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Jackson Progress-Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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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. 1 his is oe
lieved to be a fundamental princ.-
ple of Democratic goveriiment.
Even candidates were not able to
make much headway in the snow
and ice.
The cold weather brought school
children a break. They had a va
cation of nearly a week.
In the Atlanta area food for
birds was distributed by airplanes.
A thoughtful thing to no.
What was that last compliment
that Florida and California passed
about their brand of weather?
Cold weather forced the post
ponement of scores of meetings. On
ly necessary sessions were held.
Vegetables will be scare until an
other crop can be grown. Most of
us will live out of tin cans for a
spell.
Coal dealers have had a prosper
ous season. In some sections of
the country stocks of coal are run
ning low.
In a revised estimate Dr. M. D.
Collins, state school head, says the
state will be able to operate the
schools for six months.
The commissioner who operated
Wheeler county two years without
levying any taxes is going to retire.
He set a record for others to shoot
at.
Cold weather seriously effects the
Work of weekly newspapers, and
many plants lacking steam heat were
forced to issue small editions last
week.
Whether the state will be able
to obtain federal aid in highway con
struction until the present row in
the highway department is settled,
remains to be seen.
Georgians co-operated generously
in raising funds for the Warm
Springs Foundation, and at the
same time honored President Roose
velt on his birthday.
Regardless of the decision of the
courts, it is pretty safe to predict
that W. L. Miller will receive his
salary in full as chairman of the
state highway board.
A warning has been issued not
to take census questions lightly and
refuse to answer all questions. There
is a penalty for failure to co-op
erate with census-takers.
If the old saying is true about a
good crop year following a snow,
then bigger and better bams will
have to be built to house the prod
ucts of the farm this year.
Pardons seem, to be pretty easy
to obtain in Georgia just now. Not
much encouragement for juries to
convict and courts to sentence
criminals when they are turned
loose, some before they ever serve
any time at all. The next general
assembly should look into the par
don racket.
Take It Or
Leave It
By J. p. JONES
It would be a fine thing if all
of us could forget about the severe
cold weather of the last few days.
Fortunately, the cold did some good
in killing insects and farmers will
be helped thereby. However, the
cold weather caused much suffering
and many hardships. Florida citrus
and truck farmers suffered heavy
damage. The immediate effect of
the blizzard will be to make fresh
vegetables scarce. Not only will
they be scarce, but they will be
plenty high. January, 1940, will
go down in the book as the most
severe in the memory of the pres
ent generation.
Crop and feed loans will again be
available and applications are now
being taken in the courthouse. The
loans were first started several
years ago and they have been the
means of helping a lot of people who
were unable to obtain credit else
where. This type of credit is in
tended for the borrower without
collateral. Those with collateral
may obtain credit either from lo
cal banks or from the production
credit associations. With all the
agencies now prepared to help farm
ers there should be nobody with
out means of making a crop.
The objection to health programs
is the cost. When one considers
that Georgia spends less than a mil
lion dollars on public health, and
pays out for sickness and disease a
sum estimated to be $135,000,000
annually, it is time to begin an in
vestigation into the causes. The
Citizens’ Fact Finding Movement,
an organization composed of civic,
business and professional groups,
has been doing some effective work
for health conditions and has
brought to light some interesting
figures. In one breath we say we
can’t afford to spend for health,
and on the other hand spend more
than a hundred million because of
ill health. We are no consistent. It
is as well to face the facts. The
Ellis Health Law now in operation
in many counties of the state is do
ing effective work to prevent and
curb disease. .Small rural counties,
feeling unable to have the benefits
of the Ellis Health Law, have the al
ternative of a Public Health Nurse.
This service is paid for by the state
and government and the county has
to meet only a small part of the
expense, say $75.00 per month and
office space. Surely any county
can afford to have a full time Pub
lic Health Nurse. Asa matter of
fact—in view of the tremendous
cost for sickness — it cannot afford
to do without this vital service.
Butts county should give serious
concern to this matter of a Public
Health Nurse and the February
grand jury should investigate the
matter carefully and then act for
the best interests of all the people.
