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Editorials
The Gap Widens Again
The second of the three Great
Debates between President Gerald
Ford and Democratic challenger
Jimmy Carter was certainly
greater than the first. And, unlike
the first, this round definitely went
to the contender.
The President stumped his toe
when he made the statement, and
even stuck with it under
questioning from a member of the
news panel, that Eastern Europe
was not presently under Com
munist domination. This certainly
must have been welcome news to
residents of Poland, Yugoslavia,
Hungary and other nations living
under the threat of the Russian
sword.
Jimmy Carter was more
poised in his TV demeanor, his
answers more direct, his prepara
tion more thorough and, in some of
his rambling passages about the
idealism this country needs, he
sounded for the world like a
reincarnation of John F. Kennedy.
Even his questioners seemed to
be won over by the brilliance of
some of his answers and their early
hostility was dropped in favor of a
more civil interrogation.
With almost three full weeks
left until the election, there is still
time for some more Carter
boo-boos, but he now seems to have
National Newspaper Week
This is National Newspaper
Week and why not? We have a
National Pickled Pigs Feet Week, a
National Prune Juice Week, and a
National Speak-To-Your Neighbor
Week. So why not one for the press,
which naturally has to create and
publicize its own, as there is no one
else to do the job for it.
Seriously, though, that great
author of freedom, Thomas
Jefferson, once said that he would
prefer to live in a nation without a
government rather than one
without newspapers. Strong words
from a man who was not even a
newspaper carrier as a boy.
Hopefully, the newspapers of
this land do still serve as the voice
of freedom and the guardian of
liberty. Your newspaper helps to
keep you free. Free to keep
informed about the things essential
to your job, your special life, your
home and your family welfare.
Free to keep informed on all
things which you must know to
participate in the progress of your
Words To Live By
The 6 most important words: I
admit I made a mistake.
The 5 most important words:
You did a good job.
The 4 most important words:
What is your opinion?
The 3most important words: If
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regained his confidence, and his
more aggressive manner left the
President’s TV presence shaken.
Long ago, when people all
across the nation were asking,
“Jimmy, Who?” we went way out
on a limb and forecast him as the
leader of the Democratic ticket,
with Gov. Jerry Brown, of
California, as his running mate.
Now, we predict the gap has
closed as much as it ever will and a
peek into the crystal ball reveals
Jimmy Carter as the next
president by a margin of from
six-to-eight percentage points.
The President simply has too
much against him. Watergate, the
economy, the heavy Democratic
margin in Congress, in state houses
and city halls, his blunders in the
TV debates and his reluctance to
admit them, even when his
questioners and the TV audience
know his facts are not right. He
comes across as a good, honest
man, trying to do a good job, and
deserves the loyalty and support of
his adherents.
But he lacks the charisma of
Carter and if Carter turns it on in
the third debate as he did in the
second, then the previously
suggested victory margin may
prove to be way too low.
community and your country. Free
to deny tyranny, intolerance or
insidious gossip--to uphold and
support the principles of justice.
Free to use your voice in a “letter
to the editor.”
Free to get behind the forces of
truly democratic government
locally and nationally and work
with all your might for its
perpetuation.
The newspaper you read is not
only the mirror of the world you
now live in; it is the sculptor of the
world your children will have, as
the result of your putting to good
use the knowledge you gain from it.
And its advertising columns
are an ever-flowing cornucopia
from which you may pick your
needs and fulfill your fondest
wishes for a life of contentment and
comfort.
A nation without newspapers?
It would be rather dull, wouldn’t it?
For, without editors, who else could
possibly make all of those silly
mistakes?
you please.
The 2 most important words:
Thank you.
The 1 most important word:
We.
The least important word: I.
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1976
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
One of the frustrations
a weekly editor constantly
faces is the choice of the
subject to be illuminated
each week by his deathless
prose.
The options are limitless.
There are so many things,
good and bad, happening in
the world that the selection of
a single topic becomes
difficult.
Is this the week to write a
tongue-in-cheek expose of the
reason President Ford stum
bles down steps and bumps
his head on airplane doors?
