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Jackson Progress-Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
J. D. Jones Publisher
Doyle Jones Jr Editor
Vincent Jcnes Associate Editor
Entered as second-class matter at
the Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
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THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
The elder son has eyes like his
mother's, big and brown with a
seemingly irresistible attraction for
external objects that use the limpid
pools as a punching bag or a lodging
place, either of which brings dis
comfort to the boy and disorder to
the household.
Periodically, the eye mishaps be
falling the budding Lou Gehrig re
cur in an amazingly successive man
ner, so that for days on end band
ages, drops and salve become such
an integral part of family life that
the house often resembles the emer
gency room of a metropolitan hos
pital.
So it was recently that upon his
return from the day’s labors, Dad
*was met by the youth with the pro
pensity for eye injuries. Across
his forehead at a rakish angle, long
studied before a mirror no doubt,
Was a bandana concealing of all
things an injured eye.
The accident occurred simply, and
Unavoidably, as they all do. This
time it was a ball that tipped his
bat and spun into the region of his
eye before he could dodge.
Fortunately, there was little dam
age to the eye and what seemed cer
tain to be another long period of
treatment and recuperation for an
injury to a sensitive organ, turned
out to be only premature fear and
Worry.
All over America there are boys
at the awkard age whose eyes are
always getting hurt, whose noses
always find the wayward fist, and
whose feelings, both physical and
mental, are being constantly ruffled
by shoulder-rubbing with their kind.
But waiting at home to bind thein.
wounds and to salve their troubled
minds with the never-failing gen
tleness of an eternal love is mother.
lake a homing pigeon seeking his
roost, a boy in trouble seeks his
mother. Oh, Dad will do as a tem
porary substitute but it’s mother
who has the patience and the under
standing and the know-how to make
hurt little boys well again.
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Only a mother’s love can kiss
away the blood and, pain from a
skinned knee; only a mother’s love
can give a child the reassurance and
constant care that makes a sick bed
tenable ;only a mother’s love can
inspire a boy, or a man, to do those
things in life that are high and
noble and worthy of the love of a
mother.
And so Sunday will be coronation
day for us. There will be 40 million
queens crowned in the United States.
For here we have a queen in every
home, while the British boast of only
-one.
Think, if you can, of the hours
your mother has spent thinking of
you, caring for you, worrying about
you. It would take the combined
wealth of the wealthiest men in the
world to repay her, should you at
tempt in a monetary way to evaluate
I that which money cannot buy.
So on her day, crown her queen
of your heart and may her kingdom
reign as eternal as the heavens, from
whence cometh her greatness.
TWO SAFETY LESSONS FROM
I TRAGIC ACCIDENT
The tragic automobile accident
which took eight lives near Jackson
Sunday presents two clear-cut les
son.- for sober-thinking drivers.
Eight killed, Jive injured when two
cars collided head on.
Thirteen persons in two cars—an
overload of three people. That’s les
son number one. Cars are designed
to comfortably and safely transport
five people. An overload can hamper
the driver’s efficiency and add weight
that tends to make control of the
vehicle more difficult.
Head-on crash as one car pulled
out of a line of traffic and attempted
to pass on a hill. Over the top came
car number two. Inevitable result:
head-on crash.
Georgia highways are now marked
with yellow lines to the left and
right of the center white line. When
the yellow line is to the right of the
center line, as the driver views it,
it is unsafe to pass. A good memory
system to employ on this is to re
member that when the yellow line is
right, it is wrong to pass.
The tragic accident should be
enough to indelibly imprint in the
minds of all drivers these two safety
lessons.—Thomaston Times.
THE TRAGEDY OF HASTE
•The tragedy which occurred on
Highway 42 near Jackson Saturday
night brought a sick feeling to the
hearts of people in this section. The
saddest part of the accident was that
the death of the eight people could
so easily have been avoided.
The old adage ,“Haste makes
waste,’’ is a classic understatement
when you consider that lives were
wasted because somebody evidently
tried to save a few seconds. There
are times when it seems that auto
motive science has advanced beyond
the capacity of the public to intelli
gently use its product.
People have not yet come to real
ize that a person killed by an auto
mobile is just as dead as one killed
by an atom bomb. Strides are ap
parently being made toward world
peace. When will we begin a peace
offensive on the highways?—Monroe
Advertiser.
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Looking Backward
Through The Files
New* of 70 Years Ago
Every house in Jackson is occu
pied but the jail.
Dr. Crum is having two more store
rooms built south of the rock build
ing.
Jackson began building and im
proving as soon as the first survey
of the new railroad was made and of
late it is nothing uncommon to see
half a dozen new buildings going up
at the same time.
Indian Springs was visited by a
disastrous fire that consumed sever
al buildings. Loss was estimated at
$40,000 to $75,000.
New* of 30 Years Ago
Officers elected by Camp John Lr.
Barnett U.C.V. included J. M. T.
Mayo, commander; Z. T. Buttrill,
vice commander; W. A. Waldrop, Ist
Lieut.; J. F. Preston, 2nd Lieut.; J.
A. McMichael, adjutant; W. J. Mc-
Clendon, Ist sergeant; A. G. Pres
ton, chaplain.
School census showed 3,736 as
compared to 4,177 in 1918.
Lacy Maddox was contractor for
new Methodist church, work on
which was started.
News of 20 Years Ago
Butts county had quota of 19 men
in CCC.
Bad hail storm hit. several sections
of county Monday.
Judge J. A. McMichael was ap
pointed lieutenant colonel on staff
of Gen. J. P. Hardy, commander
Georgia Division UCV.
News of 10 Years Ago
The marriage of Miss Janice Wil
liamson and John Thomas Harris
was announced.
Church of the Nazarene, organized
in 1937, held first service in new
building on Indian Springs street.
In service: Sgt. Walter D. Pope
Jr., US Air Force, was stationed at
Dayton, Ohio; Major Homer Gaston.
US Signal Corps, was transferred
from Shreveport, La. to Langley
Field, Va.; Pvt. Ellis Maddox, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Maddox, was
slightly wounded in North Africa;
Richard H. Burford was serving in
hot Georgia Towns
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DAHLONEGA ,NTEREST J
The Champion Home Town Commit- //l
tee has erected a map to guide visitors xf/~~ \\\ A YJ[t.
to local points of interest and give inf or- )L/ \\l \ >/\ \ J/\
mation on pre-arranged tours. m Iv\ /j] JL nQj
SM A special plant nursery has been snt
// A \ jNfcp I \ up here to encourage the exchange of
' & I\\ V^s&Pp 7 / \* shrubbery. Their slogan is “Bring a
CW I ' shrub, take a shrub.”
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To help promote its Clean-up, Paint- ~™ ,^
up campaign, the CHT committee has ( ll "—\\
organized a Paint Brush Bank where j \S U h
its citizens may borrow paint brushes. J \JSANK \
FREE (2& 11 i) i I/y
PARKING /
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j \Tj\ | . U Parking with police protection is pro-
Ar\ // \ \fcl '>ll vided in Wadley for its citizens who
£\C/ \ [C ', // A\\ ] (o\_Ol/OT take the Nancy Hanks train to Atlanta
or other cities for business or pleasure.
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GEORGIA POWER
US Coast Guard, Key West, Fla.;
James Alton Britt, US Navy-, on for-
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953
! eign duty 16 months, spent'thT/
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