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Jaekson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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The holly hog is another guy that
tteds swatting.
In a'l your Christmas giving re
member those less unfortunate. This
t the giving that will bring you
v ost lastng satisfaction.
Jackson voters are selecting offi
cers this week. The Butts county
{•rimary will start off with a bang
ter the first of the year
Governor Talmadge says the tax
payer is the forgotten man. We
thought it was the business man
vho thinks lie can succeed without
advertising.
The schools close this week for the
f hristmas holidays. Generally speak
ing-, the teachers have been paid in
full for the fall term and are pre
pared for a joyous Christmas season
If there is considerable rain dur
ing the winter, which seems likely,
farmers and business men should not
complain. The rainfall is needed
and the fall was an exceptionally
(avorable one.
Several constitutional amendments
.ill be voted on next year and some
of them are objectionable. Old man
voter is going to do some serious
thinking between now and the date
t< the general election.
The yield of cotton per acre in
Georgia this seasoix is one of the
largest in years. Reduction in acre
age has taught fanners how to pro
duce* good yields. That is among
the benefits of the control plan.
Operation of the community can
ring plant in Butts county the past
year has proved of great benefit to
farmers and housewives in saving
treats, fruits and vegetables. Some
plan should be worked out to keen
the plant in operation another season.
The large corporations, of which
the has many and takes pride in
them al\ have had a successful year
end will distribute six million dollars
hi dividends the first of the year.
'That’s good business for the stock
holders and good business for the
ate.
Attorney General Yeomans says i‘
r necessary to pay the poll tax be
fore voting. That should be easy, 1
Voting has been placed in reach of
t-very man and woman, and the bal- I
let should be more widely used. See
that you are prepared to vote in tho
naming election.
The new year will witness consid
erable building; activity in Jackson
and Butts county. The new post
affice building will be constructed
during the spring and summer ant]
work on the new auditorium will be
st* n as soon as plans are worked out.
I/'t. the building proceed.
The strides made in Georgia since
1919, when the highway department
was created, shows remarkable pro
fess. in giving the state modern
roads and bridges. This is probably
She greatest development that has
token place in the past twenty pears
From nothing but mud in 1919, the
state has built thousands of miles
paved and graded highways, erect
ed bridges and is fast linking county
seat with county seat. It’s a big
jregram, for Georgia is a large state,
%*t substantial progress is being
arcde and Georgia is getting out of
the mud in a definite manner.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
By J. D. JONES
The city primary to be held Thurs
day, with three candidates in the
field for mayor, a condition that ha
rot existed here for years, is arous
jj.g considerable interest. In two
of the four city wards contests for
council will be decided by voters,
'lhere are no contest for places or.
the board of education or for mem
bers of the executive committee.
There should be a full and repre
sentative vote. Those nominated
Thursday will be elected early ii.
January.
Governor Talmadge says he wii’
be a candidate for president, if a
presidential primary is held in Geor
gia. If that situation arises the
contest between President Roosevelt
and Governor Talmadge will be fol
lowed with close interest. The peo
ple of Georgia are fond of Presi
dent Roosevelt and barring some un
foreseen complication will give him
their vote by an overwhelming ma
jority.
From every section of the state
and nation comes report's of better
j business and increased spending
i power. This is due in large part
to the increased buying power on the
. farm. The depression started when
farmers were forced to sell their
products below cost of production.
A main objective of the administra
! lion has been to boost farm purchas
ing power. It is an illusrttaion of
the old saying that when the farm
ers prosper the whole nation pros
pers. Many who do not like the
government crop control program
are forced to admit that conditions
have been greatly improved, and
the country is not willing to return
to five-cent cotton and 25-cents
corn.
The Jackson Kiwanis club is con
cluding an active and succssful year.
By vote of the members agricultural
work was given first place on the
year’s objectives. The county agent
has carried on club work, soil im
provement, terracing and other ac
tivities, while the home demonstra
tion agent' has been busy with work
among c'ub girls and farm women.
During the year a community can
ring plant was placed in operation.
The work of the Boy Scouts was
sponsored by the Kiwanis club ; high
l v i;y work was promoted and the
I s'ate park at Indian Springs receiv
(ed support. During the year a
I bridge was built across the Ocmulgee
river and anew post office building
was allotted Jackson. The Kiwanis
Club and the Butts County Chamber
of Commerce have been agencies
at work for tile upbuilding of the
entire county.
During the week members of com-
I nunity cotton committees will be
elected. Growers should take part
in this selection and be sure they ar
' represented by the best type of men.
