Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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. TELEPHONE NUMBER 166 The Progress phone, 166. Procrastination is the thief of time—don’t postpone any longer but subscribe for The Progress now. Don’t borrow your neighbor’s Progress but help us and your self and your sub scribing at oit£;w~ 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 . i||p| experience j|r There are two vital If P°* nts * n t^ie drug bus ~ iness; experience and lip* Our experience is beyond /! JL question, and the purity of r /V r J) our drugs is guaranteed. / Jy/ Prescriptions that are filled jfeJy here re^ab^e * We shall be glad to serve . IM—— V nr li you. JAMERSON DRUG CO. 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. EXPERIENCE