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The Jackson Herald
By John N. Holder.
Eighty-First Commencement
Martin Institute Comes To
Brilliant Close Monday Evening
With Graduation Exercises
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PROFESSOR A. W. ASH, who has had a successful year as Super
intendent Martin Institute and City Schools.
GRADUATION EXERCISES
Martin Institute was chartered as
the Jackson County Academy in
1818; later the name was changed
to Jefferson Academy and in 1859
the name again was changed to Mar
tin Institute. The first Commence
ment was held in 1860. Therefore,
the exercises which came tx a close
on Monday evening when 43 pupils
were given diplomas, was the 81s±
'Commencement of this historic edu
cational institution.
-No graduation exercises ewer held
in Martin Institute were mere im
pressive or beautiful than the pro
gram on Monday evening.
A crowd was present that packed
the spacious auditorium .to the doors
and many chairs were placed tem
porarily in the building in an effort
to provide seats for ail the visitors.
Even then some were forced to
stpnd or sit in the windows.
The Salutatory by Miss Johnie
Ruth Hardy and the Valedictory by
Miss Lois Hendry Jaekeon were
brie£, but well prepared and deliv
ered with ease and grace. Miss Va
lera McDonald of Pendergrass
charmed the great gathering with a
Xylophone Solo.
The address of the hour was de
livered by Morgan Blake of Atlanta.
In presenting him to the audience,
Professor A. W. Ash paid him de
served tribute. “For many years,'"
said Professor Ash, “Mr. Blake was
sport Editor of the Atlanta Journal
and one of the best on any news
paper staff and is now a columnist on
the same' paper. On each Sabbath
-he teaches a Sunday School Class in
the Baptist Tabernacle which is
broadcast over WSB. He is a lectur
er and a scholar and one of Geor
gia’s best known and most highly
esteemed citizen*.”
Mr. Blake said there are three
things it is difficult to do—climb a
fence that leans toward you, kiss a
girl who leans from you and find ex
pressive words for such a “generous
introduction as my good friend, Pro
fessor Ash, has given me.” Several
interesting personal experiences were
related by him, and some timely
stories and very humerous jokes
were received by the audience with
applause. One thing he said in tell
ing about talking in a machine that
reproduced his own voice that made
the 1 people roar with laughter, was,
“When I heard by own voice, it
sounded like a cross between the
voices of Hell Bent Edwards and
Governor Eugene Talmadge”. Then
he asked all who had heard his voice
over radio to raise their right hand.
Nearly all the people of that one
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thousand or more audience lifted
their hands.
In his address Mr. Blake present
ed some profound thoughts. In life
some will ask concerning every
eventuality that comes up, “Whal
will it profit me.!” Neither profit
nor money will satisfy. What will
it profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul. Profit
is evanescent. You cannot count
on it staying with you.
Another class will ask, “What
pleasure will come out of this r
that matter of life?” Life is not all j
pleasure—Life is real life and earn
est.
Another class will say, “I will d*
this because every tone else is doing
it.” Do not always follow the
crowd. Sometimes the crowd is
right and sometimes wrong. Do a
thing because it is wight and refuse
to do it because it is wrong.
Another class will say, “I will say
what I please and de what I please.
I will live my own life.” They think
orly of themselves and have no con
sideration for the lights, happiness
and lives of others. This will not
bring happiness and will not bring
joy. and success. Be considerate of
others and follow the new command
of tbe Master, “Love ye one another
as I Slave loved you.”
There are three great things es
sential to a successful and a happy
life. First, character. That is
something that will not mr.ly endure
through time, but eternity. Char
acter is built on the solid rock of
fife.
Next is courage. That does not
mean to fight or be a daredevil, but
to do right in the face of all kinds
of temptations. Have no fear be
cause perfect love casteth out all
fear-
Next is Consecration. One should
consecrate himself to the stern
duties of life, serve his fellowman
unselfishly, love his country devoted
ly and above all honor and obey his
Lord. This last is the highest and
greatest consecration of a human
life.
