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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferion Potoffice
At Second-Clatt Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jacluon County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor St Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Ataociate Editor St Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., MAY 29, 1941.
A PLACE FOR THE
YOUNG GRADUATES
Hundreds of young people, boys
and girls, throughout the country,
are being graduated this month and
next from the high schools and col
leges. Morgan Blake, in his address
here said this a sorry world we are
handing the kids and that “I can’t
help but have a sort of uneasy feel
ing that in the midst of some flight
of oratory the class may rise en
masse and say, “Wait a minute,
brother. What’s the alibi of you old
folks? You’ve been running things
for a long time and have made a
bad mess of it. Don’t be handing
us that line of bull. We feel sure
we can do a better job than you’ve
done.”
But there is important advice that
can be handed these young gradu
ates. You can remind them of what
a challenge it is to be starting out
in the world at a time like this,
when half the nations are at war
and the United States itself is at
work on Defense with almost a mil
lion and a half men in uniform; with
taxes mounting and uncertainties in-
creasing.
It is not as pleasant a time to get
started. For there are problems as
any this nation has ever faced. And
the boy or girl who finishes school
this spring will be plunged into the
turmoil of one of the great crises of
history.
We are at work on the greatest
armament program in the history of
this country. We are training a
great army of men. But we must
not only make America strong
enough to resist any physical aggres
sion. We must rebuild our faith in
Democracy and the American way of
life if we are to continue to be a
country where men may speak as
they please—even if we don’t agree
with them; where we choose by bal
lot the men who shall govern us and
where we conduct our business in
the way we see fit as long as it
doesn’t interfere with the rights of
others. So the boy or girl, going to
work this spring, will count not only
as another pair of hands to help with
Defense but as a citizen whose be
lief in Americanism will hep to bring
it safely through this emergency.
America has always been the land
of opportunity. The oppressed peo
ples of the earth have turned to it
in their despair and thousands of
them have come here to find a bet
ter life. It must continue to be the
land of opportunity for them and for
us—the country which will be the
first to realize the true brotherhood
of man that is possible in a land
where the mass production of a free
industrial system makes possible an
abundance of the good things of life
for everybody.
That is the situation which young
people finishing school this spring
will have the privilege of helping to
develop. For we have reached the
end of an epoch. We are at the be
ginning of something new and some
thing better. With the increase in
our productive capacity we will be
able to realize the real destiny of
Amerca if we continue to build on
the same foundation our forefath
ers used. And that is inevitable, for
as Mr. C. M. Chester, noted indus
trial leader, said recently, “the Amer
ican's love of liberty, demand for
opportunity and faith in the cherish
ed institutions of Democracy are as
sound, as new and as precious today
as they were in the days of Wash
ington, Jefferson, and Franklin.”
Toni Frier, editor of the Douglas
Enterprise, got rather widely quoted
around the state when he gave the
following good advice to his merch
ants. It's worth repeating in any
paper. “Our suggestion to the
merchants is to buy larger stocks of
merchandise this year, order a large
variety, and let the 21,000 prospec
tive customers in Coffee county know
that it’s here. That means adver
tising. Sears, Roebuck has spent
$l5O on a catalogue for every pro
spective customer in Coffee. If each
merchant will spend only a fraction
for advertising, his reward will know
no bounds and his cash register sing 1
a rrrrrr tune throughout the entire
year.”—Alma Times.
VACATIONS MEANS
MORE NOW
Americans take vacation time
seriously. We work hard and play
hard in thia country. The English
humorous mugazine Punch, paying
too much attention to the latter
habit, once declared that America
isn’t a country—it’s a picnic.
Vacations mean a lot to us be
cause they are a part of the whole
pattern of freedom under which we
live. (No atate-arranged “workers’
tours” and “labor battalion holi
days” for us! The people of the
United States pay their ten billion
dollars annually for amusement and
recreation in their own liberty-lov
ing way I
Well, summer is here again, and
this is not quite like other years. A
huge national defense program is
under way, calling for the best that
is in every one of us. And it is al
ready apparent that for some Ameri
cans, there will be less time for rec
reation this year than heretofore.
Skilled management will be in
great demand at this crucial time in
the defense program. The busy em
ployer, whose symbol at present is
the sandwich and cup of coffee for
a lunch at his desk, will often be
forced to forego a vacation this
year.
Skilled workers will be in great
demand, too. Already the employees
of some companies working on de
fense have voted to take their va
cation pay as a bonus and go right
on working to make sure that their
country will be armed in time.
