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Jackson Progress-Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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If your business is not worth ad
vertising, adverties it for sale.
That’s the modern way.
Old Johnny Public wants some
roads. He is paying the bill. Why
not give him what he is entitled to
have?
Old fashioned parents who used
to walk four or five miles to school
now have children who want the bus
to stop right in front of the door.
A state wide campaign against
flies and mosquitos would bear rich
fruit. Malaria is still a costly dis
ease. Clean up and fight insects at
the beginning of the hot weather
reason.
Now that the vacation period is
near at hand a mighty good way for
school boys and girls to show their
appreciation of the sacrifices made
in their behalf is to make themselves
useful about the home, shop and
farm.
Sooner or later the people will
wake up to the fact that taxes can
not be reduced and the same kind
of service maintained. The politi
cians can't play hokus pokus for
ever. The people are getting on to
their tricks.
A state wide development agency
to advertise Georgia and its resour
ces would hi worth while. If such
an organization is formed one of the
first things do do is to choke the
politicians and glory-seekers. An
organization of real builders would
roon work wonders in Georgia.
It is a wise, very wise, person who
van properly appraise the present
political situation in Georgia. Tai
madgo is playing politics. The na
tional administration is playing poli
ties. Neither side has sprouted an,\
wings. Soeimvhere between the two
extremes the truth will be found.
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Men of the type of Judge Ogden
Versons, former givernor John M.
Slaton and Judge Fortson give solemn
warning of the dangers of a 15 mill
(ax levy, it is time lor uie people i <
pay heed. None of these men have
any axes to grind and are speaking
sis thoughtful and patriotic Geor
gians.
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If the present farm program i.>
able to arouse the farmers to the
importance of diversified farming
and soil improvement it will be worth
sill it costs. Georgia need more and
larger food and feed crops, mores
livestock, poultry and dairying and
then the coition problem will not
bother anybody.
It is probably true that the
weatlher for the past six months lias
come in for more discussion than at
any similar period in the state's
history. Excessive cold and sleet
and snow, deadly storms and now
dry weather that is delaying iarm
progress. It is time the weather
man was giving the farmers a break.
It is a most encouraging sign to
ice more attention being given to
livestock in Georgia. Catton never
has been the fool-prool cure-all that
some claim for it. A state of diver
sified agriculture, with cotton, pea
nuts, tobacco, pepper, vegetables,
fiutts, livestock, | ou’try and dairy
ing and steady cash income will make
Georgia the static it ought to be.
These things plus a large industrial
development mean prosperity in the
Empire State of the South.
Several able and thoughtful Geor
g:ans warned the Association of
County Commissioners at the state
convention last week that adoption of
the 15 mill tax limit would be a
<langerous thing for Georgia. Local
agencies cannot operate on the pro
posed levy. The schools would be
hard hit. It is time for the taxpay
ers of eGorgia to be on guard. I;
is impossible to reduce taxes and
maintain the same type of service.
What is needed is a thorough revis
ion of the whole tax system, ano
Hiis should be gone abou - . u a care
■i and painstaking manner.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
By J. D. JONES
To the giaduates of the Jackson
high school and the junior high
schools in Butts county the writer
wishes to extend hearty congratula
tions. They have done well and
have completed one link in the chain
of their education. Many of the
bright boys and girls composing this
year’s giaduates will enter college in
the fall. The commencement sea
son is under way all over the state
! and the nation. It is a time for stock
taking. Whut has been worthily ac
| complished is only tlhe beginning of
! greater achievements in the great
'game of life. Success and prosperity
do all the graduates of 1936 .
From all sections of the state, as
reflected in the wekly newspapers,
comes a demand that Georgia voters
select this year their ablest and best
men to serve in the general assembly.
The call is timely. This is no time
to send weaklings to make 'aws. All
candidates should be forced by public
opinion to declare their stand on
all matters affecting the welfare of
the state. Running on the other
man’s coattail will no longer satisfy
the intelligent voter. He wants as
his representative a man of honesty,
courage an deonvictions.
