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FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1923
Jackson Progress -Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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IN ADVANCE
All shoulders to the wheel!
Whatever you do, look on the
bright side.
Keep working and smiling and
you will come out on top.
The year 1924 will be a politi
cal year. Watch the fur fly.
Most new year resolutions keep
best when mixed with a little sair.
The non-advertiser is his own
wmaret enemy. He is dead and doesn’t
know it.
Make 1923 a year of bountiful
food and feed crops. It will pay
.vow handsomely.
Many “melons” have been cut re
omtly by banks and business con
cerns. This money distributed over
the country means better business.
The fellow with a dark brown
'-taste and a (crouch can’t compete
ankh the man with a smile. Get
tfw right mental attitude and half
\hr fight is won.
Something is the matter when
mare money is spent for court
Tbwases and jails than for school
Woar.es and education. The situa
tion ought to be reversed.
The outstanding need of towns
the size of Jackson is more small
enterprises and pay-rolls. And af
ter the enterprises are established
U&ey must be liberally supported.
Advertising will do more to bring
thr producer and consumer in
itoarh with one another than any
••tfeev single factor. Broadcast your
message. It will be '‘picked” up.
Confidence is returning, business
it getting better and the country is
n the upgrade. Nothing cun keep
•poa down ar long as you work hard,
Tpmrtice thrift and keep on smiling.
As long as the churches advertise
•ad find it profitable, surely no in
uKrictaal or firm enn afford to doubt
wisdom of judicious advertising.
YYinterY ink properly used, always
pays well.
Wo believe the farmers are too
fwrsiblc to svwllow all the propa
paroda that is eminating from the
<ntres. Just for a change we would
Wte to see the farmers do their own
tf*?*fcing and planning.
Wcch of the better feeling in ag
netritura! and business circles in
Butts county is due to the unselfish
w<trfc of the Khvanis club. Here is
arpanization that has been tire
in working foy the best inter
of the entire county, l'he club
a year’s time has been an inspir
ation and blessing to the whole
orwwnty, and a foundation has been
for greater development in the
Xcaure. Organizations of this' char
erharr are doing a great work
sftrwxghout the country. They are
iebmjj it unselfishly and gladly.
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN
UNCLE REUBEN
Take care of yourself, Uncle Reuben. The propagandists are
after you. Take care of yourself, and here’s luck to you in 1923.
In the first place, Uncle Reuben, the propaganda has gone out
that you can raise cotton in spite of hell, the boll weevil and rainy
weather. That’s putting it strong but that’s vihat it all amounts to.
What is necessary for you to raise cotton? Here it is, as
simple as it can be:
First. Buy good seed. The seed you have been using are not
the right kind. These seed will cost you a lot of money. Prob
ably they arc worth it. We don’t know.
Second. Buy more commercial fertilizer than you have ever
bought before. Not only buy more, but by a better type of fer
tilizer. You can’t grow cotton without the liberal use of fertiliz
er, don’t you know?
Third. Use calcium arsenate—use a lot of calcium arsenate.
It v. 11 cost you dear, Uncle Reuben, but you must use it, you
know. The experts say so.
After you have done all this, Uncle Reuben, we suspect your
pocketbook will be rather flat. But it is the right thing to do, for
haven’t the propagandists said so? But after you have spent your
last penny and risked your all, dear uncle, and you meet with fail
ure. What then? Well, you will find out.
Now, in all seriousness, The Progress-Argus does hope and
trust the farmers of Butts county, of all Georgia and the South
will use their common sense this year more than they have ever
used it before. The, situation, as it looms before us, is loaded
with dynamite and arsenic. If the farmers make a mistake this
year it will take them years to correct it. Many of them will pay
for their mistakes with their homes and the savings of a life
time. There need be no misunderstanding about that. Many are
standing on the brink now, and one more push will send them top
pling to their ruin.
With the advent of the boll weevil in the South, a wise sys
tem of diversified farming and live stock raising was forced on
this section. Great progress has been made. This progress should
continue until every farm is self-supporting, with cotton as a sur
plus crop.
The propaganda that is sweeping the cotton belt, from Texas
to Virginia, eminates from the cities. Note that—from the city
bankers, chambers of commerce, fertilizer idealeiis, manufacturers
of boll weevil nostrums, etc, etc. It is proposed to raise the sum
of two and a half million dollars t o fight the boll weevil. The city
fellows are going to save the day for the farmer. But Uncle Reu
ben must do the work—do you get that—do a4l the work and pay
all the bills in the end.
We wish that every farmer in the South could see the trap
that is being laid for him—see it before it is too late.
Now, every sensible person realizes that cotton is and will al
ways be the money crop of the South. And what’s more, the
South will always grow the bulk of the world s cotton supply.
But the individual who says cotton can be grown regardless of
the boll weevil is speaking a plain untruth. The weather
is the one determining factor. Don’t get away from that fact, for
it is fundamental. With dry, hot summers during the growing
season cotton can be grown under boll weevil conditions. But
if July and August are wet there is not enough calcium arsenate
in the world to hold the boll weevil in check. Let that sink in.
