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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 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
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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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GEORGIA’S COASTAL HIGHWAY ‘BEFORE AND AFTER’ TREATMENT
The two upper pictures give a graphic idea of the tremendous dama re suffered by Georgia roads during the big freeze the latter part of
January, when engineers estimated a toll of more than two million dollars These views were made on the famous Coastal Highway, be
tween Brunswick and the Florida state line. The lower pictures were made at exactly the same locations as the upper ones, but after the
road was resurfaced under emergency contracts. Less than 15 days after letting of the contracts, engineers announced the work complete.
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ON THt SIABOAUD :
One Way Fares From Athens
Birmingham $3.70
Boston 20.05
Memphis 7.90
New York 14.32
Norfolk 8.25
Philadelphia 12.07
Raleigh 5.60
Richmond 7.60
Washington 8.75
SIMILAR LOW FARES TO ALL POINTS
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
LINCOLN ON FREEDOM
(Now York Times)
Abraham Lincoln had a clinching
argument against slavery. He said,
“Although volume upon volume is
written to prove slavery a good
thing, we never hear of the man
who wishes to take the good of it
by being u slave himself.”
It wa.s about 90 years ago that |
he wrote that. He was living at a
time when involuntary servitude
was about to end in this country.
Yet in the totalitarian States of
Europe we see today whole popu
lations bogged down in involuntary
servitude. They are not called
slaves but citizens. Yet they have
no inalienable rights of their own.
They have only the privileges which
a State, not even of their own cre
ation, chooses or considers it expe
dient to give them. They are not
nominally property, but they must
think and work as they are told.
They cannot vary the rules laid
down for them and they must not
criticize their masters. Their wages
and hours are fixed and they are not
allowed to bargain for anything
better. The kind of work they must
do is fixed without their consent.
In many cases the places where they
must work are determined for them,
subject to change only at the will of
the State. The thing that would
trouble Lincoln about this situation
is that it is apparently a voluntary
arrangement accepted by people
‘ who wish to take the good of it.”
Lincoln had a gift for presenting
the demonstration of a political or
economic truth as clearly as a prop
osition in Euclid. In fact, he
studied geometry for the purpose of
strengthening the logical expression
clinching argument against slavery
of his political opinions. Yet this
doesn’t seem to apply to the modern
extension of involuntary servitude.
If he were living today he might
frame the argument in a different
way, but he certainly would not
abandon his position. He would ask
certain questions and point out
certain facts. We was the acceptance
by the totalitarian peoples really a
voluntary one? Did they actually
wish for what they got, or even
know what they were going to get?
Were they not stripped of their
arms and sold down the river by
misrepresentation? Were they not,
in effect, captured by stratagem?
They were promised certain condi
tions of life. They got something
different and definitely worse. The
impositions and restrictions under
which they live were decreed after
they relinquished the power to re
sist.
Plainly the real test is not wheth
er these people of the totalitarian
States did at some time consent or
would still consent if all restrictions
on their choice were removed. Be
fore acknowledging that they “wish
i to take the good” of the system, Lin
| coin would insist that the concen-
I tration camps and political prisons
be abolished, that the overseers, the
secret police and the armed shock
troops be disbanded.
The surest way to health, say what
they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be
ill.—Churchill.
Diseases of the mind impair the
bodily powers.
HAZZARDS IN THE HOME
Accidents in our homes killed
167,000 persons in five years—al
most as many as were killed by au
tomobiles. Injuries serious enough
to call the doctor to the home are
estimated to be three times as num
erous as automobile injuries. You
can’t enforce traffic laws for cellar
stairs or set policemen picking up
junior’s marbles from the floor in
30 million homes. So the domestic
casualty rate mounts steadily.
Some things to notice and guard
against to make your home a safer
place in which‘to live are: rotten or
loose board in steps—pain the bot
tom step of cellar stairs white so it
will not be forgotten or over look
ed; loose brick or tile in front walk;
a frayed extension cord or a broken
and patched extension cord; a lamp
stand on a rickety table; marbles
and toys scattered on the floor and
about the house; strap or rope
across an open doorway or window
to keep children from falling out
(this is just as good as a more ex
pensive wooden gate or grill); plac
ing mason jar rubbers under slip
ping rugs; tiny bells on poison pill
boxes; adhesive tape around medi
cine boxes which cannot be locked
away from children’s reach; and
pins stuck through stoppers to bot
tles that contain poison.
