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Jackson Progrcss-Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at
the Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
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Every governmental official or
board whose duties include the han
dling of public funds should pub
lish at regular intervals an account
ing of it, showing where and how
each dollar was spent. This is be
lieved to be a fundamental princi
ple of Democratic goverhment.
Whatever became of the gymna
sium Jackson was going to build?
Make livestock one of the princi
pal projects this year and you will
be helping yourself and the commu
nity.
Congress talks in terms of billions
like the average fellow thinks in
terms of a church collection —a tri
fle.
Georgia school children will buy
buttons at a dime per capita to help
the Warm Springs Foundation. It
is a worthy undertaking.
Along about July and August the
military rule now in force in the
highway department will not be a
popular subject of discussion on the
hustings.
A lot of water has passed over
the dam since President Coolidge
said “I do not choose to run.” They
are harder to wean from the pub
lic teat nowadays.
The 1940 farm program that does
not take into account plenty of food
and feed crops, livestock and poul
try, as well as soil improvement, is
not worth mentioning.
Personally we are not concerned
with how much the weather man
punishes the boll weevil, but it is
hard for the rest of us to suffer
for the sins of the boll weevil.
County Democratic executive com
mittees in many parts of the state
are appealing for a presidential pri
mary to name delegates to the na
tional convention. This is the dem
ocratic way.
The United States Senate has
passed a law, sponsored by Senator
R. B. Russell, to deport criminal and
undesirable aliens. There are far
too many of that kind in this coun
try and they should be sent back to
the mother countries.
Banks are full of deposits, show
ing people have money. They are
going to keep it until some of the
business firms limber up and ask
for business on business principles
—which include constant and judi
cious advertising in the home pa
per.
Credit is beginning to flow out
to producers and this will mean good
business for the immediate future.
In the fall these debts are repaid,
and often the producer does not
have much left. In agricultural
areas business is now active in the
spring and summer, whereas fall
was formerly the busy season.
Every governor of Georgia for a
generation has butted his political
brains out against tax reform. The
late Dr. L. G. Hardman, pointed to
as an outstanding business execu
tive, did n> better than the rest in
that regard. Fair and just taxa
tion is a big problem and when it
becomes involved in politics the re
sult is a scrambled mess.
Take It Or
Leave It
By J. D. JONES
Rural electrification lines, which
form a network throughout the
state, got their first real test dur
ing the recent ice storm. In some
instances lines suffered rather se
verely as a result of the ice, but
in the main there was no serious
interruption of service. The lines
are well constructed and built ac
cording to rigid government speci
fications and will stand up in any
ordinary' weather. All electric lines,
whether rural or urban, were dam
aged by the heavy coating of sleet.
The Georgia Power Company in the
Atlanta area did not escape dam
age. Customers may expect these
occasional storms, which fortunately
do not occur often in this region.
The storm was not anything like as
severe as that of four years ago,
when candles and oil lamps were
pressed into service and industrial
plants were without current for al
most a week. It is good to know
that REA has been put to the test
and came through an emergency in
good condition.
Early primaries appear to be the
order of the day. Some counties
held primaries before the Christmas
holidays, others early in the year
and still others have set dates for
the immediate future. Georgians
generally, it seems, want to be rid
of purely local politics so that the
state and national campaigns can be
given the attention they deserve.
This is well, for certainly no candi
date for local office wants to be
mixed -up with state and national is
sues. Asa matter of fact, there
are few, if any, issues involved in a
county campaign. It is mostly a
question of personalities. Local
political races are a testing time
when candidates take stock of their
friends and see how they stand with
the home people.
The importance of planting pines
as a means of earning government
benefits up to S3O per farm, and as
a further means of providing later
on a dependable money crop, can
not be too strongly stressed. Timber
is not a quick-money crop, but over
the long range it is doubted if fann
ers can plant any crop that will yield
surer returns. If forests are plant
ed according to directions and given
protection from fire, the money
value will be hard to estimate. In
many instances the growing timber
on land is worth more than the land
itself, under present conditions.
