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Jackson Progress-Argus
J. D. JONES PUBLISHER
(1908-1955)
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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES JR.
Jest of the Week: A group of
men were having orange juice
and cookies in the recovery room
of a Red Cross Blood Center aft
er donating blood. One of the
men in the group was an Indian,
and in the course of the conver
sation someone asked him what
tribe he was from.
“I’m a member of the Shawnee
tribe,” he replied.
“Are you a full-blooded Shaw
nee?” came the next question.
“Well, no,” admitted the In
dian. "Right now I’m a pint
short.”—Ties.
Perhaps one of the most puz
zling aspects of modern day poli
tics to the average citizen is how
Robert F. Kennedy who resides in
Virginia and votes in Massachu
setts can qualify and run for the
post of United States senator
from the state of New York.
If long established customs and
traditions can be so brazenly
flaunted and the Constitution of
the United States so loosely in
terpreted by a scion of the family
“with the magic name,” as poli
ticians say, then it can be done
for and by others and we might
soon have the sorry spectacle of
senators being elected from states
at large.
If Attorney General Kennedy,
with an admitted yen for the
senatorial seat from New York,
can run and presumably win in
the Empire state, why then can
not another covet a political of
fice in another state, qualify and
run? Such a dangerous and un
precedented move could result in
a political round robin if resi
dence is to be ignored.
What is to keep a politician
from Oregon or Massachusetts
coming to Georgia and running
against Dick Russell or Herman
Talmadge? Nothing—if this po
litical hoax is condoned by the
people of New York and finalized
with a Kennedy victory.
School is open! Hundreds of
children are daily crossing our
streets, playing in and near them,
riding bikes on them, and walking
along the sidewalks. It behooves
all of us to be especially careful
in our driving. A child can dart in
the road without the slightest
provocation and to an uncautious
driver this is the ingredient of
tragedy. Recently three pedes
trians, two of them children, were
killed in our county within a three
week’s period. So it can and has
happened here. Caution is the
watchword. Being sorry is too
little and too late after a child
is dead.
Jack Flynt Jr. of Griffin is
seeking his seventh term as Con
gressman. Six of these were
served from the Fourth District.
In the reapportionment of the
state’s congressional districts this
Spring, he is now in the Sixth
District and is seeking re-election
from this new district.
He is opposed by Frank Mad
dox, a Clayton County business
man who deals in real estate.
Though a political neophyte, Mr.
Maddox has campaigned hard
and while in Butts County last
week predicted some “surprises.”
Jack Flynt needs and deserves
your vote and support in the
State Primary of September 9th.
He is a tried and true friend of
our county and stands ready to
lend us assistance whenever
called upon. This has been evi
denced in one way by several
(iiipsl Editorial
THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
WHO SERVES WHOM?
The Constitution of the United States requires
only that a United States Senator be an inhabitant
of a particular state “when elected.” However, by
tradition if not by law, senators have been long-term
citizens of the states they represent.
As did Georgia’s distinguished Dick Russell and
equally distinguished Herman Talmadge, United
States Senators usually come up through the political
ranks in their home states. They know the people
and local leaders and have a familiar knowledge
of their state’s needs. Both Senators Russell and Tal
madge can walk down almost any street in Georgia
and call people by name. Georgia is a better state
because our two senators have followed this route;
we can imagine no other in this state.
Robert F. Kennedy lives in Virginia and until now
has voted in Massachusetts. Last May he himself
said, “All things being equal, it would be better for
a citizen of New York to run for the position (of
senator.”) The Griffin Daily News and most other
Americans quite agree.
We do not doubt Mr. Kennedy’s
sincerity of purpose or dedication
to public service. We do doubt
his qualification to represent a
state in which he never has lived,
and we do doubt that “the magic
of his name” as cited by Mayor
Wagner of New York City
strengthens his qualifications.
The United States has no titles
of nobility, no royal families. The
mantle of the older brother does
not fall with death upon the
shoulders of the younger. Tragic
though the end of the Kennedy
administration was, it did end
with the death of the late Presi
dent.
Already there is one Kennedy
in the Senate, brother Ted from
Massachusetts. If the people of
that state wanted to elect an
other, that would be their busi
Writer’s Eldest
Fares Well On
School Opening
BY BARBARA WISE
When school started Friday,
August 28, there probably has
never been as many apprehensive
people anywhere as those parents
who were enrolling a child in
school for the first time.
To be truthful, on that memo
rable day, I didn’t know whether
to cry or shout with joy. My
child who I had always considered
independent and perfectly cap
able of looking after herself
seemed mighty small and vulner
able on her first day of school.
Her slightly large stature, equal
to most third year students,
seemed to me to have shrunk to
almost infant size overnight. In
my mind’s eye I could see her lost,
frightened and thoroughly dis
gusted with teacher and school.
But the more cheerful side of
the picture also arose. Perhaps,
she’ll like school as her bright and
shining face foretold Friday
morning and we at least won’t
have anymore of this telephoning
back and forth from home to
work with the message, “Please
bring someone home with you at
lunch to play with me this after
noon—l’m lonesome.” Even if
she didn’t learn anything, I fig
ured she’d at least have plenty
of playmates at school.
All my worries went to naught.
Friday afternoon when I arrived
home a bouncing, bubbling and
very excited first year student
met me at the car. “Let me tell
you about school,” says she and
proceeded to do just that until
10 o’clock that night.