After the speech of Mr. Blake,
which was long and loudly cheered,
President Morris Bryan of the City
Board of Education delivered diplo
mas to the members of the Class
of 1941 which concluded the Com
mencement exercises. The 1941 class
members are:
Archer, Jimmie
Archer, Ora Lee
Barrett, Louise
Blackstock, Cecil
Brady, Geneva
Bradbury, Leonard
Bridges, Howard
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Brown, Wineva
Culberson. Bob
Davidson, Sarah
Doster, Kathleen
Doster, Mildred
Dozier, Betty
Elder, Douglas
Elrod, Martha Lee
G&rrKW-T), Albert
Gasaway, Glen
Gregory. Gr-aoe
Hardy, Johnie Ruth
Hogan, Jessie Pearl
Howard, Elaipe
Huff, Lorena
Jackson, Lois Hendry
Jones, John . '
Kelly, Sam
Logan, Elese
Lord, Carolyn
Mart in, Waftter
Moore, Annie Belle
Morgan, Flora
Niblack, Lorraine
"Nix, Frances
iParham, Lois
iPotts, Emily
Purcell, Mary
Roberts, Marilyn
!Sikes, Mirrvil
Sims, iDcnis J
Skelton, Jeanette
Spencer, Jewell
Standridge, Robert
Thompson, F. C.
Towe, Agnes
Vandiver, Cecil
Venable. Joe
Venable, Max
Weir, CCHSn
Westmoreland, Albert
THE SERMON ON SUNDAY
LaaSi Sabbath was a cloudless and
beautiful day. It was aeitker dwtft
nror cold, but tie temperature wus
rmild and the'air was cool *d iimig
©rathag. It was just such a day as
-wouhd draw a large crowd to •’the
-comniiiecement sermon which -was
•preached in 1 Shu tin Institute auiii
i -torixuri by Rev.O. B. Holder, paieor
*of the First Christian Aurcfc of
'Griffis, Ga.
At 11:30 o’clock the auditorium
was filled, many coming from all
sections of the county to lister, to
the baccalaureate sermon. As ahe
| processional was> played by Mrs. L.
! H. Isbell, the seniors wearing .caps
and igowns, the girls in white -mid
the boys in blue, marched into the'
hall and were seated in the frf-nt
seats
The following program was ncan
rdereH:
Prelude. , r ,
Processional.
Doxology. p
Invocation, Rev. J. E. Coker.
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MISS LOIS HENDRY JACKSON
Valedictorian Martin Institute Class
1941.
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MISS JOHNIE RUTH HARDY
who delivered Salutatory Martin In
stitute Graduation Exercises.
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LARGE CROWD
ATTENDS R. E. A.
ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of members
and customers of the Jackson Elec
tric Membership Corporation drew a
large crowd to Jefferson Friday.
More than six hundred gathered in
the grove just to the rear of their
new office building on Athens street
to hear the program provided for
the occasion and to elect directors
to serve until the next annual meet
ing, which will be held next year in
August.
The president of the corporation,
J. C, Head, presided over the meet
ing and extended words of welcome.
Invocation by J. bl. Holder. George
W. Westmoreland, attorney for the
corporation, made an address o* the
co-operation of members and officers
with the United States Government.
Talks were made by E. B. Dougher
ty and J. W. Jackson.
R. J. Kelly, manager and superin
tendent, make his report.
Hr; presorted charts showing the
progress of the organization.
in April, 1939, there wera 90
customers and an income for April
that year of $122.65. Now there
are 1941 customers anil the income'
ter April was $4,61&.8H6.
The -corporation has 740 miles of
lines hnilt at a east with mon-ey
Loaned by the U. S. $533,917.06
Balance' of loan unagpen
ded $93,982.9k
Totilboan $627,00044)
Collected from menteership
fe $U,709;*2
•Cost <of office buflfl ng S&,B<HjCOO
Total on organization $2^903.32
*11,708.32
Gain from operation $24,434.00
Me showed tSta t when a person
use* 10 K. W. H. the cost * 20*ents
per K. W. H. If K; uses 500 K. W. H.
the cost is <mly 2 1-4 everts g- K.
’W. H. As consul iption of electricity
increases, the most decreases rper K.
W H.
The collectior of all biffs has ween
99 per cent.
iMe showed that if the number of
consumers should be doubled the
oosf! of electricity to each member
would be greatly reduced. Another
thing that will help reduce the cost
of (electricity it the adoption of the
Amwndment to the Constitution ex
empting Co-opt rative Electrical Or
ganizations from taxation in Georgia
foi twenty years. This will 'be vo
ted >on the third of June. Boith Mr.