The recent roundup by govern
ment agents of gansters and crimi
nals has brought hope and encour
agement to the loyal citizens. For a
time it seemed that gangsters would
overrun the country. Uncle Sam
in his patient and thorough manner
has kept everlastingly at it and as a
result practically all the big shot
kidnapers and gangsters have been
arrested and in most instances con
victed and arenow serving time. This
is as it should be. The South, de
spite the evil of lynching, is practi
cally free from organized gangsters.
May it ever be thus.
Jackson and Forsyth fared rather
handsomely in the election of offi
cers by the grand comnrandery ol
Georgia Knights Templar at the Sa
vannah conclave last week. James
C. Newton, of Jackson, was advanced
to the station of grand generalissimo,
and inthe usual order will become
head of the order in Georgia in
j 938. Frank B. Willingham, of
Forsyth, was advanced to the station
of grand junior warden. Both
Messrs. Newton and Willingham are
among the best known Masons in the
state. The new grand commander,
Charles R. McCord, is former Bints
county citizen.
Announceemnt that a rural elec
trification project, with Snapping
Shoals as headquarters, will serve
the counties of Butts, Newton, Henry
and Rockdale will be of wide interest.
Probably one of the greatest develop
ments taking place in the nation to
day is the extension of rural power
lines, giving farm dwellers the same
advantages of lights and power as
the city resident. Rural e'ectrifica
lion will bring about a revolution
in farm conditions. It. is a benefit
that farmers have long been entitled
to receive, and is now made possible
by the present administration.
Th‘e Georgia Experiment Station
at Griffin Ls doing the best work in
its long and honorable history. A
greart many fanners and agricultural
leaders met there last week to see
feeding tests and inspect grain crops.
The meeting proved an interesting
and instructive one. Information of
i;; valuable nature is to be obtained
at the experiment stations and agri
cultural college in Athens. All of
these institutions are serving th.
state well.
Back in January and February
when sleet andsnow covered the
earth to a depth of several inches
many believed that insect pests
would be thinned out by the seven
.old. This did not prove true and
the insect horde got on the job
. ally. Bean beetles are numerous
and if cotton ever gets large enough
for the boll weevil to find farmers
may expect the usual damage from
that pest. Cold weather does not
kill insects. The Canadian north
\ wesi where temperatures often go 60
! below zero suffers as much from in
sects a sother regions.
The world is full of people who
are ready to catch the rabbit after
the other fellow gets scratched run
ling him from cover. A lot of peo
ple lack initiative. They take thingr
r> they come. They never star'
anything themselves but are always
willing to capita’ize on efforts of the
public spirited men in a community.
There is such a thing as a community
leech.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
NOW FOR FAVED HIGHWAYS
It is a source of interest to every
citizen of the state to know that
federal road funds due Georga have
been released. Thousands of Geor
gians, people who consume gasoline
and pay taxes and make all spending
possible, are not interested in the
political dispute between Atanta and
Washington. If the truth were
known it will be found that both
sides have played a tfame of politics.
What the people of Georgia are
inteiested in is seeing the state high
way system completed as speedily as
possible. Motorists and gasoline
users, who are paying 7 cents tax
on every gallon ot gasoline consum
ed, have a vital interest in the matter
el' good roads.
The chairman of the state highway
department announced, following
the decision n Washington to release
federal funds to this state, that
Georgia is to embark on a large road
program. Every main road in the
state, he declares, will be connected
up before the first of January. That
rounds like business.
The plain truth of the matter is
| that gasoline money has been
used for other purposes and not
enough of it has been used to con
struct highways. This should not
Ibe permitted in the future. There
jis no moral or legal reason why gas
j oline consumers should be socked
to pay the operating expenses of the
| state government while highways and
| bridges are neglected.
Since 1919, when Georgia first
, attempted to build highways, much
progress has been made. Hundreds
|of miles of roads have been paved
and miles of bridges have been con
structed. Tlte system is far from
complete. With the funds now in
sight it should be possible for thi
f tate highway department to com
plete many of the trunk line roads
and probably have something left
over for secondary roads.
