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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1949
THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Post Office
As Second-Class Mail Matter
FARM BUREAU
ORGANIZED TO
BENEFIT FARMERS
S. J. Suddath, Ninth District di
rector of the Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation, has called farmers at
tention to an editorial appearing in
the March 10 issue of the Gaines
ville News in which Editor A. S.
Hardy stated “Farmers of Hall
County are not joining and are not
attending Farm Bureau Chapter
meetings like they should.”
Director Suddath, commenting on
the editorial, said, “If farmers in the
18 counties of the Ninth District
would attend Farm Bureau meet
ings and learn first-hand what the
organization is trying to do for agri
culture and, incidentally, for the
interests of all groups, I firmly be
lieve we would reach a minimum of
10,000 memberships during the cur
rent year.”
The Gainesville News pointed out
that “the Farm Bureau is the only
farmer organized, farmer governed,
farmer controlled organization in
the South working solely for the
benefits of the farmer.” This state
ment according to Director Suddath,
is entirely correct, adding that
“members of the Board of Directors,
county and community officers are
all dirt farmers and understand the
complex problems facing agricul
ture today.”
“Attendance is the life-blood of
any organization,” Editor Hardy
noted, adding that “It is the same
for the Farm Bureau. If all the peo
ple of a community attend then it
becomes a meeting place, a place
lor the transaction of business,
pleasure, community spirit, etc. A
strong Farm Bureau chapter can be
the springboard for all community
improvement projects and can be
the well-house for disseminating
knowledge and ways and means to
farming success and prosperity.”
Mr. Suddath says there are .26,-
916 potential Farm Bureau mem
bers in the Ninth District with a
membership of only 2,213 at the end
of the 1948 fiscal year. The 1949
goal has been set at 4,988, he added.
“If farm people of this district,”
Suddath said, “would take the sound
advice of Editor Hardy we would
soon have an organization represent
ing a majority of our farmers, and
the results coming from the unity
of this group would contribute to
the economic welfare of every fam
ily in the Ninth District.”
“We hope,” Editor Hardy said in
concluding his editorial, “that farm
ers will begin joining the Farm
Bureau in increasing numbers and
every member will attend every
meeting.”
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jjf-, A From where I sit... 6r/ Joe Marsh
Who's A Foreigner?
While I'm waiting for a hair
rut the other day. Slim Hartman
teta slip with a crack about those
“foreigners” who live by the depot.
“Now wait a minute, Slim,"
snaps Doc Sherman. “ Don't forget
we’re all ‘foreigners' more or less.
Some of our families have simply
been here longer than others. But
even if they came over on the May-
Mower, they were foreigners to the
Indians.”
Slim gets a little red and you
could see that Doc had him. “And
the reason they came here,” he goes
GEORGIA ‘HOME
TOWNS’ FEATURED
IN NEW YORK
Last year’s “Reports of Progress”
in the Champion Home Town Con
test certainly have had a great deal
of publicity This item in the Atlanta
Constitution is well worth reading:
“Georgia will literally "tell the
world” of the progressive steps be
ing taken by its towns when the
Lions’ International convention is
held in New York City from July 17
to 21.
Under auspices of the Georgia
Council of Lions’ Clubs, the prog
ress reports of 159 communities in
the 1948 Champion Home Town
Contest will be on exhibit at Madi
son Square Garden during the con
vention, which will be attended by
delegates from 23 nations. Visitors
are expected to exceed 30,000.
Flanking the display of Better
Home Town reports, which show
the community development
achievement of the Georgia towns,
will be two panels of scenes de
picting living conditions, educa
tional resources and recreational
facilities in the State. Grady Wilson,
of the Decatur Lions’ Club, is State
chairman of the exhibit. Lions’
Clubs were co-sponsors of many en
tries in last year’s contest.
The Georgia Lions will also take
a choir to the convention composed
of 35 students of the Georgia Aca
demy for the Blind at Macon.”
Jefferson and Maysville were
Jackson County towns that submit
ted reports in the 1948 contest, and
these will be on the list that will be
sent to New York in July.
If your town hasn’t signed up for
the 1949 Champion Home Town
Contest, better get on the band
wagon !
