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Jackson Progress-Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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the Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
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The best thing that can be said*
about the legislature is that it will
likely adjourn some time between
now and Christmas.
Everybody is buying and wearing
Roosevelt buttons. The schools art
playing a fine part in the celebration
of the President’s birthday.
It costs Georgia taxpayers $3,-
797.65 per day for the legislature
to remain in session. It costs more
than that in the loss of confidence
and uncertainty.
It is a pretty safe bet that many
members of the general assembly
will have a lot of explaining to do
when they get back home and lace
their constituents.
In an effort to promote live-at
home farming, The Atlanta Constitu
tion is offering $5,000 in prizes this
year. The contest should prove in
structive, interesting and beneficial.
A government official has been
convicted of defrauding the govern
ment of $84,000 in operation of a
dummy CCC camp. Looks like Un
cle Sam was the dummy in that case.
General adoption by Georgia farm
ers this year of the cow, sow and
hen program of farming would re
sult in great benefits to the state.
The program has always been sound.
It needs more general application.
This week Georgians of every
faith und creed and political stripe
will do theii bit for the Warm
Springs Foundation. Indications are
that this year’s celebration will will
b<* the most successful yet held in the
state.
The state highway board announ
ces no new contracts will he award
ed for the next several weeks. At
tention will be given to building the
projects already let to contract.
There are many gaps that should he
closed during the year.
Maybe congress will enact some
kind of farm hill before cotton is
planted and chopped out. The aver
age man wants to know at the be
ginning of the year what kind of
cropping plan he is to follow, but
this is one year farmers are all at
sea.
Governor Rivers says he needs
funds to pay teachers for January
and February. State operation of all
schools is a big undertaking and the
cost is larger than had been esti
mated. The same is true of the Pub
lic Welfare program. It will take
time to perfect both of these move
ments.
There is nothing like running
around in circles. The schools will
be opeiated, under the whiskey bill,
largely by funds received from li
quor. The schools in turn will teach
the injurious effects qf alcohol—
biting the hand that feeds them. It
doesn’t quite add up and make
sense.
More than four thousand Geor
gians, reports show, applied for loans
under the farm tenancy bill. This
year funds were limited. This shows
that a large number of tenants do
want to own and operate farms.
The program is a long range one
and will be expanded from year to
year.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
By J. D. JONES
Whatever steps Butts county pro
poses to take in the fight against
malaria should be outlined now. Ihe
malaria season will soon be here.
The grand jury meeting next month
may take note of the general health
conditions in the county. The Ellis
Health Law, recommended by one
grand jury, failed because the Au
gust grand jury failed to endorse
the measure. There is probably no
single thing that affects the happi
ness, prosperity and general welfare
of all the people as much as general
health. One of these days we will
come around to the realization that
it is cheaper to prevent disease than
to try to cure it. The Ellis Health
Law is a movement to control and
prevent sickness.
The writer finds the farmers of
Butts county are ready and anxious
to get started on the 1938 cropping
plans. Many of the growers are en
thusiastic about the pimiento pepper
crop, which this year will be sharply
expanded in several middle Georgia
counties, Butts included. There is
no rampant enthusiasm for cotton.
Efforts will be made to boost farm
income from many sources. Some
farmers are returning to dairying.
Others are getting cash income from
chickens and eggs. Livestock will be
stressed this year. Farmers are not
going to put all their eggs in the
cotton basket in 1938. There is great
interest in crop legislation. Farm
ers are impatient to know what kind
of crop control they will have to con
tend with this season.
Butts county schools have co-op
erated generously with the Junior
Red Cross. Miss Lucile Akin, chair
man of the Junior Red Cross, has
recently visited all schools in the in
terest of that organization and has
met with hearty response and sup
port. The American Red Cross has
had a chapter here for many years
but the Junior Red Cross is now
I
j being organzied for the first time.
| The organization is one that appeals
to youth and the large membership
among boys and girls will make the
Red Cross of greater service in the
future.
