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THE JACKSON HERALD
91.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
at The Jefferson Postoffice
A| Second-Cless Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor A Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor St Manager
JEFFERSON. GA., FEB. 13. 1941.
INCOME TAX RETURNS
MAY DOUBLE IN 1941
The United State* Treasury has
completed distribution of blanks to
15,000.000 individuals and 3,500,000
corporations from whom it expects
income tax returns this year.
Technically, returns were due Jan
uary 1, but officials said it was cus
tomary for many persons to wait al
most until midnight March 15, the
deadline, before filing them.
The anticipated number of indi
vidual returns was double the 1940
figure, due to the defense revenue!
act of last summer.
This act cut exemption for single
persons from SI,OOO to SBOO and for
family heads from $2,500 to $2,000,
besides adding a 10 per cent “super
tax" to the regular rates.
That meant that the treasury
wanted a return from every unmar
ried person who earned as much as
$15.39 a week and every family
head who earned $38.47 a week last
year.
Figuring that the millions of new
taxpayers would need at least as
much help as their “old customers”
in filling in the tax blanks, officials
said they were starting early to
organize information! facilities at
the 62 collector’s offices throughout
the country.
The number of anticipated cor
poration returns was only about
500,000 more than last year, but
many corporations will have an ex
tra return to fill out in compliance
with the newest of the defense tax
es, the excess profits levy.
Newspapers Must Have
Your Business If You
Want Publicity
Most people realize that the pres
ent-cjgy daily or weekly newspaper
is a business enterprise, but differ
entiated from the average store or
like business in that the newspaper
is dedicated to the public welfare.
Some people, however, apparently
believe they can use the newspap
er for whatever publicity they wish
to get before the public, but when
tjiey have printing orders to place
they will either try to beat down the
legitimate newspaper’s price below a
fair profit, or take it to a fly-by-night
printer, or send it out of town.
Most all of us at some time or
other, regardless of the business we
are in, have been suckers. For yeais
the papers permitted press agents
to send them publicity, for which the
agent was paid, and the publication
of which was of benefit to the press
agent and the advertiser. This not
only cost the newspaper money to
put the publicity in type, but it also
deprived the paper of revenue from
its only source—space. That prac
tice, however, has been well-nigh
killed.
• -During the 1940 political cam
paigns, Georgia weekly newspapers
refused to use any publicity unless
accompanied by paid advertising.
The result was that Georgia political
candidates paid out more money to
the newspapers and less to publicity
hounds than ever before in the his
tory of Georgia politics. And the
thing about it was both were bene
fitted.
Here in Gainesville we have some
people who still think they can use
the local newspapers, and when they
have printing orders do not hesitate
to take them elsewhere. In so far
as this newspaper is concerned it is
our policy to let the publicity go
with tHe printing.
. The local newspapers devote them
selves wholeheartedly to every wor
thy cause fostered by the commun
ity. It would be a task to even
measure the space given each year
to the promotion of every good cause
our good citizens espouse. Education,'
religion, civic progress, the promo
tion of industry and agriculture, all
have a prominent part in our col
umns. Our financial investments
are in line with other enterprises.
Our payrolls contribute to the better
ment of local business conditions.
We are as much a part of the com
munity as any bank, factory or other
industry.
Every legitimate enterprise and
movement has our sympathy and
sinno'*, but publicity end business
must go together.—Gainesville N j wv.
WHO’S DOING
YOUR PRINTING?
The local newspaper*, ever ready
! to “push and pull” for everything
that represent* a bigger, better Mon-
I roe, here of late, have been *um
mAtizing, and a* a result of that
summarumtion, we have concluded
that lots of job printing that can
be done in the Monroe shops i go
ing out of town, is being done by
foreign printshops. Is it exactly
fair for a practice like this to ob
tain, when many of these fellows
are ever insisting that their local
papers preach the "Trade-at-Home
gospel? Even if one should have
to pay a few dollars more for home
printing, isn’t the difference largely
overcome by the papers that have
no mission, save that of boosting
the local community? Furthermore,
the fellows who operate the local
papers do not consider that by buy
ing a suit of clothes in Atlanta,
they can save as much as three or
four dollars. They raise no kick
on the price offered by the home
town merchant. They pay or “prom
ise to pay” the price and say noth- j
ing. If it’s fair for us to tell the
world we are for our own business
houses, isn’t it fair for our business
houses to have theii printing done
here in Monroe?—Walton News.
