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Jackson Progress-Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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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 goverliment.
Many arc called hut few are
chosen. That is what makes a state
campaign interesting.
It is the season of tall fish sto
ries. Funny how some of the fish
try to commit suicide.
State candidates have until July
25 to qualify for the state primary
on September 11. The water is
fine and several entries have al
ready been made.
The 4-H Wild Life and Junior
Ranger project is one that will
result in far-reaching good to the
state. Most of the worthwhile move
ments have to begin with boys and
girls.
Georgia is doing good work in
cleaning up the hedges and waste
places and seeding them in per
manent pastures and stocking cat
tle on these pastures. The live
stock industry is going places in
Georgia.
If Lakeland, Georgia, can sup
port two members of the state high
way board that ought to mean a
lot of paving in Lanier county.
Heretofore members of the board
have paved all the backyards and
alleys about their homes.
The sooner Georgia eliminates the
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local prejudices and rivalries and
begins to think in terms of the state
as a whole the better it will be. A
concerted movement for advertising
Georgia and its matchless resources
is needed now as never before.
Freedom of the press is not worth
a tinker’s damn as long as some
body has a mortgage on the editor’s
plant. Freedom of the press that
really counts is when the editor is
free to express his thoughts without
dictation from outside influences.
The Works Progress Administra
tion announces a ten million dollar
road program for the state. Butts
county will share in the program to
the extent of $85,000 and the Jack
son-Stark post road is one of th
important projects under construc
tion.
Georgia has never had a Demo
cratic state executive committee
that represents all portions of the
state. A few big wigs do all the
thinking and planning and the les
ser lights fall in line and shout
“amen." It is not a healthy state
of affairs.
It’s not what to print that is wor
rying Georgia editors, but how to
separate the wheat from the chaff
and print legitimate news and leave
out the propaganda. With the state
campaign soon to begin all news
paper offices will need new and
larger waste baskets.
The state politial campaign has
reached the stage where honorary
titles are flung about promiscuous
ly. When plain John Doe is address
ed with the prefix, “Honorable," it
is a pretty good idea for J. D. to
be on his guard. Somebody wants
to take him for a ride.
Take It Or
Leave It
By J. D. JONES
Georgia and her resources, what
to do with them, how to develop
recreation facilities, how to attract
and hold tourists, how to- develop
the tourist business into one of the
important cash industries —these
are questions that are pressing for
an answer. Until recently Georgia
has never had much time for leisure.
Other things were considered more
important. Beginning a few years
ago the state began to develop a
state park system. Remarkable
progress has been made and the
foundation has been laid for a park
system that will rank with the best
in the country. For the last few
} years the Department of Natural
I Resources, Division of State Parks,
has had this work in charge. Due
to the loyal support accorded by the
communities having parks the state
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has been able to go forward. The
Division of State Parks is lacking
in finances to do an adequate job
and the state is marking time until
some future date when the General
Assembly visualizes the possibilities
and provides ample funds for ex
pansion and development.
A group known as the Georgia
Park and Recreation Association,
with Lee Trimble, executive vice
president of the Macon Chamber of
Commerce as president, is trying to
do something about recreation in
Georgia. The state, according to
recently quoted figures, already has
an annual tourist business worth
$83,000,000. Most of the tourists
visit Georgia en route to Florida—
visit the state because they cannot
help themselves. We have been
busy boosting “short routes, loops
and short-cuts” to Florida, trying to
speed the tourists through Georgia
rather than hold them in the state
for a day or a few days longer.
That policy must be reversed. Tour
ists must be asked to stop in Geor
gia, visit about and see the spots
of historic and scenic interest.
How best to accomplish that re
sult is one of the purposes of the
Park and Recreation Association.
Tours to the several state parks,
with trips to places rich in appeal
and historic interest, have been
suggested. This is an arrangement
that may be worked out with the
transportation companies. The parks
and historic spots must, of course,
be properly marked. Guides must
be provided to tell the story. Paved
highways, if not already provided,
must make the parks accessible in
all weather conditions. Some pub
licity, a short sketch of the parks,
would go well in that connection.
The group is also interested in
adequate financing for the state
park system and comrhittees will
press the matter before the general
assembly.
The entire population of the state
needs to become tourist conscious—
meet the strangers cordially and
welcome them and ask them to re
turn and bring their friends for
other visits.
Georgia needs a thorough clean
up campaign. Many of the dilap
idated houses should be removed.
War should be waged on unsightly
road signs. The rural housing pro
gram needs emphasis. Georgia to
impress tourists must be active and
attractive.
It is a big job the recreation
group faces in trying to properly
advertise the state and induce more
tourist travel. But it is a job that
can be done by education and sup
port of the public. It is work so
vital to the future progress of the
state that it is worth the effort.
Butts county 4-H club members,
under the direction of the home
demonstration agent and county
agent, have been visiting about re
cently. The Towaliga group spent
a day at radio station WSB in At
lanta and then went to Tate for
an inspection of the marble works
in Pickens county. Another group,
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
the Tusshaw club members, spent j
Saturday in Macon. There they
visited station WMAZ, newspaper
offices, the Indian Mounds and oth
er places of interest. This is get
ting an education while enjoying an
outing. Visual education is the best
kind. The boys and girls of club
age will not soon forget the things
seen on these trips. More tours
would prove, interesting to other
groups. In this, as well as in other
things, the youngsters are setting
the pace for adults. The writer has
long advocated tours for farmers.
