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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19. 1923
Jackson Progress - Arps
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
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IN ADVANCE
Follow your Hunch with a Punch
and you’ll get where you started.
So far as reported nobody has
blamed Savannah’s unfortunate fac
tional row on the Ku Klux.
Various farm programs and slo
gans are being recommended. The
old one of nnd hominy covers
the ground pretty well.
“Cotton and hogs the best money
crop,” says a report from Americus.
Cotton and hogs, dairying and poul
try make a good combination.
Your town and county .are just
whut you make them. It takes live
wires to make a live town. If you
want to fee your town and county
grow, get right yourself.
Flowers for the living are better
than flowers for the dead. This, in
a large measure, explains the
growth of civic organizations like Ro
tary, Kiwanis and others. These or
ganizations believe in helping when
help is needed.
The .Macon Telegraph has been
printing a strong series of articles
-on pure food as a means to better
health. The pure food laws ought
to be enforced more rigidly. Impure
food concoctions and compounds,
are responsible for a lot of the ills
the flesh is heir to.
How many cars of hogs will Butts
county sell this year? This is a
timely question. How many cars of
chickens will be sold? When the
swine and poultry industry develops
to the point, that we have a surplus
to ship conditions will be much bet
ter in the county.
Reforts from all portions of
Georgia show conclusively that
banks are in better condition than
the were a year ago. They owe less
money and have more deposits. No
community is going to the dogs as
long as it has strong financial insti
tutions to serve the people.'
Savannah affords an example of
the extreme to which factional pol
itics can be carried. Georgia’s
great port city has allowed itself
to be set back seriously by factional
politics. If Savannah wants to have
the state port the people there must
get together and cut out strife and
petty politics.
Paternalism has taken a strong
IwM on the people in the past few
years. The fellow who pays a few
dollars street or road tax expects
goed streets and good roads. It
iafc.es money anl a lot of it to build
goad roads. Asa general rule the
people get what they pay for, no
mere and no less.
What is education? That seems
*• be a hard nut. But if the work
Wing being done by county agents
xad home economic agents is not
educational then we miss our puess.
hio county, in this age of diversifi
. cation, can afford to be without the
aerrices of a live county agent.
A BETTER PLAN
The American Cotton Associa
tion, reports state, is preparing to
raise the sum of two and a half
million dollars to fight the boll wee
vil. Congress, it also appears, is
going to spend the sum of ten mil
ion dollars to combat the trouble
some little cotton pest.
If these sums of money were
used through the banks in each
county in the cotton belt in provid
ing purebred livestock and dairy
cattle we believe the country would
be benefited more. The big problem
the South faces today is to make'
its farms "self-sustaining and self
supporting. A farmer with a
smokehouse full of meat and lard,
barn full of hay, corn and feed
stufTs, with plenty of syrup, pota
toes, wheat, oats, etc., and with
chickens, eggs, hogs, anti dairy cows
to bring in a steady cash income, is
independent. The great trouble
with the country is that there are
too few farmers of that type.
The records show, despite the
claims of the cotton association or
anybody else, that more than GO
per cent of the debt on the supply
merchants’ books are for hay, grain,
meat, lard, corn, etc., bought to
grow cotton. This is an indictment
of the cotton belt that will stand
until we about face and raise our
supplies at home.
The boll weevil left panic, ruin,
bankruptcy and almost starvation
in its wake. This has been true
from Texas to South Carolina.
Why? Because the South has not
been growing its food and feed at
home. If the South had been doing
that the boll weevil would not be
such a trying problem.
The Progress-Argus is publishing
in this issue an appeal from a
Texas Farmer for the people of the
South not to overdo cotton produc
tion this year. The writer shows
that the farmers of the South have
the cotton situation well in hand.
They can continue to control if
they will use good judgment.
By all means make the year 1923
a year of food and feed crops and
livestock. That is the road to pros
perity and better business. When
you have first prepared for abun
dant food and feed crops then raise
all the cotton you can. But be sure
that you place first things first.
