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Jackson Progress-Argus
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Doyte Jones Jr.~_ Editor
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IT’S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES, Jr.
Many people often question
■whether the stupidity of politicians
is excelled by the gullibility of the
public. I think the answer now is
obvious. Not even a public as politi
cally naieve as Georgians sometimes
are can swallow the shenanigans
that would close the splendidly
equipped Finney Veterans Admini
stration Hospital in Thomasville to
erect anew hospital in an area of
less than 100 miles distance at a
cost of several millions.
This is politics of the rankest
and most expensive sort. Thomas
ville is one of the loveliest small cit
ies in Georgia with charm, hospital
ity and beauty that few can match.
Finney Hospital is reputed to he the
finest in the state. Yet because of
political promises and pressures the
Veterans Administration would aban
don this plant and spend millions of
dollars for anew hospital in Talla
basse, Fla., or Americus.
Even for Georgia, accustomed to
low brow politics and politicians
this is too much to stomach. Econo
mically this plan is foolish, morally
it is wasteful and politically it
stinks Hold your nose or else blow
your top.
It is a strange fact that Indian
Springs State Park, year after year
which draws the largest number of
visitors and is the most popular of
all the parks in the state system, is
almost financially neglected when
budget time comes around. The pet
parks, those receiving the most
financial aid, would appear to be
Vogel Park and the Franklin D.
Roosevelt Park.
The need for state provided
amusement and recreational facili
ties at Indian Springs is acute. What
Jew people stop to consider is that
all recreation at the Springs is out
side the park area and owned by
private individuals. Take away Tor
bet’s place, Pitt’s Casino, Mullis-
Hoard swimming pool, the two fine
hotels, Elder and Foy, and Indian
•Springs would dry up in a year. What
>do you have left then? The Casino,
an imposing and eye catching struc
ture; the spring itself which I’m
convinced half the visitors don’t see
anyway; a picnic area and wooded
trails, two creeks and a few acres of
land. Certainly nothing to induce
one to drive from Cairo or Dalton,
Hartwell or Columbus to see. You’d
have a park that in a few years
would see more wild life, four
footed, than people.
Fortunately, however, and to no
credit to the State Park Depart
ment, the entertainment furnished
by the aforesaid amusement places
and the accommodations offered by
the two fine hotels make Indian
Springs literally a meca during the
summer months.
But why in the name of all that
is holy can’t the Park Department
open its eyes to the undeveloped po
tential at Indian Springs and do
something about it. Say a lake, for
instance, with boating and fishing,
with cabins dotting its shores, simi
lar to beautiful Vogel Park. Or a
golf course, tennis courts, and al
ways more and more cottages and
cabins. If and when this ever hap
pens then visitors won’t have to de
pend on viewing the Casino, drink
ing the famed sulphur water, walk
ing, wading and thumb twiddling for
entertainment.
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
The effort to organize a chapter
of the Exchange Club in Jackson,
which now seems about ready to
bear fruit, is being watched with
considerable interest by Butts
countians.
For a period of over 25 years the
Jackson Kiwanis Club has been the
only civic organization in the county
and has borne the full brunt of all
civic endeavors and accomplishment.
To relate the varied interests and
accomplishments of this club over
its life span would require not just
a short column but a whole news
paper or several newspapers. Most
fair-minded people, we believe, will
agree that the Kiwanis Club has had
a hand in the fruition of nearly
every worthwhile project *in our
county for the past two-and-a-half
decades.
That may sound like big talk but
the Kiwanis Club has done big
things. We mention these things,
not because the people of Butts
county are ignorant of them, but in
the hope that they will be remem
bered and appreciated and that no
one might be misled regarding the
local chapter of Kiwanis Interna
tional.
To say that Kiwanis has done the
whole job would be a misstatement
of fact. It would be much nearer
the truth to state that Kiwanis has
fallen far short of the goal on many
occasions and that another civic
club has been needed in many cases
to push needed projects to a speedy
completion.
The field of service to our town
and community is so large that two,
three or even half-a-dozen civic
clubs working full time could not
accomplish the job as it should be
done. That is certainly the spot for
the newly organized Exchange Club.
If it comes into being motivated
only by the desire to serve its town
and its county, then it will find a
field large enough to allow freedom
of movement without encroaching
on the established work of its com
petitor in selfless service.
Certainly all Kiwanians will wel
come a local Exchange club as a
friendly competitor in the field of
service to one’s town and county.
Competition is good for any busi
ness, or organization, and out of it
could spring two civic clubs fired
with enthusiasm and the zeal to ac
complish greatly, not for self alone,
but in the interest of others.
We trust that boosting, not knock
ing, will be the watchword in the
new civic club. And from the type
of members whose names we have
heard associated .with the organi
zation, we believe such will be the
case. For a club whose members are
filled with bias and prejudice
against another and who spend more
time knocking their competitor than
building their own is fore-ordained
to an unhappy ending. A civic club,
whose only aim or reason for exis
tence should be service to others, is
just not built upon such a shaky
foundation.