Many of the complaints arising over
I cotton allotments are local in their
nature. President Roosevelt and
Secretary Wallace cannot carry out
every detail of the cotton program.
In this elecion, as in all others, those
a interest should take time and vote.
Unless they do vote they have no
right to kick at the kind of treat
n ent ithey receive. All elections are
important. This one is no excep
tion.
More is being done at this time
to relieve distress and suffering at the
Christmas season than was ever
known before. Organizations of
various kinds are working hard
to see that the poor and unfortunate
are not neglected when Santa Clau°
pays his annual visit. The spirit
of unselfish service is growing. Were
i< not for the unselfish men and wo
iren who share of their abundance
the Christmas season would be a
dreary on for many unfotunate peo
pie.
The Yuletide season will be en
livened by the presence of hoys and
THE JACKSON ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
girls returning home from school
The county is well represented at
various colleges in the state
and South and they will be home
for the Christmas holidays. The
reason will be a live and merry one
for the young people. There is no
depression among the youth of the
land. This fine group of college
leys and girls will be cordially wel
comed during their holiday vacation.
Teachers in the Jackson public
schools and the Butts county schools
should believe in Santa Claus and no
doubt they do. Salaries have been
paid in full for the fall months and
this brings much of a comfort at the
yule season. In this respect the local
schools have made a splendid re
c ord.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
k doing commendable work in fight
ing illiteracy. Statistics show that
hundreds of young men enrolled in
these camps have been taught to read
and write during their terms of en
listment. That is one of the fine
benefits of this work. Others are dis
cipline, improvement in health and
business training that will fit the
boys to take good places in the busi
ness world.
In one way or another several
Butts county citizens have recently
had bitter experience with pickpock
ets and petty thieves. The country
is full of schemers and almost every
day one reads of somebody being
victimized. In some cases the
amounts lost are large. When the
counOry is enjoying a period of
prosperity the schemers seem more
numerous.
The Butts County Chamber of
Commerce has i-eceived favorable
mention for the plans worked out
for the dedication of the Ocmulgee
river bridge. The committee on
arx-angements did splendid work.
This is likewise true of the dinner
given in honor of Governor Tal
n.adge. Both affairs reflect credit
on the Chamber of Commerce.
“While my 1935 cotton crop was
the sorriest in years I have made
enough meat and lard and corn to do
me two years,” is the statement of
Mr. T. E. Williams, well known Buth
county farmer. If every farmer in
Georgia could make this claim—
there would be no kicking on cotton
a’lotments. Peace and plenty, hap
piness and abundance would reign
in ilhc land.
GIVE PINES A CHANCE
This of all years should be the
year not to burn the woods and pas
tures. The reason is that bumper
pine seed crop, which occurs about
every seven years, is maturing in the
South. It is the best'crop in fifteen
years. Billions of pine seedlings
will result.
The Forest Servce of the Unite'*.
Sates Department of Agriculture is
warning of the greater losses to pine
tiee seedlings if there is the custom
ary burning of forest pastures in the
Southern pine regions this year.
Many of the great, even-aged stands
of longleaf, slash, loblolly, and short
leaf pine can be traced back to a
year of extraordinary seed produc
tion.
If this fine prospective crop of
seedlings is not protected, it may be
tn years before we haw so good
on opportunity to reforest these mil
lions of acres of cut-over lands wticn
are suitable for little else but tim
her crops.—The Progressive Farmer
GAMBLING IN LAND
Gambling in land values in th •
dear old U. S. A. has never done the
country any good. The land gamb
ling mania is responsible for the Am
erican farmer’s plight today.
A man said to us recent'y that he
had 1100 acres of land. For several
years he lost money trying- to farm
that land. This year lie had about
broken even.
This man hasn’t any business with
so much land. He is a potential
land racketeer. He is holding it
with the expectation of trebbling its
value. He is ’ike thousands and
thousands of land owners.
Occasionally a whole State ap
proaches financial insanity in the
scramble to occupy the vantage
points of the land-racket, as Florida
and Calfornia bear witness. The
F'oxida realtors were so absorbed
in their occupation of land-gambling
that when the great hurricane
1926 broke over the State, John
Barton Payne, Chairman of the Am
erican Red Cross, declared that “The
poor people who suffered are regard
ed as of less importance than the
hotel and tourist business,” and
Florida boosters sent out thousands
of letters and telegrams to the North
declaring that the damage of the
hurricanes was very slight.
There is dire poverty in the great
cities, when there is enough land ir.
the country upon which every per
son in the country could make a
living.
The government should not rent
land. It should buy it and sell it to
people who are willing to ti’l it.
