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Thursday, april 23, 1942
DIXIE THEATRE
MATINEE DAILY 3:15 P. M„ NIGHT SHOW 7:45 P. M.
CONTINUOUS SHOWING SATURDAY BEGINNING 1 P. M.
SATURDAY—DOUBLE FEATURE
NO l ~ BILL ELLIOTT IN
“THE SON OF DAVY CROCKETT”
N0 2 BRENDA JOYCE IN
“MARRY THE BOSS’S DAUGHTER”
MONDAY & TUESDAY
WALLACE BEERY AND MARJORIE MAIN
—IN—
“THE BUGLE SOUNDS”
WEDNESDAY
PRISCILLA LANE, JEFFREY LYNN, RONALD REAGAN
—IN—
“MILLION DOLLAR BABY”
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
BETTY GRABLE, VICTOR MATURE, JACK OAKIE
' —IN—
“SONG OF THE ISLANDS”
ADMISSION: Adults 25c; Children 11c —(Including Federal Tax)
CORK
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ogletree and
Mrs. J. J. Torbet spent Sunday in
Athens with Mr. and Mrs. Doyle
Faulkner.
Mrs. A. H. Pope attended the 12-
County Singing convention in Mc-
Donough Sunday.
Mr. A. W. Tucker Jr. of Fort
Monroe, Va., is spending several
days with his mother.
Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Smith and
Patty, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Smith
and Mrs. Ed Jackson, all of For
syth, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Smith.
Mrs, Jack Smith and baby, Johan
na, and Mrs. J. B. Vaughn are spend
ing several days in Jesup with rela
tivse.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Tucker and
Ray of Towns spent the weekend
here and had as their visitors over
the period Mr. and Mrs. Torbet
Tucker and baby, Mr. Raoul Tuck
er of Greenville and Greenwood, S.
C., Mr. and Mrs. Travis White of
Atlanta and Miss Edna Tucker of
Newnan, Mrs. R. B. Torbet and Mr.
and Mrs. B. T. McMichael of Indian
Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Leverette
of Jackson visited Mr. and Mrs. O.
E. Leverette Sunday.
Little Charlotte Leverette of Ma
con is spending sometime with her
grandmother, Mrs. 0. E. Leverette.
Jennie McMichael of Indian
Listening PoM
Before enemy bombers can strike, the keen ears of the
sound locators pick up the hum of motors, signal anti
aircraft batteries to action.
Here at home, good citizens keep their ears to the
ground, on the alert against another kind of enemy.
Every business or profession guards against him the
unscrupulous law-breaker who poses as an honest,
legitimate business man. Georgia’s $10,000,000 beer
industry is keenly watchful for this public menace,
has developed an effective protection against him.
When unlawful conditions are reported at a retail
beer outlet, this Committee gives warning to clean up
immediately. Unless the warning is heeded, the out
let is turned over to your law officers to close up.
Only the reputable beer retailer deserves
reputable patronage. That’s hov/ YOU can help.
Brewinolndustry Foundation
JUDGE JOHN S. WOOD, State Director
532 Hurt Building • Atlanta, Georgia
NEW VOLUMES
ADDED TO THE
COUNTY LIBRARY
New books added to the Butts
County Library are;
“Brown Stripes and Bright Stars,”
written by Beatrice Groover, ex
plains how the American colonies
grew up and become the United
States of America; how our flag
was fashioned and our National An
them written. The section devoted
to the rules of our flag is of vital
interest to everyone, no matter what
age.
“Our Enemy Japan,” written by
Fleisher, correspondent of the New
York Herald - Tribune at the state
department, was in position to fol
low the American-Japanese negotia
tions which the Japs used as a blind
for their preparations leading to the
attack on Pearl Harbor. Here in a
nutshell is the whole background of
our war with Japan.
“Stretching Your Dollars in War
time,” by Ruth Brindle. Her book
has a double appeal, for today to be
economical in its best sense is to
serve your country.
There are also many pamphlets
on subjects pertaining to our de
fense needs.
Most sensitive of the five sense
organs is the eye.
Springs spent Monday night with
Mrs. Frank Ogletree.
IriE JACKbUN PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Fighting The War With Agriculture
By MARTHA LEE MADDOX
No matter how long it may take
us to overcome this premeditated in
vasion, the American people in their
righteous might will win through to
absolute victory. Our soldiers and
sailors have been foully murdred;
our ships have been sunk; our na
tion has been attacked. We can
all of us now have but one objec
tive; by united effort to defeat and
destroy the enemy. We have fought
other wars in the past. We have
never provoked war. The aim of
this nation has always been to pre
serve peace among all mankind.
Our own army must travel on its
stomach. It is up to the agricultur
al states to see that the stomachs
of our soldiers and sailors are amply
filled.
The man behind the plow is go
ing to contribute vastly to the se
curity of his country and to the suc
cess of its arms. Agriculture is the
backbone of our existence and must
be mobilized as never before. We
will be called on to increase the pro
duction of dairy products, beef,
pork, fruits and vegetables; also cot
ton, peanuts and sugar. To do this
we must improve our pastures. We
must provide more canneries. Our
surplus and waste products must
be utilized through scientific skill.
