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PAGE SIX.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. BctU)
Judge Thomas S. Williams of the
United States Court of Claims died
at his home here oh April 5. He
was appointed by former President
Herbert Clark Hoover in 1929. He
died with heart ailment. He served
in Congress from the 24th District
of Illinois from 1915 to 1929. While
1 e was a Republican, he was a man
of high degree of principles. He
was a member of the Christian
church. He was 68 years of ago
and leaves a widow and one son and
two daughters and a host of friends
on Capitol Hill to mourn hrs loss.
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The senate of the United States
on April 4 was opened with prayer
by Rev. Duncan Fraser, assistant
rector of the church of the Epiphany
of the District of Columbia.
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Hon. Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.,
has been appointed by Hon. Archi
bald MacLeish Librian to preside
over the rare book’s division of the
Library of Congress. He is a busi
ness man, who has made liberary
rarities his hobby since boyhood.
Hon. Clyde H. Smith of the Sec
ond District of Maine died on April
Bth at his home here at 3000 Newark
St. N. W. of a heart attack at the
age of 63. He was completing his
second term in congress. He en
dorsed his wife before his death as
his successor, the former Margaret
Chase of Shawhegan, Maine, whom
he married in 1930. He was buried
at Ilartland, Maine. Majority lead
er Sam Rayburn named Hon. James
C. Oliver, Hon. Ralph 0. Brewster,
Senator W. 11. White, all of Maine,
to accompany his body to his last
resting place. He was a great and
good man.
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Hon. Marvin Jones of the Eigh
teenth District of Texas, the Lone
Star State of the Union, was named
by President F. D. Roosevelt on
April 9th to be judge of the United
States Court of Claims, created by
the death of Hon. Thomas S. Wil
liams. He has been a member of
congress for 24 years from said
state. He was chairman of the
House Agricultural committee un
der the Democratic regime. He is a
fine man and a Simon Pure Jeffer
sonian Democrat of the first brand.
A good and wise appointment.
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Hon. Norman Thomas, Socialist
Candidate for President three times,
wa.-: nominated for the fourth time
at the National press building here
on April Bth. Mr. Thomas is 55
years of age. He was born in
Marion, Ohio, the birthplace of the
late President Warren G. Harding.
He. now lives in New York. His
running mate will be Professor May
nard Kruges of the University of
Chicago, Illinois. Prof. Kruges will
be 35 years of age January 16, 1941.
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The Army Parade here in the Dis
trict of Columbia and on Capitol
Hill in the arena of America, on
April 6th, drew a crowd of 100,000
to celebrate April 6, 1917. When the
United States entered the World
War against the German Empire by
a declaration of war by an act of
congress, under Hon. Woodrow Wil
son, then President of the United
States, the late Hon. Champ Clark
of Missouri was speaker of the
House and the late Hon. Thomas M.
Murchall of Indiana was Vice Presi
dent and presided over the Senate.
The parade here on April 6th, was
grand and democratic.
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President F. D. Roosevelt carried
the state of Illinois and Nebraska
in the preferential primary on April
9th. Hon. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York carried Illinois and Ne
braska in the preferential primary
for the Republican Standard Bearer
for 1940.
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Governor R. L. Cochran of Ne
braska defeated Senator Edward R.
Burke for the United States Senate
in the primary of said state on April
9th, in the Democratic Primary.
Senator Burke had only served one
term in the United States Senate
from Nebraska.
SPOON IS RETURNED
South Bend, Ind.—The Oliver ho
tel got a tarnished silver spoon in
the mail. In the envelope with it
uras a letter explaining the writer
liad stolen the spoon 25 years ago.
“At that time 1 was in sin and
did a number of things that weren’t
right,” the letter read, “but now
I am a Christian and so far as pos
sible I want to right my wrongs.”
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Tennille Plant To Build Naw Hotal
Tcnnille.—Sponsored by the Ro
tary Club, Tennille is to have a
modern brick hotel of twenty-five
rooms, each with a bath, costing -25,-
000. It will be built on the lot on
Adams street next to the Standard
filling station. Two stores will oc
cupy part of the ground floor.