It is the best mortgage value in ex
istence.
Back to the farm —not to make
money—but to make a living with
cut accepting a dole from the gov
enrment.
The farm tenant system has paup
erized the South, God created the
eirth. His purpose was for man to
make a livng by tilling it. The land
racketeers have gobbled it up.
God never intended a few people
to own and profiteer on His crea
tion.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
The Moving Season
There is already much moving
about—some going and some coming.
It is a l-estless and uncertain time
with people. Few seem to know
what they want to do or how they
want to do it.—Madisonian.
Start Building Program
The state has paid over to the
Board of Regents one-third of the
million dollars building fund, and
wt do hope the regents will get busy
and spend it. No need to allow the
money to lie in the banks, when the
state educational institutions are in
ssuch great need of more buildings.
—Tifton Gazette.
A Party Problem
One trouble which confronts the
democratic party at the present time
is getting rid of the fellows who
have quit it.—Monroe Advertiser.
Hard to Reconcile
One of the national projects in
the west alone is said to have
as its object the reclamation
.of more than 600,000 acres of land
for agricultural purposes. This in
lace of the fact that many thousand
acres of farm land are “lying out”
ter lack of cultivation.—Dawson
News.
Bright Outlook For Farmers
The future looks bright for the
cctton producer. The acreage re
duction program started in 1933 has
almost wiped out the troublesome
surplus that had plagued the farmers
snee he record bumper crop of near
ly nineteen million bales in 1926. Ic
row looks as though the government
will be able to hold the price of the
staple around twelve to fifteen cents.
This depends, of course, on the size
of future crops. If the crop is held
down to around ten or twe’ve million
bales the cotton farmers have the
assurance of a profitable price. If
the Bankhead act is declared uncon
stitutional the government will un
doubtedly find some way to go on
with its program of holding down
production to the actual necessities
cf the country. Nobody wants to re
turn to the old method of every
farmer “for hmse’f and the devil for
all.”—Sylvesster Local.
How Easily They Forget
Some of the big bankers are now
freely criticising President Roosevelt,
v hereas in 1933 they were ready to
get down on their knees to thank
God for a man who had the nerve
and good sense to save the bank’ngj
structure of the nation from utter
collapse.—Gainesvil’e News.
Attractive Rural Life
Rural electrification is just around
the corner. The next ten years will
see electricity availab’e to most of
the rural sections of the west, middle
v/egst and south. Electricity, rural
fiee delivery, the automobile and the
radio are the principal factors thai.
are bringing great changes in Amer
ican farm life. —Butler Herald.
Security Measure* Needed
Nothing can be more obvious than
is the need for old age and mother
hood pensions. Every life policy
written proves the necessity for
providing for the future and the fast
declining birth rate bears irrefutable
evidence of theneed of the latter,
to say nothing of underprivileged
children that crowd our schools and
streets. —Carroll County Times.
People are learning by experienc-' 1
that it pays to shop early and to
mail Christmas packages early. Bet
ter service and all round satisfaction
is assumed by doing this. While the
volume of Christmas mail this season
will probably establish a x-ecord for
recent years, a good part of it will
be mailed early.
Georgia is losing valuable dollars
by not going after the tourist trade.
Many parts of Georgia are suited
as tourist centex-s, particularly the
southern part of the state and the
seacoast. Florida derives a large
part of its income from northern
tourists. Georgia should carefully
cultivate the tourist trade.
Community cotton commi ti e s
ai*e being elected all over the state
and plans are going forward fox'
another year of cotton control. The
plans should he worked out early in
the year and the small producer
should be given consideration. Neg
lect of the small grower has caused
most of the kicks.
To prevent chaos in Georgia after
the first of the year, due to the
failure of the legislatui’e to enact
an appropriations bill, Hugh Howell
says Governor Talmadge will prob
ably take charge and operate the
state and that all branches of gov-
We Drivers
A Series of Brief Discussions on Driving, Dedi
cated to the Safety, Comfort and Pleasure
of the Motoring Public. Prepared
by General Motors
No. 6—POWER AND SPEED
A Tost of our motor cars will go so much faster than we ever care to drive
them, that no doubt people often wonder wny so much speed is built
into them in the first place. Of course, automobiles aren’t built with the idea
of pleasing the manufacturer or the engineer or the
salesman. They’re built to suit the men and women s— -
who are going to own and drive them. And there are -LJ %
certain things that people do insist on in their cars. ~~" = U £ ~iT
It happens that some of those things are of such a
noture that when the engineers provide them, an
ability to go fast just naturally results. > . VT
For instance, nearly everybody likes to get going
as promptly as possible. Now that’s just a matter of —s
the power we have in our engine and how our car is .\~n
geared. " J
Then there’s the business of hill-climbing. That ‘ fv'Y
may not mean as much in some localities as in others, -wjA-J . 'UVS
but cars have to be built to suit us whether we live
in Maine or Florida, lowa or California-wherever 7£
l' ve and wherever we may want to go.