Georgia faces a bright future with
its timber, provided ordinary care
is given and fire is kept from get
ting in its deadly work. County
Agent M. L. Powell is helping farm
ers place orders for pine seedlings.
Each farm can plant up to 4 acres
and earn a total of S3O. The cost
of the seedlings is not any great ex
pense. Butts county farmers should
plant a large acreage in pines this
season.
Asa means of deriving farm in
come in a short period it is likely
that poultry is one of the best things
yet offered. A few years ago Butts
county had an extensive poultry de
velopment, with monthly co-opera
tive carlot sales and the proceeds
ran into considerable volume. The
county also staged an annual Egg
and Poultry Show, the equal of any
held in the state. For some reason
interest in poultry seems to have
lagged. It is a good time to revive
this interest and carry on poultry
production on a large scale in con
nection with the livestock sales. Not
every farmer is fitted for livestock
production, but almost every home
can raise chickens and sell eggs and
thus add to the farm income. The
poultry business is still one of the
nation’s largest source of farm in
come. Hall county, it was recently
announced, has developed a $650,-
000 annual industry in poultry,
mostly friers, with the value of
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
chickens sold supplanting cotton as
the main cash crop. What Hall coun
ty has done other counties can do.
As 1940 opens it would be a wise
thing for Butts county to pay more
attention to the poultry industry.
In a few instances readers are
disposed to “kid” the writer for
complimentary notices given candi
dates when they announce. Why
not give the candidate a boost and
send him forth on his race feeling
good? He may not feel good when
the race is over. The fact of the
matter is the average man never
gets his name in the paper often. He
is sure of at least three notices —at
birth, at his wedding and when he
dies. Outside of that some people
may never see their names in print.
Some people, of course, crave the
limelight and will sit on flag poles
and do other silly things to get their
names in the paper. But the aver
age man, the rank and file of folks,
are not so fortunate. So if the wri
ter can contribute anything toward
making the candidate feel good, send
him to the political wars with his
chin up and chest thrown out, he
will feel repaid for the “puffs” giv
en. Candidates are folks fired with
ambition —an ambition to serve.
They are friendly. They dispense
smiles and good cheer and radiate
optimism. The candiate fills a dis
tinct need in the body politic. Be
fore the primary he has his head in
the clouds and has a ready hand
shake for everybody. He is a gloom
chaser. He is good for the blues.
It would be a fine thing if this
same spirit of good cheer and op
timism were made a permanent as
set and all of us could become inoc
ulated with the confidence and
friendliness of the political candi
date.
About the silliest piece of politi
cal propaganda introduced in Con
gress in years is the anti-lynching
bill. This is an effort on the part
of Republicans and northern Demo
crats —who are that in name only—
to corral the negro vote in doubtful
political states and is intended to
humiliate the South, Lynching is
disappearing before education and
enlightened public sentiment. The
bill is ill advised, untimely and no
possible good can come from it. It
would be a wise thing for some of
the uplifters to sweep before their
own doors and do something about
the gangster crimes.
If every business firm outlined
a platform and announced for bus
iness, as the candidates do, and put
the same spirit and enthusiasm into
its work as the candidates practice,
the results would be surprising. The
candidates know the value of adver
tising—and they get results.
Farmers who grow pimiento pep
per as a commercial crop are sign
ing contracts for 1940 production.
Indications are that considerable
cash income will be derived from
this highly localized and specialized
crop.
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS
Congratulations to the Jackson
Prorgess-Argus upon the completion
of sixty-seven years of service to
Jackson, Ga., and Butts county, and
congratulations to Jackson and
Butts county upon having such a
splendid paper so ably edited. May
1940—its sixty-eighth year—be the
best and most useful year of its
history.—Commerce News.
Down Madison way Editor W. T.
Bacon of the Madisonian recently
celebrated his 70th birthday, and a
young looking fellow Bill Bacon is
to be three score and ten. His pa
per gets better as he grows older.
