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THE JACKSON HERALD
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THIS IS NO TIME TO RELAX
The Seventh War Loan Drive is now in progress.
We must support it. This is not time to relax. It is
a time to put everything we have into the final
blows to knock out Japan.
The death of President Roosevelt makes it still
more imperative that the Seventh War Loan be
hcaVily over-subscribed. Our enemyies overseas
hope that the death of the commander-in-chief has
weakened our will to fight.
They are looking for any sign of encouragement.
If the Seventh War Loan falls behind, they think
we can’t take it. Then they will fight still harder in
the hope of obtaining a negotiated peace.
There will be no negotiated peace. There must
■be no slackening of our war effort in any way until
we have let sunlight into the heart of the last Jap
soldier.
Then we can wipe our bayonets and relax for a
moment before we undertake the equally imperative
,lask of writing a peace and then enforcing it,
The regular purchase of bonds should be con-
Jinued and if possible increased. No bonds already
purchased should be cashed in. If you are not going
to hold your bonds until maturity, it is better not to
buy any.
You don’t help the v/ar when you buy a bond
and then cash it in. In fact, you are slowing it down
by making more bookkeeping work for the govern
ment.
You may need those bonds in the period of re
conversion after the war.
But the big point is, the government needs your
money. It needs your money so that it can preserve
the kind of a government you want. That kind of a
government is worth everything you possess.
It was worth the life our greatest President laid
<down for it. The least we can do to match his sacri
fice is to give him the victory he so brilliantly plan
ned, and the kind of a peace that will make the next
generation of Americans free from the fear of an
other World War.
Those things are cheap at any price.
You are lucky when all you are asked for is your
money.
We have knocked out Germany, now complete
the job by demolishing Japan.
WAR BOND “DRIVE” NOT
COMPATIBLE WITH BLESSINGS!
By H. T. McINTOSH. Albany Herald
Do you study war pictures? Not everybody does,
though newspapers and magazines are full of them.
Pictures of battle scenes, of silent streets in ruined
cities, of long rows of new crosses with our coun
try’s flag above them, of half-starved human beings
whose skelton-frames are too weak to stand.
I saw a group of these pictures today on a fea
ture page, and experienced the inevitable reactions
•of a respectable home front citizen. Hot resentment,
righteous wrath, pride in what the American fight
ing man has done in Germany and is doing in the
west Pacific, pity for the pathetic victims of enemy
cruelty, and a feeling that hanging is too good for
those who are guilty of inhuman crimes committed
in the name of w’ar.
Then I opened a letter written by a woman who
complained bitterly that she didn’t have enough red
points to purchase more than one beef roast and a
couple of good steaks a week for her hungry family.
The war was “piactically over,” she wrote, and she
saw no reason why people “who had the money”
should not be free to buy whatever they pleased.
I tore up the letter and went out to walk
through some of the streets of my town. I needed
fresh air. There were cars and trucks everywhere.
Customers crowding every store. Eating places busy.
Fruits and vegetables, bread and cereals, poultry and
fish, eggs and butter, cakes and confections, food in
cans and bags and jars—much of it point-free.
1 saw people coming and going in complete
security in a city having not a single bombproof
shelter within its borders, and with never so much
as a window pane cracked as the result of enemy
action. Not a mark of war anywhere. Newspapers
morning and evening. Radio programs at all hours.
Trains and busses crowded, but usually on time.
Children tropoing home from school and not one
family car jacked up in our town because of a lack
of gas. Banks bulging with money, and a job for ev
ery man or woman willing to w'ork.
Then a sign in a window caught my eye: “Sev
enth War Loan.” And I wondered if there are any
citizens of this God-blessed, untouched-by-war land
who must be ballyhooed into lending a few hun
dreds or thousands of dollars to their government in
the May-June bond drive. I don't like that word
“dive” for the selling of War Bonds to American
citizens. It should not be necessary to drive them.
For of all the two billion people on this earth, those
who claim citizenship in this smiling, laughing,
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder .Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
prosperous and fabulously rich land should require
the least urging to purchase their government’s War
Bonds, which still are what they long have been—
the safest of all securities issued and guaranteed by
governments.
To fail or refuse to buy War Bonds—particularly
these Seventh War Loan Bonds which signalize Vic
tory in Europe—well, there’s just naturally some
thing wrong with the fellow who fails to answer
that roll call, and you can lay to that!
WE SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT!
