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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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Prove all thing* and hold fast to
that which is good. This means sup
port of home institutions.
The president of the Georgia tax
payers’ League wants the solicitor
general of Fulton county to investi
gate the Georgia legislature. Oh,
pshaw.* £
The grain crop in this section is
out: of the besi in several seasons.
The acreage is larger than before in
ciany years and the outlook is bright
for plenty of home grown food and
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Big business, which has had the
benefit, of protection for decades,
Willows when an effort is made to
da anything for the farmers. It cer
vumly does make a difference whose
ex is gored.
The fruit crop should be a good
eue this season. The damage by cold
weather was not as severe as in the
previous winter. If a good crop and
good prices come together orchard
ists will be happy.
Those business men who are at
tempting to make the advertising
moratorium permanent are losing a
lot of good will and business. The
steady advertisers are getting the
business and are carrying on as us
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Georgians waited to see what the
legislature did before buying auto
mobile tags. When the price was set
by the governor at $3 then began a
neat rush. However the number of
tugs sold this year is far behind that
in 1932.
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It is a pity the legislature in Geor
gia did not follow the example set
by congress and reduce expenses in
keeping with conditions. An individ
ual, a state or a nation that does not
balance income with outgo is in for
trouble.
Jlacon is to stage a Fat Cattle
sbow during April. The livestock in
dustry of the state will get a big
boost from this show. Dairy farming
sad the livestock industry can easily
W made Georgia’s greatest farm
enterprise.
The government, it seems, will
keep rather close watch on expendi
tures this year in the seed loan di
vision. The rules require fertilizer
and boll weevil poison to be bought
first of all. This may prove best in
the long run.
Beer, it is claimed, will produce a
{el of revenue. to the government
ettd will also put men to work. Many
parts of the nation are evidently in
earnest about wanting beer. In the
meantime we will have to wait and
see how it all turns out.
Tt is inconceivable in this day of
enlightenment that a whole nation
should wage war on a race of its
•itizens. That is what is taking place
ftt Germany, where a boycott has
been started against the Jews. It is
* pretty safe bet the Jews wili come
*.t of the disturbance better than
Germany.
The state department of agricul
ture recently “fired” many em
ployees, and at the same time put
on several others. The department is
now on*trial before the people and
must make good or one of these days
it will he abolished outright.
Just now there is an insistent
drive for an extraordinary session of
the Georgia legislature to enact a
beer bill. Members are offering to
nerve without pay and Atlanta hotels
r.re offering free accommodations
while the legislature is in session.
Why the legislature did not enact
this bill—if beer is so desirable —at
the regular session is hard to under
stand.
All disabled veterans, those wound
ed in action, should be taken care
of at all cost. The government will
never be able to do enough for the
men wounded in service. The pen
sion rolls, however, were full of
those who never smelt gun powder.
The American Legion has taken a
fine position in backing up the irl'es
ident in the stand to balance the
budget.
What a lot of people want to know
is who gave the heads of stale de
partments and bureaus the right to
buy automobiles, at the state’s ex
pense. Several hundred of these au
tomobiles are to be sold. This is right
and proper. The taxpayers of Geor
gia have no business furnishing free
automobiles to office holders. The
salaries are large enough for them
to buy their own cars—just like old
Johnny Public ha& to do.
Another thing the people of Geor
gia wmuld like to have answered is
why the Atlanta newspapers, if they
knew so much about “shad suppers,”
drinking, carousing, etc. while the
legislature was in session did not
open up and tell the people about it.
After the legislature adjourned cer
tain of the Atlanta papers are giv
ing the legislature hail Columbia.
Why didn’t these organs of purity
and uplift do some shouting while
the session was going on? It is easy
to hold post mortems. The people
want the news while it is fresh.
That many salaries in the state
highway department are too high is
agreed by all. The legislature is
derelict in its duty and responsibility
to the people if it fails to regulate
Lhese expenditures. Georgia should
operate its highway department as
economically as possible, and every
thing that savors of graft or extrava
gance should be cut out. The state
must protect its investment in high
ways and the state system of high
ways should be completed as early
as possible. Many counties in the
state now without a foot of
paving. In 1936 the refunding of
money advanced by the counties will
begin, and this will sharply reduce
the income of the highway depart
ment. The highway department needs :
regulating, but it does not need!
strangling.
