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BDIIS COUNTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered an necond-clnnn matter, Nnvem *'r 8,15*07, at tlie postoftice at Jarknoti, <Ja. Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to £OO words, as communications aver that length cannot be handled. W rite on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Swat the pessimist and the war-alarmist. Eggs are worth 20 cents each in Hamburg. Germany. Just sit steady in the boat and pull for that county fair. Not too late to buy a bale. Buy it from somebody who really needs help. Help the Civic League which is trying to help you by cleaning up the town. The farmers are getting plenty of well-meant advice along now. After all they will do as they please. The Southern Express Compa ny has raised its rates. Seems to have forgotten that the parcels post is on its trail. There will be general regret at the passing of Gus Morrow, one of the ablest and most popular newspaper men in the state. This is not the first time that cotton has been cheap, but the first time that food prices are so outrageously out of proportion to the price of cotton. If the war continues very long Georgia will have thousands of trained card writers. Incidentally it is h—on the printer who has to wade through such greatness. The two daily papers in Way cross will be consolidated on Oc tober 1, under the management of L. Volney Williams. It is a fine thing when a one-paper town realizes that it is really a one paper town. The Macon Telegraph and The Albany Herald, which have been sometime at war, have declared an armistice. The only casuality was the reckless disregard with which the King’s English was hurled back and forth. The “Buy-a-hale” plan boosted the price of cotton all right. Now why not another movement in the opposite direction, “Refuse to-buy-at-present-prices,” and knock the bottom out of pri ces? It can be done and is worth trying. Colquitt county is to market 26,000 hogs the coming year and it is figured that this crop will bring over $500,000. This is half the value of the cotton crop of Tift county. So much for the good work of the Moultrie pack ing house. Before long we expect to see hogs and cattle the big money crops of this section. Tifton Gazette. THE MAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SELLS COTTON AT PRESENT PRICES IS A TRAITOR This then is the situation: Not over 10 or 15 per cent of the world’s splindles are likely to stop; even this decrease in consump tion in Europe will be partially made good by the increased con sumption of American mills; and as soon as the war is over, as Dr. Carver points out, “these countries which have not been able to get cotton will be clamoring for it.” And yet, there are foolish American farmers in every State simply giving away their cotton at ridiculous prices before the cot ton exchanges open, and before the financial world has time to catch its breath and find out whether it is really hurt or only scared. Perhaps some of these farmers are compelled to sell, and we may excuse them, but for the others there is just one thing to say. That thing is that every man who sells a bale of cotton at present fictitious prices, unless compelled to do so by necessity, is not only playing the fool so far as his own interests are concerned, but is a traitor to his fellow farmers. If he himself only were getting hurt, we might let him alone, but he is depressing prices for everybody else in the South. Four or five thousand farmers scattered over the South by accepting the ridiculous prices recently offered, or else by insisting on giving away their cotton to somebody when there was no market at all — these few irresponsible cotton growers have come mighty near es tablishing an eight cent level for prices that it will take energetic action from Virginia to Texas to overcome. It is our belief that if the cotton exchanges could have remain ed open, prices would have gradually adjusted themselves to lower levels, but that the abused New York cotton gamblers would never have brought prices so low as farmers have done by the South-wide “bear” movement they have themselves instituted.—The Progres sive Farmer. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Why Not Federal Aid? Editor Progress: The public press reports from Washington that the southern farmers need not expect any legislation from the present congress and admin ; istration to aid in handling the cotton crop of this year. The ex cuse is given that the regional banks will be organized in a few weeks and they will grant the needed relief. The regional banks will be permitted under the law to lend to their member BANKS money on cotton receipts. It therefore arpears the banks may borrow money on a farmer’s cot ton in the warehouse to lend to the farmer, yet the same farmer can’t borrow a dollar from the regional bank on the same cotton. Is this right? Why shouldn’t the farmer be allowed to borrow money from the government at three per cent on his cotton the I same as a bank? Why should the I government lend this money to the banks on cotton receipts at three per cent for the money to be re-lent to the farmer at from eight to twelve per cent? These are some questions the present congress will have to answer. The government through the postal savings banks could lend this money direct to the farmer at three per cent per annum as easily as it could lend it to the national banks and would thereby serve the people direct. Does this government exist to sorve the national banks or was it cre ated to serve the people? If the government as at pres ent administered is determined not to help the farmers in the present crisis, the congress ought to have the decency to repeal the ten per cent tax on state issues of money and then the state of Georgia couth issue money either direct from the state treasury or use the state banks as an instru ment to get the needed currency Don’t Take Wrong Medicine If your liver gets lazy you need a liver tonic, not merely a laxa tive for the bowels. Many peo ple take a simple laxative when the liver gets sluggish rather than take calomel, which they know to be dangerous. But a mere laxative will not start a sluggish liver. What is needed is a tonic that will liven up the liver without forcing you to stay at home and lose a day from your work. You have such a tonic in Dod son’s Liver Tone. Dodson’s Liver Tone is all that is claimed for it, because the druggists who sell it agree to hand back the money with a smile, to any person not satisfied with the relief Dodson’s gives. Dodson’s Liver Tone is a vege table liquid with a very pleasant taste and is a prompt and reliable remedy for constipation, bilious ness, sour stomach and torpid liver. Slaton Drug Cos. give it their personal guarantee. Large bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone is only 50 cents. For children or grown people it is the ideal medicine. Try it on the guarantee, adv in circulation. Senator Smith and Congress man Hardwick have made every effort to give relief, but they fought single handed and alone. Why didn’t the other senators and congressmen from Georgia and the South join in the fight in this supreme hour of need? Judg ing from the Congressional Rec ord it would seem the above named gentlemen were the only ones who were interested in the least in the welfare of the cotton grower. They should have had the support of every southern congressman. Respectfully, O. M. Duke. Flovilla, Ga. Only One “BROMO QUININE’* To get the genuine, call (or full name, LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for aignature of E. w. GROVE. Curea a Cold in One Oar. Stop* cougb and headache. and work a off cold. 25c. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Can Be Reduced if you Have a Good Garden. YOU CAN Have a Good Garden if You Get Your Seed Here. SEED FOR FALL PLANTING Turnips, Cabbage, Rutabagas, Beets, Collards, , Radishes A COMPLETE LINE. SLATON DRUG CO. r.ie Store Undertakers and Embalmers Oldest and Most Efficient Undertakers in this Section Expert Licensed Embalmers Our Undertaking Parlors Modernly Equipped to Furnish the Best of Selections in Caskets and Robes The J. S. Johnson Company Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84 hhhhhhhhh STRAYED From my place on Sept. 12, 3 goats nearly half grown. Finder please notify G. P. Saunders and receive reward. Rheumatic pains are rellerefl by Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills. SoW at aU true stores. [Advertisement.! The Wise Auto Owner doesn’t attempt his own re pairing. He prefers to send his car here where there is ev ery facility and every conve nience for doing the work properly. And the more ex perienced the auto owner is the surer he is to have us do his repairing because he knows we do it right. WAGNER’S GARAGE. LOST A brass knob from the bame of a set of wagon harness, be tween H. C. Letson’s and Jack son. A reward will be paid for same at this office.