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THURSDAY. MAY 26. 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 WAY
The bus strike in Atlanta has been
settled for the present. Operators
of street car busses of the Georgia
Power Company recently went cn
a strike for increased wages, larger
pensions and longer vacations. We
carefully read the statements pub
lished in the daily newspapers of
Atlanta of the Georgia Power Com
pany, President C. B. McManus, and
the strikers’ representative, Jesse
Walton. Mr. McManus’ reasoning
against the strike was convincing
and was not answered by Mr. Wal
ton In fact, we never did see in
print one good reason for the strike.
The bus operators now receive $312
per month. With the cost of living
declining there is no reason at this
time for an increase in compensa
tion. An appreciable increase in pay
will have to come out of the pockets
of the patrons of the company,
which is not fair to the public, as
many people in Atlanta who ride
the busses are making far less than
the amount received by bus operat
ors. The strike was unnecessary and
brought financial loss to the strik
ers, the Georgia Power Company
and much inconvenience and some
financial loss to the people who ride
the busses.
Another strike that is unneces
sary, unjust and hurtful to strikers
as well as the company, is the one
against the Ford Motor Cos. This
company has been noted for paying
employees high wages and provid
ing for them the best of homes with
modern conveniences and comforts.
This strike should never have been
called.
Federal Engineer J. F. Frewer,
who has charge fo the Curry’s Creek
drainage project, was in Jefferson
last week on his regular two weeks
inspection tour. The U. S. Govern
ment provides,the engineering, the
equipment, the labor and the money
with which to drain Curry’s Creek.
One big job of the Engineer of the
Government is to construct a pro
ject with the money provided. In
other words, he need not go back
to the Government for more money.
Do with what you have is not only
good for the Federal Government,
but for the State, County, City, and
private concerns and individuals.
Another way of expressing this
same thought is to “live within
your means.”
All this work is being done under
the auspices of the Oconee River
Soil Conservation District. G. H.
Martin and Dean S. Lott, of this
county, directors, J. W. Phillips,
Superintendent.
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On our desk is a copy of a publi
cation entitled “Georgia Advance,”
published by the Georgia Depart
ment of Commerce, of which Clark
Gaines is secretary and Paul A.
Stevenson is editor of the Advance.
Both men are well qualified for
their respective duties. Than Paul
Stevenson there is no more accurate,
interesting and virile writer in
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RUSSELL DANIEL, INC.
ATHENS, GA.
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
Georgia. He makes this statement
about the bulletin:
The Department of Commerce
will issue this bulletin at regular in
tervals to furnish information to
business and industry which will be
of value to many individuals, firms,
organizations and institutions.
From time to time stories will be
carried relating the success of va
lious specific industries now operat
ing in the state. We also shall
endeavor to present a record of in
dustrial development in Georgia,
the plans and progress of new com
panies, their achievements of the
present and their visions of the
future.
Not so long ago, some high offi
cials were saying that a reimposi
tion of price controls and other such
strait-jacket measures were neces
sary if runaway price inflation was
to be prevented?
Luckily for the welfare of the na
tion, Congress refused to reimpose
wartime controls. Congress also put
a reduction ifi income taxes into ef
fect. For a considerable period of
time the price level changed rela
tively little—the big inflationary
trend that was forecast didn’t ap
pear. Then, a few months ago, prices
started down. They are still going
down. In some cases, the drops
have been very substantial. Meat
is the best example of this. Declines
of 20 per cent and more in meat
prices have been registered since
last year’s peak. We do not need
further deflation. High prices mean
prosperity.
This was the result of the tra
ditional functioning of the free
maiket. Instead of having a black
market—which always flourishes
under government controls we
have had a market which is re
sponsive to the all-powerful forces
of supply and demand. It is true
that the tax cuts more people
more money to spend. Along with
that, producers in many fields in
creased their output. Prices found
their proper level.
When one becomes ill the best
thing to do is to send for a physi
cian. We practice what we advise..
We take medicine when our doctor
prescribes it. This is said before
publishing the following article on
the treatment of arthritis, which is
said to be incurable. We are not ad
vising anyone to try this remedy,
but we are printing it as something
new in the treatment of a painful
malady:
KINSTON. N. C.—Mrs. Maggie
Johnson, of Kinston, claims # that
she has been cured of a 10-year-old
case of arthritis by bathing in an
elixir of alfalfa hay.
The Kinston woman said she got
the recipe for the “cure” from a
German physician in New York
| City. His prescription, she revealed,
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
was a 30-minute bath every day in
the water in which five pounds of
the stock feed had been boiled.
The treatments did her more good
in 16 days, claims Mrs. Johnson,
than all the ministerings of five
doctors over a period of many years.
Mrs. Johnson’s testimonial was
confirmed by Haywood Jones, of
New Bern, who also claims a mar
velous recovery from the baths.
Kinston hay dealer Wayne Mitch
ell said news of the wonderful ef
fects had started a run on his sup
ply of alfalfa hay. He reported that
arthritis sufferers have taken 10
bales of the hay within recent
weeks.
