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mns county progress
W Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year,
Entered as second-class matter, Novem
ber 8, 1'.(07, at the postofßceat Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. 166.
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respondents will please confine them
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but as an evidence of good faith.
Here’s to 1915.
Now for business.
Pay up and start the year right.
If you made ’em you’ll enjoy
breaking ’em.
The weather man made it a
wet Christmas.
May the new year b|ing you
everything you want.
This is the day when father
will get the bills, bills, bills.
Better plan right now to make
this a hog and hominy year.
Here’s to the new Butts county
officers who assume charge today.
Settle up. Then settle down
and get busy at something use
ful.
The Macon Telegraph’s editor
ial page gets brighter with each
issue.
This is The Progress’ birthday.
The paper is now entering its
thirty-third year.
It was a safe and sane Christ
mas in Jackson. Let’s make
them all that way.
The W. C. T. U. finds in hard
times a sure enough ally in the
fight on old booze.
Start the new year right by
making up your mind to patron
ize home enterprises.
The man who pets the business
this year is the man who adver
tises and goes out after it.
The Telegraph says the sale of
near beer will be stopped in Ma
con. How about the real article?
Some improved streets would
be an appreciated gift on the
part of the citizens of Jackson.
Forget not for a moment that
Jackson needs a wheat mill and
must have it before the year is
far gone.
If Uncle Sam hasn’t an ade
quate navy what in thunder has
gone with all the money appro
priated for that purpose?
Cut out war talk and stop
thinking about the war. Plan
your year’s work just .as if the
war had never been hoard of.
One resolution Js ou ought to
make and stick is to do a
Hjiajfs size job If pulling and
.■feting for yoiawCommunity.
While the people are practicing
economy themselves, they are
going to expect a year of the
most rigid economy on the part
of their public officials and a low
er tax rate next fall.
The Butts County Progress is
the only paper on our exchange
list that printed a fancy Christ
mas edition. It was good work
and well supplied with home ad
vertising and makes Jackson
stand out ahead of the other cit
ies.—Wilkinson County Banner.
The Christmas editions of the
Butts County Progress and the
Tattnal Journal were creditable
editions. It shows that the
merchants and business men of
these two towns are still after
the business. —Covington News.
Concerning Georgia
Georgia contains 37,000,000
acres. The tatal acreage in cot
ton in all the South in J 914 was
approximately 37,000,000. Think
of it—if the necessity should ev
er arise for it Georgia could sup
ply the present needs of the
world in cotton. Of course all of
her lands won’t grow cotton to
advantage and profit, but intense
cultivation of her real cotton
acreage would produce sixteen
million bales annually. Her crop
this year is about 3,000,000 bales
grown on 5,000,000 acres.
The 16,000,000 bales grown in
the South this year would have
had the effect of putting the price
down to 10 cents or less if there
had been no war. Experience
demonstrates that other crops
must be grown if any kind of
profit is to be secured on the cot
ton crop. With the immense
possibilities of Georgia’s cotton
production it may be seen that
we cannot continue the develop
ment of the cotton acreage to the
exclusion of other crops.
Georgia’s crops for 1910
amounted to two hundred and
twenty-six million dollars, and
66 per cent of this was cotton.
Out of every hundred farms in
the state 87 grew corn.
There were 295,000 farms in
Georgia in 1910 averaging 92
acres each. Fifteen thousand of
these farms had not a domestic
animal on them.
There were 106,000 negro ten
ant farmers, and 84,000 white
tenant farmers.
There were 83,000 white farm
ers owning land, and 16,000 ne
gro fanners owning land.
There was one hog for every
18 acres of land in the state.
There was one chicken for each
7 acres of land in Georgia.
There was one dairy cow for
every 87 acres.
There was one sheep for each
175 acres.
There was one mule or horse
for every 84 acres.
There was one bushel of corn
for every acre of land in the
state.
Georgia bought butter, eggs
and chickens in 1912 to the value
of $48,000,000. Her food pur
chases totaled $172,000,000 and
her total crop production approx
imately s2so,ooo,ooo.—Macon
Telegraph.
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Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propertiesof QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
HARD TIMES
What makes hard times? Men
tal attitude. Hard times in this
country at least is more an imag
inary disease of the mind than
the actual fact. Hard times have
always existed and always will.
It is a disease that causes people
to live on the dark side, borrow
trouble and cultivate disgruntle.
Some people, whether rich or
poor, it makes no difference, are
affected with this malady all the
time, others temporarily, and the
whole nation breaks out with the
great epidemic every presiden
tial year. What brings it on?
Talk. An abnormal mental con
dition. Conditions are no worse
during presidential years than
other years, except that the poli
ticians and editors get up a great
bugaboo that does have a tremen
dous effect. Not because there
is any less corn or oats or wheat
or money, or any reason for a
scare, but because people think
there’s reason, and it is what
people think, not actuul conditions
that makes the difference. As
right thinking determines the
success of the individual, so does
it determine the success of the
country. Send out the cry “hard
times” and let enough people
take it up and it paralyzes the
industries of a nation. “Hard
times” has a good many relatives
Its the twin brother of the
“blues.’’The “blues” is a mental
disease which saps the very life
out of a person. When once the
“blues” gets possession they de
throne hope, stifle courage, par
alyze ambition, impair digestion,
check circulation, hinder assimi
lation, poison the system, ruin
the personality, kill the desire to
work, and fall like a blighting
curse on every virtue. Thinking
“hard time* 7 ’ makes “hard
times.” Thinking failure makes
failure, and thinking the whole
world is against one makes it so.
—Ex.
True Aristocracy
These are some of the marks
of the Elect, the Chosen People,
the Aristocracy, the real Upper
Class.
They are clean. They keep
their bodies clean of dirt, their
minds clean of prejudice, and
their spirits clean of superstition.
They have strong passions,
strictly disciplined.
Their mind is clearest and their
courage highest in the presence
of danger. While they may not
always think correctly, they
think clearly.
They do right because it is a
pleasure, and have passed the
apprenticeship of struggle.
Their opinion or belief cannot
be coerced by authority or se
duced by desire. Their intellect
is as ethical as their conduct.
Love is the greatest thing in
the world; but to them there is a
greater thing—loyalty. They
are efficient. They make good;
they do not explain why they
could not.
To their employes they are
just and reasonable; to their em
ployer they are intelligently obe
dient.
They regulate themselves
strictly; they have no wish at
all to regulate others.
They love people, learn some
thing from everyone they meet,
and despise no human being.
They are characterized by sim
plicity lin dress, in speech, in
house aVid at table. They under
stand the vulgarity of luxury.
They sfeek justice as the true
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 trutffc
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 Storm
Man
iMgMW practical mechanical knowledge is
I absolutely necessary, and it takes
time to acquire the necessary skill.
X We make a specialty of Automobile
repairs of aN kinds, and also keep a
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
charity, paying fair wages rather
than giving alms, changing evil
economic conditions rather than
doling bread. They bear no
grudges and never seek revenge.
Their superiority is never ex
clusive; the greater, stronger,
and better they become the more
warmly humane they grow.
These are the EI M
Frank Crane.
Piles Cured In OjM
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