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Jackson Progress •Argos
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editar and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at
c.w . _i at Jackson, Ga.
TELEPHONE NO. 166
OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
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at the rate of fifty cents, minimum
for 50 word* and less; above 50
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1 cent a word. Cash must accompa
ny -opy in all instances.
Food and feed crops ought to come
before cotton this year.
It is hard to make money, even a
living - , on a failing market.
We’ll believe spring has come when
it really gets here.
This section is having more than
its share of destructive storms.
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The Easter parade was nothing to
ti'ow over. The weather man put one
ever this time.
Judge G. H. Howard is a splendid
Georgian and had a right to run for
president in the preferential primary.
It will be a far-reaching and pro
gressive step for Butts county to
wipe out tuberculosis among its dai
ry cattle. ,
Advertising must certainly pay—
judging by the numerous demands
Wing made for free space by nation-
a 1 concerns.
It is claimed that the drive against
hoarding is getting results. Money
ought to be put to work providing
jobs for the unemployed.
The honest man, who intends to
pay it back, has nothing to fear in
borrowing money from the govern
ment to make a crop this year.
The experts say the boll weevil will
run rampant this season. The boll
weevil might as well have a share of
the cotton as the speculators.
The Red Cross, as usual, is doing
a great work in relieving the distress
among storm sufferers in the South.
The public should be willing to con
tribute to this worthy cause.
Very little fertilizer is being sold
in this section. There is no incentive
to buy high priced fertilizer to grow
six cent cotton. Farmers would be
♦tttirely justified if they eliminated
fertilizer altogether this season.
A lot of pleople who voted in the
county primaries will not be able to
vote in the state election until
taxes are paid. The registration
Woks will be purged after the first
of May, six months before the state
election in November.
A tightening up on election laws
would do the country good. A lot of
people never think of paying taxes
until county elections are held. Ev
ery good citizen should prize his suf
fiage and be prepared to vote in any
and all elections.
It is hard for south Georgia to
bacco growers to understand why
they do not get cost of production
out of the finest bright leaf tobacco
grown in the country, while the man
ufacturers are piling up profits of
fifty to seventy-five million dollars
a year.
If a body of business men. in
stead of politicians, were on the job
in Washington it would not rake
long to balance the budget. Instead
of looking for new things to tax,
congress ought to cut expenses. That
is what.am .business man would do.
That’s what it will take to save the
country, and the present congress
men who come up for re-election will
have to answer to the people on this
question.
Georgia can put a little more
peed into its road building without
anybody being hurt. The automobile
owners are paying and paying ai\d
really have very little to show for
what they pay for. The automobile
owner is a patient cuss but he is
going to be heard from one of these
days.
Says the Tifton Gazette: “It is al
most unthinkable that anybody would
attempt to farm without a garden,
a cow, a sow, and some hens, but
there are many farmers just in that
fix —with neither a garden, a cow,
a sow—and haven’t even a chicken.
I; it any wonder that times are hard
on the farm?”
The criminal element have a firm
er grip on the country than is gen
erally imagined. The kidnaping of
the Lindbergh baby stirred the en
tire' country to white heat and some
thing may be done to curb the gang
sters and racketeers. The gangsters
have taken a clue from big business
and are well organized.
TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
With the United States running
more than a billion dollars in the red,
desperate efforts are being made to
balance the budget. A manufactur
ers’ sales lax was proposed and that
was killed. Higher income taxes are
proposed to bring in additional rev
enue. Various plans will no doubt
he suggested and the taxpayer will
be on “the spot” until something
definite is done. All of which will
disturb business, which is trying de
sperately to right itself.
Whatever plan is finally agreed
upon the ultimate consumer will be
called on to bear the brunt. The so
called big rich cannot be taxed, un
der whatever plan, without the tax
being passed on to the ultimate con
sumer. Therefore, every man, wom
an and child in the country is tre
mendously interested in what is
transpiring in Washington.
The time has been reached and is
already at hand when the represen
tatives in congress should wake up
and realize that any more taxes, of
any character or description, will
seriously injure the country. The
nation is now taxed to the limit of its
endurance. The taxpayer is hunted
like a wild beast. The lawmaking
bodies are after him with lanterns
and searchlights. Congress and the
states will pile on until there is a
revolt. That time has just about beer,
reached.
