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Educations Basic Goals
Ask a number of chance
acquaintances what the proper
goals of education are and the odds
are very good that you would
receive a variety of responses,
varying from the ridiculous to the
sublime.
Reading, writing and arithme
tic would be the stock answer and
certainly these are the basic tools
that today’s students must master
if they expect to achieve very
greatly in life.
But education, and the influ
ence of teacher on pupil, certainly
goes much further than the
mechanical instruction which is
only a small part of the student’s
preparation for life.
The philosopher Plato once
said that “the direction in which
education starts a man will
determine his future life.”
George Gissing pointed out the
difficulty of the teacher’s assign
ment with these words, “education
is a thing of which only the few are
capable; teach as you will only a
small percentage will profit by
your most zealous energy.”
Henry Brooks Adams was
more optimistic about the teaching
profession when he wrote “a
teacher affects eternity; he can
never tell where his influence
stops.”
This year, perhaps as never
before in its history, Butts
Countians are taking a hard look at
their public school system to
determine what physical facilities
the system desperately needs and
to determine, in a larger context,
what legitimate goals a public
school education should encom
pass.
Certain guidelines have been
established for the citizen’s
committee now engaged in this
effort. While not all-encompassing,
at least they provide basic
guidelines by which a system’s
effectiveness can be measured.
They were recommended last year
by a goal-setting committee
Protecting the Elderly
In his advocacy -of more
stringent punishment for those
criminals who prey on our senior
citizens, Lieutenant Governor Zell
Miller has struck a chord that will
ping at most of our heart strings.
For too long gangs of punks
and thugs have been ripping-off our
elderly, and often defenseless
citizens, intimidating them and
keeping them virtual prisoners of
fear in their own homes. Check
stealing, muggings, assault and
battery, shake downs, you name it
and our elders have experienced it
at the hands of a few young
vandals.
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chaired by Larry Morgan and they
have since been adopted by the
local Board of Education.
The study committee and the
Board feel that a student
completing his studies in the Butts
County School System should:
1. Communicate with under
standing through reading, writing,
and speaking.
2. Understand and use basic
mathematical operations.
3. Understand the purpose,
structure and operations of various
levels of government.
4. Respect, understand and
cooperate with people with whom
he works and lives.
5. Have the basic foundation
necessary to pursue his chosen
vocational occupation.
6. Have a sound basic
education to enable him to enter
college if he so desires.
7. Have an appreciation of the
performing arts and visual arts.
8. Understand and participate
in healthful living habits.
9. Have a desire and the
knowledge to research, examine
and use information.
10. Use his leisure time wisely.
11. Be able to manage his
income to live within his means.
The report concludes with the
statement that “basic to these
goals is that the means for
reaching them should be provid
ed.”
We will be hearing a lot about
our public schools before the long,
hot summer fades into fall. Many
interested citizens will spend many
hours seeking answers to the
pressing problems and needs they
are facing today and growing with
each tomorrow.
Contributions to the solutions—
the problems are known—will be
welcomed by the Board and the
citizen’s committee engaged in the
study. It is a contribution to the
well being of the community and its
future progress that every thought
ful citizen should be proud to make.
The Lieutenant Governor advo
cates legislation that would call for
mandatory prison sentences for
those who commit crimes against
the elderly. No plea bargaining, no
suspended sentences, no wrist
slaps—but straight prison sen
tences.
That is tough talk but it is
needed and long overdue. And
while the Lieutenant Governor is
rightfully concerned about our
senior citizens, as we all are, how
about tightening the screws on the
criminals who choose as their
victims the majority of us who
have not yet reached that
venerable age.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
In spite of color radar and
the elaborate electronic
paraphernalia that the TV
weather forecasters use to
support their miscalcula
tions, most of us would not
recognize a high pressure
cell if one went kerplunk on
our front door.
And yet we are familiar
enough with the term to know
that one of its ilk has been the
villain this summer in
producing some of the most
persistently hot, dry and
stagnant air masses that
the State has seen in the last
23 years.
One would probably have
to go back to 1954 to find a
summer so cloudless, with
such intense heat and high
humidity.
