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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered • The Jefferon Pottoffice
A. Second-Clax Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackion County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor A Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Axociate Editor & Manager
JEFFERSON. GA., APRIL 25. 1940
H. B. Smith ban announced his
candidacy for Llate representative
of Barrow county, the primary to be
held in September.
Members of the Ninth District
Federation of Women’s dubs will
be guests of the Clayton Woman’s
Club at the annual meeting on April
30. The convention will be held in
tho Clayton Methodist church.
Our neighboring city, Winder, has
on a drive this week to rid the city
of rats. Chief of Police E. O. Mc-
Elroy announced that starting Mon
day morning large quantities of rat
poison will be put out all over town.
This will continue for ten or fifteen
days. He urged every one to
be sure to keep their pets up during
this period because they are liable
to get some of this poison.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
Cos. is asking of the Georgia Public
Service Commission authority to dis
continue trains Nos. 29 and 30, now
operating between Athens and At
lanta, for the reason that the total
expense of operating these trains
amount to more than the earnings.
The hearing was set for Tuesday of
this week.
With the membership of three fine
clubs acting as hosts to the conven
tion of Georgia Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs which meets in Gainesville
•on May 6 to 9, everybody will be as
sured of an enjoyable time. The
three hostess clubs are: the Gaines
ville Study Club, Mrs. Claude Wil
liams, president; the Art Study Club,
Mrs. W. L. Fuller, president, and
Fine Arts Club, Mrs. Herbert Ed
mondson, president.
Approximately 50,000 Georgia
farms are being served with electric
ity, an increase of more than 20,000
electrified farms in the state since
1938. Georgia ranks second in the
south in REA line construction, hav
ing received $13,000,000 for line
projects. There are 35 electric
membership associations financed by
the Rural Electrification, of which
32 have 11,000 miles of power lines
■serving approximately 30,000 custo
mers. The other 20,000 electrified
farms are served by power compa
nies throughout the state.
We ,congratulate the Commerce
sohool on winning the literary cup
at the Ninth District meet held in
Toccoa Friday night. The Commerce
senior class won first place in spell
ing, with a class average of 92.4,
Gerald McGinnis was first in decla
mation; Miss Jean Hood first in
girls’ essay; and Miss Helen Murray
first in home economics. Commerce
placed second In debate, music, read
ing and boys’ essay, and third in
one-act play presentations.
The following joke is told on a
Lumpkin county candidate: There
were three candidates for the office
of sheriff in Lumpkin county. When
the election was over and the votes
counted, one of the candidates re
ceived only about 64 votes. But re
gardless, the next morning he walk
ed down the street with a pistol
buckled to each side. When asked
what he meant by going armed he
replied: “Anybody who doesn’t have
any more friends than I have needs
protection!”
Several of the civic clubs of Jack
son county are interested in securing
a nurse for this county. The Geor
gia public health program has been
stimulated in the past three years
through a gratifying increase in the
number of public health nurses,
whose services have been made
available because of the financial
assistance given states by the fed
eral government through the social
security program. There are now
213 public health nurses on the
staffs of state and local health de
partments out of a total of 320
health nurses working in Georgia. A
recent census reveals that of the
total number of public health nur
ses working in Georgia, 107 serve
Unofficial agencies, 36 are financed
ky private philanthropy, insurance
•"companies employ 25 and industrial
companies 49.
The latest monthly report from
the Executive Committee of the
Southern Baptist Convention indi
cates that Georgia led the South in
total contributions to the Baptist
Hundred Thousand Club in March.
The record for the month was $2,-
480.18. Sceretary-Treasurer
Merritt says: “It is encouraging to
know that Georgia continues to ad
vance in contributions to tho pay
ments of the debts of the Southern
Convention and at the same time is
forging ahead in the support of the
co-operative missionary, benevolent
und educational program of the de
nomination."
Streamline trains for Atlanta were
a step rearer Friday with the Sea
board Railway’s announcement that
it will place Diesel-electric locomo
tives on two of its trains to New
York beginning April 28. The stream
lined locomotives, which accelerate
as rapidly as a high-powered automo
bile, will make possible faster ser
vice to New York, cutting one hour
and 50 minutes from the running
time of the Cotton States Special.
The Robert E. Lee also will be haul
ed by a Diesel-electric locomotive.
Atlantans will begin collecting an
extra hour of sunshine next Sunday,
as at 12 midnight, April 28, the city
makes its annual switch to daylight
saving time. For the benefit of those
who sometimes become slightly con
fused —the clocks move forward an
hour—and 12 midnight becomes 1
a. m. Daylight saving time, getting
folks up an hour earlier in the morn
ing so that they may have an extra
hour of sunshine in the afternoon,
will remain in effect until September
29, when the city drops back to cen
tral standard time.
