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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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the Post Office at Jaokson, Ga.
TELEPHONE NO. 166
OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
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WORTH REMEMBERING
Let us never forget that the cul
tivation of the earth is the most im
portant labor of man. Unstable is the
future of a country which has lost
its taste for agriculture. If there ss
t-ne lesson of history that is unmis
takable, it is that national strength
lies very near the soil. —Daniel
Webster.
- 'T ' "
If you want to sell ’em tell ’em
regularly in your home town paper.’
Well, probably Uncle Sam is wait
ing to send the cotton checks as u
Christmas present.
“Where has all the money gone? ’
ir. still a live topic of conversatio l.
The hiding place stems to be pretty
much of a secret.
Are you doing anything to help
secure the paving on Route 42 and
Route 1C? Your influence is needed.
Get in the game.
Baseball has petered out for the
season and football is holding the
spotlight. A good fullback is almost
as noted as a governor.
What they need in Washington
above every other quality is the sav
ing grace of common sense. Too
many experts and professors, plus
red tape, have gummed the works.
Before the “Buy Now” movement
gets far it must be backed up by a
well placed and consistent advertis
ing campaign. Store news is good
news and the public is looking for it.
The government, fully aroused and
alert and determined, is now waging
organized warfare on organized
gangsters. The gangster should be
made to feel the power and might
of the government.
There is nothing that would help
the general business situation more
than the speedy reopening of banks
throughout the country. Billions of
dollars are tied up in deposits. This
money placed in circulation would
be equal to inflation of the currency.
This has been a wonderful harvest
season and farmers have taken full
advantage of the weather to gather
cotton and save hay and forage.
Very few cover crops have been
planted as yet but a considerable
acreage will be planted in the coun
ty*
There are two things this country
must learn and will learn in time.
The counry cannot borrow itself out
of debt. That must come through
bard work, self-denial and practice
of the homely virtues that made this
nation great. Another thing is no in
dividual can drink himself into pros
perity. The eighteenth amendment
will soon be repealed and many pro
fess to believe that a wet country
will be a prosperous country. We
shall see what we shall see.
Probably because of the military
efficiency and training back of the
movement, a better showing was
made in organizing the reforestation
camps than anything the government
has undertaken under the new deal
plan. These camps were set up at
(nee and began functioning in a
eornial way at the earliest possible
time. Others of the many move
ments are lagging. Many of the
heads of departments do not seem
to know what it is all about. They
are running around in circles. Score
ene for the military leaders at the
head of the civilian conservation
corps.
Flooded with hogs under the of
fer to buy pigs and sows to relieve
1 the overproduction, the government
ir dumping the swine in the Mississip
pi river, news dispatches show. Geor
gia will not have a surplus of meat.
In fact there will hardly be enough
for home demands.
No line of business in the country
has been harder hit by the depres
sion than the weekly
They are carrying on as best they
can and meeting difficult situations
and battling for the glory of the
home town and county and state. Now
that the harvest season is at hand
every subscriber can do much to
make conditions easier for the paper
by prompt payment of subscription.
If the great public—the “masses’*
so dear to the politicians—would
rise up and administer a spanking
to both organized capital and organ
ized labor it would be a wholesome
thing. These two groups are spar
ring and bickering and squarreling
while the rest of us must look on
and put up with red tape, inefficien
cy, delays and disappointments. Both
capital and labor have rights. So
has the public—the public that be
longs to neither group.
The Progress-Argnj believes l.ow
and has always believed that of fhe
reported carryover of cotton, mil
of bales are not fit for spin
ning. We have longed for some sou
th*.; r. congressman or senator with
i'r- and gumption enough to dig
into ’hr facts. There is a well de
fined c pinion that millions of bales
of ti.e carry over cotton is not suit
ed for making rai, beds, but this cA
ton is held over the heads of farmer
as a surplus and this club is used
to hammer down the price.
WORTH CROWING OVER
Monticello’s tax rate for this
year has been set at 6 mills
—one mill lower than last year.
Although it is not intended to
crow over the matter (for we
would be tickled almost to death
to see the rate lower than it is)
we cannot refrain from indulg
ing in a bit of gratification
over the comparison between
this rate and those of other
towns in Georgia. Somewhere in
the state one town is bragging
over the low rate of 17 mills
and another municipality is
proud of its 11 mills. Asa mat
ter of fact, Monticello has the
things which make it a good
town religious, educational,
business and social life and the
activities of cities much larger.