This information comes from Gus
Bernd, who is in the office of the
Secretary of State:
The seat of Georgia’s government
has not always been located in a
huge stone building in the heart of
a great city. On occasion it has been
at a frontier fort in the midst of a
wilderness. Georgia has had her
seat of government at eight differ
ent places. Five of these were what
may be termed regular capitals.
Three were in the nature of emer
gency or temporary capitals. Sa
vannah, Augusta, Louisville, Mill
edgeville, and Atlanta, have been
the regular capitals. Ebenezer,
Heard’s Fort, and Macon, were the
emergency capitals. The Revolu
tionary War War Between the
States caused many shifts in the
site. The growth of the State also
played its part by influencing shifts
that coincided with changes in the
population.
Over 30 million Americans get
their mail addressed “R. F. D.”,
which means that one of the na
tion’s more than 32,000 rural letter
carriers will make delivery of this
mail to a rural mail box.—the most
important box on any farm. Rural
Mail Boxes which are not properly
erected, or which are not in good,
serviceable condition retard the de
livery of mail and expose it to
damage from the elements.
It is the desire of the Post Office
Department to encourage patrons
of the rural' delivery service to pro
vide suitable mail receptacles and
to erect them in such a manner
that they will be readily accessible
to the carrier and present a neat
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appearance.
It is especially desirable that box
es be maintained in a condition that
will assure proper protection to mail
placed therein, that the names of the
box owners be inscribed on the
side of the boxes visible to the car
rier as he approaches them, and that
the boxes and their supports be
kept painted.
Mrs. W. M. Spencer recently spent
a month in Texas with relatives and
friends. She enjoyed going to the
Lone Star State, which is not only
the largest in the Union in area, but
great in natural resources, big en
terprises. wealth, and able states
men. In recent years that State has
furnished two Speakers of the
House, John Nance Garner and Sam
Rayburn, and a Vice-President, J.
N. Garner. Mrs. Spencer had a real
pleasant visit, “But,” said she,
“when my visit was over I was
anxious to come back to Jackson
County, the best place I know.”
Last week we brightened our
office a little with some paint. Two
of our friends, Byrd Martin and S. J.
Suddath, brought us some beauti
ful and fragrant flowers to add to
the attractiveness. The flowers have
also ladened the air with sweet per
fume and pleasing aroma. It is a
mighty good idea to give some flow
ers to the living, but this does not
mean to put no flowers on the last
resting place of departed friends.
The last thing we can do for loved
ones is to drop a tear and place a
wreath of flowers on their graves.
The efforts being made by some
progressive young men of Jefferson
for a greater gymnasium, deserves
and no doubt will receive the sup
port of the people. This is a worthy
undertaking.
MY TOWN
My town is the place where my
home is founded; where my busi
ness is situated and where my vote
si cast; where my children are edu
cated; where my neighbors dwell,
and where my life is chiefly lived.
It is my home spot for me.
My town has the right to my
civic loyalty. My town wants my
citizenship, not my partisanship; my
friendliness, not my dissension; my
sympathy, not my criticism; my in
telligence, not my indifference.
My town supplies me with pro
tection, trade, friends, education,
schools, churches and the right to
free moral citizenship. It has done
things that are better than others;
the best things I should seek to
make better, the worst things I
should help to suppress. Take it
all-in-all, it’s MY TOWN, and it is
entitled to the best that is in me.—
From “Pipe Progress.”
My father was sitting on the porch
of our little village store when two
strangers drove up. “Hey, there,”
one of them called out, “how long
has this town been dead?”
Father looked at them over the
rims of his spectacles. “Well, not
long, I guess. You’re the first buz
zards I’ve seen.”—Reader’s Digest.
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one of the best grains for young
chickens and for hens.
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Washington We know how to
design and produce good highways
but we’re careless about keeping
them up, says Public Roads Com
missioner Thomas H. MacDonald.
The excessively heavy truck, he
adds, is the major maintenance
problem. .
“We are overloading our high
ways in their traffic volume capa
city and in their structural capa
city,” MacDonald said in an inter
view. “The only way to proper use
of the highways is to limit axle
and wheel loads.
“Axle loads ih excess of 18,000
pounds should not be authorized,”
he said, “and any revision of laws
governing gross weight of vehicles
should relate that weight to the
number and spacing of axles,” The
18,000 axle-load limit generally
has the support of state highway,
motor vehicle manufactured and
user > organizations, MacDonald said,
and it has been written into the
laws of a majority of the states. But
he said that movements are under
way in many states to ease the re
strictions.
“Today the volume of truck traf
fic is nearly three times as great as
it was in 1930 and even more sig
nificant is the proportion of trucks
that carry heavy loads,” MacDon
ald continued.
The result he said, has been a
gradual increase in damage to
pavements.
MacDonald said truck operators
insist that highway damage is a
technical matter that engineers
must find a remedy, but that “this
is true only to the extent that the
design of roads fails to provide for
loadings within the legal limits.”
Jefferson Insurance Agency
General Insurance
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or stands to keep shavings out.
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