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THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Post Office
As Second-Class Mail Matter
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United
States, was a terrific shock, not only to the people of our own
country, but to the world.
He was the greatest leader of men in all the world at this
time. He had the respect and confidence of high officials and
people of all those countries and nations allied with the United
States in the great World War 11.
Just as he was in sight of victory for the armed forces of the
Allied Powers, he was summoned from time to eternity. Centuries
ago another man, Moses, had been the leader of Israel in taking
the people out of bondage in Egypt and for forty years piloted
them through the wilderness towards a promised land, but when
the land was sighted afar off God took Moses on Nebo’s heights
and let him see the new land, flowing with milk and honey, but
God did not let the long time leader of Isreal enter this land, but
took him home to Heaven. Joshua was the new leader of Isreal
and the Lord said to him “No man shall be able to stand against
thee all the days of thy life.” It is hoped that the new President of
these United States, * Harry S. Truman, has God’s blessing as
Joshua of old, and that he will have the wisdom, the courage and
strength to be as successful in leading the world in peace as
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in war and in peace.
For twelve years and a portion of the thirteenth, Franklin
D. Roosevelt had been President of these United States. This
was a longer period than any other president had served in this
great office. He was elected four times while none of his pre
decessors had ever been chosen more than twice. In ability, lead
ership and achievements he towered above most of those who
held the office of president and was the equal of the three great
est chief executives of our country, Washington, Jefferson and
Jackson.
Mr. Roosevelt was a rich man’s son and as such was given all
the luxuries his young heart could desire, but in 1921 he was
stricken with infantile paralysis and when he emerged partially
from its sinister effect he had become acquainted with suffering
and he became the sympathic friend of those w T ho suffered.
Warm Springs, Ga., had been of considerable help, where he par
tially recovered from the malady that afflicted him. In order
to help others he bought the Warm Springs property and dedi
cated it to the use and service of those afflicted with infantile
paralysis. In addition to this, however, he became the best friend
the average man, yea, the poor man, probably ever had-in the
White House. Throughout his long administration as Governor
of New York and President of these United States, he was ever
the friend of those who labor, whether in the field, factory or
shop/ He never faltered in his friendship for these and his years
of fruitful efforts provided better wages for the laborer and high
er prices for those who toiled in the field under summer’s burning
sun, and who faced winter’s chilling blasts. No wonder the death
of Franklin D. Roosevelt brought tears to sorrowing eyes and
sympathy to saddened hearts of thousands who had been the
beneficiaries of his service and love. He was truly “the friend
of man.”
We have had for Franklin D. Roosevelt admiration and
friendship ever since he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. As
President of the United States, we followed his leadership with
out hesitation, misgivings or doubt on the questions relating to
our country’s welfare and safety. We say from the sincere depth
of our heart that in our day and generation the most profound
statesman, the greatest humanitarian and the most sympathetic
friend to his fellowman was Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 31st Presi
dent of the United States.
ALONG THE
Prevention of forest fires is one of the
big problems confronting timber grow
ers. No one man in Georgia is doing more
to protect the forests from fires than
Mose Gordon of Commerce. The follow
ing information has been received con
cerning forest fire problems:
“Distinct Forester 0. F. Martin. Jr.,
box 416, Gainesville, Ga., will supply
land owners in the Ninth Congressional
District with suitable signs to post their
land against fire setters. To have these
signs posted, land owners should register
their lands with District Forester, 0. F.
Martin, Jr.
“The Forest Fire Laws of Georgia pro
wide for the protection of land owners
who do not want wild fires on their lands
and provides, among other things, ‘that
any fire burning uncontrolled on any
forest land, cut over, brushland or grass
is hereby declared to be a public nuisance
by reason of its menace to life and prop
erty * ?nd further provides that anv per
son convicted of setting such a fire is
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
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guilty of a misdemeanor, and if malici
ously set, is guilty of a felony.”*
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Last Thursday was the first time this
year that weather conditions were so fa
vorable that the front door of this office
remained open during the entire day.
This “open house,” so to speak, brought
flowers to Mrs. Holder from two ladies,
Mrs. Lizzie Carter and Miss Etta Alexan
der. One shut-in from reheumatism, that
good citizen from Red Stone, Will Deav
ors, was spared from pains long enough
to drop into the office and say that he is
better. Two fine baby boys were rolled in
the office in their baby carts, namely,
Billie Camp, 111, and Jprry The
father of the former, Captain W. J.
