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Jackson Progress-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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ing of it, showing where and how
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THE AMERICAN’S
CREED
I believe in the United
States of America as a govern
ment of the people, by the
people, for the people whose
just powers are derived from
the consent of the governed;
a democracy in a Republic; a
soverign Nation of many sov
ereign States; a perfect Un
ion, one and inseparable, es
tablished upon those principles
of freedom, equality, justice
and humanity for which Amer
ican patriots sacrificed their
lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my
duty to my Country to love it;
to support its Constitution; to
obey its lavva; to respect its
flag; and to defend it against
all enemies.—William Tyler
Page.
Merry Christmas to everybody.
The call has gone out for a Cot
ton Christmas. Why not?
Georgia played Santa Claus to
the teachers. Fine business.
A Cotton Christmas would be a
White Christmas regardless of the
weather.
This is the season when many
people write new year resolutions
and obtain a supply of calendars.
A good portion of the new year
will be spent in recovering from
drives of the old year.
The year 1941 'will be an off-po
litical year in the state but it is
pretty sure to see some fence
building for 1942.
The State Welfare Board wants
more people certified for payment.
That sounds interesting. It is rare
to find a state department with a
surplus.
Safe driving will save lives dur
ing the Christmas season. Georgia
ought not to spoil its good record
during the holidays.
Paul Donehoo, blind coroner of
Fulton county, who died Sunday,
was an unusual character. He made
good despite physical handicaps.
With a war in progress and Con
gress and the Georgia Legislature
in session there ought not to be
many dull moments the first part
of 1941.
By planting pine seedlings and
promoting the livestock industry
Georgia farmers are preparing to
write anew declaration of inde
pendence.
Probably one of the best ways to
observe Christmas would be nation
wide prayers for peace. mat is rne
one thing the world needs now—
peace, but peace with honor.
Georgia has an income of sixty
five million dollars but even with
that a little more is needed—one is
told. They usually balance the bud
get during political campaigns but
increase expenses while in office.
Take It Or
Leave It
By J. D. JONES
People of Butts county owe mem
bers of the Christmas Basket Fund
committee a debt of gratitude. Tak
ing hold of the project late in the
season, members went to work with
energy and determination and cash
collections amounted to $165.03, as
well as a vast amount of clothing,
food, toys and other articles that
brought comfort to unfortunate
families. The campaign was carried
! out on a county-wide basis and all
districts shared in gifts. The commit
tee did a fine piece of work and
there is honor and credit for all
connected with the campaign. The
Welfare Department also contribu
ted clothing for needy families.
These gifts, embracing efforts of
all churches, civic and patriotic or
ganizations and individuals, and
donations made privately were
sufficient to take care of all
worthy charity. It seems that
Santa Claus in the guise of unsel
fish organizations and individuals
made the Christmas season a bright
and comfortable one for all those in
need.
In the last issue of the year the
Progress-Argus takes this opportu
nity to extend sincere thanks and
appreciation to all its readers and
friends. May this Christmas season
be one of solid enjoyment for one
and all. In expressing thanks we
wish to include all who have had a
part in making the year a success
ful one for the paper. The writer is
grateful to the many fine corre
spondents who send in the news ev
ery week and enable readers to re
main in touch with the happenings
in the far corners of the county. To
business firms whose material sup
port makes the paper possible, ap-
preciation is expressed. To the me
chanical department who carries on
in all sorts of conditions, always
striving to bring you the paper on
time, acknowledgment is made for
a spirit of loyalty and co-operation.
To the county agent and the hom
demonstration agent, who bring you
news of the farm and home, we ex
press appreciation. To the churches,
for their unselfish work in keeping
alive the spiritual and moral forces,
the Progress-Argus is grateful. To
the clubs, civic and patriotic, for a
work of community improvement,
a debt of gratitude is due. To its
constantly expanding list of read
ers the Progress-Argus is grateful
for loyal support. It is a privilege
to serve a county so outstanding in
many of the finer values. As the
paper is soon to observe its sixty
eighth anniversary, we pledge for
the new year and all the years ahead
the best service possible.
