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"THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1949
THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Post Office
As Second-Class Mail Matter
ALONG THE WAV
National Sunday School Week is
now recognized and stressed. An in
dividual experiences great pleasure
and joy in going to Sunday School.
We have tried it for fifty-five years
and we can speak from experience.
Those who do not attend Sunday
School have no conception of its im
portance. Some parents may be im
pressed that the church school is a
good place to which to send their
children —but children should not be
rent but accompanied by parents.
We have to work at being Ameri
cans if we wish to perpetuate the
blessings left to us by our forefath
ers. American parents must strive
to help develop character in their
children, which is necessary to com
bat enemies both from within and
without our borders.
The essential qualification for the
perpetuation of our representative
form of government is character,
and that is developed on a founda
tion of religious teaching.
Helping develop character in chil
dren through some form of religious
training cannot be delegated by par
ents to someone else.
A good time to re-awaken old
fashioned ideas is to go to Sunday
School with the family, and there
by help counteract the teachings of
alien, godless ideologies and build
character that will stand the muta
tions of time, but be enduring
through eternity.
We wish to congratulate the young
boys from Jefferson—Y. D. Maddox,
Jr. and Gus Johnson, for the honors
bestowed upon them at the Fat Cat
tle Show in Atlanta. In the past
Jackson County has captured the
prizes at these shows and there
would have been disappointment in
the county if some boy in the coun
ty had not won the laurels this year.
The Johnson Farm has a wide repu
tation for its purebred Aberdeen-
Angus cattle. For several years,
Joseph and Jimmie Johnson were
the star performers and blue ribbon
winners in the exhibition of the best
specimens of the bovine kingdom,
each year in Atlanta and now Gus,
the son of Joseph, is following in
their steps.
This year Y. D. Maddox, Jr. joined
the purebred cattle producers and
came away with the blue ribbon for
having the second best animal at,
the show. In speaking of his calf
"Big Boy,” he said "One could not
feed and care for a calf for several
months without loving it.” No doubt
he parted with the animal with re
gret, but he brought home with him
in the price of calf and premiums
more than fourteen hundred dollars,
a mighty nice sum of money for a
young school boy to earn with his
own efforts. In passing, let us state
that both Y. D. Maddox. Jr. and Gus
Johnson are fine specimens of young
mentality and both are good Sun
day School pupils.
After a long silence, the clock on
the Court House again indicates
with its long hand time of day and
rings out every hour with its gong.
It is on top of the temple of justice
of this county, but for years it has
been of no service. Recently the
County Commissioners decided to
make it render service by having it
put in running order, and by mak
ing it an electric clock, for which
they merit commendation. If a per
son in Jefferson is not awake at 6
A. M. he is either sick, tired or a
sleepy-head. The first cotton mill
whistle blows at 4:30 A. M., next at
5:30 and then comes two whistles at
5:45 and the final one at 6:00. Dur-
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
ing this time the County clock
strikes every hour. In our home we
have one clock which strikes every
thirty minutes and another with an
alarm, it can be readily seen thdt
we an “wide awake” at 6 A. M.
and ready to arise. With all these
alarms there is just one thing to do,
get up and proceed to the discharge
of our daily duties. Excuse the poor
pun but Jefferson is a wide-awake
little city.
A few mornings ago as we went
to the post office we saw S. J. Sud
dath seated in his car and he said
to us, “I have no crop this year, but
I am giving time to the Farm Bu
reau.” Mr. Suddath is Executive
Committeeman from the 9th Dis
trict and President of the organiza
tion of this county. In speaking of
the achievements of the Farm Bu
reau he said:
“The Georgia Farm Bureau Fed
eration is striving primarily to im
prove the economic position of farm
people which, in turn, will contrib
ute to the well-being of all groups.
“Record of accomplishments of
the organization show conclusively
that many major problems have
been solved, but the fact remains
that as our economy becomes more
complex, strengthening of Farm
Bureau chapters in the state’s 159
counties is obviously imperative.
Progress is being made along these
lines, thanks to the unprecedented
and enthusiastic co-operation on the
part of the weekly newspapers.
“There are more than 75,000 farm
families in Georgia affiliated with
the Farm Bureau with active chap
ters in 156 counties. The phenom
enal growth of Farm Bureau can
be attributed, to a marked degree,
to the agriculture-minded editors of
Georgia’s weekly newspapers.”
When Ernest Hopps, colored, was
buried in Paradise Cemetery last
Week his body was in a casket fur
nished by C. T. Storey, Jr. and
members of his family. Ernest was
born and reared in Jefferson and
for several years was caretaker and
cook for Mr. Storey and family. He
was a faithful and trustworthy em
ployee, but for all of his services
he was well compensated. Some j
years ago he went to Atlanta, but a
few months since his health failed !
and when he passed away his for- ■
mer employers remembered him and
furnished the casket for his inter
ment. We mention this to show the
feelings of friendship existing be
tween white and colored people in
the South and especially in Jackson
County. It also shows the apprecia
tion of the C. T. Storey family for
their friends, colored as well as
I white.
Jefferson has recently had some
distinguished visitors. Last week,
the Mayor of Winter Garden, Fla.,
Charles E. Thompson, visited the
former Chief 'of Police of that city,
Marcus H. Bailey. Mr. Thompson
was a member of the Council while
Mr. Bailey served that city. A friend
of Auld Lang Syne, Charles Calhoun
of Decatur, the father of Mrs. Sidney
Head, recently paid our sanctum a
visit. Mrs. Head and children will
soon join Colonel Head, who is in
Germany in the military service
of our country.
