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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1921
Jackson Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and F ablisher
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the post office at Jackson, Ga.
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IN ADVANCE
Be up and doing.
About time for clean up week.
Don’t forget to smile along the
way.
Do your bent. Angels can do no
more.
How about that creamery for
Jackson?
Too much crime and not enough
hangings.
Hope for the best whether it ever
comes or not.
Stick up to home enterprises.
This always pays.
What do you say about a cold
storage plant in Jackson?
Speaking of money crops, there is
nothing that will beat a creamery
and cold storage plant. Let’s go af
ter them.
Had the peace treaty been rat
ified two years ago much of the
present “unpleasantness" would
have been avoided.
The farmer who fails to live at
home next year, may not live at all
fur the day of the “paper sack” far
mer is approaching a crisis.
Many peope complain of being
broke. That's nothing unusual. It
is even stylish. All the cities, coun
ties, states and nearly all govern
ments are thus affected.
There will not be so much ram
pant enthusiasm for paved roads
tins year. Kverybody is for good
roads but it is well enough to check
wp and consider the cost.
The motto of the Salvation army
-"A Man May Be I)ov. i But He Is
Never Out” is most applicable
tiov. You will live through it, pro
vided your courage doesn't fail.
Resolutions are allright in ther
place but they are not worth much
as a means of boosting the price of
cotton or of reducing cotton acre
age. Every man must work out his
own salvation in fear and trembling.
Things always 'have adjusted
themselves in the due course of
lime. They will do so in the pres
ent instance. There is no oatent
•ay to do it. Lcgisaltion can’t cure
•nr troubles. Time alone will bring
a solution.
The back ti> the farm movement
has been urged for years. While at
tractive wages v..re being paid in
the cities, this advice fell on deaf
ears. Now that factories are closing
many people would be glad to got
hack to the farm.
0
The man who stops his reading
to cut expenses has a peculiar idea
of economy. He is the follow who
lias to ask about the news. KnovJ
edge is power and there never was
a time when the people need to read
and keep informed more than at this
poc and hour.
Georgia’s deplorable financial
condition will be passed on to the
■ext administration. "Passing the
buck” is quite popular these l days.
It is sincerely hoped that Governor
elect Hardwick will make a serious
effort to place Georgia's financial
affairs in better condition.
Butts county has a large number
•f pood farmers who always have
raised their supplies at home and
don't need any urging to curtail
the* cotton acreage. While there
are many of that kind, unfortunate
ly there are many who live out of
a paper sack. The paper sack va
riety of farmer is going to have
rough sledding for some time to
conn.
ENTERPRISES WE NEED.
Since the boll weevil got this
part of the country by the ear, the
people have done more serious think
ing than before in 40 years. A great
many people see and realize that
it is folly to try to raise cotton un
der boll weevil conditions to pay
for high priced fertilizer and feed
stuffs. Converts are being added
every *Ty. A few have yet to
learn.
Since people are making an hon
est effort to get out of the rut and
stop forever the all cotton system,
they are thinking of other lines of
business. Right now there is con
siderable interest and enthusiasm
over the county for a creamery
and milk depot and cold storage
plant in .Jackson. These are enter
prises we should have and the sooner
we get busy and secure them the
better it will be for all of us.
A creamery can do a large and
profitable business the year round.
It will afford a ready market for all
the milk and butter that the Butts
county farmers can produce. Mon
ey will be coming in all the time.
There would be no “dull’ season.
It is believed that this business can
be successfully conducted in connec
tion with the Jackson ice factory,
an industry that has already abun
dantly demonstrated its worth and
usefulness.
A cold storage plant in connec
tion with the ice factory would be
a splendid thing for farmers. There
should be some place to cure meat
and vegetables at all seasons of the
year. At present hundreds of
pounds of meat are ruined through
a sudden change in the weather.
This should net be. A way should
be provided to kill and cure meat
at any time of the year.
During the past year or two v. - *
have making substantial progress in
the right direction. A feed mill has
been established and this has proved
a great benefit to farmers. An ice
factory has been built. Now ice is
always available at reasonable prices.
Sweet potatoes houses have been
established at Flovilla and Jackson
and others wil go up over the coun
ty. A flour mill has been added to
Jackson’s industries. Grist mills
are numerous and take care of the
demand in that line.
Now let’s get busy and continue
this work by having a creamery and
cold storage plant. The sooner we
learn to help ourselves and depend
loss on others the sooner we will
build a lasting prosperity for this
entire section.
THE VALUE OF A CREAMERY
From the Monroe Advertiser.
Every forward looking county
should be cn the lookout for ave
nues cf progress and it
well to get into these avenues be
fore they become crowded. The
dairy industry has received very
little development in Georgia and
there is therefore a gord opportun
ity for those counties which are
suited for such a line of endeavor.
Such a course is worthy of careful
consideration in Monroe county.
While dairying is not specialized in
to any great extent here, there are
several hundred gallons of milk
.hipped from the county every day.
One man receives S7OO per month
for his shipments of milk. This
gives some idea of what might be
done in the county. There is much
idle or wild land in the county which
could be used for ■pastures. We
have practically a nine months graz
ing season, while some of the lead
ing dairying States have only a four
or five months’ season. On account
of labor conditions and boll weevil
damage many farms are lying idle.
