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THE PROGRESS
VAN WILHITE,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
Subscription si,oo Per Yr.
Advertising Kates Furnished
On Application.
Published €wry Thursday.
Entered as second-class matter, Novem
ber 8, 1007, at the postoffleeat Jackson, Ga.
under act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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CORRESPONDENTS’ PICNIC
s, Jr/gestion of The Progress
from Jackson R.
F. D. No. 2, that the correspon
dents of this paper arrange plans
for a correspondent’s picnic and
invite prominent men to deliver
speeches on the occasion, to be
held some suitable time during
this summer, meets with the
hearty commendation of The
Progress and we trust the sug
gestion will become a fact.
A good and faithful set of cor
respondents is indispensible to
any newspaper that poses as a
county paper and The Progress
realizes the value and greatly
appreciates the help of its asso
ciate editors.
We would therefore be pleased
to see the correspondents get to
gether and spend a most enjoy
able day.
A newspaper has 5,000 readers
for each 1,000 subscribers. A
merchant who puts out 1,000
handbills gets possibly 400 peo
ple ta read—that is if the boy
who is trusted to distribute them
does not chuck them under the
sidewalk. The handbills cost as
much as a half column advertise
ment in the home paper. All the
women and girls and half the
men and boys read the advertise
ments. Result: The merchant
who uses the newspaper has 3,-
500 more readers to each 1,000 of
the paper’s readers. There is no
estimating the amount of business
that advertising does bring to a
merchant, but each dollar brings
somewhere from S2O to SIOO
worth of business.—Exchange.
WHAT 15 TEMPERANCE?
One form of temperance is the
non-use or moderate use of intox
icating berverages. While the
non-use of intoxicants is general
ly indicative of temperate living,
it is by no means always so. In
deed. there are many cases to
the contrary. Thus the most ex
pert criminals in some instances
have been found to be total ab
stainers. They abstain from
drink, but were rather intemp
erate in their interpretation of
property rights.
Temperance is normal, reason
able, conservative living; it has
reference not only to what we
WORTH READING.
Now and then you stumble upon a thought so true and
beautifully expressed that you would show it to sane one e se
or give it a place in your scrap book. Such is tie pra}er b>
the great German, Max Ehrman:
“Let me do my work each day and if the darkened hour of
despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that com
forted me in desolation of other time. May I remember the
bright hours that found me walking the silent hilfe of my child
hood or dreaming on the margin of the quiet ’iver, when a
light glowed within me and I promised my God to have cour
age amid the tempests of changingyears. Spare ne from bitter
ness and from sharp passions of unguarded monents. May I
not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though
the world know me not, may my thoughts and ictions be such
as shall keep me friendly with myself. Lift my eyes from
death and let me not forget the use of the sta s. Forbid that
I should judge others lest I condemn mysel:. Let me not
follow the clamor of the world but walk calnly in the light.
Give me friends who will love me for what I am, and keep ever
burning before my vagrant step the kindly light of hope. And
though age and infirmity overtake me and I come not within
sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful
for life and for time’s golden memories that are good and
sweet; and may the evening’s twilight find me gentle still.”
TOOTH PICKS AND WATER GOOD AS FAR AS
THEY GO
Those who feel hurt at The Progress for notifying them
that their subscription has expired and that the United States
government forces us to discontinue their paper if they do not
pay up, will please remember that a newspaper can not live
altogether on tooth picks and water, even if some of our citi
zens do seem to think so.
We dislike to discontinue a single paper and if the postal
authorities would leave us alone, those who are now in arrears
one year or more would continue to receive The Progress.
However, we can not help ourselves and the only alternative
is for the subscriber to pay up.
We have been talking about the new postal law in nearly
every issue since Christmas and the time is now almost here to
act. Let all who desire to receive The Progress after April
15, bring, or send their payment to The Progress at once.
Tooth picks and water are all right as far as they go—but
somehow it’s a fact that something more substantial is needed.
