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THEJACKSONHERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered •! The Jefferson Postoffice
As Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor & Manager
MRS JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor A Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., MAR. 20, 1941.
Immediately after the Lend-Lease
bill had been passed Britain prepar
ed to rush two special missions to
the United States to negotiate for
urgently needed ships and food sup
plies under this bill which Prime
Minister Winston Churchill applaud
ed as ‘‘insuring the defeat of Naz
ism.”
Just what a court house can do
with a piano is beyond our compre
hension, unless the ordinary can
use it for wedding marches, but the
Board of Commissioners of Walton
county are endeavoring to procure a
piano for the Walton county court
bouse.
Georgia farmers have led the na
tion for the last three consecutive
years in the planting of abandoned
farmland and understocked forest
tree. More than 32,000,000 forest
tree seedlings were planted on some
40,000 acres of Georgia farmland in
1940, bringing the total reforestation
acreage in this state since a decade
ago to around 80,000 on which over
64 million trees are growing.
A private Greene county citizen
and the Mary-Leila Cotton Mill of
Greensboro have each offered SIOOO
towards the erection of a hospital in >
Greensboro and the Greene County t
Board of Commissioners have been
requested to use $15,000 of the
State Highway road certificates to
assist in erecting a hospital under a
WPA project.
'
Lespedeza is one of the best soil
improvement crops adapted to Geor
gia. Abandoned land is being
brought back to production by its
natural growth. To hasten the im
provement of such land the area
■should be terraced—if it needs to be
—fertilized, disced and 30 to 40
pounds of seed sown per acre. The
seed should be covered lightly. If
left to reseed, the area will be cam
•pletely covered the second year.
An application of phosphate and
lime, where needed, will be very
beneficial in hastening the process
of soil improvement.
The national defense program,
•with a big army and navy consum
ing millions of pounds of meat in
fhe next few years, should prove a
boon to the livestock industry, and
should encourage Georgia fanners
to produce more and more livestock.
The army is now buying 414 pounds
of meat pei' man annually, as com
pared to the national average of
160 pounds per man. Another
reason for the higher prices paid for
livestock now is the smaller supply
of hogs and cattle—the smallest in
recent years. There is a demand
for all the livestock Georgia can
produce.
No man ever carried heavier bur
dens than rest on the shoulders of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and there is
great significance in the fact that his
leadership is sti-onger with the peo
ple today than at any time since he
entei-ed the White House. The peo
ple trust his judgment, and not even
the bitterest political partisanship
can place his leadei'ship in jeopardy.
It is he who has geared this nation
to a defense effort unequaled in the
history of nations. It gives our
enemies fair notice that the democ
racies are still capable of meeting
their enemies.—Albany Herald.
Governor Talmadge never was
bull-headed in the l'ight direction
more entirely than in his determin
ntion to publish the names of all
persons receiving old-age pensions,
and the amount they receive, in spite
of all pressure from Washington.
As far as the authority goes, Geor
gia is still a sovereign state and is
ontitled to publish the names of
those on whom it confers benefits
from the money of Georgia taxpay
ers. In practice, nothing could in
sure a proper distribution of this
money better than the fierce, white
light of publicity. Every neighbor
hood knows instances where the un
worthy get pensions and the deserv
ing go without. Let’s check up on
the entire system.—Macon Tele
graph.
All Our War* Have
Begun In April
(Albany Herald)
If you are superstitious, or be
lieve in portents, or are persuaded
that “history repeats itself,” or have
a feeling that the United States is
predestined (as we Presbyterians
are supposed to view such matters)
to get into this widening war, it is
suggested that you tighten your belt,
draw a deep breath and get ready
for eventualities.
For all wars have begun for the
United States in the month of April.
There is no particular reason why
April should be our fighting month,
though that is the way it has work
ed out, beginning with the Revolu
tion and coming down the years to
and including the first World War.
The Battle of Concord which precip
itated the Revolution was fought on
April 19. 1775, and ever since the
month of April has been our war-
beginning month.
Three weeks from next Tuesday
will mark the advent of another
April. Our country is nominally at
peace with every other country, but
our sympathies are overwhelmingly
with Old World democracies stand
ing in the path of conquest-bound
dictators. We are throwing all pos
sible support to Britain, and are de
termined to aid Greece, Turkey and
China.
It is a strangely constituted citi
zen of this democracy who wants to
see it plunged into war. Americans
are a peace-loving people, but they
take seriously the threat of Hitler
ism and the brand of war it wages,
and are engaged in a tremendous
preparedness effort which gathers
momentum hourly. American in
dustry is now in high gear. It has
power to create the offensive and
defensive paraphernalia of war which
can meet the threat of Hitlerism. In
it is the democracies’ hope of victory
and survival.
And fateful April is just around
the corner. But let not a success
sion of coincidences trouble you. Co
incidences are interesting, but they i
are not fateful.