Back then, the City of
Jackson was getting its
water supply from a small
branch, which was boasting
ly referred to as a creek by
the Chamber of Commerce,
and when the drought and
heat struck, the water supply
was reduced to a trickle.
The heat began then, as it
did this year, in late May and
early June, searinglyhot
days with no clouds to shield
the earth or its inhabitants
from a merciless sun. The
mercury climbed steadily, to
the 90’s, to the mid-90’s, to 100
and over. And it got stuck
there.
The water supply became
critical. Cars were not
washed at all and humans
very gingerly. Dish and bath
water was saved and
applied to flowers and shrubs
that were literally panting
for life. Gardens burned to a
crisp and farm crops for the
most part, were a total loss.
The culprit then, as now,
was a high pressure system
that backed in from Bermu
da and hovered for weeks off
the Atlantic coast, blocking
the flow of moisture-laden
winds from the Gulf.
A group of South Georgia
farmers are going to attempt
to seed clouds if they can find
any, with a chemical that
hopefully will cause them to
drop their moisture.
Which brings up a larger
question, can man control the
weather by devising a
method of moving stagnant
air masses, either hot or
cold, when they threaten his
crops, his livelihood and his
well being?
The bitterly-cold weather
of last winter was caused, so
we are told, by the
high-speed and high-altitude
jet stream which dipped
down lower into the South
east than normal and
brought paralyzing cold
weather with it.
Can man dare tinker with
the jet stream? He has dared
send men to the moon,
explored other planets with
electronic devices, and yet he
permits the jet stream, or a
high pressure system, to
either freeze his hide or burn
his crops to a cinder.
We have dared to explore
the universe and yet we have
not made serious attempts to
control the weather five
miles above our own earth. It
would seem that a nation
which can successfully do the
one could be reasonably
expected to accomplish the
other.
Perhaps the weather
should remain as Mark
Twain wrote about it,
something that we all talk
about but about which none
of us do nothing.
Otherwise, just envision
the confusion that might
exist when the weathermak
er turned his dial, and John
got too much rain on his
squash, Mary too little on her
roses and Tom thought
growing conditions were
ideal and wanted neither
more nor less rain on his
corn.
Sometimes man, in his
desire for progress, creates
conditions that only point out
the folly of the change and
the better life he knew before
the new ways were disco
vered.
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1977
A Stroll Down
Memory Lane
NEWS OF 10 YEARS AGO
Haisten Funeral Home will
have an open house later this
month at its new home at 321
S. Harkness Street.
District II of the Business
and Professional Women’s
Clubs welcomed 102 guests
from 28 clubs at Sunday’s
business meeting held in the
Jackson Presbyterian
Church.
Misses Kay Pinckney,
Peggy Goff and Cathye Blue
assisted with the first Ben
Massell Camp for Muscular
Dystrophy held last week at
Indian Springs State Park.
Kiwanians will turn radio
broadcasters on their Radio
Day on Station WJGA July
18th.
Army Captain Frank C.
Hearn has reported for duty
to the Military Assistance
Command in Vietnam.
The Finley-Gray Post No.
102, The American Legion,
will serve supper to a
number of patients at the
Veterans Hospital in Dublin
as they return from watching
an Atlanta Braves baseball
game.
Deaths during the week:
Gene Milton Drake, 51;
James Butler Wells, 60.
NEWS OF 20 YEARS AGO
Scott Coleman has won an
honorable mention award
and $25 in the Fisher Body
Craftsman’s Guild competi
tion for teen-age model car
designers and builders.
The Jackson Baptist, Me
thodist and Presbyterian
Vacation Bible Schools will
be kicked off Friday with a
joint parade.
Among the Butts County
4-H'ers appearing on WAGA
TV were Mary Dell Ridge
way, Joyce Morgan, Shirley
Hooten, Linda Morgan, Su
sannah Ridgeway, Judy
Evans and Roxie Mangham.
Butts County Ordinary
Richard W. Watkins, Jr.
announces that a driver
training school has been
opened for traffic violators
and those who wish to
voluntarily improve their
driving.
Dorothy Ann Smith, a
junior at Jackson High
School, was a delegate to
Girls State at Wesleyan
College the last week in June.
Sandra Thomason is spend
ing the week at the Wildlife
Camp in Lowndes County,
having won the trip by virtue
of her 4-H project in
Entomology.