Early Telephone Call Puts
Puzzled Firemen on the Spot
ST. JOSEPH, MO.—Who received
Mrs. Round’s fire alarm at four
o’clock in the morning? That’s the
question. c
Mrs. Dorothy Round discovered
the blaze in her apartment house
and rescued Miss Frances Gabhart,
23, another, resident, who suffered
minor burns.
Then Mrs. Round dialed the num
ber she supposed was the fire de
partment. When she reported the
fire a sleepy voice replied:
“Really, lady, this is an unusual
hour to take our trucks* from the
firehouse. They would just get dirty.
And think of our men who are
asleep. Put out the fire yourself.”
Other occupants of the apartment
house went ahead and put out the
fire. '
Mrs. Round reported to a news
paper what she considered the non
chalance, if not arrogance, of the
“fire department.”
When advised the fire department
said this was the first they had
heard about Mrs. Round’s fire.
Firemen suspect that some St.
Joseph citizen, who mistook an err
ing call for a joke, is mighty red
faced today.
on, “was to find freedom to do and
think as they wanted to so long as
they didn't tramp on the rights of
the other fellow.”
From where I sit, America became
the great land it is today through
our being tolerant of different peo
ple and different tastes whether
it’s a taste for square dancing or
waltzing, radio or movies, goat’s
milk or a temperate glass of spar
kling beer.
Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation
The Jackson Herald, Jetterson, Georgia
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
FARMERS ARE
THE GOATS
SAYS SPEAKER
This country can avoid a major
dperession only by refusing to join
those who are planning one for us,
Secretary of Agriculture Charles F.
Brannon, coordinator of President
Truman’s economic program, de
clared.
Addressing a luncheon meeting of
the Women’s National Press club,
Brannan said that “with Russia
looking over our shoulder,” we can’t
let Democracy fail by putting mil
lions of jobless on the street for
communism to some in and take
over.
Cutting down employment and
cutting back inventories is planning
for depression, he charged, adding,
"if the government joins in plan
ning for depression, I don’t see,how
we can miss one.”
"We’ve got to plan for jobs and
quit worrying so much about
prices,” he added.
Asked if prices should be held at
their present level, Brannan gave
the strongest indication to date of
the direction of administration
thinking which he defined as tow
ard “parity of purchasing power”
for the farmer.
Brannan said 1948 average farm
income was $909 as again $1,595 for
nonfarm income; that farm prices
had been coming down while steel,
aluminum, oil, and power had in
creased.
"Each time we have gone into a
depression, the farmers have led in,
gone down farthest, stayed the long
est,” he said.
"As long as farm Income is be
low that of the balance of the peo
ple, the power of the farmer to pur
chase is limited. If we can do the
things necessary to bring the farm
population up to parity or purchas
ing power in this period of abun
dance, we will have made a funda
mental and sound move.
"I don’t know whether or not
price support is the only device to
do it. But that is the kind of pro
gram we are pointing at on Capi
tol Hill.”
Ape ‘First Class’ Gets
Another Chance in USCG
PEARL HARBOR.—Thockmor
ton Percival Kauber Burton,
probably the only APE First
Class to appear on navy records,
has been given an “undesirable”
discharge at Sangley Point NAS
in the Philippines. He went
AWOL, a navy spokesman here
said, and the navy decided he
wasn’t dependable.
But the coast guard at Talam
pulan has ignored this one black
mark on his record and decided
to give him another chance—and
he can retain his old rank.
T. P. K. Burton is a gibbon
ape picked up by naval trans
port fliers in Rangoon, Burma,
and returned to the Philippines
for a mascot.
NOTICE
Tax Returns
Call at the City Hall and make your 1949
Tax Returns for the City of Jefferson.
BOOKS ARE NOW OPEN.
GUY STRICKLAND
Clerk, City of Jefferson
MRS. J. A. MINISH
WILL LEAD
CANCER CAMPAIGN
Mrs. Joseph Albert Minish, of
Commerce, will lead the fight
against cancer in Jackson County.
Her appointment as County Com
mander for the American Cancer
Society was announced today by
Mrs. J. M. Cheatham, State Com
j mander, of Griffin.
Mrs. Minish is well known in Com
merce civic affairs. She is vice
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary and a member of the Wo
men’s Improvement Club and the
Commerce Garden Club. She also
has been active in the American
Red Cross Blood Bank program and
in the financial drives for the Red
Cross and the American Cancer So
ciety.
