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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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Are you spending home dollars at
home?
Have you ca'ight the clean up and
paint up spirit?
An advertisement in the home
paper is worth several on the fence.
Patronize the advertisers. They
think enough of your business to ask
for it.
What has become of the PWA pro
ject for anew auditorium and gym
nasium in Jackson?
If all the people pardoned by gov
ernor Talmadge vote for him he
should he elected on the first ballot.
One of the things the Kiwanis
club should hammer on constantly is
the matter of better passenger and
mail service for Butts county.
Now that strikes are in order why
don’t the farmers get in the strike
game? This would soon show who
is he big boss in this country.
—L
flit re are worse things than beiny
able to balance the budget. For in
stance, repudiating the debt to Con
federate veterans and teachers.
Butts county is to have a modern
government airport. Another pro
gressive movement carried to success
ful conclusion.
The “Joe Brown” train is to be
restored between south Georgia
points ant] Macon. This section
needs more passenger trains and bet
ter mail service.
Macon lias secured anew bridge
over the Oenudgee river. Why not
a bridge between Jackson and Monti
cello? This proposition is full of
merit.
You can’t fool all the people all the
time and this is the reason why the
non-adftrtisers is not getting the
business. The trading public expects
and demands store news.
Some authorities claim striges ere
a sign of returning prosperity. If
•that ue true, prosperity must be com
ing from around the corner, for there
are strikes and rumors of strikes al
most without number.
While farmers are being paid to
grow less cotton they should see to
it that there are plenty of food and
feed crops produced on the cotton
land. Georgia is still buying too
much front other states.
A bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush and teachers would gather
have their money now than wait for
the legislature to divert highway
funds. The legislature may do this
and it may not.
Almost every business in the coun
try is working under a code. The
co-operation of the public can make
conditions easier for the business
men. Shop early in the day and early
in the week.
When the state Democratic execu
tive committee went out of its way
to levy assessments on candidates
for congress and circuit judges and
solicitors general it stirred up a
hornet’s nest and the county commit
tees are being heard from in no un
certain terms. Several counties are
threatening to hold no primaries.
That would serve the state committee
right.
The Bankhead cotton law has been
enacted and signed by the president.
Those who have been clamoring for
cotton control now have it. To be
effective the law must have the sup
port and co-operation of the cotton
growing states.
All bodies who handle public funds
should publish regularly statements
showing receipts and expenditures.
This is information the taxpayers are
entitled to have. Many counties are
doing this and there is no reason
why all counties should not do i.t
Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
who addressed a gathering at Trion
Saturday, was given an enthusiastic
welcome. Dick Russell is making
good in the senate and indications
are he will be kept there for a good
many years.
The country is full of quack
advertising schemes designed to sep
al ate the business men from their
cash. The Progress-Argus is turn
ing down all these schemes and offers
the home town business men an op
portunity to advertise their goods in
ail penda'blc way.
County government may be inef
ficient but at that it will be a long
time before we have consolidation of
counties in Georgia. Tile small
counties are making a good record in
holding down taxes and in that re
gard have made a better showing
than many of the larger counties.
Soil improvement work in Butts
county is now showing to the best
advantage. There are many fields
of pretty clover, Austrain winter peas
and other legumes to be turned unde,
for soil improvement. This is con
structive work. Support the county
agent in this movement.
The candidates for commissioner
of agriculture will now have an op
portunity to tell the voters how they
propose to make the department
serve the people. Unless this can'he
demonstrated the legislature will
abolish the department one of these
days, for the people are tired of see
ing money wasted to build up politi
cal fences.
All over the South tender tributes
will be paid this week to the Confed
erate veterans. Many Georgia coun
ties have lost their last Confederate
soldier and in nearly all counties the
number is few. While they are still
living they will be honored and
shown every possible courtesy by a
grateful people.
Enforcement of the graphic arts
code should enable the newspapers
to clean up their business and pro
duce better papers. On the whole
Georgia has a most creditable week
ly press. There are a few execu
tions. The code nor nothing else
that can 'be thought of will make a
newspaper man out of a misfit and
the sooner this is recognized the bet-
U t it will be .