Georgia, it seems, is determined
It o pay more attention to securing
j new industries than for some years
past. Many communities, Jackson
included, are receiving “feelers” for
new industrial plants. Higher wages
in the northern and eastern centers
and labor troubles are causing fac
tory owners to look about for new
locations. Georgia has much to of
fer new industries—a pure Anglo-
Saxon labor supply, good health con
ditions, abundant electric power, rea
sonable tax laws, good transportation
facilities and every possible support
and co-operation and good will.
These things are worth much. Bus
inessmen are becoming more and
more interested in industrial develop
ment. The state must not burden
now industries with heavy taxes. The
future looks bright along that line
and it will be a great forward step
when the state develops new indus
tries to use more raw materials and
provide employment for more of
4 hose desiring work.
The general assembly did well to
kill the racing bill. Legalized horse
and dog races might produce consid
erable revenue, but the state will be
better off without funds from these
sources. States that legalize horse
and dog races are infested with a
crowd of gamblers and crooks of
various types and there is nothing
uplifting about the whole thing.
Georgia has enough wealth to pro
duce all the revenue needed without
legalizing a racing racket.
The sudden death of Mr. Van Fret
well, carrier on Route Five from the
Jackson post office, leaves a vacan
cy. It is the usual custom of the
department, upon death of a carrier,
to consolidate that particular route
as a measure of economy. That is
all right as a general proposition,
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
but there is a point beyond which
the department should not go. High
ways and unemployment considered,
many feel that it would be better to
| continue all existing rural routes
I rather than have them absorbed. Mr.
| Fretwell had long been connected
with the postal service, having serv
ed continuously since 1916.
Just who will drink all the booze
to produce the revenue estimated by
wet advocates is not yet plain. The
schools are teaching that alcohol is
a poison. The Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union and other organ
izations have long been engaged in
the dry crusade. The churches are
militant against whiskey. Industry
will not put up with drinkers. Busi
nessmen are down on users of intox
icants. Railroads will not hire engi
neers to run their trains unless they
are sober. The same is true of truck
and bus companies. Factories, with
intricate machinery to be taken care
of, will not tolerate drinking among
their employees. Then who is going
to do all the drinking and raise all
the revenue? Probably just plain
fools —those without any responsible
connection and like the nigger’s mule
that didn’t give a dern. But will
that class be able to drink enough li
quor to raise the revenue expected?
t
One will have to wait and see.
There are some curious people in
the world. Up in Memphis a bishop
of the Episcopal Church has been
fasting in an effort to prove, he
claims, that man may attain immor
tality on this earth. The good man
may not be a publicity seeker but
there is something wrong somewhere.
At the University of Georgia several
students went 100 hours without
sleep in a psychology test. What
problem this will solve remains to be
seen. It takes all kinds of people to
make up our curious world, including
a man who will go for 22 days with
out food and students who will re
main awake 100 hours.
Butts county has compiled its
record of accomplishments in the At
lanta Constitution Progressive Gov
ernment Awards. What counties will
win the prizes remains for the judges
to say, but it will prove of benefit to
any county that entered the contest.
During a year many really worth
while things take place and a record
of these, whether in a contest or not,
always proves interesting. Butts
county had an active and useful year
in 1937 and it would seem that the
accomplishments listed and sent to
the judges would entitle the county
to consideration. Certainly the pub
licity will be worth a great deal to
all counties entering the contest. The
Progress-Argus in addition to out
lining briefly the basis for Butts
county’s competition, plans to use
some of this material at a later time.
None of us know any too much about
our own county, its resources, advan
tages and possibilities. A study of
these facts will make us appreciate
our communities more and work
harder for their development.
The various production credit as
sociations in Georgia are holding an
nual meetings. These associations
have provided farmers with cheap
money and have been the means of
enabling many farmers to operate on
a normal basis. Except for these
loans many farmers would not have
been able to carry on. The Jones
boro Credit Association, which serves
counties in this immediate section,
seems to be on a solid and flourish
ing basis.
When is a mandate from the peo
ple a mandate? When it suits those
in power, possibly. Free school
i
books, tax exemption and public wel
fare may be classed as mandates
from the people, because they voted
in favor of these things. But how
about the dry law? How about the
mandate of June 8. 1937, when the
dry forces polled a majority of 8.000
in favor of retaining the bone-dry
law? There seems to be mandates
and mandates, depending on what
suits the politicians.
