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Jackson Progress -Argns
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J. DOYLE JONES
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IN ADVANCE
Last call for early shopping.
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year to all.
Well, hire’s still hoping Santa
Claus will bring Jackson paved
streets in 1927.
You cannot make any better
resolution for the new year than to
play it safe with chickens anil dairy
cows.
If you want to have the best
Christmas you have ever known, do
something for the poor and unfortu
nate.
A lot of non-advertisers who won
der where all the money goes can
find out by watching the packages
roll in from the mail order houses.
And don’t forget that a major
abjective of Butts county for 1927
is the paving of the Jackson and
Indian Springs highway.
Many of the exchanges carried a
good lot of holiday advertising. How
ever, it is a far call from the days
of 1920 when lfi and 20 pages were
the rule.
“Prosperity waves” are still being
scon in the big cities. However, the
rural sections are not drinking any
thing strong enough to make them
ec prosperity.
To the school and college hoys
and girls home for the holidays,
the Progress-Argus hopes the season
viill he one of rare enjoyment. It
just feels better to have this splendid
body of young people in our midst.
The club members in Butts coun
ty have had a good y*‘>r. We can
make this work more profitable in
1927 by securing a large enrollment
and co-operating with the boys and
girls and county agent. It b effo'-t
worth making.
By all means the Jackson Hatch
ery ought to he put to work. The
farmers of Butts county should have
several carloads of broilers ready for
mark* t by early spring. It will help
tremendously to tide over a tough
situation.
The Steel Trust cuts a big
‘‘melon” of some two or three hun
dred million dollars. Cotton mills
uc paying dividends of 45 per cent.
How different from the man who
t>rtxiuccs the crops. He is lucky if
be can keep ahead of the sheriff.
Unless the law is enforced rigidly,
strictly and impartially, in high and
low places, the country has not
seen the worst cf bad times. Prob
ably never before in the history of
the country has there been so much
stealing by those entrusted with
funds. It s time to call a halt. It is
time to enforce the law, let the
■chips fall where they may. A lot of
this stealing is being done by those
trying to keep up with the big rich.
The country very vitally needs more
aki-fashionod honesty, more high
thinking and plain living.
Atlanta went over the top with
:he million dollar advertising fund.
Atlanta has found that it pays to
advertise. Other cities, towns and
communities will also find it profit
able to use printer's ink in telling
the 'world of their advantages.
Business is going to be a great
deal better as soon as we round the
corner of the new year. New plans
will be made, everybody will get
settled and the disappointments
over 1926’s crop prices will be for
gotten, largely. Yes, better times
are coming, but wo must stay on
the job and do our part.
In spite of all that may happen,
the writer believes in banks. A good
bank is by far the best and safest
place fo r your funds. Confidence,
as a result of what happened in the
early summer, has been somewhat
shaken, but things will right them
selves. The country could not get
along without the banks. They are
doing a splendcd service. They are
worthy of support. They are a bul
wark of safety and protection.
That is a significant story that
comes out, of South Georgia, where
a large farmer is advertising for
“fifty .flivverless” farmers. There has
been entirely too much riding and
frolicking and not enough hard,
serious work and economy. The rid
iti(4 class is going to find it increas
ingly difficult from now on. The
land owners have been bled white
and if they cannot find people who
are willing to work and save and do
their part, the land will he allowed
to grow in weeds an<| pine trees.
the old year is going out it is
well to take stock of your resources
and count your blessings, one by
one In some respects 192(> has been
a better year than was l!)2. r >. Cer
tain it is that this part of the state
produced more bountiful food and
feed crops. There is keen disap
pointment over the price of cotton
and there is no denying that fact.
But the country is in better position
to face the new year, so far as food
and feed is concerned. We have
every reason to believe that 1927
will he a better year than any we
have known for some time.
Says the Commerce News:
“Nothing gained by whining and
complaining. Grumbling from now
until the judgment day will bring
the grumbler not a crumb of bread.
Conditions are never so bad but that
they could be worse. We are in far
better shape than we were this time
last year, even aftr admitting that
we have less money ready cash.
It is better to shout than to pout.”
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
Moultrie Observer: The south is
sending money north for automo
biles. Sending it away for shoos and
clothing. Sending it west for beef,
pork, mutton and butter. Sending
it to the financial centers to pay
interest on long loans. Sending a lot
of it away for gasoline. Sending it
for Christmas toys and wedding
gifts. Sending it to the cities where
the big mail order houses are located
and sending lot of it to Washington
as taxes paid directly and indirectly.
It is easy to see where the money
goes.
