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Jackson Progress-Argus
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J. D. JONES PUBLISHER
(1908-1955)
TINCENT JONES Publisher
DOYLE JONES JR Editor
Entered as second-dess matter si
tbe Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
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IT’S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES JR.
TIME magazine recently pointed
out in a special report that weekly
newspapers are the fastest growing
publications in the United States.
TIME cited the fact that adver
tising volume in the weekly press has
increased, that the editorial stand
ards have improved and that the
wage scale for weeklies is now high
enough to lure trained newsmen from
the cities.
Seniors graduating from our high
schools throughout the country can
well and wisely consider weekly
newspaper work as a career. As
TIME implies, salaries in the weekly
newspaper field are good. Publishers
long ago threw out their cigarbox
methods of doing business, and are
now operating their plants on a fin
ancial statement basis.
In the past twenty-five ye'brs or
so, the county weekly has pulled it
self out of the blacksmith shop stat
us. Its - place of business no longer
assumes the black, gloomy atmos
phere of a coal mine. The country
weekly is no longer a sweat shop
operation. It has taken on a profes
sional bearing. Its work is highly re
spectable and dignified. Its publish
er and his staff are well paid for
their efforts.
More than that, country journalism
is a challenging, inspiring field of en
deavor. In no other work is one’s
thumb so close to the public pulse.
In no other work has a person so
much opportunity to do good for his
community. In no other work has a
person the opportunity to sway pub
lic opinion toward things that are
right and good.
What is so special about the week
ly newspaper? What gives it this ex
clusive, inside track into public
thought? The weekly newspaper is
close to its people. Thats the big
reason.
It records virtually every import
ant event in the lives of its readers
and in the history of its community.
A child is born. The doctor handles
the delivery and the newspaper an
nounces the event. A young man and
his sweetheart are married. The par
aon handles the ceremony and the
newspaper handles the publicity. And
when a person dies, the newspaper
chronicles his life history.
And between each of these ulti
mately important occasions, there are
a hundred and one other events in
an individual’s life that are recorded
in the weekly press. When that per
son buys or sells a business, when he
celebrates an anniversary, when he
takes a long trip—yes, even when he
is invited to a neighbor's home for
a dinner party, the newspaper men
tions it.
These are the things that weld a
newspaper to its community. These
are the reporting jobs of a news
paper.
Then there is the crusading that
a newspaper does. Some people
would say that this phase of juornal
ism brings a newspaper even closer
to its public. When a dedicated
group of people want a needed pro
ject accomplished in the community,
to whom do they first come for that
badly needed element, support? They
come to the newspaper. .
Whether it is a drive for a swim
ming pool, anew auditorium, stfeet
improvement, Red Cross or polio
funds, or a campaign to raise funds
for a family that has burned out or
suffered some other calamity, it
seeks newspaper backing for com
plete success. Yes, indeed, there is
opportunity to do much good in the
field of country newspapering.
Why should a high school senior
consider small town journalism as a
career? There are many reasons, but
they can be summed up briefly.
First of all, a person wants to
make a decent living. This he can do
and better—in the country news
paper field. Salaries are good in the
country weekly. There is plenty of
opportunity for advancement, and
plenty of opportunity—if you have
the courage and ambition —for own
ership of your own newspaper or
management of a newspaper for an
other person.
And country newspapering is a
natural jumping off point into wider
fields of endeavor. There is no bet
ter training for a free lance writer
than a whirl at country weeklies.
The same holds true for a person
who wants to get into the high speed,
highly paid field of advertising writ
ing. From country reporting to radio
writing there is a natural and easy
transition.
And certainly there is no more
likely sptinboard into politics, than
a stint at editing or writing for a
country weekly. But suppose you get
into the country weekly field and
decide- to stay there. Then what?
You’ll get a deep and lasting satis
faction out of doing your job well,
because you can tell so easily when
you are doing a good job. You’ll
gain stature and position in your
community as time goes on. You’ll
feel you are a true and significant
part of your community. You’ll meet
all the interesting people who come
to your town, and you’ll have ample
opportunity to go out of town to
meet equally interesting people.
You’ll live a life that is full to the
hilt, busy and inspiring—and you’ll
enjoy it all.
If any of you are seriously con
sidering journalism as a career, you
have one of the finest schools of
journalism in the world, right in your
own back yard.
The school of journalism at the
University of Georgia is a top rank
ing training spot for writers and re
porters. You can have no better re
commendation, scholastically, than 4
good rating from Georgia’s school of
journalism. The regular course is
four years, with some practical train
ing in the field as part of the curri
culum.
The field of journalism is un
crowded in fact, there is a
crying need for writers in every
branch of it, including country week
lies. The demand for journalists is
increasing much faster than the sup
ply. The journalism school at the
University has between 100 to 150
calls per year for journalism gradu
ates to fill jobs that are open for
them. Last year the school of jour
nalism graduated fifty-two seniors,
only one-half enough to fill the de
mand.
Here is a growing field that is un
crowded, well paying, highly interest
ing, with countless opportunities for
advancement. You will do well to
consider* country newspapering as a
career.