COMMUNITY ADVERTISING
The Kiwanis club through tht prop
er committee should lose no tin; -
in getting busy for a co-operative
advertising campaign this fall. Butts
county can materially increase its
lading territory by the proper use
of advertising. And community ad
vertising, with every business con
■ern paying a just share of the cost,
probably the most effective of all.
The advantages of home markets
should be pointed out and the mes
sage should be broadcast far and
wide. Automobiles have eliminated
distance and the city fifty or sixty
miles away is now nearer than the
county site in the days of horses and
buggies. There are no longer fences
built around trading zones. Business
is open to any man anywhere who
asks for it.
Many communities nave tried co
operative advertising campaigns for
the past few years and have found
it rpofitable. Jackson has many ad
vantages as a trading center. These
advantages should be made known to
the people with money to spend.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
WILL YOU BE READY?
Saturday, May 5, is the last day to
register for the elections for 1931.
.all that date any voter may regis
ter and qualify by simply paying his
poll tax.
Several hundred voters in Butts
county are behind with their taxes.
The board of registrars will notify
all those delinquent. It is an easy
matter to call at the court house
and get this matter adjusted. Bui
prompt action is necessary. It will
be too late after May 5.
Butts county has an important
election on May 18. On September
12 all state house officers will be
nominated. These elections are im
portant enough to enlist the atten
tion of every citizen who is interest
ed in clean and honest government.
Unless the great body of citizens reg
ister and vote —rshow by their actions
that they want the highest type men
to represent them —they have no
right to complain at anything that
happens.
There are no problems of govern
ment that cannot be cured the
ballot. Tiie ballot is all important
in our system of government. See
that you are ready for the year’s
electins and then be prepared to
vote your honest convictions.
GEORGIA AND THE NEW DEAL
Ar, pointed out by Senator Richard
B. Russell, Jr., in his address at
Trion Saturday, Georgia is indebted
to :he New Deal for many advantages
and benefits. This state has shared
liberally in the many activities of the
Roosevelt administration*.
Farmers have been paid for plov
ng up their cotton, for talcing cotton
lands out of production, in the Civil
Works and Public Works adminis
tration, in the emergency seed loans
for crop production, in financing
home ownership and in the work of
the Civilian Conservation Corps and
in other ways. A single one of these
constructive measures might not
amount to much, but taken to
gether they have changed the entire
situation and 'brought courage and
hope instead of pessimism and de
spair.
The Roosevelt administration Ins
done much to restore confidence.
People are feeling better and face
the future confident of final victory
over the troubles that confront them.
This is in marked contrast to the
Coolidge and Hoover policies of al
lowing things to drift. The country,
had drifted near the rocks when
Fiesdent Roosevelt took office. In
a short time he changed the entire
picture.
Business is on the upgrade but
there is a good deal yet to be done.
One of the most effective ways tc
help in the present emergency is to
give the administration active and
loyal support.
STRENGTH IN UNITY
Much of hope and encouragement
is taking place in Butts county and
it is a time to be of good cheer. One
of the greatest benefits the county
has received in years was the restor
ation of normal 'banking facilities.
All lines of business are going for
ward with faith and courage.
The highways of the county are
being paved, not at a rate that suits
all of us, but in a way that insures
the completion of main trunk lines
in a short time. Other highways aiv
being taken over by the state for
maintenance and ’incerased in
come will flow to the country from
the gasoline tax.
Permanent and far-reaching do
velopmens are being carried out at
Indian Springs, Georgia's greatest
health resort. A state park of
which all Georgia will be proud is in
the making. Additional acreage has
recently been added. This land is
being improved by members of the
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Building and improving are going
forward. Real estate values are ad
vancing. People are becoming land
minded.
Employment is picking up. Fac
tories are running at normal capa
city. In the fail the canning of pi
miento peppers, to be grown and sold
by Butts county farmers, will be re
sumed, with a consequent large in
crease in pay rolls.
