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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson FostofTice
A Second-Class Mail Mattor
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor St Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor St Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., MAY 2, 1940.
Next Saturday, May 4, is the final
date for Jackson county voters to
qualify for three forthcoming elec
tions this year. Voters who faif to
qualify by that time will not be eli
gible to vote in the state Democratic
primary on September 11; the Gen
eral Election on November 5; and
the election of Justices of Peace
and Constables on December 7.
Henry Ford, one of the world’s
most ardent advocates of “peace
and plenty,’’ looked into the future
today and asserted that the next de
cade would bring more progress, so
cially, economically and industrially
than many past generations. ft
would bring also, he said, “a wider
understanding of the avarice and
greed for power on the part of a few
individuals that precipitates nations
into war.”
Members of a presidential pref
erential primary committee, whose
petition for a state-wide primary
was shunted aside by the Democratic
executive committee Thursday,
adopted resolutions declaring the
executive committee had “stolen the
livery and rights of Georgia Demo
crats and sold them down the river
in the interest of politics and poli
ticians!.”
The Rev. J. B. Brown, formerly
of Clayton, has accepted calls to
the pastorate of Maysville and Wat
kinsville Churches. He has been cor
dially received by Baptists of both
cities. The Maysville congregation
visited the pastor and family on
Friday afternoon, April 12, and filled
the pantry with a generous supply
of good things. Pastor Brown will
preach at Watkinsville Church on
the second Sunday of each month,
and at Maysville on the fourth Sun
days.
Hart county farmers are this week
celebrating with a “Clover Festival.”
This festival, an annual event, em
phasizes crimson clover as a soil con
servator and also a fertilizer. Hart
county is a pioneer in clover. In
1939 there were 321,000 pounds of
crimson closer seed planted, which
was nearly a fifth of the clover
planted in Georgia.
One of the great accomplishments
of the Roosevelt administration,
which is easily forgotten because its
successful working makes no news,
was the rehabilitation of the banks
and the establishment of the federal
deposit insurance system. The num
ber of bank failures has been
brought down from 1,600 a year
under Hoover to 51 a year under
Roosevelt. Even in the case of these
bank closings, 99 per cent of the de
positors have been paid in full.
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One solid week of sun bathing
and surf bathing on Florida’s most
famous, lifeguard-protected Summer
beach is ahead for some Georgia
couple, possibly from Jefferson, who
will be married this June. The Day
tona Beach Chamber of Commerce
Is offering a seven-day expense-paid
honeymoon to the couple from this
state judged the most typical bride
and groom of 1940. A photograph
of the couple, taken together and
sent to the Daytona Beach civic
organization, is the only entry re
quirement.
It is with very deep sincerity that
we congratulate Jackson county, our
neighbor to the Northeast, for hav
ing furnished to Georgia a Future
Farmer, in the person of Jimmy
Johnson, son of a Master Farmer of
Georgia in 1936, in persons of
(“Gus”) Johnson, who furnished
Mike and Ike, two shiny black An
gus Herefords at the Fat Cattle
Show held in Atlanta ast week. The
young man was victor over Here
fords, 399 in all, brought from 26
Georgia counties. What has fallen
to the lot of cattle raisers in Jack
son county, can be realized and en
joyed by raisers here.—Walton Tri
bune.
The oldest commercial product of
Georgia’s forest is lumber which was
shipped to Europe by early settlers
to supplement the Old World sup
ply.
Uncle Sam Becoming
Largest Home-Owner
Uncle Sam is fast becoming a
large home-owner. He has about
78,000 homes, taken over from pri
vate owners, who turned out to l>e
poor risks.
The great majority of these be
long to the Home Owners L r ... Cor
poration, set up in 1933, as a stop
gap in a bad credit situation when
foreclosures on private homes reach
ed a peak of 1,000 a day.
The HOLC today owns 77,229
homes, worth an average of $6,000
each. It has already sold 80,824
other propcvtic.i, taking a book loss
of approximately $78,834,000.
The Federal Housing Administra
tion, with a more conservative cred
it policy, meanwhile has had to fore
close on only 1,188 small home prop
erties and three large housing pro
jects out of approximately 465,730
mortgages it has underwritten to
date.
