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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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith.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. SOUR, ACID STOMACHS, 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. 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