WOMEN NOT YET TO
SERVE ON JURIES
A bill introduced in the legislature
to permit women to serve on juries
was tabled, after Senator R. F.
Campbell of Covington proposed an
amendment, “All ladies selected
for the jury shall be under 45 years
of age, have their original teeth,
roses in each cheek, feet not over
size five, hose requirements not un
der size 914, beauty parlor treat
ment the day before, wearing per
fume agreeable to the bar and
bench, and having within two years
having won a bathing beauty con
test.”
The bill was introduced by Sena
tor J. B. Park of Greensboro, who
is the oldest member of this assem
bly and was Judge of the Superior
Court of his circuit for 32 years.
His motive in the introduction of
the bill was serious, but levity killed
it.
38 Million State’s
Share In Defense
The federal government has au
thorized expenditure of more than
$38,000,000 in Georgia during the
last six months as part of the na
tional defense program.
This figure was disclosed by the
fourth corps area in making public
a compilation of contracts and ex
penditures issued by the office of
government reports.
The expenditures were for both
the army and navy. Construction
led the list with a total of $31,105,-
378, with supplies second at $5,-
886,563 and munitions third at sl,
094,000. The latter was a single
contract to an Atlanta firm for am
munition components.
Among the larger items listed
were:
Replacement center, Macon, $5,-
434,880.
Atlanta general hospital, $2,468,-
712.
Tent camp and utilities, Camp Sa
vannah, $2,558,1186.
Temporary buildings, Fort Ben
ning, $2,079,790.
Savannah airport, $1,550,118.
Construction Camp Forrest in
Tennessee (part of contract award
ed Columbus firm) $8,637,600.
Temporary housing, Fort Benning.
$1,483,566.
Atlanat naval reserve aviation
base, $750,000.
Fort McPherson reception center,
$287,800.
A variety of supply items wei'e re
corded, with blankets going into the
million dollar class, with one con
tract for $1,950,000 and another
for $1,622,500. Contracts for bath
towels, fuel, socks, subsistence sto
res and the like helped swell the
figure.
There are taxes and taxes. Some
you see, and some you don’t. Visible
taxes include those on property, in
come, automobile and driver’s li
cense and registration, gasoline;
luxury items such as theaters, liquor,
amusement; utility services; sales
tax, and inheritance tax. Indirect
and hidden taxes include those levied
on corporate property, some of
which ultimately pass on to the con
sumer; sales tax on manufacturers
and dealers; Social Security taxes;
and excise taxes on such commodi
ties as tobacco, liquor, toilet goods,
playing cards, jewelry, furs, radios,
automobiles, cameras, etc.
THU JACKSON HERALD- JEFFERSON. GEOKOIA
Georgia Industrialist Gives
Defense Profits to The Lord
Toccoa.—Up here in the moun
tains of North Georgia a rugged in
dustrialist-evangelist is beating plow-
Robert Gilmour Le Tourneau di-
Robert Gilmour. Le Tournear di
vides his time between “witnessing”
for the Lord and tooling his huge
grading-machinery plant for the
manufacture of 1,000,000 steel shell
casings.
Le Tourneau proclaims that his:
"partnership with God” has been
responsible for his rise from an ap
prentice iron moulder to president
of a multi-million dollar corporation.
He lives on a modest salary, gives a
great portion of his profits to re-;
ligious work.
“It is not a question of how much
of my money I shall give to the
Lord,” he says, “but how much of
the Lord’s money I shall keep f#r
myself. It all belongs to the Lord.”
Manufacturer of road-building
machines, Le Tourneau has plants
in Toccoa, Peoria, 111., and Stock
ton, Calif.
Nearest to a hobby is his passion
for speed. In his plants at Toccoa
and Peoria he dashes about on a
gasoline-powered scooter. For cross
country trips he has four airplanes
—two transports and two small ships
—in which he travels an average of
4,000 miles a week.