International Teamster
Through a strange and stunning act of fate, Har
ry S. Truman has become President of the United
States. He replaces the human, lovable man who
became the greatest champion labor ever had in
public office; who did more for labor than all the
other Presidents combined.
We will miss Franklin Delano Roosevelt. No one
will ever fill the gap he left. Time will never dim the
imprint he made on the heart of America and the af
fairs of the world. History will rank him as the first
of our three greatest Presidents, ahead of even Wash
, - t
ington.
We cannot accurately appraise all Roosevelt has
done for the world. We are still standing in his
shadow. His laugh is too recent in our ears.
President Truman faces an enormous task,
merely in following President Roosevelt. His task
assumes even greater enormity in the present state of
the world, with the life work of President Roosevelt
—world peace—still unfinished.
To do that job, President Truman needs the al
legiance of every man and woman in America. He
needs more unselfish loyalty than Roosevelt ever
got from the men who hated him because of what
he had done for us.
Labor must be bigger in this emergency than
the men who are secretly rejoicing over Roosevelt’s
death.
For the future of our country and the world,
we must strain every sinew to see that the admis
tration of President Truman is a success.
This is not politics. It is simple, honest Ameri
canism. ,
We were for Roosevelt, once, twice, thrice and
all the time. But we were not Democrats in the or
dinary meaning of the word. We were not affiliates
of the Democratic party even though we supported
Roosevelt and most of its candidates.
We are not committing ourselves to the can
didacy of President Truman in 1948 when we pledge
him our allegiance now. We do not khow whether
he will be a candidate for re-election.
We would have given the same loyal support
to Governor Deyvey, had he been elected last No
vember, even though we fought him-without com
promise in the campaign. We fought him honorably.
We then believed and continued to believe Roosevelt
was the best man for the Nation.
In this fateful hour of history the Teamsters’
Union declares its unequivocal support of the Presi
dent of the United States. The identity of that man
is incidental. He is our President.
We are behind you, Mr. President!
* * * *
The above editorial expresses the attitude of or
ganized labor towards the new President, Harry S.
Truman. He will receive and deserves the active co
operation and support, not only of this class of citi
zens, but all the people of this country. The Presi
dent’s sincere desire is that the world may have
peace and prosperity.
GEORGIA PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
Pedestrian accidents ‘in Georgia caused the
death of 178 persons last year compared with 161
in 1943, an increase of 17 or 10 per cent. Deaths
from this type of accident represented 23 per cent
of all traffic fatalities last year.
Reports indicate a national decrease of about
eight per cent in pedestrian deaths. This decrease of
eight per cent means the saving of about 800 pedes
trian lives for 1944 as compared with 1943. All size
classes of cities indicated a reduction in pedestrian
deaths. For all states, 41.3 per cent of the persons
killed in traffic accidents during 1943 were pedes
trians. This was reduced to 38.9 per cent during 1944.
Based on reports made to the Department of
Public Safety there were 4,240 traffic accidents in
Georgia last year compared to 3.502 reported for
1943. An increase of 638. Included in the total num
ber reported were 567 fatal accidents which result
ed in 636 deaths; 1.651 non-fatal injury accidents
which resulted in 3.101 injuries, and 2,022 property
damage accidents. Compared with 1943 there were
two fewer deaths; injury accidents increased 231, or
14 per cent, and property damage accidents increas
ed 498. or 24 per cent.
THE JACKSON HERALD JEFFERSON, GEORG* A
TMPRuVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY X
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for May 20
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE DEFEAT OF THE
SOUTHERN KINGDOM
LESSON TEXT—Jeremiah 18:1-10,15a, 17a.
GOLDEN TEXT—oome, and let us re
tarn unto the Lord.—Hosea 6:1.
History repeats itself. Men never
seem to learn from the experiences
of others, whether they be personal
or national. Judah, the southern
part of the divided kingdom, saw the
downward path of Israel and its ul
timate captivity. The same process
went on in Judah, although hindered
now and then by good kings who
brought about a partial return to
God.
Ultimately the day came when
Jerusalem was destroyed by
Nebuchadnezzar’s troops and the
people carried off to their long years
of captivity in Babylon.
Jeremiah ministered as God’s
prophet during Judah’s declining
years, bringing them God’s word of
judgment for their sins and urging
them to submit. His voice was un
heeded and for his faithfulness he
received only their hatred and per
secution. God gave him the strength
and grace to be true in a very diffi
cult mission.