Over in Monroe Editor Ernest
Camp celebrates the 40th birthday
of that splendid Georgia newspaper,
the Walton Tribune, than which
there is none better.
Then we drop ’way down to Butts
county where Editor Doyle Jones
marks up 68 years on the calendar
for another great paper, the Jack
son Progress-Argus.
Hearty congratulations to all of
them.—Hartwell Sun.
Through
Argus Eyes
By DOYLE .TONES, JR.
With the Jackson Day dinners
over, Finland gallantly repulsing
the Russians, Germany, France and
England glaring at one another
over the Siegfried and Maginot lines
rsepectively, basketball and bliz
zards taking the edge off the wars,
politics again become the principal
topic of the day with more opinions
expressed on the third term question
than reasons for Tennessee’s defeat
in the Rose Bowl.
Whether Roosevelt chooses to run
for another term appears to me one
of the gravest problems of state
this nation has ever faced. For if
his third term venture is successful
then America would have him pres
ident for as long as he wanted it
for no one could oppose with any
chance for victory the mighty ma
chine he would have built around
him. The first president which gov
erns for three terms, whether it be
F. D. R. or some other, will surely
become a presidential dictator and
whatever democracy this country
once enjoyed will be gone with the
wind and not Margaret Mitchell’s.
Roosevelt is no super-man, in
deed, it is to be doubted if he is as
sagacious as some of his predeces
sors. Why then should America
confer on him what it has refused
other presidents, some of whom were
his equal, a few his peer? Old time
religion and a two term president
is enough for me and I believe will
prove enough for this country. At
least both, I think, will prove its
salvation.
Headlines Tuesday screamed that
Britain refuses to respect the Amer
ica’s neutrality zone. One of the
best ways to keep this country out
of the European wars is for strained
relations between England and the
United States. We were far too
chummy with her in 1914 and in a
few years were abroad winning her
war and getting no thanks for our
aid other than a repudiated war
debt. A cooling of relations be
tween Britain and our country gives
us a much better chance for neu
trality.
Jackson is not unlike other small
towns in that there are many need
ed improvements. Here the most
urgent is for a building to house
the Butts County Fair exhibits and
to serve as a gymnasium for the
schools of this county with a mod
ern, ample basketball court. A spe
cial committee of the Jackson Ki
wanis Club is working on this and
soon should have something to re
port. In the meantime all should
be thinking about this project and
resolve to help as much financially
as possible when the time comes.
LOOKING BACKWARD
THROUGH THE FILES
New* of 40 Years Ago
M. P. Hall was a candidate for
solicitor general of the Flint cir
cuit.
W. B. McMichael and L. M. Craw
ford were elected policemen in
Jackson.
The county commissioners named
the following district road overseers
to collect the $2 annual tax and di
rect road work: Buttrill district,
W. H. Fletcher; Coody, J. D. Brown
lee; Dublin, B. C. Ward; Indian
Springs, T. N. Treadwell; Iron
Springs, W. M. Presley; Jackson,
Clifford Beauchamp; Towaliga, R.
B. Harkness; Worthville, W. W.
Wilson.
C. O. Beauchamp was mayor of
Jackson.
New* of 30 Years Ago
Officers of the Carmichael Buggy
Cos. were A. Homer Carmichael,,
president; J. W. Carmichael, vice
president, and W. R. -Carmichael,
secretary.
A report of Philip Cook, secre
tary of state, showed that 12 rail
THANKS
THANKS
Large or Small Account —
—We mean the same,
Thanks for your account
GLAD
GLAD
Of the large increase in business.
That we are rendering a helpful service. For
you to come with every need —business or agricul
tural —we can safely supply.
We can all work together for another good
year.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
roads were chartered in Georgia in
1909.
Success appeared in sight for
Jackson’s fight for anew depot.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Wil
lingham, of Atlanta, announced the
engagement of their daughter, Car
olyn, to A. Homer Carmichael, of
Jackson, the wedding to take place
February 24.