He ranges as far as the Pacific
Northwest and British Columbia,
sometimes disregarding weather haz
ards with the firm assertion: “The
Lord will protect us.”
He holds religious meetings sev
eral times a week in his plants,
either speaking himself or bringing
prominent evangelists. Workers are
invited but not compelled to attend
—and most of them do.
Le Tourneau thinks there are too
many “nominal Christians who be
long to a church and drop a little
in the collection plate every Sun
day,” and not enough “who have ac
cepted the Lord.”
Much of Le Tourneau’s religious
work is carried on by what he terms
“The Lord’s Treasury.” Officially
it’s the Le Tourneau Foundation, a
$13,000,000 organization which an
nually spends $350,000,000 spread
ing the gospel of Le Tourneau’s
business partner and supporting
foreign missons.
How To Make a Hen
Get Mind On Business
Farmers who used to worry be
cause their hens wouldn’t set won’t
have that problem to deal with any
longer. Science has found a way of
making a hen hatch chickens wheth
er she wants to or not.
Speaking at the annual convention
of Southern Agricultural Workers
in Atlanta, D. F. King, Auburn pro
fessor, outlined methods discovered
at the Alabama Agricultural Experi
ment Station by which hens may
be induced to set whenever the far
mer wishes.
Mr. King described the process as
follows:
Catch at night the number of hens
you wish to set. Place them in a
coop without feed or water. The
next night, 24 hours after catching,
feed each hen and let her drink.
Then place her on a nest about 12
inches square containing four or
more hard-boiled tggs and two-day
old chicks. The front of the nest
should be covered with a burlap sack
to keep the hen in and the nest
dark.
The hen and chicks should not be !
disturbed except to feed once daily, j
The hens will start setting in about |
four days. They may then be given
eggs to hatch or chicks to brood.
“The method,” says Mr. King, “is
simple, quick, inexpensive, and high
ly efficient when all factors are con
trolled.”
The professor explained that many
poultry raisers had been handicap
ped because they had to wait until
the hens wanted to set to reproduce
their flocks. Artificial incubation
and brooding have to some extent
removed this disadvantage, but a
large number of farmers still hatch
and raise their chicks with hens.
Discovery of this method requir
ed two years of patient research.
“The important thing,” says Mr.
King, “is to get a hen’s mind on her
business. Putting biddies and eggs
with her, getting her quiet and keep
ing her shut up will create the moth
ering instinct. That is what makes
her set.”
C. D. Duke advertised a lost dog
in last week’s Herald. Evidently
the Herald was read audibly in the
home where the dog had taken up
temporary residence, and he learned
how badly he was wanted at home.
He immediately returned.
’ F. D. ROOSEVELT’S
BIOGRAPHY IN BRIEF
Milestones in the life of Frgnklin
D. Roosevelt.
1882 —Born Jan. 30 at Hyde
Park, N. Y.
! * 1900 —Entered Harvard Univer
! sity.
1905—Married March 17 to El
eanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin.
1907 —Admitted to bar and prac-
I ticed law in New York City.
1910 —Elected to New York'sen
ate: re-elected two years later.
1913 —Appointed assistant sec
retary of navy.
1920—Nominated for vice presi
dent on Democratio ticket with
James M. Cox.
1921—Stricken by infantile pa
ralysis.
1928—Elected governor of New
York.
1930 —Re-elected governor.
1932 Defeated Herbert Hoover
for presidency.
1933 — Put through broad legis
lative program, including banking
and monetary law's, AAA, NRA,
CCC, and prohibition repeal.
1936 Re-elected with majority
vote of 46 states.
1937 Aroused nation-wide con
troversy by calling for “new blood”
in supreme court; later had oppor
tunity to appoint five justices.
1938 Appealed to Hitler and
Mussolini to keep peace.
1939 After peace appeals failed
and European w'ar began, put Unit
ed States on limited emergency
basis.
1940 Re-elected as first presi
dent to win third term; put vast de
fense program into operation.
1941—Advocated sweeping pro
gram to aid Great Britain.
