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The Jackson Herald
By John N. Holder.
DIRT FARMERS
FURNISH BIG
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
“The big news of the week in
America,” says Ralph Smith, Wash
ington correspondent of the Atlan
ta Journal, “Paradoxical though it
seems in this war-torn world, relates
to a peaceful pursuit—farming, my
friends, dirt farming. The Presi
dent’s approval of the crop loan bill
directly and immediately concerns
every man and woman in the United
States who plants and cultivates one
or more of five basic agricultural
commodities—cotton, corn, wheat,
tobacco and rice.
The farm loan law means more in
comfort, contentment, happiness,
dollars and cents to a far greater
group, and Americans to boot, than
all wage increases bluffed and chisel
ed from industry by organized work
ers in coal mines, automobile plants,
shipyards, et cetera, in the midst of
the national emergency.
The effect of the law will be to
distribute among the farmers $850,-
000,000 within the next year, and of
this sum over $300,000,000 will go
into the pockets of the cotton grow
ers of the South. The tobacco grow
ers, also, will receive substantial
benefits, and so, too the rice plant
ers.
The farm loan law—and I write
this for nonfarmers—merely com
mits the United States Government
to loan 85 per cent of the parity
price of the aforesaid basic agricul
tural commodities. Of course, the
Government agrees to take and hold
the products as security against the
repayment of the loans in case the
producers can’t sell their products.
Actually, the Government will
make relatively few loans, because
the law will operate to boost the
price of the commodities to the
level of their loan value. Millers
and processors of the products must
bid and pay a price equal to the
loan value, otherwise the commodi
ties will go into the loan pools.
Asa result of the loan legislation,
cotton and other basic commodities
will sell, and are, in fact, now sell
ing, at prices that approach tops
for the last decade. The price ap
proximates parity; that is to say,
cotton and other basic products of
the farm will sell for a price com
parable to the prices of the things
the farmers must buy.
In the matter of cotton, the per
pound price will run a little above
16 cents a pound—a few figures that
few producers ever expected to real
ize. The price is arrived at by as
certaining “parity,” which is repre
sented by the price that prevailed in
1914.
The Government agrees to loan
85 per cent of parity, or something
over 14 cents a pound. Add to this
guarantee soil conservation benefits
of about 1.37 cent per pound and
the special (parity) allowance in the
agricultural appropriation bill, and
the total is reached.
Approval of the loan measure ren
ders it unnecessary for Congress to
increase the parity fund, as the Sen
ate had voted to do. The figure will
remain at $212,000,000, as recom
mended by the executive budget, so
the burden or drain on the Federal
Treasury will remain fixed . . . and
the farmers, instead of receiving
benefits that must be borne by the
tax payers will profit at the expense
of the consumers—those who pay
taxes and the greater number who
pay no taxes.”
All Precincts Must
Be Opened June 3
All voting 1 precincts in each coun
ty must be opened for the June 3
general election, under the law, At
torney General Ellis Arnall said
Friday.
His opinion was requested by W.
P. Fleming, ordinary of Crisp Coun
ty, who wanted to know if it would
he permissible to have the county
courthouse the only balloting site, in
view of the customary lightness of
the voting in the off-year elections.
Mr. Arnall held, however, that
the election, at which 70 constitu
tional amendments will be submitted,
is the same as a regular election and
that voters must be given an op
portunity to cast their ballots at
their regular precincts.
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PRIDE OF BRITISH
NAVY SUNK
BY NAZIS
Britain’s mighty battle cruiser,
Hood, the world’s largest war-ship,
was blown to pieces and went down
with virtually all her 1,341 officers
and men Saturday in a battle with
German battleship Bismark some
where between Greenland and Ice
land on the edge of the Western
hemisphere.
A shell from the 35,000-ton Bis
mark tore into the 42,100-ton Hood’s
magazine and in a matter of seconds
the pride of the Royal Navy went to
the bottom, a shattered hulk.
The British asserted they got in a
lick against the Bismark and that the
damaged Nazi man-o’-war Saturday
night was being chased by their re
venge-bent fleet.
