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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.” Advertisement 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. YOU MAKE MORE MONEY BETTER CROPS BY PLANTING CERTIFIED SEED Proven best by tests at the Griffin, Tifton and Blairsville Ex periment Stations. These seeds are superior varieties adapted for Georgia con ditions. Their origin, purity and germination are certified by the Georgia Crop Improvement Association. For spring planting of coastal bermuda grass, cotton, com, peanuts, watermelon, okra, soybeans, and fescue, see your— LOCAL SEED DEADER OR COUNTY AGENT Georgia Crop Improvement Ass'n., Inc. Extension Bldg. Athens, Gn. DID YOU EVER NOTICE? Whenever you hear of a Fire Loss, you will hear the question asked: HOW MUCH INSURANCE did he have? The same thing is true when we hear of an untimely Death Loss, and especially when there are Dependants. Should this experience come home to you—what would the answer be? Don’t put off until tomorrow what you know should be done TODAY! INSURE WHILE YOU MAY! H.T. MOBLEY GENERAL INSURANCE OFFICE PHONE 211 HOME PHONE 228 JEFFERSON. GEORGIA Welding Supplies We have just taken on the Agency for NATIONAL CYLINDER GASES We have Oxygen, Acetylene and Carbide and many type rods for both flame and Electric Welding. We also have REGO Welding Torches and Farm Size Welding Tanks. Kelly Auto Cos. JEFFERSON, GA. , f PHONE 176 Trade With The Herald Advertisers —lt Will Pay Good Dividendsl Us £,eGttT P* VAcue ' IN TOWN / WILLIAMS TRADING COMPANY Three Convenient Stores JEFFERSON and COMMERCE GEORGIA