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# The Injustice of Farm
Legislation
Replying to a letter from D. S.
Berryman, Jackson county farmer,
with reference to penalty imposed up
on “Mr. Berryman for over-planting
of wheat acreage, Senator Richard B.
Russell says:
Mr. D. S. Berryman, Jefferson,
Georgia.
Dear Friend:
This will thank you for your letter
of April 15, in tonnection with the]
penalty imposed on you for planting j
in excess of your wheat acregae al-1
lotment.
The provision for these penalties,
which are imposed not only in the
case of wheat but in the event of in
creasing dairy and beef cattle herds,
is the worst injustice of present farm
legislation. My sense of justice was
*o outraged by these provisions for
penalties that I voted against this
whole Act, (largely because** they
were provided therein. The penal
ties represent an effort on the part
of the agricultural interests of the
north and west to prevent southern
farmers from diversification, and to
keep us chained to cotton, while at
the same time southern farmers are
being compelled to suffer a great
reduction in their cotton acreage.
T am' constantly protesting the
regulations which do not even allow
the southern farmers to grow
enough wheat for their own use, and
unless some modification of this
movement in the Department of Ag
riculture can be made, the Fairn Act
will become a curse instead of a ben
efit to the South, just as I anticipa
ted in 1938 when it was before the
Congress for passage.
I am communicating with the
.State Office of the A. A. A. at Ath
ene, urging that some adjustment be
made in your case, inasmuch as you
did not receive a wheat allotment
and were therefore unaware that
you had overplanted. I hope this
will be helpful to you, and when I
receive any information from the
State Office, 1 will advise you furth
er.
Assuring you that I am doing all
1 can to straighten this matter out,
and with best wishes, I am
Sincerely,
DICK RUSSELL.
Real Achievement
Jimmy Johnson, of Jefferson, Ga.,
has given to his state an achieve
ment which, in years to come, may
well contribute more to the pros
perity of Georgia than millions of
words spoken by laboring orators at
batteries of banquet tables.
Jimmy raised two Angus steers,
both Georgia-bred, and with them
won the two* highest awards at the
annual Fat Cattle Show and Sale
held this week in Atlanta. The im
portance of the achievement lies in
the fact that the winning animals
are Georgia-bred. Thereby they sig
nify practical establishment of a
real livestock industry in the state.
Too frequently, in the past, have
champions at these shows been of
western origin, brought to this state
as calves.
When Georgia has a statewide,
established livestock industry, breed
ing and raising her own cattle, this
state will at last be on the high road
to that diversity of agriculture which
is essential to farm prosperity.
No agricultural country in the
world has won permanent success
without cattle to graze upon its
hills and dot its pasture lands.
Experienced fanners state that the
fertilizer given to soil by pastured
cattle alone covers the labor cost of
their raising. Corn, worth but 50
cents per bushel on the market, if
fed to beef cattle brings $1.50 per
bu.'hel in the form of first-grade
beef.
Lands where cattle graze cannot
lose their fertility through erosion
and fields properly rotated between
pasturage and crops need little, if
any, commercial fertilizer.
But no state can count itself a
livestock section until it breeds and
raises fine cattle of its own, in suffi
cient number that it need import
none from the outside.
It is in this respect that Jimmy
Johnson has written his name among
those who are best helping Georgia
to advance.—Atlanta Constitution.
CARD OF APPRECIATION
The ladies of the Auxiliary of the
Jefferson Presbyterian church wish
to express their sincere thanks to
the ladies of the Winder Auxiliary
for the beautiful way in which they
helped in entertaining the Ath
ens Presbyterial. They will always
cherish the memory of their co-oper
ation and assistance.
Mrs. C. G. Barnett, Pres.
Mrs. H. M. Silman, Sec.
HONOR ROLL
J. A. Davis, Talmo.
H. L. Park, Commerce,
J. L. Catlett, Route 1.
C. C. Waters, Commerce.
Mrs. May Pittman, City.
Mrs. F, S. Brock, Route 2.
H. T. Howard.
W. H. Maley, Route 3.
Mrs. C. S. Finch, Route 2.
C. V. Swann, Route 2.
Misg Lunelle Vandiver, Manches
ter.
Jess Vandiver, Summit.