Her first day of school proved
very exciting. Her tickle box was
turned over about the little boy,
also entering school for the first
time, who tried to board the
bus on the side with no door and
appointments of outstanding local
boys to the service academies, all
of whom made exceedingly fine
records.
While it is conceded there is
little interest in the election lo
cally, bestir yourselves next Wed
nesday to go to the polls and vote
for Jack Flynt. We need to retain
him in Washington.
ness and they could do so. It
would be fine for the brothers,
but in our opinion not so good for
the nation. High office in the
United States is not a family in
heritance to be passed about and
split up among relatives like the
family linens.
In a small, fairly homogeneous
country like England it is accept
able practice for a Member of
Parliament to represent a con
stituency is which he does not
live. If America were smaller this
possibly could be true here.
But America is not, and there
is cause for even the most en
thusiastic friends of the Kennedy
family to ask whether Mr. Ken
[ nedy wishes to serve New York
jor whether it might be a case of
:New York serving him.
the other little boy who cried and
ate his crayons.
She demanded that I read care
fully all the instructions that had
been given to her to bring home
and also that she would need a
book sack just like the rest of the
class members.
By the time she got unwound
Friday night, we were ready to
stand three paces back and salute
her as a very important person.
We were also wondering why
in the world we ever worried
about her going to school!
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Looking
Backward
Through the Files
New* of 10 Year* Ago
Five bands, a fifty contestant
beauty contest, several floats, and
speeches by prominent persons
from across the state, climaxed
by a dance at the gym, music by
Piano Red, are among the high
lights of the observances of In
dustrial Day, September 22, spon
sored locally by the Butt® County
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Deaths during the week: John
Marion Greer, 91, one of the
county’s oldest and best known
citizens, died at his home in Flo
villa early Friday; Mrs. Sallie
O’Neal Grant, 72, widow of Doyle
Vernon Grant, died Wednesday,
August 18, in the Griff in-Spald
ing County Hospital; Lamar No
lan, 47, World War II Veteran,
died late Monday, August 23;
Master John David Reeves, three
month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Wayne Reeves of Jackson; Mrs.
Dixie Wingfield Carter Preston,
widow of the late Mr. A. G. Pres
ton, died at her home near Flo
villa Monday at midnight; the
death of Willie G. Morrison, 69,
noted Jackson citizen, but for
many years a resident of Daytona
Beach, Fla., occurred in a Day
tona hospital Tuesday morning.
The Towaliga Baptist Church
was the scene August 22 at four
thirty o’clock of the wedding of
Mrs. Betty Anne Weaver and Joel
Wayne Maddox of Corbin, Ky.
News of 20 Year* Ago
M. L. Powell, who has served as
Butts County Extension agent for
several years, this week tendered
his resignation, effective Septem
ber 1.
The Butts County Grand Jury
for the August term of Superior
Court, which returned the general
presentments and ad j o urned
Tuesday afternoon, recommended
that the County Commissioners
employ a county police force to
deal with the liquor traffic.
Esca H. Pace, 4.8 years of age,
Jackson alderman, widely known
business and civic leader, died at
his home on West Third Street
at 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
When the Jackson public
schools began the fall term Mon
day there was a total enrollment
of 381, larger than the total for
1943.
New* of 30 Years Ago
Anew ruling has been released
by Miss Gay B. Shepperson, relief
administrator for Georgia, relat-
ing to handling relief work in
Georgia. Able bodied persons who
refuse work will be taken off the
relief rolls.
Griffin, Ga. —An early fall and
a hard, cold winter, with a snow
storm on Christmas day, has been
predicted by A. L. Snider, local
weather prognostigator. He fore
casts frost for the last week in
October, a cold wave about
Christmas and snow on that day
to be followed shortly by another
frigid period.
Mrs. J. E. Lane, Butts County
Historian, brought to members of
the Kiwanis Club Tuesday night
some of her interesting experi-
I'.m'cs during her recent trip to
Europe.
The fall term of the Jackson
Public Schools opened Monday
morning under conditions that
promise a successful and profit
able year.
Two representatives of the
American Red Cross are spending
this week at the Butts County
CCC Camp for the purpose of giv
ing life saving demonstrations to
members of the camp.
New* of 40 Year* Ago
Mr. W. E. Merck, general man
ager of the Jackson Ice Corpo
ration since the establishment of
the plant in 1920, has tendered
his resignation to become effec
tive about September 10.
Plans are practicallly complete
for the celebration of National
Defense Day here on Friday,
September 12.
Following a period of ill health
extending over several months
and a critical illness of one week,
Mrs. J. R. McGough, 79 years of
age, passed away at her home at
Jenkinsburg Monday afternoon at
12:15 o’clock.
Farmers of Butts County who
planted peanuts are now begin
ning to harvest that crop. Despite
the two extremes of too much
rain, followed by a long dry spell,
peanuts are yielding well and the
crop, it is believed, will be better
than that of 1923.
CATTLE VOLUME HIGH
AT LIVESTOCK AUCTION
Middle Georgia Aug. 26 had a
run of 294 head of cows and 23
hogs:
Hogs topped $16.50.
! Heavy calves $18.75.
Stockers $19.00.
Beef cows $14.25.
Bulls $17.10.
Springers $190.00.
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