A charter has been applied for.
The name of the corporation will be
Tennille Hotel Corporation with
capital stock of $50,000, with one
half this amount paid in. Shares
will be $25 each.
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Lesson In Safety
Carrollton, Ga.—Jane Smith, Car
rollton High school, girl, seeking
material for a theme, conducted her
own traffic survey and wrote that 25
out of 125 drivers she observed at
a busy intersection violated regula
tions. She observed, too, that “Car
rollton pedestrians are none too
well protected and need white lines
to walk inside of.”
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U. S. Forbid* Reference To Beer,
Liquor Vitamin*
Washington. The government
banned today oil reference to the
vitamin content of beer or liquor
sold as a beverage.
A special notice from W. S. Alex
ander, federal alcohol administra
tor, to the industry said that he
felt references to vitamins in beer
or liquor implied that the beverages
had curative or therapeutic quali
ties and would be treated as mis
labeling.
Appling Hotel At Baxley Burn*;
Gueit* Escape
Baxley, Ga. —The Appling hotel
was destroyed by fire early today,
but about 20 guests escaped unin
jured.
A porter opening a cpthes closet
found the fire raging. He slammed
the door shut, awakened guests and
sounded the alarm. Alma and Way
cross fire department responded to
calls for aid.
Manager J. E. Foy, Jr., estimated
the loss of the hotel property and
contents would be “near $50,000.”
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Calamity Hound* Forestry Official
Atlanta, Ga—H. D. Storey, Jr.,
assistant director of the State For
estry Division, has concluded that
he is a victim of calamities.
His strange fate begins with the
Albany tornado. He arrived there
the night before the tornado struck.
He almost spent the night at one of
the hotels severely damaged by the
wind, but at the last moment decid
ed to go to the house of friends.
Nevertheless, the windows were
blown out of the house in which he
was staying.
The second episode came last
Sunday when another tornado blew
down his house in Amite, La. He is
a native of the Louisiana town.
Early in the morning the third
episode began to unfold. The Ap
pling hotel in Baxley, where he was
staying, caught fire and, in his hur
ry to get out of the burning build
ing, he lost his pipe, his glasses and
his billfold.
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Mirtrial Ordered In Tate Will Case
Jasper, Ga.—Judge J. H. Hawkins
ordered a mistrial in the Sam Tate
will case.
The jury reported to Judge Haw
kins that it was hopelessly deadlock
ed and that continued deliberation
was futile.
Among other things the case in
volves disposition of 10,074 shares
of stock in the Georgia Marble Com
pany, of which Colonel Tate was
chairman when he died in 1938.
Litigants are members of his family
and heirs.
GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE OFFERS
MORE SCHOLARSHIPS
Athens, Ga.—The University of
Georgia Colleges of Agriculture has
announced the availability of 25
additional scholarships of SIOO cash
for the 1940-41 school session.
Jackson County boys are eligible to
receive these.
Students who make application
for the scholarships, must be recom
mended by either a teacher of vo
cational agriculture or by a county
agent. Applications must be made
to Dean Chapman, College of Agri
culture, Athens, on or before July 1.
Scholarships will be awarded on
the basis of high school records, and
upon practical livestock and poultry
production work, carried on as 4-H
Club and F. F. A. activities. This
must all be certified to by the per
son making the recommendation.
The awards will be made on or
before August 1, and the funds will
be available at the opening of the
Fall Quarter, September, 1940.
THE-JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
SOIL BUILDING IN
JACKSON COUNTY
Jackson county farmers this year
are offered greater opportunity for
soil conservation than in 1939 be
cause there will be available ap
proximately $84,900.00 ag assistance
for carrying out approved soil
building practices under the 1940
Agricultural Conservation Program.
The county’s soil-building goal,
according to Mr. W. H. Maley,
chairman of the County AAA Com
mittee, has been approved by the
Stnte AAA Committee at 66,600
units. Ten thousand units were not
earned last year which amounted to
$15,000.00.