The state of Georgia is definitely
committed to the pay-as-you-go sys
tem of building roaus. Voters long
since frowned upon a large bond
issue for road construction. Instead
they have submitted to a gasoline
tax ana a motor vehicle tax that pro
vides abundant revenue, and this ad
ded to the funds from the federal
treasury gives a laige amount foi
rt >i and bridge onsiluction.
Full steam straigh ahead should
be the policy of the state highway
board. It s good that the chairman
has announced this policy will be ad
hered to.
This immediate section is vitul’y
interested in the early paving ol
Route 16. cross-state highway from
Alabama to Augusta. A contract
for the link fiom the Ocmulgee river
to Jackson was awarded some weeks
ago. It s hoped the hghway board
will now see proper to have work
started on this project in the im
mediate future.
Anil as soon as that project is
completed, there is the link from
Jackson to the Spalding county line,
and from Monticello to Eatonton and
on to Augusta, and from Grififn to
Newnati and on to the Alabama line.
Another important highway is
Route 72 from Barnesville vo Cov
ington through Jackson.
Still another is the Atlanta to Ma
con Short Route along the line of
the Southern Railway.
In its efforts to give a complete
highway system every loyal Geor
gian will give the state highway board
hearty support and encouragement.
Let politics between Atlanta and
Washington be adjourned.
Give Georgia the type of roads
and bridges that the public demands
I and is paying for.
INTRICACIES AND FINANCE
Xa# borrowed $35 from his friend
Amos and gave a note for the
amount. The note jbecame long
past due. One day Amos called on
X T at and demanded: “When you-all
gwine pay dat note?’’
“Ah ain’t got no money now, but
Ah gwine pay just as soon as Ah
kin.’’
“Dat don't git me nothin’,", retort
ed Amos. “If you-all don’t pay
me here an’ now, Ah gwine burn up
your old no9e ; den where a’l you
gwine be at?”
“You better not! You better
not!” shouted X T at. “You just burn
dat note of mine and Ah’ll burn you
up wid a lawsuit.” —American Legion
Monthly.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Back To The Farm
A few thousand acres of the sur
plus farm lands in the state sub
divided into sma’l farms, not to ex
ceed 25 acres, distributed among the
thousands who are finding life mis
erable in our cities would revolution
ize conditions in a few years.—Car
loll County Times.
A Pretty Safe Rule
The boy who is always quitting
one job to take another will never
get very far from the bottom for
i.o employer will promote a man that
he cannot depend upon, and you can
rot place confidence in a fellow who
is always changing.—Pickens County
Progress.
Couldn’t Put It Over
The governor’s son failed to sus
tain him in a college debate this
week. The two university literary
societies debated the question,
“Should Eugene Talmadge be re
elected governor.” The governor’s
son championed the affirmative and
lost. A good prediction of what wilt
happen should Mr. Talmadge decide
to run again for governor.—Elberton
Star.
A Splendid Idea
At Vidalia a day was set aside re
cently for parents to visit the schools,
and the idea was not a bad one. Few
parents sea inside the walls where
their children are educated, and ;n
this ihey are remiss in an obligation
they owe themselves. —Dawson News.
Thi* May Come To Pass
If the trend to lighter trains and
heavier buses continue, soon the
trains will be stopping for grade
crossings.—Washington Post.
Small Towns Have Future
The smaller towns are coming back
after losing much of their trade ti
the larger centers the past few years.
There is no need for the small
town to go dead. The small town
can compete with the bigger place®
by pushing ahead, by its merchants
carrying up-to-date stocks and ad
vertising what they have to sell and
by providing the accomnradations the
people demand and are going .to
have. —Sylvester Local.
Not By A Long Shot
Eleciton to office gives a person
the legal qualification, but does not
mean that! he is fit for the place—
Tifton Gazette.