With the litigation growing out
of the highway row having been di
rected to the United States courts
it is reasonable to presume that a
show-down will not be long in com
ing. It is too bad that Georgia
has to wash its dirty linen in the
federal courts. We prate about
states’ rights and boast about our
rank individualism, and then being
unable to settle our family disputes
have to ask Uncle Sam to interpret
our rows in his courts. For one
thing petty politics has gone to seed
in Georgia. Out of the present
welter of charges and counter charg
es maybe there will come a clearer
understanding and a more whole
; some respect for law and order and
!decency.
If the suffering and hardships
and inconveniences of the last feu
days could impress itself indelibly
on the minds of the public it would
be a good thing. In times of stress
and strain many wholesome lessons
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
are learned. Those who give service
are entitled to a big vote of thanks
for carrying on in spite of misera
ble weather conditions. In such
times one finds out who his real
friends are. The grocer, the coal
dealer, the mail carrier, the delivery
boy, the milk man, the physician, the
plumber, the druggist and many
others endured hardships to meet
the demands of their customers.
The mail order house and the out
of town dealer don’t have much
standing in times of trouble. It
would be desirable if these lessons
were remembered and those who
helped us in a tight spot were giv
en the preference of business all
through the year.
Taxpayers of New York state are
becoming tax conscious and will
stage a march to Albany to pro
test new levies. New York state
has a budget of $340,000,000 per
year.
Judge Ogden Persons thinks an
impeached Governor would be a
good thing in Georgia. Judge Per
sons, one of the state’s able jurists
and public men, always speaks his
convictions fearlessly.
“MAIL ORDER CANDIDATES’’
The nerviest person we know is
the candidate who sends his orders
to mail-order houses to get his
printing done and then, presenting
a card printed out of the county, or
even out of the state, asks the print
ers and citizens of his county to
vote for him for a county office.
Mail-order printing may be a few
cents cheaper, but we haven’t heard
of anybody getting elected by votes
sent to them from mail-order print
ers in Illinois, Indiana or other
away-from-home places. Loyal cit
izens support home printers and
other business concerns.
We wonder if those candidates
who have their cards and other
printing done by mail-order con
cerns are also expecting to be elec
ted by mail-order votes?
There are three printing con
cerns in Chattooga county which
pay taxes in the county, can do
just as good printing as the mail
order concerns which pay no taxes
here and which cannot support you
in any way, except take your money
away from home. Home printers
aappreciate your business and are
qualified to vote for you.
VOTERS: Do you want to elect
candidates who are loyal to home
printers and business concerns or
those who spend their money, before
they are elected, with mail-order
concerns which pay no taxes, license
or help in in any way to build up
our county?
Home printers can do the printing
for candidates promptly, without
long delays, and deserve the busi
ness—and will appreciate it!—Sum
merville News.
DON’T SNUB THE CENSUS
TAKER
By a curious circumstance it was
mistakenly stated in a usually re
liable journal recently, and unfor
tunately repeated in these columns,
that no law- required a person in
the United States to answer the
questions of a census taker.
The gathering of information in
a decennial census is such a public
service that probably almost no cit
izen ever thinks otherwise than of
wishing to be helpful in the under
taking. Yet the director of the
census, William L. Austin, has is
sued a memorandum pointing out
that a person may be fined up to
SIOO or sentenced to 60 days in jail
for refusal to answer a census ques
tion, or may pay a still higher penal
ty for giving intentionally incorrect
information. At the same time
census employees are strictly re
quired to keep such information
confidential. A fine of SI,OOO or
two years imprisonment or both
might follow the divulging of per
sonal data to an outsider.
Under these conditions it is not
worth the price to try to keep •*
secret from the census taker.—
Christian Science Monitor.
Through
Argus-Eyes
By DOYLE JONES, JR.
