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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jeffercon Pcstofiice
A fccond Clnu Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor & Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor & Manager
JEFFERSON. GA., JUNE 6, 1940
Prosper*** For Hospital
Grow Brighter
The efforts of the Crawford W
Long Memorial and Endowment As
sociation, a local organization that is
now applying for a charter, in se
curing through the congressmen and
senators in Washington an appro
priation for the erection of a hos
pital in Jefferson, seems timely, and
with the hearty co-operation of all
Jeffersonian, no doubt these efforts
will be successful.
The senate passed and sent to the ,
house last week legislation to pro
vide a six-year, $60,000,000 program
of federal-state-local hospital con
struction.
Designed to increase hospital fa
cilities primarily in rural and
■“economically depressed areas,” the
bill contemplates federal construc
tion of hospitals to be leased to
states or communities and also
grants for state and local construc
tion.
Why should not Jefferson, the
town where ether was first used, be
selected for the location of one of
these hospitals? And why should
not one of these hospitals be named
to honor a great benefactor of man-
kind?
Congressman Whelchel has al-
Teady introduced a bill in the House
to appropriate SIOO,OOO to erect a
medical research hospital at Jeffer
son, Dr. Long’s home, as a tribute
to the surgeon’s achievements.
To W. H. Smith goes the credit
for what has already been accom
plished, both in the issuance of the
Long Stamp, and in the initiatory
program of getting before congress
the bill introduced by Mr. Whelchel.
Every Jackson county citizen and
every civic organization should now
get behind the project and encour
age Mr. Smith in his laudable ambi
tion to procure for his home town a
greatly needed institution, and to
honor a great Georgian.
BARROW FARMERS FIND
STRANGE PEST ON COTTON
During the past few weeks several
farmers of Barrow county have been
making inquiries concerning the
pest found feeding upon young cot
ton, according to H. C. Williams,
county agent. This pest is so very
small that it is not found until
chopping or the first cultivation has
begun, and at which times small
areas in the field are to be found in
fested with the pest and from there
it is scattered over the entire field
of cotton. It is commonly found first
■where there was a stubble left last
fall.
Dr. Lund, Entomologist of the
University of Georgia, visited the
farm of Robert Hardegree and iden
tified this pest as being a striped
flea beetle that feeds upon the cot
ton leaves, and if noticed closely
the pest hops similar to the flea.
Dr. Lund stated that this beetle oc
curred around Tifton, Ga., in 1936
and again in 1938 and stated that
this was the first occurrence he has
known in Georgia of the pest feed
ing upon cotton Heretofore, it has
teen found on vegetable crops and
weeds.
According to Dr. Lund there is no
definite control worked out, and due
to the fact that it is a sucking in
sect it would be harder to eliminate
with an intestional poison than if
it were an eating insect. He sug
gested to Mr. Hardegree that he use
tr mixture of 4 pounds of calcium
arsenate with 4 pounds of sulphur.
The sulphur being used principally
as a repellent to drive the beetle off
the plant. He further suggested
that a 4-4-50 borax mixture be tried
only on a limited amount of cotton
since it is not definitely known
whether or not this mixture would
kill cotton.
There is so little definite knowl
edge as to the extent of damage
that his beetle will do and the meth
ods of control, that it becomes a
problem of cooperation among the
farmers having this pest and the
Entomologist in working out some
procedure that will be successful.
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There is no passion of the human j
heart that promised so much and j
pays so little as revenge.—H. W.
Shaw.
The Baccalaureate Sermon
Sermons delivered to graduating
classes always have a world of ad
vice to these young boys and girls
which we apprehend fall on deaf
ears. The occasion is not condo
to serious thoughts on the 1 -of
young students —they arc thinking
of the bright and happy futt* and
not of life’s responsibilities and dis
appointments.