Paul Elder, Route 2.
C. R. Davis, Cornelia.
Charlotte Craft, Route 2.
Miss Mary Simmons, Talmo.
P, B. FiM) * ordalt.
C. K. Boggs, Pine Mountain Val
ley.
W. L. Smith, Commerce.
C. B. Boggs, Augusta.
Mrs. C. L. Bennett, Madison.
Paul Blackstock, Talmo.
Dr. J. H. Golden, Jasper.
Mrs. E. S. Rylee, Nicholson.
Miss Fern Mann, Washington, D.
C.
R. D. Brooks, Pendergrass.
Mrs. M. A. Wright, Route I.*
J. W. Phillips, Bellwood, N. C.
L. S. Cash, Pendergrass.
R. P. Cooper, Route 2.
Miss Willie Jewell, Nicholson.
George O'Kelly, Center.
J. H. Getzen, Pendergrass.
C. P. Hutchins, Nicholson.
H. P. DcLaperriere, Hoschton.
Miss Beth Bailey, Waycross.
J. S. Patrick, Pendergrass.
W. S. Barnes, Nicholson.
T. D. Reidling, Commerce.
R. K. Langford, Pendergrass.
Mrs- C. E. Fleefnan, Jr., Route 1.
C T. Potter, Route 1.
Jinj Jdoore, Route 1.
Mrs. W. H. Spratling, Sr., City.
Mrs. Willie Suddath, City.
Mrs. 11. C. Baird, Hoschton.
J. B. Hancock, Winder.
George 11. Porter, Atlanta.
M. Q. Whitehead, Orlando, Fla.
GPA QUESTION BOX
1. What well-known American
boxer has had his nose remodeled
by plastic surgery?
2. What is the derivation of the
word “alphabet”?
3. What river is known as “The
Father of Waters”?
4. Who is Mack Sennett?
5. The Queen of what country
paid a visit to King Solomon?
C. To whom, for want of exact
information, is the authorship of
the Odyssey generally attributed?
7. Who was the Roman goddess of
Love and Beauty?
8. Give within one degree the
average normal temperature of the
human body.
9. What have the words (a)
gauche and (b) sinister in common?
10. From what document is the
following quoted: “ . . .to determine
whether that nation, or any nation,
so conceived and so dedicated, can
long endure”?
ANSWERS
1. William Harrison (“Jack”)
Dempsey.
2. The names of the first two
letters of the Greek alphabet (alpha
and beta), corresponding to our a
and b.
3. The Mississippi.
4. A pioneer producer of moving
picture comedies.
5. The Queen of Sheba.
6. Homer (about 850 B. C.)
7. Venus.
8. 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
’ 9. Both mean left or left-handed,
(a) French, (b) Latin.
10. From Lincoln’s Gettysburg
Address.
CROP DAMAGE
FROM WEATHER
TOTALS MILLIONS
Washington, April 2!?.—The most
unfavorable spring weather in recent
years has delayed farming operations
and caused millions of dollars dam
age to early crops, the Agriculture
Department reported Thursday.
Early crops have been damaged
by dry weather and dust storms in
the Southern great plains. Unsea
sonably cold weather and excessive
rains have delayed planting from
two to three weeks in Eastern and
Southeastern states.
The April freeze killed or dam
aged fruit in many sections. Hail
and windstorms have caused dam
age in some sections and floods in
others. Only in the Northern great
plains and the Great Lakes regions
have crops made normal progress.
Continued dry weather and lack
of subsoil moisture over most of the
winter wheat belt was reported by
the Weather Bureau. A winter
wheat crop one-third below normal is
now in prospect. Growing conditions
were reported more favorable in the
spring wheat belt.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
CANCER CONTROL:
EARLY IS THE WORD
(By Clarence C. Little, Sc. D.,
Managing Director American Soci
ety for the Control of Cancer.)
Cancer is a curious foe. Second
only to heart trouble as a killer
and most feared of all causes of
death, cancer is in its early stages
one of the most curable of serious
discuses. Its definite diagnosis re
quires the services of a highly train
ed pathologist, but early symptoms
which may mean the disease is pres
ent are easily recognized by any
alert individual. Once cancer is
diagnosed and preferred treatment
is by a group of specialists and yet
the key man in the whole picture of
cancer control is the general prac
titioner to whom patients come for
periodic examinations or for advice
about apparently harmless condi
tions. While late cancer causes
considerable suffering, in the early
stages it is nearly always painless.
