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Jackson Progress - Argos
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J. DOYLE JONES
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has passed the bills. It
i now up to the people to pay them.
Mow is the time for a'l good buy
ers to come to the a|d oi the Georgia
peach growers.
Conscience is a thing a man car
ries to church and leaves at home
when he makes out a tax return.
Give the rambunctuous, rip-snort
ing, gallus-busting politician plenty
of rope and he usually hangs him
self. Why not?
Regardless ol how it works, the
people are feeling better since con
gress passed the law guaranteering
bank deposits.
"First” cotton blooms have' been
reported und in about two months
the “first” bale will be on the mar
ket in this section.
Tbe late W. B. Townsend, editor
t the Dahlonega Nugget, was a
genius in his way. He served his
community and section well.
Congress has adjourned, the Pres
ident has gone on a vacation and
members are back home telling the
people how it all happened.
Leadership by precept and exam
ple. leadership that points the way
to higher financial, moral, cultural
snd spiritual values, is Georgia’s
great need.
The boll weevil has not been taker,
into account in estimating the 1933
cotton crop. The pesky critter is cap
able of reducing the crop by a few
scithon bales.
The uncertainty will soon be re
moved. Billions have been voted to
tetter conditions and the new deal
▼ill tie put to a practical test. Here’s
topi% it works.
Wonder bow sacred an Atlanta
juror regards his oath? They have
ken turning loose beer sellers right
along, and in some instances the
proof was positive and clear cut.
Over in the tenth district the can
didates are trying hard to get the
Minds of the people off the depres
skm. The election will be held in
.July and the boys are whooping ’em
in a big way.
Dr. Charles H. Herty is worth a
whole race of politicians. He invent
the cup that revolutionized the
Terpentine industry and is now en
fagtd in experiments to make papev
from Georgia pines.
City authorities would do well to
aege a clean up campaign and make
war on mosquitoes. There was con
siderable complaint in that direction
tost year. Clean premises will prove
cheaper than doctor bills.
In spite of all the north and east
could do cotton mills moved south
Sf be near the raw materials. Paper
mils are coming to Georgia when it
fcas. been proved beyond doubt that
tlte state has an adequate timber sup
for paper making. This is one
*1 tta big developments facing
Georgia in the years ahead. Take
•are of your timber. It is valuable.
Georgia has many unselfish citi
zens and organizations working hard
to build and develop the state. They
are meeting with opposition from Old
General Apathy and selfish politi
cians who keep the waters muddy.
President Roosevelt drove through
more far-reaching legislation in a
few months than was ever before
enacted in the history of the country.
He kept congress on the move and
didn’t give the members time to
sulk.
The people of Georgia' ought io
hold the governor and the highway
department responsible for the pres
ent intolerable situation. The pres
ent* wrangle, representing stubborn
ness and bull-headedness, is a dis
giaee to the state.
ft has been made easier to borrow
money than ever before and it seem.-,
that counties, cities and states have
been encouraged to go in debt. That
is all right and fine —but pay day
has a habit of coming and the man
v.ho dances must pay the fiddler.
Atlanta is having almost as much
fun since the legislature adjourned
as was the case when the lawmakers
were in session. With guns bristling
ir- the capitol and the beer racket
being worked overtime, the capital
city keeps agog with excitement.
Every good citizen should consti
tute himself a committee to soli
Georgia to the world. Stock in Geor
gia is rising every day. Crop pros
pects are good and real estate is in
demand. Things are coming back
strong. It is great to be a Georgian.
Timber is Georgia’s best bet. With
much of the soil washed away and
unprofitable for farming, large arfeas
should be used for growing timber.
The educational campaign to keep
fire out of forests must be contin
ued. Georgia must be made forest
minded. i
The State Forestry Department
and the Georgia Forestry Association
have done much for Indian Springs,
one of the state’s greatest natural
assets. With bodies committed
to a campaign of development for
this great resort, citizens of Butts'
county should certainly be willing
to do their full share in any construc
tive plan for Indian Springs.
UP TO THE GROWERS
Now that Secretary Wallace has
announced a plan for reducing cot
ton acreage, the whole plan being
lased on an effort to enable farmers
to obtain fair prices, it is squarely
up to the cotton growers to say
whether or not the plan will work.
