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Jackson Progress-Argus
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J. D. Jones Publisher
Doyle Jones Jr Editor
Vincent Jones Associate Editor
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THE PROGRESS-ARGUS'
PLATFORM
1. Modern school facilities to
serve entire county.
t. More street and sidewalk
paving.
8. Improvement of county's post
roads.
4. A modern hospital.
6. Tax exemption for new in
dustries.
6. Countywide Chamber of Com
merce.
7. Concerted effort to attract
tourists.
8. Better recreational facilities.
JUDGE PERSONS RETIRES
The retirement of .Judge Ogden
Persons after a service of 24 years
as judge of the superior courts of the
Flint Judicial Circuit aroused inter
est over the state. In sending his
resignation to Governor Thompson,
Judge Persons gave ill health and
advanced age as reasons for quitting
the bench. Within the Flint Circuit
the problem is presented of finding
a successor to Judge Persons who
can maintain the high standard of
fairness, ability and learning he
brought to' his position. Throughout
a long and active career as legisla
tor, judge, banker, manufacturer and
civic leader, Judge Persons has en
deared himself to the people of his
home communities and to the state
as a whole. He has been generous in
assisting worthy boys and girls ob
tain education and his gifts to edu
cation were large. Honesty and
integrity are woven into the life and
of this popular jurist.
Surely he has earned a period of
rest and friends hope that thus re
lieved of responsibilities he will
regain his health and have many
mere years of service to his county,
section and state.
The man who believes he can sit
out next year’s political races, in
cluding county, state and national
contests, had better get asbestos
lining for the seat of his trousers.
The various races arc expected to be
the hottest in a generation. Talmadge
and Thompson will probably throw
wash pots, pans, anvils and every
thing in sight. The Democrats and
Republicans are going to bat in a
•campaign where no hold will be
barred. It will be a fist and skull,
knockdown and drag-out affair.
Members of the Georgia delega
tion do not look with favor on two
primaries in Georgia next year. The
cost will be almost., prohibitive. Some
way ought to be worked out to bring
the rambunctious factions together
in a single primary.
Moat of the cuties who pose for
peaches, tobacco or other farm crops
eeem more interested in showing
what they have than in the welfare
of agriculture.
Congress ha# fixed it so that ret*
erana may obtain cash for terminal
leave pay. The veterans have been
premised the world with a fence
around it btrt adequate housing is
one of the things still out of reach
A let of people who have been
away on vacation say they have to
return heme to rest
The Georgia Press Association will
held its annual convention in Sevan
■it VW -eh '"1
•ah and g to Coho for e pi sasura
drip. That ought to ho a hot potato.
IT’S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES, Jr.
In this day and age of fact and
fantasy, of the atom bomb and fly
ing saucers, of wars and unrest, there
recently appeared a story in one of
the leading weekly magazines so be
yond the bounds of credulity that its
implications would leave a world
limp with fear. The story has not
been verified. Perhaps it was crea
tive and imaginative writing. At
least it was good reading.
The established world’s plane rec
ord is 623 miles per hour held by a
Colonel Boyd of America. This ap
proaches the speed of sound at 750
miles per hour. This fantastic story
was narrated by the two Army pilots
who for the first time broke through
this supersonic barrier and attained
speeds of over 1,000 miles an hour.
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Briefly their story is:
Two pilots in an experimental
flight recently took off in anew jet
plane of secret design with the
avowed purpose of exceeding the
speed of sound. Both were experien
ced pilots, both World War II vet
erans, one a man of 45, the other 26.
After a few routine maneuvers to
check their plane, they rose to a
towering altitude, leveled off, nosed
her into a slight dive and opened her
up. In brief minutes the speed indi
cator showed 650, 700, 750 and they
were through the barrier, flying fas
ter than sound, and here the terri
fying part of the story begins.
Finding themselves in a kind of
vacuum the plane continued acceler
ating until an ultimate speed of
1,000 miles was registered, the max
imum on their indicator. The plane
now was in a fairly steep dive. And
now comes the unbelievable part.