The people of the county who
ride on roads that Kiwanis fought
10 or 15 long years to get and fin
ally got; farmers who light their
homes with the flick of a switch af
ter Kiwanis fought manfully for the
local REA office; underprivileged
children who can walk, and see, and
talk thanks to Kiwanis; citizens who
can freeze meats, fruits and vege
tables thanks to Kiwanis; farm boys
who can raise pure bred pigs thanks
to Kiwanis; men and women who get
pay checks on Saturday from new
industries thanks to Kiwanis; all
these recognize the tremendous
amount of work that still remains to
be done by a civic group.
Let's go, Exchangites. Let’s get
those members, get that charter, get
organized and get down to work.
And you’ll find the Jackson Kiwanis
club working with you im every
worthwhile project for our town,
county, state and nation.
To be alive next week drive care
fully on July 4.
0
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
gUl'- 0 SPECULATIONS
jM OBSERVATIONS
In roaming around
We learned that Jo Ann Morris
and Frances Harper, both former
Jafkson girls but now separated by
several states, are going to be
roommates at GSCW at Milledge
ville this fall. Jo Ann has been a
student there for two years. . . .
Mattie Lou Pollard of Thomaston is
the champion speller of six million
school children of these United
States, and just to think she came
from a one-room schoolhouse. This
goes to prove that if one wants to
improve his opportunities he can do
it no matter what the surroundings.
Butts County once boasted of one
of the best spellers in the state a
few generations ago. She was Miss
Puss Patterson and just couldn’t be
‘‘set down.” We were present in
probably the last spelling contest
in which she took part, and she was
past eighty then. It looked as if the
Judge who gave out the words from
the old Blue Back Speller couldn’t
find one which would prove her
Waterloo. But finally came the, word
“dulap” and Miss Puss without a
moment’s hesitation said “dewlap”
and then before she could get a
breath she spelled it correctly. But
that was against the rules and she
was spelled down. Mr. Webster de
fines dulap as “the pendulous fold
of skin under the neck of animals of
the ox tribe.” We never see a cow
but that we notice the dulap and
think of Miss Puss. . . . Henry
Fletcher, Captain that is, and Re
becca, have named their baby
daughter Rebecca Arden. Henry has
just completed a course in Mechani
cal Engineering at Stanford Uni
versity and will leave soon for
Dayton, Ohio where he will be as
signed to the Air Material Command.
Henry’s mother, Mrs. Howard
Bailey, has been visiting the Fletch
ers in Palo Alto and they all expect
to be in Jackson soon. . . .GLIMPSED
HERE AND THERE; Sara Buchan
an excitedly packing daughter
Harriet’s trunk as she leaves for a
two-months stay at a camp in North
Carolina. . . . Add Nutt feverishly
hunting a bunch of lost keys which
he later found in his wife’s sweater
pocket. . . . Vincent, he of the House
of Jones, and S. W. Causey board
ing the Kiwanis Special to Chicago
bareheaded. We wonder if the other
14,998 delegates went bareheaded
too. . . . Julian Fletcher beaming on
account of the new addition to the
Fletcher household. It’s Master Ju
lian Rogers Fletcher. . . . Eugene
Prosser telling his Dad he wants a
nickel to buy a box of crackers.
After a hurried trip to the grocery
he returns with the information that
crackers are six cents. The next de
mand was for an additional six
cents. When the final mathematical
calculations were made it was deter
mined that Roy Prosser had given
Master Eugene twelve cents and
Master Epgene had two boxes of
crackers to show for it. . . . GOOD
ADVICE: “Don’t judge a man by
tl e noise he makes. The poorest ma
chinery creaks the loudest.”
Georgia is acquiring paths faster
than they can be developed. There is
at present agitation to acquire
Jekyll Island and convert it into a
state park. The issue is loaded with
dynamite. A better plan might be to
develop the parks now in the state
system.
The one-horse farmer, according
to Dean Chapman of the Georgia
College of Agriculture, will disap
pear within the next ten years. Lan
guage used on the tractor may not
be as forceful as that used on the
mule but it will be interesting at
least
Despite recently enacted legisla
tion, all is not quiet on the labor
front. Better relations between
management and labor will result
when there is mutual trust and un
derstanding and the exercise of com
mon sense and patience.
July 24 is the date set for the
opening of tobacco auctions in the
south Georgia weed belt. Tobacco
and peanuts rank right along with
cotton as sources of cash income.
The beginning of the tobacco season
ushers in a busy time for Georgia
farmers.
The movement to launch a big
street paving campaign in Jackson
has met with enthusiastic support
from every quarter. If the city can
afford it the streets should be paid
for out of public funds. If not then
property owners will be glad to pay
their share. By all means let the
paving proceed. It will mean bigger,
brighter, happier days for the en
tire" community.
