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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferon Poitoffica
A* Second-date Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackton County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor 8l Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor & Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., FEB. 27. 1941.
UNCLE SAM GOES TO
WORK
Ordinarily Uncle Sam’s all dressed
up. He wears a high hat and a long
tailed coat. His boots are pretty
elegant and shinny and there’s an
air of success about him. He’s
ready to go anywhere and meet any
body.
But today he’s laid that tall hat
aside and he’s pulled a worker’s cap
over his grizzled hair. He’s taken
off his good coat too, and he’s wear
ing appropriately enough, overalls.
For overalls are a good, old Ameri
can costume. He's in his shirt i
sleeves with his collar turned in.
Because he’s going to work!
The biggest job he’s ever under
taken lies before him. He’s got to
build a lot of new equipment he
thought he’d never have to bother
with again and he’s got to train a
million or so young men, that he had
hoped would be able to lead pretty
undisturbed lives, to be soldiers. He
hasn't time for that high hat for
awhile. He’s got to build planes—
hundreds upon hundreds of them.
He’s got to turn out tanks —thou-
sands of them. He must build great
battleships and submarines and guns
that shoot towards the sky.
And that isn’t all. He has to turn
carpenter and build dozens of great
cantonments where about a million
American men will be able to live
comfortably and healthfully while
they learn to be soldiers. And he
must make clothes for these men
and shoes and blankets . . .
Yes, mam, he’s going to be busy
these next few months. His cap and
overalls will be his regular costume.
And that’s the way you’ll see him on
more than 15,000 outdoor billboards
this month and next. He’s pulling
his cap on in this big picture and
looking thoughtfully out of stern
blue eyes under bristling brows.
This is the way the National As
sociation of Manufacturers, whose
members are largely actually re
sponsible for building our defense
needs, visualize Uncle Sam at the
present time. With the aid of the
outdoor advertising industry, through
tits many agencies in every part of
the country ,they have set this sym
bol of our nation against a back
ground of factories buckling down
to the hardest work he’s ever done.
There’s a real job ahead. It’s got
to be done. American Freedom,
which is mpre precious to us than
life itself, must be defended. It’s
Uncle Sam’s job to do this. And in
this country everybody is Uncle
Sam. You and me and the people
next door; the man at the factory
ind the man who runs the factory.
The storekeeper and the doctor and
the housewife . . . it takes us all to
make Uncle Sam.
So look for the new poster and
thrill with prido at the stern old gen
tleman who’s goin’ to work!
JUDGE SAYS
LAW PREVENTS
LIQUOR ELECTION
Irwin county prohibitionists were
■enjoined by Judge Eve of the Irwin
superior court from holding an elec
tion on the liquor question.
A petition for such an election was
presented to Ordinary of Irwin, and
under the law it was presumed that
such an election was within the
purview of the law, two years or
more having passed since Irwin
county voted in the sale of liquor.
The general opinion was that after
the passage of two years, the people
could again call an election and vote
it out, if a majority of the voters
desire. Judge Eve and the legal ad
visers for the liquor interests thought
otherwise. The lawmakers appar
ently have failed to provide a meth
od voting liquor out of a county, af
ter once voting it in.
The intent of the legislature no
doubt was to allow an election to be
held, but they failed to so state in
the law.
Because God is ever present, no
boundary of time can separate us
from Him and the heaven of His
presence; and because God is Life,
ell Life i eternal.—Mary Baker Ed
dy.
REASONS FOR NOT
ENTERING WAR
Somewhere in the mind of every
American citizen lurks this grim and
disquieting question: “Will the
United State* enter the war?’’
About every writer and speaker
in the country has been attempting
to satisfactorily answer that question
for some time. You can find irre
sistibly logical arguments which
make our entry into conflict seem
inevitable as death and taxes—and
you can find equally logical argu
ments which attempt to prove we
are in small danger of being drawn
in. And, as the debate rages on, a
good many Americans who make ro
pretense to being exports find them
selves sinking deeper into confusion.
The standard polls still indicate
that the American people are oppos
ed to war, even as they favor aid to
England with “all steps short of
war.” At the same time, the Ameri
can people, going by the same polls,
are convinced that if England falls
we may be next on Hitler’s list of
victims.
The arguments that support the
theory that we cannot long keep out
of war are obvious enough. We
have dropped all pretense of neu
trality—we arc simply non-belliger
ents, committed to the hilt on Eng
land’s side. We have damned the
dictators in unequivocal trems. The
leaders of both the political parties,
the President and Mr. Willkie, are
aggressively pro-British and anti-
Nazi. And we are about 'to embark
on anew policy which will give Eng
land and her allies our utmost moral
and material support—a policy which
Hitler, if he is seeking a fight with
this country, could logically construe
as a declaration of war in effect.
On the other side of the fence,
the arguments have not been so well
publicized. In a recent issue, the
United States News summed up five
principal reasons for believing that;
this country is not going to war.
First, says the News, the United
States can aid Britain more by not
fighting than by fighting. Britain,
in other words, needs supplies, not
men. If we entered the war it would
be impossible to send much abroad,
as our own under-supplied military
establishments would need all our
factories could produce.
