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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. 106
OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
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Don’t forget to pull for the Ocmul
gee river bridge.
Automobile tags must 'be bought
during January, it is announced.
They are going at bargain prices.
They are still discussing the milk
code in Washington. Looks like the'
calf may be weaned and the cow
go dry ana the dairy farmer starve
before there is any action.
Why not get busy on that audito
rium and gymnasium? This is a need
ed project and one important enough
to enlist the support of every citizen
ef Jackson and community.
Bold, bad 'bank bandits are trying
their hand in Georgia. An attempt
*as made last week to rob a bank in
Summerville. This sort of gentry
needs a good case of lead poisoning.
Farm lands are already increasing
ip price. The rise will be steady and
substantial. Farm lands have been
entirely too cheap. The young man
who wants a home should lose no
thne in acting.
The Thomaston Times nominates
Hon. J. J. Mangham as a candidate
for governor in the coming primary.
Mr. Mangham is a native of Upson
county and spent the early years of
his life in Butts. He has rendered the
state efficient service.
A million dollar bank for Butt3
county. Why not? Banks are now
clean, strong, safe and sound and
deposits are fully protected. Can the
depositor ask more? Money in the
bank is safer than hidden around
Iho house.
More than five thousand cities and
towns in the United States will have
Roosevelt Balls on January 30, the
proceeds to go to the Warm Springs
I'oundation. It is a noble gesture and
the citizens of Jackson want to do
their part.
' A few more squabbles in the de
partment of agriculture will convince
the people of Georgia that this is a
useless department, that its func
tions can better be performed by the
college of agriculture and experiment
stations. The department is costing
too much for the service performed.
The town that is afraid good roads
will injure its trade is only shadow
boxing and fooling itself. Good roads
never hurt any town, but on the
ther hand good highways have been
great builders and developers, just
as the railroads were. The town that
rs in the mud is isolated and must
pay the penalty.
The cotton campaign has only a
few more days to run and there must
b< united effort to put over the plan
that holds so much promise for far
mers and business interests of tho
South. The campaign is a good one
for the farmer and he has everything
to gain and nothing to lose by giving
hearty support to the government
plan for acreage reduction.
Many commodities are rising in
price. Paper is one of the items. This
means that the newspapers, if they
tope t stay in business, must op
erate an a cash basis, both for sub
scriptions and printing. The codes.
s. far, have enabled the big fellows
to rase their prices and the smaller
hasiaess enterprises are finding the
rough.
Tho Progress Argus appreciates the
support the Atlanta newspapers are
now giving to the paving of route
•12. If this same support had beer,
extended years ago the highway
would have yeen paved already. But
better late than never. This terri
tory deserves to get out of the mud
—and not only that but the conges
tion on the western wing of the
Dixie highway must be relieved.
They can talk about revaluing the
dollar and an “honest dollar” all
they please, but what this country
needs is to do away with tax exempt
securities. The individual who has
his money invested in land pays and
pays, while the fortunate one own
ing government bonds only clips cou
pons and smiles. This is unjust and
unfair and sooner or later tax ex
empt securities will be forced to pay
their share of tho tax burden.
Citizens of Butts county, in co
operation with other public spirited
citizens of Georgia, have made a
good start in donating an increased
acreage for park purposes at Indian
Springs. But we must not stop there.
There must 'be continued support and
co-operation in putting over the
large improvement program that will
make Indian Springs a health and
recreation center of first magnitude.
The most profitable cotton planted
last year was that the government
paid for being plowed up. Likewise
the government is now offering to
pay for land taken out of cotton
production and this is a good business
proposition. No risks, no hazards, no
boll weevil, no fear of excessive
rainfall during the summer. Any cot
ton grower will make money by
l'epting his land to the government
and then use this land for soil im
provement or grow food and feed
crops for home consumption. It
sounds almost too good to be true,
but it is true, and Uncle Sam is cer
tainly liberal with farmers of the
South.
Alas and alack, many small com
munities will find that they have
slept over their rights so far as se
curing improvements w r ith CWA
funds. The larger centers were quick
to sense the importance of govern
ment aid and with concerted pro
grams and united effort have obtain
ed new bridges, sewer extensions,
new school houses, auditoriums and
other permanent construction. In
many cases the smaller communities
have been content to sit supinely by
and allow the workers to rake leaves,
clean out ditches and do other work
that will soon be forgotten. It is all
a matter of foresight and careful
planning, plus united effort. Now the
money is about to run short and it
is likely that work will be hard to
get in the future.
