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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered t The Jefferron Postoffice
A* Second-Cle Meil Metier
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor A Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor A Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., MAY 1, 1941.
THERE IS ONE
SURE GOAL!
If you have rowed a boat across
a wide lake in order to reach a
definite point on the other side, you
know that it’s a Rood idea to look
over your shoulder from time to
time and make sure that you’re still
headed right.
This country is rowing pretty fast
and furiously at the present time.
It’s a good moment to take a look
at the objective, so we’ll be perfect
ly clear where we’re going.
National security is the port we
have set out to reach. In the midst
of a chaotic world, Americans have
determined to make sure that the
great advantages in living whch they
enjoy shall not be rubbed out
through any neglect or carelessness.
Particularly prized have been the
various liberties we in this country
enjoy—civil and religious freedom,
a political system of representative
democracy, and the private enter
prise system for earning one’s liv
ing.
It is to defend these that Ameri
cans are arming in so determined a
fashion. And, paradoxically, they
are willing to accept the imposition
of certain emergency regulations up
on certain of those rights, knowing
that they will thereby aid the defense
effort. Just as heavier taxes are
being accepted to support defense,
so restrictions on business of certain
kinds have been admitted necessary
in order that the industrial machine
can work most effectively for de
fense. For example, in certain ca
ses where there iji an extraordinary
demand for materials needed in de
fense the application of priorities
may be expedient. Export licensing
to guard against depleting this coun
try of vital materials and products
might be another case in point.
There is surely, however, bne
paramount point to remember. The
regulations are temporary. They
have been accepted as needful by
the people of this country because
the people are convinced that the
present emergency warrants their
appication. This being the case, all
Americans, interested in the char
acteristic habits of life in this coun
try, look forward to the day when
these specal reins and hobbles will
be loosened.
After all, it is to guard against
the universal spread of just such
constraints that our national defense
program has been embarked upon.
Only upon those terms would it
be worth the effort!
CIVIL TREASON
(From the Lowndes County News)
An election of great importance
to Georgians but bearing little sig
nifieance to the voters of Lowndes
county will be held on June 3.
Qeorgians will be asked to trek
to.the polls on this date and approve
or disapprove 68 proposed amend
ments to the state constitution.
Most of them, in their scope of in
fluence, are of a local nature, but
seven of the proposed amendments
are of direct state-wide importance.
One of the amendments provides
for a four-year term for the govern
or and other state officials; a second
asks annual sessions of the Georgia
legislature; and still a third would
exempt from state and local taxa
tion all non-profit membership cor
porations engaged in rural electri
fication.
It is unlikely that many voters
will go to the trouble of exercising
their right of franchise on this date,
and tliat is why we are appealing to
the public for a reawakening of
their responsibility to their local,
state, and national government.
Not only is it undemocratic to
stay away from the polls when any
election touching upon the affairs of
your city, county, state or nation is
being held; but it is an insult to our
system of government.
Americans fought, bled, and even
died in order that you might have
the right to vote as you may please.
To refuse to accept this privilege
now that it is yours, is nothing less,
in our way of thinking, than civil
treason.
French Mother* Are Fasting
To Feed Children
Starvation stalk* unoccupied
France, and mothers are fasting un
til they become mere walking skel
etons in order that their children
will have more food, a letter from
Mrs. May Bradley Grenet to her
nephew, V. H. Brady, of BGC Virgin
ia avenue, Atlanta, reveal*.
Murried to a Frenchman, Mr*.
Grenet, the former May Bradley,
of Atlanta, has lived in Fiance at
intervals for 25 years. Her home is
at Nice, in unoccupied territory, but
there, as in all France, there is no
food and even that which is sent in
boxes from relatives and friend* in
this country is confiscated.
America Is Aware of
Acuteness of War Situation,
FDR Tells Writers
Washington.—President Roosevelt
expressed belief Friday that Amer
ican public opinion was not ade
quately aware of the acuteness of
the war situation in Europe but that
it was becoming increasingly aware.
He made that statement in res
ponse to a press conference inquiry
and went on to add that he thought
Americans could be made increas
ingly alert through the exercise of
their general intelligence, mental
processes and through what he called
cracker barrel and press club con
versations.
But to a question whether he
thought reverses suffered in Greece
by British and Greek forces had in
creased the danger to this country,
he replied that he did not think the
question should be asked or answer
ed.
f Further interrogation brought
from the President these additional
statements bearing on the defense
program and aid to countries bat
tling the Axis.
