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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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„ .ct at Jackson, Ga.
TELEPHONE NO. 166
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Try in,"' to balance the budget is
Incoming a national pastime.
Roosevelt is marching on to Dem
ocrat ic victory.
The non-advertiser asks where has
efj the, money gone? To the firm that
uses advertising regularly.
The baseball season got under way
Tuesday. Probably this will help to
pass the summer away.
I resident Hoover is in favor of
rutting his -alary to $1 per year.
That would be unfair unless others
would follow suit.
A general clean up and paint up
campaign, with every citizen taking
part, will prove a good investment
for Jackson and community.
Enforcing the law against fishing
between April 15 and June 1 will
probably be about as effective as
enforcing the prohibition law.
The world is finding out that it
cannot eat its cake and have it too.
We are now paying for a little two
hundred billion dollar war.
The country is still suffering from
the one dollar-a-year patriots who
served the country in war times. It
will take some time to get over this
high burst of patriotic fervor.
It is no fun to the people of Mis
sissippi. to have one-fourth of their
land sold for taxes. Unless the
brakes arc speedilj applied Georgia
will soon have this same experience.
Bishop Warren A. Candler is writ
ing some unusually able and con
structive articles in the Atlanta
Journal. Bishop Candler punctures
many of tin 1 present day frills and
[lauds.
Jyi far as we are concerned the
government can save by discontin
uing the publications on how to
catc.h doodle bugs. There are hun
dreds of bulletins on matters just as
f*o!ish.
This is the season when the g'-eat
and near great are being mentioned
for svate office. A- usual, there will
he no scarcity ot favorite sons will
ing to make the sacrifice to serve
tin' public, etcetera.
The political party foolish and
narrow enough to put the prohibi
tion question in its platform ought
to he snowed under by the voters.
Prohibition is a settled question. Its
enforcement is not. But why try to
ride this as an issue?
A clean up and paint up move
ment is timely. After the winter sea
son every community should stage
such a campaign ami every citizen of
high and low degree ought to take
part aad work for a cleaner and
healthier commenity.
The woods are nsw their prettiest,
with dogwood and other wild flow
rs in bloom. And the flower hogs
are busy, carrying away whole car
iawds of these beautiful flowers.
There ought to be a law against
running at large, any way.
Cotton suits are to be worn by
Georgia Kiwanians as a means of
increasing consumption and adding
to the prosperity of cotton growers.
Why not let the ladies follow this
example and patronize southern cot
ton farmers rather than silk grow
ers of Japan?
So many people are being killed
by automobiles —some 35,000 each
year—that it is hardly news. Reck
less driving is responsible for more
than ninety per cent of the fatal
accidents. Pass a law to stop it? No,
if common sense will not stop reck
less driving there is no law that will.
County Agent Drake calls atten
tion, in his column, to the import
ance of saving burr clover seed. Burr
clover not only enriches the land but
there is a ready sale for the seed.
Save the odds and ends. The people
need to depend on other things than
cotton to pay all the hills. The peo
ple of Tennessee and Nor th Carolina
are making good money selling les
pedeza seed, ll can be done right
h 'e in Butts county.
Now that some of our best known
farmer:; and agriculturists have bor
rowed money from the well known
Uncle Sam, for the purpose of plant
ing crops, they are to be inspected,
examined and checked regularly. It
must be comforting to have one of
these inspectors follow a fellow and
Old Beck up and down the rows to
see that the work is done properly.
Yet that is the price we pay for de
pending on Uncle Sam rather than
on our own resources.
ARE PAVED ROADS HARMFUL?
A recent writer in the New York
Herald-Tribune makes the complaint
that the building of paved highways
in New England has placed a great
financial burden on the taxpayers,
practically killed the railroads, for
merly worth many millions of dol
lars, and, at the same time, destroy
ed the beauty of the roadsides by
littering them witl\ garbage, garish
| billboards and the slum conditions
which develop around poorly-kept
filling stations.
The result lias been, the writer
I contends, that property values along
' the highways have been greatly de
pressed. “Nobody wants to live by a
road which is filled with rushing,
noisy traffic,” he says, “but they
seek the quietude of by-roads, and
the out-of-way places are coming
more and more into demand.”
The views of this writer are new,
but interesting. It seems that a great
many people are beginning to realize
that the highways, which were in
tended for comfortable human travel
but which, in fact, have become x*ail -
roads jammed with freight traffic,
have not proven to be the great bles
sings wo expected them to be.
One of the supreme problems of
Georgia and every other state is the
devising of means to safeguard the
staggering investments the taxpayers
have put into road construction —
DeKalb New Era.
THE CALL FOR COURAGE
In these days of uncertainty, loss
of faith in the fundamental values
of state and nation, and apparent in
ability to bring constructive forces
to a point, it is encouraging to have
a message of strength and purpose
from business leaders.
In this issue of "'he Herald, and
in other publication* about the state,
a- well, there appears an advertise
ment published by the Georgia Pow
er Company, signed 'iv its president,
Heston Arkwiight. It's worth read
ing. There’s not a lii*> in it about the
power company , exempt one stating
that it is paying for its publication.
