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Jackson Pro&rsss - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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bargains.
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Buy Christmas seals for health’s
take.
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In all your Christmas giving,
give flowers to the living.
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A year’s subscription to the
Progress-Argus will make an ideal
Christmas gift for a relative or
friend.
Candidates, veal and near, are
no doubt framing up a nice little
.spiel about saving the country, farm
relief, lower taxes, a business admin
istration, etc.
The Progress-Argus is always
glad to print the letters to Santa
Claus sent in by the children. These
letters make interesting reading and
keep alive the spirit of Christmas.
After all the yuletide season would
be a dull one without the children.
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The man who never grew or own
ed a bale of cotton in his life is
affected by a decline in the cotton
market quite as much as the pro
ducer, When cotton is selling at
good prices the South is jubilant;
when the market declines business
flumps. We are all dominated too
much by' a one-crop system.
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There is no better time than the
present to formulate plans for the
year 19128. There will boa lot of
rainy days and bad weather for the
next few weeks and this time
should be utilized in mapping out
plans for the coming y'ear. It is also
a good time to do a lot of reading,
'i he man who reads and thinks is
the man who wins.
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A few years ago the man who
talked and wrote about forestry
v.v: regarded as nothing less than
a crank. He was a pioneer. Now
everybody is talking forestry and
regard the timber crop as one of
the most profitable on the farm.
Ir is well because forestry is going
to play an increasingly important
•pari iii our agriculture.
If wo could wave a magic wand
and pave all of Georgia’s roads
overnight it would be something
wonderful. This cannot be done,
under any system. It will take a few
years of hard work to pave the
principal highways and the Progress-
Argus is optimistic enough to be
lieve that Georgia is making grati
fying progress under the existing
system.
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Personally the writer knows of
nobody who hates “big business,”
so-called. Big business has done a
great deal for the development of
tire country. Big business has done
many things that individuals never
could have done. We all like for
big business to have a square deal.
Tt is also goes for the public. The
corporation hater and baiter passed
out '.vith a certain brand of politi
cian.
Another thing Georgia needs is
a milk company large enough,
strong enough and fair enough to
pay the farmers cash prices and
give them a fair deal. Tqo many
companies are operating on the
producers’ capital and this is hin
dering and hampering the dairy in
dustry. The dairy industry will wit
ness a remarkable growth when the
producers are paid fair prices and
paid promptly.
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If there is dny section of the
United States where the canning
industry should flourish it is the
South. Here we have a long grow
ing season and can produce almost
every known fruit and vegetable.
We should have a great number and
variety of canning plants operating
during most of the year. Butts
county has such a plant and our
farmers should see to it that the
products are grown and this plant
kept in operation eight or nine
months in the year.
The Kiwanis club should address
itself seriously to a number of im
portant local problems. We must
not lose sight of street paving; the
early paving of state route No. 42
should be pushed vigorously; the
development of Indian Springs
should be a perpetual incentive, and
something should be done to ad
vertise Butts county and its re
sources. The Kiwanis club has done
fine work heretofore and if it c/m
succeed in putting over the things
mentioned 1928 will rank as one
of the organization’s best years.
There is nothing “smart” in send
ing your money away from home
for thi things you can buy from
local firms. When you do this you
are stabbing the community in the
back, and when you stab the com
munity you stab yourself. A strik
ing illustration of the folly of pa
tronizing strangers is the story from
Sparta where a man was beat out
of some $1,250 by fake speectacle
salesmen. That could never have
happened at home. The home deal
er would not pull such a trick. He
thinks too much of the good will
of his customers in the first place
and is a man of honor and realizes
he must back up what he sells.
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Aside from the merits of the
case, which we shall not attempt
to argue, it is a striking and signi
ficant fact that in connection with
the ten cent fare granted the street
railway company in Atlanta, there
has not been in years and years a
decision by the public service com
mission in favor of the people. It
is always the corporations who,win.
Probably they deserve to win. They
may be right always. We are not
trying to say they are not. But the
public has come to question and
wonder why one side is always
right and the public always wrong.
One of these days this question is
going to be gone into more thorough
ly than is now being done.
TIMBER AS SAFE CROP
No man living will see the day
when all the land in any southern
date will be occupied entirely by
farming.
There probably isn’t over ten per
cent of the land of the south, par
ticularly in the rural counties, taken
up with agriculture, and we have
been 200 years clearing and tilling
that much. How long, at that rate,
will it be before all the good land
is occupied?
And if it was all in cultivation
v.ho would buy the products? A
few thousand additional acres any
t ne year means a price below cost
of production. Suppose all the hun
dred million acres of the cut over
pine land of the south was put un
der the plow next year? It would
be a calamity.
There is only one possible way
to occupy these lauds and make
them pay. That is by growing tim
ber. Growing timber means chiefly
just getting out of the way and let
ting nature bring forth the trees.
Just keep the fires out and wa will
not care if we ever farm this land.
It will pay better in time.—Moul
trie Observer.
THE JACKSON PROGRES J-A RGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
COTTON—THE ETERNAL
PUZZLE
: Cotton is the overcoat of a seed
that is planted and grown in the
southern states to keep the pro
ducer broke and the buyer crazy.
The fiber varies in color and weight
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and the man who can guess nearest
the length of the fiber is called a
cotton man by the public, a fool
by the farmer, and a poor business
man by his creditors. The price of
cotton is determined in New York,
and goes up when you have sold
and down when you have bought.