The administration has authorized
specific shipments of material to
China but Mr. Roosevelt does not
know whether any has started on the
way across the Pacific.
Is Romance Ever Taboo?
Royston, Ga.—Cupid claimed his
first victim at a college where ro
mance is taboo when Miss Martha
Ellen Lee and Emmett Paul Harts
field both students at Emmanuel
College, were wed this week.
Star students at this college where
the boys and girls are not permitted
to associate, they were married in
the college’s chapel by the president
of the school. Thus a romance blos
somed and found its happy culmina
tion contrary to practically every
rule and regulation of the school.
Emmanuel College, at Franklin
Springs, is a Pentecostal Holiness
school, where “prattle” between men
and women students is outlawed, be
cause “we come here to learn,” ac
cording to the Rev. T. L. Aaron,
president.
But true love found “loopholes”
in the rules, and romance flowered
for nearly four years before the
wedding, the couple admitted.
Just how they overcame the rules
is still a little vague, even to those
asking for the explanation. Martha
confides that it was “really simple”
and within the regulations.
Miami Leads Reno
In Divorces
Miami, "the playground for the
world,” has grown to be the divorce
mecca for those who have wearied
of the bonds of matrimony. For
years, Reno held the distinction* over
all places where divorces were
ground out over-night at moderate
prices. In fact, the divorce evil
grew to be a racket, for all dissat
isfied with their mates, and in order*
to be fashionable, people flocked
there from all sections of the coun
try to secure legal separation. But,
the Florida city realized the impor
tance* of the divorce racket and the
Florida legislature enacted laws
making it simple for divorces to be
handed out.
Reno is no longer the divorce
capital for the nation, now' Miami
holds the record. Last year, there
were 4,406 divorces granted in Mi
ami while in Reno there were only
2,314. Under the new Florida laws
it is now possible to secure divorces
in 90 days.
Wildlife is a great asset to the
farm. All told, wildlife is impor
tant in the operation of the farm,
as a means of protecting farm crops,
as a source of revenue from the sale
of hunting and fishing rights, from
the sale of the skins of fur-bearing
animals, and from the sale of wild
life meat. Either in savings or
sales, one cannot wisely overlook
wildlife on the farm.
THE JACKSON HERALD. JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
State Employee Rolls
Reduced To 8,169 Now
The “big train” which Governor
Talmadge said would cart away ex
cess employee* in the state capitol
has taken on 600 passengers since
the red-suspendered chief executive
took the throttle.
A check of final quarter budgets
showed that the state now has on
its pay roll 8,169 persons as compar
ed with 8,769 on June 30, 1940
the zenith of the Rivers administra
tion.
This does not mean that only 600
persons have been fired. Actually
there has been an incoming special
as well as an outgoing train. Count
less Talmadge stalwarts have come
in to take the places of those bear
ing the Rivers label.
Increase In Bad Teeth Laid
To Bottle Feeding of Babies
Chicago.—The reason why nearly
three times more potential draftees
are being rejected for bad teeth now
than in the World War is probably
due to American mothers stopping
nursing their babies.
This explanation was proposed to
the Federation of American Socie
ties for Experimental Biology Thurs
day by Dr. C. G. King, famous vita
min expert of the University of
Pittsburgh.
Teeth, he said, are the first “tis
sue” of the body to be afFected by
lack of Vitamin C. This does not
mean much to adults, whose teeth
are already formed, but it is impor
tant to babies.
Mother’s milk, he went on, con
tains four to five times more Vita
min C than raw cow’s milk. However,
the babies were not given the raw
milk, but pasteurized or evaporated
milk.
20 Fast Torpedo Boats
Ready For British Use
Washington.—Secretary Knox
said Wednesday that about 20 fast
naval motor torpedo boats were
ready for delivery to Great Britain
as a part of the lend-lease program,
and possibly were on the way now.
Knox said the boats, capable of
speeds of more than a mile a min
ute, were to be shipped across, rath
er than undertaking the transatlan
tic trip under their own power.
The Navy had 28 available, Knox
said, and the British were supplied
from these. Other “Mosquito”
craft, mostly of a type 70 feet long
and able to speed 70 or more miles
an hour, are under construction.
Knox told his press conference al
so that the Navy was negotiating
with Canada for construction in Can
ada of a number of warships, prob
ably of the new British Corvette
type, such as are used to escort
convoys.
