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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Official Organ of Jackton Cwmmty
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor A Manager
MRS JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor A Manager
JEFFERSON, CA-. MARCH 27. IMI
April 1 the last day upon which
Application can be made for Hear
*tad and Personality tax exemptions
& the INI State and County Tax
return*.
Diamonds cutters in the United
State* hare become the highest paid
craftsmen under the new union wage
acales ranging from 1120 for a 35-
bour week to 3195 weekly.
Editor Roy P. OtwelL of the For
syth County News, remarks that
“Hitler continues his work of peace
ia the Balkans.” Which is some
thing like saying the wolf is romping
■with the three little pigs.
A total of 34,078.160 has been re
quested for repairs, improvement,
equipment and maintenance of
schools in the university system of
Georgia, Chanlellor S. V. Sanford
announced in his annual report.
Here’s hoping that Jackson county
citizens will not pass up the oppor
tunity to use the county’s canning
plant this spring and summer to can
surplus vegetables, fruits and meats.
Thousands of dollars could be saved
each year if the plant was used by
the families in the county.
Easter is in the offing and the
merchant who wishes his share of
the trade had better begin tellin"
the folks about what he has to offer. :
For the roads to Atlanta are broad
and inviting and the Atlanta stores
are advertising in the daily newspap- j
pers.
1 Bowdon is after Atlanta’s laurels
as a dogwood city. Already, 500
trees have been planted by the Busi
ness and Professional Woman’s Club.
Three streets have been lined with
them, and grounds at churches,
schools and industrial plants have
been planted.
It’s a mighty swell idea to let
gardening become a habit; a good
•one, of course. During the spring
is the best time to begin gardening,
.and to make it a habit, continue to
garden the year-round. In addition
to the money value, a garden pro
vides for health and happiness for
every member of the family.
Almost 12,000 modernization and
repair loans totalling nearly $3,-
950,000 were made in Georgia dur
ing 1940 under the FHA’s Property
Management Improvement Credit
program. The monthly average was
snore than 970 loans for over $325,-
000. The majority were on homes,
while some where for the renovation
of commercial structures.
The high cost of living in the
United States, usually occurring
during a period of war, is slowly
creeping up on the American family
again, according to the food cost
figures. Latest figures show that
the family grocery bill was 1.3 per
cent higher in February, 1941, than
in February 1940.
A group of Georgia’s older rural
youth at the University of Georgia
are taking information to other
youth in the state via radio, every
second and fourth Tuesdays over
the early morning program of WSB
at 5:45 OST. The college young
men and women, all of whom have
a farm background, discuss the
various problems confronting youth
and, from their experience, point out
the ways fann youth can best pre
pare to take advantage of the many
opportunities available.
Not only the people of Virginia
are proud, but the people of the
nation are happy over the fact that
Monticello, the home place of
Thomas Jefferson, has been freed
from debt and is now in the hands
of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation. This organization has
worked unceasingly to pay for this
estate, and to restore Monticello in
its original condition. The found
ation not only has paid off the $500,-
000 purchasers price, but has also
spent over $200,000 additional for
restoration work, repairs and im
provement*, and the purchase of
Jefferson’s furniture and relics.
“THANK GOD
FOR AMERICA”
There is a legend told of a youth
who came to a capital where men
from all countries were met to talk
about life and living. And he turned
to an old man to ask, “How can I
tell which is an American, and which
a European—since all are speaking
one language?” The old man ponder
ed a moment, and then he began to
speak. And this is what he said:
“Look about you carefully, my
son. If he wears a worried counten
ance, he is an American fighting for
business. If he wears s gas mask,
you will know he is a European fight
ing to live. Listen carefully—and
if you hear him speak out boldly,
unafraid, a free man, you will know
he is an American. If you hear him
speak in a bated whisper, fearful,
turning his head left and right to see
if he is being overheard, you can be
absolutely sure of one thing—he is
not an American.
“Walk among children, my son,
and if you hear talk of camps where
children play under blue sky, you
will know they can be Americans. If
you hear whispers of concentration
camps to which men are exiled, you
will know they are not Americans.