But if the management and work
men in our industries, and all those
who have a stake in building this
nation’s defense, can give less
thought to the pleasures of a sum
mer in the mountains or on the
beach, there is at least one point
they will not forget. It is privileges
like these that they are working
harder now in order to render se
cure. And any liberty is only a
thing of worth and dignity if those
who enjoy it are willing to make
sacrifices to insure against its being
taken away.
That is the vacation spirit of
Americans in these difficult times.
THE HOME GARDEN
HELPS
“It is not too late” is a slogan
coming into widespread usage to
day, and very aptly has been applied
by the State College of Agriculture
to the garden crop situation in Geor
gia.
Pointing out that there will be
some 120,000 soldiers in Georgia this
summer with a capacity if not the
taste for spinach, turnips, corn, okra,
beans, ad infinitum, the state col
lege urges that farmers and city
dwellers provide as far as possible
their own need for vegetables to re
lieve a possible shortage. It isn’t
that everybody won’t be getting
enough to eat (those who get enough
now, at any rate) but that the selec
tion probably will not be as good,
and perhaps more expensive.
While not as beautiful, vegeta
bles are intriguing to raise and have
quite as much a personality as in
dividual flowers when raised on a
scale of home consumption. There
is quite the same thrill in seeing
them force their way through the
loam and unbend to reach for the
sunlight. Their foliage is just as
green as that of flowers, and even
the prosaic pole bean can decorate
a garden by the simple expedient of
using vari-colored supports. And
thinning out and weeding radishes,
or planting onion sets can be just as
good as midriff reducer as similar
activity devoted to the flower beds.
Beets have a beautiful leaf, and here
is an instance in which one can have
his foliage and eat it, too. Carrot
tops, delicate and wavy, are far from
being eyesores.
Try it. It’s fun, it helps out a
little bit, and—it is not too late.
Where, would you imagine, is the
most modern, up-to-date, model cot
ton mill in the world? New England,
where the textile industry first flow
ered in the United States? Some
southern states where some enlight
ened employer is pioneering? Ger
many, proud of its industrial techni
ques and vaunting its solicitude for
the labor soldier? Russia, where the
industries are all allegedly run for
the workers? No. According to a
group of United States industrial re
search experts now in South Ameri
ca, this model textile mill is on the
outskirts of Santiago, Chile.
Orders for 4,025 railway cars to
be built at a cost of $12,275,000 by
three different companies were an
nounced Tuesday by R. B. Pegram,
v : e president of the Southern Rail
way Company.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
GOD HAS BLESSED
AMERICA
If you were standing somewhere
outside the world and were told you
could choose any country on earth to
live in, which one would you, as a
woman, pick? Where would you
find the greatest amount of personal
freedom for yourself . . . the widest
range of opportunities for your chil
dren . . . the highest standard of
living for your family and the most
recognition for you as an individ
ual?
The answer is not hard to guess.
You would choose America! Every
thing about this big, new country
has combined to make it serve the
individual in his or her “pursuit of
happiness.” Its vast wealth .. . .
its variety of climate .. . and
above all, its form of government
“of the people, by the people and for
the people” makes this the best
country in the world for women.
The state, in our democracy, ex
ists for the sake of the individual
and not the individual for the sake
of the state, as in a totalitarian
country. The result is a nation of
independent, hopeful, ambitious,
fearless men and women and rosy
children who look forward to a life
of the kind they choose to live.
And perhaps that is the most im
portant thing about America in
these fearful days. If your son
wants to go into business, he may do
so. If he wants to be an electrical
engineer that, too, is all right. But
in a totalitarian country all boys
must be fitted into the same pattern.
If you have a short wave radio you
and your friends can listen to pro
grams from all over the world. In
dictator-ridden countries they must
listen only to the programs approv
ed by the state. You read what you
please and can get hold of. You
can say what you please, “right out
in the meetin’ ” if you have the cour
age to stand up in front of your
club or your school or Sunday school.
In dictator countries you may be
arrested for the things you say, even
to members of your own family in
the privacy of your own home. You
can go to church if you like and to
whatever church you choose. In
totalitarian states regilious freedom
is a thing of the past. You can save
money ... if you can, at least a
little of it almost every month, while
in dictator countries more and more
of it is confiscated by the state.
Probably you have a car and go
where you please. Only a few of
the very rich women of dictator
countries have cars and even they
can’t go where they please.
