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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13. 194*
Two athletic sports—college and
high school football and professional
baseball —are very popular. Thous
ands are attracted to these perform
ances. There was a time when col
lege and high school baseball was
the leading athletic sport in institu
tions of learning, but these have al
most been discarded for footbalL
There is professional football, but
peple are not attracted to this as
they are to the great national ath
letic professional baseball. The
baseball season is just closing with
the World Series, but the football
season is now on in real earnest.
So far as our local school football
team is concerned, Coach Snyder is
developing each year a better team. 1
We wish him and his splendid bunch
of boys success, not so much in win-1
ning games but in the development
of the lives and characters of those
who participate in this pleasant en- j
tertainment.
A few days ago a young man
called another, ‘’old man.” Our |
father frequently said, "It is a'
breech of politeness to call a sure j
enough aged man ‘old man’. It is i
all right to call a young man or j
middle age man ‘old’, because it;
sounds somewhat humorous, but |
never say ‘old man’ to one who has j
reached three score and ten years.” |
Another cognomen that is not
repulsive and that is to prefix
"Uncle” to a man’s name. For twen- i
ty-five years before his death almost j
everyone who knew him, called N. i
N. Pendergrass “Uncle Nick” and he
liked it.
Bob Kelly, superintendent and
manager of the Jackson Electric
Membership Corporation, was in
town one day last week wearing his
work clothes. Besides his responsi- 1
bility of management of the local,
R. E. A., there is no job connected j
with it that he cannot perform, j
from climbing poles to reading
meters. If there is such a thing as!
a man mastering his job, Bob Kelly i
has accomplished this task. This 10-1
cal cooperative corporation is one
of the most successful in the United
States.
It is important that every cotton
grower make every possible effort to
provide a good sample of his cotton.
Here is the reason: The Government
will loan on 1 inch middling, 30.51 c
per pound; strick low middling 1
inch, 28.71; low middling 1 inch,
24.06. Presuming a bale weighs 500
pounds, a cotton grower receives
$32.25 more for a bale of middling
1 inch staple than for 1 inch low
middling of the same staple. Ten
bales mean a difference of $322.50.
A good sample means more money
to the cotton producer.
In his sermon here not long since
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THE JACKSON HERALD
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ALONG THE WAY
Advtrtinment
from where I sit... Joe Marsh
There'll Always Be
: * . a "Gawker"
“Harry the Hermit,” as he’s
called, came into town last week
and, as usual, caused quite a stir.
He looks like a cross between Santa
Claus and Daniel Boone.
Y e had a friendly glass of beer
together and I asks him, “Don’t
you ever get annoyed at the way
some people laugh and stare as you
go by?” “Shucks no,” Hairy says.
‘Only while they’re laughin’ at
me, I’m feelin’ a mite sorry for
them. Imagine— folks so Ungrown
up they esn’t see I’m really just
the same as they are underneath.”
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
Bishop Watkins said power and
wealth carry with them great re
sponsibilities. Each should be used
for the betterment of mankind and
the glory of God. Education also
means greater opportunities in life,
but also greater responsibilities. In
Free America a person has the
liberty to think and say whatever
he may wish, but he should think
straight and always speak the truth,
not only for his own happiness, but
for the benefit of others as well. "As
a man thinketh in his heart so is
he.” The whole sermon of Bishop
Watkins was replete with words of
wisdom.
At Exposition Day of the South
eastern Fair in Atlanta, J. D. Jewell
of Gainesville, was cited for "Dis
tinguished Industrial Achievement”
in Poultry. This industry in North
east Georgia has been of incalcul
able benefit to this area. Through
the chicken business many have
paid old debts and are now improv
ing their property. J. D. Jewell is
largely responsible for this new in
dustry. He has encouraged, fostered
and largely financed it in several
counties of Northeast Georgia, and
we are pleased that he has received
merited recognition for unselfish,
business and patriotic services.
Old Age population in Georgia is
growing very rapidly, so says Alan
Kemper, head of the Welfare De
partment of this State. There has
been an increase in the number
added to the pension roll of 559
since August. On Old Age Pension
rolls are 93,956 persons whose
monthly average benefits are $22 46
or a total of $2,110,709. There are
2578 blind persons who receive $67,-
575 or an average of $26.43 per
month each. Dependent children,
12,018 with monthly grant of $42.06
each month. Despite the large
amount now paid for above classes,
the Welfare Director says that he
and the Governor receive 40 to 50
calls a day from folks either on the
roll who want more than they now
receive, or from those who have
not been put on the pension rolls
but wish to enjoy pension benefits.