Early this week in almost every
hamlet and city in the United States
people gathered to aid in one of
the noblest causes a person could
be asked to sponsor. People with
strong, sturdy legs and bodies danced
and made merry so that the less
fortunate victims of infantile
paralysis might some day have the
same chance. The money derived
from these nation-wide entertain
ments will be used strictly in the
prayerful hope of finding some
means of effectively controlling this
dread menace which annually strikes
thousands of American homes. Sci
ence has reached the crossroads in
its gallant battle against paralysis.
Money is needed to care for those
already stricken and for unrelent
ing, extensive laboratory research
to find a cure and prevention of a
disease which must be checked and
from which no child is safe. Paraly
sis is no respecter of persons. It
strikes blue bloods, sons and daugh
ters of first families, and with equal I
candor reaches into tenement dis
tricts to leave some poverty stricken
family sorrowing from its dread af
termath. Typhoid has its anti-tox
in, smallpox its vaccination, dia
betes its insulin, but paralysis noth
ing to check its spread. It must
be ranked alongside cancer as one
of the few remaining major diseases
for which no positive relief is
known. Join the march of dimes
and know you shared in a fight which
some day will be won.
Reading tip: “Kitty Foyle” by
Christopher Morley. It is the fin
est first person narrative I have
ever read.
The Russo-Finnish scrap appears
to me to be rapidly becoming one
of the decisive wars of history. Fin
land’s gallant stand is heroic, her
need for victory vital, in fact so
much so, that I imagine she will re
ceive aid from Britain and France
that Poland never did nor would
have received had the war lasted
longer. Why then is a Finnish vic
tory imperative ?
First: It is logical to expect that
once Finland is crushed Norway,
Sweden and Denmark will meet the
same fate. Finland is geographi
cally situated so that with a mini
mum of men and munitions she
might defend herself indefinitely.
The Scandinavian countries realize
this and rather than face Russia
alone will probably in the near fu
ture aid Finland openly instead of
only with volunteer troops. The
Finns must hold the Russians at bay
or the Scandinavians are doomed.
Second: The collapse of Finland,
Norway, Denmark and Sweden
would remove the last bulwark from
the spread of communisn#* in wes
tern and northwestern Europe where
the people if they had a choice would
prefer the black plague to the low
est form of civilization found in the
world today.
Third: With Russia and Germany
strangling France and Britain with
their newly gained footholds the
war would turn against the Allies
and in the end unless some power
erful neutral, say Italy, Japan or
the United States, entered in their
behalf, the possibility of which
■would be unlikely, the Allies would
most likely be defeated.
Fourth: W ithout a democracy in
Europe, with Nazism, Communism,
and Facism flourishing, the United
States would be the only great
democrady to survive the present
upheaval. The pressure would then
be on us. We would have to police
both oceans, spend millions to for
tify Pacific islands into impregna
ble bases, increase tremendously
the branches of America’s war arms,
which, of course, are the Amy,
Navy and Air Corps. And then sit
back and wait for the next explo
sion. A decisive victory for Fin
land and her allies, which will suret
ly come, may save the world, a
It’s Good Business
To Borrow at Your
HOME BANK
When the proceeds of the loan is soundly and
economically used, and—when the borrower is sure
it can later be repaid from income or self liquidat
ing sources.
We will be glad to supply you information
about any of the following types of loans:
Life Insurance Loans —Automobile Loans—
Mortgage and Real Estate Loans —Personal Loans
—Home Building Loans —Business Loans—Cotton
Loans —Livestock Loans.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
far more terrible than the first,
plunge into another Dark Age, one
WITH THE EXCHANGES
The Modern Whirl
“Life has become so complex
that a person has to be a contor
tionist to get by these days. You’ve
got to keep your back to the wall,
your ear to the ground, your nose
to the grindstone, your shoulder to
the wheel, a level head, both feet
on the ground, and a stiff upper
lip,” opines one writer.—Dawson
News.
Some Definitions
A Port Arthur, Texas, publica
tion gives the following definitions
of interest:
Committee —A body that wastes
hours and keeps minutes.
Repartee—Something you think
of ten minutes late.
Old Maid —A “yes girl” whom no
one gave the chance to talk.