A large number of cows which are
now of very little value to their
owners could thus bo made to pro
duce revenue. There is little doubt
that the milk for a creamery or
cheese factory could easily be pro
duced in the county and it would
be an industry from v.hieh money
would be secured each month. In
addition to this. Forsyth has an ice
factory which would add much to
the economy and convenience of a
creamery.
The following dispatch from
Knoxville, Tenn., shows what a
neighboring State is doing in the
dairy industry:
"Tennessee leads all Southern
States in dairy industry, according
to C. A. Hutton, dairy' specialist of
the division of extension. University
of Tennessee. During the year 1920
eight new creameries began opera
tion in Tennessee making a total
of twenty-six in operation. Approx
imately 6,028,000 pounds of butter
were made in the State during the
year. The nine co-operative cream
eries made approximately 2,328,020
pounds of butter during the year, or
38 per cent of the total made in the
entire State. Creamery patrons re
ceived in round numbers $2,893,000
for butter fat fer the 1920 output.
Seven of co-operative creameries
handled 1,747 tons of feed for their
patrons at a saving of $10,552.
Eight cooperative cheese factories
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
are now in operation and 75,000
pounds of cheese were manufac
tured during 1920. These factories
are laying the foundation for anew
industry in the South.”
THOSE HIGHER RATES
The Georgia Railroad Commission
in granting increased rates to a
number of public service corpora
tions has started something the peo
ple are going to finish. A storm of
protest has been raised in Atlanta
over the recent increase allowed the
Atlanta Gas Light Company. In
dignation meetings have been held
in several centers and a city-wide
protest seems under way. It is
fast becoming a state issue.
It is well enough for the people,
the taxpayers, to take stock and see
where they stand. The railroad com
mission is maintained at a cost to
the tax payers of Georgia of about
$30,000 a year. There are five
members of the commission, and in
addition a special attorney and sec
retaries and stenographers galore.
This commission was created by
the legislature for the purpose of
representing primarily the interest
of the people. Of late days, it would
seem, the people’s interests have not
been so well safeguarded. When,
in the memory of the present gen
eration, has a decision been decided
in the interest of the taxpayers?
When has a decision failed to be in
the interest -of the corporations?
These are the questions that the
people are asking with an insistence
that demands an answer. These are
questions that the voters are going
to ansvicr at the next election.
In the recent decision, allowing
the Sodthern Bell Telephone Com
pany to increase its rates-, Chairman
C. Murphy Gander and Hon. John
T. Boifeuillet voted against any in
crease. In the recent award to the
Atlanta Gas Light Company Chair-
Candler was absent and did not
vote and Mr. Boifeuillet voted
against an increase. The action of
Mr. Boifeuillet has met with popular
favor and he is being widely and
warmly commended for his vote
against a further raid on the tax
payer's’ pocketbook.
In view of cheaper labor, cheaper
coal, cheaper materials and a down
ward tendency in nearly all commo
dities it would seem that this is no
time to be raising rates. How can
the country get back to normal as
long as these rate increases are al
lowed.
At some of the mass meetings
held in Atlanta Governor Dorsey
was asked to remove certain mem
bers of the railroad commission. It
has been pointed out that there is
precedent for isuch action, Tor
Hoke Smith when he was governor
kicked Joe Brown and Guyt Mc-
Lendon out. But regardless of
what action Governor Dorsey may
or may not take in the matter, the
voters wil have considerable to say
when the next election comes around.
The railroad commission seems to
have outlived its usefulness. When
it ceases to represent the people,
the tax payers of Georgia, it is well
enough for the people to take a
hand. This they are going to do.
The railroad commission has started
something the people are going to
finish.
EVILS OF LIGHT FINES
Revenue officers risk their lives
to catch liquor makers and then the
courts often impose a sentence of
from JO days to a year, or a small
fine. If the first offense was one
year, the second five ar.d the third
ten years, the business would soon
stop.— Banks County Journal.
BANKS CAN HELP AMERICA
GROW
With sufficient financial backing
the farmers can produce crops that
will make the industry a profitable
one, not only for the farmers them
selves, but for the whole community.
If the banks are really interested in
upbuilding their respective commu
nities, they will not hesitate to aid
the farmers in producing the crops
it is best for them to grow for 1921.
The fact that the banks can help
the farmers is strikingly brought
out by the People’s National Bank
of Charlottesville, Ya. The far
sighted officials of that bank realiz
ed some time ago that the soil of
the vicinity could produce apples of
superior quality. With this fact in
raind they financially backed the
farmers of their locality that they
might improve the apple industry.
Asa result of the financial aid, the
farmers of Albemarle county have
made it the apple center of the
world. Every year fifty barrels of
the famous Albemarle Pippin apples
are sent to Windsor Castle for their
majesties, the King and Queen of
England.
Any bank can help its particular
section if it has the vision of a pros
perous and progressive community.
When the farmers are given the
proper financial backing, then the
Southland will be the garden spot
of the world.—The Progressive Far
mer.
