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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Postofiice
As Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor A Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor A Manager
JEFFERSON. CA., MARCH 6, 1941
ADS IN PAPER PRODUCE
WELL FOR AGENCY
In another column is an ad of
Chevrolet cars. This ad is sent the
Herald by Campbell-Ewald Com
pany, an advertising: firm in Detroit, '
Mich., that celebrated in February
their thirtieth year of “advertising
■well directed.” They were organiz
ed February 1911.
This anniversary makes this ad
vertising agency the oldest in De
troit, and one of the few agencies
in the country to have retained its
corporate identity and its directing
head for so long a period.
A large percentage of this money
newspapers, for H. Tfl Ewald, the
has been spent each year in the
president of the company, is a firm
believer in this medium of advertis
ing.
‘‘Today, the newspaper, one of the
oldest mediums of advertising, con
tinues as a truly great and powerful
force to sell goods,” he states, ‘‘and
will continue to be spearhead of most
advertising effort as long as it re
mains a free press.
“While each advertising campaign
should have a tailor-made merchan
dising and advertising suit, the mer
chandisers of few commodities of
genenfl use can afford to ignore the
tremendous cleavage power of news- j
papers, weekly as well as daily.
“I often think of newspaper ad
vertising as an electric switch that
actually turns on the light when and
where the light is needed. This
medium seems to me to be right be
hind the actual salesman and the
actual rise.”
Probably one of the greatest
prides of Mr. Ewald is in the finan
cial integrity of his organization dur
ing its entire corporate life. It has
never missed a cash discount in the
ymyment of publication and other
bills—nor a payroll—for even during
the State of Michigan, and later, the
national bank holiday in 1933, the
money for the. payroll was rushed
from New York City by airplane.
LET’S KEEP A COW
In any plan for better living for
farm families, the dairy
cow fills a most important place be
cause she produces the finest human
food. Farm families with even a
limited amount of land can feed a
cow, at least a good part of the time
on things that might otherwise go
to waste.
Although in many cases, there is
enough acreage in pasture and feed
crmjp to supply the cow with most
of her needs, often the family cow
may be tied out and get lots of feed
in places like ditch banks or other
land not suitable for cultivation.
To this grazing may be added any
surplus or off-grade vegetables from
the garden, such as turnips or other
root crops, surplus greens, etc. Of
course, when in production, she will
need some other grain feed but by
using the feed at hand the cost can
be kept low.
In answer to the question as to
when it might be recommended that
a family with very little land keep
a cow, an individual family could
figure it out for themselves. In a
'family of two adults and three chil
dren, a gallon of milk a day is need
ed. Most families of five who have
no cow do not feel that they can af
ford to buy that much milk daily. If
they own a cow they can probably
have all the milk they need, and
with good planning, the cow could
be well fed for much less than the
cost of a gallon of milk a day.
The milk cow should have a shed
Or stale and this, too, can often be
provided at little cost with family
labor and any kind of material.
Very often the old saying of “Where
there’s a will, there’s a way” is
found to be true. The dairy cow
can furnish such a big part of the
family food and supply so much
health and happiness that every niral
family who can possibly do so should
have a cow.
To think we are able is almost to
be so; to determine upon attainment
is frequently attainment itself; earn
est l-esolution has often seemed to
hzvr about it almost a sr.vor of
omnipotence.—Smiles.
THE AMERICAN WAY
What u the “American Way”?
Everyone is inclined to think that
his own way of thinking, his own
beliefs and practices, constitute the
American way. The term is used
to justify the most contradictory
ideas. Nevertheless there are some
principles and practices that are
distinctly American.
We have built up our civilization
here, and diawn our social pattern,
on a basis of individual freedom.
It includes freedom of worship, of
speech and press and assembly, of
residence and movement; liberty to (
•pursue an occupation of one’s own
choice, to acquire and own property, i
and to enter into voluntary associ-1
ation with others in enterprise; and j
the right to participate in govern-1
ment through representatives whose
arbitrary power is restricted by j
basic and statutory law and who are
periodically accountable to the peo
ple. These rights do not constitute
the whole range of American free
dom, but ure among the most funda
mental.
It is true that these are not re
garded as absolute rights. We im
pose limits by custom and by public
authority. But we try to adhere to
the pattern and we recur to it when
ever it is temporarily disregarded.