Kitchen knives belong on a wall
rack, and not tumbled haphazard in
drawers. Turn handles of pots and
pans on stove in toward the wall so
adults will not bump or children
reach them; do not climb on chairs
or boxes to hang curtains, etc., when
step-ladder is not handy, place rub
ber mat in bath tub and on floor
beside bath tub. Falls in the home
take 17,500 lives a year.
GPA QUESTION BOX
1. What slang name was given
to cattle thieves in the early days of
the American west?
2. Who wrote “The Raven”?
3. What was Woodrow Wilson’s
vocation before he became Governor
of New Jersey?
4. What two bodies of water does
the Suez Canal connect?
5. What member of the American
expedition into Mexico in pursuit of
Pancho Villa attained the greatest
distinction in the World War?
6. For what is the steamship
“Baden-Baden,” constructed by Cap
tain Anton Fletther, famous?
7. What is the capita! of Austral
ia?
8. Who is the author of “Peter
Pan”?
9. What city in the Netherlands
has given its name to a kind of chi
naware?
10. What is “fiat money”?
ANSWERS
1. Rustlers,
2. Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1819.)
3. He was President of Princeton
University from 1902 to 1910.
4. The Mediterranean and the
Red Sea.
5. John Joseph Pershing (1860 —)
6. It utilizes wind power for pro
pulsion by means of rotors rather
than sails.
7. Canberra.
8. Sir James Matthew Barrie
(1860-1937.)
9. Delft, South Holland.
10. Paper currency of govern
ment issue, made legal tender by
law, but with no promise of redemp
tion.
More Spending Money
One of the most reliable barom
eters on the economic condition of a
region is the amount of spending
money its people have. This is best
discovered by compiling the total re
tail store sales and comparing it
with a similar period in the past.
With this thought in mind it is,
therefore, exceedingly interesting,
and encouraging, to find that Geor
gians, as a whole, increased the re
tail store sales in the state during
1939 by 11.3 per cent over 1938.
This includes all independent retail
stores, but does not include depart
ment stores. Department stores
showed a gain of 9.5 per cent. In
Atlanta, store sales in 1939 were
11.9 per cent greater than the pre
ceding year.
It is interesting to note, also, that
the business classification reporting
largest gains of all was motor ve
hicle dealers, while others in order
of highest percentage gains were
jewelry stores, hardware stores and
furniture stores.
This indicates that Georgians in
1939 had a greater margin over liv
ing expenses than the year before.
They were spending more money on
those things which may be classed,
in most instances, as luxuries. For,
while food, housing, clothing may
be listed among the necessities of
life, it is only in special, individual
cases that new motor vehicles and
jewelry are taken out of the luxury
grouping.
And, while hardware and furni
ture stores sell many necessities, it
is true of them, too, that much of
their stock goes into the luxury
class.
All in all, the Census Bureau fig
ures on Georgia retail sales in 1939
add convincing proof to the asser
tions made by numerous business
men that conditions are improving
and the economic graph is definitely
on the upward move.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
1940 Sweet Potato Plants
Tied With Official Tape
Georgia’s new Sweet Potato Plant
Regulations issued by the Georgia
Department of Entomology requires
that all sweet potato plants sold dur
ing the 1940 season be tied with
official certificate tape.
This tape carries the words “Geor-1
gia Certified Sweet Potato Plants—
-1940 Grower’s No.—” and is used
on plants produced from disease
free potatoes. Potatoes pass three
inspections before they are certified,
in the field, in storage, and the plants
in transit.
Farmers are cautioned to buy on
ly plants tied with the official tape.
Other plants may be infected with
stem rot and black rot, two serious
sweet potato diseases. Stem rot and
black rot not only affect the present
crop of potatoes but the disease or
ganisms will live in the soil several
years preventing the profitable pro
duction of sweet potatoes on infec
ted land.