One writer says these young peo
ple, dressed in their Sunday best,
are sitting in uncomfortable chairs
and listening to words of ad
monition and advice that launch
them into anew relation. But no
longer do : y wear their “Sunday
best." 1 y are cloaked in long,
hot robe.; and have to conceal their
pretty curls under ugly, .stiff caps,
when all the time their thoughts pic
ture how much more comfortable
and attractive they would be in
lovely airy drc“sses and white suits. |
Says this writer, however, “Young j
people are pretty smart these (lays, j
There is probably little of what the i
paunchy gentlemen are telling them
before the diplomas are passed that
they don’t know already.
They know that it is a pretty foul
world. The daily reports from
Europe are enough to assure thm
of that. They grew up during 10
years of depression before that, and
they know that even without a war
the world is no bed of roses.
There was a time, 40 or 50 years
ago, when graduates could be spoon
ed a ittle verbal sugar-and-water
concoction at graduation time with
out too much harm being done. It
was a sugar-and-water world. Grad
uates were fairly sure that if they
were diligent and reliable, they
would get along. The life that
stretched before them might get a
little dull, but it was safe.
That is all over. For sugar and
water, the world has substituted
blood and tears. It is going to be
hard going in the years ahead, and
we think the young folks know it.
But if any of them are whimper
ing, we haven’t heard of that, either.
They come into a world that just
isn’t good enough. They have the
task of making it better.
That at least is a challenge. Is
it a world where force and brutality
reign. Very well. It is also a world
to be brought to order and justice.
Is it a world which questions
whether ordinary people are
good enough and smart enough to
manage their own affairs without
being knocked around by a man in
a braided coat? Very well. It is
also a world yearning for a demon
stration that free people, standing
on their own legs, can carry on their
affairs effectively and maintain a
climate in which life is worth living.
Is it a world whose goods and
whose opportunities are unfairly
distributed? Very well. It is also
a world where social justice remains
to be achieved.
The United States this year does
not offer its school graduates a soft
snap. But the United States is still
free. It does offer them the finest
opportunity in the world to strug
gle, to build for tomorrow a better
society than the world has yet seen.
AN HONORABLE CAREER
Congratulations to Hon. Pat T.
McCutchcon for arriving at the fifty
sixth mile poft in his journey as
editor and publisher of the Franklin
News and Banner of Franklin, Ga.
He has entered into his fifty-seventh
year as the guiding genius of one
of Georgia’s well known weekly
newspapers, and no person in
Georgia has more friends in the
newspaper field than has Pat Mc-
Cutcheon. He stands “Ace High.”
The News and Banner is a sixty-four
year-old publication:
Fine is the feeling with which
the veteran reviews his career.
"We have the consciousness,” he
writes, “that whatever our mistakes,
every act in all those years has been
intended for the best interest of
Heard county, the education and
prosperity of our young people, the
advancements of the country ns a
whole. We realize sadly we cannot
follow the trial of progress for an
other half century, but our hat’s off
to help solve present tangles and
crises and put Heard county at the
top, where it justly belongs.”
Two Georgia newspapermen were
awarded honorary memberships and
citation plaques by the Emory chap
ter of Pi Sigma Alpha, political
science fraternity, May 18. They
were: Rush Burton, publisher of the
Lithonia Journal, and Ralph McGill,
executive editor of the Atlanta Con
stitution. Thomas C. Law, Atlanta
businessman, was the third recipient
of this signal honor.
Quality of eggs for market will
be higher if infertile eggs are pro
duced from May to October.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
GEORGIA’S LIBRARY
PROGRESS
Four years ago there 'were 115
Georgia counties, in u total of 159,
which had no public libraries within
their borders. Today there arc only
23 such counties, and the prospect
of these being provider! with some
measure of book service in the near
future is hopeful.
The remarkable progress made
since 1936 i owing largely to the
fact that in that year the State-wide
WPA Library Project was launched
under the sponsorship of the Geor
gia Library Commission, the direc
tor of the project being the Com
mission’s secretary, Miss Beverly
Wheatcroft. One hundred and
forty-two WPA "library units” now
are functioning. They are under
the district supervision of trained
librarians employed by WPA, which
also pays for library clerks. Each
unit is sponsored locally by the city
or county in which it operates. A
local committee is charged with pro
viding quarters, furniture, equip
ment and a nucleus of books and
with seeing that the local cash con
tribution, a minimum of ten dollars
monthly, is paid. The cash funds
are used for the purchase of new
books, so that each library has a
constantly increasing supply for
children and adults. The service, of
course, is free to the public. Es
pecially helpful are the “book
mobiles” by which the privileges of
a library are motored directly to
schools and individual homes in rural
districts. f Forty-two counties have
adopted this method of distributing
books and nine others soon will do
so.
