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Jackson Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and P ibliihar
Entered as aecond-clasi matter at
the post office at Jackson, Ga.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
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Now for tlu* Harvest Festival.
What are you doing to help the
Harvest Festival?
If politics are warming up they
have nothing on the weather.
The voter who swallows politi
cal bunk is not entitled to any
thing but bunk.
What has become of the old
fashioned man that used to wear
galluses?
The newspapers ought to cut so
much political bunk and spend more
time boosting for Georgia. It is
worth infinitely more.
The* fellow who is just a little
deader than King Tut is the one
who hinders or stands in the way
of progress.
The State Agricultural College
will have a daily radio program. This
should be interesting and instructive
and worth a great deal to the far
mers of the state.
From the standpoint of business
experience, high character and fit
ness Dr. L. G. Hardman is well
qualified to be governor of Georgia.
Some of the dry speakers have
been getting their bread buttered.
The dollar mark hides a lot of
patriotism, so-called.
Butts county produced this season
a wheat and oat crop worth probably
SIOO,OOO. This is good business. Now
for plenty of hog and hominy and we
will be making progress.
After pared streets, where do
we go from here, Jaeksonu? Keep
batting the Ball and the entire
community will soon be vibrant
with life, push and progress.
It would not be a bad idea to have
a law compelling every citizen to
rote. Then we would have govern
ment by the majority instead of by
the minority as at present.
Another big acreage has been
plated in cotton and if the staple
is cheap this fall, as it probably will
be, then who is to blame but the
growers? *
Unless the counties of middle
Georgia stand together and tight like
old scratch they are going to be left
out in the matte r of highway im-i
provement. This section has been
asleep at the switch long enough.
It is time to wake up.
Now comes a citizen of Forsyth
who has a cash income of five dol
lars per day from three cows. Tfeiu :
is one hundred and fifty dollars per
month—more, vastly more—than a
lot of farmers made in twelve months
last year. Yet there are those who
tell you there is nothing in the dairy
business.
The stood road development
and the automobile industry have
not added to church attendance.
Whether this has anything to do
with the increase in crime, you
cah make your own guess.
When a man wants to run for
office there is nothing in heaven
above, on the earth or beneath
the earth for him to do but run
and get the fever out of his sys
tem.
What about those new industries
Jackson and Butts county were so
anxious to secure? Are we waiting
for them to fall into our lap or will
we fight for them? If we ever want
to get new industries we must go
after them in the right way. How
about it, good people?
It is time the committees were
getting busy on the Harvest Festival.
With the experience and impetus
gained in the centennial celebration
last fall Butts county can put on a
great show this season. It is worth
while. Let’s start batting the ball.
Sound the candidates. Find out
their views on the several important
questions of the hour. Also judge
their records. The people elect their
officers and if they do not elect the
best men, have they anybody to
blame but themselves? Ever thought
of that?
The towns and cities of Georgia
have thousands of farmers wh<
would be infinitely better off
to let the farmers farm the farms,
while they -put their money and
energy into manufacturing enter
prises, providing payrolls and giv
ing markets for the products of
the farm. The day of town farm
ing is a luxury, but we need more
manufacturing plants.
The bond election for paving
shows just how the people of Jackson
feel about having the streets paved.
Now that a start has been made this
work should not be stopped until
all the principal streets are paved
With the right sort of co-operation
the State Highway Department and
government will probably help in
paving the streets of Jackson. They
have done this elsewhere. Why not
here?
' Many Georgians hope they will
live to see the day when a fine, man
ly, clean cut, upstanding young busi
ness man of the type of Judge Og
den Persons or General Walter A.
Harris can be elected governor of
Georgia. Give the state this type of
man—young, active, clean, free
from political alliances —and elect a
legislature composed of the same
type of men and Georgia will take
her rightful place as a leader.
The Atlanta Georgian and Amer
ican seems to have the papers of
the state by the ear in the move
ment for advertising Georgia.
The writer knows of newspapers
that have been trying to arouse
a similar spirit, hammering away
for years in an effort to arouse a
statewide Georgia spirit. But
then the wind has to be in a cer
tain direction for fire to catch.
Again it shows that a lot of fel-
lows are willing to join in after
somebody gets a thing under way.
Surely the day of miracles is not
over. Butts county is shipping wheat
this season. Who would have ever
thought it? We knew the dairymen
were shipping milk and cream, dis
placing the canned and bottled goods
of Randolph Rose, so popular a few
years ago. Probably we will be ship-
ping alfalfa hay before long. And if
the seasons are favorable the fine
bottom lands of the Ocmulgee river
section will provide several cars of
corn for shipment this fall.
