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Jackson Progress - Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. Bet the tourist travel in Mexico will fall off this summer. An exchange notes that there is no rush to name children after Henry Ford and William J. Bryan. Butts county ought to lead Geor gia in the hoys corn club work this year. Elncourage the boys to join. It means greater pros perity for the county. TAKE YOUR POLITICS SERIOUSLY In just a few days now Butts county voters will nominate coun ty officers tor a term of four years. The Progress-Argus has always believed in electing men of intel ligence, character and business qualifications to public office. There is a lot of sickly sentiment about electing men because they need the office. Every time an incompetent man is elected the voters are cheated and the public business suffers as a consequence. The following editorial from The Macon News will prove of timely interest and is reproduced for the benefit of the voters of the county: > Now is a time when every man in Georgia should take an interest in politics. ;t ’ . For in Georgia, Within the next six or eight weeks, more than four thousand state and county offices will be filled by popular election, all for terms of four years. Never before has the electorate of Georgia been faced with a greater responsibility. Heretofore they have elected men for two year terms, knowing that if the officeholders proved incompetent they were removable in twenty-four months. But now there is no redress against an unworthy or incapable officeholder for a period of four years. This means that the right men should be nut in office —and that every citizen, before voting, should think well on the conse quences of his vote. Suppose you knew that your vote would decide an election, how would you cast it? Would you vote for a friend whom you knew to be undeserv ing of the office in preference to a man who was clearly entitled to it by reason of record or fitness? The freeman casting with un purchased hand The vote that shakes the tur rets of the land. is a poetical expression, but prop erly exercised, the vote can have just that much influence. It is vain to complain, in the days after the election, about the poor quality of officeholders. The thing to do is to study the candi dates in advance, consider their qualifications, and vote for the man whom you conscientiously believe is the best man in the race. Georgians should take their politics seriously, more seriously this year than ever before. 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 Editor Volney Williams, of the Waycross Journal-Herald, has been nominated as representative from Ware county. Just can’t keep a live newspaper man down. So there will be nojointdebates between Harris and Hardman after all. Just a long, tame, life lass campaign according to the present outlook. The Butts county * candidates are such a fine lot of fellows that it is a pity (here is not an office for them all. But the weeding out process will soon be at hand. Butts county is working to have the county treasurer put on a salary basis. Most all of the counties are following Spalding’s example in this particular and it will save them a lot of money.— Griffin News and Sun. The Jackson Progress-Argus takes this shot at Professor Albert Lookout Snider: “Prof. Snider wants to charge for his weather forecasts. The mercenary cuss — after all the free advertising he has had from the newspapers.” The newspapers, Brother Jones, made him famous. The professor should pay them—Griffin News and Sun. If discussion through the press will stop lynching, then the prac tice will stop, for nearly every body is airing a pet theory these days.—Jackson Progress-Argus. The only thing, however, that will do much good along this line is to invent some plan that will stop the commission of certain crimes that provoke most of the lynchingsin the South—Hawkins ville Dispatch and News. Franc Mangum, editorial writer on The Macon News, and one of the best known young newspaper men in the state, has bought the Swainsboro Forest-Blade and will assu me charge on April 15. There never was a city newspaper man who didn’t want to try conclusions with a country weekly. Mr. Mangum’s friends wish him mighty well. NOT ENOUGH CHILDREN ever receive the proper balance of food to sufficiently nourish both body and brain during the growing period when nature’s demands are greater than in mature life. This is shown in so many pale faces, lean bodies, frequent colds, and lack of ambition. For all such children we say with unmistakable earnestness: They need Scott's Emulsion, and need it now. It possesses in concentrated form the very food elements to