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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.60 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jeffernon Poloftice
A Second-Cl* Mail Mattor
Official Or;*n of Jackcon County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor & Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
A**ociate Editor A Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., JUNE 20, ID4O.
An administration move for ad
journment tf congress by June 22
o.ocunti red resistance in Georgia’s
congressional delegation. Repre
sentatives Whelchel, llamspeck and
Cox declared congress should stay
on the job. ,
A drive for a larger attendance
at the Church School of Sandcra
ville Methodist church had for its
slogan “One-hundred-and-ono men to
sing the Ninety and Nine”. They
reached the goal on May 10 and had
106 men to sing the familiar song.
Meeting in Atlanta with govern
ment and 'business representatives of
11 southern states It. G. LeTour
neau, of Toccoa nationally known
industralist, told the assembly that
the could convert his plants into war
tank factories on short notice, and
stood ready to do anything that
would be in line with any program of
preparedness this government might
draft.
What a home? Uncle Sam is said
to have on his hands for disposal
78,000 of them, taken over from
private owners who were unable to
meet their obligations to him. The
great majority of these belong to
the Home Owners Loan Corporation,
set up in 1933, as a stop-gap in a
(bad credit .situation when fore
closures on private homes reached a
peak of 1,000 a day.—Exchange.
Planned dismissal of 19 aliens from
Georgia’s public assistance rolls has
been held up pending a decision by
the social security board on whether
the State Department of Public
W’elfare can legally drop them un
der Georgia’s plan of operation,
Braswell Deen, welfare director,
has announced. Deen explained that
a report on the 19 cases, which are
scattered over the state, had been
forwarded to Washington.
From recent surveys made by the
Federal Government and the State
Department of Wild Life, it was
clearly shown that the lakes in North
Georgia were not restocking them
selves with fish. This was due to
lack of cover, the rise and fall of
the water level and destruction by
larger fish. It was evident, the sur
vey shows, that the small fish would
Slave to be protected until they grow
to a size capable of taking care of
themselves.
Congratulations to the Atlanta
Constitution on entering its 73rd
year of service to Georgia as an ag
gressive newspaper. The paper was
73 years of age Thursday. The
Constitution is a great publication
and is an early morning visitor in
every section of the state. Since
early young manhood, it has been a
daily visitor in the home of the
writer.
Rhodes Scholarship that have been
sought and prized highly, especially
by American students, have been
discontinued in the United States.
This action on the part of the trus
tees of the Rhodes Scholarship fund
was due to t)he war conditions in
England. A student earning one of
these scholarship awards was requir
ed to make an unuusual mark in his
studies during his college term.
However, when conditions become
normal again in that country, it is
understood that the trustees will re
sume the custom that has been in
vogue for many years. A scholar
ship at Oxford is prized and appre
ciated more by the student than a
scholarship from any other institu
tion.
Editor Hugh Rowe in his column
in the Banner Herald says it is time
now for the U. S. to begin prepara
tion, but he says: “President Roose
velt is taking care of that end of the
game, and it may be depended that
it will be played fair and success
fully. We are satisfied to leave
the matter in in the hands of the
President and the Congress of the
United States, who we hope will
steer us clear of any fighting, but if
nothing else will do the Germans,
good and well, let’s fight rather than
have peace at too high a price. If
the price of peace is exhorbitant,
this country does not have to ac
cept it."
JACKSON COUNTY LOSES AN
ESTIMABLE FARMER
Tie dc*th of J. A. Johnson takes
from Jatlton County one of her
'>> it citizens, en wcil as her Master
.■'.inner. Well did he deserve th
title of Master Farmer. His f
with his own home having modern
conveniences; wuh Ciimfo- . ,>ic
dwellings for those who assisted him
in his undertakings; well terraced
and properly drained lands, tilled
with the latest nnd best scientific
methods, diversified crops, and hards
of pure bre I cattle, were concrete
evidences that the honor paid him
was well cit > rvtvi.
