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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 1 : * 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 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 •: Ml. 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. • • • 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. * * * Patronize Our Advertisers DR. W. R. HUGHES, JR. —OPTOMETRIST -101 E. Washington St. Phone 71 GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA JACKSON COUNTY 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. lent Will Be Comfortably Heated! 7:30 Nightly-Gospel Tent CO-OPERATING CHURCHES ACADEMY BAPTIST PENDERGRASS METHODIST TALMO BAPTIST PENDERGRASS BAPTIST MT. CREEK BAPTIST POND FORK BAPTIST JEFFERSON YOUTH CRUSADE * 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. * * *\ 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. • • • 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. ■■MB 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. CLYDE LANGFORD GRANITE AND MARBLE COMPANY PHONE 400 Commerce, Georgia Deal with the Man that Owns and makes them himself. 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE DEAL AT HOME SAVE DIFFERENCE STIRRING MESSAGES • • INSPIRATIONAL SINGING • • DONT MISS A SINGLE SERVICE!