PUBLICITY HOUNDS BEWARE
No, the Sears-Roebuck Agri
cultural Foundation may have
a high-sounding name but if
they ever get any of their
propaganda in the News they
will pay for it. We never had
the advantage of a colleg ed
ucation and nothing but two
months in the summer time in a
rural building with tracks be
tween the logs so that we could
slide in and out at will but we
think we are possessed with suf
ficient grey matter to dis
criminate between news and
advertising matter.—Commerce
News.
It is simply remarkable the way
big fellows try to put over adver
tising sugar coated as news on the
weekly papa's. Along with the
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Conunrece News, the Progress-Argus
refusese to fall for this stuff. Asa
newspaper, the Progress-Argus is
dedicated to the- upbuilding of Butts
county and ail of Georgia, but we
have nothing for the “agricultural
foundations’’ and other publicity
hounds. These big fellows, with mil
lions at their disposal, ought to be
ashamed to beg free advertising
from the weeekly papers.
It is high time for the newspapers
to get up their backbones and tell
these fellows where to get off.
AS TO BANK GUARANTY
A great deal has been and is
being said in Georgia as to the need
of new and stronger state banking
laws. If a law can be devised that
will at once protect the bankers and
depositors let’s have it. But with so
many lunkheads in the banking bus
iness to squander and waste the
funds of depositors what is going
to become of competent men? It
has been impossible to date to devise
a law that protects all.
Several states had guaranteed
bank deposits when the bank wave
failure arrived. These laws did not
check failures. On the contrary, in
numerous instances they added fuel
to the flames. To the extent that
they inspired confidence in bankers
they provided more deposit money
for unwise bankers to use in over
loaning anil in land or othe r spec
ulative enterprises. The real cure
for banking which leads to failure
is not a guarantee of depositors ad
libitum, but a revision of the bank
ing laws which will effectively re
quire bankers to confine their efforts
to sound banking business—Dawson
News.
COMMUNITY SUICIDE
One of the strangest phenomena
witnessed in most towns and small
cities is the apparent eagerness with
which many otherwise good citizens
contribute to the tendency to com
munit community sucide.
These citizens will often show
uncommon zeal in boosting any
movement to obtain civic improve
ments, to promote the location of
new industries, to secure better ed
ucational facilities, and so oh. * Yet
many of these same proud boosters
will deliberately engage in a prac
tice which nullifies all their other
wise laudable efforts—-and wonder
why their town doesn’t go ahead.
We refer to the suicidal habit of
buying away from home.
The enormous growth of the
mail order habit in recent years is
largely responsible for the failure
of many communities to make the
progress which their natural advan
tages should make possble. The
nuniey that ought to be kept at home
for the expansion of local trade
and industry is sent away to distant
cities, never to return. This life
blood of prosperity is permitted to
ebb away, through the indifference
or thoughtlessness of the very per
sons who should set an example of
local pride and loyalty.
A trifling saving here and there,
usually more imaginary than real,
is sufficient to cause the average
citizen to forget his duty to his
community and to himself, which if
performed would mean more in the
direction of local prosperity than all
his other boosting efforts put to
gether.
W r hy boost in one direction, while
committing community suicide in
another? Journal.
MARKETING IS BIG PROBLEM
It is doubted if the strictly
agricultural fairs will ever again
have the popular appeal they
once had. What is better than
an agricultural fair is a market
conference. If these were held in
every county in the state once
a year the people would learn
valuable lessons about market
ing. The country is already
producing enough. The problem
of marketing is the great
blem of the day. Th;w Is true
of Georgia reaches, fruit? and
ethe~ products. Georgia ought
to learn marketing the way
California has learned it. Last
summer iitorsiu pcivwere
rotting in the fields. Now we
are buying California peaches.
What is the matter? Do we
lack brains or leadership?—
Jackson Progress-Argus.
Marketing the products of the
farm is a most important matter.
If one cannot dispose of his agri
cultural products at a profit it is
useless for him to grow them. It is
certain that we lack leadership in
the matter with some additional
brains. At the same time agricultural
fairs, properly conducted, are still
a great stimulus to farmers. They
arouse an interest in many that
would not otherwse be created. With
proper marketing facilities the old
time fairs would perhaps have a
greater appeal than they have ever
had. There would then be greater
incentive to grow farm products.
Then we would be selling peaches
and other fruits in California and
other states throughout the Union
instead of permitting them to rot. —
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
BUTTERFAT IS HIGH
The price of butterfat is up
around fifty cents a pound. The
man with the good dairy cow
isn’t short on operating funds
—need not be while this price
prevails. He—or anybody—may
have to work a little and go
frolicking less, but those who
are out for fun all the time
never pay up, anyhow. The
man on the farm has his returns
*
now from his butterfat—real
returns. —Cordele Dispatch.