If the budget must be balanced—
which all agree must be done if the
United States is to maintain its hon
or-—then the sensible, practicable,
workable thing to do is to trim ex
penses. Federal expenses have grown
alarmingly within the the past few
years. New boards, bureaus and de
partments have been created. High
salaries arc being paid in all of those.
While the average man has had his
income cut to almost nothing, and
while millions of men are out of
work, unable to support themselves
and their families, nothing has been
done to reduce federal expenses. A
general slash in salaries, from the
president down, and the elimination
if useless boards and commissions
will enable the government to bal
ance the budget. ,m
The people are looking to congress
for relief. Unless they are given re
lief, another remedy is at hand. The
issue can be settled at the ballot box
this year.
And while the people are looking
for a reduction in federal expenses,
it is well to remember that local
taxes are the ones proving a real
burden. At home is the place to be
gin to reduce the cost of government..
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Here, again, the remedy lies in the
ballot box.
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The Progress-Argus believes the
taxpayers are going to be heard from
before the year’s, elections are over.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSO.N, GEORGIA
A NEWSPAPER
Newspaper publishers, nowadays,
are learning things about their pa
pers they never knew before. How
many different things go to make up
a modern newspaper! Bill Nye’s
classic definition, given in 1885, is
certainly more true now than ever.
“The newspaper of today is a' li
brary,” he said. “It is an encyclope
dia, a poem, a biography, a history,
a phophecy, a directory, a time-table,
a romance, a cookbook, a guide, a
horoscope, an art critic, a political
resume, a ground plan of the civil
ized world, a low-priced multum in
parvo. It is a sermon, a song, a cir
cus, an obituary, a picnic, a ship
wreck, a symphony in solid brevier,
a medley of life and death, a grand
aggregation of man’s glory and his
shame. It is, i:i short, a birdseye view
of all the magnanimity and mean
ness, the joys and griefs, the births
and deaths, the pride and poverty
of the world, and all for two cents —
something. Among others, it is a
long-felt want, a nine-column paper
in a five-column town, a lying sheet,
a feeble effort, a financial problem,
a tottering wreck, a political tool,
and a Sheriff’s sale.”
LAW AND ORDER 3,000 YEARS
AGO
Are we improving things in this
muddling world very fast? Here is
what an Egyptian king left in his
epitaph 3,000 years ago:
“I made the land safe, so that even
a lone woman could go her way safe
ly, and none dared molest her. I
made every man safe in his home. I
preserved the life of those who
sought my court of justice.”
And yet, this old king was reputed
to be a tyrant, ruthless and merci
less. He knew the nature of crim
inals, and he knew there was but
one way to make them behave and
that was by the stern and rigorous
enforcement of his decrees. It takes
the fear of the law to keep order
in the land. Sobbing over criminals
and begging the courts for mercy
for lawbreakers is doing more to
break down our civilization than any
thing else.—Winder News.
GASOLINE PRICES
Dawson gets gasoline at 1C cents
and Bainbridge pays 20 and 21 cents.
Just why such a difference prevails
is more than we can understand.
Cotton is the same price everywhere
and Ford cars are, too, and gasoline
ought to be. Why is not something
done about that?—Bainbridge Post-
Searchlight.
Cordele has the same thing to con
tend with in regard to the fluctua
tion of the price of gasoline. Some
times it comes down to sixteen cents
a gallon; then a little later on the
price will be raised to twenty cents.
This is all wrong. There could be
some uniform price agreed upon and
all of the dealers no doubt would
co-operate in keeping the prices at
the uniform rate.
There is much dissatisfaction in
raising and lowering the price of gas
oline. Motorists passing through a
town with the highest price placed
on gasoline never buy but just
enough of the fuel to take them to
another town, where the price is low
er. This serves to give the town with
the highest price a “black eye,” and
these “black eyes” are becoming evi
dent all over south Georgia.
It is hoped that some agreement
will be entered into whereby the
price of gasoline will be the same a.
all of the stations. If it must sell at
twenty-five cents a gallon let the
price prevail with all the dealers. —
Cordele Dispatch.
DON’T DROP YOUR INSURANCE!
