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IN ADVANCE
The dairy dollar is a circulating!
doilar. it is a quick turnover dollar.
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Georgia is looking up. Are you
keeping step?
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Santa Claus is coming to Atlanta
again. The tots are happy.
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There is no complaint at the size
of this year's rabbit crop.
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Fir3t call for early Chrismas ad
vertising.
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Atlanta wants anew depot. Here
is an opportunity for the Atlanta
spirit to spread itself.
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It is a waste of time and effort
to try to improve the good old
fashioned baked Georgia yam.
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Public sentiment is going to out
lav. the ugly road signs. An ad. in
the paper is worth ten on a tree.
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Suppose you take a running start
t r.d shop early without anybody urg
ing this duty.
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December ought to be a busy
month an dwill be for the firm who
uses printer’s ink.
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What has become of the old-fash
ioned girl that kept an album for
admiring gallants to write pretty
verses in?
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Georgia is going to select twelve
master farmers. We believe Butts
county will furnish one of the win
ners.
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During the War Ford tried to get
the soldiers out of the trenches by
Chrismas. Now the dealers are try
ing to get a Ford by Christmas.
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The Atlanta Spirit is a pretty well
defined and tangible sort of thing.
What we need is a Georg’i Spirit
that will hit cl all cylinders.
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The air is full of highway talk and
Georgia is promised 2,500 miles of
paving by the end of 1930. Let her
slide.
Another Moses that Georgia needs
is one who can organize the dairy j
interests of the state -and insure!
prompt payment and fair prices for
their products.
Despite a year of floods and
freakish weather, the people of the
United States have much for which
to be thankful, and Thanksgiving
was observed in that spirit.
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If Georgia really wants a system
of paved roads and wants these
reads quick, why not stage a few
benefit football games between
Georgia and Tech and use the funds
for paving?
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The Kiwanis club of Jackson is
completing six years of service and
usefulness to Butts county. Without
doubt and without question this or
ganization has meant much to every
citizen of the county. The club is one
of the best in the state and plans
great things for another year.
The Boy Scouts will prove v
worth while organization in Bu.t
eounty, and with the Kiwunis clufc
and other organizations w:li help .o
make better conditions.
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We read of starved and crowded '
coii.eges and universities and under- j
..aid professors. Then we read of i
magnificent athletic fields and new J
stadia, costing hundreds of thou- i
sands of dollars. Farther we read of ;
great sums spent for admission a: j
a single “crucial” game. Looks like
something is out of joint just here.
The cream stations established an
I over northeast Georgia has made it
J t ssible for the man with a few
■ cows to obtain ready cash. The
dairy industry will continue to grow
| ;.nd Butts county should give serious
! thought to increasing cash return?
from dairy cows.
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There is an insistent demand all
over Georgia for cow testing asso
ciations. This takes the guess work
out °f dairying and puts the busi
ness on a scientific basis. This work
has been worth a great deal to
Butts county dairymen and should be
started again. Either* the State Col
iege of Agriculture or the Depart
ment of Agriculture should get be
hind this work.
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Hon. Gordon Lee, former congress
man from the seventh district, who
died recently, remembered his com
munity in his will, bequeathing funds
for a magnificent school plant. More
and more our men of wealth are re
membering their communities by
leaving funds for community insti
tutions-r-schools, churche , libraries,
parks. It is well and proper. The
rnan who lives in a community,
makes his money there, surely ought
to do something for the community.
It is the best kind of monument.
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Says the Dawson News: “The
truth is that the federal govern
ment’s enforcement of the dry law
is and has been a gigantic farce. Of
what avail to claim anything else?
W’hy try to cover up something that
everybody knows? It may be that
eventually the enforcement will be
thorough and efficient. Today it is
not.”
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ALL RIGHT IF IT WORKS
The proposed plan of bring
ing new settlers, more especially
dairy farmers from the Middle
west, to this section of the
State, is a splendid idea, in
deed. Jasper county has room
for oodles of 'em, inasmuch as
there are many idle farms in
this old commonwealth which
could be built up and at the
same time be made a profitable
business. —Monticello News.
The plan is a splendid one. But
will it work? We hardly think so,
not under present conditions.
Your settler who comes out of
the northwest wants good land and
a ready-to-go farm. He has been
accustomed to good land and good
improvements. No settler who will
prove an asset to a community—
and no other kind is wanted —will
ever be content to settle down sev
eral miles from town, try to farm
on run-down land, with dilapidated
buildings. We need not fool our
selves into this belief. It will not
pan out.
Georgia will obtain settlers of
the right type when we prepare
for them by offering them fertile
lands, a system of hard surfaced
roads, good consolidated schools and
good churches, plus good building,
including barns and outbuildings. In
ether words, we must offer com
pletely equipped, ready-to-go farms.
