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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Ent*mt at The Jeffarion Potoffice
A* Sacond-Clat* Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackton County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor A Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor A Manager
JEFFERSON, GA.. MAR. 13. 1941
MUST WE FIGHT JAPAN?
The war clouds sewn to be de
scending again in the east. Each
day we see more in the newspapers
to the effect that we will have to
fight Japanese. Just why this will
be necessary, is something which is
a little difficult to explain clearly, if
we are to look after Uncle Sam’s in
terests first, and not those of some
other power.
One reason given for our fighting
Japan is that we feel so sorry for
China. The United States does have
much sympathy for the Chinese.;
They are a non-aggressive people
and for years they have been har
rassed on two sides, by the Russians j
and the Japs. Many people there
fore are altruistic enough! to feel j
that we ought to fight the Japs to
protect China, because China is help
less and they think China is a “de
mocracy.”
It is true that China has been
somewhat helpless in a military way,
although she has been giving a pret
ty good account of herself against
Japan during the past few years.
But China’s helplessness is her own
fault. Instead of unifying their na
tion and arming for defense against
the aggression of Japan, the Chinese
have expended their resources fight
ing one another. They have more
than six times as many people than
the Japs and many times the wealth
in natural resources yet they permit
the Japs to ravage their land. Fur
thermore just as China is not uni
fied, it is no democracy. It has been
ruled by a succession of brigand war
lords for years.
Another reason why we are told
we must fight Japan is to defend
the status quo in the Far East. Just
why we must do this remains ob
scure. We have no possessions there
now. It is true we have foreign
trade, but there is no assurance the
Japanese will take our foreign trade
away from us even if they have the
chance. Even now Japan is one of
our best customers. If she wants to
trade with us now, why not later, es
pecially when she needs our very
important market for her silks?
Asa matter of fact preserving the
status quo does not mean maintain
ing our rights there but safeguarding
the interest of England and Hol
land. That is why so many of our
internationalists feel that we will
“necessarily” have to fight Japan in
the near future.
Uncle Sam must indeed fight Ja
pan, if one set of conditions comes
about, and that is if Japan attacks
us. But fighting a defensive war
and seeking to preserve the status
guo in the Orient thousands of miles
away are two different things. Truly
we are straying far from the path
cut out for us by the founding fath
era
Story of Cotton
Quota Mixup Told To
AAA Boss By Tarver
Washington.—To AAA Adminis
trator R. M. Evans and members of
an appropriations subcommittee of
•the Huoe, Representative Tarver
(Democrat, Georgia) related this
story:
A Georgia farmer was given a
cotton allotment of five acres. When
his planting was done, the official
measurers came around to see if he
was staying within his acreage quota.
They found that his patch contain
ed only four acres, and told him he
was one acre underplanted.
The next year, the AAA cut his
allotment to four acres, explaining
to him, “you cannot have more plan
ted this year than you had in any
one of the three preceding years.
Therefore you cannot have more
than four acres in cotton.”
The farmer said, “I just want to
plant this one field anyway.” So he
did.
Then the measurers came around
again. When their job was done,
•they told him.
“That field contains five and a half
acres and you are one and a half
acres overplanted.”
For failing to stay within his al
lotment, he received no parity pay
ments and paid a penalty on his con
servation benefits.
“UNCLE SAM’S BIG
HOUSEHOLD”
Every spring for the post four
years the Smiths had talked about
getting anew sofa for the living
room. Now, at long last, the time
seemed to have come to make the
purchase. Mother had found “juat
the thing” she wanted down at the
furniture store. Father had said
“go ahead, get it” and the children
had said it was "certainly a honey.”
But there was to be one more solemn
conference on the subject.
"Maybe we ought to save the
money for a trip this summer or put
it away in the bank. No telling
what’s going to happen,” Mother
magnanimously, seeing that beauti
ful new sofa in her mind’s eye all
the time. While Bill piped up with
the suggestion that he could certain
ly use anew bicycle and Sister won
dered when she’d ever have anew
rug for her bedroom. But Father
was adamant. “No, children,” he
told them. “We can’t have every
thing and your Mother’s got her
heart set on that sofa. Maybe we
can get that bicycle this fall and the
rug another spring.”
Little scenes like this are going
on in homes all over the country this
spring as they have been for gen
erations. For there’s an old sayiny
that “we cannot eat our cake and
have it too” and in most households
we can’t buy everything at once. If
we spend for a sofa we must go
without a rug for the time being . .
and if we buy anew car we must
go easy on other expenses. Of
course, there are certain things that
must be bought day after day, year
in and year out—such as food,
clothes and shelter—but we have to
arrange for every big expenditure.
Our country as a whole, has its
spending problems too. There’s
just so much in the national treas
ury. and even if we increase taxes,
there’s still a limit to what Uncle
Sam has to spend on bis big house
hold.
Right now our country has to
spend more than we can imagine on
guns and planes and ships and
camps, and every one is agreed that
these amounts must be poured out
in order to make us so strong no
country will dare to attack us. But
because we’re spending all of this
on Defense we must go easy other
places or there will be trouble—
just as there would be in your fami
ly budget if you insisted on buying
everything at once.
