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Jackson Progress-Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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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
feople, for the people whose
ust powers are derived from
the consent of the governed;
a democracy in a Republic; a
80verign 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.
1 therefore believe it is my
duty to my Country to love it;
to support its Constitution; to
obey its laws; to respect its
flag; and to defend it against
all enemies.—William Tyler
Page.
What becomes of all the Christ
mas cards after they are mailed, de
livered and read?
That new year menu of hog jowl
and peas was welcomed after all
the Christmas stuffing.
The nation's lynching record in
11)40 was a good one. Still there
are too many lynching*.
4
Old Man Influenza ran Santa
Claus a close race for popular at
tention at the Christinas season.
South Georgia newspapers are
carrying advertisements of tobacco
cloth for sale. First hint of the
35)41 farm year.
If defense preparation is not pro
ceeding rapidly enough it is no fault
of American taxpayers. They are
paying the freight.
None of tlie experts has hold us
what will happen after defense
spending slows up. That’s a bridge
they don’t want to cross in advance.
“1 rise to a point of personal
privilege” and “this is a sovereign
body"’ will be heard often when the
General Assembly gets down to
brass tacks.
'Hu- Christmas weather probably
interfered with the fishing habits
of Editor J. H. Clarke of the Mon
roe Advertiser but chances are he
will soon be back to normal.
The Progress-Argus wishes for all
members of the Georgia press a suc
cessful year in 1941. The newspa
pers are carrying on undy difficult
conditions. Success to all of them.
People of Butts county unite in
welcoming the new officers who as
sumed duties the first of the year.
They are entitled to all the support
and co-operation we can give them.
With the interest in the European
war, with national defense claim
ing so much attention and so many
of the nation’s young men called
to service, 1941 will be a great read
ing year. People are eager for
news—home news, state news, world
news. So get your Grier’s Almanac,
pay your subscription to your news
paper and get ready for a year of
reading.
Take It Or
Leave It
By J. D. JONES
What of the new year? That
question is being asked by millions
of people. What will 1041 bring
our country and the world at large?
When will the war end and normal
conditions return? It would be a
prophet indeed who can answer all
these questions. We will have to
wait and see what the future holds
in store. There is not much after
all that the average man can do
about world conditions. He can
brighten the corner where he is and
do his bit in helping his own com
munity move forward. He can sup
port his elected leaders, local, state
and national. He can continue to
support his church, civic and pa
triotic groups. He can continue to
do the best he can with the lights
before him. He can be a decent,
self-respecting, self-supporting citi
zen. He can throw his support be
hind law and order and honest gov
ernment. He can think, talk and
work for a peace that will be endur
ing. If all of us will practice the
little virtues at homo our lights will
shine far in a puzzled and perplexed
world. At any rate, 1941 is an en
tirely new year and let all of us
resolve to make the best possible
Sise of the time.
President Roosevelt’s talk Sunday
night had a clarifying effect. It
separated the sheep from the goats.
In a frank and honest manner Mr.
Roosevelt said that unity and speed
are required to give America the
kind of defense it needs. He pledged
aid to England in increasing volume,
anil dared the wrath of the dictators.
It was a call to Americns to get
busy, to speed up production, to lay
aside petty issues and face the big
tasks ahead. From now on every
patriotic man and woman must rally
behind the national leaders.
Butts county, as well as other
counties in the state, has now offi
cers the first of the year. There
was a considerable turn-over in the
state. As these new officers, coun
ty and state, assume their duties it
will be a good thing if all of us re
solve to support them with spirit and
loyalty. They are our officers. Vo
ters elected them. Now let us have
as much honesty and efficiency as
possible by extending hearty support
and co-operation. It is going to take
that kind of team play in Georgia
to make things work.
One thing the writer likes in Gov
ernor Talmadge is the fact that he
is a farmer and close to the soil.
He operates farms and knows some
thing about the actual problems
that face the farm population. Gov
ernor Talmadge is enthusiastic about
livestock. His example in that field
should inspire others. Georgia’s big
problem, under war conditions, is
to grow more food and feed and
expand its livestock industry. With
the governor of the state pointing
the way there should be many to
follow his example.
More needy old people, more de
pendent children and the blind will
receive aid from the state and gov
ernment and counties as soon as
their names can be certified, accord
ing to a recent announcement. The
State Department of Public Welfare
is calling for more certifications.
The good work should proceed until
all the deserving are taken care of.
Additional funds, if needed, should
be provided by the General Assem
bly. Much progress has been made
in the last few years but the job
should be completed as early as pos
sible in order that all the deserving
should share in public benefits. The
General Assembly should expand
and complete the public assistance
program as speedily as possible.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
Hitler may do all of the talking
in Germany but it’s ten-to-one that
he listens when Churchill and Roose
velt speak.