It is fitting that this paradoxical
disease should be fought by an Army,
not chiefly of men but of women, an
Army not of destruction but of ed
ucation, and its war should be a war
to save life. Four years ago a small
group of physicians, research work
ers, and club women launched the
Women’s Field Army of the Ameri
can Society for the Control of Can
cer. Its goal was to reduce cancer
mortality and to arouse the interest
of men and women everywhere in
this disease and the methods and fa
cilities available in their communi
ties for treating and controlling it.
Between one-third and one-half of
those who now die could and should
be saved by early diagnosis and
prompt treatment, declared the Am
erican Society for the Control of
Cancer.
The growth of the Women’s Field
Army has been rapid. Divisions are
now under way in forty-six states.
Cancer information centers—local
units of the Army—have been estab
lished in more than half the counties
of the country. Cancer control is
receiving more attention than ever
before.
A beginning has been made, but
only a beginning' in this peacetime
war. Approximately one hundred
and fifty thousand men, women and
children were destroyed by cancer
in 1939. The needs in the field are
great; more clinics, more funds for;
’research, more facilities for indigent
patients, above all, more education
for the general public. (
Working uftder the supervision of
physicians and other experts, wom
en are the leaders and organizers of
the fight against cancer. However,
the most paradoxical thing about this
complex disease is that we cannot
leave its control to leaders, to re
search workers, or medical men. We
must all do our bit.
The Field Army suggests three
measures that each one may adopt
and so play a part in cancer con
trol :
1. Have a comprehensive physical J
examination once a year, however!
well one feels. Women over thirty
five years of age should have what
the American Society calls the B. P.
Examination, covering the Breast
and Pelvis areas, semi-annually.
2. Memorize the cancer danger
signals, early and usually painless
symptoms that may mean the disease
is present and should always mean a
visit to a physician. They are: any
persistent lump or thickening, par
ticularly in the breast; any irregu
lar bleeding or discharge from any
body opening; any persistent and
unexplained indigestion; any sore
that does not heal normally, especial
ly about the tongue, mouth or lips;
any sudden change in the form or
rate of growth of a mole or wart.
Enlist in the Women’s Field Army
in April, set aside by Special Act of
C<fngress as Cancer Control Month,
and so help the Army carry on its
work of education to save lives.
Educate, Save, Enlist. These are
the imperatives of the war against
this disease. One more word should
be emphasized. It occurs in this
editorial many times. The word is
Early, and Early is the Watchword
in Cancer Control.
CAKE-WALK AT BROCKTON
The Woman’s Missionary Society
and Epworth League of the Bethany
Methodist Church are sponsoring a
cake walk at the Brockton school
house, Saturday evening, May 4,
proceeds of the occasion to be used
benefit Bethany church. The public
is invited.
Publicity Chairman.
FACULTY PLAY
“For the Love of Mike” being
given over at Jackson Trail School,
Friday night, May 3rd, 8 o’clock.
Proceeds go for wiring building.
Admission 10c and 15c.
Flames Race Through
Decorations of Spanish
Moss to Entrap Hundreds
-
Natchez, Misa.—More than 200
negro men and women were burned
to death here late Tuesday night
when flames, racing through decor
ations of dry Spanish moss, trapped ,
them in a one-exit dance hail.
Coroner R. £• Smith said the
death list mounted to 212 after sev
eral of the victims died in hospitals.
He said a number of the survivors
remained in critical condition and
expressed the belief that others
might die.
About 300 dancers were in the
hall when the fire flared suddenly.
There were no rear or side doors in
the building and windows had been
boarded up.
A theory that the fire was started
accidentally by a woman cigarette
smoker was advanced by Ernest
Wright, an elevator operator who
went to the hall to get his wife.
Wright said he saw two girls come
out of the women’s room near the
front of the building, and heard one
of them say:
“ ‘Now you did it. You set the
place on fire.’ ”
“I looked up but didn’t see any
thing for a minute,” Wright said.
“Then I saw a blinding sheet of
flame. In a minute the whole place
was on fire.”