And where can we save? Not on
needed relief . . not on insurance
. . . not on the regular functions of
government but on the waste and
extravagance of local governments.
Experts tell us that millions of dol
lars could be saved for Uncle Sam if
people would watch local expendi
tures; if we would take the trouble
to see that the money spent right at
home, under our noses as it were, is
spent wisely and without waste.
It will take a little trouble ... it
might take a little time ... but it
will he worth it if we all help keep
our country to be as reasonable
about spending as our family is!
“GOOD OLD DAYS”
Below, we give the reaction one
writer has when he hears someone
raving about the “Good Old Days”
of the long ago.
Good old Days—when you couldn’t
phone for a doctor. When you had
to take your bath in a washtub.
When the only way to cure a tooth
ache was to pull the tooth. “'Good
old days” of undelivered mail, ford
ed creeks and huhdeep mud; of
dropping corn by hand, cultivating
it with a hoe and grinding your own
corn meal. “Good old days” of green
coffee out of a burlap sack, of home
roasting and of hand coffee grind
ers. “Good old days” of no automo
biles, or movies . . . no newspapers
or magazines; when the most excit
ing thing you could do was to write
a jingle in her autograph album or
butter your hands and pull taffy.
When you took heated rocks to bed
with you in winter and shooed flies
all summer with slit paper on the
end of a hickory withe. How can
anybody, spinning along over perfect
roads in one of these slick-running
1941 cars, with the radio on, talk
about “the good old days.”
Mother, would you like to go back
to the old tin cupboard and wood
box? Would you like to drain lye
out of an ash barrel, make your
own soap and boil your clothes in an
iron kettle? Father, would you like
to take a wax-end and a mouthful of
wooden pegs and make yourself a
pair of boots? “The good old days”
were noble. Viewed down the long
corridor of memory', they lure us. . .
but not for long. Our better sense
tells as all that is just “grass on the
other side of the fence.” And we
give thanks that this is 1941!
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
GEORGIA’S POLITICAL
JOBBERY
U has been diacloaed through The
Atlanta Journal's news columns that
Georgia has one State employee for
every 35 of its voters who cast a bal
lot in the November, 1940, general
election.
At the close of the fiscal year
ended June 30 last, there were 8,-
769 employees on the State pay
roll, and the sum of their salaries
and wages came to $13,612,239.
These figures do not include 22,852
public school teachers paid by the
State, nor the 257 members of the
Legislature whose regular sessions
cost the taxpayers about a quarter of
a million dollars. It appears further
that only 12 States have larger pub
lic pay rolls than Georgia, namely,
New York, New Jersey. Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Oklahoma, California,
Virginia, North Carolina and Louisi
ana. In number of State employes
Georgia stands fifteenth, but in the
amount of the public pay roll thir
teenth.
Commenting, the Journal editor
says: “What is the relation, if any,
between these facts and t'he finan
cial and political problems of our
State government? Is there too
much overhead and too little head
work? Too many parasites and too
few producers? Are the privileges
of those who hold the jobs regarded
more tenderly than the rights of
those who foot the bills? Between
1934 and the end of the fiscal year
1940, from which the State pay roll
figures quoted above were taken,
Georgia’s tax income increased, ap
proximately, from $26,500,000 to
$46,500,000. Yet, in 1940 the State
fell many millions short of meeting
its obligations.
“To the victors belong the spoils”
is an adage still current. The larger
the spoils, the more insistent the
spoilsmen. A public pay roll exceed
ing $13,600,000 and involving more
than 8,700 employes is the sort of
temptation from which your hungry
politician never prays to be deliver
ed.
There is no legal limit to the pres
sure which a politician in power can
bring to bear upon those who de
pend upon his favor for their jobs;
and, like-wise, no legal limit to the
rewards which a politician seeking
power can promise those whose sup
port he needs.
A fundamental need of govern
ment in Georgia is a civil service
system under which employes would
be selected, retained and promoted
entirely on the merit principle, in
stead of being the pawns of faction
al politics. This would solve the
problem of overloaded pay rolls and
purge away the parasites; would de
velop a government personnel whose
efficiency would be the surest econo
my; would do much to purify poli
tics by divorcing i.t from patronage;
and, for all these reasons, would go
far toward making our democracy
work.
Old-Age Pensions And
Rural Routes Troubling
One Congressman
Public servants, especially con
gressmen who have influence in dis
tributing patronage, will read with
interest the following comments of
troubles encountered by Congress
man John Gibson:
“You fellows may be all hot and
bothered about the lease-lend bill,
and annoyed no end by letters from
home about the war, but you ‘don’t
know nothing’ ’bout botheration un
til you get a couple of rural route
carrier vacancies on your hands at
one and the same time,” laughted
John Gibson, talking to a group of
colleagues in the Speaker’s lobby.