Second, the U. > S. can help her
own defense more by staying out of
the war. The arms we send Eng
land may be lost, but we won’t lose
men so long as we remain a non
belligerent. And we will find out if
our arms and planes are adequate
for modern war. England, in other
words, will be the proving ground
for the products of our factories.
Third, through the lend-lease
policy, the U. S. can exert its major
effort in the war. Actually taking
up arms against the Axis would not
permit us to do more.
Fourth, the fact that all-aid-for-
England policy apparently has the
support of a nation which is also
committed to maintaining peace, is
construed in Administration circles
as proof of the fact that its plans
and actions are sound.
Fifth, according to his intimates,
the President really hates war,
meant what he said during the cam
paign, and will do everything pos
sible to prevent war. He believes
that his policy offers the surest road
to peace, and in that he is backed by
large numbers of his political oppon
ents.
All of this does not take into con
sideration the fact that the Axis
might make war on us, thus plung
ing us into the conflict whether we
want to fight or not. Military and
political experts, for the most part,
don’t think that likely at this time.
They point out that Hitler doesn’t
make a particular point of “saving
face.” As he said himself, he will
not be badgered into taking steps he
believes dangerous. The experts ar
gue that Hitler will not wage war
against us until and unless it suits
his time-table. And it is obvious
that he has enough troubles on his
hands now without asking for more.
Time, which heals all wounds and
solves all arguments, will prove the
soundness or weakness of these
various contentions. In the mean
time, there are many thoughtful ob
servers who feel that we will be in
war before the year ends—perhaps
within six months.
Ryburn G. Clay, of Atlanta,
has been appointed chairman of
the Georkia Jackson Day Dinner
for 1941 by R. J. Reynolds, Jr.,
Treasurer of the Democratic Nation
al Committee. Although it normally
falls on January 7, the dinner was
postponed this year because of the
Presidential election and will be
held on March 29. Plans for Mr.
Clay’s state-w'ide organization for
the dinner to raise funds for the
Democratic Party will be announced
at an early date.
THE JACKSON IIERAM), JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Careful Classification
Urged By Dykstra
In Selective Service
Extreme care in the selection of
men for military training so that
production by defense industries
will not be hampered is urged by C.
A. Dykstra, director of Selective
Service, in an appeal to state direc
tors.
Pointing out tliat in providing for
the defense needs of the Nation, the
provision of supplies and material
goes hand in hand with the provision
of military manpower, Mr. Dykstra
emphasized that the present bottle
neck is the need for skilled construc
tion and production workers. For
that reason, he declared, local boards
should keep constantly in mind that
provision of Selective Service Regu
lations which provides:
“352 b.—ln determining whether
a registrant is a ‘necessary man,’ the
local board shall give due consider
tion to those registrants engaged in
an activity which is essential to the
national health, safety, or interest
in the sense that a serious interrup
tion or delay in such activity is likely :
to impede the defense program.”
World War Experience
He also called to attention that in
the World War, according to figures
published by Secretary of War Bak
er, for every 13 men in the armed
forces there were 87 workers pro
ducing the things needed to main
tain these forces and the civil needs
of the Nation. Today, he said, with
the tremendous increase in the me
chanization of war and the conse
quent shift of importance from mili
tary manpower to military material,
that ratio is greatly increased.
“It is the purpose of Selective
Service,” Director Dykstra declared,
“to preserve the proper ratio be
ween trained fighters and trained
workers. That is the purpose that
the name ‘Selective Service’ implies.
It means not only the selection of
those registrants who are best fitted
for military training, but also the
selection of those best fitted to main
tain the armed forces by continuing
to perform their civilian tasks.
“This does not mean that all skill
ed workers should remain in civilian
life, nor does it mean that all the
unskilled should be picked out for
military training. It means merely
careful and intelligent selection by
the local boards with the thought
always in mind that both skilled
fighters and skilled workers are es
sential to our Nation’s safety.”
THE PRESENT LESSON
Look at American industry moving
today to turn out defense equipment
and to make itself, as the President
has demanded, the world’s great “ar
senal of democracy.”
Daily increasing in momentum, it
is becoming like a might river at
floodtide. offering a stirring example
of what free men can do by working
together when they really set them
selves to the task. There are still
eddies and slow currents in the riv
er—sure—but as time goes on, they
too will become part of the main
stream.
Industry is picking up speed every
moment. In the last twelve months
it produced a total of nearly 6,000
Army and Navy planes and sent at
least 400 heavy bombers alone to
help defend Great Britain. The big
gest number of these came in the
past three months, which means a
rate of production that will produce
many, many more planes this year.
The same is tr-ue of all other types
of military materials. Lately there
have come reports that American all
wheel drive motor trucks made in
Indianapolis were used in the suc
cessful British campaign against Skli
Barrani and Bardia and Tobruk in
far-away Africa. Reports like these
will soon be commonplace; and all
around us, meanwhile, will be a
vastly increased number of articles
for America’s own direct defense.