A buyer working for a group of
mills was sent to New York to watch
the cotton market and after a few
days deliberation he wired his firm
to this effect, “Some think it will
go up; some think it will go down;
I do too. Whatever you do will be
wrong. Act at once! Cotton is
planted in the spring, mortgaged
in the summer, and left in the field
in the winter.” But it surely is a
moving market when it moves! —
Exchange.
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KEEPING A TOWN SNAPPY
No business man in town should
allow a newspaper published in his
town to go without his name and
business being mentioned some
where in its columns. This applies
to all kinds of business—general
stores, dry goods, groceries, furni
ture dealers, manufacturing estab
lishments, automobile dealers, me
chanics, professional men, druggists
in fact all classes of business men.
This does not mean that you should
have a whole or half or even a
quarter page ad in each issue of
the paper, t>ut your name and busi
ness should be mentioned, if you
do not use more than a two-line
space. A stranger picking up a news
peper should be able to tell what
business is represented in the local
town by looking at the business
mentioned in the paper. This is the
best possible town advertiser. The
man who does not advertise his bus
iness does an injustice to himself
and the town. The man who insists
on sharing the business that comes
to town but refuses to advertise
his own is not a valuable addition
to any town. The life and the snap
of a town depends upon the wide
awake, liberal advertising men.—
The American Banker.
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DOING EFFECTIVE WORK
The various real estate companies,
of which the state appears to have
a considerable number, who are
holding auction sales of farm prop
ortf, are doing a valuable bit of
uork for the state. The Progress-
Argus has long contended that
Georgia had too many big farms,
that thesq farms should be subdi
vided into small tracts and sold to
home seekers on easy terms. In the
main, this is being followed by the
companies putting on these sales.
Georgia has suffered from too
many big plantations. It has not
been made easy for the young man
to own a home. The terms have not
been made attractive. He was ex
pected to pay for this land in a
short period. Now, it seems, many
of the big farms will be sliced up
into small tracts, liberal terms will
be allowed, say ten or fifteen years
to pay, and the rate of interest
will be reasonable. Under such con
ditions any young ambitious far
mer can buy a farm and pay for it.
Georgia needs more smal farmers.
The day of the big landowner is
over. The labor is not here as it
once was. Conditions have changed
in many ways.
We must make conditions more
ai tractive before we secure new set
tlers. One of the best things to do
is to divide the big tracts into small
farms, arrange an easy payment
plan, provide ready-eo-go farms.
When this is generally done Geor
gia will be on a firmer and sounder
agricultural anl business basis.
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FLOWERS AT FUNERALS
FORBIDDEN
“I would rather have a plain cof
fin without a flower, a funeral with
out r. eulogy than a life without the
sweetness of love and sympathy.”
These words were written i*to ta*
will of a Houston, Texas, man who
dieanand
some reason was not offered for
probate until a few weeks ago. The
author of this remarkable will was
E. C. Morrissey and he left other
instructions and messages that may
serve to impress upon those who
read them the hollowness of fun
eral flowers for one who was denied
sympathy and friendship in life.
The maker of the will wished above
all that there should be no doubt
of being dead before he was
buried and he made that plain in
his will.
The document, which is one of
the most interesting and unusual
ever filed in the probate court at
Houston reads as follows:
“I direct that my relatives shall
dispose of my body according to
my wishes, which are that my body
shall be . embalmed so that to an
absolute certainty life shall be ex
tinct.
“I desire a plain, inexpensive con
crete casket, to enclose my remains,
and it is my further desire that a
plain slab of stone mark my grave
upon which shall be placed the fol
lowing inscription:
“E. C. Morrissey, born January
3, 1858, died
“It is my further wish that im
mediately after my body shall be
embalmed and it is positively deter
mined that life is extinct that my
body be buried at the earliest prac
tical moment, and that in the
church service no sermon shall be
preached.
“Let the alabaster boxes of love
and tenderness that my relatives
and friends have kept sealed re
main so.
“Therefore, it is my further wish
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THE BANK OF F ERSONAL SERVICE
Member Federal Reserve System
that no flowers be placed on my
coffin, at home or at my grave, as
I consider this hypocrisy and deceit.
“I would rather have a plain
coffin without a flower, a funeral
without a eulogy, than a life with
out the syeetness of love and sym
pathy.
“Learn to annoint your friends
beforehand for their burial. Post
DRESSES
For Holiday Festive Occasions
Dresses priced so reasonably that every woman can af
ford at least one. Included in tbs display are tbs very
newest of the new styles for mid-winter wear. An ex-
cellent variety of materials
and models may be found
from which to chose. And
all offered at our sale dis
count.
Jackson Mercantile Cos.
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> USED CARS
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Amazing Values And
Easy Terms
Come to our salesroom
and inspect our o : K.’d re-
cond.t.oi>edcars.Wehave
our terms are unusually
reasonable, with the low-
est financing charges
available through the
General Motors Accept-
ance Corporation.
- SETTLE & ROBISON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927
Jor Economical Transportation
The red “0.K." tag is at
tached to the radiator of
every one of our recondi
‘|° ne<i rs - K means that
the car has been gone over
completely by expert
mechanics, using genuine
parts for all replacements.
Look for this tag—-and
buy with confidence.
mortem kindness does no; cheer the
burdened spirit. Flowers on the cof
fin cast no fragrance backwards
over the weary way.”—Exchange.
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