Lest you forget, put in a word
for the Ocmulgee river bridge.
A VITALLY NEEDED HIGHWAY
The appearance before the high
way board Wednesday of a commit
tee of prominent 'businessmen from
Fulton, Clayton, Henry and Monroe
counties to urge the completion of
the paving of ttye highway betweer.
Atlanta and Forsyth, via McDonough
s.nd Jackson, calls attention to the
vital need of anew highway to ak
in carrying the constantly increasing
traffic between Atlanta and Macon.
No highway in Georgia is more
congested than that between the two
principal cities in the central part
of the state.
One of the first paved highways
to be completed in Georgia, it is
narrow, full of dangerous curves and
poorly graded. The result is that its
use by the heavy and fast-moving
traffic of today is accompanied by
unnecessary danger.
This 1 00-mile strip of highway
now has to carry not only the heavy
tiaffic between Atlanta and Macon,
but is the funnel through which the
traffic from north Georgia goes to
Macon and from south Georgia to
the northern section of the state and
beyond.
The proposed new highway would
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
furnish a parallel highway of ap
proximately the same length 'be
tween Atlanta and Forsyth, thus re
lieving the pressure on the present
highway for the greater part of its
distance. Not only would a completed
highway from Atlanta to Forsyth
practically double the paved mileage
between this city and Macon, but
the construction of the new route
along modern lines would permit a
further acceleration of traffic and
an increased degree of safety.
No more vital highway project ex
ists anywhere in the state and it is
to be hoped that the highway com
mission will be able to start work at
an early date on the unpaved links
of this route. —Atlanta Constitution.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
By J. D. JONES
The speaker was a citizen of an
other county. He is a son of a galiant
Confederate soldier, who followed
Lee and Jackson. He was discussing
the crime wave—thieves, thugs, kid
nappers, bandits, bank robbers, ras
cals and knaves. His conclusion was
that before the crime wave is stopped
the country must begin to hold court
under oak trees with a convenient
limb a few feet from the ground,
where no lawyers are allowed and no
technicalities can stay the hand of
justice. You may not agree with his
conclusions. This column i sliberal
—take it or leave it.
Another thing that 'brings distinc
tion to Jackson is its aggressive seed
dealers. Two of the largest pea and
bean factors in the South operate
here and during the season beans
and peas are sold all the way from
Maryland to Texas. The business is
a large and important one. This is
good publicity for Jackson and the
dealers, we imagine, look with favor
on the profits.
Coach Ellis Mann has his Jackson
high basketball team on the upgrade.
The locals aggregation won two
games last week and are improving
with each practice. The high school
teams are entitled to a modern gym
nasium for staging their games. What
say the people of the city?
Graduates of the Jackson high
school, entering colleges and univer
sities in all parts of the South, made
a better showing than those from
many other schools in the state. The
percentage of failure was only 17.4
while some schools showed a per
centage of more than fifty per cent.
The Jackson high school is on both
the State and Southern list of ac
ci edited high schools.
Not only will farmers be paid for
reducing cotton acreage ‘but the
checks will come in time to buy fer
tilizer and help make a crop. That’s
liberality on the part of your Uncle
Samuel. With cotton checks coming
in during the spring months and pep
per contracts being signed, the agri
cultural situation is brighter than
for a long while.
Paving on route 42 between the
Butts line and Locust Grove is now
under way and the familiar “detour”
sign is being used. Clayton county is
scon to begin paving and Monroe will
pave more than four miles in the
direction of Indian Springs. The un
paved links of route 42 should have
attention at once. This part of the
state wants to get out of the mud —
definitely and finally.
The suggestion of Willis B. Powell
for a Chamber of Commerce for
Butts county has won wide favor.
The Kiwanis club and other civic
and patriotic organizations are carry
ing on as best they can, but in the
very nature of things cannot perform
the mission of a county-wide Cham
ber of Commerce. This county has
unusual advantages and opportunities
ar.d an organization is needed to put
ir. full time working for community
advancement along all progress lines
“Big Court” will be convened here
the first Monday in February. The
calendar is a full one. “Big Court"
is not what it used to be when lead
ing attorneys for miles around gath
ered and spent several days if not
the full week. Modern transportation
enables attorneys to visit court for
a short while, attend to required
business and be at home in a few
hours.
DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY
Early in 1933, there were fswer
automobile accidents than during
same period in 1932.
During the last half of 1933, how
ever, the trend changed. In the year,
£0,500 persons were killed—a 3Ms
per c.ent advance over 1932.
The automobile accident toll fol
lows the amount of gasoline used in
the country with almost loving exacti
tude. During the first half of 1933,
for example, when gas consumption
was 3 per cent below the same period
in 1932, there were fewer accidents.
During the last half gas use was 2.5
per cent above—and the accident
record soared accordingly. The dan
gerous driver seems to have learned
little from the ghastly experience of
the past. He still exaggerates the
safety factors of better cars and
roads. He still cuts in and out of traf
fic, still passes on blind curves and
hills, still takes a chance to save a
second. And he leaves behind him
a shambles of deaths and injuries
and needlessly ruined property.
Everything that mechanical and
road engineers can do to make mo
toring safer, is being done—an ex
tremely small percentage of accidents
can be blamed on car failure or poor
roads. The accident problem is pure
ly an individual one—resting with
each auto owner, and with the au
thorities who make and enforce traf
fice ordinances.
In 1933 four states, whose names
deserve being recorded on an “Honor
Roll,” achieved declines in their auto
death rate—lllinois, Michigan, Vir
ginia and Wisconsin. Other states
should strive to follow them. —In-
dustrial News Review.
EVERY CITIZEN MUST DECIDE
DUTY AS A VOTER THIS YEAR
We are entering another political
year—a year which promises to bring
an unusual amount of bitterness and
mud-slinging. This is regrettable, to
be sure, but Georgians must take
their politics as they take their med
icine—with as good grace as possible.
No good citizen can escape the re
sponsibility of voting and in this way
helping do his or her part in carrying
on the political life of the state;
and since we cannot ignore this re
sponsibility every one of us should
seek honestly to do the task well.
We are constantly told—and every
one seems to know it without being
told —that the curse of the state, and
all other states as for that matter —
is cheap politics. If that is true, then
why not make up your mind now,
before the campaigns are started and
before the public mind becomes stir
red by personalities, to think the
matter over quietly, sanely for your
self and in this way place yourself
ip position to vote for the best in
terest of the whole people.
Under our system it is practically
impossible to eliminate the tin-pan
heater from politics. We cannot pre
vent people from talking. They can
say what they wish to say regardless
oi whether it is true or not and every
one is entitled to listen to whatever
another cares to say. In this way the
political fakir pushes into the lime
light and pours forth whatever he
has on his “chist.”
The only thing that wjll ever rid
the state of Georgia from so-called
cheap politics is an intelligent voting
population—a population which can
see through the fakes of the dema
gogue and the political trickster and
can understand the difference be
tween common sense and the braying
of a cross-eyed mule. No matter
what comes or goes, what is said or
thought, it is all up to the people at
last. They—and they alone—must do
the thinking, the deciding and the
voting. If they are foolish enough
to put undesirable people in office,
they have nobedy to blame but them
selves. The first great duty of every
citizen is to think it oyer carefully
for himself and vote as he deems
best.—DeKalb New Era.
FIGHT
THURSDAY NIGHT, FEBY. 1
7:30 F*. IVI.
VAN SMITH
vs
BUDDY PRUITT
5 Other Preliminary Fights
JACKSON ARMORY
ADMISSION 15 and 25c—RINGSIDE 35c
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Before Deposits Were Insured
An old-timer is the one who re
members when people would sleep
with all their valuables under theiv
pillow.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Constructive Georgian
Georgians generally will be pleased
with the announcement that Dr. An
drew M. Soule has been named di
rector of the National Emergency
Council for Georgia, and will have
charge of NRA and AAA compliance
enforcement in this state. Dr. Soule
is a capable executive and should be
able to keep Georgia in line at all
times with the Roosevelt recovery
program. If he does as well with this
job as he did as head of the State
College of Agriculture, success is as
sured.—Tifton Gazette.
Another Farm Program
The most essential farm relief
needed just now is for those on the
farm to park the car permanently
and don overalls and go to work, and
for the surplus unemployed around
the towns and cities go back to the
farm and go to work. That sort of
program will at least feed the hun
gry and pay taxes, but might not
produce money to buy new cars and
more gas.—Thomasville Press.
