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THEJACKSONHERALD
si.SO A YEAR—IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Po toff ice
As Second Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER
Editor 8r Manager
MRS. JOHN N. HOLDER
Associate Editor & Manager
JEFFERSON, GA., APRIL 2, 1942.
LABOR AND BIG
BUSINESS
Thurman Arnold is one of the
most brilliant and courageous men
in the employ of the United States.
His office is that of Assistant At
torney General of the United States
and his duties are to expose wrong
wherever he finds it.
Recently he told of the unfair
ness and unreasonableness of labor
organizations and their responsibili
ty for the delay in production of
planes, ships, tanks and other ne
cessities for the prosecution of the
war in which this country is en
gaged. His words were applauded
because the great masses know he
told the truth. If there has been
delay in preparation for this great
conflict, labor organizations are
more responsible than any other
class. The statement of this em
ployee of the U. S. created surprise
because it is admitted that President
Roosevelt has been too easy on
labor strikes and is too much im
pressed by certain labor leaders.
Thurman Arnold comes fourth
now with a crack down on big busi
ness. He is not afraid either of
labor, or big business. This time it
is the biggest of all big business—
The Standard Oil Company. He
said before a Senate Committee the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer
sey had “frustrated the creation of
an American synthetic rubber in
dustry” by turning improved manu
facturing processes over to German
interests, prior to United States en
try into the war, while at the same
time withholding them from Ameri
can firms.
“At the direction of the German
interests,” Arnold testified, “Stand
ard Oil refused to license inde
pendent producers in the United
Suites for the production of syn
thetic rubber.
“It turned over all its discoveries
to Germany even though Ger
many declined to give them any
thing in return. The effect of this
arrangement continued during the
war and up to a time shortly before
the filing of the information and
the decree against Standard Oil. . .
“Standard Oil delayed the use of
buna rubber (processed with the
use of coal) in this country because
the Hitler government did not wish
to havs this rubber exploited here
for military reasons. Standard de
layed the introduction of buna rub
ber even after it had received per
mission from I. G. Farben to make
suitable arrangements. It is even
more astonishing that on Standard’s
own development, namely butyl
(the petroleum gas process), Stand
ard has refused to license all but
two rubber companies, with the ex
ception of some specialty compan
ies."
Agiold said the cost of butyl rub
ber hid been estimated by Standard
at between 7 and 15 cents per
pound compared with approximate
ly 20 cents per pound for natural
rubber.
“Then Standard developed syn
thetic rubber in this country that
•was cheaper and more plentiful
than Germany had?” Hugh A. Ful
ton, counsel for the investigating
committee asked.
“That’s right,” Arnold replied.
“And turned it over to Ger
many?” Fulton inquired.
“That’s right.” was again the re-
ply.
“And not to our own rubber com
panies?”
“That’s right.”
Arnold expressed the opinion,
that “in the future, with some
supervision by an active anti-trust
division, this sort of thing isn’t go
ing to happen again.”
Maybe synthetic rubber will
now be manufactured in the United
States. Rubber shortage is causing
inconvenience and distress. A con
stmt decree has succeeded in mak
ing available in the American Gov
ernment and industries patents for
synthetic rubber, synthetic gasoline
and various other chemicals. Arn
old is responsible for this decree
and through this action of the
courts, the rubber situation may be
relieved.
Soft hats for men were first worn
in America just before the Civil
War.
ROTARY HONORS
MINISTERS
Jefferson Rotary at its meeting
last week presented Rotary pins to
four ministers of this city who are
members of the club, Dr. J. E.
Coker, pastor of the Jefferson Pres
byterian Church; Rev. W. B. Hugh
es, pastor of the Jefferson Circuit;
Rev. James T. Burrell, pastor of the
First Baptist Church and Rev. A E
Barton, pastor of the First Metho
dist Church.
The presentation speech was
made by Colonel John C. Turner,
who was at his best. He said the
badges were given by Jefferson Ro
tary as a token of appreciation of
the unselfish, patriotic and Christ
ian services of these consecrated
men, for which they receive no
compensation. They visit the sick,
comfort the sorrowing and bereav
ed, feed the hungry, help care for
the poor, carry patients to hospitals
and arrange for their treatment,
bury the dead and unite in mar
riage the living. Jefferson Rotary,
he declared, feels very proud to
have as members of the club four
ministers who are a blessing, not
only to Rotary, but to the people
of Jefferson and surrounding coun
try.
These men deserve all the en
comiums placed upon them by tne
one who presented to them the
little token of friendship and loVe
from Jefferson Rotary. Jefferson is
fortunate in having men in the pul
pits here who are well capacitated
to give gospel messages week after
week to any church congregation
anywhere. They are consecrated
ministers and the very best of citi
zens. Jefferson Rotary and this
community appreciate these conse
crated men. Not only are present
ministers able and effective and a
benediction to this club and the peo
ple here, but two men who served
in the pulpits here last year, Rev.