Gratifying as Georgia’s progress
in public library service has been in
the last few years, much remains to
be done ere this State will be near
the acceptable standards of such
service. Fifty cents per capita is
considered the least expenditure
that will meet library needs in the
rural South, while the minimum set
by the American Library Association
for general needs is one dollar per
capita. Georgia’s expenditure for
this purpose, according to the 1938
report, is only ten cents per capita.
In that year about 5,000,000 books
from public libraries were read by
Georgia people, but this average;
only 1.5 books to the individual.
We have a long way to go along!
this shining path, but we are moving
in the light direction. Civic and
business leaders, as well as educa
tors, are becoming more and more
interested in giving their communi
ties the manifold benefits of library
service and in extending it to the
remotest countrysides. No better
work could be undertaken for tho
enrichment and enlightenment of our
commonwealth. —Atlanta Journal.
GLAMOR TAG FOR 1941
George A. Fisher, superintendent
of the Tattnall prison farm, announ
ces that Georgia’s motor vehicle li
cense tag for 1941 will be as glam
orous as a movie star.
It is to be printed in five colors.
The numerals will stand out in yel
low against a bright blue back
ground. The Georgia peach, which
has become an established symbol,
will be larger, shading from dark
rod to a yellowish red, with a green
leaf on the stem.
One of the most important fea
tures of the new design is that the
numerals will be “refleetorized.”
That is to say, they will shine at
night like the reflector signs placed
along the highways and can readily
be picked out. The greater facility
in reading the numerals is less im
portant than the visible warning
that there is a car ahead.
It is good to know that the peach
symbol will continue and that the
“handle” will have an attached leaf.
ARNALL ACTIVE FOR
RE-ELECTION
Friends of Attorney Genex-al Ellis
Arnall forwarded a campaign adver
tisement to newspapers this week,
indicating that Mr. Arnall will put
on an active and aggressive cam
paign for the office he holds.
No one has filed, or announced
that he will file, to oppose Attorney
General Arnall.
Mr. Arnall’s record as Attorney
General has been commended by
press and people. On this record,
he is asking the people of Georgia
to endorse his candidacy.
Despite financial troubles, Wesley
an College graduated 67 young lad
ies at the hundredth commencement
of the institution. Now that the
college is clear of indebtedness, the
attendance will no doubt be greatly
increased. When the college opened
last September there was a feeling
of uncertainty as. to what its future
would be.
HISTORY’S MOST
SAVAGE FIGHT
(By DcWitt MacKenzie)
The "end of the world” has come
Ito the drowsy port of Dunkerque
and the English channel.
History of warfare never before
has put together such a picture of
savage chaog on land and sea and
in the air as has developed from the
Allied attempt to salvage what lives
they can from the hundreds of
thousands of their troops who had
been trapped by the Hitlerites.
For the first time we have a maj
or battle between the German forces
of the air and the Anglo-French
ships of war as the Allies struggle
to perform the all but impossible
task of getting their broken troops
embarked for withdrawal. It is the
initial test of strength on a large
scale between the air and sea.
German reports claim the sinking
of British warships and transports.
That’s not surprising. We know
without being told that many vessels
will go down in the fury of the con
flict and that a great number of
airplanes will be destroyed.
We know too that thousands of
men must be struggling in the chop
py waters of the channel almost
within sight of their beloved cliffs
of Dover.
So we come to the end of the bat
tle of Flanders—a major German
victory.
Just One Phase
But we haven’t reached the end of
the Blitzkrieg which the Germans
say will finish the war. The battle
of Flanders is just one phase of
Hitler’s great gambol. So what next?
