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Bins COINTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter, Novem
ber 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are 'velcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to 300 words, as communications
ever 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
Honesty is the best policy.
When is a progressive not a
progressive?
Let’s make 1915 a Georgia
Products year.
At last accounts the President
was an animated grandfather.
The weather man is among
those not in favor of good roads.
Butts county ought not to hes
itate about securing the farmers
institute.
It is the weather more than the
war that has had business on the
blink recently.
Business is getting better and
now is a good time to sow your
crop of advertising.
Spalding wants to vote bonds
and get on a cash basis. A good
program for the other counties of
Georgia.
The census bureau shows that
the number of live stock is in
creasing, but there is room for
more. Raise some hogs and cat
tle and mules and horses.
If the government would cut
out the pension graft and stop
appropriating millions to clean
out creeks and lagoons then the
little war stamp could be elimi
nated.
Between g-r-a-n-d opera and
near sensational divorce cases,
the Atlanta papers do not have
time or space to print the real,
clean, wholesome news of Geor
gia in which Georgians are most
interested.
In the death of Hon. C. S. Mad
dox. superintendent of schools,
the boys and girls of Butts have
lost a real friend, the cause of
education an earnest advocate
and the community one of its
most useful citizens.
' It is good news to hear that the
county commissioners of the state
will give preference to Georgia
products in purchasing supplies.
This will encourage the growing
of food stuffs at home and is a
step in the right direction.
The grand jury can do the tax
payers a real service by urging
the pruning of all unnecessary
expense. If the individual has
to practice economy, and there is
none to deny that fact, then it is
just as important that the public
business be handled with prudent
economy.
SIX 1915 RESOLUTIONS FOR OUR FARMERS.
1. Realizing that a fertile soil is the basis of all agricultural
wealth, I resolve that my lands shall be stopped from washing
away, that I shall grow winter and summer legumes to add to my
soil fertilizer bills, and that I shall carefully save every pound of
barnvard manure.
2. Knowing that the individual or the community that de
pends on buying bread and meat and feed from sections that can
not grow these products as cheaply as we can, will never mean
more than soil poverty and human poverty, I mean hence forth to
make my farm a self-sustaining farm, with a good living for my
family and myself as its primary business.
3. Buying and selling constitute an important element in mak
ing the farm profitable, and that these may be done most effect
ively and economically, I pledge myself to make an effort to co-op
erate with my neighbors in buying and selling in quantities so that
merchants may give us better rates, and in grading and marketing
farm products so as to get better prices, but also in buying and us
ing improved machinery and in getting better sires for improving
our livestock.
4. Understanding that there can be no power without knowl
edge, no material or moral progress without adequate training, I
mean to do my part toward having a local school as a neighborhood
center for community development and enlightment. To do this I
realize the necessity for suitable buildings and grounds, for good
teachers, and for such consolidation and rearrangement of districts
as is necessary to furnish adequate support not only for a strong
school but for all the agencies of a richer community life. For the
attainment of these I pledge my untiring efforts.
5. Our farm must be a home, rather than a mere place to live
and in order that mother’s work may be lightened and made more
joyous, in order that our boys and girls may learn to know and
cleave to the wholesomeness of life in the country, I resolve to
equip our home with all the labor-saving improvements possible, to
see that there is an abundance of healthful reading matter, and to
encourage neighborhood games, athletic contests and social
intercourse.
6. And finally, knowing that success in these things can only
come after persistent, untiring effort, I hereby enlist for life as a
worker in making my farm and my community as good as the best
—places that shall be sweet to live in and good to know—The Pro
gressive Farmer.
FEDERAL PENSIONS
Out of over two million soldiers on the union side in the Civil
War less than a quarter of a million survive today, yet the federal
pension roll is higher than it has ever been in the history of the
country, and is climbing higher every year. It would be hard for
one to imagine the abuses that are permitted by the Pension Bureau
unless he has lived, or spent considerable time in the north, east
or west. We know of men who were in the service but 90 days,
and did not smell burning powder, yet they have been drawing for
years monthly pensions of thirty, forty, fifty and as high as sixty
dollars per month.
Writing upon this subject the World’s Work in a recent issue
said:
“About 30,000 bills are introduced in every session of congress,
covering the numerous and complicated interests that affect nearly
100,000,000 American citizens. Of these 30,000 bills only one-third,
or about 10,000 concern the nation’s larger affairs. The remaining
two-thirds, or 20,000, affect a small minority—less than 800,000 of
the American people. This minority, however, is the most per
sistent and successful private interest in the United States. They
are chiefly survivors of a federal war that ended fifty years ago.
By the aid of their 20,000 bills, they annually take about $174,000,-
000 out of the federal treasury. A single measure, passed two
years ago, increased our pension expenditures $25,000,000, and the
legislative calendar is constantly choked with bills that would add
still more to the pension budget. The veterans of the civil war
are dying at the rate of 35,000 a year; one hundred pass away ev
eryday. For nearly fifty years the republican party has fostered
this pension habit, reducing it to a regular system of exchanging
the old soldier’s vote for a free franking privilege on the federal
treasury.
“Until 1912, all the vicious pension laws have been republican
laws. Grover Cleveland’s was the! only administration that had
set itself against this abuse. When the democrats again secured
possession of the house in 1912, therefore the country expected
something in the way of a reform. In fact the Democratic party
has far outdistanced the republican record in pension debauchery.
It has passed outrageous laws that the republicans had refused to
put on the statute book. Only republican opposition has prevented
even more shame-faced raids upon the federal treasury.”
Little Tommie and Hoke de
serted the administration ranks
on the ship purchase bill. Yet
we were told that they were per
fectly good “progressive" demo
crats and would pull with the
President like a yoke of oxen.
Can it be that the supply of pie
has been exhausted?
The people of Atlanta have
$60,000 to spend for dago grand
opera while the large list of un
employed walks the streets and
wonders where the next meal is
coming from. If this is the At
lanta spirit we are glad we have
none of it.
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6ASES OR INOIGESTION
Each “Pape’s Diapepsin”
Digests 3000 Grains Food
Ending All Stomach Mis
ery in Five Minutes.
Time it! In five minutes all
stomach distress will go. No in
digestion, heartburn, sourness or
belching of gas, acid, or eructa
tions of undigested food, no diz
ziness, bloating, foul breath or
headache.
Pape’s Diapepsin is noted for
its speed in regulating upset
Seeds Fop
Spring
Planting
Buy your seeds of all kinds from the old
reliable seed store of Jackson Slaton Drug
Cos. This tore has been in the seed business
longer than any other seed store in the coun
ty. We have always given our customers
satisfaction by selling them only the
seeds the American markets afford.
Our Seeds Are Fresh
And not brought over from last season.
You are therefore insured a thorough stand
and a prolific production when you plant
our seeds. Don’t take any chances on cheap
and unreliable seeds.
SLATON DRUG CO.
The Store
The Man Who Knows How
ft to put an auto in shape “is not nu
merous” but there are plenty who
practical mechanical knowledge is
1 absolutely necessary, and it takes
SITjPNJ time to acquire the necessary skill.
W e make a specialty of Automobile
repairs of all kinds, and also keep a
Undertakers and Embalmers
Oldest and Most Efficient
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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
stomachs. It is the surest, quick
est stomach remedy in the whole
world and besides it is harmless.
Put an end to stomach trouble
forever by getting a large fifty
cent case of Pape’s Diapepsin
from any drug store. You real-
ize in five minutes how needless
it is to suffer from indigestion,
dyspepsia or any stomach disor
der. It’s the quickest, surest
and most harmless stomach doc
tor in the world.