A. B. Elizer and the late Rev. R. M.
Rigdon proved themselves to be of
unestimable value to this commu-
nity as well as to the church. Both
were active in every effort made for
the upbuilding and betterment of
Jefferson and Jackson county. Rev.
Elizer had charge of the program
for Crawford W. Long Stamp Day,
probably the biggest event ever
witnessed here, except the Jefferson
Centennial, and he handled it in a
masterly manner. He was also
president of Jefferson Rotary.
The late Mr. Rigdon was at the
head of two campaigns for prohi
bition in Jackson county and man
aged each without friction and with
marked success. Both these men
occupy warm places in the hearts
of the people of Jefferson and
county.
Jefferson Rotary made a happy
gesture to its minister members in
giving them proper and deserved
recognition at the Rotary Ann
evening.
HOME FIRES
Since America was bombed into
the war on December 7 we’ve seen
some rough going for our side.
We've had to take bad news as best
we could, and it hasn’t been easy.
Hunched over our papers, bending
close to our radios, we’ve all pass
ed through some dismal moments of
anger and despair.
Before this war is ended we’ll
pass through many more. Even
though our factories are speeding
up their production of war materials
we won’t have enough to take the
offensive on a big scale for many a
long month to come. We re going
to have to work harder than we
ever have before. We’re going to
have to face ugly facts with cour
age, shut our eyes and ears to de
feat, dig in and do our jobs better
than ever. That’s the only’ way we
can win.
Our war industries are trying in
many ways to deliver the goods as
fast as possible. In addition to all
their other jobs they’re trying to
keep up the morale of their em
ployees, for during the last war,
when morale sagged, production al
so dropped. To keep that from
happening this time, some plants
are serving between-meals “snacks"
to offset fatigue caused by longer
hours. Others are supplying free
home-town newspapers to counter
act homesickness in workers who
are away from home. Pep rallies,
special recognition for extra-hard
working employees—they’re trying
not to overlook a single thing that
will increase production.
Keeping up morale is a job that
all of us can do, however. It’s
bound to be tough, giving up -many
of our easy comforts, changing out
lives under the impact of war. But
we can do it cheerfully, and we
must. For back here behind the
lines we’ve got to keep those “home
fires burning.” We’ve got to ac
cept what we must and keep going.
Indeed, that’s the very least that
we can do.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
HONOR TO WHOM
HONOR IS DUE
In a recent write up in one of the
daily papers of Dr. Crawford W.
Long and his world wide discovery,
mention was made of some men
who had been active in having a
monument to him placed in the Hall
of Fame in Washington. It failed,
however, to say one word about the
man who was more responsible for
this honor to Dr. Long than any
other—the late Governor L. G.
Hardman of Commerce.
In 1899, Dr. Hardman asked the
writer who at that time was a mem
ber of the Georgia House of Repre
sentatives, if he would join with C.
C. Houston in the introduction of a
resolution authorizing the Gover
nor to appoint a commission to se
lect two Georgia sons whose statues
would be placed in the National
Capitol. A law had been passed by
congress authorizing each state to
select its two most famous men and
place their monuments in the Hall
of Fame in Washington. The writer
gladly agreed to that suggestion.
The resolution was introduced and
passed and Governor Allen D.
Candler appointed Dr. L. G. Hard
man Chairman of the Commission.
The two Georgians chosen by the
Commission were Dr. Crawford W.
Long and Alexander H. Stephens.
After this, Dr. Hardman erected a
monument to Dr. Long at his own
expense and placed it on the public
square in Jefferson where it stands
today. He also put forth efforts to
secure funds to have Dr. Long’s
monument placed in a niche, pro
vided for it in the capitol of our
country. He was active in helping
to prove beyond question that Dr.
Crawford W. Long was the firstt
physician to use anesthesia in an
operation, and therefore was its
discoverer.
No one desires to take from any
one any honor due him for having
Dr. Crawford W. Longs monument
placed in Washington among the
most famous from other States, but
the man whose name should be
placed at the head of this list is
that of the late physician governor,
Dr. L. G. Hardman.
A BALANCED DIET FOR
VICTORY
Do you get enough to eat?
You may think that you do. But
eating three full meals a day does
not always mean that you are well
fed. Many people fail to realize
that they can eat “plenty” and still
be undernourished.
Recent surveys made by the Unit
ed States Department of Agricul
ture indicate that many millions of
people here in America are suffer
ing from malnutrition. Some of
them show their lack of nourishing
food in such ailments as night blind
ness, indigestion, poor teeth, chronic
fatigue, or emotional instability;
and some of them do not show it at
all in outward appearances. Yet,
so long as they remain inadequate
ly fed they can not be said to en
joy perfect health or to have all the
energy that they might so easily
have.
