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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1942
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Cotton use is on the increase.
Loss of the burlap supply frmo India
and heavy military demands created
shortages, and the WPB has directed
the cotton indystry to double its pro
duction of cloth used to make sand
bags, camouflaging, and bags for
food and agricultural products.
OPA plans for rationing gasoline
in the Atlantic coastal states, but
not in Tennessee, Alabama, and
points west, are complete. School
houses will be used for registration
next week, May 12-14. Our tankers
just simply can’t handle enough for
normal civilian use.
If you run across anyone who
didn’t register for sugar, give him
a tip to get in touch with his local
board right away.
Price* Under Control
The South’s bred-in-the-bone love
of home rule will be scrupulously
observed in carrying out the price
control program of the government,
regional headquarters in Atlanta
have promised. Price ceilings will
be operated from the “grass roots”
—not from Washington.
No army of G-men will swoop
down from the nation’s capitol to
enforce it, for local boards which
have already plunged into the prob
lems of tire and sugar rationing will
carry out this new program to de
feat high costs of living.
Costs had been going up so rapid
ly that work on the home front faced
financial troubles. OPA’s general
price ceiling provides a way for stop
ping this threat, and OPA says it’s
up to the 23 million Southerners to
see that it works.
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Vacation* Needed
Pay no attention to rumors that
Uncle Sam will insist we call off
our vacations this year. The WPB
says a vacation will be just what the
doctor ordered. Long hours and the
emotional strains of the war effort,
says WPB, will make vacations dou
bly effective in restoring energy and
determination to folks on the home
front. It’s like sailors getting shore
leave, soldiers taking furlough.
Don’t plan on touring the Eastern
states where gas rationing will be
in effect. Or chartering a bus. Get
ting a gang together for non-essen
tial travel is out, says the Office of
Defense Transportation.
Just how far the boom of cannon
overseas reaches into our homes can
be seen in the WPB limitation order
on resin. It comes from trees around
Singapore; it’s used for violin bows,
varnishes, paints, slick finishes on
playing cards and pencils. That or
der may have a telling effect on mu
sic, the stringed section of radio
symphony programs, the cheerful
fiddle in a Hilly-Billy band, and little
Johnny’s x'eluctant efforts to learn
the violin at home.
TIRES, TUBES AND AUTOS
ACTED ON BY RATION BOARD
The Butts county tire, tube and
auto rationing board announces the
following have been granted permits
for needed equipment for the month
of April:
Butts county, road construction,
2 tires, 2 tubes; Atlanta-Macon Mo
tor Express, carrier, 1 tire, 1 tube;
T. M. Bentley, Sawmiller, 2 recaps,
2 tubes; Ike M. Wilson, farm-truck,
1 recap; Ethel H. Ham, nurse, one
tire, 1 tube; F. M. Ridgeway, milk
hauler, 1 recap; Charlie Watkins, de
fense worker, 2 tires, 2 tubes, obso
lete; Fred H. Morgan, milk hauler,
4 tires, 4 tubes, obsolete.
B. T. McMichael, food salesman,
1 auto; S. M. Ridgeway, mail car
rier, 1 auto.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Colored School
Makes Plans For
Graduation Day
REV. E. M. WISE OF JACKSON
METHODIST CHURCH NAMED
TO PREACH SERMON. SPRING
CONCERTS ARE SCHEDULED
B. F. Mosely, principal of the
Jackson colored public school, states
the first spring concert will be giv
en Monday night, May 11, at 8:30
when the ninth grade will present
the play, “Home Beautiful.” It por
trays happiness that should be in
every home on Mother’s Day. There
will be reserved seats for whites.
The admission will be 10 and IB
cents.
The second play, “The Voice of
the Forest,” will be presented by
the sixth and seventh grades Friday
night at 8:30. There will be an ad
mission fee of 10 and 15 cents.
Last of the plays will be by the
seniors and juniors Monday night,
May 18, when “Jumbo Jum” will be
shown.
Honor Day will be observed May
14 and the baccalaureate sermon
will be preached by the Rev. E. M.
Wise, pastor of the Jackson Method
ist church, May 24 at 3:30 p. m.
The commencement address will be
delivered Tuesday night, June 2,
by W. H. Bonds of the Atlanta Dai
ly World staff.
Making the honor roll for the
year were these seniors, Laura Rid
ley, Ruth Holland; Gwendolyn Ba'r
ber, Susie Varner, 10th grade; Na
thaniel Byars, 7th grade; Maggie
Barlow, Vera Grier, Mamie L. Mad
dox, 6th grade.
On the night of May 22 the eighth
grade will present a play, “Young
Americans at Work and Play.”
INDIAN SPRINGS
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. McMichael of
Anderson, S. C., and Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Grier of Atlanta spent the
weekend with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. T. McMichael.
Mr. and Mrs. James Rowe and
children, Francis and James, have
moved to Albany, Ga.
Mrs. Tommie Doyle spent the
weekend with her husband who is
stationed at Montgomery, Ala.
