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THE JflgKS©N ARGUS.
Telephone 119.
Published every Friday at 81.00 a year. Filtered at Jackson Postoftice
as second class matter by 11. M. Shaver.
11. M. SHAVER, Lessee, Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS COUNTY.
FRIDAY, AUGUST, 22, 1913.
THE CURRENCY BILL.
Even if the Glase-Owen currency measure is not what is
needed, some provision ought to be made for a more elastic
currency bill. Some reserve should always be held to pre
vent panics and stringent money markets, and to move the
various crops.
The Senate is widely split on the measure because each
party favors different systems, nevertheless the Democratic
party is due to provide tome relief. Pass the measure. Pro
vide relief for and build a bulwark against hard times. Delay
is the death of progressiveness.
THE MEDICAL PRACTICE BILL.
The Medical Practice Bill, which has been so hard
fought by the enemies has passed both houses of the legisla
ture and now awaits the Governor’s signature. This import
ant measure will raise the general standard of medical educa
tion and practice to a large extent. The bill provides for
the regulation of the practice of medicine, protects the
people from “quacks,” and illegal and unqualified practition
ers of medicine and surgery, and also for the revocation of
licenses illegally or fraudently obtained, and prescribe penal
ties for violations. This bill is timely, and one that has been
needed for a long time.
THE GIRLS' CANNING CLUBS.
The development of the girls’canning clubs throughout
the state has been as remarkable as the sudden but strong
growth of the boys’ corn clubs. During the past year the
enrollment reached nearly twenty-five hundred, who preserved
one hundred thousand cans of various fruits. There are
clubs in twenty-eight counties, with twenty-seven permanent
agents. In a good many counties there were many meetings
and local enthusiasm, which marked- this year the greatest
of the worthy organization.
There will be an exhibit at the state fair this fall of all
these clubs. They will demonstrate how they can fruits and
vegetables, thus giving a helpful boost to the organization.
The result of the achievement of these elubs will result in the
saving of a great amount of money now spent for imported
canned goods. Truly a worthy enterprise, simulating home
production for home consumption.
ADVERTISING.
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Last week we printed a squib commenting on gome
people who refused to advertise unless they can be shown re
sults in dollars big as cart wheels rolling straight toward
them. This is a view that is common to some merchants
who disregard the best maxims of all times aud believe that
one small advertisment should bring hundreds to buy at
once.
With the exception of special sale advertisements, an
advertisement is designed to keep the name of your business
before the people. Psychology says that the more frequent
the attention of a buyer is called to your name as a seller of
goods, etc., the more your business name will occur to him
when lie is thinking of buying. There is no doubt that
keeping your name before the people gives results. Mottoes
prove this. Don’t follow that ancient and false reasoning
that the trading public know you are in business and hence
will consider your house in buying. They may, but it is
wiser to keep your nutue before the public. It gives your
firm the name of prosperity. Prosperity iti business brings
trade. Keep your name before the public—it pays.
TAX EQUALIZATION WON.
Advocated by nearly every newspaper in the state, the
tax equalization bill passed the Georgia Legislature last
week. The senate passed it 20 to 12, but as an exchange
remarks it got by the house like the Dutch miller got to
heaven, by a *‘tam tight squeeze.” Speaker Bur well cast the
according vote.
The hill provides for the creation of a state tax commis
sioner, and county board of tax assessors. The county board
shall adjust tax returns within its jurisdiction, and the state
board shall so adjust values that ail property in the state will
be taxed on an equal basis.
The purpose of the bill will be to lower the tax rate
instead of raising it by a proper adjustment of property re
turns. It is thought the state’s finances will be better cared
for by the change aud no doubt will be the adoption of a
more business-like method of assessing aud raising taxes.
A good measure!
NO NEW MANSION.
We have uo kick to make over the present session of the
legislature, since a tax equalization law was passed, and the
school teachers were paid, but we do think that some provis
ion should have been made for anew governor’s mansion.
The old. crumbling and disreputable building in the heart of
Atlanta’s automobile section is not the prbper place of resi
dence for Georgia’s Chief Executive. Public sentimeut is
demanding that a new' mansion be built in some attractive
section. The old site would bring a good price, too, being
close in. \
ARGUS—The Quality Shop
Editorial Etchings.
The Uuited states must not rate
very highly Huerta’s power,for Lind*
a orie-armed man was sent to deal
with him, singled-hauded.
Solitory eating is said to be one of
the man causes of indigestion.