CONSCIENCE FUND REPAID IN
MACON
Macon, Ga.—Because his conscience
had been hurting him for 20 ytars,
a Columbia, S. C., textile worker
made a trip to Macon to pay the
Bibb Manufacturing Company sl2
for some socks he said he stole dur
ing the first World War.
The man, who gave his name as
C. O. Wright, walktd into the office
of B. B. Snow, Bibb superintendent,
today and handed him two $5 bills
and two $1 bills in payment for
socks no one knew he had.
He did it, he said, because “I
made a vow to’ the Lord that if He
would let me prosper and make mon
ey. I would make right all the mean
ness I have done. He kept His vow
to me, and I’m keeping mine to Him.”
Also on Wright’s list for repay
ment are the names of six other
cotton mills in Georgia and South
Carolina and beside the names are
his own estimates of his debts.
Where boll weevils are numerous
in the cotton fields before squares
begin to form, these early, over
wintered weevils can be killed by
making from one to three pre-square
applications of calcium arsenate. The
pre-square poisoning may be done
by using calcium arsenate dust or by
'mopping the cotton with a mixture
of calcium arsenate, syrup, and wat
er. A home-made burlap mop makes
a good applicator.
When the phosphate and potash
■content of the soil is kept up. the
most profitable fertilizer for corn
is a side dressing of some quickly
available nitrogen fertilizer about
the time corn on average land is
knee high or 40 to 50 days from
planting. E. D. Alexander, Exten
sion agronomist, says adequate
amounts are generally 100 to 150
pounds of nitrate of soda or its
equivalent per acre.
Georgia Farm Population
Off Three Per Cent
Georgia’s farm population drop
ped off 3.4 per cent during the 10-
year period from 1930 to 1940.
Census Bureau figures released at
Washington showed that while Geor
gia was losing farmers, the rest of
the country was gaining. The in
crease for the nation was only one
tenth of 1 per cent, but it offset
such losses as Georgia and South
Dakota, wheih dropped 21.1, the
largest decline of any state.
Meanwhile, up in Connecticut
more people than ever before were
taking to the farms. That state’s
gain of 19.8 per cent led the na
tion.
Georgia’s total farm population
was 1,369,719 in 1940, while in
1930 there were 1,418,514.
Census statistcians also disclosed
the fact that for every 100 female
Georgians, there are only 96.9
males, or 3.1 males fewer. Ten
years ago the division was nearly
even, with 97.3 males for every 100
females.
The Georgia population, said the
Census Bureau, is divided into 1,-
537,493 females and 1,489,230
males.
IT COSTS TO SERVE
William McChesney Martin, pres
ident of the New York Stock Ex
change, took a salary cut of $3,979
a month when he went into the ar
my. That’s the difference between
his Wall Street salary and the s2l
a month he will draw as a recruit.
It is quite a sacrifice. It is spec
tacular in terms of money, and thus
it draws attention.
But it is not great sacrifce, per
haps it is not as great as the sacri
fice which many other men are mak
ing who never drew down in a year
the salary which Martin drew every
month. Sacrifice is not measured
in terms of money, and many others
are giving up quite as much in terms
of their dependents, .their careers
and their lives as Martin.
All credit to Martin of course, for
accepting willingly what has come
to him. But it would be ungracious
to stress Martin’s sacrifice unduly,
when it is no greater than that of
almost every man who joins the col
ors. All honor to every one of them!
THE PASTOR
A Captain in God’s army.
A pilot to the Church on life’s
troubled sea.
A Consoler in the hour of be
reavement.
A Comforter in life’s sorrows.
A Teachers of God’s priceless
truth.
A Preacher fo a mighty Gospel.
An Administrator of the biggest
business on earth.
A Financier who can do extraor
dinary things on a small capital.
A Shepherd to watch over the
sheep of his pasturage.
A Vessel filled with the Holy
Ghost.
A Chosen vessel of God to the
people.
An Adventurer over dangerous
territory.
A Diplomat handling ticklish prob
lems.
An Ambassador representing his
king and government.
An Example to all men.
A Man human in his contacts yet
divine in his life.
An Advisor on all important is
sues of life.
A Judge of ecclesiastcal matters.
A Lawyer for the oppressed.
An Intercessor for the lost and
dying.
A Possessor for the mystery of
faith as it is in Christ Jesus.
A Guide for the erring to the way
of life.
