many,
however, who disagree with those
writers. It is pointed out that there
is something vastly more important
than living in a city where the busy
whirl of a work-a-day world has a
tendency to lessen ties of friendship;
where in the mad rush for the dol
lar, the real essentials of life are
overlooked or else forgotten. The
small town is not passing.—Dawson
News.
In making mention of visitors in
the city last week, because time was
limited, we naturally overlooked
many, and then, there were hun
dreds whom we failed to see. For
instance there were Mis. Toombs
Roberts, Professor and Mrs. D. I.
Barron, Mrs. Irene Walker Field, all
prominent citizens of Monroe, who
honored our city with their presence.
Mrs. Roberts is a great-granddaugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jack
son Bell. Her mother is Mrs. Kittie
Gober Burton, who was reared here
and educated in Martin Institute.
Professor Barron is President of the
school at Walker Park and Mrs.
Field is a daughter of the late San
ders Walker, one of Monroe’s most
distinguished citizens.
ROOSEVELT STILL
LEADING
Franklin I). Roosevelt and Thomas
E. Dewey riveted by fresh triumphs
in the midwest farm belt a leader
ship in the 1940 presidential races
that challenged other contenders.
In Illinois Mr. Roosevelt rolled
up a 0 to 1 margin over the anti
third term candidacy of Vice Presi
dent Garner, causing state Demo
cratic leaders to describe the vote
as a “demand” for the President’s
renomination.
In Nebraska’s Republican prefer
ential primary, Dewey was running
well ahead of Senator Arthur Van
denburg, just a week after an easy
Wisconsin victory over the Michi
gan senator. Dewey’s lead was
more than 11,000 when the counting
passed the three-quarter mark.
Mr. Roosevelt had no opposition
in Nebraska, where his total was
below the Dewey-Vandenberg ag
gregate. In neither state are the
primary results binding on the na
tional convention delegates.
Dewey was unopposed in Illinois,
but his supporters had hoped for a
big turnout as a harbinger of Re
publican strength in November.
•Mr. Roosevelt’s total was running
well ahead of the combined votes
for Garner and Dewey, although the
New York prosecutor was about
even with the President in the non
metropolitan areas.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFEfcsutf, GEORGIA
WEAR COTTON HOSE!
If David H. Yong has his way the
women of the United States will be
wearing cotton stockings —and
filling them. And who b David H.
Young, might one inquire and why
his interest in cotton hose against
those of silk?
Mr. Young is a stocking research
specialist who is now working with
the United States Bureau of Home
Economics. Under his direction
there has been prepared a traveling
exhibit of fifty-six different styles
of cotton stockings in 142 colors.
They arc designed to catch the eye
of the manufacturers and the con
sumers.
In ordering the cotton hose study,
Congress hoped to aid American
cotton growers. If enough women
took to cotton hose, Southern grow
ers could switch any amount of
acreage to the long-staple cotton
needed for their manufacture.
Mr. Young is an old hand at fore
seeing women’s hosiery needs and
filling them. At a small experiment
al plant he formerly maintained in
California he produced the “illusion
stocking” to satisfy women who
couldn’t go the whole way in the
Htockingless fad. He also claims to
have made the first high twist hos
iery, now popular for its dullness
and sheerness. In his government
job, he is making special studies of
the wearing qualities, dye-fastness,
strength, elasticity, water repellency,
and snag resistance of the cotton
stocking.
We should imagine if there is any
one who can make cotton stockings
popular with women David H. Young
should turn the trick. We await hi3
next move in this direction.
MEMORIAL DAY
It is interesting to those who
cherish a tender spot in their hearts
for the heroes of the sixties to find
that throughout the state of Geor
gia at the moment plans are being
inaugurated for the observance of
Confederate Memorial Day. This
is to be observed on April 26. The
day is a holiday in Georgia, made
so by legislative enactment, but
even if this were not so it would
still be an occasion observed with
reverence by the sons and daughters
of the state.
There are other states in the
South, too, that observe this date
as a memorial day. In some states
which helped to make up the Con
federacy other dates are observed
but with equal reverence and with
just as much sentiment.
The date of Memorial Day in
Georgia is not without its signifi
cance. April 26, 1865, marked an
important epoch in the story of the
South and the Confederacy. It was
upon this date Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, commander of the Army of
the Tennessee, surrendered at Dur
ham Station, N. C., to the superior
forces of William T. Sherman after
the famous march through Georgia
of the latter commander. And here
the Confederacy died.