Talmadge has not yet designated
what kind of train he will bring his
friends in on, but it seems definite
that to rid the state of the “dead
weight” of the present administra
tion, it will require a 100 car freight
with a double-header engine.
If Rivers should ever again be
come governor of Georgia, there
would be at least one state ready
for Hitler —or anything.
Georgia’s “point a minute” fresh
man team of ’39 were not nearly so
fabulous as Eddie’s “pardon a min
ute” administration.
We’ll lay you 100 to 1 that should
Emily Post and Ed Rivers bump in
to each other on the street, one
would hear from Miss Post a coy,
“Please excuse me” and from Ed
die a curt, “Won’t you please ac
cept my pardon.” Miss Post, if she
refused, would be the first.
The main hope of Americans and
English in Nazi concentration camps
is that Ed Rivers will be appointed
constable in charge.
One may search history’s archives
from tho Holy Roman Empire to the
Rooseveltian dynasty and not find
a racket with the peculiar, slumgul
lion smell of the pardon one.
We believe that Victoria herself,
had she to choose between two unsav
ory rackets, had rather deal in wom
en with tainted flesh, with lust in
their bodies than men with tainted
minds, with murder in their hearts.
Governor Talmadge’s jury will
consist of over 200 weekly and dai
ly papers, and his chief witness —
if he makes the proper use of his
authority and refuses to be bought
—will be the pardon racket.
“An eye for an eye, and a tooth
for a tooth” sayeth the scripture,
but a killing in Georgia can be set
tled for a few dollars and cents.
The eyes of Butts Countians will
be on their new legislator and in
coming officers. All of the rackets
do not exist in Atlanta.
Somehow, when a fellow gets to
thinking about it, it’s hard to real
ize that Butts county is dry. The
only thing missing in the way of
liquors here is the assortment.
There is another racket quite sim
ilar to the pardon one often played
in small towns. There are many
names for it but the most apt xvould
seem to be “follow the leader.”
Sober restrospection may be a
better way to welcome the New
Year than a big drunk. At least it
will prove less nauseating.
Well, 1940 has gone. It wasn’t
a bad year, was it? Certainly, you
have made new friends, read now
books, seen new shows and done a
100 and 1 things to broaden your
horizon and strengthen your faith.
But, whatever you’ve done, you have
not listened nightly to the drone of
planes and the shriek of bombs.
You have, at least, not been in im
minent threat of death yourself.
You have welcomed and looked for
ward to your nightly sleep, and no
Nazi planes, except in dreams, have
disturbed it. You face the new
year, endowed with faith, fancy,
love, and poetry, the only four things
that can pierce the veil of nothing
ness that beclouds all of our hori
zons. The new year is yours. It
wont just come and go. It will
either be good or bad, depending
upon your own interpretation. Un
ceasing effort of mind and body and
soul will make it a good one. Let’s
not be content with anything less.
Our wish for all of you is that the
old year will become a vivid mem
ory and the new one a 12-months
opportunity.
JL
OBSERVATIONS
||L AND
SPECULATIONS
By MADAME ROAMER
In roaming around we saw:
A group of youngsters gathered
in front of the home of Mrs. R. L.
Hammond to discuss the appearance
of Santa Claus on her front porch.
One said with a wink of his eye,
“That’s him.” “It shore is,” said
another. “He wont have far to
go to fill Carolyn’s stocking,” chirp
ed in a third enthusiastic talker.
. . . Christmas card from Vera
and Bert Kinard bore the likeness
of their lovely new home in Ma
con. It looks most inviting, and
we wager that all friends who enter
its threshhold will be the recipients
of wonderful hospitality. . . ~ .
Did you know that Jackson’s skating
rink reaches from the north inter
section of Indian Springs street and
Third and stops at the southern in
tersection of these streets. No dan
ger of traffic jams, we surmise.
. . . . Julia Curry Head used to
have the prettiest decorated Christ
mas tree in town but that was back
in the years when the twos of the
family, George Jr. and Stewart,
were at home to help—or maybe do
it with her supervision. But those
days are over now. Stewart is at
Uncle Sam’s Academy at Annapo
lis and George Jr.—well he’s just
tread the orange-blossom trail. War
and women they do play havoc with
young boys.
Miscellany
Isn’t it remarkable how the Lord
takes care of His children? Takes
care of them without their raising
a hand, just like that. Not being
able to decorate with the adorable
Christmas reds this season, here we
find ourselves surrounded with no
less than ten windows that are as
brilliant in illuminated beauty as the
ball before the battle of Waterloo.
Up to the north is Elizabeth Mer
ritt Webb’s unusual four. Out to
the west are six that look like a
two-story Christmas tree. That is,
you know, in the apartment house.
Not even to mention Mr. McDonald’s
more conservative but just as beau
tiful decorations.
