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Guest Editorial
BY VINCENT JONES
In spite of our avowed intellect and
logic, the human species occasionally
seems bowed down by the weight of those
perverse forces in nature that make our
self reliance so unreliable.
Who among us cannot subscribe to
the theory of the perversity of inanimate
objects? Why does a cuff link, or a
needle, or a piece of change falling to the
floor always have to secret itself so well
that only the most diligent search can
bring it forth?
Could we not safely assert then
that any inanimate object accidentally
dropped possesses a perverse spirit that
enables it to hide from view?
If we can, then we can call that
Jones’ law out of respect, or disrespect,
for its author.
This is just the first law of the
universe that governs human actions
that comes to mind. Each of you readers
must have your own. If so, send them in,
and in a later column we will publish
them and perpetuate your fame by your
establishment of a rule that might benefit
others of less discernment.
Lord Falkland laid down a strict
rule for excessive action, one often
quoted by the late President John F.
Kennedy, to wit: “when it is not
necessary to make a decision, it is
necessary not to make a decision.”
One of the best-known laws of all
time, of course, is Murphy’s law, “if
anything can go wrong, it will.”
Equally well-known, and almost as
universally true, is Gumperson’s law,
which states that “the probability of any
happening is in inverse ratio to its
desirability.” Think on that one some day
when you are hoping it won’t rain on your
picnic.
A similar law, well stated by labor
leader Lane Kirkland and known
therefore as Kirkland’s law says that
“the usefulness of any meeting is in
inverse proportion to the attendance.”
Timely Tips
For Farm And
Home Owners
By
I MILLARD
DANIEL, JR
IBtU County
. Extension
Agent
DOGWOOD PLANTING
If you plan to plant
dogwoods this year, your
local county Extension Agent
has some advice for you. In
fact, this advice is good next
year or whenever you plant
dogwoods.
I recommend that you
plant your dogwoods in a
moist, fertile loam soil that is
high in organic matter.
Their primary demands
are good soil drainage
and protection from dry
weather. Planting in areas
where water does not drain
away readily will usually
result in the tree dying. Also,
if the dogwood is planted in
Eric Sevareid of CBS is given
credit for discovering Sevareid’s law,
“the chief cause of problems is
solutions.”
The Army takes the credit for the
old axiom that, “an order that can be
misunderstood will be misunderstood.”
Even the erudite take part in this
exercise of cataloging human behavior
patterns, as witness the motto of
University of South Carolina president
Dr. Thomas Jones who advises that
“friends may come and go, but enemies
accumulate.”
The late John McNaughton, an
expert on bureaucratic red tape, once
said that “any argument must be
capable of being expressed in a single
simple declarative sentence that is
obviously true once stated.”
Some Jones, not this one, gets
credit for Jones’ law which states that,
“the man who can smile when things go
wrong has thought of someone he can
blame it on.”
Alan Otten of The Wall Street
Journal staff, quotes NBC’s John
Chancellor on the veteran British
diplomat who had a favorite way to take
down a pushy or egotistical junior. The
diplomat would call the younger man in
for a heart-to-heart talk, Mr. Chancellor
relates, and quite often, at the end of the
talk, would say, “Young man, you have
broken the Fifth Rule: You have taken
yourself too seriously.” That would end
the meeting—except that invariably, as
the younger man got to the door, he
would turn and ask, “What are the other
rules?”
And the old diplomat would smile
serenely and answer, “There are no
other rules.”
So don’t take yourself too seriously
as you give us the benefit of some of your
own humorous, or half-humorous,
observations of human foibles and the
mysterious laws which seem to govern
our actions.
poorly prepared clay soil, it
can be expected to have very
slow growth. Add organic
matter such as peat moss,
leaf mole, decayed sawdust,
ect. to the plant area when
you plant dogwoods.
It’s best to plant dogwoods
in association with other
trees that provide moderate
shade for the dogwoods. If
you wiil look around, you’ll
find the dogwood growing as
an understudy tree in forests
of hardwoods and pines
Don’t plant dogwoods in
dense summer shade,
though, because they will not
flower properly.