Today good health should be con
sidered not as a luxury but as a
weapon to be used by civilians and
soldiers alike in bringing ultimate j
victory. And good health is de-!
pendent first of all upon a balanced '
diet for individuals and families.
Eat the five types of food which
are basic to good health, regularly
every day; then eat whatever else
you want. These foods are milk;
eggs and meat; leafy vegetables;
wholewheat, soybean, or properly
enriched white bread; and fresh
fruits. Their importance in the
daily diet can not be overestimat
ed. They are among the inexpen
sive foods, and, if you serve them
all to your family, every day, you
will be serving a balanced diet at
moderate cost.
As an addition to your diet, you
should not neglect dairy products—
things made from milk—such as
butter and cheese.
Our bodies also need quantities
of water or other beverages, pre
ferably taken between meals.
Don't be afraid to consume a lit
tle “fat” each day, too.
Little children need, in addition,
fish-liver oils like cod-liver oil ev
ery day. Your own family physician
is the best one to tell you just how
much each child needs and the most
palatable form in which to buy it.
You should consult him, too, if
any members of your family are ab
normally overweight or under
weight. He can help get them back
to “normal."
Self-ignorance. self-will. self
righieousness, lust. covetousness,
envy, revenge, are foes to grace,
peace, and progress; they must be
met manfully and overcome, or
they will uproot all happiness.
WAKE UP AMERICA—
IT’S LATE!
(Editorial in Scripps-Howard
Newspapers)
The nation needs to awaken to
the full gravity of the peril that
confronts it.
It needs to appreciate how badly
we have been defeated in three
months of war.
It needs to understand that it
is possible for the United States to
lose this war and suffer the fate of
France—and that this possibility
may become a probability if the
present tide does not change.
It needs to realize that there is
grave chance of the Japanese push
ing through India and the Germans
driving the Near East, to join their
armies and resources in an almost
unbeatable combination.
It needs to get away, once and for
all, from the comforting feeling
that while we may lose at the start
we are bound to win in the end.
Only when fully aware of exist
ing perils will the Unitd States do
its utmost. Pray God that aware
ness will not come too late, as it
did in France!
Production Director Donald Nel
son appeals for vastly increased in
dustrial output on a 24-hour, seven
day basis—l6B hours a week. Maxi
mum production, in short.
Can we get it?
Not on the present basis—not un
der the psychology of recent years.
Not until we quit thinking in
terms of less work for more money.
Not while there is greater con
cern about overtime pay than over
time production.
Not while farmer politicians are
more interested in higher prices
than raising more essentials.
Not while Government bureaus—
created to meet a depression emer
gency that is ended—continue try
ing to grab for themselves money
needed for armaments.
Not while an army of federal
press agents clamors to promote
and perpetuate activities that have
no present need or value.
Not while congressmen try to put
over useless canals and river
schemes and take up the time of
defense officials clamoring for fac
tories and contracts as if war were
a great gravy train.
Not while WPA, despite a short
age of labor .seeks to carry on pro
jects which it doesn’t have the men
to perform or the need for per
forming.
Not while CCC and’NYA stretch
greedy hands for funds to pamper
young men who ought to be in the
armed forces or the war plants.
Not while strikes hamper war
production, despite a solemn prom
ise that they would stop.
Not while the life-and-death need
for uninterupted production is used
as a weapon to put over the closed
shop.
Not while double time is demand
ed for Sunday work which is only
part of a 40-hour week.
Not while a man can’t be employ
ed on an Army project or in a war
plant until he pays S2O to SSO or
more to a labor racketeer.
Not while criminal gangs control
employment and allocation of men
to work on the Normandie and the
other ships along New York’s vast
waterfront.
Not while fifth columnists are
pampered and enemy aliens move
freely in defense areas.
Not while the grim job of pre
paring our home communities
against air raids and sabotage is
gummed up with a lot of highfalut
ing, boondoggling, social service
activity.
Not while pressure blocs clamor
for bigger benefits, bounties and
pensions.
We will not get maximum pro
duction, in short, unless, first, we
fully realize our awful peril, and,
second, get over the gimmes of re
cent years.
Gimme shorter hours, gimme
higher wages, gimme bigger profits,
gimme more overtime, gimme less
work, gimme more pensions, gimme
greater crop benefits, gimme more
appropriations and patronage, gim
me plants for my congressional dis
trict, gimme fees and dues to work
for Uncle Sam, gimmie ham’n eggs,
gimme share-the-wealth, gimme S3O
every Thursday.
France had the gimmes, too—
had them till the Germans were
close_ to Paris. Then everybody
[went frantically to work—too late.
France has no gimmes today—ex
-1 cept gimme food for my baby, gim
| me a place to lay my head, gimme
death.
