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Editorials
A Prophet With Honor
A prophet is not without honor,
save in his own country, saith the
Good Book. But there are
exceptions. Sometimes a man can
look into the future and foretell that
the harebrained schemes of his day
will become the excesses of
tomorrow. Witness such a man.
And such a prophet.
“We are accustomed to say
that men learn by experience, but
it is far more true that men have no
experience of their own nor can
they use the experience of others
until it is too late.
This is equally true of nations
as of individuals. Every nation, as
every individual, runs to ruin in
pretty much the same way that all
others before them have run.
To popularize themselves the
Roman rulers were accustomed to
make large gifts to the people; and
the more they gave the more
people wanted them to give. At last
their gifts could do nothing to bring
peace and prosperity to the nation.
Our own country is now taking
the same course, and will reach the
same result. Great schemes of
relief are devised for distributing
funds to the people, who are
declared to be in great need.
But there is no country in the
world that possesses as abundant
resources as our country posses
ses, and no land under the sun
where industry rightly directed
falls short of the needs of the
industrious.
As it was in the Roman
commonwealth the large sums
given to those claiming to be in
need and unemployed will cause
them to demand larger sums; and
there will come a time when their
demands cannot be met. Then they
will cry as did the Roman citizens,
“give us bread and games, or
revolution will follow.”
There is a delusion that the
Civil Government has somewhere
a mysterious and miraculous fund
from which to draw all manner of
money for those who cry most
vociferously for it.
But the government has not
money which it does not get from
the people, and if great sums are
given to one class they have to be
taken from the other class.
In the end we reach the point of
revolution. It is now time for
needless schemes of relief to be
abandoned and the people exhorted
to go to work and live by
self-respectful industry.
The cities are overcrowded
because men are seeking to escape
toil. As the country became
depopulated the large cities
became overcrowded. Such was
the case in ancient Rome.
There is today in our land
abundant territory in which
profitable farming can be conduct
ed, or at least good livings made;
but multitudes are flocking to the
cities hoping they can find
compensation without work and
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toilless support by the Govern
ment. Multitudes should go back to
the country instead of depending
upon support by the Civil
Government.
The springtime is now on when
crops should be planned and labor
devoted to fruitful efforts.
But as long as relief schemes
maintain thousands of people, the
state-supported multitudes will not
go back to the country. They will
remain in the cities where relief
will give them maintenance and all
manner of diversions will furnish
them entertainment.
There must be a return of the
people to the soil or distress will
overtake multitudes and disaster
befall the nation
The divine decree, after the fall
of man, was that by the sweat of his
brow he should live.
But now multitudes wish to
change that decree and make it
read by the sweat of other people’s
brow we will live. This seems to be
a selfish view that the Almighty
never designed, and which can
never bring peace and prosperity
to a nation.
If a man can make a living now
more easily than during any
former time in the history of our
country, let him devote his leisure
time to doing good to others instead
of seeking alms and assistance
from others.
No man can be self-respecting
who constantly holds out his hands
for doles from the public treasury.
No matter how well meant such
doles may be they will ultimately
lead to dire results.
The sick and suffering must, of
course, be relieved; but the idle
who are not sick must be left to
suffer or sent to work.
It in no sense belongs to the
Civil Government to degrade itself
to the level of a charity and relief
association. There is too much of
that sort of thing all over the land.
The evil disposition commun
icates itself to the legislative bodies
who vote the public funds to all
sorts of needless objects. Unneces
sary appropriations relieve no
thing, but damage everything.
Often appropriations are de
signed to win political favor and
secure public office.
The Roman rulers gave large
gifts to win public favor and
modern demagogues do the same.
It is an easy thing to vote away
funds contributed by other peoDle
by enforced taxation. Any observ
ant man can see around him many
of these vicious appropriations and
note their evil effects.”
Who was this prophet? The late
Bishop Warren A. Candler who
made the prophecy on May 9, 1937
that the United States was in the
process of becoming a welfare
state and, like the Rome of old,
headed for the collapse that
excessive taxation and subsidized
idleness would bring.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
Among the myriad of finer
things lost, including our
youth, in the past 40 years,
has been the front porches of
the pre-war homes with their
inevitable swing.
It seems literally that front
porches were a casualty of
the war, their former
occupants having marched
off to war and returning to a
different life and architec
tural style.