How can an athlete well
enough coordinated to play
major college football be so
awkward? Isn’t he really
trying to make a ploy for the
sympathy vote of those over
50 whose footing is not as
nimble as it once was?
Or is it time to poke some
fuh at the Carters, who know
how to walk peanut rows in
Plains but can’t keep their
feet out of their mouths when
away from home? Threaten
ed with loss of the Catholic
vote on the abortion issue, a
Carter son attacks the
college degrees, and inte
grity, of Billy Graham. You
can’t get elected in this
country with the Catholics
and Baptists against you.
There just aren’t enough of
the rest of us to do the job.
The Carter interview with
Playboy magazine offers
interesting possibilities.
Lusting is a word given to
individual interpretation and
the question is not so much
whether God will forgive
Jimmy for his mental pangs
of anguish in this area, as it is
whether the American voters
will forgive his stupidity in
getting lured into the
Playboy trap.
Animals offer unlimited
possiblities for personal
columns. Of course, your own
make better subjects, since
you are better acquainted
with their quirks and foibles.
For instance, in ye editor’s
own humble abode dwell two
interesting cats, Alice, the
long-lived, now 20V2 years
old, and Yellow -Boy, of the
one eye, who when he gets a
black patch over his recent
ly-removed eyeball, should
be the topic of cat conversa
tions on the South side for
years to come.
What good would it do to
tear into BART, the San
Francisco rapid transit
system that has already been
declared a failure, with
beautiful facilities and few
passengers, after years of
construction and hundreds of
millions of taxpayers dollars
have been spent? Could
anything short of a major
earthquake stop MARTA,
Atlanta’s own excursion into
subterranean folly, from
making the same mistake?
Weather columns are al
ways read, no matter how
nonsensical they may be.
People are always interested
in prophecies about the
coming winter, and they base
their forecasts on inconse
quential things, such as the
d’TC'ion the caterpillar
moves -n when crossing the
street. Or how wooly he is. Or
how long and thick the
squirrel’s tail is. Or the
number of fogs that August
brought, each of which is
supposed to signal a January
snow. Those of us who have
watched such signs for years
know they are not foolproof,
but really are old father’s
tales passed on to their sons
to show their vast compre
hension of the unknown.
Remember when columns
are popular, but only with
those who have lived long
enough to remember when.
We imagine they turn off the
younger generation, who
have about as much under
standing of your personal
reminiscences as you may
have of their taste in today’s
popular music.
Columns on Americanism,
motherhood and apple pie
are well received.
So you see editors have a
world of subjects to write
about. It’s just some weeks
they have difficulty deciding
which subject to explore.
| A Stroll Down
Memory Lane |
News of 10 Years Ago
Mrs. Jeanette L. Nors
worthy, George T. Harkness
and William Riley Thaxton
have been honored at
ceremonies at the Atlanta
Army Depot for their
performances on the job.
Miss Judy Weaver, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
Weaver, Jr. has been
selected for membership in
the Wesleyan College Glee
Club.
Fire of undetermined
origin destroyed a large barn
filled with fresh hay at the
Cork farm of R. M. (Jack)
Smith on Friday afternoon.
Miss Valerie Thompson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Thompson, was given a
surprise party by her parents
on her ninth birthday at their
home on Highway 16.
Mrs. Oren Gunn of Jackson
was casually watching TV
when she saw her son, Billy
A. Smith, appear at a ground
breaking ceremony for the
new Pryor Street Tower.
Deaths during the week:
Boyce F. Smith; Mrs. W. W.
Varnedoe.
News of 20 Years Ago
Joseph E. Slappey has
been hired as teacher-coach
at Jackson High School. He
will teach math, bookkeeping
and business arithmetic,
while serving as assistant to
head football coach Henry
Powers.
Shirley Hooten, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Hooten, was one of the five
finalists at the 4-H Club dress
revue at the Southeastern
Fair. The five finalists were
not ranked and each was
awarded a Savings Bond.