Blotter—What you look for while
the ink dries.
Doctor —Folks who prescribe in
Latin and bill in English.
And Bill Biffem down in Savan
nah adds one of his own: “Bank
Balance—Something that was but
ain’t.”—Commerce News.
Look Up—Not Down
An unknown author writes in an
exchange: “A young fellow once
found a two dollar bill as he walk
ed along the road. Prom that time
on he has never lifted his eyes from
the ground as he walked. In 40
years he has accumulated 29,516
buttons, 54,172 pins, 7 cents in pen
nies, a stooped body and a miserly
disposition. He missed the sunlight,
the smiles of friends, the verdue to
trees, the blue of skies, and all there
is in life worth living for—the op
portunity to serve one’s fellow man
and to spread happiness through the
world. Moral: Look up, not down;
look out, not in—and lend a hand.”
LOOKING BACKWARD
THROUGH THE FILES
News of 30 Years Ago
Political announcements included
R. T. Daniel and E. F. Dupree for
judge of Flint circuit; 0. H. B.
Bloodworth for congress; D. J.
Thaxton and J. H. Thui’ston for
tax receiver and L. R. Dodson for
tax collector.
R. L. Smith, prominent business
man, was critically ill at his home
on College street.
J. Matt McMichael and A. H.
Ogletree were mentioned as candi
dates for representatives.
News of 20 Years Ago
Sea island cotton reached 84
cents a pound on the Savannah mar
ket.
Candidates included L. L. Greer,
W. J. Kinard, Bennie Pelt, J. C.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940
Harper, J. H. Land for tax recei
ver; J. F. Lane, W. Pierce Craw
ford, J. P. Maddox, Homer M.
Vaughn, W. F. Flynt, A. H. S. Da
vis, Walter S. White, W. F. Thomas,j|
D. W. McLendon, G. W. Allen, T
J. Britt for tax collector; C. R. Car
ter, John M. McMichael, J. H. Holi
field for treasurer; J. H. Ham,
H. Blackwell for ordinary; S. J. Fos
ter for clerk; Van Fletcher for
school superintendent; F. C. Ste
phens, J. F. Hardy for coroner; Wal
ter D. Pope, with Charles H. Smith
as deputy, and W. F. Lavender,
with Jack J. Jenkins as deputy, for
sheriff.
Prior to January 16 Butts coun
ty had ginned 15,751 bales of cot
ton.
J. H. Mills, state president of the
Farmers Union, urged a preferen
tial primary in Georgia.
News of 10 Years Ago
B. H. Hodges won a SIOO prize
in the state five-acre cotton con
test. He won fifth prize on a re
ported yield of 4,773 pounds of
lint on five acres.
, A demonstration in planting
young pine trees and thinning pines
to a proper stand was given on the
farm of Dr. R. A. Franklin at In
dian Springs by K. S. Trowbridge,
extension forester. %
Work was started on the Jack
son golf course (hear the camp
ground.
H. G. Wiley, county agent,
Ruth Eberhardt, home demonstra
tion agent, J. H. Patrick, Wade
Hammond, Lamar Weaver, B. H.
Hodges and S. L. Lunsford attend
ed Farmers’ Week at the State Col
lege in Athens.
Progressive merchants utilized the
winter season for clearance salesrtc
make room for new goods. Some
firms, however, will be trying to pan
off the same old goods on customers
several years from now.
FSA FARMERS GROW
FOOD AND FEED ON
70 PER CENT OF LAND
R. L. Vansant, state director of
the Farm Security Administration,
reported from Athens this week that
678,931 acres or 70.6 per cent of
the 961,672 acres of land being
cultivated by the 19,549 families of
the FSA in Georgia, were devoted to
crops grown for food and feed in
the home and on the farm during
i939.
These families are among the to-’
tal of 26,914 who received aid
through the FSA last year.
Mr. Vansant said that these fam
ilies are taking a great deal
interest in improving their soil by
planting winter cover crops. He
reported that this season 45,297
acres are planted in winter legumes,
including Austrian peas, crimson
clover and vetch.