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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 goverhment.
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 Stales; 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 laws; to respect its
flag; and to defend it against
all enemies.—William Tyler
Page.
Farmers of America are being
told to increase food and feed crops,
livestock and poultry and they’ll
do it without a strike or complaint.
Camouflage is a word seldom
heard since world war number one.
The excuse for the present increase
in living costs is pretty well cam
ouflaged.
Memorial Day seems rather a
hollow thing, particularly in those
counties without any veterans. The
spirit of Memorial Day will always
be kept alive by a grateful people.
A one cent per gallon increase in
the price of gasoline may be levied,
under the new tax bill. That will
be pretty tough on the fnrmer who
operates his tractor as a labor-saving
device, to say nothing of the or
dinary motorist.
If communities would harness
their energy and determination and
put the same effort into building
new enterprises that go into a politi
cal campaign and for recreation it
would be possible to have smoke
stacks and pay rolls in a short time.
Almost without exception grand
juries have recommended the secret
ballot. Since the law was passed
by the General Assembly several
grand juries have acted. The Aus
tralian ballot system needs perfect
ing by providing for a secret ballot.
The consensus of state opinion
seems to be that four years is too
long for a sorry governor or other
statehouse officer to serve. The
pood kind can always be re-elected.
This is one constitutional amend
ment that is likely to be defeated.
Sorphum Sam, all fretted and
worried, came in from Kock Bottom
Farm to negotiate for his week’s
grocery supply. Asked how his pigs
were doing, Sam sniffed and said:
“Pigs? 1 ain’t got r.ary a hog, hut
I got 5 as nice possum dogs as you
ever seen.”
Butts county is overlooking a
pood opportunity to realize cash in
come this year by failing to organise
an association to handle fruit and
vegetable crops on a co-operative
basis. The army camps must be
fed. Why not pet some of this cash
income?
Take It Or
Leave It
By J. D. JONES
Georgia has gone far in the last
ten years to provide a system of
state parks for recreation, enter
tainment and amusement of its peo
ple. There are now 26 parks in
Georgia, of which 19 are adminis
tered by the Division of State Parks
and 7 by the National Park Service.
The area of these parks has been
largely expanded, mostly by gifts
of land by civic-minded groups and
patriotic individuals. The state of
Georgia itself has never invested
much in parks, and the credit for
the present park rests with public
spirited people. Now that the state
has a park system, widely scattered
and accessible- to people in all por
tions of the state, it seems a logical
and needed step is for the state
to place these parks on a self-sus-
taining basis. It is too much to
j expect the state to expend large
| amounts in development, particular
ly so since the financial condition
of the commonwealth is not good.
With certain improvements and by
a wise system of development, the
state can not only make the parks
self-supporting but can have funds
for expansion. To do this requires
careful study and wise planning. As
is often the case the parks, which
provide the drawing appeal for
thousands of visitors, do not have
the means of taking in revenue.
This can be largely overcome. But
it can’t be done through politics.
Georgia’s parks were intended for
use by all the people. The park
system should never be made a
political football.
A great many people are really
concerned about new industries and
more pay rolls. The writer is re
minded of this almost daily. At the
beginning of the national defense
program smaller communities had
reason to believe that defense pro
jects would be widely distributed
and that there would be decentrali
zation of industry. That stage has
not been reached. The South has
not received anything like its share
of national defense projects, and
those built have gone to the larger
cities. It may be that small com
munities make the mistake of aim
ing too high—of wanting million
dollar plants when really they are
not equipped to handle them. This
is also true of industrial enterprises
of all kinds. Most of the success
ful enterprises were started on a
small scale and grew and developed.
And it is equally true that many
of the enterprises were started by
local capital. It is possible for any
community to have industrial devel
opment if the local people want it
enough to put their thought and
money into that sort of thing. It is
mighty fine when jan outsider comes
along and puts up the money for a
million dollar plant, but that doesn’t
happen often. It is better when
home town people pool their re
sources and decide on the type of
plants they want and then proceed
to build and operate them. Indus
trial development, more smokestacks
and larger pay rolls are desirable,
but it takes sweat and effort to get
them.
The Farm Security Administration
is making a tremendous effort to
increase the number of livestock
and poultry on farms supervised by
that agency. Almost everything
these days is done for national de
fense. and it certainly will be a
vital part of national defense for
Georgians to feed themselves and
their livestock. A few years ago
figures were quoted to show that
thousands of Georgia farmers were
without a cow, hog or hen. No
doubt many art* still in that condi
tion, though notable progress has
been made in a live-at-home pro
gram of farming. After the ani
mals and chickens are placed on
farms clients must then grow the
feed to make this phase of farming
profitable. Farm programs come
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
and go but there has never and nev
er will be a successful farm pro
gram that neglects food and feed.
It is good to know the cow-sow-hen
farm program is coming back
strong. It is fundamentally sound
and the FSA deserves credit for its
present efforts.
