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Jackson Progress-Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Telephone No. 166. Communications ar 'velcomed. Oor jespomlents will please confine them ■elve* to ;>OO -vonls, as communications •ver that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, ■ign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. This is also the open season for gnats. It will take more than a coal of whitewash to clean up things at the state prison farm. If the mosquito would only be silent when shooting his little torpedo we’d think better of the brute. When the mercury climbs to 300 in the ice box and then ex plodes what are you going to do admit it? Now is the best time in the jworld to plan for a vigorous ad vertising campaign this fall, Mr. Business Ma / All things cIR to him who waits—and hustles like h—l while waiting —chimes in one of our friends who knows. If we’re ever called on to move another newspaper outfit with the thermometer batting around 100, we are going to renig. "When some old hens try to maintain certain very ordinary pullets in a high strata of socie ty it often makes father scratch. Curing this hot weather be kind to the dumb animals. See that the faithful beasts that can’t xpeak for themselves are well taken care of. Jackson needs more manufac turing enterprises and pay rolls. We have the cheap electric pow er and can get the other things &y going after them. A mixture of cabbage, lemon ade, butter milk and watermelon gave a fellow ptomaine poisoning. 3hat concoction is enough to sink is German submarine. One year of the European war has passed and this country has not gone to the dogs yet The country can stand a lot more than aome people thought it could. Atlanta is never happy without a sensation. The latest wrangle w in the police department with Chief Beavers in the spotlight Atlanta ought to wash her dirty 9m at home. A lot of two-Jsy-four towns are song to iwanain in that class un til the titisens get together, de ail* wh*| ttterpnM are needed t***ke th* tofm gaow Md then fMO topeihti until get thenar The legislature is a tremen ttenuly expensive luxury when it I* mb entered that that Jbody de ewtaa at least two-thirds zl the jp to quibbling ©var local bills &at the communities eoght to nettle theaaefn^^ With tax values decreasing as a result of present business con fiitens and the people less able Id bear the increased burdens, a raise in the tax rate will be nec <aaaa~y to take care of the increas ed appropriations made by the iaghdature. Where is the econ omy that was to be the watch word of this administration ? Macon is after the capital once more. A bill was introduced in the house last wee/t by Represen tative Fowler, of Bibb county, submittingaconstitutionalamend ment allowing the people of the state to vote on the capital re moval. Macon thinks her chances of winning this time are better than ever. Atlanta is getting so rotten that a lot of people really want to see Macon win the stat; capital. Business is now due to get bet ter. The war scare has passed and farmers, merchants and oth ers have had a full year to adjust themselves to conditions. Now is no time for the calamity howl er to be abroad. Brakeman Was Cured F. A. Wootsey, Jacksonville, Texas, writes, “I was down w ith kidney trou ble and rheumatism; had a backache all the time and was tiied of living. I took Foley’s Kidney Pills and was thoroughly cured.” Thousi nds have written similar letters. Foley Kidney Pills are tonic in effect and act promptly. The Ow l Pharmacy, adv. PAUL NOLEN & COMPANY IMPROVE STORE BUILDING A number of substantial im provements are being made this week to the store room of Paul Noten &'Company. The entire front ef the building is being worked over and plate glass win dows put in. These improve ments will add a great deal to the appearance of the building and will give this popular and en terprising firm one of the pret tiest store rooms in the city. Mr. E. I. Rooks is doing the work. His Back Hurt • • When He Stooped "Jmi IboMboici FoWt Kidney PUb re Keyed my bekub.—J. W. Etris, Etris, Go. "Last year I was suffering with a terrible backache/' writes J. W. Etris cf Etris, Ga. "Every time I’d lean or stoop over or to one side, I’d have a painful catch in my back just over my kidneys. I tried medicines with no good resv’ts. I bought a bottle of Foley Kidney foils, and just the one box entirely relieved my backache. It has been some time since I took them, so I think I am well.” Weakened, overworked, stopped-up kidneys cause stiff joints, sore mus cles, rheumatism, sleep disturbing bladder' ailments, biliousness and various other ills. Foley Kidney Pills are a scientific medicine, compounded to clear the kidneys and restore them to healthy action by dissolving and driving# out of the system# the waste products and poisons that cause kidney trouble and bladder ailments. You wfH like their tonic and restor ative action, ready effect and quick good results. THE OWL PHARMACY MR. EDGAR MGMIGHAEL 60ES WIIH J. C. KINARD Announcement is made that Mr. C. E. McMiehael has become associated in business