LAME DUCK OFFICIALS
Fulton county will hold its pri
mary for the nomination of county
officers early in March. There is
nothing like getting an early start
in politics and the candidates are
not one bit shy.—Jackson Progress-
Argus.
And if Fulton county officials
now in power are defeated they will
have nearly a year to pay political
debts and to punish their enemies.
No county should be allowed to hold
a primary earlier than September.
By constitutional amendment we
have done away with the lame duck
sessions of Congress, but we still
have plenty of lame duck county of
ficials in Georgia.—Pickens County
Progress.
THIEVES, BUMS AND
GENTLEMEN
The average consumer has diffi
culty in distinguishing between prop
aganda, publicity and advertising.
Propaganda is a thief. It pro
motes the sale of an idea rather than
a product. It sneaks in upon your
inner thoughts unawares and steals
your conscience. It’s the most dead
ly drug on the intellectual market.
Propaganda stinks! Publicity is a
beggar or bum. It hitchhikes its
ways into your affections —rides
free, and sometimes evens in a wor
thy cause. '
But advertising is usually a gen
tleman. It pays its way honest-iike
in the promotion of a product. It
couldn’t fool you very long even if
it tried, because it is always in the
open and you would soon discover
any bugs in it. —Clayton Rand.
WORRIES OF BUSINESSMEN
The following, telling of the wor
ries of businessmen, is going the
rounds of the exchanges and is worth,
reprinting. It is a letter from a bus
inessman, sent in reply o a request
for prompt remittance on an ovei'due
account, and is as follows:
“Dear Sir:
“In reply to your request to send
a check, I wish to inform you that
the present condition of my bank
account maizes it almost impossi
ble. My shattered financial condi
tion is due to federal laws, state laws,
city laws, liquor laws, mothers-in
laws, sisters-in-laws and outlaws.
“Through these laws I am com
pelled to pay a business tax, school
tax, gas tax, light tax, water tax,
sales tax, liquor tax, furniture tax
and excise tax. Even my brain is
taxed. I am required to get busi
ness license, car license, truck li
cense, liquor license, not to mention
a marriage license and a dog license.
“I am also required to contribute
to every society and organization
which the genius of man is capable
of bringing to life; to woman’s re
lief, the unemployed relief and the
gold diggers’ relief. Also to every
hospital and charitable institution in
the city, including the black cross,
the pink cross and the double cross.
“For my own safety I am re
quix*ed to carry life insurance, prop
erty insurance, liability' insurance,
burglar insurance, accident insur
ance, business insurance, tornado in
surance, earthquake 'insurance, un
employment insurance and old age
insurance. "
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“My business is so governed that
it is no easy matter for me to find
out who owns it. I am inspected, ex
pected, suspected, disrepected, reject
ed, dejected, examined, re-examined,
informed, required, summoned, fin
ed, commanded and compelled, until
I provide an inexhaustible supply of
money for every known need, desire
or hope of the human race.
“Simply because I refuse to do
nate to something or other I am boy
cotted. talked about, lied about, held
up and held down, and robbed until
I am almost ruined. I can tell you
honestly that except for a miracle
that happened. I could not enclose
this check. The wolf that comes to
many doors nowadays just had pups
in my kitchen. I sold the pups and
here is the money.
“Yours truly, .”
IDENTIFICATION
AND
REFERENCES
Your personal check serves both these purposes.
When your check is drawn on Jackson National
Bank, moreover, the man with whom you deal knows
that you have an established relationship with an
institution that has served this county and adjacent
territory continuously since 1908.
Indeed, an account here has come to be recog
nized as a recommendation rather than just a ref
erence.
\
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Before And After Relief
A quarter of a century ago, white
xeople would be insulted by the of
ering of charitable aid. But now
some of them are insulted if they
an’t secure government relief.—
Greensboro Hei’ald-Journal.
The Nigger In The Woodpile
Last week, when so much was be
ng said about the terrible condi
tions at the state hospital at Mil
edgeville, we wondered why all the
propaganda, but we didn’t have to
wonder long. It was a b&llyhoo
and build-up to get votes for legal
ized liquor. This skeleton has been
dragged out and paraded before the
public for political purposes three
times within a year. Watch these
propaganda moves. They are all
smoke screens for somebody’s pet
scheme.—Tifton Gazette.
