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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, Oa. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. The season of picnics and red bugs is approaching. Prof. Snider got his wires cross ed on that Easter weather. Are you ready for the Great Drought that will set in Monday? After a week of grand opera Atlanta will take Tanlac and try to forget it. In the springtimeayoung man’s fancy turns to thoughts of “tak ing ’em off.” Watch something break loose after the state convention in Ma con May third. Now is the best time of all to swat the cattle tick and drive the pest out of Butts county. To make it unanimous we’re in favor of making every road in the country a Dixie highway. It is now up to Georgia to adopt a state drink. The contest is be tween potlicker and buttermilk. In a confidential interview dad says Easter comes as often as he wants to see it, as he has to stand under the bills. Butts county has started in to eradicate the cattle tick and ev ery man ought to help to make a thorough job of it. With at least three avowed candidates, the race for represen tative in Butts county promises to be seme scrap itself. How much stock have you tak en in the county fair? Every citizen has a duty to perform and should help liberally in giving Butts county a high class fair. What the average patron of the rural route service wants is for Uncle Sam to let the routes alone. Every change means an inferior service. Several weekly newspapers in the state have raised their sub scription rates to $1.50. With the paper market flirting with the stars, the papers are up against a tough proposition. Judge Dick Russell has resign ed from the court of appeals, which recalls the fact that out side ot Villa he has done more running than any man of this generation. But at that “Plain Dick” Russell is a splendid type of Georgian. Jackson always does a big. un selfish, patriotic part toward en tertaining the Confederate Vet erans on Memorial Day. The best is none too good for this band of heroes and patriots and the citi zens welcome them with open hearts. Progress-Argus Places Subscription on Cash Basis, Beginning June 1 On account of the sensational advance in the cost of paper, The Progress-Argus will, beginning June 1, 1916, adopt the strictly cash-in-advance system for all subscriptions. We were forced to either do this or raise the subscription price to $1.50 a year. Un less conditions in the paper market improve it may yet become nec essary to advance the subscription price to $1.50. Because, it is said, of the European war print paper of all kinds has advanced in price from 50 to 100 per cent. Newspapers have been hard hit; the country journals most of all. Self preservation, the survival of the fittest are forcing the weekly newspapers to place their subscription on a sounder basis. The credit system, bad for any business, has nearly put weekly papers to the wall. The cash system is best for the subscriber and best for the paper. The paper can put forth greater effort, can is sue a larger, better paper, can serve the community more faithful fully when it has the cash to put into the business. The subscriber can pay for what he gets and get what he pays for It is a game two can play and nobody loses. Subscribers, under the present haphazard, run-down-at-the heel system, are divided into several classes. Some pay promptly, some pay when reminded of it, some get as mad as a wet hen when they receive a statement, seme get a year or two in arrears and mark the paper “refused,” and some never pay. The editor knows them all. He has them indexed and catalogued. Under the cash system everybody will be on an equal footing. Every man must toe the mark. We don’t doubt any man’s honesty. It is simply a matter of cold, hard, common, horse sense to collect newspaper subscriptions in advance. A dollar in the bank helps to buy paper, oil the ma chinery, repair rollers, replace worn out type, meet payrolls—but a printer’s dollars, scattered from Yucatan to Maine to Hong Kong, as per the present system, are about as valuable as a last.year’s bird nest. The subscribers themselves will like the cash-in-advance plan better. A large number have so stated. In fact a considerable percentage of our readers now pay in advance for their paper, but it is the fellow who doesn’t pay that will be affected by the cash plan. The Progress Argus is putting forth every effort to serve this community better than any newspaper has done before. We want the paper to be representative of Jackson and Butts countv. Ev ery issue put out stamps the community for what it is. A town or county is judged by the newspaper it turn's out. We want the co operation of the citizens, and we would hate to lose a single sub scriber but after .June 1 The Progress-Argus will enforce the cash subscription plan rigidly, honestly and impartially. If your subscription is not paid it will be to your advantage to investigate this matter. - -- * j pStl ip^j &AKIH<S POWDER Absolutely Pure Made from Cream of Tartar NO ALUM-NO PHOSPHATE The great mass of people want more light on the state road be fore making up their mind about selling it or extending it to the sea. There is a commission ap pointed to handle the matter and why not wait until they make a report before losing any sleep over the state road? A DREAM Last night we had a dream so fair, And that there dream was this; We thought that we were living in \\'iiwankee. Wis. —('olumbia Slate. Last night w e ha 1 a dream so sad. And that there dream went thus; A gink slipp and up and shint his shin And that ere gink was us. Walton Tribune. Last night w e had a dream so nice, Ami that dream went this w ay, We thought t he governor had post ironed The coining hirst of May.” —Forsyth Advertiser. Last night we had ad •earn so shocking. And that dream was a fright: We then tit he gr**s**r w>e coming And that we hart to fight. DOES ADVERTISING PAY? (Chattanooga News) The Saturday Evening Post broke its advertising record last week, when it carried 240 col umns. It charges $1,250 a col umn for space. The 240 columns cost the advertisers $300,000, which Richard Spilliane, in Com merce and Finance, estimates to be more than the average gross weekly income of 1,000 miles of railroad. America leads the world in advertising. The length of the column of the Saturday Evening Post is about 13 inches. Therefore, the rate per inch is nearly SIOO. The circulation of the Post is placed at 2,000,000. Now we expect to see a lot of water wagons for sale. Augusta is coming back strong after the big fire. Great is the Augusta Spirit. It is said that Georgia will be so drv after next Monday that they will have to irrigate the Chattahoochee river. May be the reason that Atlanta wants to be a seaport. The snake that would bite a fellow after the first of May ought to be ashamed of itself. WHAT CATARRH IS It has been said that every third person has catarrh in some form. Science has shown that nasal catarrh often indicates a general weakness of the body; and local treatments in the form of snuffs and vapors do little, if any good. To correct catarTh you should treat its cause by enriching vour blood with the oil-food in Scott’s Emulsion which is a medicinal food and a building-tonic, free from alcohol or auy lviruiful drugs, Try it. Scott & Bo woe. Bloomfield. N. J Consistency Is what counts most in a drug For 365 days in the year you’ll find our store A Dependable Store Quality Drugs, Reliable Goods, Prompt Service, Honest Dealings Prescriptions Filled toy Experts Full Line of Toilet Articles, Drugs, Cigars, Tobacco, Stationery and Drug Sundries Get PURE TANLAC Here SLATON DRUG CO. Jackson, Georgia •c- Store fewice t h e . number of cups in a pound /■oISIGL the best coffee er drank We guarantee that for Luzianne. If it does not prove out on both points after you have used the entire con tents of one can according to direc tions, tell the grocer you want your money back and he’ll return it with out a question. Buy this* better coffee today. Write for premium catalog. e Reily-Taylor Cos. New Orleans IHZIANNE COFFEE We repair the Most Delicate Parts of an Automobile the heavier portions of the car. Our Wagner’s Garage. There’s this much about the state road: The politicians and demagogues will ride the issue for all they are worth. Indian Springs, Butts county’s nationally famous health resort, will soon be open and the eastern branch of the Dixie highway will be the most popular leg of this many-legged road. Butts county roads are the best in Middle Geor gia. With good roads, Indian Springs and the big dam as draw ing cards thousands of visitors wilt motor to Butt* 3 c°mp* - ” this summer. HI