with Mr. J. C. Kinard, the change becom ing effective Tuesday of this wtek. The name of the new firm will be J. C. Kinard & Company. Mr. McMiehael has recently been connected with the grocery department of Etheridge, Smith & Cos., and is regarded as a cap able and experienced grocer. He is well liked and popuar through out the county and will doubtless ■add strength to the firm. Mr. Kinard is an experienced grocer and has built up a satis factory business through his un failing, courtesy' and honest deal-' ings. The new firm xuilprwfcir bly continue to receive a liberal share of patronage. Two Common Summer Ailments Thousands of hay fever and asthma vicUinß who are not able to go to the mountain! tiud relief in Foley’* Honey and Tar Compoaud. It allay* the infiamation, soothes and heala raw and raaping broncbal tubes and helps So overcome difficulty in breathing, ana' .makes sound, refreshing sleep pos sible. The <.lyrl Pharmacy, adv. ML POPE TO PRfiAf.ll t . *v ' -e — r* Rev. C. Pope will conduct ser vices at the Presbyterian church next Sabbath evening. The peo ple of the community are invited to attend. WANTS CHANGE AT STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE (Continued from first page) Soule had occasionally allowed beer to be served in the College it self. Probably he was within his rights. That is not the point. The question is whether those professors who voted to have lock ers in the club were quite as much within their rights as he was when he permitted beer to be served in the College. Another cause of discontent is the lack of representation be fore the Board. On one occasion Dr. Soule represented to the Ex ecutive Committee that I had bought articles for my department without authority from him. What I had done was to make the regular applications for authority to buy some articles and I had been to see him about them when I found there was a hitch. Af ter he had hindered the work of my students for some weeks, he signed those requisitions, thereby proving that he had them in his possession. When the President represents to the Board that a professor has bought articles without authority when those articles have not been bought, and the applications for authority are in his possession the professors could hardly be said to have fair repre sentation. Curiously enough this is a point on which I was care ful; and during the six years of my service I never took final action in anything but routine matters without first consulting the Pres dent or mentioning it in my regular reports to him. Some of the other professors have told me their exp3riences along this line. There used to be a way of access to the Board thru the Board of Visitors. One of the objects of this Board was to give profes sors a chance to make complaints if they had any. While I was connected with the College I was allowed to be alone with the Vis itors only once. The other times either Dr. Soule or some other person was present. But even if the Visitors were not personally conducted, such representation could not take the place of direct appeal. If the members of the Board realized what a professor’s work means to him I am sure they would prefer to have him pres ent when information about his department is desired even if it did take a little longer to go thru with a session, or else they would prefer the system to be suggested further on in this letter. To make a long matter short, the professors find out that they are repressed, that they are to surrender rights that are inherent in their citizenship, that they are not adequately represented be fore the Board, that the President wields the authority of both the Board and thd Faculty and side-steps, the responsibilities of both, that they are subject to discharge in secret session without formal charges and without a hearing, that even their loyalty and patrio tism are to be interpreted by one man and he a man in whom they do not have confidence. They cannot do their best work in such conditions; and they go. Since Dr. Soule came, J. F. Hart. J. W. Hart, Johnson, Richardson, Nixon, Early, Hite, McLaren, Minear, Carpenter, Bishop, DeLoach, Hollingshead, Jones, Creswell, Holt, Pike, and Rothe have gone, not to mention persons in more subor dinate positions. It would be unfair to infer that all the changes are traceable to Dr. Soule. Some changes are to be expected even in the best conditions. But the number is abnormal. The faculty has been likened to a kaleidoscope. Again and again Dr. Soule has blamed the State for stinginess and imputed mercenary motives to the professors; but the State has provided liberally as compared with other institutions and the professors as a whole are not a mer cenary lot; and those explanations will not stand inspection. The cost of these changes is large. Dr. Soule himself refers to it in commenting on Prof. Pike’s leaving. It takes time for a man to adjust himself to any new work. This is especially true of the agricultural arts and sciences. It would cost something to change even a teacher of Latin, Greek, or Pure Mathematics. It costs' more to change a teacher of Animal