There is a lesson in this tremen
dous and speedy achievement of in
dustry. It shows that when indus
try is given a reasonably free hand
and the governmental confidence to
answer problems—however complex
their nature —it can really do the
job superlatively well. This is a
morale too lately apparent to be ap
plied to the depression years which
this nation endured during the past
decade, of course. But government
and the other groups in our economy
would be wise ami America-minded
if they continued to remember it
when the present emergency is end
ed.
It is one of the beautiful compen
; sations of life that no man can sin
! cerely try to help another without
I helping himself.—Bailey.
THIS IS AMERICA
When the phone gave two long
rings and one short one, Jane Brown
lifted the receiver. And then there
was the tell-tale click of two other
receivers being lifted, for this was a
party line. Old Mrs. Allen and Sally
Peterson probably. They were both
confirmed eavesdroppers, people said.
But never mind. It wasn’t anything
personal Mary had to tell her. Just
things about the state poitical meet
ing she’d been attending and the sub
ject for their next club meeting and
something about the school program
to be held that night. Let the
neighbors listen in all they wanted
'to! Asa matter of fact, it would
do them both good. Jane grinned
delightedly as her sister. Mary,
launched into praise of a man Mrs.
Allen hated and criticized someone
she liked. It must be hard for the
old lady to keep from breaking in
with a few thoughts of her own.
What would it be like, Jane won
dered to live in a country where
you were afraid to say what you
think even to members of your own
family, let alone broadcast them on
a busy party line?
“I’ll see that the governor hears
about this. That’s vrtiat I’ll do. And
then you’ll see what happens to your
job, young lady! It won’t be worth
two cents.” It was Mrs. Sanders,
dissatisfied with the work of the
County Relief office, who was talk
ing to the investigator assigned to
her case.
“That’s all right, Mrs. Sanders,”
the investigator told her. “Go ahead
and write. I’d probably do the same
thing if I were in your place. But,
on the other hand, you’d probably
do the same thing I am doing if you
were in mine.”
And then, driving home along the
deserted country road past snug
looking farm houses where people
were saying what they wanted to,
to whom they wanted to, the young
investigator smiled. It was a good
thing that Mrs. Sanders could say
what she wanted to to the governor
or any one else, although it would
mean some extra work on her part
before the thing was settled.
We’re a nation of talkers. We
say what we think and what we
don’t think. We complain and we
criticize and in most instances get
LET US TREAT YOUR SEED
TO REDUCE DISEASE LOSSES
TREAT yourself to better cotton and grain stands, better
control of seed-borne diseases, and generally improved yields
by letting us treat your seed! On cotton we use 2% Ceresan,
the dependable dust disinfectant which produced the yield in
crease shown above —190 pounds more seed cotton per acre at a
treating cost paid by 3 pounds of lint! On wheat, oats and
barley we use New Improved Ceresan, now recommended
in every grain-growing area.
Enjoy the crop benefits and profit increases which seed
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by having us treat the seed for you. Our service costs very little
more than treating at home. See us now, and be ready to plant!
SEEDS OF PROSPERITY WILL BE SHOWN AT
ROOSEVELT THEATRE
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27-28
2% Ceresan sells 1 pound can 70c, 5 pound can $3.00,
pound pail $13.25. One pound treats 5 1-3 bushels. We can
sell you the material at these prices, or better still we are
ped with an electric power machine to do the work foi > oU
very reasonable prices. This power machine will get the -
evenly on each and every seed. When in town drop in and
our treating machine.
FARMERS WAREHOUSE
R. S. JOHNSON, Proprietor.
Jefferson, Georgia
Rejected Registrants
Should Have Jobs Back
Declaring Selective Service regis
trants who are rejected at induction
centers because they failed to meet
Army physical standards have a
“moral right” to be reinstated in
■their former jobs, Sion B. Hawkins,
State Director of Selective Service,
today urged all local boards to
“utilize every facility” at their dis
posal to aid these men.
While State Headquarters has been
advised that most Georgia employers
are reinstating rejected selectees in
their former jobs, Director Hawkins
said the Selective Service System
wants to make certain that no man
Is unjustly treated.
The Selective Training and Service
Act requires reinstatement by former
employers of men inducted into the
Nation’s armed forces who satisfac
torily complete their military train
ing. Director Hawkins asserted that
employers also should feel a “moral
obligation” to reinstate men who
not actually inducted but who had
fulfilled their duty to the Nation by
responding to the call for service. He
said:
“When a man responds to a call
for military training, he is fulfilling
his obligation to his country. When,
for some reason beyond his control,
he is prevented entering its armed
forces, he nevertheless should be
considered as having discharged his
responsibility and should be protec
ted in doing so. Every effort must
be made to alleviate hardship and
suffering in these cases.”
it out of our systems. We’ve always
been talkers. Since the Pilgrims
complained of the British end the
time when men sat around the stove
in the village general store and told
each other what President Lincoln
ought to do.
We talk in papers, on the radio,
on platforms and to each other and
no one tells us to look out we better
not say that . . . or shh . . . we
mustn’t say this. Because this is
America where every man “from the
oceans to the prairies” has a right
to his own opinions and, come what
may, can say what he likes!
COTTON and GRAIN YIELDS?
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