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FACE TWO.
THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jeffer*on Potoffice
At Second-Clatt Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackeon County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor & Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Aitociate Editor A Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., APRIL 3, 1941.
Usually the faster a man drives
his automobile the less he has to do
at the place he is in a hurry to get
to.
A bride said the only difference
ruarrried life made wa,s that she now
sit up half the night waiting for him
to come home whereas she used to
Hits up half the night waiting for him
him to go home.—Arizona Republic.
What gets an editor’s whole flock
goats is to have people ask for
space for matter of peculiar inter
est or benefit to them and then
have to go out and borrow a paper
to see if it appears.—Oglethorpe
Echo.
Advertising is a sales promotor.
It does not affect merchandise ex
■cept to speed-up its transfer from
merchant to customer. If there are
enough “speed-*ups,” the merchant
gets a faster turn-over, reduces
numerous carrying expenses and is
able to operate on smaller profits
per item because he sells more items.
Young people constitute the most
important product of American
farms. Fifty-one percent of the na
tion’s children are country born and
raised. Some eight million boys and
girls have taken part in 4-H club
work since it became nation-wide
back in 1914. In Georgia today,
there are more than 84,000 members
enrolled in 4-H clubs. These young
people are seeding the better things
of life through actual training and
vxperience.
Sufficient production of food and
feed on the farm is the best way
for Georgia farmers to prepare for
any emergency that might arise, in
the opinion of Director Walter S.
Brown, of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service. Foreign trade is dras
tically reduced for a while, at least.
And in view of that situation, farm
ers would do well to live at home
more than ever before by growing
every possible food and feed crop
necessary for home consumption.
Alumni in Jackson County of the
University of Georgia are invited to
attend the annual get-together at the
Georgia Education Association con
vention in Augusta on Friday, April
11. The luncheon will be held at
12:30 at the Georgia Power Audi
torium on Broad street opposite the
Confederate monument. Reserva
tions should be made through Dyar
Massey, director of public relations
at the University. President Har
mon W. Caldwell and Walter D.
Cocking, dean of the College of Edu
cation, will make brief talks and
movies of the Georgia—Georgia Tech
football game will be shown.
A farmer carrying a package he
had received from a big mail order
house was stopped by a local mer
chant who said: “Why didn’t you
buy that bill of goods from me? 1
eoud have saved you the postage,
and besides you would have been
patronizing a home store, which
helps to build up the locality.” The
farmer looked at the merchant a
moment and then said: “Why don’t
you patronize your home paper and
advertise? I read it and I didn’t
know you had the stuff 1 have here.”
This can be applied to practically
any little city or town and there is
a lot of good sound sense in it.—
Dallas New Era.
In order that more bins and pan
tries may be filled with foodstuff
this fall, there are several things to
which farm families would do well
to give attention during the next
few months: Plant additional acre
age to food and feed crops. Expand
the home garden, and plan now to
can several hundred quarts of vege
tables and fiuits for use next wint
er. Remember the AAA is offering
payments for growing a home gard
en and for food preservation. Then,
too, the farm program provides a
payment for voluntary reduction of
cotton acreage. This retired land
can be used for production of food
stuff. To sum it up, make use of
every opportunity to have an ade
quate supply of food for home con
sumption.
lAIMADGE SENDS
BUDGET NOTICE
TO ALL AGENCIES
Governor Talmadge made it plain
Thursday that he expects somebody
else to be replaced when he sends a
Talmadge man or woman to any
State Department for a job.
In a budget notice sent to all statu
agencies Thursday the Governor
wrote:
“A call is being made on all of
you to submit your budget for the
quarter ending JunC 30, 1941, on
the basis of the rock bottom needs
of your agency.
“You are expected to watch the
final operations of your agency
closely and maintain the cost within
the amount approved and to pay all
bills promptly.
“This budget request and any ex
penditure therefrom is subject to
the same rules, regulations and re
strictions as prevailed this past
quarter, with the amendment that no
request upon you for placement of
persons on your pay roll or for the
performance of a service shall be
taken as an authorization to expend
or commit yourself to expend more
funds than are authorized in yojr
approved budget.”
PARITY FUND GETS
APPROVAL
Washington. A $450,000,000
fund for parity payments to farm
ers was approved Thursday by a
Senate appropriations subcommittee.
An amendment by Senator Russell
adding $238,000,000 to the $212,-
000,000 previously voted by the
House for these payments was ac
cepted by the committee. The fund
is intended to increase purchasing
power of producers of cotton, wheat,
corn, rice and tobacco who comply
with the federal farm program.
