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Jackson Progress-Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONER, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Kntcred as second-class matter at the post oftice at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. Henry county will have its pri mary March 31. So far the governor’s race is a tame, colorless affair. Score one for Georgia. The school teachers have been paid. It is easier to get rid of the seven year itch than a Collier collector. Tiie price of shoes are going up but it will soon be time to go barefooted. If you are for the Butts county fair come out to the meeting next Monday and declare yourself. The price of a car is now a ■econdary matter. The main ques tion is how to get the gasoline. From the way The Progress- Argus is growing in circulation the people must appreciate the paper. Don’t forget this: The agitation for the abolition of capital pun ishment is having something to do with the number of lynchings in Georgia. South Georgia is leading in the number of lynchings and bank failures. It is now in order to have a South Georgia candidate for governor. You may be a good citizen if you do not take your home paper, but it is significant that most good citizens do take and pay for their home paper. The government has had its inning with Tom Watson and a mistrial resulted. Right think ing people everywhere believe Watson should now be let alone. ■ Butts can have one of the best fairs in the state but it will take the co-operation of all the people. Come out to the meeting Monday and put your shoulder to the wheel. The individual who mistreats dumb animals—and the horse is the most common sufferer—has a yellow streak in his nature. We would like to see some convictions for cruelty to animals. The ex ample would have a wholesome effect. Gov. Net Harris has put it squarely up to Dr. Hardman in the matter of joint debates. — Jackson Progress-Argus. Too fast! Too fast! As us ual. the governor changed his mind or handed out the “I was misunderstood” stuff when he saw that challenge in cold type. -Savannah Press. Well, anyway, if these gentle men are going to stage any jint disputes Jackson wants one of the attractions. Stop pistol toting and you’ll stop about three-fourths of the crime in the country. Now that a ban has been placed on liquor the state ought to go a step fur ther and put a ban on the deadly hip pocket pistol. We quite agree with The Ma con News that it is unnecessary for certain papers to ask the can didates for governor how they stand on lynching. It is accept ed as a matter of course that Governor Harris, Dr. Hardman and all other candidates will do all in their power to put down lynch law. The newspapers of the state are having a great deal to say about lynching, but it is doubted if all the agitation will do any good. People are not naturally lawless; and before you can stop lynching the cause must first be removed. The courts bungle oc casionally. Then after convic tion follows a lot of sentimental petitions for clemency. Politics creep in very often. These are a few of the causes of lynch law. Education will probably do more to cure the evil than anything else. The governors of Georgia ought to have four year terms. Then they could put in their time serving the peo ple instead of having to give much of it to “giving account of stewardships.” —Valdosta Times. You hit the nail on the head. Let the governor serve four years and be ineligible for re-election and you’ll do away with much political agitation. Governor Harris who has served only one third of his term must now get out and try to save his political hide. We have noticed several young Georgia editors are giving a prominent place on the editorial page to an aggre gation of flare-backs which might aptly beheaded: “Nice Things Said About Me.’’--De- Kalb New Era. Sort of mutual admiration so ciety. Too often the editor shoots clear over his readers’ head. It may interest the editor writing such “bright” paragraphs, but one reads only what he is inter ested in and the main question is do these flare-backs interest the readers. KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL Health is Worth Saving and Some Jackson People Know to Save it. Many Jaekscm people take their lives in their hands by neglecting the kid neys when they know these organs need help. Weak kidneys are respon sible for a vast amount of suffering and ill health —the slighest delay is dangerous. l T se Doan’s Kidney Pills —a remedy that has helped thousands of kidney "sutlercrs. Here is a Jackson citizen’s recommendation. W. T. Burke, Oatc St., Jackson, says: “Heavy lifting and straining caused my kidneys to get out of order. The kidney secretions sometimes pass ed too frequently and were scanty. They also contained sediment. My back finally commenced to ache and grow worse until 1 couldn’t keep going. 