Husbandry, Horticulture, or Forestry. In such subjects it takes several years to get a compre hensive knowledge of local conditions. Even if we allow eight changes or one a year as normal and then calculate the cost of the rest it will approach $50,000. Indeed it has been suggested that it would be cheaper to pay Dr. Soule to stay at his home in Canada than to have him mismanaging the affairs of the College. Another item of cost is the discontinuance of experiments and research. It is hard to reduce this loss to dollars and cents; for none can tell when a discovery of value will be made. That work of this kind is of value has been shown by one of the professors at the University whose discoveries have saved the State more than the total cost of the University from its founding. Another item of cost and one that is still harder to reduce to dollars and cents, but which nevertheless is a cost, is the stinging sense of injustice and the dampening of enthusiasm which the pro fessors who stay often feel as well as those who go. The situation at the College calls for a change in the system of managemement. While Dr. Soule has caused a part of the trouble, the system of which he is partly the author and partly the product is wrong. The government of the institution is vested in a board of eleven trustees. These Trustees are busy men. They meet on’y on<e or twice a year. They have appointed an Executive Commi’- tee of three with ad interim powers, and this Committee meets sev eral times a year. Feeling that they can exercise only a general su pervision of the College the Board and the Executive Committee have placed the President in charge, the idea being to concentrate authority in him and to hold him responsible for results. The casual observer would call this a good arrangement. It is the system used by the directors of many manufacturing plants. The fault with it is that it fails to recognize the difference between the ob jects of a factory and a college. The object of a steel plant is to make steel; if men are developed or discoveries made, they are incidental to the production of steel. The object of a college is to educate men, to discover new truths and to disseminate them thru the class-room, out side lectures, and printed publications. Just as the building and laboratories of a college are designed for its objects, so its organization should be designed with its objects in view. The vital point in education is the contact of student with professor, and the professors carry on the research and experi mentation of the college. They, after the students, are the neces sary factor in college production. More valuable than grounds and buildings, more valuable than officers of administration is a faculty of capable professors. By capacity we should, understand not only capacity in their specialties but also the possession of those qual ities Which make for citizenship. In a word, education is of the mind and spirit Any system j’hat retards the of the professors.s is ba^; .m system thatXenfisto dwarf their Bpints is little short of criminal; for these effects are ticaaemitted thru them to the generation of young men whom they educate and who are in a sense their men tal and spiritual offspring. The system of government at the Col lege tends to do both of those things. Few, if any; of the profes sors can do their beet work or attain their highest development in the existing conditions. They hold oflfree atthe will of the Preai dent, their work is advanced or retarded at the will <&4he Presi dent. The President has favors to grant: at all costs fcheWeaider.t must be pleased. The President is one man. No matter how wiae and how good, the President has the whims and frailties of one man. When he is less wise and less good it makes a bad matter worse. As one commentator puts it “Autocracy is a* hazardous expedient and is likely to prove ultimately as pernicious in a college as in a state. It induces too great reliance upon the distinctive characteristics of a despot and too little upon those of a gentleman.” It is-had for the President as for.the professors. The remedy could lie applied by the Trustees without changing the law creating the College. They could make the professors as a body responsifc.’* for the conduct of the College. The objection that might be urged x& this is that it might mean diffused respon sibility and laxness in administration. In reply one has only to cite the conditions which have resulted from centering authority in the President At present the President wiVJHg the authorithy of both DRINK Chero-Cola There’s None So Good It is a great consolation to our friends and customers to know there is more than ONE, for we are bottling and selling three thousand per day. Substitutes are always inferior. CHERO-COLA Is superior to anything ever bottled Try one and be convinced For Sale Everywhere Chero-Cola Bottling Company PHONE 201 Trustees and Faculty and he side-steps the responsibility of both. The Trustees could let theprofessors sident, subject always to the veto of the Board.. This is not anew idea. In some of the largest universities cf the world the