FARM CROPS IN INDUSTRY
A leading maker of motor cars
puts in a million automobiles the
cotton grown on 433,125 acres, the
soybean crop from 30,000 acres, the
flax from 17,500 acres, 11,280 acres
of corn, 12,500 acres of sugar and
20,500 acres of timber. These mil
lion cars also have in them the hides
of 30,000 head of cattle, wool from
801,000 sheep, lard from 20,000
hogs, hair from 87,500 goats, and
6,000 pounds of beeswax and 80,000
pounds of honey.
This manufacturer has given
special attention to the use of farm
ciops for industrial purposes. His
experience gives credulity to the es
timate of the Farm Chemurgic Coun
cil that acres could be
planted to crops for industrial use
in the next ten years if enough at
tention were paid to developing such
use. Possibilities are without limit,
but the drawback is to find economi
cal ways of turning crops into in
dustrial products. Whatever prog
ress is made in this direction will be
all gain and no loss 4o agriculture.—
The Southern Farmer.
Erosion Program Has
Entered Second Year
Since the beginning of erosion
control work in eGorgia two years
ago this month, the Soil Conservation
Service has made rapid headway in
the application of various practices
to control and prevent loss of soil
from washing, says L. E. Rast, state
coordinator.
In May, 1934, erosion control
work began on the Sandy Creek
watershed near Athens. Expansion
of activities since that time resulted
in the development of four additional
demonstration areas located near
Americus, Rome, Gainesville and
LaGrange. These areas compi'ise a
total of 238,726 acres. Their pur
pose is to develop new and improved
methods of erosion control and to
demonstrate the application of these
methods to farmers, t
Reporting on the progress made
on these areas, Mr. Rast states that
1,804 fanners in Georgia are co
operating with the service in apply
ing erosion control practices on
farms aggregating 123,165 acres.
On these farms 29,680 acres are
beir.t strip-cropped, and 6,710 acres
contour-tilled. Terraces are plan
ned on 40,209 acres. Already 763
mi’es of terraces have been construc
ed.
To stabilize gullies more than three
and a half million square yards of
banks have been sloped and treated
with vegetation. Approximately
eight million trees have been planted
to utilize soils too eroded for the
production of otfher cfops.
In addition to work being done on
the demonstration areas, the Georgia
Extension Service is co-operating in
encouraging farmers to adopt erosion
contra! methods in many counties.
X’ine CCC camps are assigned to the
Soil Conservation Service in Georgia.
These camp workers are doing ero
sion control work near Athens, A ilia
Rica, Washington, Sparta, Buford,
Stevens Pottery, Lumpkin, Buesna
Vista and Monticello.
Helpful Service Makes Friends
(BANK LOANS)
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Gradual expansion in many classes of bus
inesses and in agriculture is more and more be
ing justified. Confidence continues to be re
stored through safety.
Conservative business men —careful buy
ers —whose outlook requires some expansion—
farmers with a vision and safe program—who
make their farms self sustaining require some
modern machinery—all will find this bank re
sponsive.
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JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA
Corn, Interplanted
With Legumes, May
Be Soil Conserving
When corn is interplanted with
summer legumes, such as cowpeas,
velvet beans, soybeans and crotala
ria, the acreage will be classified
under the new soil conservation
program according to the amount
of land occupied by each inter
planted crop, information County
Agent M. L. Powell received this
week from the AAA in Washington,
points out.
At least one-third of the inter
planted land must be in legumes,
they must make good growth, and
not more than 9,000 stalks of corn
per acre can be planted on the por
tion of the land in corn. For ex
ample, if half the land is in corn
and half in legumes, not more than
4,500 stakls of corn would be al
lowed to the acre.
