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Jackson Progress-Argys
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Doyle Jones Jr. Editor
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THE PROGRESS-ARCUS’
PLATFORM
1. Modern school facilities to
serve entire county.
2. More street and sidewalk
paving.
3. Imorovement of county’s post
roads.
4. A modern hospital.
5. Tax exemption for new in
dustries.
6. Countywide Chamber of Com
merce.
7. Concerted effort to attract
tourists.
8. Better recreational facilities.
IT’S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES, Jr.
One of the most charming and cer
tainly one of the most attractive vis
itors to grace Jackson recently was
Mrs. Herman Talmadge who in com
pany with her prominent husband,
Charley Itedwine and Zach Cravey
stopped over here a few minutes a
week or so ago while en route to
Louisville.
Bivouacked in Carmichael Drug
Company while Herman and Zach
were out greeting friends Mrs. Tal
madge and Charley were holding the
fort amid an ever widening circle
of well-wishers. About this time up
steps Mr. Bud Lynch, 93 years young,
an esteemed resident of the Blount
community in Monroe county. Upon
being introduced to Mrs. Talmadge
and after expressing deep regret and
sympathy on the death of the late
Elugene Talmadge, Mr. Lynch asked
Mrs. Talmadge how old did she think
he was. Appraising her subject very
hurriedly Mrs. Talmadge quickly an
swered "70.” Seizing upon her in
experience in age guessing Mr. Lynch
took evident delight in proudly in
forming her that he was 93, but mod
estly declared that was nothing.
He then related a story of a friend
in Henry county who lived to be
120 yearß, 6 months and 6 days. But
the coup de grace was the startling
'•assertion that he was married when
he was 118. It was then I injected
my two bits worth with the rather
obvious comment that had he not
taken this brash step he would still
be living.
Later, though, I accused Mrs.
Talmadge of being the world’s worse
age guesser. ‘Oh,” she said, ‘I knew
he was older than that, I was just
trying to get a vote for Herman.”
1 ask you, with a wife like that
how can he help being the next gov
ernor of Georgia? That is the gold
plated 64 dollar question.
Mechanical cotton pickers have
passed the experimental stage. These
machines are already doing effective
work and it is estimated in the next
20 years at least 2,000,000 cotton
pickers will be thrown out of employ
ment. The cotton belt is definitely
shifting to the west and the eastern
belt must turn to dairying, livestock
and timber growing. It will be a
change for the better.
The suggestion is made that Sen
ator R. B. Russell of Georgia would
be an able running mate with Harry
S. Truman. True enough, but poli
tics being what they are the South
will not be given much consideration
in choosing candidates for president
and vice president. This is one pen
alty of being solidly democratic.
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
Mid summer brings camp meetings
and revivals and under the pressure
of the sweltering heat men’s minds
begin to act up and we see and hear
lots about radioal religion.
Radical religion usually takes the
form of mere man’s attempt to an
swer some of the unanswerables of
our Christian faith. The extreme
heat acts as a ballast to man’s ego
and he goes off on the deep-end
about Christ’s second coming and
how heaven and hell will appear and
who will go to both places, and other
such unfathomable mysteries that
t
God did not intend for man to under-
stand.
These attempts to disrort and to
make ugly an otherwise beautiful
religion are not only ridiculous but
disgusting as well. What manner of
man is it who will attempt to answer
all the mysteries of heaven and hell
and yet who cannot, in his own
bottomless ignorance, answer such a
simple question as where does the
wind come from and where does it
go?
Down through the slow and some
times terrible years of history,
through persecutions, wars, famine,
pestilence and all the multiplied dan
gers of a dangerous past, has come
our religion as we know it today.
The sacrifices of our forefathers
have only served to make it more
hallowed, more sanctified in our
memory. Twice within the last thirty
years we have fought wars against
nations that did not respect our re
ligion or our right to worship as we
saw fit.
It is, of course, the most beautiful
religion and story in the world.
Nothing in modern or ancient liter
ature can compare with the Bible,
either as a literary masterpiece or
an eternal promise of things to come.
There is no story so simple or en-
thralling as the story of Christ.
Kindergarten children can under
stand it and they love to hear it
told by their elders and church
school teachers. And how well they
are taught will determine to a large
extent the kind of world we will
have twenty years from now.
To so many the story of Christ is
but a seasonal story. Christ to many
means Christmas and Christmas, to
many, means a whole lot of things
that are not too closely connected
with our religion.