It was the heaviest blow to the
British Navy since the war began,
a disaster much worse than the
sinking of the battleship Royal Oak
in a spectacular Nazi submarine
foray into Scapa Flow early in the
war.
The admiralty announced somber
ly that most of the Hood’s crew went
down with her.
The sinking of the battle cruiser
Hood brought to 88 the total war
ships of various categories acknowl
edged lost by the British admiralty
since the war’s start.
Britain still has 15 capital ships,
the same number with which she
started the war, two new battleships
having been completed and commis
sioned since then—the King George
V and the Prince of Wales.
DEATH OF J. H. LYLE
Mr. James Henry Lyle, greatly
loved and respected citizen of Bar
row county, passed away at his
home Saturday night, May 24. Mr.
Lyle was 71 years of age. He was
a faithful member of the Methodist
church, which he joined while a
young man.
He married Miss Lula Wall 47
years ago. She passed away in No
vember 1940.
Mr. Lyle is survived by three chil
dren, J. L. and H. C. Lyle and Mrs.
G. H. Elrod, all of Winder. Nine
grandchildren and five great grand
children; four brothers, R. 0. Lyle
of Jefferson, C. L. Lyle of Athens,
J. D. and J. T. Lyle of Winder; two
sisters, Mrs. A. P. Guffin of Atlanta,
and Mrs. W. W. McCain of Jeffer
son. Funeral services were held at
New Pentecost Methodist church.
Interment at Ebenezer church ceme
tery.
The funeral services were con
ducted by his pastor, Rev. W. B.
Hughes, assisted by Rev. A. B. Eliz
er, pastor First Methodist church of
Jefferson.
Mr. Lyle was a good man, and
was held in high esteem by all who
knew him.
NEW ENTERPRISE FOR
JEFFERSON
Last week we rode out on the
Athens and Jefferson Highway to
Jackson Bell old home place, which
is just outside the corporate limits
of Jefferson, and there beheld anew
place of entertainment—a bowling
alley. It had been (built almost
overnight. Men and ladies were
rolling balls down two alleys, knock
ing down the pins at the end there
of and all seemed to enjoy the
innocent sport. One man said, “I
enojy this for the exercise I get”.
There is such a demand for the
use of two alleys already built that
another is being constructed this
week.
Not only is there the above de
scribed sport, but all kinds of sand
wiches and cold drinks are served.
The owner and promoter of this
new enterprise is O. L. Singletary
who possesses a pioneer spirit. He
is giving this new place his person
al supervision and his sincere desire
in building this new amusement and
eating place is to have a place where
people can entertain themselves with
clean and healthy sport and enjoy
the best barbecue it is possible to
provide.
Miss Carrie Fleeman has returned
from a visit to relatives at different
points in Vh-ginia: Mesdames Josie
Stover and Eunice Roberts at Buck
Roe Beach, Myrtle at Richmond and
D. L. Jarrett at Mineral.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
L. F. WHITMIRE
ANSWERS DEATH
SUMMONS MONDAY
Lee Francis Whitmire died at his
home in Miller’s district Monday
morning. To-day (Wednesday) at 3
p. m. his body was interred in the
Oconee church cemetery, Revs. Milo
H. Massey and A. B, Elizer conduct
ing the funeral.
He was in his eighty-first year.
In this county he was born and
reared, and spent his entire life
here. He was a farmer and loved
his occupation. Not only was he
interested in agriculture, but in
education. His hearts desire was to
have country schools of nine months
duration and he worked faithfully to
that end. For several years he was
a trustee of Dry Pond School. He
was a member of Cave Springs Bap
tist church and a deacon of that
congregation. He leaves a wife,
Mrs. Olah Catlett Whitmire, and the
following children to mourn his de
mise: Mrs. Maud Porter, Demorest;
Mrs. Ethel Harvil, Pendergrass; Carl
Whitmire, Cornelia; Mrs. B. M.
White, Jefferson; Hugh L. Whitmire,
Miami; Paul Whitmire, Jefferson;
Bruce and Jack Whitmire, Chapel
Hill, N. C.; Mrs. L. J. Pantell, Okla
homa City, Okla.; Mrs. V. V. Vandi
ver, Everglades, Fla.; R. R. Whit
mire, ’Chicago, and John Whitmire,
Hollywood, California.
