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Guest Editorial
BY VINCENT JONES
“Boy, the Senate really popped it
to ole Roscoe Dean, didn’t they?”
“Yep, they shore did. Reckon he’ll
be more careful about what he writes in
the future.”
“Whatdo you mean?”
“Well, you know, they censored
him, like they usta do our letters back in
wartime.”
“Oh, no, you idiot, they didn’t
censor him, they C-E-N-S-U-R-E-D him.”
“What’s that?”
“Noboby rightly knows what it is.”
“If nobody knows what it wuz they
did to him, why did they do it?”
“Evidently they felt like they had
to do something, and this was the least
they could do.”
“Why do you think they had to do
something?”
“The taxpayers are getting
restless and they don’t relish the idea of
public servants playing footsie with their
tax dollars.”
“I understand that. I paid $26.44 in
state income taxes last year and I don’t
want nobody fooling around on my
money. Tell me, though, have you ever
been C-E-N-S-U-R-E-D?”
“Not since I was in the first grade
and Miss Annie Lou McCord censured
me.”
“Did you have a trail before the
class like Roscoe Dean?”
“Oh, no, Miss Annie Lou didn’t
believe in trying six-year -olds before a
jury of their peers.”
“Whadda cha do?”
“I got caught dead to the rights
playing marbles for keeps. Miss Annie
Lou liked to see us play marbles for fun,
but for keeps was a sin and an
abomination.”
“What kinda censure did you get?”
“A rap across cold knuckles held
THOUGHTS
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! ’ BY EILENE MILAM
Butts County Extension
Home Economist
By Eilene Milam
SELECTING
GRAPEFRUITS
Grapefruits are a good food
for adding vitamin C to your
breakfast. How can you tell
which grapefruits to buy?
Look for firm, heavy fruit
and buy one that has a fairly
thin skin. Thin-skinned fruits
have more juice than
thick-skinned ones. If the
grapefruit is pointed at one
end or has a rough or
wrinkled skin, it is usually a
thick-skinned one.
Avoid any grapefruits that
have soft, discolored areas.
If it only has skin defects
such as scars or throw
scratches, it should still be a
good grapefruit.
CAKE FLOUR
SUBSTITUTIONS
TELEPHONE 775-3107
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BUTTS COUNTY AND
CITY OF JACKSON
tight across an oak desk with the hardest
ruler man ever made.”
“Boy, that musta smarted.”
“I tell you one thing, it hurt lots
more than Roscoe’s censure did.”
“But Miss Annie Lou was a great
teacher.”
“No doubt about it, the finest
teacher and one of the finest people I ever
knew.”
“Will Roscoe’s censure amount to
anything?”
“Yes, I reckon it will. I doubt if
there will be a single padded or false
expense voucher filed by a legislator this
year.”
“What about next year?”
“Let’s just take one year at a time
and not look for miracles.”
“I kinda believe, though, you’re
proud of what the Senate did.”
“I am, sorta.”
“How proud?”
“About as proud as a stepfather
would be when his stepdaughter, living
with him, gave birth to her tenth child.”
“Boy, that’s some proud.”
“I am, however, proud of the only
female member of the Senate, Mrs.
Virginia Shapard of Griffin.”
“And what did she do?”
“It was she who introduced the
censure resolution."
“Oh, yeah, and I read where
somebody said she was the only man in
the Senate who could have carried if off.”
“That , was probably written by
some male chauvinist.”
“Whattinheck is a chauvinist?”
“That’s a person who is biased
towards his or her own sex and that’s the
reason I like Virginia, she belongs to my
favorite sex and she has spunk to boot.”
“I’ll say amen to that. Well, see
you around.”
If your recipe calls for cake
flour and you are out, what
can you use? Substitute one
cup unsifted all-purpose flour
minus two tablespoons for
one cup sifted cake flour.
STORING RIPENED
CHEESE
Ripened cheeses (Cheddar,
Gouda, etc.) keep best, if
stored under refrigeration. A
rind or wax coating is
designed to protect cheese
surfaces. Once the cheese is
cut, it is important to keep
the surface from drying out.
This may be done by
buttering the exposed edges
or by storing the cheese in a
plastic wrapper. For serving,
most cheese is best if served
at room temperature. It
should be removed from
refrigeration at least 30
minutes before serving.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Progress-Argus
Honor Roll
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Subscription* Of
Tbe Past Few Day*
Effie Jewell Coleman,
Jackson
Mrs. Carl Robinson, Ma
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Mrs. Zeke Yow, Magee,
Miss.