The soil-building practices and the
rates of assistance have been ap
proved by the State Committee to
be included in the county’s soil
building goal. Assistance will be
made available for these practices
when carried out according to speci
fications contained in the 1940 AAA
Georgia Handbook, a copy of whicji
has been furnished each farm oper
ator.
Application of Material*
1. Application of (a) 300 pounds
of 16 percent superphosphate (or
its equivalent), (b) 500 pounds of
basic slag, or (c) 750 pounds of
rock or colloidal phosphate to, or
with the seeding of, perennial or
biennial legumes, perennial grasses,
winter legumes, lespedeza, crota
laria, annual ryegrass* or permanent
pasture—one unit ($1.50).
2. Application of 1,000 pounds of
ground limestone or its equivalent,
one unit ($1.50).
Seeding*
3. Establishing a permanent vege
tative cover by planting crowns of
kudzu—.four units ($6) an acre.
A farmer can get soil-building as
sistance at the rate of $1.50 per
unit up to a given amount, or max
imum, for his farm. This maximum
is figured as the sum of four items,
as follows:
(1) 70 cents per acre for the
cropland in excess of the sum of
the allotments for cotton, tobacco,
peanuts, wheat, and in Chatham- and
Effingham counties, potatoes:
(2) $1.50 per acre for the com
mercial orchards on the farm Jan
uary 1, 1940.
(3) 25 cents per acre for the
fenced non-crop open pasture land
having a specified carrying capacity
in excess of half the cropland.
(4) $7.50 for each acre planted
to forest trees up to S3O.
To show how this maximum as
sistance for soil-building practices
calculated, Mr. Maley took the ease
of a farm with 100 acres of crop
land, a cotton allotment of 20 acres,
a peanut allotment of 5 acres, 4
of commercial orchards, and 56
acres of fenced non-crop pasture
land.
The rate of 70 cents per acre of
cropland applies to 75 acres (acre
age of cropland in excess of cotton
and peanut allotments); the rate of
$1.50 per acre for commercial orch
ards applies to 4 acres; and the rate
of 25 cents per acre for fenced non
crop open pasture land applies to 6
acres (acreage of pasture in excess
of half the cropland.)
To get the maximum regular soil
building assistance payment for the
farm, the three items are added, as
follows:
Cropland (75x70 cents), $52.50;
commercial orchards (4x51.50). $6,
and pasture land (6x25 cents),
$1.50, or a total of S6O.
4. Seeding adapted varieties of
alfalfa —one unit ($1.50) an acre.
5. Seeding winter legumes—one
unit ($1.50) an acre.
6 Seeding lespedeaa—two-thirds
unit ($1) an acre.
Pasture
7. Establishment of a permanent
vegetative cover by sodding—three
units ($4.50) an acre.
8. Establishing a permanent pas
ture by seeding—two units ($3) an
acre.
9. Contour ridging of non-crop
open pasture land—l,ooo linear
feet of ridge, one unit ($1.50).
Erosion Control
11. Construction of standard ter
races for w r hich proper outlets are
provided—2oo linear feet of terrace,
one unit ($1.50).
12. Stripcropping with alternate
strips of close-grown crops and in
tertilled crops—four acres, one unit
($1.50).
Green Manure And Coyer Crops
13. Green manure and cover
crops—one unit ($1.50) an acre.
Forestry
14. Planting forest trees —five
units ($7.50) an acre.
15. Cultivating, protecting, and
maintaining, by replanting if neces
sary, a good stand of forest trees,
planted between January 1, 1937
and January 1, 1940—two units
($3) an acre.
Miscellaneous
16. Growing of a home garden for
a landlord, tenant, or sharecropper
family on a farm—one unit ($1.50)
a garden.
The closing date for carrying soil
building practices with AAA assist
ance under the 1940 Agricultural
Conservation Program has been set
for November 30, 1940.
“In this example,” he said, “the
sum of S6O is the largest amount
available to assist the farmers in
carrying out regular soil-building
practices. However, there is an ad
ditional allowance of S3O which can
be earned by setting out forest
trees, then the maximum soil-build
ing assistance available for this
farm would be $90.”