Whatever else you do, move hea
ven and earth to avoid dropping your
insurance. Rich and poor alike have
in recent years developed a better
understanding of the part life insur
ance can play in softening life'-:
worst emergencies. More and more
wealthy men are taking out large
amounts of insurance—some for the
!
purpose of providing ready cash to
meet inheritance taxes, others are in
suring themselves for the benefit of
their business. The comfort, the safe
ty., the of annuities are
also becoming more widely recogniz
ed both for personal protection
against the future and for safe
guarding dependents. Many families
today have little left except the in
suranpe carried by the breadwinner.
Under existing conditions, it is su
premely important that this last safe
guard against family want T>e not
sacrificed. Just as life insurance
should be the very first reserve
created when a family is founded,
so should insurance be the very last
reserve to be surrendered.
By maintaining a policy, there are
averted all the dangers incurred by
allowing a policy to lapse. The in
sured might not be in proper physi
cal condition when it became finan
cially possible to apply for new in
surance. Moreover, the greater the
age when application for insurance
is made, the higher the premium.
Hold on to your insurance no mat
ter what else may have to be given
up!—Forbes.
A DEPRESSION OF MONEY
This “cockeyed depression,” as
Will Rogers called it, is not a depres
sion of things—of materials. It is
solely a depression of money. We
have plenty of everything but mon
ey—or,rather a circulation of money.
Yet money is not really an essential.
Money of itself cannot feed us nor
clothe us nor keep us warm. Yet such
slaves of habit are we that we seem
helpless without it. When it freezes
up in banks and hides out in old
socks, growing scarce as hen’s teeth,
we shout for it more loudly than ev
er. Tax gatherers demand more than
before; charitable organizations call
for more money than ever—even
robbers will take nothing but cash.
If money stopped moving altogether,
oi' entii’ely disappeared, we should
presumably not be able to turn a
wheel—we should starve in the midst
of plenty. It is all too silly. We are
surely , a more ingenious people than
that. We can free ourselves from
an utter dependence on money. There
are other ways to effect exchange.
As long as there is an abundance of
food and all essential materials in the
states there is no insuperable calam
ity—and there is no necessity for
the federal government to step in,
borrow and give.—The Pathfinder.
NEWSPAPER DON’TS
Don’t write on both sides of paper
when preparing an article for the
newspaper, nor leave the printer to
guess at names and initials.
Don’t write immediately at the top
of the first sheet, but leave a two
inch space for the editor to supply
a headline.
Don’t write a headline. That is the
province of the newspaper and all
headings are made to conform.
Don’t ask the editor to place your
article on the front page. Sometimes
it is impossible and oftentimes it is
not justified. You should be satisfied
when it appears anywhere in the pa
per.
Don’t tell the editor what not to
print. Suggestions as to what to print
are always welcomed.
Don’t I'ush in with a week-old item
on publication day, and don’t expect
the newspaper to air your personal
grudges and complaints.
Correspondents should number the
pages of their manuscript and be
certain to write the subject of the
article on the first page.
Do not use flattery or adjectives
about people. Just write the facts.
—The Walton Tribune.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Always Pays and Pays
Complaint is made that “the con
sumer would pay the sales tax.” Ho
would. He always does. No really
successful plan has yet been evolved
whereby another can be made to pay
all of our taxes. —Dawson News.
Maybe We Can Stand It
Cheer up! There is only one more
year of Hoover and the depression.
—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Good Year Round Business
Get the habit of buying, eating,
wearing and using Georgia products
this week and then keep it up for
the balance of the year. If you will
Tax Receiver’s Last Round, 1932
I will be at the following places for the purpose of receiving
STATE and COUNTY TAX RETURNS:
BUTTRILL APRIL 4
Jenkinsburg, at W. J. Bankston’s Store —8 A. M. to 5 P. M.
COODY APRIL 6
Oscar Washington’s Store —8 A. M. to 11 A. M.
Miss Mattie Maddox’s Store —1 P. M, to 8 P. M:
DUBLIN APRIL 7
Cork, at Frank Ogletree’s Store—B A. M. to SP. M.
INDIAN SPRINGS APRIL 8
Flovilla, at Edwards’ Store—B A. M. to 12 N. Central Time
Indian Springs, at G. I. Watkins & Son—l P. M. to 5 P. M., C. Time
IRON SPRINGS APRIL 11
Stark, at W. L. White’s Store—B A. M. to 2 P. M.