ONE STILL WONDERS
One wonders if beer will bring all
the hilarious prosperity claimed for
it. enable the United States to bal
ance th. budget, put the unemployed
back to work and help to turn the
wheels of industry, why it has not
done some of these things for the
countries that have had beer all
along. Engalnd has had its beer
without interruption. So has Ger
many. These nations, to mention a
few, are having as much trouble
with unbalanced budgets as the good
old U. S. A.
Several states of the union will
have beer. Their laws permit its
sale. Other states are moving to have
laws enacted that will permit beer to
be sold. It looks like a case of “give
us beer or give us death.” We are
democratic enough to believe the
states that want beer ought to have
their way about it.
Up to the present time Georgia
has not seen proper to legalize the
sale of beer. The recent general as
sembly did not pass a beer bill. Now
there is a movement for an extra ses
sion to consider this matter. It is
claimed that states surrounding
THE JACKSON PROGRESS- ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Georgia will legalize the sale of beer
and that many Georgia dollars will
go out to these states. And not only
that but Georgia will lose the reve
nue.
What will be done about it all re
mains to be seen. But in the mean
time we shall see if the nation can
drink itself back to prosperity.
REAPING THE HARVEST
What a blessing it would be
if we could just wipe out all
these Reconstruction Finance
agencies, farm loan banks and
farm loan agencies and the
horde of agents and inspectors
that follow in the wake. The
News has said time and again
that all of this money loaning
was a delusion. When a man is
in up to his ears of what
avail is it to place another
weight on the top of his head?
If it is impossible for him to
handle his debts now how will
it become possible by adding
more? A little simple reasoning
should teach any man the futili
ty of such a process.—Dawson
News.
Borrowing has become a craze that
has swept the country off jts feet.
Until recently this borrowing took
the form of bond issues, which the
future must pay. Nov/ good old Un
cle Sam is acting the Santa Claus for
almost every agency that feels it
self in need of help. The railroads
have been helped, the insurance com
panies, the land banks, state and
national banks, building and loan as
sociations and the farmers have come
in for a small share of the crumbs
from the rich man’s table.
The war ended almost fifteen
years ago. Deflation was delayed as
long as possible. We have tried to
prolong prosperity by artificial
met-hods. Deflation had to come
sooner or later. The business insti
tutions that are failing now should
have been permitted to fail years
ago. Then conditions would be near
er normal.
Trying to borrow one’s self out
of debt is nothing but a delusion and
snare. Borrowing has been made too
easy. It has been encouraged. The
government is letting out the tax
payers’ money in unheard of stream?
and for unheard of causes. The har
vest be a lot of headaches and
heartaches for the taxpayers who
must foot all the bills.
SCOLDING THE LEGISLATURE
The pastime of abusing the legis
lature shows signs of being over
done.
This paper does not for one mo
ment excuse the legislature for the
failure to do the good thugs which it
had the opportunity to do and did
not do, nor for doing those things
which were futile, childish and ob
structionary, but it is recognized
that there are two sides to every
thing and those members of both
houses—and there were many such
—who sought earnestly to accom
plish something worthwhile and
found their efforts made futile by
old political hatreds and the warfare
of conflicting interests can bring
forward ample defense for their con
duct as individuals when they desire
to do so.
The root of the whole trouble is
the sad fact that the state capitol
has become a warehouse for political
scrap-iron until the legislature has
no room to do anything constructive
and helpful. Petty personal rows,
unworthy antagonisms, some of
which have been long nurtured and
have grown large, have been carted
up to the capitol and dumped in the
middle of the legislative hall until
sverything else is ci'owded out. No
one man, or small group of men,
however honest and devoted to duty
as legislators can remove the great
ho.ips of old hatreds from the halls
so decent and helpful work can pro
ceed. A lot of this old scrap-iron has
been obstructing legislative and ad
ministrative procedure for many
years. The last legislature brought in
t. lot of new junk. There is no
chance for things to get better until
the big heaps of rusty scrap-iron—
the obstructionary junk of outside
I interests—is carted out of the cap-
itol and dumped on the junk heap.—
DeKalb New Era.
AND FOR WHAT?
The other night on the radio the
superintendent of the Horace-Mann
school at Columbia university was
talking about the cost of the war.
