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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1920
Page
4
A collation of local notices and political commentary on Georgia campaigns, taxes, schooling, and farming. It argues for reform, warns about candidates, discusses real estate activity, taxation of invisible property, speeding, and a push for more manufacturing in the South.
The government sustains satisfactory mail service at modest charges while parcel post expands and supports the economy. Express firms face higher costs and argue private control is less efficient, prompting questions about service quality and price. Public acceptance of rising rates blurs scrutiny of post office versus private carriers.
An editorial urges public action against rising motor car deaths citing Secretary Williams of the National Safety Council. It warns of road risk, calls for license revocation for cause, stricter driver testing, and modernized New York motor vehicle laws to cut fatalities.
The Thomasville Times Enterprise warns Georgia hunters about federal migratory bird protections conflicting with state law. It notes legal shooting windows, October 16 to November 20 for federal and state rules, and fines for infractions as courts uphold the federal ban.
A 1919 Georgia assessment estimates crops worth 675 million dollars and animal products 125 million, totaling 750 million. Losses from pests, waste, soil erosion, and imports push state losses toward a billion, with unused land and potential for amplified production through improved farming.
The piece highlights Georgia as a premier agriculture state famed for peaches apples melons and berries. It cites 12 to 15 million peach trees producing 8 10 thousand car crops worth around 10 million dollars, plus about 3 million apple trees yielding five hundred million pounds, and widespread melon pear and berry production across counties.
The fig is a versatile fruit easily grown and highly profitable. It tastes best raw with milk and sugar and is superb for preserves. It can flourish in most parts of the state with only a couple of trees per home. Many city dwellers grow them in backyards and Georgia leads in fruit and melon production, with crops worth millions annually.
The piece argues Georgia should promote its advantages to the Northwest and Canada to draw new home buyers. It stresses Atlanta influence in state politics and urges a balanced election climate, development of land, water power, fertile soil, and livestock potential to welcome more citizens.
Commerce endorses building and operating an ice plant as a vital public investment. The message praises community ownership and notes Jackson’s success with its ice plant, urging other cities to follow suit after long-suffering residents.
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