If Butts county comes through
with a good crop this year—and in
dications point strongly in that di
rection—the Progyess-Argus wants
to suggest a special praise and
thanks-giving service to celebrate the
event. For six years this section has
stood by its guns and fought the
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JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON GEORGIA
devastations of the boll weevil and
droughts. Hope, long deferred, will
be rewarded this years we trust. It
is time to be planning a special
thanksgiving service to celebrate the
return of better conditions —and
.Dove all to give thanks and praise
to a beneficient Providence.
Our great need in Georgia is a
daily newspaper of state-wide
circulation and influence. We
have nothing of the kind now.
While the state has many excel
lent daily newspapers they are all
more or less local in their influ-
ence and circulatoin, that is, so
far as covering Georgia is con
cerned. Atlanta papers are too
selfish and self-centered to ever
answe r the need. Macon is ideally
situated to be the headquarters of
a great daily newspaper that
would cover all parts of Georgia. But
the man of vision seems to be lack
ing.
WHY PUSSYFOOT?
Any county that ever intends
to amount to a tinker’s damn
must have a Chamberof Com
merce. There must be unity of
purpose and effort and co-opera
tion. These things are essen
tial to community progress.—
Jackson Progress-Argus.
There is one thing about Editor
Doyle Jones, andthat is, when he
makes up his mind to say a thing
he says it.—Columbus Enquirer
-Sun.
A BIG IMPROVEMENT
As the New comes in the old
goes out—and often the New
works revolutions—as for ex
ample look at the front page of
the News-Gazette —the result ox
the Junior pushing the Senior
aside, for thetime being at
least. It’s a big improvement,
isn’t it? —Barnesville News-Ga
zette.
We’ll say it is a big improvement
—the removing of advertisments
from the front page and the sub
stitution of live reading matter. The
editor of the Progress-Argus has
never been able to understand why
a paper would fill its front page full
of advertisements. The News-Ga
zette has started a reform that oth
er papers would do well to follow.
MAKING HAY IN GEORGIA
In the smiling valley in the good
old county of Butts lives a man
who not only makes hay while the
sun shines, but also tops the Georgia
record in that thrifty pursuit. His
achievement is thus reported by the
Franklin News and Banner:
“Forty-three tons of hay, valued
at eight hundred dollars, was made
by W. A. White, of Stark, a promi
nent farmer, on eight acres. The
land was seeded last fall with five
bushels of wheat and twenty-five
of oats. Vetch at the rate of thirty
pounds to the acre was planted. In
1925 the land had an application of
fifteen hundred pounds of fertilizer
under cotton; owing to the drought,
the fertilizer was not consumed. Ni
trate of soda at the rate of two
hundred pounds per acre was ap
plied to the mixture. The yield of
one hundred and seventy-two two
horse wagon loads, estimated at five
hundred pounds to a load, or more
is believed to be a record for Geor
gia.”
To this maker of prosperity and
builder for a happier common
wealth. The Journal offers hearty
congratulations. On attainments
like his rest our assurance of an
agriculture free from the tyranny
of any single crop, but strengthen
ed, more and more, by cattle and
dairying industries. A wise watcher
of human affairs placed among the!
world's benefactors him who madej
two blades to grow where before!
grew only one. Certainly the
Georgia farmers who increase the
the yield of those staples on which
agricultural progress and economic
power chiefly depend are among
the benefactors of their state. —At-
lanta Journal.
HOW THE APOSTLES DIED
Many readers, perhaps a large
majority of them, old as well as
i
young, will find new information in
the following paragraph, taken from
the Evangelist: St. Matthew is sup
posed to have suffered martyrdom or
was slain with the sword at the city
of Ethiopia, in Egypt. St Luke was
hanged upon an olive tree, in Greece.
St. John was put into a caldron of
boiling oil at Rome, and escaped
death at Ephesus in Asia. St James
the Great was beheaded at Jerusa
lem. St. James the Less was thrown
from a pinnacle or wing of the tem
ple and then beaten to, death with a
fuller’s club.' St Phillip was hanged
up against a pillar at Hierapolis, a
city of Phyrgia. St. Bartholemew
was flayed alive by the command of
a barbarous king. St Andrew was
bound to a cross, whence he preach
ed unto the people until he expired.
St. Thomas was run through the
body with a lance at Caromandel, in
the East Indes. St. Simon Zealot
was crucified in Persia. St. Matthias
was first stoned and then beheaded.
St. Barnabas was stoned to death by
the Jews at Salania. St Paul was be
headed by Nero
WORSE THAN WAR
According to a survey made by
the Associated Press, 7,702 people
were klled and injured in accidents
in eleven southern states during the
first six months of the current year.
Of the total 1, 127 were killed. Of
the injured it is not known how
many are disabled for life—perhaps
an appreciable number.
Florida led all southern states in
the number of killed with 205. Of
that total 120 were killed during the
first three months, while the win
ter season was in progress. Florida
also led in the number of persons
injured with 1,284, of which num
ber 666 were injured during the
first quarter of the year. North
Carolina was second in the number
of persons killed withan even 200,
while Georga wassecond in the num
ber ofpersons injured with 1,078,
and second to Florida in the total
number of killed and injured. There
were 130 people killed by accidents
in the first six months.