It was two years ago this month
that Butts county held its first live
stock sale. Sales had been in prog
ress in south Georgia for several
years before that time. Now almost
every portion of the state has live
stock markets and it has been prov
ed beyond dispute that livestock
can be sold for cash any day in
the year. Livestock markets are
now as well established as cotton
markets, knocking a prop from un
der the fellow who claimed there
was not a cash market for anything
except cotton. An all livestock
policy is probably as bad as an all
cotton system. Neither is safe.
Neither is all tobacco or any other
one crop. It is when there is a di
versity of crops and livestock and
poultry that farm success results.
What Georgia needs to learn now
with its expanding livestock indus
try is that this is not a game for
a few indivduals operating on a
large scale, but is something for
every farmer. If all farmers in
Butts county—some 1,200 or more
—could be induced to grow out
just one extra calf or pig and add
just a few more hens to the present
flock, think what that would mean
in the way of new cash income.
This can be done without much ex
tra effort. The man who doesn’t
have a permanent pasture, can stake
a yearling and grow a good animal.
Those who can afford it can invest
in purebred livestock, but those who
can’t afford it can begin with what
they have. The main thing is to
make a start. By having everybody
growing out a few animals cash in
come will be widely distributed and
this is better than having a few indi
viduals getting all the income. Live
stock is pushing cotton for first
place as a money crop in Georgia.
Still there is great room for ex
pansion. Great progress has been
made in Butts county in the last
two years and the foundation has
been laid for a successful and profit
able livestock business. Now the
situation is up to the people who
want more cash income and greater
farm prosperity.
Probably what Georgia needs is
not an amended constitution—re
sembling a real patchwork quilt—
but anew Constitution to serve
present needs. The Constitution of
1877 has been nameded some 200
times and it is proposed to add
about 68 in June. Almost every
thing is included, whether Podunk
shall vote refunding bonds or Chig
gers Town shall have anew water
works system. This may be states
manship, but to the average man it
looks like child’s play and damn
foolishness. Why not let the resi
dents of Podunk and Chiggers Town
settle their own affairs in their own
way? Why burden the people of
the state with the expenses of ad
vertising constitutional amendments
and holding an election to settle
purely local matters?
It has been brought to the at
tention of the writer that vandals
have been busy in the Jackson
cemetery and that flowers, and pos
sibly other things of value, have
recently been removed. With all
the countryside a riot of flowers it
is hard to understand why anybody
can get his consent to take flowers
from a cemetery. Surely the flow
ers don't mean much to the ones tak
ing them, but do mean a great deal
to the thoughtful and loving hands
that placed them as a memorial. It
may be the world is not safe for
democracy as some seem to think.
Anyway vandal is an ugly word.
Whether the governor would be
as enthusiastic about the publication
of names of those receiving public
assistance benefits if the publication
was in a newspaper other than his
own remains in doubt. Not many
newspapers are above schemes to
add to their circulation.
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
National officials announce an
extension of the draft is immi
nent. Should the age limits be ex
tended, it would assume all the pro
portions of a gale.
A man never knows how many
friends he has until Sunday after
noon when it seems they come from
everywhere, even parachutes, to
help him pass the day.
The British have succeeded in
confronting the American people
with a very delicate question, whe
ther to win the war now or wait un
til later. But in either case it never
occurred to them to win it without
active United States participation.
Frankness reached anew high
this week when even the capitalists
admitted they favored all-out aid
to Britain.
Battles come and go these days.
The Battle of the Balkans, of the
Mediterranean, and the proposed
battles for Turkey and the Ukraine
are only passing incidents in the
present war. The pay-off will come
in the Battle for Britain which, if
Hitler’s plans go according to sched
ule, should begin not later than mid
summer. It is this battle that
Churchill fears and it is his doubt
of the final outcome that speeds
him in his plea for American inter
vention.
Uncle Sam’s order for 4,500,000
casualty tags has American mothers
talking. And American sons won
dering.
Modern bridge is designed to re
lax the mind says an expert. To a
good many people we know, it is the
hardest work they’ve ever done in
their lives.
Many are the Americans who are
content with the tremendous eco
nomic weapons of our country while
Hitler, sacrificing wealth for pow
er, does his talking with bullets and
bombs.
Now that Churchill has called
Mussolini a jackal, it is supposed
that Benito will retaliate in kind.
One of the age-old questions, still
unsettled, is whether it is harder to
make the bread than to cook it.
After examining Lindberg’s testi
mony before the Foreign Affairs
Committee, one mu3t conclude that
this young man still thinks he is in
the Spirit of St. Louis.
Next to war, we can think of
nothing more disastrous this fall
than a continuation of the coal
strikes.
Nearly all of us can remember a
few Springs ago when sweetshrubs
were much sweeter.
A Fifth Columnist is a man so
mean that he will put cracked glass
in a child’s wading pool.
A Sixth Columnist —Italian sabo
teur —is a man so dumb that he
thinks turbines are first cousins to
termites.
The campaign to rid army camps
of gambling and vice seems to have
been successful. Or. if not, there
has been a nice cover-up job done.