Some of the more fortunate
homes still have a front
porch with a wooden swing
with its rusty chain and
happy children there still
while away the twilight
hours and listen to the family
small talk punctuated by the
swing’s rhythmic squeak.
In the days before air
conditioning, front porches
were almost a necessity. The
children created their own
air currents by the swing’s
movement and mother and
dad in adjoining rockers
basked in the breeze and
used the occasion to cement
family ties.
The front porch was an
excellent training ground.
Parents schooled their child
ren in moral conduct, good
manners, respect for their
elders, appreciation of
material and spiritual bless
ings and many of the kindlier
virtues of life. Thrice blessed
were those whose philosophy
of life was shaped in such a
favorable environment and
who did not have to search
today’s TV programs to find
a moral code of ethics.
In the warm, late summer
afternoons, after supper, if
there were no gardening
chores to perform, the family
would adjourn to the front
porch. Their neighbors did
likewise and the squeaking
swings would drown out the
chorus of little night things’
songs arising from the
shrubbery.
The children, anxious for
one last fling at play in the
gathering dusk, would ask
permission to whistle up a
crowd under the street lamp
and there, under the safe,
benevolent gaze of parents,
would skate, bike, or make
plans for a snipe hunt for the
new boy on the block.
The front porch, along with
the front parlor, was a
recognized courting place. A
porch swing squeaking late
at night was an almost
certain indication that the
neighbor’s girl was enter
taining her beau. Little
supervision was required for
children of that era were
taught to behave themselves
and most of them did.
For the most part un
screened, the front porches
were a haven for king sized
mosquitoes and assorted
bugs and beetles would
assault those who dared to
turn on the light and attempt
to read the evening paper.
This invasion would usually
result in some muttered
words and a great slapping
and stomping as the family
fought its inevitably losing
battle against the insect
horde.
On the still, warm nights
after dark the lovely notes of
a piano played by a talented
neighbor would waft down
wind on the evening breeze
and the family would listen to
a musical concert that would
have thrilled even the
sophisticates in Carnegie
Hall.
The younger boys, with
feet dusty and bare, would
catch the fireflies when they
zoomed low to the ground—a
sure sign of rain according to
the old folks—and put
hundreds of them in a Mason
Jar and watch their lights
blink on and off like a modern
neon sign.
The old front porch, a relic
of the past, an expensive and
unnecessary adjunct to
modern homes with their air
conditioners and closed wind
ows. but a part of the
American past that is
grievously missed by anyone
who ever watched a mother
stand on one and call her
children home at dusk.
Who knows, with energy
short and the pace of life
slowing down, maybe the
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A Stroll Down
Memory Lane
News of 10 Years Ago
Indian Springs Park Super
intendent Frank McMichael
says that approximately
1,000 tons of sand have been
poured to create a 350 foot
wide, 75 foot long beach at
the lake of this popular
resort.
Betty Chappell, of Worth
ville, has a White Rock hen
that lays decorative eggs, the
last two being embossed with
a sunflower.
Don Montgomery has been
elected president of the Butts
County Jaycees, with Ham
mond Barnes, first vice-pres
ident.
The Upper Ocmulgee Eco
nomic Opportunity Commis
sion has received $40,204. to
begin a Head Start program
for 180 pre-school children.
Mrs. Hazel T. Bradley, the
former Miss Hazel Thurston,
of Jackson, has been named
Acting Postmaster at
Adairsville.
The FHA and FFA had
their annual Mother-Daught
er, Father-Son banquet at
which Kathy Mackey was
named the FFA Sweetheart
and Albert Smith the FHA
Sweetheart.
Deaths during the week:
Lee Olin Brook, 73.
News of 20 Years Ago
Jackson High will graduate
53 seniors on May 27th.
Valedictorian of the 1957
class will be Miss Natalie
Lang, daughter of principal
and Mrs. N. F. Lang, and
salutatorian will be Miss
Nancy Singley, daughter of
Mrs. L. D. Singley and the
late Mr. Singley.
Coggins Furniture Com
pany has announced it will
move from its present
location on the East side of
the court square to the old
Indian Springs school house
near the City of Flovilla.
Mrs. Cynthia Davis, Butts
County HD agent, announces
these winners in the 4-H Club
muffin contest: Vivian Cook,
Ann Adams, Carol Maddox,
Dianne Turner and Joyce
Morgan.