While a negligible number of the
total met death and injury from
other causes, the overwhelming ma
jority were killed and crippled in
automobile traffic accidents, grade
crossings alone causing 50 of the
deaths. The larger number, how
ever, were sacrificed to recklessness
—that is, to the ordinary automo
bile crashes, the majority of which
are not only entirely avoidable but
due to recklessness, and too often j
to recklessness caused by drunken-1
ness of someone at a steering
wheel.
The total is alarming. Consider
ing the number of people involved
or subjected to such accidents, the
fatalities especially run far ahead of
war records. And the lamentable
feature is, with all of the capipaigns
of education, and the traffic laws,
and conferences conducted by the
federal and state authorities, the
situation does not improve. It is
gradually getting worse.
Next to the bootleg problem,
which is closely involved in the
traffic casualties, this safety of the
streets and highways is the biggest
problem confronting America today.
It is a problem that strikes with
particular force at Georgia, as
shown by the records, and at At
lanta as shown by the daily list of
automobile accidents that occur al
most within the shadow of the city
hall.
Many of the most distressing
casualties recently have been caused
by boys driving automobiles.. This is
in clear violation of sta'fe and city
laws, and yet the tragedies continue
and children continue to drive auto-
mobiles without molestation. Many
children have been killed recently
and in all such cases the injunction j
against permitting children to play
in the streets and on the congested
highways is accentuated. And yet
it continues. There is a law against
this that ought to be enforced even
| if parents will not execrcise that
I precaution that should be so appeal
sig to them.
There must be a change for the
better. It is inexcusable that a
Great
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As the stout oak of the forest grows from a tiny acorn
deposited in suitable ground so do great business successes
grow from small savings and habits of thrift and economy
formed in childhood.
Give your boy a bank account and teach him how to
make it grow by saving and adding to it. This is the sure
road to future success.
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INTEREST PAID ON TIME CERTIFICATE?
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Farmers 6 Merchants Bank
record worse than war is permitted
to be made week after week in
Georgia, and in the south, when
assuredly it could be arrested to
some degree if the situation was
taken in hand with proper dili
gence. Governor Walker should
call a state-wide safety meeting.
The railroad stop law should be en
forced. Children should be taken
away from the steering gears. If
the juvenile court cannot reach it
the recorder’s court can reach their
parents or guardians. The reckless
driver must be put at some other
work, if necessary breaking rocks or
building roads. The rum-runner
and the rum-chaser must both be
taught, with the vigor that their of
fenses demand, to keep the high
ways safe.
Southern governors should call a
conference similar to the Hoover
conference and put teeth in the en
forcement of the highway law’s.—
Atlanta Constitutoin.
* FOR CONGRESS
I will be a candidate for Congress |
in the Democratic primary, Septem
ber 8, subject to regulations adopted'
by congressional committee. It has
been the custom in the sixth district
tc give a congressman one term
without opposition. I submit my
candidacy to the voters of the dis
trict.
SAM RUTHERFORD
Forsyth’s Concrete Streets
Were Quickly Followed
by This Concrete Road
Throughout America rough,bumpygaps
separating stretches of true, even concrete
pavement are disappearing.
Far-sighted cooperation is more and
more linking concrete city streets and con
crete country roads, making them part of
the same system of permanent highways.
Forsyth, Georgia, is only one of many
examples where this dual development is
helping to bring greater prosperity both to
town and to the surrounding country.
Forsyth has thousands of square yards
of concrete streets. These connect directly
with a through concrete road built by the
State Highway Department.
All of this true, even pavement has the
firm, rigid, unyielding strength which as
sures the end of costly paving repairs.
What concrete paving is doing for For
syth it will do for any town or city.
All of the facts are in our
free booklet on "Concrete
Streets." Ask for your copy
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
Hurt Building
ATLANTA, GA.
A National Organization to
Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete
OFFICES IN SI CITIES
FRIDA.Y, JULY 9, 1926
REV. ELI THOMAS WILL
PREACH HERE ON SUNDAY
Announcement is made that Rev
Eli Thomas, of Atlanta, will preach
at the Jackson Presbyterian church
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock and
at 7:45 in the evening. The public
is cordially invited to attend the ser
vices.
SEE US FOR JOB PRINTING
is one of many rewards of
pure blood.
Take S. S. S. to purify your
blood—then watch pimples,
boils, blackheads and rashes
vanish.
You can take S. S. S. with confi
dence —millions testify to its mer
its. An unbroken record of service
for over 100 years is a great testi
monial to a great medicine.
Remember S. S. S. is made only
from fresh roots and herbs.
ytaAe i'M
S.S.S. I
Concrete has a pleasing, light
gray color, and is recognized as
the aristocrat of pavements