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THE JACKSON ARGUS
Telephone U 9.
Published every Friday at SI.OO a year.
Kntered at Jackson Postoflice as second class
mall matter.
E. W. CARROLL. Editor and Publisher
MRS. E. W. CARROLL, - Manager
Official Organ ok Butts County
JACKSON, GA„ FEB. 28, 1913.
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Argus receives, almost dally,
unsigned communications. We are
glad to receive them, but tor our own
protection cannot publish unless
there is a signature, which will be
withheld unless otherwise requested
by the writer.
A newspaper is doing well these
days if it pleases any of the people
any of the time. For that reason
the sensible editor “hews to the
line, let the chips fall where they
may.”
The cash register trust magnates
have been sentenced to prison, but
many of those who have a monop
oly on that which goes in cash reg
isters are still roaming around loose,
seeking whom they may devour.
Just Parcel Post.
One instance is reported where
a prune shipper in California pro
posed to ship that fruit in eight
pound boxes, and under the par
cel post rate would amount to 96
cents per box. The express com
panies, which formerly have had a
monopoly of shipments of this
character, cut the rate to 35 cents.
This fact will no doubt stimulate
many other shippers to pack their
products iu containers coming with
in the weight allowed by the par
cel post (eleven pounds being the
limit of weight permitted in pack
ages). The express, companies, in
order to maintain their business,
will be compelled to meet the par
cel post rate, or, as in the instance
given, cut below it Indications
are that the parcel post is striking
a harder blow at the express mo
nopoly than was anticipated.—Kx.
Two bricks of the same weight,
from the same man, to the same
address, were shipped from New
York to Chicago, one bv parcel
post and one by express. The post
package came first, and the cost
was 37 cents; the cost of the ex
press package, delivered later, was
60 cents.
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Suggests the old fsmilliar saying “Spring turns the young man’s fancy to
thoughts of love,” which rapidly promotes thoughts more serious and sweet—
of w eddings and wedding rings,
JOSEPH EDWARDS
knows rbout it. Cali and “let him give you a few suggestions.”
“Refused.”
But while the man who “stops
his paper” is simply a gump who
can hurt no one but himself, the
dead beat does hurt, because lie
repudiates his honest debts, and,
in so doing, resorts to the most
contemptible form of swindling.
An exchange deals with one of this
class as follows:
“ ‘Refuse Notice.’ Kvery editor
has received* them. The postmaster
sends them to the editor. For in
stance, there is a man by the name
of, we’ll say John Brine, whe re
fused to take his paper out of the
postoffice. He did not want it any
longer, and we wondered what was
the matter. I'pon investigation of
our subscription book we found
that John was short about $5.70.
He had stopped the paper as a
matter of economy to us. A few
evenings ago we went to church
and John’s melodious voice rang
out loud and clear in that soul
stirring song, ‘Jesus Paid It All.t
We might have been mistaken, bu’
bis earnestness impressed us. The
next day we sent him a receipt in
full, begging his pardon for not
knowing he had made arrange
ments for his liabilities iu. that
manner.”
Would Teach Pupils to Read
Newspapers.
H. R. Pattengill, former Super
intendent of Public Instruction,
Detroit, Michigan, in an address
last week, advocated that every
school should take some newspa
per, and that pupils be required to
pick out the educational features
and instructed how to read news
papers to get the most benefit from
them. He declared that even the
stories of heroism found nearly
every day in newspapers could be
used to good advantage by kinder
garten and first grade teachers in
teaching little children the right
spirit.
Hip-Pocket Legislation.
Following is the substance of a
bill just introduced iu the Ohio
Legislature:
‘‘Whoever carries a pistol, bowie
knife, dirk or other dangerous
weapon concealed on or about his
person shall be imprisoned in the
penitentiary not more than five
years nor less than one year.”
We cauuot possibly become too
drastic in legislating against the
hip-pocket weapotn Every State
in the Union is grappling with this
problem.
Just what the Georgia Legisla
ture will be able to do cannot be
foretold. That it will make earnest
effort to secure a law that can be
readily enforced is known. That
there is a demand for the strictest
ft
enforcement will be made so plain
that from the highest to the most
humble officer in Georgia there will
not be not one who will daredisobey
that demand. The punishment for
violation must be so severe that no
citizen will dare, for fear of that
punishment, if for no other reason,
to disregard the law. The hip
nooket must go, and the sooner the
better.—Columbus Ledger.
Georgia solons will do well to
adept the Ohio measure. Such a
law, if enforced, will greatly min
imize the pistol-toting evil.
CAPITAL NOTES
BY F. G. GILREATH.
TAX-DODOINO CREATES
ANOMALOUS SITUATION
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27.—That
a number of counties in Georgia
are receiving more money in their
pensions and school appropriations
than they are paying into the State
treasury in taxes is shown by the
totals just compiled in the pension
office and in the State treasury de
partment respectively. This anom
alous fact exists iu spite ol the fact
that these counties are prosperous
and thriving. The present inade
quate system of arriving at tax re
turns is held to blame. While the
State has been doing more and
more every year for its citizens iu
the matter of pensions, schools, ag
ricultural development and special
educational work, the tax returns
in some sections have been almost
at a standstill, and people are still
paying the same taxes on very
much under-valued property that
they paid years ago. One of the
efforts of the incoming administra
tion, it is understood, will be to
ward tax reform, not in the sense
of inflicting high taxation upon
Georgia, bht in equalizing taxes
and seeing that there is a just and
reasonable increase in taxes paid
into the State to keep pace with
the ever-increasing benefits which
aecruetothecitizens from the State.
The figures compiled this month at
the capitol show that the full appro
priations to the counties of Georgia
for 1912 were $2,517,267.88, while
the pension appropriations to the
counties were $1,193,444.10. The
amount paid into the treasury by
the counties for 1911 was $3,668,-
531.34.
SOUTHERN FIRE INSURANCE
CONCERNS PROSPERING
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27.—Satur
day of this week, March Ist, is the
last day set under the Georgia in
surance law for the filing of annual
reports of Southern insurance (com
panies doing business in Georgia
with State Insurance Commissioner
W. A. Wright. Practically all of
the reports are already in, and al
though the figures are not yet com
plete, the general results may be
accurately estimated at this time.
The reports show a general increase
in business in Georgia, particularly
among the Southern fire insurance
companies. Georgia has several
companies of her own which have
remarkable records, and figures on
file at the capitol show that assets
have climbed up, while losses have
gone down. Insurance officials here
believe that the preaching in all
lines of business of the “keep
money-at-home” doctrine is now
having its fruitful results in the
growth and prosperity of Southern
institutions. This movement to
awaken among all people of the
South the economic advantage of
patronizing home industries was
started a couple of years ago by
the Association of Southern Fire
Insurance Companies, which has
a membership extending from Vir
ginia to Florida, including repre
sentatives of more than a score of
leading companies. This associa
tion will meet in Atlanta within the
next few weeks to elect officers for
the coming year.
Additional factors of increased
growth, as shown in the report of
the State Commissioners, are the
fact that business generally is good,
that soundness and conservatism
prevail, that mercantile stocks are
not expanding, and that collections
are prompt and prospects all en
couraging.
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