First we must note that the gal
lant stand made by the Allied armies
of the north in Flanders has enabled
the French to consolidate a line
right across northern France from
Abbeville on the channel eastward
along the Somme river and clear to
the Magnot fortifications.
This means, by the way, that the
Nazi forces have been halted in their
rush a very considerable distance
short of the territory which the
Kaiser overran in the early days of
the World War.
That line is not only for the de
fense of Paris, but for the far more
vital purpose of preventing disas
trous break-through by the Germans
in their avowed effort to crush the
entire French army. The line also
provides the knocking off place for
offensive operations against the in
vaders.
Hitler now would seem to have
two lines which he can pursue. He
can attempt his project of invading
England, now that he has won the
battle of Flanders, or he can try to
smash southward to Paris and knock
the French out.
However, we shall have to wait a
bit to see, for there is no present
indication of the Fuehrer’s plans.
This detonation of great bombs
as they rip at the foundations of
empires tends, I fear, to make us
overlook the plight of civilians in
the fighting zone. The speed of
mechanized warfare turns peaceful
centers into sloughs of slaughter
without warning.
The death toll must be terrible as
these helpless folk are torn by
bombs and shells, and even ground
beneath those monster tanks which
are like creatures of frightfulness
out of a nightmare. But maybe
those who die quickly are the more
fortunate, for the position of a host
of the living is pitiable.
The American Red Cross the oth
er day estimated that 5,000,000 Bel
gian and French refugees were flee
ing from the path of the storm.
Just so we saw streams streaming
out of the self-same cock-pit of
Europe in the World War, only not
so many as now are struggling to
escape for the second time in a brief
quarter century.
We used to encounter long lines
of old women and men and children,
plodding hopelessly along the high
way with their pitiful belongings—
hungry, ill, here and there dropping
into merciful death from exhaustion.
I’ll never forget how when army
horses died on the roadway from
enemy fire these refugees, would
rush and slath at them with knives,
or tear at them with their hands, in
hope of getting a bit of food.
That’s the sort of thing going on
now, multipied by nobody knows
how many times. The mental strain
of all this horror on the civilian
populations of the belligerent coun
tries is immeasurable. They won’t
recover from the shock in this gene
cration, and the children of the next
will bear the marks.
Woman is a strange animal. She
can tear through an 18-inch aisle at
a crowded department store sale
and then go home and knock the
doors off a 12-foot garage.—Bruns
wick News.
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EXILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Flying like autumn leaves before
the first blasts of winter, the rulers
of Europe’s little countries seek
haven in far lands.
Grpcious Queen Wilhelmina of
the Netherlands seeks refuge in
England. Alfonso of Spain and
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia are al
ready there. Zog of Albania lives
now in Paris, and Beck of Poland
frets away his day somewhere in
Rumania. Benes of Czechoslovakia
restlessly travels up and down the
world, and most pathetic of all per
haps is Schuschnigg of Austria, a
lonely and forgotten prisoner of his
Nazi conquerors.
These exiles exist as living sym
bols. Their sufferings are not great
er than those of lesser common
people whose lands have been taken
from them, whose lives have been
ground under the conqueror’s heel.
But to them is added a grief for lost
glory, and they can say with
Shakespeare’s pitiful deposed Rich
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ard II—
“You may my glories and my state
depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king
of those.”
What a pitiful sight is malice,
finding pleasure in revenge! Evil is
sometimes a man’s highest con
ception of light, until his grasp on
good grows stronger. Then he loses
pleasure in wickedness, and it be
comes his torment.—Mary Baker
Eddy.
“Fresh eggs for Georgia prison
ers—a thing unheard of before.”
This is the promise of Superinten
dent George A. Fisher of Georgia’s
State Prison. The eggs will be pro
duced in the future by 5,000, chicks
now composing the State Prison’s
poultry colony, Mr. Fisher says.
When home is ruled according to
God’s word, angels might be asked
to stay a night with us, and they
would not find themselves out of
their element.—C. H. Spurgeon.