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THE JACKSON ARGUS
Telephone 119.
Published every Friday at 1.00 a year.
Entered at Jackson Posioflice as second class
mall matter.
E. W. CARROLL, EdHor and Publisher
MRS. E. W. CARROLL, - Manager
Official Organ ok Bi tth County
JACKSON, GA., APRIL 4, 1913.
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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Argus receives, almost daily,
utisigiuHl 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 tlie writer.
They Play On Eoth Strings
A Cincinnati liquor dealer is
quoted as saying that the enforce
ment of the Webb bill will mean
the loss to that city of from $7,(X)0,-
000 to $10,000,000 annually. Some
of the liquor dealers ought to take
this man in hand. For have not
the liquor men been saying all the
time that prohibition does not pro
hibit, and that since the prohibi
tion laws have been enacted the
liquor drinking has increased? The
liquor men seem to have the habit
of playing on at least two strings—
one sings the song of the useless
ness of prohibition and the other
the hurtfulness of prohibitive leg
islation. Meantime prohibition
marches on.
Where It Hurts.
The Argus is not in a position to
say just bow much money is sent
out of Jackson and Butts county to
buy things that could be bought
here at home. We know there is
some.
The important thing is whether
the amouut that is being sent away
is less or more, decreasing or in
creasing. If the percentage of
such money is decreasing, very
well. If it is increasing, we’re in
in a bad way.
If it was 5 per ceut year before
list and 7 per cent last year, and
is likely to be 10 per cent this year,
it is easy to see which way this
community is going. It that kind
of trading is increasing, the value
of property tin this community is
decreasing.. No question about
t'- i
sTba bleeding of patieuts has
bfeu discontinued —in many local
ities the bleeding of towns goes on.
There are people who are saving
ceuts in price and losing dollars in
quality, and incidentally decreas
ing the value of their property and
their labor.
Some people realize that mail
order buyiug hurts the local mer
chant, but they say there is no
reason why they should worry
about him. Certainly not. What
they ought to worry’ about is tuem
-SJLVES.
SPRING PESTS.
The warm spring sunshine has brought out the lizards and the
other sun-loving insects, including the Immortal Sous of Rest.
Any day, unless you happen to pass by at meal time, you can find
this corps of worthy citizens sitting around sunning themselves
like lizards or like hound dogs in the spring time. In addition to
the sun bath, their day’s work consists of consuming three meals
and satisfying their own stomachs; chewing one plug of tobacco
and satisfying their own whim, and whittling one stick and satis
fying their own idle natures. They do the community much good.
They are ornaments. And no doubt they pride themselves very
much thereon.
The only portion of these men’s anatomy which is ever busy
is their tongues, and they seem to be loose at both ends and loose
iu more senses of the word than one. For there is continual com
plaint among the ladies of the town against the lowerings and
gossipings of these idle, unmanly roosters with female cackling
tongues. Now, a male gossip is a thousand times worse than a
female gossip, even if he is a rarer specimen. His tongue sneers
and sears.
It is a pity that when a male gossip allows words of wisdom
to trickle from his lips, his hearers don’t) consider the source and
enjoy the joke. But they don’t; they take up the tale and hand
it on. There is where the nuisance comes iu; for these men, talk
ing among themselves, would be of no more consequence than the
wind in an empty barrel.
The citizens might pass a law cutting down the supply of this
gossip factory or abolishing it altogether. At any rate, consider
able revenue could be derived from selling seats around the mon
ument and other hang outs at one dollar. Then, too, if seats were
sold at these places, some of the habitues might go to work (for a
change) and try to make the price of admission, for it seems that
if they would work for anything, they would work to satisfy this,
their highest ambition, which is to sit and sit and cackle and cackle
while they roost around all day.
A man that will sit around and vitiate his energies and smirch
others with his idle talk, not only has no place in this busy-day
world, but is a fit object for the vagrancy law, whether he be black
or white in skin, for he certainly is black in character. The town
doesn’t need him; he is no good to his friends, not much good to
his family, and would be precious little good to himself if his
tougue were amputated.
The Home Town.
People seldom stop to cousider
how much their town means to
them. They take it too much for
granted, and in counting up their
blessings make a superficial inven
tory that fails to credit the source
from which many of their dearest
benefits flow. It is easy to over
look the home toWn in summing up
the sources of one’s happiness be
cause the town is such a large, all
enveloping thing—so large, it: fact,
that it’s hard to see—and the citi
zen blindly draws sustenance from
it like an infant from its mother.
Traced to their source most of life’s
blessings will be found to |have
their root in that exaggeration of
human beings and human interests
known as a town. The town is the
unit of modern civilization and is
the channel through which civili
zation confers its benefits. There
is scarcely a phase of civilization
that does not find direct and spe
cific expression in the life and or
ganization of a town that is large
enough to have a school, a court
house, a library, a bank, a mill or
factory, a church, a waterworks, a
AFFIDAVIT.
Statement of the ownership,
management, etc., of The
Jackson Argus, published
weekly at Jackson, Ga., as
required by the Act of Con
gress of August 24, 1012.
Editor, E. W- Carroll, Jack
son, Ga.
Managing Editor, Mrs.
E. W. Carroll, Jackson, Ga.
Business Manager, Mrs. E.
W. Carroll, Jackson, Ga.
Publisher, E. W. Carroll,
Jackson, Ga.
Owner (not a corporation).
Estate of Mrs. A. H. Shaver,
H. Y. McCord, Administrator,
Atlanta, Ga.
Bondholders, mortgages,
etc., none.
Mrs. E. W. Carroll.
Sworn to and subscribed be
fore me this 31st day of March,
1913.