The old regulations allowed corn
interplanted with legumes to be
counted as half soil depleting and
half soil conserving acreage. The
new regulation, approved May 7th
by Secretary -of Agriculture Wal
lace, follows:
“The acreage of corn, sweet
corn, grain sorghum and sweet
'isorghum \vhe.n- interplanted with
summer legumes prior to or in 1936
shall be classed according to the
actual amount of such acreage oc
cupied by each interplanted crop;
provided that in the event will the
legume acreage be counted as such
unless the legumes occupy at least
cne-third of such land and attain
a good growth; and provided furth
er that when corn is interplanted
with legumes the stalks of corn per
acre shall not exceed that number
determined by multiplying by 9,000
the percentage of the acreage de
termined to be occupied by corn.
NURSING WORK IN GEORGIA
BE DROPPED AFTER MAY 22
It has been announced that public
health nursing in Georgia, as carried
on by the government, will be drop
ped after May 22. All hgiene nurses
will be left off the WPA payrolls
after that date. The T. B. nur
ses will be carried until July 1.
Friends of public health regret to
know of this policy, as the work has
been worth a great deal to the state.
Mrs. D. W. Ham has been hygiene
nurse in Butts county for the pasc
several weeks and has been active
in promoting all forms of health
work.
SEPTEMBER 20 BE GEORGIA
DAY AT TEXAS EXPOSITION
An announcement has been made
by vihe Texas Centennial Exposition
that September 20 has been named
as Georgia Day. A program of
special interest to Georgians is being
arranged for that day and Governor
Talmadge has promised to be pres
ent if possible.
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 193j6
LETTERS FROM THE
PEOPLE
Tribute to J. O. Gaston
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Editor, Progress-Arglis: Just a
few lines to let you know how happy
I was to meet you for a few minutes
talk. If I .was capable of writing an
article that I wished to be published
in your most worthy and helpful
paper, my theme would be peace or.
earth and good will to man.
My heart was made sad when the
unexpected and sorrowful news was
broken to me that my distinguished
friend, Joe Gaston, had passed to
that celestial city, not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens. Butts
county has lost one of her best and
most notable citizens. Joe Gaston,
lived a beautiful, exemplary life.
He was gentle and kind like the sing
ing of the birds and the blooming- of
flowers. He made the world sweeter
and more beautiful. Like the dais
ies that paint the meadows with de
light, so the words of Joe Gaston
jeweled the ways of man with gems
cf joy and the pearls of hope. Truth
and honor ran like silver current
through his nature. They were the
essence of that high manhood which
made him respected and esteemed by
his fellow man.
We are sorry to say there are but
few like Joe Gaston, but we need
more like him. His noble deeds in
life will be music to the living until
time shall be no more. He breathed
thoughts as pure as the incense of
silent worship which the violets offer
to Him that made them. His great,
noble heart was a storehouse filled
with charity, with open doors at all
hours, both day, and night to help
the poor and needy. But a great
loving God needed him. Thus w-e
bow in humble submission to the will
cf Him, our most gracious God. My
heart of sympathy goes out to his
bereaved family.
F. M. McCURDY,
Jonesboro, Ga.
MAY HEALTH NOTES
Public enlightenment is the best
remedy for the huge death toll from
cancer among eGorgians, Dr. T. F.
Abercrombie, director of the State
Department! of Public Health an
nounces.
Placing the number of Georgian?
r.ow affliced with cancer at 2,500,
Dr. Abercrombie estimated seven
ninths of these will die during 1936.
“This death toll will continue,” he
said, “until the people realize that
cancer can be cured when diagnosed
in its early stages; that it is neither
hereditary nor contagious.”
The health officer released figures
for 1935 showing an increase of
six in the death toll from pellagra
over the preceding year, but account
ed for the rise as due to a “normal
increase in population.” The 1935
figure, however, was at least 500
smaller than in 1929, the peak year
for deaths from this diet disease.
Dr. Abercrombie advised a proper
diet for combating pellagra urging
the use of fresh or canned beef:
lean pork shoulders; rabbit, canned
salmon, buttermilk; eollards, fresh
or canned; fr h or canned peas; can
ned tomato juice; fresh or canned
turnip greens, peanut men', ether
extracted wheat germ, fresh or can
ned kale and dried yeast.