The duty and the responsibility is
t-heirs. It cannot be shifted.
Cotton acreage reduction in the
South has been a favorite theme
since Buck was a pup. It has beta
discussed for sixty years, with vari
ous schemes put forward, including
the widely discussed cotton holiday.
That plan failed for lack of co
operation, the growers in the several
cotton states failing to assume a
common yoke for the common good.
Secretary Wallace makes it plain
that the reduction of cotton acreage
rests finally with growers themselves.
Nobody is going to be forced to plow
up cotton. Moral persuasion will b>
employed. The logic of the situation
will he presented in a striking way.
The big decision rests with the men
who plant and grow cotton.
Farmers of the South will be giv
en the option of reducing acreago
and buying cotton at around 6 cents
per pound. They may also take a
cash settlement if they prefer. The
money has been voted for the pur
pose of carrying the plan into ef
fect.
The processing tax will be levied,
effective August 1. That tax busi
ness must at first pay but in the ena
the ultimate consumer must pay.
There is no doubt about that fact.
With a present carryover of
around twelve million bales, with
another large acreage planted and
world conditions unsettled and un
employment widespread, no farmer
may reasonably expect high prices
for cotton this fall. Unless the Wal
THE JACKSQN PROGRESS- ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
| lace plan works, rather should we
be prepared for cotton around 6
cents during the 1933-34 season. In
flation may hold prices up for awhile,
but sooner or later cotton will settle
around its real value.
A splendid organiation has been
set up in Butts county to handle the
cotton situation. Meetings are to be
held in the various districts and the
county agent and others will present
the facts and explain the Wallace
plan. It is to be hoped that the grow
ers of Butts county, as well as those
in Georgia and the entire cotton
belt, will see the situation in its trut
light and co-operate most heartily
with the forces that are working fo-
Letter prices and better conditions.
If the growers fail to act and th-:
plan falls through we will have no
body to blame but ourselves and we
will have to drain the cup to the
bitter dregs.
LET US KEEP THE RECORD
STRAIGHT
It always pays to be fair and hon
est. There are those who can see no
go<d in the Georgia Highway Board,
and we confess that its record is not
akogither lovely and sweet smelling
and has at all times used the high
way funds rather loosely and at no
time has it dealt fairly and equitably
between the different counties and
sections of the state, yet the state
owes Johr) Holder and the “Immor
tal 32 senators” a debt of gratitude
hard to repay for preventing the
leading onto the tax payers of Geor
gia a bonded debt of a hundred or
io million dollars as well as for the
pay-as-you-go system of road build
ing.
The Times has no defense to offer
for the waste and graft that ha.
characterized the highway manage
ment from its organization up to the
present. There can be none but how
much worse it would have been with
a hundred million dollar bond issue
can only be conjectured. John Holder
and the Georgia senate should have
a monument erected to their memo
ry and a grateful people will yet
honor them when misrepresentation
and slander shall have died out of
men’s hearts and justice regains con
trol.
Let us be just.—Carroll County
Times.
A“BUSTED” COUNTY
Everything has its price. Andthis
is right. We make mistakes, and must
pay for them. The progress and wel
fare of the human Face depends on
this law. Foolish thinking and foolish
acting will always bring disaster.
God would not have it otherwise.
Martin county, Florida, is realizing
now the disaster that comes from un
wise thinking and acting. The totai
valuation of the county is $4,596,-
874. The county and the cities within
the county have a bonded indebted
ness of about $6,000,000. This is
about $1,500,000 more than the
county is worth. It means a public
debt of about $l,lOO per capita. The
county and cities have defaulted on
about $500,000 interest to date. The
people can never pay it.
The finest advertising that any
stat-e or county or city can have is
to be out of debt. The leaders in our
states and counties and cities have
certainly fallen down on their jobs.
They have led the people into a hope
less bog of debts that will crush ail
the aspirations and hopes they may
have for succeeding in life.—Winder
News.