The subcommittee action raised
the total of the annual farm appro
priation bill to more than $1,200,-
000,000 compared with $890,000,000
previously voted by the House. The
House had voted only $50,000,000
cash and $162,000,000 of contract
ual authority for parity payments.
At the same time the Senate sub
commttee accepted House action on
another $500,000,000 for “soil con
servation” payments to farmers com
plying with acreage allotments and
other practices of the administra
tion faitn program.
TRAINING FOR
DEFENSE JOBS
As stated in the Herald last week,
a young man does not necessarily
have to go into the armed services
to partake of the invaluable training
being given under the national de
fense program.
Out-of-school rural youths be
tween the ages of -18 and 25 are
receiving training, that will be help
ful to all and probably provide a
means of livelihood for some, in the
vocational department of Martin In
stitute among many other places.
There is a threefold purpose in
this program. It is: first, to pro
vide training of this type for na
tional defense; second, to enable the
boys to understand and handle mod
ern farm machinery; and third, to
help them secure employment in
these lines, in town, during off
season on the farm.
Interest in the class naturally is
high, since the boys would not have
enrolled if the idea had not appeal
-led to them.
At the end of the course, the boys
will be awarded certificates showing
the type of work they can do. Both
the government and the school will
keep records of their work, which
will be available to prospective em
ployers.
Federal officials, in setting up the
national defense training courses, re
quire that at least 75 per cent of
the funds going into the departments
of vocational education be spent on
out-of-school rural youth while the
remainder may be used in training
out-of-school non-rural youth. In
setting forth the aim of the defense
training program, Government of
ficials said:
“The controlling purpose is to
provide instruction of less than col
lege grade in vocational education,
not surplanting instruction already
being offered, to fit out-of-school
youths residing on farms and in
rural communities for certain me
chanical skills that are essential for
the national defense and that are
related to agricultural occupations.
It also provides instruction for non
rural youths for whom training is
not favorable under the other pro
visions of the defense training pro
gram.’’
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
PROTECT YOUR PAPERS
• (From Walton News)
The two newspapers operating in
this city at a loss, believe it or not,
are duty bound to pay for the privil
eges of operating, and as a preven
tative of an invasion of their terri
tory by sellers of job printing of
different kinds, who pay no license
or taxes. Really, it is understood
that unless outsiders comply with
rules laid down governing the mat
ter of soliciting printing in this
municipality, they have no right to
do so, and if apprehended, should
have cases made against them.
There are certain rules regulating
matters as they relate to merchan
dising, meat markets, etc. We real
ly feel that our city officials, in view
of the fact their local papers are not
only straying, but actually “strug
gling" to boost and build up all our
interests, should make the lid tight
er on these “fly-by-nights."
There is not a week passes, but
what some solicitor for some job
printing establishment is among us,
and because he may take the work
at a slight reduction in price (a
thing they do not always do) the
business house place orders with
them. Even if our business houses
have to pay their local printshops a
little more for work done, there
should be no complaint, since said
papers make up by a thousand odds
with the eternal boosting they do
for the “Old Home Town” and coun
ty throughout. Big printshops, which
buy materials in carload lots, have
an over-amount of machinery and
man power, can afford to do printing
for a little less. .
Backed by the town spirit you
profess to believe in, Mr. Merchant,
when approached by these ouc-of
town solicitors, inform them right
off the reel that you have two print
shops right here in Monroe and you
are duty bound to give your printing
to them. And when the peddler comes
around and wants to take our meas
ure for a suit of clothes, and when
one wants to sell us a bed spread, a
counterpane, some blankets and the
like, we’ll say, “nothing doing. We
buy them from our local stores.
They may cost a little more, but we
are believers in the trade at home
gospel and don’t mind paying a lit
tle more.”
CLEAN-UP TIME
Soon thousands of American com
munities 'will inaugurate their an
nual clean-up campaigns. Those
campaigns give all towns a chance to
achieve two highly important goals
—a handsomer town, and a safer
town.
Jefferson has had one real clean
up—last year, when the town was
getting ready for Stamp Day. Why
can we not have a similar clean-up?
A properly managed clean-up
drive helps to lessen the ever-pres
ent danger of fire. Vacant lots are
mowed and divested of litter. Old
shacks are torn down. Buildings are
repaired and painted. Dead trees
and bushes are cut down. And when
that happens, fire hazards disappear.
Order and cleanliness are among
fire’s most effective enemies.
Here is a real opportunity in
which every town, no matter how
small, can participate. Every citi
zen should co-operate. It’s a ra - e
town indeed which doesn’t contain
eyesores—rattletrap buildings, long
unoccupied, lots on which grass has
grown waist high, accumulations of
junk and refuse which belong in an
incinerator, lines of broken fences,
etc. Clean-up week needn’t be ex
pensive. The combination of a little
paint, plus plenty of elbow grease,
will work wonders, in many cases.