Here is a specific example, show
ing how this farm may earn the full
S9O soil-building assistance:
Growing of a home garden . $ 1.50
Planting 2 acres of forest
trees 15.00
Seeding six acres of Austrian
Winter peas 9.00
Applying 900 pounds of 16%
superphosphate to Austrian
Winter peas 4.50
Establishing two acres of per
manent pasture by seeding 6.00
Applying 6,500 lbs. ground lime
stone to old and new
pasture 9.00
Seeding 6 acres of lespedeza 6.00
Constructing 1,200 feet of
standard terraces 9.00
Regular Soil-Building Asst. $60.00
Planting four additional acres
of forest trees 30.00
Maximum Soil-building Asst. $90.00
Mr. Maley, said all of the soil
building practices should be car
ried out in accordance with specifi
cations set out in SR-401—Georgia,
a copy of which is available for
every farm operator in the county.
Mr. Maley said that if the farm
ers, in the specific example pointed
out, fails to carry out all the prac
tices mentioned in the example, he
will only get the assistance for the
practices he does carry out.
No farmer will receive assistance
for practices not properly carried
out.
The County AAA'Chairman also
said the farmers should remember
that no conservation payments of
any kind will be made when the cot
ton allotment is knowingly over
planted, and that provisions has
been made for deductions from the
conservation payments on other
crops, as well as from the soil
building payments, when the allot
ments of such crops are overplant
ed.
NEW PLAN TO REDUCE
COTTON SURPLUS
A cotton stamp plan, similar to
that already in effect regarding food
products in many cities, will be tried
in Memphis, center of a great cot
ton producing aiea and one of the
largest cotton markets in the world.
Under the plan, families on relief,
or eligible for relief, will be issued
two dollars’ worth of cotton stamps
for one dollar. They may then use
these stamps, at face value, in pur
chasing cotton goods in any dry
goods store in Memphis or in Shelby
county, where the city is located.
The only condition attached is
that the goods purchased must be
new, and made entirely in the Uni
ted States of cotton produced in
this country.
The Memphis cotton-stamp exper
iment will be watched with interest
all over the country and especially
in the south. If it proves satisfac
tory there, it will be extended to
other cities and it is possible that,
ultimately, it may bring about an
appreciable reduction in that troub
lous cotton surplus.
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the price of nitrate of soda has come down 40 per cent. And, ft NITRATE OP
under present conditions, its good to know we have an •Crtl'lA
American supply of soda.
“Yes, sir, I say: Look for Uncle Safn on the bag! Always moj. s
ask for ARCADIAN NITRATE, the American SODA!
Buy everything from homefolks!” kr ™ “ KTT Co *™ Y 4
THE BARRETT COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA. // ... ? \
ADVERTISING BRINGS RESULTS
The states of the Union have
learned not to hide their lights un
der any bushels. If they’ve got any
thing to offer either industry or
the tourist trade, they want the rest
of the country to know it. And the
best medium they know of getting
the word around is advertising.
Before 1935, only six states made
any provisions in their fiscal budgets
for advertising. This year, 40
states have ear-marked funds to be
used for publicly extolling their
merits, and 75 percent of the states
intend to use the newspapers of the
nation liberally to get their mes
sages across. A total of about $4,-
400,000 has been appropriated.
Thirteen of the states have appro
priated more than SIOO,OOO each.
The highest advertising allotment —
$325,000 —is that of Florida, which
long ago became aware of the old
axiom, “It pays to advertise.”
Many of the benefits from adver
tising are too intangible to be meas
ured. But some of the states, which
started advertising in 1937, have
already seen the results burst right
out into indisputable statistics.
Arkansas picked up 92 new fac
tories, representing a total invest
ment of $2,600,000. New Jersey
noted a $167,000,000 tourist busi
ness last year and a 28 percent in
crease in the value of the state’s
branded advertising products.
North Carolina opened its arms to
51 new factories during the first
eight months of 1939. Wisconsin’s
gain in tourist trade was reflected
by the jump in gasoline taxes from
$6,500,000 in 1935 to $8,030,000 in
1939, and in non-resident fishing
licenses from 65,157 to 112,185.