WHERE WE REALIZE OUR
SHORTCOMINGS
A citizen of Tift county re
marked the other day that ev
ery one of his children had
been raised to read the Ga
zette and that some of them
had learned to read by spelling
out the home news in the home
paper. Later, one of his boys
said that there ware eleven of
them, and that with each the
home paper came first. The
Gazette has been printed in Tif
ton for thirty-two years and
it is such testimonials as this
that brings to its editor under
standing of the great responsi
bility resting on a man who
runs a newspaper which is read
at the family fireside. His in
fluence can accomplish much
good, off it can accomplish a
great deal of harm. Realizing
this, the newspaper man should
approach his task prayerfully
and very carefully. Even at
best, few men measure up to
the requirements.—Tifton Ga
zette.
Be it said to the credit of the
weekly newspaper that it does not
print one-tenth of the scandal and
salacious matter that is to be found
in he daily newspapers. Certain
in the daily newspapers, often
referred to as “yellow journals,”
delight to print matter that the
weekly paper refrains from hand
i
i ling. Our experience has been that
I weekly papers, as a rule, arc clean
; and wholesome and stand for the
! best things in our civilization. Most
|of them can enter the most refined
home and the editor is not ashamed
of the news ht prints.
The press has a powerful influ
ence in moulding public sentiment.
G-eat responsibility rests upon the
editor. He must not only use good
judgment in the news he prints.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
but exercise extreme caution in the
news lv leaves ou..
The weekly hewspaper3 cf Geor
gia are doing a great work. They
are the champions of all that is
best and highest in society. In the
majority of instances the weekly
papers of Georgia are measuring up
to every demand made upon them.
FINE FARM PROGRAM
The Laurens county •farm program,
recently formulated, just about meets
every requirement. If the people of
Laurens county can live up to the
motto of the year it is certain that
fhere will be great progress made in
that section.
One of the main things the coun
try needs is to find out what it
means to do and then buckle to
the task. This is where short, snappy
slogans can come in handy. Every
community should have a well
thought-out, well-planned) program
for the year, and not only for one
year but for five and ten years to
come. Then we will get somewhere.
Here is the Laurens county pro
gram that has won such instant and
widespread favor:
Make every public road a
good road; a market for all
farm products; 100 hens on ev
ery fqgm in the county; two
dairy cows to every plow; two
purebred sov to every plow;
a permanent pasture on every
farm; a deep well on every
fann; every house painted; a
home orchard of all kinds of
fuit on every farm; more town
and country co-ooperation.
COME ON, CREAMERIES, LET’S
MEET THIS COMPETITION
“The American disease,” says a
well-known New York produce
house, “is not jazz, but laziness,”
the basis of the remark being the
fact that on January 1 of this ypar
the country was short 30,000,000
pounds of butter. The story is told
in a phamphlett issued by the Har
riman National Bank, of New York.
This house has contracted
for 120,000 boxes of New Zea
land butter to be delivered at
this port, a voyage of five to
six weeks from Auckland.
Such an importation of butter
is the first in our history. It
scores 92-95, and as New Zea
land is at the antipodes, it cor
responds to our June product.
The dairymen receive for it 17
pence (say 32c) a pound; its
cost to the New Kork company
with duty at 8c; freight at 2c,
insurance at one-half one per
cent, and expenses, comes to
43c. It will retail here at 55c
to 58c. The total is $3,000,-
000—and the butter not pro
duced by ourselves. Where are
our dairymen?
Here you have interesting sta
tistical data, but there au'e
facts underlying not only for
the housewife and the banker,
but for congress. You have
the fact that there i$ a short
age of butter in this country
and that this is based in part,
as intimated, upon indifference
an din part upon employment
at high wages, affording to the
full the luxury of consuming
good butter instead of substi
tute; that it is a British colony
that furnishes, the butter; that
a Bffitish steamer carries it; that
Lloyd’s of London insures it;
and the most significant fact,
that the money stays not in
New York, but goes to London.
This is another demonstra
tion of Britain’s greatness.