A wrecking bar and a bonfire will
do the work in most others. Lay
plans for a clean-up campaign now.
Georgia’s Constitution
Amended 200 Times
The Georgia Constitution of 1877
has been amended 200 times, since
it was adopted.
Come June and the general elec
tion, the electorate will vote again
on several score more proposals to
amend the document.
In 1939 there were 50 proposals
to amend constitutions in all the
states, and 33 of these were in Geor
gia.
Most of the amendments to be sub
mitted in June are of local applica
tion. A simple majority of those
voting can make the proposals part
of the state’s constitutional law.
Two years ago when a batch of
amendments on, two Geor
gia counties turned down proposals
affecting them, but because the total
vote favored the amendments, thes*
counties had to accept them.
Preparedness and Defense
Then and Now
One hundred sixty-six years ago,
there was an appeal for prepared
ness. In the provincial assembly of
Virginia a resolution had been intro
duced to put the colony in a state of
defense, fit out and train militia.
Delegates hesitated. Defense? De
fense against the homeland of Brit
ain? True, there had been shoot
ing on Lexington Green and at the
Concord Bridge, but New England
was far away from Virginia. Far
away, and peace was pleasant.
Patrick Henry, whose resolution
was being debated, heard with
mounting indignition the objections
as the debate dragged on. Then on
March 23, 1775, he took the floor,
and all his pent-up feeling rushed
forth in a flood of oratory which,
for a long time, every schoolchild
knew.
“There is no retreat but in sub
mission and slavery,” Henry cried,
“Our chains are already forged.
Their clanking may be heard on the
plains of Boston. The next gale
that sweeps from the north will
bring the clash of resounding arms.
Our brethren are already on the
field. Why stand we here idle?
What is it that gentlemen wish 7
What would they have? Ls life
so dear or peace so sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may
take, but as for me, give me liberty
or give me death!”
Today the clanking of chains is
heard in Norway, in Holland and
Belgium, in Poland and Czechoslo
vakia and in the Balkans. Today
our brethren are already in the field.
It is not asked or suggested that we
do more than put arms in their
hands, meanwhile perfecting and
strengthening our own.
This we will do. We want no
war, But today’s world has given
war, and will wage none against any
people unless it invades our terri
tory, denies our right, or imminent
ly menaces our vital interests. But
in a world which hears ever louder
the clank of chains, we are resolved
to create that strength which will
keep our bodies and souls free.
We want no war. But today’s
world has given short shrift to oth
er nations which also wanted no war
to keep aloof. We are at last con
vinced that the best way to keep war
away is to create strength for our
selves, and to share it with like
minded nations and peoples. Though
we hope it will not, this course may
lead to war. So, we have learned,
may any other course; so may mere
drifting. We must now muster our
strength as the best available insur
ance against being drawn into -war.
GEORGIA STILL HAS 2
TIMES, ICC ASSERTS
So far as the Interstate Commerce
Gommliission is concerned, Georgi'a
still is divided into Eastern and Cen
tral time zones.
Secretary of State John B. Wilson
sent I. C. C. Chairman Joseph B.
Eastman a copy of the acts signed
by Governor Talmadge last Friday
which blankets the entire state with
Eastern time. Previously, two-thirds
of the state had been on Eastern
and the western third on Central
time.
Replying to Secretary Wilson,
Chairman Eastman stated: v
“The boundaries of the present
time zones were fixed by the Inter
state Commerce Commission after a
hearing had been given the parties
interested and upon notice to the
State of Georgia.
“However, it the State of Georgia
desires to reopen these proceedings
and requests it, we shall be glad to
give the matter prompt attention.”
Until the Interstate Commerce
Commission officially recognizes the
change in time in Georgia, railroads
will continue to operate on Central
time in the areas which had had Cen
tral time, including Atlanta.
’4l LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES
WILL NEAR $200,000
Atlanta, Ga.—An almost complete
total of legislative expenses shows
the 1941 session cost $164,686.60
for pay roll items and $11,714.20
for mileage.
Other items to be added includ:
additional mileage and legislators'
pay, cost of printing the journal and
compiling and printing the acts
passed. Fiscal officials expected the
total would approximate $200,000.
Representatives and senators ■ re
ceived $7 a day for. 70 days, pre
siding officials $lO a day, house
clerk S7O a day and senate secre
tary S6O a day. The clerks must
pay their own clerical help and pro
vide the bulk of supplies.