Twiggs county teachers may re
vert to the custom of the ’6os, when
a teacher went from house to house
and was given board by the parents
of the pupils, as a result of the
state’s failure to meet its obliga
tions to the county schools. The
teachers voted to accept the propos
ed reduction in salary for the last
month of the term if the patrons of
the school would hoard, or subscribe
to the boar<j of the teachers, or if
the County Board of Education
would accept the 30 per cent salary
reduction as a debt and pay it back
during the next year.
In Fulton county during tho
summer political campaign, the
faces of the handsome candi
dates will not adorn the trees
and telephone poles. A drive to
banish poitical campaign placards
from trees, telephone and telegraph
poles, and fences on highwyas with
in Fulton county was started by a
joint appeal to candidates by the
Fulton County Planning and Zoning
Commission and garden club lead
ers. At the same time, Mayor
Hartsfield warned that use of poles
inside the city limits is barred un
der a council ordinance and that the
law will be enforced.
Several members of Congress fav
or continuing the present session as
long as the European war lasts. The
proposal, however, has not met with
favor on the part of a majority of
the members for the reason that this
is election year with 435 members
to he elected. Of the ninety-six
members of the senate, there are
thirty-four coming up for re-election.
These senators are in the same boat
with the members of the House.
They, too, are dependent upon the
voters of their state for re-election.
While the plan for remaining in ses
sion indefinitely may have its good
points, yet it is not believed that a
majority of the members of either
House will consent to remain in
Washington during campaigning
times.
Of the 800 clerical and lay dele
gates attending the first General
Conference of the United Methodist
churches in Atlantic City, N. J.,
eighteen are from Georgia. The
clerical delegates from the North
Georgia Conference are Reverends
W. P. King of Nashville Tenn.; Les
ter Rumble, of Atlanta; H. C. Hol
land, of Athens; M. .M. Maxwell, of
LaGrange, and E. C. Dewey, of La-
Fayette. Ministers from the South
Georgia Conference are the Revs.
H. T. Freeman, of Valdosta; T. D.
Ellis, of Louisville, Ky.; C. M. Meeks,
of Brunswick, and Silas Johnson, of
Macon. Georgia laymen to attend
the conference are T. J. Lance, of
Young Harris; Jere A. Wells, of At
lanta; Smith L. Johnston, of Wood
stock; Mrs. L. M. Awtry, of Ac
worth, and N. G. Slaughter, of Ath
ens, C. L. Shepard, of Fort Valley;
Warren Roberts, of Macon; T. E.
Thrasher, of Ashburn, and R. S.
Wimberly, of Lumpkin.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Two additional gifts to the La-
Grange College campaign fund for
the erection of anew dormitory and
to mutch a $50,000 gift from Dr. S.
C, Dobbs, Atlanta, chairman of the
college’s Board of Trustees, were
announced by Dr. Hubert T. Quil
lian, president of the institution.
One of the gifts was for $5,000 and
another for $2,500. Names of the
donors were not given.
The stork runs on schedule in this
family. And Tuesday seems to be
its day on the Atco run over at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Cor
nett. On Tuesday, March 26, the
Cornett’s seventh child was born.
The first, second, third, fourth, fifth,
and sixth children were born on
Tuesday. The same physician has
met each Tuesday arrival except the
first.
Nine boys from nine of the rural
schools in Troupe county have enter
ed into a contest to determine who
can raise the most cotton from one
acre of land. Each boy receives 500
pounds of fertilizer, a bushel of seed,
100 pounds of nitrate of soda and
poison necessary for treatment of
plants. Working under direction of
county agent, and the 4-H club lead
er, they will vie for cash prizes.
Wesleyan College, on probation
with the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary schools for
many years on account of the debt
situation of the college, has been
restored to full membership by the
accrediting agency. High praise
was extended by the accrediting as
sociation for the great progress the
College had made and for the main
tenance of its standards and the
quality of its work during the time
of its difficulties.
The Madisonian says: “While
there may be considerable uncer
tainty as to just the extent of the
damage, yet it is certain that Mor
gan’s peach crop is seriously damag
ed. The mercury last Friday night
went to thirty and even lower in the
county, below freezing. Entirely too
cold for the tiny fruit. It seemed at
first that the entire crop was wiped
out, but more intensive inspection
and later reports indicate a fair crop
in some of the orchards of the coun
ty.”