“The American Cancer Society is
very fortunate to have the services
of Mrs. Minish as County Com
mander,” Mrs. Cheatham said. “She
is a woman of great ability. I am
confident that the cancer control
program in Jackson County will
continue to expand under her lead
ership and will be a model for the
rest of the state.”
Mrs. Minish’s principal duties will
be the building and direction of a
year round organization to inform
as many people as possible in Jack
son County of the symptoms that
may mean early cancer and to per
suade them that immediate medical
attention can save from a third to
a half of the persons cancer strikes.
Mrs. Minish is the former Betty
Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
Carl Nelson, of Cartersville. She
attended Georgia State College for
Women, at Milledgeville, and was
graduated from Shorter College, at
Rome, where she majored in sociol
ogy.
Nev; Director to Retain
Policies of Boys Town
BOYS TOWN, NEBR.—The new
director of Boys Town does not plan
to deviate from the policies of his
famed predecessor, Father Flana
gan. *
Several months under new leader
ship have brought no changes or
shakeup to the city of little men.
In small things as in big things,
Msgr. Nicholas H. Wegner sticks to
the pattern established by Msgr. Ed
ward P. Flanagan, who died May 15
in Berlin.
Like Father Flanagan, Msgr.
Wegner holds “there is no such
thing as a bad boy.” Also like his
predecessor, he plans to travel and
“spread the Boys Town idea.”
Just as Father Flanagan did, Fa
ther Wegner makes trips with the
football team, makes a pre-game
dressing room visit, watches games
from the players’ bench and deliv
ers a half-time pep talk. He says
he plans to make only such minor
changes at Boys Town as changing
times dictate.
Survey Shows Showers
Replacing Tubs in U. S.
CLEVELAND. The sit-and-soak
method of bathing is slowly joining
the old wooden tub in front of the
kitchen stove as a thing of the past,
a survey of observers on the post
war bathing scene shows.
Blame it on the war, they said.
The tub is going down the drain to
make way for the shower.
“During the war, people got ac
customed to taking showers,”
Charles Jauch, secretary of the
Cleveland Builders exchange said.
“There were no tubs on dread
naughts or in barracks for the men
in service. Priorities made it diffi
cult for civilians to get tubs.”
Silence Proves
Golden in Films
Recently Made
HOLLYWOOD.—After 20 years of
the talkies, Hollywood again has
discovered silence is golden. This
is the year of the great quiet.
Players are scrambling for roles
wherein they don’t say anything.
Now we’re right back where we
started,' to the silents, where a
movie moved and not stood still to
the tune of 40 pages of dialogue.
Movie fans are happy over see
ing players who don’t yakkity-yak
their heads off, too. Every dumb
role has won its player back-pats.
A decade or so ago billboards
shouted, “Garbo talks.” This year’s
notable event is, “Wyman shuts
up.” Jane plays a deaf mute in
“Johnny Belinda.”
Olivia De Havilland was noisy
in "The Snake Pit," but in a couple
of scenes another mental patient,
Betsy Blair, took over. Miss Blair
no spika nothing, having forgotten
how, until she gasps, “good-by,
Virginia” at the end.
Strong men wept at Ivan Jandl’s
silence in “The Search.” The
Czech boy played a war orphan
shocked into dumbness. After a
couple of reels around Montgom
ery Clift, the boy chattered away,
though. Another player who got off
easy with no speeches to memorize
was Ann Blyth. She flopped around
in a fish tail in “Mr. Peabody and
the Mermaid.” This being the first
silent lady he’d met, William Powell
promptly fell in love with her.
Una O’Connor spoke only in
grunts in “Cluny Brown.” Henry
Morgan was the silent villain in
“The Big Clock.” And Dorothy Mc-
Guire started the cycle by keeping
her tongue tied in “The Spiral Stair
case” until she yips the life-saving
telephone number in the last reel.
Tarzan, Harpo Marx, and Frank
enstein have been doing all right
without benefit of dialogue for years,
too.
Now that talking’s been done
away with, Fox studio is eliminat
ing seeing in “Three Wives.” Ce
leste Holm, a central character,
prattled all the way through but
wasn’t seen once.
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