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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1910)
BUTTS GUUMIY MESS Published Every Friday. ALFRED AKERMAN - Proprietor J. DOYLE JONEB - - - - Editor Subscription $1 a Year u- , - .... .. Entered a* fecond-clai matter, Novem ber Mj 11)07, at thepoatofliceat Jackaon, Oa. Telephone No. 166. All Obituaries, Resolutions of Re spect, etc., except such reading no tices as the paper sees fit to give, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word. Count the words and make enclosure, before sending in these communications, otherwise they will receive, no attention. Manuscripts will not be returned without postage. Jackson, Ga., Friday, April 29, 1910. Jackson spirit is predominant. Boost the hotel and chautauqua at the same time. Jackson and Butts county are coming into their own. Watch them grow. The results and not the cost is the thing to be considered in ad vertising. A greater Jackson can be real ized only by the people working and pulling together. Anew hotel, anew depot, new stores, new residences, will make Jackson one of the prettiest little cities in the state. Our people have got the Chau tauqua spirit and Jackson will have one of the greatest chautau quas ever held in the state. Jackscn for Butt3 county, Butts county for Jackson, each pulling for the other, will make this the greatest section in the state. Looks like the town is about to realize on Jackson spirit. Plenty of home pride and public spirit will make up for a lot of things. The Griffin News and Sun says the census man struck that city in the wrong time. We hope he didn't strike it in the wrong place. It is easy to have a live, pro gressive town when everybody is boosting and pulling together. Let Jackson spirit be the rallying word. Jackson is already getting some good advertising from htr great Chautauqua to be held in June. Tell vour friends about it and ask them to come. Moultrie has appropriated two thousand dollars towards adver tising that city. Jackson would do well to have a similar fund to push her possibilities. Maybe the candidates for gov ernor are waiting until the last killing frost to announce. Still there will be a frost for some of them when the ballots fall. Memorial Day was celebrated with patriotic exercises here Tues day. Many veterans were out to take part in the program. Death has laid a heavy hand on the vet erans of this county and each succeeding annual gathering brings together fewer aud fewer of the old guard. BUTTS CO TT NTY PROGRESS, JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1910. The knocker is a man that stabs his town in the back. Keep your eye on the man that knocks the town in which he lives and from which he gets his daily bread. Dalton will vote on a $125,000 bond issue on May 14. Many of the most progressive towns and counties in the state are having bond issues for waterworks, lights and good roads. “A little more paint, even if a few less dollars in bank; a few more flowers, even if a little less corn and cotton; a few more hours of recreation, a little more of the sunshine of life will make us all brighter, better, truer, happier, and wealthier men and women, is the belief of a writer in the Jonesboro Enter prise. To which the Griffin News and Sun adds the following com ment: “There is no doubt about the paint so far as Jonesboro is concerned. As to growing corn and cotton in the midd.e of the back streets, we don’t object to that so long as they keep it off the railroad track through town. ” Why the good ladies of Jack son do not come together and re solve to have a City Beautiful Club is more than we can under stand It is a well known fact that there is plenty of work for such a club to do. Jackson needs a good cleaning up, from the standpoint of beauty and from the added standpoint of health. Several hundred visitors will come to the Chautauqua. We ought to have a clean city to show them so they will sing the town’s praises wherever they go. It is up to the public spirited ladies of the city to take this movement in hand. They will receive liber al help and unbounded thanks from the city and county. MORE BRAINS WANTED. Under the above caption the Dublin Courier-Dispatch, one of the best and ablest edited news papers in the state, writes the following comment upon our edi torial, of a few days ago, calling for men of brains and experience behind the weekly press of the the state: “It will be a great day if the men who are now connected with the press as a side line can be eliminated and also the man be hind the publisher. “The name that appears at the masthead of a newspaper should be the man who owns the paper and controls its destiny and has made the profession his life work. “There are not many politioian owned newspapers in the state now and their number is becom ing less and less. The free pass evil was the cause of many pa pers being established. When free passes were eliminated many of these papers ceased to exist. “The man who runs a news paper as a side line does not ben efit himseif or his county much, but he does succeed most admira bly in doing a great deal to harm legitimate enterprises. “All of the thoughtful readers cannot fail to endorse what has been written by The Progress. It will take time to get rid of the dead papers. But they are bound to go. Public sentiment will kill them. There has been a great change, a mighty reforma tion, on the part of the reading public within the last few years. Rural free delivery has done much to educate the people. The people are reading, thinking, studying for themselves as never before. There should be some special training for newspaper work, country newspaper work as much as any ether kind. Schools of journalism have been started in a number of places. These are good things in a way, doubtless, but we think there should be years of actual experience in newspaper work before taking up the profession as a leader. Work on a daily newspaper in a large city, in every capacity, will do much to prepare one for his life work. We know of nothing better.. In medicine, in the law, in the ministry, in our schools we re quire certain things. A pre scribed course must be gone through with. But in newspaper work, with some exceptions, this training is conspicuous by its ab sence. Just anybody that can have a patent sheet printed and get together enough money to pay postage is termed a newspa per man. It has been that way in the past and is that way now in some places. For all the good such so-called newspapers do we might as well have a circular or Grier’s almanac so far as stand ing for any thing or doing good to the town and county is concern ed. The newspaper that doesn’t stand for something, that isn’t a constructive force for good in its community has a mighty poor chance of winning and holding the confidence and esteem of the people. Now that the matter is up we hope it will be thoroughly thrash ed out. We want to see the country press take its rightful position; we want to see it up lifted, made cleaner an.d freer; we want to see at the head of the state press editors of force, abili ty, training and experience. ICE, ICE—it never gets too cold for Conner & Crawford to handle it. Call 136 when you need a piece of Ice. PROFESSIONAL. C. L. REDMAN^, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Crum Building, JACKSON, (JA. W. E. WATKINS, LAWYER, Jackson. - - Georgia Pract ice in all Courts, hot Ij {Mate ami bYderal Ottice in ItanK Hal' went aide public square. Akerman & Akerman, Attorneys at Law. Rooms 8-10 Washington Block, Macon, Georgia. Y, A. WRIGHT, ATTORNEY AT LAW Jackson, - - Georgia. The longest experienced lawyer at the. Jackson bar. 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