For Christmas signifies only
Christ’s birth. Are we going to honor
only the birthday of our Lord and
make our religion a yearly carnival
of celebration? What of the other
364 days in the year? Our Saviour
was not born and declared dead on
the same day. Neither should our
religion have only a seasonal mean
ing.
The spirit of Christmas is a won
derful thing, to be sure. If you are
wilting under the heat and your
nerves are on edge and your wife
is threatening to go back to mother,
then by all means get down your
Bible, turn to Luke or your favorite
version of the Christmas story, and
read again the story that will bright
en your heart with joy.
This started off as a piece against
those deep-end preachers and teach
ers who know it all and who try to
influence Christians to swallow some
of their far-fetched theories. We
have no respect for that stubborn
individual who will butt his head
against the eternal word of God and
bet you that he is right. As if any of
us here could prove him wrong. Or
as if he could prove himself right.
We. had just as soon respect the
sappy individual who parries your
every Christian thrust at his soul
with, ‘‘Where did God come from?”
Well, maybe some of these deep-end
preachers could tell us.
Upon every hand we hear the
question, what is wrong with our
religion? There isn't anything wrong
with our religion, but there most
certainly is something wrong with
those of us who try to understand
it and fail to live according to its
preachments. If our deep-end preach-
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Readers Write
Editor, Progress-Argus:
In your editorial of July 31 you
advocate the appointment of our
judges by the governor, questioning
the intelligence of the voters as to
their ability to select the proper man,
and the integrity of those who may
be elected by the voters. I must take
issue with you on this question.
It is the most undemocratic meth
od of selecting our judges that could
be devised. Our Constitution clearly
defines the three branches of our
democratic government, the execu
tive, the legislative and the judicial,
each being a separate unit and inde
pendent of each other so there will
be a proper check and balance on
each, and to adopt the method you
have advocated would place the ju
diciary under the control and domi
nation of the executive branch,
which would destroy the very founda
tion of our democratic form of gov
ernment.
I have every confidence in the in
telligence of the voters in any judic
ial circuit to elect a man of integrity,
honesty and ability who can and will
dispense justice with fairness to all
alike, friend or foe, over the ability
of one man or group of men from
any association to select a man who
will dispense justice in a more fair
manner than one which the voters
elect.
To reach this pinnacle of true de
mocracy, take away all the appoin
tive power over the judiciary from
the governor and give back to the
people the power to elect those of
ficials from which all governmental
powers are derived from.
E. D. ALLEN
Atlanta, Ga.
(Editor’s Note: Federal judges and
justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States are appointed for life.
We believe the honor and the integ
rity of their position in the impar
tial dispensing of justice to all would
be made more secure for our circuit
judges were they removed from the
arena of partisan politics.)
Georgia, according to the govern
ment cotton report issued August 8,
will produce 575,000 bales this year.
This is a far cry7rom the 2,000,000
bales grown in pre-boll weevil days.
The estimate is for a 11,844,000 bale
crop in 1947.
Cotton is rapidly becoming the
most expensive crop grown in the
South. South Georgia growers are
paying $2.50 per 100 pounds for
picking and higher prices may pre
vail later in the season.
Georgia is ably represented in the,
United States Senate by Walter F.
George and Richard B. Russell. The
delegation in the lower house of
Congress is also a strong one and all
| interests of the state are well taken
care of.
The CIO is demanding an increase
in textile wages. The average is now
95 cents an hour. Just where this
business of hiking wages and prices
will stop is one of the unanswered
questions. Almost everybody knows
what happens when a balloon is
blow r n up too tightly.
An extra session of the legislature
at this time woud doubtless result in
political wrangling and a waste of
money ,time and effort. If the gener
al assembly failed to enact construc
tive measures at the regular session
there is no reason to believe that
there has been any radical change in
political sentiment. The regular ses
sion cost $400,000.
Georgia talks a lot about tourists
but there is no concerted effort to
attract and hold tourists. One of the
best things to do would be to mark
historic spots and monuments. Geor
gia must sell itself to its own people
before it can sell it to tourist.
ers could only make better Christians
out of us, then we might get a
chance to see that Heaven which
they have already road-mapped for
us. But a map without a road is
worthless. •
r SPECULATIONS
AND
OBSERVATIONS
By MADAME ROAMER
In roaming around
We learned that the T. A. Nutts
Sr. were literally walking on air these
last few days so many happy “situa
tions” have come their way almost
simultaneously. A brand new grand
daughter arrived on this mundane
sphere August 4 (situation No. 1).
No. 2, North Mulberry street on
which Lucile and Add have their
home has recently been paved, some
thing they had hoped for a long
time and No. 3, T.A .Jr., young fath
er of the baby girl, will be graduated
soon from the University of Georgia.
