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The Jackson herald
By John N. Holder.
MARTIN INSTITUTE SESSION CLOSES;
SENIORS GO TO WASHINGTON CITY
Martin Institute closed its one-hun*
dred and twenty-second session as
an incorporated institution of learn
ing on Monday evening with the
graduation of twenty-one girls and
twenty-three boys. The school was
incorporated by an Act of the Leg
islature in 1818 and was known first
as Jackson County Academy and
then as Jefferson Academy. In 1859
the charter was amended and the
name changed to Martin Institute in
honor of its benefactor, William D.
Martin, a Virginian who came to
Jackson county and made a fortune.
He spent about 30 years of his life
here and accumulated a fortune of
SBO,OOO. He died in 1852. He was
never married, and the story is that
just as he was preparing to take the
stage coach for Virginia to be wed
to a beautiful young lady of that
state, a message came that she had
passed on.
Asa token of his love for the
people among whom he lived, he left
his estate to the people of Jefferson
and Jackson county and Martin In
stitute stands as a monument to
this noble benefactor.
For more than a century the his
tory of Martin Institute, to a large
degree, has been the history of
Jackson county. The school is now
the county high school for students
from every section of the county
where no high school is located.
The greater per cent of the grad
uates pursue a more advanced edu
cation in some college, but for those
who can not enter a higher institu
tion of learning, the school gives a
practical education, enabling them
to achieve success in life.
Since the school was chartered,
each year has witnessed some im
provement, until now, the buildings
and equipment are equal to any in
the state. The 1939-40 session had
a splendid faculty that labored har
moniously to impart just such ideals
and knowledge as would educate
and develop both mind, body and
spirit.
The Commencement Season
Several entertainments throughout
the spring season—the Senior play,
May Day, English Speech and Music
recitals, etc., were a part of what is
called “Commencement” and the
climax was reached with the enter
tainment of Friday evening through
Monday evening.
Class Day exercises Friday even
ing were well attended and those
appearing on the program were an
honor to themselves and to their
instructors.
A large audience assembled Sun
day morning in the auditorium to
hear the baccalaureate sermon de
livered by Rev. Marc C. Weersing.
He chose for his text the story of
Abraham’s journey out of the land
of Egypt. His theme was, “The
Road of Adventure and the Guide
p os ts —Faith, Hope and Love.” Mr.
Weersing delivered an excellent dis
course —one that was impressive
and helpful. Music was rendered by
a choir composed of singers from
all the churches, with Miss Maybeth
Storey at the piano.
At 9.30 o’clock Monday morning,
the audience again assembled to
greet the students graduating for
the Seventh grade into the High
School. Twelve girls and sixteen
boyS dressed in white, were seated
on the platform. A speech of wel
come was delivered by Edwin Ader
hold, who had been voted by his class
as the student typifying what is re
garded as an “Ideal Citizen.” He
was presented wifch a medal offered
by the American Legion for attain
ing this distinction.
The medal offered by the U. D.
C. chapter for the best essay on a
subject chosen by the State organiz
ation of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy was awarded Miss
Janie Lee Tolbert. Thomas Bryan
won the High School scholarship.
Following this were the awarding
of certificates in First Aid and Safe
ty Driving from the department
taught by J. B. Echols.
A capacity audience filled the au
ditorium Monday evening for the
graduation exercises. Friends and
relatives of the seniors from all parts
of the state joined the local residents
for the closing exercises. The Salu
tatory and Valedictory addresses
were given by the honor graduates,
Miss Margaret Johnson and William
H. Vandiver, Jr., whose speeches
were well rendered and elicited sin
cere applause.
Judge Jule W. Felton of the Geor-
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gia Court of Appeals gave the liter
ary address. His speech was well
received and his advice to the young
seniors was wise and timely. lie
said, “If nothing else I say to you
is remembered, carry with you al
ways this thought, ‘Whatever you
are to Be in This Life or the Life
to Come Depends on Your Concep
tion of God.’ ”
List of Seventh Grade Graduates
Eunice Luise, Virginia Moore, Pat
Dozier, Virginia Kesler, Myra Pur
cell, Peggy Armour, Ethel Lance,
Erin Dell Venable, Janie Lee Tol
bert, Wilma Nell Cruse, Frances
Thompson, Lavenia Weir, Bobby
Stacks, Tommy Bryan, Edwin Ader
hold, Bob Appleby, Foster Potts, Joe
Payne, George Venable, Albert Mun
day, John James Gurley, Robert
Brookshire, James Duke, Johnny
Hartley, Carl Martin, Cecil Martin,
Pat McKinney, Stan Escoe.