The FHA has sold about half of
its foreclosed homes, with an aver
age loss on each of between S4OO
and S6OO.
As soon as either of these govern
ment agencies acquires a home, it
sets a reconditioning force to work.
HOLC officials estimate they spend
about $76,000 each working day to
recapture and protect the values of
properties their agency owns. Then,
if possible, the house is rented.
More than 90 per cent of HOLC
owned homes were rented on De
cember 31.
In most states HOLC foreclosures
are now reported by officials to be
“pretty well licked.” The majority
of foreclosures now are in industrial
states where real estate values have
failed to recover in the same pro
portion as in the rest of the country
and where many families have fail
ed to display the sense of responsi
bility necessary for successful own
ership.
What will Uncle Sam do with the
houqfs he can’t sell in the final
reckoning? The answer to that
question isn’t troubling officials much
yet. HOLC borrowers have 15
years to settle up on their 1,019,000
mortgages and thus far the Corpor
ation is operating within its own
income collecting approximately
$1,000,000 in principal and interest
every day.
FARM BOYS AND FARMS
(Savannah Evening Press)
Cornell has made an interesting
discovery. It is that sons of farmers
in the United States adopt the call
ing of their fathers to a much great
er extent than do sons of those who
follow other businesses or profes
sions. And the big Ithica University
is much pleased to know this is the
case. It thinks this speaks well for
the stabilizing of America and the
development of future generations
of useful citizens. An expert at
Cornell studied the students at that
institution for three generations.
He found twice as many fanners as
non-farmer sons follow the father’s
occupations. The other lines of
work were largely law, medicine,
business ownership and skilled me
chanical trades.
But while the experts at the col
lege found farmers’ sons are apt to
follow the footsteps—or should we
say furrows?—of their fathers, it
was also developed that few of the
young men not raised on farms
adopt farming as their life work.
The professions pull a certain per
centage of farm boys into their
ranks with each generation but the
sons of lawyers and doctors and mer
chants as a rule do not become
farmers.
This is a picture that is not so
alluring. The nation must have
farmers to exist. It is encouraging
to be told that the boy who grows
up on a farm wants to remain a
farmer in his maturity. Let the
dads on the broad acres continue to
instill into the hearts and the minds
of their offspring a desire to stay on
the farm. This country needs ’em
there.
A reader of this paper, well known
for industrious habits said yesterday.
“There are plenty of places in the
Bible where the sinner is assured
that he will be forgiven, but there
is no place in the Bible where God
says he has any use for a lazy man.”
Dade County Citizen.
To Go To Africa
Clarkesville, Ga. Miss Ellene
Wiggins, of Clarkesville, has been
chosen to go to Africa as a mission
ary. She will sail from New York
in June for Nigeria. In Africa she
will do primary teaching and mis
sion work.
Walks and drives of the home
should be convenient as well as add
beauty to the place.
THE JACKSON HERALD. JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
SOME ARE SAVING PART OF
INCOME
More than 6,000,000 people now
hold U. S. Savings Bonds, the Treas
ury has announced. The plan aimed
at providing a place where the
small investor could put his savings.
It appears to have done just that,
for fewer than 18 percent of Savings
Bond buyers make income tax re
turns.
These bonds are by far the most
widely-held security in the world.
They represent a gigantic effort by
6,000,000 families to provide for
their own future, their own social
security.
They are evidence that people
whose incomes provide even the
smallest margin of opportunity to
save for their own future security
are still willing and anxious to do so.
THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION
CORPS
One of the finest of many fine
things accomplished by the Civilian
Conservation Corps has been to
teach 80,000 young men to read.
About three boys out of every
100 registering for the camps have
proved unable to do so. Using spe
cial books designed for young men
rather than children, the camp in
structors have been able to teach
such boys to read a newspaper and
to write ordinary letters within the
three months. Some were able to
write letters home within two
months.
It is embarrassing to think that
somehow these 80,000 young men
slipped around the public school
system without getting the most ele
mentary preparation for life —the
ability to read and write. But bet
ter late than never, and the CCC
thus sets another feather firmly in
its cap.