Think about it!
The bank s answer to the prob
lem is that “we need in this coun
try a larger influx of the sturdy
races of northern Europe, who are
willing to work every day in the
year, as is necessary in dairying.”
Whether or not this is the solution
it is clearly evident that something
is wrong somewhere.
The creamery business in Geor
gia has made great progress in the
past year orso, progress which, it
is-to be hoped, will continue at an
even greater rate. And the business
is one which is entitled to the sym-
pathetic interest and co-operation of
the public.—Columbus Enquirer-;.
Sun.
HAS NOT BEEN WHIPPED
Because a few southwest Georgia
counties made a fair cotton crop
this year certain writers declare the
boll weevil has been conquered in
this section. Far from it. If B.
Weevil has been whipped he doesn’t
know it. He is on the ground and
ready to renew the fight so soon as
cotton appears in the fields. And
with wet weather as an ally during
June and July he can get the better
of the 'fanner. The weather is an
important factor in growing cotton.
This year it was favorable to the
I farmer; next year conditions may
be different. —Cuthbert Leader.
ADVERTISING WILL BRING OUT
HIDDEN DOLLARS
We are informed that one
Atlanta bank spends about
$50,000 per year advertising in
the newspapers of that city.
And it is one of the strongest
and most popular banks in the
South. Small town banks lose
a great deal of prestige and
business and overlook great
opportunities by not keeping
their business continually be
i fore the public.—Walton Tri
bune.
There is a lot cf money hid
den out and being carried around
in the pockets of people that ought
to be deposited in the banks and
help to make business better. The
banks can correct this to a large
extept by advertising. The money
ought to be brought out of its hid
ing place and used in the channels
of commerce.
A good bank is the best place for
money. There it is safe at all times.
Any bank can increase its depos
its substantially by advertising in
the right sort of way. It is a ser
vice that is worth performing, for
hidden money benefits nobody, not
even the man who owns it nor the
community.
GOOD WILL
If you were to prepare a financial
statement covering your own affairs,
what valuation could you place on
“Good Will?” What do you feel
your reputation for honesty, energy,
thoroughness, good judgment,
knowledge, self-control, etc., is
worth?
If business organizations can
sometimes well afford to spend huge
sums of money and much time and
effort in building up and maintain
ing “Good Will,” we as individuals
Villi suerly find it profitable from a
financial standpoint alone to try to
secure and hold the “Good Will” of
those for and with whom we work.
You will be successful or unsuc-
cessful according to what men think
of you. Your progress or failure
depends upon the effect you have
on others. It will pay you to devel
op and protect your biggest asset
'■—-“Good Will.”—Hardwood Bark.
THE SHORT CUT
An ambitious young man went to
a university professor and said:
“Sir, I desire a course of training
which will fit me to become the
superintendent of a great railway
system. How much will such a
course cost, and how long will it
take?”
“Young man,” replied the profes
sor, “such a course would cost you
twenty thousand dollars and require
twenty years of your time. But, on
the other hand, by spending three
hundred dollars and three months
of your time you may be elected to
Congress. Once there you will feel
yourself competent to direct not
one, but all the great railroad sys
tems of our country.”—New York
Evening Post, •
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The mild winter has probably
been beneficial to the boll weevil.
There will no doubt be a large crop
of these frisky little fellows to be
taken care of next season.
The country as a whole is having
too many fires. There ought to be
more thought given to fire preven
tion. Too often carelessness is the
cause of many costly conflagrations.
TEXAS FARMER SAYS A BIG
COTTON CROP IS NOT BEST
The following article appeared in
The Atlanta Constiutioon on January
12 and is reproduced for the benefit
of Progress-Argus. readers:
Editor Constitution: I am sure I
will be criticised for v.riting this pa
per, but I am not going back on my
calling for I have always stood for
the farmers’ interest, knowing that
the prosperity of the nation depends
on the farmer, and I am going to
continue to help the farmers as long
as. I can use a typewriter or talk.