Angelyn Sims, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Sims,
and Andrelyn Cook, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cook,
each won second place in the
4-H Club poultry show.
James Wingate, Herbert
Cochran, and Billy Biles will
show their pigs at Sears Pig
Chain Show in Macon on
Saturday.
Miss Marilyn May, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
May, and a freshman at the
University of Georgia, has
been pledged to Chi Omega
sorority.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Willie Mae Wynn, 74.
News of 30 Years Ago
It now seems certain that
the Butts County Freezer
Locker Company, Inc. will be
opened within the next few
days, after a series of
unavoidable delays.
Prior to September 16th,
Butts County had ginned 235
bales of cotton as compared
tc 229 bales at the same time
last year.
Miss Nettie Rose O’Neal
became the bride of Philip F.
Finnegan on Saturday after
noon at St. Anthony’s Church
in Atlanta.
The Jackson Woman’s
Club will meet Friday at the
Clubhouse with Mrs. W. G.
Barnes, Mrs. Horace O’Neal
and Mrs. M. C. Johnson as
hostesses.
The Stark Home Demon
stration Club met last Friday
at the home of Mrs. Emory
Meadows. Miss Elizabeth
Hood, home demonstration
agent, showed lovely aprons
and others gifts which can be
used for Christmas gifts.
Deaths during the week:
Perry Greer, 47.
News of 40 Years Ago
Through October Ist, Butts
County had ginned 1,919
bales of cotton compared to
3,142 bales to the same date
in 1935.
O. E. Smith, real estate
agent, announced the sale of
42 acres owned by the J. M.
Leach Estate on the High
Falls road to E. S. Settle for
SSOO.
Senator Richard B. Russell
Jr. was the main speaker
Thursday night at the Butts
County 4-H Club Fair. His
address was made in the
courthouse before a capacity
audience.
The marriage of Miss Ina
McMichael and Mr. Thomas
Evans Watkins was an event
of recent date.
The Indian Springs P.T.A.
announces that a Halloween
Carnival will be held at their
school, with Miss Sara
Fletcher and Miss Elizabeth
Padgett directing.
Vincent Jones, University
of Georgia freshman, was
one of 50 freshmen out of a
class of 600 to make the honor
roll in the intelligence test
given all entering students.
Of the 50, there were 19 boys
and 31 girls.
Deaths during the week:
Miss Sara Elizabeth Higgins,
69; James Moore, 15.
News of 50 Years Ago
Mrs. G. D. Head has been
named chairman of the
Flower Show for the Butts
County Harvest Festival on
Friday, October 29th.
Eiseman’s Dept. Store was
having its opening sale, with
full cut overalls priced at
SI.OO and Big Boy and Uncle
Sam work shirts for 95
cents.
Allen Grocery Cos. was
selling 3 lbs. pure coffee for
89 cents.
Macedonia Baptist Church
held its first centennial on the
second Saturday in October.
Among the contestants for
Queen of the Harvest
Festival were Miss Ruby
Moore, Miss Mary Frances
Wright, Miss Lollie Car
michael, Miss Elizabeth
Currie and Miss Janie Lee
Hardy.
J. M. D. Bond, Butts
County Game Warden,
named as deputies F. E.
McClendon, G. A. Singley, J.
A. Burford, A. H.Lavender,
J. W. Mayfield, Homer
Harris, Paul Mackey and
John Hamilton.
Deaths during the week:
Walter T. Nelson, 74; Mrs.
Violet Estell King.
STATEMENT OF
OWNERSHIP
Statement of Ownership,
Management, and Circula
tion required by Aci of
Congress of October 23, 1962;
Section 4369, Title 39, United
States Code, of the Jackson
Progress-Argus, published
weekly at Jackson, Ga., for
October 1976.
State of Georgia, County of
Butts
Martha Griffeth Jones,
who having been duly sworn
according to law, deposes
and says that she is the
owner of the Jackson
Progress-Argus and that the
following is, to the best of her
knowledge and belief, a true
statement of the ownership,
management, circulation,
etc. of the aforesaid publica
tion for the date shown in
above caption, required by
the Act of October 23, 1962,
Section 4369, Title 39, United
States Code, printed on the
reverse of this form to-wit:
That the names and
addresses of the publisher,
editor and managing editor
are:
Publisher, Martha Griffeth
Jones; Editor and Managing
Editor, Vincents. Jones; and
owner is Martha Griffeth
Jones.