—Monticello News.
Our esteemed contemporary would
be justified if it did some crowing
over the tax rate of 6 mills. That is
much lower than the average rate
prevailing over the state.
There is no single thing that is
holding back normal business recov
ery more than high taxes. A few
blatant politicians are always advo
cating socking the big fellows —the
railroads, corporations and insurance
companies, etc. All taxes are passed
down the line to the ultimate con
sumer. There is no mystery above
it. The town, county or state that,
wants to attract new setlers and
new enterprises must look well to
the rate of taxation. Citizens worth
having and business institutions are
lather finicky about taxes, and just
ly so.
However, in fixing tax rates it
must be kept in mind that the pub
lic business must be operated—
sanely, economically and efficiently
—and we usually get what we pay
for. A tax rate that starves the
schools or other legitimate institu
tions is as bad as a high rate. The
public wants service at a price it
can afford to pay.
Taxes must come down in Monti
cello and Jasper county, in Jackson
and Butts county, and all over Geor
gia and ail over the nation. Until
this is done business is going to be
hesitant and halting in spite of all
the ballyhoo and smoke screens that
politicians may be able to use.
GOVERNOR FAVORS ROUTE 42
The Governor has endorsed
the plan to pave Route 42, and
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
we now believe the work will be
done just as soon as the Fed
eral road department can ap
prove the plan. The paving of
42 will relieve, to some extent,
the heavy traffic on the Dixie
Highway, and it will benefit a
large section of country between
Atlanta and Macon that now
has no paved highways. Anoth
er route that should be paved is
54, between Jonesboro and Fay
etteville, and we believe this will
receive attention if the proper
effort is made.—Clayton County
News.
Assurances given delegation of
middle Georgia citizens both by the
highway department and the gover
nor lead to the belief that this rout-*
will be paved at an early date. The
project is one that should receive im
mediate attention, not only because
it possesses merit of its own, but
to relieve the congestion on the wes
tern wing of the Dixie Highway.
Citizens of Henry county did a
splendid part when they turned over
to the highway board the proceeds
from a bond issue to insure the pav
ing of a twelve mile link of Route 42.
The highway commission is under
obligations to Henry county to pave
this route as early as consistent, and
adjoining counties have co-operated
by grading the highway.
This project should be included
in one of the first lettings of the
highway department. Part of the ten
million dollars of federal funds could
be used in no better way than to
hardsurface this road all the way
from Atlanta to Macon.
REOPENING CLOSED BANKS
The reported “intensive cam
paign” by the federal government to
reopen as many as possible of the
hawks throughout the country which
have collapsed during the depression,
would, if successful, be a major con
tribution to the “buy now” feature
ot the recovery program.
Hundreds of millions of dollar:,
of depositors’ funds are still tied
up in these closed banks, of which
every state in the Union has a liberal
share. Thousands of depositors have
been removed as customers for ev
erything except the bare necessities
of life, because their ready money
was tied up in checking or savings
accounts in banks which had ceased
to operate.
Most of these depositors are non
badly in need of manufactured arti
cles of all kinds and their money will
soon find its way to the channels of
trade when it is released.
The reported plan suggested by
the president contemplates the re
opening by January 1 of every bank
not irremediably insolvent, through
co-operation of local communities
and the federal government Each
community with a closed bank will
be asked to subscribe towards the
enlargement of its capital to a point
where it can be safely reopened, and
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion will put up whatever sum is.
necessary over the amount pledged
from local sources.
The reopening of closed banks
would be a godsend to thousands of
communities throughout the country,
many of which have been without
banking facilities for long periods,
but more than anything else it would
add tremendous impetus to the cam
paign to increase buying.—Atlanta
Constitution.
RED TAPE HOLDING BACK
COTTON MONEY
Many farmers were induced to de
stroy one-fourth of their growing
cotton, expecting to receive the pay
promised them at once that they
might use it in gathering the remain
ing acres not destroyed. Others that
they might pay off pressing debts
then due, and others still signed be
cause of urgent need for living ex
penses until harvest time brought re
lief.
But alas, here it is now the last
ouarter of September, when many of
them are busily engaged in picking
their cotton and gathering their
crops, and not a cotton check has
gladdened the heart of a Carroll
county farmer, or had not a day or
so ago when we inquired last.