“I’m telling you because, boys, I
know whereof I speak. But mind
you, lam not kicking. I like to hear
from home-folks, no matter what
they write about, and if it’s rural
routes that’s on their minds I am
ready to catch what they want to
say.”
Gibson, in a more serious vein,
said that he averages (net) seven
letters a day about prospective rural
route appointments.
“And these old-age pension boys
and girls,” he resumed in a spirit of
mirthfulness, “I am hearing from
them, too. Fact is. I hear more
about old-age pensions, in which 1
believe, by the way, than about the
war or lease-lend.
“Sure, I am answering the letters
and lam not sidestepping. I repeat,
I believe in old-age pensions fairly
and equitably distributed, and one
of these days when the opportunity
offers I am going to vote for such
legislation.”
Berries That Color Lips
Berries of the tangee tree, a rare
tropical plant, may be used in the
same %vny as lipstick.
THE BALANCE FAVORS
EUROPE
The remark is frequently made
that America owes “so much” to
Europe, but if a balance were struck
it would be found that Europe owes
America rather than the other way
round, according to Walter S. Steele
writing in the current issue of the
National Republic. In part Mr.
Steele says:
“The American people are not
the debtors of the world, or of any
nation in it. The world is debtor to
the American people and no change
in the flow of the Potomac River has
altered the structure of Mount Ver
non. the home of our first great
President, statesman and soldier,
George Washington; nor has it de
creased the value of his warmings
against meddling in European af
fairs. We had not fully appreciated
the value of these warnings until
after we had permitted ourselves to
be propagandized to extend our aid
‘short of war’ to engaging in actual
combat on European battlefields in
1917. The great advances in rtans
portation and communication have
not changed our responsibilities or
our ideals any more than they have
changed the warring countries of
Europe into peaceful nations.
“The world owes America because
this country for a century and a half
has given to the world a working
model of popular government which,
if it had been adopted by other na
tions, would have spared them the
necessity of fighting so many dis
astrous wars.
“The world is debtor to America
because America has welcomed to
her shores in the past millions of the
poverty stricken of other lands,
providing them with homes and a
$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:
I Any farmer in Jackson, Barrow, Banks or Gwinnett coun
* • ties using Johnson’s "Cotton Grower exclusively (3-9-3,
4-8-4, 4-10-4, 5-7-5) may enter the contest.
p 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 is
acres and my farm is in County.
Signed
country they can call their own.
America has divided with them land
and a large portion of her wealth.
She has fused these alien, discord
ant elements into a homogenous
whole, thus furnishing Europe with
evidence that the racial and nation
al differences which have tended to
keep that continent at war for a
century and a half can be composed,
and peace can be brought through
the mere emulation of our national
example.
“The world owes to America be
cause she is the only powerful na
tion in the world that has not used
brute strength to rob and oppress
her neighbors or distant peoples.
America has not been looking with
jealous and designing eyes upon the
territory of other nations.
“The world owes to America be-
cause, when other nations were di
viding the rich spoils of victory from
the first World War, America asked
nothing, either in territory or in
demnity. She asked for nothing but
justice and everlasting peace. It is
evident now, however, that even
these requests were not granted.
Isn’t it about time, then, that the
talk of what America owes the world
cease, and that we begin to think a
little bit more about what America
owes herself? The probleirfs which
confront America are sufficiently
large to tax our energies to the
limit, even though some would pre
fer to keep our minds off these
iproblems and to center them on the
problems of others to which they
seem more sensitive.”
To think we are able is almost to
be so; to determine upon attainment
is frequently attainment itself; earn
est resolution has often seemed to
have about it almost a savor of
omnipotence.—Smiles.
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941.
WOMEN CRIMINALS ARE
MOST DANGEROUS TYPE
Someone is always taking the joy
out of life for some people and now
it’s the G-men who show up the
modern so-called “weaker sex” with
these facts.
The woman criminal is more dan
gerous and violent than the male;
feminine crime is increasing.
There was no heart-shaped box or
love limerick sentiment at Federal
Bureau of Inpestigation headquart
ers as the G-men conjured up visions
of gun molls.
Files on 1940 crime showed that
although women commit fewer
crimes than men, their violations are
“more serious.”
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
said crime by females increased ap
preciably last year.
For each 1,000 men and 1,000 wo
men arrested during 1940, there
were 13 women charged with mur
der, but only 10 men.
The survey also showed that when
the criminal of the “gentle sex”
Btops short of murder, she isn’t re
luctant to give her victim a little
rough treatment. Sixty-three wo
men of each 1,000 arrests were
charged with assault, compared with
only 55 men out of 1,000.
G-men examined 609,013 arrest
records in 1940 and 8.5 per cent of
these were women. This was an in
crease from 7.6 per cent in 1939.
Where men thugs made women
thugs look poor by comparison was
in crimes against property such aa
burglary, robbery and auto theft.
The males dominated these fields.
Also to the feminine credit was
the fire record for sober driving.
Only 15 out of each 1,000 women
were charged with driving while
drunk, but for the men it was 50 out
of every 1,000.