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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. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to ?Q0 words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith.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. Whenever Ycxi Need a General Tonic 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 Your druggist ?• OINTMENT fails to core ; ;:c =i: . u g ’■ - -