QUALIFYING DEADLINE
FOR SEPTEMBER PRIMARY
IS JULY TWENTY-FIFTH
Atlanta.—The State Democratic
Executive Committee has set noon,
Central Standard Time, July 25th,
as the candidate-qualifying deadline
for the September 11 primary elec
tion.
The deadline is just ten days af
ter the national Democratic conven
tion in Chicago and about six weeks
before the state primary.
Qualifying entry fees were set at
$350 for governor, congress and
state house offices, and judges and
solicitors general of superior courts.
Under other committee action,
county and congressional district
committees may set their deadlines
earlier but not later than July 25.
County committees and state sena
torial district committees will set
their own entry fees for legislative
candidates.
The state Democratic convention
was called to meet in Macon October
2 in event no second primary is
needed If a runover is necessitated
the convention will be held on Oct.
22.
Winder News Items
John Carrington To Be Candidate
For Legislature
John W. Carrington representa
tive from Barrow county in the state
legislature announced this week that
he would seek an endorsement term
a s Representative of Barrow county
in the state primary that is to be
held in September.
During past years Mr. Carrington
has served as Mayor of Winder and
also as a member of the state senate
from this section. He was recently
I prominently mentioned as a possible
I candidate for congress from this
! district, but has definitely decided
not to enter that race.
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Winder News Now Entering Forty-
Seventh Years of Service
With this issue of The Winder
News the paper enters its forty
seventh year of uninterrupted ser
vice to this community.
The records show that this is the
oldest business institution in Win
der. For more than a generation
those who have been responsible for
its operation have given unstintedly
of their time and talents to the
development of this community.
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Judge Pratt Purchases Brewer
Mathews Home
A real estate transaction of much
local interest last week was the
purchase of the Brewer Mathews
home by Judge J. Clifford Pratt.
An imposing two-story yellow brick
structure the home is located on
Candler street and is one of the
more attractive residences in Wind
er, having been constructed about
25 years ago by Mrs. Mathews.
It is understood that Judge and
Mrs. Pratt will move to their new
home at an early date.
DeLaPerriere Seeks Office
In Congress
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Herman P. DeLaPerriere
Ninth District Post Now Has Four
Aspirants
(From Gainesville Eagle)
Herman DeLaPerriere, prominent
farmer and political leader of Jack
son county and former state super
visor of purchases, announces his
candidacy for congress from the
Ninth district, thus throwing the
coming campaign into a four-corn
ered race for the post now held by
B. Frank Whelchel of Gainesville.
Others seeking the office are
Whelchel and Colonel G. Fred Kel
ley, Gainesville attorneys, and Dr.
John S. Golden, Jasper dentist.
A native of Hoschton, DeLaPer
riere is the son of the late Dr. W.
P. DeLaPerriere, prominent physi
cian and farmer of that section, and
the former Mary Ann Smith, pioneer
resident of Barrow county. Educat-
ed in the Jackson county public
schools, he attended the University
of Georgia and captained the 1909
football team there. He is married
and has two sons.
DeLaperriere is a member of the
Methodist church, a Shriner and
Woodman of the World. He served
several terms as councilman and
mayor of Hoschton and has been
chairman of the Board of Education
for several terms.
He represented his county and dis
trict in both houses of the General
Assembly. In 1933 he was vice
chairman of the State Democratic
party and was the first state direc
tor of the Georgia Relief adminis
istration. During the Talmadge ad
ministration he was state supervisor
of purchases.
Important planks in his platform
include: (1) Increased subsidy pay
ments and acreage allotments to
southern farmers, along with parity
prices, to place them on an equality
with farmers of other sections; (2)
modification of the present tariff
laws which he believes grant spe
cial privileges to industry at the ex
pense of agriculture; (3) opposition
to sending American boys to fight
on foreign soil and prohibition of
the entrance of foreigners to this
country so long as such large num
bers of American-born citizens are
jobless.
DeLaperriere said he would wage
an active campaign, entirely free
from personalities and abuse, and
promises, if elected, a faithful rep
resentation of his constituency.
NO FIGHTING AT THIS TIME
(From Florida Times-Union)
People of the United States are
rather fond of their neighbors across
the Canadian border. This they have
demonstrated for a century and a
half by the way they have recip
rocated in every movement for the
common good of the two countries.