Our young people, those of them
who are not called to the uniformed
forces of their country, must be
trained for their civilian obligations,
so that our military objectives may
Woodrow Maddox
Electrocuted By
High Volt Wire
CORONER’S JURY RETURNS A
VERDICT OF SUICIDE. MEM
BER OF WIDELY FAMILY.
FUNERAL PLANS LATER
Woodrow Maddox, 28-year-old son
of Mr. M. S. Maddox and the late
Mrs. Lula McDaniel Maddox, met
instant death Wednesday morping
when he climbed a pole and grabbed
a 4,400 voltage wire on the Southern
Railway signal system near the Bibb
substation.
A coroner’s jury returned a ver
dict of suicide.
The tragedy was revealed when
the signal system of the Southern
Railway was placed out of commis
sion and investigation disclosed the
switch had been pulled when the
high voltage wire had been touch
ed.
Coroner J. M. D. Bond impaneled
a jury and the verdict was: “We,
the jury summoned to investigate
the death of Woodrow Maddox, find
that he met his death by climbing
an electric power line pole that car
ried a 4,000 volt load and grabbing
the wire, said power line being the
property of the Southern Railroad.
We find that he met his death by
committing suicide.”
No immediate reason for the
tragedy was given.
Mr. Maddox, an electrician and
lineman by profession, had recently
been employed by a power company
in North Carolina and returned home
only a week ago. He was born and
reared in Butts county and was a
member of widely known families.
Pending the arrival of out-of
town relatives funeral plans have
not been announced.
Surviving are his father, Mr. M.
S. Maddox; five brothers, J. Watts
Maddox, Corbin, Ky.; Arthur, De
triot, Mich.; Frank, Covington; Sam
and Byron of Jackson; three sisters,
Mrs. Louis A. Martin, Jackson; Mrs.
James Jackson and Mrs. Marjorie
Jackson, both of Miami, Fla.
EYES EXAMINED GLASSES
FITTED—LENSES DUPLICATED
In Covington Tuesdays and Fridays
Dr. Joseph E. Edward*, O.D.
Jackson, Georgia
be won. .
How are these farmers going to
increase all these products if they
can’t get the tools to farm with?
They can’t grow this food if they
can’t get the fertilizer to put under
it to make it grow. The farmer
can’t afford to grow everything that
everybody eats. The farmers don’t
get paid for half the stuff that they
grow. All these white-collar men
and congressmen are getting the pay
and the poor farmers getting noth
ing. Our congressmen and big agri
culture men may be powerful short
on some things, but they’re plenty
long on speech making and money.
It is a tremendous job, but we are
going to do it, for it is the American
way.
This is a war of whole peoples;
not merely between soldiers. The
fronts are everywhere; the trenches
are in the towns and villages. It
must be fought in the workshops, in
the mills and mines and on the farms
just as much as on the battlefields.
So we can never turn back until at
last Hitler, Mussolini and their other
barbarian partners of Japan are
crushed in humble submission and
forced to pray for mercy before
whatever Pagan gods they worship.
Many sad and trying days may
lie ahead before some people will
begin to see the light of ultimate vic
tory.
V for victory, and Keep ’Em Fly
ing!
Readers Write
. ‘i
Pat on the Back Helps
Editor, Progress-Argus: The ar
ticle in your last week’s issue, “Pov-
I
erty in America,” taken from the
Cobb County Times and quoting Olin
Miller as saying that poverty in
America meant being unable to buy
any more than needed, reminded tne
of the saying of a good old man,
yrho was something of a philosopher,
that 1 knew when a boy. He said
when you think you are obliged to
have something put it off just as
long as you can and then wait two
or three days longer and nine times
out of ten you’ll find out you don’t
need it at all.
I was impressed with a paragraph
in Dudley Glass’ column in a recent
issue of the Atlanta Constitution, I
quote; “A newspaper publisher in
a ,county seat town usually is an
outstanding individual and influen
tial citizen. People come to him
with their troubles. He records their
daily lives from birth through mar
riage, to the cemetery. He pro
tects them by forgetting their iniqui
ties. He encourages them by prais
ing their virtues. There are few
folks in his county who do not owe
him a debt either for past due sub
scriptions or for something he print
ed or didn’t print.”
Something I heard over the radio
the other day reminded me of an
old song I haven’t heard in more
than fifty years. I can’t recall hut
one line: “It is strange that we
never prize the music ’til the sweet
voiced bird has flown.” Well, make
your own application. Most all of
us know someone who is not re
ceiving the encouragement an and
words of appreciation the he de
serves. It may be some member of
one’s own household, one’s editor,
preacher, school teacher or \iaybe
some public official who is wrestling
with the problems of the whole com
munity. Or maybe it is some sales
man or saleslady who stand long
hours waiting on unreasonable cus
tomers. Or it could be one’s ice
man or delivery boy.
Someone has said that a kind
word rightly spoken may pass over
with the book of time, and cause a
ripple in eternity for aught we know.
Someone else said, “I shall not pass
this way but once, if there is any
good that I can do let me do it now.”
I would be glad if some of the
readers of the Progress-Argus could
tell me where I could find the words
of the old song referred to.
I S. K. SMITH.
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JACKSON, GEORGIA