The conviction persists that this in
dividual freedom must be maintain
ed —limited only in order to pre
serve the maximum of it for all.
For in the freest possible exercise
of individual initiative and energy
we see the mainspring of our past
achievement and the guaranty of a
great future—the fulfillment of the
promises of American life
There is no other plan of human
relations we know of mat has pro
duced or is producing a like result.
Certainly the totalitarian systems
now spreading over Europe—and
not without their advocates here—
bear no fruit that we crave. We
believe in hal'd work—but in occu
pations of our own choice; in co
operation—but of a free people.
Free institutions, however, af
fording the maximum of individual
opportunity are not an accident of
nature, like the climate—nor do they
persist like the sun, moon, and stars
for whose existence and movements
and continuance we feel no respon
sibilty. Generations of vigorous, in
dustrious, and adventurous people
have established these institutions.
Only people of the same sort can
safeguard and maintain them. A
corollary of individual freedom is
individual responsibility; each gen
eration must earn again, by hard
work, devotion to duty, loyal co
operation, productive achievement,
its right to be free.
Through all the changed conditions
that our increasing mastery of na
ture creates, through all the adjust
ments and readjustments of human
relations that such changes require, j
we are insistent on maintaining our
heritage of freedom. Essentially,
this ideal, interpreted in practice as
well as our social experience and
social intelligence permit, is the
American way.
United States Army Air
Planes Reaches 4,000
Secretary of War Stimson has ad j
vised the Senate Foreign Relations j
Committee that the strength of the
air corps is now about 4,000 planes. I
The regular army air corps, Stim
son testified, now has about 3,700
planes; and national guard, about
300. Slightly less than half are
tactical planes, bombers and fighters,
he said. The remainder were classi
fied as trainers.
In the course of his testimony,
Stimson reported that Great Britain
cv' n.sidered her (ground deffense
against aircraft to be “in excellent
condition without any help from
us.”
One British anti-aircraft gun, he
indicated, had created a very favor
able impression on American techni
cal experts and might be adopted for
use by the United States armed forc
es.
Stimson testified that thus far 1,-
600 of the 3.200 army planes au
thorized in 1939 have been deliv
ered. He said deliveries during the
past two years have totaled 2,501
planes, which 958 were combat ships
and 1,543 were training planes.
Questioned about American trans
fers of military equipment to Britain
after the British withdrawal from
Dunkirk, Stimson said that Britain
paid the full list price for some of
the equipment and that some of it
was purchased for as little as one
fourth of the original cost. The
sale, he added, enabled the U. S.
army to place order's “for new and
modern munitions.”
“There have been no transfers of
any modern weapons of the kind
tbit the British now want,” Stimson
testified.
THE JACKSON IIKRALD. JKFFKRSON. GKOIMHA
“EASY TERMS”
Europeans visiting this country
often look with astonishment upon
the American “system” of buying
I and spending. and wonder why de
pressions do not hit this country
more frequenty than they do. Thrift
Magazine, now defunct, once pub
! liahed a “candid diary” of a man
who apparently believed in this sys
tem, and practiced it religiously.
1 Let us consider the result of this
j policy, according to this record:
“January 4. Bought an automo
bile today. Very easy terms. Very
fine car, with cigar lighter on dash.
Ought to finish payment on this in
eighteen months.”
“February 4. Paid installments
due on car. Bought a radio set on
easy terms. Fine set, and payment
will be small and monthly.”
“March 7. A little late with pay
ment on the car this month, and
will have to let the radio payment go
over until April, as I bought a set
of books and paid $ll.OO down, i
Very fine books. Everybody should
have this set of books.”
“April 15. Borrowed $50.00 from
the boss to meet payment on car. |
The radio man came to take away
the set, but we put out the lights
and weren’t home. The chump hung
around all 'evening, so I couldn’t
see to read the books.”
"June 1. Borrowed SIOO from
Uncle George to pay the $50.00 I
borrowed from the boss, and also
Ito meet payment on car. Got behind
a little on the book payments, be
cause I bought a piece of land in a
new real estate development. The
land ought to jump in value. Paid
$50.00 down.”
