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THE JACKSON ARGUS
Telephone 119.
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E. W. CARROLL. Editor and Publisher
MRS. E. W. CARROLL, - Manafer
Official Organ of Butts County
JACKSON, GA., MARCH 14,1913.
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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Argus receives, almost <!aily,
unsigned communications. NVe are
glad to receive them, but tor our own
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by the writer.
“This is not a day of tri
umph. It is a day of dedica
tion Here muster, not the
forces of party, but the forces
of humanity. Men’s hearts
wait upon us; men’s lives
hang in the balance; men’s
hopes call upon us tosay what
we will do. Shall we live np
to this great trust? Who dares
fail to try? I summon all hon
est men, all patriotic, all for
ward looking men to my side.
God help me, I will not fail
them if they will but counsel
and sustain me.”—Woodrow
Wilson, March Ith.
Buying for the Baby.
In devising business - getting
methods one of the Chicago mail
order houses has sprung anew one
that needs to be watched by retail
ers, as the scheme, in the disguise
of “something for nothing,” pro
duces a fine bait for prospective
customers. The new scheme is the
“Baby Book.” It is free —this
book telling in detail the baby’s
every need. All any person has
to do to possess a copy is to write
the mail order house, and the beau
tiful little volume, neatly done up
and postpaid, is shortly received.
Now, what this book really con
tains is the nice things that can be
provided for the baby and just what
the mail order house charges for
them. In fact, it is a catalog, but
mail order advertising bestows upon
it a nicer sounding name, the “Baby
Book.” One reason it does not have
to be given such a commercial term
as cat alog is that it contains ‘ 'many
helpful suggestions for the fond
mother” in the matter of selecting
beautiful and appropriate clothing
for her baby.
Tlie “ Baby Book" of the Chicago
mail order house may lie a beauti
ful little volume, and be sent
promptly upon request and post-1
paid and all that, but the fond
mothers of “our town” should re
member that if they keep on buy
ing clothes for the baby or other
clothes from big city mail order
houses and do not patrdnize local
merchants, who keep as nice de
signs, just as good quality and at
as low prices as the mail ordei
houses, “our town” will go to
the l>owwows commercially, and
“Dad,” the income producer, won't
have job enough left to buy any
sort of clothes, mail order or other
wise. The baby and the rest of the
houeshold will be in a bad way.
How to Get Rid of the
House Fly.
The fly is a nuisance beside
being a carrier of infectious dis
eases, and the attempt to exter
minate it needs no justification.
How one can make one’s home,
town or city flyless is described by
C. F. Hodge, of Clark University,
Worcester, Mass. He says that
the American public spends $lO,-
000,000 a year for window and
door screens in a futile attempt to
exclude a lively insect which in
sists on getting into the house every
time the doors are opened. lie be
lieves also that the method of swat
ting the flies, paper or in
door traps or poisoils is ineffective,
but may help. 11 is method is to
make use in various ways of the
conical wire-mesh fly-trap, which
is familiar to almost every one, in
such a way as to turn the tables on
the flies and “put them in jail and
let ourselves out.” The plan in
volves, of course, the abolition as
far as possible of all breeding and
feeding-places for flies and the ap
plication of the fly-trap mentioned
above to the garbage-can, to the
screens on windows, to the covers
on manure-bins, etc,, all of which
can be done by a little mechanical
ingenuity. Garbage-cans are on
the market which have a cover
larger than the can and not fitting
down closely on it so that the flies
gain access to the can under the
cover and escape through a hole in
the cover over which is fixed a fly
trap. In fighting the fly, Hodge
lias found that the essentials of a
successful campaign are to transfer
the fight against the fly from the
house to outdoors, and then to ex
terminate it. Another essential fea
ture in a town or city is that house
holds must co-operate. One ignor
ant or careless home can breed flies
enough to vitiate the best endeav
ors of a whole toivn. Hodge has
succeeded in his neighborhood in
practically eliminating flies; he uses
110 screens in windows and doors,
and can sit outdoors or have win
dows and doors open at any time
without molestation. As flies begin
to breed early in the spring and as
they breed with marvelous rapidity,
the time to arrange for a fly-cam
paign is in the winter.
C. 0. D. PARCEL POST.
(Continued from First Page.)
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sponsible for errors made by send
ers in stating the collection charges,
or for any misunderstanding be
tween senders and addressees re
garding the character of the con
tents of a parcel.
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KEYNOTE OF TEACHERS’
INSTITUTE WORK
(Continued from First Page.)
may attend these schools, irre
spective of whether they go from
them to engage in their life work
or continue their work in other
schools. But it seems best that the
course of study be framed with ref
erence to fitting the pupil to his
work and environment. More em
phasis should be placed on specific
training, fitting the children for
activities in life, not with the in
tention of making them farmers
or housekeepers, etc., but interest
them in farming and housekeeping
and problems connected with these
and other vocations. To do this
we should eliminate much from the
crowded geography, grammar, ar
ithmetic and other studies. Instead
of drilling so much on the bays,
gulfs and straits of Kurasia, Amer
ica, Africa and Australia, Mr.
Cowan, our Director in Corn Club
work and farming in general, ad
vised us to teach more in the field
of agriculiure. We are an agricul
tural people, therefore, he justly
claimed that there should be de
manded a knowledge of agricul
tural science, of agricultural prac
tice, and some skill in applying
this knowledge.
Instead of drilling so much on
casual and modal conjunctions and
other fine and perplexing points iii
grammar which can never be of
any service to the child, introduce
something more helpful in the field
of manual training; or instead of
stressing cube root, compound pro
portion and parts of other divisions
of study in arithmetic, introduce
something in the field of domestic
science and economy with such
work as to embrace the acquiring
of truths and principles essential
as a basis for the administration of
home activities. Undoubtedly, a
strict text-book performance is
helpful to some extent as a source
of stimuli, though ii has no other
value. So instead of this we can
use more industrial matter, which
is of equal value for the same pur
pose and possessing value for usa
ble knowledge.
What we should do is to teach
less for forgetfulness than we have
in the past.
Another subject emphasized was
“The Standard School,” in the dis
cussion of which considerable time
was given to playgrounds or yards.
It is impossible to develop the best
in the child at a school which is
divorced from taste and devoid of
all comfort. It is easier to enforce
habits of neatness and order among
objects whose taste and value make
them worthy of care. Lef the
teachers and committees now so
anxious to raise their respective
schools to the standard school, ven
ture the experiment of adornment
of grounds and buildings devoted
to it.
Yours, for better and standard
schools, W. 11. Key,
Secretary.
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