List of High School Graduates
Misses Lucille Bennett, Mary Nell
Breazeale, Faye Elizabeth Daniel,
Nancy Kate Fite, Janie Ruth Har
bin, Ernestine Elizabeth Howard, Sa
rah Opal Howard, Hazel Virginia
Jacks, Laura Eunice Jones, Margaret
Ann Johnson, Vassie Ann Lavender,
Dorothy Lena Merck, Mary Hal
Moore, Vesta Faye Morgan, Lois
Edna Nunn, Lottie Merle Ray, Nan
cy Jane Shields, Alice Marie Staton,
Doris Josephine Storey, Irene Nina
Weir, Lucile Wood.
Messrs. J. W. Arnold, Jr., Robert
Milton Bailey, Jlames Bradbury,
Southworth Field Bryan, J. F. Bruce,
Harold Brumbalow, W'illiam Merritt
Hardy, Virlyn Everett Jenkins,
Thomas Johnson, Jas. O. Leachman,
Scott Samuel Lord, Curtis W. Mize,
Hoyt Evans Nunn, John Mays Potts,
Mickey Rankin, Charles Henry Se
gars, Pressley Alexander Stacks,
William H. Vandiver, Jr., B. W.
Webb, William Baze White, Donald
Wood Whitehead, Lewis Whitmire,
Claud Glenn Wilkes.
Graduating Class Leaves For Wash
ington City
At 6.00 Tuesday morning the
members of the graduating class left
in one of the school busses for
Washington City, where they will
spend a week sight-seeing. They
were accompanied by Professor H.
J. W. Kizer and Miss Carolyn Rad
ford.
MISS BENNETT WILL WED DR.
SMITH
Athens, Ga.—Announcement is
made of the engagement of Miss Mil
dred Bennett, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Daniel Bennett of Ath
ens, and Dr. Clyde L. Smith, of
Washington, Ga., the wedding to
take place in June.
Miss Bennett is the youngest
daughter of her parents, and her
sisters are Mrs. R. B. Powell, of De
catur, and Mrs. J. D. Reynolds of
Marietta. Her brothers are William
Tap Bennett of Pine Mountain and
Ulric J. Bennett, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla. After graduating from high
school Miss Bennett received her
B. S. H. E. degree from the Univer
sity of Georgia. She is now a mem
ber of the home economics staff at
Georgia State Teachers’ College for
Women, Milledgeville, Ga.
Dr. Smith is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Lee Smith of Murfrees
boro, Tenn.
Dr. Smith has practiced his pro
fession in Washington since his grad
uation, and is prominent in the civic
the religious affairs, being secretary
of the Kiwanis Club, member of the
City Board of Education and trustee
of the Methodist church.
After their marriage they will
make their home in Washington,
Ga.
HERMAN P. DeLAPERRIERE
QUALIFIES
Hoschton, Ga.—Herman DeLaper
riere, Jackson county farmer and
business man, paid his entry fee
Saturday and became a qualified
candidate for congress from the
ninth district.
DeLaperriere is making his sec
ond race for the house seat, having
opposed Congressman Tom Bell, of
Gainesville, in 1926.
If pastures are badly infested with
weeds, a great portion of the ferti
lizer will go to the weeds, should the
areas be fertilized.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Contract For Paving
Portion of Gainesville
Road to Be Let June 7
In another column will be found
a “Notice to Contractors” for the
paving with concrete of 4.698 miles
on the JefTerson-Gainesville highway.
The project will begin 1.6 miles this
side of Pendergrass and will connect
with the end of the pavement on
Washington street in Jefferson. The
contract will be let to the lowest
bidder in the general office of the
State Highway Board, Atlanta, June
7. Work on the project will begin
ten days after formal execution of
the contract and shall be finished in
160 working days.
When this is completed, there
will remain only the distance from
the river this side of Pendergrass
to the end of the paving beyond
Talmo unpaved. This stretch of
the highway Ls to be re-graded, for
which a contract has already been
let; also, the contract has been let
for the erection of bridges over the
river and a creek. No doubt, as soon
as the grading is completed, a con
tract will be let for the paving, and
this will give the section a paved
road from Gainesville through Jef
ferson to Athens.