The influx of tourists into any
state projects its effect far beyond
the hotel keepers, restaurant own
ers, resort landlords, and depart
ment stores, who are usually direct
beneficiaries. The money taken in
seeps through the entire communi
ty. It creates jobs, makes possible
greater spending, filters finally to
the smallest business man, far re
moved from direct contact with tour
ists.
States’ advertising this year
should bring even greater dividends,
with travel abroad cut off. In many
cases, the advertising efforts will
help vacationers plan their itiner
aries.
COLORED SCHOOL NEWS
Jefferson City School, for colored
children won over 5 schools last
Friday at the Community Fair held
at Commerce. They won first prize
in the best exhibit, woodwork, cake
baking, and crocheting. Henry
Dukes won Ist prize on his project,
J. W. Pollard 2nd on his. We boast
a good school and we’re trying to
make it the best in the county.
With our teachers, we will. We
have 4 boys working hard to go to
the Wild Life Camp this summer at
Savannah. Our teachers say Jef
ferson must go and we are going.
Our thanks are given Mrs. J. C.
Bennett for the material she sent
the school week before last. Again,
we thank you.
“There is a destiny that makes us
brothers, None goes his way alone,
All that we send into the lives of
others Come back into our own.”
Jefferson 4-H Club for Colored
Children and Teachers.
Six Martins
Atlanta.—Emory University has
six Martins on its faculty. Boyce F.
Martin is the new head of the School
of Business Administration. E. T.
teaches English; H. W. lectures on
banking; another H. W. teaches psy
chology; J. D. teaches surgery, and
W. O. instructs in ophthalmology.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, I**o
Edison Credited With
3 of 19 Greatest
American Inventions
Washington, April B.—Thomas A.
Edison, who gave the world the
phonograph, incandescent lamp and
motion picture projector, was credit
ed Monday with three of America’s
19 greatest inventions.
Seventy-five scientists and officials
compiled the list, considering only
patents which have expired and be
come public property. The selection
was in connection with the celebra
tion of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the patent law.
The list, with names inventors
and dates when patents were re
ceived, follows:
Cotton gin—Ely Whitney, 1794;
steamboat (commercial) Robert
Fulton, 1809; reaper—Cyrus M. Mc-
Cormick, 1834; ,telegraph—Samuel
F. B. Morse, 1840; rubber vulcaniz
ation—Charles Goodyear, 1844;
sewing machine —Elias. Howe, Jr.,
1846; typewriter —C. L. Sholes,
1868; air brake —George Westing
house, Jr., 1869; telephone—Alex
ander Graham Bell, 1876; phono
graph—Thomas A. Edison, 1878;
incandescent lamp—Thomas A. Edi
son, 1880; induction motor —Nikola
Tesla, 1888; aluminum production
method —Charles M. Hall, 1889;
Linotype Ottmar Mergenthaler,
1890; motion picture projector—
Thomas A. Edison, 1893; airplane—
Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1906;
three-electrode vacuum tube —Dr.
Lee DeForest, 1907; thermosetting
plastics (bakelite) —Leo H. Baek
land, 1909, and oil crackling—Wil
liam M. Burton, 1913.
Georgia G. O. P. Preparing For 1940
Election
Atlanta.—lt appears the G. O. P.
in Georgia is streamlining.
Here’s what the Republican cen
tral committee has done in prepara
tion for the coming election: set
May 18 as the date for the Georgia
G. O. P. convention; read M. 0. Dun
ning, once one of its most powerful
figures, out of the party because he
accepted an appointment from the
Democrats, and launched upon an
effort to obtain new voters by elec
ting a pretty 24-year-old girl grad
uate of the University of Georgia to
its committee. The young lady is
Miss Mary Windsor, of Tallapoosa.
The entire proceedings, including
about 50 different motions, were car
ried off without a dissenting vote,
which, according to Chairman Clint
W. Hager, of Atlanta, is the first
time in the state party’s history
such a thing has happened. Hereto'
fore, debates were in order.
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