And—very important, too—your
standard of living is such that you
can buy more of the good and neces
sary things of life than people in
other lands. Better goods, and more
of them—and a wider choice of
goods—all made possible by a free
system of industrial enterprise un
like that in other lands.
It’s a great country we live in—
broad in fertile acres—rich in re
sources and a free government, bless
ed by 'God!
RED CROSS ANNIVERSARY
On a mild spring evening 60 years
ago, a small group of dead-in-earnest
men and women met at Clara Bar
ton’s home in Washington and found
ed the American Association of the
Red Cross. The 60th anniversary of
this memorable occasion was ob
served May 21 by Red Cross Chap
ters throughout the country.
In the three-score years since
1881 many things have come to pass.
Disasters have taken their toll, wars
wrought destruction, famine and
epidemic come and gone. And in
all these catastrophes the American
Red Cross has played its part—
clothing, feeding, sheltering the
homeless and ministering to those
who were ill.
In terms of history 60 years Is a
short period. But it has been suf
ficient to test the Red Cross time
and again in the crucible of emer
gency. Upon each occasion the
organization has emerged stronger
in ability and stronger in purpose
and ideals.
The United States Marine Corps Re
cruiting Office, Room 612, Ten For
syth Street Building, Atlanta, Ga.,
announces that beginning immedi
ately the Marine Corps will accept
apllicants for enlistment in the Ma
rine Corps Reserve for the duration
of the present emergency. The age
limit for service has been lowered
from eighteen to seventeen years of
age and all persons completing their
six weeks recruit training at Parris
Island, South Carolina, will be given
a ten day leave or absence upon com
pletion of the course.
HONOR ROLL
Mrs. Willie Sudduth, City.
Mr*. L. J. Pantell, Okla. City.
M. B. Collins, City.
G. Hamp Martin, Commerce.
J. W. Stockton, Crawford.
Fred S. Brock, Fayetteville.
R. P. Cooper, Route 2.
L. B. McEver, Hoschton.
Mrs. W. W. Dickson, City.
W. J. Mcßee, Rayle.
E. O. Hawkins, Route 1.
A. D. Mauldin, Route 3.
C L. Gee, Pendergrass.
Mrs. Ann Wood, Route 1,
George R. Banks, Macon.
J. P. Maddox, Nicholson.
Mrs. B. C. Smith, Pendergrass.
R. L. P. Carter, Commerce.
Mrs. W. M. Spencer, Athens.
Mrs. Venie Daneil, Route 3.
Mrs. A. J. Gee, Pendergrass.
H. J. Massey, City.
C. W. Pinson, City.
Mrs. C. H. Legg, City.
Mrs. Lizzie Wills, Route 2.
M. A. Griffeth, Pendergrass.
J. W. Arnold, Route 2.
David Elder, Cuba.
Mrs. J. B. Williamson, Route 2.
C. R. Davis, Cornelia.
J. S. Patrick, Pendergrass.
Mrs. Alvin Payne, Route 3.
Enoch Butler, Route 3.
C. H. Bryant, Route 1.
Mrs. J. R. Potts, Rt. 3.
Miss Minnie Wilson, Rt. 2.
J. B. Elrod, Commerce.
L. H. Wilhite, Miami.
W. T. Nix, Commerce.
Mrs. R. N. Pirkle, City.
Mrs. H. C. Baird, Hoschton.
S. Kinningham, Gainesville.
Miss Kathleen Moon, Atlanta.
Julia George, Rt. 2.
B. F. Whelcbel, Washington.
Mrs. J. L. Colvin, Lincolnton.
Mrs. Lucy Mae Hartley, City.
Mrs. C. M. Doss, Maysville.
Mrs. Carolyn Marsh, Miami.
Mrs. W.S. Pinson. Atlanta.
L. A. Langford, City.
H. O. Langford, Winterville
J. O. Howard, Rt. 1.
T. T. Benton, City.
Mrs. Florence Potts, Commerce.
R. C. Jarrett, Avon Park, Fla.
Mrs. T. O. McMullan, Miami, Fla.
J. A. O’Dillon, Rt. 1.
Mrs. Mary Booth Fulcher, Rt. 2.
J. S. Sosebee, Rt. 3.
C. T. Potter, Rt. 1.
Mrs. Sam Kelly, City.
Thos. A. Hutchins, Nicholson.
Mrs. T. J. Morrison, Arnoldville.