Levi J. Ball, secretary of
the Peperton Cotton Mills of
Jackson, has been named to
the board of directors of the
Coiton Manufacturers As
sociation of Georgia.
Gibbs Lyons, of Stamford,
Conn., president of the
National Bank Division of
the American Bankers As
sociation, has been awarded
a plaque and testimonial by
the executive committee of
his division for meritorious
service. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Lyons, of
Jackson.
The Jackson Hi-Life, a
student publication of the
Jackson High School, was
awarded a Certificate of
Distinction at the annual
convention of Georgia Scho
lastic Press Association. Bill
Garland is editor of the
Hi-Life; Charles Brooks,
associate editor, and Martha
Mays, business manager.
Deaths during the week;
Mrs. W. A. White, 81.
News of 30 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Louie
Thomas, who conducted the
Dillon-Thomas Funeral
Home in Jackson for the past
serval months, have re
turned to Atlanta for perm
anent residence.
With S. W. Causey,
prinsipa), and Miss Sara
Bond, teacher, as chap
erones, the Jackson High
School senior class will spend
a week sightseeing tour of
front porch will come back
once more and we can know
again the joy of discovering
one another.
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1977
Washington
The bounty on fox ears is
being discontinued by the
County Commission. In ef
fect for nine months, bounty
was paid for 215 foxes.
The 57 members of the
Jackson High School senior
class will graduate May 26,
along with several students
under the GI bill, bringing
the total to 65,0 r the largest
graduating class in the
County’s history.
The artistry of a talented
group of young piano pupils
of Miss Viola Staley Slaught
er was displayed Saturday
afternoon at a recital in her
Studio. Among those per
forming were Lynwood Thur
ston, Euel Wade, Marlyn
Wise, Margaret, Winona and
Mary Rawls, June Kitchens,
Judy Fletcher and Eugenia
Ball.
The Jenkinsburg Garden
Club met with Mrs. L. D.
Stroud, with Mrs. C. D.
Fletcher as cohostess. Mrs.
J. O. Minter won first prize in
the arrangement class and
Mrs. H. C. Brooks on
specimens.
Deaths during the week:
Charlie Reuben Bennett, 69;
James Beauchamp Caston,
44.
News of 40 Years Ago
A meeting has been called
for Friday night in the court
house for the purpose of
organizing a Butts County
Historical and Archaeolo
gical Society.
Nine Jackson Boy Scouts
will attend the National
Jamboree in Washington.
They include Stuart Head,
Jr.. Jim Howell, Ezra Ferris,
Add Nutt, Jr., Ralph Carr,
Jr., Smith Settle, Jr., R. H.
Burford, Jr., Victor Car
michael, Jr. and Lovett
Fletcher.
Rev. Eugene Daniel has
been granted a medical leave
of adsence by the Jackson,
Fellowship and Bethany
Presbyterian Churches. In
his absence, Richard Potter
will serve the local field.
An escaped convict from
Jones County has been
apprehended and charged
with the burglary of Joe
Holloway's home in Dublin
District, according to Sheriff
G. T. Thurston.
On Friday the juniors of
Jackson High School will
compliment the members of
the senior class with a
banquet at the Jackson
clubhouse.
Mrs. Polly Evans has been
made a member of the
Cardinal Club, national
honor sorority, at Mercer
University.
Deaths during the week:
M. E. Perdue, 69; Jess
Walker Maddox, 38.
News of 50 Years Ago
The annual meetng of the
Sixth District Rural Letter
Carriers Association will be
held at Indain Springs on
Memorial Day. Gordon H.
Thompson, of Jackson, is
president of the Association.
Trustees for Butts County
Schools have been elected
and include: Cedar Rock, W.
T. Mote; Cork, J P. White;
Flovilla, Dr. A. F. White, R.
L. Allen; Iron Springs, J K.
Sitton; Jenkinsburg, J. O.
Minter; Stark, W. L. White,
Wook Pulliam, G. R. Harper;
Towaliga, W. C. Garr;
Worthville, J. W. Lofton, R.
O. Stodghill; Pepperton, E.
A. Tillery.
Butts County farmers are
busy transplanting several
hundred acres of pimiento
peppers.
Appearing in the “Dear
ies" play at Cedar Rock
School will be Mary Lee
Cawthon, Edith O’Neal, Sara
Reeves. Jessie Smith, Edna
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
MY LONESOME PINE
I’m a lover of trees
And write poems about them
And so often I think
That I can’t live without them!