IF THE GOVERNOR WINS
A few words in the Act of the
General Assembly' of Georgia creat
ing the Budget Commission consti
tute the slender thread of authority
%
by which Governor Talmadge claims
the right to discharge employees of
the Highway Department, The frag
mentary sentence which states that
the budget commission is created “to
promote economy and efficiency of
the state departments’’ is the basis
of the governor's contention.
Upon the interpretation of this
sentence hangs the right or wrong
of the executive’s position. Appa
rently there is no way by* which a
binding legal adjudication of this
act may be secured. If the suit filed
by Mr. McWhorter, state highway
engineer, provides a method of se
curing a judical interpretation of the
act in question, and the contention
of the state highway board is legally
upheld, there is still no power vested
in any state officer, or in the courts,
to compel the governor to recede
from his position.
Although we think the governor’s
position unsound, legally, and a vio
lent assumption of powers never
contemplated by the general assem
bly in enacting the budget act, un
less there is some unforeseen condi
tion wkich will bring about a change
of the executive’s mind, there is no
reasonable doubt as to the outcome
of this controversy raging between
the executive and the highway de
partment. Right,or wrong, tve think,
the governor will win, and when he
does, the future of the highway de
partment will take on an aspect of
such dark portent that the average
Georgian will hesitate to contemplate
it.
If precedent in states like Texas,
Mississippi and Louisiana means any
thing, Georgia will be in for a merry
time should the governor prevail.
And, as usual, the heavily-burdened
taxpayer will be the goat!—Newnan
Herald.
FARMERS FORCED TO TREAT
OWN LIVESTOCK
Farmers of Georgia who have hot
cholera • or diseases among cattle or
other outbreaks in livestock will
have to have the animals rieated at
their own expense, it is shown in a
case that arose in Butts county last
week. The case is one of far-reach
ing importance and the last of the
case has not been heard.
The facts are as follows:
Early last week a cow died in the
pasture of W. A. White at Stark,
and blackleg was believed the cause.
County agent B. M. Drake called
Dr. J. M. Sutton, state veterinarian,
who informed Mr. Drake that he
would have to send a telegram, which
is used as authority to present the
matter to the commissioner of agri
culture and he in turn to the budget
commission for approval or refusal.
The budget commission is composed
of the governor and state auditor.
In this particular case the state
authorities refused to send a vet
erinarian to Butts county to look
into the fatal outbreak among cattle.
Blackleg is fatal to cattle and there
is no known remedy, inoculation be
ing the only way to cope with the
disease. ,
Mr. Drake went to Atlanta and
'obtained the medicine and inoculated
the herd, composed of some twenty
animals.
The legislature this year appro
priated $50,000 to the veterinary de
partment, but Governor Talmadge
vetoed this section of the appropria
tion bill, along with a $20,000 grant
to the paper research labratory at
Savannah.
The veterinary department, by far
the most important part of the work
of the department of agriculture, is
hamstrung for lack of funds and as
a consequence the farmers of Geor
gia stand to face heavy losses in
their ivestock.—Jackson Progress-
Argus.
A similar incident happened in
Fickens county last week. Some hogs
at the county farm became sick and
had some symptoms of cholera. The
state veterinarian was telegraphed
for, but Governor Talmadge refused
to approve the trip, though the com
bating of hog cholera is supposed to
be one of the chief duties of the vet
erinarian. Fortunately the disease
proved to be something else.
In Butts county they were not so
fortunate. The blackleg epidemic
there is reported to be growing
werse.—Pickens County Progress.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Suggestion to Jud Wilhoit
We would respectfully suggest to
Hon. Jud Wilhoit, a member of the
state highway board, that he work on
his conferes and have the road front
Augusta to Atlanta paved. Some of
the road in Jud’s home territory is
about as iough and dangerous as
any in the state.
® All you need to do is look at these prices GOODYEAR 1
to know they’re low ... And take a good look
while you’re at it — because you may never ASH-W©3t.s§©s' g
see such prices again! . . . But the biggest Qg
news is—these prices buy GOODYEARS.