We have said it many times and
repeat the same thing now, that if
Buttts county had one thousand
farmers producing milk and cream
there would be wodespread pros
perity instead of growling over the
cheap price of cotton. There were
abundant feed crops grown in Butts
county this season and now is a
good time to get started with some
dairy cows. Probably the greatest
drawback is the lack of energy and
the willlingness to work at a steady
job, even though the returns are
sure and certain.
This will be a great live stock
and dairy section long after the cot
ton farmer has dropped out and been
forgotton.
We are now witnessing the strug
gle for the survival of the fittest.
The man with chickens and dairy
cows will come through with flying
colors.
No section anywhere at any time
in the world’s history has ever been
prosperous without live stock. Mid
dle Georgia is no exception to this
rule.
If you want to really lift your
self by your own bootstraps, get
some good dairy cows and chickens
and put them to work, go to work
yourself and quit looking for some
body to “help” you.
EGGS AS A MONEY CROP
A bucket of eggs is worth
as much as a wagon load of
corn. A South Georgia farmer
drove into town recently with
a bucket containing 15 dozen
eggs and a wagon load of corn.
He sold the eggs for 50 cents
a dozen and the corn for 50
cents a bushel, getting as much
for the basket of eggs as he did
for the wagon load of corn. The
reason is obvious—eggs are
scarce and high; corn is plenti
ful and cheap. Next Spring when
eggs are 25 cents a dozen, a
bushel of corn will be worth
three o r four times as much as
a dozen eggs. Conditions will
be reversed then.—Tifton Ga
zette.
The price of corn and eggs might
be reversed next Spring but the
thing worth remembering is the fact
that eggs are always high enough to
be profitable. In fact the queen of
the poultry yard is coming rapidly
into prominence as a money pro
ducer. The Tifton Gazette tells of
the race between corn and hen, but
we would remind Pulaski countians
of a more thrilling contest that is
now being staged the country over
between the dairy cow and the hum
ble hen. The statisticians who have
laboriously checked up the figures
t f their relative earning power are
DO YOU HUNT THE HEAT
OR
Does the heat find you?
Do you huddle close to the stove to keep warm, or do you
have fresh warm air circulating into every room? Do you shut up
more than half the house in winter? Do you “bundle up” every
time you go upstairs or can you live comfortably throughout your
house?
You can easily end the discomforts of old-fashioned heating
with a Ideal Yecto Heater. This modern heating device will replace
two or three stoves, save one-third of your fuel costs, save time
save work and keep your entire home warm, comfortable, healthful
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It is easy to understand why the Ideal Vecto is a “whole home”
heater. Fresh air is drawn in at the bottom, heated thoroughly,
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You can put the Ideal Vecto Heater into your living-room or
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Get rid of old-fashioned stoves or other makeshift methods of
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throughout.
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G. I. WATKINS & SON
INDIAN SPRINGS, GA.
Dealers for Butts County
a unit in expressing the conviction
that the queen of the poultry yard
is rapidly outstripping the regal
dame of the dairy barn. According
to the statistics of the United States
Department of Agriculture there is
unmistakable evidence of the fact
that the hen is forging steadily
ahead. And it is quite an interesting
race in view of the recent agitation
throughout this section in behalf of
the hen and the cow as money pro
ducers. This race between fur and
feathers for supremacy should prove
interesting as these two industries
II #2 HHITASTE' I N GIFT S I
■’‘iHwrtr (Christmas’-
—the old, old wish grows gayer with the
years —brighter with use.
It never rings more heartily true than
atop a box of Nunnally’s, the candy that has
helped make Christmas merry for generations,
the candy that, like the wish it brings, is ever
fresh and ever welcome. For Christmas giving,
there are special packages bedecked with holly,
A beautiful present, as well as being "The
Best Taste in Gifts.”
THE CANDY OF THE SOUTH
Guaranteed Absolutely Presh
Any c i\unrtally Store or Agent frill guarantee safe delivery by pr-cels post
Carmichael Drug Cos.
AGENTS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926
develop. Both are important and are
money producers.-—Hnwkinsvillfc
Dispatch.
TRY Classified Ad rHEY GE T
A RESULTS
Ready-To-Wear and Mil
linery sale of Coats, Dresses,
and Hats at big reductions
Now.
ETHERIDGE-SMITH CO.
We pay market price for
scrap cotton.
Settle & Robison.