A French actress will upper on the
Ametican s*age this fall wearing s
tiny ring in her in.se. It would be
well to try this r thod on the mili
tant suffrages! s so t hat they could he
led away to some wilderness and be
tied.
One good improvement in the
Cieogia weekly press as brought in
the recent meeting in La Grange is
that not a one comes whiskey adver
tisements.
An exchange remarks that prayers
for rain do little good, but that pray
ers are meant for matters of soul and
heart. That reminds of what an old
time darky bad to say about such
matters. “I prayed fer rain onct,
but the Lord sont too much, and I
thinks I’ll let him regereateit by
hisself hereafter.”
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A Savannah man was shocked by
lightning the other day in his bath
tub. Still that is not quite as shock
ing as some have claimed “Septem
ber Morn” is.
Senator Ben Tillman says woman’s
suffrage is a beautiful dream, and
will not purify politites but will in
reality be harmful to tiie high stand
ard of womanhood. The wise old
hawk skillfully used his pitchfork
again.
The Greenville (S. U) News says
that about the only thing scientists
have yet found out from the million
year old skull is that man was a bone
head then as he is now.
At any rate. Governor Slaton and
the legislature are in harmony and
we may expect a good administration
An exchange says that the suf
fragettes are made up of old maids,
ugly widows, unhappv wives, and
what few men that join their ranks
are chronic office-seekers who can’t
be elected by his fellow men and
hen-pecked husbands.
The tax equalization bill marks
the 1913 legislature as the most fam
ous session since the war.
Sympathy is wtih Harry Thaw, and
the majority of American people be
lieve that he has suffered enough be
cause of unwritten law. Its a pity
that lie hadn’t killed that wife of his
along with White. “He thought he
was defending virtue, and it was
later tiiat he found differently,” says
the Valdosta Times.
The Macon street car company is
being sued for a large amount by a
man who clams that his wife was
sent to the hospital because of in
juries and his wife’s company as
worth a thousand dollars each week.
Strange man tills! Most would be
willing to give that amount to get rid
of them.
The guilt of William Sulzer is. be
side the question. He should wel
come a trial before eveu a partial
senate, whose blindness to justice
has been made apparent on at least
two separate occasions, because
there the public can get all the evi
dence aud there will be enough hon
est judges and senators to set the
dishonest ones on their heads. Rut
the Tammany plan is to dispossess
him of office before the trial.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Tlie editorials In Hearsts' news
papers indicate that there is dire
need of war between the t United
States and Mexico, between the
United States and Japan and be
tween the United States and Eng
land. Lordy, what sort of fire water
has stirred up those billigerent edi
tors? They just won’t be satisfied
without a scrap with some nation.
And do you reckon any of them
would go to tbs front in case of
trouble? Not one. —Griffin News.
Vice-President Joseph A. McCord,
ofjths Third National Bank, of At
lanta. was right when ho said the
solution was in the hands of the
b'tukars of Georgia. If they will in
clude in the list of collateral con -
moditiss other than cotton they will
ultimately break the strangle-hold
cotton now has on Georgia.—Atlanta
Journal.
Scissors and Paste
A spasm of virtue lias suddenly
struck Uncle Sam. He lias forbid
den “September Morn” on post
cards. We would like to learn our
Uncle Sam’s opinion of the slit skirt.
—Macon News.
Hip, hurrah! The Governor has
borrowed $175,000 and will pay the
country teachers early this week.—
Home Tribune-Herald.
If Mr. Bryan should resign it
would be a 100 to' 1 bet that Presi
dent Wilson would appoint Senator
A. O. Bacon as scretary of state.
There is no statesman in either par
ty better equipped for the position
than our own distinguished Geor
gian.—Darien Gazette.
A preaciier in Savannah Sunday
preached on “Hell—Where Is It?”
and tie took the position that the
popular idea about the “lake of fire
and brimstone” is wrong. Editors
who have many delinquent subscrib
ers will regret to hear this.—Val
dosta Times.
John Lind lias tackled a big job.
He is a good man for it. though. A
Swede was never known to turn
loose. They always do exactly
what they are told to do. —Macon
News.
Wisconsin has an anti-gossip law
which should adorn the statute
books of every state. It carries with
it a penalty of SSOO flue and impris
onment for peddling damaging
stories about your neighbors.—
Senoia Enterprise-Gazette.
Covington wants to entertain the
Weekly Press Association next year.
Covington is a mighty good town
and would certainly show the edi
tors a swell time. —DeKalb New Era.