Mrs. T. S. Bryant, Collins,
Miss.
Mrs. John Kirkham, Jack
son, Miss.
H. A. Hackworth, Decatur
Miss Lois Stroud, Hatties
burg, Miss.
Mrs. C. M. Hanna, Jeffer
sontown, Ky.
Mrs. Geo. Cochran, Athens
Mrs. J. A. Gaines, Bain
bridge
Mrs. Walter Alexander,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mrs. R. L. Waller, See
konk, Mass.
Virgil L. Bryant, Jr.,
Sanford, Fla.
J. T. Bryant, Avondale
Estates
Miss Georgie Watkins,
Jackson
Miss Delia Watkins, Jack
son
Robert B. Watkins, Mari
etta
Mrs. Olanbaker, Macon
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By Donald E. Wildmon
OVERCOMING OUR INFERIOR FEELINGS
Overcoming our inferiority feelings. Let’s move
another step into the problem. Never put yourself down. Too
often, those who think of themselves as being inferior will
never allow themselves to be anything other than inferior.
One person, when it was suggested that they enter a certain
kind of work, replied: “I can’t do that. I don’t have a college
education!” And yet thousands of people make an excellent
living in that particular line of work who never set foot in a
college.
We said earlier that you must accept yourself with your
limitations. You must do that. But the tragedy is that many of
us place limitations on ourselves which are wholly
self-imposed and have no relationship to our abilities. It is a
terrible waste of our God-given talents to squander our
abilities by not using them because of our feelings of
inadequacy or inferiority. Don’t place any self-imposed
limitatons on yourself. It is indeed difficult to do anymore
than you believe you can do, or be anymore than you believe
you can be.
Continually putting oneself down because of a sense of
inferiority does one thing quite well-st destroys the person
who practices it. One of the largest obstacles a handicapped
person has to overcome in conquering their handicap is to
learn to rise above self-pity and the temptation to deny
themselves opportunities because of their handicap. The most
destructive handicap one can have is a handicap of the mind
which continually tells us that we can’t.
Let’s go a step further. Be willing to give credit to
another when credit is due. Giving credit to someone else
doesn’t belittle you, or make you inferior. In fact, it does the
exact opposite—it makes you a bigger person. Unwillingness
to admit that another is superior to you, when indeed they are,
only perpetuates your feeling of inferiority. I’m sure you
remember the fable of Aesop about the fox and the grapes.
The fox saw the most luscious grapes on a vine, but he could
not reach the grapes. No matter how hard he tried, the grapes
were beyond his reach. Finally he walked away saying to
himself: “Anyone can see that those grapes are sour,
anyway.” They were sour only because he couldn’t reach
them.
Don’t belittle those things which others do better than
you. Give credit where credit is due. Don’t say the luscious
grapes are sour simply because they are beyond your reach.
Another step in overcoming a feeling of inferiority is
that of linking yourself to a great cause. You would be
surprised how much this will help us, this identifying with and
participation in a great cause. Moses forgot his inferiority
feelings when he linked himself with the movement to free his
people.
Abe Lincoln felt like a total failure in life at age forty,
but then he became connected with the cause of freedom for
the slaves and rose above his inferiority feelings. When you
become interested in a greht cause you tend to forget your
weaknesses and call on hidden resources which you didn’t
even know you had. You become bigger than yourself because
you are involved in an effort bigger than yourself.
The Little Town
Is Where . . .
(Editor’s note: The following was taken
from a 90 second version of the popular T.V. and
radio editorial, “Paul Harvey Comments.”)
A little town is where everybody knows what
everybody else is doing . . .
But they read the weekly newspaper to see
who got caught at it.
In a little town everybody knows every
neighbor’s car by sight and most by sound —and
also knows when it comes and where it goes.
A little town is where, if you get the wrong
number, you can talk for fifteen minutes anyway
if you want to.
In any town the ration of good people to bad
people is a hundred to one.
In a big town, the hundred are
uncomfortable.
In a little town, the “one” is.
A little town is where businessmen struggle
for survival against suburban shopping centers
Where they dig deep to support anybody’s
worthy cause . . . though they know “anybody”
shops mostly at city stores.
The small town policeman has a first name.
The small town schoolteacher has the last
word.
The small town preacher is a full-time
farmer.
The small town firemen take turns.