Not only ■ :I i.e be missed by his
family, bi t •’ e community in which
he lived, tie church in which lie
worshipped, the schools he patroniz
ed and the county which gave him
birth and where he spent his entire
life, have sustained an irreparable
loss. He was even-tempered, had
all the elements which made a well
balanced man; was unselfish, patri
otic and never happier than when
doing something to help and sustain
others. He had many warm friends,
as evidenced by the large concourse
of people who attended his funeral
and witnessed his obsequies. The
Herald joins his family and his hun
dreds of admiring, loving and
bereaved friends in mourning the
death of this leading citizen of Jack
son county.
THE HERALD EXTENDS
WELCOME TO DUDLY GLASS
After an absence of six months
from the Georgia newspaper field,
Dudley Glass has accepted a position
on the Atlanta Constitution and has
begun editing a daily column. For
twenty-five years he contributed a
column each day on the Atlanta
Georgian and when that paper went
out of existence, no writer was more
generally missed than Dudley Glass,
and his hundreds of friends rejoice
that he has resumed his place in
Georgia journalism.
Mr. Glass follows no particular
line of thought as a columnist, but
writes of everyday incidents that
happen in the daily routine of life,
but his stories are always interest
ing and appealing, even though they
I tell you only about his dog. The
I Herald welcomes Dudley back into
j the Fourth Estate realm.
NEEDS OF EUROPE’S WAR
VICTIMS SELF-APPARENT
The Red Cross is raising money to
be spent in saving the lives of the
sick, the hungry, and the homeless
men, women and children of Wes
tern Europe. I wonder if it is ne
cessary to argue with the Jackson
county people that they ough to help
these victims of the war, to marshal
the reasons why it is wise to help
the helpless, to make appeals to
their charity and their sense of duty?
If in the house next door there is a
family which is sick and hungry,
what is it that a civilized man wishes
to be told? Does he wish to be told
that it will be profitable to save that
family? Does he wish to be told
that it will be a prudent investment
to buy the good will of that family?
I think not. In fact, I believe that
he will resent such argument. For
the argument is beneath his dignity
as a self-respecting man. What he
wishes to know is the fact that his
neighbor is sick and hungry; what
he needs to be told is how the sick
can be cured and the hungry fed,
and just how he can do his part in
helping them, and that is all. The
rest is for his conscience. And pre
sumably the consciences of those who
give money are every bit as good as
the consciences of those who aro
raising it.
When men are suffering, you do
not appeal to deceit men. You in
form them of the need. You tell
them how it can be met. To tell
them more than that is to treat
them as if they were not fully hu
man and had no conscience and did
not know the difference between
right and wrong. There is, there
fore, no more need to argue the
case for supporting the Red Cross
today than there is need to argue
that a hungry child must be fed,
that a man who has been knocked
down must be picked ur> and taken
to the hospital, that a family whose
house has burned down must be
given shelter. No doubt reasons can
be advanced —if there were time we
could all think up no end of reasons
why charity is better than cold
blooded indifference, why men have
a duty to their neighbors, why the
j saving of life is a sacred obligation.
The surplus from the 1939 and
earlier tobacco crops is the largest
on record.
Contact insecticides such as Black
Leaf 40 or Agripax will help control
insects on roses.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
Iron Heel of Nazis Rings on
Paris Streets
Berlin, June 14.—German troops
rolled into the streets of Paris from :
Vie northwest Friday and swung
triumphantly down the famous
Champs Elysees in the heart of the ,
French capital, it was stated in !
authorized German sources.
German tanks—their blunt-nosed |
guns ominously dominating the
streets —led tfie advance into the
city that last felt the tread of j
Prussian boots almost 70 years ago
after Bismarck’s triumph in the war
of 1870,
The swift, dust-stained tanka and
armored reconnaissance units swung j
through the suburbs of Argenteuil
and Neuilly, into the swank west
end of Paris and then past the Arc '
de Triomphe and down the Champs J
Elysee.
But, Germans said, the troops
probably circled around the Arc de
Triomphe ns they went down the
broad, tree-lined avenue.
Parisians Silent, Ten*e
The advance into Paris began
eurly in the morning—just five
weeks to the day after the German
invasion of the Low Countries and
the begining of “real” warfare
against the British and French.
