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Jackson Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and P ablUher
Entered as second-class matter at
the post office at Jackson, Ga.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
Crds of thanks, re°lutions, obit
uary notices and all entertainments
Now for the Harvest Festival.
Depend more on yourself and less
on political promises and you will
get along 1 better.
Dr. (’. 1.. Snowden who recently
took over the Covington News, is a
great Georgia Wooster. More power
to his pen.
This is camp meeting time. It is
also watermelon, peach and fried
chicken season. It is great to be a
Georgian just now.
( The sixth district should have a
press association, patterned after
those that are doing effective work
in other districts. What say, you
fellows?
Above all Georgia should have a
political cantpa'gn free from mud
slinging and back-stabbing, lor get
it, fellows, and run your race on a
dignified plane.
The sentiment is Butts county is
strong for the < mployment of a
Home Economic agent. This should
be done at once. It will add greatly
to the* progress of the county.
What every community need- is
more people who believe they can
accomplish great things, who believe
in themselves, their town, their coun
ty, their state. A mealy-mouthed at
titude never gets you anywhere.
The various summer schools are
crowded. Never before was there
such a demand for trained leader
ship. Georgia is bound to make pro
gress in the right direction as long
as she places first things first.
It is desirable that Georgia se
cure new industrial enterprises. But
it i.-. just as desirable that we sup
p >rt these we already have. Many
communities have allowed enterprises
to lag and die for the lack of sup
port.
The Kiwnnis club of Jackson is to
be> congratulated in its determination
to tell the world over radio of Butts
county’s wonderful advantages and
possibilities. It is a great story. The
world is anxious to hear more about
the South. It will give the entire
county publicity that cannot be esti
mated in dollars and cents.
Farm boys and girls from all por
tions of Georgia are getting a won
derful vision while attending Camp
"Wilkins at the State College of Agri
culture. There should be a greatly
increased number of club members
aent from all counties in the state.
It is training for leadership that will
have a wonderful influence in the
years to come. The Georgia School
of Technology, training for scientific
pursuits, the Georgia State College
of Agriculture, training for scientific
agriculture and farm management,
are great assets to Georgia. These in
stitutions are worthy of the most
liberal support.
Arc you doing anything to tell the
world about Georgia? A wonderful
campaign of publicity and education
is being waged by the Georgia As
sociation, Greater Georgia, Incorpor
ated, and the various newspapers.
Get in on this and let's place Geor
gia in her rightful position.
Nothing that has happened in
Georgia in the past six years has
so encouraged and heartened the
people as the fine grain crop grown
this spring. This has been worth un
told millions to the state. Now for
a bumper crop of corn, peas, beans,
hay, potatoes, sugar cane, pecans,
etc., and wo will soon be “out ofthe
woods.”
No man or set of men can hinder
the good roads movement. The en
tire country. Georgia include, is mov
ing towards a system of permanent
highways. This, in the very nature
of the case, will take time. But the
people have their faces turned to
tiie sun and the important fact is
that we are making progress in the
right direction.
Building permits in Florida con
tinue to increase. The number of
visitors to that state is said to be
larger than ever before at this sea
on. These tourists must pass through
Georgia to reach Florida. We are
missing a wonderful opportunity if
vve fail to advertise our resources
and possibilities. What are you doing
to toll the world about Butts county
and Georgia?
We have the utmost confidence in
undo John Shannon and believe he
can work out of the tightest situa
tion. Just now we do not envy him
with two candidates, Dr. L. G. Hard
man of Commerce, and Hon. J. N.
Holder, of Jefferson, both in Jackson
county, running for governor. Prob
ably he will continue to preach about
the Grand Old Buttermilk and not
mention politics.
The Progress-Argus is reproduc
ing in this issue an editorial from
ihe Industrial Index on the progress
made in and around Thomaston. It
an inspiring story. It shows what
can be done when the people come
tugether and hat the ball. Thomaston
i; retting a fast pace. We can do as
well in Butts county. Are you ready
for a strong, hard, united pull?
If it is not the cotton boll weevil,
( is the cotton flea to make life
miserable for the farmers. Another
cotton pest that should be swatted is
the' buyer who tries to corner on the
market. There is nothing of greater
benefit to a community than an open,
active, competitive cotton market. It
draws trade. It means bigger and bet
ter business
It will come sooner or later, the
cutting tin of the bijr plantations into
small farms. Then these farms will
be populated by small, thrifty, in
dependent home owners. The day of
the big land owner is passing. Some
have seen the handwriting on the
wall. Others are yet to be convinced
But it will be much better for Geor
gia when we have many small land
owners instead of a few big planta
tions.
There is no tusk impossible for the
people of a community, once they
make up their minds and act in
concert and unison. Butts county
can secure new manufacturing enter
prises w hen we make up our minds
that we want them. Other communi
ties are doing big things. We can
do big things when we all put our
hearts and heads together and give
a united pull.
Another season is well advanced
and nothing has been done about
the development of the Indian
Springs property. What are we go
ing to do about it? Se.erai sugges
tions have been made—-a state park,
a sanitarium, anew hotel, golf links,
etc. Any of these plans if carried
out. would be worth untold thousands
to Butts county. Is it possible that we
are going to let somebody else de
velo • Indian Springs rather than
a.'Ll-, the job ourselves?
JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON GEORGIA
Are you lining up for the fall
business, planning to wage an inten
sive trade expansion campaign? The
town with live, progressive business
men, who have the goads and r.ght
prices, are not complaining of dull
business. It is only those who are sit
ting down waiting for “something
uj happen” that are kicking. Get in
the game, Mr. Business Man, and
play it is as it is played in the year
1926.
JACKSON VOTES TO PAVE
STREETS
Citizens of Jackson last week voted
almost unanimously a bond issue ot
$13,000 to pave the court house
square and business section of the
city. Paving, it is stated, will soon
be under way, and all this means
progress for Jackson and Butts coun
ty. All honor to plucky Jackson. —
McDonough Advertiser.
PAYING OFF THE PUBLIC DEBT
The Treasury has recently paid off
$333,000,000 of maturing loa.is out
of surplus revenue, which scums to
indicate that the recent re iuction
in the income-tax rates did not
mean any reduction in the amount
received from the tax. We have made
extraordinary progress in paying off
the enormous public debt of more
than $26,000,000,000 with which the
war left us. It has already been re
duced to $19,000,000,000. Almost
exactly a billion dollars has been
paid off every year since the high
point of the debt in 1919. That this
has been done without any distur
bance of business or any sense of
strain is a proof of our great econ
omic strength and a tribute to the
skill with which the Treasury has
handled our financing.—Youth’s Com
panion.
BUTTS MAKING PROGRESS
No county in all Georgia is
making surer and steadier pro
gress in the poultry industry
than Butts. We haven’t a lot
of plungers, but the poultrymen
are going about their business
in a way to get results. They are
going into the business rather
than plunging. The receipts from
the sale of chickens and eggs
amount to several thousand dol
lars per month and this steady
cash* income is having its weight
in better business. The outlook
for the continued expansion of
this industry is most promising.
Georgia is not yet raising enough
chickens and eggs to feed her
own population, but is headed
in that direction. —Jackson Pro
gress-Argus.
That is good news from a wel
known Georgia county. What th
farmers of Butts are doing the far
mors of other counties can do. —
DeKalb New Era.
INDIFFERENCE. INTOLERANCE
Editor .!. Doyle .Tones, of the Jack
son Progress-Argus declares in an
editorial paragraph in his paper that
Indifference, as has been
pointed out before, is the great
curse of the hour. Yon find in
the church and Sunday school, in
civic clubs and buisness life a
disposition to let “George do it.”
Every citizen has certain duties
to perform and he cannot escape
these responsibilities.
Editor Jones might have added
that intolerance no less a curse of
the hour than indifference. Indeed,
intolerance is bringing the people,
in many instances, to the breaking
point. We find otherwise good men
so intolerant—so indisposed to ac
cord to others the same rights and
privileges they reserve to themselves
—they make life unhappy for them
selves and unpleasant for many oth
ers in the community in which they
live. —Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
WHAT THE TARIFF COSTS
The total yearly benefit to Illinois
farmers from the tariff, according to
the Fair Tariff League, is $677,000,
of which $,">73,000 goes to the com
paratively few farmers who produce
wool. The cost of woolen goods used
by Illinois farmers in increased 53.-
019,000. by the tariff.* 8
To offset the $677,000 gain, the
tpritf on agricultural products alone
—including lemons, flaxseed, and to
bacco, which are not raised in this
state—-is $5,840,000.
The tariff on heavy steel products
costs Illinois farmers $5,500,000 a
year, on light steel products $8,200,-
000, and on general merchandise
$26,300,000. The tariff costs the Il
linois farmer $67 for every dollar’s
worth of direct benefit he gets from
it.
Yet in the face of these figures,
the beneficiaries of the tariff have
the nerve to shout “subsidy” when
the farmers asks for a law that will
help him get some of the benefits
of a protective policy!—The Prairie
Farmer, Chicago, 111.
BEAUTY ON THE FARM
The other day we said something j
about the beauty of barns—just
everyday farm barns. Now here is;
a note from a friend enclosing aj
clipping about the beauty in every- 1
day things and adding this thought
“I wish that every farmer might;
see the beauty in well-terraced land, j
in broad fields run off in long,'
straight rows, a clean barnlot and i
symmetrical hay stacks; that his
wife might visualize flowers about,
her door and on her table, clothes j
beautifully laundered, lineoelum and
clean painted woodwork, a bit of
embroidery or the damp, finger
shaped curls on a baby’s head; that
all of us might enjoy more the vast
canvas of early sunrise and sunset,
the grandeur of deep forests, and
the majesty of the storm. Those of
us who live in the country are so
blessed with beautiful things that we i
are prone to accept them without
realizing what we have. I would not
exchange rfiy sunsets for all the art
galleries in the world. A Corot or a
Rembrandt was weeks and months
in the making- and there was only one
when it was finished. In my gallery
there is anew canvas each day, of
indescribable beauty.”—Progressive
Farmer.