Camp, 11, spent several months in mili
tary service in the islands of the Pacific,
but is now in service in Washington State
on the west coast. Mrs. M. N. Duke came
in the office to renew the subscription of
The Herald for her soldier husband and
she brought with her the little two-
month-old son. Roland D. Brooks also
stopped in and was accompanied by his
little son, Marcus Dodd and M. W. Whit
field had received letters from their sons
who are doing furious fighting on the
war front overseas. Besides these, some
few others came into the office for sun
dry purposes. Claud Barnett, on the
streets, said, “Peach crop safe so far.”
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“ANGEL EXPRESS”
Stories are drifting back from the
fighting fronts in Europe and the Pacific
about anew kind of supply service. Our
boys out there call it the “Angel Ex
press.”
After the dive bombers have swooped
in, and after the heavy artillery has soft
ened the way, the command rings out
that sends our soldiers and marines into
battle.
From that moment on it’s man against
jungle law of survival stripped down to
life or death.
In the midst of this “hell on earth”
there is no time to think of next week or
even the next meal. All that has to wait.
Our soldiers are equipped with only the
things they actually need to fight. Every
thing else is extra weight that cuts down
their chances of coming out alive.
Later, the extra food and extra other
supplies are flown in. They come by
“Angel Express,” dropped by parachute
from our own planes.
To isolated men in forward posts the
“Angel Express” is the most important
and satisfying sight of the day. It is the
only link that guarantees their survival.
And the people' of this community who
are cutting pulpwood are helping to
make it possible.
The parachutes of the “Angel Ex
press” are made of pulpwood. Blood
plasma kits, K-ration containers, V
boxes.
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The clever and efficient Clerk of the
House of Representatives of Georgia, P.
T. McCutchen, Jr., mailed to this office
a copy of the proposed New Constitution
of Georgia, which is printed in pamplet
form and consists of 93 pages. This was
an unsefish service, as mailing out hun
dreds of copies of the instrument requir
ed not only labor, but seven three cents
stamps, or 21 cents. The Georgia House
of Representatives could not have chosen
a more competent and conscientious man
to serve that body as clerk than P. T. Mc-
Cutchin, Jr., whose father, P. T. Mc-
Cutchin, Sr., has been the editor of The
OLD TIMERS
DISSAPPEAR
By RALPH SMITH
In Atlanta Journal
Yes. 'it does look as if old-time
and old-line politicians are passing
from the picture. Mrs. Agnes
O’Mahoney, wife of Senator O’Ma
honey, in a sprightly column she
writes for the Wyoming Eagle, calls
attention to the fact that of the 96
senators now sitting on Capitol Hill
only 22 were members of the Senate
when Roosevelt took office in 1933.
And among members of the House,
only 97 of the 435 who witnessed
F. D. R.’s first inauguration are
now serving.
A breakdown of Mrs. O’Maho
ney’s elder statesmen in Congress,
show that of 22 senators who were
here when Roosevelt came, nine
represent Southern States —McKel-
lar of Tennessee, Glass of Virginia,
George of Georgia, Barkley of Ken
tucky, Thomas of Oklahoma, Tyd
ings of Maryland, Connally of Tex-
Bailey of North Carolina, Bank
head of Alabama and Russell of
Georgia.
And of the Housemen who ante
date President Roosevelt, these
Southerners: Dough ton of North
Carolina, Rayburn of Texas, Vinson
of Georgia. Bland of Virginia, Mans
field of Texas, Drewry of Virginia,
Lanham of Texas, Weaver of North
Carolina. Rankin of Mississippi,
Johnson of Texas. Kerr of North
Carolina, Woodrum of Virginia,
Bulwinkle of North Carolina, Reece
of Tennessee. Robipson of Ken
tucky, Cox of Georgia, Whittington
of Mississippi, Tarver of Georgia.
Clark of North Carolina, Cooper of
Tennessee, Ramspeck of Georgia,
Burch of Virginia. Flannagan of
Virginia. Smith of Virginia, Hare of
South Carolina, Brown of Georgia.
Colmer of Mississippi, Peterson of
Florida. Richards of South Caro
li*‘* Robertson of Virginia Maloney
of Louisiana and West of Texas.
Franklin News and Banner, a Georgia
weekly, for about sixty years.
•Y A' *
Here on a visit from his home in Brown
field to his sister, Mrs. Walker Hale, Rad
ford Smith made this office a pleasant
call Thursday. He was born and reared in
this county in the Attica community, but
33 years ago he became a citizen of the
“Lone Star State,” where he has since
resided. He lives within fifty miles of the
Mexicaji border and in a country with
oil wells and a rich soil. The farm prod
ucts are cotton, corn and cattle. With a
tractor one man can cultivate a large
acreage and it is always possible to have
the cotton picked with Mexican labor.