With the United States wake up
too late?
We anticipate a time when the
love of truth shall have come up to
our love of liberty, and men shall be
cordially tolerant and earnest be
lievers both at once.
WHAT WILL LIFE INSURANCE DO
FOR ME AND MY FAMILY?
These are a few of the things it will do for you.
A small Deposit Each Year, we call them prem
iums, will provide:
(1) A savings account that can be withdrawn
at any time in case of emergency.
(2) Place a blanket of protection over the
heads of your family in the event of your pre
matured death.
(3) Create an Educational fund for that son
or daughter through systematic yearly savings
and guarantee it should you not live.
(4) Create a retirement fund for your own old
age when you reach age 60 or 65.
(5) Pay the indebtedness of your estate at
death and possibly save sacrfices, embarrass
ment, and want by the family. And many,
many other things.
Can you afford to be without it? Plans to fit
every need.
H. T. MOBLEY, Agent
Strong Old Line Companies
Georgia Boys Are
Fortunate In Their
Selective Service System
(By C. E. Gregory, in Atlanta Jour-
nal)
I have been down the line that a
Georgia boy follows in his metamor
phosis from a civilian to a soldier
and I have a word of hope and en
couragement for the parents of this
state.
Commissioned officers, noncoms
and selected privates spend two ox
three days at the Fort McPherson
Reception Cehter trying to bring
out the character, the accomplish
ments, the preferences and even the
hobbies of each Selective Service
man who is inducted there. Then
the new men are carefully cata
logued on what they have done and
probably could do.
In addition to the regular intelli
gence test, they are given a special
mechanical aptitude test which has
bi'ought startling results at times.
Natural-born mechanics have been
found among professional men who
did not dream that they had me
chanical ability. Qualities of lead
ership have been brought out in
boys who have never had a greater
opportunity than the teaching of a
Sunday school class or command of
a Boy Scout troop.
A marvelous card index system
instantly groups the boys into class
es, so that an order for any partic
ular type of boy can be filled in a
matter of seconds. Some boys have
been sent to training schools to de
velop some hobby they have record
ed as most interesting to them.
Selective Service men are encour
aged to keep up their religious lives.
Bibles and testaments are provided
the Protestant boys who want
them, proper books and l-osaries are
offered the Catholic boys and He
brew Writ to those of the Jewish
faith. Selectees are excused fi’om
other duties to attend Sunday ser
vices.
An atmosphere of friendliness
and co-operation has replaced the
old days of the hard-boiled bawling
out and hazing of Army freshmen.
Of course all military regulations
are adhered to strictly and the se
lectees are tested out on their wil-
INCREASE YOUR
COTTON YIELD
HAVE YOUR COTTON SEED TREATED
WITH CERESAN. IT WILL INCREASE THE
YIELD AND HASTEN GERMINATION. WE
OPERATE WEDNESDAYS AND THURS
DAYS ONLY OF EACH WEEK.
YOURS TO SERVE,
R. S. Johnson
Farmers Warehouse
Jefferson, Georgia.
THURSDAY. APRIL 2. 1942.
lingness to obey oiders without
shirking or dodging. However, they
are well fed, warmly clothed and
comfortably housed at the Recep
tion Center while awaiting assign
ment to the unit they are best qual
ified for. In some instances they
aie granted furloughs for a short
visit home or to wind up their per
sonal affairs before transfer to per
manent training camps.
Relatives and friends of selectees
are permitted to visit them as often
as they desire after 6 p. m., when
the day’s assignments are over.
Sometimes a kind-hearted officer
will call a selectee from K. P. duty
to see a visitor, and what a welcome
that visitor gets.
I spent a year at Camp Gordon
during the First World War and
saw very diffeerent ti-eatment of se
lective service men in some instan
ces. They were handled with far
less consideration and used as re
placements in the American Expe
ditionary Forces before they ap
peared to be properly trained.
This time the selectees are being
thoroughly trained before they are
sent to the battlefront and they are
being carefully chosen for duties
they are best adapted to carry on.
So if your boy refuses to apply
for a commission because he thinks
the Ai'my needs a private, as mine
did, don’t worry about him. He
will find the right spot. And if
he is assigned duties that you think
are beneath his dignity and yours,
don’t write the President or your
congressman. They have other
things to do in Washington right
now.
If you have a relative or friend
at the Reception Center, visit him
as often as possible during the first
week he is there. The first few
days and nights are the hai'dest for
boys who haven’t got their chins
out far enough.
LABOR BOARD TO ACT IN
TEXTILE STRIKE
Fall River, Mass.—With four mills
already closed and about 12,000 Fall
River textile workers idle, officials
of the War Labor Board in Wash
ington indicated Thursday they
might act shortly in a three-day
walkout of loomfixers and other key
workers.