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THE PROGRESS
VAN WILHITE,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
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On Application.
Published €wry ciwruMy.
Entered an second-claim matter, Novem
ber H, IW7, ut the poStoftWe Ht Jsckaon, (la.
H uler act of Congress of March 3, 187S*.
MR. MAYS APPOINTED AN
ELECTOR.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Jeffer
sonian Democrat candidate for
President of the United States,
has appointed Dr. R. W. Mays as
the elector on his ticket for this,
the Sixth Congressional District.
The doctor says he will accept
the appointment as Watson
stands for the principles of
Democracy that promise relief
to the laboring people. He says
that Taft and Bryan are hiding
the main issue by talking tariff.
One says “For Protection” the
other “For Revenue, ” which has
been a favorite issue to deceive
the voter for fifty years.
“I feel it my duty to respond
to the call of the true Jefferson
ians,” says Dr. Mays, “and help
float the banner until it is perch
ed upon the country’s rock of
salvation, let it be soon or late.”
A CORRECTION.
# In Professor Akerman’s arti
cle on “Floods and Forests,"
printed in last week’s Progress,
several typographical errors oc
curred. The sentence ending,
“Whose water sheds have been j
demuded of thin forests," should |
GO TO
Middle Georgia Lumber and Man’g Cos.
H. F. GILMORE, Manager
For all kinds of Building Materials
Good Work and Low Prices.
Hard brick, 85 cents; Soft brick, 75 cents; Lime 90
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We make all kinds of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Screens, all kinds of
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The Bell
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: WILL DO MORE WORK FOR YOU
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WILL SAVE WEAR AND TEAR ON
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Call on or write the manager, .or write to
Farmers’ Line Dept., Atlanta, Ga.
Southern Bell-Telephone
and Telegraph Company
have read, “Whose water sheds
have been denuded of their for
ests/’ Another sentence, “Steep
slopes should never be demand
ed,’’should have read, “Steep
slopes should never be denuded. ’ ’
NO EXPLANATION NECESSARY.
Why does a baby cry when it
has to take medicine? For the
same reason we protest when we
I have to have to pay a bit more
taxes for a public necessity.
Afterward the baby gets grown
and laughs at his cry. After w"e
get the public necessity we
smile in pity over our own short
sightedness. Twenty years ago
Judge Wilburn lost his job as
ordinary of Hall connty because
he built a better courthouse for
Hall than the tax-payers then
thought they wanted to pay for.
Now the same tax-payers rather
regret that the far-seeing judge
did not make them spend about
twice the amount for a building
that will meet the requirements
of years to come.
What we are driving at is:
There is opposition in some quar
ters to spending money for per
manent road-building. It would
be worih the while and the dime
of every farmer and tax payer to
read a splendid article in the
Saturday Evening post of April
125th, from tne pen of Howard H.
Gross, of Chicago, secretary of
the Farmer’s Good Roads League.
The article is “Good Roads and
Good Times; Bringing the Far
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merandHis Market together.”
Here are a few of the sentences
in it:
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“The greatest difficulty in
building good roads is not the
actual construction or even the
paying for them but convincing
the people, locally that it can be
done without burdensome 'or
ruinous taxation. No community
ever began the building of stone
or gravel roads, usually called
hard roads, without the most bit
ter opposition from farmers who
would most largely benefit by the
improvement. It is encouraging
to know that no community ever
began the building of hard roads
that did not keep on doing so.
When the taxpayers had had the
experience of using the roads and
paying for-them more roads were
demanded and soon those most
violently opposed were found on
the firing line fighting for more
appropriations for road improve
ments,”
“The fact is that the great so
cial and economic benefits of
good roads are not fully under
stood; that the advantages and
economies possibly under the im
proved conditions far outweigh
the burden of the tax measured
in dollars and cents alone."
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“Distance is no longer meas
ured by the yard-stick, but by
the clock-tick. Good roads make
short miles, bad roads long ones."
“The school-master and good
roads are the most important
agencies to advance civilization, ’
declared the great Summer. "
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‘ ‘The late financial unpleasant
ness, the memory of which will
linger with us for some time,
certainly was largely due to a
feverish activity to move the
crops to market before tne sea
son of bad roads set in. This
made a violent drain upon the
money centers for the currency
necessary to finance this great
| transaction."
“Good roads are a permanent
asset to the nation, the state and
the farm. As an economic and
sociologic question, good roads
should be regarded as paramount.
Their influence and beneficence
will in years to come permeate
the entire social fabric of our
country.'’
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“Good roads mean education,
| civilization. ”
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“The need of the hour is the
road-builder,” —The N. P. M.
Y, A. WRIGHT,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Jackson, Georgia.
Longest experienced lawyer at
the Jackson bar.
If you get hot with your neigh
bor, you will find some ice at
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WE WILL TRY Tq GIVE
OUR FRIENDS
the very bes service
and aecomuu 'ations
| possible in retui i for
''the business done witM
usj for we apprecitar
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and will serve . you
well.
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Machine Shop
W. L WAGNER, ProprTetor
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Machinery erected and repaired; Pipe Fitting,
Plumbing, Electric Wiring; Automobiles
and Gasoline Engines Repaired.
WANTED: Scrap Iron,Brass.Copper,Lead
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LAWYER
Jackson ----- Georgia
Practice in all Courts, both State
and Federal
Office in Bank Hall west side publio
square.
Miss Leila Hodges leaves the
last of the week for Waynesboro.
DR. J. E. WOODS
Physician and*Surgeon.
Office upstairs in Crum build
ing. Residence phone, 168; office
phone, 137-J.
T. J. DEMPSEY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Jackson - -