S. J. Foster, C. S. C.
B. C. Ga.
brass band, a newspaper and a rail
road station. Representing educa
tion, jurisprudence, literature,
finance, industry, religion, hygi
ene, art, and the speedy distribu
tion of intelligence and commodi
ties, these institutions express all
that is highest and best in human
achievement. If civilization is
good, the citizens should be proud
and thankful of it. Instead of
casting wondering and envious
glances at Atlanta and other large
cities, let us glow with pride for our
own little city, realizing that the
difference is only one of degree and
not of kiud.
The Webb bill wins in the first
skirmish. At Richmond. Ya., the
wholesale liquor dealers made ap
plication for an injunction restrain
ing the Southern Express Company
from refusing to accept liquor for
shipments to poiuts in South Caro
lina, but Judge Waddill, of the
United States District Court, refused
their application.—Wesleyan Chris
tian Advocate.
Chamberlain’s
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Grarclening ?
It is Time to Plant.
Good Preparation is Essential.
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The “O. V. B. Malleable Rakes ?
Our Garden Hoes ? '
Short Handled Spading Forks?
HAVE YOU SEEN
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JACKSON, - GA.
CAPITAL NOTES
FROST’S MAGAZINE NEW
ATLANTA PUBLICATION
Atlanta, Ga., April 3.—“ The
Call of the South” is the slogan of
the new ‘ ‘Frost’s Magazine, ’ ’ which
has recently made its appearance
among current literary publications.
The magazine is published and ed
ited by Jonathan B. Frost, of At
lanta, a philanthropist and writer
who has all his life taken a keen
interest in the material and intel
lectual progress of the South. Mr.
Frost has announced his general
policy with relation to the maga
zine, and articles by Southern
writers, fiction and timely com
ment, will figure prominently on its
pages. It is believed by many that
this publication will give anew
impetus to current Southern litera
ture.
On the front page of each issue
of the magazine Mr. Frost proposes
to publish the photograph of some
typically beautiful Southern girl.
The first issue contained vigorous
articles from Mr. Frost’s own pen
and a number of contributions from
other notable Southern writers. The
appearance of the next issue is be
ing awaited with keen interest.
Calvin M. Hitch, former Secre
tary to Governor Hoke Smith, and
a well known Georgian, ccoupies
the post of Mr. Frost’s first assist
ant on the magazine.
SENATOR SniTH TALKS
TO QEOKQIA DEHOCRATS
Atlanta, Ua., April 3. —While
ou his short visit to his home in At
lanta, Senator Smith talked to hun
dreds of Georgia Democrats. There
were dozens of them in his parlor
at every hour of the day, anxious
to learn from his lips what the
prospects were for material reform
under the Wilson administration.
They were profoundly impressed
with Senator Smith’s hopeful out
look. The Senator declared that
the reports of dissension in Demo
cratic ranks emanated almost en
tirely from sensation-mongers, and
that united Democracy in both the
House and Senate would stand sol
idly behind President Wilson in his
big task.
Dispatches from Washington say
that Senator Smith himself is ex
pected to be a wheel-horse in the
Democratic administration, and
that he is counted on to give as
much aid as a leader in the Senate
as he possibly could have as a
member of the cabinet.
FOR THE FLOM SUFFERERS
In response to a call from our
State Superintendent of Flower
Mission Georgia W. C. T. LT. some
of us are going to send a contrib
ution to the Ohio sufferers. If you
wish to contribute through us we
would be glad to serve you. This
requires immediate attention.
Please carry to express office if
not convenient to give to me.
Mrs. J. L. Lyons.
Quarterly fleeting
Date Changed
Editor Argus: —By order of
Brother Walton, Presiding Elder,
the Quarterly Meeting at Elgin
church is changed from the first
Sunday in May to the fourth Sun
day in April.
All are now invited to come to
Elgin on the fourth Sundav in
April to our next Quarterly Meet
ing. J. A. Sprayberry, P. C.
Public School Notice.
The school census of Butts
County will be takeu in May
1913, and the Board of Edu
cation will recei\e applications
for appointment or election to
the office of School Enumer
ators for tlie various districts
up to May 7th, 1913.
By order of the Board of
Education.
C. S. Maddox, C. S. Supt.
Potato Slips and Tomato
Plants.
An unlimited number of
Potato Slips now ready at
$l5O f. o. b. Florida. Have
all the leading varieties. To
matoes at $1.50. Bell Pep
per and Egg Plants at $1.75.
R. M. Worsham,
Forsyth, Ga.
Education in Newton.
The Newton county schools,
through the activity of Superin
tendent Martin, are about to be
ridden of the small boy who smokes
persistently. The Board of Edu
cation has passed a resolution that'
they shall be expelled. The board
realizes that the school is not only
the place where books are taught,
but also the place where morals are
taught.
They, in addition to teaching
lessons, are inculcating good traits
of character into their students. As
Carlisle says, the word King comes
from the German Konning, which
in turn comes from the word Ken
nen, meaning to know; and the
next rulers of the earth will te
those who possess knowledge, kings
by their cunning.
Mr. Martin realizes that these
rulers need to be good, clean men,
and upright morally, and that the
school is the place to give them
their power and their character.
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the elements the absence of which
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stomach to digest food and to quickly
convert It into rich red blood and
material necessary for overcoming
natural body wests.
Carry a package of Rexail Dys
pepsia Tablets in your vest pocket,
or keep them in your room. Take
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our assertion that they will keepindi- * i
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We know what Rexail Dyspepsia
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W e guarantee them to relieve indi
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we not certain Rexail Dyspepsia
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