A Leader for the Christians of his
age.—V. E. Tanksley, in Evangeli
cal Visitor.
BIRTH STONES AND OTHERS
For laundresses, the soapstone;
For architects, the cornerstone;
For cooks, the puddingstone;
For soldiers, the bloodstone;
For politicians, the blarneystone;
For borrowers, the touchstone;
For policemen, the pavingstone;
For stock brokers, the curbstone;
For shoemakers, the cobblestone;
For burglars, the keystone;
For tourists, the Yellowstone;
For beauties, the peachstone;
For editors, the grindstone;
For motorists, the milestone;
For pedestrians, the tombstone.
Better living through a well-plan
ned food supply, home produced in
sofar as possible, has always been
a well-defined goal of Agricultural
Extension agents.
HOME DEMONSTRATION
ITEMS
(Elsie Bowman)
Are We Well Fed?
Strong and alert people are built
by abundant, well-balanced diets.
Looking at facts that have been stu
died, it is found that about one
fourth of the families in the United
States are apparently living on diets
than can be rated good. That is.
their diets furnish the kind and quan
tity of food needed to maintain the
body, plus a margin of safety that
enables them to stand up under the
stresses and strains of living.
More than a third of our families
are getting fair diets. That is, these
families are getting just enough to
keep them going, plus a slight mar
gin of safety or no margin at all.
The rest are getting diets that
should definitely be rated poor. In
one or more ways their diets are not
furnishing even the minimum of
all the food the body needs for good
health.
What does this mean—this having
millions of people living on diets be
low the safety line for good nutri
tion?
It means that some of these people
are hungry. It means that some of
them have well-defined deficiency
diseases such a beriberi, scurvy,
anemia, and pellagra.
But more than that it means that
others having none of these clear
cut symptoms are getting inadaquate
diets, suffering from them, and may
not even know what’s wrong. Inad
equate diets may not put us to bed,
but they can destroy our sense o f
well-being—our joy in being alive
and well and able to do our work.
They take their toll in chronic fa
tigue, in shifting aches and pains,
and in certain kinds of digestive dis
turbances. They prevent a child’s
normal growth and development. And
they lower natural resistance to in
fection.
Where are they—all these people
who are not well-fed?
They’re in every State in the Un
ion and in every community in every
State. Asa rule, more of the ill
fed may be found in the lower income
classes than in the higher—more in
the larger families than in the smal
ler—and more in cities than on
farms.
These facts might not seem far
away from us. They are in our own
communities and in many of our
own families. During last month at
4-H Club meetings the club girls
checked their diets in order, to rate
themselves on their daily food hab
its. It was found that approximate
ly 15% of the club girls had good
diets, 40% fair, 30% poor and 15%
very poor. This was classified on
one-days food, and of course, is not
an accurate estimate of regular
diets. However, it is an average
diet during the winter months. These
club 'girls are the average of the
county, so we see, that it is some
estimate at least of our own county
diets and that they deviate very lit
tle fi-om the United States average.
What are the reasons so many of
us are ill-fed?
Sometimes it’s not having enough
to eat. Sometimes, it’s not having
the right kinds of foods. Good man
agement of a limited food budget
and home-grown “protective” foods
can often make the difference be
tween fair or poor diets and diets
that are good.
What are these important protec
tive foods that every diet must
have?
They are the foods that are rich
in the very food values that diets
so often lack. They are the foods
that protect against acute dietary
diseases, that help to lift bodies from
a low to a higher level of good
health.
First foods to be called protective
were milk, and the green, leafy veg
etables. They enrich diets in cal
cium, vitamin A, riboflavin, and high
quality protein. Recent additions
are the foods rich in the vitamins of
the B group, especially the less high
ly refined flours and cereals. Still
others are fruits and vegetables rich
in vitamin C—oranges, grape fruit,
tomatoes, raw cabbage, and others.
And in some parts of the country
lean cuts of meat, rich in the pel
lagra-preventive nicotine acid, ribo
flavin, and high-quality protein are
considered protective foods.
Recent studies show that the Na
tion needs to consume at least 10
to 20 per cent more milk 10 to 25
per cent to 70 per cent more toma
toes and citrus fruits, and about
twice as much of the leafy, green,
and yellow vegetables.
In the United States, more than a
million farm women are enrolled in
organized home demonstration clubs
or groups.
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941.
