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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1048
THE JACKSON HERALD
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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AEOiXC THE WAY
Myer Goldberg, former repre
sentative from Coweta County, says
that “H L. Wingate, president of
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, is
Georgia’s greatest enemy to labor.”
Wingate needs no defense from us,
as he is well qualified, to take care
of himself, but we do not believe
that he is an enemy of labor. He
opposes labor’s attitude on some
matters, but it does not mean he is
an enemy. Labor favors higher
wages for employees and workers,
but it also advocates lower prices
for articles that are consumed —the
things the farmers produce. This
is not only inconsistent, but unfair.
This position of labor is vigor
ously opposed by Wingate. Farm
ers’ wages are fixed by the price
of things they grow on the farm.
Lower prices of products of farm
and field mean less wages for tillers
of the soil. President Wingate favors
increase in prices of things produ
ced from the land to harmonize with
greater wages and salaries for labor
and others. Mr. Wingate has not
hesitated to criticise the position of
labor on the above matter.
President Wingate is not an en
emy of labor, but labor is unfriend
ly to farm prices and as he is the
farmers’ leader and friend, he is
therefore forced to oppose labor’s
position and espouse the farmer’s
cause. Goldberg says, “You’ve got
to eliminate his influence with the
farmers of Georgia.” As long as
President Wingate is the friend
and advocate of the farmers and is
loyal to their cause he will not be
eliminated, but will continue to be
their honored and trusted leader.
President Wingate opposed the
Hope-Aiken Farm Bill passed by
last Congress and goes into effect in
1950, a measure of little benefit to
agriculture. On the other hand, we
understand that with Senator Rus-
sell and George, President Truman
and Vice President Barkley, Win
gate favors keeping at least for an
other year the present farm law,
which guarantees to cotton, wheat
and corn growers 90 per cent parity
price. This law has been of great
benefit to farmers in maintaining
higher prices of the above named
farm products.
The United States Senate last
Wednesday passed what is known
as the Anderson Farm Bill, which
would provide flexible price sup
ports under the nation’s agriculture.
Under the bill support prices would
vary between 75 and 90 per cent of
parity, depending on the supply.
The bill has not yet been carefully
analyzed by farm leaders so as to
determine just what its effect may
be on farm prices. Vice President
Barkley voted for the present law
as against the Anderson Bill.
The Senate bill now goes to the
House for concurrence or rejection.
YOU CAN NEVER TELL WHERE LIGHT
NING WILL STRIKE, OR A FIRE
BREAK OUT!
The next six months will be the most hazardous
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
If the House concurs, the Anderson
Bill will be the law. If it refuses to
agree with the Senate a conference
committee will be appointed who
will undertake to adjust differences
between the House and the Senate.
The way we see the situation the
legislation now pending, the An
derson Bill, is better than the Hope-
Aiken Bill passed by the last Con
gress. While the present 90 per cent
parity law is better than the An
derson proposition.
However, if bumper cotton crops
are produced it will be impossible
to maintain the present prices of
the fleecy staple. Soon the world
will have a big surplus. To prevent
this the cotton acreage should be
considerably reduced next year.
The question of reduction in acre
age will probably be submitted to
cotton growers and not less than 20
to 25 per cent less acreage in cotton
will possibly be voted. Already the
government has invested in cotton
about $600,000,000. The cotton acre
age should be reduced.
Turnips and okra in our garden;
in our yard brown leaves on the
majestic hickory tree where the
squirrel in sportive glee jumps from
limb to limb, where feathered song
sters display their plumage and
warble sweet carols; the maples
with their yellow leaves in the
yards of Sumner and Miss Frances
Smith and Mrs. Mattie B. Roberts:
the beautiful Althea in the yard of
Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Wilhite; trucks
and wagons carrying cotton to the
gin; the cool and invigorating air
early in the mornings, all show that
summer is ended and fall is here. It
is just a little more than two months
until another hallowed Christmas
Day will roll around. There is much
work to be done between now and
the eventful day.
In the discharge of his duties as
Game Warden Byrd Martin met
with an old friend last week who
still remains a bachelor. For several
years this friend has courted a lady,
visiting her and carrying her places.
Byrd Said, “Why don’t you marry
that fine lady? She is bright, good
looking and would make you a noble
companion.” The answer came in
stantly, “Why, if I married her
where would I go at night, holidays
and Sundays? I would be stuck
right at home.”
The Gainesville Times says there
is anew kind of bootlegger in
Gainesville: Nine “bootleg” hair
stylists and barbers Monday had
warnings from the State of Georgia
to cease operating home shops for
the general public. The violators
of the state’s hairdressers and ex
aminers’ code also received a year’s
probation on charges of operating
without a license and disregarding
sanitation rulings.