Deaths during the week:
Grover C. Moore, 72.
NEWS OF 30 YEARS AGO
Eight Future Farmers of
America extracted a promise
from Governor M. E.
Thompson to pave nine miles
of road to the Jackson FFA
Camp, a request the Govern
or said he would have
“turned down if it came from
your fathers.’’Herman Caw
thon and Charles Stewart
represented Butts County in
the delegation.
The Central Georgia EMC
has obtained permission to
construct a permanent head
quarters at the corner of a lot
on North Mulberry St.
Building costs are estimated
to be $70,000.00.
Hail, described as the size
of quail eggs, devastated
crops Tuesday morning from
Tussahaw Creek to Fincher
ville.
Reunion of the Jackson
Rifles as constituted in 1916
when called to the Mexican
border will be held at Carr’s
Camp on Jackson Lake this
Saturday with a fish fry
being the center of attrac
tion.
Among the Butts County
girls competing in District
4-H competition in Carrollton
are Martha Fay Barnes,
Hazel Turner, Joyce Cole
man, Betty Ann Weaver,
Barbara Jones, Betty Thax
ton, Betty Hammond, Barba
ra Greer, Joan Stewart and
Polly Colwell.
The net tax digest for Butts
County in 1947 showed a
$13,052 gain over 1946. The
1947 net digest is $1,358,555.
Deaths during the week:
James Riley Hooten, 59;
Jesse McMichael, 67; George
W. Brooks, 70; Mrs. George
W. Brooks, 65.
NEWS OF 40 YEARS AGO
After lengthy service at the
Jackson post office, J. G.
McDonald has resigned as
assistant postmaster. Duval
Patrick has been hired as
clerk; Victor H. Carmichael
is postmaster and Mrs. J. G.
McDonald, assistant.
The S. H. Eiseman resi
dence on West Avenue was
destroyed by fire early
Friday morning. Although
residing in Jackson, Mr.
Eiseman is now engaged in
business in Metter.
A mammoth still with
500-gallon-daily capacity was
destroved Mondav bv County
Policemen Gifford and Wil
liamson and Officer C. H.
Smith.
Hartley Toots and His
Honey Boys, fresh from an
engagement at New York’s
Cotton Club, will play for
Spec Brooks’ next dance at
Indian Springs.
E D. Patrick has let a
contract for a brick bunga
low on the Griffin Road to be
constructed by H. F. and G.
F. Gilmore.
Wilfred Thornton, recent
graduate-of Duke University,
has accepted a position as
teller with the Jackson
National Bank.
NEWS OF 50 YEARS AGO
A play will be staged at the
Jackson school auditorium to
raise funds to send boys and
girls to Camp Wilkins.
Among the cast are Frances
McKibben, Harold White,
Fred White, L.P. McKibben,
Jr., Frances Pettigrew, Mrs.
G. H. Thompson, Mary
Evans, Ethel Carter, Mrs.
Fretwell, Jane Etheredge,
Mrs. Adams, Lucile Pace
and Susannah Foster.
Miss Laßue Barnes has
won second prize in the adv.
writing contest conducted by
the Atlanta Constitution and
a cash prize of $200.00.
A giant pimiento pepper,
measuring 12V 2 inches in cir
cumference, was brought to
the newspaper office this
week by John Cook from the
J. C. McClendon farm.
Eleven carload shipments
of peaches were made from
Butts County this year, seven
from Jackson, and two each
from Flovilla and Jenkins
burg. Shipments were smal
ler than last year and the
Elberta crop was the earliest
seen here in many years.
Miss Clara Nolen, secreta
ry for the past six years of
the Norfolk, Va., Y.W.C.A., is
spending some time with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
Nolan, after a year spent
abroad.
Miss Ruth Copeland was
the gracious hostess at a
lovely prom party Friday
evening. Misses Elizabeth
Finley and Elise Barnes
served refreshing punch
from an attractive alcove on
the front porch
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Mrs. Cindy Brown
I have been a little
melancholy lately—l have
decided that my “boys” are
growing up and frankly, I’m
a little scared.