But there are sound, constructive anil
helpful ideas expressed, which, if we
had the courage to follow, would
bring us on our \va'’ to # better and
brighter days.
The advertisement, which might as
well have been an editorial, is a call
to the courage and resource of the
people of Georgia. It stresses the
value of an enthusiastic faith in our
selves and our state; it calls on us
to express this faith in sane, active
measures for our own benefit, the
benefit of cur comnvnitic-J. and of
the state at large.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Mr. Arkwright, following the na
tional campaign against hoarding,
urges you to bring out and put into
use every available dollar. More than
this, however, he urges us, inferen
tially, to stand up on our legs like
men, and fight our way hack into
confidence, into enthusiasm, and in
to progress.
All our real wealth is herej and
the most real of all values is the
human spirit of confident persever
ence. Let’s begin to show that, in the
words of the immortal John Paul
Jones, “We have just begun to
fight!”—Newnan Herald.
BIRDS IN THE BIBLE
In the story of the Creation birds
are the second of the creatures en
dowed with life. First came the deni
zens of the sea, then the birds. After
the account of the Creation one of
the earliest mentions of bir(Js is at
the time of the deluge. When Noah
was desirous of ascertaining whether
the waters were subsiding, it will be
recalled that he employed two kinds
of birds, first a raven, and then a
dove.
Birds are also mentioned in the
passage of the Israelites through the
desert. At one of the times when
starvation faced them it is told that
“there went forth a wind from the
Lord, and brought quails from the
sea, and let them fall by the damp.”
This is one of the earliest records of
bird migrations.
There are at least 300 different
references to birds in the Bible.
Thirty-one species are mentioned.
One hundred and thirteen of the
birds mentioned are general in the
sense that they are simply called
“birds.” The rest refer directly to
certain species.
The dove is mentioned 35 times,
the eagle 32, the raven, cock and
hen are mentioned 12 times each.
The owl is mentioned 11 times, the
pigeon ten, the sparrow seven, the
stork six, the pelican five, the quail,
swallow and vulture four times each,
and ostrich, bittern, peacock and cor
morant three times each, the crane,
partridge, ossifrage, ospray, kite,
cuckoo, hawk, heron, nighthawk and
lapwing twice each. The glede, swan
and the gier eagle are mentioned
once each. —Jasper B. Sinclair in
Our Dumb Animals.
BETRAYED BY CONGRESS
With the introduction of the new
tax bill in congress, our great na
tional legislative body has officially
stamped itself as “weighed and
found wanting.” It has subordinat
ed the welfare of the country to the
interests of the politicians.
Faced with a $2,000,000,000 defi
cit in the federal treasury, congress
has taken the easiest way out of the
matter. To balance the budget it has
set about to collect an additional
$1,120,000,000 from an already over
taxed public, deep in the throes of
depression.
No matter what form the new
taxes take, there is little or nothing
that can be said in their defense.
We Americans already are overtax
ed. One dollar out of every six of
. t
our aggregate income now goes to
pay the expenses of government.
And to this is to be added more.
Our national budget must be bal
anced. This much is admitted. States
men would have seen that this was
done by cutting expenditures to
meet the national income. F>ut such
method is not that of the politicians
at Washington. This could not be
done without sacrificing jobs, and
buieaus, and subsidy appropriations
that mean votes at election time.
And this is presidential year.
.Congress has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting. So it is
time for a housecleaning ai Wash
ington. It is time to get rid of every
senator and representative, no mat
ter what his political affiliation,
whose idea of economic statesman
ship is to take another billion dollars
in taxes out of our already empty
pockets, rather than jeopardize his
own political future by reducing gov
ernment expenses to a point where
present income will be sufficient to
meet them. And the time to begin
is at the next election. —Pennsylva-
nia Grit.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Why I* Thi.:
Why, when the nation is looking
for leadership for the coming presi
dential campaign, do we construe
the man’s position on the prohibition
question as the paramount qualifi
cation?
Heaven knows that there are plen
ty of problems of most serious im
port which must be met within the
next two or three years, without
dragging in a national police regu
lation to a position of false import
ance. In the minds of millions of peo
ple it IS a big question—but why
set aside the business and economic
fate of the nation, as it were, to
harp on it? —Newnan Herald.
Why Not Be Consistent?
While Congress is increasing pos
tal rates, why doesn’t it raise the
rate on circulars? Why increase the
first-class rate alone? In balancing
the budget, it would seem that one
of the first things to do would be to
put the post office department on a
self-sustaining basis, which should
include drastic restrictions on the
franking privilege, which almost ev
ery government employe abuses. —
Tifton Gazette.
The Middle Course
It. was once the Newly Rich, but
now it is the Newly Poor. Whatever
goes up must inevitably come down.
Better run on medium. It will save
a lot of falls.—Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
Economy Note
The Oglethorpe Echo tells of a
Georgia judge who has voluntarily
reduced his salary. Fine; we never
could understand why a lawyer of
mediocre ability, unable to make
more than a modest living practic
ing law, is worth $5,000 a year as a
judge, anyway.—Crawfordvillle Ad
vocate-Democrat.