And the notable thing about all
this is that not even those kind
hands which hung up these delight
ful visions can get the full enjoy
ment out of them that this writer
does. They sit behind, and don’t
see. It reminds of President Wil
son’s wellknown limerick:
For beauty I am not a star.
There are others more handsome by
far.
My face, I don’t mind it.
For I stay behind it,
It’s those that I meet that I jar.
Nothing so thoroly or so sadly
shows up the weakness of our be
loved churches like the season of
the Holy Birth. Christmas commer
cialism has swept into the churches,
much of it originated by Jewish
merchants, who do not believe in
Christmas, or celebrate the Birth,
but who do use every possible oc
caison to make money. We say this,
and we are not either.
This writer honors the Jew for his
tip-top contributions to the culture
of the world. And may he ever be
among us as a friend and rock-bot
tom American.
But for all that, somebody has
vitiated Christmis, and made it a
selfish, stomach-stuffing, excessive,
extravagant time of too-too-much
ness. Even the giving, much of it,
is bad.
And yet, and yet, there are, ev
erywhere, quiet, thoughtful, reverent
hearts that after confessing the sin
of present-day Christmas, pray with
Philips Brooks that the Christ-Child
will cast “out our sin, and enter in,
Be born in us today.”
—HAMILTON.
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AT THE DAWN OF A NEW YEAR
Not merely because of a time-honored cus
tom but because of our real appreciation o
your patronage and your loyal support and
friendship, the entire personnel of our bank
wishes you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
It has been a distinct pleasure to serve you
throughout all the years of the past, and we
look forward with equal pleasure to seiving
you in the future.
♦
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
LIBERTY
Miss Lucile Washington of Grif
fin spent Tuesday with Miss Ruth
Aiken.
Mrs. Cecil Sikes and little Donald
Purmort of Griffin and Annelle and
Howell Washington of the Towaliga
community spent Tuesday with Mrs.
James Tingle.
Mr. and Mrs. James Tingle and
Bobby spent Wednesday with Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Washington.
Friends of Mrs. Willie Brooks and
little Jean and Janice Brooks re
gret to know that they have been
sick during the Christmas holidays
but are glad to know they are bet
ter.
Messrs. Lindsey Tingle and Glenn
Maddox of Fort Jackson are spend
ing the holidays with homefolks.
Little Gene Maddox, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Forest Maddox, is on the
sick list.
Mr. Grady Smith of near Savan
nah spent a few days here with
homefolks.
Junior Taylor of Griffin is spend
ing a few days with his grandpa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. N. N. Maddox.
Mr. A. C. Maddox of Corbin, Ky.,
is visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Washington and
little Aubrie and Mrs. J. D. Wash
ington were visitors in this commu
nity Sunday.
Mr. J. Q. Washington of Atlanta
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Aiken
and family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fears Weldon of
Griffin spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. James Hammond.
CORK
Mi's. A. W. Tucker is visiting her
mother, Mrs. R. B. Torbet, at In
dian Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Towles spent
the week-end with Mrs. C. A. Towles.
Mrs. Sara Divine and children
spent Christmas with Mrs. R. Van
Smith.
Mrs. Henry Moncrief had as her
guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Eros
Mayfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smith
have moved back to the mill.
Mr. Raoul Tucker spent Christ-
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mas with homefolks.
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Veal and
children visited their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Smith; Mrs. Smith
and Miss Rebecca went home with
them for a visit. ’
Miss Ruth* Smith is at home for
the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ogletree and
Mrs. J. J. Torbet spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Faulkner in
Athens.
Miss Eulalia Vaughn, of New
York, is spending sometime with her
sister, Mrs. Jack Smith.
Mrs. Jack Smith and her mother
visited relatives in Jesup last week.
Mr. Ray Tucker is visiting his
cousin, Jeff McMichael, at Indian
Springs.
Miss Edna Tucker had as her
guest Miss Lucille McMichael, of In
dian Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore have
moved to Flovilla.
STOCKHOLDERS OF
ICE CORPORATION
MEET JANUARY 8
Stockholders of the Jackson Ice
Corporation will meet in annual
session Wednesday, January 8 at
10 a. m. at Jackson National
Annual reports will be made at that
time and all shareholders are ex
pected to attend.
- J
IN LOVING MEMORY
of Douglas Y. Coleman, who passed
away three years ago Jan. 4, 1838.
Gone is the face we loved so dear,
Silent is the voice we loved to hear,
Too far away for sight or speech,
But not too far for thought to reach
Sweet to remember him who once
was here,
And who, though absent, is just as
dear.
—Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Coleman and
Family.
JANUARY 1 WAS HOLIDAY
WITH POSTAL DEPARTMENT
The January 1 holiday was ob
served here by - the postal depart
ment and bank. Sunday hours were
observed at the post office and no
village or rural deliver of mail was
made.
Other business institutions oper
ated as usual.