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3axkson Vtngtzss-^tgns J. D. Jones Publisher (190 P 1955) Doyle Jones Jr. Editor and Publisher (1955-1975) MRS. MARTHA G. JONES PUBLISHER VINCENT JONES EDITOR OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUNTY AND CITY OF JACKSON Published every Thursday at 129 South Mulberry Street, Jackson, Georgia 30233 by The Progress-Argus Printing Cos., Inc. Second Class Postage paid at Jackson, Georgia 30233. Address notice of undeliverabie copies and other correspondence to The Jackson Progress-Argus, P.O. Box 249, Jackson, Georgia 30233. • 1 rar. in Georgia $0.24 Mm ,<i. in Georgia $3.91 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 Advance Subscription Rates, Tax Included: TELEPHONE 775-3107 NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ‘ltsttUTitM Hm Itu fritPrm NNASUSTAINING ku * gl MEMBER-1977 O- Year. Out-of-State ~.57.28 1.-, iiiv. Out-of-State $4.16 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 l '~T\. i 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 IvicJ 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