Mr. O. B. Moore, Jr., of Greens
boro, has been recently appointed
a Field Representative for the Geor
gia Tuberculosis Association and has
been assigned the Northeastern sec
tion of the State. Mr. Moore will
call on Chairmen of local Tubercu
losis Committees in this area, assist
ing them with their local tubercu
losis programs as well as helping
them with the arrangements for the
1949 Christmas Seal Sale.
Cabbage contain vitamins A, B,
and G and are especially good in
vitamin C: also contain minerals.
From where I sit, Harry’s a lot
more “civilized” than the people
who make fun of him. He’s con
tented, lives the way he believes is
right without harming anyone—
and what’s more, he’s tolerant of
others whose tastes in living are
different from liia.
Maybe we all don’t look the same,
or act th tame, or oat or drink the
same, but in a free ceuntry, why
thouU wT
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
Georgia Could
Do It, Too!
(From The Atlanta Constitution)
Of a $450,000,000 appropriation
for roads set up by the Federal Aid
Highway Act of 1948, $10,287,632 is
tagged for roads in, Georgia.
That is the largest slice of the
fund assigned for any Southeastern
State and the twelfth largest among
all 48 States.
The money can be spent any time
between July 1, 1950, and June 30,
1953.
But the State must match the
Federal funds used.
And therein lies the rub!
Can Georgia put up the more than
$10,000,000 that it will take to get
the money from Washington?
Not long ago we couldn’t mach
Uncle Sam and South Carolina to do
our part in replacing a dangerous
bridge across the Savannah River.
How different it is in North Caro
lina!
North Carolina puts its gas tax
money where it should go—on the
roads.
When Georgia follows that ex
ample and then finances other State
services from sources equally as de
pendable the State will be in a bet
ter shape all the way around.
Georgia’s gooa record is due
largely to the splendid and contin
uing efforts of the Vocational Re
habilitation Division of the State
Department of Education. But it has
had—as it must have—the chase co
operation of the business leaders of
the State. The 3,000 physically han
dicapped Georgians rehabilitated
last year have been turned, in most
instances, from economic liabilities
into producing assets. More than
2,200 of them previously were de
pendent upon their families or vari
ous welfare agencies. Now all are
self-supporting, earning an aggre
gate of nearly $4,500,000 annually.
The Lawrenceville First Baptist
Church on Sunday, Sept. 18, cele
brated its first one hundred years
of progressive service with a pro
gram highlighted by speakers of
i
national prominence and by the vis
its of former members and pastors;
ending with a pageant presented on
Sunday evening by local members
depicting the struggle, sacrifice, and
progress experienced by the loyal
membership of this church, from its
beginning a century ago, to the com
pletion of its present modern plant
with over seven hundred members.
McLester Suit, well known Hart
well citizen, totally blind, runs a
garage and can tell by sense of touch
the make and model of the car to
which any part belongs. He can
find anything in his shop needed
and can listen to an engine and
pretty well diagnose its trouble.
In Memoriam
In memory of our mother, Mrs.
R. W. Samples, who died twelve
years ago, October 12th, 1937.
Today is the day of our remem
brance,
And many sad regrets,
A day we shall always remember
When the rest of the world forgets.
Some may think we have for
gotten.
When at times they see us smile;
Little do they dream of the heart
aches
That our smiles hide all the while.
HER CHILDREN.
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 1:21-28; 10; IS:
IS: 18-25; 31.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm •:
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God and Nations
Lesson for October 16, 1949
WHEN the Spanish fleet was
about to invade England, back
in Queen Elizabeth’s time, nothing
the English had could stop them.
But when the Armada arrived, that
vast fleet had been blown to bits
by a storm, and
the English neatly
that? The English " :
was with them.
When the Nazis
France in 1940. it
would have been Dr. Foreman
simple for them to
invade England. There was next to
nothing to stop them. But Hitler
delayed from summer till fall . . .
and by that time the British were
able to mount an invincible de
fence. How do you account for
that? Over and over again in his
tory the unexpected, the unexpect
able, the “miraculous,” has hap
pened. Some call it chance; but
others call it God.
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God In History
OUT GOD does not always or
® usually operate in spectacular
ways. God works in history as he
works in nature, out of sight, visi
ble to the eye of faith but seldom if
ever otherwise. History, from the
Christian point of view, is the work
ing-out of the purposes of God.