The war interrupted his education
so he is finishing up now. In the
language of Mrs. Nutt, ‘Could any-
body ask for more” . . . Don’t we all
miss “Uncle Bob” Etheridge! As he
walked leisurely along the street he
had a kind word and a pleasant smile
for everybody. His nieces and neph
ews called him “Uncle Bob” then all
the young people who were their as
sociates took up the name, and fi
nally even friends of his own age
fell in line with ‘‘Uncle Bob.” He
seemed to feel that it denoted some
affection and loved to be addressed
that way. He was widely traveled, a
good raconteur and a fine compa
nion on all occasions. “He is not
dead who lives in the hearts of those
he leaves behind” . . . Mary Lee
Saunders Jones walks with her head
mighty high up in the air these days
so proud is she of her new grandson.
She is so absorbed in thoughts of him
until sometimes she passes her best
friends without even recognizing
them . . . Harriett and Sasa Buchan
an are having great times at camps
in the mountains of North Carolina.
They are becoming accomplished
swimmers and equestriennes as well
as having a part in editing the camp
papers or bulletins and other activi
ties . . . GLIMPSED HERE AND
THERE: Pretty Ann Rich pasting
some adhesive tape in the heels of
her new slippers to keep them from
hurting her feet . . . Mrs. Ed Mc-
Comb, a French war bride, wife of a
REA engineer, at the Comer Can
ning Plant looking and listening at
the gab of the English speaking ma
trons as they moved here and there
in a fast gait getting their fruits and
vegetables processed on a hot Aug
ust day. "Strange did it seem” said
one young matron, “that a pretty
girl as she was couldn’t enter into
the conversation with us. How we
would love to hear her talk.” Her sis
ter-in-law was with her and could
get over enough phrases and signs
to help Mrs. McComb get by with her
canning. By another canning season
we bet she will have picked enough
English to enjoy the gab sessions
with others of the gang. Anyway
Mrs. McComb was mighty easy on the
eyes and that compensated in part
for her lack of talking ... A man
on the street (we didn’t know his
name) saying to his wife as he han
ded her a bill, “I left a dollar bill on
the mantel last night for you to buy
groceries with.”
Members of the Georgia Press As
sociation may well hope that the as
sociation has been purged of politics
and that in the future the body will
remain free of politcs. The election
of officers at the Savannah meeting
insures the association will be restor
ed to its purpose of serving its mem
bers and working for the advance
ment of the state.
Because of its attitude on labor
and farm legislation the GOP has
lost the labor and farm vote. This
is good news for the Democrats and
indications point to the elecsicn of
Harry S. Truman next year.
Soil Building Will Build
Up Your Bank Account
Are you interested in increasing the crop
yield on your farm?
It can be done! Soil conservation records
prove that Central Georgia farmers who
follow a complete soil conservation pro
gram are producing more crops per acre.
Conservation farming will pay you per
manent dividends in:
More Income Today!
Future Security for you and your family.
Conservation of our nation’s greatest re
source —the land upon which we live.
Start now to build up your bank balance by building
up your soil—develop a sound, balanced farming
and soil conservation program on your farm.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
COTTON
Ginning Time
We have placed our gin equipment
in first class condition and are ready
for this year’s cotton crop. We will
give our usual prompt service and the
good sample for which we are noted.
Bring us dry, clean cotton and we
will do our part. Our trained person
nel insures you of satisfactory service
and top prices for your cottdn.
WE ARE AGENTS FOR
COVINGTON PLANTERS
NUTT & BOND
JACKSON, GEORGIA
Georgia’s farm mortgage debt de
clined from 1942 to 1946, according
to Extension Service economists. In
1942 it was about $90,000,000 but
four years later it had dropped to
$79,000,000.
1? SELLING COTTON
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Millions of bales of cotton are sold and resold
without buyers ever actually seeing a single
bale! That’s the advantage of selling on the cot
ton warehouse receipt and samples. Recognized
the world over as positive proof of ownership
of the particular bale it represents, the nego
tiable receipt changes hands just like United
States currency.
This confidence in your warehouse receipt is
the result of many years of responsibility,
accuracy and service to the farmer, ginner,
merchant, spinner... to everyone engaged in
the marketing of the crop which supports
11,000,000 people.
rsrsrrrv. Livestock and Poultry
FARMER’S UNION
WAREHOUSE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941
Good wiring and lighting in the
outbulidings contribute materially to
safety and efficiency in doing chores
after dark and provide for ready use
•%
of time and money-saving electrical
equipment.