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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. 9 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.” • ' 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.