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Jackson Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at
the Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
TELEPHONE NO. 166
OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
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Butts county ought to make that
tew bridge an objective for 1934.
The festive candidate will soon
U abroad in the land and things will
begin to hum.
If you are a paper borrower, cut
it out and subscribe for your own
cevpy of the Progress-Argus. You’ll
feel better*
Sentiment in Georgia is crystal
itig in favor of a sales tax. The ad
valorem tax system has failed to
meet the state’s needs.
The Atlanta market claims to have
soid more than 35,000 mules during
the past few months. It is a pity that
Georgia farmers did not raise some
of this livestock for sale.
The director of the state bureau
of markets advocates growing more
hay in Georgia. That’s a sensible rec
ommendation. It is a good use to put
seme of the land removed from cot- *
ten production*
At any rate the weather man will
fee doing a favor to hold back trees
and shrubbery until later. For the
past two winters trees were in full
bloom in January, and of course,
got killed luter in the season.
Under the latest ruling more peo
ple are to be given employment un
der the CWA. That teems the right
thing to do. The Georgia delegation
in congress has been insisting on this
kind of program for some time.
It used to be that when politicians
took to the hustings they had to hunt
the voters up in the fields. Now
they’ll probably have to canvass the
CWA works to got in touch with a
considerable number of the electo
rate.
Congress, we hope, will pass an
Iron-clad, air-tight, fool-proof cotton
reduction law. Unless this is done
many growers will find one excuse
or another to get around the present
arrangement. The law ought to be
made to apply to all growers with
equal force.
V -
The post office department show
ed another large deficit the past
year. This is another argument in
favor of two-cent postage. Restore
letter postage to the old level and
people will write more letters. It is
another case of taxing the traffic
more than it will bear.
William Schley Howard in an ad
dress in Athens pitched into dema
gogues and politicians. Mr. Howard
an effective and entertaining
speaker. He has been prominently
veationed as a candidate for gover
nor and in the event he gets in the
race there will not be a dull moment
from start to finish.
The administration might well con
sider raising the prices of livestock
and dairy products. Beef cattle, hogs
and dairy products are entirely too
cheap and there won’t be any pros
perity on the farm until these com
modities and others are boosted in
keeping with advancing prices of
manufactured products.
Cotton is on its way to higher
terete. High priced cotton means
good times in the South. If the pres
ent acreage is sharply reduced cot
ton is likely to sell for 15 cents by
SOL This is worth thinking over,
both for the man who grows cotton
as well as the man who is holding
cotton from other years.
A lot of business men are fool
ing themselves when they say there
is no money. Everybody is eating,
wearing, riding, spending. The mail
order houses report an increase in
sales the past year. Business with
the constant advertisers is good and
there is no complaint. This ought
to be the greatest advertising year
the country has known.
Avery large part of the postal
deficit is caused by the franking
privilege, used and abused by gov
ernment departments. That, it is siaid,
accounts for some $15,000,000 of
ihe deficit. Another thing is the
granting of subsidies to railroad,
steamship and airplane companies
tor hauling mail. The whole sorry
business ought to be rooted out. The
common max is paying dear for the
st rvice he gets.
A lot of very foolish things are
being done and attempted in the
name of the “code.” For instance,
the bankers in New York proposed a
charge for use of a deposit ticket,
as well as other foolish charges. This
was promptly squelched by General
Johnson. Now they come forward
with a proposed rate of 50 cents for
hair cuts in some of the larger cities.
The best code yet devised is the code
of common honesty, fair dealings,
and practice of the Golden Rule.
COMPLETE THE JOB
The cotton acreage reduction cam
paign, now in full swing in the sou
thern states, should be completed as
early as possible. January 31 has
been named as the deadline, and all
contracts must be in hand by that
date.
Farmers of the South, showing 2
tremendous co-operative effort that
set the example for the rest of the
nation, destroyed practically one
fourth of their growing cotton last
summer. The advantages and bene
fits of that movement are still being
felt. It prevented a crisis in the
South, made possible 10 and 11 cents
cotton as against 4 and 5 cents cot
ton. In a local sense, the plow-up
campaign was worth more than
$150,000 to cotton growers of Butts
county, according to figures com
piled by County Agent B. M. Drake.
Thee South is not yet out of the
woods so far a s the cotton situation
is concerned. There is still a burden
some surplus. What has 'been so well
started must be carried to successful
conclusion. By supporting the govern
ment plan—the only plan being con
sidered—still higher prices ase as
sured for cotton.