“Walk into homes, my son, and
if you find food and comfort, and
hear echoes of laughter, and young
people speaking of their dreams to
morrow, you will know they are
Americans. If you find tables bare
of food, and warehouses leaded down
with supplies stored for war—if you
find children who no longer dream,
but count each tomorrow as one
more day towards anew devasta
tion, you will know you are in an
old world, my son.
“Walk into schools and universi
ties—and if you find teachers who
are free to teach, and pupils who are
free to inquire, you will know you
are very likely in America, for there
you will find the sons and daughters
of all men, all free to learn and to
speak regardless of race or religion.
But if you find rigid regimentation,
and schools are barred to some, and
only what one man believes to be
true is taught and offered as educa
tion and knowledge, you will know
by the heads which are bent low, and
the eyes from which all spark and
love of life and living are gone—
you will know you are in an old
world, my son.
“Do you find men who worship
God as they believe in their hearts?
Dh you find men free to speak out,
to write and to read, and feel no
terror? There you will know is
America, my son! Do you find men
marching behind one man—living
dead men who do as one man wills?
Do you find fear and foreboding and
hunger and pain, and a complete
surrender of liberties for which man
died centuries ago? There you will
know is the old ivorld, my son! There
dead men walk, and chant a hollow,
melancholy dirge of blind obedience
to a man by whose words they and
their children eat or go hungry, live
or perish.
“Go into legislative assemblies. Do
you hear a man stand up to protest
and declare his political opposition;
do you hear debate which is free;’
do you hear men vote and say, ‘No;
I vote no,’ even when majorities say
‘Yes?’ Do you hear men rule in
courts of law and say, ‘This law which
you have passed is illegal because it
violates our constitution, our bill of
rights, and our sacred concept of
freedom? If you do, you know you
are in America, my son. But if you
find men waiting for one man to
say what tomorrow shall bring, and
you find all men who surround him
chanting agreement, as so many
puppets—knowing disagreement
would bring agonising retribution,
swjft hnd terrible—then you will
know you are in a dying old world,
my son—where all that remains of
centuries of civilization is a tiny
fragment growing smaller each pass
ing hour; where life is a strange in
terlude between wars, between gen
erations which are born only to die
in pain and travail and mud.
“Realizing all this, my son, you
will say in the quiet of your heart,
as many millions of Americans are
saying, ‘Thank God for America’.”
Hopes for completion of the Stone
Mountain Confederate Memorial are
raised high by developments of the
past few days. Assurance has come
from Robert L. MacDougall, South
eastern director for the Works Proj
ects Administration, that Federal
funds sufficient for this purpose will
be available as soon as the State of
Georgia sets up a responsible com
mission with which the WPA can
deal. Such a commission is provid
ed by a bill which has passed both
houses of the Legislature and which
the Governor is expected to ap
prove.
THE JACKSON HERALD- JEFFERSON GEORGIA
HIGHWAYS AND
NATIONAL DEFENSE
Under the impetui of general mo
bilisation for national defense, con
siderable attention is now being giv
en to the adequacy of our country’s
highway system. Motorists are be
ginning to wonder how existing
roads would stand up under the wear
and tear of large movements of me
chanized forces.
At this stage of the national de
fense program, the exact place which
highway construction and expansion
will have ia not known. While it is
generally agreed that a nation-wide
connected and coordinated system
of primary roads is a prime essen
tial of national defense, there is a
difference of opinion regarding the
immediate effect that the general
program will have upon highway
construction and reconstruction.
Despite the strategic importance of
the trunk highways, military and
traffic experts agree that a great
amount of work would have to be
done before our road system could
be made adequate for all military
purposes. As it stands today, the
huge mileage constitutes a peace
time network of roads; it was builtf
of course, to carry automobile and
truck traffic of the past and present
but is not comparable to the mili
tary road system which Germany,
preparing for the now famous Hitler
conquests, built to accommodate
ponderous tanks and whole mechan
ized armies.
Motorists who wonder what might
happen to a normal, peace-time road
system under war-time traffic can
find at least a partial answer in con
ditions that developed during the
extensive army maneuvers held in
East Texas and Louisiana a few
months ago.