THE ELECTION ON NEXT
TUESDAY
The specimen ticket for the Gen
eral Election June 3rd shows 69
amendments to our Constitution to
be ratified at the June 3rd General
Election. The voting public is liable
to be stunned at the length of the
ballot this time. It is the longest
ballot we have ever seen.
Most of the amendments are local
in their application, largely about
allowing a city or a school district
to issue refunding bonds.
We give below some of the amend
ments which have a general applica
tion and which should be studied and
voted on. We give also the number
of each so that you can find them
easily on the ballot:
Number 1. Provides for a four
year term for governor.
Number 2. Provides for election
of a governor every four years.
Number 20. Provides for increas
ing the civil jurisdiction of justice
courts from SIOO to S2OO.
Number 21. Provides for permit
ting counties and municipalities to
contact for hospitalization.
Number 54. Provides for exempt
ing from taxation rural electrifica
tion projects.
Number 55. Provides for fixing
the term of State School Superin
tendent at four years.
Number 68. Provides for permit
ting the state of Georgia to adver
tise.
Number 69. Provides for annual
Fifty Day Sessions of the Georgia
Legislature.
You will be flabbergasted when
you see the ballot. Don’t let it deter
you from voting. You get your
government at the ballot box and it
is the duty of every citizen to go to
the polls and vote their convictions
on June 3rd.
Mrs. Mert L. Jones Passes;
Funeral Sunday Afternoon
Mrs. Mert Lord Jones, 57, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. T. D.
Wardlaw, of Nicholson, Friday night.
Mrs. Jones had been in failing health
for the past several years.
Funeral services were conducted
from the graveside at Porterfield
cemetery Sunday afternoon at 2 p.
m., Rev. G. D. Purdue officiating. He
is the pastor of the Porterfield Bap
tist church of which Mrs. Lord was
a member.
Mrs. Jones was a native of Mad
ison county and had spent all of her
life there. She was active in church
circles in that county.
Surviving Mrs. Jones is a son,
Floyd Lord, Atlanta; two sisters,
Mrs. T. D. Wardlaw, Nicholson, and
Mrs. Alex Bowman, Roanoke, Va.;
and one brother, O. L. Porterfield of
Atlanta.
The many friends of Mrs. Jones
are deeply grieved over her passing.
Miss Frances Hughes was the
week-end guest of relatives in At
lanta.
G. C. WILLIAMSON
CLAIMED BY DEATH
ON SUNDAY
In the death of George C. William
son last Sunday at his home near
Arcade , Jackson County loses one
of her oldest and most highly re
spected citizens. He was a member
of one of the county’s pioneer fami
lies and one that has played an im
portant part in this county’s history.
He was buried in the family ceme
tery near his home. Funeral ser
vices were conducted by Dr. J. E.
Coker, pastor of the Jefferson and
Arcade Presbyterian churches, Mr.
Williamson being a member at Ar
cade. His wife, Mrs. Mollie Morris
Williamson, preceded him to the
grave some years ago. He was the
son of James C. and Mrs. Frances
Fellows Williamson and lived here
all his life.
Four sons survive him, J. 8.,
Bryson, Owen and Odis, (adopted)
and one daughter, Mrs. Weyman
Martin.
State To Auction Road
Tools Costing 4 Million
The auctioning off of hundreds of
thousands of dollars’ worth of high
way equipment purchased during the
administration of former Governor
Rivers will start Saturday, May 31,
at Trenton.
Chairman W. E. Wilburn, of the
State Highway Board, said that ma
chinery to be sold there starting at
11 a. m. included 62 trucks, 21 trac
tors, 19 scrapers, 2 rock crushers, 6
rollers, 4 graders, 50 tons of metal
junk, 3 compressors and various
odds and ends, such as shovels, pow
er units and pavers.
He described the equipment as
“surplus” that had been acquired
for the construction of the Scenic
Highway to Lookout Mountain, in
Tennessee.
“We are selling it because we
have absolutely no use for it,” Mr.
Wilburn said. “It has been lying
idle ever since we have been in of
fice.”