There is so much at stake that all
cotton growers should rally to the
campaign. It 4s a time for broad un
derstanding and hearty co-operation.
Narrow selfishness should be lost
sight of in view of the objectives to
br accomplished.
When the campaign is over Butts
county wants to he enrolled as one
hundred per cent for the government
plan.
A UNITED FRONT
Mr. Willis B. Powell, long a sue
cessful newspaper editor and engag
ed in publicity work for many years,
addressing himself to the editorial
in The Progress-Argus last week con
cerning a bridge over the Ocmulgee
river, writes interestingly and con
structively concerning a Chamber of
Commerce for Butts county. This
card, which should 'be carefully read
and digested, is being carried as a
feature article on the front page in
this issue.
Mr. Powell in favoring a Chamber
of Commerce for Butts county is
really making a plea for a united
front. That is the trouble now and
has been all along, scattered shot,
sporadic effort, a lack of concerted
effort. Butts county sorely needs an
organization, county-wide in scope,
that will unite all agencies and all
forces behind a constructive program
for county development—industrial,
commercial, educational, moral and
religious.
Civic clubs cannot perform the
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
w'ork of a Chamber of Commerce.
They can aid and assist but there is
need of a constant, driving force that
only a county-wide organization can
supply.
It will be a great day in Butts
county’s history when the people
come together, pool their forces and
resources, put their shoulders to the
wheel and carry on a united cam
paign for development and progress.
COMMENDABLE INTEREST
Governor Eugene Talmadge and
members ot the State Highway De
partment are to be commended for
the interest manifested in moving fo T
the early paving of Route 42.
Much of this highway has already
been paved and some construction is
now in progress and other links will
be included in the February awards.
Several gaps are yet to be closed be
fore this section will be out of the
mud.
Governor Talmadge, born and
reared in Monroe county, has declar
ed his interest in the paving of this
highway. By ties of friendship and
kinship he has a tender feeling in his
heart for the county of his birth,
r.r,d where for many years his father,
the late Mr. Tom Talmadge, was an
outstanding and constructive citizen.
Members of the highway boarti are
also interested in hardsurfacing this
highway.
The advantages of paving this
route, connecting Macon and Atlanta,
two of the state’s largest cities, and
traversing a rich and populous ter
ritory, have often 'been pointed out
in these columns. Clayton, Henry,
Butts and to some extent Monroe,
are still in the “mud,” so. far as
having an all-weather outlet is con
cerned. Paving of route 42 will open
up a section rich in scenic beauty and
possessing an abundant store of nat
ural resources.
As has been said mahy times be
fore, this highway connecting Ma
con and Atlanta is miles shorter than
any existing highway.
Not only that, but the traffic on
the western wing of the Dixie high
way is congested and is becoming a
real problem. Another highway be
tween Macon and Atlanta is needed
to relieve this congestion.
There are scores of valid argu
ments in favor of the early paving
of Route 42. There is no good reason
for not completing this road at the
earliest possible time.
In moving for the paving of this
important highway Governor Tal
madge and members of the State
Highway Department are assured of
hearty support and liberal co-opera
tion.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
By J. D. JONKS
The Avon Players appearing in
Hamlet at the Jackson school audi
torium Friday evening scored an ar
tistic triumph. Jackson, we are in
formed, is the smallest city ever to
be offered a production by this well
known group of artists. The audience
made up in appreciation what it lack
ed in numbers. The legitimate dra
ma still has a powerful appeal and
may stage a comeback.
Maddox Brothers still have an
abiding faith in Butts county farm
lands. Already owning valuable acre
age, they increased their holdings
the past week by purchase of a part
of the wade Hammond tract. There
is no better investment than Georgia
real estate and a lot of people are
beginning to see this.
Scores of readers have compliment
ed The Progress-Argus on its sug
gestion for a modern bridge to span
the Ocmulgee river and open up traf
fic from east to west on the im
portant state highway from Alabama
to Augusta. The project is chock full
of merit and no time should be lost
in getting this bridge under construc
tion. It will prove a wonderful con
venience to the traveling public.
Mr. A. C. (Barney) Maddox has a
favorite scheme for getting rid of oil
stock salesmen and other high-pres
sure and slick-tongued salesmen. He
recently, he says, had a visit from
two of these salesmen, offering
shares in an Oklahoma oil field that
—they claimed —paid 33 1-3 per cent
or. the investment. Mr. Maddox has
made a success of his own affairs by
honesty and close application to bus
iness and knows farming from the
ground up. So he thought the propo
sition too good to 'be true and final
ly got rid of the pests by asking them
if they knew how to adjust mule
millinery and treat horse coloc —or
words to that effect.