AGE OF NEWSPAPERS
Not long ago the Greenville (Ala)
Advocate stated that it was the oldest
business establishment in Greenville.
The Montgomery Advertiser states
that it is also the oldest business
firm in Alabama’s capital city, and
expressed opinion that doubtless
there are other newspapers in the
state older than other business en
terprises in the towns or cities of
their publication. The Russell Regis
ter, published at Seale, took up the
discussion, saying it was the oldest
business institution in that town,
having been established in 1875.
The Enquirer-Sun is considerably
older than any other business enter
prise in Columbus. Established in May
1828, under the name of the Enquir
er, it lacks but little more than two
years of being one hundred years old.
There is no other business in Colum
bus within many years of that age.—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
The DeKalb New Era is also the
oldest business in Decater. It has
been continuously on the job for 38
years.—DeKalb New Era.
What is now the Progress
its origin 53 years ago when the Mid
dle Georgia Argus was established at
Indian Springs. The paper was start
ed in the terrible panic year of 1873
and has had to fight ever since. There
is no business in Butts county that
compares in age with this newspaper.
It has been “telling the world” about
Butts county for 53 years.
Men may come and men may go,
but newspapers go on forever. There
is an occasional change in manage
ment, but the newspaper goes on,
fighting for community betterment,
preaching the doctrine of better busi
ness. pointing to the rich rewards the
future holds in store.
CONSIDER THOMASTON
It was not so very many years ago
as time flies that Upsor. county was
considered one of the backwoods
counties of Georgia, and Thomaston,
its capital, tucked away in the hills
over near the Flint river—at the
terminus of a short line of railroad
from Barnesville —was about the end
of the trail. A good town inhabited
by good people, but small, slow and
isolated.
We thus state original conditions
Matty Little Things
United Make BtgTh%
-
A few scattered blocks of stone might not serve anv
useful purpose, but a large number, of blocks slowly and
patiently brought together built the Egyptian Pyramids
which have endured for fifty centuries.
Money scattered here and there will not help you to win
success. But if you put it together in a solid Bank Account
you may be able to build an enduring success.
INTEREST PAID ON TIME CERTIFICATES
Farmers 6 Merchants Bank
in Thomaston quite frankly in order
that its present industrial distinction
and prestige may be appreciated
more greatly through sheer contrast.
Thomaston, at first blush, gave
no promise whatever of being an im
portant manufacturing center; in
deed, there was nothing to indicate
that there would ever be any con
siderable industrial development at
that point. There were scores of
places in Georgia where, according
to the ordinary processes of rea
soning, the industriad lightning would
strike before it hit Thomaston. There
were no great developed water pow
ers in that immediate vicinity. Much
of the surrounding country is hilly
and rough and the county’s popula
tion at that time was not large, so
there was no great reservoir of labor
to draw from. The town has never
had but two railroad lines and since
then one of them has been abandon
ed, so that today the only rail com
munication with the outside world
is via the short line of the Central
Georgia Railway to Barnesville.
And yet we see today in Thomas
ton actual and in the process of be
ing made, an investment of twelve
million dollars in cotton mills!
Of course it did not all come over
night, although the latest develop
ment —the new mill to manufactur
tire fabric for the B. F. Goodrich
Tire and Rubber Company—-is by
far the largest and most spectacular
of them all and has placed Thomas
ton on the Southern industrial map
in fashion almost dramatic^
Thomaston began to be a textile
town a decade or two ago and has
steadily developed . along that line.
It had no special advantages, but it
did have the determination to achieve
success in that field, and behind it
all was human personality of the
quality that attains its goal. Perhaps,
after all, it is a story of personality
more than anything else, in its last
analysis.
The town now has the Thomaston
Cotton the Peerless Cotton
Mills, the Thomaston Bieachery and,
the latest acquisition, the Martha
T. A. NUTT
All Kinds of
FIRE INSURANCE
Including System Gins, Cotton, Countr>
Property, Dwellings, Household
Furniture, Plate Glass
Also
Bonds, Burglary, Liability
Insurance
FRIDAY, JULY 1 6 . i 92g J
Cotton Mills, a three-million-doll* I
plant which will be built by the H:;a- I
tower interests for the manufactua*
of tire fabric. The community hiifl
six or seven thousand industrialß
workers.
City and county are expending I
$200,000 for paving, and the g* I
eral building program is su l m.uisl I
Thomaston has good churches ai I
good schools, and it civic spirit is i I
white heat just now.
With the completion of the net I
plant, the weekly payroll at Thomas-1
ton will be $70,000.
Just the story of a Georgia tom, I
with no outstanding advantages, al-1
though with fine health conditions, I
with workers all speaking one lang-1
uage and of sturdy old Anglo-Saxoiß
stock, with the raw material for its I
factories growing in the fields around I
the town and with a leadership filled I
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with the spirit of progress and en-1
terprise.
What Thomaston has brought to
pass under these conditions, car. k
accomplished by many other cities
and towns in Georgia—and the
South. The record of this placjj
and progressive Georgia town shonH
be an inspiration to every Soutnffi
community.—lndustrial Index.
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man, “There may be robbers in *
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