“August 15. Somehow I don’t
miss the radio set much. And you
can get plenty of books from the pub
lic library. The thing that hurts is
that Uncle George should be so
mean. Of course, I told him I’d pay
back the SIOO on August Ist; but
you can’t do the impossible, can you?
l tying to arrange a character loan
from the bank. If I can borrow
$250, I can get square again, and
everything will go fine.”
“August 16. Bank says I have no
character. What a bunch of crooks!”
“iSeptember 30. The garage man
is holding the car for that labor bill.
What right has he to hold the car?
It doesn’t belong to me.”
“October 1. It wasn’t any use. 1
had to let the car go. Anyway,
I’d rather have that piece of land.
They’ve given me a month’s grace
on that. Real estate people have
more heart, after all.”
“November 15. Well, they can
have their old land. Good riddance.
If I knew where to get S3O to meet
the payments on the piano, I’d be
all right. Bought anew automo
bile today, on the “pay out of in
come’ plan.”
“November 16. Income stopped.
Got the sock at the office. In look
ing for a job you’ve got to have a
suit of clothes, so I bought one to
day. Five dollars down.”
RAISE MORE LIVESTOCK
(From Valdosta Times)
Informed agricultui’al leaders who
have studied the farm outlook in
Georgia and other southern states
express the belief that hogs and beef
cattle offer excellent sources of in
come for farmers in this state for
at least the next two years.
They point out that our export
trade for farm products is dwindling
because of the war and that this
foreign market will probably stay
down for several years. Our own
government is spending vast sums
here at home on defense projects and
this should bring about an expansion
of the home market for farm pro
ducts. Thus it is argued that farm-
ers would do well to cut down on
their production of export crops and
replace them with crops that can
be disposed of to advantage here at
home.
Hog and beef cattle should find a
ready market, as the government is
going to find it necessary to pur
chase large qualtities of these pro
ducts to feed the men who are en
gaged in defense activities.
This suggestion sounds sensible.
Ir. the light of such a situation it
would appear that farmers in this
section would do well to plan their
1941 crops with the view to pro
ducing more hogs and beef cattle.
Last week one of J. S. Garrard’s
farm hands was plowing two fine
mules near Washington in an open
field. Nothing was pecular about
that. But there was an old, filledin
well in the field. Just as the mules
reached what had once been a well,
the earth opened and swallowed them
into a pit. One of them, Mr. Gar
rard’s best, was instantly killed in
the fall, but Rufus Rider appeared
with a wi'ecking machine and hoist
ed the other mule out of the trap
with little injury to the animal.
Three Partner*—lndustry,
Labor, Government
The defense program will furnish
the acid test of our government, our
industries and our workers. There
can be no alibis for failures.
There can be no excuse for waste
of time and effort. This year, which
is perhaps the most critical year in
our history as a democracy, may tell
whether free individual enterprise is
to survive—or whether it is to be
replaced by another system, in which
government is the dominant factor
in all our lives.
In the problem our nation faces,
there are three partners. Each has
vast responsibilities, for failure of
either could destroy the others. One
partner is industry, to which we turn
for the means of defense and the im
plements of peace—the factories,
farms and mines, the power plants
which motivate the machines, the
transportation systems which haul
the raw materials and the finished
goods—these are the backbone of
America. Private indusbry must do
a greater job than it ever did before
to demonstrate its production and
service superiority as its reason for
existence.
The second partner is labor—the
men who operate the machines and
build the weapons of defense and
the necessities and luxuries of peace,
The responsibility of labor is crystal
clear. It must work harder, and
produce more. It must outlaw
strikes and settle grievances between
it and industry, over the arbitration
table. It must put aside petty jeal
ousies and internal differences for
the duration of the emergency, if ift
wishes to hold public sympathy and
good will.
The third partner is government
$200.00
IN CASH PRIZES
WILL BE GIVEN AWAY TO OUR FERTILIZER CUSTOMERS
We Want a Prosperous Section, and to have Prosperity we
must Increase our Yield of Cotton Per Acre.
As an Inducement to this end we are Offering for the Largest
Yields of Lint Cotton in 1941 Cash Prizes as Follows:
IST LARGEST YIELD SIOO.OO
2nd Largest Yield _ _ $40.00 4th Largest Yield _ _ $20.00
3rd Largest Yield __ $30.00 sth Largest Yield SIO.OO
RULES OF THIS CONTEST:
1 Any fanner in Jackson, Barrow, Banks or Gwinnett coun
-1 • ties using Johnson’s Cotton Grower exclusively (3-9-3,
4-8-4, 4-10-4, 5-7-5) may enter the contest.