This highway is a primary road
and one of the few in Georgia left
unpaved. It is a link of Route 11
leading from the North Carolina
line to Macon. It is a Federal Aid
project. Citizens along this high
way have solicited and petitioned at
intervals for several years that a
contract be let for the paving and
they have been patient in their dis
appointment. Now that the road is
to be paved, that the nine miles of
red dust and slippery mud is to be
covered with a ribbon of concrete,
there is much rejoicing.
Hospital Honoring Dr.
Long Sought For Jefferson
Washington.—The Government is
sued anew 2-cent postal stamp re
cently honoring Dr. Crawford W.
Long as the first to use ether as a
painkiller in surgery and Represen
tative B. Frank Whelchel (Demo
crat, Georgia) feels further honors
should be bestowed upon the Geor
gian.
Whelchel introduced a bill in the
House Friday to appropriate SIOO,-
000 to erect a medical research hos
pital at Jefferson, Ga., Dr. Long's
home, as a tribute to the surgeon’s
achievements.
MRS. B. H. WHITLOCK CALLED
BY DEATH
Mrs. Susie Smith Whitlock, aged
65, wife of B. H. Whitlock, and
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Smith, passed away recently
at her home in the Apple Valley
community, where she had spent her
entire married life of 49 years.
Surrounded by a large crowd of
friends and relatives, her body was
laid to rest in the Smith burial lot,
near Apple Valley.
Surviving the deceased are her
husband, B. H. Whitlock, and the
following children: Lee Whitlock
of Dry Pond, Mrs. Willie Looney of
Crawford, Mrs. Tiney Wheeler of
Apple Valley, Guy Whitlock of Jef
ferson, Miss Mamie Whitlock and
Willie Whitlock 'of Apple Valley and
Mrs. Celie Martin of Jefferson.
U. S. Sending Ship To
Ireland For Americans
Washington.—The government is
sending the liner President Roose
velt to Ireland to bring home Ameri
cans, and gave notice to Britain,
France, Germany, Belgium, Holland
and Norway lest they molest it.
The ship sailed last week from
New York for Galway, Ireland.
Secretary Hull telegraphed Ameri
can envoys at London, Paris, Berlin,
Brussels, The Hague and Oslo to in
form the governments to which they
are accredited that “the government
of the United States expects this
vessel to make its eastward and its
westward voyages without interrup
tion or molestation by the air, naval
or military forces of any belliger
ent.”
The envoys were instructed to say
that the vessel will carry no cargoes
either eastward or westward, and on
the westward voyage will carry only
American citizens and their families.
FOR SALE
Rooted dahlia slips at Kesler &
Legg Ten Cent Store.
Handsome REA Home
Occupied By Officials,
Credit To Organization
It was a privilege last week to vis
it the new home of the R. E. A., in
which the Jackson Electric Member
ship Corporation office employees are
now housed.
The building is located on Athens
street. It is constructed of granite
blocks, with inside finishings of hard
wood and casement windows. All
modern conveniences are installed in
the building. The upper floor is di
vided into a reception room, a dis
play room, and offices for the sev
eral employees.
The lower floor contains apartments
for truck storage, equipment storage,
heating plant and other necessary
rooms. The furnishings throughout
the building are of the latest de
sign. The entire building is a com
pliment to those who had a part in
its design and construction and de
notes the progress achieved by the
R. E. A. in this section.
The administration of the corpo
ration has many angles and the new
quarters will enable the employees to
give more efficient and satisfactory
services.
Road Department Purchases
Are Being Scrutinized
Atlanta. —Twenty-one persons, in
cluding the entire Georgia State
Highway Board and the chairman of
the Democratic state committee,
were summoned Saturday to tell a
federal grand jury what they know
of alleged taxpayer swindling on
state highway purchases.
Subpoenas, returnable May 28-30
at -Rome, Ga., included one for
Chairman W. L. Miller, L. L. Pat
ten and Herman H. Watson of the
highway board; James L. Gillis,
former board member and chairman
of the State Democratic Executive
Committee; John Lewis, former
state purchasing agent and now at
torney-director of the State Hos
pital Authority; E. A. Stanley,
former chief highway engineer; and
15 others, mostly state employes and
representatives of asphalt manufac
turers.