To those who serve the public it
takes a spirit of patience and toler
ance to get through the Christmas
holidays without cracking mentally
and physically. Probably the best
example of this is to be found in
the postal department where the
public is notoriously lax in early
mailing. In the grand scramble,
when mail accumulates almost high
as a mountain, when trains and
buses run late and everybody wants
service at once, the postal clerk
must have the patience of a saint
to live through the hurly-burly. So
much of this could be avoided by
early mailing. The shop early slo
gan is not a catch phrase but com
mon sense advice. The same thing
happens in stores where clerks are
driven to the point of. desperation
in trying to serve late shoppers.
And above all, many of those who
want service are rude about it.
Maybe some time the shop early
slogan will prevail and there will
be more and better service and few
er frayed tempers.
With a foreign war in progress and
the United States stressing national
defense and almost anything likely
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
,to happen at any time, the various
communities should not stop plan
ning for progress and development.
The tendency is for the smaller
communities to be shoved in the
background by national defense.
The army camps, the airports and
other defense projects are going to
the larger centers. National de
fense has not been decentralized so
far but the larger cities are sharing
in government spending on a big
1 scale. There are things the smaller
communities can do. The time may
come when the government will
I want to carry defense projects to
rural areas. When the war is over
'it may be the rural communities
will be desirables places in which to
live.
Georgia’s first quota of soldiers
under the selective service draft
will be called to the colors early in
January. Dixie will make a good
record in sending men to the armed
service.
According to reports in the news
papers organized effort was made
to care for unfortunate families at
Christmas. The public always does
a good part in any emergency.
One of the best new year gifts
this section can have will be an ex
tension of rural electrfication lines.
The Central Georgia Electric Mem
bership Corporation is awaiting ac
tion on a pending application for
new mileage.
Farmers will not be insulted when
soil conservation checks are deliv
ed. These checks would have made
a fine Christmas present from Un
cle Sam.
Jackson and Butts county people
have enjoyed the Christmas lights
and decorations in the business cen
ter and in private homes. This is an
investment in civic progress that
brings rare enjoyment to many peo
ple at the yule season.
Another thing to be thankful for
at the Christmas season is that we
don’t have blackouts but can enjoy
the brilliant Christmas lights and
decorations.
LOOKING BACKWARD
THROUGH THE FILES
New* of 30 Years Ago
W. T. Powers resigned a connec
tion with the Jackson Mercantile
Cos. to accept a position in Carters
ville.
Contract for anew depot in Jack
son was awrded to G. L. Maddox.
Butts county’s share of the state
school fund for 1911 was $11,291.
Butts county ginned 10,698 bales
of cotton to December 13.
The death of J. P. T. Smith, 67,
Confederate veteran, occurred on
Tuesday.
Hugh and Joel Mallet and Mc-
Cord Shaver, students at Oxford,
were at home for the holidays.
Col. J. T. Jolly of Summerville
was visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J®seph Jolly.
News of 20 Year* Ago
New officers taking charge January
1 were W. D. Pope, sheriff; John
M. McMichael, treasurer; J, F. Lane,
tax collector; W. J. Kinard, tax
receiver; Van Fletcher, superinten
dent of schools; J. A. Burford, cor
oner.
Jackson corporations paying div
idens were the Jackson National
Bank, 4 per cent, semi-annual; the
Jackson Banking Cos., 4 per cent,
annual; the Jackson Ice Corpjora
tion, 10 per cent annual.
Officers nominated Tuesday in
cluded H. M. Fletcher, mayor; H.
O. Ball, J. R. Thurston, W. H. Mer
ritt, A. A. Howell, aldermen.
News of 10 Years Ago
J. L. Lyons was elected mayor of
Jackson by vote of 191 to 157 for
C. L. Redman.
T. B. Smith was elected a direct
or of the Jackson National Bank.
The marriage of Miss Julia Stan
sell of McDonough and J. L. Bailey
Jr. of Jackson took place in Atlanta
Saturday.