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on w^et^lcr suc h an investment
| " will bring definite returns.
\i Buick for twenty years has been
noted for reliability, power,
I long life, and re-sale value. In
! J the new 1921 models are im
£ yf provements in accessibility—in
| [y&i \ roomier interior, in more com
h /h/\\ , fortable seating and more beau
tiful stream-lines.
"1n cities and towns everywhere
you 11 find Authorized-
Since January !, reyu
(B-78) Id r equipment on all
* models includes cord tires
WHEN BETTER. AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM
~TOLLESON & TURNER, Agents
McDonough, Go.
THE GEORGIA SWEET POTATO
(From the Athens Banner.)
The Federal Farm Bureau has
been quite active in bringing to the
attention of the people of this coun
try the value of the sweet potato
for bread and many other purposes
and this summer there will be made
a tour of the western country with
demonstrators and lecturers on the
sweet potato in order to introduce
it in that section of the country.
However, quite recently, it lias been
discovered that the sweet potato is
one of the best products grown for
the manufacture of syrup. It has
been tried out and the experiment
lias proven successful, so much so
until the government has become in
terested and will establish a plant
at Fitzgerald. Equipment has been
shipped to that place and v.irk in
earnest will soon be commenced by
the representatives of the govern
ment for the manufacture of syrup.
The sweet potato crop in this
state is one of the cheapest that can
be grown and with the many uses
it can be put to it will prove one
of the most profitable. If the de
montration tour proves a success
and there can be no doubt about it,
the demand for the Georgia sweet
potato will increase to the extent
that every- farmer in the state may
grow full acreage and there will
never come a time when he will be
called upon to plant a less acreage.
The demand will increase from year
to year and the people of the
will continue to eat the Georgia-rais
ed yellow yam.
Georgia is one of the richest states
in the union in mineral and agricul
tural lines and it is only a o.uestion
of time when this state will be
crowded with investors ar.d syrup
plants will be springing up in every
county where sweet potatoes are
grown plentifully.
The equipment for a syrup mill
does not cost a great amount and it
is believed that within the next year
every farmer in the country will
have a plant on his plantation.
Plant more potatoes and less eot
ten and panicky times vVil never
come to this state.
In the heat of the political cam
paign last summer, when seme peo
ple were cussing Wilson blue, it
was suggested by a number of news
papers that before long these people
would be looking back to the "good
old days when Woodrow Wilson was
president and cotton was 40 cents
a pound." Alas, it ha*s already
come to pass.
. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the six months ending December 31, 1920, of the condition of
FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE FIRE INSURANCE CO.
Home Office—J ackson, Georgia.
Organized under the laws of the State of Georgia and made to the Gov
ernor of Georgia, pursuant to the laws of said State.
I Income During Last Six Months of 1920
Membei-ship fee $ 3,835.32
Assessments 11,216.20
Tdtal 15,051.52
Total income . $15,051.52
ll Disbursements During Second Six Months 1920
Annual payments and assessments returned
to members -- 11,216.20 •
Commissions and fees retaind by orpaid agents 2,166.00
Commissions and fees retainedby or paid to
officers and directors 914.91
Salaries and other compensation of officers <
and other office employees 607.50
Advertising, blanks and printing 29.53
Total -- 14,934.11
Total disbursements 14,934.11
Balances 117.41
111 Invested Assets
Cash in Office 117.41
Total Net Assets 117.41
Vl—Exhibit of Certificates of policies—Number and Amount. Total
Business last half of 1920.
Policies or certificates in force JuneSO, 1920, 5954 $8,295,252
Policies' or certificates written during 2nd half
of the year 1920 .. 321 722,332
Total 6,275 9,017,584
Deduct number and amount which have ceased
to be in force during 2nd half 1920 169 345,055
Total policies or certificates in force Decem
ber 31, 1920 6,106 8,672,529
Losses and claims on policies or certificates in
curred during 2ud half 0f1920 $11,216.20
Losses and cliams on policies or certificates
paid during 2nd half of 1920 11,216,20
STATE OF GEORGIA, County of Butts.
Personaly appeared before theundersigr.ed, S. B. Kinard, who, be
ing duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the Secretary of Farmers
Co-Operative Fire Insurance Cos., and that the foregoing statement is
correct and true.
S. E. KINARD.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 17th day of Feby, 1921.
L. P. McKIBBEX, N. P. Butts Cos., Ga.
One thing the matter with the
country now is that enough people
do not read and keep informed.
They let somebody else do their
thinking. Had people relied more
on their own judgment last year
and less on advice, they would be
infinitely better off today. Read,
study and keep informed and back
your own judgment.
“Do Rats Tails to Each Other?”
Asks Mr. M. Batty, R. 1.
"I sot five cakes of Rat-Snap and threw piece*
around feed store. Got about half a dozen dead rats
a day for two solid weeks. Suddenly, they got fewer
Sow we haven't any. Who told them about RaU
onap. Rats dry up and leave no smell. - Three
sues: 35c, 6Sc, *1.25.
Sold and guaranteed by
Carmichael Drug and Book Cos. -
Nevaton Hardware Company.
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PHONE US THE NEWS.