J. O. Davidson, Maysville.
C. B. Boggs, Gray.
Mrs. C. L. Bennett, Madison.
D. L. Seagraves, Nicholson.
J. E. Brumbalow, Pendergrass.
Mrs. Sadie Ivey, Talmo.
J. W. Carrington, Winder.
Mrs. J. F. Thurmond, Athens.
R. L. Pirkle, Hoschton.
D. T. Wilhite, City.
D. T. Wilhite, Jr., Toccoa.
CUTLER NAMED SPANISH WAR
VETERANS’ HEAD
Athens, Ga.—Albert E. Cutler, of
Atlanta, and Mrs. Pearl Parham, Al
bany, were elected to head the Geor
gia Association of Spanish-American
War Veterans and its auxiliary as
the 1941 convention came to a close
here Tuesday afternoon.
Augusta was selected as the con
vention city for next year.
Before adjourning the vets adopt
ed a resolution as being opposed and
condemning any effort to retard
work of the national defepse program
and asked for a more rigid enforce
ment of the United States immigra
tion laws.
Electric Cookery Now Preferred
OF GROWING POPULARITY
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FARMERS TOLD HOW
TO SELL TO ARMY
Farmers who have fresh fruits
and vegetables this spring and sum
mer to sell Fourth Corps Area Army
camps may transact arrangements
through the state Department of
Agriculture.
Tom Linder, commissioner of agri
culture, said the Government is
continually asking for bids on pota
toes, squash, cucumbers, onions, car
rots and cabbage. Large orders are
purchased for consumption by sol
diers at Camp Wheeler at Macon,
Stewart near Savannah, Benning at
Columbus, Blanding at Jacksonville,
Jackson at Columbia and McClelland
at Anniston, Ala.
The proper procedure is for farm
ers to submit bids to the quarter
master on specified dates. The low
est bidder who receives the contract
then will deliver his produce to the
quartermaster’s depot.
Commissioner Linder said the
Army has asked that instead of in
dividual farmers submitting their
bids directly to the quartermaster
that they be sent to the state farm
markets.
GEORGIA’S GENEROUS
DOCTORS
The Medical Association of Geor
gia did a splendid thing at its an
nual convention in Macon in raising
among its members a fund for health
education in rural districts and for
other good causes related to their
profession. It appears that among
the State’s 159 counties there are
89 which have no hospital facilities
and that the total number of hospit
al beds in Georgia is only 57 per
cent of the national average. The
Medical Association pledges its help
to remedy such deficiencies. Doctors
are continually giving free service in
the treatment of the poor and in
promoting and maintaining com
munity health programs. In addi
tion the members of Georgia’s Medi
cal Association now provide, out of
their own pockets, a fund of SIO,OOO
for special endeavors. This is work
manly patriotism at its best.
TRUSTEES ELECTION
An election for trustees for the sub-districts
is ordered to be held on Saturday, May 31,
1941, at the School Building, in each School
District in the county. The hours for the elec
tion have been set at 1 o’clock to 2 o’clock,
Eastern Standard Time. Let every School Dis
trict where a vacancy on the Board of Trustees
exists, hold the election on this day.
By order of the Board of Education.
T. T. BENTON, C. S. S.
**6.0,000 Georgia Homes
THURSDAY. MAY 29, 1941.
THINK
(By Thomas Staton)
Do you ever think of your road’s end
When your weary life is through?
Will there be anyone to weep,
Or will they be glad it was you?
Will enemies come
And admit they were wrong
Or when you die
Will they all sing a song?
You may die tomorrow
Death to you may be fears
But we always do better
In our forthcoming years.
The greatest ambition
For me or for you
Is to go there and meet Him
When our days are through.
But your place of eternity
Whether you’re old or new,
You’ll have to admit
Depends strictly on you.
TODAY
I will start today serenely
With a true and noble aim;
I will give unselfish service
To enrich another’s name.
I will speak a word of courage
To a soul enslaved by fear;
I will dissipate drab discord
With the sunshine of god cheer.
I will be sincere and humble
In the work I have to do;
I will praise instead of censure
And see the good in you.
I will keep my mind and body
Sound and flexible and pure;
I will give my time and study
To the things that long endure.
I will do what I am able
To advance a worthy cause;
I will strive to lessen evil
And obey God’s righteous laws.
I will pray to Him to guide me
In the straight and narrow way;
I will shun false pride and folly,
I will live my best today.
—Grenville Kleiser.