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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1921
Page
4
The notice urges growth through small industries in Jackson and surrounding Georgia counties, naming opportunities like a sweet potato curing house, a sorghum mill, a milk depot, and road projects. It criticizes tariffs and government bungling, laments pension and education funding, and calls for boosters and tree planting to spur prosperity.
Editorials from the Jackson Progress-Argus and Marietta Journal defend banks amid stringency. They praise banks as community friends, bulwarks of safety, and lifeboats through crisis, urging cooperation and prudent enterprise to keep money productive and local economies steady.
The article notes some farmers still risk cotton despite boll weevil damage and predicts many will replace cotton with food and feed crops this season to improve conditions by fall.
A Georgia campaign aims to raise five million dollars to fund a stronger tech university. The speaker argues the state should host the nation's greatest technological school and cites education as a key to efficiency and industrial growth.
The town’s strong public school system is praised as a state leader. Community support and teamwork are urged to bolster education and position Jackson as an educational hub.
A business man notes that a town’s prosperity is reflected by its newspaper. Advertising columns reveal mercantile health, with the paper serving as a live index of a town’s enterprise and mood. He argues that newspapers show more about a town than building size or a photo.
In an ordinary column of 10 000 type pieces seven positions may misplace a letter and 70 000 error chances exist. Transpositions alone could yield 2 759 022 errors in the line “To be or not to be,” illustrating the printer’s hazard in Waycross.
A congressional committee asks newspapers to cut paper use by 10 percent. The piece suggests Washington bureaus supplying free material should start conservation by cutting their paper consumption substantially, even 100 percent.
An Atlanta Constitution editorial lauds banks for aiding the economy in financial stress. It argues banks are essential to business, growth, and town development, urging cooperation rather than suspicion. The piece compares banks to a bridge that connects a town to broader opportunity.
An editorial argues farmers should tailor cotton planting to local conditions rather than follow broad guidance from 60 cent cotton forecasts. It urges self sufficiency and cautions merchants to advertise bargains to spur buying. It also notes cheaper coal labor and materials but complains rail and gas rate hikes as unfitting normalcy.
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