Other newspapers have their
troubles. The Walton News says:
“If, within the next few days, quite
a few on our mailing list fail to have
the usual weekly visit of our paper,
they certainly cannot attach any of
the blame on us. Repeatedly, we
have stated that, so badly as we re
gret having to part with them, by an
edict of postal authorities, we would
have to discontinue sending the pa
per. Considerate friends are not un
mindful that it costs money to issue
a paper—to buy materials and em
ploy helpers. They, to be sure,
pay.”
HAVE YOU YOUR MARRIAGE
CERTIFICATE?
Experience with old-age and sur
vivors insurance claims under the
Federal social security program has
already shown that delay in pro
ducing proof of marriage may hold
up payments to widows and chil
dren, according to Mr. Forrest,
manager of the Social Security
Board’s field office at Athens, Ga.
“Knowing where to put her hands
on her marriage papers may,” he
said, “help a widow to begin get
ting her monthly insurance checks
from the Federal Government
quickly.”
“The first question is, of course,
‘Have you your marriage certifi
cate?’ Some people have neither
this document nor a church record
of their marriage.
Monthly insurance payments are
provided for widows, Mr. Forrest
pointed out, under two different
situations.
First, if the worker leaves young
children in her care, the widow re
ceives monthly insurance payments
until the youngest child is 16, or
18 if in school. Each child is also
entitled to monthly payments.
Second, the widow of a qualified
worker generally is entitled to
monthly payments for life after she
reaches 65, provided she has not re
married.
A widow’s insurance payment will
amount to three-fourth of her hus
band’s benefit rate at the time of
his death. Each child, within the
age limit, is entitled to one-half of
the deceased worker’s benefit rate,
so long as the total payments to
children and mother do not amount
to more than twice the amount that
would have been paid to the father.
FoJ.'ow'ng ths Joj
When a iron does rv iking hut fol
low the job he is paid for. he will
not do all he is gcit.ng paid for.
And Still They Praise
Jefferson’s Big Day
The V/alton News has a charming
columnist who writes "From My
Living Room Window.”
In last week’s issue of the News,
she very generously says:
“The longer friendship lasts the
stronger it grows," was proven on
Monday, April 8. when I attended
the Crawford W. Long Memorial
Stamp Sale at Jefferson. Hundreds
of old friends greeted me, and their
cordiality and hearty handshake
proved that our friendship over the
years was not only the same, but
had strengthened with absence. The
celebration was great! An estimated
10,000 packed the square around the
Crawford W, Long and Confederate
monuments. Old Glory waved from
every pole, business house and door
way and the show windows were
most attractive with decorations rep
resenting the Sixties and with heir
looms of that period. Jefferson did
herself proud in taking care of ev
ery situation —the pretty pages be
ing especially helpful and gracious
in aiding all to be more comfortable
and directing you to the post office,
where you purchased your first
stamps and mailed your first letters.
Every one did all possible to make
it a perfect celebration of one of
Georgia’s greatest sons, and from
my viewpoint, they succeeded.
Many distinguished guests were
there, including newspaper men,
photographers, postmasters and ed
ucators. The parade was lovely and
impressive.
Postmaster General Farley and
his speech was, of course, the high
light of the program. He was re
ceived with enthusiasm and his ad
dress was listened to with rapt at
tention. We liked him and his
speech. He said that he was glad
that the Memorial stamp was red,
for it was symbolic of the red old
hills of Georgia.
Being a sentimentalist, I became
almost tearful when he presented
the first sheet of stamps to Dr.
Long’s only living daughter, Mrs.
Harper. Oh, it was a very histor
ical occasion and I wish that every
one of you might have been there,
especially the school children. Quite
a number did go from Monroe and
more would have gone had the
weather been less threatening.
YOUNGER PUBLISHERS
SECURE MACON PAPER
Consummation of a deal under
which the Macon Telegraph and
News will eventually pass into
younger hands has been announced
by W. T. Anderson, publisher of the
two papers.
Martin Andersen, publisher of two
papers in Orlando, Fla.; P. T. An
derson, Jr., who is now business
manager of the Telegraph and News,
and Charles E. Marsh, Austin, Tex
as, newspaperman, will become the
new owners.
They will acquire their interests
after 20 years or before that time
in the event of the death of the
present majority owners, the pub
lisher and his brother, P. T. Ander
son, Sr., who is vice-president and
general manager.
The new arrangements were made
by Publisher W. T. Anderson to in
sure continued publication under
the present policies of the papers.
No details of the sale have been di
vulged.
Martin Andersen will go to Ma
con on May Ist and will become as
sistant publisher of the papers. He
is no relation of the Macon Ander
sons.