A compulsory fencing bill to keep
livestock from roaming the public
highways was killed by house agri
culture committee The meas
ure was sponsored by Representa
tive Rich of Union.
The number of women workers in
the United States has increased 600
per cent in 60 years. A total of
nearly 12,000,000 are at work—or
seek it—comprising almost a quart
er of all the workers in the country.
In addition, nearly 300,000 women
direct business enterprises of their
ow f n. The husbands had better be
looking to their laurels.
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FARMERS WAREHOUSE
♦
R. S. JOHNSON, Proprietor.
Jefferson, Georgia
SOLDIERS WILL
NOT LACK FOOD
To assure a plentiful supply of
good food for the rapidly expanding
Army, 46 cold-storage facilities in
| new Army camps and posts in all
part3 of the country either are un
der construction or will be started
soon, the War Department announ
ces.
Each unit will provide properly
refrigerated storage space and fa
cilities for perishable food to supply
12,500 men for 4 days. The units
will be of reinforced concrete con
struction. A temperature off 10
degree? will be maintained in the
center compartment, while the sur
rounding space for vegetables and
dairy products will be from 35 de
grees to 38 degrees.
Meanwhile the War Department
announces that, according to stan
dard Quartermaster Corps procure
ment procedure, the Chicago Quar
termaster Depot recently has award
ed contracts totalling $2,479,741.29
to 10 packing houses for nearly
3,000,000 tins, cans, and jars of food
which will be used to feed the Army
during the first quarter of 1941.
Explorer Says None
Reached Pole Exactly
Although several explorers have
been honored for their exploits in
attempting to find and reach the
exact location of the North Pole,
none actually ever reached it, ac
cording to Commander Donald B.
MacMillan, noted explorer.
He denied that any explorer has
stood on the exact north axis of
the earth, and expressed doubt that
any man ever will. Peary came
closest to the Pole and is therefore
given credit for its discovery.
“It is too small,” MacMillan said.
“It is the exact point on the very
top of the world which does not go
around. It is like the very center
of a hub cap—that point which does
not move when the wheel turns
around.”
The Arctic explorer was one of
the few men who lived through the
World War without knowing it was
being fought. His ship was frozen
in ice near the Arctic Circle in 1914
and he did not learn of the war un
til he was rescued in 1917. He once
came within 12 degrees of the North
Pole.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.
GEORGIA GEOGRAPHY
DISCONCERTING
Louisville is the county seat of
Jefferson county and was once the
capital of Georgia; Jefferson is the
county seat of Jackson county; Jack
son is the county seat of Butts coun
ty; Macon is the county seat of Bibb
county; Oglethorpe is the county
seat of M’acon county; Lexington is
the county seat of Oglethorpe coun
ty-
And here is more: Quitman is the
county seat of Brooks county;
Georgetown is the county seat of
Quitman county; Forsyth is the
county seat of Monroe county: Mon
roe is the county seat of Walton
county; Danielsville is the county
seat of Madison county; Madison is
the county seat of Morgan county;
Morgan is the county seat of Cal
houn county.
Here are still some oddities: Col
quitt is the county seat of Miller
county; Moultrie is the county seat
of Colquitt county; Appling is the
county seat of Columbia county;
Baxley is the county seat of Appling
county; Bainbridge is the county
seat of Decatnr county; Decatur is
the county seat of Dekalb county;
Douglasville is the county seat of
Douglas county; Douglas is the coun
ty seat of Coffee county.
Service Period Indefinite
Theoretically, National Guards
men called into service last fall
would be returning to their homes
this fall, having completed a year’s
trailing according to the presdnt
law.
But, the Army and Navy Journal
warns, it is quite likely that they
may be held longer than that unless
the international situation grows less
tense before fall. Congress could
easily extend the now-limited one
year service. Selective service
trainees, only now beginning to reach
the camps in large numbers, will
eventually be assigned to organized
units. But if National Guard com
ponents of those units were to be
sent home only a few months after
the drafted men arrive, the units
will be dislocated for training pur
i
poses.
So there is more than a chance
that men of the Guard may be held
a little longer.
The point in bringing it up is:
might as well get used to the idea
and not be too disappointed if it
happens.
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