Miss Mary McClelland spent the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. Jim
mie Waits, in Macon.
Mr. Hoke Moss of Columbus spent
a few days this week with his moth
er, Mrs. Annie Moss.
Friends of Mrs. A. J. Coody will
be glad to learn that she is some
better after a serious illness.
Mr, Frank Reeves of Augusta
spent several days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Reeves.
Miss Lois Rackley of Kathleen is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Andrew Wal
drep.
Miss Minerva Torbet, who has a
position at East Point spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. O. A. Torbet.
Mr. W. H. Craig visited his sister,
Miss Mattie Craig, in Atlanta last
week.
Miss Daisy Harris of Atlanta, Mrs.
L. M. Zachary and Mrs. J. B. Low
ry of Decatur, visited Mrs. George
Coleman and Mrs. Lena Trammell
Monday.
Friends are sorry to learn of the
death of Mr. Claude Norsworthy of
Atlanta, which occurred Saturday.
Mr. Sam McGaughy of Los An
geles, Calif., spent last week with
Mrs. Lena Trammell.
Miss Corneil Varner of Alto, Mr.
Earl Stewart of Macon spent the
weekend with Mr. F. G. Varner.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Bentley and
family spent the weekend in Lincoln
ton with relatives.
Master Wayne Coleman and sis
ter, Mary Alice, spent several days
in Atlanta last week.
There was a total of 8,565,000
head of cattle on Canadian farms
the first of June, 1940.
Annual gasoline consumption of
aircraft in the United States is
55,000,000 gallons.
Readers Write
A Lost Chord Found Again
Editor, Progress Argus: My ref
erence to the old song elicited two
very kind notes, each one contain
ing the lines requested. One from
one of Butts county’s noblest and
most gracious women, Mrs. Hattie
Marks Towles. We consider our
selves very fortunate to have lived
for half a century as near neighbors
to this fine family. The other note
was anonymous, but judging from
the handwriting and its uplifting
tone it must have been from some
refined and cultured good woman.
Mrs. Towles says, “Reading your
letter in the county paper brought
to my mind the lines you refer to
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, I think.”
Anonymous says, “I saw in the Read
ers Write column where you wanted
the rest of that song. Oh! if I could
only get the tune across to you at
the same time. I often hum it
around home and for that reason I’ve
never forgotten it. The lines con
tain thoughts that could very well
be used as a good subject for a
preacher’s text.” As she is compli
mentary to the other contributors
as well as myself, I would like to
quote further, “We all enojy your
column, a feature writer of a paper
always contain helpful life thoughts
and lasting morals, if we only had
sense enough to be calm and weigh
issues before the pressure is brought
to bear upon our conduct.”
Scatter Seeds of Kindness
“Let us gather up the sunbeams
lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses cast
out the thorns on chaff,
Let us find our greatest comfort in
the blessings of today
With a careful hand removing all
the briars from the way.”
Refrain—“Then scatter seeds of
kindness,
Scatter seeds of kindness
Scatter seeds of kindness
For our reaping bye and bye.”
“Strange we never prize the music
’til the sweet voiced bird has
flown,
Strange we should slight the violets
’til the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sun-
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SOUTHERI) BEUTELEPHOnE (HID TELEGRAPH tOITiPRn#
INCORPORATED
shine never seem one half so
fair,
As when winter’s snowy pinions
shake the white down in the
air.”
Refrain—
“lf we knew that baby fingers press
ed against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow,
never trouble us again.
Would the bright eyes of our dar
lings catch the frown upon our
brow?
Would the prints of baby fingers
trouble us then as now?
Refrain—
“lf right then the Lord should face
us would our spirits seem se
rene?
Or would we be crying and cringing?
When by rights He’s ours to
lean;
Oh! wouldn’t it be more comfortable
in living a good full life
So when we come to our rows end
Nothing to bother in the way of
strife.”
Refrain—
“ For the biggest contentment that
is yet to be,
Is not visioned in the eye, rather in
the things we can’t see.
That tell-tale little voice that is en
cased in our chest
Is the pleasure of every one whose
life is lived at its best.”
Refrain—
One of Georgia’s most popular
writers has truly said, “More truly
does the history of a people show
forth in its songs and poetry than
in statute books,” and this old song
strikes chords that lie within the
breast of us all, though they may be
latent in some instances.
S. K. SMITH.
LIGHT RAINFALL IN APRIL.
DUKE WEATHER CHART SHOWS
Rainfall in April amounted to
1 3-8 inches, according to weather
records kept by Jesse J. Duke. That
was in marked contrast to March
when more than 12 inches of rain,
was recorded in this section.
The report shows there was ice
one day, frost one day, 20 fair days,
10 days cloudy to partly cloudy. The
temperature ranged from 31 to 88
degrees.
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many classes of
people qualified to
buy anew motor car
under the Govern
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• • • your Chevrolet
dealer will be glad to
help you get a Certifi
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obtain delivery of
your new car with a
minimum of trouble
and delay,
,
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YOUR ELIGIBILITY
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