Lights of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON
Turnabout: Strange are some of
the changes time brings to real es
tate in a big city. What is now a
Fifty-fifth street night club was once
a church. A Radio City bar is the
landlord of a synagogue which holds
services upstairs. Recently, work
men took down the Adelphi theater
sign and put up one reading, “The
Church of the Radiant Life.” And
that caused remembrance of a hap
pening in the prohibition era.
Through a forgotten hazard of the
business, a speakeasy was forced to
give up the premises it had occu
pied for some time. The landlord
quickly found new tenants, a small
evangelistic group, who proceeded
to hold services there. During a
meeting a ie%/ nights later, the faith
ful were astonished to see the door
battered down and a bunch of men
with badges pile in. Even more
astonished were the federal men,
who seeking revelry and illegal,
liquor, found sober folk singing
hymns.
• • •
Street Scene: Three little girls
playing with a rag doll on a tene
ment stoop ... A somewhat squat,
strongly built man apparently deep
ly interested in a display in the win
dow of a pawnshop ... A dark,
sleek young man, his clothes an ex
aggeration of the latest mode, idling
on a corner, his eyes surveying each
passing girl or woman ... A trim
young miss, a notebook under her
arm, hurrying along with her eyes
straight ahead . . . The sleek young
man endeavors to grasp her arm
. . . The squat man suddenly loses
interest in the pawnshop window . . .
There is a flash of a badge . . . He
walks away with his arm through
that of the street corner sheik . . .
and the three little girls start serv
ing the rag doll tea from peanut
shell cups.
• • •
Sky Stuff: Song pluggers, those
gents employed by publishers to har
ry orchestra leaders into playing
their tunes, are taking to the air
with their airs. Plugging by plane,
something new along Tin Pan Alley,
came about because Phil Spitalny
and his all-girl orchestra went on a{
six-weeks’ tour. When Phil and his
girls first took to the road, the plug
gers merely mailed their new num
bers. The results were unsatisfac-.
tory. Then one got a bright idea,
hopped a Louisville plane and gave
his sales talk the good old personal
touch. When rivals heard about that
stunt, they too boarded planes and
have been buzzing around ever since
contacting Spitalny and other me
andering maestri. How long budgets
will stand the strain is not known
but at the moment, song pluggers.
are sure having a high old time.
* * •
Coincidence: Speaking of singing
causes me to recall the experience!
of Jean Dickenson when she went!
to Camp Borden at Narrie, Ont., to.
warble for Canadian soldiers in
training there. After a noisy wel
come, she began a medley of such
well-known airs as “Auld Lang,
Syne,” “Coming Through the Rye,”'
etc. In the middle of her final piece,
there was a terrific thunderclap and
the lights flickered out. Miss Dick
enson continued singing and, amid
cheers and laughs, the lights went
on again just as the raven-tressed
thrush completed “Kiss in the
Dark.”
* • •
Cupid: In times like these, it’s
refreshing and comforting to know
that love is still America’s best
selling commodity. John J. Anthony
sent out queries to 18,000 couples
applying for marriage licenses in
seven major cities and here are the
reasons young folks today are get
ting married: for love, 56 per cent;
for security, 23 per cent; for con
venience, 20 per cent; for a family,
1 per cent. Nobody mentioned the
draft!
• •”•
Observation: Says Joe Richman,
“A chorine is a girl who holds her
job because it’s less important to
have speaking lines than it is to have
lines that speak for themselves”
. . . While being interviewed by
Nellie Revell, Harvey Harding, in
an effort to show his gratitude, said,
“Thanks very much Nellie, and
when my show opens on Broadway,
I’ll save you a pair of seats” . . .
“I think,” commented the veteran
actress, “I can still fit into one.”
* • •
End Piece: One of this depart
ment’s scouts, who loathes pajamas,
reports that several years ago, when
he undertook to purchase old-fash
ioned nightshirts, he had to travel
from store to store before he met
with success. However, the night
shirt has evidently scored a come
back since now even swank stores
stock them. That, he adds, is more
or less of a victory for Franklin P.
Adams, who for years has been a
nightshirt exponent.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Church Given SI,OOO
For Care of Burial Lot
PHILADELPHIA. A SI,OOO
legacy for the perpetual care of
the Revolutionary war Gen.
“Mad Anthony” Wayne’s burial
lot has been awarded by the
court to Old St. David’s church
in Radnor, Pa. The money was
bequeathed in the will of Mrs.
Mary Atlee Wayne Wirgman, a
descendant of General Wayne.