For more, information,
contact our office.
GARDEN SOIL TESTS
If you’re going to have a
garden to brag about, you’d
better get your soil tested
now. To soil test you need to
take samples from different
areas of the garden. About
one pint should be enough for
the laboratory to do a good
analysis.
Do not take the sampling
from one spot. The test will
not be a true indication of
the entire plot.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
You can get a soil test bag
from your county Extension
office. Return the sample to
us for processing. I will
notify you of the results and
make fertilizer recommen
dations for you. Allow two to
three weeks for the results to
be sent back.
Having vour soil tested
won’t guarantee a high-yield
garden, but it will certainly
increase the chances. With
the costs of fertilizer as high
as it is, it only makes sense
not to guess how much
fertilizer you need. A soil test
will determine what you need
without guessing. For further
information call 775-2601, or
come by our office in the
courthouse.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank each and
everyone who was so
thoughtful to remember me
with flowers, cards, your
prayers, and phone calls
while I was a patient at the
Coliseum Park Hospital and
Sylvan Grove Hospital.
Mrs. W. E. Waits.
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THE HARD-TO-TAKE THINGS
“Everything that has happened to me here has been a
great boost in getting out the Good News concerning Christ.”
What kind of things was Paul referring to when he penned
those words? Well, when we read those words we must
remember that Paul was a prisoner in jail. Previously he had
been shipwrecked, beaten with a whip for thirty-nine lashes
three times, stoned and left for dead, and in general spent his
entire ministry striving against tremendous obstacles. With
those facts in mind it is easier to realize what Paul was
speaking of when he wrote. He was referring to the upsetting
things, the disturbing things, the heartbreaking things, the
hard-to-take things.
We can all sympathize with Paul at this point, for those
are the very type of things we encounter ourselves. Life goes
smoothly for a time, and then one of those hard-to-take things
we dread happen. We don’t get the promotion we thought we
deserved, we suffer some tragic accident, our business
suffers a financial loss, life deals us a hard blow. None of us
are exempt from these hard-to-take things. And, too often,
they are heart-breaking things.
Sometime we feel like the man who wasn’t feeling well
and went to see his doctor. After being examined, he asked
the doctor: “What’s my trouble, Doc?” “Well,” said the
doctor, “let’s put it this way. If you were a building you would
be condemned.”
Or perhaps we can feel for the man who died after
living a life of hard-to-take things. His wife talked to him in a
dream. “Are you happy now?” she asked. “Very happy,” he
replied. “Happier than when you were on earth with me?”
she asked. “Indeed, very much so,” came the reply. After a
pause, she asked him another question. “Tell me, darling,
what is heaven like?” Quick as lightning came the reply?
“I’m not in heaven!”
Maybe we even feel like the fellow in the War
Production Board office who had to work two hours overtime
everyday to get his work done. He noticed another man across
the office who always got off two hours early. One day he
walked over to the man and asked him how it was that he
managed to get off two hours early each day. The man told
him that in an outfit as large of the one they worked for there
was always someone named Captain Smith. “Two hours
before quitting time I simply write on all unfinished
correspondence: ‘Refer to Captain Smith.” The man who
worked overtime proceeded to take off his coat and roll up his
sleeves. “Good buddy, you can prepare for a fight. I’m
Captian Smith.”
Paul learned a great secret in life. He discovered how to
take the hard-to-take things of life and not only endure them,
but make them work in his favor. How much we need to learn
that secret. How was Paul able to do it? Well, in a few key
ASIcS
The Agricultural Conser
vation Program (ACP) in
Butts County will be funded
at $19,304.00, Marion D.
Todd, CED, reported. Re
cently announced by the
Butts County ASCS Office,
the program is designed to
encourage the application of
enduring soil and water
conservation practices on
farms.
“The objective of the
program is to obtain needed
conservation on farmlands
beyond that which the
farmer would accomplish
with his own resources,”
Todd said.
