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Jaekson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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the Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
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Get the highway work started.
That is what the people want to hear.
The summer of 1933 was plenty
warm, hut next year, politically
speaking, will be a sizzler.
The politicians will make a des
perate effort to get Georgia out of
the mud before election time.:
Christmas is just around the cor
ner and we hope all the relief meas
ures function properly in time for
Santa Claus.
The Atlanta Constitution refers to
Governor Talmadge as a go-getter
governor. A steady-firer might be an
appropriate appellation.
The highway department has in
vested in several hundred head of
mules. Probably preparing to replace
gas-burners with hay-burners.
During: the world war this country
suffered as a result of so many dol
lar-a-year men. It may be that we
will need relief from the brain trust.
Those who want to engage in the
livestock business should breed mules
and fine bird dogs. There is a good
demand for both at high prices just
now.
The experts are urging that cotton
stalks be plowed up to check the boll
weevil. Why not let the pests run
wild and there will be less cotton to
plow up?
Drives of one kind and another are
almost as numerous as during war
days. They are probably all deserv
ing, provided one has the funds to
contribute.
And why shouldn’t a farmer strike
if he wunts to? All other classes are
striking and threatening to strike.
The farmer ought to go modern and
keep up with the procession.
Why should any Georgia farmer
pay a processing tax on flour, meal
and meat? He will not have to do
this if he produces these things at
home. He cannot afford to do less
and expect to stay in business.
Georgia farm land is still a good
investment for the man who wants
to own a home and be his own boss.
So far farmers are not bothered with
codes and that is worth something.
Farm lands will be much higher be
fore many years.
Nobody, so far as we have heard,
is complaining about the high cost
of riding. Yet if some of the money
spent for riding were saved and in
vested in things needed in the home
we would have a far different story
to tell in just a few months.
The National Recovery Act will
be just what the people want it to
be. If everybody backs up the presi
dent the NRA will go over in a big
way. To succeed it must have behind
ii public sentiment and the co-opera
tion of the whole body of citizens.
If the nations of Europe are deter
mined to fight we hope they will be
forced to fight on a cash and carry
basis. In that event the war will
not be a long one. The United States
ought to have the good sense to keep
both its men and money at home.
The country likes a good deal of
being broke, judging by the crowds
at the football games. Some of the
larger fields have room for 75,000
01 more and all available space is
readily taken. The people always
seem to have money to spend for
the things they really want.
Regardless of what happens in
Washington, it is important that far
mers of Georgia fortify themselves
with an abundance of home grown
fopd and feed. This is the first step
in economic independence. By all
I odds there ought to be a large acre
age of fall grains planted.
Those western farmers seem to
think the way to help the agricultu
ral situation is by striking and this
they are proceeding to do. It will at
least make the country think in a
serious way. Wonder what would
happen if all farmers in the nation
decided to go on a strike? For one
thing it would soon have the large
cities on a limb.
The governor, we are told, has
secured government funds to build
two bridges across the Savannah riv
ei and one across the Ocmulgee river
between Telfair and Coffee counties.
Here’s hoping the governor or high
way department will find funds to
construct a bridge across the Ocmul
gee between Jasper and Butts coun
ties. This project is one of the most
needed in the entire state.
Some of the weekly papers are
getting after those editors who have
no editorial policy. On the whole
Georgia has a most creditable weekly
press, but in some cases the editors
have no opinions of their own. A
newspaper without an editorial poli
cy is a weak and puny excuse. What
has happened in many cases, we
think, is that those attempting to
run newspapers selected the wrong
calling.
Some very competent authorities
believe that advertising was a potent
factor in helping win the World War.
If the war on the depression is to
be won it is certain that advertising
will play a leading part. At no time
in the country’s history has the buy
ing public been more anxious for
store news. It is feared a lot of bus
iness men are fooling themselves
lather than their customers when
they refuse to use newspaper space
in their home papers.
A MEDDLER SQUELCHED
Frances Perkins acted with intel
ligent promptness in squelching the
ovef-zealous federal agent who fig
ured that part of his job in enforcing
the NRA was to tell newspaper edi
tors what they could or could not
print.
This chap went to an Alabama
town to settle a coal strike, and while
there he seems to have informed a
local newspaper editor that articles
the editor was printing on labor
unions were in violation of the NRA
and might make him liable to prose
cution.
“You have no right,” Miss Per
kins promptly informed this man and
bis brother agents, “to tell any edi
tor what he may or may not print
it', his news or editorial columns.
There is nothing in the N. R. A. or
any other federal statute which gives
you such right.”
It was a well-merited rebuke to a
peculiarly offensive form of offici
ous meddling.—Griffin News.