faculties nominate their own officers. It is nothing but the application of the doctrine that government should be by consent and not by force. Thomas Jefferson insisted on its application in the Stater It has been objected to on the ground that the masses are too igno rant and too vicious to rule themselves. Could this be advanced as an argument against self government by college professors? They could let the Faculty nominate men for vacancies and for new professorships as they are created and recommend discharges and promotions. Since the professors must work together it is only right that they should have a voice in naming their associates. This again is not anew idea. It is done to a greater or less extent in many institutions. They could let the Faculty make up the budget, subject to the revision of the Board. Dr. Soule has boasted that the only limita tion that the Board has put on him in making up the budget is that he should stay inside the appropriation. If one man has the wis dom to lay out a hundred thousand dollars of the State’s money, twenty men ought to be able to do it; and judging from the way it has been laid out, it is safe to say that they , could do itbetter than it has been done. As to spending the money after the budget is made up, the same checks that are now used to prevent fraud could be continued. The suggested remedy may be summed up in a few words. It is to transfer the management of the College from the President to the Faculty. And if those professors do not have enough wisdom and virtue to govern themselves and manage the College, I do not want my sons to go to that College. Ido not want them to learn citizenship from men who are too ignorant, tod weak, and’ too vi cious to govern themselves. The impression that I have of them is that, with perhaps two exceptions, they are honest, capable men who could if given the chance govern themselves and the College better than the man who is doing it now; and with the responsibility thrown on them they would rapidly develop into stronger men and larger men than they are today. I would not give the impression that the Trustees are to be beamed for the conditions which exist at the College. They serve the State at a personal sacrifice; and they deserve our gratitude. It would be unjust to them to suppose that they know the condi tions at the College. The system which they adopted with the best intentions has been used to keep them from knowing. If they knew the conditions the chances are that they would have made some al t nations long ago. I regret that in describing the conditions I have had to criticise Dr. Sou'e. It is impossible to discuss those conditions without crit icising him. In doing so I have gone over my statements several times to insure that .they are as temperate as is consistent with ac curacy. Even when suffering at the College I did not belong to the group, fortunately small, who relieved their feelings by apply ing obscene and blasphemous epithets to the President. I did, however, sympathiza.with those who thought that the condiditions could and ought to be bettered. It is easy to say that if a professor does not like the conditions at the College let him get out. That does not cure the evil. It is our duty to ourselves, to the professors, and to our sons to give those professors better conditions. It is only thru criticism and protest from the outside that they will be bettered. Criticism and protest from the inside are practically prohibited. ALFRED AKERMAN. IT IS SERIOUS Some Jackson people Fail to Realize the' serious ness of a bat) back **-• - Tb constant aching of a bod back, The weariness, the tired feeling, The pains and .aches of kidney ills may result seriously if neglected. Dangerous troubles' often follow. A Jackson citizen shows you what to do. Mrs. J. R. Thurston, Brookvood Ave., Jackson, says: U I strained my bock while house-cleaning and my kid neys bsc*me overtaxed. I suffered so that I'bkd -to put pillows undsr m? j back and I was so sore that I couldn’t stoop over. Mv kidneys felt as though they were kidney sscre tionscHUseu me nfUb annoyance, i procured Doans' JWlney pjjl6 f?m Slaton DrugCcC and they relieved the pains in my back and all symptoms of kidney trouble disappeared. ” Price 60c at all dealers. Don’t sim ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Thurston had. Fo6tei-Mi(burn Cos., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. adv Wanted to Buy Good sized and sound Mutes for the Army, Leach & Cos • How’s This ? We offer gne Hundred Dollars Re ward lot any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured fcf Hall’s Catarr Cure. F. J CHENET A CO, Toledo. O- We. the undersigned, have known V. /#- Cheney tor the last lyywtr*. anff beUt-e hips perfectly honorable in alt **' , “ arr y_ transactions and financially ah'® *2__ out any obligations made by his nr NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE. 4 Toledo, Hail’s Catarrh Cure Is mi acting diryetly upon the Io^ g “^ d C nia!* cous surfaces of the system. Tes sent free. Price 75 cents per bot, by all Druggists, . -Tt*e BrU’s rasMy TJUm tot oOßStipauoo