Ktfiy and Gdionel Westmoreland,
uqa and all members to work and vote
ter this ameriftnent.
’Sr. Kelly said this conjuration
has repaid to ine Goveirmraejit thir
ty thousand dollars of the imwney
borrowed.
, He expressed deep appreciation
for .the cooperation he has received
from members, consume!*, board of
directors, local organizations -and all
the rvipresentatui is of the U. S. (Gov
ernment, who have to d-o with the
work ,of this omporation. He rsaid,
“‘Alllthese have contributed to the
successful operation of the Jackson
Electric Membership Corporation'.’"
Frartk D. Pee&les, Regional Ope- r
;ktion Engineer f Washington, D. C.,
the representative fo the Govem
tment in ssuperviskxn of R. E. A. pro
jects in "North Canlina, South Cavo-
Ima, Georgia and l*Jorida, next epdke
to the gathering. Mr. Peebles has
rendered sfreat assistance to the
JaCkson Electric Membership Corpo
ration. <Jn speaking of it he said,
“In all the territory assigned to me
by the tl. i9L Government for the
work of supervision of R. E. A. pro
jects, this -one, the Jackson Electric
Corporation, i* one of the four best.
It stands at the top with just three
others.”
The election ;*f directors resulted
as follows: W. C. Alexander;
Barrow, J. V. Booker; Clarke, Hubert
Moore; Gwinnett, L. C. Kilgore;
Hall, J. W. Cato; Jackson, J. C. Head
and R. T. Farmer; Lumpkin, C. D.
Pierce; Madison, L. C. Seagraves.
After their election the Board met
and chose J. C. Head, President; L.
C. Seagraves, Vice Presklent; J, V.
Booker, Secretary and Treasurer.
There was a large gathering of
ladies to witness the demonstrations
on household equpiment in modern
kitchens by Miss Mary Lokey, R. E.
A. Home Economist. V. L. Gregg,
Thursday, May 22, 1941.
OFFICIALS PLAN
MOVEMENT OF
18,000 TROOPS
In preparation for the movement
through Jefferson, beginning early
Tuesday morning, of several thous
and soldiers and motorized vehicles
in the 30th division of the Fourth
Corps Area from Ft. Jackson, S. C.,
to Camp Forest, Tullahoma, Tennes
see, where extensive war maneuvers
are being planned to begin this
week-end, Georgia patrol officers have
conferred with Chief Claud Petty
john on how to route this army
troop movement so as not to con
flict with regular highway traffic.
Movement of the division will be
the biggest motorized maneuver ever
to be held in Georgia, Army officials
pointed ut. It will travel in three
units of approximately 600 motor
vehicles, each, and five hours will be
required for each unit to pass a
given point, it was said.
From Columbia, S. C., two of the
sedtkms will move on successive days
through Newberry, Greenwood, and
Cnflhoun Falls, S. C., Athens, and
fffnSh through Jefferson, Gainesville,
Jasper, Calhoun, and Dalton to
Chattanooga.
The other unit will go through
•Lexington, Saluda, and McCormick,
C.; Washington, Athens, Winder
and Lawreareville, Decatur. Then
it will go north through Marietta,
Atco, Rome, Summerville, and Fort
Oglethorpe.
Boys in the Sffth will join the sth
Division, from Forta Custer, Mich.,
and the 27th from Fort McClellan,
Ala., for manna vers in be “Second
Battle of Tennessee,” expected to in
volve 77,000 tiarmes.
Later in June the Second Armor
ed Division from Fort "Benning will
more imto the war games.
The traffic -problem <ft troop rnove
wwTrts is a mkw owe as far as high
way -police are camcemed. In the
last war, beSwrre tire introduction of
motorized equipment on such a huge
ncatc most tint-imp* wear moved by
fall.
Mrs. Brsceltcm, 83, Laid
To Rest At Pendergrass
F.unei'dl -nervicas for Mrs. Mattie
M. Braseltrwi, widow of the late A.
'R. CPoss) Braselton,. were held
j Friday in the Baptist church in
i Penttrrgrasa, Rev. Nat G. Long and
Rev. Henry Grady Jarrard officiat
ing.
Mrv. Braa-lton, who war, 83 years
age, died Wednesday at the home
of 'her (daughter, '.Mrs. C. S. Hill, near
Hoschton. Surviving, in addition to
Mrs. TEfill, are two sons, G. B. and
ft. N. BraseTton of Pendergrass.