Home Orchard For
Every Georgia FSA
Family Is Planned
A home orchard for every FSA
family in Georgia is one of the cur
rent objectives of the Farm Security
Adm in ist ratio n.
There has been a statewide neg
lect of home orchards since 1900
and the situation is deplorable for
a good orchard is the equal in im
portance to garden and truck patch
es. Too many Georgia families
are buying canned fruits and vege
tables which aren’t as nutritious and
are expensive when they have to be
bought.
Every farmer in this state, both
FSA and others, who attempts to
live at home would profit from a
home orchard, well cared for, and it
should be the aim of every Georgia
agricultural agency to see that this
is brought about.
Greene county was the first to get
under way with the “orchard per
family” program, where 2,880 trees
have been set on 320 FSA farms.
The trees, nine to the orchard, were
bought co-operatively from a laige
Geoxgia nui’sery and consists of one
apple, one pear, and seven peach
trees. All the trees have been plan
ted and were from two to three years
old and from four to five feet high.
Changes Announced
In Driver’s Exams
Sergeant P. B. Weeks, in charge
of the State Patrol station in Gain
esville, has announced a change in
schedule for Safe Driver Examina
tions in this district.
An Examiner will be on duty ev
ery day, except Sunday, in Gaines
ville and Toccoa and every second
and fourth Thursday afternoons in
Jefferson.
The change is already effective.
Schedules for other counties in
this district are:
Cleveland in White county, Dah
lonega in Lumpkin county, every
first and third Mondays.
Hiawassee in Towns county and
Blairsville in Union, every second
and fourth Tuesdays.
Dawsonville in Dawson county
and Camming, Forsyth county, ev
ery first and third Wednesdays.
Winder, Barrow county every sec
ond and fourth Thursdays mornings.
LawTenceville, in Gwinnett coun
ty, every first and third Fridays.
Shearer, Furniture Designer
Shearer collaborated with Hep
plewhite and is credited with the
familiar sideboard design. Hisdraw
fr"s appear In “Designs for House
hold Furn;ture” ('.'7?'"'.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
KNOW YOUR TIMBER
(Emily Woodward)
Georgia pine trees are being draf
, ted for service in national defense.
A recent contract awarded to a
i group of Georgia lumbermen calls
| for eighty million feet of lumber to
be used in the U. S. Army’s con
struction program.
Eighty Million Feet of Lumber!
Approximately three million Georgia
trees, fourteen to sixteen inches in
diameter, will be required to fill this
one order. The money return for
these trees will gross almost a mil
lion and a half dollars. A part of
this money will trickle into the i
pockets of laborers who must be em
ployed for cutting the trees and con-
verting the into the finished product.
From the pockets of the laborers it
will find its way to the coffers of the
merchants, grocers, doctors and den
tists who sell commodities and ser
vices which Georgia laborers must
buy.
In addition to this, these eighty
million feet of lumber must be trans
ported to the points of construction.
Here the railroads and truck lines
and their employees will share in an
additional money return from these
products. There will be additional
distribution following the same chan
nels.
In view of such widespread bene
fits provided by the State’s forest
resource', is it not just plain com
mon sense for Georgians in all walks
of life to be interested in the pro
tection and development of these re
sources?
It is because some Georgians in
the past have been actively' interest
ed in forest protection and develop
ment, that such a large order for
lumber can be filled without serious
ly depleting the State’s forest lard
er.
With such a drain on Georgia’s
pine products, its is comforting to
know that sixty four million young
pines have been planted in the State
in the past three years, that eighty
thousand eroded acres are now re
habilitated with a cover of growing
pines.
It is an unhappy fact, however,
that while Georgians on the one
hand are working to conserve and
increase the 'State’s forest acreage,
there yet remain in the State those
who persist in carrying on the work
of destruction.
The number one enemy of Geor
gia’s forests is FI'RE. With the na
tional emergency existing, in which
forest products play so important a
part, it seems more essential than
ever to find some way to put an end
to useless forest fires.
FDR DECLARES
DEMOCRACY
THREATENED
Washington.—President Roosevelt
told farmers celebi’ating the eighth
bii-thday anniversai-y of the AAA
Saturaly night that if democracy
should be extinguished from the rest
of the world, neither theii- farm pro
grams nor the democratic way of
life could hope to survive.
Then saying that democracy over
large areas of the old world is
threatened with extinction, the chief
executive declared:
“We cannot escape our collective
responsibility for the kind of life
that is going to emerge from the
ordeal through which the world is
passing today.
“We may dischaige that respon
sibility unwisely, but we catj not
escape the consequences of our
choice. We would have it a world
in which we may live in peace,
freedom and security—the kind of
world our farmer forefathers dream
ed of and worked for as they settled
the Atlantic seaboard and pushed
their way to the West.
“I am confident,” he added,
“that the farmers of 1941 want this
kind of world to survive.”