It is a time to be og good cheer
and to pull together.
THE FINEST CODE OF ALL.
There has never been a code writ
ten which could have improved on
that one which Moses wrote in the
I
beginning of things—called': “T.hc
Ten Commandments.” If every one
had all along observed its teachings
the country never would have gotten
in the sad state it has been in latel.y
It will take a going back to these
same commandments and for folks
to learn to love their fellow men
more before there will ever 'oe any
real happiness or prosperity for a
people.
Chas has always followed when a
people has forgotten its God and be
come ruled by selfishness. Self-in
terest in the primary cause of trouble
everywhere, in the home, in busi
ness and among nations.
There can be no strong character.-:
which are purely selfish. Selfish
people know nothing of sacrifice,
generosity or altruism. They are
swayed only by their own desires.
The Ten Commandments did away
with all the self-interest and taught
men to love the right and to eschew
that which is evil. A return to an
observance of the Mosaic law will
restore peace and harmony to a sin
sick and sin tossed world. —Cordele
Dispatch.
COUNTRY PAPERS.
Turning from the city newspapers
to small town press exchanges that
come to the editor’s desk is like step
ping from the slums, full of vice,
into an old-fashioned garden of
sweet lavender and thyme and thr
scent perennial flowesr. The pegas
of the big dailies are so full of mur
der, immorality, thievery and self
ishness that the better news is ob
scured by these glaring shatterings
of the decalogue. One puts the
papers aside with a feeling of de
pression and heartache that this is
a world so full of terribly unhappy
tilings.
Then pjeking up tire papers that
, record the happenings of the little
town around us, one gains renewed
faith in life. Here are set forth only
that which uplifts a community—the
activites of the busness men, the
church items, the happy social gath
erings of the people, the marriages,
births and deaths, farmers’ items and
al ! the thousands and one daily occur
ances that make up the simple annals
of the great common people, who
are really the foundation of this
broad country of ours.
Some times people speak lightly of
the country newspaper, 'but it is ont
of the most potent uplifting factors
in our national existance. —Christ-
ian Science Monitor.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
By J. D. JONES
‘‘Get Dr. Soule” was a popular
battle cry among the politicians a
few years ago. The politicians pre
vailed and Dr. Soule lost his con
nection with the State College of
Agriculture, but not until he had
built that institution from almost
nothing to one of the leading insti
totions of the kind in America. The
Georgia State College of Agriculture
will ever be a lasting monument to
Dr. Soule. He rendered the state
of Georgia and the entire South a
distinguished service. The death of
Dr. Soule last week removes one of
the foremost educators, builders anu
leaders that Georgia has ever known.
As the years come and go Dr. Soule’s
great work in behalf of a better agri
culture will be recognized and ap
preciated.
At a meeting of the publishers and
printers of the fourth district in Grif
fin Friday, to hear the graphic arts
code discussed by 0. W. Passavant,
state administrator, there w-as form
ed the Fourth Congressional District
Publishers and Printers Association.
This group, of which Quimby Melton,
editor of the Griffin-. News, is presi
dent, will seek to bring about closer
co-operation among the publishers
A CO-OPERATIVE ERA
Business has entered anew era, be
coming subject to anew set of principles
of which a spirit of co-operation is one of
the first.
' * *
Recognizing the trend and the justice
of it, this Bank continues and emphasizes
its co-operation policy towards its deposi
tors and the public, sure that nothing will
survive that is not based upon integrity,
efficiency,' fair dealings and other sound
principles characteristic of this bank.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA
YOUR ACCOUNT IN THIS BANK IS INSURED
UNDER ACT OF CONGRESS PASSED IN 1933
and printers in the district. Stated
meetings will be held and the editors
and printers should come to know
each other better and as a result
be able to carry out the spirit and
letter of the code more effictively.