Visits to other parts of the state
and a study of how the other fellow
is doing the job, as well as new
crops, new industries, new scenery
will create lots of interest. A num
ber of these tours should be arrang
ed for Butts county men and women
during the year.
That the Varner House at Indian
Springs, probably the oldest build
ing in the county and full of histo
ric associations, is being restored
and modernized under the direction
of Mrs. Cornell Varner Davidson,
is a matter of interest to people
in Butts county and the state as
well. This building, said to have
been erected in 1823, was built by
Joel Bailey and William Mclntosh,
the Creek Indian chief whose name
is indelibly linked with Indian
Springs. It was formerly known as
the Mclntosh House. There, in the
period before the War Between the
States, the beauty and aristocracy
of Georgia gathered. The old hotel
register is a priceless document, con
taining the names of the great of
another era. Some years ago the
William Mclntosh chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution,
made an effort to restore the build
ing to its former state. The prop
erty has long been owned by the
Varner family. In 1911 the Pied
mont Continental chapter D. A. R.
of Atlanta unveiled a marker at the
Varner House. Recently a historic
marker has been placed near the
old inn by the State Park Service in
co-operation with the Butts County
Historical Society. These old inns
are rich in interest. Especially so
in this instance for there the Indian
clans gathered for the important
treaty of 1825 by which the state
gained title to all Indian lands in
Georgia. Much history, vital to
Georgia’s progress, has been written
in and about Indian Springs. Under
Mrs. Davidson’s direction the Var
ner House is expected to again be
come a popular rendezvous for vis
itors to the Indian Springs state
park.
In spite of all the complaining
one hears and despite the millions
of unemployed, we may be living in
the golden age of prosperity. A
few years from now one may point
back to the good old days of 1940.
The war in Europe is burning up
and tearing up a vast store of raw
materials. Oil is being drained from
the earth, rubber, copper, tin and
other things necessary in waging
war are being wasted at prodigal
speed. Billions are being voted to
carry on the war. The tax burden
in nations now at war is almost un
bearable, but there is more to come.
A wise and beneficent Providence
placed natural resources here to be
used and enjoyed. It is doubted if
they were ever intended to be used
for destructive purposes. But the
war lords are in the saddle and are
riding high, wide and handsome.
Surely a day of reckoning will come
and the cost of the war will be
borne not only by the nations fight
ing but by all civilized people. It
was so in World War No. 1 and it
will be the same in World War No.
2. Either by inflated prices or by
depression, or a combination, the
people of the world will pay and
pay. It is not an encouraging pic
ture when so much of the wealth
of the world is used to pay for wars
past, present wars and to prepare
for wars yet to come. Civilization
in the guise of selfishness and greed
is committing economic suicide. Any
one who doubts this would do well
to keep his eyes open a few years
until pay day arrives.
STUFF ’N SUCH
By VINCENT JONES
There are still those who think
we owe England and France anoth
er war.
You can’t expect a living wage
if you’re a dead one.
Laugh, and people will call you a
fool; frown, and they’ll pronounce
you a sour puss; doubt, and you’ll
be a skeptic; fear, and you’ll hear
cries of' coward And yet they do
the same things.
Youth lives in its dreams; age in
its memories.
A million young men and women
will put aside campus frolics in
June for the serious business of
making a living. There may not
be many good jobs at their disposal.
There may not, in fact, be any.
But you can bet your last Indian
nickel that American youth will dig
ditches in America, not trenches in
Europe.
Nowadays old men dream dreams
and young men see visions of death
that make those dreams of power,
nightmares of war.
In a world so much in need of
kindness, there is too much cruelty;
in a world of simple folk, there are
too many big words and thoughts
with hollow meanings.
Men build mighty mansions of
wisdom in their minds; work madly
to "get somewhere,” “be some
body,” neglecting the care of their
bodies; thinking of them only as a
means to an end, not as an end
within themselves. They may get
somewhere someday, they may be
somebody but somewhere along the
way their overworked bodies will
have paid the toll in a score or more
years detracted from their expected
lifetime, a score of years that could
have and should have been lived.
A healthy body is two-thirds of
a healthy mind.
If Roosevelt goes to bat for the
third time, we wonder if there won’t
be some “mug wumps” in the Dem
ocratic party.
There’s no fool like a young fool,
unless it’s an old one. He ought to
know better.
Leisure is time for doing some
thing useful.
Courtship consists of a man run
ning after a woman until she has
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caught him.
THE SUCCESS FAMILY
The father of Success is—Work.
The mother of Success is—Ambi
tion.
The oldest son is—Common Sense.
Some of the other boys are:
1. Stability.
2. Perseverance.
3. Honesty.
4. Thoroughness.
5. Foresight.
6. Enthusiasm.
7. Cooperation.
The oldest daughter is—Charac
ter.