The program is administ
ered by the Butts County ASC
Committee. Cost-sharing is
authorized at 50 percent of
the average cost of carrying
out approved soil, water, and
woodland conservation prac
tices. The county ASC
committee is responsible for
identifying the critical farm
conservation problems and
developing and approving
This letter is to give notice
that I have given serious
consideration as to whether
or not I would be a candidate
to succeed myself as Probate
Judge of Butts County for
another term. I have come to
the conclusion that I would
like to retire from this high
and honorable office of which
you, the good people of this
great county, have so highly
honored me with. Therefore,
I will not be a candidate in
this year’s primary and
election.
I hereby wish to express
my grateful appreciation to
the people of Butts County,
for their support and their
wonderful cooperation which
has been an inspiration to me
of great magnitude. I have
‘Whatsoever
Things'
By Donald E. Wildmon
News
practices for cost-sharing on
a priority basis. The 1976
program for Butts County
contains practices primarily
to meet a definite need
to: establish long-lasting
vegetative cover; improve a
long-lasting vegetative
cover; establish or improve
stands of forest trees;
conserve and safely dispose
of water and give protection
against soil erosion.
The cost-share level for low
income farmers is 80 percent
of the average cost of
performing approved prac
tices.
Applications for ACP cost
sharing may be made at the
county ASCS office which is
located in the basement of
the courthouse. Applications
must be filed before per
formance of a practice is
started.
Eligibility for participation
in all programs administered
by ASCS is established under
law without regard to race,
color, sex, religion, or
national origin.
enjoyed serving in this office.
I would like to let my
intentions be known at this
time, so that anyone desiring
to run for this office will have
ample time to enter the race.
Although I am retiring
from public office, I will not
be retired from the many
things I would like to do. I
intend to devote some time to
my cattle and timber farm,
some time to fishing in my
lake, some time with my
family, children and grand
children, and more time to
my church and my Lord,
among the many other
activities that I intend to be
engaged in.
L. J. Washington
February 23. 1976
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1976
verses in the first chapter of Philippians he gives us the clues.
I believe that if we can catch those clues and build our lives
around them that we, too, can make the hard-to-take things in
life pay us dividends.
One of the most important secrets Paul had to say was
this: “I am going to go on being glad.” Paul didn’t say: “If
things go the way I want them to go, then I’m going to go on
being glad.” No. He made an unqualified statement. “I am
going to go on being glad.” Paul had lived long enough to
realize that things don’t always turn out as we desire. Some
things in life have a way of going wrong. Take the case of the
men who ordered a federal government publication entitled
“Handbook For Emergencies.” He carefully noted the title
and the number of the pamphlet, 15,700, so he would be sure to
get the right one. Two weeks later 15,700 copies of the booklet
arrived!
“I am going to go on being glad.” Paul had accepted the
fact that life wasn’t always going to go as he decided. But at
the same time he had made up his mind that he was going to
take whatever life dished out to him and use it to his
advantage and to the glory of God. What a magnificent
attitude!
You don’t have to live long before you discover that the
major issues of life aren’t decided on a battlefield, or at the
ballot box, or even at the pay window. No, life’s major issues
are decided on the inside of the individual. Several years ago I
wrote myself a note and filed it away. Occasionally I read it
again to remind myself of a great truth. The note is a very
simply one. It reads: “Life’s biggest problems are personal
problems.” The largest, most trying problems you have to
face are the problems inside of you—personal problems.
“I am going to go on being glad.” Nothing in life can
keep you from being glad unless you are willing to allow it to
do so. Asa youngster I had a good friend that I played
“Uncle” with. “Uncle” was a game in which one person tried,
by force, to make the other person say the word “uncle”. I
could always get the best of my friend physically, but he was
so stubborn that I could never make him say “uncle.”
Nothing can keep you from being glad if you are bound and
determined to be glad.
Paul had a dream of taking the Gospel to Spain. But he
never realized that dream. He never got any farther than
Rome. His dream died in a Roman prison. How many of us,
because of some unforseen and unexpected event, will never
realize our dreams, never be able to fulfill some of our most
cherished plans? Life is full of broken dreams, of hard-to-take
things. Anyone not cushioned for crushed dreams and
hard-to-take things isn’t prepared for life.