WAR MONTH OF APRIL
(From Albany Herald)
There is no reason why the peo
ple of this country should be more
warlike in the month of April than
in any other of the twelve, yet we
seem committed to April beginnings
for our ventures into war. The
Revolution, the War With Mexico,
the War Between the States, the
Spanish-American War, the World
War—all these were April wars.
The World War began in August,
1914, but not until April, 1917, did
the United States become a belliger
ent.
It is April again, and the war in
Europe is spreading. There is no
indication that this April will bring
it across the Atlantic, and it is
clearly the desire of the American
people to keep their own home fires
burning and let Europe’s alone.
The only thing the average Ameri
can citizen seems to be in a mood to
fight for is peace.
A Wise Government
A wise government is one that
considers it best to obtain some
small revenue from every citizen
who finds his welfare under it. Who
ever receives benefits must recog
nize obligations.
Pl'j? £
|PUff[
Winder, Ga., Nov. 4, 1939.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
used your Red Bloom guano three yeirs. This year
I planted land that measured 6 2-10 acres. I made 5073
pounds lint cotton or 818 pounds lint per acre.
Ten years ago this land was thin, gaulded, rod knoll, soil
washed off. During the 10 years I have sown the land two
years and had corn on it one year. The balance of the time
it has been in cotton.
Last year (1938) I had it m wheat and made 152 bushels
or about 26 bushels per acre. These crops were made with
your Red Bloom fertilizer, and I think it is the best I ever
used. I have been farming 30 years.
Yours truly,
W. C. GREESON.
Winder, Ga., October 9, 1939.
G. W. Woodruff, Winder, Ga.
D I the Red Bioom fertilizer better than any I have ever
used. I have been farming forty years and during that time
have used most every kind and can truthfully say that Red
Bloom is better than any thing I ever used.
I am making seven bales or. 10 Vi acres and did not poison
my cotton. I would have made more than a bale to the
acre if I had put on poison.
Yours truly,
W. H. DELAY.
THE LAST WORD ON FERTILIZER PRICES
RED BLOOM 2—9—3
RED BLOOM 3—B—s 22.50
RED BLOOM 4 23.50
RED BLOOM 5—7—5 2jCO
G. W. WOODRUFF
Winder, Georgia
EAT SIX MEALS A DAY
AND REDUCE NEW WAY
Eat six meals a day and reduce!
This formula was explained to the
American College of Physicians by
Dr. Joseph A. Aub, of Boston, dur
ing a discussion of the sad plight of
the obese person who is given a re
ducing diet, but still stays fat. The
six meals, Dr. Aub said, “is a neat
trick and usually works.”
The same reducing diet is given,
but spread over six meals. In eat
ing so often, the hunger pangs do
not get a chance to become really
gnawing. This also makes it easier
for the overweight person to re
sist temptation.
That is only the beginning of the
benefits. After about a week, the
stomachs of dieting persons shrink
a little. Due to the smaller size, the
stomachs demand less food and ap
petite actually drops a little.
I UNCLE NATCHEL SAYS... j
Natchel food . . . Nature
has her own wise way of
supplying natural food for
every living thing.
Chilean Nitrate of Soda is
Nature’s own food for your
crops. It is the only natural
nitrate in the world. Its quick
acting nitrate and its natural
blend of other plant food ele
ments help feed the crop and
NATUnAL
CHILEAN
mnureoFSOM
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940,
THERE IS A
DIFFERENCE IN—
Fertilizer
Rl Hioom
Has The Difference!
EARL HOUSE, CLAYTON,
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Clayton, Ga. Clayton’s most
widely known tourist hotel, the his
toric Earl House, was destroyed last
week by fire which started in a wash
house near by, ignited the section
under the kitchen, and swiftly en
veloped the three-story 32-room
main building.
The building was in flames be
fore firemen could reach the scene,
and was leveled in less than two
hours despite their efforts.
John Earl, manager and son of
the late J. F. Earl, who built the
structure 50 years ago, said the loss,
estimated at about $25,000, was un
j insured. The hostelry had just com
j pleted preparations for the summer
i tourist season.
maintain the soil in good pro
ducing condition.
Chilean nitrate is ideal for
all purposes—under the crop,
for top-dressing, for side
dressing. Use it regularly and
get the full benefit of all its
natural fertilizing and soil im
proving qualities. No price in
crease. There is plenty for
everybody’s needs.
PROTECTIVE
ELEMENTS
Boron
lodine
Manganese
Potash
Magnesium
Calcium
and many more