All were issued in John Doe
prosecution of “anti-trust laws and
other federal criminal violations.”
When the subpoenaes were disclos
ed, U. S. District Attorney Lawrence
Camp prepared a statement saying:
“Among the complaints recently
filed with the Department of Jus
tice were charges that the taxpayers
of Georgia had been defrauded as a
result of being denied the advantage
of competitive bidding on large
purchases made by the state, in vio
lation of the federal anti-trust laws
and other federal criminal statutes.
Investigation of these complaints
have progressed to the point where
the grand jury should hear testi
mony. The present sitting grand
jury for the Northern District of
Georgia is at Rome, and these sub
poenas were issued in connection
with this hearing.”
The statement was signed by
Camp, Special Attorney F. Cleveland
Hedrick of the anti-trust division,
and Senior Attorney Durward E.
Baloh of the Justice Department’s
criminal division. Camp said Louis
Schwartz, special assistant attorney
general, also would aid in present
ing evidence to the grand jury.
FAMILIES SEEKING
AAA MATTRESSES
Athens.—Misq Lurline Collier,
state home demonstration agent, re
ported that 50,387 applications have
been received from low-income
Georgia families for mattresses un
der the cotton mattress program
now in effect in the state’s 159 coun
ties. More than 28,000 of these ap
plications have been approved by the
Triple-A.
Some 85,000 Georgia families are
eligible to apply for mattresses in
the 94 counties reporting. Miss Col
lier pointed out. Over 221,000
yards of mattress ticking and 2,340
bales of cotton have been ordered
from the Federal Surplus Commodi
ties Corporation which furnishes
mattress materials under this pro
gram designed mainly to reduce the
surplus of cotton, she said.
CHEEK—MASSEY
Mrs. T. W. Ray, of Commerce,
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Winnie Merell Cheek, to
James Austin Massey, of Commerce,
the marriage to take place in June.
Thursday, May 30, 1940.
U. S. WARNED AGAINST FOES;
SPEED IN ARMING NECESSARY
Washington.—ln a solemn appeal
for national unity, President Roose
velt coupled a pledge of military se
curity Sunday night with a warning
against Trojan horse treachery and
the “undiluted poison” of foreign
sponsored dissension.
Calling for an end to fear, illu
sion and calamity-howling, the chief
executive said in his 14th radio
“fireside chat” that American de
fense forces would be built up “to
whatever heights the future may
require.”
He denied charges of critics that
money spent for the army and navy
in the last few years had “gone
down the rat-hole.” Instead, he said:
"This money has been used to
make our army and navy today the
largest, the best equipped, and the
best trained peace time military es
tablishment of this country.”
After declaring that nothing in
the present emergency justified
breakdown or cancellation of “any
of the great social gains” under the
New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt asserted
that today’s threat to our national
security is not a matter of military
weapons alone.”
“We must deal vigorously,” he
said, with spies, saboteurs and trai
tors.” The new technique of weak
ening a nation at its roots, he cpn
tinued, is discord aimed at creating
“confusion of counsel, public inde
cision, political paralysis and, event
ually, a state of panic.”
“Campaigns of group hatred or
class struggle have never made much
headway among us, and are not
making headway now,” he said. “But
new forces are being unleashed, de
liberately planned propagandas to
dive and weaken us in the face of
danger as other nations have been
weakened before.
“These dividing forces are undi
luted poison. They must not be al
lowed to spread in the New World
as they have in the old.”
• The president said that “the past
two weeks have meant the shattering
of many illusions” for persons who
had “closed their eyes” to events
abroad or “who would not admit the
possibility of the approaching storm.”
“They have lost the illusion,” he
declared, “that we are remote and
isolated and, therefore, secure
against the dangers from which no
other land is free.”
The president’s address was large
ly a review of the expended defense
program and its effect on industry,
labor and consumers.
Mr. Roosevelt declared, however,
that the administration’s “offensive
against social and economic inequal
ities and abuses” should not be bro
ken down by “the pincers movement
of those who would use the present
needs of physical military defense to
destroy it.”
The president called for protec
tion of consumers against higher
living costs and asserted that “no
new group of millionaires (should)
come into being in this nation as a
result of the struggles abroad.”