TOWALIGA APRIL 13
Kinard’s Mill—B A. M. to 11 A .M.
George Cochran’s Store —1 P. M. to 2 P. M.
WORTHVILLE APRIL 14
George White’s Store—B A. M. to 11 A. M.
Fincherville, at Hodges’ Store —12 N. to 3 P. M.
JACKSON —in Judge S. J. Foster’s front office every Tuesday and
Saturday, or at Carmichael Drpg Company.
PEPPERTON —at Pepperton Store —11 A. M. to 1 P. M. Central
Time, April 16th.
This is last visit to districts for 1932 Tax Returns. Will appre
ciate you making your return by May Ist.
EDWARD CARMICHAEL, Tax Receiver
do it the balance of 1932, we believe
you will become such a booster for
Georgia products that you will keep
buying them and will urge others to
do the same.—Tifton Gazette.
No Class Indfependent
“No man liveth unto himself
alone.” What brings distress to the
cotton grower hurts the steelmaker
in Alabama and Pennsylvania, for
a good deal of the money brought to
this country in payment for cotton
during prosperous times is used in
the purchase of steel products. Dis
tress among the wheat growers and
live stock producers of the Middle
West hurts the business of the fruit
growers of California, for it is only
when people are prosperous that
they buy fine fruits and fruit prod
ucts freely. No class is independent.
From bankers and manufacturers to
day laborers and all classes of agri
culturists, we are an interdependent
people.—Albany Herald.
LOOKING BACKWARD
THROUGH THE FILES
News of 50 Years Ago
We are informed that Major B. F.
Ward is very sick.
General Thomas of the construc
tion company says that owing to the
washed condition of the road bed
and other hindrances it will be im
possible for him to have the exten
sion completed before September.
Col. Fred S. Horton has severed
his connection with the Monticello
News and gone to painting. He is
putting a “shine” on the Varner
House at present and it will add
much to the appearance of that
building.
The sale of real estate has been
lively during the past week and sev
eral lots have been disposed of.
Among those who have purchased lots
at East End are John R. Shannon
and Jeptha Castleberry, of Cabaniss,
Hamlin Thompson, of Winfred, Jas
per county. Several have been sold
to citizens of our own county.
B. W. Collier has sent us a well
defined and tastefully*arranged plat
of the Mclntosh hotel and lots, which
are offered for sale. Almost an un
limited amount of capital could be
invested on that property with profit
and the capitalist who gets posses
sion of the proDerty will have a
bonanza.
I T FAY S
To Cull Your Cotton Seed.
Our machinery is ready. Bring them
any time that is convenient to 'you,
Nutt & Bond
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1932
News of 10 Years Ago
Total production of cotton in
Butts county in 1921 was 4,152
bales.
A $150,000 road bond issue was
voted Tuesday. The vote was BGI for
bonds and 173 against bonds.
Teachers elected in the Jackson
public schools included Miss Annie
Lou McCord, first gi’ade; Miss Leila
Gilbert, second; Mrs. R. L. Smith,
third; Miss Sailie Watkins, fourth;
Miss Nannie Belle Jinks, fifth; Miss
Mary Russell, departmental work;
Miss Mary Will Haynes, high school
history.
The death of Mrs. Sara E. Wash
ington, aged 87, occurred Tuesday
night at her home near Towaliga
church.
Nine applicants were listed for
postmaster at Jackson, as follows:
Miss Bessie Waldrop, incumbent;
Mrs. J. W. McDaniel; W. M. Redman,
T. J. Collins, T. J. Land, C. W.
Woodward, J. S. Johnson, Mrs. L.
L. O’Kelley, John R. Bell.
Congressman J. W. Wise, replying
to a petition from Jackson and Butts
county citizens, said he would push
the claims of Jackson for a’ postof
fice building.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to express my appreciation
to friends and voters in the county
for words of encouragement and
support during the recent election.
And I shall endeavor to be worthy
of your confidence during my term
as Ordinary.
GEORGE D. HEAD.
Notice
Change of
Schedule
Buses meet in Jack
son 9:05 A. M. going
north, south and west.
Buses meet in Jack
son 6:10 P. M. going
north, south and east.
Pace Bus Line
Jackson, Ga.