As Mr. Passavant explained, news
papers and rommercial printing
plants are already under the cods
and have no choice in the matter. It
is up to the individuals and concerns
to comply with the government re
quirements. If this is generally
done and all the establishments plac
ed os a business basis, with all lost
motion eliminated and antiquated
methods junked, it will prove to the
best interests of all concerned.
The politicial parade is getting un
der way and there will be a grand
procession between now and May 5
on which date entries for the state
•primary close. Already several can
didates for state house offices have
qualified and others are throwing
their hats in the ring daily. The
woods will soon be full of candidates
and the big marathon will 'be on.
The voter —provided he has register
ed and is qualified to vote—will be
the big man in the picture. He will
be courted religiously between now
and the state primary. The voter
holds the whip hand in all elections.
If any have failed to register it will
be just too bad.
B. S. Elliott, editor of the Henry
County Weekly, states he will be a
candidate for the legislature this
year. He has served two terms in
the lower house. As yet there is
no opposition and Mr. Elliott will
probably be returned to the general
assembly for further service. He is
veil known in this section of the
state and is regarded as a safe and
conservative legislator.
Building, improving, repairing and
painting are to be seen on every
hand. People have caught anew
impetus and are going forward. Con
ditions are materially improved from
what they were a year ago and this
is to be seen in all lines of business.
By another harvest season this sec
tion will be in much better condition.
Real estate values are coming back
and people are showing faith in the
land. Sentiment is a wonderful
thing. The depression was brought
on by thinking and it will be ended
the same way—by constructive,
courageous thinking and planning.
Congressman E. M. Owen repre
sents President Roosevelt’s home dis
trict—the Fourth. The President
spends as much time as business will
permit at his summer home at Warm
Springs, Meriwether county. The
Fourth district gave the President an
overwhelming majority in his cam
paign. Mr. Roosevelt is known per
sonally to many of the voters of the
district. Congressman Owen has
given President Roosevelt hearty
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934
support and at the meeting of th%
Fourth Congressional District Execu
tive Committee resolutions pledging
the President loyalty were adopted.
Step by step, slowly but surely,
the State Highway Board is moving
for the completion of State Route
Number Forty-Two. ’ A contract was
awarded last week for four miles
of grading in Fulton and DeKalb
counties and the building of a bridge.
Paving is now in pi ogress between
Indian Springs and Forsyth on 11.-
822 miles. When this route is paved,
which should be before the year is
out, counties in this section will stage
a big celebration, with a barbecue
and members of the state highway
board and other prominent officials
will be invited to take part.
By a peculiar turn of things politi
cal it so happens that Georgia has
no such thing as a State Democratic
Executive Committee. The com
mittee is appointed by the governor,
whoever he happens to be, whether
Smith, Brown or Johnson. In the
present instance the state committee
is really the Talmadge Executive
Committee, for he named them, an<|
in the main, they carry out his wish
es. Futhermore, the committee serv
es the governor rather than the
party. This is part of the Neill lavA
Many people think the Neill law
should be repealed. Until the law is
changed or repealed the socallei
state Democratic Executive Com
mittee will continue to be named
and dominated by the administration.
The voters may not like this setup
but it is the law. In the last elec
tion a majorty of voters cast ballots
for Nix, Hardwick, Edwards and
Holder, but thsee gentlemen had no
voice in naming the executive com
mittee. Consequently a majority of
the voters of the state are without
representation on the present state
committee.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Hardly Be Seen
One of the smallest things in the
world is a bird’s-eye view of a chise
lor.—Greensboro Herald-Journal .
The Warning Signal
If tax bills get much higher tha
government will have to take over
all business for no private enterprise
will be able to function and pay the
taxes —Pickens County Progress.
Would Be Desirable
We understand Pickens county
court lasted only one day this week
and the biggest part of that
taken up in the judge’s charge to tho
grand jury. It would be a fine
thing if the people of a county would
get to the point where all that wsfe
necessary to keep peace and order
would be to come to the court house
twice a year and listen to a charge
from the judge.—Ellijay Times-
C’ourier.