That the known bondhold-
mom
~ By Mrs. Cindy Brown
THINGS THAT ALWAYS
GO TOGETHER
1. Crying babies and rainy
days.
2. Empty pocketbocks and
bargain sales.
3. Half-made cakes and
empty egg cartons.
4. 2 children and 1 prize in
the cereal box.
5. Doctor’s appointments
and crowded waiting rooms.
6. Flat tires and low
spares.
7. Chewing gum and
children’s hair.
8. Addressed letters and
empty stamp containers.
9. Picture making day at
school and dirty faces.
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DRIVING IN THE RUTS
I can remember the time when we did not have modern
overstate highways. In fact, most of the roads that were used
were not paved. They were either gravel roads or simply dirt
roads.
When it came a rain, cars traveling down a gravel or dirt
road would make ruts. The wheels of the first car would
leave ruts, and the next car would travel in those ruts and
make them deeper. Then, each successive car would travel in
Those same ruts.
Now, ruts are both good and bad. Some cars that followed
'he ruts would get stuck. But some cars would make it
'hrough because they followed the ruts.
Life is a lot like that - traveling in ruts. And, as we said
earlier, ruts are both good and bad. It all depends on the ruts,
how well we follow them, and our response to them.
Too often I have heard the phrase, “I’m in a rut” to
describe something bad. It could be used equally as often to
describe something good. But, man’s mind being what it is, it
more often denotes something bad.
“I’m in a rut of loving.” Nothing bad about that. For it is a
grand way to live. In fact, it is when we leave the rut of loving
'ha ! life loses some of its meaning.
Many of us think that when our lives get in a rut it is a bad
thing. But that isn’t necessarily so. We get up in the morning,
go to work, come home, go to bed. Then the next day, we do it
all over again. And we sometime think that is bad. But did you
ever stop to think what life would be like if it didn’t work that
way. if there was no consistency in life?
What if we couldn’t count on the sun shining as
consistently as it does? What if the seasons came and went
vvi’hout any consistancy? What would life be like if we should
have winter for three days, followed by summer for three
hours, followed by fall for three years? Certainly life could
not exist in such a topsy-turvy world.
So, again I say it - there is something good about ruts.
They aren’t always bad as we have often supposed.
There is such a thing as the “RUT OF GOOD LIVING.” It
involves loving, and giving, and forgiving, and helping, and
many more good, positive virtues. Personally, I feel it is a
good rut to be in.
We don’t have many gravel and dirt roads left to travel in
"day. Perhaps there is something allegorical about that.
Perhaps modern civilization has left some of the ruts which
made for good living.
We, as much as we would often like to, we cannot turn
the clock back to our childhood. Those days are gone, gone
forever. But the ruts worth following are still with us today.
We can still travel those ruts and even leave them for our
children and our children’s children.
And that, my friend, in the final analysis is what life is all
abou’.
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By Ruth Bryant
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Dear Lord,
Today, let me pray to you
Today, Let me say to you.
“Today let me walk with you
Today let me talk with you,
Today let me teach for you
Today let me reach for you
Today let me give for you
Today let me live for you!"
Bless all thy people, Lord, today
In Jesus' blessed name I pray!
Amen
10. Wash days and rain.
11. Half-prepared meals
and uninvited guests.
12. Rain and umbrellas left
at home.
13. Vacations and car
trouble.
14. Sunday school and
mismatched socks.
15. Presidential broadcasts
and your favorite TV show.
16. Telephones ringing and
sleeping babies.
17. “Fallen” cakes and
Birthdays.
18. Homework assignments
and PTA meetings.
19. Sick children and clocks
that read 1.00 A.M.
20. Love and Peanut Butter
Sandwiches.
‘Whatsoever
Things’
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