The president spoke from his
White House study into radio micro
phones which carried his words to
thousands of farmers gathered at
rural dinners held throughout the
country to celebrate the day in 1933
that he summoned farm leaders to
Washington to draft the Agricultural
Adjustment legislation.
At his side were Vice President
Henry A. Wallace and Agriculture
Secretary Claude A. Wickard. both
of whom followed him on the broad
cast.
Vice President Wallace, describ
ing President Roosevelt as the “best
friend” agriculture ever has had in
the White House, told the farmers
that the chief executive, like them,
loved peace.
Joining Wallace in praising the
president’s efforts in behalf of agri
culture, Secretary Wickard declared
that without AAA farm program
agriculture would be “as helpless as
?n 1932.”
NEGRO SCHOOL
FUND VOTED
The House passed its first appro
priation bill of the 1941 session
Wednesday, providing for equipping
and operating a training school for
negro girls at Macon.
An appropriation of $15,000 was
voted for the year ending June 30,
1941, and $20,000 for the 1942 fiscal
year.
In 1936, the State Federation of
Colored Women’s clubs secured 130
acres near Macon on which, with ft
WPA grant under sponsorship of
Bibb county commissioners, they
erected a $26,000 home to be used
for the purpose of training delinquent
negro girls.
Since that time, the plant has
stood empty, locked, and deserted.
Bibb county grand juries, along
with the state department of public
welfare and newspapers throughout
the state, have consistently recom
mended that the administration take
advantage of the opportunity which
the Macon plant presented, but no
legislature, until this one appropriat
ed any money for its maintenance.
Governor .Eugene Talmadge has
stated that he is sure from $1,000,000
to $1,500,000 of highway work can
be done during 1941, despite the
curtailments made necessary by get
ting the State Highway Department
back into better financial condition.
The Governor stated that much of
this work should be done with WPA
assistance which means that it will,
in most instances, be work on post
roads and secondary roads. Jackson
county ought to keep this in mind
and endeavor to obtain as many as
possible of these contracts for pav
ing of post roads and secondary
highways.
$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 farmer 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. 0. 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
JUDGE WOOD ISSUES
STATEMENT ON SUIT
BY BEER RETAILER
Atlanta, March 8.-—Judge John S.
Wood, state director of the Brewers
and Beer Distributors Committee of
Georgia, today issued the following
statement in regard to a $50,000
damage suit filed this week against
him and various members of the
committee by D. J. Lamb, Richmond
county retailer, whose license to sell
beer wus revoked early last year:
“I have not been served with pap
ers in the suit which newspapers re
port has been filed by a Richmond
county beer retailer against me and
various members of the Brewers and
Beer Distributors committee of Geor
gia. Consequently I am not in po
sition to comment on this particular
matter.
“However, the possibility of such
retaliatory action was not overlook
ed when the brewing industry’s pro
gram of self-regulation was formu
lated in 1938 by the United Brew
ers Industrial Foundation. The in
dustry felt then, as it feels now, that
the risk of suc*h action was more
than justified by the social benefits
accruing to the public and to the
industry from such a program. It
was also felt that such action would
neither meet with public approval nor
legal support. This was px-oved when
a similar suit filed against the Ne
braska Bi-ewers and Beer Distribu
tors Committee resulted in a verdict
in favor of the industry.
“In the past year we have co-op
erated with law enforcement author
ities in the license revocations of 39
law-violating beer retailers. This ac
tion, which is purely voluntai-y on
the part of the industry, is suppor
ted by approximately 97 per cent of
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941.
the brewers and beer distributors and
the vast majority of retailers doing
business in Georgia.
“Our method of operation is an
orderly process. When our investi
gation establishes law violation in a
retail beer outlet, no action is taken
against the licensee until (he jhas
been given fair warning and an op
portunity to cease his objectionable
practices. Most beer licensees are
law-abdiing and we feel that they,
as well as the public and the indus
try, are entitled to protection against
the scattered few law violators who
jeopardize the legal sale of beer.
“Our position is in agreement
with Attorney General Arnall’s opin
ion, rendered in 1940, to the effect
that our program is ‘beneficial to the
public interest and the welfare of
our state. . . . and does not conflict
with Georgia laws and is valid and
legal.'
“Today, as one of the brewing
industry’s self-regulation commit
tees opei-ating in 14 states, our
Georgia committee cites the reported
suit as additional proof of its de
termination to co-operate with local
and state authorities in enforcing
laws and regulations surrounding
the retail sale of beer.”
Men who have become 21 years
of age since October 16, 1940, are
not required to register for Selective
training unless or until another
registration day is proclaimed by the
President. Nevertheless, they can
volunteer. This announcement was
made by General Sion B. Hawkins,
Director of Selective Service for the
State of Georgia, because of num
erous inquiries being received at
State Headquarters and by local
boards.