Why would anybody want to live in one of
these tiny “blink-and-you-miss-it towns”?
I don’t know. Maybe because in the class
play there’s a part for everybody . . .
In the town jail there’s rarely anybody.
In the town cemetery, you’re still among
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G.
Amerson, Miami, Fla.
Mrs. W. H. Pettigrew, N.
Augusta, S.C.
Jim R. Lyons, New
Matamoras, Ohio
IN MEMORIAL
In loving memory of my
father, Sherrod C. Biles, who
passed away 15 years ago,
February 14, 1961. - Nellie
B. Kinard.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1976
Masonic Lodge
February 14
There will be a called
communication of St. John’s
Lodge No. 45 F&AM on
Saturday, February 14, for
the purpose of conferring the
Master’s Degree. All quali
fied Master Masons are
invited to attend. The Lodge
will open promptly at 7:30
p.m.
Harold Plummer, W.M.
D. Richard Ballard, Sec.
Weekly
Devotional
Rev. Peter A. Washington,
C.S.S.R.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Jackson
We move on in our
condsideration of God’s
‘word’, of his revelation of
himself to us. The Scriptures
are God’s ‘second word’ to
man. They have been aptly
described as the ‘word’ of
God in the ‘words’ of men.
The ‘word’ of God in
Scripture is communicated
to us more through action
than through talk.
God frees his people from
slavery in Egypt. He guides
them through the trackless
desert. He instructs them
through famines and wars. In
other words, God did not
merely say he loved them.
He showed he loved them. He
did not merely say sin is
wrong. He showed it was
wrong. The ‘word’ of God in
Scripture is communicated
to us more through events
than through decrees.
This is not to say that the
commands and precepts
found in the Scripture are not
important. They are. The
commandments given by
God to Moses on Mount Sinai
are for all men at all times.
The “events” recorded in the
Scriptures prove this.
The Bible is not a book. It is
a library of seventy-two
books. It is not a series of
factual history books, but a
theological history. The men
whom God inspired to write
these books did not intend to
catalogue history - they
intended to interpret it. They
probed beneath the surface
of historical events and
penetrated to the deeper
meaning - what God was
telling men through these
events.
Just as the universe, the
‘cosmic word’, was God’s
first ‘word’ to man, so the
Scriptures, the ‘inspired
word’, were God’s second
‘word’ to man.
The ordinances of the Lord
are true,
all of them just.
Let the word of my mouth
and the thoughts of my
heart
find favor before you,
O Lord, my rock and my
redeemer. Psalm 19
Almighty God, you have
spoken to us through the
Scriptures. Grant that we
may hear your inspired
word, learn from the events
that you ordered, and heed
the precepts that you have
given us. We ask this through
your Word made flesh, Jesus
Christ our Lord.
Relatives, Friends
Attend Funeral
R. W. Watkins, Sr.
Relatives and friends from
out-of-town attending the
funeral of Mr. Richard
Wright Watkins, Sr., January
31st, at the Jackson Pres
byterian Church were Mrs.
0. A. Hood of Jefferson, Mrs.
James A. Ash of Gainesville,
Mr. and Mrs. Benson Ham of
Forsyth, Mr. and Mrs.
Hampton Daughtry of At
lanta, Mr. and Mrs. James
Traylor of Smyrna, Miss
Almeda Ballenger of Atlanta.
Miss Sallie Clark of
Decatur, Misses Gussie and
Lilia Goss, Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Price, all of Locust
Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Aiken of Covington, Mr. Jack
Smith of Monticello, Mrs. T.
A. Lane, Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Crittenden, William and Tom
Crittenden, of Birmingham,
Ala.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert B.
Watkins, Donna, Barbara
and Caroline Watkins of
Marietta.
PERSONAL
Miss Peggy Evans of
Augusta spent last weekend
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Evans.
Mrs. W. T. Pelt and Mrs.
Otis Stepens visited Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Bunn of
McDonough Thursday of last
week.
To the People of Butts County
I am a person of great
concern. There is a banquet
coming up next week that
will honor students of highest
academic achievement. Also
three awards of outstanding
poeple in Butts County:
Outstanding Young Man,
Outstanding Young Farmer,
Outstanding Young Educa
tor. But as in the past I am
worried that very few people
of Butts County will be
represented.
In the past years about the
only people there were
students to be honored,
parents of the students,
teachers that thought they
may have a chance of being
Star Teacher, and school
officials plus Jaycees who
both work hard to bring this
program to the public. If the
community clubs didn’t turn
out in force, the banquet
would be a total failure.