The state should not venture has
tily upon any movement of this
kind (printing school books), but it
should not hesitate to embrace an
opportunity to furnish its people
cheaper school books as good as
those now in use, if a trustworthy
plan to this end can be devised.—
Atlanta Journal.
“After Huerta—what?” asks the
Nashville Tennessean. Why, the
Mexican rebels seem to be after him,
to say nothing of Governor Lind. —
Columbus Enquirer-9un.
Fulton county wants to be made a
judicial circuit all to itself. The
time may come when it will want to
become a state—then Atlanta will
be no longer annoyed by Macon
wanting to take away the capitol.-
Rome Tribune-Herald.
It is commonly recognized that
one of the most urgent public needs
in Georgia today is the establish
ment of a state bureau for the regis
tration of vital statistics—Atlanta
Journal.
We are informed that only in Sa
vannah and Atlanta are there rec
ords of the kind contemplated in
this measure.—Augusta Chronicle.
Secretary McAdoo plans to deposit
$50,000,000 in banks for the benefit of
the farmers and assist them in mov
ing their crops. We move that lie
deposit the ot her $100,000,000 for the
benefit of newspapers.—Waycross
Herald.
If they can’t do anything in a
caucus over ttie currency bill why
don’t they try an “uncorkus.”—Ath
ens Banner.
Well, the legislature has at last
passed some of those needed laws
and adjourned. Now let congress
pass the tariff and currency bills and
join in giving the country a good
rest. —Griffin News.
If President Wilson doesn’t shake
that plum tree a little faster there
are a lot of us Democrats who cau
not survive.—Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
The farmers have quit their crops
—layed by for this season. They are
dividing the time now in visiting
their kin folks, going to big meet
ings, eating watermelons and fried
chicken.—Calhoun Times.
The first thing the Mexicans know
they will wake up and find Uncle
9am sitting in Huerta’s throne and
ordering their guerillas to “beat it.”
Your Uncle Samuel isn’t going to
stand that Mexican racket very
much longer.--Gainesville News.
Chamberlain’s
•aver fails. Bojritaow. It m+r mw Uta.
Covington is pulling for the Geor
gia Weekly Press Convention next
year. The Georgia scribes could
not visit a prettier nor more hospita
ble town. Here is hoping our sister
city will obtain the convention
Monticello News.
The increasing use oi automobiles
for heavy hauling in the cities and
for farm purposes in the country, is
beginning to effect the mule market
in Georgia, according to leading
mule dealers in Atlanta. The faith
ful beast is gradually being sup
planted in civic life just as it is in
the army.—Dallas New Era.
Legislation Passed.
The Georgia legislature, which
adjourned Thursday night, will
probably be remembered more for
what it did not do than for what it
did do, but it managed to pass the
following measures r
The Miller-Anderson tax equali
zation bill.
The general appropriation bill.
The bill providing for an increase
of the occupation tax on corpora
tions.
A special tax on bottling works.
A bill providing for an inheri
tance tax.
A bill regulating the practice of
medicine.
A bill to create anew charter for
the etty of Atlanta.
A bill providing a fourth judge
ship in the superior court of the
Atlanta circuit.
To provide for the permanent
registration of qualified voters.
To establish and maintain a
home for wayward girls.
To authorize judges of superior
courts to grant charters during
vacations.
To create a Western & Atlantic
commission to investigate re-lease
of state road.
To leave the custody of minor
children to the discretion of the
judge.
To place an annual registration
tax of $5 on automobiles.
To create a commission to in
vestigate the advisability of the
state’s publishing its own school
books. —Exch an ge.
“The Girl Must Suffer.”
“By the time you get this I will
be in the river. My life has been
ruined by a life well known. Men
get off easy, but the girl must
suffer.”
Those words formed a message
recently received by the chief of
police in a certain city, who found
when he rushed to the scene that
the girl had carried out her des
perate plan and that the cold
waters had covered her shame and
drowned her sorrow forever. Her
£ody was not even recovered, and
only the memory of anotherot life’s
saddest tragedies remains.
