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J. D. JONES PUBLISHER
(1908-1955)
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IT’S THIS WAY tM
BY DOYLE JONES JR.
Jest of the Week: An amiable drunk, clutching a Georgia pen
nant in one hand and a Tennessee pennant in the other, walking
disconsolately in the post-game gloom and drizzle of Sanford Field
Saturday afternoon, cutting loose with a stentorian cheer of “Roll
on, Green Wave, Roll on!” Puzzled glances turned his way with no
one able to explain his chant, unless of course he was a Tulane
adherent.
• • •
WERE NUMBER ONE!
The chant of “We’re Number One’’ is frequently heard this
time of the year around football stadia at Ohio State, the University
of Texas, and the University of Tennessee. Quite obviously all can
not be the number one team of these United States and since none of
the three play each other, it will probably never be decided to the
satisfaction of grid buffs which actually is the best team.
The problem of being number one is hardly applicable here.
Butts County/Jackson is Number One in the Stay and See Georgia
program, Class II (First Year Participants). It is the second con
secutive year that Butts County/Jackson has been awarded state
honors for first place. Last year we won it in the Newcomers classi
fication. This year we repeated and it’s good to be in the winner’s
circle again.
How then did we win when the competition is so keen and the
prestige is a community endorsement of purest ray serene? We won
because we had the leadership and direction at the program’s top
echelons. This year it was Robert Williams Jr. who chairmaned the
campaign and who deserves the plaudits. Last year it was Henry
Asbury who commanded our ship of state. There were able chair
men serving under them both years. This, coupled with the coope
ration of Mr. Average Citizen, the most important fellow in the
scheme of things, brought us victory again this year.
Over 1,475 people voluntarily, personally and unpaid partici
pated in the various phases of the program locally. They painted,
swept, mowed, erected signs, hauled trash, picked up paper, bottles,
cans and debris along roads and shoulders over the county. They
worked at any task assigned them, and had the finest cooperation
from city and county government officials that any community
could ask. It was the common denominator of civic pride, the fierce
desire on the part of all that Jackson and Butts County would again
be recognized as the finest town in Georgia in its category that
was the catalyst that turned our people on. Turned them on in a
great outpouring of community endeavor that impressed the judges
to such an extent that winning was a foregone conclusion.
Hard work and able leadership is a combination that is rarely
defeated. We had both in abundance and the facts concerning our
propram here was presented in such a way that it is a shame that
every resident of the county could not have been present the day the
presentation was made.
1-75 woke Butts County to the value of the tourist and the
ease with which his money is spent on things he wants. We have
become tourist conscious to a greater degree than ever before and
through our knowledge gained by the wave of “furriners” that
literally overrode our county for the nearly two years that 1-75
progri '- was halted at Forsyth, we have learned how to better
present our county, town and ourselves to those we have business
dealings with. It has helped us immensely in our commerce and
served to improve our image from Quebec to Key West.
Tremendous progress awaits Jackson and Butts County. Fab
ulous will be the word if the second Atlanta Airport locates in
Henry County. The Golden Years are ahead. We have learned to
put oui best foot forward, keep clean behind the ears, and win the
approbation of total strangers as they pause while traveling through
our town and county.
Jb We have the top town and county in Georgia. In the years
ahead we must continually strive to live up to the high esteem and
favor wg. of thuiSaigas. Can we count on YoO?
We know the answer. It w’ill be given with a ringing YES!
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
4uest Editorial
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL
PORNOGRAPHY
We admit that pornography does not excite us.
There are good reasons why pornography should
he kept out of the hands of children, but it is not our
business—and it isn’t anyone else’s —what an adult
American citizen reads or looks at.
What it boils down to is good taste, and good
taste is the sum of good education, proper upbringing
and an awareness of what is valuable and what is
not. We suppose most persons are curious about the
activities which pornography crudely depicts, but
curiosity is quickly satisfied because the range of
those activities is limited and the presentation in
pornography is hardly original or artistic.
i Denmark is the one country in
which censorship has been com
pletely eliminated. The Danes
generally are more cosmopolitan
than most Americans and so a
comparison may not be valid. The
smut business in Denmark does,
however, depend upon export
sales, its market at home having
failed to survive once the avail
ability of pornography made it
old hat. The Danes also report—
and we cannot say what the sig
nificance of the statistic is-—that
since censorship was lifted there
has been a 34 per cent decrease
in crimes with sexual implica
tions.
Well, an extension of that dis
cussion smacks too much of a
psychologist’s cocktail chatter.
There should be a serious study
made of the effects of pornogra
phy across the whole community.
This is a legitimate area for gov
ernment study.
Meanwhile, the government has
no business imposing reading and
viewing standards upon the peo
ple. If some Americans wish to
waste their time and money on
pornography—-it is their time and
their money. The state should
spend its time and money on
quality education and a broad
ening of cultural offerings.
Included in a well-rounded
school program should be intelli
gently taught courses on sex and
its rightful place in a human be
ing’s life. The person who under
stands the place of sex and is
not riddled by fear and frustra
tion is not likely to patronize
the neighborhood smut peddler.
He is likely to be a happier per
son.
PERSONAL
Friends of J. H. Bryant regret
to learn that he suffered a heart
attack Wednesday afternoon and
is a patient at the Griffin-Spald
ing County Hospital in the Coro
nary Care unit.
Mrs. Charles D. Moore entered
Emory University Hospital Mon
day afternoon for observation
and tests, her friends will be in
terested to learn.
Mrs. R R. Edwards was admit
ted to Sylvan Grove Hospital
early Saturday morning.