And, remember, that seven out of ten summers in this area
are wet.
Grow all the cotton you can, for you need it, but dc t be led
into the mistake of believing that you can grow all cotton at the neg
lect of food and feed crops.
Don’t lose the ground you have already gained. Don’t forget
the lessons you have learned by bitter experience.
An important thing for every' in
dividual to do is to resolve to be
optimistic, cheerful. courageous.
Do this and you will end the year
in better condition. It doesn’t pay
to have the blues and give up.
Things are looking up and you must
look up, buck up and smile.
Citizens of Butts county feel
just pride in the splendid sale oi
the road and highway improvement
bonds. If we are corretly informed
these bonds established anew high
record for the state. Butts county
is all right. It can be made better
by co-operation and team work.
A revolution in business methods
is coming ove rthe South. Business
is going on a cash The man
or woman with cash to spend wants
to spend it to the best advantage.
They arc looking for opportunities
and bargains. The business man
needs advertising more now than
he has ever needed it.
The boll weevil is proving a bless
ing to the farmers of the South
and they have the situation well in
hand if they will use comihon sense.
It is perfectly evident that large
interests want a big cotton crop be
cause they want cheap cotton. A
small crop brings more t money than
does a bumper yie'd. and the far
mers thus have extra acres they
can use to grow food and feed
crops.
THE JACKSON FROCRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
A cold storage and meat curing
plant would prove of tremendous
benefit to the citizens of Butts
county. We have outgrown the age
when we can sit down and wait for
cold weather to slaughter hogs.
Such an enterprise would result in
big savings for -farmers of the coun
ty. All risk is removed. As it is
novi much meat is wasted by warm
weather and much valuable feed is
wasted on swine in prime condition
that are ready for slaughter.
Within the past few months Tho
Progress-Argus has printed much
matter in behalf of dairy -farming.
This industry is growing rapidly in
this, section, which is fitted by na
ture to be the leading dairy center
of the nation. It is dairy farming
and live stock growing that will
make the South rich and prosperous.
If you are not prepared to accept
this statement now you will realize
it within ten years. Get in the
game early and reap your share of
the rewards. -
A distressing situation has arisen
in some of the counties of the state,
and due to a shortage of funds ed
ucation is being seriously crippled.
In the Tifton Gazette it is noted
that some of the schools in Tift
county will not be able to operate
for the spring term. The public
schools of Helena-Mcßae are like
wise threatened with suspension,
owing to a shortage of money.
Butts, county and the city of Jack
son are fortunate in that they ope
rate their schools on a full time
basis and always pay the teachers
promptly.
There is a lot of talk about the
United States cancelling the war
debt of the allies. It would come
with better grace if the countries
in Europe would go to work and
spend more money on peace plans
instead of getting Teady for new
wars. If the cancellation of the v.ar
debt were left to popular vote of
the American people there is no
doubt of how the vote would go.
This money was loaned in good
faith and should be paid in the
same spirit.
It has often been statel by learn
ed judges in their charges to grand
juries that whiskey and the carry
ing of concealed weapons are re
sponsible for more than 80 per cent
of all crime. These evils are grow
ing and unless the people use their
backbone and demand law enforce
ment of their officers and
help their officers in lav. en
forcement things will soon come to
a pretty pass in this country. Ev
ery man with a backbone ought to
use it more and complain less.
PROSPERING WITHOUT COTTON
The editor of the Wocrth County
Local, who recently spent two days
in Selma, Ala., gives a glowing re
port of business conditions in that
city. He says:
The editor of this paper had
the pleasure of spending a cou
ple of days recently,in a good
sized town where practically all
business is transacted on the
cash basis. The town referred
to is Selma, Ala., which has two
creameries, one of them being
the largest in the Southern
States, and where the chief ag
ricultural industry is dairying
and the growing of live stock
and poultry for market. It was
just a week before Christmas
and business in the town was
moving in high gear. We are
told that the people were out
of debt and prosperous. They
showed it in their faces. The
farms and the farmers looked
it. The business houses and the
business folks looked it. Every
body in the county, it seems, is
milking dairy cows, including
all the negro farmers who con
stitute a majority. The farms
are operated with cash received
from the sale of cream. We
are told that the farmers paid
cash foor their mules and the
small amount of commercial
fertilizer used. One mule deal
er stated that he had sold a
number of carloads of mules
this year for spot cash. And,
by the way, the county of Dal
las, in which Selma is located,
has no advantages over Worth
county. In fact, we have ad
vantages that Dallas county
does not enjoy, one of vhich is
better water and better health.
LIKES THE PLAN AND THE MAN
Richmond county has tried the
County Agent, and The Augusta
Chronicle has. this to say in his be
half:
The statement is made that, in
some parts of the state, counties
are dispensing with their County
Agents.
Counties which do this will make
a serious mistake. If there ever
was a time \when, on the farms, we
n-eded every possible guidance and
instruction, it is now'. Latter-day
demands on the farm call for the
employment there of every knowl
edge which science and experience
can impart. The county agents, al
most without exception, are young
men finely schooled in all the latest
instruction bearing on agriculture.
