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IN ADVANCE
Shop early and buy it at home.
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Santa Claus is coming to Atlanta
<• nd all intermediate points.
The grain crop in Butts coonty
is promising! arid what's more im
portant, there was a large acreage
planted.
Atlanta Constitution warns
against the pepper weevil. Looks
like that would be a hot one for the
weevil to handle.
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There’s nothing seriously the mat
ter with Georgia—not as long as its
people pay $250,000 to see a foot
ball game.
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Records show that the rainfall in
Georgia for the past three years has
been far below normal. It would not
be surprising if some of this defi
ciency was not made up this winter.
Some of the exchanges are sound
ing a warning against swindlers and
lakers. The country is full of this'
type, the kind who toil not, but yet
are well fed, fat and prosperous.
What a potent thing publicity is.
An entire state was churned into fury
over the Georgia-Tech football
j'ame. It was all brought about by
publicity.
Henry Ford is one of the nation’s
keenest advertisers. He hs been get
ting publicity for months on his new
car, and a lot of this publicity was
without money and without price.
It has been a great season for
shows of various kinds and types.
These traveling outfits are out to
separate the dollar from its owner,
and many a hard-earned Georgia
dollar has been wasted this season
on cheap shows.
the death of Dr. H. C. White,
of the University of Georgia facolty,
the state lost one of its most learned
scientific men. Dr. White was equal
ly well known on both sides of the
Atlantic and was honored by many
degrees by leading institutions of
learning.
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Avery large body of Georgians
are in Washington this week to take
part in the unveiling of a statue of
Alexander H. Stephens in the Hall
of Fame, Stephens is one of Geor
gia's immortals and the state honors
itself in honoring the memory of
this Great Commoner.
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The amount of money sent away
to mail order houses is something
tremendous. This does not seem to
be confined to any particular com
munity or section, but is country
wide. A good part of this is due to
the persistent advertising done by
the mail order houses.
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Concerning the high cost of col
lege athletics, and things incident
there to, the Dawson News remarks:
‘ When a state college books athletic
games which charges $2 and $3. for
an admission ticket it teaches a les
son in money flinging that college
youths surely are not in need of. It
is only a little way from $3 to $5
bouquets, taxi service and other
evidences of prodigality and snob
bery that our state colleges can ill
afford to sanction or permit.”
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As the winter season approaches,
there will be a terrible howl about
Georgia roads. Some of them are
bad, we must admit, but it will take
time to correct this defect under
any system, bonds or no bonds. Dur
ing most of the year Georgia’s roads
are good, and it is just as well to
exercise patience.
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Governor Hardman has presented
to the state a large tract of land
to be used for a park and for grow
ing trees for experimental purposes.
State parks will be more popular
than ever from this time on. The
state of Georgia owns a piece of
\aluable property at Indian Springs
and this ought to be turned into a
state park.
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The individual who has the mail
order habit pays all the carriage
charges, buys something he has
never seen, something he can’t re
turn, buys from a concern that cares
nothing for him .or his community.
Nine times out of ten the home
town business man has just as good
values, at practically the same price,
and guai-antees satisfaction. And
what’s more, he is here to pay taxes,
and help build up the community.
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A CANDIDATE’S PLATFORM
A candidate for coroner in a
Georgia county ia credited with the
following statements in his an
nouncement: “Some have asked me
to outline my platform. In the first
place I haven’t got any platform.
There is no need of my telling you
things I stand for, because if I am
elected I will run the office to suit
myself just like ail the others do.
I do say, however, that if elected I
will attend to the office, and will
hold an inquest over every corpse
that the county commissioners will
pay for. I believe that when a per
son dies from drinking poisoned
liquor that the case should be gone
into thoroughly, and if possible
traced down to the manufacturer
so that the public can be notified not
to buy any more from that particu
lar bootlegger. In this way alone I
believe that I will be of great as
sistance to a large number of the
male voters.”—Tifton Gazette.