THE MAN WHO DOES NOT
The man who does not advertise because his grand
father did not, ought to wear knee breeches and a queue.
The man who does not advertise because it costs
money, should quit paying rent for the same reason.
The man who does not advertise because he tried it
and failed, should throw away his cigar because the
light went out.
The man who does not advertise because he doesn’t
know how himself, ought to stop eating because he can’t
cook.
The man who does not advertise because somebody
said it did not pay, ought not to believe that the world
is round because the ancients said it was flat.—The In
diana Retail Merchant.
drink, but also to what we eat.
what we think, what we say and
do. The man who over-eats is
intemperate: he who overworks
is intemperate; he who over
sleeps is intemperate; he who
curses is intemperate; he who
goes to the theatre and the
dance and the party night after
night is intemperate; and so ad
infinitum.
And yet there is some slight
excuse possibly in each case.
The first may have been starv
ing; the second may have had to
over-work to support a large
family; the third may not have
heard the alarm clock; he who
cursed may have been behind a
new hat in church; and the last
may belong to the naturally un
fortunate rich.
But there is one form of intem
perance, and a most common
one, too, for which there is no
excuse. It is intemperance in
speech, especially set speeches
such as sermons, prefatory re
marks. and the like, where even
preachers have been known to
state as facts what they had
heared and what proved after
wards to be untrue.
Closely related to this is the
intemperate judgment of others.
Thus, there is one public man in
Atlanta who seems to regard
every man who differs from him
in opinion; every councilman
who votes contrary to his desire;
every candidate who does not
embrace bodily his platform, as
a mouument of mendacity, and
the legitimate mark for his mal
odorous shafts.
And that man, in judging
others, and in what he thinks
and says of those who differ
from him, however honest they
may be, is probably the most in
temperate man iu the city.
’’Physician, heal thyself."
—Milt Saul in "ThisJWeek in
Atlanta.
PROTECTION AND LABOR
The advocates of protection go
about at election times and tell
the laborers that the protection
tariff on manufactures by increas
ing the price of manufactured
articles, makes it possible for the
manufacturer to pay higher
wages to his laborers. “Low
tariff, low wages; high tariff,
high wages and a full dinner
pail.” That is the way they put
it to the laborer.
The thing that these advocates
do not mention is that labor is
not protected. There is no tariff
on labor. On arriving from a
Young Men’s Clothes
Ederheimer, Stein & Cos. - Makers
BETTER take a second look at
these styles for Young Men.
Absolutely defy one to find any
thing common-place or ordinary
about them. Brimful of style and
good taste; with smart patterns
and perfect fit.
Also have others of the Eder
heimer-Stein make. All different.
Can’t put them before you on
paper; you must see them to
know.
Two, three and four-button suits; medium
and long lapels; coats 31 to 32 inches long
with 2 Yi-inch dip in front. Sizes up to 38.
Jackson Mercantile Cos.
trip abroad, I noted that one of
my fellow passengers, a good
lady who had bought a pocket
knife for her grandson, had to
pay duty on that knife and also
had to submit to the indignity of
having her trunk searched by a
man, although she had already
declared all dutiable articles, in
cluding the aforesaid knife, and
had sworn to her declaration.
There were between 500 and 1000
immigrants on that boat. These
laborers were not charged one
cent of tariff; yet they were com
ing to America in response to
higher wages, to compete with
the American laborer. If those
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liborers had remained in Europe,
the American laborer would at
least have had the advantage of
the distance in his favor. As it
is the cheap labor of Europe is
brought to America by the ship
load, free of duty, to compete
with the American laborer on
American soil.
The manufacture is protected, •
the laborer is not protected.
Herein lies another of the injus
tices of .so-called protection.
Hector McLean Galloway.
Luther Joyner will bring you
the Atlanta Georgian six days in
a week for ten cents. Give him
your subscription.
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