If it were left to popular vote thi
column feels sure the citizens of
Jackson would vote to secure CWA
funds and build anew auditorium
and gymnasium. These are improve
ments very much needed and can be
obtained with the right sort of co
operation. The city of Jackson owes
this to the school children. The best
is none too good for the school chil
dren, who almost before we realize
it, will be men and women of to
morrow. Let’s not neglect this big
opportunity.
There’s not a teacher in this whole
section who has done more for the
training of the youth of this com
munity than Miss Annie Lou Mc-
Cord, beloved teacher of the first
grade in the Jackson public schools.
For a great many years she has 'been
taking the tots as they enter school
and training them, by precept and
example, and starting them on the
upward climb through the higher
grades and on to college and the
great school of life. They used to
say of the beloved “Uncle Dave”
Barrow, chancellor of the University
of Georgia, that the freshmen were
bis pets. So the first grade pupils are
Miss Annie Lou’s pets and right well
does she teach and nourish them and
instill the principles that develop into
splendid manhood and womanhood.
Butts county farmers, we are in
formed by the field agent of the
Seed Loan Office, have already paid
more than 9814 per cent of the 1933
loans and will make it 99 per cent
when all cotton options have been
received. Isn’t that a wonderful rec
ord, particularly so when it is re
membered the county had a disas
trous hail storm last spring? There
is no better risk on earth than the
farmer and when loans are placed
in moderate amounts they are nearly
always repaid in full. With all the
corruption and rottenness unearthed
in high places in Washington and in
high financial circles, farmers of
America are to be congratulated and
commended for their integrity, hon
esty and willingness to tote fair. It
is a wonderful record.
The administration in Washington
ought to do something about the
milk situation before the farmers are
finally starved. Why the milk code
has not ‘been signed remains a mys
tery. The dairy and livestock indus
try returns more to America than
any branch of agriculture. The in
dustry is important enough to get a
fair deal. Georgia is particularly in
terested because this state is just
entering a large dairy and livestock
development, but under present con
ditions the dairy farmers are suffer
ing grievously and need relief.
Friday, January 19, will be the
birthday of General Robert E. Lee.
As the years pass in review General
Lee is growing in fame for his moral
grandeur as well as his military
genius. His life and career is a good
example for the youth of America.
The South does well to honor its
great leader whose victories in peace
were no less great than his triumphs
in war.
The people of Butts county, we
are encouraged to believe from ex
pressions recently heard, are inclined
to make this a year of county-wide
co-operation. This is the spirit need
ed to achieve success. Team work
and team play were never needed
more than now. By pooling our forces
and resources we can do big things
for Butts county this year.
With cheaper rates in effect it ap
pears to us that now is a good time
for the Georgia Power Company to
push rural electrification. Rural com-
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48 Lbs. Guaranteed Self Rising Flour $1.75
24 Lbs. Guaranteed Self Rising Flour 90c
25 Lb. Bag Dixie Crystal Sugar $1.25
1 Pound Blue Ridge Coffee 16c
2 Lbs. Pure Grain Coffee (we grind it) 25c
2 Pink Salmon 25c
2 Cans Full Pack Cove Oysters 25c
Palm Olive Soap, Each Bar 05c
White Salt Fish, pound 10c
Full Cream Cheese, pound 15c
1000 Sheet Tissue, Package 05c
McCormicks Salad Dressing (none better) Qt. 25c
PHONE 44 WE DELIVER
munities of the state will grow, pros
per and develop and have more of
the worthwhile things of life when
electricity is brought to them. Elec
tricity is the modern burden bearer.
It removes much of the drudgery
from farm life. The cheaper l-ates
and consequent smaller revenue may
turn out to be a blessing if electricity
is made available to an increasing
number of farm homes.
FOR THESE KIND WORDS
THANKS
The Jackson Progress-Argus, edi
ted so creditably by our good friend,
J. Doyle Jones, has just rounded out
sixty-one years of faithful and con
structive service to the territory
served by that paper. There is no
better newspaper in Georgia or the
South than The Progress-Argus and
The News heartily congratulates it
upon reaching another milestone in
its splendid career. Monticello
News.