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
Dear Santa:
There was a story in the metro
politan papers the other day about
a man who lost his life trying to
catch a pigeon on a railroad trestle,
in order to make 30c with which to
buy his youngest daughter a 25c doll
for Christmas. A touching story,
that. One which makes even the
most inappreciative thankful for
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what they have, regardless of how
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little it may be.
One of the world’s biggest trou
bles, Santa, may be that people have
too much of everything. And when
you couple that with an ungrateful
attitude, you have a deep blue sea
and frying pan waiting for someone
to jump into it. Common courtesy
and consideration are gone in an
ever-burning, insatiate desire to add
to our material statue. Too often
this happens and too often men die
for a baby’s doll, or for food in their
bellies.
What’s the answer? Please bring
it, Santa. None of us knw.
Across the ocean, Britons fight
what may be the last battle of Eu
ropean democracy. If it is a losing
battle, then we may all be jumping
to catch pigeons, as Herr Hitler has
promised the United States, through
economic blockade, over 50 million
unemployed and a famine compara
ble to those the small Eurpean coun
tries are undergoing today. And
with three-fourths of our world
market gone, we would be in a tough
fix. But, through it all, when earth’s
last picture has been put into car
toons and her last tube misshapen
and shrunk, we still believe the Eng
land of which Kipling and Keats
sang will be there. But still there
is fear and doubt.
What’s the answer? Please bring
it, Santa. None of us know.
And, in a lighter vein, Santa, we
all have thousands of problems. The
soldiers at Fort Benning are acting
up again. It seems that Joe Louis
will never relinquish hold on the
heavyweight boxing crown. The
farmers still work harder and re
ceive less for their labors than any
body in the world. There’s a comet
within twenty billion miles of the
earth and a lot of folks are griping
because they think that’s about a
million too close. And, after giving
Aunt Mary and Uncle John presents
for 34 years, it’s hard as the dickens
to think up . something original
There’s anew dog at the Joneses
that hollers all night and the neigh
bors are complaining something aw
ful. And, after Christmas has gone,
we all wonder how we’re going to
pay our bills.
But we can solve these problems,
Santa. It is the unsolvable ones
that worry us most. We can’t un
derstand why men who love others
more than their own life have to
clutch at pigeons on railroad tres
tles and hurtle to their death, while
around the corner millionaires have
aftei*noon gin parties. And we can’t
understand why little babies have to
die from steel slivers in their chests
while moustached and big-jawed dic
tators plot their fathers’ deaths.
We can’t understand why science
should have outgrown humaneness
to the extent that men must climb
miles into the skies on their fragile
steeds and engage in death duels.
Or, in the trenches below, to send
shell after shell screeching into the
air and watch the shrapnel blast hu
man flesh, or perhaps see a white
puff of smoke a mile off that, un
knowingly, will sadden a hundred
families.
It's the white puffs of smoke and
the drone in the skies that we don’t
understand, Santa. We can see and
hear them, sure, but we wonder
what’s back of them. The white
puffs of smoke and the death stal
lions droning in the sky and the
tint of crimson on the bayonet; those
are the things we don’t understand.
Those, and men dying while clutch
ing at white pigeons.
What’s the answer? Please bring
* Santa. None of us know.
Our wish for our customers and friends is
that this may be the happiest Christmas they
ever spent. It has been a pleasure to serve you
during the past year, and we hope to continue
to merit your friendship, loyalty and patronage.
♦
-T,
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
OBSERVATIONS
|L AND
SPECULATIONS
By MADAME ROAMER
In roaming around we found out:
That we had something to be
thankful for. We don’t have to
judge the decorated homes in Jack
son Mi's. J. M. Leach says
her baby grandson is the prettiest
and smartest child in the world. He
is the son of the Lewis Leaches of
Albany. Maybe she forgets that
some other folks have grandchildren.