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ALL THE STATE CAN SPEND
Sam Slate, /the state auditor,
says that the state will have
fifteen million dollars in 1928
for road construction. In five
years, at that rate, we will have
seventy-five million and its
value in roads and will not owe
a dollar. We agree with the
Commerce News that Mr. Slate’s
statement is enough to give the
bond boys cold feet.—Dawson
News.
If Georgia has an income of fif
teen million dollai\s for road con
struction, that is all the money the
slate can spend in a year without
seriously disorganizing the farm
labor situation. The truth of the
matter is, Georgia’s income for road
construction is increasing by leaps
and bounds. During the month of
October was paid on eighteen
million gallons of gasoline. This tax
will increase fro myear to year. We
believe any man who wants to be
fair will admit that Georgia is mak
ing progress in road development.
No matter how much money Geor
gia might have at its disposal , all
the roads could not be paved in a
year. It takes time.
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THE SOUTH
It produces practically ail the cot
ton grown in the United States, a
fourth of the country’s corn, nearly
20 per cent 1 of its wheat, all of its
sugar cane, most of its tobacco, and
one-half of its garden products,
vegetables and fruits.
• It has the best climate in Ameri
ca for living, for farming and for
manufacturing.
It has an investment in textiles in
excess of a billion dollars, it possess
es one-half of the spindles of the
country, it takes more than 60 per
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
cent of the domestic cotton used in !
American mills, and it produces 54
per cent of the tota lvalue of the
cotton goods of the nation. And yet
the South now manufactures on such
a large scale that textile products
represent in value only ten per
cent of its industrial output.
It has 38 per cent of the total
timber acreage and produces about
40 per cent of the country’s lumber.
It has 23 per cent of the coun
try’s developed water power and has
availed itself of less than half its
hydro-electric potentialities.
It has enormous deposits of coal,
iron and limestone which are being
developed on an ever increasing
scale.
It supplies one-fourth of the fur
niture manufactui’ed in America.
It has the longest coast line of
any section of the nation, and the
greatest number of natural harbors.
Its port commerce, already enor
mous, is increasing prodigiously.
It is the center of the country’s
fertilizer manufacturing industry.
Much of the fertilizer material is
supplied from native sources.
It manfactures annually nearly
ten million dollass worth of goods,
or one-sixth of the value of the total
manufactured output of the country.
From 1923 to 1925 the increase in
the national output of manufactured
goods was 24 billion dollars, and
the South is credited with 39 per
cent of this incerase.
Its deposits of native sulphur
are the largest in the world. It
has in its confines practically every
commercial mineral.
It is a tremendous producer of
oil.
Its agriculture is being diversifi
ed at a rate not equaled anywhere
else in the country.
It manufactures $400,000,000 of
tobacco products annually.—-Indus
trial Index.
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GEORGIA TO HONOR ALEXAN
DER H. STEPHENS
The people of Georgia, from
among whom, he rose to national
eminence, will march on Washing
ton December Bto attend the im
pressive unveiling of the figure of
Alexander H. Stephens in the Hall
of ’Fame in the national capitol.
A man of peace—hating war be
cause he knew its useless slaughter
was but a costly prelude to reasona
ble action about a conference table
—Alex Stephens showed himself
also to be a man of action.
He is honored among us of the
South not for the high positions in
which he was placed but for his
high attainments of mind and soul.
Slight of figure, physically of little
force, he yet made a lasting impress
on the thought and life of his sec
tion and his nation by the great
qualities of his inner being.
All of Georgia’s intesest will be
centered in Washington on that
notable day of the unveiling. Thou
sands of her best will be there in
the flesh; other millions will at
tend also in spirit. It is a graceful
act which the President plans doing
in participating in the ceremonies
honoring one who was second in
command of the Confederacy.