So April 26 is a day of retro
spection for those of us who five in
Dixie today and who cherish in our
hearts a tender feeling for those who
followed Lee and Davis in their ef
fort to sustain the Confederacy.
It is the one day set aside by
lcglsldt! r e enactment and through
the actions of organizations allied
with the Confederacy to pause and
pay tribute to the brave men of the
state.' It is not a day of rejoicing;
it is not a season of good cheer; it
is a moment given over to the
memory of brave men and women.
This is the spirit in which the day
is observed, and it is comforting to
know that in Georgia the observance
is so general and so sincere. In
every part of the state the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, the last
link in the South of today with that
of the sixties, are planning for the
proper observance of Memorial Day.
In hamlet and village, town and city
this tribute will be paid.
There will be in some point very
elaborate emphasis of the day. Sa
vannah is one of these centers where
Memorial Day is observed in a most
commendable way. The same is
true in other cities and the smaller
places are equally as sincere in their
tribute to the brave men of the
sixties.
We trust it will be a long time
before the plan of observing Me
morial Day in Georgia passes into
the discard or there is staged but a
perfunctory observance. —Savannah
Press.
Anew name for an ailment af
fects people like a Parisian name
for a novel garment. Everyone
hastens to get it. A minutely de
scribed disease costs many a man
his earthly days of comfort.—Mary
Baker Eddy.
PROCRASTINATION
One of the easiest things in the
world to do is to put things off un
til tomorrow. With some people this
habit has become so firmly estab
lished that it appears to be the pro
per thing.
The evil of procrastination is the
inconvenience it causes other peo
ple. A man may owe a debt. He is
perfectly honest and means to pay
it in full, but he has formed the
habit of letting it go as long as he
can. Maybe the creditor is not wor
ried, but this does not mean he
doesn’t need his money. He may
have bills of his own to pay, and
unless he can collect what is owing
to him he will be unable to meet his
own obligations. Another man may
have the best of intentions to do his
share in some useful work, but he
hesitates to make the start. He rea
sons that the others should go ahead
and that they can count on him to
join them when he is most needed.
His failure to get into action from
the beginning often defeats the un
dertaking.
Furthermore, procrastination hurts
the person who practices it. It be
comes easier and easier to let things
wait, and eventually they will not
be done at all. The old rule, “Work
today and rest tomorrow” still has
much truth in it.
Grand Jury Aiks County Commis
sioners to Finance Schools
Athens, Ga.—The Grand Jury rec
ommended in its presentments to
Judge Blanton Fortson that the
Board of Commissioners finance the
Clarke county school system for two
months in order to assure a full nine
months term.
Noting that a “state of emer
gency” exists in the county schools
which will result in their closing at
the completion of seven months
work unless immediate aid is given,
the Grand Jury said “it would be a
disgrace for our county school sys
tem not to remain open the full
term since this county is a university
and school center.”
“We feel the present financial
condition of the county warrants”
the recommendation that it pay the
way for the last two months.
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Winder, Ga., December 16, 1939.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
Dear Sir:
I like Red Bloom fertilizer:
Ist, because it makes cotton grow faster. When you mop
it with poison you don’t have to rush back to keep poison on
the bud leaves. ....
2nd, it matures early and you can pick it while the weath
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3rd, but this time I made so much it took up into cold
weather to finish picking.
My crop land has been cultivated 100 years. The first
year I planted 9 acres and made 2 bales. Second year we
had 6 acres, made one bale. This year I planted 4 acres
USED RED BLOOM fertilizer and made 2 big bales.
WM. P. HARDY.
Winder, Ga., February 5, 1940.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
Dear Sir:
I have used your Red Bloom fertilizer under my cotton
crop for a number of years, and found it to be one of the
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W. M. HOLSENBECK.
Winder, Ga., October 11, 1939.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
Dear Sir:
I have used your Red Bloom fertilizer for the past three
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Yours truly,
J. T. BAILEY.
THE LAST WORD ON FERTILIZER PRICES
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RED BLOOM 3—B —s 22.50
RED BLOOM 4—B—4 23.50
RED BLOOM 5—7—5 26.00
G. W. WOODRUFF
Winder, Georgia
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