enrich their blood. It changes weakness to strength; it makes them sturdy and strong. No alcohol. Scott % TVivmc. Bloomfield. N. I. FOR SALE Good gentle family horse, per fectly safe for ladies to drive. Apply to B. F. Watkins & Cos. 3-24-tf Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Qrove’s The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. TRY IT! SUBSTITUTE FOR NASTY CALOMEL Starts your liver without making you sick and it cannot salivate Every druggist in town—your druggist and everybody’s drug gist has noticed a great falling off in the sale of calomel. They all give the same reason. Dod son’s Liver Tone is taking its place. “Calomel isdangerous and peo ple know it, while Dodson’s Liv er Tone is perfectly safe and gives better results,’’ said a prominent local druggist. Dod son’s Liver Tone is personally guaranteed by every druggist who sells it, A large bottle costs 50 cents, and if it fails to give easy relief in every case of liver sluggishness and constipation you have only to ask for your money back. Dodson’s Liver Tone is a pleas ant-tasting, purely vegetable remedy, harmless to both chil dren and adults. Take a spoon ful at night and wake up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick head ache, acid stomach or constipated bowels. It doesn’t gripe or cause inconvenience all the next day like violent calomel. Take a dose of calomel today and tomor row you will feel weak, sick and nauseated. Don’t lose a day’s work! Take Dodson’s Liver Tone instead and feel fine, full of vigor and ambition, ad WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH WORLD, ASKS PLOW HANDLES The time has come to plant up land corn. And now hear me and hear me for my cause, plant plen ty of corn and everything that’s good for man and beast, for in scanning, the; signs of tjbe times we will need it. The W9rs is at* wa?OUT army is ip Mexico,andin all probability is‘ there tffstay; congress will soon have 700,000 men trampipg our territory and the end is not yet. What’s the matter with the world, anyhow? Is satan turned loose? It seems that the very winds are sighing for our cruelty, inhumanity and intemperance. It seems that the world has forgot ten God and his fellow man. And here listen to what Robert Burns, the world’s greatest poet, wrote: When chill November’s early blast Made fields and forests bare, One evening as I wandered forth Along the banks of Ayr, I spied a man whose aged step Seemed weary, worn with care; His face was furrowed with years And hoary was his hair. “Young stranger whither wanderest thou?” Began the reverend sage. “Dost tliristof wealth thy stepconstrain Or youthful pleasures rage? Too soon thou hast began ■ To wander forth with me To mourn the miseries of man, Many and sharp the memories ills Inwoven within our frames More pointed we make ourselves, Regret, remorse and shame. And man whose heaven erected face, The smiles of love adorn, Man’s inhumanity to man makegcount less thousands mourn.” And here we breath a prayer that the people of the world may grow better, come to our sober senses, quit war and return to the arts of peace. Plow Handles CITROLAX CITROLAX CITROLAX Best thing for constipation, sour stomach, lazy liver and sluggish bow els. Stops a sick headache almost at once. Gives a most thorough and sat isfactory flushing—no pain, no nausea. Keeps your system cleansed, sweet and wholesome, Ask for Citrolax. The Owl Pharmacy, adv. FREE Aluminum Ware We will give away absolutely free to customers of this store a complete set of the world’s best quality brand Alum num Ware. Guaranteed for twenty years. Every time you make a CASH pur chase you will receive a Free Aluminum Coupon Corresponding to the amount of your purchase—you save the coupons, when you have the necessary amount of cou pons to entitle you to the one (or more) pieces of Aluminum Ware you desire, bring the coupons to us and take away the Aluminum Ware they entitle you to, Absolutely FREE In this way we share our profits with our customers. Call and see this beau tiful ware and get started for a set. SLATON DRUG CO. Jackson, Georgia The Store The Savings Account IPZjSkmB < ™-®:| coffeeT WE flatly guarantee that Luzianne goes twice as far as a cheaper coffee. We flatly guarantee that it will ■ ; satisfy you in every way. If, after you have used the entire contents of one can according to directions, it has not made, good on both these claims, throw away * the can and ask your grocer to refund your money. He will do it without ar gument. Write for premium catalog. Tie Reily-Taylor Go. New Orleans the [Wksts LISTEN Till further notice I will make pictures Friday and Saturday only. J. B. GUTHRIE. Call 114 when you want a good Conner’s Market.