But they will not become involved
in the European war.
Ontario’s Attorney General Gor
don Conant is wasting his time in
urging the people of his country to
do everything they can to persuade
this nation to become involved in the
struggle. The Canadians themselves
should understand this. They should,
in fact, realize that they will en
danger the strongest friendship in
the world for their Dominion if they
even attempt any such program as
that outlined by Mr. Conant.
Experiences endured by the Amer
icans during the subsequent to that
other war were enough to last this
country for many years to come.
They were enough to prompt this
country to give an emphatic no to
any and all urgings that it become a
belligerent in the present war.
Therefore, to Mr. Conant’s expres
sions of good will Uncle Sam recip
rocates, but says no fighting at this
time.
Home-grown vegetables make up
a definite part of a live-at-home pro
gram on any farm.
UNCLE NATCHEL Says:
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SHO ITS GOOD,SONNY, LIKE
EVERYTHING MOTHER NATURE
That’s Uncle Natchel’s phi
losophy ... if Mother Na
ture made it, it’s good.
Chilean Soda is good be
cause it's “Natchel —the only
natural nitrate in the world.
It’s good for all crops, before
planting or after. It’s particu
larly profitable for sidedress
ing and topdressing. It acts
NATURAL
CHtIBAT
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FARM FAILURES ARE LOWEST
IN 18 YEARS
Bankruptcies among American
farmers in 1939 reached the lowest
figure in 18 years, according to a
report issued by the Burea of Agri
cultural Economics in Washington.
Farmer bankruptcies during the
fiscal year ended last June 30, total
ed 1,422, compared with 1,799 in
the previous 12 months, the bureau
said. That was a decline of 21 per
cent.
The decrease was a continuation
of the decline which has been ap
parent since 1933, when 5,917 farm
er bankruptcies were reported. This
means, the bureau said, a decline of
76 per cent in six years.
AWARDED HARDMAN CUP
Savannah, Ga.—Dr. Howard Hail
ey and Dr. Hugh Hailey, of Atlanta,
were awarded the Hardman Cup,
presented annually for the outstand
ing work accomplished during the
year in public health and in the
sphere of medicine and surgery. The
award was made at the convention
of the Georgia Medical Association.
NOTICE!
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May 15th is the extended deadline to get your
tax exemption on personal homestead. Please
do not be careless and let the time pass. I can
not, under the new ruling, copy your return.
There are too many errors to be corrected.
When I guess at what you have, it is lots of
trouble to the Tax Collector and you must
make your return in person, by letter, or auth
orize someone else to sign for you. All who
fail to make returns are liable for penalty for
failure to do so. If you are sick, or old, and
can’t come write me and I will come to your
home.
I am doing my best to see everybody, but
weather conditions have hindered me.
Yours to Serve,
A. O. HOOD,
Tax Receiver, Jackson County.
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940.
quickly, picks the crop up and
pushes it ahead to early ma
turity.
Sidedress topdress —with
natural Chilean Nitrate. It
gives your crops plenty of
quick-acting nitrate, and a
natural balance of many other
protective plant food elements.
PROTECTIVE
ELEMENTS
Boron
lodine
Manganese
Potash
Magnesium
Calcium
and many more
WORLD’S LARGEST DRUG ORDER
IS PLACED BY UNITED STATES
The largest single order ever
placed for a drug was made recent
ly by the United States government
for 700,000 ounces of quinine. The
order was purchased from the Neth
erland Indies.
Efforts were made in California
more than sft years ago to grow the
cinchona tree, from '#ie bark of
which quinine is obtained; but ex
periments failed, just as did those
made later in California, in Louisi
ana and Florida.
Now Uncle Sam is trying to pro
duce the drug in Puerto Rico. Some
of the 50 varieties of the tree in
troduced into the island have suf
fered heavily from insect pests;
others have fared better.
Last year government chemists be
gan experimental work on the pro
duction of synthetic quinine. This
has been tried by chemists at various
times, without success. Pei’haps
the most notable failure was that
of Sir William Henry Perkins, Eng
lish chemist.
Lespedeza is one of the best soil
improvement crops adapted to Geor
gia.