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Jackson Progress • Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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Pay up and smile ought to be
made the national slogan.
Easter is the next important event
on tbe calendar. Easter this year will
find Nature at her best.
Georgia will probably continue to
have the dry grins, so far as the
legal sale of beer is concerned.
It is said that a cat fights best
when chi its back. If you have the
“down and out feeling” remember
Ike cat.
The people of Georgia are play
ing it. safe with food and food crops
this veai. This is part of the come
back campaign.
Many of the people obtaining gov
ernment seed loans are without a
cow, hog or chicken. What a trage
dy This situation ought to be chang
ed at once. *
Elggs are reported to have sold
in some places in Georgia as low
as seven cents per dozen. That is
one of the things thaj causes the
farm problem.
Butts county is fortunate in hav
ing three resources - its agriculture,
its industries and health resorts. All
c.C these agencies should he encour
aged and developed.
From an exchange we note that a
town in North Georgia has declared
war on loafers. Not such a had idea
after all. A lot of people are not
looking for work. They want a posi
tion.
President Roosevelt set a fine ex
cruple in cutting his own salary 15
per cent. If other higher-ups would
do that it would do much to restore
confidence among the struggling tax
jwyens. x *Ad
President Roosevelt keeps about
four laps ahead of eongvess and as
soon as one piece of legislation is
finished he is ready for another.
President Roosevelt is the nation’s
best, driver.
Estimates have been made that
65,00(1 Georgians will obtain aid this
year from the government seed loan
land. This is a record number. The
government may find itself in the
banking business one of these days
before long.
The suggestion js made by an ex
change that the railroads take a
<v, from the banks and declare a
holiday for ten days. That, it is
sfiggested. would bring the peoply
t*> a proper appreciation of the rail
roads. This may be true, but the
railroads must reduce rates before
they will get much sympathy from
the public.
Josephus Camp, former state su
perintendent of printing and a well
known newspaper man, is now asso
ciated with B. S. Elliott in publish
the Henry County Weekly. Ini
ftocement is already noted in that
tU and reliable middle Georgia
weekly, and the Progress-Argus
in welcoming Mr. Camp back
*cio the fold of newspaper work.
Horses and mules are higher this
season than before in many years.
The scarcity is given as the reason.
Horses and mules are now taking
the place of tractors, which in many
cases have been found expensive for
general farm work.
The schools of Butts county have
done a fine piece of work in co-op
erating to put over the Georgia bi
centennial celebration in such a big
way. The success of the celebration
in Butts county is due very largely
to the work of the schools.
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A sound banking system is neces
sary to the business life of the na
tion. Much has been done to restore
confidence in the banks and before
the job is completed the United
States will have a banking system
the equal of any in the world.
Congressman Owen was criticised
by the Upsfon county grand jury.
Pike county citizens came to his aid
and other grand juries have en
dorsed the fourth district congress
man. Unless a man has convictions
why send him to congress at ail?
It. F. C. may also mean •‘repay
ment finally coming.” It may be
easy to borrow now but it will be
hard to pay back. The individual,
county, state or nation that can get
along without borrowing will be bet
ter and stronger in the long run.
Work in the forest camps should
prove of benefit to thousands of
young men. The work in the open
air will benefit their health and will
afford valuable training. The young
men out of employment mignt well
seek work in some of the government
forest camps.
If every community in the coun
try will begin to support and boost
home enterprises it will not be long
before there will be a general up
swing in business. There has never
been a time when it was more im
portant to support home business
institutions. *
There will be no wholesale migra
tion from the cities back to the
farms, but one by one families are
returning to the country and the
problem will be adjusted in an order
ly method. The back to the farm
movement cannot be stopped. it
holds much of promise for the entire
nation.
GEORGE WARNS THE BANKERS
Senator Walter F. George, of
Georgia, hit one of the great eco
nomic evils of today when he spoke
on the Senate .floor Thursday and
warned the bankers of this country
that, unless they relaxed their policy
of making no loans without govern
ment bonds as security they would
he faced by government competition
in the banking business.
Entrance by our government into
(he general hanking business is not
desired, hut the Democratic adminis
tration has inaugurated its program
to prevent freezing of the national
currency at all points and it does
not intend to see all the banks join
together now and freeze the coun
try’s cash in the hank vaults. Mak
ing legitimate loans is as much a
part of the banking business as ac
cepting deposits.
The government has done much to
help the banks. Through the Recon
struction Finance Corporation the fi
nancial structure of many banks has
been bolstered and the recent bank
ing holiday was a protective measure
for the banks against ruinous runs.
For the banks to refuse to make
legitimate loans now on proper se
curity would be to defeat the good
already accomplished by the federal
government.
There is still plenty of good se
curity, other than government bonds,
which can be offered to the banks.