In preparation for those maneu
vers, the Texas Highway Department
spent large sums of money, resur
facing various paved roads which
were thought to have adequate bas
es, and assigning crews to continu
ous maintenance and patching
work. The Department also co-op
erated with military authorities in
routing the army units between their
home stations and the maneuver
area.
At the outset, many large pieces
of motorized equipment had to be
detoured for long distances to secure
adequate roads. Detours were built
around numerous bridges in the
maneuver area but these became im
passable in wet weather.
At the close of the army maneu
vers, it was found that roads of a
standard comparable to the War De
partment’s minimum requirements
stood up reasonably well, but these
represented less than 25 per cent of
None of the roads, however, had to
accommodate mechanized equipment
comparable to that now being used
in Europe and planned for the na
tional defense of the United States;
the largest guns were 155 millimeter
howitzers and the largest tanks were
ten tons.
By the time the maneuvers were
completed, one section of Highway
21, between the Attoyac River and
Nacogdoches, the base of supply for
one of the armies, was practically
ruined. It had been built with a
double bituminous treatment on
light gravel and now has to be re
constructed at the cost of several
hundred thousand dollars.
SECRET BALLOT IF GRAND JURY
RECOMMENDS
The State Senate Wednesday pass
ed a bill providing for a secret bal
lot in any Georgia county where the
grand jury recommends it.
The measure had already been
passed by the House of Representa
tives, so it will become a law when
signed by the Governor.
The measure provides for num
bers on stubs to conform to numbers
on voting lists, but the stub and
number must be torn off before the
ballot is placed in the box, unless
the vote is challenged at the time it
is cast. Then the number is left on
the ballot so it can be located if dis
allowed.
Argument for the measure was to
the effect that it -would prevent of
ficials holding a club over public em
ployes and checking up on how they
voted in elections.
A total of 110 persons convicted
in Fulton Criminal Court during
1940 received pardons, and of this
number 77 “had never served a day
of their sentences,” it was revealed
in the annual report of Bond Al
mond, solicitor of the court.
Carnivals traveling through north
west Georgia in the future will have
to keep moving wTien they come to
Rome, since the 1941 city license
ordinance puts them on the “banned
list.”
builders
■
You often hear Cairo referred to
as an example of what a chamber of
commerce can do for a country town.
Cairo deserves all the good things
said about it. The chamber of com
merce has undoubtedly done a lot
of good for that growing town, but
it should not be overlooked that no
place of that size in the state has a
livelier bunch of business men than
Cairo. The advertising columns of
the Cairo Messenger each week is
evidence of this. The Cairo merch
ants have never quit advertising.
Last week the Cairo Messenger car
ried twenty-three advertisements of
home business concerns. Asa re
sult of their continuous use of ad
vertising space in their home paper
Cairo is said to have some of the
best and most prosperous stores of
any town of its size in the state—
Sylvester Local.
Evidently Cairo merchants appre
ciate the value of consistent adver
tising and realize that it is the
cheapest and best method for at
tracting trade to their stores.
Unfortunately conditions are not
so admirable in every town, for
some business men apparently figure
advertising as a useless expense and
others only employ it at time when
they feel it cannot be avaided.
But there isn’t a human being
under the sun but who is affected to
some extent by advertising and there
can be no question but that it is
more powerful today than ever be
fore.
Advertising is salesmanship and a
type of salesmanship which no busi
ness enterprise can discard if it
wishes to be successful.
Advertising is more necessary to
the small town merchant today than
ever before because of the induce
ments offered by city department
stores and the growing inclination
of the people to seek the bright
lights of the urban centers.
It is only by keeping sufficient
business at home that the home busi
ness and professional man and home
enterprises and institutions can sur
vive.—Walton Tribune.
GIVE COTTON A HAND
One out of every ten Americans
depends on cotton for his livelihood.
To these 13,000,000 citizens, a col
lapse of the cotton market brings
with it the specter of distress, want,
ruin. And the loss of purchasing
power they suffer has a direct and
immediate bearing on the' financial
well-being of every other citizen.
Cotton is in trouble. It used to
be a major export crop—war has al
most totally destroyed its foreign
markets. And while cotton acreage
has been cut to about 25,000,000, as
against 40,000,000 ten years ago,
1941 cotton production will reach
12,000,000 bales. Ten million of
those bales must be consumed at
home if a flourishing, healthy cotton
economy is to be restored. And
that is 2,000,000 bales more than
the American people have ever used
in a single year.
