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Jackson Progress-Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JON KH, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Kntered as second-class matter at the post office at J ackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. All of the Hearst papers have come out for prohibition. Things are drying up in this country. If the Progressives unite with the Republicans in the national campaign the Democrats will have a tough proposition on their hands this year. THE NEW ADMINISTRA TION The new mayor and council of the City of Jackson begin their duties with assurances of the ac tive and united support of the whole community. Factional dif ferences were wiped out at the ballot box and now every shoul der is at the wheel ready to push Jackson forward. The city is fortunate in having trained business men at the helm. This is the time for businessmen to lake hold of public alfairs. The citizens want to see the com munity move forward solidly, substantially, steadily. The city’s alfairs are in good condition. Mayor Watkins and his associates did their work well. That Mayor Moore and the mem bers of Council will give Jackson a clean, progressive administra tion is the confident hope of their friends. And don't forget that you owe it to the community to co-operate with the city officials in every manner possible. Let’s keep Jackson moving forward. The new battleships will cost $18,000,000 each. Ought to be good ones for the price. The First National Bank of Forsyth will liquidate and quit business. Thought all banks were prospering. There’s going to be quite a bit of handshaking in Georgia this year withfive thousand candidates "shelling” the woods. Judge Reagan is right. Too many primaries are an unneces sary expense and all elections possible should be consolidated. Governor Harris says he will make a speech in every county in the state in his campaign for re election. There’s life in the old man yet. Dr. Hardman has announced for governor. Both Harris and Hardman are prohibitionists, which seems to make it unani mous so far. The city editor of the Americus Times-Recorder died leaving an estate of SIB,(XX). And yet there are folks who say a newspaper man cannot save money.- Savan nah Press. Furlow surely didn’t make his money in the newspaper game.— Griffin News. Probably invested his savings judiciously. MUSTANG For Sprains, Lameness, Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism Penetrates and Heals. Stops Pain At Once For Man and Beast 25c. 50c. sl. At All Dealers. LINIMENT The Jackson Progress-Argus began its forty-fourth year with its issue of last week. The edi tor of this model Georgia weekly, Doyle Jones, is one of the best newspaper men in this section and this is proven by the excel lent paper he is giving ’em each week. Monticello News. Thanks. The Monticello News is one the cleanest, neatest and best all round papers in the state. The Jackson Progress-Argus has begun its forty-fourth year and we congratulate this excel lent paper on this fact. It is one of the best papers in Georgia and Doyle Jones is making it better and more valuable to the people of Butts county with each issue. May it live long and prosper!— Forsyth Advertiser. Thanks for these generous words. They’re the more appre ciated coming from perhaps Geor gia’s best weekly newspaper. TRAGEDIES OF REAL LIFE The tnan who struck a match to see if the gasoline tank on his automobile was empty. It wasn’t. —Cincinnati Enquir er. The man patted a strange bull dog to see if the critter was af fectionate. It wasn’t.—Zanesville Signal. The man speeded up to see if he couldn’t beat the train to the crossing. He couldn’t.—Columbia State. We asked the boss if he didn’t think it time to boost our stipend. He didn’t.—Macon Telegraph. The man set the alarm clock to see if he could beat his wife to his trousers pockets. He didn’t. —Springfield Union. The man looked down the bar rel of his gun and pulled the trig ger to see if it was empty. It wasn’t.—Charlotte News. The man asked the girl to marry him to see if she was engaged. She w'asn’t.—- Nash viließanner. The man blew out the gas to see if the asphyxiation tales were jokes. They were not.--Memphis Com mercial Appeal. The man left his umbrella at home to see if it would rain. 11 did. —St. Louis Post Dispatch. The bum asked the slim pretty man for a quarter to see if he was broke. He was. —Montgomery Adver tiser. A Tampa gallant sent a married lady a bouquet, thinking that her "old man” wasn’t at home. He was.—Tampa Tribune. The man pulled off his shoes as he entered his home at 2p. m., and hoped his wife was asleep. She wasn’t—Savannah News. The young man hung up his sock to see if Santa Claus had forgotten him. He had. —Forsyth Advertiser. All of the candidates think they will get an office. 1 But they wont. SEVEN REMEDIES FOR USURY As wt see it, the remedies needed to stop the plundering of the poor through usury are these: 1. Habits of thrift, economy and saving must be encouraged, and parents must teach these habits to their children by pre cept and example. 2. Farmers who need money to purchase supplies must borrow it from banks at legal rates of interest instead of paying ten times the legal rate of interest in the form of “time prices.’’ 3. Banks, whether state or na tional. must be treated as public service corporations, which they are, and rigidly regulated by law as other public-service corpora tions are. 4. In every state stringent anti-usury laws must be enacted and enforced. 5. The crop-lien must be re pealed, or where this cannot be done, the rate of advance which merchants may charge on “time prices” as compared with cash prices must be strictly limited to a rate not exceeding 1 per cent a month. 6. The National Government must establish a modern system of rural credits in harmony with European models. “What Eu roDe has done for her farmers mers, America must do for hers.” 7. To supplement the long term land credit system, we must work out anew system of per sonal or short term credits by en couraging and stimulating credit unions, co-operative savings and loan associations, Reiffesin banks and other practicable agencies of betterment.—The Progressive Farmer. ALL CHILDREN LOVE “SIRUP OF FIGS” FOR LIVER AND BOWELS Give it when feverish, cross, bilious, for bad bad breath or sour stom ach. Look at the tongue, Mother! If coated, it is a sure sign that your liitie one’s stomach, liver and bowels need a gentle, thor ough cleansing at once. YVhen peevish, cross, listless, pale, doesn’t sleep, doesn’t eat or act naturally, or is feverish, stomach sour, breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore throat, diar rhoea, full of cold, give a teaspoon ful of "California Syrup of Figs,” and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of its little bowels without griping, and you have a well, playful child again You needn’t coax sick children to take this harmless "fruit laxa tive, ” they love itsdelicioas taste, and it always makes them feel splendid. Ask your druggist fora 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs,” which has directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Beware of conterfeits sold here. To be sure you get the genuine, ask to see that it is made by "California Fig Syrup Com pany.” Refuse any other kind with contemp. adv Special Sale Ladies Mus lin Underwear, new styles now on at The Busy Corner. RHEUMATISM ARRESTED Many people suffer the tortures of lame mu9clesand etiffened joints because of impurities hi the blood, and each suc ceeding attack seem* more acute until rheumatism has invaded the whole system. To arrest rheumatism It is quite as im portant to improve your general health as to purify your blood, ana the cod liver oil in Scott ’sEmulsion is nature ’s great blood maker, while its medicinal nourishment strengthens the organs to expel the impurities and upbuild your strength. Scott's Emulsion is helping thousands every day who could not find other relief. Refuse the alcoholic substitute*. “Safety First” When you buy your drugs you cannot afford to take any risk. You are entitled to the pure, FRESH, QUALITY, KIND. That’s what you’ll find here— QUALITY DRUGS PURE DRUGS FRESH DRUGS And these drugs are compound ed by experienced, licensed drug gists. 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The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves I Tats aiM Heals at Uie saute time. 25c, 50c, 51.00