NO WONDER WE ARE BUSTED
The papers are being filled these
days with long rows of figures. We
are reading about what other na
tions owe us, and which evidently,
they never expect to pay; about what
our government, which we under
stood to be busted a few months
ago, is ready to put out in various
kinds of relief funds; and the numer
ous amounts which we have lost in
private investments, stocks, bonds
and other kinds of junk which have
turned out worthless. These figures
representing many millions of dollars
make a plain dollar-a-week man diz
zy-headed. As well as we can guess,
somebody sold this country a few
years ago two or tree quadrillions—
the largest amount we ever heard of
—of gold bricks and if these gold
bricks which were handed to us by
foreign borrower's and investment
promotors could all be collected in
one pile, the pyramid of Cheops
would look like a gnat’s toenail
perched on the top of the back of
a bull elephant. The antedeluvians.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGI*
who were reported to have been a
rather nutty lot, built a tower which
reached above the clouds and then
lest their speech. We seem to be
ready to build a pyramid higher than
anybody else and we are still talk
ing—talking about money by the mil
lions. We seem to have quit having
anything to do with small change
any more. A few years ago we loaned
by the billions, we spent by the bil
lions, we burned up, shot up and
otherwise destroyed by the billions.
We spent what we had and borrow
ed all we could. It has always been
easy to slip into debt. It is not always
easy to get out. No wonder we are
hard up.—DeKalb New Era.
NEW PROBLEM ON HORIZON
The problem of caring for the
Southern tenants and “share crop
pers,” whose sustenance will be tak
en away by the 1934 crop reduction
is one of the most important tasks
facing the Government. It is esti
mated by Peter Molyneaux, editor
cf the Texas Weekly, that 200,000
families in the South will be turned
adrift when the 40 per cent reduc
tion becomes effective. Planters wil!
.'eceive from $3 to sll for each acre
lying idle, the exact amount depend
ing upon the productivity of the land,
but the owners of the land or those
who hold leases are the only ones to
whom the Government has a legal
light to pay. One of the plans con
sidered by the Agricultui’al Adjust
ment Administration is that of turn
ing over the idle land to the tenants
to be used as homesteads, where they
can have a horse and cow, and raise
enough food for their families. The
snag here is that while the Govern
ment is renting the land from the
planters, the planters still have a
vested claim to the land and have a
light to specify to what use the land
should be put. It is generally con
ceded that this problem differs great
ly in the various parts of the South,
and that to be handled satisfactorily
it must be handled locally.—Wes
leyan Christian Advocate.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
The Remembered Man
The taxpayer is not the forgotten
man. He is the remembered man.
Every time he turns it seems the gov
ernment extracts some toll. He pays
property taxes, net income taxes,
gross income taxes, sales taxes, ser
vice taxes and perhaps a hundred or
more others we can’t call to mind at
the moment. When there is paying
to be done the taxpayer is the re
memberd man.—Dawson News.
Thinning Them Out
The State Department of Agricul
ture, once noted for its large retinue
of officeholders, is being trimmed
down very rapidly in keeping with
other state departments. Time was
when, anywhere you went, you would
run across an agent of the depart
ment, but after the latest trimming
down, we imagine they will be hard
to find. The same condition also will
soon be true of highway department
employees, who once cluttered up the
highways.—Tifton Gazette.
Be Careful With Fire
This is God’s country, don’t burn
it up and make it look like hell.—
Albany Herald.
Getting on Bandwagoln
We understand that some of the
publicity sent out in connection with
the proposition of the government
taking a part in the financing of the
public schools, wherever the necessi
ty exists, is more rosy than the ac
tual facts justify. The number of
public schools in the United States
which is in a positiort to place a fi
nancial burden upon the government
is vast, and this proposal, coupled
with others which have been put into
nperation, might prove to be more
than the traffic could bear. It ap
pears that there is a marathon in
progress to determine what organiza
tion or group will add the finishing
touches to the bankruptcy of the
government. —Monroe Advertiser.
It is claimed there are 18,000,000
miles of unexplored country on the
earth.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
By J. D. JONES
Went down to the Georgia-Mercer
football game in Macon Friday. Butts
county was well represented at this
big game. Georgia was lucky to win
by a 13 to -12 score. It was an in
teresting and colorful affair, with
the rival bands whooping ’em up in
big league style.
J. P. Etheridge, Jr., who did good
work as principal of the Jackson
high school the past year, is now con
nected with the Macon Telegraph and
is in line for rapid advancement.
Mr. Etheridge likes newspaper work
and is a well informed and interest
ing Writer. His parents formerly re
sided in Jackson. For many years
Mr, Etheridge was connected with
the firm of Etheridge-Smith Compa
ny. Mrs. Etheridge, before her mar
riage was Miss Willie Cooper, and a
former beloved teacher in the Jack
son schools. Their second son, Coop
er, is a junior in Mercer University.
Mr. C. M. Compton, who holds the
position of appraiser with the Fed
eral Land Bank, spent the week-end
a* home. During the past week Mr.
Compton made some special reports
in Northwest Georgia, covering Chat
tooga, Gilmer, Fannin and Bartow
counties. He is much impressed with
that section of the state and thinks
conditions are somewhat better there
than in this section. The people of
Chattooga county, where Mr. B. M.
Drake was county agent for many
years, rate Mr. Drake as one of the
best -farm agents in the South, Mr.
Compton states. So do the citizens
of Butts.