The landowners of Georgia, the
big fellows with hundreds and thou
sands of acres, have made several
mistakes. Chief of these was to al
low their labor to get away from
them. When the depression and boll
weevil struck at the same time,
these big farmers refused further
advances and labor, against its will,
was forced to leave the country and
seek employment in industrial cen
ters. This labor is gone, so far as
we are concerned. We are paying
the penalty of a short-sighted policy
and the big landowner has sam;-
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
ti irg he doesn't know what to do
with.
The writer trusts the Georgia
will really obtain many new settlers.
They are needed, as the Monticello
New points out. But getting them
is another matter.
Before Georgia makes much head
way in that direction we have got
to set our house in order. There
must bt anew spirit of a fair deal.
Our terms of selling property, in
addition to the other things point
ed out, must be changed. We must
give the new settler a chance to
make good. And another thing,
Georgia is suffering today* from a
high rate of legal interest. The in
t( rest rate should be lowered in
keeping with the times and with
easy money.
We have a lot to learn but are
on the way.
GEORGIA READY TO FOLLOW
What Georgia really* needs,
the writer thinks, is an organi
zation big enough and bread
enough to think ir. terms of the
state as a w*hole. Greater Geor
gia, as we understood it. was
organized for that purpose, but
hit the rocks when politics crept
in. What is the matter with the
Georgia Press Association out
lining a campaign of state-wide
development?—Jackson Prog
ress-Argus.
The Georgia Press Associa
tion is working on just such
a plan. Why* not come in and
help us, Editor Jones?—Vienna
News.
This from Miss Emily* Woodward,
president of the Georgia Press As
sociation, is encouraging news. We
have long thought the Georgia Press
Association was not living up to its
high opportunities. One thing the
matter is, we have too much politics
in Georgia. The state is pretty* well
divided into ‘‘schools of political
thought.” This is to be seen in the
present highway* situation. In almost
every* branch and department of the
state we have politics and usually
a vicious brand of politics. This is
hindering and hampering Georgia’s
growth and development.
The Georgia Press Association —
the weekly press in particular—
wields a tremendous power in Geor
gia. We have not always used this
force wisely- and well. It has been
customary* for a few big dogs to
bark and the little fellow fall in be
hind and yelp. Too much of Geor
gia’s thinking is done in and around
the confines of Atlanta.
For one thing, if the Georgia
Press Association would unite on a
constructive program of highway de
velopment, consolidated schools, bet
ter health conditions, educational
progress, constructive publicity* and
build and restore confidence —and
leave politics absolutely* out of the
question—then we think Georgia
would soon get somewhere.
Let’s have a definite program in
Georgia and bat the ball for the
good of the state as a whole.
CONFIDENCE—A VITAL NEED
Probably one of the greatest
things needed in Georgia just now
is confidence. We need confidence
.a ourselves, confidence in our fel
lows, confidence in our institutions,
in our officers, in our banks, in our
.hurches and schools. We have made
a lot of progress in the past seven
years but we will never make the
progress we should until there is a
general spirit of confidence.
In army circles they’ call this
morale. Call it morale or call it con
fidence, but there must be trust,
faith, constructive optimism. The man
who tninks he is licked, usually is.
The man who refuses to give up
—who may be down but never out
—is the man who wins.
Georgia is making gratifying pro
gress in many lines. There is a bet
ter feeling everywhere. We have sur
vived the worst of depression and
the boll weevil. More and more we
are coming to realize that we can do
things. Georgia stock is rising.
Optimism has put pessimism to rout.
It has been a survival of the fittest;
the weak and inefficient are drop
ping out of the running ;the strong
and resolute are going forward.
Just another year or two of good
crops and good prices will push
Georgia forward tremendously. And
the people, generally, have made up
their minds to fight it through.
There is a better spirit this fall than
has been evident in seven years.
Georgia is coming through by* hard
work, common sense economy and
constructive optimism.
It is well enough to mention that
a good many people need to resur
rect their backbones and get back
to the good old standard of honest
debt paying. There was a time in
Georgia when men prided themselves
that their word was as good as their
bond. That time should return.
It is a time to brace up, look up,
conserve our resources and go for
ward.
With confidence in ourselves and
in our neighbors, our officer; and
institutions, we can win every vic
tory.
Criticise not the civic organiza
tion that seeks to build confidence.
If it never did anything else its
existence would be justified. Be pa
tient with the newspaper that seek'
to restore confidence and keep the
home fires burning. Optimism is con
tagious. Confidence is a mental at
titude.
E-et’s put the cares and frets and
worries of the past behind us, and
with faith, courage, honesty* and
confidence face the future and its
greater rewards.