Facts of History
Yes, taxes are higher thqn a cat’s
hack. But if we are to judge the fu
ture by the past they will go still
higher. Glance backward to the be
ginning of our government. Put your
finger on any point in the record
where taxes, local, state or national,
moved downward.—Dawson News.
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MINING
There is still money in mining, for
the man who has the knowledge, the
strength and the courage to tackle it
single-handed. For that matter', there
has always been money in mining and
always will be whenever the cost of
labor and supplies is less than the
value of the ore.
Loeffler Palmer is running th?
“Rube” gold mine single-handed in
Utah. He bought a compressor, a
tractor to run it, and some compress
ed-air drills and started alone to op
erate this abandoned working. From
a depth of 180 feet he got out three
cars of ore in four months last year
and shipped them to the smelter, net
ting him $13,431.20 for his work.
There are plenty of other one-man
mines in the West, too small for the
big companies to bother with, but
capable of earning good pay for the
men who work them. “Big Business”
hasn’t gobbled all the opportunities
yet!
QUICKSILVER
The metal which everybody non
calls mercury was generally spoken
of in my boyhood as “quicksilver.”
Remembering that "quick” in old
fashioned English meant “alive” and
not. as it means now. “speedy.” it is
easy to see how this mysterious li
quid metal, heavier than lead,- wa?
regarded as “live silver.”
Man has used mercury for centu
ries for the backs of mirrors, a
shorter time for the “stuffing” of
thermometers and barometers, fot
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PAIN
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HEADACHES, NEURITIS
NEURALGIA, COLDS..
Whenever you have some
nagging ache or pain, take
some tablets of Bayer Aspirin,
Relief is immediate!
There’s scarcely ever an ache
or pain that Bayer Aspirin
won’t relieve—and never a
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time when vou can t take it.
Thc tablets with the Bayer
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recovering gold from its orq and for
“silver” fillings in teeth. Its newest
use, instead of water in steam boil
ers, promises to create an unheard
of demand for mercury.
Experiments with a G,OOO-horse
power mercury vapor boiler and tur
bine made by W. L. R. Emmett dem
onstrated a saving of about SI,OOO
a day over the use of water. Now a
plant twice as large is being built,
in which 125 tons of mercury will
bo vaporized to produce “steam,”
then condensed and used over and
over again.
One result has been to raise the
price of mercury from $1 a pound to
$2; another, to start a “mercury
rush” in Arkansas, where beds of
cinnibar, the ore from which mei - -
cury is refined, have been discover
ed. There may not be enough mer
cury in the world to enable every
body who wants to use it in engines
to do so. The largest production in
a single year in the whole world was
in 1929 when less than G,OOO tons
,
were extracted.
Here’s a chance for adventure and
wealth. Hustle around the odd cor
ners of the world and find a cina
bar mine!
SUGAR
If you want to lay up your foun
dations, walls and chimneys in a
mortar that will stand forever and
get stronger with age, mix a little
sugar with the lime and sand. That’s
what Dr. Gerald J. Cox of the Mellon
Institute of Industrial Research told
the American Chemical Society the
other day.
The secret of the durability of the
old Roman walls and aqueducts,
which have stood for more than two
thousand years, is that they put su
gar into their sand-lime mortar, mak
ing it 60 per cent stronger than “un
sweetened” mortar, becoming harder
with time. Five or six pounds of
granulated cane sugar to 100 pounds
of lime does the trick, and the re
sult is a mortar that is easier to
work than cement or gypsum plaster
and stronger than either.
SUICIDE
Within the past few weeks the
world has been shocked by the sui
cides of two outstanding figures,
George Eastman and Ivor Kruger.
IT F* A. Y S
To Cull Your Cotton Seed.
Our machinery is ready. Bring them
any time that is convenient to you.
Nutt & Bond
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1932
don’t depress the heart, or
otherwise harm you. Use them
just as often as they can spare
y f >u any pain or discomfort.
Just be sure to buy the genuine.
Examine the package. Beware
0 f imitations.
. . .
‘Aspirin is the trade-mark of
F
Bayer manufacture of mono
aceticacidester of salicylicacid.
Only two or three years ago Alfred
Lowenstein, another great financier,
jumped out of his airplane as it was
crossing the British Channel.
Literally thousands of other men
who had been more or less prominent
in business and industrial affairs
have killed themselves in the past
few years because they were not
equipped with the resources within
themselves to enable them to face
the world without money. They knew
no other way of life except by buy
ing whatever they thought might
contribute to their happiness.
In Mr. Eastman’s case it was not
lack of money but the feeling that
he had finished his life's work and
would be happier dead than ill, but
in almost every other recent suicide
the i‘eason has been fear of poverty.
The world has largely discarded
the belief in any form of punishment
beyond the grave. Fear of eternal
damnation has undoubtedly been a
deterrent of suicide in the past. Fear
o fthe world’s opinion has become a
stimulus to suicide. The happiest
man is the one who lives so that he
does not care what other people
think about him.
S.H.THORNTON
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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