The State Board of Education in
a recent session declared there is
widespread waste in the school sys
tem of Georgia. It was agreed to
hire a financial expert to make a
careful check of all the expendi
tures and personnel of this Depart-
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
ment. This action is timely and wise.
Any Department which spends
about forty-one million dollars per
year should not ohly be audited,
but checked by one who is skilled
in school operations and expendi
tures. Not only the Department of
Education but the State Highway
and Welfare Departments in partic
ular should be carefully checked
and investigated as well as audited
by the State Auditor. Georgia is
fortunate in having a State Auditor
with ability, impartiality and cour
age, and every year he does a good
job of auditing each department of
the State, but it is well to investi
gate occasionally departments which
spend millions as well as to audit
them. It is predicted that this check
up of the Department of Education
will result in saving thousands of
dollars in its operations.
Not long ago we enjoyed a Sun
day dinner in the home of Miss
Lurline Collier, the efficient and
faithful assistant to the Director of
the Extension Department of the
University of Georgia, Walter S.
Brown. Miss Lurline’s duties carry
her not only over Georgia but oc
casionally to New York, Chicago,
and other great cities outside the
bounds of the State. Sometimes she
has to go by plane. Mrs. Holder
told her that she is anxious to take
air passage to some point in Georgia.
So far as we are concerned we will
use this kind of transportation only
when duty requires it. Miss Lurline
is not only an educator, but a farm
er as well. Everything that com
prised the sumptuous, abundant and
well prepared menu was grown
either on her farm or in her garden
i except the salt, pepper, coffee and
! sugar. There is no food better than
that which grows from our own
j Jackson County soil.
For several months the health of
A. L. DeLaPerriere has been so
much impaired that he has pratic
ally retired from all business activi
ties. We are just in receipt of a card
from him mailed at Hot Springs,
Ark., in which he says, "Thousands
are here from all over the world
taking radium baths for arthritis.
I will be here for a month.” We hope
the healing waters of Hot Springs
will banish his malady and restore
him to his wonted health.
Here are some kind words from
Charlie Benns of the Butler Herald,
which we deeply appreciate. No
person whose sentiments of good
will and friendship we appreciate
more than that of Charlie Benns:
“The state never had a more lov
able or able official Who spent years
of usefulness in the legislature than
Uncle John Holder of Jefferson,
Ga. His newspaper is outstanding
among Georgia publications, for the
service he renders both in his edit
orial and news columns. Following
his recent attendance at the annual
session of the Press Institute at
Athens, Uncle John carried this
item in his ‘Along The Way’ column:
‘Not a person, except the editors of
this paper, is living today, who was
in the newspaper business in Geor
gia when the Herald became a mem
ber of the Georgia Press Association
58 years ago.’ Uncle John was among
the first we learned to know and
love upon our admission to the or
ganization something like 50 years
ago. Else in his column Uncle John
says: ‘ln all great and important un
dertakings Divine Guidance and
help should always be asked. Ever
since he has presided over the Jack
son Superior Court, Judge Clifford
Pratt has put into practice this
principle, for on the first day of
each term, court is opened with
prayer by some minister of the gos
pel. This year the one who perform
ed this service was Rev. J. D. Math
eson, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Jefferson, whose petition
was earnest, fervent and couched
in beautiful phraseology. As long
as public officials ‘trust in the Lord
with all thine heart and lean not
unto thine own understanding, but
in all thy ways acknowledge Him.
He will direct thy path,’ this officer
will never go far wrong. This state
ment can be applied not only to pub
lic officials but any private citi
zen.’ ”
GEORGIA MAY
RECAPTURE “PEACH
STATE” TITLE
Georgia this year may once again
have the undisputed right to adver
tise herself as the “Peach State.” At
least, chances are good that our
state will forge ahead of South Car
olina, which for the last couple of
years has led all other states in
total peach production.
U. S. Department of Agriculture
statisticians have predicted that
South Carolina, hard hit by cold
weather, will have only about one
third of a full crop. Georgia, they
say, will get around 54 per cent of
normal.
Rival Town Laughs Last
At Post Office Opening
HILLSIDE MANOR, N. Y.—
Residents of this Long Island com
munity were quite proud of the fact
that they were getting a post of
fice well in advance of the rival
adjoining town of Garden City
Park.
But there were gasps of dismay
from the crowd of spectators when
the scaffolding was taken from the
front of the new one-story post of
fice building, for, carved in the
limestone over the doors were the
words:
“Garden City Park.”
The contractor said, “We’ll just
tear out the front of the building,
remove the limestone block and
put a correct one back.”
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SAY COMMISSIONERS
SAVANNAH. Georgia’s county
commissioners Wednesday had scat
tered to their homes after running
up “storm warnings” to the state to
halt further "encroachment” into
the finanial affairs of the counties.
The commissioners, at the closing
session of their thirty-fifth annual
meeting here, called upon the state
to:
1. Stop any and all diversion of
highway funds.
2. Get out of the ad valorem tax
field and leave this exclusively to
local governments. The statq now
levies a 5 mill ad valorem tax.
3. Reimburse the counties for
funds spent in carrying out the new
re-registration act.
4. Eliminate any further reduction
in state aid for county welfare pur
poses. It was emphasized that the
recent state cut in the maximum old
age assistance will add a further
burden on the counties.
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