The Sweet Potato Plant Regula
tions require all dealers in sweet po
tato plants to register with the
Georgia Department of Entomology,
State Capitol, Atlanta.
The happiness of your life de
pends upon the quality of your
thoughts; therefore guard accor
dingly, and take care that you en
tertain no notions unsuitable to
virtue and reasonable nature.
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.
PAGE SEVEN
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
Georgia, Jackson County.
Because of default under the terms
and provisions of the deed to secure
debt executed by C. F. Kittle to the
Land Bank Commissioner, dated the
26th day of July, 1934, and record
ed in the clerk’s office of the Jack
son County Superior Court in Book
3-A, Page 329, which deed, and the
note and indebtedness secured there
by, are owned and held by Federal
Farm Mortgage Corporation, the un
dersigned has declared the entire
unpaid amount of the indebtedness
secured by said deed due and paya
ble, and, acting under the power of
sale contained in said deed, for the
purpose of paying said indebted
ness, will, on the 7th day of May,
1940, during the legal hours of sale
at the court house in said county,
sell at public outcry to the highest
bidder for cash, the lands described
in said deed, towit:
Ninety-eight acres of land, more
or less, in the 242nd G. M. District,
of Jackson County, Georgia, said
land being now or formerly bounded
on the North by land of Dock Bil
lups, East by land of Floyd Miller,
South by land of Lee Bowden and
the William Spencer Estate, and
West by land of William Spencer
Estate, and being the same land de
scribed in the security deed execut
ed by C. F. Kittle to the Land Bank
Commissioner, July 26, 1934, and
recorded in Book 3-A, Page 329, ia
the office of the Clerk of the Super
ior Court of Jackson County, Geor
gia, to the record of which deed ref
erence is hereby made for a more
particular description.
A deed will be executed to the
purchaser as authorized by the afore
mentioned loan deed. This 9th day
of April, 1940.
FEDERAL FARM MORTGAGE
CORPORATION
Davis & Stephens, Attorneys.
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that the
United States of America will sell
at public auction the following des
cribed property of Crawford L. Wall,
Route No. 2, Jefferson, Georgia.
1 Allis-Chalmers All Crop Harves
ter, Allis-Chalmers Cos., 31G80.
1 Tractor, J. I. Case Cos. CC
-4205043.
1 Disk Tiller, John Deere Cos., 6
Disk, 220-A.
1 Double Section Disk Harrow,
International Harvester Cos., Sect'on
Double.
Time of sale, 11 a. m., May (V,
1940.
Place of sale, Jackson County
Court House, Jefferson, Georgia.
The property will be sold r.t pub
lic auction by parcel or lot, as the
circumstances of the sale may de
mand to the highest bidder for cash-
The United States of America re
serves the right to bid at the sale.
Prior to the sale the livestock may
be examined at and
the other property may be examined
at Crawford L. Wall, Route No. 2,
Jefferson, Ga.
Dated the Bth day of April, 1940.
United States of America.
By Isaac W T . Wheeless,
County RR Supervisor.
LETTERS OF DISMISSION
Georgia, Jackson County.
Whereas, R. E. Maddox, Admin
istrator of Mi's. 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 raid
Administrator should not be dis bar
ged from his administration, and re
ceive Letters of Dismission on the
first Monday in May, 1940.
L. B. Moon, Ordinary.
LEAVE TO SELL
Georgia, Jackson County.
To Whom It May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that Howard
W. Wheeler, executor, H. W. Whee
ler, deceased, having applied to me
by petition for leave to sell one
half undivided interest in one Gin
outfit belonging to said estate, in
cluding: 3 70 saw gins, line flu
condenser, press and all belts and
pulleys connected therewith. Also
one half undivided interest in Gin
House and Lot containing about
three fourths acres of land. All the
heirs and creditors of the said H. W.
Wheeler, deceased, will take notice
that I will pass upon said applica
tion at the May Term, 1940, Court
of Ordinary, of Jackson County;
and that unless cause is shown to
the contrary, at said time, said leave
will be granted.
This April Ist, 1940.
L. Moon, Ordinary.