As in the past, aid to cotton will
be concentrated during National
Cotton Week, May 16-24. Cotton
and cotton goods will be “pushed”
through window and store displays—•
through extensive newspaper adver
tising—through radio announcements
—and by every other known means
of getting the good word around.
“Buy America—buy cotton” will be
the motto.
All branches of industry will par
ticipate. The non-grocery chains
alone have abSut 16,000 operating
units, 550,000 employes, and nearly
24,000,000 customers. Their annual
cotton sales approximate $800,000,-
000 —and every effort will be made
to substantially exceed that total
this year.
Here is a sound and effective way
for helping the growers of a great
commodity who are confronted by
abnormal and extraordinarily ad
verse marketing conditions. The
whole country will be helped. Give
cotton a hand!
Some Good Rules
Never be ashamed to do right,
wherever you are.
Never play in company with chil
dren who use improper language.
Never sulk and pout because you
cannot have your own way all the
time.
When you are in company, do not
show that you like one boy or girl
better than others.
Never make fun of children who
are not dressed nicely.
Never slight any child that does
not know as much as you do.
Whatever you have to do, do it
with all your might.
A pessimist is one whose glass is
half empty; an optimist is one whose
glass if half full.
The President's Speech
President Roosevelt’* speech of
Saturday night was the most signi
ficant and important pronouncement
made by any public figure in Amer
ican life since President Wilson sent
his historic war message to con
gress.
The Roosevelt address formally
told the world the full import of
the enactment of the Lease-Lend
bill; that the era of isolationism in
the United States is at an end and
henceforth this country will boldly
meet the world’s challenge to its high
destiny, which is to champion the
cause of human rights, and the inde
pendent dignity of the individual
man.
Some day this nation will open
the road to all men, of all nations,
races and creeds, to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. It has tak
en a long stride in that direction
in the last seven days.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
tt t t
President Roosevelt’s address of
Saturday, March 15, will live, we be
lieve, among the great specehes of
history and will prove to be one of
the decisive events in the world-wide
conflict between (free peoples and
dictatorships. It contains passages
that approach the eloquence of Lin
coln’s Second Inaugural and the
power of Woodrow Wilson’s heart
lifting utterances during the World
War—a speech that rings like a
trumpet and smites like a sword,
and falls likq good seed on fertile
ground.—Atlanta Journal.
Citizenship Recognition Day
Every year about two million
young men and women reach the
age of 21, and thus become full
fledged citizens and voters. Every
year thousands more become citi
zens by naturalization and this year
the number will be exceptionally
large.
The naturalized citizen is requir
ed to learn at least some outline of
what it means to be an American
citizen. But the millions of native
born young men and women who
achieve citizenship merely by being
born and staying around for 21
years often are not even taught
these basic elements.
It is something to be a citizen of
the United States. The Apostle
Paul, arrested in connection with a
riot in Jerusalem, was able to tell
the centurion proudly, “I am a man
. . . of Tarsus ... a citizen of no
mean city,” and demanded to be
heard. So the men and women of
the United States are citizens of no
mean country, and they have every
reason to wear their citizenship
proudly.
So, a few years ago, certain peo
ple conceived the idea that this
precious citizenship should not be
assumed lightly or casually, but with
solemnity, with ceremony propor
tioned to its importance, and after
preparation for its responsibilities.
The movement grew, and this
spring Citizenship Recognition Day
is going to be more impressive than
ever. The date, the third Sunday in
May each year, has been set by Con
gress in an effort to create a nation
wide ceremonial. Previously groups
in different cities held their exer
cises at different times. Adoption
of a single official date makes possi
ble arrangement of a national broad
cast, perhaps including an address by
the President.
Plans are under way for the most
impressive ceremony ever held to
demonstrate on May 18 that Ameri
cans are growing more conscious of
both the rights and the duties im
plied by becoming “citizens of no
mean country.”