Mark A. Smith, elected governor
of the Georgia Kiwanis district at
the state convention in Atlanta last
week, is a prominent educator and
civic leader. He has been head of
the R. E. Lee Institute for many
years. Mr. Smith served as lieuten
ant governor of the second division
last year and is well qualified for the
post to which he was named. The
Jackson Kiwanis club helped to or
ganize the Thomaston club and con
siderable pride is taken in the fact
that Mr. Smith was elevated to the
highest office ifl the Georgia Kiwan
is district.
The improvements being carried
on at Indian Springs by the Civilian
Conservation Corps are beginning to
show to advantage. The work seemed
slow at firsi but real progress is now
being made. A big campaign has been
outlined and when carried to com
pletion the state park at Indian
Springs will be one of the show places
of Georgia. Citizens of Butts county
ought to appreciate what the C. C. C.
camp is doing at the state park and
should support this work in every
way possible.
News received in Jackson show
that the grain crop in Butts county
will be larger than usual. There are
probably several reasons for this—
the importance of the live-at-home
program, the high cost of flour, the
destruction of the grain crop last
spring by the hail storm. One seed
dealer states that his sales to this
date are already larger than he had
hoped for all season. With the whole
world turned upside down the farmei
who has his home supplies will be in
strong position.
Mr. H. G. Asbury, of Jenkinsburg,
president of The Farmers Bank and
a former member of the Butts coun
ty commissioners, is going in for
crimson clover on a big scale. He
bought a ton of seed originally and
has since increased his order by sev
eral hundred pounds. Mr. Asbury
wants to see his land enriched in the
shortest time possible, and in the
opinion of County Agent Drake, has
picked the right winter legume for
soil improveemnt.
When the bands begin to play and
the bigwigs take their places in the
line of March in Macon’s big NRA
parade Thursday, Butts county will
COAL
ORIGINAL MONTEVALLI)
The kind you have always used. Min
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MINING Cos. at Aldrich, Ala., for 77
years.
CREECH
the kind we have sold for the patft ten
years. Mined at Low, Ky.
Both are good and we will
appreciate your orders.
Nutt & Bond
PHONE 67 -
be right there. A most interesting
float has been prepared under the di
rection of Willis B. Powell and Ralph
N. Buffington of the Jackson C. C.
C. camp. The float, depicting Wil
liam Mclntosh signing the treaty at
Indian Springs, is sure to win fav
orable comment. Butts county will
be represented by a large delegation.
Colonel James M. Kimbrough, who
is to be retired on October 31, has
had a long and distinguished military
career. Native of Griffin, he saw ser
vice in the Spanish-American war
and in the Philippine Islands and was
formerly commandant of cadets at
the University of Georgia. For many
years he has been connected with the
Georgia National Guard as instruc
tion officer. He is held in the high
est esteem by all who know him.
Colonel Kimbrough is a most likeable
man and a gentleman of the highest
character and integrity.
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Elder,
of Knoxville, Tenn., are visiting rel
atives here and were guests of Dr.
Pllder’s aunt, Mrs. I. J. Slaughter. Dr.
Elder, one of the best known phy
sicians in the South, is superinten
dent of the Knoxville General Hos
pital. He has long been a subscriber
to The Progress-Argus and says the
paper is read with eager interest.
While visiting here Miss Viola
Slaughter invited in a few of Dr.
Elder’s former schoolmates and rem
iniscenses were enjoyed. Friends
here are proud of the success Dr.
Elder has achieved.
Dan Thurston is back on the job
with the Jackson National Bank after
an absence of a month, during which
ht: submitted to an operation, and
ij being cordially welcomed by a host
of friends. Mr. Thurston by his uni
form tact, kindness and courtesy has
won the confidence and esteem of
his customers. He is a valued em
ployee of the bank and his ability,
experience and agreeable personality
will carry him far in the business
world.
The Mimosa Garden Club has
chosen for an objective the beautifi
cation of the Indian Springs high
way. This is a laudable undertaking
and one that should enlist the sup-
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All Kinds of
FIRE INSURANCE
Including System Gins, Cotton, Country
Property, Dwellings, Household
Furniture, Plate Glass
Also
Bonds, Burglary, Liability
Insurance
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933
port and co-operation of all proper
ty owners and the general public.
Our highways can. be made more at
tractive and inviting by the planting
of trees and flowers. This is con
structive work. At the same time the
club would do well to begin a fight
on the unsightly signs that clutter
cur roads and highways. That is de
structive work. Both movements
should be carried on simultaneously.
And not only should road signs be
banned, but dilapidated buildings—
a real eyesore—should be removed-
We were impressed by this Friday
in going to Macon. The splendid
highway, one that bears heavy traf
fic through the heart of the state,
is made to look ugly in many places
by old tenant houses and buildings
that serve no useful purpose. By all
odds they ought to be torn down and
the rubbish removed. It would make
things look better and the thousands
of tourists who pass through Geor
gia annually would have a better im
pression of our state. The good la
dies of the Mimosa Garden Club have
started something. Let’s help them
finish it.
The government seed and fertiliz
er loans will be discontinued another
year. Read the article in this issue
by Prof. William Firor, of the Geor
gia College of Agriculture. There
will be anew set-up to handle farm
loans. Better get, acquainted with the
details. The county agent will give
you information.
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