There were a few Parisiens along
the route. Silent and tense, some
of them stood at the curbs and
watched the Nazi forces enter their
capital, the German advices said.
First came t)he tanks, flanked by
armored cars that rolled through
the outskirts of the city, fled swiftly
across the River Seine and thence
into the broad Avenue De Neuilly.
Behind them came anti-tank units
still smudged with the grime of
battles that had been fought with
terrible fury north of Paris.
As the sun rose higher, still more
units joined in the parade of victory
through the hostile capital from
which French armies had fallen
back during the night.
Motorized Infantry
Motorized infantry in steel-shield
ed trucks and with machine guns
mounted to sweep the wide streets
(broadened after the French Revo
lution to prevent mobs from erect
nig barricades) raced across the
Seine b.iJges and southeastward to
ward the Etoile, where stands the
Arc de Triomphe, started during the
years of Napoleonic triumphs.
The Etoile is a big hub where al
most a dozen streets and avenues
join, including the Avenue Des
Champs Elysees and the Avenue
Foch. It was laid out more than a
century ago on a plan designed to
permit Government troops to place
their cannon in a circle and sweep
the approaching streets in event of
repetition of tlw mob attacks of the
French Revolution.
The Aic de Triomphe is IGO feet
high, one of the proudest triumphal
arches in the world, and each stone
bears the name of a victory or of a
hero in French military history.
The German advices said that the
invading troops swung on down the
Champs des Elysees and the Nazi
officers leading the march took over
from the French officials left in the
city. About one-third of the normal
population of 2,800,000 remained in
Paris, it was estimated.
With the approach of the swim
ming season attention should be di
rected toward safety precautions in
the water. Attention Should also be
given those who do not know how to
swim. It is amazing how many peo
ple live within a few miles of rivers
and the sea ami with swimming
pools at their disposal and do not
l know how to swim. Every parent
! should see that their children have
j expert supervision or lessons in this
sport. Swimming is, however, more
than a sport. It should be regarded
as a measure of protection, for even
among those who do not engage in
swimming the time sometimes comes
when individuals are called upon to
swim for their lives.
By the vote of 401 to 1, congress
stamped quick approval on an ex
traordinary $1,706,053,908 bill pix>-
viding funds for 3,000 new planes,
68 warships, 95,000 additional men
for the army, a far-flung system of
naval air bases and other defense
measures. Last of a series ol big
defense appropriations to start
through congress, the measure pass
ed the house and went to the senate,
with only Representative Marcan
tonio, American Labor, New oi k,
dissenting. It raises the session’s
total defense program to $5,021,-
619,622.
Thousands of plans for the home
made lime spreader have been sent
to farmers in Georgia and neighbor
ing states by the Extension Service.
Most of the principal legumes
giow well in all parts of Georgia.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Georgia Melon* Are 10 Day* Late
The Georgia watermelon season is
10 days or two weeks late, the Unit
ed Ftates Department of Agriculture
marketing service reported.
“Good rains over most of south
Georgia during the last week of May
have improved crop prospects in
most localities,” the report read.
“No movement is probably before
June 27 and Georgia melons will
hardly be plentiful before July 8.”
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.Augusta Retain* Place A* Third.
Georgia City
Augusta, Ga.—Augusta retained
itg place as Georgia’s third largest
city today when preliminary census
figures showed a population of 65,-
945, compared with 60,342 ten
years ago, or a gain of 5,603.
S. A. Bennett, census director,
also announced Richmond county’s
population as 81,851, compared with
72,990 in 1930, or a gain of 8,861
for the county as a whole.
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Persons Offer* Cotton Mill U*e For
War Work
Washington.—ln behalf of him
self and other members of his fami
ly, R. T. Persons, of Forsyth, Ga.,
president of the Forsyth Cotton
Mills, Inc., has tendered to the fed
eral government the full use of
their textile interests, without cost.
The offer was made in a letter to
Representative Carl Vinson, of
Georgia, who immediately transmit
ted it to the newly formed council
of national defense.