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PERSONAL
Miss Mary Ann Hunt and Bill
Jones attended the Georgia-Ten
nessee game in Athens Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Garland of
Macon spent the weekend at Jack
son Lake.
Messrs. Ben Garland and Rufus
Adams attended the Georgia-
Tennessee game in Athens on
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Asbury,
Kathy, Bill and Tracey attended
the Falcon-Rams game on Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ball and
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Ball attended
the Tech-Duke game in Atlanta
on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ball have
had as their guests for several
days the children of Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. McCrary Jr. of Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. McCrary were
called to Macon on account of
the death of Mr. McCrary’s
father, Mr. R. E. McCrary Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Briscoe of
Tarpon Springs, Fla. spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Bris-
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Mr. and Mrs. Asa O’Neal have
moved to town and are living at
633 McDonough Road.
Mrs. Willie T. Wade has been
in Atlanta several days with her
mother, Mrs. T. A. Akins, who is
a patient at Jesse Crawford Wil
liams Hospital. Mrs. Akins had
major surgery last week and is
recuperating.
Miss Chloe Hearn spent Tues
day night with friends in Coving
ton and on Wednesday joined a
group for a visit in Gainesville.
Ken Ashley Lunsford spent
several days last week in Grif
fin-Spalding County Hospital un
der the care of Dr. Lamar King.
He has returned home and is in
school.
Mrs. R. C. Riley Sr., Mrs. Jim
mie Long, Mrs. Bob Burpee and
Mrs. E. R. Edwards Jr. attended
a tea given by Mrs. Anne Austin
and Mrs. Charles Davis in McDon
ough for Miss Bettylyn Davis,
bride-elect.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest James at
tended the 50th wedding anniver
sary of some friends in Atlanta
on Sunday.
‘Whatsoever Things’
BY DONALD E. WILDMON j
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JUDGMENT
111 Once there were two farmers. One farmer
mU was a devout Christian. He was honest, fair, al
ways helping any who needed and allowed his
help. The other farmer had no use for the Way
of the Galilean. He cheated, lied, stole from his
neighbors. His one sole objective was to make
a dollar. How he made the dollar wasn’t too im
portant. Just that he made it.
There was also a local newspaper editor who was a very dedi
cated Christian man. He made it a point to try to lift up the good
news in his paper, to urge people to be fair and honest in all their
dealings. Once he wrote an editorial about the virtues of the Chris
tian life. He told his readers how much richer they would be if they
followed the Way of the Galilean.
Saves Editorial
The farmer who had no use for
anything that smacked of relig
ion read the editorial. It was the
middle of September when the
editorial appeared. The farmer
cut out the editorial and saved it.
Now both the Christian farmer
and the non-Christian farmer had
large crops of cotton in the field.
Both of them depended upon their
cotton crops for the largest por
tion of their income. So both
watched over and cared for their
cotton with utmost care. How
ever, when October came to an
end and the crops were all gath
ered, the farmer who had no use
for religion had twice as good
returns from the same amount of
land as did the farmer who treat
ed people fair and honest.
Taking the figures from his ex
tra good group and those from
the Christian farmer’s very poor
crop, the dishonest farmer sent
the editorial back to the news
paper editor along with a letter
explaining the stupidity of the
editorial. “October has ended and
the accounts are closed,” he
wrote. “I did far better than my
Christian competitor. You and
your God are stupid and silly.”
The Evil Prosper
Sometimes it happens that way.
The evil prosper while the good
suffer. There are many cases on
record of just such a situation.
It is true that the rain falls on
the just and the unjust and many
times it falls on the unjust farm
er while it misses the just farmer.
The Way of the Galilean is no
guarantee for financial success.
Folks coming into the fold think
ing that it is are quickly dis
appointed. They become angry
when they see the unjust pros
pering and the honest struggling.
A man named David, a Hebrew
king, once wrote that we should
“fret not . . . over him who pros
pers in his way, over the man
who carries out evil devices!” We
should follow the Galilean not for
what we can get from Him, but
for what we can give to His
Cause.
The editor of the newspaper
printed the dishonest farmer’s
letter. He then closed the article
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Don’t think the Judge has for
gotten the case just because He
delays His judgment. FIVE STAR
CARD OF THANKS
Dear Friends: Words complete
ly fail me as I attempt to put
into words what the many things
you have done for me and my
family have meant to us. We are
so humbly grateful for everything
—the visits, cards, calls inquiries,
flowers, food, but most of all
your prayers. To all the wonder
ful churches in the county who
had special prayer for me, my
heart has never been so touched,
and to Rev. Wiley Cameron, Rev.
R. W. Jenkins, Rev. S. H. Odom,
and Rev. Don Folsom for their
visits I am grateful.
To the members of my beloved
Florence Gresham Sunday School
Class for their gift of beautiful
shrubbery for our home, thank
you. I know that Butts County
is the greatest place on earth to
live and its people are second to
none.
Please continue to pray for me
as I continue my therapy. I can
only humbly petition God’s rich
est blessings on each of you. I
love you all.—Anne Lora Grant.
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THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 19 6 9
PERSONAL
Ricky Lewis, student at South
ern Tech, spent the weekend ■
home with Mr. and Mrs. G. p
Lewis and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Deen Strickland
of Columbia, S. C. spent f
weekend with her parents. Mr
and Mrs. Duvall Patrick, and Miss
Alice Patrick.
Pill Fletcher, student at North
Georgia College at Dahlonega,
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lovett Fletcl -
er.
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