“Men get off easy, but the girl
must suffer.” Yes, alas, that is
true. That man, for instance, per
haps has forgotten the tragic inci
dent, if it ever came to his knowl
edge. Having feigned the arts of
a lover to satiate a selfish passion,
FOR SALE!
l\o acres laud at Woodstown, Henry County, Ga., at in
tersection of Jackson, Snapping Shoali and "island Shoals
roads. 0-room, 2-story dwelling, 4 tenant houses, store
house, corugated shop building, 4-room physician’s office,
new 3 70 saw Munger Gin and house, corn mill and all nec
essary outbuildings, line water, plenty fruit, wood, pasturage,
etc., and in splendid community. Wind-mill supplies water
to all necessary places. Good location for physician, mer
chant and blacksmith, Bargain for auyone wanting a nice
country home-
Quick sale desired on account of ill health. Liberal terms
to purchaser. Write
W. H. Ellington, Barnesville, Ga.
To see the place apply to T. W. Woods, Woodstown, Ga,
BE SURE ro d rkTdo meyourKodak
Work finished within 24 hours.
Films developed, 10 cents per roll.
Prints made for 3 cents and up.
Bromide enlargements 25c. up.
JOSEPH E. EDWARDS,
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Phone 150
LEGAL aoveatisemekts.
Order For C ty Court Election.
U fn ) co^ I forttUty wnh U an J Act of the General
Assembly approved August 14, 1813. it is or
dered that an election l>e held at ihe several
voung p?eclncts in the C >unty of Butts, said
Stale by the qualified voters of said county
for and against the City Court of Jackson on
Wednesday, depiemoer tke Brd. 1918 said
election to be heid under the same rules aud
regulations as general elections are held, re
turns of said el.otion to be made to the Ordi
ti'irv of said County.
Given under my hand andofheial signature,
this August 16,1913. J, H . HAM, Ordinary.-
Sheriff’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Butts County.
Will be sold oil the first Tuesday in Septem
ber next, at public outcry at tiie court house
door in said county, within the legal hours of
saie to the highest bidder for cash, certain
property,o! which the following is a full and
complete description: One-third interest in
eightv-one and two-thirds (312-3) acres of
land." more or less, known as the Julia A.
Lindsey place, bnunded as follows: On the
east by Wilson Smith, south by K. J. Lamar,
rm the’west by Ji rs. Harriett Maddox, north
by Mrs. Caroline Lindsey, lying in Iron
springs District, Butts County, Georgia. Said
propertv levied on aa the property of R. P.
Lindsey, to satisfy an execution issued from
the Superior Court of said county in favor o!
Porter & Garrett against said R, I’. Lindsey,
said property being in possession of M. L.
Freeman.
This the 7th day of August. 1813.
L.M. CRAWFORD, Sheriff.
Sheriff’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Butts County.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in Septem
ber next, at public outcry at the court house
iu said county, within the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder for casn, certain prop
erty of which the following is a complete
description: Bounded on the north lands of
w. \v Wilson,east by W W. Wilson, south
Southern RailwayCo. right of wap, west by
R W. Mays and Southern Railway Cos. Said
property levied on as the property of Susan
MoMicWael to satisfy an execution issued
from the Justice Court of the til2th District
G M. of said county in favor of Buttriil Bros,
against said Susan McMichael slid property
being in possession of Susan McMichael, said
property levied on by W. F. Lavender, L. C„
and turned over to me for sale.
This 7th day of August. 1913.
L. M. CRAWFORD, Sheriff.
For Leave to Sell Land,
GEORGIA—Butts Countv.
Notice is hereby given tiiat tiie undersigned
has applied to the Ordinary of said county for
leave to sell land belonging to tiie estate of
Sarah E. Goeu for the purpose of distribution
among heirs Saidjapplication will be heard
at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary
for said county, to be held on the first Monday
in September. 1913.
D. G. GOEN,
Administrator upon the Estate of Mrs. S.E.
Goen deceased.
This August 5,1913.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stops the
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c*
having amused himself for a time
with a pretty human toy, he then
grew tired of his pastime, threw the
no-longer-satisfyiug toy aside and
went on his way untroubled.
Well known he maybe—perhaps
well known for his prominence and
influence in the activities of busi
ness, for his regular attendance at
church, for his generous gifts to
charity. Perhaps he is even well
known as a husband and father.
But he cannot be well known for
the treachery which sent his poor
victim into the sheltering depths of
the river!
Verily, the girl must suffer.
There is no way to keep her heart
breaking shame from the world.
And that knowledge works so
cruelly, condemning the woman’s
error while condoning the man’s
crime. However deplorable and
disgraceful this may be, it must be
admitted that it has always been
so and very likely will be till the
end of time. For woman, who is
the matrix of the race, the one in
whose soft body and close to whose
warm heart all the children of men
find their way into the world, rests
by nature’s fiat under this special
condition; forthat unique function,
with its tremendous import to the
future of the roce, she must guard
jealously her honor, her purity, her
fitness for motherhood. Griffin
News.