Mr. Smith knows many of the leading
men and public officials of Texas. He
does not place a very high estimate on
the services of W. Lee O’Daniel, one of
the present senators from Texas, but
thinks Jesse H. Jones a great financier
and that the late Senator Morris Shep
pard was one of the greatest men who
ever served any state in the United States
Senate.
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Tourist travel in this country will be
considerable during the war and just af
ter. When oversea travel to the public is
made possible, thousands of tourists will
visit foreign lands, especially fields of
battle. However, there will still remain
much tourist business in this country. Jef
ferson should enjoy some of it. The town
is located at the intersection of two great
state highways, 11 and 15, and this city
is the one where Dr. Crawford W. Long
made the first operation with the use of
anesthesia. Jefferson should pull for
tourist travel. It will mean much to this
little city.
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The following is quoted from a letter
received in this office:
“Georgia will enjoy more than 28 mil
lion dollars additional tourist revenue in
the first year after the war, travel trends
indicate.
“The annual income tourist trade in
Georgia was $82,732,000 before the war.
If the state enjoys an increase in revenue
proportionate to the predicted national
average in commercial traffic, it will re
ceive a tourist revenue of approximately
$110,860,880 in the first year after the
war, an average of 34 per cent. Bv the
third peacetime year, commercial travel
in the country will be 57 per cent greater
than in 1940 according to the prediction.
On this basis Georgia’s 1949 revenue
would be $129,889,240.”
HOW THEY STARTED
Frank W. 'Woolworth’s first job
was helping out on rush days in a
small general store. For this he re
ceived no compensation, except the
knowledge of the work. His second
job was with the leading dry goods
store of the town. Here he had to
work the first three months with
out pay; then he received $3.50 per
week. The turning point in his
career occured when business was
slow, and his employer decided to
inaugurate a five-cent sale. It was
young Woolworth’s job to arrange
the wares. The sale was a huge suc
cess, and Frank’s idea for anew
kind of store was born.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the phil
osopher, was working on his un<Ae’s
farm when he heard an ignorant
farm-hand remark that he thought
people were always praying, and
that their prayers were always an
swered. The words impressed young
Emerson profoundly. From this en
counter he was convinced he should
not look to books nor to educated
people for wisdom, but to life. The
philosophy which came from Emer
son’s pen after he reached this de
cision has shaped the lives of many.
Henry Ford’s beginning in me
chanics and work with machinery
was as small as Woolworth’s start
in business, or Emerson’s beginning
in philosophy. Henry’s friend, Will
Bennett, had been given a watch,
but it was not running. Henry per
suaded Will to let him fix it. In the
next few months Henry had taken
apart and put together again every
timepiece on the place. So Henry
Ford's lifelong work with machin
ery began with repairing a watch.
Florence Nightingale started her
career by nursing her own and her
sisters’ dolls, and by rendering ten
der assistance to sick and wounded
animals.
Alexander Graham Bell stumbled
upon the invention of the telephone
when he was trying to perfect a
hearing device to aid his deaf wife.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945
FARM SHORTAGES
During 1944 the number of cattle
in the Lnited States declined nearly
one million; hogs declined 23 mil
lion; sheep declined four million;
milk cows held their number at
about 27 million, but there was a
record slaughter of calves.
Total value of livestock, including
poultry fell from nine and one-half
billion dollars a year ago to $8,900,-
000 at the beginning of 1945.
Horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs,
chickens have gone into a sharp de
cline in the past year. Chickens and
turkeys fell off and lower egg and
higher feed prices have very much
to do with this situation. The same
disturbing statistical facts cover the
decline of dairy and wool produc
tion. Food grains, fruit, cotton, corn
and wheat prices were below parity
in the past few weeks. Congressman
Stephen Pace of George used these
statistics in a recent speech in the
discussion of the farm supply and
the farm labor situations.
A few days before Representative
Eugene Worley, representing the
fafnous Panhandle District declar
ed: “I come from an agricultural
and ranching district which, despite
desperate farm labor and machinery
shortages, has met every food pro
duction goal and every other war
demand made of them, and they
meant* every word when they and
the people of this Nation pledged all
our resources, of every kind and
character, to the winning of this
war.” He explained that in order to
do so that the Texas farm boys had
been wrung through the wringer as
the percentage of agricultural de
ferments 18 to 26, in Texas is only
1.4 per cent, whereas it runs as
high as 16.5 per cent in lowa and
over 25 per cent in South Dekota.
He made a plea for the fair en
forcement of the Tydings Amend
ment in all sections of the country
and for more practical supplies of
farm labor and machinery.