The best tires Goodyear ever built. Higher 4.50-21- 7.10
in quality—better in mileage —greater in . ngo
safety than any tires you ever bought be- ' 1 ’ ‘
fore, regardless of price ... Better hurry and 5.00-19- 8.15
get all the tires you need for a whole sum- . ..
mer’sdriving—because anyone who watches 0.25-18- J.l:>
newspapers knows that prices are headed 5.50-19 10.45
up . . . Don’t miss this opportunity to save
money on the world’s first-choice tires! 6.00-19-11.85
SETTLE 6 ROBISON
PHONE 244 JACKSON, GA.
Of course Jud has been trying
manfully to .get the road paved—
but here’s hoping he succeeds for
the benefit of our good friends liv
ing between Augusta and Madison
If we were highway commission, all
by ourselves, we’d pave the most im
portant roads first and let the rest
wait.—Newnan Herald.
Gel His Memory Back
The forgotten man has been re
membered by the ways and means
committee of congress. To him will
go the doubtful privilege of shelling
out the money to finance the pro
jected $3,500,000,000 public works
program.—Dawson News.
Does Advertising Pay?
One thousand printers, using six
thousand tons of paper, 750 pounds
of ink, four thousand artists and
cameramen and two hundred type
writers were required to manufac
ture the New Montgomery Ward and
company catalogue, of which six
million were printed at an approxi
mate cost of one dollar each.—
Cleveland Courier.
More Acreage Reduction
With Georgia farmers faced with
the necessity of still further reduc
ing the acreage ordinarily devoted to
cotton, it has been suggested that the
abandoned cotton lands be planted
in. trees to produce pulp for Geor
gia paper mills, also for turpentine
and lumber. It’s not a bad sugges
tion. There is no doubt that Geor
gia has too much land in cultivation
for the state’s population. We could
produce just as much of everything
now produced by devoting one-third
STANDARD OIL LABORATORIES
DEVELOP NEW MOTOR-FUEL
Will be offered motorists
on Saturday
Motorists throughout the
South will be interested in the
announcement by W. E. Smith,
President of the Standard Oil
Company Incorporated in Ken
tucky, at Louisville, that a
brand-new type of motor fuel
will be sold by Standard Oil
Company dealers and service
stations effective Saturday of
this week. 9
This new motor fuel, which
will be colored orange and
mark et e and under the well
known name of Crown Stand
ard Gasoline, was developed in
vhe Standard Oil Laboratories.
It will be a more powerful
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933
of the present cultivated area to
growing timber and giving better at
tention to the remaining two-thirds
under cultivation. Most farmers have
more land under the plow than they
really need. —Tifton Gazette.
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SOME BABY
Everybody’s Magazine says: “A
young business man who was deacon
in his home church and was going
to New York on business was asked
to purchase anew sign for the front
of the church. He copied the motto
ar.d dimensions of the sign but when
he reached New York the paper was
nowhere to be found. Deciding that
he had left it in his coat at homo
lie wired his wife, “Send motto and
dimensions.” An hour later a
sage came over the wire and the
young lady clerk who had just come
from lunch and knew nothing of the
previous wire fainted. When they
looked at the message she had just
taken, they read: “Unto Us A Child
Is Born, Six Feet Long and Two Feet
\\ ide.”—Madison Madisonian^.
CHEAPER POSTAGE WILL
BE EFFECTIVE JULY 1
Washington, D. C.—A drop in the
local postage rate from 3 to 2 cents
will go into effect on July 1.
The change recently enacted also
gives the President authority to make
a general reduction in postal rates
if he finds business conditions war
rant that action. The drop in the lo
cal postage rate will be watched by
officials to see what effect it has on
the postal revenues. It may be ap
plied generally.
fuel, with actual, added anti
knock properties, but will be
sold at no additional cost.
In discussing this new
product, Mr. Smith states:
“We feel that the public is
tired of the exaggerated
claims that are making gaso
line advertising so hard to be
lieve. We make no extravagant
claims for this new Crown
Standard Gasoline. We merety
state that it is a better fuel at
regular price than has yet
been made for the modern
motor. We stand squarely
back of Crown Standard Gaso
line as such a fuel, and guar
antee its smoother, more pow
erful performance. We say this
fully aware of our responsibil
ity to our many customers in
making such a public state
ment.”