Mr, Wilburn said the auction at
Trenton would be the first of 12 and
that approximately as much equip
ment would be sold at each of the
other auctions. The second one prob
ably will be held the middle of next
week.
He estimated that all the equip
ment to be sold cost between $4,-
000,000 and $5,000,000 when new.
Gene Fighting For Long
Term
Governor Eugene Talmadge mar
shalled administration stalwarts
Thursday for a whirlwind stretch
drive to carry to the voters his plea
for ratification of the four-year term
amendment in the June 3 general
election.
He announced a series of radio
addresses which started Saturday
and will be continued right to the
eve of the balloting in an effort to
obtain ratification of the amendment
that would increase from two to
four years the terms of future gov
ernors and other constitutional state
house officers.
Lead-off man for the administra
tion was the governor’s son, Herman
Talmadge, who spoke for 15 minutes
Saturday night. Next was Randall
Evans, speaker of the house and
representative from McDuffie coun
ty, with a 15-minute talk Monday
night and Charles D. Redwine, presi
dent of the senate will speak on Fri
day night, May 30.
The governor will speak for half
an hour Saturday night, May 31, and
James S. Peters, Manchester banker
and chairman of the Democratic
state executive committee will wind
up the campaign with an appeal
Monday night before the election.
ODD FELLOWS AND REBEKAHS
MEETING THIS WEEK
Atlanta.—The annual convention
of the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., will
bring several hundred Odd Fellows
and Rebekahs of Georgia to Atlanta
for sessions lasting from Tuesday
through Thursday.
Clyde L. Saye, of Athens, grand
patriach, presided at the annual
Grand Encampment Tuesday after
noon at the Ansley Hotel.
Thursday, May 29, 1941.
BRITISH SINK
BISMARCK IN
ATLANTIC BATTLE
London, May 27.—The 35,000-ton
German battleship Bismarck, one of
the newest and most powerful in the
world, was smashed and sunk today
by British warships and aerial bom
bers on the fifth morning of as cold
ly implacable a chase as sea warfare
has ever known.
From the Norwegian port of Ber
gen—where American-built Hudson
warplanes attacked her before ever
she left that harbor—she had been
pursued and harried for 1,750 miles
by a vast concentration of Royal Na
vy units afloat and in the skies until
at last, Crippled and whirling crazily
and trapped and already mortally
hit, she was sent to the bottom 400
miles west of Nazi-occupied Brest.
Thus was avenged, in such a fu
rious display of British naval might
as had not been seen before in this
war, the one great victim of the
Bismarck’s short career, the 42-100-
ton British battle cruiser Hood.
It was at 11.01 a. m. (4.01 a. m.,
E. S. TANARUS.) that she sank at last in the
chill waters so close to the refuge
which she had sought to reach—the
harbor of Brest—and the last of the
long series of blows that sent her
under came from the torpedoes of
the circling warships.
She carried 1,300 men and the
German Admiral Guenther Luetjens,
and her loss was the gravest suffered
at sea by the Nazis since the war
began.
Progress of The Negro
Told In Pictures
A moving picture showing the
progress of the negro farmer in the
South was the entertainment provi
ded by John L. Anderson, chairman
of the entertainment committee, at
the meeitng of Jefferson Rotary on
Tuesday.
The voices of members of Tuske
gee Institute Ghoir blended into
music, singing old time spirituals, at
both the beginning and the end of
the picture. An impressive story
was told by this picture of many im
provements made in agriculture and
the story of the progress of the col
ored people on the farm in the last
half century.
Visitors present were Colonel Du
pree Hunnicutt, member of the
House from Clarke county, and R.
H. Tolbert and J. W. Richardson.
Six members were absent.
MRS. ELMER L. KINNEY
INTERRED AT WALNUT
The following funeral notice ap
peared in Monday’s daily papers:
“The friends and relatives of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer L. Kinney, of Chico
pee; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Maddox, Mr.
Jewell Maddox, Mr. Homer Maddox,
Misses Estelle and Irene Maddox, all
of Pendergrass, are invited to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Elmer L.
Kinney this (Monday) afternoon at
2;30 o’clock at Walnut Baptist
church, Jackson county. Rev. C. E.
Vaughn will officiate. Burial will be
in the churchyard.”
