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Jacfcson Progress-Argus
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A IX, JONES PUBLISHER
11908-1955)
VINCENT JONES Publisher
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IT’S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES JR.
Judge John H. McGehee, Thomas
ton, of the Griffin Circuit Superior
Court, one of the state’s most able
■jurists, startled the Griffin Rotary
Club when in an address last week
he told them that “gangsterism is
happening now in your own county.”
“Recently,” he told his intent aud
ience, “a gang from Upson county
—my county—came up to your coun
ty for the expressed purpose of wag
ing a pitched battle with a gang in
your county. By a quirk of luck they
did not meet. That’s all that pre
vented something serious from hap
pening.”
Judge McGehee gave as his con
sidered opinion that the greatest
need in Upson and Spalding counties
is for a well paid, fully trained pro
bation officer to stop delinquency
before it reaches the criminal stage.
„ “I am a firm believer,” the judge
explained, “in the fact that it is bet
ter to have a strong fence at the
crest of a precipice than to have an
ambulance at the bottom. We must
stop delinquency before it reaches
the stage of criminality.”
stage of criminality.”
Last year in Spulding county, the
judge pointed out, the juvenile ref
erees handled 32 cases including
burglary, rape and larceny. Eight
of the offenders were sent to train
ing school and 24 were placed on
probation.
Teen-age gangs, then, are not
common alone to the large cities.
Butts county parents and law en
forcement officers would do well to
take note of the alarming situation
in our neighboring counties. No long
er can we shrug our shoulders, and
ostrich-like bury our heads in the
sands of apathy, while juvenile
crime lies latent and menacing in
our community. Only by vigilance
and sterner discipline at home can
we escape reaping the whirlwind. It
can happen here.
The Progress-Argus is in receipt of
a letter from Mrs. Fred Hammond,
president of the Butts Home Demon
stration Council, endorsing the Traf
fic Safety program in our county.
The appalling traffic deaths on our
roads and highways is one of the
foremost problems presently facing
our state. The Home Demonstration
Council is to be commended for their
resolute stand on this grave matter.
Copies of the resolution were sent the
Butts County Commissioners and the
Butts County Ordinary. Let us hope
that the sum total of an aroused citi
xenry can somehow mitigate against
the' needless slaughter.
This June weather in February
has the old timers baffled. An 84-
year-old Jacksonian said Saturday
that in his lifetime he could not re
call a similar spell of weather be
fore in the middle of winter. With
fruit trees, flowers and shrubs bud
ding and vulnerable to the next
freeze, which is sure to come, most
folks are already writing off the
fruit crop due to the freakish heat
wave.
The Last Straw
By VINCENT JONES
Occasionally some otherwise well
intentioned member of the Georgia
Legislature, his mind befuddled by
the cross currents of opinion and
pressure that shape his thinking,
comes up with a measure that re
flects his mental confusion in its sen
seless application to the problem he
would correct.
Such a measure, in our opinion, is
one recently introduced in the State
Senate that would prohibit the ad
vertising of intoxicating whiskeys
and liquors in the state’s newspapers.
Obviously, the bill’s author has been
impressed by statistics revealing the
ever-increasing amount of alcoholic
beverages consumed by his fellow
Georgians. Perhaps he has seen first
hand, as many of us have, the piti
ful, pathetic alcoholics who feel they
need a drink more than a breath of
In the hands of teen-agers partic
ularly, alcohol is a dangerous thing,
just as lethal and stealthy as a rat
tlesnake, offering them a sweet
promise with a sour taste, luring
them down paths of intemperance,
folly and degredation.
Alcohol is a poison. A little bit is
not fatal but a lot will kill.
But th’ sale of alcoholic beverages
in Georgia is legal. If it is legal to
sell them,' then it should be—and
certainly is legal to advertise them.
This newspaper holds no brief for
those papers in the state that accept
liquor advertising. As it is published
in a legally dry county, the editors
of this paper feel beyond any moral
consideration of the question —that
no liquor, wine or beer advertising
should be accepted, unless they are
to be an accomplice to those who
would violate the law.
But legally, they can see no bar
riers - nor believe that any should
exist—to restrain them from accept
ing such advertisements if they
, should so desire.
It’s not legally or morally right
for members of a Legislature to say
to the people of Georgia that they
can have whiskey in their own coun
ties if they so desire and then say to
newspapers of Georgia that they
don’t have the right to advertise that
product which their own Legislature
has established as a legal one.