It is perhaps fortunate that Geor
gia has delayed until now this de
served tribute to one of her greatest
sons. The final act of placing in
the mutual capitol of a unified na
tion this figure of a splendid Ameri
can is a symbol -of that very real
unity which has become active and
complete in the development of mod
ern life.
Georgia’s Governor, her profes
sional men, her teachers and leaders,
her builders and men of many ac
tivities—they do well to honor this
heroic figure of our past. They
honor the state in so doing.
Is there not a revelation of the
real soul of Georgia in this, that she
has selected for highest eminence
those two of her sons who were
gentlest in their aspirations—Craw
ford W. Long, whose discovery of
anaesthesia has eased the sufferings
cf countless millions, and Alexander
H. Stephens, the man of peace?—
James B. Xevin in Atlanta Georgian.
THE GOVERNMENT AS A BUSI
NESS COMPETITOR
We sympathize with the pow
er companies in noli wanting
the government to competa with
private enterprise. The printers
of the country have their dose
of this in the matter of govern
ment envelopes. Neither a pow
er company nor a business in
which the people, without know
ing it, pay all the lossas. —The
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Cedartown Standard.
So do we sympathize with them.
They are wise in fighting to tne last
the efforts of those who would
plunge the government in the power
business, or any other kind of bus
iness which sets out to compete
with private enterprise.
It is the rightful province of the
government to govern. It has no
business entering as a competitor
in the affairs of those who are sup
porting it. The postoffice depart
ment, which always comes out at
the little end of the horn, has put
the printers of the ocuntry out of
theenveiope business. The govern
ment sells them at a price which
no printer can meet, and the loss
of course is made up out of money
of the taxpayers—printers and ail.
It is so manifestly wrong that we
are surprised that even a politically
minded department would engage
in it. There is now before congress
a bill to take the envelope printing
business out of the hands of the
government and restore it to those
whose business it is to print.
It is not to be understood that
the printers are objecting to t.ie
government furnishing stamped en
velopes, as it has been doing for
many years, but what they do ob
ject to is the printing and distri
buting of-them to consumers at and
below cost, in direct competition
with private enterprise.
If the government can enter the
printing business it can enter any
other field, and it is to the credit
of the power companies that they
are resisting with- all their force
the attempt to socialize the power
industry of this country.
The government should attend to
its own knitting, and send to the
hmbo of oblivion those politicians
who are seeking to set it up in busi
ness of all kinds. This kind of stuff
belongs an Russia, but not in free
America, and for one we are per
fectly willing for Russia to maintain
the monopoly.—The Miliedgeville
Union-Recorder.
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TEACH GEORGIA TO USE GEOR
GIA PRODUCTS
Last week County Agent, John A.
Cown, untertook to sell a couple car
loads of Meriwether corn.
He was offered sl.lO per bushel
freight prepaid to Atlanta.
Western corn is bringing $1.35.
Meriwether corn is just as good
—even, better.
’Tis the habit to buy from the
west.
The habit must be formed by buy
ing home products.
‘Tis folly to endeavor to persuade
the farmer to diversify when he can
r.ot sell his products.
Canvas hams bring forty-odd cents
per pound.
Home raised hams bring 2" to 30c
and buyers balks at paying this.
Why?
There is just as much difference
in the flavor and taste of store
bought hams and home made as be
tween - sugar and sand. The home
product is far the best. There’s no
red gravy in the store bought ham.
'There is plenty in the home raised,
The Store bought is tasteless but
home grown is delicious.
The same with any other farm
product.
Shipped lettuce brings 25c per
head retail.
The home farmer cannot sell his
for 15c.
There must be a campaign of
education. Georgia must be taught
to raise its owm foodstuffs and
Georgians must be taught to buy
and eat them.
Let Georgians live at home—
raise what they eat and eat wha:
they raise and you will see prosperi
ty on the farms and everywhere
else.
We raise too little and import too
Deposit a Few Dollars
and become the possessor of a bank account.