This delay has been unpardonable,
since there was absolutely no excuse
for it and many things the farmer
might have bought for his family
have advanced to much higher levels,
coal, for instance, that must be had
for winter warmth, has advanced
more than $2.00 per ton within the
past week, and other things in like
proportion. Another item we heard
of, ladies dresses that a few days
ago sold at $7.50 are now $9.50.
All of this delay has come from
the long continued use of “red tape’’
in every department in Washington,
so fixed are all of those clerks and
other departmental employes in the
nation’s capitol that they cannot be
moved out of their routine even with
an application of the coal of fire the
children use on the terrapin.
Intrenched behind the accursed
civil service law, that guarantees to
them their job and a pension after
awhile, not even congress can move
them to action. It is to this cause
alone that the farmer has not been
paid the money he should have had
within 30 days from the date he
plowed up his cotton, every dollar
of it, everyone of them.—Carroll
County Times.
ALEX STEPHENS’ SLAVE
Cyrus Stephens, who was once a
slave of Alexander H. Stephens, still
lives in Crawfordville. Uncle Cyrus,
who is 89 years old, lives with his
wife, Alcora, on a little hill overlook
ing the “Big House,” where his old
“Marster” once lived. The little cot
tage in which Uncle Cyrus is spend
ing his last days is humble and vine
clad, and he no longer knows the
splendor he knew in other days, but
ho sits and smokes and awaits the
hour when he shall see and serve the
great Stephens again.
Steps will be taken whereby Uncle
Cyrus can be moved back to tne
“home place” as an attraction to visi
-
tors who will visit the Alexander
Stephens Memorial Park. —Forestry
Geological Review.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Farmers Must Organize
If the cotton farmers were as
compactly organized and bound to
gether as are the labor organiza
tions of the north they would get
20 to 25 cents for their cotton; but
alas, with them every man is an
Ishmaelite whose sword is against
every other man, when he destroys
his crop to increase the selling price,
his neighbor puts extra fertilizer un
der his crop to increase the yield.
When John Smith decreases his acre
age to get better prices his neighbor,
Bill Jones, adds more to his plant
ing, to claim the benefits of Smith’s
cut in acreage, and so it is in every
thing.—Carroll County Times.
Good Business Policy
Probably the largest and best ad
vertising agency in the world, N. W.
Ayers and Son, Inc., of Philadelphia,
has refused to do business with any
client who plans to engage in che
sale of intoxicating beverages. Wil
liam Fry, the president, does not dis
cuss the moral side of the repeal
question, but says from a purely
business standpoint his firm doesn’t
want anything to do with liquor. “We
refuse to be a party to making al
cohol attractive to the youth of this
country,” he says.—Anderson Daily
Mail.
Amounts to Big Money
It is claimed that one billion
pounds of milk were produced in
Georgia in 1932. Dairy products
should produce in 1933 more than
930,000,000, it is said. According to
the Georgia department of agricul
ture, the prices set up in the recent
schedule to be paid to the farmers
producing milk are an increase of
more than SI.OO per hundred pounds
over the former price. The farmer
is to receive $2.50 per one hundred
pounds for his milk where it is sold
at wholesale. Thus it will be seen that
old Bossie, if given a chance, w : l;
do her part in bringing the country
hack to normalcy.—Monticello News.
The Same Everywhere
It isn’t hard for us to meet ex
penses. We meet them on every
corner.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Urge Scale Buying
For Forestry lamps
Planned This Winter
Washington, D. C.—The govern
ment plans to buy millions o fdollars
worth of clothing, equipment and
supplies, and undertake large-senic
construction for the Civilian Con
servation Corps this fall, Director
Fechner announced Monday.
Lumber purchases alone will aggre
gate 100,000,000 feet, Fechner said,
and a market will be opened for
large hardware, pipe, and other sup
plies, quantities of clothing, shoes,
stoves. Approximately 550 new
camps will be built,' and 900 others
winter-proofed.
Outside labor will be employed,
making jobs for a considerable num
ber of carpenters and other work
men, and leaving the members of
the corps free to carry on their ap
pointed conservation work.
MRS. R. D. OGIETRtE DltO
IN GRiFMN HOME SATURDAY
Relatives and friends in Buits
county were sorry to learn of the
death of Mrs. R. D. Ogletree, aged
74, which occurred at her home in
Griffin Friday night. She had been
ill for several onths.