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Nacoochee And Laceola
Athens, Ga.—A fertile tract lying
along the headwaters of the Chat
tahoochee and the Sautee rivers, Na
eoochee Valley in North Georgia is
one of nature’s fairest landmarks.
Nine gold mines are operated in the
vicinity of this wonder-place just off
state highway 75.
According to the legend, the val
ley was named for Nacoochee,
“Evening Star,” an Indian maiden
who came to the valley to meet her
lover, Laceola, a member of an
enemy tribe. Learning of the tryst
Nacoochee’s father sent a band of
warriors to overtake her. When
the warriors discovered the lovers
together, one of them drew his bow
aiming at Laceola; but Nacoochee
quickly stepped before hiiyi and re
ceived the fatal arrow in her own
heart. Laceola, too, was slain and
the lovers were buried together in
the beautiful valley.
Dr. Long Named Division Head For
Crippled Children
Atlanta, Ga., June 14.—Dr. H. W.
Long has been appointed head of the
Crippled Children’s Division of the
State Department of Public Welfare.
Dr. Long was previously employed
at the state hospital in Milledgeville.
His appointment to his new post
has been officially approved by the
Children’s Division of the Bureau of
Labor in Washington.
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No Surplus Commodities For Alien*,
Deen Says
Atlanta, Ga.—The State Depart
ment of Public Welfare has ordered
that no surplus commodities or cloth
ng be issued to aliens. This order is
in line with the recent policy estab
lished to control the subversive acti
vities of aliens, communists and sth
columnists.
A careful investigation will be
made of all persons certified for
food commodities and the rolls will
be purged of any alien recipients.
This thorough investigation will ap
ply to all of the 159 Georgia coun
ties.
37,565 Acres For Preserve
Sandersville, Ga.—The signing up
of 37,565 acres of land along the
Ogeechee River between Washington
and Jefferson Counties for use as a
deer and turkey preserve was an
nounced Saturday by Wildlife
Ranger S. B. Lufburrow. Plans are
being laid to restock the Ogeechee
River and Williamson Swamp Creek
with fish.
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Census Campaign
Thompson, Ga.—Thomson officials,
led by Mayor H. A. Price, have
launched a campaign to find and list
uncounted residents, following in
formation that only 3,026 persons
had been county in the census.
Many residents expected a total of
approximately 4,000.
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Six-Foot Reptile Killed, Coiled On
Top of Casket
Elberton, Ga.—While lowering a
casket into a grave during a funeral
service, Undertaker Pat Furcrun
saw a six-foot snake coiled on the
box ready to strike.
Quietly he continued lowering
the casket, and waited until the
service was over and the crowd had
dispersed. -Then with the aid of
his assistant, Harrison Hicks, he |
raised the casket and killed the
snake.
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358 Convicton* In Game Case*
Atlanta, Ga.—Convictions were
secured in 358 of the 700 cases of
game and fish law violations brought
to trial in Georgia between last
September and May, the Division of
Wildlife reported Saturday.
Charles N. Elliott, director of the
division, said the record “shows that
we are getting co-opcration from
juries and judges in most sections.”
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Wirdcr Population Set at 3,973 By
1940 Cen*us
Winder, Ga., June 12. —A pre
liminary census report this week re
vealed Winder has a total popu
lation of 3,973, compared with 3,-
283 in 1930.
For the entire county of Barrow,
the returns show a population of
13,065, compared with 12,401 in the
last census.
In the agriculture census, farms
in the county total 1,436, compared
with 1,896 on January 1, 1935, and
1,861 on April 1, 1930.
South Carolina Asiembly End*
5-Month Se**ion
Columbia, S. C.—The South Caro
lina General Assembly adjourned
sine die Saturday night, ending a
5-month session after members had
accepted Governor Burnett May
bank’s draft of a plan of highway
fund diversion and sustained his ve
to of an increase in the road de
partment’s bond limit.
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Rural-Urban Women’* Conference
Atlanta, Ga. —A wonderfully in
teresting and constructive program
has been worked out for the third
annual rural-urban women’s confer
ence to be held in Atlanta on Friday
and Saturday, June 28-29.