Flying at this tremendous and un
recorded speed these two men had
caught up with time and their lives
were being turned back. The elder of
the two pilots who hadn’t worn a
mustache since he was 35 suddenly
looked into the mirror on the instru
ment panel and there was his mus
tache. He was remembering and
living again events of the past vivid
ly. He glanced back at his 28 year
old co-pilot and saw in his place a
fair headed lad of 12. Then with an
overwhelming lassitude and inertia
sweeping over them, with their last
ounce of strength, they managed to
pull out of the dive and land the
plane. As the plane lost' speed they
became their former selves. Yet cold,
hard facts negate their air saga and
leaves you wondering if it didn’t
happen then might' it not occur in
the future.
Incorporated in the story was an
incident which if true lends authen
ticity to their weird adventure. Not
many months ago another jet plane
seeking to penetrate the veif beyond
the speed of sound crashed in one of
our northwestern states. An autopsy
on the remains of the pilot revealed
the bones and physical structure of
a child. The plane had crashed at
960 m.p.h. He, too, had found the
answer in the blue infinity which is
God’s sky but it had cost him his
life.
Fact—fantasy? Probably no one
knows. More likely it is the fore
runner of things to come. Certainly
few can believe without experien
cing and not many of us will have
the opportunity of chasing down time
in the corridors of the sky. Anyway,
it was good reading and provided
stimulation for a lot of jaded brains
the country over. And it sounds a
bout as plausible as tha flying sau
cers. Someone sooner or lator is cer
tain to report seeing a saucer drip
ping milk and then we’ll have flying
cats. Finis.
The experience of this year would
indicate that cotton is a rich man’s
crop. When one sees textile execu
tives out spraying and mopping the
boll weevil the millenium cannot bo
far away.
Prices higher than in 1t44 worn
Mid in
eoath Georgia. That's language the
grower eaa understand.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
The recent resignation of Ogden
Persons, Flint Circuit judge for over
the past two decades, and the ap
pointment of Harvey Kennedy of
Barnesville to fill his unexpired term,
poses a question that has long been
in the minds of many who are famil
iar with the machinery of our state
court system.
That question is, should not the
circuit judge be an appointive rather
than an elective official?
A circuit judge, elected by the
people of counties composing his
circuit, and a prey of their political
whims and fancies, is faced, under
our present set-up, with the almost
impossible task of dispensing justice
impartially and with no consideration
of political values.
It is no secret that politics is play
ed to the hilt in the weeks of court
and the days immediately preceding
it, as the judge’s constituents pour
out their suddenly warmed ardor for
him and tell of how they carried Po
dunk district by 3 to 1 for him in his
last race.
The circuit judge, though he be
honest, fair, and impregnable to such
t
insidious advances as our beloved
Ogden Persons undoubtedly was,
must still weigh such propaganda in
the light of the statistics of his last
race and, more importantly, must
consider the political angles involved
in his coming race.
There has never been discovered,
even in the present era of miracu-
lous discoveries, any game contrived
by man and played by civilized men
that was as foul, as dirty and as
unscrupulous as the game of politics.
And county politics, because of its
close proximity, is even more rotten
than state politics.
It is all right for a politician to
be called by that name and to ply his
traed. There are many men who love
the game, who devote their lives to it
and some few are above the dastard
ly tricks and double-crosses that give
the profession such a bad name. It
is all right for a politician to be a
politician. He knows nothing else.
But we do not think a judge should
be a politician. There is too much
differential between the two profes
sions and chances are that he is like
ly to become a poor judge and a good
politician or either an ex-judge.
There are, of course, exceptions
to these generalties. Our own Ogden
Persons was never a politician but he
held his judgeship for 20-odd years
because of the tremendous respect
and love the people of our section
had for him. Many times his over
whelming popularity entitled him to
the post without opposition, his
would-be opponents knowing their
chances were not worth the effort.