MAKING FARM PRODUCTS
ATTRACTIVE
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Commenting on an editorial in
The Dawson News of recent date
the Albany Herald adds the sugges
tion that “the striking thing about
Georgia fruits and vegetables of
fered for sale here in their native
state is their generally* untidy ap
pearance. Some truckers and fruit
growers are learning the importance
of making their products attractive
before sending them to market, but
entirely too many* of the fine things
that grow in the orchards and on
the truck farms of this section look
as if they had been thrown through
the window at the shelves or stands
on which they rest and then had a
lot of nice fresh dirt rubbed on
them after they* landed.”
The Herald points out that Cali
fornia growers are not only tho
roughly* organized, but that the or
ganization sees to it that fruits and
vegetables are properly* graded,
wrapped and packed before being
shipped, and that the results appear
in the steady preference the public
shows for California productsi. There
is much food for thought in the add
ed suggestion that this is a lesson
Georgia sadly* needs to learn.—Daw
son News.
BANK RESOURCES RECORD!
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Official announcement is made
that the resources of national banks
in continental United States, Alaska
and Hawaii on October 10 aggregat
ed $27,213,824,000, the largest
amount ever reported to the comp
troller of the currency.
The resources exceeded by $631,-
881,000 those reported June 30,th*
date of the previous call, and were
$1,529,975,000 above resources re
ported last December 31.
Loans and discounts reported on
October 10 amounted to $14,366,-
926,000, representing an increase
over June of $411,230,000. Invest
ments in United States government
securities showed $2,675,542,000, an
increase since June of $79,364,000.
Balances due from correspondent
banks and bankers totalled $4,378,-
517,000, showing a decrease of $45,-
005,000 since June.
Paid in capital stock of $1,499.-
394.000 was $25,211,000 in excess
of the June figures. Surplus and un
divided profits aggregated $1,844.-
511,000 and were $79,145,000 more
than in June.
Liabilities for outstanding circu
lating notes amounted to $649,886.-
000, which were $1,060,000 less
than reported in June. Deposit lia
bilities of $22,287,238,000 exceeded'"
by $512,115,000 the amount report
ed in June. —Industrial Index.
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SETTLE & ROBISON
GEORGA’S GROWTH
The harvest moon of the year
1850, looking down on the fat bot
tom and yellow hillsides of Georgia,
beheld a com crop of thirty million
bushels, a cotton yield of four
hundred and ninety-nine thousand
bales, half a million pounds of to
bacco, and divers other products in
proportion. While the record for
1927 is not yet in hand, that of
1926 will show something of the
state’s vast growth in agricultural
wealth since that bountiful autumn
of our grandfathers. The corn
crop, it thus appears, has almost
doubled, passing far beyond fifty
five million bushels; cotton has in
creased by a million bales; tobaco
by scores of millions of pounds. In
consequences of these gains, a more
diverse and more extensive produc
tion of foodstuff, Georgia is far
richer now than in 1850, even if
no account be taken of her remark
able industrial development. Yet,
we all want to think of that -an
tebellum time as her age of gold.
Great, great beyond all measure,
is the privilege of dwelling in a land
whose resources are such as Aemri
ca’s, and whose future is even rich
er than the past in opportunity. But
greater still is the privilege of hav
ing part and lot in so wonderful
a state of this union as in Georgia.
Her growth since the golden age
of 1850, remarkable as it has been,
will be seen some day, no doubt,
as but prologue to a mightier act.
And that act, if we mistake not, is
about to open.—Atlanta Journal.
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BRIGHT MESSENGER
‘‘Willie,” said his mother, “I
wish you would run across the
street and see how old Mrs. Brown
is this morning.”
A few minutes later Willie re
turned and reported:
“Mrs. Brown save it's none of
your business how old she is.”—-
Boy’s Life.
ENTERTAINING UNCLE
Little Sniffleblister: Say, Uncle,
when are you going to play foot
ball again?”
The Rich Uncle: “Why. I don't
play football. W hat makes you ask
me that question?”
Little Sniffleblister: “Well,
■Pop say that when you kick off
we are going to get a brand new
automobile and a house.”
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927
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THE TIME
The Energy—The Thought—
yon have spent on your job
since last Pay Dav are gone.
In a few days now,
you will have another
Pay Day. Today will be
in it—and yesterday and
tomorrow. And YOU
will be in it. All you
will have left of that
week will be two things
—experience and your
savings.
BETTER KEEP THEM
BOTH! TALK TO US
ABOUT JT!
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Life to Rubber Plant
Tf the leaves of your rubber plant
torn yellow, loosen the dirt around rhe
of the pot and remove the plant
to a different pot. The root may b
pot-bound or the soil might be wormy,
but in either case it Is wise to repot
the plant.