On one occasion Paul wrote: “I have learned to be
content in what ever state I’m in.” If you make up your mind
that you are going to take anything life has in store for you
and make the most of it, then you are prepared for life. Life
has plenty of bad things, bad news in store for us. Take the
case of the man who always wanted to be sick but never was.
He went to the 20th doctor. “I’m afraid I have bad news for
you,” the doctor said. The man’s face perked up, even gave a
trace of a faint smile. “Yes, I have bad news for you. I can’t
find a thing wrong with you.” Even those who enjoy being sick
sometimes get bad news!
“I have overcome life,” Jesus said on one occasion.
What did Jesus mean by that? He meant that He was ready to
rise above anything which came His way, ready to use
whatever happened to His advantage and to the glory of God.
Even a cross.
“I am going to go on being glad.” That is the first part
of Paul’s secret.
Agronomists
To Speak Here
March Ist
All Butts County corn and
soybean farmers are invited
to attend a very informative
meeting on corn and soybean
production.
The program will be
brought by two Extension
Agronomists from the Uni
versity of Georgia Extension
Service Dr. Jim Miller,
Extension Weed Service
Specialist, and Dr. Ben
Kittrell, Soybean Specialist.
Dr. Miller will discuss the
latest information on weed
control for corn* and soy
beans, while Dr. Kittrell will
be discussing site selection,
land preparation, variety
selection and fertilizer re
quirements for soybean
production.
The meeting is open to all
who desire to attend. All
farmers are urged to attend
this meeting which will be
held March Ist at 7 p.m. in
the Civic Room of the C&S
Bank of Jackson.
YOUR
FRIENDLY
NEIGHBORHOOD
DRUG STORE
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SERVICE
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“On the Square”
W I HI L
You can make a room seem
warmer by adding a bench
and a cherry-colored cushion.
LADS N’ LASSIES
SHELLY & ANDY
LLOYD
Shelly, 6 years old, and
Andy, 19 months, are
children of Mr. and Mrs.
Lonny Lloyd of Jenkins
burg.
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 riot 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 our
community of this very serious problem.
Weekly
Devotional
Rev. Peter A. Washington,
C.S.S.R.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Jackson
THE NEW ADAM
Through his encounter with
evil, Jesus set the stage for
an understanding of his
identity and his mission. God
said “Adam” (which is to
say, “man”) “Be my son.”
Adam answered: “No,
Lord!” Jesus came into the
world to right Adam’s wrong
- to restore man to sonship
and love with God.
Like the ‘old’ Adam, Jesus
is tempted to say: “no.” But
where men before him failed,
Jesus succeeds. St. Paul puts
it this way:
“Just as a single
offense brought condemna
tion to all men, a single
righteous act brought all men
acquittal and life.” (Romans
5:18)
Besides being the new
Adam, Jesus is the new
Israel. Old Israel wandered
for forty years in the desert
and fell into sins of
sensuality, presumption and
idolatry. Jesus, the ‘new’
Israel, relives ‘old’ Israel’s
history.
Like Old Israel, he travels
forty days in the desert
(symbolic of the forty years).
Like old Israel, he is tempted
to sin. But where they
faltered and failed, Jesus
succeeds. After each tempta
tion, Jesus cites the Book of
Deuteronomy, where the
three falls of old Israel are
recorded.
“Not on bread alone is
man to live but on every
utterance that comes from
the mouth of God.” (Dt. 8:3)
“You shall not put the
Lord your God to the test.”
(Dt. 6:16)
“You shall do homage
to the Lord your God; him
alone shall you adore.” (Dt.
6:13)
Jesus thus establishes his
identity and his mission: He
is the new Adam, head of a
new family of men. He is the
new Israel - head of anew
people of God. Jesus said: “I
am the way, the truth, and
the life.”
Jesus is: the whole truth
about God - the fullness of life
from God - the new way to
God.
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AMY BATES
Amy, 4 years of age, is
the daughter of Mrs.
Irene Blanchard of Jack
son.