He closed his talk with these
words:
The development of our defense
program makes it essential that
each and every one of us feel that
we have some contribution to make
toward the security of our country.
At this time, when the world—
and the world includes our own
American hemisphere—is threatened
by forces of destruction, it is my
resolve and yours to build up our
armed defenses.
We shall build them to whatever
heights the future may require.
We shall rebuild them swiftly, as
the methods of warfare swiftly
change.
For more than three centuries we
have been building on this continent
a free society, a society in which the
promise of the human spirit may
find fulfillment. Commingled here
are the blood and genius of all the
peoples of the world who have
sought this promise.
We have built well. We are con
tinuing our efforts to bring the bles
sings of a free society, of a free
and productive economic system, to
every family in the land. This is
the promise of America.
It is this that we must continue
to build—this that we must continue
to defend.
It is the task.of our generation.
But we build and defend not for our
generation alone. We defend the
foundations laid by our fathers. We
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build a life for generations yet un
born. We defend and we build a
way of life, no tfor America alone,
but for all mankind. Ours is a high
duty, a noble task.
Day and night I pray for the res
toration of peace in this mad world
of ours. It is not necessary that I,
the President, ask the American peo
ple to pray in behalf of such a
cause—l know you are praying with
me.
I am certain that out of the
hearts of every man, woman and
child in this land, in every waking
minute, a supplication goes up to
Almighty God; that all of us beg
that suffering and starving, that
death and destruction may end—
and that peace may return to the
world. In common affection for all
mankind, your prayers join with
mine—that God will heal the wounds
and the hearts of humanity.
University System Has
525 Enrollment Gain
An increase of 525 in the enroll
ment of the University of Georgia
System for the scholastic year 1339-
40 was announced by the State
Board of Regents Saturday.
The total enrollment in the vari
ous state colleges was announced as
15,118 compared to 14,593 for the
1938-39 session. The increase over
1937-38 was given as 2,093.
Boys outnumbered girls in the
University System 8,644 to 6,474.
At the University of Georgia in
Athens there was a trend toward
commercial and agricultural courses
with 657 taking commerce, 34 study
ing agriculture, 424 studying home
economics and 383 trying for the
regular A. B. degree.
Enrollment at the University of
Georgia in Athens led the state in
stitutions with 3,688 compared to
3,737 last year and 3,497 the year
before.
The enrollment at Georgia Tech
this year was 2,678 compared to
2,583 last year and 2,451 the pre
vious year.
Enrollment at the University Sys
tem center in Atlanta, including the
evening school and junior college,
was 1,910 this year compared to
1,718 last year and 1,503 the year
before.
The Georgia State College for
Women at Milledgeville ranked next
with 1,544 this year compared to
1,596 last year and 1,453. the year
before.
The South Georgia Teachers’ Col
lege at Statesboro enrolled 683; .he
Georgia State Women’s College at
Valdosta 391, and the School of
Medicine at Augusta, 168.
Enrollment this year in the vari
ous junior colleges follows:
Georgia Southwestern College at
Americus, 398; W’est Georgia ( al
lege at Carrollton, 506; Middle Geor
gia College at Cochran, 463; North
Georgia College at Dahlonega, 636;
South Georgia College at Douglas,
350; Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College at Tifton, 447.
Enrollment in Negro colleges in
cluded Georgia Normal and Agricul
tural College at Albany, 401; Fort
Valley State College, 228; Georgia
State College at Savannah, 627.
MR. WILL I. WILBANKS PASSES
Mr. Will I. Wilbanks, aged 71,
passed away Monday at the home of
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Toney, at their home
on Martin street. He had been in
declining heath since the first of the
year, but was seriously ill for the
past ten days.
Mr. Wilbanks was a splendid citi
zen and his pausing is mourned by
a wide circle of friends. Funeral ser
vices were held at 2 p. m. Tuesday
at Mt. Olive Baptist church, Rev.
Tooke officiating.
Surviving the deceased are his
widow and the following children:
Mrs. Fricks, Watkinsville; Mrs. J. E.
Christian, Milledgeville; Mrs. E. M.
Childs, Mrs. C. E. Toney, Charles I.
Wilbanks, Henry W. Wilbanks, all
of Jefferson; C. J. Wilbanks, Mon
roe.
To Adam Paradise was home. To
the good among his descendants
home is paradise.
He is happiest, to be king or pea
sant, who finds peace in his home.