There is very seldom anything wrong
with our army. France thought
hers was good, also. Other than a
rifle. Garand. that won’t shoot when
wet or exposed to dirt and grime,
our boys seem to be pretty well
equipped. All that Hitler needs to
blitzkreig America is a rainy day.
Which may turn out to be not so
foolish as it sounds.
Practically all the clock changes
and movements for more recreation
overlook the nation’s housewives
and mothers. Asa class, mothers
and housewives do not have many
opportunities for recreation. And
yet they deserve more consideration
than any other class in any change
of time.
PLOW A DEEP FURROW
Asa sower of grain plows deep into the
earth to plant his seed, so should you begin
the roots of security deep down. Save sys
tematically—teach your children to save
systematically. It doesn’t matter what the
amount, it’s regularity that’s important.
COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE
FOR EVERYONE
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Headlines for the last few days
say the new tax bill will take one
fourth of what the individual makes.
That will make the war very real
to a lot of people. It is certain
that all of us must pay in one way
or another. It is not possible for a
few rich people to pay the cost of
national defense, but it is possible
for all Americans to pay the bill.
In this connection it seems that lo
cal agencies should strive in every
way possible to reduce the tax load.
Local taxes have always been the
most burdensome. Now the nation
al taxes will take a larger share of
the national income and there must
be relief from local taxes, as far
as possible. Asa nation and as a
people all of us must learn to do
on less so there will be more to
carry on the national program of
adequate defense. Every possible
cent should be lopped from local ex
penses, for it is certain that Uncle
Sam is going to reach deep into the
pockets of all the people.
Georgia farmers are growing some
cheap fertilizer this season. There
are wonderful fields of crimson
clover, Austrian peas and lespedeza
and other soil improving crops.
Farmers are learning they can grow
fertilizer cheaper than they can buy
it.
Counties having full time health
service are making notable progress.
Many counties have the Ellis Health
Law and others full time Public
Health Nursing. Health is a vital
part of national defense and Geor
gia is making steady progress in
improving living standards through
better health.
LOOKING BACKWARD
THROUGH THE FILES
News of 30 Years Ago
The 1910 population of Butts
county was 13,624, an increase of
820 over the 1900 figure.
Miss Mary Land was winner of
the gold medal offered by the U.
D. C. chapter on “Events of the
War in Georgia in 1861.”
Announcement was made of the
engagement of Miss Myrtice Tyus
of Griffin and J. Fred Ball of Jack
son, the wedding to be June 15.
A statement of the county com
missioner showed expenditures of
$702.18 for the month of April.
Rev. R. C. Cleckler, pastor of the
Methodist church, was selected to
deliver the address to the graduat
ing class of the Jackson High School
May 22.
New* of 20 Years Ago
Freeman Land and Henry Allen
were announced as winners in the
civil service test for RFD carriers
at the Jackson office. Mr. Land was
assigned to route 6 and Mr. Allen
to route 4.
The Woman’s Club set May 5-12
for the clean up campaign.
The marriage of Miss Emma
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941
Thomas and Z. A. Cullins of
Wrightsville took place Sunday, with
Dr. Robert VanDeventer officiating.
A committee from the Jackson
and Butts county boards of educa
tion went to Monticello to study the
school system. Included were Van
Fletcher, L. D. Watson, R. P. Sas
nett, C. M. Compton and J. D. Jones.
Members of the board of tax
equalizers were R. A. Woodward,
chairman, J. O. Cole and R. E.
Evans.
News of 10 Years Ago
Two hundred Butts county farm
ers borrowed $40,000 from the gov
ernment in seed and fertilizer loans.
The J. C. Bartlett home at Stark
was burned Sunday night.
T. J. Carson was elected com
mander of Camp Barnett and J. A.
McMichael adjutant.
Half holiday closing was to begin
in Jackson May 7.
A statement of the county com
missioners for the first quarter of
1931 showed expenses of $8,990.44,
compared with $28,463.38 in the
first quarter of 1930.
The committee on Indian Springs
property, W. B. Powell, J. E. Cor
nell and Wright Watkins, reported
many improvements. B. M. Luf
burrow, state forester, and C. B. 4 *
Harman, member of the Georgia
Forestry Association, co-operated
with the local committee.
The Flint Bar Association, W. E.
Watkins president, was to meet at
Indian Springs May 8.
Scrapings From
Hard Scrabble
dear editer,
If all our compny could git back
home, we could git our garden
planted and a lot more things done
what needs to be done. The moon
is right now fer plantin if we wuz
just reddy. There aint nothin that
can set folks back like this here
compny. Some uf them looks like
they dont never no when to leave.
They wants to be perminent vistors.
The woods round our shack is
shore putty now. We done
ered us a pitcher of honneysuckels
and set on our white-washed harth.
We’re waitin fer some uf them gar
den club thusiats to come
and admire our viduality.
So long.
SUSIE STUCKEY.
Every rose is an autograph from
the hand of God on His world about
us. He has inscribed His thoughts
in these marvellous hieroglyphics
which sense and science have, these
many thousand years, been seeking
to understand.—Theodore Parker.