I am sure that the southern states
stand a fine chance for great finan
cial prosperity provided the farmers
will handle ou rgreatest money crop
with good common sense, but if they
don’t, “I told you- so,” may come
true. It is a well known fact that
the law of supply and demand makes
the price for all our farm products,
and this is especially true with ref
erence to cotton, and this was clearly
shown in our last year’s crop, which
commanded a fair price, and has
brought the demand for cotton up
to where we will get at least 40
cents for this year’s crop if we hold
the crop down to 11,000,000 bales,
which would mean great prosperity
to the south. On the other hand, a
fourteen to sixteen million bale crop,
together with the cotton that the
other countries will raise, will bring
a smash-up in the price because we
would have more than the demand
calls for.
We all know that the world de
mand for cotton ir greater than it
has ever been, but we do not need a
20,000,000,000-bale crop and just as
sure as we make it there will be a
big drop in prices, ‘for the unsettled
conditions in Europe are against the
market of all our fann products, and
especially is this true of cotton, for
Europe can’t pay her war debts,
much less buy cotton.
Now, I am going to say this: If
we don’t produce more than 12,000,-
000 bales, we will get 40 cents or
more for it; if more than that, the
price will perhaps drop lower than
last year, and I am going to tell you
TEN THINGS TO REMEMBER
1. The value of Time:
2. The Pleasure of Working.
3. The Success of Preservance.
4. The Worth of Character.
5. The Virtue of Patience.
6. The Wisdom of Economy.
7. The Obligation of Duty.
8. The Power of a Smile.
9. The Profit of Experience.
10. The Joy of Achievement.
The above are, of course, in addi
tion to the Ten Commandments.
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X More Milk
LJALF a gallon more milk from each cow
A A every day, will more than pay your
feed bill.
Nearly every cow owner gets that increase
with Purina Cow Chow.
It costs about a dollar a month more to
feed Cow Chow, but that difference is
more than made up in the first week. The
rest of the month you get
board you will
Sold in Checkerboard Bag* Only
ETHERIDGE, SMITH & CO.
JACKSON, GEORGIA
why I say this.
From the very best of informatic.
I gan gather, the south is going to'
plant tße fence corners in cotto,, i
and they are going to fertilize heaw
* >
in fact the fertilizer companies have
•already doubled, their sales up to this
time over last year; and the farmers
have learned to combat the boll wee
vil, and there is only one thine; that
will keep Texas alone from makiiw
5,000,000 bales, and that is the sea
sons, and when you add 5,000,009
bales to what the other southern
states and other countries make, then
you will have a cotton crop that can't
be handled at proofitable prices. So
where is the common sense in pro
during a big crop and getting 10 or I
15 cents for it when, if we produce
a smaller crop, we get 30 or 4
cents fdr it? One or the other is
going to happen, for the demand will
make the price just as sure as the
sun shines. Itake farm papers from
all over the southern states, and I
have been reading and watching, the
situation closely, and if the crop is
planted as, it is now planned, then
we will have cotton “to chunk tho
dogs with,” for there is no question
hut that the farmers are going after
cotton in a determined way. Sine,
we have got the cotton industry in
a fair way, why not keep it that way
by producing just what the world
needs, and this we can do by acting
in a sensible way, by laising a. big fat
living on the farm and eleven or
even twelve million-bale crop
bring prosperity worthwhile.
Now, if there ever was a time in
the history of the cotton industry
whe na vigorous campaign ought to
be put on to keep down the cotton
'acreage, it is now, and I for one will
use all my energies to that end. I
know some of the big money men
Will call me a crank, but I want the
•fanners to go right, and will do all
I can to help them to bring great
prosperity to/our country.
Yours for less cotton and a better
price, JOHN O. ALLEN,
Cookville, Texas, January 6, 1923.
The 157,000,000 acres within thi_‘
national forests, of wide geographi
cal distribution, embrace in part the
natural ranges of every .v.acies of f
wild life known to have existed in
the continental United States, says
the Forest Service, United States
i
Department of Agriculture. ,
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Bilious people need them J.
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