Spirit of Optimism
There is a spirit of optimism on
the farm these days. Everywhere peo
ple are saying “It looks as though
1934 will 'be a pretty good year to
farm.” The price of cotton already
has been set at 10 cents or higher,
and by the time the peanut crop is
ready to market the price for that
product should also 'be satisfactory.
But the most encouraging feature of
1934 is the attitude of the adminis
tration toward agriculture.—Dawson
News.
PROGRESS-ARGUS HONOR ROLL
Mrs. J. L. Carmichael, Jackson.
Miss Annie Lou McCord, Jackson.
Horace Bankston, Flovilla.
A. C. Maddox, Jackson.
Miss Mignon Lunquest, Clarendon,
Va.
B. A. Wright, Jackson.
Mrs. A. H. Smith, Jackson.
B. T. McMichael, Cork.
J. M. Greer, Flovilla.
Mrs. J. A. Cawthon, Atlanta.
J. R. Whidby, Jackson.
Mrs. J. H. Carmichael, Jackson.
J. W. Mangham, Jackson.
T. W. Higgins, Jackson.
PACE BUS LINE SCHEDULES
DEPARTURES NORTH BOUND A. M.
Monticello 8:15 (E. TANARUS.) Jackson 6:30 - 8:00 >
Locust Grove 6:55 - B:2s—McDonough 7:00 - 8:35
Arrive Atlanta 8:00 and 9:45
DEPARTURES SOUTH BOUND P. M.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 P. M. - 5:00 P. M.
McDonough 4:05 - 6:05 Locust Grove 4:15 - 6:15
Jackson 4:45 - 6:45 Monticello 6:30
BUS STATIONS
Atlanta—Union Bus Terminal, Carr.egie Way
Stockbridge—Clark’s Store
McDonough—Leslie’s Drug Store
Locust Grove —Coan’s Seivice Station
Jackson—Pace Bus Station, Third Street
Monticello—Cannon’s Drug Store
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1934
Mrs. J. B: Childs, Jenkinsburg.
J. M. Gaston, Jackson.
Mrs. L. D. Singley, Jackson.
Mrs. Frank C. Foresman, Allen
v/ood. Pa.
Miller Ogletree, Berner
Mrs. R. E. Lee, Fairport Harbor,
Ohio
G. R. Harper, Jackson
T. H. Buttrill, Jackson.
Mrs. Geneva Carmichael, Waco,
Texas.
E. U. Newton, Warrenville, S. C?"
B. B. Kelley, Jackson.
W. A. White, Jackson.
H. B. Whitaker, Jenkinsburg.
Mrs. R. A. Thaxton, Jackson.
J. H. Pope, Jackson.
W. M. Thaxton, Jackson.
M. D. Bledsoe, Covington.
Mrs. G. W. White, Jackson.
Mrs. A. M. Smith, Jackson.
F. B. Mason, Jackson.
Mrs. Lottie Martin, Jackson.
Ira Thaxton, Jackson.
Mrs. Ada Hammond, Griffin.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, Jackson.
W. T. Lofton, Jackson.
L. R. Washington, Jackson.
W. E. Gray, Covington.
H. 0. Smith, Jackson.
Dr. J. W. Harper, Hampton.
Geo. W. Townsend, Jackson.
T. J. Waldrep, Flovilla.
L. A. Atkinson, Jackson.
Mrs. J. M. Currie, Jackson.
A. L. Middlebrooks, Jackson.
W. 0. Moore, Cork.
Why
Liquid Laxatives
are Back in Favor
The public is fast returning to the use
of liquid laxatives. People have
learned that the properly prepared
liquid laxative will bring a perfect
movement without any discomfort
at the time, or after.
The dose of a liquid laxative can
be varied to suit the needs of the
individual. The action can thus be
regulated. A child is easily given the
right dose. And mild liquid laxatives
do not irritate the kidneys.
Doctors are generally agreed that
senna is the best laxative for every
body. Senna is a natural laxative. It
does not drain the system like the
cathartics that leave you so thirsty.
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a
liquid laxative which relies on senna
for its laxative action. It has the
average person’s bowels as regular as
clockwork in a few weeks’ time.
* You can always get Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin at any drugstore, ready
for use. Member N. R. A. ""