Among other things he said the war
had cost something around 400 bil
lions of dollars. And to get an ap
preciation of how much money that
•/as he told how much could be done
with a like amount.
A $2,500 house could be built on
five acres of land valued at SIOO an
acre for every family in the United
States, British Isles, France and Bel
gium. A five million dollar library
and a five million dollar school could
be built in every city in the United
States of 20,000 population or more.
One hundred and twenty-five thou
sand teachers and the same number
of nurses could be hired and there
would be enough money left to buy
all of Belgium and France.
And ail for what? To bankrupt the
world; to take away the reservoir
ot faith in humanity, that God is
good and man is noble; to send mil
lions to their graves in agony; to
.-end tens of millions throughout the
world into beggars; to overturn gov
ernments; to wreck the established
order; to let in the jungle of chaos
and darken the light of knowledge
in the world.
And now even the kaiser is on his
way back.
The futility of all this horror. The
utter waste of it!
One more such war and civilization
may fall and man may go back a
thousand years.
But of course we must prepare for
it!-—Emporia Gazette.
DOLLARS COME HOME
Trace the course of a dollar spent
for property improvement, repairs,
or replacement.
Part of it goes to local merchants,
who provide the needed materials.
Another part goes to the workman
or. the job.
The workman spends his part for
the necessities of life. The corner
grocery, the drug store, the depart
ment store get it—and through
them it goes to their employes, to
the farmer and the manufacturer.
Then the circle begins again—the
money enters new pockets, passes
through other industries, travels to
other sections of the country.
The part of the dollar going to the
store providing the supplies follows
much the same course. It pays the
store’s workers. It pays bills. It goes
to factories to purchase new stock.
From the factory it goes to other
workmen, to related industries sup
plying raw materials, to investors.
And, at last, the dollar comes back,
through one channel or another, to
the original spender.
In a short length of time that dol
lar has had a thousand uses. It has
done the work of a thousand dollars.
That’s the beauty of money which
is actually circulating—it is used an
infinite number of times, and it does
as much good each time.
Now is the time to obtain needed
repairs at the lowest cost in decades
—and at the same time do your bit
in fighting depression.
Jobs are cheaper than charity—
and without the jobs, there won’t
be anything for charity.—lndustrial
News Reviews.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
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Had an Ear to Ground
The members of congress who vot
ed against the Roosevelt economy
bill revealed they did not believe in
saving till it hurt them with the vot
ers back home.—Dawson News.
Borrowing Too General
To this date reconstruction of
business seems to be largely a ques
tion of borrowing more money. In
this connection, Melvin Traylor, Chi
cago banker, spoke the gospel when
he told the City of Chicago ‘that
it could not borrow its way out of
debt, but had to pay its way out of
debt.” This statement applies with
equal force to every individual, and
the sooner we realize the necessity
of adjusting expenditures to income
even if it takes off the skin in places,
the sooner will we make the start
toward permanent improvement. —
Elberton Star.
Banking Note
When the people have confidence
in a bank they do not hesitate to put
their money in it. When anew bank
was opened at Detroit last week,
$11,538,339 were deposited the first
day. This was the first bank created
under the new federal regulations
adopted during the bank holiday and
designed to protect depositors.—Tif
ton Gazette.
Farewell Service Charge
The State Public Service Commis
sion says its farewell to the utility
service charge; that folks ought not
to be penalized for wanting to do
business with electric or gas com
panies. A recent order, effective
Saturday, abolishes the electric ser
vice charge and institutes a minimum
charge instead, with a small reduc
tion of total cost for smaller light
users.
The invention of the service
charge idea was a wonderful boost
for utilities. It meant, in fact, enough
i - evenue to carry the investment
load —if that was not too large.
Then the energy bought, or gas con
sumed, took care of all expense and
brought a profit. Naturally, by what
ever method obtained, there must be
enough revenue to pay expenses and
charge on investment; but people
just don’t like the service-charge
idea, preferring the minimum charge
instead. No order has bsen issued
about gas rates, thus far. —Newnan
Herald.
TODAY and
1 2, *r<ran a
FRANK PARKER VT~
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ABILITY it’s scarce
I am constantly being surprised
to discover that men who got along
moi'e than passably well in good
times are utterly without ability to
help themselves in hard times. By
contrast, the proportion of first-rate
men with initiative, courage and con
fidence in themselves, seems pitiably
small.