I have sevei - al brochures on jour
nalism that I will be glad to give to
any seniors who are interested, and
I will be glad to try to answer any
questions any of you might ask, if
you want to come in and talk with
me.
CHARLES COKER WINS
MILITARY HONOR
Friends of Pvt. Charles F. Coker
will be interested to learn that he
was named the “Outstanding Sentry”
of Cos. D, Second Training Regiment,
Fort Jackson, S. C-. according to a
letter received by his family from
John D. Townsend, Col., Inf., Com
manding.
The letter states that Coker’s
selection was “based on military
bearing, neat appearance, leadership
abilities, knowledge of basic military
principals, high moral character and
alertness to duty.”
Pvt. Coker is the son of Mr. and
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
The Last Straw
By VINCENT JONES
The alarmists who foresee only
dissolution of Georgia’s small towns
as an end result of the soil bank
program have not considered, to par
aphrase an old axiom, that what is
one town’s poison may be another’s
meat and drink.
With nearly one-third of the
state’s 903,000-acre cotton allotment
currently in the soil bank, and with
nearly one-half of the state’s 159
counties already having shown pop
ulation losses in the period from 1940
to 1950, there is cause for concern
over the state’s changing pattern of
agricultural economy.
Already, the events of the future
are beginning to cast their shadows.
A migration of farm laborers, partic
ularly Negroes, to neighboring cities
or to Eastern and Northern Negro
capitals is now a certainty. But the
movement will not be in wholesale
lots. It will not be as large as first
predicted.
Businessmen in community centers
and county-seat towns will miss the
$75-sloo the more industrious Negro
families were able to earn weekly
during cotton picking season. Sales
will slump. But there will be new
sales opportunities for the alert and
the aggressive businessman.
It has been estimated that for every
$1 paid to farmers under the soil
bank program, at least $3 would be
withdrawn from the state’s economy
in reduced demand for labor, equip
ment, seed, fertilizer, ginning and
lower retail sales resulting from an
impoverished labor force.
Hardest hit of the farming com
munities will be the small towns
built around a gin, filling station
and general store. As has been pre
dicted, some of them may become
ghost towns and fade off the face of
the map.
But the larger towns, like Jackson,
that have some balance of industry
and agriculture and enough human
and financial resources to attract
more of the former, should be able
with some foresight and planning to
make capital of another's adversity.
The people who leave the farm
because there is no work there must
have somewhere to go. Many of them
prefer a small town to a city if em
ployment can be found. Large, and
small, industries are daily seeking
areas where the labor force is ade
quate.
Many of the transplanted farm
workers are unskilled laborers, it is
true. But a man who can plow a
straight furrow can be taught to
operate a lathe. A woman who can
milk a cow can use the same hands
to sew a fancy seam.
Prosperity lulls a people into a
false sense of security. The merchant
who never had it so good begins to
feel that never again will he have
it bad. Talk of expansion, of the
need for additional industrial wealth,
is labeled as blasphemy of the pre
sent.
Adversity brings out the best in a
people. The need for concerted
action, for a larger per capita in
come for the community, for the at
traction of industries that will insure
job opportunities for those without
means of livelihood; these are the
tasks that now face merchants and
around which they rally with a com
mon sense of dedication that pros
perity could never bring.
Jackson is being challenged by the
soil bank program. So is every other
small town in Georgia, whose econ
omy is still basically agricultural, in
spite of industrial development.
Jackson can accept the challenge
and wrest victory from what would
seem to be obvious defeat. It has the
human character, the financial ability
and the spiritual quality inherent
within it to accept and successfully
meet any challenge that might be
hurled at it.
New industries, new payrolls are
the hope of Jackson. They can be,
they will be secured if our people
will accepts.the challenge, close ranks
and form a united front for pros
perity.
Mrs. Ralph G. Coker, Rt. 4, Jackson.
He entered military service early in
1957.
“IN MEMORIAM”
Our beloved sister, Mrs. Addie Tol
leson Bohannon, was called to her
eternal home in Glory on March 13,
1957. She was born in Butts county
July 17, 1896, and lived practically
all her life in Buttrill District. She
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Tolleson.
In her early girlhood she gave her
life to Ckrist and united with County
Line Baptist Church.
In 1916 she was happily married
to Mr. Felton S. Bohannon and in
1917 she moved her letter to Jen
kinsburg Baptist Church, where she
was a faithful member until her
death. Even though she was handi
capped with ill health for a number
of years, she always displayed her
Christlike characteristics of love,
joy, peace, long suffering, gentle
ness, goodness, and faith.
She was a devoted mother of four
children living and one dead, and
eight grandchildren. Her home was
established on faith in God and on
Christian teachings. Her life was a
shining example, both to her family
and to all whom were privileged to
know her. Be it therefore;
Resolved: That we express our
sincere sympathy to the family.
Resolved: That a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the family, one
copy to the Jackson Progress-Argus,
and that a copy be made a permanent
record in the minutes of the Jenkins
burg Baptist Church.
Committee on Resolutions:
MRS. T. H. PRICE
MRS. T. R. SIMS
MR. H. W. APPLE
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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1957