Years hence, if you save and bank regularly,
you’ll bless the day when you first obtained a
pass book.
No matter what walk of life you are in, you
need a bank account. It is one of the things
that everybody needs.
DO IT NOW
JACKSON BANKING CO.
THE BANK OF PERSONAL SERVICE
Member Federal Reserve System
much.
We eat too much that is shipped
and fail to buy and eat the home
products.—The Meriwether Vindica
tor.
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WHAT CONSTITUTES NEWS
Editors who experience difficulty
in getting their readers to send in
news items might try the method
employed by the Xenia (Ohio) Home
Weekly.
Here is the way that paper puts
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it:
If Anyone Has
Killed a pig,
Shot his wife,
Got married,
Borrowed a stamp,
Made a Speech,
Robbed a bank,
Sold a dog,
Lost his wallet,
Gone fishing,
Committed suicide,
Drowned a cat,
Been away, -
Come back home,
Taken a vacation.
Got licked,
Made a bet,
Lost it.
It’s NEWS—
send it to the Editor—Linotype
News.
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RELIEVING POVERTY
We are constantly doing things
to relieve poverty. We make “drives”
in order to raise money with which
to help those that need help. We
even pass laws in our efforts to
banish poverty from our midst,
We wonder if these efforts will
ever banish poverty.
We wonder if making elaborate
arrangements for relieving the ef
fect will ever reach the cause?
It is all right to make contribu
tions to relieve' poverty, but should
we not give some attention to the
cause of poverty?
We are trying to purify the
stream without giving any attention
to the trouble at the fountain-head.
The greatest work before human
ity today is not to relieve poverty,
but to instill in the minds of peo
ple those attributes that will enable
them to take care of themselves.
We need to stir up within the
natures of people an ambition to
take care o fthemselves, and to pro
vide something for a rainy day. Self
reliance needs to be taught-patient
ly and perserveringly.
We have preached the doctrine of
bearing the other fellow’s burden
until it has become popular for the
ther fellow to let you bear his bur
den.
The purpose of the Christian re
ligion is to instill in people strength,
courage, self-reliance, power and
justice, as well as kindness.—Win
der News.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927
YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU GET
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When you buy a Goodyear,
you get known tire quality at
a rock-bottom price. For long
wear, strength, good looks,
and all ’round high quality at
a low price, you not only
can’t beat Goodyear— you
can’t equal l it.
SETTLE 6 ROBISON
SOUTHERN HAS 2,370
MILES TRAIN CONTROL
NEW SIGNAL SYSTEM INSTALL
ED ON ATLANTA AND
BIRMINGHAM DIVISION. FOR
GREATER SAFTY IN TRAVEL.
Atlanta, Ga. —Automatic train
control apparauts has just been
placed in service on the line of
the Southern Railway System be
tween Atlanta and Birgingham, giv-
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ing the Southern a total of 3,-
370 miles of track equipped with
this most modern device for the
protection of trains—more than on
any other railway in the United
States.
The train control apparatus is
designed to enforce obedience to
signal indications and will stop a
train should the engineer become
incapacitated or run past a signal
in the stop or caution position.
Since aJnuary, the Southern has
equipped 2,265 miles of track with
the train control device. Electric
automatic block signals have beer,
installed on 1,279 miles this year.
The Southern’s lines now protected
by both electric signals and train
control are:
Cincinnati and Jacksonville, 840
miles, the longest continuous in
stallation in existence; Spencer, N.
C., and Atlanta, 306 miles, all
double track; Chattanooga and
New Qrleans, 498 miles; Bristo.
and Chattanooga, 242 miles; Chat
tanooga and Memphis, 314 miles:
Salisbury, N. C., and Morristown.
Tenn., 228 miles; Asheville and
Spartanburg, 66 mils; Charlotte
and Columbia, 108 miles; Atlanta
and Birmingham, 167 miles.