Some other sisters are:
1. Personality.
2. Cheerfulness.
3. Loyalty.
4. Courtesy.
5. Care.
6. Economy.
7. Sincerity.
8. Harmony.
The baby is Opportunity.
Get acquainted with the Old Man,
and you will be able to get along
pretty well with all the rest of the
family.—Life Ins. Digest.
Then there are those who believe
—so they say—the United States
should support France and Great
Britain with everything we have ex
cept man power. When the going
gets tough probably man power will
be called for, according to this the
ory. We take no stock in this
theory. The United States should
let Europe settle its own wars.
Won’t You Let Us Boast
JUST A LITTLE
WE ARE HELPING TO SWING THE
COMMUNITY HAMMER—TO BUILD
Maybe not' with hammer and saw, but we are
at work with the builders, nevertheless—building
a finer, stronger, more modern community.
You’d be surprised how many individuals and
businesses we have made new loans to during the
past year—big loans and little loans to help im
prove individual situations and build the business
and homes of this community.
You’ll find us glad always to consider your
needs.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Scrapings From
Hard Scrabble
dear editer,
If this here rainny wether keeps
up we’re goin to start frog raisin.
We feel like that’ll be more profer
table than cotton or corn or taters.
We could fence in a good space to
hem up the frogs in. If we cant
sell their legs we at least kin have
’em to sing fer us as the evenin
shadows fall. Nothing like frog
croaks for muzic.
Everybody in this necx of the
woods been tellin their boys they
goin to be presidents of the old U.
S. A. ever since they wuz babies.
Now they done growed up with that
idea in their heads and cant get it
out. From the newspapers and the
crop what wants to run this year
seems like mamas in other sections
been er tellin their baby boys the
same thing and they’re takin it se
riously.
Ever once in er while news gits
scarce in this communitie and this
is one of them weeks. Aint nobody
I’ve heard of gone to grand operie
but they shore is somewhere sides
at home.
So long.
SUSIE STUCKEY.
LETTER FROM OUR
CONGRESSMAN
Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C.,
April 27, 1940.
My dear Constituents: Our leg
islative sessions this week have
been long and strenuous with at
tendance better than usual and
everyone interested.
Our session Monday was devoted
exclusively to legislation affecting
the District of Columbia, with the
matter of revenues having first con
sideration. A combination sales tax
and income tax bill, to take the
place of the present income tax law
was debated all day and finally vo
ted down.
Tuesday the House considered the
Army Promotion bill, fixing promo
tion dates and making the retire
ment age 60 for colonels and 62
for brigadier generals, and extend
ing promotion dates, so as to insure
younger officers in the ranks of
captain and major. It seems that
modern warfare demands the strong
est and most vigorous officers in
the line and field, and the bill pass
ed we hope will further stream line
our military forces.
Wednesday was dedicated to the
memory of the two Senators, one
Resident Commissioner of Puerto
Rico, and seventeen members of
Congress who have died during the
past year. Our beloved Congress-
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940
man Owen was one of these. Beau
tiful and impressive memorial ser
vices were held in the Hall of the
House of Representatives; the sacred
music by the United States Marine
Band Orchestra, and vocal selec
tions by two noted artists. The
orations Were by Representatives
Beam of Illinois and Woodruff of
Michigan. The rostrum was banked
with palms and lilies and as the
name of each of the deceased mem
bers was called Mrs. Norton, Con
gressman from the State of New
Jersey placed a big red rose in a
large vase, the vase being full when
the roll call was finished. Members
of the family of each of the de
ceased members were accorded spe
cial seats at the front.
Thursday and Friday have been
taken up with debate on amend
ments to the “Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938” better known as the
“Wages and Hours Act.” This de
bate has been long and intense and
will not be concluded until next
week. There are three sets of
amendments—the .“Morton Amend
ment,” the “Ramspeck Amend
ments,” and the “Barden Amend
ments.” It seems that the Ram
spect Amendments are acceptable
to both sides and will be surely
accepted.
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I was interested in a report sent*
me this week by the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration concern
ing the payments to farmers in our
district under the Agricultural Con
servation Program. Although all
the farmers’ applications and work
sheets have not been reviewed yet,
there have been 10,871 farmers in
our district whose applications have
been approved for a total'of $969,-
159.77.
Carroll county leads with 2468
applications approved for $214,-
348.21; Meriwether is second with
1437 applications approved for
$114,652.93 and Coweta is third
with 1062 applications approved for
$87,379.22.
The sunshine of the week has
been very welcome.
Sincerely,
A. SIDNEY CAMP, M. C.
Members of the Georgia Press
Association extend sincere congratu
lations to Editor J. J. Thomasson
of the Carroll County Times on his
89th birthday. He has given more
than fifty years of constructive ef
fort to the development of Georgia
and is easily the Grand Old Man of
the Georgia press.
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Surely this is the great conven
tion season and various groups are (
gathering for annual meetings. The
state will be fortunate during the
year in having some national organ
izations meet here. This is good
business for the state. Georgians
should welcome the visitors cordial
ly and make them want to return
foh future visits.