1 had rheumatic pains all through my body ami 1 was so sore and lame that 1 could hardly get out of bed. I doc tored and tried all sorts of medicine, but with no results. I finally used Doan’s Kidney Pills and they soon put my kidneys in good condition. The pains left my back and the kidney se cretions passed regularly.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t sim ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Burke had. Foster-Milburn Cos., Props., Buffalo, N. V. adv MUSTANG For Sprains, Lameness, Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism Penetrates and Heals . Stops Pain At Once For Man and Beast 25c. 50c. SI. At All Dealers. LINIMENT HOW THE GOVERNMENT HANDLES THE MALARIA PROBLEM Four per cent of the inhabitants of certain sections of the South have malaria. This estimate, based on the reporting of 104,881 cases during 1914, has led the United States Public Health Ser vice to give increased attention to the malaria problem, according to the annual report of the Sur geon General. Of 13,526 blood specimens examined by Govern mentofficers during the year, 1,797 showed malarial infection. The infection rate among white per sons was above eight per cent, and among colored persons twenty per cent. In two counties in the Yazoo Valley, 40 out of every 100 inhabitants presented evidence of the disease. Striking as the above figures are they are no more remarkable than those relating to the reduction in the incidence of the disease fol lowing surveys of the Public Health Service at 34 places in nearly every state in the South. In some instances from an inci dence of fifteen percent, in 1914, a reduction has been accomplished to less than four or five per cent, in 1915. One of the important scientific discoveries made during the year was in regared to the continuance of the disease from season to season. Over 2000 Anopheline mosquitoes in malarious districts were dissected, during the early Spring months, without fin ding a single infected insect, and not until May 15, 1915, was the first parasite in the body of a mosquito discoverd. The Public Health Service, therefore, concludes that mosquitoes in the latitude of the Southern States ordinarily do not carry the infection through the winter. This discovery indicates that protection from malaria may be secured bv treating human carriers with quinine prevous to the middle of May, thus prevent ing any infection from chronic sufferers reaching mosquitoes and being transmitted by them to other persons. Although quinine remains the best means of treating malaria and is also of marked benefit in preventing infection, the eradica tion of the disease as a whole rests upon the destruction of the breeding places of Anopheline mosquitoes. The Public Health Service, therefore, is urging a definite campaign of draining standing water, the filling of low places, and the regrading and draining of streams where mala rial mosquitoes breed. The oiling of breeding places, and the stock ing of streams with top-feeding minnows, are further recommen ded. The Service also gives ad vice regarding screening, and other preventive measures as a part of the educational campaigns conducted in sections of infected territory. This study is typical of the scien tific investigations which are be ing ca r ried out by the Public Health Service, all of which have a direct bearing on eradicating the disease. work “Safety First” When you buy your drugs you cannot afford to take any risk. 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Jackson, Ga. 1-21-tf FOR SALE Wanamakers Cleveland Big 801 l Cotton Seed, pure, $2 per bu.; Hastings Prolific Corn, $2 bu.; Patricks Prolific Corn, $2 per bu.; one good surrey, cheap. J. H. Patrick, Jenkinsburg, Ga. 2-18 4 fn vigor a ting to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria .enriches the blood.and builds up the sys tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. 58c We Stand Up, As We ’’Auto” When reparing your machine. No man can do good work on his back. We have every facility for repairing autos quickly and thor oughly. We know how, too. You’ll realize that after we have repaired yours. The only thing you’ll miss will be the usual fancy prices. Wagner’s Garage. A POSITIVE STATEMENT BY A BIG BUSINESS MAN "Neglect of Apparently Unimportant Conditions Wrecks Many a Healthy Growing Business” W. S. ELKIN, JR. a prominent druggist of Atlanta, Ga., is authority for the above positive state ment. In explaining this statement he asked two questions and offered one suggestion. If a growing healthy business turns and begins to run down hill, what is the condition of the owner’s health? Almost always, unusuaHy bad. What was the first cause ©f his poor health? Constipation. This constipation could have been avoided by taking Rexall Orderlies oc casionally. They are a pleasant candy tablet laxative which can be used by men, women or children with the best results. We have the exclusive selling rights for this great laxative. Trial size, 10 cents. SLATON DRUG CO. THE REXALL STORE