For the second year America pre
pares to observe the July 4 holidays
at peace. The country should resolve
to make it a safe and quiet holiday
and lives should not be sacrificed
needlessly.
Confederate veterans formerly
held reunions and raised the Rebel
Yell and had a good time generally.
Wonder why the veterans of World
Wars one and two do not hold occa
sional reunions? It would be a good
gesture.
Civic clubs of whatever name are
doing'all the good they can with the
limited funds at hand. These organ
izations are not blessed with unlim
ited means and in the very nature
of the case do not have much money
to spend, but they are aiding many
worthy projects.
A world-shaking calamity would
be a crop failure in America. The
great corn belt has recently been
hard hit by floods and corn produc
tion will be limited. The price of
corn is now the highest in ninety
years. This is all the more reason
why Georgia should strive harder
than ever to produce all the food
and feed possible.
The white light of publicity is be
ing turned on safe driving. It will
result in good and saves human
lives.
Georgia people are no pikers
when it comes to paying taxes. Re
cent figures show the state spends
about half of its income on taxes.
Scrapings From
Hard Scrabble
dear editer,
We done desided we’d git stilish
an name our place. We sees by the
papers that all the big folks think
up sumpin to call they farms. A
good many names bin sugested to
us but aint none uf em to my likin.
We thot uf Stuckey’s Farms but
that sounds mouty like po folks—
anything wid farms to it do. Then
we 'thot uf Stuckey’s Enlargement
hut evybody laughed at that. Do-|
sided we could leave off our name
and git sumpin else like Friendship
Circle and fer the life uf us that
sounded jest like er semmeterry. So
we passed that on. Then some uf the
chillun thot Babboon Roost mout be
a good un since Babboon Crick runs
thru our land, which is still et up
with morgeges. We could name it
Morgege Manner and let it go at
that. We goin ter ask some uf our
smart friends ter help us out. They
mout have a handy and fetchin
name—one that would strike the
fansy uf the folks what come out
ter see us. If you has er sugestion,
Mr. Editer, just mail it to us post
paid and we’ll see how it strikes us.
We is gittin anxshous to name our
place so we can have some invelops
printed wid the name on it.
So long,
Susie Stuckey
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JACKSON, GEORGIA
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Looking Backward
Through The Files
News of 30 Years Ago
Butts county had 250 automo
biles, valued for taxation at $150,-
000.
The first bale of cotton sold at
Houston, Texas, for $925.
June 23 was the date of the year’s"
first cotton bloom.
The tax digest showed returns of
$2,103,449, an increase of $32,019
over 1916.
Dr. Robert VanDeventer was
named chairman of the Butts county
Red Cross chapter and 150 members
were enrolled at the organization
meeting Sunday.
Representative R. W. Mays was in
Atlanta for sessions of the general
assembly. Hugh Dorsey was gover
nor.
New* of 20 Year* Ago
Butts county peach growers were
shipping fruit in carload lots.
Jackson churches were holding
union services during the summer.
G. B. Carreker was named cash
ier in the office of Eugene Tal
madge, commissioner of agriculture.
Miss Mary Downs returned from
Canada where she went with a
group of college students on the
Elliott tours.
Charles Hamlin reported the first
ripe watermelon June 29.
Change of
TAXI STAND
We wish to announce that our taxi stand has been
moved from the Greyhound Bus Station to the Shell
Service Station where we have had a phone instal
led.
For the best taxi service in Jackson we ask you to
please call 5531 during the day and till 12 P. M. and
after midnight call 4886.
For your convenience and to give you more
prompt service we have added another cab which
will be driven by Billy Leverette.
We ask your continued patronage and request you
call us for the safest and most dependable taxi ser
vice m the city.
MADDOX BROS. TAXIS
SHELL SERVICE STATION
Bill and Cecil” Billy Leverette
Phone 5531 (until 12 p. m.) 4886 (after midnight)
THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947
News of 10 Years Ago
The Jackson post office building
was dedicated Saturday, July 3, with
Congressman E. M. Owen making
the principal address.
Jackson business firms were to
close Monday, July 5, in observance
of the July 4 holiday.
B. B. Garland announced the
opening of law offices in Atlanta
and Mr. and Mrs. Garland moved to
Atlanta for residence.
The marriage of Miss Mervyn
Thaxton and W. D. Pope Jr. took
place June 24.
The cost of the New Deal to date
was estimated at 14 billion dollars.
Prof. Snider predicted showers on
July 4.
Calvin Coolidge didn’t “choose
to run” and Harry Truman doesn’t
‘‘choose to sign.” The President is
using the veto power frequently
these days.
BUY, YOUR
A.exjrm
wMsavings
iJW BONDS
11 NOW
PROTECT YOUR FUTURE
The most you can buy Is the least
you can do.