During the past session, two ef
forts to boost the past session,
from $7 to $lO a day failed, one in
the senate, the other in the house.
THE PACE THAT KILLS
The swift pace of modern living is
killing people faster than the marv
els of medical progress can save
them.
The old killers are being conquer
! ed. Mortality rates from typhoid,
diphtheria, tuberculosis, malaria,
flu, dysentery, pellagra, and pneu
monia are being phenomenally de
creased.
Yet all the lives saved are being
offset by the toll of heart disease
alone—just one of the ills that man
kind brings upon himself by working
too hard, worrying too nuch, eating
too much and drinking too much and
trying day after day, year in, year
out, to gear his pace to a swift
moving world.
Fewer babies die by 15 per cent
than died in 1920, yet automobile
deaths increased by 400 per cent.
Half as many mothers die in child
bed as died two decades ago, yet
twice as many people commit sui
cide, and homicides increase by 20
per cent.
Last year the progress of medi
cine and the tireless labor of the
Public Health Service in Georgia
saw 4,250 fewer people die from
typhoid, malaria, measles, whooping
cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, dy
sentery, pellagra, and tuberculosis
than died in 1920.
Yet 4,284 more people died from
heart disease than died in 1920.
And 1,699 more people died from
cerebral hemorrhage (paralytic
stroke) another cause of death that
can be brought on by living too fast,
than died in 1920. The combined
increases far offset the combined
gains of medicine.
The answer, according to Dr. T.
F. Abercrombie, of the Georgia Pub
lic Health Department, upon whose
statistical comparison of 1920 and
1940 the above figures are based, is
simply this: Relax.
“Every man who works hard at
his job, who does a lot of thinking,
who finds himself tense and tired
and strung too fine at the end of a
day should have a complete physical
examination,” Dr. Abercrombie said.
“He should find out from a doctor
just how much he can stand. A
heart gets tired. It needs rest just
as any other part of the body needs
rest. If men would only take the
time to have themselves checked
Fertilizer and
Lespedeza
When BUYING your FERTILIZER to feed
your crop this spring, why not SAVE ENOUGH
to feed yourself, while making this crop, with
the DIFFERENCE in PRICE? We have NO
PRIZE to offer at the end of the season, but a
saving on each ton of material, or mixed goods.
We are not reporting or knocking other deal
ers but trying to withstand some hard ■ blows
directed at us.
We are still in the ring with prices and
quality to help the Farmer that he might be
benefitted by dealing with us.
Located out in the country where expenses
are low, we are satisfied with LOW PROFITS.
Farmers are up against a lot at this time, so let
us help each other the best we can. Come to
see me before you buy. If I don’t sell you, more
than likely I could help you to get better prices.
Can make you prices on material to build
a 5-8-5 for just a little over $20.00.
We have Lespedeza seed, 98% purity for
$6.50 per 100.
Hardware and other lines of merchandise.
Your trade will be appreciated at Hogan’s
Store.
W. E. HOGAN
ROUTE 2, JEFFERSON, GA.
Near Jackson Trail School
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941.
EUROPE’S RECORD
According to a summary of Eu
rope’s wars since 1801, recently in
troduced into the Congressional
Record by Congresswoman Frances
P. Bolton, of Ohio, the dark and
laloody continent has been ravaged
by more than sixty conflicts in the
past hundred and forty years. There
is a record almost of one war for
every two years. After most of
these wars there was a shift of ter
ritory. Whole peoples were taken
from one governmental authority
and over to another. Sometimes in
succeeding wars the same folks were
transferred back again. There was
a continual conquest of territory,
and a pillaging of the rights of the
common people. No one nation was
consistently innocent. On one occa
sion or another every single nation
in Europe was an aggressor. So far
as Europe’s record is concerned there
are no white doves of international
innocence.
During this 140 years the old Ger
man Empire broke up, France at
tacked small nations like Belgium,
Holland, Napoleon ravaged the con
tinent, Great Britain warred first
against one nation and then another,
the Turks ravaged southeastern
Europe, the various German states
fought one another, the new German
Empire came into the Hitler invas
ion of small nations, with accom
panying Communist assimilation of
small countries and a ravaging war
against the Finns.
over, many times their physician
would b eable to warn them in time
to save them.
“For those who find their heart
has weakened under the strain of
top-speed living, there’s no cause
for great alarm. Sometimes taking
things easier will be enough. Some
times a change of diet will help.
Sometimes some deep-seated disturb
ance in the kidneys is the cause—
some trouble that will respond to
treatment. But the main thing is,
just relax.”
If we have not peace within our
selves, it is vain to seek it from
outward sources.