The coroner said bodies were
“piled up like cordwood.”
“From my examination, it appear
ed that most of the people died of
suffocation,” he said. “A majority
of the victims were about 15 or 16
years old. There were about as
many men as women victims.
Julius Hawkins, Negro employe
of the Natchez Democrat, who es
caped from the burning building with
only a scratched arm, described the
confusion:
“Inside, everyone was trying to
get out and crushed each other as
the fire was burning them. All were
crying and yelling.”
Film Depicting Dr. Long’s
Life May Be Made
A motion picturd depicting life in
Georgia in the middle of the nine
teenth century and based upon the
career of Dr. Crawford W. Long, the
noted pioneer in medicine who dis
covered ether anaesthesia, may be
produced within a few months.
Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper, of
College Park, a daughter of Dr.
Long, who is his closest living blood
kin, said preliminary negotiations
are under way.
Under an agreement filed in Ful
ton superior court, Mrs. Harper
granted William G. Minder, a scen
ario writer, rights for the portrayal
of Dr. Long’s life in motion pictures,
radio, and stage presentations.
On a tonnage basis, fruit and
vegetable production in six south
eastern states increased more than
30 percent in the seven years up to
1938.
Better to wear out than to rust
out.—Bishop Cumberland.
Carew bought parts from a mail order house, sup plemented them with material he picked up in his fa
ther’s blacksmith shop. The machine was capable of making 100 miles an hour in 1924.
Henry Bell Clausen, professor at the University of London, is of the opinion that dinosaurs and such
things live in the unexplored sections of the Antarctic region. Many other authorities agree with him.
HOGAN’S STORE INVITES YOUR TRADE
FOR COTTON SEED, HARDWARE,
FERTILIZER
Hogan’s Store, Route 2, has Stoneville Cot
ton Seed No. 2, 1938 Crop. Extra Fine. $2.25
per hundred.
If it’s Fertilizer you want, see us. Save a
good pair of Shoes on each ton.
Our Corn Mill is in first class condition.
Hardware and Groceries at right prices.
We are always glad to serve you.
W. E. HOGAN
Jefferson, Georgia. ROUTE 2.
GENE AUTRY AT THE ROOSE
VELT THEATRE ON FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY
Thursday, Tyronne Power and
Lynda Darnell in Daytime Wife. One
swell picture with two gi-eat stars,
a real laugh getter. So do not miss
this one. And remember it will not
be here but one day.
Then Friday and Saturday, the
best musical western that has been
made this year, or any other year,
Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette in
Rancho Grande. The number one
cowboy star of all time singing four
songs that you cannot help but like,
with plenty of hard riding, straight
shooting and laughs. So be sure
and see Gene and his pal Smiley in
this real sure fire entertainment
either Friday or Saturday. Also
Chapter 12 of the Shadow and Our
Gang Comedy.
Monday our old friend Charlie
Chan in a real detective thriller, The
City of Darkness, also Newsreel and
Cartoon.
Tuesday and Wednesday, Alice
Faye and Warner Baxter in a story
of a girl and a newspaperman and
COLUMBUS ROBERTS
SAYS:
“Last fall 1 announced my
candidacy for
GOVERNOR of GEORGIA
I am in the race to win and will be there at
the finish regardless of who or how many
others may offer. In due time I will an
nounce my platform and tell the people how
I stand on every issue in the campaign.”
THURSDAY, MAY 2, I*4o
Suit Challenge* Patten’* Right On
Road Board
Atlanta, Ga.—The State Highway
Department Monday was plunged in
to new litigation when the legal
right of Commissioner Lawson L.
Patten to sit as a member of the
board was challenged and quo war
ranto proceedings filed in Lanier su
perior court.
The court action, filed by Attor
ney T. Guy Connell, of Valdosta, in
behalf of Henry J. Hicks, Valdosta
merchant, is predicated upon the
provision in the new law creating
the highway board, which says that
the board members must come from
different sections of the state. Pat
ten and Charman W. L. Miller, who
was restored to office last week after
being removed by Governor Rivers,
both come from Lakeland.
their battle with death during the
invasion of China. Also Serial and
Comedy.
Don’t forget Benson Bread Show
Saturday at 10.30. Prizes for every
one.
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