New Tax Agency Voted Down
The Georgia state senate very
promptly knocked into a cocked hat
that proposed measure for anew tax
collecting set-up in Georgia provid
ing for a head man to draw $6,000 a
year with a regular army of attor
neys and assistants, all appointed by
the governor, with the people to have
no say so in the matter of the collec
tion of their taxes. Why so many
new taxes and new tax bills, any
how? Is there to be no end to
taxes? People are getting sore on
this tax business. It may be our
tax collecting machinery in Georgia
is out of date and needs revising and
co-ordinating, but our people do not
believe we need to have all our rights
in the matter taken away from us
and put into the hands of a single
politician in Atlanta.—Madison Mad
isonian.
Libraries Serve All
The public library is a great boon
to the people. There is a growing
demand for its benefits to be extend
ed to the rural districts, and it should
be the delight of every urban libra
ry to accord its privileges to the
rural districts. The more the people
read the higher will be their civiliza
tion, and more powerful the coun
try.—Elberton Star.
Maybe Justice Is Blind
A mighty good way to bring about
a greater era of honesty in Georgia
would be for the juries to treat white
thieves as severely as black thieves
are treated.—Monroe Advertiser.
LOOKING BACKWARD
THROUGH THE FILES
News of 40 Years Ago
Mr. McKenzie, our courthouse
contractor, was in the city this week
and says he will break dirt for the
new house after next week.
The checks for indigent soldiers
have been received by Judge Carmi
chael and will be paid to the old
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938
soldiers as called for. Several have
already received their money. These
checks are for S6O each and are
eighteen in number.
When Steve Kinard gets his tele
phone exchange in, Jackson will have
the best service of any little city
in the state.
The death of M. M. McKinley oc
curred January 27.
An election to allow the people
to vote on the question of selling
whiskey in Butts county was called
by Judge James F. Carmichael, or
dinary, for March 3.
Officers of Jackson in 1898 includ- <
ed C. S. Maddox, mayor, and Parry
Lee, clerk.
Butts county officers were: James
F. Carmichael, ordinary; J. O. Beau
champ, sheriff; C. S. Maddox, coun
ty school commissioner; J. A. McMi
chael, clerk superior court; S. D.
Thurston, tax collector; A. H. Ogle
tree, representative in legislature.
Professional men of Jackson in
cluded; M. P. Hall, T. J. Dempsey,
L. L. and C. C. Ray, M. M. Mills
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land O. M. Duke, attorneys; O. H.
Cantrell, dentist; W. A. Starnes, Jr.,
physician.
News of 20 Years Ago
Complying with orders of the Na
tional Fuel Administration, all in
dustries in Butts county using coal
for steam closed from January 18
through January 22 in an effort to
save fuel.
J. H. Blackwell, county agent, was
notified that the U. S. Department
of Agriculture would sell nitrate of
soda to farmers at cost, $75.50 per
[ton. J. O. Gaston, R. P. Sasnett and
J. R. Hammond were members of a
committee to handle shipments.
Employees to serve Jackson were
named by council and were D. M.
Thornton, chief of police, Mack
Goodwin, assistant; W. H.
tax collector; W. E. Watkins, city
attorney; J. A. McMichael, clerk and
treasurer. J. T. Moore was mayor
and councilmen were L. P. McKib
ben, J. C. Jones, C. T. Beauchamp,
W. H. Merritt.
To help save fuel Jackson church
es were holding union services.
The death of George Carmichael,
44, former city clerk, occurred in
Decatur Saturday.
A ruling of the attorney general
said it was legal for counties to use
convicts in cutting wood and pro
viding fuel and relieve all cases of
acute suffering, according to infor
mation received by the Council of
[Defense, J. D. Jones, E. C.
Hugh Mallet, H. M. Fletcher and
Miss Lucy Goodman.
The rural route at Jenkinsburg,
; abolished the first of December, was^
restored, with H. B. Whitaker as car
.
ner.
The rebuilding and maintenance of
soil fertility is the biggest problem
confronting the Georgia farmer.