. . . Bernice McMichael Cousins
and a duo of her attractive children
from Newberry, S. C. shopping
around in Jackson town. Bernice
comes nearly every Christmas and
awhile each summer for a visit with
her father, Mr. J. E. McMichael . .
. . . Odelle Moore, one of
Butts’ busiest boosters, joining her
sister, Trudie, for a stay at home
for the holidays. Odelle is a great
traveler and we don’t see much of
her these days. ... A good
friend of ours who threatens to ask
President Roosevelt to have Christ
mas set back—or set up, which is
it—to the fifteenth of July when
the days are long and she’ll have
time to get everybody she knows a
present. She don’t have time, so
she says, to lick the stamps on her
Christmas cards but thank goodness
a stamp dampner is coming into use,
which will save us a lot of time.
DECEMBER HONOR
ROLL OF JACKSON
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
First grade—Alfred Coleman,
Shaw Fletcher, Joyce Youngblood.
- Second grade—Joyce Simmons,
Marcia Mallet.
Third grade—Alton Coleman, Eu
gene Williams.
Fourth grade—Betty Burford,
Bud Rossey, Bill Wright.
Fifth grade—Margaret Allen,
Hugh Mallet, Martha Moss.
Sixth grade—Audrey Rossey,
Agnes Maddox, Christine Hardy,
Elwood Robison, Barbara Ann
Jinks.
Seventh grade—Julian Callaway,
Emily Mallet, Ann White.
Eighth grade—Elizabeth Finch
er, Sylvia Price, Patsy Rossey.
Joyce Tillery.
Ninth grade—Bernice Bray, Re
becca Jinks, Jane Mallet, Ruth
Weaver.
Tenth grade—Annette Moore,
Gladell Moss, Susie Blessett
Eleventh grade Annie Lois
Browning.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
6 ' is
Mickey Rooney, I
Joan Blondell, I
At The Dixie I
“PIONEER DAYS,” “MEET THE
MISSUS,” “I WANT ADI
VORCE,” “STRIKE UP THI
BAND” ON AT THE DIXIE
Saturday will be bargain da
again at the Dixie and this tin
modern comedy will vie with 01
West as Jack Randall stars in “Pii
neer Days” and Roscoe Karas i
“Meet the Missus.” These are ti
fast-paced shows that are guarai
teed to provide your money’s won
of thrills and keep your post-Chris
mas days from becoming monotoi
ously dull.
Monday and Tuesday, Joan Bloi
dell and Dick Powell, husband m
wife in real life, are starred i
“I Want a Divorce,” which the]
1 don’t. Gloria Dickson, Frank Fai
[and Conrad Nagel help the storj
unfold. The story department, fol
lowing the point at which Joan at
Dick become man and wife, it
volves around Joan’s dislike for I
voice, divorce lawyers and every
thing connected with the medio
of terminating marriage. She is
seen her sister, played by love!
blonde Gloria Dickson, become
very unhappy woman because si
can’t win her husband back or kee
the affection of their young sot,
and she doesn’t intend the saE
fate to befall her. All the narrative
is a-sparkle with plenty of wit, ari
the situations in which Joan
Dick find themselves from time ti
time are very amusing.
There will be a midnight show
ing Tuesday night of ‘‘Strike Cl
the Band,” featuring Mickey R° ot
ey and Judy Garland, with P
W'hiteman and his orchestrt
M-G-M’s joyous star-studded whirl
wind musical show is described *
having more laughs, moore P e P
more swing, more zest than any pr*
vious musical which, which combi*
ed with hundreds of rompifl
stomping entertainers make it tb
sunniest musical sweetheart tin
screen has ever seen. Hilarious will
Mickey’s fun, thrilling with Judy
songs, melodious with Whiteman
music, sparkling with the spirit
youth, it is the answer to your d*
mands for another great musical o
youth. Joyously bigger than “Babe
in Arms,” with twice the fun, threj
times the song hits, ten times
talent. It’s a wow. ‘‘Strike
the Band” will run Wednesday an
Thursday, also. e
Four-H club work enrollment
the United States has increased 3®
per cent in the last five years.