Why should the advertising pro
fession be blamed for the lack of
moral fiber among members of the
General Assembly?
Anything that can kill is a poison.
Alcohol can kill. In the hands of a
small child, a bottle of whiskey is
just as dangerous as a bottle of io
dine.
But it is legal to sell whiskey in
Georgia, subject to each community’s
wishes. If it is legal to sell it, then
it is legal to advertise it.
Curtailing liquor advertising would
hurt only the consumer. Without ad
vertising to aid him in his liquor
marketing, the new consumer par
ticularly would purchase inferior
brands.
Most whiskey advertising is, after
all, designed to promote a certain
brand rather than to foster the drink
ing of the beverage among those who
do not yet imbibe.
To those who would cure the
state’s whiskey problems by curtail
ing the industry’s advertising, we
would suggest that the Legislature
first outlaw the product and then
pass legislation forbidding its adver
tise njent.
WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE LIKE
WOMEN
Because they have forms.
Because they are easy to read.
Because they always have the last
word.
Because back numbers are not in
demand.
Because they have a great deal of
influence.
Because they are well worth look
ing over.
Because they are thinner than they
used to be.
Because they are not afraid to
speak their minds.
Because every man should have
his own and not run after his neigh
bor's.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS. JACKSON. GEORGIA
STARK
MRS. HOPE McCLURE
Mrs. Mercer Hodges returned Fri
day from the Monticello Hospital
where she had undergone treatment
for several days, and had as her
guests Sunday Mr. and. Mrs. Millard
Hodges and children of Atlanta, Mr.
and Mrs. Leo Hodges of Milledge
ville, and Mr. and Mrs. John Robert
McMichael of College Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey White of
Birmingham, Ala., spent the weekend
with Mrs. W. A. White and Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd White. Mr. and Mrs. Dew
ey White had been called to Forest
Park earlier in the week on account
of the sudden death of Mrs. White’s
brother and her many friends here
extend sympathy.
Mrs. Oscar Cole of Jackson visited
Mrs. Willie Ruth Bankston last Sun
day.
Mrs. Betty Ruth Burlin has ac
cepted a position as typist with an
Atlanta insurance company and com
mutes daily.
Mrs. Doyle Brady of Macon spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. Morgan.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Cook and
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mitchell visited
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Avery Cook in
Jackson Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Cawthon and
children of Forsyth, Mr. and Mrs.
Earnie Hcign of Atlanta, Mrs. Grace
Cawthon and daughter, Linda, of
Jenkinsburg, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Hilton Cawthon Sunday.
Miss Fleetie Cook spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cook in
Jenkinsburg.
CARD OF THANKS
I want to express my appreciation
to all those who remembered me with
cards, visits, flowers, and prayers
while I was in the hospital and since
returning home. Thank you for being
so thoughtful and kind. —C. D. Ed
wards, Jr.
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INDIAN SPRINGS
MRS. W. A. HOARD
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Mrs. Bessie Bryans visited Mrs. S.
L. Austin and Miss Georgie Watkins
last week. Mrs. Bryans is with her
niece in Macon.
Miss Pat McMichael of Macon
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. McMichael.
Mrs. J. E. Cornell spent most of
last week with her sister, Mrs. Paul
Baker, in Atlanta.
Miss Jackie Childs of Forsyth
spent Sunday with Miss Willene Holl
oway.
Mr. A. V. Reeves, of Savannah,
visited nis sister, Mrs. Hattie Cook,
over the weekend.
Mrs. Margaret Grier, Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Brown and children of Macon,
visited their brother, Bob McMichael
and Mrs. McMichael, of Anderson, S.
C., the past weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Griffith did not
move last weekend, but plan to move
this weekend.
The Dan Hoards will be home next
week.
Mrs. Evelyn Archer spent Satur-
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day afternoon at her home here.
Mrs. Horace Freeman spent last
week with her daughter and family
in Forsyth.
Lon Archer of Louisville was a
visitor here Monday.
Mrs. Andrew Hamlin is with her
daughter in Griffin this week.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957
CARD OF THANKS
Thank you, my dear friends, for
all the nice things you did for me
since I have been sick—the cards,
letters, nice trays of food, and love
ly flowers I have received. They all
made me very humble, and I thank
you sincerely.—Mrs. M. G. Finney.
Here’s for food that hits the
spot, served at table or
counter.
Breakfast at 7:00; Regular Dinner at 11:00
Try us once and you’ll be back. Come in today!
Glidewell’s Restaurant
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