The best of all security is good
character and business integrity, ye:
it is reported that many banks
throughout the country have ceased
to regard this as security at all for
legitimate loans.
Business must have loans in order
to go on. Refusal by the banks to
relax their stringent policy will
paralyze business. And, in that event,
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
the bankers had better take note of
Senator George’s warning.
No one expects the banks to make
loans which are unsafe and whicn
will jeopardize the interests of bank
depositors. But plenty of loans can
be made which will help business
to carry on to recovery, and these
will not be refused by any bank
which considers itself a real banking
institution. —Cobb County Times.
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE
DEEP BLUE SEA
The bankers of the country are
being criticised by the politician:
because they don’t open up their
vaults and pour out money to every
body what wants to borrow. On the
other hand, they are criticised be
cause they lend out money and fail
ing to get it back, have to close their
doors.
Whether business goes forward or
stands still every wise banker is nor
going to be an easy mark for every
speculator that hangs around.
The big city banks are suffering
today because they have tried to
help speculators get rich by buying
and selling stocks and bonds. Thesr
sccuritics have fallen so low in valm
•hat the hanks that have investee
in them and have loaned money on
them have had great losses.
The country banks today are in
much better shape than many of these
big city banks, in-as-much as they
have not invested in these stocks
and bonds nor loaned much money
on them.
It is not fair to blame bankers for
dollars not going to work. If the
government will make laws by which
creditors can collect their money in
stead of doing everything possible
to keep them from collecting it.
the financial situation will clear up
soon. —Winder News.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Good Will and Confidence
The First National Bank of Dal
las, Paulding county, uses an entire
page of the Dallis New Era to read
its customers a homily on hoarding.
There are no business institutions
for which advertising is more valua-
Ldt than banks, although many of
them appear not to know it. —Henry
County Weekly.
Coats Off, Sleeves Up
Now is the time to quit you:
growling and grumbling and fum
bling and put your best effort ir.
the plan to help bring about pros
perity. That’s the way it has got to
come—by personal and individual
effort more than outside help.—
Madisonian.
Seeing Is Believing
Fifty dollar bills are said to be it
circulation. None have come out
way.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Hard to Make Ends Meet
We are anxious to see every per
son who wants to work given a job,
but we don’t like the proposed five
hour day and six-day week plan. A
fellow would hardly be able to make
enough money during work time to
spend during his idle time. The meas
ure provides for too much idleness,
and you know what idle hands do.
—Tifton Gazette.
Big Enough For The Job
President Roosevelt has volunteer
ed to be the goat for congress and
do the pruning of pensions of mil
lions who really do not deserve what
they are getting, but are getting
it because politicions in congres:
have voted it to them. The presi
dent’s job is to do what a cowardly
congress is afraid to do, and the
public is going to applaud him when,
he does it,—Dawson News.
TODAY and
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WANK PARKER
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NATIONALISM . . a kick-back
A lot of the world’s present
bles are due to an excess of Nation-
alistic pride. Every nation is trying
to be self-contained, and then
grouching because other nations
won’t uado with it!
Every dollar we spend for foreign
goods helps some other nation to
buy our goods. I believe in America
first, bpt I do not believe in the
stupid doctrine which would pro
hibit me from buying something I
wanted because it was made abroad.
Nearly a hundred years ago there
was an agitation in this country
similar to the “Buy American”
movement of today. The party which
advocated non-intercourse with for
eign countries got the nick-name of
“Know-Nothings.” Presently we will
wake up again to the truth that ev
ery obstacle to international trade
hurts everybody concerned.
JEWS in Germany
Jewish people all over the world
are greatly disturbed over the policy
of the new “Nazi” government of
Germany, under the practical dicta
torship of Chancellor Hitler, in boy
cotting Jewish merchants, doctors,
teachers and others.
I talked the other day with an in
telligent young German Jew who
had been getting letters from home
about the situation in Germany. He
was not at ail worried. His people
had written him that they were not
being annoyed and that the whole
anti-Jewish agitation was directed at
a Communist element, mainly com
posed of Jews.
Another German, a non-Jew, said
to me: “Here in America the Jews
work like other people. In Germany
a lot of them don’t do anything but
try to make trouble for the Govern
ment.”
But, of course, the German gov
ernment has handled the situation
stupidly, as it always handles any
situation. More than a hundred years
ago the great French historian,
*
Guizot, wrote: “There is something
in the German temperament which
makes them utterly unable to un
derstand the point of view of other
peoples.”
MACHINES .... can’t think
When these hard times are over —
and that won’t be long now—we
shall not go backward but forward.
And one thing we may look for is
more and more perfection of ma
chines to do our work for us.
