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BDIIS COUNT* PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year.
Entered aa second-class matter, Novem
ber 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
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respondents will please confine them
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Write on one side of the paper only,
sign your name, not for publication,
but as an evidence of good faith.
The Progress leads—others
follow.
When you buy, buy at home
and shop early.
The early shopper gets the
pick of the bargains.
It had to come and now we feel
better. Shop early.
Santa Claus is real, very real.
He also buys at home and buys
early.
If you haven’t smiled lately
try it. Better to freeze with a
smile than a frown.
If you want to reap a harvest
of Christmas shoppers plant your
ad in these columns now.
If those Mexican revolutions
continue much longer the perpet
ual motion theory will be sub
stantiated.
Let all Georgians determine to
make next year a regular Geor
gia Products Year. One day of
Georgia products is not enough.
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Macon wants more policemen.
Burglars are about to steal the
badges off the present cops and a
S. 0. S. call has gone out for help.
There is one saving grace about
the contest in the city primary.
It will take the mind of the vo
ters off of other things for a
brief spell.
R. L. Duke is now editor of the
Griffin News and Sun. He is an
experienced newspaper man and
under his direction the Griffin pa
per will maintain a high standard.
The friends of Mr. Duke will con
gratulate him upon his promotion.
The Augusta Chronicle, the
oldest southern newspaper, has
just completed a handsome ten
story building. The Chronicle is
one of the best papers in the en
tire state and is to be congratula
ted upon this stroke of enterprise.
Congress fell down flat when
it had an opportunity to help the
cotton growers. Now that that
body is in session it is hoped no
more advice will be dished out to
the people of this section. The
southern people are going to work
out their own salvation and have
bad enough advice already from
vote-hunting politicians.
Co-operate —Don’t Ju& * alk
About Co-operation
All around you, all the time,
Mr. Farmer, there are opportu
nities for the sort of co-operation
that will pay directly in cash—
dollars and cents. Some oppor
tunities that exist in nearly ev
ery neighborhood and are wait
ing for nearly every farmer in
the South are as follows:
1. Almost every month and
every week you buy some kind of
farm supplies it would pay you
to buy in co-operation with your
neighbors.
2. You ought right now to be
selling or storing cotton, tobacco,
peanuts or apples in co-operation
with your neighbors.
3. Having before us not only
the golden opportunity but the
imperative necessity for raising
more livestock in the South, you
should right now join with your
neighbor to get royal-blooded
breeding sires and to join in mar
keting animals or meats.
4. Read in this issue how
neighbors in other sections are
co-operating in the purchase and
use of improved implements and
machinery and figure out the
money making opportunity you
are missing here.
5. For marketing poultry,
eggs, butter, fruit, vegetables,
meats, etc., every farmer should
be a member of some co-opera
tive fruit exchange like that at
Sylvester, Ga.
6. Every farmer should have
his house and stock insured in
the mutual insurance company.
7. In every neighborhood
there should be a farmers’ credit
society for pooling farmers' sav
ings and lending to one another
in a safe manner.
8. Whenever anew cotton gin
saw mill, grain mill, creamery,
tobacco prizery, threshing ma
chine, or cottonseed oil mill is
needed in a neighborhood should
be owned by the farmers and run
on the co-operative, patronage
plan, so that profits will go back
to the farmers.—The Progressive
Farmer.
A CHRISTMAS FOR SANTA CLAUS
High School Auditorium Dec. 15,7:30
ttuartette, Over Hill and Dale. Engleman
Mieses Kate Lyons, Bessie Compton,
Anna M. Powers, Thelma Wood.
Musical Play by Children
ACT I
The Search for Santa Claus
Music
Readings, Bud’s Fairy Tale.
Miss Pace
ACT II
The Wonderful Present for Santa
Cast of Characters
Norman \ Mortal children looking f Helen Haskins
Dorothy I for Santa Clans \ Maggie O’Neal
Santa Claus Avon Gaston
Jack Frost.. Leonard Lyons
Erminia, Queen of Fairies Nita Wright
Christmas Joy Martha Oxford
White Cat - Mabel Harmon
Children of the Nations: Wayne Johnson, Spencer
Woodward, Grady Quinn, Judson Harmon,
Marion Barron, IraThaxton, L. B. Watkins,
Reuben Thomas, Miriam Fletcher, Maggie J.
O’Neal, Helen Haskins, Louis Conner, Sara
Arenson, Mollie Tingle.
Frost Spirits: Lucy Nichols, Lucile Jones, Eloiss
Beauchamp, Sara Redman, Lucy Stodghill,
Mary L. Martin,
Snowflakes -
Tableau Chorus: Doris Nutt, Leila Sams, Ocie J.
Meredith, Sylvia Lyons, Kate Lyons, Naidint
Leach, Birdinette Manley.
Under direction of Miss Venita Dudgeon, as
asisted by Miss Bessie Waldrop and Miss Ezra
Morrison.
Danger in Following Imprac
ticable Plans
There is an old-story of a war
rior-king who prayed, 0 Lord,
save, me from my friends; 111
look after my enemies.”
The cotton farmers of the south
might well have prayed a simu
lar prayer in recent weeks. If
we could have kept down the
foolish schemes proposed by so
called friends of the farmer,
there would have been less trou
ble in licking their enemies. The
wild schemes proposed by some
Southerners at Washington sim
ply drove away from us the sup
port of conservative and sensible
men who might have stood with
us. Asa rule it is not the man
who proposes .the biggest and
most alluring scheme we need to
follow, but the man who presents
a moderate and well-considered
program. “It looks to me, ” said
one farmer to us recently, “as if
some of these agitators really
were enemies in disguise —seek-
ing to discredit the farmers
course by their wildcat proposi
tions.”
We ought always to remember
that the farmers will get influ
ence in Washington or anywhere
else in proportion as they are
represented by men who have a
knowledge of fundamental prin
ciples of economics, history and
government, and whose propos
als are in accord with such prin
ciples. And the worst enemy of
our people is the man who pro
poses a wild and impracticable
scheme merely because he thinks
it will please them. By follow
ing such demagogues with will
o’-the-wisp schemes our farmers
in all times have suffered incal
culably.
gives us the fable of the
dog which, crossing a stream,
dropped a bone to run for its
shadow; and it’s a good story to
think about when any-law-to
cure-all-your-troubles is present
ed. When we run off after im
practicable plans of reform we
simply lose the chance to get
practicable reform. —The Pro
gressive Farmer.
TO
OUR
CUSTOMERS
On accounts due us we will take
Wheat, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed,
Baled Hay, Peas, Hogs, Cows, etc.,
at market prices. If you haven’t the
cash bring us your produce and we
will credit your account. We
our customers will take advantage of
this opportunity to settle what they
owe us.
This offer is good until further
notice.
SLATON DRUG CO.
The Stores
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
Man Who Knows How
Wagner’s Garage.
Money to Loan
On Cotton, Farm Lands and Gity Property
AT LEGAL RATE. EASY TERMS.
s. H. EISEMAN.
See me at J. Arenaon’s, Harknes. Budding.