Our lesson for today tells how God
in a graphic object lesson taught the
prophet and the people that they
were in the hands of a sympathetic
but at the same time a sovereign
God.
I. The Potter and His Work (vv.
1-4).
The maker of pottery took the
lump of clay, placed it on his wheel,
and with his hand formed it into
the kind of vessel he wanted. If it
became misshapen or showed a de
fect, he could moisten and remold
the clay into another vessel as it
suited him. The clay was in his
hand to meet his purpose and his
will.
Dr. G. Campbell Morgan fittingly
suggests that there are three things
to be borne in mind here: a prin
ciple, a purpose, and a person. And
as we apply the truth to ourselves as
God’s children, we spell the Per
son of the Potter with a capital “P,”
for He i* none other than God Him
self.
The principle is that God is abso
lutely sovereign, that He does as He
wills for His own glory. Until we
recognize that principle, “life will be
a failure. If, however, I have dis
covered this principle alone, then my
soul will be filled with terror. I
must also see the purpose.”
The purpose is the working out of
His will for each of us. He knows
us, and He has a plan for our lives,
and is able to make that plan come
to pass if we permit Him to do so.
But, as Dr. Morgan says, “if I
know principle and purpose only, I
shall yet tremble and wonder, and
be filled with a haunting foreboding.”
But as “I press through the principle
and beyond the purpose and discov
er the Person of the Potter, then the
purpose will flame with light, and
the principle that appears so hard
and severe will become the sweetest
and tenderest thing in my life.”
God spoke to Jeremiah through the
scene in the potter’s house, and He
also wants to talk to our hearts.
11. God and Judah (vv. 5-10, 15a,
17a).
The lesson is plain. God had for
His people a high and glorious pur
pose. He wanted to bless them and
use them for His glory. But they
were a sinful and rebellious people,
stiff-necked and stubborn in their un
belief, and the vessel of honor which
God was trying to form was marred
in His hand.
God did not act in anger or in
disregard of their rights. He was
forced to bring judgment upon them
because of their own sin. That sin
is stated in verse 15—they had for
gotten God.
One trembles as he applies that
test of God’s requirement for bless
ing upon a nation to our own land.
There is a haunting fear that while
there are some who truly worship
God, and a larger number who pro
fess to worship Him, a great host of
the people of America have forgot
ten God.
Does our nation remember Him
and seek His counsel and blessing
in its national affairs? Do we in
quire after the ways of righteous
ness? Are we eager for spiritual
revival and increasing grace even
within the church?
Judah was to be scattered “as
with an east wind”—and who does
not know that it came to pass. Where
are they today?
But even in the midst of judgment
the Lord speaks of mercy. The Lord
who will “pluck up, break down and
destroy” (v. 7) the people who forget
Him, is eager and ready “to build
and to plant” the nation when it
turns to Him.
The sure promise of God’s future
blessing upon a repentant Israel and
Judah is written large in the mes
sages of all the prophets.
The same God, eternally sovereign
in His purpose, is our heavenly Fa
ther. The man or woman whose ves
sel of life has been marred by sin
and failure need only yield anew to
♦be Potter’s ble'''-'' 1 Mnd.
E. BRITT ELROD
IS DISCHARGED
Eron Britt Elrod, son of Mrs.
Hattie Storey Elrod and the late L.
F J Elrod was honorably discharged
from the Army at the Ft. McPher
son Separation Center after serving
in the Army for three years and
four months.
At the time of his discharge, he
was serving as a Staff Sergeant
in the Aviation Ordnance at Camp
Livingstone, La.
Before he entered the service, he
was employed by Georgia Power
Company.
• SPECIAL NOTICE
A Veterinarian will be here Friday, May
13, 1945, to Inoculate dogs.
This being a state law, the Mayor insists
that it be enforced.
It will be the duty of the Police to kill all
dogs that do not wear their identification tag.
The price will be SI.OO per head.
By order of
MAYOR AND COUNCIL,
CITY OF JEFFERSON
TRUSTEES ELECTION
An election for trustees for the sub-districts
is ordered to be held on Saturday, May 26,
1945, 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 War Time. Let every School District
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.
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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945
Mrs. W. J. Herrin Returns.
From Emory Hospital
Winder News
Mrs. W. J. Herrin has returned
to Winder, after a stay of fifteen
weeks in the Emory Hospital, At
lanta.
She is much improved and in ex
cellent spirits, much to the satisfac
tion of her many friends.
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Jefferson, Georgia.