They are invaluable on the farms.
The Springfield Herald takes this
view of it, saying:
“If all the counties have the
same kind of man we have in Effing
ham, he is a valuable asset. Our
County Agent is doing a good work
and the small sum paid him as a
salary is money well spent. Every
county in the state should have a
County Agent and they should try
to get men that understand agri
culture and the marketing of farm
products.”
We are sure the farmers of Rich
mond county would not want to go
ahead vslthout their County Agent.
He has proved a most capable, most
willing, most helpful adjunct to the
work on the farms, and all the
branches of farm endeavor. Every
county in Georgia should equip it
self with its County Agent. No one
of them should think of going ahead
without one of the most valuable
workers where it is possible to se
cure them.—Tifton Gazette.
THE “UNBURFIED DEAD"
A speaker before the chamber of
commerce of a western city refer
red to the people who are so ab
sorbed in their pleasures that they
have no time for civic duties as
the city’s “unburied dead.” Among
others he mentioned the card play
ers of both sexes; “those who have
the hoof and- mouth disease, the
golfers, who walk all day and talk
about it all night;” the automobile
“nuts,” those who mortgage their
homes and put up their life insur
ance as collateral and whose “ben
zine buggies go day and night pur
posely driven about.” These are
the people, he declared, who, so
far as taking any part in the life
of the community is concerned, are
absolutely dead. It is not to be as
sumed that the speaker includes all
who play cards and golf, and all
who drive automobiles among the
city’s ‘‘unburied dead,” but unques
tionably many people who devote
themselves to these pursuits de
serve to be so characterized. The
list might be extended vdthout great
difficulty. Every community has its
“unburied dead,” people who make
no return to the community for
what they receive from it; people
who absorb from the community
only, like sponges. Every town and
city have people who give to the
city no service, who cannot be re
lied upon for any expenditure of
time or energy in civic undertaking,
who seem to have no civic spirit of
pride, who, in such leisure as they
have, seen only their own selfish
enjoyment. So far as. the city and
its interests are concerned these
gpople are absolutely dead. People
of this kind are of no value to the
community; they are a liability and
not an asset.
Every citizen owes something to his
community in the way of civic in
terest and civic service. By no
means does the citizen discharge all
o-f his duty when he pays his tax
bill. We would have better towns
and cities if there were fewer “un
buried dead” who retard the pro
gress, who are responsible for mis
government and for the lack of co
operation, that mars so many cities.
It is the duty of every individual
2 or SCans
of Baking Powder
Are Not Worth the Price of One
If they are the “big can and
cheap” kind because they
may mean baking failures.
CALUMET
The Economy BAKING POWDER
fiIUME?
V/ contcntsw* A
best bt test
THE WORLD’S GREATEST BAKING POWDER
to make certain that he is n 0 t
among the “unburied dead’’ of his
town. —Dawson News.
RESULTS OF CLUB WORK
Just by way of more than parsing
note, see what the boys and girls in
the clubs out West are doing.
Foss, Oklahoma, Enterprise 7 says :
,f More than 50,000 farm boys and
girls were enrolled as pig club memS
bers in 1921. These young farmers
reported growing nearly 60,000 pure
bred hogs, valued at $1,500,000,
and managed according to improved
methods of feeding, housing and
care advocated by extension- work
ers.”
COUNTY AGENT WORTH s3ofl
TO FARMER
A Hawkins county (Tenn.) far
mer states that the county aigent
has. been worth S3OO to him through
getting him interested in purebred
hogs. This man has a good herd of
Poland China hogs, and has realized
S3OO in sales from his hogs, beside-;
v.hat he now has on the farm and
what he has used for pork. This
fanner has a 200-acre 'farm well
stocked with purebred hogs, cattle
and chickens.
Before being interested in pure
bred hogs by the agent, he had. been
content to go along with scrubs
which supplied meat for the family
and a few inferior one for market.
—Farming.
DO THIS AND DON’T WORRY
A few years ago the American
Bankers’ Association, together with
other organizations interested in
helping the citizen to make life
more comfortable, issued some ad
vice in the -form of “Ten Command
ments of Thrift.”
The code reads:
1. Make a budget. ,
2. Keep an intelligent record of
expenditures.
3. Have a bank account.
4. Carry life insurance.
5. Make a will
6. Own our home eventually.
7. Pay your bills promptly.
8. Invest in War Savings Stamps
and other government securities.
9. Spend less tha nyou earn.
10. Share with others. Thirft
without benevolence is a doubtful
blessing.
With the exception of No. 8,
which might be brought up to date
by reading “Invest in safe securi
ties,” the commandments are of
present and perennial value, says
The Jacksonville Journal.. They are
worth cutting out and pasting inside
the cover of the new account book
which opens with the Ne\v Year.—•
Savannah Press.
WANTED—Cow hides. A. R. Con
ner. 8-4-tfc
Don’t let a BIGCAN
or a very low price
mislead you.
Experimenting with an
uncertain brand is ex
pensive because it
Wastes time and
money.
The sales of Calumet
are over 150% greater
than that of any other
baking powder.
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