More than three hundred years
ago a man named William Shake
speare expressed the same idea when
he wrote: '
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not
in our stars, But in ourselves,
that we are underlings.”
Every day I get fresh evidence
that men who were classed as su
perior a few years ago are weaklings.
Also, I hear every day of men who
never made any great splash in the
world, but who are* getting ahead
today in spite of hard times.
One thing depression has taught
is that all men are not equal, at
least in ability. But let prosperity
return and with it will come anew
crop of incompetents getting by on
their nerve and assurance.
WORK .... and the laay
One evil result of the depression
and the vast expenditure of money
for the unemployed has been to get
millions out of the habit of work.
It is so much easier to draw money
and food from the public and char
ity funds than it is to work.
We have been trying to hire a
competent woman to do general
housework, in my family. Six re
fused the job because “it was too
much work,” although my hundred
pound daughter manages to do it
all in half a day. On inquiry we
found that each of those six had
heen living comfortably without
working, supported by one or an
other source of unemployment re
lief.
In three weeks we tried out six
who were willing to try—or so they
said. They were willing to eat and
sleep, but it turned out they were
unwilling to work.
Many business men friends teli
me that it is next to impossible zo
hire people who will really work at
their jobs. They feel that they don’t
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1933
Backache ,
bother you.
A nagging backache, with
bladder irregularities and
a tired, nervous, depressed
feeling may warn of some dis
ordered kidney or bladder con
dition. Users everywhere rely
on Doan’s Pills. Praised for
more than 50 years by grateful
users the country over. Sold by
all druggists.
DOANS^
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A DfUBETfC
THE KIDNEYS
have to work unless they wknt to.
I am afraid that those of us who
are willing to work will have to go
on supporting a huge army of non
workers, even when good times
come back again.
BUSINESS ... in chain gang
Adversity sometimes discloses un
suspected business ability in the last
place one would look for it.
Carter Melvin, a Negro convict
in a Georgia chain-gang, found a
nickel in the prison yard. He got a
keeper to buy him a packake of
matches, ten boxes. He sold the
matches to other convicts and guards
for acent a box, doubling his capital.
He bought more matches wholesale
and sold them at retail until he had
a quarter. He bought six packages of
smoking tobacco for his quarter and
sold them for a nickel a sack. At
last he had money enough to buy a
carton of cigarettes, which he again
retailed at a profit.
Carter has S2O now, all from the ’
original nickel. He has done better
than a lot of white folks who have
let the hard times lick them. And
he has proved that business ability
is not confined to’ any one class or
race.
CHICAGO its fair
Anybody with half a dollar and
bus fare to Chicago any time after
June 1 can get more entertainment,
and education in a short time than
has been crowded into one place in
a long time.
The Chicago Century of Progress
Exposition, although unfinished, has
already attracted more than 850,000
paid admissions. In seventeen prin
cipal buildings and unnumbered
smaller ones will be shown more in
teresting and instructive exhibits
from all the world than have been
seen in one place in America since
the San Francisco world’s fair of
1915.
It may easily turn out that Chi
cago’s show', putting money into free
circulation again, will prove the
stimulus to business that will finally
smash the depression.
THOMSON . . . after 80 years
Elihu Thomson, eighty years old,
is still working, still inventing. Not
so widely known afe Edison, Pro
fessor Thomson ranks among men
of science as the foremost living in
ventor in the electrical field. _
He invented electrical welding,
among other things. But before that
he had made the primitive dynamos
work, perfected the electric motor
and done many other things to make
electricity turn the world’s wheels.
Professor Thomson’s enthusiasm
ii. the field of astronomy led him to
try to find a way to make bigger and
better telescopes. When past seventy
he invented a method of fusing
quartz so that it can be worked like
glass, and fused quartz lets' in a lot **
of light which glass bars out, so the
biggest telescope lens in the world
is now' being made out of Thomson’s
fused quartz.
mind never stop?
working and growing as long as the
body endures. We may yet hear of
startling new inventions by Elihu
Thomson.
Where to Find Comfort
W’hen things look blue, read Isaiah
40; facing a crisis, Psalms 46 and
139; discouraged, Psalms 23 and 34;’
lonely or fearful, Psalms 27 and 42;
when things seem going from bad to
worse, Second Timothy, 3; when
friends seem to fail v First Corinth
ians, 13.