The pattern is not entirely
clear to us, because we cannot
see enough of it at once. But
looking back through history,
we can see signs that God has
been there. This is the message
of the prophets of Israel, es
pecially of the great Isaiah.
In a troubled era, when every
thing seemed to be in most com
plete confusion, Isaiah gave out
same clear and plain truths from
God, and helped men then and now
read the pattern of God’s design.
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ReviTrstl
TALMO Oct. 16th-30th
Rev. Eades closes his Tent Min
istry in this Section with this
final Great Revival Effort at
TALMO. To his many, many
friends he extends a warm wel
come lo come and make this
revival a success. Whether your
church is listed as co-operating or
not, we want you to come. God
has blessed the tent this Summer
(140 decisions for Jesus). Let's
join hands to give Jackson Coun
iy one of il's most powerful
revivals.
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The Life Of A Nation
ONE TRUTH is that justice is a
nation’s life and sin is a na
tion’s death. God being the God of
justice, his purpose is to set justice
in the earth. God plays no favorites
among nations. Any nation that
lives by God’s laws, lives; that na
tion that defies God has signed its
own death warrant. There are no
peoples who can “get by” with
what they please, if what they
please is not the will of God. There
are people now who do not believe
that. Thev would say, Look at Rus
sia! In Isaiah’s time there were
those who would say to Isaiah: You
must be wrong—look at Assyria!
There is a nation that does not
know God, and yet grows every
year stronger and stronger.
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God’s Ax
ISAIAH has a startling answer to
that objection. (Chap. 10.) As
syria is a tool in God’s hand, no
more. He admits that Assyria has
no standard but force, she worships
only sheer Power. But there are
other nations, wicked ones, which
God intends to punish; one of these
is the nation of Israel.
Assyria was destined to de
stroy Israel once and for all,
and to damage Judah so se
verely she never would recov
er. All this, Isaiah says, is in
God’s plan.
God does not punish an evil na
tion with legions of angels; he
punishes it with invasions and de
feats in war. Assyria was an ax in
the hand of God, cutting down the
rotting +rees of selfish and unjust
nations.
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Return To God!
PEOPLE in Isaiah’s time were
* putting their trust, just as we
do nowadays, in alliances, pacts,
international combinations of all
kinds. Isaiah warns ominously that
this will not do, by itself. Not that
all alliances are bad; in chapter 19
he actually pictures Assyria, Egypt
and Israel as brothers-in-arms.
But he does not hold out any
political scheme or combina
tion as the best hope of a na
tion. Return to God! is the
prophet’s call. So in our time,
whether it he a general Mac-
Arthur or a theologian Brun
ner.
Many of our ablest men are
warning us even now. that humani
ty is facing an alternative: Either
go on the way of selfishness and
vvar down to destruction, or else
go back to the Source of justice,
truth and love, the God in whom
alone is salvation
HOUNDS WANTED
I will be in Jefferson October 18, in the afternoon, lo buy large
size, nice looking untrained hounds from 3 lo 5 years old. I
will buy extra nice Beagle rabbit hounds from 1)2 to 4 years
old. I will be at Singletary's Mill.
J. L. BEDDINGFIELD
Star Route Albertville, Ala.
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EVANGELIST
DOUGLAS EADES
HONOR ROLL
J. A. Garrett, Route 1.
J. R. Miller, Nicholson.
S. A Pittman, Ben Hill.
J. F. Garrison, Maysville.
Olivia Ward, Route 3.
E. M. Elrod, Braselton.
Mrs. Inus Hanson, Route 3.
Miss Mary McDonald, Waleska.
Mrs. W. C. Palmer, Forest Park.
Guy Strickland, City.
G. G. Barnett, Commerce.
DeWitt Mcßee, Route 2.
W. B. Nabors, Route 3.
Lloyd Pethel, Talmo.
J. R. Porter, City.
H. J. Cook, Pendergrass.
Mrs. W. C. Lord, Route 3.
Jack Pirkle, Hoschton.
W. P. Moon, Hoschton.
E. H. Deaton, City.
Hugh D. Rowland, City.
T. W. Wheeler, Maysville.
E. C. Stark, Commerce.
L. H. Kesler, Winder.
Mrs. J. W. Hardy, City.
Foster Brown, Route 3.
Mrs. A. G. Gibson, Athens.
Rube G. Fricks, Shelby, N. C.
Mrs. Jim Wood, Route 2.
Mrs. J. B. Dalton, Buford.
Little-Ward Funeral Home, Com
merce.
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