TEACHERS These stu
dents are products of your
skills in teaching them. So
the least you could do is take
pride in what you have
accomplished and honor
these students.
PEOPLE OF BUTTS
COUNTY Likewise you have
an obligation to these
students and young people.
Both have accomplished a lot
in their short lives and need
your support and good
wishes.
I hope I have made myself
clear on this issue. I wanted
to tell you the way I felt about
it and what I would like to see
happen. To see you at the
Jackson High Elementary
School lunchroom, February
17th, 7:oo p.m. Butts County
has a poor reputation of
attendance to affairs of this
kind and I would like to see
this reputation change. If I
have made anyone mad, I do
not apologize, but to keep the
record straight no other
Jaycee or school official had
anything to do with this
letter. I take full responsibi
lity.
Donald W. Thaxton
Jaycee Chairman
Star Student Banquet
(Editor’s note: This letter
is in response to a statement
in The People’s Forum of
January 29, in which Butts
County Sheriff Barney
Wilder said of hand gun
registration, “I believe that
any hand gun selling for less
than SIOO should be made
illegal; 90 percent of the
killings are made with cheap
guns.”)
As an interested citizen
and member of the N.R.A. I
receive several magazines
on hunting and guns; certain
federal, state, and city crime
reports, certain copies of
Senate and Congressional
Bills, newspapers, and I’ve
attended state hearings and
have been on TV on the gun
control subject. And to my
TIP Program Back
The City is reinstituting their TIP Program.
TIP stands for Turn In Pusher. The TIP line
number is 775-2121.
Anyone having information regarding drug
abuse in any way is asked to please call the TIP
line number. When you call, please do hot identify
yourself; any information you give will remain
confidential. You will be given a number and
asked to call back and give this number when you
have heard that the person or persons you called
about have been arrested. A reward will be given
to you and delivered to any location that you name
and no one will try to find out at anytime who you
are. Please note that the reward is paid for arrest
and not conviction.
This program worked very successfully in
our community in the past and with your
cooperation, it can work again. Donations of
money for this program come from concerned
citizens, merchants, civic clubs, industries and
other sources and not from any City funds.
We would greatly appreciate your
cooperating with us in helping to rid cur
community of this very serious problem.
knowledge I am the most
informed county citizen on
gun controls and legislation.
There are more than 20,000
gun laws on the books right
now across the U. S. that
have not, will not, and cannot
stop criminals from commit
ting crimes. Furthermore
law enforcement officers
can’t even uphold the laws
already on the books much
less any new ones.
It is against the law to sell
a gun to a minor, or for
convicted criminals or men
tal incompetents to own
guns; or for anyone to own
sawed off shot guns, machine
guns, or silencers unless they
are federally registered and
taxed at $200.00 each per
year.
Since the beginning of time
it has been against the law to
murder, steal, and rape. But
to your knowledge has the
mere presence of a law
against these crimes ever
prevented them from hap
pening? NO AND they
won’t either! The ONLY way
to eliminate crime is to
eliminate criminals, either
by reforming them into
productive citizens, locking
them up, or putting them in a
grave.
If people would get off of
gun control and get on
criminal control maybe
something constructive
towards curbing crime could
really show some results.
The first 10 amendments to
The Constitution is called the
“Bill of Rights.” They were
meant to protect the citizens
from government harass
ment. And the second
amendment (The Right To
Keep And Bear Arms) is our
only real protection against
losing these rights. There are
several bills pending in our
own state and in Washington
ranging from registration to
complete confiscation of all
guns except from the police
and the military. In which
the latter would leave the
public defenseless against
crime and police or military
harassment.
Barney’s belief of a SIOO.OO
minimum cost would only
deny the poor his right to
bear arms by pricing them
out of his range while not
affecting the rich or the
criminals.
I own several hand guns
ranging in price from a free
gift up to $120.00. One of them
cost less than SIOO.OO new and
I will guarantee it is as
strong, safer, and more
accurate than any hand gun
being used by any of our
county law enforcement
officers on duty.
Per the news article
enclosed and other informa
tion; Barney Wilder’s state
ment is illogical and untrue.
June, Mamie, and Denny
gave more logical answers.
Thanks for your time.
Jackie Rooks
Rt. 1, Box 257A
Locust Grove, Ga. 30248