Mrs. Braselton haul been a member
of the Raptrrt church for 70 years
and was a greatly beloved woman.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr* and Mr*. Victor S. Nicholson
announce the birth of a son at the
Commerce Hospital on May 6th. He
has been named Carey Jackson.
R. E. A. Farm Electrification Special
ist from Washington, D. C., demon
strated the advantages of the one
can milk cooler.
J. L. Calhouq, Rural Electrification
Specialist Agricultural Extension
Service, gave demonstrations with
different types water pumps. Other
demonstrations were by Comer Ren
froe of feed mills and someone else
■of the electric fence.
Some fifty electric gifts, such as
electric irons, clocks, etc., were
driven to the members.
The Roosevelt Theatre provided a
f’uee show for the members and
customers entitled “Power and the
Land.”
Attorney Westmoreland and
Manager R. J. Kelly promised a bar
becue at the annual meeting in Au
gust 1942.
This was a sure enough red letter
day for this organization that is so
helpful to rural life. One man said
“When I see my mail box in front
of my home I think of Thomas E.
Watson, the author of rural free
delivery and when I see the electric
light in my home, together with
refrigerator, washing machine, iron
and churn and in my well, a pump, I
think of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the
man who provided the farm with
electricity.
Vol. 66. No. 49.
JAMES WHITE
ROTARY SPEAKER
AT TUESDAY LUNCH
The guest speaker of Jefferson Ro
tary at the meeting in the Harrison
Hotel Tuesday was James White of
Athens, president of the North Geor
gia Live Stock Association and
President of the National Bank of
Athens. He was introduced by John
L. Anderson, Chairman of the pro
gram committee, who was reared in
the same county, Clarke, the home
of Mr. White. He presented Mr.
White as one of Georgia’s financiers,
an extensive farmer and a progres
sive business man who renders pa
triotic and unselfish service for his
city, his state and his fellow men.
Mr. White said the North Georgia
Live Stock Association covers a ter
ritory of thirteen counties, of which
Jackson is one. Its purpose is to
produce cattle, hogs, sheep and goata
and to provide a market for them.
The association was organized two
years ago. It has encouraged the
growing of better live stock and
during these years it has witnessed
a great improvement in the kind
and quality of live stock in this
area. On each Wednesday live stock
is brought to Athens from these
thirteen counties and sold at auction
at the barn of the association. In
1939 the total sales amounted to
$117,000. In 1940 they reached
$139,000, while this year up to this
time they have already exceeded
$200,000. The first year the asso
ciation lost in its operations about
S9OO. This deficiency has been paid
and at the end of this year a nice
profit will be shown by the associa
tion. He said the growing of live
stock is essential to the prosperity
of this section of Georgia. A coun-
try must have more than one money
crop if that country prospers.
He congratulated Jackson county
for the important part it is playing
in the production and sale of cattle
and especially did he commend the
people for growing more pure bred
cattle. -|
His speech was well received and
was highly complimented bv Presi
dent Henry W. Davis.
Other talks were made by Dr. J. C.
Wilkinson and Rev. D. B. Nicholson
of Athens.
The guests present were James
White, Dr. James C. Wilkinson, Rev.
D. B. Nicholson, Athens, Malcolm
Rowe and Omer Sanders, Atlanta,
Ben Barnes, Macon, and Mrs. W. D.
Holliday, Jefferson.
Miss Mabeth Storey was at the
piano and Rev. A. B. Elizer was
song leader.
Five members were absent.
Rotary Ann night will be June 17
at 8 p. m.
Miss Massey To Graduate
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DeLand, Fla., May 17.—Miss Car
olyn Massey, of Jefferson, is among
the 95 candidates for degrees June
2nd at Stetson University. The
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Mas
sey, the Stetson senior co-ed is com
pleting requirements this semester
for the Bachelor of Arts degree.
Miss Massey has been outstanding
during her four years at Stetson.
She served on the B. S. U. Council
for two years; sang in the Glee Club
two years; was president of the Life
Service Band, a religious organiza
tion; was a member of The Honor,
girls’ leadership organization; was
secretary of the student body her
senior year; and was elected to ap
pear in Who’s Who Among Students
in American Colleges and Universi
ties.