H. M. Fetcher succeeded S. O.
Ham as mayor of Jackson.
The Empire Buggy Company elec
ted the following officers: J. H.
Carmichael, president; J. H. McKib
ben, vice president; R. J. Carmich
ael, secretary and treasurer; S. P.
Nichols, general manager.
News of 20 Years Ago
The new Jackson theater, J. M.
McCarthy, manager, was to open
Friday with “Checkers” as the of
fering.
E. L. Smith was elected president
of Jackson National Bank, succeed
ing F. S. Etheridge who became
chairman of the board.
Directors of the Jackson Bank
ing Company voted to increase the
capital stock from $50,000 to SIOO,-
000.
O. A. Pound was severely injured
Friday when he alighted from a
street car near his home on Peach
tree street, Atlanta, and was struck
by a passing automobile.
The marriage of Miss Trudie
Maddox and L. J. McMichael took
place at Worthville Friday.
R. J. Carmichael and J. B. Guth
rie bought the Brady property, cor
ner Third and Oak streets.
W. J. Kinard announced for tax
receiver and John M. McMichael for
treasurer.
Nation wide prohibition, under the
law enacted in the summer of 1919,
became effective January 16.
New* of 10 Year* Ago
Dr. R. A. Franklin began anew
venture in livestock production
when he announced he would raise
Shetland ponies on his farm at In
dian Springs.
The sum of $717.65 was paid
Butts county farmers for 3,482
pounds of poultry sold in the first
co-operative cai-lot sale of the year.
Nimrod Reynolds McCord, 70,
died at his home on Lyons street
Thursday night.
Stockhoders of the Jackson Bank
ing Company in annual meeting ap
proved a resolution to reduce the
capital stock from SIOO,OOO to $50,-
000.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
They’ll Li*ten Along In July
“I’m not listening,” General Stod
dard is quoted as saying in Atlanta,
when served with the latest court
order in the highway department
fight That seems to be the general
attitude of the administration re
garding the observance of the let
ter of the law. Bnt the politicians
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940
will listen later in the year when
the people speak.—Tifton Gazette.
A Woman Editor Speaks
Commerce is like some people we
know. She looks better at night-
These Christmas lights did the trick.
Lights that are just right have a
way with towns and women.—Com
merce News.
That Might Be The Solution
Let us hope that the next legisla
ture will propose a constitutional
amendment providing for a one man
highway manager with a six year
term of office, and as far removed
from dictation by the governor as
is the chief justice of the Supreme
Court. Thus freeing that office from
politics and political domination,
and at the same time secure con
tinuity of road building, with a min
imum of political interference.—
Carroll County Times.
Want* The Right To Vote
There is not a voter in Morgan
county who should not have a right
to express his choice as to whom
he wants to .represent him at the
national democratic convention. Of
course there may be those whom it
will suit—those who have no choice,
but there are lots of us who have
a choice and we certainly are not
willing for anyone else to cast our
vote.—Madison Madisonian.
Slightly Our of Gear
Our office > heater is acting as*fun
ny as the state administration. One
side of it is cracked, another side
is busted, and somewhere along the
line the dern thing is clogged up.
—Crisp County News.
A Mild Criticicm
“The trouble with most movie
producers,” says one exchange, “is
that they shoot too many scenes and
not enough actors.”—Dawson News.
Banks of the nation are bulging
with money, running into stagger
ing figures. The country should put
this idle money to work in produc
tive enterprise. Before this is done
' there must be assurance of fail
treatment and just tax laws for
new industries.
4-H CLUB MEMBERS
MAKE PLAQUES AS
PROJECT FOR 1940
Members of boys and girls 4-H
Clubs are now engaged in making
plaques with the 4-H club emblem
and each club member will have one
of the plaques to hang in his or her
home. The plaques are made
the boys in the workshop under the
direction of County Agent M. L.
Powell, and the girls paint them on
a green background. They are most
attractive and will arouse keen in
terest as a club project.