When I was a boy I used to ad
mire the muscular development of
the men who worked in my uncle’s
machine shop. Not long ago I visited
the same plant, now tremendously
changed, and found one of those
cld-timers still working.
He was sitting in a rocking-chair
watching an automatic machine do
almost exactly the same sort of work
he used to do by hand, only many
times as rapidly and accurately. Ev
ery once in a while he would take
a finished piece off the machine and
put anew block of metal in its place.
“They say the machines will throw
everybody out of work,” he said,
“but I notice it still takes a human
brain to tell the machine when to
stop and start.” That is something
people overlook. Nobody has yet
made a machine that can think, and
nobody ever will.
TELEPHONE . . . another step
Everybody who has a telephone
must have wished for some sort of
an attachment which would answer
automatically when the subscriber
is away.
Word • comes from Vienna that
just such a device has been invented
and is in use there. When one is
going to be out of telephone reach
he sets the implement to the hour
when he expects to be back. Then, if
a call comes through in his absence
the caller hears a gong ring to indi
cate the hour when the person called
will return. When he returns he
finds a record of all calls.
It will be easy to develop that idea
into a phonograph record which
would say “Mr. Smith has gone to
Florida but will be back on the fif
teenth,” or whatever other message
it is desired to convey.
Something of that sort will come
some day.
TYPEWRITER . . has birthday
I have a vivid memory of the day
when my mother received a letter
from her younger brother in Bulfa
lo, with the words printed instead oi
written with a pen. He said: ‘ This
letter is written on a new kind of
machine we have got in the office,
called a typewriter.”
That-was almost sixty years ago;
about 1876, I should say. The type
writer was only three or four yeaia
old then, for the sixtieth anniversary
of its invention by Christopher
Sholes has just been celebrated.
There was quite a celebration or
ganized by the Young Womens
Christian Association. The typewri
ter, they held, had emancipated wom
en by making it possible for them
to do work in offices. I don’t think
that is sound reasoning. Hardly any
body but men used typewriters for
at least twenty years after the ma
chine was invented.
The rush of women into business
began in the early 1890’s, after the
telephone people had broken down
the barriers that kept women out cf
offices.
STATE PRISONS SHOW
GAIN IN POPULATION
FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS AN
INCREASE OF 341 INDICATED
BY REPORT OF THE STATE
PRISON COMMISSION
Atlanta, Ga. —An increase of 341
in the population of Georgia prisons
in the biennial 1931-32 period, com
pared with 620 in 1929-30 and 470
in 1927-28 was reported Friday by
the state prison commission.
sThe total number of prisoners on
Dec. 31, 1932, was given as 4,425,
of whom 1,167 were white men, 29
white women, 3,083 negro men and
146 negro women.
Among them were three boys of
13 years, and nine of 14. Four pris
oners were over 80 years of age, th?
oldest 92.
The commission renewed its rec
ommendation that provision be made
f<sr separate maintenance of insane
prisoners and that fhe parole law be
amended to allow parole of life
termers after serving 10 years in
stead of the present three years.
The report said the plan of man
ufaturing automobile license tags at
the prison farm had proved success
ful, and recommended that such ac
tivity be extended to other products
for state use only and not for sale
in competition with free labor.
Among the prisoners on the last
day of the year the largest number,
1,381, were .serving terms for bur
glary, 875 for murder and 452 for
manslaughter.
Potatoes were first found by Eu
ropeans in Peru about 1521.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
TO YOU?
♦
Jf you are one of those who are trying to
get along without telephone service, a number
of things are likely happening that may directly
influence the welfare of yourself and family.
Friends are probably saying, “I wish Gertrude
had a telephone. I’d like to invite them, too.”
Or, if there are children in the home, they no
doubt feel severely the difficulty they have in
developing and keeping friendships.
Living without the quick, convenient means
of communication that a telephone in the home
provides often results in loss of many friendly
social contacts that play such an important part
in happy everyday living. Being without a
telephone also deprives you of the means of
quick contact with the doctor, the police or the
fire department in emergencies. In short, the
home without a telephone today is isolated.
Ask any telephone employe to explain the
party line and other classes of service, or call
the telephone office for information.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
j (Incorporated) 9
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1933
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Phone 244 Jackson, Ga
SOME GOOD ADVICE
During the ourse of his charge to
the Chatham coifnty grand jury,
Judge Peter W. Meldrim, 84-year-old
jurist, said: “Don’t lost your heads,
for there is no reason to. Everything
is just as it has been. No storm or
pestilence has come to destroy us.
We have the same good soil, the
same truehearted people, and, above
all, we have the same good God a
bove.” '
To Court of St. James #
Robert W. Bingham, publisher of
the Louisville, Ky. Courier-Journal
has sailed for England to become the
United States Ambassador at the
Court of St. James, replacing
Andrew W. Mellon-