The argument _is advanced that
should the circuit judge be appoin
ted by the governor, or by the legis
lature, that he would still be invol
ved in politics. That may be true,
too, but his political affiliations
would be only to one man, or a few
men, and would not interfere or de
lay his efforts to dispense justice in
the case of John Doe, of Podunk,
charged with drunken driving.
Let’s take the circuit judgeships of
Georgia out of county politics so that
those men endowed with the grave
responsibility of meting out justice
fairly and equitably can accomplish
their task without the political pres
sure they are now forced to endure.
If everybody showed the same in
dustry and thrift as the housewife
during the canning season there
would be no scarcity pf food.
More fish ponds are needed in
Butts county. In fact irrigation must
be practiced more widely if farmers
are to continue to produce.
The. old time farmer who spent
elbow grease in fighting grass is now
taking care of the gran and lotting
cattle graso it.
But n little mem than far* rr-n|tp
to got ready for the Butte oonnty
fair.
f SPECULATIONS
OBSERVATIONS
By MADAME ROAMER
In roaming around,
We stopped to admire the row of
all color crape myrtles on the lawn
of Mrs. J. B. Settle and learned we
were not the only one who admired
them. A group of tourists from up
north stopped a few weeks ago and
asked if they might take pictures of
them with a color camera. Of course
Mrs. Settle was glad to grant them
permission to take the pictures.
There are four colors—white, pink,
lavender and red. When you pass by
see if you dont admire them. . . . The
Julian Fletchers say that their baby
son, Julian Roger, is getting “settled
down’’ now and can really tell his
night from his day, and has learned
what night is for—to sleep. Julian
Sr. says Roger is advancing rapidly.
. . . . When Helen Spencer(Mrs.L.M.)
called her guests for tea, she said,
“come, sit and talk.” From the num
ber of fine conversationalists present
she might have said, “come, sit and
listen.” .... When someone asked
Eleanor Ball if she were busy can
ning, she said, “no, busy freezing,”
meaning of course that she was pre
paring fruits or vegetables for the
freezer locker When we ob-
serve all this new street pavement in
Jackson we seem to be in a daze—
chronic condition, someone whispered
—and wonder if we are still in
Jackson and not in a big city. . . .
GLIMPSED HERE AND THERE:
Delightfully charming Willie Vida
Rambo Murph of Marshallville on a
visit with her sister, Ermine Rambo
Watkins. Now since Mrs. Murph’s
two children, John and Mollie Irene,
are married and live in distant cities,
she could make Jackson “ her home
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away from home.” Jackson friends
would love it so Three sisters,
Georgia and Delia Watkins and Es
telle Watkins Austin, packing their
bags for a week’s stay at beautiful
Lake Junaliska in North Carolina... .
Joel Copeland, ten year old son of
the Arthur Copelands of Griffin,
jauntily clad in a tan sports suit, in
town for a brief visit We
meant to go to the softball game be
tween the town team and the Crooks
but we forgot all about it. We were
going to clap for the Crooks.
Monroe county, it is claimed, is
leading the state in the purchase of
U.S. Savings Bonds. ThU is because
the county has many wealthy citi
zens and has a successful dairy in
dustry with farmers in shape to buy
bonds.
Jackson has long needed street
paving and now that the work has
been started it should go all the way
to serve every resident.
Butts county business men are
sponsoring a series of advertisements
in the Progress-Argus and safe dri
ving is stressed. The campaign is
expected to result in good to the en
tire county.
The individual who is not satisfied
and will not pull for his home town
should be reminded there are trains
and highways leading in every di
rection and nobody >s holding him.
Georgians took an active and
leading part in the annual convention
of Kiwanis International in Chicago.
The Georgia district *has been 'out
standing in contributions to the or
ganisation and has furnished three
international presidents.
Tha Moultrie Observer quotes •
Colquitt oonaty farmer as saying he
In W maUftUnu
fteids hocanao ha oaa’t gat east of
production hy shipping. Lneky hogs.
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THURSDAY, JULY 31, I*4 i
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