Report Shows Many
Homes Improved By
Georgians In 1940
Athens, Ga.—H. W. Harvey, hor
ticulture-landscape specialist for the
Agricultural Extension Service, re
ports that Georgia farm families de
voted increased interest to improve
ment of their homes and grounds in
1940.
Home improvement projects call
ed for the planting of some 31,000
trees and shrubs, together with num
bers of annual and perennial plants.
Plans were made for 233 homes and
assistance was rendered 386 addi
tional homes, 57 schools and 77
miscellaneous projects.
The Extension landscape specialist
estimated th| improvement of farm
homes in 1940 increased the value
of such homes approximately $62,-
000, not to mention the influence in
better community feeling and a
greater interest of people stimula
ted by improvement activities.
You can’t get ahead by spending
your time getting even.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941.
1940 U. S. BABY CROP
IS LARGEST IN 10 YEARS
Washington.—An estimate that
2,350,000 babies were born in the
United States last year, the highest
number since 1930, came from the
Census Bureau.
This was approximately 100,000
greater than the 1939 total and lift
ed the national birth rate from 17.3
to 18 for every 1,000 of population.
The rate was the lowest in 1933,
when it stood at 16.5.
Nevertheless, the bureau said that
the long-range birth rate trend still
was downward. It attributed the
1940 rise largely to the fact that
persons bora of marrriages during
the immediate post-W’orld War
period—which saw a sharp upturn
in weddings—had reached the re
production ages.
Another possible factor, the bu
reau said, was the increase in mar
riages which normally accompanies
better economic conditions.
The increased birth rate was ac
companied by a decrease in the in
fant mortality rate from 48 to 47.9
deaths for each 1,000 births. How
ever, the overall death rate increas
ed from 10.6 to 10.8 deaths for each
1.000 of population.
ARMORED FORCE TO BE
DOUBLED
Military authorities disclosed Sat
urday the Army intends to double
its new armored force early this
fall, and it was reported the move
might entail retention of some se
lective service trainees as well as
national guardsmen in service be
yond a single year.
Along with a possible request to
congress for authority to keep the
national guard in service for an ad
ditional six to 12 months, the war
department was .imported to have
under consideration a request to ex
pand the land forces beyond the
total of 1,418,000 set for June 15.
Selective service trainees could
be retained, military men said, by
placing them on duty as reservists
after completion of their initial one
year training. However, authoriz
ation would have to be voted by
congress.
It was stressed that present stu
dies were tentative and that decis
ions hinged on international devel
opments.
USE LOCAL LABOR FIRST
There is not yet anything like a
general shortage of labor, in spite
of the demands of the defense pro
gram. Yet there have been some
fields, usually fields of highly-specil
ized skills, in which some shortages
have cropped up locally.
Some employes have thereupon
“gone scouting” for the needed help,
by advertising in out-of-town news
papers and by other means.
This is wrong. Defense Commis
sioner Knudson avers. It causes un
necessary migration of labor, dis
turbances of established labor stand
ards in local areas, high rates of
turn-over, and other wasteful and
inefficient practies.
Use the public employment offices
first, Knudsen urges. Only after
consultation with the local public
employment office should employers
begin to beat the outlying bushes
for help, Knudsen believes. That is
advice from a man not only in pres
ent high publir positions, but of vast
experience in high private business
capacity. It ought not to be disre
garded lightly.
The posting of orders in training
camps forbidding the use of profani
ty marks the inauguration of a
change that is quite as remarkable
as the change brought about by
peace-time conscription. “Cussing”
in the army is a tradition that pro
bably never existed to the degree
imagined by some persons, but un
doubtedly it was much more preval
ent than the circumstances warrant
ed, even when the boys had to deal
with mules of a traditionally stab
born nature. The truth is that the
use of oaths is becoming recognized
as a wholly useless and often harm
less habit and there is a disposition
everywhere to “cut out the swear
ing.” It’s effect usually is to anger
the persons who are “sworn at” and
to decrease rather than increase
their efficiency.—Rome News Tri
bune.
Human pride is human weakness.
Self-knowledge, humility, and love
are divine strength.
There is but one road to lead us
to God—humility; all other ways
would only lead astray, even were
they fenced in with all virtues.
A good mixer has lots of friends
if they they like what he mixes.