I was watching them the
other day as they played
outside; not one seemed to
have a care in the world. Oh,
I know they do—they worry
about their friendships, their
grades, their place in a
child’s world. Yet they seem
most of the time to be
carefree.
Most days are spent
climbing trees, building
“forts”, reading and swim
ming—l wonder if they know
what “mama’s” thinking. I
wish I had a way to preserve
the relative ease of their
lives, so that later on when
they are older and really
difficult problems arise, a
bottle could be opened and an
immediate dose of ease
scooped out.
Some evenings when my
three urchins come in for
supper, I have a hard time
just recognizing them—how
they can get THAT much dirt
on such small bodies is
beyond me; usually I identify
HOW DO YOU STAND
WITH GOD?
This is an important
question, because it concerns
the hereafter of every soul
and every soul should be
concerned as to where will I
be in the hereafter. I know
where I am going and it
burdens me to wonder where
my friends and loved ones
are going to be. I see so many
people who never show any
signs of having a Savior and
never stop to say “Thank
You, Lord for what you have
done for me”.
In our spiritual venture we
are ever seeking to become,
but the path to our goal is
seldom a straight ascending
line. Often it resembles a
badly damaged spiral. If
Christ should suddenly con
front you with your record,
should He hold the mirror up
to your loyalty and perfor
mance, could you look Him in
the face. A1 is what can you
say when you meet Him, or
what will He say to you? It is
not His will that any should
perish (Matt. 18:14) All flesh
from HISTORY’S SCRAPBOOK
OATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
July 15,1919—The War Department announces that, as
of this date, more than 330,000 American men have been
classified as World War I “draft dodgers.”
July 16, 1790—Congress establishes the District of
Columbia on the Potomac River, voting to set up there the
permanent seat of the government of the United States.
July 17,1821—Florida is formally ceded by Spain to the
United States.
July 18, ..A.D. 64—Rome burns; Nero fiddles.
July 19, 1918—World War I German armies begin to
retreat across the Marne River in France, after their last
great offensive in that country is successfully repulsed by
the Allies.
July 20, 1861—The Congress of the Confederate States
starts holding its sessions in Richmond, Virginia, the new
capital of the Confederacy.
July 21, 1873—The world’s first train robbery takes
place at Adair, lowa, when the notorious Jesse James holds
up the Rock Island Express and escapes with $3,000.
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
ODE TO PARENTS
The care you give your children
As they are growing up
Will always be a blessing
That will overflow their cup!
And if you teach your children
To be what they should be
They'll be a source of comfort
In your lovely family!
them by their smiles which
seemed to be cut out of dusty
small faces. I can remember
the days of my childhood
when I, too, could play
outside for hours on end,
sometimes in the now world
and other times in a scenario
of magical make-believe. My
only worry was what Mother
was fixing for supper. I
wonder if she watched me as
I do them.
Could she have anticipated
the way my life would lead?
Could she know the extent of
my joys and the depth of my
sorrows? She led me in wise
ways, preparing me to find
my solutions. And as it has
been through the ages, I hope
to follow Mama’s recipe for
helping me in preparing the
formula to cushion my own
children.
When they look back on life
twenty years from now, I
hope they’ll find my answers
adequate and my “pre
serves” a real favor. If I
could only label the jar, I’d
write, “From Mother, with
love, packed with an humble
spirit and a hopeful hand.
Open twenty years from
now”
shall perish together and
man shall turn again unto
dust (Job 34:15) But not the
soul. The soul belongs to the
Lord, He breathed into the
nostril the breath of life and
man became a living soul.
(Gen. 2:7)
The soul is the one thing
that makes man differ from
other orders of creation.
Poverty cannot degrade the
soul. Fire cannot consume it.
The mortician cannot encase
it. Slander cannot defame it.
The clergyman cannot com
mit it. The grave diggers
cannot bury it. So vital is it,
that Jesus said it is the worse
kind of bargain to gain the
whole world and lose your
soul. (Mark 8:36)
Friend, let nothing deter
you as you follow the Divine
footsteps. Think seldom of
your enemies, often of your
friends and everyday of
Christ. Cultivation of the soul
is most important. For
whatsoever a man soweth, so
shall he reap. (Gal. 6:7)
Cora E. Tipton