Now just over the way
Across streets back and front there
Are huge forests of trees
That are magnificent there!
On my lawn, I admit,
Though I don’t want to boast here,
That my one lonesome pine
Is the tree I live most here!
‘Whatsoever
Jgff Things’
By Donald E. Wildmon
THE ART OF LISTENING
Recently I ran across a story about a family that was
eating dinner when the youngest member, a four-year-old,
stood up in his chair and blurted out: “Pass the butter!”
Well, that mother decided that she would have none of that.
She turned to the child, and spoke sharply. “You cannot have
any dinner. We don’t act like that around this house. You will
ask for the butter politely or you will not have any butter at
all. Anyone who acts like that doesn’t deserve any dinner. Go
to your room, immediately!” The little boy started to say
something. “8ut...” The mother broke in. “No ‘buts’ about it.
Go to your room at once!”
Well, most of us would agree that the child needed some
discipline. No child should be allowed to stand up at the
dinner table and shout like that. Children must learn to be
like their parents - ask politely and take their turns.
After supper, the father gathered the family together and
told them he had a surprise for them. “I had the tape
recorder on during the meal and I want to play it back and let
us hear what we sound like while we are eating.” The family
all gathered round and listened to the recording. Supper
began on a quiet note, but before long the group had gotten
rather noisy. There was a lot of loud talking and laughing.
Then, as the mother listened rather closely, she thought
she heard something “Go back and play that part again,” she
told her husband. He rewound the tape and played the part
she wanted to hear again. Sure enough, it was there. Avery
soft little voice could barely be heard beneath the noise and
laughter. I spoke: “Would someone please pass the butter?”
The recorder continued on and for a while all anyone could
hear was the noise and laughter. Then, just a little louder
than before, the voice came again. “Would someone please
pass the butter?” But the noise and laughter continued. The
little voice got no reply.
Then it happened! The voice booned out. “Pass the
butter! ” And the voice telling him to go to his room without
his supper. The mother sent for the little boy, apologized to
him, and gave him his supper.
I’m afraid there are several people like that today. People
who have tried to be heard in a nice way, only to have doors
closed in their faces and ears that would not hear. If we would
have listened to the pleading of the colored man years ago
perhaps our problems in race relations wouldn’t be as great
today. And if we had listened to the common man, perhaps
the unions would be controlled by a different breed of men
today. But we were too busy with our own chatter.
One of the greatest traits one can learn is to listen. You see,
when we listen it shows we care and are concerned. And,
after all, that’s what most people want. Someone to care.
BUMPER STICKERS
Fr ecipe for a good
I SPEECH IS MOSTLY
SHORTENING.
Mote, Bessie Cook, Minne
Belle Long, Lucy Foster and
Helen Stodghill.
Miss Janie Lee Hardy
presented her piano pupils in
recital, including: Marion
Jinks, Nettie Rose O’Neal,
Ruth Wise, Margaret Hurt,
Martha Bond, Sara Bond,
Tennie Brownlee, Trellis
Grant, Elizabeth Finley,
Mincey Heath, Dorothy
Ridgeway, Carrie Lois Ham
mond, Thelma Madox, Ruth
Copeland, Adelaide Land,
Annie Rosa Bond, Sara
Outhouse, Emma Jinks.
The Cedar Rock Com
munity Club met at the home'
of Mrs. Eddie Bond. Appear
ing on the program were
Missess Clyde and Mano
Williamson, Mrs. E. A.
Godsey, Mrs. Bob Knowles,
Bertha Williams, Sara Bur
lord and Martha Bond.
Deaths During the week:
James Marshal Boyd, 76.
BUMPER STICKERS
PEOPLE WHO
WON'T SEE A
. PSYCHIATRIST
ARE CRAZY. =fi
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The BCABC goals for 1977
sound good but I think
another goal could be added
to help beautify Jackson and
Butts County. Included in the
general clean-up program we
should consider the care of
our animals. Many of us find
the sight of stray cats and
dogs trying to survive very
sad. There is nothing pretty
about the dead bodies along
the road or the starving
animals hunting for food in
garbage. There are laws to
govern the animals which
should be enforced. Isn’t it
time to organize and provide
shelter and proper treatment
of our animals? Isn’t this
part of a more beautiful
place to live?
Mrs. C. Kenneth Brown