Morgan Blake Would Spend
His Vacation in Jefferson
Writing in his column in the At
lanta Journal on Commencement oc
casions Morgan Blake, who deliver
ed the baccalaureate address to Mar
tin Institute graduates, says:
“The Harrison Hotel at Jefferson
is more than a hundred years old,
and the original builders did a good
job. It seems about as solid and
substantial now as when it was built.
The front porch is about a half mile
long and scores of comfortable chairs
abound.
Charlie Morgan went with me to
Jefferson and Mr. Ash was host at a
wonderful meal for us, at which the
members of the Board of Education
and their wives were present. Every
body had four pieces of fried chicken
each, and all the trimmings.
And as Charlie and I sat on that
big porch after supper, waiting for
the hour of commencement exercises
and stuffed to the eyebrows with
fried chicken we would have much
preferred just sitting there and re
laxing until midnight. It was quite
an effort to rouse ourselves and go
to the high school. I think I’ll take
Vol. 66. No. 50.
HIGHLIGHTS OF
FDR’S SPEECH TO ,
THE WORLD
Washington, May 27.—Here are
some passages from President Roose
velt’s broadcast:
It is unmistakably apparent to all
of us that, unless the advance of
Hitlerism is forcibly checked now,
the Western Hemisphere will be
within range of the Nazi weapons of
destruction.
The Nazi world does not recognize
any God except Hitler; for the Nazis
are as ruthless as the Communists in
the denial of God.
The war is approaching the brink
of the Western Hemisphere itself.
It is coming very close to home.
If the Axis powers fail to gain
control of the seas, they are certain
ly defeated. Their dreams of world
domination will then go by the
board.
The present rate of Nazi sinkings
of Merchants is more than three
times as high as the capacity of
British shipyards to replace them; it
is more than twice the combined
British and American output of mer
chants ships today.
It is time for us to realize that the
safety of American homes even in
the center of our country has a defi
nite relationship to the combined
safety of homes in Nova Scotia or
Trinidad or Brazil.
Our patrols are helping now to
insure delivery of the needed sup
plies to Britain. All additional
measures necessary to deliver the
goods will be taken.
Your government has the right to
expect of all citizens that they take
loyal part in the common work of
our common defense—take loyal
part from this moment forward.
Collective bargaining will be re
tained but the American people ex
pect that impartial recommendations
of our government services will be
followed both by capital and by la
bor.
We in the Americas will decide
for ourselves, and when, and where
our American interests are attacked
or our security threatened.
With profound consciousness of
my responsibilities to my countrymen
and to my country’s cause, I have
tonight issued a proclamation that
an unlimited national emergency
exists and requires the strengthen
ing of our defense to the extreme
limit of our national power and au
thority.
MAN IS KILLED
IN GUN DUEL
WITH TROOPERS
Rome, Ga.—Halted by state troop
ers who wished to caution him about
a defective headlight, Fred Brown,
56, of Rome, instead opened fire
upon the officers, wounded one and
then was shot and killed, Deputy
Sheriff Frank Russell said Sunday
night.
The shooting, as related by Deputy
Russell, occured thus:
(Smith, Sergeant H. F. Culberson
and Trooper Jim Haralson were rid
ing in a state patrol car when they
met Brown’s car near the junction
of the Rome-Cedartown and Rome-
Cave Spring highways about 12:45
o’clock this morning.
The troopers related to Sheriff
Mark Horton that only one light was
burning on Brown’s car so the patrol
men followed it to caution the driv
er.
Brown was signalled off the road,
the troopers advised, and Smith and
Culberson approached the halted
car. As they came up from the
rear, the motorist fired a shotgun
twice as Culberson cried “watch
out.”
Smith fell. Culberson and Har
alson, who had joined them, then
fired into the automobile.
Brown died of pistol wounds :'n
the neck and temple.
A Floyd county coroner’s jury ex
onerated the troopers.
my vacation this summer at the Har
rison Hotel. I’ll lay in a supply of
detective stories, and spend the time
eating and sleeping and reading on
that big front porch.
Jefferson was the native heath of
that great benefactor of mankind,
Dr. Crawford Long, who first used
ether in operations.”