HILL ON LEE
Friday is the birthday of that
princely American, General Robert
E. Lee. Of all the tributes paid the
great leader none is more beautiful
than that of Benjamin Harvey Hill,
Georgia’s illustrious statesman and
orator. It is as follows:
“When the future historian
shall come to survey the charac
ter of Lee he will find it rising
like some mountain peak above
the undulating plain of humani
ty, and he must lift his eyes
toward heaven to catch its sum
mit. He possessed every virtue
of other commanders without
their vices. He was a foe with
out hate, a friend without
treachery, a soldier without
cruelty, a victor without oppres
sion, and a victim without mur
muring. He was a public officer
without vices, a private citizen
without wrong, a neighbor with
out reproach, a Christian with
out hypocrisy and a mail without
guile. He was Caesar without his
ambition; Frederick without his
tyranny; Napoleon without his
selfishness, and Washington
without his reward. He was gen
tle as a woman in life; modest
and pure as a virgin in thought;
watchful as a Roman vestal in
duty; submissive to law as
Socrates, and grand in battle as
Achilles.”
YOU OWE UNCLE SAM
The most quoted editorial of The
Eagle recently was captioned, “Pay
Day’s A-Coming.” The opinion se*:
forth was that it behooved Ameri
cans to realize they were the United
States and what their government
owed they owed themselves.
At present the United States owes
more than twenty-three billion dol
lars. That means that you and you,
whether child, woman, man, imbecile,
criminal or what not, owes $23,000,-
000,000. That means that you indi
vidually are responsible for $196 of
that debt, just as are your neighbor,
his neighbor and all the rest of us in
these United States.
Twenty-three 'billion dollars! Just
how much money is that? Well, let’s
make it only one billion and try to
comprehend this huge sum.
If Pontius Pilate, who condemned
Christ, had spent a thousand dollars
a day up until 1933, he would still
have left nearly three hundred mil
lion dollars! If one could and would
spend one thousand dollars an hour,
it would require exactly one hundred
and twenty-three years for the un
heard-of spendthrift to get rid of a
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934
billion dollars!
It would take eleven years to
squander a billion at the impossible
rate of one thousand dollars a min
ute. And a billion loaned at two per
cent interest would bring in two
hundred million dollars per year.
Getting some idea of Uncle Sam’s
solvency? Beginning to realize that
a billion dollars is little more than
penny ante change? Starting to ap
preciate the greatness of our solons
when they appropriate a billion dol
lars for pork-barrelling or some un
necessary governmental extravangan
za?
The United States owes four bif*
lion dollars more than all the gold
mined since America was discovered
four hundred and forty-one years
ago.
And at the present rate Uncle Sam
is increasing his in-the-red at the
rate of one 'billion dollars every
thirty days.
This fantastic borrowing is from
the bullion barons of this American
plutocracy. And when they call for
their pound of flesh it will take more
than the brilliance of a Portia to save
the treasury.
Rather is it more likely that these
moneyed Shylocks will operate the
government as they see fit.
Think on these things and begin
saving a little for the day of reckon
ing. Even better, look around and
send someone to Washington who has
some discretion in spending somebody
else’s money.—Gainesville Eagle.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Difference of Opinion
Some people have been amazed
and gratified and some have only
been amazed at the lavish expendi
ture on the part of the government.
There has been a general opinion 1
that the money is 'being used for a
good cause and there has been faith
that those in charge of the
have the wisdom to see and bring
about a happy ending to it all. Those
who have been groping for an ex
planation of many of the problems
involved, the main one being how
the government is going to be reim
bursed, will watch with interest tho
activities of the national legislators
during the next few months.—Mon
roe Advertiser.
The Fly in The Ointment
The three-cent stamp, it seems, is
here to stay. Postmaster General Far
ley has suggested that the three-cent
postage rate be continued. Postal
receipts declined last year for the
third successive year, receipts total
ing only $587,631,364, while expen
ditures were $700,006,256. The
main reason is the large subsidies
which the post office department
pays to steamship, airplane and rail
lines for transportation of the mails.
Cut out the subsidies and the depart
ment might break even, even if it
did not show a deficit.—Tifton Ga
zette.
Explanation Explained
It isn’t overproduction. It is a
lack of the thing called money with
which to buy things.—Greensboro
Herald-Journal. Jjjj
Why Not Abolish It?
The office of Commissioner of Ag
riculture seems to be a hotbed of.
unrest and dissatisfaction about all 1
the time. Now Commissioner Adams
and State Veterinarian Sutton are at
loggerheads over the office of the
latter, and some warm developments
are probable before the spat is set
tled.—Madison Madisonian.