Mrs. Ogletree was born and reared
in Butts county and before her mar
riage was Miss Annie Woodward,
daughter of N. H. and Janie Wood
ward, prominent residents of this
section. The family resided here un
til a few years ago when they moved
to Griffin. Mrs. Ogletree was a life
long member of the Presbyterian
church and had a large number of
friends here and in middle Georgia.
She was a sister of the late Prof. T.
A. Woodward and the late Mr. W. J
Woodward, and was a member of a.i
old and influential family of Butts
county.
Mrs. Ogletree is survived by her
'usband, Mrs. R. D. Ogletree; one son,
R. D. Ogletree, Jr., of Griffin; four
daughters, Mrs. A. Q. Taylor, of
Concord; Mrs. Bob Childs, of Fore
Meade, Md.; Mrs. Clarence Bond, of
Atlanta, and Mrs. W. M. Weldon, ot
Griffin; one sister, Mrs. W. M. Tay
lor, tf Jackson.
Funeral services were held from
the home Sunday afternoon at 2:30,
with Rev. Paul M. Watson and Rev.
Fred L. Glisson officiating and in
terment was in Oak Hill Cemetery.
3.100.701 BALES WERE
GINNED TO SEPTEMBER 16
The census bureau in Washington
announced Saturday that previous to
September 16 there had been ginned
3.100.701 bales of cotton, compared
with 2,654,574 bales to the same
date in 1932,
Ginnings this year by states to
September 16 were:
Alabama, 265,598; Arizona, 2,010-
Arkansas, 95,109; California, 438;
Florida, 14,767; Georgia, 414,475;
Loiusiana, 177,045; Mississippi, 254,-
003; Missouri, 3,316; New Mexico,
427; North Carolina, 68,491; South
Carolina, 170,280; Tennessee, 9,301;
Texas, 1,572,056; all other states
606.
T. A. NUTT
All Kinds of
FIRE INSURANCE
Including System Gins, Cotton, Country
Property, Dwellings, Household
Furniture, Plate Glass
Also
Bonds, Burglary, Liability
Insurance
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1933 1
lt& Smart
TO BUY TIRES
NOW • • •
Now ...
U the time to buy tire*. Price* may
go higher. If they do, It will actually
cost you money to use up old tire*.
And with fall and winter weather
and wet and slippery road* ju*t
around the corner, It’s a good idea
to have the protection of *afe new
tires all around. And remember
this—tire wear is slower in winter
than It Is In summer—the tires you
buy now will give you full protec
tion all winter and you will still
have good tires for next spring and
summer to withstand the ravages
of hot summer roads. We carry the
complete Una of Goodyear Tires—
Speedway, Pathfinder and All-
Weather. At the price you wish to
pay we have a Goodyear Tire. Why
not come in today and talk it over?
Goodyear
jj£-
good/year
SETTLE & ROBISON
Phone 244 Jackson, Ga.
DARKEY AND MULE MAY
MEET AGAIN BUT NOT
IN THE COTTON PATCH
Wahsington, D. C.—The cot
ton-currency inflation confer
ence here brought forth a story
of the troubles of the negro
tenants at present cotton .prices,
from Judge S. F. Hobbs, of Sel
ma, Ala.
“A negro in my county, with
his family,” Hobbs said, <f raised
six bales of cotton this year and
after he had paid off his debts
to his landlord, including that
for food and fertilizer, had but
'51.50 left.
“The negro shook the dollar and
a half in his hand and looked at
it several minutes, and said
“Dats all I gets fur a year's
work. The next time I says gid
dup to a mule he’ll be a settin’
in my lap.”
REV. AND MRS. G. ASHTON
SMITH GO TO LOUISVILLE
Rev. and Mrs. G. Ashton Smith
left Sunday for Louisville, Ky., where
Mr. Smith will take a course at the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary and Mrs. Smith will study at
the Baptist Woman’s Union Training
School for a degree in Bachelor Re
ligious Eductaion. Friends are wish
ing for them a pleasant and success
ful stay in Louisville.—Monticelio
New3.
Mr. Smith formerly taught in Butts
county and until reecntly was pastor
of Macedonia church. The couple
have many friends here who are in
terested in their future welfare.
The average man requires about
3000 cubic feet of air an hour.