Engineers tell us that they could build a fairly low-powered car that
would pull us up the steepest hill. But if they did,
. "--£=-3= the y would have to gear it so low that when we got
jj?.~ ' W*ifc —over the top and onto a level stretch, we could only
E: (7T) \II ®° crav -'ling along at a rate that wouldn’t satisfy
A-i ev ’en the most conservative drivers.
\ - perhaps the most important reason for hav-
C .Jfdr I U ~J ; jo® our power what it is in modern cars, is a matter
I — J that many of us have never considered. We all know
| / what happens to us, when we, ourselves, are going
ylj I a * oigh pressure all the time, either physically or
T lr* > 1 \ mentally. A person can work 12, 14 or 16 hours a day.
Xi 111 -i but , we know w e get along best when we don’t tax
( 11 J;i °ur last reserves of energy all the time.
fc-.vMfcX’ * I ' Ilia tli e same way, anybody who has ever run
machinery knows that if you keep it going at full
chanr P rof^ d h fUl L SPeed da y- in * and - da y-°ut, you’re just multiplying the
chances of a breakdown, sooner or later. * J 6
And that's how it is with a car. By building in the
ability to run at high speed, engineers make it prac- =??■- l -—■■■
tical to run at reasonable speed. If our car can go =' ! g?
seventy, eighty or maybe even more miles an hour, I<rpkj
then it won't have to strain to go thirty-five, forty’
or somewhat faster if circumstances demand. So we ' yl\*PV7l !T\
can drive it along at sensible speeds hour after hour l ( ahs
day after day, without over-working it. ’ iVj IS tj, m Ib”'
Wh en we stop to think //W 1
L; \]f\ j ab ? u ‘ it, lots of things are /U\ I I ■Kf\V\
fi / I j;== built with that added safety * rsl )yjL-r
--* '/j 1 Ujfp margin. Elevators in our of- ; VJj
i yA- heavier loads than the weight
■\/ X M{\ of ab the people they can 5=5
| •/T i ''SolL h ? ld ' s ,° , could modern bridges. The steel girders
j i ° our buildings, the rails under our trains —in fact,
• any nu mber of things we depend on day-by-day—
i-A--vva 7; ar , e . much sponger than they really have to be. They
n\A nlf ' all bave tbat extra margin of protection,
M-T 'n f° with our cars, what we have to remember is
L that speed is simply a by-product of power. We can
and get better that power unwisely, or we can use it sensibly
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20,
ernment will be operated. Thoflw
always something new under
iggK
Good roads for the tourists are aIJ
right, and desirable, but good hi’sM
ways for the people of the state gM
equally as desirable. Most of Gc 0
gin’s trunk highways lead from
to south. Give the state so'irie roads
across the state. Farm to mark*
roads are needed. The peop’e ai
footing the bill and ought to ha
this type of i-oads.
AGRCIULTUREf
By M. L. POWELL, County Age#
Someone has said “As the A
so are the people.” I would tike
ihis to mean poor soil, poor people,
richer soil, richer people. WhAt
kind of soil do you have and
is it like it is?
In our own state nearly 59 (fer
cent of all farm land is affected by
erosion. Of the 37 million acres |;i
the stiate approximately 20 milliliM
acres are subject to occasional or
severe gullying and 231,961 aerqj?
have been destroyed reports show.dr
On an estimated 15,909,5&S
of the state, from one-half to
fourths of the top soil has bff'n
washed away leaving the red sub*/
soil exposed. Some of this is here_.
in Butts county.
In a publication from the U.
Department of Agriculture said that
soils are hai-d to keep home. ;
This is Dime in some part of thej
United States but hei’e we can con
trol oui-s. Very little of it is blow*,
off by the wind thereby leaving ero
s.’on the lax-ger cause of land (le
st l-ucti on.
Our terracing program is creating j
a great deal of interest to the land
owners of the county and we invite
every farmer in the county to see
the work now being done with ts|fc
new terracing equipment. Any in
formation regarding the terracing
project can be obtained at the Coun
ty Agent’s office.
Among the Moors, midnight is the
customary hour for a wedding.
Japanese boarding houses are
required to place a list of the names
oi their boarders outside.