O You must notify us on the blank below before May Ist,
“ * 1941 that you desire to enter the contest.
O The Yield must be calculated on your entire farms as rep
resented by your AAA contract number or numbers and
must be at least 5 acres in cotton, as reported by your
AAA Office.
A Certified copies of your yield from your AAA office must
be furnished us by March 1, 1942. In case of a tie for
any prize, the money will be divided equally.
It Costs you Nothing to Enter. You May Win a Valuable
Prize and Help Yourself at the Same Time.
This Contest Not Open to Any Employees or Agents of this Firm.
FARMERS WAREHOUSE
Jefferson, Georgia.
USE THIS ENTRY BLANK
P. O. Ga., 1941
FARMERS WAREHOUSE,
Jefferson, Ga.
Dear Sirs:
I desire to enter your contest for larger yields of cotton per
acre in 1941.
My AAA contract is No. or Nos
My 1941 cotton acreage allotment js
acres and my farm is in County.
Signed
Its financial strength depends upon
taxes taken from the earnings o.
private industry. The duty of gov
ernment now is to adopt a policy o
friendly cooperation with industry,
and thus help it meet the extraordi
nary difficult problems it faces in
order to supply the emergency needs
of government.
So it’s up to the three partners
now. Walter Lkppmann recently
wrote, “American industry will not
fail in the test. . . The world will
see this year the proof that this
young continent possesses the energy
which, throttled down in these 10
years of depression and confusion,
will pour forth to astound the
world.”
Junior Class Stages Play,
“All A Mistake” at Nichol
son, Friday Night, March
7th, 1941, 7:30 p. m.
Cast of Characters:
Capt. Obadiah Skinner, A Retir
ed Sea Captain, Sanford Massey.
Lieut. George Richmond, His
Nephew, Clarence Pittman.
Richard Hamilton, A Country
Gentleman, Joe Williamson.
Ferdinand Lighthead, A Neighbor,
Jack Anthony.
Nellie Richmond, George’s Wife,
Myzelle Smith.
Nellie Huntington, A Friend, Ben
nie Anthony.
Cornelia (Nellie) Skinner, Oba
diah’s Sister, Naomi Duncan.
Nellie Mclntyre, A Servant, Doro
thy Johnson.
Time: The Present.
Place: House and Grounds of
Capt. Obadian Skinner, otherwise
known as “Oak Farm”, Westchester,
and adjoining the State Insane Asy-
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941.
lum.
Timo of playing: About 2 hours.
SYNOPSIS FOR PROGRAM:
Act. I. The arrival of George and
his bride. The dilemma. A friend
in need. The plot against the Cap
tain and its disastrous effect. The
old maid and her secret. Ferdy j n
search of a wife. George’s jealousy.
The sudden appearance of a most
undersirable party. George’s quick
wit prevents discovery.
ACT. 11. The plot thickens. Cor
nelia in search of her “Romeo.”
Nell gets a letter, which adds to the
mystery. The downfall of Ferdy.
Richard attempts to try the “sooth
ing system” on a lunatic. George
has a scheme connected with a fire
in the furnace and some pitch tar.
Richard runs amuck amid general
confusion.
ACT 111. The Captain arms him
self with a butcher knife and plans
revenge. Richard attempts to es
cape. Nellie hopelessly insane. The
comedy duel. “Romeo” at last.
“Only one Nellie in the world.” The
unravelling of a skein of mystery,
and the finish of an exciting day,
to find it was “All A Mistake.”
Because of bad weather and so
much sickness, there has been little
entertaining this school year. Please
cooperate with the juniors and help
them make this play a success. Small
admission of 10 and 15 cents for
benefit of school.
The public has a cordial invita
tion to attend.
The plane crash near Jonesboro,
early Thursday morning, broke a
record for safety that has been en
joyed by the Atlanta municipal air
port ever since it was first establish
ed. Never before has a passenger
on a regular commercial plane suf
fered personal injury within a radius
of several hundred miles of Atlanta.