The rural-urban women’s move
ment was inaugurated three years
ago by Mrs. Robin Wood, director
of the women’s division of the State
Department of Agriculture, and has
made remarkable headway and ac
complished notable and far-reach
ing results. Its purpose is to cre
ate a better acquaintance and un
derstanding between rural and ur
ban women and to unite their ef
forts toward solving mutual prob
lems.
UNTIL IT IS SETTLED RIGHT
“However the battle is ended
Though proudly the victor comes
With fluttering flags and prancing
nags
And echoing roll of drums,
Yet truth proclaims this motto
In letters of living light,
‘No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right!’
“Though the heel of the proud op
pressor
May grind the weak in the dust
And the voice of fame, with loud
acclaim
May call him great and just,
Let ye who applaud take warning
And keep this motton in sight,
‘No question is ever settled!’
Until it is settled right.”
Notice!
Inoculation of Dogs
The City Ordinance requires all
dogs to be inoculated at least once
each year.
The charges are 75c per head. If
your dog does not have the inoculation
tag, the Chief of Police will take
charge of said dog.
The date, Friday, June 21, 1940,
at the City Hall.
CLAUD PETTYJOHN,
Chief of Police, City of Jefferson.
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
Hon. 11. Abit Nix, a Democratic
Attorney at Law of Athens, Ga., the
Classic City of the Empire State of
the South, was a prominent visitor
at the National Capitol on May 29.
Mr. Nix is the son of Hon. J. Morgan
Nix of Commerce, Georgia, Jackson
county and the late Mrs. J. M. Nix.
He is a very fine man indeed and
prominent attorney at the bar of
Athens, Ga., and is known all over
the Empire state of the south. He
ran for governor of said state in
the Democratic state primary of
1932. He was the next highest man
of five candidates to Hon. Eugene
Talmadge. He is not only popular
in Clarke, his adopted county, but
his popularity extends all over the
state.
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J. E. Dunnahoo of Winder, Bar
row county, Georgia, was a recent
prominent visitor at the National
Capitol.
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It was quite a deserving compli
ment to Hon. Paul Brown of the
New Tenth District of Georgia not
to have any opposition for reelection
to the 77th congress. Congressman
Brown has been a member of con
gress since July sth, 1933, and has
never missed a roll call. His votes
in congress are purely democratic
and purely American. Hon. Clarence
Cannon of the Ninth District of Mis
souri says that Mr. Brown is one of
the best members on the floor of
the house. Many other members
have said the same thing about Hon.
Paul Brown.
On May 29 in the statue hall of
the National Capitol exercises were
held for the unveiling of the painting
depicting the sygning of the Con
stitution of the United State. Con
gressional committee on arrange
ment were Hon. John N. Garner,
Vice President of the United States,
Hon. William B. Bankhead, Speaker
of the House, Hon. David Lynn,
Architect of the Capitol. Speeches
were made by Hon. W. B. Bankhead,
Hon. Kent E. Keller of the twenty
fifth district of Illinois, Hon. Warren
R. Austin of Vermont, Hon. V. S.
Gufer of Kansas, Hon. A. W. Bark
ley of the state of Kentucky. The
artist was Hon. Howard Chandler
Christy. The painting cost thirty
thousand dollars. The constitution
was signed in Philadelphia Septem
ber 17, 1787, with George Washing
ton President of the Constitutional
Convention, William Jackson, Secre
tary by unanimous order of the
Convention.
Meaning of Name Alva
The name Alva, of Latin origin,
means “white or fair,” and is thus
best suited to blonds, writes Flor
ence A. Cowles in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. It is borne by both
men and women, though the former
nearly monopolize it, and has sev
eral forms—Albin, Albion, Alvar
and possibly Alban, although one
authority says the last means
“dawn of day.” Alvan and Alvin,
however, are of different (Teutonic)
origin and mean "beloved by all.”
Alver (Latin) is given the meaning
“all truth,” by one authority. There
is also Alvah, which sounds exactly
like Alva, but is Hebrew and means
“iniquity,” thus being undesirable
as a name.