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Geoi
The Signs Are
Multiplying
(Atlanta Constitution)
The 30 per cent increase in em
ployees in manufacturing industries
in the Southeast since before the
war, reported by the Department of
Commerce, is an encouraging indi
cation of the region’s progress.
Though not quite up to the nat
ional average of 32 per cent, the
Southeast is doing a great deal bet
ter than some other sections—New
England, for instance. Great expan
sion in the Southwest and on the
Pacific Coast brings the national av
erage up sharply.
The report shows there now are
249,000 Georgians employed in man
ufacturing industries as against on
ly 193,000 in 1939, a gain of 29 per
cent. Georgia was outstripped by
increases in Tennessee of 39 per
cent for the 10-year period, Ala
bama 46 per cent, South Carolina 33
per cent and Mississippi 33 per cent.
North Carolina, the South’s most
highly industrialized State, showed
an increase of only 18 per cent.
Georgia and the region are mak
ing considerable strides in livestock
raising. Farms are being mechan
ized—the South leads the nation in
the percentage increase of tractors.
Non-manufacturing commercial ac
tivity has grown by leaps and
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It all means the South gradually
is coming into sight of its goal—
a balanced agricultural and indus
trial economy. We’ve a long way to
go yet, but the signs that we’re on
our way are multiplying.
BUFORD DAM
WILL EXERT
VAST POSSIBILITIES
When the huge projected $42,000,-
000 Buford Dam and reservoir is
completed, probably five years from
now, it not only will exert a tre
mendous influence in the economy
of that section of Georgia, but will
open up vast recreational possibili
ties.
Within less than 50 miles of At
lanta it will create a lake extend
ing for 47 miles up the Chattahoo
chee River with a width ranging up
to five miles at its widest point. The
huge lake will have a shore line of
600 miles around the reservoir
which will range in size from 34,000
acres or 53 square miles up to 39,-
800 acres or 62 square miles.
Obviously such a lake in the
Blue Ridge foothills will offer un
limited possibilities for boating,
fishing and camping.
Combined with the Allatoona res
ervoir on the Etowah River be
tween Atlanta and Cartersville, it
, should make the North Georgia tri
angle between Atlanta, Gainesville
and Cartersville a mecca for sports
men.
In addition to the reservoir aiea
itself, the Federal Government will
buy a strip of land around the en
tire shore line, and plans call for
this land to be leased to private in
dividuals for cabin sites, fishing
camp sites and day-use areas, and
parts of it. to be leased to the State
and Counties for development of
parks.
Working Parts of Plumbing
Must Render Long Service
Faucets, valves, drains, and
traps are the “working parts” of
plumbing fixtures and it is impor
tant that they be of good quality.
All brass plumbing fittings are
in plentiful supply and thus the
prospective builder or modernizer
is free to select equipment that
will give many years of trouble
free service .
While not as glamorous as the
plumbing fixtures, traps are es
sential for the satisfactory and san
itary operation of plumbing fix
tures.
It is the function of the trap
under the lavatory, bathtub, sink,
or other plumbing fixture to pro
vide a water seal to prevent the
entry of sewer gas into the home.
It is because of this important
function that the trap must be
made of non-corrosive material.
Despite wartime developments in
metallurgy, manufacturers have
found no material that is superior
to chromium plated brass for all
uses where an attractive exterior
and a corrosion-resistant material
is required.
Water closets or toilets have a
brass elbow between the tank and
bowl. When this turns green, it is
a sign of corrosion. The prudent
owner will have the elbow replaced
at the first sign of corrosion in
order to prevent the possibility of
a leak in the future, possibly at
some inconvenient or particularly
dangerous time, as for instance,
when members of the family are
away.
4-F’s Regain Health
Nearly all of a group of 303 men
reclassified in 1A in 1943 after
originally having been rejected for
military service because of heart
and blood vessel defects were in
good health in 1947, a study made
by special cardiovascular boards
in five major cities shows. The
study was made under contract to
the army research and develop
ment board, office of the surgeon
general. Reports of the re-exami
nation of men disqualified by local
boads and induction stations be
cause of a diagnosis of cardiovas
cular defects were made public in
1943. The re examination was
made by special medical advisory
boards, consisting of cardiovascu
lar experts in Boston, Chicago,
New York, Philadelphia, and San
Francisco, in cooperation with the
state and city directors of Selective
Service.
A. C. Jolly, who has a column it
the Bartow Herald, has this: “Whet
hubby proposed killing a hog t<
celebrate their twenty-fifth weddini
anniversary, his wife counterei
with, ‘Why kill a poor, innocent pi (
for a foolish thing we did 25 years
ago.’ ”
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